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Long shot Iati big for Danes
Small guard raises his game to spur UAlbany's strong start
Published 10:13 pm, Saturday, December 15, 2012
ALBANY — Sometimes, Jacob Iati hears the voices. Other times, he thinks he hears the voices. For the most part, the voices are always there, always have been. Wherever he goes, the voices follow.
"You're too small."
"You're not good enough."
"You're a basketball player?"
Nine days ago, when the University at Albany basketball team was playing at Colgate, the voices were loud and clear. Iati, the 5-foot-10, 165-pound guard for the Danes heard them all.
"One of the kids from Colgate was calling me 'Little Body' or 'Little Weight,' something like that," Iati said.
There would be no verbal response from the fiery fifth-year senior. A stare, maybe. Iati would answer back with a rainbow 3-point shot. He ended the day with six shots from long range, more than one of them from improbable, impossible angles.
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2011-12 season
Minutes per game: 13.5
Points per game: 5.2
3-point shots tried: 79
3-point shots made: 36
2012-13 season
Minutes per game: 35.2
Points per game: 16.3
3-point shots tried: 87
3-point shots made: 41
UAlbany headed home with the win, and Iati left with a smile after proving yet again that, yes, he can play this game. As the bus rumbled along Route 20, he knew one thing. The next game, he would have to prove himself all over again.
It's always been that way for the 23-year-old Iati, who is from York, Pa. A new opponent brings a new challenge, or a recurring one.
When he walks on the floor, the voices are there. Or maybe they aren't. Still, he hears them.
"I think I am a little (self-conscious) about it," Iati said, sitting in the bowels of the SEFCU Arena, an hour before the Danes practiced last Wednesday. "Maybe I make things up in my head, but I feel like sometimes when I walk on the court, people are looking at me, and they are like, 'No way this guy is any good.' I get that feeling a lot."
It's only natural. Jacob Iati does not look like a basketball player, and he is the first to admit that. Skinny. Very little muscle tone. A face like a choir boy (minus the stubble, of course).
But make no mistake, Iati can play, and he has proven that night after night after night in the first 11 games of the Danes' season.
He is averaging 16.3 points. He is among the best 3-point shooters in the country after making 41 of 87 tries from long range, as the Danes have sliced their way to a 9-2 record.
Against Colgate, he made six of 12 shots from 3-point range. Two days later against South Carolina State, he tied a career high when he buried seven of 13 3-poiners.
"He has serious range," said Tim Carter, the South Carolina State coach. "You don't judge them on how they look. I don't know how big his heart is, but I know one thing: If you leave him open, he is going to make you pay."
A year ago at this time, the Danes had played six games and Iati, who is averaging a team-high 35.2 minutes this season, was a fixture on coach Will Brown's bench. The first six games a year ago, Iati averaged 4.5 minutes.
He never sulked, but he wanted to play. Who doesn't?
"I never, ever heard him complain about not playing," said UAlbany senior Mike Black, who starts in the backcourt with Iati.
But Iati wanted to play more than anyone. He said he approached Brown and asked what he could do to get more minutes. If you poll players on the Danes' roster, they will tell you no one outworks Iati.
"I was frustrated," Iati said. "I thought I should have been playing. The last guy on the roster of any Division I team thinks he should be playing. And, rightfully so. Everyone is at this level for a reason."
He talked to his parents, Frank and Lynne, who travel from Long Island for just about every UAlbany game. He talked to teammates. He talked to his big brother, Jon, who played at UAlbany (2003-08) and is in his first year as assistant coach at his alma mater.
Everyone told him to keep working hard.
Iati wasn't playing because the Danes had a logjam at the guard position with Black, Gerardo Suero and Logan Aronhalt all playing in front of him.
"We understand the program," Frank Iati said. "The only thing we could do was tell him to keep working hard in practice. We told him his time would come."
In early February, injuries hit the Danes, and Iati moved off the bench. He took advantage and averaged 12.5 points in the final eight games of the season.
"It's easy to say now, based on what he did late in the year, and what he is doing now, that he probably should have had more of a role than he did last season," Brown said. "That is a fair assessment. Some people make the most of their opportunities and others waste them. Iati made the most of his."
At the last home game of the 2011-12 season, Iati was honored with a Senior Night. Despite having a year of eligibility left, Iati announced he would bypass that and concentrate on getting his Master's degree in Business Administration. Instead of playing, he would be a graduate assistant on Brown's staff.
That changed in a hurry when Brown asked Iati if he would change his mind and keep that last year of eligibility.
"I really wanted him back," said Brown, who added he didn't know Suero and Aronhalt were going to leave the program before he asked Iati to change his mind.
And, here is Iati now, one of the most important players on Brown's roster.
"It's amazing where he is now as compared to last year," Jon Iati said. "If you would have said to me last year at this time that he would be doing what he is doing now, I would say, 'No way.' "
Jacob Iati's strength is his outside shooting. He honestly doesn't know what his range is, but he does think every time he shoots, it's going in.
He said his coaches have told him after some of his long-range antics that he could move closer, and Iati said he would not know that he is three or four feet beyond the 3-point line.
As long as the shots go in, he doesn't care. And, if people still don't believe he can play, then he'll go to the next game and try to prove himself again.
"I think people either love or respect the heck out of me, or they have no respect and don't think I am any good at all," Iati said. "And that's OK. I like playing with a chip on my shoulder. I feel a need to do that."
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Picture: A massive 40-foot poster of Gareth Bale is unveiled in Times Square, New York
Do New Yorkers even know who Gareth Bale is?
Tottenham Hotspur have been used in a massive PR campaign in the Big Apple on Tuesday, as a 40-foot poster of Gareth Bale has been unveiled in Times Square.
Featuring Bale in Tottenham's brand new 2013-14 home strip, the image of Welshman is supplemented by a smaller banner saying: "Premier League is coming to NBC Sports – August 17th."
The giant billboard offers another piece of circumstantial evidence that Bale is staying at White Hart Lane this summer after a summer of non-stop reports linking the forward to Real Madrid.
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Shopping Cart Roller Derby
I white knuckled the handle. He could tell I was slowing down. I knew he could sense it. The anxiety was making me sweat. I wanted desperately to speed up. My internal speedometer told me I was going about 4 miles an hour… not good enough… I had to pick it up to 5 or all hell would break loose.
Five miles an hour may not sound very fast to you.
It's not fast for the highway.
It's not fast even for a residential street.
But it's ridiculously speedy for the local grocery store. You can't even read labels at that speed.
At this point in my life, a newborn with colic had turned my life into a dark and desperate farce. Colic demanded to be in motion. Colic had me bouncing and swaying at all hours of the night. Colic had me making unnecessary right hand turns on the road, so as not to have to stop at a red light. Colic also made me a speed demon with a grocery cart.
"Excuse me", I said semi-politely to the old woman in front of me as I tried to shimmy my cart in front of her. I felt her give the evil eye to the back of my head as I quickly jogged my cart down the aisle.
I glanced down at the infant car seat in my cart, and saw the left foot stop it's twitch.
That old woman had no idea that I just saved her, and the whole damn store, from the High Pitch Baby Wails Of Doom. The colic can scream. The colic scream hits a special spot in the brain of anyone that hears it. It can paralyze you. It can make you see spots, drop to your knees, raise your hands, and yell "Oh my fucking Gawd! Make it stop!".
I saved that bitch's life.
Damn. I also realized as I left her in the dust, that I also passed the granola bars and forgot to grab some.
Continuing my jog, I looked into the car seat and saw the left leg starting to twitch again. My heavy breathing was telling me that I was still at 5 miles per hour, but maybe that wasn't good enough any more. It had been fifteen minutes of jogging up and down the aisles… maybe the colic had been complacent long enough. It needed more motion. More. More!
So I started to run.
I ran through the dairy, and without slowing, whacked at a carton of non-dairy creamer hoping it would fall into my cart. Then I turned and circled back toward the granola bars.
I began to turn down the cereal aisle, but when I saw how packed it was, I veered to the frozen aisle. It was just as crowded. I glanced again at the little twitching foot, and now BOTH were moving.
I pointed myself down that aisle and started hoofing it.
"Excuse me. Pardon me. Sorry."
I dodged. I scooted. I bumped. I probably, maybe ran over a toe.
I finally made it to the granola bars again, and the little old lady was STILL THERE.
She was standing right in front of the Nature Valley Oat n' Honey granola bars.
These granola bars were essential to Bam Bam's existence.
I was desperate…
and determined…
I glanced at the hands gripping my cart and revved them…
I took a deep breathe…
and I willed my sleep deprived feet into a sprint…
and as I approached the lady and the granola…
I bent my legs into a lunge…
lept into the air, grand jete-style…
reached up over the old woman's head…
and knocked a box of granola bars off the shelf and onto the floor, where it slid halfway down the aisle.
I continued my run, and scooped up the box along the way. I caught the eye of a surprised man heading our way. I smiled, and mumbled, "In a hurry".
I paused for just a millisecond to mentally bookmark the moment, and make sure that this was in fact my life. Then I hightailed it to the self checkout where I rock and rolled my cart and even did a couple little circles with it while scanning.
Crisis averted.
Granola acquired.
For some of you, grocery shopping may seem boring. For some it's just a chore.
But for others of us, it's unbelievably tense…
it's action packed…
and it's dangerous.
It's a shopping cart roller derby…
and it's coming to a supermarket near you…
because, let's face it – I don't think they will let me into the same store more than once.
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Oh my, I'm exhausted just reading this.
On the plus side, it's a good way to drop the baby weight (not saying you have any).
That sounds all too familiar…..
Phew… Thinking of you. LOTS.
Ohhhh yeah. Surprisingly, the boys aren't too bad in the grocery store, but when hell breaks loose, it's fan-fecking-tastic.
Both boys had a bout of colic. Took them to the chiropractor. Fixed them right up 🙂
Oh holy hell can I identify to this. But you made it. We all make it through…though not entirely without massive anxiety attacks.
Hang in there Jenni.
Next time just take the bitch out. She doesn't need granola bars anyway – she needs the laxative aisle.
Did I tell you it gets better. I lied. It just gets different.
Why oh why didn't I bring earplugs?! Friday I had to drive to an overniter at The Museum of Science & Industry grossly misnamed "the Snoozeum" literally in the middle of a 10″ blizzard with three 8 yo. girls in the back seat shrieking at the top of their lungs for almost 2 hours…….. My kids' not a screamer, so I was sooooo unprepared. But her two friends got her hepped up and shrieking too. Happy fun screams, but ooooohhhhh the ear piercing volume. I can empathize with head shattering wails….
We picked the jackknifed bus route and traffic was brutal everywhere. All in all I drove in the blizzard from 2:30-8:30 almost non stop just to get our gear, pick up girls, top off gas, and carry out food!!!!! They stayed up ALL night, but the museum enforced the silence after 11:30pm rule, so it was mostly whispers but serious sleep dep! All in all, tho, a memorable experience…..in a mostly good way :).
Love ya!
Oh my heart raced reading this. Now I haul ass because I'm ALWAYS late to pick my kids up.
This is just horrible (but good blog fodder)…I hope you're hanging in there!
Oh, the hell of colic,it can be extremely stressful. Hang in there!
I remember the shopping cart sprints. Second only to getting hung up behind slow people on the sidewalk while huffing it with two kids in a double jogger. I wasn't walking fast for exercise, you know!
When one of my brothers was a baby we would have to shake the SHIT out of the car seat when my mom would stop at a light because he'd lose his mind!


