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Taken with a digital camera that was purely on auto-focus (hence all the blurry moments), I snagged the player introductions and a message by Jim O'Brien.
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Taken with a digital camera that was purely on auto-focus (hence all the blurry moments), I snagged the player introductions and a message by Jim O'Brien.
Was that this evening questionmark
My shift keys don't work for some reason...
edit; thanks for the video btw
Wow, Rush walks oddly...
Yes that was this evening.
Actually, I have one other video to share. I was at the dribble-thon (or whatever it was called), and was very close to the players as we dribbled:
I was a yard behind Marquis Daniels the whole way. Pretty cool.
Thanks, Mal. Excellent work as always.
I was somewhat disappointed with the fanjam this year. The lack of enthusiasm was definitely felt. My kids and I really miss the scrimmage, we always thought that was the best part. Just my two cents!
Thanks for the Vid. . I'm glad I was able to hear That JOB speech!!
The free basketball and shirts were cool though
I signed up for that and was going to go to the fan jam but was unable to go. I had to go over to my uncle's house for a party with all the family. i was really bummed out because i looked forward to the fan jam
Im disappointed that it was so late in the month too
thanks for those videos though
[/center]If you havin' depth problems, I feel bad for you son; I got 99 problems but a bench ain't one! - Hicks
i love how at essentially a pep rally, jim has to even qualify his pumping up the fans: "every practice...with maybe the exception of two...have been all out effort." he certainly is a straight shooter.
oh and are we retiring freddie's jersey or something?
This is the darkest timeline.
Fan Jam, talk about a real downer. Mal and I both noticed this was the smallest Fan Jam crowd that we have ever seen, but the most chilling moment was when Jim O'Brien asked the crowd who was going to be at the Fieldhouse on Wednesday. Mal and myself yelled a bit, but were almost immediatly in shock to find out that we were nearly alone in that regard. Very few in that crowd actually intended to show Wednesday.
As far as Fan Jam went, I really felt disappointed in how they changed it. In the past they would introduce the team, play a scrimage then it would be the annual rookie/newcommer's talent show hosted by J.O. (formerly Reggie).
This year, it was quite different. The festivities started out with a basketball dribbling parade from Monument Circle to the Fieldhouse at 4pm with actual events at the Fieldhouse starting at 5p. Well, at 5 there was a speech by coach John Wooden on the Jumbotron. After the speech they announced the full lineup of the coaches and team. Coach O'Brien gave a pretty good speech about how he feels proud of this team and how the guys have said to a man that, "this was the toughest training camp they've ever been thru". There was a shooting contest with audience and players. The first team to make a lay-up, free throw, 3pt shot & a half court shot would win. Kareem Rush would nail his first attempt at the half court shot to win. Next, they announced and interviewed the legends in the house: Mel Daniels, George McGinnis, Oscar Robertson, Darnell Hillman and LaSalle Thompson. McGinnis, Hillman and Daniels were interviewed together. In another interview break, Oscar Robertson did an uncomfortable one on one interview with Chris Daneri. Denari wanted to talk about the social changes that his Attucks team had brought about, but Oscar seemed rather uncomfortable to me. Larry Bird also did a one on one "fluffy" interview. The other skills contest was a loose take-off of the All Star game 2ball competition and a free throw shooting contest that put 1 legend, 3 pacer players and a audience member together to see which team could hit 15 free throws first. The event that seemed to be a real winner with the crowd was the "Simon Says" contest with that Steve Max fella. They pitted the players versus kids from the audience. He first went to the Pacers and eliminated them down to assistant coach Lester Connor then paired down the children to what looked like a 7 year old. Steve gave a few commands then called the game a draw between the 7 year old and asst. coach. A lot of the Pacers managed to get eliminated rather quickly with the exception of Jeff Foster, Andre Owens, Dunleavy, and of course Lester Connor. Cocah O'brien looked shocked and unamused that he had to participate, but was a good sport being eliminated early on.
The speeches were nice and all, but it just felt like all that didn't fit on this night. With so many youngsters in the crowd, it got really hard to hear the speeches because the kids didn't know these figures and could care less about showing them the respect they deserved, so that made it very hard to listen and pay attn to what they were saying. My own 6 year old daughter was rather board and tonight is usually about the kids.
...Still "flying casual"
I took a few pictures, which I've posted here:
The kids and I had fun. They got their basketballs signed by Boomer, Bowser and Freddie Fever. They high-fived most of the players and Coach O'Brien. Simon Says cracked them up. They were amazed that Kareem Rush hit the half court shot on his first try. They got pretzels and popcorn and Sierra Mist. They got some chuckles when Mel Daniels said "Slick said if I took any more long shots he'd punch me in the nose." Danny singled my daughter out of the crowd (she was wearing #33) and threw her a mini-ball. A big time was had by all..........
I'm a little concerned about how small the crowd will be for the opener. And starting on Halloween doesn't help at all, and the Wiz aren't much of a draw. It will be the smallest opening crowd in many years.
Yeah, even the players seeemed un-enthused with the speeches. The "old" player that seemed to get one of the biggest ovations was Tank. That was awesome. Although, Slick got a larger ovation as well, as well as Larry and the Big "O".This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I personally was hoping for Reggie, but that was for naught and a bit of a downer.
Did anybody else notice Jamaal wearing flip flops, while the rest of the players wore regular sneakers. I thought that was kind of cheap.
At the end, Dun Dun looked right at me and through a mini ball right too me. That was kind of cool (I thought). The Steve max thing seemed to be the players most fun.
All together though it was a very good try by the Pacers to start investing back in the fans. I'll give them credit. Wish we could have seen more of Stacey Paetz, although she was sitting right in front of me, I didnt have the courage to go ask for an autograph from her.
Go Pacers!
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Well the Pacers are no longer kid friendly. Opening night on Halloween....No trick or treat for you
Yeah, at the end, Obie asked the crowd who all was going to be there Wednesday night for the opener and it was a very low number that raised their hand (maybe 25% of 5000 people). I know most of the people there were probably there for the dribble parade and the free FanJam though.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Communications Crosslink between Northrop Grumman-Built STSS Satellites Extends Real-Time 'Stereo Tracking' of Space Objects
REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (April 11, 2011) -- The communications crosslink between the twin Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration satellites, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), has shown its effectiveness in transmitting high-precision, real-time missile tracking data to the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS).
The radio frequency (RF) crosslink enabled both STSS satellites to simultaneously acquire and track a resident space object (RSO), with only one satellite in communication with the ground Jan. 10. The RSO was a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather satellite that acted as a surrogate for a cold missile against cold space.
During that exercise, the STSS ground segment fused 2-D data from each satellite in real time to form a "stereo" or 3-D picture of the "battle space" surrounding the NOAA satellite for more than five minutes, explained Doug Young, vice president of missile defense and warning programs for Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems sector. Combined tracking from both spacecraft lasted more than 17 minutes, he said.
"Stereo tracking of missiles represents a new capability," Young said. "Such high-precision, high-quality track information allows the STSS demonstrators to close the fire control loop with missile defense system interceptors from space. STSS continues to prove that space sensors provide the most cost-effective and operationally suitable means for global, persistent surveillance and engagement."
