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Mike Wallz - The Free Life
joey bada$$- waves
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Ricky Nelson- Waiting In School
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Need You Now - Plumb
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
Korn-Falling Away From Me
Since there's been a few mentions of Kendrick Lamar here recently I figured I'd post this.
doubt anyone listens to this type of music on here but oh well
Counting down the days untill DJ Augustin's contract expires.
Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This
The Fray- How to Save a Life
Fuel- Shimmer
Tanlines "Not the Same"
Adema- Giving In
Hurt- Rapture
Hot Chip "Over and Over"
This is the darkest timeline.
New Christmas Acoustic Tune from blink
Seven Mary Three- Cumbersome
Matchbox 20- Unwell
Agalloch - She Painted Fire Across the Skyline
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
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Sailin' Shoes -- Bluegrass Sessions w/ Sam Bush and Bela Fleck.
[~]) ... Cheers! Go Pacers!
Foo Fighters - Stranger Things Have Happened
Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.


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My living arrangements have changed a little this year. Last year, I was living with "Roysy" (Derek Roy) but this year I decided to stay on my own. I never realized how much stuff I needed, like a kitchen table, sofa and all the other little things around the house.
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Why you should fill out that product registration card
Chances are you got a holiday gift that came with a registration card or told you to fill one out online. This is very common with electronic products.
Some companies ask for a lot of personal information, like your age and income and hobbies.
Do you really need to answer those questions? Absolutely not.
Should you bother to fill out the rest of the form?
Patty Davis at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says it is a smart thing to do.
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13 State Parks to Host Go Fish! Events This Spring
AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wants to make it easier for Texans to go fishing and this year has renamed and expanded its learn-to-fish initiative to include dozens of special springtime events being held at 13 state parks throughout Texas.
"Go Fish! Learn-to Fish Events at Texas State Parks" gets into high gear at Bastrop and Huntsville state parks on March 13, and March 16 at Buescher State Park just down the road from Bastrop, in a week when most kids are out of school on Spring Break. The "how-to" events are informative and fun, and often result in participants — both children and adults — landing their first fish.
The Go Fish! events are designed to help families learn how to fish together, according to Ann Miller, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Aquatic Resources coordinator. The events also serve, she says, in support of national research that shows fishing is one of the key gateways to involving people in a lifetime of outdoor enjoyment.
"We've been getting more and more requests for how-to-fish classes from young parents who want to take their children fishing, but don't feel comfortable doing so," Miller says. "These events fulfill that need and in many cases introduce families to Texas state parks that are the ideal place for fishing since adults don't have to have a fishing license to fish inside a state park."
Miller notes that the seven-year-old state park fishing events are more numerous this year and now are benefiting from the support of Walmart which has come on board as this year's Go Fish! sponsor. Event coordinators received gift cards from the retail chain to purchase rods and reels, fishing tackle and other outdoor equipment and products for use by participants and for prizes for young anglers.Last year, hundreds of adults and more than 2,000 children – 200 of whom caught their first fish – attended the learn-to-fish events, formerly known as the Family Fishing Celebration. At Huntsville State Park, one ecstatic grandmother even landed her first fish.
Bill Brooks, a retired herpetologist and Texas Master Naturalist, has been involved from the onset in putting on the fishing events at Bastrop and Buescher state parks in central Texas. He finds the experience of helping youngsters and their parents and grandparents rewarding.
"I have some kids come back year after year, not only to fish but to go through the learning stations," Brooks says. "Lots of parents come up and shake my hand afterwards and thank us for putting on the program. Some of them have never been to the park and realize what a nice place it is and that you don't even have to have a fishing license to fish there."
Before youngsters attending a Go Fish! event can try their luck at hooking a fish, they must first visit a handful of learning stations. TPWD staff and volunteers teach the young anglers such skills as knot-tying, how to cast, fish ecology, water safety and state fishing rules and regulations.
At Brooks' events as with most Go Fish! outings, participants check in at 9 a.m., get a bag of informational brochures and begin making the rounds of the learning stations. When they've finished visiting the booths, they receive a sticker and pin, and a Junior Angler certificate. Then an instructor takes them to the pond to try to hook a fish. Children can win prizes for catching the first fish, the biggest fish and other noteworthy achievements. At noon, there are snacks and raffles for tackle boxes and other fishing equipment and products.
Special events aside, any time is a great time to visit a Texas state park to enjoy recreational fishing without breaking the bank. However, keep in mind that license-free angling applies only to fishing inside a state park from the bank, a pier or from a boat if done in a body of water totally contained within the boundaries of a state park, such as Huntsville State Park's Lake Raven. State parks along the coast also participate to encourage fishing from the beach and wade-fishing. State park entry fees, however, still apply. All state fishing regulations, except the license and stamp requirements, remain in effect.
Go Fish! events take place at Bastrop, Buescher and other state parks throughout the spring and well into summer. Other upcoming state park Go Fish! events this month will occur at Huntsville (March 13), Ray Roberts Lake (March 20), Goose Island (March 20), Choke Canyon (March 20), Lake Casa Blanca (March 27) and McKinney Falls (March 27). At Palmetto State Park near Gonzales, Go Fish! events are scheduled into well into the fall, concluding on Oct. 16.
Other state parks hosting Go Fish! events in coming months are: Cedar Hill, Eisenhower, Galveston and Lake Tawakoni. For more information and list of events, call (512) 389-4732 or visit the TPWD Web site.
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The De La Salle High soccer team knew it needed a victory Thursday night against California to clinch the East Bay Athletic League title. That's because the Spartans were already aware that second-place Monte Vista had defeated San Ramon Valley earlier in the day.
De La Salle got the result it needed, beating the visiting Grizzlies 2-0 to claim its second straight league title and fourth in five years.
The win in the regular-season finale helped the Spartans edge Monte Vista by a point in the league standings, 33-32. It have might also earned them the top seed for next week's North Coast Section Division I playoffs.
