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Spectator Magazine - May 2, 1997
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Lusty Lady Dancers Ratify Union Contract; Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Regional Conference Report
Honoring Sexual Labor
Employees at San Francisco's Lusty Lady Theater voted nearly unanimously April 4th to accept the work contract negotiated with theater management by the Exotic Dancers Union, an affiliate of Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, Local 790. The contract, which covers some 30 cashiers and janitors at the theater as well as 70-75 dancers, stands as the only union contract for strippers in the U.S., according to SEIU representative Stephanie Batey. Batey negotiated the contract on behalf of the SEIU. Theater management was represented in the negotiations by Colleen Baldwin, president of the Lusty Lady corporate board of directors and by Lusty Lady Acting General Manager Darrell Davis. Davis took over as acting director when longtime Lusty Lady General Manager June Cade retired in March.
After a year of union organizing, and five months of often bitter contract negotiations, the EDU contract provides guaranteed work shifts for dancers, protection against arbitrary discipline and termination, automatic hourly wage increases, sick days, a contracted procedure for pursuing grievances against management, and removal of one-way mirrors from peep show booths. Cashiers and janitors won increased wages and improved health benefits.
Dancers at the Lusty Lady began their organizing efforts after dancers became incensed about clandestine photographing and videotaping being conducted by customers through one-way mirrors that were installed in some of the peep show private booths. The mirrors enabled customers to photograph dancers without the dancers' knowledge or consent. Concern among the dancers grew to alarm when some photographs taken through the one-way mirrors began to surface on the Internet.
Confronted with dancers' concerns about the photographs and subsequent demands that the one-way mirrors be removed, the theater initially responded by dismissing dancer concerns as frivolous. Upset dancers approached the SEIU. Once they were able to convince union representatives they were serious in their desire to form a union, organizing began in earnest.
"They had a huge organizing committee that was very tightly organized, very disciplined," explains SEIU's Batey. "And they came in with signed cards from 90% of the employees which meant that we had an excellent chance of organizing there successfully. At that point we began saying, 'Hey, these women are serious. And they have a right to a union just like any other workers.'"
Working with the Lusty Lady dancers was definitely an eye-opening experience for people at SEIU, according to Batey. "Before we began organizing at the Lusty," she says, "people had no knowledge of the demographics of the dancers. We found that there were lots of college students, women who were well-educated politically as well as academically, who were articulate feminists, who were concerned about the larger issues, who addressed issues from a societal viewpoint."
In an election last August, employees at the Lusty Lady voted overwhelmingly for union representation. The theater responded by engaging the legal services of Littler, Mendelson, a law firm widely known for effectively and aggressively fighting unions. Negotiations proceeded slowly, much to the frustration of the SEIU and the dancers, as Littler, Mendelson serially designated five separate attorneys as their negotiating representatives. When the theater fired one dancer (Summer, a single mother), allegedly to intimidate other dancers, the women responded angrily with a wildcat strike and protest outside the theater. A management lockout of all dancers for two-and-a-half days hurt the protesters financially, but failed to end the protest or break the unity of the dancers. Finally the theater relented, rehired the fired dancer, and began negotiating with the union seriously.
While the idea of a union of sex workers may seem more titillating than serious to many, the groundbreaking SEIU contract has drawn serious attention, if not necessarily support, from both local and national press. An April 12, 1997, San Francisco Chronicle editorial acknowledged that "poor working conditions exist wherever you find them..... The new members of Service Employees International Union, Local 790, have achieved a breakthrough. They have called attention to a line of work that needs vigilant oversight and fair treatment of its employees." The San Francisco Examiner, in an editorial a day later, was more condescending about what it described as "the unprecedented coupling of two historic San Francisco movements -- labor and, er, the pelvis." But even the Examiner bestowed its uneasy respect by acknowledging that "there's something amazing about a labor union for strippers." According to Batey, there has been an outpouring of interested response from the national press, including The New York Times, The Economist, Associated Press, and United Press International.
Batey notes that since contract ratification, Lusty owners have been cooperative with the union and seem anxious to re-educate their managers in the whys and wherefores of the new industrial order. Show managers who couldn't believe that they are now required to give union representatives the opportunity to talk with each new person hired have been reminded that this is indeed part of the new contract. An interim grievance procedure provided for in the contract has been working well, according to Batey, and the first post-ratification meeting to deal with grievances is being scheduled -- at the theater's initiative, which Batey also sees as a good sign. Federal mediators are being brought in to train both management and employees on the nuts and bolts of the new contractual arrangement, also at the theater's request.
While the Lusty Lady contract may be the first contemporary labor agreement in the U.S. to cover strippers, it is unlikely to be the last. Before the San Francisco contract vote -- indeed, even before the dancers had voted in favor of union representation -- the Lusty Lady's other theater in Seattle had taken note of the changing labor landscape. The theater began encouraging dancers to attend company-sponsored employee meetings on paid company time. Non-union employee representatives elected at these meetings were recognized by theater management as spokeswomen for the group, presumably to show dancers that the theater was interested in being responsive to their concerns and to discourage them from unionizing.
Following ratification of the San Francisco contract, members of the San Francisco organizing committee traveled to Seattle where they met with Lusty Lady dancers and explained to them for the first time, from the dancers' perspective, what the new union and contract were about, and how the new agreement would affect dancers in Seattle. In particular, they assured the Seattle dancers that the traditional arrangement, under which dancers could travel back and forth between the two theaters, working at both, would be maintained. Seattle theater management responded to the visit from the San Francisco organizers with an immediate, unsolicited, dollar-an-hour pay increase for all dancers. A controversial theater policy requiring dancers with tattoos or piercings to cover their body decorations while performing was also revoked.
San Francisco dancers at the Market Street Cinema and New Century Theaters have reportedly approached SEIU about possible union representation, and Batey says she has heard of possible union organizing of strippers in Houston, Texas, as well.
