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Hi, I'm Kristen. I'm fifteen years old and am (going to be) a Sophomore in American high school. My native tongue is English and I have lived in the US for most of my life. My fascination with technology began in late 2010 to early 2011 when my mom passed down her iPod touch 2G to me. It was very slow so I jailbroke it and changed some files so it would be a tiny bit faster. My adventure continued on to January 2012 when I was given my first Android device. It was rooted in a week and had custom ROMs on it the day it was rooted... I dabbled with Android for a year or so (up until very recently).
I decided to take up Java a couple of weeks ago and got a Java for Dummies book (haha). I also reinstalled Linux on my computer and am using Geany as my IDE. I am taking my first year of programming in school this school year and we will be learning Java, however I want a headstart (so I could teach myself and use my class as sort of a review type thing, ahaha).
Well that's it I guess... hopefully I won't be too shy to ask questions here!
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Q: My husband and I work full time, and we have a daughter in middle school. Is it safe for her to be alone after school until we get home from work?
A: By middle school, your child may be resisting the idea of a baby sitter or after-school program, yet you may not feel comfortable leaving her home by herself.
By the age of 11 or 12 - middle school - some children can stay home alone safely for up to a few hours.
Every child matures at a different rate, so it's not just age that matters in making your decision. To stay alone safely at home, your child must be mature enough to handle any potential emergency or stressful situation that may arise.
In addition, she should be able to understand and follow important instructions. If you leave your child home alone:
-âMake sure she knows how to reach you. Post a phone number where you can be reached at all times, along with emergency numbers. Include the number of a trusted adult, in case you are not available.
-âHave your child check in with you when she first gets home and then regularly until you get home.
-âTeach your child basic safety rules:
Do not enter your home if a door isn't closed all the way, a window is open or broken, or a strange car is in the driveway.
Keep all windows and doors locked.
Call 911 in case of an emergency.
In case of fire, get out of the house as quickly as possible. Call for help from a neighbor's house.
Never let anyone into the home without your permission.
Never let a caller on the phone know that there is no adult home.
Do not use the stove, oven, microwave, space heaters or other heat-producing appliances while home alone, unless specifically given permission to do so.
-âMake sure your child knows her full name, phone number with area code and address, including city and state.
One Saturday long ago, I was on duty covering the practices of several colleagues, including a pediatrician. I was called by a woman who told me she had a problem with her middle-school-aged son. The boy had gotten mad at another kid at school the day before and kept talking about it all day.
The woman had left her son at home for several hours and returned to find that he had set the mattress of his bed on fire.
I asked her, "Was your son burned?" She replied, "No, he's fine." "So how can I help you?" I asked. "I need your advice, doctor. Should I spank him?"
That's a child who needs a few more years before he's left at home alone - and a mother who needs to help her child deal better with frustration.
DR. ANTHONY KOMAROFF is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. Go to his website to send questions and get additional information: www.askdoctork.com.

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Still, the Nokia N9 and its MeeGo Harmattan software platform remain unmatched in various aspects of user interface and user experience. Even though MeeGo Harmattan has essentially remained stagnant and frozen in time for 2 whole years, it still represents a benchmark in some ways for what a smartphone user interface should be.
Virtually every N9 owner I've ever talked to loves the N9 unconditionally. It could have been the Eve of Nokia's resurrection. Instead, it became the symbol of its demise.
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I loved my N900 and used it until the screen got broken.
Anyway, though it had a lot of potential and was a very interesting design, I always thought it was a "Beta product" instead of a finished and polished product. I think N9 has a better UX and I hope the Jolla phones will continue such trend.


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NEW YORK - Playing in his final home match at the SL Green StreetSquash Center with the Columbia men's squash team, Tony Zou captured a thrilling five-game victory in the No. 3 match to give the No. 11 Lions a 5-4 win over No. 12 Penn on Senior Day.
Columbia received two early wins from the top of the ladder as Ramit Tandon and Mohamed AbdelMaksoud each notched sweeps in the No. 1 and 2 matches, respectively. AbdelMaksoud breezed through the first two games, allowing Derek Chilvers to score just six points. Chilvers provided some resistance in the third game, but AbdelMaksoud completed the sweep, 11-4, 11-2, 12-10, with just one extra point. Tandon did not need any extra points to dispatch Danny Greenberg, 11-4, 11-7, 11-4.
Penn battled back as a team, coming away with wins in each of the final three spots on the ladder. Daniel Saleem responded for the Lions, recovering from one-game down to defeat Michael Mutscheller in the No. 6 match. After Saleem went ahead 2-1, Mutscheller captured the fourth game to force the decisive fifth. In the final game, Saleem raised his level of play to secure an 11-3 win. Kyul Rhee followed behind with Columbia's third victory via sweep, toppling Liam Quin in the No. 5 match, 11-9, 11-8, 11-5.
The No. 3 and 4 matches provided the large crowd of fans that braved Winter Storm Nemo with two exceptional squash matches. In the No. 4 match, Penn's August Frank and Columbia's Graham Miao went toe-to-toe in the longest match of the night. Miao took the opening game, 11-8, but Frank battled back to take the next two. Miao, with his regained composure, ripped through the fourth game, 11-4, to set the stage for the epic fifth. Miao and Frank maintained the high level of intensity, not allowing the other to clinch the match without extra points. Unfortunately for the Columbia faithful, Frank would be the first to string together a two-point advantage for the 16-14 fifth game win.
Zou and John Dudzik entered the court next with the team score knotted at 4-4. Zou carried all the early momentum, forging a two-game lead over his challenger from Penn. Dudzik found his stride over the next two game though, winning the third 12-10 and the fourth, 11-4, to create a tension in the crowd that had swarmed around the lone court still in action. Zou and Dudzik would go back-and-forth in the fifth game, but it would be Columbia's senior co-captain that delivered the thrilling victory for the Lions, edging Dudzik, 13-11.
Prior to the match, the Lions recognized seniors Zou, Miao and Alex Park for their contributions to the Columbia squash program. Columbia concludes regular-season competition Sunday, Feb. 10 at No. 1 Princeton. Match time if slated for 2:30 p.m.
Men: Columbia 5, Penn 4
1. Ramit Tandon (C) def. Danny Greenberg (P) - 11-4, 11-7, 11-4
2. Mohamed AbdelMaksoud (C) def. Derek Chilvers (P) - 11-4, 11-2, 12-10
3. Tony Zou (C) def. John Dudzik (P) - 12-10, 11-7, 10-12, 4-11, 13-11 *deciding match
4. August Frank (P) def Graham Miao (C) - 8-11, 11-9, 11-9, 4-11, 16-14
5. Kyul Rhee (C) def. Liam Quin (P) - 11-9, 11-8, 11-5
6. Daniel Saleem (C) def. Michael Mutscheller (P) - 6-11, 11-9, 11-7, 7-11, 11-3
7. Jack Maine (P) def. Andrew Tan (C) - 11-9, 11-7, 11-3
8. Tyler Odell (P) def. Alec Goldberg (C) - 6-11, 9-11, 11-5, 11-6, 11-6
9. Daniel Judd (P) def. Alex Nalle (C) - 11-2, 11-4, 11-1
10. Justin Ang (P) def. Alex Park (C) - 11-2, 11-4, 11-1


