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Buying train tickets in Beijing
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Buying train tickets in Beijing Reviews
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Buying train tickets in Beijing May 31, 2009
If u want to travel by train in China, good luck! Because u will need it more than anything. Sometimes u get it easy, sometimes u never get to the train.
If u r in Beijing and u r about to buy a ticket or get any info, DONT ENTER THE STATION BUILDING! inside there are nothing u need. But also DONT STAY in one of the 45678 queues outside station. Stand in front of the station looking at it. On ur right side, oposide the Metro entrance - u will see separate door to the building (NOT THE maIn DOOR of the station) dont read any information in english at the side of the right entrance - they are useless. Enter the station there (again: on the right side - inside u will find many counters, one of them on ur right is the counter for foreigners, they speak english and this is ur only chance to get info or tickets. If u r traveling with the highspeed train towards Tianjing, dont even bother to the main station. Go straight to the south station (how - u have to find ur own way, no metro line going there, and buses - nobody knows where they are going. Maybe taxi?)
So good luck. sometimes good ppl will help u. But dont count too much on it in Beijing. ;)
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separate "production information"Edit
I think it might be counter intuitive to mix our "in-universe" POV (lists of starships, people, etc) lists with "meta-trek" (our own POV) info like lists of guest actors.
I propose the creation of subcategory Category:Production lists, which will contain all "list of" articles that deal with production or behind-the scenes information (including the production of comics, novels, games, and DVDs).
This subcategory will also be contained in the eventual "meta-trek" category when created.
Also, i think any "list category" (i.e. a category that is named like a list, in plural) should be contained here. -- Captain Mike K. Barteltalk 05:12, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Sort key Edit
Should articles be arranged by their main topic using a sort key? for example, should unnamed Vulcans belisted under "V" for Vulcan? and 22nd century Starfleet officers under "S" for Starfleet? -- Captain Mike K. Barteltalk 16:29, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Definitely! :) -- Cid Highwind 16:50, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
"List of..." (moved from various talk pages)Edit
I think there might be some value to all of our list of articles shortening their title -- since there is very rarely an article with a plural title, every single "List of" article could have those two words removed and become its root subject, making it easier to conversationally link to ("numerous [[military conflicts]]..." over "numerous [[list of military conflicts|military conflicts]]...," for example), and also easier to tabulate alphabetically (The Cardassian article would list links to Cardassian ranks, Cardassian history, Cardassian starships, etc -- a standard form for associating subarticles -- the lists will fit fine into the shorter and preferably simpler termed article name), and evolve to correspond or redirect to a list category. -- Captain Mike K. Barteltalk 01:04, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I'll buy that. Just say 'when' and I'll help with the move. --Gvsualan 20:26, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I'm going to append this to Memory Alpha:Ten Forward for a day or so before we start to make sure no one will overreact if we make this change :p. -- Captain Mike K. Barteltalk 03:40, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- A great idea, and helps save time when writting articles. Enzo Aquarius 02:56, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I must have a look, but if you intend to change all the links and will make those changes "invisible" I can offer the help of Morn. If this really becomes the new style of Memory Alpha he could change all the links of List of military conflicts and turn them into Military conflicts. It should be no problem I must only find the correct program. All I would need is a list of all the lists that were changed. -- Kobi - (Talk) 08:52, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I agree with that change. As our list categories, list articles could simply have titles in the plural form (whereas all articles that are not lists should then have singular titles). However, I suggest to postpone that change a little and combine it with the creation of a Category:Lists, simply because it is easier to find all existing list articles while they still have a common prefix. -- Cid Highwind 09:17, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I must have a look, but if you intend to change all the links and will make those changes "invisible" I can offer the help of Morn. If this really becomes the new style of Memory Alpha he could change all the links of List of military conflicts and turn them into Military conflicts. It should be no problem I must only find the correct program. All I would need is a list of all the lists that were changed. -- Kobi - (Talk) 08:52, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Update on the bot offer: it is really possible: In MA/de Morn cleared a lot of redirects. However when solving a redirect it has to be entered one by one. If you want the changes to be made by the bot, move the pages and post the link on my talk page or at Morn's to-do. Btw: categorisation is DataMA's speciality ;) -- Kobi - (Talk) 18:20, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for all the input guys -- i think we are ready to go on Category:Lists, and then once we categorize all of our articles that currently begin with "List of," then we can start moving the articles, and then the services of the robot would change all the links. Let's go! -- Captain Mike K. Barteltalk 18:28, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
(...) As mentioned on Memory Alpha:Ten Forward, we could have a category for all "list articles" - especially, if those are moved to their new names as suggested. -- Cid Highwind 16:17, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
As mentioned on Memory Alpha:Ten Forward, we could have a category for all "list articles" - especially, if those are moved to their new names as suggested. -- Cid Highwind 16:17, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
List categories with existing "List of ..." articleEdit
Suggesting whole category trees obviously leads to lengthy discussions. This is a necessary process, of course, but to get things started another parallel approach might be useful. My suggestion is the following:
If a "List of X" already exists, and if this list is unannotated (just links to articles, no additional text for each entry, no pairs of links, etc.), then suggest the most generic form of this list as a new category below (for example, don't suggest "24th century starfleet personnel" or "inhabited planets" yet, just "starfleet personnel" (or "personnel"?) or "planets". You might want to add your opinion about possible sub- and super-categories, but those comments shouldn't be considered mandatory or obligatory yet. Each editor may vote on that suggestion. -- Cid Highwind
Not sure where to put thisEdit
I have compiled a list. This is a list of what I call "powers". Species that have governments, IE, interstellar empires. There are probably 100 or more of these, but many appear in only one episode; Devore, Lyssian, Tzenkethi. I wanted to compile a list of these interstellar empires that appear in more than just one episode. I've done so... however, I do not know exactly where to put this list. Here is what I have:
Any help in figuring out what to call such a list would be great. The list could be expanded if it helps, but, I'd rather not make it have more than 40 entries, otherwise the original point will become moot. 22.214.171.124 19:58, February 11, 2011 (UTC) (usually logged in, but I forgot my username)
- We generally don't have lists based on our own personal judgments about which races are or are not powers. We already have lists of governments and militaries, which are better ways to list such things.--31dot 21:05, February 11, 2011 (UTC)
Meta CategoryEdit
As I've gone and shifted in-universe categories out of this one, this category really comes across more and more as a "meta category", as in, a "real world" one that's definitely outside of the standard POV. I'm not entirely sure how to deal with this at the moment, but one thing that comes to mind is that we could make this a hidden "realworld" category, thus allowing it to stay on in-universe pages, but still allowing us to collect the information in one place. Another option might be to split it into two categories. In-universe and out-of-universe. Thoughts? -- sulfur (talk) 17:28, August 1, 2013 (UTC)
- Category:Production lists would already seem to be the out-of-universe version of this category, and I'm not sure what qualifier we could add that would disambiguate an in-universe category without breaking the POV. That said, since all categories are lists, I'm not really why so many categories were in this one when it's suppose to be for "articles that are lists", if I understood the discussion that created it, so I'm fine with just sticking this in the "top" in-universe category and leaving it at that. - Archduk3 17:58, August 1, 2013 (UTC)


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No currency has ever fallen afoul of investors as fast as the Aussie over the past two months. For Loomis Sayles & Co.'s Dan Fuss, that's a buy signal.
