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Lady Gaga to Open and Close the Grammys?
The BBC seems to know something that the Grammys don't. The British media outlet reported that Lady Gaga will both open and close the 54th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 12.
This is the first we've heard of Gaga doing a performance at the Grammys this year. She has not been announced as an official performer yet, much less been confirmed as the show's bookends, either.
The BBC did not say where they got the news -- it hasn't been confirmed on the Grammys website, either. We did some sleuthing and can't find anything else that looks official regarding this news. So either the BBC scooped everyone or got some bad information.
Gaga rocked the Grammys stage last February and she did open and close the MuchMusic Awards in Canada in June of 2011, so she is no stranger to pulling double duty. However, this would be (mother) monstrous news in the Grammys world and we'd expect a huge announcement to surround this information. PopCrush would love to see her perform twice, since we know she'd craft two completely different set ups and outfits. But there's no guarantee that she will perform even once.
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Ferling returns after World Cup victory in India
IT IS back to the normal teenage life tomorrow for Holly Ferling.
The 17-year-old will meet with teachers at Kingaroy State High School on Friday to discuss how to catch up on school work after an extended summer break.
That doesn't sound too out of the ordinary but Ferling heads into her final year of schooling on the back of helping Australia win a sixth ICC Women's World Cup in India.
Ferling arrived back in Australia this morning with captain Jodie Fields from Toowoomba and was still on a high after Sunday night's final victory over West Indies.
The international rookie missed out on a place in the Australian team for the final after an impressive start to her ODI career, but loved the experience of being part of a World Cup-winning squad.
"It's unbelievable. It's something that I guess you dream of as an aspiring cricketer," she said.
"The World Cup is what you want to play in and to win it was amazing."
The developing fast bowler has no domestic or international commitments for the rest of the summer and could play again for Kingaroy Services.
Her attention will shortly turn to netball season as her Wide Bay Thundercats team prepares for the state league season.


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Police are asking for the public's help in locating a suspect in a sexual assault.
According to the Asheville Police Department the sexual assault occurred on or about Dec. 16 in the area of the Ramada Inn on Smokey Park Highway.
The suspect is a white male, approximately 50 years of age, around six feet tall, with sandy brown hair and bushy eyebrows, said police.
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Rocky Mountain Bicycles is no stranger to trying new things. In 2009, they resurrected the venerable Altitude line; the name gracing a 140mm travel dual suspension bike. In 2010 this morphed into a 29er version with 120mm of travel. In 2009, the Altitude was described as "XC Marathon". In 2010, the 29er version was also identified as "XC Marathon" but with technical ability pretensions. The 2013 iteration of the Altitude is a rework, is now graced with the "trail" moniker (whatever that term means) and among other things gains travel to 150mm (front and rear) and simplifes the product line; doing away with the 29″ and 26″ wheel size and presenting just the 27.5″ size.
Overwhelmed? The Altitude is shiftier than greased lightning with even more innovations like the Ride-9 system (convertible seat tube angle, head tube angle, BB drop and suspension tweaks using a 9 position "chip"); tweaks to its Straight Up geometry and custom tuning of its ETS – based Smoothlink suspension. Rocky was kind enough to put on a media clinic where I had a chance to take the Altitude MSL on some of my home Whistler trails to get a flavour for how it all comes together.
To summarize, Altitude demonstrates how shockingly versatile bikes are becoming. Jack of all trades, master of none it clearly is NOT. Superb climber, more than above average descender; I'd have to bandy trivialities to find a weak spot. The price for the carbon version certainly reflects anticipated consumer lust but look for (relative) value in the alloy versions. Read on for more…
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I'm 160 lbs, 5'11″ and have had over 15 years experience riding bikes in North Vancouver, Squamish, Whistler, the Chilcotins and many other areas in B.C. and Alberta. I've also made many bike trips to Switzerland, Utah, Washington, Oregon, California and the Yukon (for example) so I've had some experience biking in a variety of terrain. My bias is towards pedalling up and unlike many people who learned to ride bikes on North Shore trails, I actually enjoy riding (and sometimes bushwhacking) uphill.
My personal bikes are a Santa Cruz Tallboy, Pivot Mach 5, and a Specialized Demo 7. I've had very little experience in the 650b category (going to buck Rocky and not call it 27.5) and, in that tire size have ridden the Rocky Mountain Altitude, the Norco Range and the Norco Sight but only for short rides. I am not sponsored by Rocky and have no commercial association with Rocky.


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Kelly lands in Eagles' nestStaff and Wire Report
January 16. 2013 11:20PM
Chip Kelly is going to the NFL after all.
In a stunning reversal, the Philadelphia Eagles have hired the New Hampshire native to be their new head coach, replacing Andy Reid, the team announced Wednesday.
Kelly, a former Manchester Central High School and University of New Hampshire player and assistant coach who spent the past four seasons as head coach at the University of Oregon, on Jan. 6 had issued a statement taking himself out of the running to become an NFL head coach after meeting with the Eagles and Cleveland Browns.
The Eagles, in a press release announcing his hiring, simply said, "Kelly continued to evaluate the opportunity to work for the Eagles in the NFL" after initially backing away.
Kelly, who backed out of an agreement to take over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the last minute a year ago, will become the first New Hampshire native to become an NFL head coach.
The Eagles will officially introduce Kelly, 49, during a news conference today at 1 p.m. at the NovaCare Complex.
Kelly was expected to arrive from Oregon around 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, where he was to be met by Eagles general manager Howie Roseman and team president Don Smolenski and driven to owner Jeffrey Lurie's Wynnewood, Pa., mansion for dinner.
"Chip Kelly will be an outstanding head coach for the Eagles," Lurie said. "He has a brilliant football mind. He motivates his team with his actions as well as his words. He will be a great leader for us and will bring a fresh, energetic approach to our team."
This will be Kelly's first job in the NFL of any kind.
Kelly joined the Oregon staff in 2007, became head coach in 2009 and compiled a 46-7 record in his four seasons leading the Ducks. His fast-paced offense averaged 49.6 points per game in 2012.
Kelly also has a defensive background. A defensive back during his playing days at UNH, he coached linebackers and safeties at Columbia in 1991 and served as defensive coordinator at Johns Hopkins in 1993.
At Oregon, Kelly has almost exclusively run a no-huddle offense that often makes use of the read-option that is beginning to take hold in the NFL. In fact, many NFL coaches, including New England's Bill Belichick, have consulted with him and subsequently installed many of his designs into their offensive systems.