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Great winter picture! Thanks, Sissel.
It started to rain, so I hope our snow will go now. It's also a lot wamer. Now it's +1.5 yesterday at this time it was -10.5Love this photo, thanks


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An engineering report will be conducted prior to the remodel, and one of the areas to be examined is possibly changing the layout of the Sunnyside Library circulation desk to improve service for patrons. Pictured is Marcelina Ortega, lead librarian for the Sunnyside Library (L), with regional library spokesperson Charlotte Hinderlider.
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A magnitude-8.0 earthquake was widely felt in communities along Alaska's sparsely populated Aleutian Islands on Monday, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
All tsunami advisories have been cancelled following the earthquake.
The National Tsunami Warning Center cancelled the last remaining advisory late Monday afternoon. At one point, areas stretching from Attu to Unimak Pass were under a tsunami warning or advisory, but the largest reported wave was about 18 centimetres.
The advisory area included Unalaska, a community of about 4,000 people and home to Dutch Harbor, one of the nation's largest fishing ports.
Emergency Measures British Columbia said there is no threat to other U.S. or Canadian areas along the North American Pacific coast.
The earthquake recorded at 12:53 p.m. local time was initially reported with a magnitude of 7.1, but Ruppert says that was upgraded to 8.0. The quake was centred about 20 kilometres southeast of Little Sitkin Island.
It was recorded at a depth of 100 kilometres, which is relatively shallow for an earthquake in the Aleutian Islands. The shallower the quake, the more likely it will be felt.
The National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, issued a tsunami warning for coastal areas between Nikolski to Attu, on the Aleutian Islands. A warning means significant inundation is possible or occurring. Residents are being warned to move inland toward higher ground.
A tsunami advisory was also issued for coastal areas stretching from Nikolski to Unimak Pass. An advisory means strong currents or dangerous waves are expected, but widespread inundation isn't likely.
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Photographer's Note
The High Chief Priest of Malaysia and Singapore, Venerable Dr. K. Sri Dhammananda Nyaka Maha Thera passed away peacefully on Merdeka Day 31 August 2006. This day happens to be Malaysia's celebration of 39 years of Independance.
A 40 foot prye was constructed for the cremation at the Nirvana Memorial Park located at Semenyih, Selangor. It was a somber event and the ceremony was conducted with steep Buddhist tradition.
Those who attended the funeral ceremony was very fortunate in the sense that they manage to witness the use of a pyre to cremate the body of the Chief Reverand. The approval for the use of the prye was in recognition of the Chief Reverand's many contribution to Malaysia as a whole. On top of his contributions he has written over 70 books that has been translated to many languages.
In accordane to the Buddhist practice that nothing is permanent, the Chief Reverands body was cremated. Around 2.5 tons of Sandalwood was managed to be collected for this event.
The picture shows the final stages of the cremation where the 40 foot prye has collapsed altogether. Withnessing the event sadly was Venerable Dharma Ratana who himself is a very well known reverand in Malaysia. He so happens to be the nephew of the Chief Reverand. He is in the foreground on the right being comforted by a fellow reverand.
I hope members do not find this picture disturbing. Just wanted to share a somber moment reflecting the practice of Buddhist Monks where finally everything has to return to the earth.
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kclai (2267) 2006-09-14 2:32
Hi Andre
Glas to see another shutterbug from penang Island, joining TE.
Welcome abroad.
Well, it seem that you have put your camera to the limit by producing such exquisite imgae, that reflects the atmospheric feeling.
This is pretty a good image, but not truely cool enough. The lack of peoples, except the silhouttes of the two monks, have "vanished" the true atmospheric feeling of the ceremony.
The fire itself, together with the burning prye is one interesting elements.
The too near focusing, which resulted a tighter cropping have also contributed the lost of composition.
Get everything into your picture. Get it to the PC. Learn the composition and then work on the cropping. his might give you a better image, Andre.
Well done.
Cheers and good day.
Eric Lai
rabani (9645) 2006-10-03 22:21
No...I don't see it as anything disturbing. As Malaysian, we have learnt to appreciate and respect others under the same sun, breathing the same air and standing under the same flag. This is the common denominator that keeps us all together, in peace and harmony. Anything else, its personal and a matter of opinion. To me, this photo is about seeing someone you had known and loved, gone forever. The bright fire is a stark reminders, as if the last flicker of life. I see a silhouette of two person, one comforting the other. One needs to see his hand, over the shoulder of the one he is comforting. Sometimes...you need to see thing for what it makes you feel than think.
Your photo, 5&9 to me.
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Pynch-Worthylake named "Authoritarian Superintendent of the Month"
[Update below] A Canadian Internet civil libertarian has named South Shore Regional School Board Superintendent Nancy Pynch-Worthylake "Authoritarian High School Superintendent of the Month" for placing student William Swinimer on five days suspension for wearing a shirt that read, "Life is wasted without Jesus."
University of Waterloo computer science professor Jeffrey Shallit announced the tongue-in-cheek award on his Recursivity Blog, but his denunciation of Pynch-Worthylake's overreaction was anything but tongue-in-cheek:
North American high schools are not places where free speech and criticism of authority are welcomed. Instead of teaching lessons about free speech, free expression, the Bill of Rights, and the Charter of Rights, principals and superintendents routinely impose arbitrary rules and punishments….
Swinimer's t-shirt expresses a moronic and wrong sentiment, and he sounds like the typical evangelical jerk who can't keep quiet about his own "good news." But when he says, "I believe this is worth standing up for — it's not just standing up for religious rights, it's standing up for my rights as a Canadian citizen, for freedom of speech, freedom of religion," he's absolutely right.
Superintendent Pynch-Worthlake could have turned this into a teaching moment. She could explain that in a multicultural society there will be people who assert that their religion is the only valid one, and that's the way life is. She could explain that the Charter guarantees "freedom of thought, opinion, and expression," and even though she disagrees with Swinimer's sentiment, she defends his right to express it in a non-disruptive way.
Instead, she took the authoritarian route. Shame on her.
[UPDATE] A reader who is not from the Annapolis Valley or Bridgewater writes:
It's obvious Jeffrey Shallit does not live in the Annapolis Valley or Bridgewater, because if he did, he'd know that no matter how strongly you felt it, you'd never say anything like this: "Swinimer's t-shirt expresses a moronic and wrong sentiment, and he sounds like the typical evangelical jerk who can't keep quiet about his own 'good news.'" Because the fall-out from evangelicals, of which there are many who attend Baptist, Pentecostal, and break-away Protestant churches in the Bible Belt of Nova Scotia, would not be worth it. Shallit, safe from the wrath of God in Waterloo.
Virgins in the whore house – updated
Remember the Ottawa Press Gallery's rending of garments over the "despicable" violation of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews's privacy when Vikileaks30 revealed seamy details from the public record of his divorce proceedings—details that called into question the minister's personal adherence to the family values he used to denigrate gay Canadians and oppose their exercise of equal rights under the law?
The view that embarrassing details from a cabinet minister's private life are off-limits, even when they conflict with his sanctimonious public pronouncements, has suddenly acquired unanimous support among Canada's major media organizations. Why, suppressing such details is practically a sacred duty.
Parliamentary reporters from Sun Media and the Ottawa Citizen were particularly vociferous in their denunciation of those, including Contrarian, who criticized the gallery's conspiracy of quiescence around Toews's hypocrisy.
Now check out the list of intervenors who successfully appealed against a sweeping publication ban this year in divorce proceedings brought by the wife of David Russell Williams, the former Canadian Forces colonel convicted of murder and rape.
I think the media were right to appeal that ban, and three justices of the Ontario Court of Appeal think so too. For the same reason, the press gallery were wrong to play down or ignore public evidence of Toews's hypocrisy, and I take that journalistic failure as a sign that the Harper government's bullying approach to the media has achieved some success.
[Update:] Anticipating the response of my friends in the press gallery, I will add that, of course I am not analogizing the hon. minister to a notorious sex murderer. The publication ban they successfully opposed here was not about Williams or sought by him. It was sought by his estranged wife, who must be presumed an innocent party. It covered:
- Her name, address, and contact information;
- Her photograph or likeness in any report of the divorce proceeding;
- The name, address, or contact coordinates of her employer in any report of the divorce proceedings;
- Her social insurance number, date and place of birth, and address; and
- Her assets and liabilities, except those transferred to her from Williams after February 2010.
As I said, they were right to seek to overturn this ban. They were wrong to treat a family-values thumping, gay-hating Harper cabinet minister with kid gloves.
Silver Don: How a progressive mayor might have handled OccupyNS
On his Green Interview website, Silver Donald Cameron imagines how an innovative, creative mayor might have responded to OccupyNS: He starts by quoting the late Allan O'Brien, mayor of Halifax from 1966 to 1971.
The Mayor has very little actual power – but he has the power to bring people together, to encourage action on matters that he considers important. He has the power to influence the public agenda. He has access to the press. And if you use those powers strategically, you can accomplish quite a bit."
Cameron muses:
Imagine if Peter Kelly had that kind of awareness, that sense of direction, when he looked out the window in the middle of October. Imagine if he'd gone down there with his eyes and ears open. Who are you? Where do you come from? What do you do? When I asked those questions, I found I was talking with some very interesting people. An education graduate from St. Francis Xavier University who was playing a mad scientist in a children's theatre. A sustainability consultant. A young boutique farmer. A Mi'maq veteran. A postal worker. A filmmaker.
Okay (the Mayor might have said), let's not talk too much about things that are clearly national or provincial. What are the things that municipal governments actually can affect? Food? Maybe we need an innovative urban agriculture policy. What do you think such a policy might look like? Homelessness? Let me get a couple of property developers and someone from the province down here, and let's brainstorm a little. Tell me about youth unemployment. Say that again, will you – there's an organization in Winnipeg called Build that trains street people to do energy refits? Fascinating. Let's get someone from Winnipeg down here to talk about that. How can I reach them? (Answer )…
What if the Mayor had treated the occupiers respectfully, as though they were actually citizens whose voices deserved to be heard, whose ideas might have merit, whose concerns might reflect the concerns of other citizens? What if the city had welcomed the arrival of new ideas, new insights, a passionate commitment to a better future? What if the Mayor had paused to reflect that the young people among them were not aliens or monsters – or bums or dregs or scum, as they have been called by adult commentators who should know better? These are our own children, brought up in Dartmouth and Moser River, Blandford and Fairview. What if the Mayor had contemplated the possibility that those young people probably are the future?
What if the Mayor had acted not as a short-sighted enforcer of petty bylaws, but as the wise, patient leader of a functioning community?
If he had acted like that, Peter Kelly would have taught the occupiers that civic engagement actually works, that change is possible, that older people can and do welcome the energy of youth in the quest for a better tomorrow. Instead, he taught them the exact opposite – that their concerns are not of interest, that their involvement in politics is not welcome, that civic leaders cannot be trusted, that violence is just fine as long as it's the police who start the brawl.
If Peter Kelly had found a fresh, positive way to engage with Occupy Nova Scotia, the news would have gone around the world – just as the news of the eviction has gone around the world. Other cities that are also trying to figure out what to do next would have taken note. Halifax would have looked like the thoughtful, creative community that it is. And Peter Kelly would have been a hero, a prime contender for higher political office had he chosen to pursue that.
Like I said, history just tossed Kelly the political opportunity of a lifetime. He blew it. And we are all diminished by his failure.
The prematurely old lady of Argyl— er, Armdale
Sounding old before her time, Marilla Stephenson follows up the Chronicle-Herald's ringing endorsement of the status quo with a ringing endorsement of middle class sensibilities. The protesters just had to go. They just had to. There had been an overdose in Vancouver or something. Enough is enough.
To this we respond:
Dear Marilla:
You walk into a room
With a piece of paper in your hand.
You see somebody naked,
And you say, "Who is that man."
You try so hard,
But you just don't understand.
Do you, Mrs. Stephenson?
With apologies to Robert Allen Zimmerman.
Cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon, on the other hand, gets it right.