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Here in the UK, we are wont to think of American TV news presenters as not exactly the sharpest tools in the drawer and more as, well, just... tools. See the anchorwoman who didn't know how to pronounce 'Seamus', for example - a misdemeanour only worsened by her then coming out with the word 'semen'.
It's partly why we love the film Anchorman even more than Americans do (possibly).
So imagine our delight when our snobbery towards American news presenters and our love of Anchorman were combined in this doozy yesterday.
Brian Niznansky, the meteorologist on local NBC channel WGBA, fell victim to a newsroom prank after someone slipped the line "I love lamp" into his teleprompter notes.
A line which, as all good comedy fans will know, comes from Anchorman - although it in fact belongs to Steve Carell, and not to Will Ferrell's Ron Burgundy.
And as Ferrell then says to Carell in the movie: "Do you really love the lamp? Or are you just saying that because you saw it?". Which surely means that whoever snuck the line into Niznansky's teleprompt is rather implying that he does indeed just say things because he sees them.
Ah, bless. Have a laugh at the prank's success above - and rewatch the original scene from Anchorman below.


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Van Halen 'Hot for Teacher' Video Star Lillian Muller Resurfaces
The sexy educator from Van Halen's famous 'Hot for Teacher' video has resurfaced. Her name is Lillian Muller and she followed her modeling career with a gig as an inspirational speaker, personal health consultant and author.
It's been over 25 long years since Muller's appearance in the famed video — one of the last ones the group made during David Lee Roth's first run with the band — but she is hot as ever. If you had it bad, had it bad, had it bad for Muller in the video, you'll be happy to know she has retained her good looks.
A raw food vegetarian who has never drank a drop of alcohol, and the mother of a 21-year-old co-ed with whom she once posed in a white bikini for a photo shoot, Muller revealed that she feared that she'd be rejected for the role of the teacher in Van Halen's video because of her age.
As she told Yahoo, "I was a little old for the role." Now 60, the sexagenarian confesses to never having seen the final product. That's ok, Lil. Scores of red-blooded American males have watched it repeatedly in your stead.
Astute rockers will have recognized Muller from her role in Rod Stewart's 'Do Ya Think I'm Sexy' video, which debuted in 1978. She was like the Tawny Kitaen of the late '70s and early '80s! She says she did not hook up with any rockers she worked with, but did admit to dalliances with Tom Selleck and Hef. As in Hugh! Despite several marriage engagements, she never wed.
If the Van Halen boys are looking to cast a mature hottie in a video for their new album 'A Different Kind of Truth,' Muller is more than happy to oblige: "I'm a more valuable package now than in my 30s. I still have my physical condition, and I've become a much wiser person. I would definitely appear in any video that would be classy and exciting." No sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll or teacher roles for her at this point!


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ANN ARBOR, Mich — Ohio State waited until the last meaningful moment in a game featuring instant offense, feisty scraps and multiple lead changes to finally produce a defensive play to please the demanding patriarchs of a rivalry that added a memorable chapter Saturday.
Freshman Tyvis Powell intercepted Devin Gardner's two-point conversion pass with 32 seconds remaining to preserve many things, including Ohio State's 42-41 victory over Michigan before a mixed-clad crowd of 113,511 at Michigan Stadium.
The interception allowed Ohio State (12-0, 8-0 Big Ten) to clinch its second straight outright Leaders Division. The Buckeyes also:
-- Extended a school-record winning streak to 24 games.
-- Kept their hopes of playing for a Bowl Championship Series title alive, especially after Auburn's victory over No. 1 Alabama.
-- Defeated Michigan for the ninth time in the last 10 meetings and prevented the wobbling Wolverines from manufacturing one of the most stunning upsets in the 110-game series.
"An instant classic," Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said.
A classic with many twists.
The teams combined for 1,129 offensive yards, with Michigan (7-5, 3-5) breezing to touchdowns on its first three drives. The Wolverines built a 21-14 lead on Gardner's 17-yard touchdown pass to Jeremy Gallon 32 seconds into the second quarter.
The Buckeyes released some of their frustrations in a violent way following the touchdown. Starting right guard Marcus Hall threw a haymaker at Michigan's Delano Hill after diminutive freshman Dontre Wilson found himself in the middle of a scrum returning a kickoff. Hall and Wilson were ejected, along with Michigan's Royce Jenkins-Stone.
Ohio State, coincidentally, played some of its best football after the incident. The Buckeyes scored the next 21 points and opened a 35-21 lead when Braxton Miller hit tight end Jeff Heurman for a 22-yard touchdown with 1:05 left in the third quarter.
Like it did in the first quarter, Ohio State's defense showed fissures in the fourth.
Carlos Hyde led Ohio State's 410-yard rushing attack with 226 yards on 27 carries and recovered from a fumble by plunging into the end zone with 2:20 left. But the 42-35 lead was trimmed fast. Michigan needed 1:48 to move 84 yards, and Gardner lofted a 2-yard touchdown pass to Devin Funchess with 32 seconds left.
Facing one of the most difficult decisions in series history, Michigan coach Brady Hoke played for the lead instead of settling for a tie and possibly overtime.
"We wanted to win the football game," Hoke said.
Meyer called time out after Hoke directed his offense to the field. Michigan aligned three receivers on the right side. Gardner looked inside. His pass went straight to Powell, a Northeast Ohio native. Three Buckeyes were closer to the ball than any Wolverine.
"That was our season right there," Powell said 40 minutes after making the biggest play of his life. "It just hit me."
Ohio State's final defensive play masked some major gaffes. Michigan outgained Ohio State, 603-526, and Gardner completed 32 of 45 passes for 451. Ohio State struggled recognizing and stopping screen passes. Gardner's 84-yard pass to Gallon on Michigan's first drive represented the Wolverines' longest passing play against the Buckeyes. The teams met for the first time in 1897.
"To be honest, I felt like at the beginning of the game, we were too hyped," Ohio State linebacker Ryan Shazier said. "We had too much emotion. We started calming down. Some of the mistakes we made they capitalized on."
Michigan's yardage totals will be a major topic in the national college football discourse, thus overshadowing another bullish performance by Hyde and Ohio State's rushing offense. Hyde and quarterback Miller, who gained 153 yards and scored three touchdowns on 16 carries, both surpassed 100 rushing yards for the fourth straight game. Ohio State gained 393 yards on 46 attempts, eclipsing 8 yards per carry for the fifth straight game.
The gaudy numbers might be difficult to duplicate next Saturday when Ohio State meets stout Michigan State (11-1, 8-0) in the Big Ten title game.
For one afternoon and evening, the Buckeyes were too drained to discuss their trip to Indianapolis. Instead, they wanted to relive their spot in a series history defined by defensive-minded men such as Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and Earle Bruce.
"I think coach Schembechler and coach Hayes would have looked out and saw two teams playing as hard as they can," Meyer said. "That's what this rivalry is all about."


