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Friday's unemployment figures from the Labor Department showed modest job growth in December – 155,000 new jobs – but strong gains in the hard-hit construction sector, a vital employment sector in the Inland Empire.
Economists credit most of the 30,000 new construction jobs – the biggest jump in 15 months – to the northeast rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, but even in the Inland Empire, the industry is recovering, observers said.
"It's going great," said Terry Kent, the president of the Building Industry Association's Baldy View chapter. "We've seen an uptick in more buyers out there. I think they realize that prices have bottomed out and are on the way back up."
In his day job, Kent works for Glendora-based homebuilders Crestwood Communities, which built dozens of new houses in 2012 as the state's economy turned around.
"We actually have a tract in Rancho Cucamonga that we've started building phase three (of), four months ahead schedule, due to buyer demand," Kent said.
New construction is happening, according to him, because the backlog of new houses built during the housing bubble are no longer flooding the market.
"There's a shortage of inventory out there and traffic has definitely picked up at our communities," Kent said. "From a builder's standpoint, buyers are definitely out there right now."
And after several slow years, that's translated into a need for more skilled workers for Crestwood Communities.
"We've stayed alive for the past five years, but we've added staff in the last 12 months … which is better than the direction we were headed in, in the last few years," Kent said.
And there are likely more jobs out there than construction workers in Southern California, at the moment.
"From a contractor's standpoint, there's a shortage of labor out there," Kent said. "A lot of them left California for jobs elsewhere."
Not all segments of the construction industry suffered equally during the recession: Governmental and industrial construction typically remained healthy over the past few years, along with apartments and other multi-family housing units.
But now single-family home construction – which was devastated when the housing bubble burst – may be on the way back.
"(It) doesn't mean we're out of the woods, but some pretty serious people are spending some pretty serious money" getting ready for a potential new wave of single family construction, said Otto Kroutil, Development Agency Director for the City of Ontario. Developers are paying for the infrastructure upgrades required to develop the next large undeveloped region of the city.
"We have a large amount of undeveloped property (in) the south of the city, where there's a tremendous amount of infrastructure required," Kroutil said. City workers are currently building roads, putting in storm drains and water and sewer lines, with developers footing much of the bill.
"We're not there yet, but because of the kind of activity that's required before you build House One, we believe that things are looking up," Kroutil said.
But it's not good news all around for everyone – at least, not yet.
Terry Klenske, president of Dalton Trucking Inc. in Fontana, is seeing both sides of the economy – good and bad – up front and personal. His firm, which hauls a range of goods, from gypsum to limestone, is optimistic about hiring in 2013, despite some troubling numbers at the end of last year.
"I was just scratching my head as to why December was so poor in terms of volume," he said.
In going over his books, he found that the firm hauled $90,000 worth of gypsum to a major cement plant in 2011. But in 2012, the firm hauled half of that.
His heavy hauling business was off by about a third, he said. And his dump truck business was off by about half.
"We had a very poor December," he said, adding that even his haulers at West Coast ports were affected by the port strike late last year that crippled operations at port terminals.
Klenske said he's not the only one affected.
Many business owners were taking a wait-and-see stance in doing business as the election approached in November, and the so-called `fiscal cliff' stalemate didn't exactly help the economy get back on track, Klenske said.
But despite the darker numbers from the end of the year, Klenske said he had higher hopes in the new year.
He said he could "easily see" the need to hire 10 more drivers and two mechanics.
"I believe this next year is going to be more positive," he said.
Staff Writer Ryan Carter contributed to this report.
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|2008-10-17, 04:19
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Read some of the manga, and realized they skipped volume 2 entirely.....
Make sense, consider Aiss is air... but I still think they need to introduce Awleors in some other ways.
BTW, Beta, Accelerator is so popular because
1. He is a bishe
2. Is psychopath with a soft spot
3. Obsessed with Last Order
4. Is insanely powerful and is only getting stronger and stronger
Cram all these together, you get an archetype that is extremely good at catching the attention of the light novel audience who have somewhat short attention span, as well as attracting hordes of fujoshi who are all over the place already.
|2008-10-31, 01:00
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Takao Tsundere Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Classified
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|2008-11-04, 10:48
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Contrary to some bad review about the light novel series, I personally think that this title is a work of art. Having read up to volume 16 of the title, I can say that the story keeps to be better. It has rather complex background regarding religion and magic, but right mix of comedy and romance makes it very interesting. Besides, the author's OTAKU talk is really enjoyable^^ (particularly those conversations between Touma, Blue-haired pierce, and Tsuchimikado<----guy with sunglass)
(spoilers coming ahead
It would seem that a 24-26 episode could not cover the whole volumes that came out so far. Things are getting pretty interesting, with
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The appearance of
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things are getting hard for Touma to handle. Although he was able to defeat
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, he was no match against
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wonder what would happen with
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Touma should know the real power his Imagine breaker holds as soon as possible.
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Otherwise, it would be very difficult for him to face the great forces yet to come :/
Things around the series' dark hero,
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are getting hot too. With his power awakening and all. Feel bad about
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though, they looked so great together.
I also love the romance that goes between Touma and the girls^^. Imagine breaker nullifies many things; anything supernatural, even his luck...and of course even his supposed to be soulmate/destiny. That's why he's surrounded with girls having feelings for him XD Let me count, so far
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It would be really nice if someone would TL the series. :3
|2008-11-04, 20:40
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|2008-11-04, 22:03
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You know what I haven't read the novels but wouldn't it be ironic that a girlfriend suddenly shows up and Touma not remembering her.
A girlfriend before he lost his memory and staying at Academy City.
|2008-11-04, 22:24
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The cover for SS2:
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Should be available in a week or so.
On another note, I didn't notice till now that the covers of vol 9 and 10 were supposed to be put together to form a single image.
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|2008-11-05, 06:56
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@used can:
as far as i know, index is able to perform magic involuntarily, just as she did when she was controlled by John's pen (one of legendary spiritual ornaments).
She did use dragon's breath there and even angel feathers. But, aside from that time, index never did perform a magic. Maybe she's convinced that she cannot perform magic, not knowing that she was able to :/
otherwise she does have some useful skills in battle like her "spell intercept" and "share all fear". Just for interrupting the enemy though :3
|2008-11-05, 10:37
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agreed with you ken FF, the story is getting better and better with each volumes. we now really getting into the core of the story, too bad terra didnt finish his line about the truth behind touma's power. but i ve to disagreed with you about that agito on vol 2. I really think that was just aureolus own imagination. Touma didnt do anything on that fight, he was helped by the "human fireworks" Stilles to change aureolus sense of distance, if not his head would already blown up that time.
I really want to see Aisa to get more roles ><, well even Index dont have that much roles though, cause everytime Touma found a way to keep out index from the battles....
damn, SS2 would be out in a few days, but that s only a side story, I want to read vol 17, not a side story . well at least on the same day shana vol 17 will be out....
|2008-11-05, 11:07
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Aisa? What's that? Is it edible?
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|2008-11-05, 23:34
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I think she probably still believes she's unable to do magic. And, I suppose that's how it should be, for now, because otherwise she'd be far too overpowered.
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Uceny falls short of Worlds berth
There's no world championship race for Morgan Uceny. At least, not this year.
Plymouth's native Olympian finished eighth in the women's 1,500-meter run Saturday at the U.S. Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa.
The race determined the three runners who will represent the United States at the IAAF World Championship meet in Moscow this August.
Former national champ Treniere Moser won the event in a pedestrian 4:28.62. A high school junior from New York, Mary Cain, finished second.
An unbelievably slow pace turned into a wild 12-runner sprint down the homestretch. The field almost jogged the first two laps in a tight bunch. Uceny ran on the outside at mid-pack.
With a lap to go, she was all the way in the back. Though she passed a few runners on the final turn, Uceny never challenged for a top three spot.
Her final time was 4:31.32. In contrast, Uceny's winning time at last year's Olympic Trials was 4:04.59.
The two-time defending national champion, Uceny has struggled since falling with a lap to go in the gold medal race at the London Olympics last year. She looked tired in her preliminary race on Thursday, and never held the lead in Saturday's finale.
Nevertheless, prior to the championship race, Uceny posted a message on her Facebook page stating, "US Champs 1500m final today...good vibes will not be turned away! Woot."
Uceny was the 2002 Indiana high school state champ in the 800-meter run while running for Plymouth.


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Britney Spears & David Lucado: Cirque du Soleil's One Drop Show
Britney Spears sits close to her rumored new beau David Lucado while attending Cirque du Soleil's One Drop show on Friday (March 22) in Las Vegas.
The 31-year-old entertainer's reported new guy put his arm around the pop princess as they posed for the pic with some other pals.
"The @Cirque @ONEDROP show… SO WOW!! #1night1drop Watch it online & support #worldwaterday" Brit tweeted, along with a link so you too can watch and support World Water Day!
Brit and David were spotted going out to dinner the evening before in Vegas.
FYI: Britney is wearing a Stop Staring! dress.
