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Saturday, in the wee small hours of the morning, noted scribbler Bret Easton Ellis unleashed an avalanche of ideas for a possible American Psycho sequel, encouraging his followers, "Please keep sending ideas...You won't get credit...But they help..." Most of what Ellis shared with his denizens is just pop culture snark, but if you want to send Ellis some ideas with the hope of one day reading them in all their laboriously gruesome detail, be my guest. I, however, plan on keeping my idea for a Patrick Bateman ski/murder tour of the Swiss Alps tightly under wraps...oh, that's right — internet.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A day after former Baptist minister and likely presidential rival Mike Huckabee offered a withering critique of Mitt Romney's record, the former Massachusetts governor made his pitch to the same group of religious conservatives.
As Mitt Romney, left, defended his health care record Saturday, Mike Huckabee won a vote.
Romney appealed to attendees at the Values Voter Summit in Washington on Saturday, using a speech that drew heavily from his address to social conservatives at the same hotel earlier this year. "Putting such a spirit-crushing, back-breaking debt burden on our children is unworthy of our national character," he said.
"That is why I believe that this spending and borrowing is not just economically irresponsible, it is morally wrong."
The former Republican presidential candidate, widely considered a likely 2012 contender, was on the ballot for the gathering's 2012 presidential straw poll, along with Huckabee, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Indiana Rep. Mike Pence and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
Huckabee won the straw poll Saturday, grabbing nearly 29 percent of the vote. Romney, Pawlenty, Palin and Pence each won roughly 12 percent of the 597 votes cast.
Just four of the eight prospective GOP standard-bearers spoke at the three-day conference: Romney, Pence, Huckabee, and Pawlenty. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who will speak later Saturday, earlier asked that his name be removed from the straw poll ballot.
Despite the makeup of the crowd, Romney's speech was relatively light on social issues, focusing instead on economic and security policy. Watch what Romney has to say at the summit »
He blasted the Obama administration's financial track record and its decision to consider prosecuting intelligence agents who violated government protocols on the interrogation of prisoners. "[President Obama] can spin a speech, but he can't spin his record," said Romney. "And I'll bet you never dreamed you'd look back at Jimmy Carter as the good old days."
Romney has eked out several victories in similar recent measures of conservative presidential preference, including the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll earlier this year, and the last Values Voter Summit contest, held two years ago. He narrowly defeated Huckabee that year in voting that was allowed over the Web. This year's vote is limited to conference attendees. Watch the House GOP leader talk about health care and the summit »
Romney, a Mormon who battled Huckabee for evangelical support during the 2008 Republican primary season, drew a polite, though not overwhelming, response from activists Saturday. He continued to make a bid for social conservative support, taking aim at Obama's address to the nation's schoolchildren earlier this month: He backed the president's decision to speak to students, but slammed him for failing to focus on the challenges of single parenthood and out-of-wedlock births.
Romney's efforts to reform health care in Massachusetts have come under fire from Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor.
"In fact, the only thing inexpensive about Massachusetts' health care bill is that there, you can get a $50 abortion," Huckabee said, drawing instant pushback from the Romney camp.
On Saturday, the former Massachusetts governor continued the defense of the health care overhaul launched during his tenure and criticized Obama's health care plan.
"This Republican worked to reform health care in my own state," he said. "Not every feature of our plan is perfect, but the lesson it teaches is this: You can get everyone insured, without breaking the bank and without a government option. There is no government option in my Massachusetts reform. The right answer for health care is not more government, it is less government."
Romney's criticism of the president's health care plan drew a muffled shout of "He lied!" from a man in the audience, followed by a round of laughter and applause from the crowd.
The Democratic National Committee, which blasted Pawlenty after his conference speech Friday, also slammed Romney's remarks Saturday.
"If Mitt Romney thinks pandering to the far right is a winning strategy, that's his choice," Democratic National Committee spokesman Hari Sevugan said.
"Of course, it didn't work out so well for him last time. Maybe that's because, given how often he changes his position on issues, he has no credibility with the right. And given how often he's misrepresenting the truth, he doesn't have much credibility with anyone else, either."
Conference breakout panels Saturday afternoon are scheduled to include Global Warming Hysteria: The New Face of the "Pro-Death Agenda"; Obamacare: Rationing Your Life Away; Activism and Conservatism: Fit to a (Tea) Party; and Thugocracy: Fighting the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. The summit's straw poll results -- an early look at the state of the 2012 race -- are scheduled for release mid-afternoon.
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Dodgers lose 4-3 to Reds in 10 innings
The Los Angeles Dodgers got another solid start from Zack Greinke and a big home run by Yasiel Puig.
This time, it wasn't enough.
Brian Wilson picked up his first loss with Los Angeles when Billy Hamilton stole second in the 10th inning and scored on Todd Frazier's game-ending single, giving the Cincinnati Reds a 4-3 victory on Saturday.
Ryan Ludwick opened the Cincinnati 10th with a leadoff walk against Wilson (1-1). Reds manager Dusty Baker then went to the dynamic Hamilton, and the speedy prospect took second as catcher A.J. Ellis dropped the ball while taking it out of his glove.
The 22-year-old Hamilton, who set a professional record with 155 steals in the minors last season, has yet to make a plate appearance in the majors, but is 4 for 4 on steal attempts since he was promoted on Monday.
Frazier followed with a line-drive single into right field to give Cincinnati five wins in its last six games. J.J. Hoover (4-5) got three outs for the victory.
"We haven't had an error in two days. We have had good pitching," Dodger manager Don Mattingly said. "We just haven't done enough to win. For a month and a half we got every big out we needed. There is nothing we're doing wrong. We got some big outs today. We just didn't get the big hit."
Yasiel Puig hit a two-run homer for NL West-leading Los Angeles, which has lost three straight. Adrian Gonzalez went 4 for 5 and Ellis had two hits.
Greinke struck out nine in six innings and was in line for his 15th win before Cincinnati rallied in the seventh. Shin-Soo Choo singled with one out and Cesar Izturis followed a run-scoring double against Paco Rodriguez, tying it at 3.
Izturis, starting at second base in place of the injured Brandon Phillips, tied his season high with three hits. Izturis played for the Dodgers from 2002 to 2006.
"This was a big game for us," Izturis said. "That's why you prepare every day. I know my role. You've got to be ready."
Greinke allowed eight hits and walked one. He is 11-1 with a 2.13 ERA in his last 15 starts.
"I was battling," Greinke said. "I was making a bunch of good pitches but they were battling too. They put a bunch of good at-bats together and strung some hits together."
