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After 27 years of coaching high school athletes, Karl Wiebe still considers himself as much a pupil as a teacher.
"Sometimes I learn more from the players than they learn from me," said the Westgate Mennonite Collegiate teacher, who was recently named the 2010 Grey Cup Legacy High School Coach of the Year.
Wiebe, 50, led the Wings to the provincial championship in AAA varsity boys' basketball in each of the last two seasons. While coaching basketball is his first love, Wiebe has also been involved with the Armstrong Point school's badminton and track programs, and has served as a de facto athletic director since arriving in 1983.
The Wolseley resident even continued coaching basketball at the school when he took a yearlong deferred-salary leave, taking breaks from his wife's home-renovation projects to concentrate on the pick-and-roll.
"Part of that was selfish, I knew it would be a very good team that year," he said with a laugh.
Wiebe said he viewed his award as a tribute to all the players he coached and the support of his wife, Arlene, and three children, who put up with all the long hours he devoted to his coaching.
"My reaction to winning is I'm quite humbled," Wiebe said. "I know some of the coaches who have won the award in the past, and I've admired the work they've done with student athletes over the years. To be included in the kind of prestigious group is an honour."
Jen How, who has taught phys-ed alongside Wiebe for the last 11 years and helps with the athletic department, said her colleague was deserving of the honour for much more than just the two provincial championship banners hanging in the school's gym.
"For (Wiebe) it goes beyond the things he's done as a coach, which in the last four or five years have been incredible," How said. "The guidance he provides all the coaches in the school, the work he does administrating the athletic program… when all is said and done, from Grade 7 to Grade 12 we have over 20 teams a year."
Wiebe's varsity boys' team had been inching closer to that elusive basketball championship in recent years. The team had three top-five finishes at the AAA provincials — including a third-place finish in 2006 for a team with his son, Kyle — before finally breaking through in the 2008-09 season.
"The skill level of the kids certainly has been a step up these last couple years," Wiebe said, "but you also need to be prepared to work hard. The kids have had a really good attitude as far as setting team goals as opposed to individual goals."
With a student body of just 315 from grades 7 to 12, Westgate is the kind of small school that really gets behind its teams, Wiebe said.
"We get a lot of support from the parents, not only of the basketball players, but all the kids at Westgate," he said.
"Especially the younger kids get excited about what's happening at the varsity level. It's great for the players when you pack the stands and everyone is cheering you on. It's been like that at a lot of home games."
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U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., issued the following statement in observance of the 12th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks:
"Twelve years ago today, the horrific acts that unfolded in New York and Washington renewed the resolve of a country that has never shied away in the face of adversity. We saw the best of America in the selfless courage of firefighters, police, and the passengers of United Flight 93. We still see it in the troops fighting for our freedoms today.
"We honor those we have lost, and our prayers go out to their loved ones, who continue to bear the deepest pain of that fateful day.
"We also turn our thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi last year.
"Governor Phil Bryant has declared today a voluntary day of service and remembrance. I call on all Mississippians and Americans to come together to honor our many brave heroes."
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When the page is first loaded in IE8 or 10 (or after the cache is cleared) all works fine, but if the page is opened again (or f.e. the back button is pressed in browser) the gallery is not shown with the following error: No theme CSS loaded
solves the problem, but it ruins the size of the thumbnails (cause I use few instances of galleria themes with different thumbnail dimensions in css file for each of them).
Tested with galleria-1.2.9.js, galleria-1.2.8.js and classic and folio themes.
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same here.
What do you mean adding? Add what?
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The problem is if i add it like that, there will be some clash between the two css in Chrome, Firefox, Safari so all of them but IE works fine.
Aggregating or not it doesnt have any impact.
Any ideas?
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I added
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.site.com/sites/all/libraries/galleria/themes/classic/galleria.classic.css"> at the top of my page.tpl.php and all seems to be working fine now in IE10, as well as in FF, Chrome and Safari.
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same problem here. Adding the css in the tpl page doesn't work for me. And it doesn't seem to be a definitive fix for this problem, which is recurrent from time to time.
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I updated to the latest galleria (1.3.2) and it fixed the problem for me.


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Scott Stanford: Ready for a busy summer
June 7, 2006
School's out for summer, and so is our Sunday education page.
No worries — our dedicated page of education news and notes will return when the school year does. But after watching us scramble to find relevant education topics to write about for five consecutive summers, I decided that we would be better served devoting that space to a different topic during June, July and August.
Our Environment page launches Sunday. It will be on Page 6A, where the Education page typically runs. Mike Lawrence, who covers education and politics for the Pilot & Today, will lead our environmental coverage.
This is not an effort to promote some green agenda. I'm far to the right of most on environmental issues — I don't recycle, I care a lot more about the logger than about the spotted owl, and I believe that if it weren't for man's intervention there would be a lot fewer trees.
That said, I recognize the importance of our surrounding natural resources to this region. Topics to be covered on our environment page include management of our national forests, access to public lands, wilderness areas, wildfire risks, bark beetle infestations and climatology. We'll kick off the page on Sunday with a Tom Ross story about thinning of national forest land in North Routt County.
Our Environment page is just a piece of what will be an extremely busy summer for us. Also on our schedule is the launching of At Home, a new quarterly magazine, and an in-depth reporting project about the Yampa River.
At Home is a full-gloss magazine that debuts in July and is dedicated to the Steamboat lifestyle. We have been working for months on the magazine's first edition.
In it you can expect profiles of local residents, first-person narratives about outdoors experiences, workout tips from local trainers, profiles of area chefs with inviting recipes, tours of some of Steamboat's finest homes and much more. Every member of our newsroom will have a hand in the magazine. Longtime photographer and reporter John F. Russell has done most of the photo work for the magazine, and veteran copy editor Allison Miriani is leading the design.
Since 2002, we have annually devoted significant space to an in-depth reporting series that runs for several weeks in the summer. Previous topics included affordable housing in 2002, issues affecting women and girls in 2003, the struggles facing ranchers in Routt County in 2004 and the impact of immigration on Northwest Colorado in 2005. This year, we will examine the Yampa River and the economic and social impacts the river has on the communities that are along it.
We will start at the headwaters and end where the Yampa empties into the Green River. In between, we'll cover all the topics related to the river such as water rights, conflicts between recreational and agricultural users, development pressures, river health and the river's future. Lawrence and Ross are the reporters on the project. Tyler Arroyo is the lead photographer and Jayme Elrod is the lead designer.
