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The gathering, organized by the freshman class president, Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.), will follow separate meetings this week between House Democrats and Republicans and President Obama at which the issue of the country's soaring debt was at the top of the agenda.
Here are three things to watch for in today's meeting:
1. Whither the "debt limit deniers?" Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), one of the main proponents of the argument that the country will not default on its debt obligations if Congress fails to raise the debt limit, introduced legislation in February that he contends would prevent default by requiring the Treasury to make only principal and interest payments past the Aug. 2 deadline it has set. The House version of the bill has garnered 96 co-sponsors, including 45 of the 87 members of the House Republican freshman class. Many of those freshmen are skeptical of Geithner's August deadline, setting the stage for a potential showdown with the treasury secretary later today.
"This is the difficulty of Secretary Geithner constantly coming out and saying, 'The date is now. No, the date is now. No, the date is now,' " said Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.), a freshman who has signed onto the House version of Toomey's bill. "He's crying wolf enough. We understand the wolf is coming at some point; it's trying to determine when that actually occurs is the hard part. I'd rather not get close to that, but we don't know when that is because he's constantly crying wolf."
2. Will Geithner hold firm on the Aug. 2 date? The White House has repeatedly said that the date announced by Geithner last month is the drop-dead date by which Congress must vote to raise the debt ceiling, warning that any failure to do so will be "catastrophic." Will Geithner attempt to take on critics of that argument head-on, or will he signal to members that the deadline is a fungible one? Along those lines, will he give members any sense of how the administration might respond in case Congress does not raise the debt limit before August, or will he flatly rule out the possibility of Congress failing to raise the country's borrowing limit?
3. Will House freshmen be in line with Republican leaders on the debt limit? House Republicans' 87-member freshman class has at times clashed with GOP leadership. During the debate over avoiding a government shutdown, for instance, members of the freshman class pushed for a package of greater spending cuts than House Republican leaders had initially outlined. In the debt limit debate, leaders of both parties have emphasized that they do not believe that default is an option, while some rank-and-file members have taken issue with that argument. Will any of the House freshmen at today's meeting, particularly tea-party-backed members, make the case that default would be a better outcome than leadership settling for a deal that doesn't include significant spending cuts and structural changes such as a balanced-budget amendment?
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Pregnancy-related complications
Every day, 800 women die from complications of childbirth. A pregnant woman from a developing country is 36 times more likely to suffer from pregnancy-related complications compared with a pregnant woman from a developed country.
The leading causes of death in developing countries are severe bleeding, hypertension, sepsis, unsafe abortion, and obstructed labour, for which simple, life-saving, and cost-effective treatment exists.
- Read more on severe bleeding in pregnancy, unsafe abortion, obstructed labor, and obstetric fistulas
The WHO EESC program works with its partners towards maternal and child health by providing technical guidelines, training materials on the management of obstetric emergencies, best practice protocols on female genital injury management and obstetric safety, and data on the capacity of district hospitals to provide emergency obstetric care.


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Melo hopeful of upsetting Milan
Juventus defender Felipe Melo believes his team need to have a flawless game on Saturday if they want to upset Serie A leaders AC Milan and stay in the hunt for a top-four finish.
Juve go into the encounter at Turin's Olympic Stadium having lost four of their last six league games. Last weekend's 2-0 defeat to Bologna dropped them to seventh in the standings, seven points behind fourth-placed Lazio.
Milan won their third straight game on Monday in a 3-0 triumph over Napoli, a result that lifted the Rossoneri five points clear of second-placed Inter Milan with 11 rounds remaining.
''There is no margin for error,'' said Melo on the club's official website. ''Milan have a very strong side and if you make mistakes, they will kill you. We will have to play as we did in our opening game against them, with concentration at the highest.''
Juve beat Milan 2-1 at the San Siro back on October 30. That defeat was the second of the season for Massimiliano Allegri's men but since then, they have lost just once in the competition.
Scudetto contenders Inter will be hoping Juve win as they look to cut the gap on their city rivals. Leonardo's men host Genoa looking to make it four wins in a row.
Napoli, who are one point behind Inter, will be boosted by a strong home record as they look to bounce back immediately from the disappointment at the San Siro. Walter Mazzarri's men are unbeaten at the San Paolo Stadium since October 25, with eight wins from nine games. They host relegation-threatened Brescia on Sunday.
Lazio are at their Stadio Olimpico and will face a Palermo side that fell to a 7-0 defeat last week against Udinese. The thrashing led to the sacking of Palermo coach Delio Rossi and the appointment of Serse Cosmi as his replacement.
A Palermo victory would see red-hot Udinese leapfrog Lazio in the standings provided the Friuli outfit beat bottom side Bari. Udinese are one point behind Lazio, who hold the last Champions League qualifying spot.
Roma visit Lecce on Friday needing a win to keep up their hopes of playing in Europe's elite club competition next season. The Romans are five points behind Lazio after last weekend's disappointing 2-2 draw with Parma.
Cagliari travel to Bologna knowing that victory will all but ensure them Serie A football next season. The Sardinian outfit beat Lazio 1-0 last weekend to climb to ninth in the standings, two points away from reaching the magic 40-point threshold - a figure that usually guarantees top-flight football for the following campaign.
Catania visit Fiorentina still looking for a first win on the road this season. The Sicilian outfit have mustered just four points away from home.
Chievo and Parma will battle it out in Verona with both sides looking to pull away from the relegation zone.
Victory at Sampdoria could see Cesena climb out of the relegation zone provided Roma beat Lecce on Friday. Cesena are 18th in the standings, three points behind Lecce and the safety line.
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Australian commercial solar market rising despite RET uncertainty
Commercial solar is rapidly ramping up in Australia with nearly 25% of new solar capacity being installed for businesses generating onsite energy, according to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), the financing arm of the Clean Energy Council.
Australia has more than 4GW of installed rooftop solar PV, but despite residential systems accounting for the majority of that capacity, commercial scale installations are significantly increasing. The CEFC expects the trend to continue, as more businesses begin to experience operating cost advantages by using solar.
Speaking at the Australian Solar Council's 'Solar 2015' conference, CEFC chief executive Oliver Yates said the CEFC is supporting the rising commercial solar market by financing use of solar across a range of industries and working with project proponents, major utilities and retailers to expand the range of solar finance options.
The CEFC is considering more than AUS$500 million in finance for solar projects totalling more than AUS$1 billion in value.
Yates said improved battery technology could be a "game changer" for commercial solar, as it helps with reliability of supply.
He added: "Solar homes typically use solar for about 30% of their electricity needs. With battery storage, this could be boosted to over 70%, an indication of the scale of the potential benefits for commercial solar. Solar with storage can also reduce the reliance on diesel-fired generators in remote areas."
Referencing utility-scale solar becoming increasingly competitive in overseas markets with record breaking bids being achieved for new projects in the US, UK, Dubai and South Africa, Yates said the cost of solar will continue to fall.
CEFC's support for Australia's commercial solar market comes straight after more disruption in the ongoing saga over the country's Renewable Energy Target (RET) this week.
The Coalition Party had announced that an agreement to reduce the target to 33,000GWh, down from 41,000GWH, had been reached with the Labor Party. However, yesterday the Labor Party backed away from the deal due to the inclusion of two-yearly reviews and wood waste from native forests. It has been claimed that the reviews are responsible for stifling investment and killing jobs in the solar industry.
