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Bethel Hospital Inpatient units to get new flooring and nursing stations.
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Construction Period:
July 27 – Sept. 13*
Current Situation:
- Damaged vinyl
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- It will get worse
The Pediatric and Adult Inpatient units will be undergoing remodeling this summer. This will cause some disruption—patients will have to be moved during the 9-week construction period. But it will be worth it. Here's what we're doing:
- Floor abatement
- Paint
- New Floor & corner guards
- New ceiling tiles
- New lighting
- Replace nurse station
- Additional doors to separate pediatric suite
- Replace wall bumpers
- Install handrails
What happens during the remodeling phases:
PHASE I: Peds Inpatient
- Move patients to adult wing
- Move Biomed and IT equipment and supplies to storage
PHASE II: Adult Inpatient
- Move patients to adult wing
- Move Biomed and IT equipment and supplies to storage
Peds and Adult Inpatient will be combined during the construction. Some patients may be referred to ANMC.
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Four Colorado horses confirmed with vesicular stomatitis
Four horses in Colorado have been confirmed with vesicular stomatitis, adding to the 11 horses and two cattle in Texas already diagnosed with the disease.
The National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa, confirmed on Thursday that vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) infection had been confirmed on two equine premises in Weld County, Colorado. Both properties have been placed under quarantine.
Three affected horses were on one premises and one affected horse on the other, according to the latest update from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, part of the US Department of Agriculture.
All cases involved the New Jersey serotype.
The laboratory confirmed the Colorado cases all met the case definition of VSV infection, with compatible clinical signs and either positive complement fixation antibody titers or positive virus isolation.
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I had zero wrinkles on my face/eyes. When I would order a glass of wine at dinner I usually was carded. People have always commented on my youthful skin/ appearance.
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By day three where my lower lid had touched my blue of my eye I could see about an eighth of an inch. When I smiled I noticed a large horizontal line where my cheek and eye meet. This used to be seamless. I called my dr and he had me come in. He took photos and said he gas never seen this before. He said all I could do was wait 2-6 months for it to wear off. In the mean time I could not smile, every day the bunching under my eyes got worse. My face is destroyed and now I look a min of 10yrs older.
This has been the worst ordeal of my life and I have lived through a lot. I have always known things happen as they should and I always have a bright sunny disposition, but that is gone. I used to smile all day and was told daily my smile and live of live changed people's days. Now I refuse to smile because I am afraid it will cause permanent damage because of the deep lines that form when I smile.
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Int J Food Microbiol 96:253-62. 2004..Size exclusion chromatography showed that mannoproteins released in wine were partially hydrolysed by yeast beta-1,3-glucanases freed in wine...
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J Chromatogr A 907:155-64. 2001....
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J Agric Food Chem 49:3893-7. 2001..This study has also shown that the level of sorption is a function of the ratio of wood surface area/solution volume...
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Best Way To Wait For Multiple Loaded Events
I have data that needs to be returned in a couple of calls to the RIA server. I call both the methods and then wait for them to trigger the Loaded event. However, there doesn't seem a built in way to check which method call resulted in the Loaded event. Am I missing something? I can't rely on checking which entities have been loaded, because there may be zero entities in the data.
What I'd like to do is set a IsBusy flag based on whether the calls have returned or not. To work around it I've created my own counter to check that the correct number of calls returns and passed tags in the UserState.
I suppose I could split the two calls into a different class and aggregate it somehow, but they really both belong in the same ViewModel.
Anyone have any tips?
Along the lines of what the original post was looking for, DomainContext does expose an IsLoading property which will be true only when there are outstanding queries being executed. Perhaps that is what you were looking for with the IsBusy flag you mentioned?
On our list of features we want to support query batching, which would allow you to specify a set of load/query operations to execute all together as a single server request. That would result in a single Loaded event when the query batch was complete. So think of something like context.Load(query1, query2, ...) where the arguments are a new type we're considering which represents a query request : something like (DomainContext.Load(params EntityQuery[] queries).
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I would approach it similar to your IsBusy idea. If the application can only have one submission event at a time, then creating an ActiveProcess counter would be the way to go. Set it to 2 on the call, then decrement it when each call is returns and check to see if the counter is set to zero.
If the application can have multiple processes running at once, then I have used a modified approach from above with a dictionary. I used a <Guid, int> dictionary and assigned each group of processes a Guid that I passed. Then store the same counter in the dictionary, basically giving you multiple counters per process. Don't forget to remove the counter from the dictionary when it zero's out, so you don't have a memory leak of sorts.
The other option to the above is to not run the calls in parallel. Place the call to the second service in the completed event handler of the first.
Hope this helps a bit.
I think using a state object is pretty much the accepted way to do this when doing async operations, so that is the OTB way of doing it. However, you could make it a bit more robust. For example, you could have a tracking object that is waiting for both loads to complete. Instead of passing a string tag into the load method you could pass an Action with a delegate from the tracking object (i.e. new Action(trackingObject.Operation1Complete)) which you then invoke from the Loaded event. You can also inherit your DataContext and build the tracking into the DataContext in whatever way you want.
Code Smell warning <g>: All I do is in a single Context.Loaded event handler, and before I process any of these requested EntityTypes, I check that the count for an Entity I wish to deal with is > 0, i.e., if (Context.<EntityType>.Count > 0). So I can rack 'em and stack 'em, and a single Loaded event safely handle each as it comes back. I had thought about call counts at first, but that did not guarantee that I was dealing with the correct (of multiples) Entity in the handler. Funny, I was unaware of the userState availability. I suppose I'll have to drill into that. Blame it on the documentation <g>.
If you want more control over which method is completed etc, you can use WCF. Beacuse a DomainService only has one Loaded event.. As some people mention the userState can be used.. but I shouldn't depend on the userState.. it will for example make sure you can end up with a big condition statment, which will not be fun to maintain..
@Bob yeah I went that way but realised that some of my entity lists could be empty, hence turning to counts
@Frederik I agree about the big condition statement, but RIA gives me too much for free to abandon it for WC.
For the moment I'm going to keep it simple and use userstate but maybe breaking it up into smaller user controls each loading their own data might be the way? I'll investigate.
Could someone please provide a short example of using userState in a client Loaded event handler? Thanks.
And yes, I finally just ran into a situation where my counts could be zero, and I needed to respond to that possibility (which is not an error state) as well.
Just call one of the overloaded [LoadMethod] generated in the context. So, set the event handler as before:
void blah() {
context.Loaded +=new EventHandler<LoadedDataEventArgs>(context_Loaded);
context.LoadSet(null, stateObject);
}void context_Loaded(object sender, LoadedDataEventArgs e) {
object state = e.UserState
As frederik said though, this does mean that end up with conditional logic. The equivalent, of course, is to use a State pattern whereby you implement a base state interface and then create specifics based on context:
interface State {
void HandleState(Context context);
public class LoadSetState : State {
public void HandleState(Context context) {
// Invoke next load
context.LoadSet(null, new NextState());
// As before
void blah() {
context.Loaded +=new EventHandler<LoadedDataEventArgs>(context_Loaded);
context.LoadSet(null, new LoadSetState());
}void context_Loaded(object sender, LoadedDataEventArgs e) {
State state = e.UserState as State;
Its not ideal as it introduces some coupling from the State to the context, but it can remove the conditional overhead. Hope that helps.
You also have an option to create several DomainService.. it will make sure a specific "entity" will be handled by one specific DomainService. This will of course result in several classes.. but make sure each of your "domain object" will have it's own service, instead of creating one big that is responsible to return several domain objects. Remember that a class should only have one reason to change, and only one responsibility. So if you are creating one DomainService which will for example LoadCustomers and Orders, the specific DomainService will have more than one responsibilities. In some cases we maybe want to let a DomainService have several responsibilities by loading several "entites", so we can use the change tracking feature etc. But the model RIA Services uses today only uses one Loading event for all load methods.. Remeber though, if you have two query methods which will expose the same "entity", there will only be one common property to get the results for both methods.. So you can't for example separate the result into two sepereated properties.
