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Hunt 1268: CWMU Buck deer
Old Woman Plateau
Season dates
9-1-2014 to 10-31-2014
- Nonresident permits: No
- Resident permits: 3
- Total permits: 3
The Wildlife Board establishes timeframes for hunting on CWMUs. Hunters should expect to hunt at least five days within these timeframes
Type: CWMU
Species: Buck deer
Weapon: Any legal weapon
Old Woman Plateau
DescriptionThe Old Woman Plateau Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit (CWMU) is located east of the junction between Salina Creek and Meadow up Salina Creek. There are really three parts to this CWMU. The north part has high elevations of 8600 feet in the south and 8400 feet in the north. Spring Canyon is the major drainage ranging from 7600 feet to 8400 feet. There are four (4) small parts (7400 feet to 7800 feet) of the Unit up the South Fork of Rock Canyon and Saddle Horse Canyon. Southeast of these four parcels over Emigrant Pass (7800 feet) is the south part of the Unit. The high point on this south part is 8200 feet. Coal Mine Creek, 7600 feet to 8100 feet, cuts the south part of this Unit on the westside. Mill Hollow, 7000 feet to 8200 feet, cuts the northeast corner of this south part. The most common elevation is 8100 feet but ranges from 6900 feet to 8800 feet with an elevation difference of 1900 feet. Fifty-six percent (56%) of the CWMU elevation ranges between 7600 feet and 8200 feet an elevation difference of 600 feet.
The majority of the Old Woman Plateau Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit (CWMU) is composed of Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Sagebrush Steppe (62). Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Woodland (36) is another common land cover type. Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland (41) and Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland (22) complete the dominant land cover mix.
One of the Old Woman Plateau Ranch Cooperative Wildlife Mangement Unit (CWMU) nearest weather stations, SALINA (427557), is about 4.6 km northeast from the northeast edge of the CWMU. SALINA has thirty-one (74) years of records, 1923 - 2007. During the FALL (September, October and November) the average precipitation is 2.48 inches, but it can be as high as 6.67 inches or as low as 0.43 inch. During the 91-day FALL period, 12 days will experience greater than or equal to 0.01 inch of precipitation, 8 days of greater than or equal to 0.10 inch, or 1 day of the greater than or equal to 0.50 inch of precipitation. Total FALL snowfall averages 2.8 inches but can be as high as 18.0 inches. FALL temperature at SALINA averages 49.9 degrees F. but can be as high as 102.0 degrees F. or as low as -8.0 degrees F. During the FALL, 48 days will be below freezing (32 degrees F.) and less than 4 days above 90 degrees F. This map is provided for general reference only and does not constitute a legal hunt boundary. The Division does not guarantee access to any private or public land. Hunt unit boundaries may include private property or other excluded areas.
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President Barack Obama released the following statement on events in Libya:
"Tonight, the momentum against the Qadhafi regime has reached a tipping point. Tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a tyrant. The Qadhafi regime is showing signs of collapsing. The people of Libya are showing that the universal pursuit of dignity and freedom is far stronger than the iron fist of a dictator.
"The surest way for the bloodshed to end is simple: Moammar Qadhafi and his regime need to recognize that their rule has come to an end. Qadhafi needs to acknowledge the reality that he no longer controls Libya. He needs to relinquish power once and for all. Meanwhile, the United States has recognized the Transitional National Council as the legitimate governing authority in Libya. At this pivotal and historic time, the TNC should continue to demonstrate the leadership that is necessary to steer the country through a transition by respecting the rights of the people of Libya, avoiding civilian casualties, protecting the institutions of the Libyan state, and pursuing a transition to democracy that is just and inclusive for all of the people of Libya. A season of conflict must lead to one of peace.
"The future of Libya is now in the hands of the Libyan people. Going forward, the United States will continue to stay in close coordination with the TNC. We will continue to insist that the basic rights of the Libyan people are respected. And we will continue to work with our allies and partners in the international community to protect the people of Libya, and to support a peaceful transition to democracy."
Bill in California writes:
Will the TNC be better for Libya? We shall see said the Zen master.
W.W. writes:
...And another country reached freedom and democracy...or got colonized by the west.
either ways there will be less violence
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Libya came up on the most seached keywords before I saw it on the news. I love top news on google trends.
Gianna P. in Italy writes:
... "The future of Libya is now in the hands of the Libyan people" ... When the PALESTINIAN PEOPLE Will HOLD HIS FATE and free themselves from the OPPRRESSIONE of Israel with YOUR Complicity??????????????
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If "West colonization" means less violence, automatically you say: BRAVO ZULU!
So, welcome to 'West" thinking W.W.!
I wish they also read us in Syria...
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when i think of mr.qaddafi i remember a man who once was. children of god in delhi streets. irish republican army support. his anti u.s. and all dreamed of the arab world and arab uprising. today he is in hiding or on the run. this is what unchecked power and undemocratic institution can do to a man.

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About the Author: Quintin Gray serves as Senior Agricultural Advisor in the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
This week, as part of the Strategic Dialogue between the United States and Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Afghan Minister of Agriculture Mohammad Asif Rahimi met to discuss how agriculture can help Afghanistan achieve a stable and secure future. With 85 percent of the population relying on farms to earn a living, improving the agriculture sector is essential to stabilizing the region.
The U.S. and Afghan governments are working closely together to find new technologies and improve existing crops. Just recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture made it possible for Afghan and U.S. researchers to work side-by-side at Purdue University in Indiana to identify a strain of disease-resistant wheat.
Secretary Vilsack and Minister Rahimi underscore these points in a joint op-ed they wrote for USA Today. If you haven't had a chance to read the op-ed, you can find it online here.
Ron in New York writes:
2 quick points:
1- Don't mess up Afghan crops with bo-engineered seeds.
2- Deal with the Opium Crop already.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
When 10,000 lines collapse, thinks effect the outside. Thinks that the women the participation is possible. The work of same condition thinks that provides the right to speak which is equal.
O.C. in U.S.A. writes:
Making Afghanistan the Breadbasket of the World could really help the local economy. I was wondering what they're producing in place of opium and how they'll organize an international market to sell their produce?
Seems like Afghanistan could make a killing undercutting the berry market. Buying a basket of blueberries for $2.00 is better than $6.00. Perhaps, transporting bananas, coffee and papaya to Afghanistan in return for blueberries,strawberries and apricots would be good for both countries.
Rob B. in California writes:
If so, then we should look back at what government assistance helped American farmers to prosper in the 19th through early 20th centuries and help the Afghans develop those services.


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Agenda: Topics on the agenda for discussion include a recap of the construction manager at risk for the county jail expansion meeting taking place this morning, a courthouse security cameras update and a request for purchase of vehicles for the Sheriff's Department, and an update on the construction of the county office building.
How to make your opinion known: Commission meetings are open to the public. Commissioners are Chairman Jerome Gruenberg, Alan Walter, Jack Nybakken, John Fjeldahl and Shelly Weppler.


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John Claeys
Sept. 23, 1924-April 4, 2013
MINNEOTA – Services for John Claeys, 88, of Minneota will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Hope Lutheran Church in Minneota. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church. Military honors will be provided by the Minneota Honor Guard. A private family burial will be at a later date. The Sunset Funeral and Cremation Association of Echo and Wabasso is handling the arrangements for the family.
He died Thursday, April 4, 2013, at the Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center in Marshall.
