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APS and Member Societies' Urge White House to Break Sequestration Gridlock
President Robert Byer - August 2012
The Issue
Sequestration is the term for the automatic, across the board, budget cuts scheduled to take place on January 2, 2013, to all discretionary federal spending accounts. APS, along with other scientific societies, shared its concerns regarding the impending sequestration with the White House and Senate and House leadership. The letter encourages a productive resolution to the current budget impasse before the sequestration comes into effect.
Letter to President Obama
The President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
Building a better America requires pursuing a sound fiscal policy. It also means strengthening the drivers of job creation and economic growth.
There is no doubt we must adopt practices that allow us to live within our means, but we must do so without damaging the engine of our future prosperity. As the Bowles-Simpson Deficit Reduction Commission noted in December 2010, even as we cut spending we must continue to "invest in education, infrastructure, and high-value research and development to help our economy grow, keep us globally competitive, and make it easier for businesses to create jobs."
But today those investments are seriously threatened by sequestrations mandated by the Budget Control Act amendments of 2011 and scheduled to take effect on January 2, 2013. A projected across-the-board reduction of 8-9 percent in those accounts would jeopardize the fabric of science and technology that has been responsible for more that 50 percent of American GDP growth since the end of Second World War.
As leaders of professional societies representing more than 135,000 physical scientists and educators in universities, companies, hospitals and national laboratories, we are writing to urge you to resume consideration of a comprehensive deficit reduction plan. A successful strategy must not only set our nation on a long-term course of fiscal responsibility, but also promote strong economic growth by sustaining the science and technology activities that have long kept America innovative and competitive in the global marketplace.
We recognize that little time remains between now and the January 2, 2013 date of reckoning. But the stakes are so high that the gridlock, which has hampered progress on deficit reduction, must be broken now for the sake of future generations.
Robert L. Byer
American Physical Society
Gary A. Ezzell
American Association of Physicists in Medicine
Tony Heinz
Jill A. Marshall
American Association of Physics Teachers
Alison A. Baski
George Phillips
American Crystallographic Association
H. Frederick Dylla
Executive Director & CEO
American Institute of Physics


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Jon Wilhite was honored Saturday night at the 2012 UC Irvine Health Gala with an award nobody ever grows up dreaming to win.
The former Cal State Fullerton catcher survived life-threatening injuries in the April 9, 2009 car accident in Fullerton that killed pitcher Nick Adenhart, Courtney Stewart and Henry Pearson.
Wilhite, who was the subject of a Sunday column in The Register, recovered from an internal decapitation, his skull ripped from his spine by the violent crash.
Through his three years of rehabilitation and workouts, Wilhite has returned to his original 190-pound weight and most of his physical abilities. Rotating at his neck, which is attached to his spine with a titanium plate, rods and screws, is the only thing he can't do.
For his recovery, Wilhite received the UC Irvine Medical Center's first "Hero of Healing" award "for his strength of spirit and indomitable will, which contributed to his recovery and that make him an inspiration to others. He stands an example of how the advanced treatment and compassionate care delivered at UC Irvine Medical Center can transform lives."
Check out a military tribute for Nick Adenhart on YouTube.
See how the Angels remembered Adenhart on the third anniversary of the tragedy.
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With the focus of SXSW Interactive leaning toward funding and startups this year, I discovered something of a countertheme – new interest in things that celebrate an "artisanal quality" that connects you to the creator of a work.
In that spirit, I was lucky enough to get my hands dirty (literally) in a workshop for Reboot Stories' new project Wish for the Future.
The project, run by Janine Saunders and Workbook Project founder Lance Weiler, seeks to put people with big ideas for a better future (especially kids) in touch with people who can prototype their ideas.
What we saw at SXSW was a microcosm of the project, with the attendees breaking off to brainstorm, gather input from the group, and build a physical representation of an invention out of play-doh (which, in our case, ended up being a network of remote medical care technologies).
The experience was frantic and enjoyable, and allowed us to get to know fellow attendees in a way that was unlike the usual networking exercises of a conference. It was a chance for us to get away from prepared pitches and talks for a short time.
Our contributions, along with the ones submitted at the project's site, will be used to create a time capstule of futurism in the year 2012.community crowdsourcing events experience


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THE VILLAGES, Fla. - A modern day Christmas miracle about a "layaway Santa" has everyone at a Central Florida Walmart telling a story that no one will soon forget.
A man recently walked into the Walmart store in The Villages and paid off more than $20,000 worth of layaway bills, bringing some families to tears.
"I can't believe (his credit cards) didn't melt he was running them so fast," said Walmart operations assistant manager Deb Davis.
Davis says in her 13 years of working for the company, she has never seen anything like it.
She says the layaway Santa wanted to help as many people as possible, so on Saturday he used his personal credit cards to pay half of every layaway balance above $200. That soon added up to more than $20,000 and helped 80 different customers.
"We've had layaway Santas that will do a couple thousand here or a couple thousand there, but $20,000 was just an amazing amount," said Davis.
Local 6 has learned the identity of the layaway Santa is Greg Parady, a local financial planner.
Parady was at Walmart buying bicycles for Toys for Tots when he decided to do a little more.
"I came back here and I saw him standing here with his credit card and he was just swiping and swiping," said Cindy Nazzaro, Parady's business partner.
"He had heard a lady out in one of the aisles talking about how she needed to pay off her layaway, but she didn't think she was going to be able to take care of all of it this year. So he just walked back here and started in, it's crazy," said Nazzaro.
Davis says several people who had items on layaway immediately started getting text messages telling them a payment had been made, while others didn't find out until days later, when they came into the store.
Davis says their reaction was amazing.
"Tears, surprise. There was one lady after she cried she had to sit down because we thought she was going to faint," said Davis. "It was a true Christmas story."
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Ever see all those letters together, but have no clue what they mean? You remember the day that Wikipedia, Reddit and other websites protested by shutting down for a day in opposition to these proposed laws? Well we have Theresa Payton with us to help explain what all of this means.
Ms. Theresa Payton is a well-known and highly respected national authority on cybersecurity, e-crime and fraud mitigation, and technology implementation. Ms. Payton has over twenty years of advanced business and security technology expertise and leadership at the highest levels of both government and in the financial services industry.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - One of two men shot by Orlando police Wednesday night inside a home during an investigation into a drug complaint in the Rock Lake Gardens neighborhood has died.
Police identified the man who died as 19-year-old Karvis Jabbar Gamble. Friends say Gamble was an aspiring musician.
The other man, Cordaryl Leojermane Wilson, 25, was also involved in the shooting and has been charged with possession of MDMA/Ecstasy, possession of cannabis, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting an officer without violence.
Police said a total of five people were inside when officers knocked on the door at 1327 Arlington Street near Highway 50 and Orange Blossom Trail.
"A subject sitting inside the front room immediately reached for a handgun, pulled it up and started pointing at the officers," said Orlando police Sgt. Jim Young. "A second subject inside the house comes running out of a back room. He ignored all officers commands. He began to reach into his waistband."
Two officers opened fire, each shooting a different man.
Inside the residence, 3 guns were recovered, 2 of which had been reported stolen. Illegal drugs were also recovered, according to police, after a tip led them to the house.
Throughout the evening, families raced to the scene, worried that a relative might have been injured. One mother told Local 6 her son called her and said he had been shot.
Neighbors heard as many as five gunshots coming from a home that relatives of people involved said also doubles as a recording studio.
A Local 6 photographer was the first to arrive at the scene and watched as police dragged one man out, held another at gunpoint and watched paramedics wheel another man into an ambulance.
"Very concerning. Two nights in a row," said Orlando Police Chief Paul Rooney. "The message is clear, though. If anyone pulls a gun on a police officer, we are trained to shoot back, which we did tonight."
Rooney said that, normally, OPD averages about six officer-involved shootings in a year, and now they've had two in 24 hours, after officers responding to a drug complaint shot a man in Rosemont.
Police were interviewing the other three men in the home.
Friends of those who were at the home said there were no drugs or guns in the house. And they said police never identified themselves.
"All (the officer) did was open the door. They never said, 'OPD,' or nothing. They just shot him," a man said. "Who really would point a gun at the police? You know what's going to happen."
Police said two different officers did warn Wilson, who was injured, to stop and not reach for a gun, but claimed he ignored their commands.
Both officers who fired their guns will be placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
Watch Local 6 News and stay with ClickOrlando.com for more on this story.
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WYCOMBE'S museum should be located in Marlow to attract the maximum number of visitors, according to a High Wycombe-based councillor.
Cllr Roger Collomb spoke out about the centre after an agreement was made to keep the museum - which falls inside his own ward - at its original location on Priory Avenue.
And the Independent councillor insisted at this week's Full Council meeting that only the popular tourist town could pull in the necessary crowds to the attraction.
He said: "There are four types of clientele for the museum - online it doesn't matter where you are, and there are only three schools within walking distance so they will come in coaches anyway.
"There are locals, but they do not make up a large proportion of the clientele. But then there are tourists.
"I remember going into Marlow to survey the opinion of local people and it was difficult to find anyone who wasn't visiting. Marlow is the perfect place to locate it."
He added that with the new sports centre at Handy Cross underway, Marlow's swimming pool at Court Garden may eventually become obsolete and could be used to house a museum.
However, Cllr Collomb's colleagues were not convinced, with WDC leader dismissing the idea due to the costs involved.
The Marlow councillor added: "It might be a good idea but those residents in Princes Risborough in the north might not agree with you.
"Marlow is not in the centre of the district, although I agree it is a very beautiful part of the district."
Plans to relocate the museum to a dedicated part of WDC's offices on Queen Victoria Road were shelved after uncertainty over the long-term future of the council's office complex.
WDC will also continue with the transfer of the museum to the trust, which will take over the day-to-day running of the district's history centre in 2015.
This would save the authority money and also enable the trust to apply for grant funding streams not available to a council-owned museum.
Cllr Tony Green spoke in favour of keeping the museum at its current location, adding the grounds were well used and the nearest thing Wycombe has to a city square park.
Marlow already has a museum, based at Court Garden in Higginson Park, which run entirely by volunteers.
Its current exhibition, 'The Changing Face of Marlow', began this month.


