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Notes: Ledezma placed on restricted list
Notes: Ledezma on restricted list
While the details aren't certain, it's believed that Ledezma's visa and passport were damaged when he left them in an article of clothing that was placed in the washer. Consequently, they were destroyed to the point that he wasn't able to travel back to Atlanta for Friday night's series opener against the Pirates.
Ledezma, who was acquired from the Tigers on June 20, has already received a new passport. But because it might be until the middle of next week before he gets the visa that will allow him re-entry into the United States, the Braves have placed him on the restricted list and filled his spot on the 25-man roster by recalling right-handed reliever Jose Ascanio from Double-A Mississippi.
"It's unfortunate," Schuerholz said. "But it's being dealt with and adjusted."
While Ledezma is unavailable, Braves manager Bobby Cox won't have the luxury of having a left-handed reliever in his bullpen. But in 33 appearances for Mississippi, Ascanio has limited left-handed batters to a .212 batting average.
Ascanio is a hard-throwing 22-year-old hurler who has battled back problems in the past. But while posting a 2.44 ERA in his 33 appearances this year, he's proven to be both healthy and reliable. In his past 10 outings, he's worked 17 innings, registered 13 strikeouts, issued four walks and allowed just two earned runs.
While he's faced a much different level of competition, Ascanio has enjoyed this season much more than Ledezma, who has surrendered at least one run in three of his past five appearances.
In the seven innings he's totaled since joining the Braves, Ledezma has allowed five earned runs and eight hits. In 31 combined appearances with Atlanta and Detroit, he's seen left-handed hitters compile a .322 batting average against him.
Pendleton OK after brief scare: After doing his regular afternoon workout on Friday, Braves hitting coach Terry Pendleton felt his heart racing and knew something wasn't right. Fortunately, after making a visit to Piedmont Hospital, he learned that he was simply experiencing an irregular heartbeat -- an ailment he was told was common among men his age.
"When it's not beating right, you just know it," said Pendleton, who will celebrate his 47th birthday on Monday. "There was no pain or anything."
When Pendleton arrived at the hospital, doctors simply monitored him while he rested. After his heartbeat returned to a normal pace, he was permitted to return to Turner Field. He arrived around 7:20 p.m. ET, in time to assume his normal duties.
"I just had to let it settle down and start beating at a normal rate," Pendleton said. "It's settled down now."
Smoltz encouraged: During Thursday's team workout at Turner Field, John Smoltz was encouraged by the lack of discomfort in his right shoulder. But his true test will come later this weekend, when he throws off of a mound.
"It feels good," said Smoltz, who hadn't thrown at all since his July 2 start at Dodger Stadium.
Smoltz, who is on the disabled list, says the nine days of complete rest eased some of the tension created by the tendinitis that he's battled since May 29.
Smoltz's plan is to throw two side sessions over the next couple of days and then come off the disabled list in time to make Wednesday's start against the Reds.
When Smoltz is activated, the Braves will likely send Jo-Jo Reyes back to Triple-A Richmond. The 22-year-old southpaw will make his second Major League start on Tuesday against the Reds.
Carlyle joins select group: When Buddy Carlyle needed just nine pitches to strike out the side in the fourth inning on July 6 in San Diego, he obviously matched a Major League record that will never be broken.
According to Baseball-Almanac.com, this marked the 40th time in Major League history that a pitcher needed the minimum nine pitches to register three strikeouts in one inning. Oddly, 10 of those instances have come since the start of the 2001 season.
Carlyle became just the third pitcher in Braves franchise history to do this, and first since Joe Oeschger of the 1921 Boston Braves. The first was John Clarkson of the Boston Beaneaters, who in 1889 gained the distinction of being the first Major Leaguer to achieve this sort of dominant perfection.
Coming up: The Braves will continue their three-game series against the Pirates at Turner Field on Saturday night at 7:05 p.m. ET. They'll send Chuck James (8-7, 3.96) to the mound to face Tom Gorzelanny (9-4, 3.10).
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I reviwed the other tasting notes. I can understand why other tasters do not like this tea. However, it was pretty good for me. I really like both ginger and lemongrass. I had been looking at the pure lemongrass tea by teapigs however I then got this in the single steep packing as a gift.
I think this is an "okay" infusion. It is not great, nor do I think I will be buying it again. However, the package of infusers had 12 in it and I will continue to enjoy the tea.
The scent is very lemony. The color is almost amber. The mouthfeel has a little "zing". I can feel both the ginger and the lemongrass in the back of my throat. This reminds me (in a good way) of being home sick and getting ginger cough drops as a child!