"We've been playing really well lately," De La Salle coach Derricke Brown said. "Our defense was solid tonight and didn't give up many chances to a dynamic attack."
De La Salle (15-3-5, 10-1-3 EBAL) scored early in each half, and used a suffocating defense that gave the Grizzlies (16-6-2, 7-6-1) little space to work. When it was over, the Spartans had earned their 11th clean sheet of the season.
On senior night, two seniors teamed up for the first goal as Mikey Guerrero headed the ball perfectly to Tony Bell, whose right-footed strike in the 10th minute made it 1-0.
Sophomore Joey Jones scored his 10th goal of the season two minutes into the second half.
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San Ramon Valley 0, Monte Vista 0: Wolves coach Mark Jones said before the match against the Mustangs that he's never seen quite so much parity in the EBAL.
Then, fittingly, the rivals went out and battled feverishly to their second consecutive tie against each other.
The Wolves (16-0-5, 10-0-4) put the finishing touches on a rare unbeaten league season and a second consecutive EBAL title. Foothill, which was 14-0-0 in 2008-09, was the last team to finish unbeaten in league play.
Monte Vista (9-5-5, 7-3-3), which entered the match without five injured starters, still held its own despite taking a few more lumps. But Mustangs coach Brett LeQuesne was impressed by both teams.
"It was a fantastic match. I really enjoyed that," said LeQuesne, whose team entered the night in second place.
On a cold night, the teams' aggressive offenses couldn't solve the well-organized, gritty defenses confronting them.
The Wolves got a strong match from playmaker Alexa Vandevanter, one of three players on the field headed to Cal. The other two were the Wolves' Hannah Koski and Mustangs' Lynsey Hromatko. San Ramon Valley's Megan Turner is headed to Stanford.
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Washington, D.C. -- Charles "Chuck" Brooks has been named Chair of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Brooks, a retired naval officer and former Peace Corps executive, was selected by OPM Director Linda M. Springer to lead the committee, which oversees and administers the pay system covering nearly 200,000 federal wage-grade employees.
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The draft will offically begin at 10:00 AM Indianapolis time on October 22.
That will be 4:00 PM for Able & 5:00 PM for Mourning.
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I plan on setting up & starting the draft using a 12 hour draft clock sometime in the early morning hours of the 22nd. If anyone cares to they will be able to log in & set up contengency list prior to the "offical" start of the draft.
Following the keeper league draft around 10:00 AM the draft clock will be changed to 15 minutes per pick.
We might have some picks made by then. If we do, great, if not... no biggie.
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We have a 24 hour waiver wire.
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The trade deadline is Febuary 21.
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Sometimes a person has to learn the hard way.
Now he aims to help others avoid all that nonsense.
Mitchell, 35, with backing from attorney Russ Jones, the Nebraska Athletic Club and Kelly Wiseman, helps operate a new workout/training gym on East Fourth, next to the NAC.
Mitchell is 6-feet, 7-inches tall with a winning personality. He holds classes, including interval training, cardio kick boxing and mixed martial arts. He is offering a boot camp for middle school kids who want to learn how to compete in mixed martial arts, and help them make good choices.
I made bad choices, Mitchell said. When you make bad choices, you get into bad places.
Mitchell joined a gang in high school. He thought it was cool. As a gang member, his specialty was picking fights. One day he picked a fight with the wrong guy, who pulled a gun and shot him. A bullet went through his leg, another grazed him.
The shots changed his life.
I thought, I gotta get outta this, he said.
He quit high school and went to college, starting his freshman year and finishing his GED at the same semester. He had to study all the time to make it through. He managed to get it done, even playing a little basketball that semester, although he sometimes missed practice to finish homework.
It made him realize what he could accomplish, no matter how much he felt depressed or overwhelmed.
I learned you can do anything you set your mind to do, he said.
Mitchell played some small college basketball, including a stint at North Platte Community College. He eventually tried out with the Denver Nuggets in 2003, narrowly missing the final cut.
He got into martial arts fighting a couple years later. By then he was depressed and unhealthy. His weight had ballooned to 416 pounds. He decided to go to the gym.
He was happy to be welcomed there.
Id been though a lot, he said. Id taken criticism in a lot of different ways over the years. At the gym, I felt accepted.
Mitchell gravitated toward mixed martial arts, which culminated in the super heavyweight title in Midwest Championship Fighting. He defeated Chris Blaire in 2009 to win the belt.
Mitchell now lives in North Platte with his wife and three children. He continues to fight and teach others. He recently became a Certified Personal Fitness Trainer and Nutrition Specialist, and is conducting a new Kids Boot Camp to raise awareness and provide a place for middle school-age kids to work out. He hopes to help combat the problem of childhood obesity.
A month or so ago, his father lost a leg to diabetes -- another big motivating factor for Mitchell.
Big Rob is helping fighters prepare for an MCF event on March 16 that features a bundle of excellent mixed martial arts matchups at the D & N Event Center.
The fight, called the St. Patricks Day Beat Down Bash will start at 7 p.m. and include at least two professional bouts and 10 amateur fights, promoter Russ Jones said.
Leading the card will be North Platte native Tony Johnson against Travis Peak. Johnson trains at a world famous gym in San Joze, Calif. Peak is currently the head wrestling coach at Alliance High School. Both fighters have ourstanding records.
Also, local fighters Jason Jensen, Eric Mecham, Justin Thompson, Mercedes Timmerman, Jordan Vigil, Mark Hooper, Derek Thompson, Brandon Bringewatt, Zac Helton and Jason Windham (now of Lincoln) are training for bouts.
Big Rob won't be on this card but is eyeing a fight in North Platte in early June.
He knows how to lose weight and tone up. Hes been known to shed 80 pounds in two months, working out three times a day and eating the right meals.
Weight is bound to come off if youre exercising and eating right, he says.