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When looking at a year-end top-story list, sometimes it's as much about remembering as it is realizing how quickly you've forgotten about something and moved on to the next thing.
The failed PMA/United merger seems longer ago than just July, doesn't it?
It's also interesting to see how the industry has responded to the news.
As for 2012, there hasn't been much time to see the industry response to top issues. For example, the Mexico/Florida tomato dispute is far from settled, and the nation awaits the results of the Food Safety Modernization Act and what another four years of an Obama administration will mean.
This Year in Produce special report holds the top 10 stories of the year as determined by The Packer staff. We vote and determine this every year.
Ten years seems like a good amount of time to see how the industry responded to its biggest issues and news items, so I thought it would be worth looking at 2002's top 10 stories as determined by The Packer.
1. PBH emphasizes 5 a Day the Color Way
The Produce for Better Health Foundation remains an important promoter of fruit and vegetable consumption, even though 5 a Day has been replaced by a new nutrition guide. The sad part is that Americans are more obese today than 10 years ago, despite all the promotion for healthy eating.
2. Iceberg prices skyrocket and other weather problems
Some things never change, and although lettuce wasn't a weather victim this year, the northeast and Michigan apple crop was hit hard.
3. The tomato industry forms working group to head off future trade disputes
The North American Tomato Trade Work Group was more successful in promoting commodity specific food safety guidelines than in preventing trade problems, although it seems like it's taken about 10 years for the "trade war" to heat up again. It's back in 2012's top 10 list at No.3.
4. U.S. export prospects to Cuba brighten
This item could be 1982 or 1992 or it seems 2022. Industry is always optimistic next year is the year Cuba is back in play, and it never is.
5. Produce makes progress in the farm bill
The 2002 farm bill represented serious gains for the first time for fresh produce. Hundreds of millions for fresh produce government purchases were authorized; market access funds were set at $100 million and rising; and the produce in schools program got its first funding. This was a huge precedent, as the industry got more funding in the 2008 farm bill, and now waits to see if the 2012 farm bill will get done.
6. USDA introduces the National Organic Program and seal
This isn't the primary reason organic produce continues to rise in popularity and become mainstream, but the seal gives organic food the credibility it needs in the marketplace.
7. Food safety gets extra scrutiny in wake of Sept. 11 attacks
Food safety has gotten more important in the last 10 years, but it's been E. coli, salmonella and listeria causing the most damage, not terrorists targeting the food supply, as we were afraid in 2002.
8. USDA lifts ban on Spanish clementines
As 2002 started, U.S. citrus growers wanted to keep the Spanish fruit out on a phytosanitary basis, but there were no doubt competitive reasons as well. Ten years later, U.S. growers were so good at producing clementines of their own, that they can't keep up with consumer demand.
9. President Bush intervenes in West Coast port labor dispute.
The president used the Taft-Hartley Act. What else needs to be said?
10. U.S. bans Mexican cantaloupes
Mexican cantaloupes had salmonella outbreaks in 2000, 2001 and 2002, leading to the October ban. As the industry has seen the last two years, cantaloupe food safety remains a huge problem.
So that's weather problems, trade disputes, government influence on produce and food safety the big topics 10 years ago. So much for change.


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HOMES in Blackburn were evacuated after a car being pursued by police smashed into a wall, hit a gas main and caused a major leak.
Residents in East Park Road were told to leave their homes after the black Ford Mondeo crashed after being signalled to stop by officers.
A 17-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of driving whilst disqualified, dangerous driving and failing to stop.
He was taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital with minor injuries.
Police, firefighters and ambulance crews were called to the scene, and the road was closed between its junctions with Langham Road and Brantfell Road for around two hours.
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Faiza Saleh, 17, who lives in East Park Road, said she ran out of her house when she heard the crash.
She said: "I was in the kitchen and I heard a woman scream and a loud bang.
"I came out to look and I saw it was a dog walker who screamed. They put her in the police car for a while, she was crying.
"There was already a police car behind the car that crashed, and then more police came, and an ambulance, and then they told us to leave the house."
Her father, Faruk Saleh, 45, was also evacuated.
He said: "They said we had to leave the house because of a gas leak.
"I think the car hit a gas pipe. They said don't use the front door, use the back door."
Another resident, Hussain Akhtar, rushed to the scene when he heard the car smash into the wall.
He said: "I heard it and I went to see what had happened.
"I saw the police and the car, and the fire engines came right away.
"It's not the first crash that's happened here, we've had a few in this area.
"We've been campaigning about the road for a long, long time."
Zohra Mohammed, 58, of nearby Langham Road, said: "I was on my way back from taking my mum to the hospital for a check-up, and I had to take a detour to come back.
"This is the third time accidents have taken place here, and it's worrying because the park is just around the corner so there are always a lot of families with children in the area."
Noorie Essa, 50, who lives in East Park Road, was also evacuated. She said the crash site was known locally as an accident blackspot.
She said: "It's a big issue, we're so scared for our children."
A police spokeswoman said: "Around 10.50am yesterday (tue) a Ford Mondeo was requested to stop by police but failed to do so. Moments later it collided with a wall on East Park Road in Blackburn.
"The driver of the vehicle has been taken to hospital with minor injuries and has been arrested on suspicion of driving whist disqualified, dangerous driving and failing to stop.
"No other vehicles were involved in the collision and nobody else was injured."
An ambulance spokeswoman said: "We were called at 10.50am with a report of an accident and arrived on scene at 10.54am.
"The male patient had facial injuries and back injuries and was taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital.
"The injuries were not life-threatening."
Residents from around 20 homes were kept out of their homes for several hours while the leak was fixed.
Firefighters attended to seal off the affected area, before gas engineers arrived.
Crew manager Martin Dillon said: "We made the scene safe and stopped a gas leak.
"We used a bung, we have special putty that we use."
A spokeswoman for National Grid said: "We had a call just after 11am to say that a car had damaged some of our equipment.
"When we got onto the site, the police were already there.
"The car had hit the wall and damaged a single service pipe that takes the gas to one property.
"We had engineers on site and we were waiting for the council to come down to assess it. "