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Dr. Steven Scott's medicine show has parked its wagon outside the offices of the Miami-Dade County School Board, and it ain't movin' until somebody buys a health tonic. United Teachers of Dade union boss Pat Tornillo, a steely-eyed fireplug of a senior (he's 76 years old), surveys the uneasy rabble of bureaucrats and politicians milling about the wagon. Beside him überlobbyist and school board kingmaker Eric "Ric" Sisser offers a few bright baubles to the first to step up. The two experienced hawkers smell a sale.
Dr. Steven M. Scott, a kind of junk-bond specialist when it comes to health care plans (he collects ailing ones, resuscitates them, and tries to turn them into moneymakers), is peddling a multimillion-dollar insurance offering from HIP Health Plan of Florida that will likely prove too expensive for many of the school district's employees. But with Tornillo and Sisser pushing for him, he may well get what he wants when the school board votes August 22. For Scott keeping a piece of the huge Miami-Dade school contract is essential to a much larger play for dominance in Florida's rapidly changing health insurance market. For workers it's about whether they can afford to take Junior to the doctor.
Since January the school district has been in the throes of deciding which two or three insurance companies will get a share of the $153 million fringe-benefits plan it will offer to about 39,000 employees next year. The school district gives its full-time employees $330 per month toward health insurance, which the employees can use toward one of the medical plans offered by the district; they also can buy into a number of extra benefits, such as dental or vision care, dependent care, or a 401(k) contribution. Over the past seven months, school district staff, outside consultants, and a handful of labor unions have attempted to make intelligent, reasonable recommendations (such as the two current health plan favorites, Cigna and Humana) to Superintendent Roger Cuevas based on the needs of most employees. In the end, though, none of this matters.
What matters is that Tornillo really wants HIP Health Plan of Florida to get a piece of the action, and he has the leverage to make it happen. The old union boss has led UTD for exactly half his life and through a combination of clever politicking and sheer chutzpah, has proven his ability to coerce management. Negotiations for the medical insurance package are a part of the union's collective-bargaining process with the school board. Part of Tornillo's plan is to use some of the money the district contributes to health insurance premiums to pay part of a four percent salary increase he's promised union members. Employee salaries and benefits use up more than 60 percent of the district's budget, and Tornillo has shown himself willing and able to field hundreds of teacher demonstrators if negotiations don't go his way. Tornillo also has pull with several board members who don't want to risk angering him. "The politics is absurd," remarks the leader of another union involved in the insurance talks. "It's a logjam because of the politics."
Hardly a new circumstance. Five years ago Tornillo used exactly the same tactics to prevent competition for the company he backed, HIP Health Plan of Florida, by making sure another HMO, AvMed Health Plan, was excluded. It was 1996, an election year, and a majority of school board members (most of whom had received union endorsements and help from the Sisser fundraising machine) gave him what he wanted. HIP currently enrolls about 15,000 employees in its HMO, a customer base worth about $43 million in 2001.
If Tornillo is a one-man platoon of shock troops, Ric Sisser is the life-infusing Red Cross of political campaigns. And HIP Health Plan of Florida is willing to pay an astounding commission to Sisser, its supereffective lobbyist who has helped elect many a public servant in Miami-Dade County since the early Eighties. A state examination of the company's books in August 2000 revealed that HIP paid Sisser "more than a million dollars in a year," according to Belinda Miller, lead attorney for the Florida Department of Insurance. The money was Sisser's cut of the insurance premiums he'd helped the company obtain. "It sounded like a lot to us," Miller remarks. "We did not let them pay that last [check to Sisser for $121,000]." The exorbitant compensation disturbed school board member Marta Perez so much when she heard about it that she returned two $500 checks to Sisser that he contributed to her 2002 re-election campaign. "I called and asked him [about his fee], and he said, It came in with the low bid, so who cares how much they paid me,'" Perez remembers. (Sisser's office advised he was out of town last week and could not be reached for comment.)
HIP Health Plan of Florida will need its heavy lifters more than ever for this new sales pitch because of the company's erratic financial fortunes in the past couple of years. A year ago the Department of Insurance was going through the books at the company's offices in Hollywood and threatening to put it in receivership. It likely would have died a horrible, lingering death had Scott not swooped in two months later with a $40-million buyout offer to its original parent company in New York, where financial difficulties also were extreme. Steven Scott, of Boca Raton and Durham, North Carolina, has been on a bit of a buying spree, in fact, collecting four failing HMOs in Florida in the past year (plus the customer base of a fifth). Scott has infused these companies with huge amounts of cash and will eventually consolidate them into a monster health care empire that will rival national health insurers, such as Aetna and Humana, currently operating in Florida. Whether the ambitious plan to bring about 500,000 customers under one roof will turn out to be madness or genius isn't yet clear. "It's a big gamble, but the strategy is good," Scott told Florida Trend in May. The Miami-Dade school district isn't as willing to gamble.
The school board paid benefits consultant William M. Mercer, Inc., $275,000 to shepherd the district through a challenging restructure of its health plans, owing to changes in the industry that have occurred since the district's last major bid five years ago. With rising health care and prescription drug costs, company mergers, and huge financial losses in recent years by Florida HMOs, the challenge is to find companies that can provide acceptable service for reasonable prices. HIP's 1997 to 2001 contract with the school district is one of the factors previous company executives had blamed for the HMO's troubles, because the company was locked into a pricing scheme that failed to take into account industry inflation in the past few years. Outrageous fees to lobbyists, numerous contributions to political campaigns, and lucrative executive perks may also have played a role in the company's near demise before Scott.
To make the numbers work this time around, HIP's prices will have to go up. The school board was paying $188.53 per employee two years ago and $238.87 this year. The new rate would be $254.43. That, and the uncertainty of HIP's long-term financial viability, led the consultants to recommend against the insurance provider. "We would like to point out that the pricing ... is in excess of other competitive quotations, and that the Board must remain diligent in monitoring HIP's financial condition," consultant Lew Yeouze wrote in a June 26 letter to Scott Clark, head of the district's Risk and Benefits Management Office. Sherman Henry, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, the union local that represents the school district's custodians, bus drivers, and cafeteria workers, puts it more bluntly: "HIP's rates are sky high, and quite frankly we don't think they will be in the insurance business much longer. It's strictly economics here. I have no other agenda. We can't agree with that nonsense that Tornillo is putting forth."
Henry represents one of the handful of labor unions and employee organizations that sit on the Fringe Benefits Council, an advisory board that suggests insurance plans to the superintendent and the school board. He's especially unhappy with Tornillo's plan to finance a four percent salary increase by taking the money from the dollars available to employees for extra benefits (the "extra" amount varies depending on the cost of the medical plan an employee chooses). Henry figures this move would cost his members $41.08 per month that they would normally use for benefits such as dental and vision plans.
In a July 10 meeting, Superintendent Cuevas told Tornillo he would recommend two major insurers to the school board, and neither one was going to be HIP. He also said he would not recommend the less-insurance-for-more-salary proposal. Tornillo told the superintendent that was unacceptable to the union and, according to Henry, threatened to "bring the entire process to a halt." Some of the other unions back Tornillo's proposals at least partially because UTD is the largest and most politically powerful union in South Florida. A review of the minutes of the last several Fringe Benefits Council meetings clearly shows that Tornillo is far and away its most influential member. He has used that dominance to keep HIP Health Plan of Florida in the running despite the reservations of consultants, staff, and some other unions.
The union claims its motivation is simply to accommodate employees who want to stay with a familiar health insurance company, since United Healthcare, the school district's other current major insurer with about 22,000 customers, won't be part of the new health plan. Why make the entire workforce of 39,000 have to choose another provider? Tornillo asks. "[HIP] currently covers 15,000 of our employees," he says. "They have the right to make the decision about whether they want to continue using HIP." Tornillo admits that lobbyist Sisser does "pro bono work for us" in the area of legislation and politics, but contends that the union's position on HIP has nothing to do with the money Sisser stands to make from the deal. "Ric Sisser's arrangements with HIP are his business and not the business of the union," he stonily proclaims. Asked how much that free work might be worth if the union was paying Sisser, Tornillo replies, "I have no idea, and I'm not about to speculate."
But it looks as though UTD already is winning on the public-relations front through a monthly radio show on WMBM-AM (1490), press conferences, letter-writing campaigns, and demonstrations that present insurance negotiations and a salary increase as a package deal. The school board is in a weak position to argue that it doesn't have the money for salary increases. The district, through the highly publicized foolishness of Cuevas and the school board, is perceived in the community as a mismanaged bureaucracy saddled with politicians eager to waste money on questionable land deals, lawsuits, and pet projects. So how could it possibly deny teachers their two bits?
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What will probably happen is that the school district will contract with the consensus favorites Cigna and Humana, plus HIP on the side for those employees willing to pay higher premiums for continuity's sake. There will be a compromise of some kind on the salary increase. Perhaps the money will come from a different source or a combination of sources. The scuttlebutt among administrators and board members is that it won't matter if HIP is one of the insurance choices, because employees won't pick it. Clark says HIP is the most expensive HMO offering, about $26 per month more expensive than its closest competitor. "At the end of the day, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other," he concludes. "I think not many people will enroll in it, and it may kind of die its own death."
In political parlance this is called picking your battles. What helps Tornillo's argument is Sisser's long history of contributing to and arranging fundraisers for school board members. He's done it for Betsy Kaplan more than once, and for many previous board members. Several school system insiders say Sisser helped Perla Tabares Hantman hold on to the coveted chairmanship of the school board for a second year by convincing the favorite for the job, Kaplan, not to accept it. Last November it was Kaplan who nominated Hantman for the chair. Sisser helped Manty Sabates Morse collect about $11,000 at a fundraiser he set up for her this past March 1. Sisser himself wrote a $500 check, plus another $500 from his company, Employee Relations Services.
Frank Cobo, a board member elected in June, made a big deal in his campaign out of Sisser's and UTD's support for his opponent Jacqueline Pepper, because the price for that support was her hearty endorsement of the union's position. But will the politically savvy Cobo find it difficult to say no when he gets a call from his old friend and former Miami mayor David Kennedy, also a HIP lobbyist? The potential vote of newly appointed board member Frank Bolaños is a an X factor, but, interestingly, he once worked for HIP before landing his current job at BellSouth.
But anything can happen to change the balance of power in the weeks before the school board meeting August 22. Tornillo isn't making any public guesses about the outcome. "I have no way of knowing," he maintains. "We'll have some meetings in the next couple of weeks. Maybe I'll find out then."