I'm very proud of the projects we have done in the past, and I promise this one will live up to those standards.
If you have thoughts or input about our reporting series, the new magazine or the environment page, you know where to find me.
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Let the trail blazing begin!
The Grand Opening of the Bay Shore Community Walking Trails took place at a ribbon cutting on October 16, 2010. The Bay Shore Community Walking Trails are made possible through the key partnerships of the Bay Shore Wellness Alliance, the Bay Shore School District, the Town of Islip, the Chamber of Commerce, the Bay Shore-Brightwaters Summit Council and other major sponsorships. For trail directions please visit www.bayshorewellnessalliance.org.
Left to right: Mary Louise Cohen, Member of the Bay Shore School District Board of Education; Senator Owen H. Johnson; Evelyn Blose Holman, Ph.D. Superintendent, Bay Shore School District; and Donna Periconi, President of the Bay Shore Chamber of Commerce.


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Recently I gave the car a tune-up and replaced some of the ignition coils. The car was idling rough, and I troubleshot the problem down to two ignition coils, changed them, and it ran perfectly for about two weeks. I started my car in the morning to warm it up (it ran for about 15 min), and I noticed that it was chugging (same symptoms before the ignition coil change). I jumped in it, pressed the gas and the engine made a wierd sound and it completely died. I tried restarting but it would not crank over. Now, it gives me a "steering wheel locked (in red)" error message.
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FUKUSHIMA – The government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. plan to start diverting the uncontaminated groundwater flowing into the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to the ocean as early as next month, officials said Friday.
The plan to pump up groundwater before it mingles with radiation-tainted water from the plant's damaged reactor buildings and release it into the sea was approved by local fishermen last month.
"The groundwater to be released at the very beginning will be analyzed thoroughly, for as long as about a month," said Toshihide Kasutani, a senior official at the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy.
After explaining the diversion plan to the concerned municipalities, the government and Tepco will pump up groundwater for a month of radiation checks, the officials said.
Kasutani made the comments after attending a meeting of the Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Association held in Iwaki.
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Bandcamp is more than a direct-to-fan storefront, we're a retail music destination in our own right. Fans have paid artists $229 million using Bandcamp, and $5.3 million in the last 30 days alone, much of that driven by our community and discovery features. If you've got your own store already, we certainly could be a replacement for it, but that decision should not stop you from creating a presence on Bandcamp and earning money here too.
By following the instructions here.
All the details are on our pricing page.
For transactions greater than or equal to $8.07, the transaction fee charged is 1.9% + $0.30 when your fan uses Paypal, and 2.2% + $0.30 when your fan uses a credit card. For smaller transactions (under $8.07) we minimize the fee for you by automatically switching to the payment processor's alternate rate of 5% + $0.05. For payouts into your account, the fee is 1% of the total payout amount. Fees may vary depending on geographic location or payment method.
For sales of physical merchandise (which are paid directly to your PayPal account, with some exceptions), PayPal's standard transaction fee is 2.9% + $0.30 USD. There are two ways you can lower that fee:
PayPal offers a micropayments rate of 5% + $0.05 per transaction, which ends up being a better deal if most of your physical merchandise transactions are $12 USD or less. You can sign up for micropayments at any time. There's nothing to do on Bandcamp; just contact PayPal Micropricing Support at 888-433-6829. You can switch back to the standard rate at any time by contacting PayPal.
Also, be aware that PayPal allows you to use only one rate at a time. After you switch a PayPal account to micropayments, all items sold via that account (through Bandcamp or elsewhere) will use the new rate. If you happen to sell a lot of items priced more than $12 USD, you'll notice the micropayments fee will be a bit higher than the standard fee.
Apply for merchant rate pricing. Depending on your monthly volume, PayPal's rate can be as low as 1.9% + $0.30 USD.
For artist subscriptions, Stripe's standard transaction fee is 2.9% + $0.30 USD. Fees may vary depending on geographic location.
It is your responsibility and solely your responsibility to remit the appropriate taxes to the appropriate taxing agency (with the exception of EU VAT on digital goods, explained below). We recommend that you consult your personal tax advisor regarding the best approach. For physical items, whether to charge tax through Bandcamp, and at what rate, is up to you. You can control this in the "Physical Goods" section of your artist Profile page. If you're in the U.S., we help by looking at the location specified on your Profile page and comparing it to the buyer's location. If taxes apply (e.g., you're both in the same state), we dynamically pull in the up-to-the-minute tax rate for the buyer's city/county.
Yes. The European Union requires online retailers to charge VAT on digital goods sold to buyers located within the EU. Bandcamp automatically determines your buyer's location and, when appropriate, adds the proper amount of tax to the transaction. We then remit the tax to the EU. more info on EU digital VAT
Sorry, no. No plans to add it in the future either.
You will not receive a PayPal receipt when a merchandise sale goes to Bandcamp to cover your revenue share balance (for more info, see our Pricing page). If you're selling physical goods and are used to only looking at PayPal to see who to send orders to, you'll need to change your routine up a bit. The best approach is to use your Merch Orders page (linked from your Tools page), but you can also rely on the email receipts you get from Bandcamp (or you can always just export your Sales Report, also linked to from your Tools page).
Please take what we're about to tell you with a grain of salt. Part of what makes Bandcamp Bandcamp is that you, not some corporate behemoth, set your own pricing. And that's really as it should be, since the most effective price just isn't the same for every artist, and you know your fans better than anyone. That said, we have the advantage of a metric crap-ton of data, and that data tells us a few things:
For digital albums of seven tracks or more, most artists will maximize their earnings by charging $7 USD. For EP-length albums (six tracks or fewer), $4 USD is the sweet spot. But again, there are exceptions, and if you're an established artist who has seen recent success charging $18 for your digital albums, go for it. However, in all cases, leaving "let fans pay more if they want" checked is key: fans pay more than the minimum a whopping 40% of the time, driving up the average price paid by nearly 50% (in fact, every day, we see überfans paying $50, $100, $200 for albums priced far lower).
While we have your attention, we would like to discourage you from doing one-penny-off pricing (e.g., $0.99, $9.99, $11.99). Though it may be an effective tactic for selling waterbeds, cell phone plans, and Angry Birds 34, when we see that sort of pricing on an artist's own website, we do not think "gosh, this is a good deal" but rather "what we previously thought was a person/band is actually a marketing department, and they're subtly telling us they think we're idiots." Present a straightforward price, let fans pay more if they want, and they'll reward you.