Hes also helping local fighters like Mercedes Timmerman prepare.
Timmerman says training is a great thing for her body and soul.
It makes you feel fresh, she said.
Timmerman, 21, started working out in 10th grade. Shes trained hard; fought two MMA fights, losing the last by decision. She aims to win her fight in mid-March, but win or lose, she feels good about the process.
I feel complete, like I accomplished something, she said. Its a good experience.
Set a goal, accomplish it, Timmerman advises. Help yourself.
North Platte native Tony Johnson returns to North Platte in the Beat Down on March 16 at the D&N Event Center.
Johnson trains at the world famous American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, Calif. He is a training partner of UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez and Josh Koshcheck.
Johnson is 4-2 in professional MMA and also sports an undefeated 5-0 record as a professional boxer where he has been showcased on ESPN's Friday Night Fights, promoters say.
Travis Peak sports a 10-2 professional MMA record that includes the Kick Down championship title. Peak wrestled at Chadron State College where he became assistant coach and he is now the head wrestling coach at Alliance High School.
Johnson and Peak have each emerged victorious over a common tough opponent, testifying to their fighting ability. They each kayoed IKF National Kickboxing Champion Steve Simmons.
An "after-party" will be held at the D&N Center will be with Jeremy Condon serving as the deejay.
As always, most of the proceeds of the fight will be donated to charity. Some of the organizers understand domestic violence all too well. The Bridge of Hope Advocacy Center is one of the charitable recipients.
Co-promoter Kelly Wiseman has been a workhorse in the North Platte fight scene, involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 as a professional fighter, gym owner, trainer, manager and promoter.
Wiseman's experience makes him an excellent matchmaker.
He was a four-year member of Miletich Fighting Systems Elite Fight Team, which was the world famous "First Family" of MMA, located in Bettendorf, Iowa, where he roomed with UFC Champ Jens Pulver, UFC Champ Matt Hughes, UFC Champ Tim Sylvia, UFC Fighter Spencer Fisher and others.
Wiseman has been involved in promoting 15 MMA events in North Platte including the noted night on June 30, 2005 with more than 2,000 in attendance.
"There are so many highlights," Wiseman said of his career. "I think seeing my own fighters and MCF veterans Luke Caudillo and Tony Johnson, go on to amazing careers -- that's my highlight," he said.
Caudillo made it to the UFC (the Super Bowl of MMA) where he fought twice. He also fought in Strikeforce. He still fights in Denver and coaches at the world famous Grudge Training Center, from where he works with memebers of the Denver Nuggets and the Nuggets' cheerleaders.
Johnson also went on to Strikeforce and is 5-0 in boxing fights for Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions. Johnson now trains at one of the top gyms in the world, American Kickboxing Academy and he's a training partner of current UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez.
All of that means a great deal to Wiseman, who is perhaps more MMA savvy than anyone in North Platte, well grounded in the entire sport and business.
"Fighting sports are something that are a part of our culture as human beings," Wiseman said. "Pankration, a blend of boxing and wrestling, is a martial art that was introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC."
"There is an amazing amount of dedication and discipline that a fighter must go through to prepare for an MMA bout," Wiseman said. "There are beautiful displays of respect after a bout. I think most people respect and appreciate that."
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July and August rains have come just in time to preserve some of the yield potential of much of Indiana's drought-stressed soybean crop, and more was on the way as the remnants of Hurricane Isaac moved north from the Gulf Coast.
While the season-long drought has not yet ended, rains and a letup in record-setting heat have combined to rejuvenate the crop so much that soybean farmers in some areas of the state could still see trend, or more normal, yields, Purdue Extension agronomist Shaun Casteel said.
But rain from Isaac over the long Labor Day holiday weekend might not be such a good thing for the crop, which could be damaged by flooded fields and wind. Rainfall amounts were forecast from 2 inches in the far north of the state to 7.5 inches in the south, according to the Indiana State Climate Office based at Purdue University (http://www.iclimate.org ).
"We could see some standing water in areas of the state that have been getting rain, where soil moisture has been replenished," Casteel said. "Soybeans in areas of the state that haven't had much rain can still benefit from this weekend's rain provided it is not excessive."
Most soybean plants are shorter than normal this year, so wind would not be as much of a factor as it would have been in other years. But as soybeans have recovered from drought stress, some have elongated internodes, or the distance between trifoliate leaves, and heavy pod production on the upper two-thirds of the plants. Those top-heavy plants would be most at risk for lodging, or stalk damage, from strong winds, Casteel said.
In its August crop production report, the U.S. Department of Agriculture projected that Indiana soybean yields would average 37 bushels per acre, down 24 percent from the trend prediction of 48.7. But those estimates were based on crop conditions as of Aug. 1, and if steady rainfall continues, Casteel said there's a chance growers could make up some of the difference.
"Late-July and early-August rains have helped soybeans retain pods, and more recent rains have helped the plants fill pods," Casteel said. "At this point in the growing season, we're keeping an eye on seed size."
The average size of Indiana soybean seeds is 3,000 seeds per pound. But as it rains, Casteel said that number from this year's drought-damaged crop could notch closer to 2,500 per pound.
Short plant sizes have alarmed many growers this season, but smaller plants don't necessarily equate to smaller yields.
"Plant stature isn't a driving factor in soybean yields," Casteel said. "What's more important is having plenty of leaf area. In a more normal crop, soybean plants would have 5-6 times as much leaf area as ground area, but good yields can be obtained with leaf area that is only four times the ground area."
Casteel was quick to point out that conditions vary by region. The U.S. Drought Monitor (http://www.droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ ) update of Thursday (Aug. 30), for example, showed that most of the improvement in conditions was in northeast Indiana, where the drought was downgraded from severe to moderate, the second level of dryness. But some counties in southeast Indiana near Cincinnati deteriorated to extreme drought, the second-highest level.