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Entourage's Kevin Connolly may be close to finding a new TV home. CBS has bought a multi-camera comedy called I Love You Like A Brother, with Connolly attached to star. If the project moves forward in the pick-up process, Connolly will play the youngest of three brothers in a fairly dysfunctional family. The series will follow the efforts of the youngest brother as he tries to get his family to see the err of their ways, and maybe even change them.
Sullivan & Son's Rob Long is executive producing the project, alongside Eric and Kim Tannenbaum. However, Tad Safron is actually the creative guy behind the family comedy. According to Deadline, Safron is set to jot down the script, which will be based on the writer's own less-than-perfect family. Additionally, Safron will earn a co-executive producing credit and Connolly will earn a producer credit.
The Entourage guys, Connolly included, haven't had the best of luck since the hit HBO dramedy ended in 2011. The man's either been out of work or taking a break since the show wrapped up, which makes him the most out-of-work of the group (Kevin Dillon at least had the failed show How To Be A Gentleman and both Adrian Grenier and Jerry Ferrara have had less-than-prominent movie roles). I Love You Like a Brother could be a new leaf for Connolly, but it has to be picked up by the eye network, first.
TV Blend will keep you posted if this one gets a pilot order.


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I like to read comics online
-but I dont like to read comics online that are already available in volumes, I prefer to buy those
when the buy this volume button is greyed out, what does that mean, it is not available?
or does it mean I dont have enough points?
Is it just me, or is the selection of stuff you can actually buy/view really tiny?
Good idea.
Horrible horrible implementation.
Too bad JManga is not available outside North America..
This should be the permanent price for volumes and I want to be able to download and use offline the manga i bought on my other electronic devices. There should also be a rental option where you pay even less say $1-$3 inorder to simply read it for a limited time. Other then the price issue the actual quality of the site is great the player loads very fast and offers very high quality manga scans look great on my 32" 1080p T.V in portrait mode so one page takes up the full screen and in landscape with 2 pages at once. Flash works great on desktops and laptops just make an app to get it to work on tablets and phones.
Don't Click On My Profile I'm Serious I Will Headshot U If U Do U Have Been W...
In regards to all those who want downloadable versions, keep in mind it is usually up to the mangaka to approve that option per title. It's not JManga's decision to make. The reason mangaka are reluctant to offer downloadable versions is due to the ease of taking that version and uploading it for free for everyone else to view. Considering how many of their titles are already ripped off, scanlated and uploaded, why would they want to offer an already translated version to have the same thing happen? If you want a downloadable version, I recommend offering up suggestions as to how to prevent this from happening.
chibi_chunky wrote:
I like to read comics online
-but I dont like to read comics online that are already available in volumes, I prefer to buy those
when the buy this volume button is greyed out, what does that mean, it is not available?
or does it mean I dont have enough points?
It's not available for purchase yet. There are tons of manga on that site that you still can't buy and/or preview even though they continue to announce new titles. It would be nice to get a release window at the very least or just don't announce stuff until it's ready.
Now that I've bought 8 volumes for 30 dollars averaging $3.75 I feel much happier about how much i'd spend on this service. Hopefully they can find a way to keep prices where they are now, or at least do sales like this often. Huge kudos for reimbursing previously bought manga.
Now I think we've reached another problem. I've bought everything that I want to that has already been released, and even a couple of those i only really bought because i had points to spend and didn't want to wait until after the sale ends. So please hurry up and translate more things. There are a good number of good looking manga up on the store so they don't even need to work on the licencing part, just the translating part.


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The TPS3306 family is a series of supervisory circuits
designed for circuit initialization which require two supply voltages,
primarily in DSP and processor-based systems.
The product spectrum of the TPS3306-xx is designed for monitoring two independent supply voltages of 3.3 V/1.5 V, 3.3 V/1.8 V, 3.3 V/2 V, 3.3 V/2.5 V, or 3.3 V/5 V.
The various supervisory circuits are designed to monitor the nominal supply voltage.
During power-on, RESET
is asserted when the supply voltage VDD
becomes higher than 1.1 V. Thereafter, the supervisory circuits monitor the
SENSEn inputs and keep RESET active as
long as SENSEn remains below the threshold voltage VIT.
An internal timer delays the return of the
RESET output to the inactive state (high)
to ensure proper system reset. The delay time, td(typ) = 100 ms, starts after SENSE1 and
SENSE2 inputs have risen above the threshold voltage VIT. When the voltage at SENSE1 or SENSE2 input drops
below the threshold voltage VIT, the
output becomes active (low) again.
The integrated power-fail (PFI) comparator with separate
open-drain (PFO) output can be used for
low-battery detection, power-fail warning, or for monitoring a power supply
other than the main supply.
The TPS3306-xx devices integrate a watchdog timer that is
periodically triggered by a positive or negative transition of WDI. When the
supervising system fails to retrigger the watchdog circuit within the time-out
interval, tt(out) = 0.50 s,
RESET becomes active for the time period
td. This event also reinitializes the
watchdog timer. Leaving WDI unconnected disables the watchdog.
The TPS3306-xx devices are available in either 8-pin MSOP
or standard 8-pin SO packages, and are characterized for operation over a
temperature range of -40°C to +85°C.


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Sony and Microsoft both turned down Wii tech patent
The Wii is one of the best-selling consoles of all time, utterly smashing both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but both Sony and Microsoft turned up their noses at its motion controller tech.
In a feature article on CVG, original patent holder Tom Quinn described meetings with Microsoft and Sony in which both companies showed disdain for his gyroscopic motion control ideas.
"The meeting went terribly. The attitude I got from them was that if they wanted to do motion control, they would do it themselves and make a better job of it. I mean, they were just rude," he said of his pitch to Microsoft.
"In fact, the meeting went so terribly that one of the executives came over to me afterwards and apologised on behalf of others. I remember him saying how this was not how Microsoft should be engaging with potential partners."
At Sony, Quinn met with legendary engineer Ken Kutaragi, who also failed to realise the tech's significance.
We were in a tiny little room with a big PC projector and Kutaragi comes in, introduces himself, sits down and – I swear this is true – he closed his eyes the moment I started showing my pitch. He never opened them until I had finished.
"Kutaragi comes in, introduces himself, sits down and – I swear this is true – he closed his eyes the moment I started showing my pitch," Quinn revealed.
"It was awkward, very awkward, but I still asked him for feedback and he said, 'well, can you produce this for 50 cents?' I laughed and explained that would be impossible, so again I left empty handed."
At the time, as the GameCube was a distinct third in the console arms race.
"You have to remember that Sony and Microsoft were by far the two biggest console manufacturers. Nintendo wasn't doing well and we hadn't thought much about them," Quinn said.
But he went to meet the team anyway, and in a dramatic meeting led by chairman Atsushi Asada, Nintendo decided to sign a deal with Quinn, eventually leading both to the Wii and even to the DS, both runaway successes.
"Looking back at the whole thing, it's crazy how blind Sony and Microsoft were," Quinn says.
"They were busy beating the crap out of each other and didn't consider Nintendo a strong competitor any more."
The full feature is a fascinating look at the inner workings of the big N over the past decade; if you have the time, hit the link above.
As you're probably aware, Nintendo has released two more consoles since the Wii – the 3DS and as of Sunday in the US, the Wii U.
Thanks, GayGamer.


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The Venus labyrinthPosted 20 March 2012 by Leh
Guest writer and passionate Copenhagen lover Nikolaj, who is also the man behind the blog Stauning eller Kaos recommends you to pay a visit to The Venus Labyrinth.
"No excuse! Do not miss out on this thrilling experience.
The Venus Labyrinth is an individual and interactive journey that contains 28 installation rooms, corresponding to the 28 known areas of the human brain, each room inhabited by a woman/performer. Each spectator enters the labyrinth alone, with a few minutes interval, and joins these women in a unique, sensorial and emotional experience. No spectator is presented with the entire labyrinth; no two spectators will view or share the same experience.
First you enter a large room. Lying among others you have to choose three objects, that'll determine which rooms you'll visit during your stay in the labyrinth.
The first room I visited was called 'emotional centers'. Before I entered the room I was told to put on a blindfold. I did and a woman led me inside the room. Soft classical music was playing and we started to dance. First a bit awkward, but I got into it and began to feel comfortable. She was humming along to the tune. Our bodies were close. But suddenly she started to cry – at first silently then louder and more hysterically. A bit later her mood suddenly changed, and she started laughing. We were still dancing. Then the music grew more intense, and then she started screaming and went banging on the walls! After the outburst she came back to me, calmed down and we danced again. She started to hum like in the beginning. Relaxed. After a while the music stopped. She told me to take of the blindfold. She looked me straight in the eyes, while I left the room.
I visited two more rooms – each very different. One of them was named 'sexuality' and that room were even more intense than the first room I visited. But I won't tell you what happened in there. You have to go see for yourself. An exhilarating experience awaits.
/ Stauning eller Kaos."