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Attendees can enter the FREE raffle to win the one-of-a-kind custom-painted skateboards by Sean Spoto the day of the event (one skateboard per winner - entrant must be present to win). We will also be giving away a FREE Lost hat with the purchase of ANY Lost product during the event from 12 – 4 PM, while supplies last.
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The High Rock Lake River Rats will host an all-you-can-eat oyster roast from 5-7 p.m. Saturday at the Top of The Rock. The cost is $20 per person.
The High Rock Lake River Rats will host an all-you-can-eat oyster roast from 5-7 p.m. Saturday at the Top of The Rock. The cost is $20 per person.
Call Sara at 336-859-1877 or Terry Lattimore at 240-8081 or see any River Rat for tickets.
The next general meeting of the High Rock River Rats will be 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7. The guest speakers will be the social workers who coordinate with the club to disperse proceeds to the community's children in need.
Craft show will take place Saturday
The Southmont Lions Club will have its annual fall craft show 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. Nov. 2. The show will be at the Lions Club building at the front entrance to Southmont Elementary.
Help support the Macedonia Preschool
The community can help support the Macedonia UMC Preschool by having lunch at the Subway restaurant on Lowes Boulevard from noon to 3 p.m. Nov. 17. Ten percent of all proceeds collected will be donated to the Macedonia Preschool.
Southmont memories
When the teenage years arrived, Halloween took on a whole different meaning for us adolescents in Southmont. It became prank time and rolling a friend's yard with toilet paper was a traditional prank pulled from time to time.
I remember one of the most hilarious incidents involving a couple of my friends and my mother, of all people. I had started working a part- time job in the evenings/nights so I was not at home when this incident took place. One night around Halloween or maybe Halloween night, a couple of my closest friends decided to roll my yard. Darkness had fallen and my two friends snuck up into our front yard and started tossing the rolls of toilet paper up into the limbs of two maple trees.
Each time a roll of the toilet paper would hit the ground; a quite audible thump would be the result. My mom was not a lady that scared easily. She heard the thumps and knew that someone was outside "up to no good." She always referred to any suspicious activity as such.
Our family had a standard protocol anytime we suspected someone was in the yard "up to no good." That protocol was to grab a gun, step out on the porch and fire couple of rounds or more into the air. At times it also involved a verbal warning. This is the action mom decided to take. I learned later that my friends heard the door open, and then sudden gunshots with a shout of something like, "I know you are out here, you had better git!" My friends scrambled for the nearest hiding place thinking surely Ruth won't shoot us, but nervous none the same!
One of my guilty friends told me about it a couple days later. Although he asked me not to tell mom, I could not resist. Shortly after he told me, he and I were in the kitchen with mom and out of the blue I said; "Do you want to tell mom what it feels like to think you are being shot at while rolling someone's yard?" The look on his and my mom's face was priceless.
The explaining started from both sides, and all I could do was laugh. Mom laughed about that from time to time the rest of her life, and my friend and I do as well. Be careful in Southmont if you are "up to no good."
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A Mass of Christian Burial for James W. Domek was held Monday, March 11, at Holy Family Catholic Church in Emmetsburg. The Rev. Clem Currans was the celebrant.
Interment was in St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery, Whittemore. The Martin-Mattice Funeral Home in Emmetsburg was in charge of arrangements.
James Warren Domek, son of Fred G. and Clara (Gappa) Domek, was born June 2, 1924 near Cylinder. He began his education in country school near Cylinder and then attended Whittemore Academy.
On Sept. 22, 1949 Jim was united in marriage to LaVonne Westfall at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Emmetsburg. To this union three children were born.
Jim farmed near Emmetsburg for many years before retiring and moving into town. He continued his interest in growing crops by raising a large garden each summer. He loved selling his produce at the Farmer's Markets.
Jim was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church in Emmetsburg.
Jim passed away Thursday, March 7, 2013, at Mercy Medical Center in Mason City, at the age of 88. He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Leo, Raymond and Edmund Domek; three sisters, Alice Huskamp, Marie Mugan and Ruth Dickey; and twin grandchildren, James and Jennifer Domek.
He is survived by his wife, LaVonne of Emmetsburg; his children, James R. Domek (Pamela) of Estherville, Patricia Christensen of Havelock, David W. Domek (Shelle) of Wallingford; five grandchildren; four great grandchildren; a sister, Eileen Bruhn; nieces and nephews.
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WARRENSBURG, MO (April 14, 2009) – In a formal proclamation signing ceremony Monday, University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky reminded students, faculty and staff of their responsibility in "planting the seed for a greener future" by supporting sustainability initiatives on campus.
Participants in a the American Democracy Project's proclamation signing ceremony Monday, April 13 declaring April Environmental Awareness Month were front row, left to right, Sharlene Bax, campus coordinator of ADP; Aaron Podolefsky, UCM president; George Wilson, provost and vice president for academic affairs; and representatives of the SGA, back row, from left, Nicholas McDaniels and Manny Abarca.
The president was one of three individuals who signed a proclamation declaring April 2009 Environmental Awareness Month on campus. He was joined in the ceremony by George Wilson, provost and vice president for academic affairs, and Sharlene Bax, campus coordinator of the American Democracy Project. The ceremony was one of several events being coordinated this month by ADP to acquaint the campus community with environmental issues, and what individuals can do personally to help address those issues.
"Environmental sustainability has become a major focus on the current public agenda, and this month, throughout the country and around the globe, organizations, communities and institutions like this one will be celebrating and recognizing Earth Day with different events and activities," Bax told a small group of individuals who gathered in the Elliott Union atrium. "We are excited to be a part of this 2009 celebration, which will feature a wide array of events and activities sponsored by several different departments, groups and entities from across the campus, demonstrating that environmental awareness and environmental sustainability is important to us all."
Podolefsky commended ADP for making the month of awareness activities possible. The proclamation he read noted that the "current generation of UCM students is particularly dedicated to environmental conservation and sustainability, and recognizes that aggressive and positive actions now will leave future generations better prepared to combat the world's environmental challenges."
He said the university's commitment to addressing environmental challenges includes becoming a charter participant on the American College and University President's Climate Commitment in 2007. The university president was one of nearly 300 college and university presidents across the nation who signed a document agreeing to help promote efforts to reduce their institutions' carbon footprint.
Podolefsky has also established the UCM President's Commission on Sustainability to bring about sustainable practices at Central Missouri, focusing on recycling and waste management, standards, transportation, utilities and energy, planning and funding, and curriculum and education. He added the university is seeking Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building certification as it renovates the Morrow/Garrison buildings and constructs the new Student Recreation and Wellness Center. UCM is also undertaking a campuswide effort to provide a high-performance learning environment on a green, sustainable campus by reducing utility use and costs, carbon footprint, facility operating and maintenance costs, and addressing deferred maintenance and energy infrastructure needs.
At the conclusion of the ceremony, Bax presented copies of the proclamation to members of the Student Government Association, Nicholas McDaniels and Manny Abarca, to share with other SGA members. Individuals who want to know more about ADP activities during Environmental Awareness Month are urged to visit the web at http://www.ucmo.edu/adp/events.cfm. American Democracy Project with support from College Democrats, the Office of Academic Affairs, the Political Science Student Association, SIFE, and the Student Government Association.
The American Democracy Project at UCM is part of a nationwide effort to produce graduates who are committed to engagement as citizens of a democracy.


