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- Over time BDK offices have been organized and created to provide appropriate regional coverage.
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Aug 14, 2014 - By Steven R. PeckIn retrospect, Williams interview provided chilling premonition
Imagine, if you can, what it must have been like to be Robin Williams, the electrifyingly brilliant comedian and actor who killed himself Monday.
His style of entertaining -- that wildly improvisational, stream-of-consciousness riffing that carried him from one topic to the next, from one character to the next, from one joke to the next in a fashion no one else could achieve -- must have ben exhausting, perhaps even frightening to him.
Where did it come from? How could he summon it? And what if he couldn't summon it one day when he was supposed to?
In an interview with the perceptive Terry Gross on the NPR radio show "Fresh Air" in 2006, Williams recalled an incident while he was traveling:
"A woman came up to me in an airport and said, 'Be zany,'" as if he could, or should turn it on at a moment's notice while waiting in baggage claim.
"It's that thing -- they want you to be that thing," he told Terry Gross. "And it's like, 'No.' Sometimes it's fun, and I'll play if the moment's right, if there's an opportunity. And if not, I'll talk straight with you."
In light of what happened Monday, what Williams said next has an even deeper ring:
"Oh, they (comedians) have a dark side, I mean, because they're looking at that. In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter. So they have a depressed side. But is it always the sad clown thing? No. But I find comics to be pretty honest people in terms of looking at stuff from both sides, or all sides. ...
"I volunteered to be on the cover of a -- I think it was Newsweek, for their issue on medication. ... And when the guy said, 'Well, do you ever get depressed?' I said, 'Yeah, sometimes I get sad.' I mean, you can't watch news for more than three seconds and go, 'Oh, this is depressing.'
"And then immediately, all of a sudden, they branded me manic-depressive. I was like, 'Um, that's clinical? I'm not that.' Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh, yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh, yeah.
"I get bummed, like I think a lot of us do at certain times. You look at the world and go, 'Whoa.' And then other moments, you look and go, 'Oh. Things are OK.'"
That second step, the one when "you look and go, 'Oh. Things are OK," failed him Monday.
The world is diminished.
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Here is a picture of the Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga underwear designs:
"SIDO was designed for today's samurais – ones who live life with pride and dignity. "
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Posted by David at Arbor Teas on November 21, 2010
There's something alluring about the way gunpowder green tea pellets unfurl in hot water. The leaves lift and twirl in a delicate dance, bending and turning with invisible currents and convection in the water. Half of the fun of drinking this tea is in the experience of watching the leaves unfold; the other half is in the nutty, vegetal flavor - often with a hint of smoke. But if you think that's all there is to gunpowder tea, you might be surprised to know that this tea has a rich history and is much older than you'd expect.
In the Beginning
Gunpowder teas are green teas native to the Zhejiang Province of China, and have been around since the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE). Though Zhejiang has historically been the primary source of gunpowder teas, a number of other provinces now contribute to the production of this style, in addition to locales beyond China's borders.
Evidence of British interest in gunpowder teas can be found as early as 1771, in "Osbeck's Voyage to China and the East Indies," by Johann Forster. He describes a type of tea "rolled up like peas... A smaller kind is called Gunpowder Tea," and in 1795, the British ambassador to China comments on "The shrub which bears what is called the Imperial and Gunpowder teas."
Why Are Gunpowder Green Teas Rolled?
Rolling the leaves into little balls helps protect them from physical damage during transport and storage, and helps preserve the flavor of the tea. Traditionally, the individual leaves were rolled up by hand, and in the highest quality varieties this is still the case. The majority of commercial gunpowder teas, however, are rolled by machines these days. In some cases, the friction of the machine-rolling process will heat up the leaves, altering the flavor slightly.
What's in a Name?
There are several possible sources for the "gunpowder" sobriquet:
--> The rolled-up tea leaves look like little gray pellets of the stuff;
--> The pellets "explode" as they steep in hot water;
--> Teas in this style tend to have a smoky flavor, and the British are fond of puns!
The Joy of Gunpowder
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He's a Russian defector given a new life in America by the U.S. government. Now he's exploded into violence--driven by a mad lust to kill young women.
An embarrassed CIA knows it must stop him--and that only one man can do the job. But former agent Mike Culley is in prison, sold out by his bosses, stripped of his family and everything he holds dear. Now they'll free him: to hunt down a killer before he kills again.
The CIA has betrayed Culley once. It won't happen again. He will find his man. And with the help of a beautiful reporter, he'll bring him down. But suddenly the rules change. Culley's target has answered back: snatching the one person who means more to Mike Culley than life itself.
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IT WAS HER favorite time of day, when the first rays of morning sun slipped slowly over the horizon and the grounds of the university were still and silent. She was near the end of her five- mile course through the heart of the campus and was still running effortlessly. She moved swiftly, with long, graceful strides, along the edge of a sprawling expanse of fading lawn, beneath towering maple trees ablaze with color, and past graceful white columns supporting the porticoes of imposing redbrick buildings.
As she reached McCormick Road, she checked her watch and slowed her pace to begin her cool- down walk. She breathed deeply of the crisp October air heavy with the scent of autumn as her eyes moved warily over the surrounding area. She zipped open her waist- pack to remove a small bottle of Evian water and her hand brushed past the can of Mace that she, and most of the other coeds, now took to carrying wherever they went.
The promise of a tranquil college life had been broken by a pervasive fear that gripped the University of Virginia's academic community. Four coeds had mysteriously disappeared in the past month, all under cover of darkness: the first was last seen leaving the Newcomb Hall student center, the second following an evening piano recital in Old Cabell Hall, and the third and fourth upon crossing the grounds after late nights at Alderman Library. One each week. None had been heard from since. And none of the missing students was troubled or given to erratic behavior. No demands for ransom surfaced. No contact of any kind from whoever was responsible. Nothing. Only silence. Followed by the worst kind of fear: not knowing.
After the disappearance of the second coed an escort service was arranged for female students and faculty. A telephone call brought one or two male students to accompany the caller to her dorm or parking lot after dark, waiting until she was safely inside or had driven away. The university police had tripled the number of officers who walked the grounds from dusk until dawn. But still two more abductions had occurred- - both of the young women, forgoing the escort service, had refused to let fear dictate their lives and had paid dearly for their obstinate independence.
The young runner's breathing and pulse rate returned to normal as she skipped down the steps to the walkway in front of Garrett Hall. She then turned to descend another series of steps to the small outdoor amphitheater, where she sat on the top tier of the semicircle of stone bleachers to drink the last of her water and complete her morning ritual of watching the sun rise over the grounds.
The amphitheater was used periodically throughout the year by guest speakers, theater groups, and student organizations, but evening performances had been suspended indefinitely after the disappearance of the third coed. The walls flanking the stage below were still strung with banners advertising fraternity and sorority functions. The runner strained to read them, but she was nearsighted and could barely make them out without her glasses.