He was born Sept. 23, 1924, to Alfons and Anna (Van Schriek) Claeys in Taunton, Lyon County. He enlisted into the United States Air Force and served his country until his honorable discharge in 1950.
Survivors include his wife, Arlene of Minneota; children, Mark of Salt Lake City, Utah, Molly Zobrist of Canby, Jennifer Katz of Minneota, Susan Restoff of Glouchester, Va., Kevin of Arlington, S.D., Nancy of Wood Lake, Melanie Haggard of Wood Lake, Marna Lipinski of Marshall and Kristin Mustafa of Willmar; 23 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren.


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Google Ups the Ante: $199 Laptop
Some examples:Smartphone: The $349 SIM-unlocked, contract-free, Nexus 4, which goes on sale today, undercuts the equivalent Apple (AAPL) iPhone 5 by $300, or almost 50%. 7-inch Tablet : The $199 Nexus 7 undercuts the $329 iPad Mini. 10-inch Tablet : The $399 Nexus 10 undercuts the $499 iPad 4. Laptop: Already the price leader with the $249 laptop, Google's new laptop -- made by Acer -- at $199 undercuts most new Microsoft (MSFT) Windows 8 and Apple laptops by 60% to 80% or more.
It wasn't even a full month ago when Google caused jaws to drop when it announced the $249 laptop made by Samsung. I wrote about it in Google Drops the Neutron Bomb: $249 Laptop and $249 Google Laptop vs. $499+ Windows 8: Fight! .
The new $199 Google/Acer Chromebook laptop has an Intel (INTC) Celeron processor, for which Samsung charges $449 in their Intel-based Chromebook. It's also got a 320 gig hard drive, which seems totally pointless in a computing architecture where only the little stuff you need right now can fit within a few gigs or even less. You can still get 100 gig of storage in the cloud, which Chrome OS makes available to you as you need it.
I have yet to actually test this Acer, which was announced only hours ago. I hope to start testing it within the next couple of days. It does seem as if the boot time (18 seconds) will exceed that of other Chromebooks who run 8 to 10 seconds for the same task.
Who might prefer this $199 Google laptop over the much more expensive $249 version? (That was a slight joke, by the way.) The answer is probably found in either of these three categories:
1. Those for whom the Intel processor will be faster than the Samsung ARM version.
2. Those who have unusual local storage requirements, such as extreme photo needs or very large loads of huge documents needed locally. The emphasis here is on extreme.
3. Price, price, price: $50 may be what some tip a barista in a week; for others it's a minor fortune.
With the material caveat of not having laid my paws on this new $199 Google laptop yet, I can imagine there are still numerous real and potential advantages of the $249 Samsung version over the $199 Acer. Here are the top four:
1. Weight : The Samsung is 2.5 lbs compared to Acer's 3.0 lbs.
2. Battery life : The Samsung is 6.5 hours compared to Acer's 3.5 hours.
3. SSD reliability : The Samsung won't suffer a hard drive breakdown.


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For once it looks like EA is going to actually make this game worth buying and not just for updated rosters.
NCAA Football 10 introduces TeamBuilder, an all-new, online create-a-school feature that will enhance the user's ability to produce personalized content. With the capability to upload logos and numerous customization options for uniforms, fields, rosters, and much more, TeamBuilder gives users the opportunity to design completely original teams with infinite possibilities. Plus, preloaded logos for several Football Championship Subdivision schools will help users create authentic teams for NCAA Football 10. With its intuitively designed online database that is searchable across several fields, TeamBuilder allows users to share content with ease. A football fan's dream, TeamBuilder will enable users to experience the excitement and pageantry of college football, defined by their own personalized creations.
Other features:
* Auto Pass
* Procedural Awareness
* Stadium Camera Flashes
* Field Goal Nets / Field Goal Socks
* Team Specific Bowl Game End Zones
* Super Sim Improvements (On-the-Field Presentation, Updated CPU Clock Management, Skip Play in Campus Legend)
* New Custom Conference feature in Dynasty Mode (Also available in Online Dynasty)
* Player Lock and Defensive Assist
* Sideline Reporter Erin Andrews
* More Stadiums/Stadium Updates
* Adaptive AI
* Create-A-School mode
* Create-A-Playbook
* Branch-Tackling System
* FCS Downloadable Content for Xbox 360/PS3
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Only bad thing is that they don't have the Minnesota Golden Gopher's New Stadium in yet . But other than that this is really looking like it's worth a pick up. I heard the huge reason is EA hired some new folks to be head designers in this game and they're really putting a lot of effort into this and Madden 10.


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Byrd, William II
William Byrd, II 1674-1744
American travel writer, historian, and diarist.
Although he published little during his lifetime, Byrd is now regarded as one of the most important American authors of the colonial period. His History of the Dividing Line (published 1841) and Secret History of the Line (published 1929), describing his travels through Virginia and North Carolina, are seen as important historical records and classic portraits of backwoods life in the mid-eighteenth century. Byrd's diaries, written between 1728 and 1741 but not published until the 1940s and 1950s, reveal a complex Virginia gentleman and provide details about daily life during the period. His satirical look at life in colonial Virginia depicts those times in a way that is not found in other, more staid, writings. Because Byrd wrote prolifically but rarely published his works, his writings have also been studied for what they reveal about writing for personal satisfaction rather than for an audience and to explore how the act of writing is used by the writer to forge his own identity.
Biographical Information
Byrd was born in Westover, Virginia, in March, 1674, the son of William Byrd and Mary Filmer. Byrd's father had emigrated from England in the late 1660s to inherit a fur trade and 3,000 acres of land on the Virginia frontier, and his mother was a member of the Cavalier elite who had fled Cromwell's England. At age seven Byrd was sent to England for his education. He attended the prestigious Felsted School in Essex, traveled extensively through Europe studying commerce, and then studied law at the Middle Temple in London. In 1697 he was accepted into the Royal Society of Great Britain, a group whose mission it was to advance English society. He traveled around England visiting libraries, read voraciously and acquired his own vast law library, attended the theater, and made daily rounds of the coffee houses. After his father's death in 1705, Byrd was forced to return to Westover. He received his inheritance, managed the family estate, and took over his father's lucrative post as Receiver General. He settled into a quiet life, marrying Lucy Parke in 1706. He continued his passionate interest in reading and acquiring books, adding a separate structure to his house for what would become one of the largest colonial libraries, which included titles on law, medicine, art, architecture, gardening, history, travel, literature, and theology. Shortly after he returned to Virginia, Byrd began keeping a diary, in which he would write almost every day for the next thirty-five years. He recorded his daily regimen of rising early, reading Greek or Hebrew texts, dancing, praying, eating, walking in his garden with his wife, and managing his servants and slaves. He also wrote about his emotions, nightmares, sexual feelings and encounters, acts of corporal punishment, and the death of his infant son.
In 1716, while the family was in England, Byrd's wife died, leaving behind two young daughters. For the next nine years Byrd lived in England, where he unsuccessfully sought economic and political help for Virginia from the British government, wrote some light verse, and continued reading and writing in his diary. In 1724, after a series of romantic failures, he married Maria Taylor. He returned to Virginia and accepted his situation as a colonial estate owner and Southern gentleman. He acquired thousands of acres of land to the west of his estate and tried to encourage a colony of Swiss immigrants to settle there, rebuilt his father's estate, entertained and wrote to important naturalists, and founded the cities of Richmond and Petersburg. In 1728 Byrd was appointed one of the commissioners to survey the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina. To encourage individuals to buy property and thus expand both colonies westward, it was necessary to ascertain which colony should govern and tax the disputed land along the border. The official journal that Byrd kept throughout the trip served as the factual basis for The Secret History of the Line and The History of the Dividing Line. For the last fifteen years of his life Byrd enjoyed his position as a Southern gentleman, although he was forced to sell off parts of his estate to settle his former father-in-law's debts. His financial situation prevented him from returning to England, where he had hoped to spend his last years among old friends. He died on his Westover estate in 1744 and was buried in the garden there.