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Many years ago, I took a girlfriend to Bermuda. There we met a lecherous English playboy married to what turned out to be a fabulously wealthy daughter of really old money. We figured this out when we accepted their invitation to lunch, at their cottage, on their island, in Paget Sound. Over lunch, Peter the Playboy inquired as to what I did. I said I was a floor trader on a commodity exchange. I expected this to be well received--I was only 25 and it seemed rather dashing. It wasn't.
Peter said. "I never really had much respect for you guys. I mean, the only thing you do is stand around trying to make a buck."
This from the mouth of a gigolo, no less.
He caught me flat-footed. Up to that point, all prior conversations on bucks had to do with quantity--not quality. I'd never distinguished between good and bad bucks.
True, I'd profited from hurricanes and floods. I'd also gotten killed being short during hurricanes and floods, selling farmers insurance in case their crops got wiped out. Net/net, a wash, I figured.
I had no snappy reply for him then, but his implicit premise got under my skin. I reasoned that society does not let you do much of anything unless society thinks you're contributing to its well being. Virtually anything that's legal has some rationale predicated upon benefiting the "greater good." You gamble in a licensed casino, in theory, because it provides entertainment to a beleaguered public--and at those prices, it better. Business can lend money at high rates--but only up to a point--after which they arrest you for loan sharking. (The government will tell you at what rate of interest that distinction occurs.) Same with drugs, which is absolutely one of the most profitable industries in the history of the world. Society decides which drugs you can sell and how they are dispensed; anything outside the boundary results in time served. You're allowed to do all of these things provided they contribute to the grail of the greater good. Years later, I found out economists call this function, "utility."
Given that line of thinking, I thought I must be contributing something to the greater good.
Capital markets work on the same principle. If I was making money, I must have been providing some service society thinks is valuable. What was I doing that deserved an economic return?
The answer, I believe, has to do with the nature of the capital markets themselves. They are a vast collection of discontinuous preferences, or "utility functions."
Markets, when deconstructed, are a never-ending series of transactions. Buyer meets seller and price is discovered. Next transaction, please! But anyone who has been on the front lines can tell you the process is rarely that clean. It's noisy; a constant series of mismatches between buyers and sellers based on the participants' respective differences in time horizon, balance sheet, outlook, asset flows, leverage, bond covenants, gamma, net exposure, VAR, allocation mandates, convexity, and so on, ad infinitum. And that's before we get to exogenous shocks.
Even a cursory glance at a chart of anything will show periods of congestion, interspersed with sudden, sharp accelerations or declines. These are occasioned by mismatches in liquidity.
These liquidity mismatches do not happen simply on a transactional basis. They can happen over much broader time horizons with large asset flows. Assets flowing into growth stocks, to choose one example, routinely push valuations past supportable levels to accommodate investors' inclinations (occasionally, manic compulsions) to buy. There are structural limitations on shorting in many of the world's larger asset pools, which also create liquidity imbalances.
The way our free market system works is that it encourages capital to take advantage of these mismatches in ways that tend to limit the collateral damage. The mismatches exist because there are disparate preferences in the market place. Put simply, to function smoothly, markets need sellers when everyone wants to buy and buyers when everyone wants to sell. In regulated markets, the opportunities are fairly well controlled. In unregulated markets, you can do almost anything that doesn't involve a physical exchange of gunfire.
Of course, I didn't figure all this out back then. I just knew I was contributing to the liquidity in the cotton market. As a profession, it was lacking in the warm-glow-at-night dimension. Still, the hours were good, and I was my own boss.
Years later, after I had become involved in, and shortly after we completed the sale of, TASS Research to Tremont Advisers (now Tremont Capital Management Inc., Rye, N.Y.*), (Please read the 11-page disclaimer at the bottom of the website, which says you can't sue me even if I tell you to pour PCBs on your cornflakes in the morning.), my partner at the time decided to put out a "white paper" stating the statistical and intellectual arguments for hedge funds. The paper we put out, titled "The Case for Hedge Funds," has been downloaded over 30,000 times from HedgeWorld.com.
I took on the task of writing the section on why hedge funds make money, and came to regret it. After weeks and weeks of missed deadlines, I understood why one kind of fund or another made money, but I had no unifying theme. They all seemed to approach it differently. I finally turned in something that danced around the core of the issue, explaining how, but not why the funds made money.
But I couldn't let go of it. The Saturday morning after I submitted my piece, I turned my attention in a different direction. I'd been focusing on the funds. I looked instead at the markets themselves. Virtually all of the funds were capturing some mismatch between buyer and seller, albeit in different markets. There were distressed funds buying what corporate bond funds were mandated to sell because a company's rating had slipped. There were convert funds buying a company's convertible based not on its credit but the volatility of its stock. There were risk arbs that would buy your holdings in the target months ahead of the closing of an announced deal, freeing up your capital and taking the risk that the transaction wouldn't be consummated off your hands. There were fixed-income arbitrage funds buying mortgage pools and allowing homeowners to lock in a rate, and special situation funds buying stub equities nobody else wanted.
As I cycled through the list of hedge fund strategies, it occurred to me that various funds used different advantages to capture their excess returns. These could range from cheaper transaction costs to superior information to structural anomalies. But, in all cases, they were being paid for providing the same economic function: supplying liquidity in the form of risk capital to the world's capital and derivative markets.
The system breaks down when it's not liquid. I recently saw a presentation by the Deputy Minister of Finance of Mexico. One of the points he made is that they are trying to increase the liquidity in their stock markets so they need more short sellers and more leverage. Markets offer a return to participants that provide liquidity with sufficient skill.
Derivatives don't work without risk capital because the function of a derivative is the transference of risk. A farmer has to go to the bank to borrow money to buy seed and pay workers. It's going to be a while before his crop comes in, and he has no idea what price it's going to fetch when it does, but right now cotton's going for 68 cents a pound and at that price, he can turn a profit. Wouldn't it be nice to have some kind of deal where he could sell his crop at the current price, but not have to deliver the cotton until it's out of the ground 10 months from now? Now you have a derivatives contract; a futures contract, to be precise, and all derivatives are built as a means to transfer risk.
All you need now is someone to sell it to: that could be a risk-averse natural buyer, who doesn't want to take the chance of having to pay a higher price for cotton next year, but usually it's a speculator. Who else would want to buy next year's cotton crop for 68 cents?
If he can't find a natural buyer or a speculator, the farmer has to ask the bank to speculate on next year's cotton prices - an experience not unlike asking them to lend money so he can bet on Villanova plus 6- 1/2 in the NCAA semi-finals.
What does the speculator want? Simple: he wants a discount.
That discount, (or premium, as the case may be), is an edge. It's how the whole business works.
Most hedge funds do not derive their returns from the creation of "alpha," as it's commonly understood. At least, not the way I see it. "Alpha," in common investor parlance, bespeaks money management "genius at work." In my experience, hedge funds derive the bulk of their returns from the systematic collection of "edges"--rewards they collect in return for the provision of liquidity. Buying a mis-priced bond or an unloved small-cap. Providing bridge financing to a triple-C credit or buying an illiquid trade claim. But that involves the systematic taking of risk, and that's the utility of most hedge funds. This is more than a trifling semantic distinction. Investors are not well served by mistaking perspiration for inspiration.
Now, these are sweeping statements. Not all funds exploit "edges," as I've defined them, and "alpha" does exist. Some funds are earning their returns be being canny investors, and not simply by being liquidity providers. But it's a question that demands an answer. Why does a given fund make money? Absent a persuasive answer, my money goes elsewhere. My personal preference is to invest with providers of liquidity who do so with uncommon skill.
Of course I want a brilliant investor managing my money, but genius has its limits.
And what I want is more than just the fastest driver on the track.
I want the fastest car.
I want an edge.
*TASS Research is the information and research unit of Tremont Capital Management Inc., Rye, N.Y., which is a minority investor in and strategic partner of HedgeWorld.
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Discussion in 'Okie Memorial Area' started by Zonny, Jul 9, 2013.
Holy cow. This is awful.
^^^ This!
I just asked for this thread to be sticked.
If true, he's sitting down & tearing it up with some former GT'ers.
RIP mayor Mark.
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I had a sick feeling when we weren't given good news after the biopsy.
NO!!!!!! I really hope this isn't true.
We sure have lost some good ones recently
Man I hate hearing this. He was one of the few good humans. God bless his family and God rest his soul.
Okie was one in a million, I've been on quite a few message boards and haven't come across or ever plan to come across anyone like Okie ever again. It's all text and electrons, but after being around and reading his post, you knew without a doubt, he had a good heart. I'll miss him a lot.
Yeah, 6 good ones in the last year alone.
I bet stock in Spam is going to tank.
that man never had a cross word for anybody no matter how they came at him. he was always supportive, or at least civil.
this is just flat out unfair! i don't like anybody and even i liked okie.
He didn't post great revelations, he wasn't a genious, he didn't make a lot of money or change the world. He just had a kind heart, and it showed in his posts. He had a kind and encouraging word for everyone.
SOAB,I hope this ain't true.'08.
Thats what made him special though! The fact that he would rather hurt himself than someone elses feelings, that was just Mark. I honestly think that GT has lost more than a member, I dont think it will ever be the same, almost like a piece of the soul of this place has been cut out.
The words "too soon" come to mind here.
Maybe this should be stickied for a little while (at least until everyone gets a chance to see)?
im just numb , had a few pm's and conversations with the man , even thou i never met him , he was truly a giant of a man not only in size but what made Okie ,Okie was he never ever said a bad word about anyone . the man had the biggest heart . i just dont know what else to say .
Well Damn!
R.I.P Okie.
I knew he fell, and had problems.
I didn't know about a brain tumor.
RIP Okie......


