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OAKLAND — Heidi Eder was having a tough time with Thomas O'Malley during his first photo shoot. The finicky model spent much of the session battling a bout of camera shyness that kept him hiding at the back of the studio.
It also didn't help that Georgia, several years O'Malley's junior, frolicked around the studio and stole the show, allowing Eder to capture the look that will surely grace a few posters.
For the past two years, Eder has volunteered her time to photograph models of the feline and canine variety in Dublin and Oakland for the East Bay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A San Ramon resident, Eder has logged more than 1,111 volunteer hours and photographed more than 2,700 cats and dogs during that time.
"The past few years we have focused on better-quality photos," said Allison Lindquist, the East Bay SPCA's president for the past eight years. "Before it was just staff trying to get a face shot. The longer an animal is here the harder it is to place them, and when people are scanning photos they will stop on the better-quality pictures."
The East Bay SPCA adopted out 2,861 animals in 2013, and staff and other volunteers credit Eder and the work of the SPCA's five other volunteer photographers for helping the animals find homes. The SPCA offers a variety of services to the public from animal checkups, trainings, adoptions and spay and neutering services and will be able to house a combined 600 animals at its two facilities once renovations are complete at the Oakland facility.
With the help of another volunteer, Pipi Diamond, Eder has worked to replace all the intake photos of the animals with pictures taken by Eder. She spares no expense when trying to capture the perfect shot of the animal, toting around two suitcases of equipment filled with colorful handmade Indian paper as backgrounds, squeaky and crunchy toys to get the animals' attention and an array of flashes and lights.
"It's totally about patience," Eder said about capturing the right image. "It is about a connection that I am looking for and I wait to get it so that whoever is looking at (the picture) sees that too."
Eder is a former marketing and communications specialist who left the profession 18 years ago to stay at home and raise her three daughters. In addition to spending anywhere between four to eight hours a week at the two SPCA locations, Eder also balances her daughters' swimming careers and school activities and running her own photography business. She started at the East Bay SPCA after a friend and neighbor recommended it and as a way to spend more time with her daughters.
"When (people) come in and specifically request a pet based on my pictures and I hear that from the staff I'm like, 'That is my payment,' " Eder said.
Eder is especially fond of older animals and those that have some physical disabilities. The older animals are often harder to find homes for, said Lindquist.
King George, an 8-year-old pit bull mix, has been at the shelter for the past three months. When he came, workers thought he was an all-brown dog. After a bath, they discovered he was a brown dog with white spots. Since then, the staff has worked with King George and treated a skin condition caused by the poor hygiene upon his arrival.
"The challenge is to get people to look beyond some of the stuff the animals come in with," Eder said. "All the animals here are awesome and adoptable."


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The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas: New Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empire by Elise Bartosik-Vélez will be published in February of 2014 by Vanderbilt University Press.
In The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, Bartosik-Vélez uses a comparative approach to explain the popularity of Christopher Columbus in British and Spanish America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She first analyzes the discourse of empire that circulated in the Spanish royal court at the end of the fifteenth century, and she shows how Columbus plugged into this discourse to portray himself as a figure of empire. European historiographers and literati in subsequent generations continued this representation of Columbus as a figure of empire, as they also incorporated him into the humanist tradition. Early settlers of British and Spanish America read these earlier texts about Columbus and produced their own texts about him, thus perpetuating what Bartosik-Vélez calls a "Columbian interpretive tradition." The Americans who later forged the new nation-states of the continent employed this figure of the imperial Columbus in nationalist discourse as the idea of empire that had been for centuries so closely associated with Columbus was an important part of the intellectual scaffolding of the societies they were constructing.
The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, the first comparative analysis of the meaning of Columbus in the Americas, reveals how the figure of Columbus in the Americas was constructed by a transatlantic discourse rooted in the idea of empire.


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My 8 1/2 year old Cocker Spaniel (female, spayed) has cancer in her salivary glands. We were told that this is a very uncommon cancer as it is in the glands and is not a sarcoma.
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Salivary gland tumors are an uncommon cancer that generally occur in older dogs. Most tumors in this location are malignant, with the most common type being carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. Tumors can arise in any of the discrete major salivary glands, and they can also arise diffusely in the salivary tissue that is present in the lips and tongue. These tumors can often spread to the regional lymph nodes and occasionally the lungs, although progression of the disease might be relatively slow.
The treatment of choice is to remove the affected salivary glands if possible, followed by radiation therapy for local control. Chemotherapy might also be recommended if there is concern about metastasis or if surgery and/or radiation are not options.


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Public willing to pay more for greener urban spaces
Research from the University of Sheffield (UK) has found that people are willing to pay up to £29.91 per month, or around £360.00 per year, for greener urban spaces.
Researchers surveyed the public in the two major urban centres of Manchester and Sheffield to find out how much extra they were willing to pay in council tax or rent/mortgage payments for green spaces in their local area. They found that people were willing to pay more for greener spaces with greater tree coverage.
Members of the public in Sheffield and Manchester were shown images of how their local areas could be developed in the future and were asked to state how much more they would be willing to pay for each scenario.
On Whitworth Street in Manchester, members of the public pay an average of £2.20 per month for street cleaning and £1.50 per month to maintain green spaces through council tax. The survey found that people were willing to pay an extra £1.46 per month to maintain the street in its current state, an extra £1.61 per month if small ornamental trees were planted and up to £2.33 extra per month for large forest trees and grass landscaping.
Meanwhile, in Sheffield city centre near Blonk Street, rents or mortgage payments for small apartments are around £575 per month. The study found that people were willing to pay £4.27 more per month to maintain the new footbridge, riverside walkway and flood defence works that have recently been completed. If additional landscaping was undertaken in the area they would pay £8.00 more per month. However, they said that they would pay even more an extra £10.81 per month if the natural vegetation of the riverside was allowed to re-establish itself.
Similar results were found when people were asked to value alternative redevelopment scenarios for the Nursery Street area next to the River Don in Sheffield city centre. The more green the scenario, the more people said that they would be willing to pay for it. £3.87 was the average extra monthly payment that the public offered for an option that allowed new buildings quite close to the river. This rose to £6.88 extra for a scheme that set buildings back from the river and to £12.17 per month extra to maintain the current appearance of the area. The scenario that included a large area of green space attracted an extra £29.21 per month from the respondents, or £358.92 per year
The research was funded by the Interreg IVB North West Europe programme which aims to to promote strong and prosperous communities. The University worked closely with local policy makers before and during the surveys. In Sheffield they worked with South Yorkshire Forest Partnership, which aims to create a greener, sustainable future for over 200 square miles of South Yorkshire´s diverse rural and urban landscapes. In Manchester the partner was Red Rose Forest, Greater Manchester´s Community Forest, which aims to transform a large part of Manchester into a greener, healthier place to live.
The two surveys were undertaken as part of a project entitled Valuing Attractive Landscapes in the Urban Economy (VALUE), led by South Yorkshire Forest Partnership, which aims to demonstrate the economic value of green infrastructure in cities and regions. The work in Sheffield was done in partnership with the University´s Urban River Corridors and Sustainable Living Agendas (URSULA) project. URSULA provided the advanced visualisations of alternative green scenarios used in the Sheffield survey. URSULA is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Professor John Henneberry from the University's Department of Town and Regional Planning said: "The results of this research will be used to help to improve the design of green infrastructure investments so that they more closely meet the preferences of the local communities that use them."