Born in Dover and raised in Manchester, Kelly graduated from Central High in 1981 following a stellar athletic career with the Little Green. He served as captain of the football, hockey, and track and field teams, earning all-state honors in football and track.
He played football at the University of New Hampshire under head coach Bill Bowes from 1981-84 and began his coaching career at Manchester Central as an assistant to Bob Leonard in 1985.
After starting his collegiate coaching career by joining fellow former UNH player and Manchester high school assistant coach Sean McDonnell at Columbia, Kelly followed McDonnell back to their alma mater in 1992, becoming UNH's running backs coach. He returned to UNH after his lone year at Johns Hopkins.
In 1999, when McDonnell succeed Bowes as UNH's head coach, Kelly took over the offense as coordinator and quarterbacks coach, and steadily built an unstoppable scoring machine.
In 2006, the Wildcats ranked second nationally in scoring offense, their 35.3 points per game topping the Atlantic 10. Junior quarterback Ricky Santos won the Walter Payton Award as the most outstanding player in FCS football, and senior wide receiver David Ball became FCS football's all-time leader in touchdown receptions, surpassing Jerry Rice's mark of 50 touchdown catches.
In 2007, Kelly became offensive coordinator at the University of Oregon. He succeeded Mike Bellotti as the Ducks' head coach two seasons later.
Nick Fierro of the Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., and Kevin Gray of the New Hampshire Union Leader contributed.


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Polk County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to approve changes in the county's development regulations covering mining.
BARTOW | Polk County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to approve changes in the county's development regulations covering mining.
The changes were proposed by county planners to fix flaws in the development regulations that were exposed in a recent court ruling involving a Davenport sand mine.
The changes involve better defining of the types of roads that can be used to transport material from nonphosphate mines and to strengthen provisions to protect drinking water wells from the effects of mining.
The impetus of the changes involved a judicial order invalidating the County Commission's approval of a sand mine in an undeveloped section of the Ridgewood Lakes development of regional impact near Davenport. But the change would apply to any nonphosphate mine in unincorporated Polk County.
The judge's decision to invalidate the commission's action remains under legal appeal.
The Planning Commission voted 3-1 on April 3 to recommend approval of the changes.
During the hearing, lawyer Brent Spain, representing mine opponents, argued the changes were unnecessary and were intended only to circumvent the earlier court ruling.
But lawyer Jack Brandon, representing local mining interests, said other mine operators would be affected unless the regulations are changed.
Tim Campbell, a lawyer representing Bishop & Buttrey, which operated the mine, and JML Land, the developer of Ridgewood Lakes, argued the change is necessary to have consistent definitions throughout the code.
Resident Robert Allen, who lives in the Oak Haven subdivision adjacent to the mine, said the mine truck traffic was using a substandard road, which shouldn't be allowed.
Ridgewood Lakes resident Charles Ruth questioned why county officials were pursuing changes that appeared to make it easy for the now-dormant mine to restart.
"I can't come up with a good reason why you're fighting it," he said, referring to the court's denial of the mine permit.
Commissioner Todd Dantzler asked about the allegations the mine was violating its permit conditions.
Planner John Bohde said code enforcement officials were sent out to investigate complaints and found violations, which were corrected.


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NEW YORK --Standard & Poor's Ratings Services is boosting its outlook for U.S. government debt, citing stable government spending levels and predicting economic improvements.
The credit rating service revised its outlook to "Stable" from "Negative," which means it's less likely it will downgrade the country's debt in the near future.
It also backed the U.S. government's "AA+" long-term and "A-1+" short-term unsolicited sovereign credit ratings.
S&P downgraded the U.S. government's long-term credit rating in 2011 after a battle in Congress over whether to raise America's borrowing limit.
The ratings service said Monday that Congress managed to broker a deal late last year that allowed certain tax cuts to expire and cut spending. Meanwhile, S&P says the economy has started to improve and is expected to continue to do so.


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GPSOLO June 2008
Document Assembly
When Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote in 1839 that "The pen is mightier than the sword," he might not have been referring directly to lawyers, but he should have been. Since time immemorial, lawyers have used the power of the pen to vanquish their clients' enemies (or at least document their settlement agreements).
The pen lasted until the advent of the typewriter. Today, modern lawyers use computers to "word process" their documents. The move to word processing revolutionized the look and feel of legal documents, and it led to substantial gains in productivity for law firms. Computers are very effective at producing words in great volume.
Although word processors make documents look quite professional, they lack the ability to decide which words work most effectively or to recognize patterns in the way a lawyer drafts documents.
Enter, stage right, the next step in intelligent legal document production: the automated document template. Document assembly turns documents into templates with optional language and other variables. Through standardized templates, alternate language, and clear business rules, lawyers gain the ability to safeguard the quality of their legal work product. Answer a series of questions, push a button, and out comes a carefully crafted document.
Document assembly software comes in two flavors: buy or build.
Today you can find more pre-crafted legal document assembly systems for sale than ever before. You can buy a canned document assembly system from LexisNexis ( www.lexisnexis.com), West Publishing ( www.west.thomson.com), BlumbergExcelsior ( www.blumberg.com), Basha Systems (our company, www.bashasys.com), InterActive Legal Systems ( www.ilsdocs.com), or a number of other content publishers.
These systems can give you a complete set of estate planning forms, state-specific probate forms, family law documents, or real estate forms. You will get the benefit of the expertise of other lawyers embodied in both the words of the documents as well as the logic that drives the document assembly system.
With each of these systems, you will get the ability to select a document, answer a series of questions, and produce a complete, ready-to-use document in less than 15 minutes.
The main advantage of these pre-built systems is "out-of-the-box" gratification. Install them and away you go. The disadvantage, of course, is that you are largely limited to the content provided in the format provided. Some of these systems will allow you to alter the underlying templates to apply some of your own language to the forms, but if you are a very particular lawyer or very attached to your own work product developed during years of practice, pre-canned templates may not work for you.
Whether for pride of ownership, or marketing, or "integrity," some lawyers choose to build their own automated templates.
The do-it-yourself (DIY) approach has the benefit of using your own words, your own rules, and your own intake forms. As when you build your own house, you get exactly what you want, within your budget and your time frame.
