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I'm a big fan of old school professional wrestling and as such I devour any material that is offered on the subject matter.
Thus, with eager anticipation, I read the new book, A Fool for Old School....Wrestling That Is, published by Richard Berger, a Vancouver-based writer and wrestling insider with impressive credentials. He makes no bones about the fact that his fondness for wrestling centers on the old school style which is mainly pre-1990.
The book is actually a collection of 20 columns written by Berger and previously published on the Internet websites of The Fight Network and Live Audio Wrestling between June 29, 2007 and June 29, 2008. The author selected the columns because they were personal favourites or because they had elicited a strong response when first published. In order to assure readers of a fresh viewpoint, he has revised and updated the original columns. What follows is an honest and often humorous account of pro wrestling in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and into the 1980s.
Many wrestling fans, who were weaned on the game when it was believable, will gravitate towards Berger's insightful look at pro wrestling as we knew it. If anything, I found myself wanting greater detail on the subjects raised by the author. The chapters are short and to the point since they were originally penned as columns or essays. As such, the content lacks the depth and analysis that one normally associates with a book but nonetheless provides the reader with much information.
When taken at face value, the book proves to be a breezy, light read. The intricacies of old school wrestling are detailed thoroughly by an author well versed in his subject.
Berger takes us on an odyssey through the wrestling world that began for him in 1958 as a very young fan in California. He was hooked on the game, whether on television or in person at Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles. Magical names such as Mr. Moto, Tricky Ricki Starr, Hard Boiled Haggerty and the Intelligent Sensational Destroyer quickly became part of the young boy's make-believe world. His love affair with wrestling will ring familiar to many fans of his generation who grew up watching this fascinating business and remained fans or students of the game for a lifetime.
Figuring prominently in Berger's recollection of old school machinations are the concept of endless grudge matches and meddling managers as personified by Gary Hart, a master at his craft. The inept refereeing angle is also highlighted since referees were key figures in the old school plots.
But old school regulars such as the midgets and ladies, wrestling bears and alligators and blimps receive scant attention even though they played a large part of wrestling's past.
One of the author's lasting impressions at age 12 was meeting his hero Freddie Blassie on the beach one day. Though few words were spoken between the boy and the wrestler, the encounter is symbolic of all the chance encounters so many young fans had with their heroes at the back doors of arenas or in parking lots or restaurants. Interaction with the wrestlers was an unforgettable experience in that era.
But as he grew older, Berger became more sophisticated and street smart in the ways of the game. He was able to appreciate the finer points and techniques in a match from old pros such as Honest Johnny Valentine who not only worked the fans and his opponent but was equally adept at stroking the referee for an ultimate victory. It is the little things during a match that sometimes escape the ordinary fan that Berger catches with an eagle eye.
The author eventually moved to Vancouver where he achieved every wrestling fan's dream. He was given the opportunity of working with Canada's first family of wrestling. Berger became the British Columbia representative for the Calgary-based Stampede Wrestling, under the control of the Hart family. Continuing his evolution through the wrestling world, the student who had once studied the game from outside the classroom now became an insider.
He helped promote the organization in British Columbia as well as acting as a ring announcer. The experience assisted Berger in rounding out his education as a keen wrestling observer and one who thoroughly understands the mechanics of the mat.
But the recurring lamentation throughout the series of columns is the loss of innocence among the fans with the disappearance of old school wrestling. It is a lament that is heard quite often today as "old schoolers" dismiss the new wrestling menu that has become known as sports entertainment.
Berger admits in the last chapter that he has had problems with the premise of the WWE and its previous reincarnations over the past 43 years. The "grudge" has festered for decades, ever since as a young Californian, the author ventured east to catch the WWWF flavour of the day and met with extreme disappointment over the product.
Since that time, as the WWWF evolved into its present state, the author's dislike for Vince McMahon's version of pro wrestling has increased steadily while his love for old school has grown in mythical proportions.
There is no mention made of the thousands of former fans whose sensibilities were "kayfabed" to death and have denounced pro wrestling, in whatever form, for evermore. There are always winners and losers in any endeavour. This is particularly evident in the wrestling business where no one has ever risen to the top without using the lower rope to avoid a count out.
But this book will appeal to old school purists who will be reminded of the game as it once was and perhaps serve as a valuable learning tool to present followers of sports entertainment who are interested in the history of pro wrestling.
Berger gives honest opinions and clear and concise analysis supplemented with rare photos. It is worth a read and a place among the growing catalogue of old school material on the market.
The book was recently on display at the Cauliflower Alley Club convention in Las Vegas. It can be purchased on line at the link below, or email the author at email@example.com.
Gary Howard is a writer and author residing in Pembroke, Ontario


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Now that Kim Kardashian is pregnant, I guess we can replace all her divorce drama with pregnancy drama, right? Uh, no. Sources -- including Kris Jenner -- are saying the divorce drama may be leading to pregnancy drama. Okay, rolling your eyes is probably a normal reaction to that, but wait. The latest buzz doesn't sound like something out of an overdramatized reality show script. It actually sounds concerning ...
Sources tell TMZ that several days ago, Kim called her doctor in the middle of the night to come to the house because she was having severe pains. The doctor apparently believed her symptoms were largely stress-related and warned Kim to handle the stress or else there could be "long-term effects." And get this ... just hours before her meeting yesterday with her lawyer, Laura Wasser, Kim's pains returned in full force. Ugh. Clearly, the divorce is taking a serious toll!
Sure, it's easy enough to blow off a rumor like this as made-up, planted, exaggerated for publicity reasons, but I dunno, guys ... Kim has seemed stressed about the divorce for quite some time (in Kourtney & Kim Take Miami, which was filmed over the summer, she's seen occasionally taking calls from Wasser and freaking out). And since divorce proceedings seem to only be getting more drawn-out and hairy, I wouldn't be surprised if she's even more stressed out than she was then.
Kris Jenner corroborated the story up on The View this morning, saying:
Kim has been going through this divorce for months. She has been under a lot of stress because of it, and the doctors told her you've had a really tough week, and the stress could become a problem if she isn't careful.
Sounds like something Kim better not be taking lightly. We're always so go-go-go in our everyday lives that we often underestimate the power of stress on our physical health or even during a pregnancy. Sure, pregnant women are encouraged to slow down in certain ways (sitting down on public transportation, avoiding air travel after a certain point in the pregnancy, etc.), but it doesn't seem like we're talking enough about the emotional or mental stressors pregnant women could be facing that could have very real, troubling side effects.
With Kim's stress negatively affecting her pregnancy/health, there's no time to waste. She should get thee to an ashram (as my mom joked I'll have to do when I'm pregnant one day, because I'm especially stress-prone) -- or at least some kind of stress management counseling, meditation, yoga, etc. The sooner, the better off baby Kimye ... and Kim herself will be.
Do you agree we underestimate the power of stress? How did you handle it when you were pregnant?
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not readily subject to change.
Steady; not varying; resistant to change.
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stable/sta·ble/ (sta´b'l)
1. not moving, fixed, firm.
2. constant (def. 1).
1. Resistant to change of position or condition.
2. Not showing or marked by erratic or volatile emotions or behavior.
3. Having no known mode of decay; indefinitely long-lived. Used of atomic particles.
4. Not easily decomposed or otherwise modified chemically.
Etymology: L, stabilis, firm
remaining unchanged.
Steady; not varying; resistant to change; often used to describe the opposite of hypermobility in respect to joints.
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1. Of an ill person, in a currently unchanging state, neither improving nor deteriorating.
2. Of a personality, not liable to mental disturbances or abnormal behaviour.
stablestate of an object when its centre of gravity lies centrally within its base of support
Steady; not varying; resistant to change.
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adj the term applied to a substance that has no tendency to decompose spontaneously. As applied to chemical compounds, it denotes their ability to resist chemical alterations.
stable isotope,
n See isotope.
1. animal accommodation, usually for horses.
2. to accommodate an animal in a stable as distinct from running at pasture.
3. steady; not easily swayed.
stable blackleg
caused by the germination of latent spores of Clostridium septicum in tissues. The clinical disease is similar to blackleg.
stable cough
any of the viral diseases of the upper respiratory tract of horses, but most commonly equine influenza.
stable fly
see stomoxys calcitrans.
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Hello everyone,
I am in the process of using some new software and after having issues with installing it (apparently it has to go into the C: drive and I only have 19Gb free after installing it).
Once installed, I started and set up a new site folder, tried right-clicking to access the WP site and received the following lines of information:
Warning: require(C:\easywplocalhost\sites\archontest/wp-includes/load.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\easywplocalhost\sites\archontest\wp-settings.php on line 19
Warning: require(C:\easywplocalhost\sites\archontest/wp-includes/load.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\easywplocalhost\sites\archontest\wp-settings.php on line 19
Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required 'C:\easywplocalhost\sites\archontest/wp-includes/load.php' (include_path='.;\easywplocalhost\php\PEAR') in C:\easywplocalhost\sites\archontest\wp-settings.php on line 19
I noticed that the string requesting the load.php is missing a folder name; namely 'wordpress'. Drilling down through the folders with the site on my PC you have to go through the wordpress folder to reach wp-includes. Could this be the error or does anyone have an exact more knowledgeable one?