Fuss, whose Loomis Sayles Bond Fund beat 97 percent of peers in the past year with a 13 percent return, said he bought Australian dollar debt of a U.S. bank to benefit from higher yields and a positive exchange-rate outlook over three years. Traders swung to a record 63,277 net positions betting on declines on June 11, from net longs of 83,971 on April 2. That's the biggest 10-week reversal on record for major currency contracts tracked by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Loomis' confidence in the Aussie contrasts with a market that drove it last week to the lowest level since September 2010. Fading mining investment has spurred concern that the economy can't cope with declining demand from China, causing analysts to slash Aussie forecasts by the most among 50 currency pairs since the end of April.
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Stocks are slumping even after the central bank cut borrowing costs to an all-time low. The S&P/ASX 200 Index (AS51) dropped 2 percent in June, extending May's 5.1 percent loss that was the biggest in a year.
Bonds are also dropping following last month's biggest slide in 1 1/2 years. Benchmark 10-year yields rose three basis points, or 0.03 percentage point today, to 3.39 percent. They surged 27 basis points last month. The extra yield over similar-maturity U.S. Treasuries narrowed to 108 basis points on June 7, the least since November 2008.
Fuss said his funds are focused on buying securities maturing in about three years in Australia and similar markets, unlike in 2008 when they bought the longest maturities amid market declines. He didn't say which bank's bonds he had bought.
Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. led a surge in Australian bond sales by foreign borrowers last month. Morgan Stanley sold A$700 million of November 2018 securities, paying 4.75 percent, or 194 basis points more than government yields, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Yields Attract
"The pick-up in yield is substantial and the time to maturity is long enough so that we feel good about the currency over a three-year range," he said. "We liked the underlying credit for the U.S. bank, so it was a net addition to our position in the Australian dollar."
The Loomis Sayles Bond Fund (LSBDX)'s Aussie-denominated holdings as of April 30 included 2017 notes issued by Morgan Stanley, the state of New South Wales' 2017 and 2018 bonds, and 2015 securities sold by the European Investment Bank, according to data collected by Bloomberg. The fund's Australian currency exposure was approximately 3.5 percent at the end of the first quarter, the firm said in April.
The 147,248 turnaround in Aussie futures surpasses the 143,968 reversal for contracts on Japan's yen that took place in the 10 weeks to Feb. 13, 2007, that had stood as the largest drop on record for nine major exchange-rate based futures, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from CFTC reports back to 1993. Aussie net longs had reached an all-time high 103,376 on Dec. 11.
Aussie Plunging
The world's fifth most-traded currency plunged 7.7 percent this quarter to 96.19 U.S. cents as of 8:15 a.m. in London, the steepest slide among 31 major counterparts. It had soared 48 percent over the four years ended Dec. 31, the biggest gain.
Analysts forecast it will trade at 96 cents by year-end, down from a prediction of $1.03 on April 30, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It will end 2014 at 94 cents.
The pessimism has been driven by domestic data suggesting weaker demand, and comments from the central bank signaling the key rate can go lower even after it was cut to a record 2.75 percent on May 7. Swaps traders are betting on a 57 percent chance the rate will be 2.5 percent or less in August, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Royal Bank of Canada forecast last week the RBA will cut next month and lower the benchmark to 2.25 percent by year-end, as core inflation slows toward the bottom of the central bank's target range of 2 to 3 percent.
Australia's economy expanded at the slowest annual pace in almost two years in the first quarter as manufacturers and builders detracted from growth. The 2.5 percent growth missed economists' median forecast for a 2.7 percent gain.
Commodity Turnaround
Estimates for China are also being trimmed with economists projecting a 7.8 percent expansion this year, down from 8.1 percent at the start of 2013.
"We understand the near-term slowdown, we understand the pressures in China," said Fuss. On "the commodity demand and price situation we're not as bearish there three, four, five years from now. That's a fundamental difference in our outlook."
The Australian government is focused on running a balanced budget and "very importantly" funds its retirement system, taking away the biggest liability that a lot of nations have, he said. The Aussie will also benefit from being identified as a widely held reserve currency by the International Monetary Fund, he said.
Versus the U.S. dollar "with a lot of bumps along the way, big, big bumps, certainly positive there," Fuss said. "Three years from now is $1.05 possible? Yes, as a matter of fact we happen to think it's not only possible, it's likely."
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|Kevin Bullock (kbul...@ringworld.org)
|May 15, 2012 9:45:46 pm
In IRC this afternoon (US/Central) we were discussing various aspects of
bookmarks, and how to finally tighten up the experience of using them. I've
submitted a patch to make a bookmark called '@' the update target for clone if
it exists, but several other issues need to be considered to make the whole
experience smooth. For starters, here's a few questions I was considering
regarding the special @ bookmark:
1. Should a bare update go to @ if it exists (and we're not on a named branch)?
2. Would it be sensible to have @ be on a named branch other than default, or
would this lead to madness? a. What about allowing a per-branch default bookmark? b. What should a per-branch default bookmark be called? 'foo@' would be the
most obvious, but seems klunky. If this bookmark diverges, we end up with
bookmarks named things like 'foo@@1'.
3. What about the case where there's no bookmarks on a branch, and suddenly an
experimental one appears?
To elaborate on (3), Matt posed the following problem: Alice and Bob are working
on a branch. Alice updates to the branch head and commits, then starts some
experimental work. She commits and bookmarks her work as alice-work. When Bob
pulls and updates, he should move forward one commit. Instead he gets everything
in alice-work, which is now the branch head.
To solve this, I suggested automatically creating a "default" bookmark when an
explicit bookmark is created on a branch with no other bookmarks (or perhaps
even simply if there's no active bookmark). I say "default" in quotes because
this should almost certainly not be the same as the per-branch default discussed
in (2) above. This implicit-default bookmark would be as invisible as possible.
If there is an explicit default bookmark (say foo@), then the implicit "default"
bookmark would not be created.
Does this seem reasonable? I'll think more about this and propose a specific
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Brown Bears vs Cornell Big Red Point Spread: Betting Preview Hints At Winner
Cornell Big Red vs Brown Bears Odds
The Brown Bears will hit the floor running against the visiting Cornell Big Red Saturday, looking to improve their record and boost wagering bankrolls in the process.
The Big Red will look to vanquish their hosts on Saturday, as they are 8-7-1 ATS versus the spread this season, while the Bears are 6-6 ATS. Cornell is 5-5 against the total, while Brown is 5-6 versus the number.
View Cornell vs Brown Odds and Stats.
Power Rankings / Prediction:
The Bears - Big Red odds would favor the Bears if the lines were set according to our power ranks. Brown is rated No. 251 in the current Odds Shark poll, while Cornell is at No. 300. Mathematical models based on recent stats and predictive formulas point to a 63-62 win for the Big Red.
How They Match Up:
Rating these schools in several key categories is important for handicappers and Brown has the nation's No. 302-rated offensive output, at 61.3 PPG. The visiting Big Red defense ranks No. 227 allowing on average 68.6 PPG. The Bears FG% has averaged 39.6% so far, less than the Big Red marksmen have achieved on the year, 43.2% per game.
Defensively, Cornell features the nation's No. 172-rated defense on the road, allowing 69.5 points per game. Brown, meanwhile, comes in at No. 248 nationally in scoring at home.
In their last action, Cornell was a 68-61 winner on the road against Yale. They covered the 5.5-point spread as underdogs. The Big Red grabbed a 68-61 win over the Bulldogs on Friday, behind an 18 -point effort from Shonn Miller at John J. Lee Amphitheater.
Brown won its last outing, a 58-55 result against Columbia on February 15. They covered in that game as a 4-point underdog. The Bears got a terrific 27-point effort from Matt Sullivan as Brown defeated Columbia 58-55 on Friday at Pizzitola Sports Center.