While one of the spacecraft was commanded to acquire and track the RSO, the second satellite was commanded to track the RSO via the crosslink. The resulting track data was returned via the crosslink. Track data from both STSS satellites were fused into a 3-D track at the STSS ground station.
Data also was passed in real time from the STSS ground station to Northrop Grumman's External Sensors Laboratory, where missile tracking data is processed and stored. The ground station and lab are in Colorado Springs, Colo.
The Missile Defense Agency is pursuing the STSS Demonstration program as a space-based sensor component of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. The satellites are demonstrating the ability of a space sensor to provide high-precision, real-time tracking of missiles and midcourse objects, enabling simultaneous regional, theater and strategic missile defense.
Data from STSS testing is validating the ability to track cold, midcourse objects and close the fire control loop with BMDS interceptors from space. The STSS satellites provide missile defense sensor risk-reduction concepts to support development and fielding of future operational missile defense satellite constellation.
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide. Please visit www.northropgrumman.com for more information.
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View of the interior of Andrew's Chapel from the rear left side of the building. The chapel is empty.;The Andrews Chapel was built in 1923 in memory of Isaac H. Andrews through a bequest to the Board of Selectman from his wife Ellen E. Andrews. Mr. Andrews had served as a town assessor and on the Board of Selectman. The chapel was designed by Charles V. Burgess. "The building is of Norman Gothic design and constructed of seam-faced granite, which, together with the many buttresses, gives artistic appearance to the exterior walls. The roof is heavy variegated slate and all the flashings are of lead and copper. The exterior ornament of the building is of cut limestone." The chapel is located in the cemetary and in recent years has fallen into disrepair.--Jean F. Reardon, from Swampscott, Massachusetts : celebrating 150 years, 1852-2002, Swampscott Historical Commission, 2002 and --from Images of America : Swampscott, Turino and Mathias, 1996.
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If you could, what players would you take in place of our current starters? IOW, what are all the players that would be considered "upgrades" over who we already have, at their respective positions?
C - Dale Davis
PF - Jermaine O'Neal
SF - Ron Artest
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Sauteed Spinach with Parmesan and Pine Nuts
(original recipe by Kalyn, 2-3 servings)
1 bunch fresh spinach
1 T plus 2 tsp. extra virgin olive oil
(or slightly more, depending on your pan)
about 1 tsp. best quality balsamic vinegar (or more to taste)
salt, fresh ground pepper to taste
2 T freshly grated parmesan cheese (coarsely grated is best)
2 T toasted pine nuts (here's a link to how to toast pine nuts)
This would be a perfect side dish for any phase of The South Beach Diet. It's not super low in fat for a vegetable dish, but the olive oil and pine nuts are considered "good" fat. The parmesan cheese does have some saturated fat, but it only takes a small amount to add a lot of flavor.


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I don't want anything to do with OJ Mayo or Al Jefferson, unless we get them for cheap, i.e. cap relief and spare parts.
They play little to no defense. Nor do they care to. No Thanks.
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I don't want anything to do with OJ Mayo or Al Jefferson, unless we get them for cheap, i.e. cap relief and spare parts.
They play little to no defense. Nor do they care to. No Thanks.
They may want to cut salary but they would want a pretty good package for Iggy. IF we put two first round picks on the table that may swing things.
Next question. Would you rather have Josh Smith or Iggy?
I ask this because I highly doubt we can get both.
Josh Smith would immediately become our starting PF if he arrived in town tomorrow night.
But with that said, I'm not in love with his game, either. Not unless I have several people tell me that he's really good at guarding big men on the low block. I've always thought of him as a terrific weak side defender, but nothing special one-on-one in the post. He's not exactly an ideally-sized PF, though he does have really good hops.
6'9'' 240 is a pretty excellent sized PF when you factor in his athleticism
That's my guess. 6'9 and 240 is fine for a PF.
I don't know. He looks 6'9" as much as Tyler looks 6'9".
He measured 6'7" barefoot, 6'8.25" in shoes. Of course, that was seven years ago and he was 18 years old at the time. Tyler was 6'8.25" barefoot, 6'9.5" in shoes.
Dalembert is an interesting name and one that crossed my mind the
other day when thinking through reasonably priced, athletic 'bigs'
whom could back up Hibbs at the 5 and play some sparse mins at
4 in a pinch and will be available.
He's a bit older (at almost 30) than is ideal. But he's about as good
a fit as their is in terms of size, skill-set and importantly, his
likely price tag.
I dont think 30 is bad at all considering how this team needs some veteran leadership. IDK if Dalembert is a leader or not. Isnt he the one that used to get made fun of for being a little lazy? I might have him mixed up with someone else but this is more than a few years back.
I'm know I've mentioned Dalembert myself before too, but I'm a bit pessimistic since I think someone might overpay him. Overall, far from impressive performance during his current contract. But the last few months, he's been tearing it up.
I wonder what salary he will command. At midlevel would be a nice signing. Otherwise I'd rather look elsewhere.
Dalembert will be a free agent, but is currently making 12.2M. I don't think he will be a reasonably priced backup at all. I think he will be way to expensive for a backup role and if acquired, would cause cap room dollars to run short in other areas of need.
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The bolded part is a very good point, particularly when talking about Hibbert. The appeal of going after Josh Smith is as much about "fit" as it is talent. Giving up Hibbert in the deal would negate a lot of the positive impact, because a lot of the appeal is about how well Josh Smith fits with Hibbert in your potential front court.
If you can get a player who is both a great "fit" and a big talent upgrade, you do it... no questions asked. However, I don't think Hansbrough and a first are enough to get the job done.
As stated in the original article, Atlanta is looking to shed cap space and hopefully fill multiple positions by trading Smith. Their weak positions are center... and point guard. Kirk Hinrich is their current starter and their backup Jeff Teauge has been a bit of a draft disappointment.
I think offering a deal of Collison and Hansbrough, with the added incentive of being able to absorb Josh Smith's contract for immediate cap relief, would be a fairly reasonable offer for Smith. This fills a position of need for Atlanta (PG), without sacrificing front court depth (Hansbrough), and giving them the cap flexibility to pursue a center in the off season, thusly allowing them to move Horford to PF as they have long desired.
This leaves the Pacers with a hole at PG, but with your first round pick still in hand, swinging a deal for a player like Raymond Felton becomes a reasonable possibility. You still have the capability to absorb contracts and provide immediate cap relief to another team. For Denver, who's PG of the future is clearly Ty Lawson, getting out of Felton's contract and simultaneously gaining a mid first round pick would be very appealing... a mid first round pick that could be used to acquire a new back up PG.
Felton, while a slight offensive downgrade from Collison, is a defensive upgrade, a better passing PG, and a better leader with more veteran experience... resulting in an overall upgrade of the position.
The current "arm chair GM" scenario I have laid out, would leave the Pacers with a starting lineup looking something like this...
Raymond Felton
Paul George
Danny Granger
Josh Smith
Roy Hibbert
That is an off season I would be pretty happy with.