In January PV Tech reported that Chinese module manufacturer ET Solar received a loan of AUS$20 million (US$16.2 million) from CEFC for its push in the Australian commercial rooftop market.
At the time, Dennis She, chief executive of ET Solar Group said the financing would be used to help large energy consumers in industries such as mining, shopping centres and manufacturing to reduce their electricity costs.
Also read...
China pragmatic on raising polysilicon tariffs on Korean imports
Constant Energy signs with Ampas for 4.3MW of corporate solar PPAs in Thailand
Sri Lanka surpasses 100MW of solar capacity
Equis commissions 47.5MW of solar projects in Aomori Prefecture, Japan
UPDATE: Oral hearing on India's solar anti-dumping investigation delayed to 12 December


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A psychological thriller in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith about two couples caught in a web of conflicting passions while deep-sea diving off the beautiful Canary Islands
In the late 1990s, Sven Fiedler and his girlfriend, Antje, left Germany for the island of Lanzarote, rejecting what Sven considered a vulgar culture of materialism and judgment. The young couple set up a diving service catering to tourists eager to bask in the warm sunshine and explore the… (more)
Over all this was a satisfying read that was different from books that I would normally review. I liked it, I didn't LOVE it but I enjoyed the mystery and thought the author spun an intriguing and different narrative.
The gathering suspense is complemented by nuanced characterization in a pleasingly unpredictable work.
Publisher: Anchor (May 20, 2014)
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Page count: 272 pages
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What's the No. 1 Quality People Look for In Their Relationships? – Survey of the Day
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, romance in the air. However, when TouchTunes recently polled 120,000 adults as part of their third annual Love Survey, they found that the quality most important in a romantic relationship had nothing to do with chocolate, sexy lingerie or candlelight dinners.


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Taxi Driver is a 1976 American vigilante film with neo-noir[2][3][4] and psychological thriller[2][5][6][7] elements, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. Set in New York City soon after the end of the Vietnam War, the film stars Robert De Niro and features Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, and Albert Brooks.
The film is regularly cited by critics, film directors, and audiences alike as one of the greatest films of all time. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, it won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. The American Film Institute ranked Taxi Driver as the 52nd-greatest American film on its AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list. In 2012, Sight & Sound named it the 31st-best film ever in its decennial critics' poll, ranked with The Godfather Part II, and the fifth-greatest film of all time on its directors' poll. The film was considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant by the US Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1994.


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Episode 181
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Two observations from tonights episode:
1.) Did Luzi get her hair done IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT? Isn't there any hair stylists in Cologne that are available in the day time or did we hopp into a some kind of time warp or what just happened?!
2.) Jenny is badass. In fact, she is beyond badass. She could teach me about different herbs and their families any time.
If I went to school with Jenny and Emma, I would be annoyed by all the PDA. Since I do not go to school with them, I am enjoying all the PDA.
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Gray Television, which currently operates 36 stations serving 30 markets across the country and oversees seven stations owned by bankrupt Young Broadcasting, sustained a 1% dip in revenue for the first quarter of 2011.
The Atlanta-based company announced this week that it brought in $69.7 million for the first quarter, an $0.8 million decrease from the same period last year. Gray attributes the dip to a decrease in political advertising as well as the absence of the Winter Olympics on the company's NBC stations.
While Gray saw a big decrease in political advertising–down 50% from the Q1 of last year–the company had increased revenue in local advertising, retrans, and online advertising.
Local advertising was up 1%, retrans revenue was up 9%, and online advertising was up 38%, from $1.1 million to $4.2 million. Gray earned $0.6 million for the quarter from its consulting agreement with Young.


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Greek cancer fund raiser, concert to feature IngramSept. 18, 2003
By Lauren Giles, reporter
The local Zeta Tau Alpha and Beta Theta Pi are hosting their fourth annual 'Concert for a Cause' at 7.pm. Friday at the Texas Ranger Museum with guest performances from Jack Ingram and Waking Norman.
Event coordinators moved the location from the Heart of Texas fairgrounds to the Texas Ranger Museum this year to keep the concert closer to campus.
'This concert is held exclusively for Baylor students, and we wanted to move it to a closer venue to benefit the student body,' Matt McKamy, a Caddo Mills junior, said.
The Texas Ranger Museum sits adjacent to I-35, just north of University Parks Drive.
Every year, Zeta chapters across the country donate money to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation, helping raise awareness and providing funding for research.
Last year, Zeta Tau Alpha donated $3,000 to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation. This amount is based strictly on the income from the concert and does not include the money raised throughout the year by the sorority.
Brothers of Beta Theta Pi fraternity are raising money for the Ellen Cobb Memorial Scholarship. The money will provide an opportunity for outstanding Frisco High School students to attend Baylor with some financial assistance.
Members of both organizations spent the first weeks of school visiting local businesses in hopes of receiving donations for the silent auction that also will be held Friday night in the banquet hall of the Texas Ranger Museum. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the recognized philanthropies.
When the concert began three years ago, Pat Green headlined the entertainment, and for the past two years Cory Morrow returned as guest performer.
'Ingram is a well-known country singer who will provide the Texas country environment we are looking for, and Waking Norman is a more traditional Dave Mathews Band sound with a Pat Green twist,' Jenny Davant, a San Antonio senior, said. 'We want to reach out to other people who have other musical interests.'
According to the band's Web site, Waking Norman recently visited Los Angeles to film a video for the new single, 'Stuck in a Stare.' Waking Norman consists of five band members and recently released its album Two Years Gone. Members of the chapter said they hoped profits from this concert and other fund raisers can make a difference in the community while providing an enjoyable outlet for the student body.
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New Brewers Guide
Are you a new brewer or considering taking up the hobby? Welcome!
Homebrewing is a hobby that can grow with you.
Getting Started
The basics of brewing are simple. Even so, you probably have some of questions.
I recommend starting with How to Brew by John Palmer. This book can help you make a good beer your first time and act as a reference when you're ready to master more advanced techniques. The first edition of this book is available online, but I recommend picking up an updated and expanded print edition.
Also consider reading the book Beer Craft. Beer Craft is a very well laid out, visually descriptive and easy to understand book on homebrewing. Beer Craft's simple techniques get you brewing small batch all grain recipes on your stovetop with minimal expense.
More great reads… Check out the Homebrewer's Library selection of great homebrewing and beer books.
Get involved in an active online forum. You can generally get quick answers to questions here.
Step by Step Guide to Brewing Your First Extract Beer
Check out this illustrated, step by step post on brewing your first beer – Here
General Equipment Guidance
In an effort to save money, I have time and time again, under purchased. Buying something that will do for the present, but will be quickly outdated. If you're excited about the hobby, think about where you want to end up and make purchases along those lines. If you're in doubt, buy the item with more capability. I'm not saying buy a conical fermenter instead of a bucket. Just ask yourself how long will I be able use this? Is this something that will be helpful in the future? If you think something will be outdated soon, save your money a little longer and make a purchase that won't be outdated at the next step in your brewing evolution.
Starter Kits
- Look for a solid starter kit. These will generally have everything you need to get started and can save you some money. Check out our homebrew shop sponsors for some great options.