"There really have been three drought scenarios in Indiana this year," he said. "Some areas have been dry all season long, some were dry early but then had timely rains, and other areas started out with rain but dried off late."
In the southwestern portion of the state, farmers have experienced exceptional drought throughout much of the season and still might not see much potential to preserve yield at this point. In parts of the state that started out dry but then got timely rains, soybeans are progressing well. This is especially true in the north-central and the northeast. The southeast had rain early but then dried off. Pod retention has been a problem in those areas.
Growers who do have soybeans to harvest will be able to take advantage of extremely high prices. Soybean futures for November 2012 and January 2013 are hovering around $17 per bushel. That's up nearly $6 per bushel from the November 2011 futures.
With prices that high, Casteel said growers need to be doing yield estimates for grain marketing.
He also said it's important for farmers to inspect plants for bean leaf beetles. The insect emerged earlier and at higher populations after a mild winter, which gave it time to produce a second generation that could now damage soybean yields.
"We need to be out in the fields looking for bean leaf beetles feeding on pods, not leaves," he said. "Treatment thresholds are going to be lower this year because soybean prices are so high."
More information about estimating soybean yields and bean leaf beetle is available in the Aug. 24 issue of Purdue Extension's Pest and Crop Newsletter at http://extension.entm.purdue.edu/pestcrop/2012/issue22/index.html


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The Great Lakes are the offspring of ancient glaciers that creaked and groaned out of the north during periods of global chilling, which have occurred off and on throughout the past billion years. The glaciers might tower more than a mile high, gouging the earth and pushing massive amounts of rubble ahead of them as they rolled up the earth like a carpet. The last glaciation reached its peak about 20,000 years ago. Among the hills and moraines, depressions and carvings they left behind were the basins that filled up with water to become the Great Lakes.
The French were the first Europeans to put the Great Lakes on world maps, sailing into Lake Huron's Georgian Bay in 1615. These early explorers were so impressed with the size of Lake Huron that they called it La Mer Douce—the Sweet Sea. But following the arrival of European culture, Huron and the four other Great Lakes did not remain sweet for long.
When the French dropped anchor in the bay, the Great Lakes basin—a region in which all water flows toward the lakes—was already home to 60,000 to 117,000 American Indians who lived in scattered villages, growing corn, squash, beans and tobacco in addition to hunting and fishing. Before the end of the 17th century, the English and Dutch also were moving in, and the French had built a chain of forts along lakeshores to protect their trade in furs. Americans fought the War of 1812 in part to expand their interests into the Great Lakes region, and at war's end succeeded in doing so.
Development has made the Great Lakes basin one of the population centers and regional industrial leaders of both the United States and Canada. The health of the lakes has paid a heavy price for this growth, besieged by deforestation, pollution and other threats.
By the mid-1800s, most of the good farmland around the lakes was settled, and roughly 1.2 million Americans and Canadians were living in the basin. Farmers stripped away local forests to create croplands, giving rise to soil erosion and the silting of streams that fed into the Great Lakes. In the mid-20th century, the toxic effects of agriculture were compounded by the development of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Fertilizers flooded into the lakes, stimulating the growth of algae and other water plants that subsequently died and decayed, depleting the water of oxygen and causing extensive fish kills. Burgeoning pesticide use after World War II, particularly use of DDT, jeopardized wildlife, including bald eagles, mink and hawks, in the Great Lakes area.
But agriculture was not the only human endeavor chipping away at the health of the Great Lakes. The early 19th century also saw the rise of excessive and poorly managed commercial logging in the basin, leaving the landscape denuded and adding more silt and nutrients to the lakes. In some areas of the Great Lakes, forests still have not grown back.
Starting in the 1800s, ancillaries of the logging industry, such as pulp and paper mills, began adding chemical pollution to the lakes as well as dumping in sawdust, which rotted and sucked up more oxygen, killing more fish. Among the most dangerous of the chemical contaminants was mercury, which can effect the reproductive and developmental health of wildlife and humans, particularly children. Although mercury use in the paper industry was banned in the early 1970s, mercury pollution persists because of increased contamination from power plants that burn coal high in mercury.
Lake pollution has contributed to the decline of another enterprise in the basin—commercial fishing. The fishing industry began expanding in the Great Lakes at a rate of 20 percent yearly starting around 1820. Signs of decline became evident as early as the 1890s after the fishery reached 147 million pounds in 1889. Within the next 60 years, despite increasingly efficient fishing methods, the catch dropped off, with annual catches since 1950 averaging around 110 million pounds.
The more valuable species, such as lake trout, have collapsed from overfishing, pollution, habitat destruction and competition with invasive species such as the sea lamprey. Lake trout now survive at levels capable of sustaining commercial fishing only in Lake Superior, and even there they are supplemented with hatchery fish. The blue pike, once the top predator in the open waters of Lake Erie, and the Atlantic salmon of Lake Ontario, were major components of the early fishing industry but are now extinct. Native species have been replaced with introduced fish such as smelt, alewife and Pacific salmon. Chemical contamination compounded the damage of overfishing as health concerns limited the amount of fish that could be sold for human consumption. In 2002, every state in the Great Lakes issued fish advisories.
Another problem that has beset the lakes since the French started planting forts on lakeshores is land development, more recently in the form of summer homes, marinas and residential housing. These and other projects cause shoreline erosion that damages offshore lake habitat and related wetlands.
Urban development has been particularly damaging to the lakes. Located on major waterways, cities became centers of industrial development. Today, the region produces 60 percent of North America's steel and 60 percent of its cars. Industry also produced vast quantities of waste that, beginning in the 19th century, were dumped directly into the lakes or into tributary rivers and streams. Raw sewage has threatened human health around the Great Lakes since the early days of urban development. For example, in 1854, a cholera epidemic hit Chicago, killing 5 percent of the city's residents.