Of course! We compete by making Bandcamp the place you want to send your fans, not by making it the place you have to send them. Exclusivity is for the birds.
We're making this face. While a feature in the doomtronica section does sound super, ask yourself whether it more than makes up for the lost sales from fans who use other platforms, and if it's still interesting given that you get no customer data and forfeit 30% of each transaction. Now seems like a good time to point out that Sufjan Stevens casually released All Delighted People on Bandcamp on a Friday, sold 10,000 copies in a single weekend, and debuted at #9 on the Billboard Independent Chart before it was even posted to Behemoth, Leviathan, or Colossus, Inc.
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(Host) If you tell a child they have a good imagination, it's a
complement. But if you say the same thing to an adult, it's almost an
insult. Commentator Rich Nadworny has noticed a number of people trying
to change that dynamic.
(Nadworny) A few weeks back the Flynn Center in Burlington put on a panel about Imagination. The great performer and artist Laurie Anderson participated, while the panel itself was part of an ongoing series of Imagination conversations started by the Lincoln Center. One of its key goals was to recast the role of arts and imagination in education.
Moderator Jane Lindholm kicked off the panel by defining imagination as the capacity to conceive of what is not. The question the panel wrestled with was how to do that in business and education. It was a pretty hard question to answer.
Laurie Anderson had some good examples from her life. She talked about how, when she was little, she looked up to an art teacher who broke all of the school rules. Breaking rules and imagination seem to go together.
I recently attended the Cusp Conference in Chicago where the theme was "The Design of Everything." Needless to say, the presenters talked about imagination a lot. Another artist, Laurie Rosenwald talked about her own art, and how she tried to teach her students to always start from the wrong direction or to consciously take the wrong way. Her premise was that making mistakes on purpose actually helps imagination by not confining it to the "right" answers.
Another speaker was Van Phillips who lost his foot in a boating accident. Growing up as an active person, Van refused to accept the artificial foot he was given and told to accept, because it was painful and didn't allow him to do the things he loved. So he used his imagination to design a new foot to get his life back. Somehow, after studying diving boards and Cheetahs running he imagined a new prosthetic: The Cheetah Leg. Now people might compete at the Olympics using that fake leg.
The big question for me is this:
If we accept the idea that imagination is thinking of things that haven't existed before, how do we fit that into an educational system where we grade everyone on the basis of how many pre-determined answers they can produce? Imagination seems the opposite of what we're doing now.
At the Flynn some of the panelists admitted they had a hard time connecting the concept of imagination to their day jobs in the business, non-profit or education worlds.
Let's face it: today an adolescent or adult with too much imagination is often looked on as someone a little weird.
And that's probably the biggest roadblock for this initiative: Fear. We're human, so instinctively we fear the unknown. Yet imagination is the act of embracing that same unknown.
Here's the good news, though. All of the speakers I heard said exactly the same thing: You can teach people to be more imaginative. It's not a talent some people have and others don't. We all have it. But just like any other muscle, if we don't flex it, it atrophies.
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Boerner Botanical Gardens: Milwaukee Park Paradise
Since the sun finally decided to stop being a bratty teenage girl and grace us with its presence this past Friday I found it fitting to get out and enjoy the on-again weather. My initial plan was to travel around the zoo, but hitting snooze on my alarm clock after the late night out before deemed to be necessary and killed my arrangements. Since the zoo takes a good two to three hours (not including the train ride and carousel) I decided that I'd need to save it for another day. I was determined to get out and do something and not pass up the perfect weather, so I got on the computer and did a quick search of Milwaukee parks and stumbled upon a gem.
Secluded among winding pathways lined with dense forest lies a place Milwaukee area residents and visitors alike may not be familiar with. Boerner Botanical Gardens is truly a piece of Eden.
Located in Hales Corners (about a 20-minute drive from downtown) this Milwaukee park is a must see. From the moment I stepped out of the car to the moment I sadly departed, I was in awe. This beautiful place was so pleasant and breathtaking. Everyone from the staff to the spectators including myself were extremely happy. But then again, why wouldn't we be? Being surrounded by the sight and smell of wild flowers, viburnums, delphiniums and massive rose gardens will leave anyone feeling cheerful and in the best of spirits.
Boerner Botanical Gardens is home to hundreds of varieties of flowers as well as artfully pruned shrubbery and stone statues. The koi pond seemed an area of interest to other visitors as well as the rock garden and a wooden bridge that snaked around an area of the landscape. Different areas of the massive garden are used as hosts to weekend weddings and other events during the summer as well.
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The Semiautomatic Solution
In the Solomon Islands, an intercultural conflict explodes as rebels place the Prime Minister under house arrest
By PATTRICK SMELLIE
At either end of the bridge across Alligator Creek late last week, fighters in the front line of the Solomon Islands' messy civil strife were dug in. At the town end near Honiara airport was the Malaita Eagle Force (mef), a police-dominated militia with heavy weapons stolen from the police armory. They were facing members of the rag-tag Isatabu Freedom Movement (ifm), many barely in their teens, who were carrying home-made pipe guns.
Just days after the mef had backed former Finance Minister Andrew Nori in his June 5 coup against the government of reformist Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, a stalemate of sorts appeared to have been reached. In a nod to constitutional respectability, Nori has since allowed the Prime Minister to continue working under mef guard and tied Ulufa'alu's future to this Friday's no confidence vote in Parliament--the first allowed against the Alliance for Change government since it survived three such votes in quick succession in 1998.
Nori and his backers hope to replace Ulufa'alu, who the mef believes has been ineffective in stopping the ethnic cleansing of Malaita islanders from Guadalcanal island over the past 18 months. The mef's attacks are also revenge against the ifm forces, whose terror tactics of murder, torture, rape and village burning have driven some 20,000 Malaitans back to Malaita and into the capital, Honiara, on Guadalcanal. Since the purge began in October 1998, at least 60 people have been killed.
The future of this string of hundreds of islands between Papua New Guinea and Fiji, independent since 1978 and still defining its nationhood, now rests on how it deals with these ethnic tensions and its crippled economy. As in Fiji and West Papua, which added to the sudden surge in Melanesian instability by declaring independence from Indonesia last week, the issue underpinning the Solomons conflict is migration. The influx to Guadalcanal from all over the archipelago, but especially from neighboring Malaita, has fueled land disputes and resentment at the comparative success of the Malaitans.