Major Works
Although he wrote almost daily, Byrd published very little during his lifetime. He published a scientific paper while in his early twenties, some light verse, and an anonymous pamphlet entitled A Discourse Concerning the Plague in 1721. He left an enormous body of work, however, including four complete travel narratives, character sketches, satiric essays, translations, love poetry and occasional verse, and letters. Byrd's literary work remained unknown until nearly a hundred years after his death, when the 1841 publication of the The Westover Manuscripts: Containing The History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A.D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines established Byrd as an important historical figure.
Probably written before the longer History of the Dividing Line, Byrd's Secret History of the Line (published in William Byrd's Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina in 1929) was written for a small circle of his friends in Virginia. Developed from the notes of his surveying trips to North Carolina, the narrative includes unflattering descriptions and details of the sexual escapades of the commissioners who were in the surveying party. The History of the Dividing Line is a fuller version which did not refer to participants by their true names. Obviously intended for public consumption, it offers a humorous look at backwoods life in the mid-eighteenth century and includes references to classical sources, other travel narratives, and natural histories. Two other surveying trips that Byrd took also resulted in narratives. The Progress to the Mines is the story of Byrd's investigation into iron smelting at Fredericksburg, and A Journey to the Land of Eden describes an inspection tour of his landholdings on the Dan River. Both these works, like the History of the Dividing Line, present humorously entertaining lore and facts about frontier life.
Although they were not discovered until 1939 and published only in the 1940s and 1950s, Byrd's diaries are today probably his best-known works. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into the world of a Virginia gentleman. In 1939 the first of the three known Byrd diaries was discovered at the Huntington Library in California. The journals were written in a cryptic shorthand, and after they were deciphered revealed a fascinating record of the details of Byrd's early years as a planter. They were edited and published by Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling in 1941 as The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712. A second journal together with some of Byrd's correspondence and literary exercises was discovered and published in 1942 by the same editors. An earlier journal, covering the years 1717-1721, was published in 1958 as The London Diary. All Byrd's journals offer insights into his social and political attitudes, covering issues ranging from his ideas about the role of women, the British government's responsibility to the colonies, the American wilderness, slavery, and relations with Native Americans. They also present a portrait of a complex human being who describes his feelings about his wife and children, his attitude toward his writing, and his sexual appetite. Although he sometimes writes about serious issues, the diaries are generally written in a cheerful and entertaining manner, and their documentation of the period from 1709 to 1741 in colonial America has been described as "one of the most complete, entertaining and informative cultural documents about eighteenth-century life in the Old and New Worlds that we have in the English language."
Critical Reception
During his lifetime Byrd was well known in London for his interest in literary matters and books, but he was no literary personage. As a member of the Royal Society, he was acquainted with such notable writers and thinkers as Isaac Newton, Robert Southwell, William Congreve, and Nicholas Rowe. He maintained a lifelong interest in drama and natural science, but he wrote very little in those areas. Most of what Byrd did write, apart from his diaries, was circulated in manuscript form among his friends—a fairly common practice among the aristocracy—but very little was published during his lifetime. One of his letters reveals that he did not feel his works were sufficiently "complete" to be printed. It was only after the publication of his Westover Manuscripts in 1841 that Byrd was regarded as an important historical figure. He was seen as one of the first writers to offer a complex description of the American wilderness and to write about its importance to the American identity. It was noted too that, unlike much other early American literature, Byrd's narratives do not focus on religion but use a witty, urbane style to talk about secular matters. With the publication of his diaries in the twentieth century, Byrd's reputation as one of the most significant figures in colonial Virginia grew, and his works came to be regarded as important cultural documents about life in the early 1700s. His London Diary has even been compared with Samuel Pepys's famous journal.
Critics have focused on what Byrd's works reveal about the author's interests, attitudes, character, misogyny, and "Southernness." They have explored differences between his private and public personas and have analyzed his use of satire and ironic critical distance in his writing. Some commentators have been particularly interested in the differences between The History of The Dividing Line and The Secret History, observing that they present two versions of American reality: one a panegyric devoted to civilization's westward progress and the other a satire of its wilderness degeneration. Byrd's diaries have been commended for their intimate self-expression as well as their historical value. Critics generally admire Byrd's style, and his satirical wit and valuable record of Southern life have won him a reputation as one of the foremost colonial authors.
Principal Works
A Disclosure Concerning the Plague, With Some Preservatives Against It. By a Lover of Mankind [attributed to Byrd] (pamphlet) 1721
The Westover Manuscripts: Containing The History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A.D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736 [edited by Edmund Ruffin] (nonfiction) 1841
The History of the Dividing Line and Other Tracts. 2 vols. (nonfiction) 1866
The Writings of "Colonel William Byrd of Westover in Virginia, Esqr.," [edited by John S. Bassett] (nonfiction) 1901
Description of the Dismal Swamp and A Proposal...
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James R. Masterson (essay date May 1937)
SOURCE: Masterson, James R. "William Byrd in Lubberland." American Literature 9, no. 2 (May 1937): 153-70.
[In the following essay, Masterson considers whether Byrd's negative impressions of colonial North Carolina were shared by other travelers.]
During the spring and autumn of 1728, as one of the Virginia commissioners appointed to run a boundary between Virginia and North Carolina, Colonel William Byrd had occasion to traverse the border from Currituck Inlet, on the Atlantic coast, to a point in the foothills 241 miles to the west. In The History of the Dividing Line Run in the Year of Our Lord 1728 he disparages not only the border country but the whole...
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Louis B. Wright (essay date 1940)
SOURCE: Wright, Louis B. "The Byrds' Progress from Trade to Genteel Elegance." In The First Gentlemen of Virginia: Intellectual Qualities of the Early Colonial Ruling Class, pp. 312-47. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1940.
[In the following excerpt, Wright presents an overview of Byrd's life, interests, attitudes, character, and writing.]
A large part of Byrd's life before his return to Virginia in 1705 had been spent abroad in varied activities that had given him a well-rounded education. Academic learning, business training, and social opportunities had all gone into the experience of the young man who was to become the most accomplished Virginian of his...
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Pierre Marambaud (essay date 1971)
SOURCE: Marambaud, Pierre. "Diarist." In William Byrd of Westover, 1674-1744, pp. 106-16. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1971.
[In the following excerpt, Marambaud examines Byrd's diaries, which, the critic maintains, are examples of intimate self-expression but also valuable historical documents.]
Byrd's diaries were not published until recently. According to family traditions, he never failed to keep a detailed journal in shorthand when absent from home.1 In fact, as we now know, he kept it at Westover as well as when he was away, and it is fairly probable that he did so throughout most of his adult life, but that a great part of it has...
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Donald T. Siebert, Jr. (essay date January 1976)
SOURCE: Siebert, Donald T., Jr. "William Byrd's Histories of the Line: The Fashioning of a Hero." American Literature 47, no. 4 (January 1976): 535-51.