The dangers of industrial pollution were recognized only in recent decades when studies revealed the threats posed by PCBs, mercury and other chemicals. Many of these pollutants have settled into lake sediments, where they pose little biological risk. However, in areas frequently dredged to keep shipping channels open, the contaminants are constantly being stirred up and restored to circulation in the biological system. Cooperative management agreements among the eight states that border the lakes and with Canada are helping to cleanup the lakes, with improvements in some areas since 1970. Although measures taken under these agreements are helping to reduce pollution, the Great Lakes still require careful monitoring to preserve their greatness. Ongoing studies may turn up as yet unrecognized problems.
A Ray of Hope for the Great Lakes Some 300 toxic chemicals occur in the Great Lakes, including lead, cyanide, arsenic, carcinogenic PCBs and dioxins and pesticides such as DDT and mirex. The steel industry dumped so much asbestos into Lake Superior, the most pristine of the five lakes, that the floor of Superior's entire western arm is buried under the carcinogenic substance.
Lake Erie has suffered more damage than the others from urban development. Relatively shallow at an average depth of 60 feet and lined with nutrient-rich soils, Lake Erie is perfect for death by nutrient overload. Agricultural runoff, detergents in city wastewater and the dumping of virtually raw sewage into the lake for decades by Detroit, Michigan, and Buffalo, New York, pumped the lake full of nutrients and toxic chemicals, stimulating the growth of algae and other plants that die and rob water of oxygen as they rot. The Detroit River alone carried 20 million pounds of nutrients like phosphate and poisons such as phenols and ammonia into the lake every day during the first half of the 20th century. By the 1950s, Lake Erie was clearly sick. One 2,600-square-mile portion was found to have no dissolved oxygen in its bottom waters. By the 1960s, lake shores were heaped with detergent suds, rotting algae and dead fish. In 1969, the Cuyahoga River, a Lake Erie tributary that runs through Cleveland, Ohio, was so full of toxic chemicals that it burst into flames.
An outraged citizenry brought change to Lake Erie by helping to push through legislation designed to clean up U.S. waters, most notably the Clean Water Act of 1972, which set guidelines for water cleanliness and provided federal aid for wastewater treatment. In the same year, Canada enacted its Water Act, setting standards for the amount of phosphates permitted in sewage effluents. The United States and Canada also signed the International Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement that year, promising to control phosphate flow into the lakes.
Positive changes came shortly. By the mid-1970s, fish had returned to the Detroit River and the amount of phosphate reaching Lake Erie was halved. As algal growth abated, the lake changed color from green to blue. The Cuyahoga River was no longer a fire hazard.
Lake Erie remains a symbol for what can be done when government, industry and citizens are committed to cleaning up polluted waters. Lake Erie is a promising model for other lakes. Phosphorus levels have been held to proscribed limits in Superior, Huron and Michigan since the early 1990s, and even in Erie are near the limits. Nevertheless, challenging contaminants continue to plague the Great Lakes.
Who's in Charge of the Great Lakes? Among the many organizations working in the Great Lakes region, the following are key:
How Are the Managers Doing?Fifty-one state and 148 federal programs fund restoration in the Great Lakes basin, according to a federal Government Accounting Office (GAO) report released last year. Of these, 17 state and 33 federal programs are specifically targeted to the Great Lakes. The federal government spent $387 million on these restoration programs from 1992 to 2001 as well as $358 million on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes projects, many of which were not designed for restoration. During the same period, the states spent $956 million on specific Great Lakes cleanup and restoration programs and projects.
Lack of coordination among these various programs hinders progress in Great Lakes protection, however. The GAO declared that "an overarching strategy and a comprehensive plan are needed that clearly articulate goals, objectives, and criteria for measuring success and that establish a decision-making body to weigh the merits of, and prioritize funding for, proposed cleanup and restoration efforts." The agency also identified a lack of comprehensive, quantitative monitoring as a significant barrier to setting restoration priorities and measuring restoration progress. The GAO concluded, "The Great Lakes region cannot hope to successfully receive support as a national priority without a comprehensive plan for restoring the Great Lakes."
The report faulted the EPA's Great Lakes guidance document, Great Lakes Strategy, 2002, as "largely a description of existing program activity relating to basin restoration" and not a strategic plan that sets priorities, establishes criteria for evaluating success and outlines funding needs and mechanisms.
"The Great Lakes need a strategic plan, strategic priorities and significantly more congressional funding to recover from decades of dredging, filling and pollution," says Andy Buchsbaum, director of NWF's Great Lakes office. "A restoration project on the scale needed to save the Great Lakes demands comprehensive and coordinated federal action. Congress has provided much-needed funding to restore and protect some of the country's greatest wildlife sanctuaries, including the Chesapeake Bay, Everglades and San Francisco Bay. Restoring the Great Lakes will require a similar commitment. It's time for Congress and the administration to take strong action to restore, protect and maintain the Great Lakes now and for generations to come."
For more on the Great Lakes, read Roger Di Silvestro's article "Greatest Lakes in the World."


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VIDALIA, Ga. — After three years of promotions with roots in Hollywood and Nashville, the Vidalia Onion Committee is bringing its 2013 campaign home with a focus on the backyards and patios of the U.S.
The concept of the committee's "Flavors of Summer" marketing plan is similar to its 2010-12 Shrek and country music campaigns, though, in that it is "spot on with a big trend," executive director Wendy Brannen said.
"The Food Channel named outdoor kitchens as one of the top food trends in 2012, and there is no indication the trend is ending," Brannen said. She said 82% of U.S. households already have outdoor grills or smokers, and almost 100% of those who have them use them every year.
This year's campaign doesn't have an onion-eating ogre or country music crooners, but it does have quick response codes, food bloggers, tie-in product promotions with some of summer's most familiar flavors, and a consumer contest with a $5,000 outdoor kitchen as a grand prize.
"It's an integrated campaign that marries consumer outreach with retail efforts," Brannen said.