The win helps the Reds keep up the pressure on the top two teams in the bunched NL Central. Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Cincinnati are all in position to make the playoffs, but the division race is still very much in the balance.
Mat Latos allowed three runs and nine hits in seven innings for the Reds. He struck out three and walked one.
"Latos is a guy with good stuff," Mattingly said. "Today, he had to battle to get outs."
The Dodgers grabbed the lead in the first when Puig was hit by a pitch, moved up on Gonzalez's single and scored on Hanley Ramirez's single to left.
Cincinnati responded in the bottom half on RBI singles by Jay Bruce and Ludwick.
Puig made it 3-2 in the second with his 15th homer, a drive into the left-field seats on a 2-2 pitch. Ellis was aboard after a leadoff single.
Wilson is among the Dodgers' best pitchers at holding runners on, but Hamilton put himself in scoring position.
"Hamilton is a battle," Mattingly said. "We had a shot there."
NOTES: Phillips didn't start due to a left quad contusion he suffered on Thursday. Phillips left that game in the seventh inning and was replaced by a pinch runner in the eighth inning on Friday. ... Dodgers LHP Hyun-Jim Ryu, scratched from Friday's start with mid-back stiffness, is expected to throw in the bullpen on Sunday, Mattingly said. He expects the pitcher to start on Wednesday. ... Los Angeles pinch-hitter Jerry Hairston Jr. was ejected from the game after arguing about a called third strike leading off the ninth.


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"The Big C" was never going to surprise us with a happy ending. Even though the hard-hitting drama often was lighthearted as it charted high-school teacher Cathy Jamison's battle with stage IV melanoma, it never gave us false hope as her condition steadily worsened.
So consider the following spoiler-free: The final season, called "The Big C: Hereafter" (9 p.m. April 29, Showtime; 4 stars out of 4) and packaged in four hour-long episodes, doesn't present the end of Cathy's journey through rose-colored glasses, either.
As Cathy (Laura Linney) continues to deal with death on her terms, she struggles to keep her sanity as her body slowly fails her. She makes decisions about her care that leave her family flummoxed, not least of which is moving to a hospice facility. She confronts her estranged father (Brian Dennehy) and sets the groundwork for her son, husband, brother and friends to go on without her.
She tries to find a new wife for Paul (Oliver Platt) through an internet dating service. She encourages friend Andrea (Gabourey Sidibe) to succeed at fashion school and inspires her brother, Sean (John Benjamin Hickey), to make a sacrifice of his own.
Cathy's big goal is to see her son, Adam (Gabriel Basso), graduate from high school. She pushes him to make his grades while pushing herself to hold on. Basso is a revelation this season, matching the power and dignity of Linney's incredible performance.
Cancer isn't a subject ripe for comedy, but "The Big C" always has managed to find humor in tough, sad situations. With "Hereafter," creators Darlene Hunt and Jenny Bicks, Linney and the cast and crew continue to guide viewers through treacherous territory many people may refuse to consider.
These final episodes overflow with love, compassion and one lesson we all can take to heart: Cathy lived.
We may know how Cathy's story ends, but the journey there is full of surprises.
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Lincoln Property Company has announced the date for its upcoming annual Communities for the Cure Day. Employees, residents, and anyone visiting a Lincoln Property Company office or community, is invited and encouraged to "Celebrate Pink", the company's 2013 theme for the annual celebration, on Friday, October 18.
Notable employee and resident participation in previous years' events is the catalyst behind the annual Communities for the Cure day. Lincoln Property Company is anticipating a high participation level for 2013. Employees are encouraged to take team photos and share on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Foursquare using the hashtags #celebratepink and #communitiesforthecure.


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James Leithiser built the federal style mansion on Chocolate Avenue, designed by C. Emlen Urban, for his family residence. It is the first of the four mansions immediately past the site of the original chocolate factory when traveling east. The house had two floors for the family living space, a third floor for serving staff, and a basement.
Leithiser was married to Lorena Hershey, a cousin of Mr. Hershey, and moved to Hershey in 1910. He was general manager for Mr. Hershey's interests not related to the chocolate production—the Hershey Store Company, Hershey Park, the Hershey Inn, the Transit Company, and others.
After Leithiser left Hershey in 1920, the home was used briefly to house boys enrolled in Mr. Hershey's orphan school. The building was then divided into three apartments—each floor a separate unit—and continues as such today. The property belongs to, and is managed by, the Hershey Trust Company.


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Multinationals Start Southern European Exit
After a decade of heavy investment into southern Europe, multinationals are now pulling out. WSJ's Deborah Ball says their retreats are part of a corporate exodus that threatens to suck out the capital, innovation and managerial expertise that southern Europe needs. Photo: Getty Images
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DOVER — Dover resident Don McCullough hasn't always been a book author but he's always been a writer. His daily writing tends to be along the lines of policy, emails, safety protocol, and the occasional love note to his wife Kristin.
A firefighting career that started in Dover in 1984 brought him to Rochester in 1998 where he is currently fulfilling the position of Fire Prevention Captain. In 2010 an injury forced him to take two months off from work and during that time, needing to stay relatively still while three rib fractures set and healed, he sat and wrote a book. A memoir about his adolescent years from age 12 to 16, McCullough says it's a story he carried with him and always knew he needed to write.
Once he started writing he describes the process by saying "The words just flowed out of me. I had to be reminded to eat, shower or get out of the house." The writing process lasted two months followed by a year and a half of revisions. After emailing one chapter at a time to his wife Kristin, who has a reputation for being able to sniff out a spelling or grammar error and was known as "The Editor" at her job at Wentworth-Douglass hospital, McCullough handed the manuscript to friends, neighbors and a local book club asking for feedback. He entered the final product into this year's Southwest Writer's Contest and was named a top 20 finalist receiving a review that stated "Poetically written, it grips the reader. Any reader over 20 can immediately identify with the opening. Danny Boy is a delight to read."
Danny Boy is McCullough's first published work. A memoir set in a North Texas town coming out of the age of segregation during the late 60s, it's a poignant, funny and heartbreaking coming of age story. A story of tragedy, resilience and hard won wisdom, Danny Boy weaves stories of a boy torn between his own battles and the history of a country at war with itself during a defining time in American history.
Danny Boy is available in paperback and in e-reader format from Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Follow the links via www.outskirtspress.com/dannyboy.
McCullough will be signing copies of Danny Boy and meeting with readers at Kelley's Row restaurant on Saturday, Nov. 10, from 1-3 p.m. A limited number of books will be available for purchase at the event but ordering ahead of time is encouraged. Kelley's Row is located at 421 Central Ave. in Dover.
