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* The St. Augustine Bible Institute and College will sponsor a community seder from 6 to 9 p.m. March 28 at 110 Masters Drive. Tickets, $15 for adults, $7.50 for children ages 6 to 12, are available by going to www.sabiac.org. Call 824-5512 or 864-5886. The Passover menu will be lamb, chicken, potato wedges, green beans, carrots, tossed salad, sponge cake, iced tea and coffee.
* A First Night community Seder is planned April 8 by Congregation Sons of Israel, 161 Cordova St., conducted by Rabbi Samuel Cywiak. The cost for this Kosher Seder is $25 for adults, $10 for children 6 to 12. Children under 6 and Hebrew students are free. Make checks out to Congregation Sons of Israel and mail by March 31 to POB 352, St. Augustine, Fl 32085-0352.
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Cross the Mexican border with Zack Mack and friends as they skate and enjoy!
Filmer Zack Mack (Holla Zack) probably knows enough skate homies to film an exotic rip n' trip every weekend. Recently, the San Francisco-based film grad gathered up a motley crew of amigos and headed south of the border to Tijuana, Mexico for a days worth of spots, locals, and brews. Here's the footy of what went down incredibly well. Props to riders Lenny Rivas, Kellen James, Larelle Gray, Adelmo Jumior, Paul Sewell, Pawel Krezel, and Jaun Leno.


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Nebraska outfitter offers high hunter success for muleys and whitetails
This deer hunt has consistently produced a 90 percent or better success rate for rifle hunters after good representative mule deer and whitetail bucks. Bowhunters and muzzleloader hunters typically see lots of bucks and get a lot of shooting with about 50 percent filling their tags.
We have known the outfitter ever since he got started, and most of the customers we referred to him have rebooked. He's from Kansas, where he began offering trophy whitetail hunts but soon expanded to neighboring Nebraska to offer mule deer and whitetail hunts where hunters would be guaranteed a tag.
His Nebraska hunts take place on private leases totaling 75,000 acres in Nebraska. Deer are attracted to 18 crop pivots on the property. The nine-day season opens in mid-November. You can hunt the first five or last five days of the season. Muzzleloader season is in December; archers can hunt before the rifle season.
Most hunters on this trip have seen a lot of bucks, sometimes 60 or more a day, and most hunters saw 30 or more bucks during their hunts. Over the years hunters have taken whitetails averaging in the 130s with a few bucks in the 150s and muleys averaging in the 150s with the odd exeptional animal in the 180-190 range. Though this hunt in 2008 produced a 186 muley for a bowhunter and a 191 muley for a gun hunter, the outfitter said this is not the place to go if you're looking for an exceptional trophy, but nice, mature bucks are quite common.
Hunters are accommodated in a ranch house. The outfitter uses one house for the first group of hunters and another house for the second group.
Whitetail hunters typically hunt from tripod stands along the riverbottoms, where alfalfa and corn fields draw bucks into the open. The outfitter pays a farmer to leave corn standing for game.
Mule deer hunters usually spot game from vantage points and stalk closer.
"I think the muzzleloader hunt actually is your best bet to get a big buck," the outfitter said, "especially now that the state has decided to allow power scopes on the muzzleloaders. It's usually cold and windy, but that's also why the deer are more active, and we see some good bucks then. It seemed like a lot of guys had a really hard time with open sights, so putting a variable scope on these accurate modern muzzleloaders should really help. The bucks aren't as scattered then; they're back in their bachelor herds. We saw 17 bucks in one herd this past December."
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WOW these people are scary. While I love my dogs, I am psyched I have more hobbies in life because these poor dogs are with some crazy people. The craziest is the mom and son show team Moira and Adam. They take things so seriously. This poor kids could use some help.
George and Connie are straight out of the movie Best in Show. She could be the Parker Posey character and he could be any of those men in the pressed red blazers. Scary.
Brandon and Ryan, the quintessential gay guys are clearly just trying to get on TV. They have never showed dogs before and all they care about is dressing them up and whitening their teeth. Nice.
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Age Cymru's Chief Executive - Robert Taylor, was one of the guest speakers at a meeting of the National Pensioners Convention Wales (NCPW) yesterday.
70 NCPW members turned up for the event which took place at the Cardiff Arms Park.
Other speakers were the Older People's Commissioner for Wales Ruth Marks, and Neil Duncan-Jordan from the National Pensioners Convention.
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"The Older People's Commissioner for Wales Ruth Marks talked about her meeting with the NPCW at which they discussed the issues that matter to NPCW's members, her review into dignity and respect in hospitals and making sure that everyone's voices can be heard so that people get the services they need."
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Transport Tycoon Deluxe is a special edition of Transport Tycoon, the Tycoon Simulation game. Released in 1995 in the US and Europe, the game was developed by MicroProse and is well-known as Chris Sawyer's first creation, preceding the RollerCoaster Tycoon franchise.
The player, as the manager of a transport company, has the objective of building the company up and making it more successful than competitor companies. The game occurs within a randomly-generated or pre-created world and the player must create bus, truck, train, boat and plane systems to earn the company money. Sabotage and dirty tactics aren't out of the question. Anything goes within the world of Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
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The product, of course, is unique. It's not only unique in terms of the obvious clinical benefits—no one has shown a more than 4 month survival benefit in these patients—but it's unique in terms of how well-tolerated it is. You put that together, and it's going to be an important option for men with late-stage disease. That's always my first test—how clear is the unmet need and how well does the new therapy address it?
The second thing is that it's a company and a group of people that have already shown their ability to truly innovate. I'm proud to join a team that has that track record of innovation, and resilience.
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Dozens of local biotech and bioscience leaders channeled impressions of the international climate change summit Thursday by way of an interactive satellite teleconference, which was viewed at the University of San Diego.
The "Live from Copenhagen" event linked the San Diegans to members of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's climate team in a question-and-answer session moderated by Carl Nettleton, president and founder of OpenOceans Global.
"The governor gave an amazing speech [at the summit on Tuesday] ... and I believe this is the first time in the history of the United Nations climate talks that sub-national leaders have been allowed to speak as part of the official U.N. program," said Mary Nichols, who chairs the California Air Resources Board. "So I think that shows the importance of what California and other sub-national leaders around the world are doing."
Other panelists sharing insights and answering questions from Copenhagen were state environmental protection secretary Linda Adams, Natural Resources Secretary Mike Chrisman and Food & Agriculture Secretary A.G. Kawamura.
The satellite symposium also cast light on local efforts to address climate change.
"We here in San Diego are really world leaders in terms of our technology," said attorney John Lormon, whose firm, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, co-sponsored the event at USD. "Our research institutions -- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD and others -- are really putting into practical application alternative energies and ways to make our world a better place to live."