A sympathetic reporter's honest account of OccupyNS problems
Lots of reaction to HRMs forcible eviction of the Occupy Nova Scotia protesters. The best piece of actual reporting comes from a blog post by Bethany Horne, news curator for the recently launched indie website Openfile Halifax. A recent King's grad with a progressive sensibility, Horne didn't flinch from describing some of the incipient problems at the encampment:
[I]f the events of November 11 hadn't happened, I'm not sure how much longer the gathering would've lasted. At the November 9 general assembly, tensions were high. The camp's reputation for accepting anyone, giving them shelter, food and a makeshift community was attracting more people who needed help than people who were able to offer it. People who are homeless used the facilities at the camp: the medical supplies, the food, the kitchen, the common "hang-out" area. People are homeless in Canada for many reasons, but there is usually an addiction in their past or present, or a mental health issue. Homeless youth are usually fleeing the addictions or abuse in whatever house they escaped from.
This community of needy people became a sometimes violent place. There were clashes. The healthiest residents, from luckier backgrounds, who were there because of strong political convictions, were being attacked, a lot of times by the residents of the camp who were frequently in need of help. Either the healthy help-givers were not helping the help-needers enough, or they had made some mistakes that tend to happen when you're overworked and only human. On Tuesday night, many Occupiers had been sick, throwing up in their tents. Sanitation had become an issue. Too many people eating, not enough people doing dishes, or not doing them well enough. Some people had been threatened, verbally or with weapons, and due to weariness some key political organizers had taken to spending more time away from the camp than at it.
In effect, Utopia was already being saddled with the 'problem people' our general society has major challenges assimilating. They had to host the rejects we sweep under the rug into jails, homeless shelters and the foster system all over the country.
That retreat away from the square and to the park had already affected the morale of the camp in more ways than was acknowledged to the press. The space was bigger, and camp had been allowed to spread out more. Divisions that already existed were allowed to geographically materialize. The centre of camp life was the paved square at the head of the park, facing the busiest pedestrian corner in the city. The living quarters of the Occupy camp sprawled South, down a narrow and long green space bordered by a much quieter street, residential towers, and a hospital. The deeper into the camp you went, the further away from the public. That's where kids went to do drugs, and where it felt a little dangerous walking past sunset.
Predictably, many OccupyNS critics took this honest reporting to mean Horne supported the eviction, which she obviously did not. But she had the gumption to report problems on the side of the issue that drew her sympathies, and for that, good on her. The Chronicle-Herald and others could learn from this example of integrity.
Anyone but the incumbents
Contrarian reader Dana Doiron writes:
I remember listening to Peter Kelly giving early warning that the occupiers would have to leave the Grand Parade to accommodate Remembrance Day and seasonal activities. He spoke of respect for the rights of the occupiers and the importance of dialogue on issues confronting us collectively. I was impressed with his search to accommodate the occupiers elsewhere and then with the assistance provided to relocate them to Victoria Park.
I visited the assembly at Victoria Park and was pleased to see the civil interaction with other Haligonians and, particularly, with police officers.
I also heard the Mayor of Montreal speak last week about the difference between the Arab spring and Montreal where the respect the rights of individuals to gather to address common problems would trump inconvenience and appearances. I was proud that Halifax and Montreal at least, were united in civility and mindful of priorities.
That went down the drain on Friday. The fact that the vote to evict was unanimous will probably make it easier at election time: almost anyone but the incumbents.
Councillor Watts sides with Kelly — update
HRM District 14 Councillor Jennifer Watts has issued an apology for her role in Saturday's forcible eviction of Occupy Nova Scotia. She still believes the parks bylaw trumps Charter guarantees of free speech and the right to assemble peacefully, but she now regrets the Remembrance Day timing and the failure to explore alternative resolution methods. Her silence on those issues, "was a serious error in judgment on my part for which I sincerely apologize." Full text here.
Bluenosed Babbitts speak
The Halifax Chronicle-Herald and AllNovaScotia.com, ranking arbiters of mainstream opinion in Nova Scotia, lent editorial support Monday to Mayor Peter Kelly's forcible police removal of peaceful Occupy Nova Scotia protesters.
The Herald, in a bracing throwback to its days as the fusty Old Lady of Argyle, approved the eviction in every detail: violence, secrecy, sneakiness, double-dealing, rights-violation, and even Remembrance Day timing. AllNS tried to have it both ways. A commentary* by former-Managing-Editor-turned-United-Church-minister Kevin Cox quibbled with Kelly's timing and secretive decision-making, but endorsed His Worship's position that a vague and rarely enforced municipal bylaw should trump Sections 2. (b), (c), and (d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
In a letter AllNS published this morning, Halifax Filmmaker John Wesley Chisholm pointed out that Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi had reached the opposite conclusion, "saying the Charter of Rights prevented the city from arbitrarily forcing out the protesters — even if they're breaking a city bylaw."
Halifax officials, Chisholm wrote, took a big gamble with taxpayers' money, risking hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions on a possible court defence of
the notion that these protesters' use of tents to camp out in a public park was so egregious, so outstandingly shocking to our community's values, of such a danger to public safety, so offensive to our public interests, that it justified a police action to deny their rights and freedoms to assembly and protest under the federal law on which our civil society is based..
Even by the smug standards of Halifax's establishment media, this was a shabby performance.
*Access to AllNS is by paid subscription, and its flash-based web structure makes it impossible to post accurate links.
A senseless and unnecessary use of power
Here are the events that led to today's arrests in Halifax.
- A group of protesters exercised their right to assemble peacefully and petition their government for redress of grievances by camping out in the Halifax Parade ground.
- City burghers found the demonstration unruly, distasteful, and inconvenient. Seizing on the central role the Parade Grounds traditionally plays in Halifax's Remembrance Day observances, Mayor Peter Kelly demanded the protesters vacate the area before November 11.
- Showing more strategic accumen than one might have been inclined to expect, the OccupyNS protesters negotiated respectfully with veterans' groups and HRM officials, and voluntarily withdrew to Victoria Park, a few blocks away.
(A parenthetic note seems warranted here: For those unfamiliar with Halifax, Victoria Park scarcely merits the designation. It's more of a grassy verge than a full-fledged park, a walkway whose round-the-clock use by protesters, however scruffy, should not have made any city official's list of top-10 concerns. Peace, order, and good government-wise, it was a non-event.)
- On Tuesday, Mayor Kelly and HRM Council met behind closed doors and voted on… something. Maybe they voted to evict the protesters, as Kelly claimed. Maybe they voted to serve them with an eviction notice, as Dawn Sloane claimed Friday evening. Mere citizens cannot know who's telling the truth and who's confabulating because there was no mention of the protests on the council agenda, and the city's elected officials acted, as is their wont on important and controversial matters, in secret and unaccountably. As the Coast's Tim Bousquet reported, the vote, if it happened, was not confirmed in public session, as required by law.
- On Friday, having made so much of his reverence for the solemnity of Remembrance Day last week, Kelly ordered – or at the very least, allowed – the eviction to proceed, with only cursory warning. Police forced protesters out of Victoria "park," arresting those who failed to co-operate, and confiscating their tents and paraphernalia.
What harm were the OccupyNS protesters doing that could conceivably justify their violent eviction? City officials made a few, feckless attempts to conjure up a rationale. Kelly claimed the protests had cost the city $25,000 extra police and trash removal services, then abruptly upped the estimate to $40,000. The roundness of the numbers suggests they were plucked from the mayoral navel with as much accounting acumen as Kelly applied in the past the the use of city parks for big name concerts.
City officials claimed an ordinance required city parks to be vacated overnight, but pedestrians routinely use the grassy walkway at all hours of the day and night. Critics were quick to point out that Kelly's administration tolerated an encampment at Seaview Park for months on end, before eventually conceding that the protesters had a point and negotiating a settlement of their grievances.
Carrying out the forcible eviction on Remembrance Day was tactless, and added insult to injury, but it's a side issue. The core principle here is the right to petition for redress by peaceful assembly. That's what our vets fought for. The city has sacrificed these Constitutional pillars in the name of an obscure and petty municipal ordinance, and a stuffy concern for orderliness. Is it any wonder Halifax, which could be such a great city, wallows instead in mediocrity?
Sydney overkill and Beijing underkill
Earlier this week, various blogs and media outlets reported that Beijing was experiencing frightful levels of air pollution. To document the crisis, China hand James Fallows cited what he called "the indispensable (and highly controversial)" Twitter feed @Beijingair, which produces hourly readings of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in Beijing. On Monday, @Beijingair showed readings in excess of 300 µg/m3, contributing to conditions the US EPA characterizes as "hazardous," and warranting "health warnings of emergency conditions."
What caught my attention was Fallows's assertion that the @BeijingAir feed is "the only known source of PM 2.5 readings in China." That is astounding: one PM2.5 meter for a nation of 1.3 billion people. By contrast, Sydney, Nova Scotia, population ~27,000,* has seven instruments that monitor PM2.5.
Bear with me for a brief technical digression. PM2.5 is a measure of the concentration of airborne particles smaller than 2.5 microns (millionths of a metre)—tiny particles that can find their way deep inside people's lungs. It's the air quality scientist's indicator of choice for air pollution most likely to damage health.
To confound matters further, Sydney's closely monitored air quality appears to be quite good. Here is the most recent publicly available data, from a 24-hour sample collected on October 12.
Each column represents a different monitoring station, each of which has two types of monitors. The highest reading among them was less than 1/1ooth of that registered this week in Beijing. These monitors run for 24 hours once every six days, a schedule that coincides with Canada's National Air Pollution Surveillance (NAPS) network. A seventh Sydney-based unit operates continuously and contributes data used to calculate Environment Canada's Air Quality Health Index (AQHI), but the PM2.5 results are not reported separately.
This appears to be a clear case of underkill in Beijing, where much better data is warranted, and I would argue, overkill in Sydney, where air quality has been unremarkable by North American standards for the last two decades. Over-measurement in Sydney reflects the public panic over the Tar Ponds cleanup in the late '90s and early 'oughts. A few environmental activists persuaded residents that air-quality impacts from the Tar Ponds were putting their health at risk, a falsehood Environment Canada has been loathe to correct. Ironically, back before Sydney's coke ovens closed in 1988, the city's air likely did pose a health hazard, but went largely unmonitored.
The relative hazards of air quality in China vs. Nova Scotia show up clearly in this NASA map compiled from satellite readings of average PM2.5 levels around the world between 2001 and 2006:
I would ascribe both conditions — Sydney overkill and Beijing underkill — to the politicization of environmental monitoring. Back when Sydney's polluting steel mill and coke ovens were the largest employer in a region short of jobs, few people wanted to hear about associated environmental concerns, and government was content to turn a blind eye. Similarly, the Chinese government is reluctant to highlight the environmental costs of its spectacular economic growth (although, as Fallows often points out, its environmental record is not so indifferent as some in the west assume).
In subsequent posts on Beijing air monitoring, Fallows has subtly adjusted his claim about @Beijingair's putative uniqueness in China. He now describes it as "the only public readings of PM 2.5." The controversial feed is based on an air monitoring unit on the roof of the US Embassy in Beijing. Official chinese annoyance over it was the subject of a Wikileaks cable, and may have contributed to the Chinese government decision to block access to Twitter in 2009. There are welcome early signs, here and here, that China may soon begin more appropriate monitoring. I would be surprised if they are not secretly monitoring PM2.5.
My point here is that citizens should take care to view environmental hazards in context, and always remain mindful that any chemical hazard is proportional to dose.
*Sydney no longer exists as a municipal unit, having been amalgamated into the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in 1995. Wikipedia puts the "Sydney area" population in the 2006 census at 33,012, but this is suspiciously high. I was unable to ferret out local population numbers from StatsCan's online census information, but will be delighted if readers can steer me to them.