She noticed something in the center of the stage, and squinted at the blurred, indistinct form. She rose slowly and began to descend the stairs to the lower tier, where the morning sun had not yet reached. Her gaze was fixed on the deep shadows ahead, on what appeared to be an unclothed female mannequin sprawled on the stage in a suggestive pose. She shook her head in disgust at what she assumed was another tasteless and sexist fraternity prank.
Something made her move still closer, and as she crossed the grassy area in front of the stage the form came into sharp focus. An icy chill coursed through her veins and a wild panic suddenly gripped her and froze her in place. She tried to scream, but such was the horror of the image before her that no sound emerged. She stood in sheer terror, her body rigid, frantically gulping in huge breaths. A terrible sound finally erupted, again and again, in bloodcurdling screams that shattered the early morning silence and carried across the grounds to echo off the stately buildings.
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For not the first time the runner pressed forth.
Jogging down Grand Central Parkway in suburban New York, he turned left on to 164th Place. He jogged another 100m or so and turned left again on to Abigail Adams Ave, then left on to 168th St. He was steady and assured, not sprinting or stretching in his stride. And with one last left turn the man was back where he started.
In this week of Olympic everything, even the most determined of sports haters must've been hard-pressed to avoid the games. But for all the sudden interest in Greco-Roman wrestling and Eastern European water polo squads, a sporting event to challenge the London epic slipped by to noticeably less fanfare.
An ocean away from the podiums in a rather more humble setting, one of the world's most extraordinary athletes finished what is surely the world's most extraordinary race. After 43 days of continuous running, having beaten 10 other competitors to the finish, 35-year old Australian Grahak Cunningham spoke in a small voice to a pocket of enthusiastic supporters.
"I'm so grateful for finishing," he said, thanking his supporters. "And that's all."
His audience laughed appreciatively. Cunningham was spent.
The self-transcendence race is 3100 miles (4989km) long, or roughly the same distance as running from Cape Reinga to Bluff two-and-a-half times. Established by spiritual leader and fitness fanatic Sri Chinmoy, every year it's typically run by a dozen or so of his keenest followers. They have 52 days to complete the race, running 18 hours a day through heat waves, storms, aching boredom and with aching bones.
Every day for the past month and a half, Cunningham ran an average of 114km. A race in which each competitor wears through 10 pairs of running shoes is not an entirely appealing prospect.
I remember an apt analysis likening my jogging technique to that of a wounded pterodactyl, and there are few things less enticing than the thought of running a marathon with the word "ultra" slipped in front of it.
Even more so considering the New York course, described as a lap around a suburban New York block, is repeated and repeated and repeated. One lap is 883m. Each competitor runs that single lap 5649 times. As the name suggests, it is less a journey around the block, than a journey through one's own head. In his fourth self-transcendence, Cunningham knew what to expect. He lost toenails, his achilles caused him problems and he developed a ghastly rash. His feet swelled, he shed weight. But with 10 other competitors, he kept running until his self-transcendence was achieved.
In the hours after he finished, I asked a race organiser how Cunningham was faring.
"He's really wiped out."
Fair cop, I thought.
But the race itself still isn't over. As you lap up the last of the Olympics, there are still competitors trudging around and around a block in New York City. What a journey it must be.
And though every four years we marvel at gold medallists and our species' finest athletic specimens, in suburban New York a handful of runners know that no muscle can match the strength of that blobby mass between your ears.


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Always camped up there before Memorial Day or after Labor Day. On several occasions it would be warm enough and the wind would change, the stable flies would show up out of no where. They don't seem to care if you have deet on or not, the winds would change again and they would be gone. I think during week days you can call union bay ranger station and get a update.
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Mosquito's have been bad up here this year. Lake Superior is still real cold, ice just finally melted. There is tons of camping available on the West end of the UP lots of cheap hotels that are clean if you get sick of the tent. Black River area has lots of nice hiking/ camping.
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Well we arrived Saturday aboutt 7:30pm at Presque isle campground. As soon as we stepped out of the vehicle the black flies hit. They swarmed us and were biting everywhere...we covered ourselves with a can of cutters backwoods .......it had no effect . It was like a candy coating for them.
My wife and son were getting attacked relentlessly. .. we were already covered in cutters but we had no chouce but to break out the 75% deet spray. Desperate for relief from the black fly onslaught i coverd us with it and got out to finish the tent so my wife and son could hide inside. Ignoring the swarm i got the tent up and they ran in and zipped the tent shut. They were setting up the beds etc between trying to kill the many flies that chased them in. Meanwhile i worked outside tring to unload the vehicle and finish setting up.
As i was working a few people stopped and said they had enough. They told us that many people had already given up and left soon after arriving. They had set up earlier and were told that the blackflies went away at night. These guys said they were going to stick it out until dark. If the flies left so they could at keast get out of their vehicle they might stay.
So i am coverd in deet, black flies and sweat as i struggle to set up on my own. The biting is keeping my mind off the searing pain coming from my lower back . My son is in tears from biting and my wife is sick from the deet overdose. But the tent is up and it is getting dark....if the black flies go away i could finish setting up,start a fire and we might be ok.....but as the black flies started to leave the mosquito swarmed in by the millions. I was covered in them in seconds. I had enough by nowso i covered my self in a can of 98% deet put my wife and son in the vehicle and coverd in mosquito i began taking down the tent. Even in the vehicle they were attacked. I just tore down everything as fast as possible stuffing everything. Into the vehicle. As us and a few other campers were leaving a storm rolled in.
Now it is 11pm we are all covered in deet,sweat and bites. So i drove all the way to baraga looking for a place to sleep and eat. We found a hotel and checked in about 1am. We decided to stay here and spent today going to waterfalls etc. We had a great picnic/ cookout in l`annse waterfront park.we are going fishing monday and habe a list of places to go.
I spent four years in the Marine Corps and spent many days in jungles,rain forrest and deep woods. I have been to the UP many times. Never have i been swarmmed like that. Every repellent we tried had zero effect..
|June 30th, 2014, 03:15 PM
We ended up in baraga at the lakeside hotel. Great rooms good price. So now we are having a blast going all over. That killed my rv dream. Screw camping i am buying a new fishing boat.
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We are on the other side of the park in the union bay camp ground. The flys are not as bad over here. We have been here since Friday and are staying till Sunday the 6th. That being said we have our 5th wheel and a screen tent.
We have done some hiking to the falls and lake of the clouds. Also have done some day trips to other places around the area. All our hiking has been done with long pants long sleeve tshirts and head nets. If the flys can't get to your skin they have not been biting.
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The wind changed 2 days ago and the flys have all but left. The temp has also dropped not bad but it's in the upper 60's low 70's. 2 days ago it was upper 80's
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|July 4th, 2014, 06:45 PM
We have been all over from copper harbor back to lake of the clouds . We went to a bunch of waterfalls, some lighthouses, the highest point in michigan, rode our bikes up in copper harbor ( until my youngest crashed...he is fine just the usual scrapes.) we even went fishing a few times. Today is the 4th and the fireworks will be Right behind our hotel. As far as the flies and squitos the first night was terrible . Most of the time they have not been real bad but a few times as we were hiking back to some waterfalls the mosquitoes would just cover us no matter how much or brand of repellant we used. I even tried some stuff that was 98% deet ....the stuff probably will knock 3 years off my life ....the worst part is it just pissed off the mosquitoes and they attacked us.