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Dalembert should be a piece we could add if we are willing to spend 6 to 7 million for a backup Center and for anyone who quotes his previous salary it was obvious that he was overpaid by the Sixers and he won't even sniff that type of contract again.
Dalembert would be an upgrade over Jeff Foster and he has the potential to be a starting Center if Hibbert is traded for Josh Smith. I wouldn't prefer that trade but he would be a good fit if we traded for Al Jefferson too. People think he is just a backup center now but his per 36 stats are the same as when he was with the sixers in 06-07. If we wanted to play old school tough nose ball then I wouldn't mind him on our team with a possible coach like Mike Brown who would utilize his strengths on defense.
Edit: I should also mention that a Tyler Dalembert combo would be pretty good as well.
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The problem I have had with Dalembert is that he always thinks he is a lot better than he really is. I have heard on numerous occassions that he gets pissy about his playing time, but he is not good enough to come in and make those commands here. Especially not over Hibbert who has a much better offensive game, but isn't quite as active defensively. I think Dalembert would want to go to one of the numerous teams in desperate need of a center where he will start. He won't be a Pacer.
Please and thank you!
You can have whoever you want except Paul George and Tyler Hansbrough.
Honestly, I think Danny and Joe Johnson would make a solid 1 2 punch. Give them Danny and give us Josh Smith.
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AT&T today announced an agreement with OnStar, LLC, a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation (GM), to wirelessly deliver an enhanced suite of safety, security, diagnostic and infotainment services to most Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles, beginning in 2014 in the United States and Canada. The multi-year agreement calls for AT&T to enable millions of GM cars, trucks and crossovers with 4G LTE mobile Internet access, providing the latest wireless technology to power GM's safety and security services offered by OnStar, as well as a new suite of infotainment services like streaming audio, web access, applications, and even video for backseat passengers. AT&T will also enable GM's in-vehicle Wi-Fi hotspots and voice calling services.
"By adding a fast, reliable and built-in 4G LTE connection specifically designed for vehicles, we can drive innovation to enhance virtually every aspect of the driving and riding experience – from safety and diagnostics to entertainment to integration of emerging third-party applications," said Mary Chan, president, Global Connected Consumer, General Motors. "Through this built-in 4G LTE connection we have the opportunity to reinvent the mobile experience inside a vehicle."
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A new proposal from the Republicans! Yipee! Still no actual offer to raise taxes. Just tax reform.
I reiterate that anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist will not let the Republicans out of their pledge to vote against any tax increase ever. Norquist is demanding that all talks be televised, no doubt, so he can finish off any Republican who violates the pledge.
To me, this new proposal once again demonstrates that there can be no Vacation Without Legislation. At the same time, the Republicans and the Democrats are each daring the other to let the fiscal cliff come and go. Then the Republicans can fight for lower taxes for all they can get and be champions to everyone. The Democrats can claim that the Republicans gave you the recession we are likely to get.
One thing is certain, the strength of the anti-tax-increase pledge among the Republicans, I think, has gotten stronger. Those who are thinking impure thoughts, again, to quote Norquist, have gotten back in line.
The window is closing just when it should be opening. But how can it not when Republicans are afraid to even mention the words "tax" and "increase" in the same sentence unless it is to say "over my dead body"?


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Comments submitted to the Transportation Security Administration about the proposal to enact rules mandating new security processes for aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight of more than 12,500 pounds are universally against the regulations. Some comments reflect obvious frustration about the public's chance of preventing this rule from being enacted, summarizing their feelings with broad statements such as "this [expletive deleted] sucks." Others offer more focused critiques of the rule, ranging from questions about specific aspects to wondering whether the proposed rules are constitutional.
The rules propose the creation of a large aircraft security program (LASP), which would require operators of any aircraft with an mtow greater than 12,500 pounds to create a security program subject to biennial third-party audits; to have flight crew undergo FBI criminal history and fingerprint checks; to have all passengers, including the owner, checked against the TSA's watch lists; and to hire and train an in-house security coordinator.
The question of whether the TSA has the power to force the owner of a private conveyance–a business jet–to comply with these proposed regulations may be moot. The agency is simply following a mandate from its boss, the U.S. Congress, which in the panic following the 9/11 attacks passed the Aviation Transportation and Security Act. The act requires the newly formed TSA to "assess threats to transportation" and "develop policies, strategies and plans for dealing with threats to transportation security." No one can argue that the LASP doesn't do just that.
The volume of comments has grown rapidly since the TSA formally placed the LASP proposal on the Federal Register. As of mid-November, the total number of comments exceeded 400.
While the comments give insight into what aviation industry participants think about the LASP, it is interesting that of the comments reviewed for this article, little mention was made of the proposed biennial audit requirement. What is unusual about this part of the LASP is that it appears to be a new feature of a government regulation applicable to the aviation industry, the requirement that a third party audit the aircraft operator's security program.
Audits Create a New Burden for Operators
These audits would be paid for by the aircraft operator, and they would take about two days, according to experts AIN consulted. The cost would likely be in the thousands of dollars per year, thus adding yet more expenses to the operation of these aircraft. No FAA operational regulations call for a third-party audit similar to that spelled out in the TSA LASP. And the need for an audit is in any case questionable. The aviation industry as a whole is highly compliance-oriented. "Honest people comply with the regulations," explained Jacqueline Rosser, National Air Transportation Association (NATA) director of regulatory affairs, "because it's the right thing to do and because of the 'potential' for enforcement action."
The need for the biennial audit is therefore questionable because, Rosser pointed out, there is no statute of limitations on FAA and TSA regulations and these government agencies can go after a non-compliant operation at any time. Of more importance, she added, "is that inspection and enforcement are inherently governmental functions. If the TSA wants to determine my level of compliance, it needs to come and check my operation out for itself."
Eric Byer, NATA vice president of government and industry affairs, echoed that sentiment, noting that the TSA doesn't charge airlines for security, but in the LASP proposes that operators of certain aircraft flown under FAA Part 91 regulations pay for what the TSA should be doing.
"The fact that the TSA is mandating the use of an outside party to enforce regulations is unprecedented," agreed Andy Cebula, AOPA executive vice president of government affairs. "When the FAA allows delegation authority it is normally to speed up the process of having an FAA inspector actually perform the required responsibility, so it is optional if you want to use a check airman, as an example. The TSA, however, is mandating the use of a third party both for the inspections and the checks against the terrorist watch list."
The NBAA Web site contains a lot of information on the LASP and how it will affect operators, including a detailed analysis as well as a worksheet on questions raised by the TSA and a mechanism to help members respond to those questions in their comments.
On the question of the TSA audit's being a new process for Part 91 operators, NBAA senior vice president of operations Steve Brown said for business aviation, "the idea of audits is not uncommon." Some examples of audit-like requirements include the biennial flight review and medical certification or audits conducted for voluntary programs like the IS-BAO or SMS standards programs. In any case, regulated entities, he added, are always audited in different ways by the regulator for compliance with regulations, whether in aircraft certification, pilot licensing or operating rules.