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Thanks for the information so far.I know it sounds strange, that I cannot change any settings in my BIOS, unfortunately that is true - if anybody is interested I can prove it with screenshots :-) I already read the very same information in various articles. I tried to unselect all unnecessary drivers, but it didn't help either. My CDROM works fine, only after loading the wrong drivers I had some issues with it, but that's pretty obvious. I guess I will give the Etch CD a shot, haven't tried this so far. Thanks for the advise.
If I don't find a solution, I will go ahead and buy an IDE drive to install Debian to; I just can't believe, that I can't get it to work with SATA and this really bugs me... :-)
Am I the only person who has problems installing Debian on SATA? Simon Dave Witbrodt wrote:
I'm new to the list and fairly new to Debian. I recently bought myself a new PC (HP Pavilion a1320n) with a SATA drive. I know, that there is an issue with the 2.4 kernel and I know that it is supposed to work with the 2.6 kernel. For some reason I can't get it to work, though. As soon as the installer tries to locate the HDD it fails with an error message. I also tried to change the BIOS settings, as some articles recommended, from "Normal" to "Combined" (SATA/PATA) - however my BIOS does not have any settings I could change (concerning the SATA drive). Some other linux distribution ("PC rescue CDs") were able to detect and display the SATA drive.I'm going to take a shot at this, though I'm no expert or guru.I have a Dell Pavilion 8400 from last year, and it shipped with a SATA150 drive. I was also not able to install Sarge until I altered my BIOS settings from SATA/AHCI mode to UltraATA-emulation mode. It sounds like your BIOS doesn't allow that, though I'm a bit surprised if that's true. (No offense.)There are two possibilities that I know of:1) I read in different places about conflicts between CD drivers and SATA drivers on the Sarge installation CDs. One link actually provided instructions about temporarily removing a module until the hard drive was partitioned, then restoring it. The Sarge installer documentation also mentions a slightly reminiscent problem:SATA driver can block access to CD drive in installations from CD. On systems having a SATA IDE controller that also has the CD drive connected to it, you may see the installer hanging during hardware detection for the CD drive or failing to read the CD just afterwards. A possible reason is that the SATA driver (ata_piix and maybe others) is blocking access to the CD drive. You can try to work around this by booting the installer in expert mode and, in the "Detect and mount CD-ROM" step, selecting only the drivers needed for CD support. These are (ide-)generic, ide-cd and isofs. The drivers needed to access the disk will still be loaded, but at a later stage. By loading the CD drivers before the SATA driver in this way, you may be able to complete the installation. Note that CD-ROM access may still be an issue after rebooting into the installed system. (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer)On the other hand, it's very possible that the kernel on the Sarge installer CD simply doesn't have support for your hardware. I actually was unable to install Sarge onto my older Pentium 3 machine because I was using a PCI controller that would allow me to use larger hard drives that my motherboard's controller could handle. The crazy thing was that, even though the kernel on the CD couldn't recognize the controller, when I installed Debian to a drive on the motherboard controller the kernel _did_ recognize the PCI controller. I had to move everything from the old hard drive to the new one.2) If the Sarge CD can't do it, then you can try a recent Etch CD, which has a newer kernel and is far more likely to recognize your hardware. They've even got the Etch installers to work now! ;) (For a long time, if you burned an Etch netinstall CD and tried to use it, it just wouldn't work -- not without massive user intervention, anyway.)Dave W.