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If your staying in Baraga, head up to Chassell a couple hrs before dark and fish off the dock. Its a huge dock. The dock is in the shape of an L, go all the way to the end and fish by the pylon's. Use crawlers but break them in pieces, if ya use worms they'll clean ya out. Stay till dark and ya can catch crappie, bass, blues and perch. Some times big crappie or big perch. If no luck, set the kids up w part of a crawler and jig off the same end of the dock just a worm, hook and small sinker. Let go to the bottom and crank up a couple times, you'll slay the little perch, kids love it. The bugs usually aren't bad there. You can also take 41 to 141/28 turn right, go to Covington turn left on 141 and go a few miles down and you'll see a huge swamp on your left. Go just before dark and you will have a really good chance to see moose in that swamp. You could also go check out Silver Mountian, its west on M 38. There is a little bar in Rockland called Henry's, Friday is their fish fry and buffet, walleye, salmon, perch, shrimp plus tons of other food. Great food for the whole family and only like $12 or $13 for all you can eat. If you can get there before 6 or you'll be waiting in line. Good luck and enjoy.
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I'm glad its working out for your trip!
When that happened to us on our hiking trip, we had planned on skirting the whole shore of Superior, but because of the flies, we cut off about 4 days from the trip and heading inland at the first trail we found.
Sturgeon River Gorge is a cool sight to see.
|July 6th, 2014, 01:48 AM
Thanks guys....we just got home tonight about 11 pm we had a blast overall. I had picked up a flyer from the tourist place in L'anse and we started going down the list of attractions. We had a great time going to so many cool places. We did go fishing a few times...I did what a lot of people do when fishing in a new place. I stopped at the local bait shop and asked where to go. The first guy went ummm?.. I mean I ask where would be a decent place to take my son to catch a few fish? No real answer .. So decided to go do some other stuff. The next day we stopped at the bait shop again. Luckily a different guy was working so I asked him the same question. He tells me the perfect place is Parent lake. He says you will catch so many perch you will get sick of catching them. Excited that my 8 yr old will most likely catch a fish or two we headed out. Well after fishing for two hours with out so much as a nibble we left. I stopped at the tourist info building again to pick up some info on Mt Arvon. I mention to the lady working about our disappointing morning fishing. She says "Parent lake? Who would send you there? That lake was low last fall and the winter freeze killed most of the fish and nobody has caught anything since" . Wow nice info from the only bait shop in L'anse.
But on the cool side we had some great two track adventures thanks to my garmin lol. We had loaded in the coordinates that were in the flyer for Mount Arvon . The flyer told of different things like waterfalls to see on the way up to the top. Well we didn't see any of those things but we did go down a few dead end trails, a trail that crossed a moving stream ( it was not very deep and it was a stone bed , I have not done a lot of off road stuff and am not up on all the rules etc but I was thinking that I had read on GL that crossing is a no no so not wanting to be another idiot giving the off road guys a bad rap I decided to go ahead and back up all the way to the other trail.) I did not see any no trespassing signs or anything so I just made sure I stayed on the trail and enjoyed the adventure.
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Glad ya had a good time. That's a bummer about the fishing, the guy who owns that shop is a fishing & huntn fool. Sounds like he had his holiday help there and they didn't know a damn thing. I'll let him know about it. Mt Arvon area is super cool to explore, the majority of that area is CFR land, so its free game. You can go from Big Eric's bridge all the way to Big Bay through the woods. That trail that crosses the river just makes a short loop in the woods and brings ya right back to that same crossing, so ya didn't miss much, lol.
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In behavioral economics, time is the final frontier. Take the problem of delayed feedback. To change a behavior is not only difficult because it requires planning and willpower, it is also hard to appreciate a behavior—good or bad—when we receive delayed feedback about the outcomes of our actions. Smoking, for example, has slow, cumulative effects that are often not seen until many years have passed. The same is true for more desirable behaviors like saving for retirement.
Behavioral economics is a response to neoclassical economics' assumption that we are rational and selfish creatures with relatively stable preferences. One domain of behavioral research deals with 'intertemporal choice', decision making in time, which challenges the assumption that preferences tend to be stable. "Temporal problems" partly occur because our memory of past experiences and predictions of the future are fraught with biases. But our worst enemy may be a lack of self-control and willpower. We are impulsive and habit-driven creatures who live in the moment and don't like change. We procrastinate. We prefer smaller but immediate rewards over larger payoffs in the future. Behavioral economists working in the area of intertemporal choice refer to this as the time inconsistency problem and point to a misalignment between the preferences of our present (myopic) self and those of our future selves.
The most prominent application of these ideas occurs in personal finance. I have seen some creative proposals on how to deal with our financial shortsightedness, ranging from an 'impulse saver' app, to freezing your credit card in a block of ice, and partitioning financial resources into smaller units (e.g. multiple envelopes). I personally find money management software an indispensable tool to control and monitor my spending. Over time, taking care of my short-term budget has become largely intuitive. Long-term financial planning, on the other hand, is a lot trickier. Many Americans don't build adequate savings for retirement. Let's face it, how many of us like to plan for something that's in the distant future at the expense of the present, let alone relish the thought of growing old in the first place?
One way to bridge the gap between our present and future self is by making a commitment to change, ideally a public one, as can be done on the website Stickk, for example. Pre-commitment to a goal is one aspect of the Save More Tomorrow initiative developed by the behavioral economist Richard Thaler. The program gives employees the option of pre-committing to a gradual increase in their savings rate in the future, each time they get a raise. It avoids the perception of loss that is felt with a reduction in disposable income (referred to as loss aversion by behavioral economists), because consumers commit to saving future increases in income. Individuals have to opt out if they later want to leave the program. This makes it more likely that people stick with the program, since most of us have a tendency for inaction (referred to as inertia by behavioral economists).
Some behavioral economists have used a present vs future self ('dual-self') model of impulse control and published utility functions, such as the following:
Mathematical approaches like these certainly occupy an important place in the advancement of (behavioral) economic theories. I would love to understand them, but as a psychologist I tend to work with simpler (statistical) methods. I also tend to be interested in research with more readily apparent practical implications. For example, one study suggests that behavior change could be achieved by helping people connect with their future self. It found that participants who were exposed to their future (as opposed to present) self in the form of an age-progressed avatar in virtual reality environments allocated twice as much money toward a retirement account.
This wasn't simply due to having been primed with the concept of aging. Another experiment showed that, compared to people who saw another person's age-progressed image, those who were exposed to an age-progressed avatar of themselves were more likely to accept future financial rewards over immediate ones. Similar effects were found in a study that used less complex technology and incorporated age-progressed pictures in an online savings allocation task:
Software that allows users to see the possible outcome of unhealthy lifestyles via age-progressed imaging is already being developed successfully.
