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The Guardian of Liberalism
America, cigars and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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Schlesinger's wall holds only one picture--a portrait of the philosopher who still inspires him, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Visitors must talk over the piles of books sitting on his desk. Most were sent by publishers. Most look unopened. Schlesinger is busy writing his own book, his memoirs, but regrets that the most appropriate title is unavailable. "The best title for a memoir I know has already been taken by [English cultural critic] Malcolm Muggeridge--Chronicles of Wasted Time. As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Lost time can never be found.' "
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. is 77 years old and has authored 16 books. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, first in history in 1945 for The Age of Jackson, then 20 years later in biography for A Thousand Days, his portrait of the Kennedy admini tration. When he wasn't distracted by ephemera, Schlesinger found time to graduate Harvard and attend Cambridge, and he later became a Harvard junior fellow. He served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during the Second World War, then went back to Harvard as an associate, and later full professor. He was a member of Adlai Stevenson's campaign staff in 1956, then in 1960 he campaigned for John F. Kennedy, and served as a special assistant to the president in the Kennedy White House. In 1967, Schlesinger was appointed Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities at the City University of New York Graduate School.
What a slacker.
"The trouble with my life is I always found too many things enjoyable," Schlesinger explains in an almost hushed tone. Cigars are among those pleasures. "Anything I can get my hands on that's Cuban," he confides, and happily accepts three Cohiba Esplendidos from a visitor. They should last him a week.
"We're all smoking cigars less. Fidel's given it up. Art Buchwald's nearly given it up. I smoke sparingly, but I can't give it up," Schlesinger admits with a slight grin.
"Though cigars are safer than cigarettes, even with cigars you can overdo it. I asked Castro why he gave it up. First I noticed that he was not smoking as much as he used to. He would light a cigar and let it go out and sort of keep one cigar going for several hours of discussion." Schlesinger remembers saying to Castro, " 'I notice you don't seem to be smoking so much.' He said, 'That's the last thing I would give up for the Revolution.' But then he did give it up." At another meeting in Cuba, Schlesinger recalls saying, " 'You seem to have stopped smoking.' He said, 'Yes. This is my 87th day.' Or something like that. 'My doctors told me I was setting a bad example for the young.' "
Schlesinger's affection for Cuban products does not extend to the island's dictator. "I think [Castro is] a great performer. You get this wonderful cascade of propositions and arguments and exhortations and jokes and so on. The oddity is that this man who seemed to be the most flexible, enlightened and bright of the Communist leaders, now that Kim Il-Sung is gone, is the last Communist dinosaur. He's a rigid true believer."
"True believer" could describe Schlesinger as well. He is an unrepentant liberal; not just a Democrat, but a founder, in 1947, of Americans for Democratic Action. Ask him his philosophy and he will simply tell you that he is a "New Dealer." His father was a historian who, with his mother, was always involved in progressive social causes. Historian John Morton Blum refers to Schlesinger as a "Tory Democrat"--someone, traditionally of the upper class, who believes those in power have a responsibility to use it on behalf of the people. From his chosen perch at the epicenter of politics and public policy, Schlesinger's insights are powerful, and with the air of a human encylopedia, he can provide succinct analysis of the challenges the United States faces. Above all, Schlesinger believes strongly in "affirmative government" as the only realistic means by which the country can solve the big problems.
The biggest problem the country faces, in Schlesinger's opinion, is race. The talk these days of a "color-blind" America, an admirable goal, raises the volume in his voice. "The people who say we must have a color-blind America have not been notable in the past for their support of racial justice or civil rights or their personal relations with minorities," he says. "Most of the people who use that term aren't color-blind. I mean, there's a great residue of racism in the American soul. And when they begin themselves, in their person, to treat minorities as well as they treat their own, then I'll begin to believe in the possibilities of a color-blind America."
Yet Schlesinger has seen great progress in race relations in his lifetime. "Fifty years ago, Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma was published. If you read the account of race relations in that book, a great book, and see the contrast between that and today, it's extraordinary. You learn to appreciate it," he says. "If anyone told me 50 years ago that I would live to see a black man as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, black justices on the Supreme Court, a black governor of Virginia, for God's sake, black mayors of Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans, not to speak of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Seattle, Detroit and so on, I would have been incredulous. Yet this has happened, and it's not unusual that the more changes come, the more passionate the need is for further change."
The progress is not enough for Schlesinger. He also understands that it is not enough for those who suffer racial discrimination. Because he believes that affirmative government--the federal, big-government programs--helped to achieve that progress, he deplores the fact that those programs are now threatened. Schlesinger would describe it as tragic if affirmative action had to be around forever. But he thinks it is still needed, because if the country is to make progress on race issues, access to education and jobs is vital.
"My view of affirmative action, basically, is that it was absolutely necessary to break entrenched habits of employment, entrenched patterns in the labor market--you had to do something to change that. But I always assumed it was a transitional device. I never believed that it should be a permanent feature of the labor market. It seems to me that the test of when it stops being vital depends on the attitude toward it of those whom it's designed to help. In other words, when minorities who benefit from it begin to feel that it creates more problems than it does benefits, then it seems to me you've got to begin to phase it out."
Another hot button issue today with Schlesinger is the stripping of federal power by a Congress that wants to return that power to the states. Schlesinger suggests that, before reducing its power, we recall why the country established a strong national authority.
"If the states' rights philosophy had prevailed, we'd still have slavery in this country," he says. "I think it's an illusion to think that the government closer to the people is more responsive to the people. Government closer to the people is more responsive to the larger interests in that locality or state. That's why the role of the national government has been to help those who are oppressed or excluded in their own localities. Most of the progress in making this a more decent country has come through the national government, not through local government. Local government is the government of the local oligarchy."
Schlesinger argues that despite the lapses of the national government, it is self-deluding to believe that power taken from the federal government will end up anywhere but in the hands of corporations. He adds that the only balance to "private and unaccountable" economic power is the power of the national government.
"The free market is not going to rebuild the infrastructure of the country," Schlesinger argues with an "any fool would know that" tone. "It's not going to provide adequate health care. It's not going to protect the environment. It's not going to improve our schools. None of these things are going to be done by the untrammeled free market. And the whole effort to destroy so many of the protections of the consumer and of the worker which is now going on--this dismantling of the structure that Franklin Roosevelt and Jack Kennedy and Truman and Johnson erected--is going to make matters worse. So I think there's going to be a recoil against this and I think it'll take place by '96."
That recoil, of course, depends on the American voter agreeing with Schlesinger's view that the Republican efforts in Congress are dangerous because they ignore many of the basic reasons for the problems the country faces. Schlesinger blames the public's anxiety for its general opposition to government, while at the same time supporting the services that government provides.
"I think we're passing through great structural change in this country as fundamental as the industrial revolution," says the historian. "We went from a society based on industry to one based on the microchip, and this is going to bring in its wake all sorts of changes, structural changes, in the patterns of employment. It will probably bring more 'disemployment' than employment, unlike the industrial revolution. And the fear of unemployment, and so on, will become a much more intimate fear for the middle class. The middle class has regarded personal economic insecurity with complacency so long as it was confined to the working class, the blue-collar workers. But now it's affecting them. Downsizing, the popular euphemism, is hitting middle managers--people in their 40s and 50s and so on.
"There's panic in the suburbs these days. And they're mad. The middle class is mad. They were mad at Bush in '92 and beat him. They were mad at Clinton in '94 and humiliated him. And Gingrich was the beneficiary of that. They'll be mad at Gingrich in '96 because there's nothing in the 'Contract on America,' 'Contract for America,' 'Contract with America,' that's going to meet the basic troubles. So I think that the government is a convenient scapegoat, because government up to this point hasn't met these troubles. But the notion that the reduction in government and that the free market, the untrammeled free market, is going to meet these problems is ridiculous."
