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For some, a job may mean little more than punching a clock and waiting for the weekend to roll around. But for these young Marquette alumni, it produces a new Tree of Life, the world's tallest skyscrapers, a veteran's memories of war and more.
Monica West
This summer, the Chicago Sun Times called Monica West, Comm '01, "a delicate, redheaded beauty who is a remarkably subtle and expressive actress."
That description didn't surprise Deb Krajec, artistic associate professor of theatre arts, who first encountered West as a Marquette freshman 15 years ago. "She looks like the perfect sweet, young, leading-lady type," Krajec says.
But there's much more to West than meets the eye.
"She has a beautiful soprano voice and she's an amazing dancer. She's also hysterically funny," Krajec says. "Everything she did when she arrived on campus ... we were blown away."
That versatility has sustained West's career from her portrayal of the lead role of Baby in the Toronto-based production of Dirty Dancing to acclaimed dramatic actress in Looking Glass Theater's Eastland to now starting a new singing comedy duo, MVPleez.
It hasn't always been easy for West, who moved to New York shortly before the 2001 terrorist attacks. It was two years before she landed her first job and union card. But all along, she felt prepared through the theatre program and mentorship from Krajec and Professor Phylis Ravel.
"Professor Ravel made no bones about the fact that this is a very difficult career," West says, remembering her mentor who recently passed away. "However, she always made me feel like I was a performer that could knock people's socks off, and that's the kind of confidence you need to succeed."
Ravel was transforming Marquette's theatre program to a performance-based curriculum when West came to campus, and the hands-on training of the next four years changed West's approach to acting. West remembers Ravel's teachable moments insights that she uses to this day. In one meeting, Ravel pulled a pencil from her hair, used it to stir her coffee, then explained how what she was doing could define a character for the audience.
Today, West uses similar quirks and gestures when portraying Alison Parker, a professor on MTV's comedy Underemployed. "It seems random," West says. "But it gives you some context for the character without having to be really obvious."
By Tim Cigelske
Stefanie Ebbens Kingsley
Standing beside poor people while they navigate the complex legal system isn't going to make Stefanie Ebbens Kingsley, Law '05, rich and famous. That doesn't stop her from loving it.
Ebbens Kingsley is the directing attorney in the Columbia, Ky., office of the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund. She provides free legal services to residents in the eastern portion of the state one of the poorest areas in the nation.
"We are there to ensure that the little people don't get trampled on," she says. "We are there to ensure that the scales of justice aren't tilted toward the ones with the bigger and deeper pockets. It's definitely a rewarding job when it comes down to standing up for the little guy."
She works in a five-person office with just one other lawyer to cover a seven-county area, typically handling about 100 cases at once.
Much as a public defender's office handles criminal cases for those who don't have the means to hire their own lawyers, Kingsley's office performs a similar function in civil cases that include child custody, divorce, foreclosure, eviction and debt collection.
Yes, the work can be emotionally taxing.
"It's never an easy thing to watch a parent's rights get terminated," she says.
Success stories are rare, but they do occur; recently, Ebbens Kingsley helped people restructure mortgages and stay in their homes.
She is inspired by her predecessors in legal aid and sees the work as a vital counterweight to a system that too often is ruled by money.
She didn't particularly enjoy law school and credits one of her professors, Rev. Greg O'Meara, S.J., with keeping her on target.
"I would go to his office, have absolute mental breakdowns 'Good God, what am I doing here?' and he really did a good job of picking up the pieces and continuing to encourage me to be better and do more," she says.
Ebbens Kingsley eventually found her purpose in the Law School's Public Interest Law Society, along with some service-oriented internships that steered her toward that aspect of the legal profession.
By Chris Jenkins
Brian Castner
Brian Castner, Eng '99, appeared unscathed after two tours in Iraq. All his wounds were on the inside.
As the leader of an Air Force bomb squad, Castner was surrounded by the horror and tension of war. His subsequent struggle to resume everyday life eventually unleashed a frantic state of mind he calls "the Crazy." Castner's recently published book, The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows, is his attempt to relay those experiences exactly as he felt them.
"I don't hold your hand for a lot of it," he says.
In the opening pages, Castner gives a raw description of the carnage caused by a car bomb. "That's maybe a little shocking and I have trouble almost seeing that it's shocking," Castner says. "It's like, 'Well, duh. What do you think happens?'"
Castner graduated from Marquette's ROTC program, became an Air Force engineer and passed a rigorous training program to join the bomb squad. After several close calls in Iraq, he made it home, only to develop an unshakeable sense of panic that nearly wrecked his family.
Through a combination of therapy, running, yoga and writing he calls telling his story a "biological need" Castner eventually learned to manage his trauma.
Today, he and his wife, Jessica (Spencer) Castner, Nurs '99, live in Buffalo, N.Y., with their four sons. Castner works as a consultant and is writing another book but still recently found time to audit an Irish literature course at Canisius College a sign, he says, of how much he misses the Jesuit approach to education.
Castner's favorite professor at Marquette, Dr. James Richie, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, occasionally deviated from engineering to tell stories in class. Richie sometimes cited a book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior.
"He found a copy that was being given away and brought it to me," Richie says of Castner. "I still have that copy and think of him when I see it on my shelf."
By Chris Jenkins
Matt McDowell
There may be no such thing as certainty in the financial world these days. But given a complex set of data to study, Matt McDowell, Grad '12, is confident he can determine a strategy for success.
"Strategic planning is the most enjoyable for me," McDowell says. "It's something that there's not an answer to you can't look it up in a book. Just a chance to be creative, which is great."
McDowell is chief financial officer for Northwestern Mutual's Washington, D.C.-area offices. Recently, he began studying the company's infrastructure, working toward a long-term plan to support the company's growth.
"I spend quite a bit of time with my friend, Excel," he jokes.
McDowell started out in the firm's Kansas City office. He briefly left to work in corporate finance, only to return a few months later when he was offered a position at the firm's Milwaukee headquarters. That's where McDowell found Marquette, earning his M.B.A. in the part-time program. He bonded with classmates, especially during long Saturday sessions. Now he says he's more ambitious than ever and, possibly, a little more mature, too.
"If you would have told me seven years ago that I'd be a CFO, I'd be like, 'Get out of town! That's going to be awesome,'" McDowell says. "But that was for very selfish reasons, because I just personally wanted to get a better job. But now, the ambitions are around, 'OK, I'm at a firm and we've got a large opportunity here in this marketplace, one of the most interesting marketplaces in the world.'"
To students pursuing a similar career path, McDowell recommends knowing what you're good at and making the most of any chance to showcase your skills.
"I know I'm not going to get up and give the most dynamic speech or woo people with this great personality," McDowell says. "For me, it was I could translate abstract concepts and break them down into something that's more easily understood."
By Chris Jenkins
Dr. Tiffani Williams
If Charles Darwin were alive, he would want to meet Dr. Tiffani Williams, Arts '94.
Williams is working with 10 scientists on a National Science Foundation-funded project to give science a Tree of Life comprising the world's known 2 million species. Finally, the idea Darwin nurtured will be fully grown and fully known.
To explain the project, Williams, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A&M University, uses the analogy of a family tree. "Instead of humans only, the Tree of Life is a family tree of all the world's species," she says. It will include flora and fauna, mammals and amphibians, bacteria and fungi, every living thing.
Constructing a comprehensive Tree of Life is one of the largest computational challenges yet undertaken. But Williams, who discovered a love for computing on her Commodore 64 in eighth grade, is an expert at high-performance, or parallel, computing. She writes algorithms that enable computers working together to solve different aspects of complicated problems.
"Anything I'm into is rooted in computational challenges," she says.
The idea of applying high-performance computing to phylogenetics also touches Williams, who earned a doctorate in computer science at the University of South Florida, on another level.
"The Tree of Life has a spiritual layer of meaning that's interesting to me. It says all of life is related. I find that a powerful concept," she says.
The research team is pulling millions of known trees of life into a central repository for analysis. Williams and others will look for connections and layers where the trees overlap and then design algorithms to assemble the puzzle into an overarching open Tree of Life that can continually grow to keep pace with new knowledge.
"The goal of our group is to show it can be done," Williams says, "and then it's up to the community of scientists and hobbyists to go and refine it. Our tree will be the seed to show people it's possible."
By Joni Moths Mueller
Molly McKenna Jandrain
For Molly McKenna Jandrain, Comm '01, the words "I'm lovin' it" are a brand campaign she helped launch in Germany in 2003 and how she describes her professional life.
She's a member of a McFamily, has been called a Golden Goddess and jokes that colleagues say ketchup runs through their veins. OK, enough hints, Jandrain is director of public relations for McDonald's USA. Has anyone born in the United States since 1955 not fallen under the spell of Chicken McNuggets or Shamrock Shakes?