An Historical Footnote
If SEIU Local 790 may not be destined to last long as the newest sex worker union in the U.S., neither is it the oldest. According to documents displayed at the Sex Work Art Exhibit at the recent International Conference on Prostitution, "Whores' Union No. 125" was organized by prostitutes in Butte, Montana, on June 1, 1905, in response to "the recent arrivals of whores from France." Rather than allowing an influx of cheap foreign labor to "materially injure our legitimate profession by low prices," the local prostitutes "resolved at the last regular meeting of this union" to abide by a common set of fees for various sexual service. These ranged from $1.50 for a "common old fuck" or "bear fashion," to $6 for "all night, with use of towels and rose water." "Back scuddle or dog fashion" was $1.75; "pudding jerking, tasting or sucking" was $2; "wheelbarrow fashion" was $2.75; "three up, one down, two shots" was $4; and "all night, well crammed" was $5.
If anyone knows what "three up, one down, two shots" is, please let me know. That's a completely new one to me.
The SSSS Western Regional Family Reunion
This year's western region conference of my favorite sexological association, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, took place April 3-6 in Newport Beach. Skillfully organized by Program Chair Marty Klein and Conference Chair Dave Hall, the meeting focused on the topic, "Sexual Desire: What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Know?"
Now as I probably say every year in my report on this conference, the SSSS western region is one of my favorite communities of sex-positive, thoughtful, inquisitive, generally playful people. I think of the group more as a family than as your typical association of academic professionals -- complete with a generous assortment of eccentric uncles and aunts, nephews and cousins, a healthy undercurrent of scandals and gossip, long-standing ritual traditions and gestures, and even longerstanding family alliances and feuds. All within the uniquely pressurecooking context that my mother used to call Family Feeling -- the overriding sense that, no matter how much we all drive each other crazy, there is still something thicker than water, that we have in common, something important that binds us irrevocably together and distinguishes us from everyone else. In the case of the SSSS-WR family the cementing glue is something about wanting to set the sexual record straight, about being more than a little intrigued with sex in the first place and having a strong desire to think and wonder and know more about it, about trying to create a little sexual sanity in a world that is generally and increasingly nuts when it comes to matters relating to sex.
Now, having a supportive community is acknowledged as important in many aspects of life, like work, politics, ethnicity, or religion. But having a community of support is also important when it comes to sex, and particularly important when one's sexual practices, attitudes, fantasies, or predilections tend to isolate one from the Designated Community-At-Large, as seems to be true for an increasingly numerous group of people, Yours Truly long included.
And so it was particularly confirming for me when I found myself quickly and enthusiastically welcomed into the SSSS-WR fold, eight years ago, right after my first sexual book, Erotic by Nature, was published. I was invited by Marty Klein to put together an extensive show of photographs from Erotic by Nature, as an art exhibit at that year's regional conference. Unsure how the big bad world was going to receive my first public declaration on the general theme, What Sex Means to Me (I was having nightly dreams of the police showing up at my door and carting me away), I was delighted to have both the photographic show and my contribution to an evening of erotic poetry and film enthusiastically received and appreciated by this group of knowledgeable strangers. The world at large might ignore, ridicule, or prosecute my fledgling attempt at sexual advocacy, but at least I could know that I was not alone or without support. And, over the years since that organizational debut, when I hit those inevitable times when I have to wonder why I bother even trying to affect the way anyone thinks about sex, or whether I in fact have anything interesting or useful to say to anyone about that particular bundle of paradox and confusion, SSSS is one of the places I go to stock up on smiles, friendly hugs, and praise for my efforts, where I am encouraged to remember who I am as a sexual person, writer, publisher, ponderer, and advocate, and why I continue to do the peculiar kind of work I do.
This year, in terms of my own work, I had the opportunity to give a slide show of over 100 photographic images under consideration for a new book in progress of sexual photography, a book I am tentatively calling Sex Is. Equally important, I got to hear a variety of workshop presentations by a host of sex educators, therapists, and researchers, jogging my gut into new amazements, wonderings, and possibilities and my mind into juggling new insights and information.
Libido magazine editor Marianna Beck showed an enlightening collection of her own slides, depicting the social, political, and historical evolution of pornography over the past 400 years, and revealing the long Western pornographic tradition to be (among other things, of course) an on-going vehicle for radical and even subversive political and social commentary. Jim Weinrich of the University of California, San Diego, presented the results of a study suggesting that both early childhood and adolescent experiences had strong imprinting effects on what people ended up finding erotic as adults. San Francisco therapist Jack Morin offered a number of case studies in support of his theory that peak erotic experiences often get their juice from the build-up (and subsequent breaking through) of strong erotic resistance and tension.
Nationally known lesbian author and advocate JoAnn Loulan used her own life as the basis for an entertaining and stereotype-busting look at how a person's sexual orientation may not depend on who you have sex with or, even, who your primary partner is. Sex commentator Susie Bright, in conversation with Marty Klein, offered an evening of social commentary combined with an intimate look at her own not-so-schizophrenic journey as long-time sex radical and more recent media darling. UC Irvine film professor Linda Williams gave a brilliant analysis of the history of American porn films -- from stag movies to the (relatively) big budget sex flicks of the 70s, to low-cost, view-at-home videos, to interactive CD-ROMs -- with particular emphasis on how viewers extend themselves toward the images on screen while internalizing those feelings in their own bodies. Case Western Reserve psychiatrist Stephen Levine presented an analysis of three phases of adult sexual love -- falling in love, being in love, and staying in love -- emphasizing the importance of the last and longest stage of the love process despite media and artistic infatuation with the first two.
By the time the conference ended with its traditional family assemblage for Sunday morning breakfast, awards, appreciations, and glances toward the future, SSSS-WR had worked its healing magic on me one more time. I daresay it did some form of parallel healing for more than a few of the other participants as well. These are not insignificant moments, these comings together among sympathetic friends and like-minded souls before going back out to deal with the misunderstandings of a frequently unsympathetic and even hostile antisexual world. May the force be with us all.