Schlesinger calls Gingrich and the Republican majority in Congress "the wrecking crew." Of the speaker he observes, "He's a historian, I regret to say. Or history teacher--never got tenure. They made a great mistake," Schlesinger muses of the college that could have made Gingrich a career academic. "I think Newt is bound to overreach. He's an intelligent fellow, I guess, and he must know he ought to control himself and not come up with dogmatic pronouncements about everything under the sun, but he can't resist it."
Arthur Schlesinger the political activist played no small part in constructing many of the programs that the Gingrich gang is attacking today. He grew up during the Great Depression. He witnessed the maturing of the nation's labor and civil rights movements. And he spoke out for all of them. So you'll understand his being sensitive to attempts to dismantle affirmative government; he takes it somewhat personally.
"Well, I regret it, obviously, oppose it and condemn it," he admits. "But I've done my share on the barricades on all these matters. What we need is the kind of leadership that will point this out in an effective way."
That kind of leadership needs to come from the person voted into the White House, Schlesinger insists, but he is hard-pressed to come up with someone who would capably fill the role today.
"What's odd is the poverty of talent. Joe Califano [Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to President Johnson] and I were talking about this the other day, and Joe said, 'Cast your mind back to Los Angeles in 1960. The Democrats there had a choice between Jack Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Stuart Symington, Scoop Jackson--any one of whom would have been a respectable candidate.' It's hard to think of an alternative to Clinton, except Gore.
"I have been in the past a bit disappointed that Clinton has not more of a disposition to fight for his program," Schlesinger says matter-of-factly. "He has the capacity to do it. He's a very good speaker. He's very articulate and so on. But in recent [months]--as in the nomination of Dr. Foster and his willingness to use the veto threat--he has been showing more of an inclination to stand up and fight."
Schlesinger does not pretend to know better, but like the Tory Democrat he is, he urges the president to act in the nation's interest. Schlesinger has known Clinton for a while, ever since the president, then Arkansas governor, asked him to breakfast during a governors' conference in the early '80s. Schlesinger, a strong Clinton supporter in the 1992 election, thinks the president is loathe to get into fights. That is a bad trait in a leader, Schlesinger believes. "I think presidents, particularly presidents who want to change things, must recognize they're bound to get opposition. As they used to say about Grover Cleveland, 'We love him for the enemies he has made.' Franklin Roosevelt was not only the most loved president in this century, he was the most hated president of this century because he didn't try to please everybody."
It's natural for everyone, especially presidents, to want to be liked, but that just doesn't work if you live in the White House, observes the one-time White House aide.
"Clinton's a very bright man. He's got an impressive technical command of complicated issues. He's got great intellectual curiosity. He's got a natural eloquence and concern. I believe him to be a New Dealer at heart. Other things being equal, that's the kind of thing he would like to do. He would like to use government as a means of enlarging individual opportunity. But he goes into clinches too much when he's fighting. Last time I was in Arkansas someone told me, 'You know, we always used to say about Bill Clinton, it's better to be his enemy than his friend, because he treats his enemy better than he treats his friend.' There is some great desire to be liked."
Schlesinger sees Clinton as not that different from President Kennedy in terms of political philosophy, but sees a great difference in the operational styles of the two chief executives. He's not looking for a job--in fact, he's only been invited twice to the White House--but Schlesinger thinks the Clinton administration is not necessarily filled with the "best and the brightest."
"In Clinton's case, it's very odd. Kennedy used his own generation and older people, but I think Clinton doesn't feel comfortable, perhaps, with older people. Most of the people around him are much younger. It's hard enough for anybody to talk back to a president or say, 'Don't do this,' but it's much harder if you're much younger than the president to do that. So he may not be getting the best advice. Kennedy was a secure fellow. I mean you could talk to him, and he and I were the same age and had known each other for a long time."
Schlesinger's reputation for straight talk, shored up by a quiet intellectual honesty, goes back a long way. He is not the kind of guest you are likely to see on today's bombastic Washington talk show circuit.
"He's a very reflective person, but he also has a wonderful sense of humor [and] a tremendous arsenal of historical facts that are useful in an argument," says Ted Sorenson, who was John Kennedy's special counsel in the White House and is now a lawyer in New York. "We're very close friends. He's one of my favorite people in the entire world."
At the White House, Sorenson recalls, Schlesinger was extremely valuable as a colleague. There was a lot of cooperation among White House staffers because there weren't many of them. Schlesinger was Kennedy's special assistant for Latin America, among a host of other issues.
The Kennedy-Schlesinger ties were established shortly after Schlesinger returned from the war in late 1945. He and his first wife had two children by then; while he was overseas, the family remained in Washington. They had been there since Schlesinger began working for the Office of War Information shortly after Pearl Harbor was bombed, then for the OSS from 1943 to '45. The family stayed in Washington until 1947, when Schlesinger accepted an offer to teach at Harvard.
Based on his experiences with the young JFK, Schlesinger disputes the image of Kennedy as a less-than-serious legislator. "He was certainly a serious senator. He wasn't part of the club. The issues interested him. He was very much interested in labor. That's where his great friendship with Walter Reuther [president of the United Auto Workers] was formed and the great enmity with [Teamsters boss Jimmy] Hoffa, because the Rackets Committee was investigating the invasion of the labor movements by organized crime.
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JAMAICA, NY - Boys & Girls had already split their games against South Shore this season.
South Shore was one of the most talented teams in the city. They lost to Boys & Girls last season in the playoffs, and were eager to avenge that loss. Except that Boys, the #2 seed in the PSAL playoffs, weren't eager to cooperate.
Leroy "Truck" Fludd came out really aggressive, scoring 9 of the Kangaroo's 12 points in the first quarter. In the second quarter, Fludd was able to drive the baseline for a thundering one-handed dunk to put Boys up 19-7 in the first quarter. Boys took command of the game early and never loosened their grip around the throat of South Shore all game. The closest the Vikings got the rest of the way was six points, as Boys won comfortably 63-51.
Senior guard Bryce Jones, Fludd's best friend on the team, said that when Fludd is aggressive the way he was against South Shore, he knows Boys High will win the game. Jones said Fludd makes good basketball plays when he takes charge, and the rest of the team feeds off of that.
Fludd finished with a game high 20 points and he definitely came out and set the stage for Boys. Obviously, he didn't play alone. Jones was also a catalyst for Boys to cruise to victory. He scored 12 points, but made bunch of plays that allowed his team to keep their cushion for the duration.
Jones has been starting ever since original starter Tyliek Kimbrough was ineligible and missed a few games during the season. The 5-9 senior guard is taking advantage of his opportunity, because he is still starting even though Kimbrough is once again active.
Jones has gotten better by working hard and by working out after practice.
"Now I have the opportunity to play and start because of what happened to Tyliek, and I'm just showing what I can do," Jones said.
Boys High head coach Ruth Lovelace said that Jones started with the team when he was 5-2, but has grown about 7 or 8 inches.
"Bryce has always been a gamer. He's always been very talented, but his strength and his size didn't allow you all to really see how good he really is," Lovelace said. Boys played a tremendous game on the defensive end, holding both South Shore star players, Terrence Samuel and Shamiek Sheppard, to six points each. Wayne Martin played his last game for South Shore and finished with 14 points.
Boys High has reached the PSAL semifinals for the 7th time in the last 9 years and will make it to their 5th championship game in the last six years if they win their next game. That next game is against rival Lincoln and will be the first time in 5 years that they aren't meeting at Madison Square Garden.
