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Galatasaray 0-2 Manisaspor (14:11:10)
Ulas Gürsat continues his new weekly column for EFW. Ulas is a football reporter for the Turkish daily Haberturk Newspaper:
Welcome to hell? If only. They'd roll out the red carpet to greet anyone from overseas to Galatasaray next season. Right here, right now, they are in a very bad place, and - possibly not for the first time - their fans are a little unhappy with life.
After serving Gala and Turkish football for 46 years well-ish for 46 years, the infamous Ali Sami Yen Stadium is soon to be no more. In January, the club will move into their new Seyrantepe Stadium, and the two stadiums couldn't be any more contrasting.
Ali Sami Yen was the founder of the club.
A corporate new world of mod€rn football awaits.
So, this match was one of the last to be played in the old ground. And fans of the Cim bom would have preferred for this to be remembered as a celebration, ah.
Galatasaray are having one of their worst seasons in recent memory. After 12 rounds of the Turkish league, they sit in tenth position. The board reacted by sacking Frank Rijkaaard and called back the legendary Gheorghe Hagi, but things have not improved.
During this game, the fans let their thoughts about the board be known. They turned their back to the pitch and chanted names of past heroes; Metin Oktay, Hakan Şükür and the like, to remind the current regime of just how big this club is. At the end of the match, they refused to leave the stadium for over an hour and continued chanting obscenities against the current owners.
Who turned out the lights? Fans remain behind to voice their anger.
Don't look back in anger.
Manisaspor won this game with ease by utilising their pacey wingers to good effect. Gala barely had a shot worthy of note. Last years top scorer Aziza Makukula and Simpson's penalty secured the points for the, ahem, Tarzanlar (Tarzans).
Just three more home games left until the bulldozers demolish the Ali Sami Yen, and turn it - rather like Highbury - into a block of flats. The fans are hoping that the new stadium will bring with it some fresh optimism and new hope.
Istanbul is a huge metropolitan city and the Ali Sami Yen was smack bang in the middle of that city. It was easy to come and go from the stadium. And with all the buildings and stuff surrounding the ground, you are spoilt for choice in terms of food. Sultanahmet Koftecisi (Sultanahmet Meatballs) are always popular with the fans, as are the kebab, but good luck with getting a kebab, because the queues are always enormous.
Misir (corn) is maybe not the normal thing you'd think of eating before a match, but these are very popular in Istanbul. And you have to finish eating them before you get to the stadium, because the Turkish police won't allow you take a corn cob inside, bizarre eh? If it's cold then opt for Kestane (chestnuts), they are sure to warm your cockles - and no mistake.
Pre-match Turkish style.
Salad with that Sir?
Offensive weapons?
Next up on these pages will be a trip to see Manisaspor v Bursaspor, until then Sağlığınıza!
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BALNER BLIX IV, Balner Blix System, Gelb Empire -- B'fergal Blux, owner of the popular Balner Blix nightspot, B'fergal's Grill & Blatz, wishes that he-she-it had picked a different spot for his-her-it's vacation.
"Initially, I had planned to return to my regular spot, Pooble. Ah, sweet Pooble. From the drinks to the boy-girl-its' to the twin suns, Pooble has it all. Or, had it all, anyways..." said Mr-Mrs Blux, before being interrupted by a paragraph of background information.
As the citizens of the Pooble system are well aware, one of the system's suns recently went nova. The cataclysmic nuclear explosion destabilized the other sun, which was never all that stable to begin with, causing it to go nova as well. Together, the two suns then went spectacularly and distastrously supernova. This cascade of calamitous events, needless to say, put a damper on things, leading to reduced profits, layoffs, and bankruptcies for most Pooble companies, like manufacturers of chemical depilatories, eyeball blackener and deadly rayguns. Tourism, the popular whorehouse sector in particular, was hit hard as the heat, light, and radiation from the death of the twin stars scoured the area of both whores and houses. Eventually the supernovae scoured the area of the area, leaving the world of Pooble "...drier than a Sarclopian Quintopod." stated one observer on the Galactic Explorer Science and Exploratory Vessel, the EX-701 Westchoober (now with valet parking and karaoke), as it maintained a safe distance of six glimbars from the former fleshpot world.
"I had everything booked, too. Space-flights, hotels, whores...then the suns blew up. Oh, well." B'fergal continued. "So, I go back to my travel agent and asked him-her-it 'What else is nice this time of year?'. He-she-it recommended an out of the way system called Sol. I saw a hologram of it and promptly fell in love. Two standard spacedays later I was on my way."
The Sol system, a thirteen giga-glimbar journey from central Gelb, contains several gas giants and a few rocks. Only one of those rocks contains intelligent life. Unfortunately Sol II, or "Venus", was booked solid for a dental convention, so Mr-Mrs Blux went to Sol III, or "Earth".
"Well, let me tell you, the Earth is a dump." B'fergal lamented. "It looks nice from orbit, but no one speaks Gelbish, the days are too short, and the whole place smells like my ex-mother-father in-law's excretory organ. Plus it's rife with fleshy beasts."
The fleshy beasts of Sol III include species with four legs, two legs and wings or, in some cases, two legs and two arms. Scientists at the SpaceInstitute on Klemptor VI refer to these classes of fleshy beasts as "gross", while ones at the SpaceInstitute on Klemptor V call them "tasty". This disagreement between the two scientific bodies regularly breaks out into nerd war, with slap-fights, girly punches, and slide rule-based stabbing and slashing attacks.
Other than their limb configuration, we know little about the Earth's grossest and tastiest class of fleshy beasts, Earthlings, as B'fergal quickly discovered.
"I land on the Earth, get out of my space-pod and what do I see? A lone native, dressed in denim cutoff shorts, flip-flops and a mesh-back baseball cap." said B'fergal, holding up a SpacePolaroid of the native. "To be polite, I greeted this stranger with our most formal greeting of joy, peace and happiness, by jamming my thumb in its greeting hole. Then it got all mad and chased me back to my space-pod while shooting at me with a non-raygun of moderately deadly design. It wasn't until I got back into orbit that I noticed how bad my thumb smelled."
In all civilized species the greeting hole glows a brilliant yellow and emits a pleasing melody when poked with a thumb, finger, or other suitable instrument of poking. In Earth-centric species, however, it does neither of these things. Instead, the customary poke in the greeting hole causes the Earthling pokee to become enraged and shoot at the poker. Whether or not this odd reaction is part of the Earthlings' mating ritual or an invitation to join the tribe is unknown at this time. Due to B'fergal's unfortunate first contact the Department of Interspecies Relations has issued a recommendation that people vacation somewhere other than Sol III, pending an inquiry on how best to insert the thumb into the greeting hole of an Earthling.
Our limited body of knowledge on Sol III is expected to rapidly expand once our Majesty's Imperial fleet invades, enslaves, and cooks the natives sometime later this year.
Long live the Empire! All hail Emperor-Empress Merple! Ah-Woog! Ah-Woog! Ah-Woog!
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This won't be shocking news to anyone who saw the results of both our handbag-themedMarch Madness and World Cup brackets (Chanel won both without much trouble), but the French brand has taken another Internet crown. Chanel was the most reblogged handbag brand on Tumblr and second most popular fashion brand overall, behind only Nike. Here's why that's not so surprising.
Chanel's smartest move (at least for its current sales) may have been never debuting bags made of logo-covered canvas in the early 2000s, when such bags were a consumer goldmine. In recent years, brands that used that tactic to create a lower price entry point for aspirational customers have seen their sales fall off; not only do consumers not want those bags as much as they used to, but they're increasingly less willing to pay for any bags from a brand that's known for them. It can hurt a brand's leather business by association.
