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Welcome to this week's installment of the BayBlog Question of the Week. Each week we'll take a question submitted through the Chesapeake Bay Program website and answer it here for all to read.
This week's question comes from Daniel, who came to our website seeking information about the effects of road salt on the Chesapeake Bay and its local waterways. He said, "With all the information that is out there about the pollution in our Bay…it seems like we have created another major source of pollution by throwing all the salt into the Bay."
Much of the Chesapeake Bay watershed has experienced record-breaking snow storms this winter. With roads covered in snow and ice, road crews had to use the most effective deicer at their disposal: salt, and lots of it. Controversy struck when it was announced that plows in Baltimore would begin dumping snow from the roadways into the Inner Harbor. What would all of that salt do to the water? Isn't there a better way to handle it?
While public safety was the most important factor during these major snowstorms, the decisions made by public officials also took environmental concerns into consideration.
Dumping snow into the Inner Harbor or the Chesapeake Bay, which are already brackish (a combination of salt and fresh water), is not necessarily bad because salt is already present in the water. However, dumping salt-treated snow into freshwater streams and creeks is dangerous because it can drastically change the amount of salt in the water, harming the freshwater species that call these waterways their home.
Of course, even without dumping snow directly into a body of water, salt will end up there as snow begins to melt and run off our streets, lawns and driveways. Since runoff is the fastest growing source of pollution to the Chesapeake Bay, scientists in the region will closely monitor the effects of snow melt and runoff.
The runoff caused by snow melt, however, is generally more gradual than that of a strong rain storm, giving road salt and other pollutants more time to absorb into the ground, where they can be filtered out by trees and vegetation. Heavy rainfalls, on the other hand, accelerate the speed at which polluted runoff flows into streams, rivers and the Bay.
To get back to the question from Daniel, yes, the salt used on roadways during snowstorms can become a pollutant in the Chesapeake Bay and local rivers, creeks and streams – but so can fertilizers, dirt, oil, trash and other substances carried by runoff into waterways. There are other deicing agents that could be used, but most are more expensive and some have not yet been tested for environmental effects.
Since this year was a rarity in terms of snowfall for most parts of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, hopefully the problem of too much road salt and snow melt won't be something we'll have to address very often in the future!
Do you have a question about the Chesapeake Bay? Submit it on our website and it could be our next Question of the Week!
Each February, we celebrate Black History Month, but we often don't take the time to reflect on the important people and events in black history that occurred right in our backyards. In the Chesapeake Bay region, the African-Americans who lived and worked here helped define our history.
Keep reading to learn more about six key events, people and occupations that influenced the history of the Chesapeake and the entire nation.
Slavery in the Chesapeake Bay region began in 1619, when a Dutch ship carrying 20 African men arrived at Jamestown, Virginia. These men were indentured servants, rather than slaves. Many eventually earned their freedom and went on to own land, trade, raise crops and livestock, defend their rights, and eventually hire their own servants.
(Image courtesy CORBIS/History.com)
Slaves were part of many great milestones in the Chesapeake region, such as rowing the Bay's first ferry between the future sites of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1636. By 1780, it is estimated that slaves made up approximately 40 percent of the population in the Chesapeake region.
In the 1800s, the Chesapeake region was on the brink of controversy over slavery. The northern Bay watershed states were considered "free states" that did not support slavery, while the southern states were "slave states." This division foreshadowed the battles to be fought in the region during the Civil War.
As the Civil War progressed, the Union Army was suffering from increasing numbers of casualties and needed reinforcements. Blacks were granted the right to serve in the Union Army and fought in battles throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
In Maryland, 8,700 men served in six black regiments that played major roles in Union battle plans. The 36th U.S. Colored Infantry guarded the Confederate prison at Point Lookout and disabled Confederate torpedoes in the lower Chesapeake Bay.
More than 180,000 black men served in the Union Army and 18,000 black men in the Union Navy. Twenty-one of these men were awarded the highest military honor in the United States, the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where she lived until she escaped in 1849. After escaping from slavery, she returned to the South 19 times to help other slaves along the Underground Railroad.
As part of the Underground Railroad, a network of safe houses was formed and slaves were transported with the help of ship captains in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, as well as other slaves working on boats. For many slaves, the Potomac River, the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay were vital links in the route to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
Like Tubman, Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. In his first two attempts to escape slavery, Douglass and five other men planned to canoe up the Chesapeake Bay into Pennsylvania, but another slave turned them in. Eventually, Douglass was brought to freedom on a steamboat traveling from Delaware to Pennsylvania.
In colonial times, tobacco was the mainstay of the economies of Maryland and Virginia. Many of the workers at tobacco plantations were slaves or indentured servants from Africa. Plantations were often located along the Chesapeake's rivers, where soil quality was better and tobacco could be transported via local waterways.
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Once the Chesapeake's tobacco and agricultural industries began to decline at the end of the 18th century, blacks turned to the water to make a living, ultimately helping the region's economy and cultural history flourish.
By the 1860s, the Chesapeake Bay was the United States' primary source of oysters, which created plenty of opportunities for black watermen to make a living shucking oysters, processing seafood and even building boats for the industry. New African-American communities formed along the Bay's shores, creating cultural and economic centers for blacks in the area. Their traditions became part of the local fishing industry, and many of them still exist today.
As Aldo Leopold and many other environmental writers have stressed, attachment to "special places" promotes environmental stewardship. For me, two of those special places were underwater. They were submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) beds in two rivers near where I live and work, the Magothy and the Severn. Those beds were special to me because they were two of the first places that I saw SAV beds, starting in 1992. I use the past tense because as of last summer (2009), those two SAV beds are gone, part of a recent decline of SAV in both rivers.
The special SAV bed on the Magothy was in the lower part of the river on the western shore of Gibson Island. I first visited it in the summer of 1992, before it was mapped in the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) SAV survey. I was doing volunteer water monitoring with a lifelong Magothy resident, Dan Zivi. Because he grew up here, Dan remembered when the grasses were abundant in the 1960s, and he knew there was a small remnant SAV bed. We stopped there in his boat to see it. It didn't look like much; just a few spindly stalks of redhead grass in shallow, murky water. But it held great promise.
The following year, 1993, that bed was large and dense enough to be mapped in the VIMS SAV survey, along with a few nearby beds.
The recovery of SAV in the Magothy had started. That Magothy SAV area would peak in 2005 at 125 hectares (309 acres), which was 53 percent of the restoration goal.
By 2009, the Magothy SAV area was down to only 5 hectares (12 acres), just 2 percent of the goal. The SAV bed I first saw on Gibson Island's shore was gone.
The first SAV bed I saw on the Severn was also special because it was large and dense right from the start, and it was the first field trip I made with Bob Orth of VIMS, who has boundless energy when SAV is involved. This bed must have been growing for years on a wide shoal outside of Asquith Creek. In the summer of 1994, the plants were tall enough to be visible from the air, and thus they were mapped in the SAV survey.
