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Friday, December 26, 2008
Getting Hooked on Genealogy, Part 2: Family Legends
I was trying to show a co-worker that I could google my maiden name, Brinlee, and could be fairly certain that anyone who showed up among the search results would be a relative by blood or marriage. What did I expect to see? Well, you know, other Brinlees.
And other Brinlees did show up, but not all of them were living Brinlees. In particular, there were two Hirams, Senior and Junior, and a George. And their identities and the stories of their lives would teach me a lesson … a fascinating lesson.
At this point I should confess: the seeds for an interest in family research were actually planted early on with me, it's just that they didn't germinate right away. Most of these seeds were family legends. The strange thing is that these legends did not get equal respect from me: Why did I absorb and believe the tales from my mother's side of the family but sneer in skepticism at those from my father's side?
I believe it has to do with the age at which I first heard these stories. I heard Mom's stories when I was just a little kid of no more than 5 or 6. I used to beg Mom to "tell me about the Olden Days." These stories included one about the great-grandfathers who fought on opposite sides in the Civil War and never spoke to one another again after the end of the War, even though their farms were located immediately next to one another. Another snippet passed on by Mom was: "Your (Our?) people from both sides came from South Carolina."
But it was sometime during my teen years that I heard stories from my father's side, the Brinlees: all of us Brinlees were related somehow to Collin McKinney, we had German blood and Native American blood in our lines, Grandma took up family research but got disgusted and gave it up when she kept finding horse thieves and other criminals. OK, maybe I believed the Native American part a little bit, because I wanted to and because so many Brinlees have straight dark hair and angular features. And the criminal part was believable, too, because Brinlees were, well, Brinlees. But the German part – I thought someone had gotten confused because one of my Brinlee uncles was married to a lady from Germany. And the McKinney connection? Must have been fantasy; no way we could be connected to this pioneer leader of Texas and one of the framers of the Texas declaration of Independence.
But that was exactly what my on-a-whim search turned up: The two brothers who adopted Brinlee as the spelling for the family name (apparently it was originally Brindley), Hiram Sr. and George, married two daughters of Daniel McKinney, brother of Collin McKinney. Daniel died in 1825, soon after the McKinneys came to Texas in 1824, and Collin and his wife raised the girls. Accompanying the McKinneys from Kentucky to Texas were the Brinlee brothers, who eventually married the girls. So everyone who has a family line spelled Brinlee is related to Collin McKinney. One of Hiram Carroll and Elizabeth Ann McKinney Brinlee's sons was Hiram Carroll Brinlee, Jr., and one of his sons was Lawrence Carroll Brinlee, my grandfather. And it turns out that there is a German (Palatine German) connection through the McKinneys, too.
Finding the connection was fascinating, but even more fascinating was the way it forced me to rethink my opinion of the Brinlees. What other legends were true? I started to search for other information online on the Brinlees and McKinneys; there was quite a lot. Then I remembered that my cousin Paul had sent me some information on my mother's mother's side of the family, the Floyds – "A History of the Floyd Family" by Eunice Sandling – and that this history contained the outlines for a pretty good start on a family tree for the Floyds. If I could find this much information on the Brinlees, what might I find on the families on the Floyd side?
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Greta, welcome to the genea-blogosphere! I realize you've been blogging for a couple of months now but a "welcoming" note is better late than never.ReplyDelete
I've enjoyed reading your posts, keep up the good work! I like how you tell about finding the records and information as well as telling us about your family. It is helpful to everyone and may just give someone some ideas about where to look for information.
Thank you so much for your kind welcome! As a relative newbie to both genealogy and blogging, I have found it's the people who have been doing it for some years who have been the most helpful, first the researchers I met in the early days, and now the genea-bloggers who write about their research. There is so much I have to learn, and it's such a joy to share the learning process.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2008 at 1:59 PM
My grandmother told me so many stories about her family when I was growing up; some seemed pretty unlikely, like our family owning a fancy hotel in Scotland and one of her great-grandparents being from England (and marrying into a Scottish family). But I have discovered that all of the stories she told me held at least a kernel of truth and sometimes provided a clue I could work from. I am a huge fan of family stories...ReplyDelete
It's just wonderful to hear the story of how you "got hooked!"
You're not kidding about that "kernel of truth." I hope to get into that aspect in the next installment. You know, that would be a good Carnival of Genealogy topic - which family stories panned out and which didn't. Verifying some of these stories taught me not to be such a smarty-pants and not to make assumptions so quickly! (So did you find out about the fancy hotel?)ReplyDelete


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Microscopic algae are an important part of the Gulf of Mexico's natural makeup as they serve as food for fish and other organisms. Algae do not have to be toxic to be considered harmful. Nontoxic algae can reproduce, or bloom, at such a high rate that they rob the water of available oxygen, which can result in fish kills. Likewise, some algae have spines or other protrusions that may cause fish kills simply by getting caught in or otherwise irritating fishes' gills. Following are some examples of both toxic and nontoxic HABs that have been found in Texas waters.
Akashiwo sanguinea
Akashiwo sanguinea is a dinoflagellate that caused a large fish kill along Bolivar Peninsula in September 2007. Whether or not this species is toxic has yet to be determined, but it is thought that fish kills most likely occur because of large-scale blooms that result in low oxygen levels in the water.
Alexandrium monilatum
Alexandrium monilatum is a dinoflagellate that forms chains of cells attached to each other. A. monilatum has caused red tides and fish kills along the Texas coast but there have not been any incidents attributed to it in recent years.
Blue-green algae
Blue-green algae are also called cyanobacteria because they are biologically similar to bacteria in many ways. As single cells, large colonies and filaments, blue-green algae grow in a wide variety of conditions and can become dominant in nutrient-rich water bodies. One characteristic of these cyanobacteria is their ability to form blooms so thick it appears that blue-green paint covers the surface of the water.
Two forms found in Texas are known to produce substances which cause taste and odor problems in water supplies. In some cases, blue-green algae, particularly Anabaena and Microcystis (both found in Texas), can produce toxins that are poisonous to fish and wildlife that drink water contaminated with the toxins. Fish kills have occurred in private stock ponds as a result of blue-green algal blooms and there have been a few reports of livestock dying from drinking water contaminated with blue-green toxins. In addition to toxicity to fish and wildlife, there are documented cases of blue-green algal toxins harming humans in other parts of the world through the consumption of poorly treated waters. Awareness is growing of the need to ensure blue-green algal toxins do not pass through water treatment plants without being adequately removed.
Ciguatera is a form of poisoning that occurs after eating fish contaminated with ciguatoxin. Ciguatoxin is produced by a genus of harmful algae that live on the bottom or attached to structures, especially reefs. These harmful algae tend to occur in tropical or subtropical waters. The harmful algae are consumed by small fish which are then eaten by predator fish. Humans who consume the predator fish may become poisoned. Symptoms of poisoning can be varied and involve the gastrointestinal and the nervous systems. One typical symptom is temperature reversal, when objects that are cold, feel hot, and objects that are hot, feel cold. Ciguatoxin has been found in some barracuda caught in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast. There is no red tide or other sort of discoloration of the water or bloom associated with the algae producing ciguatoxin. The dominant species that produces the toxin is type of unicellular plant named Gambierdiscus toxicus. It is distributed throughout the tropics in all all oceans.
