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1The Child Advocacy Center will host the American Girl Fashion Show today and Sunday at the Crown Center Ballroom, 1960 Coliseum Drive. More than 130 local girls will present the fashions. Shows are today at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. and Sunday at 1 and 5 p.m. Tickets are $35 to $60 through Ticketmaster or the Crown Center box office.
2The Fayetteville Police Department will host Operation Medicine Drop today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at various locations. Residents can drop off unwanted or unused prescription and over-the-counter medication for proper disposal. There will be six collection points: Walgreens at 3300 Ramsey St.; the North Post Exchange at 5050 Butner Road on Fort Bragg; CVS at 3026 Bragg Blvd.; CVS at 522 Owen Drive; Rite Aid at 5989 Morganton Road; Rite Aid at 7860 Raeford Road; and Rite Aid at 908 Bingham Drive.
3The CARE Clinic is hosting a 5k and 1-mile walk today to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Both are from 10 a.m. to noon. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. The 5k run and walk will begin at Southern Regional Area Health Education Center at Terry Circle and will end at Glendale Acres Elementary School.
The entry fee is $25. Go to thecareclinic.org or call 678-7269 for information.
4 The Rogue Rollergirls, Fayetteville's roller derby team, will have its first bout of the season today at 4:30 p.m. at Round-a-Bout Skating Center, 880 Elm St. behind Eutaw Shopping Center. Admission is $10 for ages 16 and up, $6 for ages 8 to 15 and free for ages 7 and younger. Go to roguerollergirls.com.
5South View High School, 4184 Elk Road in Hope Mills, will host a car, truck and motorcycle show today. Registration is 9 a.m. to noon. Registration is $20. Judging begins at noon. Awards will be given out at 3:30 p.m. General admission is $10. Proceeds will go to the Family, Career & Community Leaders of America.
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Iran's geothermal potential is embodied in low- to medium-enthalpy resources found in provinces fairly widely distributed across the country. However, two provinces, Damavand in the north-central area and Maku-Khoy in the far north west, are likely to be the most productive.
The Ministry of Energy instituted a study of the geothermal resources in 1975 and a proposal for power generation from the Meskinshahr field (in the Sabalan prospect - also in the northwest) followed. Drilling of three exploratory wells began during 2002 and work continues on research and development.
Traditionally, geothermal heat has been used directly for recreational and balneological purposes but currently study is being undertaken on the feasibility of using the heat for greenhouses, aquaculture and space heating.
The country is extremely well-endowed with low-cost fossil fuels and this has proved a disincentive to the development of the renewable energies. However, the Government is showing a growing interest in progressing renewable energy in order to meet fast-growing national energy demand.


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The Smokey eye!
It doesn't get any sexier than this! Here is a the best photo step by step I have found on the web for this. Smokey eyes can be done in black or browns; but if you as frisky as I am I love doing it with greens added it for an extra pop! Next week I promise to start testing out the beauty tips I find again. I have done the Smokey eye before and this is very close to know I do it. Great for a Pole dance, lap dance or burlesque class ;)
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The lives of John LennonThe result of six years of research and some 1,200 interviews, this book takes fans deep into Lennon's secretive world, from his traumatic childhood to his Beatles days to his hidden life with Yoko Ono. While the Lennon of legend enjoyed a gifted and inspired life, the private Lennon lived in torment, poisoning himself with drugs and self-hatred. The Lives of John Lennon exposed for the first time all of his various lives, from idealist to cynic, from ascetic to junkie. It is a lasting tribute to his brilliant achievements and a revelation of the price he paid for them. |
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Producer Mike Medavoy is teaming up with FremantleMedia Enterprises for a new multiplatform production called DINOSAURS RESURRECTED, reports VARIETY [1]. The franchise will take a page from PLANET EARTH and produce both an HD TV series and narrative feature.
The production will bring to life the cutting-edge findings of paleontologists in CG. The feature film will be presented in 3-D as well. The TV series will arrive in 2011.
Medavoy will produce via his Geffen-Medavoy Pictures, a doc house he started with Anthony Geffen. FremantleMedia will rep international sales and is looking for book, DVD, merchandising, videogame and live event deals.
Doc company Atlantic Prods. will also be part of the production, and visual effects will be provided by Zoo.
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Web Survey Bibliography
Title How to recruit and retain respondents suitable for online research
Author Manolopoulos, P.
Year 2001
Access date 28.05.2004
Abstract Panos Manolopoulos will look at the difference in requirements for respondent collection and panels, and the implications for business of getting recruitment right. He will cover the steps needed to ensure that respondents relevant to the research are attracted and retained. * Online data collection and online panels, * Business and commercial considerations for online panels and other online techniques, * Method of recruiting: - validation, - sampling frames, sample structure, how representative? * Panel management and monitoring: - engaging and retaining respondents. * incentives and rewards: what to offer, how and when. * communications other than incentives and rewards: requency of approach, approach exhaustion, communication media: - calibration: monitoring and updating panel profiles.
Bibliographic typeConferences, workshops, tutorials, presentations
Year of publication2001
Web Survey Bibliography - 2001 (350)
- A Guide to Best Practice in Online Quantitative Research; 2001; Poynter, R.
- Eye-Movement Analysis: A New Tool for Evaluating the Design of Visually Administered Instruments (Paper...; 2001; Redline, C. D., Lankford, C. P.
- First Things First: Internet Relay Chat Openings; 2001; Rintel, E. S., Mulholland, J., Pittam, J.
- ThinkStream: A New Paradigm for Web Site Measurement; 2001; Rolph, J.
- e-Research: Gold Mine or Land Mine?; 2001; Nuffer, K. G.
- Mode And Incentive Effects On Aspects Of Survey Administration And Data Quality; 2001; O'Brien, J. E., Levin, K., Hagerty, T., Greenlees, J. B., Saxon-Harrold, S. K. E., Kirsch, A....
- Analysis of Internet Users' Level of Online Privacy Concerns; 2001; O'Neil, D.
- Is The Internet The Future Of Market Research In Europe?; 2001; Oxley, M.
- Electronic Weak Ties in Network Organizations; 2001; Papakyriazis, N. V., Boudourides, M. A.
- Dimensions of Internet Science; 2001; Reips, U. -D., Bosnjak, M.
- Improving Survey Research on the World-Wide Web Using the Randomized Response Technique; 2001; Musch, J., Broder, A., Klauer, K. C.
- International Perspective: Using The Internet To Better Manage Major Surveys; 2001; MacNeill, R., Risk, R.
- How to recruit and retain respondents suitable for online research; 2001; Manolopoulos, P.