Thomas Jefferson Claws Wadleigh 80-61
Things looked promising for the Wadleigh Tigers. They were playing well against the top seed in this year's playoffs, going into intermission trailing the Jefferson Orange Wave 35-34. It didn't look like a fluke and it looked like the game would go down to the wire.
Then the top seed started to play like the top seed. Thaddeus Hall got hot and that was all she wrote for Wadleigh in the second half. Hall scored 25 points for the Orange Wave and they got a big effort from senior Jalen Evans, who finished with 17 points. Jaquan Lynch chipped in with 14 points for Jefferson.
Basil Harley finished his career at Wadleigh by scoring 25 points of his own. The only other teammate in double digits was fellow senior Louis Costen.
Jefferson will play Wings next Saturday at St. John's University in the second semi-final.
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Dozens of Pa. sites offer memory screening tests
Tuesday is the Alzheimer's Foundation of America's National Memory Screening day. More than 130 sites around Pennsylvania will offer free screenings Tuesday or later during the month of November to increase early detection of memory problems.
In Philadelphia, health-care professionals and social workers will administer the tests at senior centers, nursing homes and pharmacies.
Dr. Marvin Kalafer, who will be offering screening at his Jenkintown, Pa., practice, said early detection of memory problems is important because some types of mild cognitive impairment are reversible.
"The early recognition provides an opportunity for health-care professionals to treat that condition, and possibly slow down the changes insofar as memory loss," Kalafer said.
Some types of memory loss can be caused by depression or certain types of medication.
The screenings can also help reassure people who are worried by the kinds of normal forgetfulness that come with age, says Dr. Ausim Azizi, who heads the department of neurology at Temple University School of Medicine.
"Hopefully if that happens, and people come for memory screening and memory screening is normal, that will alleviate that worry and that concern and that anxiety," Azizi said.
Following a screening, those who show signs of Alzheimer's or another form of dementia can get the followup medical care and social support they may need.
The screenings are free and usually last 10 to 15 minutes.
Different providers use different screening tools.
Commonly, patients are asked to follow a set of instructions or draw a picture, and answer a series of questions about the time and place.
Those interested in getting a screening can find a location at nationalmemoryscreening.org.


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WENDI RINEHART mounts a gray horse under a pink morning sky and heads out of the barnyard with her husband, Brady, toward an area of short-grass prairie on the northern end of their ranch outside Highmore, South Dakota. The fragrance of native prairie grasses fills the air on these rolling hills, as do the sounds of crickets, mourning doves and calves bawling for their mothers.
The Rineharts come over a rise onto one of the prairie pothole wetlands for which this area is famous. More than 200 ducks rise up noisily into the crisp morning air. This land is part of an easement of about 5,000 acres the family sold in 2003 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and Ducks Unlimited, which allows the Rineharts to graze cattle on this native prairie but not to plow it. Says Wendi, smiling, "My husband grew up here when there was a pintail on every pothole, though that began diminishing. But since they started up this easement program and secured some of the larger tracts, you see pintails, canvasbacks, geese, herons—you name 'em—all over the place."
Ducks evolved with buffalo on this land and seem to get along with reasonable numbers of cattle, but they don't coexist well with plows, which destroy the natural prairie grass and pothole wetlands. Says Tom Dahl, FWS wetlands biologist, "The pothole region is absolutely crucial to migratory waterfowl. This is the duck-nesting basket of the North American continent."
More than 50 percent of U.S. and Canadian duck nesting populations breed in prairie potholes. Yet despite their importance, the potholes are under pressure from farmers who are draining them and then plowing the drained land for agriculture and biofuel production. The potholes are also the victims of recent Supreme Court decisions that have redefined protections previously afforded to potholes by the Clean Water Act. New research suggests that potholes help remove some of the atmospheric carbon dioxide that causes global warming. And climate change threatens up to 91 percent of these important wetlands, though carbon-trading programs being considered by Congress could mitigate some of the harm and provide important funding for wetland restoration.
Found in south-central Canada and the north-central United States, particularly in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin, more than 3 million potholes (small depressions) formed by glaciers during the last Ice Age pockmark the area. Most are seasonal, filling with snowmelt and rain in spring, but some are permanent. "Pothole protection has been a high priority for the National Wildlife Federation since its founding," says Julie Sibbing, NWF director for global warming, agriculture and wildlife. Still, more than half of all prairie potholes have been drained for agricultural use "and that has led to a steady decline in duck populations as well," says Jim Murphy, NWF attorney.
Prairie-pothole wetlands are important not only for ducks but for water filtration, groundwater recharge and flood storage. The massive damage caused by the 1993 midwestern floods was due in part to wetland losses of 80 percent in the northern reaches of the Mississippi River. "Take away the wetlands, and you get one of the worst floods in U.S. history," says Jan Goldman-Carter, NWF Wetlands and Water Resources Counsel.
The federal Conservation Reserve and Wetlands Reserve programs help protect prairie potholes by paying farmers to withdraw marginal and wetland areas from crop production, but demand for biofuels—crops, such as corn, that can be converted into fuel—has encouraged some farmers to pull their lands out of the program and put them back into production. Plowing these soils releases carbon dioxide into the air. Ducks Unlimited estimates that more than 5.6 million acres have been taken out of these programs in the last few years and put under the plow. "That's like putting 15 million cars out onto the road," says Jim Ringelman, Ducks Unlimited's director of Conservation Programs in the Dakotas and Minnesota. The Clean Water Act formerly required permits before wetlands could be drained, but recent Supreme Court decisions have weakened those protections.
A recent study, conducted for NWF by graduate students at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and the Environment, analyzed the impacts of increased corn-ethanol production on wildlife and habitat in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. According to the report, U.S. ethanol capacity has grown almost 200 percent since the passage of the 2005 Energy Bill, which mandated a large increase in domestic ethanol production. In addition, the 2007 Renewable Fuel Standard requires corn-ethanol production to increase from 10.57 billion gallons in 2009 to 15 billion in 2015. The NWF report indicates that in counties with high increases in corn plantings, grassland bird populations declined nearly 30 percent between 2005 and 2008.
Climate change, which endangers the prairie pothole region as it does much of America (see sidebar, below), compounds the damage created by plowing. As temperatures rise, prairie potholes may simply dry up, releasing vast quantities of carbon stored in pothole soils back into the atmosphere, because wetlands are great sequesterers of carbon. Says John Kusler, associate director for the Association of State Wetlands Managers, "The total amount of carbon in wetlands around the world is equal to the total amount of carbon in the atmosphere."
Ironically, the federal push for biofuels was supposed to cut back petroleum use and reduce the carbon dioxide that fossil fuels release into the atmosphere but instead runs counter to those goals, because of the increased demand for additional agricultural land and pothole drainage. According to Rob Jackson, a professor at Duke University, "If you take a native grassland or a 15-year-old plot in the Conservation Reserve Program and convert it to a cornfield, it takes decades of ethanol production before you've saved as much carbon as you'll lose by plowing the land in the first place."
On the other hand, the carbon sequestered in prairie potholes could become part of the solution to global warming if it were included in a carbon trading system that provides cash for wetland restoration. Though the United States refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty, designed to reduce global warming, Congress and the new administration are gearing up for future mandatory carbon markets that would set limits on carbon emissions for transportation and industry. However, the rules also allow businesses that exceed emissions limits to purchase offsets from businesses that are removing carbon dioxide from the air. One such carbon-dioxide-absorbing enterprise is wetland restoration. Recent analysis by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows that some prairie pothole restoration by ranchers and farmers could be more profitable under impending legislation than farming. "For many ranchers and farmers, wetlands restoration means simply plugging up the pipes that drained them," says Sibbing.