Based on a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory, the Texas Department of State Health Services is advising recreational fishermen to avoid consumption of the following fish species captured within 10 miles of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary: marbled grouper (Dermatolepis (Epinephelus) inermis), hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus), blackfin snapper (Lutjanus buccanella), dog snapper (Lutjanus jocu), gag grouper (Mycteroperca microlepis), scamp grouper (Mycteroperca phenax), and yellowfin grouper (Mycteroperca venenosa). Also included in the advisory are the following species captured within 50 miles of the sanctuary: yellow jack (Carangoides (Caranx) bartholomaei), horse-eye jack (Caranx latus), black jack (Caranx lugubris), king mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla), amberjack (Seriola dumerili), and barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda).
There have been increasing reports of ciguatera occurring from fish caught off the Texas coast. In one instance three people were sickened by a barracuda caught approximately 30 miles off of Matagorda Bay near an oil platform. Subsequent reports have involved fish caught near the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. This species is commonly reported as a toxic species from the Caribbean as well.
TPWD wishes to thank Dr. Tracy Villareal of the UT Marine Science Institute for contributing the ciguatera text on this page.
Euglena are single-celled animals with a single flagella. They can be common in very nutrient-rich waters like stock ponds and sewage lagoons. Water with Euglena blooms may appear bright pea green in color. Scientists recently confirmed a case where a particular species of Euglena caused a fish kill in a North Carolina fish farm. The species of Euglena that caused the fish kill can turn red during daylight hours, thereby causing a sort of freshwater "red tide."
Noctiluca scintillans
Noctiluca scintillans is a dinoflagellate that sometimes blooms along the Texas coast, turning the water a red-orange color. The species itself is nontoxic but can result in localized fish kills by accumulating and emitting toxic levels of ammonia. N. scintillans is a particularly interesting organism in that is bioluminescent and can cause the water to glow beautifully at night.
Pfiesteria is a type of dinoflagellate that is known to produce toxins that can kill fish. It is a single-celled dinoflagellate with two flagella but it is not an alga (it does not have chlorophyll nor does it rely on sunlight to produce its own food). Pfiesteria and Pfiesteria-like organisms are relatively new to science and much is still being learned about them. They have caused fish kills in nutrient-rich waters in some of the estuaries along the Atlantic coast of the United States. There is some evidence they may cause illness in humans with extensive contact with waters containing Pfiesteria.
Prorocentrum minimum
Dark water was noticed in Rockport Harbor by a TPWD game warden in 2010. Samples were collected and the cause of the mahogany-colored water was determined to be the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum. The bloom has also been seen in Fulton Harbor. P. minimum can produce the toxin okadaic acid, though it has not been known to be a toxic species in Texas.


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BOSTON, Mass.—Michelle Zullo (Everett, Mass.) scattered seven hits over seven innings to earn her fifth career shutout in game two to lift UMass Boston (14-23) to a doubleheader split with Salem State University (19-13) Thursday afternoon at the UMass Boston Softball Field.
Salem State grabbed a 6-2 victory in the first contest, before the Beacons won the nightcap 4-0.
Zullo struck out six hitters and stranded six more Vikings, to earn her team-leading second shutout of the year and seventh win of the season. With her fifth career shutout, the sophomore right-hander moved into a tie with Andrea Spinale ('03) for second place all-time in program history, behind Emily Wolf ('11) who finished with six.
Sophomores Kristina Bove (Medford, Mass.) and Kelsey Svenson (Oxford, Conn.) each added a pair of hits and an RBI for UMB, who evened up their home record at 7-7.
Junior pitcher Brittney Howe pitched the Vikings past UMass Boston in game one by allowing just six hits and two runs in seven innings of work.
Leadoff hitter Lauren Garchinsky led the Vikings offensively with two hits and two RBI, while Cara Crowley and Stephanie Schieni each finished with multiple hits and two runs scored.
For UMass Boston, Sue Killilea (Abington, Mass.) picked up two hits in four trips to the plate, while Lyndsey Capra (Lowell, Mass.) and Samantha Hemstock (Northford, Conn.) each picked up an RBI.
Freshman Emily Gray (New Bedford, Mass.) took the loss for UMB, allowing 11 hits and three earned runs in seven innings.
Salem State leaped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the second behind two hits and a Beacons error. Schieni laced an RBI double to left field to score Crowley with one out and came in to score on an RBI single from Rebecca Krigman.
The Vikings tacked on an additional two runs in the top of the fourth behind four hits in the inning. Schieni once again sparked the Vikings, with an RBI single and moved over to third base on back-to-back bunt singles with no outs. Salem State pushed the lead to 4-0 when Garchinski lined a single to center field that easily scored the two lead runners.
UMass Boston got on the board in the bottom of the sixth inning, when Howe walked Souza and Toni Scola (Worcester, Mass.) with one out, before Capra sent a hard single up the middle to score Souza and cut the deficit to 4-1.
The Beacons capped off the scoring in the bottom of the seventh, when Hemstock sent a fly ball to right field that easily scored a tagging Bove from third base, but turned into a game-ending double play when Taryn Asta (Marshfield, Mass.) tried to tag from first to second and was thrown out sliding into the second-base bag.
Game Two: UMass Boston 4, Salem State 0
Zullo would prove to be the story of game two, as she shut down the reigning MASCAC Champions at the plate and the Beacons offense mustered enough offense to back her.
The Beacons produced four runs on just five hits against starter Sarra Bergeron and Howe, as the two Vikings pitchers issued five walks over six innings of work.
Souza led the Beacons offensively going 1-for-2 with two runs scored, while Natalia Bouyea (East Longmeadow, Mass.) and Bove each recorded a base hit and a run.
Garchinsky led Salem State with two hits in two at-bats, before being pulled in the bottom of the fourth inning. Vikings coach Leanne Doviak rested several of her starters in both games, electing to give her players rest before Saturday's season finale and the upcoming MASCAC Tournament.
The Beacons struck for two runs in the bottom of the second against Bergeron to take their first lead of the day. Bove reached first base with one out on one of her three walks on the day and moved over to second base on a single up the middle from Bouyea. With two on and one out, Svenson laced a single into the right field corner to easily score Bove and put Bouyea at third base. Two batters later, Bouyea came in to score on a wild pitch from Bergeron that went all the way to the backstop.
UMass Boston tacked on a third run in the fourth inning, when Howe walked the first two batters she faced, only to have Souza come home to score on a two-base error by the Vikings second baseman.
Bove put the game out of reach for the Vikings in the fourth inning, when she ripped a two-out double to right center field that easily scored Souza from second base.
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Williams added depth at the quarterback position, but did not appear in a game.
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Evan Williams redshirted his first season at Nebraska.
Before Nebraska (Archbishop Riordan HS)
Williams was a late add to Nebraska's 2012 freshman class, as he elected to walk-on with the Huskers in late spring. Williams was a two-year starter for Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco and after graduation, he spent one year at Tilton School, a prep school in Tilton, N.H. Williams was a three-time all-conference selection in high school and a two-time all-county honoree. He threw for nearly 2,000 yards and 15 touchdowns his junior season, throwing for nearly 200 yards per game. Archbishop Riordan switched to a veer offense his senior season, when Williams attempted only 81 passes in the run-oriented offense. Despite the limited opportunities, Williams threw for 532 yards and three touchdowns as a senior.