Rochester firefighter uses injury time to pen book
DOVER — Dover resident Don McCullough hasn't always been a book author but he's always been a writer. His daily writing tends to be along the lines of policy, emails, safety protocol, and the occasional love note to his wife Kristin.


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Historical records matching Frederic M. Sackett, U.S. Senator
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About Frederic M. Sackett, U.S. Senator
Frederic Mosley Sackett (December 17, 1868 – May 18, 1941) served as a United States Senator from Kentucky and ambassador to Germany during the Hoover Administration.
He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His father was a wealthy wools manufacturer. He attended the public schools in Providence. He graduated from Brown University in 1890 and from Harvard Law School in 1893.
He was admitted to the bar in 1893 and began practice in Columbus, Ohio. Shortly after he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and then to Louisville, Kentucky. He practiced law until 1907.
In 1898 he married Olive Speed, the daughter of James Breckenridge Speed, who was part of a wealthy and prominent Kentucky family.
Although he began as an attorney, he gradually became involved in his wife's family business, the mining of coal and the manufacture of cement. He served as president of the Louisville Gas Co. and of the Louisville Lighting Co. from 1907 to 1912. He was involved with the Board of Trade of Louisville, serving as president in 1917, 1922, and 1923. He was also director of the Louisville Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank from 1917 to 1924. During the First World War, he served as federal food administrator for Kentucky from 1917 to 1919. This led to a friendship with the directory of the national food administrator, Herbert Hoover. Afterwards he was a member of the Kentucky State Board of Charities and Corrections from 1919 to 1924.
He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1924 and served from March 4, 1925 to January 9, 1930, when he resigned, having been appointed Ambassador to Germany by President Herbert Hoover. He served from 1930 to 1933, when he resigned. Afterwards, he resumed his former business activities. He died of a heart attack while visiting Baltimore, and is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville.
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December 17, 1868
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Mother Reacts to News, Son is on Missing Plane
Relatives of passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 wait for news at a hotel in Beijing. The WSJ's Josh Chin tells us how they are coping.
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Hurricane Sandy disrupts Baltimore-based cruise vacations
No stops for Royal Caribbean ship; Carnival Pride returning early
They boarded the cruise ship but it wasn't going anywhere.
Hurricane Sandy churning up the Atlantic Ocean may have spoiled trips for passengers aboard two cruise ships based in Baltimore.
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Passengers who boarded The Royal Caribbean Enchantment of the Seas at the Port of Baltimore Friday evening looked forward to a five-night cruise to Bermuda.
Instead, they left Baltimore five hours late for a ride to the lower Chesapeake Bay near Cape Henry, Va. The excursion became a "cruise to nowhere" making no stops.
Before the ship left, passengers had the option to debark in Baltimore or ride out the storm on board the ship.
The Carnival Pride typically returns Sunday mornings, but this excursion is slated to arrive back at the Port of Baltimore Saturday at about 8 p.m.
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DUBAI: The International Monetary Fund said Sunday that Pakistan has met nearly all of its quantitative performance markers, that its economy is showing signs of improvement and that its reform program remains broadly on track.
The nuclear-armed nation of 180 million people faces a host of obstacles as it tries to restructure its economy and buoy its dangerously low foreign currency reserves, which stand at $8.3 billion. While trying to reel back expenditures and reorganize steep subsidy bills, officials say it is essential that economic reforms do not hurt the millions of Pakistanis who live in poverty on less that $2 a day.
Pakistan signed a $6.7 billion loan with the IMF in September to rebuild its reserves after more than two years of depletions and support structural changes aimed at boosting investment and growth.
The IMF loan to Pakistan came less than six years after the country's last IMF bailout, and the driving need for the money this time was to repay the institution nearly $5 billion that Islamabad still owes.
As part of that agreement, the IMF conducts periodic reviews in order for its executive board to approve installments of $550 million spread out over three years.
Pakistan has already undergone one economic review and received two installments totaling nearly $1.1 billion. The third installment is up for consideration in late March.
To secure the loan, Pakistan had to commit to changes in the economy designed to increase growth and improve financial stability.
The measures aim to bring down the deficit, reduce pervasive electricity shortages and increase the country's poor rate of tax collection.
''The current trends of the last few months have been very positive in Pakistan and prices have been stable,'' Pakistan's Finance Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar told reporters in Dubai.
Dar said the government is following ''very strict austerity measures'' that have not been easy to make.
''I think we have taken very painful measures, which were partially politically unpopular, but I think they were needed by the country and it has not only changed the direction of the economy... it has put us on the road of recovery and stability,'' he said.
Despite overall progress in implementing reforms, IMF's mission chief to Pakistan Jeffrey Franks said in a joint news conference with Dar that pressures on balance of payments are likely to remain in place for months.
The IMF is also concerned that inflation will rebound in the coming months. Franks said the IMF encourages the State Bank of Pakistan to be ''vigilant'' in its monetary policy to keep inflation at a reasonable level.
The IMF forecasts that inflation in Pakistan will hit 10 per cent this year. Dar says the government expects inflation to rise above its current 7.9 per cent but that it will not hit double digits.
Alongside Pakistan's economic challenges are constant risks to its security.
The periodic review and press conference were not held in Pakistan, but in the United Arab Emirates' city of Dubai, because IMF officials were not permitted to travel to Pakistan after the body's representative in neighboring Afghanistan was killed in a suicide attack in Kabul last month.
The IMF expects growth to reach around 3.1 per cent for the current fiscal year, still less than half the rate needed to supply jobs to Pakistan's growing population.
The deficit, which was roughly 9 per cent of gross domestic product in 2012, needs to be brought down to around 3.5 to 4 per cent by the end of the three-year program. Dar said the deficit for the first half of the fiscal year stands at 2.2 per cent.


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In an address to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Wednesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated that the Palestinian Authority "cannot continue to be bound" by agreements it has signed with Israel.
The speech began with Abbas condemning Israel's "repeated, systematic incursions upon Al-Aqsa Mosque" in recent weeks, which he described as being "in direct violation of the status quo since before 1967 and thereafter."
He then turned to the question of Palestinian self-determination, which he described as being "at a standstill after the passage of all these years." He declared that Palestine "deserves full recognition and full membership" as a UN state.
After describing Israel's human rights violations against the Palestinian people, Abbas requested "international protection for the Palestinian people in accordance with international humanitarian law." He then described the stalled Oslo Accords, which were supposed to end in 1999 with an independent State of Palestine and an end to Israeli occupation.
He stated that the Palestinian Authority (PA) refuses to remain the only party committed to these agreements, and that it "cannot continue to be bound by these agreements and that Israel must assume all of its responsibilities as an occupying Power."
