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InfraGard logo. [Source: Progressive.org]Twenty-three thousand executives and employees of various private firms work with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The group, called InfraGard, receives secret warnings of terrorist threats well in advance of public notification, and sometimes before elected officials. In return, InfraGard provides information to the government. InfraGard is a quiet quasi-governmental entity which wields an unknown, but extensive, amount of power and influence. Michael Hershman, the chairman of the advisory board of the InfraGard National Members Alliance (INMA) and the CEO of an international consulting firm, calls InfraGard "a child of the FBI." The organization started in Cleveland in 1996, when business members cooperated with the FBI to investigate cyber-threats. The FBI then "cloned it," according to Phyllis Schneck, chairman of the board of directors of the INMA. Schneck is one of the biggest proponents of InfraGard. As of February 2008, 86 chapters of InfraGard exist in each of the 50 states, operating under the supervision of local FBI agents. "We are the owners, operators, and experts of our critical infrastructure, from the CEO of a large company in agriculture or high finance to the guy who turns the valve at the water utility," says Schneck. According to the InfraGard website, "At its most basic level, InfraGard is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the private sector. InfraGard chapters are geographically linked with FBI Field Office territories." After the 9/11 attacks, InfraGard experiences explosive growth—from 1,700 members in November 2001 to 23,682 members in January 2008. 350 members of the Fortune 500 have members in InfraGard. Prospective members are sponsored by existing members, then vetted by the FBI. The organization accepts members from agriculture, banking and finance, and chemical industry, defense, energy, food, information and telecommunications, law enforcement, public health, and transportation industries. Controlled Exposure - InfraGard's inner workings are not available to the general public; its communications with the FBI and DHS are not accessible through the Freedom of Information Act under the "trade secrets" exemption. And InfraGard carefully controls its exposure and contact with the media. According to the InfraGard website: "The interests of InfraGard must be protected whenever presented to non-InfraGard members. During interviews with members of the press, controlling the image of InfraGard being presented can be difficult. Proper preparation for the interview will minimize the risk of embarrassment.… The InfraGard leadership and the local FBI representative should review the submitted questions, agree on the predilection of the answers, and identify the appropriate interviewee.… Tailor answers to the expected audience.… Questions concerning sensitive information should be avoided." Advance Warning from the FBI - InfraGard members receive quick alerts on any potential terrorist threat or a possible disruption of US infrastructure. Its website boasts that its members can "[g]ain access to an FBI secure communication network complete with VPN encrypted website, webmail, listservs, message boards, and much more." Hershman says members receive "almost daily updates" on threats "emanating from both domestic sources and overseas." Schneck adds, "We get very easy access to secure information that only goes to InfraGard members. People are happy to be in the know." Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, an InfraGard member passed along an FBI warning about a potential threat to California's bridges to then-Governor Gray Davis, who had not yet heard anything from the FBI (see November 1, 2001). In return, InfraGard members cooperate with FBI and DHS operations. Schneck says: "InfraGard members have contributed to about 100 FBI cases. What InfraGard brings you is reach into the regional and local communities. We are a 22,000-member vetted body of subject-matter experts that reaches across seventeen matrixes. All the different stovepipes can connect with InfraGard." The relationships between the FBI and InfraGard members are key, she says. "If you had to call 1-800-FBI, you probably wouldn't bother," she says. "But if you knew Joe from a local meeting you had with him over a donut, you might call them. Either to give or to get. We want everyone to have a little black book." InfraGard members have phone numbers for DHS, the FBI, and to report cyber-threats. InfraGard members who call in "will be listened to," she says; "your call [will] go through when others will not." The American Civil Liberties Union, who has warned about the potential dangers of Infragard to constitutional liberties (see August 2004), retorts, "The FBI should not be creating a privileged class of Americans who get special treatment. There's no 'business class' in law enforcement. If there's information the FBI can share with 22,000 corporate bigwigs, why don't they just share it with the public? That's who their real 'special relationship' is supposed to be with. Secrecy is not a party favor to be given out to friends.… This bears a disturbing resemblance to the FBI's handing out 'goodies' to corporations in return for folding them into its domestic surveillance machinery." Preparing for Emergencies, Martial Law - InfraGard members are "very much looped into our readiness capability," says a DHS spokeswoman. Not only does DHS "provide speakers" and do "joint presentations" with the FBI, but "[w]e also train alongside them, and they have participated in readiness exercises." InfraGard members are involved with the Bush administration's "National Continuity Policy," which mandates that DHS coordinate with "private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate, in order to provide for the delivery of essential services during an emergency." InfraGard members participate in "national emergency preparation drills," Schneck says, sometimes by the hundreds. InfraGard members are drilling in preparation for martial law, members say. One business owner recently attended a meeting conducted by FBI and DHS officials. He recalls, "The meeting started off innocuously enough, with the speakers talking about corporate espionage. From there, it just progressed. All of a sudden we were knee deep in what was expected of us when martial law is declared. We were expected to share all our resources, but in return we'd be given specific benefits." In the event of martial law being declared, Infragard members will have the ability to travel in restricted areas and to evacuate citizens. But they will have other abilities and duties as well. InfraGard members, says the business owner, will be authorized to "shoot to kill" if necessary to maintain order and "protect our portion of the infrastructure. [I]f we had to use deadly force to protect it, we couldn't be prosecuted.… We were assured that if we were forced to kill someone to protect our infrastructure, there would be no repercussions. It gave me goose bumps. It chilled me to the bone." Other InfraGard members deny that they have ever been told such; Schneck says InfraGard members will have no civil patrol or law enforcement responsibilities. The FBI calls such assertions "ridiculous." But the business owner's story has been corroborated by other InfraGard members. "There have been discussions like that, that I've heard of and participated in," says Christine Moerke, an InfraGard member from Wisconsin. [InfraGard, 2008; Progressive, 2/7/2008]
Entity Tags: Michael Hershman, US Department of Homeland Security, Christine Moerke, Bush administration (43), American Civil Liberties Union, Federal Bureau of Investigation, InfraGard National Members Alliance, Gray Davis, Phyllis Schneck, InfraGard
Timeline Tags: Civil Liberties
A police officer with the Mountain View Police Department in California uncovers a pattern of suspicious electronic probing of the computer systems of public utilities and government offices in the San Francisco Bay area. He notifies the FBI's computer intrusion squad. The investigation reveals that the intruders are operating from the Middle East and South Asia. They are targeting the computer systems used to control the physical infrastructure of water systems and power plants throughout the US, suggesting a plan for a cyber attack. For many experts who have long warned against cyber terrorism or warfare, the "Mountain View case" as it is called, should be seen as a wake-up call for the government as well as the private sector (see 1996-2008). In a later interview, Richard Clarke, the national presidential adviser on cyberspace security from 2001 to 2003, will say: "The bottom line on the Mountain View case is the ease with which people can do virtual reconnaissance from overseas on our physical infrastructure and our cyber infrastructure.… We were lucky… that there were good people watching." [Washington Post, 6/27/2002] Despite fears that al-Qaeda may be behind the intrusions (see 2002), the identity of the hackers will not be established. In 2003, Ron Dick, who was the head of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) at the time, will say that the "case is still pending.… We never were… able to tie it back to any terrorist organizations." [PBS Frontline, 3/18/2003]