I think there may be a range of creative approaches that could help people increase their retirement savings. Traditional retirement income projections are quite static and impersonal, usually providing consumers with their expected pension, in today's money. Making feedback more dynamic and the future less abstract would allow us to better connect present and future selves. As a bare minimum, your money management environment would need to graphically display your expected retirement income and how this compares to your current income. Age-progressed pictures of users would be a great addition. The program could even show pictures that represent retirement income scenarios. Forecasts and associated imagery would change dynamically depending on current savings levels.
If you don't save enough for your retirement, your vacations might look more like this:
…than this:
And a lack of savings might be better represented by this pensioner diet:
….than this one:
Unfortunately, people get used to seeing the same visual cues and they may lose their impact over time. This can also be a problem when psychological research in the laboratory shows a stimulus to be effective. A manipulation may have a one-off measurable effect on people's attitudes or behavior in the psychological lab, but no enduring effect in the real world. Maybe a more effective pathway for our present self to connect with the future self could occur via our experiencing self. For example, programs could be designed that allow people to experience their possible "future self" vicariously through other people. People could meet (virtually or in person) retirees with different levels of retirement income. Greater personal relevance could be achieved by matching them on the basis of personal characteristics in line with participants' own profession, location, gender or ethnicity. Learning about the circumstances of poor (vs comfortable) retirees first-hand might be an effective deterrent (vs incentive) in financial planning. Instead of keeping-up-with-the-Joneses type of interventions that try to achieve behavior change via Web 2.0 aided social comparisons (e.g., leaderboards), Behavior Change 3.0 applied to retirement savings could be about "meeting the Joneses."
Behavior change programs that rely on people's own initiative are inherently self-selecting, even if it's just a matter of setting up new software. Individuals who participate are usually also the ones who are motivated to make a change in the first place. Since we are all prone to a certain degree of laziness, it's not surprising that the most-bang-for-the-buck behavioral nudges are those that work with these human flaws, such as pension auto-enrollment. And programs that rely on traditional economic incentives, such as tax breaks, need to remain the bedrock of government policy. But behavior change is a multipronged approach, and there's always room for new and creative methods. One of them, it appears, would be to retire the selfie – literally.
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THE TEAM-The No. 3-ranked USC baseball team (17-3 overall, 2-1 in Pacific-10 Southern Division play), winners of 9 in a row (including this week's 7-1 victory over Pepperdine), resumes conference action after 3 weeks of non-conference games with a series at No. 9 Stanford (12-6, 0-0), which topped Cal State Sacramento 18-4 on Tuesday (Feb. 25). The 3-game series will be played at Sunken Diamond on Friday (Feb. 28) at 7 p.m., Saturday (Mar. 1) at 1 p.m. (NOTE: the game will be televised live by SportsChannel Pacific) and Sunday (Mar. 2) at 1 p.m. The Trojans, who are 2-time defending Pac-10 champions, have won 9 in a row over the Cardinal and 8 consecutive games at Sunken Diamond. After the Stanford series, the Trojans head for Reno (Nev.), where they will battle the Wolf Pack on Monday (Mar. 3) at 2 p.m.
THE RANKINGS--USC is currently ranked No. 2 in Baseball Weekly, No. 3 in Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball. In the pre-season polls, USC was listed No. 3 by Baseball America and No. 6 by Collegiate Baseball. The Trojans were tabbed by the conference coaches to win the Southern Division title (the third time in the past 4 years that USC has been picked to win the league). Stanford is No. 9 in Baseball America and No. 16 in Collegiate Baseball. Nevada is unranked.
BY THE NUMBERS--USC has a .338 team batting average and a 3.32 team ERA. Opponents are hitting just .237 against Trojan pitchers. USC has posted double figures in hits in the last 6 games and 7 of the last 8. The Trojans have stolen 38 bases in 47 attempts (Morgan Ensberg and Eric Munson lead with 6) while opponents have only 10 thefts in 17 tries. Top Trojan hitters are outfielders Greg Hanoian (.508) and Robb Gorr (.412). In Troy's 9-game winning streak, USC is averaging 14.3 hits per game.
THIS PAST WEEK--USC won all 3 games in the Beach Baseball Classic at Blair Field in Long Beach (Calif.) to extend its winning streak to 8 games. In the opener, the Trojans pounded out 19 hits and a season-high 18 runs in an 18-2 victory over Ole Miss. Brian Ponchak was 2-for-6 with a double, home run and 5 RBI and Greg Hanoian had 4 hits. Despite battling the flu, Randy Flores went 6 innings to pick up the win. In the second game, USC jumped out to a 6-0 lead and went on to defeat Notre Dame, 14-4. Robb Gorr and Eric Munson each had 3 hits, including Munson's fifth home run of the year. Scott Henderson got the win, going 6 innings with no walks and 4 strikeouts. In the finale, Seth Etherton went the distance for USC's first complete game of the year and led USC to a 7-1 win over Long Beach State. Etherton allowed just 3 hits, did not walk a batter, and struck out 10. Greg Hanoian was 3-for-4 with a double and RBI. In USC's non-conference game this week, Greg Hanoian was 5-for-5 with a double and 3 RBI to lead the Trojans to a 7-1 victory over Pepperdine. Steve Immel went 7 innings to get the win over the Waves, who are coached by former Trojan pitching coach Frank Sanchez.
COACH'S CORNER--In his 10th season as the Trojan head coach, Mike Gillespie has a 409-233-2 (.636) career record and has led USC to 3 conference titles (1991-95-96), 8 trips to the NCAA Regionals in 10 years (reaching the Regional finals 6 times), and a trip to the 1995 College World Series (where the Trojans finished as the nation's runner-up). He has been named the Pac-10 Coach of the Year 3 times (1991-95-96) and was also honored as the 1996 West Region Coach of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association. He was also selected as one of the assistant coaches for the 1997 USA Baseball Team. Gillespie was the leftfielder for the 1961 USC team that won the national championship (his 1960 team finished as the College World Series runner-up). He picked up his 400th USC victory this season with Troy's 11-8 win over UC Santa Barbara on Feb. 11.
SCOUTING THE CARDINAL--No. 9 Stanford, under 21-year head coach Mark Marquess (820-439-4), is 12-6 overall (0-0 in league). The Cardinal is led by junior outfielder Joe Kilburg (.438, 2 HR, 17 RBI) and sophomore outfielder Jody Gerut (.413, 3, 27). Stanford boasts one of the top pitching staffs in the nation: junior righthander Kyle Peterson (2-1, 4.15 ERA), sophomore righthander Jeff Austin (2-1, 5.12) and sophomore righthander Chad Hutchinson (1-0, 5.40), also the quarterback on the Cardinal football team.
THE SERIES--USC and Stanford first met in 1923 and the Trojans lead the series, 184-118-3. The Trojans have won 9 straight over the Cardinal, including all 6 meetings last year (it was the first complete sweep of Stanford by USC since the Pac-10 Southern Division was formed in 1979). USC has also won 8 straight games at Sunken Diamond, last losing there on March 19, 1994. The Cardinal is 58-53 over USC since the Six-Pac was formed in 1979.