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Grilled Korean Short Ribs
Beef short ribs marinated overnight in Asian spices, then grilled and re-coated with reserved marinade. Served with kimchee and sesame spinach.
1 cup soy sauce
1⁄2 cup sweet rice wine or sherry
1⁄2 cup brown sugar
1⁄4 cup rice wine vinegar
1⁄4 cup sesame oil
1⁄4 cup minced, peeled ginger
1⁄4 cup chopped garlic
1 tsp. ground black pepper
5 lb. beef short ribs
Steamed spinach with sesame seeds
Kimchee (spicy pickled cabbage)
1. Whisk together soy sauce, wine, sugar, vinegar, sesame oil, ginger, garlic, and pepper. Pour mixture into hotel pan or heavy plastic bag; add ribs, coating evenly with marinade. Refrigerate 24 hrs in marinade.
2. Drain ribs, reserving marinade. Grill ribs to order 6-8 min. per side, or until medium-rare.
3. Boil marinade 5 min. until slightly reduced. Serve over ribs. Accompany with sesame spinach and kimchee.


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by Terry Duffy
As discussions continue on the future of the Cold Storage property, the Youngstown Village Board of Trustees held a special meeting last Saturday, the second in days, to gauge the feelings of residents to the latest proposal.
Developers, David Pawlik of Creative Site Structures in Buffalo and David Burke Homes in Hamburg, recently submitted plans for a 30-unit, $3.4 million, two-story complex intended as market rate rental apartments. It would be located on the Cold Storage property at the south end of Third Street between Campbell and Elliott streets. Developers would cover demolition costs, estimated to be in the $150,000-$200,000 range, and all construction costs. They are seeking a payment in lieu of taxes agreement from the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency, calling for 15 years of tax relief that could be acted upon next month.
Saturday's session was intended to gauge residents' views on the latest proposal en route to village endorsement of the developers' PILOT request to IDA, which went on to be approved with conditions.
However, reactions by the nearly dozen or so longtime neighboring residents attending the session to the proposal were not favorable in the least.
In fact, most came out dead set against the plan. Concerns ranged from increased traffic on village streets and the negative impact on village infrastructure, to density issues, transient neighbors, and fear of low-income housing and the impacts on property values and quality of life.
Elliott Street resident Bruce Oliphant spoke for many when he told Mayor Raleigh Reynolds his family moved to the village to escape the hustle and bustle of closer Buffalo suburbs, such as Grand Island. "I prefer this to stay the way it is," said Oliphant. I "know who my neighbors are." Of the potential neighbors, he added, "they're not permanent."
Campbell Street resident Judy Hanna said she feared the project with its higher density of residents would compromise the neighborhood. "This is a bedroom community," said Hanna, adding she was sorry to see this happening.
Many expressed preferences for single-family housing instead on the property and questioned trustees why that wasn't being considered. Trustee Tim Adamson and Reynolds both responded that while they'd likewise like to see single-family housing, there are problems. Namely the village already has a glut of vacant properties intended for new single-family homes. "We've had some on Carrollwood that have been like that for 20 years," said Adamson, adding the growth market in the village is "marginal at best."
Of the developers' request, he added, "We're trying to do things - what's best for all sides." Regarding the PILOT, Adamson said the developers would not likely proceed with it if their request was not approved by IDA.
Former Youngstown Mayor Norm Swann joined with Reynolds and the trustees in arguing that residents should at least consider supporting the Burke project in concept. "The developer has not provided us any plans yet," said Swann. He asked, "why are residents kicking him out of town now?"
"Maybe we can make it work," Swann continued. "We need to look at the whole picture here."
Trustee Beverly VanDuesen, also pointing to the lack of any other interest by developers to the Cold Storage property, called it a "first step."
Trustee Steve Suitor reiterated the purpose of that session was for the village to give its blessing to the developer's IDA PILOT request. It's to "give him a chance," said Suitor, adding the developer would still need to present plans to the village planning and zoning boards. "The IDA would only be providing tax relief," he said.
Trying to allay residents' concerns, VanDuesen added, "At least we'll have the opportunity to talk with him (following IDA PILOT approval). This is not a done deal."
As discussion moved toward a resolution, VanDuesen suggested the trustees not support the developer's 30-unit apartment proposal, but merely their request for the IDA PILOT. The measure was seconded by Trustee Tim Lockhart. It went on to be approved unanimously.
The Niagara County IDA was scheduled to act on the developer's PILOT at its meeting this week, but was unable to due to problems that arose concerning an incorrect address on a legal notice. The IDA is now expected to act on the PILOT request at its meeting next month.


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Scrap shredders are hungry machines, with owners willing to vary their diets if it will keep the beasts well fed and profitable. Expect shredders to be on the prowl for material that in the past might have ended up as No. 2 bundles or mixed aluminum castings, executives said at AMM's Scrap Conference in November.
Some of the biggest shredders are now being installed in China, and some conference attendees speculated on whether China might begin importing vehicle hulks, crushed but unshredded, from the United States. That would make domestic shredder operators very unhappy. The consensus view Not quite yet.
"The reason why we're shredding so many different types of material is that we add more value by shredding than we did when we processed with a shear and a torch," said Scott Newell, chairman of Shredder Company LLC, Canutillo, Texas.
As a maker of the fragmentizers from a family that arguably invented them, he took an upbeat view of shredders expanding their role still further, estimating that U.S. steel mills get 30 to 35 percent of their scrap intake in shredded form.
Randy Ehret, manager of strategic sourcing at Timken Co., which owns two mills making specialty products, said fragmentized scrap accounts for 43 percent of his company's scrap purchases, amounting to 45,000 long tons a month. Trailing far behind in second place is busheling at 10 percent of the mix. He cautioned that 43 percent is an average. For some products, the melt will use zero shredded scrap. Such material has an attractive density, he said, but needs policing to minimize the residual percentage of copper.
Ehret said that Canton, Ohio-based Timken works closely with suppliers to ensure that the chemistry of the shredded meets Timken's standards, which can be quite fussy for some products.
Does one help the scrap consumer by feeding the shredder subtler material than vehicles and white goods, then splitting the commingled material into streams with high-tech sorting equipment? That issue was raised during a question-and-answer period at the conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. "If we shred materials that are low-residual, and now they're mixed with high-residual shreddables, doesn't that really dumb down the scrap supply, from a chemical point of view," the conference participant asked Newell.
"If you want to make low-copper residuals, you have to select the type of material that you're shredding," Newell acknowledged, but he argued that the process is more efficient. He said the ultimate test is whether mills prove willing to pay more for the shredded version of a particular mixture or for the unshredded.
He noted that his company had helped supply a $100-million shredder plant in Xuzhou, China, for Jiangsu Fengli Group Co. Ltd., which plans three more such facilities elsewhere in the country. Annual processing capability at Xuzhou is more than 1 million tonnes, with a 10,000-horsepower motor.
"Twice now, I've said to the (Chinese) guy who bought a shredder from me, 'How are you going to get enough scrap to process?' He said 'don't worry about that, we already have that much scrap.' It will be a while before they get to shredding automobiles as a main diet, (but) 1.4 billion people throwing away cans creates a lot of tonnage," Newell said.
He recalled that his Chinese customer did ask for the names of U.S. scrap dealers that might export unshredded material. "I dodged that one," Newell said, to avoid irking U.S. shredder operators who are his customers.
Newell said he doesn't expect scrap industry consolidation to benefit the participants as much as steel mergers did. "The biggest driver to this is to reduce competition and to increase margins. But when the margins increase, as we all know, it encourages other people to invest," he said. "Investment-wise, the entry level to the scrap industry is much lower" than in steelmaking.
Small shredders and large shredders can coexist, in his view, by using different market strategies. Newell said he recently sold a $4-million shredder, with 1,500 horsepower, to a U.S. yard located close to a megashredder. "This guy can make money with 4,000, 3,000, even 2,000 tonnes a month," Newell said, adding that the smaller players must serve a particular niche, processing material that draws higher prices when fragmentized than when not.
A more skeptical view of shredder growth, also voiced at the conference, is that the industry is saturated with such equipment. Experience has established what shredders are useful for and there are more than enough of them to handle those functions.
Such skepticism was voiced in a paper from scrap processor David J. Joseph Co. presented at the AMM conference by David Hodory, Joseph's director of marketing and communications.
"Building more and bigger shredders does not expand the supply of scrap to shred. (The) market is already over-served from a shredder capacity/utilization perspective," the David J. Joseph document said. "Demand has been at near-record levels for 10 years," the paper said about obsolete scrap. "Backlogs are gone, the reservoir depleted."
As for prompt manufacturing scrap, its availability is barely affected by how much the yards will pay for it, the analysis said. "High prices do not provide incentive to make more defective hoods, door panels, etc.," Hodory said.
Newell, hoping for growth, sees yet more shredders as a way to make scrap processing more efficient, with fewer bounces and fewer intermediaries. "There are many, many steps from where a piece of scrap originates until the time it gets into an electric furnace. It's picked up and set down, picked up and set down, processed and set down, then transported and set down," he said.
