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How much was post-options? How much was hope about averting the fiscal cliff? Or how much was performance anxiety because last week at this time so many hedge funds decided they couldn't take the losses anymore and had to preserve whatever gains they could muster?
I think the latter played a key role. We were most certainly oversold Friday and this bounce continued nicely today. I just think that with this being a seasonably strong week and with the president calling business leaders to ask for their help you have a scenario that could develop where the hedge funds miss an opportunity to finish up mid-teens, something that they can't do if they are already on the sidelines.
I could see some of the money go into the banks simply because there aren't a lot of gains to be taken so the capital gains issue is off the table with the group. I saw some buying in tech that seemed similar. It was almost perfunctory, as in, "well, I guess I have to play a little so give me something that doesn't have a lot of gains in it that won't disappoint."
To me, this one felt that it might have some legs IF we just get one Republican, just one, of any prominence, saying "there might be more common ground than we thought." We get one person to switch direction, which has been real hard to get, then we have something that will allow us to continue. Without it we refocus on the cliff and on Europe, where France was downgraded.
There needs to be continuous momentum here, or else, frankly. Every day that we DON'T hear something good will be a day when we give up some of today's gains. It is that unsustainable without help from Washington because it is Washington that's put the lid on this market's price-to-earnings multiples.

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Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the situation of living with the love of his life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from deskbound civil servant in Oxford to part-time washer-upper in Soho, he finds that critical reception for his epic novel, Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland, is not quite as he might have hoped.
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"Adrian Mole really is a brilliant comic creation." (The Times)
"Enormously funny." (Sunday Telegraph)
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"Just my luck"
The narrator IS Adrian Mole. So many funny moments. It never gets boring, you can blink and miss hilarious sentences.
"An adult laughing-out-loud classic"
In order to understand why this book is so fantastic you need to understand that the third-book in this series is NOT on Audible. So this is actually book four.
Adrian is now no longer a teen, but aged 24. He is no longer a victim of school-abuse since he now works in Oxford. You will get all you wanted as a teen and more in this fantastic but not-safe for work or Children audiobook. All the people you have grown to love d ors appear. It is as if a veil has been lifted regarding his whole family background. It is a cheer on all us weird people, you know those who never understand you nor your talent?
This book is for: The dreamers, the wannabe's the nerds and those who dare laugh at any of this categories. This will lift you up higher than before!
When Adrian got a note in the end.
Adrian after an episode in Soho(London) He could have turned hysterical, but did not.
Yes: It has made me laugh and look at life( I wrote laugh instead of life furst, which says it all.) Very funny, yet deeper than most youth fiction.
Be aware: R-rated language does occur.
"Still funny, but prolonged adolescence"
Adrian is older, but definitely not any wiser. His powers of unintended self-sabotage are almost magical. While the book is very funny, one would expect Adrian to have matured somewhat by now. He loses his girlfriend, his job, and his apartment. And he's just getting warmed up! He could give Eeyore lessons in bad luck. But he has marvelous powers of resilience, and he gets back up and moves onward. Adrian is a man now, and eventually some of the losses he faces are more painful and lasting than the usual teenage frustrations. Also, as Adrian is considerably older, his poetry takes on a more adult tone. I was listening to this at work and started blushing!
While this was enjoyable, it just wasn't as laugh-out-loud funny as the first two books. That said, I'll still be getting the next in the series.
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Editor's note: Mel Wenger is a veterinarian and co-owner of the Orrville Veterinary Clinic, Inc., a seven-doctor mixed animal practice in Orrville, Ohio.
I was recently asked to look at group of young heifers that were housed on a nearby farm, away from the main dairy, with a complaint of not looking good and coughing.
Because this was one of my well-managed dairy farms, I was surprised to find the heifers standing in sloppy conditions, breathing air so strong with ammonia that I could barely breathe, and with little air movement on a very hot day. And sure enough, the calves were coughing and not looking so good. These calves had left the main dairy a month or so earlier in good shape, growing well, and on their way to a proper breeding weight by 13 to 14 months. But with these conditions, they would not be making it.
It is during these 10 to 12 months — between weaning and breeding — which are often the forgotten months in the heifer's life. These heifers are relatively easy to care for and have few health concerns when properly cared for. But things can go wrong.
3 areas to watch
There are three main management areas that are easily forgotten or overlooked that significantly affect the livelihood of this age group of heifers. Nutrition, environment, and parasites all need to be carefully monitored to prevent a setback to these heifers.
First of all, maintaining the nutritional status of the growing animal is critical to reaching breeding height and weight on time. Much attention has been given in recent years to the higher level of protein and energy in the milk replacer and starter grain of the newborn calf. These calves start out much more quickly and stay healthier as they reach weaning age. These calves are then grouped together and switched to a hay and grower grain diet as they prepare for the growing months. Unfortunately, with tight budgets combined with high hay and grain prices, the level of nutrition that these calves were started on is difficult to maintain, and they are often the first group of animals to be cut back on when it comes to grain and protein. In reality the feeding of these heifers is one of the greater expenses on a dairy farm. It is also a fact that this population of heifers is being squeezed in tighter spaces due to the disproportional increase in numbers by the use of sexed semen. These increased demands for space and feed are often unexpected or ignored. Whether pasture fed or in a pen, the nutrition is often not monitored nor is the condition of the animal watched as closely. As the energy and protein become limited, the heifers quickly slow their rate of growth and struggle to maintain their health. I often times see the switch to fermented feeds and poorer quality hay, ignoring what is best for the animal. As the level of nutrition decreases, the opportunity for other negative health issues increase.
Secondly, the environment must be maintained to provide a comfortable bed and quality air to breathe. Much like I mentioned in an earlier article if you are not willing to find a spot in the pen to lie down and breathe easily, it is not fit for the heifer either. Air movement is a must and fresh air needs to be constantly replacing stale air. Also the population of each pen needs to be controlled. Squeezing 20 heifers in a pen made for 15 does not work.
The third area to monitor in these heifers is parasites. These include internal parasites like worms and coccidia, external parasites like lice and mange, and environmental parasites like flies and ringworm. These can all be prevented with careful attention to a few details. Mostly keeping things clean and dry and maintaining a healthy animal will prevent parasite problems. As I have mentioned many times, it is easier to prevent these parasites from becoming problems than to allow them to affect the heifers and then try to treat them.
Monitor the in-between months
It is during these in-between months that the heifer is often times vaccinated to prepare for breeding and adulthood. It takes a healthy, growing heifer to properly receive and utilize the vaccines to build a stronger immunity. A healthy heifer in this stage of life will pay dividends in reaching breeding age in good shape with a strong immune system and few health treatment costs.
