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Lakers: Sprewell's price might not be right
By Vincent Bonsignore, Staff Writer
Latrell Sprewell doesn't like the money the Lakers are offering, but he appears to be running out of options. Sprewell, the talented but controversial free-agent guard who played last season in Minnesota, is seeking a deal starting at $5 million per season. He has spoken to the Lakers, which can offer only the $2.5 million remaining from its midlevel exception.
But lately, potential suitors San Antonio and Denver eliminated themselves from consideration by using their full $5 million midlevel exceptions to sign Michael Finley and Earl Watson, respectively.
That leaves only Miami, which has its full $5 million slot, and the Lakers as the remaining logical landing points for Sprewell.
Sprewell's agent, Robert Gist, confirmed Friday he hasn't been in contact with the Heat, but he has talked with the Lakers.
"When Latrell thinks about the Lakers, he gets a big smile on his face," said Gist. "Playing alongside a great player like Kobe Bryant and for a great coach like Phil Jackson is something he's very intrigued by."
turned down $7 million from Minnesota heading into last season and didn't expect to sign for anything less than $5 million going heading into the upcoming season.
The only way the Lakers could meet Sprewell's demands is by orchestrating a sign-and-trade deal with the Timberwolves, although that appears unlikely.
Kareem a Laker again: Hall of Fame center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been hired as a special assistant to work with the Lakers' big men at training camp and home practices. Abdul-Jabbar, who might do some traveling during the season, begins his assignment immediately.
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Ali Lohan is getting older -- and skinnier.
Lindsay Lohan's 18-year-old sister, who signed a multi-year contract with Next Model Management last year, was spotted fetching a modest lunch in L.A. of coffee and fruit.
Showing off her recently cropped hairdo, the Hollywood teen looked noticeably pale and thinner than ever, with a tiny black floral dress that accentuated her shockingly skinny frame.
Back in December of last year, the teenager's famous "mom-ager" Dina Lohan shot down public scrutiny over her younger daughter's shrinking figure, telling Us Weekly she doesn't "read any of the rubbish" about Ali's weight.
Ali (who goes by Aliana now) said simply that has "always had a fast metabolism and is able to eat what [she] wants, from scrambled eggs with American cheese and hot sauce to Nutella."


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Town Square
Underground utilities-- what happened?
Original post made by Midtown Guy, Midtown, on Jul 26, 2011
a resident of another community
on Jul 26, 2011 at 10:59 pm
The Colorado/Middle field area was completed. You must have walked beyond the limits of that project. The next area to be put underground is north of downtown and a part of Cambridge.
a resident of Midtown
on Jul 27, 2011 at 4:58 am
Walter_E_Wallis is a registered user.
Remember, the individual cost per household can exceed $5,000.00.
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Jul 27, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Under grounding just shows you where are City Council is coming from. Under grounding was promised to ALL of Palo Alto some 35 years ago. In fact our Utility rates were increased so this could be paid for.
The City has under grounded about 85 percent of North Palo Alto but only about one-third of South Palo Alto. Now they take the additional utility rates we pay, and instead of completing the under grounding, transfer the money to the general fund.
How about doing a whole lot more under grounding in South Palo Alto so our side of town gets treated the same as North Palo Alto.
a resident of Midtown
on Jul 27, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Midtown has not been completely undergrounded either. And even along Colorado Ave there are still ugly posts at Friends Lodge parking lot. Louis rd has not been undergrounded either.
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Index for 3pEA
ASA 132nd meeting - Hawaii, December 1996
3pEA1. Studies on sound and vibration generated by household appliances. I. The determination of sound power level of a waste disposer by the comparison method.
3pEA2. Accuracy in sound power level determination by the scanning intensity method.
3pEA3. Technical issues related to sound power measurement standards.
3pEA4. Sound power determination method for large-scale sound sources.
3pEA5. Energy flow and intensity flux in sound fields.
3pEA6. Characterization of a removable, hemianechoic floor in Health Canada's large anechoic chamber.
3pEA7. Studies on sound and vibration generated by household appliances. II. The determination of vibromotive force of waste disposers by a comparison method.
3pEA8. Sound power determination using sound intensity: A review of the technique and the ISO 9614/1 standard.


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Dundee, officially the City of Dundee, is the fourth-largest city in Scotland by population. At the 2011 census, it had a population density of 3,298 people per square kilometre, the second highest of any Scottish city. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea. Under the name of Dundee City, it forms one of the 32 council areas used for local government in Scotland.
The town developed into a burgh in medieval times, and expanded rapidly in the 19th century largely due to the jute industry. This, along with its other major industries gave Dundee its epithet as city of "jute, jam and journalism". Dundee's recorded population reached a peak of 182,204 at the 1971 census, but it has since declined to 147,285 according to the 2011 Census.
Today, Dundee is promoted as 'One City, Many Discoveries' in honour of Dundee's history of scientific activities and of the RRS Discovery, Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic exploration vessel, which was built in Dundee and is now berthed in the city harbour. Biomedical and technological industries have arrived since the 1980s, and the city now accounts for 10% of the United Kingdom's digital-entertainment industry. Dundee has two universities—the University of Dundee and the Abertay University. In 2014 Dundee was recognised by the United Nations as the UK's first UNESCO City of Design for its diverse contributions to fields including medical research, comics and video games.
A £1 billion master plan to regenerate and to reconnect the Waterfront to the city centre which started in 2001 is expected to be completed within a 30-year period, with the Dundee Victoria & Albert Museum opening by 2018 at a cost of £80 million.
Dundee is also known for The Dandy, The Beano, Desperate Dan, and Oor Wullie. Visitors wishing to orient themselves should consider taking a walk (or drive) up the Law, Dundee which offers a 360-degree uninterrupted view of Dundee, the Firth of Tay and the Tay Bridge, famously replacing the bridge demolished after the disaster of 1879, and the Tay Road Bridge.
In December 2014; Dundee was named the first city in the United Kingdom to hold the UNESCO City of Design status by the United Nations
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Two local Boy Scouts have made improvements on the Spring Lake Park High School campus in order to earn the prestigious Eagle Scout Award, which is the highest honor a Boy Scout can achieve before he turns 18 years old.
Spring Lake Park resident Kyle Polta of Troop 498, which meets at Christ Lutheran Church in Blaine, worked with 15 to 20 people to make 18 small benches that tennis players can sit on between matches on the high school's tennis courts.
"I was looking for an Eagle Scout project and I play tennis so this seemed natural," said Polta, who has been in the Scouting program for eight years.
The Spring Lake Park Lions Club, Spring Lake Park Lumber Company and ACE Hardware in Coon Rapids donated the supplies to make this project possible, Polta said.
After receiving his diploma from Spring Lake Park High School next spring, Polta plans to attend the University of Minnesota and major in mechanical engineering and entrepreneurial management.
Ryan Dailey of Blaine is home schooled. He chose to move an existing monument 20 feet to the base of a new flag pole by the Spring Lake Park High School baseball field.
