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Water and Woods Field Service Council
|Water and Woods Field Service Council
|Boy Scouts of America
|Flint, Michigan
|United States
|August 14, 2012
|Rich Wells
|Council Commissioner
|Michael Weber
|Scout Executive
|Paul Schwartz
Water and Woods Field Service Council is a field service council of the Michigan Crossroads Council that serves youth in the central and northeastern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The Council is headquartered in Flint, Michigan with service centers located in Auburn, Lansing, and Port Huron. The Water and Woods Field Service Council is the result of a merger in 2012 of Lake Huron Area Council, Blue Water Council, Tall Pine Council and Chief Okemos Council.
- 1 Organization
- 2 Properties
- 3 Legacy Councils
- 4 Agaming Maangogwan Lodge
- 5 See also
- 6 Notes
The Organization of the Boy Scouts of America councils in Area 2 of the Central Region is unique to Michigan. The Michigan Crossroads Council (MCC) was created by the merger of nine councils in the lower peninsula of Michigan. It is a coordinating council that oversees properties, personnel, and program. MCC is then split into four field service councils which handle the day-to-day aspects of Scouting and have their own professional staff serving local units.[1]
The Water and Woods Field Service Council is composed of the former Blue Water, Lake Huron Area, Tall Pine, and Chief Okemos Councils.
Water and Woods is further divided into nine districts to better serve the Scouting units in the local community.[2]
- Ojibway District serving youth in Saginaw County, Michigan as well as the communities of Reese and Vassar in Tuscola county.
- Thumb District serving youth in Huron and most of Tuscola County.
- Heartland District serving youth in Midland, Gladwin, Clare, Isabella and Gratiot Counties.
- Thunderhead District serving youth in Alcona, Alpena, Iosco, Montmorency, Oscoda, Presque Isle, Roscommon, and Crawford counties.
- Shoreline District serving youth in Bay, Ogemaw, and Arenac counties.
- Blue Star District serving youth in Lapeer County, and serving youth in Davison, Lakeville, Beecher, Bentley, Clio, Flint, Flushing, Genesee, Kearsley, Mount Morris, and Westwood Heights School Districts.
- Rivers North District serving youth in the Atherton, Bendle, Carman-Ainsworth, Fenton, Goodrich, Grand Blanc, Lake Fenton, Linden, Montrose & Swartz Creek School Districts and Shiawassee County, Michigan
- Blue Water District serving youth in St. Clair and Sanilac County, Michigan
- Chief Okemos District serving youth in Clinton, Eaton and Ingham County, Michigan and the Portland School District in Ionia county.
All properties in the Michigan Crossroads Council are operated by the council-wide Outdoor Adventures Committee, not by the local Field Service Council.[3] However, each of the four Field Service Councils continue to hold events at their traditional camps from their legacy councils. Each year, the Outdoor Adventures Committee assesses the council property and determines which camps will be open for resident summer camps, weekend camping, or closed for the season. Transition Properties Committee Report
Silver Trails Scout Reservation[edit]
Silver Trails Scout Reservation[4] Silver Trails is a 300-acre camp near Jeddo, Michigan, on the St. Clair-Sanilac County line. It is 28 miles North West of Port Huron, 78 miles North East of Detroit, 68 miles East of Flint and 88 Miles South East of the Tri-Cities; just a short 20 minute drive from a major shopping area. Silver Creek winds through the Scout camp, emptying into the Black River on the east end of camp. There are five cabins, three Adirondacks (3-sided shelters), and fourteen campsites. The camp's Dining and Meeting Hall, known as the Rotary Lodge, was a gift from area Rotary Clubs and was completed in 1948. The camp was dedicated on November 1, 1945. Over the years, numerous other buildings and facilities were added to the camp. These include a chapel, health lodge, Order of the Arrow Trading Post, Nature Center, and most recently, a new Training and Activities Building.
The camp is situated in the Black River basin, carved out by the Black River, Silver Creek, Fuseline Creek, and Wilson Creek. Silver Trails might be best known for its steep cliffs, scenic bluffs, and rolling landscape. Hemlock and Birch trees cover the camp, as well a Trilliums, endangered flowers that flourish in the woodlands. The camp's trademark is the "Number Nine Tree", a large Sugar Maple that once grew along Silver Creek. Its trunk was twisted in the form of a number nine. The tree has since been cut down, but remains on display at camp as a testament to Silver Trail's rich history.
Annual events at Silver Trails include Fall and Spring Camporees for Boy Scouts; "Mom-and-Me" and "Dad-and-Lad" for Cub Scouts, and Fall and Spring Conclaves for the Order of the Arrow. Silver Trails has been host to both the 2005 and 2011 Section C-2A Conclaves of the Order of the Arrow.
Paul Bunyan Scout Reservation[edit]
600 acres (2.4 km2) of wilderness camping bordering the Huron National Forest, with water activities on the AuSable River just north of Rose City on M-33. It features a variety of Scouting activities ranging from scoutcraft to waterfront activities. It also provides a C.I.T. program for scouts interested in being Staff. Purchased in 1959 it has served as a summer camp since 1963.
Paul Bunyan Scout Reservation is currently closed indefinitely as of 2013.
Camp Rotary[edit]
Owned by the Saginaw Rotary Foundation, and leased by the Boy Scouts, Camp Rotary offers 1,180 acres (5 km2) of year around camping just north of Clare, MI, on Old US-27. Camp Rotary has heated cabins, a full service dining hall and an outdoor education center that can be used as a classroom for Schools, Civic Groups, or Business. Camp Rotary was purchased in 1924 and has served as a summer camp since 1926. It was alternately known as Camp Ke-pay-sho-wink (Anishinabe for "a good place to camp")in its early days. It has been a primary scout camp for the Saginaw Council (1926-1929) the Saginaw Valley Council (1929-1934) the Valley Trails Council (1934-1961) the Saginaw Bay Area Council (1961-1971) the Lake Huron Area Council (1971-2012) and continues as a primary Boy Scout Camp for the Michigan Crossroads Council (2012–present). The current Camp Director is Andrew Wright. There has been a released book called Whenever Rotary Scouts Fall in Line that has been released, written by Rich Wasmer, Erv 'Waz' Hutter and Andrew Wright.
Camp Holaka[edit]
Camp Holaka offers many camping choices among its 340 acres (1.4 km2) of rolling woodlands and trails in Lapeer County. It also has many cabins and a couple lodges for indoor camping and many campsites for tent camping. During the summer, Camp Holaka is used primarily for Cub Scout camping with different day camps and weekend events.
Camp Holaka is closed as of 2014
Camp Tapico[edit]
Camp Tapico is located in the eastern region of Kalkaska County just north of M-72 between Grayling and Traverse City; the camp's closest town is of the same name, Kalkaska. Directly to the north of the camp is the larger sporting lake of Manistee and to the east is Bear Lake. Camp Grayling, a United States National Guard installation, is also located 20 miles (32 km) to the south east.[5]
The camp covers 1200 acres of mixed deciduous and coniferous forests. Camp Tapico has three bodies of water with the primary being the 120-acre (0.49 km2) Grass Lake. The other two are smaller, developing ponds set away from the general campers. Grass Lake however, features a robust ecosystem and is one of the main attractions to the property. The lake's deepest spot of 75 feet (23 m) allows for large walleye and bass while shallow sandbars, make for great fishing. Camp Tapico has 17 wilderness campsites, which Scout troops, Venturing crews and other groups can rent. During the winter, Camp Tapico hosts activities such as snowshoeing and winter camping in quinzhees.
The camp was established in 1946 and developed a thriving summer camp operation. Camp Tapico ran a traditional week-long summer camp program. It served Scout troops from Flint, MI and the surrounding suburbs, as well as out-of-council troops from Illinois and Missouri. Troops camped out and participated in staff-led activities such as the Water Carnival and flag ceremonies. Scouts also earned merit badges like Archery, Rifle Shooting, Canoeing, Climbing, and Wilderness Survival. Due to budgetary concerns, Camp Tapico's summer camp has been closed for the 2013 season. However, it is still open for weekend camping year-round.
Camp Kiwanis[edit]
Camp Kiwanisis located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Mason, Michigan on M-36 at Diamond Road. The camp contains 85 acres (340,000 m2), 55 acres (220,000 m2) of which are wooded. Camp Kiwanis is open year-round for camping, hiking, sledding and outdoor fun. Camp facilities can sleep 107 people indoors, or 300 outdoors. Camp Kiwanis was previously owned by the Lansing Kiwanis Club and used as a fresh air camp for tubercular children. It was donated June 8, 1939 to the Chief Okemos Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The camp was also used for several years by the Volunteers of America and the Salvation Army for children and their mothers.
