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East Jackson Just Misses Opening Win
The East Jackson Eagles came close to winning their first region game last Friday.
Close, but no cigar, that is.
They'll get another chance this Friday when they host the Fannin County Rebels in their home opener. Kickoff is at 7:30.
The Rebels are coming off of a season opening 38-14 victory over Gilmer County. Last year, the Rebels went undefeated in the region and posted a 10-2 overall record.
Jermain Davis overshoots his target as Derrick Bozeman (56) and other Eagles work to bring down a West Hall player during Friday night's season opener in Oakwood. Photo by Lyn Sengupta
Eagles Host Fannin Co. In Home Opener Friday
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Obsessive Matt Garza Trade Watch: The Heavy Asking Price, Orioles, Rangers, Nationals, More
As you're taking in the Cubs and Pirates today, a healthy chunk from the Matt Garza rumor mill to chew on …
- Perhaps the most interesting bit to come out on the Matt Garza trade front in recent days is a report out of Baltimore that, before settling on Scott Feldman, the Orioles were in on Garza. But those talks broke down, according to Eduardo Encina, because the Cubs asked for a package that included infield prospect Jonathan Schoop, and pitching prospect Eduardo Rodriguez. Those would be prospects three and four in the Orioles' system (behind two guys that the Cubs aren't getting, in Dylan Bundy and Kevin Gausman), and Schoop was a consensus top 100 prospect (in the 70 to 90 range) coming into the season. Rodriguez was probably just a touch out of the top 100. Schoop hasn't put up great numbers this year, but we're talking about a 21-year-old middle infielder who's already reached AAA. Rodriguez tore up High-A, and has now reach AA at just 20-years-old. That's the range of prospects you'd like to see the Cubs getting in a Garza deal (more about that tomorrow), and I am very encouraged to know that the Cubs are, at present, asking a very steep price for the top trade chip on the market. My guess is the Cubs were asking for more than Schoop and Rodriguez, too.
- Ken Rosenthal says that the Texas Rangers remain interested in Matt Garza, just as they were at this time last year. Rosenthal's sources tell him what we'd already long heard: the Cubs and Rangers were extremely close to making a trade for Garza – maybe even that night when his elbow injury flared up. The Rangers are likely to remain in the mix for Garza up until he's moved, and although their system is no longer considered a top five or maybe even ten system, it's still plenty deep to put together a quality package for Garza. Wouldn't it be incredible if the two sides come together on a deal involving Garza, third base prospect Mike Olt and pitching prospect Martin Perez? That was the rumored deal last year, when Olt's and Perez's stocks were much, much higher than they are today (and Garza's value was much higher). A part of me is wishing that that's the precise deal that happens, not only because it's an acceptable take for the Cubs, but because then I could pretend that whole elbow injury thing didn't screw the Cubs at all.
- The Nationals also have interest in Garza, per Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post. Kilgore describes that interest as "kicking the tires," and that no formal offer has been made. That, to me, sounds like a, "hey, Theo and Jed, we've got some interest in Garza, but we don't want to give up much … how much are you asking?" type of thing. That's probably how many of these conversations start. With Dan Haren injured/ineffective and Ross Detwiler headed to the disabled list, the Nationals are probably as interested in picking up a pitcher as any team in baseball, especially when you consider how theoretically stacked their roster is, and how they are still somehow five games out of a playoff spot. As with the Rangers, there is plenty in the system that matches up well in a trade with the Cubs, so the Nats could become a very interesting trading partner.
- Beyond the Boxscore takes a deep look at Garza's value as a starter, and value in the trade market. Summing up the conclusion – and you should actually read the piece – it looks like there is a fair bit of justification to expect a healthy return.
- In case you missed it yesterday, the Marlins traded Ricky Nolasco to the Dodgers in a deal that has a number implications here for the Cubs. Speaking of which, Jim Bowden says the Dodgers weren't all that interested in Garza, given the asking price. Nolasco was described as "more realistic." There's not much there, other than to underscore the point that the Cubs have a very high asking price for Garza.


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- Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1997
- B.S., Lewis & Clark College, 1990
Teaching Philosophy
Outside the classroom there is no substitute for the direct experience that undergraduates gain by participating in research under the guidance of faculty members. I take particular joy in bringing students into various aspects of my current research program, advising independent undergraduate honor theses, and projects by undergraduates, public school teachers and summer interns from other academic institutions. The challenges from direct involvement with current biological investigations can be the catalyst for profound intellectual growth in many students. In addition, I have found that my own research benefits from my interactions with students.
Former CORAX student researchers
Shealyn Friedrich '12, and recent graduate of Masters in Education at the Willamette University School of Education
Kaeli Swift '09, currently a Doctoral student at the University of Washington's College of Forest Resources
Jacquelyn Grace '07 currently a Doctoral student in the Biology Department at Wake Forest University
Advised Student Research
- Craig, D.P. and K.N. Swift*. 2008. Peer to peer photo sharing and field readable tags: a simple powerful tool for citizen science and following marked birds. American Ornithologists Union, Cooper Ornithological Society and Society of Canadian Ornithologists 2008 Meeting.
- Craig, D.P., J. Shinn*, P. Swenson*, and J. Grace*. 2008. Fall migration, timing, and wintering sites of Columbia River estuary Caspian Terns as determined by satellite telemetry. 35th Annual Meeting – Pacific Seabird Group
- Larson, K.W., D. P. Craig, Y. Suzuki, and D. Roby. 2008. A geographical analysis of Caspian tern band encounters in the Americas, 1022-2007. 35th Annual Meeting – Pacific Seabird Group
- Allen, J., D.P. Craig, and J. Grace*. 2008. Ternin'ing to video to study diet, lateralization, and chick development among bill load holding birds. 35th Annual Meeting – Pacific Seabird Group
- Phillips*, J. and D.P. Craig. 2008. A comparative study of color variation in the juvenal plumage of terns (Sternini). Annual Meeting for the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology.
Research Interests
My current field-oriented research focuses on response of avian predators to human modified ecosystems and their subsequent impact on community structure. The work combines life-history, physiological, and ecological information to address questions related to predation upon endangered fishes by a variety of colonial waterbirds including Caspain terns (Sterna caspia) , double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus), and gulls (Larus spp.). The theoretical framework for this research has grown in part from my previous research, which focused on several questions related to the behavioral and population ecology of corvids (i.e. jays, crows, ravens), and to the impacts that corvids' nest predation have on the organization of bird communities in coniferous forests.
- Craig, D. P., K. Larson, J. Shinn*, P. Swenson*, J. Grace*, Y. Suzuki. Using Multiple Extrinsic Markers to Identify Connectivity in a Migratory Animal. In review August 2008.
- K. C. Molina, K. L. Garrett, K. Larson, and D. P., Craig. Accepted Aug. 2008. Winter Distribution of the Western Gull-Billed Tern,
- Grace*, J. and D. P. Craig. 2008. The development and lateralization of prey delivery in a bill load holding bird.
- Craig, D. P. and K. Larson. Bill Load Identification Guide for Seabirds of the Northeastern Pacific. In prep for the Pacific Seabird Group: www.willamette.edu/cla/biology/ternproject/index.html.
- Larson, K. and D. P. Craig. 2006. Digiscoping vouchers for diet studies in bill load holding birds. Waterbirds 11:110-112.
- Suryan, R., D.P. Craig, D. Roby, N. Chelgren, K. Collis, W. D. Shuford, and D. Lyons. 2004. Redistribution and growth of the Caspian Tern population in the Pacific Coast region of North America, 1981-2000. The Condor 106:777-790.
- Roby, D., D. Lyons, D. P.Craig, K. Collis, and G.H. Visser. 2003. Quantifying the effect of predators on endangered species using a bioenergetics approach: Caspian terns and juvenile salmonids in the Columbia River estuary. Canadian Journal of Zoology 81:250-265.
- Roby, D., K. Collis, D. Lyons, M. Antolos, and D. P. Craig . 2003. Caspian Tern Species Account. Birds of Oregon. Oregon State University Press.
- Matthews. S. M., D. P. Craig, K. Collis, and D. Roby. 2003. Double-crested Cormorant Species Account. Birds of Oregon. Oregon State University Press.
- Shuford, D. W. and D. P. Craig. 2002. Status Assessment and Conservation Recommendations for the Caspian Tern (Sterna caspia) in North America, U.S. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, OR. 162 pp.
- Collis, K., D.D. Roby, D.P. Craig, S. Adamany, J. Adkins, and D.E. Lyons. 2002. Colony size and diet composition of piscivorous waterbirds on the lower Columbia River: Implications for losses of juvenile salmonids to avian predation. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 131:537-550.
- Roby, D.D., K. Collis, D.E. Lyons, D.P. Craig, J. Adkins, A.M. Myers, and R.M. Suryan. 2002. Effects of colony relocation on diet and productivity of Caspian terns. Journal of Wildlife Management 66:662-673.