Abbas' speech has elicited various interpretations. Whilst some see the remarks as clearly signaling the termination of the Oslo Accords, others regard them as a potentially empty threat.
Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, stated that she followed Abbas' speech carefully and interpreted his remarks as largely based on hypotheticals.
Mogherini described Abbas' termination of the Oslo Accords as "a scenario that is going to happen "if", and there is an "if", now on that "if", we will have to work."
The Palestine Monitor spoke to Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI) whose take on the speech was that the PA is effectively "no longer committed to agreements", though the timeframe of when this announcement will go into effect is unclear.
The Jerusalem Post reports that Abbas may have come under pressure from the US to change the content of the speech from announcing concrete action to threatening to take action if the status quo persists.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to Abbas' speech disparagingly, with a statement from his office saying "Abu Mazen's speech was deceitful and encourages incitement and lawlessness in the Middle East."
Netanyahu did not respond to Abbas' statements on the Oslo Accords, instead focussing on recent events at Al Aqsa, stating that "Israel is strictly maintaining the status quo." He went on to request that Abbas "enter into direct negotiations with Israel without preconditions."
In a Q&A with the Institute for Middle East Understanding after the speech, Diana Buttu, a former advisor to Abbas, stated that the majority of the vestiges of the Oslo Accords "namely direct negotiations with Israel, were undone by Israel years ago. While Abbas says he's no longer bound by Oslo, on the ground nothing will change."
She described the Oslo Accords as "an unmitigated disaster for Palestinians", but stated that the Palestinian Authority (PA), which was established as part of the Accords, "will not be dissolved anytime soon."
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This Red Humpy is part of my Dry Mayfly range which incorporates both traditional and modern patterns. Made up of local Irish favourites like the Mosely and O'Connor Mayflies; this selection includes Wulff patterns from America and a range of new flies from Dennis Moss. The range also includes flies I have designed incorporating wings of CDC which have been very effective over the past few seasons.
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The flies in this website are a mixture of old traditional patterns, variants and new patterns many of which were invented by Frankie McPhillips. The use of correct colour blends of traditional Irish Dubbing in the dressings gives them an authenticity and uniqueness which, distinguishes them from other fly brands. Their quality is superb and this is continually monitored and checked by Frankie to ensure the highest standards.


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Zoo Meds New HO T5 Hoods are available in 60cm, 80cm, 100cm, and 120cm sizes for use with the new Zoo Med ReptiSun T5 High Output bulbs.
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Parents Please Read: The American Red Cross has revised the learn to swim program.
The new program is a multi-level instructional approach to swimming classes and has been revised to maximize participant success and includes the most current bio-mechanics and stroke descriptions for the swimming skills included in the program materials. The American Red Cross over the years has made changes to place a greater emphasis on safety in on and around the water and this program is no different, greater emphasis on age appropriate learning experiences have greatly enhanced this program.
Look in August for complete descriptions of the New Learn to Swim program that will be offered on our website at:
The program itself will be more age specific, however, this may result in a little confusion as to where to place your child. All Preschool program participants must be enrolled in the class for their age. Children may not participate in the learn to swim portion of the program until they have turned 6 years of age. If lessons taken were at another facility they will be locked into the Pre-school age 5 program.
Some children will experience skills that are now included in a lower level, if for example they are in level 3, there are a few skills that were not covered in the old level 1 & 2 so they may experience a little delay until they catch up with those skills or you can elect to sign them up for a level lower than they are currently at to enhance the learning experience for your child. This may hold true for the entire program until we catch up with ourselves regarding these changes. Please bear with us as we work through these changes in the Red Cross Program.
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As an ethical, hardworking hunter going into my 41st deer season this coming fall, I have no problem with limitations on the number of shells any gun can hold.
With Murphy's Law in full effect, the December outdoors column was about receiving my first BB gun as a Christmas gift when I was about 10 or 12 years old. Like Ralphie in the movie "A Christmas Story," it was a big deal.
The timing of that column could not have been worse. The next day, the horrific murders of children and personnel took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The sad reality is all the legislation in the world can't protect against the deadly combination of evil and insanity that struck this country like an earthquake, with its epicenter located here in Connecticut.
Obviously laws of any kind only work if they are obeyed and enforced. In this case, the perpetrator broke many laws well before he got to the school.
This horrible incident has brought the issue of assault weapons and reasonable magazine or clip capacities for sporting arms to the forefront. It really isn't such a complex issue, though it has been and will once again be batted around by politicians and sport shooters.
Our state is at the top of the list in the nation for the number of gun laws on its books. Connecticut has a waiting period law in effect for many years between the purchase and actually taking possession of a firearm.
A friend who owns a long-standing, reputable gun shop said that a licensed hunter — one who has passed a rigorous hunter safety course — can purchase a "long gun" (rifle or shotgun) and take it with them at that time.
That same licensed hunter, without a pistol permit, must fill out state and federal forms (for background check purposes) and wait two weeks to take a handgun out of the store. A pistol permit essentially is necessary to transport and use the gun for hunting, target shooting, etc.
Thus, a person who has passed the required pistol course and has a pistol permit may buy a pistol and take it with him or her that day. A person without a pistol permit cannot purchase and take a pistol out of a gun shop, period.
Hand guns are highly regulated, especially in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York. Long guns are less stringently regulated but require some effort to obtain. Purchasing a gun in this state is not a simple matter, and shouldn't be.
Some of the regulations for hunting are nationwide. For instance, waterfowl hunters — because ducks and geese cross state borders during annual migrations — are limited by federal regulations to three shells, including one in the chamber. They must use steel shot because of the toxicity of lead in the environment.
In Connecticut, deer hunters on private land may use a rifle of .223 or larger caliber with permission of the land owner, or a shotgun loaded with slugs. Whereas on state land, gun hunters are limited to shotguns loaded with slugs only or muzzleloaders during the muzzleloader season.
A friend who moved here from a southern state where regulations regarding firearms purchase were much more lax said: "You practically need a degree to hunt in this state (Connecticut)!"
I always have believed that if a hunter thinks they may need more than a single shot to kill a deer, or anything else for that matter, they should not be squeezing the trigger.
For this reason, the proposed restriction to 10-shot magazines is more than enough in any situation legal hunters may face. That's certainly true here in the northeast. Most sporting rifles, other than single-shot weapons, can only hold four to five bullets and that should be more than enough.
As an ethical, hardworking hunter going into my 41st deer season this coming fall, I have no problem with limitations on the number of shells any gun can hold.
Deer hunting is not a war game, where the winner has the highest body count. It is a serious outdoor endeavor that requires a combination of perseverance, knowledge and shooting skill, combined with patience, practice and a pinch of luck for consistent success in the field (luck is sometimes an essential element).