Interesting idea. However in my situation, I need to set some UI based on the entity returned, and there is a conflict between static/non-static methods and access. In other words, inside a class that implements the State Interface's HandleState method, I can't set my UI (a chart) DataContext directly (due to visibility), and I can't call a SetUI method back in the main page class because it cannot be made static (UI objects become invisible if I do). The HandleState method(s) appear to be in a static context. I implemented your approach as an Interface and instance classes both inside the Page Class and outside and got the same result. I'm pretty sure I got it right -- setting up a separate State class to process each Entity Load and then chaining on to the next. I'm also passing some datetime? parameters to the Load methods, and these had to be made public static to the page class in order to be passed to the Load methods in the HandleState method for the previous load.
Frederik :
I had thought about that and actually tested it, but saw no performance difference. Because 1) my app will never have thousands and thousands of rows of primary data, and 2) I take it offline with offline storage, I've decided to route all access through one public DomainService Context singleton that is instantiated on start up, so that when the user presses Save Local, all the data available can be stored locally (< 1.2 MB with a pretty healthy business base of data), and then they can work remotely until connected again and the data can be sync'd up. I did set up a separate DomainService for scalar fetches and one-way processing tasks that the user has to perform, like purge old records, update due dates, etc. There are no entities involved in that Service. I have not seen any performance hit since I implemented my architecture this way, and the magic of Silverlight binding handles an awful lot of what would otherwise be required conditional logic. The even better news is that once an entity is loaded (lookup table data for example), it is loaded for the entire session. That really speeds up the UI.
Thanks to both of you!
I don't have time to figure out a demo today, but I did discover that there is an alternate way to send load requests through RIA Services. DomainContext implements the IDomainContext interface which exposes BeginLoad and EndLoad methods which takes a callback method that you can provide yourself. Those two methods seem to work the same way that ADO.NET Data Services works. You call BeginLoad giving it the method name (that would be the server side method name with the Get, not the Load name) and when the return comes back you give the result to EndLoad.
Along the lines of what the original post was looking for, DomainContext does expose an IsLoading property which will be true only when there are outstanding queries being executed. Perhaps that is what you were looking for with the IsBusy flag you mentioned?
On our list of features we want to support query batching, which would allow you to specify a set of load/query operations to execute all together as a single server request. That would result in a single Loaded event when the query batch was complete. So think of something like context.Load(query1, query2, ...) where the arguments are a new type we're considering which represents a query request : something like (DomainContext.Load(params EntityQuery[] queries).
i'm not finding IsLoading very useful at all
firstly, i put a PropertyChanged handler and a Loaded handler on my domain context
then i make two load calls
first handler hit is Loaded
second handler hit is PropertyChanged on the IsLoading property with a new value of false
third handler hit is Loaded
so it seems, IsLoading is changed to false when a call comes back, even if other calls are still out in the wild...
i think i will disregard IsLoading altogether and count the returns via delegates passed into the Load methods via UserState.
is this what other people are finding?
Your expectation is correct - IsLoading should be true IFF there are pending ("out in the wild") requests that haven't completed. If that's not happening, that's a bug. In the upcoming July CTP, this issue will no longer be present - you'll be able to rely on IsLoading to tell the truth :)
Also, in the July CTP we're introducing some new APIs that will facilitate query batching scenarios like these - please stay tuned.
I've just upgraded to the July CTP, and I'm trying to wrap my head around the 'intended way' of facilitating query batching in the new API. My application has a definite need for executing multiple queries simultaneously, within an 'atomic' transaction. The code I had working against the previous RIA preview release was essentially stuffing instances of DomainContexts into a list, which was then passed to a "Manager" object whose responsibility it was to listen to the Loaded events for each DomainContext in the list and then raise it's own event when all were complete. I am having trouble adapting a working model against the new API, where LoadOperation isn't even instantiated until the respective Load methods are called on a DomainContext. Ideally, I'd like to be able to just pre-define a bunch of RIA calls, queue them up, and then call a Start() method or something and have them all execute at that time. But I am failing to see an intuitive way to do that with the new LoadOperation objects.
Is the intended paradigm shift towards the use of a single instance of a DomainContext object, calling multiple Load methods on it and then tracking it's IsLoading property via the DomainContext.PropertyChanged event handler?
Would it be appropriate to make some use of the optional userState object in the method overload? The Preview documentation doesn't seem to explain its purpose; I assumed it was intended for stuffing the RiaContext.Current.User in or something, but I also noticed this recent blog post: http://blog.tombeeby.com/post/2009/07/07/UserState-knowing-when-youe28099re-done-in-NET-RIA-Services.aspx
Has anyone else been looking at this since the update? I realize it's brand new, and still a preview, but I'd love to see some example code of a "batched RIA query" implementation, or possibly even just get a bit more verbose explanation from the RIA developers as to what is intended and now available for issuing multiple queries simultaneously, and tracking completion.
I would strongly second that request for a multiple load example (minimal UI is fine). I have not broken out my SL3 beta/RIA May CTP application yet to see everything that is broken, but this potential issue concerns me the most. I have multiple entities being loaded at startup into a common context and was checking the count of each to determine if a particular entity was loaded before doing anything else with it. Please, Dinesh?
Is the intended paradigm shift towards the use of a single instance of a DomainContext object, calling multiple Load methods on it and then tracking it's IsLoading property via the DomainContext.PropertyChanged event handler?
I think this is a going to be a paradigm shift for you, it isn't a paradigm shift for the DomainContext. Unfortunatly, you were using the DomainContext in a way it wasn't meant to be used and the new design really doesn't work well the way you were using it. I think you could get better help if you explained your overall application needs instead of asking such a narrow question. I am not sure if that is clear so I will use an analogy, right now you are asking how to use a screwdriver to drive in a nail and I am not sure if should tell you to buy a hammer or get a screw.
Would it be appropriate to make some use of the optional userState object in the method overload? The Preview documentation doesn't seem to explain its purpose; I assumed it was intended for stuffing the RiaContext.Current.User in or something, but I also noticed this recent blog post: http://blog.tombeeby.com/post/2009/07/07/UserState-knowing-when-youe28099re-done-in-NET-RIA-Services.aspx
UserState is a pretty common concept you will find in lots of async .Net code. In this case User referes to you, the programmer, not the person currenty using your program. Its original purpose is to uniquely identify an asynchronous task from when it is started to when it completes but you can pretty much stuff any object you want into it.
I would strongly second that request for a multiple load example (minimal UI is fine). I have not broken out my SL3 beta/RIA May CTP application yet to see everything that is broken, but this potential issue concerns me the most. I have multiple entities being loaded at startup into a common context and was checking the count of each to determine if a particular entity was loaded before doing anything else with it. Please, Dinesh?
Here is one example I just came up with. Yes, this could probably be simplified with lamdas.
private void LoadData()
List<LoadOperation> loaderList = new List<LoadOperation>();
loaderList.Add(context.Load<Obj2>(context.GetObj2Query(), Obj2DataLoadedCallback, loaderList));
loaderList.Add(context.Load<Obj3>(context.GetObj3Query(), Obj3DataLoadedCallback, loaderList));
loaderList.Add(context.Load<Obj4>(context.GetObj4Query(), Obj4DataLoadedCallback, loaderList));
private void Obj1DataLoadedCallback(LoadOperation<Obj1> lo)
private void Obj2DataLoadedCallback(LoadOperation<Obj2> lo)
private void Obj3DataLoadedCallback(LoadOperation<Obj3> lo)
private void Obj4DataLoadedCallback(LoadOperation<Obj4> lo)
private void CheckDataLoad(LoadOperation lo)
List<LoadOperation> loaderList = lo.UserState as List<LoadOperation>;
if (loaderList.Count == 0)
private void LoadIsComplete()
//Do something
Yes, that's the sort of "batch manager" you can build on top of LoadOperations. A colleague of mine has an internal prototype of this that he uses in his app - he's going to post it to this thread. I haven't spent much time on it, but I agree that until we add framework features around this, we should identify the "recommended pattern".