"It's an exciting and busy brand to work for," Jandrain agrees. "I love working with a large consumer brand you can touch and feel."
She means really large. In the United States alone, 25 million people eat or drink at McDonald's every day.
Jandrain, who was born the year the Happy Meal was introduced, joined the corporation in 2001 as a public relations intern. She became a global communications supervisor in 2002, spent several years supporting public relations initiatives around the world and assumed her current post in 2012. She has helped drive branding campaigns, represented McDonald's global sponsorship at five Olympic Games and managed communication around new product lines such as McCafé specialty coffees. She's also a founding member of the McDonald's Twitter team and reserves one day a week for tweeting news and talking online with "mommy bloggers."
Making sure McDonald's restaurants in 119 countries offer customers the best experience requires planning. Menus are localized. In India, that means burgers made of lamb. In China, Happy Meals come with corn instead of apples. In Sweden, restaurants offer drive-thru windows for snowmobilers. When McDonald's offers a new item well, it's only new to customers. The item has been tested for up to three years.
"We're always evolving," Jandrain says. "It's part of our journey. We take the approach that we won't change overnight but we need to be there for our customers and be what they want from us."
By Joni Moths Mueller
Caitlin Andrews
Before coming to Marquette, Caitlin Andrews, Comm '09, hadn't even visited Washington, D.C. Now she's on K Street, working blocks from the White House and immersed in the twists and turns that comprise the legislative process.
Andrews is a communication and research specialist for the policy resolution group at Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, where she tracks legislation and crafts strategic messages for clients. She and a co-worker recently kept tabs on one provision in a bill to help a client understand what might happen next.
"I looked at him and said, 'You know, this is a lot more complicated than they teach you in Intro to Government,'" Andrews says, referring to Marquette course work.
Clearly, she's getting the hang of it. She made PR News' "15 to watch" list in 2011 and is on track to earn a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University.
Not bad, considering it wasn't so long ago that she arrived on campus a fresh-man from Houston who didn't even own a winter coat.
Andrews soon felt at home in Milwaukee and then found her purpose in D.C. the summer after junior year, through her experiences at the Les Aspin Center for Government.
"To be working in a federal government office building and walking around near the monuments, it was just fascinating," she says. "It was exciting, and I couldn't wait to move back as soon as I graduated."
Chris Murray, a visiting instructor at the center, says Andrews' experience is common for students in the program. "Often times, they do have a kind of dramatic transformation," he says. "They decide this is where they want to be."
While a student at Marquette, Andrews was an organizer for the Obama campaign and had internships with U.S. Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin and then-Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, both Democrats. Working at Bracewell & Giuliani yes, that is former New York mayor and one-time Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on the marquee has taught her the value of bipartisanship.
"I've learned a lot working in this firm about the way that Washington really works," Andrews says. "If you want to accomplish anything for your client, it is very important to work in a bipartisan fashion."
By Chris Jenkins
Katie Weiss
Inspiration comes in many forms. For Katie Weiss, Eng '01, it was seeing the movie Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan as a kid. Suddenly Weiss knew what she was meant to do.
"It changed my world," she says. "I wanted to be on board that ship exploring the universe. I wanted to be in that reality. And I spent my entire life from that point on working to make that happen."
Fast forward to August 2012 when Weiss was part of a team of NASA scientists hollering, hugging and crying with joy as the unmanned Curiosity rover landed successfully on Mars.
"This was our baby," Weiss says. "We put everything into that rover, working tirelessly together for years. A little part of each of us is on Mars right now."
Weiss, a senior flight software engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, worked on the project's avionics management and fault protection programs. The project was ambitious. A writer for the London daily The Telegraph compared landing the rover on its intended spot on Mars to a golfer hitting a hole-in-one in Scotland swinging from Los Angeles.
"You can't help but think, 'I know in principle this is supposed to work, and we've tested the heck out of it and we've seen it work,'" Weiss says. "'But is this really going to work all the way on Mars?'"
After tense moments, the successful touchdown was an emotional release for team members.
"Everyone was yelling, 'It worked! We did it! We actually did it!'" Weiss says. "It was one of the most amazing and fulfilling moments of my life."
For Weiss, it was her latest step forward in a field in which men still largely out-number women. At Marquette, she was the only female student in her computer engineering class. At NASA, she was the only female flight software developer on a 35-person team.
Weiss advises Marquette students to pursue well-rounded life experiences instead of fixating on grades. She follows her own advice by teaching fitness classes at a gym near her home in California. But hard work, she says, was the only way she made it to Mars.
"It has not been an easy road," Weiss says. "You have to be strong and have a lot of determination. But if you have the resolve to hold on to your dream, you can achieve it. No doubt."
By Chris Jenkins
John Peronto
The tallest or largest or greenest or boldest these are the purview of Chicago-based engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti. "We definitely do the more flashy architectural jobs," says John Peronto, an associate at TT.
He would know. Peronto is a structural engineer whose portfolio of projects features some pretty flashy entries, including the 150-story Chicago Spire; one of the world's largest airplane hangars, in Memphis, Tenn.; the Federation of Korean Industries headquarters in Seoul; and Meraas Tower in Dubai.
Since 2009, Peronto's focus has been a project that will tower over those architectural achievements. He is a member of the team designing the world's tallest building, Kingdom Tower, to be built in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. When finished, it will stand more than a kilometer tall and send the definition of skyscraper into a new stratosphere.
"It's a huge undertaking," he says, "the most challenging of my career."
Peronto came to Marquette to study electrical engineering. Then he took a course on statics, which is engineering for construction to withstand gravity, aerodynamics and seismic forces, taught by Dr. Christopher Foley, professor and chair of civil, construction and environmental engineering. He also worked in the construction field prior to his time at Marquette. "My background and classes with Dr. Foley carried my interests into structural and mechanical engineering," he says.
Peronto went on to earn five degrees in five years, including a M.Eng in civil engineering at Cornell while working with Weidlinger Associates in New York. He's been with Thornton Tomasetti for eight years.
"I am privileged to work with some of the brightest engineers and architects, people who are at the top of their game," he says.
Peronto brings his knowledge back to campus, teaching engineering students at Marquette and Cornell. "It's refreshing to see students who are so motivated and passionate about engineering," he says.
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Discussion in 'NFL Zone' started by Diogenes, Jan 6, 2013.
Who you pulling for?
I'll be rooting for Ray-Ray's team. Mainly because we share a common bond. The sports fans in Baltimore hate the fans in Wash. DC almost as much as I do. So there's that.
The Lewis introduction gave me chills, one of the best to ever do it.
horrible PI call
Yes is was. Maybe a little karma at work on the next play.
New Colts vs. old Colts.
I'd like to see Luck win, but I think the Ravens will be too much for them right now.
Rooting for the Colts but the whole Ray Lewis retiring thing - the Ravens will be ampt up.
Luck is the real deal though.
Luck looks very shaky out there. To be expected of his first playoff game though.
Also the gameplan apparently doesn't call for any run plays, so that's not helping Luck.
I think the Ravens win this.
Wow - how did he not grab that face mask??
horrendous no call and now where's the call on the Luck pass
Luck almost throwing a pick. No surprise here.
If only we had these officials maybe they would not have called the Hatcher touch to the helmet! Luck got hit in the head twice on the same play and no call!
This is gonna be a really good game.
Well the refs got the fumble recovery right this time. Horribly officiated game so far.
Colts have got to stay out of the third and long in this game...
Luck fumbles, Ravens recover. Luck is not looking good so far. Underthrown passes, nearly picked off passes, now fumbling. Maybe the playoff atmosphere is a little too much for him.
officiating looks pretty bad. Luck has had one fumble and Ed Reed missed what would have been a pretty good play, but a pick he normally makes.
Both teams are sloppy.
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Dr. Brenda Wrigley teaches and conducts research in the areas of gender and diversity, public relations, corporate communications, crisis communications, and management. She is particularly well-versed in LGBTQ issues affecting organizations and society and in diversity training and engagement for management and employees to create more socially responsible practices.
Dr. Wrigley earned a Bachelor of Broadcast Journalism degree from the University of Missouri/Columbia, a Master's degree in Public Relations from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in Mass Communications, also from Newhouse. She has 21 years of professional experience in broadcast journalism, broadcast sales and sales management, and corporate communications management. She has more than 16 years of university teaching experience and holds a Certificate in University Teaching, as well as an APR (Accreditation in Public Relations) from the Public Relations Society of America. She has been widely published in journals, books and reference books about Public Relations.


