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Mark and Peggy Hudon are like regular people now.
Their kitchen smells of coffee only in the morning. The rooms of their home are filled with things like furniture and household appliances, instead of 100-pound gunny sacks of raw coffee beans from Columbia and heavy equipment.
After operating the Hood River Coffee Co. out of their Wasco Street house for 12 years, the Hudons have finally moved their specialty coffee roasting business to a new home — blissfully away from home — on Tucker Road.
"Last weekend was the first weekend in 12 years I didn't do something related to the business," Mark said. Even when the Hudons were trying not to work, the phone and fax, the cumbersome equipment occupying several rooms, the friends and acquaintances dropping by to pick up a few pounds of their favorite roast made it impossible to escape.
"I really feel that running the business from home had become a lot more stressful than any of us realized," said Peggy, referring to Mark and their 4-year-old daughter, Ellen, who has known her home only with the constant sounds and smells of the coffee roasting business.
Those days are gone now that every last machine and bean has been moved to the company's new digs at 1310 Tucker Rd. The brand- new building, finished just over a month ago, was designed by Mark so that "everything flows the way we wanted it," he said.
From a garage door where sacks of beans can be delivered and stacked just feet from the roaster to a special corner spot for the "after burner" — a towering machine that burns the acrid smoke created from roasting beans by incinerating it in a 2,500-degree flame — the coffee company's new home is a long way from, well, home.
The move was long overdue. When the Hudons first started their company in 1990 — then primarily a gourmet coffee bean mail-order business — they could do most of it from their laundry room. After they bought their first roaster and perfected their own style of roasts, the business grew quickly as local restaurants and stores started buying their beans. Soon the main floor of the couple's house was occupied by all things coffee.
Throughout the 1990s, the couple continued to add business accounts throughout the Gorge. They created special blends for local stores and coffee shops, becoming known for the consistency of their roasts. As their business grew, so did their accumulation of equipment and supplies needed to meet the increasing demand.
Things got even busier when Peggy, who handles the marketing and business end of the company, started marketing to the Portland area about a year and a half ago. Her efforts proved fruitful as several venerable establishments — including Caprial's Bistro and Elephant Delicatessen — dropped their previous coffee suppliers in favor of the Hood River company.
The Hudons went from roasting a few hundred pounds of beans a month to about 4,000 pounds. Mark does 16 separate roasts a day, each one starting with 25 pounds of coffee (a batch loses about five pounds in the roasting process). They produce 35 different blends and "straights" using about a dozen "varietals," or raw beans, for more than 200 regular accounts.
In February, the Hudons hired their first employee, Anna Pojtinger, who Peggy calls their "right hand gal."
Along with the main area of the building dedicated to roasting, measuring and packaging beans, the company's new digs have ample second floor office space, a retail room where people can buy beans and a "cupping room," where clients can sample different roasts.
"It's just a dream come true," Peggy said. Although the Hudons' roasts are now created in an "industrial chic" building instead of their living room, the Hood River Coffee Co. is still very much a family affair.
"Ellen helps me measure beans," Mark said. "She has her own little bucket." When she was a toddler, Mark would create roasts with her on his back in the baby pack; now she climbs on the stacks of beans as if they were a jungle gym and even has her own "office" next to her mom's.
Mark says that having created a successful business with his wife — one that has grown enough to require its own building — is satisfying.
"But being able to be with Ellen every single day," Mark said, "that's more important than anything else."
And now, like regular people, they can all go home at the end of the day.
Coffee beans can be bought by the pound at Hood River Coffee Co., 1310 Tucker Rd., and also at the following Hood River locations: Wy'east Naturals, Rosauers, The Gift House, The Mixer Shop at Hood River Liquor Store, and the Mt. Hood Country Store. In Washington they are available at Loafer's (Bingen), and A&J Select (Stevenson).
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Columbia Gorge CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) is happy to introduce its newest child advocates: Nicolette Hage, Antonio Marconi, Colleen Clark and Patricia Carty, of Wasco County, and Stacey Johnson of Hood River County, who were sworn in by the Honorable Paul G. Crowley March 6. These new advocates join a cadre of child advocates who serve our neglected and abused children in Hood River, Wasco and Sherman counties.
CASA volunteers are appointed by judges to watch over and advocate for abused and neglected children, to make sure they don't get lost in the overburdened legal and social service system or languish in inappropriate group or foster homes. Ideally, volunteers advocate for their CASA children until their court cases close and the children are placed in a safe, permanent home. For many abused children, their CASA volunteer will be the single constant adult presence in their lives.
Judges benefit from the fresh perspective brought to these cases by people not obligated to an agency, or bringing a professional point of view to court. Caseworkers and attorneys typically have large case loads and limited time to devote to each case. CASAs usually have one or at most two cases on which to focus. Since the children in these cases generally do not appear before the judge in person CASA volunteers are often referred to as "the presence of the absent: the voice of the child."
A few key benefits of CASA advocacy include:
n Children with a CASA are half as likely to spend time in long-term foster care (three years or more);
n Cases involving a CASA are more likely to remain permanently closed;
n Fewer than 10 percent of children with a CASA re-enter the foster care system;
n CASA volunteers spend most of their volunteer time in contact with a child (CASAs can give each child's case the sustained, personal attention he or she deserves). To a child, that means a consistent and caring adult presence in his or her life; and
n CASA advocacy saves taxpayer dollars. If the median length of stay were shortened for children in foster care by just one month, it would realize a national savings to taxpayers of approximately $2.75 billion (National CASA; www.casaforchildren.org).
CASA is able to advocate for half of our communities' children in need, but the other half is still waiting — for you. All volunteers receive 30 hours of pre-service training using the National CASA Volunteer Training Curriculum, as well as 12 hours of in-service training per year.
New advocate training sessions will begin in early May. If you are interested in learning more about the CASA program contact Susan Baldwin, advocate manager, at 541-386-3468 or 541-993-9506.
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Research grants 2004
Research Grants - 2004 ArchivePage archived at: Mon, 13 December 2004 09:33:12 +1000
- Multimedia and performance Education Teaching Facility.
Anderson, M., Ewing, R., Goodyear, P., Hughes, J., & Reimann, P.
SESQUI Teaching Equipment Grant: 2004.
- Evaluation of the AGQTP Project: Consistent Teacher Judgement Online - Science and Technology.
Anderson, M., Ewing, R., Horsley, M., & Smith, D.
NSW Department of Education and Training: 2004.
- Identifying pedagogy that promotes working mathematically for all students.
Bobis, J. M., & Anderson, M.
University of Sydney Sesqui Research & Development Scheme: 2004.
- Identity, belonging and citizenship in young Australians.
Bornholt, L. J., & O'Loughlin, M.
ARC Discovery Project: 2003-2005.
- Gender Equity and Public Institutions in NSW: Enhancing Democratic Participation.
Connell, R., Goodwin, S., & Schofield, T.
ARC Linkage Grant: 2000-2002, 2002-2004.
- Masculinities, change and conflict in global society.
Connell, R. W.
ARC Discovery Project: 2004-2006.
- Vocational education and equity in senior secondary schooling.
Crump, S., Connell, R., Stanley, G., Byrne, J., & Walker, K.
ARC Linkage Grant: 2000-2003.
- Action Learning for School Teams.
Crump, S. J.
Commonwealth Quality Teacher Programme Grant: 2003-2004.
- Linking Health and Educational Programs Through the Syllabus: Showing the Way-Sydney Children's Hospital.
Evans, D.
Sydney Children's Hospital: 2004-2005.
- Quality Teaching and Learning for Gifted Learners.
Evans, D.
Telstra Foundation: 2004-2005.
- Effects of Chronic Illness on the Education of Primary Aged Students.
Evans, D., & Parmenter, T.
Children's Hospital Educational Research Institute: 2004.
- Evaluation of the Australian Government Quality Teacher Program 'Action learning for school teams' activity.
Ewing, R., Smith, D., Gibson, R., Anderson, M., & Manuel, J.
Australian Government Quality Teaching Project: 2003-2004.
- Sport at the University of Sydney 1852-2002: A study of the values and organisation of sport in Australian higher education
Georgakis, S.
University of Sydney Sesqui New Staff Support Scheme: 2004.
- A pattern language for networked learning.
Goodyear, P.
University of Sydney Sesqui Research & Development Scheme: 2004.
- Challenging pedagogies: Engaging ESL students in intellectual quality.