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It didn't take long for the Northwest Texans to bounce back from their loss to Southlake. Northwest's win over Timber Creek kept their strangle hold on second place in District 4-5A.The Texans (5-2, 4-1) will try to keep things rolling this week when they travel to take on the Richland Rebels (2-6, 0-5) at Birdville ISD Stadium Friday. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Northwest still has other goals in front of them, but last week's victory clinched a postseason spot.
"The kids came out and played great," Northwest coach Bill Patterson said. "We had a good week of practice and picked up a win to clinch the playoffs."
The Texans came out of another contest healthy, which Patterson says has a lot to do with how his team is playing.
"When you're winning you don't have a lot of kids hurt," Patterson said. "They want to get out there and keep things going."
Since competing at the 5A level the Texans have never had an eight-win season. They can reach that goal with victories in their final two games.
Richland is the first obstacle in the way of Northwest's goal. The Rebels are winless in district play, coming off a last-second loss to Keller Central, 24-21. It was the closest game they've had in league play. They are giving up 36.8 points per game to district opponents.
"They have struggled this year," Patterson said. "They have a good running back and a good operator at quarterback. Defensively they will blitz every snap, so we have to handle the pressure."
Northwest continues to dominate on the ground, averaging 203 rushing yards per game. They put up 353 rushing yards against Timber Creek, while holding the Falcons to only 205.
7:30 p.m. at Birdville ISD Stadium
NORTHWEST: Harris Rating 222
NOTABLE: The Texans need a win to maintain second place in District 4-5A
RICHLAND: Harris Rating 198
NOTABLE: The Rebels are only averaging 16 points per game.
HARRIS LINE: Northwest by 20

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Police present at basketball game as Wayland-Weston rivalry heats up
February 3, 2013
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Every Wayland High School student knows about the famous Wayland-Weston rivalry. Weston High School is considered to be Wayland's greatest rival in athletics, and the annual Wayland-Weston Turkey Day game attracts many viewers from both schools. However, this past week, the friendly rivalry escalated to new heights, which were considered severe enough to involve local law enforcement and segregate the two student bodies during Friday night's Wayland versus Weston basketball game at Weston High School.
Reports of intensified taunting and threats at Wednesday night's Wayland versus Weston hockey game were one of the factors influencing the Wayland and Weston administrations' decision to include a stronger police presence at Friday's basketball game.
"Some of my guys who were at the hockey game heard people saying, 'We'll get you on Friday,'" Weston Chief of Police Steven Shaw said.
Some spectators at Wednesday's hockey game did not see this sort of conduct.
"I didn't see any of the inappropriateness people were claiming," said Hipolito Rivera, the Wayland Middle School boys' basketball coach.
"We [Dr. Tutwiler and I] thought that extra security might make sense and to not give anyone the opportunity to do anything," Weston High School Principal Anthony Parker said.
However, some members of the Wayland and Weston communities did not think that the increase in local police involvement was necessary.
"I think that the students could have handled it themselves because of their parents' participation. We don't allow our children to step out like that. If there were threats like that, we would have handled the children. It's okay to have police protection but not as much as you have tonight," said Ruby Williams, the grandmother of Wayland basketball player Robert Williams.
The aggressive taunting between students on a Wayland versus Weston basketball game Facebook event also contributed to the decision to have Wayland and Weston students enter and exit the court through different doors for Friday's game.
"I saw how people on Facebook were being vicious to each other. I thought it was unnecessary. Based on what I saw on Facebook, [extra law enforcement] was necessary," Weston student Rachel Garwick said.
"It's really easy when someone gets agitated," Rivera said. "A call goes the wrong way, someone takes something the wrong way, and things could easily escalate. A simple conversation could get blown out of proportion."
Police officers were also guarding the area in between the student spectator bleachers to prevent any students from going to the other school's stands. This security presence enforced Wayland Athletic Director Justice Smith's request for Wayland students to not speak with Weston students.
"It's not going to stop us from doing what we want to do at the end of the day," Wayland senior Stephen Powell said.
Others thought that Smith's request was too extreme.
"It's not like every Wayland student is a bad student, or every Weston student is a bad student. We can be friends," said Garwick.
"These guys are all going to be playing with each other in college next year, so it might be a little silly," Weston parent Bob Goulart said.
Both Wayland and Weston High School administrations agreed that it was time to remind students of appropriate spectator behavior.
"We thought it was time to reestablish our core values, who we are, and to remind folks about how we behave. Being at a basketball game is like being at school. You don't have to swear, you don't have to be derogatory, you don't have to be demeaning [and] you don't have to be obscene or vulgar," Parker said.
Before Friday's basketball game, Wayland students received an email from Smith that included the DCL spectator expectations.
"The only thing we can do is make sure we have a safe environment for all of our spectators and our fans," Smith said.
Will the precautions taken on Friday's game become a regular routine for spectators?
"That's to be determined," Parker said.


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SUPERMARINE coach Gavin Russ is hopeful tomorrow's home clash with Weymouth gets the go-ahead to allow the club to keep up their new-found momentum.
Since securing victory over Oakmeadians in their final game of 2012 Marine have put in some much improved performances, and despite defeats in their last two matches there is an improved sense of optimism within the camp.
The South Marston pitch is still covered in snow which has cast tomorrow's Southern Counties South clash into serious doubt, and Russ would be disappointed not to get a game in following the postponement of last week's visit to Wootton Bassett.
"We want to play, particularly because we have got some good momentum up of late and it's hard to keep that going without playing games," he said.
"We didn't play last week which was a shame, and training has been hard too because there is very little you can do without getting out on the pitch.
"I know the lads have been using the gym, but that's just not the same as getting the balls out and playing.
"We know what we need to work on, and it isn't strength and conditioning which is our problem. Our problems are tactical, and you can't work on that in a gym."
If the game does go ahead, Russ is convinced the 76-0 defeat Marine suffered when they travelled to Weymouth earlier in the season will be all-but forgotten.
"We went down there at the start of the season and we were caught napping a little bit to be honest, and it wasn't a good day for us," he said.
"But you can't let it get to you, and you have to put it to the back of your mind.