- Most often the items that are not included in a starter kit are: a kettle and bottles. For the kettle, you may have a large stockpot around the house that will work to begin with. For bottles, you can clean and re-use commercial pry-off style bottles.
- Related Categories: Equipment Kits, Kettles
- Equipment on the hot side of the process does not need to be sanitized just cleaned. Don't waste your time or sanitizer.
- For cleaning and sanitation, my opinion, just use PBW (for cleaning) and Star San (for sanitation). I've tried most things and these just work the best. To me, these products are the gold standard for homebrewing cleaning and sanitation.
- Star San is extremely economical if you use this technique to sanitize.
- Related Categories: Cleaning, Sanitation
- Buy a kettle that will work for extract AND all grain. The cost is not significantly more. My extract kettle now stores extra tubing. That's not great! This kettle is stainless steel, 9 gallons and has two 1/2″ NPT ports. These can be used for easy installation of a ball valve and a thermometer.
- If you're on a strict budget, consider an aluminum kettle. Aluminum is a great metal for brew kettles. Consider this Winware 10 gallon commercial quality kettle.
- If you're brewing outside on propane consider getting your tank refilled instead of swapping it. Most propane tank swap services under fill. The tank holds 20 lbs, refill places commonly fill to 15 lbs. You're only getting a 3/4 filled tank. Find a local provider that fills your tank all the way up. This is usually about the same price, supports local businesses and saves you time.
- Related Categories: Kettles, Propane Burners
- Initially an ice bath will work.
- When you're ready, consider an immersion chiller. This is one of those purchases/builds that can grow with you. Start out with a standard immersion chiller now and you can add a whirlpool arm later to upgrade it.
- Related Category: Wort Chillers
- Consider making a yeast starter if you're using liquid yeast.
- If you're using dry yeast, consider properly rehydrating. Check out Tip 1 on the tips page for my rehydration process.
- Make fermentation temperature control one of your top priorities. When you are able to concentrate on this get a digital temperature controller. Analog controllers do not have the accuracy needed for fermentation.
- Don't be afraid to use buckets. They can produce great beer, they are low cost and they are safe.
- Use metric for yeast starters. Water to DME ratio is always 10 to 1. 1,000 mL (1 L) to 100 grams of DME. Example – Need to make a 1.5 L Starter? You need 150 grams of DME.
- Related Categories: Yeast, Yeast Starters, Fermentation, Fermenters, Temp Control
- Bottles can be had for free! Save them, ask friends to save them or talk to your local bar. I've had great success getting high quality Belgian/German bottles from a local bar.
- You can save a bundle by buying keg o-rings in bulk.
- Consider buying a used CO2 tank locally. Many places do not have a local vendor that can refill tanks. It makes no sense to buy a shiny new tank, pay to ship it only to have to swap it for an old, used tank.
- CO2 tank.. the bigger the cheaper. A 5 lb tank costs nearly the same to swap out as a 10 or 20 lb tank. Get the largest tank you can fit in your setup. It will easily pay for itself.
- Related Categories: Bottling, Draft, Faucets, Kegs, Kegerator, Kegging Systems, Temp Control
All Grain
- Extract brewing is a great way to start! You can always brew all grain when you're ready. You'll use much of the same equipment.
- All grain brewing in a nutshell: soaking crushed grains in a measured amount of warm water, waiting (the mash), draining that liquid (now wort) and then, depending on what technique you're using, rinsing those grains to get more sugars out of the mash.
- All grain brewing is easy. Brooklyn Brew Shop makes a start kit that typically sells for a very reasonable price. It includes most of the equipment you'll need (just add a stockpot and empty bottles) to start out brewing all grain right on your stove top. You also get ingredients for your first batch. Brooklyn Brew Shop Everyday IPA – here.
- Related Categories: All Grain, BIAB
- An analog temperature controller will work for serving, but I still recommend a digital controller. They don't cost a lot more and they provide you with much more control.
- For tubing, think about a disconnect system right away and get those as you add new lines.
- Related Categories- Draft, Disconnects, Temp Control
Specific Equipment and Supplies
How to Brew by John Palmer – This book can help you make a good beer your first time and be there as a reference when you're ready master more advanced techniques when you're ready.
Beer Craft: A Simple Guide to Making Great Beer – A very well done, visual guide to homebrewing.
Starter Equipment Kit – Just add a kettle, bottles and your selection of ingredient kit
Brooklyn Brew Beer Making Kit, Everyday IPA – around $40 shipped
An all grain equipment kit and recipe kit…
Recipe Kit – Choose out an ingredient kit to get started. Extract is the easiest way to start out. This is a great way to learn the brewing process.
9 Gallon Stainless Kettle – This will work for extract and 5 gallon all grain batches. It has two built in 1/2″ NPT ports. These make it easy to install a ball valve (for draining wort directly into your fermenter) and a thermometer.
9 Gallon Stainless Kettle 1 Port – $69.99
9 Gallon Stainless Steel Kettle with a welded 1/2″ NPT port. This port allows you to easily add a ball valve without having to drill or deal with weldless kits.
Winware 10 gallon Professional Aluminum Stock Pot – Commercial quality kettle.
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- Do not need to bathe the kitten regularly. When the cat fur or coat starts smelling, then you can bathe the kitten with cold water. Hot water can damage the fur and also irritate the skin of the cat.
- Regularly brush the coat of the kitten. This will shed dead hair, remove germs and bacteria and also make it easy to handle the fur of the kitten.
- Sleep with your kitten on your bed for few days but do not make this a habit. Once they get used to sleeping with you, they will always try to get your attention.
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- Make the kitten used to the eating, sleeping and potty place. Take them there regularly and this will make them learn.
- If you let your cat bat a paw on you then they will take it for granted. Draw a line of acceptable behaviour and be little strict. Cats are very stubborn and caring for them can be difficult in later stages if you do not become strict.
- Kittens need vaccinations. Consult your vet and do not miss a single vaccine.
- With the growing age, you have to wash the teeth, clean ears and cut nails of the cat. Paws are very prone spots for germs and bacteria to attack. This can cause infection and also spread mud on the house floor. Cut the nails and keep them clean.
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Back-to-back champs: MP girls take SEC titlePanther boys come up short in battle against Ft. Madison, take second place in conference meet
WASHINGTON — The Mt. Pleasant girls' track and field team won its second straight Southeast Conference title last night in Washington.
The boys lost for the first time in eight years. They scored 89 points, and Ft. Madison topped them with 110.
"Ft. Madison was just too strong," Mt. Pleasant Boys' Track Coach Scot Lamm said. "They have too many quality distance kids, too much depth. Their coach recruited some kids from the cross-country team that didn't run last year, and had some kids come out for long jump. Those are points they didn't have last year, and we just couldn't answer what they had last night."
The Mt. Pleasant girls finished with 133 points, beating out the Demons (117) for the conference crown.
"We had a real good battle with Washington," Girls' Coach Dave Hutchcroft said. "They (the Demons) are a senior-dominated team. They beat our girls in the basketball championship game, and we were not about to let that happen again."
The Panthers' rivals did all they could to prepare for the meet on their home track, but it still wasn't enough.
"Washington chose to rest their entire varsity lineup on Monday instead of competing in the Brookhart Relays at Fairfield like we did," Hutchcroft said.
The Panthers just had too much depth.