So, the next time you are checking on things, take a few extra minutes and check out the forgotten heifers to make sure they are properly cared for. A properly-cared-for heifer will be ready to move into the breeding pen at 13 to 14 months or earlier. Fewer treatment costs turn into more dollars to feed and care for this group of heifers.


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He was visiting family and friends in his hometown of Boston at the time. He underwent radiation treatment there to ease symptoms associated with the cancer, and returned Jan. 23 to Fort Wayne.
D'Arcy wanted to get back to the diocese he loved, those who worked with him said.
"He had a philosophy — once a bishop is named (to lead a diocese), he felt he should stay, even after he retires," said Vince LaBarbera, who retired about a year ago from the job as communications director of the diocese. "He was very attuned to this diocese."
What D'Arcy enjoyed most about his work as bishop was getting out among the people, said LaBarbera and Monsignor Robert Schulte, the vicar general of the diocese under D'Arcy and current Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades.
When D'Arcy said Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, he always stood at the back of the church after Mass to greet people as they departed, LaBarbera recalled.
D'Arcy also was very personable, and seemed to be much more comfortable and interested in being out among the people than many of the diocese's previous bishops, LaBarbera said.
"He would walk into a room, and it would seem like he knew everybody," LaBarbera said, adding that D'Arcy would go around greeting people. "Bishop D'Arcy was always amongst the people."
"He was very much a people person," said Schulte, who also serves as rector, or senior pastor, of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. "He enjoys talking to people."
People also found him easy to talk with, Schulte added.
"He liked to visit parishes," said Schulte, whose duties as vicar general involved being in charge of administrative matters for the bishop and diocese. D'Arcy got to know many people at the diocese's approximately 80 parishes.
He often talked about his parish visits in the weekly column he wrote in Today's Catholic, the weekly diocesan newspaper.
D'Arcy also faced a number of difficult decisions during his time as bishop.
Even before the priest sexual abuse scandal exploded in the United States about a decade ago, D'Arcy faced some similar reports here in the diocese.
He made dealing with them a priority.
He quickly removed more than one priest from ministry after investigating complaints, Schulte said.
D'Arcy also devoted substantial effort to strengthening the process for evaluating candidates for the priesthood. He reasoned that if weak candidates could be weeded out before being sent to seminary and later ordained, it would greatly reduce the abuse problems when the men carried out their ministry as priests.
When the national scandal broke, beginning in Boston in 2002, D'Arcy's name became known nationally because he was the only church leader in the Boston archdiocese to raise concerns in writing, in 1984, about the way a pedophile priest was shuffled from parish to parish rather than being dismissed.
D'Arcy, a Boston native, was an auxiliary bishop of the Lowell region at the time.
He was installed as bishop of the Fort Wayne-South Bend diocese on May 1, 1985.
For area Catholics, "He was seen as a good administrator and a person they could trust," Schulte noted.
When D'Arcy took a stand or made a major decision, it was a process, Schulte explained. He would consult widely for advice, pray over and consider the decision, and then decide, he said.
Other difficult decisions included closing and consolidating several parishes, including St. Paul, St. Andrew and St. Hyacinth parishes in Fort Wayne and the Benoit Academy school based at St. Henry parish.
"It was hard for him," Schulte said. "He knew people had an emotional attachment to their parishes. Yet, realistically, it made sense."
In the late 1990s, D'Arcy also led efforts to renovate the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in downtown Fort Wayne, in part to bring it more up to date with the way Mass is celebrated today. The Cathedral was dedicated Dec. 8, 1860.
"He felt it needed it," Schulte said. "There was a lot of opposition to that, a lot of fears," Schulte said. "He had to explain his rationale. I think he was very proud of the final product. He really enjoyed offering Mass at the Cathedral."
After his retirement as bishop, D'Arcy continued to celebrate Mass at 12:05 p.m. Fridays in the St. Mother Theodore Guerin Chapel adjacent to the Cathedral, Schulte said. He then would return at 4:30 p.m. to hear people's confessions.
D'Arcy was not afraid to take a stand, especially in the areas of preserving life, LaBarbera said.
If an inmate was executed in another state, D'Arcy would want to issue a statement outlining the church's opposition to the death penalty.
"It got to the point that, when something major happened, the media would call Bishop for a statement," LaBarbera said.
Though D'Arcy had a great relationship with students and faculty at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, he wasn't afraid to question its decisions.
That included publicly stating his disappointment when the university invited pro-choice President Obama to give the commencement address in May 2009.
D'Arcy joined students and others protesting the president's visit. But he did it in a peaceful way, holding a Mass at the same time as the graduation ceremony, LaBarbera said.
D'Arcy also had an impact on the diocese in many other ways:
*D'Arcy started the diocese's weekly TV Mass, which airs Sunday mornings on local television as a ministry for shut-ins and those who are unable to attend Mass at a church, Schulte said.
"When he first got here, his mother was elderly, and he had a great concern for shut-ins," Schulte recalled.
D'Arcy also wanted local priests to be the ones celebrating the TV Masses so shut-ins would see their parish's priest once in a while, Schulte said.
*D'Arcy also was very concerned about the homeless, and helped start the Vincent House program for homeless families, Schulte said. The program since has expanded to become known as Vincent Village, and now helps many more families than was possible when it started.
*D'Arcy was very sensitive to the needs of immigrants settling in the diocese.
During D'Arcy's time as bishop, the Hispanic population increased dramatically in the diocese. He responded by establishing an office for Hispanic Ministries, Schulte said. Currently, about 15 of the approximately 80 parishes in the diocese offer at least one Mass a week in Spanish.
"His parents were immigrants from Ireland," Schulte said. "I think he had a real sensitivity to what it would be like to be an immigrant in a new country."
D'Arcy also could say Mass in Spanish, but usually did his homily in English, Schulte said. D'Arcy developed a basic command of Spanish because he learned to speak Italian, a related language, while studying for a doctorate in Rome as a young priest, Schulte said.
Early in his time as bishop, D'Arcy also learned about a sizable number of Vietnamese Catholics living near St. Patrick parish on South Harrison Street in Fort Wayne, Schulte said. D'Arcy arranged with a Holy Cross priest who was Vietnamese to celebrate Mass in the Vietnamese language at St. Patrick. A Mass still is offered there each Sunday in Vietnamese.
D'Arcy enjoyed ministry with children and young adults.