"We have improved since then, and we have to say any home game is one we have to go into thinking that we have a good chance of winning.
"They like to run the ball, and if the game is on and it's wet they might not be able to do that, which could play into our hands."
Supermarine players and coaches are planning to try and shift the snow themselves, but Russ is unsure if their efforts will be good enough to get the game on.
"If you were a betting man I guess the thing to bet on would be the game being off, and you certainly have to say it's very doubtful," he said.
"If the snow melts while it's still on the pitch it's going to be very wet, so I guess the main things is to try and get it all off.
"We are looking to try and clear it ourselves, but we are not sure if that is possible yet.
"The road leading up to the club is still covered in snow as well so that makes getting there difficult, and the last thing we want is someone hurting themselves while we do it."
Elsewhere in the division, Wootton Bassett will be hoping to get back to winning ways if their visit to Trowbridge survives the weather.
Swindon also face a fight to get their game with Salisbury on as their Greenbridge Road pitch currently sits under three inches of snow, but fly-half Adam Westall is itching to play.
"We've not been able to train on the pitch for over a week now which has been difficult, but we have managed to get some fitness work in which is obviously good but not the same," he said.
"We want to play, but the pitch is under three inches of snow so it is going to be very doubtful I would imagine.
"Most of our players are available to us so we have a strong squad if we can get a game on, but at this stage I would be surprised if we did."
In the Berks/Bucks & Oxon Premier, Swindon College Old Boys are due to travel to Hungerford, but the game is also in doubt due to the freezing conditions.
Minety are due to go to Marlborough in Dorset & Wilts 1 North, while Cricklade are scheduled to travel to Fairford.


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By Jake Schroer
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The STMA girls soccer team had an interesting week. The team tied twice in a row and lost once.
First up, a game against the Buffalo Bison on the road. As the boys did at home that same night, the girls battled Buffalo to a 1-1 tie. Leah Johnson, continuing a solid season, scored the only goal for the Knights.
The Bison came home for the next contest against the Chisago Lakes Wildcats. Chisago struck first in the game. Later on, Leah Johnson finished a goal by using her head to tie the game at 1-1. Anna-Marie Harald assisted the goal.
Chisago Lakes struck again with a header goal of its own to take a 2-1 lead. The Knights had a golden opportunity taken away on a foul close to Chisago's goal. Ashley Swanson got revenge by nailing her penalty kick for the game tying goal.
Both teams had good chances down the stretch, but this game headed for overtime, and for the second game in a row, STMA tied the competition.
Coach Megan Johnson said that the girls knew what their breakdown was on the first goal.
"We need to do a better job marking our defense. We talked about that and we made a couple of changes," she said. Johnson added that the conditions did not affect how her team played.
"We didn't have to make any changes, we just still played our game."
The Knights then headed to Anoka for a Saturday morning showdown with the team they beat to go to state last season; the Anoka Tornados. Anoka scored the lone goal of the first half. In the second half, Leah Johnson scored STMA's lone goal on an assist from Tori Jensen. Anoka added two goals to make it a 3-1 final score, the first loss for the Knights in two weeks.
STMA regrouped and faced North Branch on the road on Tuesday.


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Aubree, are you going to organize a winter seed swap this year? I'm sure there are many like me that have to much seed and are looking for something different. It was a lot of fun last year
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Kimberley - Some charges against the Trifecta group and other accused are ludicrous, the Northern Cape High Court heard on Tuesday.
"The only sin... (was that) they accepted the recommendation for a lease (which) the bid and evaluation committees agreed to," said Jaap Cilliers, for Trifecta director Christo Scholtz.
Judge Mathebe Phatshoane was hearing evidence in a fraud and corruption case against Northern Cape ANC heavyweights John Block, Alvin Botes, Yolanda Botha and Scholtz.
Cilliers was cross-examining State witness PWC forensic auditor Trevor White.
The issue under cross examination was charges of misrepresentation against Trifecta and Botha.
Cilliers stated Trifecta and Botha accepted an recommendation of two government committees to sign an agreement between the two entities for office space to lease.
"I have seen charge sheets in my life and charges sheets.
"This one takes the cake," he submitted.
Cilliers asked White's concern with the specific lease, which seemed only to be the period of the lease.
"The State did not put that in the charge sheet. Count 10 is ludicrous.
"You will agree," argued Cilliers.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) alleges the Trifecta Group entered into a number of lease agreements with the Northern Cape social development department in which rentals, or rental space, were grossly inflated.
The accused have all pleaded not guilty to all the charges against them or their companies.
The defence doubted White's report on his allegations on officials taking occupation of the old Oranje Hotel building in Upington some time after the lease was signed.
Cilliers said the delay was caused solely by the state agency, the SA Social Security Agency, (Sassa), who wanted to customise their offices.
"They said they want the building to be customised. All floors had to be redone. They caused the delay of the occupation."
Earlier, the court heard that some calculations in the forensic report could be based on the wrong set of facts.
"In your testimony of R24 million potential prejudice... in this lease you have defamed the accused, wrongly," submitted Cilliers.
The evidence was about the potential prejudice for the state in the office space leased in the old Oranje Hotel building from Trifecta.
The building was leased by the department on behalf of Sassa.
The lease was ceded to Sassa a day after the department signed the agreement with Trifecta.
It was submitted Sassa again entered into its own agreement with Trifecta later, meaning there were actually three legal agreements with Trifecta for the same office space in the Oranje Hotel building.
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Sun Dome rehab gets nod from Board of Governors
TALLAHASSEE – A $35 million makeover of the University of South Florida's Sun Dome got the go-ahead from the Board of Governors today.
The approval, however, comes with strings: The university's foundation must set aside $20 million – a quarter of its investment pool-- as a back-up guarantee for the $26 million loan financing most of the project.
If USF comes up with a report showing that it doesn't need to set aside that much money for the loan, the board can opt to reduce the amount.