I posted a simple .NET RIA Services batch manager out on my blog this morning. With the new Load APIs in the July CTP, it was pretty easy to get a simple load batch manager up and running, and only took about 1/3 of the code compared to the implementation I had using the Mix'09 bits. If you want to see the blog post it's here: http://blogs.msdn.com/smccraw/archive/2009/07/15/a-net-ria-services-data-load-batch-manager.aspx
and I'll repost the code here as well since it's short and sweet ;-)
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Windows.Ria.Data;
namespace BusinessApplication1
/// <summary>
/// Simple LoadOperation batch manager
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// This class allows you to start multiple load operations in parallel and still received a single
/// 'complete' action callback once all work is done. Load operation failures are also aggregated
/// and will be made available as part of the completion action callback.
/// </remarks>
public class DomainContextLoadBatch
private List _pendingOperations = new List();
private List _failedOperations = new List();
private Action _completeAction;
/// <summary>
/// Expose the count of failed operations
/// </summary>
public int FailedOperationCount { get { return _failedOperations.Count; } }
/// <summary>
/// Expose an enumerator for all of the failed operations
/// </summary>
public IEnumerable FailedOperations { get { return _failedOperations; } }
/// <summary>
/// Public constructor
/// </summary>
/// <param name="completeAction"></param>
public DomainContextLoadBatch(Action completeAction)
this._completeAction = completeAction;
/// <summary>
/// Used to add an operation to the batch
/// </summary>
/// <param name="loadOperation"></param>
public void Add(LoadOperation loadOperation)
loadOperation.Completed += new EventHandler(loadOperation_Completed);
/// <summary>
/// Processes each operation as it completes and checks for errors
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sender"></param>
/// <param name="e"></param>
private void loadOperation_Completed(object sender, EventArgs e)
LoadOperation loadOperation = sender as LoadOperation;
loadOperation.Completed -= new EventHandler(loadOperation_Completed);
if (loadOperation.Error != null)
/// <summary>
/// Called to check for all operations being complete and to fire our completed action
/// </summary>
private void CheckForComplete()
if (_pendingOperations.Count > 0)
if (_completeAction != null)
_completeAction = null;
One area that is much improved in the July CTP are the IsLoading & IsSubmitting properties of DomainContext
A very simplistic way to have batching functionality (if you don't want to go as far as the batching mechanism described above) is to have a 'composite loading property' like this
public bool SelectedPersonLoading { get { return _personCtxt.IsLoading || _contactCtxt.IsLoading || _personCtxt.IsSubmitting || _contactCtxt.IsSubmitting; } }
and then make sure you trigger a PropertyChanged notification for SelectedPersonLoading 1. when you make the call to load or submit 2. when each load / submit returns.
You could use this bool property then to bind to some 'async state control' like the one described by David Poll here http://www.davidpoll.com/?p=73 or a much more simplistic implementation here http://blog.tombeeby.com/post/2008/11/29/Loading-panel-control-for-asynchronous-requests.aspx
@ColinBlair: Thanks for your input and code example. Admittedly I don't have a wealth of experience yet with common async concepts/patterns nor with WPF-type development, so trying to build a rather sophisticated app in Silverlight 3 and RIA as a very first foray into SL has been a stretch, and I'm learning a lot as I go. I'll try to get my toolbox organized. ;-)
@smccraw: This is precisely what I needed, many thanks!


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When price gets high, you can replace cottonseed meal with canola meal in mid-lactation diets without impacting milk production. That was the conclusion of a study in the May Journal of Dairy Science.
Cows fed canola meal ate about 7.5 pounds of it per cow per day. Yet, they produced virtually the same amount of milk as cows that ate as much as 12.3 pounds of cottonseed meal.
The study's authors conclude that canola meal is "an economical substitute for cottonseed meal in mid-lactation diets when commercial access, cost, and quality (particularly crude protein content) of cottonseed meal are variable."


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Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. - John Lennon
You can twist perceptions, reality won't budge. - Rush
This video also shows a great way to remove tattoos:
WARNING - Don't watch this if you're squeamish, it's basically a video of someone removing a tattoo with a sander
Some immediately say the video is fake, but I'm not so sure. I have an extremely high tolerance of pain and I could probably go though this if I needed to without too much fuss (although why I would want to I know not. I'm tolerant to pain, not a masochist, lol).
If this creme does work however, I have a friend who would be veeeeeeery interested.
Today is the day you worried about yesterday, and all is well…Except that the well is dry, the toilet is overflowing and a flock of meese just pooped in your back yard…
I thought this was funny:
"I have CDO. Its like OCD, but in alphabetical order, LIKE IT SHOULD BE!!"
Use a kaasschaaf.
A simple tool to slice a hunk of cheese. Helps more people into hospital than any other.
"By the sweat on our brows, and the strengths of our backs…Gentlemen. Hoist the Colours! And you, madam, I warn you, I know the entire Geneva Convention by heart!"
Trust me.
I can imagine that thing hurting people. Badly.
"We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation."
- Voltaire
But you get to keep your tattoo in the slice of skin and frame it for your wall!
Transfrmr - 08 June 2007 07:46 PMBut you get to keep your tattoo in the slice of skin and frame it for your wall!
Ooh, good point!
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The platypus is mother nature's way of saying, "I made this thing out of spare parts I found on the workshop floor, and it can still ****ing cripple you."
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I don't know if wrecking balm works at all but I do know a very effective tattoo removal procedure. I actually used this myself and got rid of a tat that was horrible looking. The guy who did it had no idea what he was doing. However, I had never had a tat before so I had no idea this guy didn't know what he was doing. The only thing he did right was sterilize the equipment.
So anyway… This is going to sound very strange but I swear this works and you can verify it on the net. Part of the reason it will sound strange is because of what the method was originally intended to do…. OK… I had this wart on the side of my hand. I went on line looking for home cures for warts. I found this one in which you take a cotton ball and soak it in regular white vinegar. Then place the cotton ball over the wart and affix it there with tape, bandage, or however you wish and leave it for 12 hours. Continue doing this until the wart is gone.
Now I was very skeptical of this. But I tried it and I was totally blown away. Within 36 hours my wart was gone. There was a small red indent on the side of my hand for a bit but it healed up and now you wouldn't even know I had a wart. So what does this have to do with tat removal??? Well… As I mentioned I had this very ugly tat on my left bicep I wanted gone. I got to thinking…. If this vinegar thing got rid of a wart could it get rid of a tat. So I tried it… and within 3 days my tat was completely gone. Again there was the red indent but again that healed and now there's nothing there at all… you wouldn't even know I had a tat there.
If you need verification just google vinegar wart removal or vinegar wart remover or home cure wart removal vinegar.
As a side note… That ugly tat I removed…. I was supposed to be a wolf's head… I was always told by tat artists that if they covered it with the wolf's head I wanted the new tat wouldn't look right because of the tat it would be covering… Well… Now I have that awesome wolf's head right where the ugly one use to be and I get a lot of compliments on it.
The vinegar method for removing warts does indeed work, at least to my knowledge (however far you'll take that). However, I won't believe that the same method would work on ink embedded in the skin. The vinegar isn't burning off your skin or anything, it's reacting with the wart. There's nothing in a tattoo that will react the same way.
above are my results after using it, as you can see it's not completely gone but it has noticeably faded!
here's another one:
Several companies that sell lanolin-free lotions state that lanolin will fade tattoos over years of usage. Probably not what you're looking for.