Newell would like to see shredded scrap moving 10 rail cars at a time on a single bill of lading. Even truckload movement could become more efficient if mills would accept nighttime delivery and let the trucks dump the fragmentized scrap near the destination furnace, he said.
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May 20. 2013 9:25PM
Two had a NH history before brutal Bedford attack
By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
Nathan Lamontagne
Charles Normil
County and federal authorities refuse to say whether Nathan C. Lamontagne is the unnamed second suspect in last fall's brutal home invasion that left a Bedford anesthesiologist and his wife maimed and near death.
Lamontagne, 26, and Charles Normil, the 32-year-old Massachusetts man charged with the Bedford crimes, go back a ways.
Nearly three years earlier, the Worcester, Mass., pair navigated their way across the New Hampshire border. Relying on a GPS system to locate homes in Rye, they committed a series of home invasions in occupied homes the night of Dec. 5-6, 2009. Both men served time in state prison for the crimes and are on parole.
Now Normil faces two counts of attempted murder, forcible rape and burglary for allegedly brutalizing Dr. Eduardo Quesada, 52, and his wife, Sonia, 29, during a Nov. 24 break-in at 7 Proclamation Court.
Three weeks after the Quesadas were attacked in what authorities say was an apparent random home invasion motivated by financial gain, Normil and Lamontagne were charged in connection with a Dec. 14 home invasion in Methuen, Mass., police allege in court records.
Like the Bedford case, the female victim in the Methuen break-in described her attacker as a thin man wearing a black mask who severely damaged her left eye, requiring she undergo surgical treatment at a Boston hospital.
Methuen police got a break in their case Jan. 7 when a witness told detectives Normil — who then lived in Lawrence and goes by "Bones," "CC" and "Deshaun" — told him he committed the home invasion and attacked the woman, police allege. The witness also said Lamontagne showed up at his house with a "suitcase from Charles" and asked him to "hold it for a few days," police wrote in Lawrence District Court records. The suitcase contained jewelry and Nintendo games later traced to the victims, police said.
Lamontagne was arrested Jan. 7 on a receiving stolen property charge and held on $10,000 cash bail, court records show. He also was charged on a New Hampshire fugitive from justice warrant for violating his parole, court records show.
Lamontagne's January arrest happened about the same time New Hampshire authorities say they got their break in the Bedford case.
It also coincided with Sonia Quesada's death inside her mother-in-law's home, at 9 Kensington Lane, Bedford. Police were called to the condominium that morning to check on Dr. Quesada and his wife. They found Dr. Quesada unconscious, his wife dead and a pile of prescription drugs nearby.
Hillsborough County Attorney Patricia LaFrance said an autopsy showed Sonia Quesada died from an overdose of prescription medication. The manner of death is undetermined, though authorities have said it is not a homicide.
Arrest, charges dropped
Normil was arrested in mid-January, then indicted by an Essex County (Mass.) grand jury Feb. 21 on charges of home invasion, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and larceny of property worth over $250.
While Normil remains jailed in Middleton, Mass. on $250,000 cash bail, prosecutors dismissed the receiving stolen property charge against Lamontagne on March 8. They also dropped the New Hampshire fugitive from justice warrant on March 22 and remanded Lamontagne to U.S Marshals, court records show.
But Normil's troubles only got worse.
On April 12, Bedford police obtained an arrest warrant against Normil charging him with two counts each of attempted murder and first-degree assault and one count each of forcible rape, burglary and falsifying physical evidence.
They allege Normil stabbed Dr. Quesada many times in the head with a screwdriver, resulting in facial fractures, lacerations and bleeding on the brain. Sonia Quesada was repeatedly assaulted sexually and physically, resulting in the loss of one eye.
Tight-lipped officials
A second suspect, whom authorities would not identify, is being detained on federal charges out of U.S. District Court in New Hampshire. Officials would not comment on his alleged role in the case or discuss charges against him.
U.S. Marshals in New Hampshire last week said Lamontagne is facing an FBI charge in New Hampshire for interstate transport of stolen property dated March 6.
FBI Supervisory Agent for New Hampshire Kieran L. Ramsey said he "could neither confirm nor deny any charges against any of the people you discussed."
U.S. Attorney for New Hampshire John P. Kacavas also would not comment on who the second suspect is and charges pending against him.
All charges against Lamontagne in the Methuen case were dropped in March when he was remanded to U.S. Marshals.
Hillsborough County's LaFrance said she and Essex County authorities will coordinate the prosecution of Normil. Currently, Bedford police have a detainer against him in addition to his $250,000 cash bail on the Methuen charges.
LaFrance said Bedford police are preparing their case to bring to her office for presentation to a grand jury.
"They are following every lead and getting everything done correctly," LaFrance said.
The FBI's Ramsey said "that investigation, as a whole, is a very slow, deliberate, yet methodical, investigation."
Milford visits
Normil visited Lamontagne at the house Lamontagne rented in Milford "maybe like three times" from the time he moved in with his girlfriend last September or October to when Lamontagne "went to prison about two to three months ago," said Tiana Mead. Mead's mother sublet the second floor of her house, on Westchester Street, to the couple.
"I am just shocked that he actually lived here with us," Mead said.
She said Milford police and State Police have since spoken with her and her mother, specifically asking questions about Lamontagne and about Normil's alleged role in the Bedford home invasion.
She described Lamontagne as "very temperamental." But she said Normil "seemed like a really sweet guy. He was friendly and outgoing."
Mead said a "disagreement" prompted her mother to evict Lamontagne and his girlfriend before Lamontagne went to prison.
Goffstown employer
Nathan Lamontagne's boss at SH Tree Service in Goffstown said Lamontagne worked for him from late November or early December until January, when he said Lamontagne called him from jail to say he had been arrested.
"He said he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and now he is going away," Stephen Herfon said last week.
Herfon said Lamontagne often talked about growing up in Massachusetts and moved to Milford to be with his girlfriend.
"For some reason, he was traveling back and forth to Massachusetts a lot. He told me he had a girlfriend down there and a girlfriend up here, so he was bouncing around. I think it was a little more than that," he added.
"He was very polite, very soft-spoken, but I always knew there was something sketchy about him," Herfon added. He said Lamontagne once tried to sell him three insulated pole saws worth $1,500 each that Herfon suspected were stolen from another tree company.


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The explosive was attached to a rental car that a customer drove away Monday at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.
Airport Police and Fire Chief Jesse Davis tells KTUU (http://bit.ly/1reBCYc ) the explosive was recovered Monday afternoon in the Anchorage area.
He says the amount of explosives in the vehicle was small and didn't pose a threat to the driver or the public.
The department is reviewing policies to make sure officers don't lose track of explosives again.
Information from: KTUU-TV, http://www.ktuu.com


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NEW YORK A ferryboat accident in Manhattan left 57 people injured, two of them critically and nine seriously hurt Wednesday morning, city officials said.
The 140-foot boat had departed from Highlands, N.J., with 326 aboard and was moving at 10 to 12 knots toward Pier 11 on the East River when it hit the pier's Slip D, then continued to hit Slip B, Janette Sadik-Khan, the city's transportation commissioner, said.
"It appears to have had a hard landing," Sadik-Khan said.
About 150 firefighters and paramedics responded, officials said.
Investigations were quickly announced by the National Transportation Safety board and the U.S. Coast Guard and by the city's fire, police and transportation departments.
City officials said one of the critically injured passengers fell down a staircase and hit his head.
The Seastreak Wall Street catamaran ferry banged into the dock as it arrived at 8:43 a.m., officials said.
Some of the injured were carried out strapped to flat-board stretchers, their heads and necks immobilized. Soon after the accident, about a dozen passengers on stretchers were spread out on the dock, surrounded by emergency workers and firefighters.
Jacqueline Wegner, of Highlands, N.J., who witnessed the accident from the pier, told Newsday that the seriousness of the accident soon became apparent.
When passengers began to emerge from the ferryboat. "There was lots of blood," Wegner said. "I saw a man with a broken hand ... This was really a surprise."
When the ferry hit the mooring, "I saw the gaping hole under the hull. The captain was yelling to get help," Wegner said. She estimated the hole was about 7 to 8 feet wide.
"It looked as though the boat was going down," Wegner said.
By 10 a.m. most of the hundreds of firefighters, onlookers and passengers had left the pier.
One man was still there at the pier, with his wife, who had been a passenger and who was in a gurney with a neck brace. "It was a hard stop," said the man, who did not give his name.
Seastreak, based in New Jersey, "provides daily year-round ferry services from Atlantic Highlands and Conners Highlands, N.J., to Pier 11 Wall Street, East 35th Street, and shuttle service to the World Financial Center," according to its website.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it has dispatched a "go" team to the city for arrival Wednesday afternoon in the investigation.
Company officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Seastreak Wall Street has been involved in two accidents since 2009 in which it was damaged as it docked, according to Coast Guard records.