How the audit portion of the LASP rules turns out won't be known until the rule is closer to its final form, and it could end up requiring audits of a smaller portion of the regulated population of nearly 10,000 operators. And what the TSA does with the audit information is also still up in the air. "All of that is as yet undefined," Brown said. "It's dependent upon the regulators' approach to auditing and enforcement and also upon the underlying regulations associated with the audit."
While the TSA seems determined to push this rule through–TSA secretary Michael Chertoff has been talking about these rules for more than a year–the aviation industry might find some comfort in what President-elect Barack Obama said in response to questions submitted by AOPA: "As I develop homeland security policies, I will always keep in mind that to impinge on the rights of our own citizens or restrict the freedoms for which our nation stands would be to give terrorists the victory they seek."
Given the TSA's recent announcement that it has extended the comment period to Feb. 27, 2009, further developments of the LASP proposal will fall under the Obama administration and the rules may yet be modified.


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The Ong Center > Walter J. Ong S.J. Biography and Remembrances > Philip Marchand's Remembrance
August 23, 2003
In a way, last week's power outage came at a lucky time for me. I was at home, reading a book. All in the line of duty, of course--it was David Adams Richards' new novel River of the Brokenhearted, which I was reviewing for tomorrow's paper. What I noticed particularly when the power went off was a feeling of freedom. I was off the grid, and it was just fine. I could continue what I was doing.
What a beautiful technology printed books are. People who say books should all be put on computer disks to save space are nuts. It's like saying that in order to save closet space we should all wear on-piece Star Trek uniforms. Fashion writers call those clothes retro-future. That's what e-books are, retro-future. It will be a sad day when, in order to "access" a book, we have to push a button and wait for an electronic noise to tell us the thing is working.
The other medium of communication available during the blackout was radio. The first night, I joined my neighbors on their front porch to enjoy the starlit night and listen to a transistor radio for news of the blackout. It reminded me that Marshall McLuhan used to call the radio "the tribal drum." In Understanding Media he wrote, "One of the many effects of television on radio has been to shift radio from an entertainment medium into a kind of nervous information system. News bulletins, time signals, traffic updates, and, above all, weather reports now serve to enhance the native power of radio to involve people in one another."
So we listened to the drum beat, a little group involved with each other and rather liking it, for the time being. But McLuhan's use of the word "nervous" in the phrase "nervous information system" is telling. You always feel some relief when a radio is turned off, as if your nervous system is getting a breather.
By coincidence, the saddest news of last week had nothing to do with the blackout, but with the death of a man who, like McLuhan, was always fascinated with the effects of technology on the human nervous system. He was a Jesuit priest named Walter Ong, and he spent most of his life teaching in the English Department of St. Louis University. His range of interest was much wider and deeper than English Lit, however. "His writings and lectures explored the transition of communication from its pre-literate beginnings to its current reliance on radio, television and the Internet," is how the obituary in the Los Angeles Times put it.
Ong, in fact, was a student of McLuhan's, when the latter was also teaching in the English department of St. Louis University. That was back in 1938. "One thing I got from McLuhan was that you couldn't understand the present without the past, and you couldn't understand the past unless you understood the present, because all your questions come from the present." Ong said to me when I visited him years ago. That was a very McLuhanesque statement in its teasing, oracular quality.
Ong was a small, neat, polite man who fit the image of a priest and scholar. In some ways, this made him very unlike his famous teacher, who was tall, rambunctious, perpetually restless and talkative. McLuhan was never afraid to annoy people, and in fact seemed to relish it at times.
When a posse of academics was hot on his trail, he would head them off with his arsenal of bad jokes, quips and highly provocative assertions. The best description I've read of his style comes from a recent book about James Joyce, The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake, written by his son, Eric McLuhan. In that book, Eric McLuhan cites the role of the Cynic philosopher in ancient Greece: "Cynic philosophers behaved outrageously and scandalously not to satisfy some merely private whim or need but to use street theatre. . . so to jolt the sensibilities of the crowd or passers-by as to freshen awareness."
Anybody who ever watched McLuhan address audiences by starting out with a string of politically incorrect jokes will recognize that description. One thing this style meant, however, was that McLuhan rarely had the patience to sit down and write conventional academic books. That task he left to his students. Of al the students he ever taught over more than four decades, McLuhan regarded two as supremely serious and talented. One was Hugh Kenner, a fellow Canadian from Peterborough who turned out to be one of the greatest academic literary critics of the 20th century. The other was Ong.
Ong did have the patience and temperament to write the books on media that developed McLuhan's insights while satisfying, at the same time, the academic requirement for careful scholarship and reasonably coherent argument. He wrote more than 20 such books in his long career, which was nearly as illustrious as Kenner's. One of the best was a book entitled Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, published in 1982, two years after McLuhan's death.
In this book, Ong made the point that we can barely imagine what it must be like to use words in a culture without writing--we have grown so used to thinking of words as visual symbols as well as utterances. Because of this difficulty in recapturing the feeling of a totally "oral" culture, we have carelessly viewed writing as simply an extension or amplification of speech. Ong pointed out, however, that writing changed every aspect of how humans experienced the world. "More than any other single invention," Ong stated, "writing has transformed human consciousness."
Our habit of classifying things, of analyzing what we see and hear, is impossible without writing. Science is impossible without writing. "Human beings in primary oral cultures, those untouched by writing in any form, learn a great deal and possess and practice great wisdom, but they do not 'study,'" Ong wrote. Writing made it possible for human beings to gain a sense of distance from their own thoughts, by putting those thoughts in a visible, exterior form. It also made it possible for human beings to free themselves from the grip of the tribe. The first occasion a human being put his or her thoughts in writing set in motion a process that ended in the concept of "privacy."
All this is very interesting. What's even more interesting is the question of what is happening to our culture now that new media of communication have succeeded writing and print technology. Radio and television re-introduce the primacy of the spoken word. Are we doomed therefore to fall back into the old tribal swamp?
Ong called the culture of the new technology "secondary orality, " and had several interesting things to say about it. First of all, he pointed out that secondary orality does not replace literacy, but it is built on it. Remove writing and print, and we don't have radio, television or computers.
This new orality is also much more deliberate and self-conscious than the old orality. It has generated a renewed group sense, for example, but it's almost a dutiful group sense--we've all got to be "socially conscious." Politicians are now public speakers to a much wider audience than ever before, but our political debates lack the robust antagonism of previous eras--we make sure that election debates on television are extremely dull. Even American "talk shows" that feature politicians and pundits supposedly getting all worked up and interrupting each other are in fact carefully orchestrated occasions that keep everything under control.
Reading and writing remain the bedrock of our culture, which is why middle-class parents are still extremely anxious about the ability of their children to absorb this skill. They are not pleased, for example, when their kids can't spell correctly, despite the reassurances of progressive educators that this is not important.
Ong wrote movingly about members of cultures without writing--cultures that, in compensation, have a great sense of spontaneity and immediacy and the charm of the spoken utterance--discovering the powers of literacy. "This awareness is agony for persons rooted in primary orality, who want literacy passionately but who also know very well that moving into the exciting world of literacy means leaving behind much that is exciting and deeply loved in the earlier oral world. We have to die to continue living."