The four-foot tall monument was as deep into the ground as it was tall so the team of six Scouts and four adults rented a Bobcat during the two-day project to dig out and lift the monument before placing it in its new location.
Dailey bought a used flagpole from Twin Cities Flagpole, which donated the U.S. flag.
Dailey has been in scouts for 11 years and plans to keep volunteering with Troop 513, which meets at Peace Lutheran Church in Coon Rapids. He had his Eagle Court of Honor Oct. 5 at Christ Lutheran Church.
"It means a lot to me. It shows how much I've accomplished," Dailey said.
Dailey is still touring colleges. He is leaning toward a career in computer hardware and robotics.
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I am a Republican who is grateful for President Barack Obama's change to immigration policy. I hope this leads Congress to pass the DREAM Act. I believe the young people who were brought into this country as underage, undocumented immigrants deserve a pathway to citizenship in the country where they were raised.
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Maino maintains his upward momentum with his second bit of output in three days. Titled "Lights Camera Action," the track features the rapper rhyming alongside fellow New Yorker, Troy Ave, and MMG's Meek Mill.
With a line up like this, listeners should know to expect nothing but authentic street music. Maino and company celebrate their rags to riches stories over a Cardiak-produced beat that has a bubbling soul sample and thumping drums.
This is the type of track that's meant to be played at loud decibels. Our only gripe is that Harry Powder's role is limited to the chorus.
Like "Watch Me Do It," featuring French Montana and T.I., "Lights Camera Action" will be on the Bed-Stuy native's forthcoming King of Brooklyn EP. Expect that to release February 4. Until then stream a radio rip of "Lights Camera Action" below.


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Ask your doctor if insurance will cover any of the cost of your treatment. If done for purely cosmetic reasons, you'll likely have to pay for the treatment of varicose veins yourself.
Self-care — such as exercising, losing weight, not wearing tight clothes, elevating your legs, and avoiding long periods of standing or sitting — can ease pain and prevent varicose veins from getting worse.
Wearing compression stockings all day is often the first approach to try before moving on to other treatments. They steadily squeeze your legs, helping veins and leg muscles move blood more efficiently. The amount of compression varies by type and brand.
You can buy compression stockings at most pharmacies and medical supply stores. Prices vary. Prescription-strength stockings also are available.
If you don't respond to self-care or compression stockings, or if your condition is more severe, your doctor may suggest one of these varicose vein treatments:
Sclerotherapy. In this procedure, your doctor injects small- and medium-sized varicose veins with a solution that scars and closes those veins. In a few weeks, treated varicose veins should fade.
Although the same vein may need to be injected more than once, sclerotherapy is effective if done correctly. Sclerotherapy doesn't require anesthesia and can be done in your doctor's office.
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Committee Continues Using Social Media Platforms to Connect with American Public
This week, the Energy and Commerce Committee took an innovative approach to provide folks outside the beltway a behind the scenes look at our committee process. Using Instagram, and posting pictures using the hashtag #BehindTheScenesWeek, the committee was able to give followers a backstage pass starting Monday morning to see the members of the committee, how the staff helps make sure things run smoothly, and a look at where much of the legislative work gets done in the committee rooms.
Check out some of the photos from this week below, and make sure to follow the committee on Instagram for all the latest filtered photos.
MONDAY: One of our committee clerks, Charlotte, sets up FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's nameplate. Wheeler will testify tomorrow morning at 10:30. Watch live at energycommerce.house.gov #BehindTheScenesWeek
TUESDAY: Chairman Fred Upton, @repgregwalden, and @mikerogersmi08 chat before today's Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing featuring FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. #BehindTheScenesWeek
WEDNESDAY: Subcommittee on Health Chairman Rep. Joe Pitts checks out our new social media wall before he chairs hearing on Medicare. #BehindTheScenesWeek
WEDNESDAY: Chairman Upton and Rep. Lee Terry participate in a G+ Hangout today to discuss the Keystone XL pipeline. #BehindTheScenesWeek
THURSDAY: View from the Chairman's dais this morning before our hearing on patent trolls. #BehindTheScenesWeek
THURSDAY: Chairman Upton stopped by the press shop earlier to show off his Chicago Cubs coffee mug! #BehindTheScenesWeek
#tbt The main committee room in 1999 (top) compared to now. We like the green! #BehindTheScenesWeek
FRIDAY: Gorgeous Friday here in Washington, D.C. at our @uscapitol. Thanks so much for following along and we hope you enjoyed #BehindTheScenesWeek and have a great Memorial Day weekend! As Chairman Upton says, we are the land of the free because of our brave.


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Mrs. Betsy Hull Dies at Home of Her Son.
Mrs. Betsy Wiseman Hull, aged eighty-eight years, eight months and twenty-nine days, died Friday morning at the home of her son, William Hull at Bowler. Three months ago she had an attack of flu, since which she has been bedridden, and this was the indirect cause of her death.
Mrs. Hull was born on August 11, 1840 in England, the descendant of a royal family. She was the sole survivor of a family of thirteen children, her twin sister dying eight years ago.
When she was six years old she came to America with her parents, and they settled in Dodge County. After a short time, they moved to Omro, where in 1860, the subject of this article was married to Henry Hull. Forty-eight years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Hull came to Shawano county and took up a homestead in the Town of Morris. Mr. Hull died in 1886, leaving a family of seven children to rear.
For the past several years Mrs. Hull had made her home with her youngest son, William, at Bowler, who with three brothers, Frank, Melvin(?), and Charles, and three sisters, Mrs. Harvey, Mrs. Ross and Mrs. Kenny(?) Dice survive her.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon from the Bowler home, and later from the church at Wittenberg. Interment took place at the family lot in Wittenberg.
Mrs. Hull was a genial, person whom it was a pleasure to know. She was of pleasant nature and enjoyed good health until stricken with the flu just recently. She loved to help about the house, and was an interesting talker when in a reminiscent mood, telling stories of early pioneer life. She was well read and was equally ready and willing to converse on present day topics. She leave a host of friends who with the surviving children, mourn her death.


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Julie Stalmer 5:30 p.m., Sept. 22
This could have been any day here in Baja, really, but it wasn't. It was on a Friday night. My grandson was coming over, all 27 pounds of him. He's the only beast that still scares the crap out of the new puppy. Dog terrorizes everyone else, but not Az. Az is fearless. His parents were off to attend a Posada that evening, last Friday. So, I took my nasty cigarette habit outside for a change, I smoked out back. When I opened the back door, I realized instantly that my neighbor Ted had discovered a new hobby. Cannabis. Ganja. Weed. Skunk. Take your pick.
It brought back some memories, I smoked enough of that stuff in high school to make both Cheech and Chong blush.
Entirely fearless of the possible contact high, I instead sucked a bucket full of nicotine out of a cigarette that I had busted the filter off of, and came back inside. This time of year, it's colder inside than out. I bundled up. My daughter Anna, entertaining Az, met my line of sight and I had to ask her. "So, you know Ted got a new hobby, right?"