In an effort to restore calm, Anglican Archbishop Ellison Pogo last week ordered the men of the church's Melanesian Brotherhood to split into two groups and meet with both rebel camps. A religious order whose high standing makes them a pivotal force for peace on the island, especially in the absence of an effective police force, the Brothers are based in ifm country. They travel unmolested despite their heroic efforts to protect Malaitans from ifm fighters during the terror campaigns.
The two [Anglican and Roman Catholic] archbishops and the Solomon Islands Christian Association have probably prevented civil war so far, says Amnesty International's South Pacific research director, Heinz Schurmann-Zeggel. But he adds that their success may also have lulled Australian and New Zealand peace negotiators into believing the situation was less volatile than the latest conflict shows. Now Archbishop Pogo wants limited foreign help to guard Honiara's fragile infrastructure. We have two petrol stations right in the center of town, he says. When they are blown up, that's the end of Honiara. It would be an act of national suicide.
Honiara's future as the capital is not assured, anyway. Established after World War II from the remains of an American air force base, the town of 45,000 is the country's biggest source of jobs, but it is now also effectively a Malaitan enclave. Ninety-nine point eight per cent of Guadalcanal is in the hands of Guadalcanal people--only Honiara is in the hands of the others, said European Parliament member and would-be mediator John Corrie after his plane was strafed as it prepared to leave the capital. I can't see that holding.
It was not clear whether last week's fighting would escalate as a Commonwealth ministerial mission headed to Honiara on June 10. Indiscriminate shelling of ifm areas by the mef from an Australian-supplied patrol boat seems not to have killed the 50 to 100 claimed, but it still represented a serious escalation of hostilities.
While the coup provoked comparisons with the recent one in Fiji, the greater influence on the Guadalcanal uprising is the decade-long independence struggle in Bougainville, says Pogo. Up to 9,000 Bougainvilleans fled to the Solomons during that fighting. Most settled on Guadalcanal and sympathized with the locals' resistance to migrants seeking work and land on their island.
Yet while ethnic tensions are at the heart of the conflict, there are other causes. Ulufa'alu was implementing an International Monetary Fund economic reform program whose measures upset powerful politicians and businessmen. Guadalcanalians were also angry that the government was selling its stake in the country's largest palm oil plantation, a major employer. Meanwhile, Malaitans were bearing the brunt of heavy cuts in the public service, as well as suffering ethnic purges. But the Solomons have never been a unified nation. The Western Province leans toward secession, and there are calls for a federal system to reflect the diversity of a country with 120 languages, where island of origin defines identity far more than national citizenship.
Amnesty's Schurmann-Zeggel warns the Solomons conflict is already more deadly than the coup in Fiji. The risk of people being killed in large numbers is far greater, he says. In Fiji, you have an army trying to create order. In the Solomons [where there is no army], police officers who have not joined the mef are reported to be staying at home or in hiding. There is no one to create order.


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Sure, you can sleep in on Labor Day.
Or you can get up early and do something you hardly ever have a chance to do - be a pedestrian on the Vincent Thomas Bridge.
The fourth annual Conquer the Bridge 5.3-mile run/walk is set to kick off at 8:05 a.m. Monday, taking participants on a rare trek - in both directions - across San Pedro's landmark span that ends on Terminal Island. | » Labor Day travel
The chance to walk or run across the bridge - which spans 185 feet over the water at the Port of Los Angeles - makes the Labor Day event one of the most popular runs in the area.
"You can see things from a different perspective" on foot, said Carla Baccio, who helps train participants through her San Pedro Fit group. "A lot of people in San Pedro drive that bridge every day and for once they get to walk across it and really see things.
"Last year, a lot of people stopped to take pictures," she said. "It's all about being there."
As a special incentive this year, racers can show their race numbers at the USS Iowa battleship on Monday and get half off the regular $18 admission price for a tour.
Last year's run drew more than 2,000 participants.
The bridge includes a significant incline. Record run times for the course stand at 32:37 for women and 28:10 for men.
Many sign up just for the view, Baccio said, although she added that some wind up embarking on a new fitness routine as a result of the experience.
San Pedro mom Andrea Stammreich said the experience was well worth it for her last year as a first-timer walking the bridge.
She joined up as part of a group from Holy Trinity Catholic Church in San Pedro to help raise funds for the family of a parishioner who had lapsed into a coma following childbirth.
"I was on the fence, but when it turned into a fundraiser for her I decided to sign up," Stammreich said.
"The view is amazing, it's really surreal," she said. "You could see for miles in all directions."
At the top, she said, "It was hard not to slow down. It was beautiful."
This year's run/walk will likely prompt more than a few reminders of film producer Tony Scott's Aug. 18 suicide jump from the bridge.
"A lot of people in San Pedro were touched by that," Baccio said.
A portion of the registration fees this year will go to the nonprofit LAPD Harbor Area Booster Club.
Today is the last day to preregister, but on-site registration will be accepted on the day of the race.
The bridge is set to reopen to vehicle traffic at 11 a.m.
Follow Donna Littlejohn on Twitter at http://twitter.com/donnalittlejohn
Want to go?
What: Conquer the Bridge, the fourth annual 5.3-mile race that takes runners and walkers across the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro.
Where: Participants meet on Harbor Boulevard at Fifth Street in San Pedro. The race heads east across the Vincent Thomas Bridge, loops around on Terminal Island, then returns westbound on the bridge. No baby strollers, dogs or skates allowed.
When: Preregistration ($40) open through today at www.active.com or through Road Runner Sports in Torrance. On-site registration the day of the race is $50, no credit cards accepted.
Packet pickup runs through Sunday at Road Runner Sports, 25359 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance.
Information: Hotline: 310-326-8530 (press 2); www.conquerthebridge.com/


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Colac Court records: on the other side of the world
Colac Court of Petty Sessions register 1849-1865.
In July 2010 Dawn Peel, historian from Colac, Victoria, Australia, was browsing the web and located an item of interest in the catalogue of the Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Dawn was intrigued at this item in their special collections. A copy of a few pages was provided to Dawn who soon realized the value of this item. It was a leather-bound journal with almost 250 pages for the period 1849-1865. Even more exciting – it was the first Court of Petty Sessions register for Colac.
Duke University purchased the register in 1961 from Berkelouw Books in Sydney to add to their British colonial special collection.
Dawn continued her communication with Duke University who were fascinated to hear from someone with so much local Colac knowledge from the other side of the world – so much so that they gave priority to digitizing the complete register and in November 2010 it was made available for free access on the web.