Tom Wild, Director of South Yorkshire Forest Partnership, said: "This is great news and a really important piece of evidence. This work proves that attractive, green landscapes really do help create the right setting for investment, to help deliver more sustainable jobs and growth. It couldn't come at a better time, when we are all having to think more carefully about future priorities for what little funding is available.
"The outcome of this research also confirms that we've been pursuing the right approach to innovation, working with the University and with SYFP's network of partners in similar cities across Europe. Not only have we brought a lot of new investment into South Yorkshire, but we've shown how this work can have real impacts on planning and regeneration policy too. By innovating together, we all work smarter, and that's worth a lot nowadays."
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The details of China's Type 039B submarine, which is reportedly to be sold to Pakistan this year, have been revealed by the Canada-based Kanwa Information Center, reports Huanqiu, the website of China's nationalistic tabloid Global Times.
The Pakistani Navy has reportedly required that China install air-independent propulsion systems on the submarines it has chosen for the transfer of these related technologies in order to assemble the submarines in Karachi, the largest city in Pakistan.
China has called for tenders for its type S20P submarine, which is another version of the type 0369B submarine that the country builds to export. Pakistan hopes to obtain six type S20P submarines to obtain stronger underwater combat capabilities along with its three existing Agosta-class 90B submarines. Currently, China's PLA Navy has nine type 0369B submarines in service.
The type 0369B submarine is reportedly 66m long and 8.2m high, can dive as deep as 300 meters and has 1,850 tons of displacement above water and 2,200 tons underwater. Its maximum speed reaches 18 knots and it can propel up to 8,000 nautical miles at 16 knots. The double-hull submarine is highly automated and only requires 38 crew members.
The submarine is also equipped with an advanced seven-blade curved propeller and an X-shaped rudder. It carries Yingji 83 anti-ship missiles that have an attack range of 180 kilometers. The sonar and radar installed on the submarine are also state-of-the-art but their details have not been revealed.
Kanwa's report said the Pakistani Navy may ask China to integrate its cruise missile Babur, which can be launched underwater and has an attack range of 500 kilometers. The report also said the 039B submarines have been produced in Shanghai and Wuhan. The first of them is likely to be shipped to Pakistan while the remaining of them are to be assembled in the country.


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Ray C necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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I am an orthopaedic surgeon who specialises in fractures, sports injuries like knee and shoulder reconstructions and hip/ knee replacements. I work in both public and private sectors.
I would like to promote myself and branding that is marketable, creative and a reflection of myself.
My ethos is caring, professionalism and innovative.
My target population are general medical practitioners (likely age group 30-60), sports oriented business people (aged 35-55) and older people with hip and knee arthritis (aged 65 and above).
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My goal is to create a branding that is SIMPLE and easily recognisable. It needs to be unique and CLEVERLY done. I like clean lines and smart contemporary designs that appeal to young and old. Something related to my field would be ideal (eg hips, knees, trauma).
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Important point: Always focus grant writing on the *people* because funding groups are most interested in helping people. Study what *they* are trying to accomplish and write your grant towards that goal.
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-matches funder's interests and priorities
-demonstrates strong need
-offers something new, innovative, or creative
-offers a model that can be replicated
-has tangible outcomes or products
-has a reasonable budget and timeline
-includes community partners
-has an evaluation plan that measures progress (and statistics)
-causes a change in behavior, attitude, skill, life condition, or knowledge in the ppl. it serves
Sometimes funders like to give $$ to fads (new, innovative, creative)
Good to have an elevator speech / tell everyone you know, because you never know who will whip out a checkbook
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Categories -- government (federal, state, local) and private (foundations, corporations/businesses, clubs/organizations, professional/trade associations)
- Big funders for libraries = IMLS, LSTA
- Resources for funding grants: foundationcenter.org (can search for funding), grants.gov, and presentation handout of comprehensive list of sources
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Peanut producers today are enjoying the fruits of years of sustained and intensive research on their behalf, including high-yielding varieties that are resistant to disease, water management strategies and countless other advances that have boosted production while, in many cases, reducing inputs.
But some of this progress may come to a screeching halt if recent trends continue. Over a period of just a few weeks this spring, peanut research in Georgia took a one-two punch, as budget cuts at the national level forced the elimination of four positions at the National Peanut Research Laboratory and the state's growers rejected an increased assessment for their commission that would have provided additional funding for research.
Add to it the fact that over the past five to seven years, peanut research and Extension positions have been lost in the state while no replacements were hired, and some see a looming crisis.
"We could be looking at a real train wreck 10 years from now," says Don Koehler, executive director of the Georgia Peanut Commission. "To get a meaningful result from research takes a minimum of four years. Typically, it takes six to eight or 10 to 12 years."
But the results of previous cutbacks in peanut research and Extension already are evident in Georgia, he adds. "We had significant burrower bug damage last year, and we don't have an entomologist on staff to help with the problem.
"Also, there's no physiologist working in peanuts, and there's a lot about these new varieties we don't know. Specialists who are working in peanuts are being asked to take on more commodities," says Koehler.
This past May, Georgia's peanut farmers rejected a proposal to increase the annual Georgia Peanut Commission assessment by $1. A total of 1,124 ballots were counted with 56.2 percent voting in favor of the increase. According to Georgia law, the Georgia Peanut Commission needs at least 25 percent of the state's peanut farmers to vote with 66.67 percent majority, so the referendum failed.
"We were disappointed that we only received four ballots over the 25 percent needed to count the ballots," says Koehler. "We had 75 percent of the growers who did not vote."
Would have funded research
The proposed increase from $2 to $3 per ton of peanuts would have helped peanut farmers through additional funding opportunities for peanut research, he says.
Koehler says research is a cornerstone program of the commission and one in which it funds approximately $254,000 annually.
For 2011-2012, 27 research projects were approved from proposals submitted by the University of Georgia, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Fort Valley State and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
On the heels of the increased assessment rejection, it was announced that the budget at the National Peanut Research Laboratory in Dawson had been cut by approximately 20 percent, eliminating four scientific positions.
Speaking of the assessment vote, Koehler says commission members and Extension peanut specialists traveled throughout the state prior to the referendum. "We traveled to every peanut county to talk with growers about the assessment, and our Extension specialist explained that he had no travel or phone budget from the university, only salary and benefits."
To deal with the rejection of the assessment increase and the decreased acreage this year, Koehler says his staff has been asked to look for places to cut within the current budget. While the commission's research budget already has been approved for this year, those who received research funding are being asked to make cuts wherever possible, he says.
"Looking forward, we have to ask ourselves how we might do a better job of telling this story and getting the message to farmers. We need to improve our response from the 25 percent plus four that voted, and we won't be satisfied until we get 100 percent.
"I heard from one of the largest growers in Georgia who had figured exactly what that extra $1 would mean to his operation, and he said it's time we made the investment. And I heard from another grower who was viewing it as a tax increase — it's not a tax increase.
"It's an investment in research that will ultimately benefit the grower. Our new peanut varieties, which were largely funded through the grower dollars of the commission, made farmers enough more money to pay back every dollar ever invested in the commission in its 49-year existence."