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Pandering to get access to Vick much
Derrick Gunn Comcast Sportsnet
"Michael Vick was recently named by Forbes as the most hated athlete in America (see post). How much longer will sports fans hold his past transgressions against him? When is enough, enough?
I really posted this to post this former Eagle fans response to it
"Ok, let's bottom line this whole deal : Gunn supports Vick for one reason - he wants to be perceived by Vick as a 'friendly' writer so Gunn can access Vick for an interview. PERIOD End of story. I'm so sick of these media types who are willing to set aside all that is right in order to remain on the good side of the almighty athlete. When the Eagles signed Vick, I took the higher road of distancing myself from a franchise that would so embarass themselves and this city by uniting with a person in whose heart resides the type of evil that is rare. It was difficult for me, I LOVED the Eagles. But right is right. Now I find myself happy when the birds lose (needless to say - I was happy alot this season). I wonder if I will ever return to my first love of football - midnight green and silver. When Vick leaves, his legacy of evil will remain, the stain of his monstrous behaviors a part of the fabric of Eagle history forever. Was is worth it, Mr. Lurie?"


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To write this article I knew I had to rely upon some of the kung fu and aikido masters that have influenced me. One master, Morihei Ueshiba, said: "Cast off limiting thoughts and return to true emptiness. Stand in the midst of the Great Void. This is the secret of the Way of a Warrior."
We often see money as a big limitation, which it is, but it shouldn't limit our dreams of what we want to accomplish. I often find when I dream, a path to it will appear. So when you get in a tough spot and the world is crumbling around your operation, you'd better have some good kung fu skills.
I think back to what Bruce Lee once said, "Empty your mind, be formless — like water. Put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle; put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can 'flow' or it can 'crash.' Be water, my friend."
Public works departments have to be changing, responsive, fluid, and adaptable. We need to look at the tough times — this year and in the years ahead — as a challenge that can be met if we are like water. We must be flexible, creative, and responsive to our citizens' needs. We must sharpen our skills and find ways of doing our jobs with less. We must not see financial problems as insurmountable obstacles. We can flow around them. We can erode them away.
I always use a team approach and solicit ideas from everyone in my department and in other cities. A keen sense of listening is a warrior's greatest weapon.
Here are some thoughts and tips that may get you thinking:
Every department has to develop its own kung fu techniques or smart management practices. Ueshiba, the founder of aikido, said, "If you are enlightened about a certain principle, you can put it into practice. After each practical application, reflect on your efforts. Progress continually like this."
We need to be constantly improving if we are to survive and flourish. The goal of perfection is never attained in this life, only pursued. When looking for ways to improve efficiency I look at the following:
Bruce Lee also said, "If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
We all need to look at what we're doing, particularly with our down time. If we face a hiring freeze then we must learn to do more with fewer people. We have to cross-train and use our time wisely with the people we have. We can shift labor around to where they are needed if employees are cross-trained.
The pursuit of good kung fu is important. Often we can't see the solution because we've trained ourselves to think concretely, we fear failure, or we lack vision. Now is the time to strengthen our kung fu.
— L. Shawn Lindsey (email@example.com) is public works director in Athens, Tenn., and wrote our February 2005 "The quest for Mayberry" cover story. Article reprinted by permission from Tennessee Public Works Magazine.