While Chanel's interlocking-C logo is well-known and has graced the exteriors of thousands of handbag designs, the slight restraint that the brand showed a decade ago, combined with Karl Lagerfeld's strong sense for how fashion fits with the larger cultural zeitgeist, appears still to serve it well. Tumblr's quick turnover of images is a great test of how young people perceive a brand overall, and it appears as though Chanel has done a better job of courting the young and aesthetically minded than many of its competitors. It doesn't hurt that what probably springs to mind for those potential customers are luxury leather bags with a bit of branding instead of less expensive options with tons of it.


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Scientists at a small Chicago-based start-up, Arryx, have borrowed a page from Star Trek and landed itself on R&D Magazine's 100 best new technologies list for 2002 with the BioRyx™ 200 System - a microscopic tractor beam. This tractor beam, while much smaller than that of the Enterprise's, is much more precise. Using multiple beams, the system can handle cells and objects with substantially less risk of tearing or burning, and may prove invaluable to scientists doing cancer, drug, or genetic research.
The BioRyx™ 200 system works with a microscope to independently hold, move, rotate, join, separate, stretch, or otherwise manipulate hundreds of microscopic objects using only laser beams. The BioRyx™ 200 system can independently control and apply these beams as traps simultaneously to hundreds of objects, or it can apply hundreds of beams as a trap for a single object.
The process is crucial in research that could result in separating cancer cells from healthy cells, picking out stem cells vs. non-stem cells, and in developing three-dimensional integrated circuits.
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The Chiefs have made Dwayne Bowe their franchise player, keeping the impact wide receiver off the free-agent market this offseason.
Kansas City made the move less than an hour before Monday's deadline to apply the franchise tag, even though it had long been expected. Bowe is guaranteed a salary of about $9.4 million next season, though the Chiefs have indicated they would like to sign him to a long-term deal.
"Today was the league's deadline to designate a franchise player and we felt it was in the best interest of the Kansas City Chiefs to place the tag on Dwayne," general manager Scott Pioli told the team's official website.
Bowe could still field offers from other teams, but the Chiefs would have the right to match. If they decline, they would lose Bowe but receive two first-round draft picks.
Bowe had 81 catches for 1,159 yards and five touchdowns last season, even though Kansas City struggled with injuries to quarterback Matt Cassel and running back Jamaal Charles.
Bowe had 72 catches for 1,162 yards and 15 touchdowns in 2010, when he made the Pro Bowl.
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To reach the top of Cheyenne Canyon in Colorado Springs in 20 minutes, you have to be able to churn out 4 watts of power for every kilogram of body weight. Garmin-Cervelo's Tom Danielson set the record on this climb in 2006, clocking in at 13:34 (6.7 watts/kg).
The power-to-weight ratio (PWR) is cycling's great leveler. It's a measure that allows a comparison of cyclists' abilities even when the riders vary in size. Take, for instance, two of my coaches, Craig Griffin and Lindsay Hyman, who this spring made a deal to see who could be first to break 20 minutes up the 5-kilometer, 1,200-vertical-foot ascent.
Griffin is 5-foot-10 and weighs 76kg (167 pounds), and Hyman is 5-foot-3 and weighs 55kg (121 pounds). Both started within 0.4 watts/kg of the target. The key to getting faster is raising your PWR. As more cyclists buy power meters, it's easy to monitor the number. But even if you don't track your watts, you can still raise your PWR just like every other cyclist--by lowering your body weight or raising your average power output, or both.
DO THE MATH To determine your PWR, divide your body weight in pounds by 2.2 to convert it to kilograms, then divide your weight into the average power from a 20- or 30-minute time trial. (PWR isn't a static number, but rather corresponds to a specific time span. A rider who averages 6.8 watts/kg for 30 minutes may only be able to sustain 6.4 watts/kg for an hour.) Example: Griffin's 20-minute TT power is 275 watts, so given his 76kg, his PWR for 20 minutes is 3.6 watts/kg. (Lindsay is at 3.8 watts/kg. Get on it, Craig.) For comparison, an athlete needs to be able to produce 6.8 watt/kg in a 30-minute pre-race test in order have a chance at winning the Tour de France. Beginners or Cat 5s range from 2.5 to 3.2 for men and 2.1 to 2.8 for women; Cat 3 racers typically range 3.7 to 4.4 (men) and 3.2 to 3.8 (women).
THE BEST WAY TO RAISE IT For cyclists who are carrying around more than 10 extra pounds, losing weight and gaining power are equally achievable through good nutrition and focused training. Heavier cyclists have the potential to make bigger improvements because they can attack both parts of the equation. Between the two coaches in my office, this favors Griffin, because Hyman is already very lean. As an example of how small changes can make a big difference, Cheyenne Canyon averages an 8 percent grade for 5 kilometers. If a 75kg rider with a max sustainable power of 250 watts loses 2.5kg, or about five pounds, that would cut 38 seconds off this rider's time. Improving power output by 20 watts without any weight loss cuts 85 seconds. If this rider loses 2.5 kilos and increases power by 20 watts, the improvement jumps to 2:03.
HOW FAR CAN YOU GO? Elite racers aim to be as strong and as light as possible, but this is a delicate balance that can't be maintained for very long. Most experienced cyclists can expect to see a 15 percent variance in PWR during the year. Because it's far easier to make the ratio go down than up, changes greater than 15 percent often indicate that you either gained too much weight or decreased your training load too much during the winter. On the flip side, there are physiological limits to how light you can get while maintaining a high power output.
Here's the test: If you're leaner than you've ever been and your average power output on climbs starts to decline, you've reached the tipping point. Try gaining two or three pounds, and back off your training a little bit. Your power will likely come back up, and from now on you should consider this your minimum allowable weight. Future gains in PWR will need to come from better training. Of course, there's also the weight of your equipment to consider, because shaving grams from your bike will effectively increase your PWR. I discourage athletes from thinking about buying their way to a goal as a real solution, though.
So, who was the first to break 20 minutes up the canyon? Their challenge ended June 1, and I've posted the results on trainright.com. Personally, I think Lindsay's going to take it.


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"It's a first for me," the 41-year-old blond bombshell told Esquire, whose August issue she covers. "But Jason [Segel, her costar] gets naked, too. It's just a part of the role. So I did it. I mean you see everything."
Everything, she says. Surely, fans everywhere are grateful and considering a bevy of suggestive hashtags.
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Since its 1993 evaluation of the first drug court (the Miami-Dade County Felony Drug Court), NIJ has sponsored research examining drug court processes, outcomes and costs. A recent example is the 10-year study of the Multnomah County drug court in Portland, Oregon.
Read the evaluation of the Multnomah County drug court in Portland, Oregon.
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retrospective data, researchers in several studies found that drug courts reduced
recidivism among program participants in contrast to comparable probationers. For example, one study found that within a two-year follow-up period, the felony re-arrest rate decreased from 40 percent before the drug court to 12 percent after the drug court started in one county, and the felony re-arrest rate decreased from 50 percent to 35 percent in another county.
In an unprecedented longitudinal study that accumulated recidivism and cost analyses of drug court cohorts over 10 years, NIJ researchers found that
drug courts may lower recidivism rates (re-arrests) and significantly lower costs. They used data from a primarily pre-plea adult drug court in Portland, Oregon, to track 6,500 offenders who participated in the Multnomah County Drug Court between 1991 and 2001. Re-arrests were lower five years or more later compared to re-arrests for similar drug offenders within the same county.