- Comparing On-Line Methodologies To Determine Data Impact; 2001; Masker, P.
- Conducting Web-based Surveys with Known Populations: Lessons Learned and Keys to Success; 2001; McGee, C. G., Straight, R. L., Schwartz, L.
- Using Both Online and Traditional Data Collection in the Same Research Project; 2001; McInerney, J.
- Participation in Non-Restricted Web Surveys: A Typology and Explanatory Model for Item-Nonresponse; 2001; Bosnjak, M.
- Survival of the Fittest Online: A Longitudinal Study of Health-Related Web Sites; 2001; McMillan, S. J.
- Using the Internet for Data Collection – Just Because We Can, Should We?; 2001; McNeish, J.
- Towards better integration of Internet in Statistics - a challenge for R & D; 2001; Meliskova, J.
- Designing and managing internet panels: lessons from the USA and Europe; 2001; Milsom, P., Manolopoulos, P.
- From Cyber Space to Cybernetic Space: Rethinking the Relationship between Real and Virtual Spaces; 2001; Mitra, A., Schwartz, R. L.
- Statement about Internet Polls; 2001; NCPP Polling Review Board
- The Effect of Motivational Messaging on Mode Choice and Response Rates in the Library Media Center Survey...; 2001; Marquis, K., Hoffman, R., Nichols, E. M.
- Time-diary Measurement on the Internet: An National Experiment; 2001; Nie, N., Robinson, J. P.
- Financial Incentives, Personal Information and Drop-Out in Online Studies; 2001; Frick, A., Bachtiger, M. T., Reips, U. -D.
- Drop-Out Analysis: Effects of Research Design; 2001; Knapp, F., Heidingsfelder, M.
- Conducting Web-Based Surveys; 2001; Solomon, D. J.
- Survey Nonresponse; 2001; Groves, R. M., Dillman, D. A., Eltinge, J. L., A.
- Classifying Response Behaviors in Web-based Surveys; 2001; Bosnjak, M., Tuten, T. L.
- Response Consistency in an Internet-enabled Panel; 2001; Lazaroff, S., Kenyon, K.
- Internet Marketing Research: Theory and Practice; 2001; Lee, O.
- Conducting Customer Satisfaction Surveys Online; 2001; Lehtonen, D.
- Mail, Email and Web Surveys: A Cost and Response Rate Comparison in a Study of Undergraduate Research...; 2001; Lesser, V. M., Newton, L.
- Clarifying Question Meaning In A Web-Based Survey; 2001; Lind, L. H., Schober, M. F., Conrad, F. G.
- Assessing customer satisfaction: How valid are the answers?; 2001; Lopata, R.
- Validity Issues in Web Derived Survey Data; 2001; Liu, K., Rosen, R. J., Stewart, E.
- Web survey errors; 2001; Lozar Manfreda, K.
- Methodological variables in Web-based research that may affect results: Sample type, monetary...; 2001; O'Neil, K. M., Penrod, S. D.
- Experiments On Visual Effects in Web Surveys; 2001; Kenyon, K., Tourangeau, R., Couper, M. P.
- Web Surveys: How Does The Software Work?; 2001; Kottler, R. E.
- Web-Based Surveys for a Nationally Representative Sample; 2001; Huggins, V. J., Krotki, K.
- An Empirical Portrait of the Yale New Media Workshop and MSNBC Internet Decision 2000 Survey; 2001; Lapinski, J.
- eResearch: New dogs, old tricks?; 2001; Hennebry, P., Barlow, S.
- What Can You Achieve Through Online Focus Groups?; 2001; Herbert, M.
- Drop-down, radio button, or fill-in-the-blank? Effects of attribute rating scale type on web survey...; 2001; Hogg, A., Jarrett Masztal, J.
- Emerging Technology And The Implications For Online Market Research; 2001; Hodson, M.
- How to evaluate the efficacy of online advertising; 2001; Hummerston, A.
- Seeking explanation in theory: Reflections on the social practices of organizations that distribute...; 2001; Robbin, A., Koball, H.
- Online Market Research Vs Traditional Methodologies; 2001; Hunter, J. E.


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Located in Brush, Colorado, the Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) provides in-house support and diagnostic services, including bacteriology, DNA testing (PCR), whirling disease testing, virology, parasitology, histopathology, invasive species screening and identification, and water quality testing.
The AAHL assists Colorado fish culture, fishery management, species preservation, and aquatic research in an effort to advise the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission and Fish Health Board by providing guidelines for agency policies. One of the many purposes of this facility and program is to prevent introduction of aquatic diseases and invasive species through monitoring and by educating the public about their role in aquatic health. The AAHL also manages intra- and interstate movement of fish. The lab also cooperates and collaborates with other national and international fish health laboratories, scientists, universities, and government agencies.
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Remember that Walden's Title IV Code is 025042.
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"Certificate programs from the Riley College of Education and Leadership are designed to help educators like you update your skills as you advance your career. You can participate in Walden's collaborative online environments as you share ideas with educators across the country."
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You can complete the Graduate Certificate in Online Teaching for Adult Educators in as little as 8 months. Time to completion may vary by student, depending on individual progress and credits transferred, if applicable. For a personalized estimate of your time to completion, call an enrollment advisor at 1-866-492-5336. Credits earned from this certificate program may be applied toward Walden's M.S. in Adult Learning with a specialization in Online Teaching.
To understand adult learning, one must ask and answer complex questions: Who is the adult learner? What is the social context of learning? What motivates adult learners? In this course, education professionals explore the theories and frameworks that inform the field of adult learning today. They identify, compare, and contrast foundational and emerging perspectives on adult learning with the aim of transforming theory into practice. They engage in an integrative course project through which they synthesize and apply various theories to real-world situations, including their own development; summarize how the idea of wisdom impacts their experiences as adult learners; interview an adult learner; and assess various perspectives in regard to educating diverse learners.
Emerging technologies are rapidly altering the field of adult education today. Innovative technologies are removing traditional boundaries to learning and encouraging a global perspective on school, work, and communications. New developments in software, multimedia applications, Internet technologies, and mobile computing are transforming the educational landscape and empowering learners around the world. This course explores how educators and students can leverage these advances to enhance the learning process and improve outcomes in today's digital information society.
Effective instruction in an online setting requires strategies that leverage the unique characteristics of distance learners and online environments. In this course, students analyze, select, and design instructional strategies that are most effective for engaging and teaching adult online learners. Students learn methods for managing and delivering online instruction, with the goal of integrating effective strategies with course management tools and multimedia technologies in both synchronous and asynchronous environments.