Asked in an interview about skepticism toward the validity of global-warming science, Lormon replied, "There is a debate going on about the effect of climate change, and we recognize that. I'm not a scientist, but I believe that debate's a healthy debate, that it should take place, and the right facts and science should win out in the end."
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Scientists at Caltech University, FL. have started research on small bacteria that will process or eat, faeces whilst still in the body. Microbiologist, Mark Thompson, explained:
"The bacteria could be swallowed as part of yoghurt and they'd work their way down to your bowels. There they would feed on any waste that came their way. If we can control their life span and make them unable to procreate, then we should have a great day-to-day solution for uncomfortable toilet stops."
Initial tests have apparently proved positive, although Mark does warn us of a caveat.
"Well, the problem is that these bacteria also create their own 'by-product' by eating your faeces. However, instead of solid waste, they create a vile smelling gas. Throughout the course of the day, it would be necessary to pretty much constantly pass this gas."
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KJLH (102.3 FM) is an Urban Adult Contemporary radio station serving the Los Angeles area. It plays R&B and classic soul music under the format, and occasionally plays some Hip-Hop, Gospel and Smooth Jazz tracks. Licensed to the Los Angeles suburb of Compton, California, the station is owned by Taxi Productions, which in turn is owned by Stevie Wonder. It operates with an effective radiated power of 5.6 kW from a transmitter site in a portion of unincorporated Los Angeles County in View Park-Windsor Hills, and operates from its studios in Inglewood.[2]
KJLH, whose signal was originally licensed to Long Beach, California, but relocated to Compton, debuted with a R&B format in 1979, the year Stevie Wonder purchased the station from its original owner, John Lamar Hill, thus the call letter's origins. It was Wonder who gave KJLH its on-air slogan to match the call letters, which stand for "Kindness, Joy, Love & Happiness."
During its first eight years, KJLH enjoyed modest success as a R&B/Urban station and a great familiarity with the African-American community. But it was hampered by the fact that the station was on a Class-A FM signal, which meant their signal was limited to the central and southern portions of Los Angeles County (Including Downtown and South Central Los Angeles), while in other areas like the San Fernando Valley the signal would either fade out or be scratchy, depending on where you would hear the station (despite a signal upgrade from 2.25 kW to 5.6 kW in 2000). They were also (at the time, from the late 1970s up to the late 1980s) one of five R&B/Urban stations in the market who targeted the African-American community during its tenure, along with AMs KGFJ and KDAY, and FMs KACE and KUTE. Of the four that since flipped formats, only the KDAY calls have since been revived, but on the FM side as the market's only Urban/Hip-Hop station to date, and like KJLH, they also have limited signal coverage.
In 1986, KJLH would pick up an unlikely competitor that would deal them their first major blow: KPWR. When that station debuted Wonder retaliated by cutting new imaging and liners in the hopes of retaining their listener base, but that tactic backfired as they began to see its audience going over to the full-powered Power 106 and would never recover. Its second setback would be the 1990 debut of KKBT, whose evolution to a R&B/Hip-Hop direction would result in KJLH going into a more Mainstream Urban direction in 1992 under the programing of Frankie Ross (who was terminated from the station in late 2003), and renamed the station "KJLH Rhythm 102.3", but that tactic backfired also. KJLH went through a great deal of turmoil as a Mainstream Urban Station with poor ratings during 1993-95. In November 1995, former morning jock Cliff Winston was appointed to PD and bought KJLH into its current Urban AC direction and increased its playlist with Urban Smooth Jazz Crossovers, R&B Oldies, Current R&B and Gospel crossovers, and was one of urban stations in L.A. to embrace the Neo Soul genre which was popular at the time.
They would get more competition by 2001, when KCMG dropped rhythmic oldies to become KHHT. That move would lead to rumors that KJLH would flip to an all-gospel music format, but the station decided not to make a format change. But the rumors came back once again, as in 2006, more competition awaited KJLH as KKBT dropped their R&B/hip-hop direction to go adult R&B (and six months later change their calls to KRBV with a new branding), giving the market 3 stations with the same format, thus once again more speculation of KJLH abandoning Urban AC for Gospel Music, but as of right now, that has not happened.
Through all this, KJLH's selling point has been a devotion to the community it serves. It has an extensive lineup of religious programming, including gospel music weekday mornings and all day Sundays. KJLH is also the only adult R&B station with a continuous live and local air staff. In addition, most of KJLH's on air staff has been with KJLH longer than rivals KHHT and especially KRBV, which has seen multiple turnovers.
As of 2008, KJLH became the only Urban Adult Contemporary Radio Station in Los Angeles serving the African-American audience again as both of its former competitors, KRBV and KHHT, has moved on to different directions, with KHHT evolving into a Rhythmic AC targeting the market's Hispanic audience, while KRBV exited the Adult R&B format altogether in April 2008 when Radio One sold the station to Bonneville International, who upon acquiring KRBV, dropped their format for Adult Album Alternative.
KJLH became the third Los Angeles Urban Adult Contemporary radio station to carry the Steve Harvey Morning Show on August 10, 2009; this comes after KDAY eliminated the show. The former KKBT at 100.3 was the original home of the Steve Harvey Morning Show when it started out as a local show.
As of 2009, when KDAY flipped to classic hip-hop, KJLH added more hip-hop in the playlist, still classifying the station as urban adult contemporary. Even Mediabase & Nielsen BDS still list the station as urban adult contemporary. KJLH has tweaked towards a rhythmic-leaning urban AC direction in August 2009 and now focuses on R&B/Hip Hop product, and KJLH is the only black owned Urban Adult Contemporary station in Los Angeles. KJLH went through drastic changes during the last few years by dropping a majority of the Urban Jazz content that they used to focus on for much of the 1990s and early 2000s to satisfy the younger end of its listener base. KJLH has added Hip Hop artists such as J. Cole, Drake, Lil' Wayne, Jay-Z, and Nicki Minaj to its playlist. This move was bought on by KDAY's format change to Classic Hip Hop and KKBT's departure.
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Franco Covers Numéro Homme–Actor James Franco brings his humor to the spring/summer 2014 cover of Numéro Homme. Photographed by Catherine Opie for the magazine's Nature issue, the cover regular is captured in studio, wearing a floral look from Gucci's spring/summer 2014 collection, while heading outdoors for a shot in a more traditional ensemble. Franco recently directed a short for Gucci's latest line of sunglasses, which can be viewed here.