CONNECTIONS--USC has 2 players from the Bay Area: shortstop Marc Mirizzi prepped at Leigh High in Los Gatos while pitcher Brian Vieira prepped at Bellarmine Prep in San Jose.
VS. STANFORD -- Here's a look at how the Trojans have fared in their careers against the Cardinal:
BATTERS G AB H HR RBI AVG Brown 6 11 2 0 1 .182 Ensberg 7 25 7 2 8 .280 Gorr 1 1 0 0 0 .000 Hanoian 3 6 2 0 0 .333 Mirizzi 6 24 8 0 1 .333 Ponchak 2 2 1 0 0 .500 Rachels 5 10 1 0 0 .100 Walbridge 12 39 11 1 4 .282 PITCHERS G IP ER SO W-L SV ERA Etherton 2 12.0 6 8 2-0 0 4.50 Flores 7 49.7 9 24 5-0 1 1.63 Henderson 4 22.3 4 7 3-1 0 1.61 Immel 1 1.3 5 0 0-0 0 33.83 Krawczyk 4 4.0 1 4 0-0 4 2.25 Penney 1 1.0 2 0 0-0 0 18.00 Ponchak 1 3.7 1 2 0-0 0 2.45
SCOUTING THE WOLF PACK--Under 15-year head coach Gary Powers (434-329-4), Nevada is 10-6 overall. The Wolf Pack are led by senior first baseman Tim Hanna (.395, 2 HR, 11 RBI) and sophomore outfielder Lyle Overbay (.306, 1, 10). On the mound, Nevada features junior righthander Brent Husted (2-1, 3.65) and junior righthander Jim Brink (1-1, 5.63).
THE SERIES--USC and Nevada first met in 1962 and the series is tied, 2-2. The 2 teams played 3 times last year, with the Trojans winning the opener, 7-3, before losing the next 2 games, 8-3 and 16-7.
1997 USC TROJANS' STARTING LINEUP (1997 statistics) C Eric Munson, Fr., 6-3, 215 (.368, 5, 19) 1B Greg Walbridge, Sr., 6-2, 205 (.338, 0, 16) 2B Wes Rachels,So., 5-9, 175 (.375, 1, 8) 3B Morgan Ensberg, Jr., 6-2, 200 (.312, 2, 12) SS Marc Mirizzi, Sr., 6-1, 185 (.322, 1, 16) LF Greg Hanoian, So., 5-9, 170 (.508, 1, 15) CF Robb Gorr, So., 6-0, 180 (.412, 1, 24) RF Jeremy Freitas, Jr., 6-3, 215 (.239, 0, 12) OR Brad Ticehurst, So., 6-1, 195 (.268, 1, 7) DH Brian Ponchak, Sr., 6-2, 205 (.265, 2, 13) OR Jeremy Freitas, Jr., 6-3, 215 (.239, 0, 12) P Randy Flores, Sr., 6-1, 180 (4-1, 2.78 ERA) Seth Etherton, Jr., 6-1, 195 (4-0, 1.75) Scott Henderson, Sr., 6-3, 195 (4-1, 5.76)
CONNECTIONS--USC pitching coach John Savage spent the last 5 seasons in the same position at Nevada...His wife, Lisa, is the daughter of Nevada Athletic Director Chris Ault...Nevada senior first baseman Glen Carson (who is expected to redshirt this year due to illness) spent 2 seasons (1994-95) at USC. While USC has no players from Nevada, the Wolf Pack has 19 players from California on its roster.
STREAKIN'--Second baseman Wes Rachels has hit safely in all 11 games he has played this year, going 15-for-40 (.375) with a home run (a leadoff shot in the first inning of USC's season opener against Cal State Los Angeles) and 8 RBI. Outfielder Greg Hanoian has a 9-game hitting streak (22-for-38, .579). He has hit safely in 8 straight plate appearances, and has had multiple hits and at least one RBI in 6 straight games. First baseman Greg Walbridge's 9-game hitting streak (16-for-36, .444) was snapped in the Notre Dame contest.
SIX-PAC POWERHOUSE--No Pac-10 Southern Division team has been more successful in the 1990s than USC. The Trojans have won 133 games in that span (Stanford is second with 129) with an unmatched 3 conference titles.
POWERHOUSE, PT. 2--USC's 24 wins in conference action last year are the most league wins by any Trojan team in history. That 24-6 mark by USC is also the best conference record by any team since Stanford went 24-6 in 1990.
POWERHOUSE, PT. 3--Troy last won consecutive conference crowns in 1977-78 (the only other team to win back-to-back league crowns since the Six-Pac was formed in 1979 was Arizona State in 1981-82). The last time USC won more than 2 conference titles in a row was when the Trojans won 6 straight from 1970-75.
RANDY FLORES--Probably the most underrated pitcher in college baseball today, senior lefthander Randy Flores anchors what is considered one of the strongest pitching staffs in the nation. Flores, a College Baseball pre-season All-American third teamer, has had a stellar career at USC (36-5 in 4 seasons) and is on the verge of becoming USC's all-time winningest pitcher (his 37 wins are 3 shy of leader Bruce Gardner's 40 and rank No. 3). The 1995 Pac-10 Pitcher of the Year and an All-Pac-10 first team pick in both 1994 and 1996, he could be the first pitcher ever to earn 4-time all-conference honors. Flores, who was 9-1 with a 3.50 ERA in 1996, is currently 4-1 with a 2.78 ERA, and opponents have a .235 batting average against him.
FLORES IN 1997 DATE OPPONENT W/L IP H R ER BB K SCORE 1/24 CS Los Angeles W 6.0 3 1 1 1 5 W, 17-4 1/31 Arizona State W 7.0 6 3 3 2 1 W, 12-3 2/7 at Long Beach W 6.2 6 1 1 2 7 W, 6-1 2/14 at Hawaii L 6.2 6 4 4 3 6 L, 9-3 2/21 Mississippi W 6.0 7 2 1 2 4 W, 18-2
SETH ETHERTON--Junior Seth Etherton, the 1996 Pac-10 Pitcher of the Year and 1996 All-American second teamer, has established himself as one of the nation's finest righthanded pitchers and is a candidate for 1997 All-American honors. Etherton, who was USC's winningest pitcher last year at 12-3 with a 3.94 ERA, was 10-0 with a 2.93 ERA in Pac-10 games, notching a victory in every conference start (the last pitcher to do so was Arizona's Scott Erickson in 1989). On the year, he is 4-0 with a 1.75 ERA, and opponents are hitting .193 against him. He has 38 strikeouts in 36 innings. He had USC's top performance this year at Long Beach State: he went the distance (for USC's first complete game) and held the 49ers to one run on 3 hits and no walks while striking out 10. He equalled his career-best in strikeouts at Hawaii with 12.