"We were able to place two (athletes) in nine of the 12 individual events," Hutchcroft said.
One of those pairs clinched the win for the Panthers: Elaina Conrad won the 1,500-meter run and Natalie Ita finished fourth to seal the Mt. Pleasant victory with two events to go in the meet.
"It was really nice to see the smiles on everyone's face posing for pictures and taking their victory lap," Hutchcroft said. "They really wanted this one."
Along with Conrad's gold medal in the 1,500, the Panthers had six other first-place finishes on the night, and they also took seven silver medals.
Leslie Taylor won the long jump at 16-9 1/2, and Mary Wester was the top finisher in the shot put with a throw of 38-10 1/2.
Second place in shot put was Elinor Krieger-Coble, who threw 36-9 1/2. Wester also had a second-place finish; she was the runner-up in discus with a throw of 106-2.
On the track, the girls' 4x800-meter relay team picked up a win for the Panthers. The team of Taryne Shull, Natalie Ita, Natalie Myers and Chloe Haffarnan finished in 10:21.03, nearly 20 seconds ahead of their closest competitor (Fairfield, 10:39.66).
The shuttle hurdle team of Amy Buckert, Sidney Taylor, Hannah Becker and Kelsi Phipps also got a win in 1:08.01.
Leslie Taylor ran the 100-meter dash, in which she placed second with a time of 13.22 seconds.
She also ran in the 100-meter hurdles, which she won with a time of 15.53.
Taylor was followed across the line by teammate Becker in 16.46 for the silver medal, and Becker later won the 400 hurdles with a time of 1:10.22.
The Panthers also took the top two places in the open 800, as Haffarnan crossed the line in 2:25.83 for the win and Shull was the runner-up with a time of 2:32.43.
The Panthers' sprint medley team of Tasha Vancil, Sidney Taylor, Leslie Taylor and Laura Hult finished in 1:59.63 for another silver medal, and the 4x400-meter relay team of Haffarnan, Becker, Shull and Myers finished the final event of night with a time of 4:27.38 for one last silver medal.
On the boys' side, Justin Dunn won the discus (165-00) and Emmett Wester placed second (147-5). Once again, the pair switched spots for the shot put; Wester won (55-7) and Dunn was the runner-up (53-10).
"The throwers are right at their season best," Lamm said. "And one other thing that no one would notice is that in JV discus, Ben Canby threw 142 feet — that would have been fourth in varsity. It's an outstanding throw. On any other team in the state, he'd be throwing varsity."
Canby's throw was about 45 feet farther than his closest competitor.
In high jump, Logan Mulford placed second for Mt. Pleasant at 6-0.
On the track, the shuttle hurdle team of Cole Phillips, Blake Knudsen, Spencer White and Tommy Thorne beat out Ft. Madison with their season-best time, 59.34.
Thorne also ran his season-best time in the 110 high hurdles, finishing in 15 seconds flat for the win, and in the 400 low hurdles, where he took second at 54.77 seconds.
Other second place finishes for the Panthers came from the 4x100-meter relay team of Paul Holdefer, White, Trey Magnani and Phillips (46.18) and the 4x400 team of Magnani, Knudsen, White and Thorne (3:34.70).
The Panthers compete again in the state qualifier at Mapleleaf Athletic Complex on May 9.
Other top finishers
Discus — 5. Elinor Krieger-Coble, 95-10 1/2. High jump — 5. Grace Lutovsky, 4-8. Long jump — 4. Megan Shumaker, 14-7 1/2.
400 — 3. Natalie Myers, 1:06.33, 4. Emma Ludwig, 1:08.34. 3000 — 3. Emma Ludwig, 12:27.55, 5. Maddie Lance, 13:05.68. 400 hurdles — 4. Mikyle Lance, 1:12.67.
4x100 — 5. Tasha Vancil, Sidney Taylor, Abigail Feldman and Delayna Cotton, 56.12. 4x200 — 3. Megan Shumaker, Mikyle Lance, Sidney Taylor and Cotton, 1:56.53. Distance medley — 3. Vancil, Grace Lutovsky, Laura Hult and Elaina Conrad, 4:38.20.
High jump — 4. Zach Mulford, 5-8.
400 — 6. Logan Mulford, 55.05. 800 — 3. Logan Mulford, 2:07.69. 1600 — 4. Drew Perry, 5:01.07. 3200 — 3. Drew Perry, 11:03.53, 5. Henry Pham, 11:38.77. 110 hurdles — 6. Cole Phillips, 21.57. 400 hurdles — 6. Alexander Carrasco, 1:04.52.
4x200 — 3. Paul Holdefer, Trey Magnani, Blake Knudsen and Spencer White, 1:36.49. 4x800 — 4. Justin Prough, Josh Beelman, Clayle Franklin and Kolby Raymond, 9:35.74. Distance medley — 4. Holdefer, Phillips, Tony Cristoforo and Franklin, 3:58.82.


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Dear Carolyn: My husband's brother "Patrick" and Patrick's wife "Dana" run a well-known blog in a very niche industry. Often, they will make comments about how our jobs are "not enhancing our soul" or "fail to contribute to our local economy with originality." We more or less brushed this off until they sent a familywide email asking for a loan due to recent financial issues.
When we are in a group, they frequently find ways to avoid paying for things, like getting a ride with other people, cajoling my in-laws to pick up a dinner tab, asking us to share a hotel room, etc.
My husband is an accountant, so he offered to help them set up a budget in lieu of giving them a loan. This did not go over well and they rejected the offer. They went on to say that "people like you can't begin to understand how to live."
How should we respond to future comments from them about our jobs and requests for money? How do we respond when they get pushy about a check? Overall, Patrick and Dana are nice people, but I am afraid this finance issue might put a wedge between us all. What should our next step be?
A: I see no reason to take them seriously on any level, except as family – and that mostly consists of leaving unsaid 99 percent of the retorts that pop into your head. As for wedges, they're the ones positioning them and swinging the mallet to drive them in. There is, and will be, only so much you can do to contain the damage they have in their minds to inflict.
When they hit you up for cash, remain patient, remain good-natured, remain firm on offering fishing lessons vs. fish. When they lob comments at your jobs, brushing it off is still the way to go – or agreeing, to a degree, on your lack of originality/soul: "Yep, that was the plan" (Mona Lisa smile).
If you can do this without getting mired in negativity, delight in their absurdist pronouncements from the shelter of your own walls. It might not enhance your soul, but, to my understanding, it's a fine way to live.
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Dear Carolyn: I have a daughter who is gay and getting married. It is my understanding that the bride's parents traditionally pay for the wedding and the groom's parents pay for the rehearsal proceedings. Please explain how this is handled when there are two women involved.
– Perplexed
A: I like the idea of letting the couple pay for it, gay or straight. That builds in a requirement that their vision fit their means. Those who see ice sculptures but can barely bankroll popsicles get to spend some quality time with their priorities. If you want to pay some or all, then offer without guilt, as long as you aren't feeding a sense of entitlement.


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2010 Sophomore Season: Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors member of the Gopher squad who finished 27th at the NCAA championships, where he finished 198th overall (32:07.5) and fifth on the team took 20th overall with a time of 21:22.4 at the BYU Autumn 4K Race came in at 25:20.0 (46th overall) at the Roy Griak Invite ran at the Pre-NCAA meet finishing 93rd overall, with a time of 24:57.4 for the Gophers took 30th (24:31.4) at the Big Ten Championships ran to a 39th place finish at the NCAA Midwest meet, posting a time of 31:05.66 in the 10K race earned his second letter.