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MONDAY, February 8, 1869.The Senate was called to order at two o'clock, the Lieutenant Governor in the chair.
The Secretary's journal of Friday's proceedings was being read when--
On motion of Mr. ROBINSON of Decatur, the further reading of the minutes was dispensed with.
A message from the Governor, transmitted a record of the proceedings of the Monroe County Board of Commissioners, bidding fifty thousand dollars for the location of the Agricultural College in that county.
It was referred to the Joint Committee on the Agricultural College:
The following petitions, etc., were presented and referred to appropriate Committees.
By Mr. FOSDICK, from citizens of Elkhart County for a law preventing sheep and hogs from running at large.
By Mr. CAVEN, a claim of O. B. Stout & Bro. for goods furnished Q. M. Igoe.
By Mr. KINLEY, a petition for the repeal of all laws legalizing the traffic in intoxicating liquors.
By Mr. ANDREWS a petition against railroad consolidations.
By Mr. STEIN a petition of J. H. Wright and others, of Tippecanoe county.
By Mr. BRADLEY and Mr. FOSDICK temperance petitions.
By Mr. WOLCOTT a petition from cotton operatives in Cannelton, praying for a law allowing the proprietors to run and work their employes eleven hours a day.
The LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR announced the special order--being the bill [S. 161] to organize savings' banks, etc.
On motion by Mr. STEIN, it was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr. CAVEN, from the Judiciary Committee, returned the bill [S. 84] to repeal thirty-first section of the redemption of real property act, recommending its passage.
Mr. GIFFORD, from the Committee on County and Township Business, returned the petition from Elkhart County against the running at large of hogs and cattle, with a recommendation that it lie on the table.
Mr. HESS, from the Committee on Roads, returned the bill [S. 70] to amend the road law, with an amendment, recommending its passage.
Mr. ROBINSON of Madison, from Judiciary Committee, returned the bill [S. 8] declaring prize fighting a felony, and reported a substitute therefor, recommending its passage.
Mr. SCOTT, from the same committee returned the bill [S. 83] to amend section two of the bill for the evidence of register of sales of Michigan road lands, with an amendment, recommending its passage.
Mr. ROBINSON of Madison, from the Judiciary Committee, returned the bill [S. 10] to repeal the redemption of real property sold on sale, etc., recommending its indefinite postponement.
Mr. BRADLEY, from the majority of the Claims Committee, reported favorably on the claim of Frank D. Allen for some one thousand two hundred and forty-two dollars, and interest from July 2, 1868, being the amount paid Blount & Co., of Evansville, for iron work of the Indianapolis Court Building.
Upon inquiry from Messrs. Rice and Fisher, page: 291[View Page 291] Mr. Bradley had leave to withdraw the report in order to set forth therein the facts in regard to the claim.
Mr. CAVEN, from the Judiciary Committee returned the bill [S. 131] to legalize and declare valid all orders, etc., before the Civil Circuit Court in White County in March last, recommending its passage.
These reports were severally concurred in.
Mr. ROBINSON of Decatur, from the Committe on Roads, returned the petition concerning the exorbitant charge of toll for repairs to the bridge over White River, on the National Road, near the city of Indianapolis, and asking for a repeal of the law under which these charges are made, made the following report.
The law of 1852, authorizing the construction of plank, macadamized and gravel roads, allowed companies building bridges costing one thousand five hundred dollars to charge toll thereon equal to that charged for one mile of road.
In 1855, the law was amended so as to allow companies to charge toll for two miles of road on bridges costing one thousand dollars and for one mile of road on bridges costing five hundred dollars.
In 1867, the latter act was further amended by allowing companies to charge at the same rate for repairing bridges.
Under this latter act, the Central Plank Road Company, it is represented, is now charging toll for repairing the bridge over White River, the repairs consisting, as is understood, in putting a new roof on said bridge.
The bridge, as is well known, was built by the General Government, and the company has had use of the same for many years, free of cost, and the committee concur with the petitioners in the opinion that it is most unjust to allow additional toll for repairs under such circumstances, or indeed under any circumstances, as such repairs do but restore bridges to their condition when erected originally, and for which companies constructing them were allowed to charge toll. Your committee also believe that the law of1852, which allowed companies to charge toll for one mile of road on bridges costing one thousand five hundred dollars, is liberal enough, that amount being less than the average cost of one mile of road.
The committee have, therefore, directed me to report the accompanying bill repealing the third section of the law of 1855, above referred to, and also the law of 1867, and recommend its passage.
The report was concurred in.
Mr. KINLEY offered a resolution that the Committee on Prisons be authorized to appoint a sub-committee, of their own number, to examine the condition and management of the State Prison South, with power to send for persons and papers. He said the committee had examined the affairs of the prison just enough to think there was something wrong, and they desired power to appoint this sub-committee.
The resolution was adopted.
Mr. HOUGHTON offered a joint resolution [S. 12] instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives in Congress, to endeavor to secure the passage of an act for the relief of Mary Burroughs, widow of Charles Burroughs, late a private of Company B, Eighteenth regiment Indiana Militia. He stated that the young man was blown up on the Sultana, and was a laborer in the service of the United States. All proofs necessary to procure his back pay, have been acknowledged, except the Quartermaster's receipt. The Quartermaster's orders cannot be found though some fifty letters have been written in vain to ascertain his whereabouts. The young man's mother is a blind widow and very poor; and it is an act of justice that this pittance should be paid by the government.
The joint resolution was passed the Senate by yeas 39, nays 2.
Mr.JOHNSTON of Montgomery, explained his vote against the resolution, as being a bad precedent, and opening a floodgate which never could be shut again.
The following described bills were introduced, read the first time, and referred to appropriate Committees unless otherwise ordered:
By Mr. HUGHES [S. 197] to provide for an extended and improved system of education in the State of Indiana, by increasing and securing the endowment of the State University at Bloomington, endowing a law school and law library therein by appropriating thereto any net revenues that may arise from the State prisons, or either of them; providing free tuition in said University; establishing and endowing at Indianapolis a medical department of said University; providing for contingent expenses connected therewith, and for the sale or lease of square number twenty-five in Indianapolis; empowering the city of Indianapolis to purchase said square; for the investment and management of the proceeds thereof and the government of said department; declaring the State Normal School at Terre Haute a branch of said State University, and providing seventy-five thousand dollars for the benefit thereof, and adding a Trustee; accepting certain donations from the commissioners of Tippecanoe county and others; establishing the Agricultural College in connection with said State University, and fixing and pledging its location, and providing for its organization and government, and adding a Trustee; providing for matters pertaining to said subject, and declaring an emergency.