That is eloquently put. But it raises the question of what exactly we are leaving behind when we embrace electronic media of communication. Despite Ong's reassurances, we now we are leaving behind something. What in us is dying so that we may live in the world of television and computers?


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Photo Gallery: Architect David Zacharko's Projects
Take in modern, west coast designs.
Bring cosy, personal elements into a builder-basic condo.
"This was a renovation to a typical 1980s wood-frame condo in Whistler," says interior designer David Yustin of David Zacharko Architect. "Two single guys wanted a rustic but swanky pad to entertain family and friends." These worn leather armchairs add a cosy, textured element to the living room, and a set of Eames dining chairs and unique pendant light add contemporary style.
See more of David Zacharko and David Yustin's designs in our photo gallery.
Strong modern lines contrast stunningly with wild, rugged nature.
Overlooking West Vancouver's Bachelor Bay, this custom-built, three-storey house appears to emerge from the rock.
A glass terrace wraps around the home, offering views of the water.
When architect David Zacharko conceived his initial concept for this waterfront holiday home with his partner David Yustin, he drew on his travels to California, Hawaii and Southeast Asia. "In those places, walls don't exist between the outside and inside," he explains. They don't seem to exist in this home, either — a breathtaking structure that seems to float on water or air, depending on where you stand.
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There's no need for a patio umbrella when surrounding firs offer shade and greenery.
On the main level, custom-made glass doors disappear into pockets in the wall to fully open the living room to the outdoors. Potted plants bring colour to the backyard, where the homeowners set up a casual dining area.
A streamlined look allows the view to shine.
The kitchen's clean lines and minimalist decor allow the stunning sightlines of the lake to take centre stage. An abundance of wood and natural light keeps the space from feeling cold.
Vintage mid-century modern pieces mix with new classics.
With full-height windows framing beautiful rugged views, it's as though no walls exist. In the living room, a neutral palette and natural materials make the interior almost recede into the leafy landscape.
The B.C. fir walls create a cosy interior.
Directly behind the sofa, a partial wall divides the living area from the kitchen and provides a backdrop for artwork.
Use a glass-tile backsplash to create a light, airy effect.
In the bar area, stemware is concealed behind seamless, sophisticated panels of cherry wood. The dining table is made from the same material for a monochromatic effect.
The silver quartzite stone above the fireplace adds texture and natural sparkle.
A 16-foot-tall chimney rises from the site of the former indoor fireplace and helps support beams that cantilever outward from the main floor, defining and delineating the space as an outdoor room.
Create a gentle glow with a backlit mirror.
The rich fir panelling in the principal bathroom evokes a sauna and is offset by soft white limestone on the floors and tub enclosure.
This spectacular workspace seems to float above the bay.
Not for the easily distracted, Zacharko designed this office to feature panoramic views of the waterfront. A glass waterfall desk disappears against the window, keeping with the ethereal feel of the home.
A traditional exterior belies a contemporary interior.
Two sets of French doors open the upstairs principal bedroom to a balcony overlooking the backyard. The ground floor living room completely opens up to the patio with a set of bifold glass doors.
Translucent, back-lit cabinetry doors add dimension and character.
The light-coloured counters and walls are grounded by dark-stained millwork. Frosted glass pocket doors can close off the prep area from the adjoining dining room when entertaining.
Dark wood cabinets with horizontal pulls contrast with modern white sinks in this contemporary space.
A glass-enclosed shower keeps this chic bathroom open and airy.
Use low furniture to keep sightlines open.
Besides an urban loft look, the only thing husband-and-wife Yasmeen and Andrew Strang knew they wanted for their Vancouver house was a seamless indoor-outdoor transition. Enhancing the openness of the family room, a wall of glass bifold doors opens to a patio that leads to the swimming pool. "Those doors are open almost every day in the spring and summer," says Yasmeen.
For more design ideas, see our indoor-outdoor gallery, or see more of David Zacharko's designs.
Clerestory windows above storage help with ventilation.
To create an uncluttered space, Zacharko and Yustin incorporated hard-working built-ins wherever possible into this Vancouver home. "They add personality and functionality to a house," Zacharko explains.
Reeded glass windows provide privacy without window coverings.
Low built-in storage made of ribbon-grain red oak runs alongside the dining area and doubles as a buffet for parties. Throughout the main floor, columns delineate the spaces and provide surfaces for mounting built-in cabinetry.


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Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush featured speakers at CPAC 2013
Sen. Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush are two of the top name speakers for CPAC 2013, the American Conservative Union announced today.
The Floridians will join Sen.-elect Ted Cruz, Sen. Jim DeMint, Gov. Susana Martinez, Rep. Ron Paul, Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen.-designate Tim Scott.
The conference will be held March 14-16 at Gaylord National Resort and Conference Center outside Washington.
"As we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of CPAC, we are excited to present a conference focused on our timeless principles but also explore and define the future of the conservative movement," said ACU Chairman Al Cardenas. "Each of the invited speakers plays a critical role in the movement and we're pleased to invite them to address the nation's top conservative thinkers, policymakers, authors and media as well as thousands of conservative leaders, activists and students at CPAC 2013.


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"I don't know when I'm going to beat him, but I want it to be Saturday night," the New York Jets' coach said Monday, looking ahead to a rematch of last season's AFC Championship Game. "Is it personal? Yes, it's personal. It's personal against him, Reggie Wayne, all those guys, yeah. (Dwight) Freeney and (Robert) Mathis and those other dudes? Absolutely."
Quite simply, Manning has owned Ryan. Since 2005, against Ryan-coached defenses with the Baltimore Ravens and Jets, Manning is 5-1, with 12 touchdown passes and only two interceptions.
The loss deserves an asterisk because it came last December, when Manning was pulled with a third-quarter lead. The Colts wound up losing with the unproven Curtis Painter at quarterback. At the time, the then-undefeated Colts wanted to rest their starters for the playoffs.
Manning exacted payback in the AFC title game, throwing for 377 yards and three touchdowns in a 30-17 victory over the overmatched Jets. Manning is 2-0 versus Ryan in the postseason, including a win over the Ravens in the 2006 divisional round.
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"You lose a playoff game, it's devastating," Ryan said. "I want to put the shoe on the other foot. I know this team does, too. We want him to experience it this time."
Ryan took a swipe at Manning's former coach, NBC analyst Tony Dungy, who said Sunday night on the air that blitz-oriented defenses like the Jets and Ravens aren't suited to beating Manning.
"I don't think you can beat Peyton Manning with a defense that's just trying to fool you," Dungy said.
Told of Dungy's comments, Ryan responded, "When you get out there [in the media], you've got all the answers, but you don't have to play anymore. I respect everybody's opinions, but the only one I care about is my own."
Ryan and Dungy had a war of words over the summer, when Dungy criticized Ryan's use of profanity in the HBO reality series, "Hard Knocks." Dungy accepted an invitation from Ryan to visit with him, which occurred in September, at the Jets' facility.


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Conducting a Culinary Symphony
Chef Marc Vetri Hits All the Right Notes in Philadelphia
It was tough," Marc Vetri explains to his assistant with an air of relief and weariness. "We scored only once."