"In the store, the Flavors of Summer campaign grabs the consumers' attention. Then we pull them into the social media aspects," Brannen said.
The committee's Flavors of Summer website is set to go live April 15 — the same day as the Vidalia onion shipping start date. The site will offer consumers recipes, photos of potential tablescapes for outdoor dining, links to Twitter parties with food bloggers and a renewed focus on food via tie-in promotions.
Tie-in partners include Johnsonville Sausage, the National Mango Board, Avocados from Mexico, Stemilt Growers (cherries), Gourmet Garden Spice and the National Watermelon Promotion Board.
Brannen said the committee is paying for targeted advertising in "Cooking With Paula Deen" and Tailgating magazine.
To further the reach of the Flavors of Summer campaign the committee secured Rebecca Lang as a celebrity spokeswoman. Lang is a South Georgia native now based in Athens, Ga.. She writes books and articles about food and has a following on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
"Rebecca is developing a recipe specifically for the Flavors of Summer and will be on tour in select retail markets to demonstrate uses of Vidalia onions," Brannen said.
Real returns for retailers
To encourage retailers to provide premium space for the 2013 crop, the Vidalia Onion Committee is sponsoring a display contest that will award an iPod to the top retail creation.
Retailers can get free point-of-sale materials and additional information from their Vidalia onion suppliers, Brennan said.
Many Vidalia growers and marketers are participating in the Flavors of Summer campaign, including Bland Farms LLC, Glennville.
The company's Vidalia onions account for almost one-fourth of the 12,600 acres certified for production this season.
Bland's director of sales John Cameron said one reason retailers should participate in the promotions is the potential for overall sales increases.
"Retailers should keep a focus on sweet onions year round because consumers who buy sweet onions shop 28% more often and spend 32% more dollars in the store than those who purchase yellow onions," Cameron said.


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Third Northern Virginia Regional Team Deploys to New Orleans
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Third Northern Virginia Regional Team Deploys to New Orleans
Team of 10 brings Northern Virginia
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Another 10 members of the Northern Virginia regional team responding to Hurricane Katrina will depart today for New Orleans. This brings to 24 the number of senior managers from five jurisdictions who have deployed.
The team draws expertise from the City of Alexandria and from Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties. This week's deployments mark the first time a high-level, city-management team of senior officials from the National Capital Region has responded to the needs of another region.
Team members include a county chief information officer, a mental health director, a comptroller, a senior public works official and a regional coordinator from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management. By jurisdiction, they are:
Arlington County
Jack Belcher, chief information officer
Barbara Liechti, county comptroller
Fairfax County
Suzanne Devlin, deputy police chief
Ray Pylant, building official, Department of Public Works and Environmental Services
Loudoun County
Kevin Johnson, emergency management coordinator
Don McGarry, emergency management specialist, Public Works
Roger Biraben, division director, Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse
Prince William County
John Meehan, environmental health manager
Rob Clemons, captain, Fire Department
Virginia Department of Emergency Management
Cindy Causey, Region VII coordinator
The Northern Virginia team will replace emergency managers from North Carolina, who have returned home to respond to Hurricane Ophelia. Other officials from the five jurisdictions are on standby and will be deployed if requested.
Northern Virginia's regional Incident Support Team was activated on Sept. 4 to begin planning a joint response to the region affected by Katrina and to respond to requests for assistance. It will remain staffed for as long as the regional team is deployed. These teams are responding to a request from the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (10-Person Team Deployed on Tuesday, Sept. 13; Additional Members Join Northern Virginia Regional Response.)
Be Ready. Make a Plan
September is National Preparedness Month, and hurricane season extends through Nov. 30. Northern Virginia jurisdictions are reminding the public to "Be Ready. Make a Plan" – the mantra of a region-wide disaster preparedness campaign. For more information, please visit www.makeaplan.org.


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OAKLAND—The first inkling the Raiders scored a direct hit with wide receiver Denarius Moore came during the first week of his rookie training camp in Napa, Calif.
Moore ran a post pattern, turned as the ball arrived, leaped above two defensive backs to snare a pass above the defenders' hands and had the presence of mind to get his feet down before his momentum carried him out of the end zone.
Quarterback Jason Campbell and the rest of the offense sprinted toward the end zone to dish out props to Moore, as then-coach Hue Jackson smiled and let out a loud "Wow!"
This was the kind of celebration typically reserved for regular-season games. Yet, the ease with which Moore made a difficult play look compelled everyone to take note.
Moore went on to make jaw-dropping plays almost on a daily basis throughout his first camp and soon earned a starting spot. Now in his second year, Moore is regarded as Oakland's No. 1 receiver and one of the building blocks for a franchise in the midst of a massive overhaul.
"What he did as a rookie was amazing, not statistically or the numbers, but the big plays that he made in big games," quarterback Carson Palmer said.
"Momentum-changing plays. Big plays in big games. ... That's a big-time receiver in the making, and he's only going to get better."
Moore has recorded 38 receptions for 635 yards and six touchdowns in 11 games this season, and has surpassed Darrius Heyward-Bey as the Raiders go-to receiver.
Not bad for a player that lasted until the fifth round of the 2011 draft despite being the only Division I player with two 200-yard receiving games at Tennessee.
Moore, 6-foot and 195 pounds, is a complete receiver from the standpoint of possessing above-average speed, great hands, the ability to adjust to the ball and the determination to get position on a defender to make a play.
Through it all, Moore takes everything in stride, never one to boast of his accomplishments or complain about how often he gets targeted.
"I surprised myself a little bit, not knowing I was capable of putting up that many numbers," Moore said of his rookie season. "But as far as looking back on it now, I just have to let it go because it's a new year and I expect more from myself, just like the team expects more and the coaches expect more. It's just got to be more."
That's one of the many things that endear Moore to his coaches and teammates. He just wants to make plays whenever he can, even it means returning punts, executing end-arounds or blocking in the running game.