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I love playing with food. What's not to love, right? It's like being a kid again and getting away with something you know you're not really supposed to be doing. Except in this instance, playing with ingredients creates a magical experience that needs to be repeated again and again.
Pumpkin Oatmeal Bars with Chocolate Chips are a win.
Did you know that chocolate chips weren't developed until 1941? 1941! Now, I know people cut up chocolate bars before that, and I'm sure they added the chocolate pieces to a myriad of recipes. But, I just have to say how much easier my life is because of the invention of chocolate chips. That is one ingredient to so many of my chocolate recipes that I am thankful that I don't have to live without. Because I love chocolate. I am a chocolate addict. You heard it here first.
Are you ready for a delightfully inspiring, delicious and melt-in-your-mouth explosion of flavors? Here you go…
First, blend oatmeal and brown sugar:
Add butter to the oatmeal and brown sugar and stir it all together. This is what you'll use to form the bottom layer of the Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Bars.
See? It mixes up nice and holds together loosely. The small amount of butter works perfectly to bind the ingredients and add richness to the dessert without being overly fattening. Just a fourth of a cup in a recipe that easily yields 16 servings.
Dump oatmeal mix into a 9×13 pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray. Press down gently.
Remember I mentioned chocolate chips? Well, go ahead and measure out a good cup of those babies. There's the fat. And chocolatey goodness. Go ahead and make it dark chocolate if it makes you feel better. All She Cooks is totally down with dark chocolate. It absolutely rocks.
Sprinkle those babies around. They don't have to be arranged perfectly, because when you add the next layer, the chocolate chips will float up into the pumpkin and disperse throughout. That way you get chocolate and pumpkin in every bite, which I certainly can't complain about.
Now we're ready for the pumpkin. For this layer, think pumpkin pie. In fact, Pumpkin Chocolate-Chip Oatmeal Bars would be the perfect fall pumpkin seasonal flare. I started lining up pumpkin recipes last fall and I haven't stopped. Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins were among those creations, if that tells you how much I love the combination of pumpkin and chocolate.
You know, whoever thought pumpkin was just for pumpkin pie and that pumpkin pie should be solely for Thanksgiving is missing out.
Pumpkin is versatile, appetizing and oh so delicious. Think Pumpkin Cream Cheese Milkshake, Hearty Winter Squash Soup (with pumpkin), Pumpkin Pie Bagels, and the list goes on.
For the pumpkin layer, mix together 2 cups of pureed pumpkin with sweetened condensed milk, an egg, and seasons. You can use store bought canned pumpkin, but you'll need to adjust the cooking time a little bit and the bars will be a little bit denser.
Pour the pumpkin mixture over the oatmeal and chocolate chip layers.
Bake in an oven preheated to 350 degrees for 33-36 minutes or until pumpkin is firm. Cool just a bit and serve warm or completely cooled off. I served this tasty sweet with a side of vanilla ice cream and it was gone in no time.


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LA Times Profiles Jon Fleischman's Flash Report; Fleischman Admits to Being a Monkey
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Flash Report publisher Jon Fleischman is the subject of a page one story in today's LA Times. And while I wished writer James Rainey took it a bit further, readers of this blog won't be surprised by anything Fleischman had to say. Notably, Fleischman says he's "fair and biased." We disagree on the "fair part." …
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The Los Angeles Times carried a Sunday profile on the three Johns and their influence over the minority party in the California state legislature. The three Johns being John Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, John Kobylt of KFI Radio's "John and Ken Program," and John Fleischman of the Flash Report. Apparently, what constituents…
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I had the misfortune of watching KCET's post State of the State analysis last night. David Lazarus, a brilliant business columnist for the LA Times, and Judy Muller, a professor of journalism at USC and former CBS News correspondent, had the misfortune of being paired with Flash Report's Jon Fleischman. I'll boil down Fleischman's argument…


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Lake Mutagenic
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|Lake Mutagenic
|NNY Sewers, Earth
|First appearance
|"Leela's Homeworld" (4ACV02)
Lake Mutagenic is a toxic, radioactive lake in the NNY Sewers. When non-mutant DNA comes in contact with the liquid within, it is immediately mutated. It is apparently good for fishing and bathing in.
Known victims of the lake:
- "Leela's Homeworld" (4ACV02)
- A rat used to demonstrate the mutagenic properties of the lake.
- In a deleted scene, two rats were used.
- Leela jumped into it but was to her own surprise not mutated.
- Virginia.
- A rat used to demonstrate the mutagenic properties of the lake.
- "The Mutants Are Revolting" (6ACV12)


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I just picked up a Jomox xbase 09 and I'm wondering if it's outs are unbalanced? The manual doesn't specifically say, it simply uses the term "jack plugs." Does anyone know for sure? I would assume the outs are unbalanced, most analog gear is.
The levels are hot on this thing. If my soundcard is switched to unbalanced at the input, I can achieve a -12db signal level with the Jomox's kick drum level knob turned to around 8 – 10 oclock. Is this normal?