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Recipe Find: Karen Ortiz gets her recipe for oatmeal brownies
Published 12:01 am, Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Today's brownies get a boost in texture from the addition of oats to the batter.
The recipe is in response to a request from Karen Ortiz, who writes, "I am looking for a simple recipe for oatmeal brownies. (I) lost the recipe back in the '80s.
"Thought it was from Quaker oat mills, or Hershey's, but cannot find it. I think it may have been printed in the Express or Light newspaper back in the 1980s.
"(It's a) very simple recipe, but lost in my memories and lost most likely to the trash. Thank you for your time. Good luck."
When I started researching this request, I found there were two general types of oatmeal brownies. One used oatmeal in the batter, the other used an oatmeal layer on the bottom and/or top with a brownie layer between.
When contacted, Ortiz said she was looking for brownies in which the oatmeal was mixed into the batter. "It was an all-in-one batter. ... It was very simple, I just don't remember the exact measurements. ... It was very good on a cold weather day."
Food & Drink Channel
We couldn't track down an oatmeal brownie recipe like this from either newspaper (our computer files only go back about 20 years) nor could we find one from Hershey's or Quaker. But I did have a recipe for oatmeal brownies in my personal files that sounds like just what Ortiz wanted.
You should know that this brownie doesn't taste like a traditional brownie, but heartier and fudgier.
Recipe Find appears Sundays in Taste. If you are looking for a lost recipe or have a favorite recipe to share, let us hear from you. Email email@example.com or write Recipe Find, San Antonio Express-News, P.O. Box 2171, San Antonio, TX 78297-2171. Recipe requests will be answered in this column only; due to time limitations, no personal replies can be given.


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Head men's lacrosse coach Brad Jorgensen was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director for Recreational Services during the summer of 2010. He will oversee the Lions' entire recreation program including the Bowman Center Pool and the Waterfront, which have been under the Department of Athletics since 2008.
In addition to teaching wellness classes at Saint Leo, the quickly-growing Saint Leo Fitness Center will also be under his guide. Jorgensen, using his previous experience as Director of Club Athletics and Professor of Physical Education at Wheaton College (MA), is the most qualified individual currently on the Saint Leo staff that has experience in recreation.
In addition to his administrative roles, Jorgensen was hired as the first-ever head coach of the Saint Leo University Men's Lacrosse team in January 2005.
He came to Saint Leo from Wheaton College where he was Men's Lacrosse coach at the Division III school in Norton, Mass. since 1997.
Jorgensen is a 1995 graduate of Springfield College (Mass.) with a bachelor's degree in movement and sport science. He was a midfielder for four years on the Division II team and was named First Team All-America in 1994 and 1995. Springfield won the NCAA Division II Championship in 1994 and was national runner-up in 1995. Springfield won the ECAC Championship in 1993.
In addition to his duties and responsibilities for Saint Leo, he is also a member of the NCAA Lacrosse Rules Committee as well as a current member of the South Region Advisory Committee for Division II Lacrosse.
Jorgensen completed his MBA with a concentration in Sport Business at Saint Leo in 2009. He and his wife Caroline have two sons, Thomas and Charlie, and reside in Wesley Chapel, Fla.