On the morning after Thanksgiving, Vetri, the owner of three Philadelphia restaurants, was telling Carolyn Pagnotta about the hard-fought Thanksgiving flag football game, the "Turkey Bowl." For the third time in four years, Vetri's restaurant group beat the team of Jose Garces, a fellow Philadelphia restaurateur who is also an "Iron Chef" on the Food Network. The silver trophy, a football with turkey wings and drumsticks, will stay with the "Vetri Family."
Vetri had just gotten back from Los Angeles, Chicago and New York promoting his second cookbook, Rustic Italian Food, a sort of narrative of how Vetri's culinary philosophy has evolved. Vetri, whom everyone—EVERYONE—describes as a "mild-mannered, nice guy," is a chef intensely focused on his craft, but not captive to it.
A 42-year-old, yoga-practicing, guitar-playing, cigar-smoking, philanthropic native of Philadelphia, Vetri, married with three children, was born to an Italian father and Jewish mother.
"There's a lot of us around," he chuckles. He swipes his arm across the table as if to clear it and explains that when it came to food, he chose to "keep the Italian and not the Jewish."
As the saying goes, Marc Vetri might be "the best chef you never heard of." He is a culinary master whose "mothership" restaurant, Vetri, was again nominated for a James Beard award in 2011 and 2012, both times as "Outstanding Restaurant" in the nation.
Restaurant critics and super-celebrity chefs like Bobby Flay, Michael Symon and Mario Batali, in one way or another, have called him the "best Italian chef in America."
In October of 2010, Vetri appeared in "Battle Veal" against Iron Chef Symon on the Food Network. The two have known each other for years. Vetri bested Symon by a score of 51 to 47.
Vetri has been invited to be on shows like the Next Iron Chef and though he has wondered whether he shouldn't have more vigorously pursued the TV celebrity chef thing, he ultimately felt it wasn't a good fit.
"The thing about these reality shows is that they're not really real," Vetri says while sitting at his namesake first restaurant, opened in 1998 in the same building that housed the original iteration of Philadelphia's iconic French restaurant, Le Bec Fin. Vetri didn't reveal any trade secrets about the way Iron Chef conducts its culinary confrontations (let's just say it's not all that spontaneous). He was just referring more to the way the TV shows portray chefs as combatants.
"You know, you have to have that tension on TV to make the show interesting," Vetri explains. "In reality, chefs are much friendlier with one another and share a lot of things. I mean, Michael [Symon] and I were hugging on Iron Chef. Whenever I cook with Mario [Batali] and other chefs," like at a charity event, "the media asks me if we were fighting for space in the kitchen. And that's not at all how it is. We're helping each other and we're always asking each other to taste things."
Vetri allows that in the not-too-distant past, and to a degree today, chefs were more competitive. Now, he sees the bigger problem in the profession being with chefs who graduate culinary school and "maybe go to learn something in France or Italy or Spain and come back and think that because of that, they know everything."
"But what they learn is technique," Vetri says, "And that's important, but you also have to understand flavors and how to taste."
"We had a corn flan on the menu," Vetri recalls, describing an incident in his own restaurant. "One day I come in and taste it and it tastes like nothing. I asked the person who made it what happened. 'How did you make this?' He said that he followed the recipe. I asked if he had tasted the corn. He said he hadn't. So, I took an ear of corn and told him to taste it, then I asked him what it tasted like. 'Like nothing,' he told me. That's why the flan tasted like nothing."
"I had to work harder than a lot of people because of my stutter," Vetri explains matter-of-factly referring to the condition he's had since childhood. "Having a stutter made me both more compassionate and less compassionate. I could understand if someone had a handicap, what they were going through. But I also knew that if you worked hard, that you could overcome the problem. I was less compassionate sometimes because I would not accept excuses."
Vetri acknowledges the stutter was a factor in not pursuing TV.
"I think that the impact my stutter had was to lead me to choose being a chef, in the kitchen, because that way I wouldn't have to talk to anyone. And it turns out that now," because of the book and his public appearances and the work done through the Vetri Foundation, "I have to talk more than in maybe any other profession."
Vetri made the decision to become a culinary professional after going to Los Angeles to become a rock star. That was 1990.
Vetri, who had worked in restaurants around Philadelphia since the age of 13, landed a job in Wolfgang Puck's now defunct Malibu restaurant, Granita. Some days Puck, probably the first real modern-day celebrity chef, would be working next to Vetri at the pasta station.
"Wolfgang still loves to cook," Vetri says.
During his four years in California, Vetri learned to smoke cigars.
"And when I smoked my first Fuente Hemingway, that was it," Vetri smiles, recalling discovery of his favorite cigar. "I like smaller cigars because I still get a little dizzy if the cigar is too big."
Vetri also smokes Ashton, La Gloria Cubana and Cuban Montecristo No. 2 cigars. Vetri's favorite occasion for a cigar is with his father, Sal.
"We just walk around Philadelphia and talk about things and enjoy the cigars. I'll smoke maybe one a week now because of the demands on my time, but I can have periods when I'll smoke three or four days in a row," Vetri says. "Then, when I'm really busy, I just don't have the time to enjoy a cigar."
While in Los Angeles, Vetri met Piero Selvaggio, the owner of Valentino and a friend of Puck. Selvaggio arranged for Vetri to go to Bergamo, Italy, as a stagiare, or apprentice, so that Vetri could learn Italian cooking at the source.
"It's completely different in Italy," from, say, France, Vetri explains. "You get to touch everything. Italian chefs are very collegial. They're like, 'Hey, come here, look at this.' And they also want to learn from you. At the end of the night, I would sit with the chef and smoke a cigar and we would talk about everything."
For Chef Vetri, even as his interests have broadened and his own life has become more complex, simplicity is a guiding principal. His recipes are clean and generally robust. Very Italian, but not traditional Italian-American. A relatively experienced palate can discern the seasonings in the cotechino sausage on, say, the Lombarda pizza at Vetri's second restaurant, Osteria.
"I need to know all my scales," Vetri says, comparing cooking to playing guitar, which he still does every day. "But I would choose to play something in three notes rather than 30."
That approach is evident in the way Vetri and his team cook. Vetri's experience in Italy has clearly influenced how he develops his chefs, even sending them to Italy to learn.
"I still expect them to touch everything, to slice their own fish and do some of their own prep," Vetri explains, standing in the kitchen. The advantage of that approach is that the chef knows the quality of every ingredient. "Every chef who has been at Vetri for two years or more and has left, has gone on to open his own restaurant."
But before they leave, they cook at Vetri, the first restaurant, which has morphed from a casual Italian restaurant to a fine-dining, $135-per-person tasting menu.
"This is where people come for a special occasion," Marc Vetri says. "Or to try something new." Like pastrami foie gras. Or chestnut fettucini with boar and cocoa. Perhaps a Texas antelope with squash and Amarone sauce?
"We started offering the tasting menu a few years ago on Saturday only and we'd be booked in five minutes," Vetri explains. "So, we just put it in all the time."