LaBarbera and Schulte believe he started the diocese's All Schools Mass, which, in this area, brings together students from all the Catholic schools in the Fort Wayne area each year for a Mass at Memorial Coliseum.
He also enjoyed working with young adults, and had experience in that ministry, Schulte said. Before being named bishop of this diocese, D'Arcy had worked in campus ministry and had led retreats for young people while in working in Boston.
As local bishop, he reached out to college students and faculty, such as the University of Notre Dame, St. Mary's College, and the University of Saint Francis, Schulte said.
D'Arcy also started the Annual Bishop's Appeal to help raise money for special needs around the diocese.
He also initiated efforts to work together with other faiths locally, LaBarbera said.
"He always was very happy to have dialogues between different faiths," LaBarbera said. "He was big on ecumenical things."
D'Arcy tried to focus on the beliefs the different faiths shared rather than on their differences, LaBarbera said. Under his leadership, the diocese started dialogues with members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America denominations, as well as the local Jewish community.
D'Arcy was a big sports fan, especially of his beloved Boston Red Sox. In his columns in the Today's Catholic newspaper, he often joked in the spring about waiting for a call-up from the Red Sox, and he kept readers updated on the team's successes or failures during the season.
He also was a regular at local Catholic high schools' teams' events, taking in a number of games and often attending pep rallies before a big state tournament game and at rallies held after a team won a major championship.
Along with all he did in diocese, the longevity of D'Arcy's ministry here as bishop — an unusually long tenure in the Catholic Church — was a great blessing, Schulte said.
"I think it created a whole sense of stability in the church (locally)," he said. "People kind of knew where the church stood. I think it helped create a deep sense of faith among the Catholics." D'Arcy tried to live that faith daily.
"He dedicated his life to serving Christ," Schulte said.
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Bishop Emeritus John M. D'ArcyBorn: Aug. 18, 1932, in Boston.
Ordained to priesthood in Boston: Feb. 2, 1957
Doctorate in Spiritual Theology from Angelicum, Rome: 1968
Ordained as Auxiliary Bishop for Boston: Feb. 14, 1975
Appointed Regional Bishop for Lowell Region, Archdiocese of Boston: July 21, 1981
Appointed Eighth Bishop of Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend: Feb. 26, 1985
Installed as bishop of Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend: May 1, 1985
Retired, named Bishop Emeritus, January 2010
Died: Feb. 3, 2013


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One woman's gag gift is another mother's treasure! While baby showers are a fun way to fete the expectant mama, they also help her load up on loot like practical baby necessities. Though most guests gravitate toward the basic and budget-friendly items on a mom-to-be's registry, others try to wow the crowd with the most outlandish gifts they come across. From garish clothing to utterly ridiculous items, we've rounded up some interesting selections.
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Welcome to Local 6 Theme World
February 5, 2014
Antojitos Opens at CityWalk
Universal's rapid CityWalk makeover is in high-gear. Tonight the first really big piece of the puzzle opens to guests: Antojitos Authentic Mexican Food.
Built on the site of the former Latin Quarter nightclub, Universal calls Antojitos colorful inside and out. Well, we can see above the outside is definitely eye-catching.
Featuring more than 200 different tequilas, Universal says Antojitos "takes diners on a journey through the cantinas, street carts and markets of Mexico City for craveable Mexican fare that is unlike any other."
The menu stresses fresh -- and there are two different experiences: Downstairs is more casual. and features carnitas al pastor tacos (made with beer and chile braised pork, grilled pineapple and guajillo salsa) and oaxaca enchiladas (chicken tinga and house made mole sauce, queso fresco and lime crema).
The upstairs is a more elegant experience. It's menu includes carne asada brava (coffee crusted ribeye with fire roasted vegetables) and menonita shrimp (bacon wrapped shrimp stuffed with menonita cheese.
There is also tableside-tossed guac, live entertainment - and coke products from Mexico (made with real sugar like it was done in the US before New Coke).
Antojitos is open nightly from 5 p.m. to midnight.
It is the second of 8 new eateries and entertainment options opening this year.
The first was the excellent Red Oven Pizza Bakery.
For more details on what is coming to CityWalk -- here's a link to a past Theme World entry, including my Red Oven Review.
Antojitos opens just days ahead of Universal's food and fun fest,
Mardi Gras kicks off February 8 with Daughtry taking the stage.
Here's a link to the complete list of acts.
SeaWorld's Bands, Brew and BBQ event continues this weekend as well.
Grammy-award winning country singer Gretchen Wilson is featured on Saturday (Feb 8) and hilarious comedy TV star Bill Engvall is the featured act on Sunday (Feb 9). Does he count as a band??
More from Theme World tomorrow.
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My spouse and I have been on vacation for a couple of weeks, and now our house needs cleaning. I don't know why. It was clean when we left and, nobody's been here to mess it up except for the tiny gnomes who live in the electrical outlets, and they always promise to tidy up after their raging parties.
But for some reason, everything's covered in a thick layer of dust that came out of thin air, as though Mother Earth herself picked the locks, slipped in and breathed some "nature" on everything. Any longer and it would have been like the movies where there's been some kind of apocalypse and no responsible humans are left to keep the weeds down, and the zombies can't even comb what's left of their own hair, much less steer a lawn mower in a straight line, so ivy and moss and all manner of flora start creeping over massive freeway structures and skyscrapers as our mother decides we've messed everything up and it's time to redecorate.
OK, my house wasn't that bad, but it was pretty danged dusty. I don't mind cleaning, but now I question whether I have been doing it right all these years, thanks to a recent figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Survey, which says women spend an average of 15.1 hours and men spend 9.6 hours per week on housework.
Getting down to Earth (Day)
What? 15.1 hours of cleaning? Per week? In one house? I dispute that. For one thing, the gender disparity is totally off. My husband does the dishes way more than I do — sure, he has this habit of letting them "soak," but then he'll dive in and make them sparkle faster than you can say, "It's Palmolive! You're soaking in it!" He also does the laundry often. And he cooks, too. And, well, now that this is in writing, I'm beginning to think I'm quite the slacker.
Anyway, there is no way either one of us has ever spent 15.1 hours a week in the history of weeks plus a month of Sundays cleaning this small one-bedroom place. Apparently the survey's definition of housework goes beyond mere cleaning and cooking to include "yard care; pet care; vehicle maintenance and repair; home maintenance, repair, decoration, and renovation; and household management and organizational activities (such as filling out paperwork, balancing a checkbook, or planning a party)."
Pretty much just walking in the door counts as housework. Good thing the gnomes do their share.