One caveat to wetland restoration as an offset is that wetlands emit the greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide. The methane comes from natural processes, but nitrous oxide is produced when nitrogen from fertilizers used on nearby agricultural fields seeps into wetland areas. As greenhouse gases, methane is 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide is 310 times as potent. For Robert Gleason, a research wildlife biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, these gases raise a critical question: "If we restore wetlands by pumping water back on them, would the stored carbon be offset by enhanced nitrous oxide or methane emissions?" One small study showed that carbon storage outweighs methane and nitrous oxide releases, and another showed that wetland emissions of these gases are no more than those from agricultural lands. Gleason is currently monitoring 150 potholes throughout the basin to answer the question more definitively. Positive results could provide a substantial boost for prairie pothole protection.
The researchers who produced the NWF biofuels report concluded that "if we proceed along the current trajectory without changing federal policies, the prairie pothole region will be further degraded and fragmented, and the many services it provides will be impossible to restore." In order to preserve the region's ecological integrity, the study recommended that the federal government reconsider its mandates and financial support for corn ethanol, phasing out incentives for production.
In addition, the report urged stronger protections for prairies and wetlands, such as barring landowners who plow native prairie from receiving federal financial support on that land and helping landowners who are willing to preserve native prairie and wetlands in perpetuity. The report also urged strengthening the Conservation Reserve Program.
"The prairie pothole region is vital to keeping our outdoor traditions thriving," says Gary Botzek, executive director at the Minnesota Conservation Federation. "We need to change course if we want to keep this ecosystem working for the entire nation's benefit."
Michael Tennesen has a media fellowship from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University.
The Prairie Pothole Region of the north-central United States and south-central Canada is one of the most important waterfowl breeding areas in North America. The region contains more than 3 million of these shallow pothole depressions. They fill with water in spring and provide breeding habit for millions of ducks, including mallards, blue-winged teal, redheads, canvasbacks, northern shovelers and northern pintails.
"It is the primary breeding area for the continent's waterfowl, and for that matter is really the key area for shorebirds and water birds and a whole host of grassland nesting songbirds, too," says Scott Stephens, Ducks Unlimited's (DU) director of Conservation Planning for the Great Plains Office.
Part of the attraction is the tremendous invertebrate explosion that happens in the Upper Midwest in spring. According to Jim Ringelman, DU's director of Conservation Programs in the Dakotas and Montana, "If you drive around this area during the short growing season, you almost have to stop every few miles just to scrape the bug residue off your windshield. It gives you a feel for the tremendous amount of aquatic insects that are produced in these wetlands."
These small wetland areas provide protection against predators and give the strongly territorial ducks some privacy to form pairs. Duck numbers are up. The preliminary U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimate of total ducks for 2009 is 42 million, which is 13 percent greater than last year's estimate and 25 percent greater than the 1955-2008 average.
Stephens thinks this success is driven by near-record snowfalls that filled up wetlands, enhancing the habitat for ducks. "But if we continue to see land plowed up, then the responses from birds will be much reduced."
Climate models indicate that increased evaporation, more rain and less snow, along with shifts in seasonal precipitation patterns, could cause a loss of as much as 90 percent of prairie pothole habitat.
Since its founding in the 1930s, when drought was attacking prairies and wetlands throughout the Great Plains, NWF has been fighting to protect habitat for waterfowl and other wetlands and grasslands species. As part of this continuing effort, the Packard Foundation recently renewed and expanded a grant for NWF's work to make biofuels sustainable, an effort that NWF staff have worked on for nearly four years. NWF chairs the international Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels and is a member of the U.S.-focused Council for Sustainable Biomass Production—both efforts to develop standards for sustainable biofuels and bioenergy. Staff also are working to ensure U.S. laws push biofuels toward greater sustainability, including an effort to keep federal subsidies from bankrolling the plowing of new lands for biofuel production.


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Prize Recipient
Ricardo Garcia
University of Puerto Rick, Rio Piedras
It is with great satisfaction and a little bit of wonder that I find myself ready to embark on a journey to understand the world around me. Fascinated by the beauty and subtlety of the laws that govern our universe and the mathematics necessary to explain them, there is no field more suitable for me than physics. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, I hope to gain the knowledge necessary not only to gain some insight into how the universe works, but also to help stimulate academic and scientific growth among my country's future generations. I thank the APS for awarding me this honor as I begin my studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.


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Eight Women Have Defied the Odds to Run Their Own Tobacco shops
For eight women in various parts of the country, this, in fact, is the life: Diana Silvius-Gits, Louise Hood-Lipoff, Ruth Gorman, Joan Cvar, Linda Squires, Donna Brown, Brenda Roberts and Sherrin Willis are anomalies in the tobacco retailing industry. All established tobacco stores when tobacco wasn't king. They all have dealt with some form of prejudice in a retailing segment dominated by male purveyors and customers, as well as faced the rising tide of antismoking sentiments. But through it all, they all had the ambition and the belief to prevail in an industry known for its "old men's club" mentality.
The story begins with Diana Silvius-Gits of Up Down Tobacco in Chicago. Renowned throughout the industry for her boisterous spirit and tobacco knowledge, Silvius-Gits is the true trailblazer. But she had a long road to travel before she achieved success.
Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Silvius-Gits taught art at Grosse Pointe University-Liggett, a top prep school in suburban Detroit. She moved to Chicago after she married Gerald Gits, a native of the Windy City (they have since divorced). She bought the Gerald Bernard Art Gallery, which exhibited work from up-and-coming local artists. In 1963, she decided to incorporate tobacco into the gallery makeup. It wasn't long before tobacco became an obsession for Silvius-Gits.
"What I like about the business is that I just can't wait to get up every morning and participate in all the different functions and parties and visit the people and talk to customers," she says. "I think that anybody that runs a successful tobacco store lives, breathes and sleeps the business. It has become my life."
In 1965, she relocated the business to the corner of Wells and Burton in Chicago. It had a 12-year incarnation as a variety store that sold tobacco products, televisions, paper dresses and magic paraphernalia. In 1977, Silvius-Gits decided to make the business entirely tobacco-related. She hired an architect to build a multilevel store at 1550 North Wells, just down the street from the old location. The 1,650-square-foot store, with its five large walk-in humidors and 13-foot-high ceilings, has been there ever since and is a popular destination for area smokers.
But it wasn't always so. Many tobacco distributors were skeptical and didn't want to provide products for the fledgling store owner. Silvius-Gits attributes it to the fact that she was a woman trying to make it in a man's business, at a time when women held "pink collar" positions such as secretarial jobs.
"They acted like a bunch of rats," Silvius-Gits says, vehemently. But there were exceptions. "Malcolm Flasher [the former managing director of the Retail Tobacco Dealers of America], Donald Gregg [who ran Faber, Coe & Gregg Inc.] and Wally Harris [of Dunhill] were really nice to me. If it hadn't been for those guys, I don't think that I would have been able to buy product because these [other] guys would sabotage you. That was the way that they treated all women. These guys wanted you to fail, and as soon as they found out you were successful, they wanted you out."
Having run a tobacco shop for more than 30 years, Silvius-Gits has labored through the highs and lows of the business, but she never threw in the towel. In the beginning she worked 18-hour days selling box after single box of cigars, while praying that she would have enough money left over to meet mortgage payments, she says. Slowly but surely, the business began to thrive; today the store employs 28 workers and it is one of the most successful in the nation. She won't disclose how much business she does, except to say "a lot." In addition to running Up Down, Silvius-Gits serves on the board of directors for the Tobacconist Association of America (TAA) and the Retail Tobacco Dealers of America (RTDA). She also has a premium cigar brand, the Diana Silvius cigar, which is made by Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia. in the Dominican Republic, and she hopes to launch a Diana Silvius Red Label cigar with the help of Carlos Toraño and his Nicaraguan factory.