[In the following essay, Siebert argues that the portrait of Byrd painted by most critics fails to appreciate his complexities, and he examines Byrd's Histories of the Line to understand the contrast between the author's private and public personas and his struggle to present a heroic image of himself.]
Among colonial writers, William Byrd of Westover appears most deserving of lapidary inscription and idealizing portrait. He is the earliest and perhaps only American type of "the well-bred gentleman...
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David Smith (essay date winter 1976-77)
SOURCE: Smith, David. "William Byrd Surveys America." Early American Literature 11, no. 3 (winter 1976-77): 296-310.
[In the following essay, Smith suggests that the idea of the land survey and the image of the boundary are the central, sustaining metaphors in Byrd's Histories of the Line.]
Thus in the beginning all the world was America.
John Locke, "Of Property," in The Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690)
When John Locke set himself to thinking about a state of nature, it was natural for him to imagine life in "America" as illustrative of most...
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Ross Pudaloff (essay date fall 1982)
SOURCE: Pudaloff, Ross. "'A Certain Amount of Excellent English': The Secret Diaries of William Byrd." Southern Literary Journal 15, no. 1 (fall 1982): 101-19.
[In the following essay, Pudaloff explores Byrd's secret diaries and contrasts the persona revealed in those works with that presented in his public writings.]
In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Since the...
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Kenneth A. Lockridge (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: Lockridge, Kenneth A. "'The Female Creed': Misogyny Enlightened?" In On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage: The Commonplace Books of William Byrd and Thomas Jefferson and the Gendering of Power in the Eighteenth Century, pp. 29-45. New York: New York University Press, 1992.
[In the following excerpt, Lockridge analyzes the reasons for Byrd's tempered yet intense disdain for women as set out in the satirical essay "The Female Creed" that appears in one of his secret diaries.]
At the very moment when he was recording his private fears about himself and about women in his commonplace book, William Byrd was aiming a public dart of misogyny at women in the...
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Susan Manning (essay date August 1994)
SOURCE: Manning, Susan. "Industry and Idleness in Colonial Virginia: A New Approach to William Byrd II." Journal of American Studies 28, no. 2 (August 1994): 169-90.
[In the following essay, Manning argues that the "southernness" of Byrd's prose in his History of the Dividing Line is deliberate and self-conscious.]
The inception of American regionalism is routinely identified by scholars in either Robert Beverley or William Byrd II, both native Virginians who wrote intensely local works (The History and Present State of Virginia, 1705; The History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina, Run in the Year of Our Lord 1728)...
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Further Reading
Cutting, Rose Marie. "Writings About William Byrd II, 1817-1974." In John and William Bartram, William Byrd II and St. John de Crèvecoeur: A Reference Guide, pp. 73-106. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1976.
Annotated bibliography of critical studies on Byrd published between 1817 and 1974.
Beatty, Richmond Croom. William Byrd of Westover. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932, 223 p.
Important early biography that attempts to presents a faithful picture of an idealized persona, distinguishing between reality and myth and not neglecting the more unfortunate side of colonial...
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Debates of Sept. 23rd, 2003
House of Commons Hansard #125 of the 37th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was farmers.
- Committees of the House
- Canada Marriage Act
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Supply
- Committees of the House
- Supply
- Tilly Johnson Scholarship Foundation
- Governor General
- Perdita Felicien
- Joe Martens
- Davis Cup
- Government of Canada
- Information Technology
- Council on the Status of Women
- Le Droit
- Criminal Code
- Cape Breton Seniors
- Agriculture
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- Official Languages
- International Aid
- Huron-Wendat Nation
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- Canada Elections Act
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- Health Canada
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- Foreign Affairs
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- Science and Technology
- National Defence
- Canadian Heritage
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- Firearms Registry
- Supply
- Committees of the House
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Tilly Johnson Scholarship Foundation
Statements By Members
1:55 p.m.
Beth Phinney Hamilton Mountain, ON
Mr. Speaker, several weeks ago Hamilton celebrated the sixth annual Dr. Tilly Scholarship Foundation's dinner and dance.
Dr. Ethilda Verona Johnson is an experienced businesswoman in Hamilton, and has owned and operated a number of businesses over the past 30 years. Dr. Johnson, who knows the value of perseverance and hard work, feels it is important to provide assistance to financially disadvantaged youth through her scholarship foundation.
Founded in 1997, the Tilly Johnson Scholarship Foundation assists young people of African-Canadian descent with post-secondary school expenses. This year it was able to assist eight students.
I am sure that all hon. members will join me in congratulating the recipients of this year's scholarships and in thanking Dr. Tilly Johnson for her efforts in support of education, courage and strength in our community.
Governor General
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Myron Thompson Wild Rose, AB
Mr. Speaker, this has been a tough year for most Canadians. We have had SARS, West Nile virus, mad cow disease, wildfires in B.C., and in my home province of Alberta we had another year of drought and locusts, not to mention how hard it has been and continues to be for our ill-equipped troops stationed in Afghanistan.
Yet, as if by magic, the government has come up with extra money for the Governor General and her cronies to traipse across the northern hemisphere. This trip is unnecessary and insensitive to the needs of hard working Canadians. The elites will tell us that it is critical to spread Canadian culture. I think they are wrong.
Ron and Linda, Mel and Myrna, and Debbie and Darren are a few of my constituents who have not had a vacation in years. I would like the Governor General to explain the merits of this trip to these tired folks and every other Canadian who is working two jobs to make ends meet and cannot afford a day off. Or maybe she would rather explain to the parents who cannot afford a warm snowsuit for their child this winter or to the beef farmer who is forced to slaughter his entire herd and declare bankruptcy.
Get your priorities straight. Exporting Canadian culture is not more important than taking care of Canadians in need.
Perdita Felicien
Statements By Members
September 23rd, 2003 / 2 p.m.
Dan McTeague Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge, ON
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to pay tribute to the outstanding athletic achievement of Perdita Felicien of Pickering.
On August 27 Perdita took on the world by winning gold in the 100 metre hurdles at the world track and field championships in Paris. She accomplished this feat in the record time of 12.53 seconds breaking all previous Canadian records. Her victory is the first medal by a Canadian woman at the track event since the event was first held in Helsinki in 1983.
Perdita, celebrating her 23rd birthday a day after this momentous win, will finish her studies at the University of Illinois where she has twice been named national female athlete of the year by the U.S. Track and Field Coaches Association. She is also a two time Canadian champion in hurdles and holds the Canadian indoor mark in 60 metre hurdles.
Perdita has brought pride to herself, her family and her country and I join her family, friends and fellow athletes in wishing her well in her future scholastic and athletic endeavours.
It is on to Athens for Perdita. She is Canada's newest Olympic hope.
Joe Martens
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Janko Peric Cambridge, ON
Mr. Speaker, this fall His Worship Joe Martens, Mayor of North Dumfries Township, will be stepping down after 18 years of strong leadership and committed service to his constituents.
Known for being a straight shooter and for his easygoing style, the residents of North Dumfries have always trusted him throughout his 21 years of public service.
A former councillor of North Dumfries Township, he also served as a Waterloo Regional Councillor and was a board member of Cambridge Memorial Hospital, United Way of Cambridge and North Dumfries, Grand River Conservation Authority, and Cambridge and North Dumfries Hydro.