"Funny you bring that up," she said. "The other day I went out there to do a load of laundry and I thought something was on fire. I checked the boiler and nothing was wrong."
(A boiler is a water-heater here in Mexico. Seems appropriate to me.)
"Then I realized what was going on," she continued.
I often get a big chuckle when conservatives in the United States of America go on and on about Mexico. I grew up in a very conservative environment. Sometimes those people just rail against Mexico, about how socialist and corrupt it is here. Actually, I think that humans have more freedom here than up there. With that comes a huge responsibility, however. Maybe that's what they are really trying to get at.
Basically, in Mexico, you are free to do what you wish so long as you don't hurt someone else in the process. Having a party? You can crank your tunes all night, just know that your neighbors can do the same when it's your turn to work the graveyard shift. Call the cops on the neighbors' loud music and the cops will laugh at you. Then they will hang up. This is what happens.
Mostly, everyone here acts responsibly. Sure, some join cartels or gangs that support them, and others rob and steal and otherwise do not contribute in a positive manner to humanity, but most folks here are awesome people. Your neighbors are going to have a big party once in a while and crank up the volume. But then, so will you. I think that part of the responsibility of the equation is that you have the capacity to look away, even if you're pissed off and tired as hell, because you'll likely do that to them someday even if you don't mean to. Seems to be a fair exchange when it comes to annoying one another.
So, Ted gets a new bong and wants to break it in. Good for Ted. I envisioned Ted buying a big bag of Cheetos and playing Playstation for the next seven hours. I really did. My second cigarette brought me even closer to my youth, I was remembering mornings behind the old Tic-Toc Market up in Los Angeles. It made first-period algebra almost bearable. Good times, good times.
My wife looked at me, right after that third cigarette. She has me dialed in. I couldn't kill a cockroach without her reading that all over my face. "What happened," she said.
"Ted's beating the hell out of his wife."
No hotline. Oh, she's alive. She's fine. There is some sort of dynamic in that relationship and others like them I'll never understand, no matter what I read about it. Ted's English is perfectly full of curse. So is hers. It was incredibly loud. My wife looked away after I told her.
"There's no remedy for this sort of thing, is there," I asked.
And so, obviously, one would think that Ted's new bong would somehow sooth his propensity for that sort of violence. Apparently not. I guess that was the biggest surprise. Not so much that his wife sits there and takes it. As I say, that's a dynamic I simply don't understand. And so, as goes the loud music, goes the loud whatever. That freedom-fruit tastes mighty fine, but the pit is bitter.
And there isn't a damned thing I can do about it.
Great story, as always. Can't wait for your book to be published!
Oh hun, the publishing world is so on its head at the moment. I promise, when I launch a novel, you'll be the FIRST to know after I do. Hope we live long enough to see it :)
Nan passed along a story of yours (something about the type of jobs writers often take in hopes that they won't have the life/writing sucked out of them) to me when I first joined the Reader Blog and you've been a favorite of mine ever since. Nan described you as a Master and you truly are. I'm in line waiting on that novel right behind wonderful Bohemianopus!
Hey, Roody, thanks for the encouragement, it is truly appreciated here.
yep i did tell miss roody that...another masterpiece of rambling observation Refried
Merry Christmas to u and fam homey!!
oh a posada!!!
i haven't seen one in years...
i'm making enchiladas 4 Christmas Eve...bet u will 2!!!
Christmas Eve in my house is scratch-made clam chowder, Nan. I reckon I'll take some to Ted and his wife, if their mouths are busy then maybe they won't fight so much. Merry Christmas to you and yours, I hope your Holidays are filled with awesome :)
good idea...from scratch eh....the "Feast of the Seven Fishes" folks would approve of that ;-D)
Ah, Caldo de Siete Mares, or Seven Seas Soup. It's a very classic dish here, Nan. One would expect that the key ingredient is fish and seafood, and while those items are in it, the most essential ingredient is dried guajillo chilies, grilled or oven-baked in order to burn the skin slightly and release that wonderful flavor. I have made it several times, I especially enjoy it in the summer time. Next time I make it, I'll document it, so everyone can try it at their leisure.
Hi RG, I would like to thank you for telling people what life here in Tijuana is really like. Both good and bad. My family and I once had a Ted situation next door to us. So I know what is in your heart during those moments. Keep up the great work RG.
Hey John, you too. Merry Christmas, my friend. I hope yours is swell.


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Know the Laws: Arizona
UPDATED September 15, 2017
As with everything on this site, this information is not legal advice. Custody is complicated and it is important to try to find an experienced lawyer to help you with your case. To read information on finding a lawyer, please click on the Where to Find Help tab at the top of this page. Note: In Arizona, custody is known as "legal decision-making" and visitation is known as "parenting time."
At least one of the child's parents is entitled to legal decision-making, unless there is clear and compelling (convincing) evidence that awarding legal decision-making to a legal parent is not consistent with the child's best interests.
Four conditions must be met for a non-parent to apply for legal decision-making rights or placement of the child:
1) The person who is filing must stand "in loco parentis" to the child.* To be "in loco parentis," a person must have:
2) The petitioner must prove that it is detrimental (harmful) to the child to remain in the custody of either legal parent who wishes to keep or acquire (get) legal decision-making;
3) No court has entered or approved an order concerning legal decision-making or parenting time within the previous one year before the petitioner files (unless there is reason to believe the child's present environment may seriously endanger the child's physical, mental, moral or emotional health); and
4) One of the following situations applies:
Even though it may be difficult to get legal decision-making over a child if you are a child's relative (other than a parent), you may be able to get visitation if you are a grandparent, great-grandparent, or another (non-parent) third party. See Can a grandparent (or other non-parent third party) get visitation? for more information.
In certain situations, a person other than a legal parent may petition the superior court for visitation with a child. The judge may grant visitation if the judge believes that visitation is in the best interests of the child and any one of the following are true:
In deciding whether to grant visitation to a third party, the court shall give special weight to the legal parents' opinion of what serves their child's best interests and consider all relevant factors including:
Possibly. While the judge will strongly consider the safety and well-being of the child and of the victim of the act of domestic violence,* it is possible that a parent who has committed violence will get legal decision-making or parenting time.
If the parent who committed an act of domestic violence against the other parent is trying to get (joint or sole) legal decision-making, the judge will assume that awarding legal decision-making to that parent is not in the best interest of the child.*1 However, the abusive parent can try to present evidence to change the judge's mind. When making his/her decision, the judge will consider whether the abusive parent:
The court will not grant joint legal decision-making if it finds that significant domestic violence has occurred or if there is a significant history of domestic violence.*3
If the parent who committed an act of domestic violence is seeking parenting time, that parent has to prove to the judge that parenting time will not endanger the child or significantly harm the child's emotional development. The judge may place conditions on parenting time that best protects the child and the other parent from further harm.*4
Courts generally presume that it is in the child's best interest to see both parents regularly, so they favor providing both parents with some form of legal decision-making and parenting time. Courts will only deny parenting time when there is substantial (important) evidence that parenting time would be harmful to your child.