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Jennifer Teague, former head coach at the University of Buffalo and assistant at Michigan State, was named Columbia's Head Softball Coach, Dr. M. Dianne Murphy, Director, Intercollegiate Athletics and Physical Education, announced today.
"We are thrilled to welcome Jennifer to Columbia Athletics," Murphy said. "Jennifer has significant coaching experience at all levels of collegiate and professional softball. She has experience coaching in the Northeast and has recruited talented student-athletes on the field and off. Jennifer is the right person to lead our softball program."
Teague coached on the Michigan State staff for the 2013-14 season after serving five-years as the head coach at the University of Buffalo.
In her tenure at the University of Buffalo, where she was just the second head coach in program history, Teague mentored seven All-Mid-American Conference selections. Under Teague, Buffalo received it's first post-season recognition for a pitcher since 2004 (Tori Speckman), and freshman Alexis Curtiss became just the third Buffalo player ever to be named first team All-MAC in 2012.
"I am honored to be Columbia's Head Softball Coach," Teague said. "Everyone I have met through the search process has been incredibly engaged, helpful and enthusiastic. It became quickly evident that Columbia was a special place. I'd like to thank Dianne and Associate Athletics Director Darrice Griffin for this incredible opportunity."
Ten Buffalo players set single-season program records for the Division I era under her tutelage, while ten individual and nine team single-game records were established during Teague's tenure.
In 2012, Teague led Buffalo to their best offensive season in school history, setting program bests in batting average, home runs, doubles and total bases. In 2011, Teague helped coach players on to both the All-MAC second team and the All-MAC Freshman Team. Teague led the UB to just their second ever trip to the Mid-American Conference Tournament. In her first season with UB, Teague led the Bulls to a record of 25-27 (7-15 MAC), which tied the most wins in a single season in UB's Division I softball era.
Prior to her time at Buffalo, Teague spent three years as the top assistant and pitching coach at Eastern Michigan. She also spent two seasons as the head coach of the Philadelphia Force of the National Pro Fastpitch League.
At Eastern Michigan, the Eagles had a 70-80 overall record in the three years Teague was on staff, including a 33-25 conference mark. The 2007 team finished first in the MAC West and won the overall MAC Title, making the team's first ever NCAA appearance. During the 2007 season, Teague helped the Eagles to a 2.83 team ERA, including seven shutouts. The pitching staff also limited opposing batters to a .245 average.
Following the 2007 collegiate season, Teague joined the Philadelphia Force of the National Pro Fastpitch League. She took over the coaching reins mid-season when the team was 7-9. With Teague at the helm, the Force went 17-11 and missed the playoffs after coming in a three-way tie for the last spot. While on staff, Teague helped the team lower its ERA and raise its batting average.
Teague remained head coach of the Force for the 2008 season and selected Katie Burkhart in the first round, who was the winning pitcher in the NCAA Championship game, pitching a four-hit shutout with 13 strikeouts.
Prior to joining the Eagles, Teague was a volunteer assistant coach at the University of Michigan during the Wolverine's national championship season. The Wolverines were the first team east of the Mississippi River to win a Women's College World Series national championship. Teague was part of a staff that garnered 2005 National Softball Coaching Staff of the Year honors.
A 1999 graduate of Indiana Wesleyan University, Teague arrived in Ann Arbor following a four-year head coaching stint with local NAIA school Concordia University from 2001-2004. Teague's run at Concordia was highlighted by one regional championship and the school's first-ever appearance in the NAIA National Championship in 2002.
A member of the NFCA, she started her coaching career as an assistant at her alma mater, Indiana Wesleyan, from 1999-2001 following a distinguished playing career, serving as a two-time co-captain. Teague earned NCCAA All-American honorable mention recognition as a senior (1999) after earning NFCA, NAIA and NCCAA All-Region honors as a junior in 1998. She was also her team's Most Valuable Offensive Player in 1998.
"We are committed to achieving excellence in softball and winning Ivy League Championships," Murphy concluded. "Jennifer is the coach that will help us do that. She will help our student-athletes win on and off the field. We are excited for her to join us."


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We have an RO sink in the house we bought, and I am having a hard time locating replacement parts for the refrigerator filter. The previous owner admitted it has been about five years since the filters were changed. Here are the components I found:
- Culligan Reverse osmosis water storage tank (01004776)
- Culligan Particulate filter (4015-38)
- R.O. Module (CA) 01000147
These are the three components I found, outside of hoses. I THINK I found the replacement for the 4015-38
The other parts I can't find. A second question I had was about our refrigerator. The owner said the water dispenser in the refrigerator has over the past few months has slowly come to the point where it will only put out about maybe 1/4 cup of water before it stops. Would this be (possibly) because of the filtration system components not being maintained?


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5 gallon tank
Filter (45gph)
Heater (unplugged for summer, 80-82 degrees)
1 male betta ( had him since Sept 2012)
API Master test kit pH: 7.4 Ammonia: 0 - way below the next color at .25ppm
Nitrate: 5-20 PPM
Water changes (treated with Prime) 25%-33%/week
Charcoal removed from filter, cartridge cleaned every 2-3 weeks in tank water
Gravel vacuumed 1x/week
Fed 6 pellets x2/day 6 days/week (New Life Spectrum Betta Formula)
He is active and eats well. I'm not sure if he's having any visual problems, although sometimes he has difficulty finding each pellet (I feed 1 @a time), but that might be because the pellets float over his head so they are out of his files of vision. Sorry for the long message, but any help you can offer would be much appreciated. Pls see pics below...will post in next entry...


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WOODSTOCK – A full-scale search of the McHenry County Correctional Facility on Thursday found no contraband of any kind, according to the McHenry County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies, with assistance from multiple K-9 units from throughout the area, searched the housing, booking, intake, and laundry areas, as well as the multipurpose and exercise rooms on Thursday for any illegal items, according to a news release. It was the largest search since 2009.
During the search, inmates were not in the areas being searched and they didn't come in to contact with any of the K-9s or their handlers, the news release states. Smaller-scale searches randomly take place by correctional officers and Sheriff's Office's K-9 units throughout the year.
Searches take place to ensure the safety of inmates, employees and the facility, police said.
Authorities from Bannockburn, Crystal Lake, Spring Grove, Carpentersville, Wauconda, Waukegan, Woodstock and Harvard assisted with the search, as well as the Kane County Sheriff's Office and Illinois State Police.