Mitch Fraas was the reference librarian at Duke University who received Dawn's initial enquiry and he has followed it through to the end. He documented the "saga" of the register and has kindly agreed to provide a copy – it's worth reading!
About the Register
This register dates back to the very early years of Colac – back to when the settlement developed around the holdings of Hugh Murray and his family. And the first magistrate in this journal? Hugh Murray of course.
The entire register covers the period 1849-1865 however the actual court proceedings are from 1849 to 1860. The pages for the years 1860-1865 contain court notes, affidavits and recognizances. The Court of Petty Sessions registers from 1860 are available at PROV – see other Colac court records below.
Making the Register more accessible
Dawn immediately notified members of the Geelong & District Historical Association whose instant reaction was "we have to index it".
The group downloaded the very large high resolution version of the register and put together a team with local knowledge and familiarity with transcribing old handwriting and court registers.
As the journal was free format with many cases not even starting at the beginning of a line, but part way through, a trial indexing run found that it was not so easy to pick out the names so a second trial run was done with transcribing the text in full. This ended up being much quicker and more accurate.
The transcribing team was Joan Davis, Pam Jennings, Dorothy Moore, Di Russell and Susie Zada. Any name or word that could not be transcribed or created uncertainty was highlighted for further checking. Each batch of transcribed pages was then sent to Dawn who had the most detailed knowledge of early Colac people and names. Dawn then added her corrections or suggestions.
Access the Register
Access to the register is completely free and the various components are available on different servers around the world!
On-line digital version
The full digital version produced by Duke University is available on the Internet Archives site. It can be viewed on-line and is also available for download.
IMPORTANT: Read the Page Numbers section below for further instructions.
Transcribed text version
The transcribed text version can be downloaded here. Surnames have been typed in capitals and line breaks have been inserted to separate individual cases.
Where a known name was spelt incorrectly in the original register, the correct name has been added in brackets and both versions included in the index.
Where we have not been able to decipher a name or word, it appears as [?] and is highlighted in yellow. If you know the name or word please let us know.
IMPORTANT: Read the Page Numbers section below for further instructions.
Index to the records
The index is included in the Geelong & District Potpourri database
A separate index for the register has not been produced as there are many other Colac names included in the Potpourri database which is a continually evolving database.
Entries for Magistrates and Clerks of Petty Sessions have only been included where they appear as part of court proceedings as there would be far too many entries for these individuals. Instead a single entry for each shows the range of years and page numbers in which they appeared.
IMPORTANT: Read the Page Numbers section below for further instructions.
Page Numbers
It is important to understand Page Numbers used in the digital copy, the transcribed version and the index.
In the transcribed version the PAGE NUMBERS appear in RED at the top of the start of each equivalent digital page. These are the same page numbers used in the index.
In the on-line digital version the corresponding page numbers are written in PENCIL in the top right hand corner of every second page.
If you have downloaded the digital copy in PDF format, the page numbers can be found in the same place as the on-line digital version or you can jump to the relevant page in Acrobat Reader by adding 2 to the page number [the PDF file includes the cover and inside cover, therefore page 1 is actually the third "page" in the PDF file.] There are an extra 3 pages inserted after page 302 therefore you will need to add 5 to the page number after page 203.
If you are having trouble finding the correct page number, just browse forward or back to find the correct page.
Colac at the time of this register
To gain an understanding of Colac at the time of this register, you will enjoy reading Dawn Peel's article 'Colac 1857: snapshot of a colonial settlement', in Provenance, no. 7, 2008 - the Journal of the Public Records Office of Victoria.
Some people in the register
The following biographies have been written by Dawn Peel unless otherwise stated. Photos have been provided courtesy of the Colac & District Historical Society.
MURRAY, Hugh
STODART, David
CALVERT, John
DENNIS, Alexander
MURRAY, Andrew
McCAIG, John
John McCaig is believed to have come to Colac early in the 1850s as an agent for Fred Champion, a Geelong storekeeper with a branch in Colac. McCaig soon opened his own store and became the postmaster in 1852. He was active in local affairs and could be seen as the leading Catholic layman, and generously supported their school building programme. McCaig was the Catholic representative on the local School board where he worked alongside Hugh Murray and John Calvert. A local committee to improve roads and drains had his support, as did the local Land League; he put himself forward as a candidate for the Legislative Assembly at a bye-election held in 1857, but was unsuccessful; the Roads Board of 1859 saw him as a member. His appointment as a magistrate was made in 1858, and he resigned the position in 1862 when he left Colac.
Clerks of Petty Sessions
FARRER, James Steadman
James Farrer was appointed Clerk of Courts in Colac during 1851 at the age of 22. He had migrated from England in 1849, with a letter of introduction to Governor La Trobe, which helped to obtain a position in the Melbourne Post Office. In 1854 he married Anne, the daughter of Larpent farmer Thomas Vaughan. His transfer to the position of Clerk of Courts in Buninyong was the result of his application for the position, claiming that he found the tyrannical manner of one of the magistrates intolerable. He subsequently left the government service, and after other ventures he purchased land at Modewarre, where he died at his home, West Bank, in 1910.
DUNDERDALE, George
Other Colac court records
Other Colac court records are available at the Victorian Archive Centre. These include:
- Court of Insolvency Court Records 1857-1870 VPRS 814
- Court of Petty Sessions Registers 1860-1949 VPRS 301
- Licensing Court Registers 1862-1952 VPRS 728
In December 2010 another early court record was located by Dawn Peel and transferred to Public Record Office Victoria. This series is:
- Court of Requests Day Book (1850 - 1857): Stock Book of Electoral Lists and Rolls (1859 - 1873) VPRS 16626
The future
We are waiting for permission to include a photograph of the old Court House in this Wiki. There may also be a few more biographies to be added.
In the meantime we all owe a special thank you to Dawn Peel for being the catalyst in making the Colac Court of Petty Sessions register 1849-1865 available for all to enjoy.


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THE ''Chook Whisperer'' helped Jamberoo Public School students celebrate World Environment Day on Thursday, June 5
Students took part in a 'Chook Workshop', whereby Jamberoo resident and 'Chook Whisperer' Deborah Gough taught the school's year 4 students everything they needed to know about chooks, and how to keep them healthy.
Teacher Justine Doorn-McCormack said students thoroughly enjoyed the day.
''It was amazing how many kids put up their hands to say they have chooks at home; it was more than half the class,'' she said.
''They'll take some of the things they were taught home.