Cornell Big Red Trends:
When playing on Saturday are 3-7
Before playing Pennsylvania are 6-4
After playing Yale are 9-1
After a win are 4-6
Brown Bears Trends:
When playing on Saturday are 7-3
Before playing Harvard are 7-3
After playing Columbia are 2-8
After a win are 2-8
A few Big Red at Bears trends to consider:
Cornell is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Brown
Cornell is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games on the road
Cornell is 8-17 SU in its last 25 games on the road
Brown is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Brown's last 5 games
Brown is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games
Brown is 2-9 ATS in its last 11 games when playing Cornell
Next up:
Cornell home to Pennsylvania, Friday, February 22
Brown home to Harvard, Friday, February 22


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Maybe it's a south russian sheepdog, they are all white/cream.
I have always wanted one of these guys, but their personalities aren't as sweet as a well bred oes.
|When you click on the picture it takes you to a search of different types of sheepdogs. I think they are just celebrating how great they all are
|In the search when you click on the photo, it claims it's a PON. Either way, it's a Sheepie of some sort getting some respect...
|Yep, our smaller cousins. Not quite the lovin' personality as ours but not nearly as severe as the big white Russians.
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Yep, our smaller cousins. Not quite the lovin' personality as ours but not nearly as severe as the big white Russians.
I wonder if you could socialize/train a Russian sheepdog into a sweetie pie They are such big, beautiful dogs
|We looked into a PON about five years ago but then the prices were $2500 each! Wonder is they've come down or not. It was when they were first accepted into the AKC so they were still new and a novelty.
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"You can't look at them without recognizing their consciousness, and I'd grant conscious status to any animal that demonstrates memory."
While this can devolve into a semantic argument, I wonder if there is a less likely genus for us vertebrate mammals to anthropomorphize? By a very basic definition cephalopods are certainly conscious in that they interact with their environment. I suppose the real question is whether squids, octopi, and cuttlefish are self conscious, self aware. Do they recognize themselves in the mirror? Are they aware of their mortality? Are they bored with our crude tests? Are they disappointed with us? Are they biding their time?]]>
Personaly from what I've heard and seen about their behaviour in captivity I would rate them more so.
Unlike cats which tend to be just efficient predators in cute fur, cephalopods can solve significant problems and use tools. Which puts them up with the likes of orangutans.
Dissection of the likes of the Humboldt squid have shown the "capacity" of their nervous systems to be orders of magnitude above that of primates. For instance the diameter of nerves in the axion are about a thousand times that of a human and can be considerable in length.
Their eyes are reckoned to be over ten times more sensitive than humans as well as having a significantly broader spectral response. Interestingly the eyes are very similar to that of primates, although squid invertibrate rhodopsin photoreceptor is more like vertibrate melanopsin than vertibrate rhodopsin. Human melanopsin is becoming a hot research topic due to the way it acts upon our biological clock, and thus may help with a number of stress related diseases such as chronic depression. Chronic depression is now estimated to effect as many as one in three people in the first world and be responsable for a significant percentage of unnatural (suicide etc) deaths in those below 40 and likewise untimely (early) deaths in those over 40.
There is an open debate at the moment about squid communication via changing pigment patterns etc. Recently it has been discovered that the nervous system of the squid enables changes to occur an order of magnitude faster than can be seen with human eyes and this has opened the debate on the "channel capacity" of the squids eyes / brain.
From the scientists perspective squid have one advantage in that the restrictions on research for "ethical reasons" are much less than for other research subjects such as "cute furry vertibrates". Part of this is that squid do not appear to experiance pain (atleast in a way we understand), although a number of researchers out in the field seem convinced they definatly suffer distress from observing the "red devils" when hauled on deck.
That being said Mexican fishermen pull up something like 110 million Kgs of Humboldt from the Sea of Cortez each year. This is mainly for the Asian food markets where "squid wings" are seen as a more sustainable alternative to other aquatic foods some of which are in serious decline from over fishing. One reason for this is the highly adaptable squid are filling niches left by the significant loss of vertibrate fish stocks, which possibly means that some vertibrate fish types will not be able to recover and will become extinct. Thus we should start eating more of them not less.
After that I gave up calamari, but I was never that fond of it to begin with.]]>
"In one instance, an octopus given a slightly spoiled shrimp stuffed it down the drain while maintaining eye contact with its keeper"
"We knew that he was bored as the aquarium is closed for winter, and at two feet, seven inches Otto had discovered he was big enough to swing onto the edge of his tank and shoot out the 2000 Watt spot light above him with a carefully directed jet of water"]]>


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: Miserable and Magical by TheCautionaryTale
Not everyday you discovered that you are half bird or should I say Veela. Draco Malfoy is not pure at all, what a surprise ! What if he's finally on age to discovered his mate ? Not every story has a happy ending, Does this one ?
Genres: General, Romance, AU Era: Hogwarts Characters: Arthur, Blaise (M), Draco, Ginny, Harry, Lucius, Molly, Narcissa, OtherCanon , Ron Pairings: Draco/OC, Harry/Ginny, Draco/Ginny, Draco/Hermione, Ginny/OC
Advisory: Strong Language, Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Published: 2013.05.02 Latest Chapter: 2013.06.04 Updated: 2013.06.04 Status: WIP (7165 words)
: The Unveiling by TheCautionaryTale
7th year, is a year that full of surprise for the senior students in Hogwarts. With a shocking new rules and an unexpected romance between each student. Follow their adventures here.......
Genres: Drama, Romance, AU Era: Hogwarts Characters: Cho, Draco , Dumbledore, Harry, Lucius, Luna, McGonagall, Narcissa, Neville, Ron Pairings: Draco/OC, Harry/Cho, Ron/Hermione, Draco/Hermione, Ginny/OC
Advisory: Mild Language, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Contains Spoilers
Published: 2013.04.28 Latest Chapter: 2013.05.02 Updated: 2013.05.02 Status: WIP (552 words)
: The Impossible by TheCautionaryTale
Gryffindor and Slytherin would never unite with each other. Everyone knows about that as if stating the obvious. So after the war, what if McGonagall plan a big change that maybe would unite them ?
A complete alternative universe of Harry Potter. The story would not change thought. But in this story, the female member of the golden trio would be my OC and not Hermione. Story take place in 7th year.
Genres: General, Romance, AU Era: Hogwarts Characters: Blaise (M), Draco, Ginny, Harry, Lucius, McGonagall, Narcissa, OtherCanon , Pansy, Ron Pairings: Draco/OC, Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, Draco/Hermione, Ginny/OC
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St. Leonard: A Maryland Tidewater Community
Written by Sara Ebenreck Leeland
illustrated by Gary Pendleton for the St. Leonard Vision Group.
Reviewed by Sandra Olivetti Martin
Calvert County hurries into the future as it glances over its shoulder this big anniversary at a heritage of 350 organized years plus many more when time flowed measurelessly. As Marylands fastest growing county, Calvert has more than doubled its population every 20 years since 1960, when 15,826 people called the little county Calvert home. Were the pattern to continue to 2010, county population would soar over 100,000.
How you save cultural identity when change comes so fast, bringing so many newcomers, is a big question in Calvert, which stakes its future in its past. Now Calverts oldest community, St. Leonard, has answered that question with a readable book delivered in time for April 17, the day a parade and festivities kick off the big anniversary.
A heritage story, Sara Ebenreck Leeland calls St. Leonard: A Maryland Tidewater Community. Leeland wrote the book, but like many a modern pregnancy it was conceived by group effort.
Its the brainchild of a group calling themselves the St. Leonard Vision Group, who formed a couple of years ago to promote a sense of community among residents.