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However many times Jack Nicholson has sat courtside for however many NBA championships, no one in basketball ever had a better seat than Herb Sendek.
When he was the young head coach at Miami University in Ohio and Charlie Coles was his assistant, the two would drive around the Midwest on recruiting trips. And Sendek got to listen to Coles tell stories for hours and hours.
"We would get an early start, stop at an Open Pantry and get some coffee, and off we'd go," Sendek, now head coach at Arizona State, told Sporting News. "The basketball talk and the stories never ended. He could hold court with one person or a large group. He had such experiences, such insights into the human condition and life. One could listen to him endlessly."
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Coles passed away suddenly Friday morning at age 71, Miami University officials confirmed to the Cincinnati Enquirer. He had retired from coaching the RedHawks last spring, following his 16th season with the program. Last fall, he was honored along with his wife Delores by the Cincinnati chapter of Coaches vs. Cancer at its annual tip-off breakfast. Not surprisingly, Coles made everyone in the audience laugh with his very first sentence after the two walked to the dais to a standing ovation.
"They told me we had five minutes to talk," Coles said, "but it took us three minutes to get up here."
MORE: College hoops community responds via Twitter on Coles' passing
It was tough to determine whether Coles was a better entertainer or basketball coach. His peers would lean toward his coaching. His 355-308 career record might not prove it, but when he had good players he had very good teams, and when he had very good players he had great teams. And when he had a great player in Wally Szczerbiak, in 1998-99, Miami advanced to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 with victories over Washington and Utah.
At Miami, Coles' teams appeared in the Mid-American Conference title game his first five seasons, and the RedHawks won the tournament in 1997 and 2007. He twice was named the league's coach of the year.
After playing at Miami from 1962-65, he began his coaching career as an assistant at Sycamore High in Cincinnati, then got his first college job as an assistant at Detroit in 1982. He became head coach at Central Michigan in 1985 and took that program to the NCAA Tournament in 1987, with Dan Majerle as star.
Coles had the look and cadence of a jazz musician, and his postgame press conferences could be just as improvisational and unforgettable as the best John Coltrane riff.
He could turn his answer to the most routine question into performance art. You'd never see it coming in advance, except if you remembered that every encounter with Coles was likely to be memorable.
Coles had serious heart issues for years. He suffered a serious heart attack during a MAC Tournament game at Western Michigan in March 1998, but he recovered to continue his career for well more than a decade afterward. He'd already had one bypass operation before that, according to Sendek.
"His discipline almost was unnerving," Sendek said. "He was so careful about his diet. If you had a potato chip, you felt terrible because he was so disciplined.
"As a basketball coach, he was really, really good. It seemed to me, especially on the defensive end. A lot of what I learned when he was working with us at Miami, we still emphasize today. He was a coach's coach. He loved the game and poured so much of his life into the game."


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A 46-year-old Orange County man has been convicted of molesting two young sisters who lived next door and his daughter's friend in his Mission Viejo home.
City News Service reports jurors deliberated for about a day before convicting Omar Alirio Guzman on Monday of eight felony counts of lewd acts with a minor.
Guzman was a neighbor of the victims and socialized with their parents. Prosecutors said the molestations would usually happen in the defendant's home when the girls would come over to play with Guzman's daughter in 2009 and 2010. The victims were 9 and 10 years old at the time.
Guzman's attorney maintained his client's innocence, telling the jury that the girls had given contradictory statements to various investigators.
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I know that Call of Duty: It's One Damn Thing After Another has generated more money than the gross national product of Belize, but I'm beginning to think that the whole tacticool thing is sitting on a motorcycle on a ramp in front of a shark-stocked swimming pool. As America's military incursions into Iraq and Afghanistan proceed to their predictably ignominious conclusion, civilians' taste for Walter Mittty, I mean military levels of combat preparedness is bound to wane. Or is it? Is tacticool still cool?
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I think most of the video games / movies that portray "tactical" stuff to be what really gets people into it. It's the same reason why folks who grew up on spaghetti westerns and Clint Eastwood prefer cowboy guns & revolvers.
Interesting box art on the Vol 1 disc: Samurai with an AR. It really appeals to the "warrior-mindset" folks.
I agree that it's video games and not Operation ______ that are driving the tacticool market, along with the zombie meme and the end of the AWB.
Why it tacticool cool? Because when can own tacticool guns, that's why. And if we can't afford / are too young to buy them, there's always airsoft.
Tacticool ain't much different from what became of the Hummer after the Gulf War. Or look at the surge in Ford Bronco sales after OJ ran the slow chase. Sure there are technical improvements in firearms but most of any market is shrewd vendors hooking the lips of stupid fish.
Light, practical, and durable is often confused with tacticool. Good parts exist even if they attach to a rail. It can be a fine line between practical tactical and mall ninja- hopefully the excesses get toned down leaving the best, most useful products.
I like tacticool guns and equipment, as opposed to the doofy clothes. Still, there's nothing like real wood stocks on a bolt action hunting or battle rifle. Call it retrocool if you will, but working the bolt and putting accurate rounds downrange is like shifting a standard transmission and chirping the tires on a fast car.
"Call it retrocool if you will, but working the bolt and putting accurate rounds downrange is like shifting a standard transmission and chirping the tires on a fast car."
+1! Ralph, i think we need to call Websters dictionary on your behalf, "retrocool" is an AWESOME word.
If movies and video games say it's cool, it'll be cool, regardless of both practicality and real-world knowledge.
I've never seen this Magpul video before, but just that little sample had an effect on me. I'm a bus driver by trade, and today and every day from now on I'm going to make an effort to speak in a loud and intense manner, like the guy with the beard on the video.
That was Chris Costa… his beard speaks, the man merely moves his jaw in agreement.
Assuming COD defines what's cool, the most overpowered guns in MW were the pistol grip 1887 shotguns. The M4 was not that great but the full length M16 was overpowered. Basically what I'm saying is that I think y'all are giving games too much credit.
I'm sure there's some rub-off, but which would you rather have if you weren't a hunter or as a second rifle: a 30 round semi-auto 6lb rifle or another 4-5 shot bolt action? And since you can call almost any accessory for said 30 round rifle 'tacticool'…. well I guess I just reject the premise.
I'm usually pretty late to the party, so since I'm just now getting into ARs, I can pretty much say that the sharks are wondering what the shadow is above them.
Having said that, I think Travis Haley and Chris Costa are heirs to the Chuck Norris legacy. They could make a video about water gun safety and it would still be cool.
The black-rifle sales frenzy has cooled off a bit, and I've noticed a drop in the number of overpriced "tactical" sporting rifles at local gun shows.
That said, the ability to own a gun that looks like the ones in the news, in CoD, or in movies/TV combined with a surge in non-hunting firearms use (personal protection, target shooting, and practical competition) will continue to propell the "tacticool" market for some time to come.
The AR has become the "lifted Jeep" of the gun world, and with it all the associated crap parts and derp-tastic marketing that fills Magpul's coffers.
Disclaimer – Magpul's parts and training vids are Tier One… and I play MW3. …and shoot real guns for fun and profit. 😉
I didn't mean to imply Magpul's stuff less-than-legendary…
It's all the cheap me-too companies putting out lousy gear I'd expect to see being sold for 75% off on late-night TV right after the zombie-killing knives (with REAL stag horn handle!!)
Amen brother!
I am tacticool.
I hope tacticool and its fans stick around for a long while. It's rare to have such a clear, simple way to determine with a glance who has no taste.
Beauty through simplicity > accessories for your accessories.
As an aesthetic style and mentality, tacticool has overstayed it's welcome (although I do hope companies churn out more bullpups). I eagerly await the new paradigm shift in firearm fads.
I have a soft spot for walnut and blues steel, though. All the folks with a rail-fixation tend to avoid classic rifles. More left for those that appreciate them!