Mr. HUGHES moved that two hundred copies be printed, and the bill made the special order for Thursday at two o'clock.
It was agreed to.
By Mr. GREEN [S. 193] authorizing the assessment of lands for the construction of gravel and macadamized roads, and repealing laws in conflict.
By Mr. WOOD [S. 199] to amend sections one and three of the act of March 14, 1867, for the incorporation of cities.
page: 292[View Page 292]By Mr. ROBINSON of Madison, [S. 200] legalizing all assessments made by incorporated cities in 1868, for taxation.
By Mr. HOWK, [S. 201] to revise and amend section five of the act of December 20, 1865, for the organization of Circuit Courts.
By Mr. ROBINSON of Madison, [S. 202] to authorize railroads to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of rights or franchises.
By Mr. ROBINSON of Madison, [S. 203] to amend the act authorizing railroad companies to sell their roads.
By Mr. BlRD, [S. 204] to repeal the registry law.
By Mr. HOWK, [S. 205] to revise and amend section seventy-nine of the act of March 14, 1867, for the incorporation of cities.
By Mr. HENDERSON, [S. 206] to fix the times of holding Courts in the Sixth Judicial Circuit.
By Mr. SCOTT [S. 207] to amend section thirty-seven of the Common School law.
By Mr. CAVEN [S. 208] to authorize county Commissioners to make allowances in certain cases, (to Common Pleas Judges.)
By. Mr. CAVEN [S. 209] to provide for the forfeiture of certain estates held for life or in reversion, on failure to pay taxes.
By Mr. WOLCOTT [S. 210] to define certain offenses and provide punishment therefor; providing for the punishment of persons who usurp judicial powers, and connect themselves with companies to punish crime, declaring it felony, fixing the penalty; providing for the offering of rewards by the Governor, and making an appropriation.
Mr. WOLCOTT offered, by unanimous consent, the following concurrent resolution:
BE IT RESOLVED, By the Senate of the State of Indiana, the House of Representatives concurring, ,that the following amendment be proposed to the Constitution of the State of Indiana.
No law or resolution shall ever be passed by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, that shall recognize any liability of this State to pay or redeem any certificate of stock issued in pursuance of an act entitled an act to provide for the funded debt of the State of Indiana, and for the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal to Evansville, passed January 19th, 1846, and an act supplemental to said act, passed January 19th, 1847, which by the provisions of the said acts or either of them, shall be payable exclusively from the proceeds of the Canal lands, and the tolls and revenues of the Canal in said acts mentioned, and no such certificate or stock shall ever be paid by this State.
On motion by Mr. CARSON, it was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr. STEIN, by consent, offered a resolution which was adopted, that when the Senate adjourn, it adjourn to meet at ten o'clock tomorrow morning.
Mr. Kinley's bill [S. 36] prohibiting the retail of intoxicating liquors to be used as a beverage coming up in regular order, it was read with the committee amendments thereto, which was agreed to.
Mr. KINLEY said that as this bill was unadopted and recommended by the State Temperance Alliance and one upon which the temperance people of the State proposed to make their fight. He would move that it be laid on the table and two hundred copies be printed.
Mr. CARSON thought they were printing a good many bills and supposed they were all costing some money. He thought this bill could be readily understood by all without printing it.
Mr. KINLEY responded that he was not asking too much in behalf of the large number of temperance men in the State, and insisted on his motion.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. Hadley's bill [S. 111] to amend section sixteen of the supervisors' act, of March 9, 1859, coming up in order, it was read the second time.
Mr. ROBINSON of Decatur, said this bill was laid on the table upon the recommendation of the Committee on Roads, but subsequently placed on the files of the Senate on motion of its author. The objection that the Committee had to it was that it proposed to substitute the supervisor for the township trustee in making assessments for damages for entering upon land to obtain material for repairing highways.
Mr. HADLEY explained the operations of the bill. It would annually save many thousand dollars to the State, and work injustice to no one. Under the present law, the expense is heavy, and he showed how it would cost about nine dollars and fifty cents to condemn a tree worth probably two dollars. Under the proposed amendment, viewers could be appointed by the Supervisor on the spot, without delay and with but little expense. It certainly is a wholesome law and should prevail.
Mr. GREEN proposed to amend by appropriately inserting the words "uninclosed lands." He wanted to limit the power of the supervisor of highways.
Mr. HADLEY objected to the amendment, because in some counties there may ne no uninclose lands.
Mr. ARMSTRONG moved to amend the amendment by providing that no material shall be used without first contracting therefore with the owner.
The amendment to the amendment agreed to.
The amendment as amended was also agreed to. The bill was then ordered engrossed for the third reading.
page: 293[View Page 293]Mr. Craven's bill [S. 114] to amend section nineteen of the officers fee bill of March 2, 1855, was read the second time, concerning the fees of Notaries Public, and ordered engrossed for the third reading.
Mr. HUGHES, (by request,) presented a petition from Lieut. Bedee Johnson and others, praying for indemnity, because of law suits had against them as soldiers in the militia, etc. It was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs--Mr. Hughes calling the attention of the committee to laws heretofore passed, appropriated moneys under similar circumstances.
Mr. Howk's bill [S. 135] to amend section two of the redemption of real property sold on execution, etc., approved June 4, 1861, was read the second time.
Mr. BRADLEY moved to amend so as to require the execution debtor to give a bond and security that he will pay the debt.
Mr. HOWK said the bill only proposed to so change the law as to give the purchaser a speedier remedy than now. He was not in favor of the amendment proposed, and spoke of the law as about the only one now on the statute book which was in favor of the debtor.
Mr. STEIN opposed the amendment and was in favor of the redemption law as it stood.
Mr. SCOTT was satisfied that if the amendment prevailed, it must result in the repeal of the law. The purchaser, as it is, usually gets the property for half price, and if it is redeemed, he gets ten per cent. on the money.
The bill was recommitted to the Judiciary Committee, with the instructions proposed in Mr. Bradley's motion.
Mr. Lasselle's bill [S. 142] to amend section five of the County Surveyor's act, was read the second time, with the committee's amendment thereto, which were agreed to.
The bill was ordered engrossed.
Mr. Johnston of Montgomery's bill [S. 152] to ameud section two of the wild game law, was read the second time, with the committee's amendment thereto, which was agreed to.
The bill was ordered engrossed.
Mr. Denbo's bill [S. 165] to authorize Boards of Commissioners to relieve sureties on county officers bonds, on petition of a majority of the voters of the county, was read the second time.