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We will have a full 9 days to explore the Kenai Peninsula. Would like to hear experienced, been there travelers thoughts on this proposed itinerary or suggestions:
Day 1 Glacier Discovery Train from Anchorage to Grandview and then return to Whittier. Spend night in Whittier at Inn at Whittier and pick up rental car (?suggestions on rental car companies there?) Day 2 Whittier to Seward Spend night or two in Seward and take a boat tour (small boat) to see glaciers, wildlife, puffins, etc Day 3-4 drive to Homer and spend 2 nights there. That still leaves us with time to explore some more. Need suggestions, plan on returning rental car to Anchorage. Do we have time to do Denali at all or how about some of the islands off of the peninsula. We may do some moderate day hikes. Appreciate the help from the experience travelers! Also recommendations for accommodations too please. For some reason planning this trip is harder than planning a trip to Europe for me!
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We will have a full 9 days to explore the Kenai Peninsula. Would like to hear experienced, been there travelers thoughts on this proposed itinerary or suggestions:
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When is this trip?
You do have time to include both the Kenai Peninsula and Denali, with some adjustments, and further decisions made by you.
You first need to determine WHAT it is you wish to do in the chosen areas of Seward and Homer? Spending 2 nights in each may be a better choice, rather than an overnight in Whittier. But, you need to first, determine how much time you need in each, for your activities. What I suggest, you plan on going north to Alaska with two nights at Denali, add a night in Talkeetna area perhaps? Spend a night in Anchorage and do a day trip to Whittier, rather than an overnight there.
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I returned last night (June 17, 2011) from Alaska. Altogether, I spent nineteen days, including five nights at Glacier Bay, five nights in Seward, and three nights aboard the Alaska ferry from Juneau to Bellingham, WA. Seward was the highlight. There is the excellent Sealife Center that introduces one to Alaska maritime habitat and inhabitants. If you pay extra, you can go behind the scenes and, with researchers, learn details about such creatures as Puffins (it was called the Puffin Encounter). There are several companies that offer a choice of short or long excurions out on Resurrection Bay and the fjords of the national park. I took the seven and a half hour trip with Major Maritime Tours, but omitted the lunch (I took a sandwich from a bakery across from the harbor). Not only did we see and hear calving glaciers, but we saw orcas (up close), sea lions, Puffins, and lots of other things. Be sure to take very warm clothing. There is a family in Seward prominent in the Ididarod race that, during the summer, offers tourists the chance to ride a two and a half mile trail through the woods behind a pack of fourteen dogs. The musher explains how the race operates and shows visitors the equipment used. The outfit is called the Ididaride and employees will pick you up where you are staying. There is an excellent seafood restaurant, Ray's, at the small boat harbor (there are several other pretty good restaurants, but Ray's had oysters on the half shell) and there are several comfortable accommodations. I stayed at the Hotel Seward and recommend it. If you do not have transportation, there is a free shuttle from one end of town to the other (about a mile). One nice thing about Seward is that, unlike Juneau and Ketchikan, where huge cruise ships, with a total of ten thousand passengers, may congregate in a single day and result in mobs of people milling about the streets, the passengers on what cruise ships do dock are headed to Anchorage or Denali---they are not aimlessly killing time in Seward. In conclusion, I believe that you could easily occupy yourself profitably for three days in Seward. ZZ
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Nice report from ZZ.
It also depends on what else might be going on. We visited around the 4th of July so we went to the Forest Fair at Girdwood and also the 4th of July parade in Kenai. If the salmon are running, you might want to spend time just watching some fishing. We enjoyed walking the beach and talking with net fishermen near Kenai.
Don't forget tunnel schedule when you leave Whittier. It's the only way in and out since Whittier used to be a secret military base.
You can do a day trip to Seldovia and other places across the bay from Homer but the wildlife cruise isn't as exciting as the one from Seward. Don't miss the Pratt Museum. Small but very interesting. You can also do a flightseeing trip over a glacier.
With 9 days, I would consider skipping Denali because of the long drive from Anchorage. There are other things north of Anchorage that are very interesting esp Independence Mine.
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take a kayak trip out of homer.....usually one day, no camping.
look into a dog sled ride near seward...exit glacier region ?
look into taking a float plane trip to see bears out of soldotna.
also, do not drive by the moose pass inn without stopping for a hamburger
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do not drive by the moose pass inn without stopping...you'll be sorry
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Homer..we took the ferry over to Halibut Cove, a nice experience. A highlight of our AK trip was taking a seaplane from Homer over to Katmai National Park to see the bears catching.salmon in the river
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HappyTrvlr- Which company did you use for bear viewing? I'm trying to decide which one to use.
Last year my friend and I took the trip to Halibut Cove. What a fun trip and such a special place! I highly recommend it!! I would NEVER skip Denali if I could make it part of a trip, but then I'm a fanatic for mountains, views and wildlife spotting. that being said, it's a long trip from Kenai, and the ride in/out of Denali can be all-day. Last year we took the train from Anchorage to Denali==personally I was bored with the ride and found the sights frustratingly limited, but if you're time limited, it might help save some time and keep you moving (avoiding those tempting sidetrips I love). This year we're driving. I'm looking forward to stopping in Talkeetna.
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Consider a fishing trip if you are a fisherman. We just did a trip out of Ninilchik for halibut. There is also salmon fishing. The outfitters have all the equipment so you don't need to worry about bringing any.