There's a reaffirmation vote of the commission coming up next year, and there has to be a 12-month period between referendums, so Koehler says he isn't sure when the board will decide to again ask for an increase in the assessment.
With a soaring federal deficit and a Congress poised to make drastic budget cuts, it's evident that if growers want to continue research efforts, they'll have to bear more of the responsibility themselves.
A lot of good things
"In politics today, the federal government has been portrayed to be the enemy of the people," says Koehler. "The government is by no means above reproach, but there's a lot that's good about what the government does, and agricultural research is one of those things. Whenever we talk about government dollars being spent that'll bring the greatest return and serve the most people, then we have to talk about agricultural research."
Congress has decided that earmarks are a bad thing, he says, but the funds spent for agriculture are some of the best investments being made. "We have the cheapest food in the world, and that's largely because of the investment we have made in agricultural research."
While Koehler says he's in favor of balancing the budget, he says everything should be on the table. "We need to see where we get the best return, and I'm confident agriculture is one of the better ones. Look at varieties alone. This past year, we had one of the hottest summers on record and still made good yields. The money spent on research is well invested. Agriculture is the one sector that kept our economy going during the recession."
Few private corporations are willing to foot the bill for research that won't show benefits until 10 years down the road, he says. And while the peanut industry might be successful in preserving its breeding programs, the reality, says Koehler, is that people are being lost, and no one else is doing the work they were doing.
As for the immediate effects of the cuts at the National Peanut Lab, programs like the Irrigator Pro irrigation scheduler could go by the wayside, says Koehler, and work might be discontinued that was aimed at telling growers how new varieties respond to irrigation.
"Irrigator Pro needs to be reworked and adapted for new varieties. We need a physiologist for peanuts. The ironic thing is that it will cost the government more money to move people from the peanut lab to other locations than to simply move the money to the peanut lab," he says.
In addition to the most recent reductions in research funds, peanut producers also are coping with what could be one of the driest planting seasons on record, says Koehler.
"Right now, peanut product manufacturers are in the process of raising prices to reign in consumption. Peanut acres are down this year, and we can't even get the crop planted. This could turn out to be the driest May on record. I was told by a broker that a major manufacturer was looking at raising prices by 23 percent to quiet consumption."


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The majority of people approaching retirement has said they will take a cautious approach to spending following new pension freedoms introduced in April.
According to a new study by Investec Wealth and Investment, 81 per cent of people aged 55 to 64 who have saved regularly into a private pension plan to take a cautious approach to funding their retirement, despite fears the new rules will lead to reckless spending.
The changes introduced earlier this year allow those over 55 to take some or all of their pension pot of cash,
The study analysed attitudes among pre-retirees towards spending on non-essential luxuries when they finally give up work.
More than two-thirds (69 per cent) intend to spend their retirement funds on holidays and travel in the first ten years of their retirement, while more than a third (36 per cent) have earmarked home improvements. A similar percentage plan to eat out more, while just under a third (32 per cent) have budgeted for a new car.
Only 15 per cent of pre-retirees said they will spend more as a result of the new laws.
Nick Gartland, senior financial planning director at Investec Wealth and Investment, said: "Despite criticisms about pension freedoms encouraging irresponsible spending, this research shows this to be far from the case.
"The overall message is that the next generation of retirees is approaching retirement with caution, which is hardly surprising. "Improved life expectancy means that pension pots will in many cases need to finance 20 or 30 years of retirement and that's before the added pressure of having to support their children and grandchildren with house deposits and school fees."
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AMES, Iowa — Fall lawn care is extremely important every year. This year, lawn dormancy needs to be considered before completing important fall chores that include mowing, fertilization, weed control and aeration, according to horticulturists with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Hortline. Proper lawn care in the fall helps maintain a healthy, vigorous lawn and can revive a declining lawn.
Contact the Iowa State horticulturists at firstname.lastname@example.com or 515-294-3108, or get answers to frequently asked yard and garden questions at https://expert-hort.sws.iastate.edu/.
Would it harm the turfgrass to fertilize the lawn when it's dormant?
Fertilizing a dormant lawn will not harm it. However, the turfgrass may not receive the full benefit of the fertilizer application. If a granular fertilizer remains on the soil surface because of a lack of rain, some of the material may actually volatilize into the air. It would be best to wait until the weather pattern changes and it begins to rain before fertilizing the lawn. Fertilizer applications can be made anytime in September. Late October and early November also are excellent times to fertilize lawns.
Are broadleaf herbicides effective when applied during dry weather?
Broadleaf herbicides are most effective when applied to actively growing weeds. In non-irrigated lawns, some broadleaf weeds may become semi-dormant (their leaves curling up or wilting) during prolonged dry periods. An application of a broadleaf herbicide to drought stressed weeds will likely be less effective as the weeds may not absorb adequate amounts of the herbicide.
Fortunately, broadleaf herbicides can be effectively applied from late September to early November in Iowa. Home gardeners should wait until the area receives a good rain before applying a broadleaf herbicide to their lawn. Rainfall amounts of one-half inch or more should revive most broadleaf weeds.
Can I aerate a dormant lawn?
It's advisable not to core aerate a dormant lawn. The aerifier's metal tubes or tines will have difficulty penetrating the hard, dry soil. More importantly, core aerating a dormant lawn may harm the grass if the lawn doesn't receive water (either from rain or irrigation) shortly thereafter.
It's best to wait until the dormant lawn begins to green back up (when rains begin to fall or after initiating a watering program) before core aerating the lawn. Spring and late summer/early fall are the best times to core aerate home lawns in Iowa.


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Custom URI Scheme
This wiki page discusses the possibility to register some custom URL Scheme so that the online banking functions in GnuCash can be called from a browser.
Here's my target use case: Let's say a user looks at the http://www.gnucash.org/de/ website. The website should then contain a link "Click here to donate from your German bank account". That link contains our custom URI Scheme (the part usually called the "protocol"), e.g. as follows:
- "tag:gnucash.org,2012" is our URL Tag Scheme (following RFC 4151) which is unused so far
- "de" refers to the fact we're using the German bank account addressing scheme,
- 1111111 is the bank code of the German bank,
- 2222222 is the account number,
- and "Some Description" is the description text that is inserted in the "description" text field of the online banking transfer.
Once clicked, this URL string needs to be passed to GnuCash, most probably as a command line argument similar to the file://path/filename argument. I'll have to tweak the command line parsing so that my custom schemes are redirected into the online banking module, but that shouldn't be a problem.
Once that URL made it into GnuCash's online banking module, it should look up the preferred online banking account which the user regularly uses, then open the dialog for transferring money. The user just has to insert the amount, then press "Send now", then entering his security numbers, and voila, here the money goes to our gnucash donation bank account.
Which URI Scheme to use?
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme
- http://www.w3.org/wiki/UriSchemes
- http://infomesh.net/2001/09/urischemes "New URI Schemes: 99% Harmful"
- http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/URI_%26_XML_Namespaces_Policy
The scheme should be Tag scheme RFC 4151 using gnucash.org and 2012 as a year:
How can we register gnucash as a handler for our custom scheme?