Every year, when that moment of intensity arrives, the deer season instantly is distilled down to a few critical seconds. For this reason, while on stand during the (often) many idle hours, it's smart to make a plan, or multiple plans, for various possible shot scenarios. It can greatly improve the odds of a successful hunt.
Safety issues always are of primary importance and are essentially built-in when hunters enter the woods with a one-shot mindset, because it requires careful inspection and planning. Any chance of making a fatal mistake or misidentification of any kind are eliminated from the equation.
This philosophy is derived out of respect and a degree of reverence for species that are hunted, whether it is a peach-sized quail or a half-ton moose. Otherwise, in my opinion, something very important is missing from the experience.
It's far better to wait for a single perfect standing shot that may not materialize and go home, frustrated but with a clear conscience, than to wound and lose any bird or mammal by attempting a poor shot. For this reason, I've never believed there is a need to carry a sporting firearm with a banana clip sticking out of its belly. I've never met a single deer hunter who would disagree with this philosophy.
In my opinion, our military and police are the only people in America who should have access, and the legal ability, to carry large capacity magazines. Ethical hunters need to hone their skills and go afield with a one-shot mentality.
Fishing note
Archie, at Mike's Bait and Tackle in Voluntown, said so far this season customers have done pretty well ice fishing where it's safe on the local ponds. He's seen walleyes from Beach Pond between 19 and 26 inches, and pike up to 12.5 pounds from Pachaug Pond.
On a sour note, he mentioned that some "slobs" had broken bottles all over the ice near Finn's Beach on Beach Pond, noting that one customer went out with a friend and cleaned up the mess and potential danger to swimmers, fishermen and animals who will be going in the water after the spring thaw.
Since 1972, Bob Sampson Jr. has written an outdoors column for The Bulletin. His columns appear every other Thursday. Reach him at email@example.com


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KCK police release name of teen killed in drive-by shooting
Miguel Garcia shot Saturday in 1400 block of Armstrong Avenue
Police are looking for the person who fired shots from a vehicle that killed a 14-year-old boy.
The shooting was reported about 2:40 p.m. Saturday in the 1400 block of Armstrong Avenue.
Police Sgt. Emmett Lockridge told KMBC-TV that two teenagers, one 14 years old and the other 15 years old, were walking in the area when a vehicle pulled up to them and people inside started talking to them.
Lockridge said there was an argument and the vehicle drove off, circled the block and then came back and opened fire on the teenagers.
A woman told KMBC 9 News that she motioned for the boy to come to her, and then he collapsed.
"He collapsed right there on the floor and we're right there with him and when the ambulance came, they picked him up," the woman said.
She said while they were waiting for an ambulance, the boy said that he couldn't breathe and he asked the woman to call his mother. The boy later died from his injuries.
Police identified him as Miguel Garcia of Kansas City, Kan.
Neighbor David McBride said since violence increased in his neighborhood, he hasn't spent much time outside.
"I don't come out of the house much, unless I have to," he said. "The only time I come out in emergencies, like when somebody or family calls, then I come out."
No arrests have been made. Police said they were looking for a black Ford Explorer that was spotted leaving the area.
Those with information on the case can call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.


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3 soldiers killed in Thailand's violent south
Three soldiers were killed and one was wounded in an attack Thursday by gunmen in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south, police said.
About seven to eight suspected Muslim insurgents in a pickup truck opened fire on the four soldiers, who were helping villagers repair their houses near a mosque in Yarang district in Pattani province, Police Col. Wasant Phuangnoi said.
He said the officers exchanged gunfire with the militants, who later took away three M16 rifles from the soldiers and fled the scene.
The incident occurred one day after five plainclothes policemen were killed in a similar attack in another district in Pattani province.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in Thailand's three Muslim-dominated southernmost provinces since an Islamic insurgency erupted in 2004.
The regular attacks are seen as a hindrance to the Thai government's attempt to revive peace talks with the Muslim militants after both sides signed a breakthrough deal in February, agreeing to hold dialogue to ease nearly a decade of violence in the region
The insurgents said last month they would suspend the talks with the Thai government because authorities had not responded to their demands.


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- Getting Started
- Basic Filters
- Creative Filters
- Creative Possibilities Ahead!
Snapseed is the first iPad app from Nik software, and at $4.99 from the U.S. iTunes store, it's a good deal less expensive than any other Nik product. You can use Snapseed to edit photos taken with your iPad, or to edit JPEG, TIFF, or Raw files transferred to your iPad from your computer (or a camera using Apple's camera-connector kit).
Personally, I really enjoy editing my photos using Snapseed on my iPad. It's quick, easy, and fun, and the creative possibilities are nearly unlimited. However, there is a caveat about image size. Snapseed downsizes large images to a resolution of 2304 x 1536 pixels. This relatively low size is fine if you just want to make small prints or display your photos online. But it's a problem if you want to retain the full resolution of your original images, and for me it makes Snapseed a fun app rather than a serious one. (But perhaps that's the whole idea of the iPadto have fun, doing your "serious" computing on a laptop or desktop.) Please bear this point in mind as we go through Snapseed's impressive feature list in this article.
Getting Started
The first time you open Snapseed you'll be greeted with a screen that looks something like Figure 1. This is the overlay, an ingenious feature that guides you around the Snapseed interface. (It also appears when you open one of the filters for the first time.) Tap anywhere on the screen to make the overlay disappear. You can call it back at any time by tapping the Help button at upper right and selecting Show Overlay.
Figure 1 Snapshot's opening screen.
With the overlay screen out of the way, you can see the Snapseed interface shown in Figure 2. It's very simple. The filters, 11 in total, are on the left. The picture in progress is displayed on the right. The first image you see is a sample image supplied with the app. You can tap on the Open Image button in the upper-left corner to open an image saved in your iPad's photo albums (or to use the camera).
Figure 2 The Snapseed interface.
Under the image are four buttons. You'll come back to this screen after you've used one of the filters, and these four buttons are always ready:
- Compare. Tap this button to show the original image, and release it to see the edited version again; it's a quick-and-easy way of comparing the two. There's another compare button at the bottom of the editing screen for each filteryou can also use that option for comparing the edit with the original image.
- Revert. This button reloads the original image without saving any of your edits.
- Save. Snapseed saves the edited image in your camera roll when you tap Save. You can do this as many times as you want; Snapseed gives each image a unique name. The original file is never overwritten.
- Share. Tap this button to share the image you've created via Facebook, Flickr, by email, or by printing wirelessly to a compatible printer.


