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On Wednesday, February 27, you have the exciting opportunity to attend St. Olaf's Day at the Capitol. We'll be going to St. Paul to meet with legislators from across the state and talk with them about the importance of the Minnesota State Grant program. The event is free to students, and includes transportation, lunch, and lessons on lobbying from professionals. Register for the event by February 24.
The State of Minnesota currently gives around $2 million in financial aid to St. Olaf students, allocating funds that don't need to be repaid, enabling students to go to school. Statewide, the program assists over 85,000 students every year, making it possible for students to attend college.
This year is one of the most important yet. Governor Dayton has proposed to expand funding for the program by nearly $80 million, an increase that would reach tens of thousands more students that need help to make ends meet. This important issue needs your help. Register now to make a difference.
We'll leave in the morning of the 27th, and get back in the afternoon. It will be an exciting day where you get to interact first-hand with the engine of democracy that is our state legislature. Join us in making sure this pressing issue gets the respect and attention that it deserves. It truly makes a difference in students' lives.
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U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Brenda T. Rhoades of Plano will consider a motion seeking to honor the LAPD's request to obtain the recordings of Charles "Tex" Watson talking to Bill Boyd, a now-deceased Texas attorney who once represented Watson.
A law firm in McKinney where Boyd once worked has the tapes, and a trustee in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceeding involving the firm has asked the judge to grant the legal authority to give police the recordings. Boyd died in 2009.
Watson is serving a life sentence for his role in the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders.
In a March 19 letter, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said the LAPD wanted the recordings of Watson and his lawyer because police had information that Watson discussed additional killings by Manson followers that haven't been solved.
An LAPD spokesman later told The Associated Press that detectives wanted to examine the tapes but had no specific information.
Watson previously made the tapes available to the co-author of his 1978 book "Will You Die for Me? The Man Who Killed for Charles Manson Tells His Own Story." In the book, Watson detailed his role in the killings of actress Sharon Tate and six other people but didn't mention any unsolved slayings.
Watson, now 65, was convicted of all seven murders. He and three other Manson followers were sentenced to death but had their sentences commuted to life when the death penalty was briefly outlawed in 1972.
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Single use disposable plastic bags seem to last forever. One person can use up to 500 bags a year, and between 500 billion to upwards of one trillion bags worldwide. But one green crafter, Linda of Fashion Green T-Bags wants to change your plastic bag habit by creating reusable bags out of T-Shirts for you to re-use. Let's see how she started this green business.
How long have you been green crafting?
I've been crafting all of my life for different reasons. My mother was a big crafter and included us kids in her craft making. As a teacher, I crafted a lot for various lessons and student projects. I began my Etsy store in November of 2007. I wanted to create a way to give back to our local food bank after they helped a family member in his time of need. I decided to donate the profits from my shop to the food bank.
What are your favorite materials to recycle into functional eco-goodies?
I like to use old clothing, mostly. I have a huge collection of vintage buttons that I use occasionally too but haven't had the time lately to devote to a button project.
What new crafting technique would you like to learn?
I want to try to make the backpacks the kids are all wearing out of shirts. (the kind with the drawstring design) I think t-shirts would make great bags for that project.
What is your best upcycled crafting project using the most creative and ingenious way?
I thought that the bags made from the t-shirts was pretty darn clever but I found that it wasn't such an original idea after all. I love making my cross-body bags out of the long sleeves of shirts and blouses and aprons out of dresses. I haven't made these items for a while because I haven't figured out a way to use the left-over parts of the clothing items I need to make them.
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PIERRE — A legislative panel will consider issuing a subpoena in an attempt to force a witness to testify, its leader said Friday.
Sen. Larry Tidemann said the committee members would decide whether to pursue a subpoena against Joop Bollen of Aberdeen.
Bollen is president of SDRC Inc., a company he created in 2008 while he was still the director for the South Dakota International Business Institute at Northern State University.
After Bollen left the university, SDRC held a state contract from fall 2009 through fall 2013 to oversee and operate the regional center for South Dakota's activities in the federal EB-5 immigrant investor visa program.
Hundreds of millions of dollars flowed from foreign investors to SDRC-run loan pools that provided money to various South Dakota projects, including the now-bankrupt Northern Beef Packers plant at Aberdeen.
The investors paid $500,000 apiece plus a variety of fees to SDRC.
Tidemann, R-Brookings, said he met Tuesday with state Attorney General Marty Jackley.
Tidemann said he has asked Jackley to present a subpoena template to the Legislature's committee on government operations and audit. That could happen at the committee's next meeting July 29. Tidemann is the committee's chairman.
Tidemann said the Legislative Research Council staff doesn't have a lawyer with subpoena experience. He said another legislator, Rep. Timothy Johns, would sit as special legal counsel for the committee. Johns, R-Lead, previously was a state circuit judge.
The GOAC panel met Wednesday.
The Legislature approved a resolution during the 2014 session requesting that GOAC hold hearings on the Governor's Office of Economic Development including three audits and reviews that were specially commissioned by GOED.
Tidemann said the goal of a briefing by Jackley will be to explain to the committee whether Bollen would provide any useful testimony if a subpoena is issued.
Tidemann maintains the committee can't look at SDRC's private financial records. The state contract called for SDRC to pay specific fees to state government based on business activity.
State Auditor General Marty Guindon has said several times that his office's inspection of the SDRC records showed the proper amounts were paid or placed in a special account that will eventually be transferred to state government.
Tidemann said he believes a federal investigation is still under way and the U.S. attorney for South Dakota, Brendan Johnson, hasn't publicly delivered a report that the legislative committee could consider.
Jackley meanwhile has said he didn't investigate the EB-5 management because it is a program established by federal law. He has also said he didn't investigate former Gov. Mike Rounds as part of his probe of Richard Benda, the state official who gave SDRC the contract during the Rounds administration.
Rounds appointed Jackley as attorney general in 2009. Bollen and Benda, who was then secretary of tourism and state development in Rounds' administration, arranged and signed the SDRC contract using two private lawyers, Timothy Engel of Pierre and Jeff Sveen of Aberdeen.
Benda later went to work for SDRC in 2011, after new Gov. Dennis Daugaard didn't retain him in his administration.
Rounds, during his last full month in office, signed an agreement in December 2010 to provide $1 million from the state's Future Fund grant program to Northern Beef.
Benda hand-delivered the check in January 2011 to the company. According to one of Northern Beef's lawyers, a pre-existing agreement called for Northern Beef to put $550,00 in escrow to pay for SDRC loan-monitoring services.
Benda went to work that same month for SDRC to be the loan monitor for the Northern Beef financing from EB-5 investors.
Daugaard's office received a subpoena from a federal grand jury in March 2013. The subpoena was kept secret for more than eight months. Among the points of inquiry were Benda's travel records while he was in the Cabinet.
Daugaard asked the attorney general to investigate matters involved in the subpoena including regarding Benda's expenses.
After receiving the attorney general's report, Daugaard's commissioner of economic development, Pat Costello, terminated SDRC's state contract in September, 10 months before its scheduled conclusion, and contracted in October for an independent auditing firm to look at records in the economic development office.
Benda was found dead on Oct. 22 last year. The subsequent investigation by the attorney general concluded Benda killed himself on Oct. 20 with a shotgun blast to the abdomen while at a farm near Lake Andes.


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The lights of downtown glimmer on the Clark Fork as the lines of the mountaintops blur in with the sky. Art Bell is on the airwaves and infomercials have taken over the TV channels. Most of the city is still, though an eclectic mix of people—from students to drifters to yuppies—populates the bars in the center of town. Downtown remains buoyant by the bottle until 2 or 3 a.m., but then it, too, shuts down. All that's left are deserted streets…and the constant rhythm of work that goes on in every corner of the county. The rhythms have changed over the years—fewer folks working nights at the saw mill, more at Wal-Mart—but they have never ceased entirely. In the spectrum of Missoula's graveyard shift, you can still find all kinds of jobs being done all kinds of ways, and at all hours. The common denominator is that away from the watchful eye of the boss, people make their jobs uniquely their own.