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by sabine • June 30, 2008 • too random • 13 Comments
This is our low tech solution to mobile blogging. Michael texts me a picture, and tells me to "blog". He's actually been requesting for about 6 days now, but I've held off. Its his blog, and I always feel a bit trespassy when I come over here and type. (although I have no problems...Read more →


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A CONTROVERSIAL plan to strip local forums of the power to rule on planning bids has been given the go-ahead by councillors.
Fife Council's ruling Labour administration claimed the proposal was a crucial step in allowing it to deal with serious issues facing the region, including a housing crisis.
But opponents alleged that taking the responsibility away from area committees and vesting it in new ones covering wider geographical areas would damage local democracy.
There were angry exchanges as councillors debated the plans at a full meeting of the Glenrothes-based local authority last Thursday.
Scottish National Party planning and enterprise spokesman, John Beare, called for retention of the current system, which his party had introduced during its time in power.
The Glenrothes North and Leslie councillor said Labour's plans amounted to a "development charter".
Area committees - including that serving Glenrothes - would be de-nuded of power and responsibility and centralised, in stark contrast to the de-centralisation, transparency and accountability Labour had promised when it took office after May's council elections.
He added: "I am moving this amendment for one reason and for one reason only - I believe it is in the interests of Fife's communities, residents and businesses to do so.
"I really am significantly troubled by these centralising proposals, as are the 34 community councils who oppose these measures.
"Not that they were consulted, but I take heart that they have not only found out about these proposals, but have actually made a stand and come together.
"If councillor Alex Rowley has done anything, he has united the community councils against himself," councillor Beare said of the Labour leader.
"Today's proposals are little more than a cute political fudge."
Earlier councillor Rowley had claimed the move would make Fife the easiest place to do business, allowing a drive for investment, jobs and prosperity.
Area committees would be free to deal with the most pressing issues in their communities, while planning could be dealt with by councillors with a genuine interest in that field.
He added that while which committee took decisions on planning matters was probably of little interest to the public, it was of great importance to businesses.
He went on: "Over the last few year I have lost count of the number of times that businesses have raised the planning system with me and have put the question 'is having eight planning committees the best way to do business for Fife.'
"I believe the proposals put forward today will achieve what business is asking for - more knowledgeable and skilled councillors in a reduced committee structure with a developing expertise and greater scope for training and development, and more specialised and simplified processes to assist business in understanding decision-making arrangements and providing clarity."
The proposal was passed by 38 votes to 34 on a roll call of councillors.
The planning powers which Glenrothes Area Committee previously possessed - and which allowed it to rule on controversial issues like Lomond Quarry (pictured above) - will now be given to a Central Fife planning committee, of the type that operated before the current system.


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I was sorting throug my stash a few years ago and noticed that I seemed to have an abundance of Yellow/Orange/Red and Blue/Purple.I grabbed my rotery cutter and chopped a mountain of squares, big and small, and randomly pieced them together. Then I handed the pile of blocks to the kids and told them to figure out a lay-out. In a weeks time we had a top...but finding a border for it!! That was a nightmare! It sat in the closet waiting to be finished for months before, on a fluke, I saw the perfect batik in the sale bin of my favorite quilt shop! I wasn't even looking with that top in mind when I found it!
That's so cute Chocake. What a great way to get them involved in the process.
CC the border fabric is perfect! And out of the sale bin was a plus, good job! Your kids did an awesome job on the layout, kudos to them.
I so love that you involved the younger generation....so often we are so intent and rigid in what we expect out of a project that we don't let the fun happen. If they are having fun, they may want to do it as adults. If not they will at least have a fun memory!
What a nice colorful quilt. That border is perfect!