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There is a person who significantly influenced the upbringing of our own, world- famous Jane Addams, one whom many people have scarcely heard about. That person has been rather overlooked by many historians. This person was … Jane's older sister, Mary Catherine Addams Linn.
Mary had considerable influence in Jane's early life and training. We've referenced a wonderful biography of Jane Addams, titled "The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Vol. 1, Preparing to Lead: 1860 to 1881." It begins like this:
Mary's era
Mary Addams was born on June 25, 1845, in the village that would become Cedarville. She was the first surviving child of John Huy Addams and Sarah Weber Addams. The family lived during the first nine years of Mary's life in a two-room log cabin with a sloping roof, lean-to kitchen and sleeping loft.
The family had not yet attained the wealth and status that was to come to them through their father, John Addams, who became a prosperous miller and influential in the banking business, both in Cedarville and Freeport. Addams also served as an Illinois state senator.
Mary learned early on from her mother how to sew, cook and garden, maintain a home, care for the children, tend the sick and take part in the activities of the community. She was the mainstay of the household after her mother's sudden death in January 1863. Jane was a frail 2-year-old at the time of her mother's death and required all the special attention her father and big sister could provide.
Mary's life was cut out for her for the next nearly decade. The children's father had to be gone a lot, tending the mill and other business. He had many mouths to feed. But Jane, due to her infirmity, was coddled by her older siblings, especially Mary, 17.
Family moves on
In 1854, the family moved to the "grand two-story brick home," still standing, that would be Mary's home until she was 26.
Mary had entertained high hopes of going to college at Rockford Female Seminary where her sister, Alice, was attending, but the circumstances at home prevented that. Mary openly spoke of her disappointment at not being able to attend college, but with the help of her childhood nurse, Mary "Polly" Beer, "Mary took her mother's place as female head of the household."
"She managed the Addams' home, keeping it clean and in good order, saw that the gardens were planted, tended and harvested, saw that the clothes were mended and saw that the food was cooked and preserved. In addition she took her mother's place in the community, providing help to the ill and infirm and solace to families who had experienced death."
She helped her friends prepare for weddings and other social events. All the younger Addams children — Martha, Weber, Alice and Jane — were under Mary's care. All except Jane attended school either in Cedarville or Freeport until 1866. Martha and Alice went off to boarding school at Rockford Female Seminary and Weber left for Beloit Academy in Wisconsin.
Jane came to see her sister Mary as a mother figure, the biography states. A distant relative made the statement that Jane was much more accepting of "the service of love from her sister" than she was of the "word of authority " from her stepmother.
Martha, Weber and Alice all attended school in either Cedarville or Freeport until 1866 when they all went off to their respective schools. Like her mother before her, Mary became very involved in church activities teaching classes and attending conventions in Bloomington and Chicago. Like her father, she attended religious services in all of the churches, but her preference was the Presbyterian, the history states. Mary was also active in the Cedarville Good Templars temperance organization encouraging her younger siblings to do the same.
Mary kept up correspondence with her sisters and brother while they were away at school. Her letters were "full of motherly advice," even though the text indicates Alice was much more independent than Martha. The biography here gives some insight into the personalities of these two Addams girls.
Mary sometimes visited her sisters at the seminary and took Jane with her. She sewed and cooked for her sisters and often took the gifts to them on those visits.
We're told that Mary likely gave Jane the same kind of advice she gave her other sisters and "imbued Jane with standards of behavior, manners and politeness along with the moral values" that their mother had shared with her. Mary also taught Jane her household skills, how to sew, helped her with her school homework and tended her when she was ill.
Father marries
When John Addams married Anna Hostetter Haldeman in November 1868, Mary's life changed dramatically. She was no longer female head of the household. She tried to keep peace and went on to perform the menial tasks such as cooking, sewing and cleaning that her stepmother least liked to do. Anna's son, George, a year younger than Jane Addams, came with his mother to the Addams' household. John Addams, the children's father, was now a member of the Illinois Senate and Anna would sometimes accompany him to Springfield. She also visited in her hometown of Mount Carroll on occasion. Perhaps on the positive side, Mary was at those times more able to lead her own life.
Mary marries
Mary did take a trip back to Pennsylvania to visit Addams and Weber relatives, but that trip was cut short when her brother Weber became ill and she was called home. Mary's next move was to the Female Seminary in Rockford where she studied for one semester. She maintained her religious work in Cedarville allowing her to meet John Manning Linn, a newly ordained Presbyterian minister who had come to the area in 1869 to help organize a Presbyterian Church and serve the community of Dakota.
John Linn and Mary became engaged and were wed on Nov. 9, 1871, in Cedarville. Their first child, John Addams Linn, became Jane Addams' first biographer and it was said, "her favorite of the nephews and nieces."
The marriage did not appear to be an exceptionally happy one due to the constant traveling in which Mary's minister husband had to engage. Pastorates in which John Linn served included ones in Durand, Lena and Winnebago. The Linns had their son, James Weber, in 1876 and daughter, Esther Margaret, in 1880. During this later time, Mary and the children lived close enough to the Addamses in Cedarville to visit them frequently.
Shocking to all of the Addams siblings was the unexpected death of their father in August 1881. He left Mary considerable wealth including a 240-acre farm in Lancaster Township, 53 acres of timber in Harlem Township and five acres in Freeport along with other investments and cash. The truth was that for the remainder of her life, Mary used her inheritance to purchase larger and better dwellings in the many places where the Linns lived.
One of those early places was Harvard, Illinois, where John served for a time as supply minister. Though about this time, Mary's health began to deteriorate, she remained active in her religious work. She seemed to consider it her duty as a minister's wife to share in his work as "a mission partnership." In Harvard she joined the Woman's Christian Temperance Union when it was formed in 1883 and initiated a woman's lecture course which lasted for years after she left the town.
The Linns had another son, Stanley Ross Linn, in 1883 leaving Mary's health still in a somewhat precarious condition. Jane Addams attempted to assist by caring for the other two boys. Mary's health would fluctuate from time to time, but was in general deteriorating. She had two more children during this time, Charles Hodge Linn and Mary Addams Linn, each birth apparently taking more of a toll on Mary.
The Linns lived an exceptionally itinerate life during those later years, with the Rev. John Linn serving pastorates in various places. Among his pastorates were ones in the Dakota Territory, one in Geneseo, and another in Storm Lake, Iowa, where he served Buena Vista College. At one time he served as a fiscal agent for Lake Forest College. The numerous moves must have been traumatic to Mary.
Their two youngest children died while they lived in Geneseo, Charles from a congenital respiratory problem in 1887 and Mary from complications from whooping cough in 1888. Mary herself died in 1894 and was buried in Cedarville Cemetery, back home. Memorial services were held for her by congregations she and her husband had served in Harvard, Geneseo and Winnebago.
"She passed through so much suffering," a relative said, "and with it all so uncomplaining. Her crown was ready for her … it was well earned, her life was a fitting example for all …" Mary would have been proud that her first son went on to become a distinguished college professor of English and the first biographer of Jane Addams.
So that is the story of Mary Addams Linn, a pronounced influence on her sister, Jane Addams, and a noble and accomplished woman in her own right.
Harriett Gustason is a writer for The Journal-Standard. She can be reached at (815) 235-3855 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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NEW YORK (AP) — More exotic creatures thrive in the shadows of summer blockbusters. Here are 10 of the most anticipated indie films due this summer, nary a caped superhero or city-crushing monster among them.
1. "The Rover" (June 13) — David Michod's follow-up to his Aussie crime drama "Animal Kingdom" qualifies as a must-see because of the rare quality of his feature film debut. This one, which will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, stars Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson and is set in a near-future Australia where the world economy has collapsed and bandits roam the Outback.
2. "Boyhood" (July 11) — Richard Linklater spent 12 years making this wholly unique film. It charts a fictional family over that time (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette play divorced parents) and, remarkably, shows the maturation of 6-year-old Ellar Coltrane (playing their son) from boy to man.
3. "The Immigrant" (May 16) — Tales of immigrants arriving through Ellis Island are a well-trod genre, but James Gray's 1920s drama is distinct in its portrait of the American Dream as both myth and reality. With Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix.
4. "Life Itself" (July 11) — Steve James ("Hoop Dreams") presents a documentary and ode to the late film critic Roger Ebert.
5. "Begin Again" (July 4) — Much like John Carney's "Once," this is a naturalistic, street-level drama of musicians. Keira Knightley stars as a British singer-songwriter discovered in New York by a down-on-his-luck music executive (Mark Ruffalo).
6. "Magic in the Moonlight" (July 25) — Woody Allen's annual offering this year is a comedy set on the French Riviera in the '20s starring Colin Firth and Emma Stone. It promises a romantic lightness, but the question will be how audiences respond to Allen following the renewed allegation of sexual abuse.
7. "Tracks" (May 23) — Mia Wasikowska stars as Robyn Davidson, who in 1977 trekked across 1,700 miles of the Australian Ocean to reach the Indian Ocean. Adam Driver ("Girls") stars as the National Geographic photographer who trails her.
8. "A Most Wanted Man" (July 25) — Anton Corbijn's adaption of John le Carre's novel is one of two posthumous releases for Philip Seymour Hoffman. The late actor also stars in "God's Pocket" (May 9), the directing debut of John Slattery ("Mad Men").
9. "Wish I Was Here" (July 18) — Zach Braff took a lot of criticism for his use of Kickstarter to help fund his second directorial effort following 2004's "Garden State." Braff also stars as a struggling actor who homeschools his kids.
10. "They Came Together" (June 27) — David Wain and Michael Showalter deconstruct the romantic comedy with a cast led by Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler.
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Just as in your other thread, my response is the same: your dh is the problem. He is not putting you and your family's needs first. He's not going to magically reform his ways. It's a long hard road that involves a lot of counseling and commitment. Does he have what it takes or are you willing to be treated like this forever?
back on track with DH.
DH does not know. We were separated and the legal process was started, so I don't see any of it as an affair. It was a fun weekend with someone, not a relationship. DH was also seeing someone else at the time. The pregnancy was a tragedy, but it's over now and I'm trying not to dwell on it. It actually helped me want to get back on track with DH. DH has some skeletons in his past during our marriage, so I don't feel the need to bare my soul to him. I don't really want to know all the details of his activities myself. I'm sure some people see that as dishonest, but it's my choice to keep some things private...even from him. If he can buy a house without consulting me (which he did) then I can keep this thing to myself.DH has always talked to his family about every little minute problem. It's been an endless issue...they all tend to overshare with each other. My family doesn't do that at all, so it's been hard to adjust. MIL and FIL are actually being very polite and nice to me, despite everything...I think the genuinely want to see us work it out. SIL had given me the cut direct before DH and I split up, so she may never turn around.
DH has always talked to his family about every little minute problem. It's been an endless issue...they all tend to overshare with each other.
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Chile coach Claudio Borghi has revealed there is no pressure on him to get a result in his side's friendly against Serbia on Wednesday despite reports that he could lose his job if the team's fortunes do not change for the better.
The South American outfit currently lie outside the qualification places in the Conmebol 2014 World Cup qualifying table after some disappointing results, but Borghi has insisted after speaking with the Chilean Professional Football Association (ANFP) he is confident he will remain in the job after the Serbia match.
"There was no ultimatum at the meeting with the ANFP," he told Goal.com Chile.
"Now, the day I have to go, the team will remain the same. It will not end with me."
The 48-year-old has also backed his star player Alexis Sanchez to return to his best form after the winger received criticism for some of his displays for Barcelona this season whilst Borghi has been impressed by Arturo Vidal's form for Juventus.
"The games we've seen, Alexis Sanchez has not played as bad as they say. Obviously you can do better, but he's in the best team in the world and that's not easy.
"While Arturo Vidal is making goals, which is a great credit to him. He is playing regularly and that always helps a player."
Chile's World Cup qualifying campaign has been hit by a number of disciplinary problems in the squad, with Borghi having to suspend a total of seven players in the last twelve months, but the former Boca Juniors trainer believes he is doing all he can to help the players stay on the right path.
"I cannot answer for the discipline of the players in their free time. I give advice, but I'm not responsible for them off the pitch.
"When mistakes are made in their private life they are private, but if it affects their focus then I respond. And when that happened we responded accordingly."