You can build your own automated templates using desktop tools such as HotDocs ( www.hotdocs.com), which is the market leader. HotDocs 2008 includes a model document toolbar that lets you automate a document by simply marking up an existing document with an easy-to-remember syntax. Pathagoras ( www.pathagoras.com) offers a simple system based on MS Word. A "clause-based" document assembly system, Pathagoras programs more easily than HotDocs, but it works basically as a knowledge base of pre-built clauses that you can mine. D3 ( www.microsystems.com/d3) from Micro-system provides an enterprise-level clause manager.
More and more document assembly
is moving to web-based solutions. DealBuilder ( www.business-integrity.com), with its simplified document markup and Lexicon feature that enables multi-
language prompts, would prove useful to attorneys with an international practice. DealBuilder Server and HotDocs Server require your firm to configure and set up your own web server. You also can find a hosted solution, through which the vendor supplies the web server and software for a monthly fee; such vendors include QShift ( www.ixio.com) and DocsEngine ( www.accudraft.com/products/de_main.asp).
A word of caution: Although DIY tools have gotten much easier to use, the approach requires a substantial amount of time to produce results equivalent to purchased forms.
The project leader should oversee the automation of the case, including, but not limited to: (1) picking any necessary scanning vendor, (2) setting up training schedule, (3) coordinating with trial technology consultants and equipment vendors, and (4) coordinating with court staff. But don't spread the project leader too thin if he or she has any other (non-technological) duties as part of the trial team.
Whether you buy or build, document assembly tools bring real value to your practice. Processes that took hours now take minutes. Document assembly shows us the future of legal document production. Modern attorneys should not ask "why" but "how"—and they should ask it soon, before they become as antiquated as Edward Bulwer-Lytton's pen.
Seth G. Rowland, Esq., is president of Basha Systems LLC ( www.bashasys.com). Since 1996 he has been advising lawyers on how to automate their legal practices using document assembly and other information management tools; he may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Rose Rowland has worked with Basha Systems LLC since 2002 as a trainer and developer; she may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Engineers sweat Oracle's Sun-Java integration promise
The Devil inside JRockit and HotSpot
Oracle's top brass might have committed to merging its Java technology with that of Sun Microsystems but the specifics are still being worked out.
The plan on how to merge Oracle's JRockit Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Sun's HotSpot JVM is "still evolving", Oracle principal engineer Mark Reinhold has said.
Leads from two JVM's engineering teams are "spending lots of quality time together" Reinhold told an Oracle Technology Network webcast audience, but he admitted "it's not an easy problem taking the best of each [JVM] and figuring out the long-term convergence."
Reinhold, formerly of Sun, speculated that integration of the two to produce a single JVM probably wouldn't happen soon but might finally take place in the next year-and-a-half to two years.
The goal to integrate of JRockit and HotSpot was announced by Oracle as part of its strategy day in January, where managers laid our the plan for Sun's middleware and operating systems in the wake of Oracle's successful closure of its $5.6bn acquisition of Sun.
Oracle did not provide a timeframe for the JVMs' merger.
By planning to merge the two, Oracle's management has set engineers from Oracle and the former Sun the Darwinian task of picking the best features and dumping the rest.
What's unclear is whether that means keeping most of one application server and building in the best from the loser or building a new application server that combines both.
Reinhold noted Oracle is renowned for being willing to set aside its own technologies should it come across something better. It kept the former BEA's JRockit at the expense of its own Java application server, after all. "It's pretty clear, Oracle both engineering-wise and management-wise is committed to figuring out what the best is," he said.
Speaking personally, Reinhold said one option might be for a merged VM with the JRockit garbage collector and surfacabilty along with the HotSpot runtime compiler. Reinhold reckoned JRockit has enviable mission control - management - systems, while there was room for improvement on the server compiler, which HotSpot could provide.
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Because I Say So
The Supreme Court takes the military tribunals out for a spin.
One of the most dramatic moments in today's oral argument in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld comes when an uncharacteristically agitated Justice David Souter presses Solicitor General Paul Clement about whether Congress last December effectively stripped the Supreme Court of the right to hear habeas corpus claims from any of the hundreds of detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay. Clement says it's not necessary for Congress to have "consciously thought it was suspending the Writ." Perhaps the lawmakers just "stumbled on the suspension of the Writ," which would also be fine, Clement suggests.
Souter stops him, amazed. "The suspension of the Writ," the justice sputters, is the most "stupendously significant act" Congress can undertake. "Are you really saying Congress may validly suspend it inadvertently?" he asks. It's the morning's best example of the degree to which, for Souter as well as for Justice Stephen Breyer, today's argument is an agonizing exercise in Bush administration doublespeak. Clement's arguments are frequently drawn from the well of "because the president says so," or "because the president is the president," or "because it's wartime." They start to sound like Alberto Gonzales' testimony before Congress or the president's signing statements: legal analysis by assertion and justification by double standard. This war is like every other war except to the extent that it differs from those other wars. We follow the laws of war except to the extent that they do not apply to us. These prisoners have all the rights to which they are entitled by law, except to the extent that we have changed the law to limit their rights.
In other words, there is almost no question for which the government cannot find a circular answer.
The issue before the court is the legality of President Bush's military tribunals. The two key war-on-terror cases of 2004— Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Rasul v. Bush—established that the administration could detain enemy combatants. But these combatants would nevertheless be entitled to some neutral adjudicatory process, the contours of which the justices left to be determined. The question for the court is whether the military tribunals established by the president by military order in 2001 meet the justices' standard for neutral and adjudicatory. The tribunals rely neither on the Geneva Convention nor the Uniform Code of Military Justice. They allow for the admission of unsworn testimony; may preclude a detainee from appearing at his own trial; and do away with the presumption of innocence. Punishment may include death.
Salim Ahmed Hamdan, alleged to be Osama Bin Laden's chauffeur, faces trial before such a tribunal on charges of conspiracy to help terrorists. His appeal encompasses a host of statutory and constitutional challenges to the tribunals. Hamdan won in the district court and lost in the D.C. Circuit federal court of appeals. Chief Justice John Roberts joined in the D.C. Circuit decision before his promotion and has thus recused himself today.
As if the court didn't have enough weighty matters on its collective mind, it also must grapple with the Detainee Treatment Act, which Congress passed last December to amend the federal habeas corpus statute. The idea was to prevent the Guantanamo detainees from getting a full habeas review—which often includes a chance for the accused to present evidence—in the federal courts. The government argues that the DTA strips the Supreme Court of jurisdiction to hear Hamdan's case. So, the court has to start there: Can it even reach the merits of the legality of the commissions?