The clean-up crew
About 90 custodians work the graveyard shift at the University of Montana. Alan Daniels, who cleans the music building, is convinced that he has the best assignment of them all.
"I don't even bring a radio to work," he says. "You walk from one end to another and start with an African drum recital and go to where the jazz band is playing. There's always music here." Daniels, 49, spent most of his life working days, most recently as a social worker. He has been a custodian at UM for the last two years.
"It works well for my family," says Daniels. His wife works days, and they have four children. "We can keep an eye on them that way," he laughs. vDaniels spent time in the Army, and has worked plenty of different jobs. His work at the UM, "typical janitor stuff," he says, is what lets him do what he really loves. "If you're gonna live in Montana, you're here to be in the outdoors," he says. "All my overtime money goes to my duck decoys. You know, the important things in life."
Over at the Law School, Charles Smith is getting ready to finish his shift at 2:30 a.m. He pulls out a stop watch and checks the time. Wristwatches give him a rash, he says, and besides, he likes gadgets and technology. "When I worked in the Journalism School I had permission to use the computer," he says. He liked playing around with digital photos.
When Smith gets off work, sometimes he'll take his dog out for a late-night walk—and times them with his stop watch. One night he took "Patches" for a walk at Fort Missoula and was stopped by the cops. They wanted to know what he was doing there so late at night. "I got off work and I'm walking the dog!" he told them.
Getting off in the middle of the night is toughest of all, says Darrell Conway. He used to work the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift making plywood at the lumber mill in Bonner.
"It's a little harder getting off at 2:30," Conway says. "You watch the news for a half-hour, have a bottle of beer, play solitaire." Conway also works as a custodian in the daytime at a Missoula church. He likes it there and it pays well, but it's the UM job that provides him all the benefits of being a state employee. He has about two hours between each job. Much has changed since he first came to Missoula 30 years ago, he says. "If you wanted to work half-time and play half-time you could. Work was plentiful," Conway says. "It was a good town before it got discovered."
Al Price, another night custodian at the University, grew up in towns all over western Montana. He served in the Army and worked different jobs, including a stint on the oil pipeline in Alaska. No night shift job will ever be as surreal as that one, he says, where it would be light out all night long. Price, 66, got his bachelor's degree and his master's degree in guidance and counseling at UM. He worked with developmentally disabled people in the public schools for many years. In 1994, he came out of retirement to work as a night custodian at UM.
The night shift is something Price has gotten used to over the years, although lately he admits it has been a hardship, as he cares for his ailing 90-year-old mother. He takes his solace in the UM campus, as he always has.
"At the fountain, it'll bring your blood pressure down if you sit there long enough," he says, adding that he loves going to campus lectures and concerts.
Tonight Price is in the Journalism building, emptying trash cans, cleaning windows, bathrooms and drinking fountains, mopping floors, and vacuuming the carpets.
"If I'm by myself or no one's real close, I'll kind of sing along," Price says. He likes the old Irish and Scottish songs he remembers from his childhood.
"Once I came in to clean a computer lab, and I don't know what possessed me but I started singing the Star-Spangled Banner," he says. "All of a sudden a head popped up from behind a computer. It was a female student with eyes as big as sausages. She was pretty surprised."
Always on call
In a bunker-like headquarters in the basement of the Missoula County Courthouse, a team of dispatchers works all night long. They're the ones who take 911 calls and stay in constant contact with law enforcement, fire, and medical responders, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Relaying information from warrant and registration checks to officers can be tricky, says Susan Bomstad, the night shift supervisor. "We kind of tell them in code," she says. The dispatcher does not know if the suspect is still in his own car or if he is sitting next to the officer. "They know the person's demeanor, so the officers have to tell us if they want the information now or later."
Bomstad has been a dispatcher for 22 years. When her children were growing up it was difficult to balance the night work, but she was blessed with an older friend who was a reliable babysitter. Now that her kids are grown, she appreciates the graveyard shift without reservations. "A lot of day shift duties are administrative," she says. "I think the night shift can be more exciting, more like cop work." With so many calls and such a small staff, there is almost no downtime for the overnight dispatchers.
Sometimes situations go beyond busy, and even beyond tense.
"Sometimes it takes a while to get a first responder on the scene," Bomstad says. "You may have someone on the phone for 10 or 20 minutes helping them with CPR until the closest fire agency can get there." In situations like these, the rest of the 911 center staff hones in and covers the dispatchers' other work. "The teamwork is incredible," Bomstad says.
Labor of love
The night shift at the Kaimin, the University of Montana's daily student newspaper, can last until 11:30 p.m. or it can go until the next morning. Sometimes it goes so late the editors will actually catch a glimpse of the mythical printing services employee who comes in each morning to retrieve their finished pages. "That's the big Kaimin test, if you've ever been here to see 'The Lady,'" says Courtney Lowery, editor of the Kaimin. Early in her tenure Lowery rode out a long night of production all the way until 6 a.m. Everyone was taken aback when they learned that "The Lady" was actually a man.
"One girl actually gasped," she remembers.
Production goes on in a cramped, computer-lined room covered in photos and funny quotes. Two microwaves stand ready and the desks are covered in old marked-up pages, pizza boxes, and Diet Coke in all stages of consumption: full bottle, empty can, half-filled plastic cup. "Last semester it got to the point that two of us were just sleeping on the couches," says Lowery. She had an 8 a.m. class and with production wrapping up on average around 3 a.m., going home seemed extraneous. She would sleep with a note on top of her asking friends to wake her up before class. She remembers waking up with the floral print of the Kaimin couch imprinted on her cheek.
Tonight is looking like a late night because the staff is producing a special election issue. There are 39 candidates, the worst of all possible worlds for student journalists, because it means including each one of them. If there were 40 candidates, they point out, there would have been a primary to cut it in half, and they only would have had to keep track of 20 people. "We just get in the rhythm of doing it," says News Editor Jessie Childress. "Everyone just does their own job and it falls together and somehow it gets done."
Steam and pressure
Jim Robbins learned about steam in the Navy. When the Missoula native left the service and returned to Montana, he worked with steam equipment at the timber mill in Bonner. Now Robbins, 58, is a stationary engineer at the UM heating plant. For the last eight and a half years he has worked at the plant, which generates the 170,000 pounds of steam per hour that heat all the buildings and water on campus.
Everything's pretty much automatic, until it goes off-line," says Robbins, who tonight is working the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift. "We're pretty much the last line of defense."
If things are going well, Robbins has plenty of down time. He passes it by reading books, doing crossword puzzles, playing solitaire, writing letters, and tidying up his desk. Behind him are the enormous, foreboding steam machines that grind and whirl at 50 decibels. Soon they will switch to the louder machine, which cranks out 80 decibels and forces the staff to wear earplugs for their whole shift. "It's pretty noisy but you get used to it," Robbins says. "Generally for us guys who've worked around this, we don't have the greatest ears in the world, but we try to protect what we've got."
If a machine stops working no one on campus would know about it—except for the engineer on duty. If steam is lost during a cold spell, buildings can be severely damaged. The engineers confront these hectic situations a handful of times each year, usually when surges or outages cut off power to the steam generators. It happened recently, and Robbins had to manually restart the boiler. "You hustle right through it," he says. "You try to bring things right back up so the campus doesn't even know it's lost power."
Early risers
Fugazi is blasting from the stereo tonight at Le Petit Outre. Erik Lionberger draws some finished loaves of bread out of the oven and sets them down on the rack. "We just crank the music and crank out the bread," he says.
Lionberger has worked at the Missoula bakery for the last two and a half years. He started as a delivery man and now is a nighttime baker. He balances the work with his classes at the University, which doesn't leave much time for sleep.
"There are times when I walk around like a zombie," he says. "I'll tell you, sometimes here it gets a little dreamlike with the fluorescent lights and the music and the late hours." Surrealism aside, Lionberger gives the job high marks, including points for creativity.