Mr. WOLCOTT saw many dangers connected with such a bill. It provided for relief to be granted upon the petition of a majority of voters. A party vote can nearly always be commanded. He moved to strike out "majority" and insert "two-thirds."
Mr. BRADLEY regarded the bill as radically wrong, as probably affecting vested rights.
Mr. FISHER also regarded the bill as a dangerous opening, and moved its indefinite postponement.
Mr. DENBO explained that there was no provision for County Boards to relieve securities of an officer who had been unfortunately the victim of theft, for instance, and argued that this might safely be left to the discretion of County Boards.
Mr. FISHER thought the reins could not be held too closely in such matters, and it is well not to allow any loopholes for escape. Some times, where treasurers are robbed, it is quite probable they rob themselves.
Mr. ROBINSON of Madison, had a case in point. In his county it would release securities on the official bond of the treasurer, who was a defaulter to the amount of twenty-three thousand dollars. He believed they should be held to a strict accountability.
The bill was indefinitely postponed.
And then--
The Senate adjourned till ten o'clock a. m. to-morrow.


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Habitation in the area goes back thousands of years. The Okanagan Nation (Interior Salish peoples) were successful hunter/gatherers that took full advantage of the bounty of the lakes and rivers, grasslands and forests. While there are no specific First Nations attractions, evidence of their winter homes, semi-pit houses called kekulis, has been found in many locations including Kekuli Bay Provincial Park on Kalamalka Lake.
The culture of First Nations people was dramatically changed by contact with Europeans. Fur traders of the Hudson's Bay Company (who followed the Brigade Trail through their territory in the early 19th century) and people headed north to gold country in the 1860s had less impact as they didn't stay.
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But then cattlemen began pre-empting land for ranches. Reserves were established in the early 1900s. The Okanagan people were talented horsemen and their deep knowledge of the country made them excellent stockmen. Look for First Nations artifacts at O'Keefe Ranch and the Vernon Museum and Archives.
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At Civic Plaza in the heart of downtown, the Vernon Museum presents displays that cover the full range of local history. Personal collections of First Nations Artefacts and wildlife specimens were donated to form the nucleus of the museum's exhibits. It also houses two special collections, the artwork and family history of artist and character Sveva Caetani and a gallery dedicated to the life and work of renowned naturalist, author and bird artist, Allan Brooks. The museum is open year round, Tuesday to Saturday.
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One of the E4 being pushed by Glenn Beck is Entrepeneurship. If America is to become again what we are meant to be Entrenpeneurship must be allowed and encouraged to flourish. Coincidentally enough, here's this by the author of the Dilbert comic:
By SCOTT ADAMS
I understand why the top students in America study physics, chemistry, calculus and classic literature. The kids in this brainy group are the future professors, scientists, thinkers and engineers who will propel civilization forward. But why do we make B students sit through these same classes? That's like trying to train your cat to do your taxesa waste of time and money. Wouldn't it make more sense to teach B students something useful, like entrepreneurship?
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.I speak from experience because I majored in entrepreneurship at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y. Technically, my major was economics. But the unsung advantage of attending a small college is that you can mold your experience any way you want.
There was a small business on our campus called The Coffee House. It served beer and snacks, and featured live entertainment. It was managed by students, and it was a money-losing mess, subsidized by the college. I thought I could make a difference, so I applied for an opening as the so-called Minister of Finance. I landed the job, thanks to my impressive interviewing skills, my can-do attitude and the fact that everyone else in the solar system had more interesting plans.
The drinking age in those days was 18, and the entire compensation package for the managers of The Coffee House was free beer. That goes a long way toward explaining why the accounting system consisted of seven students trying to remember where all the money went. I thought we could do better. So I proposed to my accounting professor that for three course credits I would build and operate a proper accounting system for the business. And so I did. It was a great experience. Meanwhile, some of my peers were taking courses in art history so they'd be prepared to remember what art looked like just in case anyone asked.
One day the managers of The Coffee House had a meeting to discuss two topics. First, our Minister of Employment was recommending that we fire a bartender, who happened to be one of my best friends. Second, we needed to choose a leader for our group. On the first question, there was a general consensus that my friend lacked both the will and the potential to master the bartending arts. I reluctantly voted with the majority to fire him.
But when it came to discussing who should be our new leader, I pointed out that my friendthe soon-to-be-fired bartenderwas tall, good-looking and so gifted at b.s. that he'd be the perfect leader. By the end of the meeting I had persuaded the group to fire the worst bartender that any of us had ever seen and ask him if he would consider being our leader. My friend nailed the interview and became our Commissioner. He went on to do a terrific job. That was the year I learned everything I know about management.
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.At about the same time, this same friend, along with my roommate and me, hatched a plan to become the student managers of our dormitory and to get paid to do it. The idea involved replacing all of the professional staff, including the resident assistant, security guard and even the cleaning crew, with students who would be paid to do the work. We imagined forming a dorm government to manage elections for various jobs, set out penalties for misbehavior and generally take care of business. And we imagined that the three of us, being the visionaries for this scheme, would run the show.
We pitched our entrepreneurial idea to the dean and his staff. To our surprise, the dean said that if we could get a majority of next year's dorm residents to agree to our scheme, the college would back it.
It was a high hurdle, but a loophole made it easier to clear. We only needed a majority of students who said they planned to live in the dorm next year. And we had plenty of friends who were happy to plan just about anything so long as they could later change their minds. That's the year I learned that if there's a loophole, someone's going to drive a truck through it, and the people in the truck will get paid better than the people under it.
The dean required that our first order of business in the fall would be creating a dorm constitution and getting it ratified. That sounded like a nightmare to organize. To save time, I wrote the constitution over the summer and didn't mention it when classes resumed. We held a constitutional convention to collect everyone's input, and I listened to two hours of diverse opinions. At the end of the meeting I volunteered to take on the daunting task of crafting a document that reflected all of the varied and sometimes conflicting opinions that had been aired. I waited a week, made copies of the document that I had written over the summer, presented it to the dorm as their own ideas and watched it get approved in a landslide vote. That was the year I learned everything I know about getting buy-in.
Why do we make B students sit through the same classes as their brainy peers? That's like trying to train your cat to do your taxesa waste of time and money. Wouldn't it make sense to teach them something useful instead?
For the next two years my friends and I each had a private room at no cost, a base salary and the experience of managing the dorm. On some nights I also got paid to do overnight security, while also getting paid to clean the laundry room. At the end of my security shift I would go to The Coffee House and balance the books.