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Headline: Slaves in Wisconsin
Main Heading: Social and Political Movements
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Article Date: 1900-3-31
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County: Grant
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Student Caught Cheating at Sequoia High School
Original post made by Parent, another community, on Apr 26, 2012
The lawsuit, filed April 18 in San Mateo County Superior Court, claims the teenager's due process rights were violated. It names as defendants the Sequoia Union High School District, District Superintendent James Lianides and Sequoia High School Principal Bonnie Hansen.
The sophomore had signed an "Academic Honesty Pledge" at the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year that declares cheating is grounds for immediate removal from the advanced-level program; his mother also had signed it.
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a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 27, 2012 at 6:35 am
The Academic Honesty pledge signed by the boy and his mother states that there will be no cheating, and that the penalty is removal from the class with no exceptions. He acknowledges copying someone else's homework.
I hope that the district follows the stated policy, and does not make an exception for a cheater with shameless parents.
a resident of Greendell/Walnut Grove
on Apr 27, 2012 at 7:29 am
Hmmmm..parents suing school for kicking son out of school for cheating..wonder where the kid learned he could get away with cheating?
Hang tough, school.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 27, 2012 at 7:46 am
I just heard on the radio that the Daddy is a lawyer - surprise, surprise. And he is working hard to ensure special treatment for his student. I have heard the school district has already compromised by agreeing to not list the transgression on the kid's transcript. Still, they have removed the kid from the specific class for this year. And - Daddy is still negotiating and suing.
This does worry me in that it may mean that if take a kid, from a non-lawyer family, then you don't have parent(s) who are willing/capable to try to intimidate the school district, then the penalty would stand; whereas if your parent(s) ARE lawyers you end up with an advantage.
None of this speaks to right and wrong, which sadly seems to get lost in the situation.
I suppose some lawyer families would do the right thing and have the kid take his punishment, but from what I have seen in PAUSD I am not sure...
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Apr 27, 2012 at 12:43 pm
I echo the sentiments in these comments. I worked hard in my honors classes & never cheated. What a waste of money this lawsuit may prove to be. The kid's rights were violated? What about the rights of all the non-cheating students? It may be interesting to see what they're able to prove, on both sides.
On the lighter side, this reminds me of a lot of old lawyer jokes...
a resident of East Palo Alto
on May 3, 2012 at 9:51 pm
neighbor -
easy ways to be sure - search for - egg wars. (example).
Palo Alto High principle apparently lost her job, then, for having kids of families who could afford lawyers bearing some consequences. Same consequences as one might expect East Palo Alto student would have beard, should acted same way.
a resident of Community Center
on May 3, 2012 at 11:22 pm
You know, there are different kinds of cheating. Copying homework is a LOT different than, say, cheating on a test. Lots of students do homework together, is that copying? It seems to me that removal from the class is too harsh a penalty for this offense.
a resident of another community
on May 18, 2012 at 12:05 pm
The judge ruled yesterday this cheating kid can't return to the class.
"There is 'no dispute that plaintiff (student) did in fact cheat,' (San Mateo County Superior Court judge George Miram) ruling states.
"'Plaintiffs' claim of comparative harm further ignores the significance of proven cheating on the student and upon the integrity of the educational institution in its entirety,' Miram wrote."
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Hopefully they will drop this before a trial... What a waste of money when they could be spending money on other things rather than lawsuits!
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Yesterday I decided to donate this machine to St. Vincents Thrift store as it is located on my way to the bank. As much as I disliked the sewing machine, I figured that it is still a usable sewing machine and perhaps she will have another life with someone who is not so picky about quality. Mission accomplished.
BUT, of course I had to check out what they had upstairs. Lo and behold, there were 5, yes 5, old sewing machines. Did my heart go pitter pat, well of course. Hmmmm time to dicker, which I did. I bought them all for $95. It did not take long to break the New Year's resolution of NO MORE SEWING MACHINES!!!! Here is the list:
1. Portable Singer 15-91, bentwood case top, made in Canada with converted motor, excellent condition
2. Embossed White Rotary, mounted on it's cabinet mounting, I have a cabinet for it, whooo hoooo!
3. Singer Model 27 fiddle base in a case, electrified, original manual with it, poor to fair condition
4. Very old Domestic treadle head,
5 Singer Model 15, stripped of some parts, but took it any way, hated to see it go for scrap
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Even with this I had to put a wire cone in the tunnel, if not the bees were entering the hive and going through the tunnel back into the wall. I think the use of anything solid
doesn't work well because the bees can see the hole, with the wire it is hard for them to see the hole
So what is that, a nuc box with an entrance?
The one I made was a 5 frame nuc. I made a small long box out of plywood then, cut a square hole in another peice of plywood then glued and nailed them together. Then cut a hole in the nuc so that the tunnel is a tight fit. Use silicone to glue plywood over hole in wall or tree, slide nuc in place. Let bees come and go for a couple of days then put a wire cone in the tunnel. When there iis enough bees in the box I give them a frame of brood. The last trap out I did using this I had to put the second nuc on top of the first one.
In my original post(now deleted?) I asked some more questions.
If using a hose into a hive (a dark one), would the bees eventually start building in the hive after having to travel thru it continously?(without brood or comb from other hives)
Would the queen eventually move out the pipe and lay in the hive?
From the trapouts that I have done if the bees can get back into their hive they do not build any thing in the trap out hive. If the queen has plenty of room to lay in her hive she has no reason to come out through the hose. I think the main reason trap outs work is because you let the works and drones out and when they can not get back in there is not resources coming into the hive and they send mpore workers out. The hive acts like there is a darth .
basser59 is right, when the field bees fail to return and no polen or necture coming in the queen stops laying. Each day more bees go out to forage or orintation flights and fail to return, the queen and house bees begin to consume the stores in the hive and the brood hatches out and over time the hive population dwindles until the queen and remaining bees leave to find a new home. 90% of the time they fly right on past the hive box as it has a queen it raised from the frame of eggs/brood the you installed at the start or a queen that you installed.
IF the bees find any way to return to the hive a trapout will not work. Jim
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Adding to the discussion, regarding the "walk through" questions, that is exactly what I did when I first started trying to do a trap-out -- a swarm had adopted my old plywood utility trailer box. As I have learned since, the go-thru method uses the trap box as "extended hive space" and it requires a lot more management. With the one-way cone, they simply cannot get back into the old 'hive' and adopt the new space.
The primary ongoing management after setting up and sealing the edges of the big side of the screen cone is to 1) make sure there are no additional entrances that can be adopted as the new primary entrance, 2) make sure that the angle is set so dead bees don't block the skinny end of the screen cone -- and be careful not to have too long of a tunnel where traffic jams can occur. 3) swap a frame for one with fresh eggs after enough bees have moved in to keep the eggs and hatched brood warm. 4) If you are starting with a nuc or smaller box, monitor the space -- it's a pain to have to do a swap like I did recently changing a nuc to a full-depth body, 15' up a tree, just because I started with too small a box due to a shortage of woodware.
Once you get to this stage, fewer 'management' trips should be required.
The original reason I asked is that I don't have bees yet. Winter here downunder. I have been told about a couple of different hives in trees but I don't think they are easy to get to, so I thought maybe I can "Make them" walk thru an empty hive to get in and out of their home. Hoping after a few weeks they may start building in the empty hive.
Then if they did, put a srceen cone on the end of the hose so they would all come out into the new hive space.
Hoping the queen would eventually be running out of food like the rest and come and find the new hive
Hoping the queen gets out and finds the new hive and says this is alright and starts laying.
I know I'm asking for a lot, but if you don't ask the question you will never know if it's possible
To re-phrase... "You must create a population shortage in the primary colony."
Look at my post #8 -- you can't wait for them to simply migrate. Think of the brood nest (heart of the colony) as a component in a continuous cycle... queen lays eggs... bees raise brood... bees cap brood... when the new bees hatch out, bees clean cells... queen lays eggs... etc. It is a balancing act. No matter how patient you are they are not likely to just migrate the colony into your auxilliary box on their own.
I have learned that re-inventing a proven process just isn't worth the time.