The researchers also found, however, that the drug courts' impact on recidivism varied by year as a result of changes in programming and judge assignments over time. Reductions in recidivism ranged from 17 to 26 percent.
Lower costs. Compared to traditional criminal justice system processing, treatment and other investment costs averaged $1,392 lower per drug court participant.
Reduced recidivism and other long-term program outcomes resulted in public savings of $6,744 on average per participant (or $12,218 if victimization costs are included).[2]
Factors for success. Although general research findings are that drug courts can reduce recidivism and promote other positive outcomes such as cost savings, several factors affect a drug court program's success:
These and other issues, such as treatment service delivery and judicial interaction, are addressed in the NIJ special report,
Drug Courts: The Second Decade.
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Evaluating Treatment Drug Courts in Kansas City, Missouri and Pensacola, Florida: Final Reports for Phase I and Phase II, by L. Truitt et al., March 2002, NCJ 198477.
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Impact of a Mature Drug Court Over 10 Years of Operation: Recidivism and Costs, by M.W. Finigan et al., July 2007, NCJ 219225.
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The 2018 AHO Breeders' Championship in Egypt
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Following the success at the Arabian Breeders World Cup, the party moved west to the spectacular valley of Santa Ynez, California. There family and friends - some old and some new - gathered to enjoy delicious food and wine while viewing some extraordinary Arabian horses. First came, "The Beauties" This group consisted of young mares and fillies. For many, the highlight of the group was the exquisite Om El Excella, dam of Om El Erodite, the filly that instantly became world-famous when Ms. Patricia Dempsey of Beloveds Farm purchased her at the Marquise Auction in February 2017. Almost immediately, Erodite was named ABWC Supreme Gold Champion Yearling Filly and later, she was named Salon du Cheval World Bronze
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Carol Fensholt Nierenberg - Sculptor Extraordinaire
Enjoy this gallery of art from the creative genius of sculptor, Arabian horse breeder and owner, Carol Fensholt Nierenberg of Silver Box Studios in Carefree, Arizona. Carol's work is extraordinary and very special... just like the Arabian horse.
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The 2017 All Nations Cup Festival By Lisa Abraham With a Tribute to Ignacy Jaworowski By Scott Benjamin & A Tribute to Gazal Al Shaqab By Michael Byatt The 2017 All Nations Cup (ANC) Festival, which took place from September 21-24, was a spectacular Arabian horse show with nonstop entertainment. After the busy show season of summer, the excitement in Aachen was elevated as this was the first leg of the European Triple Crown. It was here that the farms chose who was to represent them—and all stops were pulled. Promotional output was high and so were expectations. Once again, all activities took place in the Albert-Vahle-Halle, located in the heart of the charming German city of Aachen. The agenda in Aachen is
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The 2017 Arabian Breeders World Cup: VEGAS! By Lisa Abraham The 2017 Arabian Breeders World Cup (ABWC), which took place from April 12 th -15, was another spectacular show and exceeded all expectations one would have of a thrilling Las Vegas venue. Just as Las Vegas is one of the most exciting cities in the world—the ABWC is one of the most glamorous shows on the planet. In its eleventh edition, it also celebrated the prestigious status as one of the world's most important Arabian horse competitions as many of our most prominent breeders attend along with their top horses. The South Point Hotel and Casino has been the home to the ABWC since the beginning. It is a unique locale as show participants and guests can stay
A Conversation Between Friends: Dr. Hans J. Nagel and Judith Forbis
Fall was in the air as the colors of the season were beginning to appear and the heat of the summer was replaced with a cool, comfortable breeze. It was a perfect day on September 21, 2016 when Judith Forbis and I visited Dr. Hans Nagel at his Katharinenhof Stud in Northern Germany. Our visit took place just days before the All Nations Cup was to be held in Aachen where Judith, long known for her Ansata Arabian Stud and various educational activities, was to be recognized as the first person to receive the All Nations Cup Lifetime Achievement Award. After spending time walking around the stables and looking at all of Dr. Nagel's horses, including the latest foal crop, we relaxed in the sitting room at the farm's charming cottage. Although I have enjoyed personal friendships with both Dr. Nagel and Judith, it was an honor to experience them together in this lovely and informal setting as they shared precious memories of their influential past.
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Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Review
Not that it strays completely from Lara's heritage; Tomb Raider games have always included ample gun play. Guardians of Light just tips the balance decidedly more to the side of shoot first and look around later. This approach brings a new perspective to Lara's action-archaeology, literally. Instead of her curvaceous posterior filling center screen, she presents a much smaller on-screen presence, the scale of everything reduced to open up the view and allow the area for her to face hordes of enemies at once.
The result might not have her usual point of view, but it's plenty familiar for action games—and works quite well here for the arcade approach to raiding tombs. Responsive controls complete the package. Lara predictably goes where directed and they stand up to the test when the challenge of navigating crumbling ruins while fending off monsters heats up.
Despite the emphasis on combat, the broader view of the spaces encourages exploration and the designers take good advantage of it. Environments[, from lava caves to classic ruins with elaborate mechanical constructs,] make excellent use of 3D space. Paths run up, over, and around areas but the spatial relationships always make sense. So even as sections grow in complexity—and they do toward the end—getting past them comes down to solving the puzzle without a feeling of fighting the level design.
That's okay because the ample enemies thrown Lara's way leave no room for distraction. In her race to save the world from being plunged into darkness at the hands of an evil god, Lara faces waves and waves of beasts ranging from animated skeletons to hulking warriors and lighting-casting shamen. As usual, she packs her signature twin pistols with unlimited ammo, but that's only the tip of her arsenal. Over the course of the adventure she gains everything from a flamethrower to a Gatling gun, both through discovery and completion of special challenges throughout each level. Between these and the similarly acquired relics and artifacts she equips to boost attributes like speed or defense, Lara can be tweaked to fight in a number of different ways to suit different combinations to suit different play styles and situations.
For all the things Guardian of Light does right, it can not cover up the glaring absence of its intended online co-op multiplayer. The game was clearly designed with the idea that one person would play as Lara, and the other as the Mayan warrior Totec. Granted, there's support now for playing together with a friend on the same machine but there's no denying the sense of this early release on the 360 being unfinished, particularly for a game which by virtue of digital distribution ensures that everyone buying it at least has the basic connectivity to play online.
Eidos promises a free patch to add support for online co-op on September 28 when the PS3 and PC versions arrive (they will include online co-op at release). Coming so long after release, though, it's hard to imagine many people being drawn back to replay Guardians of Light. Therein lies the dilemma; there's plenty of fun to be had with it today, but it comes at the cost of getting a glimpse at how good it could have been had it released in completed form.


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Grocery shopping
I haven't written a grocery blog in a while, so here you go. Saturday my shopping trip was a little stressful, not due to my list or coupons but due to how crowded Kroger was. I think everyone in town was in there buying their snacks for Saturday night's big game.
I will admit I zigzag through the store a little during my shopping trips so some shoppers may have been wondering who the crazy lady was that kept going back and forth. My zigzagging is all part of my savings plan. I have my list divided into 3 parts – the essentials I need for the week, the things that are good deals but not essentials and the things that are a great deal for my stockpile. I shop with cash and keep a running total on my list so if I have not exhausted my funds after the essentials I start picking up the deals.