I am fine with traditional looking guns as well. A lot of new and used wood stock and blue steel traditional guns are selling rather cheap. More for me.
I have noticed that morons who play COD or video games in general request shit guns or impossible to obtain firearms for purchase. I work at a gun store, so I get asked about that shit all the time. No, I can not get you a FAMAS. And you probably wouldn't want one out side of a video game, anyway. The requests I get from 20somethings whos only knowledge of firearms comes from video games are, shall we say, disheartening. I do my best to educate them, but people don't seem to want to take my advice.
I even had one gentleman ready to lay down some serious cash because he wanted a Walther WA2000 and a pair of matched AMT Hardballers. (+10 gamer points if you can name what video game those are from.)
However, I was a Marine infantryman for four years. I lived Call of Duty Modern Warfare for, like, 16 months straight. In my personal collection I have a few firearms that could be considered "Tacticool", but those are my working rifles. I have them in case I need to ply my old infantry trade ever again. I hope I don't, but if I do, I have a nice AR-15 that is dressed up with things that add to its functionality. Just like a plumber is going to own a good set of wrenches, a grunt is going to own a good functonial rifle. And that's the key right there: If you're doing something to a gun to make it more functional and to meet the end users demands, that's not tacticool. Putting three lasers on the top and both sides of the tri-rail so that you can have a triangle laser sight like in Predator, that's tacticool. And yes, I had a customer place an order and I gleefully hooked him up with that set up.
Ma gavte la nata
Saying "morons who play COD or video games in general" is a pretty bold statement. Just so you know, I'm "20something", am well-educated, have an extensive and continually growing collection of firearms, write for TTAG, am a family man, and yeah – I love my COD video games! While you have put "Dr" in quotation marks in front of your name, I won't have to, although I prefer a suffix to a prefix.The customer you describe isn't exclusive to the firearm industry. During my undergraduate work, I worked full-time at AutoZone. We had all sorts of people of all ages asking for the next sticker or bolt-on accessory that will turn their 150-hp Civic into a Corvette-smashing monster. I blamed it on the "Fast & the Furious" movies and the like. Of course, I enjoyed the FATF movies as well (but for what they were) so I must be a moron too…
Also, the AMT Hardballer (aka Colt 1911 replica) was brought to video game fame from the HItman franchises… +10 for me!
However, that being said, I have a few firearms I own just for their beauty. My Winchester model 70 and my S&W Model 10 will never be replaced or sold because they are lovely in both form and function.
i think "tacticool" is only cool for airsoft dorks and mall ninjas. I own exactly zero items of "military" camo. I am not in the military, nor have i ever been (or would iwant to pretend like i was, too much respect). I think air soft people ( those who want to go play "army man" on the weekends) can and do continue the "tacticool" vibe definitely.
Do I really need that tactical bottle opener on my rail???????????????
I grew up in the '80's, and then, it was ninjas. Now it's "tactical"- pens, watches, and even luggage. Paint it black or dark brown, and call it tactical.
Is it dumb? If it serves no purpose, it's tacticool, and it's dumb.


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> Mark Woodward wrote: > >> I'm not sure that I agree. At least in my experience, I wouldn't have >> more >> than one installation of PostgreSQL in a production machine. It is >> potentially problematic. >> > > I agree with you for production environments, but for development, test, > support (and pre-sales) machines there are reasonable requirements for > several. Oh, sure, for dev, margeting, etc. It doesn't matter. When you have to manage a thousand systems, standards save tons of work. > > Even if you have only one installation - something to tell you *where* > the binaries are installed is convenient - as there are quite a few > common locations (e.g. packages installing in /usr or /usr/local, source > builds in /usr/local/pgsql or /opt/pgsql). I've seen many *uncommon* > variants: (e.g. /usr/local/postgresql, /usr/local/postgresql-<version>, > /usr/local/pgsql/<version>, ...). > > Admittedly, given that the binaries are likely to be in the > cluster-owners default PATH, it is not as hard to find them as the data > directory. However, this is all about convenience it would seem, since > (for many *nix platforms) two simple searches will give you most of what > is needed: > > $ locate postmaster > $ locate pg_hba.conf > That's not the issue. I find it frustrating sometimes because when I describe one scenario, people debate it using other scenarios. Maybe I lack the communications skills to convey the problem accurately. Lets say you are an admin at XYZ Services Corp. You have 20 data centers world wide. In each data center, you have 10 to 1000 PostgreSQL servers. Through your VPN you can access any one of the machines in any data center through a simple IP address, thanks to your VPN. First Scenario: One of your databases crashed because it ran out of disk space. (someone forgot to check the free space often enough.) The CIO, rightfully, now requires a weekly database free space report. From this report you track trends and etc. Now, if there were a standard file from which you could "see" what databases are installed and running on this system, you could write a shell script: scp $HOST:/usr/local/pgsql/etc/pg_clusters.conf $HOST.conf ssh $HOST "df" > $HOST.df rptdbfree.pl $HOST.conf $HOST.df The "rptdbfree.pl" is a perl script to parse the pg_clusters.conf and extract the volumes on which the databases reside. The "df" file has the volume information for each disk. You could run this over night to find the state of all your databases. Second Scenario: You are the same admin at the same XYZ corp. An electrician pulls the breaker in the data center and your systems go down (This actually happend to one installation I worked on). A couple of the admins in charge of some of the boxes are on vacation and "accidentally" forgot to bring their cell phones. A few of the systems didn't come up correctly. You need to find the correct databases. Unfortunately there are more database cluster directories than there should be, and the admin hadn't yet documented which was which. You don't even know how to test if they are. Your site is down, you are very stressed, you are cursing the guy that didn't write this stuff down. Since there is no facility to bring up multiple PG databases, there is no standard to follow. Wouldn't it be nice, to be able to do "pg_ctl startall?" Or better yet, just have this in the startup? I'm not saying that we abandon how it is currently done, I'm just suggesting that we provide the facilities to help enterprise solutions.
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Oscar is about six feet tall and four feet wide. He is mounted on the wall.
"He hangs over everything," wrote James Murrell, a Laguna Beach hair stylist for more than 40 years.
The omnipresent "Oscar" about which he writes is a painting of Oscar Wilde, the scandalous British author from the 19th century whose only novel was "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Of all the people who are now my pen pals, James is easily the most prolific. We've exchanged seven letters (his five, my two), and all our correspondence eventually comes back to Oscar.
I wrote to James about my honeymoon. Twenty-five years ago, my wife and I went to Paris, and we visited Oscar Wilde's grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery. Yes, we are strange enough to visit gravesites on our vacations. Père Lachaise's most famous resident is Jim Morrison, front man for The Doors.
Anyway, I remembered two things about Oscar's tomb. First, the tomb was topped by the sculpture of a nude man, and the genitals had been unceremoniously removed. Poor guy. The location of the concrete genitals is still a mystery.
Second, I remember the epitaph: "For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn."
Several years ago, James Murrell had a roommate who owed him money. When the roommate couldn't come up with the cash, James accepted the Oscar portrait as payment.
James wrote that he has, twice, seen Oscar Wilde's spirit come out of the painting. He also mentioned the presence of hallucinogens during both of those occasions. But his connection with Oscar cannot be understated. Of course, he had to tell someone of this spiritual connection, and who better to confess to than artist Susan Dysinger, who created Oscar.
But he couldn't find her. He went to the Sawdust Festival three years in a row. But he heard that Dysinger, who doesn't enjoy crowds, would sit in the parking lot instead of going inside the festival grounds. (I, too, tried to track down Dysinger. But my phone calls and email were not returned).
In the meantime, life went on.
James and his partner Michael exchanged vows in 2000 at the Rainbow Bridge in Hilo, Hawaii. But their union was not recognized as legal. During that time, James was having a difficult time with his father, who did not want to accept he had a gay son.