Board members came up with that proposal after expressing concerns that USF's proposal to use a combination of revenue streams – from concessions and ticket sales to parking and naming rights – would not be enough to cover the debt payments.
In addition, though USF hired an outside firm to assist with revenue projections it did not sign on a third-party financial adviser to review the project, something that the board's rules require.
"You have to understand, you're asking us to do something we've never done before," board member Charles Edwards told USF officials.
USF officials say the Sun Dome does not comply with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and couldn't stay open and functioning in its current state.
"It is at the point where there have been some ADA issues to the point where it's been registered in Washington DC," said USF president Judy Genshaft. "It is our largest venue … It is important we move on this. And we're ready to move very quickly on this."
The Sun Dome has been home to USF's basketball programs and many concerts and community events for 30 years. Transforming the facility is expected to attract new events and eventually triple the arena's annual revenues.
The plan is to finish construction to be ready for the December graduation ceremony.
Board of governors member Tico Perez, who voted against the project, said he felt like USF had rushed the proposal.
"I understand the timing is tight, but that's not our fault," he said.
The Sun Dome has had net operating losses for the last three years, including $418,500 in 2008-2009 and $91,500 last year.
USF had already expected the foundation would need to step up for the first few years given the revenue projections. But officials had not anticipated setting aside $20 million.
The $80 million in USF foundation's pool is also helping guarantee debts for the USF St. Pete Student Center under construction and the proposed USF Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, a high-tech training center.
Foundation board members would have to hold an emergency meeting and approve that proposal before construction could begin.


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Take a five gallon bucket and drill an inch and a quarter or inch and a half hole on the side.
Pass the plug end through the hole and feed the rest of the cord into the bucket. Now when it's time to do the job, just pull the cord out as much as you need.
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Today Google finally took the wraps off of its long-awaited Google Fiber service. Focusing on Kansas City, Google Fiber is both an Internet service and television service, and Google showed off just how awesome the service will be.
First, the Internet speeds. Google Fiber provides gigabit speeds both up and down the pipe. That's 1000/1000 Mbps (which makes our 35/35 connection look atrocious.) The company detailed how far behind the USA is in terms of speed and pricing, and is looking to invoke some major change. Google Fiber Internet will also come with 1TB of Google Drive cloud storage, and there will be no bandwidth caps or overage fees. But that's not all…
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Almost all my recipes are dessert-oriented; I thought I should contribute something else for a change of pace. I found this one on an IBS-friendly recipe website; it is attributed to someone named Tess Louise. I made it with my mom and sister one night; we altered it according to our tastes & eliminated the honey and red pepper flakes, and increased the garlic. We also lessened the original cooking time of the chicken since it seemed to be getting dry--you can play that by ear. Very yummy and quick--could dress it up a bit more by using angel hair or penne pasta.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 (13 3/4 ounce) can artichoke hearts
- chopped parsley
- 1 peeled lemon, thinly sliced in wheels
- cooked orzo pasta or elbow macaroni, for serving
Directions See How It's Made
- Season chicken breasts on both sides with salt and pepper as desired.
- Sauté in large nonstick pan coated with cooking spray over medium-high heat until lightly browned on both sides, about 3-5 minutes per side.
- Reduce heat to medium, cover and cook 5 minutes.
- Add drained, halved artichoke hearts and dressing.
- Simmer uncovered and reduce sauce for about 3 minutes.
- Top chicken with thin wheels of lemon; cook 2 minutes or until dressing thickens.
- Top with parsley and serve over orzo, macaroni, or pasta of choice.


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Defeat can be a new dawn for the Liberals
John Howard's greatest legacy will be the size of his defeat. This will set in train consequences which will change the Liberal Party and the country.
The Liberal Party is now out of power everywhere, and it will have to rebuild. Without Howard's social conservatism sitting like a capstone on the party, it can modernise, to open out to a much wider range of social and cultural ideas and to bring in a new generation of politicians. The country can move forward on the republic and reconciliation, the two items that have been on hold since Paul Keating's defeat.
The Liberal Party in government has always been focused on the leader, and so after a long period of government under a successful leader it is inevitably weakened - as it was after Menzies' retirement and Fraser's defeat. It takes time for the next election-winning leader to emerge. We now know it will not be the risk averse Peter Costello. But our system of government depends on two viable parties of government, so the Liberal Party will revive. The size of the defeat will give confidence to the forces for change in the party.
Second, the Senate has been saved. Neither the government nor the opposition will control the Senate. Howard's deal with Meg Lees to push through the GST after the 2001 election was the beginning of the end of the Democrats. They lost half their number in 2004, and now the rest are gone. The Democrats are largely responsible for the revival of the Senate since the early 1980s, restoring its function as a house of review in which legislation can be scrutinised and committees can investigate the actions of the executive.
In 2004 the government won control of the Senate for the first time since 1983. Howard used this to push through the Work Choices legislation. I believe that this legislation is the main (though not the only) reason for the Coalition's defeat. If Howard had won control of the Senate in 1996 much of what he introduced in 2005 would have been introduced in the first term. He would not have had to negotiate with the Democrats, to introduce the no-disadvantage test, nor soften the changes to the unfair dismissal laws. He could well have been a one-term government. On Saturday Australians voted to deny the government control of the Senate, because they have seen what happens when the government controls both houses. Howard's second legacy is to the Australian people's understanding of the importance of the Senate.
Third, we now know that many Australians think about more than their hip pockets. A government has been defeated when the economy is going well. I always thought this was possible. (Chifley lost the 1949 election despite the economy being about as good as could be expected in those early postwar years.) But almost no one else did: not the Liberal Party who could not believe that it would be thrown out in a time of near full employment; and certainly not the press gallery, who spent most of the year in denial about what the polls were telling them. By campaigning so narrowly on his record of economic management, and losing so decisively, Howard's third legacy is to remind us that politics has always been about more than the economy.