I contacted the creator of the software through their support system but all they have said, is yes, it must be in the C: drive and you need more space. However, given that Microsoft Office is nearly 1Gb (this software is 1.3Gb) and runs fine within the same drive, I can't understand just how much more space it needs.
My C: drive is a SSD and is only 256Gb, so I can't find anymore space..... does anyone have any suggestions please?
Error code - can anyone interpret please?
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Minecraft Foam Diamond Sword and Pickaxe
Dual Diamond Wielding Achievement!
- Have a Minecraft tool in each hand!
- Heavy duty EVA foam
- Both good for more than 1562 uses
Purchase Limited to 2 Per Customer.
Need a gift for a Minecraft fan but unsure of whether they prefer using a sword or a pickaxe? Why not Zoidberg? No, wait, that's not what we meant to type. Why not BOTH? The Minecraft Foam Bundle contains both the Diamond Sword and Diamond Pickaxe and is guaranteed to bring a smile to the face of even the grumpiest Minecraft fan.
Made of sturdy EVA foam, these collectibles are modeled directly from the in-game items. They won't bash through solid rock or stab a cow, but they do look really cool and are lightweight enough to carry around wherever you go. And of course, this is an officially licensed Minecraft product, which means you're making Notch happy too.
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johnmaxmiller needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 59 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
Adirondack Aerial Adventure
We are a full service high ropes course and zip line facility. A lot of fun and adventure flying and climbing through trees all while under supervision and safety. We are in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains of New York.
Adults and families and corporations looking for fun exciting outdoor activities.
Professional logo. Should project mountains, trees, zip lines, fun. safety.
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A couple of years ago I wrote about the two-way relationship between Diabetes and Periodontal disease in Teeth, Gums, Diabetes and Death .
My main intent at that time was to emphasise that dental hygiene and blood glucose levels seem to be closely related. Poor dental hygiene causes poor blood glucose levels and poor blood glucose levels exacerbate dental problems. The reverse is also true, with improvements in either leading to improvements in the other. For more discussion on that read the earlier article.
One of the cites I provided, Periodontitis and diabetes interrelationships, had an interesting comment: "Thus, there is potential for periodontitis to exacerbate diabetes-induced hyperlipidemia, immune cell alterations, and diminished tissue repair capacity. It may also be possible for chronic periodontitis to induce diabetes." Induce diabetes? I noted that further research should be done there.
Further research has now been done and that possibility is becoming a little more plausible. This paper was published online on April 4, 2008 in Diabetes Care 31:1373-1379, 2008: Periodontal Disease and Incident Type 2 Diabetes
OBJECTIVE—Type 2 diabetes and periodontal disease are known to be associated, but the temporality of this relationship has not been firmly established. We investigated whether baseline periodontal disease independently predicts incident diabetes over two decades of follow-up.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—A total of 9,296 nondiabetic male and female National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) participants aged 25–74 years who completed a baseline dental examination (1971–1976) and had at least one follow-up evaluation (1982–1992) were studied. We defined six categories of baseline periodontal disease using the periodontal index. Of 7,168 dentate participants, 47% had periodontal index = 0 (periodontally healthy); the remaining were classified into periodontal index quintiles. Incident diabetes was defined by 1) death certificate (ICD-9 code 250), 2) self-report of diabetes requiring pharmacological treatment, or 3) health care facility stay with diabetes discharge code. Multivariable logistic regression models assessed incident diabetes odds across increasing levels of periodontal index in comparison with periodontally healthy participants.
RESULTS—The adjusted odds ratios (ORs) for incident diabetes in periodontal index categories 1 and 2 were not elevated, whereas the ORs in periodontal index categories 3 through 5 were 2.26 (95% CI 1.56–3.27), 1.71 (1.0–2.69), and 1.50 (0.99–2.27), respectively. The OR in edentulous participants was 1.30 (1.00–1.70). Dentate participants with advanced tooth loss had an OR of 1.70 (P <>
CONCLUSIONS—Baseline periodontal disease is an independent predictor of incident diabetes in the nationally representative sample of NHANES I."
What that means in layman's terms was clarified in Endocrine Today online in November when an interview with one of the authors, Ryan T. Demmer, PhD, MPH was published. He said that these findings add a "new twist" to the association, suggesting that periodontal disease may lead to diabetes.
"It has been generally accepted that periodontal disease is a consequence of diabetes despite the fact that this association has not been studied with the same methodological rigor applied to coronary and stroke outcomes," he told Endocrine Today. "We found that over two decades of follow-up, individuals who had periodontal disease were more likely to develop type 2 diabetes later in life when compared to individuals without periodontal disease." For more details read that Endocrine Today issue where it is discussed with several other researchers in this field.
I still suspect that type 2 has a genetic cause, but I now believe that periodontal disease can be a trigger for type 2 diabetes in the same way that a poor diet or lifestyle can be. There is also the possibility the genetic tendency to type 2 diabetes may also be the initial cause of the precursor conditions of periodontal disease or obesity.
I already knew that it was important to have very good dental hygiene as a type 2 diabetic. Now it seems that it may be equally important for those of us who have offspring following in our genetic foot-steps to pass that message on loud and clear to them.
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Final call to voluntary groups to apply for funding
This is the final call for voluntary groups, which arrange or are looking to set up services and activities for adults, to apply for a grant.
The deadline for applications is Friday 1st April
West Sussex County Council's Prevention and Wellbeing Programme funds start up costs for services and activities for adults and older people, which meet the aims of the Prevention and Wellbeing agenda:
• Social contact and stimulation
• Activity and exercise
• Occupational/educational activities
• Peer support groups
• Maintaining or restoring independence
Cabinet Member for Adults' Services Peter Catchpole said: "We would be especially pleased to hear from organisations that provide innovative, community based activities and enable social opportunities for residents to make friends and meet people.
"Grant applications are normally limited to £5,000, but this year we're welcoming applications for above that value for innovative proposals that tie in with the new model for day services and provide a community service."
The funding is available for organisations that meet the needs of adults and older people.
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Nikki McDonald 9/15/2012 3:28:56 PMPretty cool, Doc. I'm still trying to figure it out :) #1486571
Melinda F. Schneider 9/15/2012 4:00:16 PMI remember the original, Doc, and this is a very cool DD rendition! #10324328
Michele Peterson 9/15/2012 5:20:24 PMI LOVE this, Doc!! Very creative and unique. Made me smile to see it. :-) Happy Theme Day! #10324385
Bob Cournoyer 9/15/2012 5:37:03 PMCreative, Doc!
Happy Theme Day #10324398
Katarina Mansson 9/15/2012 10:44:53 PMVery creative and perfect for the theme! So cool! HTD Doc! #10324642
Joy Rector 9/16/2012 4:40:38 AMbeautiful shot #10324844
Richard B. Hallick 9/16/2012 5:36:01 AMVery cool and creative. I'm with Nikki on this. #10324907
Mitch Spence 9/16/2012 6:18:07 AMA surreal effect here, Doc--keeps one fascinated and looking. #10324963
Christopher Budny 9/16/2012 8:15:31 AMPretty cool, Doc! Definitely one that needs a second look! HTD! #10325084
Cindy L. Cameron 9/16/2012 7:32:39 PMlove it #10325842
Dr Silly 9/17/2012 2:53:33 AMThank you everyone for your kind comments. :O)
Errick L. Cameron 9/18/2012 9:03:59 AMThis is awesome Doc. Well done! #10327766
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Jackson (Wyoming)
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Jackson [7] is in Northwest Wyoming, close to the south end of Grand Teton National Park. It is the gateway to two of the United States' best-known national parks, Grand Teton itself and nearby Yellowstone. Many famous people maintain vacation homes in and around this area. The combined elements of beautiful mountain scenery, Old West heritage, tourist traps and celebrity residents give this small town a unique atmosphere both cosmopolitan and frontier.
The terms "Jackson" and "Jackson Hole" are often mistakenly interchanged. "Jackson" is the name of the town. "Jackson Hole" refers to either the greater valley area (including, for example, the towns of Wilson and Kelly) or the Jackson Hole ski resort.
Jackson transforms from a popular ski town during the winter into a mecca for travelers here to admire and participate in boundless summer beauty and activities. Meanwhile, in the spring and fall seasons, the town slows down as only the 6,000 or so year-round residents remain (and many of them may leave during this time as well) and many of the hotels and restaurants close for the season. Each of the seasons have their pluses and minuses depending on the visitor's expectations and desires, but it pays to know what time of year is best for what activity, especially in Jackson's unique high-altitude environment.
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Jackson Hole Airport (IATA: JAC) [9] lies within the boundaries of Grand Teton National Park. The airport is regularly serviced by American, Delta, Frontier, and United. Some airline service is seasonal.
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Jackson is a few miles south of Grand Teton National Park on U.S. Route 191. Wyoming State Highway 22 intersects US-191 in Jackson, connecting to Victor, Idaho. The nearest city of size, Salt Lake City, Utah, served by several major airlines, is about a five hour drive from Jackson.