My college days were full of entrepreneurial stories of this sort. When my friends and I couldn't get the gym to give us space for our informal games of indoor soccer, we considered our options. The gym's rule was that only organized groups could reserve time. A few days later we took another run at it, but this time we were an organized soccer club, and I was the president. My executive duties included filling out a form to register the club and remembering to bring the ball.
By the time I graduated, I had mastered the strange art of transforming nothing into something. Every good thing that has happened to me as an adult can be traced back to that training. Several years later, I finished my MBA at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. That was the fine-tuning I needed to see the world through an entrepreneur's eyes.
If you're having a hard time imagining what an education in entrepreneurship should include, allow me to prime the pump with some lessons I've learned along the way.
Combine Skills. The first thing you should learn in a course on entrepreneurship is how to make yourself valuable. It's unlikely that any average student can develop a world-class skill in one particular area. But it's easy to learn how to do several different things fairly well. I succeeded as a cartoonist with negligible art talent, some basic writing skills, an ordinary sense of humor and a bit of experience in the business world. The "Dilbert" comic is a combination of all four skills. The world has plenty of better artists, smarter writers, funnier humorists and more experienced business people. The rare part is that each of those modest skills is collected in one person. That's how value is created.
Fail Forward. If you're taking risks, and you probably should, you can find yourself failing 90% of the time. The trick is to get paid while you're doing the failing and to use the experience to gain skills that will be useful later. I failed at my first career in banking. I failed at my second career with the phone company. But you'd be surprised at how many of the skills I learned in those careers can be applied to almost any field, including cartooning. Students should be taught that failure is a process, not an obstacle.
Find the Action. In my senior year of college I asked my adviser how I should pursue my goal of being a banker. He told me to figure out where the most innovation in banking was happening and to move there. And so I did. Banking didn't work out for me, but the advice still holds: Move to where the action is. Distance is your enemy.
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.Attract Luck. You can't manage luck directly, but you can manage your career in a way that makes it easier for luck to find you. To succeed, first you must do something. And if that doesn't work, which can be 90% of the time, do something else. Luck finds the doers. Readers of the Journal will find this point obvious. It's not obvious to a teenager.
Conquer Fear. I took classes in public speaking in college and a few more during my corporate days. That training was marginally useful for learning how to mask nervousness in public. Then I took the Dale Carnegie course. It was life-changing. The Dale Carnegie method ignores speaking technique entirely and trains you instead to enjoy the experience of speaking to a crowd. Once you become relaxed in front of people, technique comes automatically. Over the years, I've given speeches to hundreds of audiences and enjoyed every minute on stage. But this isn't a plug for Dale Carnegie. The point is that people can be trained to replace fear and shyness with enthusiasm. Every entrepreneur can use that skill.
Write Simply. I took a two-day class in business writing that taught me how to write direct sentences and to avoid extra words. Simplicity makes ideas powerful. Want examples? Read anything by Steve Jobs or Warren Buffett.
Learn Persuasion. Students of entrepreneurship should learn the art of persuasion in all its forms, including psychology, sales, marketing, negotiating, statistics and even design. Usually those skills are sprinkled across several disciplines. For entrepreneurs, it makes sense to teach them as a package.
That's my starter list for the sort of classes that would serve B students well. The list is not meant to be complete. Obviously an entrepreneur would benefit from classes in finance, management and more.
Remember, children are our future, and the majority of them are B students. If that doesn't scare you, it probably should.
Mr. Adams is the creator of "Dilbert."
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Re: Entrepeneurship
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I may well end up pursuing entrepeneurship, although it isn't my first choice.
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I just finished a good book, "What I wish I knew when I was 20" by Tina Seelig
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What lucky people do differently
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Todays guest contributor is former Wall Street Journal and Fortune writer, Erik Calonius. Erik collaborated with Dan Ariely on Predictably Irrational and he has a new book out from Penguin Portfolio, Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us.
A few years ago I was standing in the garage where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer. I had an excellent guide that autumn morning: Steve Jobs himself. He was showing me where his desk sat in the cramped space; where Woz had his workbench; where they piled the boxes of freshly built Apple Is.
Look at this, he exclaimed, pointing to the far wall. In the corner was a full-page newspaper ad for the Apple I computer, circa 1980. The headline read: What Is A Personal Computer?
Today we certainly know what a personal computer is. We can thank Jobs and the Woz for that. And thanks to Steve, we also know what an iPod is, what an iPhone is, what an iPad isnot to mention what a Mac is. Thanks, Steve.
The thing we dont know today concerns Steve himself. Whether this icon in the black turtleneck will overcome his health problems. That question, of course, spills over into the question about Apple Corp itselfwhether Apple will thriveor even endure for longwhen Steve Jobs some day leaves. Theres huge speculation about it in the stock market now, evident in the dips and swings of Apple stock over the past few years in reaction to Steves continuing battle against pancreatic cancer.
But theres another other issue at play in Steves illness, and Jonathan, I think you raised it your recent post, Dust in the Wind. The post showed a red dumpster beneath your apartment window, where the lifes possession of elderly widows and widowers are dumped on a regular basis when they pass away. This is whats left of someones life, you wrote. Not the experiences, but the stuff. Your readers obviously understood the existential question you were raising. So did I: my mother passed a few years ago, and one of the most traumatic events of my life was filling three dumpsters to the top with her stuff following two weekends of estate sales.
Recently I stumbled upon a Stanford graduation address that answers that question surprisingly well. And its from Steve Jobs himself. The speech was given in 2005, less than a year after he found out he had cancer. I think thats why Steves remarks were unusually candid and personal.
This is what he said:
Remembering that Ill be dead soon is the most important tool that Ive ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everythingall external expectations all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failurethese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Thats a blunt confession, especially delivered to an assembly of fresh-faced college graduates. But Jobs offered some prescriptive advice.
For the past 33 years I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? And whenever the answer has been No too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Great thought. But how do you change something? How do you take the image of your face in the mirroror the sight of the dumpster down in the streetand change your own life?
Recently I came upon a fascinating study by Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire. Wiseman surveyed a number of people and, through a series of questionnaires and interviews, determined which of them considered themselves luckyor unlucky. He then performed an intriguing experiment: He gave both the lucky and the unlucky people a newspaper and asked them to look through it and tell him how many photographs were inside. He found that on average the unlucky people took two minutes to count all the photographs, whereas the lucky ones determined the number in a few seconds.
How could the lucky people do this? Because they found a message on the second page that read, Stop counting. There are 43 photographs in this newspaper. So why didnt the unlucky people see it? Because they were so intent on counting all the photographs that they missed the message. Wiseman noted,
Unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner, and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through the newspaper determined to find certain job advertisements and, as a result, miss other types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there, rather than just what they are looking for.