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A clean environment, inside and out, is, indeed, a good thing. After all, it's Earth Day on April 22, and we want to be nice to our Mother so she doesn't blanket us all in crabgrass, dichondra and ornamental grasses.
First, let me just say, I'm pro-Earth. It's a good place to live. I totally dig it, and I recently did so when repotting a lipstick-red begonia. The Earth is cool, despite global warming. It's a new piece of artwork every day — a misty Monet this morning, a starry Van Gogh last night. And it's mysterious. It could very well have a Tootsie Roll center, and the world may never know.
I knew Earth Day was coming because of the tsunami of news releases in the past week admonishing humans for things like climate change, freshwater depletion, overfishing, deforestation, air and water pollution. Fortunately, there are all sorts of things going on to mitigate these sins, such as the annual Alameda County Earth Day celebration at the Davis Street Resource Recovery Complex in San Leandro, where they're having a "sort off," with people racing to sort trash, recycling and compostables to win $125. There are news conferences about proposed legislation (AB220) encouraging people to buy electric and hybrid vehicles. Communities for a Better Environment is holding a "day of beautification" over the weekend in East Oakland, picking up trash and planting flowers and trees. And there's a "trashion" show at Sunol Glen School in Sunol.
For my part, I shall honor the day by cleaning my house. After all, my house is the environment in which I live, and I am part of humanity, and humanity is part of the Earth and, even if we were planted here by outer-space aliens, the aliens are part of the universe, and the universe is home to Earth, and Earth is home to my house, and my house is home to me, and I need to scrub the floors and air out the gnome holes. Or maybe I'll go on another vacation. Ah, circle of life.
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I have an expectation that without Danny at all this season we are a 5-8 seed that has a 35% chance of making it into the second round.
If Danny is limited even in the playoffs I say we are a 4-8 seed and a 65% chance of making it into the playoffs.
If Danny averages what he did last year going into the playoffs then I say we have a 65% chance of going into the ECF.
So if we make it into the ECFs I will be thrilled. I expect us to win the division, home court advantage in the opening round. And at the least make it a competitive 2nd round series.


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NEW YORK, October 2001 — As part of an inaugural season celebrating the opening of the new Asia Society and Museum, Asia Society, in collaboration with Museum of Chinese in the Americas and Music from China, will present a groundbreaking new opera, The Floating Box: A Story in Chinatown, with music by Jason Kao Hwang, libretto by Catherine Filloux, and direction by Jean Randich. Inspired by oral histories taken in New York's Chinatown, the opera is the culminating work of Hwang's three-year residency supported by a Meet the Composer/New Residencies grant.
Asia Society spoke with the group at Asia Society's New York office.
I want to start off talking about the origins of The Floating Box. How did this project begin and how did each of you become involved?
Jason Hwang: The opera was initiated by the Meet the Composer/New Residencies program. In New Residencies, a composer collaborates with partnership organizations to create works which impact that community. With Music From China, the Museum of Chinese in the Americas and Asia Society as the lead organizations, I worked in the community of New York City's Chinatown for three years. Education was an important component to the residency. Music From China and I worked with the 3rd graders of PS102 in conjunction with Asia Society's Annenberg program. I also led the Student Advisory Committee at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, a great group of high school kids, for one year. This opera is the culminating work of the residency. The opera began with the musical act of listening. To create music of the community, we listened to the community via oral histories. Catherine Filloux had written several plays about Cambodian people which were drawn from her experiences teaching ESL to immigrants in the Bronx. With her personal identification with the immigrant experience and ability to create original dramas from oral histories, Catherine was an ideal collaborator for this opera.
Catherine Filloux: Jason's interest was in doing oral histories of the community and then taking that oral history and distilling it into a fictitious story for the opera. Really it had a lot to do with our own stories: Jason's story being a Chinese American and to a certain degree, my work with oral histories in the Bronx with a group of Cambodian women that had fueled two plays that I had written. Also my experience as an immigrant having learned French as a first language and trying to integrate into American society as a child was relevant.
Jean, how did you get involved with The Floating Box?
Jean Randich: They were looking for a director and I came in for a couple of interviews. I had read the libretto and responded to the story of what is lost and what remains when a family journeys across oceans, languages, and decades. I described to Jason and Catherine the images that cropped up in my imagination. We spoke of scrims of projected images of family photos, dissolving into nothing, like the erhu swallowed by the sea [in The Floating Box] . I first came on as a dramaturg working on story development and editing. Then I staged a reading of the libretto with actors at New Dramatists.
Can you speak a little about the interviews you conducted in Chinatown in preparation for The Floating Box? What did you discover during these interviews that surprised you and how were they incorporated into the opera? Why was it important for you to include these personal histories in The Floating Box?
Jason Hwang: We were stunned by how many of the people we recorded shared their family's history with such emotion and honesty. The recordings became a medium through which they honored their past. The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown has given them voice by weaving elements of their lives into this original story. Catherine's mother is from Algeria and her father from France. There are many aspects of her life which bond her to the experiences of this community, to the characters in this opera. My parents arrived in the U.S. from Hunan in the 1940s. My wife's family arrived in NYC's Chinatown from Hong Kong in 1970 and still reside there.
The libretto was created in close collaboration with Catherine, and later, with director Jean Randich, who made invaluable contributions.
Catherine Filloux: Jason had a list of a group of people to interview that seemed carefully culled in the sense that they weren't just strangers. I think there must have been an initial trust factor that came from people knowing Jason and his wife Gennevieve. We were so surprised at the way people would sit down and start to share their incredibly deep emotions with us. There were so many themes that kept on coming back such as staying inside, not learning the language, providing for the children so that the next generation could have something that the generation before didn't, and those particular themes were so gut-wrenching. People would cry and really move us so that by the end of the oral histories that we heard we felt very privileged to have partaken in them. These experiences made me all the more interested in capturing the community that I was writing about.
Did you interview mostly older people?
Jason Hwang: It was a cross-section of the population. We mainly spoke to first or second generation [immigrants] who spoke English, but we also went to a senior citizen center and Susan Cheng from Music From China translated for us. Also concurrent with the 40 hours of oral history we recorded was my work with the high school kids at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas. We created a CD installation which included their personal poetry and oral histories — what went on in the playgrounds, in the classroom and after school — and we also recorded a song. They loved overdubbing vocals to rhythm tracks I composed. We did not draw from the [kids'] oral histories in [The Floating Box] story, but their CD certainly gave us another vivid perspective of the characters .
One of the themes of both the CD you recorded with the kids from the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas and The Floating Box is generational conflict, and how the differences between generations are further exacerbated by the immigration experience. Why was this an important issue for you to address?