Savings this week with coupons
Hellmann's Mayonnaise (stockpile) on sale for 2.99 – coupon for $1 off – 1.99
Blue Diamond Almond Milk (unrefrigerated – stockpile) 2 @ 1.49 each – 2 50¢ coupons – .49 each
Finish Gelpac dishwasher detergent – 4.99 – $1 coupon – 3.99
Ivory Soap – on sale for $1 – 35¢ – 30¢ for 3 bars (stockpile)
Chi Chi's taco size tortillas – 4 @ 1.99 each – 4 50¢ off coupons – 99¢ each
Egglands organic eggs – marked down to 2.09 – 50¢ coupon – 1.09
Land of Lakes half and half – 2.49 – $1 coupon – 1.49
Kroger Savings
Kroger cheese 3/$5
Kroger frozen vegetables 10/$10 – 2 bags green peas – $1 each
Kroger eggs 10/$10 – 2 dozen at $1 each
Kroger frozen chicken breasts - $6.99
Manufactured coupon savings – 9.35
Bonus coupon savings – 4.15
Kroger plus savings – 20.98
Total savings – 34.48
Total spent – 64.70
Cash remaining – 10.30
I picked up other sale items, milk, bread, frozen chicken breasts and ground beef. Yes, I came home with 3 dozen eggs. I made egg salad for this week's lunch and I'll make deviled eggs this weekend while my daughter is home for Easter.
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Gardening is getting an infusion of high tech as startups in Silicon Valley and elsewhere turn their technological skills to the popular hobby.
A social gardening and food-growing app is being developed by a San Francisco startup, and an affordable hydroponics setup for the home gardener is just reaching the marketplace, developed by a Southern California startup with offices in Berkeley.
Beyond that, big agriculture is going high tech, too. The inaugural Silicon Valley AgTech conference in Palo Alto this month drew a big crowd of consumers and major agricultural companies.
"This is like the perfect storm," said the event's organizer, Roger Royse of the Royse Law Firm in Palo Alto. "We have venture capital, we have technology and we have agriculture, but tech did not seem to be talking to agriculture until we started this group."
While the conference was more about technologies for large-scale farming, Royse said tech is coming to home gardening too.
"There's a lot for the home," he said. "Everybody seems to be getting into this growing-their-own-food thing. It's become a community in itself, so there's social networks growing up around it."
Gardening apps have blossomed at the Apple and Android app stores. There are dozens of planners, calendars and plant guides available, including garden monitors and popular apps like Gardening: The Ultimate Guide (free, iOS), and The New Sunset Western Garden Book ($14.99, iOS). Garden Manager (free, Android) sends alarms when it's time to water and fertilize your plants. With the Organic Gardening Planting Planner (free, iOS) or OG Planting Planner (free, Android), you can create your own garden and be alerted to planting and harvesting times and weather conditions.
Another gardening product soon to make its debut is an app from Sausalito-based Earthwire, which is preparing to launch a social app for gardeners. It's a kind of Facebook for the trowel and mulch set, according to its developers, a father and son team.
"We have built an interactive, mobile application that allows people to connect locally and regionally, communicate on what they're growing in their own backyards and form consortiums to grow that food and share it together," founder Drew Youngs said while taking a break at the AgTech conference.
Once pretty much confined to growing pot indoors, hydroponic farming has become a big business in growing fruits and vegetables, and has dawn interest from hobbyist gardeners. But hydroponics has remained a fairly demanding craft, requiring skills beyond those of the average gardener.
Hydroponics involves growing plants without soil — in water, sand or gravel with added nutrients. Regular measurements of the acidity, electrical conductivity and temperature of the nutrient solution are necessary, as is care in adding just the right amount of nutrients. A startup called Sustainable Microfarms, based in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, has developed a small system called the Genesis Dosing Controller that takes the guesswork out of hydroponics, allowing at-home gardeners to grow everything from lettuce and tomatoes to strawberries and peppers.
"We build a product that takes out the need for you to have any prior understanding of hydroponics or plant biology or engineering," said Sanjay Rajpoot, who started the company while he was still at student at the University of Southern California.
"The reason why hydroponic farming or at-home farming hasn't caught on is because it takes a lot of work, a lot of effort and costs a lot of money," Rajpoot said. He said his system monitors the accidity, the concentration of nutrients and the temperature, and automatically maintains the optimal level of nutrients to make sure the plants are always growing at their best.
At $750, though, it may be beyond the reach of some amateurs even though it's much cheaper than competing systems and runs on a 5 to 100 gallon reservoir. On 5 gallons of water, you can grow five tomato plants, or 100 plants on 100 gallons — a reservoir size that the company says is not uncommon.
"You are looking at a faster grow rate, less labor, and higher turnover rate in comparison to soil growing," said Ryan Tjan, a company spokesman.
A granddaddy of hydroponics, Lawrence Brooke of General Hydroponics, calls home hydroponic farming "a growing potential marketplace." He's waited a long time for it to happen.
Starting in Berkeley in 1976, Brooke grew peppers and sweet basil for a trendy Berkeley restaurant, later moving to Sebastopol. Now based in Santa Rosa, Brooke said the company sells growing systems and nutrients worldwide.
"I don't care if they grow pot or food, but systems for home gardeners are slowly finding their way out of the closet and into garden," he said. "You can grow the best food in world with hydroponics."
Richard Aylard, owner of Rasa Hydroponics and Organics in San Jose, said some of his customers are home gardeners and some are businesses, including several that grow mixed salad greens for restaurants. Aylard said he uses a home hydroponics setup to grow kale, lettuce, basil and heirloom tomatoes.
"A lot of people are into growing their own food. Neighbors and friends will say your plants are doing so well, I want my vegetables to look like that. That's how we get a lot of customers," Aylard said.
Contact Pete Carey at 408-920-5419 Follow him on Twitter.com/petecarey


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What a grand time the '80s were for blue-eyed soul singers from the British Isles.
Considering how frequently many of them were derided for norm-smashing style more than appreciated for enduring recordings, it often didn't seem like such a glorious age as it was happening. Looking back through rose-colored lenses, however, especially to the decade's fertile earlier years, there remains a deep pool of distinctive pop voices worth rediscovering: the holler of Paul Young, the passion of George Michael, the sleekness of Spandau Ballet's Tony Hadley, the exuberance of Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon.
Icons from the '70s like David Bowie and Bryan Ferry were easing into GQ phases, plus there was Paul Weller shifting from the Jam to the Style Council, the melodrama of Morrissey and all manner of great ghouls, from Ian McCulloch to Siouxsie Sioux. And two women in particular, Annie Lennox and Alison Moyet, could trump 'em all with one walloping cry.
Then there was Boy George, who has finally reemerged in a strong way this year with his first proper album in nearly two decades and a raved-about tour that ended this week with two sold-out dates in Los Angeles.
It never was a stretch of the imagination to picture his career running into trouble, as it has more than once in the 30-plus years since the tall, androgynous fellow born George O'Dowd first asked "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" in a sublime masterpiece of English reggae that took radio and nascent MTV by storm. Outside of Ms. Lennox's bold moves in Eurythmics, George, with his long hair, gender-bending fashions and model-perfect makeup, was the most fearlessly out-there star of the new wave, even though he was decades away from coming out, instead remaining cheekily coy about his sexuality – Kissing to Be Clever, as Culture Club's debut suggested.
That popular but underrated band, a sly world-beat hybrid thrust onto a global stage, rightly took home the best new artist Grammy in 1984 on the back of Boy George's cultural subterfuge and unmistakable voice, a rich one that, like his look and lyrics, playfully blurred the lines between sassy femininity and swaggering masculinity.
Yet, even by the time Culture Club was at its too-soon peak with romantically spiritual ploys like "Karma Chameleon" and "Church of the Poison Mind" – both rousingly revived Wednesday night at his terrific, dub-drenched set at the Mayan – the future cracks in George's voice were evident. It was always a fragile instrument to begin with, smoky and husky but prone to slipping off key, with an upper range he didn't always have the lung power to pull off.