- Gnome: Registering in gconf, http://people.w3.org/~dom/archives/2005/09/integrating-a-new-uris-scheme-handler-to-gnome-and-firefox/
- KDE: Registering in kfmclient, only works for KDE applications?!?
- Windows: In the registry http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767914%28VS.85%29.aspx
- A general but probably unimplemented proposal http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Desktop_Preferred_Applications_Specification


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Meet Nyx, a one-of-a-kind miniature flower waldorf fairy doll ready for a fairytale adventure!
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Whether for decoration, a surprise gift, a companion for the pocket, or imaginative play, these small fairies will need gentle and loving care.
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Not for children under 3 yrs.
*For decorative use only. NOT a toy. For ages six and up.*
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February 27, 2009
The storm raged and the lightning cracked in jagged, frightening bolts. The prisoner looked out the garret window at the terrifying crowd outside. They had come for him, he knew. He was injured and scared, even though the sheriff had hidden him upstairs in the new courthouse to protect him from a lynch mob. One account of the 1878 drama has Henry Wells shouting to the mob below that he was innocent and that, if they killed him, he would haunt them.
At any rate, while the black prisoner stood at the window, a bolt of lightning split the air by the building, and Henry Wells'' face was etched indelibly on the glass of the window of the Carrollton, Ala., courthouse.
It might make the story more dramatic to say the mob succeeded in lynching him and that he fulfilled his promise, but that is not so. Perhaps the crowd dispersed because of the storm. They were angry enough for violence, however. Wells was suspected of burning the courthouse two years earlier, as well as of arson elsewhere and a number of robberies. The courthouse fire had destroyed all the books and records of the probate court. The sheriff''s books and some of the most important books of the circuit clerk''s office were burned. The building was new and had cost $18,000 to $20,000 dollars. One did not have to be hot-headed to be angry about the fire, but the crowd left without harming Wells.
Nevertheless, he died while in custody, perhaps from the wounds of two pistol shots he received while trying to escape. Newspaper accounts at the time quote an observer recalling seeing him brought into town, wounded and bloody. Before he died, he signed the following confession:
The State of Alabama
Pickens County
I, Henry Wells, being duly sworn, depose and say: I, Bill Buckhalter, and Mose Ligon, broke into Jack Adam''s store. We took fifteen or twenty dollar''s [sic] worth of goods. Next place, I and William Buckhalter broke into Burris'' store at Reform -- took just as many goods as we could "tote." I was at work at Harskin''s and came to see my wife, and met Bill Buckhalter, and he agreed to return with me and work with me. On the night the courthouse was burned we started off, and Bill Buckhalter told me there was a large amount of money in the iron safe in the probate office, and proposed to me that we would go in the office, break the safe open and get the money.
When we got to the courthouse, Bill Buckhalter raised the sash, got into the office, and lit a candle, and then attempted to break into the safe, but could not open it. He then got a hammer and attempted to open the safe, but failed. I then went in, searched, and found some tobacco and some little brass things. I left the candle near some papers. We then left. Peter Harston, Constance Hill, Cain Hill, Bill Buckhalter and myself [sic], robbed James Coleman''s store. We took about as much as we could carry. With Peter Harston, Constance Hill, Cain Hill, and Bill Buckhalter, I broke into the warehouse at McLaren''s, and loaded ourselves. They got after us and we (that is Bill Buckhalter and I) left and went to Sanford County, and from there to Fulton, Miss. Bill Buckhalter and I broke into a store there, and robbed it, and then set it on fire.
Over the river I went by the name of Peter Jackson. In Sanford County I went by the name of John Williams and Bill by the name of Dock Williams; near Windham''s I went by the name of George Lewis.
Henry Wells X (His mark)
Henry Wells'' "curse" remains to this day. Visitors to the Carrollton courthouse can see a face imprinted on the glass of an upstairs window. It is visible from the ground below, where the mob gathered, but not up close to the window.
Throughout the years, storms and hail have destroyed every other window in the courthouse, but not this one. It has been scrubbed with soap and washed with gasoline, but the face remains. Henry Wells is counted among Alabama''s 13 recognized ghosts; during storms he is said to peer out the window.
I have seen the "face." We have often driven a carload of children (who always seem to revel in a ghost story) and/or visitors over to Carrollton. I must say, though, that our "ghosting" trips contained what was a little like a microcosm of humanity: Some claimed to see the face immediately and clearly. Some skeptics said they did not see it at all.
As for me, I always see something, a blur, maybe something like a film negative, but certainly not a clear image of a face. So some are gullible, some are skeptic, and some just don''t know. What do you think? Drive over and take a look. It is an interesting outing.
Betty Boyls Stone is a freelance writer, who grew up in Columbus.
Betty Boyls Stone is a freelance writer, who grew up in Columbus.
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Tourism Australia has a great new campaign showcasing Australia's amazing musicians singing one of our countries classic songs.
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My opinion is simple. Microsoft is the most profitable company in the world, they can pay large salaries to their emplyees.
My responsibility is to build XHTML that follows WC3 standards (don't try to verify my site, I'm still developing a new theme to it and then I'm gonna fix plugins and update posts :P ), and theirs is to develop browsers that follows these same standards.
If they, being so well paid as they are (should be), don't follow the guidelines… why whould support their inconsistences for free?
I've also read about another way to drop support, simply don't provide any CSS to IE and let its faithful users browse raw HTML. I just don't bother with it, let they see how their beloved browser deals with open standards. If they want good support, let them donate enough amount of money so that we feel worthy supporting.
Last weeks I went to a site that PHP-verified I'm using FireFox and just sent me an HTML saying my browser is not supported…


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|Ochoa, Ronald - Ron
|Erbe, Eric
|Craemer, Charnie
|Raina, Ashok
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Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
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Interpretive Summary: More than 10,000 species of mites infect nearly every agronomic and horticultural plant important to agriculture. In the United States, these pests cause annual economic losses from decreased food, fiber, and ornamental production estimated to be in the billions of dollars. One problem facing scientists is their inability to observe the detailed structure of mites and to distinguish those that are harmful from those that are not. The current study decribes a procedure that freezes mites so that they can be observed in a very powerful microscope known as a field emission scanning electron microscope. With this instrument, scientists can observe the mites at magnifications of more than 20,000 times. This enables them to describe the detailed structure of new mites and to relate them to other forms that are known to be harmless. Comparing mites in this way provides scientists with information that can be used to identify potentially harmful mites and to suggest procedures that will help reduce the damage that they cause. In addition, this information will benefit the public by identifying new and potentially harmful species of mites before they are introduced into this country.
Technical Abstract: Because of their microscopic size and fragile nature, it has been estimated that less than ten percent of the mite species are taxonomically described. Recently, data from scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has been used to facilitate and complement the information that is obtained with a light microscope. However, the preparation techniques associated with SEM frequently prevent or compromise the results. This study evaluates the use of low temperature field emission (LTFE) SEM to image mites. Results indicate that cryofixation, which is associated with this technique, maintains the mites at their living/feeding sites. Furthermore, the turgor of the specimens, including eggs and soft bodied species, is also maintained. The structure of delicate features, such as setae, which are subject to mechanical damaged during chemical fixation, dehydration and drying, are well preserved. Field emission SEM, which provides useful magnification beyond that attainable with a conventional SEM, also enables resolution of ultrastructural features, such as pores on the surface of the solenidia. These advantages indicate that LTFESEM is an important technique that can provide complementary data for taxonomic descriptions of mites.