Hammond, J., Gibbons, P. F., Cruickshank, K. E., Dufficy, P. J., & Hayes, D. N.
ARC Linkage Project: 2004-2006.
- Evidence based practice in out-of-home care: LAC-Looking after children
Irwin, J.
Kate Ogilvie Memorial Fund: 2003.
- Women and social development.
Irwin, J., & Goodwin, S.
University of Sydney International Development Fund Grant: 2003-2004.
- Evaluation of Green Valley Domestic Violence Service.
Irwin, J., & Laing, L.
Liverpool Health Service: 2004.
- Community Capacity Building on the Glebe Estate.
Irwin, J., & Napier, L.
NSW Department of Housing: 2004.
- Research review on innovation teaching and learning.
Jones, P. W.
DEST-Innovation Access Programme-International Science & Technology: 2003.
- Australia's International Relations in Education 1945-2000.
Jones, P. W., & Welch, A. R.
ARC Discovery Project: 2003-2005.
- The impact of changes in Family Court legislation and policy regarding parent/child contact on the safety of women who have experienced domestic violence.
Laing, L.
University of Sydney Sesqui New Staff Support Scheme: 2004.
- The use of blended learning environments for enhancing ICT literacy.
Markauskaite, L.
University of Sydney Sesqui Fellowship: 2004.
- Older persons with dementia who live alone: Good practices in community care.
Napier, L. M., & Waugh, F. E.
Mercy Family Centre Ltd: 2003.
- Global Education Project.
Newell, S.
AusAID: 2003-2006.
- Developing the field of coach education: A case study of elite coaches.
O'Connor, D.
University of Sydney Sesqui New Staff Support Scheme: 2004.
- Big Sisters Big Brothers: Mentors developing self-worth and confidence in disadvantaged and at-risk young people.
O'Hara, A.
Macquarie Bank Foundation: 2004.
- Origin and Evolution of Orient Cave.
Osborne, A.
Jenolan Caves Research Trust: 2004-2005.
- Cathedral Cave heritage and interpretation Research Project. Wellington Caves.
Osborne, R.
Wellington Shire Council: 2003-2004.
- Parent education for the treatment of severe behaviour problems in children with developmental disabilities.
Parmenter, T. R., Einfeld, S. L., & Sigafoos, J. S.
National Health and Medical Research Council: 2001-2003.
- Active citizenship of young people through electoral enrolment.
Print, M., & Saha, L.
ARC Linkage Project-Australian Electoral Commission: 2003-2007.
- Review and Revision of the Joint ACDE/ACDS Report into Professional Learning within Science, Mathematics and Technology Contexts.
Reimann, P., Sutherland, L., & Sullivan, G.
Australian Council of Deans (ACDE): 2004.
- Living with uncertainty: Creating the postmodern self in contemporary Australia.
Reynolds, R.
ARC Discovery Project: 2003-2007.
- Health Promoting Schools Literature Review.
Rowling, L.
South Western Sydney Area Health Service: 2003.
- Personal and social uncertainty in late modernity. A case study of loss experiences of first year university students.
Rowling, L., Scanlon, L., & Weber, Z.
University of Sydney Sesqui Near Miss Scheme: 2004.
- Managing risk in primary schools: Teachers' professional identity and work.
Sachs, J., & McWilliam, E.
ARC Discovery Project: 2002-2004.
- Evaluation of a post-school program for young adults with developmental disabilities.
Sigafoos, J., & Badenhop, A.
ARC SPIRT/Linkage Grant: 2001-2003.
- A sociocultural analysis of schooling for homeless students.
Walker, R.
University of Sydney Sesqui Research & Development Scheme: 2004.
- Building Global Universities: University Internationalization in Mainland China and Taiwan.
Welch, A., & Rui, Y.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange: 2004.
- Growth failure, obesity and cognitive development in Australian school children - an investigation into early nutritional deprivation and its cognitive and educational sequelae.
Wilson, R.
University of Sydney Sesqui New Staff Support Scheme: 2004.


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Beyond 'Game of Thrones': Exploring diversity in speculative fiction
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Nalo Hopkinson, novelist and a professor at UC Riverside. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)Link
This book cover image released by Del Rey shows "The Best of All Possible Worlds, " by Karen Lord. (Del Rey / /Associated Press)Link
Samuel Delaney. (James Hamilton)Link
Science Fiction writer Octavia Butler near some of her novels at University Book Store in Seattle in 2004. Butler, considered the first black woman to gain national prominence as a science fiction writer, died in 2006 (Joshua Trujillo / Seattle Post–Intelligencer)Link
"Throne of the Crescent Moon" (DAW Books)Link
Nnedi Okorafor (Anyaugo Okorafor Penguin Group)Link
Fantasy writer N.K. Jemisin.Link
"The Killing Moon" (Orbit)Link
Last August, Weird Tales magazine, long a fixture on the speculative fiction landscape, got hit with a heavy dose of online fury.
The publication had made plans to publish an excerpt from an ecologically themed dystopian novel in which whites are the oppressed minority and their oppressors are referred to as "coals."
Those who attacked the work were upset by a number of elements seen as racially problematic, up to and including the title, "Saving the Pearls,'' "pearls" being the book's term for white people and a word read as charged with an altogether different tenor than the notion of "coals." In response to the outcry, the magazine pulled the excerpt.
Online protests and allegations of racial weirdness in science fiction and fantasy are hardly new, but they began to seriously come to a head with the still contentious Internet debate dubbed "Race Fail 2009," sparked when authors and readers clashed over ideas about culturally insensitive depictions in fantastic literature.
That conversation has helped galvanize writers and fans of color in the science fiction and fantasy (SFF) community; their voices could be heard loudly in the swirl of protest over the Weird Tales excerpt.
For many, one larger objective is pushing back against the notion that readers of color don't read SFF. "I think the effect is forcing editors, publishers and marketers to reassess their assumptions as to what is acceptable and what will be noticed," said K. Tempest Bradford, a writer and critic who serves on the board of the Carl Brandon Society, an organization devoted to exploring race and ethnicity in speculative fiction.
"Really, what's happened [is] not so much [that] the fandom has changed, but that the fandom is less afraid to reveal itself for what it is," added fantasy writer N. K. Jemisin.
That Jemisin is currently one of the genre's rising stars speaks to both her talent as a writer and a craving by readers and critics for some aesthetic diversity.
Her epic page-turners — collectively known as the "Inheritance Trilogy" and the "Dreamblood" series — are filled with myth and magic, meticulous world-building, nuanced characters and sophisticated thinking about good vs. evil.
A couple of things you won't find: orcs or much that resembles medieval white Europe.
"I'm not drawing the George R.R. Martin fans, I'm not drawing the Brandon Sanderson fans, but I am drawing people who say in their Goodreads or Amazon reviews that 'I had stopped reading fantasy and then somebody gave me this,'" said Jemisin, whose most recent effort, "The Killing Moon," was nominated for a Nebula Award for best novel.
Of course, there is nothing new or even relatively new about such writers operating within the genre, even if their numbers were small. In 1857, Martin Delany serialized "Blake, or the Huts of America," an "alternative history" centered on a successful slave revolt. A 1920 short story by W.E.B. Dubois shows up in the influential "Dark Matter" anthologies edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, and Indian writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's 1905 story "Sultana's Dream" made an early contribution to the world of feminist utopias.
American writers Samuel R. Delany (no relation, according to Martin) and Octavia Butler, who emerged in the '60s and '70s, have become firmly established in the canon.
The last 15 years or so, however, have seen the growing prominence of strong SFF writers of color—so many you could almost start throwing out names at random: Nnedi Okorafor, Samit Basu, Hiromi Goto, Nisi Shawl, Vandana Singh, Karen Lord or the particularly beloved Nalo Hopkinson, who has become a popular speaker at science-fiction conventions and helped found the Carl Brandon Society, an organization devoted to exploring race and ethnicity in speculative fiction.
Also amid those ranks are the numerous authors featured in last year's well-received anthology of indigenous SFF, "Walking the Clouds."
"You don't have to be Eurocentric to make it to the future," said Andrea Hairston, a professor of theater and Afro-American studies at Smith College in Massachusetts, whose side gig happens to be writing award-winning science fiction. "We have to figure out how to be different together. [And t]hat is what storytelling is all about, particularly the mythological storytelling that we do."
Hairston and Bradford put smaller presses like Aqueduct, Small Beer and Angry Robot, on the vanguard here, but imprints within the main houses "are doing some interesting things," Bradford noted, citing Tor and Orbit as two that recently have fostered more diverse catalogs.