On Aug. 12, 2009, while docking at East 35th Street, the starboard bow of the vessel received a 2-foot to 3-foot tear about six to seven feet above the water line, according to records. On Jan. 29, 2010, a hole was punched through the skin of the ship, above the water line, on the port side. The Seastreak hit a cluster of fender piles, again while docking, records show. No injuries were reported in either incident.


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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Salty Pig - Edwards Meats
I fried up the uncooked ham slices in a skillet and deglazed with coffee to make red eye gravy. They were very tasty, like a great diner breakfast ham, but extremely salty. Even with the high salt factor (and I have a high tolerance for salt), they were good enough to polish the whole packet, and the gravy helped cut the salt.
The bacon was very nice but not so different in quality from the Nieman Ranch bacon I get at Trader Joe's.
The sausage was very had good flavor but was better in pieces than eaten as a whole sausage. It's a dense sausage and, like the ham, quite salty. It's great cut up into small pieces, eaten with toothpicks or as an ingredient in omelets, greens or some other concoction (I bet it would be fantastic in jambalaya).
Overall, despite a pretty high sodium level, this was some good pork.
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Were the ham slices dried, maybe should have been soaked to leach out the salt, like a country ham? Don't take this as an insult...you have proven your affinity toward cured pork. It's just that that much salt seems excessive and might have been abated by some pre-cooking method or another.
Or maybe not.
A vendor north of me in northern PA gathers local wild leeks and chops them into sausage to die for. This year, during an extremely wet spring, I stuffed some into a bunch of wild morels, rolled them in egg wash and cracker crumbs and fried 'em up.
Heaven should be so good!
- May 19, 2011 at 6:45 PM
- sku said...
Sam, the ham wasn't dry, and I both read instructions and watched a video on their website which didn't include any soaking, but it may well have helped.
Fried leek-filled morels...that sounds just awesome! I want some of those right now.
By the way, congrats on your BT single oaks. I hope you'll tell us how they are.
- May 19, 2011 at 7:09 PM
I'm blown away by John's generosity. I hope I can live up to the already high expectations.
You'll definitely hear the results!
- May 19, 2011 at 8:16 PM
- oddlyme said...
Oooooh.... Richness!
But next year, see if you can get a dry cured PEPPERED country ham. Divine stuff. I think I've only had them from Ohio and Virginia (whole) but yow, are they worth it.
Happy Birthday!
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New striker Kellen Gulley took to the training pitch for the first time Monday morning following last Thursday's announcement that the 17-year-old Chicago Fire Juniors-Mississippi product would become the club's second Home Grown player.
Following Victor Pineda's signing as the Fire's first Home Grown talent last summer, Gulley also became the first player from one of the club's three satellite Fire Juniors affiliates in the southeast (Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida) to sign with the first team.
Gulley's signing is the biggest part of with the Chicago Fire Juniors satellite partnership which began in Jackson, MS in 2005 according to the club's Director of Player Development John Dorn.
"We went down there in preseason and had a first team game against Chivas USA. They treated our guys like kings and we could tell we were onto something good there."
It didn't hurt the partnership to have former Fire midfielder Justin Mapp hailing from the state. The soft-spoken Gulley remembered the team's 2005 trip well and pointed to Mapp's words and example as a reason for wanting to join the Fire.
"I've wanted to play for the Fire since I was really young," he said Monday. "The first team visited us in Mississippi when I was 10 years old and Justin was on the team then. He told us all about the time he had here and seeing another player from Mississippi come back year after year with the Fire made me want to be a part of the club."
A highly touted prospect with the Mississippi Juniors, the next year Gulley began a string of five consecutive summer visits to Chicago train with various Fire youth teams. In addition to training with the club's first team, PDL and Super-20 sides in 2010, he's appeared in three consecutive Generation adidas/SUM Cups with the Fire Academy (2009-11). Dorn contends that with no U.S. Soccer Developmental Academy program in the state of Mississippi, the CFJ presence in that state as well as Louisiana is vital for development of those players.
"Those CFJ clubs are fundamentally the main point of competition for elite level players in those areas," he said. "That underlines the point of why we do affiliations from a player development standpoint. To get players like that exposure in environments and arenas that they wouldn't otherwise have because they're not MLS markets. The payback on our end is finding a player in Kellen and he ends up right here with our first team. It's a proud day to see him come through and be an official member of the team up here."
A veteran of eight international caps for the U.S. U17 Men's National Team, Gulley was named to U.S. Soccer's Residency program in January 2010 and would have likely been a part of this summer's U17 World Championship team if not for an ACL injury which occurred last year.
Playing in his first "intense" training session since surgery on his ACL last year, Gulley felt positive about the experience of playing with the first team.
"It was good to get out with the guys," said Gulley after his first training session Monday. "I feel fine. I need to get my fitness level a little bit higher and I'll be good to go. I already know a few guys on the team so that makes things easier but I've gotten along so far and I'm looking forward to working back into form."
Gulley, who will wear #94 in reflection of his birthyear, will have plenty of time to find his form before seeing first team minutes. Part of his moving to Chicago this summer was to fulfill the required two years of "residency" mandated under Major League Soccer's "Home Grown Initiative". He will officially be a squad player for the first team come the start of the 2012 season but the striker will be available for selection in the team's remaining 2011 MLS Reserve League fixtures as well as being a part of the 2011-12 U18 Chicago Fire U.S. Soccer Development Academy side.
Familiar Mississippi Faces
After being away at U.S. Soccer Residency in Bradenton, FL, Gulley is used to being away from home, but will be joined in Chicago by two other CFJ-Mississippi products who are moving to the area to play for the Fire's U16 Development Academy side this year.
"Kellen's just one example of the job CFJ-Mississippi does in producing quality players. Hayden Cochrane and Mark Epps are two other players from the club that are coming up this summer to join our Academy. They've played with us at other events and felt like they needed to get into an MLS Academy program in order to continue their development. We're five years in and have taken that step with our Academy, bring more players in from the satellites is a great achievement and answers those that asked, 'Why Mississippi?', 'Why Louisiana?'".
Similar to last summer with the announcement of Pineda, the club is stressing Gulley's need for time for further development. Meaning any expectation of him starting in next season's First Kick match is unrealistic.
"In Kellen we have a great player that has tremendous potential to contribute to this club in the future but any immediate expectation is premature," said Director of Player Personnel Mike Jeffries. "The fact that he's not able to play for the first team this season takes a little pressure off but we think his ability to still play with the Reserves and Academy will be a good easing in to the first team for him when he becomes eligible at the start of next season."
Jeff Crandall is the Team Writer for the Chicago Fire. Follow him on Twitter @JefeCrandall.


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Correction: Lake County Avalanche story
PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) — In a story Feb. 17 about two Wisconsin men who died in a Colorado avalanche, The Associated Press erroneously reported that both still lived in Portage, where they grew up. Jarrard Law still lived in Portage, but Justin Lentz had moved to Sun Prairie in recent years.
A corrected version of the story is below:
2 killed in Colorado avalanche came from Wisconsin
2 skiers killed in large avalanche in Colorado from Wisconsin, family and colleagues say
PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) — Two skiers killed in a large avalanche in Colorado were good friends who grew up in a small town in southern Wisconsin, relatives and colleagues said Monday.
Three other skiers were hospitalized following Saturday's avalanche near Leadville, Colo. Rescue crews found the two skiers' bodies Sunday afternoon near Independence Pass, about 80 miles southwest of Denver, the Lake County Sheriff's Office said.
Robert Lentz said his son, Justin Lentz, was one of those killed in the avalanche. The 32-year-old, who grew up in Portage and moved to Sun Prairie in recent years, loved to ski and started when he was 5 or 6 years old, his father said. He said his son was "a good kid" who worked as an electrician and was engaged to be married.
Jarrard Law, 34, of Portage, was also killed. Law was an information-technology expert at the Necedah Area School District, where Superintendent Larry Gierach remembered him as an "incredible man."
"Jarrard had great skills with people and was an integral part of our planning when it came to technology," Gierach said. Many staff members thought of him as a friend first and as a professional second, the superintendent said.
The school district planned to make grief counselors available to faculty and students.
Lentz and Law were close buddies who frequently went skiing, snowboarding and mountain biking together, said Joey Kindred, 28, who knew them both well.
Kindred recalled how Lentz enjoyed competing with his friends with over-the-top snowboard tricks, even though he had a bad shoulder that popped out of its socket whenever he crashed.
"He'd fall down so often we'd call him Man Down," Kindred said. "He'd laugh, get up and do it again. And when his shoulder popped out he'd call over to his fiancee — she's a nurse — and she'd pop it back in."
Law was always the life of a party, but he was happiest when he was in the outdoors or spending time with friends, Kindred said.
Kindred had gone skiing and snowboarding with Lentz and Law in the past. He said the two had only skied at resorts in Colorado so they wouldn't have been familiar with the back country trails.
"I just wish I could have been with them to stop them from going down those lanes," said Kindred, who used to live in Colorado.