Evan Williams is the son of Jamie and Charlotte Williams, and he as a sister, Raven. Evan's father Jamie joined the Nebraska Athletic Department in June of 2012 as the Huskers' Associate Athletic Director of Diversity and Leadership Initiatives. Jamie Williams was a tight end for the Huskers from 1979 to 1982, earning four letters and a pair of All-Big Eight honors. Jamie went on to play 12 seasons in the NFL, winning Super Bowl XXIV with the San Francisco 49ers.
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Yahoo just reported Q1 earnings.
It missed revenue expectations badly, and the stock immediately dropped 4%.
The main problem is that traffic is down and display advertising revenues went with it.
Some thought search, CEO Marissa Mayer's expertise, would bail Yahoo out this quarter.
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- Search revenues ex-TAC came in at $409 million, for a 6% y/y increase. That's less than the $432 million predicted by JP Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth.
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In the southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, health workers are turning to the area's history of musical folklore to spread AIDS prevention messages.
"We asked eight local singers to write and record songs about the disease," said Huang Zhanghui, who became head of Shantun village's AIDS prevention office two months ago. The traditional art form helps make the messages easier to understand and accept, Huang said.
Guangxi is second only to Henan province in terms of its number of HIV infections, more than 76 percent of which are sexually transmitted, said Ge Xianmin, a Guangxi government AIDS prevention official.
In addition to folk songs, Huang's office uses text messaging and public film screenings to build AIDS awareness.
"We have been making progress with our anti-AIDS campaign," said Huang. "Nearly all of our villagers know how AIDS is transmitted and how to prevent it."
"I used to blush at the simple mention of sexual topics," said Lu Meirong, 33, who joined a local women's AIDS group in June. Now she counsels family and relatives to avoid sex workers and use condoms, a view she urges other women in the village to adopt. "I tell them to remind their migrant relatives to be tested for HIV after returning home," she said.
Peer education is critically needed in rural communities, said Wei Kaizhong, who leads the health bureau for Hechi, the administrative city of Bama County. In agreement, Ge said, "Rural residents are the weakest links in China's AIDS prevention efforts. Campaigns conducted by local residents are the most economical and effective way to stop the spread of AIDS."


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In the wake of the ACL-shredding hit by Jets guard Matt Slauson on Texans linebacker Brian Cushing, we reported that the Competition Committee will be taking a closer look in the offseason at blocks below the waist.
Peter King of SI.com and NBC's Football Night in America reports that the Competition Committee currently plans to consider eliminating all blocks below the waist. King believes the league office is "solidly behind" a comprehensive ban, but that resistance from coaches likely will prevent a full prohibition.
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Annual to bamboo-like; roots generally fibrous
Stem generally round, hollow; nodes swollen, solid
Leaves alternate, 2-ranked, generally linear; sheath generally open; ligule membranous or hairy, at blade base
Inflorescence various (of generally many spikelets)
Spikelet: glumes generally 2; florets (lemma, palea, flower) 1many; lemma generally membranous, sometimes glume-like; palea generally ± transparent, ± enclosed by lemma
Flower generally bisexual, minute; stamens generally 3; stigmas generally 2, generally plumose
Fruit: achene-like grain
Genera in family: 650900 genera; ± 10,000 species: worldwide; greatest economic importance of any family (wheat, rice, maize, millet, sorghum, sugar cane, forage crops, ornamental, weeds; thatching, weaving, building materials)
Reference: [Hitchcock 1951 Manual grasses US, USDA Misc Publ 200; Clayton & Renvoise 1986 Kew Bull Add Series 13]
See Glossary p. 26 for illustrations of general family characteristics. Generally wind-pollinated.
Annual, perennial herb
Stems generally erect; internode solid to hollow inside
Leaves basal and cauline; ligule short-hairy or membranous, ciliate
Inflorescence panicle-like, dense, generally cylindric; 1° branches spreading to appressed; spikelets many, generally clustered on one side of short 2° branch, short-stalked to subsessile, subtended by 115 bristles, bristles generally scabrous
Spikelet falling as 1 unit, generally elliptic; glumes unequal; florets generally 2, ± equal, lower floret sterile or staminate, palea generally < lemma, upper floret fertile, firm, generally hard, rough, margin inrolled, tip blunt
Species in genus: ± 100 species: warm temp, tropical Eurasia, Africa
Etymology: (Latin: bristly)
Reference: [Rominger 1962 Illinois Biol Monogr 29:1132]
Some species cultivated for food.
Stem erect, 120 dm; nodes 47
Leaf: sheath 611 cm, glabrous; ligule ± 1.52.5 mm; blade 1530 cm, 12 cm wide, upper surface short-soft-hairy
Inflorescence 718 cm; 1° branches 0.54 mm; bristles 23; spikelet stalk ± 0.51 mm
Spikelet 2.53 mm, 1.41.8 mm wide; lower glume 11.5 mm, 35-veined, upper glume 0.70.9 X spikelet length; lower floret sterile, lemma 7-veined, tip acute, palea ± 2/3 lemma length
Chromosomes: 2n=36
Ecology: Disturbed areas, fields
Elevation: < 100 m.
Bioregional distribution: Deltaic Great Central Valley, Central Coast, South Coast
Distribution outside California: to e US; native to Asia


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On Sunday, July 14, at 2:00 p.m. Barbara Oliver will be honored with a celebration of her 16 years of service as President of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the Lafayette VFW Hall, located on Main Street.
Barbara was born in Coffeeville, Mississippi, where she was Salutatorian of the 1954 graduating class of the local high school. She moved to Lafayette in 1995, after her husband passed away the year before, to set up lingerie cutting for Freddie Scruggs at SBF, in the old Formfit Rogers building.
She first joined the Ladies Auxiliary in 1967 in Mississippi, where she held several offices. After moving to Lafayette and transferring to the Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW Post #7135, she was elected President in 1997.
Barbara has been the District #4 President, Sr. Vice President, Guard and Conductress along with several state positions.
Her prestigious awards in Macon County include Who's Who of American Women, 23rd edition; a 2001 Walmart #829 plaque for her dedication, hard work, and time given to our community and to those who have served our great country; 2009 Walmart plaque for leadership & service to the men and women who serve and protect our great nation; State of Tennessee Mary D. Cochran award for leadership in the Ladies Auxiliary VFW; numerous state and national awards for her accomplishments in the 45 years of volunteer work for veterans, including the homeless veterans for 19 of those years; and the Bronze Medallion for the Tennessee Auxiliary President of the year 2001-2002.
Everyone is invited to attend this celebration and tea and snacks will be served. Members are requesting anyone who has a heartfelt story of an event during Barbara's 16 years of services as Ladies Auxiliary President, to please speak. "Don't worry, she is still extremely active in the VFW but is just sharing some of the fun," said Mickey Newsome. "Also if you would like any information about the VFW or Ladies Auxiliary, please attend and someone will be happy to answer any questions, or contact me at 501-416-3090."
Barbara'a late husband was in the Navy during WWII and her brother was a Captain in the Marines for 20 years before retiring. She has two children, Mitchell Carver Oliver and Susan Annelle Oliver.
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Brandon Pylar has been preparing for this day for quite some time.
The 6-foot-4, 230-pound Orlando University High tight end has logged numerous hours working to advance his profile as an up-and-coming tight end prospect. Ever since he was first noticed at the USF Sling&Shoot 7-on-7 Tournament two summers ago in Tampa he's been getting "looks."
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Pylar got his first two college football scholarship offers this week from Football Championship Subdivision schools Wofford and Charleston Southern, but on Thursday, the big one finally hit.