- Collis, K., D.D. Roby, D.P. Craig, B.A. Ryan, and R.D. Ledgerwood. 2001. Colonial waterbird predation on juvenile salmonids tagged with Passive Integrated Transponders in the Columbia River Estuary: Vulnerability of different species, stocks, and rearing types. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 130:385-396.
- Craig, D. P ., C. Bock. B. C. Bennett, and J. H. Bock. 1999. Habitat relationships among grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) at the western limit of the Great Plains in Colorado. American Midland Naturalist 142:314-327.
- Craig, D. P. 1999. Caspian Terns on the Columbia River Estuary. Journal of Oregon Field Ornithology 25:72-81.
- Roby, D., D. P. Craig, K. Collis, and S. Adamany. 1999. Avian predation on juvenile salmonids in the lower Columbia River, 1998. Annual Report: Bonneville Power Administration and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 1-150.
- Collis, K., S. Adamany, D. Roby, D. P. Craig, and D. Lyons. 1998. Avian predation on salmonid smolts in the lower Columbia River, 1997. Annual Report: Bonneville Power Administration and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 1-71.
- Craig, D. P. 1998. Chipmunks use leverage to eat oversized eggs: Support for the use of quail eggs. The Auk 115(2):486-489, 1998.
- Breese, D, B. Tershy, and D. P. Craig. 1993. Craveri's Murrelet: Confirmed Nesting and Fledging Age San Pedro Martir Island, Gulf of California. Colonial Waterbirds 16:92-94.
- Craig, D. P .; M. A. Stern, K. A. Mingo, D. M. Craig, and G. A. Rosenberg. 1992. Reproductive Ecology of the Western Snowy Plover on the Coast of Oregon. Technical Report: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.


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The issue is that soybean oil supplies have been run down. Even with the better-than-anticipated crop in the U.S. and the record crops coming out of South America, the market for oil is tight. The USDA estimate for 2012-13 global ending stocks – even after including the large bean crop harvested and to be harvested in the spring – is 3 million tonnes, or 6.9% of consumption, a record low. That is down from 9.1% in 2011-12 and an average of 9% of usage in the 10 previous marketing years.
Chart 2 shows the soybean/soybean oil price ratio. It illustrates quite clearly what's been happening. Up until this past summer, oil supplies were plentiful, so prices were depressed vis-à-vis bean prices. Now that demand seems to have been revitalized, prices have begun to strengthen.
We've definitely become bullish on this market. What makes this a particularly attractive long is that it is hardly a crowded trade. Open interest is at the lower end of the range of the past two years (Chart 3). Even more appealing is that the funds are short (Chart 4). If we're right about our read of the fundamentals, the ensuing short-covering rally alone makes for an interesting trade.
Buy March soybean oil. Place initial stops at 49.5¢ per pound, close only.


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What are the characteristics that define an effective nonprofit organization?
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, an affinity group of the Council on Foundations, defines an effective nonprofit as one that has "the ability to fulfill its mission through a blend of sound management, strong governance, and a persistent rededication to achieving results." Establishing a nonprofit organization requires a full understanding of the key characteristics that will be important to future funders. They include a vital mission, clear lines of accountability, adequate facilities, reliable and diverse revenue streams, and high-quality programs and services.
As you embark upon the first steps of legally incorporating a nonprofit organization, drafting the bylaws, and building a board of directors, it is essential to keep these characteristics in mind.
This tutorial describes 12 tasks you will need to accomplish as part of the process of establishing a nonprofit organization:
File the Certificate of Incorporation
In the United States, nonprofits can operate as unincorporated associations, charitable trusts, or corporations. There are fewer government reporting requirements for unincorporated associations, but they will find it more difficult to be recognized as tax-exempt, and they cannot receive grants from most foundations and corporations. Charitable trusts can be recognized as tax-exempt, but they do not offer their trustees the same protections from personal liability as those enjoyed by directors of not-for-profit corporations. While becoming and operating a nonprofit corporation requires considerable time and effort, the advantages of this form of legal organization make it the one most groups choose if they require substantial public support, and if they expect their operations to be ongoing.
The first step in becoming a corporation is drafting the legal incorporation document–the "certificate" or "articles" of incorporation–and filing the document with the appropriate office within your state government, usually the office of the Secretary of State or Attorney General. In some states, approval must first be obtained from any state agency that will be regulating the proposed programs of the nonprofit organization. State incorporation usually can be accomplished within a matter of weeks, although multiple or complex state agency reviews can considerably extend that period.
As you prepare the articles of incorporation, you will need to determine the name of the organization, where the organization will be headquartered, and its overall purpose. When preparing the "purposes clause," remember to state the goals of the organization broadly in order to provide program flexibility in the future, and do not include purposes that will trigger state agency reviews of the proposed incorporation unless your organization in fact plans to conduct those programs.
Prior to the incorporation process, you also will need to make a decision whether or not your nonprofit will be a membership organization. Members may have significant rights with respect to internal governance, such as the right to elect and remove directors, vote upon changes in the structure of the organization and amend bylaws. Becoming a membership organization can be beneficial. For example, prominent individuals from existing community groups affiliated with your organization may feel a strong sense of ownership in the effectiveness of the board of directors, and in the overall success of the nonprofit's mission if they are members. However, forming your corporation as a membership corporation also imposes legal obligations in preserving the rights of members to participate in the corporation's governance.
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Select individuals to serve on the board of directors
The board of directors is the governing body of a nonprofit organization. The responsibilities of the board include discussing and voting on the highest priority issues, setting organizational policies, and hiring and evaluating key staff. Board members are not required to know everything about nonprofit management, but they are expected to act prudently and in the best interests of the organization. They approve operating budgets, establish long-term plans, and carry out fundraising activities.
Finding desirable board members can be a difficult task. A good board member is someone who is interested in the organization's purpose, willing to work within a group, and be in a position to make financial contributions to the organization, or to find others who will. Inviting prominent members of the community to join your board can attract interest, excitement and prestige to the organization. It is also desirable if board members are well known in the field in which the nonprofit organization functions, and it can be extremely beneficial if they have expertise in areas such as real estate, nonprofit law and accounting. For example, having someone on your board who is savvy on real estate matters can be quite helpful when complex issues arise down the road, such as negotiating leases or purchase contracts.
Important points during this process:
When building the board, it is important to recruit beyond your immediate circle of friends and acquaintances. Often, there is an assumption that professionals and businesspeople will not be sympathetic to the pursuits of a new grassroots organization. Despite these concerns, there are various strategies that can be employed to seek board candidates:
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Develop vision and mission statements
Vision and mission statements should articulate the essence of your organization's beliefs and values and define its place in the world. They establish the long-term direction that guides every aspect of an organization's daily operations.
To distinguish between the two, a vision statement expresses an organization's optimal goal and reason for existence, while a mission statement provides an overview of the group's plans to realize that vision by identifying the service areas, target audience, and values and goals of the organization.
The following statements highlight the difference between vision and mission:
In drafting appropriate statements for your organization, you might think about answers to the following questions to guide you:
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Establish bylaws and board policies
Bylaws define how a nonprofit organization will be managed and how it will run. They determine which staff and board members have authority and decision-making responsibilities and how those responsibilities should be carried out. They create a framework for the organization, and aid in resolving internal disputes. They also describe the rules for calling board meetings, and how and when board members are elected.
In addition to bylaws, it is advisable to have something at a lower level of formality, such as board policies. You might, for instance, adopt a Conflict of Interest Policy and set up a procedure for board members and officers to disclose whether they, or people close to them, may be in a position to benefit from something the nonprofit is doing. Having such a policy in place will assure funders that the chief officers of the nonprofit organization understand the importance of handling charitable dollars prudently and responsibly.
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Obtain an employer identification number (EIN)
To open one or more bank accounts in the name of the organization (and to file Form 990 with the IRS after each fiscal year), you will need to obtain an employer identification number (EIN), also called a federal tax identification number. An EIN may be obtained by filing Form SS-4 with the Internal Revenue Service. Looking ahead, this step is necessary for withholding employee income tax once you begin to hire staff.
Obtaining an EIN usually takes no longer than 30 days, and there is no filing fee.
Open a bank account and establish check signing procedures
It is important to establish a prudent system of checks and balances when dealing with the finances of an organization. It is advisable to allocate finance work among several people so that no one person is in charge of handling all of the transactions related to money. For example, when dealing with the receipt of cash, there should be one staff member who receives and tallies the funds, but a different staff member who then is responsible for taking the money to the bank and making the deposit. You should arrange for bank statements to be sent directly to the executive director, in order to ensure that each transaction can be accounted for. In turn, the bank statements then can be forwarded to the staff member responsible for reconciling the account(s).