Moore still has room for improvement, as evidenced by his recent slump. He and Palmer too often aren't in synch. Moore tends to get down if he drops a pass he thinks he should have caught.
Palmer says that people tend to forget that Moore still is adjusting to the nuances of playing in the NFL.
"It's easy to forget that he's a second-year guy," Palmer said. "The sky's the limit for him. There's still a lot of room for improvement and he's not going to slack off. He's going to continue to work to get to where he needs to be."
Offensive coordinator Greg Knapp calls Moore a special player from the standpoint that Moore is adept at making significant yards after the catch and he has a knack for finding the end zone.
"He's got a unique ability to be able to make the first (defender) miss," Knapp said. "That makes it awfully hard on defense. It's a special trait he has, and it's awfully hard to coach."
The desire to look at rookies Juron Criner and Rod Streater has cut into Moore's playing time of late. However, that's doesn't take away from the fact that Moore is one of the focal points of the offense for years to come.
Moore said he's focused on developing into a more-reliable receiver and validating the Raiders' faith in him as the go-to receiver.
"That's something that I put upon myself, continue to work harder to be the person that (Palmer) wants me to be and the coaches want me to be, and to help put the team on my shoulders and carry on."


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Top Rabbis and Orthodox Voices
Earlier this week, I wrote about a photograph of a Lubavitch assembly. In response to a comment in our Flickr community, I was doing some research and happened upon a couple of lists about the top 50 most influential rabbis and the top 25 rabbis from the pulpit. Sharon Brous, the Conservative rabbi of IKAR in Los Angeles, from our Days of Awe program was included in both. Not only is she young and vibrant, she's also one of the few women on these lists. She's worth paying attention to in the years to come.
Also, Ari (the aforementioned commenter) encouraged us to speak with some Orthodox Jewish voices for future programs. Perhaps Rabbi Schneerson would be a good biographical portrait to pursue. Any other suggestions? (Note, these don't have to be rabbis.)


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Contentious elderly mother
My mother (85 yrs. old) has become terribly difficult to spend time with. Occasionally, she is happy and laughing; however, most of the time, she is critical of most everything I do (taking care of myself, my husband, my children, buying groceries, driving, being involved in church work, talking with friends, not taking her with me everywhere I go, & on & on). (I am her 63 yrs. old daughter) She refuses to see that anything is of her own doing, but blames everyone else for her problems. I try, in a loving way, asking her what is going on, but she just blames me for "starting it". She will be so nasty one second and the next, she`s as sweet as honey, bringing baked goods to me. It`s such an emotional rollercoaster. Can you help me? Thank you! Incidentally, this isn`t anything new in her behavior, it`s been going on for years.
Your note indicates that although your mother is contentious, there is no significant change in her behavior as she ages. It is a challenge to cope with our loved ones as they grow older while we attempt to help them to the best of our ability. It sounds as if there might be a change in the coping patterns you have used over the years as you have managed interactions with your mother. Perhaps something has changed for you as you indicate concern about your mother's behavior. If your mother belongs to a faith-based community or has a confidant she trusts, it is sometimes helpful to work through those individuals to ensure her needs are met. Experience with older people and families has indicated that this approach is effective for some older people and families who are challenged in interactions with older parents.
It sounds like you may find help for your situation by talking to others or reading about those who are experiencing similar situations. It would be helpful to contact your area agency on aging (usually in the local phone book) to ask about referrals to agencies and individuals who are helpful in connecting family members to professionals for assistance in advising family members on how to manage contentious situations.
If you have been experiencing this behavior for years, your mother's behavior as she ages will probably not change significantly. As we grow older, sometimes our coping with situations and behaviors changes and we may need some help in managing our reactions to behaviors that we were able to manage when we were younger. If you are an internet user, you may find some online resources as well by searching "dealing with with aging parents". Many websites with helpful information exist. A book recommendation: "You and Your Aging Parents", Amazon.com, may also be helpful.
Hopefully, this information will be of some assistance to you. Perhaps talking to someone in your faith-based community or professionals who assist children of aging parents will provide some help and support for you as you deal with these behaviors and other aging issues that your mother may experience.
Evelyn L Fitzwater, DSN, RN
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I'm fairly certain I was the third person on this board, behind Hicks and Jose Slaughter.
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I believe I was invited in by Jose Slaughter. RATS was crazy at that time, and it got even worse after the exodus, going from arbitrary over-moderation to none whatsoever. I think the admins have either gotten a lot better with more experience, or maybe I've just grown up a bit. Either way, the admins are now top notch, and as a result, people who are disruptive seem to be quickly and politely dealt with. I don't post as much as I used to, now that I have kids and a career, but I always think of PD as my go-to for educated Pacers/NBA discussion.
I somehow got here from the ESPN Pacers board a long, long time ago. I can't recall how I found it, but I imagine someone that was on here probably found me on the ESPN board and brought me over. I clearly don't post much.
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OK here is the really short version. Once Upon a Time there was a poster named Tim who used to come to forum parties, he was a huge Al Harrington fan. We just so happen to have a forum party on the night that the Pacers traded Al Harrington. Although it wasn't really that long ago, no one knew about the trade until suaveness walked in and told us the pacers traded Al. Well Tim was distraught the rest of the night. (hard to believe that none of us were tuned into the trade until suave walked in, I guess smart phones weren't the same back then)
OK, so a few hours later we all get up to leave, and a few of us are outside talking in front of the Pizza King (in the parking lot) which affords a good view of the Burlington Coat Factory. Tim gets in his car and drives towards the BCF, he wasn't driving fast or anything, but from our angle it really loooked like he was going to collide into the front of the building of BCF. Obviously he turned away from the building and Tim was safe and sound. But it really did look there for a few seconds that Tim was driving right into the front entrance of the BCF - we figured he was so upset about Al being traded he must have decided life wasn't worth living.