ETHERTON IN 1997 DATE OPPONENT W/L IP H R ER BB K SCORE 1/24 CS Los Angeles W 5.0 2 0 0 2 8 W, 8-1 2/1 Arizona State ND 6.0 8 3 2 1 6 L, 7-3 2/8 Long Beach St. W 8.0 8 3 3 1 2 W, 4-3 2/15 at Hawaii W 8.0 5 3 1 2 12 W, 4-3 2/23 at Long Beach W 9.0 3 1 1 0 10 W, 7-1
SCOTT HENDERSON--A talented righthander, senior Scott Henderson returns to again serve as Troy's No. 3 starter after earning 1996 All-Pac-10 honorable mention notice in the same role last year. Henderson, who was 8-1 with a 3.19 ERA in 1996, is currently 4-1 with a 5.76 ERA. He has walked only 3 batters in 25 innings.
HENDERSON IN 1997 DATE OPPONENT W/L IP H R ER BB K SCORE 1/28 Loyola Marymount W 5.0 2 1 1 0 2 W, 7-2 2/2 Arizona State W 6.0 7 4 2 1 3 W, 9-6 2/9 at Long Beach St. L 2.0 8 6 6 0 0 L, 7-3 2/16 at Hawaii W 6.0 7 4 3 2 4 W, 12-4 2/22 Notre Dame W 6.0 5 4 4 0 4 W, 14-4
WALLY'S WORLD--Senior Greg Walbridge, a 1996 All-Pac-10 first teamer and USC's Most Hustle and Spirit Award winner, returns for his third season as Troy's starting first baseman. Walbridge, who came into the season with a .342 career batting average, is currently hitting .338 with 16 RBI. He had a 9-game hitting streak (16-for-36, .444) snapped against Notre Dame. In the Arizona State series, he was 6-for-15 (.400) with 3 doubles and 3 RBI. He picked up 4 hits in 5 at-bats with a triple in the finale at Hawaii.
HOT HANOIAN--With his torrid hitting in 1997, sophomore Greg Hanoian has established himself as one of Troy's starting outfielders. He is USC's leading hitter with an impressive .508 average. He has hit safely in the last 9 games (22-for-38, .579) and 11 of the last 12. Against Pepperdine, he was 5-for-5 with a double and 3 RBI, and he has hit safely in 8 straight plate appearances (raising his average from .434 to .508). He has had multiple hits and at least one RBI in 6 straight games.
WONDERFUL WES--Junior second baseman Wes Rachels, who was named to the 1995 All-College World Series team as just a freshman, has hit safely in all 11 games he has played this year, going 15-for-40 (.375) with a home run (a leadoff shot in the first inning of USC's season opener against Cal State Los Angeles) and 8 RBI. It was his second career home run and his first at Dedeaux Field (his other came at the 1995 College World Series). Troy's leadoff hitter, Rachels has also walked 10 times and has a .510 on-base percentage. He reached base safely in his first 7 plate appearances of 1997 (spanning 2 games), getting 2 hits and 5 walks. He missed 8 games following the death of his father (Dr. Arthur Rachels) on Feb. 15.
NEW KID ON THE BLOCK--Freshman catcher Eric Munson is proving worthy of his pre-season accolades as one of the nation's top freshmen. He is hitting .368 with 4 doubles and 19 RBI, and he leads the team with 5 home runs and 20 walks. He hit 2 home runs in USC's 4-3 win over Long Beach State. Behind the plate, he has thrown out 8 of 13 baserunners (.615). He has hit safely in 14 of 20 games this year.
MAKING HIS MARC--There may not be a more exciting defensive player in college baseball than senior shortstop Marc Mirizzi. Mirizzi, who made several dazzling defensive plays against Arizona State (he has 2 errors in 101 total chances (.980) and has taken part in 11 double plays. Additionally, he's hitting .322 with 16 RBI. He was 4-for-5 with a double and 4 RBI in USC's season opener and also went 4-for-5 with 3 RBI against UC Santa Barbara.
KRAFTY KRAWCZYK--Junior righthander Jack Krawczyk, the Pac-10's top relief pitcher in 1996 with a league-leading 12 saves (No. 4 on USC's single-season list), has appeared in 10 games in 1997 and has 3 saves. Opponents are hitting .219 against him. Krawczyk, who earned All-Pac-10 honorable mention honors last year, has 18 career saves which rank No. 3 on Troy's all-time list.
INJURY REPORT--Senior catcher Jason Brown has missed the last 3 weeks following surgery on his left knee to repair a torn meniscus.
TOUGH SCHEDULE--USC once again boasts one of the nation's toughest schedules: Troy plays 39 of 58 games against teams ranked in the pre-season polls, including 20 games against teams ranked in the Top 10. In addition, the Trojans will play 33 of their 58 games on the road.
TROJAN TRADITION--No other university can match the collegiate baseball tradition of USC. Troy has captured an unprecedented 11 NCAA championships (no other school has more than 5), 36 conference titles and 18 College World Series appearances (tied for third-most in the nation). Trojan players have been named first team All-American 36 times, and more than 70 former players have gone on to play in the major leagues, including such stars as Tom Seaver, Fred Lynn, Ron Fairly, Randy Johnson, Mark McGwire and Bret Boone.


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Ahead of the monsoon, the civic bodies had claimed that they would clean all Delhi drains before the onset of the rains and promised that there would be no waterlogging. The Delhi government's public works department (PWD) had even assured that it would fix responsibility if there is waterlogging and take action.
But just two days of rains in Delhi exposed the hollow claims. Rampant waterlogging across the Capital disrupted traffic flow, damaged roads, trees and buildings. Since the drains could not be completely desilted, storm water collected on the roads. At various places, the silt was left lying on the sides of drains flowed back after the rain.
According to the civic bodies' control rooms, waterlogging was reported from Shakurpur, Badli, Ashok Vihar, Jahangirpuri, Azadpur, Kashmere Gate, Narayana Vihar, Kirti Nagar, Moti Nagar, Punjabi Bagh, Garhi and Ambedkar Colony in north Delhi.
In south Delhi, Najafgarh, Mahipalpur, Palam, Dwarka, Uttam Nagar, Vasant Kunj, Jangpura Extn, Jasola Vihar, Tagore Garden, Tilak Nagar, Safdarjung Enclave, and Green Park Extn remain waterlogged. Similar complaints were received from several areas in east Delhi as well.
Ashok Bhasin, president of North Delhi Resident Welfare Associations, said: "If drains are not cleaned, waterlogging is inevitable. Leave alone colony lanes, even arterial roads are nearly flooded. And this is only the beginning of monsoon."
Trees were uprooted in many south Delhi areas such as Katwaria Sarai, RK Puram, Hauz Khas and Defence Colony. Portions of some buildings collapsed in Karawal Nagar, Shalimar Bagh, Karol Bagh and Delhi Gate. Nobody was reported injured.


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Brazil has criticized the United States for spying on Brazilian companies and individuals, saying the electronic surveillance is a violation of the South American countryâ"¢s sovereignty.
"We expressed Brazil's unhappiness on learning that data was intercepted without the authorization of Brazilian authorities, for the use of US intelligence," Brazilian Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo said on Thursday, the last day of his two-day visit to the US.
"The acts imply a violation of human rights, violation of Brazilian sovereignty and rights enshrined in our constitution," he added.