No surprise, then, that years of emotional and physical scarring have weakened – yet also re-strengthened – his singing. You can hear that more clearly on his otherwise fine album This Is What I Do than could be detected from the stage, where his belting was powerful. But though his soulfulness remains intact – he has the aura of a gay guru now, like Sinéad O'Connor without so many mental-health issues – his voice is something of a shell of itself, a throatier, raspier sound that recalls what happened to Rod Stewart and Tom Jones when they reached their 50s as well.
That meant George let his adoring audience handle high parts on those Culture Club hits; his phrasing, too, has slowed, so that the meter of "Poison Mind" often got away from him. And still his presence, in tone and style, remains singular, and the joy of his laugh after quips between songs – "It's OK," he told one drunken fan, "I used to be a woman just like you" – was an infectious throwback to that glossy era when he was still a trendsetter.
These days, of course, it's success enough that he's even in the country. Despite developing a reputation as an in-demand DJ, he hasn't performed live here since a Culture Club reunion tour at the turn of the millennium. In the interim, he has made only the wrong kind of headlines, including a 2005 arrest for cocaine possession (later dropped) and falsely reporting a burglary (that charge earned him a paparazzi-hounded community service stint) and then a 2008 conviction of assault and false imprisonment, which got him a 15-month prison sentence.
Appearing sober and slender again this week, it would seem Boy George's career is once again on an upswing – though the murky lighting and wide-brimmed red hat that often hid his face suggested he's only starting to feel comfortable stepping out of the shadows. He ought to take heart from this outing's reception, however; his Mayan performance was justifiably greeted by extended cheering.
Backed by a band of aces bolstered by a horn section as sharp as UB40's, George turned in a strong showing that proved he has wells of creativity left to tap. It also underscored what a sharp interpreter he's become by paying homage to many influences via covers: the late Lou Reed in a mournful version of "Satellite of Love"; the glitz of Marc Bolan in a gliding "Get It On (Bang a Gong)," segued into after a more Kingston take on "Karma Chameleon"; the faded beauty of Yoko Ono's "Death of Samantha"; his minor-hit remake of Bread's "Everything I Own"; a full-bodied rendition of "You'll Lose a Good Thing," by "the wonderful soul singer" Barbara Lynn; a mantra-like reading of George Harrison's "Any Road."
Then there were his originals, still centered on longstanding subject matter – like questioning religion ("My God") while preaching that love can vanquish hate ("Bigger Than War") – yet with a repentant tenor buffeted by vibes of renewal. "Tempted myself time and time again, like self-destruction was so cool," he sang in the most telling piece, the Elton John-ish "King of Everything." "What's the word on the street?" he wonders in its chorus. "Have I lost my crown, or will I be king again?"
Probably not – his throne was taken away back before Rick Astley was "Rickrolling" your inbox. But it's nice to know he's welcome again at the castle of greats.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept 26 (Reuters) - California's non-solar homeowners are paying a growing share of maintaining the power grid under a controversial state policy, while ratepayers with solar rooftops are paying less, a report commissioned by the state's utility regulator said on Thursday.
The report, which was issued by the California Public Utilities Commission but performed by an outside research firm, forecast that in 2020, the policy of "net metering" would cost $1.1 billion a year. It will shift about $359 million in costs a year from customers with solar panels to other ratepayers. Residential customers who have no solar panels would bear about $287 million of those costs.
Net metering allows businesses and residential solar customers to sell excess, or "net," power generated by their panels back to the utility, giving them a credit on their power bill.
The $359 million in total shifted costs is equal to about 1 percent of the expected revenue requirement of California's three investor-owned utilities in 2020, the report said.
The report seemed to bolster the utility industry's argument that customers with rooftop solar panels are not paying their fair share to maintain the power grid under net metering policies adopted by California and many other states.
But the solar industry claims that net metering benefits all ratepayers and is critical to driving down the cost and expanding the market for renewable solar power.
It is unclear what impact the report will have on the policy given that the state passed a law last month authorizing the CPUC to reform utility rates and design a new net metering program that would take effect in 2017.
The report says the cost impacts it identified are based on current rate designs, and that changes to rate structures would improve the cost benefits of net metering.
Representatives from all three of California's investor-owned utilities said they were still reviewing the report's findings. They are Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric .
Solar supporters were quick to point out what they saw as the report's flaws.
"The study doesn't take into account many of the societal benefits of the energy generated from rooftop solar," including public health benefits, energy security, and the economic benefits from jobs created by the industry, said Susannah Churchill, California policy advocate with VoteSolar, a nonprofit advocacy group.
The study found, however, that businesses and homeowners that have installed solar panels still pay slightly more than the full cost of providing them utility service.
At the end of 2012, California's three investor-owned utililities collectively had about 150,000 customers enrolled in net metering programs.
The average median household income of customers in those programs is $91,210, compared with the state's median income of $54,283, the report said.
The CPUC was required to by law to commission the report, which was authored by San Francisco research firm Energy and Environmental Economics Inc.


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About half of Dan Freeman's friends own houses. About half -- like him -- don't. This is how neatly the line can fall. What seemed until recently to be a matter of timing to Mr. Freeman has become a chasm he can't get his family across.
His town, Orange, Calif., is average: a suburb on an outside edge of the Los Angeles sprawl full of the white frame houses and modest stuccoed casas that people came from the Midwestern to live in half a century ago.
With he and his wife both working full time, his kids in junior high, and luxuries like vacation trips already shaved, Dan Freeman can't quite accept the idea that he can't buy a house here. But it's in the numbers, and the Freeman's frustration rises. They need close to $40,000 in combined annual income and some $20,000 down to qualify for a loan that will buy them a house in Orange.
It's not a private problem. Behind it, for many young families, is the sound of a symbol crashing.
Nor is it a California problem. According to Glen Crellin, an economist with the National Association of Realtors, California is a preview of what's to come, sooner or later, for the rest of the nation.
As American dreams go, owning a house is the most popular Americans have had since World War II, and it may have been the dream most people were able to realize. Until Now.
The lawn was a private paean to open space. The living room -- off limits to the kids -- waited shrinelike for the really nice occasion that almost never came. Now some say the grass may be greener if the lawn is shared.
"Home ownership," President Ronald Reagan declared in christening a special commission for affordable housing last month, "is a symbol of the family unit and neigborhood and is essential if we're to have social and economic stability in our land." The problem is that in California, and to an extent elsewhere, the good life seems to have run short. There are too few houses and too many households. And, of course, the houses cost too much for people who don't already have real estate sweeping them ahead of inflation -- or in- laws boosting their fortunes.
Most young families climb out of the back seat of the real estate broker's sedan disappointed, a sympathetic broker says.
For them, "The vision of the single-family house in the suburbs is simply not viable any more," says Rocky TArantello, assistant professor of business finance and economics at the University of Southern California.
"This is not a bump in the road," George sternlieb at Rutgers University warns. "It's a major turning point in a 50- year housing cycle." Dr. Sternlieb, director of the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers, predicted the present housing problems some 10 years ago in his book, "The Affluent Suburb."
The upshot, the residential landscape that will emerge from the current crunch, is already being built. The popular ideals are likely to change with the landscape.
"You don't have to create the future, it's already here," Dr. STernlieb insists. He points to the number of children per family, which has dropped as more women take up careers to make ends meet. (Housing has risen from 18.3 percent of monthly budgets in 1970 to between 35 and 40 percent.) Lives are changing already, in Dr. Sternlieb's view, and attitudes will follow a step behind.