"There are definitely different styles," Lionberger says. He waves at the other overnight baker, Brian Rukavina: "He rolls a baguette very differently than I roll a baguette. It's very tactile." In a few hours, these baguettes, rolls, and loaves will go out all over the city. Tonight they will make more than 500 pieces of bread. Lionberger sets out 14 rolls of baguette-shaped dough on the rolling baking sheet. He goes over each one with a knife, slashing at the surface to give them their carved texture, then puts them in the oven.
"It's a very rewarding job," Lionberger says. "You work hard and come out with something to show for it."
TV nation
Mike Doty, who has worked in broadcasting since 1969, used to be a country music disc jockey. After a while, though, he realized he like working the control board better than coming up with witty banter. "I decided I wanted to do something a little more behind the scenes," he says. Now Doty is the control room supervisor at television station KTMF, Missoula's ABC affiliate. Two people man the master control room at the station 24 hours a day. Tonight Doty is doing the overnight shift along with Nathan Ellerd, a UM senior majoring in television production who has been a control room operator at the station since October.
KTMF, which is owned by MaxMedia of Montana, also operates the ABC stations for Butte, Kalispell, and Bozeman, as well as an NBC affiliate in Great Falls. All of the stations are run from the master control room in Missoula. Tonight these two men will spend their 12-hour shift in front of a bank of computers. Above them are two huge projection screens. The screen on the left shows all of the MaxMedia stations, while the screen on the right has the raw satellite feeds from the national networks. The job of the master control staff is to monitor everything at once.
"It's pretty stressful," Ellerd says. "The thing about this job is you do so many things at once. Right now we have five stations going. We're recording shows for the next day, and doing the next day's schedule."
While they monitor the Maury Povich Show on four different channels—the theme of tonight's episode is "You're My Mom, Stop Dressing Like a Stripper!"—Doty also enters tomorrow's programming schedule into the computer, down to each commercial break.
"It's killer on the eyes," Ellerd says. "After a while with these screens and those screens and these lights and those lights…I'm using Visine throughout the night."
"You have to have six eyes a piece," adds Doty.
Still, as self-proclaimed "computer nerds" and "TV buffs," both men love their job but admit the hours are brutal. Ellerd says he simply disappears from his friends during the week. "It's a little tough on the home life because my lady works a regular 11-to-7 day," Doty says. "But we deal with it. If something comes up, like a car problem on a Wednesday, I'll just put it
off until Friday."
Run of the mill
Dean Squires quit smoking 12 years ago. These days he gets through his night shift as a production laborer at the Smurfit-Stone Container plant with coffee and junk food.
"When I was a trucker that was my thing, coffee and cigarettes all night long," he says. Squires gave up trucking and came to the factory nine years ago. "I prefer this work because when you finish your shift you can go home instead of being out for days at a time."
Squires helps operate and maintain the enormous, warehouse-size machines that run 24hours a day and crank out 800 tons of paper every night. Once the paper is spat out of the machines in enormous rolls, workers pick them up with forklifts and drive them into railcars. More than 30 railcars a day are filled up and shipped out to locations all over the country. As Squires explains how he works the paper machines, we suddenly hear a load roar in the background.
"You teach yourself to learn what noises like that mean. You learn to associate different noises with different jobs," he says. "You see these guys at two or three a.m. working on their tenth hour…Last night the crew was just about out, then they'd hear the machines and it would snap them out of it."
Carl King and Marianna Molenda, who have 34 years of experience between them at the plant, work nights in the paper lab. They spend their overnight shift running samples of paper through a wide array of laboratory machines, testing them for strength, density, and absorption. "Basically you can teach a chimpanzee to punch these buttons and do the tests," Molenda says. Of course, it would have to be a chimpanzee with a chemistry background. Molenda and King even have the blunt, sarcastic humor common among scientists.
"Graveyard shift is the worst thing ever created," King says. "By mankind. God didn't create it." He says he loves the job but hates the shift.
"I don't think it's healthy, but I can't blame the company. I made a choice," says Molenda. They both point out that the money is very good.
Roger Davis agrees. He's been at the factory for 27 1/2 years, and now he keeps watch over the railcars as they're loaded up and shipped out. His seniority has given him a comfortable salary and a good schedule. The factory, which is unionized, has more than 500 employees, with an average salary of $52,000 a year.
As he puts tonight's shipping schedule down on the table, Davis says he has no complaints. "Nobody leaves and nobody quits," he says.
Gimme shelter
Jon Jacobson leans back in his chair, decked out, as always, in a tie-dye shirt. Rubbing his beard, he reflects on how he came to work nights at the Poverello Center, Missoula's only homeless shelter. It was, well…a long, strange trip.
Jacobson, 47, says he spent more than a decade as a bartender, and at his last job at the Top Hat, he found himself watching the calendar. After eight years, seven months and 15 days there, he quit—with no idea where he would land next.
"I kind of looked at the Creator and said, 'OK, you don't want me bartending. What else have you got for me?'" Jacobson says. So, he came to work at the Poverello Center three months ago, where he discovered that some of his bartending skills have proven useful.
"I've been throwing drunks out of places for years," he laughs.
Most of the time, however, he's handling clients' requests and making sure nothing goes wrong. From 7 to 10 p.m. he checks in clients and gives out bedding, towels, soap, and razors. After the clients go to sleep at 10, the job quiets down.
Lately he has been passing the overnight down time by filling up yellow notepads with the beginnings of his memoirs. It's a been a long-term project that keeps evolving. He was going to call it the "Memoirs of a Buddhist Bartender," but he quit the bars—and lost his faith.
"I thought I was pretty spiritual, until I got broke," he says. Jacobson used to eat lunch at the Poverello sometimes, but never stayed there. Even when he was living on the verge of total poverty working as a tree planter, he used to camp out at night.
It's been 30 years since Jacobson came to Missoula to go the college. He still remembers driving through Hellgate Canyon in the early '70s and saying to himself, "I've found my home." He was around for all the classic Missoula movements, from the underground press to the anti-nuclear protests. By now, Jacobson says, he probably knows half the people in town. It was a jarring experience, then, when he started working at the Poverello Center and ended up checking in people he knew.
"The guys I used to think were crazy in the bars are kind of the ones I consider saner here," he says. Before he leaves in the morning he heads up to the dormitory to wake everyone up. He laughs at how divergent their moods are: About to get off work, Jacobson is buoyant and cheery, telling a roomful of people who don't want to get out of bed, "Wake up! It's a beautiful day!"
"It's kind of ironic," he says. "I quit the bars because I wanted to see what the day life was like." But after three months he is getting used to his inverted schedule. It's tough, he says, but worth it. "At least when I go home now I feel like I've done something that's contributing to the betterment of society instead of its detriment," he says.
Late-night fantasies
Jess Gordon runs a '50s-style vacuum cleaner across the carpet at Fantasy for Adults Only on Main Street. It's nighttime, but with the front windows blacked out, it always feels like nighttime inside this store. Behind him is a wall of garish video boxes and in front of him a glass display case with exotic lotions and sex toys.
"My roommate's girlfriend worked here before I did," Gordon says. "She was saying that she'd sort of become the Dr. Ruth of the porn shop. I was jealous because I wanted those insights, too." Gordon specialized in sex therapy in college, so when he took the job at Fantasy for Adults Only he was hoping to garner some sociological insights and help couples with healthy sexual exploration.
"Single women and couples know what they want," he explains. "But there's a whole other set of people who come here who have grown up sexually repressed all of their lives. They have to hide their faces, get what they want and get out."
Gordon feels badly for them, but sometimes customers come in with more sinister requests. When they ask for things like child pornography, he takes a hard line.
"In a place like this the customer is not always right," he says. "We get a lot of freakos. This isn't the kind of place where you want to get walked all over."
Gordon says his least favorite part of the job is when customers disappear into the arcade booths in the back and don't return.
"I've had the cops come and get four guys who've passed out in the back," he says. "Usually with their pants around their ankles, drunk, with their hands around their members." It wasn't what he expected when he started. Still, most of the time he enjoys helping out people who come in with legitimate questions, especially couples. As for the darker aspects, he says there is an upside to them as well.