The press corps begins the day with a different question: What the hell has gotten into Justice Antonin Scalia? Between his extracurricular pronouncements on the arguments in this case (and I urge you to listen to the whole speech yourself) and his extracurricular hand signals last weekend, nobody is quite sure what has come over the man. He is ever more the Bill O'Reilly of the High Court.
Neal Katyal represents Hamdan this morning in a special 90-minute session that is sufficiently important to merit audio broadcast, according to the unknowable metric used by the chief justice. Katyal launches into his argument about why the DTA doesn't apply to cases like Hamdan's that were pending in the courts when the law passed. Rookie Justice Samuel Alito—who speaks very little again today—asks why Hamdan can't just raise these claims later, after the military tribunal has issued its final decision, the way he would in an ordinary criminal proceeding.
"This is not an ordinary criminal proceeding," replies Katyal. "If it was we wouldn't be here. … This is a military commission unbounded by laws, the constitution, or treaties. It replicates the blank check this court rejected in Hamdi." Katyal says that the Framers had a "deep distrust of military tribunals" and that the only thing that assuages this distrust is that Congress is charged with setting clear rules.
Katyal then turns to the conspiracy charge Hamdan faces. He explains that the laws of war reject the charge of conspiracy as a substantive crime. "Even if this tribunal is authorized," he claims, "allowing this charge of conspiracy would open the floodgates to the president to charge whatever he wants."
Alito asks whether the conspiracy charge can't simply be amended. To which Katyal responds, with some frustration, that the "government has had four years to get their charges together against Hamdan."
Katyal argues that the Uniform Code of Military Justice sets out the bare baseline rules for military commissions. But Scalia counters that there is no point in creating military commissions if they have to adhere to the same standards as the UCMJ.
Solicitor General Paul Clement has 45 minutes to represent the Bush administration, and here is where the smoke and mirrors kick in. He cites the executive's longstanding authority to try enemies by military tribunal. When Justice John Paul Stevens asks for the source of the laws that such tribunals would enforce, Clement replies that the source is the "laws of war." When Stevens asks whether conspiracy is encompassed within the laws of war, Clement says that the president views conspiracy as within the laws of war.
Neat trick, no?
Souter takes a slightly different tack: If you accept that the military commissions apply the laws of war, don't you have to accept the Geneva Conventions? he asks. Clement responds that the commissions can "adjudicate that the Geneva Conventions don't apply."
"You can't have it both ways, " Souter retorts. The government can't say the president is operating under the laws of war, as recognized by Congress, and then for purposes of defining those laws, say the Geneva Conventions don't apply.
Sure it can. Clement replies that if a detainee has such a claim, he should bring it before the military courts. Even Kennedy seems alarmed now. He confesses that he's troubled by the notion of bringing challenges about the structure of the tribunal to the tribunal itself. "If a group is going to try some people, do you first have the trial and then challenge the legitimacy of the tribunal?" he asks incredulously.
Clement objects to his word choice. "This isn't just some group of people," he says. This is the president invoking his authority to try terrorists.
Breyer goes back to the DTA and whether it stripped the court of jurisdiction to rule on Hamdan's claims. He asks how the court can avoid "the most terribly difficult question of whether Congress can constitutionally deprive this court of jurisdiction in habeas cases."
And Stevens serves up another can't-have-it-both-ways query: When Congress takes away the courts' habeas corpus jurisdiction, "Do you say it's a permissible suspension of the writ or that it's not a suspension of the writ?" he asks.
"Both," replies Clement.
"You can't say both," chides Stevens. So this is where Clement claims that Congress could have accidentally suspended the writ, the way you might accidentally drop your eyeglasses into a punchbowl. "Wait a minute," replies Souter, and I think he's angrier than I have ever seen him. "The writ is the writ. … You're saying the writ was suspended by inadvertence!"
Later Breyer will add: "You want to say that these are war crimes. But this is not a war. These are not war crimes. And this is not a war crimes tribunal. If the president can do this, he can set up a commission and go to Toledo and arrest an immigrant and try him." To which Clement's answer is the fail-safe: "This is a war."
And even as it starts to be clear that he is losing Kennedy—who asks whether Hamdan isn't "uniquely vulnerable" and thus entitled to the theoretical protection of the Geneva Conventions—Clement stands firm in his claim that the Guantanamo detainees are different from regular POWs because, well, they are.
At some point, it must begin to insult the collective intelligence of the court, these tautological arguments that end where they begin: The existing laws do not apply because this is a different kind of war. It's a different kind of war because the president says so. The president gets to say so because he is president.
For today at least, it appeared that the Bush administration would not readily marshal five votes for its core legal proposition: that if you just refuse to offer answers, the questions will go away.


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CHICAGO (AP) — Gripping a handrail and wearing a brace on his left leg, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk climbed 37 floors inside Chicago's Willis Tower on Sunday in his first public appearance since suffering a major stroke.
Kirk, taking part in a popular charity fundraiser called "SkyRise Chicago," started walking from the 66th floor and climbed up to the finish line at the 103rd floor.
He was met with hugs and cheers from family and friends at the end. The senator paced slowly through the crowd with the help of a cane, smiling but saying little to the media.
Kirk's stroke in January severely limited movement on the left side of his body.
"We've seen some amazing progress over the last few months," said Michael Klonowski, a physical therapist with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where Kirk is receiving treatment. "As an in-patient, he needed significant help. Now here he is going up the stairs without my help."
"That's remarkable progress."
The institute hosted the stair-climbing event. Kirk prepared for the event by scaling stairs and incrementally increasing the height he climbed.
The 53-year-old Republican, who continues to undergo rehabilitation, has been releasing videos on his progress, including footage of him working with therapists and climbing stairs.
"When he first started off (on Sunday) he had a bit more energy than he did when we were training," Klonowski said. "When we were practicing, we would sometimes take a few floors, and then take a break. He just wasn't having that today. He was really amped up."
Nearly 3,000 people attended the annual stair-climbing event. Participants climbed 103 floors — about 2,100 steps in all — to the Willis Tower's SkyDeck level.
Organizers said the event raises about $1 million each year to support rehabilitation care and research at the institute.
Kirk's office declined to comment on his participation in the event or when he might return to Washington. But Joanne Smith, the Rehabilitation Institute's CEO, said his ability to finish "demonstrates that Sen. Kirk is back and perhaps better than ever."