FIU tight ends coach Kort Shankweiler extended Pylar his first Football Bowl Subdivision offer after attending University High practice on Tuesday.
"I feel a lot better. I've talked to Auburn, Michigan State, Kentucky, Indiana, and all of them say they are coming down in the spring ... but no offers," Pylar said. "But now I finally got that first big one from FIU."
The Sun Belt Conference Panthers have been busy with Shankweiler making the rounds in Central Florida over the past week. It's a scene that new head coach Ron Turner has apparently endorsed and Shankweiler is making evaluations and handing out offers.
Pylar, who said a Vanderbilt coach was on hand Wednesday, was certainly becoming anxious as he repeatedly learned of news about other schools making scholarship offers to Orlando-area prospects.
"It was difficult because I see all these guys I think I can compete with getting all these offers," Pylar said. "But now I finally got these offers under my belt and I'm right there with all the other guys and I feel a lot better."
It was equally pleasing news for his parents Art and Kerri Pylar.
"They were really excited when I told them," said Brandon. "I told my dad when the FIU coach came that I thought I had a real good practice and he was just saying the he hoped they offered me. They're all really happy for me. They know I've worked my whole life for this and it's finally here."
Pylar figures the success University had last year helped give him some extra attention. The 7-4 Cougars won their first district title and advanced to the playoffs for the first time in almost 10 years. They did it with an impressive running attack that racked up more than 1,600 yards on the ground.
Individually, Pylar caught 22 passes for 407 yards and four touchdowns as a junior, a pretty impressive 18.5-yards-per-catch average for the tight end.
"The season we had last year definitely helped me out and I give a lot of credit to Coach [head coach Don] Stark. He's helped me out big time and so have all my friends and family," Pylar said. "I have to give a lot of thanks to all my teammates. We had great season last year and that brought on a lot of attention. I give a lot of thanks also to the seniors we had."
Pylar, the No. 18-ranked player in the Sentinel's 2014 Central Florida Super60, had his hand in on plenty of the blocking in that rushing attack last year, but he vowed this offseason to get better with his blocking skills.
"It's coming along really well, actually. I'm working with Coach [Antonio] Hernandez, our varsity offensive line coach," Pylar said. "I get with the offensive line and just do straight blocking for two periods every day. My blocking has gotten a lot better than it was."
Not only will his recruiting benefit, but so will that University running game. The Cougars still have some hogs up front like fellow senior-to-be King Belin, a 6-3, 260-pound tackle, to help plow the way. He's also hoping that having starting quarterback Stephen Ulmer back will help with a more familiar passing game.
"I feel good about this year. It feels like they're going to use me a lot more to make plays for the team and the coaches are going to give me opportunities to make plays," he said. "We're gonna keep it moving up the pyramid higher than we did last year, definitely."
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ICMA-RC is once again participating in America Saves Week, which will take place February 26-March 3, 2018. The goal of this annual, week-long campaign is to promote good savings habits and encourage Americans to create or evaluate their savings goals.
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Social media came into its own late last year following the failed Christmas Day 2009 terrorist attack on a Delta Air Lines aircraft. In response to events, the US Transportation Security Administration ordered all US-bound carriers to implement secondary security measures. But while operators moved quickly to execute the new temporary procedures, the proprietary nature of the TSA's action prevented carriers from publishing word-for-word details of the directive.
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But others, including Canadian low-cost operator WestJet, did not limit their exposure solely to traditional communications channels, such as press releases. Upon learning of the new directive, WestJet alerted customers about some of the new security measures via Twitter and Facebook, two free social networking behemoths that provide a level of interactivity that does not exist through conventional methods.
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By posting "tweets" - messages on Twitter that are limited to 140 characters or less - WestJet was able to quickly inform its followers about the directive, respond to their questions and quell concerns in real-time. In turn, these followers disseminated or "retweeted" WestJet's information to their own social networks on Twitter using the Internet and via SMS messages on their cell phones. At the same time, the carrier's Facebook fan page served as a platform for discussion about the new measures and a reference for travellers.
Journalists, meanwhile, used the information gleaned from these trusted sources to inform the travelling public about what to expect at airports and on flights scheduled to operate before the TSA directive expired at the end of December.
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But while WestJet already had a social media marketing strategy in place when the new TSA directive hit - having appointed Hounslow to his post only a few months earlier - the carrier's social media response to the directive represented "the first time we used it for that purpose", says WestJet's head of public relations, Robert Palmer. "Policy is one thing but how does it translate to real life? People wanted to know what the measures really meant in terms of going to the airport. Social media was an integral part of communicating these messages to our guests."
Before an airline opens up that two-way dialogue with customers, however, it should do its homework on social media marketing, This term generally describes the use of social networks like Twitter and Facebook, online communities, blogs, and other collaborative media such as photo-sharing website Flickr and video-sharing website YouTube. Once the preserve of leisure users, these sites are finding a second incarnation as business tools for marketing, sales, public relations and customer services.
Forrester Research guides social media newcomers through a process called "POST", which stands for people, objectives, strategy, technology. This methodology helps airlines gain a better understanding of their customers, define objectives, agree a strategy and decide on the technology to employ, says Henry Harteveldt, vice-president and principal analyst at the firm.
An airline's objectives for incorporating social media into its marketing can be manifold. "It could be to create awareness and preference, or to change the image or perception of the carrier," says Harteveldt. "It can be used for employee recruitment or labour relationships. It can be used for customer research or insight, customer service, or to track operational performance and issues. It certainly can be used to sell product."
Indeed, inventory clearance is becoming an increasingly popular way for carriers to use social media. United Airlines, for example, offers special fares, called "Twares", to the nearly 51,000 followers of its Twitter account.
JetBlue Airways, which now boasts over 1.6 million followers to its main Twitter account, famously ran an "All You Can Jet" promotion last year, offering unlimited travel for a month to any city where JetBlue flies. "JetBlue sent out a press release and a tweet and they sold out because they took it forward with social media. They are using it to drive revenue," says Harteveldt.
But airlines are notoriously closed-mouthed about the financial results of such campaigns. "I don't know that anyone has published specific results and that is the challenge. I can understand the propriety nature of this," says Harteveldt. A return on investment is only one way to gauge the success of a campaign, and "it needs to be complemented with a return on engagement, also known as love or buzz", says Shashank Nigam, chief executive of global airline marketing and branding consultancy Simpliflying.
"I would argue (social media) is more effective in building loyalty than traditional FFPs"
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"It's about one-to-one interaction so you're changing the paradigm from broadcasting the brand using traditional communications tools to personal interaction with social media. Everyone wants to be treated personally. Personalisation matters."
JetBlue sees return on engagement as a big driver for engaging in social media. "Last year, we started "JetBlueCheeps", a Twitter stream devoted to last-minute fares sales, and we are in the process of building up a very strong following there. But the important thing for us is really that sense of engagement. Without that, they will not be looking for the deals, because they are not tied into the process," says Morgan Johnston, who manages JetBlue's social media and customer interactions with assistance from several other employees.
The US budget carrier's European partner, Lufthansa, takes a similar view. "As an airline we believe that social media is not our core business, but, as the marketing department, this is something we have to be engaged in. We realise that marketing is not about a one-way conversation anymore. Today it really is about engaging and being in a conversation with the customer," says Lufthansa director of marketing and customer relations in the Greater New York City area, Nicola Lange.