And the future? Silvius-Gits says that the cigar boom will start tapering off soon. She hopes that the price of cigars will drop. She says exorbitant prices are a result of new people streaming into every aspect of the business, from retailing to distributing to manufacturing, many of whom, she says, don't know the first thing about cigars and who are bribing factory workers with all sorts of luxuries to get them on their side. "I would say that now it is a necessity that the consumer purchase their cigars from an established tobacconist," she says. "I think that we have to educate people. There is no way that guys that have been in the business for six months can make a smokable cigar."
As for advice for fledgling businesswomen? "I think that if you have something that you want more than anything else in the world, you can do anything that you want to do."
Five years after Silvius-Gits launched her tobacco business in Chicago, Philadelphia native Louise Hood-Lipoff, then a 25-year-old radiology worker at a local hospital, opened Tobacco Village with her then-husband, David Hood, in suburban Philadelphia. Two years later, in 1970, she bought out Hood, whom she later divorced, and took complete control of the shop. For almost 25 years, Hood-Lipoff ran the 800-square-foot store, located in the Roosevelt Mall. In 1992, when new owners bought the mall and raised the rent nearly 50 percent, Hood-Lipoff transplanted her shop to a new mall across the street, to a space more than double the size. The landlords of her former shop sued, claiming she had broken the lease. Hood-Lipoff won the court battle. It's just one of the obstacles she has overcome during her almost 30 years in the business.
"I had a hard time proving myself in the beginning," she says. "I didn't take it personally, because when I looked at the field and I realized how few [women] there were around who owned a tobacco shop, I knew that I would just have to try harder. I made it my [mission] to learn about every single thing [in the business]. I just knew that I was going to be successful if I concentrated on it and listened to what my customers wanted."
Hood-Lipoff didn't have any retail experience, but she had the determination to make her store succeed. Intrigued by cigars and pipes, she felt that she had a flair for selling tobacco and dealing with customers, she says. She is grateful for the advice of General Cigar Co.'s Bob Williamfield, a vice president, and Mike Magill, a salesman, and Gus Gerstl, a former salesman for M&N Cigar Co. (now JC Newman & Corp.), who were her mentors when she started. "What I have learned from those three people was so invaluable that if I began to write it down, I could fill books," she says. "Back then we had 'real' salesmen, who came to the store and talked to you about product and told you what every little item was about. They weren't just 'order takers.' Now, I think that it is a little bit impersonal."
The industry today has other problems, she contends, charging that the newcomers to the business are driving up cigar prices and aren't knowledgeable about tobacco. "You know that when you walk into grocery stores and 7-11s and see [tobacco products], that these people do not belong in the cigar business," Hood-Lipoff says. "These people are coming to me and calling me up and asking, 'Can you help me do this, do you know about this, can you help me build a humidor?' Hey, I learned the hard way and I have spent a lot of money putting it together. I think that they are a detriment to the business."
Hood-Lipoff is firmly entrenched in the business. She has four employees, who all received on-the-job training. She has served as president of the Philadelphia Tobacco Retailers Association for the past six years. In 1986 she was presented with the Phillip G. Bondi award for Cigar Retailer of the Year from General Cigar. She even met her second husband, Irv Lipoff, through the business in 1979; he was one of her customers. Four years later, they married and spent their honeymoon touring the cigar factories in the Dominican Republic. Between them they have five children who have all helped at the store, but none has expressed interest in taking over the business.
Even if none of her children eventually step in, Hood-Lipoff sees a bright future ahead. "The pipe business has been doing wonderfully. I think pipes are the next trend." But cigars aren't taking a back seat. "Cigar sales are up every year," she says. "I think that people who have stuck with it are going to continue with it."
Sticking with it is what Ruth Gorman of Smoke & Snuff has done for 27 years. Her entrance into the business came as a result of a tragic loss. A homemaker, Gorman had to quickly change roles and learn about the tobacco business when her husband, Dan, died suddenly.
Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, Gorman grew up in an age when women were more likely to sell pies at bake sales than cigars in tobacco stores. She had briefly worked at Blue Cross and Blue Shield, but because her husband didn't approve of her working, she ended up volunteering instead. Then in 1970, her life changed. Dan Gorman decided to open a tobacco store in the Twin Cities because of his love for cigars and pipes, but five months after its launch he died of an aneurysm. Grieving and left with a daughter and a son to support, Gorman's best option was to continue running the store. Her husband had planned to open two more stores in the area, but after his death the company with the lease for the additional stores reneged on its agreement with Gorman. "They would not allow me to open the other two because, they said, 'What man is going to buy from a woman in a tobacco shop?'" she recalls.
But customers did buy her pipes and cigars. According to Gorman, her shop became so successful that in 1973, her daughter, Mary Ann Fores, decided to open another Smoke & Snuff, this time in Florida. One year after opening a store in Clearwater, the Gormans opened two more stores in the state, in St. Petersburg and Bradenton. Ruth Gorman and an employee left the Minnesota store under another employee's supervision and moved to Florida to run the expanding business, now called Garrison Corp. It wasn't long before more Smoke & Snuffs opened all along the Gulf Coast of the state, from Tallahassee to Naples.
The chain now numbers 18 stores, occupying from 650 square feet on up, with the largest being the Orlando Smoke & Snuff. Gorman closed the flagship St. Paul store six years ago to devote more time to the Florida stores. "It is completely different now, especially in the past few years. [Before] every retailer was nice to each other. When my husband died, the retailers would come and bring me merchandise, and the distributors were begging for business and everybody was really sweet," she says. "The reps would come often and help us, and I remember one real old cigar man from General Cigar, he came and taught me how to display cigars."
In addition to the tobacco products, Smoke & Snuff carries collectibles, such as beer steins and lighters, "whatever the customers want." She attributes her success to always attending to customers' wants and needs, and as a result her customers have been loyal. "I think to our credit, we never neglected the pipes through the years; the tobacco was always kept in good supply so we were a complete smokeshop," she says. "Our theory is: every sale counts."
With the help of her son, Gary, an attorney, who deals with the store leasing, and his wife, Elaine, who is the main gift buyer, Gorman is counting on the business to continue doing well. Gorman hopes Gary's son, Daniel, will join the business. Through the years he has helped at all the stores, and he is an avid cigar aficionado. Because Daniel is still a student, at the University of Wisconsin, they will have to wait and see, Gorman says.
Gorman no longer works the floor in her shops, but that doesn't mean that she has lost affection for the business or her customers. "I love the business. I think it's great," she says. "The customers are fantastic. Our customers are getting younger and younger and we have about every age range. [And] cigars are still the biggest thing."
Joan Cvar of Tinderbox in Murray, Utah, is a retailer who has already endured the tough times. Cvar, whose husband is a pipe smoker and whose father and grandfather smoked pipes and cigars, has always been around tobacco and has a wide knowledge of the subject. That hasn't kept her, however, from having the occasional bizarre run-in with an obstreperous customer.
Cvar grew up in Southern California and moved to Utah during her junior year in college. She taught elementary school for two years in Hawaii until she and her husband, Fred, decided to open a tobacco shop. In 1972, the Cvars launched the Tinderbox store in Murray, Utah.