This book is one means to that end, and from conception to birth, dozens of people were involved. They told and taped memories, dug up old photos, consulted county records, assembled a library of books and reread old newspapers. Marie Andrews coordinated the project, and Fred Dellinger directed hours of research. Chapter by chapter, volunteers read the draft copy to, Andrews says, make sure it was accurate from many points of view.
Meanwhile, Gary Pendleton like Leeland, a Bay Weekly contributor drew pictures. Finally, taking their work in hand, Mark Folkman designed St. Leonard: A Maryland Tidewater Community.
To fund the project, the Koenig Private Foundation, which also donated Annmarie Garden to the county, made a major grant almost equaled by 55 citizens and the Calvert County Heritage Committee.
At its best, Leeland explains, a heritage story opens up a vision of how we and our places are formed by past events and choices. A good story helps us to feel part of a community shaped over time.
By that standard and by many others St. Leonard: A Maryland Tidewater Community is a very good heritage story.
Most importantly, its a book you want to read.
Open its bright cover with a watercolor map on front and a sunlit shore on back and you find appealing elements on every page. Pendletons drawings of flora and fauna, places and people are interspersed with historic paintings, photos and maps to break up long lines of text. Punctuating 11 short chapters are section headings The Three Sisters: Corn, Beans & Squash or The Annapolis Tea Party that lead the wandering eye into Leelands story.
Its a big story, sprawling from The Continental Crash 250 million years ago to todays news. But as promised, Leeland has told history as a story, where events are not facts to memorize but threads that weave a pattern of meaning.
Learning how to grow The Three Sisters, she explains in the chapter Walkers from the West: The First People Discover Maryland, gave Chesapeake Woodland people a regular supply of food, which in turn allowed them to create villages in which they would live all the year. The villages were laid out in a circle, you then learn, because the circle itself was an important symbol: the seasons of the year go around in a circle, so do day and night; the sun and moon and visible stars are circular. To create a circle was to be in harmony with the rest of the natural world.
Leeland has the gift of bringing her story to the reader and the reader to her story. Next time you pick up a small stone here, she writes, explaining The Continental Crash, think of it as a piece of very old bone from the mountains to our west!
The story comes home in other ways, too. Almost every page of the big story highlights a fact that scales it down to readers size. While reading about native villages, you learn that instead of going to a place called school, children in the Woodland families learned by watching what adults did. They learned stories by being around storytellers.
Each chapter ends with activities to bring you into the world and the world into you. We all hope that people who read our book will take their thoughts and experiences further: study the places of their nearest creek or spot of forest, their own family history, and examine their own felt connections to place says Leeland.
Children will enjoy the book, which will surely fall into their hands, as grant funding allows distribution to Calvert County eighth grade Maryland history classes as well as to every student in the St. Leonard and Mutual elementary schools.
An important part of the vision, says Andrew was to give the children and families of St. Leonard a understanding of the place they live. If children feel they have roots in place they grow up, it is a very positive force in their lives as they mature.
But St. Leonard: A Maryland Tidewater Community is definitely not just for kids.
Get your copy signed from 10am to 5pm on April 17 at Linden House, up the hill back of the library at Prince Frederick. Theyre also on sale at Chesapeake Market Place or Buehlers Grocery in St. Leonard; at Educate and Celebrate in Prince Frederick; or on-line at www.saintleonardvisiongroup.org: $15 plus tax.


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Scientist Receives CAREER Award to Study Ice Chemistry
A chemist in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation to study ice's role as a chemical reactor.
Tara Kahan, assistant professor of chemistry, will use the $579,000 grant award to conduct some of the industry's first studies of the chemistry of "dirty" ice (i.e., ice containing compounds such as road salt).
"I am very excited about this project," says Kahan, whose expertise includes physical, environmental and atmospheric chemistry. "Most investigations into the chemistry of ice and snow involve pristine environments such as polar regions. We're also interested in ice and snow in cities, where there are high concentrations of road salt and organic matter, and whose effects haven't been fully investigated. Our goal is to better understand how ice chemistry affects human health."
Using various techniques including Raman microscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy and chromatography, Kahan will look at how salt and organic matter change the structure of ice surfaces and then react with pollutants, such as components of gasoline.
"This work will provide us with an understanding of ice as a chemical reactor, something that is needed to parameterize predictive models accurately," she says, adding that graduate and undergraduate students will carry out the experiments. "It will also provide data that improves atmospheric models."
Kahan's research should provide valuable insight into ice chemistry in the Arctic. She says that, as ice melts, shipping increases, causing ice and snow to become contaminated by gasoline components. When these pollutants react with sunlight during the Arctic's long summer days (a process known as photochemistry), they transform into toxic products that disrupt the area's delicate biogeochemical cycles.
"I hope to be able to better predict how salt from seawater and organic matter from mostly anthropogenic sources [i.e., human activity] affect the photochemistry of these pollutants," Kahan says.
The project also has a strong outreach component. Kahan will design a summer workshop that enables local middle school students to serve as science journalists. The students will interview environmental scientists at the University and then present their findings at the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) in Downtown Syracuse.
"It will be a great opportunity for Syracuse University to connect with the local community through the students' presentations," Kahan says. "Plus, our graduate and undergraduate students serving as mentors will learn valuable communication and leadership skills. It will be a teachable moment for everyone."
A CAREER award supports junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within context of the mission of their organizations.


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24-page Fire Safety Manual - Measures: 11" x 8½"
Age: Upper Elementary
The 4 Seasons of Fire Safety!
The theme of this general fire and burn prevention and life safety manual changes yearly to keep the children's interest. Although age-appropriate and more challenging, it compliments the 7-9 manual in topics as well as games so siblings of different age levels can enjoy the safety message and work together.
Topics: Report A Fire; Home Fire Hazards; Kitchen Safety; Home Fire Escape Plan; Safe Camping; Hotel/Motel Safety; Babysitting; Burns; Firefighters; Fire Prevent Week; School Fire Drills; Exit Signs; Smoke; Stop, Drop, Cover Your Face, and Roll; Holiday Safety; Three Parts of Fire; Kerosene Heater Safety; Woodstove Safety; Smoke Alarms, Fire Extinguishers, and Carbon Monoxide Detectors; Arson; and a Review.


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Music, Art, Environmentalism: Don't Miss Mae Moore July 2 and 3rd!!!
Greetings PGS Members and Friends
It has been a very busy spring and hard to keep track of all the great events going on, but we want to make sure you know about a VERY cool concert coming up at the Roxy on Saturday, July 2nd. If you caught Mae Moore opening the Poetry Festival last November we're sure you'll agree this a really special performer and seeing her at the Roxy will be a rare treat. Mae will be celebrating her new CD recording, FOLKLORE, which features that beautiful song, Tom Thomson's Mandolin, an ode to the 20th Century painter known to dabble in music.
The next day, July 3rd, Mae will be hosting Wayfinding To The Heart Of A Song, a songwriting lab in the Poetry Yurt at the Commons. There are four spots left for this session, so let us know if you want to sign up by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or call 250-247-7604.
Tickets are only $15 at Artworks!!
We're looking forward to seeing everyone at the Roxy on July 2nd and catching up on all the news. Here's some info on Mae:
With her sophisticated jazzy folk-pop musical signature and her earthy, unadorned vocal style, Mae Moore scored nine top-forty hits, two Juno nominations and two SOCAN awards thanks to a string of high profile releases for Sony Music in the 90s. She also co-wrote a massive movie single in the form of "Heaven in Your Eyes" from the Top Gun soundtrack. At the same time, the Algonquin-trained artist quietly launched a career as a landscape painter, racked up a loyal posse of patrons, and took up organic farming on a heritage orchard in British Columbia's Gulf Islands.
Now Canadian roots music's original earth mother is returning to her solo recording career after a ten year absence with a project that marries her many facets like never before.