Entity Tags: Richard A. Clarke, Ron Dick, Al-Qaeda, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC)
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline
The FBI alerts InfraGard members (see 1996-2008) of a potential terrorist threat to bridges in California. Officials of Enron are also notified. However, the FBI does not immediately notify California governor Gray Davis, who learns of the threat from his brother, Barry Davis, an employee of the financial firm Morgan Stanley. Davis's press secretary, Steve Maviglio, later recalls: "[Governor Davis] said his brother talked to him before the FBI. And the governor got a lot of grief for releasing the information. In his defense, he said, 'I was on the phone with my brother, who is an investment banker. And if he knows, why shouldn't the public know?'… You'd think an elected official would be the first to know, not the last." [Progressive, 2/7/2008]
Entity Tags: Enron Corporation, Barry Davis, Steve Maviglio, InfraGard, Gray Davis, Federal Bureau of Investigation
When the secretary of homeland security and the attorney general announce that the national terror level is being raised from yellow to orange (see February 7-13, 2003), InfraGard members are specifically mentioned. InfraGuard is a program in which private companies work with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, which provides these companies with information not available to the public (see 1996-2008). In their listing of "additional steps" that federal agencies are taking to "increase their protective measures," one of those steps is to "provide alert information to InfraGard program." [Progressive, 2/7/2008]
Entity Tags: InfraGard
The American Civil Liberties Union warns that InfraGard, the private organization that cooperates with the FBI in law enforcement and other areas (see 1996-2008), is a potential threat to constitutional freedoms. "There is evidence that InfraGard may be closer to a corporate TIPS program [TIPS is a program proposed by the Bush administration to encourage Americans to spy on one another], turning private-sector corporations—some of which may be in a position to observe the activities of millions of individual customers—into surrogate eyes and ears for the FBI," the ACLU says in its report, "The Surveillance-Industrial Complex: How the American Government Is Conscripting Businesses and Individuals in the Construction of a Surveillance Society." [Progressive, 2/7/2008]
Entity Tags: Bush administration (43), American Civil Liberties Union, InfraGard, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Operation TIPS
FBI Director Robert Mueller tells an audience at an InfraGard convention, "Those of you in the private sector are the first line of defense." InfraGard is an organization made up of private business executives and employees who work with the FBI in counterterrorism, surveillance, and other areas (see 1996-2008). Mueller urges InfraGard members to contact the FBI if they "note suspicious activity or an unusual event." And he urges members to inform the FBI about "disgruntled employees who will use knowledge gained on the job against their employers." After the convention, Muller says of InfraGard, "It's a great program." [Progressive, 2/7/2008]
Entity Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, InfraGard
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Last autumn nearly 190,000 buyers from 211 countries and regions around the world attended the 112th Canton Fair. A total of 552 foreign enterprises from 44 countries attended as exhibitors, many of them from developing countries. Many businessmen expressed their optimism about burgeoning trade with China.
Rafeeque Ahmed, President of the Federation of Indian Export Organizations, led a delegation of 52 Indian enterprises to the 112th Fair, offering everything from hand tools to kitchen appliances.
Indian companies are already active in exporting home appliances to the Chinese market, and are introducing products such as auto parts, medicine, crafts and garments, explained Ahmed. He predicted that Indian exports to China will reach US$100 billion by 2018, growing annually by around 30 percent.
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New data emerges on liver transplant survival rates
(25 November 2009: VIDYYA MEDICAL NEWS SERVICE) -- Researchers at the University of Miami School of Medicine compared the outcomes of cirrhotic patients who underwent liver transplants for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) versus alcoholic liver disease (ETOH) and found no statistically significant differences in post-transplant survival rates between the NASH and ETOH groups. Study findings are presented in the December issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health, NASH affects 2%-5% of Americans and ranks as one of the major causes of cirrhosis in the U.S. behind hepatitis C and alcoholic liver disease. Incidences of both NASH and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are increasing, possibly because of the greater number of Americans with obesity. Obesity also contributes to diabetes and high blood cholesterol, which can further complicate the health of someone with NASH. Because it is often a "silent" liver disease, NASH can lead to cirrhosis and permanent damage. Once serious scarring or cirrhosis is present, few treatments can halt the progression. Liver transplantation remains the only treatment for advanced cirrhosis with liver failure and is increasingly performed in people with NASH.
Vishal Bhagat, M.D, and colleagues demonstrated that liver transplant is an appropriate treatment for NASH patients, with survival rates comparable to those for ETOH patients. The team performed a retrospective chart review on all patients who underwent liver transplant for cryptogenic cirrhosis with NASH phenotype and alcoholic cirrhosis at the University of Miami from January 1997 through January 2007.
Cryptogenic cirrhosis was defined by absence of significant alcohol use (>20 gm/day), negative tests for viral hepatitis, negative autoimmune markers such as anti-nuclear antibody and anti-mitochondrial antibody, and negative markers for hemochromatosis, Wilson disease and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.
The alcoholic cirrhosis (ETOH) group included patients who had history of significant alcohol, had no biochemical, serological and histological evidence of other known causes of cirrhosis, and underwent liver transplant from January 1997 through January 2007. Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and alcoholic cirrhosis with NASH phenotype were excluded from the ETOH group.
Baseline data on alcohol use, BMI, blood pressure and fasting serum levels of glucose, total cholesterol and triglycerides was recorded for both groups prior to liver transplant and after 6 months post-liver transplant. Demographic information was also collected including: recipient age, recipient sex, recipient ethnicity, donor age, cold ischemia time, biopsy proven acute and/or chronic rejection, biopsy proven recurrence of moderate to severe steatohepatitis in the transplanted liver, causes of retransplantation, graft survival, causes of death and patient survival.
"Our study presents the largest patient population with the longest follow-up published so far on the survival of patients with NASH cirrhosis," said Dr. Bhagat. "We found that although there was a trend towards lower patient survival in the NASH group compared with the ETOH group, the difference was not statistically significant."
In both the NASH and ETOH groups, sepsis (with or without multisystem organ failure) was the most common cause of death post-liver transplant, which is consistent with previously published data, followed by cardiovascular causes in the NASH group and malignancies in the ETOH group. Although higher number of patients died from cardiovascular causes in the NASH group (26%) compared with the ETOH group (7%), the difference did not reach statistical significance. "Cardiovascular mortality among NASH patients was much higher than published autopsy results in liver transplant patients and stresses the importance of control of the metabolic syndrome post-transplant in NASH patients," added Dr. Bhagat.
In a related study also published in Liver Transplantation, researchers at the Cleveland Clinic lead by Arthur McCullough, M.D., found that the development of metabolic syndrome following liver transplantation is on the rise and is a significant contributor to cardiovascular complications and morbidity and mortality. "Cardiovascular mortality and higher infection rates among patients with post-transplant metabolic syndrome remains a concern," said Dr. McCullough. "There is clearly a need for prospective studies to help identify and validate risk factors for post-transplant metabolic syndrome and thereby develop interventional strategies."