With this objective in mind, Lufthansa formed "MySkyStatus", a networking tool that automatically sends flight status updates to user Facebook and Twitter accounts. "We hope to create loyalty and good relationships with the customers and ultimately turn them into brand ambassadors," says Lange.
Some operators, including KLM in Europe and United in the USA, have created private online communities. "You develop brands with these truly exclusive private communities, which in essence act like outsourced marketing departments. This is crucial for airlines to do. Members are your most loved and pampered guests and they become brand ambassadors and advocates," says Nigam.
One carrier that is repeatedly lauded by experts as having a deep understanding of the power of social media is US low-cost giant Southwest Airlines. "Southwest is one of the best because they completely interact. They use many tools - Twitter, Facebook and their blog, which is a multidimensional tool that allows you to link right back into their site. And they allow their people to have personalities," says emerging media consultant Steven Frischling. He notes: "Content is king. How are you going to drive people back to your company-controlled portal if you don't have the content to do it?"
Indeed, Southwest's highly-popular multimedia blog, 'Nuts about Southwest', acts as sort of hub or "anchor" for news, photos and videos about the carrier and its various marketing activities. "From there, we go out to our other channels, such as Twitter and FaceBook. All the channels are really working together nicely," says Southwest emerging media specialist Christi Day, who describes herself as a frontline employee, without necessarily being on the front line.
"The beauty of it too is that by building up this relationship, by giving relevant factual information on a regular basis, customers trust us. When we do have an incident, or a fare sale, they know these facts are accurate. And it's not all fare sales or weather updates. By keeping the information changing, it asks our audience to come back for more and it leaves them wanting more."
One thing that Southwest has learned through experience is that no two social media audiences are alike. "They are unique and the way you communicate with them must be unique and different. Facebook is great because it allows people to see the conversation happening. Twitter is one of my favourites personally because the message can be clear and concise," says Day.
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"One of our most successful social media campaigns we've had occurred during the recent earthquake in Haiti," says WestJet's Hounslow. "First, we donated C$100,000 to the Red Cross of Canada and announced we would donate and operate a charter flight to Port-au-Prince that would be stocked with medical and water purification supplies provided by World Vision Canada.
"When the plane was on the ground, [WestJet's] Robert Palmer took pictures on his BlackBerry and sent them to us and we published them on FaceBook. The whole time we were tweeting what we were doing on Twitter. People were really interested in seeing what was going on. The feedback we received was very positive. It was a great success."
But while some of the most dominant airlines on Twitter are located in the USA, general usage of the social networking service is growing in nations around the world, making non-US carriers stand up and take notice.
During the period between 16 October 2009 and 16 December 2009, for example, the number of US unique users was 50.8%, a sharp drop from 62.1% in June, says social media analytics firm Sysomos. This finding comes from research which covered 13 million unique Twitter accounts with tweeting activity in that period (see table below). "This suggests that the use of Twitter outside the USA has experienced significant growth over the past six months," says Sysomos.
In Europe, UK low-fares carrier easyJet boasts over 45,000 followers on Twitter; Virgin Atlantic has over 8,000; and Latvian budget carrier airBaltic has more than 8,500 followers. "Who the heck looks at Latvia as a hotbed for social media? But it is," says consultant Frischling.
Asia-Pacific carriers are also increasingly engaging in social media marketing, and, as in the case of Malaysian carrier AirAsia, are taking a leadership role in the space.
In addition to having its own blog, "Just Plane Thoughts", and a presence on YouTube and Flickr, AirAsia has attracted over 20,000 followers to its Twitter account and over 147,000 fans on FaceBook.
"Additionally, every time AirAsia launches a new destination, they create a 'micro site' for that. People learn about the new destination and it becomes a game, a community thing, and a competitive thing," says SimpliFlying's Nigam. "If you go to the AirAsia blog, there is a section that allows travellers to submit their own blogs about the destinations, which in essence becomes a third party review for other travellers."
AirAsia X is equally enthused about the power of social media to build brand ambassadors. "Social media platforms are a very powerful, yet extremely cost-effective, way to maintain a relationship with our customers and enable our customers to have a more active engagement with our brand. I would argue it is more effective in building loyalty than traditional airline frequent flier programmes," says AirAsia X chief executive Azran Osman-Rani.
Virgin Blue Group manager, group commercial and partnership marketing Michael Betteridge says having a social media presence is "now just a natural/organic part of all our communications, marketing and otherwise". As such, efforts to strictly measure social media marketing via ROI may be a fool's game. "What is the financial impact of a ramp agent having a radio? What is the ROI of the telephone at your desk? Social media is a similar concept," says Frischling.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Long /i/ Land
Did you know English has two "long i" sounds? If you do, you know more than the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Think about it: do "ride" and "right" have the same vowel? No, they don't. Yet the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary has them both with "ī." Not that I have any beef with the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary; this is a subtle distinction, and it's really beyond the scope of their pronunciation guide.
Why do I bring this up? Well, aside from it being an inherently interesting fact (at least to weirdos such as your humble author), there is a dialectal issue here. Perhaps I've discovered it, perhaps not. Probably not. In any case, here's what it boils down to:
If you're phonologically astute, you may have already noticed that the "ride" vowel occurs before voiced consonants, and the "right" vowel before unvoiced ones. But what about /r/? For my wife, a native of the western U.S., /i/ before /r/ is, unsurprisingly, the vowel that occurs before voiced consonants—the "ride" vowel. For me, a Chicagoan, it's not so simple. Some words have the "ride" vowel: wire, mire, acquire/require, choir, and admire are some examples. But most have the "right" vowel. Thus, "FireWire" contains two different vowels for me.
Words that have (historical) diphthongs have the "ride" vowel for me. This produces some minimal pairs: higher/hire, dyer/dire, spyer/spire. You could quibble about issues of syllabification, but that's beside the point, especially since I feel that most speakers of American English don't make real syllabic distinctions here. I may be wrong.
I was inspired (guess which vowel) to write about this by a recent headline concerning Hiram Monserrate, a NY state senator who was recently involved in a very sad scandal. The headline, which was for an article about calls for Sen. Monserrate's resignation, was:
Hiram: Fire 'im. (Fact checking for this post reveals a variety of headlines involving this pun, including one from the paranomasiacally venerable Post.) But for me, this doesn't work; "Hiram" has the "ride" vowel, and "hire" has the "right" vowel.
I have no idea about the geographic distribution of any of these vocalic distinctions, but I have two initial thoughts. 1: Assuming these headlines accurately reflect New York pronunciation (which is hardly a safe assumption), this is an interesting case of a dialect feature that is shared by parts of the Northeast and the West, but not by the Inland North (another example of this is the /o/ vowel before /g/ in certain words, such as "fog," and another is "poor" being homophonous with "pour"). 2: The general rule is that the Northeast is more conservative when it comes to vowels before /r/. I don't know how that relates to this, but it's worth mentioning.
I bring up Hiram Monserrate in partial justification of the admittedly inexcusable pun in the title. It is worth noting, however, that although Queens is geographically located on Long Island, New Yorkers never refer to the parts of New York City that are on Long Island (Queens and Brooklyn) as "Long Island;" this term is reserved for the parts of Long Island that are outside the city limits: Nassau and Suffolk counties. I assume that this is because it is the only part of New York state outside of the city that is not part of "Upstate New York." Thus it needs its own label.