The car wasn't speeding towards BCF, looked like Tim was so upset he didn't have the energy even to drive fast into the building.
Really you had to be there. It really was funny - really it was. And it has made for a good stories all these years.
edit, i didn't notice the version right before my post. Oh well you have two versions of it
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Thanks for the responses, all.
I've enjoyed this board so far. I tend to get burned out and/or bored with most message boards I try (with the exception of one particular baseball MB that I have been frequenting for 11 years).
My only criticism (which could be taken as a compliment) is that this board almost seems too busy and hard to keep up with at times.
"Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." Kevin Pritchard press conference
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
"Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." Kevin Pritchard press conference
Hicks might not remember this and maybe it's a figment of my imaginiation but I remember introducing Hicks to proboards as I had just created a board on there. Anyways, I still check this board every single day even though I don't post hardly at all anymore. It's awesome to see where we were 10 years ago and where we are today.
It should be a testament to how great this board is when people like me, who haven't met anyone on here and hardly ever posts, feel like they are apart of the PD family.
I started reading the STAR board during the crazy 2003 offseason which saw the re-signing of JO and Reggie, the hiring of Bird, and the trading of Brad Miller for Scot Pollard. The offseason got even more crazy when we fired Zeke and hired Carlisle, which was right around the time this board was created, IIRC. I'm proud to say that I joined at the very beginning and have been here ever since. It's without question one of the best sports message boards I've ever run across.
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
"Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." Kevin Pritchard press conference
I joined the Indiana's Game board, which I think is what it was called at the time in very early 1994. I'm pretty sure it was March it had been around about a month before I started on it, I had been on compuserv and found out there that the Star/News were going to start a web board. Scott H or Skaut ech as I think he is called now was certainly there before me.
However I would guess that I am probably the oldest active member still left from the early star board. Owl might be in at around the same time as me or he might have been there before I'm not sure when you get to my age your memory starts to go to hell.
What's sad is that in reality up until that last year or so the star board was pretty good. We had trolls of course but generally we were able to keep them in their place. But fortunately when the board did tank big time, which it did, Hicks and Shade gave us all a newer better home.
This place is an oasis from most of the online sites in the world. I am member of a board for my chosen profession and it is filled with years and years of experience and expertise and it is also one of the worst boards I've ever been on. Childish name calling and bickering to no end.
Hicks early on set the tone that we were all going to try and be civil to one another and over the years I think the board has been just that. Early on as a member I appreciated the fact that I could criticize certain players (Jermaine O'Neal) and others weren't going to just verbally flame me without using logic and reason. Then later as a moderator myself I've tried to really uphold that ideal.
Are we perfect? No but I do think that 90+% of the time that we get it right. And by saying we I mean we as the collective not the admins.
Honestly over the years of helping out with the board, first for Hicks and now for Shade, I can say that the board really almost runs itself. On occasion we have to step in but I'm telling you the amount of both posts and traffic on here that the times we step in are very minuscule.
We honestly have some of the best posters on the internet and in my mind some of the most knowledgeable posters about both the NBA and basketball.
Proof in my mind that we are generally a civil society is that we have a couple of long tenured posters who are not even Pacers fans who call this site home. Sure they have had their run ins with some posters but if it was so miserable on them here they would have left but they are some of our biggest and best contributors on the site.
I'm not trying to just blow smoke up people's butts here, this site would not exist without all of us working together to make it happen.
Also I would be remiss without saying that we all owe Able a great deal of thanks, in fact we will never be able to repay him for what he has done (for free I might add). Thanks to Roaming Gnome one time posting photo's of Lucas Oil Stadium before it was open he drew so much traffic here that it actually crashed Able's servers. Also ask me about the time Gnome boo'd the national anthem.
By the time I started posting at Star due to getting temp booted from a non-sports forum thanks to Brawl related off-topic fight threads all of the core PD people had already left, so I didn't know about it. Some guys that were still doing both sites started pestering me to switch over, but with so many friends at Star I was reluctant and didn't feel like i could double post like that (feels redundant).
In the meantime some Star troll went over to PD using my user name and acted the fool. So someone comes to Star and asks me via PM if that's me and what's up. Of course it wasn't. By the time I made the leap the old NaptownSeth was booted, but it caused a lot of confusion because people thought I was that same poster.
And then since then, not due to that, I have gotten some wrist slaps like Anthem has. It sucks but ultimately I prefer that to non-moderation. I don't really get why people get bent out of shape over a general sense of decorum and control. There are good reasons to avoid 9 million duplicate topic threads and I'm glad PD enforces those kinds of rules.
Plus - Pictures, sigs and thread histories that aren't erased every month or so. Pet peeve at Star was someone mouthing off a ridiculous prediction and by the time it could be judged the entire thread was long gone. I like that your words can haunt you here because hopefully it makes people a bit more cautious with what they say.
For the longest time I thought that the old poster was you.
Guess it shows I am kind of slow, but I only recently realized the other poster was banned and you made a refrence in another post to the other one
These past history threads always bring me back to some great posters no longer here. How dare they let life intrude on their fandom.
I do wonder what happened to posters like TWES, Putnam, Spicoli, Gyron, and McClintic Sphere.
You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....
Not that anyone cares, but I think I joined this board in around 2004 or 2005. I was at BSU at the time I know that. I used to be FeistyFoster but I think I got banned for something, but was able to rejoin later on. Never been to a forum party, but the stalker side of me have seen some of the members at games. Just too afraid to talk to someone, not 100% sure if it is them or not lol.
I like "FeistyFoster." For the record, names with "Pacer" in them seem to all run together.
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I am wondering where Graham is these days???
I may be talking about a thread from like 04-05 when I first joined, or maybe it was when I was in college, but I definitely remember that thread.
Weird the random **** you remember
I'm a pretty mellow guy, but I'm not good at letting idiocy go unchallenged.
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