text: Music & Theatre 10 May 2013 Reviewed: Songs Cycled by Van Dyke Parks Revolution in the head. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML Songs Cycled (Bella Union)Van Dyke Parks In 1968, Warner Brothers took out a fullpage ad in Billboard for Van Dyke Parks's album Song Cycle, which read: "How we lost $35,509.50 on 'The Album Of The Year' (Dammit)". Two weeks later, it ran another, offering two new copies of the doomed disc in exchange for one used one, for a nominal fee of one cent. The ads were by the maverick copywriter Stan Cornyn, who'd worked out that the less a record sold, the cooler it became – but Parks was always a non-commercial proposition. He is best known for facilitating Brian Wilson's baroque dreams (and nightmares) as the lyricist for the Beach Boys' unfinished Smile album. As an LA session man and producer, he spent time in Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention and worked with Randy Newman, Tim Buckley and Phil Ochs, among many others. His solo work – classical, cabaret, Cal-pop, calypso – was always too esoteric for mainstream tastes: he's the sort of musician who calls Ry Cooder a "Trinidadian" and doesn't think that needs any explanation. But in 2013 we love all that stuff and, at 70, Parks is busier than he was at 45, bussed to festivals across the globe to talk with aphoristic economy on royalties, rights and the globalisation of rock like a kind of musical Mark Twain. He provides unusual angles on the people he has worked with ("Harry Nilsson had detergent depth – tell him the date you were born and he'd tell you what day of the week it was") and he genuinely believes that the casualties of rock'n'roll (Hendrix, Joplin and so on) "died in their efforts to bring music into a political potency" – which is both quaint and inspiring, depending on how you look at it. Recently, the 25-year-old LA dance producer Skrillex contacted him for a collaboration, declaring that they would "destroy the world together". Naturally, Parks was sold. His first solo album in 24 years is a collection of five original tracks, some new versions of old songs and some traditional material, with a title that says: "Here I am, as weird as I always was and maybe for the last time." It arrives in a very different world from what faced its Sixties namesake: a post-Spotify landscape in which the kind of act that gets on Radio 2 might well play part of Camille Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals on steel pans (as Parks does on "Aquarium") – or a titillating country song about a girl named after a herbal tea used in the homoeopathic treatment of chlamydia ("Sassafras") – and not be considered dilettantish for doing so. With its combination of pastoral grace and unexpected warps of key signature, Parks's work as an orchestral arranger always sat well in psychedelia but he's in essence a classical musician in the school of Gershwin and Bern - stein, with a bit of his former teacher Aaron Copland thrown in. Songs Cycled features several strange mini-musicals of the mind, the most chilling of which is "Wall Street", a love song about 9/11 "jumpers" who leap hand in hand from the towers, "two flaming birds on fire", and plummet to the pavement, leaving "no trace of their embrace". He wrote it not long after the attacks as a response to the US government's apparent efforts to erase the suiciders from the collective memory – though he couldn't really release it at the time, having condemned Neil Young for writing a song called "Let's Roll" about Flight 93. ("A Canadian citizen making a dime on the United States, calling them to war, is the height of stupidity," he maintained recently.) "Dreaming of Paris" is apparently a comment on the US bombing of Baghdad, though it must be the only song on the subject to include a mention of crème brûlée. Parks's metaphors and internal rhymes ("It's déjà vu, I'm tellin' you") tie his songs up in pretty bows, giving the impression that they are nothing but momentary escapes from real life. Given the brow-furrowing exegesis required to draw out their political meaning, it's sometimes hard to buy his central idea that there is "nothing more precious than the song form to revolutionise popular thought". Then again, the notion that protest might be couched in light-hearted music is convincing – that's the basis of his beloved calypso, after all – and the overall effect of these fleet-footed tunes is indeed one of powerful unease, especially in the tonguetrammelling, Tom Lehrer-style rhymes of "Black Gold", which is all about the 2002 Prestige oil spill. Parks attacks his work with a belief in the motivational power of music that seems unusual in this day and age. 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STAFF at a steak restaurant which closed unexpectedly claim they are owed thousands of pounds in unpaid wages.
The Rare Cow, in High Road, Earls Colne, ceased trading last month after it emerged a cruise sales company run by its boss, Richard Lester, was under investigation by Essex Police.
Staff at the restaurant, launched by Mr Lester in April last year, say they fear the company will be liquidated before they are paid and no one is telling them what will happen to their wages.
Awoman, who asked not to be named, said: "I'm owed a month and a half in wages.
The chef is owed about £6,000.
There were about 15 of us working there and everyone is owed at least a month.
"We can't find out what's happening.
"Richard Lester is still the director of the company, but he gave control of the branch to his ex-fiancee, Svetlana Broussova, before this all happened, but she is no longer a director.
"Another businessman has bought the branches in Billericay and Writtle, but not Earls Colne and we can't find out what's happening and have heard it's going to be liquidated."
She said a number of people who had paid to stay in rooms at the pub had also lost out and staff were taking legal advice about how to get paid.
Cruisemiles, a business set up by Mr Lester in 2007, which sold cruises through a voucher and "miles" scheme similar to Airmiles, is being investigated by Essex Police after several people complained they were owed money when it folded.
Multi-millionaire businessman Alfie Best, 43, of London Road, Thurrock, bought out Mr Lester from the Rare Cow branches in New Jacksons Lane, Billericay, and Chequers Road, Writtle.
According to Companies House, Mr Lester remains the sole director of Cow and Lobster Limited and Rare Cow Limited, which ran the Earls Colne restaurant.
Miss Broussova, 47, has resigned as a director and company secretary of both.
She said: "You need to speak to Richard about this.
I'm no longer a director and I'm also owed money."
Mr Lester, who last week denied any wrongdoing in connection with Cruisemiles and said he had co-operated with police, was yesterday unavailable for comment.
A spokesman for Mr Best said: "Alfie Best has not bought the restaurant in Earls Colne and has nothing whatsoever to do with it."
The building is owned by Keith Ripper, boss of car transport firm Transporter based at the Old Airfield, Gosfield.
His finance director, Russell Hazelhurst, said: "The restaurant has ceased trading and Mr Ripper is owed about three months rent.
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Brothers, Let Us Query the Text
If the Bible is coherent, then understanding the Bible means grasping how things fit together. Becoming a Biblical theologian means seeing more and more pieces fit together into a glorious mosaic of the divine will. And doing exegesis means querying the text about how its many propositions cohere in the author's mind.
If we are going to feed our people, we must ever advance in our grasp of biblical truth. And to advance in our grasp of biblical truth we must be troubled by biblical affirmations.
It must bother us that James and Paul don't seem to jibe. Only when we are troubled and bothered do we think hard. And if we don't think hard about how biblical affirmations fit together, we will never penetrate to their common root and discover the beauty of unified divine truth. The end result is that our Bible reading will become insipid, we will turn to fascinating "secondary literature," our sermons will be the lame work of "second-handers," and the people will go hungry.
"We never think until we have been confronted with a problem," said John Dewey. He was right. And that is why we will never think hard about biblical truth until we are troubled by its complexity.
Habitually Disturbed
We must form the habit of being systematically disturbed by things that at first glance don't make sense. Or to put it a different way, we must relentlessly query the text. One of the greatest honors I received while teaching at Bethel was when the teaching assistants in the Bible department gave me a T-shirt which had the initials of Jonathan Edwards on the front and on the back the words: "Asking questions is the key to understanding."
But there are several strong forces which oppose our relentless and systematic interrogating of biblical texts. One is that it consumes a great deal of time and energy on one small portion of Scripture. We have been schooled [quite erroneously] that there is a direct correlation between reading a lot and gaining insight. But in fact there is no positive correlation at all been quantity of pages read and quality of insight gained. Just the reverse. Except for a few geniuses, insight diminishes as we try to read more and more. Insight or understanding is the product of intensive, headache-producing meditation on two or three verses and how they fit together. This kind of reflection and rumination is provoked by asking questions of the text. And you cannot do it if you hurry. Therefore, we must resist the deceptive urge to carve notches in our bibliographic gun. Take two hours to ask ten questions of Galatians 2:20 and you will gain one hundred times the insight you would have attained by reading 30 pages of the New Testament or any other book. Slow down. Query. Ponder. Chew.
Another reason it is hard to spend hours probing for the roots of coherence is that it is fundamentally unfashionable today to systematize and seek for harmony and unity. This noble quest has fallen on hard times because so much artificial harmony has been discovered by impatient and nervous Bible defenders. But if God's mind is truly coherent and not confused, then exegesis must aim to see the coherence of biblical revelation and the profound unity of divine truth. Unless we are to dabble forever on the surface of things (content to turn up "tensions" and "difficulties") then we must resist the atomistic (and basically anti-intellectual) fashions in the contemporary theological establishment. There is far too much debunking of past failures and far too little construction going on.
A third force that opposes the effort to ask the Bible questions is this: Asking questions is the same as posing problems, and we have been discouraged all our lives from finding problems in God's Holy Book.
Rightfully Respecting God's Word
It is impossible to respect the Bible too highly, but it is very possible to respect it wrongly. If we do not ask seriously how differing texts fit together, then we are either superhuman (and glance all truth at a glance) or indifferent (and don't care about seeing more truth). But I don't see how anyone who is indifferent or superhuman can have a proper respect for the Bible. Therefore reverence for God's Word demands that we ask questions and pose problems and that we believe there are answers and solutions which will reward our labor with "treasures new and old" (Matt. 13:52).
We must train our people that it is not irreverent to see difficulties in the biblical text and to think hard about how they can be resolved.
I do not accuse my 6-year-old son, Benjamin, of irreverence when he cannot make sense out of a Bible verse and asks me about it. He is just learning to read. But have our abilities to read been perfected? Can any of us at one reading grasp the logic of a paragraph and see how every part relates to all the others and how they all fit together to make a unified point? How much less the thought of an entire epistle, the New Testament, the Bible! If we care about truth, we must relentlessly query the text and form the habit of being bothered by things we read.
Reading for Reverence
This is just the opposite of irreverence. It is what we do if we crave the mind of Christ. Nothing sends us deeper into the counsels of God than seeing apparent theological discrepancies in the Bible and pondering them day and night until they fit into an emerging system of unified truth. For example, a year ago I struggled for days with how Paul could say on the one hand, "Have no anxiety about anything" (Phil. 4:6), but on the other hand say (with apparent impunity) that his "anxiety for all the churches" was a daily pressure on him (2 Cor. 11:28). How could he say, "Rejoice always" (1 Thess. 5:16), and "Weep with those who weep" (Rom. 12:15)? How would he say to give thanks "always and for everything" (Eph. 5:20) and then admit, "I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart" (Rom. (9:2)?
More recently I have asked, What does it mean that Jesus said in Matthew 5:39 to turn the other cheek when struck, but said in Matthew 10:23, "When they persecute you in one town, flee. . ."? When do you flee and when do endure hardship and turn the other cheek? I have also been pondering in what sense it is true that God is "slow to anger" (Ex. 34:6) and in what sense "His wrath is quickly kindled" (Ps. 2:11).
There are hundreds and hundreds of such seeming discrepancies in the Holy Scripture, and we dishonor the text not to see them and think them through. God is not a God of confusion. His tongue is not forked. There are profound and wonderful resolutions to all problems. He has called us to an eternity of discovery so that every morning for ages to come we might break forth in new songs of praise.
In 2 Timothy 2:7 Paul gave us a command and a promise. He commanded, "Think over what I say." And he promised, "God will give you understanding in everything."
How do the command and promise fit together? The little "for" (gar) gives the answer. "Think . . . because God will reward you with understanding."
The promise is not made to all. It is made to those who think. And we do not think until we are confronted with a problem. Therefore, brothers, let us query the text.