Bob Orth, a VIMS scientist who supervises the annual aerial SAV survey, wanted to see the "new" bed in the summer of 1994, so several of us went there with him in a small boat. I wasn't familiar with the Severn's bottom features, but Bob knew the bed was on a large shoal. As soon as we saw the edge of the bed, he jumped in the water. I was not prepared to jump in the water, so I stayed in the boat, but I leaned over to take a photo of a blue crab doubler that was caught in that bed as we explored it.
I had just started working at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Chesapeake Bay Field Office, mainly to study and protect SAV, so I was happy.
Hence my sadness in summer 2009 when I visited this bed to do SAV sampling and found that, just like the bed near Gibson Island, it was almost gone. This was confirmed by the VIMS SAV map that was just completed. There was still a bed north of Asquith Creek in 2009 (labeled J4), but it no longer extends onto the shoal at the mouth of the creek.
What does the loss of these two SAV beds in 2009 mean for the future of SAV in the Bay? For me their loss is partly symbolic, and I know that almost all SAV beds come and go, sometimes returning after they disappear. I'm not that worried about the Severn SAV bed because there were still some large and dense beds nearby, although SAV in the Severn may have declined overall in 2009.
I am worried about the future of SAV in the Magothy, however, because of the large SAV area declines since 2005. It's also troubling that the river's water clarity got worse again last year; data collected by Magothy River Association volunteers (including myself) showed water clarity was down to the lowest status we've measured (14 percent of the goal). Details of these changes will be in the forthcoming Magothy River Index, which I will present at the annual State of the Magothy meeting at Anne Arundel Community College on Wednesday, February 17 at 7:00 p.m.
What can we do about these declines in aquatic health in the Magothy and in other rivers? See this brochure from the Department of Natural Resources for some ideas on what you can do in your yard to improve aquatic health in the rivers near where you live. I've done many of these in my yard.
However, I think it will take more than changes in our yards to reverse the declines in aquatic health in the Magothy and in other rivers. The marked improvements in aquatic health that we saw in the Magothy and some nearby rivers in 2004 were caused by millions of tiny dark false mussels filtering the water. We estimated there were 400 million of them in one creek, Cattail Creek, that year. I live in the Cattail Creek watershed and I've done water monitoring there for 19 years, and 2004 had the best water clarity and dissolved oxygen status I ever recorded there. To get the same improvements in aquatic health by reducing stormwater runoff, we'll need more than a few rain gardens. I think a good start would be stormwater retrofits in all of the waterfront communities, including mine, that lack any stormwater management facilities, because the communities were built before these were required. Who would pay for these expensive retrofits, and where would we put them? I'm not sure. One option could be to set up a special taxing district in communities to pay for stormwater retrofits. Crofton and other communities have done this for decades to pay for extra police protection. Taking actions like this directed at improving our environment would really demonstrate commitment to cleaning up the Bay.
A group of high school students in New York is getting real-life experience monitoring environmental conditions on the upper Susquehanna River as part of a regional program for schools in the Chesapeake Bay watershed's northernmost reaches.
The Upper Susquehanna Watershed Project is a collaborative effort among high schools from Cooperstown to Afton, New York. Students analyze water samples and monitor stream flows at seven satellite reporting stations along the Susquehanna River and its tributaries.
A casual observer of the students who gathered in early December at the sixth annual Upper Susquehanna Watershed Project Conference to explain the results of their research likely would have thought they were listening to advanced college students, rather than high schoolers.
"The Upper Susquehanna Watershed Project offers students real world experience and engages them in locally meaningful projects that benefit local organizations," said Rich Townsend, a teacher at Sidney High School and co-founder of the project.
One of the local organizations benefiting from the students' work is the Sidney Center Improvement Group, a local non-profit organization guiding watershed management efforts in Carr's Creek, a Susquehanna River tributary. The students will analyze water samples from the creek, and the improvement group will use the data to complete a watershed plan and pursue reductions in harmful water pollutants.
The project "is truly a win-win for all," said Joe Lally, president of the Sidney Center Improvement Group.
Jeff Lape, director of the Chesapeake Bay Program, and Peter Freehafer, an official with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, attended the project conference and were impressed with the students' work.
"Here is the next generation embracing the principles of watershed management," Lape said, adding that it was very encouraging to see that the students "understood the science and how it affects their own backyard."


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'"When you lose a seven-game series, you have to say the other team is better," Grier said. "There's no excuses and no way around it. We had our chances to grab hold of this series, and we didn't take advantage. They did."'
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An expansion of the camp in its second year in 2012 is to add to the youngsters a second population, a group of more experienced minor leaguers. Members of the latter group would be seen by the Major League staff and be ready to be called upon to play in 1 P.M. spring St. Louis games if reserves are needed.
"We felt it was a really successful program for us last year," Cardinals farm director John Vuch explained. "(Matt) Adams, (Ryan) Jackson, (since-traded Alex) Castellanos, (Oscar) Taveras - a lot of the guys we brought in went on to have really strong seasons. So I think there was benefit having a running start heading into camp and the season."
In 2012, the early minor league campers report on February 24 and will have their first workout the next day. That is the day after the major league position players are required to report to Jupiter, Fla. and at least 10 days before the other minor leaguers are scheduled to arrive.
The release of the names of the group also offers a first peek at some individuals who have clearly impressed the organization but have not had enough at-bats, innings-pitched or statistics to yet stand out to the general public.
One year ago, right-hander Trevor Rosenthal was such a name. The 21-year-old was then-unranked in our Cardinals top 40 prospect list, but has since vaulted to number 12 in the entire system and snared a 2012 big-league camp invite. This year, 19-year-old Dominican hurler Victor De Leon is among those who may have similar potential.
St. Louis Cardinals 2012 early minor league camp invitees
Pitchers (10): Carlos Martinez, Michael Blazek, Deryk Hooker, Eric Fornataro, Victor De Leon, Anthony Ferrara, Hector Hernandez, Tyler Lyons, Willy Paulino, Justin Wright
Catchers (2): Geoff Klein, Audry Perez
Infielders (6): Starlin Rodriguez, Greg Garcia, Ronny Gil, Kenny Peoples-Walls (2011 4th round), Xavier Scruggs, Breyvic Valera
Outfielders (6): Oscar Taveras, Nick Longmire, Charlie Tilson (2011 2nd round), C.J. McElroy (2011 3rd round), Lance Jeffries (2011 10th round), Kyle Conley
Over the past weekend, the Cardinals also released the names of the 19 players invited to major league spring training camp as non-roster invitees. Though they were previously posted at The Cardinal Nation Blog, I will repeat them here.
St. Louis Cardinals 2012 non-roster major league camp invitees
Pitchers (10): Shelby Miller, John Gast, Joe Kelly, Jordan Swagerty, Trevor Rosenthal, Victor Marte, R.J. Swindle, Kevin Siegrist, Nick Greenwood, Tyrell Jenkins
Catchers: (5): Steven Hill, Koyie Hill, Robert Stock, Cody Stanley, Luis De La Cruz
Infielders (4): Matt Adams, Kolten Wong, Ryan Jackson, Eugenio Velez
Cardinals Major League pitchers and catchers report to Jupiter, Fla. on February 18 with their first workout set for February 19. The Cardinals full squad reports on February 23 and begins workouts on February 24.