Jason Hwang: It's common for young immigrants or for the American-born children of immigrants, like me, to know very little about the lives of our parents in China. Language, of course, is a huge wall. I don't speak Chinese. There were only two Chinese families in the town I grew up in, and during that era of the "melting pot," bilingual education was unheard of. My parents spoke excellent English, but it was a second language. My wife communicates to her parents only with her limited Cantonese. Generational differences and change are important themes.
Catherine Filloux: There's a sense of this "other place" with the older generation coming from somewhere else that immediately becomes something to push against emotionally. Sometimes I find a sense of having to respect parents in a way that makes it difficult to see who the real person behind that figurehead is. So those are two themes.


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Fairfax County will be deploying a team of five building inspectors to assist in the Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts in Mississippi. The team departed this morning and will meet up with other inspectors from the Northern Virginia region, which includes two members from the City of Manassas and three from Loudoun County.
The team will stage in Jackson, Miss., and will work in the Biloxi area for two weeks. Staff from the following jurisdictions and specialties are being deployed:
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Benathen Weisz, G. Zeeva (1999) Analysis of a journey : an exploration of one child's and one therapist's experience of individual drama therapy. Other thesis, Concordia University.
Benoit, Anne (1999) Approche des matériaux d'art en art-thérapie. Other thesis, Concordia University.
Benson, James Martin (1999) A Buberian analysis of the education of artists : student-teacher relationships in the undergraduate studio. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
Bye, Kristina (1999) The drama therapy database : a comprehensive and interactive bibliography. Other thesis, Concordia University.
Cormier, Brandie (1999) Attachment theory and art therapy : indications of attachment in the art therapy of two children with disruptive behavior disorders. Other thesis, Concordia University.
Crelinsten, Rohana (1999) Maori stereotypes, governmental policies and Maori art in museums today : a case study of the museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
Dolce, Sylvia (1999) The use of interactive guided imagery in an art therapy process with individuals affected by psychosomatic disturbances. Other thesis, Concordia University.
Durst, Adrienne (1999) Art therapy : three models of community-based mental health facilities. Other thesis, Concordia University.
Elliott, Stephen (1999) Words about pictures : an analysis of dialogue content and process in high school art-viewing sessions. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
Gattermann, Diane (1999) Using art therapy with aboriginal offenders. Other thesis, Concordia University.
Geoffroy, Marielle (1999) Posttraumatic play in art therapy : a case study exploring the ritual play process in the art making of a sexually abused child. Other thesis, Concordia University.
Grenier, Diane (1999) Le corps imaginaire et le corps réel dans la fibromyalgie. Other thesis, Concordia University.
Greto, Julie (1999) Delving into shadow : a study of reflective photographic image-making. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
Ilnicki, Diann (1999) Drawing on dreams : an art therapy contribution to group dream work. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
Klein Ritchie, Jeanette (1999) Children's perceptions of their personal collections in relation to their art museum experiences. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
Lachapelle, Richard (1999) Comparing the aesthetic responses of expert and non-expert viewers. Canadian Review of Art Education, 26 (1). pp. 6-21.
Lachapelle, Richard (1999) Educational and Research Applications of Video Technology in Support of Learning in the Museum. Canadian Review of Art Education, 26 (2). pp. 101-113.
Lachapelle, Richard (1999) Recension de "Les arts plastiques à l'école". Canadian Review of Art Education, 26 (2). pp. 139-142.
Lachapelle, Richard and Murray, Deborah (1999) Research Using Informant-Made Videos: Two Examples. In: Actes du Colloque sur la recherche en enseignement des arts visuels, Montréal 1998. CRÉA Éditions, Montreal, pp. 23-28. ISBN 2-9805677-1-X
Neufeld, Valérie (1999) The use of art therapy with children in hospitals : case study. Other thesis, Concordia University.
Roy, Frederique (1999) Understanding group process and the creative act : how do children see their world, and how do their interactions with others and with art media impact on the child's mediation of inner and outer experience. Other thesis, Concordia University.
Seewalt, Margaret (1999) (RE)visualization : a pedagogical journey through black and white photography. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
Sinkinson, Susan (1999) The self as "other" : accessing issues of difference in Trinh T. Minh-Ha's Reassemblage. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
Sokil, Lisa (1999) An ethnography of choice : active imagination in the service of self-directed change. Other thesis, Concordia University.
St-Amand, Carole (1999) L'imagination active dans un processus d'art-thérapie : une étude de cas. Other thesis, Concordia University.
Stone, Stephanie L (1999) From journals to production : a journey of self-discovery. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
Tardif, Nicole (1999) Créativité et art-thérapie. Other thesis, Concordia University.
Ward, Susan Heather (1999) Building a bridge : an exploration of the development of a relationship between a child diagnosed with autism and a drama therapist. Other thesis, Concordia University.


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What is an LPN?
LPN stands for licensed practical nurse, who has the responsibility of taking care of the sick, elderly and disabled people. They are usually under the direction of a registered nurses or physicians.
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Becoming An LPN in Wray GA 31798
To become an LPN in Wray GA 31798 you are usually required to take two years of training. The in Georgia Board of Nursing requires LPNs to take the NCLEX exam, and a good training program will prepare you for it.
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There has never been a better time to begin your journey as an LPN in Wray GA 31798. The salary of a NJ LPN averages at $51,270 annually – the highest of all the states. This is also expected to increase over the coming years. The highest salary for an LPN in Wray GA 31798 is a whopping $61,030 annually, so potential nurses can aspire to some good money if they choose this as a career path.
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Splashtop Launches Award-Winning FileHound iPhone App with File Transfer
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Splashtop Inc., the worldwide leader in cross-device computing, today released file transfer and breadcrumb navigation features for FileHound, an app to remotely access computer files from an iPhone and iPod touch. Designed for small screens, FileHound is the easiest way to list, search and navigate documents, photos, music and videos on a computer. FileHound is the winner of the About.com Readers Choice 2012 Best iPhone/iPod App and leverages Splashtops award-winning remote desktop technology.
With FileHound, users can now transfer files from a PC for viewing offline. Documents or content for personal entertainment, including movies, music, photos and videos, can be copied to your iPhone and accessed with iPhones native viewer or other compatible apps.
FileHound users can also connect to their PC desktop remotely to view files and use office applications, such as Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
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In addition to FileHounds new file transfer and breadcrumb navigation features, the app has the ability to:
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I'm in the process of moving from Berlin to New York and all the packing is making me feel like a robot. What I thought would take two days has become four and the work is all repetitive. If I only had my own robot to do this stuff for me. At least some of these songs are keeping my feet tapping.