I think Steve Jobs would agree wholeheartedly with this. In fact, in his Stanford address he described how he dropped out of Reed College after a mere six months. After that, he said he hung around the campus, slept on the floor in a friends room, walked seven miles across town on Sunday nights for a good meal at the Hare Krishna Temple, and took a few classes, whatever he wanted. It sounds like a wastelike Jobs should have been counting the photographs in life rather than meandering about. But as you can imagine, it isnt true. Says Jobs:
Reed College at the time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didnt have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class and learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, and about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.
Heres the kicker:
If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, Jobs explained, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionately spaced ones. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them.
He added,
Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you cant connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in somethingyour gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
So thats what Jobs means by changing something. Not a decision to do this or that, but an emotional choice to keep your mind open. To stop counting the photographs. To look around. To open your eyes and bring real liferaw, untamed and full of promiseinto your world.
When we see a dumpster full of stuff, maybe thats the thought we need to keep in mind. Possessions, after all, are not always a comfort. Sometimes they are a cage.
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WSJ: Kessler: Where investor dollars often go to die
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Andy Kessler: Private Startups, Where Investor Dollars Often Go to Die
Now anyone can join the crowd to fund startupsbut most are crapshoots. Trust me, I know.
Andy Kessler
Updated Nov. 15, 2013 6:57 p.m. ET
When President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act in April 2012, he hailed it as "exactly the kind of bipartisan action we should be taking in Washington to help our economy." Well, maybe.
Some JOBS Act provisions kicked in right away. "Emerging growth companies"those with under $1 billion in revenuesare exempt from many reporting provisions of Sarbannes-Oxley. And so Twitter, TWTR -1.59% for example, only had to show two years of audited results (instead of three) in its IPO filing. And private companies can now have 2,000 investors, up from 500, before they have to file annual reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Less information is never better.
The SEC, however, waited almost a year and a half to implement a general solicitation rule allowing companies as well as private equity and hedge funds to advertise to a mass audience during their fundraisingthough individual investors still need to be accredited, meaning $1 million or more in net worth or $200,000 in individual income. Of course, no self-respecting hedge fund or private-equity firm will advertise, for the same reason law firms Skadden Arps or Wachtell Lipton don't damage their brand running TV ads like personal injury lawyers Schlock and Skeeve.
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In October, the SEC finally put out a "crowdfunding" rule that allows anyone to "angel" invest in startups. Sort of. There are annual caps of 5% for those making under $100,000 a year and 10% for those non-accredited making over $100,000. This is government paternalism trying to limit your downside. Yet there already are investing platforms like RockThePost and AngelList that hopefully weed out most fraud. In any event, government should not be telling people how to, or if they can, invest.
But just because you can invest doesn't mean you should. The crowdfunding rule is now out for public comment. Here's mine: Once you're allowed to invest in private startups, my advice is: don't. Success is much harder than you might think.
First off, the field is crowded. Lots of incubators like Y Combinator (550 investments since 2005) and 500 Startups (600 since 2010 and raising a fund to do 200 a year) have funded startups doing just about everything. Critics call this "spray and pray." Over the years, I've given talks for groups of angels, in Silicon Valley, Boston and New York City. These events are usually fun cocktail parties, lots of former CEOs and captains of industry just dying to drop 50 grand into the next big thing. But at the end of the day, they are really just paying up for future cocktail party conversation: "I'm funding Clean Green, an app that delivers car washers to your driveway. I'm investing in SpeedMetal, a cloud-based service to interpret heavy-metal lyrics."
And returns are rare. The old rule of thumb for venture capitalists is that out of 10 investments, one will be a home run, a few will show some returns, and the rest will fail, return a goose egg, or my favorite saying, end up as a smoking hole in the ground. In reality, venture capitalists turn down 99% of the entrepreneurs who lob in ideas let alone those lucky enough to get a meeting, and these are the professionals. A recent study by Cowboy Ventures looked at the estimated 60,000 consumer and enterprise software startups funded over the last 10 years and found just 39a measly .07%valued at over $1 billion. Many like Snapchat and Pinterest are still private.
Whenever I'm pitched a private investment (I usually get out of meetings by claiming I have the flu) they all sound great. Up and to the right. Grand slams. Then I go back to my office and pull out a thick manila folder I keep in my desk. It's filled with certificates. The investments that work and go public require you to send in the certificates in exchange for tradable shares in your account. The ones that are left are dead companies, or walking dead. Optical switches, podcasts, grid optimization, bendable solar cells, silicon factories, I've got them all. Holes in the ground.
Everyone should have the right to make great investments and profit, or lose. Sure, investing in some world-changing app is probably better than investing in your brother-in-law's pizza joint. But not by much, and you won't get a free calzone. Maybe it's the next Twitter . . . but more likely, it's just a dusty certificate. Best to wait until most other angels have given up.
Mr. Kessler, a former hedge-fund manager, is the author most recently of "Eat People" (Portfolio, 2011).
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The 25th anniversary of the 1985 Chicago Bears Super Bowl team brings together notorious adversaries Mike Ditka and Buddy Ryan.
The most indelible memory of the 1985 Chicago Bears championship team is perhaps the most sugarcoated: the awkwardly funky flow of "The Super Bowl Shuffle." Forgotten in a fog of nostalgia over the years is some of the monstrousness of those Monsters of the Midway, namely the acrimonious relationship between head coach Mike Ditka and defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan. On Friday 5, those two historic rivals, along with the rest of the Bears' Super Bowl–winning squad, will gather in the Arie Crown Theater to reminisce and mark the 25th anniversary of that storied season.
It's not unreasonable to expect fireworks. NFL.com named the Ditka-Ryan power struggle the No. 3 rivalry in league history. "I don't want to take anything away from the offense, but, uh, we probably could've done it without them," Ryan, then head coach of the New York Jets, said disparagingly of the '85 team, whose dominant defense often kept teams scoreless. Ditka's take on Ryan? "Empty tin cans make the most noise," he once told a reporter, "and he's an empty tin can." This reunion is football's equivalent of Israel and Palestine getting together to shoot the shit.
"We're all going to say whatever we want to say," Ditka tells me one recent afternoon over a bowl of soup at his River North steakhouse. Though he's 71 and graying, Iron Mike and his moustache look as robust as ever. "Nothing will be choreographed." If Ditka's being straight—that the gathering won't be a dewey-eyed hug-fest—it's only a matter of time before someone brings up the infamous Miami game, the '85 Bears' only loss.