Northwoods Scout Reservation[edit]
Northwoods Scout Reservation is located near West Branch in Ogemaw County, Michigan. The camp consists of 840 acres (3.4 km2) of northern hardwood forest, wetlands and Lake Arrowhead, a 90-acre (360,000 m2) private lake. 618 of the 840 is used as the main scout camp, the remaining 24 acres (0.1 km2) is a family camp; where families can stay when their kids are at camp. Part of Big Williams Lake is also on camp property. Facilities range from rustic campsites on the south side of the lake to the heated log cabin overlooking Lake Arrowhead. Chief Okemos Council purchased Northwoods Scout Reservation in 1962. It was formerly the Kenyon Ranch, with the only structure on the property a horse barn, which is now a garage at the ranger's house. The roads, campsites, cabins for staff and family camp, Log Cabin, Meijer Lodge, Administration Building, Memorial Building and program structures were added over the years. The camp has two unofficial Mascots; one is a loon, the other is a very large snapping turtle nicknamed Bowser. Once every four years, contingents of Scouts, both all-boys and mixed boys and girls, from over 20 countries all around the world, gather at Northwoods for 8 days of international friendship and fellowship at the Chief Okemos Council's Michigan International Camporee, the largest council-run multinational Scouting event in North America.
Camp Weidman[edit]
Camp Weidman was owned by Lake Huron Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America and is intended for District or Council events and Unit (Pack, Troop or Crew) activities of the Boy Scouts of America. Unit activities must be approved by the Unit Committee and meet the requirements of Lake Huron Area Council and Boy Scouts of America.
Camp Weidman is located four miles (6 km) west of Mt. Pleasant just off M-20. From M-20, turn south on Vandecar Road. Go approximately ½ mile to the Chippewa River. The entrance to Camp Weidman is about 80 yards (73 m) south of the bridge on the west (right hand) side hand of the road and is marked by a sign. Camp Weidman is a square 40-acre (160,000 m2) parcel with the Chippewa River winding through it. Deerfield County Park adjoins Camp Weidman on the north and west borders.
Legacy Councils[edit]
Blue Water Council[edit]
The former Blue Water Council No. 277 was based out of Port Huron, Michigan. The Council was Established in 1919 to serve scouts in the Port Huron Area, and was officially granted permission in 1928 to serve scouts in the St. Clair and Sanilac County area. Blue Water Council was the smallest council in the State of Michigan, and was one of, if not the smallest in the nation. Yet, the small council was considered the most stable in Michigan, both membership and fiscally. [6] The original council camp was located along North River Road in Clyde Township, Michigan. The Council also operated Camp Loyalty for a short time in the 1930s, which was located south of Lexington, Michigan. In 1942, the family of Crowswell Businessman Philip Graham donated property along the Black River in Sanilac County to Blue Water Council. The property was known "Camp Chickagami", named after the Council's Order of the Arrow lodge that was established just one year earlier. Camp Chickagami was located 2 miles north of Croswell, Michigan, and is now a county park by the name of "P.L. Graham Memorial Park". In 1948, the council's camp moved downriver to the current Silver Trails Scout Reservation in Jeddo, Michigan.
Historically, the Blue Water Council was divided into two districts at the time of its merger. The Black River Basin District served units numbered in the 100s and 300s in the City of Port Huron, Northern St. Clair, and all of Sanilac County. The Three Rivers District served units numbered in the 200s which included downriver communities in Souther St. Clair County.
Lake Huron Area Council[edit]
The former Lake Huron Area Council No. 265 was created in 1971 with the merger of Saginaw Bay Area Council (headquartered in Saginaw, Michigan) and Paul Bunyan Council (headquartered in Midland, Michigan) and parts of Scenic Trails Council (headquartered in Traverse City, Michigan). Its headquarters city was Auburn, Michigan and comprised 19 counties located in Northeastern Michigan. Major cities include: Bay City, Saginaw, Midland, Mt. Pleasant, Clare, Harrison, Gladwin, Standish, Caro, Alpena, Oscoda, Grayling, Houghton Lake, Alma, Ithaca, West Branch and Rose City, as well as many other smaller towns.
Historically the first Scout council serving this area was formed in 1917 in Bay City. Soon after other councils were formed in Saginaw (1919) and Midland (1920). In 1927 Bay City and Midland merged into an "area" council named Summer Trails Council. The following year Saginaw formed the Valley Trails Council. Summer Trails initially served communities from Bay City into the Thumb and northward on the east and central parts of the state up to the Straits of Mackinaw. Valley Trails included Saginaw, Gratiot, Isabella, Clare and part of Tuscola counties. In 1951 Midland, Arenac, Roscommon and Gladwin Counties divided off to form Paul Bunyan Council, while the counties north of that joined the Scenic Trails Council out of Traverse City. In 1961 Summer Trails and Valley Trails merged to form Saginaw Bay Area Council.
The council was initially organized into nine districts: Shoreline, Arrowhead, White Pine, Pioneer Trails, Thumb, Tomahawk, Chippewa, Au Sable, and Thunderhead. At the time of the merger it had downsized to six districts, including: Tall Pine, Chippewa, Ojibway, Shoreline, Thumb, and Thunderhead Districts.
Tall Pine Council[edit]
The former Tall Pine Council No. 264 is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America which serves counties of Lapeer, Genesee, and Shiawassee in the Flint/Tri-Cities area of Michigan. Over 18,000 youth each year experience the Scouting aims of character development, citizenship, training and personal fitness in Tall Pine Council activities.
There were four districts in the council, including: North Star District, Blue Heron District, New Horizons District, and Shiawassee District.
Chief Okemos Council[edit]
The former Chief Okemos Council No. 271 served scouts in the Mid-Michigan area, and was based out of Lansing, Michigan. The council was divided into three districts. The Mawanjidiwin District served the greater Eaton County area. The Migisins District served the northern portion of the Lansing Public School District and much of Clinton County. The Ojibwas District served the southern portion of the Lansing Public School District and the greater Ingham County area.
Agaming Maangogwan Lodge[edit]
The Order of the Arrow is a youth-lead honor society of Scouts who provide service to their local camps and communities. In the Water and Woods Field Service Council, Agaming Maangogwan Lodge 804 has been chartered to serve the needs of the new field service council. Agaming Maangogwan translates in Ojibwe to "Loon Feather on the Shore". The lodge is split into nine chapters, one per district.
Agaming Maangogwan Lodge will be the host for the 2015 National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC) at Michigan State University. NOAC is the second largest gathering of scouts in the nation, and will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the order in 2015.
The current lodge 804 covers the same geography as the former lodges of Chickagami 180, Mischigonong 89, Cuwe 218, and Gabe-Shi-Win-Gi-Ji-Kens 374. Agaming Maangogwan Lodge is a member of Central Region Section 2 of the Order of the Arrow.
Legacy lodges[edit]
Chickagami Lodge[edit]
Chickagami Lodge No. 180 of the Order of the Arrow served the Blue Water Council since 1941. The Lodge had no chapters and hosted bi-annual conclaves at Silver Trails Scout Reservation. The lodge's totem was the Standing Brave, and a Chicken was the "unofficial mascot" of Chickagami Lodge. Total membership was 168 members. Chickagami Lodge was the second smallest lodge in the nation, and operated a trading post located at Silver Trails Scout Reservation. Chickagami Lodge earned Quality Lodge in 2007, 2008, and 2010.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Chickagami ceremonial dance team competed across the nation for Order of the Arrow competitions.[7]
Chickagami was a member of Central Region Section 2A of the Order of the Arrow.
Mischigonong Lodge[edit]
Mischigonong Lodge No. 89 was the local Order of the Arrow Lodge serving the former Lake Huron Area Council. It was formed in 1971 as a result of a merger of 89-Kepayshowink (1936-1971), 469-Tittabawasink (1951-1971), 214-Gimogash (aka Tom Tom) 1942-1961 and parts of 152-Indian Drum Lodges. The totem was the canoe.The lodge hosted the 1986 National Order of the Arrow Conference in Mount Pleasant, Michigan at Central Michigan University. It was a member of Central Region Section 2B of the Order of the Arrow.
Cuwe Lodge[edit]
Cuwe Lodge No. 218 was the local Order of the Arrow Lodge serving the former Tall Pine Council. Cuwe is the Lenape word for "pine tree." This Order of the Arrow lodge was divided into four chapters, each correlating to their respective districts in Tall Pine Council. These chapters include Chippewa (North Star), Bidaban (New Horizons), Muscadawin (Blue Heron), and Wassa (Shiawassee). The lodge was a member of Central Region Section 2A. It held a spring and fall conclave each year to induct new members.
Gabe-Shi-Win-Gi-Ji-Kens Lodge[edit]
Gabe-Shi-Win-Gi-Ji-Kens Lodge No. 374 served the former Chief Okemos Council of central Michigan. The lodge was chartered in 1948, and had 301 members in 2004. Gabe-Shi-Win-Gi-Ji-Kens means "Camp on the Little Cedar", and the lodge totem is the cedar tree.