By proceeding in such a prudent fashion, the potential for misappropriation of funds is minimized. Such sound fiscal procedures will please auditors, as well as future donors.
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File for federal tax exemption
You will need to file with the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3). Form 1023 is the multi-page form you will need to file. Within three to six months of submitting your paperwork, you ordinarily will receive a letter, granting tax-exempt status to your organization.
Organizations that achieve 501(c)(3) status are exempt from federal taxes, and contributions given to them are deductible by donors for income tax purposes. In addition, the overwhelming majority of private foundations in the U.S. award grants only to organizations that have this particular tax-exempt status. See:
Although you can complete Form 1023 without outside assistance, it is not advisable to do so. Success in securing both state incorporation and federal tax-exempt status usually requires the assistance of an attorney, and competent legal counsel often helps the process move along smoothly. If you have limited financial resources, you might contact a public interest legal organization that connects nonprofit organizations with volunteer business lawyers. There is a growing network of those providers in cities all over the United States, coordinated by an organization in New York called Power of Attorney. You might also seek help from local technical assistance or management support organizations that specialize in providing guidance to nonprofit organizations.
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Follow state and local nonprofit regulations
Once you receive tax-exempt status from the federal government, it is likely that you will need to file separately for state and local tax exemptions. Most states and many localities require nonprofits to register with the Charities Registration Bureau of the state or locality where they'll be fundraising. If your organization plans to fundraise actively in several states, you may need to register in each state in which you will be soliciting from the public.
Nonprofit organizations that are exempt under Section 501(c)(3) may qualify for exemption from state sales tax as well as from property taxes (if property is owned). Check with your State Department of Finance or Taxation to secure the necessary forms. For property tax exemption, apply to your local (county, town, or city) tax assessor's office. Your organization also may qualify for a nonprofit bulk-mailing permit, which would dramatically reduce your cost for third-class bulk mailings. You can obtain a permit by applying to the main office of your local post office.
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Find office space and obtain office equipment
Finding office space can be a challenge, and there are many complex challenges involved with negotiating a lease. These often include the cost of utilities, renovations and charges for building maintenance. The process often runs quite smoothly, however, if you have a board member with experience negotiating leases.
As you obtain office equipment, you will need to consider whether you should rent or buy. If you buy, there will be significant up-front costs or financing costs. Regardless of whether you rent or buy, you will need to evaluate the quality of the equipment, as well as the service contract and associated cost.
Recruit staff and prepare a personnel manual
It is essential for your organization to have solid staff in place to carry out programs and administrative functions. While volunteers can be helpful to an organization, depending on the size of your budget, future donors may question the commitment level of your staff if you rely too heavily on volunteers. The consensus among funders is that paid staff are more reliable than unpaid volunteers.
Finding competent staff is extremely important, and in some ways it is even more challenging than recruiting board members. Initially, your staff will be smaller than the board, and the staff is going to need to encompass all of the qualities that you seek for the board as a whole. You will want senior staff to be charismatic, articulate, well connected, and organized. They also will need to be good managers, experienced fundraisers, and have a solid understanding of the organization's goals, and effective ways in which they can be implemented.
As you build up your staff, you will need to prepare a personnel manual, which outlines policies related to overtime, annual and sick leave, health insurance and retirement benefits. While this document is not critical in the initial stages of setting up a nonprofit organization, it can prove to be quite handy when your staff begins to grow past the one-or-two-person stage.
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Establish a payroll system and procure necessary insurance coverage
You will need to make payroll arrangements to compensate your full time and part time staff, as well as independent contractors. It is important to distinguish the role of independent contractors from that of part time staff. Independent contractors are hired to perform very specialized, short-term projects for the organization (i.e. accountants, lawyers, consultants), whereas part time staff are permanent or long-term employees of the organization.
Funds that are earmarked for payroll tax must never be used for any other purpose. Be very careful, since committing such an error may result in substantial penalties from the Internal Revenue Service. In addition to salary, benefits are an important part of the compensation package, and your state government will insist that you have certain coverages. These ordinarily include workers' compensation and disability insurance.
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Develop an overall fundraising plan
There are many different ways to maintain a viable, financially stable nonprofit organization. It is important to develop funding from a mix of individual and institutional sources, as well as earned income generated from special events, products, services and membership fees.
Individuals extend their support in a variety of ways: they make contributions and pledges in response to direct mail requests, phonathons, appeals on the Internet, door-to-door canvassing, and face-to-face solicitations. Institutions that provide both financial and in-kind support to nonprofits include foundations; businesses and corporations; local, state and federal governments; and religious institutions.
Today, diversification of support is vital, and no organization can hope to finance its work successfully from any one source. Even if it does succeed in obtaining that one large, elusive grant, there's no guarantee the grant will be renewed each year, and the organization's future will not be secure. Moreover, funders like to see that an organization's funding is diversified, for this shows broad-based agreement that its mission is important and worthy of support.
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Let's review the start-up checklist for establishing a nonprofit organization:
As you begin the process of establishing your nonprofit organization, it is important to remember that before you begin the process of fundraising, your organization must be able to demonstrate the key characteristics of a successful nonprofit organization: a vital mission, clear lines of accountability, high-quality programs and services, and reliable and diverse revenue streams.Securing Your Organization's Future
You also may wish to attend the Center's full-day course, Securing Your Organization's Future: Developing a Fundraising Plan. Visit the Marketplace for information on registration fees, the dates and times.


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Owning a home is always a big decision to make, but prospective homeowners today may find that buying is out of the question. With house prices in centers being higher than ever people are considering other options. Its hard to believe that just over 100 years ago the majority of people were living in homes that were just big enough to fit their large families. Now, we have small families of three living in houses that are 2,000 square feet and then some. The average house today is approximately 2,600 square feet and the average family is three or four people. The square footage of houses these days has increased, while family size has decreased. Older generations were accustomed to living in a house with 10 or more family members, and their homes were just as large as the average home size today. Children shared rooms, and everyone shared one or two bathrooms, and the living space was arranged to suit a variety of purposes. So if a family of 10 could live in an average sized house and make it work, then why do smaller families insist on living in houses where they have more space than they know what to do with? One of the factors, of course, is the external pressure to show our success through the size of our homes and other material goods. Other people use it as an investment, and some just buy a large house because its what they truly want and so they do whatever they have to do to make it possible. No one way of living is better than the other, but for people who want to own a home but dont have a lot of money to spare, there is a fantastic solution, the tiny house movement.
A tiny house is any home that is under 900 square feet. This number may change when you are talking about different types of tiny houses like tiny homes on wheels which have to be a certain size to fit road requirements. Tiny homes on wheels are usually 100 to 400 square feet, but there are some that are as little as 60 or 80 square feet. Since tiny homes on wheels can only measure a maximum of 8 feet wide, 30 feet long and 13 feet high, there is only so much square footage that can fit inside one of these homes. The tiny houses with a larger square footage make use of loft areas to add more usable space which is counted toward the overall space in the home. Stationery tiny houses are usually under 900 square feet with lofts or second levels. A great example of a small house would be the old war time houses of the 1930s. These houses were built to give young soldiers and their families a fresh start, to make a comfortable life for themselves. There are still some of these houses available, and people who are into small house living are snatching them up for fairly affordable prices and renovating them to make them their own.
The tiny house movement is also about reducing our carbon footprint and creating a more sustainable life that is in harmony with the Earth. Tiny houses use less electricity, gas, and heat than their larger counterparts, which is more affordable for the tiny house dwellers, and more environmentally friendly. Many tiny house dwellers also use solar power or wind power. Another reason for small house living is to have the time and resources for other interests. Now that the cost of living is so high, people are looking for other options to become self-sustainable. People of all ages are jumping on board the tiny house movement and it's paving a new way for us all.
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People with schizophrenia have goals and desires just like people who do not have the illness. These may include starting a family.
You can have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby if you have schizophrenia. But there are some things to know.
You will want people to help you during your pregnancy and when you are first taking care of your new baby. It's best to talk with your pregnancy doctor (obstetrician), mental health doctor, and family doctor and your child's doctor (pediatrician) about any changes in your treatment or lifestyle during and just after your pregnancy.
You may wonder if the medicine you take for schizophrenia will harm your baby. Talk to your doctor about this.
You may be taking other medicines for schizophrenia or for the side effects of the medicines. You need to discuss all the medicines you take with your health care team.
Taking medicines to control the symptoms of schizophrenia can help prevent:
- Not getting the care before birth (prenatal care) that you and your baby need.
- Not eating well enough and giving your baby poor nutrition.
- Taking other medicines or supplements that may harm your baby.
- Using alcohol, illegal drugs, or tobacco, all of which may harm your baby.
The best thing you can do is to plan your pregnancy with your health care team or contact them as soon as you know you are pregnant. They can help you make the decisions you will need to make about medicines. They also can help you throughout your pregnancy and watch for symptoms or problems you may have.