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Below is a true fan collectible. I can imagine going to the stadium with my new camera in hand- excited about what should be a perfect day. You pull out the camera and try to work the switches. Your no professional. Heck, you can barely frame the subject right. All you care about is getting a photo of the man who would help change Baseball. You creep down the aisle and stand alongside the team dugout. The man they call Pee Wee gives you a smile and happily agrees to pose for you. Click! It's a moment of time captured in an instant. Some sixty years later that photo ends up on eBay for fans like you and I to admire.
eBay Auction Link: Pee Wee Reese Vintage Fan Photo:
The Brooklyn Dodgers were the original Cubs. They lost plenty and always with style. In honor of that, the Dodger Bum was created. He epitomized the team. They were bums, but they were our bums. Below is a rare 1949 Brooklyn Dodgers Bum plastic toy produced by Rempel of Ohio.
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The Dodgers moving to Los Angeles was a Hollywood event. Movie stars and musicians, both famous and obscure, flocked to games in large numbers. Some of them even recorded songs to express their newfound love of the team. Below is a 45RPM record I have never seen before. It is of a song called "We love the Dodgers" and is recorded by Jimmie Maddin & The Sundowners. What is great about this item is that it features a photo of the LA Coliseum- the Dodgers first home in LA.
"I walked into Sears Robuck cold and convinced them to invest in 10,000 copies. I organized 6 or 8 Ballplayers to show up in stores and autograph pictures and the records. There were lines around the stores all over Los Angeles. I had the best players do the autographs: Ron Perranoski, Wally Moon, Frank Howard, they were a great team." Johnny Grant was playing the record, so Bob Ferris got me in to do a broadcast from Walter O'Malley's booth at Dodger Stadium for KNX radio. We went and had lunch with Walter and Peter O'Malley, Vin Scully was there – O'Malley kept bringing me beer and food – he was a hell of a guy". Bob Ferris was doing an interview and Walter O'Malley was serving me lunch. Danny Goodman ran the consessions, so Marv Fischer and I sold the records in the stands of the Dodger Stadium".
eBay Auction Link: 1950's We Love The Dodgers Record:


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* First official border gate in Iraq controlled by militants
* Iraq media advisor denies post has fallen
* Shi'ite fighters parade weapons in Baghdad's Sadr city
* Obama offered 300 U.S. special forces advisers
By Kamal Namaa
ANBAR, Iraq June 21 (Reuters) - Sunni fighters seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier on Saturday, smashing a line drawn in 1932 by colonial powers and linking hundreds of miles of land they control to create an Islamic Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran.
The militants, led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), first moved into the nearby town of al-Qaim on Friday, pushing out security forces, the sources said.
Once border guards heard that al-Qaim had fallen, they left their posts and militants moved in, the sources said.
Sameer al-Shwiali, media adviser to the commander of Iraq's anti-terrorist squad, told Reuters that the Iraqi army was still in control of al-Qaim.
Al-Qaim and its neighbouring Syrian counterpart Albukamal are on a strategic supply route. A three-year civil war in Syria has left most of eastern Syria in the hands of Sunni militants, including the Albukamal-Qaim crossing.
With stunning speed, ISIL, an offshoot of al Qaeda, has captured swathes of territory in northwest and central Iraq, including the second city, Mosul. They have seized large amounts of weaponry from the fleeing Iraqi army and looted banks.
The fighting has divided Iraq along sectarian lines. The Kurds have expanded their zone in the northeast to include the oil city of Kirkuk, which they regard as part of Kurdistan, while Sunnis have taken ground in the west.
The Shi'ite-led government has mobilised militia to send volunteers to the front lines.
President Barack Obama has offered up to 300 U.S. special forces advisers to help the Iraqi government recapture territory seized by ISIL and other Sunni armed groups across northern and western Iraq.
But he has held off granting a request for air strikes to protect the government and renewed a call for Iraq's long-serving Shi'ite prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, to do more to overcome sectarian divisions that have fuelled resentment among the Sunni minority.
In Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City, thousands of fighters wearing military fatigues marched through the streets.
They carried rocket-propelled grenades, semi-automatic rifles and trucks had mounted long-range rockets, including the new 3-metre "Muqtada 1" missile, named after Shi'ite cleric Muqtada Sadr, who has tens of thousands of followers.
Sadr has yet to throw his fighters into the recent wave of fighting but has criticised Maliki for mishandling the crisis.
"These brigades are sending a message of peace. They are the brigades of peace. They are ready to sacrifice their souls and blood for the sake of defending Iraq and its generous people," a man on a podium said as the troops marched by.
(Additional reporting by Ahmed Rasheed in Baghdad; Writing by Oliver Holmes; Editing by Jon Boyle)
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text: Nev 1,085 Report post Posted July 21, 2013 (edited) This was inspired by me and GMR jesting in another thread about how important Dmitri Bykov was to Lidstrom's 3rd Norris trophy, and it got me thinking to the um, variable, quality of his partners, particularly in his Norris years. So here is my attempt to compile a season by season list. I do require you guys help to fill in the gaps in my fading memory. Please note I am not looking for every partner he played with that year, just his main even strength partner. Names in Bold are Norris years, names in Italics indicate a career year for that partner. 91-92: McCrimmon 92-93: ?/Coffey? 93-94: Coffey? 94-95: Bettman / Coffey (won Norris) 95-96: Coffey 96-97: ?/Murphy 97-98: Murphy 98-99: Murphy 99-00: Murphy 00-01: Dandenault 01-02: Olausson 02-03: Bykov 03-04: Schneider 04-05: Bettman 05-06: Schneider 06-07: Markov 07-08: Rafalski 08-09: Rafalski 09-10: Rafalski 10-11: Rafalski 11-12:White Have at it guys, I'll edit this post with updates and corrections as we go. Thanks Edited July 22, 2013 by Nev 1 thegerkin reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Dr. Teresa Keller is expert on flourishing, personal development and in finding the full potential.
After studying Business and longer stay abroad in USA and France, she was working for an international business consultant. Later she made her PhD about "intercultural communication" and teached several years at the Munich University and other private institutes. So she could gather a lot of experience in working with all kind of groups and leading workshops.
She coaches executive managers from considerable companies in topics of organization- and human resource development, change management and monitoring innovation processes. Dr. Keller provides also personalities in politic, culture and medium sized companies in questions about individual development.
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Since 2008 she works in her own business as a coach, trainer and consultant.
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ILRU, founded in 1977, has a long history of providing research, education and consultation in the areas of independent living, home and community-based services, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Core Areas of Expertise
Centers for Independent Living (CILs)
ILRU operates the IL-NET national training and technical assistance project for CILs, CIL-NET
The CIL-NET project maintains the up-to-date Directory of CILs and Associations
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ILRU operates the IL-NET national training and technical assistance project for SILCs, SILC-NET
The SILC-NET project maintains the up-to-date Directory of SILCs
CIL Disability, Diversity, & Intersectionality
ILRU conducts the CIL Diversity project to support CILs in improving services, programs, and outreach for racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse groups.