In 2002 he received the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal. However, if we were to ask Joe Martens for the highlight of his career, he would say that he is most proud of having served the people of North Dumfries for 21 years.
I have had the honour and privilege of knowing and working with Joe, and I wish him every success in the years ahead.
Davis Cup
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Stan Dromisky Thunder Bay—Atikokan, ON
Mr. Speaker, Canadians have reason to be proud today. Yesterday, 18 year old Frank Dancevic from Niagara Falls, Ontario defeated Brazilian Flavio Saretta and in doing so, led Canada to a 3:2 Davis Cup victory over Brazil. This is the first time in over 10 years that Canada has moved on to the World Group in Davis Cup play.
What is even more impressive is that Dancevic, a 10 time junior champion, was a last minute fill-in, called on to replace Canadian veteran Daniel Nestor. This is a great achievement for Canadian sport and these athletes are role models for all Canadians.
We wish Simon Larose, Frank Dancevic, Frederic Niemeyer and Daniel Nestor the greatest success as they prepare for next year's battle of the elite 16 team World Group.
Government of Canada
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Jay Hill Prince George—Peace River, BC
Mr. Speaker, why is it that it does not seem to matter what crisis is facing our country, the Liberal government's response is abysmal?
Whether it has been SARS in Toronto, West Nile in Saskatchewan, or a mad cow in Alberta, the federal Liberals offer photo ops and excuses. During the power outage in Ontario, the Prime Minister was sleeping peacefully at the switch in Quebec.
Just as when he orchestrated a photo op by throwing a single sandbag to stem the Winnipeg flood, this year he belatedly interrupted his summer golf to drop from the sky to offer his sincere condolences to the firefighters and victims of B.C. forest fires. The federal Liberals offer empty promises to combat the devastation facing British Columbia's forests from the mountain pine beetle and the softwood lumber dispute.
Now the member for LaSalle—Émard says, on one hand, how proud he is of his government's record over the past 10 years and, on the other hand, asks Canadians to trust that he is the instrument of change. It is unbelievable.
Information Technology
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Andy Scott Fredericton, NB
Mr. Speaker, last night in Toronto, CANARIE held its seventh annual IWAY awards.
The purpose of these awards is to honour those who have made an outstanding contribution to this country's information society.
Fredericton's own Bob Gamble was recognized as the national winner in the category of "Application of Technology". This award recognizes individuals who have pioneered innovative uses of technology related to the development of Canada's information highway or have adapted existing products or applications in an exceptionally creative manner.
As President of Service New Brunswick, Mr. Gamble has worked to provide many online functions for the citizens of New Brunswick. In fact, Service New Brunswick currently provides more than 176 government services online. Mr. Andrew Bjerring, President and CEO of CANARIE said, "Under the direction of Mr. Gamble, SNB has accelerated and improved the way New Brunswickers access, use and benefit from government services".
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Bob Gamble on this award and thank him for his contribution to Canada.
Council on the Status of Women
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Christiane Gagnon Québec, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Museum of Civilization of Québec is organizing a series of events to mark the 30th anniversary of the Council on the status of Women and its significant contribution to the advancement of women.
These events started on September 10 and run until November 30, and include an exhibit, a major conference, a debate and a number of interpretive talks, as well as a very special presentation on September 29, that is not to be missed.
The Council on the status of Women has played a lead role for 30 years in improving the lives of Quebec women. In marking this anniversary, the museum is helping us learn just how much progress has been made and gauge what challenges remain to be met. I thank all the people behind this excellent initiative.
Le Droit
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Marcel Proulx Hull—Aylmer, QC
Mr. Speaker, a reception was held last evening at the Library and Archives Canada to honour Le Droit on its 90th anniversary.
I would like to congratulate this newspaper for having tracked social change and playing a lead role in providing information to the francophones of eastern Ontario and the Outaouais region of Quebec over the years. Since it first appeared on March 27, 1913, its readers have appreciated the quality of the information presented and the professionalism of its journalists. Le Droit , with its broad range of subject matter and its hard-hitting editorials, has always met the needs of its readership. Throughout its long life, it has been able to adapt to the changes in our society and to our need to be kept informed. The fact that it has had such a long life is proof of this. Le Droit will always remain our daily newspaper, a reflection of our world. Congratulations and best wishes to everyone on the Le Droit team.
Criminal Code
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
James Moore Port Moody—Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam, BC
Mr. Speaker, in recent years a new kind of violence against women has reared its ugly head at parties, on campuses and in nightclubs. Date rape drugs have become a violent weapon used to victimize women in cowardly assaults. It is long overdue for the government to act.
Starting today, and over the next two weeks, 48 Canadian Alliance campus clubs across Canada are involved in a campaign to raise awareness of date rape drugs and to encourage the government to classify them as a weapon in the Criminal Code.
From the University of Victoria, to York University, to Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and all points in between, the Canadian Alliance is pushing the need to protect women and students from the dangers of date rape drugs and to encourage the Liberal government to act to protect women from this ugly, and sometimes deadly assault.
Awareness is the first line of defence for young people targeted with this cowardly assault. Second is the strong arm of the law. Date rape drugs should not be treated the same way in the Criminal Code as heroin or cocaine because they are used to victimize other people involuntarily. Young Canadians deserve laws to protect them from sexual assault.
It is time for the Liberal government to step up and fight the cowardly use of these drugs and the sexual assault of women.
Cape Breton Seniors
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Mark Eyking Sydney—Victoria, NS
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to inform the House of a new project I announced yesterday to support seniors in Cape Breton. We are funding $284,000 over three years to provide for a project at the Cape Breton Seniors Community Learning Network, which will be implemented by the CAP Society of Cape Breton County.
This project will establish a self-sustaining network of community members who will build links between local, regional, national and global communities of seniors to promote lifelong learning and access to information technologies. To do this, the CAP Society will implement online development, mentoring, outreach and community learning activities.
This demonstrates again our commitment to promoting lifelong learning to all citizens in our country in this new age of technology.
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Progressive Conservative
John Herron Fundy Royal, NB
Mr. Speaker, yesterday federal and provincial ministers finally met with Canadian farmers who are in desperate need of financial assistance to cope with the continuing beef ban and the closed border. Our federal agriculture minister shamelessly rejected their appeal.
The beef industry is losing $11 million dollars a day.
We have an agriculture minister who will only give out more funding to suffering farmers if the provinces blindly sign on to his new agricultural policy framework. The minister has no business ransoming needed emergency funds for farmers by hanging the APF over their heads.
It is incomprehensible that we have a Prime Minister who is morally obligated but refuses to meet with the U.S. government to reopen the border. The government has been recklessly shirking its responsibilities on this national crisis since the get-go.
The government needs to stop punishing farmers and abdicating its responsibility. It needs to sit down and work with our partners to the south, develop concrete solutions and get the border open once and for all.
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Monique Guay Laurentides, QC
Mr. Speaker, last week, in a speech to the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal, the former finance minister candidly admitted that once he has his new job, he will wage unrelenting war on the monster of accumulated debt, in the same way Ottawa attacked the deficit in the 1990s.
After touring everywhere in Quebec and Canada promising heaven and earth, now he has taken off his mask. The future Liberal leader confirms that once he has the reins of power in his hands, he will not hesitate to attack the unemployed by transforming employment insurance premiums into employment taxes, and continuing to refuse benefits to six out of ten unemployed people.
In so doing, he is also confirming that he will not hesitate to chop transfer payments to the provinces for health, education and social services, in order to reach his goals.