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Doodle Bugs! Children's Centers knows the way to a kid's heart is through his sweet tooth, so it seems National Ice Cream Month is a terrific reason to get families together for a fun-filled event. On Tuesday, July 16, from 5 to 7 p.m., all Doodle Bugs! centers will host an old-fashioned ice cream social.
All are invited to sit at the counter of the Doodle Bugs! Old-fashioned ice cream parlor, have a delicious treat or a grilled hot dog on a warm summer evening, and enjoy fun games and activities. Doodle Bugs! faculty will be on hand to serve up a sundae or cone with all the favorite toppings.
"Summer is always filled with memories of warm, play-filled days and cool ice cream treats. Our old-fashioned ice cream social event will help make Doodle Bugs! a part of those memories, and we couldn't be more excited," said Anthony Insinna, president and CEO of Doodle Bugs! Children's Centers.
All are welcome to come and mingle with friends and family, meet the staff and tour the center. Guests will also have an opportunity to learn more about the upcoming fall programs and learn about enrollment options. Children can participate in arts and crafts, including decorating an old-fashioned soda hat, games, face painting and much more.
Doodle Bugs! Children's Centers provides education-based care for children ages 6 weeks to 12 years, including preschool/pre-K and summer camp programs. The "BRAVO!" curriculum, which is professionally designed and exclusive to Doodle Bugs!, combines theme-related, developmentally appropriate classroom experiences, all-inclusive enrichment activities and a series of center events. Enrichment activities include Tae Kwon Do and "Doodle Dance & Fitness."
Doodle Bugs! utilizes unique safety features, including the new "SafePass" system, which is a biometric access system allowing only authorized family members to enter the center by scanning their thumbprint. The center is also equipped with finger-safe door guards, an automated external defibrillator, and real-time, password-protected online viewing for families, via WatchMeGrow.com.
Doodle Bugs! Children's Centers is locally owned and operated, with six centers in Buffalo and four in Rochester. The 11th center recently opened in Pittsburgh, and a second franchised location is currently under construction in Greece. Insinna and his sisters, Clarine Insinna and Anna Insinna Zavatti, established the company in 1992 in East Amherst.
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Congratulations to Bob Ehrlich for pointing out that the United States, the supposed "land of the free," is now the largest jailer nation in the world ("Obama's unpardonable neglect of clemency," Jan. 13). This country is using its own legal system to tear itself apart, and for what? It's a word no one dares use, but it's what we have here in America — prohibition, also known as the "war on drugs." And I applaud Mr. Ehrlich for pointing in the right direction, but tinkering with parole and pardons is little more than arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Prohibition does not work. We've been down this road before, and it simply amazes me that we are giving ourselves the same self-inflicted wound that our great grandparents gave themselves 100 years ago. Let's not fool around with the margins, the whole corrupt system has got to go. End prohibition now. For our future and our children.
Anything less is an abdication of our responsibility as parents and as Americans.
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Hi Everyone,
Just caught this from one of my RSS feeds. Not sure how old the story is:
Here's a direct link to the video you'll find embedded on the above page:
Posting it here, though, to see if anyone has more to this. We all know how the media can be sometimes and I wanted to check if we're getting the whole story. Anyone from the Nashville area or has connections to the program there care to comment?
Thank you.
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Hi William, Thank you for the PDF. Appreciate your help.
You know this topic actually makes me sick."its not what we dont know..its what we know for sure that gets us in trouble"
Matt, if you hadn't caused emotional response, would we ever have gotten informative responses from William and Don? Doubtful. Now we know some programs are tracking, even though it seems somewhat buried.
So in the weatherization/not-for-profit side tracking studies are performed and assumedly implementer's receive this information so they can adjust their behavior. Not clear is if there are "Promises" made to clients.
Furthermore, people receiving free prescriptive improvements are a completely different market than people who have to decided what improvements they want, and pay for them. Not sure weatherization folks get how different it is when improvements actually have to be sold.
In the for profit side results disconnect is complete, at least from what I've seen. Guys at the helm may know actual to promised metrics but they aren't openly sharing it with us.
Keep fanning the flames.
Results transparency will cause contractor and homeowner interests to become aligned. It will create a whole new metric upon which contractors will compete for supremacy, energy savings accuracy. Delivering on promise. (Transparency must occur before contractors can have accountability, blaming us for poor results on a metric nobody was tracking is absurd.)
Folks may be interested in this recent post on the WAPTAC blog:
"GAO Releases Study that WAP On Track"
Also, there's been a national evaluation of weatherization going on over the last year or more. We expect that very soon reports will begin to come out of the National Retrospective Evaluation of the Weatherization Assistance Program, which is a grand, nationwide effort to measure, track, and analyze the low income weatherization program in all the states:
Barbara, thanks for the link. Be careful getting excited about "Press Releases," there is usually a lot of makeup hiding the wrinkles. Please let us know when the report follows.
Interesting to me is the outline of 4 goals, then claim of dramatic success referencing "exceeding" goal 1. What I want to know always is the economics of savings. How much was the budget to save $1 in energy, and how much was spent to save $1 in energy. I want to see the numbers for goal 3:
(3) the extent to which the weatherization program under the Recovery Act has achieved its energy and cost savings goals
People getting free "improvements" don't care if the improvement saves every penny promised, any improvement for free is a good improvement to them. If they save 25% of what they were supposed to save that's a win. But if the program can only deliver 25% on promise, isn't that an overall loser?
Sure, you can create a lot of jobs, send people out to a lot of homes, and claim they've been weatherized, but without answering number 3 you don't know if the exercise was effective.
Looks like the story is about 1 year old. The only followup story I found was last March. The Tennessee Comptroller's office investgated the weatherization program and wrote about it in their June 2010 audit report. This was before the aforementioned news story. I found no information since then. I guess we wait for the national evaluation report.
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Jack Schultz, 89 - July 04, 2011
Jack C Schultz, 89, of Gothenburg, formerly of Farnam, died July 4, 2011, at Stone Hearth Estates in Gothenburg.
Visitation will be held at Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, July 11, with the family present from 6-8 p.m.
Services will be held at Blase-Strauser at 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 12.
Interment will follow in the Fort McPherson National Cemetery, Maxwell.
Schultz was born June 1, 1922, near Eustis the son of Ferdinand Christian Otto Schultz and Ruby Mae (Johnson) Schultz.
He grew up in the Eustis and Farnam area. He attended country school near Eustis and graduated from Lexington High School in 1939. He also graduated from University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 1943.
After completing college and ROTC, Schultz became a first lieutenant in the 1948th Aviation Engineers Utility Company, where he served from 1943-1946. While in the service he lived in San Antonio, Spokane and Salt Lake City. After his honorable discharge from the service, he lived in Hayes Center, Curtis and Farnam areas.
Schultz married Mell V. Polson on Nov. 2, 1944, at San Antonio, TX; to this union two daughters were born, Cheryl Kay and Gayle Lynn.
He worked as the Frontier-Hayes County Extension agent for five years. He was a farmer and also taught for a while. He was a member of the American Legion Post 288, the Rural Fire Board where he served as president from 1975-1995and the Farnam Lion's Club and he served on the Farnam Public School board of education.
?He loved Nebraska football, gardening, computers and making pictures and videos for friends and family, according to family members. He loved the beauty of nature, traveling and sightseeing.
Schultz was preceded in death by his parents, brother Richard Schultz and niece Cindy Schultz.
Surviving are: wife, Mell Vinnie Schultz of Gothenburg; two daughters—Cheryl (Paul L) Mista of Severance, CO, Gayle (Perry) Greco of North Platte; grandson Eric (Samantha) Arnold; great-grandson Neil Josiah; sister-in-law Ruth Ann (Boyd) Schultz-Wakelin of Brock; nephew Jim (Michelle) Schultz and their children Curtis and Nathan of Kansas City, MO; along with numerous extended family and friends.
Memorials may be given to the Farnam VFW or the Farnam Lions Club.
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From marriages and babies to DJ gigs and more reality TV, the stars of the Jersey Shore haven't slowed down since the show ended in 2012. If anything, they've gotten wiser and funnier – or at least, that's how we feel about Vinny Guadagnino.
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1. He makes fun of himself.