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, another prominent Illinois leader receiving medical treatment, hasn't made a public appearance since June. The Chicago Democrat, who is seeking re-election Tuesday, is expected to remain at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic through Election Day. His office has not indicated when he'll return to work.


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(BTW, I'm sad Juan Monaco hasn't quite rebounded from that ankle injury that derailed his clay streak; I hope he gets it together in time for the French!)
Andy Roddick finally sheds the grey color block and has some pinstripes do the talking in this short-sleeved Lacoste polo ($95; lacoste.com). And in case you're wondering, the orange in their palette is named "Gladiolus"; the grey is "She-Wolf".
Andy took out Mardy Fish in the second round of the Rome Masters and is battling Simone Bolelli as I type. Whodathunk the American would make it deeper into a clay tournament than Rafa Nadal?
Speaking of the hot Italian, Simone opts for the White/Grey version of the Lotto Kontact Polo ($42.99; TW). I still prefer the maroon accents on Juanqui's version.
Meanwhile, Andy Murray keeps his outfits low-key (he's letting his hot head do all the talking) in this white Fred Perry kit.
The 16th seed lost to Stanlislas Wawrinka 6-2, 7-6 (7-5) — this after Juan Martin del Potro retired with a back injury to give Andy a spot in that second round match against the Swiss No. 2.
Filippo Volandri lost in the first round to Nicolas Lapentti 7-6 (8-6), 2-6, 6-2. He wore a white and blue shirt from EA7.
And mainstay Carlos Moya couldn't keep up with Fernando Verdasco, losing in straight sets in the first round. For his kit, Nike moves Carlos away from Rafa's blue Global Power Tank and dresses him in white ($55; TW.com).


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17-Nov-2004 -- During a holiday in Chile and Argentina, I found myself in San Carlos de Bariloche with a "day at leisure". The Degree Confluence Project website indicated an unvisited confluence approximately 30 kilometres northeast, so I decided to give it a try.
Before setting off, I attempted to obtain a decent map of the area. Although an exhaustive search of the town's bookshops, tourist information centres and municipal library did turn up all manner of extremely good detailed topographic maps of the area to the west of Bariloche--Nahuel Huapi National Park, the town's big tourist drawcard--I could find virtually nothing of any value covering the area to the east. On an otherwise featureless map, the closest identifiable landmark, which I judged to be a fair distance south of the confluence, was Perito Moreno, a railway crossing on highway 23. (This guy Perito Moreno must have been pretty influential in Argentinean history, because he has all manner of things, from city streets to glaciers, named after him.)
Enquiries about public transport to Perito Moreno also bore very little fruit: just one scheduled bus per day, which left late in the afternoon. I did ascertain, however, that there was a commuter bus that went to Dina Huapi, where highway 23 joins highway 237 at the eastern end of Nahuel Huapi Lake, about half way to the confluence.
So, at 10:45 a.m. on a glorious sunny spring day, I set off on commuter bus number 71, hoping for the best. Forty minutes later I was in Dina Huapi, the confluence still 15 kilometres northeast. The bus driver confirmed that there was no more public transport from this point on, so I began the long 16-kilomtre walk east to Perito Moreno along the dusty deserted gravel road that constituted highway 23.
After walking roughly three kilometres, three gauchos came by in a truck and offered me a ride. I had to clamber up and over the tall side of the truck then try to find a semi-comfortable position amongst all the farming paraphernalia inside, but it sure beat walking!
In 15 minutes we were at Perito Moreno, the confluence now just 6.57 kilometres north. I clambered back down and thanked them profusely for the lift ("Muchas gracias!"), exhausting almost my entire Spanish vocabulary in the process. The driver then revealed that he spoke English, asking me what I was planning to do. I explained the object of my expedition, which he readily understood, and suggested that I follow the railway line around to a stream that I could then follow northwards towards the confluence.
It was now 12:20 p.m. The truck disappeared in a cloud of dust, and I set off on foot along the railway line. The track ran alongside a pretty lagoon on my right, which, according to a barely legible weather-beaten sign, was called "Laguna Los Juncos". It was home to a good variety of bird life, including several beautiful black-necked swans.
In order to follow the stream northwards, it was necessary to enter fenced off private property. I could see a farmhouse a few hundred metres beyond the gate, and decided to go and ask the owners for permission. But as I drew nearer to the house, it became quite apparent that the owners were not at home, and obviously hadn't been for quite some time! With the property evidently abandoned, I took this as de facto permission to enter, and proceeded on my way.
Following the stream was quite easy, as there was a disused vehicle track that ran alongside it, although several stream crossings were required en route, one of which necessitated removing my shoes and socks and wading across. The direction of flow was northwards, towards the Limay River, the main outflow of Nahuel Huapi Lake.
At 2:15 p.m. I arrived at a small unoccupied house, the confluence now 1.15 kilometres northeast, seemingly behind a mountain. I continued downstream--now on a walking trail, the disused vehicle track having ended at the empty house--hoping to discover a way around the mountain. However, half an hour later, with the confluence now 1.22 kilometres ESE, it became obvious that it wasn't behind the mountain at all, but on it! There was no option but to start climbing.
It was a long climb, gaining almost half a kilometre in elevation, but not too difficult, as the vegetation varied from relatively sparse to practically nonexistent, thus not hindering progress. This made a pleasant change from Chinese confluences, where I often find myself fighting through dense foliage on steep slopes. As I continued upwards more and more of the surrounding landscape revealed itself, and the view became increasingly impressive.
After an hour of climbing, I finally reached the confluence, almost at the crest of the mountain. Had I had more time, I would have continued to the top and explored the possibility of an alternate route down the southern face of the mountain, but it was already getting quite late, and I still didn't know how I was going to get back to Bariloche, so I just photographed the view in various directions: northwest, south and east, as well as the native vegetation of the general confluence area itself, then started my descent back the way I'd come.
The 12-kilometre walk back upstream to Perito Moreno was uneventful. I arrived at 7:45 p.m. feeling pretty exhausted, and decided to try calling for a taxi. However Perito Moreno consists of just a single house, and when I located the occupant, a middle-aged lady, she informed me that she had no telephone. Hitchhiking looked to be my only remaining option.
At that precise moment, a utility came along, and I frantically ran out to the road in an attempt to flag it down. The driver stopped, said he was going all the way to Bariloche, and very kindly offered me a lift, dropping me off at 8:25 p.m. right across the street from my hotel.