In fact, authors say they're receiving increasingly welcoming treatment throughout the industry — not only in terms of getting published, but also in receiving serious review attention and the kind of marketing that respects their work.
Such was the case for Saladin Ahmed, whose debut, "Throne of the Crescent Moon," was released last year.
"My editor and another editor who made an offer on the book explicitly committed to not whitewashing the cover," said Ahmed of the industry's practice of slapping white people on the cover of books that don't feature white protagonists. "That to me is a clear example that the protest on the Internet got through to at least a certain level of editors."
Ahmed ended up signing on with venerable Penguin imprint DAW. Betsy Wollheim, DAW's president and publisher, said for her the idea of wrapping Ahmed's book in a misleading design was never under consideration.
"I'm in a fortunate and privileged position, because I own my own company," she said. "I can make my own decisions."
Readers have had some success weighing in on those types of decisions. In 2009, after significant backlash, Bloomsbury Publishing backtracked on a design, rejacketing popular SFF young adult author Justine Larbalestier's book "Liar" in the U.S. with a non-white woman on the cover.
In general, Wollheim puts whitewashing on the same evolutionary track as the genre's eye-rollingly sexist covers, which became prominent in the 1960s. It took decades, but the industry has made a noticeable shift away from churning out covers laden with passive ladies in states of scandalous undress, even if the work there is still very much in progress.
DAW also served as publisher for Okorafor's acclaimed "Who Fears Death?" which heads into the post-apocalyptic future from an African vantage point.
Ahmed's novel — which was also up for a Nebula and which NPR called " 'Lord of the Rings' meets the Arab Spring" — is a gracefully written "Arabian Nights"-flavored high fantasy located in a faux Middle East beset by evil ghuls (a sort-of zombie). It stars a would-be retired ghul hunter named Adoulla (and his diminutive young sidekick) because Ahmed is interested in expanding paradigms beyond just multicultural casting or varied geographical settings.
"My hero is 60-plus years old," the author said of the protagonist of "Throne," book one in his "Crescent Moon Kingdoms" series. "That comes from the focus on age, and the wisdom that comes with age, in Arab culture. Maybe a 15-year-old is not who we need to follow around the whole time."
At the same time, "my class background is at least as important to me," he added. "I write working-class heroes."
For a genre predicated on the mind-altering, making a space for alternative philosophies ought to be a no-brainer, Hairston said.
"Whatever concerns us, whatever excites us, whatever makes us nervous," Hairston said, "all those things I think we can really work through in a primal way in fantasy or science fiction."
— Mindy Farabee
Mindy Farabee is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in Bookforum, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Daily Beast, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times.
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CULTURE- FRIDAYS UPDATE- Principal player: Principato brings quintet to town
DC-area blues guitarist Tom Principato rarely shows his face around town these days, but his roots here go back several decades. "I've been playing in Charlottesville for years," he says. "I started playing at frat houses in 1982."
He later graduated to Trax and the Mousetrap until– after popping in and out of the area several times for stints in Boston, Pittsburgh, and Austin–
he finally settled in DC for the long haul. While he was there, road-tripping it for shows at the C&O gave him his longest-running Charlottesville home.
"I played there when it was first called Sandy's," he recalls. After original owner Sandy McAdams left and the music hall closed up shop, Principato kept his Charlottesville connections alive by working with local musicians like Jimmy O and bassist-for-hire Steve Riggs.
Years later, though, Principato's calling card is still "Blazing Telecasters," the album he recorded with the late Danny Gatton in 1984. "I had known Danny for about ten years at that point," says Principato. "He often had a lot of frustration with the music industry at times, so he would go into semi-retirement. I thought a fun project would be to coax Danny out of retirement and add him to my band."
That usually means a trio, but recent lineup changes have led to the current five-piece ensemble with which he's working on the follow-up to his most recent disc, Guitar Gumbo. Released in 2005, the album is very Katrina conscious: Principato calls it "an eclectic amalgamation of Louisiana style funky stuff" influenced by the Neville Brothers and Professor Longhair.
Opening for Principato this week at Fridays after Five are the Deltas, Albemarle High School students and members of the AHS Jazz Band. Their first CD, Music from the Red Folder, was recorded last year at the Music Resource Center.
Tom Principato and the Deltas rock Fridays after Five August 24 at the Pavilion on the east end of the Downtown Mall... guess the time.


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New York City Housing Authority tenants are screaming about a hike in parking fees, Here's some advice: shut up and chill out.
How do you qualify for public housing if you own a car? Anyone who can afford to buy and maintain a car can afford market-rate rents and should not be eligible for taxpayer-supported housing. Exceptions can be made for disabled tenants, but everyone else must use public transit, ride bikes or walk.
A car is an unnecessary luxury if the NYCHA is your landlord. What's next, chauffeur-driven limousines?
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Santa's missing, and the Marvelous Wonderettes urgently need to find him to save the holiday party.
"The Winter Wonderettes," a new '60s-themed, Christmas musical opening Friday, Nov. 16, at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre, is a sequel to the summer 2011 hit Cabaret show "The Marvelous Wonderettes." We pick up where we left off with the Wonderettes — Cindy Lou, Betty Jean, Missy and Suzy — a few months after their 10-year high-school reunion.
"This is a heartfelt, fun, Christmas show," says director and choreographer Valerie Rachelle. "It not only has great music, but it also has a good plot line with some nice emotional journeys for the characters."
The show previews Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 14-15, opens Friday, Nov. 16, and runs through Dec. 31, except Nov. 19, 22 and 26-27 and Dec. 3-4, 10-11 and 24-25. Curtain is at 8 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays, and matinees will be at 1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
Preview tickets cost $19. Other tickets cost $32 for weeknights, $36 for Fridays and Saturdays, $30 for Saturday and Sunday matinees and $26 for Sunday evenings. Bistro seating is available for $18.
Reprising their Wonderette roles are Shae Johnson as the ditsy Suzy and Audra Cramer as the sensible Missy. In 2011, Johnson played Debbie Reynolds in Cabaret's production of "What a Glorious Feeling," and earlier this year, Cramer was musical director and pianist for "Let's Misbehave: The Songs of Cole Porter."
Katie Worley, featured as Jeanne Coyne in "What a Glorious Feeling," plays beauty queen Cindy Lou. Jillian Van Neil makes her Cabaret debut as Cindy Lou's nemesis, Betty Jean.
"I especially love my character, Missy," Cramer says. "I think of it as bringing out my 'inner dork.' My interaction with the audience makes each performance exciting and different."
Featured songs include "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," "Jingle Bell Rock," "The Man With the Bag," "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town," "Santa Baby," "Mele Kalikimaka," "Sleigh Ride" and "Run, Rudolph, Run."
"Winter Wonderettes" was created and written by Roger Bean, well-known for his "jukebox musicals," including earlier Cabaret productions "Route 66" (2002), "Honky Tonk Laundry" (2006) and this year's "Life Could Be a Dream."
Rachelle makes her Cabaret debut as director and choreographer of "Winter Wonderettes."
Dinner is available at 6:30 p.m. for evening shows, and brunch is available at 11:30 a.m. for Saturday and Sunday matinees. Appetizers, beverages and desserts are available during intermission at all performances.
A dinner-theater package will be available for the New Year's Eve performance Dec. 31.
For reservations and tickets, call 541-488-2902 or see www.oregoncabaret.com.
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Heart Failure
Heart failure is a general term that describes a variety of pathologic causes and contributing factors that result in the inability of the heart to pump sufficient oxygenated blood throughout the body to meet demands. Heart failure may develop rapidly or gradually as a as a consequence of a variety of pathological disease states including structural heart muscle defects, cardiac valve disease, pulmonary disease (eg, right-sided heart failure), coronary artery disease due to atherosclerosis, thyroid disease, and low red blood cells (anemia) to name a few (Foley 2012; Hunt 2009; Heidenreich 2013; Brum 2011; Iwanaga 2010; Ferri 2013).
Heart failure incidence is increasing. While 5.8 million people in the United States were affected by heart failure in 2009, the American Heart Association expects this number to balloon to more than 8 million individuals by 2030. Likewise, healthcare costs associated with heart failure care are projected to more than double in this timeframe, from $31 billion in 2012 to $70 billion by 2030 (Weintraub 2010; Heidenreich 2013; Hunt 2009).