Speaking of New York geographical terms, most New Yorkers refer only to Manhattan when they say "the city." Older New Yorkers can also use"New York" to mean only Manhattan; perhaps this is a relict of the period before the annexations of the outer boroughs.
Feel free to chime in with your own personal data.
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- Anonymous said...
reb yid, zayt mir moykhl vos ikh abuse your blog post with off-topicness but I didn't see a contact button.
Can you give me a gloss on approximate time/area/demographic distribution for the negating 'nothing'—that is, I just related a story to a friend and he replied 'oops', to which I said 'oops nothing, it was very dramatic!'
I am wondering if I'm the only person I know who might say a thing like that.
Generally I'd also love a source for a good atlas of American dialectical features.
- Ben said...
אָף־טאַפּיק איז בײַ מיר אין גאַנצן נישט קײן פּראָבלעם, נאָר אַז מע װיל שרײַבן "אונטער צװאַנציק פֿינגער" קען מען מיר שיקן אַ בליץ אױף
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I definitely know the "oops nothing" construction, but I don't know enough technical stuff to say anything interesting about it. As for American dialect atlases, the way to go is Labov et al., The Atlas of North American English. Full disclosure: I get no compensation for plugging this book, though if the good folks at Mouton de Gruyter want to repay me by giving me a copy, I wouldn't refuse it. It is six hunnerd dollars, after all. I guess that didn't require full disclosure after all.
- Anonymous said...
You guys are losing me on some of that, but I'm originally from the Chicago Area and I can see what you mean on some of it. I'm getting more meticulous about some of my pronunciations as I get older and I have to be kind of careful not to pronounce "-ire" like "-i-yer." (I'm not sure how well I succeed.) Since I lived in the suburbs I don't have much of a Chicago accent, but there were some pronunciation quirks in those around me that I didn't pick up. Maybe I'll get into that sometime.
- Anonymous said...
Dude! As a representative from Sweden, I must say that this about the "i"-thing is really confusing, hahaha! ;)
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- vp said...
do "ride" and "right" have the same vowel? No, they don't
Depends on your accent. In mine, they are phonetically identical, as far as I can tell. It's only in Canada, some of the Northern US and a few other locations (e.g. Charleston) that the allophony you describe exists.
- bassavino said...
Hi, cousin,
Thei in "ride" is ah-ee, very quickly, whereas the i in "right" is more of an uh-ee, likewise very quick, not some deawled-out diphthong. I figured this out after trying to apply the "ride" i to "right"; what I got was rah-eet, approaching "rot" here in Cleveland.


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Finding us is easy - we are straight up the hill from the marina in Arenal. If you are coming from the airport we are less than 10 minutes away by taxi.
Cancellation Policy: 7 days
latest check in Midnight
Our latest check in during November December January February and March is 21.00 hrs
Tax not included . 1,10 euros per person per night
Low season is from 1/11 to 30/4 pay 0.55 cents each per night
high season is from 1/05 to 1/11 pay 1.10€ each per night
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Hostel Facilities & Policies
- Adaptors
- Bar
- Bicycle hire
- Board Games
- Breakfast Not Included
- Café
- Ceiling Fan
- Common Room
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
- Free WiFi
- Hair Dryers
- Hair Dryers For Hire
- Hot Showers
- Linen Included
- Security Lockers
- Luggage Storage
- Meals Available
- No Curfew
- Outdoor Terrace
- Pool Table
- Reading Light
- Restaurant
- Safe Deposit Box
- Taxes included
- Towels For Hire
- Towels Included
- Wheelchair Friendly
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 7 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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Cancellation Policy: 7 days
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Our latest check in during November December January February and March is 21.00 hrs
Tax not included . 1,10 euros per person per night
Low season is from 1/11 to 30/4 pay 0.55 cents each per night
high season is from 1/05 to 1/11 pay 1.10€ each per night
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Hostal Atlanta is located just 8 KM southwest of Palma Airport.
Arriving by Car:
1. When leaving the airport follow the direction "Playa de Palma / Santanyi".
2. Take Exit 13 "s´ Arenal / Cala Blava".
3. Go straight past the 1st roundabout and continue on in the direction "Cala
4. You will drive past "Aqualand" on your left hand side.
5. Go to 2nd roundabout and turn right onto "Avenida de Europa".
6. Follow "Avenida de Europa", which will turn into "Calle de Trencadors".
7. Hostal Atlanta is located on the left hand side of the street at the corner of
"Calle de Trencadors" and "Calle de Terral" (approximately ½ KM).
Arriving by Bus:
Take the bus all of the way to the last stop (Cartago - Platja) which will take
approximately 30 minutes from the airport.
1. Take Bus number 21 from Palma airport to the beach front of "Arenal".
2. The bus only stops once actually on the beach-front road after
approximately 30 minutes' drive from the airport before starting its return
journey. This is your stop. You should get off the bus on the beach-front
road by the sea. This bus stop is on the promenade and is opposite a
tobacconist's shop and a Chinese restaurant.
3. Walk along the beach for approximately 5 minutes with the sea on your right
hand side.
4. Toward the end of the beach you will see a small harbor and the "Club
Nautico Arenal". At this point, cross over from the beach side of the road
and take a left turn up "Calle Terral".
5. Continue up the small stairway until you reach Hostal Atlanta at number 50.
Click here to view bus route from Palma Airport to Hostal Atlanta (Playa de Palma)
Directions from the Ferry Port and Palma City Center
1 – From the Ferry Port- Take the number 1 bus to Plaza España ( takes 15 minutes )
2- From Plaza España - Take number 23 or 25 bus to Playa de Palma, Arenal ( takes 30 minutes )
3 - Leave the bus at the last stop on the beach then walk towards Club Nautico Arenal at the end of the beach then turn left up the hill and the steps in to Calle Terral. You will find Hostal Atlanta at the top of the street on your right hand side ( takes 10 minutes )


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LG Optimus 4X HD is an Android 4.0 running smartphone which comes with quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, while a 4.7" 1280 x 720 display accompanies its larger than life status – and if that's not enough, it's packaged all within a 8.9mm casing. It also features an 8-megapixel rear camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facing snapper, 21Mbps HSPA, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, 16GB of storage, NFC and Bluetooth 4.0. Worried about the pitfalls with battery drain with this one? Well, the handset packs a hefty 2,150 mAh battery to hopefully give it enough juice to get through a day.


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What is a Lichen?
Lichens are some of the most amazing living things on this planet. Often the first form of life to colonize a new area of rock they occur all across the known world. Lichens are commonly seen and also commonly overlooked. Any structure that has been standing for a reasonable amount of time is likely to be adorned with lichens. Particularly, they are common on older buildings, stone walls, in graveyards and on most perennial (living more than 2 years) plants, particularly trees.
Lichens are amazing living entities, in that they are not a single organism like plants, animals or fungi. Instead every single lichen is the result of two or more separate organisms living permanently together.
A lichen is a symbiosis. That means that it is two or more organisms living together such that both are more successful within the partnership than they would have been if they were living on their own. All lichens are made up of a fungal partner and either/or an algal partner or a cyanobacterium partner, or both.
With lichens the basic components of this partnership are 1) a fungus called the 'mycobiont' and 2) one or more algae and/or a cyanobacteria called the 'photobiont'.
Lichens first appeared about 400 million years ago so they have been around for a long time. Some individual species such as Hypogymnia physodes have been around for at least 25 million years and maybe for as long as 70 million years. Obviously the lichen symbiosis is a successful strategy.