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The Now Senior Phoenix Council Member Welcomes a New Addition to the Team but Knows it Comes at a Cost
Phoenix City Councilman Claude Mattox, today welcomed Bryan Jeffries to the council, expressing hope that the appointment will end the revolving door in City Hall and its adverse impact on city government.
"Public offices should be more than stepping stones to political careers. Elected officials commit to serving the public for a period of time. Quitting before the end of their terms so they can chase the next opportunity is a major disruption and comes at a cost. More importantly, it denies the voters a voice through representatives that they directly elect."
In just the past two years, Mattox and the council have on three occasions found it necessary to appoint new members to the governing body following the resignation of council members elected by the voters. The result is Phoenix, in that period of time, has had one of the highest turnover of council members through resignation of any city or town in the state.
Two of those quitting before the end of their terms were ex-City Council members Greg Stanton and Peggy Neely, who are now seeking to return to City Hall as candidates for Mayor.
When Mattox announced his candidacy for Mayor earlier this year, he made a commitment to complete his term on the council. "At that time, many well-meaning supporters suggested I consider doing as other candidates have done and quit so that I could devote more attention to my campaign. Frankly, this council has seen too much change, particularly in these challenging times. It was an easy choice for me to resist the greener pastures others have chosen, and instead complete my term."
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The Washington County Sheriff's Department and the state fire marshal's office are investigating an explosion that occurred Sunday evening at a mobile home located at 6609 Hurst Road in Pekin.
Southern Hills Church will be heading up the Christmas Assistance Program this year. They are accepting applications for assistance as well as volunteers to assist with the program. Both applications are available at www.shillschurch.com under the "Outreach" section. Applications will be accepted on Friday, October 21 from 1-5 p.m. and Saturday, October 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Salem High School girls' cross country team claimed the regional championship last Saturday at Bedford North Lawrence. "All of the girls should really be proud of this win," said Head Coach Roger Bundy. "They ran awesome! We had five of our seven runners achieve PR's (personal records) which means we are peaking at the right time.
Although Halloween hasn't arrived yet, there is one person in the county who is already thinking ahead and planning for the Christmas holiday.


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These breakfast meetings offer a great chance to share food and fellowship with conservative friends. Past breakfasts have been attended by members of Congress, public policy experts, and columnists.


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43 Sportfisher — By Richard Thiel
— July 1999
Different by Design
|Everything about the Mikelson 43 is unusual. Even the name.
Let's get two things straight. First, the company's name is pronounced MY-kel-son. Second, there is no Mr. Mikelson. The name was created by vice president Pat Sullivan after someone complained that the name he chose for his first boat, the Fexas 42, was unfair to other builders who were using Tom Fexas designs.
These are just two footnotes to the story of a boat that is unusual in just about every aspect, from where and how she's built to her hull form and overall design. For instance, there is no Mikelson yard. Instead, the company contracts with established yards in Malaysia, Taiwan, and the United States, an arrangement it claims reduces costs, creates greater production flexibility, and allows it to sell yachts at attractive prices. That last claim is supported by
the rather remarkable base price of $487,000 for a well-equipped 43 Sportfisher.
Mikelson is also unusual in that its entire line--which includes 50, 64, and 78 Sportfishers and the 61 Pilothouse--was designed by one man, Fexas, who characterizes the 43 hull as "the answer." The question? How to marry the high-speed characteristics of a planing hull with the lower-speed efficiency of a semiplaning form. Fexas says his first attempts combined a hard chine aft with round forward sections, but the result was neither as dry (even with spray rails) nor as efficient as he wanted. After years of tinkering, he says he discovered two problems with hard-chine hulls at low speed. One, the chine creates hydrodynamic drag, which reduces efficiency. Two, where the hard chine breaks the water, it creates what he calls a "hard knuckle," which water must flow around at low speed, causing more resistance. The difference with the 43 form, Fexas claims, is that it eliminates this knuckle, although for obvious reasons he won't say precisely how.
Judging from our test numbers, his efficiency claim is well founded. Our 43 not only generated better than one statute mile per gallon up to 10.5 mph, but once she was on plane (1500 rpm), her efficiency actually increased up to 2000 rpm, where we recorded a very respectable 0.8 mpg.
Besides hull form, part of that efficiency is also due to the fact that the engines--twin 430-hp Cummins in our test boat--are well aft, thanks to ZF V-drives. Such a configuration is also unusual, at least in sportfishing boats, partially because it can require a higher cockpit deck to accommodate the engines beneath it. But the design enhances on-plane performance, reduces interior sound levels, and provides better engine access. And if properly executed, as on the 43, running angles are within the normal range.
Despite the 43's advanced cored construction--everything above the waterline is Corecell, even the hatches and interior soles and bulkheads--displacement does not appear to be a factor in her performance. At a listed weight of 34,600 pounds, she's about average for her size and type--Viking lists its 43 Sportfish/Express at 34,500 pounds. But I suspect that the combination of composites above the waterline and solid FRP below places a higher percentage of her weight lower in the boat, for our 43 was impressively stable in the four-foot rollers off San Diego. She was also dry on all points despite the 15-knot gusts on test day. And she had that soft ride Fexas designs are famous for, all the more remarkable when you consider that at 15'8", this is a relatively beamy boat (the Viking 43 is 15'3" wide).
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This article originally appeared in the January 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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DUDLEY Zoo is appealing to people to donate unwanted perfumes and aftershaves to provide enrichment for some of the world's rarest big cats.
Keepers at the zoo regularly use strong scents including perfume, aftershave and spices to encourage resident Sumatran tigers, Asiatic lions, snow leopards and Carpathian lynx to track down smells and tests their natural abilities.
Jill Hitchman, the zoo's head of media and communications, said: "We dab it on to climbing frames and scratching posts and use it around the enclosures and they absolutely love it.
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This article was published 29/6/2013 (1515 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
It's time to think and maybe - just maybe - reflect. Given 90 minutes to do so on a sunny Saturday, here are some reflections of my own, delivered in the form of greetings to the individuals and institutions who exercise a great deal of control over our lives.
To Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Late last year, when the Idle No More movement took off, a lot of Canadians started thinking about indigenous rights - or at least had way more of an impetus to do so.
While your government's relationship with Canada's First Nations, Inuit and Métis is not overly fantastic, it's arguably no worse than that of many of its predecessors. And you personally carved out a place in history with your 2008 apology for the treatment of First Nations in Canada's residential schools. That apology went a long way toward reconciliation between Canada's original inhabitants and more recent arrivals from Europe, Asia, Africa and elsewhere. But a lot more work has to be done before our indigenous population enjoys the same standard of living and basic dignities the rest of us enjoy.
While achieving this will take years, here's a radical idea for a symbolic gesture: Consider reserving the appointment of all future Governors General for citizens who are First Nations, Inuit or Métis.
Such a move would honour the intention of the partnership between the Crown and Canada's original inhabitants. It would also be one hell of a symbolic gesture.
Don't make this an official policy, as that would require a constitutional amendment, and there's little patience among the Canadian public for such a debate.
But even on an unofficial basis, the elevation of an aboriginal Canadian to the symbolic position of head of state would make a powerful statement.
To Premier Greg Selinger
You're behind in the polls, your policies are unpopular and it would take a minor miracle for your party to form a fifth straight majority government in 2015.
So here's a crazy thought to consider while you kick back at the cottage over the next week, assuming you get a day or two off: Why not spend the remaining 15 months in office governing like you will never get to govern again?
The long-standing criticism of modern politics is too many decisions are made solely on the basis of averting risk. People in power are so focused on winning the next election, they don't make decisions that benefit the populace in the long term.
Since the NDP probably can not win the October 2015 provincial race, why not pull a Bulworth (Google that one, Millennials!) and say whatever you feel like saying and start making unpopular reforms that will create public outrage but will benefit Manitoba in the long term. The Opposition may cry foul in the short term, but they, too, will benefit in the long term and may even credit you in hindsight for your contributions.
Remember Duff Roblin - ridiculed in his own time but beloved in posterity for the Red River Floodway.
To PC Leader Brian Pallister
Dude, you are probably going to be the premier in two years. Don't let that go to your head. The NDP has been in power for almost 14 years and can not go on governing forever. Even with Stu Murray or Hugh McFadyen at the helm of your party, you would probably win in 2015.
So as you consider your campaign platform, remember you still have two years to earn the respect and allegiance of the great many Manitobans who hug what most of us would describe as the political centre. This is not a province of socialists or neocons. This is a province of pragmatists who by and large appreciate both fiscal conservatism and a social conscience. But of course, you already know that because you're not an idiot. You don't need some moron at a newspaper to explain basic demography.
But if you do consider one idea, please consider this: Promise to diversify the economy. Promise to encourage innovation. Do not simply promise to slash the budget, even if that simplistic message finds currency among your existing base.
That would go a long way to garnering not just votes, but a genuine mandate.
To Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz
Sorry you were booed at Investors Group Field on Thursday night. That can't be great for the ego. If it makes you feel any better, Selinger was booed at the MTS Centre during the final Jets' game of the season in April.
On the other hand, there's a palpable sense the Manitoban public dislikes the premier because of provincial policies such as a PST hike, while the disdain directed against you has a personal element.
For example, a Transcona-bound Bomber fan on the bus ride home after the game described the mayor in less than complimentary words. "But he's probably going to win again," he said.
Transcona Fan is right, Mr. Mayor. You're still the frontrunner in 2014. But if you do choose not to run again, please do the right thing and provide prospective candidates plenty of notice, the way former Toronto mayor David Miller did before he chose not to seek a third term in 2010.
To Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries
On behalf of many Manitobans who consume alcohol outside our own homes, allow me to express support for the regulatory reforms you have planned for liquor licensees.
One of those reforms, according to cabinet member Dave Chomiak, is to provide leeway when it comes to major outdoor events. So here's the plea: Can you figure out a way to legally sanction tailgate parties on the University of Manitoba campus?
Winnipeg Blue Bomber fans are in the midst of adjusting to Investors Group Field, the club's new stadium on the U of M campus. For some, game day is now a seven-hour time commitment.
Being able to tailgate in some fashion would take some edge off of arriving early to the games. And as our football-loving U.S. counterparts have demonstrated in hundreds of college towns and dozens of NFL cities, tailgate parties do not necessarily translate into drunken free-for-alls.
No one is advocating a free pass for open liquor across the U of M campus. But it is a university. Generally speaking, university students are more than a little familiar with alcohol.
So please consider a tailgate plan, if not for the latter part of the 2013 CFL season, then for 2014. If Osborne Village can become a street party for two days this weekend, the U of M campus can tolerate eight hours, 10 times a years.
bartley.kives @freepress.mb.ca