"And she has a gay relationship with our television set." – Say Hi to Your Mom
For those interested the move will change me from renter to landlord and yes I will be building an all new studio! Stay tuned…
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Finding unique and beautiful antiques can be a fun way to spend the day in DC. There are plenty of options throughout the District, but finding the best bang for your buck can be the challenge. For the bargain shopper, that's part of the thrill! Check these shops out for some swanky digs.
To begin, take a gander at the whole slew of shops in Georgetown .
Susquehanna Antique Company – 3216 O St., NW
Random Harvest – 1313 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Cote Jardin Antiques – 3218 O St., NW
Flea markets are also a great resource. You may want to try:
Georgetown Flea Market – Sunday from 8am to 4pm at 1819 35th St., NW
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U.S. Department of State, served on International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda
Seeking Justice for 800,000 Victims
About five years ago, Barbara Mulvaney '80 reached an unexpected crossroads in her career, which compelled her to apply for an intriguing job posting she found on the Internet: The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal handling the Rwandan genocide was seeking a prosecutor.
Mulvaney had years of experience on her side. Shortly after graduating from Southwestern, she landed a job working for then-Florida State Attorney General Janet Reno. She went on to establish her own private practice in New Mexico, and also worked for that state's Attorney General's Office as well as the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office.
She prepared for the job interview in Arusha, Tanzania, by reading everything there was to know about Rwanda. "They don't generally hire Americans, but they said I was the best informed applicant they had ever met," she recalled.
Mulvaney became a key player in what is considered the most ambitious war crimes tribunal ever convened when she was assigned to prosecute Colonel Theoneste Bagosora, the accused mastermind of the Rwandan genocide. The tribunal was formed in response to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, after President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down, pushing the long-brewing conflict between the majority Hutus and the minority Tutsis past the boiling point. During the next three months, the Hutus embarked on a tremendous campaign of violence against the Tutsis. An estimated 800,000 were killed, including female Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
"Everyone back in the U.S. and all over the world saw it as chaos," Mulvaney said. "But it was not chaos. It was all planned." This became her mission - to prove that Bagosora, along with three other high-ranking military officials, orchestrated the massacre.
Each morning, Mulvaney meets with her team - which consists of just three other lawyers - to prepare for the court day ahead. She typically arrives at the office at 7a.m., and doesn't leave until 7 p.m. While she admits the experience has been trying, it is also clear that she relishes the intensive work.
In fact, it was the rigorous pace of Southwestern's SCALE program that attracted her to the law school in the first place. She praised the mix of conceptual learning and skills-oriented instruction she received in SCALE, and singled out Evidence as particularly crucial to her career.
Prosecuting Col. Bagosora and his alleged accomplices has been a roller coaster ride of highs and lows, with some history-making moments wedged in between. General Romeo Dallaire, who headed the UN Peacekeeping mission in Rwanda in 1993, took the stand and testified against Bagosora. "We're the only ones who had him testify," Mulvaney said proudly, adding "I'm hoping we'll have a judgment by spring 2007. It's just a real privilege to be part of [this historic tribunal]. We are there in a UN court holding these criminals accountable. No one has done that before."


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Black Friday's traditional start to the holiday shopping season is getting time-shifted like never before this year. Back to Monday, in fact, for at least one major outlet. That's when the Disney Store starts selling some Black Friday-priced merchandise online.
And Wal-Mart and Target are jumping into the Black Friday retail mosh pit within an hour of each other during prime time on Thanksgiving evening. "We're seeing kind of an evolution," said Paul Gainer, executive vice president of Global Disney Store, which refers to the day after Thanksgiving as Magical Friday. "I think the trend is changing where the holiday shopping season is starting earlier."
Not all shoppers are thrilled about hitting the stores with their bellies full of stuffing and their heads hazy with tryptophan.
The website blackfriday.com found that while retailers are rolling out deals earlier than ever, there is some blowback building among shoppers. Many of the site's 1.25 million Facebook followers have expressed unhappiness about the early Black Friday start.
"There is a lot of negative feedback about the early store openings," said Rob Woods, the company's marketing director. "This is kind of ruining the family event that is Thanksgiving dinner."
The early opening might be a sign retailers are worried about bad economic news later in the year so they want to capture sales now, he said.
A lot of the site's users plan to shop online and spend time with their family instead of wasting Thanksgiving standing in line at the store, he said.
That's the plan for Van Nuys resident David Levy. He won't go near a mall until well after Black Friday has passed.
"I don't shop over the holidays," Levy said. "It's the worst time to shop. I don't want to do that; there's too much stress and I don't like the crowds. I go after New Year's when the prices are right."
Other retailers starting Black Friday early include Sears, Toys R Us, and Kmart opening at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Kohl's and Best Buy are opening at midnight.
Retailers at Lakewood Center Mall, 500 Lakewood Boulevard, are preparing for the expected rush of shoppers looking to find the best deals.
Macy's in Lakewood Mall will open at midnight Thanksgiving night. It is the second straight year that the store has opened on Thanksgiving night.
"Black Friday is a day dedicated to finding the best deals," said Peter Sachse, Macy's chief stores officer. "For the first time last year, Macy's stores nationwide opened at midnight and our customers loved getting a head start on their holiday shopping."
Blackfriday.com offers this advice: "The online portions of black Friday sales start very early (12:01 a.m. to 6a.m.) on Thanksgiving day. You can get almost everything except a few doorbusters online so get everything you can online, then you can decide if it's worth lining up and fighting the crowds for the items you can't get online."
There are some other new trends this year, too, according to Woods.
Retailers are having multiple doorbuster sales that begin at different times.
More people will shop using their cellphones or iPads.
People who go to stores will use cellphones and iPads to shop the competition while standing in line.
Even mall operators are tapping into social media networks and technology to capture shopper traffic.
Alan Cohen, executive vice president at Westfield Group, which has 10 mall properties in the Los Angeles area, said the company is embracing smartphone technology.
Last year the company rolled out a product search app that responds to voice or text commands. A shopper in a Westfield mall can request a product search and will be sent a map with directions to the right retailer.
"We have a million Facebook followers, and it's worked out really well," Cohen said.
Retailers seem to be doing a better job of promoting Black Friday every year, and extending the timeline is just part of that, said Dr. David Tolin, founder and director of the Anxiety Disorders Center at The Institute of Living, and an adjunct associate professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine.