''The kids loved seeing the different types of chooks as well.
''We have chooks here at the school, so we could look at how well our chook system works.''
Continuing the World Environment Day celebrations, Minnamurra Public School and Saints Peter and Paul Primary School were recently named the winners of Kiama Council's World Environment Day 2014 competition.
The schools won a free environment workshop with Take 3 co-founder Tim Silverwood.
Take 3 is a not-for-profit organisation, formed in 2009 to work to clean up the world's beaches.
The organisation's message is to take three pieces of rubbish with you when you leave the beach, waterway or… anywhere.
Students from year 5 will participate in the workshops on June 20.
Workshops will include presentations by Mr Silverwood and cover environmental issues such as waste, pollution, and marine conservation.
Council invited the municipality's five primary schools to take part in the competition by answering the questions, 'Why would your school like Tim Silverwood to visit?' and 'How would a visit from Tim Silverwood benefit your school's activities?'
Mr Silverwood will also feature at council's free World Environment Day community film night.
At 6pm on June 20 at The Pavilion, council will screen the film Trashed, featuring Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons.
The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Mr Silverwood.
The event is free, but bookings are needed for catering purposes and moviegoers are asked to bring a pre-loved book to donate to Lifeline's Big Book Fair Collection. To make a booking, contact council on 42320444.


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re: Re: st: CEM speed up.
"Ariel Linden. DrPH" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
re: Re: st: CEM speed up.
Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:55:03 -1000
To clarify, Austin's re-weighting code is an alternative approach to CEM,
and given your data, probably a better approach to consider.
If you choose to stay within -CEM- (findit cem), you will continue to have a
slow go at it since you've got so many observations. You didn't specify why
you chose to parcel mileage into those specific categories, but that may
slow things down a bit as well.
If at the end of the day all you want is the weights, I think you are better
off using Austin's logic to generate the weights and then run your outcome
model with those weights:
Y = x [pw=w], robust
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:11:30 -0500
From: Austin Nichols <email@example.com>
Subject: Re: st: CEM speed up.
Hemang <email@example.com> :
The logic is, divide conditioning variables into categories and then
reweight within categories by the nonparametric propensity score:
egen c=cut(mileage), at(25000,50000,75000,100000,150000)
egen p=mean(treated), by(c)
egen w=cond(treated,1/p,1/(1-p))
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Subramanian, Hemang
<firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> Hi Stata-list,
> I need help with speeding up the execution of CEM. I'm running coarsened
exact matching on about 1.8 million (rows) records. The command used is as
> My machine is a significantly powerful 32 Gig - 4 QuadCore processor
> I need the CEM generated weights to run my regressions to validate the
effect of treatment on my dependent variable.
> My command is follows:
> cem matchid(#0) mileage(25000 50000 75000 100000 150000) , tr(treated)
> matchid is a generated ID with about 1,50,000 values and is a
stratification variable.
> mileage is a discrete variable with a set of values from 0 to 900,000.
> treated is the treatment indicator with a value - ( 1 or 0)
> I am trying to obtain matches within each bucket (ie. matchid ) or
create strata within each matchid.
> The weights generated by Cem will further be used to deduce the causal
> I tried using the noimb which suppresses the L1 vector distance
calculations and it does help with smaller data.
> Can anyone suggest alternate ways to speeden up the command's execution
or ways by which I could split up the above query or point me to the logic
that does the weight calculation in CEM?.
> warm regards.
> Hemang C Subramanian
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I am going to try to mount my first turkey.The problem is there is a patch of feathers missing about 6 inches long and about 2 inches wide right behind the head down along the back of the neck. After carefully fleshing this neck area by hand the back of the neck skin looks a little tore up. Can this area be fixed or hidden? Any advice from you turkey pros would be appreciated. thanks.
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Feather replacement is very simple, as long as you have an extra skin. For any pose with this kind of damage, simply attatach your head and tuck skin the normal way and let dry in place. When dry cut out the damaged area and on your extra skin cut out the same area prefit and tuck around head as normal, using straight pins stretch it around the neck foam and pin in place, always cut replacement pieces a little longer and trim to fit. As far as hideing this area a strut pose would be best, using a severe strut head laid back a little more than normal.
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Research reveals significant link to melanoma
Fifty years of medical studies show that sun exposure is a primary component in the development of melanoma, the most serious and deadly type of skin cancer, report leading dermatologists in the April 2006 issue of Dermatology Surgery.
"Though genetics may play a role in the development of some melanomas, theres overwhelming evidence that shows sun exposure adversely affects patients both with and without genetic predisposition to melanoma," said Elisabeth K. Shim, M.D., an Associate Clinical Professor of Dermatology at Keck USC Medical School of Medicine in Los Angeles, CA.
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What is the mass of a proton? Scientists from Germany and Japan successfully did an important step towards the most exact knowledge of this fundamental constant. By means of precision measurements on a single proton, they could improve the precision by a factor of three and also correct the existing value.
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On October 7, Loewen allegedly told FBI Employee l that he was ready to go through with it.
But nobody seriously believes that these troops are ready to carry out the role assigned them.
"We laughed at Mexican jokes right on his porch," ready said of Pearce.
As those statements attest, Billy Sammeth is ready to be free of his past by putting it truly all behind him.
"I think the electorate is ready for a debate on international affairs," he said.
Then hitch them up as fast as you like, and put a good stock of feed in, while we go and get ready.
Yes, yes; come, I warrant him, if you will go in and be ready to receive him.
My ribs were ready to burst, but I could no longer get enough air into my chest.
Make haste down, Phoebe, to be ready to open the door for Mrs Rowland.
Papa said yesterday I must tell a story, and I have one all ready.
Old English ræde, geræde "prepared, ready," of a horse, "ready for riding," from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz "arranged" (cf. Old Frisian rede "ready," Middle Dutch gereit, Old High German reiti, Middle High German bereite, German bereit, Old Norse greiðr "ready, plain," Gothic garaiþs "ordered, arranged"), from PIE root *reidh- "to ride" (see ride (v.)). Lengthened in Middle English by change of ending. Ready-made first attested early 15c.; ready-to-wear is from 1890.
early 13c., "to administer;" c.1300, "to take aim;" mid-14c., "to prepare, make ready," from ready (adj.). Related: Readied; readying.