Her new album, Folklore, is both a compelling work of Canadiana and a mature exploration of inner and outer landscapes, featuring Mae's own artwork in the album package and released in conjunction with a companion coffee table book containing 19 of her paintings and a download code for the music. Mae launched it with a cross-Canada tour by Via Rail train -- since the devoted environmentalist does her best to avoid flying.
In the years that have followed her major label chart successes, Mae has released a self-titled recording on Jann Arden's Big Hip label and recorded a collection of new songs and new versions of old songs for the American imprint, Paras. In 2004, she released the WCMA-nominated Oh My!, a duo project with Lester Quitzau.
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By ALEX LEARY and STEVE BOUSQUET
Published November 30, 2006
TALLAHASSEE — House Speaker Marco Rubio, whose new book faults government for spending too much money, has created new high-paying jobs for two Republican allies.
Rubio hired Gov. Jeb Bush's former budget director, Donna Arduin, as a $10,000-a-month consultant. She starts work today.
A former House member, Republican Ken Sorensen of Key Largo, started three weeks ago at a salary of $100,008.
Sorensen, 72, is a full-time senior staff director helping freshmen lawmakers learn the ropes.
He has a diverse background, having founded a hospital, worked as a Boeing 727 jet instructor and political science professor at Florida State University.
Rubio's spokesman Jose Fuentes defended the hirings at a time when there are 36 new members in the House and when term limits restrict institutional knowledge.
"It's vitally important to have such knowledgeable individuals helping members understand the budget process better than anybody else," Fuentes said.
Rubio's new book, 100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future, faults steady growth in the size of government.
"Governmental entities can too easily increase taxes and spending," the book says.
Rubio was attending a retreat with other House members Thursday and did not respond to requests for comment. But Fuentes said the new hires, and the expertise they bring, will actually save money because taxpayers will have "key allies on their side."
Arduin, 43, is a fiscal conservative who favors smaller government and lower taxes. As Bush's first budget director, she championed a leaner state bureaucracy and limits on lawmakers' hometown projects, known as "turkeys."
Arduin's contract begins today at a rate of $10,000 a month and will run through May 31, though it can be extended.
On Arduin's watch in Florida, some budget-cutting ideas met hostility even from Republicans, such as the proposed closing of the state library in 2003.
Arduin also is credited with helping California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger emerge from that state's budgetary abyss in 2004. She also worked for Republican governors George Pataki in New York and John Engler in Michigan.
Arduin returned to Florida in 2005 to launch a consulting firm, Arduin, Laffer & Moore Econometrics. The firm offers "creative and fiscally responsible solutions" to its clients.
Her House contract calls for the firm to perform work as directed by Rubio "relating to the general appropriations bill" and "such other matters as the speaker may deem appropriate."
Arduin cannot lobby the Legislature while working for the state. She is one of about 20 former Bush staffers recruited by Rubio, who has positioned himself as the ideological heir to the governor.
Rubio hired a second ex-lawmaker, Democrat Ron Greenstein, as a part-time adviser on budget issues.
Greenstein, 55, of Coconut Creek, will earn $25,000 over a six-month period.
He and Sorensen were forced to leave the House in November because of term limits.
The hiring of Greenstein was at the request of Rep. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach, the House minority leader.
Gelber noted there are 36 new House members and Greenstein can help train them -- Democrats and Republicans alike.
"I don't have a problem at all with having smart men and women involved, even if some of their ideologies are different," Gelber said of Rubio's hirings.
In other personnel moves, Rubio named Richard Corcoran, 41, as chief of staff.
A former partner in a Crystal River law firm bearing his name, Corcoran had worked the past two years for the Republican Party of Florida.
Corcoran will earn $175,212 a year.
Rubio also promoted Jeremiah Hawkes as general counsel to the House. Hawkes, 29, is the son of Paul Hawkes, a judge on the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee. His salary information was not immediately available.
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Samway History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. The name Samway comes from the baptismal name for the son of Samuel. This ancient Hebrew font name meaning name of God was not common in the Middle Ages, but was not necessarily of Jewish origin. There were many records of the surname Samway of English descent.
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Cornwall where they held a family seat from early times. The family name first appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.
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Anglo-Saxon surnames are characterized by a multitude of spelling variations. Changes in Anglo-Saxon names were influenced by the evolution of the English language, as it incorporated elements of French, Latin, and other languages. Although Medieval scribes and church officials recorded names as they sounded, so it is common to find one person referred to by several different spellings of his surname, even the most literate people varied the spelling of their own names. Variations of the name Samway include Samwell, Samuel, Samuell, Samway, Samuels and others.
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Searching for a better life, many English families migrated to British colonies. Unfortunately, the majority of them traveled under extremely harsh conditions: overcrowding on the ships caused the majority of the immigrants to arrive diseased, famished, and destitute from the long journey across the ocean. For those families that arrived safely, modest prosperity was attainable, and many went on to make invaluable contributions to the development of the cultures of the new colonies. Research into the origins of individual families in North America revealed records of the immigration of a number of people bearing the name Samway or a variant listed above:
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President Obama has nominated Gina McCarthy to succeed Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator. When the Senate takes up her confirmation, lawmakers should be aware that McCarthy, the current chief of air regulation at EPA, has a history of misleading Congress and the public about her agency's greenhouse gas regulations.
At a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in October 2011, McCarthy denied motor vehicle greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards are "related to" fuel economy standards. In so doing, she denied plain facts she must know to be true. She did so under oath.
Why does this matter? As we explain below, the falsehood that GHG standards and fuel economy standards are unrelated gave the EPA legal cover to grant a waiver authorizing California to implement its own de-facto fuel economy program. The waiver threatened to subject the auto industry to a "patchwork" of state-by-state fuel economy requirements.
The patchwork threat gave the White House leverage to offer regulatory protection in return for the auto industry's support in legislative battles over the administration's climate policies. Auto industry lobbying helped kill a key legislative effort to rein in the EPA and reclaim Congress's authority to determine climate policy. As we also explain, McCarthy and the Air Office gave false assurances future GHG permitting requirements would not operate as a ban on new coal-based power. This deception too undermined legislation to curb the EPA's greenhouse power grab.
To repeat, McCarthy in testimony (along with two other administration witnesses) asserted GHG standards and fuel economy standards are not related. But key agency documents show GHG standards implicitly regulate fuel economy.
According to the agency's May 2010 Tailpipe Rule, co-authored with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), no commercially available technologies exist to capture or filter out carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from motor vehicles. Consequently, the only way to decrease CO2 emissions per mile is to reduce fuel consumption per mile — that is, increase fuel economy. Carbon dioxide constitutes 94.9 percent of vehicular GHG emissions, and "there is a single pool of technologies . . . that reduce fuel consumption and thereby CO2 emissions as well."
The framework document outlining the administration's fuel economy options for model years 2017-2025 calculates a vehicle's MPG from its CO2 emissions. Co-authored by the EPA, NHTSA and the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the September 2010 Interim Joint Technical Assessment Report examines four fuel economy standards for model year 2025, ranging from 47 MPG to 62 MPG. Each standard is the simple reciprocal of an associated CO2 emission reduction scenario. The 54.5 miles per gallon standard adopted by the administration in July 2011 is a compromise between the 4 percent-per-year (51 MPG) and 5 percent-per-year (56 MPG) CO2 reduction scenarios.
Not convinced yet?
CARB's 2004 staff report presenting the agency's plan to implement AB 1493, California's GHG motor vehicle emissions statute, is another smoking gun. Nearly all of CARB's recommended technologies for reducing GHG emissions were previously recommended in a 2002 National Research Council study on fuel economy. CARB proposes a few additional options, but each is a fuel-saving technology, not an emissions-control technology.