These grim statistics parallel the largely unimpressive conventional medical treatment options for heart failure patients. A prospective 19-year study involving over 13 000 volunteers showed that in men and women without heart failure at baseline, more than 60% of those who subsequently went on to suffer from heart failure later in life did so as a result of atherosclerotic heart disease (He 2001). To this point, Life Extension® has identified at least 17 independent risk factors that must be actively managed if heart attack risk is to be managed optimally, which is of significant importance since prior heart attack due to atherosclerotic coronary artery disease is a major cause for subsequent heart failure. Unfortunately, mainstream medicine frequently addresses only one or two contributing factors for heart attack risk, such as high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol. This leaves aging individuals exposed to the ravages of unchecked heart attack risk factors such as excess homocysteine, insufficient vitamin D, and hormone imbalance & deficiency. This deadly oversight is a fundamental reason cardiovascular disease continues to plague so many Americans (Faloon 2009).
For example, a major gap in conventional heart failure care is neglect for the critical role that testosterone plays in cardiovascular health and the potential for testosterone replacement therapy to improve symptoms in heart failure patients. An estimated 25–30% of men with heart failure have low testosterone levels, but this easily correctable risk factor is overlooked by many mainstream physicians (Malkin 2006; Malkin 2010; Giagulli 2013). A comprehensive review of published studies revealed that testosterone replacement therapy for up to 52 weeks in men with heart failure resulted in a significant improvement in functional capacity compared to placebo (Toma 2012). These results led the researchers to remark "Given the unmet clinical needs, testosterone appears to be a promising therapy to improve functional capacity in patients with [heart failure]."
In contrast to the relatively unimpressive conventional treatment options for heart failure patients, a major breakthrough in heart failure research came in 2013 with the presentation of early results of the Q-SYMBIO coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) trial. This groundbreaking ten-year study provides strong support for a recommendation made by Life Extension many years prior in the context of heart failure. This exciting trial showed that CoQ10 supplementation significantly improves survival even for patients with severe Class III or IV heart failure while dramatically reducing incidence of hospitalization. Specifically, heart failure patients who took 100 mg of CoQ10 three times daily were significantly less likely to have a major cardiovascular event and significantly less likely to die from any cause during the study period compared to control subjects (Mortensen 2013).
As shown by in several studies conducted by Life Extension Scientific Advisory Board Member Peter H. Langsjoen, MD, FACC, CoQ10 supplementation is especially important for individuals on cholesterol-lowering statin therapy (HMG CoA reductase inhibitors). Statin medications block the biosynthesis of both cholesterol and CoQ10, and these drugs have been shown to worsen heart muscle dysfunction in heart failure patients (PH Langsjoen, Langsjoen, 2005; P Langsjoen, Littarru, 2005; Folkers 1990; Silver 2004). In one study, diastolic dysfunction (heart muscle weakness) occurred in 70% of previously normal patients treated with 20 mg a day of Lipitor® for six months. This heart muscle dysfunction was reversible with 100 mg of CoQ10 three times daily (Silver 2004).
Although heart failure can be a frightening diagnosis, the emergence of several novel therapeutic strategies and mounting evidence for the efficacy of some natural interventions offer additional hope for those afflicted with this condition (Mortensen 2013).
This protocol will outline the biology of heart failure and how the condition is diagnosed and treated by conventional medicine. State-of-the-art treatment strategies undergoing active research will be reviewed, as will the critical need to address the numerous insidious underlying causes of heart failure. In addition to several innovative and emerging therapies, nutritional approaches to improve exercise tolerance, functional capacity, and quality of life in patients with heart failure will be presented.As heart failure is a potential endpoint for several cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, a comprehensive strategy for minimizing risk or improving outcome of heart failure should also address its underlying causes. Therefore, readers are encouraged to review additional Life Extension protocols on atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmia, cholesterol management, weight loss, diabetes, kidney disease, and thyroid regulation.


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Bloomberg is citing several sources close to the matter (you know, those guys who know everything), and considering it's Bloomberg, it should be pretty reliable stuff. The BlackPad will be pretty similar to the iPad, except that there won't be a cellular version. Without WiFi, you're supposed to hook it up to a mobile phone over BlueTooth (Foleo, anyone?)
It doesn't require a megahuge brain to figure out that QNX' software would find its way onto RIM devices in some form or another, and a tablet seems like a good place to start since it wouldn't be fit for BlackBerry OS anyway. According to the sources, there's simply too much legacy code in there.
Who would've thought that one of my favourite operating systems - in wide use in what I call the real world (medical equipment, weapons systems, nuclear power plants, etc., where toys like Windows NT and Linux have no place) - would eventually find its way onto portable device from a large mobile phone maker?
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Need for Speed ProStreet gives you free tracks, free cars and more! Available now, at the PlayStation Store, gamers will be able to expand their ProStreet experience with the no-charge, Energizer Lithium Extender Pack. The pack features two new tracks (Leipzig Test Track & Tokyo Expressway) and two new cars (Plymouth Road Runner & SEAT Leon Cupra). The Extender Pack will also give gamers an opportunity to purchase 14 high-end dream cars including the first ever Bugatti Veyron to be experienced in a videogame, the McLaren F1, the Aston Martin DBR9, and many others! This content will also be available on Xbox Live Marketplace in the coming weeks. Keep checking https://www.ea.com/prostreet/home.jsp for more details.
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Global stocks tumbled the most since November and commodities fell as a report signaled the euro- area's economy contracted more than forecast and concern grew that the U.S. Federal Reserve may slow the pace of stimulus. The euro weakened while German bunds rose with Treasuries.
The MSCI All-Country World Index of equities lost 1.3% at 3:30 p.m. in New York and emerging-market stocks erasing this year's gains. The Standard & Poor's Index fell 0.4% after the gauge sank 1.2% yesterday, the most in three months. The S&P GSCI Index of 24 raw materials retreated 1.5% to a one-month low as oil settled at its lowest price of the year. The euro declined 0.8% to $1.3183. U.S. 10-year yields slipped three basis points to 1.98% as Germany's 10-year rate slipped eight basis points.
A report on the euro-area's economy signaled the region is struggling to recover from a recession, while U.S. data showed jobless claims rose more than forecast and Philadelphia-area manufacturing unexpectedly shrank. Fed policy makers said the central bank should be ready to vary the pace of its $85 billion in monthly bond purchases, minutes from the group's last meeting showed yesterday, spurring concern stimulus will be curtailed.
"We have a hangover from the minutes yesterday," Joe Heider, Cleveland-based principal for Rehmann Financial Group, which oversees $2.2 billion in assets, said in a phone interview. "Today will be in the red. We'll be negative as a result of this hangover. But I don't think it's a long-term trend."
Five-Year High
The S&P 500 dropped from a five-year high yesterday after rising 7.3% since the beginning of the year through Feb. 19. Indexes of commodity, industrial and technology companies lost more than 0.6% to lead declines in eight of the 10 main industry groups in the S&P 500 today. Intel Corp., Caterpillar Inc., Home Depot Inc. and Bank of America Corp. lost more than 2% to lead the Dow Jones Industrial Average lower.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, rose 2% as its dividend increase overshadowed a first-quarter profit forecast that trailed analysts' estimates.
U.S. jobless claims increased by 20,000 to 362,000 in the week ended Feb. 16, the Labor Department reported today. The median forecast of 48 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for an increase to 355,000. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's general economic index dropped to minus 12.5, trailing the median estimate for a reading of 1.
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By Janie Franz
You?re finishing up fall landscape maintenance and feeling that first chill in the air, heralding winter. You look over at your crew chief, who is supervising the fall mulching. He?s been with you for ten years, and you grimace at the thought of having to lay him off again, along with the rest of the crew, for yet another winter. You wonder if they?ll come back next spring, reliable as the first crocuses, or if you?ll have to train a whole new bunch. You?re still ruminating about it when you pull into your garage at the end of the day and spy your snowblower parked in a dark corner. Hmmm . . .
Many landscape contractors struggle with what to do with their crews and their own dwindling wallets come winter. John Allin of Allin Companies in Eric, Pennsylvania, found a very profitable solution. He does snow removal to the tune of $12 million a year, serving 14 states. He moves between 150 to 300" of snow a year in Erie alone, raking in a cool million for his troubles. More modestly, Joe Leopard of Joe?s Landscaping, Inc., in Fairborn, Ohio, turned to snow removal about eight years ago because, he says, ?I like to eat in the wintertime.? He keeps 10 to 20 people working in the winter, taking in $200,000 a year.