Saturday's avalanche was the third deadly slide in Colorado in less than a week, authorities said Sunday.
Susan Matthews, a spokeswoman for the Lake County Office of Emergency Management, said seven skiers on Star Mountain near Leadville triggered the latest slide around 5 p.m. Saturday.
"They were found near the top of the avalanche and they had beacons on, which really helped a lot," Matthews said. "The terrain there is extremely steep."
Three skiers were hospitalized with injuries that included a broken leg, a broken ankle and a possible broken rib and collapsed lung. One has since been released from the hospital.
Brian Lazar, deputy director of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, said recent storms that have dumped up to 6 feet of snow in some parts of Colorado's mountains have left most of the mountains in a "historic avalanche cycle." Such conditions have not been seen in the region since at least the early 1990s.
The snow has fallen on top of weak layers in the snowpack.
"A little snow or wind or the extra weight of a person in the wrong place could trigger an avalanche," Lazar said.
He said Saturday's avalanche was at least a 3.5 on an intensity scale that goes from 1 to 5, with 5 being the most destructive. The avalanche snapped several mature trees as it rumbled down the slope.
"It's breaking trees that have been there a long time," Lazar said. "This is a good indication that avalanches are running bigger than they have."
Associated Press writers Gretchen Ehlke and Dinesh Ramde in Milwaukee and Peter Banda in Denver contributed to this report.
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I've done so many wonderful things through the years—it's not easy to narrow them down to three, but here goes!
1. Working for Sebastian Founder Geri Cusenza and with the Sebastian Artistic Team in the 1990s. It was truly a "golden era" at the company and in the beauty industry. It was a time of incredible artistry, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit and it was thrilling to be part of it all. I helped develop groundbreaking products like Cellophanes, Potion 9 and Texturizer, and the amazing hairstyles that went with them. We all believed at the time that we were a company of hairdressers working to help other hairdressers have more creative, successful lives and it was the best feeling in the world.
2. It was an honor to serve as the first female president of the International SalonSpa Business Network (ISBN). This organization is committed to helping salon chains grow, whether it's a large chain like jcpenney or a smaller group with two or three locations. Everyone comes together to network and to exchange ideas, knowledge and insights. I had the opportunity to meet and become friends with many truly accomplished individuals within the chain salon segment—including SportClips' Gordon Logan, Paul Brown of the Paul Brown Salons in Hawaii and Chuck Penzone from the Penzone group in Ohio. I was also proud to lead the ISBN in partnering with the Professional Beauty Association to work on government relations in Washington, D.C. Many people don't realize that there are more hairdressers than there are union members in the AFL-CIO. We have the potential to be such a powerful force and I think we need to continue to explore that power.
3. I have had so many wonderful experiences and opportunities at jcpenney. It's a blessing to work for a company with so many other hairdressers, and with a team that is completely dedicated to helping hairdressers earn a better living. Every day brings something different—I work with our vendors and with many of the other jcpenney departments, I direct photo shoots, I oversee the INOurSalon magazine that we co-publish with Modern Salon media for our 17,000 stylists. I attend industry functions on behalf of jcpenney stylists. The variety really appeals to me as a hairdresser! I truly have one of the best jobs in the industry.
Beauty legend you respect: Again, it's hard to name just one. Certainly Sebastian founder Geri Cusenza—she was a brilliant, creative, genius hairdresser. She has such vision and I learned so much from her. I also have so much admiration for the late Diane Barbera, and for Terah Weeks and Jocelyn Zaco—all former members of the Sebastian Artistic Team. They were so talented and dedicated. I admire pioneers like Vivienne Mackinder, one of the first female artistic directors, and Lois Christie, the first female president of Intercoiffure. I admire leaders in publishing like Michele Musgrove of Modern Salon, Deborah Carver of Creative Age and Joan Harris of Canadian Hairdresser. All of these are self-made women. Nothing was handed to them and they all built incredible careers.
Choose beauty because: As my beauty school instructor told me, we have the power to touch people's souls and change their lives. I thought I understood it at the time, but it really became clear when I started working behind the chair, then owned a salon. Then I saw another aspect of that power when I worked for C.B. Sullivan as an educator for Sebastian, and again when I began working directly for Sebastian, training other educators. I learned even more when I served with ISBN and now at jcpenney. I hope hairdressers understand that they really do amazing things for people. If you understand that and use that power wisely, you'll have an incredible career.
Tip: Believe in yourself and be very clear about your goals. Write them down. Find a mentor. Be a mentor.
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13:58:53 <RRSAgent> RRSAgent has joined #sparql 13:58:53 <RRSAgent> logging to http://www.w3.org/2012/03/27-sparql-irc 13:58:55 <trackbot> RRSAgent, make logs world 13:58:55 <Zakim> Zakim has joined #sparql 13:58:57 <trackbot> Zakim, this will be 77277 13:58:57 <Zakim> ok, trackbot; I see SW_(SPARQL)10:00AM scheduled to start in 2 minutes 13:58:58 <trackbot> Meeting: SPARQL Working Group Teleconference 13:58:58 <trackbot> Date: 27 March 2012 13:59:05 <AndyS> zakim, this is 77277 13:59:05 <Zakim> ok, AndyS; that matches SW_(SPARQL)10:00AM 13:59:15 <AndyS> zakim, who is on the phone? 13:59:15 <Zakim> On the phone I see pgearon, [IPcaller] 13:59:22 <AndyS> zakim, IPCaller is me 13:59:22 <Zakim> +AndyS; got it 13:59:46 <cbuilara> cbuilara has joined #sparql 13:59:50 <AxelPolleres> AxelPolleres has joined #sparql 14:00:21 <AxelPolleres> trackbot, start meeting 14:00:23 <Zakim> +Olivier_ 14:00:23 <trackbot> RRSAgent, make logs world 14:00:25 <trackbot> Zakim, this will be 77277 14:00:25 <Zakim> ok, trackbot; I see SW_(SPARQL)10:00AM scheduled to start now 14:00:26 <trackbot> Meeting: SPARQL Working Group Teleconference 14:00:26 <trackbot> Date: 27 March 2012 14:00:29 <SteveH_> SteveH_ has joined #sparql 14:00:40 <MattPerry> MattPerry has joined #sparql 14:01:43 <SteveH> Zakim, who's on the phone? 14:01:44 <Zakim> I notice SW_(SPARQL)10:00AM has restarted 14:01:44 <Zakim> On the phone I see pgearon, AndyS, Olivier_, +43.517.073.aaaa, kasei, ??P6 14:01:49 <AxelPolleres> agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2012JanMar/0276.html 14:01:51 <SteveH> Zakim, ??P6 is me 14:01:51 <Zakim> +SteveH; got it 14:02:08 <AxelPolleres> chair: AxelPolleres 14:02:18 <Zakim> +MattPerry 14:02:31 <cbuilara> cbuilara has joined #sparql 14:02:55 <AxelPolleres> scribe: PaulGearon 14:03:02 <Zakim> +??P14 14:03:06 <AxelPolleres> Zakim, who is on the phone? 14:03:06 <Zakim> On the phone I see pgearon, AndyS, Olivier_, +43.517.073.aaaa, kasei, SteveH, MattPerry, ??P14 14:03:10 <cbuilara> zakim, ??P14 is me 14:03:10 <Zakim> +cbuilara; got it 14:03:16 <AxelPolleres> Zakim, aaaa is me 14:03:16 <Zakim> +AxelPolleres; got it 14:03:27 <AxelPolleres> Zakim, who is on the phone? 14:03:28 <Zakim> On the phone I see pgearon, AndyS, Olivier_, AxelPolleres, kasei, SteveH, MattPerry, cbuilara 14:03:41 <chimezie> chimezie has joined #sparql 14:04:16 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: goal for this week is discussing the further procedures for publications of the 3 docs coming up for last call 14:04:21 <AxelPolleres> topic: admin 14:04:39 <AxelPolleres> PROPOSED: Approve minutes at http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/meeting/2012-03-20 14:04:56 <Zakim> +sandro 14:05:03 <AxelPolleres> RESOLVED: Approve minutes at http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/meeting/2012-03-20 14:05:30 <Zakim> +LeeF 14:05:36 <AxelPolleres> Next regular meeting: 2012-04-03 @ 15:00 UK / 10:00 EST any regrets? 14:05:44 <Zakim> +chimezie 14:05:45 <AxelPolleres> regrets form axel 14:05:58 <chimezie> Zakim, mute me 14:05:58 <Zakim> chimezie should now be muted 14:06:24 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: news from the RDF WG? 14:06:24 <AxelPolleres> topic: rdf liaison 14:06:33 <AxelPolleres> working towards LC for turtle 14:06:44 <pgearon> AndyS: working towards LC for Turtle, nothing special 14:06:51 <AxelPolleres> agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2012JanMar/0276.html 14:07:26 <AxelPolleres> topic: next publications 14:07:32 <AxelPolleres> subtopic: CSV/TSV 14:07:47 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: AFAICT we have the necessary reviews 14:07:59 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: ACTION 593 594 14:08:43 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: 593 was just completed today. 