Article: "Outcomes of Liver Transplantation in Patients with Cirrhosis Due to Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Compared to Alcoholic Liver Disease."Vishal Bhagat, Ayse L. Mindikoglu, Carmine G. Nudo, Eugene R. Schiff, Andreas Tzakis, Arie Regev. Liver Transplantation; Published Online: November 25, 2009 (DOI:10.1002/lt.21927); Print Issue Date: December 2009.
Article: "Post-Transplant Metabolic Syndrome: An Epidemic Waiting to Happen." Arthur J. McCullough, M Pagadala, S Dasarathy, B Eghtesad. Liver Transplantation; Published Online: November 25, 2009 (DOI:10.1002/lt.21952); Print Issue Date: December 2009.
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Mauricio Pochettino has pledged his immediate future to Saints in the wake of Nicola Cortese's departure – but has refused to give any guarantees over his long-term status.
The club's manager also moved to calm fears of a reported player "exodus" this month, saying no one who he wants to keep will be allowed to leave during the transfer window.
Pochettino was speaking for the first time since Cortese's shock exit on Wednesday night and just moments after meeting owner Katharina Liebherr at St Mary's.
He revealed he had received the full support of Liebherr and was "100 per cent committed" to Saints, although he gave mixed messages about how long for.
"It is clear that there is a loyalty and a commitment to this club and to the staff, to the people that run this club, to the supporters of this club," said the 41-year-old, whose contract runs until the end of next season.
"My contract is with Southampton, it's with a company, and I intend see my contract with this company. It would not be the right moment to actually leave this club right now."
At another point, he added: "What is clear is when I signed for Nicola I signed for two years. We signed together a number of players, and I am 100 per cent committed to those players, and 100 per cent committed to the project, to the two years of my contract."
However, Pochettino – who admitted yesterday he contemplated quitting due to Cortese's departure – later said he would review his status as manager at the end of the season.
"I am fully 100 per cent decided on staying here at this club until the end of the season and taking this club as high as it can," he said.
"First, it's only normal that we finish the season, then we'll see next season what happens.
"It's clear that at the end of the season we will assess the situation at the club and then we will decide whether I am up to staying here another season."
Last summer, when Cortese's future was under threat, Pochettino had aligned himself closely with the Italian, saying he would leave if he departed.
However, he justified his decision not to follow him out of the door this time, as circumstances had changed.
"It is clear that when I came in in the middle of last season Nicola wanted me to be here for those four months to ensure the club stayed in the Premier League, and from then on a new project started, so that's a different situation to what I said before," he said.
"It would make no sense for me to leave this club in the middle of the season – no one would understand it. I am sure Nicola would not understand that."
Pochettino, who added Cortese agreed with his decision to stay, only spoke to Liebherr for about five minutes yesterday and confirmed they had not discussed issues such as the transfer market.
However, he laid down a marker that he does not expect anyone to be sold who he wishes to keep.
"I'm sure that the club will designate a person to receive any potential offers, to speak to any potential buyers, and to deal with all these potential offers.
"But I want to make something very clear; no one is for sale at Southampton, no one. My belief has not changed from one week ago. No player that I don't want to leave will leave this club."
Perhaps the biggest concern among supporters is the future of teenage left-back Luke Shaw, with reports suggesting he wants to leave and that clubs such as Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool are now preparing moves for him.
Pochettino put the ball in Liebherr's court over that issue.
"That is not a question I can answer," he said. "Luke Shaw has a contract and that is a question for the new chairman. I am not aware of bids for him."
Rickie Lambert has also this week been linked with a move to West Ham, with suggestions that Cortese was involved in negotiations over a £7m deal in the hours leading up to his departure.
"I have no news on that," said Pochettino.
Asked what Lambert wants to do, the Saints boss said: "I have not spoken with him yet, so I do not know."
Pochettino said he had received no indication from any player that they wished to leave.


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I told you that I would never take a job at 343 Industries, because their task was impossible; it's all the more startling, then, that they managed to accomplish it.
It's the best Halo campaign of the series, I don't think there's really going to be much of a debate there. Because the human brain is a Goddamned, stupid anachronism and barely up the fucking task, if Halo 4 had simply been as good as the previous games it would have been a failure. It is, in actual fact, a game that will make you give a shit about Halo. I had more narrative buy-in after the first ten minutes than any other game in the series managed to generate by the end.
When Bungie checked one of these things in, their games were "Halo" virtually by definition. That wasn't the case for this team. They had to earn it. And by God, they did.
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First shale gas came for coal. Then it came for nuclear as we've seen not only future but existing plants are being taken off line in the US recently. Tomorrow, even the eternal debate about UK nuclear power will be blamed on shale. It sometimes seems that the only thing people know about shale gas is that they hate it.
Nuclear power is something the green movement in the UK were all against so many years ago, but now almost only the Friends of the Earth are left as opponents. Much of the rest of the glowing green movement is more pragmatic. This new practicality is still absent in the European debate about natural gas, the only technology that actually delivers significantly lower emissions instead of endlessly talking about them.
Meanwhile, shale gas and oil is delivering another victory to the Green movement, not that we'll get any credit. Shale gas is the Rodney Dangerfield energy source.
Even before that evil fracking came to pass, the green movement was united, or as united as it was likely to get, over what was often called, and quite rightly in my opinion, extreme energy. Extreme energy was almost always oil. he objection was accessing oil in pristine environments and the top two targets have been oil in the Arctic offshore and Canadian Tar Sands.
I'm convinced the UK Co-op's campaign against oil shales, as the Canadian Tar Sands are also known led to a confusion with shale gas in their Toxic Fuels campaign. They're simply too embarrassed to admit it. But on the oil sands, it's hard not to side with greens. This is extreme energy in that oil is effectively strip mined from the Athabasca Tar Sands in pristine northern Alberta and only produces synthetic crude by essentially cooking it, using a huge amount of energy, often the oil itself, in the process. Strip mining, lunar landscape and wasteful amounts of energy is reality in the Tar Sands as opposed to the boring reality of shale gas.
The other target has been Arctic oil exploration offshore Alaska, yet another energy controversy puttering along for decades that a) doesn't actually get produced and b) raises millions for green groups as putting together polar bears and oil equal money.
Producing oil from either method is apart from anything else, extremely expensive. Whatever you feel about the oil industry or driving cars, Arctic and Athabasca energy is oil born out of Peak Oil. This is energy for the desperate. The problem is we are no longer desperate. Shale oil is simply cheaper, safer and closer than going to pristine environments. There is no reason to antagonise people, spend a huge amount of money and generally piss people off and risk what little reputational capital the oil industry still has by bothering with it any longer.
This from Alaska shows that these days, Shell is no particular hurry to resume offshore Alaska anyway:
Royal Dutch Shell's s two Arctic drilling rigs are being sent to Asia for assessment and repairs, raising fresh questions about whether it will be able to pursue its drilling programme off the north coast of Alaska this summer as planned.
The debate about the Keystone Pipeline also needs to seen in the light of why go looking for expensive trouble. The Tar Sands are too big to shut down, but they aren't going to get any bigger. There's plenty of Canadian shale oil waiting in the wings and the US portion of the Keystone is now needed to bring North Dakota oil to market.