But snow and ice removal isn?t about profit alone. Ed Sinnott, CEO and owner of Clearwater Landscaping in Sun Valley, Idaho, says that he does snow removal and ice clearing because it protects many of the landscape installations he currently maintains. Nothing can elevate the blood pressure of a customer or a landscape contractor more than to see scraped and broken pavers, destroyed edging, or worse, damaged shrubs and trees after the first thaw, all due to snow removal mishaps.
Landscape-contractors-turned-snow-specialists like Sinott find ways to avoid, or at least minimize, snow removal damage. For example, using a snowblower or dragging a brush over decorative pavers can reduce scarring and breakage while efficiently clearing snow. That?s why contractors like Paul Richey of PR?s Lawn Care in La Porte, Indiana, do full-service maintenance, which includes snow removal, in yearly contracts for their clients.
Snow Jobs
There?s probably a snow removal job for every size business. Leopard?s customers, for instance, are mostly commercial: office complexes, shopping centers, hotels and motels. He does maintain some municipal parking lots such as the post office in Fairborn. Leopard?s company plows and spreads salt or calcium chloride. His crews don?t use sand; he says, ?That leads to more costs when the season is over due to cleanup. And salt works efficiently in the moderate temperatures of Ohio?s winters. Calcium chloride is used on sidewalks because it doesn?t scar as much.?
Richey also clears parking lots and loading docks for large commercial customers, as well as sidewalks for local hospitals. Located near Lake Michigan and about 40 miles east of Chicago, La Porte, Indiana, gets a lot of snow and a lot of wind, which causes drifts. Richey?s challenges come from finding ways to clear huge drifts of snow from large and small spaces. He chooses equipment depending on ?how many nooks and crannies there are.?
One of his bigger challenges was determining how to maintain two miles of sidewalk laid with brick pavers and studded with 132 planters. Because of all of the small spaces and the need for efficiency, and since he knew his crews would be out several times during the winter to clear the walks, he struggled to find ways to solve the problem. He used a combination of skid-steers with V-blades attached, zero-turn mowers with little blades, and chemicals. Richey even went to Denver for a landscape show to find out about liquid de-icers.
Allin, on the other hand, doesn?t worry too much about ice in Erie, Pennsylvania, but he does for other states his crews serve. For example, he says, customers in Columbus, Ohio, will have about fifteen salting events during the winter, but plow two or three times. In Erie, they?ll plow forty times and have only twenty ice and snow events. Allin?s customers are all commercial retail establishments like shopping centers which require a higher level of service. Handling 367" of snow last year in Erie, Allin says ?We?re prepared to move a lot of snow. Parking lots here are designed with snow dump areas so we don?t have to haul it.?
Sinnott?s crews in Idaho don?t usually deal with salt products in the ski area towns of Sun Valley, Ketchum, Hailey, and Bellevue, but they are prepared for heavy snows and high altitude working conditions. At 6,000 feet, his crews plow and spread sand from mid-November to late March or early April, clearing commercial and residential parking lots, driveways, private roadways, and sidewalks. Unlike Allin and his crews, Sinnott?s challenges are dealing with snowstorm after snowstorm, and finding places to put 100" of snow a season. ?We run out of places to store it [snow].? When the storage areas are piled too high, his crews have to haul it out.
Snow Solutions
So, what do these contractors use to move all of that snow, dig into drifts, and fit around small, tight areas? First of all, these guys know snow and ice in their regions just as well as they know rainfall amounts, soil conditions, and quirks in their individual growing seasons. They suit their equipment to the size of the job, the type of snow that they deal with (wet or grainy or icy slush), and what they already have in their fleet garages.
Equipment ranges from 30-foot snowplows to walk-behind snowblowers and shovels.
Most contractors use straight blade or V-blade plows fitted to the front ends of their pickups or skid-steers. It?s just common sense to put plows onto your existing pickup fleet, because many of the commercial jobs and nearly all of the residential ones can be done with a five-foot or six-foot blade.
Manufacturers are making more plows that can easily fit nearly every American-made or foreign truck. D. Dwayne Shaufler, vice president of sales and marketing for Sno-Way International, in Wisconsin, sells plows and spreaders mainly to landscape contractors, not only here in the United States but in other parts of the world. His products are built to attach to lightweight trucks like the half-ton Ford Ranger or Dodge Dakota. For example, Ford F10 and F15 series trucks have been equipped with plows used to clear pathways in parks in Wisconsin. Straight blades push the snow, letting you pile it in storage areas. They?re great for driveways, parking lots, streets, and apartment complexes. They come in sizes from five feet to twenty-four feet.
The V-blade is the most popular choice for moving a lot of snow, since it can tackle heavy wet snow or lots of grainy stuff. You can clear a path quickly and efficiently. V-shaped plows are most often seen on big highway plows that clear municipal streets or interstates. These are great for areas that need fast removal, where the snow can be just pushed aside into ditches or holding areas. Many streets in heavy snow areas are built with a parking lane wider on each side of the street so that cities can pile up snow quickly as they plow, freeing city streets for traffic faster.
The BOSS V-blade and Sno Way?s Lobo plow are hinged in the middle so that they can be inverted to resemble a V-shaped scoop. This allows you to direct the snow into a holding space as you clear the area. This is great for big jobs, moving snow in parking lots, apartment complexes, and some residential driveways. According to Rick Robitaille, marketing director for BOSS snowplows, the V-blade can cut working time by 25 to 30 percent. V-blades can also be positioned as a straight plow, making them versatile and able to fit almost any snow condition.
Shaufler says ?Contractors don?t have to have a huge fleet. The seven-foot, eight-foot, and nine-foot plow comprise a large portion of the market.? And you can fit them onto your existing trucks and skid-steers.
Some contractors like the back plow by Snowman Snowplows because you can back into a driveway or loading dock and not have to turn around or back into the street. The plow is constructed so that you can lift it like a backhoe and scoop out the drift close to the building. Sno Way has also developed a polymer cutting edge on its Suzuki Samurai units instead of steel. ?It won?t damage ornamental concrete, and the curb guards that fit on the blade keep it away from decorative edging,? Shaufler says.
Sno Way?s Boomer Sweeper attaches to the front of the truck and can handle snow as well as standing water, stone, gravel, and other landscape materials. Grotech?s Broomer Power Angle Broom attaches to the back of a truck as an independent unit, or can be attached to Snowman Snowplow?s lightweight Sport/Utility Power Angle plow.
Snowblowers range from the small walk-behind machines that many homeowners have to large six-foot wide blowing units that attach to front-end loaders. Sinnott finds the Volvo 75 horsepower snowblower to be very effective in blowing paver driveways.
Salt and sand spreaders can be fitted to truck tailgates. Sno Way offers a number of small spreaders. The V-box spreader spout is five feet to nine feet wide and ?puts 1/4 to 1/3 of a yard of sand right where you want it,? Shaufler says. The Snowman Snowplow also has a heavy-duty commercial spreader that can be attached to full size 3/4-ton and one-ton 4-wheel drive vehicles.
The best plan to attack winter snow is to use a variety of snow solutions to meet whatever comes your way.
Tips for Contractors
So, you?ve got your interest peaked about doing snow and ice removal. Can you really make it work? First, your initial capital outlay is minimal since you already have the labor and the fleet. All you need to do is buy a snowplow and/or a spreader. And boom, you?re in business!
If you?re thinking about raking in easy money during the winter with few headaches, though, Sinott advises you to reconsider. ?Take your profit and go to Hawaii instead.? Snow removal is tough on equipment and on crews. Be realistic, he advises. Know that your crew will be called out at 2 a.m. and on holidays.
Snow removal is an expensive tax on equipment and human beings. Make sure you charge enough to make it worth your time and overhead.?
Allin, who is also board president of the Snow and Ice Management Association (SIMA), tells landscape contractors who?d like to pick up extra profits in the winter to ?treat snow as a profit center. Price it properly. Your best margin is to price it per occurrence.?
In years with few snowstorms and little snow removal, Richey builds a safety net into his profit margin. He bills his customers for year-round service, heavy snow or not. Year-round contracts are one way to keep your business afloat, even in a year of few snowstorms or stiff equipment repairs.