"You do learn a lot about people here," he says.


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One needs to look no further than last season to find an MLS club riding a stingy defense and opportunistic goal-scoring tendencies to the MLS Cup Final. The Houston Dynamo finished the 2011 regular season 4-0-1 during a five-game stretch in which they conceded no more than a single goal per contest. In those matches, Houston scored nine times, allowing a mere three tallies and posting two shutout victories.
Does that sound familiar? It should. As the 2012 campaign draws to a close, D.C. United is riding a five-game unbeaten streak, going 4-0-1 over that stretch. In those games, United has scored six times, conceding only twice and earning three shutout wins. United has two big regular season games remaining, but if the Black-and-Red continue to use the same results-driven recipe, they may not be the Eastern Conference favorite in November, but they will be the team that no one wants to line up against.
"Our group commitment defensively has been very good and its what is needed to get into the playoffs and ultimately make a run," said United Head Coach Ben Olsen.
Olsen has found a defensive line-up that has gelled and posture that is producing. With goalkeeper Bill Hamid supported by Andy Najar, Dejan Jakovic, Brandon McDonald and Chris Korb across the back line, United has held firm when their opponent charges. Communication has been the key to allowing fewer quality chances and, when a break-down does occur, sheer effort has bailed the club out of the jam. On the attack, Chris Pontius, Lewis Neal, Lionard Pajoy, Branko Boskovic, and Hamdi Salihi have all provided key goals with limited opportunities.
Continuing this form is central to the Black-and-Red gaining a result next weekend against Columbus and to a successful 2012 post-season run. Last year, Houston rode the late-season momentum into the playoffs and to the Eastern Conference crown and, while most United supporters and pundits alike may agree that it is too early to book passage to the Cup Final, similar results will prove that big things are still to come for D.C. United.


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Putin sits down with Ukrainian president for first-ever bilateral talks
MINSK, Belarus – The presidents of Russia and Ukraine are meeting for their first bilateral talks at a much-anticipated summit in Minsk, which many voiced hopes may help bring an end to fighting between Kyiv's forces and pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko met late on Tuesday in the Belarussian capital, the first such meeting between the countries' heads of state since Ukraine's pro-Russian ex-president was ousted from power in February.
Fighting in east Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists are battling government forces, has claimed at least 2,000 civilian lives since it began in April, according to a United Nations estimate.
Heavy artillery attack in Ukraine
Towering columns of smoke rose Tuesday from outside a city in Ukraine's far southeast after what residents said was a heavy artillery barrage.
It was the second straight day that attacks were reported in the vicinity of Novoazovsk, which is in eastern Ukraine's separatist Donetsk region but previously had seen little fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels.
The shelling came on the same day that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Minsk, Belarus. The two leaders have not met face-to-face since a June ceremony in Normandy.
READ MORE: U.S. and NATO condemn Russian aid convoy into Ukraine
Local residents, some hastily packing up in order to flee, told The Associated Press it was not clear what direction the firing had come from.
Ukrainian officials on Monday said artillery was fired from the Russian side of the border. A Ukrainian soldier who declined to give his name suggested that Tuesday's shelling could have come from rebels aiming to take out a Ukrainian rocket launcher.
Novoazovsk lies on the Azov Sea on the road that runs from Russia to the major Ukrainian port of Mariupol. That same road goes west to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Russia in March.
Ukraine said a small column of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles crossed into Ukraine on Monday north of Novoazovsk, raising the possibility that pro-Russia separatists were aiming to take control of a strip of land that would link up Russia with Crimea.
WATCH: Pro-Russian rebels sour Ukraine's Independence Day celebrations
"The new columns of Russian tanks and armour crossing into Ukraine indicates a Russian-directed counteroffensive may be underway," U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt said on his Twitter account.
Russia has denied allegations from Kyiv and Western countries that it is supporting or directing the rebels as well as NATO charges that it has fired artillery into Ukraine to help the rebels.
10 Russian soldiers captured
Also Tuesday, Ukraine said its forces had captured 10 Russian soldiers in an eastern region where the Ukrainian troops are fighting separatists.
The Facebook page for Ukraine's anti-rebel operation said the soldiers were from a Russian paratrooper division and were captured Monday around Amvrosiivka, a town near the Russian border.
The posting included videos of five men it said were among the captives, one of whom said the soldiers had been told they were being mobilized to take part in military exercises.
READ MORE: Fighting near rebel-held city kills 43 people in last 24 hours
Russian news agencies quoted an unnamed official in the Russian Defence Ministry as saying the soldiers were patrolling the border and probably crossed the border inadvertently.
Russia reportedly has tens of thousands of troops positioned in areas near the Ukrainian border, leading to persistent concerns that Moscow could be preparing an invasion.
The fighting in eastern Ukraine began in mid-April, a month after Russia annexed Crimea. It has killed over 2,000 people and forced over 340,000 to flee, according to the U.N.
Jim Heintz in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Lynn Berry in Moscow contributed to this report.


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My dd is 9 mo. and I have ppd..or something. I've had symptoms such as: insomnia, irritability, anger, anxiety, feeling overwhelmed since her birth..a ver traumatic c-section. At first I had flash backs and nightmares but a counsellor at the health unit did EMDR with me which seemed to help. I've also been working with a classical homeopath since 4 wks pp, some remedies have helped a lot..but at 5 mo pp I became pretty suicidal for a while. My dd is high needs... which compounds things. Right now I'm seeing a new counsellor and trying 5-htp, thyroid support, digestive enzymes, mega fish oil, b-12, iron, melatonin for sleep. I feel it's helping but...what does it mean if ypu have one or two good days and feel pretty much normal,even happy, then some bad days where you might cry or feel "crazy" and like harming yourself? I keep thinking I'm better because of this pattern...usually I feel loads better when dh has the day off, I have extra help, friends visit etc. but if one little thing goes "wrong: I spiral super quick and go back to where I was. I have my mw's on speed dial for emergencies, dh is somewhat aware of what's going on but then I seem normal so i think he gets confused....has anyone experienced this? The counsellor who did the EMDR said I seemed to have features of PTSD...
I haven't tried meds ever...I am really scared of feeling numb since right now I have moments and days where I feel "normal" but sometimes I wish I'd tried meds and therapy sooner...it's been nine months where more than 50% of the time I haven't enjoyed being a mom, just slogged through it.
I feel really confused. how can I go from ok (not hyper or anything) to awful so quickly? I feel really unstable. I've started to open up to friends more about what's going on with me...maybe so I can stop pretending and trying to hold it all together which is exhausting...but they say meds just cover the symptoms blah blah. My midwife is willing to help me get a referral to the psychiatrist at the hospital so I can get a diagnosis and have access to the mental health programs including a support group and things like that. I am scared but thinking about it...I felt pretty low a lot during pregnancy too and anxiety which I just trudged through and got acupuncture that didn't help at all. I also had major depression as a teen (was diagnosed and decided against meds at the time despite them really pushing them) and to be honest nearly ever winter I have mild-moderate depression I just deal with and I haven't coped well with stress (less well than the average person) sicne I was 15. Now with a baby and hormone changes I just can't seem to slog through anymore, the ups and downs are exhausting. I'm tired of being "proud" and above meds...but yet terrified they'll make me have no libido, make me fat and numb...also we are TTC...or at least open to another babe,,,help me sort throught this..has anyone else felt this way and what did you do? Mental illness runs very high on both sides of my family and now I see similar issues in my 17 year old sister (she started cutting herself...) and my mom has never been diagnosed but had ppd after all of her children and regularly had crazy mood swings, went into rages etc...not sure i fthis means anything...
Well, I know exactly what you mean...and it is incredibly confusing. It seems like your managing well but I would seriously consider trying a ssri. I know that you don't want to feel numb but once you get over the initial adjustment, I have a feeling that they will work great for you. I was diagnosed with ppd when my son was about 18 months. I had a really hard time with panic, anxiety, and intrusive thoughts. Once the meds started really working, I was able to get it together and I had a good two years without any issues. I recently have had a couple of pani
Ok, first of all, I have no idea why but my screen froze and I couldn't continue my post.