Most condominium owners, for instance, see themselves in a temporary shelter on their way to a single-family house. If they are frustrated in their progress , their priorities may change. More of their money may go to eleborate vacations every year instead of toward the lawns, heavy mortgages, and big families associated with a single-family house.
The California landscape in 10 or 15 years may look more like the French Riviera, Fred Case, an economist at the University of California at Los Angeles, speculates.
This means, above all, density. Houses are being built smaller. Dr. Case foresees a standard 16 units to an acre, up from a current standard of about 5 per acre, and a Mediterranean-style orientation to the sun to cut the cost of heating. Some American builders are already building expensive new homes so well landscaped and designated, Dr. case says, that at 16 to an acre you hardly know how densely packed the units are.
Behind the shrinking size of new houses is the shrinking size of the family. As the postwar baby-boom generation comes into home-buying age, it is grouping into smaller families than previous generations. More singles, more single parents, fewer children, and often the same big, free-standing houses.
If housing space in the US were divivied up according to the bigger family standards of the 1950s, says William Baer, dean of USC's School of Urban and Regional Planning, there wouldn't be a housing shortage.
And that, roughly speaking, is what many are doing:
Older people in big suburban houses are teaming up as housemates, both for splitting costs and for company. Young families are looking to the rowhouses and mobile homes that their parents often scorned. Inner cities are rejuvenated by professionals moving in from the outskirts, a trend many think will grow. Even well-heeled young couples are sharing houses -- shopping for two master bedrooms and big kitchens.
There are very positive sides to the move toward density. With households shrinking, remarks Catherine Berheide, assistant professor of sociology at Skidmore College, "people are becoming terribly isolated in their homes." She thinks denser living arrangements can help overcome some of that isolation.
"People rebel against that notion," Dr. Berheide says. They tend to hold to the ideal of a single-family dream house out in the woods. "But if you want your children to have friends to play with, get to violin lessons, be near parks and schools," she explains, "It's easier to be around other people."
Single parents especially, she says, prefer condominiums to houses. The upkeep is lighter and there are familiar neighbors around to help with whatever problems might arise.
Some think housing costs could lead to a revival of the three-generation family, as married children and their parents set up house together. The outcome could be more children who understand their grandparents, and fewer grandparents who, somehow, don't like children. It's not always an easy household to manage, but such extended families are generally considered to be a healthy improvement on the nuclear family.
Most economists say that the United States -- and not just California -- is headed toward a more European-style housing market in another way, too. More people rent, or buy only with government help.
"We're going back to the old way of doing things where if 50 percent of the people own, that's good. The rest rent," Case projects.
Those who do buy houses will buy under different conditions. Many buyers will either share their house with another family or split equity with an outside lender. At Stanford University, for example, the school lends mortgage money to incoming faculty for a stake in the investment. This kind of arrangement may spread.
But chiefly, homeowners will carry the risks of shifting inflation and interest rates, not lenders. So while 10 years ago the average family could hardly afford notm to buy a house, high interest and the new, variable mortgage rates are already making real estate more of a high-risk investment. Renting becomes more attractive.
"Rentng," Dr. Tarantello of USC says simply, "isn't so bad."
But the question of renting or owning, as President Reagan's comment indicates, rings up a major national ideal.
The drive to own a house is so deeply enmeshed in the "American fabric," as Kate Smith, chairman of the Housing and Interior Design at the University of Missouri, puts it, that renting may never be the answer, especially in Middle America.
She recently asked a class of 60, all of whom grew up in suburban, free-standing houses, how many would consider living in an apartment. Three people raised their hands. The rest wanted to repeat their background.
"It will be a dream that's hard to kill," Dr. Rogers says.
Ironically, the ideal is almost as new as it is ingrained. It wasn't until the late 1940s that the single-family home of one's own became a national goal. In the 1920s and '30s, the US was largely a nation of renters.
When the GIs came home from World War II, however, they had government-sponsored loans for cheap mortgages, cheap fuel for driving out to the country from work every day, and wives who would tend the household full time.
And most important of all, they had children. Children, Catherine Berheide notes, are closely tied to the dream house in the country. We seem to think the country air is good for children, she says, although it may be more important that children be around other children.
Gasoline is expensive now, and two parents often have to be near work, rather than just one. If they both commute, it leaves little time for the children, much less taking care of a big house. Higher density and shorter commuting distances can make life easier for the modern family.
Yet, as long as there's a generation around that grew up in a suburban environment, comments Seth Reichlin, professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, change will come slowly. Dr. Reichlin's research has centered in Midwestern suburbs. Here, people are more likely to work harder to maintain their standard of living, he notes, rather than to look for alternatives.
And, according to John Quigley of the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Public Policy, for most people who are "just folks" (those not in the top 20 percent of the income scale) home equity is the only form of accumulated wealth they have.
The intricacies of new loan mechanisms, however, don't guarantee much accumulation of wealth.
Housing itself could pack some political punch as an issue in coming years. For the first time in 50 years, according to George Sternlieb, housing has to compete with business and government for loan money. And housing is clearly a lower priority with the Reagan administration than industry.
If industry succeeds in growing at all in the next few years, Sternlieb says, the home buyer will find it very tough to get money.
"'Housing in Washington has meant poor folks and black folks -- folks that aren't so popular. But it could become thee and me.Then there might be some fireworks."
Meanwhile, lower-income people are expected to be further squeezed in the inner city by a continued influx of professionals moving closer to work and to each other. According to M. Bruce Johnson of the University of California at Santa Barbara and director of the Pacific Institute for Public Policy, Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman's figures on the need for public housing in the coming decade area staggering. "Housing could become literally a public utility."
M. Bruce Johnson blames California's shortage chiefly on zoning restrictions that prevent growth. Neighborhood zoning ordinances started out to control nuisances and developed into a tool for keeping the level of the neigborhood up, keeping out the "riffraff," Dr. Johnson explains. "There is some element of class struggle in all this," he says, "camouflaged by the environmental issue." The solution, to him, is rolling back the regulations and letting the market fulfill the need.
A complication, though, as Fred Case points out, is that California's community governments can no longer afford to provide the services new neighborhoods require. Their response has been to lay more of the responsibility for providing schools, roads, and utilities on the builders. Prices go up.
The California Governor's Task Force on Affordable Housing has recommended, along with some streamlining of regulations, creatting five brand new towns to make up the standing shortage of houses. The towns would include affordable housing (defined here as housing affordable by people who make between 80 and 120 percent of the average local income) and easy proximity to factories and business.
To become reality, these towns will take an enormous capital investment, Dr. Case, again, points out.
But towns of 30,000 to 50,000 people, he says, are the optimum size for schools, services, and industry. And a town like this could generate perhaps 30 percent of its energy through solar power, if planned properly.
Other voices echo Seth Reichlin, though, when he remarks that at some point, "People will redefine what the good life is."


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7 Ways to save your brain
A 2009 Mayo Clinic study found that of 1,300 people ages 70 to 89, those that had regularly engaged in mentally challenging activities, such as reading, playing games, and doing crafts, in their 50s and early 60s were 40 percent less likely to develop memory loss than those who hadn't. Follow these simple steps to stay sharp as you age.
Hone your manual skills: Learn a new instrument, start quilting, build a model airplane, or get going on those carpentry projects you've been putting off. Such activities not only help promote hand and finger dexterity, they also foster the development of new neural connections.
Learn one new word every day: This engages the brain's language centers, frontal lobe, and memory circuits. "It's like aerobics for your brain," says George Washington University Neurology Professor Richard Restak, MD.