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Budget likely to end plans for horse slaughter plants
- Spending bills do not include money for meat plant inspectors
- Horse slaughterhouses are in New Mexico%2C Iowa and Missouri
- No plants have processed horse meat since 2007
The nascent domestic horse slaughter business, struggling to gain acceptance over opposition from animal rights activists since 2011, was dealt another blow Thursday after the latest congressional spending bill cleared the Senate and House of Representatives without providing funding for meat plant inspectors.
The move effectively would ban meat packing plants in New Mexico, Iowa and Missouri from slaughtering horses and exporting horse meat overseas. No plants have processed horse meat since 2007, and after Congress restored funding for inspections in 2011, the slaughterhouses faced stiff legal opposition and highly visible opposition from animal rights groups and activists including actor Robert Redford and former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson.
The issue had split Native American tribes, some of which favored rounding up wild horses destroying valuable range land. Proponents said blocking domestic horse slaughter would merely shift production to plants in Mexico and Canada.
Wayne Pacelle, head of the Humane Society, applauded the Senate and House efforts.
"We Americans care for horses, we ride horses, and we even put them to work. But we don't eat horses in the United States. And we shouldn't be gathering them up and slaughtering them for people to eat in far-off places." The Humane Society and other groups seek a permanent ban on the slaughter of domesticated horses and an end to exporting horses for slaughter outside the USA.
Matt Bershadker, head of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said the move by Congress should be followed by passage of the Safeguard American Food Exports Act, which would end export of horses for slaughter in other countries."Horse slaughter in inhumane, whether here or abroad, and a lasting end to this reckless practice is the only just solution," Bershadker said.
Horse slaughter advocates aren't ready to rein in their fight.
Attorney Blair Dunn, who represents New Mexico's Valley Meat and Rains Natural Meats of Gallatin, Mo., said the companies may file legal action, saying a ban on plant inspections would violate the North American Free Trade Agreement. Valley Meat had planned to begin horse slaughter this month until state Attorney General Gary King filed suit on environmental grounds, saying the plant did not have a permit to discharge wastewater.
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., plans to introduce legislation that would reinstate money for federal plant inspections.
"Without these facilities, aging horses are often neglected or forced to endure cruel conditions as they are transported to processing facilities across the border," he said. "This provision is counterproductive to what animal rights activists are hoping to achieve."
Oklahoma lifted a 50-year ban on horse slaughter plants last March.
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"In 1980 'Sex Bomb' became the new 'Smoke On The Water'. What serious Punk doesn't know how to play 'Sex Bomb'? That is the level of influence they've had on my generation. They're important. Face it and learn". -- King Buzzo / Melvins
On 22 June 2009, a week before they release Flipper's four seminal albums, Domino are also to reissue their classic 'Sex Bomb' single which features the full length version and the original mix of the track from band's debut 'Generic' album.
It was end of the seventies, the pre-dawn of Hardcore, that strain of punk-rock that drilled its aggression into a teutonic, high-paced, martial polka of revving guitars and bellowed quasi-political screeds. A mostly-abstemious, curiously-sexless beast, its sound would become ubiquitous across the American Underground for the rest of the decade that followed.
The most interesting, fiery and essential music has always veered from the blueprint, however, or screwed that blueprint into a crumple, and then pissed on it, and then set it ablaze. And so runs the story of Flipper, and the riot-art noise they splattered across their first three albums, now re-released by Domino. Flipper had a dark humour that easily matched the black din of their grinding elliptical grooves, a crackling gift for seductive nihilism announced on the opening track of Generic, their 1981 debut album that followed two ground-breaking seven-inches on indie label Subterranean.
Generic offered up nine slices of such delirious death disco, distilling the gleeful, acrid chaos of their live shows into off-centre, elliptical grooves that veered into moments of bleak brilliance, and bowed out with an extended take of early single 'Sex Bomb'.
The perfect companion to 'Generic', the 13 track compilation 'Sex Bomb Baby!' comprises, as Henry Rollins says "the singles as well as some of the best recorded moments of one of the greatest of America's many musical gifts to the world . . . Flipper. It is one of the great albums of its time, showing to all that Flipper indeed had the real stuff, even if it seemed that the music had it in for the members."
The members of Flipper threw themselves full-pelt into the business of Being Flipper as the first half of the 1980s wore on, embarking upon hazy, chaotic, substance-abusing tours that seesawed between winning new converts and alienating dullards. The chariot that escorted them across America to these shows – a graffiti-sodden beaten-up van that also doubled as Falconi's residence when they weren't on tour – graced the cover of Flipper's second album, 1984's Gone Fishin', as a press-out cardboard model.
Tragically, Flipper's Shatter succumbed to a fatal heroin overdose in 1987, a year after Subterranean released Public Flipper Ltd, a double album of live performances recorded across America between 1980 - 1985. The album was titled in sly response to Public Image Limited, who had seemingly purloined Generic's iconic sleeve design for their own Album.
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3 Ways to Begin Settling a Loved One's AffairsApr 27, 2016 03:32AM ● By Family Features
(Family Features) Following the loss of a parent, the list of to-dos can feel overwhelming. Not only are you adjusting to life without a loved one, you may be facing a seemingly insurmountable list of tasks. From arranging services to dispersing personal possessions to taking care of yourself, it's easy to find yourself in over your head.
Especially if the passing was sudden or you didn't have the chance to discuss the loved one's final wishes, you may find yourself wondering where to begin. Although the specific details will vary from one family to the next, there are some common steps to consider once the memorial services are over and your attention must turn to putting their affairs to rest.
- Process the grief. With a long list of tasks looming, you may be tempted to put yourself on auto-pilot and power through. However, failing to give yourself time to grieve and come to terms with your loss can be destructive to your mental and physical health. Seek the support of family and friends to ease your emotional burden so you are able to effectively tackle the duties that lie ahead.
- Sell the house. With the financial implications of mortgage payments looming, real estate is often one of the biggest decisions following a loved one's death. That was exactly the situation Becky Addison faced. She inherited her mother's home but wasn't in the financial position to fix, maintain or own the property along with her primary residence.
"One day it was my parents' house and then suddenly it was my house. I was not prepared to be responsible physically or financially for the property," Addison said. "There were too many repairs to be made, my husband and I lived in another county and we didn't have the money to invest to update it. We had to get rid of it."
Unsure what to do, Addison contacted HomeVestors, the largest network of independently owned and operated home buyer franchises in the U.S. with more than 65,000 houses bought since 1996. Ultimately, she received a cash payment and was able to close in just 14 days. Today, Addison is a HomeVestors franchisee and helps others just like her sell their inherited houses for cash with no repair, cleaning or closing expenses.