You can view the entire 2012 Cardinals spring training schedule here.
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Perhaps not as famous as Oahu's North Shore, Maui has its own share of solid big wave surf spots. During the winter months of big wave season, Honolua Bay and Hookipa Beach in Paia are popular surf breaks. While Hookipa Beach is sandy, Honolua has a rocky shoreline so the best place to watch the surfers is from the bluffs above.
East of Hookipa is the infamous surf spot called Peahi or "Jaws." Generated by winter storms swells traveling over a barrier reef, Jaws can sometimes create 40-70 foot monster waves. To produce enough speed to surf these treacherous waves, pro tow-in surfers are literally towed-into the breaking waves by jet skis. Needless to say, leave these dangerous waves to the professionals. You can view Peahi from the cliffs above this surf spot, though space is limited.


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Love It! Tina Fey Channels Audrey Hepburn on the Cover of 'Entertainment Weekly'
Tina Fey goes all Audrey Hepburn on us on the cover of this week's 'Entertainment Weekly.' Love it!
-Lucia Peters
As far as we're concerned here at BettyConfidential, Tina Fey can do no wrong. We may be mourning the fact that our beloved 30 Rock will wrap up its seven season run this year, but at least we know that we've got new and exciting things to look forward to: Tina just inked a new deal for four more years at NBC, where she'll work on developing new shows with the option to act, should she feel like it. Indeed, said NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt, "She's been a cornerstone of the network for over the past 10 years and there was just no way we were going to let her get away. It's a measure of our esteem for her as a writer, actress and producer—she's in a class by herself." Hear, hear!
To cope with the loss, Entertainment Weekly has an amazing interview running in their current issue—and what's this? Tina as Audrey Hepburn on the cover of the mag? Fab!
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Channeling Audrey's classic Breakfast at Tiffany's character, Holly Golightly, Tina rocks a super curvaceous look: Black satin dress, mile-high hair, tiara, gloves, the works. She's even got the cigarette holder and the cat! Here's the original image:
It's a pretty good likeness, no? Sure, a couple of the details are a tiny bit different—Tina's cat is white instead of ginger, her neckline is higher, and it looks like instead of being a necklace, the bling at her throat is part of the dress itself. But all in all, not too shabby!
We're used to seeing Tina all gussied up on the red carpet (hello, Emmy Awards best dressed list!), but we're loving this vintage look on her. Be sure to pick up this week's issue of EW to read the full interview (apparently one of the sketches she submitted to land her SNL gig had "something to do with a legal trial about pudding")!
Tell us: Do you think Tina pulls off Audrey's classic look as well as we do?
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28th February 2012 12:12 AM #1
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High Risk Pregnancy
I have my first pregnancy at the age of 34 and this term "high risk pregnancy" has been a term my name was attached to. So many laboratory examinations, consultations and monitoring were required from me. But until now at this age of mine, I am never satisfied of the explanation of why am I a high risk case.
What is a "high risk pregnancy"?
I really would want some medical explanation as to why a woman is categorize as a high risk pregnant case. Hope this can pacify other women too.
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I remember reading all about conception and pregnancy when I was pregnant with my boys, I was 33 and shocked to read that 35 was considered "advanced maternal age" that made me feel a little old. However, our bodies change and as we get older (even though 35 is by no means "old") certain things happen. For one thing our fertility decreases and if we can get pregnant there are increased risks such as:
*Birth Defects
*High Blood Pressure and Diabetes
*Older women (I know I hate that term too believe me) are more likely to have stillbirths
*Babies are more likely to be low birth weight
Of course, it is important to keep in mind that MANY women 35 and older have great pregnanies and healthy babies but you aked why you might be considered high risk and that is why.
I found a great article here on PBB Older Mothers:The Good, The Bad and The Ugly It goes into more detail about the issues I listed, explains the advantages to having a baby later in life, and has tips on how to reduce your risks.
I wish you a happy and healthy pregnancy!!! Congratulations!
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One benefit of seeing a private midwife was that I was never "labeled" anything. Nobody ever told me I had to do anything differently because of my advanced maternal age. I had a baby when I was 35, another when I was 38, and my last just one month before my 41st birthday.
I had no extra testing, no extra ultrasounds, etc. Had they been needed, my midwife would have ordered them for me.
Just because you're considered "advanced maternal age" doesn't mean that anything will actually be different during your pregnancy or birth as long as you eat a good, healthy diet and have regular checks with your midwife.
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35 is considered advanced maternal age, but this is a very conservative age in my opinion. There are increased risks statistically speaking, after the age of 35, and increasing every year from that point forward. I think the ladies have pretty much covered everything there is to do with this label.
Remember that you have option to refuse any test that you are uncomfortable with.
25th January 2013 03:54 PM #5buderimosteopathGuest
Its simply because at 35 its considered at the upper end of the spectrum. Talk this through with your GP ? Obstetrician or Midwife - ask questions and have your mmind put at rest so you can enjoy your pregnancy.


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Leading man: Ph.D. student is an advocate for the hearing-impaired
During his first foray into the real world, young Roger Williams was determined to try acting.
"My overriding goal is to make sure ... deaf people have access to all the services they need."
When he didn't get a part in a play at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he was majoring in social work, he walked across the street and tried out for a play at the National Institute for the Deaf.
He got the part.
Then he got a crash course in sign language.
"I didn't know anything about sign language," Williams, a Ph.D. student in social work at the University of South Carolina says, laughing at the memory. "I learned by immersing myself in the deaf community at the Institute, and I was able to sign in the play."
Addressing neglected needs
Many years now into his career, Williams is a certified sign language interpreter, a licensed social worker, an advocate for the deaf, and the director of the South Carolina Department of Mental Health Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
And the deaf community has found an identity as the Deaf Community, though one that still needs strong supporters like Williams.
"My love was always mental health," he says. "The opportunity to start up a program like the Deaf Services Program was a dream job. Around the world, the needs of the Deaf Community have been so neglected by the system.
"My overriding goal is to make sure that in every state, deaf people have access to all the services they need. Although South Carolina has one of the better programs, it could be better."


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Hold on there—don't stash away those wet boots so quick, the winter may be wrapping up, but shred town is still open for business. TransWorld's session at Camp Of Champions in Whistler, B.C. last year was all time—we boarded, barbequed, there was snowboarding, sunshine, sunsets, bears, mountain biking (strictly downhill), mini-ramp sessions, beasty kickers, and a minute or two of chilling in the village—we wouldn't have missed it for the world. In fact, we're doing it all over again.
The TWS Session at Camp Of Champions, aka Camp A, runs from June 20 to June 27, 2009. Along with the Get Real crew that could include everyone from Scotty Lago to Pat McCarthy and TransWorld videographer Joe Carlino, we'll be sharing our session with Forum shredders Jake Blauvelt, Nic Suave, Daniel Ek, Stevie Bell, and John Jackson … oh damn this is going to rule!