Last month, Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota expressed serious concerns over a report, which said the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on Brazilian companies and individuals for a decade.
Brazilâ"¢s O Globo newspaper reported on July 7 that the NSA had collected data on billions of telephone and email conversations in the country.
The report said that information released by US surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals that the number of telephone and email messages logged by the NSA in the 10-year period was near to the 2.3 billion captured in the US during the same period.
During his visit to Washington, the Brazilin justice minister met US Vice President Joe Biden, US Attorney General Eric Holder and White House counter-terrorism adviser Lisa Monaco.
Cardozo said US officials could not allay his countryâ"¢s concerns.
"We made a proposal to move toward an agreement to establish the rules on procedures in the interception of data. They told us the United States would not sign an agreement under those terms with any country in the world," he said.
Cardozo said US officials claimed that the spying was used for counter-terrorism purpose.
"But for us it was clear that there was collection of data to deal with organized crime and drug-trafficking, but what is worse, also Brazilian diplomatic actions," he said.
The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, admitted in July that Snowdenâ"¢s exposés have seriously damaged US ties with other countries. Å"There has been damage. I don't think we actually have been able to determine the depth of that damage."
Snowden, a former CIA employee, leaked two top secret US government spying programs under which the NSA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are eavesdropping on millions of American and European phone records and the Internet data from major Internet companies such as Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Apple, and Microsoft.
The NSA scandal took even broader dimensions when Snowden revealed information about its espionage activities targeting friendly countries.
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Paterson Cuts Could Mean Real Problems For Local Hospitals
On Monday, Governor David Paterson presented a plan to trim $1 billion from the state's budget this year. Paterson plans to cut pork and higher education funding, but the major cut is reserved for the Medicaid system, and that could mean real problems for thousands of Rockaway residents who use the program to provide vital health care. Kenneth Raske, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association, called the cuts, which would reduce funds for hospitals, nursing homes, prescription drugs and home health care - "the single most damaging budget proposal I've ever seen in my career." He added, "We're asking the legislature to reject these cuts and not bury their heads in the sand. We're getting crushed here." Liz Sulik, the Director of External Affairs for the Peninsula Hospital Center, put it more succinctly. "[If the cuts go through} your next medical checkup will be given in a MASH tent, because there will no longer be a hospital in Rockaway." While that may sound like hyperbole from insiders connected to the health care industry, it is clear that the entire health care industry is in trouble, with doctors reeling from massive insurance costs and pressure to reduce health care costs. In light of what the industry is going through, Paterson's cut may well be the straw that broke the camel's back, and we may well have to one day travel off the peninsula to find hospital care.


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Applique is my favorite, yours is beautiful.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Applique is my favorite, yours is beautiful.
I love this quilt What a wonderful job you have done
wow its fantasitc!!!!! i love it....and not i have that song in my head also hehe ....on the 12th day of christmas my true love gave to me.....hehe
WOW! Beautiful quilt! Your work is fantastic. :thumbup:
Holy WOW!
You did a beautiful job. What a nice quilt.
That is so gorgeous. I was glad to see a large photo of it
I am new to the quilt board. What is an Avatar Quilt?
The avatar is a picture. She chose to put her quilt there, as is mine. I love the quilt and the work in it. Good jod. My avatar is one I will be teaching in November. Good sewingOriginally Posted by Peggy Jeanne


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Bridge Over Swatara Creek on Route 72
Between Hurricane Irene and Hurricane Lee, the school year is off to a rocky start. The first day of school for students, August 29, was delayed because of the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. Strong winds and rain forced the closure of roads by downed trees and loss of power. Hardly a week later, the remnants of Hurricane Lee combined with other weather systems to create three days of rain, creating flooding of historic proportions. Roads were flooded, many were damaged, and a state of emergency was declared. Overall, the rainfall totals exceeded 12 inches.
Severe damage was reported at Hershey Park. Many areas of Harrisburg were evacuated.
At this point, students will be coming to school on October 10, which was originally scheduled as the traditional Columbus Day holiday. There are no reports concerning the make up days for September 8 and 9 at this time.


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Rocko's Modern Life - Season 4 Episodes
"With Friends Like These / Sailing the Seven Zzzz's"
Rocko wins two free tickets to a wrestling match from a radio show./ Ed Bighead's sleepwalking problem, triggered by the memory of an early childhood trauma, spells high adventure for Rocko and Spunky!
"Pranksters / From Here to Maternity"
Mr. Bighead, while sleepwalking, thinks he's a pirate and tries repeatedly to get a treasure map from Rocko.
"Ed Good, Rocko Bad / Teed Off"
Rocko has to deliver comic books over the snowy mountain. Heffer and Rocko decide to spend the extra time (and money) doing a little skiing. / Bev adopts Earl as her pet. Earl acts viciously to Ed but like a pussycat to Bev.
"Wimp on the Barbie / Yarnbenders"
"Mama's Boy / Feisy Geist"
Hessian and the potency of candy when Rocko and Heffer introduce him to the concept of trick-or-treating. / Something in a Hitchcock-ian vein: Rocko suspects Bev Bighead of foul play when Ed disappears mysteriously.
"S.W.A.K. / Magic Meatball"
Heffer helps Mr. Bighead win a golf game that has been rigged in Mr. Dupette's favor.
"Closet Clown / Seat to Stardom"
Closet Clown - Ed Bighead tries to hide his secret identity, Ed the Clown.
Seat to Stardom - Rocko becomes a famous underwear model, "Wedgie Boy." The lack of free time strains his friendship with Heffer.
"The High-Five of Doom / Fly Burgers"
After stumbling upon Filburt's secret diary, Heffer and Rocko are convinced that Filburt is an alien. / Flecko the fly files a lawsuit against Rocko after tripping on a rock in his house.
"Heff in a Handbasket / Wallaby on Wheels"
Heffer unknowingly trades his soul for an opportunity to be on a TV game show.
"Dumbells / Rug Birds"
Rocko is arrested after a game of Doorbell Ditch gets out of hand.
"Hypno-Puppy Luv / Driving Mrs. Wolfe"
Hypno-Puppy Luv - Heffer hypnotizes Rocko.
Driving Mrs. Wolfe - Virginia Wolfe, Heffer's mother, asks Rocko to teach her to drive.
"Put Out to Pasture / Future Schlock"
"Turkey Time / Floundering Fathers"
Turkey Time - Thanksgiving in O-Town, and Rocko tries to save the turkeys.
Floundering Fathers - The group spin tales about who really founded O-Town.


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Yes I have. State and federal. Even the Pres for what's it's worth.
Yes I have. State and federal. Even the Pres for what's it's worth.
Shouldn't that last one be a "waste" of your time?? Just sayin'! :)
Contacted everyone I can think of, and so has my wife.
E-mails sent to about (12) different representatives. Replies back after 10 days. (1) from a state Democrat advising he was in favor of better control over and administration of care for mentally ill persons. For or against I'd think they would already have their canned response crafted and ready to send when contacted. Maybe most waiting to figure out which way to swerve in-order to get reelected next time.