At the hearing, McCarthy argued that GHG standards and fuel economy standards are not related because they are "different." One might as well argue that brothers aren't related because they are different.
Why the not-so-artful dodging?
The EPA has no statutory authority to regulate fuel economy. More importantly, the federal Energy Policy and Conservation Act prohibits states from adopting laws or regulations "related to" fuel economy. Yet in 2009, the EPA granted California a waiver authorizing CARB to implement AB 1493. McCarthy could not testify accurately without casting doubt on the legality of the waiver and AB 1493.
The waiver did more than authorize California to poach NHTSA's statutory authority to prescribe fuel economy standards. It also authorized other states to follow suit. Consequently, the waiver threatened to create a market-balkanizing administrative morass. Each automaker would have to reshuffle the mix of vehicles sold in each "California" state to attain the requisite fleet-average MPG or grams CO2/mile (see the National Automobile Dealers Association report, "Patchwork Proven").
Having imperiled the financially distressed auto industry, the Obama team could then offer regulatory protection (and bailout money) in return for political fealty. In May 2009, hush-hush negotiations culminated in what President Obama dubbed the "historic agreement." California and other states agreed to deem compliance with the EPA's emission standards as compliance with their own – but only if automakers pledged to support a "national" motor vehicle program jointly administered by EPA, NHTSA and CARB.
The political payoff for EPA came in June 2010. The auto industry lobbied against a resolution, sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, to overturn the EPA's Endangerment Rule, the prerequisite for the EPA's climate regulations. The resolution fell four votes short (47-53), allowing the GHG regulatory cascade to proceed apace. The Endangerment Rule triggered the Tailpipe Rule, which in turn triggered Clean Air Act permitting requirements for major stationary GHG emitters. As a font of regulatory overreach, the fiction that GHG standards and fuel economy standards are unrelated ranks right up there with the Supreme Court's fantasy that Congress "spoke directly" to the issue of anthropogenic global warming when it enacted the Clean Air Act in 1970.
McCarthy also misled the public and policymakers about the EPA's plans to regulate GHG emissions from stationary sources.
According to Greenwire (April 14, 2010), McCarthy gave assurances best available control technology standards for major GHG emitters would require only efficiency upgrades, not fuel switching from coal to gas. "We haven't done [fuel switching] in the past, and there's been good reason why we haven't done [it] in the past," she reportedly said.


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Seizures in cats and dogs
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Dogs and cats can have seizures or convulsions, just like people. Seizures in pets can be caused by a number of different conditions. For example, brain tumors are a common cause in older pets, who often have other signs such as walking in circles or stumbling. In certain conditions of the liver or kidneys, toxins build up in the blood, causing seizures. Seizures can also be caused by encephalitis, which is inflammation of the brain that often results from infection. In addition, if a blow to the head is severe enough to result in unconsciousness (eg, being hit by a car), it can create a scarred or irritated area of the brain, and seizures can develop weeks or months later.
An important thing to remember if your pet has a seizure is not to panic. Your pet is unconscious and not in any pain. (People that have seizures describe feeling dazed, tired, or confused after having a seizure, but that the seizure itself is not painful.) Make sure that your pet is on the floor on a soft surface so that it can't injure itself by falling off furniture or down a flight of stairs. Do not try to open your pet's mouth or put your fingers in it. It is not possible for your pet to "swallow its tongue." During a seizure, you may see muscle spasms, and your pet may "paddle" their legs or extend them in a rigid fashion. Many pets lose control of their bladder or bowel.
If you have never seen a seizure before, you may think it is going on and on, but in reality most seizures last for less than a minute. However, if the seizure does in fact not stop with a minute or two (check your watch!), or if several seizures occur within a few minutes of each other, the situation is an emergency. In this case, you should get your pet to your veterinarian or a veterinary emergency service immediately.
The cause of a seizure in your pet can be difficult to determine, and many times is never known. When the cause of the seizures cannot be found, the condition is called epilepsy. Providing your vet with a good history can be very helpful in trying to determine the cause. Be sure to report any other problems your pet is having. Your vet will do a thorough physical examination, and blood tests will be needed to look for underlying problems. In some cases, more extensive testing such as a spinal tap or a CAT scan or MRI may be recommended, and your vet may refer you to a specialist or university teaching hospital.
If an underlying cause for the seizures is found, treatment is directed at correcting the source of the problem in your cat or dog. If no specific cause can be found, but your pet has a short seizure only every few weeks or so, no specific treatment may be needed. If your pet has seizures more frequently, your vet will likely recommend medication to decrease the severity and frequency of seizures. Sometimes, different drugs need to be tried, as well as different dosages, depending on how your pet responds to the medication. Keeping a record of your pet's seizures, including when (the time of day) and how often your pet has a seizure is extremely helpful in monitoring treatment.
What causes seizures in pets?
Seizures (commonly known as convulsions or fits) can be caused by a number of different conditions, including brain tumors, head trauma, liver or kidney disease, encephalitis (ie, inflammation of the brain), and epilepsy of unknown cause.
Are seizures painful for my pet?
Your pet is unconscious during the seizure and there is no pain.
What should I do if my pet has a seizure?
Stay calm and place your pet onto a soft surface on the floor, so that it can't injure itself by falling, then contact your veterinarian or emergency service. Do not try to open your pet's mouth.
How long do seizures last in pets?
The actual seizure usually lasts less than a minute, but it may take many more minutes for your pet to return to normal awareness. If the intense spasms do not stop within a minute or two, or if several seizures occur within a few minutes of each other, the situation is an emergency that should be seen by a veterinarian immediately.
How are seizures treated in pets?
Treatment involves addressing the underlying cause and (if needed) using anticonvulsant drugs to control the seizures.
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Rutherford Among Pens Alumni at Charity Classicby Michelle Crechiolo / Pittsburgh Penguins
It's been a hectic summer for Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford, so he took a much needed day away from the office on Tuesday to participate in the Alumni Charity Golf Classic presented by 84 Lumber.
But Rutherford wasn't just there in a working capacity as Pittsburgh's GM – he was there as a former player, too.
Rutherford, a goaltender, played parts of three seasons for Pittsburgh from 1971-74. He appeared in 115 games with the Penguins, posting a 44-49-14 record and a 3.14 goals-against average while wearing a unique bright blue mask that was once featured on the cover of In Goal Magazine.
Now, 40 years later, Rutherford's career has circled back to Pittsburgh.
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"It feels great to be here," Rutherford said before jokingly adding, "I guess I had to get a job here to get invited back. Actually, a few years ago I was trying to get to this outing. Now I'm really glad I'm here. I get to see a lot of old friends.
"We have a special bond and a friendship that lasts forever. It's one that doesn't necessarily mean we see each other once a month. I know my really close friend Dave Burrows, from when I played in Pittsburgh, I don't talk to him much but I consider him my real good friend. But to get to see some of those guys I haven't seen for a long time, this is a special day."
One of those old friends was fellow goaltender Denis Herron, who played 18 games for Pittsburgh as a rookie during the 1972-73 season – and was mentored by and learned from Rutherford.
"Jimmy was the goalie for the Penguins when I came in as a rookie and it was just great because he showed me the ropes a little bit," Herron said. "What to do, how to do it, everything. And since I had no experience it was great, you need that. It was very nice."
When old teammates get together, a lot of storytelling goes on. As Dave Hanson of Slapshot fame jokingly put it, "That's the great thing about old hockey players getting back together again, you get to kind of relive the youth again. But suddenly that goal that you scored or that save that you made is 10 times bigger than when it really happened."