The judge has to consider the impact of domestic violence on your child when deciding if there should be parenting time. If a judge is unsure about whether parenting time could be harmful to your child, s/he may establish specific parenting time rules that s/he thinks are in the best interest of your child. The judge can:
Possibly. However, if the judge determines that a parent has abused drugs or alcohol or has been convicted of certain drug offenses within the past twelve months before the petition for legal decision-making or parenting time is filed, the judge will assume that it is not in the child's best interests for that parent to get sole or joint legal decision-making. However, the parent who is accused of abusing drugs or alcohol can try to present evidence to change the judge's mind. In that case, the judge must at least consider the following evidence:
Possibly but it depends on the circumstances. If the parent is a registered sex offender or if the parent murdered the other parent, the judge can only grant sole or joint legal decision-making of a child or unsupervised parenting time if the judge find that there is no significant risk to the child.
In the case of a parent who was convicted of murdering the other parent, the judge can consider whether the convicted parent was a victim of domestic violence at the hands of the murdered parent, for example .
In addition to the judge considering a case where a parent is a sex offender, the judge will also consider a situation where a parent involves himself/herself with a registered sex offender. A child's parent or custodian must immediately notify the other parent or custodian if s/he knows that a convicted or registered sex offender (or a person who has been convicted of a dangerous crime against children as defined on our AZ Statutes page, section 13-705) may have access to the child. The parent or custodian must provide notice by first class mail, return receipt requested, by electronic means to an electronic mail address that the recipient provided to the parent or custodian for notification purposes or by other communication accepted by the court.*
It depends. The law says that if the offender was convicted of the crime of sexual assault and that sexual assault led to your child being conceived, the convicted person has no rights to legal decision-making or parenting time.* However, if the offender was not criminally convicted of this specific crime of sexual assault, he may still be able to get rights to your child.
WomensLaw.org thanks Lynne Norris at the AZCADV for her help in putting together this material, Sarah Youngblood, Managing Attorney at Community Legal Services, Eastside Office for her help in revising this section, and Merri Tiseth and Shannon Rich at the AZCADV for their revisions.


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question about gun registration
ok guys im new here! im not new to guns but im not too sure where to post my topic at!
well i have a handgun i bought beginning of jan09 its regerstered in my name!
well its a very good gun and all im just wanting to buy my dream gun s&w model 686.. anyways when i have a buyer wanting to buy my gun how can i legally get it out of my name and into theres?
i live in columbus ohio and have many gunshops around me. i just dont know if they charge a fe or even how to go about this?
thanks guys for any info/help
the gun is a taurus 24/7 pt pro c ds .45 im about to sell mint condition
First, my son, tell me why you feel this handgun is "registered " to you?
Last time I looked, Ohio- like MOST of the US, does not have registration of firearms. When you bought the gun from a dealer, you completed a form 4473, which the DEALER retains for 20 years.
Now, you CAN sell directly to a resident of the same state you live in. If going to someone from another state, it must go to a dealer in their state. You can make up two copies of a bill of sale, ask for the buyer's ID, fill out both copies, sign one, give it to him, have him sign one that you keep. Just in case you are worried about someone looking for you in the future, you KNOW who you sold to.
You can also find a dealer that is willing to do a transfer (auction arms and gunbroker both have a "find a ffl tab". Contact dealer, see if he is willing to do this as a transfer. He sets his own fee- typically around $50. DO NOT sell a gun to anyone you have cause to believe cannot legally own a gun- minor, illegal alien, convicted felon, etc.
Link to Ohio gun laws: Ohio Gun Laws - What are the Gun Laws in Ohio
i feel the gun is reg. in my name b/c i filled out a bunch of paperwork when i purchased it from buckeye outdoor here in hebron ohio.
is this not true or was that just a background check form only? or how is it when they run my serial number it shows up in my name? im confused now
and of coarse i know not to sell the gun to some nut and anyone under 21.
also if i do a bill of sale and lets say martial law takes affect i just give them that piece of paper and im good to go?
i think id rather just have them pay the gunmans fee and do it that way..
If martial law takes effect, you'll want to keep your gun to protect yourself from anyone who wants to take it away - including your government. That's specifically why the founders included the right to keep and bear arms as one of your rights. That right is the only one which will ensure you keep your other rights.
You don't have to do any paperwork if you sell a HAND gun to someone who lives in your state. Just ask for an ID to make sure they reside in state - ATF agents in some states are buying HAND guns from individuals at gun shows, and arresting those individuals later.
Long arms can be sold intrastate by a non-dealer.
As has been stated above, you can sell it to another individual from your state. The gun will still show you as the owner if it turns up on someones data base. That is why it is a good idea to get info from the person who bought it. When you trade it in at a gun shop for another gun, they will have you fill out another GD form transferring the gun to them, so that they in turn can legally sell it to someone else.
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My friends and relatives kept on telling me that I'm one of the first ones here in the Philippines to own an iPhone 4S. At first I didn't believe them; but when Globe claimed that they're the first one to launch the iPhone 4S here in the country (the launch will be on December 16), I believed my folks already. LOL :)
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New To Fondant. Please Help!
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I've made about 12 cakes with fondant, but I always have a problems with it...such as- The fondant doesn't cover the whole cake. Bulging when doing tiered cakes. and do I always have to use buttercream under fondant? These are just a few questions I have and I would love any help! Thanks so much!
P.S. I posted pictures of my cakes!
I have always covered my cake first with buttercream before I add fondant unless I am using a dummy. Whatever your cake looks like with the buttercream is what it will look like with fondant. Measure the height of both sides and the diameter for the cake top and add them all together to know the minimum size your fondant should be. Always go bigger to allow yourself some room.
Your fondant should be about 1/4" thick. As well, let you cake sit after you fill to let it settle so you will know what bulge you are going to have. Taking care of the bulge at this stage will eliminate the problem after you have fondanted. Your cake board under your cake should be slightly smaller than you cake so that you fondant can straight down to the bottom.
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The last time we noticed any publicity for the Nissan Versa was a few years ago when a character on the TV series Heroes demanded one as a rental car. Then there's the fact that the base sedan has the industry's lowest starting price ($9,990). That's about it for claims to fame. But its low profile doesn't mean you should overlook the Versa.
Appearance: Can you say utilitarian? The four-door hatchback has a high roofline that slopes ever so slightly to the rear hatch. The Versa has large headlights and a pronounced hood, where its appearance definitely puts its best face forward.
Performance: Having a six-speed manual added a little fun to the driving experience. In a car that lists for about $15,000 that's a bonus. The 1.8-liter, 122-horsepower four-cylinder is willing and mostly able. Both the clutch and the shifting are light. (Peter thought the clutch was maybe a little too light.) In highway driving, you'll definitely get buffeted by the big rigs, but that's to be expected from a small car.