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Jay Haas and Duffy Waldorf shared the first-round lead Friday in the Senior PGA Championship, shooting 5-under 66 in breezy, cool conditions at Bellerive Country Club.
The 59-year-old Haas, the winner of the major championship in 2006 and 2008, had a bogey-free round. The 50-year-old Waldorf had six birdies and one bogey.
Haas has 16 Champions Tour victories after winning nine times on the PGA Tour. Waldorf is winless in 11 career starts on the 50-and-over tour after winning four times on the PGA Tour.
Sonny Skinner, the PGA head professional at River Pointe Golf Club in Albany, Ga., was a stroke back along with Japan's Kiyoshi Murota.
Australia's Peter Senior and Taiwan's Chien-Soon Lu shot 68, and Tom Watson, a two-time Senior PGA champion, was another stroke back in a 12-player group that included Kenny Perry, Fred Funk, Rocco Mediate, Russ Cochran, Dan Forsman, Gil Morgan and Bill Glasson.
Defending champion Roger Chapman opened with a 72. Peter Jacobsen, the 2004 U.S. Senior Open winner at Bellerive, had a 75.
The temperature hovered in the low to mid-60s under overcast conditions. A light but steady rain fell three times in the afternoon, with each shower lasting less than 30 minutes.
Haas knows his way around Bellerive, finishing third in the 2004 U.S. Senior Open. He grew up in nearby Belleville, Ill., and has played about 30 rounds at Bellerive. His uncle, Bob Goalby, the 1968 Masters winner who stills lives in Belleville, followed him on the back nine holes.
Haas made his way around the course with a balky back that he said left him in "a little bit" of pain.
Waldorf finished ninth in the 1992 PGA Championship at Bellerive.
Murota had six birdies and a double bogey. Skinner, a two-time winner on what is now the Web.com Tour, had six birdies and two bogeys and hit all 14 fairways in regulation.
DIVOTS: Brian Fogt, the PGA director of instruction at Bellerive Country Club, led off the tournament by hitting the first tee shot. ... The field includes 34 international players representing an event-record 18 countries. France's Marc Farry, who earned a berth when David Frost withdrew, pushed the country total to the record. England leads with seven entrants, followed by Japan (4) and Australia (3). ... The PGA Championship will be held at Bellerive in 2018.


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The volatility index ("VIX") is an index which measures expectations of volatility, or fluctuations in price, of the S&P 500 index. Higher values for the volatility index indicate that investors expect the value of the S&P 500 to fluctuate wildly - up, down, or both - in the next 30 days.
The index, commonly known by its ticker VIX, is also known as the "fear index" because a high VIX represents uncertainty about future prices. The index is calculated using the price of near-term options on S&P 500 index.[1] Because the value of an option is closely linked to the expected volatility of its underlying security, options prices can be a useful indicator of investors' expectations of volatility.
The VIX hit its historic high of 89.53 on October 24, 2008 on concerns about the 2008 Financial Crisis. Prior to this crisis, the VIX had peaked at 38 on August 8, 2002.
There is no security that realizes the VIX's "return" (like ETFs for regular indices). However, VIX-based futures contracts and options exist for professional investors. In January 2009, iPath launched two securities (VXX and VXZ) that track VIX futures rather than the VIX itself. These securities allow retail investors to speculate on the VIX.[2]
There are other volatility indexes which track expected volatility on other indices: VXD is used as an indicator of expected volatility of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and VXN is used for the NASDAQ 100 index.
Volatility is the rate at which the price of a certain [security] moves. A security with high volatility has bigger fluctuations in price compared to a security with low volatility. The more quickly a price changes up and down, the more volatile it is. As such, volatility is often used as a measure of risk.
For example: A stock whose price went up 20% yesterday and went down 25% today is more volatile than a stock which increased 2% in both days.
Volatility can be observed by looking at past changes in stock price. The standard deviation of percentage changes in price is used to calculate observed volatility.
Volatility is different from implied volatility, in the sense that volatility is observed by looking at past data, whereas implied volatility represents expectations about future fluctuations.
Volatility expectations, or implied volatility, is deduced from option prices (both call and put) on the underlying security -- since these expectations are reflected in market prices of the option. Higher fluctuation expectations mean that the option has a greater probability of ending in the money, and thus the option commands a higher price and vice versa. By inputting the option price, along with other variables such as maturity, interest rate, strike price and underlying security price, in a pricing model (e.g. Black-Scholes) it is possible to derive an estimate of the investor's expectation of future volatility.
The VIX is calculated by taking into account implied volatility on near-term S&P 500 options with different strike prices. Hence, it represents investor's expectations on how drastically the index may fluctuate in the near future.
"Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, 'I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.' If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases." -- Warren Buffett [3]
The VIX is often referred to as the "Fear Index".[4] Although a high VIX does not represent a definite bearish signal on stock, the market fluctuates most during times of uncertainty. Historically, the VIX has hit its highest points during times of market turmoil and financial downturn.
According to research by CXO Advisory Group,[5] between 1990 and 2005, an extremely high VIX has been followed by periods of high returns on the S&P 500 index, in both short-term (1 month) and medium-term (1 year). The research defined high VIX as being 77% above its 63-day moving average. For example: When the VIX was 135% above its 63-day moving average, the S&P 500 returned 14 percent over the next year.


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From urban markets to five-star manors, mountain-biking and the beautiful Adare village, Limerick is the perfect match of city and county. It also claims the title of county where the original Irish Coffee was served!
First things first, however. A limerick is a five-line verse, smart or silly, as popularized by Edward Lear in the 19th century. Limerick is nothing of the sort. And it contains even more variety, humor and history.
Set at the mouth of the Shannon, Limerick city is the third-largest on the island. It's also the hardest to pin down. Limerick formed the bleakest of backdrops for Frank McCourt's childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes. At the same time, it's home to a revitalized city art gallery, slick new hotels and Thomond Park, the thumping new home of Munster's passionate rugby union team.
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One moment, you're wandering through the Middle Ages at King John's Castle. The next, you're in a rejuvenated Milk Market.
One minute you're amongst old Georgian townhouses. Then, you're sipping cocktails in a five-star hotel. There's no way to categorise Limerick city, and the locals wouldn't have it any other way.
Beyond the city and suburbs, the N69 road west takes drivers along the Shannon Estuary, passing 18th century Curragh Chase Forest Park and House, before ambling into a most unusual flying machine at Foynes.