2009 Redshirt Freshman Season: The Gophers' top runner (25:41.0), 27th overall, at Jim Drews Invitational team's number-five runner (26:06.5), 59th overall, in Griak Invitational an Academic All-Big Ten honoree.
2008 Freshman Season: Redshirted the season.
On the Track: Will be a junior in 2012 competes in the 1,500m, 3,000m and 5,000m.
High School: A 2008 graduate of Perham High School high school coach was Jeff Morris led Perham to back-to-back Minnesota Class A cross country titles in 2006 and 2007 2006 state cross country individual titlist (15:54.9) runner-up in 2007 15th as a sophomore when Perham finished fourth as a team five-time all-state performer on the track state runner-up in the 3,200 meters both his junior and senior seasons, sixth as a sophomore placed third in the 1,600 meters in 2008, fourth in 2007 four-time letterwinner in cross country and track 2008 Perham Athlete of the Year a member of the National Honor Society.
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|November 11, 2011, 06:17 PM
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What IS good off-hand handgun shooting?
Hello All,
I've never been to a range, only shoot in my back yard, so I have little to compare to except my non-shooting friends who usually shoot the concrete blocks out from under my targets and scare the hell out of the neighbor's cows and my dogs.
With my GP-100, at ten yards, I can normally land most of 50 rounds within a 3" circle off hand, and with an XD-45, maayybbee a 4-5" circle (I need to work more with the .45, I tend to go low and left...).
My sights are standard, and pretty much cover the 4" middle of the target.
How tight do you guys shoot off-hand standing at ten yards? I'd like to know just how BAD I am so I can work to get better!!!
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|November 11, 2011, 06:38 PM
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I'm not a target shooter.
Save your life type shooting (also referred to as Combat) is different. If you can put your shots into an area the size your hand (with fingers curled) then that's the first step. Putting them there quickly is the next. When you can do it at a given range, increase the range. You'll have to slow down as range increases.
For target shooting for group, you don't talk about good shooting until you start cutting YOUR group size in half.
I'm talking about doing it on demand--or at least pretty close to that. Not once every 4 tries.
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|November 11, 2011, 06:41 PM
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Looks like you're asking about target accuracy, in which case my standard answer is that "good" (but not excellent) is an honest & consistent 3" at 25 yards with a serviced-sized gun (e.g. your GP-100). That's 5 unsupported, deliberate, aimed shots. "Honest" means everything counts (no "fliers"), and "consistent" means it's what you can typically do on demand (± 10%). Good Revolver shooters ought to be able to do this in double action, too.
|November 11, 2011, 07:28 PM
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And usually people are talking 5 shots per group.
|November 11, 2011, 07:33 PM
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|November 11, 2011, 08:32 PM
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There is a little sure fire "game" you can shoot against yourself, . . . and it gives you a yard stick to use to "measure" if you are getting better or not.
You shoot at five different distances, . . . 10 shots each. All 10 shots have to be accomplished in 30 seconds or less on each stage.
You shoot at 5 yds, 10 yds, 15 yds, 20 yds, and 25 yds.
Score 1 point for each hit in a 10 inch circle at 5 yds.
Score 2 points for each hit in a 10 inch circle at 10 yds.
Score 3 points for each hit in a 10 inch circle at 15 yds.
Score 4 points for each hit in a 10 inch circle at 20 yds.
Score 5 points for each hit in a 10 inch circle at 25 yds.
Here is the kicker: you have to shoot a perfect string of 10 on each stage before you can move up to the next one.
Example: you shoot a perfect 10 on the first distance, a perfect 20 on the second, but miss one shot on the third string. Now you have to shoot the third string a second time, and the 4th string once for your 50 shot count.
Keep track of your scores, . . . you will be surprized, . . . seriously, . . . how quickly you can get up to the perfect 150.
That is where the fun begins again: once you have maxed out kinda regularly, . . . change to an 8 inch circle, . . . then a 6 inch circle.
When you max out regularly on a 3 inch circle, . . . you are one darn good shooter.
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|November 11, 2011, 08:43 PM
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that's a good tip Dwight, I'll be trying that next time at the range.
|November 12, 2011, 08:52 AM
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|November 12, 2011, 10:57 AM
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I use to "dabble" in International Pistol a bit. You want to be humbled, step up to the line of International Free Pistol. You'll see some outstanding one handed slow fire scores (don't look at my target, it wasn't one of them).
Another one I liked ( and also couldn't shoot very well) was international rapid fire.
You had 5 targets out there at 25 meters. From the shooting hand pointed down at 45 degrees. When the targets turned you had 7 seconds to engage each target once (5 rounds).
Then you did the same thing in 5 seconds.
If that didn't humble you, you had the third stage fired in 3 seconds.
Want to see good one handed off hand shots, take in an international pistol match.
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|November 12, 2011, 10:58 AM
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In many ways the only way you can know how good you are shooting is to first find out what the gun is capabale of. Your 3-5" groups may be just great if the gun (and ammo) is only capable of 2-4" groups from a bench. But infortunatly for you, your guns are capable of much better accuracy than 2-4" groups and I'm betting that each will shoot 1" groups or better at 10 yards from a bench. More than likely the GP will 1" groups or better from twice that far.
We also have no idea of the type of shooting you are doing. We are assuming slow fire because to tell the truth if you're shooting rapid fire your groups are outstanding. But from a slow or even moderate rate of fire you can do better.
In a lot of circles I'm a average or better than average shooter, in others I'm a below average shooter and in some others yet, I just plain a$$ suck. My benchmark I set for myself is hitting the "majority" of 2" spinners at 50 feet. If I can do that I figure me and the gun are doing something right. But I do have guns that due to the gun, me or the combination of both I really have to limit myself to 30 feet to accomplish the same feat. And to tell you the truth, I don't like a gun that the best the gun will do, or maybe I should say "best I can do with the gun", is 2" at 30 feet. I like accurate guns and more importantly, a gun that "I" can shoot accurately. There is a difference.
|November 14, 2011, 10:26 AM
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Offhand shooting
Everyone who has a handgun they might someday use to defend themslvs should be proficient in off hand or one handed shooting, especially with the weak hand. However, I would devote the bulk of my shooting practice to two handed shooting as two hands on the gun is more accurate than one hand.
While I haven't done a search, I'm sure you can find examples of the isoceles and Weaver stances on youtube as well as the FBI crouch, which I think is obsolete.
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|November 14, 2011, 11:20 AM
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Think about it, in just about every situation, you're more then likely going to have to shoot with one hand.
In my LE days we did a heck of a lot of building searches. You have a flashlight, door handle, mirror, or something else in the other hand. At traffic stops you'll have a ticket book, radio or something else.
In SD you'll be in the same position, you'll have a car door, bag of groceries, something, or pushing a family member away. Maybe a coat or shirt tail has to be pushed aside to get to the gun. Maybe the bad guy is too close and you want to give a little shove while you draw your revolver.
Go to matches where they interject one handed shooting in a stage, both weak and strong hands, Watch the misses pop up.