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The town is small enough to be explored by car, walking, or bicycle. Also, the town provides a bus service [10].
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The downtown area has all manner of stores spread across several city blocks. Goods offered range from outdoor apparel to artwork to run-of-the-mill souvenirs.
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Generally speaking, hotel prices and availability in Jackson can fluctuate wildly by the season. During the summer months (and especially summer weekends) hotel rooms can be very difficult to obtain without a reservation or without a lot of money. During the wintertime, there are typically always rooms available, however prime rooms near the ski resorts may require advance planning and additional funds. On the other hand, during the off-season, many hotels in town close due to lack of demand.
Camping, of course, abounds on the nearby National Forest, National Park, and BLM lands, and can range from isolated dispersed camping to highly sought-after sites reserved months in advance. Most camping spots, however, will require at least a half-hour drive from Jackson town proper.
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In "The Campaign" — released in August — Will Ferrell (often very funny) shared center stage with Zach Galifianakis (often entirely annoying). Even if Ferrell's not at his very best (which would be "Anchorman"), he's still funny here; more amazingly, Galifianakis is surprisingly tolerable and at points very funny.
Ferrell plays a completely corrupt, scandal-plagued North Carolina congressman, who usually runs unopposed. But this year the opposing powers-that-be decide to field an opponent, a bigger idiot (Galifianakis), who lacks even Ferrell's questionable charisma. Their campaigns descend into the dirt, including mutual adultery.
This is not likely to be anybody's favorite, but it has maybe a dozen laugh-out-loud moments and certainly provides sufficient amusement to justify viewing on an otherwise slow evening.
The disc includes both the theatrical cut (85 minutes) and an extended, supposedly naughtier cut (95 minutes). The extras are surprisingly thin. There is no commentary track, even though Ferrell's are usually genuinely worthwhile. All we get are nine deleted scenes, totaling 15 minutes, a three-minute gag reel, and unused improvisational material from the stars.
"The Campaign" (Warner Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, $35.99; DVD, $28.98)
ANDY KLEIN is the film critic for Marquee. He can also be heard on "FilmWeek" on KPCC-FM (89.3).


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CRUGER, Miss. -- When cotton producer Buck Harris found high levels of root-knot nematodes in several hundred acres of sandy loam ground in the fall of 2001, his first reaction was that he'd have to quit growing cotton on the fields.
Two years later, he harvested 3.2 bales per acre from those very same fields, and cotton was back in the crop mix again.
The solution? A root-knot nematode-tolerant cotton variety, along with excellent planting and growing conditions in 2003.
The problem with the field began in the late 1990s. Harris' son, Steve, who was farming the ground at the time, noticed that yields inexplicably began to decline from 1,000-1,100 pounds to 750-800 pounds. "At first, we thought it was due to (a problem with transgenics)."
Eventually, Steve decided to get out of farming and took a job with a local co-op. Harris stepped in and decided to have the field checked for nematodes in the fall of 2001. To his surprise, soil samples revealed that root-knot nematodes were at three times the threshold level.
Harris felt as though he had no other option but to put the field in a root-knot-tolerant soybean variety, Pioneer 9594. The variety yielded well in 2002, over 50 bushels an acre, but did not have a significant impact on nematode numbers that fall.
Harris, who this year will farm about 2,200 acres of cotton, was in a quandary on what to do, until he heard about a cotton variety tolerant to the fusarium and root-knot nematode complex. Harris planted 500 acres in the variety and later noted, "It was one of the best decisions I've ever made."
After harvesting soybeans on the fields in 2002, Harris ran a hipper in the fields. Harris, who farms with his son, Mark, missed most of the rainy, spring weather that hit the north Delta in 2003. In fact, "we had to run a pivot to get some cotton up last year."
Harris planted the root-knot-tolerant variety, ST 5599 BR, at 10 pounds of seed to the acre on April 25, applying Cotoran, Staple and Dual at the time of planting. "I'm old enough and been around long enough to know it can rain for 10 days. It scares me to have just Roundup out there without any protection at all," Harris said.
He also applied Temik at 4 pounds per acre. A side benefit of the in-furrow insecticide was some degree of control for nematodes. Harris made one pyrethroid application for cotton bollworms. "Early in the season, I made two shots of Centric for plant bugs."
Harris tries to limit his Roundup application to one shot. "If I do see the need for a second shot, I will make it. If I see some morningglories coming through, I'll go in with a post application of Caparol and MSMA. I'll layby with Diuron. This year, I may put out some Caparol and Diuron."
Harris put out about 16 ounces of Pix on his ST 5599 BR.
All of Harris' cotton ground is irrigated by furrow and center pivots. The ST 5599 BR field was irrigated three times in 2003, according to Harris. "I irrigate a little more than the average person, and I'm usually a little quick to pull the trigger. But over my 35 years, I've seen that it's best to not let cotton stress."
Harris goes with a two-step defoliation, Dropp and Prep, followed by Prep and Def. He harvested the crop in mid-September. "About 80 percent of the ST 5599 was picked only one time.
In 2003, yields were above 3 bales per acre across all Harris' cotton acres, which included ST 5599 BR, DP 555 BG/RR and ST 4892 BR. "It was a tremendous crop. All my flat land planted to ST 5599 BR was 3.2 bales per acre. It was the best I've ever made on that land."
DP 555 BG/RR yields were a little over 3 bales per acre. ST 4892 BR averaged about 2.6 bales per acre, but the variety was planted on heavier ground. "It is an earlier variety and I wanted to get it out before any rains."
Of course, favorable weather at planting and during the season had a lot to do with Harris' yields across the farm. "But if I had not had the ST 5599 BR, I would not have seen that large a crop. The root-knot numbers were so tremendous."
This year, Harris will plant 350 acres of DP 555 BG/RR, 500 acres of ST 4892 R and 1,350 acres in ST 5599 BR. "I decided to plant enough corn, about 500 acres, to fill up my grain tanks, about 75,000 bushels. I'll plant 1,000 acres of soybeans this year. I'm still banking that we'll get the price right in cotton."
Yes, he'll be planting the root-knot resistant variety on fields that don't have a problem with the pest, noting, "With those kind of yields, I'm going to gamble a little bit more and go with it."
Limited research on ST 5599 BR's level of root-knot tolerance is encouraging, according to Gary Lawrence, entomologist and plant pathologist at Mississippi State University.
Lawrence inoculated varieties planted in pots with a known number of either root-knot or reniform nematodes. In the case of root-knot nematodes, "We let the plant grow for 45 days, which is the maximum reproduction for one generation, then counted the nematodes again. We divided the final population by the inoculated number to arrive at a reproduction factor (RF).
"The RF for root-knot nematode was 1.3 (for ST 5599 BR), which is extremely good for root-knot. Other plants inoculated with reniform nematodes had a RF of 139."
Harris is concerned about the high numbers of nematodes that have invaded his fields. He has both reniform and root-knot types, including some fields with both. That means sampling and understanding rotational partners is crucial to keeping them under control.
"It is about as important to take samples for nematodes as it is to soil sample for fertility," Harris said. "It doesn't do any good to get your foundation down there and have this type of problem knocking you down."


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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Dakotas-based health care system has granted hospital-admitting privileges to doctors at North Dakota's sole abortion provider, which would bring the Fargo clinic into compliance with a new state law.
In a statement Thursday to The Associated Press, Sanford Health said physicians at the Red River Women's Clinic have been credentialed at its hospital in Fargo.
The Center for Reproductive Rights, which is helping the Red River Women's Clinic, filed a lawsuit in state court last year challenging the law that requires doctors who perform abortions to obtain hospital-admitting privileges within 30 miles of the abortion facility.
The case was slated for trial this week but was taken off the docket as a result of settlement talks, which the New York-based group announced this week without elaborating.
A state judge in July granted a preliminary injunction that prevents the law from taking effect. A judge had earlier ordered that the lawsuit over hospital-admitting privileges be combined with a 2011 suit over a law that outlaws one of two drugs used in nonsurgical abortions. A North Dakota Supreme Court ruling on that case is pending.
East Central Judge Wickham Corwin has said the hospital privileges law raises the same "legal and factual matters" as the 2011 legislation.
Autumn Katz, staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement that her group "cannot discuss the details of any potential settlement before it is finalized."
Clinic director Tammi Kromenaker and a spokeswoman for the North Dakota attorney general's office, which defends state laws against court challenges, also declined comment.
Opponents had said the 2013 law would effectively make abortions illegal in North Dakota. They feared it would be impossible for doctors performing abortions to meet the number of hospital visits required to gain admitting privileges because the procedure is safe and women rarely need further care requiring hospitalization.
The clinic, which performs about 1,200 abortions a year, is served by three out-of-state physicians licensed to practice in North Dakota.
Sanford Health is a Fargo and Sioux Falls, S.D. -based health system. It bills itself as the nation's largest not-for-profit rural health care provider, with locations in 126 communities in nine states.