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Spacious bedroom is equipped with a double king size bed and comfortable double folding sofa.
There is additional single bed located in separate area on a porch / gallery, but this can be used from April to September during other months it can be to cold to sleep there.
Bathroom: a modern very comfortable bathroom with a shower, toilette, basin, hair drier.
Kitchenette: fully equipped with fridge, stove, kettle, coffee machine
Other services: Television, iron, wireless Internet (wi-fi access), towels, bedding
LOCATION: in the heart of the Old City, exactly on the corner of Main Market Square in Krakow. In historic house that construction was started in 13th century
In the building: trafica, flower shop, Restaurant "Under Pear" , Pub "U Kacpra" , pharmacy shop, watchmaker shop.
Car parking: Paid parking lot 100 m away attended
LOCATION: in the heart of the Old City, exactly on the corner of Krakow's fabulous Main Market Square in Krakow. In historic house that construction was started in 13th century
Near by services: Stores, restaurants, coffee shops, bus and tram stops, taxi stand, grocery stores and all other necessary services are within walking distance. Museums, Cinemas, Theaters, various other attractions all near by.
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It was great! Beautifull location and very friendly driver. Would definitely recommend
The apartment was clean and everything was working well, is really nice and it's just few meters from the main square so it was very easy to get everywhere. We enjoyed the stay. Thanks for all, totally recommend it!. Great host, quick responses during booking etc, made arrangements for key, air port transfer and check out
good, clean apartment, everything was working. very well located, only a couple of minutes' walk from the market square. only two points: the apartment did not correspond to the announcement (the pictures shown in the announcement refer to another apartment) and the second night there was a party going on in a neighbouring flat, people were really extremely loud until 3 am, shouting like crazy
Great apartment with an unbeatable view of the main square and despite activity outside quiet and relaxed inside.
One negative booked apartment transfer did not show up at the airport, but a taxi for about the same price sorted that and in future would use the integrated train link much cheaper, quicker and more convenient to get to the office to pick up the keys.
The description of this apartment did not match at all to reality.
The description says 4 bedrooms, big living room and also 2 balconies.
There was only 3 bedrooms and 1 balconies.
There was also only one tabel and six chairs in the kitchen. And I have asked Martin especially if there was space and Equipment for 12 people in the kitchen..
The coffe maker did not work okey. One toilet leaked quite a lot.
It would have been good if someone from Wimdu had met us at the apartment and shown us the apartment. Instead we had to get key from office and then make a mumbers of call to fix all trouble.
Thank you very much for your patience.
The attic was fantastic and in a very good situation, very near the center, and it is lovely.
Localitation is perfect, in the downtown and near train and bus station. Spacious flat with a nice view. Needs more kitchenware, there isnt a toaster or microwawe. Is a 3th floor without lift. The street in summer is noisy and if u sleep with the windows open is sometimes molest. The bath needs a bath screen
Incredible views of the main square and nice high-ceiling apartment directly in the heart of the Stare Masto. The furniture and other home furnishings aren't of the highest quality but the apartment is spacious and has lots of room for a group of at least 4 people. Lack of air conditioning can be a problem in the summer months and the music from the square can be distracting but this overall is an excellent choice for Krakow for the location.
The appartment is nice but maybe too small for 8 people. Martin is a nice host, and the location is good. Everything was ok.
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Eli should say "I could have covered Cruz on that play..."
Hall is going to get eaten up on Monday
He could have made that throw because he was too busy getting torched by cruz...
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite team in the NFL.
Come Monday night, all the talk is meaningless. Blown coverages will cost someone the game. It's not going to be us.
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Skins fan here. Hall can be an idiot at times but I like how he doesnt back down. Its funny because the last time we played you, I came on here and talked about how done he was. I said he looked just like McNabb & Brunell. Like he physically was shot. It looked like it hurt to run. He only had LB speed and looked to be laboring soo much. Like he was dragging himself around the field.
Now since the bye he is not fully back but he looks alot better than he was before the bye. Just physically he's looking faster & quicker. He was getting killed in the slot but he's looking better now. Him & Griffith. Griff was terrible in Preseason and early regular season. Then he missed a few games with injury. Since he's come back he's been really good looking.
Still cant trust either or our safties but they are all way better than Josh Wilson who is just straight toast now. Every play he gets beat and jumps up screaming at the ref like the wr shouldve been called for Offensive PI. Its so annoying. He always has his back to the ball and then jumps up pointing