For the first two years, the couple worked long days to make their business work. Joan Cvar ran the 600-square-foot store during the day, while Fred kept his computer job at Kennecott Copper Corp. and ran the store at night. After a few tough, yet productive, years they opened a second store in nearby Salt Lake City and hired two employees. Today, Fred runs the Salt Lake City store while Joan has taken over the flagship store. A friendly rivalry has ensued.
Although most people were accepting of Joan Cvar, mostly because as the owner of the store she was deemed knowledgeable, she had to deal with the occasional sexism.
"I don't think that there is any woman in the business who hasn't felt it," she says. "Many years ago, I walked up to a woman who was in the humidor and said, 'Hello, how are you doing? How can I help you?' and she said she needed to find out about cigars and she needed to talk to a man. I said, 'Well, I can help you, I am knowledgeable about cigars' and she said, 'No, you wouldn't know what I need to know. I need to talk to a man.' Now I was in a weird mood and so I said, 'Oh, a sexist,' which was not a good thing to say. One of my employees started to walk over to help and I turned around to walk away and she kicked me."
Later, the customer went to the Salt Lake City store and complained to Fred Cvar. Nothing more ever came of it. Although Joan Cvar regrets making the comment, she feels that "sometimes you just have to be like a real person instead of a robot."
Yet most of the Cvars' customers are a pleasure, and many have developed into friends. "Some of the customers have been coming in for 25 years," she says. "I see their obituaries in the papers and I get tears in my eyes. We have grown and we have been very successful and we have been blessed and we have survived and prospered. And the most rewarding thing has been all the friends that we have made."
The industry has changed a lot through the years, she says. Twenty-five years ago, pipes were bigger than cigars and many people still smoked cigarettes. Then the antismoking lobby gained power. To survive, Cvar had to diversify her business. She incorporated beer steins and nutcrackers into the stores. This helped Cvar maintain the inventory of tobacco products. Because of the resurgence of cigars and now pipes, Cvar devotes more space today to tobacco.
What worries Cvar now more than the antismokers is the escalating price of cigars and the high tobacco taxes. In Utah, the tobacco tax is a whopping 35 percent. She firmly believes that this has hurt the business. "The prices have increased so much that people, instead of smoking 10 cigars a week, will smoke two cigars. Business is still great, but you are seeing some resistance to the price."
Cvar has high hopes for the future. Her daughter, Emily, who has worked at the stores and even at Arnold's Tobacco Shop in New York City, might be the next generation to run the shops, but Joan and Fred won't push her. Their son, Andrew, is not interested.
She has no plans on expanding the business further, believing that she has enough on her plate presently to keep her busy. "I feel to properly run a store you have to be in the store, you have to deal with the customers one on one," she says. "We need to take care of what we have and nurture those customers so they come back."
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These Deferred Annuity Mistakes Can Be Taxing
The tax treatment of nonqualified deferred annuities (annuities that are not part of a tax-qualified plan such as an IRA or 401(k)) appears to be fairly clear-cut:
- A distribution that represents a return of your investment in the contract is not taxed
- Earnings aren't taxed until they're withdrawn
- Earnings are taxed as ordinary income and not capital gains, and
- A distribution of earnings taken before age 59½ is subject to a 10% tax penalty unless an exception applies
Simple, right? Yes--except for those particular circumstances that trigger unexpected tax consequences.
Ownership by a "non-natural entity"
"Non-natural entity" is tax speak meaning the annuity owner is not a human being, but is an entity (e.g., trust, partnership, corporation). This creates a situation where the annuity is not treated as a tax-deferred annuity, so any earnings will be taxed to the annuity owner/entity as ordinary income during the current year--even if the earnings haven't been distributed.
There are some exceptions to this rule. It doesn't apply to immediate annuities or those considered qualified funding assets (e.g., annuities held for periodic payments due to personal injury settlements). Also, the annuity may not lose its tax-deferred status if the non-natural entity/owner is acting as the agent for a natural person. For example, ownership of the annuity by the estate of a deceased annuity owner, or the trustee of an IRA or qualified plan, will not, in and of itself, remove its tax-deferred status.
Certain revocable (grantor) trusts may also be the annuity owner without negating the annuity's tax-deferred status, as long as all of the trust beneficiaries are natural persons. However, if an irrevocable (non-grantor) trust, such as a credit shelter trust, is the annuity owner, distributions of earnings from the annuity may be subject to an additional 10% tax penalty. That's because exceptions to this penalty that are available to a person/annuity owner don't apply to a non-natural entity. For example, a non-natural entity can't claim to be over age 59½, nor can it be disabled from work.
The situations described here relate to deferred annuities. Different tax rules may apply to annuities in the payment stage (annuitization).
Gifting an annuity contract
If you make a gift of an annuity you own, special income tax rules apply. If you owned the annuity for some time before making the gift, you are subject to a tax on the difference between the value of the annuity (its cash surrender value) and the amount you have invested in the contract (your premiums). You would have to claim the income in the tax year you make the gift. This rule applies to gifts of annuities to charities and charitable remainder trusts as well. A gift of an annuity contract between spouses generally does not trigger this tax, however.
A trust as your annuity beneficiary
Revocable living trusts are a common estate planning tool. Often, an annuity owner/trustor will name the trust as beneficiary of an annuity. However, if you're survived by a spouse, naming the trust as the annuity beneficiary may remove some settlement options your spouse would otherwise have.
Generally, a surviving spouse named as beneficiary of a deferred annuity has four options available: (1) take the full death benefit in a lump sum (the earnings will be treated as taxable income at the time the benefit is paid); (2) take the annuity proceeds over a period of five years; (3) elect to receive the annuity payments over a period of time not to exceed his or her lifetime (with the last two options, each payment is part nontaxable return of investment and part taxable earnings); or (4) the surviving spouse may also have the unique option of becoming the new owner of the inherited annuity, in which case the annuity can continue in deferral (the spouse doesn't have to take any payments).
However, by naming the trust as beneficiary instead of your spouse, you'd be eliminating the last two options for your spouse--even if your spouse is the beneficiary of the trust. With the trust as beneficiary, the annuity proceeds would have to be paid in a lump sum or over five years following your death. If your annuity has significant earnings, those earnings would be taxed upon distribution, even if your spouse neither needs nor wants the proceeds.
Using an annuity as collateral for a loan
Using your deferred annuity as collateral for a loan may result in the unwanted realization of taxable income to you. For instance, say the basis (premiums paid) in your annuity is $100,000 and it's now worth $150,000. If you use this annuity as collateral for a loan, the collateral assignment is treated like a distribution and all of the gain (i.e., $50,000) will be taxable to you as ordinary income.
The income tax rules for deferred annuities can be tricky, so before making any ownership or beneficiary designation changes, consult your financial or tax professional.


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Loved when I was a teen, but am on to better glosses now.I used to LOVE these, the color, the scents, the cute packaging. Now that I'm 25, I'm less impressed. The scents are kind of artificial and the texture is slick and doesn't last long. They are fun and cheap for a bit of nostalgia, but I'm using better glosses these days :) — 6 years, 5 months agoLipglossandSpandex | 521 reviews
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Nice for the price..This is very inexpensive, and I once was looking for a new lip gloss, and I saw this light pink one that caught my eye. Its called "strawberry parfait". The color was very cute when I applied it, perfect shade of pink for me, its smooth, smells nice, and in case some gets in your mouth, it doesn't taste bad. The only thing is that it doesn't last very long and that's why I did not give it 10 stars...read more, because it is kind of a pain to keep re-applying. It would've been perfect if it lasted longer, especially for only 3 bucks at Walmart :) — 4 years, 2 months agonelly_recinos | 139 reviews
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Her South Side team had just beaten Homestead 54-53 in the Sectional 6 final on a crazy, back-and-forth emotional ride of a last minute.