I recently had a couple of panic attacks but I know that I kind of triggered them by not taking good care of myself and not eating well. Doing to much and expecting too much, yk.
Anyways, I just wanted to say that we have to try and remain positive and know that what we are going through now, will not be the story of our lives. It's just a challenge for now. At least for me, I lived 30 years without issues with anxiety or panic and I expect to overcome this disorder and have another thirty years. So, hold your head up...you will make it through, hon.
I can totally relate to this. I dont have as drastic of highs and lows as it sounds you are having, but definitely they are helped by having dh home, my mom down, etc and I also find that because my ds is suuuuper high needs(hes almost 9 mos), they reflect closely his behavior ( as in, if hes having a decent day and not screaming all day, I feel somewhat capable.) there are days I get alot done a feel good about it (by this I mean I kept the house, dishes, laundry and kid clean) and Im not wearing spit up. Other days, when hes pissy from the get go, I am in my pjs most of the day and feel lifeless. Its got to be partly ds but obviously Im not blaming him, its me too. I dont find a whole lot of joy in mothering, and most days it is slogging through, With this kid, everything is a battle. Getting him into his carseat, changing his diaper, etc, hes screaming.
I dont have alot of advice to offer, just saw this and know that I am at the same place. Havent done or really considered meds, I really believe it would be a cse of the baby "blues" should my ds be easier and I cant articulate this enough to people around me to know if I still need meds, but I do alot of herbs for calming, as my reaction to no sleep/constant crying/etc is anger and I take lemon balm, oats tincture, nettles, b vits, prenatal, fish oil (tho I stopped this bc we thought ds had a fish allergy, turns out hes pretty much allergic to everything BUT fish, and this just adds to the problem but thats another story). Hang in there, I know we wont endure this forever, I too want another baby, but am also SCARED to death of going through this again. I just keep telling myself "do people really have two high needs kids in a row? Can it be possible?"
Had my follow-up with the naturopath and found out my thyroid is quite low. She gave me a copy of the bloodwork (which my doc did and he said nothing about this!?) I'm on some kind of pill now along with 5-htp, digestive enzymes and some sort of homeopathic for anxiety. I also ahd a wonderful crainiosacral appt that helped so much. She is a physical therapist so here in Canada through my and dh's work she is covered for a certain amoutn of visits (yay) as is the naturopath. The Naturopath said it could take a few months to really get my thyroid back where it needed to be. I'm kind of glad I did the last-ditch effort at the naturopath because I've heard anti depressants don't work well if you're hypothyroid?? anyway, maybe this explains a lot.
:hug I think that after you get your thyroid in good shape, everything else will be easier to identify and deal with/manage. If your thyroid is low then everything else is SO much harder.
After a whole week of waking up every 1/2 hour (or less) to 1.5 hours I started feeling pretty weird, is that normal? And miserable. Can one take medication (and will it work) if the thyroid is messed up? I'm ok on the up days when less stress, good sleep, but with dd there is never a guarentee. I feel like a shitty mama.
i'm so sorry mama! messed up sleep makes it impossible to heal. is it possible your period is returning? (assuming that it hasn't yet). I tend to get wicked insomnia during PMS.
your are NOT a shitty mama. its impossible to give yourself credit for all the great things you are doing when you feel like shit. try and give yourself a break. and do whatever you feel comfortable with to get you back to balance. this really will pass, i promise.
this coming from a mama who tried everything to avoid meds, but ultimately its what helps now, and i'm trying to be ok with it. when my boy is older i can re-explore all the other methods of treating my chronic depression and anxiety.
A few things.... Who says meds only cover up symptoms? The medication treats a chemical imbalance. That's not covering things up, that's correcting a problem. There is no shame in getting help, whether that be through natural measures or medication. Medication is a wonderful thing when it's used correctly. I have used anti-depressants at various points in my life when I felt like I couldn't manage my depression on my own, almost always in periods of outside stress. I WISH I had gotten on medication when I had DS1. At the time, I didn't really understand what was happening, and neither did DH. We got through that time, but I missed out on so much. And DS1 didn't get the best version of me.
And fwiw, meds have never made me feel numb, at all.
i'm so sorry mama! messed up sleep makes it impossible to heal. is it possible your period is returning? (assuming that it hasn't yet). I tend to get wicked insomnia during PMS.
your are NOT a shitty mama. its impossible to give yourself credit for all the great things you are doing when you feel like shit. try and give yourself a break. and do whatever you feel comfortable with to get you back to balance. this really will pass, i promise.
this coming from a mama who tried everything to avoid meds, but ultimately its what helps now, and i'm trying to be ok with it. when my boy is older i can re-explore all the other methods of treating my chronic depression and anxiety.
Well, I do tend to post more post-ovulatuion lol. I just got AF today, but I have been a wreck all cycle long lately. I got AF back at 4 months pp, dd is 9.5 months. thanks both of you for making me feel better about this. I may call my naturopath mon. and ask if I can do meds and continue treatment with her. I feel like I've reached a critical point...
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I am sorry to be late again. Sometimes I find it hard to keep up with this blog, especially when an invitation from Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana to the 3 day launch of their first Couture Collection in Sicily, arrives - like that!
Almost every girl who has a love for shoes shares a love for Christian Louboutin; his famously creative shoes are desired by women across the world. This summer, The Design Museum in London presented an exhibition of the French shoe designer, celebrating a career which has pushed the boundaries of high fashion shoe design, and I was fortunate enough to attend.
Long before women were allowed to express themselves fully, the Marquis de Sade said that "the way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment". This was recently quoted in Claudia's Croft interview with Christian Louboutin who stated that, "a little discomfort is balanced by something else, which has to do with desire." Have the French spoken?


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Behind its magnificent facade, you will find that City Hall is surprisingly flexible and can accommodate state-of-the-art conferencing and hi-tech communications systems.
The venue had welcomed a variety of international conferences and high-profile events over recent years, including international software workshops, European Council Meetings and most recently was Rally Headquarters of the Wales Rally GB.
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At City Hall, you can be assured of a warm welcome, as well as superb service and full support from our Functions Team. Additional support for conference organisers is also available from Cardiff Conference Bureau, whose services include an accommodation-booking service, venue advice and suggestions for partner programmes and social itineraries. Choose this venue for your function or conference and you can be confident that it will be an event that everyone will remember.
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TAMPA — RT Jeremy Trueblood dismissed accusations by several Chicago defensive linemen that he is a "dirty player."
The Bears accused Trueblood of igniting an overtime scuffle Sunday that resulted in Chicago CB Charles Tillman being flagged for a personal foul — a penalty that extended the Bucs' winning drive.
The Bears allege Trueblood took swings at Adewale Ogunleye and Tommie Harris while they were on the ground. Trueblood accused an unidentified Bears player of grabbing his genitals.
"I'm not trying to be dirty. I'm just trying to play hard," he said Wednesday. "It's a thin line. It's a mutual respect line that I try to tiptoe every week. I try to be respectful. I think everyone else tries to be respectful. But every once in a while, I guess sometimes people's tempers flare."
Bucs coach Jon Gruden said his offensive line plays physical and scoffed at the notion the tactics were underhanded.
"They're not dirty," he said. "I'll reiterate they're not dirty. We're physical. We want them to be physical. I don't want anybody to play dirty. We've already made a big issue here."
joseph back: G Davin Joseph returned to practice in a full-time capacity for the first time since breaking his foot Aug. 17.
Gruden said Joseph will be available to play in some capacity against the Packers on Sunday.
"He wouldn't be out there practicing, preparing to play this week if there was any potential he would have a setback," Gruden said. "We've been very cautious. We've done the right thing. The injury has healed. We'll see how he feels after a pretty good practice today."
CLOSER LOOK AT STEVENS: The NFL is reviewing a gesture TE Jerramy Stevens made after his touchdown Sunday. Stevens made a slashing motion near his groin. NFL officials will not comment on the review until a determination is made and/or Stevens is notified.