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Discussion in 'BUILDS' started by Hoeha, May 5, 2012.
Just finished this tandem for a friend and his son. Its a three speed coaster
Wow T.,that's one cool ride! I presume,you took a solocruiser and glued a rear-end to it? If so, I'm impressed. Looks like factorybike.
Thumbs up,dude. 8)
Yes, thats more or less what i did. Here's a pic of the welded frame
That is a wicked cool tandem!! 8)
nice job
Very Cool!!! Nice work 8) :mrgreen:
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Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) will spearhead an initiative to overhaul DOD's acquisition process.
Members of the House Armed Services Committee are set to launch a long-term reform effort aimed at the Defense Department, including an emphasis on overhauling the acquisition process.
At an Oct. 29 hearing, Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) announced that Vice Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) would spearhead the initiative, with assistance from ranking Democrat Adam Smith of Washington.
"We cannot afford a costly and ineffective acquisition system, particularly when faced with devastating impacts of repeated budget cuts and sequestration," McKeon said in an opening statement at the hearing. "The Congress, together with the Department of Defense and industry, must be willing to do the hard work to find root causes, look past band-aid fixes and parochial interests, and have the courage to implement meaningful, lasting reform."
McKeon added that the initiative would include a "hard look at acquisition."
In an Oct. 29 opinion piece for Real Clear Defense, Thornberry called for defense acquisition reform as a top priority, noting that as much as 10 percent of federal discretionary spending goes toward military purchasing. He blamed "heavy federal regulations" for driving up costs.
"There are nearly 2,000 pages of acquisition regulations on the books, many of which have not been reviewed in years," Thornberry wrote. "Too often, Congress and the Pentagon respond to cost overruns by adding another law or an additional oversight office. The situation has gotten so bad that in order to supply our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, entire new streamlined procurement systems were created in order to circumvent the normal process."
At least one industry group praised the proposed efforts. In an Oct. 29 statement, Professional Services Council CEO and President Stan Soloway urged the committee to consider recommendations PSC issued earlier this year.
"The recognition by Chairman McKeon and Ranking Member Smith of the importance of seriously and thoughtfully addressing the persistent challenges in defense acquisition today is an important first step," said Soloway. "Given constrained resources, massive demographic challenges, and the nature and pace of technology development, now is the time to act boldly, broadly and smartly."
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The appropriators supporting an IT modernization bill are urging a key authorizing committee to vote up the bill and send it to the Senate floor.
The architect of the Managing Government Technology Act is happy with the administration's request for a central IT modernization fund, but he thinks the real action will take place at the agency level.
President Donald Trump's budget proposal identifies almost $150 billion in savings over 10 years by slashing federal employee benefits, but feds and their unions are crying foul.
As expected, the proposed federal budget contains $228 million for a general fund for IT modernization projects.
The Modernizing Government Technology Act passed the House of Representatives on a voice vote, but the Senate outlook is less certain.
The revised IT modernization bill will cost $500 million to implement, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Perhaps Rep. Thornberry can discuss the proliferation of the jobs programs that members of Congress impose on the acquisition process, at the expense of national security and the taxpayers. The M1A Abrams program is a perfect example of the stranglehold the military-industrial-lobbyist-self-interest Congressperson complex has on our defense budget.
Further, how does Congress expect Defense to grow its acquisition personnel when some members of Congress have done everything in their power to bring on needless sequestration cuts, across the board budget cuts, and demonize civilian workers?
Life is full of trade-offs, and there are no easy answers. The only simple and elegant solution is to buy less.
The old acquisition process overhaul. Let's empower our employees! Our employees are too empowered! Make up more rules! We have too many employees! We should use contractors! We pay too much for contracts! The contractors run the Government! There's too many rules. We don't have enough employees! Let's hire more employees! Repeat forever every 10-15 years.
I hope this eager beaver gets those of us who use the system involved in his "reform" efforts. I suspect he has no experience in these matters.....let's hope he has some common sense and asks lots of questions.
Rewrite Title 10 to take control of the money away from the services, and start running DoD like one agency, instead of five seperate ones? Just sayin'.
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Well, 2012 didn't turn out to be the year of the Mayan apocalypse, which is good because I've still got a bunch of games I want to tell you about. For me, it was the year of the Kickstarter board game. A quarter of the games I reviewed myself were on Kickstarter, and those are just ones with full reviews, not including short "Kickstarter alert" posts. Many of the final printed copies of games I backed have started showing up in the past few months, but I haven't had time to write up the finished product, because there are always so many new ones ongoing. So most of these will have to wait until my list for 2013 as they trickle in. Any games on our list which were based on incomplete prototypes have been marked with an asterisk.
Another trend from this past year was the cooperative game. Co-op games aren't new; Pandemic, still one of my favorites, has been around since 2008. But more and more gamers are discovering that co-op games are great for both new and experienced gamers, and here at GeekDad we love the way we can play them with our kids. It was hard enough last year picking my favorite for "Best Supporting Actors," but this year there were several stand-outs in that category, making it a really tough choice.
This year, I'm going for fun factor. Some are pretty, some have nicer components, but really what matters to me most is that it's fun to play.
So what were our favorite games of 2012? Here are our picks, as selected by myself, Matt Morgan, Jenny Williams, Dave Banks, Michael Harrison, and Erik Wecks.
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"Where we fundamentally came down with Rob is that his philosophy is about multiple scheme," Jones said. "I think you have to skinny it down. Philosophically, I don't think Rob believes in that. And it's not something that happened and all of a sudden at the end of the year we had a problem. I think Rob will tell you we had long visits about this in the off-season last year that there was too much scheme. He tried to cut it back and he did skinny it back, but it's still a lot."
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Greg Trooper to perform May 3 in Nisswa
Evocative songwriter Greg Trooper makes his Grassroots Concerts debut at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 3, at the Live Well Night Club and Coffee Bar, Nisswa.
Trooper is a songwriter's songwriter. His songs have been recorded by numerous artists, including Vince Gill, Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, Robert Earl Keen, Maura O'Connell, Lucy Kaplansky and Tom Russell.
Raised in the shore town of Little Silver, N.J., he became enthralled by the greater New York area's rich music scene. His musical creations are influenced by what could be termed a musical holy trinity in the work of Otis Redding, Hank Williams and Bob Dylan with their guiding lights of passion, literary dexterity and plainspoken honesty. It's one reason Trooper's music feels equally informed by Memphis soul, Greenwich Village folk and Nashville twang.
Trooper has released 11 albums since 1986, with a 12th recording soon to be released. It will be his first since "Upside-Down Town" in 2011.
Admission is $10 at the door for adults and $5 for children under 12 with listening attention, when accompanied by an adult. At all shows, seating is first-come, first-served. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. and doors open at 6:30 p.m.
This is the last concert of the spring season and will be No. 276 since the venue was created in 1988.
The Live Well Nightclub and Coffee Bar, 5459 County Road 18, is next to Nisswa School.
Grassroots Concerts are made possible in part by a grant from the Five Wings Arts Council through the Minnesota State Legislature. The series is a 501c(3) non-profit under the Internal Revenue Code.
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Brewers examining first-base options
Seattle Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik has said that he is on the verge of trading first baseman Mike Carp, whom the team designated for assignment last week.
But the Milwaukee Brewers, a team with a glaring need at first base, are not in the mix for Carp, major-league source say.
The Brewers lost Mat Gamel to a season-ending ACL injury on Monday. They also will open the season without Corey Hart, who is recovering from knee surgery.
But rather than trade for Carp or sign a free agent such as Carlos Lee, the Brewers first will examine their internal options – Taylor Green, Hunter Morris and Alex Gonzalez.
If those options prove unappealing, the team could pursue a first-base type on a minor-league contract later in the spring. Two former Brewers - the Red Sox's Lyle Overbay and Orioles' Travis Ishikawa – fit that description, as does the New York Yankees' Juan Rivera.
Gonzalez, a shortstop for his entire 14-year career, doesn't sound enthused about playing first. He told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, "I don't know yet about that," when asked about the possibility.
The Brewers, though, are kicking around the idea that Gonzalez could become for them what Michael Young was for the Rangers in recent seasons, bouncing all over the infield.
Green, too, offers versatility with his ability to play second and third base. Carp plays only first, and the Brewers would have no place for him after Hart returned.
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Hung - Season 2 Episodes
Hung - Season 2
His name is Ray Drecker; high-school teacher by day, male gigolo by night. In Season Two of this hit comedy series, all hell breaks loose as Ray decides to add another pimp to the mix in the person of his teaching colleague Lenore Bernard.
"Just the Tip"
Ray finds himself thinking about Jessica (having discovered his ex-wife was willing to hire a gigolo) and reaches out to her "to discuss the kids." Jessica, meanwhile, faces resistance from Darby when offering advice in the romance department, when the girl accuses her mother of living her life through men.
"Tuscon Is the Gateway to Dick"
Ray (Thomas Jane) irritates Lenore (Rebecca Creskoff) and risks losing a client by giving Claire (Kathryn Hahn) marriage advice. Tanya (Jane Adams) tries to prove she can land a big fish for Ray after being humiliated by Lenore during a meeting with a 60-year-old widow. Ray uses his sex earnings to pay for the school baseball team's transportation to away games, raising Mike's (Gregg Henry) suspicions. Jessica (Anne Heche) embarrasses Darby (Sianoa Smit-McPhee) by crashing an eat-in protest outside a fitness gym. At the end of a long day, Ray reconsiders accepting a gift delivered by his neighbor's wife, Yael (Alanna Ubach).
""Mind Bullets" or "Bang Bang Bang Motherfu**er"
Spurred by criticism from Damon (Charlie Saxton) and Darby, Ray tries to prove he's not an insensitive ex-jock. Seething from the demands of her new boss at work, Tanya turns to Charlie (Lennie James) for advice on how to deal with an even more irritating problem: Lenore. Meanwhile, Jessica feels the pinch of the economic downturn, but can't stomach Ronnie's (Eddie Jemison) remedy.
""Sing It Again Ray" or "Home Plate""
Ray gives Lenore an ultimatum, and probes Tanya about the possibility of cutting ties with her fellow pimp. Disturbed that Damon has defiled the school baseball diamond, Ray considers Tanya's suggestion that his son find a new hobby to shake him out of his recent doldrums. Ignoring Ray's warning, Lenore offers Jessica advice in dealing with Ronnie. On his way to meet a new client, Ray has to think on his feet when he runs into Mike in a hotel lobby.
""A Man, A Plan" or "Thank You, Jimmy Carter""
Tanya (Jane Adams) lands Ray (Thomas Jane) the "white whale" of clients, but an emergency involving Damon (Charlie Saxton), which began with his debut at a poetry slam, threatens to derail the date. With Mike (Gregg Henry) at the end of his teaching rope, Ray decides to promote him to co-manager of the baseball team. Jessica (Anne Heche) is peeved with Ronnie (Eddie Jemison) for being overly suspicious.
Jessica turns to Ray for help with a rodent problem that may be imaginary. Rebuffed by Ray in her attempts to add Mike to her stable, Tanya gets guilt-management advice from Charlie (Lennie James), then goes to extremes to prove her success. Ray has difficulty thawing a client who is cold as ice.
"The Middle East Is Complicated"
A container of hummus puts Ray in the unenviable position of choosing cultural sides between Yael (Alanna Ubach) and new client Samara (Mozhan Marno). Already upset after squandering her recent windfall, Tanya catches Ray in a cover-up – and turns to Charlie for stress relief. Lenore (Rebecca Creskoff) seethes after learning of Tanya's duplicity. Liz (Merrin Dungey) surprises Ray with a revelation about her personal life.
""Third Base" or "The Rash""
With his team's future wracked by vandals, Ray agrees to participate in a student-alumni baseball game, but an unexpected warm-up session with Claire (Kathryn Hahn) threatens to put him on the disabled list. Fed up with Tanya's greed and confused by Mike's request for a donation, Frances (Roxanne Hart) doubts their affair. Jessica's old itch resurfaces, prompting Ronnie to deliver a sideline ultimatum to her ex.
"'Fat Off My Love' or 'I'm The Allergen'"
A bad day at school gets worse when Mike accuses Ray of betrayal. Ronnie vents his frustrations with Jessica at a dermatology banquet, sending his wife running for the exit. Empowered by confession, Tanya lashes out at Ray, Lenore and Horny Patty (Lauren Weedman).
"'Even Steven' or 'Luckiest Kid in Detroit'"
Eyeing a possible second chance with Jessica (Anne Heche), Ray (Thomas Jane) contemplates a break from the business – but Lenore (Rebecca Creskoff) may not be willing to give him up without a fight. Emotionally frayed after separate encounters with Damon (Charlie Saxton) and Vera-Joan (Rhea Perlman), Tanya (Jane Adams) visits Frances (Roxanne Hart) and Ray to try to make amends. After getting a lift from Mindy (Amy Farrington), Ronnie (Eddie Jemison) returns home to find that Jessica has made a decision that could impact both their futures.