2. He pokes fun at girls in a non-offensive way.
3. He makes up songs about food.
4. He makes fun of bloggers.
5. He watches himself on TV.
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Developing a Compact, Water-column Discrete Sample Collection (DiSC) System for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
DOEI Funded Research: 2010
AbstractThe goal of this project is to develop a new scientific sampling tool for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) enabled science missions. This is the next technical evolution of the sampling methodology exemplified by the DOEI funded Suspended Particulate Rosette sampler that is being used with great success to study both geochemical and microbial processes within rising hydrothermal plumes during Remotely Operated Vehicle deployments. This new AUV tool is intended to enable sample collection, in a sensor-triggered "Smart-sampling" mode, during multi-depth, vent field scale surveys – where sensor (T, light transmission, in situ mass spectrometry) and data resulting from samples collected with this system can be synthesized with modeling products, to produce vent field scale estimates of heat, water, and chemical fluxes. This new tool is also intended to enable studies that use predeployed AUVs (loitering for months to years), to conduct scientific surveys and collect samples in response to tectonic and volcanic events – a task that looks forward to the commencement of scientific operations within the OOI Regional node at Axial Seamount. This proposal will specifically develop a water and particulate sampling system for highly payload constrained AUVs – and will be targeted for Sentry the design elements and components will be readily reconfigurable for a vehicle such as a Remus 1500 – which is being sought for similar scientific missions with the OOI Pioneer Shelfbreak array.
This new tool will enable unique scientific applications, particularly within the scope of hydrothermal research. Recent studies suggest that processes active in hydrothermal plumes may significantly affect global ocean budgets (Bennett et al. 2008; Tagliabue et al. 2010). Years of research also suggest that hydrothermal flux undergoes a predictable evolution, tied to host-rock geochemistry, but driven by tectonic/volcanic cycles. Recent evidence from post-eruption (2006-2008) EPR sediment traps appears to support this (German et al. AGU, 2008). However this hypothesis has not been adequately tested due to the long-term and episodic nature of these processes. The commencement of scientific operations within the OOI Regional Node framework at Axial Seamount will enable studies that can provide strong tests this and related hypotheses, in part by responding to tectonic and volcanic event with predeployed AUVs and related science packages.


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Interview with 'We Women Warriors' Director Nicole Karsin
Filmmaker and Journalist, Nicole Karsin, recently spoke with me about her new film We Women Warriors, which is about indigenous women in Columbia who are struggling to keep the peace. Here it was Nicole had to say:
Nick- Hi Nicole.
Nicole- Hi Nick, how are you doing?
Nick- Good, how are you?
Nicole- Good!
Nick- We Women Warriors made its world premiere in NY on August 10th and played at DocuWeeks in La on August 24th. The film follows 3 native woman caught in the crossfire of Columbia's warfare who use nonviolent resistance to defend their peoples survival. First time filmmaker and journalist, Nicole Karsin, is witness to neglected human rights, catastrophes, and interweaves character driven stories about female empowerment, unshakeable courage, and faith, in the endurance of the indigenous cultures in Columbia. Can you tell us a little bit about We Women Warriors?
Nicole- It is a documentary that follows 3 native women in Columbia who are from distinct tribes in distinct regions, and each of them trapped by the conflict in a different way. The film follows them as they use non violent means, personal resilience, and female solidarity, to resist and transcend their situation.
Nick- It's an immensely powerful film, and I as I watched it, the violence is obviously very real. Why did you put yourself in so much danger to film this?
Nicole- I don't know. I kind of felt comfortable in the conflict region. I don't really know why. I lived in Chiapas, Mexico for 5 years shortly after the uprising, so Columbia was not my first experience, although different. I was in Columbia for 7 years, and I can't stand hospitals, but I can deal with that armed conflict.
Nick- Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you became a filmmaker?
Nicole- OK. Shortly after college I went to Chiapas, Mexico as an observer through a non-governmental organization from San Francisco called Global Exchange. From that I worked advising Mayan Women's Artisan Cooperative, so there's a little past in terms of the weaving symbols in my film. I was there for 5 years, and I learned a lot about the struggle for indigenous rights; that was definitely a huge part of my early formation. I went to get my masters in journalism knowing that I wanted to cover conflicts in Latin America, and feeling that based on living on the ground in Chiapas, and seeing how it was covered, I felt like more could be done.
After I graduated from Journalism school, I had a couple of different jobs, and the summer before I had interviewed 3 Columbian women at a conference in El Salvador. I had not been to Columbia but was moved by their stories. I had a story I was going to run on the Village Voice, but it was killed after 9/11, and one of the women who I had interviewed happened to come to New York on a speaking tour right after I had gotten let go of because of the economy. I was without a job and she said, "Why don't you come to Columbia and you can stay at my house and you can do some freelance work", and I said, "Sure". One month turned into three months, and then after that I came back to the US and I got a gig with free speech radio news to do weekly radio reports, because I really wanted to cover Columbia. I worked as an independent journalist doing various freelance in photography and radio.
Nick- So, all this started your drive to go do this in Columbia?
Nicole- Yes. While I was in Columbia I feel like the means to do independent filmmaking really opened up. Digital cameras weren't available previously, and just started becoming available while I was in Columbia. A friend gave me a version of Final Cut 2, and I bought myself a camera with the intention of learning to shoot. I brought my camera out on interviews, and really struggled with putting the camera on the tripod, very rudimentary. Gradually through experience I learned how to film, and I definitely had some colleges giving me pointers. I did a couple of pieces with my digital camera, and it so happened that one day when I went out to shoot there was a protest in the main presidential plaza, which was right down the street from my house, and a Kankuamo leader had been assassinated three days after the inter-American court on human rights decreed that the Columbian government should do more to protect the Kankuamos who were being killed off by the paramilitaries. It was very tragic and there was protest going on, and I went and filmed it, and that actually is the beginning and the end of my film. So I was shooting things in the beginning not knowing that they were going to be part of my film, just covering what was going on, and what I cared about, and what seemed interesting; gradually realizing that I wanted to do this film on the indigenous plight and there non violent struggle.
Nick- So what years were you filming thins?
Nicole- So, the little parts I just mentioned were 2004-2005, when I would do little things that were part of my radio work or just on my own accord. I really started doing this as a documentary project from August 2006, thru mid 2009. Nearly three years, and then I moved back to Los Angeles, where I'm from in 2009, and since then I returned twice to Columbia to do pick up interviews.
Nick- That's a pretty long span of time.
Nicole- Yeah it's been a long time. The women in the communities are like you're still not done?
I thought it would be much quicker but...
Nick- Are they going to get a chance to see the film?
Nicole- Well, they've seen it all along but there have been different moments when I thought I was done with the film, but I always showed them the film because in Columbia security is an issue so I wanted to make sure things are not going to have negative repercussions for them in terms of their personal security, that's very important to me. Also, sharing it with them as a collaborative project, not giving them editorial control of course, but just sharing the process with them because they are a part of it. They've seen different cuts throughout for the past 3 years, and I am very pleased to say that we've done a lot of work and Flor Ilva, who is the film's narrator, is going to becoming to the US, but unfortunately she's not going to make the premiere because she is going to be in a march the big protest in her region.
Nick- Along with her and the other women, were they apprehensive about being in this documentary?
Nicole- It was a little bit of a process with each one. Ludis I met while she was in prison and I did that one interview with her when she was there. I had never met her before, and a year later I started following her. It was different because she was incarcerated, and I was a sympathetic female, and not many people were caring about what was happening to her so there it was a little different in terms of trust with her. I feel like she had trusted me maybe more than others from the start because of her situation, her vulnerability. Flor I started filming when she was travel governor, and they were in this economist process to deal with crisis of the military occupation in the barracks. She is an amazing leader, and of course I was just filming her, and really drawn to her. I hadn't asked her formal permission to be in my film yet, and in the beginning she was like, "Who is this gringo woman following me with a camera?". She didn't trust me, and it's a situation of war, and I'm an outsider, and they don't know what my intentions are for, and I totally understand that. With Doris it was a little bit different because when she was in Bogota the day of the press conference, the day of the massacre in her village, I met her in the office of Columbia's National Indigenous Organization and the president of Indigenous Organization introduced me to her; so that immediately provided a little bit of trust because I was getting introduced to her by someone she trusts, even though she was also in a very vulnerable situation. Then I lost track of her, she was laying low for a little while, and in order to find her again the president of Columbian's International Indigenous Organization made the phone calls to introduce her to me again, and that helps with her having some idea of where I was coming from.
Nick- She seems like a very active women with the movement, doris?
Nicole- Yeah definitely.
Nick- So, my last question is that there are a lot of scenes where the women are shown weaving bags and that sort of thing, and Doris even talks about it at the end, what's the significance behind that?
Nicole- So, it's a multilayered significance on a very practical level. It's how the women of these communities survive, and how the women in many communities survive. They don't get much for their artisan projects and their usually exploited with prices, and intermediaries come and buy them and resell them for a lot more to foreigners. It's been a native women female tradition for more than 5 centuries; it's a way they've been able to maintain their culture, and actually sometimes been a way of recording history. It's also symbolic and represents female solidarity and the weaving together of the 3 stories.
Nick- Cool. It's a great film and it's really important to show the world this kind of film because a lot of people are not aware of these things, and that they still go on. You did a great job and our audience is definitely going to have to check out We Women Warriors, which came out August 24th at DocuWeeks. When will it be on DVD?