I don;t know if you have time to go to Denali, but there are places around Anchorage that are interesting (Musk Ox Farm in Palmer is one of my favorites)
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The outrage surrounding the birth of octuplets in California may be misplaced, a First Coast physician said Tuesday. Instead of blasting the single mother of six who used in vitro fertilization to have more children, scrutinize the doctor who helped her conceive and deliver the additional eight, said Jacksonville fertility specialist Kevin L. Winslow. "I think the real issue here - the real criticism here - is that the physician was totally, totally irresponsible," he said. The number of embryos implanted in the woman should have been limited to two or three - not the eight she reportedly carried to term, he said. Questions of medical ethics, social responsibility and parental rights have erupted coast to coast since Nadya Suleman gave birth to the six boys and two girls in Los Angeles on Jan. 26. Should a woman - a single mom living with her parents - have any more kids when she already has six? Should fertility treatments have been granted to her at all, whether to have one, two or eight children? And what right - or duty - do the public and physicians have in deciding such issues? In some circumstances, the public should be heard on such issues, said Daniel Kantor, a physician at Shands Jacksonville and a member of the hospital's ethics committee. "Somebody having octuplets on top of six ... it's hard to believe they're wealthy enough to pay for everything" related to the rearing of these children, he said. "Who's going to pay for the health care of these children?" Kantor said. "If it's going to be the public, maybe the public has a right to weigh in." The welfare of the newborns is also a key issue, Kantor said, noting that children who are part of multiple births have a higher risk of health complications and even death. The rights of parents must also be considered, Kantor said, because it's not society's role to set limits on the number of children a family can or should have. In fact, fertility physicians are reluctant to disqualify patients for treatment based on how many children they already have, said Michael Fox, a reproductive specialist in Jacksonville. Patients are screened for age, health and potential reproductive complications, he said, not how many children they already have. Fox said he would likely treat a mother of six who wanted one more child. "I'm not sure I have the right to draw the line there unless I knew some very specific things about her case, like she's almost indigent or can't afford" to have another child, Fox said. "It's not our job to tell people how many children they can have." Physicians do have to set limits sometimes, Winslow said, and in vitro fertilization permits more control. The procedure works by removing eggs from a mother and fertilizing them in a lab. Physicians then determine how many embryos to place into the mother's uterus, based on her age, health and other factors influencing fertility Women younger than 36 (Suleman is 33) usually get two or three embryos implanted because doctors want to minimize the chances of a multiple birth. The Associated Press reported that Suleman said doctors - who have not been publicly identified - implanted fewer than eight embryos but that the embryos had multiplied. Some experts said this could be possible since Suleman's system has likely been hyperstimulated for years with fertilization treatments and drugs. Winslow told the Times-Union he didn't buy it. "They multiplied? That's nonsense." It's common for parents to want to be more aggressive than medically needed or ethically acceptable in trying to induce pregnancy. But multiple pregnancies are fraught with potential health hazards to mothers and children, Winslow said. Sometimes it means consulting with attorneys before proceeding. Sometimes it means simply saying no, he said. "You have to stand your ground and be a strong and responsible advocate for moms and babies," he said. email@example.com, (904) 359-4310
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SACRAMENTO — Gov. George Deukmejian, declaring that he "strongly disapproved" of Assemblyman Tom Hayden's Vietnam-era anti-war activities, said Tuesday that if he were still a member of the Legislature, he would have voted Monday to oust the two-term Santa Monica Democrat.
Speaking to reporters one day after Assembly Democrats beat back a Republican-led move to expel Hayden, the GOP governor said the lawmaker's actions nearly 20 years ago "did not, under the Constitution, qualify him to remain as a member of the Assembly."
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In reply, Hayden charged that the governor's abrupt entry into the controversy surrounding his radical past was evidence that Deukmejian either "temporarily left his senses or was programmed as part of an overall Republican (election) strategy."
Deukmejian discussed Hayden in response to reporters' questions after a speech to a statewide Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Sacramento. The governor did not mention Hayden in the speech.


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Weldon D. Donaldson, a San Diego philanthropist and former television executive, has died.
He passed on May 23 with his wife, Mary Barbara, and son Glen at his side.
Mr. Donaldson served in a variety of professional and volunteer positions with local TV stations, the San Diego Zoo, the San Diego Bowl Game Association and numerous civic organizations, but always made time for his family and friends. He was married for 57 years, and had three children — Glen, Valerie and John.
"He was a great father," Glen Donaldson said. "One of the things I always admired about him was just how seriously he took friendship and how much he cherished that."
Mr. Donaldson took time to enjoy life, be it work or leisure activities, his wife recalled.
"He was a very fun-loving person and loved his family and loved San Diego," she said. "He was quite a beachgoer and organized many beach parties."
The couple traveled the world. In particular, they treasured their annual trips to St. Martin and Anguilla.
"We went for 15 years, and those were our favorite times," she said.
Mr. Donaldson was born on May 5, 1936, in Orange, N.J., and grew up in El Paso, Texas, where he attended the University of Texas at El Paso. There he joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army. He served from 1964 to 1966 at the Olathe missile site near Kansas City, Kan.
He later moved to San Diego and forged a 29-year career as a television executive, working as sales manager of KFMB-TV between 1970 and 1994, and then with KUSI-TV. He later served as executive director for the National City Mile of Cars.
"His reputation in San Diego was unparalleled as far as straightforward honesty and integrity, as well as his love of life and his feeling for people he dealt with," said Harry Melkerson, who worked as a sales manager at KFMB-TV with Mr. Donaldson and counted him as mentor, best friend and second brother.
Bob Sexton, owner of Ad360, said Mr. Donaldson gave him a start in broadcast media in 1985. Decades later, he said, he hired Mr. Donaldson at KUSI.
Despite the pressures of the fast-paced media industry, he said, Mr. Donaldson made the job fun — even posing as Superman for a promotional poster.
"He had this infectious ability to engage people in a way that everybody around him was having a good time or was motivated," Sexton said.
Aside from his TV work, Mr. Donaldson contributed his time and skill to civic and sports organizations. He volunteered as a "red coat" with the San Diego Bowl Game Association, which produces the Holiday Bowl and Poinsettia Bowl football games. He served as president of the Holiday Bowl in 1998, said Bruce Binkowski, executive director of the association.
"He's been one of our 'red coats' for over 30 years, and he was one of the best," Binkowski said. "He always was positive, funny and a big booster of our games and the community."
Mr. Donaldson also lent his experience to the San Diego Zoological Society's board of directors; he served as a trustee from 2003 to 2012 and collaborated specifically on the marketing and investment committees.
"Weldon was critical in the advertising of that attraction, which brings in a tremendous amount of tourist dollars and is a major contributor to the San Diego County economy," said Tom Fetter, a zoo trustee emeritus.
In addition, Mr. Donaldson was a member of the San Diego Ad Club and recipient of the group's lifetime achievement award. And he was a member of the San Diego Advertising Golf Association. He also served on the boards of the Downtown YMCA and San Diego CrimeStoppers.
In terms of sports, he enjoyed handball and golf and was a member of the San Diego Rowing Club.
A celebration-of-life gathering is scheduled for June 26 at Qualcomm Stadium, club level lounge, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Guests can enter the stadium through security gate A on the plaza level.


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The Effect of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on Quadriceps Central Activation and Gait
This study has been completed.