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Turkey Production Survey
Wild Turkey Production and Population Survey Results for 2008
The 2008 hunting season was the 30th year of our annual turkey population survey. The continuing cooperation of turkey hunters has made the survey possible. Your assistance is greatly appreciated and the information you provide is valuable in tracking our turkey population.
Turkey Production Index Survey
This survey was conducted from May through August from 1978 thru 1990. Beginning in 1991, the annual survey period was shortened to June through August. Field personnel of the Game Management, Law Enforcement, and Fisheries Management Sections of the Wildlife Resources Division are involved in data collection. All observations of turkey broods and hens, with and without poults, are reported.
During the summer of 2008, 333 broods were seen, which was down 0.9% from 336 in 2007. However, brood totals alone can be misleading as a measure of production. In past years the number of poults per observer was the best measure or index of relative reproduction success (and ultimately population levels) because it accounted for annual differences in number of observers and poults in broods. In recent years DNR biologists have had a chance to further analyze this long-term set of production data and have determined that the count of Poults + Hens may actually be the better predictor for the following seasons hunting population rather than Poults per Observer. As we have for the past several years, we will be using both measures to determine which index is the better predictor. The average brood size of 10.9 poults seen in 2008 was 73.3% greater than observed in 2007 (6.3) and 33% greater than the previous 5-years average (8.2). The statewide production index of poults per observer (16.04) was 60.4% greater than last years 10.00 and 14.3% higher than the 5-year average (14.03). The production index poults + hens was 5239 in 2008, which was 30.8% greater than the 2007 index of 4005 and 7.7% higher than the 5-year average of 4864. The average number of poults per hen was 2.3 in 2008 up 102% from 1.1 in 2007 and was 58.6% greater than the previous 5-years average (1.45). An average of 3.0 or above is usually considered an indicator of good production in expanding turkey populations. The past several years of production data and harvest data indicate that reproductive levels around 2 poults per hen or slightly less have been able to maintain our current population level for the past 10 years. A production index of 2.3 poults/hen should produce noticeable increases in some turkey populations around the state.
Reproduction data suggest that on a statewide basis turkey production was good in many parts of Georgia in 2008. We have not had a hatch that good since 2002. With that said, we have had poor reproduction 4 out of the last 5 years. The overall turkey population has declined and may take some time to rebound. Increased reproduction in 2008 is a positive reminder that when habitat conditions are right and weather is favorable, turkey population can respond quickly. Cyclic, up-and-down trends are a natural aspect observed in wildlife populations, especially in turkeys as reproduction can be greatly affected by unpredictable, spring/summer weather conditions (such as this years drought in much of the state). Managing for quality habitat should remain a priority to avoid additional limitations during seasons of low production. Lets hope this is the start of an upward trend.
Hunting Population Index Survey
This survey is conducted during the spring gobbler season with hunt data being supplied by hunter- volunteers. Specific information requested about each hunting trip from our hunter-cooperators is the date, hours hunted, county or region of the state hunted, the number of turkeys seen, the number of gobblers heard, and the number of gobblers killed.
The hours of hunting effort per turkey observed is used as an index of the hunting population. The correlation between this index and the production index is used in evaluating annual production and resulting hunting season populations.
Hunt information in usable form was supplied by 434 of the 2,000 hunters contacted in 2008. They reported making 4,511 trips totaling 15,026 hours. The season hunting effort per cooperator was 10.4 trips totaling 34.6 hours. This is a slight decrease from the 2007 season average effort and the 5-year average (10.6 trips and 36.1 hours). The decreased effort was likely due to higher fuel cots.
A total of 7873 turkeys (hens and gobblers) were seen. The 2008 statewide population index of 1.9 hunting hours per turkey seen was 16% greater than in 2007. The lowest effort per bird seen was in the Ridge and Valley and Lower Coastal Plain counties.
Cooperators reported hearing 7609 gobblers. The hours of hunting per gobbler heard averaged 2.0 hours. The effort per gobbler heard was least in Lower and Upper Coastal Plains and highest in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Peak gobbling activity, 2.6 gobblers heard per trip, occurred during the first weekend (March 22-23) of the season.
The statewide harvest during the first seven days of the 2008 season accounted for 35% of the total season harvest. The average amount of hunting effort to kill a gobbler, 22.4 hours, decreased by 0.7 hours from 2007 (23.1) and 1.9 hours from the 5-year average (24.3). Statewide hunter success declined slightly to 66.8% with 290 of the 434 cooperators taking at least one bird and was down slightly from the 5-year average (67.8%). Of these, 113 (26.0%) hunters took or assisted in taking one bird, 74 (17.1%) took or assisted in taking two birds, and 103 (23.7%) took or assisted in taking three birds. Cooperators reported 186 gobblers killed by companions.
2009 Season Forecast
According to a post-season telephone survey, Georgias estimated 49,327 resident turkey hunters had another good spring season in 2008, harvesting about 24,297 gobblers statewide. The average harvest per hunter (0.49 turkeys) was the same as in 2007 and 15.5% lower than the previous 5 years averaged. However, of the turkey hunters surveyed after the season, 69% still rated the turkey hunting good or excellent, while only 10% rated it as poor. Poult production was high in many parts of the state during the 2008 spring. The 2009 harvest should increase slightly, with a lot of jakes being available for harvest. The 2010 spring should be outstanding when these young males become vocal 2-year-olds.
Overall the states turkey population is doing well, but could use several years of above average reproduction similar to 2008. Hopefully, the recent pattern of weather extremes will break in favor of more normal temperatures and rainfall amounts. This return to normalcy could set the stage for turkey populations to rebound in many areas of the state. Good luck and good hunting!
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Dancers do a lot of talking about their work these days. This can be disarming and engaging as a lead-in to a performance, but it seldom gives away any secrets. Josh Hilberman MC'd his own one-man tap show, Heeling Powers: Rhythms of the Left Brain, last Saturday at the Regent Theatre in Arlington. Except for the loud plaid tuxedo jacket, he looked ordinary when he first came out — 40ish, slightly stocky, with a sparse crewcut. He could have been a businessman or a butcher. But after modest opening remarks, he became the zany tap wizard he really is, dancing in half a dozen styles with costumes of ever-escalating weirdness, mostly in dialogue with the redoubtable Paul Arslanian's jazz piano.
After a low-key opener with the Barhoppers trio (Hilberman, Little Rose Giovanetti, and Dr. Venus the Tap Dancing Neuropathologist) things swung into gear. Hilberman, now in a turquoise dinner jacket with black lapels, strummed a ukulele and got the audience to whistle "Sweet Georgia Brown" to his tapped obbligato.
Hilberman may be a clown, but he's no hayseed. In a three-part improvisation on Charlie Parker tunes, riffing with Arslanian in bebop, blues, and mambo moods, he got down to business. With the inventive pleasure of all great tappers, he can throw a complex tornado of steps into the ground, but he can also fling a leg out in space to suspend the beat, or skim bodily across distances without suppressing the rhythmic storm that's going on in his feet.
Reminiscing between numbers about a lifetime of teachers and fellow hoofers, he acknowledged the distinguished Paul Draper, who combined tap with the step vocabulary of ballet, doing a re-creation of Draper's Tea for Two. After the grounded Charlie Parker numbers, it was amazing to see Hilberman hurling out leaps, cabrioles, pas de bourrée, and pirouettes, within a cascade of intricate rhythms. He didn't exactly look balletic, but you'd never have expected the lightness.
He also paid tribute to one of his early mentors, Brenda Bufalino, who was in the audience. After Hilberman had nagged her for a long time, she finally gave him one of her solo dances, Buff's Bop (1987). "Jo Sterling told me, 'You wanna sound like Brenda Bufalino? You have to loosen your taps,' " Hilberman said, changing his shoes. Buff's Bop showed off the charged, exuberant Bufalino style.
Besides all this, the evening recapped some Hilberman favorites. In Three Wing Circus (2003), he danced on three big drumheads, sprinting from one to the other as if they were ice floes. In The Warrior (2002), he pounded out body rhythms on a suit of chain mail and a dance belt made of taps. Once in a while, in a fever of barefoot kinetics, he'd slip into a harem girl's shimmy, but he quickly reverted to his primitive self. To ragtime, he twinkled his newest work, High Heelberman, in two-inch Mary Janes, the classic shoes for a little girl's dancing class.
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On behalf of the Community Outreach Committee of the Staff Senate, along with the Southfield Goodfellows, you are invited to participate!!
The 2012 Giving Tree project is our holiday gift-giving collection for area children. The tree is located in the Buell Atrium and is full of tags for you to choose from.
Your assistance is needed to help make a child's or young person's holiday season a special one this year.
All you need to do is take a tag, purchase a special gift, wrap it (with the tag attached), and bring it in on Thursday, December 6, to the Giving Tree Party from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Buell Atrium. Hot cocoa and cookies will be served!
If you have questions or need to drop off items early, see Dorrie, C405.
Can't wrap your gift? The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority will be at party and will wrap gifts for $1 each.