Is it a boat? Or a plane? Actually, it's a bit of both. The highlight of a visit to Foynes Flying Boat Museum is its full-scale Boeing 314 replica, complete with purpose-built honeymoon suite. It's a fitting tribute to a golden age of air travel, and a small port on the Shannon that served as a mini-Casablanca for passengers including JFK, Ernest Hemingway and Humphrey Bogart.
It's also where Brendan O'Regan and his coffee shop invented something very special back in 1943. On a dreadful night, he welcomed a weary captain and passengers from a flight bound for Newfoundland with a cup of coffee and a surprise drop of whiskey – and so created the Irish Coffee.
It's not the only surprise in Limerick's history, either. The Hunt Museum holds paintings by Renoir and Picasso, amongst other treasures. In Adare, you can match thatched cottages with a magnificent manor stay. At Lough Gur, you can't throw out a picnic rug without hitting a stone circle, hill fort or mass rock of some kind. People have lived at this ancient lake for 5,500 years. The wind sounds like their whispers...
Speaking of wind, you'll have plenty of it at your back heading down from the Ballyhoura Mountains. And when it comes to adventure sports, 59 miles of stacked mountain bike trails here are one of the jewels in County Limerick's crown.
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Some of the things we learned in the storm and its aftermath, we already knew, but apparently weren't in any hurry to acknowledge. Like the fact that the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant is in bad shape. The flooding during Sandy shut it down and forced sewage to back up into people's homes. The plant is an environmental disaster no longer waiting to happen, as we saw with the release of millions of gallons of untreated sewage. We learned that it had gone without repairs and updates for too long, and now, as a result, it needs millions of dollars' worth of work, and fast.
Perhaps the most gratifying thing we learned — or were reminded that we already knew — was just how skillful and selfless our first responders — firefighters, police and EMTs — really are. Those of us who had no more than a vague sense of their value to our communities now fully understand that value. It wasn't just people whose homes took on water or caught fire who were being helped; it was entire communities. The death toll from the storm would have been much higher if not for the courageous efforts of our emergency responders.
With all these lessons learned, we'll be more fully prepared when the next major storm hits. And we'll face it together, confidently. Sandy showed us our strength, our compassion, our courage and our resilience. We helped one another, and will continue to do so. And eventually, whether it's six months or six years from now, we will pronounce ourselves fully recovered from this historic storm. The lesson that looms above all others is that not even the catastrophic destruction of a hurricane, striking like a punch from God, can keep Long Islanders down.


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A "CR" is shorthand for a "continuing resolution," which is a temporary funding bill to keep government operating in the fiscal year starting October 1.
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Mary May: Classical to the Core
A trip to Europe, a phone call and an undying love of carving led her to the creation of an online school.
By Christopher Schwarz
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Many traditional woodworkers daydream about serving a formal apprenticeship, working as a skilled and independent craftsperson and then passing on his or her hard-won knowledge to the next generation of woodworkers.
It's a daydream that rarely evolves into anything more than that.
But for a young Mary May, that twinge led her to the phone book in her Minnesota town to look for someone – anyone – to teach her how to carve in the classical tradition. She had just returned from a backpacking tour of Europe where she had seen castles, cathedrals and some impressive carving.
She wanted to learn to carve like that, and she thought the Yellow Pages might be the place to look. As it turns out, she was correct.
She found two Greek carvers listed in the phone book, left phone messages for them both and got a call back first from Konstantinos Papadakis. Papadakis is a Byzantine-style carver who began in the craft at age 9 in Crete and then entered into a formal apprenticeship three years later.
Mary began working with Papadakis and eventually became his apprentice for three years. She went on to study and work under other teachers in Greece and England. And then she ventured to Pasir Gudang, Malaysia, to carve wood and stone for a Chinese hotel magnate.
After all that excitement and travel, she settled on Johns Island in South Carolina to carve for customers, whether they needed an acanthus leaf or an egret. She set up shop in a narrow structure that is mostly windows behind her house, which she shares with her husband, a biodiesel Mercedes-Benz and cats. Wandering outside are goats and chickens.
It was here that she honed her craft in a focused way that most woodworkers – even professionals – do not. Instead of venturing into other parts of the craft, such as building casework, turning or whittling, Mary stuck to her guns and remained a classical carver. She was happy to carve a fireplace mantle or the bonnet of a highboy. But she didn't seek to build those forms from scratch.
In other words, she established herself as a traditional carver – a specialist and not a generalist. She served a formal apprenticeship and then did a stint as a journeyman, where she traveled to other shops to learn techniques. And she'd hunkered down for years of the day-in and day-out all-consuming work in an effort to master the carving craft.
It was there, in the confines of her shop, that she saw the turning point of her carving career.
"There was a point when I was not real confident with projects that (customers) would present to me, and I wasn't sure if I could do it," she says. "Five or six years ago I gained the confidence in shapes and forms. As long as I had enough information, I knew I could get that shape out of the wood.
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Thread: SEVERAL 528E QUESTIONS
These questions are in reference to my 1987 528e, build date 6/86.
First, I replaced the battery and lost my radio code so now I can't operate the radio. If I can't get this fixed, do I have to buy a new radio(wouldn't hurt to have a new anyway)? As I mentioned earlier about upgrades, I checked with Bavarian Auto and they of course have great stuff. They, along with Dinan, have a performance chip, exhaust systems, air intake systems etc. Do I HAVE to buy stainless steel exhaust(big $$$$)? Or can I find performance exhaust finished in normal metal? Who makes the best chip for the money? And how do I really know my car is an E28 series? Is there a way to get some of these accessories without taking out a loan from the bank? I just want to dress it up a bit i.e. angel eye headlights, new paint, new tires and larger wheels etc etc. I know the car is somewhat not the most desirable car to fix up, but it was my late father's car and I want to keep it. It's in really great condition, was always garaged, and it deserves a little extra. Thanks to all.
Sorry...long reply
RADIO: Verify the code is not stuck in with your owners manual or other paperwork for the car if you still have it. If not, you will have to remove the radio and take it to the dealer so they can pull the radio number off the back. They will then provide you the code. Just in case, take the vehicle registration in to prove you are the owner of the car and are not a radio thief...some dealer's request proof. Then...tatoo the radio code number on your left inner forearm. With code on arm, turn on radio and enter the 5 digits...bingo.