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This article was published 4/11/2012 (1751 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Every morning you're startled by your alarm clock, only to hit the snooze button a few times before you reluctantly drag yourself out of bed.
Yesterday morning was a bit different.
Thanks to the end of daylight saving time (we turned the clocks back in the middle of the night) you could savour an extra hour of sleep.
Even though the time change may not seem like a big enough deal to make a huge dent in your sleep debt, every bit of quality sleep matters, says Dr. Meir Kryger, a Yale University professor of medicine and sleep specialist who founded Winnipeg's cutting-edge St. Boniface General Hospital Sleep Disorders Clinic in the early 1990s.
"So if you sleep, let's say, a half an hour less than you should for four or five days in a row, you become intensely sleepy to the point where it feels as though you haven't slept at all," says Kryger. "In other words, it sort of adds up. People need to understand that the sleep debt kind of accumulates so the function gets worse and worse."
It turns out that 10 to 15 per cent of adults have chronic insomnia, according to the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research at the National Institutes of Health.
Another root of sleep deprivation: People simply don't make sleep a priority, says Kryger who, during his three decades in Winnipeg, treated 15,000 Manitobans with sleep disorders, many of them life-threatening.
In the midst of Hurricane Sandy, Kryger -- who left Winnipeg in 2006 and now lives in Connecticut -- took time to answer some questions about sleep. Here's what the physician -- who wrote the hefty textbook used by all sleep doctors in the world -- had to say about his favourite subject:
What's the best advice you can give people about their sleep habits?
The most important tip is to make sleep a priority. A lot of people figure sleep is a waste of time and they don't give it a high priority in their life. People need to change their thinking about that. It has to have the same kind of priority as eating and exercising and drinking water.
What sorts of effects can a lack of sleep have on the body?
Your brain doesn't function so hot. Making decisions is difficult. Even driving a car can be difficult. Doing work might be difficult. Concentrating would be tough. Your immune system doesn't work well. Your hormonal system changes. You're more prone to develop things like obesity and (type 2) diabetes if you don't sleep enough. It's not just the brain not working well. It's the rest of the body might not work well, either.
So it's true that people who don't sleep well gain weight more easily?
Yes. There are two important hormones affected by sleep deprivation. One is ghrelin. It's produced in the intestinal tract and it makes you hungry. The other is leptin, a hormone that is produced by fat cells that normally make you stop eating when you've had enough. When you get sleep-deprived, ghrelin goes up and leptin drops. So you eat more and have less of a switch to tell you to stop eating.
Do you have patients whose sleep deprivation has ruined their lives?
Oh yeah. Once you get in a terrible accident and someone is killed, that's as bad as it can get. People need to realize that when they don't sleep well, when they go out on the road when they are tired, they can kill someone, they can kill themselves.
Being severely sleep deprived is no different than being drunk in a lot of ways. People should not even think about driving when they are impaired. If you've slept three or four hours in a given night, there's a very high likelihood you're going to be impaired.
Have any of your patients died as a result of their sleep deprivation?
I've had lots of patients in accidents who have killed other people. Accidents are very, very common in people who have sleep disorders. Truck drivers, in particular, can be a real menace if they're sleepy because they are driving something that weighs tons and tons.
You once talked about a study in which the tails of sleep-deprived animals fell off. Can you explain?
There was a brilliant set of experiments done about 15 years ago. Animals were sleep-deprived continuously, and one of the lessons from that experiment is that sleep is necessary, because all the animals ultimately died; they died sort of a strange death. They started to lose a lot of weight in spite of eating, their fur fell out and they seemed to have immune problems. Those kinds of experiments tell us sleep is important and necessary in order to be healthy. It's hard to do these kinds of studies on people. But in people who are sleep-deprived and you measure the functions of their immune system -- for example, the ability to be vaccinated for influenza -- it turns out the vaccination is not as robust as it is if they'd had a normal night of sleep.
How much sleep to do we need?
Between seven and nine hours. People need to know how to match their needs There are some people who want to sleep; their brains tell them to sleep later. If you're the kind of person whose brain is telling you to go to sleep at two in the morning, don't even think about becoming a surgeon or an anesthesiologist.
Can coffee disrupt sleep?
Yes. People need to not take a huge amount of stimulant stuff. A lot of people are taking energy drinks, which in some cases contain huge amounts of caffeine. You get stuck in a vicious circle.
Are naps a good idea?
Napping can be wonderful and it can be lifesaving. Most naps should not be longer than 20 to 40 minutes. If the naps are too long, the person can become groggy when they wake up.
Can people get into a deep sleep in 20 minutes?
You don't necessarily want to go into a deep sleep when you nap. That's what makes you groggy.
What if your spouse likes to watch television in the bedroom at night, but you want to sleep. How can that relationship work?
A TV does not belong in a bedroom. A computer does not belong in a bedroom. A smartphone does not belong in a bed. This is something people need to recognize.
Some people, they will watch TV and the TV is on all night and every once in a while a commercial comes on and it kind of wakes them up and they sort of nod off to sleep again. Their sleep is not all that restful. Your sleeping environment should be optimized. Get rid of all of the stuff that wakes you up at night.
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Are you the proud owner of any of the "I" things? You know what I mean, I-Pod, I-Phone, I-Pad, etc.
I joined the "I" crowd last Christmas when my husband's gift to me was an iPod Shuffle. Do you know what that is? It is a slightly bigger than a postage stamp-size music player. There is a whole family of iPods including the Nano, the Shuffle and the Touch. Not to reveal my daughter's age, but she grew up in the age of the Sony Walkman with a cassette tape and earphones. The only thing the iPod Shuffle has in common with the Sony Walkman is the earphones.
This little device is pretty amazing. I connect it to my computer and BOOM! My computer knows it is there and calls it "Nita's iPod." Now, how does my computer know it is my iPod?
I know, I know, every device attached to a computer has something called an "IP Address." There it is again; something else beginning with "I". Personally, I prefer to think that my laptop computer and I are in perfect harmony, and therefore my laptop knows everything that is mine. Don't say it; I know I am a little weird.
My next adventure into the "I" phenomenon, was to purchase an "I"Phone 4S last March. I have had many cell phones throughout the years, starting with the "bag" phone, a phone bigger than my purse that I could carry in my car and, if a signal could be found, and I was within the non-roaming area of my home, I could make a phone call and check on my daughter. That phone call, I believe, cost me a few dollars on top of the monthly fee that I paid.
Now, I carry around my iPhone like an appendage to my arm. I am in love with this phone — it is a mini-computer, camera, typewriter, and occasionally, a telephone. The phone even has a built in lady that will talk to me and answer questions. It will make and receive phone calls, but that seems to be secondary to texting, checking the weather, recording my golfing scores and providing access to Facebook on-the-go. All-in-all, this little gadget is a wonder. How did I ever make it through the day without it? How did I make it through life without checking Facebook and checking my email 20 times a day? If I don't know have my iPhone, will I be OK? I'm not sure — I'm not willing to find out.