Interior: Thanks to the optional Power Plus package, our tester came with most of the creature comforts you expect in a slightly more expensive car. That includes AC; power windows, door locks and mirrors; intermittent wipers; remote keyless entry and even cruise control. The three-gauge dash and other controls are simple and clear. Elsewhere, the center dash console is plasticky and somewhat barren — but this is an economy car after all. We both would have liked a center armrest, but the open design is part of the roomy interior. Peter was surprised by the ample headroom (score one for the high roofline). The cloth seats are comfortable, and even the rear seats have enough room for two adults or three kids. The rear hatch is light and easy to lift, but the doorway is more narrow than the body, and there's a lip to the cargo area. The cargo mat is flimsy and doesn't stay flat. The rear seats fold down 60/40, but not flat to the floor. The lever to recline the front seat is on the inside, not the outside, which is inconvenient.
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Safety: Full compliment of airbags and curtains, plus ABS.
Grocery getter: It nicely held our cart full of Publix bags without folding down the rear seat.
Roomy: It's a subcompact. Really?
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Bright and airy: The triangular window opening in the front of the car adds extra light.
Visibility: You can see and be seen better with large head- and taillights.
Features: Power windows and mirrors, and intermittent wipers.
The bottom line: The Versa doesn't win on looks or wow-me features like some of the others in its class. But it's roomy inside and the gas mileage of 26/31 is attractive. We'd go for the six-speed manual over the automatic for the fun factor.


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EL PASO — Louisiana Tech jumped all over North Texas in the opening moments of a first-round game at the Conference USA tournament on Tuesday night.
UNT never quite found a way to recover and fell 77-59 at Memorial Gym, ending the Mean Green's first season as a member of C-USA.
Louisiana Tech scored the game's first six points, led by as many as 21 and cruised into the second round, where the Lady Techsters will face Charlotte at 6 p.m. today.
"They really did a good job of dictating the game from the very beginning and had us on our heels on both ends from," UNT coach Mike Petersen said. "Usually our energy is pretty good, but it wasn't great at the start of the game and went in and out. Then they started hitting shots and we didn't do enough to convince them to not make shots."
Hannah Christian scored career-high 15 points and Briesha Wynn added 14 for UNT (12-18). The Mean Green entered the tournament as the No. 11 seed and was looking to avenge a late-season loss to Louisiana Tech, the No. 14 seed.
Chrisstasia Walter scored 18 points to lead five players who finished in double figures for Louisiana Tech (11-19).
UNT struggled offensively and shot just 31 percent (22-for-71) from the field and made just four of its 31 3-point attempts.
"We had a lot of good looks early that didn't go in," Petersen said. "Basketball is a make-miss game. When you miss, that is a problem."
It was a big problem for UNT, which found itself facing a Louisiana Tech zone that was packed into the lane.
"At some point you are going to have to score in transition and beat the zone back or make a couple of jump shots," Petersen said.
UNT's key shooters couldn't get anything to fall. Janis Peterson went 1-for-8 from beyond the arc, while Laura McCoy missed all five of her 3-point attempts.
Christian helped make up for some of UNT's struggles with one of the best performances of her career.
"I just wanted to win," Christian said. "I didn't realize how much I shot until now when I looked at the stat sheet. I guess I could have made a couple more."
UNT pulled to within 12-10 after its slow start on a free throw from Alexis Hyder but went into halftime down 36-29.
Louisiana Tech quickly pushed its lead to double figures and led by as many as 21 while gradually pulling away from UNT, which experienced an up-and-down year.
The Mean Green upset UTEP, which finished third in the C-USA standings and is 23-6 entering the conference tournament, and competed well against some of the league's top teams.
Several chances for other key wins slipped away. A loss in the opening round of the conference tournament was another key setback for the Mean Green.
"Overall, it's one of those years where we made progress, but our record isn't going to show it," Petersen said. "It ended really disappointingly. This is not the effort and performance we wanted, but for the most part, this group competed very well and played very well against good teams. We just didn't close games.
"This group will have most of its main parts back and learned a lot."
Louisiana Tech 77, North Texas 59
LOUISIANA TECH (11-19) — Frazier 3-10 4-6 10, Langston 1-2 0-0 2, Jackson 5-9 1-1 13, Shelton 3-5 4-4 13, Walter 5-11 8-9 18, Vucinic 0-2 0-0 0, Jefferson 0-2 0-0 0, Andrews 0-0 0-1 0, Perry 4-9 5-7 15, Chenevert 0-0 0-4 0, Moten 1-1 0-0 2, Hall 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 24-55 22-32 77.
NORTH TEXAS (12-18) — Wynn 6-13 2-2 14, Hyder 3-8 2-4 8, McCoy 0-5 0-0 0, Peterson 2-11 2-2 7, Nelson 1-8 3-4 5, Christian 6-18 0-0 15, Evans 2-2 1-1 5, Jeter 0-1 0-0 0, Ellison 1-2 0-0 2, Darrington 1-3 1-2 3, Davis 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-71 11-15 59.
Halftime — Louisiana Tech 36-29. Three-point goals — Louisiana Tech 7-16 (Frazier 0-2, Jackson 2-4, Shelton 3-4, Walter 0-2, Perry 2-4). UNT 4-31 (Wynn 0-4, Hyder 0-1, McCoy 0-5, Peterson 1-8, Nelson 0-1, Christian 3-12). Fouled out — Hyder, Nelson. Rebounds — Louisiana Tech 48 (Walter 11), UNT 41 (Wynn 9). Assists — Louisiana Tech 11 (Walter 11), UNT 8 (Christian 4). Total fouls — Louisiana Tech 18, UNT 25. A – NA.


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SAVVIS Communications (NASDAQ: SVVS), a leading global IT utility, today announced the adoption of their virtualized IT services delivery platform by Deluxe Media Management, the marketing fulfillment arm of Deluxe Laboratories, a leading entertainment services provider. Under the agreement, Deluxe chose SAVVIS' new virtualized utility services platform to deliver the IT solutions for their complex theatrical marketing fulfillment offering þu storing, managing and distributing catalogues of DVDs, CDs, and promotional materials from posters and t-shirts to movie theaters, studios and television networks around the world.
Built on advanced, automated software management and provisioning systems, SAVVIS' virtualized services is the first platform to integrate network, hosting, storage, and compute architectures in one place. By deploying a secure, private and completely virtual IT infrastructure, Deluxe will significantly cut costs by eliminating expensive, outdated hardware and streamlining the complexity of media management with simple and flexible, pay-as-you-go IT services.
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Unlike the traditional service provider model, in which companies must pay for excess and unused capacity, SAVVIS' virtualized delivery platform automatically optimizes resource allocation for each client. This combination of on-demand services with the increased reliability from SAVVIS' integration of carrier class hardware and automated management systems is particularly well-suited for compute and storage intensive business requirements. As a result, the platform increases Deluxe's flexibility and agility, making it possible to quickly respond to their customers' needs.