It's unclear when Sanford granted credentials to the three doctors at the abortion clinic.
Sanford's statement said its approval of admitting privileges is "based on objective criteria that is completely focused on protecting patients and providing safe patient care." The health system says the criteria "is applied in a neutral unbiased manner."
Eight states including North Dakota have passed laws requiring an abortion provider to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. They only have taken effect in Utah, Tennessee and Texas, although a court challenge looms there. Judges have blocked similar legislation in Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi and Wisconsin.
The North Dakota measure was one of four that the Republican-controlled Legislature and GOP Gov. Jack Dalrymple passed last year that make North Dakota the most difficult state in the nation in which to get an abortion.
The most restrictive new law bars an abortion if a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which could be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy and before some women know they are pregnant. But a federal judge, siding with abortion-rights activists, called the law "clearly invalid and unconstitutional" and agreed to temporarily block it as legal challenges play out in court.
Law supporters, including Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple, said the law is a legitimate challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe. v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion up until a fetus is considered viable, usually at 22 to 24 weeks
Abortion-rights advocates argue the spate of new laws is an attempt to close North Dakota's only abortion in downtown Fargo.
Two new anti-abortion laws, however, took effect in August, including bans on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and on abortions based on sex selection or a genetic defect. But abortion-rights activists said neither law affects the Fargo clinic because such abortions are not done there.
Kromenaker, director of the Fargo clinic, has said that the facility ended 2013 with the fewest number of pregnancy-ending procedures recorded in more than a decade, a drop she attributed in part to the new legislation that may have confused some women into thinking abortion in North Dakota now outlawed.
The clinic conducted about 1,125 abortions last year, down from 1,330 in 2012.
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As one of Northern California's wine pioneers, the Guglielmo family has been producing award-winning wines in the Santa Clara Valley since 1925, a winemaking tradition that has spanned three generations.
Born in 1883 in Gravere, an alpine village northwest of Torino near the French border in Italy's Piedmont region, family patriarch, Emilio Guglielmo arrived upon Ellis Island on September 19, 1909. For the next nine months Emilio worked his way westward arriving in San Francisco in June of 1910. Upon his arrival and establishment of himself he sent for his village sweetheart, Emilia, and they were married in November of that same year. For the next fifteen years they worked and saved with Emilio toiling away at a tannery and Emilia at a French laundry. By 1925, with their saved earnings they purchased fifteen acres in Morgan Hill of Santa Clara Valley, commonly referred to at time as the 'valley of hearts delight' due to the bountiful orchards and rich agricultural community. It was at this time Emilio Guglielmo Winery, was founded.
In 1945, the winery was passed down to Emilio's son, George W. Guglielmo and his wife Madeline upon George W.'s return from World War II. Working together, the couple expanded the winery's estate vineyards and distribution channels. By 1969, George W., with the influence of his eldest son George E., began the implementations of new ideas into the family business. This period saw an introduction of new refrigerated stainless steel fermentation tanks and small oak cooperage, as well as the production of the winery's first premium varietal wine, a 1969 estate-bottled Petite Sirah.
Today, third generation brothers George E., Gene and Gary retain the family tradition of producing award-winning premium varietal wine from the now more than 80 acres of Santa Clara Valley estate vineyards, as well as wines from other premium wine-growing regions within California.


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Hammonton School District hosts grand opening for new high school;
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HAMMONTON High School Principal James Donoghue knew it wouldn't be an easy transition. But it's a transition that's worked nonetheless.
"I'm proud of our people," the four-year district principal said. "It takes good people willing to make things work. We have that here."
Here is the brand-new Hammonton High School in Atlantic County, which officially opened at Sept. 4. The $28.7 million project was completed two weeks ahead of schedule in mid-August. Approved by voters in the form of a bond referendum, eligible costs came to $25.8 million.
The state helped make plans into reality by covering 40 percent of that figure, $10.3 million, through the Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act.
The new 192,500 square-foot high school includes a host of other new facilities on site, such as a brand new stadium and all-weather track, two baseball fields, three softball fields and eight soccer/ all-purpose fields.
The transition to newer and safer facilities within the district included projects to refurbish the old high school and turn it into the new district middle school, where Waterford Township students begin attending in seventh grade.
The Waterford Township children formally attended classes in the former Lower Camden County School District. Now, about 700 children of the 1,200 enrolled at the high school are from Waterford.
Thus far, it's gone as good as could be expected, Donoghue said. Adjustments include learning new traffic patterns and, for the Waterford students, acclimating to a new district. Other issues include addressing lingering construction kinks, like checking on the heat come winter, the principal said.
"The kids and teachers did a great job handling the opening," Donoghue said. "You wonder how it will go until you get your schedule in your hand and (have) the pressure of getting to that next period's class on time. But I think we did a terrific job."
District officials hosted a formal dedication and grand opening ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 28 at 1 p.m. at the school, located on 566 Old Forks Road. Following the ceremony, parents and others toured the 110-acre campus.
As part of its facilities plan, the district had previously opened a pre-K thru first grade school in September 2001.
"I've been hearing nothing but positive things coming out of Hammonton," said Louis DeLosso, the project's architect and president of Design Collaborative in Cape May Courthouse.


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Shares of Seagate Technology (STX) are up $2.03, or almost 5%, at $43.83, after Longbow Research's Joe Wittine today added the stock to the firm's "Best Ideas List," replacing Western Digital (WDC), with an expectation consensus estimates will rise in coming quarters given opportunities in solid-state drives (SSD), with the added appeal of a coming 20 million in share buybacks.
Wittine rates both Seagate and Western stocks Buy, with an $81 price target on Western shares and a $54 target on Seagate.
The disk drive market has probably bottomed, he thinks, and Seagate's valuation is "attractive," while it continues to produce good cash flow:
First, we continue to believe the HDD industry bottomed in 1HCY13, consistent with comments from WD, Seagate, and other suppliers. The PC-related risk has faded in importance for the HDD stocks, since non-PC HDD sales are now eclipsing PC HDD sales led by double-digit unit growth for enterprise and branded drives. Second, Seagate is well-positioned to outgrow the industry in FY14 driven by organic investments in hybrids, enterprise and client SSDs, and services. Third, supply/demand fundamentals are attractive with the industry fully consolidated, allowing Seagate and WD to defend industry gross margin at 27-32% and allow any future capacity additions to lag demand. Fourth, valuation is attractive with the shares now trading at only 7.6x our FY14 (June) EPS forecast, and we expect Seagate's forward P/E multiple to expand back toward the 10x historical mean once investors become confident the market, and Seagate's free cash flow has bottomed. Finally, despite the weakening free cash generation throughout 2HFY13, we forecast Seagate will continue to generate $1.9B of free cash annually, representing a 13% free cash yield today, with the vast majority being returned to shareholders including the $1.52/share quarterly dividend (3.7% yield).
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Demolishing The Reasoning Behind Senators Bogus Grandstanding Against Google
from the why-do-they-hate-success deptI have no problem calling out Google when I think the company does questionable things, but I'm really at a complete loss over the desire of some in DC to attack the company these days. The best I can figure it out, they don't like the fact that Google is successful. Back in September there were those bizarrely clueless hearings against Google, which displayed (yet again) a technically clueless Congress wanting to "do something" about a situation they clearly didn't understand.
It appears that we're starting to see the next step in this charade as Senators Herb Kohl and Mike Lee are calling for an antitrust investigation by the FTC. Of course, we're pretty sure the FTC has been investigating Google for antitrust issues for a while now, so it seems a bit strange to send this letter (embedded below) now.
The letter is really quite ridiculous, and demonstrates the insanity of DC these days, where the highly misleading to downright bogus claims by lobbyists for one side are quoted by politicians as fact, with no admission where the numbers come from. Thankfully, the folks at TechFreedom wasted little time in writing what seems like the definitive response to Senators Kohl and Lee. You really should read the whole thing, but just a snippet:
To begin with, the letter asserts that "Google faces competition from only one general search engine, Bing," suggesting that only Bing (and it, only ineffectively) could keep Google in check. In essence, the Senators are prejudging an essential question on which any case against Google would turn: market definition. But why would the market not include other tools for information retrieval? Is it not at least worth mentioning that more and more Internet users are finding information and spending time on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, while more and more advertisers are spending their money on these Google competitors? Isn't it clear that search itself is evolving from "ten blue links" into something more social, multi-faceted and interactive?Making matters even more ridiculous is that the Senators parrot the claims of Google competitors/companies, who seem to just be jealous of Google, without questioning the sources. Thankfully, TechFreedom is around to step up and help provide some context and debunk some of the more ridiculous claims:
In a remarkable leap, the senators then identify the specific alleged abuse that Google's alleged market power leads to: search bias. That's remarkable because, other than the breathless claims of disgruntled competitors (given plenty of air time at the September hearing), there is actually no evidence that search bias is, in fact, harmful to consumers—which is what antitrust is concerned with. (Read both sides of this debate in TechFreedom's free ebook, The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet.)