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Type of Document Dissertation Author dela Cruz, Albert Leo N. Author's Email Address firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-03072012-101759 Title Detection and Characterization of Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals (EPFRs) in Soils and Sediments from Superfund Sites Degree Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Department Chemistry Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dellinger, Barry Committee Chair Chen, Bin Committee Member Cook, Robert L. Committee Member Hall, Randall W. Committee Member Thibodeaux, Louis Dean's Representative Keywords
- EPFRs
- Persistent Free Radicals
- Soils and Sediments
- Radical Lifetimes
Date of Defense 2012-02-17 Availability restricted AbstractEnvironmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs) from combustion-generated PM have been demonstrated to form via reactions of molecular precursors with redox-active transition metals at 150-500C thermal reactions in a few seconds reaction times. While ambient temperatures are much lower, soils/sediments contain similar transition metals, and reaction times of contaminants in soils/sediments are years, rather than seconds. This questions whether EPFRs could be formed at ambient temperatures in soils/sediments from Superfund sites that are contaminated with hazardous materials.
Superfund soils contaminated with PCP from Georgia and Montana, and sediments contaminated with PAHs from Washington. Using EPR spectroscopy, EPFR concentrations and structural assignments were determined. Contaminated soils/sediments were ~30x, ~12x, ~2x higher than the background at the Georgia, Montana, and Washington sites, respectively. Conventional humic substances extraction procedures revealed ~90% of the EPFRs originated from clays/minerals/humins fraction. Similarity of EPR signals in the Georgia and Montana PCP contaminated soils were observed (g = 2.00300 and ΔHp-p = 6.0 G), whereas, signals in the Washington sediments were similar to other PAH contaminated soils (g = 2.00270 and ΔHp-p = 9.0G). Several methods of analyses (Total Carbon Content, GC-MS, ICP-AES, Vapor and gas/liquid phase dosing) confirm pentachlorophenoxyl EPFR. Chemisorption and electron transfer from PCP or PAHs to transition metals and other electron sinks in soil are indicated for EPFRs formation.
Low temperature thermal treatment of PCP contaminated soil in an open type heating system indicated the formation of a more oxygen-centered structure of the pentachlorophenoxyl radical or new, similar radicals. Both type of heating system, open and closed, demonstrated an EPFR concentrations that peaked at ~10 x 10E+18 spins/g of soil at ~75-100C, with lifetimes of 2 – 24 days at room temperature in ambient air indicating persistency in the environment.
Discovery of EPFRs formed in PCP contaminated soils indicates that EPFRs are not only confined to combustion-generated particles. Studies on EPFR similar to pentachlorophenoxyl cause cardiopulmonary dysfunctions via induction of oxidative stress. The existence of potentially toxic EPFRs questions the long held belief that sorption of an organic pollutant to a soil matrix is a method of mitigating its environmental impact.
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Ford City edges Freeport in extra innings
In a game in which both teams missed plenty of chances, an opportunistic sprint from third made the difference.
Anthony Falsetti scored from third when an infield fly rule out off the bat of Mike Fennell hit the ground, giving Ford City a 5-4 nine-inning Section 3-AA win over visiting Freeport on Wednesday.
The play was an appropriate ending for a game that featured eight errors, including one that put Falsetti on base in the ninth, as well as mental mistakes by the Sabers (2-4, 2-2) and 12 runners left on base by the Yellowjackets (4-4, 4-1).
"We gave them help with our errors early, and they gave it away to us late in the game," Ford City coach Dennis Montgomery said. "It's a big win for us because it's so early in the season, and we didn't play well against Freeport the first time. It's a good win for us to steal against a team that we think will end up winning 10 or 11 games (in section) this year."
The Sabers twice had to rally to extend the game. After Ford City fell behind 2-1 in the second inning, Fennell tied the game in the bottom of the sixth when a throw to third skipped into the outfield and allowed him to score.
Freeport then took a 4-2 lead in the eighth on RBI singles by Justin Brestensky and Matt Swartz, but the Sabers got back in it by getting aggressive on the base paths.
Noah Nulph hit an RBI groundout to short that scored Fennell, but Ashton McGinnis took off from second on the throw to first.
The throw back across the diamond couldn't be handled at third and skipped out of play, which allowed McGinnis to walk home for the tying run.
"I think it was deflating for all of us that we let them back into it (in the eighth)," Freeport coach Chris Graczyk said. "We gave it away to them, and we also didn't take advantage of our chances.
"We had guys on base in almost every inning, but their kid pitched a nice game to get them out of trouble."
Caleb Zablocki struck out eight and allowed four runs — two earned — for the Sabers before Blake Bower came on in relief and got the win with a 1-2-3 top of the ninth.
"Caleb threw a monster game, and he really sucked it up for us out there," Montgomery said. "He's not a guy that's going to go out there and strike out 10 guys every start with a big fastball, but he's improved every year for us, and he's starting to throw like a No. 1 pitcher."
Nathan Pastorek struck out nine and allowed one unearned run in five innings for Freeport, and he left the game in line for the win. Matt Van Tine allowed three runs over the next three innings, and Hunter Fennell took the loss in the ninth for Freeport, but both of Ford City's tying runs and the winning run were unearned.
The fielding mistakes weren't limited to the Yellowjackets, however. McGinnis gave Ford City a 1-0 lead with an RBI double in the first inning, but he also allowed Freeport to get its lead in the second.
Josh Beale tied the game with an RBI single for Freeport, but with runners on first and second, Ford City could have had the second out with a runner caught leading too far off first base.
Rather than throwing to third and trapping Beale, the lead runner, McGinnis threw to second, which let Beale reach third and later score on an error.
"We let the lead runner get to third, and he comes around and scores. We're not a great offensive team, so we can't make those mental mistakes. We practice that, and our kids know better than than," Montgomery said.
The mistakes ended up not costing the Sabers, who picked up a big section win and put themselves in position to contend for the third playoff spot in the muddled Section 3-AA standings.
Despite taking their first section loss, Freeport held on to first place in the section because of another unpredictable result on the same day: a 9-7 Deer Lakes loss to previously winless Burrell.
"The section is a mess right now, and we'll have to see what happens," Graczyk said. "I think a lot of it is because of the weather keeping us off the field so much. We've got another game tomorrow, so hopefully we can bounce back and get that one."
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Espino, Aeros throw one-hitter
Indians farmhand ties franchise record with 23rd win
By Ashley Marshall / Special to MLB.com | April 23, 2013 6:21 PM ET
It was such an innocuous change, something most people at Canal Park probably failed to notice and something that definitely won't show up in the box score. But it proved to be the difference for Indians farmhand Paolo Espino on Tuesday evening.