What he did not say, however, is why he prefers to take advantage of the tax haven in Barbados rather than be a part of the collective effort to reduce the debt by paying his income tax in the country he aspires to lead.
Official Languages
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
John Godfrey Don Valley West, ON
Mr. Speaker, last week, 95 students in the Edmonton area received their French immersion high school diplomas.
These students were part of a pilot project established by the Edmonton public school board and the Public Service Commission. Each student earned a high school diploma and acquired a knowledge of French equivalent to that required for bilingual imperative positions in the public service.
Not only does the prodigious success of this project demonstrate the talent of these students and their teachers, but it will also enable the project to continue next year.
I would like to congratulate all the students who earned their high school diplomas in this immersion program. I would ask the House to join me in wishing success to this project in the years to come.
International Aid
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Alexa McDonough Halifax, NS
Yesterday, Mr. Speaker, Winstone Zulu, a courageous Zambian living with AIDS, brought his story to Parliament Hill. Each of Winstone's brothers contracted TB. HIV positive and denied access to medications, one after the other his brothers died.
Forty-two million people in the world are living with HIV-AIDS, 70% in sub-Saharan Africa. Twenty million Africans have died from AIDS, leaving 14 million orphans behind.
Winstone Zulu pleaded with Canadians to implement the foreign affairs committee's recommendation for this government to pay its proportional share of the global fund to fight HIV-AIDS, TB and malaria by tripling our contribution.
It is regrettable in the extreme that the Prime Minister failed to use the occasion of this week's UN special session to measure progress in the AIDS battle to announce that Canada will meet its obligations. Nor did the Prime Minister commit to changing our laws to enable life-saving generic drugs to be exported to where they are desperately needed.
I urge this government today to end the delay and save Winstone Zulu's African brothers and sisters.


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In late 2012, Invista announced that it would introduce Stainmaster Essentials, an entry level offering consisting of nylon and some polyester carpets. Stainmaster had taken a beating during the super tough times as every business in the supply chain frantically looked for and advanced "value" products to entice the ever reluctant customer to buy flooring. For carpet, the value product was not polypropylene but was the cool new polyester carpets. The bottom one third of the carpet industry offerings was polyester; almost exclusively polyester. So, rather late in the game, Invista starts back-filling. Voilá, Stainmaster polyester.
Invista's move was the exception. Manufacturers and distributors alike saw the real opportunity which was to begin to offer better goods. Those products had literally been thrown out of the store to give room to all the value products. But 2012 was the first year where better goods found a place back on the retailer's floor. And that job is not complete and will hopefully continue into 2013 and beyond.
Soft and sexy is in. Surely if you market Caress, Bling, Silk and on and on, you are making a statement beyond soft. It is not as if carpet is a harsh texture and this softness is otherworldly. And it is not as if people crawl around their house on their hands and knees.
Carpet is first and foremost a tactile experience. This soft, incredible lush carpet, regardless of the fiber, is a great sell. Her only concern is will it wear like silk or will it really wear like tough old nylon always has? Carpet manufacturers have persuaded retailers that softness has nothing to do with toughness. They had best be right as soft and sexy carpet is becoming a very, very big seller.
Laminate at 19 cents per square foot
At the end of the year, a very large retailer offered 19 cents per square foot laminate. It was insinuated that this was a regular product not a dropped line or dropped colors.
This silly, almost free, laminate offered is to us a good sign. It appears that laminate is going from a bifurcated product category to a tri-furcated one — three distinct product/value offerings to three distinct and separate customer groups. If we are right, this could well be the salvation of laminate.
Anything under 99 cents is promotional stuff. Anyone dumb enough to actually think they are getting something worthwhile can have at it. There will be strong unit sales with these laminates but it is clearly dollar store kinda stuff and most customers will recognize that.
From $1.29 to $2.49 is where the home improvement stores will make their stand. If flooring retailers want to compete in this price range, they must have inventory at these price points.
$2.79 to more than $4.00 is for the discriminating flooring buyer. In this assortment, there are really unique products that the other two type retailers can't readily sell. Take for instance the long laminate look — 6 foot and 7 foot planks. This is way too hard for others to display and or offer.
Sam Roberts, president of Roberts Carpet and Fine Floors, says, "Longer laminate planks do the same thing that the more popular wider planks do — they contrast the standard laminate that has become so prevalent. Longer and wider communicate more value to the consumer." We heartliy agree. Forget the low hanging fruit (19 cents per square foot) — the future is clear for a profitable laminate sale for floor covering specialty stores.
Add on sales
Opportunity for add on sales has never been greater for window treatments (groovy blinds not drapes). Past research shows that when a customer buys flooring, the two other products she will also buy, in order of number of sales, are paint, window treatments and a distant third — furniture. And when asked what type of window treatment she will be most apt to buy, blinds ala Hunter Douglas is named first. Flooring retailers who offer a good assortment of blinds can use as little as 100 square feet to turn a 50 percent gross profit.
Of course there are all sorts of window-treatment sellers yelling price, discount and savings. But the buyer who has just completed a major installed flooring purchase loves the idea of taking care of a complementary product from the same retailer.
A flooring retailer can build this business so it represents 20 percent of total store sales at excellent gross profit; sales per square feet of display space will be the highest for window treatments.
A flooring store without window treatment is one that is not really fulfilling customer needs as she describes them.


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The Columbus Dispatch - July 11, 2013 11:06 AM
Saturday is the day local baseball fans can pick up their pieces of history.
In other words, you can take a seat. Or two, to be more accurate.
Fans who have pre-ordered their Cooper seats seats can pick them up from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the stadium on Mound St., and those who have not purchased seats can do so on Saturday.
You can still order them online until 8 p.m. today (Thursday), click here.
They are $49.95 each for "random" seats, and for $59.95 each you can pick a row and seat. And, the minimum order is two seats.
For more information, here's an article about the seats.
The site will be developed in the Sports Pavillion and Automotive Research Complex, and will include a half-mile racetrack.


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Dalhausser Repeats as Beach Male Athlete of Year
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Dec. 20, 2011) – For the fourth year in a row, Phil Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.) has been named the USA Volleyball Beach Male Athlete of the Year.
Dalhausser and partner Todd Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.), the 2008 Olympic gold medalists, finished 2011 as the top-ranked players in the USAV Beach Player Rankings. The pair finished second in the FIVB Swatch World Tour rankings and are the top-ranked team overall in the FIVB Olympic Qualification Rankings, which will determine which two men's teams the U.S. will send to the 2012 Summer Games in London.
Dalhausser and Rogers finished the season with medals in nine out of 12 FIVB events, including four gold medals. Dalhausser was named the Most Outstanding Player of all four tournaments that the U.S. team won. In its postseason awards, the FIVB named Dalhausser its Best Setter for the third straight year.
In winning their first two tournaments of the 2011 season, Dalhausser and Rogers established a new FIVB record for consecutive match wins (40 straight until the gold medal match in Prague on May 22).
Dalhausser called the record a bright spot of the season.
"That was the biggest highlight of the year," Dalhausser said. "Also, winning in Poland, in Stare Jablonki, because we both were kind of banged up. To come back from those injuries and win a Grand Slam was a pretty big highlight."
Dalhausser suffered a severely sprained ankle at the Beijing Grand Slam, but continued to play through the pain to compete the next weekend at the FIVB World Championships in Rome.