Finally, Russ Kimball, owner of Kimball Property Maintenance in Salt Lake City, Utah, tells would-be snow specialists, ?Make sure you know what you?re doing. Don?t over-schedule and make sure you are covered by insurance.? He also suggests jobbing out contracts to subcontractors. That way you can take care of all of your customers? needs and not have to carry the total burden of equipment maintenance. ?You can?t buy enough equipment to take care of all of the customers out there. Let the subcontractors share the load.?
As you face the winter ahead, this year you might be looking at it differently, realizing that snowfall doesn?t have to mean profit fall. Offering snow removal services can put dollars in the bank at an otherwise bleak time of year.
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Wesleyan University presents the symposium "Innovations: Intersection of Art and Science" on Thursday, Feb. 28 and Friday, March 1 on the Wesleyan campus in Middletown.
The event, which will focus on the themes of research, teaching and activism within the fields of art and science, is co-hosted by the Center for the Arts and the Hughes Program in the Life Sciences and curated by choreographer Liz Lerman.
"The symposium will bring teams of artists and scientists together to share approaches, skills and outcomes of their research at the intersection of art and science," ac coding to the school.
Presenters will include representatives from the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, the RAW DATA project at TRIUMF (Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics), the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, the University of Colorado, Yale University and Wesleyan University.
The symposium is supported by the Reintegrate program of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, the State of Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development's Office of the Arts, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, and the Office of Academic Affairs of Wesleyan University.
Information: www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/innovations.


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In honor of the recent release of BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 we're giving the community FOUR chances to win a free BlackBerry PlayBook. Each week it's a new contest. With Week 4 here, you're probably wondering who won the free PlayBook for Week #3... and that lucky winner is...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Dodgers Sold To Magic/Kasten Group For $2B
Update: McCourt has enough dough to buy the Mets. LOL.
Conflicting info on whether McCourt continues to own the parking lots. Jim Alexander says no, Molly Knight says yes.
Update 2: The answer seems to be "yes". Molly Knight:
Again, from McCourt's press release on the parking lots: "Mr. McCourt and certain affiliates of the purchasers will also be forming (1/2)Update 3: LAT on the deal:
..a joint venture, which will acquire the Chavez Ravine property for an additional $150 million." (2/2)
If the deal closes as expected, the Dodgers would be owned by an entity called Guggenheim Baseball Partners and run by Stan Kasten, the former president of the Atlanta Braves and Washington Nationals.Molly Knight:
Someone better hand Jamie McCourt a stiff cocktail. She "only" gets $131 million out of the deal.
Update 4: ESPN LA.
Update 5: The parking lots will be controlled by the incoming Magic/Kasten group.
Update 3/28: The dodgers.com story is here, with additional biographic info on Stan Kasten here. Jon Weisman's take on the team's to-do list can be found at ESPN, while Mike Petriello's thoughts can be found here and here. "Finally seeing him on his way out, well… it's like Christmas multiplied by your birthday times twelve Super Bowls, plus kittens." And puppies. And ponies. I hope. I want to get something out on this later today; my initial reaction is that the purchase price is so high that many of the issues MLB claimed to have with McCourt ownership are still around for the new Magic/Kasten group. Read this way, the McCourts' eviction can be seen as a pure morality play, a verdict rendered on the squandiferous and self-absorbed McCourts. That's perhaps a bit harsh, but I can't understand how MLB feels this incoming bid — which has even more debt to buy the team (at least half, by what I recall) — is in better straits financially.
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A winner was selected from 81 designs submitted by 39 freelance designers.
We are not entirely certain of what we want but it needs to be print friendly vector based. I would like to see as many different logo directions as possible so we can develop a firm idea of the possibilities and choose a direction.
There's room for more design work once this contest is won too, eventually we'll probably want a full identity package.
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Texas A&M's Webb dominates Texas Relays
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Taking off his cleats and sipping a cup of water after cruising to the 100 meters title at the Texas Relays, Texas A&M's Ameer Webb looked to the future and smiled.
"We want that national championship," Webb said. "We want to smash nationals."
His optimism is understandable. The Aggies are fast and out it prove it.
Webb is a 200 specialist and his win in the 100 capped an impressive team performance that saw the Aggies men snatch three victories Saturday in the first big outdoor meet of the year.
Running on a sunny and pleasantly breezy day in front of about 20,000, the Texas A&M men won the 400 and 800 invitational relays and the women won the 400 relay.
Webb and teammates Michael Bryan, Prezel Hardy and Aldrich Bailey ran both of the winning relays. Their time of 38.64 seconds in the 400 was third-best in the world this year.
Webb took the 100 in 10.14 seconds in a race that he had under control from the start.
"After the relays, I just wanted to come out and put up a good time," Webb said. "I didn't expect to win like that. I'm proud of myself."
Texas A&M women' tied the meet record in the 400 relay in 42.56 seconds, matching the mark the Aggies set in 2010.
Louisiana State's Kimberlyn Duncan defender her title in the women's 100, coasting past the field with a wind-aided 11.06.
Like Webb, Duncan's specialty is the 200 meters. They both won NCAA indoors titles in that event earlier this month and moving outdoors had little effect.
"I felt good," said Duncan, who added she'll start running the 200 next week. "I feel like I can win the (100), but there are girls out there who are going to push it. I'll have to keep up with them. I'm ready to see what it looks like."
Indiana's Derek Drouin won the men's high jump with a height of 7 feet, 6 ½ inches, topping a talented field that included four of the top six finishers at the NCAA indoor championships. Six jumpers cleared at least 7-3 Saturday.
"I think that I jumped pretty well. I said coming in I would be happy with 7-6 and got a good clearance out of that," Drouin said. "Hopefully even higher heights will come toward the end of the season toward championship time."
Drouin won a bronze medal at the London Olympics last year for Canada. Two-time defending Texas Relays champion and Olympic silver medalist Erik Kynard of Kansas State faded to third behind Mississippi State's Marcus Jackson.
Drouin, Jackson and Kynard also finished 1-2-3 at the indoors championships..
"It's upsetting but it happens," Kynard said. "Derek is a great jumper. We've been battling for a while ... We have a rivalry here, no bones about it."


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Former WWE announcer Matt Striker joined Busted Open with Doug Mortman and Mike Riker. You can hear Busted Open on Sirius 92, XM 208 and on the app on Sports Zone. They sent us these highlights from the interview:
His feelings on being released from the WWE: "Yeah I mean it's, it's kind of like losing a family member. It's kind of like breaking up with your best girl. It's�it sucks. From what I understand, WWE is continually growing and wants to go in certain directions and invest in certain new directions and talents and for whatever the reasons were, I was not a part of that growth process. And I say this in all honesty; if the number one creative minds in the company that we all love says right now, you don't fit in here. Even if I wanted to stomp my feet and cry and scream, I have to respect the fact that there's a reason for everything. And if these minds are making this executive decision, who am I to counter that? I'm sure there is a reason for it. Maybe it's something I'm not supposed to know. But either way, it's the decision they made and I have no choice but to respect it."
What other possible growth did he need to do to remain with the company: "I think what, now in retrospect that I didn't understand then was; an announcer's role, an interviewer's role is to just be vanilla. It's like being a referee, we shouldn't notice you. And I think that the difficult position I was in was try not to be noticed. And that's difficult for me when passion just kind of oozes out of me. And for whatever the reason is, in the assignment I was given as an announcer or as a backstage interviewer, perhaps I stepped�just my shoulder too much into the spotlight. Or for whatever the reasons are, you know, that's the case. And that's it. I made a joke in another interview that in 6 months, I'm gonna get real fat, grow my hair out, grow a beard and go apply for a job in the WWE mailroom and see if anyone notices just so I can be around the product. Just kind of still hang out with the cool kids, so to speak."
If he knew or had a feeling he was going to be released: "Well looking back on it, yes and no. I think in my naivety and my ignorance I didn't want to see the writing (on the wall). In the last month or six weeks, I wasn't on any WWE programming at all. Whether it be the app or other than Superstars commentary. I was wondering if maybe there was something coming down the line, maybe they was a new idea to put me back as a manager or a competitor or whatever the case may be. But I just started to see that a lot of new faces were coming in and their marching orders were very different. And they towed that line and I always kind of seemed to, do my thing. You know I just couldn't resist telling anyone about Nick Bockwinkel and Larry Zbyszko. And damn it no one cares."
The lack of history or knowledge of wrestling being integrated into the current product: "Guys you got to understand something. WWE is an entertainment company that uses wrestling as a vehicle, it's not a wrestling company. And that's something I had to learn. No one give's a crap about Billy Robinson. No one cares about Mr. Saito and Mr. Fuji. All they care about is that John Cena has to take on Mark Henry and why. And I think that's something that we all need to kind of understand."