After taking the mound before every inning, Espino locked in. Rather than just toss his warmup pitches to catcher Jeremy Lucas, the 26-year-old right-hander pitched as he would in the game itself.
For Espino, it was all about getting in a rhythm.
Espino carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning as the Double-A Akron Aeros one-hit the visiting Trenton Thunder, 7-1.
The native of Panama, who's spent parts of the last five seasons in the Eastern League, recorded his 23rd win as a member of the Aeros to tie the franchise record set by Jamie Brown from 1998-2002.
"I definitely think my preparation in between innings was different," said Espino, who threw 57 of 98 pitches for strikes. "Normally, I'd just go out there and throw toward the strike zone looking for my command, but tonight I was also using a little more effort to get back into a rhythm.
"This was one of those days when I felt good. My fastball was coming out well and my off-speed pitches were really good. I was using my changeup a lot because they had a lot of lefties in the lineup. For the righties, I was throwing more fastballs and curveballs late in the count."
Perfect through four innings, Espino walked Kyle Roller and Slade Heathcott in the fifth, but he struck out Kevin Mahoney and got Ali Castillo to fly out to keep the no-hitter intact.
Espino retired the side in order in the sixth, but Roller laced a one-out double down the left-field line in the seventh. Heathcott followed with a sacrifice fly to score Tyler Austin, who had drawn a leadoff walk.
"The entire game, I was pitching [Roller] outside," Espino said. "I should have thrown a slider or something in, but I threw a fastball away. It was still a pretty good pitch, but you have to give him credit. He stayed on it and drove it that way."
Kyle Landis replaced Espino and carried the one-hitter through the eighth before Bryan Price pitched a perfect ninth.
"He was on a pitch count," Aeros pitching coach Greg Hibbard said of Espino. "While he had the no-hitter going, we were going to let him go as far as he could -- within reason. After he gave up a hit, there was no reason to stretch him out any further.
"He had a solid four-pitch mix and everything was clicking. His curveball was efficient and he threw some quality sliders to get swing and misses. His changeup was useful against left-handed hitters, and with his fastball he had good stuff to attack both left- and right-handed hitters."
Espino (1-0) and lowered his ERA to 3.86 through four starts. He surrendered eight runs on 21 hits over 14 1/3 innings in his previous three appearances.
Akron staked its starter to a quick lead as Chun Chen and Quincy Latimore delivered RBI single in the bottom of the first. Chen singled in another run in the third and Ronny Rodriguez and Jose Ramirez extended the Aeros' lead to 6-0 with RBI singles in the sixth.
Trenton starter Matt Tracy (1-2) surrendered five runs on 10 hits and two walks while striking out two batters over 5 1/3 innings.
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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 04:16 PM
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When Boehner loses his cool (he attacks the President for standing up for the middle class)
When Boehner loses his cool
By Steve Benen
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) appeared on Fox News Radio this afternoon, and apparently had a little trouble keeping his composure.
The Republican leader was asked about President Obama's recent comments that he believes in an economy the works "from the middle class out," not "from the top down." This apparently sent Boehner over the edge.
"Sometimes I have to catch my breath and slow down because the rhetoric in this campaign is just so over the top. And that's because the president's policies have failed. Listen -- 93% of Americans believe they're a part of the middle class. That's why you hear the president talk about the middle class every day, because he's talking to 93% of the American people. But the president has never created a job. He's never even had a real job for Christ's sake."
I can't help but love the contrast between the first sentence in that paragraph and the last.
For the record, Obama has been an attorney, a community organizer working with churches in communities hit by factory closings, a law professor, a state lawmaker, a federal lawmaker, and the president of the United States during a time of multiple crises. I'm curious, which of these jobs does Boehner consider fake?
I'm also struck by the notion that Boehner thinks Obama is too focused on the middle class -- a complaint Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) also levied last week. Since when did Republicans decide "talking about the middle class every day" is a bad thing?
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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 04:21 PM
Wait Wut (8,492 posts)
1. I can't get to the link from work, so tell me...
...while he was on his little rant, did he stomp his feet, stick out his lip and then run to the corner and suck his thumb?
Boehner wouldn't know middle class if it shit on his head, which it will do soon.
Kick now, rec later!!!
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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 04:28 PM
DocMac (1,628 posts)
2. So, 93% of Americans believe they are middle class?
They better think again.
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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 04:30 PM
Angry Dragon (29,733 posts)
3. What jobs has boner had and how many jobs has he created??
Response to Angry Dragon (Reply #3)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 04:35 PM
LiberalAndProud (12,799 posts)
5. Packaging and plastics.
Imagine that.
Shortly after his graduation in 1977, Boehner accepted a position with Nucite Sales, a small sales business in the packaging and plastics industry. He was steadily promoted and eventually became president of the firm, resigning in 1990 when he was elected to Congress.[4]
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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 04:30 PM
DCKit (18,541 posts)
4. He's more terrified of the Teahadii than he's ever been of the Dems.
We need to relieve him of that threat, and his position as speaker.
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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 05:12 PM
appal_jack (3,274 posts)
6. "For Christ's sake," Boner?
Taking the Lord's name in vain now, are we, oh Orange one?
Besides, wasn't Jesus Christ a brown-skinned community organizer who was a gadfly toward the rich, and favored universal healthcare? He certainly was not a fake-tan, oompah-loompah, apologist for the wealthy & mighty, you miserable bronzed excuse for a human being...
Methinks the flaccid orange Bonehead has misspoke.


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I had a restalyne injections into my upper lip,(mostly), and the corners of my bottom lip, and into the nasolabial folds. The technician had a very heavy hand and I swelled up terribly. To the point where I thought my upper lip was going to burst open.
It has been 4 days, (today is tue, had it done last fri), the swelling has gone down, however, I have that duck look on the top lip, or kinda like a cat, its very awful looking. I have been hiding out. Called off work. Can hardly look my boyfriend in the face. I want it gone.
So I have been reading here on realself, about hyaluronidase to dissolve the restalyne. But what im finding is mostly stories about the eye, not the lip. Has anybody had any success with dissolving restalyne from the lip.
By the way I have contacted a Doctor from this website, and have an appt. tomorrow. However, I dont want to make things worse, and would like to hear your stories of how it affected your lip.
My fear is, after reading all the comments on the hyaluronidase, that it may cause more damage to my face, or look. I want to correct this, I dont think I can go into work in 2 days looking like this.