Fourth, climate change is now at the centre of the government agenda. After Work Choices, climate change is the reason Howard lost. His is probably the first incumbent government in the world to have been defeated in part because of denial on climate change. To be sure he made a late change of direction early in the year, and started to introduce piecemeal measures, but he has cost Australia 10 years of wasted opportunity to prepare ourselves for a very difficult future, and he has cost us a great deal of our international reputation through his recalcitrance on Kyoto. High and Dry, by the Liberal Party insider Guy Pearse, shows just how much Howard was personally responsible for the Government's position on climate change. Many Liberals have been waiting for him to go so the party can develop a more responsible policy. Expect a flood of people joining the former NSW Liberal leader, Peter Debnam, who last week criticised Howard's position on Kyoto and dismissed his support for clean coal and nuclear energy. And expect to find out what Malcolm Turnbull really thinks.
Judith Brett teaches politics at La Trobe University. She is the author of Quarterly Essay 28, Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard, which will be out in mid-December.
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Sorry I didn't notice that this thread had some recent entries. Betty, if I were you I'd return my new Nook to B&N right away and get a new one, before your 14 days is up.
It is hard to tell why your new Nook right from the store had almost no charge. I've had 4 - a Classic, a Color, and the 2 Touches (the 2nd replacing the first), and in each case they were pretty highly charged when I first got them. Regardless, your Nook seems to be exhibiting the same symptoms I've been reporting (or even worse problems like azazel is having).
In a way, you're lucky the problems are showing up so early, when you can do something about it (i.e. exchange it for a new one). If you wait, yes, your warrantee will cover you, but you'll then have to MAIL the damn Nook back to B&N (they won't take it at the store - I've been all thru this myself), and you'll get a refurbished Nook, not a new one.
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The Three Lions recorded their second 1-0 victory in a row on Saturday ahead of their first game of Euro 2012 against France on June 11
Danny Welbeck pushed his claim to start up front against France in Donetsk on June 11 as the Manchester United striker scored the only goal with a delightful finish in the 36th minute.
Roy Hodgson will be pleased to have recorded a victory on his first home game in charge of the Three Lions - and a second clean sheet in as many matches - but England's age-old deficiencies were on show as Belgium controlled much of the game.
In front of a packed house at Wembley, there was something of a carnival atmosphere before the England squad flies out to Euro 2012, where it faces France, Sweden and co-host Ukraine in the group stages.
Hodgson made seven changes from the side that beat Norway a week earlier, starting with Joe Hart in goal and his first choice back four of Glen Johnson, Gary Cahill, John Terry and Ashley Cole. Most intriguing was the decision to hand a first England start to Arsenal midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
England began slowly as Marc Wilmots' visitors showed technical superiority in the early stages, taking control of possession, particularly through Dembele and Axel Witsel in central midfield.
But, in truth, the first half-an-hour was uneventful, with both teams struggling to create chances in the final third, as long-range potshots from Oxlade-Chamberlain and Witsel missed their targets.
Gary Cahill was forced off with with a jaw injury in the 19th minute. The Chelsea defender was sent for a precautionary X-ray following a collision with England goalkeeper Joe Hart and may now be a doubt for the start of the European Championship.
England was organized and stoic, relying on a solid defensive base from which it might be able to build. The opening goal came from a moment of quality that was out of keeping with a generally listless match.
Pressuring Belgium high up the pitch, Steven Gerrard won the ball and presented it to Ashley Young. The Manchester United man, who has thrived in Wayne Rooney's position as the link-man between midfield and attack, slipped a perfect pass to Welbeck, his club teammate.
Welbeck had no time to consider his options as the angles narrowed but used his natural instinct to clip a delightful left-footed finish over Belgium goalkeeper Simon Mignolet. It may have been his first international goal, but it was the finish of a young man with complete confidence in his ability at this level.
The second half continued in much the same manner as the first, with England playing with defensive discipline while looking short of ideas in the final third. The Three Lions hassled and harried but, in Poland and Ukraine, opposing teams could take advantage if they are allowed so much time with the ball.
Not that Belgium did not come close. Fellaini and Hazard both tested Hart before the visitors right back, Guillaume Gillet, clipped the outside of the post with a thumping drive on the half-volley from 25 yards.
At the other end, as both teams lost their shape following a raft of changes, England substitute Jermain Defoe himself hit the post as he struck across goal from 12 yards following a dangerous run from Theo Walcott.
Moments later, the Tottenham man lashed into the side netting from a tight angle after being put through by Walcott, much to the frustration of England coach Gary Neville, who took control of touchline duties.
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iShare recently took a close look at the size of breasts in Japan, as one does. Given the ample size, I'll split the results into two posts.
Between the 26th and 29th of August 2011 650 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The 438 women were split into 31.7% in their twenties and 68.3% in their thirties. The 212 men were split into 22.2% in their twenties and 77.8% in their thirties.
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Q1: What is your bra size? (Sample size=438, women)
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Q2: Do you worry about your bra size? (Sample size=438, women)
Very much so 31.7% A little 48.4% Not at all 19.9%
A cups and less and F cups and more caused the most worry; over 50% of the women of each of these sizes were very worried.