"We didn't really have any time (to rest). The next weekend was World Championship," Dalhausser said. "After about a month and a half I found myself back to 100 percent."
In fact, Dalhausser and Rogers medaled in their last six World Tour events of the season until Rogers suffered a knee injury during the gold medal match in Aland, Finland, forcing the team to forfeit the match and end its season early.
"I was a little disappointed because I felt like we were playing well again," Dalhausser said. "Once I found out Todd's injury wasn't that major, I was cool with (ending the season early)."
After the international season, Dalhausser won the National Volleyball League (NVL) event Miami with Nick Lucena while Rogers was rehabbing a knee injury.
Dalhausser primary goal for 2012 is to repeat as Olympic gold medal champion. He feels his playing has improved since the 2008 gold medal victory.
"I'm a little smarter. Over the year I've picked up on things that have helped my game," Dalhausser said. "Things like passing, moving lower and moving my feet. I've been a lazy passer, but in the past year I've cleaned that up."
Dalhausser said he and Rogers are planning to play in most of the 2012 FIVB World Tour events leading up to the London Games.
"We don't want to take too much time off because then we'll be rusty," Dalhausser said. "Practice isn't the same as tournament play. You can practice as much as you want. It will get you ready to a point, but not 100 percent."


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by mattvan1 » Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:28 pm
Cleveland Matt wrote:A bag of taco's?
by pup » Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:30 pm
by Cleveland Matt » Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:32 pm
by JCoz » Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:00 am
Cleveland Matt wrote:I have also said that I think Holmgren's ego is too big to take a QB that high. It would be an insult to him to draft a QB that high when he can find a gem in the later rounds. That is what he did with Colt and that is what he will do again.
by Hikohadon » Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:34 am
Cleveland Matt wrote:Either way the Browns are not close to getting in the playoffs and no QB is going to help this team right now. We can't even win a division game.
by noles1 » Tue Jan 03, 2012 12:35 pm
by Triple-S » Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:44 pm
Swerb wrote:Go start a blog if you want to tell the world your incomprehendible ramblings.
Cerebral_DownTime wrote:I have a big arm and can throw the ball pretty damn far...... maybe even over those moutains. The Browns should sign me, i'll let you all in locker room to drink beer. Then we can all go out the parking lot to watch me do motorcycle stunts.
by Madre Hill, Superstar » Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:44 pm
motherscratcher wrote:FTR, who can I compare Sanchez to?
by Madre Hill, Superstar » Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:45 pm
noles1 wrote:There are two quaterbacks in this draft.
by JCoz » Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:52 pm
Madre Hill, Superstar wrote:noles1 wrote:There are two quaterbacks in this draft.Is Barkley staying at USC for another year or am I missing something?
by jb » Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:42 pm
mattvan1 wrote:Cleveland Matt wrote:A bag of taco's?Wow. Congrats. You are the first poster in 12 years for which I have used the "ignore" feature. Well played.
by Hikohadon » Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:00 pm
jb wrote:BTW - Anyone listen to Holmgren? Lots of heads may explode come draft day.
by JCoz » Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:11 pm
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Great compact puzzle
By The Soup Dragon
from UK
Comments about Educational Insights Kanoodle® Genius:
This is a fantastic little compact puzzle that we have all enjoyed from my 9 year old to my hubby!. I wanted something fun and a bit tricky to do in the car on long journeys and to pack for our summer holidays. The Kanoodle Genius has something everyone can try and with a mixture of flat and 3d puzzles has kept us thinking. This is well made and great fun.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Fun for even adults!
By Woman of Many Roles
from KS
About Me Parent
I received the Kanoodle Genius Game from Educational Insights to review.This game is great to past time when you are alone. My husband really loved this game. He loves puzzles and games that makes him think. This was right up his ally. Kanoodle Genius is definitely a game you have to think about. It has easy puzzles and it has puzzles that will really get your brain working.There is also multiple ways you can play the game. You can play a 2D game or you can flip it over and complete a 3D puzzle! The game comes with 7 different shapes, each with their own color. There are 202 different puzzles to try with 2 different levels of play. To play the game you pick the puzzle you want to beat, set up the pieces on the board to match the picture and then add the other pieces until they are all used and the puzzle is filled. It shocks me that there are so many ways for the pieces to fit together. The thing about this game that I find the neatest is the 3D section. It took a few times to get it set up, but it was well worth it! You can play for hours and never get bored because each game is different! This game is perfect for kids and adults both!
So Fun! Great Buy!
By BlackPearlMom
from Minnesota
About Me Parent, Spouse
I bought this for my husband who loves brain teasers. He loved it! I even enjoyed it and I usually don't like brain teasers. The best part is that my three year old was even able to do some of the 2D puzzles. This was good fun for our whole family! I'll probably buy a second one for my sister who also likes brain teaser type games.
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Great mind Challenge Game
By LAE
from Gilbert AZ
About Me Educator, Parent
My son is very bright and we are always looking for things to mentally challenge him. We absolutely love this game. It is fun a provides a great challenge for him. It comes with a book that has puzzles inside of it. It pick a puzzle and solve it with the game pieces. There is a choice of 2d and 3d puzzles. it provides hours of challenge and fun. I really like how compact this game is. My son can take it in the car or to his grandparents house. It fits nicely in his bookshelf in his room. He plays it a lot and he has already told us how he cant wait to help his sister play when she is old enough. Educational Insights is great company that always offers great learning games. This would be a great gift for birthdays or holidays.
I LOVE my Kanoodle Genius
By Amberlee Cave
from Colfax, CA
About Me Collector, Education Oriented, Parent
I received the Kanoodle Genius Game from Educational Insights to review and I love it! It is one of those games that is great to play by yourself, but it is also one that everyone tries to steal from you so they can try it. I love puzzles and games that really make you think and Kanoodle Genius is definitely a game you have to think about. It has easy puzzles and it has puzzles that will really get your brain working. There is also multiple ways you can play the game. You can play a 2D game or you can flip it over and complete a 3D puzzle! The game comes with 7 different shapes, each with their own color. There are 202 different puzzles to try with 2 different levels of play. To play the game you pick the puzzle you want to beat, set up the pieces on the board to match the picture and then add the other pieces until they are all used and the puzzle is filled. It amazes me that the pieces can fit so many ways! I think my favorite part about the game is the 3D puzzles. It takes a couple tries to get used to the set up, but once you get it you can have a lot of fun with it. I personally have never really played with 3D puzzles, but they are my new favorite because of this game! You can play for hours and never get bored because each game is different! This game is great for kids and adults! Everyone can have fun with it!
Awesome Problem Solver
By ajcain1980
from Georgia
Really love this game. This game is a great game to challenge kids to do different puzzles. It also great for problem solving skills. I would highly recommend this game for anyone. I received this promotion in exchange for an unbiased review.
Kanoodle gets your brain working!
By NashvilleMommy1
from Nashville, TN
I received the Kanoodle Genius for free in order to give a honest review. All opinions are 100% my own. This puzzle game is unlike any I have ever worked on before. I mean that in a great way! It is recommended for ages 8-15 so I was kind of skeptical if it would be challenging enough for my husband and I, but let me tell you, it sure is! Our children are to young to play, so for right now my husband and I keep it all to ourself. We play this for so long on the weekends, it is addicting. It really does work your brain. It comes with 7 pieces and the game has 200+ brain busting puzzles for you to solve with just those pieces. You are solving the 2-D and 3-D puzzles by rearranging the game pieces. This game is very challenging and really gets your brain working. My hubby and I love being competitive with one another, but I'll admit he wins at this one!