Lichens are scientifically fascinating, the symbiosis mentioned above is intriguing to many people and has been much studied, although it is not yet fully understood. Lichens are also of great use to ecologists.
Many lichens show a remarkable sensitivity to air quality. Some forms growing almost anywhere, others living in only the purist of atmospheres. For many ecologists lichens are an accurate monitor of quality of the air in any given place.
Lichens are used by scientists not only in the study of the lichens' own life cycles, but also as indicators of pollution and mineral content on rocks. Lichens store numerous minerals in their thalli, their presence and concentration is indicative of the composition of the rock that they are growing on.
Lichens of Georgia
Lichens species in Georgia include:
- Cladonia rangiferina
- Cladonia caroloniana
- Crytothecia rubrocincta
- Dibaeis baeomyces
- Ochrolechia africana
- Umbilicaria mammulata
- Sticta beauvoisii
- Buellia spuria
- Cladonia evansii
- Cladonia leporina
- Xanthomendoza fulva
- Physcia pumilior
- Teloschistes exilis
- lobaria pulmonaria
- parmotrema hypotropum
- Ramboldia russula
- Parmotrema submarginale
- Hypotrachyna livida
- Lasallia papulosa
- Usnea strigosa
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Transitioning from spring to summer can be a daunting task at home, especially as the temperatures fluctuate between cool and warm throughout the day. During the spring, many regions of the country are still prone to chilly evenings even though it can quickly warm up once the sun rises.
These abrupt changes might provoke you to blast your cooling system in the middle of the afternoon and crank up your thermostat before you hop into bed. However, these habits can potentially increase your carbon footprint.
If you're looking to stay sustainable during the spring as well as the fall when extreme temperature changes are common, there are a few adjustments you can make around your home.
First, consider having a professional come in and install radiant floor heating as a means to keep your home warm and comfortable throughout the year without breaking the bank. Radiant heat is a green alternative to relying on oil-based heating alone, which can be costly for homeowners. Radiant floor heating is relatively easy to install by a professional, and it can also add value to a home.
Yahoo! recommends making small changes to your house to reduce drafts that may breeze through on cool spring nights. You might want to think about placing weather stripping under doors or caulking old window seals. These tactics can go a long way when it comes to saving energy and money.
It can be easy to just turn on your air conditioner or central air cooling system in the spring when you start to feel uncomfortable. However, the Mother Nature Network reports that ceiling fans and stand-alone fans can easily do the job. Not only can they save you money on cooling costs, but they are also a green alternative.
When you are leaving the house and intend to be away for hours at a time, remember to check the thermostat. The California Energy Commission reports that it should ideally be set at 78 degrees Fahrenheit when you're home during the summer and 85 degrees while you are away to avoid relying too much on your cooling system.
Although it can be difficult to maintain the comfort level in your home when the seasons are changing, it's possible to do so in a manner that does not have a large negative effect on the environment. Making a few adjustments to your house and your daily habits can go a long way when it comes to staying happy and green throughout the year.
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Having finished Harry Potter number 6, I'm ready to make some guesses as to what will happen in the next book. Not exactly what, but at least two questions that must be answered.
1) Who is RAB? I agree with wikipedia posters that RAB must be Regulus Black. I had guessed that when I decided to check wikipedia — and damn if there wasn't a well argued conjecture there that agreed.
2) Where is the final horcrux of The Dark Lord? In Harry Potter of course. Harry and Voldemort cannot kill each other — and they have tried. Not sure how it got there but I suspect via RAB in some way. Also what does this have to do with all this "power of love" talk by Dumbledore?
3) Speaking of Dumbledore, is he really dead? Possibly not since the organization is called "The Order of the Phoenix" afterall.


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Senior Brady Gockel, Lake Washington High School (LWHS), was awarded the Pacific Northwest Football Officials Association (PNFOA) 2018 Athlete Sportsmanship Award.
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As a public school district, Lake Washington School District is responsible to its community, including students, parents, community members and taxpayers. A strategic plan helps to guide the direction and focus the priorities of the district.
To accomplish our mission and vision for students, we believe we must stay true to four core values and focus on accomplishing five strategic goals. Strategic efforts to accomplish our goals are guided by three fundamental ideals, which are board priorities.
Each student will graduate prepared to lead a rewarding, responsible life as a contributing member of our community and greater society.
Every Student Future Ready: prepared for college, prepared for the global workplace, prepared for personal success.
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- Ensure academic success for every student
- Provide safe and innovative learning environments
- Recruit, hire, and retain highly effective personnel
- Use resources effectively and be fiscally responsible
- Engage our communities
Opportunity and Equity, Innovation, Improvement
The district's strategic plan specifies key performance indicators and targets associated with each strategic goal. The strategic plan highlights the strategic efforts and work underway, guided by our values and ideals, to accomplish each goal. Each year a Strategic Plan Update and Annual Report is published to provide a progress update to the community.
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In just six months, a $75,000 gift to The Florida Bar Foundation by The Florida Bar's Trial Lawyers Section has provided nearly 70 foster youth an advocate to protect their legal rights, and more referrals are coming every week.
Jessica Rae, the Trial Lawyers Section Children's Legal Services Fellow at the Community Law Program in St. Petersburg, has had foster youth referred to her by caseworkers, Guardians ad Litem, judges, the general magistrate and the state attorneys' office. One caseworker approached her after a hearing to say that if her child were ever involved in the dependency system, she'd want Rae as her child's attorney.
Through her Transitioning Dependent Youth Project, Rae represents kids as they navigate the foster-care system. In more than10 years spent advocating for foster youth, mostly in Maryland, Rae has seen the long- term benefits that legal representation of these children can have.
"When the court is contemplating an order of where a child should be placed, it's really easy to think we're just talking about where this child is going to live for the next year or two years, but those orders have a profound impact on that child's life,"she said.
Rae has made a list of the potential impacts. A child's placement, Rae points out, determines whether he or she can:
• have a permanent family or permanent home
• maintain school stability
• maintain medical or therapeutic stability or services
• have access to and contact with the people who are most important to him or her
• qualify for a college tuition exemption
• receive any sort of independent living services, including a monthly stipend he or she can access as a young adult while completing his or her education
• participate in normal teen activities Foster youth often have little say in such matters.
Unlike other parties in a dependency hearing, which generally include the state, the child's parent or guardian and a Guardian ad Litem, children have no statutory guarantee of legal representation. Even when a child has a Guardian ad Litem, that person is there to represent what he or she believes to be the child's best interest. That may not coincide with the child's interests or legal rights, and the distinction is important.
Rae cites the example of an 8-year-old client she once had who was doing well in a placement with his grandmother and little sister. On paper, the placement seemed ideal. But the boy wanted to live with his aunt for a simple reason. There, he could play outside where there were trees and grass. And where he didn't have to live in constant fear of the drug dealers who controlled his grandmother's neighborhood.
"Most of us have a really good self-preservation instinct," Rae said. In her experience with hundreds of foster cases, kids are no exception.
"When kids don't have a day in court, that can be incredibly damaging in the long term," Rae said. "They feel like they've got no control of their lives, and in fact, often they haven't because they've been involved in this massive bureaucracy. But when they have an attorney, I feel like they take some of that power back. And that can have a lifelong impact on a child's well-being."