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At VOICE Charter School, we empower our teachers to truly teach. At many schools, mandatory paced-by-the-hour lesson plans force teachers to abandon important topics, even if students never "got" what was being taught. At VOICE Charter School, a flexible workshop approach to curriculum allows our educators to spend more time in the places where students need attention and to move more quickly past what they easily understand.
While there is a certain level of autonomy, VOICE Charter School teachers by no means "go it alone." Teamwork and cooperation are not concepts we simply preach at the children, they are concepts we put into practice everyday. Every person on campus is a member of a Professional Learning Community, where a collegial atmosphere and the free exchange of ideas are encouraged. All teachers are in constant contact with one another and with school administrators and VOICE Charter School volunteers.
VOICE Charter School will be expanding over the next several years and is looking to add high-powered, motivated educators to its faculity.
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One thing that come us a lot here is this idea of a Professional Learning Community and working as a team. What does that mean?
Ms. Murray: Larry and I work very closely together. We're talking everyday. We're teaching the same lesson, so we talk about what we'll be teaching everyday. Afterwards, we talk about what worked and what didn't and what our kids did and didn't "get." If we had similar experiences, we can devise new, better ways to teach.
Mr. Berman: And the school is small enough that the feedback can be immediate. What I'm about to teach, Jennifer just taught or is just about to teach. Our doors are always open so we can give each other heads up and say, "try it this way. This works better." Or, "don't try it this way. It's too confusing."
Ms. Murray: Not only can we give heads up to each other, we can give it to other grade levels. First grade can help Kindergarten as well. If we have any resources we can share, we share them. Other than the topics themselves–the curriculums are the same, so Kindergarten might do a similar unit a week before us or after us.
VOICE is a new school and a charter school. Is it different working here compared other schools?
Ms. Murray: You feel a sense of autonomy in that you're building something new.
Mr. Berman: Since this is the first year this school is open, there's a lot of extra legwork, but the idea is we have a sense of ownership over what we are creating.
VOICE is also a school with a heavy focus on music and singing. How does what you do interact with that?
Mr. Berman: I have no musical background whatsoever, so I don't directly add to what Ms. Ley is doing. But, for instance, last week we did a unit on Mexico and at the same time the students were learning about the music of Mexico, so there was a crossing over. And I find myself always singing and humming now...
Ms. Murray: Me too, not that I'm very good...
Mr. Berman: And that's part of all of this. The kids see me learning as they're learning and they say, "hey, Mr. Berman is trying to learn this, too."
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The pilot of this Cessna airplane was not seriously injured when the plane crashed into a tree in a Yarmouth County cemetery on Sunday morning, March 2.
Tina Comeau photo/Yarmouth Vanguard
YARMOUTH - The pilot of an airplane that crashed into a tree in an Arcadia cemetery on Sunday morning says deteriorating weather conditions caused him to have to attempt an emergency landing.Yarmouth resident Dave Arenburg, 54, had been in the air on the morning of March 2 doing some touch and go's from the Yarmouth airport when the weather led to what he described as carburetor icing in the engine.
He says he was a short distance from the airport when he lost engine power. Familiar with the area he was in, he decided to attempt to land his Cessna in a field in Arcadia.
"I kept gliding," he told the Yarmouth Vanguard, but he says he knew he wasn't going to be able to make the field he was aiming for, or even a back-up on, so instead he decided to aim for sometrees, saying he knew he'd be better off to hit the trees at a slower speed than the ground at a faster one.
And so it was a tree in the Arcadia Cemetery on the Kinney Hill Road in Yarmouth County that he crashed landed into.
Asked if he was panicked as all of this was happening, Arenburg said he wasn't.
"What happens is all of your training just kicks in," he said.
Arenburg, a local businessman whom many know as the owner of the local Tim Hortons franchise, has been flying for almost 30 years. He calls it a hobby and says the incident that occurred to him on Sunday morning "a humbling one" for a pilot.
"But they say any landing you can walk away from is a good landing," he said.
In this case, Arenburg was able to climb down out of the plane by use of a ladder, with the assistance of the fire department. He told the Vanguard he would like to tell the local resident who called for help on his behalf, along with the fire department, EHS and the RCMP who came to his about, about how appreciative he is for their help.
He says he suffered no injuries, with the exception of some chemical burns.
It was approximately 11:30 a.m. when the Yarmouth County RCMP, Emergency Health Services (EHS) and the Yarmouth FireDepartment received a call that a Cessna airplane had crashed near Kinney Road in Arcadia.
Although the RCMP was on the scene to keep the area secure on Sunday morning, Sergeant Michel Lacroix said the RCMP does not investigate incidents of this nature. Instead the matter would be turned over to the Transportation Safety Board to investigate.
"We're trying to get in contact with them," Lacroix said late Sunday morning. He expected investigators to visit the scene Monday, if they weren't able to come earlier.
The RCMP blocked off the road to traffic on Sunday morning. The Kinney Hill Road is a short road that branches off from the main traffic arteries on both ends. Later in the day the road was accessible to local traffic, as there are many homes on the road. The public, however, would not have access to the cemetery until the investigation was complete.
The cemetery the airplane crashed into is an old one. There are grave stones dating back over 100 years. The cemetery's caregiver said that knowing the pilot is okay, he was concerned about how the airplane will be removed without causing damage to the cemetery. He also wondered if any fuel had leaked.
The airplane wasn't expected to be removed until the investigation is completed.


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HBA brings D.C.'s Old Post Office back as Trump Hotel
Interior design firm Hirsch Bedner Associates completed a historical hotel preservation project and opened the Trump International Hotel, Washington, D.C., formerly the Old Post Office. Working with Ivanka Trump, HBA associate Betsy Hughes and her team of interior designers and architects restored the European-style building to its original glory, creating a 263-room five-star hotel. Continue below the photo.
The 118-year-old historic and castle-like structure is located between the Capitol Building and the White House. Using the building's story as the design narrative, the space is defined by the architectural detailing of the clock tower, columns, archways and historic metal truss-work that spans the lobby. Designers used the framework as a support system for chandeliers that dot the public spaces.
The lobby faces the clock tower, reception and bar; it serves as the heart of the hotel, opening up to the nine-story atrium with glass skylights. Read more below the image.
There are 263 guestrooms, seven of them created within the previous attic space, and featuring floor-to-ceiling skylights in the roof. The former postmaster's offices were converted into four luxury suites. The largest of the group has restored wood-stained paneling, a fireplace and a reading nook in a turret. One suite is located in the clock tower with an arched window that HBA designers created a mezzanine around to keep from blocking the window. The Trump Townhouse suite has multiple stories and a private entrance from Pennsylvania Avenue.
The European-style suites have a color palette of creams, silvers and soft blues with pops of red and gold leaf trim along with crystal chandeliers. A standout feature is a canopied bed in the center of the bedroom.
Due to the historic restoration, each guestroom has a unique layout with distinct features. Arched windows on the upper floors offer views of the Capitol Building and Washington Monument, while historic columns were found and restored. Large bathrooms were built along the window walls of several rooms, while turrets, eaves, dormer windows and skylights are showcased within several guestrooms.