INJURY UPDATE: FB B.J. Askew (hamstring), LB Derrick Brooks (hamstring), WR Joey Galloway (foot) and DT Ryan Sims (hamstring) did not practice. QB Brian Griese, still sore from Sunday, was limited. RB Warrick Dunn was held out per his routine on Wednesday. Gruden said it's unlikely Galloway would play.


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An SUV and pickup truck collided at the intersections of Dollarway and Hoadley roads, Patrolman Celena G. Harbison said, when the 1996 Chevrolet Silverado stuck the rear of a 2008 Toyota 4Runner that had stopped for the traffic light.
William T. Milligan of 109 E. Holland Ave., White Hall, was quoted by the investigating officer as saying the anti-lock brake system on the truck locked up and he slid into the rear of the southbound SUV driven by Barbara Fuller of 1403 McGhee, White Hall.
May 2
Buford M. Green of 305 Green Ave., White Hall, told Patrolman Brian Hornsby his 2001 Nissan Frontier pickup truck was damaged earlier in the day on a parking lot in the city.
Green was quoted as saying he drove his wife to a physician�s office for an appointment and they later stopped at a fast food restaurant to eat, adding he discovered damage to the right rear bumper of the truck after returning home.
May 3
� Two vehicles collided in a drive-through lane at the Simmons First National Bank branch, 8107 Dollarway Road, according to a report filed by Patrolman Brent Bridges.
The officer quoted Susie Sanders of 2404 McConnell Circle, Pine Bluff, as saying she began backing her 2006 Jeep Commander while in the line and backed into a 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt driven by Ashley Spears of 11 Red Oak, Monticello, who was in the line.
� Two drivers and the three passengers escaped injury when two cars collided in the 8600 block of Dollarway Road, Sgt. Greg Moody said.
The officer said Courtney Harp of 13688 Dollarway was northbound in a 2008 Honda Accord when Karie A. Freeman of 130 Timber Lane, White Hall, drove a 2006 Toyota Corolla from a parking lot into the path of the Harp vehicle.
May 6
Calvin Curtis Crutchfield, 30, of 114 Huckleberry Lane, Sheridan, was arrested and charged with driving while under the influence of intoxicants, Patrolman Stephen Moreau wrote in his report, after officers received a report of a pickup truck being driven in an erratic manner on Jefferson Parkway between Dollarway and Sheridan roads.
Moreau said he approached Crutchfield, driver of the truck, after it stopped at a business on Sheridan, and administered several field sobriety tests, which the driver failed.
Crutchfield was arrested for DWI after taking a Breathalyzer test at the police station, Moreau wrote in his report.
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May 3
� Firemen were dispatched to the Sherri Cone residence, 912 West St., at 9:09 a.m. when the occupant observed smoke coming from the top of the television set in the living room. She said she called the fire department and then unplugged the set.
Firemen moved the set outside the residence.
� At 7:50 p.m. firemen were dispatched to a fire alarm at 1600 Oak Hill Drive. The alarm company notified firemen the occupant of the residence had triggered the alarm by accident and there was no fire.
May 4
� Firemen responded to a report of a vehicle fire on Interstate 530 at Exit 34 at 6:02 p.m. White Hall police located the vehicle at Exit 35 and reported there was no fire, canceling the response.
� Firemen were dispatched to the Wed Faculty residence, 142 W. Little Lane, at 8:59 p.m. in response to a report of a clothes dryer on fire in the laundry room. Firemen removed the dryer from the residence.


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Jackie has a post discussing the move from Access to .NET. As part of it, he focuses on what he thinks are the key features for data-centric developers. Numbers one and two are:
(1) The improved experience and productivity of designing/building data-centric WinForms
(2) The improvement in easily building forms that use automatic data binding and actually work correctly
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Recession Doesn't Affect Our Spending On Pets-Here's Why
My dog Ruemmele is my baby, my whole family thinks of him as our baby. Laugh if you will, but I have a majority of the nation to back me up! While the recession may make people think twice about buying some items, they aren't drawing the line when it comes to their four-legged best friend, here's why.
According to the American Pet Products Association, people in the U.S. will spend more than $50 billion on their animals this year, a record. Spending in the pet economy has increased every year since 2001 and only once by less than 5 percent annually in that time.
Pet ownership is at an all-time high of 72.9 million households — about two out of every three. And those in pet-related industries in Central Minnesota say they've seen how animal lovers have made their business strong, if not recession proof.
When the economy went bad, people started staying home more. They weren't taking as many vacations. They weren't gone as much. They started focusing on their home life and, for a lot of people, that includes a pet."
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New Effort to Understand Learning Outcomes
A group of public and for-profit institutions has agreed to collaborate on a project aimed at finding a common way to use the data they collect about students' academic progress to better understand how and why students succeed or fail. The project will be led by WCET, the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies, and funded by a new $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It is designed to bring student-level data (drawn from learning management and student information systems) from six institutions -- American Public University System, Colorado Community College System, Rio Salado College, University of Hawaii System, University of Illinois Springfield, and the University of Phoenix -- into a common format so they can be stripped of identifying information about students and merged into one dataset. The researchers say this will allow them to study the variables that affect student progress, and test the ability to merge student-level data from numerous and varied colleges in one place -- a goal that some policy makers have laid out as the holy grail of education research.
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hello em here from australia i have just finnished building a 50 inch pompeii oven and am very happy with the finnished product. however i did not use a fire blanked but used 4 inches of vermiculite concrete then chicken wire and and more than 1 1/2 inches of concrete.i left oven to cure for about 2 weeks and then followed the 5 step curing fires as recomended in forno bravo plans . however the out side of my dome has cracked quite badly but the inside brick are perfect.i would like to rerender my dome and am thinking of useing a slip layer any advice for me and how to render a slip layer. thanks em
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"the inside brick are perfect"
This is what counts. Cracks on the outside of the dome are common.
At one time it was advised to have several layers of heavy duty aluminum foil as a slip layer, although this practice seem to have fallen out of favor.
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Hi Em,
Because you used vermicrete for your insulation you will have added hundreds of litres of water in the application of this layer (around a third of the volume of vermiculite that you used) To evaporate this much water you need way more than a couple of weeks. Ask yourself how long it would take to boil dry a 44 gallon drum of water. The cracks have occurred because water present in the insulation layer has created steam pressure. Don't be in a hurry to render over the cracks until you are 100% sure the water has been removed.This usually takes about 10 decent firings after the initial curing. If you apply some kind of slip layer, you are also sealing in some of that moisture. I foiled over my vermiculite layer prior to rendering the outside shell. In two places I punctured the foil with quite a few holes and it is in these spots that the oven gets hot on the outside after rainy periods, which is an indication that the vermicrete layer has moisture and steam is finding its way out there.This is a handy indication of what is going on inside but I wouldn't do it again. It slows the drying process too much.
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thanks david. yes i agree totaly with you the other thing i did was to render with concrete two days after i rendered the vemiculite, in the middle of winter.traped all the water in .i think i will render over it in a few mouths time by then should have used it over 10 times regards em
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Yeah, don't stress over it.The outer shell is only to keep out the weather. But should it rain it would be best to cover it because the rain will enter through the cracks.Kindled with zeal and fired with passion.
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I also put a vent in the top of the dome thru the stucco and into the vermicrete layer. This is a 1 in dia vent with a rain cap. I also have four 1 inch vents around the perimeter at the bottom of the insulation layer. During firing after a wet spring, I often see steam coming from the top vent.
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Originally posted by Neil2 View PostI also put a vent in the top of the dome thru the stucco and into the vermicrete layer. This is a 1 in dia vent with a rain cap. I also have four 1 inch vents around the perimeter at the bottom of the insulation layer. During firing after a wet spring, I often see steam coming from the top vent.Kindled with zeal and fired with passion.


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Toronto (PRWEB) April 15, 2013
In her new Regency mystery novel "Friend at Court: A Ruth Bowen Regency Mystery" (published by Trafford Publishing), author Brenda Dow presents the story of a Quaker woman confronting a stern but eccentric judge while trying to prove the innocence of a deaf serving girl charged with theft and attempted murder and later accused of murder itself.