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Stefan Diez founded his own design studio in 2003 in Munich. His designs are minimalist and always meet the needs of the clients. Diez works with materials intensively and investigates their limitations with passion. In the process, he develops products that are minimalist in their formal language. His products are also always coherent and diverse. His work has received numerous awards, including several Red Dot Awards, the IF Design Award and special prizes for material innovation. Stefan Diez was and is represented in a variety of exhibitions in museums and within the framework of trade fairs. He is regarded as one of the most innovative and promising designers of the younger generation in Germany which already has a good reputation at the international level.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Former Harvard
two-sport captain Chris Wojcik '96 has been named the Frisbie
Family Head Coach for Harvard Men's Lacrosse, Bob Scalise,
the Nichols Family Director of Athletics, announced
Wojcik, an All-American in lacrosse and All-Ivy League selection in both lacrosse and soccer with the Crimson, as well as a former Harvard lacrosse assistant coach, returns to Cambridge after a two-year stint as the top assistant coach at Penn. In addition to serving as offensive coordinator with the Quakers, Wojcik worked as the team's recruiting coordinator and was able to recruit an outstanding class that includes two Under Armour All-Americans to Penn next season.
"We are extremely delighted to welcome Chris as our new head men's lacrosse coach," Scalise said. "Chris is a tremendous recruiter, a superb offensive strategist and his familiarity with the Ivy League will help our program succeed, both on a regional and a national level. As a Harvard alumnus and former captain of our program, Chris is dedicated to continue building a winning tradition here in Cambridge."
"I am ecstatic to return to Harvard, an institution that stands for excellence and opportunity," Wojcik said. "I want to thank Bob Scalise and the search committee for their confidence in me and my vision for Harvard lacrosse. I am grateful for their commitment and support of the program, and I eagerly await the opportunity to coach and mentor the program's talented players. To the Harvard players and their families, the lacrosse alumni, and the entire Harvard community, thank you for your support and I will always give my best to Harvard and the lacrosse program."
Prior to his stint at Penn, Wojcik was the offensive coordinator
at Bowdoin College in 2008, aiding in the Polar Bears' run to
their first NCAA tournament appearance, finishing the season ranked
No. 20 nationally and 12-7 overall. Bowdoin's offense
ranked first in the New England Small College Athletic Conference
that spring.
Previously, he spent five seasons as an assistant coach in Cambridge under former head coach Scott Anderson. As the program's offensive coordinator in 2006, Wojcik oversaw an offense that helped the Crimson earn its first NCAA Championship berth since 1996. Wojcik also spent three years as the team's recruiting coordinator from 2005-07 and was the offensive coordinator from 2006-07.
In addition to his honors on the lacrosse field, Wojcik served
as captain of the Harvard soccer team, earning two All-Ivy League
honors and leading the team to an Ivy League title and an NCAA
tournament appearance in the fall of 1994. Prior to
graduation, Wojcik was named the winner of Harvard's Bingham
Award, presented to the top male student-athlete in the senior
In 2008, Wojcik was a featured speaker at the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association convention in 2008 for developing offensive personnel and in 2009 for shooting. A member of the New Jersey Lacrosse Hall of Fame and the Westfield (N.J.) High School Athletics Hall of Fame, Wojcik graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in economics. He also earned a master's of education in secondary education/social studies from Boston College in 2007.