My most recent addition to my "I" devices, was the purchase of an iPad. Now, this little electronic, touchscreen, put-in-my purse size computer is the best thing since pizza delivered to your door! The first computer I ever used extensively was a very small MacIntosh computer with a screen just larger than an index card, and the only thing actually portable about it was that you could pick it up and carry it to any available electrical outlet. I thought that Mac was pretty amazing but this iPad is more than amazing. Not comfortable using the "mouse" attached to many computers? Don't worry, you run an iPad with your index finger or any other finger you choose.
Until my foray into the "I" world, I was not sure what an "app" was. As with many words used in computer jargon, the word it represents has just been shortened, "app" is probably short for application. But, I was thinking the other day, that "app" could also be short for appliance. You know, like the appliances you have in your kitchen. Those appliances help you do many—cooking, heating, refrigerating, toasting, etc. I have "apps" that help me do many things. I have an app for Facebook, an app for free magazines, an app for the weather, an app for a golf-themed solitaire game, an app for my library of books, an app for ... Well, you get the idea; there is an app for pretty much EVERYTHING! Need I say more? This little electronic genius is my new best friend— right up there with my iPhone!!
IPod, iPhone, iPad, I take them everywhere. I take them in my car and they connect to my car's audio system. I take them out on my deck and they connect to a cordless speaker, and I play music. I take them on vacation and stay connected to family and friends. I, I, I, what's next in the "I" world? I'm sure we will find out in the coming years whether it be additional "I" devices or others. I don't know about you, but I can't wait to see what's next. I am definitely a member of the "I" crowd!
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Quakes hurler balanced baseball, university in Dominican
By Chris Martinez / Special to MLB.com | July 18, 2012 6:27 AM ET
Sanchez's path, however, is a departure from the typical Dominican experience.
Dominican prospects often drop out of school to focus on baseball, sometimes as early as elementary school age. They sign professional contracts as teenagers and have to learn to navigate life and the sport in a brand-new country with little perspective and experience to guide them.
Sanchez put school before baseball and attended the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, the only public university in the Dominican Republic. There he studied accounting and put school ahead of baseball, even as he dreamed of playing in the big leagues.
"I had to go to school first because baseball is not forever," Sanchez said.
Sanchez worked to make it both as a student and as an athlete, balancing his schoolwork with his training and a job.
"In the morning I went to [class]," he said. "After that I went to work. After that I practiced baseball. After that, I came home to do my homework. It's hard to do."
Sanchez's commitment to school put him behind the curve. He signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers at age 20, much later than the average age of a Dominican prospect. The right-hander hit the ground running in his first year of professional baseball in Class A Great Lakes a year ago, amassing 84 strikeouts and a 2.82 ERA in 99 innings.
Lately Sanchez has been roughed up for the Quakes, with 25 runs allowed over his last four starts, but the improvements that began last season have stuck with him. Sanchez's velocity is a key weapon for him, something that Loons pitching coach Kremlin Martinez helped him develop.
"We're not going to be perfect, but everyday we learn more and more," Sanchez said of the constant learning experience he has with pitching.
Sanchez made it this far thanks to the tutelage of his uncle, former pitcher Geraldo Guzman. Guzman made it to the Majors with Arizona in 2000 and 2001 and trained with his nephew to prepare the lad for a career in baseball.
Sanchez counts Guzman among his heroes for the baseball knowledge and experience he passed on. Another important figure for Sanchez is Pedro Martinez, who influenced Sanchez through videos from Guzman's library. Guzman had lots of tape of Martinez from his days in the Majors.
"I learned from them -- my heroes -- how to pitch," Sanchez said.
The greatest lesson for Sanchez is how his education and baseball work together. His accounting background helped him handle his own finances after he signed with the Dodgers. He picked up English quickly thanks to his understanding of how to study and learn.
"School has always been the first thing in my life," he said.
Robles on fire: Bakersfield starting pitcher Tanner Robles came up from Class A Dayton on July 5 and has posted two straight scoreless outings for the Blaze. His latest start, a July 11 win over Stockton, was a five-inning, seven-strikeout gem. So far, Robles has faced the Ports twice and has scattered eight hits over 11 innings. The left-hander had 16 starts for the Dragons before his call-up and went 5-5 with a 4.45 ERA.
Cowart at the corner: Inland Empire third baseman Kaleb Cowart is batting .298 since being promoted from Cedar Rapids in June. He hit safely in six of his last seven games and had two doubles and six RBIs last week. He also belted a pair of home runs on July 11 against Rancho Cucamonga.
Many good returns: Lancaster outfielder Domingo Santana has seven RBIs, two home runs and two doubles in his last four games with five runs scored. The right fielder is hitting .308 on the year and sports a .408 mark in July. Santana came to the Houston organization in the deal that sent Hunter Pence to Philadelphia last summer.
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We have just spent a very large portion of the day ensconced in our spare room adding zines to the site and writing descriptions. We are very excited about how many really good zines we have in stock at the moment. We have also received a lot of really great submissions over the last couple of months that we haven't had time to reply to yet, but we will, and then we will have even more really great zines. It is very exciting indeed.
The zines that have just been added are:
* If Destroyed Still True (back in stock, we got The Paper Mills copies when they closed down, with Nine's permission, so if you didn't get a chance to read this zine the first time it was doing the rounds, here is your 2nd chance, which you're supposed to never have, so you should jump on it)
* I am Very Busy and Important # 4, 5 and 6 (a really great zine covering local stories from small to medium towns in Queensland, one of the best zine series we've read in a while)
* Both by Accident & Design (following on from last year's For Stregnth and Valour, this is zine to file in the sacred category of 'shitty workplace stories', subcategory, 'low rung office jobs')
* Kiss Off #14 (a highly estimable zine from Toronto, Canada. As yet we have not added a description to the catelogue, so stay tuned for more)
* Hole in the Ground (a zine that is substantial in both page count and quality of contents, about the nature of home, change and a number of other profound Ideas, but written in a very enjoyable and accessible manner)
* Music for Raising Sydenham Swamp (the newest addition to our Music and Videos page, which contains experimental and DIY music, and which we want to expand and want for you to be more interested in, because lots of people make really good music in their bedrooms in the indefatigable tradition of PUNK ROCK and it should be ENCOURAGED and SUPPORTED)
What else did we do. We added descriptions to some zines that have had their 'description coming soon' for, oh, forever. We decided not to say 'description coming soon' for the new zines we've added without descriptions, because it is obviously a lie. We either do it straight away of we fuck about for half an eternity. There's no reason for this, and it should not be seen as a reflection on the individual zines, it is just the way we are. But believe us when we say that all the undescribed items in the catalogue will be fixed up shortly, as in, the next day or two. For Real!
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We will be doing a table at our friends' gig in a few months. They are called Black VAT Trio and are launching their EP at the Red Rattler on June 2nd. More details about that closer to the date. We're also tabling at the MCA zine fair this year, which is in May sometime. Again, more details soon.