I have stated this many times, in most cases any and all correspondence is read by a office person, seldom read by the representative. What the staff member believes to be important or what he/she has been directed to forward to the rep. the remaining/other correspondence is added to the office working paper or Talking Point Paper by subject and count, filed away and in most cases is answered by a office form letter/e- mail, if answered at all. Just imagine, a state senate district in Florida has a population of 350,000 to 470,000 and if just one percent of us sent an e-mail or letter voicing our concerns about the present gun control issue, there is very little chance that the representative would ever see your correspondence or mine. The only exception would be a very good or very different letter that might get the attention of the office person. IMO, a mail blitz/poll has little effect, in most cases, as to the direction the Rep. will take. Case in point; Florida's Bill Nelson's assault weapons ban poll. Over 80% against a assault weapons ban but he will still support a ban.
Is anyone aware of a instance in which letters, phone calls, and other correspondence to a representative from the constituency directly resulted in him/her changing his stance on an issue? If so can you provide a link?
I suggest we keep calling, writing and emailing them, send a text or smoke signal. One contact is not enough. Light up the phones, fill their mail boxes.
While I understand it may not be effective, I have written all my representatives (letter posted in the sticky under writing your representative). The way I see it is:
1) Even if not effective you still have to do it. You need to act.
2) Most likely the office person is going to tally up and present something to the representative like "letters for = xxx, letters against = yyy".
3) It is our duty to try to find ways to communicate our position so that people will understand. There is that chance that we can make points that will speak to them.
Every week since late December.
The NRA ILA site makes it is easy, the form letter on the Ruger site is even easier.
If a representative is decidedly anti-gun, then would a form letter crafted by a popular firearms manufacturer get the time of day? I doubt it.
54 views and 35 votes. Makes me wonder
I don't see the poll in tap a talk, but I did this weeks ago.
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Yes I did contact everyone of them and what I got was a dance around the issue and told it is time for the 2nd to go.
Americans do not need guns anymore.
I email to my reps once a week


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NY Times article omitted key facts about CPB's new ombudsmen
Research ››› ››› JEREMY CLUCHEY
In a May 2 article on efforts by Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), "to correct what he and other conservatives consider liberal bias" at CPB, New York Times reporters Stephen Labaton, Lorne Manley, and Elizabeth Jensen noted that CPB recently appointed two ombudsmen "to review the content of public radio and television broadcasts." But the article failed to note that one of the ombudsmen, William Schulz, is an avowed conservative with close ties to Tomlinson, while the other, Ken Bode, is a former journalist and a fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute who last year endorsed Indiana Republican gubernatorial candidate Mitch Daniels. In addition, the Times story made no mention that CPB's new chief operating officer and acting president is a former Bush administration official.
Tomlinson was editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest before resigning to work on Republican Steve Forbes' 1996 presidential campaign, according to a February 13, 1996, article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Schulz and Tomlinson worked together at Reader's Digest, where Schulz was the Washington editor and an editor-at-large. A February 11, 2002, National Review article lamented the "saddening transformation" of Reader's Digest away from "overt conservatism" in the wake of Tomlinson's resignation. The Review noted that "[m]ost of the magazine's top editors had been Tomlinson hires, and virtually all of them were, like Tomlinson himself, political conservatives," but added that "[a] few conservatives remain, most notably Schulz." On June 26, 1986, The Washington Post reported that a Reader's Digest-operated foundation pulled its funding from the conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) to register dissatisfaction with what Schulz called the desire among AEI leadership at the time "to move the organization to the center and appeal to foundations and corporations not thought of as conservative." Schulz also authored a March 14 article for the conservative website Human Events Online.
The other CPB ombudsman is Ken Bode, a former NBC national political correspondent, former CNN senior political analyst, and an adjunct fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute. Bode endorsed Indiana Republican gubernatorial candidate Mitch Daniels in an October 15, 2004, Indianapolis Star commentary.
According to The Ombudsman Association's code of ethics, an ombudsman is a "designated neutral" who "strives for objectivity and impartiality."
Nor did the Times article note that W. Kenneth Ferree was named chief operating office and interim president of CPB, though the Times had previously reported that Ferree is "a former senior official at the Federal Communications Commission who played a significant role in the failed effort to loosen rules to make it easier for media companies to expand into new businesses and geographic areas." The article also failed to note what came out in an April 24 interview by Deborah Solomon in the Times' own Sunday magazine, as CJR Daily flagged. Ferree told the Times Magazine that he rarely consumes programming by CPB's grantees, which include PBS and National Public Radio (NPR). In response to Solomon's question about his favorite PBS show, Ferree responded, "I'm not much of a TV consumer," adding that The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is "slow." His interest in NPR seems even harder to identify:
SOLOMON: For the head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, you don't sound like much of a PBS viewer. Perhaps you prefer NPR, which your organization also finances?
FERREE: No. I do not get a lot of public radio for one simple reason. I commute to work on my motorcycle, and there is no radio access.
SOLOMON: Can't you install a radio on a motorcycle and listen with headphones?
FERREE: One probably can. But my bikes are real cruisers. They're stripped down deliberately to look cool, and I don't want all that electronic gear.
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Upon arriving for work on the morning of November 6, 2012, employees of Kid's Peace discovered the business had been burglarized. Unknown individuals entered the business, located on Corporate Circle, removing several undisclosed items.
Police ask if anyone has information that would help solve this case, please contact the Fairview Township Police Department at 717-901-6267.


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Hello i am a 43 years old danish male. 30 Years i had surgery for a swollen eye (from sinuitis) i had a curvelular incision (side of noose over eye) where the sugeon removed some of my right supraorbital .rim leaving a depression 1. can any of you advice me where to go (Clinic/s) and wich surgeon/s (name) to see to get the absolute best for this kind of reconstructive surgery wich i believe involve CT scan and some sort of implant and revision of the old scar (I am prepared to go anywhere) ?
Surgery After Frontal Sinuitis?
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Revision frontal sinus surgery
Most likely the frontal sinus was collapsed by removing the front wall of this sinus. Often times this was done if there was a bacterial infection of the front wall of the frontal. To reconstruct this sinus would need CT in both axial and coronal planes to see the status of the back wall of the frontal and see if there is any inflammation of the ethmoid sinus. At the time of reconstruction it is important to remove any scar tissue just to make sure all mucous membrane is gone, the interior walls are smoothed with a drill, fat placed into the cavity and the brow bone reconstructed. There are a variety of options including titanium mesh, split calvarial bone grafts. I don't know of anyone in Denmark but Dr. Wolf Mann in Germany or Dr. Heinz Stamberger in Graz, Austria are well respected sinus surgeons. Dr. Loury
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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The hope now is that cooler heads prevail among Oklahoma State administrators, including athletic director Mike Holder, and Gundy. Everyone involved needs to put aside their differences to come to a positive resolution so that the football program can take advantage of the opportunities and the resources that have been created to keep moving in a very successful direction.
Honestly, the best thing for all involved is to back off and understand that calm discussion, minus animosity, is the best remedy to move forward in the best interest of the OSU football program.