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Paulsen's Finnish relatives visit Petersburg
Seppo and Paula Koutaniemi, of Kuusamo, Finland, made their first trip to the United States and Petersburg to visit family member Sue Paulsen and fell in love with the area.
"Petersburg is a beautiful place," Seppo said. "The scenery is so different and we feel at home here."
Seppo and Paula spent about five days in the community and were able to take in many of Petersburg's fall tourist offerings.
"We were able to visit the museum and really enjoyed that," Paula said. "It was interesting that most of Petersburg's residents came here from Norway, but I know there were a few Finns as well."
Paula explained that many of the Finnish population left the area in order to remain free of the Russian army. "Many moved away to Norway, and then relocated to America," she said.
The Koutaniemis live very close to the Russian border, and during the war, much of Seppo's father's lands were taken when the border moved.
"So many of our young people left Finland to avoid the army," Paula explained. "If a person was over the age of 19 they were forced to fight with the Russians. That is why so many of our young people left the country."
She also explained that it was probably the reason there were Finnish people to settle here with those from Norway.
Seppo, who is an architect by profession, designs high schools and assisted living centers, visited Petersburg's hospital and schools. "I am so very impressed with the comfortable feel of your school and hospital," Seppo said. "The buildings here are very different from the traditional style we have at home."
Paula explained that she was most impressed to see the students in the building after the school day had ended. "They were all working together on homework, or projects, everyone seemed to be very at home."
Paula, who is a psychologist, views the area from a completely different point of view. "I work with families and children with learning disabilities," she stated. "I work hard to make sure they receive what they need. Here they all seem to be so happy and comfortable with each other."
Both Seppo and Paula commented on the way drivers will stop to let them cross the street.
"Everyone is so nice and accommodating," Paula said. "Everyone speaks to you on the street, this is a wonderful place to live."
Seppo spoke a phrase in Finnish which translated to, "Living in this town is like living in God's pocket."
He explained that the scenery in Finland is very different. "Finland is quite flat," Seppo stated. "We have a few hills and valleys, but no mountains and no sea."
The temperatures in Finland compare well with that of Petersburg, but that is where the comparison ends.
A large part of their lives in Finland is the sauna.
"The sauna is where we go to cleanse the body and open the mind," Seppo said. "It promotes good health and we go there for peace."
The couple has tried a few different meals since being in the area as well. "We have had moose meatballs, which we like very much," Paula said. "And pies, we do not have fruit pies in Finland."
Seppo and Paula have six children and six grandchildren and will continue their trip in Seattle, San Francisco and Florida. They will be visiting their children and other family members along the way.
"Our son lives in San Francisco, and we have old friends in Florida," Paula said. "We are seeing so much of America on this trip."
He also explained that one of the big traditions is to go from the sauna straight into the freezing lake.
"We have enjoyed our trip here so much," Paula said. "We are hoping to come back again very soon, maybe to enjoy your Mayfest."


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Thanks for all the great reply's! Some great info and insight. I think I will give the net a try! Thanks again! Now....which one to get? lol!
Thanks for all the great reply's! Some great info and insight. I think I will give the net a try! Thanks again! Now....which one to get? lol!
I use a separate bug net (a Papasmurf Tulle Bug Sock) and yes my sock does hit the ground when opened, but not when cinched up and I hang about chair height for reference! I treated my sock and hammock with permethrin so the only annoyance about my sock touching the ground is any sticks or leaves n such that attach to it!
I will say that there have been times where it was a royal pain in the A$$ to get the bug sock (cinched end with a draw cord) open in the middle of the night as I layed there to long holding the call of nature in too long and I will say at those times it would have been really nice to have a zipper, but that is my own stupid fault and none of the gear!
I will say that I own 4 hammocks all with integrated (sewn on) zippered bug nets, they all lay different but I can always get a good nights sleep in them! If the weight wasn't such a big difference (my hammock and sock weigh 9oz total together) which none of my sewn on bug net hammocks come close to that weight, so the choice is easy for me!
Also it's nice to be able to leave the net home (so save a couple ounces) when there are no bugs out
"yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift---thats why its called a present" - Master Oogway
It's always best if your an early riser!
I use an integrated net.
I treat both the hammock body and net with permethrin so I don't deal with bugs biting through anything. Besides the reasons already stated by others, I use it all year round. I never have a time when I "don't need it". Even in winter it traps a significant amount of heat. In the fall/spring this is even more noticeable as when you unzip it, you can feel the rush of cooler air. This allows me to get by with a warmer rated quilt in colder temps. I also like to have my tarp flipped to one side so I can see the stars but ready to stake out at a moments notice when the weather changes. The net stops leaves, pinecones, sap, squirrel doodoo from landing on my face or quilt.
If your going to get your first bug net,,get a bug net made from noseum material..not the tulle,,,its more durable and will take alittle more abuse till your very used to a bug net and playing with it. Then if you want,,try out the tulle bug nets..they need alittle more tender loving care as they can snag and rip fairly easily. WL and others on this forum sell very good bug nets..pick one and you can't go wrong. Everybody has their likes/dislikes for a bug net so its all a matter of your personal preference. Good luck in your choice of bug nets as when you treat them with permethrin,,,they all do a great job of keeping the skeeters and bugs off you as you rack out in your hammock.
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I use a HH Explorer Deluxe, with a 2QZQ mod #4. I can completely unzip my net if I choose to...but found I've never opted to do so. During the spring/summer/fall...it keeps the bugs out. It also keeps the cool breezes out during the colder nights.
I too treat my hammock with Permethrin, and have never had a bite through the bottom that I know of.
I prefer it all integrated...no worries about forgetting it at some point when I really need it, and the mod lets me 'get rid of it' if I don't.
I'll cast a minority vote for integrated bug nets. I need them late spring through early fall for the bugs. Then, I don't mind bringing it along for colder temps because the noseeum actually adds a couple degrees of warmth. So I say it evens out.
I used to have a separate bug net, but the skeeters here don't seem to bite through the hammock, so the whole bottom half is a waste. Also, my dog tends to get tangled up in the bottom half. Lastly, with a separate net, it's more of a pain to keep away from your face.
I knew I needed a bug net when I heard one mosquito say to another, "You want to eat him here or take him home." :-))
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Gallery: Check Out All These Slutty Halloween Costumes From The 1900s!
As it's Slut-O-Ween Week on The Gloss, I've been trawling the internet for slutty photos in the name of work. Finally, a purpose! In that process, I stumbled across this trove of National Geographic Halloween costumes from the 1900s. And I can't get over what slutty sluts these ladies were.
Here I was thinking that dressing like a tramp in the name of costume design was a late 20th Century invention. But in actuality, people of the female persuasion were busy trying to distract men at parties long before Hugh Hefner put a furry tail on a corset and called some ho a "bunny." Take a look at this preponderance of evidence after the jump.