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ILRU is dedicated to providing resources for CILs looking to improve business acumen efforts by diversifying funding through contracting with health plans and payers and other potential payers.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
The Southwest ADA Center is one of ten regional ADA Centers that provide technical assistance and training on the ADA. ILRU also is a member of the ADA Participation Action Research Consortium (ADA-PARC).
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The CHRIL brings together disability advocates and researchers from four institutions to investigate and disseminate findings about how the Affordable Care Act affects working age adults with disabilities.
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ILRU is engaged in a cooperative initiative with the City of Houston to assess and improve community participation and access to healthcare for people with disabilities and older adults in five relatively disadvantaged neighborhoods.
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The Disability911 website was created to provide assistance in and information on disaster preparedness for people with disabilities. Recent updates include Hurricane Harvey Resources for People with Disabilities.
ILRU provides training, technical assistance, and information dissemination on a number of topics and in a variety of formats. On-location, online and on-demand trainings, Webinars and teleconferences provide timely information on a wide range of topics. Technical assistance is provided on-demand as needs are identified. Materials and resources on a wide array of topics are available for download from this website. For information on the projects led by ILRU or to which we lend our expertise, use the menu above to select a specific project. Use the topic menu on the right or the search feature above to review the range of information available on a topic or area of interest.
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Recent review: NICA was phenomenal she had great control if the crowd and captured the attention of the young…
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Recent review: Simply Shirley was very professional and extremely funny . I will hire her again for future events.
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Recent review: Blessed experience with Denise and her band❤🙏
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'Get Putin' caucus presses Obama
Canceling a summit is a start.
Declining to make a courtesy call to Vladimir Putin afterward isn't bad, either. Or adding a trip to Sweden instead of Moscow.
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But if President Barack Obama really wants to show Russia he's serious, goes an increasingly popular line of thinking among both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill, he's got to get more aggressive than he and his predecessors have been with Russia on missile defense. And, they say, there's no time like the present — even as soon as his scheduled press conference Friday afternoon.
For years, American presidents struck a delicate balance of arguing that the United States has to step up its capacities to stop a rogue nation attack, with particular concern about North Korea and Iran, while reassuring the Russians that the batteries of missiles that would be installed for protection aren't a conspiracy to prepare for a march into Moscow.
( PHOTOS: Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin's relationship)
Now that the relationship with Putin is on the rocks again over his decision to grant asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, high-ranking members of Congress say this is the perfect time to stop entertaining these conversations at all, and use a more unilateral approach instead as a way of gaining leverage over a Russian leader they say has lost his credibility as a negotiating partner.
"If Putin were working with us, we would factor in his sensitivities and sensibilities about these things," said Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the ranking member on the House Foreign Relations Committee. Now, "what Putin cares about should not be so important."
"Obviously, the relationship is souring. Obviously, Putin for his own domestic consumption believes that that's good for them, it's good for him personally," said Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the ranking member on the Foreign Relations Committee. "And obviously we're in a period of time in our relationship with Russia where it's likely the discussions of this nature are not going to be fruitful."
( PHOTOS: Pols react to Snowden on the run)
"The administration needs to be committed to a missile defense policy that is North Korea and Iran directed and quit tying our missile defense initiatives to an elusive Russian relationship," said Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), the chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees missile defense.
Even as Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel prepare to meet Friday in Washington with their Russian counterparts to keep negotiations open, Engel said Putin's recent embrace of a more "adversarial" relationship should lead Obama to speak more forcefully about Putin's human rights record and step up the complaints about Russia's threatened vetoes of United Nations sanctions on Syria and Iran. With missile defense having a direct impact on American security, Engel said, there's even less of a reason to worry.
"I feel that Putin's made us free now," Engel said. "We don't need to worry about offending him."
Putin has indicated he doesn't believe that America's strategic interests are focused on North Korea and Iran. He doesn't want to. For Russians, being America's top concern would be a point of pride, a legitimization that the country retains the primacy on the world stage that the Soviet Union had during the Cold War. This isn't lost on Putin — who, like many Russian leaders before him, uses antagonism toward the United States to buck himself up in politics back home.
( PHOTOS: Vladimir Putin's big catch)
That's helped make missile defense one of the hardest issues in U.S.-Russian relations, with President George W. Bush's plans helping to lead to the standstill that prompted Obama to call for a "reset" shortly after taking office. During a March 2012 meeting in South Korea, he promised then-Russian President Dmitri Medvedev he'd have "more flexibility" to negotiate after his reelection.
"On all these issues, but particularly missile defense," Obama asked Medvedev to tell Putin, in a comment caught on a hot microphone toward the end of their conversation, "this can be solved, but it's important for him to give me space."
Eighteen months and a reelection later, Obama's in an even worse position in the overall relationship than he was then, and missile defense was the first item the White House cited a "lack of progress" on Wednesday in canceling the planned September summit.
( WATCH: Politicians sound off on Snowden)
The time has come, Corker said, for Obama to articulate the situation more clearly — for him to both tell Putin it's time to stop complaining, and to begin putting together American plans on where to put defensive missile batteries, and how many, without consulting the Kremlin.
"Our missile defense system isn't about Russia, and they know it," Corker said. "It's sophomoric to even have a conversation about it."
That's not the only missile issue that Corker says needs to be reevaluated, especially in light of recent events. Corker said he was told just this week by Rose Gottemoeller, the State Department's assistant secretary for arms control, that there would be no further reduction of American warheads agreed to just by presidential negotiations. Any further reductions, he said, should go through the treaty process. According to Corker, Gottemoeller agreed that they would.


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The political game in D.C. can be vicious. Lobbying for any cause tends to have the opposition angling to portray your agenda in whatever negative light they can manufacture.
Small-business truckers, in their opposition to excessive regulation, have groups screaming that truckers are "anti-safety."
The reality is that nothing could be further from the truth.
The membership of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is made up of some of the safest career truck drivers on the nation's highways. The average member has more than a quarter-century of trucking experience and more than 2 million miles without a reportable accident. That's equivalent to 80 times around the Earth.
The Association points out that these are men and women who have a vested interest in safety – their own and those they share the road with.
That focus on safety is the thrust behind a new white paper, "Truckers for Safety," developed by the Association in an effort to promote a true safety-minded agenda in D.C. while countering overbearing regulations that do little to improve highway safety and that simply drive up the cost of business.
The industry has faced significant changes in the past two decades. Instead of more people opting for a career in trucking – something that inherently promotes professionalism and safety – it is turning into a stopgap job for many who enter into trucking.
Every few months, 20 percent of the drivers working in the industry either leave their jobs and move to a different trucking company or leave the industry all together, according to the white paper.
"This churn will result in more accidents, which in turn will lead to greater congestion, more fuel use, lost cargoes and greater inefficiency in our nation's freight transportation network," the paper states. "We can and must do better to make trucking once again a career that Americans want to join and stay in as a way to provide for their families."
The white paper calls into question the agenda of the motor carrier safety enforcement and regulatory system.
"Our motor carrier and safety enforcement and regulatory system is structured in such a way that does nothing to incentivize safe driving, missing a major opportunity to improve safety," the paper states.
The white paper promotes commonsense regulation such as driver training; building on Jason's Law for more truck parking; improving the nation's infrastructure; educating teen drivers and all passenger car drivers; enforcement by FMCSA that encourages safe driving; equipping the agency with appropriate funding to target unsafe motor carriers; and crash worthiness.