Challenge your short-term memory: Although iPhones and BlackBerries may be convenient, they have one downside: They've robbed us of the need to commit things to memory. Do it anyway. Memorize your grocery list, your friends' phone numbers, the US presidents in order, every state's capital city. As the saying goes, if you don't use it, you lose it.
Mix it up: Try a wide variety of mental games, from crossword puzzles to computer games. Experts say seniors tend to do what they're good at–over and over again. While that may improve proficiency, it doesn't form new neuronal connections or boost neurotransmitter production in the brain like new and diverse experiences do.
Be friendly: Engage in social activities as much as possible. Multiple studies have shown that living a solo life can vastly increase your risk of dementia. One recent Swedish study of 2,000 men and women found that people living alone at age 50 had twice the risk of developing dementia 21 years later than those who were living with a partner in middle age.
Shut the TV off: Research shows that those who watch minimal TV are as much as 50 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease.
Keep working: Resist the temptation to retire early. A recent British study of 382 men found a significant association between later retirement and later onset of Alzheimer's disease.
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An assistant principal at Sweetwater Elementary School was punched by a campus intruder Friday morning who also tried to slash the educator with a blade.
PORT ORANGE — An assistant principal at Sweetwater Elementary School was punched by a campus intruder Friday morning who also tried to slash the educator with a blade.
School officials say Assistant Principal Adrian Bronson was checking the grounds before classes started when he was attacked by a homeless man.
In a call to 9-1-1, Bronson said he was doing a campus walk-through when he saw a man behind one of the buildings. He told the dispatcher the man jumped him and took off running toward the back of the school.
"He just got me once in the eye and then he went at me with something," Bronson told the dispatcher.
He suffered a black eye and the stranger also sliced Bronson's shirt with a box cutter, said Port Orange Police Chief Gerald Monahan.
Bronson told the dispatcher the blade barely nicked him and he was bleeding just a little bit.
Monahan said the decision was made to cancel classes because the school is surrounded by a heavily wooded area and it will take several hours for police and canine units to search the grounds. The school is at 5800 Victoria Gardens Blvd. Police searched the area — in some cases with guns drawn — surrounded by neighborhoods near the busy Dunlawton Avenue retail corridor.
"Our guys are dealing with very challenging conditions because of the bad weather," Monahan said on a cloudy and wet Friday morning.
Volusia Schools spokeswoman Nancy Wait said Bronson does a routine sweep around the school building every morning. He was by himself when the incident occurred about 6:30 a.m.
"He (Bronson) was surprised (by the person)," Wait said. "We don't why this person was at the school."
Wait said this was not the first time Sweetwater has had an uninvited visitor, but Bronson told the dispatcher he'd never seen the "pretty scruffy" man before.
She said this could potentially be an issue again in the future because of the school's location adjacent to a Walmart.
"It's something we need to look at," Wait said. "The fence was cut back there and that's how they gained access to the property."
She said walk-throughs like the one Bronson performed are not required, but a good idea. She also said school officials would meet soon to discuss what happened and what, if any, changes could be made.
Wait said the school has eight buses that bring students in and on Friday morning those buses were redirected to Horizon Elementary instead.
"We sent a telephone message to parents telling them that classes had been canceled and to please pick up their children at Horizon," Wait said.
Mike Washuta, a parent dropping off his first-grade son Friday arrived about 7:40 a.m., was greeted by a host of police officers at the school.
"When I pulled up to drop off my son it looked like a traffic accident," said Washuta, who is an artist and page designer for The Daytona Beach News-Journal.
He said police told parents to park and wait at two nearby restaurants. About 20 minutes later word came that school would be canceled for the day. Washuta said his son was rattled by the news and was asking if Bronson had been hurt.
Monahan said the attacker was described as thin with a beard and dark hair. He is about 6 feet tall and was wearing a green coat and denim pants.
Bronson, 40, of Ormond Beach was a teacher of the year candidate in 2010 when he was at Osceola Elementary School. In another unfortunate incident in 2011, Bronson was bitten on the calf by a shark while surfing off of Daytona Beach. His injuries were minor.
At his home Friday afternoon, Bronson, with a bruise under his right eye, was in a cheery mood but said school officials asked him not to discuss what occurred with the media.
Anyone with information about the suspect is asked to call Port Orange investigator Mike Wallace, 386-506-5885.


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Portrait of Two Children, Boston, ca. 1760
attributed to Joseph Badger
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Portraits don't just show the viewer what a person looked like; they also show that person's wealth, status, interest, and personality traits. Artists show these elements through the setting, pose, clothing, accessories, props, and symbols they include in the portraits.
The painting of two children is attributed to Boston artist Joseph Badger. The children are mostly likely the son and daughter of Captain and Mrs. Stephen Brown of Massachusetts. Badger painted several portraits of children during his career, and some clothing items, the squirrel, and the coral toy are included in multiple portraits.
- Setting/Pose: The children are pictured outdoors in a peaceful setting. They are standing stiffly and both look serene and serious. The portrait is capturing these children at this moment in their lives (the toy and the squirrel emphasize their youth), but also suggests the adults they will become. Classroom idea: Ask students to imagine the negotiations between the artist and the subject (or the subject's parents). They would discuss the size of the portrait (also would it be full length, bust sized or just the face), what pose would be used, and also what the background might include (would it be the interior of the house or an imagined outdoor scene).
- Clothing: In the eighteenth century, boys wore dresses until they were "breeched," dressed in breeches like adult men. This usually occurred around the time they were fully potty-trained. The child in blue in this painting is a boy. His gown is more masculine that that of the little girl in yellow, and cut more like a man's coat, with buttons down the front and buttoned cuffs. His shoes are more masculine than the girl's dainty slippers. His head is uncovered, whereas the girl wears a lace cap. The stiff shape of both children's bodies comes from wearing stays (eighteenth-century undergarments much like corsets), which were designed to give them good posture. The little girl will wear stays her whole life, but the little boy will stop around the time he is breeched.
- Accessories/props: The boy in blue is holding a squirrel. Outdoor animals as pets are always associated with boys rather than girls in portraits. The girl is holding a toy with a coral handle. Coral was often given to children as a talisman to ward off disease and death, but it was also a hardy, splinter-proof material for teethers. For a portrait of children, the "props" that were chosen to be included would largely be there to keep the child occupied while the artist worked on the portrait. Pets, toys, or food in a child's hand not only tells us about the child's interest but also what the parents considered to be the best bribe for good behavior!
- Symbols of wealth: Only the wealthy could afford to have a portrait painted. This one is fairly large (approximately 41 x 50 inches). These children are displayed in fine clothing with lush details. The girl is holding a very finely detailed toy that is partly coral and partly silver, with tiny bells and a whistle on the top, and would have been expensive.
For more on portraits of children, visit Halting Time through the Illusion of Portraiture.
Interested in portraits? Check out our newest exhibit at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, "Painters and Paintings in the Early American South," which opens this March! Explore behind-the-scenes of this exhibit in this vodcast.


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Educational Program
Pathfinder Education Program
During the past several years the Education Program Staff have visited detention centers, participated in national training programs, spent quality time with nationally noted detention education specialists, and invited various educational consultants to work with us in order to gather information on what successful, high performance detention center education programs should look like in the 21st Century. It is our intent to create a rich, literate learning environment for every student in our facility. We continue to review the literature and research on "best practices" and learning theory as it applies to the education program for the Lancaster County Youth Services Center. Another component of our program planning was to create a name that would accurately reflect and describe our philosophy, mission, goals, and student performance expectations. We decided that the name "Pathfinder" would best describe our program as we are creating paths, routes, or courses that our youth can explore to become successful citizens.