As our colleague, Josh Wright, has thoroughly demonstrated, this "own-content" bias is actually an infrequent phenomenon and is simply not consistent with an actionable claim of anticompetitive foreclosure. Moreover, among search engines, Google references its own content far less frequently than does Bing (which favors Microsoft content in the first search result when no other search engine does so more than twice as often as Google favors its own content).
The letter also reports, again with no caveats, claims by the CEOs of Yelp! and Nextag that "75 percent of Yelp!'s web traffic consists of consumers who find its website as a result of Google searches, and . . . 65 percent of Nextag's traffic originates from Google searches," and that losing this much traffic to Google preferencing its own content would be catastrophic. But the letter fails to mention that most searches for brand names on Google are "navigational" rather than "informational." As Google competitor Expedia's CEO recently explained:Oops. If this were an honest debate about Google's practices, you'd think that the Senators would have been at least a little skeptical of such easily debunked claims by these companies. Unfortunately, in the world of politics today, that's not how things work. Actually looking at facts or understanding what they're trying to regulate is ignored in favor of going after targets that generate headlines.The majority of, at least Expedia's, and I believe Hotel.com's traffic that comes from search to our site actually come through people searching for Expedia, for example. So in typing in Expedia in Google or so on, typing in Hotels.com in Google. So of the 25% for Expedia, for example, the majority of that traffic is someone who's already looking for Expedia, and that person is going to find Expedia one way or the other because they are searching for something very specific. (Expedia earnings call, 10/28/10, quoted here).Indeed, a recently published independent academic study conducted across search engines concluded that 52% of "business queries" (and 72% of organizational queries) were navigational. In other words, most of the Google traffic going to these sites was likely from users who simply typed in "Yelp" or "NextTag" as a convenient way of getting to those sites. Such searches are not diverted (and not even claimed to be diverted) to Google's own sites, and the first search result for the search term "Expedia" will always be expedia.com. Thus, the majority of these searches that are claimed to make up 75% and 65% of the complaining companies' traffic is not in any way threatened by Google's business model, and is completely irrelevant to assessing the effect of Google preferencing its own content.
Furthermore, the letter does not mention Yelp's recent boast that over 40% (and growing) of its searches are now conducted on its mobile app—insulating it from whatever "power" Google might exercise over traditional searches.
And, of course, if you're looking for a thorough, detailed and devastating response to any time anyone grandstands about search engines without understanding any of the details, you should always go to the master on the subject, Danny Sullivan, who writes, Dear Congress, It's Not Ok Not To Know How Search Engines Work, Either, picking up on last week's meme about SOPA. Sullivan notes that the letter from Kohl and Lee is "jaw-dropping," not just in how one-sided it is, but in how superficial it is. Again, you should read the entire thing to get tidbits about how the letter seems to not even know what guidelines the FTC has already put out, and about how the Senators (rather shockingly) blatantly misquote Google VP Marissa Mayer and don't even understand what she's saying. But there's also this section, where it appears the Senators have simply no idea about the relationship of Microsoft and Yahoo and what it means relative to Google:
Bing: A Microsoft & Yahoo Production?It's really quite amazing that Congress can get away with such blatantly dishonest grandstanding -- but, on tech issues, Congress still seems to think that its own blissful ignorance is a plus when it comes to regulating. For those of us who live in this world, that's pretty damn scary.
What really set off my alarm bells was this:Bing, a partnership of Microsoft and Yahoo
Despite substantial amounts of staff time and money spent to have the hearings, the committee mistakenly believes that Microsoft's Bing search engine is a Yahoo and Microsoft production.
It's not. Bing is a wholly-owned part of Microsoft. Yahoo has no ownership in Bing.
But wait. Isn't there a partnership? Yes, but one that gives Yahoo a minor role handling Bing's ad sales to "high volume" advertisers. The deal came after Bing was launched. It wasn't an essential part of it, nor does it help with Bing building consumer market share against Google.
If the committee fully understood the competitive space, they've have said instead:Yahoo Search, a partnership of Microsoft and Yahoo
That would be far more accurate. That's because Yahoo no longer has its own core search technology, nor its own search ad serving technology. It gave all these up to partner with Microsoft (it would have kept them in a deal with Google. See our side-by-side comparison).
Heck, Yahoo's former CEO Carol Bartz was quite specific that her goal was to use Bing's technology as a way to somehow beat Bing at its own game. Bing wasn't a partnership to her; it was the competition.Bing & Yahoo Distant To Google?
Perhaps the committee thought that the "partnership" was the overall "search alliance" between Bing and Yahoo? If that was the case, then why did the letter go on to say…which is a distant second in market share and is losing an estimated $2 billion annually…
Those stats only make sense if you're talking about Bing itself, having a 15% share to Google's 65% in the United States, as recently reported. If you're talking about Bing and Yahoo combined, they come up to 30%, much healther competition.
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Crime log: Fast-food prank, bunny escape artist
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a summary of some crime reports taken from the Greeley Police Department's daily log. Only a few of the hundreds of reports will be used in this weekly column because of space limitations.
Thursday, Aug. 15
3:17 p.m.: A person in southwest Greeley called to ask if it's legal to own a piglet in the city limits. Police said potbelly pigs are legal to own.
11:17 p.m.: A person on patrol in the area of 9th Avenue and 12th Street reported a man in a pink Polo shirt who was naked from the waist down.
Friday, Aug. 16
2:15 p.m.: A reporter at The Greeley Tribune, 501 8th Ave., reported a suspicious letter and requested that an officer respond. The reporter had an envelope with the words "Store 51" written in what appeared to be a child's handwriting on it. The officer opened the letter and discovered an empty In-N-Out Burger wrapper. The reporter said the wrapper was apparently part of an ongoing practical joke with a Greeley resident.
Saturday, Aug. 17
11:38 a.m.: A customer at Walmart, 3103 23rd Ave., reported that she had asked a photo developer not to look at her photos, but he did so anyway. She wanted to know if she could do anything.
3:22 p.m.: A resident arrived at the Greeley Police Department, 2875 10th St., saying he was on a scavenger hunt and needed a photo with six officers. Police said there was no time for pictures that day.
Monday, Aug. 19
9:06 a.m.: A person at North American Title, 3459 20th St., reported that a customer left a voicemail saying he was upset about his title. The caller said the customer said, "All bankers should be shot," and said he was going to get a bumper sticker encouraging others to shoot bankers. The caller felt threatened.
Tuesday, Aug. 20
6:48 p.m.: A caller reported that two little boys, possibly a 1-year-old and 2-year-old, were walking down the middle of 11th Street and were urinating in the street. The caller reported that an older child, possibly a 7-year-old, took the younger ones home. The caller still wanted an officer to check on the children.
Wednesday, Aug. 21
2:43 p.m.: A resident in southwest Greeley told police that his neighbor has complained about his dog barking, but they have noisy chickens. He said he didn't think it was fair for them to report his barking dogs when their chickens are just as loud.
7:36 p.m.: A caller in southeast Greeley reported that a neighbor's child had been digging holes under their fence and letting rabbits into the caller's yard. The little girl's mother explained to her that she can't let the rabbits into the neighbor's yard because the neighbor's dogs will kill the rabbits. The little girl said she wouldn't dig anymore holes, and the mother said she'd check the fence to make sure.


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Critics might claim the McLaren 12C isn't emotional enough for the supercar pantheon, but that argument now seems even weaker: the new Spider derivative not only lets in the sunshine, it also introduces a new range of sensory inputs to the 616hp experience.
First and foremost, it's the sound. Idling in Ascari Race Resort's pitlane in southern Spain, the McLaren's twin-turbocharged V8 doesn't sound dramatically different to its coupe counterpart. But lower the window or retract the two-piece composite roof - taking 17sec and can be performed at up to 19mph - and the sonic soundscape alters dramatically.
While the Intake Sound Generator has been tweaked for greater volume in Sport and Track modes, it can be altered independently of the powertrain modes, so the Spider's most significant difference is its newfound symphony of sound.
Rev the engine under load and a new spectrum of mechanical frequencies emanates from the mid-mounted mill: intake whoosh and wastegate wheeze are thrown into the auditory mix, lending this two-seater a new lease on life.
It creates more drama on the racetrack, where the huge tachometer's ascent to the 8500rpm redline seems more anxious thanks to the added aural ingredients. The 3.8-liter V8 turbo has already enjoyed a boost in output thanks to software tweaks (from 592hp), but in this application the sled feels saucier.
McLaren claims the 12C Spider was originally designed alongside the MP4-12C coupe, so no bracing or reinforcement was necessary on the ultra-stiff carbon fiber monocell chassis. Adding a pop-up roll-bar would have been redundant thanks to a boron tube in the A-pillars; the only components added to the structure are two composite roof pieces, a steel tonneau (for added rollover protection), an electric motor and its mechanism. Net weight gain? A paltry 88 lb.
Back at the track, the Pirelli Corsa-clad convertible carves the 3.37-mile course in angry attack mode. There was a trace of perceptible understeer, but that was usually my fault; chassis stiffness is such that weight transfer on and off the front wheels becomes palpable.