In 2003 Gabe-Shi-Win-Gi-Ji-Kens won its first National Service Award for the OA Chapel project, in 2005 Gabe-Shi-Win-Gi-Ji-Kens won its second National Service Award for the OA Adirondack Village project, and again in 2008 Gabe-Shi-Win-Gi-Ji-Kens won its third National Service Award for its Campfire Bowl Bowl project.[8]
Gabe-Shi-Win-Gi-Ji-Kens was the host lodge of the 2006 and 2012 National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC) held at Michigan State University and has won the NOAC Spirit Award 3 times, and the National Service award twice. It was also the home lodge of the 2008 national vice chief Ben Stilwill. Gabe has a strong record of achieving the Quality Lodge distinction.
See also[edit]
- Boy Scouts of America
- Central Region (Boy Scouts of America)
- Michigan Crossroads Council
- Order of the Arrow
- Mid-Michigan
- Northern Michigan
- Scouting in Michigan
- ^ http://www.michiganscouting.org/WaterAndWoods/About/
- ^ http://www.michiganscouting.org/districts
- ^ http://www.michiganscouting.org/camping
- ^ http://www.michiganscouting.org/Camping/SilverTrailsScoutReservation/
- ^ http://www.michiganscouting.org/Camping/CampTapico/
- ^ http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20110814/OPINION02/108140319&theme=CONNELL/Mike-Connell-Scouting-wrapping-up-first-century
- ^ https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thetimesherald/access/2088329081.html?FMT=ABS&date=Jul+22%2C+2010
- ^ http://www.oa-bsa.org/pages/content/national-service-award


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Riddle me this… am I the only one that still enjoys opening the mail box and seeing a "hard copy" of one of their favorite magazines lying there just waiting to be read?
Probably *sigh*… Oh internets.
Anywho, just this past Wednesday this very event occurred at my very own mailbox and I couldn't wait to crack open the latest issue of Food & Wine, one of my favorite magazines ever (go figure) 😉
Sorry internets, but you will never replace this.
During a quick breeze through, which I always do first before going back and digging into the detail, a recipe for Yucatán-Spiced Chicken stopped me dead in my tracks.
I think we all know my love affair with simple Mexican flavors. And this one was seriously drool-worthy even upon first read.
The end result ended up much the same, which didn't surprise me in the least considering these ingredients rock 🙂
The recipe I ended up pulling together was inspired by the Food & Wine original, but didn't include the roasted veggies and also had a few swaps in the chicken marinade.
Yucatán-Spiced Chicken inspired by Food & Wine Magazine
Serves 3
- juice of two oranges
- juice of two limes
- few grates of orange zest and lime zest
- 1 tblsp chili powder
- 1/2 tblsp dried oregano
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1/2 tblsp sugar
- 2 tblsp olive oil
- sea salt & black pepper
- 3 chicken breasts
The marinade came together with a few squeezes of orange and lime, plus a quick zest of their rinds.
Followed by the addition of spicy chili powder, savory oregano and fresh garlic.
Using an immersion blender, I whipped up the mixture with a few pulses. Then the olive oil was added and whipped again, emulsifying and becoming almost creamy.
Sugar, sea salt and black pepper were last before drenching three chicken breasts in the marinade and letting them rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Then into the oven at 350F for 15 minutes, a flip, another 10 minutes… and they're done!
The smells in your kitchen will be incredibleeeeeeeeeeee.
This marinade definitely sent me to a happy tropical place 😉
Alongside this trip south of the border, I mixed up a quick pasta salad using orecchiette, Lil' Sis's all time favoriteeeeee pasta.
I've never heard someone profess their love for a specific type of pasta more in my life haha 😛
You think I'm kidding.
Green peppers, tomatoes, corn, jalapeno, onion, green onion.
Orecchiette, chili powder, cumin, olive oil, sea salt and black pepper.
All mixed up…
You don't know what to do…
311 anyone? Guess I'm showing my age here…
I served my south-of-the-border orecchiette salad alongside the yucatan-spiced chicken breasts.
Lil' Sis made a big salad out of hers, lettuce topped with orecchiette salad and chicken slices, dressed with extra marinade.
I see a leftover lunch idea in my future… 🙂
I decided to give everything a mix-up while diggin' in too, so the chicken marinade also coated the pasta salad.
Because I'm saucy like that…?
And whether mixed-up or not, this meal seriously rocked my socks off! Food & Wine never lets me down… *sigh*
Discussions during the meal included how we loved the tangy orange flavor that really stood out in the chicken marinade, how the chicken stayed perfectly juicy, and how the pasta salad was so fresh & delicious especially when mixed with the extra marinade coating the chicken!
Plus I really do love the way a homemade marinade tastes, you can really distinguish each of the flavors, which aren't masked by added sugars and other random ingredients.
This one is definitely worth a try! I'm already thinking it would be wonderful draped over a piece of hearty white fish as well…
Perhaps I'll get my chance to try that this week… since we are headed to the Outer Banks for a beach vacation!!!!!!! So ready for it 🙂
Same spot as last year, remember this lil' trip?!
Clearly I have my priorities straight.
And lucky enough for
me Lucy, one of my best friends Allison will be staying at the Casa de Fanatic and dogsitting for me majority of the week!
I think Lucy Dog and Riley (her dog) are going to have a very fun week together. And hopefully Allison doesn't have her hands too full with this diva dog of mine 😛
I think I owe her a meal of Yucatan-Spiced chicken w/ South-of-the-Border Orecchiette Salad… right? 😉
We have lots of fun beach recipes planned and hopefully some silly adventures, so stay tuned friends!
See ya from the beach!!!

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>Technical Support>different distance from garmin .gpx file import vs. garmin connect
I"m new to running ahead. My garmin 310 xt automatically sends it's data to garmin connect. from there I export the .gpx file to running ahead. It seems like the data is always off both in time and distance. Wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem and if there is a fix? Right now I am manually entering mile split times to get the numbers to match up. It would be nice to not have to do this each time. Thanks!
Not dead. Yet.
I tried using the .gpx file format a few times and noticed some oddities so I never used it again. I would either 1) try importing as a .fit file. It seems like I couldn't find an option for that, but maybe I missed something or 2) just import from your 310 into both apps. After you import the data into garminconnect, then go to runningahead -> Training Log -> Tools -> Import training data... -> Upload from GPS. That will allow you to do an import of just the new stuff exactly like the garmin connect upload page works.
How can we know our limits if we don't test them?
Options,Account, Forums
Import From File includes "Garmin FIT (fit)" nowadays.
It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
Anjali A,
Without seeing the data, I won't know what the problem is, assuming there is a problem. There are several causes to the disparity, including Garmin did not properly export the data. I have not seen any problems with the way RA is processing the data.
That said, instead of manually exporting the data from Garmin, why don't you import your data to RA directly from your GPS? It's quicker and less work on your part.
Hey Guys,
Thanks for the responses. I did try to do a direct download from my 310xt into running ahead, but the garmin communicator plugin doesn't seem to work properly for chrome. What I mean is that RA doesn't recognize that the plugin is installed even though when I click on communicator, it can locate my garmin as connected and identifies it properly.
As for the Garmin fit file, I did not see that as a format option for exporting data from garmin connect. I just get an option for tcx and gpx files along with google earth.
I will try to redownload communicator at some point and work out that issue. The problem is that my ANT+ stick is attached to my desktop computer which I rarely use. Again , not a big issue. I can keep editing the data each time. Thanks again!
The 310xt creates local fit files on your computer in the process of uploading the data to garminconnect, doesn't it?
That is, doesn't all the data come from your watch onto your computer, before it goes to garminconnect?
So if you import from the data on your computer, that would avoid having to pull the data back down from garminconnect, I would think.
Oh, ok, that makes sense. I don't check the raw data files, I just log into garmin connect after I get the alert that the data from my watch has been transferred. I did find that the distances and the splits are correct when I download the tcx file so I have been doing that instead of the .gpx file. Thanks again!


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Tampa's unorthodox but successful fire and police pension fund draws more national attention
Of all the things Tampa city government does, nothing quite attracts high-profile notice from the national business press like the fire and police pension fund.
The latest clip on the $1.76 billion pension fund comes from the New York Times. An article on the front of the Times' business section Saturday asked, "Are the trustees of the Tampa firefighters and police officers pension fund out of their minds?"
On one hand, there's the fund's unorthodox approach. Just one outside money manager — not the teams of investment professionals and consultants that other many funds use — makes the key decisions about what to buy and sell. That manager, Harold "Jay" Bowen III, president of Bowen, Hanes & Co., in Atlanta, stays away from hedge funds, private equity and speculative bonds, as well as index and mutual funds. Instead, the Tampa fund puts its money largely in stocks, and not a large number of them, and fixed-income investments. This approach, the Times said, "pretty much breaks all the conventional rules of fund management."
On the other hand, the Times noted, there are the results: Start at the end of Tampa's 2013 fiscal year and go back 20 years, and the fire and police pension fund's annualized returns have averaged nearly 9.9 percent. That's good enough for a ranking in the top 1 percent of public pension funds with more than $1 billion in assets. Since 1974, when Bowen's father started investing for the Tampa fund, the annualized average tops 12 percent. Those returns make possible uncommonly good pension benefits for the fund's 3,300-plus beneficiaries. Moreover, the newspaper noted, Bowen's fees are relatively low, especially compared to big pension funds that use crowds of money managers.