And Rutherford, who golfed with Penguins owner/legend Mario Lemieux, shared a memory of his own.
"I think the real special one was when we went to the playoffs against the Blackhawks (in 1972)," Rutherford said. "We were certainly outmatched, that was in some of their glory days when they had Bobby Hull and those superstar players. Every game that series was a one-goal game, we gave them a good series. They beat us four straight, but that was a great memory. I was really young as a player here, Red Kelly was the coach and I have a ton of respect for him the way he handled the team."
Rutherford was traded back to Detroit, the team that originally drafted him on Jan. 17, 1974 and played nine more seasons before retiring in 1983. He never thought that he would eventually return to Pittsburgh, but is thrilled to be back in the city.
"It's funny, you never think of things in your life how they're going to turn out," Rutherford said. "But when I got traded from Pittsburgh, I was very, very upset because I loved it here. I was here almost three years, and you never really think about coming back. At this point in my career, to have this opportunity, it's just a great feeling."
It wasn't just old Penguins teammates Rutherford reunited with – he saw a teammate from his Red Wings days as well. Hanson, who is the executive director of the RMU Island Sports Center and has been coming to the Alumni Charity Golf Classic for years, played one season with Rutherford in Detroit in 1978-79.
"He's got just a few more wrinkles and a little less hair," Hanson joked. "But it's great to see him. Jimmy was always a goalie first of all, so he was never playing with a full deck to begin with. But it was great to see him. He was actually a great goaltender back in the day with the Detroit Red Wings team. It was good to see a smiling face, especially from the old days."
However, the outing wasn't just about playing 18 holes and reuniting with old friends – it was about raising money for charity as well. The proceeds from the day went to the Mario Lemieux Foundation, Achieva, and Magee Women's Research Institute and Foundation.
"This group of alumni is nothing but a great group of guys," Hanson said. "They're a lot of fun, and they come out for all the right reasons and raise a lot of money for some great causes. It's evidenced when you see what kind of group you have when you have grunts like me out here and then you have the superstars like Mario, we're rubbing elbows and having a great time all around. The guys we get to play with, we have a good time with them as well."


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In playwright John B Keane's native Ireland, The Matchmaker has been playing to sold-out houses of 1,000 people. It's not hard to see why. Not only is Keane held in very fond regard but the actors involved - Des Keogh and Tony award-winning Anna Manahan - are also afforded the utmost respect. And the play's subject, the matchmaking antics of Mick Dicky O'Connor deep in the Emerald Isle's countryside, is an exercise in poignant popular sentimentalism.
However, unless you are an unquestioning lover of all things Oirish, you may find The Matchmaker predictable and quite old-fashioned. That the play's message - loneliness is terribly hard to bear - is written all over the set is a demonstration of the unsophisticated nature of both the writing and the production. With tales of mad widows, a lascivious English landowner and a fat Turkish woman who crushes her husband in his sleep told in epistolary form, The Matchmaker could almost be subtitled Carry On Up the Celts.
With such lame material, thank God for Manahan and Keogh. Their performances are the only things that make sitting through this overlong, sluggish play worthwhile.
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From Fourth International, January 1946, Vol.7 No.1, pp.16-17.
Transcribed, edited & formatted by Ted Crawford & David Walters in 2008 for ETOL.
The following summary of the situation in Indo-China and the powerful anti-imperialist movement which is shaking the entire country has been written by an Indo-Chinese comrade. It is reprinted and translated from the Sept.–Oct.–Nov. issue of Quatrième Internationale organ of the European Executive Committee of the Fourth International.
The density of the essentially agricultural population in the North of Indo-China is extremely thick; it reaches 400 to 800 inhabitants to the square kilometer in the Tonkin Delta. The peasant of these regions cultivates his land with very primitive agricultural equipment and methods. The land has been partitioned to the extreme and most of the peasants do not possess more than a single hectare. On the other hand the complete absence of industry does not permit the peasants to secure a complement to their resources in the factory, a fact which entails extremely miserable conditions of life for the greatest part of the population.
In order to be able to exist and to pay their taxes, the small Indo-Chinese peasants are forced to borrow on their land and this is passing piece by piece into the patrimony of the Church or to the Indo-Chinese banks. The proletarianized peasants must then go to work as unskilled laborers in the mining pits or as agricultural workers on the estates of the big landed proprietors. Salaries are very low and barely came to 2 to 4 francs a day before the war of 1939-1940.
The middle peasantry (possessing an area of approximately some ten hectares) are likewise seeing their lands mortgaged and the medium-sized domains are also passing into the hands of the Chinese usurers and the agricultural credit banks.
On the great plantations belonging to the French colonists there lives an extremely miserable agricultural proletariat recruited from the overpopulated deltas of Tonkin and rather sold than hired out to the planters who, so to speak, have the power of life and death over the coolies in their employ. In the Southern part of the country the great Indo-Chinese landed proprietors to whom the French administration has conceded immense domains because of their "collaborative" attitude during the colonization possess almost the whole of the country.
In the towns there lives a population of little shopkeepers beside a restricted urban proletariat as miserable as the agricultural proletariat.
The special conditions prevailing in Indo-China cause revolutionary waves to come from the countrysides and then to reach the urban centers, contrary to what has generally happened in the West. Actually, there is no significant industrial proletariat in the towns which are inhabited above all by small shopkeepers. On the other hand the agricultural proletariat and petty proprietors constitute the greatest part of the population whose standard of living is extremely low.
The situation in Indo-China has been revolutionary since the last war and the study of the successive uprisings enables us to assert that when the Indo-Chinese masses demand their independence through an expulsion of the French colonizers they likewise have in view the expropriation of their own national bourgeoisie and feudalists.
In 1917 the Monarchy supported by the feudal layers attempted to recover its independence: Annam rose up. The years from 1917 to 1923 are marked by the success of the bourgeois nationalist movement.
The years from 1923 to 1927 witnessed the upsurge of the petty bourgeois and peasant nationalist movement which was climaxed by an insurrection followed by massacres in 1929.
The year 1933 is marked by manifestations of peasants and workers led by the Communist Party and followed by a ferocious repression.
The sweep of the workers' movement in France in 1936 has its repercussions in Indo-China where there was seen great mass movements for several years and which were savagely repressed in 1939. The beginning of the war is marked by the arrest of the Communist leaders.
These uprisings do not stop with the Japanese occupation but nipponese imperialism aids French imperialism in the task of repression.
The departure of the Japanese finally permits the armed insurrection of the Viet Minh.
Despite the cruel repression of French imperialism which each time beheads the revolutionary vanguard, the recurrent rhythm of the uprisings shows very well that Indo-China has long since matured for the revolution.
The Trotskyist organization was, as you know, especially strong in Cochin-China.
In so far as the Communist Party, which is the principal political party in the country, is concerned, its influence differs according to the regions. In the North and in the Central section, its activity is clandestine, but despite unfavorable conditions in 1938-1939 it had reached a strength of around 300,000 members. In Cochin-China the Communist Party is semi-legal and even a Popular Front policy has not permitted it to assemble any such significant strength. Thus in spite of a restricted title-holder's method of suffrage the elections gave 15 percent of the votes to the government party, 80 percent to the Trotskyist party, and only 1 percent of the votes to the Communist Party.
At Tonkin and in Annam on the contrary the Indo-Chinese Communist Party has a very strong influence especially in the peasant sections. Thus peasant unions, of communist inspiration, have been constituted to resist the mandarins and big landed proprietors. They defend the wages of the agricultural workers, organize mutual aid among the small peasants to enable them to fight against the mandarins and usurers and, by husbanding their products during the good years, to prevent a sale of their property during the years of scarcity. Moreover these unions often also acquire the form of cooperatives: with the resources of the union the peasants buy lands which they cultivate in turn and whose harvests they share.