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[quote user="bigblue4417"]We're going to open this arena right here with a concert. Maybe one, maybe two, maybe three ... I sound like LeBron," the Brooklyn rapper said.
"I can't wait, for those Knicks, a.k.a. Manhattan Knicks, to step out of the way for what will surely be our NBA champions, the Brooklyn Nets," he said."From the moment the Barclays Center became a reality, I knew this meant something significant for Brooklyn," Jay-Z said.
"This is where I'm from, I'll always be Brooklyn, and opening this arena will mean more to me than anywhere else. I also look forward to opening night for the Brooklyn Nets. We're going to create an atmosphere like only Brooklyn can."[/quote]

Is anyone laughing how he uses the refrence we're?

If I am not mistaken Jay Z owns about 1.5 percent of the Nets.

Before he states the word we're he must get the ok fromMikhail Prokhorov.

I dont get what you are saying. Prokhorov already changed the name. Jay-Z is just there to hype it all up now. And it's going to be good.

I am saying he really hasno say when it comes to the business decisions of the Nets.

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Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure participants
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is March 31
By Mark Munguia
Associate Director of Campus Recreation
(March 9, 2007)--The UTSA Department of Campus Recreation invites UTSA students, faculty, staff and alumni to walk or run in San Antonio's largest 5K event, the Susan G. Komen San Antonio Race for the Cure, Saturday, March 31.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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With an entry fee of $25, the race benefits breast cancer research. Walkers and runners who sign up by noon, Tuesday, March 20 will receive a UTSA "Day of the Race" t-shirt compliments of Campus Rec.
Register at the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Web site.
For more information, e-mail Mark Munguia.


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Don,t know if building wrap would work. Just a thought. I am very new.
Don,t know if building wrap would work. Just a thought. I am very new.
Don't take this as fact, I'm new to beekeeping, but it is my understanding that the wrap is there to not only cut down on the effects of wind inside the hive, but also to absorb solar energy. Tyvek (what i have seen of it) is white/light in color and would be a poor choice to absorb solar energy. I believe this is the reason that many people use the common tar paper used in roofing applications.
There s one that is dark gray. I thought it might help hive to breath. Moisture seems to be big problem.
Yep, a part of the reason for using roofing felt is the black color serving as a solar heat collector.
The other part is to stop wind infiltration.
If you're going to skip black wrap, duct tape at the joints will be cheaper than tyvek to stop wind infiltration. (It was designed to stop heat loss at joints in the first place.)
Thanks for the reply. Do you have any feeling about it helping with moisture.
I checked out a roll of Tyek wrap at my local Lowes. It was subsantially more expensive than tar paper, so I don't see much advantage to using it.
It is my udersanding that any moisture problem a hive has is due to moisture generated by the bees becomming trapped inside the hive, with the fix being proper hive ventilation and what you use as a winter wrap has little relevance. In other words, a water proof hive wrap won't make your hives dryer inside because the moister comes from inside the hive.


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Roller Derby Sign Ups- Women 18+
|Smoky Mountain Sk8way Roller Skating Rink
|19025 Great Smoky Mountain Expressway
|Feb 24, 2013
Roller Derby Wants YOU!!
Have you always wanted to be a roller girl? Well now is the time. New teams forming.
Learn the sport, get closer to the action, and become a member of the most dysfunctional family you've ever met.. AND LOVE IT!
If you have ever been interested in skating and playing roller derby,
If you would like to become a ref or non-skating official,
If you can excite the crowd and cheer on the skaters,
If selling merch, talking to the fans, or helping to put on a great bout is your thing, then come out and get involved!
Women ages 18+ All Skill levels
We will teach you how to skate, go backwards, go sideways and play the game!
What if you haven't skated in years?
Most of us started that way as well! While prior skating or other athletic experience is certainly encouraged, it is not required of any type of league member, especially those who see themselves playing a more supporting role in the league.
Roller Derby is a community inclusive of women of all sizes, ages and backgrounds. You must be 18 or older to skate with the league; However, we welcome volunteers and non-skating officials of all genders and ages!
Skaters who join are required to pay $40 a month which comes with a free monthly skating pass to all public skate sessions at Smoky Mountain Sk8way.
A one time fee of $45 paid annually to USARS for roller derby insurance which is required to bout or scrimmage with other teams.
We have skates and some limited gear to use until you get your gear.
We will have roller skate/gear packages available to order on recruitment night. Killer deals exclusive only to Balsam Mountain Roller Girls!
Event Dates
|Feb 24, 2013 : 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
|Mar 03, 2013 : 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
|Mar 10, 2013 : 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
|Mar 17, 2013 : 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
|Mar 24, 2013 : 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
|Mar 31, 2013 : 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM


text: I dont know if this is the right place for this But I tried this before but I got caught up in full time school/work so deals kind of fell off track. Im looking for a bunch of dead honey bees. I need them for a head dress so if any one has some to spare or sell Id be interested. I realize they smell terrible so if you have ones that are dried and in great shape excellent otherwise dry smelly in a well sealed bag works fine.


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