Moving children out of dependency as they approach their 18th birthdays is the major focus of Rae's work. Clients she has helped include a young woman who ended up in the dependency system because of the illness of a parent. Working with her both inside and outside the courtroom, Rae has put a plan in place to get her through high school.
"I expect she will be college-bound," Rae said.
Another client managed to get her GED on her own, only to be hit with out-of-state tuition because of a lack of documentation when in fact she was entitled to a tuition exemption. Rae resolved her issues as well, enabling the 17-year-old to avoid being saddled with $7,000 a year in student loans.
"Clearing that path so she can be successful in college is huge," Rae said. "Because one of the things we see is that when kids do really well, they tend to leave the foster-care system and never come back into the system. When kids struggle, that's when we start to see their kids and their kids' kids [in the system]. And it's an incredible, unfortunate saga when we begin to see second- and third-generation families involved in the foster-care system. When kids have counsel and they can make good choices about what their options are, we can break that cycle."
Kimberly Rodgers, executive director of the Community Law Program, said Rae, whose distinguished career protecting children's rights has taken her from Baltimore to Bolivia and from Washington, D.C., to Afghanistan, has been a tremendous boost to the effectiveness of the program.
"The kids who Jessica represents are the most vulnerable within our client population because oftentimes their parents are dead or incarcerated or strung out on drugs. They don't have a safety net," Rodgers said. "She's a voice for these children, and she gets them the financial and social and educational benefits they need to make them successful adults."
Without the Trial Lawyers Section's generosity, Rodgers would not have been able to hire Rae when her predecessor left to take another job, and the Community Law Program's Transitioning Dependent Youth Project would not have been there for vulnerable children in foster care.
"Community Law Program's Transitioning Dependent Youth Project is among the most impactful of the organization's projects for me personally," said Linda Perrigoue, president of the organization's board of trustees. "We are truly thankful to the Trial Lawyers Section for making it possible for us to continue this incredibly meaningful work."
Judge Jack Day, one of four judges on Sixth Judicial Circuit Unified Family Court in Pinellas County, calls Rae "unbelievable" and said she has exceeded expectations, even after he told her "she was expected to walk on water" based on the reviews he'd heard of her prior work.
"She has taken on all the teenagers I've been able to throw at her, which is a lot," Day said. "She is so good with teenagers, they can see the benefits of her advocating for them."
Day points out that the statistics of the dependency system are grim. According to a 2007 report of the Pew Charitable Trusts, one in four will be incarcerated within two years of leaving the system and more than one in five will become homeless at some point.
"So, there is a particular need for things to help them find their way to being functioning adults," Day said. "The foster-care system has tools to do a lot of those things, but it takes some work to get the right tools in the right hands. There's nothing that compares to having an advocate for the kids before the court to rattle the cage and get the kids what they need. The reality of dependency court is that young people on the verge of adulthood need advocacy or else they get steamrollered."
Wayne Helsby, 2012-13 chair of the Trial Lawyers Section, said one of the primary missions of the Section is to protect and preserve access to the courts for all of Florida's citizens.
"The severe decline in IOTA revenue in recent years has jeopardized that access, especially for underprivileged youth in our state," Helsby said. "The Trial Lawyers Section is delighted that our contribution has enabled The Florida Bar Foundation to provide these individuals with an attorney to protect their rights in the course of the legal process. The Trial Lawyers Section is also appreciative of the fact that our donation has prompted other Sections of the Bar to do likewise."


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A side of fries that took three potatoes to make, burritos as girthy as your forearm, and burgers so big you could dislocate your jaw.
The recipe for overeating really is quite simple: All you need is a heap of cheap food and gigantic portions mixed with relentless advertising campaigns and round-the-clock availability. In America, we have all the ingredients to cook up a nation full of porksters.
In early June, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a ban on the sale of sugary drinks in containers larger than 16 oz. for New York restaurants, arenas and movie theaters to combat the explosion of obesity in America.
According to the Center for Disease Control, 32 percent of Americans are obese, with 42 percent expected to be obese by 2030.
When we first heard about Bloomberg's proposal, our knee-jerk reaction was much like the rest of the country; we scoffed at the seeming futility of such a fizz-brained, draconian proposition. But after mulling it over, we've changed our mind.
No, we don't think Bloomberg's policy will drastically change the obesity rate in New York, but we think it will make an impact. We think the new restriction, if passed, will send a positive message that could change eating habits.
In an MSNBC interview, Bloomberg cites the "bottomless" bowl of soup study performed by Brian Wansink, Ph.D., director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University and author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More.
"You tend to eat all the food in the container in front of you," Bloomberg said in the interview. "We are forcing you to understand you are making a conscious decision to go from one cup to another cup."
In the study, Wansink created bowls that could be filled by hidden tubes and compared the eating habits of people with the normal bowl and those with a bottomless bowl. People with the normal bowl ate 9 oz. of soup while those with a bottomless bowl ate 15 oz, but the bottomless bowl group reported that they were no more full than the other group.
"Most of us have too much chaos going on in our lives to consciously focus on every bite we eat, and then ask ourselves if we're full," Wansink said. "The secret is to change your environment so it works for you rather than against you."
For example, in a Center for Disease Control growth chart of fast food portion sizes since the 1950s, the average soda has grown nearly six times in volume. The average portion for a hamburger and fries has tripled, and now Americans weigh, on average, 26 pounds more than our 1950s counterparts.
One of the main complaints we've heard about Bloomberg's policy is that America is a free country, and "I don't want anyone telling me what I can do." But in this case New York residents aren't being denied 64 oz. of highly-sugared soda. If that's what they really want, they just have to get another cup if they are in a restaurant.
Like Wansink suggested, Bloomberg is trying to change the environment to increase New Yorkers' chances for success in their health and wellness goals. In our mind, the only ones who might suffer from this policy are the soft drink companies. But soft drink companies are concerned with increasing consumption of their products, not the health of the public.
Let's not sugar coat it, we're fat and we're getting fatter. Critics of Bloomberg's proposition, including the New York Times editorial board, say the mayor should focus his energies on programs that educate people and encourage them to make better choices. But if education about overeating really worked, shouldn't the nation's obesity rate have been going down and not up over the past decade when studies on obesity starting making front page news on a monthly basis?
Like Bloomberg said, the policy is not perfect, but we think the nation's meal portions (and waistlines) are overdue for a downsizing.


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Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American television and film actress. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994). Alba rose to prominence as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002). Alba later appeared in various films including Honey (2003), Sin City (2005), Fantastic Four (2005), Into the Blue (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Good Luck Chuck both in 2007.
Alba is considered a sex symbol. She appears on the "Hot 100" section of Maxim and was voted number one on AskMen.com's list of "99 Most Desirable Women" in 2006, as well as "Sexiest Woman in the World" by FHM in 2007. The use of her image on the cover of the March 2006 Playboy sparked a lawsuit by her, which was later dropped. She has also won various awards for her acting, including the Choice Actress Teen Choice Award and Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television, and a Golden Globe nomination for her lead role in the television series Dark Angel.
Alba was born in Pomona, California to Catherine (née Jensen) and Mark Alba. Her mother is of Danish and French Canadian descent and her father is Mexican American. She has a younger brother, Joshua. Her father's Air Force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi and Del Rio, Texas, before settling back in California when she was nine years old. Alba described her family as being a "very conservative family – a traditional, Catholic, Latin American family" and herself as very liberal; she says she had identified herself as a "feminist" as early as age five.