So this can be a dicey time for compulsive shoppers.
"Millions have been spent and teams of people have been dedicated to figuring out how to get money out of (our) wallets," Tolin said. "I like to think of myself as having self-control but it's going to be awfully hard for me to combat teams of experts and millions of dollars spent to separate me from my money."
He advises going out on Black Friday with a plan and a budget and sticking to them.
"People who tend to do well are the people who manage themselves well," he said. "The people who do less well are the people who wander around the mall looking for inspiration."
Black Friday has also gotten rougher over the years, too. For example, last year multiple shoppers got pepper-sprayed during a free-for-all at a Wal-Mart in Porter Ranch.
Wal-Mart spokesman Steven Restivo said that was an isolated incident.
"Obviously the safety of our customers and associates is always a top priority for us. We have prepared each of our 4,000 stores for Black Friday with a specific plan unique to each store to manage the crowds. We are confident our customers can look forward to a safe and enjoyable shopping experience at Wal-Mart," he said in an email.
Tolin's advice?
"I would say don't Mace anybody," he said.
The Black Friday experience is evolving, but it's not likely to vanish.
"There is no question that Black Friday is different, but it's not dead," said Kathy Grannis, spokeswoman for the National Retail Federation. "The tradition of Black Friday will never go away. It's been ingrained in our lives for too long."
For those participating in the Black Friday shopping frenzy - or for some stores, Black Thursday- some helpful apps that can eliminate some of the headaches and lead to the best sales.
Here are a few of the many that are available:
Black Friday by BradsDeals - A free download for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This app shows customers early Black Friday ads for major stores so shoppers can plan their stops ahead of time. In addition, it will continuously update with hot and handpicked Black Friday deals.
Black Friday by FatWallet - A free download for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This Black Friday deal finder provides a mobile search of all stores offering Black Friday sales. In addition, it will give the user the ability to save customized shopping lists from all major retailers' Black Friday ads.
Black Friday Ads - This iPhone app features a list of Black Friday stores and enables the user to make and manage Black Friday checklists.
ShopSavvy - A free download for Droid, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This app allows shoppers to scan any product to get the best local and online prices. It also allows shoppers to add credit card information, which will allow for immediate purchase with the swipe of a finger.
Dealmap - A free download for Droid, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The Dealmap is a deal-scouting app providing Black Friday sales closest to your location through local mapping, allowing shoppers to spend more time in the store than in the car.
Discount Calculator - A free Droid download that provides a calculator app that tells shoppers exactly what price they will pay for a discounted item. This app will even add the sales tax for the area you are shopping.
TGI Black Friday - A free download for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This app will show shoppers two different views - Popular Deals and Newest Ads - and allow the shopper to sort by store, category or even by product. The shopper can then email deals to themselves or add them to My List.
PriceGrabber - A free download for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This app will allow shoppers to comparison shop on their phones. The way it works: upload a picture of the barcode and then search by name or UPC and the app will provide information on the best, cheapest prices for both in store and shipping.
Amazon Mobile - A free download for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad will allow shoppers to quick search retail giant Amazon to see if there is a better deal on Amazon. It will also allow customers to read reviews or products.
Walmart My Holiday - A free download for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad that provides customers with the best deals at local Walmarts and allows customers to pick up items or have them shipped for free.
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Gregoire dismisses governor's race budget ideas
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire shot down the budget-balancing ideas of her potential successors Thursday, saying revenue must be considered in order to fully fund education.
Democrat Jay Inslee and Republican Rob McKenna both have said they believe state spending can be stabilized without any new taxes. But the state needs to find $1 billion in savings or cuts to properly balance the budget in the next biennium, along with another $1 billion to adequately fund education in response to a state Supreme Court ruling.
Gregoire said state government already has gone through plenty of cuts, noting staffing reductions in particular. She hasn't proposed any specific taxes but expects to include revenue options in a forthcoming budget proposal a budget that ultimately will be finalized by the next governor and Legislature.
"We just have to be honest with the public," Gregoire said.
McKenna and Inslee have proposed various ideas, including dependency on revenues that come with a growing economy. Here's a rundown of the specific budget-balancing proposals that Gregoire addressed in a meeting with reporters:
Lean management: Both candidates have mentioned "lean management" as a way to improve government efficiency, with Inslee repeatedly focusing on it as an opportunity. Gregoire noted she also has been working on "lean" and recently held a conference on the government transformation effort. But Gregoire said "lean" is mostly useful right now to help a depleted state workforce do the work with fewer resources, and she said there is little money to be saved by doing more of that efficiency work in the near-term.
"Right now, it's coping with the dramatic cuts," Gregoire said.
Health care costs: Both McKenna and Inslee have talked about restraining health care costs as a way to free up extra money. Gregoire agreed it's important work to do for the long-term, but she noted the challenges of changing the system are daunting, especially since it often requires coordination with the federal government.
For example, Gregoire has worked for two terms on the issue of limiting the bureaucracy for people who are eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare because the lack of coordination between the programs can lead to unnecessary hospital visits and other expenses. After working on the issue for years, Gregoire just earned a waiver from the federal government one of only two states to get it to work on an improved system in hopes of saving a mere $14 million over five years.
Tax breaks: Both candidates have talked about reassessing tax breaks for various industries. But Gregoire said she's been there, done that. She noted that efforts to end minor boards and commissions can be a challenge in the Legislature because there always are people who fight to save them, and that is only magnified when money is involved.
Repealing tax exemptions usually doesn't provide much extra cash, either.
Budget limits: McKenna has said he would like to cap non-education spending growth at 6 percent a year. Gregoire said that's not really realistic, because it might mean drastic measures like more prisoner releases or a decision by social services officials to stop accepting child abuse complaints.
"You need to understand as governor that you don't have that much discretion over your budget," Gregoire said.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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HSE705 - Exercise Physiology for Cardiopulmonary Disease
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This unit provides a thorough examination of the pathophysiological aspects, diagnosis and medical regimens and lifestyle management for a range of cardiopulmonary diseases. Through both theoretical and practical experiences, students develop their knowledge and skills to work effectively with patients with cardiopulmonary pathologies. This will enable students to provide clinical exercise services such as assessment of exercise capacity and individualised exercise prescription for clientele with cardiopulmonary pathologies.
Assessment task 1: Quizzes x 10 (15 minutes each week) 50%
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Public schools in Alameda, Oakland and San Leandro received $2.4 million in health care grants from President Obama's Affordable Care Act, according to a nonprofit that advocates on behalf of student health in California.