The beginnings of the Japanese occupation were marked by very important uprisings. In October 1940, these occurred in Tonkin, in November 1940 in Cochin-China, in January 1941 in Annam. Japanese and French imperialisms united to ferociously repress these popular movements. The Viet Minh, league for the independence of Indo-China, was constituted at that time. It was formed by two nationalist parties embracing the petty bourgeoisie and the left wing of the liberal bourgeoisie, of two Communist Parties (Stalinist and Trotskyist), organizations of women, peasants, workers, soldiers and youth. The program it worked out in 1941 is a program of democratic liberties.
The question of agrarian reform is not contained in it, but the confiscation of the property of the Japanese, the French, the Indo-Chinese "fascists," and of the Church really amounts to the same result, for all the possessors in Indo-China have collaborated with the Japanese occupier and have very easily accommodated themselves to the government of Petain. The second important point of the program is the struggle even by armed force against every aggressor country.
During the Japanese occupation the French bourgeoisie tried to obtain the support of the Indo-Chinese bourgeoisie which preferred to serve Japanese imperialism. Actually the absence of industrial development in Indo-China does not permit the Indo-Chinese bourgeoisie the hope of being able to dispense with a foreign imperialism. That is why the Indochinese bourgeoisie always tried to support itself upon the strongest imperialism. That is why it was pro-nipponese during the Japanese occupation, and now turns its eyes toward American imperialism, the master of the Pacific. The pro-nipponese parties led by the Indochinese bourgeoisie have not had any profound influence among the masses. An "independent" government was constituted by Japan. At its head was Bao-Dai who had covered the exploitation of the country by the French bourgeoisie with his imperial authority and who then put himself at the service of nipponese imperialism.
After the surrender of Japan, the Viet Minh took over the governmental authority, forced Bao-Dai to abdicate, and expelled his pro-nipponese ministers. All power has therefore fallen into the hands of the Viet Minh. French imperialism is very desirous of reconquering its positions in Indo-China, but left to itself it would be quite incapable of achieving its ends. It demands support from British imperialism. British imperialism also has aims in Indo-China but before openly opposing France is awaiting the eventual checkmate of the western bloc which would permit her to peacefully achieve the same ends. On the other hand the English bourgeoisie fears the effect of the example of the Indo-Chinese people upon her neighboring possessions: Burma, Siam, the Indian Empire. The Indian National Congress Party has actually passed motions of solidarity with Indo-China. A powerful anti-imperialist movement is developing throughout all Asia.
The imperialists of the United States wish as well as the others to impose their domination on this part of the world. They do not act openly but through the intermediary of China. They are trying on the one hand to limit English expansion in Indo-China and on the other hand to impose their creatures upon the Viet Minh to dispel the communist danger. For this purpose they support themselves upon the Revolutionary Union for Independence, the old Nationalist Party, right wing in the Viet Minh, which is seeking to extend its bases in the petty bourgeois class and in the bourgeoisie.
The Indo-Chinese revolution faces a double danger. It is menaced by the nationalist parties within, which support themselves upon Yankee imperialism and by the three imperialist sharks which are laying siege to the country. If the Indochinese revolution is isolated it cannot triumph over these difficulties.
The Viet Minh is menaced by the development of the nationalist parties on the right which are seceding in order to combat the revolutionary tendencies as soon as that will be possible and following a course similar to that we have witnessed in Greece. The Indo-Chinese revolutionists ought to demand of the Viet Minh that it carry out its program fully and demonstrate to the masses that neither the bourgeoisie nor the petty bourgeoisie can realize these reforms.
But the Indo-Chinese people alone cannot triumph over its powerful adversaries. The proletarians of all countries in the world must solidarize themselves in action with the Indochinese people and protest by every means against their governments to frustrate the crime which is being prepared against their Indo-Chinese brothers. The Australian workers have given the example by going on strike to prevent the English bourgeoisie from dispatching war materials to the Dutch Indies. The workers of the world must follow this example and never forget that the victorious Indo-Chinese revolution can soon spread throughout the Pacific and could even be the prelude to the European and world revolution.
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2012 Summer Olympics: Should the U.S. Men's National Basketball Team Be Worried?July 24, 2012
A quick glance up and down the U.S. men's basketball team roster for the 2012 Olympics reveals a glaring flaw: The only player defined as a conventional center is the New York Knicks' Tyson Chandler, and the only players traditionally defined as bigs at all are Chandler, Minnesota's Kevin Love and inbound Hornets rookie Anthony Davis.
Even for an outfit that's typically lined with perimeter talent, that's a pretty striking dearth of quality bigs.
So much so that Team USA's positional deficit—coupled with a few competitive exhibition games—have some already planning for the possibility of something less than an American gold.
Sports are practically built on recency bias and reactionary response, but let's hold the phone for just one second. It's certainly true that the Spanish national team, Team USA's chief rival in the Summer Games, has the weight of Pau Gasol, Marc Gasol and Serge Ibaka to throw around in a potential matchup.
But before we start preparing the patron nation of basketball for silver medals, let's consider a few things.
This Is a Newly Formed Team
This point cannot be oversold. Many of the other national teams have at least some semblance of continuity in their programs, while the Americans have rotated between their A and B squads over the last two major competitions (the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the 2010 FIBA World Championships) without much integration between the two distinct units.
This is the first chance that many of these players have had to play with one another in a legitimately competitive setting—and a reintroduction of sorts to Mike Krzyzewski's system and principles—meaning that there was bound to be some lag in their initial performance.
These Are Exhibition Games
Team USA is playing hard, but not exactly going all out. Krzyzewski is spreading out minutes as best he can and fiddling with lineup configurations whenever possible to figure out what works and what doesn't.
Coach K has some incredible options in terms of how he manages his rotation, but in order to best understand the weapons he has at his disposal, he has to try them out in a variety of contexts. Thus we've seen some very different looks and strategies from the Americans thus far—all built on the same universal themes, mind you, but nonetheless requiring a fair bit of experimentation.
Team USA's Greatest Weakness Cuts Both Ways
The idea of the Americans struggling to contain the Gasol brothers with Chandler, Love and out-of-position wing players is hardly preferable, but consider what those individual matchups mean for Spain.
Chandler is a pretty conventional big in terms of his scoring range and skills, but Love is a stretch big in the purest sense—capable of pulling one of the Gasols all the way out to the three-point line, popping out on high screens, and still scrambling inside to compete on the glass. Both Gasol brothers are mobile enough to hang with Love outside, but just forcing one of them to guard him opens up driving lanes.
That said, it's the other options that are even more enticing for Team USA. When the Americans choose to play LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony or Kevin Durant as a nominal center, that requires that either a Gasol check one of those wing players or that Spain shifts to a zone.
The latter may not seem preferable, but given the potential for high-post passing on this roster—be it from Love, Chandler, James, Durant, Anthony, Andre Iguodala, Kobe Bryant or pretty much anyone available to Team USA—a pure zone shouldn't be too much of a problem.
As for the former: A player like James stands a much better chance of defending a Gasol in the post than said Gasol does of checking him. Team USA has the chance to take its quick, aggressive approach up a few notches by going even smaller than expected against Spain, and while that may seem counter-intuitive given Pau and Marc Gasol's proficiency on the block, forcing a big to guard James or Durant has the potential to make them a defensive liability.
That doesn't necessarily entail pulling the other bigs off the floor entirely (I suspect the combination of James and Chandler will give Team USA the best, most consistent chance against the Spaniards), but it does give this undersized team more options than one might think.