Philosophy Statement
The Pathfinder Education Program is a dual- focus program that embraces the concepts found in (1) the Lincoln Public Schools Philosophy Statement, the Statement of Purpose, and Goals for Students as well as (2) the Academic Requirements and the Philosophy and the Mission Statement of the Pathfinder Education Program. The education program supports both of these documents as individuals requiring confinement remain students of the Lincoln Public Schools.
Mission Statement
The students in the Pathfinder Education Program have diverse backgrounds, interests, needs, and academic records. It is the mission of the education program to provide educational opportunities that allows students the opportunity to enhance basic academic skills, technology, career options, and develop personal growth skills through individualized instructional programs of study. The education program introduces multiple pathways which might include earning credits toward completing a high school diploma, preparation for the General Education Diploma testing, and Skills needed for lifelong learning.
Professional Staff
The professional staff maintains and monitors an instructional program that follows the Lincoln Public Schools course of study and is available to all youth confined within the Lancaster County Youth Services Center; and
The professional staff develops an individually prescribed educational program that will allow the student to do credit recovery work, GED preparation work/testing, and post- high school work.
Students demonstrate the improvement of knowledge and understanding in the basic skills subjects, technology, and career education as required by the Lincoln Public Schools course of study; and
Students develop skills and attitudes essential to return to the mainstream school setting, to enter into an alternative setting, to enter into the job market, and enter to the community.
Student Performance Expectations
In order to meet the expectations of the Pathfinder Education Program and Lincoln Public Schools, each student is provided the opportunity to access the regular curriculum of the Lincoln Public Schools. The opportunity to learn and recover credit in regular school courses is accomplished through individually designed educational plans: Upon entry into the Pathfinder Education Program the student will:
- Work at his/her ability level in an individualized education program which accurately reflect the student's level of achievement in relationship to the Lincoln Public Schools course of study for credit and graduation or prepare for the General Education Diploma.
- Work in the education program as designed by the professional staff within the time constraints of the judicial system.
- Show evidence of understanding and skill acquisition as reflected in classroom work, homework, and testing as required by the professional staff.
- Demonstrate awareness of the Pathfinder Education Program and Lincoln Public Schools policies, procedures, rules and regulations in order to take the opportunity to do credit recovery work, make up incomplete assignments, and prepare for the GED and/or post secondary work in order to maximize educational opportunities provided by the Pathfinder Education program.
Pathfinder Design
The Pathfinder Program is a comprehensive program which meets the individual needs of youth in detention. In the initial stages of building and program planning, it became apparent that youth, teachers, and agency staff needed to have the best possible building design and environment as well as access to technology as we planned to make a positive difference in the lives of the youth we meet.
The education area for the new facility was designed to implement this comprehensive program and still maintain the safety and security necessary to the facility. Included in the building planning are two special rooms designed for testing, individual work, and time-out use for youth struggling with behavior or circumstances surrounding detainment. Also included is a special designed room for lifeskills and science which contains kitchen and laundry appliances, specially designed space for science activities, and the necessary space for community volunteers to work with the youth. All instructional areas and living units have computers with internet access, closed circuit television, vcrs, and access to the cable system.
At the heart of the education program are the teachers. The need for an education staff that has a special place or "heart" for high at risk youth is a foundational concept; the staff expectations include caring, compassion, flexibility, and an understanding of the unique needs of youth as they move through the regular school programs and the juvenile justice system. Additionally, the program design is based on the concept of being multiple phase or multiple entry and exit program design for each youth. Because each youth come to us with gaps in their educational development, we need to identify needs as quickly as possible and design individual educational plans to meet those needs. We know all of the youth will leave our program better off than when they entered it.
Our core program includes English, social studies, math, science, computer skills, physical education and health. These are designed to run parallel with the regular school curriculum or graduation path. Research shows that youth in detention need a rich, literate, intensive information environment as well as individualized instruction. To meet these needs, the Pathfinder Education Program includes fine arts, special education, GED, reading, career planning, computer assisted instruction, and lifeskills. In reviewing learning theory and what can be applied to youth in our setting, it is imperative that a low teacher-student ratio become part of the school plan. Since we are in a short-term setting, teacher-student relationships have to be developed as quickly as possible. Behavior research indicates that high trust relationships will assist in moving the youth into accepting instruction with confidence in the learning process and skill acquisition. Brain research as applied to the high risk youth in our setting lead to the development and implementation of a six period day, forty minute class periods to address time on task, attention span, and a learning environment that promotes and encourages the acquisition of strong, positive learning skills. Please visit the School Wellness Policy for more information.
Our education program is year around as youth move into the detention setting continuously. Within the behavior management plan for our setting, school attendance is mandatory with the expectation that work will be accomplished according to students' individual skill and ability levels. Therefore, it is important that credit recovery be an incentive so youth may earn credit while in this setting. Lincoln Public Schools offers course credit for work completed that meets the standards of the district curriculum and the Pathfinder Program. Credit earned and attendance record becomes part of each youth's permanent school file.
Pathfinder Organization
The education program for the Lancaster County Youth Services Center is provided through an intergovernmental agreement between Lincoln Public Schools Educational Service Unit and Lancaster County. Funding for the program comes from the Nebraska Health and Human Services Department and Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The annual budget for the education program is approved by the Lancaster County Board, the School Board, and the Department of Health and Human Services. The education staff is composed of an administrator, teachers, secretary, and paraeducators who are employees of Lincoln Public Schools and Educational Service Unit 18. All teachers are selected through the human resources department of the school district and are certificated through the State of Nebraska.
Life Skills Program
Our vision of a comprehensive educational program for youth in detention includes an extensive life skills program. It is our belief that a highly effective life skills program should be based upon the most current literature and research available. With this belief in mind, we have collaborated with other educators and programs at national, state, and regional levels. We have created a foundation from which to build an exemplary program.
Our mission is to provide an individualized, comprehensive, gender- specific program which has its main focus the development of life's basic skills which we all need to be successful and productive at home, school, and work. The program focuses specifically on giving the residents useful knowledge which can be applied to their lives in a positive, practical manner once released from the detention setting.
Life Skills Education
In order to make a successful return to the family, community, schools, and workplace, our residents who leave our facility need an array of life skills. Important, of course, are the basic skills which are offered in our education program. However, being literate alone does not ensure a successful transition into a youth's home, school, or job. Therefore, we provide a wide range of topics and concerns for resident education.
Primarily, the groups are provided after school, in the evening hours, and on the weekend; they are facilitated by a large and varied group of professionals. Volunteers from the community are used extensively. Businesses and organizations provide education in their specific areas of expertise. We also utilize professionals within our own facility; for example, our nurse and the detention center staff provide education through facilitating groups. All staff members are trained to help provide the life skills education. The life skills program takes a great deal of communication between education and detention staff, so collaboration is of great importance to insure the needs of the youth are met.
In the spirit of the Pathfinder Education Program, we can think of no better way to help the youth succeed in life than to give them the tools and basic life skills needed to find a path that takes them through life and helps them to be successful, productive, and fulfilled people. This is our vision.


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We have taken down the regular raffle that we had up on the website and replaced it with a fundraiser.
On Sunday morning a good friend of ours of nearly a decade lost one brother due to a house fire and her 2nd brother is currently in critical condition in the ICU.
In the past we have had 2 fundraisers and our friends and customers have always shown their love and support.
Please help us by purchasing tickets to help support the Laing family as they have funeral and medical expenses along with other expenses to deal with.
Our community has always been a generous community and we are proud to be a part of it.
Thank you and God Bless
Lisa & Jay
I will also be sending out an E-blast with these changes.
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