This weekend in Washington there is going to be a demonstration originally targeted against Keystone and the usual suspects will be there.
The goal of the rally is to demand that President Obama move America forward on climate in 2013 with decisive action to reduce dangerous carbon pollution, phase out carbon-intensive fossil fuels, and lead the way in promoting energy efficiency and clean-energy sources. The first steps he must take are to finalize strong carbon-pollution standards for power plants and reject the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
But it's pointless. The Tar Sands will be a mere sideshow and future investment in it will have to fight shale oil, a battle they already lost. In short, the demonstrators been given exactly what they wanted, just as they have on lower US CO2 emissions and the slow death of the nuclear industry for those so inclined.
No nukes, no nasty oil, no CO2. What's to hate? Strangely enough, the shale gas industry which made it all possible. The victory for greens is one by default. They would prefer to think it's all due to marches and fundraising by wannabe or past hit movie stars.
An amazing grassroots movement demanding solutions to the climate crisis, gaining momentum from coast to coast in preparation for the Forward on Climate rally on February 17. The Sierra Club and 350.org, along with more than 120 partner organizations, are expecting tens of thousands of Americans to gather in front of the White House the Sunday of President's Day weekend, making Forward on Climate the largest climate-related rally in U.S. history.
Over the past few weeks, I've had the privilege of talking with activists who are organizing carpools, buses, and van rides, participating in phonebanks, building Facebook events, drumming up press coverage, and working around-the-clock to organize their communities for the Washington, D.C., rally.
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Summer is a time for feelgood jams, but sometimes you need a little darkness in order to see the light. One of our favorite non-summery summer jams at the moment is "Stranglin' You Too," a menacing, organ-driven gob of sinister spite by the Australian band Slug Guts. The song appears on the band's upcoming album, Playin' In Time With The Deadbeat, which will be released by the fine indie label Sacred Bones on July 24. While the rest of the world is at the beach, sit in a dark, air-conditioned room and blast this at full volume.
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May 25, 1921 - November 24, 2012
Cohoes, NY - Formerly of Middletown, NY
Shirley E. Conkling, 91 of Cohoes, NY entered into eternal life on Saturday, November 24, 2012 at her residence.
She was born on May 25, 1921 in Middletown, NY, the daughter of the late Clyde and Florence Barkhardt Bradford. She was a graduate of Middletown High School and the Middletown School of Business. Shirley was a book keeper for Arthur J. Conkling Services and was a home maker.
Shirley was a member of the former Reformed Church of the Boght and the Boght Fire Co. Ladies Auxiliary.
In addition to her parents, she is predeceased by her husband, Arthur J. Conkling Jr., a daughter; Linda C. Wood; a granddaughter, Sharon Wood and her sister, Beatrice Marie Bradford Carlock. Survivors include two great grandchildren, Eryn and Miranda Harms.
Services are private and will be held at the convenience of the family. Burial will be in Walkill Cemetery.
On behalf of the family they would like to express their sincerest appreciation to the wonderful caregivers who took excellent care of Shirley, especially; Beverly Rogers.
Arrangements have been entrusted by the family to the Gordon C. Emerick Funeral Home, 1550 Route 9, Clifton Park, NY 12065.


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Bogdan was also named a fellow of the Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education, an initiative established by the John A. Hartford Foundation for students who demonstrate outstanding commitment to working with the elderly.
Bogdan was born and raised in Ridgewood to working-class parents, from whom she learned first-hand the need for adequate social services.
"Growing up, my dad was a factory worker, so he was really a victim of outsourcing," Bogdan said. "Every couple of years he would lose his job."
This struggle sparked her interest in housing and education development.
At first, Bogdan wanted to go to law school. She worked for a few law firms to gain experience, including one that handled claims related to 9/11, but eventually realized her true dream was to run for public office.
"I've always had a passion for working with people," she said, adding that lawyers do a lot of their work over the phone. "I really have a passion for community-based work, community-based politics."
Bogdan intends to run for elected office in the next 10 or 15 years, but is also open to the idea of running her own social services agency.
She said having a Master's in Social Work makes her more well-rounded than others who run for public office.
"An MSW degree gives you that hands on, one-on-one experience with people to really understand what people in the community need," she said.
Bogdan currently works at a re-entry program for adults transitioning from prison back into society.
"Understanding where they're coming from and giving them a desire, passion, hope, and utilizing their own strengths to really reach their max potential," she said of her job. "What really makes an effective social worker is someone who has that passion."


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Canada could be a win away from qualifying for the quarter-final phase of the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Azerbaijan following a 1-0 victory over Colombia on Tuesday. Whitecaps FC Girls Elite striker Summer Clarke scored the lone goal at Shafa Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Clarke now has seven goals in seven official FIFA/CONCACAF matches at the U-17 level, making her Canada's all-time scoring leader in U-17 competitive matches. For her efforts, Clarke was selected Canada's Player of the Match.
Canada have four points with one match remaining against the host Azerbaijan. Canada sits in second place behind Nigeria who also have four points, but with a greater goal difference after two matches.
Clarke scored the winning goal in the 51st minute after a centering pass from Nichelle Prince. Fullback Lindsay Agnew had played a straight ball down the right line that Prince chased and won, with the Colombians perhaps hoping that the ball would have rolled out. Prince continued her run deep towards the Colombian line before centering a pass for Clarke in the middle. Clarke had done well on her own run into the box, using her speed to get in front of Colombian defender Anyella Martinez who could only drag down Clarke, but not prevent the goal.
Canada dominated possession in the early part of the match, especially the opening quarter of an hour. Despite breaking through the Colombia defence on several occasions, Canada could not break through for an opening goal. In the 30th minute, Canada had its best chance of the first half after Clarke beat a pair of defenders and then fed Valérie Sanderson off to the right inside the box. Sanderson didn't quite have the angle, though, to hit more than the outside netting of the goal.
Less than a minute after scoring in the second half, Clarke thought she may have had a second goal when she broke into the box and put the ball past the goalkeeper. Clarke, however, was adjudged to have been in an offside position when Rebecca Quinn delivered the pass.
Canada had another great chance in the 61st minute, but this time Nicole Loncar hit the crossbar. Loncar had fired her shot from just outside the Colombian box.
Canada's starting XI featured Kailen Sheridan in goal, Lindsay Agnew at right back, Kadeisha Buchanan and Rebecca Pongetti at centre back, Larisa Staub at left back, and Summer Clarke, Rebecca Quinn, Ashley Lawrence, Valérie Sanderson, Nichelle Prince and Nicole Loncar from the midfield up through to the attack. In the second half, coach Bryan Rosenfeld switched Sanderson with Jasmin Dhanda (59') and Clarke with Amanda Pierre-Louis (71')
Colombia's starting XI featured Lissa Cardozo in goal, Anyella Martinez at right back, Maria Jaramillo and Diana Duarte at centre back, Estefania Botero at left back, and Carolina Arbelaez, Leicy Santos, Marcela Restrepo, Dayana Castillo, Juliana Ocampo and Gabriela Maldonado. In the second half, coach Fabian Taborda replaced Maldonado with Nicole Regnier (46'), Ocampo with Pamela Peñaloza (59'), and Restrepo with Karen Gutierrez (70')
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MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. - Mammoth Cave National Park has dedicated a new $16.4 million visitors' center that includes more space and a place to view exhibits.