Canvas Art Consultants, the art consultancy division of HBA, also worked with the HBA interior design team and The Trump Organization. Canvas developed a guestroom and corridor art program that pays homage to the city's history through a collection of imagery specifically assembled to reference various aspects of Washington D.C. and the Old Post Office. Visual elements include signed original watercolor renderings of the Clock Tower and renderings of gilded architectural details.
The main restaurant, BLT Prime by David Burke, is a two-story marble-clad box overlooking the lobby. The two private dining rooms have views overlooking the main arrival lobby. Two function rooms with high ceilings, original millwork and stained wood floors are found in the main building. The Lincoln Library has navy velvet drapes and Empire-style bronze pendants in one room, while the second has painted millwork, cream silk draperies and crystal chandeliers. A conference space is located in an existing building on 11th Street, the edifice of which was built as a shopping mall in the 1980s. It is now the largest luxury ballroom in Washington D.C., Presidential Ballroom, modeled after Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago.
Illuminate Lighting Design, the architectural lighting firm from HBA, provided lighting design for the public areas, including the Congressional Bells Museum and BLT Prime by David Burke. A standout lighting feature includes an integrated custom bar detail that illuminates restored post offices boxes as a backdrop in Benjamin Bar & Lounge, highlighting the building's history.
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Le Nolinski, a newly opened deluxe boutique hotel under the EVOK brand, recently opened at the spectacular location of 16 Avenue l'Opera. The hotel offers a prime location within easy walking distance to many of the sites of Paris including the Louvre Museum, which is just a five minute walk away.
The hotel, a former apartment residence, has eclectic design elements and a muted color palate of grays, blacks, and golds, with fun pops of bright colors in the hallways and elevator lobbies. There's also a "Grand Salon", the Rejane Brasserie, indoor pool, and full service spa to round out the hotel's offerings. In addition, a deli-style food outlet is currently under construction.
The small street level lobby is intimate, and the service is top notch as the staff gets you settled in and provides a nice orientation of the property.
A Classic room facing Avenue l'Opera was our home for two nights. The room was not very large, but high ceilings and substantial entryway doors gave it a cozy residential feel. Amenities included a welcome pastry and mineral water. The retro-style Marshall music player was a nice feature. Continue reading below the photos.
Complimentary smartphones are provided to each room, and they can be taken with you outside the hotel. The phone allows for direct access to the concierge and other sightseeing services. International calling is also included - a very nice perk, especially if your own mobile phone isn't set up for international data roaming and calling.
Our stay coincided with the Grand Opening reception on September 20, 2016. The party had a "Folie" or Parisian cabaret theme which was quite the event with attendees and entertainers spilling out in the streets.
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Revamped New York Life Insurance Building opens as The Gray
Kimpton opened its latest property, The Gray, in Chicago's former New York Life Insurance Building that was originally designed by William Le Baron Jenney, and is located on Monroe Street.
Involved in the historic revamp was Los Angeles-based studio Beleco, which worked with Kimpton's global senior vice president of design and creative director Ave Bradley for the decor and interiors. Meanwhile, Gensler led the overall design duties for the building's renovation.
Each of the 293 guestrooms now have blue accent colors inspired by the city's flag; locally sourced artwork; and custom materials such as bathroom wall art reading "Relax, It's Just Garlic", a nod to Chicago's namesake native garlic chicagoua plant. Continue reading below the photo.
For events, the property has almost 13,000 square feet of meeting and event space.
For dining, The Gray has two onsite dining options. Located on the hotel's 15th floor, South American venue Boleo has a restaurant, bar, and 4,000-square-foot rooftop under an open-air, retractable glass roof. Meanwhile, the ground-floor eatery Steadfast has a woodfire rotisserie, shaved ice crudo bar and charcuterie room.
The lobby also has a bar, Vol. 39, which has a vintage encyclopedia collection discovered inside the property during renovations.
Petrosino's Parlor salon is located on the second floor.
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There's a new King in Memphis, well a new King of Hotels that is.
The Guest House at Graceland is set to open October 27, 2016. Inspired by Elvis' iconic home, the 450-room hotel will reflect Elvis' personal style and the Graceland estate. Created to feel like an extension of Elvis' home, Priscilla Presley oversaw the interior designs for much of the property, including the hotel's 20 themed specialty suites, such as the Taking Care of Business Suites. Continue reading below the photos.
The luxury hotel will have spacious and contemporary accommodations with upscale amenities and Elvis-inspired details. There will be two full-service restaurants, large outdoor pool, a 464-seat theater for live music performances and movie premieres, as well as expansive meeting spaces. Read more below.
If spending the night at the Guesthouse at Graceland isn't enough, the new Elvis: Past, Present & Future is set to open across the street from Graceland in the Spring of 2017. The 200,000-square-foot entertainment complex is five times the size of the current visitor center, and will feature a variety of exhibits including the Automobile Museum, Performance Soundstage with live music performances and movie screenings, discovery exhibits, restaurants and more.
Time to start planning your trip to Memphis…
It was recently announced that the CuisinArt Golf Resort & Spa in Anguilla, the most northerly of the Eastern Caribbean's Leeward Islands, will be getting a sister property - The Reef by CuisinArt.
About The Reef by CuisinArt - Located on Merrywing Bay on the Caribbean coast of Anguilla, The Reef by CuisinArt is a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, which selects only independently-minded properties with one thing in common: excellence. The Reef is a contemporary beachfront oasis of luxury that will feature stunning accommodations, world-class dining, cutting-edge technology and a plethora of activities including unique watersports, tennis with hardcourt play and preferred rates and tee times at CuisinArt Golf Club. Guests will also have access to the award-winning Venus Spa and additional culinary outlets offered at CuisinArt Golf Resort & Spa.
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NEW YORK, NY – July 13, 2016 – Enviably situated on Merrywing Bay on the tranquil island of Anguilla, The Reef by CuisinArt will debut in November 2016, revealing a beachfront contemporary oasis featuring 80 suites, directly on the Caribbean Sea.
The Reef by CuisinArt will feature a dramatic lobby entry and stunning bar, a fitness center with Technogym Excite Line, Unity Displays and aqua cycling bikes, a library and a boutique, complimentary watersports, and hardcourt play on the two tennis courts. The culinary teams have combined their global talents to create menus that will offer locally-sourced items and ingredients from the Hydroponic Farm for the hotel's restaurant outlets. The Yacht Club, which will feature brilliant nautical appointments and open to the spectacular pool, will serve breakfast and lunch, as well as a menu of inspired seafood selections for dinner. Breezes, a dazzling beachfront restaurant and bar, will draw those craving a relaxed Caribbean experience, and the calming sounds of the sea are the perfect accompaniment to a menu of unique beverage and food options.
"The Reef represents Anguilla's newest luxury destination and the newest hotel addition to the CuisinArt family," said Stephane Zaharia, Vice President and General Manager of both The Reef and CuisinArt Golf Resort & Spa. "The property, replete with exciting ensuite amenities and distinctive features, will truly epitomize a chic beachside resort with an urban flair."