University of Virginia
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First Posted: September 14, 2009
Last Update Posted: September 14, 2009
Information provided by:
University of Virginia
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Participants diagnosed with tibial femoral knee osteoarthritis will be assigned to one of three treatment groups including: active transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), placebo TENS, and a control group. Assignment of conditions will be concealed. All participants in each of the three groups will receive physical therapy for all 4 weeks of the intervention. Main outcome measures will include quadriceps central activation ratio, quadriceps torque production, WOMAC scores, visual analog pain scores during gait as well as knee joint kinetics and kinematics during gait. The purpose of this study is to to determine if the continuous use of TENS therapy for activities of daily living and rehabilitation will positively impact all outcome measures.
|Tibial Femoral Knee Osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis
|Device: Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) Device: Placebo TENS
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|The Effect of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on Quadriceps Central Activation and Gait
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: osteoarthritis
MedlinePlus related topics: OsteoarthritisU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by University of Virginia:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Quadriceps central activation ratio [ Time Frame: 2 and 4 weeks ]
- Quadriceps torque production [ Time Frame: 2 and 4 weeks ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- WOMAC score [ Time Frame: 2 and 4 weeks ]
- Visual analog pain score [ Time Frame: 2 and 4 weeks ]
- Knee joint kinetics and kinematics [ Time Frame: 2 and 4 weeks ]
|Study Start Date:
|November 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|August 2009
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Active TENS
Active TENS therapy for 4 weeks plus standard physical therapy for same time period.
Device: Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)
Continuous TENS use
Placebo Comparator: Placebo TENS
Placebo TENS for 4 weeks plus standard physical therapy for same time period.
Device: Placebo TENS
Placebo TENS use
No Intervention: Control Group
No TENS, standard physical therapy for 4 weeks.
Information from the National Library of Medicine
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients who have been diagnosed with a Kellgren and Lawrence grade of 1- 4 for Tibial Femoral Knee OA in at least one leg or have been diagnosed with OA by a physician using evidence confirmed from imaging studies, arthroscopy, or visualization during an past surgical procedures, or have medical reports confirming OA using imaging studies, arthroscopy, or visualization during an past surgical procedures.
- Patients between the ages of 18 and 80 years of age.
- Patients will have a CAR less than 90%.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who are pregnant.
- Patients who have sought medical attention for a trauma to the knee injury within the past 6 months.
- Patients who have had any orthopaedic lower extremity surgery in the past 6 months, or any surgery that would inhibition proper functioning of the study methodology.
- Patients with a diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis.
- Patients with a known hypersensitivity to electrical stimulation.
- Patients with any types of neuropathy.
- Patients with known muscular abnormalities.
- Patients with a history of a heart condition that precludes them from exercise.
- The technique can not be performed on the leg that has had a total knee replacement, but if the other leg meets the inclusion criteria the subject can perform the study on the non- reconstructed leg.
- Patients diagnosed with malignancy over the stimulating electrode site (thigh and knee).
- Patients with serious infection near the stimulating electrode sites (thigh and knee)
- Patients have not had a knee injection in the past 2 weeks.
- Patients who are unable to walk a series of 30 meters without a walking assistance device.
Contacts and Locations
Information from the National Library of Medicine
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00976079
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00976079
|United States, Virginia
|University of Virginia
|Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, 22908
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Virginia
|Principal Investigator:
|Christopher Ingersoll, PhD
|University of Virginia
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Keywords provided by University of Virginia:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
|Responsible Party:
|Christopher D. Ingersoll, PhD, University of Virginia
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00976079 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Submitted:
|September 11, 2009
|First Posted:
|September 14, 2009
|Last Update Posted:
|September 14, 2009
|Last Verified:
|September 2009
Keywords provided by University of Virginia:
Tibial femoral knee osteoarthritis
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Osteoarthritis, Knee
Joint Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Rheumatic Diseases


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So, I am in dire need of some special voices for a mock advertisement, but I don't really have access to voice actors and I am awful. I have seen people use text to speech software that has good natural inflections and record features. Any suggestions on what software I may be able to get to do this?
http://translate.google.com/ has text-to-speech. But do not know the rights.
It has no inflections or anything, I am looking for something that I can emulate half-way decent approximations of emotion when they speak and can tweak the voices of. But thanks for the suggestion!
There are a lot of good TTS, but the problem are the rights to use exported voice. One of our companies made change in that area, and they have pretty well voices, check here:
Hi rfgquantum,
I came across a really good T2S. Listen to this demo track I made, at the beginning and the end you will hear the voice i generated. I promise you it isnt a real vocal, its emulated.
On the website www.naturalreaders.com, i used the 'try it' box to generate the vocal. It will take a lot of playing around and you will have to record the output of the browser into recording software. But My god it provides astonishing result as you will hear in the composition i linked.
Thank you! The help is really appreciated!
You're welcome
I wanted to add, that sample you linked was fantastic as well. Nicely done!
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I wanted to add, that sample you linked was fantastic as well. Nicely done!
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Restless and passionate but with an unflinching realism at his core, Sims has seen enough of life to know there are no easy answers. His second full-length release, Bad Time Zoo, out February 15th on Doomtree Records, reflects this rapper's ongoing quest for solid understanding in a society on the brink of dystopia. For Sims, it's been a long road.
Andrew Sims grew up in the working-class Minneapolis suburb of Hopkins, Minnesota. His parents were both musicians with problems of their own, and Sims often had to look out for himself and his younger brother. "I was super short-fused," he remembers. "I got in fights almost every day until I was about 13."
He found solace in rap and R&B music, nurturing a love for mainstream hits as well as then-underground artists such as the Wu-Tang Clan. His parents didn't approve of his new love, however, so he built a secret stash of cassette mixtapes that he traded to kids at school. He soon found a gift for rhyme and begin channeling his aggression into feisty, kinetic wordplay.
His rap habit quickly grew from playground cyphers to recorded projects. In high school, he met a local producer and rapper named P.O.S. who would sell him beats for $30 a pop and let him record at his house for free. Eventually, their home-recording experiment blossomed into a full-on musical enterprise that would pull in other aspiring artists and help put Minneapolis hip-hop on the map.
Enter Doomtree. Hailing from the same untamed Minneapolis indie music scene that spawned both punk legends the Replacements and, 20 years later, hip-hop powerhouse Rhymesayers, Doomtree has become one of the most trusted and influential names in grassroots hip-hop.
Since its birth in 2002, Doomtree has grown from a CD-R-slinging, fast-food-fueled DIY collective into a tightly knit, business-savvy operation. In addition to Sims and P.O.S., Doomtree's roster includes some of the most daring artists working in hip-hop today: Lazerbeak, Dessa, Mike Mictlan, Paper Tiger, and Cecil Otter.
In a genre that all too often rewards imitation over innovation, Doomtree's artists strive for originality without sacrificing mass appeal. As a result, fans of Doomtree have come to expect uncommon hip-hop delivered in clever, club-rocking doses, and Bad Time Zoo will not disappoint.
Setting himself as spokesman for a generation fraught by vapid commercialism, political cynicism, and the paradoxical power of technology to both connect us and drive us apart, Sims seeks a path out of the disappointment that plagues modern life. The time of plenty, inbox full / So why do I feel so goddamn empty? he demands on opening track "Future Shock."