2 small issues that have been resolved. Have not yet checked the updates in 594, but that has been done 14:08:58 <pgearon> AndyS: ready to publish 14:09:23 <pgearon> kasei: yes, ready to publish 14:09:27 <AxelPolleres> PROPOSED: to publish CSV/TSV as LC 14:09:43 <kasei> +1 14:09:50 <chimezie> +1 IE 14:09:52 <AxelPolleres> +1 (siemens) 14:09:54 <AndyS> +1 ASF 14:09:55 <pgearon> +1 Revelytix 14:09:56 <MattPerry> +1 (Oracle) 14:09:57 <sandro> +1 W3C 14:09:57 <LeeF> aye 14:09:58 <Olivier> +1 INRIA 14:10:18 <AxelPolleres> Zakim, who is on the phone? 14:10:18 <Zakim> On the phone I see pgearon, AndyS, Olivier_, AxelPolleres, kasei, SteveH, MattPerry, cbuilara, sandro, LeeF, chimezie (muted) 14:10:35 <SteveH> +1 Garlik/Experian 14:11:21 <AxelPolleres> RESOLVED: publish CSV/TSV as LC 14:11:30 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: date TBD 14:11:47 <AxelPolleres> 7 +1, no objections or abstentions 14:12:02 <AxelPolleres> subtopic: overview 14:12:24 <Zakim> +EricP 14:12:56 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: only managed yesterday to finish. Some small examples. Will not have time to work on this document any more 14:13:02 <LeeF> Probably! 14:13:08 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: Lee, can you do the review int he next week? 14:13:16 <AxelPolleres> Lee to review within the coming week. 14:13:40 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: more comments/questions on the overview doc? Else wait for review 14:13:48 <AxelPolleres> subtopic: query 14:14:14 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: resolution from last week, discussed in mail from kasei 14:14:20 <LeeF> In fairness, last week we did NOT discuss the ALLPATHS(...) option or the default semantics, so I think Greg's comments were well in order 14:14:31 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: could kasei summarize concern? 14:15:03 <pgearon> kasei: concerned with path speccing 2 semantics, and then providing syntactic preference for one over the other 14:15:09 <ericP> isn't the exhaustive semantics the default for the rest of query? 14:15:18 <AxelPolleres> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2012JanMar/0272.html 14:15:33 <pgearon> kasei: this is premature since we don't know which is the semantics that will be more desirable 14:15:34 <ericP> i'd expect that changing that default for one part of the language would be surprising for users 14:15:48 <LeeF> ericP, yes, which is why that was how our design went for pp, too, but we now have significant feedback that for pp non-counting often makes more sense 14:15:50 <ericP> much as UNION ALL is catches SQL users up 14:15:56 <AndyS> I believe there is a preferred semantics. 14:16:21 <AxelPolleres> q? 14:16:25 <AndyS> EricP - the comments do not align with your point. 14:16:35 <pgearon> kasei: suggest DISTINCT/ALL PATHS as keywords. But concerned we're making the decision without any basis and I think that will come back to bite us 14:17:01 <pgearon> AndyS: another concern. The info brought to the WG last time was that all commentors had been contacted and were OK with the approach 14:17:17 <LeeF> Right, not all commenters have been contacted 14:17:22 <pgearon> AndyS: but the last contact was in Feb and isn't the latest 14:17:50 <pgearon> AndyS: and one commenter was not contacted 14:18:23 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: one contacted was in touch and said he was OK with suggested semantics 14:18:36 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: did not contact "Yin" (?) 14:19:15 <AxelPolleres> s/Yin/Jeen/ 14:19:21 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: point of discussion was that semantics on paths was OK for them 14:19:48 <AndyS> action 600? 14:19:48 <trackbot> Sorry, bad ACTION syntax 14:20:19 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: danger is if we do not proceed with resolution from last week, then we may lock, and may end up having to do the entire discussion again 14:20:23 <sandro> q? 14:21:35 <AndyS> q+ 14:21:43 <pgearon> kasei: not suggesting that default should be one or the other. We don't have the data to make the decision yet 14:22:08 <AxelPolleres> grep suggests to have both keywords fom path expressions ALLPATHS( ) and DISTINCT( ) 14:22:08 <ericP> that's reasonably conservative 14:22:09 <pgearon> kasei: suggest using both keywords, and leave it up to implementations as to what to do if neither keyword is used 14:22:23 <ericP> takes up one new token in the grammar 14:22:38 <pgearon> +1 on kasei's idea 14:23:25 <pgearon> Sandro: we can use AT RISK so that if we get pushback from devs then we can choose which way to go at the end of CR 14:23:47 <pgearon> Sandro: so we can put off the decision for now 14:24:07 <sandro> (or, really, we can easily backtrack on this decision, if we mark it AT RISK.) 14:24:16 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: should we have a straw poll on this question? 14:24:37 <kasei> sandro, are you suggesting that the entire PP syntax would be at risk? I'm not sure what would be left below the 'at risk' part... 14:25:17 <ericP> how about "At risk: property paths require either the keyword DISTINCT or ALL to specify an exhaustive exploration of the path solutions. One of these keywords may be removed, making that semantics the default semantics for bare paths in graph patterns"? 14:25:32 <AxelPolleres> PROPOSED: Add alternative DISTINCT() and ALLPATHS() modifiers around full property paths to SPARQL 1.1 Query as an AT RISK feature, and add work on counting & non-counting operators or partial paths to the future work list 14:25:32 <ericP> (for the text in Query) 14:25:40 <AndyS> -1 14:27:10 <pgearon> AndyS: concerned we're just punting it to a later time 14:27:23 <ericP> how about "At risk: property paths require either the keyword DISTINCT or ALL to specify an exhaustive exploration of the path solutions. One of these keywords may be removed during CR, making that semantics the default semantics for bare paths in graph patterns. The SPARQL WG would appreciate relevent feedback to firstname.lastname@example.com from users and implementors."? 14:27:31 <AndyS> q? 14:27:37 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: if it's AT RISK then there's no fallback 14:27:47 <ericP> (specifies "during CR" and adds the plea for comments) 14:28:03 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: current fallback is the LC document 14:28:12 <pgearon> Sandro: the other fallback is to remove it completely 14:28:36 <pgearon> Sandro: reminded recently that PP is a time permitting feature 14:29:08 <pgearon> Sandro: trying to get an extension on the WG charter. This is hard to justify for a "time permitting" feature 14:29:41 <pgearon> AndyS: commenters are saying something reasonably clear: there IS a preferred set of semantics 14:30:08 <pgearon> AndyS: from outside, for *+ then non-counting makes more sense. It's more intuitive 14:30:37 <pgearon> AndyS: referring to the comments on list. There are 3 on the list 14:30:51 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: the Chilleans indicate they want an existential on the whole path 14:31:09 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: they want a non-counting semantics 14:31:37 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: Jeen is more towards what AndyS is saying. 14:31:40 <ericP> i note that our comment solicitation encourages only comments from those who aren't content with an ALL semantics 14:31:53 <pgearon> AndyS: Chilean paper is very much around * 14:32:00 <AxelPolleres> http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~jperez/papers/www2012.pdf 14:32:01 <ericP> (here's a doc, shout if you don't like it) 14:32:34 <pgearon> AndyS: not that other things aren't mentioned. It's a question of emphasis 14:32:52 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: paper discusses existential on paths. 14:33:09 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: "cardinality of this mapping would be one" 14:34:18 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: with resolution from last time we can deal with this semantics just by putting DISTINCT around the expression 14:35:08 <pgearon> Sandro: according to AndyS, we can just change the semantics to meet the comments. Don't need any new keywords 14:35:12 <pgearon> AndyS: yes 14:35:19 <AxelPolleres> * + alone dont make existential semantics. 14:35:24 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: can't get existential semantics just by changing * + 14:35:44 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: Chileans don't want mixed semantics 14:35:51 <pgearon> AndyS: where's that in the paper? 14:36:04 <pgearon> sandro: there's no need to follow that paper 14:36:25 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: the problem is if WE are happy with things 14:37:05 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: addressing discussion from the week. Started by kasei, and includes AndyS and AxelPolleres 14:37:23 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: are we happy with resolution from last week? 14:37:50 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: will kasei (or anyone else) want to lie down in the road over this issue? 14:38:12 <pgearon> kasei: from my understanding of the resolution last week is a problem for me 14:38:28 <pgearon> kasei: but there appears to be more to the resolution than what I read in the minutes 14:38:46 <AxelPolleres> what we resolved to was Option 3 http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/meeting/2012-03-20#line0225 14:38:47 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: last week we went with option 3 14:39:21 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: adding DISTINCT around full paths only. Other than that we leave the semantics. So the default semantics is around counting 14:39:42 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: DISTINCT changes to an existential semantics 14:40:34 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: proposal is to add an ALL keyword. kasei's concern is that the resolution has a lock-in to 1 default semantics 14:41:11 <AndyS> I prefer option 6. One implementation. Lower support costs. Natural semantics. Least block on future work. Mixed counting is the minimal way forward. 