A member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, The Reef's 80 accommodations will include 25 Golfview Junior Suites and 25 Seaview Junior Suites in the main building. Four additional beachfront buildings will house 30 accommodations ranging from Beachfront Junior Suites, to Corner Beachfront Junior Suites, Superior Beachfront Junior Suites and Deluxe Beachfront Junior Suites, two of which will contain dramatic outdoor Jacuzzis. Accommodation amenities will include a TV system with state-of-the-art technology, bedside "smart" control panels, Tivoli Bluetooth enabled audio systems, and more. Bathroom amenities will include products by Rusk and L'Occitane, as well as double sinks, a separate shower, and a freestanding Alissa oval bath.
As part of The Reef experience, guests will enjoy access to all amenities of CuisinArt Golf Resort & Spa, including preferred rates and tee-times at the 18-hole Greg Norman Signature design championship course, full access to the award-winning Venus Spa, as well as signing privileges at all facilities and dining venues. Complimentary transportation will be provided throughout the estate.
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COMO The Treasury is a new hotel in an old property. Housed in Perth's 140-year old State Buildings, which forms part of the Cathedral Square development, there are 48 elegant guest rooms and suites featuring original high ceilings, cornicing, and balconies. Facilities include two restaurants, a bar, lounge and library, which together provide a social hub for the city. Holistic therapies are available at COMO Shambhala Urban Escape, as well as a gym and 20 meter indoor pool.
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Palazzo Versace Dubai features a striking entrance, high ceilings, landscaped gardens, and a range of well-crafted Italian furnishings. The hotel is truly symbolic of the Versace lifestyle. Every single piece of furniture and fabric that adorns the hotel's 215 hotel rooms and suites, and 169 residences, is designed and tailor-made by the House of Versace exclusively for the Palazzo Versace Hotel in Dubai.
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Florida courts have ruled that law enforcement may no longer recover stolen property from pawnshops and return it to a victim of a crime without providing the broker an opportunity of a hearing.
If your stolen property is found in a pawnshop you may decide to purchase it back or obtain a court order to recover the property. In order to obtain a court order to recover your property, you will need to file a petition for return of the property with the Clerk of the County Court. It is recommended that you seek legal assistance to file the petition.
The Florida Pawnbroking Act states:
If you reported a crime to the Lee County Sheriff's Office, you may obtain a copy of the report from our Records Division:
Lee Count Sheriff's Office
Records Division
14750 Six Mile Cypress Parkway
Fort Myers, FL 33912
The Florida Pawnbroking Act further states:
If the victim and the pawnbroker do not resolve the matter within ten (10) days after the pawnbroker's receipt of the notice, the victim may petition the court to order the return of the property, naming the pawnbroker as a defendant.
The pawnbroker is required to hold the property, until the right to possession is resolved by the parties or by the court.
Clerk of Court
Lee County Justice Center
1700 Monroe Street 2nd Floor
Fort Myers, FL 33901
If, after a hearing, the court orders the return of the property to the claimant:
If the court finds that the claimant failed to comply with the requirements of the statute, or otherwise finds against the claimant, the claimant is liable for the defendant's costs, including attorney's fees.
**Disclaimer: This material is for general information only and shall not be construed as legal advice or counseling.


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VHDL-AMS Stress Modeling – Part 1
One of the great values of modeling with a hardware description language is simply this: you can tell a model to calculate and report all sorts of information about what's happening inside it. Consider a generic electrical model, for example. Simulators will report voltages across and currents through the device. But what if you want to know how much power is dissipated in the device? Or if the power exceeds a preset limit? Or maybe if the part is overstressed and possibly fails? And what if you want the device behavior to change on failure? With the right hardware description language and simulator combination, you can model and analyze all of these device characteristics and more.
VHDL-AMS is among the most flexible and powerful hardware description languages available for modeling device behavior, and it's an IEEE standard so it's supported by more than one tool vendor. I've talked about various aspects of VHDL-AMS in earlier blog posts:
- VHDL-AMS Model Portability – Fact of Fiction?
- Qualities of VHDL-AMS Quantities
- VHDL-AMS Black Belt
- What's the "AMS" in VHDL-AMS?
- VHDL-AMS and Switch Hysteresis
- VHDL-AMS Revisited
Among its many strengths is the ability mentioned above – you can tell your models to calculate operation details that normally might not be available with other modeling languages and methods. I'll use a simple resistor model to illustrate what I'm talking about. Before jumping into the modeling discussion, however, let's quickly review a few VHDL-AMS fundamentals:
- VHDL-AMS is a superset of the VHDL digital modeling language. If you can model a device's behavior in standard VHDL, you can model the same behavior in VHDL-AMS. VHDL-AMS simply adds analog and mixed-signal extensions to VHDL.
- VHDL-AMS models are constructed in two parts: the ENTITY and the ARCHITECTURE. The entity defines how the model will connect to other models in a circuit or system. The architecture defines the device behavior. A device model can have multiple architectures, but only one entity. The entity and one or more architectures work together to determine how the model behaves during a simulation.
- VHDL-AMS is a strongly typed language, meaning most elements in a model must be associated with a physical type. For example, the pins of my resistor model example will be defined as electrical type. Typing is important since VHDL-AMS is a multi-physics modeling language, meaning it's suitable for modeling electrical and non-electrical behavior. Simulators use this typing information to check for correct connections (e.g. to prevent you from connecting an electrical pin to a hydraulic pin) and to determine what physical units to use when plotting waveforms (e.g. so voltage across and current through my resistor are plotted in units of volts and amps respectively).
- A VHDL-AMS "quantity" is an analog element in a model that is calculated by the simulator. For example, the voltage across and current through my resistor will be defined as quantities for my model. I can also define other quantities such as power and self-heating temperature. VHDL-AMS quantities are assigned a type, either by association (e.g. by port declarations) or explicitly in the quantity declaration (e.g. power or temperature).
With this short review in mind, let's take a look at my resistor model. Recall from basic physics (or your first electrical circuits class), that the electrical characteristics of a resistor are defined by Ohm's Law:
voltage = current x resistance
In other words, the voltage across a resistor is equal to the current through the resistor multiplied by the resistance. So with a constant resistance, an increase in current produces an increase in voltage proportional to the resistance. I'll use this simple equation as the foundation for my resistor model.
Deciding how to start building a model is partly determined by personal preference, and partly by model complexity. For device behavior defined by complex mathematics, it is often easier to define the architecture first, then build the entity to support the architecture. But since my model is based on a simple equation, I'm going to start by defining the entity. Just like a real resistor, my model will have two ports (e.g. p1 and p2) and a resistance value (e.g. res). Here is what my entity looks like (note that I've added line numbers for ease of reference):
1: library ieee;
2: use ieee.electrical_systems.all;
3: entity resistor is
4: generic (
5: res: resistance := 0.0);
6: port (
7: terminal p1 : electrical;
8: terminal p2 : electrical);
9: end entity resistor;
Line 1 connects the standard IEEE VHDL-AMS library to the model. This library contains pre-defined type definitions. Line 2 instructs the model to use type definitions in the electrical_systems package within the IEEE library. Line 3 starts the formal entity definition. Lines 4 and 5 declare a property called res, typed as a resistance, with a default value of 0.0. I can use this property to assign my model a specific resistance value in a circuit. Lines 6 through 8 define the two ports for my model. Both are defined as terminals, which are analog ports in VHDL-AMS, and assigned electrical types. Line 9 closes the entity definition. Now let's take a look at the architecture.