But while he casts himself as an alienated prophet, make no mistake: Sims' message is of empowerment, hope, and badass beats. The results are epically infectious.
Over the pulse and sway of Lazerbeak's urgent, expansive production, Sims raises 50-story verses and swings wrecking-ball choruses. With scenes straight from Darwin's nightmares – people as animals gorging in the streets ("The Veldt") – Bad Time Zoo is not so much a hip-hop album as a teeming, beat-driven urban wilderness.
On the horn-sample-driven first single, "Burn It Down," Sims raps like a red-eyed city planner who just downed his eighth Red Bull and Adderall cocktail and is on the street corner calling for destruction before renewal. Or take the thumping, wickedly funny "One Dimensional Man," an indictment of complacent liberals: You did your part, you gave your hundred bucks to NPR / You joined a co-op now, bought the hybrid car. (For the record, Sims votes Democrat and drives a hybrid.)
But lest you think you need an advanced degree and a machete to enter Bad Time Zoo, Sims keeps his narratives grounded and real, and Lazerbeak's musical compositions would sound just as good on a club PA as headphones. Just spin "Love My Girl," a pop confection that juxtaposes dark observations on the dating life with a surprisingly sweet candy center.
A pop-culture omnivore, Sims cites influences that range from the sci-fi of Ray Bradbury, to the films of David Lynch, to the 1940s graphic novels of Will Eisner. But most of all, Sims listens to the world around him.
"I draw a lot more from human interaction than I do from music," he says. "I listen and try to understand how people function."
Like all good writers, Sims has an ear for what makes us human.
"What are your soft spots? When are you at your most defensive, your most unabashedly happy or proud?" he elaborates. "Or when I see someone try to cobble a defense together when they're hurting. Those moments are noteworthy to me. I try to pay attention to them."
Pay attention to Sims, and you'll be better for it.
Mike Mictlan is a native to Southern California and a current proud resident of South Minneapolis. His style has roots in both scenes. In his delivery, he's a rapper's rapper and a technician. He can stick fast stuccato runs, flip a pattern, and freestyle long after everyone else has gone to bed. But he's also a writer who doesn't shy from big themes and personal narrative.
Mike met the founding members of Doomtree during his junior year in high school. In response to his deliquent streak, Mike's parents had sent him from their L.A. home to live with his uncle in Minnesota. (No, the Fresh Prince storyline is not lost on us, please save your letters.) Living with his uncle and attending Hopkins High, he met P.O.S, Lazerbeak, MK Larada, and Paper Tiger. Although Mictlan soon returned to L.A., the Doomtree family tree had taken root. As the collective gained momentum in Minneapolis, Mictlan received more and more phone calls urging him to move to the Midwest. Five years later, he got off a plane with 2 duffel bags and a footlocker, ready to go wherever Doomtree was headed. In his debut collaboration with Lazerbeak, Hand Over Fist, Mictlan employed his understated poetry to epic effect. The album goes by in a pageant of imagery: of fire and flight, long odds and close calls.
A lot has changed in the four years since Mike Mictlan released Hand Over Fist, his first full-length album in collaboration with Lazerbeak. He's played a key role in helping Doomtree, his rap crew for over a decade now, steadily climb into the national spotlight; touring the world over again and again, playing major summer festivals (Lollapalooza, Paid Dues), and winning over critics the likes of Pitchfork, MTV, Spin, and Rolling Stone off of their collaborative 2011 release No Kings.
SNAXXX is the culmination of those four years grinding it out on the road, and it marks a giant leap forward from Mike's previous solo work. His million-mile-a-minute delivery, tongue twister patterns, and abstract introspection remain completely intact, but there is a much more playful, ambitiously creative side that now creeps heavily into the mix. Musically, SNAXXX takes the traditional everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink Doomtree sound and blows the doors off the hinges. New comer 2% Muck (Tha Clerb, Spyder Baybie Raw Dog) produces 11 of the 15 tracks, and it's his rapid fire snare patterns, crushing low end, and blown out synth lines that anchor and shape this new sonic direction for Mike. SNAXXX also features a slew of Minnesota's finest up and coming rappers (Lizzo, Greg Grease, Spyder Baybie Raw Dog, Freez) along with lifelong Doomtree partner-in-crime P.O.S, who shows up on two of the album's cuts.
Doomtree released SNAXXX for free in the fall of 2012 while Mike wraps up his next official full length, HELLA FRREAL in order to give people a taste of where he's at now and where he's headed. With mainstream appeal, surgical precision, and unshakable crew love, Mike Mictlan is an unparalleled force in the underground. His live show is a spectacle of sweat and laughter and fury and communion. You could search every venue in every city, but you will not find an emcee in rap music with more heart than Mike Mictlan. No hype, just a simple guarantee. He believes in the music, the movement, and in his crew of friends. To see him in person, and to hear his voice, makes it hard not to believe it too.
Chicago emcee Show You Suck, is putting his mark on the music world, one skateboarder at a time with his mad hooks, slick rhymes and thought provoking lyrics. Straight from the hood, but you'd never guess it with his board toting, fashion conscious personality and nack for 80s and 90s pop culture.
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During one of our first "wedding related" conversations, Mr. Poodle and I decided to get married in California. We didn't need to to put too much thought into it, it was one of those things that came naturally. Every single one of Mr. Poodle's family get-togethers take place on "the ranch". So, he asked me if I wanted to have the wedding there. I thought it was a good idea because we wouldn't need reservations, we can use it for as long as we want, and we can be as loud as we want. Plus, it's free!
After we chose our setting I started the search for ideas and inspiration to transform the ranch into our dream wedding venue. I already shared the fact that the ranch does not have a classic wooden barn, so it won't be as easy as stringing lights and making the magic happen. There will be a lot of work involved. Luckilly, Mr. Poodle's family is happily willing to help us as much as they can! Yay!
When Mrs. Frenchie showed us this amazing venue, I wished we could build a place like this, but we needed to be real: even if we had the money, we could not build that *just* for our wedding!
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BUT, we could build something similar. Our own chapel!
Mr. Poodle's dad is a contractor, so he's collecting materials to build our very own version of this amazing outdoor chapel. How cool is that?
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I really think all the hard work ahead will be justified if we get one cute picture of the "grand entrance" like this one. I'm obsessed with this project, as the "outdoor chapel" was actually my first wedding-related dream! *blushing*
Then, another item that crossed my mind was… HAY! – On the ranch there are no animals, so there is no need for hay, but I again emailed my FMIL to show her my inspiration pictures. And again, she supported my newfound love for hay!
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How cool would it be to have a hay couch with different colored pillows on top?