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DETROIT - At more than 100 years old, the old McMillian School on West End Street was an eyesore that needed to be demolished.
Ashok Badhwar's Glo Wrecking Co. got the job. However, according to court documents, Badhwar's company knew there was asbestos in the building, but failed to follow safety procedures during demolition and disposal, possibly endangering those who live nearby.
In federal court, Badhwar pled guilty to violating the Clean Air Act. He told Local 4's Kevin Dietz that he did not intentionally spread asbestos, which can cause very dangerous forms of cancer, into the neighborhood where people were living, nor was he trying to save money by skipping the expensive demolition costs. He said simply, his workers messed up.
"My guys made a mistake and I being the owner of the company, I take responsibility," Badhwar said at his Bloomfield Hills home.
He also said there was no danger to families in the neighborhood, because he said no one lives in the area.
"In the school district the families are very far from there," Badhwar said.
That same day, Local 4 talked to Lyn Woston who, with her grandchildren, lives less than 100 yards from the demolition site.
She said she watched the process and worried workers were moving too quickly.
"Didn't spray nothing, didn't let us know what was going on," Woston said.
Woston said she thinks Glo Wrecking skipped the proper asbestos removal procedures because it would have cost Badhwar more money.
"His balance, what he got would be less. That's why he didn't clean it up," Woston said.
Woston isn't the only person living in the danger zone. There are several homes close by where families with children live. Across the street are a church and more homes. Woston said she's worried about the dangerous chemicals and the impact it has on children who play outside.
She said she's glad Badhwar is going to federal court because of the incident, but doesn't think justice will be served. She hopes the judge thinks of the children who may suffer and the families who can't afford to fight for what's right when deciding what to do with the business owner from Bloomfield Hills.
"You can't fight them, how can you fight them? You can't fight a rich person," she said. "If he's rich, he probably won't go to jail. Community service."
Badhwar may not have noticed the families living next door because according to federal documents, he was not on site during the demolition. In fact, no foreman or any employee with experience with asbestos removal was at the property.
When the crews busted up the debris, they loaded it on a truck and headed to a landfill outside of Canton—a landfill that does not accept hazardous material. A Department of Environmental Quality inspector spotted the truck leaving the site and stopped it before it could unload. Tests showed the truck was loaded with asbestos. Still, Badhwar told Local 4 is was all just a misunderstanding.
He said he pled guilty because his "guys made a mistake." He wouldn't comment if he would still take responsibility for their actions if it meant he would have to serve jail time.
On May 3, Badhwar will be back in Detroit, but not doing any demolition work. He will be facing a federal judge who will decide if the misdeeds deserve fines, prison time, or both.
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Lake Shore, the "reality" show that plans to cram eight ethnic caricatures into a house in Toronto and see what happens — assuming, charitably, that there isn't a script — pushes a few Canadian buttons that could use pushing. There's the shrieking hypocrisy of smugly passing judgment on American pop culture while our own is helplessly in thrall of it, for one thing. More importantly, it pokes at our complacency about multiculturalism.
Lake Shore wants to shock us, it seems, by unapologetically throwing stereotypes at us: a young Asian woman is a giggling airhead; a young Jewish woman is loud and all up in your face; a young Italian guy works in construction and behaves suspiciously like an amalgam of all the male characters from Jersey Shore. (That said, I have no idea what stereotypes the Czech, the Lebanese and the Pole are supposed to play off. I was at a Polish wedding recently, and I didn't see a single lesbian botox victim.)
Anyway, people are upset. There's a petition to stop the show being picked up. There are mortified blog posts. Bernie Farber, head of the Canadian Jewish Congress, is understandably aggrieved that Sibel, "the Turk," casually says that she dislikes Jews. Can't blame him, really, and nor would I blame gay people for being upset that "Downtown D," aka "the Albanian," is happy for people to be gay as long as they don't do it anywhere near him (although I'm sure the feeling would be mutual).
"As a nation that has tried so hard to make multiculturalism work, Lake Shore is a large step backward," Andre Mayer wrote this week on the CBC website.
For now, I don't think Lake Shore is a large anything; it hasn't even been picked up by a network. But theoretically speaking, isn't eight people with strongly identified ethnic or religious backgrounds living together less an attack on multiculturalism than a fairly pure expression of it?
"Multiculturalism ensures that all citizens can keep their identities, can take pride in their ancestry and have a sense of belonging," the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website explains. "Acceptance gives Canadians a feeling of security and self-confidence, making them more open to, and accepting of, diverse cultures."
OK, so, Lake Shore isn't going to show anyone being open to or accepting of other people. But do we really imagine such conflicts don't exist in the real Toronto?
In this week's Maclean's, a graduate of the tony, all-girls Havergal College explains that "the only people from our school who went to U of T were Asian" — and that "all the white kids … go to Queen's, Western and McGill." The article explained a growing sense — supported by real, live Asian-Canadians — that Asian students are becoming more and more "segregated from 'mainstream' campus life."
At the 2006 Rogers Cup tennis tournament, spectators waving Croatian flags heckled Canadian Daniel Nestor mercilessly — he was playing a Czech — because Mr. Nestor was born in what's now Serbia. (The Toronto Star bent over backwards not to explain what was going on, noting, uselessly, that he'd been born in Yugoslavia.) Mr. Nestor said it's "sort of disturbing when you see guys that are that into their native land when they're living in Canada," and I think most Canadians would agree.
Meanwhile, the Serbian White Eagles, Toronto Croatia, Hamilton Croatia and Portugal FC face off against each other in the Canadian Soccer League. That doesn't bother me, particularly, but I don't think any Canadian should be ashamed of finding himself discomfited at the thought.
Most Canadians are justifiably proud of this diverse, peaceable society of ours. But dismissing complaints as troglodytism isn't a solution to the remaining discontent.
An Angus-Reid poll conducted last week found that while 55% of Canadians felt multiculturalism had been good for Canada, 30% felt it had been bad. The traditional mainstream conception of multiculturalism as a "mosaic" was far less popular, at 33%, than the idea that "Canada should be a melting pot," which enjoyed 54% support in the poll. Whether we like multiculturalism or not, many of us have no idea what it was supposed to be in the first place.
I'm not for a second saying this dumbass show is going to change any of that. But breaking taboos can be a very valuable exercise.