If there is a place for him in the WWE in the future: "I appreciate when people come up to me but the people who make that decision? The three main people don't feel that way. Which also leads me to believe there has to be a reason. I may have done something that I don't know about that has gotten back to the WWE and they are just trying to protect themselves and me by saying, you know what? Let's cut ties with you for a little while. I don't know. That's the big thing but again when you're a kid and your mom says you can't go out and you say why and she says because I'm your mom and I say so. And that's it."
His emotional ties to the WWE, how much he loves the company and if part of him wishes he was still there: "Oh yeah. I'm not gonna lie. (laughs) Are you kidding me? A little insight into the person that plays Matt Striker, I guess. I never had a lot of friends growing up. And I never really fit in anywhere. I have a lot of anxiety. And I'm antisocial. I'm aloof. And the only time I ever felt like I belonged anywhere was when I was amongst my brethren in the WWE because we're all a little different. And a lot of people think well you're Matt Striker, you should be the life of the party. I become frozen with anxiety in social situations cause I have nothing to say and I don't fit in. So I think that is where the emotion comes. It's the only place I really ever fit in was in WWE."
Why he hasn't used social media to rip on the WWE: "I have no reason to. I don't have a genuine gripe and again, I have to humble myself and take a step back. You gotta understand. I was a guest in their home. A short little kid from Bayside, Queens has no business being in the WWE for almost eight years. And I'm aware of that so I have nothing bad to say even if they all come out and say you were the worst and we hope you die! I still have nothing bad to say about them. I'm just thankful for the opportunity they gave me. And it's not so that six months from now maybe they'll call me back. If they never, ever call me back, I still will say that I am thankful for the opportunity they gave me because let's be honest. Did anyone think I was gonna last this long?"
Some of his favorite colleagues, memories with the WWE: "You have to understand for me, coming into the WWE, I had all of these heroes in my mind. And you get to meet some of these guys, and you go wow. Not only are you a hero of mine nut you're actually a decent person. And you go on to become a friend, and you go on to become a mentor. And I'm speaking of William Regal in this regard. William Regal is one of my top five all-time favorite wrestlers. Ever, ever, ever, ever. EVER! And then I got to meet him. And then I got to work with him. And I got to learn from him. And it's almost like when you meet your favorite ball player and he is a jerk. And as a kid you're like oh god. That stinks. I met Keith Hernandez and he was an idiot. Versus�. I don't know why I picked Keith Hernandez. Versus Wow. William Regal. And on top of that, the man who plays William Regal actually is a decent guy who becomes a friend? I mean that's just--that anchors you to the ground because everything I learned from William Regal, I now can pass on to someone else. And do for them what a guy like William Regal did for me.
"Guys like Edge. Edge became one of my best buddies. My riding partner. You're Edge! You're a Hall of Famer! You're a multi-time world heavyweight champion! You can go anywhere. You can wipe the bottom of your shoe with a guy like me. And yet, you're my buddy? That's the closest I will ever get to the Hall of Fame is being mentioned in Adam's speech. And we're buddies. And we talk about hockey and we go to the movies together when we were around. And we developed--Adam and Matt became friends. Striker and Edge, something entirely different. So you know there are a lot of guys that I developed a good connection with. It goes back to the fact that I can't connect with anybody. I mean, I lost my dad five years ago, he was my best friend. I have no meaningful relationships in my life. My girlfriend hates my guts because I just can't emotionally connect. It's a void in me, it's broken. But I was able to connect with a lot of people up at WWE."
His chemistry with Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler on commentary: "Well at first I think the direction was for me to spike the drink. Get out there and do your thing. Take over damn it. And then slowly but surely it's almost like the teenager that talks back to his parents after a while and then when he's 30 he comes back home and says Mom, Dad; you were right. I tried too hard to be what I thought was good and cool. And I keep going back to this. Again. NO ONE CARES ABOUT KEN PATERA. And it has no bearing on what's going on here. And guys like Jerry Lawler, who have been doing this for 20 years, would try to sit me down and teach me. Listen. Speak in shorter sentences. Speak in sound bytes. Tell me stories. Make these Superstars on television. Make them three-dimensional. Make people care about them. But always remember who our viewers are. I was talking to guys like you. And people that listen to your show (Busted Open). But they are talking to the little kid wearing the John Cena shirt. And that was my fault and my disconnect for not being able to reach that fan base. In my opinion."
If the WWE used him to his full potential: "I think that it's not for us to say what the full potential was. If the creative forces at WWE saw me as an annoying teacher who at some point gets his head taken off with a John Cena clothesline and that's gonna help sell tickets for people to see John Cena face Ryback next week, then I am being used to my full potential. Was anyone going to believe me as the guy that could beat John Cena? If you saw John and I at a bar, would you really think that I could beat up John Cena? No. But you say the same thing about a guy like CM Punk. But then Punk gets on a microphone and damn it if you don't believe everything that Phil says. Everything he says, he believes."
What's next for him: "Well I'm thankful that I have a lot of offers. I'm definitely going to explore the commercial, voice-over, hosting world. I also would like to somehow maybe get involved in sports. Maybe do some stunt work for some films. That is something that I always wanted to get involved in. I have some contacts for that. And if nothing else, I go back to my dad, who told me just do me a favor and go get your teaching degree that way if you blow your knee out tomorrow, you can always work. September's coming around. There are six major universities within 20 miles of where I live. So I can get a job at a college, try and get a job at a high school. I'm thankful the WWE for what they taught me and now it's my turn to go out onto the Indys when it is appropriate. And hopefully teach the new young guys that are coming up because somebody once did that for me. And if I can see one of these Indy guys on the WWE program one day, maybe I've done my service and contributed to the business."
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Mortgage loan originator recognized for utilizing Fusion ioMemory ioDrive cards and Citrix XenApp virtualization to minimize infrastructure, reduce power consumption, and deliver outstanding performance.
The Challenge
With over 400 employees distributed across branches in 13 states, Starkey Mortgage's IT staff has its work cut out for them, but Chief Information Officer Bill Burke has always looked at such challenges as an opportunity instead of a hurdle. Bill told us, "Starkey Mortgage has long viewed IT as a way to gain competitive advantage instead of being a black hole of infrastructure spending."
One way Bill's IT team has accomplished this is by virtualizing its entire end-user experience with Citrix XenApp. "In 2007, we moved from a physical server environment to a VMware-backed Citrix XenApp environment," Bill explained. "This greatly reduced our IT staff's workloads, reduced the cost of workstations, and even reduced workstation power consumption because fewer apps were running on them and required less RAM."
But as the size of Starkey Mortgage's workforce grew, performance became a problem. Bill said, "As we added employees, our SAN began to struggle during peak traffic times. Security and compliance auditing tasks added to the VM performance workload. We knew that I/O was the bottleneck, so our engineering team began looking for the best solution."
The Solution
Starkey Mortgage's IT team evaluated several technologies and after meeting with SanDisk® representatives, determined that SanDisk's Fusion ioMemory ioDrive cards were the best solution.
Bill said, "We looked at some flash solutions that would improve SAN performance, but these solutions would have required additional investment in network infrastructure and increased our system's complexity and power requirements. SanDisk's approach of putting data in the server just made more sense."
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The first thing Bill's team did was to baseline the performance of the storage systems. He looked at the performance of his SAN storage for a 60-day period prior to installing Fusion ioMemory solutions and then compared the performance for the ensuing 60-days. The results , shown below, demonstrated significant improvement in efficiency and load reduction.
Powering Productivity and Positive User Experience
Bill's tests show that the majority of the read requests are now being serviced from the ioDrive cards. This provides a dramatic improvement in the latency of the system, reducing it by over four times. CPU utilization more than doubled, going from around 12% to around 30% sustained utilization.
The true test came when Bill's team deployed and gathered feedback from application users. The combination of high IOPS with the ioDrive card's industry-leading low latency delivered a user experience that far surpassed Bill's expectations.
"We first deployed the system to our power users and asked them for honest critiques," said Bill. "The results were much better than we'd anticipated. One user told us, 'The performance is fantastic, wonderful, marvelous.'"
Help for the Help Desk
Another benefit of a better user experience was in the reduction of performance-related complaints received by the help desk.