- Manage the estate. Although it is a sizeable consideration, real estate is generally just one piece of a person's estate that must be settled following their death. Settling a parent's business affairs following their passing can be relatively simple, but in the absence of a will, it can become more complicated. Enlisting the guidance of a qualified attorney can help you navigate probate court, if necessary, and ensure you comply with local laws as you settle any debts and distribute or dispose of personal possessions.
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Weil Industrieanlagen GmbH is a specialist in water purification and water treatment and was established in 1986. The water purification and water treatment techniques both use membrane technology, (reverse osmosis, nano-filtration, and micro-filtration). The company focuses mainly on three technology areas: building technology, energy technology and pharmaceutical and medical technology.
Weil is a specialist in building customer-specific installations, and prides itself on in inventing installations tailored for every single client's need. Their ability to develop new solutions from scratch, the high degree of flexibility and the profitable cost-structure, have made Weil an important player in the customisation of the water purification and water treatment segment.
The situation
Recently, Weil was asked to develop a solution for a spirit distillery. Normal water from the tap is unsuitable for the production of distilled spirits, because it does not comply with German portable water regulations as to mineral content. If alcohol is added to mineral substances, sediments in the product may occur. Therefore, it is necessary to desalt the water by the means of desalination methods that do not affect neither the taste nor the odour of the water.
Weil decided to construct a RO system for the spirit distillery. First of all, the RO process demands that no chemicals are used, and thus, do not affect the water quality as to taste and smell. Second of all, the RO process results in economic advantages compared to other desalination methods. To be able to push the water across the membrane, high-pressure pumps are needed to obtain a pressure of 20 bar.
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The Grundfos BM booster submersible pump is characterised by its ability to deliver a high constant pressure and a considerable flow. In connection with membrane techniques, where pressurised raw water flows through a membrane, pumps with special characteristics are needed. When dealing with water purification, corrosion-resistance is a key word. Thus, the BM boosters are available in different high-grade stainless-steel qualities, (AISI 304, 316 and 904L), capable of handling different aggressive liquids.
Thanks to the BM booster's compact design it is easy to integrate the pump into existing piping systems, because it does not take up any additional room. Due to the encapsulation of the pump, the BM booster is a low-maintenance and low-noise pump and can deliver a high static pressure of up to 80 bar.
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According to Weil, the construction of the BM booster has at least three advantages worth mentioning:
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Hootenanny in the holler
Three decades of music and fellowship at the McDowell Gold Jubilee
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Singer/guitarist Gene Cochran and his wife, Teresa, take their turn on stage at the McDowell Gold Jubilee, a biweekly music party in Barry County, where bands are allowed 20 minutes to perform. Accompanying the Cochrans are fiddler Junior Haddock, bass player James Townsend and Fred DeVore on guitar.
Musicians and guests begin arriving even before the sun sets on an old schoolhouse down a lonely rural road in Barry County. Some tote cheap chipboard guitar cases bandaged with duct tape. Others carry expensive instruments ensconced in sturdy fiberglass cases plastered with festival decals. Even more people bring nothing but their anticipation of an evening of music and an appetite for the homemade pie sold at the concession stand.
One by one, arriving guests pass beneath a single bare bulb illuminating a concrete stoop and open a creaky old door. As the door swings wide, the faint sounds heard outside become a joyous roar of old-time country music and a chorus of "How are you?" and "Good to see you."
It's Saturday night and the McDowell Gold Jubilee is about to begin.
Held every other Saturday from October through the first of May, the McDowell Gold Jubilee is one of the oldest and most-established music gatherings in southwest Missouri. For 31 years, fans of bluegrass, gospel and country music have flocked to this former schoolhouse to play their songs and visit with friends and neighbors.
"We were the first ones in this country to start this, I think," says Ben Henderson, who together with his wife, Betty, organizes the biweekly hootenanny in the tiny community of McDowell. "We've got some other good ones that are going on now, but they started a lot later than we did."
Although, officially, the McDowell Gold Jubilee begins at 6:30 p.m., the music invariably starts much earlier as musicians huddle together in the jam room to play familiar tunes and learn new licks. Another room, normally reserved for bands to warm up, also hosts impromptu jams before the formal stage performances begin.
Betty moves from room to room, chatting with musicians and writing their names in a spiral-bound notebook. With her list ready, she moves to the former classroom's chalkboard and posts the order of performers.
Musicians jam in the band warm-up room of the McDowell Gold Jubilee.
"They give me their names, and I try to arrange it as diplomatically as I can," Betty says, describing her task of setting the performance rotation. "I try not to make people too unhappy."
It's a curious mix of performers most evenings. Each night begins with 81-year-old Raymond Thomas on fiddle. From there a steady progression of ensembles take the stage, each playing three songs or 20 minutes — at which point a blue light placed atop the piano comes on to signal that it's time to yield the mic. The music lasts until after midnight most weekends and runs the gamut from bluegrass to gospel to old-time country to honky-tonk, with the occasional Bob Dylan, John Denver or Dixie Chicks number thrown in for good measure.
Just as the type of music varies from act to act, the quality of performances does, too.
"It ranges from very, very, very bad to very, very, very good, and a lot in the middle," Betty says.
"You take the good with the bad and you mix it together," says Ben, who introduces each act with equal enthusiasm. "We've got probably 20, 25 here tonight, different ones. If one group is not what people want to hear, the next group may be. It gives a good variety."
The audience at McDowell listens more or less politely to each performer, in part out of courtesy, but also because they've seen so many musicians steadily improve from week to week and year to year, they know better than to judge too soon.
"I've seen some through the years who started out pretty bad who have become quite good," says Betty, who plays upright bass with Ben's band, Country Color, and admits that her own singing sometimes challenged the audience. "When I started years ago, oh my gosh, you couldn't stand to listen to me. It was horrible."
David Warren Lampe's instrument bears the autographs of Ricky Skaggs, Rhonda Vincent and other notable fiddlers he's met at bluegrass festivals and other events. Musicians of all skill levels, including the occasional professional, attend the McDowell Gold Jubilee to perform on stage or play with other attendees in the schoolhouse's jam room.
Although the usual line-up includes traditional instruments such as acoustic guitar, mandolin and fiddle, there is an amplifier on stage and, increasingly, musicians plug in.
"Back in the '40s on the Grand Ole Opry, they wouldn't allow drums or electric bass. It took years for that to change. It's still that way here," says Fred Devore of Cassville, who plays his amplified acoustic guitar several times each night with a number of bands.
Some of these people, when they see an electric guitar, they just sort of turn their nose up. They're not rude about it or nothing, but a lot of them don't really like it."