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The Force
By Jill Lepore
The New Yorker
Once a country that regarded a large standing army as a form of tyranny, the United State's has now become one of the largest spenders on defense — and its military spending exceeds all of the nation's in the world combined. When does a large military become "too much"?
Could Cyril Ramaphosa Be the Best Leader South Africa Has Not Yet Had?
By Bill Keller
New York Times Magazine
Once a powerful figure in the struggle against apartheid, Ramaphosa has become a promenant figure in the business community. Yet his election to Deputy President of the African National Congress has brought him back into politics, and "we may find out whether he is, as many South Africans have long believed, the best president South Africa has not yet had."
The Egyptian Revolution Through Mubarak's Eyes
By Dan Kenner
Foreign Policy
Two years after the January 25th protests in Egypt, some of Mubarak's closest confidants are going public about the discussions within the upper echelons of the Egyptian government after initial the outbreak of protests. By all accounts, he seems to have been more of a passive figure.
The Danger in the Desert
The Economist
With the escalating war in Mali and the recent battle between the Algerian special forces and Islamic extremists, the specter of a "new jihadism" seems to be hanging over the continent. But is the fear of these jihadists bringing the mayhem to the West as well-founded as the danger to the African countries themselves?
The Mirage of the Arab Spring
By Seth G. Jones
Foreign Affairs
The Arab Spring — once perceived as a sign of hope and freedom — has yet to lead the Middle East to throw aside its authoritarian yolk. Instead leaping into an idealistic quagmire, the United States needs a policy to deal with the region as it is.
Syrian Predictions 2013, Look North
By Alexander Corbeil
Trend of Trophy Hunting Ban is Promising for African Wildlife
By Daniel Donovan
A Long Road Ahead for France in Mali
By Julia Knight
When People Vanish
By Tim LaRocco
McDonough's Elevation and the Obamians' Ascent
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The agony of the conservative elite
Martin and Smith wrap up the dissatisfaction of conservative intellectuals, for whom there is no inspiring choice in the 2012 presidential field:
The problem, in shorthand: To many conservative elites, Rick Perry is a dope, Michele Bachmann is a joke, and Mitt Romney is a fraud. ...
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From the Journal's Midtown Manhattan conference room to the fluorescent corridors of Washington's think tanks, there is a collective sense of, is this the best we can do?
"It just does seem to be a little crazy in a year when you have a chance to win the presidency that a lot of leading lights aren't putting themselves forward," said William Kristol, the Weekly Standard editor and indefatigable Ryan advocate who hopefully brandished a Ryan-Rubio button on Fox News Sunday.
But when Ryan reaffirmed that he wouldn't seek the GOP nomination, the conservative intelligentsia's last best hope to get one of their own in the race appeared to have vanished.
The 41-year-old House Budget Committee chairman wasn't just the right's beau ideal because he authored the "Roadmap," the controversial entitlement and spending reform plan—it's also because his political roots are in the think tank world. Ryan worked for Jack Kemp and William Bennett at Empower America as a 20-something and even now he's closer to conservative thinkers than he is to the typical GOP lobbyists and strategists that surround ambitious pols.
"They made Paul Ryan into a heartthrob," said National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru of his fellow right-leaning thinkers.
And he seemed a man for a wonky moment.
"It's in some ways [the current field is] less satisfying because this is a particularly policy-heavy moment and the most wonky of the wonky issues are front and center," said Yuval Levin, the Hertog Fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center. "We feel the absence of policy intellectuals more."
As my colleagues point out, the market space in the 2012 campaign for an upscale, thinking-man's candidate is shrinking, as Mitt Romney and Rick Perry eat up more and more of the primary vote and rank-and-file Republican voters show fewer reservations about their top options.


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SALT LAKE CITY — Emotionally charged opposition surrounding a proposed countywide tax increase continued during a public hearing Thursday, though a posting error prevented a vote from taking place.
The Salt Lake County Council will vote on its proposed 2013 budget, including a possible 16.2 percent tax increase, at a special meeting at 7 p.m. Friday. The council will be accepting input up until the vote.
Mayor Peter Corroon's original proposal called for a 17.5 percent increase. Corroon, who will be succeeded in January by fellow Democrat Ben McAdams, was not in attendance Thursday night, eliciting criticism from at least one resident, which was met by cheers.
"Where is the mayor that I voted for?" Scott Evans said as he stood to offer his comments, highlighting the impact the recession has had on his small business, which now employs 12 fewer individuals than it did four years ago.
McAdams also did not attend the public hearing.
Thursday's public hearing came after a barrage of negative public comment during Tuesday's County Council meeting, where residents decried the idea of a tax increase during a time of recession.
Hostile comments continued for more than an hour Thursday as emotional county residents stood before the council and admonished its members to close recreation and senior centers, cut county employee pay and pensions, eliminate subsidies and seek volunteer help in order to stave off the cut, drawing applause and cheers from the small audience.
The proposed tax increase would cost the average homeowner in the county an estimated $59 per year, as well as $18 to support public libraries.
The increase is intended in part to manage the county's deferred maintenance, renovate aging facilities and restore lost wages and benefits to county employees, county officials said.
Darrin Casper, chief financial officer, addressed the audience prior to public comment, outlining the impact inflation has had on the county's ability to function.
Possible cuts would have resulted in closure of recreation centers, senior centers and libraries, as well all layoffs for county employees, he said. Within the sheriff's office, cuts would have required closure of Oxbow Jail.
"Inflation has been eating away at our budgets," Casper said, citing an increase in the general consumer price index, which has climbed 32 percent since 2001.
As Casper explained the mayor's reasoning behind a tax increase rather than continuing cuts to fight inflation, Peter Liacopoulos, who who did not speak during the public hearing, raised a large cardboard sign at the back of the room with a simple message handwritten in black marker: "Are you for real? SHAME!!!"
Partway through the meeting, the sign was replaced by an upside-down American flag.
Matthew Bone argued that he has been hit by rising inflation along with the county.
"We've had those costs go up too," Bone said. "My pay has gone down 10 percent in the last 10 years."
Before leaving the meeting early, County Council Chairman David Wilde took a moment to affirm that he opposed to increase and intends to vote against the proposal Friday, though he "probably" would have supported a smaller tax increase.
"(Families) just have to find ways to cut and live within the means they have," Wilde said. "Government needs to be more willing to approach their problems in the same way."
Donna Case, who also attended Tuesday's meeting, proposed seeking educated volunteers and "creative solutions" to manage concerns in the county, rather than establishing an increase that she anticipated would force stay-at-home moms into the workforce.
"You're going to be taking my children's mother away from them," Case said, lamenting the disposable diapers and prepared meals that would take the place of home cooking and cost-saving cloth diapers that she has made a priority in her home.
Nate Jensen, of Herriman, returned to offer public comment to add to his statements from Tuesday about the "silly tax hike."
"There are other states that are doing just fine with lower property taxes than Salt Lake County takes in," Jensen said.
"I like the Hogle Zoo," he said. "Just let me pay for it when I go. If I have to pay more, fine. That's my problem. Don't tax us for this."
The five people who stood in support of the increase spoke of the benefit county programs offer the community and people in their lives.
Gary Bowen announced he supports the increase, saying he spoke for the "silent majority" that had not turned out for the meeting.5 comments on this story
"The county has already made over the past few years substantial cuts, which no one in this audience has recognized tonight," Bowen said. "We are on the cusp with a new administration and a new Congress of seeing an increase in our economy. The county needs to prepare and provide the basic services for that growth that's going to take place in the next year."
Bowen's comments drew a smattering of applause and a chorus of booing from the vocal crowd.
Christopher Lee, who identified himself as a 26-year-old new father, said as he looked to the future, he imagined his young daughter someday checking out a book from the library and learning to dance at a community rec center.
"I want you think about a world in which there is no art, and there are no libraries," he said. "That's not a world I want to bring my little 10-month daughter into."
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Just because you have a restricted diet, doesn't mean you have a restricted life.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
It's true, I go often, about five nights a week. Firstly I'm single. Restaurants are a major source of socializing, whether with dates or with friends. So allergies or no, I get out there. Secondly, I like going out. I live in a great foodie town and there's no reason I should be eating at home, alone in my room.
But this isn't to say I don't have run-ins with my inner colt – that part of me that gets skittish and can't be calmed. It happens.
Like a few years back whilst eating at the Ivy in LA with my then Boyfriend. He was pushing me to try their famous wheat bread, which arrives to your table steaming hot. [Those were still during the gluten-full, lacto-ovo vegetarian years where, in a pinch, I could make do with a big salad and a portion of the breadbasket for dinner.] Why the hard sell? Because he really liked the bread and wanted me to like it too. So I asked our server what was in the bread.
"It's a secret recipe. I can't tell you."
"But, I have food allergies and I can't eat it without knowing what's in it."
"Sorry Ma'am. It's a secret family recipe and I can't divulge its ingredients. If you tell me what you're allergic to, I can tell you if it's in there."
"Well, tree-nuts mainly."
"There are no tree-nuts in the bread." And off he walked.
Any of you who have allergies or sensitivities or have read even one post of this blog will know that wasn't going to be good enough. This is when Boyfriend got a little insistent.
"He said it had no nuts. Try it. It's really so good, I know you're gonna love it"
"Thanks but I can't. I don't what's in it."
Power play ensued: Eat it. No, I can't eat it.
And the main reason I couldn't/wouldn't eat it was: I got spooked. And once I get into that place, I'm done. It's partly, no it's mainly, a trust thing. I didn't trust the server, my main line of communication to what was in my food. So I was done. Spooked and I couldn't get un-spooked.
[FYI: When Boyfriend and I made up later than night he told me he just really wanted me to enjoy it and was upset for me that I couldn't eat all of the things he could enjoy. "I know," was all I could reply.]
Or a more recent example, Monday, lunch at the Regent . I ordered a simple Greek salad, dressing on the side. Of course it came dressed. The waiter told me that the dressing HAD BEEN walnut oil [which was not labeled on the menu] until he told them "no nuts". So they dressed it in something else and sent it out to me.
I looked at the salad, wilting in the hot sun and the salad looked back at me, and whispered: "Spin the roulette wheel - try me."
Ok, the salad didn't actually speak to me but I had officially entered Spooksville, population: moi. I didn't trust the kitchen nor this salad. What did they put on it? Are they sure no walnut oil was tossed in for good measure? Things on the plate were also marinated [which wasn't stated on the menu] and that spooked me as well. The waiter apologized, another waiter came over, said they'd re-make it with everything on the side. But I was done, cooked, officially scared off a Greek salad.
I've accepted that this will happen from time to time. The spooked thing. And after talking with so many chefs the previous weekend in SOBE I know that this feeling, this gut feeling, is not unreasonable to trust. It may kinda equal a pain in the ass but I'd rather that than a trip to the hospital.
5 comments:
- burekaboy — said...
not worth taking a chance, IMO. i can't tell you how many trips to emergency i've made with 2 of my friends because they gave into the temptation. better safe than sorry. or is it better alive than dead? only takes one time.
- 11:02 AM, March 04, 2007
I don't have a life-threatening allergy (mine is to soy), but I know it took me YEARS to get my health back to where it was before the allergy took over, and unless people truly have been through something similar they can't understand. I have constant go-arounds with co-workers regarding chocolate and baked goods they bring in...it's not that I don't want to eat, it's that I don't want to miss a week of work out sick!
- 12:20 PM, March 04, 2007
- Allergic Girl said...
BB: totally better safe than sorry or better dead than red or better dead than alive...of better just not eat it when you get spooked. yes!
courtney: at my old office i became known as the girl who wouldnt eat the office birthday party cakes. so annoying! ;-)
- 4:44 PM, March 04, 2007
- ChupieandJ'smama said...
I always trust my gut with my son. I know I annoy so many people but it just isn't worth another use of the EPI pen. Always better to be safe than sorry. Those who love us understand.
- 6:44 PM, March 04, 2007
- Allergic Girl said...
Chupieand J's: you ARE so right. those that love us do care.
- 6:52 PM, March 04, 2007