When Chef Adam Leonti arrives at Vetri restaurant one morning, he and Marc Vetri bump fists.
"Chef," Vetri greets Leonti, who just keeps walking into the kitchen he now runs, without a word. Chef Vetri pitches in when he cooks three or four nights a week.
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Two firefighters sustained minor injuries from rolling rocks, and five hikers had to be airlifted to safety Sunday after a brush fire ignited in the hills above Brand Park in Glendale and grew to about 150 acres, officials said.
Some 150 firefighters from various area agencies responded from both ground and air to the blaze that was reported just before 12:30 p.m. A third alarm was called as firefighters, with the aid of firefighting aircraft, attacked the flames.
One Burbank firefighter was hurt by a rolling rock, while a Los Angeles County inmate crew member battling the blaze was also injured by a boulder that fell and struck him in the arm, Glendale Deputy Fire Chief Greg Fish said.
"The topography is difficult because it's steep," Fish said. "Whenever you're dealing with steep terrain, you're dealing with potential dangerous conditions for firefighters."
Six more hand crews — making a total of 10 — were ordered Sunday afternoon to help knock down the fire as well as a Los Angeles city bulldozer, officials said. As many as five helicopters were also in use on Sunday.
Fish said late Sunday that the fire would be contained within a couple of days.
"We looking at possibly getting a lot of work done tonight when the sun goes down," Fish said. "It's active and it's staying away from structures, which is a very good thing. The wind is not killing us too bad out there."
But hard-to-reach areas of the fire will be tackled Monday, he said.
The 40 percent humidity was a help to firefighters battling the blaze but the very steep terrain was a challenge in accessing the fire, he said.
No evacuations were ordered or immediately expected, however firefighters had taken positions to protect structures, officials said.
No homes were considered directly threatened by the fire. However, Glendale Fire Department Battalion Chief Thomas Propst said homes along Allen Avenue and Thurber Place were potentially in the path of the fire.
Two hikers called for help to report they were stranded by the fire, Propst said. Firefighters ended up locating and rescuing a total of five hikers by helicopter in two separate groups from the area, Fish said. No additional hikers were believed stranded in the area Sunday afternoon.
"The hikers were all in good shape," Fish said. "We rescued two off the hill with the first helicopter. Another helicopter rescued three. They've all been checked out. No medical problems. They've all been released."
The cause of the fire was still under investigation Sunday, Propst said.
A wedding planned at the park had to be relocated to another site after the fire broke out, Glendale city spokesman Dan Bell said.
The blaze comes as a summer of increased fire danger begins. Fire officials are warning residents they should guard against what could be the most perilous fire season on record after an unusually dry fall.


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here.MOUNT HOPE, W.Va. -- Seventy-six years ago, Boy Scouts from around the world traveled to Washington, D.C., to spend 10 muggy days camped out on the National Mall. It was the very first Boy Scout Jamboree, and Mount Hope native Berta B. Lambert was there.Now, at age 94, Lambert has seen the Jamboree come to him.The Jamboree draws thousands of Scouts from across the nation every four years. It kicks off Monday at a massive new campsite located on more than 10,000 acres around the New River Gorge.Lambert grew up roaming these hills. He used to trap rabbits and he knew exactly where to find the best blackberry and hazelnut bushes.Starting Monday, another generation of Boy Scouts will hike across the same paths that Lambert once used.During that first Jamboree, in 1937, Lambert still remembers President Franklin Delano Roosevelt driving an open car around the National Mall to meet the Scouts. He remembers the concerts, songs and baseball games. And, above all, he remembers the youthful enthusiasm of the Boy Scouts who traveled to Washington -- some from around the world. Lambert joined the Boy Scouts at age 13. Four years later, he traveled to the National Jamboree, where he remembers wandering from camp to camp meeting troops from Nigeria, the Netherlands, England and North Africa."You learn so much from the other fellows," Lambert said. "You learn more from them than from your Scoutmaster."The boys attended baseball games between the Washington Senators and the Boston Red Sox, Lambert said. Famous vocalists of the time were there to perform American classics like "Home on the Range." Lambert recalled that he and the other Scouts splashed around in the reflecting pool beneath the Washington Monument.Throughout the fun and games, though, Jamboree organizers ignored the possibility that war might break out soon, Lambert said. Lambert recalled that Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler did not send representatives to the event. However, the threat from Germany loomed, unspoken, over the Jamboree. The U.S. Army had posted officials to observe the Jamboree, Lambert said. The United States would be drawn into World War II four years later, with the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Lambert joined the Army in 1944 and during the war often used the survival skills he learned from the Scouts."We knew how to improvise," Lambert said. "We had to work with what was on hand."Lambert was stationed at Camp Lucky Strike -- an Army encampment located near Le Havre, France. He used his camping know-how learned in the Scouts to make it through the bitter cold that settled over his encampment.Lambert passed similar survival strategies along to younger Scouts when he served as a Junior Assistant Scoutmaster. His Scouts learned how to cook without utensils and how to craft a fishing rod and line from a hickory sapling, Lambert said.Many former Scouts have reached out to Lambert over the years. Several have thanked him for the lessons he imparted as a Scoutmaster."There are such rewards you receive from people that you never knew you were influencing," Lambert said.Lambert also spearheaded an effort to create a black Boy Scout troop. As a child, he was friends with the grandchildren of a black physician and hoped they would join a troop, but the Boy Scouts of America was strictly segregated at the time.So Lambert started a Boy Scout troop at Mount Hope's DuBois High School, the school for black youth in the area. The troop lacked leadership, though, and lasted only a few years, Lambert said.Today, the Boy Scouts is even more important than ever before, Lambert said. Children today face greater temptations from drugs and alcohol, he said, and the Scouts can help keep them out of trouble."Most Scouts are doggone good kids and they stay out of trouble," Lambert said. "They have other interests other than pot-smoking and sex."Reach Laura Reston at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-5112.


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Monterey County officials are anxiously awaiting federal judges' ruling on Gov. Jerry Brown's two opposing proposals for meeting prison population reduction deadlines.
In court papers filed shortly before midnight Monday, Brown asks a panel of three federal judges to scrap orders to continue lowering the state prison population, despite a 2011 Supreme Court ruling demanding the reduction in order to improve medical care in the prisons.
The governor on Tuesday declared the "prison emergency ... over in California," calling the once overwhelming prison overcrowding problems a "distant memory."
Brown and state prison officials argue that California has done enough to fix its prisons and bring inmate health care up to legal standards. They warned that keeping the prisons under court control threatens public safety and could cost the state billions of dollars more as it tries to emerge from its most severe budget crisis in recent history.
"Because the state is providing effective health care at current population levels, further court-ordered reductions of the prison population are not needed," state attorneys wrote in Brown's filing.
Monterey County's Chief Public Defender Jim Egar had a concise reaction to Brown's words.
"The governor can tell that to the Supreme Court," said Egar.
Because California is still under court order to reduce the system's population to 137.5 percent of its designed-for capacity by mid-2013, Brown also presented a plan describing how the state would comply with that demand if forced to do so. As of two weeks ago, the prisons remained at 149 percent of capacity.