"Like I always told my father, 'Poppy, do not take it personally because it's not about you,'" James wrote.
James used to write letters to his father to explain his feelings. They were part of his therapy, and he would read them aloud to others in his therapy group. But he never mailed them.
James and Michael were happy for 10 years, until 2010, when Michael lost his battle with emphysema.
"He was my other half, and it was my job to take care of him," James wrote. "The saying 'in sickness and in health' came to light.
"His passing still leaves me breathless."
James doesn't enjoy the Sawdust festival as much anymore because so many people ask him about Michael. But, last year, he went anyway. He wanted another shot at meeting Oscar's artist.
He carried Oscar's novel with him for good luck.
And, after four years of trying, he met her.
They didn't talk long.
"I wanted to let her know that Oscar is in good hands …" James wrote. "Mine."
Project 88 began when I bought a 1950s era Smith-Corona 88 typewriter on eBay. Eighty-eight is the number of characters it produces. If you are so inspired, write to me. If you use a typewriter, great. If not, use a computer, a pen, a quill or a chisel and slate. The point is to communicate. Try to avoid angry topics (maintaining civility is the only way this will work), and I'll try to write back.
My mailing address:
Keith Sharon
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A lot of the statistics that I read suggest that people, especially women, with ordinary incomes can look forward to a bleak retirement. But for my friend, a comfortable retirement is within reach.
If you're within 15 years of retirement, pull out your records and calculate what you can expect. The result may make you feel much more confident in your future. Or as my friend says, "All this info makes me feel much more relaxed."
My friend's experience
After a short-lived marriage, my 54-year-old friend spent the first few years of her life raising her children. During those years, she didn't work. When the children got to be old enough to be in school all day, she took a job at a nonprofit organization where she earned very modest wages. In the past few years, her income has gone up, but she still must manage her money carefully.
The nonprofit offers an old-fashioned defined benefit pension plan, but this year, her employer decided to freeze the pension. So the benefit won't rise between now and the time of my friend's retirement. Despite the freeze, she will qualify at full retirement, age 67, for a monthly pension of about $650. In addition, in place of the pension, the employer is offering a 403(b) plan to which it will contribute $2 for every $1 my friend contributes to the plan, up to 6 percent of her income -- a generous deal.
My friend asked me to review her situation. Here's some of the advice that I gave her that might be useful to others.
Keep working, Part 1. Working until at least full retirement age will increase my friend's Social Security benefit from $850 a month at 62 to $1,249 a month at 67. That's nearly $4,800 a year in today's dollars -- enough to make a difference, especially considering that Social Security is indexed for inflation. If she works until age 70, which is unlikely, she'll get $1,571 a month.
Keep working, Part 2. Social Security calculates benefits based on a worker's highest-earning 35 years of employment. If someone has worked fewer than 35 years, Social Security will average in zeros for those years. As anybody who has ever failed a test in school knows, a zero can have a terrible effect on an average. If my friend works until she reaches full retirement age, she will reach the 35-year mark and erase a couple of zeros and some low-earning years. That will increase her benefit -- not a lot, but every little bit helps.
Love that 403(b). In order to get her company's full match, my friend has to save 6 percent of her income. Neglecting to do that is the equivalent of saying, "No, thanks" to free money.
Beware the tax man. A retired individual whose "combined income" is between $25,000 and $34,000 may have to pay taxes on up to 50 percent of her Social Security benefit. If the income is $34,000 or more, she may have to pay taxes on up to 85 percent of her benefit. The "combined income" calculation is tricky: Add your adjusted gross income plus any nontaxable interest (such as earnings from municipal bonds) plus half of the Social Security benefit to see if it adds up to more than $25,000.
Stop worrying. My friend has lived on less than $35,000 a year for most of her life. Her pension and Social Security at 67 will amount to about $22,800 in today's dollars, and about $26,700 if she waits until age 70 to collect. The recommended percentage of replacement income in retirement is 80 percent of salary, or in my friend's case, $28,000.
My friend currently has no savings, but her children are grown and she doesn't spend much. If she can save 10 percent of her income, plus her employer's match and earn a modest 4.68 percent over the next 13 years, she can sock away $100,000 by age 67. After retirement she can spend 4 percent of her savings, plus Social Security and pension and be able to enjoy her life as well as she's ever done.
Wondering how you'll be able to retire? Read about these 6 last-minute retirement planning strategies.


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Parched Mary Valley graziers land agistment deal
The Queensland Government is working with drought-affected farmers to secure short-term agistment for livestock on grazing land in the Mary Valley in the state's south-east.
The Government still owns hundreds of properties that were resumed for the defunct Traveston dam project, and will work with lessees who want to help struggling farmers with agistment.
The Member for Gympie, David Gibson, says hundreds of producers in the region are experiencing extreme drought.
"What we've been able to do is have discussions with the Deputy Premier's office," he said.
"I'm really glad to report that commonsense has prevailed and we're going to be able to have a system where both parties agree - so if we've got a drought-affected farmer and he's got a neighbour or someone who is currently a lessee who is happy to agist his cattle onto their property, we enter into an agreement."
Mr Gibson says lessees on Government land, who are willing to assist drought-affected farmers, should contact his office.
"These are the Government-owned properties," he said.
"The private landholders in the Mary Valley, I know many of them are already helping out their neighbours where they can in these drought-like conditions but this is a specific opportunity, as a result of the large number of properties the Government holds, and being able to help out our farmers in the Mary valley who are dealing with these really tough conditions at the moment."
Topics: drought, states-and-territories, gympie-4570, bundaberg-4670, maroochydore-4558


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My most unforgettable lomowalk experience
As you can see from the photo above, I am a newbie with lomography. The photo was shot at night and is clearly underexposed (woops!) Until now I am still exploring and practicing this so called "art of lomography". I didn't have any idea what I was doing but I was having fun. So I just shuttered away and pretended I knew what I was doing! I like to call this the "trigger happy" habit.
so i was happily shuttering away when i was surprised im at the end of my film already!! so what Jerome suggested was I buy a new roll at 711 and he'll unload the film in his bag… in a dark corner… behind the Malate Church.
So there we were at the back of the church in a very dark corner under a huge tree. He was the one winding the film because I have sweaty hands. I was holding the bag for him. Shortly, the church bell rang and people started to pour out from the church doors. And the funny thing is the passersby all gave both of us stern looks as if we were doing something malicious :))
and the most memorable part was we went to this very old building known as the Manila Film Institute. There was a story about its construction. Story is that the owner demanded the structure to be finished way ahead of the timeline set for its completion and prompted the builders to rush the construction. So they did. Shortly, the poor but hasty construction of the building resulted to its collapse, killing most if not all of the people working in the building, burrying them in concrete. To cut the story short, the place is famous for being haunted by all those who died in its collapse and me with my two other guy friends with nothing else better to do braved to go in the building and take pictures.
But just as we were ascending the steps to the main door, we were scared! :)) we took one picture and ran away until we were tired. :)) we felt like a bunch of fools but we loved the adrenaline.
unfortunately, all the photos from this lomowalk are all only in my head now because when we were winding the film that time, apparently the corner wasn't dark enough so my film was overexposed. But still I am very happy to have had that photo/lomowalk. It's the first experience that started me to love lomography and taught me a very important lesson: take care of your films! ;)
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Plan for Colorado's I-70 corridor under review
VAIL — A plan to fix congestion in the Interstate-70 mountain corridor is on the drawing board.
Parsons Corp. has given the Colorado Department of Transportation an unsolicited proposal for partnering on a plan for improving the highway, and discussions are under way.
The Vail Daily reports the proposal is a three-phase project that would add tolled express lanes and a bus rapid transit system.
Tunnel bores would have to be added at places such as the Eisenhower Tunnel, and parts of the new lanes would be suspended like the current highway is through Glenwood Canyon.