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Open Season: Wind, waves, walleyes sure signs of spring
The wind whipped Ottertail Lake into a wave-riddled froth resembling an army of white-helmeted soldiers marching to war.
Then the trolling motor quit.
When dead in the water on angry seas, a person's first reaction ought to be panic.
Mine was disappointment.
As the boat quickly ebbed south into deeper water, it occurred to me, rather starkly, that the day may be over before it began.
Realizing we had ceased our semi-linear progression along one of Ottertail Lake's steep breaks, my wife, Erin, and father, Bret, asked what the problem was.
"Trolling motor died," I said, with a sigh. "Figures."
It was our first fishing trip of the year on big water, and our first chance at catching some hungry early-summer, post-spawn walleyes.
So far, however, we'd only managed a few hammer-handle pike and gluttonous perch.
The livewell remained empty.
Erin began reeling in her line, but dad hesitated.
"We should try drifting," he said, possibly noticing the look of defeat creasing my face.
At first, the notion sounded preposterous. While walleyes are occasionally apt to pounce on fleet-finned prey, especially later in the summer, a shiner delicately lipped on a hook and trailed slowly on a 5-foot leader seems to produce many more takers this time of year. Drifting this day likely would result in a very fast presentation - too fast.
Considering our options - stay and fish or leave and pout - there was only one real answer.
"What do we have to lose?" I shrugged.
Erin and dad reeled in as our dog, Remy, kept eager watch. The few boats that had joined us on the choppy waters were disappearing one by one off the lake, or retreating to the safety of shallower locales.
Our old, smoky Mercury fired on the first turn of the key, emitting a billow of blue-gray exhaust that lingered only momentarily on the lake surface before dissolving like a soggy Kleenex.
I steered the 18-foot Lund northwest as the waves sprayed its occupants with wind-chilled droplets. Erin buried her face in Remy's warm fur, while dad, steadfast at the bow, gripped both hands on his creaking chair and braced for impact.
Despite the wind's fervent pace away from the fishing spot, it had only taken a minute to reach the drop-off's lip under the power of the reliable outboard. It was just eight feet deep at the shallowest point, but quickly spilled to 17 as we opened bails and emptied their contents to the lake floor.
The Hummingbird depth finder, which doubled as a GPS unit, blipped out our speed as we sailed southeast: one-mile-an-hour, 1.2, 0.9, 1.5. Our fishing lines were stretched out at a laughably obtuse angle.
"We're going way too fast," I mumbled.
As if on cue and to once again prove how wrong I was about fishing, Erin said, rather matter-of-factly, "Got one."
Her rod strained under the weight of its thumping catch.
My eyes widened and I grabbed the net as the fish slowly materialized from the turbid depths.
The walleye splashed to the surface, maw gaping wide to reveal a shredded shiner minnow dangling from an orange hook that was deftly imbedded into its upper lip.
In one fell swoop, the black Frabill net dipped down and came up with the fat, flopping 18-inch marble-eye.
The livewell was no longer vacant, and there was plenty of room at the inn for more tenants.
I often boast about Erin's gift for fishing. It's become a sort-of running joke - how she went from barely knowing how to work a reel to out-fishing any male companion - and draws a few laughs from relatives and friends. But even though I may spin a yarn for affect, deep down I'm dead serious.
That woman has a knack and knows how to use it.
As if to punctuate that sentiment, mere seconds after I re-baited her hook with a fresh minnow, Erin announced that she had struck again.
Just like that, the lone walleye in the boat had company.
As the relentless wind howled and the waves battered our vessel, its content trio couldn't help but grin as the day raged on. Eventually, the saturating gray skies gave way to intermittent sunlight, and those brief moments of warmth did nothing but temper our resolve.
Each pass down the drop-off yielded results, be it walleyes, perch, northerns or rock bass.
Dad's luck was a bit short, and while he earlier bragged about catching the most walleyes - four minnow-like fish that were sent back to the briny deep - his boisterousness subsided after Erin went on a spree unrivaled by that of even the most veteran fishermen.
By 3 p.m., we were nearly out of bait and dad needed to head home to the Twin Cities.
But instead of all of us packing it in, he offered an alternative: let us keep the boat for a couple weeks so we could keep fishing.
I was on Cloud Nine.
After a quick run to Ken's Tackle on Ottertail's south shore to top off our lake shiner reserves, we smiled and waved goodbye to dad, then scooted back out to the break to continue the drifting success from earlier.
One by one, eyes graced the livewell until Erin filled out her six-fish limit with 16-19 inch walleyes. I'd scratched two walleyes, myself, as well as a fat 32-inch northern that was above the one-over-30 inch slot set for the lake.
It was a true gem of a gator, but I didn't weigh it. When it comes to pike, our family gauges them more on pints pickled, per se, than pounds.
With a boat full of future dinners and the sun hanging low in the western skies, Erin and I finally called it a day. Remy, the faithful pooch, was nearly comatose from hours of anxiously watching for the next creature to be pulled from the water. He was ready for his supper, anyway.
In no time, we were back to the reality of Fargo. Just like that, the events of the day were relegated to memories.
The good thing about memories, however, is that there's always time to make more. And with the way this summer is shaping up, there will be plenty more opportunities to do just that.
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2009 Dodge Ram 2500 - Kentucky Wildcat
Jennifer Scott's 2009 Dodge has its claws out
It just seems unlikely that you will find a bigger fan of the Kentucky Wildcats than Jennifer Scott. This Lexington, Kentucky, resident says she loves the paw print logo and she loves big trucks. What better way to show off Wildcat pride than with her own rolling booster club?
The paw print was embedded in the Line-X coating for a real impactful appearance. But this truck is not a one-trick pony. Nope, the '09 Dodge Ram 2500 is a nicely built machine. With the Wildcat design in mind, the truck just had to be blue, but that's even better in Jennifer's mind, as blue is her favorite color. She chose Electric Blue Pearl for her crew cab Big Horn pickup.
The blue theme is carried into the cab, too, as Jennifer used blue inserts in the seats and painted select plastic pieces to match the Wildcats' favorite color.
"What better way to show off Wildcat pride than with her own rolling booster club?"
The Cummins 6.7L engine only has about 25,000 miles on it, but it sure is packaged with some nice power-adders. The air intake is a Volant while the exhaust is from MBRP. A Smarty tuner from Mads Electronics wakes things up, and the color touch screen of the Edge with Attitude CTS makes it all easy to tune. Big, black stacks run up from the bed to announce to everyone that this is not just a pretty truck.
The pickup was lifted 6 inches using a Fabtech kit, and then Jennifer stuffed 37-inch Nitto Mud Grappler tires onto 20-inch RBP wheels. The look is spot-on perfect.
The list of things to do never seems to get any shorter, but the most recent one includes installing head studs, fire rings, a bigger turbo, and a Sun Coast clutch. We're betting a beefed-up transmission can't be too far down the line, either.
Jennifer uses the truck for towing, getting to work, going to mud bogs, and visiting car shows. She stays busy with the Ram, and just about everybody in Lexington knows it's Jennifer Scott coming down the street when they see the big blue Dodge.