Bruce Powell, deputy superintendent of the national park, told the Glasgow Daily Times that "it's a day to celebrate" as several officials attended a ceremony Tuesday to mark the end of work that began in 2007.
Tom Byl of Nashville, Tenn., was visiting the park during the dedication and told the Daily News of Bowling Green he was impressed with the new center.
"This is worth coming to see all on its own," Byl said. "It's very educational. ... You've got the human stories and get to learn about the geology of the cave."
The exhibit is designed to tell stories or show things that most people won't see on a typical tour, according to Mike Adams, chief of interpretation at Mammoth Cave.
"We talk about eyeless fish and all these things, but in reality people will not have a chance to see those," Adams said. "So the exhibits are a chance to show people those."
Cave City Mayor Dwayne Hatcher said surrounding communities also will benefit from the center because more people will be drawn to the area.
"Any improvement out here just enhances the opportunity for all the surrounding communities to bring in more people and so financially it's a tremendous boost," he said.
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i used to live near phoenix (goodyear). i had a metal garage door that was west facing and my garage was pretty much an easy bake oven during the summer. to run my laser cutter, i insulated the garage door and then built a floating wall of insulating panels with an 8 inch air gap between it and the door.. then i installed a portable AC unit.
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There's a reason Jessica Biel, Kate Bosworth, and Sarah Jessica Parker all have MiH jeans hanging in their closets: The denim is always as comfortable and flattering as it is stylish. With scores of different on-trend colors and forgiving fits to choose from — not to mention a line of ultra-soft tees and work-appropriate shirts — it's no wonder the U.K.-based company has so many enamored fans.
Whether you already know and love the brand or are just in the market for a fresh pair of blues, it's
your lucky day: One of our favorite boutiques, Satine, is holding a trunkshow tomorrow to preview MiH's spring collection. You'll be able to sip champagne and nosh on small bites while you peruse the new wares, so be sure to mark your calendars pronto. We dare you to leave empty-handed!
When: Thursday, January 17, 3 to 7 p.m.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Thousands of young people and some more weathered hikers are trekking up a path that cuts through aspen and pine to a summit of a Utah mountain about 60 miles east of Salt Lake City.
The group includes train hoppers, students, lawyers, architects and others, members say. But each belongs to the Rainbow Family, which has convened every year since 1972, sometimes in two states at once, to join in prayers for peace, sing-alongs in the traveling Granola Funk theater and unkempt free-spiritedness that has irked some residents in neighboring Heber City.
"People call us misfits, drug addicts, homeless, useless. That's not true," said Red Carlin, a retired carpenter and unofficial ambassador for the group.
"Because of our existence, we're outsiders. We're the people your mom and dad pointed out beforehand and said, 'Don't be like that,' " Carliln said
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The gathering is expected to double in size this week as more members pour in to the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest for a four-day celebration that ends Friday.
On Tuesday, some came in pairs, groups or by themselves in a variety of looks: dreadlocks, sundresses, with pets and dirt-caked faces.
Members began arriving about two weeks ago in Heber City, where residents say they're wary of disorderly conduct and question how much the gathering will cost their town.
About 10,000 people are expected to arrive by Friday, the height of the celebration.
Last year, the same number of members set up camp in Montana. The group there racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in law-enforcement costs, officials said.
The festival prompted U.S. Forest Service officials there to draw up a list of lessons learned for other states.
The Rainbow Family has no official creed or website, and it doesn't publicly identify any leaders or list of members. It revolves around peace and nonviolence, various unofficial websites say.
Authorities say a New Hampshire woman and a man from Texas at the celebration apparently died in their sleep.
Police also say a New Mexico woman at the campsite last week stabbed a participant, seriously injuring him.


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Brit Lily Cole was discovered in Soho, London by Benjamin Hart. She's famous for her red hair and doll-like features. She credits modeling for giving her confidence that she didn't have before she started working as model. Lily is an active humanitarian and environmentalist, and participates in many charity international charity organizations.
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Former Governor William Weld says another run for office 'unlikely'
Weld would not challenge Scott Brown in special election
Former Gov. William Weld said Thursday on WCVB TV's political show OTR it was "unlikely" he would ever run for office again, but left the door ajar.
Calling Republicans Sen. Scott Brown and former gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker the "two 800 pound gorillas" in Massachusetts politics, Weld said he would not challenge Brown if a special U.S. Senate election were held next year.
Asked if he would run if Brown declined to seek an open seat, Weld said he would help recruit someone "friskier."
The former Republican governor, who has just moved back to Massachusetts, said Sen. John Kerry, rumored to being considered for either Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense by President Obama, has "earned" a cabinet post.
Weld also said he supported and believed Mitt Romney was going to win up until election night.
"I drank the Kool-Aid," he said.
But Weld criticized Romney's remarks this week to donors when he said President Obama won the election because he gave special gifts to racial minorities, referring to the Affordable Care Act and the Dream Act.
Weld said this was the best year Republicans had to come to the table with an economic message and it didn't work. He said the party needs to expand its message and accept the fact that the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land.
However, he said the GOP should continue to negotiate changes that need to be made to the health care law.
On his former Health and Human Services Secretary Charlie Baker, Weld said he would "light candles" and put his "shoulder to the wheel" for Baker if he decides on a second gubernatorial run.
He said Baker doesn't need to do anything differently, saying candidates "settle into their own political skin" during a second campaign.
Asked if he had any regrets or misgivings about his decisions on the Big Dig as governor now that he is back in town and driving through the project which has had major problems, even killing a motorist, Weld said he wishes he had decided on a third tunnel to the airport instead of depressing the artery which he said still hasn't produced a Greenway as "green" as it had been promised.
On his former Lt. Gov, Paul Cellucci who he saw earlier Thursday to promote a fundraising campaign for ALS, Weld said Cellucci delivered a "stem winder" of a speech and "could run a cabinet meeting today and dominate" even with his decreasing mobility.
Weld, now working for Mintz Levin and ML Strategies in Boston, said he will become an official Massachusetts resident beginning January 2013. He and his wife are looking for a home in the Boston area.
One personal note expressed by Weld before the OTR taping began was that he has been "off the spirits" for five to six years, but he made clear that doesn't exclude beer and wine.


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All across the United States, for the past few years, there's been Unarmed-Civilian, after Unarmed-Civilian, murdered at the hands of Law-Enforcement. The reasons why these individuals were killed in cold-blood were never justified, the Police-Officers involved were always either acquitted of all charges against their victims, served with only minor-sentences, or not even indicted for their crimes against Humanity & Citizenry. When we observe these trends of violence, based solely upon ethno-cultural, socio-economic, socio-political circumstances, especially after the advent of the Obama-Era, an historic time in America where People have allowed themselves to believe that since there's a Non-White President in the Oval-Office, that all is now right with our United States. But, then, ever since Obama's been a President, it seems as though there's been an even more blatant presence of Hate-Crimes against Citizenry, committed by Law-Enforcement, during the Obama-Years.