Q3: What kinds of bras do you use? (Sample size=438, women, multiple answer)
Three-quarters cup bra 67.4% Full cup bra 46.1% Non-wired bra 25.6% Half cup bra 15.8% Sports bra 11.0% Strapless bra 10.5% Unpadded bra 10.0% Front hook bra 8.9% Cleavage-enhancing bra (Wonderbra) 6.4% Sleep bra 6.4% Triangular bra 1.6% Other 1.1%
Q4: Do you think having large (D cup or larger) breasts has merits over small breasts? (Sample size=438, women)
Yes (to SQ) 40.0% No 60.0%
Q4SQ: What do you think the merits of large breasts are? (Sample size=175, multiple answer)
Shows a feminine body line 84.6% Looks sexy 69.1% Suits clothes that show off cleavage 57.7% Attracts men 40.0% Other 2.3%
Q5: Do you think having large (D cup or larger) breasts has demerits? (Sample size=438, women)
Yes (to SQ) 87.2% No 12.8%
Q5SQ: What do you think the demerits of large breasts are? (Sample size=382, multiple answer)
Get tired from heavy breasts 67.0% Look fat 60.5% When wearing shirts there's a gap between the buttons around the cleavage 51.0% Few cute bras 44.0% Highlights breasts only 42.7% Stretches the pattern on clothes around the cleavage 35.9% People mistakenly focus on the bust 29.8% Other 12.6%
Q6: Do you think there are situations where women with large breasts would want to wear a bra that made their bust smaller? (Sample size=438, women)
Yes (to SQ) 66.4% No 33.6%
Q6SQ: What kinds of situations do you think women with large breasts would want to wear a bra that made their bust smaller? (Sample size=291, women, multiple answer)
When not wanting to draw attention to one's bust 64.9% When wanting to look slim 62.2% When wanting to wear shirts 51.5% When not wanting to appear sexy 45.7% When at work 40.2% When wearing patterned clothes 26.1% When there are lots of men around 23.4% Other 3.4%
Q7: What do you think is the ideal bra size? (Sample size=438, women)
A cup or less 0.5% B cup 9.6% C cup 53.2% D cup 29.0% E cup 6.4% F cup 1.1% G cup 0.2% H cup or more 0.0%
Q8: Have you ever wanted to show off a smaller bust? (Sample size=438, women)
Yes. frequently (to SQ) 13.9% Yes, sometimes (to SQ) 21.2% No, never 64.8%
Q8SQ: Would you be interested in a bra that made your bust look smaller? (Sample size=438, women)
Yes, very much so 36.4% Yes, a little 50.0% No, not at all 13.6%


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In the wake of news that the maintenance backlog at America's national parks has hit an all-time high of nearly $12 billion, President Obama's budget request for fiscal year 2017 announced Tuesday includes $3.1 billion for the National Park Service to support critical conservation, preservation, and recreation programs for the country's most iconic, natural, cultural, and historical landscapes.
The budget request would boost the National Park Service's essential programs and operational needs by $250.2 million above the FY 2016 enacted levels.
"This is a smart, innovative and forward-looking budget that invests in Interior's key missions – now and in the future – so we can continue to serve the American people," Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell said in a statement. "The President's budget provides targeted investments to create economic opportunities by growing our domestic energy portfolio, building climate resilient communities, and revitalizing America's national parks as we mark their 100th anniversary."
Last year's numbers show that the national parks are at a popularity high, with more than 305 million people visiting the 409 parks in the National Park System in 2015, eclipsing the all-time visitation record the NPS saw in the previous year. The Blue Ridge Parkway, which runs through Asheville, was the most visited unit in the Park Service with 15 million visitors in 2015. The parkway also had one of the highest deferred maintenance backlogs, totalling $516 million, a record high.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British-born actress Elizabeth Taylor is getting better in hospital and she has not had a heart attack, a stroke or any kind of heart surgery, her representative said on Thursday.
But the 78-year-old two-time Oscar winner, who has been at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after being admitted with symptoms of heart failure earlier this month, will stay in hospital for now.
"Elizabeth Taylor's doctors continue to be encouraged by her progress," her representative said in a statement released on Wednesday.
"She is in good spirits and continues to feel stronger every day."
In 2009, Taylor, who has been married eight times, had surgery to replace a leaky heart valve and has been using a wheelchair for more than five years to cope with chronic pain.
A Hollywood star since appearing in "National Velvet" at age 12, Taylor won Oscars for her work in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Butterfield 8."
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LAFAYETTE — Meetings are scheduled in Patterson and Schriever this month in an effort to build a coalition of business leaders, community boosters and politicians to push for the completion of Interstate 49 South.
The I-49 South Coalition is still in the early stages of development, but the group has plans to form a board of directors later this year and hire at least one full-time staff member, said Michael Tamporello, who has been working with state Sen. Bret Allain, R-Franklin, to organize the group.
Tamporello said the plan is to create a coalition that will be "the unifying voice of the I-49 project."
The completion of I-49 along the path of U.S. 90 from Lafayette to New Orleans — estimated at $5 billion — has been talked about for decades.
Several projects in recent years have brought portions of U.S. 90 up to interstate standards, but big-dollar obstacles remain, including the mostly elevated 6-mile stretch through Lafayette that is estimated at more than $700 million.
Groups similar to the emerging coalition, though less formal and smaller in scope, have come together in the past to push for completing I-49 south.
"These initiatives have come up in the past and they have fizzled," Tamporello said.
He said the current effort is modeled after one coalition that successfully pushed the completion of I-49 North through Shreveport and another that continues to advocate for improvements on La. 1 in south Louisiana.
Those groups pulled together a wide spectrum of interests to lobby state and federal officials for highway dollars.
"We are not trying to re-invent the wheel," Tamporello said.
The new coalition has inspired hope in some longtime I-49 South supporters.
"Six months ago, I would have said that I-49 was dead as a doornail," Kam Movassaghi, president of Lafayette consulting firm Fenstermaker, said at a meeting of the Lafayette Metropolitan Expressway Commission on Thursday.
The LMEC has been one of the more active groups in exploring funding possibilities for I-49 South.
The group had been studying the possibility of using tolls to help fund the interstate, but the state Department of Transportation and Development has since taken the lead on the toll feasibility study.
DOTD spokeswoman Deidra Lockhart said Thursday that the toll study is expected to completed by this summer.
The I-49 South Coalition meetings are scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Fletcher Technical Community College in Schriever and 3 p.m. on March 18 at the Patterson Civic Center.
The meetings are open to the public.
For more information, visit http://www.drive49south.org.


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Launched in 1999, Hed Kandi has evolved from humble beginnings as a compilation brand into the global phenomenon it is today. With a catalogue spanning over 80 albums, a number of artist projects and three UK Top Ten singles and a host of Top 40 hits to date, Hed Kandi is now a globally respected brand.