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EVANS, Ga. As his boat floated away from its trailer, Bassmaster Elite Series pro Todd Faircloth stood upon his deck wearing shorts and a T-shirt. Three seconds later, the Texas angler's 100-mph suit came on, even before he dropped the trolling motor into the water to scoop his dockside co-angler.
On Day One's launch of the Pride of Georgia presented by Evan Williams Bourbon, anglers sported several layers of clothes to prevent the nip of the morning air from invasion. The field must be ready to shed, since temperatures in the high-40s at launch will quickly give way to comfortable afternoon highs in the mid-70s.
"I never thought we'd have the coldest weather on the first day of May," said Elite Series pro Timmy Horton, after blowing into his hands.
Previous stops on the Elite Series in Florida and Texas meant much warmer morning weather for those preparing for their day.
A late spring across the Southeast, has left bass scattered across Clarks Hill Lake and in every stage of the spawning cycle. The resulting conditions mean anglers must prepare for every option as well.
"I have seven rods on my deck," pro angler John Crews said. "And I will probably pull out two or three more. I'm fishing two different patterns."
"Everything's just a little behind here," said angler Charley Hartley. "Spring's a week behind and we're a week later."
Regardless of the cooler temperatures, veteran angler Rick Clunn believes the day's high pressure could play a larger factor.
"It (the temperature) won't mean a thing," Clunn said. "It's just too late in the year. It's more about what you're tuned into."
According to Shaw Grigsby, some bass have just begun to school as groups of blue back herring begin to assemble. Landlocked lakes like Clarks Hill Lake and Lake Hartwell stock the baitfish these largemouth bass love to devour.
With many fish still on the beds, and the baitfish not yet balling-up, many anglers feel the winning 70-pound weights seen at the last two tournaments at this same lake may prove difficult to reach.
"It's going to be a little tougher," said Florida angler Terry Scroggins. "It'll be a pound or two less to get a check here."


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Reading around the site I saw another poster had mentioned the name Roxanne as being one of their daughter's names. It reminded me of the fact I used to love the name when I was younger, and had totally forgotten about it, but the feelings I had about it have now come back.
What do you think of Dominic and Roxanne? Likely be Nico and Roxy/Annie much of the time. And what about in comparison to the other names on my shortlist (Elizabeth, Suzanna and Tabitha) is it worth trying to convince the husband to add this one as an option as well? No idea on a middle either, I don't think any of the three will work with it.


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MOSS POINT — VT Halter Marine has laid the keel for a multi-million dollar oceanographic survey ship.
The event was held yesterday at the shipyard in Moss Point.
The USNS Maury Survey Ship will have state-of-the-art survey equipment to undertake oceanographic surveys anywhere in the world.
Navy officials say the $87-million ship will also assist with humanitarian and disaster aid missions.
VT Halter has built six of the original vessels.
The all-steel vessel can carry a 67-person crew.
Bill Skinner, CEO of VT Halter, says it will take about 18 months to complete the ship.


text: 10 lawns is not enough to buy a $10,000 mower. Cart in front of the horse. Selling a good running mower does not make sense when you will be left without a back up. If you made enough money from this mower for it to have paid itself off then this mower does not own you anything and is another reason to keep it. If this mower has not paid itself off then you should not be replacing it.


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Prediction and Classification of Non-stationary Categorical Time Series
Partial likelihood analysis of a general regression model for the analysis of non-stationary categorical time series is presented, taking into account stochastic time dependent covariates. The model links the probabilities of each category to a covariate process through a vector of time invariant parameters. Under mild regularity conditions, we establish good asymptotic properties of the estimator by appealing to martingale theory. Certain diagnostic tools are presented for checking the adequacy of the fit.
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Angel Broking is bullish on Axis Bank and has recommended buy rating on the stock with a target of Rs 1328 in its October 16, 2012 research report.
Angel Broking is bullish on Axis Bank and has recommended buy rating on the stock with a target of Rs 1328 in its October 16, 2012 research report.
"Axis Bank's loan book grew by a healthy 22.9% yoy, while deposits grew by 21.2% yoy. The growth in the loan book was primarily on account of higher retail lending, with strong growth witnessed in both home and auto loans segments. CASA deposits registered a sequential growth of 9.9%, which was largely due to a strong 15.2% qoq growth witnessed in current deposits. Overall, reported NIMs improved by 9bp qoq to 3.46%, on account of lower deposits costs. The bank registered a healthy growth in its non-interest income excluding treasury, largely driven by strong growth in fee income from the retail and agri & SME segments. Slippages for the bank during the quarter came in at Rs628cr, which included the account of Deccan Chronicle."
"Slippages and restructuring taken together amounted to Rs2,000cr in 1HFY2013 and the management has guided for a similar number in 2HFY2013. The bank registered treasury gains of Rs207cr during the quarter and used the opportunity to provide aggressively for NPAs (~407cr) and create a contingency reserve of Rs115cr. Along with recoveries and upgrades of Rs136cr, this helped the bank to keep its net NPA ratio at 0.33% (on an absolute basis net NPAs increased by 8.2% qoq to 47cr), which was a positive surprise. Gross NPAs also remained in check at 1.1%, due to large write-offs. The bank's (PCR) improved by 100bp to 80.0% in 2QFY2013. The bank's cumulative restructured book as of 2QFY2013, which is reported facility-wise, stood at Rs4,068cr (2.3% of net advances)."
"Axis Bank is trading at 1.6x FY2014E ABV –58% discount to HDFC Bank vs an average discount of 35% over the past five years (which we believe over-discounts asset quality concerns). We remain positive on the bank, owing to its attractive CASA franchise, multiple sources of sustainable fee income and reasonable growth outlook. We maintain our buy recommendation on the stock with a target price of Rs1,328," says Angel Broking research report.
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Two Boston Bars Make Esquire's 'Best' List
Esquire Magazine published its annual Best bars in America list, and two Boston pubs made the top 25. If you get your drinks at either J.J Foleys or The Hawthorne, you're bellying up in one of this country's elite watering holes.
Esquire breaks down the best bars in each state, too, and the Massachusetts bars selected, for the most part, are the ones you'd expect to see in an Esquire sort of magazine. Drink, Brick and Mortar, and Eastern Standard make the list, among others. Also, interestingly, does Jamaica Plain's The Drinking Fountain. I don't think anyone who's been there would disagree that the Drinking Fountain isn't as refined as the others listed, which is part of its charm.
From Esquire:
Besides a hall-of-fame dive-bar name, this classic New England corner tap boasts a raffish, mixed-- by any definition of the term--and very gregarious crowd (so perhaps not a place to drag your more delicate friends); strong-ass, cheap-ass drinks; and a jukebox, pool tables, and an aquarium.
The Drinking Fountain make Esquire's top 25 list in 2013, too. Let's just hope classy people don't come and louse the joint up.


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I know how much you all love when I share my amazing scarf deals. Right now, it's freezing over most of the US and it's time to invest in some winter scarves. The last ones I shared were some of my favorite summer infinity scarves, but they definitely lack that "keep me warm" cozy feel.
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