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I don't care if it's a Prince of Persia crossover (Luna in a Warrior Within armor, lol), or Achemenid portrayal in pony form, the Simorgh, or just drawing Garshasp becoming friends with the FiM-cast.
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The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council has given the town of Westborough a platinum-level BioReady designation.
The BioReady label certifies the town's zoning and infrastructure as friendly to biotechnology companies.
Other communities rating a platinum certification include Worcester, Grafton, Framingham and Devens. Altogether, 67 Massachusetts communities have some level of BioReady designation.
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Vote for Marriage NC is paying for its mistake of focusing on Amendment One as statement on 'God's Law'
When you don't have any other card to play when it comes to discriminating against LGBTs, out comes the bible. Without fail; it's been clear from Day One that the people at Vote for Marriage NC could not find a way to make the case to add a measure to the state constitution to "protect marriage" without conflating church and state and preying upon fears and ignorance of voters. Its latest volley – recruiting Franklin Graham, the anti-gay preacher son of Billy Graham for its radio ad, released Friday (N&O):
The Rev. Franklin Graham has recorded a message supporting a proposed amendment to North Carolina's constitution that would limit traditional marriage as the only recognized domestic legal union in the state.
The pro-amendment Vote FOR Marriage NC released late Friday the audio message from Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham and head of the Samaritan's Purse organization in Boone.
Franklin Graham asks listeners to "take a stand on God's definition of marriage" between a man and a woman and vote for the amendment on the May 8 primary ballot. Anne Graham Lotz – Franklin Graham's sister – also has said she supports the amendment.
The ballot initiative is a complete legal over-reach — the original intent by its proponents was to ensure gay and lesbian couples would never have access to ANY legal recognition such as civil unions or domestic partnerships in addition to marriage — and Vote for Marriage NC has run into a lot of trouble here because of it:
- The collateral harms that the amendment could cause to all unmarried couples — rollback of existing domestic partnerships, effect on domestic violence laws and health benefits for children, have the organization completely on the defense.
- An epic level of public condemnation of Amendment One from conservative judges, elected officials and organizations, has rendered V4MNC silent, since it cannot trot any public officials out on camera to support its position. Its most embarrassing moment to date has to be that an original sponsor of the Amendment, Rep. Jim Crawford, announced in a public forum that he plans to vote against it because "it goes too far."
- There are direct challenges to the notion that this is a religious or moral battle against "godless, evil secularism." There's no other way to read V4MNC's ads, which prominently feature the National Organization for Marriage's racial wedge strategy — showing black families and clergy to purportedly represent all Christians should be for the Amendment.
The last point is particularly damning because of the hundreds of clergy of all colors and denominations — including Baptists, usually seen as conservative — have publicly come forward to condemn Amendment One. Just this week, a group of 15 interfaith African American Clergy in Greensboro took out a full page ad in the Carolina Peacemaker, a well-known black newspaper in Guilford County. In the Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem region alone, 100 black clergy have come out against the amendment.
The landmark position of the NC NAACP, led by Rev. Dr. William Barber, is a big wet blanket on Vote for Marriage NC's message.
No matter our color. No matter our faith tradition. Those who stand for love and justice are not about to fall for their trick. No matter how you feel personally about same-sex marriage, no one, especially those of us whose forebearers were denied constitutional protections and counted as 3/5ths of a vote for their slave-masters and mere chattel property for other purposes in the old Constitutions-none of us should ever want to deny any other person constitutional protections. – Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, president of the North Carolina NAACP
Religion in North Carolina, like much of the South, plays an important part in its culture, and it's essential that the religious arguments made to justify making LGBT North Carolinians permanent second-class citizens not be dismissed, but addressed head on. And it has been, to the detriment of V4MNC's own messaging, because it only underscores its own message of religious bigotry. If we are to accept its argument that this is about "God's Law" and marriage, then all of these other clergy must hold an untenable religious position – that they are WRONG about the same holy book people in V4MNC's ads are quoting.
Using religious advocacy as the main justification for voting for Amendment One exposes the fact that these people want everyone to live under their religious worldview to the exclusion of all others. That is a theocracy, and the lengthy list of people of faith who are against Amendment One are well aware of the use of biblical justification for all sorts of discriminatory human behavior in the past, thus their opposition and willingness to be very public about it. The amendment is a danger to religious freedom. These other members of the faith community are stating that:
1) this amendment's purpose has nothing to do with religious marriage;
2) it's simply wrong because it focuses on adding discrimination into the constitution and causes collateral harms,
3) questions about religious marriage are a personal matter to be discussed and debated within one's own house of worship.
V4MNC's head honcho,Tami Fitzgerald, an attorney, knows the difference between church and state matters. The bottom line is that they all know this is a civil matter; it has nothing to do with the bible, personal faith, or, quite honestly about anyone's existing marriage in a house of worship.
Yet the professional anti-LGBTs persist in their flawed messaging. For instance V4MNC's fingerprints are all over this ridiculous ad running in western NC, sponsored by carpet store LeisterCarpet.com (my post here) that features people quoting scripture about how it is God's plan for a man and a woman to "join in one flesh," and so that's why one should vote for A1. There is nothing about civil law addressed because they cannot make a case.
The proof of that lies in the Proposition 8 case in California. A key witness in that case, David Blankenhorn and fellow one-man, one-woman marriage activist Elizabeth Marquardt, wrote a colossal smackdown of Amendment One and its proponents in an op-ed in the Raleigh News & Observer, that directly charged the Vote for Marriage NC crowd with bigotry.
The proposed amendment states that "marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state." That's a big mouthful, and it goes well beyond the issue of same-sex marriage.
For one thing, it means that North Carolina could not, now or ever, take any step or devise any policy to extend legal recognition and protection to same-sex couples. No domestic partnership laws. No civil unions. Nothing.
That's mighty cold. If you disdain gay and lesbian persons, and don't care whether they and their families remain permanently outside of the protection of our laws, such a policy might be your cup of tea. But it's not our view, and we doubt that it's the view of most North Carolinians.
That's a damaging rebuke of the motives and strategy of Vote for Marriage NC. If the intent is to "protect marriage," then passing such a sledgehammer measure that prevents any legal options for lesbian and gay couples to be recognized boils down to making this amendment about their distaste or disapproval of any state entity recognizing them.
Again — V4MNC's public faces have to be forced to say publicly that other NC churches — are wrong about the very same holy texts it cites in V4MNC ads. It has made this bed, and now it must be forced to lie in it.
The fact is that the pro-Amendment forces aren't convincing anyone. Just a smattering of the recent coverage…
- Marriage vote imperils benefits for all unwed couples
- Experts say Amendment One open to interpretation
- WRAL unable to find CEO to go on record in favor of Amendment One
- States' businesses remain largely mum on Amendment One
- NC Attorney General will vote against Amendment One
- Why so many conservatives oppose the amendment
- NC Pediatric Society announces opposition to Amendment One
- Editorial: Reject 'marriage' amendment
The Durham Committee On the Affairs of Black People, a powerful political action committee here that came out against Amendment One, is holding a GOTV Rally, "Your Vote Is Your Voice, Make It Heard" today (Sunday) at 5:30 PM at Union Baptist Church, 904 North Roxboro Street, Durham, NC. Pastor Rev. Dr. Kenneth R. Hammond.
The guest speaker is Rev. Michele Cotton-Laws, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chapter, NAACP President
I'm registered to attend a high-profile event on Monday that should be interesting. Look at the panel.
Leadership Triangle panel on Amendment One, Durham ATC, Monday, April 30, 5PM
5:00-7:00 pm
Bay 7, American Tobacco Campus
Join us Monday, April 30, from 5:00-7:00 pm for a panel on Amendment One. Come to bay 7, American Tobacco Campus, to hear from our panelists and stay for a beer or glass of wine and some hors d'ourvres.