Bowen told Times business reporter James B. Stewart that his approach is to invest in "blue chip companies of the future," to buy stocks that the market appears to have undervalued, and then to hold them for the long term. About two-thirds of the fund's portfolio is invested in a total of about 70 to 80 stocks, among them multi-national, "consumer-oriented companies like Unilever and Nestle," according to the Times. The rest is in fixed-income investments.
"It's pretty much what Warren Buffett does," Bowen told the Times. "He's not diversified, either."
That's not the first time that Buffett's name has come up in connection with the Tampa fund. A year ago, the Wall Street Journal headlined its own story about the fund, "Oracle of Tampa Is a Rare Breed," a reference to Buffett's nickname as "the Oracle of Omaha."
There are skeptics:
• In 2009, City Council member Mary Mulhern called for more oversight of the fund after an unusually bad year in the stock market.
• Early last year, a blogger at Forbes.com said there were enough "red flags" at the fund that an independent forensic review should be launched to ensure that it is sound.
• In November, a report from the Pew Charitable Trusts' American cities project flagged combined numbers from Tampa's fire and police pension fund and general employees pension fund as a potential fiscal challenge.
• And the New York Times' article quoted Michael Schlacter, a managing director at Wilshire Associates, an investment consulting and services firm with offices on four continents, as saying, "to assume that one firm is the best in every asset category, especially a small firm that no one around here has ever heard of, is extremely risky. What if a bus hits the senior person?"
But the vice chairman of the fund's board of trustees, police Detective Richard Griner, told the Tampa Bay Times after the Wall Street Journal story — and reaffirmed on Monday — that the fund's relationship with and trust in Bowen's firm is based on performance, and it's hard to argue with decades of success. At first, the trustees' intent was not to hire a single manager, said Griner, who investigates major crimes. But as the relationship developed over time, Bowen did such a good job that it became a single management.
"Now it's 40 years later, and they've done a phenomenal job producing numbers that nobody else can produce," he said.
Nor does Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn lose sleep over the fund's nonconformist approach. While City Hall is monitoring pension costs as it puts together next year's budget, Buckhorn said he is "very, very comfortable with the way that pension is set up." He notes that it outperforms the city's general employees pension fund, which has a range of money managers, all of whom are paid a commission.
"How can they argue with the results?" Buckhorn said of the fire and police pension fund last year. (His spokeswoman confirmed Monday that the mayor has not changed his mind.)
"Ultimately, that's what it gets down to," Buckhorn said. "We've had a council member or two and get ginned up and try to intervene in that (fire and police) pension, but the results speak for themselves. I wish I had my money invested with him. You can't argue with it. Sure, it's unconventional, but if it's working, why mess with it? And clearly, it's working. That pension is the model for pensions around the country."


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During a chat with the audience in her L.A. concert, the 'Diamonds' singer talks about love adding fuel to report of her splitting with Breezy.
Rihanna rocked Los Angeles' Staples Center on Monday, April 8, a few hours after rumors about her split with Chris Brown began swirling online. She added fuel to the rumors because in the middle of her gig, she brought up a talk about heartbreak, implying that the split seriously hurt her.
"How many of you are in love? How many of you hate love? How many of you don't f**king understand it? I'm in that group, the confused group," she said to the audience before she went on singing "What Now", a song from her most recent album, which begins with the lyrics, "I've been ignoring this big lump in my throat/ I shouldn't be crying, tears were for the weaker days/ I'm stronger, now what, so I say/ But something's missing."
Other than that, Rihanna was all smiles during the show. She even encouraged the crowd to get more rowdy. "Los Angeles, what the f**k?" she said at one point. "I live here now, so I know y'all can get ratchet."
Stars like Christina Aguilera, Ellen Pompeo, Chloe Moretz, Kendall Jenner and Kirsten Dunst were seen attending the concert. However, the existence of Brown in the middle of VIP section of course drew more attention.
A fan who saw him there tweeted, "Rihanna concert was bomb saw Chris Brown literally was a inch away & fell in love with life all over again. He left maybe like 3 songs before it was over, probably to beat traffic & a big crowd of fans."
Rihanna and Brown were reportedly split after rekindling their romance a few months ago. It was said that Brown cheated on her as he was spotted holding the hand of Keisha Kimball, 22, a waitress at L.A.'s Playhouse nightclub on Saturday. Kimball later denied that she dated the "Don't Wake Me Up" singer.


text: MEDNAX, Inc., (NYSE: MD) today announced the acquisitions of Anesthesiologists Associated, P.C., a private physician group practice that provides anesthesia services in the Chattanooga, Tenn. metropolitan area, and Pediatric Surgical and Associates, a pediatric surgery physician group practice serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and surrounding North Texas area. The due diligence process for these two acquisitions was ongoing over the last several months, resulting in both acquisitions being closed and effective as of December 31, 2012. Anesthesiologists Associated consists of 34 anesthesiologists, 100 anesthetists and 24 other clinical and administrative staff, providing anesthesia care at four hospitals and two surgery centers. The practice, which is one of the longest standing physician group practices in Tennessee, offers anesthesia services across a wide spectrum of subspecialty areas, including orthopedic, cardiac, and oncology. "Faced with an uncertain healthcare environment, we were looking to partner with an established national medical group with a long track record of successful practice management," said Chris Yetter, M.D., who will serve as medical director of the practice. "The resources American Anesthesiology will provide, such as research and education, clinical support, and administrative infrastructure, will allow us to provide the highest quality care to our patients moving forward." The physicians joining as a result of this transaction will now be part of MEDNAX's American Anesthesiology division, which consists of more than 1,475 anesthesia providers, including more than 600 physicians and 875 anesthetists practicing in North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, with administrative offices in Sunrise, Fla. and Raleigh, N.C. The acquisition of Plano-based Pediatric Surgical and Associates brings six pediatric surgeons and 15 other clinical and administrative staff who provide pediatric general and thoracic surgical care of infants, children, and adolescents, to MEDNAX's Pediatrix Medical Group division. This is the second pediatric surgery group to join the division.


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Being a cynic gives one low expectations when looking at
the machinations of our politicians. Unfortunately it doesnt
make it any less infuriating when they behave in a cowardly,
self-serving way. It just takes away the element of surprise.
You certainly didnt have to be clairvoyant to see it coming.
In a classic display of pants-pooping fear our Democratic
politicians have all but agreed to load the bombs onto the
Baghdad bound planes. You got the feeling that some of them
might incur a serious injury elbowing one another out of the
way to vote for Bushs blank check resolution. Back in August
they were asking for a debate. By September all they could
say was Bombs away, Captain.
Terrified of being called unpatriotic our guys tried briefly
to put the vote off until after the election and then when
Bush and Cheney huffed and puffed a little on TV our honorables
immediately folded their tents and promised a quick yes vote
to anything the administration was willing to send up. Obviously
impressed with the sudden display of bipartisanship Republicans
from Bush to uber-harpy Ann Coulter proceeded to call the
Democrats unpatriotic anyway. I guess they werent caving
quite fast enough.
I recognize that you have to compromise in politics. The
rigid, iron-willed ideologue almost always loses and the causes
he espouses suffer as a result. But there are rare times when
you have to fight for a principle and it seems to me that
when your country is about to become a outlaw nation and wage
an unjustified, unprovoked war on another country its time
to stand for what youre supposed to believe in. Compromise
on snail darters and marginal tax rates but this is a life
and death issue. Since Vietnam the Democratic Party has professed
to be against wars that werent defensive in nature. In 1991
the overwhelming majority of Democrats voted against the Gulf
War. In 1992 they held the Congress and captured the Presidency.
The political consequences of standing on principle were minimal
then. The party that produced Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy
and George McGovern in the war ravaged year of 1968 simply
cut and ran this time. Why?
Would it have been too much to ask for the Democrats, if
they couldnt find it in themselves to oppose the war, to
try to tie the force resolution to a UN authorization. After
all, if you absolutely have to live and die with polls the
polls are saying that the people overwhelmingly opposed going
to war without allies. And couldnt somebody at least raise
the issue of the cost of the war. Couldnt the ominous report
that the administration is proposing Draconian cutbacks in
Medicare payments have spurred the Democrats to at least suggest
that the war be paid for by canceling the more obscene portions
of the tax cut that they so spinelessly rolled over for last
year. The party has (or at least had) a forty year commitment
to the health and welfare of the elderly and now the creeps
in this administration are going to pay for their reprehensible
war by putting the squeeze on them. And obviously our side
is just going to let them do it.