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Have you been to a wedding with non-conventional seating? How were your experiences? Have you ever sat on a hay bale for an extended period of time? Woudl you recommend it?
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Red Sox activate Crawford from 60-day DL; designate Lillibridge for assignment
BOSTON, MA—The Boston Red Sox today activated outfielder Carl Crawford from the 60-day disabled list and designated infielder/outfielder Brent Lillibridge for assignment. Crawford is slated to start in left field and bat second tonight against the White Sox at Fenway Park.
The announcement was made by Executive Vice President/General Manager Ben Cherington.
Crawford, 30, began the season on the 15-day disabled list while recovering from left wrist surgery and was transferred to the 60-day DL on May 3. The left-handed batter hit a combined .306 (11-for-36) with six runs, a double, triple, two RBI, eight walks and two stolen bases in 11 rehab games overall between the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League Red Sox, Double-A Portland and Triple-A Pawtucket. He was removed from his initial rehabilitation stint on July 7 due to a mild left groin strain before beginning a second stint with the PawSox from July 12-14, going 4-for-12 (.333) in three games in that time. A four-time American League All-Star who was signed by the Red Sox as a free agent in December of 2010, Crawford is a career .293 hitter (1,609-for-5,498) with 244 doubles, 112 triples, 115 homers, 648 RBI, 830 runs scored and 427 stolen bases in 1,365 Major League games with Tampa Bay (2002-10) and Boston (2011). He appeared in 130 games with the Red Sox last season and hit .255 (129-for-506) with 29 doubles, a team-high seven triples, 11 home runs, 56 RBI, 65 runs and 18 stolen bases.
Lillibridge, 28, was acquired by Boston from the White Sox on June 24 and has appeared in 10 games with the Red Sox, seeing action in right field, center field and first base while going 2-for-16 at the plate. He's played in a combined 59 games with Chicago and Boston this season, making appearances at first base (22 games, 3 starts) and third base (6 G, 6 GS), and left (16 G, 2 GS), right (4 G, 1 GS) and center field (8 G, 5 GS). The right-handed batter has gone 13-for-79 (.165) overall with a double, two RBI, 10 runs, four walks and seven stolen bases. Originally selected by the Pirates in the fourth round of the 2005 First-Year Player Draft, Lillibridge has appeared in 295 Major League games over the last five seasons with the Braves (2008), White Sox (2009-12) and Red Sox (2012), hitting .212 (114-for-538) with 19 doubles, four triples, 16 home runs, 58 RBI, 85 runs, 41 walks and 30 stolen bases.


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St. Louis' Riverfront Times
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Denver Westword
"Orange is the new black. No kidding."
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"Brown is the new black when it comes to men's shoes."
Tennessee's Knoxville News-Sentinel
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Cleveland's Plain Dealer
"In the world of Island formal wear, the new black is...black."
Honolulu Advertiser
"White is the new black--it was a mantra rolled out on the red carpet again and again during the recent Oscar awards ceremony..."
Copley News Service
"Conflicting messages abound: One top fashion magazine says white is the new black. Another says pink is the new black, and still another says brown is the new black."
Buffalo News
"Brown emerges as the new black, even in eveningwear, and designers are describing it as chocolate, espresso, mocha and mahogany."
Salt Lake City's Deseret Morning News
"'Hey, Nicole! Soaking wet is the new black!'"
New Orleans' Times-Picayune
"For about a month this presidential campaign season, orange was the new black."
Baltimore Sun
"In case you haven't heard, drag is the new black."
Greensboro, North Carolina's News & Record
"Purple is the new black and sequins are, well, the new sequins."
New Orleans' Times-Picayune
"Since color is the new black, it's time to throw last year's basic mules to the back of the closet."
Detroit News
"It's official: Brown is the new black--the can't-do-without-it color fashion fans will have in their closets come next fall."
New Jersey's Asbury Park Press
"Bow ties are the perfect accent for political commentary. They're the new black."
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Louisville Courier-Journal
"Is it going to be the new LoDo? Only inasmuch as brown is the new black and food is the new sex--in other words, no."
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Indianapolis Star
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Meister leads Janesville Craig boys' state title hopes
The Craig High Cougar boys have made six straight trips to the state meet in Wisconsin Rapids, while the Cougars girls have advanced to state nine of the last 10 years.
Don�t look for things to change in 2011.
Craig begins the season this afternoon as both teams compete at the Milton Rock Run.
Led by senior Tommy Meister, the Cougar boys could make a run at a state title. Craig was second in the Big Eight Conference last season and ninth in the state in Division 1, and with a wealth of talent returning, is a definite threat to defending state champion Hartland Arrowhead. Six of Craig�s seven state competitors return.
�We�ve established a real positive culture for our program, and both the boys and girls feed off of that and want to be a part of it,� Craig co-head coach Brian Lawton said. �That makes our job a lot easier because the kids want to put the work in and want that chance to run at state.
�I�m not ready to talk about winning a state title, especially since Arrowhead has got everybody back from their state team, but I know Tommy and the rest of his teammates have set high goals.�
Meister was second at the state cross country meet last year and won the 800-meter run at the state track and field meet. He is being heavily recruited by a number of major Division I schools, including Duke, Providence and Wisconsin.
�Tommy�s really taken on a leadership role,� Brian Lawton said. �He knows this is it for him, and he wants to go out on top.�
Meister is one of three captains, along with senior Jon Pospeschil and junior Spencer Hrycay.
Junior Hunter Salmon and senior Joe Sarow also return with a vast amount of varsity experience, along with junior Eric Paulous and sophomore Evan Lalor.
Senior Peter Carlson, junior Derek Arrowood and sophomore Alec McCann also are in the mix for one of the final varsity spots.
The Cougar girls are out to redeem themselves after a disappointing 2010 season. For the first time in 10 years, the team failed to qualify for state and was fifth in the Big Eight�the lowest finish in school history.
�These girls worked really hard in the off-season, some of them logging more than 200 miles running this summer,� co-head coach Jessica Lawton said. �This is a new season, and I really think they�re driven to succeed. Not making it to state last year was big deal for those that are coming back.�
Seniors Katie Bagley, Danica Reinicke, Michaela Holzhuter and Stephanie Perleberg return, and all have run at state at some point in their careers. Juniors Teryn Bordwell and Brittney Fry are also back, giving the team six strong runners that should push each other, according to both coaches.
�Everything is on track for both teams right now,� Brian Lawton said. �We�re excited to start the season and watch these kids perform.�
Craig�s schedule:
AUGUST: 25�Milton Rock Run, 4 p.m.