I will develop functionality for my resistor model using multiple architectures. My first architecture models basic resistor behavior using Ohm's Law as defined above. Additional architectures will calculate the power dissipated in the resistor, and then determine if the power exceeds a user-defined limit. Here is the first architecture:
10: architecture basic of resistor is
11: quantity vres across ires through p1 to p2;
12: begin
13: vres == ires*res;
14: end architecture basic;
Line 10 opens the architecture definition, gives it a name (basic), and links the architecture with my entity (resistor). Again, my resistor model is allowed only one entity, but I can define as many architectures as suites me. I simply need to give each architecture a different name. Line 11 begins the declaration section of the architecture, defines my analog quantities vres and ires, and associates each with the p1 and p2 ports defined in the entity. The simulator calculates these quantities, with vres calculated as the voltage across ports p1 and p2, and ires calculated as the current flowing through the ports from p1 to p2. Note that defining the port direction as "p1 to p2" is significant: in this case p1 is defined as having a higher potential than p2. Line 12 ends the declaration section and starts the model definition. Line 13 implements Ohm's Law using VHDL-AMS syntax. The only difference between the Ohm's Law equation and the VHDL-AMS implementation is the "==" syntax, which has significance for how the simulator handles the relationship between vres and the product of ires and res; I'll save the detailed explanation for another blog post. For this discussion just consider "==" to mean "equal to". Finally, Line 14 closes the basic architecture and completes this first version of my resistor model.
And that's it for a basic Ohm's Law-based resistor, which will work in any simulator that supports the full VHDL-AMS language standard. In my next blog post I'll add another architecture that calculates the power dissipated in the resistor.
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Ernesto Perez looked with astonishment at the gun in his hand on Nov. 4, 2009. He had just fired several shots toward his girlfriend's family members of a different gang than his own but, luckily, hadn't hit anyone.
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Almost three years later, Perez still has those photos saved on his cellphone, showing the man he used to be: an 18-year-old gang member, with a hood pulled over his head and a serious look on his face.
But that's not the man he is now, he says, and that's because of the Stand a Little Taller program.
SALT, an anti-gang program geared to help older members, ages 18-30, leave their gang ties behind and become successful members of society, began in 2007. Kaisa Kinikini, the organization's founder, said the program grew out of a football program he started in 1999, which eventually became the Stripling Warriorz, a semi-pro team that played in the Rocky Mountain Football League.
Members of rival gangs in the Glendale and Rose Park area would gather after school to play ball, giving them a distraction from the gang life that consumed them.
"For those three hours, I saw a difference," Kinikini said. "Enemies were playing with each other. For three hours, they forgot they were a part of a gang."
Most gang members left their high school football programs after dropping out of school or running into legal problems. The SALT program allowed them a second chance to play football, and through the years, at least 24 of those players earned sports scholarships to junior colleges or universities.
Now, the program has grown to not only include sports programs, but assists in helping clients earn their GED, clear warrants and weave their way through the legal system, take court-ordered improvement classes and obtain employment.
Though most participants in the SALT program initially belonged to Tongan gangs, Kinikini said they now serve clients from any Salt Lake City gang, including Hispanic gangs and Juggalos, fans of the music group Insane Clown Posse who police classify as a gang.
For Perez, now 20, his journey with SALT began two years ago. After his seventh trip to jail before his 19th birthday mostly for misdemeanor alcohol and domestic-violence issues Perez said he was growing tired of the gang lifestyle.
"I was just getting fed up," he said. "All this time I just wanted to have fun. It always ended up in the hospital or in jail."
Perez was born and raised in the Rose Park neighborhood of Salt Lake City, and his gang involvement began when he was around 15 years old. He hung around gang members, but it wasn't until he finished high school that he began doing beer runs and becoming more heavily involved in the lifestyle. He was never jumped into the gang, but was getting in trouble because of his affiliations.
Perez's father told him about the SALT program, and after he was bailed out of jail that seventh time, he met Kinikini, also a former gang member, for the first time. After assessing Perez's needs which included future anger healing classes Kinikini told the then-18-year-old Perez that the next time he found himself in trouble, give him a call.
"I saw on his face, he doesn't like being in jail," Kinikini recalled about their first meeting. "I saw a goodness in somebody. Everyone can change. All of us need a push sometimes."
A week later, Perez found himself calling Kinikini because he was drunk at a party and needed a ride. No one in his family answered their phone, and while going through the list of contacts on his cellphone, he came across Kinikini's name.
"He showed up," Perez said. "I was really surprised."
Perez called Kinikini on several other occasions when he was drunk and needed a ride. During those car rides, a bond began to form between the two men, who both struggled with leaving their gang lives behind.
Kinikini said he was trying to show Perez that someone cared about him. That made the difference for Kinikini, he said, when he left the Tongan Crip Gang 17 years earlier.
"[Those] are the ingredients that helped me change my life," he said.
Kinikini said when he was heavily involved with TCG, only two people outside his family showed him love: his football coach and his ex-wife's mother.
"The only time people were nice to me was because of football," he said.
Kinikini was 16 when his then-girlfriend brought him to meet her mother one day while they were in high school. He said that despite his intimidating looks and "gangster haircut," the woman started a conversation with him. She made him a plate of spaghetti. She showed him that she cared.
"She knew I wasn't this big gangster guy," he said.
It's that same caring nature that he tries to bring to Perez and all of the SALT clients.
And to Abbie Vianes, a board member of SALT who works directing the Salt Lake City mayor's substance abuse prevention coalition, it's that caring nature and Kinikini's dedication to attend the clients' court hearings and help with their legal issues that makes the program different than others.
"To have someone like Kaisa who cares so deeply, that's what makes SALT absolutely unique," Vianes said.
Vianes said she has been working with SALT for the past three or four years, her primary role being to teach anger healing and other classes to clients. She offers the court-ordered classes at lower rates, hoping that money won't be a blockade to the clients' successes.
"My core values are to help people obtain their greatest potential," she said. "I believe knowledge can really help people to think better, do better."
Through the years, Kinikini has gained community partners who have helped with services or donated to the program. SALT has applied for no government grants yet, Kinikini said, and all of their services are a product of fundraising or donations. Kinikini works the program full-time, but does not take home a paycheck.
Kinikini said that while they have thus far worked to offer their services for free to their 60 clients, that may soon change as they continue to accept more clients.
Gary Walton, owner of Beehive Bail Bonds, was one who offered help to the anti-gang program early on by donating money to buy jerseys for the football program. He said many family members of SALT clients Perez's included have come to his office to bail their sons out of jail. Oftentimes, he has forgiven the fees associated with their bail bonds, because they are members of the program and are working to make their lives better.
"If it helps one misguided youth get away from the shadows of his past, I'm down with it," Walton said.