Nicole- I haven't figured out my distribution, but it will definitely be distributed one way or another.
Nick- Thank you for talking with me Nicole.
Nicole- Thank you so much for your time, I really appreciate it.


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Jerome Seagears, a 6-foot-1, 175-pound rising junior guard who played two seasons at Rutgers, has transferred to Auburn, head coach Tony Barbee announced on Wednesday. Auburn is petitioning to the NCAA for him to be eligible for this upcoming season.
Seagears averaged 6.5 points, 2.6 assists and 2.2 rebounds in 27.2 minutes in playing all 31 games as a sophomore last year for Rutgers, starting 19. He shot 37.0 percent from the floor, 38.1 percent from 3-point range and 73.8 percent from the foul line. He scored a career-high 21 points at Connecticut on a career-best 4-of-7 3-pointers and had 15 points and seven rebounds vs. DePaul in the Big East Tournament.
The Silver Spring, Md., native averaged 7.7 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 25.8 minutes as a freshman in 2011-12 while starting 25 of the final 26 games. He made the game-winning 3-pointer with 13 seconds left in overtime en route to 16 points, six assists and four rebounds in the win at Seton Hall. Seagears had 14 points, making all three 3-point attempts, at Marquette and had 11 points and seven assists vs. Villanova. He added 13 points in the upset win over No. 10 Florida.
A 2011 Jordan Brand Classic East Region All-Star rated as the nation's No. 89 prospect by Scout.com, Seagears attended Flora MacDonald Academy in Red Springs, N.C., in 2010-11 where he averaged 32.0 points, 9.0 assists and 6.5 rebounds under coach Derrick Bond. He was a 2011 Elite Basketball showcase all-star selection.
Seagears averaged 18 points, 9.0 assists, 5.0 rebounds and 4.0 steals in 2009-10 as a junior at Flora MacDonald Academy. He was a PANGOS All-America Camp top 20 all-star selection in summer 2010. He was a first-team All-Gazett, first-team All-Montgomery County Extra and first-team all-league selection as a sophomore at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Md., in 2008-09.
Seagears joins six Auburn newcomers in November signees Ronald Delph, a 7-foot, 235-pound center from Winter Haven, Fla.; Benas Griciunas, a 7-foot, 225-pound center from Silute, Lithuania.; and Tahj Shamsid-Deen, a 5-foot-10, 162-pound point guard from Decatur, Ga. The late signees include Matthew Atewe, a 6-foot-9, 235-pound center from Brampton, Ont., Canada.; Chris Griffin, a 6-foot-7, 225-pound forward from Tallahassee, Fla.; and Dion Wade, a 6-foot-7, 180-pound guard from Antwerp, Belgium.
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Boutique Hotel Pays Homage to Iowa History
The Hotel Pattee property is at once a quiet countryside retreat and a carefully curated tribute to Iowa's history: each of the building's 40 individually decorated guest rooms is adorned with original art and antiques that highlight elements of Iowa culture. In one room, the color scheme pays homage to the cream and eggs that sustained families during the Great Depression, whereas another room is decorated with a lamp fashioned out of a canary birdcage—a tip of the hat to the region's coal-mining history, as canaries were often sent into mines to detect gases.
David's Milwaukee Diner, meanwhile, has dining rooms modeled after passenger trains, complete with coffered ceilings, wood paneling, and murals of the countryside. This Groupon includes entrees for two; you can enjoy American cuisine such as sirloin steak basted in a whiskey glaze or tortilla-encrusted tilapia topped with pineapple salsa. Feel free to finish your day with cocktails at the Inter-Urban Lounge, or play a few frames at the onsite bowling alley.
Works by more than 30 artists are featured throughout the property, including a few pieces by acclaimed woodworker Chris Martin in the Woodworking room. The Russian room is modeled after a dacha, or 18th-century Russian summer house; it commemorates Nikita Khrushchev's controversial visit to Iowa during the height of the Red Scare.
The hotel just opened a new Aveda spa, too, called Copper Door Spa. You can indulge in a variety of exotic treatments here: the Caribbean Therapy body wrap includes a detoxifying seaweed-wrap mask, and the Pattee signature chakra draws from the healing arts of India to relieve muscle tension.
Perry, Iowa: Quiet Farmland Outside Des Moines
Perry—situated about 40 miles northwest of Des Moines and 140 miles from Omaha—is a small rural town that once served as a major railroad junction. The railroad presence remains strong; there are themed restaurants like the one at Hotel Pattee. In the neighboring town of Boone, you can hop aboard an authentic steam engine that pulls 1920s-era coach cars through the scenic countryside to the old coal-mining town of Frasier. Along the way, you can take in fantastic views of the river valley from the train's open-air car.
Farming is embedded in Iowa's history. It's worth visiting the living-history farms in nearby Urbandale. This 500-acre outdoor museum tells the story of how Iowans transformed the prairies into one of the most productive farmlands in the world. You can also learn how indigenous tribes grew crops in the 18th century and explore a replica of Walnut Hill's main street as it appeared in 1875.


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NC murder suspect arrested in Maryland
NC murder suspect arrested in Maryland
FREDERICK, Md. —
The U.S. Marshals Service says it has arrested a North Carolina murder suspect in Frederick.
Deputy Marshal David Lutz says 34-year-old Reginald Odell was arrested Friday at a friend's apartment on South Market Street.
Odell is charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 30 shooting of Dorian Miles near Lilesville, N.C. He also is charged with assault with intent to kill Hasson Pressley, who was shot in the chest.
Lutz says Odell was approved for extradition to North Carolina during a hearing Friday afternoon in Baltimore County Circuit Court in Towson.
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The Depression/Anxiety Thread
The Depression/Anxiety Thread
Dr. Buckminster made a suggestion to me to start a thread for Depression.
A lot of folks seem to deal with Depression or Anxiety or both. I've been pretty vocal about my own dealings with both and know I'm not alone.
Bucky told me about a show on CNN recently aired about treating depression with electrodes. Rumor has it, will be on again tomorrow.
Here's a clip and article about a woman who had the treatment.
I find it fascinating that back in the 50s, ECT (Ectro-Convulsive Therapy) was a popular treatment. But it seems as time went on, it became associated with barbaric techniques like leeches and blood letting. (See the "Shock Shop" in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for a good example). Now, it seems to have come back in vogue as a viable treatment for depression.
The point of this thread is to have a reasonably safe place to talk about our emotional woes. Maybe you have situational depression. What causes it? How long do you usually suffer from it? How do you treat it?
Or maybe your depression is more clinical, longer-lasting, and more pervasive.
I've dealt with depression throughout my whole life, but it's become the sharpest and most debilitating in the past year. Also, as I started having it treated more aggressively through meds and therapy, I discovered what a bitch Anxiety can be. Seems that is my biggest problem these days. It seems that a lot of my issues are rooted in my past Christian worldview. I'm learning that the only way out is to go through. In other words, I've spent a lot of energy repressing my thoughts and feelings rather than working through them to understand and hopefully change them.
So let this be a thread to talk about your issues. Or maybe you don't have any and you've always wondered why those mopey depressed people you know don't just "get over it."
Also, upon further review, it seems there are already a few various threads floating around out there, so I've linked them here to put the discussions in one easy to find place.
Let the good times begin!
It was just a fucking apple man, we're sorry okay? Please stop the madness
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They didn't have no blood test for diagnosing manic depression during the decades I was being treated. It was all based on interviews and trial and error with different pharmaceuticals and dosages. Apparently we are now on the brink of new diagnostic and therapeutic technologies: Discovery of blood transcriptomic markers for depression in animal models and pilot validation in subjects with early-onset major depression
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I've stuff to say but no time right now.
Will say quickly that my sister in law is working with electro shock right now (in her career) and it is showing some impressive results to the patients, some being nearly cured of symptoms. A jump re-start for their brains. I think because it wasn't quite understood years ago, and overdone, it became an archaic practice but there are new discoveries and new information on how to use it. Cool stuff!
And sorry things are so shitty right now Erxomai, rough patches suck!
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I was very close to my granny. When she died, I went bonkers. I started waking up with chest pain, and one New Year's Day, I stopped by the ER and said, "hmmm, my hands are cold, why is that ?"... they said, "here's some Ativan, stop working so hard".
Long story short, people with mental dysfunction are really over a barrel, because the only treatment, (and I DID need something), is drugs, whose side effects slow up your brain, (Vallium, Clonazapam/Klonapin), etc. If you keep taking that crap, you just need more and more of it, and nothing changes, (except you "slow" down mentally). Now, having moved out of that, I am fascinated that our brains can do such amazing things with their chemistries. And I feel for people who have to live, subjected to and being "victims" of chemistry. The SSRI's, (Seratonin Receptor Re-uptake Inhibitors) work on some, (ex. Prozac), but on some, like me, they have a "paradoxical" affect..and make things instantly worse, so they're out.