The East Bay grants are part of $14.3 million awarded to 31 school-based health centers across California, California School Health Centers Association announced Wednesday.
In Alameda, a $412,000 grant was awarded to Alameda Family Services for improvements at the clinic at Encinal High School. In Berkeley, $500,000 will go to Lifelong Medical Care to help it build a mobile dental clinic at Elmhurst Middle School in Oakland. Children's Hospital Oakland got $500,000 for an expansion of the Youth Uprising clinic at Castlemont High School and the Fred Finch Children's Home in Oakland received $500,000 to set up a student health center. In San Leandro, $500,000 goes to the school district for a new school-based health center at a site that has not been determined.
The grants are meant to improve access to primary, mental, and oral health care for students, and the health centers that received them provide the same kind of care available in doctors' offices or clinics, according to the association.
Doug Oakley covers Berkeley. Contact him at 510-843-1408. Follow him at Twitter.com/douglasoakley


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I'm guessing its about Manning's contract
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I'm guessing its about Manning's contract
They also released Hayden and re-signed Addai so im guessing they will talk about those as well.
It has to be something significant (I mean we already know about Manning/Hayden/Addai)
Unless Caldwell is getting the boot I can't think of a reason to even have a PC
It'll probably be another stupid press conference telling us stuff we already know.
1. We re-signed Peyton
2. Same with Addai
3. Now we have money
4. We won't spend it
5. Our defense is fine
6. Colts fans shake their heads because they know it's not fine
End press conference. That's how it usually works.
We have Tryon who was playing just as well if not better than Hayden, and we still have Kevin Thomas (3rd round pick last year) who missed last year due to injury.
We really still need a DT desperately. But we missed our chance on Amobi Okoye who I really wanted.
Ya i do like tryon and powers and lacey both have a lot of potential.. I forgot about Thomas.. Do you think hes any good? Never got to see him play, just remember watching youtube highlights of him when we drafted him.
I would like some more beef at the DL/LB position.
I'm not super thrilled about Lacey, but he's a decent spot corner.
I truly think that Powers is on his way to the pro-bowl very soon.
As for Thomas, I feel he's a much better Man to Man corner than he is in the Cover 2. That's where I worry a bit about him. If he can adjust to the Cover 2, he'll be very good. Insanely athletic and tall and has an excellent nose for the ball.
I highly doubt this will happened, but it would be awesome if they have a press conference for the incoming rookies. They weren't able to hold one for the rooks directly after the draft because of the lockout.


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Cedar Hill State Park Keeps Up with the Joneses Through Full-Service Campsites
CEDAR HILL — In 1854, when John Penn moved into the Cedar Mountains 20 miles southwest of a tiny new community called Dallas, using electricity to run a home was not even an idea, much less an option.
When the site of the Penn family farm became Cedar Hill State Park 137 years later, in 1991, visitors who came by the thousands in RVs were traveling in mobile homes dependent on plentiful electric power to energize their perfect camping experience. The park was ready for them with lots of 30-amp hook-ups, plenty of power for all their equipment.
But only 19 years later, most new RVs require 50 amps to get their occupants through the night with modern conveniences such as microwaves and satellite television. As one of the busiest parks in the Texas Parks and Wildlife system, with 275,000 visitors last year, Cedar Hill can't afford not to keep pace with the changes.
"We will be upgrading the electrical hook-ups from 30-amp to 50-amp in the Lakeview and Eagle Ford camping loops," says project manager Jeff Wurzbach, "and making them full-service loops by adding sewer service. They already have water."
Thanks to bond funding authorized by the Texas Legislature and approved by statewide voters, early this fall TPWD will be upgrading about 150 sites to 50-amp pedestals and sewer service. Also, in keeping with TPWD efforts statewide to make parks more accessible to all, Cedar Hill's headquarters building will be getting new restrooms that are Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant.
The approximately $3.5 million in upgrades at Cedar Hill puts another checkmark on a long list of major Texas State Parks rejuvenation projects underway this year, all aimed at keeping the parks fun, safe and customer friendly. Texas State Parks general obligation bonds have been sold to fund more than $44 million in repairs and renovations to park cabins, bathrooms, electrical and water systems, and other state park infrastructure. Along with fixing up more than 40 state parks, the bonds provide an additional $25 million to dry berth the Battleship Texas.
Along with fixing up more than 40 state parks, the bonds provide an additional $25 million to dry berth the Battleship Texas, taking the proud veteran of two World Wars out of the corrosive water of the Houston Ship Channel.
Cedar Hill is an extremely successful blend of Texas State Park getaway and near-urban location. Park Superintendent Mike Spradling compares it to Central Park for New York City.
Only 22 miles from downtown Dallas and 28 miles from Fort Worth, it is close enough for an after-work ride on its excellent bike trails or even a long picnic lunch break. The park has more than 200 picnic tables with grills, and three playgrounds. Harried Dallasites can make this quick escape in less than 30 minutes, if traffic cooperates.
But the 355 RV-ready campsites, all close to the shores of 7,500-acre Joe Pool Reservoir, attest to the many folks who consider Cedar Hill worthy of camping. In addition to electricity and water, each site has a fire ring and picnic table, and is near a bathroom and hot shower.
For those hardy campers willing to disdain "new-fangled" electricity, the park also offers 30 primitive sites.
Biking is another of the Cedar Hill's major attractions.
"We have Dallas Off-Road Biking Association trails," says Assistant Park Superintendent Joshua Choate. "DORBA built them in the early 1990s. We have cooperation from them and they do the majority of the maintaining.
"We have two hiking and biking trails. In addition to the five camping loops, we have three day use loops. We've got a full service marina."
Fishing also proves a big draw, and if you don't want to cast from a boat, there are several fishing piers and fish-cleaning stations along the shores of the 1,826-acre park.
Those who appreciate history will be delighted to find that the Penn Farm is still on site, in reconstructed and historic buildings. Daily self-guided tours honor Texas' long and noble farming heritage, and help modern-day folks, city dwellers and rural residents alike, learn about farm life of more than 150 years ago.
The photogenic Penn farm buildings are located in the south section of Cedar Hill State Park, close to the interestingly named Hog Wallow Camping area.
Despite its suburban location this is still an oasis of nature in a concrete-laden environment. Just witness the more than 200 species of birds that have found their way here to be added to the official park list. One of Texas most beautiful and popular birds, the painted bunting, is plentiful in Cedar Hill through most of the summer.
In the shadow of skyscrapers, Cedar Hill State Park offers a true year-round park experience to attract both traveling out-of-state campers and local day visitors.
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