Kinikini said that while the program has seen successes, not everyone continues in the program or keeps their life on the straight and narrow.
Perez said he was one of those who messed up along the way during his two-year journey through the program, but he said he is in a better place now. He works full-time at a roofing company, he is paying off his probation fines, and he is trying to live a happy life with his girlfriend and their 2-year-old son.
"Now they are seeing change in me," he said. "I'm trying to work on myself."
Twitter: @jm_miller
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Kaisa Kinikini and the SALT volunteers can be reached at 801-882-5200.


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Carly Simon, I feel your pain, girl. I've got some clouds in my coffee, too!
In the 1988 movie Beaches, Bette Midler's character, the cynical, struggling entertainer CC Bloom says "Enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think of me?" A great line from a great movie. Not only is it a great line, but it pretty much sums up dating in Los Angeles. I can't begin to count how many times I've gone on a date with a man who talks about himself the entire night, never asking me a single question about my life.
This happened again the other night. I had accepted a date through a personalized dating service. They call me about once every three years, whether I want them to or not, to inform me that they have found my ideal match. Yeah, right. And if so, what took you so long? But, in addition to being the world's greatest cynic, I'm also an eternal optimist and a firm believer that dating is a numbers game, so I figured why not? In retrospect, I can think of so many reasons why not. Like, I could have spent the evening drinking a bottle of Peter Michael Chardonnay alone and reorganizing my lingerie drawer. At least that would be fun!


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text: It's true. The big picture is essential. "Hello! I'm The Doctor." (Dr. Who) ________________________________ From: Peter Skillman <pskillman at gmail.com> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 9:50 AM Subject: Re: GDG- NPs & Slavery Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: Agreed wholeheartedly, Charles! One of my initial impressions of the new VC the first time I was there (back when the museum was free) was that I LOVED the approach of walking through the entire timeline of the war - they didn't just include Gettysburg. My thoughts then (and now) echo yours - Gettysburg will probably be the first (if not only) exposure that many people get to the Civil War, and people travel from all over the country - from all over the world, in fact - to visit. The inclusion of more information will not only lead to better contextual understanding in the grand scheme of where the war fits in US history, but also where Gettysburg fits in Civil War history (i.e. it was not the ONLY battle). Someone visiting from Tennessee might learn of Chattanooga, Franklin, or Nashville and go see the battles that happened closer to home. A family from Mississippi might decide to check out Vicksburg as a day trip. Someone from Kansas may leave with an appreciation for the events of "Bleeding Kansas." Heck, even British visitors may acquire some understanding of how their country's dependence on cotton factored into the events leading up to the Gettysburg campaign. We all know that the more personal a connection you can make to something, the more it will stick. The more information included at the most-visited battlefield park in the country, the more chance that new interests will form, and that new historians will be born. - Pete On Jan 3, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Charles T. Joyce wrote: > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: > The thing that everyone is missing here who complains about the mention > of slavery in the VC movie is that, for many Americans, Gettysburg will > be their only taste of CW History. It may be still, after 150 years, be > comfortable to for some to face, but without the South's allegiance to > slavery there would have been no secession, without secession there > would have been no war, and without the war there would have been no > Battle of Gettysburg. It's inclusion in the overall discussion of the > battle isn't just appropriate, it is in my view essential. > > -----Original Message----- > From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com > [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of Tom Ryan > Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 8:52 AM > To: GDG > Subject: Re: GDG- NPs & Slavery > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: > <<Well- IMHO, the NPS has put slavery into the stories of the CW because > it > is Politically Correct!>> > > > I generally agree with this statement at least in the Gettysburg > context, > and find it disconcerting to watch the introductory movie at the > Gettysburg > VC because of the heavy infusion of slavery in the presentation. There > is a > time and place for everything. The detailed discussion of the slavery > issue > IMO is more appropriate at a memorial devoted to the CW in general. > > The primary focus for an introduction at Gettysburg should be the > Gettysburg > Campaign itself, a period of roughly two months from June 3 to August 3, > 1863, and the detailed discussion and presentation at the VC should be > about > the actual events during this period (with a strong emphasis on the > three-day battle) and their significance. > > Again IMO the NPS has overreached in their presentation of slavery at > Gettysburg, and my sense is that it succumbed to pressure from groups or > individuals who have an agenda to promote the slavery issue even if it > is > the wrong time and in the wrong place. > > Regards, Tom Ryan > > > ----------------http://www.arthes.com/mailman/listinfo/gettysburg_arthes > .com -to unsubscribe > http://arthes.com/pipermail/gettysburg_arthes.com/ for Archives > > ----------------http://www.arthes.com/mailman/listinfo/gettysburg_arthes.com -to unsubscribe > http://arthes.com/pipermail/gettysburg_arthes.com/ for Archives ----------------http://www.arthes.com/mailman/listinfo/gettysburg_arthes.com -to unsubscribe http://arthes.com/pipermail/gettysburg_arthes.com/ for Archives


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By Rikki King Herald Writer
LAKE STEVENS — A Lake Stevens police officer was assigned additional training to hone his communication skills after he was involved in two high-profile incidents of alleged bad behavior.
Officer Steve Warbis was found to have violated the police department's code of ethics and failed to promote a positive image as a police officer when he got into a barroom brawl in Everett in May 2012, according to a statement released by city officials.
The statement included the results of two internal investigations regarding Warbis conducted by former police chief Randy Celori. One dealt with the Everett bar fight. The other regarded a June 2011 arrest of a Marysville man that culminated with a federal civil rights lawsuit being settled out of court in December.
The police department's internal investigation into the 2011 incident determined Warbis was the focus of unfounded claims of unlawful arrest, excessive use of force and inappropriate damage of private property.
The police department's investigation also determined that Warbis did not violate any criminal or civil laws.
Lake Stevens officials in December agreed to pay Brandon Fenter and his family $100,000 to drop their suit filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
Fenter alleged that Warbis and officer James Wellington illegally arrested him at his Marysville home. He said he had been driving in Marysville the night before when he was waved down by an off-duty Warbis.
Warbis reportedly accused Fenter of driving recklessly and said he would send Fenter a citation in the mail.
Warbis and Wellington went to Fenter's home the next day and arrested him. Fenter accused them of cursing at him and his family and damaging a gate at his home.
Reckless driving charges against Fenter later were dropped.
Less than a year later, Warbis was shot in the forehead with a stun gun fired by a man during a May 26 fight at the Fireplace Bar in Everett, records show.
Warbis and another man reportedly got into a shoving match after arguing about Warbis' friends touching the man's classic car parked outside. Witnesses disputed who started the fight. No one was arrested. No charges were filed.
Within the past two months, Warbis was sent to additional training called "Arresting Communication — Advanced Interaction Skills From Practical To Tactical," city officials said.
Part of that training covered how "to keep cool," City Administrator Jan Berg said earlier this month.
Warbis, 44, has been with the department since 2008, Berg said.
He was not placed on leave in connection with either incident, Berg said. Wellington also was not put on leave in connection with the 2011 case.
Both are assigned to patrol in Lake Stevens.
Rikki King: 425-339-3449; firstname.lastname@example.com.