Knowing when to turn-in required tapping into parts of the brain usually reserved for the kart track; in fact, this 2.5-ton car changes direction so quickly, with such ease and deliberation, it seems infallible in its quest to devour apexes and surge forward.
Only when the chassis setting was in its least permissive mode does heavy throttle application seriously unseat the otherwise balletic balance: tap into the rush of turbocharged goodness too heavily and the tail yaws into a potentially unrecoverable slide. I should know: I sent it into a spin coming out of a tight right-hander!
Although Ascari isn't particularly brake-intensive, the 12C's carbon-ceramic stoppers encouraged all-out acceleration since the speed was so easily scrubbed off. Turn after turn, the 12C begs to be flogged across tarmac, and responds to driver demands like a champ.
Once track duties were complete, we headed out on public roads with standard tires and non-carbon brakes. Set the chassis and powertrain dials to "normal", and the 12C floats over bumps like a softly sprung, full-size sedan.
Clicking paddle shifters at lower RPMs yields surprisingly leisurely shifts, but where it really counts - in the tacho's upper stratosphere, in the heat of hard acceleration, the seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox shifts swiftly and smoothly enough to encourage mid-corner cog swaps.
Speed with the top down and you hear the air currents hitting the rear spoiler when in the high-angle "Aero" mode; McLaren enjoys tapping into its F1 heritage by referring to their "other open air car" with tongue-in-cheek pride, and it's when the spoiler flips up and acts as an air brake that the road-going sports car reminds you it's track-focused.
Despite its exceptional ability and gut-wrenching moves, the 12C is still, at its heart, a more rational alternative to its Italian counterparts. Sure, it will have an eye-popping stablemate when the P1 flagship joins the lineup next year, but the 12C remains the thinking man's exotic: whooshes, wheezes, snorts and all.
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Engine 3.8L V8 32v DOHC twin-turbocharged, variable valve timing
Transmission seven-speed automated manual with dual-clutch Brakes four-piston calipers f & r, 370mm steel rotors f, 350mm r. Optional six-piston, 394mm carbon-ceramic rotors f, four-piston, 380mm r
Suspension double independent wishbone, McLaren ProActive Chassis control with hydraulic circuits
Wheels & Tires 19x8.5" f, 20x11" r, 235/35 R19 f, 305/30 R20 rear
Exterior active rear spoiler with aerodynamic and air-brake functions
MSRP $249000 (est)
Torque 442 lb-ft at 3000-7000rpm
0-62mph 3.1sec (with optional Pirelli Corsa tires)
Top Speed 204mph
Weight 2945 lb (dry)
Economy 15/22mpg city/highway


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If you brew with wheat a lot, it might make sense to have a cheap (Corona) mill just for the wheat malt.
I use Best Wheat malt and don't have any of the issues you guys speak of. Kernal size is same as most 2 row. I do usually mash a little lower and longer to assure maximum ferment ability and conversion.


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Rox Sink Anchors In Alexandria Saturday
Vincent Jackson's three-run home run in the second inning sparked an offensive outburst for St. Cloud in a 9-3 win at Alexandria Saturday.
Jackson's blast, a laserbeam to right field, was his second hit of the season in twelve at bats and gave the Rox a 3-0 lead. Third baseman Blake Headley hit a solo home run into a light tower in the fourth for a 4-0 St. Cloud advantage.
Meanwhile, Rox starter Eric Nyquist posted his longest start of the season and did not allow a run until the seventh inning, no small feat considering the Blue Anchors lead the league in hitting.
The Rox rallied for five more runs in the top of the seventh before Alexandria finally got to Nyquist in the bottom of the seventh. Reese Gregory and Adam Maxon combined on the hill to close out the Anchors, who fall to a league-worst 4-19.
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Regional All-Star Tournaments the way to High School All-American teams
For high school rugby players hoping to reach the heights of a USA Rugby national team, the Regional All-Star Tournaments (RASTs) and Stars v Stripes Camp offer the High Performance pathway to the High School All-Americans and on to Junior and Collegiate All-American teams, as well as the Men's and Women's Eagles.
Last year's RASTs produced two boys and two girls all-star teams for the Stars v Stripes Game at University of Northern Colorado. Fifty of the country's best boys and 50 of the best girls earned the honor to attend the Stars v Stripes Camp in Greeley, Colo., following their play in one of the seven 2013 RASTs.
In 2014, RASTs will be held in six locations across the United States: Portland, Ore.; Marrieta, Ga.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Elkhart, Ind.; Devens, Mass.; and Aurora, Colo. USA Rugby selectors will attend each RAST to nominate athletes for the Stars v Stripes Camp.
"These Regional All-Star Tournaments are not only a great way to showcase the quality of rugby at the high school level, but also a great way to bring the best players in the country together for selection to the high performance pathway," USA Rugby High Performance Player Development Manager Luke Gross said. "Narrowing down 100 rugby players from the thousands playing is a tough ask, but I think those who attended Stars v Stripes learned a lot and now understand what it takes to play on the national level."
To compete in a RAST, players must be enrolled in high school for the 2013-14 academic year and join an all-star or travel team participating in his or her local RAST. Players should contact local State Rugby Organizations for more information on all-star and travel teams.
USA Rugby 2014 Regional All Star Tournaments
Pacific Northwest:
Tournament: Great Northwest Challenge
Dates: June 21-22
Location: Delta Park East | Portland, Ore.
Contact: Jenn Heinrich
Tournament: South RAST
Dates: June 21-22
Location: Life University Rugby Complex | Marrieta, Ga.
Contact: Dan Payne
Tournament: 2014 Challenge Cup
Dates: June 21-22
Location: Founders Field | Pittsburgh, Pa.
Contact: Kurt Mockenhaupt
Tournament: Midwest All Stars
Dates: June 14-15
Location: Moose Rugby Grounds | Elkhart, Ind.
Contact: Bart Bottorff
Tournament: New England Challenge Cup
Dates: June 28-29
Location: Devens Recreation | Devens, Mass.
Contact: Chris St. Onge
Rocky Mountain:
Tournament: Rocky Mountain Challenge
Dates: June 14-16
Location: Aurora Sports Park | Aurora, Colo.
Contact: Bob Lesnansky


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PHILADELPHIA, PA - Only those who have chased the dream of making it to the big time of professional wrestling can truly understand how arduous a journey it can be.
Now just try and imagine making that dream come true, only to make the bold decision to walk away from it.
That reality is something Brian "Spanky" Kendrick knows about first hand.
In an exclusive interview with SLAM! Wrestling at the recent Pro Wrestling WORLD-1 show in Philadelphia, Spanky sat down to talk about his controversial decision.
"I don't want to give people the impression that I hated it, or that they treated me bad or anything like that," said Spanky in reference to his tenure with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) promotion.
"It was a lot of fun and an honor to be there. It's just that what I wanted out of wrestling at this time, they weren't offering. I could be in Kurt Angle's spot, but it still wouldn't be what I'm looking for."
It was just this past January that Spanky, a native of Olympia, Washington, made headlines all over the wrestling news world when he parted ways with the sports entertainment giant.
As Spanky explained, his passion for professional wrestling that guided him to the WWE was in fact what motivated him to move on from the company.
"What I'm looking for is a chance to wrestle and to wrestle for a while and to tell stories in matches; ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty minutes, whatever it might be," he said.
"That's not really what they (WWE) specialize in. The matches are short and sweet. They're more focused on entertaining people with shenanigans, bikini contests, people getting sprayed with stuff or screwing a corpse, which is fine. It's funny stuff, it's entertaining I guess. But I'm 24 years old and while I can still move around, it's not what I'm looking for."
Trained by WWE superstar Shawn Michaels, Spanky made his professional wrestling debut in 1999. Despite his small stature, he quickly established himself as a stand out, athletically gifted talent on the independent circuit.
But Spanky will be the first to tell you that developing one's skill sets for the squared circle is a constant process. Bearing this in mind, he felt that the current WWE environment would not grant him the acceleration of his already established wrestling repertoire.
"When I talked to Johnny Ace (WWE Talent Agent) about me leaving was that he and I both agreed, that at this level, whatever my wrestling ability goes, two years from now I'll be better than I am now, but not a whole lot better because you're wrestling the same guys ever night in the same style." Spanky said.
With that, Spanky contacted Zero-One American representative Steve Corino, and has already wrestled for the Japanese based promotion. He made it clear that his focus will be primarily with Zero-One and only a select few independent promotions in the United States.
"Pretty much for the most part I don't plan on doing too many (independent appearances)," he said.
"I really just want to focus on wrestling in Japan. I think I'll become a much better wrestler going away for a couple of years and then coming back."
Prior to his time with the WWE, Spanky had been an active member of the Zero-One promotion. The road to wrestling in the land of the rising sun would lead to the adoption of a rather unique in-ring identity, first proposed by Zero-One superstar Shinya Hashimoto.
"When I got there, the guy picked me up (at the airport) and in broken English pretty much told me that Hashimoto thinks I look like Leonardo DeCaprio. I was like, okay, whatever," Spanky recalled.