Tom Campbell – Former Assistant Treasurer of North Carolina. Currently produces and moderates the television talk show NC SPIN.
- Anthony J. Biller – Attorney at Law
- Maxine Eichner – Reef C. Ivey II Professor of Law, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Representative Deborah K. Ross – Minority Whip, North Carolina General Assembly
- Dr. Patrick L. Wooden, Sr. – Pastor, Upper Room Church of God in Christ
Wooden's the minister who said all gay men end up in diapers and use iPhones as sex toys — and that I should find Jesus and a man to breed with.


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New look Huskies in the works
Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:45:02 GMT —
Benzie Central has seen both sides of the game of football the past two years. They hoisted up a Northwest Conference title in 2011 but were only able to put together three wins last year. Now the red and white Huskies are looking to shake things up on Friday nights.
Head coach Steve Cox is taking his young lineup and implementing some new adjustments to both the offense and the defense in hopes of reaching new goals in 2013.
The video provides comments from the head coach along with two seniors on the year ahead.


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May 10, 2004
Present: Joe Zumalt, Sue Searing, Beth Woodard, Diana Walter, Susie Duncan, Lisa Hinchliffe
1. Strategic Planning
The group discussed the Strategic Planning draft. There was some question as to whether or not some priority was assumed with the ordering. It was pointed out that as this is an external document, internal emphasis such as training should probably not be the first item on the list.
There was also quite a bit of discussion of the problem with non-parallel structure, such as the listing of specific competencies for service, but not for collection development or preservation, and there are some very specific continuing education items for technical services mentioned that seem to be internal to that department.
The "recognition system" mentioned caused quite a bit of confusion, and the committee would like clarification about what the strategic planning committee meant by this, especially whether this is public recognition or private for the employee, or for the employee's file.
2. White Paper
Joe Zumalt and Beth Woodard will draft something for the committee to respond to. Joe has gathered some resources, including a SPEC Kit, the Texas A & M annual report with job descriptions. The group discussed describing what the future would be like as an employee and how training would be more integrated into work life and at your own desk. The strategy we would recommend would be one for a transitional period. It was suggested that we include vignettes, and Sue Searing volunteered to help write those.
3. GA Orientation
A suggestion was made to establish a GA listserv that could be used to send out bi-weekly messages that graduate assistants needed to know, but not on day one. Examples would include information about Archives, Rare Books, Oak Street, Preservation, etc. Another suggestion was that it could just be posted on Libnews-L since others may be interested as well.
How to Choose the Right Database is a session that should be added. It was also suggested that a session on basic search strategies should precede the sessions on individual vendor software. Sue will add some questions for WilsonWeb and Cambridge Scientific for library databases, even though there is not time in the sessions to cover that vendor software.
Reordering of the sessions on the required afternoon was suggested. See the webpage at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/training/orientation/fall_2004.html for updated information.
It was suggested that there was too much time for Circulation Basics if they've already covered searching techniques.
4. Next meeting: Monday, May 24th.


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By Steve Sbraccia
Wake Schools' head of transportation and facilities announced Monday that he will resign from his position amid the start of a school year that has been plagued by busing problems.
Don Haydon, who oversees transportation and facilities for the Wake County Public School System, will take paid leave from Sept. 18 until Dec. 31, at which point he will officially resign.
Haydon makes $150,666 annually, according to the Raleigh Public Record. He is the third-highest paid employee of the Wake school system.
"There's no question in my mind he was pushed," said former school board member Beverley Clark.
She's talking about Don Haydon, the school system's facilities and transportation chief.
"He was retired from the military; not a former educator and had worked for two other school systems before he came to Wake County," she explained.
In her ten years on the Wake County School Board, Clark came to see Haydon's work from an inside perspective.
"He brought a very ethical of view and a great understanding that it all work together," she said.
The school system isn't saying why Haydon suddenly resigned.
School board member Chris Malone told NBC-17 he's interested in knowing why Haydon suddenly quit and said that he wished Haydon had stayed.
Malone thought Haydon had "done a good job, by and large."
"I'm sick over it; I'm very, very upset over it," said Lynn Edmonds with Great Schools for Wake.
Asked if she thought Haydon was a scapegoat for last month's busing debacle, she said, "yes I do."
"This was Tony Tata's plan," she said. "I was in those meetings when the transportation dept was presenting their information; they had concerns and I don't think their advice was heeded."
School board member John Tedesco disagrees saying, he doesn't believe Haydon was pushed out.
And though Haydon was transportation chief; his defenders say responsibility for the busing problems this year needs to be spread around.
"Last week we heard Mr. Tata says the buck stopped with him;
Apparently he's changed his mind and push the buck down a bit," claims Beverley Clark.
Parents erupted in frustration as buses were late as traditional schools were back in session starting Aug. 26. Since the start of the school year, parents have been reporting lost bus drivers, late buses and buses missing their stops. Parents and children are also concerned about overcrowding on buses.
Haydon had said one of the problems that led to the busing issues was that Wake Schools tried to save money by cutting dozens of buses, and dropped from three days of training for bus drivers to just one day.
The school system reduced its fleet this year to try to save money and meet efficiency standards.
Transportation staff later added 34 buses back into the system, including seven in Apex. The additional buses come after the system received thousands of complaints about the buses being late.
With the extra buses, that means there are 915 buses this year for 151,000 students. The number of buses on the road is down from last year, when there were 932 buses for 146,000 students.
At the start of the school year, there were about 48 fewer buses on routes from the previous year.


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As the Smith College Coral Reef Ed-Ventures Program enters its 14th year, students are gearing up for another unforgettable summer providing environmental education youth camps in San Pedro on Ambergris Caye, Belize.
This year's participants are Alyssa Stanek '13, a psychology and education and child study major; Kayla Clark '14, sociology); Sarah Tucker '13, biological sciences; Kiara Gomez '14, geosciences; Dena Greenstreet '15, education and child study and liberal studies; and Sarah Alper '15, sociology.
The students, along with David Smith, professor of biological sciences, Al Curran, professor emeritus of geosciences, and Denise Lello, research associate in biological sciences, will team with staff at Hol Chan Marine Reserve to provide educational summer programs for local youth.
The student teachers guide nearly 100 Belizean schoolchildren, aged 7 to 11, in a two-week, inquiry-based program about coral reefs. Also offered is a one-week program for youth aged 12 and above, during which the students produce a final project to share with their community.
The programs integrate exploration of the local reef and coastal environments through the study of marine science, and make connections to the existing curricula of the Belizean schools. Smith students will also engage in research in conjunction with Smith faculty, to survey the abundant populations of invertebrates on the reef and to map and monitor mangroves and sea grass beds.
The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, which extends more than 600 miles along the coasts of southern Mexico, Belize, and northern Honduras, is the largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere. Ambergris Caye, a small island off the northeast coast of Belize, merits its title of Belize's premier vacation destination due to its proximity to the reef. Ambergris Caye depends on the reef ecologically as well as economically, because a healthy coral reef and its adjacent sea grass beds and mangrove communities are needed to support tourism, provide storm protection, and sustain fisheries.
Prompted by concerns about the increasing amount of uncontrolled diving and fishing on and near the reef, Belize established the Hol Chan Marine Reserve in 1987. In partnership with Hol Chan staff, the Coral Reef Ed-Ventures Program uses education to heighten community awareness about the important economic, ecological, and aesthetic benefits that coral reefs provide to Belize.
During the camp, the Smith students use a wide variety of active-learning techniques and creative materials to teach children concepts about reef ecology, including field trips, crafts, skits, games, and other hands-on activities. The program seeks to inspire conservation and sustainable use of coastal resources by providing children an opportunity to learn how healthy reefs function, how various organisms interact with the reef, what threats to the reef ecosystem exist, and how to protect it.
The Coral Reef Ed-Ventures Program is sponsored by Smith's Environmental Science & Policy Program.


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