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A MAJOR £40m investment is to fund the first phase of scheme to build more council housing across the county, in particular in rural and village areas.
Wiltshire Council's housing board has agreed plans to fund homes for elderly people on council-owned land in rural settlements, deliver extra care accommodation in market towns and invest funding in stalled sites where investment up front could incentivise developers to develop on sites more quickly.
Council leader Jane Scott said: "One of the main priorities for this council is to ensure we provide decent homes for local people. We are therefore looking at new ways to deliver both family homes and homes for older people."
Working with parish and town councils will be key to the plans, and Wiltshire Council will soon be meeting representatives to establish whether each community could benefit from homes for older people or young families. As well as creating new homes, the plans will also see the council continuing to invest in remodelling and refurbishing existing council homes and expanding the council's housing stock to ensure local people can continue to live in their communities.
More than £40m, largely from the Housing Revenue Account, which is money accrued from rents from existing council housing stock, will be used to fund the scheme over the next six years. Cllr Richard Clewer, portfolio holder for housing, said: "This is excellent news for Wiltshire as there is significant demand for affordable housing in Wiltshire.
"Our next step is to work with town and parish councils so we can establish what they need in terms of housing to make sure their communities continue to be vibrant and sustainable."


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Tourists can attend special two-hour iKapa performance workshops, experience a training class and meet the directors.
The pay-off line of the Cape Town-based iKapa Dance Theatre is 'Inspiration in motion'. Another equally apt slogan for this exceptional group of performers and motivators is 'Empowering people through dance.'
Founded in 2007 as a non-profit dance company, iKapa aims beyond excellence on the stage.
Founders Theo Ndidwa and Tanya Arshamian – both skilled dancers with international experience – use their chosen medium for positive social change in local communities.
iKapa is about contemporary dance. It's also about apprenticeship programmes, a youth dance theatre and training and outreach activities involving more than 300 children in the under-privileged Western Cape communities of Gugulethu, Khayelitsha, Philippi and New Crossroads. Students in the training and outreach programme learn dance, combined with arts and culture appreciation.
iKapa goes a step further with these students, exposing them to career fairs and opportunities and introducing them to an ongoing nutritional development programme.
At the core of iKapa, however, is a finely-honed professional dance theatre group. It draws from a bank of top-shelf freelance dancers for various productions – sometimes leading overseas performers are invited to join projects as well.
In the six years the company has been together, it has staged a number of shows and won many accolades.
The iKapa Dance Training and Outreach programme takes the form of thrice-weekly dance classes in various community centres based in Cape Town townships. iKapa provides a safe, healthy and creative space for the young students, the best of whom become eligible to join the Youth Dance Company as apprentices.
Other classes include life skills, including insights into substance abuse. The whole programme has been designed to enhance the students' skills, co-operative abilities and self-confidence.
The next step, the Youth Dance Theatre, involves selected students aged between 11 and 21 and is crucial in skills transfer. It is here that young dancers learn the various styles like ballet, contemporary and African dance.
The innovations at iKapa don't stop here. There are additional training programmes, in-house performance sessions and an iKapa Dance Arts Festival where the members' work is showcased.
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India does not get a lot of love compared with other Bric countries – particularly China and Brazil. As far as many western investors are concerned, it can be a protectionist, bureaucratic market with plenty of political risk.
That was certainly the mood at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles on a panel of private equity investors. David Bonderman, a founding partner of TPG Capital, put it most forthrightly:
"We stay away from places that have impossible governments and impossible tax regimes, which means Sayonara to India."


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S.A. Zoo's white rhino Gertrude dies of kidney failure
Updated 12:27 am, Thursday, December 27, 2012
Gertrude, one of the 11 oldest white rhinos in captivity worldwide and the fifth-oldest in America, died Monday of chronic kidney failure due to old age, the San Antonio Zoo announced Wednesday.
She was 46 years old, according to the zoo, which said the median life expectancy for southern white rhinos is 34.2 years.
The beloved white rhinoceros came to the San Antonio Zoo in 1970 from Germany after she had been captured in South Africa, according to a previous Associated Press story.
"Gertrude was a huge part of the zoo's conservation and education programs," the zoo said. "The zookeepers and staff who cared for Gertrude adored and loved her. She will be missed."
Gertrude was joined on her trip to San Antonio by a male white rhinoceros named Fred.
The two gained nationwide attention with the birth of a male in August 1972, the first white rhino to be born in captivity, according to previously published stories.
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The zoo director at the time wrote of the birth for the 1973 Regional American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums conference.
"The little make was estimated to weigh between 70 to 80 pounds at birth and although quite wobbly was able to get around very well and follow his mother, never leaving her side," Louis R. DiSabato wrote.
There are currently 168 white rhinos in captivity in North America and 706 in zoos worldwide, the zoo said.
Fred, Gertrude's mate, was on loan to the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville when he died in an accident, a San Antonio Zoo spokeswoman said.
He died in September 2001 during a fight with another male white rhino when a Gladys Porter zookeeper accidentally put both the males and a female in the same pen, according to a Houston Chronicle story.


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HOUSTON - The FBI is searching for a woman who dressed up like a man when she tried to rob a bank inside a southwest Houston grocery store.
Detectives said the woman walked up to a teller at the Wells Fargo Bank inside the Randalls store on Memorial near Dairy Ashford about 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday and handed over a note demanding cash.
The teller didn't hand over any money, so the woman left empty-handed, investigators said. She didn't display a weapon, officials said.
The woman was described as 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall and 220 to 250 pounds. She was last seen wearing Dickies-type pants, a black shirt, black military-type boots, plastic-framed sunglasses and a Houston Astros baseball cap. She carried a large men's wallet.
The woman left the store in a green SUV.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
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