South Side had built an early lead in the game, including 10 points at halftime, but Homestead slowly came back in the second half. Then, with 56 seconds left in the game, Homestead came away with a steal and found Sydney Buck in the corner for a 3-pointer. It was the Spartans first lead since they were up 3-2.
Everything was amped up after that in Homestead's gym and fans didn't return to the seating position the rest of the game.
On the next play, South Side's Brittni Clopton found DeJoyah Johnson cutting to the basket for a layup. South Side up one with 37 seconds left.
Then Homestead almost turned the ball over as it battled through the Archers press, but came away with it and set-up a play with 13 seconds left.
That's when the finish really got crazy.
Homestead's Savannah Buck had a 3-pointer with under 10 seconds left deflected, but her teammate Lindley Kistler came up with the ball under the hoop. As she went for the layup with 5.1 seconds left she was fouled. She hit both free throws to give Homestead the one-point lead.
It wouldn't be the last critical free throws of the game.
South Side took the ball out and called timeout from half court with 2.5 seconds left. Goodwell set-up a play to go to Arianna Simmons, but the ball would never leave the in-bounders hand.
Holding foul on Homestead.
South Side's Lakyn Gulley would be shooting a one-and-one. Her first free throws of the game.
"I was nervous; I didn't want to miss it," Gulley said of the free throws after the game. "A lot (was) going through my mind, but I knew I could do it for my team. I was like it's going to go in. I had to make it for us."
Swish. Crowd erupts. Homestead timeout.
Swish. South Side a one-point lead and close to avenging an 81-80 regular season loss to the Spartans on the biggest of stages.
Finally, Homestead's Kistler heaved a shot from half court, it had the distance but clanked off the backboard.
"You know, all we wanted to do was hold onto that 10-point lead, and we didn't get that done, but I just wanted my girls to stay fighting, stay fighting through it," Goodwell said. "They (Homestead) hit some threes, that's what they're good for. … The fact (my team) hung on, I'm just very proud of them right now."
The finish was created by Homestead finding its outside shot. Sydney and Savannah Buck found five 3-pointers in the second half to help the Spartans mount their comeback.
"I'm just extremely proud of my kids, for as young as we are, and the fact South Side came out and got to a good start, we just kept fighting and fighting to get back into the game," Homestead head coach Rod Parker said. "Just really unfortunate that it played out with an off-ball foul with 2 seconds to go to give them free throws. Just an unfortunate ending when two kids get tied up and the call goes that way. That hurts but I'm really proud of the way our kids played."
Goodwell said she couldn't see the final foul from her position on the sideline, but was glad one the referees did. She was also confident in Gulley because she was a clean shooter. Double that for South Side's other players.
"I believed in her," Johnson said, who led South Side with 15 points. "I'm pretty sure everyone believed in her. She's a great free throw shooter, so we're happy they fouled her."
The critical free throws gave South Side back-to-back sectional championships and the fifth in school history.
And in the end, Goodwell found the easy answer to how she was feeling.
"I'm just really happy for the girls right now," she said. "So happy for our program to be able to get this…
"I can't be more proud."South Side 17 15 10 12 — 54
Homestead 10 12 14 17 — 53
South Side: Gulley 10, Noel 5, Simmons 22, Clopton 8, Johnson 15, LaMaster-Stephen 4, Rogers 2
Homestead: Sydney Buck 17, Josie Fisher 14, Savannah Buck 6, Kistler 14, German 2Class 4A
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South Side 54, Homestead 53
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Concordia Lutheran 53, Angola 41
Norwell 76, Heritage 42
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Class A
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Class 4A
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Snider (20-3) vs. Logansport (24-1), 10 a.m.
Westfield (21-2) vs. South Side (21-3), noon
Semifinal winners, 8 p.m.
Class 3A
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Hamilton Heights (20-2) vs. Norwell (21-3), noon
Semifinal winners, 8 p.m.
Class 2A
Westview (15-8) vs. Bishop Luers (12-11), 10:30 a.m
Whiting (20-3) vs. Boone Grove (17-6), 12:30 p.m.
Semifinal winners, 8 p.m.
Class A
Morgan Township (14-10) vs. Oregon-Davis (21-3), 10:30 a.m.
Canterbury (21-3) vs. West Central (14-9), 12:30 p.m.
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Hey I was just wondering if a PD app was possible. I know that you can download tapatalk or whatever that is called, but I just was dreaming the other night of a PD app.
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Hey I was just wondering if a PD app was possible. I know that you can download tapatalk or whatever that is called, but I just was dreaming the other night of a PD app.
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tapatalk is not very good in my opinion. I liked it much better when there was an actual mobile layout you could apply to PD on your phone.
I really like Tapatalk personally. However, a PD app would be pretty sweet.
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A PD app would be cool, but I don't have the time or sufficient knowledge to create one at this time.
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The Roland TR-808 is my favorite drum machine. To hear a real one in action check out songs like Jam on It by Newcleas, Shallow Then Halo by the Cocteau Twins or Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye.
On eBay they usually go for well over $1000 USD so not everyone can afford one. Even if you do own one sometimes using samples is just more convenient. A big tip off to seasoned listeners that your faking it is the Hi Hat sound of most samples. Here is a trick that John Selway showed me on how to make Roland TR-808 samples sound more real.
I'm going to use Ableton Live's built-in Auto Filter but any filter plug-in should work. This is a very simple trick but once you hear it "fix" the sound you may use it often. I am trying to get rid of it that symbalance, feathery, super high digital sound and replace it with something more metallic and clear. Check out the original untreated samples in action here:
Make sure your Hi Hats are on a separate audio channel and add Auto Filter as an insert. Grab the fluorescent yellow dot inside the automation display and drag it about a centimeter to the left and a half centimeter upwards. The kHz should read about 7.01 and the Q about 1.60. Take a listen to the Hi Hats now:
Now take a listen to what these improved Hi Hats sound like in action. Here they are in a song called Body to Body off my new album Attack Decay: click here
Here are a few places you can find Roland TR-808 samples online. Keep in mind that Roland TR-808's sound different from each other, have lots of tuning settings and can be recorded many different ways. The kb6 set is free, the Gold Baby set was recorded to tape and my personal favorite is the Wizoo set.
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Appropriations made for contingent expenses of the Senate shall not be used for the payment of personal services except upon the express and specific authorization of the Senate in whose behalf such services are rendered. Nor shall such appropriations be used for any expenses not intimately and directly connected with the routine legislative business of the Senate, and the Government Accountability Office shall apply the provisions of this section in the settlement of the accounts of expenditures from said appropriations incurred for services or materials.
Source(Feb. 14, 1902, ch. 17, 32 Stat. 26; June 10, 1921, ch. 18, title III, § 304,42 Stat. 24; Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 204(45),Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1737; Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b),July 7, 2004, 118 Stat. 814.)
Section is based on provisions of proviso on 32 Stat. 26, act of Feb. 14, 1902, ch. 17, the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1902, as those provisions relate to appropriations for contingent expenses of Senate. Provisions of that proviso relating to appropriations for expenses of House of Representatives are classified to section 95a of this title.
Section was formerly classified to section 671 of Title 31 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by Pub. L. 97–258, § 1,Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877.
1996—Pub. L. 104–186amended provisions relating to appropriations for expenses of House. See Codification note above.
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"Government Accountability Office" substituted in text for "General Accounting Office" pursuant to section 8 ofPub. L. 108–271, set out as a note under section 702 of Title 31, Money and Finance, which redesignated the General Accounting Office and any references thereto as the Government Accountability Office. Previously, "General Accounting Office" substituted in text for "accounting officers of the Treasury" pursuant to act June 10, 1921, which transferred powers and duties of Comptroller, six auditors, and certain other employees of the Treasury to General Accounting Office. See section 701 et seq. of Title 31.