Deluxe is leading a trend away from build-it-yourself infrastructure and traditional, people-intensive outsourcing models, and toward virtualized services for network, computing, applications, and storage. IDC forecasts that the market for utility-based, virtualized services is growing rapidly and will increase from $800 million in 2003 to $3.6 billion in 2007. One reason for this growth is that virtualized services deliver a rapid payback, but protect previous investments. They complement and enhance existing hardware and network infrastructure without forcing companies to make additional capital expenditures.
"SAVVIS' virtualized services delivery platform provides the end-to-end performance, security, and scalability demanded by today's mission critical applications," said Rob McCormick, chairman and chief executive officer of SAVVIS. "The combination of Deluxe's media fulfillment applications and SAVVIS' IT services offers a compelling value proposition to Deluxe's customers."
SAVVIS' virtualized utility services are made possible in part through technology partnerships with Egenera, Inkra Networks, 3PAR, and Nortel Networks who contribute key virtualization technologies that power the end-to-end platform.
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NWF Plays Key Role in Program to Move Buildings Out of Flood Plains
In 1993 record rains fell on the American Midwest, triggering a flood of Biblical proportions--one that was to go down as the worst in U.S. history. But out of this disaster came a dramatic shift in the nation's approach to flood control--from rebuilding damaged properties to relocating people away from flood plains.
Of the 80,000 buildings in nine midwestern states flooded in 1993, more than 10,000 have been bought out by local governments and removed. In most cases, homeowners received pre-flood value for their homes and received federal loans to find new housing outside flood-prone areas.
One of the leading activists of this dramatic shift is David Conrad, water resources specialist at NWF. "The Federation has long been concerned about the federal government's emphasis on using dams and levees to contain waterways rather than recognizing the natural value of flood plains for maintaining wetlands, providing wildlife habitat and generally improving the quality of communities,quot; he says.
Conrad has nearly 20 years' experience in water resources, first with American Rivers, then Friends of the Earth, and for the past eight years with NWF. With the Big Flood of 1993, he saw an opportunity to realize his goal in life of helping to translate the findings of the scientific community into public policy.
Already, the midwest relocations have paid off big. In the 1993 flood, more than 40 percent of St. Charles, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, was under water and losses were catastrophic. When it flooded again in 1995, insurance and disaster relief claims were only 1 percent of the 1993 amount, because nearly 900 residences and businesses had been bought out and removed from the flood plain.
St. Charles and other towns are converting their flood plains into parks, greenways and playing fields that enhance the community while allowing nature to take its course during floods. Flood-prone rural and agricultural areas also were purchased for flood plain management and recreational and wildlife uses. For example, along the Iowa River, an area that was heavily flooded in 1993, 50,000 acres have been purchased for the federal Wetland Reserve Program and for state and federal wildlife areas.
As the 1993 flood waters crested, Conrad and Scott Faber, the director of flood plain programs for American Rivers, toured dozens of devastated towns, talking to the victims of the flood in the worst-hit states of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri.
In initial meetings with the federal, state and local officials in St. Louis, Conrad found that many federal authorities were still "clueless" and ready to launch into rebuilding, but state and local officials were ready to try something new.
Back in Washington, D.C., Conrad worked tirelessly to line up Congressional and Administration support for a bill introduced by Rep. Harold Volkmer (D-Missouri) that would increase the amount of disaster relief money the government could spend on buyouts and relocations from $33 million to $125 million. It passed and was signed into law as the Hazard Mitigation and Relocation Assistance Act of 1993.
Conrad also pressured the White House for a change in disaster relief guidelines. "Ultimately, of $6 billion made available for midwest flood recovery, about $750 million was earmarked for voluntary buyout or relocation of homes, businesses and frequently flooded farm land," Conrad reports.
More than 150 communities have taken advantage of the buyout assistance. NWF is preparing a report on new ways to deal with repetitive flood losses, due out this spring, that will identify the 300 most flood-prone towns in the United States--the ones that have sustained the greatest losses in recent years and could gain most from the new buyout policy.
Back to the beginning.
NWF Supports New User Fee To Aid Wildlife
High on NWF's agenda for the 105th Congress is legislation that would establish a small user fee in the form of an excise tax on outdoor equipment to fund management of nongame wildlife.
NWF and 25 of its state affiliates have joined over 1,400 other national, regional and local organizations in supporting the Teaming with Wildlife Initiative. The measure calls for a modest tax on a range of outdoor recreation products, such as 25 cents on a $10 field guide or $2.50 on a $100 tent.
The tax would be patterned after an existing federal excise tax on hunting and fishing gear that aids recovery of game species. The 60-year-old Pittman-Robertson Act levies an 11% federal excise tax on the sales of guns and ammunition. In 1996 it is estimated that the federal government will distribute about $118 million from this tax to states explicitly for wildlife restoration projects.
The new tax would raise an estimated $350 million a year for state wildlife diversity programs, says NWF senior scientist Doug Inkley.
" Thousands of wildlife species not hunted and fished are virtually ignored until they are threatened or endan-gered, simply because there is almost no funding available for monitoring and managing them before they reach a crisis state, " Inkley testified before the previous Congress.
Game species have benefited immensely from taxes on hunting and fishing equipment, he added.. "We can now replicate those programs to provide similar benefit for the remaining 90 percent of species with virtually no dedicated funding for their conservation."
Wildlife Week: Nature's Web Theme for 1997
A random drawing for teachers is a new feature of National Wildlife Week 1997, which will be celebrated April 20-26.
Teachers are invited to submit success stories about how they used the classroom activities for this year's Wildlife Week theme, "Nature's Web: Communities and Conservation," which reflects NWF's emphasis on building sustainable communities.
The top winner in a random drawing will receive an expenses-paid trip to NWF's Conservation Summit in the Adirondacks in July. Twenty-five second-place winners will receive free one-year subscriptions to Ranger Rick magazine, and up to 180 teachers' success stories and accompanying pictures will be posted on NWF's home page.
Instructions for submitting success stories are contained in the 649,000 Wildlife Week kits that NWF will distribute free to teachers, grades K-8 via its affiliates.
States Log Wins For Conservation In Election `96
In last fall's election, voters showed strong support for conservation measures endorsed by NWF and its state affiliates. For example:
Missouri: The Conservation Federation of Missouri, an NWF affiliate, helped persuade voters to renew a 1/10th of 1 percent sales tax to benefit state parks and soil erosion control programs. The Federation heavily supported passage of the tax in 1984, and when the state legislature refused to put it up to voters for renewal in 1996, its volunteers spearheaded a petition drive to get it on the ballot.
New York: Voters passed a massive $1.75 billion Clean Water/Clean Air Bond Act, which an NWF affiliate, Environmental Advocates, helped negotiate and strongly supported. The measure will enable the state to safeguard its drinking water, invest in clean-air industries, clean up inner-city toxic-waste sites and improve solid-waste disposal.