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ALYSSA: I grew up in New Hampshire on home cooking, tree climbing & giggles. My mom was always in the kitchen packing lunches, roasting chicken & veggies, baking Christmas cookies or decorating elaborate birthday cakes. My brothers & I were always racing on our bikes, sledding, shooting hoops or playing catch. There has always been a lot of love, laughter, activity & fun in my life. As I've grown into an adult I've continued to live this way – on home cooking(although it's my own now), tree climbing (although there aren't as many in LA to climb) & giggles a plenty!
SHIRLEY: I grew up in Netarts, a small town on the Oregon coast close to Tillamook, which has the famous Tillamook cheese factory. While growing up my mother was always cooking in the kitchen & rarely let me in. Every meal started with ground beef, celery & onions then she would add in beans, rice or pasta. As a kid I didn't like anything my mom cooked & I decided that I was going to do things differently. After hour long bus rides home I would arrive just in time to catch Ducktails with my bag of Doritos. Despite my mom's ground beef dishes I have taken to the kitchen in my own way.


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You receive a warning in the notification area of the task bar telling you that the Windows Firewall is turned off. The warning is displayed as a Windows security alert in Windows XP and in Windows Vista, and as an Action Center message in Windows 7.
|Security alert in Windows XP
|Security alert in Windows Vista
|Action Center message in Windows 7
In Windows XP or in Windows Vista, you double-click the security alert to open the Windows Security Center. The Windows Security Center warns you that the Windows Firewall is turned off. In Windows 7, you click the Action Center message, and then click Open Action Center. The Action Center warns you that Windows Firewall is turned off.


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The past couple of weeks have been pretty interesting. For starters, in that time we have moved into a new building in Redmond. We had been due for a move for some time as we've been growing our staff to support a number of product initiatives. The result was a lot of double-booking of office space, something that runs counter to the long-time Microsoft cultural ideal of one employee, one office (at least for full-timers). It's not too uncommon to double-up contract staff who are only on board for short assignments but we had many, many--some senior--full timers sharing space and it was only a matter of time before we burst our seams. Plus, the space in the building we were in was not very condusive to collaboration. We were basically arranged along two very long parellel hallways with no "common space" for impromptu meetings or just hanging out.
Our new space is quite a radical change. Perhaps it was just because we were so deprived but I, for one, think it's HUGE. We now have space for everyone (and room to grow) as well as several large open areas stocked with a conference table as well as less formal seating. These spaces also include whiteboards, corkboards and A/V equipment and we've started to use them for many of our previously "closed door" meetings. Each space is more-or-less surrounded by offices of folks from each product team (one for TS, one for FS, etc.) so there's a natural gathering point for team meetings and folks wandering by can catch a glimpse of what's happening. Fortunately the space is partitioned in such as way that we should not have random visitors who might see or hear things they shouldn't. So far, so good. It's far and away the best space I've worked in during my tenure at Microsoft. (Speaking of which, I also celebrated my 10th anniversary with the company over the same weekend that our offices were being moved.)
Coincident with the move was the annoucement of a big reorg within the studio. This had been brewing for quite some time so I think only a few people were caught by suprise. One goal of the change was to align reporting structure with product deliverables to establish a clearer line of authority and responsibility for decisions. (For those of you playing "Business Buzzword Scrabble" I think that last sentence scored a Triple Buzzword Bonus. I thought of going for a Synergy Multplier Bonus but thought that might sound too contrived.) What that meant for me was that I got a new boss. Victor was formerly the studio Development Manager (meaning all the programmers reported to him) and he and I worked together as project leads on FS2004 and FSX. Victor's been around Aces about as long as I've been at Microsoft and is a great guy. (Trivia: he also holds the patent--along with Jason "Pixelpoke" Waskey--for the first version of Autogen.)
And, lest the product team loose momentum, the past two weeks have seen a lot of progress on TS2, most notably the initial audio implementation. Up until now we've been running the game with no sounds. Having them in game really makes a difference and adds to experience immensely. It brings back memories from running trains in Vancouver, BC, back when the project was just getting started. Several of us had the chance to get some instruction in train operations (classroom, simulator and the real thing) north of the border. We all got a chance to drive a GP-9 and practice coupling and uncoupling to cars. For me there were several signature sound experiences that stood out. One was the sound (and feeling!) of throttling up the diesel engine. You really got a sense of the power at your command, even if it was a measily 1500 horsepower in my case. The other memory is of the bang associated with coupling. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about, even if you've only just driven past a rail yard. Our instructor suggested a coupling speed of 4 MPH or less and even that resulting in some big noises. Then at one point he decided we were "babying" the train too much and decided to demonstrate a "hard coupling" at (and I'm guessing) 8-10 MPH. Whoa! So having these sounds in game is really bringing back memories and making the experience really start to take shape.