Delivering these styles of music with a sense of humor to grown-up clubbers eventually snowballed into Hed Kandi parties and our first full residency began in London in 2002. The buzz about the most lavishly produced club events seen in the UK at that time soon spread and the first parties were roadblocked. The popularity of the nights increased exponentially so that residencies started to crop up all over the UK. Hed Kandi parties now happen in all continents of the globe – a true phenomenon.
Heavily influenced by the likes of Masters at Work, Mark Knight, David Morales, Roger Sanchez, Mood II Swing and X-Press II.
John came to link up with Hed Kandi in late 2000 because of his ability to read and rock a dance-floor.
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With the most students enrolled, buildings to maintain and staff on its payroll, the Washington School District has the largest budget of any public school system in Franklin County, followed by Meramec Valley and Union.
School districts were required to adopt a budget prior to July 1. The Missourian compiled information from area public schools for comparison purposes.
The Washington School District has a $58.8 million spending plan for the 2014-15 fiscal year.
The new budget reflects total revenue projections of $51,610,323.47, and operating expenditures of $58,881,113.50.
Expenditures include bond issue monies received, but not yet spent. The district will complete several construction projects this coming year, as well as maintenance of facilities, repair and extensive roof projects.
Washington will deficit spend about $2.1 million, but the budget projects an ending reserve balance of 28.52 percent.
The district serves more than 4,000 students from all or part of six different areas, including Marthasville, Augusta, Labadie, New Haven area, Union area and Washington. Its boundaries take in parts of three counties — Franklin, Warren and St. Charles.
The district operates an early childhood special education program, preschool program, eight elementary schools, one middle school and one high school.
In addition, Washington hosts the Four Rivers Career Center, a technical/trade school for students in the district and surrounding areas. The district also has a large warehouse and technology learning center.
The district will open its new 25,000-square-foot Early Learning Center next month, which will combine the Parents as Teachers, early childhood special education program and all in-town preschools under one roof.
The district's work force totals over 600 employees.
Meramec Valley
The Meramec Valley School District, which has its administrative offices in Pacific, had an enrollment of 3,153 this past year.
Meramec has five elementary schools, a middle school, an eighth-grade center and high school. It also operates a community school for early childhood special education and an early childhood education center.
The district has approximately 460 staff members
For 2014-15, the district projects expenditures of $43,426,534 and $35,634,110 in revenue.
Of the $7.7 million difference, district officials said $5.6 million is money remaining from Proposition M, which is being spent on a high school expansion project currently in progress.
That construction project will add a new 13,780-square-foot cafeteria, food service area, a 5,290-square-foot vestibule and lobby, along with a 3,245-square-foot administrative suite that includes a nurse station and sickroom at the high school.
The remaining $2 million is considered deficit spending, which is covered by the district's reserves.
Union School District
Following closely behind Meramec Valley, is the Union School District, which has a $33,395,336 spending plan. The budget includes $1.2 million in bond issue monies.
Revenue projections for 2014-15 are $30,567,609.
District patrons passed a bond issue in April 2013 for major improvements and upgrades to buildings throughout the district. Some of that money is being carried over to complete the projects.
The budget does include minimal deficit spending, around $750,000, which also is covered through the district's reserve funds.
The Union School District has approximately 3,076 students and 380 employees.
It operates three elementary schools, an early childhood special education program, one middle school and one high school, for a total of six school buildings.
St. Clair R-XIII
The St. Clair Board of Education approved a budget of $20.24 million, about $414,000 higher than what the projected revenue will be for the year.
Projected revenues are $19.83 million.
The St. Clair School District serves approximately 2,200 students with more than 400 employees.
It has five school buildings — one high school, a junior high, two elementary schools and the Franklin County Cooperative. The district also has one apartment building and uses four modular buildings for high school classrooms. Two annex buildings are used for alternative education and maintenance.
Currently, there are no major construction projects in the district.
St. Clair's numbers do not include the Franklin County Cooperative, which falls under its jurisdiction. The co-op's projected expenses are $3.53 million with revenue expected in the neighborhood of $3.54 million.
New Haven
New Haven Public School, a K-12 district, has a spending plan of $5,012,298 for the 2014-15 fiscal year, with revenue projected at $4,983,935.
The district has two buildings that serve approximately 490 students. There are about 84 teachers.
Also in the New Haven area is the Franklin County R-II School District, which serves kindergarten through eighth grade.
Expenditures for New Haven R-II are $2,150,973 and revenue is projected at $2,111,106.
Carol Laboube, principal, noted that when students attend surrounding high schools, the district pays tuition to those schools.
New Haven R-II has an estimated $39,000 in capital spending for technology updates this coming year.
The district has a total of 128 students in one school building. There are an additional 73 high school students that the district pays tuition for.
The district employs approximately 26 teachers and support staff.
Another K-8 school district is Lonedell R-XIV.
The Lonedell School Board approved a $4.717 million budget for 2014-15. Revenue is projected to be $4.532 million.
The budget marks the fourth year in a row the district has operated in the red, according to Jen Ulrich, Lonedell superintendent.
The district serves approximately 306 students in one school. It also has an additional 20 preschool students on site. It employs about 55 staff members.


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New Jersey sets record in 2012 for warmest year
Superstorm Sandy was the biggest weather story in New Jersey this year, but there's another story worth paying attention to: 2012 was the warmest year on record.
November 2012 was the only time in 22 months that temperatures in the Garden State were not above the long-term average.
State Climatologist Dave Robinson of Rutgers says it was one of the top ten warmest years globally because of the so-called greenhouse effect.
"Some of this is natural variability, but what we're doing to the environment, we meaning humans, is amplifying things a bit, making the warm warmest, maybe changing weather patterns, that's something still under active investigation," said Robinson.
Robinson says the jet stream also stayed to the north, helping push up temperatures.
"Last winter it stayed up along the Canadian-U.S. border and didnt allow much cold air in," said Robinson. "Over the summer when the jet normally stays to the north it didn¹t have hardly any chance of sneaking down here to give us a breath of cooler aid so we had yet another very warm summer."
He anticipates the warm weather pattern will continue in 2013, although not every month may have higher than normal temperatures.