SMART Future Truck Drivers OOIDA is proposing the Safe, Mentored and Responsibly Trained Future Truck Drivers Act – dubbed the SMART Future Truck Drivers Act.
The act "forges new ground" by starting every new long-haul tractor-trailer driver off with a strong safety foundation. The proposal includes behind-the-wheel training conducted by instructors who meet FMCSA certification requirements.
"Unlike airline pilots, railroad engineers and tugboat captains, there has never been a requirement that tractor-trailer drivers complete a basic training regimen that ensures they know how to operate the vehicle safety in real-world conditions," the paper states.
Given that approximately 80 percent of all truck-involved collisions are the result of a "human factor," OOIDA is pressing Congress and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to move forward on a training standard for new truck drivers. The proposal does not include bus and motor coach drivers, local delivery or CDL classifications lower than a Class A.
The training proposal includes requirements for certification of testers, minimum classroom and behind-the wheel training. Knowing there are situations, such as returning veterans, who have received alternative training, the proposal includes expedited training and proficiency tests to shorten the length of training.
Countering the industry norm of short training programs that filter inexperienced drivers quickly onto the road to be further "trained" by driver trainers with only a few months of experience themselves, the proposal offers a structured experience-building period.
Safe on the road It tracks that, no matter how good truck drivers are, there's only so much they can do to counter the crumbling roads and bridges and passenger car drivers who drive unsafely around them. The white paper tackles those issues as well.
"The highway is the workplace for truckers, and it is important that they have a safe workplace," the paper states. "There is more that can be done … to focus investments in this area on countermeasures that will have a real impact in reducing heavy-duty truck crashes."
The Association is proposing to build on Jason's Law, which was passed into law with the last highway bill. To accomplish this, the Association is seeking to make truck parking a "performance measure" that will guide state investment of federal highway funding. It also proposes that state DOTs should increase their work with private truck stop operators to increase parking at existing truck stops.
Education of local, county and state transportation planners on the benefits of truck parking is also tackled. In addition to providing truckers a safe place to get needed rest, providing trucks places to park will reduce congestion at key times, improve safety and the environment.
The white paper also recommends that the Federal Highway Administration and state DOTs target spending on safety infrastructure on signage, guard rails, etc., in areas with high accident rates for heavy-duty trucks. It also proposes that the agencies develop a system for identifying "high risk rural roads."
But even with all of the parking and smooth sailing roads in the world, truckers must share the road with passenger cars. With fewer and fewer schools offering driver training, the increase in passenger car drivers uneducated on how to share the road with big trucks is on the rise.
OOIDA proposes that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, state motor vehicle administration, truck drivers and other stakeholders come together to develop a model curriculum for teaching new drivers about how to drive safety with heavy-duty trucks and ensure greater focus on sharing the road as part of driver training and testing.
Safe inside Over the past decade plus, passenger cars have become increasingly safer. While lighter weight materials are being used, the engineering of the cars has migrated the power of the crash around the passenger compartment. Advancements in air bag and seatbelt technology have also played a big role in decreasing fatalities.
But what about big trucks? The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will begin studying crashworthiness of big trucks thanks to the most recent highway bill.
That's a good start, but it is just a start, OOIDA says.
"The crashworthiness of a truck cab and its ability to protect the occupant trucker appears to be a low priority for NHTSA, even while it is conducting heavy-duty related rulemakings," the paper states.
The Association is pressing for the agency to work together with truck manufacturers to implement recommendations for crashworthiness as a result of the study, either through voluntary action, industry standards or federal motor vehicle safety standards.
Purchasers of new trucks should also be informed of the standards and the manufacturers' compliance with, or voluntary adaption, of those standards.
Catching the bad guys The sad fact remains that there are bad motor carriers on the road. Safe truckers want them off the road just as much as the agency. In addition to posing a safety risk, when motor carrier take short cuts with equipment, they are likely hiring unsafe individuals and cutting rates.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Compliance, Safety, Accountability system, while flawed in implementation, is rightly intended to focus enforcement efforts on bad actors and unsafe carriers. However current problems with the system are preventing it from doing that job, according to OOIDA.
The Association recommends an analysis of the safety effectiveness of motor carrier regulations. While some regulation clearly target unsafe behaviors, the lion's share of regulations should be classified as "compliance" regulations. Separately, these two types of regulations for scoring purposes through CSA would narrow the field of at-risk motor carriers to those most likely to be exhibiting unsafe behaviors.
Equipping the agency with appropriate funding for investigations into the at-risk motor carriers should also be a priority. Building on the Operation Quick Strike motor coach crackdown, a properly funded motor carrier component of that enforcement should be a priority.
Advocacy for change The white paper is a leaping-off point to lobby for real change in the regulatory mindset that governs truckers. As with any major piece of legislation or proposed regulation, OOIDA's membership will be called on to be active in educating their lawmakers.
Resources on the Truckers for Safety agenda can be found at Truckersforsafety.com.


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GASTONIA � As Dixie Youth, Junior Tar Heel and Little League baseball regional and state tournament play begins in our area, each team will hoping to create memories that last a lifetime.
But one thing is certain: They won�t be able to duplicate the level of dominance Gastonia�s Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Teener baseball teams enjoyed in the 1950s and 1960s � including a 1963 national championship team that celebrates its 50th anniversary next month.
How dominant were Gastonia�s teams?
In the 16 years VFW sponsored the baseball program for boys ages 13 to 15 from 1954 through 1969, Gastonia Absher-Flowers Post 9337 won 10 state titles, four national titles and advanced to five other national championship tournaments.
�It was just a real special time,� said Roddey Edwards, a player on the 1961 national championship team. �And I probably didn�t appreciate that until I moved away from Gastonia. Most of us grew up going to the games and baseball, really all sports, were just a way of life.�
That was particularly true for Edwards, whose father Lyle worked at the old Gastonia Gazette for 35 years and frequently took his son to local recreation, high school and minor league sporting events in town � and especially at Sims Legion Park.
Sims Legion Park had been opened in 1950 and has remained a centerpiece for local sports activities. While it is the home to the Gastonia Post 23 American legion baseball team and the Gastonia Grizzlies Coastal Plain League summer college baseball team these days, it was minor league and Post 23 baseball in those days.
And those Gastonia VFW teams were the forerunner to extraordinary Legion baseball success in those years.
Shortly after the VFW championship seasons, Gastonia Post 23 won a record five straight North Carolina Area IV championships from 1962-66; Cherryville last season broke that record with its sixth straight Area IV title. Those Gastonia Teener League teams also provided players for Belmont Post 144 and Bessemer City Post 243.
�It was a county-wide team, pretty much,� said Larry Hartsell, a player on the 1963 national championship team from Mount Holly who later played for Belmont Post 144 and for Belmont Abbey College. �And we had lots of talent that had grown up playing baseball.�
But if you ask any of the players from Gastonia�s glorious era that included national championships in 1960, 1961, 1963 and 1964 and runner-up finishes in 1956 and 1962, they also talk about the great instruction they received from veteran coaches Russ Bergmann, J.V. McGinnis, Jim Barker and Berry Cauble.