14:41:17 <chimezie> the option to have both syntaxes with a later determination of which is the default seems more appealing to me now 14:41:51 <chimezie> esp. if both syntaxes/semantics can be (easily) made mutually exclusive 14:42:03 <kasei> it was a condorcet voting implementation. 14:42:40 <ericP> my order of prefs: default ALL, require DISTINCT & ALL, default DISTINCT 14:42:45 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: could add a switch at the query level, but probably don't want to add that as well 14:42:56 <ericP> (descending order) 14:44:14 <AxelPolleres> We have various intuitions floating around on what is "intuitive", I am afraid 14:44:17 <pgearon> AndyS: 2 classes of operations. Simple like sequence and alternation. Then others like working on arbitrary length paths 14:44:48 <pgearon> AndyS: what are the natural expectations and work with that, even if it means different counting in different places 14:45:06 <Zakim> +LeeF.a 14:45:10 <pgearon> AndyS: so far we have failed to find what the expectations are in various situations 14:46:09 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: agree with have subtleties on the lower levels, but think our approach can address can address 2 of the 3 concerns 14:46:30 <AxelPolleres> default ALL, require DISTINCT & ALL, default DISTINCT 14:47:25 <AndyS> q- 14:48:44 <AxelPolleres> Andy: is "/" also distinct for you, paul? 14:48:54 <AxelPolleres> Paul: have to think about that. 14:49:42 <AxelPolleres> Axel: the chileneans definition (p.8) in their paper makes "/" also distinct 14:50:35 <pgearon> speculating that if our use cases also need / then counting semantics are more likely to be what we'd want 14:50:44 <AxelPolleres> PROPOSED: require eithrt DISTINCT or ALL around paths 14:50:55 <AndyS> We can define { ?x :p/:q ?y } ==> { ?x :p ?a . ?a :q ?y } ie. not as PP, but merely syntax short form. PP is just *,+,? 14:51:03 <chimezie> +1 14:51:12 <AxelPolleres> +1 14:51:13 <cbuilara> +1 14:51:21 <AndyS> -1 14:51:40 <AndyS> (fails on implementation cost issues) 14:51:42 <MattPerry> 0 14:51:44 <pgearon> 0 14:51:47 <sandro> 0 14:51:51 <kasei> 0 (like this, but would also want to allow syntax without a keyword and let the implementation decide the semantics) 14:51:56 <ericP> +0 14:52:07 <Olivier> 0 14:52:45 <MattPerry> I would be open to Andy's new simplification 14:52:53 <kasei> AndyS, what does (:p/:q)* do, then? 14:52:59 <AxelPolleres> The standing resolution is still the one from last time. 14:53:09 <pgearon> AndyS: that would be DISTINCT 14:53:32 <pgearon> isn't just the combination of operations. DISTINCT over something that isn't leads to an overall DISTINCT 14:55:33 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: changing the behavior of * and + did not find a majority last time 14:55:56 <MattPerry> I think last time we rejected addition of {*},{+},{?} 14:56:10 <pgearon> AndyS: approaching it from a minimal set of features and punt the rest to future work. This is why I'm suggesting getting rid of {} 14:56:34 <pgearon> AndyS: and also getting rid of counting features m/n 14:57:18 <pgearon> AndyS: can construct use cases that need it. This is a proposal that covers less 14:57:31 <MattPerry> I'm in favor of the simplification. I'm not even sure how I would explain all these variations to a user. 14:58:11 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: shouldn't ignore discussion from today, but we're no further than the resolution from last time 14:58:40 <Zakim> -EricP 14:58:45 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: recall that this is a time-permitting feature and this should not hold up the WG any further 14:59:03 <pgearon> AxelPolleres: need to discuss in email during the coming week 14:59:11 <AxelPolleres> let's take it to email 14:59:19 <AndyS> zakim, who is on the phone? 14:59:19 <Zakim> On the phone I see pgearon, AndyS, Olivier_, AxelPolleres, kasei, SteveH, MattPerry, cbuilara, sandro, LeeF, chimezie (muted), LeeF.a 14:59:41 <pgearon> adjourned 14:59:42 <AxelPolleres> adjourned 14:59:51 <Zakim> -sandro 14:59:55 <Zakim> -Olivier_ 14:59:59 <Zakim> -cbuilara 15:00:01 <AxelPolleres> rrsagent, make records public 15:00:09 <Zakim> -SteveH 15:00:11 <Zakim> -chimezie 15:00:15 <Zakim> -MattPerry 15:00:21 <Zakim> -kasei 15:00:23 <Zakim> -LeeF 15:00:31 <Zakim> -AxelPolleres 15:00:48 <AndyS> What are your requirements for a PP design? i.e. principles 15:00:58 <Zakim> -AndyS 15:01:10 <Zakim> -pgearon 15:02:04 <AxelPolleres> Andy, maybe a good question we should try to summarize on the list for next week...I think Lee's summary was a good start, but admittedly, I think it left out the lock-in aspect that Greg now brought in. 15:02:24 <AxelPolleres> need to run. 15:21:58 <kasei> The Chileans may have said they didn't want mixed semantics, but I note their paper doesn't use any examples where that would be an issue. 15:22:27 <kasei> They only discuss paths with * and + applied to a predicate (sometimes several times) 15:35:01 <Zakim> disconnecting the lone participant, LeeF, in SW_(SPARQL)10:00AM 15:35:02 <Zakim> SW_(SPARQL)10:00AM has ended 15:35:02 <Zakim> Attendees were pgearon, AndyS, Olivier_, +43.517.073.aaaa, kasei, SteveH, MattPerry, cbuilara, AxelPolleres, sandro, LeeF, chimezie, EricP # SPECIAL MARKER FOR CHATSYNC. 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North Florida Flatwoods
North Florida flatwoods are found on flat expanses of land with deep, acidic, poorly to very poorly drained soils. In some places, timber companies drained hardwood swamps and hammocks and planted them with pines. During heavy rains, North Florida flatwoods are often wet. The community is now dominated by planted slash pine, some 30 years old, with an understory of saw palmetto.
Hardwood Swamp
Hardwood swamps are found on level or nearly level areas with very poorly drained soils bordering the rivers. Historically these areas were dominated by mature bald cypress; however, heavy logging during the first half of the 20th century removed most of the mature cypress. Today the overstory consists of blackgum, red bay, loblolly bay, sweet bay, cabbage palm, red maple, and water tupelo.
Wetland Hardwood Hammock
Wetland hardwood hammock occurs on poorly drained soils subject to constant seepage or high water tables. These areas flood, but do not remain flooded as long as hardwood swamps. This community has luxurious vegetation and supports a greater diversity of plants and animals than found in either wetter or drier sites. The overstory consists of live oak, laurel oak, water oak, cabbage palm, southern magnolia, sweetbay, red maple, sweet gum, and red bay. The understory includes hawthorn, wax myrtle, witchhazel, saw palmetto, and yaupon.
Hardwood Hammock
On Aucilla WMA, hardwood hammocks are found in uplands near streams and rivers. Dominant trees include laurel oak, water oak, live oak, pignut hickory, and southern magnolia. The understory contains American holly, rusty lyonia, saw palmetto, sparkleberry, wax myrtle, and American beautyberry.
Cypress Swamp
Cypress swamp occurs on nearly level ground or in depressions with water at or above ground level for a good portion of the year. These swamps are dominated by either bald cypress or pond cypress and generally occurs as cypress heads or domes.
Freshwater Marsh
Freshwater marsh occurs on nearly level land with poorly drained soils. The marsh contains open expanses of grasses, sedges, and rushes other herbaceous plants. The soil is usually saturated or covered with water for two or more months during the year. Typical plants include beak rush, maidencane, bulrushes, sedges, spikerush, arrowhead, pickerelweed and St. John's wort, cattails, blue flag and fire flag.
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Barcelona have confirmed that left-back Adriano will miss up to six weeks with a hamstring injury sustained in their Liga match with Rayo Vallecano.
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After the wedding, reception, and a much-needed break,
I thought I'd get back to blogging by the end of May. However, due to the tragic tornado that hit and leveled a third of my hometown on Sunday, May 22, I must
continue my absence.
We are blessed that our home and immediately family members are fine. Unfortunately, our business was directly in the path of the storm. It was only one of the eight-thousand structures destroyed. Sadly, there were 15 deaths in the apartment complex located next to our building. In all, 142 people died due to the tornado. I have friends who lost family members, my new son-in-law lost his grandmother, and I lost a dear friend from my church.
It has been amazing to see volunteers flooding into our city from all over the country. Food, water, clothing, as well as clean-up crews, nurses, doctors, counselors. Representatives from state and national government agencies have been here to help meet immediate financial and housing needs. President Obama spoke at the memorial service yesterday at our local university. We have been blessed with a outpouring of love and help.
Please pray for comfort, peace, and strength for the people of Joplin, Missouri.
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