But what initially turned out as an unassuming comparison to a Hollywood heartthrob, soon turned into a certified wrestling gimmick, whether Spanky wanted it or not.
"The reporters are there, as they always are for whoever gets off the plane, and started asking me about what I think of Leonardo DeCaprio. I realized then that something is happening here."
The following day, Spanky was advised that his entrance music had already been selected for him.
"Sure enough, it was My Heart Will Go On and they changed my name to Leonardo Spanky."
But rather than protest, Spanky chose to be a team player, embrace his in-ring character, and have as much fun as possible.
"That's all you can do," remarked Spanky.
"Doing it in the States, I'd get killed. If they had brought me into the 'Fed doing that, I'd be the biggest heel in the company, and not a good kind of heel. People would just hate it.
"But over there, for whatever reason, Hashimoto knows what he's doing because it worked, so I just ran with it."
If there is anyone else aside from Spanky himself who was looking forward to his return to Japan, it is Steve Corino.
"It's awesome," said Corino, in reference to Spanky's return to the Zero-One fold.
"When he first came back for his first show with Zero-One, the fans gave him such a huge, great ovation. When he came back (after the match) I said welcome home and he had this big smile on his face and said 'Yeah, I'm home.'
"Of all the people that have left Zero-One and gone on to do other things, that was the guy we missed the most," said Corino, adding that Spanky's DiCaprio-like looks only did wonders for attracting members of the female demographic.
"He brought girls to shows," Corino pointed out bluntly.
"The fans love him, the press loves him, and it's great for him to come home to Zero-One."
Aside from Zero-One, Spanky also had favorable recollections of his time in the upstart American based-promotion, Ring of Honor. It was there, again, that Spanky was not only given a platform to deliver stellar wrestling matches, but legitimate support as a worker, something that was not always available to him with other promotions.
"Pretty much on the indies nobody gave two shits about me, which is fine," Spanky recollected. "More than anything, it (Ring of Honor) helped me to build confidence in the ring. That someone else would believe in me."
Despite his time in the WWE, where roster members receive support and direction other wrestlers can only envy, Spanky was all too aware of the current slump professional wrestling is mired in. As he explained, to endure the woes of the industry is to love what wrestlers do in the ring.
"I wasn't around six or seven years ago. When it was really booming, I'm sure there were a lot of people getting into it for the money," Spanky observed. "Right now, if you're wrestling, it's not for the money. It's because you grew up watching wrestling, it's something you wanted to do, it's something you love."
Even as far back as his time training to become a wrestler in Texas, Spanky was made all too aware of the cyclical pitfalls the wrestling business seems to fall into.
"Shawn (Michaels) said that since the beginning when I was training with him and business was doing good then, that it goes in cycles and he knew it would go back down," Spanky said, divulging that in spite of WWE being aware of the phenomena, there remains a confidence that it is only a matter of time before business picks up.
"It's something they keep preaching, that it's a cycle business and it will pick up again. It's good to have that kind of hope in the back of your head I suppose, but if you're just wrestling because, 'well, I know there's going to be another boom and I want to be around to cash in,' then it's ridiculous to really think like that. If that's what you're doing, is just holding on hoping some day it will pay off financially, you really are in the wrong business."
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Rick Cameron Paintings
Exhibited April, 2010
Whats beautiful about the Sonoran Desert? April featured artist Rick Cameron responds immediately with an emphatic absolutely everything, and visitors will see the proof of his celebration of nature during the month-long solo exhibit in the Visitor Center Gallery.
up in California, being close to the ocean, I never thought I would find so
much beauty in the desert. My wife and I moved to Arizona five years ago and
I love the desert, from the grandeur of its Superstition Mountain vistas down
to the smallest iridescent hummingbird or preying mantis. I had protested
the move in the beginning, but now I wouldnt choose to live anywhere
else on the planet. I discovered love of art in my youth, creating murals
in my grade school classes. I was always put in charge of their layout; this
talent came in handy once we moved to Arizona. My wife didnt like looking
out the dining room window at a block fence. She wanted to plant a bougainvillea,
but I talked her into letting me paint one on the wall. It turned out great.
It doesnt take any watering and I dont have to pick up any debris.
Cameron graduated from Cal State Long Beach with a degree in art and education. It wasnt until moving to Arizona that he began dedicating most of his time to art. I work primarily in acrylic and oils but dabble occasionally in watercolor. I have yet to do much traveling in the northern part of Arizona but plan on field trips there this spring. With each day-trip I am amazed at how many different things I see. The desert is full of so much beauty, and the thought of being able to create a picture from a pencil or brush is magical and a gift from God. One of my favorite places to visit is the Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Every time I visit it inspires me to continue my work.
Cameron is a member of the Mesa Art League and was a featured artist at the Superstition Mountain Museum in 2008. It amazes me that so many talented artists enjoy this same beautiful landscape and yet paint so many different views of it. That is another thing that is so enriching about being an artist. Its your picture; your view and hopefully others will enjoy it as much as you.
Paintings displayed during Cameron's April exhibition will be available for purchase. In addition to framed and unframed art, prints and note cards will also be available. Paintings start from $200 and range in price according to size. Correspond with the artist by email to: firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at 480-220-8868
Boyce Thompson Arboretum is at highway 60 milepost #223 near the historic copper mining town of Superior, a drive of about 45 minutes due East of Mesa. April visitors are admitted from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., and the Arboretum closes at 5:00 p.m. ( summer month hours resume in May, when BTA is open daily from 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.) New exhibits begin each month and may be seen daily during business hours; the Arboretum is an Arizona State Park and daily admission must be paid to enter the Visitor Center where our gallery is found. Admission is $7.50 for adults and $3 for ages 5-12. Annual memberships at the Arboretum begin at $45, and include a year's access, guest passes for your friends and family, along with many other benefits. A membership may be purchased in the gift shop on the day of your visit. To review other recent gallery shows from...
Lawrence March,
Barbara Atkinson February, 2010
Nancy Matus January, 2010
Barbara Cox December, 2009
Margaret Whittaker November, 2009
Artists of the Superstitions October, 2009
Marilyn Barton September, 2009
Gila Community College August, 2009
Deborah A. Lee June, 2009
Margie Porter May, 2009
Timm Chapman January, 2009
Paul Kinslow December, 2008
Maggie Leef November 2008
Sharon Sieben October 2008
Nicole Royse September 2008
Judy Bottler Photography May 2008
Bob Estrin Photography April 2008
Mary Isham Watercolors March 2008
Susan Strom and Cathy Franklin Lightning Photography February, 2008
Arizona State Parks Plein Air Paintings January, 2008
Carolyn Gray & Connie Thomas December, 2007
Jean Sullivan November, 2007 Sue Cullumber October, 2007
Adriane Grimaldi September, 2007
Pima College print-making students July-August, 2007
Mesa Arts League June-July, 2007
Fred Charlton May, 2007
Paul Mudersbach March-April, 2007
Linda Kaiser February, 2007
Edith Kreueger-Nye December, 2006 - January, 2007
Cindy Carrillo October-November, 2006
Bob Rice September, 2006
Bud Heiss July-August, 2006
Mesa Arts League June-July, 2006
Sandy Tracey April-May, 2006
CJ Rider March, 2006
Jessica Green February, 2006
Steve Davidson January, 2006
Don & Carole Schupp December, 2005
Carolyn Gray November, 2005
Martha Burgess October, 2005
Boeing Photographers September, 2005
Lightning Lady Susan Strom July/August, 2005
Mesa Arts League June/July, 2005
Jeanette Bronson May, 2005
Tom Stanley April, 2005
Kathy McClure February-March, 2005
Pam Smyth January, 2005
Tina Faust December, 2004


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December 06, 2006
LOS ANGELES - For excellence in the incorporation of information systems (IS) in the achievement of Southern California Edison's (SCE) corporate goals, CEO Alan J. Fohrer was presented with the Executive Leadership award by UCLA Anderson IS Associates. Over 130 attendees honored Fohrer at the IS Associates 18th annual Executive Leadership Dinner, held December 6 on the UCLA campus.
"Successful technology and value capture require executive vision and leadership from the top of the organization," said Judy Olian, Dean of the UCLA Anderson School of Management. "I join the IS Associates in applauding Mr. Fohrer for his commitment to SCE's process innovations."
Under Mr. Fohrer's leadership, SCE, which provides power to more than 4.7 million customers, has advanced effective technology solutions and processes through a concentrated business/IT partnership – a collaboration that has been instrumental to the success of SCE's Business Process Integration and SAP Enterprise Resource Planning initiatives.
"The Executive Leadership award recognizes CEO-level business leaders in Southern California who do an extraordinary job of driving information technology (IT) within their organization," said Lew Leeburg, IS Associates Executive Director. "Under Al Fohrer's direction, the SCE Information Technology organization has partnered with the company's various business units to deliver effective technology solutions that have transformed SCE's internal processes."