Brian Klesc, Lead Network Engineer, told us, "Before we had SanDisk, Windows would page idle applications and services to disk. Users returning to a paged application would find it slow to load or even disconnected from Citrix entirely. These types of complaints are less common now. Since SanDisk came on the scene, we've noticed significant and immediate improvements throughout the company."
Boot Storms Eliminated
Starkey tested several SanDisk-powered XenApp servers with 92 concurrent users on a single ESXi server, with the following results:
"At first I thought we had made a mistake somewhere in our testing, since we had never seen zero latency before. I actually asked one of the engineers to take a second look and verify that we were truly seeing no latency even during peak demands."
Greater End-to-end Efficiency
In addition to improving performance, the ioDrive cards allowed Bill's team to improve the end-to-end efficiency of Starkey Mortgage's entire virtual desktop infrastructure. Implementing ioDrive cards allowed Bill's team to increase its virtual desktop infrastructure performance profile without adding infrastructure or increasing system complexity.
"Moving the XenApp applications onto ioDrive cards in the ESX servers greatly improved the speed at which XenApp served applications without adding more servers," Bill said. "It also reduced the I/O burden on our SAN, so our databases could run faster while maintaining our HA profile. Additionally, it reduced the amount of data going over our network, giving us room to grow there as well. In essence, we significantly scaled performance without scaling maintenance and energy costs."
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Implementing ioDrive cards in their Citrix XenApp environment gave Starkey Mortgage the following benefits:
Bill is very happy with the performance the ioDrive cards delivered to Starkey Mortgage's virtual desktop infrastructure system and is now targeting other areas where SanDisk solutions can improve performance without scaling infrastructure.
About Starkey Mortgage
Starkey Mortgage is a privately held mortgage banking company headquartered in Plano, Texas. The company has offices in Texas, Colorado, Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Oklahoma. Starkey Mortgage is consistently ranked in the top 30 companies in the U.S. for mortgage originations with a retail-only presence. With over a decade of commitment to establishing and maintaining relationships, Starkey Mortgage differentiates itself by fostering a corporate environment where people truly come first.
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The Niagara County Law Enforcement Academy is immediately accepting applications for its next class of sworn recruits and pre-employment students. The academy runs Jan. 13-May 7, 2014.
Accepted applicants must complete a physical fitness test. The first PT test is scheduled for Oct. 24 at 8:30 a.m., but others will be scheduled.
Founded in 1973, the NCLEA was originally formed to serve the police agencies of Niagara County, but is now assisting law enforcement departments in Erie, Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming and Livingston counties as well.
Niagara University is the only four-year, private college in New York to host a full-time police academy.
Administered through Niagara University's Office of Continuing Education, the NCLEA trains sworn officers and has been approved by the Division of Criminal Justice Services to train pre-employment recruits. It is designed for current civilians throughout New York state who are interested in entering the law enforcement field.
Due to the typically high volume of applications and the limited number of openings for the academy, interested individuals are encouraged to apply as early as possible.
For more information about the Niagara County Law Enforcement Academy at Niagara University, visit www.niagara.edu/nclea or email [email protected].
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university's Yellow Bike Program provides free bike rentals to students, staff,
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Bikes rentals are good for up to seven days, and include a lock, key, and helmet. After
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patron's LOUIE account. The Yellow Bike Program currently does not use a
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bike to allow others to make use of the program.
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Titans statement regarding Maurice Blair
The Gold Coast Titans have today been informed that new recruit Maurice Blair was allegedly involved in an incident in Maryborough on New Year's Eve.
It is understood Blair was charged by police and the club is currently seeking full details of the charges.
In the interim, Titans Chief Executive Officer Graham Annesley has issued the following statement:
"We have only just been made aware of the incident and have immediately notified the NRL's Integrity Unit,'' said Annesley.
"We are endeavouring to find out all the details and will be speaking to both the player and his manager as soon as possible.
"Until we have a full understanding of the facts, we won't be prejudging the matter or jumping to any conclusions.''


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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Quick lunch soup
It is cold, if you live in the Northern half of the world you might have noticed. Inspired by this post at the Kitchn today, I whipped up some soup. I had been envisioning something delicious with rice noodles and eggs, but I forgot to use eggs, and there weren't any rice noodles at my dads house. There was, however, leftover white rice. This took maybe 10 minutes start to finish, and filled me up quick, and I bet Alex will be jealous when he sees this. Sorry, baby.
Vegetable and Shrimp Soup
Obviously this will take longer if you don't have leftover rice, but if I were you, and you have rice noodles, I'd just use those instead. Boil some water and pour it over the noodles, then let sit for 3-5 minutes until they're soft. Toss with some sesame oil to keep from sticking.
Makes 2 servings, half or double as you wish.
4-6 raw frozen shrimp, thawed
1 chunk of broccoli
1-2 cloves of garlic
1 t minced ginger
1 zucchini, chopped up
1 chopped jalapeno (or sub 1/2 t chili flakes)
seasoned salt
1 T soy sauce
1 t rice vinegar
3/4 c cooked rice
1 1/2 c water
Chop up your shrimp, and cut the broccoli into small florets. Heat up a little bit of oil in a small pan, and add the broccoli, garlic, ginger, zucchini, jalapeno or chili flakes, salt and pepper. Cook 3-5 minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are cooked. Add the shrimp, and cook another minute or two until pink. Add the soy sauce and rice vinegar, rice, and water. Stir everything together, bring to a boil, and taste to see if it needs salt. I might stir in a bit of miso next time, and some peas.
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Kevin Van Trump has over 20 years of experience in the grain and livestock industry.
Weather remains the theme in the Ag markets. A slightly drier extended forecast for the cornbelt caused a few of the weather bulls to pause yesterday. Basically the GFS model removed some of the rainfall in the Midwest starting next week, now it looks a little wetter. With falling temps, more rain and snow now hitting the ground across many parts of the Midwest (13' inches of snow in parts of MN, winter weather advisory in IA) the trade should remain hesitant today in reducing any additional weather related premium.
USDA weekly export sales data this morning seen as strong for new-crop corn, beans and wheat. Cancelations and negative sales reported for old-crop beans for the second weak in a row... Chinese soy demand slowing???
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Sound Problem?!
Okay so today I used my insignia for two hrs at the gym, listening to it all the way walking to the car and then once I got to the car I unplugged my headphones from it and plugged it into my FM transmitter (to play the music over the radio stations) and it sounded awful (which had never happened before). So I plugged my headphones back in to listen to it and it still sounded awful.
(((I've had the FM transmitter for a while and never had problems with it... but idk if it screwed up my mp3 player or if this just happened on its own)))
But anyway the sounds sounds like its mono almost.. i can hear the instrumental part fine but the singing part sounds reallllllllly low.
I tried:
-testing the headphones with another mp3 player (works fine)
-using another mp3 player in my fm transmitter (works fine)
-copying all the music off my insignia (took forever!) and then just clearing the external/internal memories and resetting all settings and everything i possibly could -- oh, i dont actually have external memory, but i cleared that part anyway
anyway, its still not working right.
i didnt spill anything on it, drop it, i didnt leave it in the hot car, i barely even messed with it b/w the time it worked and the time it didnt.
any clues?
anyone ever have problems with the sound like this before?
i've had it freeze up on me numerous times
and the volume wheel is messed up (try to make it lower and it goes high then low then high--sorta spazzed out!--it takes forever just to get it to lower the sound or switch thro songs..... but w/e!)
i dont know if i've had it for over a year yet... i havent the slightest idea where the receipt would even be. i did a massive house cleaning recently so i probably dont even have it anymore. =(
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He sits on the second row. The moment he gave up the throne, he moved back to the second row. It suits him there. His journey makes sense from there. He is as close to the ushers as the superstars. He is midway between his deepest roots and wildest dreams.
"I'm the guy you look at and say, 'Oh,' " said Bernie Bickerstaff, his gap-toothed smile widening. "You see me and say, 'Oh, him.' I'm the forgotten guy. I'm the guy who just does his job."
In a young Lakers season dominated by coaching narratives, the most compelling cannot be found along the beach with Phil Jackson, or on crutches with Mike D'Antoni, but in that second row, in the thick mountain drawl of the gray-haired man who traveled unimaginable miles to get there.
Bernie Bickerstaff will celebrate Thanksgiving with the greatest winning percentage of any former Lakers coach, and you laugh, and he laughs, but those five games he served as the interim boss between Mike Brown and D'Antoni were a triumphant lap in a lifelong trip across a landscape of poverty and racism.