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Awesome Game
By wrappedupnu
from mcrae, ga
My family loves this game! it makes a great edition to family game night. We love puzzles in out home and this game gives your brain a workout for sure! We can play it for hours at a time and it never gets old. Kanoodle Genius Game would make a great holiday, birthday for anytime gift!
Lasting Fun
By Sheri the Mom
from San Diego
My son just got this and is having a blast! They give you puzzles to solve and he just started at the first one and wanted to keep going to the next one after he solved it! I actually had to make him stop playing with it so we could go out! I have to admit, as a mom, I'm enjoying it as well! Challenging for all ages!!
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Great puzzle for the whole family
By Trisha W.
from Idaho
About Me Parent, Thrifty
This gift arrived at a perfect time. The morning before it came my 10 y.o. had mentioned wanting puzzles – not the picture kind – for her upcoming birthday. Kanoodle Genius is rated for users ages 8 to adult. So far my 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16 year old children have tried it out. They all loved it and that is not an easy feat for this mix of boys and girls. They are unique individuals. Being a mom to seven I appreciated how both the instructions and puzzle pieces all fit neatly into the ~3.5" x 5" game case. There are both 2-D and 3-D puzzles to offer varying levels of challenge for the user. For my younger children, setting up the 3-D puzzles proved to be a challenge in and of itself. I have witnessed my children all huddled around this game playing cooperatively without fighting. That is definitely a bonus in our house. A few of my children are visual-spatial learners, so I enjoyed watching them challenge their brains while having fun. The playing pieces are small, so as always use caution if you have little ones around.P.S. Parents, when your kids aren't around grab this game and try it out. I bet you will like it. I did and I don't generally enjoy puzzle games.


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Continuing my post-week coverage of the [Data Center 2010 conference], Wendesday afternoon included a mix of sessions that covered storage and servers.
- Enabling 5x Storage Efficiency
Steve Kenniston, who now works for IBM from recent acquisition of Storwize Inc, presented IBM's new Real-Time Compression appliance. There are two appliances, one handles 1 GbE networks, and the other supports mixed 1GbE/10GbE connectivity. Files are compressed in real-time with no impact to performance, and in some cases can improve performance because there is less data written to back-end NAS devices. The appliance is not limited to IBM's N series and NetApp, but is vendor-agnostic. IBM is qualifying the solution with other NAS devices in the market. The compression can compress up to 80 percent, providing a 5x storage efficiency.
- Townhall - Storage
The townhall was a Q&A session to ask the analysts their thoughts on Storage. Here I will present the answer from the analyst, and then my own commentary.
Are there any gotchas deploying Automated Storage Tiering?
Analyst: you need to fully understand your workload before investing any money into expensive Solid-State Drives (SSD).
Commentary: IBM offers Easy Tier for the IBM DS8000, SAN Volume Controller, and Storwize V7000 disk systems. Before buying any SSD, these systems will measure the workload activity and IBM offers the Storage Tier Advisory Tool (STAT) that can help identify how much SSD will benefit each workload. If you don't have these specific storage devices, IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk can help identify disk performance to determine if SSD is cost-justified.
Wouldn't it be simpler to just have separate storage arrays for different performance levels?
Analyst: No, because that would complicate BC/DR planning, as many storage devices do not coordinate consistency group processing from one array to another.
Commentary: IBM DS8000, SAN Volume Controller and Storwize V7000 disk systems support consistency groups across storage arrays, for those customers that want to take advantage of lower cost disk tiers on separate lower cost storage devices.
Can storage virtualization play a role in private cloud deployments?
Analyst: Yes, by definition, but today's storage virtualization products don't work with public cloud storage providers. None of the major public cloud providers use storage virtualization.
Commentary: IBM uses storage virtualization for its public cloud offerings, but the question was about private cloud deployments. IBM CloudBurst integrated private cloud stack supports the IBM SAN Volume Controller which makes it easy for storage to be provisioned in the self-service catalog.
Can you suggest one thing we can do Monday when we get back to the office?
Analyst: Create a team to develop a storage strategy and plan, based on input from your end-users.
Commentary: Put IBM on your short list for your next disk, tape or storage software purchase decision. Visit [ibm.com/storage] to re-discover all of IBM's storage offerings.
What is the future of Fibre Channel?
Analyst 1: Fibre Channel is still growing, will go from 8Gbps to 16Gbps, the transition to Ethernet is slow, so FC will remain the dominant protocol through year 2014. Analyst 2: Fibre Channel will still be around, but NAS, iSCSI and FCoE are all growing at a faster pace. Fibre Channel will only be dominant in the largest of data centers.
Commentary: Ask a vague question, get a vague answer. Fibre Channel will still be around for the next five years. However, SAN administrators might want to investigate Ethernet-based approaches like NAS, iSCSI and FCoE where appropriate, and start beefing up their Ethernet skills.
- Will Linux become the Next UNIX?
Linux in your datacenter is inevitable. In the past, Linux was limited to x86 architectures, and UNIX operating systems ran on specialized CPU architectures: IBM AIX on POWER7, Solaris on SPARC, HP-UX on PA-RISC and Itanium, and IBM z/OS on System z Architecture, to name a few. But today, Linux now runs on many of these other CPU chipsets as well.
Two common workloads, Web/App serving and DBMS, are shifting from UNIX to Linux. Linux Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) is approaching the levels of UNIX. Linux has been a mixed blessing for UNIX vendors, with x86 server margins shrinking, but the high-margin UNIX market has shrunk 25 percent in the past three years.
UNIX vendors must make the "mainframe argument" that their flavor of UNIX is more resilient than any OS that runs on Intel or AMD x86 chipsets. In 2008, Sun Solaris was the number #1 UNIX, but today, it is IBM AIX with 40 percent marketshare. Meanwhile HP has focused on extending its Windows/x86 lead with a partnership with Microsoft.
The analyst asks "Are the three UNIX vendors in it for the long haul, or are they planning graceful exits?" The four options for each vendor are:
- Milk it as it declines
- Accelerate the decline by focusing elsewhere
- Impede the market to protect margins
- Re-energize UNIX base through added value
Here is the analyst's view on each UNIX vendor.
IBM AIX now owns 40 percent marketshare of the UNIX market. While the POWER7 chipset supports multiple operating systems, IBM has not been able to get an ecosystem to adopt Linux-on-POWER. The "Other" includes z/OS, IBM i, and other x86-based OS. HP has multi-OS Itanium from Intel, but is moving to Multi-OS blades instead. Their "x86 plus HP-UX" strategy is a two-pronged attack against IBM AIX and z/OS. Intel Nehalem chipset is approaching the RAS of Itanium, making the "mainframe argument" more difficult for HP-UX. Before Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, Oracle was focused on Linux as a UNIX replacement. After the acquisition, they now claim to support Linux and Solaris equally. They are now focused on trying to protect their rapidly declining install base by keeping IBM and HP out. They will work hard to differentiate Solaris as having "secret sauce" that is not in Linux. They will continue to compete head-on against Red Hat Linux.
An interactive poll of the audience indicated that the most strategic Linux/UNIX platform over the next next five years was Red Hat Linux. This beat out AIX, Solaris and HP-UX, as well as all of the other distributions of Linux.
The rooms emptied quickly after the last session, as everyone wanted to get to the "Hospitality Suites".
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