SEPTEMBER: 3�Verona Invitational, 9 a.m.; 8�Arrowhead Invitational, 4:15 p.m.; 13�At Big 8 Grade Level Challenge (Warner Park), 4:30 p.m.; 24�Midwest Invitational (Blackhawk), 9 a.m.; 27�Five-Team Challenge, at Sun Prairie (Sheehan Park), 5 p.m.
OCTOBER: 1�Racine Case Invitational, TBA; 15�Big Eight meet , at Madison (Yahara), 9 a.m; 22�WIAA sectional, at Madison (Yahara),
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Sorry everyone it is Elmo that she likes. Got my characters mixed up.
My sister in law just loves Grover from Sesame St. She has run a daycare in her home for about 35 years. She is a wonderful daycare provider. She has never advertised and had been full all the time. I would like to make her a Grover lap quilt or table runner. I know she would be so excited and the kids would like it also. I have searched for Grover fabric but it is always with some other Sesame Street characters. Just wondering if any one has some they would like to sell. Thank you for reading my post.


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From his experiences as a naval officer in Japan during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America and becomes a book editor. He soon inhabits a world where affairs ignite, alcohol reigns, writers struggle, and publishers hustle. As one marriage goes bad and another fails to happen; he meets a woman who enthralls, then betrays him, setting him on a course he could never have imagined for himself.
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"The best novel I've read in years. All That Is will be treasured by its readers…Once again he has delivered to us a novel of the highest artistry." (Tim O'Brien)
"Salter is the contemporary writer most admired and envied by other writers…he can, when he wants, break your heart with a sentence" (Washington Post)
"A beautiful novel, with sufficient love, heartbreak, vengeance, identity, confusion, longing, and euphoria of language to have satisfied Shakespeare" (John Irving)
"Life goes by so fast"
James Salter's writing is beautiful, elegant and delicate at the same time and gives you plenty of emotions . The life of the main characters is presented in a series of pictures at different times of his existence , without an excessively structured and logic connection.
We are the privileged witness of his hopes, emotions, deceptions ; we feel with him thorough 60+ years. A great book, plenty of joy and sadness, which reminds us that great literature can be great fun.
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This post is part of a blogging series by marketing students at the Presidio Graduate School's MBA program. You can follow along here.
By Kim Morris
As we emerge from a difficult economic period, management teams are focused on penny-pinching and everyone is cutting corners. As a result, most companies strive to do as little as possible and gain the most reward. As the sustainability movement continues to grow, it becomes more and more difficult to determine if a company is inherently sustainable or if skilled marketing professionals have successfully greenwashed the website and label. On the streets of San Francisco, and other environmentally conscious cities, companies can use Green Business Certifications as a marketing tool. The certification can show customers that management ensured their office place meets a standard set of sustainability criteria.
Some companies, like Fiji Water for example, have done a great job of casting a high perception of sustainability without actually achieving a truly sustainable business. Is it that the company doesn't understand what it means to be environmentally conscious or is it covering up mediocre attempts with glossy covers and colorful language? If business websites are polluted with unverifiable claims made by the company itself, how can a conscious consumer determine if their money is well spent?
Sure, 100-page corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports release information about environmental footprints and company operations, but who carries a binder of 100-page reports when making day-to-day choices? Furthermore, many businesses in San Francisco are small family owned businesses (restaurants, consulting firms, hotels, garment cleaners & more) that don't have the capacity to issue a yearly 100-page glossy document. After all, do you really want to read a CSR report every time you walk into a local café or hardware store? Probably not.
You may be asking how then, can companies successfully market themselves towards sustainability effectively and for very little cost? Moreover, how can consumers make educated purchasing decisions in their community? On a local level, Green Business networks such as the Green Business Program in San Francisco, assist companies that are doing the right thing (greening operations and sustainable purchasing, amongst others) to convey their message. By earning the Green Business logo, companies can avoid greenwashing accusations and quickly market their points of differentiation to the local customer. The program removes the mystery from how to advertise a green office or management model. In fact, the Green Business Program even equips a newly certified business with a tool-kit, a plaque to hang in the window and an online listing on the City's directory.
How does this help the customer? Unbiased auditors trained in waste management, energy and water conservation (among other categories) do the homework. All the customer has to do is look for the Green Business logo or do a quick online search. The logo ensures that green claims are not a result of a clever marketing spin. In this way, Green Businesses ensure they will benefit from leveraging online media and word-of-mouth marketing. Businesses can communicate with a network of like-minded management teams, stay ahead of the regulations and take advantage of rebate programs for sustainable upgrades that help to pinch those pennies.
The benefit of the program is twofold. For local companies, Green Business recognition can be a vital key to marketing success. In addition, customers have assistance in weeding out the green from the greenwashed. In most cases, official recognition helps address the bottom line and the Green Business logo may actually be worth 1000 words.
Is your favorite café or restaurant certified? How about the office where you spend 40+ hours a week? Has the Green Business logo made an impact on your everyday decisions? If so, tell us how.


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New Series BROOKLYN NINE-NINE is a workplace comedy that's not really about the job. It's about the men and women behind the badge – singing karaoke, grabbing a beer, and dabbling in each other's personal lives– all while protecting the fine people of Brooklyn.
From Emmy Award-winning writer/producers Dan Goor and Michael Schur, and starring Emmy Award winners Andy Samberg and Andre Braugher, BROOKLYN NINE-NINE is a new single-camera ensemble comedy about what happens when a talented, but carefree, detective and his diverse group of colleagues get a new captain with a lot to prove.
BROOKLYN NINE-NINE is produced by Universal Television, 3 Arts Entertainment and Fremulon.
Series 1, Episode 7
After making an arrest without much proof, Jake has just 48 hours to collect enough evidence before the perp is released. While his co-workers are forced to spend their weekend helping out, Charles judges a pie contest between Rosa and Gina, and the Captain aids Terry in a problem with his brother-in-law.
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Our plan is to head on over to Austin and spread the word as far and wide as possible in hopes of bringing home more opportunities for the members of Society6.
So we're counting on each of you to please help us ensure that Society6 gets the visibility that we all need!
If you can only do the minimum to support us here, please simply go to the SXSW panel picker page and please give us both the thumbs up AND drop a comment for the SXSW committee to see that we really are doing something unique to help the world's artists:
And if you really want to show us some love and increase our chances, then please try to give us a Tweet, post on your FB page, your blog, tell your neighbor, or write it on a wall somewhere that we can use all the Thumbs upping that we can get.
Did I mention that we can't do this without your help?
If we get selected, I will personally guarantee you that we will have one hell of a time in Austin and everyone is invited to join us!
Thank you so much everyone for showing your support.