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CINCINNATI -- Reds ace Johnny Cueto reported no issues the day after he threw 50 pitches over three innings in a rehab start for Class A Dayton on Thursday.
"I feel happy. I feel good," Cueto said via translator Tomas Vera.
Cueto gave up one run on four hits, walked none and struck out four.
The Reds placed Cueto on the 15-day disabled list on April 15 with a strained right lat. He was set to begin a rehab assignment last week when he felt soreness in his right oblique. He rested for a few more days before he resumed throwing.
Cueto is slated to pitch again for Dayton on Tuesday.
"I think I need another outing, and that's what we'll do," Cueto said. "And after that, God willing, I will be activated."
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Cranberry Juice for Preventing Bacteria in Urine During Pregnancy
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|Urinary Tract Infection Bacteriuria
|Drug: Cranberry juice
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Cranberry for Prevention of Bacteriuria in Pregnancy
- Number of cases of asymptomatic bacteriuria
- Number of cases of symptomatic urinary tract infection
- Compliance with recommended therapy
- Number of preterm deliveries
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|Study Start Date:
|December 2004
Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) infection, a condition in which a large number of bacteria are present in the urine, often precedes the development of symptomatic UTIs. UTIs are common among women and may create complications during pregnancy. By incorporating cranberry juice into their diets, pregnant women may be able to lower their risk for UTIs caused by ASB, and cranberry juice may also prevent preterm labor and birth. This study will determine the cranberry juice-containing regimen that will work best for preventing ASB in pregnant women.
For the duration of their pregnancy, participants in this study will be randomly assigned to one of three treatment arms: cranberry juice once a day, cranberry juice three times a day, or a placebo beverage three times a day. The level of bacteria in their urine will be measured at monthly study visits. Women who test positive for a UTI will receive oral antibiotic therapy. All women will be monitored throughout their pregnancies for UTIs and other related complications.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Intrauterine pregnancy
- Mother and fetus in good health
- Mother pregnant for 16 weeks or less
Exclusion Criteria:
- Suspected nonviable or ectopic pregnancy
- Mother plans to terminate pregnancy
- Antimicrobial therapy, for reasons other than urinary tract infections, within 2 weeks prior to study start
- Significant underlying medical complications that may interfere with the study
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00093938
|United States, California
|Women's Pavilion at Miller Children's Hospital (Long Beach Memorial Medical Center)
|Long Beach, California, United States, 90806
|University of California, Irvine Medical Center
|Orange, California, United States, 92868
|Principal Investigator:
|Deborah A. Wing, MD
|University of California, Irvine Medical Center/Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
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|NCT00093938 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
DK068527-01 (completed)
|Study First Received:
|October 7, 2004
|Last Updated:
|January 12, 2010
Keywords provided by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK):
Vaccinium macrocarpon
Asymptomatic Bacteriuria
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Urinary Tract Infections
Urologic Diseases
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There's stories in the suttas of acts leading to hell. For instance, the Buddha tried to go somewhere, I think a town or village, and he was turned away by the king or something and the story goes that the king spent a long time in hell.
There's other stories of individuals, like one who disrespected a private Buddha and went to hell. Do you think these are accurate accounts of things?
I can be so neurotic that sometimes I worry about maybe having a bad thought or something about a Dhamma teacher and what horrible karma that must have created...especially when I think of stories like the ones above. Although, I have a lot of love for the Buddha....so hopefully that evens it out!?


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New York -- Publix Super Markets is interested in Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Bloomberg reported.
Royal Ahold, the Netherlands-based company that operates Stop & Shop, is also looking to making a bid for the North Carolina-based chain, according to various media reports.
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AN internet movement aimed at helping the homeless made it to Blackburn in the form of a mobile soup kitchen.
Dozens of strangers braved gale force winds and freezing temperatures to help homeless people in Burnley last month – after being inspired by a single message on Facebook.
And at 8.30pm on Wednesday night, in a car park opposite Blackburn Fire Station, kindhearted well-wishers carrying donations of clothing, hot drinks and hot food donated by the Bombay Lounge, in Barrowford, met to help out.
Wes Hall, 31, travelled from Burnley to help out and said he had discovered people sleeping rough close to the car park.
He said: "They sleep in the old fire station, breaking in around the back. My background is quite bad and the reason I got involved is because I've experienced homelessness myself.
"I was kicked out at 15, and I recently built up my own business and everything was going well. Then my relationship broke down and I was living in my office."
One of the men Wes helped was 39-year-old couch surfer Michael Williams, who spoke of his gratitude.
He said: "I'm really grateful. I feel quite intimidated because I like providing for myself. I feel awful but I'm really struggling."
Mr Williams said he went to rehab for seven months to kick his alcohol habit, but relapsed.
His friend, David Curry, said he ended up on the streets after becoming addicted to alcohol.
The 'Help The Homeless' project, was born from a single message posted online by Nelson man Liam Canning .
A group set up on Facebook has now attracted almost 1,500 members since going online in mid-February, and drop-off points have been established at Pendle Games and the Lord Nelson pub, both in Nelson.


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Postencephalitic Symptoms After Tick Borne Encephalitis
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified July 2009 by University Medical Centre Ljubljana.
Recruitment status was: Not yet recruiting
Recruitment status was: Not yet recruiting
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Last verified: July 2009
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The purpose of this study is to assess clinical outcome in patients with tick borne encephalitis.
|Central European Encephalitis
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|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Postencephalitic Symptoms After Tick Borne Encephalitis
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MedlinePlus related topics: EncephalitisU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Objective sequelae and subjective symptoms in patients after tick borne encephalitis. [ Time Frame: 1 year follow-up. ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Comparison of subjective symptoms between patients after tick borne encephalitis and control subjects without a history of tick borne encephalitis. [ Time Frame: 1 year follow-up. ]
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|Study Start Date:
|July 2009
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|October 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Patients with tick borne encephalitis.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|15 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
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Study Population
patients with tick borne encephalitis
Inclusion Criteria:
- serologically proved tick borne encephalitis in patients > 15 years
Exclusion Criteria:
- pregnancy
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00941590
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00941590
|Contact: Katarina Ogrinc, MD PhD
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|Contact: Franc Strle, PhD MD
|+386 1 522 2110
|UMC Ljubljana, Department of Infectious Diseases
|Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1525
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University Medical Centre Ljubljana
|Study Chair:
|Franc Strle, MD PhD
|UMC Ljubljana
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
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|Katarina Ogrinc, University Medical Centre Ljubljana
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|NCT00941590 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|July 16, 2009
|Last Updated:
|July 16, 2009
Keywords provided by University Medical Centre Ljubljana:
tick borne encephalitis
clinical outcome
postencephalitic symptoms
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Encephalitis, Tick-Borne
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Encephalitis, Arbovirus
Arbovirus Infections
Virus Diseases
Tick-Borne Diseases
Encephalitis, Viral
Central Nervous System Viral Diseases
RNA Virus Infections
Flavivirus Infections
Flaviviridae Infections
Infectious Encephalitis
Central Nervous System Infections
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This game was classified by the community with the following category scores - Violence=3/3, Sex=0/3, Mature Content=0/3. Arcane Brawlers is a very simple Xbox arcade game in which each player (up to four) controls a magical wizard (mage). It is a 2D, overhead view game. The players stock magical elements, represented by the buttons' colors. A: Earth B: Fire X: Water Y: Air The goal of the game is to simply kill the other players by making their Hit Points get reduced to zero.
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