Practicing with one hand isn't going to hurt your two handed shooting. But it certainly will help your one handed shooting.
I like to (but don't always do it) spend 2/3s of my practice with my weak hand, and 1/3 with my strong hand. Follow up with a few rounds with two hands. But I'm lazy, and to keep my confidence up, I tend to drift away from that and do most of my shooting with my strong hand.
I carried a pistol/revolver most of my adult life either in the military or LE. Not very often did I have the luxury of having the use of both hands.
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|November 14, 2011, 11:27 AM
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The ten ring on a standard bulls eye target is 3.5 inches on both the twenty five and the 50yard targets. However, several of the lesser rings are black, about six or seven inches to give a good aiming point. A fifty yards a master shooter shoots 97 to 100 points and at 25 yards, master shooters shot 100 consistently. I haven't shot bulls eye in forty years so I can't give you the actual size of the black. Most bulls eye matches are 2700 points. Most master shooters shoot 2650 out of the 2700.
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|November 14, 2011, 02:18 PM
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I guess the answer to the original question is it depends on what you're talking about, combat style shooting or just straight up target shooting.
|November 14, 2011, 02:53 PM
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For me really good shooting is getting all my shots on paper at 25yds. On a very good day I get every shot in the target zone. That's with a printed out 25yd pistol target.
Personally I practice one handed both weak and strong side as well as two handed.
Single handed is more natural for me, cause that's the way I was first trained. I'm more accurate with modified Weaver.
I shoot at 15yd and 25yd. The only time I shoot 10yd is with a new gun or when I'm having a bad day.
|November 14, 2011, 04:00 PM
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In fact I'd be surprised if one in a thousand could do it from a sandbag rest. The majority of handgun shooters I see, and I see many, can't shoot a tight enough group at any range to sight their guns in properly. Lots of service autopistols, probably the majority, are incapable of shooting consistently into three inches from a machine rest.
It's interesting how quickly we jump from what most shooters can do, to what bullseye champions can do. There are probably only a few thousand serious bullseye shooters in the U.S., and only a handful of those capable of winning a national championship. They don't do it with service pistols, and for the last 30+ years they don't do it with iron sights.
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As far as the guns, yes, the gun & ammo have to deliver. Many factory revolvers can deliver the required accuracy, as can many semi-auto rimfire pistols. A Ruger MkII/III or Buckmark should certainly be up to the task with it's preferred ammo.
My 3"@25 is based on what someone can realistically accomplish with good instruction, quality practice and application of the fundamentals. It's true that you don't see this kind of marksmanship at your local range: Sad to say, most people are pretty bad shots, but I don't think we do ourselves any favors by lowering the bar to make the masses feel good about their shooting. IMO, 3"@25 is good, very do-able, and a worthwhile goal.
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What is 'good' off hand shooting is subjective.
To a NRA master bullseye shooter 2 inch 25 yard groups might be considered 'good'. TO a NRA Hunter Pistol shooter it might be 3 or 4 inches at that range. To a IPSC shooter it might by 8 inch groups at that range.
And it depends on what you are shooting. Match .45? S&W K-38. J.C. Higgans .22? RG?
But if say you just had a plain jane S&W 4 inch M10 and 158gr LRN 'widow makers', then a 4 inch group at 25 yards would be pretty decent.
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|November 27, 2011, 05:04 PM
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As noted, what is good is subjective. For most the benchmark that 5 shots inside 4 inches from 25 yards being good is a sound one, in that most cannot do it but could if they dedicated themselves to it. From there, good shooters get better.
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Once you gain some skill at trigger control, follow-through and calling the shot, you should be able to shoot groups approaching what the gun is capable of producing.
You won't be able to shoot terrific groups every time, but you should be able to shoot good groups on demand.
The Ruger 22/45 shown below could probably shoot groups around 0.3 - 0.5 inches at 25 yds.
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It is certainly different strokes for different folks. There is no way on God's Green Earth that I can ever get to shooting 3" groups at 25 yards with my S&W 627PC. The revolver has the ability, I do not. Back in the 60's I was on the base rifle team. Today I am a disabled old man with loss of fine motor coordination and half my balance sensors. If I can hold 6-7" at 25 yards, 3-4" at 10 yards, or 2/3'rds on the paper at 50 yards I am very happy. These are a leisurely ten shots in ten seconds, not a rapid fire scenario.
I think folks do a disservice by specifying a certain level of performance is "Good", "Bad", or "Excellent".
It seems to me such judgment calls remain with the individual. If a person is happy with their performance, then shoot to maintain. I not happy, then raise the bar and practice more often, get outside help, try some competition shooting. Keep it up until you are happy with your shooting. Maybe you are one of those types that just ain't happy til you beat the other guys. On the other hand you might be happy putting 3/4's of your shots into the black at whatever range you choose.
Good luck, and happy shooting.
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Good off hand shooting is a good as you want or need to be.
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If you have to shoot the neighbor and you shoot him but not his cat you done good. If you are the one still standing after a gun fight and the other gun shooter isn't you done good. If you can do the above using either hand you done good.
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I agree that there is a huge difference in target shooting and combat shooting. All so if I ever had to shoot with my left hand I would be in trouble. My brother turned me on to shooting with the left hand if the right hand was ever disabled. With my right had (even shooting 1 handed) I am pretty good but shooting left handed my targets look like they where shot with a 12ga rather than a hand gun.
It wasn't until recently that I started working on the speed of my shooting.
Shot placement is everything! I would rather take a round of 50BMG to the foot than a 22short to the base of the skull.
all 26 of my guns are 45/70 govt, 357 mag, 22 or 12 ga... I believe in keeping it simple. Wish my wife did as well...
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Trusting people has its risk as well as its reward. Business works best when you can trust your employees to show up to work and work hard and when you can trust your vendors to deliver on what they promised.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, if you don't trust a person or company you do business with, then a detailed contract will be required with penalties for failure to uphold the terms, additional time requirements on you or your managers to negotiate terms, and increased costs to monitor compliance.
Trust is a behavior that we often take for granted but it is pervasive in the simplest transactions in life. But what happens when trust between parties is weak?
Let's look at a recent "transaction" between two attorneys, Matt Campbell and Daily and Woods. On the surface, it appears a simple transaction. Matt, an attorney, represents a client who has an issue with the City of Fort Smith. The attorney representing Fort Smith is Jerry Canfield who has been hired by the city Board of Directors. Canfield is backed by the law firm of Daily and Woods, a firm of which he is a partner. The transaction should be simple where each attorney keeps their time and bills that time to their client. However, in this case there was a hiccup.
This time, what should have been a simple transactions wasn't. There was a discrepancy between each firm's documentation of time and expense billed by Daily and Woods to the City of Fort Smith. Matt Campbell claimed that Daily and Woods billed the City of Fort Smith for telephone calls that were not real, calls Daily and Woods billed as calls with Matt Campbell that Matt Campbell claimed never happened. How the City Administration dismissed the discrepancy eventually made me question if our City Administrator, our Mayor, and our City Board of Directors take their positions of trust seriously.