Which brings us to the title of this article: Lynchings without Nooses-Back in the days, from about the 1870's to the 1970's in America, the Noose was the most common scare-tactic & weapon of choice, for the racist White-Establishment in the United States, against all Non-Christian/Non-White Peoples, courtesy of the Ku Klux Klan. However, now, within the past 4-decades, it's not been the Noose that's killed significant numbers of Black/Latino/Non-White, Urban-Youth, instead, it's been a Policeman's Gun. Now, instead of People being fearful of the sight of a Klansman's Burning-Cross, they're afraid of the sight of a Policeman's Badge.
From Florida, with the murder of Trayvon Martin…to Ferguson, MO, with the murder of Michael Brown…to Staten Island, NY, with the murder of Eric Garner…to Santa Rosa, CA, with the murder of Andy Lopez…to Cleveland, OH, with the murder of Tamir Rice…every channel you watch on the News, every article you read in the Papers, every Internet-Search: there's something reported and/or written about yet another Person being shot/killed by Law-Enforcement. There's several things wrong with this blatant "Open-Season" mentality, which Law-Enforcement has, when attacking Citizenry. And, I know that there are Community-Leaders, Politicians, members of Law-Enforcement, etc., who try to sweep this reality under the rug. But, things are just too obvious to ignore. And, the People who are members of the most demographically marginalized ethnic-groups in the United States are taking things to the streets, in almost every major city in America: there are rallies, protests, riots everywhere.
It's very easy for People who aren't members of these marginalized demographics, and/or hail from well-appointed places in Life to say, "Stop the Violence", "Stop the Protests", Stop the Rioting", when these same People aren't the ones being subjected to the atrocities that their fellow Humans across the United States face on a day-to-day basis, which is Racial-Profiling. You can sugar-coat the reality of Racial-Profiling with Police-Officers "just doing their duty" all you want. But, the news-stories don't lie. Year after year, we hear the same types of stories: Unarmed-Person shot by Police. This story has been told for decades, and generations. How many more funerals for Unarmed-Civilians have to be attended, how Fathers & Mothers have to mourn the losses of their Children to Police-on-Civilian Violence, how many more Police-Officers are going to either get acquitted of any/all crimes against Citizenry or not even get indicted for these crimes?
The voices of Citizenry can be clearly heard, yet Politicians, Law-Enforcement Agents, Presidents, refuse to listen to the complaints & cries of the People, and this is exactly how revolutions begin. Even with the recent indictments & prosecutions of the Baltimore Police-Officers who held Freddie Grey against his will, and caused him to die in Police-Custody. How far will this really go: will these Officers receive another slap on the wrist, courtesy of yet another puppeteered Kangaroo-Jury, selected to acquit yet another group of Police-Officers, to send yet another message that Law-Enforcement is above the Law? Until then, let's all just keep in mind that Justice for all requires us all to be impartial, unbiased, and willing to fight to erase Oppression from our Societies.


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Knowing nothing about turkeys, this may sound a little strange, but do they take to wing?
If they were the great big 30 pounders that we cook for our family dinners, I could not imagine something in the air so big, what if it fell on someone!!! LOL.
Yikes!!! Now I want to learn more about turkeys. We are going to raise some this upcoming year, I have heard from other posts in the forum how aggressive the toms can be....especially with kids and animals, well, we have so many of these items (the kids and animals (dogs), that I will have to treat these big old things like babies, so that maybe they will be a little more tame than the ones that I hear chase people up the trees.
the most important thing to know about turkeys is that they are, without a doubt, the stupidest bird on gods green earth. in fact, they may be the stupidest of all gods creations.
he also enjoyed sitting around naked in front of an open window, and trying to electrocute himself :-)
the wild birds are probably a bit smarter, or at least still have some survival instincts intact. the ones you raise domestically for food are stupid
he also enjoyed sitting around naked in front of an open window, and trying to electrocute himself


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Disturbance leads to Shelton man's arrest
SHELTON -- A police officer responding to a disturbance on Old Bridgeport Avenue early Tuesday morning had to restrain a man living at the home while backup arrived, police said.
Daniel Lord, 21, was destroying the inside of the home when officers arrived about 3 a.m. after receiving a report of an intoxicated person, Detective Sgt. Kevin Ahern said.
When the responding officer entered the house, Lord attacked him and the two struggled in a hallway, Ahern said.
The officer was able to get Lord on the ground and held him there until other officers arrived, he said.
The officer was not injured and Lord was taken to Griffin Hospital, where he was treated for minor injuries and released, Ahern said.
"It took several officers to get him handcuffed because he was so out of control," Ahern said.
Lord was charged with disorderly conduct, third-degree assault, third-degree criminal mischief, interfering with an emergency call, illegal possession of a controlled substance, failure to keep drugs in the original container and interfering with a police officer.
He was held in lieu of $10,000 bond and was arraigned Tuesday in Derby Superior Court.
His next court date was not available Wednesday.


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France out of recession with 0.5 percent Q2 growth
The French economy is officially out of recession, according to data released Wednesday that showed gross domestic product had its strongest quarterly growth in two years.
The national statistics agency, Insee, said that France's gross domestic product rose 0.5 percent in the second quarter, largely on a rebound in exports, domestic household demand and public spending. The figure was well above the consensus forecast of 0.1 percent and even the more optimistic Banque de France prediction of 0.2 percent growth.
But the positive figure wasn't a total surprise. Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said this weekend that the economy was out of recession, even before the official data became known. In a statement Wednesday, he reveled in the return to growth, saying that France's exports _ which rose 2 percent in the quarter _ were benefitting from a pickup in demand throughout the eurozone. Data for the rest of the European Union will be released later in the day.
Insee says the April-to-June growth was the strongest quarterly growth since early 2011, when Europe's debt crisis exploded, forcing governments to cut spending and dragging many economies into recession.
France, Europe's second-largest economy, has fared better than many, but its growth has been stagnant for two years. GDP shrank 0.2 percent for each of the last two quarters.
But the government's growth projections for the full year indicate that France is not out of the woods yet. Moscovici recently said that growth would be between a fall of 0.1 percent and a rise of 0.1 percent in 2013; that was a slight downgrade of the official projection of 0.1 percent annual growth.
That would mean that the second half of 2013 will not keep pace with the second quarter's growth. Wednesday's figure is also just a first estimate and could later be revised.


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The late 7th-century Gospel of St. John preserved among the relics of St. Cuthbert retains its original binding, whose decorative designs embody in an exemplary way the principles of composition that informed early Insular art. The designs on the front and back covers are geometrical not only for showing the influence of compass and straight-edge. They are geometrical in conception as well, having proportions among their major dimensions that are all based on the "two true measures of geometry", the golden section ratio and the square root of two. This essay analyses the forms of the designs and provides line-drawings to show how they could have been created.