Arkansas: Citizens approved a 1/8th of 1 percent tax, strongly supported by the Arkansas Wildlife Federation, that will benefit the state Game and Fish Commission and other conservation programs.
West Virginia: The West Virginia Wildlife Federation helped push through a Constitutional amendment to protect the Division of Natural Resources from funding raids by other interests. Voters also approved the sale of a special state license plate to benefit nongame wildlife and natural heritage sites.
Colorado: Voters passed a Constitutional amendment, strongly supported by NWF and one of its affiliates, the Colorado Wildlife Federation. The measure calls for 3 million acres of state lands to be managed for uses such as wildlife habitat and conservation of open spaces, rather than for maximum revenue
Florida: "Save Our Everglades" was the rallying cry when NWF and the Florida Wildlife Federation helped convince citizens to pass two of three Everglades initiatives. Voters approved measures both endorsing the notion that polluters should pay to clean up the Everglades and creating a trust fund to accept money for restoration. But they rejected another initiative that would have imposed a penny-a-pound fee on sugar produced in the Everglades region to pay for the cleanup.
Maine: Nearly 80 percent of Maine voters supported restricting clear-cutting of forests. But because there were two competing ballot initiatives on the issue, neither won the outright majority needed to pass.
Montana: A notable setback occurred when a massive $3 million campaign by the mining industry helped defeat a measure that would have reversed the legislature's action increasing the amount of pollutants that can be discharged into state waters by huge cyanide-leach gold mines. NWF's Northern Rockies Natural Resource Center and the Montana Wildlife Federation were leaders in the drive to get the issue on the ballot.
Back to the beginning.
NWF, Discovery To Work on Show For Ranger Rick
NWF and Discovery's new Animal Planet network have joined forces to create a Ranger Rick Raccoon television show.
Now in its 30th year of publication, Ranger Rick magazine has reached tens of millions of kids aged 7-12. Like Animal Planet, it offers families a safe harbor by providing age-appropriate, informative entertainment. As the magazine's host and mascot, Ranger Rick Raccoon is the friendly, intelligent, inspirational and upbeat leader of the animal characters living in the magazine's mythical Deep Green Wood.
Clark Bunting, senior vice president and general manager of Animal Planet, says the goal of the joint effort is to determine how to transfer Ranger Rick Raccoon's appeal to a television character while maximizing TV's flexibility for creative storytelling.
Animal Planet, the third advertiser-supported service of Discovery Networks, U.S., offers people of all ages a broad range of animal programming, including children's programming, game shows, drama, comedy, documentaries, classic TV and event reportage.
Launched June 1, 1996, Animal Planet promises all animals, all the time. Discovery Networks, U.S., a unit of Discovery Communications, Inc., operates and manages Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel and Animal Planet.
Animal Planet has a website at www.animal.discovery.com.
Annual Meeting Set for April 3-6 In Tucson, Arizona
" Nature's Web-Communities and Conservation " is the theme for this year's NWF annual meeting, to be held at the DoubleTree Hotel in Tucson. The meeting program will emphasize the conservation goals that unite us.
Speakers will include: Nina Leopold Bradley, daughter of renowned wildlife author and naturalist Aldo Leopold; and The Honorable Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior and former Governor of Arizona (invited).
At this year's meeting we'll have Conservation Issue Forums: Grazing/Mining Reform, NAFTA/Border Issues, and Teaming With Wildlife, a program to raise money for nongame wildlife management.
There will be a post-meeting Gardening for Community and Wildlife Event composed of an informative workshop followed by visits to Tucson area NWF-certified Backyard Wildlife Habitats.
For more information, write: NWF, Meetings and Conferences Division, 11100 Wildlife Center Drive, Reston, Virginia 20190-5362, or call 1-703-438-6087.
Vicki Monks Winner Of NWF Magazine Writing Award
A tenacious pursuit of the facts: That is the quality that has most struck the editors of National Wildlife about the work of freelance writer Vicki Monks since she first wrote for this magazine in 1994, about dioxin. Monks is the 1996 winner of the Trudy Farrand and John Strohm Magazine Writing Award, a $1,000 prize that honors the best writing in National Wildlife and International Wildlife.
An experienced investigative reporter with a long list of credits and awards for environmental, science and health stories in print, radio and television, Monks has helped bring hard-hitting reporting and analysis to our pages. She is now director of the non-profit Investigative Reporting Project in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Monks won the award for two back-to-back, related articles in National Wildlife. The first was "Environmental Regulations: Who Needs Them?," which profiled people whose health and livelihoods have been protected by the nation's rules and laws in the February/March issue. The second was "Capitol Games," which explored sneaky tactics in Congress to weaken environmental protections in the April/May issue.
Virginia Ball of Muncie, Indiana, established the annual award to honor Farrand as the founding editor of Ranger Rick and Strohm as founding editor of National Wildlife and International Wildlife.
NWF Helps Save Alaskan Rain Forest From Development
Vocal opposition from NWF's Alaska Natural Resource Center and a coalition of local environmental groups has persuaded the City of Anchorage to shelve plans for a golf resort in the northernmost remnant of the Pacific coastal rain forest.
The city solicited proposals to build the resort on land it owns in the Girdwood Valley, where frequent rains nourish enormous old-growth spruce and hemlock and feed wetlands that provide habitat for moose, bears, lynx, beavers, snowshoe hare, mink and weasels, as well as numerous species of birds and fish.
When city officials met to consider a proposal from one developer, they excluded the public. NWF staffers and other members of the Girdwood Wetlands Coalition "crashed" the meeting and voiced their concerns, then moved on to the mayor's office to protest. The next day, the city rejected the developer's proposal.
"The proposal to build a golf course in such a pristine temperate rain forest was a bad idea from the start," says Kristin Siemann, director of the Wetlands Watch program in NWF's Anchorage office. "Then the city went even further, turning a bad idea into bad public policy by slamming the door on what should have been an open, public debate."
Camps, Summits Sport New Themes At Various Sites
For the first time, all four sessions for 9 to 13 year-olds at the North Carolina Wildlife Camp will be organized around different themes. Session I, June 21-30, will focus on Big Predators; Session II, July 2-16, Adventure and Outdoor Living; Session III, July 26-August 6, Native American and Appalachian Folklore; and Session IV, August 8-19, Live Animals. A Colorado Wildlife Camp will continue to offer traditional camp sessions.
NWF also will sponsor a special Teen Adventure session July 14-24 in Great Smoky Mountains National Park specifically for 13 and 14 year-olds who are newly interested in the outdoors. Regular Teen Adventure sessions for 14 to 17 year-olds will be offered at the North Carolina and Colorado camps.
NWF is offering a Family Camp Weekend in North Carolina July 18-20.
Families with limited time can sample NWF's Conservation Summits through new mini-Summits, two- or three-day weekend programs designed around a single environmental theme. These programs are planned for Delaware, New Hampshire and northern Virginia in 1997.