Of course there are some Democrats who are opposing Bushs
war. Al Gore and Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd among others
have been willing to suffer the slings and arrows but without
the leadership of the party behind them they were just weak
voices of sanity amid gathering hysteria. And we must remember
that Gore has no seat to lose and Kennedy and Byrd are in
no danger of ever losing theirs. Of course, in the end, 126
Democratic Representatives and 21 Senators had the courage
to vote against the resolution. But to have squeezed at least
some concessions from Bush would have required a concerted
effort on the part of the party leadership and it simply
wasnt there.
Its tempting to look at this as a month-long commercial
for the Green Party. But that would be a useless exercise
in self-immolation. It would impress no one and have no effect
on the current political dynamic. And it would just make things
The Green party is a political nonentity. Have any of your
friends who arent political junkies ever even heard of the
Green party? Its easy to be an absolutist when you have no
chance of winning and no intention of trying to win. The Greens
can pursue ideological purity precisely because they dont
and cant win. And dont delude yourself that, if by some
chance they ever started to win some offices, that they wouldnt
shrink into the same self-preservation mode that we saw from
the Democrats on Iraq.
As a third party voter you cant be a real player in the
political process but you can be a spoiler. Had the Greens
not been on the ballot in Florida (or New Hampshire for that
matter) Gore would be in the White House and the little functional
illiterate would be back in Texas on his treadmill rubber-stamping
an occasional death warrant that appeared in front of him.
So as maddening as it was to see our supposed leaders have
to run home for new underwear when Bush and Cheney demanded
their war-making blank check we have no choice to but vote
and work for Democratic candidates in the election on November
5. We can be a voice from within the party but outside of
it we have no voice at all and the people we love to hate
will get an all-encompassing blank check.


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WEPL Bristol & Somerset Division
Wembdon 260-9 beat Frenchay 93 by 167 runs
BRENDAN Pope returned impressive figures of 6-49 to fire Wembdon to a much needed victory over previously unbeaten Frenchay on Saturday.
Pope ripped through the middle order, ably supported by Dan Bingham (1-24) and Ian Blackwell (2-11) to seal an emphatic victory - after Rich Gower (53) and Blackwell (34) had propelled them to an imposing 260-9 batting first.
Winning the toss Wembdon elected to bat first and Gower and Puddy got them off to a blistering start, bringing up the teams 50 in the ninth over. Puddy (21) was the first to go to a good catch, but Gower continued the positive display, supported by the steady Curd (20) who ensured there wouldn't be collapse like in previous weeks.
Gower eventually went bowled, but Brockwell (30) shared a 50 partnership with Curd seeing Wembdon to 140 off 30 overs.
Ian Blackwell (34) looked in fine touch scoring at more than a run a ball and Trunks played with his aggressive, care free style for a quick fire 15.
With ten overs left, Bingham (18) and Pope (22) shared a 40 run stand as Wembdon finished on a strong total.
In reply, Penn (37 off 21 including nine boundaries) and Donaldson (17) came at Wembdon hard. The pair shared a 40 partnership off first five overs but Wembdon dug in and chances came two good catches by Puddy and Gower off Pope saw both dismissed and the game changed significantly thereafter.
Pope soon got to work, reducing Frenchay from 41-0 to 73-6 – before Hubbard (1-8) and Blackwell got in on the act to dismiss Frenchay for just 93 inside 24 overs.
Wembdon first XI return home after two weeks on the road to play table topping undefeated Midsomer Norton - 1pm start.


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The explosion happened late on Thursday in the republic's capital, Makhachkala. A third man in the car was injured.
Dagestan lies next to volatile Chechnya in the North Caucasus and is the scene of frequent attacks by criminals or Islamist militants.
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Rosemary Peas 'N' Squash Recipe
The beauty of this recipe is that I can substitute any vegetables and still have a terrific side dish. I grow fresh rosemary and use it to season whatever garden bounty I harvest. Since zucchini is abundant almost every year, this recipe puts that to good use.—Emily R Chaney, Blue Hill, Maine
- 1 medium yellow summer or pattypan squash
- 1 medium zucchini
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/4 pound fresh or frozen sugar snap peas
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh rosemary or 1 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1. Cut squash into 1-in. chunks. In a large skillet, melt butter. Saute squash, peas and rosemary for 5 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Yield: 4 servings.
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1/2 cup: 55 calories, 3g fat (2g saturated fat), 8mg cholesterol, 33mg sodium, 6g carbohydrate (3g sugars, 2g fiber), 2g protein.
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Pedestrian Signals - A Sign of the Times In a simpler time, there was considerably less traffic and pedestrians could take their cues from the same traffic light as motorists. Things are more complicated these days, so it shouldn't be surprising that we get a number of questions about pedestrian signals.
Pedestrian signals are installed for two main reasons:
Shouldn't pedestrian signals be available at every intersection? Won't that be safer? - If existing traffic signals meet the needs of people on foot, the signals are easy to see and provide plenty of time to cross safely so there is no need for pedestrian signals. Pedestrian signals won't improve safety in such cases, and are costly to purchase, install and operate.
Why does the signal switch to 'Don't Walk' before I get across the street? - Traffic flashing 'Don't Walk' or upraised hand is a warning to people who have not yet entered the crosswalk. At a normal walking speed, these folks won't have time to cross the intersection if they enter after the message changes. Signals are times to allow plenty of time for people who are already in the crosswalk to get safely across the street.
Is it really necessary for me to push a button to activate the pedestrian signal? Can't I just wait for the light to change? Where buttons are available to pedestrians, it's because the traffic signal is timed for cars, not for people on foot. If you don't activate the pedestrian signal, chances are the timing of the traffic light won't give you enough time to cross safely.
So, can I count on a safe crossing if I carefully follow the pedestrian signals? The signals assign your legal rights in the intersection but in any contest of right-of-way between pedestrians and vehicles, the pedestrian will likely lose. The following suggestions are offered in the interest of safety:


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Bon voyage... and bon appetit!
- By: Clayton Truscott
- Published: 19 January 2010
- Tags: gastronomy, travel
If you've ever walked around your kitchen talking into a spatula imitating Jamie or Nigella, a cooking course if for you! Cooking courses in authentic cuisine have become quite the tourist attraction in parts of the world. And if you're willing to be taught, they're willing to spoil you with gorgeous local flavours.
See our run down of some of the best cooking holidays around:
These guys offer you three different packages all consisting of a five night stay in beautiful Catalonia. Each package teaches you Spanish culinary skills from a different region through two cooking classes, lunch, dinner, a food visit and, of course, wine tasting. Prices start at £1,410 per person for double occupancy.
Now if you're an organic foodie, you'll enjoy this 7 day escape to the Italian countryside. Situated only a few miles out of Florence, you can experience four Italian cooking classes using authentic recipes with only the best organic ingredients. And the wine tasting? Well, it wouldn't be a visit to Italy without it. As well as beautiful surroundings and the opportunity to meet fellow food enthusiasts, this cooking holiday in Tuscany provides accommodation, various meals and walking tours for around £1242 per person.
Learn how to really do Indian cuisine with this three day or seven day cooking holiday in Goa. This Indian gastronomic getaway includes accommodation, tours to spice villages and dinners after your cooking lessons. Once you're done in the kitchen, Goa has sun, sand and beaches in abundance to round off the holiday experience. The three day trip is around £739 and the seven day trip will cost you around £1452 for two people.


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Analyst thinks Apple could sell 190 million iPhones in 2012
21 Comments
1. bossmt_2 (Posts: 457; Member since: 13 Oct 2009)
I would be 100% shocked if the iPhone sells more in Q1 than Q4.
Projections are highly optimistic but I would guess not unreasonable depending on what they get out of the iPhone 5 and what markets they expand into. As well as what markets they get banned from if any.
3. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Hey! You're not allowed to make a reasonable post when you're posting under a profile intended to make fun of me!
5. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
Really?? Is this you again taco, or do we have a new copycat idiot? seriously, get a life... and yes, im talking to the sniggly with the lower case "s".
13. Whateverman (Posts: 3284; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Hey, it has been really peaceful around here. Has Taco been banned again?
15. PhoneArena Team (Posts: 258; Member since: 27 Jun 2006)
Taco, has been banned for a while now.
He created a few new accounts - which is also against the forum rules - so they all got banned. As his all recent posts have been trolling, we will give him some time before we allow him to post again.
18. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
Did anyone ever check on the "Antifanboy" account. 95% chance of finding a taco there.
19. iamcc (Posts: 1319; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)
I haven't noticed him in a couple days I think they banned him.
7. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Yes, if you try hard enough, you may eventually fool some people. I installed the doggy door for you. I'm going to call you Lucy.
6. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
These numbers are as high as they go. Analyst predictions are a dime a million. Every day we hear this analyst says this and that and none of them agree. Will they have a good year? Yea, of course. Especially now that they have a new market in china. But they are priced so high for the average Chinese person, that its not going to be a huge increase in numbers. If you make 50 bux a month.. on the HIGH end of the scale (apple factory pay rates), then its going to take quite a long time to save up for an iphone.
if moto or sammy wins any of their banning suites against apple, thats going to put a big dent in those sales predictions as well. Too many factors to say anything other than " its going to be another good year more than likely".