It was halftime of that December Monday-nighter when the brewing hostilities between Ditka and Ryan came to a head. Ryan assigned a linebacker to cover the Dolphins' third wide receiver, despite Ditka's insistence that a quicker defensive back be slotted. In his eponymous 1986 autobiography, the head coach recalls his terse words to Ryan: "'Kiss my ass. Get somebody out there that can cover him,' I said.… When we got into the locker room, I said [to Ryan], 'We can do it any way you want to do it. We can go right out back and get it on or you can shape your ass up.'?"
When Ditka was hired by Bears founder and then-owner George Halas in 1982, there was one prickly caveat: He had to retain Ryan. "I got the head job and Buddy probably thought he should have it," Ditka tells me. He maintains Ryan never respected his authority. (Ryan wasn't able to be reached for comment.)
"Buddy—being a bit stubborn—knew he didn't owe his job to Mike Ditka," explains '85 Bears safety Gary Fencik over the phone last week.
"They bitched and screamed back and forth," recalls placekicker Kevin Butler. "It created internal competition: Who's gonna outshine who this week, offense or defense? And it worked. Neither of them won a championship after they split up."
"Time heals things, and I think Mike and Buddy just have to look back and smile," says Brian McCaskey, the Bears' senior director of business development who was a trainer on the '85 team. (His mother, Virginia Halas McCaskey, owns the team.)
Back at his restaurant, Ditka sets aside his soup spoon for a moment to reflect on Ryan. "We didn't have the most cordial relationship when we coached, but we honestly couldn't have won without him," Da Coach allows. "Buddy and I won together and we'll get back together. It will be good to see him."
The 1985 team reunites for Glory Days: Legends of the Chicago Bears at the Arie Crown Theater (2301 S Lake Shore Dr, 312-791-6000) on Friday 5 at 6pm. Tickets ($49–$199) are available at glorydayschicago.com.


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A Westville man is facing drug and other charges after Lancaster County Sheriff's Office deputies reportedly found him passed out behind the wheel of a parked car in Kershaw.
According to the incident report, a deputy found 30-year-old Adrian Lewis Bracey around 2:08 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, passed out in the driver's seat of a Chevrolet Malibu in the parking lot of Foxwood Apartments on Kershaw Country Club Road.
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Dalton Miller loves birds, especially pigeons, and he wants other people to get to know this breed of bird for much more than what is commonly know about them – the mess they leave behind.
Miller, president of the Southern Modena Club, has entered dozens of pigeon competitions to show off the beautiful, Modena show birds he raises.
For the second year in a row, the Lancaster County School District and two of its schools earned outstanding results in both areas of the S.C. Department of Education's district and school report cards.
The 2013 results were released Friday, Nov. 8.
Other 2013 report card highlights include an increase in the district's graduation rate, and passing marks for nearly all of the district's schools in both students performance and improvement toward state performance goals.
In the last 60-plus years, Nancy Adams has picked more than her share of tomatoes.
Hours after a string of vandalisms throughout Lancaster left many businesses with shattered windows, a trio of men were arrested for the spree.
While banquet halls may conjure up images of happy occasions and good memories, a proposed county ordinance to better define such establishments has some business owners instead feeling ill at ease.
The Andrew Jackson Lady Volunteers are bound for the Class AA state volleyball championship after capturing the Class AA Upper State crown with a 3-1 win over Ninety Six High of Greenwood County on Wednesday night, Nov. 6 in the AJ gym.
The AJ victory sends the Lady Vols to face Bishop England of Charleston for the Class AA state crown at White Knoll High School in Lexington where the match begins at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9.
AJ, in front of a packed gym, prevailed over the stubborn Lady Wildcats, 25-10 before Ninety Six came back to win, 26-24.
Brandon Newton can't help but shake his head when he drives past Lancaster's now-abandoned Kmart building.
HEATH SPRINGS – It's going to cost a lot more to refurbish the public park in the county's smallest town than its officials anticipated.
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"Let us love God, but let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow." --St. Vincent de Paul
The Gospels tell us that it is not enough to merely wish others well -- we must work to help make others well. Through service, St. Vincent de Paul, known during his life as the "Father of the Poor," and declared the "patron of all charitable endeavors" by the Church, showed every Christian that love is best expressed through deeds.
Vincentian Service is the theme of our 1997 Founder's Week events. Through lectures, presentations, seminars, discussions, the entire University community explore the ways that we can help change lives by following Vincent's example.
Calendar of Events
Founder's Week photography exhibits located in the Library and Faculty Club on the Queens campus.
Saturday, January 25Commencement Staten Island campus
Sunday, January 26Commencement Queens campus
Monday, January 27Founder's Mass/Awards 12:15 p.m. Lourdes Chapel, Queens campusFounder's Recognition Recipients
Law School Lecture 1 - 2 p.m. Law School, Queens campus Speaker: Peter Edelman - "Welfare Reform"
Faculty Luncheon 12 - 1 p.m. Spellman Hall, Staten Island campus Speaker: Rev. James Maher, C.M. - "Welfare, Work and the Poor: A Vincentian Perspective"
Supper Seminar 6 - 7:30 p.m. Marillac Terrace, Queens campus Speaker: Rev. Donald O'Connell, C.M. - "Vincent de Paul: Model for the Millennium"
Tuesday, January 28Panel on Service Learning 11:10 a.m. - 12:35 p.m. UC Lecture Hall, Conference Room A, Queens campus
Film - Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story6:30 p.m. Bent Hall Auditorium, Queens campus
Wednesday, January 29Volunteer Fair/Service Opportunities 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Marillac Terrace, Queens campus
Brown Bag Lunch - Service/Public Policy 12 -1 p.m. and 1 - 2 p.m. Council Hall, Queens campus
Film - Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story 1:30 p.m. Game Room, Staten Island campus Dr. Mark Kiley and Catholic Worker
Supper Seminar 6:45 p.m. Cafeteria, Staten Island campus Speaker: Rev. David O'Connell, C.M. - "Vincent de Paul: Model for the Millennium"
Thursday, January 30Vincent de Paul Lecture 11:15 a.m. Gym, Staten Island campus Speaker: Kenneth Himes - "The Role of Charity in the American Catholic Church"
Vincentian Convocation 8 p.m. Marillac Auditorium, Queens campus Mary Ann Glendon - Vincentian Chair of Social Justice Lecture
Friday, January 31Spirit DayStaten Island campus
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Mission Possible - The Sequel 7:30 p.m. Marillac Terrace, Queens campus
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