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Press Release
Henderson Firefighters Benevolent Association Fifth Annual Jeff Mann Memorial Golf Tournament
Published on Thu, May 23, 2013 (10:39 a.m.)
May 22, 2013
Media Contact: Savannah McBride @702.965.1617
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Henderson Firefighters Benevolent Association Fifth Annual
Jeff Mann Memorial Golf Tournament
Event Commemorated Fallen Henderson Professional Fire Fighter, Jeff Mann,
and Raised Funds for Multiple Nonprofit Organizations
(HENDERSON, NV) – On May 10, 2013 at the Wildhorse Golf Club, the Henderson Firefighters Benevolent Association (HFBA) held their Fifth Annual Memorial Golf Tournament to honor Jeff "The Pirate" Mann, a fallen Henderson firefighter.
The HFBA donated a large portion of the money raised at this year's event to the multiple nonprofit organizations they support. The remainder of the funds raised will go towards supporting members of the association and their families when there is an incident of line-of-duty injury or fatality.
Brian Wolfgram, chairman of the HFBA, says, "This year's tournament was one of our most highly attended and very successful. As Henderson firefighters we are proud to commemorate Jeff Mann, and donate to multiple nonprofit organizations throughout the Henderson community."
Jeff Mann Sr., who passed away in 2008 mere months before the first golf tournament was held, was a beloved member of the Henderson Fire Department. His son, Jeff Mann Jr. joined the Henderson Fire Department in 2012, and was overjoyed by the support of both the firefighters and their families who participated in this year's event.
The Henderson Firefighters Benevolent Association
Established in 2006, the Henderson Firefighter's Benevolent Associations primary objective and purpose is to provide charitable assistance to its members, disabled and retired personnel, along with their dependents and their survivors as needed. Further, the association provides charitable assistance to the public who also demonstrates need. For more information on the association, visit www.hfbanv.com.
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Ms. Solomon Schofield is a strong supporter of the Canadian Forces; she served as the Provincial Chair of the Canadian Forces Liaison Council and is currently the Honourary Lieutenant Colonel of 38 Service Battalion. In acknowledgement of her many contributions, she was awarded the prestigious Canadian Forces Medallion for Distinguished Service.
In the 1980s, Ms. Solomon Schofield was Chair of the Board for a 200,000 member crime prevention organization. She travelled throughout North and South America to establish Crime Watch groups. Fluent in English and Spanish, Ms. Solomon Schofield worked with the government of Guayaquil, Ecuador to establish their Crime Watch group and acted as an interpreter. She also hosted a Crime Prevention talk show in Fort Lauderdale, and was twice voted Florida's Crime Prevention Woman of the Year.
Ms. Solomon Schofield received the Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal in 2009, the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal in 2005, and is the Chancellor of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. She was sworn in as Saskatchewan's 21st Lieutenant Governor on March 22, 2012.
Her Honour was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan and was educated at the University of Saskatchewan Regina Campus and The Rae-Vogue School in Chicago, where she earned a degree in Fashion Merchandising. She and her husband Gordon Schofield have a home in the Town of Regina Beach. Their daughter Dr. Whitney Wignall is a pediatric dentist and lives with her husband Simon and their two sons in Maine; their son George Solomon Schofield has a degree in Business Administration and is the Mayor of Regina Beach.
--photo and bio courtesy of the Lieutenant Governor's website
Lieutenant Governors of Saskatchewan
Official Portraits of former Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governors
The Vice-Regal Standard
Government House
The Vice-Regal Salute
The Vice-Regal Post in Saskatchewan
- The Honourable Amede Forget * 1898-1910
- The Honourable George W. Brown * 1910-1915
- The Honourable Sir Richard S. Lake * 1915-1921
- The Honourable Henry W. Newlands * 1921-1931
- The Honourable Hugh E. Munroe * 1931-1936
- The Honourable Archibald P. McNab * 1936-1945
- The Honourable Thomas Miller * February to April 1945 (died in office)
- The Honourable Reginald J.M. Parker * 1945-1948
- The Honourable John M. Uhrich * 1948-1951
- The Honourable William J. Patterson * 1951-1958
- The Honourable Frank L. Bastedo * 1958-1963
- The Honourable Robert L. Hanbidge * 1963-1970
- The Honourable Stephen Worobetz * 1970-1976
- The Honourable George Porteous * 1976-1977
- The Honourable C. Irwin McIntosh * 1978-1983
- The Honourable Frederick W. Johnson * 1983-1988
- The Honourable Dr. Sylvia O. Fedoruk * 1988-1994
- The Honourable John E.N. Wiebe * 1994-2000
- The Honourable Dr. Lynda M. Haverstock * 2000-2006
- The Honourable Dr. Gordon Barnhart * 2006-2012
- The Honourable Vaughn Solomon Schofield * 2012-present**Prior to 1905, the Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories governed, from Regina, much of present day Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Nunavut and Northwest Territories.
The Qu'Appelle Gallery, located in the Saskatchewan Legislative Building, is a display of portraits of former Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governors.
Sadly, the Legislative Building has eliminated this gallery from their tour, nor can this magnificent display of artwork be viewed any longer online.
The standard is flown from the Legislative Building when the Lieutenant Governor is present for the opening of the Legislature, the granting of royal assent, and the prorogation of the session; the standard also flies at Government House in Regina where the office of the Lieutenant Governor is located when he/she is in the office and on the vehicle that transports the Lieutenant Governor on official engagements.
The standard is never lowered to half-mast. On the death of a lieutenant governor, the standard is taken down, until a successor is sworn in.
The standard of the Lieutenant Governor has precedence over any other flags, including the national flag of Canada. The Queen's Personal Canadian flag has precedence over the Lieutenant Governor's standard; the Lieutenant Governor's personal standard will have precedence over the Governor General's personal standard when the Governor General is a guest of the Province. The Lieutenant Governor being The Queen's representative at the head of the Province, the Lieutenant Governor's standard has precedence over the standard of any member of the Royal Family, other than The Queen.
The Vice-Regal Salute, the Salute to the Lieutenant Governor, is a musical greeting and a mark of respect. It is performed officially in Canada in the presence of the Lieutenant Governor.
It is played at the opening of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly, military march-pasts and other events attended by the Lieutenant Governor. Because it is a salute, the audience does not sing either of the abbreviated anthems when the Vice-Regal Salute is played. It is played when the Vice Regal Party reaches the dias in the case of ceremonial functions and when they reach thier seat in the case of other events.
The Vice-Regal Salute is composed of the first six bars of the Royal Anthem, "God Save The Queen", followed by a short version (the first four and the last four bars) of the National Anthem, "O Canada".
The Vice-Regal Salute was approved by Her Majesty The Queen in 1968.


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HIGGINBOTHAM, TEXAS. Higginbotham is on Farm Road 1755 near the New Mexico border in northwest Gaines County. The town was originally the headquarters of the Higginbotham Ranch, purchased by the brothers R. W. and J. M. Higginbotham in the early 1900s. In 1914 the brothers also founded a prominent business, the Higginbotham-Bartlett Company, located in Seagraves. Higginbotham first appeared on county maps in the 1960s and reported a population of 150 in 1964. Students could attend either Armstrong or Jones schools. Higginbotham maintained a population of 210 from the 1970s to 1990.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:Gaines County Historical Survey Committee, The Gaines County Story, ed. Margaret Coward (Seagraves, Texas: Pioneer, 1974).
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whatnauts, I figured as much. I was going to post it today, but decided that I'll most likely post it tomorrow for you. :-)
For a change, I wasn't hinting at a huge size, only something in the 40-80 size.
Pat, I have to laugh- you, the experienced puzzle solver found this one an easy one to solve. I wonder why. LOLOLArdy, I would have removed it but of course, because it was such a quickie to solve, by the time I realized my mistake, there were too many solves so I had to leave it. Mandy, I hope you were laughing at Pat.PJ, there are different sizes which the smallest can be. Apparently, that's the first size that came up (there's always a size...whether you select a size or not), and I think I've seen some that were as small as 6 pieces but I'm not absolutely sure about that. Anyway, if you've created puzzles with different sized images, you should have noticed that the sizes can be different that you select from. They're not always the same. Mr. Bugosi, absolutely! I doubt that anyone makes the leaderboard when there's only one piece....making it exceedingly hard to be in first place.Mary, one of these fine days you'll make someone's leaderboard if you haven't already. ;-)whatnauts, you wouldn't be hinting about a larger size, would you? LOLOK, I'll see what I can do....but it may not be tomorrow.
I generally start solving the smallest puzzles first and then move on to bigger ones, so it was logical that I start with this one. It's beautiful and a shame it's so small. I think you should repost it sometime soon, with a 'normal' amount of pieces. LOL
Doing the Extra-Small Friday Flower dance! It's very discreet. I love tiny puzzles! 0:20 Thanks, Wendy!
One piece would have been a challenge............
Wendy - yes it is fun. Very interesting composition and fun combination of colors. How did you manage 9 - I thought it started with 12? One day I had posted an 88 size, and found it in the small section - with sizs 12 and several solves. So there it stayed. (I've paid more attention since)PJ
That happened to someone else a few days ago. Easy to do. But it's fun to have a really small one once in awhile. Don't want them for a steady diet though. Lovely fragrant Friday flower. Thank you.
Aha! I was wondering about that!!! :-))) Cool puzzle--and kinda easy to solve... LOL!
Oopsie! Well, what the heck! Nine pieces is/are better than one piece. LOL!