But then again, Samsung is blowing their predictions out of the water too, so its still gonna be a tight race.
11. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Many Chinese people are still not in a necessarily advantageous economic position, Lucy. Remixfa was saying that working for an Apple manufacturing partner is high end income for an average Chinese Joe.
17. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
that was exactly what I was saying, thanks real Sniggs. :)
8. ILikeBubbles (Posts: 525; Member since: 17 Jan 2011)
lol feel loved?
-refer to first 4 comments >.>
9. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
original ipad for $99? Fat chance! $199 is the lowest I see that thing going, if its even still on shelves, solely to fend off the Kindle Fire, because most people wiuld rather have a 1st gen ipad than a Fire, I know I would even though it lacks a dual core processor and is an apple product, but unlike the fire its a GOOD product.
12. samda (Posts: 52; Member since: 28 Nov 2011)
lol, so much for analysts.
20. gallitoking (Posts: 4721; Member since: 17 May 2011)
well well well... those analyst know nothing.. my SpongBob crystal ball on the other hand doesnt lie.. and he stated. ( after 4 shakes)... that I needed to ask siri which I did.. and the iphone with its redesing this year.. blow out the 1 gen. quadcores phones.
21. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
lol, good thing that by the time the i5 launches, the 2nd gen quadcore devices will be launching.. huh? :)
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Today: Phoenix Public Market Spotlights Refugee Farmers for World Refugee Day
Phoenix Public Market will, in addition to its normal lineup, host refugee farmers, businesses, and artists from 4 to 8 p.m. today at its open-air market. Today is World Refugee Day, and this event is intended not only to highlight the difficulties faced by refugees but also celebrate the good that they bring into communities.
Beyond the produce, there will be a number of local refugee-owned restaurants offering samples and meals. Notably, this is an excellent opportunity to check out the Uzbek restaurant that New Times food critic Laura Hahnefeld generally found to her liking, Golden Valley . The event also will feature music and martial arts performances from as far afield as Bhutan, Turkmenistan, and Burundi. Don't worry, we had to look some of those up, too.
We spoke with the market's Dan Klocke on Monday and he says that Phoenix Public Market usually hosts two or three refugee farmers weekly, but this time, people can expect 20 to 25 additional vendors. He says that the market coordinates with the International Rescue Committee to help local refugee farmers sell their products. Klocke indicated he was excited to host so many vendors, because refugees "bring a lot to the table."
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The outbreak of national soul-searching - if one is actually going on beyond the sports commentary hype - about ''our'' apparent ''failures'' at the Olympic Games would be a good occasion to rephrase fundamental questions about sports policies, governments and money. The real question is not, as some think, about the right ''balance'' between funding public participatory sport and elite Olympic sporting performance, but whether any important public purpose is served by funding elite sport at all.
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As it happens, the groundwork for a rethink of public investment in sport has already been done - via the 2009 Crawford report. It was excellent. Commissioned by the Rudd government, it was torpedoed by leading rent seekers, not least the Olympic contingent of Kevan Gosper and John Coates. A weak sports minister and weaker Cabinet ran for cover, dealing with the problem by giving everyone more, mostly to the benefit of elite Olympic sports. At the time, we were told that this bribe was enough to achieve everything ''we'' wanted in London: when our athletes, apparently ''failed'' to deliver, it turned out, variously, that this was because the extra infusions were not enough (Gosper), enough but too late (Coates) or a reflection of the fact that elite athletes, or Australians generally, or both, are now ''too soft'' or insufficiently lacking the will to make every sacrifice necessary for a win (miscellaneous other ''experts'' on the sport, or the nation's moral, morale and health.)
We all take pleasure at seeing an Australian win in any sport. Or even do very well. But it is doubtful that a great proportion of Australians actually rate themselves, or our nation by a gold medal count. Or by possession of the Ashes.
To say so is not to oppose the Olympics, or elite sport, or to denigrate that vicarious pleasure many take when ''we'' win. Good on all of them. But it is by no means clear that the nation must subsidise their success, or the success of some but not others such as cricket or netball. It is even less clear that the international sporting success helps achieve legitimate public policy goals of the sort the nation should promote or subsidise.
We want all Australians to be more fit, to do more exercise and community activities including competitive sport. There's a public payoff, worth the investment. But there is no inevitable logic in seeing international sporting success as incentive to do these healthy things. Gold medals are not even an outcome of it, as though a better cream comes to the surface when thousands play in ''subsidiary'' competition. As obvious examples, ''we'' have, over the years been reasonably successful in Olympic equestrian events, sailing, hurdling and long jumping, but this has not made any of these mass sports, nor is it a consequence. The swimming which engages millions of young Australians is not inspired by gold or silver medals. Indeed only relatively few - a tiny, tiny fraction of those who swim - engage in organised competitive swimming. The overwhelming proportion of those in even formal sporting organisations - most, of course, in non-Olympic sports - have no serious ambition to increase their physical investment in something they regard as fun, relaxation, socialising and a bit of a giggle. This does not mean that they do not try, or do not play seriously, or do not see it as an adjunct to keeping generally fit and alert. They may well be at the bottom of the great pyramid, in short, but they do not regard themselves as a feeder stream to the top. That, they know involves exceptional ability that is in their case not obvious, and a sacrifice, devotion of time to the exclusion of almost anything else, and the embrace of a lifestyle that is positively unhealthy, and, if statistics are any guide, actually life-shortening.
The Olympic experience regularly shows that it does not even enhance the image of sport, or notions of fair play, or sportsmanship. We always, led from the top, win gold medals for whingeing, blaming others and making excuses. This is not simply a function of the preciousness or brittleness of highly-strung superfit elite athletes, though that is obvious enough. Rather it, and the influence and temptation of drugs designed to enhance performance, is inherent from the coaching. Sports medicine, and sports psychology has bred a false sense of specialnessness, entitlement and arrogance. It promotes the idea that most barriers are psychological, that the most important element is ''positive mental attitude'', and that failure to win represents some sort of moral failure or want of will.
The lifestyles and temperaments of our elite champions are not ones for Australians to emulate. Many champion athletes and football players are not even healthy, or likely to outlive their peers.
Australian governments spend more than $2 billion a year on sport. The most productive half of it is spent not by the federal government, or state governments, and not on elite academies or health programs, but by councils on the upkeep and maintenance of sports facilities and ovals, including at schools, public parks, and, sometimes, enclosed facilities built at public expense but given at peppercorn rents to particular sports, usually on the dubious premise that those who come spread money around local economies.
They do, but as experience shows, events hardly ever recoup the public investment. Instead they prop up the egos of a few public figures while diverting public money to projects that would otherwise be nowhere near the top of a priority list.
As the Crawford report shows, there is very little evidence, in Australia or elsewhere, to link public health with sports participation, and none, whatever, linking it with elite sporting achievement. We should dispense with any nation-building or civics ideas - pushed by our Gospers and Coates that, somehow our ''prestige'' turns on gold medals. Theirs perhaps, not yours or mine.
One might expect a relationship between the public participation in sports of some sort and the general health of the population, or even between participation and the (apparently) developing tendency towards national obesity. If there is, no one has yet demonstrated it, here or abroad. At first inspection the link ''seems'' logical; it is only when one tries to trace the steps that one sees that it is not even that. Likewise with the idea that the more that schoolchildren are regularly playing sport, the healthier, in general they will be. For many in the sports debate, this is a truism.
No one has proved, as opposed to asserted, to ''evidence-based policy'' level any particular link between sports participation and physical fitness (however defined), toughness (however defined), manliness (however defined), or even physical dexterity, ''softness'', ''hardness''''resilience'' or endurance, or even capacity to be cannon fodder in wartime - all propositions that are regularly heard over the airwaves.
But we can think so, and think it a good thing for schoolkids to be more fit. That still wouldn't show that it is the success, or the sacrifice, or the admiration, of the elite champions which spur people on.
Jack Waterford is The Canberra Times editor-at-large.


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WHISTLE was Shortlisted for The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2010 (March 2011)
Martin Figura's riveting sequence of poems about his childhood, his father killing his mother, and the consequences of that upon the whole family is remarkable for the story he doesn't tell, as much as for the story he does. Exercising a humanising restraint, delicately balanced, these poems are an attempt to excise memory, to fill in some of the missing gaps, but the sense one is left with most of all is absence and loss. Moving, brave, unsentimental, Whistle doesn't blow the whistle on the family. Instead it rather heartbreakingly tries to piece together the fragments of a life, shattered by murder. Sometimes lyrical, rarely angry, often tender, Figura's soul-mate throughout is the understanding and watchful eye of the camera: 'One day I shall hold them with white gloves, / carefully brush away the dust and look / through their shadows and fingerprints.'
Martin Figura has a strong stage presence. His subject matter is so challenging it makes the audience gasp. In spite of this, he engages the listener with warmth and humour. Pitch perfect, he knows his lines and knows how to deliver them. You will be entertained and moved in equal measure.