Among the steps the state would take are increasing the percentage of time off for good behavior and participation in rehabilitation programs, expanding work furlough and alternative custody programs, placing more inmates in private prisons and adding new ways to keep inmates in county jails rather than sending them to prisons.
Those ways include keeping felons sentenced to nine months in prison or less in county jail, and expanding the list of crimes eligible for "realignment" sentences served in local jails.
It's those last few provisions that have Monterey County Sheriff Scott Miller worried.
"We're trying to do our best with the prisoners that have been and continue to be realigned to our county," he said. "We would hope the governor's plan would not include further increases in the percentages of prisoners we receive."
While Monterey County Jail remains chronically overcrowded — on Monday, the facility designed for 800-plus held 1,090 people — Miller said the expected explosion in inmate population has so far been averted.
"It seems we've been able to moderate the impact of realignment on our inmate population through some creative means," he said.
Those steps have included increasing time off for good behavior from 33 percent to 50 percent; releasing more defendants on their own recognizance before they go to trial; and sending inmates to outside rehabilitation programs.
Those steps have all kept the impact on the local jail population "fairly moderate," Miller said.
"We've kind of run out of creative options," he said. "If we were burdened with more, it would put pressure on our ability to house them."
Plans are under way to add more beds to the jail, but that will only bring official capacity up to the number of inmates the overcrowded jail holds now.
"If we have the 288 (additional) beds that we plan to construct today, that would be about what our population currently is," Miller said.
Besides Brown's proposal to keep more inmates in counties instead of state prisons, another factor leading to the strain on Monterey County's jail population has been local judges' reluctance to use alternative sentences that other counties have embraced since state prisoner realignment went into effect more than a year ago.
The California Chief Probation Officers Association recently reported that Monterey County judges are among the state's most reluctant to issue so-called "split sentences" — jail time followed by rehabilitative programs.
Miller said his office expects jail inmate numbers to rise, although he holds out some hope that expanded programs — such as a treatment-focused day reporting center for probationers — will help.
"We remain cautiously optimistic that evidence-based means of reducing recidivism will have an effect," he said.
Coming aboard in the midst of these challenges is a new interim jail chief who replaces retired chief Jeff Budd.
Former Orange County Assistant Sheriff Jay LeFlore came out of retirement to fill the post, and has experience with jail construction and remodeling, Miller said. According to news reports, LeFlore worked with design and construction crews during expansion of the 3,000-inmate Theo Lacy Facility in Orange County.
Meanwhile, activists around the state disagreed with Brown's contention that the prison population has been sufficiently reduced.
"Any suggestion that the over-incarceration crisis in California has been remedied belies reality," said Allen Hopper of the American Civil Liberties Union of California.
"Rather than maintain the status quo, state leaders should support reforms that even the state corrections department admits would reduce the state prison population, like changing sentencing laws regarding low-level drug possession and expanding credits for participating in rehabilitation and educational programs," Hopper said.
Attorney Michael Bien represents inmate Ralph Coleman, whose decades-old mental health care lawsuit helped force the federal orders to reduce the state's prison population.
Bien said medical and mental health care problems still abound.
He cites a severe shortage of prison psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, despite the addition of 138 mental health crisis beds at a new facility at Salinas Valley State Prison. (The prison is one of two in Soledad; the other is the Correctional Training Facility.)
Bien wrote in a court filing that "shortages of critical mental health staff, including psychiatrists, worsened in 2012, with vacancies of psychiatrists increasing to 42 percent, and overall clinical vacancy rates increasing to 35 percent."
He said prison suicides are also on the rise, jumping from seven in 2008 to 17 in 2011.
In addition, prison rights lawyers said there were 43 possibly or definitely preventable inmate deaths in 2011, all of which involved "lapses in care" or "extreme departures" from accepted practices, according to an analysis by Kent Imai, a former Army doctor and medical consultant for the Federal Receiver for California Prison Healthcare Reform.
Among the cases were a young inmate with a "known seizure disorder (who) died after missing five days of medication," Imai wrote. The man was placed in a housing unit where the call system didn't work, the report said.
Even among the 345 "non-preventable deaths" in 2011, there were 154 serious lapses in medical care, Imai reported.
The San Jose Mercury News contributed to this report.
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The other day I mentioned that Kele Okereke lent his vocals to the Bloc Party, is gearing up to take America by storm. Their album, Silent Alarm, on hip indie label Dim Mak comes out later in March, but they have a few tracks for download on their website and singles were just released January 25. While their sound is definitely post-punk (imagine Gang of Four mashed up with English Beat), this Brit band mixes it up with the ballad-like song Tulips, where Keles vocals are reminiscent of Morrissey. This is the first serious buzz album of 2005.
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Being average is welcome news in the world Marin's endangered coho salmon.
With the spawning season winding down, Marin Municipal Water District officials are reporting the number of coho egg nests — called redds — are at average in number and they are the most seen in the Lagunitas Creek watershed in six years.
The number of actual fish — although the final tallies are not in — are expected to be about 500, also at average based on counts first taken in1995-96.
"We are excited," said Eric Ettlinger, aquatic ecologist for the Marin Municipal Water District, which oversees the watershed. "We have been very fortunate with the weather pattern this season and that has helped."
Heavy rains in December helped facilitate the return of the coho from the sea to their spawning grounds. The coho complete a three-year life cycle that sees them born, travel to open sea, then almost miraculously return to spawn and die.
The December rains were followed by a dry January that kept the egg nests and young fish from being swept away.
"This is a case where average is good news," Ettlinger said.
The endangered coho salmon was said to be in an "extinction vortex" after its numbers dipped to all-time lows three years ago. But number have been on rise since then.
While the news is encouraging, Ettlinger cautioned the species — listed as endangered by the federal government — is not out of the woods by any stretch.
"There could be spring storms that could cause problems for the fish," he said. "There are any number of things that could make it hard for them to survive."
But there is cautious hope.
Ocean conditions were very good for coho salmon in 2012, according to the federal Northwest Fisheries Science Center. Physical conditions improved and plankton were abundant, including the copepods and fish larvae that make up coho salmon's preferred prey.
Looking forward, the center predicts these favorable conditions will continue through 2013, which bodes well for Lagunitas Creek coho.
If the coho currently in the ocean are surviving at a rate similar to what water district observers saw this season, there could more than a thousand coho salmon return this fall, Ettlinger noted.
Local efforts to help fish survive may have also played a role.
"In the end, it involves each of us as individuals understanding how important it is to be connected to these ecological processes that are around us," Supervisor Steve Kinsey said at a recent coho conference in the San Geronimo Valley.
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I have exercise induced asthma and it gets realy bad if I an also out in cold weather. I also have pulmonary hypertension. How can I tell which one is causing my symptoms and when to treat it?
That is a difficult situation. It is hard for me to make a comment without knowing more about how your diagnosis of exercise-induced asthma was made, how bad the asthma really is, and how bad your pulmonary hypertension is. You should always pre-medicate with albuterol before exercise if you have asthma. If that gives you relief, then the symptoms are more likely to be from asthma.
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