Regency mysteries, those mysteries set during the Regency period of English history (1811-1820), are often written in a Jane Austen-style of prose, which draws in readers from all walks of life.
When Quaker Ruth Bowen returns home to reconcile with her estranged family, she does not expect to run afoul of an eccentric judge of the King's Bench and to find herself confined in Norwich Castle prison. She must solve the mystery of why a deaf maidservant was summarily dismissed from her employment and later brought up on trumped-up charges of theft and attempted murder. Can the girl be a threat to someone in that household?
Much of the draw of "Friend at Court" is found in its characters, who are products of their time and the cultures they come from. The pacifistic nature of the Society of Friends (Quakers) is at war with the cruelty of early 19th century law.
"Friend at Court"
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Inveterate historical romance reader Brenda Dow enjoys all puzzles and sometimes dreams up scenarios behind unexplained press items. She published a book on solving cryptic crosswords and authored "Earl for a Season," a Regency romance. Her favorite author is Jane Austen and her main hobby is painting in fine arts.
Trafford Publishing, an Author Solutions, Inc. author services imprint, was the first publisher in the world to offer an "on-demand publishing service," and has led the independent publishing revolution since its establishment in 1995. Trafford was also one of the earliest publishers to utilize the Internet for selling books. More than 10,000 authors from over 120 countries have utilized Trafford's experience for self publishing their books. For more information about Trafford Publishing, or to publish your book today, call 1-888-232-4444 or visit trafford.com.


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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
NCAIED Honors NARF Attorney Amy Bowers
The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED) will honor 40 American Indian professionals under the age of 40 at its 36th Annual Indian Progress in Business Awards Event (INPRO) on September 8 in Hollywood, Florida. Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Attorney Amy Bowers is one of the honorees. Read More
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CCIA Taps NARF Attorney Steve Moore
The Colorado Commission on Indian Affairs (CCIA) announced its newest members at its quarterly meeting on the Ute Mountain Ute reservation in Towaoc, Colorado. Steve Moore, an attorney with the Native American Rights Fund, and Dr. Rocco Fuschetto, School Superintendent, Ignacio School District, will hold one-year appointments to the commission, according to a press release. Dr. Fuschetto is a first-time appointee; Moore has served as a member of the Commission since 1999. Read More
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NARF Attorney Natalie Landreth to Argue in Ninth Circuit
Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Attorney Natalie Landreth will argue an historic hunting and fishing rights case, Eyak v. Locke, Secretary of Commerce, before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on September 21st. The legal precedents for this case flow directly from United States v. Washington, the landmark case won by NARF and other advocates in 1973 on behalf of salmon fishing tribes in the State of Washington. Professor Charles Wilkinson, co-author of the leading textbook on federal Indian law, recently described United States v. Washington as "…along with Brown v. Board of Education, the two most important civil rights cases of the 20th century. Read More
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The shoulder is a ball and socket joint, capable of moving in all directions. A flexible shoulder joint is essential for most daily activities, such as getting dressed, driving, job duties and recreational activities. The four rotator cuff muscles -- supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor and subscapularis -- are responsible for shoulder stability, and tightness in these muscles can significantly impair your function. Broom stretches can be performed to stretch the infraspinatus and subscapularis muscles. Move into each stretch slowly, and do not stretch to the point of pain. Overstretching can cause permanent damage to muscles. Consult your doctor before stretching if you have a history of shoulder injury.
The infraspinatus muscle originates on the back of your shoulder blade and attaches to the back of your humerus -- upper-arm bone -- by a tendon. The infraspinatus muscle is the primary muscle that externally rotates your arm, turning it out and away from your body. In addition, the infraspinatus muscle moves your arm backward into extension, and away from your body into horizontal extension when your arm is held parallel to the ground.
Tight muscles move into a shortened position -- the ends of the muscle move closer to each other. A tight infraspinatus muscle pulls your arm into external rotation. To stretch this muscle, direct the force in the opposite direction -- into internal rotation. Place your right arm behind your back as if you are going to scratch it. Hold a broomstick in your left hand and bring it up over your left shoulder. Slide the stick down your back until you are able to grasp it with your right hand. Slowly pull the stick up toward the ceiling with your left hand, sliding your right hand up your back. Stop when you feel a stretch in the front of your shoulder -- without pain -- and hold this position for 20 to 30 seconds. Relax and repeat three times. Switch hand positions to stretch your left infraspinatus muscle.
The subscapularis muscle originates on the front of your shoulder blade and attaches to your upper-arm bone. The subscapularis muscle moves your arm into internal rotation -- turning your arm in toward your body. This motion is important for reaching behind your back to tuck your shirt into your pants. In addition, the subscapularis pulls the top of your humerus down as you raise your arm, keeping the ball part of your shoulder joint properly positioned in the socket. The subscapularis muscle is powered by the subscapular nerve.
Stretch your right subscapularis by applying gentle force into external rotation. Hold one end of the broomstick in your right palm with your forearm neutral -- thumb pointed toward the ceiling. Grasp the opposite end of the broom with your left hand in a palm-down position. Bend your elbows to 90 degrees and hold your right elbow tight against the side of your body. Slowly push the broomstick to the right with your left hand, rotating your right forearm out to the side until you feel a stretch in the front of your right shoulder. Hold this position for 20 to 30 seconds, then relax. Repeat three times. Switch hand positions and repeat to stretch your left subscapularis.
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Index of Surnames - Overwharton Parish Records
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|Abbot, Abbott, Abram, Adams, Adie, Aldrige, Alexander, Allen, Allenthrop, Allentrop, Alridge, Amely, Anderson, Andrew, Angel, Angell, Anglis, Anthony, Appleton, Asbee, Asberry, Asbrook, Asbury, Ashby, Ashton, Atchison, Aubury, Aukerum
|Bailey, Bailis, Bailly, Bails, Baker, Baliwoel, Ball, Balls, Bannester, Bannister, Barbee, Barber, Barby, Bark, Barret, Barry, Basnet, Basnett, Basriet, Bassiet, Batto, Battoo, Baxter, Bayles, Baylis, Bazell, Beach, Begoley, Bell, Belsher, Bennet, Ben, Berry, Bethany, Bethel, Bettson, Betty, Birckhead, Black, Blackburn, Blackman, Bland, Blueford, Boalin, Boan, Boiling, Boling, Boning, Boogher, Botts, Bouchard, Bowman, Box, Bozzell, Bradley, Bradly, Bragg, Brent, Briand, Bridwell, Broderick, Bromley, Brooke, Brooks, Brown, Bruing, Bryan, Buchan, Burch, Burchel, Burchell, Burges, Burn, Burns, Burton, Bush, Bussel, Bussell, Butcher, Butler, Byram, Byrom, Byron
|Cabbage, Cabbige, Cain, Cammel, Camon, Camp, Campbell, Canaday, Cannaday, Cannon, Carberry, Carney, Carpenter, Carr, Carrow, Cartee, Carter, Carty, Cash, Cassity, Castello, Cave, Cavenaugh, Chambers, Champ, Champe, Chapman, Charity, Chatham, Chichester, Chimp, Chin, Chinn, Christopher, Cinberford, Clark, Clarke, Clarnes, Clement, Clutterbuck, Cocklen, Cockley, Coffee, Coffey, Coffy, Colburn, Cole, Coleman, Collie, Colson, Combs, Condring, Congers, Connally, Conwell, Conyers, Cook, Cooke, Cooper, Corbin, Cornell, Corney, Cornish, Cornwall, Cosby, Cossity, Cotney, Cotton, Courtney, Cowper, Crap, Craven, Cravens, Criswell, Crosby, Croscuel, Crump, Cubbage, Cubbige, Cuiberford, Cummings, Cunningham