Indeed, like other music gatherings in the Ozarks, the McDowell Jubilee is steeped in tradition. Whether they're called hootenannies, music parties or jam sessions, all of these events trace their roots to old-time house parties where family and friends would gather to play music and visit.
"We used to go to each other's house, but it wasn't nothing like this," Ben recalls. "On cold winter nights — this is before they had TV — they'd get together and play and sing and have a good time."
By some accounts, the modern Ozarks tradition of scheduled public music parties began at this same location in 1961, when McDowell residents Norma and Raymond Clevenger decided to host a New Year's music party. The Clevenger home wasn't big enough to accommodate all the guests, so Raymond approached the Purdy School District about using the old schoolhouse in McDowell.
"They granted permission to use it as long as they kept up the insurance and the utilities and didn't allow drinking and dancing. Dancing was particularly a problem at that time," Betty says, alluding to the Purdy district's one-time rule against school dances that made national news and even reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
Despite concerns expressed in local pulpits, the McDowell schoolhouse music parties became a regular monthly event for nearly seven years, when the task of preparing food and organizing the events became too much for the Clevengers. After McDowell shut down, Ben and a few fellow musicians started hosting regular jam sessions six miles away. When the building they used sold in 1977, the group moved back to the McDowell schoolhouse and began the every-other-Saturday tradition that continues today.
Over the years, the facilities at McDowell have expanded along with the popularity of the event. A propane furnace replaced the old wood stove. Running water made clean-up easier — though separate men's and women's outhouses still provide for other necessities. Rows of old theater seats and church pews allow seating for an audience of nearly 280. The biggest improvement, though, was the addition of the warm-up and jam rooms, which greatly expanded the musical experience at McDowell.
Eula May Mills sings during her turn on stage. A regular participant for decades, Eula May recalls her mother dancing a jig in the aisles at a time when dancing raised eyebrows in McDowell.
Jam session aficionados divide music parties into two classes. "True" jams involve musicians sitting in a circle, taking turns leading songs while other musicians join in. At open-mic events such as McDowell, structured bands play sets while facing the audience. Both styles are popular in southwest Missouri.
The McDowell Gold Jubilee began as a traditional jam session but soon grew so much that adopting the stage format became necessary. In some ways, though, the McDowell event offers the best of both styles. The jam room at McDowell is always packed with players, many of whom never enter the main hall.
"When we get here, I take my guitar and fiddle and go right to the back and just start playing," says Steve Mitchell, a professional musician who plays on stage in Branson and elsewhere, but rarely leaves the jam room when visiting McDowell. "I like to come here and just jam. For me, it's a stress release."
For others, the jam room at McDowell provides an opportunity to develop their skills while playing along with sympathetic teachers.
"For somebody wanting to learn to play, it's an ideal place to come because you're just surrounded by it. You're immersed in this atmosphere," says Devore, who once played professionally in Washington state. "Everybody here is wanting to get better and improve their playing."
The camaraderie at McDowell is not limited to the musicians, however. Betty says one of the main purposes of the McDowell music party is to provide a substitute for the kind of neighborly closeness lost in today's culture.
"They like the music, but they like the visiting, too," she says. "Nobody visits back and forth like they used to. I think this sort of takes the place of that, especially for the older people.
"Sometimes, they get so busy visiting, I don't think they listen to the music at all," Betty says.
But music is still the main attraction at McDowell, where admission is never charged and volunteers make the Jubilee a success. Ben, founder and master of ceremonies of the events, says that after 31 years, the biweekly event at McDowell still provides the public a wholesome place to spend a Saturday evening.
Barbara Ball and Peggy Prock, both of Miller, visit with friends in the audience while a band performs on stage.
"It's good entertainment. It's clean entertainment," he says. "We don't allow no drinking, no drugs, nothing out of the way. I don't like to hear foul language. I won't put up with that at all."
And if the music is good and you find yourself tapping your foot or even swaying in the aisle, Ben says that's OK these days.
"Anymore, if they want to get out there and jig dance and they want to waltz, we don't mind at all," he says. "In fact, we encourage it. It gives them something to do, you know."
The McDowell Gold Jubilee is held every other Saturday from October until May. For more information, e-mail Betty Henderson at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 417-236-4983.


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10/13/2009 | After False Starts, Midway Island DXpedition off to Good Beginning
After the airplane scheduled to take the K4M DXpedition team from Honolulu to Midway Island developed engine trouble, there was doubt as to if the team would even make it to the island. But Murphy didn't get in the way -- mechanics found the necessary par
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10/12/2009 | ARRL DXCC Desk Approves FT5GA Operation
ARRL DXCC Manager Bill Moore, NC1L, reports that the FT5GA operation on Glorioso Island -- September 14-October 8, 2009 -- has been approved for DXCC credit. Until this operation, Glo
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03/11/2009 | Hams to Activate Midway Atoll as K4M in October 2009
Earlier this year, US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced that they would open Midway Atoll to Amateur Radio operations for two weeks only, from October 5-19, 2009. Tom Harrell, N4XP, of Monroe, Georgia, and Dave Johnson, WB4JTT, of Aitkin, Minnes
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The DXpedition to Desecheo Island -- February 12-26 --will use call sign K5D. "As soon as we land on Desecheo, two stations will be immediately activated," said DXpedition co-leader Bob Allphin, K4UEE. Stations will continue to operate until the
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01/07/2009 | DXpedition to Desecheo Gets Ready to Roll
Six members of the February 2009 KP5 Desecheo DXpedition team met in Puerto Rico the week of December 17-21. According to team co-leader Bob Allphin, K4UEE, the team visited US Fish and Wildlife Headquarters in Boqueron and met with the Chief Refuge Manag
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Part of Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals.
This specimen is an example of an alkali mineral that formed in an evaporite environment.
Evaporite: Alkalic Collection
Best known among several kinds of evaporite mineral deposits are the alkali minerals and the borate minerals.
In the alkali lake, there develops a particularly high concentration of sodium, carbonate, calcium, and sulphate, together with chlorine, magnesium, potassium, and other highly soluble elements. As the lake waters evaporate, increasing concentration of these elements results in formation of various minerals, including common salt. West of Great Salt Lake, Utah, level miles of glistening salt can be seen in a famous deposit thick enough to support a local salt-processing industry.
In the less common borate lakes, several of which exist in California, Nevada, and Oregon, minerals composed primarily of hydrous borates are formed. Borax, the most familiar borate mineral is always found; in the United States, most of the commercial borax comes from the California and Nevada desert regions of "20 mule" fame. It is used mostly for cleaning.
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