Traditional Summits will be held both in Alaska, June 21-27, and the Adirondack Mountains, July 5-11. The Adirondacks Summit will feature a Teacher's Symposium where teachers and environmental educators can earn continuing education credits and participate in workshops by Project WILD and Project Learning Tree.
For more information on camps or Summits, call 1-800-822-9919 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
NWF Around the Nation
A hundred women from all corners of Alaska attended the recent Women of the North Conference, sponsored by NWF's Alaska Natural Resource Center to teach women how to be more effective environmental leaders in their own communities. Keynote speaker was NWF board member Paula J. Del Giudice.
Attendees included high school girls, women from government agencies and environmental organizations, and native Alaskan women--one from a tiny village on the edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Said one participant:"I realized that though I'm not in a traditional leadership position, I am a leader!"
The Florida Wildlife Federation (FWF), one of NWF's affiliates, is leading a drive to create a unified Fish and Wildlife Commission under the state constitution to oversee both freshwater and marine programs. The agency is needed to reduce political involvement and "yo-yo management"of Florida's fisheries, says FWF president Manley Fuller. FWF volunteers stationed at polling places during last November's election began collecting the 500,000 signatures needed to get the measure on the 1998 ballot. Florida citizens who want to know how they can help should call 1-800-647-9912.
NWF's Population Program will hold a conference on Population and Sustainable Development on March 22 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. The session is open to anyone who wants to learn more about the links among world population, resource consumption and the environment, and what they can do to help influence population policy. For details, contact Andreas Kristinus at NWF, 1400 16th St., NW, Washington, DC 20036. Or call 1-202-939-3302 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Tri Toner #1: Sandbell Slam with Triangle Push-Up
Matthews recommends this total-body toning exercise as a way to take the triangle push-up (which was ranked the number-one triceps exercise by the American Council on Exercise) to the next level.
1. Begin in a squatting position, holding a SandBell at chest level. As you inhale, press the SandBell overhead and rise up onto your toes.
2. Exhale as you perform a slam, forcibly throwing the SandBell to the ground. Once released, quickly jump or step back to a high plank position, placing your hands on the SandBell in a triangle formation (pointer fingers and thumbs towards one another) with your hands directly below your chest.
3.Keeping your elbows close to your body, perform a triangle pushup, slowly lowering the body down to just above the SandBell and pushing back up to your starting plank position. Use the strength of your entire body to jump the feet up toward the SandBell, coming into a low squat position. Once again grab the sides of the SandBell and repeat this sequence. Complete 6 to 8 reps.
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Michael Tumelty
A REAL gem was uncovered in the undemonstrative but quietly spectacular performance in Greyfriars Kirk on Tuesday night of the Tears of St Peter (Lagrime di San Pietro) by the late 16th-century Flemish composer, Orlande de Lassus. Be honest. Who knows this piece? I knew Lassus' name from university in the early seventies, but couldn't have sung one of his tunes if you had offered me a bottle of malt.
The Tears of St Peter is a remarkable piece, a series of 20 short madrigals based on the agonising of St Peter, now an old man, after his triple betrayal of Christ, and before his own crucifixion. So there is a strong narrative underlying the piece: we know where it comes from and where it's going. The number of pieces rises to the symbolist number of 21 with the addition of a Latin hymn to close the sequence.
A strong analytical programme note unveiled the enthralling intellectual processes in the construction of the work, painting a portrait of a composer setting himself a fierce series of parameters and a restrictive set of limitations. But when conductor/director Philippe Herreweghe and his seven magical singers (with absolutely no instrumental presence) took the stage, all the cerebral background stuff, which is very good, melted away.
This was exquisite music, deeply moving, easily followed, wonderfully intimate, immaculately sung, impeccably presented and underpinned by that narrative, with some gorgeous harmonic shifts and more pace, dynamic variety and flexible momentum than might have been inferred from the programme note. It was an absolutely beautiful, intimate performance, and another notch in the Greyfriars festival bow.
Alban Gerhardt and Steven Osborne
Queen's Hall
Keith Bruce
More years ago than I care to think about, I met this chamber music partnership in Orkney when the German cellist proved excellent company.
His laid-back reaction to un-silenced mobile phones yesterday morning showed he has lost none of his charm in the Quartet for the End of Time that launched the EIF Greyfriar's series.
Messiaen's wartime masterpiece might seem some distance from the programme of big works by Britten and Tippett, but perhaps not.
The two Britten works came from either side of the War Requiem that is at the Usher Hall tonight and were composed for Rostopovich, whose praise for Britten's work, in the face of the composer's uncertainty, is well-recorded.
But what was his input to the tech spec of the 1961 Sonata in C and the solo suite from 1965, with all their virtuoso pizzicato passages, long, slow lines with drone strings, lightning fingering and precision glissandos?
All these ingredients are present in the sonata, but the suite is the real showpiece for a cellist.
For my money the bleak conclusion identifies the piece as a quintessential Cold War work, reflecting the fears that fuelled the Aldermaston marches.
The early 1980s were also important years for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmanent, but it would be hard to claim an extra-musical concept behind Michael Tippett's Piano Concerto No 4. It was commissioned to mark his 80th birthday and its richness is in the volume of musical ideas that he piles on top of one another.
Tippett's sonatas are meat and drink to Osborne, and he found all the drama in the music's changes of pace.
Jordi Savall & Co
Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Kate Molleson
Jordi Savall described this concert as "a vast musical fresco" and that it was: the celebrated Catalan viol player gave us a generous guided tour of a century of music from Europe and the Ottoman Empire, told in chronological order and punctuated with drum rolls and Gallic voice-overs.
The theme was War and Peace and Savall had gathered his troops: on stage were his two instrumental ensembles (Hesperion XXI and Le Concert des Nations), his vocal group (La Capella Reial de Catalunya) and a quartet of Turkish traditional musicians.
The colour spectrum produced by the amassed gaggle of ancient instruments was spectacular.
The century in question was 1614-1714 - which (in case the historic dates were not at the tip of your memory) mark the beginning of the Thirty Years' War and the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.
As you would expect from Savall, the programme was meticulously researched and artfully put together.
Each major conflict and peace treaty was illustrated with a work from the relevant time and place. Some were more interesting than others: there are surely more exciting choices from the 1640s than John Jenkins' deadly dull Newark Siege.
Performance quality varied, too. The voices were not generally strong enough to carry in the Usher Hall, and the modal twists of John Blow's Praise The Lord got the better of one unfortunate tenor.
But there were many beautiful moments: the dark-hued Aramaic lament; the rhythmic tugs and gutsy bass lines of Cabanilles's Batalla Imperial; and the hypnotic rounds of Vasily Titov's O Virgo, gem of the Russian baroque.
Savall himself had arranged a plangent Catalan "patriotic lamentation" to mark the 1714 Capitulation of Barcelona: a nod, perhaps, from one independence movement to another?
This review appeared in later editions of yesterday's Herald