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Craig, Meyer lead WDC track team at Rainmaker
Rachel Craig captured two firsts and Logan Meyer won his fourth straight shot put title Thursday in the Rainmaker Invitational at Staples.
Craig put the shot 33-9.5 and won the high jump by with a personal best effort of five feet.
Craig took second in the discus with a toss of 91-9 and was runner-up in the 100 hurdles with a 17.46.
Meyer's 46-11 throw won the shot put. He placed third in the discus with a 111-3.50.
Taking individual seconds for the Wolverines were Charley Cantrell, Sarah Craig, Emma Schmitz, Courtney Dumpprope, Autumn Jahnke, Brody Wangsness and Will Eliason. Cantrell was runner-up in the 1,600 and 3,200 events with times of 5:49.98 and 12:44.84. Sarah Craig was second in the 200 dash with a 29.59, Dumpprope ran second in the 100 dash with a personal best time of 13.88, Schmitz challenged for top honors in the 800 with a 2:54.92, Jahnke went 6-0 in the pole vault, Wangsness did a personal best 19.59 in the 110 hurdles and Eliason was the No. 2 finisher in both the 800, with a personal best of 2.26.90 and the 1,600 with a personal best 5.12.22.
Shaye Blessing joined Sarah Craig in giving the Wolverines third-place individual finishes. Blessing went 5-5 in the pole vault and ran a 55.48 in the 300 hurdles while Craig ran a personal best 14.03 in the 100 dash.
Bertha-Hewitt/Verndale's Kathryn VanDenheuvel dominated the jumping events with firsts in the triple (28-2) and long (12-8.50) and a runner-up in the high (4-10).
BHV's Dylan Templin won the 400 with a 56.53 time and took second in the 200 with a 25.27.
The WDC girls' 4x100 relay team sprinted to a runner-up finish of 56.46 while the WDC boys' 4x400 ran second with a 4:09.97. The WDC girls posted a third in the 4x200 raced with a 2:01.55 while the WDC boys ran a 1:49.17 in the 4x200.
Rainmaker Track & Field Results
Staples-Motley 110.50, Wadena-Deer Creek 76.50, Bertha-Hewitt/Verndale 31, Parkers Prairie 31, Pine River-Backus 6
Staples-Motley 115.50, Pine River-Backus 62, Wadena-Deer Creek 37, Bertha-Hewitt/Verndale 36.50, Parkers Prairie 9


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Another month, another year – and another dramatic victory for the East Syracuse-Minoa boys basketball team.
Just as the Spartans sank Fulton with a last-second overtime basket back on Dec. 18, it did the same thing at Mexico exactly three weeks later, pulling out a 65-63 decision over the Tigers to rise above the .500 mark, improving to 6-5 on the season.
With the game tied 63-63, ESM had the last shot of regulation. The shot was off – but just before the buzzer sounded, Quadear Mike swooped in and put home the rebound for the winning two points.
It was just the last part of a memorable night for Mike. The ESM guard used his speed and skill to blaze through Mexico's defense, earning 27 points.
All of them would be needed in a close contest where neither side could get away. ESM, fresh off its big 59-58 road win at Bishop Ludden three nights earlier, stayed patient as Mexico eased in front early and took a 31-28 lead to halftime.
Throughout the third quarter, every time the Tigers tried to get away, the Spartans would answer, normally with Mike and another aggressive drive to the basket.
When Mike wasn't converting, Sharif Nero put together 12 points and Steve Lothridge added seven points. Mexico countered with Tim Forbes pouring in 23 points, as Patrick Twiss (15 points) and Dana Rowe (11 points) helped out.
Meanwhile, back at ESM, the girls Spartans upped its mark to 6-4, pounding through Mexico 66-39.
It all got settled early. Forcing the Tigers into all kinds of mistakes, ESM shut out Mexico in the first quarter, racing to a 23-0 lead and adding to the margin the rest of the night.
Arnela Mesic set a season mark with 20 points, while Chelsea Medler and Becky Teschler picked up 12 points apiece. Olivia Luciani had nine points and Alex Cassella gained six points.
Both ESM teams will try to keep its winning mark in games next week against Cortland and Chittenango.
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Park Space Requirement Dismays Developers
"As details emerged Monday of new requirements for developers to provide land or pay fees for park acquisition and improvements, leaders of development groups said the city was on the verge of imposing an unfair burden on their industry."
"A draft ordinance reviewed by a City Council committee Monday would require a developer who built 100 houses to provide 2.6 acres for park space or pay an $80,000 fee."
"The ordinance, which city officials hope to have in place by Oct. 1, would be one of the most significant new regulatory requirements in years for Houston's politically powerful development industry. Leaders of single-family home and apartment development organizations said they supported the measure in principle but were concerned about some details."
"Edward E. Taravella, chairman of the Greater Houston Builders Association's development council, said the city should consider counting yards attached to single-family homes toward the parks and open space requirements. Otherwise, he said, the measure would discourage development of single-family houses with yards."


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New Year's resolutions to lose weight or get healthier may be long forgotten, but spring, with its beautiful flowers and warmer weather, is the perfect time to rejuvenate those resolutions by getting active outdoors.
Most of us know that regular physical activity can help prevent heart disease and type 2 diabetes, reduce the risk of some cancers, help you maintain a healthy weight; strengthen muscles and bones and improve your mental health. Regardless, most of us do not get the exercise we need.
Thursday, March 19
Carroll County 4-H, in partnership with Carroll County Schools and Champions for a Drug Free Carroll County will host a parent night called "Truth and Consequences," a program geared toward parents to show the harsh truth of children making poor choices and getting involved in drugs and alcohol. This event will be held at 7 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 507 Fifth Street with special guest Mike Bosse. Open to the public.
If they are sad, share their sorrow. Romans 12:15
As an adult, I realize that life is far more complicated than I once thought. The naive little farm boy from Trimble County had the veil ripped off his eyes a long time ago. There is real sorrow in this world. I look around and see so many of my dear friends dealing with things like broken or strained relationships, the death of a loved one, a romantic breakup, or a family separation or divorce... All these cause great sorrow.
Hymn sing March 22
Sanders Baptist Church will be hosting its monthly hymn sing on Sunday, March 22, at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
General Butler State Resort Park, Friends of Butler and the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce hosted a networking event March 10, called "Business After Hours" at the park. Community organizations and business owners were invited to attend.
The pirates are coming to Carroll County High School March 20-21, as "The Pirate of Penzance" will take the Carroll County High School stage.
Director Jennifer Beach said the capability of this group was right to revive the performance, which was last performed in 2010. It takes a special performer for the role of Mabel, who will be played by Kathryn Gillespie, Beach said. The cast loves the play and has been very enthusiastic, even researching roles on their own.
Thursday, March 12
River Run Gallery Fun Art Studio, Main Street in Carrollton will host a benefit student art show/reception, 6-8 p.m. The public is invited to attend and vote for their favorite by putting money in a corresponding cup. When the show is over at the end of March, they will announce the winner. The Carroll County Animal Support will receive all funds raised. For more information call (502) 523-0663.
Carrollton Lions Club meets at noon at General Butler State Resort Park.
Concert held at the Apostolic Pentecostal Church of the Living God
Although grace is free, hope recently cost me $8 on Etsy, the website where people sell their handiwork.
For $8 I bought a wire bracelet that forms the word "hope," which I've been wearing all week.
Lately, hope has been my thing. I was talking with a tattoo artist for a story I'm working on and told him if I ever got a tattoo it would be the word hope in simple script, lower-case lettering, written very small, with a period at the end. (hope.)
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