The depiction of the crying face is the final result of a process in which several stages can be distinguished. Full articulation of the crying face is found in the works of Rogier van der Weyden (tears rolling down the cheeks). The motif became quickly popular in Flemish 15th-century painting. Literary traditions, continuing since the early Middle Ages, suggest that tears gradually acquired the meaning of redemption rather than being a manifestation of pain only. In Flemish art only saintly figures are allowed to shed tears.
Vasari's scattered information on the destroyed Villa Soranza places Anselmo Canneri there as a frescoist as well as Veronese and Zelotti. Comparison of eleven fresco fragments of 1551 form Soranza with contemporary works by the three artists confirms the presence of all three hands in the frescoes, which are usually attributed to Veronese alone. The lost decorative program is reconstructed by collating the original list of 108 fragments, drawn up in 1818, with lists of fragments shown in England in 1825 and 1827 and with the visual remains, using Ridolfi's passage to help place fragments in the four decorated rooms. Twelve drawings in Milan record extant and described elements of the decoration and also record the same three hands identified in the extant fragments. Sources for the cycle at "La Soranza" exist among earlier fresco cycles in Renaissance Verona, where antiquarian studies had fostered illusionistic decorations since 1500.
The 17th-century development by Dutch genre painters of the oyster meal theme is easily divided into two time periods: the introduction of the theme of consuming oysters in merry company scenes from 1610-35, and the oyster meal often depicted in more intimate settings from 1660-80. There is a hiatus from 1635-60 in which few examples of the oyster meal appear. In both the early and the later periods there is a compositional change, dividing each period into two phases. Paintings of the early period are commonly festive, the important change occurring the shift of locale from outdoors to indoors; whereas, paintings of the later period are nearly all indoors - in domestic interiors - the change lying in the kind of occasion portrayed, which shifts from feast to tryst. The role of the oyster in later painting changed gradually, but distinctly. Always a symbol of the sense of taste - and a delicacy at that - its erotic significance was steadily accentuated. This development accrued to the shift from banquet scenes with oysters as an incidental feature, to lovers scenes, where the oyster meal is the principal theme. The opportunity to moralize varied accordingly with the same changes.
Gustave Courbet subtitled the massive painting (1855) depicting his Studio a "real allegory". In practice, this puzzling conjunction of disparate terminology signifies an assemblage of symbolic figures in contemporary dress arranged into a moralized (left vs. right) compositional scheme; the entire ensemble is expressed, however, in a vigorously naturalistic painterly language. Although print-sources have been identified for major canvases by Courbet preceding L'Atelier, to date none has been found to account overall for two significant factors: the anomalous, triptych-like composition and the underlying revolutionary exaltation of "la Liberté". To explain these factors, I propose an engraving, published in 1789 by Claude Niquet, which celebrated the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" by employing a similarly symbolic composition and apparently parallel allegorizing motifs. Significant correspondences of format, thematics and personifications are discussed and related to what is known of the metaphorical references in L'Atelier and to Courbet's expressed artistic ideas and political sentiments.


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My husband and I have sponsored a child through Compassion since our own first child was a baby. His name is Jerome; he lives in the Philippines; he will be 8 in August. We liked his Mickey Mouse shirt in his picture and that his birthday was close to our wedding anniversary. I try to write to him at least once every two or three months. At first, we got letters from his mother, which wasn't quite as much fun. Now, we get letters hand-written by Jerome – and illustrated, too!
But in all this time, Libbie (4 1/2) hasn't really shown any interest in the picture of the boy hanging on our fridge. I've never involved her in letter-writing. My husband and I have made the decisions about when to send extra monetary gifts for his birthday and Christmas.
Libbie's to a point, now, where she's beginning to grasp more concepts. She's always been aware of our efforts toward Operation Christmas Child's shoebox-packing program. She knows that I collect toys throughout the year that are not for her – they are for kids who don't HAVE toys and need hygiene items. In lieu of a third birthday party, we even had an OCC Shoebox-Packing Party.
So really, it's high time we exposed her to child sponsorship. It's a big concept, though! How do we do it?
The other day I sat down with her and asked her if she would draw a picture for Jerome. I showed her his picture, told her he lived VERY far away, and that we send money to help him get school supplies and clothes and other things he needs. She seemed very interested and asked about visiting him one day. But then she flat-out refused to draw a picture. We'll have to try that one again.
Worried about messing this up, I asked my friend OhAmanda – the wisest and most godly mom of young kids I know! – how she goes about this with her own kids. Her advice was to just make it natural. She keeps pictures of her sponsored children up. She prays with her kids for these children. Her own kids are involved in making "flat crafts" to send with letters to their sponsored children.
{Kristen from We Are THAT Family describes pretty much the same routines with her children. Plus, well, they go to Africa.}
So there are my first baby steps. Involving Libbie and David in praying, writing, crafting. Seeing. Understanding will come in time.
Compassion also has an online game called Quest for Compassion that I think we'll have to try out!
Do you sponsor a child? How do you involve your kids in it?


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SANDY, Utah (Friday, July 20, 2012) – Real Salt Lake (11-7-3, 36 pts.; 2nd in West) seeks to conquer Western archrivals Colorado Rapids (7-12-1, 22 pts.; 7th in West) in the potentially decisive second round of the Subaru Rocky Mountain Cup, Saturday, July 21, presented by Sports Med Utah. Kickoff is set for 8:00 p.m. MT at Rio Tinto Stadium, with pre-match excitement at 6:00 p.m. at the Carnival Real festival on the stadium's East Lawn and post-game fireworks immediately following the match in honor of RSL's annual Pioneer Day celebration.
The Claret-and-Cobalt currently leads the Subaru Rocky Mountain Cup standings, getting goals from strikers Fabián Espíndola and Álvaro Saborío to win the first of three 2012 meetings with Colorado 2-0 on April 7. Winning the second leg on Saturday would give RSL its sixth-consecutive Subaru Rocky Mountain Cup victory; if RSL loses or ties on Saturday, the Cup winner would be determined in the third and final match between the sides on Aug. 4 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
RSL's Kyle Beckerman, Chris Wingert and Nat Borchers have all won the Subaru Rocky Mountain Cup as members of RSL and the Rapids, with Beckerman winning all seven editions of the annual competition. Unfortunately for RSL, All-Star MF Beckerman will not be available this Saturday due to a one-game red card suspension picked up in Saturday's loss at San Jose.
Tickets are still available for tomorrow's Subaru Rocky Mountain Cup installment and can be purchased:
- Online: via the Zions Bank Ticket Outlet on RealSaltLake.com
- By phone: by calling 801-727-2700
- In person: at the Rio Tinto Stadium Box Office beginning at 10:00 on game day
How to Follow Real Salt Lake v. Colorado Rapids
- Kickoff: 8:00 p.m. MT from Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, UT
- TV: LIVE on CW30 (RAM Trucks post-game coverage immediately following the game)
- English Radio: ESPN700/ESPN700Sports.com (pre-game coverage at 7:00 p.m.)