�They were just masterful coaches,� said Larry Johnson, a player on the 1960 national championship team. �J.V. McGinnis was a master of the technical side of baseball. He knew the details of how to read a pitcher, steal bases and check runners. We played his brand of up-tempo baseball.�
Last month, when 1961 player Bruce Bolick brought his Lincoln County Post 455 American Legion team to Sims Legion to play Gastonia Post 23, 12 former players showed for a mini-reunion.
They told stories of baseball, their families � and their years of friendship. To a man, their bond remains unshakeable as are the memories from what they experienced all those years ago.
It�s a group that has suffered losses, as at least five members of their teams have died in the years since, including Vietnam War casualty Tony Hill.
Hill was a member of the 1962 national runner-up team and was the MVP of that year�s state tournament, which for many years was held at East Carolina University�s baseball field in Greenville.
The 1960 team, which won the city�s first national title since the 1935 American Legion championship won at Gastonia�s old stadium, was perhaps the most celebrated of the title teams.
After Gastonia beat Struthers, Ohio, 12-3 in the title game at Hershey, Pa., on tournament MVP Dariel Forrester�s 3-hitter, they were greeted by local celebrities at the Wilkinson Boulevard bridge on the Catawba River at the Mecklenburg-Gaston county line.
�U.S. Congressman Basil Whitener and WSOC-TV Channel 9 sports announcer �Big� Bill Ward met us at the bridge and we rode in a parade all the way back to Gastonia in our own individual cars,� Johnson said. �It was something I�ll never forget.�
The celebrations continued in future years.
�Seeing the older teams play gave us something to shoot for,� said Ed Thompson, a member of the 1963 and 1964 national championship teams.
The coaches and organizers of the VFW national tournament also provided other memories.
Not only did players from each of the eight teams in the national championship team get to visit the Hershey�s Chocolate Factory, but the NFL Philadelphia Eagles held their training camp just beyond the left field fence at the Hershey, Pa., championship field and Gastonia coaches arranged to see major league baseball games either on their way to the tournament or on their way back home.
The 1960 championship team recalls seeing Hall of Famer Ted Williams play for the Boston Red Sox at old Baltimore Memorial Stadium against the Orioles. And the 1963 championship team recalls seeing Baltimore�s Boog Powell slug three home runs in a game played at what was then called D.C. Stadium (now RFK Stadium) against the old Washington Senators.
�It was just incredibly meaningful to be 14 and 15 years old and get that kind of opportunity,� Thompson said. �I went back a few years ago with my wife when we took a family vacation. And, even now, thinking about Hershey and what we did brings back so many good memories.�
You can reach Richard Walker at 704-869-1841 or by twitter.com/JRWalk22
Gastonia VFW Post 9337 Teener League accomplishments
State championships
1955 � d. Lincolnton 3-1 at Sims Legion Park
1956 � d. High Point 8-1 at East Carolina
1957 � d. Greenville 1-0 at East Carolina
1960 � d. Elizabeth City 4-0 at East Carolina (MVP � Ken Ballard)
1961 � d. Elizabeth City 3-1 at East Carolina (MVP � Ray Pike)
1962 � d. Greenville 13-0 at East Carolina (MVP � Tony Hill)
1963 � d. Hudson 3-0 at East Carolina (MVP � Ed Thompson)
1964 � d. Shelby 2-1 (8 innings) at East Carolina (MVP � Danny Denton)
1967 � d. Greenville 6-2 at East Carolina (MVP � Rick Cherry)
1969 � d. Elizabeth City 10-0 in 5 innings at Belmont Abbey
Regional championships
1955 � d. Lafayette, Ga. 11-1 at Sims Legion Park
1956 � d. Lafayette, Ga. 7-0 at Lafayette, Ga.
1957 � d. Lafayette, Ga. 30-0 at Sims Legion Park
1960 � d. Greeneville, Tenn. 11-0 at Greeneville, Tenn. (MVP � Dariel Forrester)
1961 � d. Greeneville, Tenn. 9-0 at Sims Legion Park
1962 � d. Greeneville, Tenn. 6-0 at Davis Park, Belmont
1963 � d. Calhoun, Ga. 3-0 at Davis Park, Belmont
1964 � d. Greeneville, Tenn. 8-0 at Davis Park, Belmont
1967 � d. Greeneville, Tenn. 4-0 at Sims Legion Park
National tournament appearances
1955 � lost 1st round at Hershey, Pa.
1956 � runner-up at Hershey, Pa. (lost to Gloucester City, N.J. 0-9 in title game)
1957 � lost semifinals at Hershey, Pa.
1960 � champion at Hershey, Pa. (d. Struthers, Ohio 12-3 in title game, MVP � Darriel Forrester)
1961 � champion at Hershey, Pa. (d. Bossier City, La. 4-1 in title game, MVP � Candler Bumgarner)
1962 � runner-up at Hershey, Pa. (lost to Chester, Pa. 0-2 in title game)
1963 � champion at Hershey, Pa. (d. Gloucester City, N.J. 1-0 in title game, MVP � Larry Hartsell)
1964 � champion at Hershey, Pa. (d. West Allis, Wisc. 5-4 in title game)
1967 � had 1-2 record at Easton Pa.
Other N.C. state champions
1958 � Lenoir d. Whiteville (at East Carolina; finished as national runner-up)
1959 � Lenoir d. Greenville (at East Carolina; finished at regional runner-up)
1965 � Shelby 5, Gastonia 2 (at East Carolina; Shelby finished 3rd in national tournament)
1966 � Kings Mountain 6, Gastonia 4 in 8 innings (at East Carolina; Kings Mountain finished 3rd in national tournament)
1968 � Greenville 4, Shelby 0 (at Belmont Abbey)
Gastonia�s national championship teams
Record � 13-0
Head coach � J.V. McGinnis
Assistant coaches � Jim Barker, Russ Bergmann
Butch Adams
Ken Ballard
Mark Beauchamp
Bill Blalock
Dexter Bradshaw
Charles Bryant
Robbie Clemmer
Forrest Dover
Dariel Forrester
Larry Johnson
Fred McMurray
Bryce Morrow
Roger Teague
Record � 13-0
Head coach � Russ Bergmann
Assistant coach � Barry Cauble
Bruce Bolick
Candler Bumgarner
Forrest Dover
Roddey Edwards
Pete Grigg
Floyd Hill
Tony Hill
Johnny Lawing
Fred McMurray
Charlie Millsaps
Johnny Pate
Johnny Paysour
Ray Pike
Dennis Ratchford
Ronnie Vause
Record � 14-2
Head coach � J.V. McGinnis
Assistant coach � Russ Bergmann
Jerry Barker
Steve Barkley
Ronnie Cochroft
Barry Farmer
Dickie Giles
Bill Grant
Larry Hartsell
Doug Owen
Cleve Rayfield
John Rudisill
Danny Suggs
Chuckie Steele
Terry Stroupe
Ed Thompson
Dennis Wofford
Record � 14-1
Head coach � J.V. McGinnis
Wayne Barr
Bill Broome
Jim Cook
Danny Denton
Barry Farmer
Warren Garrett
Ken James
Doug Lanham
DeWayne Moore
John Rudisill
Chuckie Steele
Terry Stroupe
Danny Suggs
Terry Stroupe
Ed Thompson
Norris Thornburg