The program by Sanjay Gupa on CNN shows that very directed and limited electrical stimulus, might work for depression.
Just like the electical treatments for seizures, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19332313 , maybe this will work too !
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Anxiety usually doesn't bother me much. For me it's usually directly linked to something specific. I had a hard time growing up with abusive parents, I never knew what would set who off and if it may lead to a brutal beating...so I think my anxiety was well founded. Over time it has diminished almost completely.
Depression is a whole 'nother subject. I have dealt with it for many years. I have been on many different meds over the years, some that didn't work and some that did but I didn't care for the side effects. Dad got real sick about 5 years ago and I did turn back to meds for depression. (Note: he was very abusive when I was young but we finally grew close and I accepted his apology and moved on.) When I felt I was over a rough patch I would quit the meds. Then my cancer diagnosis...oh boy! I went to my doctor (who is FABULOUS) and told her that I wanted to go back on Lexapro and I promised to stay on it. And I have...it's the one that works for me.
That's not to say I am happy and giddy now. I can deal with things better and overall I just feel much better and it stopped the broken records that would play in my head.
I did some therapy a about 7 years back with a wonderful doctor and she really helped me work some things out. She said I have great coping skills in that I had figured out ways to distract myself from low times...for instance, my commute was torture because of the things that went round and round in my head...so I started buying stand up comedy CDs to listen to on the drive. George Carlin, Eddie Izzard, Richard Prior, Chris Rock, Ron White, (almost forgot Lewis Black)...they got me through some bad times.
So, the depression is usually manageable, sometimes not so much...but much better and I credit finding the right meds and letting go of some past shit that I can't change. I also reduced my contact with people that stressed me out. Some people think what I did was cold when I cut the most toxic people from my life...but I had to in order to survive.
I have learned to actively work to snap out of it after allowing myself some wallowing time.
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I fully agree with you Erxomai - the only way forward is to face the truth.
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*disclaimer- after hitting the preview post I realize this has become a wall and also, it's late for me so I hope this shit makes sense. Might have to correct some things or re-explain bits when I have a rested mind.
As promised, lots to say.
(21-04-2012 11:21 AM)Erxomai Wrote: It seems that a lot of my issues are rooted in my past Christian worldview. I'm learning that the only way out is to go through. In other words, I've spent a lot of energy repressing my thoughts and feelings rather than working through them to understand and hopefully change them.Instead of repressing them, you can literally change them. You are so right, covering them up keeps the path of feelings and thoughts there but acknowledging them and creating a new outlook and path can completely change them and free you from any pain the current ones cause.
It used to be thought that there is a cap on neuronal paths and that new ones couldn't be created, but now we know they can be. A person can be ninety, and with some work, they can recreate their outlook, feelings and thought patterns to help themselves- amazing!
Me personally, I have felt both depressed and felt anxiety.
I felt depressed earlier in life mostly and had pretty bad postpartum depression with my first baby and a little bit with the second (I think because I recognized it I was able to help myself and not have it get as out of control). In more recent years, after a traumatic incident, I developed huge feelings of anxieties for awhile. I still get anxious, but I have a good set of skills and tools to help myself and it is a great thing. I feel more in control with a positive outlook, which is amazing considering I know the alternative.
Not to say things people already may know, but I just want to clarify where I'm coming from First of all, I agree that in some states (of mind) it's very important to seek professional help and medication if needed. There is a huge stigma attached to mental health which is incredibly unfortunate. It is seen as a sign of weakness and almost disease. The shame some people feel when they are affected is too bad, because really mental health and wellbeing are not just made up in our heads, it is so real and physical. It is literal matter in our brains that creates the situation. Some is genetic or created by environmental factors (be this a literal environment-stress at work, toxic fumes or drug induced, maybe a heavy indoctrination environment like many of us have experienced or some type of other abuse) where the meds come in handy maybe for a life time or maybe temporarily until we can handle it on our own. Other times it is temporary or slight, or the conditions are such that can be helped through other non-medicated means, just enough where we need to gain a skill or therapy to help us in the right direction to manage the mental health. No one person is like another when it comes to a seemingly simple term, like depression or anxiety.
For depression, I have learned to take care of myself or it's a slippery slope. I learned this acronym that always helped me keep in check.
If I was feeling depressed, I'd 'HALT' (stop) and think of this. If two or more of these symptoms were present, I'd likely be feeling depressed and should try to keep them in check. Sleep was huge! Also, exercise helped a lot (which is not a part of HALT but very important for mental stability), as did yoga (seriously- plus that is like a back massage if you get the right instructor!)
After much practice, I was able to find a balance and routine that worked. Not saying this is easy, or a guaranteed formula. Some days were (and occasionally are) tough. I'd literally have to force myself out of bed or to get moving. I think at one point I even had an accountability partner. Sounds cheesy, but sometimes just getting going is the hugest step and then things did fall into place (or do).
Depression and anxiety often go hand in hand because it's all so overwhelming.
When I became intensely anxious it was so debilitating I couldn't even work. For me, I chose not to find a psychologist (more likely to prescribe medication) because I knew my anxiety stemmed from a situation rather than a genetic or otherwise disposition. I had to find help though, so I searched for a councillor or therapy of some kind. Since this was my background in my career (counselling) I was very picky. At the time I was frustrated because I thought I could see through the counselling techniques so they wouldn't work, but now I realize it's not that they weren't working but it was that the professionals I tried out were just plain shitty at their jobs. From my experience I always tell people to shop around for someone who works and don't give up on the first one or two and say it's all crap. If there is a personality miss match or something doesn't feel right, go somewhere else, just like you would for a dentist, doctor or hair dresser.
I finally found the most amazing talk-therapy doctor EVER. In a couple of months I was back full time at work and feeling much more relaxed and confident. Now I see him once a year, which is recommended for everyone like you would do a check up for a physical.
I learned a lot about anxiety and how it works, and how to make it through. And yes, it is something to work through.
Anxiety stems from the feeling of being out of control. Sometimes we can pin point exactly what that is. Sometimes it's future (new up coming job, meeting with a friend we had a falling out with, etc) and sometimes it is from a past experience (we may have been in an accident and now are afraid to make left turns, or maybe someone we loved betrayed and abandoned us). So the thing that happened or may happen leaves us feeling helpless. So we worry and worry. We picture every outcome over and over. Many of us come to the conclusion that the worry will not help or solve the problem, but it seems to keep festering anyway. I should also mention sometimes we can't pinpoint the anxiety, it's just a feeling and we don't know why. This can still be helped, too. The good thing is it doesn't actually matter what we are feeling anxious over, it's just the feelings we have to deal with. So what do we do now? Why can't we just relax about it?
Well, we can when we adjust the mental attitude with practice, *I* have to stop the festering worry in my mind. Anxiety is pretty well never about what is happening this very second. So, when we focus on the moment right now, we can relax.
I remember one day I was feeling particularly anxious when I arrived at my therapist and we were sitting there and he asked me what was wrong. I told him what I was worried about. He said well is this person here right now with us, and is this situation happening right now? I answered no. He said where is your daughter? I answered where. And he said, so as far as you know right now, she is safe? I said yes. Then it seemed over and over he asked what's wrong right here right now? Over and over to the point of almost interrupting until I finally said okay nothing is happening! Then he yelled "Aha! You are okay and there is nothing to worry about!" I was instantly relaxed more and felt better. It seems SO simple, and I realize people worry about major concerns and issues, but at that moment I realized it's a conscious choice that takes practice to relax in every moment. To literally take things step by step. And that is what overcoming anxiety is about. It's about demystifying things that are out of our control and choosing to live for the moment. It's about taking the power away from our problem and giving the control back to ourselves. Let Saturday happen on saturday, let next month happen then and let next Thanksgiving dinner with the inlaws happen on Thanksgiving (lol). If there IS something I can do to help myself today (study for that scary test, research the facts or truth on a certain subject that's bugging me, putting as much money aside that I can for that debt or retirement, etc) then do it today, but only worry about what can be done today because today is all I have.
Again, not always easy or perfect, but helpful. Having a clearer idea of these things and how they worked helped me to work through it all, and lots of practice.
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Hey LJ, thanks for sharing your story. I actually made it all the way through.
I'm trying to imagine my therapist ever asking me, "What's wrong?" Or even saying, "Aha, you're okay!" She doesn't say much. I purposely picked a Psychodynamic therapist, but sometimes she drives me crazier because she doesn't say much. But then when she does, it's usually profound in the moment. I should start viewing her as a Zen Master.
If you find out more about the work your sister-in-law is doing, I'd love to hear about it.