His subject matter is dark and dramatic, a personal journey into family tragedy, against a backdrop of history and politics. But Martin's stage-presence, his humour and his warmth makes this a shockingly enjoyable journey. His skilful blend of anecdotal story-telling and poetry help to build up powerful emotion without ever becoming manipulative and his use of still image (he's a photographer as well as a poet) give the show a visual poetry.
Martin Figura was born in Liverpool in 1956. He is married to the poet Helen Ivory and works part-time at the Writers' Centre, Norwich and as a photographer. He is a member of the poetry ensemble The Joy of 6. A spoken word version of this collection produced by Apples and Snakes begins touring in 2010. Nasty Little Press is publishing a pamphlet of his amusing poems in November 2010. He is Chair of the Café Writers Live Literature organisation in Norwich.
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THE genius of Tony Hancock was remembered in Bournemouth by some of those who knew the great comic.
June Whitfield, who featured in his most famous half-hour The Blood Donor, joined Hancock writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson for the occasion.
Around 60 fans were at the Queens Hotel for the annual get-together of the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society.
Hancock was born in Birmingham but lived in Bournemouth from the age of three. After his father's death, he lived with his mother and stepfather in the Durslton Court Hotel, now called the Hotel Celebrity, and first took to the stage at the hall of the Church of the Sacred Heart in Richmond Hill.
His mother was still living in the resort at the time of his suicide in 1968.
Alan Simpson, 82, wrote 166 Hancock episodes with Ray Galton before the pair went on to write Steptoe and Son.
He said: "The amazing thing about Hancock is how young people seem to relate to it. I'm told that the average age of the audience is about 35. When you think Hancock died 44 years ago, it's amazing. Most of them weren't born when he died."
He said the writers never imagined the long-lasting appeal of the series.
"When they issued our first record in 1961 with two Hancock television shows, we thought they were mad. We couldn't believe anybody was going to pay for something like that. How wrong can you be?" he said.
And he admitted the fans often know the shows better than the writers do.
"An 11-year-old was on Mastermind. His specialised subject was Hancock's Half Hour. He got every question right. Half of them I couldn't answer," he added.
June Whitfield played the nurse in The Blood Donor, one of Hancock's last TV shows for the BBC, transmitted in June 1961.
"We all thought it was very funny at the time but it's only in retrospect that you realise what an impact it had," she said.
She says of Hancock: "I think he was sad. He never really could appreciate or settle for the great talent that he had of making everyone absolutely adore him.."
She added: "They're repeating some Terry and Junes now on ITV3. I looked at some and thought 'I don't remember doing that at all'."


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I never got Christmas presents in my childhood. Did you?(108 Posts)
I have just read "Kids' presents", which makes me feel quite guilty as we cannot afford expensive presents. We have two children and if we spend £30.00 in total, that would be perfect. They do get toys throughout the year so they do not grow without toys and I hope they can understand it. One problem is that they often ask for useless toys. They tell us how much they want something and then after a few days the toy is forgotten.
I grew up without hardly any toys. We had a Christmas tree but never presents. I do remember getting a present for my birthday perhaps once or twice. There were three of us and our parents did not earn much. Never theless, I did not ask for presents. I was very understanding at that time. It is now that I think that they could have actually prepared something, even a tiny one.
It was probably all a bit different back then ssaw - some fams just arnt present orientated - i certainly got some but nothing like goes round today..having said that i didnt feel any loss on xmas at all. i never asked for things either!!!
Nowadays you can get so many things for younger children for nothing on freecyle or at car boots - or charity - ebay etc....
it depends on how old the children are.
i am personally discouraging my DD from asking for what she wants for a long time yet - she is 5. she has got a mix of stuff from the above this year....
last years absolute smash hit present that is still going strong a year on - was - about 40 lion king figurines from freecyle - ie free.
I think it's really sad that you didn't get christmas presents as a child.
I did get Christmas presents and although we asked for things we knew that we weren't always going to get everything on it.
My children are the same. As long as you manage your children's expectations then surely that stops them developing an overly materialist view of toys.
I think someone made the point on the presents thread that you can't really compare yourself to others. We are spending more than £30 on our DC (though way less than lots on that thread) but we literally only buy the DC toys on their birthdays and at Christmas - they don't get other things during the year.
We did get presents at Christmas but it was normally only 1 big present (think board game big, not bike/playstation big!) and a few little bits in a stocking. Once we stopped believing in FC it was more likely to be something practical like a jumper.
Yeah. I used to get loads.
Often, they were sold in January though.
The mystery of the disappearing toys...
My sister once came home from school to find something of hers on the coffee table. Waiting to go.
When I was older, we were given money.
Which I would hang on to because I knew that they'd need it back.
My sister - the wise one! would leg it as soon as the shops opened and spend the lot on crap! Muggins here would save it for them.
They've always been like that. Totally shit with money and utterly irresponsible. (buying fags instead of loo roll and leaving us to wipe our arses on pages from books and sometimes newspaper)
The one that hurt though, was the makeup compact my aunt gave me. My mum snapped it in half and took the mirror half.
When I complained about this, my dad got cross and said "your mum never has anything"
Not exactly true.
She had the fags and chocolate while I got paper cuts on my arse
My children are knee deep in toys and games.
And my cupboard generally has in excess of 40 loo rolls at any given time
Dh always complains at the number of presents the dc get. But well over half are things they'd need anyway. They usually get new toothbrushes, underwear, school clothes, stationary for school, things they need for music practice, and some notelets for thank you letters. I've even been known to wrap socks separately!
They like opening presents, so I think I might as well make the boring stuff interesting. They've never complained. They don't (usually) get expensive presents, just a fair number, and quite a few of the presents will be second hand too.
So I think it's possible to give a few presents without spending excess money. On actual presents rather than things they need it probably is around £30-£40 max. The dc don't often ask for particular things which helps.(advantage of no TV-no advertising!)
When I was in primary school there was a tradition that on your birthday you could stand up in assembly and say what you'd got and everyone sang "happy birthday".
Somehow the head managed to make the child who'd got a pencil and a rubber from her siblings sound just as lucky as the one standing next to her her claimed (probably untruthfully) that his uncle had rocked up and given £200, and his parents had given a TV.
For the record that was an actual pair. I didn't register it at all (about school year 4) but my dm was there and mentioned it a few years ago. I remember the little girl's family well (I think there were 7 of them) but I don't remember them talking about presents, so I don't think it registered how little they got. I do remember one or two of the excess claims though.
We had very little, as we lived in a developing country where there was almost nothing to buy and we didn't have much money to buy it with. Still, my parents managed: a book each (massive treat, we had no TV), sweets, then usually a new dress my mother had made. I got socks one year (posh ones, imported from Europe!) and was so excited.
We saved pocket money to buy each other and our parents small presents from the local market like a comb, or made necklaces out of shells, a picture or something.
Hec, my sister is like you. Her reaction to all the shortages growing up is to have a massive cupboard in her house with huge stacks of everything and a vast secret stash of Minstrels!
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I also think its sad you didn't get presents
A word of caution about "managing expectations":
I never asked for things as a child.
I had totally internalised our financial situation.
I knew really well that it was n't reasonable to ask for things.
I'm sure lots of people thought how well behaved and contented and non materialist I was.
Fast forward 30 years: I can't buy myself clothes, I can't get a haircut, I can't plan holidays, I even sometimes have difficulty buying things for DS (I force myself) even though I can afford to do so.
Whenever I see something I like, I feel like its not acceptable to want it and I feel horrible anxiety until I leave the shop.
Sometimes we did, sometimes we didn't depending on whether there was any money. I enjoy giving mine presents but they get a mix of new and secondhand and we are going to stick to that, I learnt to really value whatever we had tegardless of whether it was new, a charity shop find or my cousins hand me downs.
We always had presents for Christmas ALWAYS. Looking back very little was actually spent on them but my mum must have spent months making dolls clothes/Barbie beds etc. She was amazing and I never realised there wasn't much money around.
No, not after I turned 5 or so, when felt tip pens and pound shop colouring books weren't as appreciated. Nor for birthday which is just before Christmas. My OH was shocked to learn the birthday cake he bought me the first year of our dating was my first ever.
My parents were unemployed and raised five of us on benefits, with a bingo and cigarette habit to look after. We always had a tree and a ceiling full of those ugly foil garlands though
Having a child has made me excited about Christmas for the first time in my life, I think it's lovely
And as long as your children are excited that's all that matters, too much emphasis goes into what they're receiving and not enough on the atmosphere of the whole holiday. They won't remember their presents when they grow up, but they'll remember the excitement and not being able to go to sleep on Christmas eve etc. That's what will stay with them.
My mother made dolls clothes too! That was the best, we loved those.
Just remembered we had hand sewn nighties too -and she smocked the cuffs and chest. Must tell her tomorrow how fab they were
This thread's quite sad (and at Hec! Are you really about it or is that with a great deal of hindsight/therapy?!!)