Let me make it clear I am not making any allegation of wrong doing by any party. I am saying that the way Administrator Ray Gosack, Mayor Sandy Sanders, and City Directors George Catsavis, Andre Good, Mike Lorenz, Keith Lau, and Kevin Settle handled the matter lowered my trust level of their integrity to manage the city's affairs and the city's money appropriately. Is this decrease in my trust of their integrity appropriate? I don't know. That's my point. But it was caused by a lack of information and uncertainty. I, like most people, don't like uncertainty. This uncertainty increases my perceived risk of trusting our city government.
Matt Campbell's history is not that of a crack pot. He seems very credible. Daily and Woods has always had a reputation of competency and integrity itself. However, Matt Campbell has challenged their integrity based on invoices they submitted to the City that Campbell has obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Campbell claims these invoices listed bogus calls to Campbell's office. Below is a quick executive summary of the issue as I see it.
After the story was published in Matt Campbell's blog, the Blue Hog Report, and related stories were published in The City Wire, Jerry Canfield (the City's attorney and partner at Daily and Woods) defended his firm's bills to the City of Fort Smith.
Eventually, City Directors Pam Weber and Phil Merry, wanted to discuss the City's relationship with Daily and Woods and Merry requested that the next board meeting's agenda include a review of the City's contractual relationship with Daily and Woods and that the City hire an independent accounting firm to audit the City's invoices from Daily and Woods received over the last 3 ½ years and to appoint a commission to review. To me this seemed like an appropriate action to take. In my mind it would most likely demonstrate Daily and Woods acted properly and that Gosack was righteous in his defense of our city attorney. But then …
The next thing I am reading was The City Wire's report that Directors Catsavis, Good, Lorenz, Lau, and Settle voted to remove Merry's requests from the Board's agenda.
So why did my trust level in Gosack and our Board of Directors take a hit because of the way they handled this matter? Because an allegation that our City Attorney and his law firm Daily and Woods inappropriately billed the city is a serious allegation, one that should have been examined in some manner. If the examination showed there was no impropriety in the billings, then Daily and Woods would not only have been exonerated, but the public's trust in their firm would have increased. As it is now the public is left to speculate, uncertain of the real facts. It is this uncertainty that makes it a higher risk proposition to trust that all is well.
Also, the vote to remove from the agenda any discussion of the matter feels orchestrated. The law prevents our Directors to get together in private to discuss matters related to the City's administration or management. So to vote to remove this important an item from the agenda without any public discussion makes me wonder. Who was the intermediary that was able to broker this vote among the Directors. Gosack? Perhaps. No, Ray wouldn't do that. That would infer that Ray allowed an unacceptable level of cronyism. It was charges of cronyism that back in the 1960's moved Fort Smith, with the assistance of the law firm of Daily and Woods, from a Mayoral form of government to our current city administrator form of government.
Oh well, we will never know for sure if Daily and Woods acted properly. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. Besides, our Administrator and Directors didn't think claims of improper billings was worthy of consideration and examination, I guess I shouldn't care either. Having a city government that valued transparency is a pipe dream anyway.


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The nation's doctors are rightly concerned about the need for medical malpractice reform, but their clamor this week for passage of a federal reform law raises troubling legal questions and likely would do little to stem malpractice case filings, says Maureen Martin, a senior fellow for legal affairs at the Heartland Institute.
There is no question malpractice reform is needed:
- The Pacific Research Institute this year pegged the cost of "defensive medicine"-- unnecessary testing and other procedures motivated more by fear of litigation than medical necessity -- at about $185 billion.
- Large malpractice awards have raised malpractice insurance premiums -- and thus the cost of health care -- and driven doctors out of states with liberal laws, especially doctors in high-risk specialties such as obstetrics and orthopedics.
But federal reform won't work, says Martin. "Medical malpractice tort law has always been maintained at the state level," according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). Under our Constitution, the federal government has only those powers explicitly granted in it. General police powers -- the right to protect the health, safety, and welfare of citizens -- are not listed and belong exclusively to the states.
- Malpractice cases, except under very limited circumstances, can be filed only in state court.
- And even when cases can be filed in federal court, those courts apply state malpractice law.
- In 2007 there were 1,164 medical malpractice cases filed in federal court, while 85,000 medical malpractice cases were brought in state courts.
- Congress can change only federal law; it would be unprecedented -- and likely unconstitutional -- for Congress to try to abolish or rewrite state medical malpractice law.
Congress would have to find a federal malpractice reform law "preempts" state law under the Supremacy Clause, which says federal statutes "are the supreme law of the land." But preemption can happen under the Constitution only if the federal government has the constitutional power to regulate a particular area in the first place. Interstate commerce, for example, is an enumerated power that belongs solely to the federal government. There is no such power in the Constitution over medical malpractice, explains Martin.
It's tempting to address national problems with one sweeping federal law. But such an approach is not only unconstitutional, it's unnecessary.
Source: Maureen Martin, "Federal Medical Malpractice Law Would Hinder Reform," September 15, 2009.
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"It's just an indescribable experience. I cry at everything," Jennifer Shlapak said. "Every time I hold my little one and he falls asleep, it's like a first."
Jennifer and Jack Shlapak had a tree crash through their roof and pin two of the children under the rubble during Storm Sandy. Ms. Shlapak shared the tale of their misadventure last Friday, having gotten through the worst of it — with a lot of help from a lot of people.
"We're just so grateful. The town and people and friends and family have been so amazing. We didn't even know we had such an amazing community — strangers emailing us and offering help. We don't even have it half as bad as people in New Jersey and New York."
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Their home on Old Sib Road can't be lived in — one of two houses in town ruled uninhabitable, according to the building department. But they're now settled into an apartment on Danbury Road.
"We're right across from Stop & Shop. Steve Zemo set us up with an apartment there," Ms. Shlapak said. "We're really comfortable there. We're going to stay there until our house can be rebuilt, which may be 10 months.
"There's not a tree in sight!" she added.
That's a good thing?
"Yes," she said.
She admits to being a little ambivalent about moving back to the woods of Old Sib Road.
"I think it would be really hard for us to imagine living in that same house. It would be hard for us," she said. "I think we're going to change it a little bit. We'll see what insurance says. We don't know yet. It would be hard to live there."
Things are getting back toward normal.
Jack Shlapak is going to work — he's a partner at HCSG, a health care subrogation group in Shelton.
"He has a concussion, too," Ms. Shlapak said.
Evan, 11, also had a concussion and two weeks after the storm had yet to return to classes at Scotts Ridge Middle School, where he's in sixth grade.
"My concussion is too bad," he said.
The hope this Tuesday was that his doctor would approve his return by the end of the week.
The other two boys were back at Barlow Mountain Elementary School: Ben, 8, in third grade, and Blake, 5, in kindergarten.
"They were sent back on restrictions," Ms. Shlapak said, "but they're really happy to be back with their friends and getting back to normal."
Back to something like normal is a lot, in light of the devastation at the house they were all in when Sandy blew into town, bringing down trees and wires all over Ridgefield — but scoring a direct hit on their house.
"It's unimaginable how anyone walked out of there," Ms. Shlapak said.
"The house just came down like paper. It just shredded like paper," she said. "One minute you're watching your children eat, and the next they're buried and you don't know what's happening.
"Evan was able to crawl out and we yelled for him to just leave the house. And he, on his own, was brave and smart and ran next door," Ms. Shlapak said.
"I stepped on glass. I had no shoes on," Evan said.