In developing and implementing the company's strategic plan, "Building the Future," Mr. Fohrer expanded and elevated the role of the Chief Information Officer, after which Ms. Mahvash Yazdi was hired as Senior VP of Business Integration and CIO to help implement his vision. Ms. Yazdi reports directly to Mr. Fohrer, an uncommon arrangement in most business organizations. Under Ms. Yazdi, SCE's IT organization has been nationally recognized for nine consecutive years by ComputerWorld magazine as one of the "100 Best Places to Work in IT." Along the way, two senior IT executives have been recognized as ComputerWorld magazine "Premier 100" leaders, and SCE was ranked last year by InformationWeek as 12th among all U.S. companies for IT vision and leadership.
"We have a duty and responsibility to make sure our employees have the technology they need at their fingertips," commented Mr. Fohrer. "That technology must be sophisticated, state-of-the-art, and fully functional, so our employees can continue to serve our customers efficiently, effectively and reliably in the high-growth, high-demand environment in which we operate."
Accepting the award from Dean Olian, Fohrer thanked UCLA Anderson IS Associates for providing, "a much-appreciated recognition for the vital partnership that exists at Southern California Edison between our information technology organization and the company's operations." Fohrer provided an overview of the critical role that IT plays in the company's operations to supply electricity to more than 4.7 million customers, including the challenges facing the company as demand for electricity continues to grow due to increased usage and a rapidly expanding customer base in Southern California. "Our IT experts are central to our vision of what the future will look like. The way we've done business for the past 100 years won't get us to where we need to be in the next 10 years. At SCE, we understand that and we're looking forward to another 100 years largely because IT will provide the innovation we need to succeed."
About IS Associates
UCLA Anderson IS Associates was established in 1978 as a professional partnership between UCLA Anderson School of Management and corporate and governmental enterprises. It is dedicated to the more effective management and understanding of information systems, and the more effective leadership of the IS function. The organization involves senior executives, leading consultants and suppliers, and faculty, staff and students of UCLA Anderson in a program of information-sharing and research. Membership is open to organizations involved in the professional application of information systems to business and research. For more information, please visit www.isassociates.org
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment.
The mission of UCLA Anderson School of Management is to be a global leader in management education, research and service. Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in MBA and doctoral programs, and some 2,000 executives and managers enrolled annually in executive education programs. UCLA Anderson alumni number more than 35,000 graduates around the world dedicated to continued networking, professional development and educational activities.


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Gavin Sacks necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 139 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
Pinkbeds.com will be hotel review website. ( site not launched yet)
Pinkbeds.com is to be the most reliable, honest and trusted web site for gay and lesbian travelers seeking information and reviews about accommodations worldwide.
Since the advent of the Internet, there are now a number of sites providing valuable travel and resort information to the straight market, but none specifically targeting the gay and lesbian market.
Pinkbeds.com will provide information previously unavailable so that gay and lesbian travelers can choose the type of accommodation that meets their needs, confident in the knowledge that when they arrive at their chosen global destination there will be no surprises, and they will be made to feel welcome.
Global Gay & Lesbian Travellers
Most travel research is done during business hours and typically on work computers. Which means that the PinkBeds.com logo needs to be very subtle ( No obvious Gay Icons). Users need to feel comfortable opening up the website on their work computers.
Users needs to feel comfortable that The PinkBeds logo is not obvious as being a Gay related website.
PinkBeds is targeting the Gay professional market who are used to enjoying style, luxury and intelligent design. At the same time the logo can also have a sense of fun.
Please reference http://www.oyster.com to get a sense of user interface design which PinkBeds will be following. ( Please don't copy their logo)
We are really looking for smart & simple designs which will standout and resonate with the Gay & Lesbian travel market.
Please Note : that logo will be used for online website - so the height of logo can not be too large.
Please do a version which incorporates the dot com extension as part of the logo ( .COM)
Most of all the logo needs to be original. Here's a good blog article on Logo Designs for Online Travel & Hotel sites : ( Well Worth Reading)
If you want to use hotel Icons or Social Media icons then can you make them original looking
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During the 1950s, 60s, and even into the 1970s, regional movie houses and drive-ins would often find themselves the temporary homes of traveling Halloween spook shows. Usually staged in conjunction with a series of cheap horror movies, the spook shows were stage events consisting of magicians, bad skits, bad special effects, and a whole lot of Frankenstein masks. In later days, the expected awfulness of such shows was part of the appeal, but int he early days of promising the terror of untold aeons unfolding live before your very eyes, then delivering a guy in a fright wig running down the aisle, the impresarios behind these productions often hot-footed it out of town one step ahead of the angry crowds whose money now stuffed the huckster's pockets.
In salute to this glorious era of the spook show shyster, here's a gallery of some of my favorite spookshow advertisements, played at drive-ins mostly throughout Kentucky and the surrounding states.


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The Building Blocks of Life
What happens if all the Cullens went to Kindergarten? What if Bella went too? This is a story of the Cullen's, Bella's and the werewolf's kindergarten adventures... August 6: Ooooooh! Readings have hit 2,222! AMAZING! (which, in case you were wondering is 1 review to every 34.7 readings. I think thats good... XD THANKS EVERYBODY!) Chapter 6:"You're an ALICE!""NO!" I gasped. "NOW THAT IS GOING TOO FAR!"
Many thanks to chadley, who helped me make this story. Sorta, kinda. Even if she didn't, it was her idea. So...
1. The Cullens Get to Kindergarten
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He thought about that, searching my ordinary face to see if there was something I wasn't telling him.
I stared back awkwardly. He raised a blond eyebrow and observed, "You look guilty."
I carefully worded my reply before beginning.
"The stress of the Cullens and the Wolves was just too much for me to take in. I tried to shut in my hectic feelings, but it was all just too much to handle alone."
"Ah." The doctor nodded, pleased that we were getting somewhere. "Are these Cullens just being a vent? These 'wolves' sound like a rough piece of work…"
I struggled, trying to figure out how to side-step this minefield. All of a sudden, a feeling of surrender burst through me and I sighed.
The therapist smiled, seeming to sense that I had given up. "Go on." He probed. "Start with your name."
"My name is Paula Crowley," I sullenly began, "I was the Cullen's kindergarten teacher."
A silver Volvo pulled up to the faded yellow line that just barely read, "Student Drop-off". The shiny door swung open and five children clambered out.
The first was a five-year-old, with a pillow stuffed up his shirt to make his tall five-year old frame seem even more muscular, for a kindergartener. The next was a tall shy boy, with hair like the rays of the sun, who nervously glanced around before cowering behind the brawny boy.
The adorable blond girl was next. She had charming features that promised supermodel looks when she got older. A small slender girl followed, and she shook her short coal black hair out of her eyes as her petite body almost trembled with excitement. The last, was a fair bronze hair boy. He had dazzling green eyes that were the color of the grass at dawn.
A round fair mother rolled down the gleaming window of the shotgun seat. "Okay guys," She began gently, "Remember…" She paused, and turned around to look out the window of the other side of the Volvo.
A red and blue police car was racing closer and the curly haired police man was, waving frantically for the mother to stay where she was.
Moments later, the police man pulled over on the curb. He turned in his seat and said something sternly to his daughter, who was in the back of the car. She flushed a brilliant red, and firmly replied, her auburn hair falling into her deep brown eyes. The father's face was bulging with fury now, and a vein was popping out the side of his head as he listened to her answer.
He retorted loudly now, loud enough for the sound to travel out of the car. "Listen here Isabella Marie! This is the law, and it has to be done!" The girl, Isabella, slumped back into her seat, her face a mask of fury.
The police man stepped out of the car and stalked over to the Volvo, struggling to keep his flaring temper calm. He stepped next to the driver's window, and the mother rolled it down.
"Yes?" The mother said.
"Hello. I am Chief Charlie Swan. I apologize for pulling you over, but I noticed that you were driving with more children than there are seat belts in this car." He paused, to gauge the family's reaction.
At this point, the tall blond boy stepped out from behind his burly brother, and tilted his head, as if he was tasting the air. After a moment, a look of understanding flashed in his eyes, and he paused. After another second, he nodded his head and allowed himself a small smile before stepping back to where he began.
Chief Swan opened his mouth, about to speak, when a look of confusion, and then sympathy smoothed over his face. "I'm sorry." He apologized. "It's quite alright, for now. I'll let you off with a warning if you promised not to do it again."
"Err… " Charlie fumbled, "I'm sorry what did you say your name was, ma'am?"
"I didn't, but its Esme. Esme Cullen."
Esme stuck out her hand in a friendly gesture. Charlie took it a shook it enthusiastically.
"I bet we'll be seeing quite a bit of each other. Now our children are going to Forks Elementary together, huh?" He smiled and the skin around his eyes crinkled kindheartedly.
"BELLA!" He called to his daughter in the car. "Let's go, honey."
The police car door swung open, clipping the sidewalk roughly as Charlie's daughter raced to the glass doors, tripping once and scraping her hands roughly on the sidewalk.
Esme turned to her children, and smiled. "Well, that was interesting, wasn't it?" began her first day of school good-bye.
Because of the alignment of the two cars, Bella never saw one of the Cullens.
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