But it's actually irrelevant about the presents/non presents.
We got loads of presents (not rich but comfortable) and, to be fair, my parents made Christmas a nice time but this doesn't mean I look back at my childhood and smile dreamily. Because for the most part it was unhappy, confusing and dominated by selfish parents who made terrible decisions!
Yes I did, though I do remember Christmas presents were just for us kids, adults in the family didn't exchange or expect presents from each other.
It was often second-hand stuff though, and I remember if grandparents or other relatives visited and brought new shop-bought stuff, it would often be put to one side and taken back to the shop for the money once they'd gone home!
I don't think kids need expensive presents though. When they're little it's surely more about the anticipation and the fun of opening presents etc than the actual material thing? Or maybe not these days!
You have to laugh!
If you can't find a way to laugh, it has the potential to make you bitter.
I remember eating the contents of the christmas hamper (that my mum paid for through the year and which was delivered just before christmas) by the light from the gas rings because we'd no food in the house and no electric (the Christmas Miracle was we'd got money on the gas meter )
I feel sorry for them because they're 60 now and still in the same mess. They've never learned.
I do resent their selfishness when it comes to my kids though. I haven't been able to find a way to laugh that off.
I don't think it matters whether you give your kids one present or one hundred.
Just let the buggers keep it!
Yes we did. Some years my brother and I got a lot - we didn't ask for it. Other years we got a lot less as it totally depended upon how well my Dad's business was doing. However, i think we were always pretty lucky when it came to gifts, when my parents got divorced we pretty much got double as my Dad felt a lot of guilt about it all. He's completely unmaterialistic so he probably would not believe this was the case- looking back.
Some years I got loads, some years I got nothing. It all depended on the races the week before Christmas. Ah, the joys of compulsive gambling!
I don't think I overspend on DS, it probably helps that he's not overly materialistic but hopefully that's because I try to keep things on an even keel generally for him - no feast or famine round our house [hgrin]
Personally i think the day is about the warmth generated and the fun - a few crap presents are made much easier to bear if there is " merriement" mt DH family are really good at presents they are really " hot" on it.
gifts are always being exchanged here there and everywhere etc...
BUT the atmos opening them - in a special no go zone room only used once a year is fraught with tension and anxiety - and you are very aware you are in the MIL's " special room" you are sat on her " cream sofas" you are not allowed anything coloured to drink in there!
you sit - awkardly - and uncomfortably and open a nice gift which is lovely but you dont enjoiy yourself - and there is no chit chat. its horrid!
id much rather open - as I did once - my dads offering to me of.......................................
two" left" foot slippers - granny style from m and s - one size 5 , one size 8 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and laugh up roarisoulsy about it - than sit in that prison on a house- with no laughter - just up tight posing - and poncing not even able to have a glass of red wine!
at some of your stories.
I think it is important, like icing says, that there is that excitement about the season and the day more than the presents.
It's exciting to see the lights and it's exciting to put the tree up and put things under it - who cares if they're expensive or shop bought or second hand or free or homemade.
I was lucky to grow up in a household that was clever enough with money to make sure we always had exactly what we needed and sometimes what we wanted, too.
My dad worked really hard to make sure his mortgage was paid off in 12 years (evenings and weekends) instead of 25, and when the opportunity to buy a bigger house further up the street came up, he didn't take it because he was on strike at the time and didn't want to risk the mortgage defaulting.
sometimes my dad's sensibleness about money was annoying, but it meant that in tough times we always had enough. never extravagant, but never without.
didn't stop the stupid arguments on birthdays and christmas ruining any joy of any presents, though. but that's another story.
Good God. Well glad you can laugh about it though - you're right, it's the best way. And at least you know exactly how not to bring up your own kids!
We were always skint, but I used to get Christmas presents.
Christmas, I used to get a shoebox with sweets and again presents that my mum bought throughout the year, things like a chocolate bar, some pencils, it was all really cheap stuff from Dagenham/Walthamstow market and maybe a bit of money from my grandparents. Then always a dress to wear on the day and at new year. The dress was invariably nicked with tags or fell off the back of a lorry down the docks.
It was ok where we lived everyone was poor, although I know some of my friends got more than me. I think I was a bit disappointed by it all but I new my parents did what they could and if I really wanted something my Dad would
steal find a way to get it for me. As long as they know you're doing what you can I think most DC understand.
I also had my toys sold when I didn't want them to be but hey money was tight .
lol HEC, I'm the same with milk!!! My parents never bought fresh milk because 'we'd use too much on our cereal or drink it, and it was far too expensive for drinking' so they bought the powder stuff for their tea knowing we'd leave it alone unless we were desperate for some rice krispies.
I don't think, since moving out at the ripe old age of 17, that I have ever run out of milk!!
No not after I was around 7. No birthday either. Never bothered me til I was a teen and my friends were all getting expensive gifts and I got nothing. As a child I never cared. I was happy enough to make believe and wasn't fussed about toys which I guess is due to the fact I didn't really have any. My dcs have plenty. Nothing expensive mind but they don't go without.
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This article was published 18/8/2014 (1100 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Eight games into the revival 2014 campaign, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers remain a work in progress when it comes to the ground game.
The team ranks ninth and last in rushing yards per game average -- 70, and average yards per rush -- four.
Questions have been raised about the offensive line's work, about backs finding holes, even play calling, especially in the last two outings, which yielded 37 yards rushing against Saskatchewan and 80 against Toronto.
Running back Nic Grigsby assured Bombers fans on Monday the team is focused on the issue and is working on it.
"We control what we can control back there," said Grigsby, who, oddly, is the CFL's leading individual rusher so far this season with 416 yards. "It's a team game, a team effort. One guy messes up, it messes everything up on the run. This is not just about running. Teams game plan to take guys out of the game. They want to force us to do something else, so if they're stopping our run, then that's what they're supposed to do that game.
"So we have to find another way to win. We've had opportunities to spring big ones and we did when we had the chance. Runs in this league are going to come. You've go to be patient."
Bombers head coach Mike O'Shea also asked for patience -- in not so many words -- after Monday's practice at Investors Group Field, where the Montreal Alouettes will visit on Friday.
"Just got to keep working," O'Shea said.
The coach was asked if new wrinkles or varying the approach to running might spring loose the backs.
"Not necessarily," he said. "I think the offence game plans with a certain amount of runs they go into every game with. They're not the same runs every week. They're runs designed to attack a defensive system and that changes week to week based on the system we're playing.
"I don't know that it's adding wrinkles. It's just commitment to it, which we're showing, and hard work. It's not easy to run the ball. We've got go keep working hard at it."
Grigsby, in fact, suggested the solution is not likely found with outside-the-box thinking.
"We just have to stick to our basics, come out and play, not do anything extraordinary or anything like that," he said. "We have to come out and be regular, do what we do and run that football."
Paris Cotton, who has also had some carries in the Winnipeg backfield, didn't think the backs could effect improvement all on their own.
"We have to step it up on the run game; it's obviously not as productive as we want it to be," Cotton said.
"We'll all come out here this week and try to do what we have to do to bring that up a bit. We have a long way to go. We obviously have stuff to work on, because we had a loss, and we're just coming out here and trying to get better. We'll show this Friday if we can do what we have to do."
Grigsby, who did have a 37-yard carry against the Argos in last week's loss, said there are always good signs to latch onto.
"It's the way the game is played. You get down certain times and the plan changes up because you can't run the football, then you have to throw the football," he said. "When we've got the lead, we've got to do a better job of managing the game, gaining yards. But this is a team effort."


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The 'Devil Wears Prada' actor is honored with the 2,490th star which is located at 6352 Hollywood Boulevard.
Simon Baker from CBS' "The Mentalist" was awarded a star for his contribution in the development of movies in Hollywood. The actor received his prize at a ceremony outside Beso Restaurant on Thursday, February 14, at 11.30 A.M. on Hollywood Boulevard. His wife, Rebecca Rigg, family, and friends were present in the ceremony.
Baker's co-star in "The Ring 2", Naomi Watts, and the executive producer of "The Mentalist", Bruno Heller, proudly presented the award in front of Baker's friends and family. Baker's star is the 2,490th on the famous street. His name can be found at 6352 Hollywood Boulevard.
The 43-year-old Australian debuted as an actor in the United States in 1997 with "L.A. Confidential". He was cast alongside big names such as Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, and Danny DeVito.
Baker's first hit TV series was CBS' The "Guardian" in 2001. On the popular series, he played attorney who was sentenced to community service because of illegal drug possession. Baker was nominated at Emmy Awards for best actor in drama series for the said role.
Baker also took part in movies such as "Ride With the Devil", directed by Ang Lee in 1999. In 2006, he appeared in "The Devil Wears Prada" alongside Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway.
He is currently starring on "The Mentalist", where he plays independent consultant for fictional California Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Patrick Jane. The CBS series started in 2008 and now is in its 5th season.


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