"The other two were eating at the granite countertop, and they were pinned at their chest and abdomen by the beams and everything, the roof, the tree. There was no way to move everything to get them out," Ms. Shlapak said. "It was really dark. We couldn't see anything. We're outside in the rain at this point."
Evan ran to the neighbors', John and Chris Wright's, house.
"I told them what happened real quick and that's where my friend Jack lives, so his dad had a Jeep, went over to see what happened. My dad came out and yelled for help."
John Wright fetched some tools and began working to free the children from beneath the collapsed roof and beams and a granite countertop.
"He saved them," Ms. Shlapak said. "He was the only one with a sound mind. He got some hammers and crowbars and broke the counters they were stuck under. And we were able to get them out. They were stuck there for about 40 minutes."
Ms. Shlapak was terrified — a mother worried for her children.
"It was so dark. I was sitting in something warm and wet. I thought it was blood. My middle son, Ben, said he couldn't feel his legs, at one point," she said.
"I'm an emergency room nurse, so I see a lot of stuff, and my mind just went for the worst."
The Fire Department had been called and an ambulance was on its way. But it was the height of the storm and they had no idea how long it would take for the ambulance to arrive.
"I think we had multiple calls," Ms. Shlapak said. "I made one, but my call went to New York because it's a cell phone. We called our friends down the street, they also placed a call.
"We felt helpless," she said. "They were trapped about 40 minutes."
Pretty soon the ambulance arrived. "They had a really tough time getting to us, there were so many trees down," Ms. Shlapak said.
Then came the ride to the hospital, with firefighters improvising routes around roads blocked by trees and downed wires in the midst of the howling storm.
"We had to take this road we didn't even know about, to get to the hospital," Evan said.
"We had to back up to a downed tree, get out, and walk around it to a second ambulance, because there was no way for the first ambulance to get out," Ms. Shlapak said. "And from there we took some kind of access road, or private road."
From tree-fall to hospital was more than an hour and a half.
"It happened around 6:20. And we landed in the hospital around 8," Ms. Shlapak said.
But by time of the long ambulance ride, Ms. Shlapak at least had gotten over the worst of the fears that were racing around her head when she was sitting in the dark with two kids trapped in the rubble.
"I knew they were OK in the ambulance. We had a long ride. I heard them talking," she said.
"I knew that they were OK. We didn't know about the extent of head injuries, or chest-abdomen injuries, but I knew that they had feeling in their legs," she said. "But there were still trauma alerts at the hospital and they went through the whole CAT scan, head to toe. It was intense.
"We were just so happy to get out of that house. The floor buckled. We had candles going, the propane stove — we didn't know if the place was going to catch on fire. And we were alone."
It's hard to think of people as lucky after a tree crushed their house — but it could have been worse. Really.
"People keep calling me a hero," said Evan, who made the mid-storm sprint to the neighbors. "It was actually the pellet stove that was the hero. If that wasn't there, I would have been crushed."
"He was at the dining room table, which is right under the tree, now. But I guess the pellet stove kind of assisted in it not landing on him, somehow," Ms. Shlapak said.
"It's unimaginable how anyone walked out of there," she said.
"Our neighbor was amazing. Who knew what he was going to see, running up those stairs? Just, neighbor helping neighbors — amazing."


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Sharp moves pushed Chivas USA to the top of the Major League Soccer standings — a remarkable achievement for a team battered by injuries.
Fans of Chivas USA spent a nervous offseason wondering how their team could possibly address several pressing issues.
Defender Claudio Suarez had retired, depriving the team of not only its spiritual leader but its most visible ties to Mexico and parent club Guadalajara. Last year, MLS had rebuffed an effort from Glasgow Celtic to buy midfielder Sacha Kljestan, but with further bids expected this season, could the team bolster its midfield in case he did depart? Injuries had decimated the team for a second straight season, it had faltered in the conference semifinals to former league doormat Real Salt Lake, and there were holes in the lineup. During the season, keeper Brad Guzan had left for Aston Villa, leaving veteran Zach Thornton and youngster Dan Kennedy to fill a huge void.
Head coach Preki and staff not only made moves, they made all of the right ones. Right back Mariano Trujillo and forward Eduardo Lillingston arrived from Mexico; Gerson Mayen, Chukwudi Chijindu and Bojan Stepanovic joined the midfield corps; and Suarez reversed his decision and rejoined the team. With a string of amazing saves, Thornton conjured up memories of his five All-Star seasons with the Fire.
Rather than just finding replacements, Chivas USA has found pieces that fit snugly into the system and the organization.
"There's not a whole lot of egos and superstars on this team," says captain and midfielder Jesse Marsch of how team dynamics work. "When things are going well, no one is really concerned about why it's happening or who's doing well. It's a bunch of guys who like to share what's going on.
"I've always said since I started playing here [in 2006] that Claudio sets the tone because he's such a humble guy and he's been so successful his whole career there's not much room for people to think too highly of themselves because you're playing with one of the humblest and most successful guys of all time."
Nine games into the season, Chivas USA stood alone atop the overall standings with a 7-1-1 record and 22 points, eight more than any other team. With six shutouts, Thornton was on a pace to break the league record of 15, and the three goals conceded presented a prime opportunity to break the league mark of 23 set by Houston two years ago.
Trujillo and Lillingston, veterans of more than a decade in the Mexican league as well as the 1997 U-20 FIFA world championship, not only restored some of the team's identity, they stepped right into the bustle and fury of MLS to perform well.
"It's been a great experience for me," says Trujillo, 32, who played seven years for UNAM and five seasons at Morelia along with short stays at two other Mexican clubs as well as a few months in Greece. "A few years ago I had a vision to play but I didn't know how the league is. Being here I'm really happy and excited about how the team has played. I'm learning a lot."
Trujillo, whose wife is from the Southern California city of San Dimas, and Lillingston appeared in eight of the first nine games. Lillingston scored twice, and Trujillo earned one assist while displaying a toughness and calmness that has helped settle the back line in the absence of Suarez, who has been working to regain his fitness since coming back to the team.
"I wanted to try something different," says Trujillo. "I had played some games against MLS teams and I knew they play hard. I just want to be a better player, a complete player, and being in MLS will give me that."
He also has a history with Suarez, having started his career at UNAM during the former Mexican international's time with that club.
While Kljestan struggled, not earning an assist until the ninth game of the season, Mayen (recently called by to the U.S. U-20s) took the team lead with four assists despite starting only three of seven games, and Stepanovic contributed several solid games on the flank while notching a goal and an assist.
The season began with a 2-1 comeback win over Colorado in which midfielder Paulo Nagamura, scorer of four goals in his previous 104 league matches, tallied twice for a 2-1 win. More than a month later, he netted again to down RSL, 1-0.
Preki used 19 field players in the first nine games while injuries kept Suarez and Ante Razov out of the lineup and greatly limited the playing time of veterans Alecko Eskandarian, Maykel Galindo and Sasha Victorine.
"It is a good feeling to be a part of this success but we haven't done anything yet," cautions Thornton. "There's going to be ups and downs and right now we're up. Preki does a good job of keeping us grounded and it's a great group of guys in the locker room. It's definitely a team effort and we're all happy with the success we're having right now, but it's a long season."
(This article originally appeared in the June 2009 issue of Soccer America magazine.)
(This article originally appeared in the June 2009 issue of Soccer America magazine.)