- Spanish Radio: La Gran D 102.3 FM/ Juan 1600 AM with Nelson Moran & Fernando Hortal
- Online: Live updates via the @RealSaltLake Twitter Feed and MLSsoccer.com MatchCenter
MLS Game Guide for Saturday's RSL-COL Showdown Now Available Online
Following is the link to the Adobe PDF file of the Major League Soccer Game Guide (media notes) in advance of Saturday's clash between Real Salt Lake and the Colorado Rapids at Rio Tinto Stadium. If you have any problems obtaining the document, would prefer to receive the document as an attachment, or are seeking more information on the match, please contact Media Services Manager Sam Stejskal in the RSL Communications Department via email at email@example.com.
Click here to download the PDF version of the MLS Game Guide
Game Guide Highlights
- Should they win on Saturday, RSL will win the Subaru Rocky Mountain Cup for the sixth-straight year. A victory would give RSL a six points to zero lead over Colorado in the 2012 Cup standings, a margin that the Rapids would not be able to overcome in the third and final Rocky Mountain Cup match of 2012 on Aug. 4 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
- RSL rides into Saturday's match on a seven-game unbeaten streak against the Rapids, last losing to Colorado on May 2, 2009.
- RSL captain Kyle Beckerman will not be available for selection on Saturday due to a one-game red card suspension picked up in last Saturday's 5-0 thrashing at San Jose. It's the second game in the last five that Beckerman will miss due to a suspension, with the All-Star defensive midfielder serving a one-game ban for yellow card accumulation on June 30 at Columbus.
- Beckerman and RSL DF's Nat Borchers and Chris Wingert have all won Subaru Rocky Mountain Cups for both RSL and Colorado. Beckerman has won all seven Cups, Wingert has won six and Borchers has won five.
- With a win, RSL GK Nick Rimando will move past former Chicago, New York and Chivas USA GK Zach Thornton and into sole possession of No. 2 on the All-Time MLS career wins list with 132.
- RSL regular starters MF Ned Grabavoy and DF's Borchers and Tony Beltran are all likely to return to the lineup on Saturday after all missing at least one game due to injury.
- Colorado comes into Saturday's match scuffling, having lost three games in a row. Two of those three losses have been to league bottom feeders, with the Rapids falling 2-1 at Eastern Conference cellar dwellers Toronto FC on Wednesday and losing 2-1 to Western Conference eighth-place side FC Dallas at home last Saturday.
- The Rapids will be without both of their first-choice center midfielders on Saturday, with Jeff Larentowicz out due to a suspension and Pablo Mastroeni out with a long term injury.
RSL History v. Colorado Rapids
RSL is 8-8-7 all-time against the Rapids, 6-3-3 when playing against them at home. The Claret-and-Cobalt currently holds a seven-game unbeaten streak against their Western rivals, following this year's 2-0 victory at Rio Tinto Stadium on April 7.
Although Colorado claimed the first two installments of the Subaru Rocky Mountain Cup in 2005 and 2006, Real Salt Lake has dominated overall, keeping the cup in the Wasatch Front since first winning it in 2007. The Utah side has held onto the Cup thanks to series splits in 2008 (1-1-1), 2009 (1-1-1) and 2010 (0-0-2), before posting a second outright win in 2011.
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See if this description sounds familiar: Your Holley-carbureted street car idles terribly, has taken to fouling spark plugs every week or so, the gas mileage absolutely sucks, and theres an ominous black cloud swirling from your exhaust. If any of these descriptions fit your Holley carbequipped street or race car, you probably have a blown power valve.
While there is no more popular carburetor in the performance world than the Holley four barrel, it does suffer its share of shortcomings. One of its weaker points is the power valve. When this little valve fails, it can cause all of the above driveability problems. The power valve is not hard to replace, but it does require the carburetor be partially disassembled. The good news is that fixing a blown power valve is easy and it can be done without removing the carburetor. Lets take a look at what the power valve is, how to identify a bad one, and a couple of Holley power valvetuning tricks.
What It Does
Most carburetors employ what is generally called a power valve circuit. This circuit enriches the air-fuel mixture when the carburetor goes to wide-open throttle (WOT). At WOT, intake manifold vacuum drops to almost zero. When this occurs, the power valve opens and directs more fuel into the main power circuit, in addition to fuel delivered by the main jets. The Holley power valve employs a small rubber diaphragm that is opened by a small coil spring. The valve is held closed whenever sufficient engine vacuum is present. At WOT, engine vacuum disappears and the power valvespring opens the valve, directing fuel through a small, precise orifice in the metering block called the power valve channel restrictor. This restrictor determines the amount of additional fuel delivered to the engine.
Power valves are used most frequently on the primary side of a Holley carburetor. They allow the carburetor to operate with much leaner main circuit jetting for part-throttle fuel economy. Then, when the throttle is slammed open, the power valve adds additional fuel, creating the rich air-fuel ratio needed for WOT operation. Most Holley power valve circuits are designed to add the equivalent of 8 to 10 jet sizes of additional fuel. Holley does offer a power valve block-off part that closes the power valve circuit, but this means the jet size must be increased in order to compensate for the lost power valve circuit fuel. Imagine how bad your fuel mileage would be if you had to add 10 jet sizes to the primary side of your carburetor!
Easy Fixins
The problem with the Holley power valve is that it is the most sensitive circuit in the carburetor. The little rubber diaphragm has a tendency to tear or just plain fail at usually the most inopportune times. It is especially vulnerable to engine backfires. When the engine sneezes back through the intake manifold, it generally will kill the power valve. When this happens, the torn rubber diaphragm allows engine manifold vacuum to pull fuel through the valve, making the engine run extremely rich.
Fixing a blown power valve is easy. At most, it requires removing the primary float bowl and metering block. Once these are apart, its a simple job to remove and replace the valve. Lets take a look at what it takes to replace a blown Holley power valve as well as some other useful power valvetuning secrets.


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Carol A. Skalsky
ESTHERVILLE – Funeral services for Carol A. Skalsky, 74, of Estherville will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013, at Henry-Olson Funeral Chapel in Estherville with Pastor Lynn Elrod officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home on Thursday. Interment will be at Green Lawn Memorial Park in Kohler, Wis.
She died Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013, at Avera Holy Family Hospital in Estherville.
Carol A. (Fisher) Skalsky, the daughter of Glen and Helen (Wilhour) Fisher, was born July 31, 1939 in Estherville.
She received her education in Estherville schools.
In 1954 she was united in marriage to Clarence Skalsky. The couple made their home in Estherville before moving to Wisconsin. Clarence died in 1987 and then Carol moved back to Estherville. Carol enjoyed her birds and dogs and playing cards.
She was an active member of the VFW Auxiliary in Estherville.
Left to cherish Carol's memory are her siblings, Don Fisher and his wife, Barb, of Estherville, Geraldine Brandt of Estherville, Nancy Lappegard and her husband, Roy, of Sheboygan, Wis., Dwaine Fisher of Estherville, Doreen Kloen and her husband, Larry, of Estherville, James Fisher of Lincoln, Neb., Dennis Fisher and his wife, Diane, of Milford and Jane Lund of Hopkins, Minn.; special friend, Willis Amdahl, and several nieces and nephews.
She has been preceded in death by her parents, husband and two sisters, Mary Henderson and Kathryn Fisher.
Online condolences may be sent to www.henryolsonfuneral.com