EXHAUST: Non-stainless system will last you 10-20 years. Stainless probably goes a tad longer, but verify stainless muffler guts are stainless too otherwise you're buying a pretty exterior with ugly interior. How long will you keep the car?...is stainless worth the extra bucks? You can probably do just as well with a reputable muffler shop who specializes in Bimmers...they could probably weld a custom system to your tastes and desires for 1/2 to 2/3 the cost of an over-the-counter hiperf system bolt-on. And don't go too large on your system or your torque, HP and fuel economy will take a nose-dive...you need a certain amount of back pressure for the gasses to get extracted from the engine via heat & pressure pulses. There are quite a few websites on sizing exhaust systems with good scientific explanations.
As for increasing intake air flow...just put in a higher flowing filter...like an Airflow Research. A larger intake is not going to do much good unless the throttle body is larger and intake mates to the larger opening on base of the TB and manifold is polished and perfectly matched to the head. Ideally, a new head that is ported and polished with a more radical cam and then of course you will want to add some proven headers (now were up to about $3000 in parts)
Remember you have an economy engine...don't overdue the upgrades without proper fuel delivery otherwise you'll lean out and start burning valves and possibly overheat the head/warp/crack...oh my! Higher cc/min injectors may be needed. Also, if your timing belt hasn't been changed in the past 30k miles or 5 years, change it out now.
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Kevin, long replies are good sometimes. In this case, great b/c there is a lot of info I needed to make sound decisions. I hope to keep the car for years to come as it is part of the family. An old friend you might say. Everything you said made good sense i.e. exhaust sizing, costs, too lean a burn, etc. Some of which I didn't know, some I did. Every little bit helps. Too bad, but the radio code is no where to be found in the manuals. A local guy did it for my dad years ago. The timing belt was changed recently so that one is good to go.
Thank you for your time in responding. I appreciate other BMW owners sharing their experience and knowledge. Cheers. Dan
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Re: SEVERAL 528E QUESTIONS
Do you know if you have a "super eta"? Does your factory muffler have twin outlets? If this is the case there is not much you can do to your engine. The most bang for the buck in an eta is to change the rear differential from the 2.93 ratio in order to improve acceleration. You won't gain much from intake modifications.
If you do have a regular eta (single outlet muffler) the best way to go is an "e to i" conversion. This requires parts from a 325i but will give you a true horsepower increase (about 50%). There is great info here
eta vs. super eta
In the previous thread he listed his production date, and it was too early to be the "super eta."
I don't know why you say the standard eta is any better a candidate for an e-to-i swap. With the super-e you have the benefit of a better exhaust system, probably a shorter diff, and Motronic 1.1 already installed. Plus you already have an 885 head.
I would agree though that there isn't much power to be gained on any 528e without opening it up and at least replacing the cam and valve springs.
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|December 4, 1998, 01:48 AM
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Anyone know a simple method for tanning hides?
Will the fur stay on?
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Years ago I used to stake out the hide(fur side down) and salt it. You then scrap as the salt pulls out the excess moisture and repeat as necessary. May need to work in something to keep the skin from excessively drying out and cracking.
If there is a blackpowder rendevuos near you soon, go there and get all sorts of better info than mine.
Dixie Gunworks catalog has quite a few books on buckskinning and tanning.
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Went to a gunshow this weekend and saw on a table some deer tanning potion. Didn't get a chance to look at it though. I imagine it was an acid base though.
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Open Invitiation to all buckskinners (if Rich doesn't nail my scalp to the flagpole for this):
Wipe the bar grease off your smokepole & sharpen your 'hawk. Next rendezvous I'm aware of will be in Livermore, CA on March 13 & 14.
There'll be a trail walk (about 24 shots) for $15 ($12 if you prepay), pistol shoot @ $5, and 'hawk/knife @ $3, shotgun $10, junior shoots $3. Distances for trail walk (rifle) will vary from as far as 215 yards to as close as 7. Can you shoot an axe head and split your ball into two to hit two clay pigeons at 15? Can you shoot a feather in half? Can you keep from laughing when the bottom of my powder horn drop out, spilling my powder all over? Come on down and find out!
A cannon shoot will be held on Saturday and generally signifies closing of the range to all other blackpowder activities. Cannoneers must call "Iron Horse" Ron Hill @ 510-215-5006 to pre-register. If anyone plans to stay on Saturday night (Livermore can get cold), dinner may be had for $8.00. Entertainment on Saturday Night includes a pie contest, tall tales, liars contest and ugliest mountain man contest.
Suttlers do appear (along with a blacksmith or two) and you can buy your gun, powder, balls, caps or flints, hawk, buttons, lamps, and everything else you'll need to explore the west.
Preregister by sending cheques to John Ridings (925-443-1201) at 5108 Pisces Ave., Livermore, CA 94550. Cheques should be made payable to Livermore Rod & Gun Club.
P.S. I'm not an organizner. I just show up, shoot and have fun like most everyone else.
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One of the most famous mascots in college sports, the Saint Joseph's Hawk has been flapping its wings for 57 years. The Hawk is best known for staying in constant motion by flapping its wings throughout every basketball game and representing the Saint Joseph's motto, "The Hawk Will Never Die."
Jim Brennan originated the idea for a hawk as mascot during the 1954-55 season. Brennan, an ex-Marine and SJU cheerleader, at first wanted to secure an actual hawk, but later switched to the costume idea. The student government raised the 120 dollars needed to buy the initial costume, which Brennan donned for three years. He made his debut as the Hawk on January 4, 1956, a 69-56 win over La Salle at the Palestra. Since then, and including this season, a total of 34 SJU students, have donned the costume. The Hawk has not missed a men's basketball game since that first season.
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2. Find the Rio Grande. Most of the water in the river comes from melting snow in the mountains of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. Settlers in those areas were already using up much of that water by 1900. Farmers in southern New Mexico and Texas claimed that they should have the right to some of the river's water. How do you think these disputes could be settled? Who do you think should be responsible for making decisions about water rights?
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The two-time Oscar-winner got most of the questions at Friday's event, which also included stars America Ferrera, Jay Baruchel, Djimon Hounsou and DreamWorks co-founder Jeffery Katzenberg.
Some of the queries were a bit off-kilter: One reporter asked if Blanchett let her children play with her trophies.
"Every morning, mommy sits them down, and I get my two Oscars out and I let them stroke them for 15 minutes before they go to school if they are good," she said to laughter.
Another reporter mistakenly called her by the wrong prefix.
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