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|Earle, Eaton, Eaves, Edgar, Edghill, Edrington, Edwards, Edzar, Elkin, Elkins, Elliot, Ellis, Elmore, English, Enoch, Evans
|Fant, Farlow, Farrow, Fernsby, Fernsley, Fernsly, Filcher, Fitzhugh, Fitzpatrick, Fletcher, Fling, Flitter, Flood, Floyd, Foley, Ford, Foregast, Fortick, Foster, Fowke, Foxworthy, Francis, Frazer, French, Fristoe, Fritter, Frogg, Fuell, Funsten, Furguson
|Gain, Gaines, Gallahan, Garner, Garret, Garrison, Gashings, George, Gerrard, Gibbons, Gill, Glass, Glendering, Godfrey, Going, Goldsmith, Goleman, Goodwin, Goolding, Gorman, Gough, Gowing, Grace, Grady, Graham, Grant, Graves, Green, Greenless, Gregg, Grey, Grianan, Griffin, Griffith, Grigsby, Grimes, Grinstead, Grisby, Grogg, Groves, Gunn, Gwinn
|Hacker, Haffermon, Hainsbrough, Hainsford, Haley, Hall, Halley, Hamilton, Hammet, Hammond, Hampton, Hankins, Hansbrough, Hansford, Han, Harding, Hardwick, Harod, Harper, Harrel, Harrison, Hart, Harvey, Harvie, Hawes, Hawkins, Hay, Hayes, Haynie, Hays, Hayter, Hazel, Head, Heaflon, Hearne, Heath, Heckeney, Hedgman, Heffermon, Heffermot, Heffernon, Heffernut, Hefferton, Helms, Herrod, Hester, Hewis, Hewitt, Hickerson, Higerson, Higgerson, Higgins, Higgison, Hill, Hinson, Hinston, Hogg, Holdbrook, Holiday, Holland, Holliday, Homes, Honey, Hope, Hord, Hore, Hornbuckel, Hornbuckle, Horten, Horton, Hose, Howard, Huges, Hughes, Hughs, Humphreys, Humphrieys, Hunt, Hunter, Hurst, Husk, Hutt, Hyden, Hyter
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|Kees, Kelly, Kemp, Kendal, Kendall, Kendon, Kendrick, Kennedy, Kenney, Kenny, Kenton, King, Kinny, Kinz, Kirk, Kirke, Kitchen, Kite, Knight
|Lacy, Lamb, Lane, Latham, Latimore, Lawless, Laytham, Lea, Lee, Leftridge, Leftwich, Lemaster, Lemmon, Lewis, Limbrich, Limbrick, Limon, Lincey, Linee, Linton, Littimore, Lowry, Lungate, Luns, Lunsford, Lymm, Lynah, Lynaugh, Lynne, Lynns, Lyon
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|Obanion, O'Banion, O'Cane, O'Daneal, Ogiboy, Ogiloy, Oliver, Oneal, Onsby, Oram, Osbon, Owendownney, Owens
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Pepper, Perender, Perry, Petter, Pettigrew, Peyton, Philips, Phillips, Phipps,
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Stuffed Animal Clinic at Sacramento Zoo raises $600 for police canine association
Zoo veterinarians examined plush dogs, cats, dinosaurs and more at the second annual Stuffed Animal Clinic on May 26 at the Sacramento Zoo in Sacramento, Calif.
The Greater Sacramento Chapter of the American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) hosted the fundraiser to benefit the Sacramento Police Canine Association. The mock clinic included multiple stations with bandages, candy medication and a health certificate redemption center.
Some of the other cases weren't so simple, says Sathya Chinnadurai, DVM, associate veterinarian at the Sacramento Zoo. While he was taking the history of one patient, the pint-sized owner said the stuffed lion had jumped off the bed earlier that morning and broken all four legs. "We were lucky we caught it early," Chinnadurai says. "We applied splints using tongue depressors and gave the girl instructions on when to take off the bandages."
Other reported stuffed animal ailments included stomachaches and headaches. Chinnadurai says the process was not unlike what he would go through during an actual veterinary exam. He asked each child questions like, "How long have you had the pet?" and "Are there any other animals around the house?" One child said his stuffed animal had been sneezing for the past couple of days, which made more sense when Chinnadurai found out there was a stuffed bunny at home with similar symptoms. The zoo veterinarian performed a "physical exam" on each patient and administered vaccinations—with empty syringes and colored water to resemble the vaccine fluid—when necessary. Chinnadurai says the best part was interacting with the children, especially those interested in veterinary medicine.
Six-year-old Alexandra Salazar wants to be veterinarian when she grows up and had trouble choosing just one stuffed animal to bring to the clinic. She decided on a pink leopard, Jingga, whom she named after an endangered Sumatra n tiger cub born at the Sacramento Zoo in March 2010. Alexandra's mom, Linda Williams of Stockton, Calif., says they visit the zoo every year and the mock clinic was the perfect opportunity for her daughter to interact with zoo veterinarians. "Alexandra's all about animals so we thought the whole experience was great," Williams says. "My daughter said she learned that it's important to take care of your animals."
Chinnadurai made certain all attendees left with a better understanding of what goes on in a real veterinary clinic. He talked them through each exam and explained how to evaluate a patient's eyes, ears and joint movement. "It was nice to talk to the kids in a non-stressful situation and let them know what we look for in animals—stuffed and non-stuffed," he says.


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Consumers on Board: how to copilot the multichannel journey
Key findings
Meet the smart consumer: cautious, connected and versatile
Today's consumers are adept at filtering information and move effortlessly between channels. They expect value for money, quality and relevance, such as personalized offers. Below are some of the survey's key findings:
- Consumers have become more cautious, often researching carefully before deciding to buy.
- Price is the greatest influence when deciding, but certainly not the only factor, with quality also of major importance.
- Across most categories, we noticed a marked shift toward buying online, and a corresponding decline in in-store buying. The only categories to remain stable in-store are cars, consumer loans and telephone and mobile contracts.
- Brand loyalty has edged up, and brands are far more important to some consumer groups than to others.
- Consumers want reassurance. When buying cars and consumer electronics, for example, they expect a warranty and helpful after-sale support.
Following an omnichannel course: the growth of the digital purchasing journey
The proliferation of smartphones and tablet devices has given consumers instant access to powerful technology whether they are in the workplace, at home, or on the move. Our survey found:
- Online is increasingly a factor in the purchasing journey, even when a sale is completed in-store. 62% of people globally are now digital consumers.
- A preference for shopping in-store is more pronounced in mature markets, with emerging market online users are leading the way on the digital journey.
- Digital consumers can usefully be divided into three behavioral groups: digital informers, digital buyers and digital "hypertaskers".
- The best-informed and most versatile are digital hypertaskers, and businesses must prepare for the growth of this challenging group.
- Digital can enhance or even save traditional channels — often playing a vital role in a purchasing journey that may be completed in-store.
- Recommendation and word of mouth are significant and can have a major impact on brand.
- Consumers report increasing negatives associated with social media.
Service that sticks in the mind: engaging consumers with excellence
Whatever the sector, businesses face stiff competition. Advanced analytics and delivery of an outstanding customer experience hold the keys to success. Our survey found:
- Consumers take a broad, cross-channel view, so delivering effective customer insight calls for organization-wide solutions.
- All too often, marketers neglect the 50+ baby-boomer generation.
- Consumers are an asset for innovation. We see active cooperation being offered in the development phase for new products in every category.
- Consumers increasingly expect personalization. Companies need to investigate if and how they can better personalize offers, products, and consumer communication.
Digital consumers can usefully be divided into three behavioral groups: digital informers, digital buyers and digital "hypertaskers".


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This tea is absolutely loaded with strawberry bits, which made me a happy tea-drinker. I've never eaten strawberry zabaglione before (it's an Italian thing, right?) so I can't really say how accurate it is in that regard, but I can say that it is one delicious cuppa.
The strawberry shines through the flavour of the black tea – it's deliciously fruity and lightly sweet with hints of creamy vanilla. I brewed this cup up fairly light because I was drinking it plain so the whole thing is a little on the mild side, but I bet it would be awesome stronger with some milk.
The resteep at 5 minutes is lighter but I can still distinctly taste the strawberries in there.