(21-04-2012 02:07 PM)Bucky Ball Wrote: I was very close to my granny. When she died, I went bonkers. I started waking up with chest pain, and one New Year's Day, I stopped by the ER and said, "hmmm, my hands are cold, why is that ?"... they said, "here's some Ativan, stop working so hard".Bucky, there are some days that Ativan is my best friend. Or maybe it's like an American Express Card...Don't leave home without it.
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(23-04-2012 10:06 PM)Erxomai Wrote: Hey LJ, thanks for sharing your story. I actually made it all the way through.Yeah, the story was not for the faint of heart, sorry
You should totally pretend she is a zen master, you will get more from the experience and more bang for the buck! Ha ha.
I can elaborate a bit on what she told me a little while ago, but I am talking to her soon, so I will rack her brain first.
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(23-04-2012 10:06 PM)Erxomai Wrote: Bucky, there are some days that Ativan is my best friend. Or maybe it's like an American Express Card...Don't leave home without it.Believe me, I get it. Some days, I was really desperate..and my doc doesn't like drugs. The fascinating thing is, in my case, it all just stopped. I'm trying to figure that out. I really don't get it. I was really debilitaed there for a while, and it all just went away. Now, (contrary to my previous "impatience".. and "get over it" attitude towards mental problems), I have great empathy towards those who suffer from it. Actually, this is what I think cured me ... surfing.
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Big dairies impact on landscape raises concern
In one of the most intensively farmed parts of America's Dairyland, where 29 percent of the county's private wells test unsafe due to bacteria or nitrates, residents have a new concern: estrogenic well water.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay researchers cited manure as a possible source — though not the only one — for the endocrine-disrupting chemicals found in half of 40 wells in northeastern Wisconsin, chosen for testing because of their susceptibility to contamination.
"We don't know what the human health risks are," said Angela Bauer, lead author. "But what we do know is that long-term exposure to estrogen in general can increase your risk to certain types of diseases, including hormonesensitive cancers. So I think it's absolutely something that requires further attention."
Lincoln resident Mick Sagrillo had already stopped drinking his well water before he learned that it had "the honor," as he put it sarcastically, of being Kewaunee's most estrogenic — that is, tainted with the hormone estrogen or something mimicking it.
The study was published in April in the journal Water Environment Research.
To Sagrillo, an energy consultant, the estrogenic water is just another reason to worry about Big Dairy's effects on this vulnerable landscape. In Lincoln, 51 percent of the wells tested are unsafe — more than twice the statewide rate of about one quarter.
But some dairy farmers felt the UW-Green Bay study unfairly blamed them, and it raised hackles. The Dairy Business Association did not respond to emailed questions or calls about it.
Don Niles, a veterinarian and owner of the large Kewaunee County farm Dairy Dreams, noted that the researchers could not nail down what made the water estrogenic. They lacked the necessary instruments, according to Bauer.
"I think that whole paper could have been done without tying it into a likely dairy issue," he said.
Manure increases, cropland shrinks
Here in northeastern Wisconsin, including Door, Brown, Kewaunee, Manitowoc and Calumet counties, water slips through deeply cracked karst bedrock so fast that it does not get filtered on its way to the aquifers underground. In one 2006 incident, manure flowed from people's taps.
At the same time, the area is home to some of the densest livestock farming in the state. Wisconsin has rules restricting waste spreading near karst features, but critics say they are not strong enough.
The trend is more cattle — meaning more manure — with less cropland to absorb it, according to agricultural census data analyzed by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
Statewide, both cows and cropland have dropped. But in the northeastern karst region, from 1997 to 2007, the cattle herd grew by 12 percent, while cropland acreage shrank 4 percent.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture uses the term "manureto cropland ratio" to describe the problem. Brown County, where Green Bay's urban sprawl has eaten into farmland, has the highest ratio, followed by other northeastern counties.
"You have the worst-case scenario here," said Bill Hafs, a former Brown County conservationist who now directs the environmental program for NEW Water, the Green Bay sewerage district. "The trends are unsustainable for agriculture and water quality."
Gordon Stevenson, a retired former chief of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources runoff management section, calculated that Wisconsin's 3.4 million cows produce more waste than the people of Tokyo and Mexico City combined, and called land spreading of untreated manure "public enemy No. 1" in a recent speech.
Niles and other large-dairy farmers said manure management has dramatically improved over the past half-century, allowing them to precisely calibrate what nutrients are spread on the land.
"Frankly, I would like to get ahold of (the researchers) and offer the dairy industry's support in putting a study together to help answer some of these questions," Niles said. "We don't want to be in denial of the problem, but we surely want to be sure that we have a problem if we're going to make the effort."
What made the water hormonal?
Bauer, who recently left her UW-Green Bay biology professorship for High Point University in North Carolina, tested for estrogenic chemicals using estrogen sensitive breast cancer cells. When doused with well water from Sagrillo and other residents, the cells multiplied.
The timing of the estrogenic samples pointed to manure as a possible source.
"There's much less land spreading occurring during the winter months — and estrogenic contamination is much lower then," she said.
Whatever was in the water, there was not a lot of it. The concentrations were lower than the level that can feminize male fish. But a handful of samples approached that threshold.
What troubles Bauer is the role contaminated water may play in people's cumulative exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals through food, plastics, shampoos and soaps, flame retardants and industrial chemicals. The chemicals can mimic or disrupt the action of natural hormones.
No health warnings, but keep testing
Right now, the pollution levels Bauer and master's student Sarah Wingert found "are not something where we would be issuing public health advisories," said Henry Anderson, the state's health officer and chief medical officer.
DNR groundwater chief Jill Jonas noted that most public water systems disinfect their water, which kills pathogens but does not remove many potential endocrine disruptors. Though few test for emerging contaminants like hormones, studies have shown they tend to turn up rarely and at low levels.
But in rural northeastern Wisconsin, where groundwater is often contaminated, many people rely on private well water, which is not required to be treated or regularly tested.
The Bauer study was "another reminder that people with private wells need to be testing, and making sure that their septic systems are maintained properly," Jonas said.
The state funded Bauer's work, but is not planning to conduct or fund follow-ups, according to the DNR.
Bad water common
Bad wells have long plagued this part of Wisconsin, as Luxemburg resident Chuck Wagner demonstrated.
Standing at the roadside edge of his property, he scraped away a half-inch of dirt with his boot to reveal cracked bedrock. Such a thin layer of soil has little hope of soaking up any pollution in whatever runoff comes its way.
Over the past decade, Sometimes Wagner's well water has come out of the tap brown. When that happened, his family would not even bathe in it. A family photograph shows his granddaughters in front of a bathtub full of yellowbrown water.
Contamination can lead to illness
In March 2004, Kewaunee County resident Judy Treml's sixmonth old daughter was rushed to the emergency room after manure polluted their drinking water. The farm that spread the manure was fined $50,000 and paid the Treml family $80,000.
Hafs estimated two-thirds of the residents of the town of Morrison, in Brown County, now rely on bottled water. More than 100 wells were polluted in 2006 after animal, industrial, municipal and septic wastes were spread on frozen ground.
Despite such incidents, state and local officials said many residents avoid testing their wells. Some do not care what is in it, some do not want to pay for the test, and some fear the results could devalue their homes.
Chemical's source a mystery
One of the estrogenic culprits may be local residents themselves.
Human waste can have natural and synthetic estrogens, detergents, pharmaceuticals and other potential endocrine disruptors. Wastewater treatment plants' effl uent streams have lots of chemicals in them, and in this rural area, leaky septic systems are a potential source.
The Bauer study raised the possibility that industrial or treated municipal sewage sludge, spread on fields, also could be a source.
Some pesticides have been found to feminize birds, fish and other animals. They are known to get into wells: The state estimates that one-fifth of the private drinking wells statewide contain a breakdown product of the potential endocrine disruptors alachlor and metolachlor.
Then there is the large amount of estrogen produced by dairy cows. The 250 milligrams of estrogen a single cow produces daily is as potent as the hormones taken by 1,000 postmenstrual women, Israeli physiologist Laurence Shore estimated.
And Kewaunee County has 42,000 dairy cows, twice the human population. Each cow produces 18 times as much waste as a person.
"Nobody is not guilty here," said Sagrillo, who recently had his own old well plugged.
EPA studying hormones' impact
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cites a study estimating that more than 90 percent of the estrogen in the United States comes from CAFOs — concentrated animal feeding operations. Dairy CAFOs have 700 or more cows.
Six years ago, a task force of scientists, dairymen, residents and others convened to identify ways to better protect the karst landscape in northeastern Wisconsin.
But its recommendations drew sharp opposition from dairy farmers. A 2010 Democrat-backed bill that would have further restricted land spreading of waste in karst areas never made it to the Senate floor.
Wagner believes large farms have their place. He wants to see farming "flourish in a way that's environmentally responsible."
For now, he is giving up on his well, after more than a decade of bad test results.
This year, Wagner had a new well drilled down 304 feet to a lower aquifer, at a cost of nearly $8,000.