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The second half seemed to start well for Montreat as Amanda Solesbee took the ball along the right side and chipped the keeper to tie the game. However this didn't phase the Cobras as they continued to pressure Montreat's defense. The highlight of the game came from Jessica Ingle for the Cobras. The ball came out from the Montreat penalty box right into the feet of Ingle who blasted a 30 yard shot straight into the right hand corner of the goal. Things continued to flourish for the Cobras as they soon added 3 more goals courtesy of Megan Shaver, Laura Bedenbaugh and Clark netted her second.
The final score was 5-1 to the cobras who broke a three game losing streak with this victory. The Cobras now move to 3-8 for the season. The lady Cobras next game is away at Pfeiffer on October 11, at 2:00 p.m.


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Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade 10 a.m., Channel 5
I know you'd much rather gaze lovingly at the gorgeous red, green, and white sweater you just got for Christmas. But if you can put it down, you can watch this massive promotional event for Disney, with performances by Lady Antebellum, Backstreet Boys, TobyMac, Brad Paisley, and Phillip Phillips. Look for a bunch of ABC stars, including some of the kids from "Modern Family," with Nick Cannon (pictured), Mario Lopez, and Maria Menounos hosting.
New Girl marathon 8-10 p.m., Channel 25
Test yourself. Do you think you can handle four episodes in a row? This sitcom has gotten better over the year, as it shifted from a star vehicle for Zooey Deschanel to an ensemble sitcom. It's not a groundbreaking show in any possible way, but it belongs with "Happy Endings" as it folds in issues about being in your 20s — love, money, sex — with punchy jokes about OCD and broken penises.
The Mirror Has Two Faces 6 p.m., OWN
Babs nails it.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas 8 p.m., Channel 5
You better you bet.
The uneXplained marathon 8 p.m.-4 a.m., Biography
Biography to you: "bOo."Matthew Gilbert can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewGilbert.


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Before You Throw Away Your 'Protest' Vote
Actually, it's for your persuadable friends.
Or, rather, for your friends like my reader 'Spanky' P of Los Lunas, New Mexico, who decided to get "they're all the same" despairy and angsty and vote for Gary Johnson because Johnson is in favor of pot legalization. (There's an interesting one-issue take on what's important in The United States of America today.)
This is a story about what those votes do for the interests of those voters. And about a pig and what became of him.
When Pigs Fly, or, How to Elect Nixon Again and Again and Again …
Post Civil War Cartoon lampooning those who
profited from the bravery of those doing the actual fighting:
caption: 'THE STAY-AT-HOMES WHO WROTE WAR-SONGS'
TeeVee Funnyman decides that information anarchy would be hilarious and shuts down a potentially useful source of information:
Game Over: Wikipedia Locks Down Potential VP Pages In Response to Colbert Mischief-Making
BY MICAH L. SIFRY | Wednesday, August 8 2012
The act of observing something can sometimes change the thing being observed. Case in point: my observation on Monday that we might be able to get useful clues as to the identity of Mitt Romney's vice president pick by watching for a surge of edits on their Wikipedia page.
Not any more.
Last night, Stephen Colbert played a snippet of a Fox News report noting the jump in last-minute edits to Sarah Palin's page four years ago, and then he went to town. Assuming that Wikipedia edits were the tip-off, he declared, "We could be looking at Vice President Season Six of Buffy-the-Vampire Slayer. So, Nation, let your voice be heard in this history decision. Go on Wikipedia, and make as many edits as possible to your favorite VP contender." He then proceeded to mime editing Tim Pawlenty's page…
Funny stuff. Meet another hilarious political prank. Meet Pigasus.
Pigasus was the Youth International Party's candidate for President in 1968:
Pigasus in New York, 1968
Pigasus was a 145 pound (66 kg) hog. In August 1968, he was nominated for President of the United States during the Democratic National Convention as a theatrical gesture by the Youth International Party. At a rally announcing his candidacy, Pigasus was seized by Chicago policemen and his Yippie backers were arrested for disorderly conduct.
In 1968, Pigasus was nominated for the U.S. Presidency by the Youth International Party (Yippies).The pig's name was a play on Pegasus, the winged horse in Greek mythology. Selected for the campaign by Dennis Dalrymple, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, candidate Pigasus was purchased from a farmer by Phil Ochs. His candidacy was announced during the the massive protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The Yippies demanded that Pigasus be treated as a legitimate candidate, with secret service protection and White House foreign policy briefings. One reason why the Yippies preferred Pigasus was that "if we can't have him in the White House, we can have him for breakfast."
Except that Pigasus was enough of a red herring to elect Richard Nixon in 1968. Reason Magazine (of whom, regular readers will remember, I am not exactly a fan) tells us this:
The Yippie Show
Jesse Walker|Aug. 27, 2008
After a three-ring trial, the defendants [the "Chicago 7"] were eventually acquitted on all charges, though some of them had to appeal the initial verdict before they were completely cleared. The convention and its aftermath had been a victory for the yippies.
It was a victory for their enemies, too. The central story of Chicago wasn't just that cameras captured bloody police violence every evening. It was that the great American TV-viewing public overwhelmingly told pollsters afterwards that they sided with the cops. "That was our shortsightedness," says Krassner. "When we started chanting, 'The whole world is watching, the whole world is watching,' we didn't go to the next step, which was, And how are they gonna feel about it?"
In Nixonland, his insightful study of the period, the historian Rick Perlstein points out that Nixon "welcomed conflict that served him politically. A briefing paper came to the president's desk in the middle of March instructing him to expect increased violence on college campuses that spring. 'Good!' he wrote across the face." Jerry Rubin welcomed the polarization as much as Nixon did. "We yippies must reprint [George] Wallace speeches, get him TV time and open up offices for him all over the country," he wrote in his 1970 book Do it! "He's the best Marxist rabble-rouser in Amerika today. He's our best organizer." And: "To build their myth they exaggerate our myth—they create a Yippie Menace. The menace helps create the reality."
The Reason "splash page" summarizes it best:
New at Reason: Jesse Walker on the Yippies, Chicago '68, and the Power of Political Theater
Aug. 27, 2008 12:00 pm
On the fortieth anniversary of the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Managing Editor Jesse Walker looks back at how the media-savvy yippies inadvertently helped the right …
I've slightly edited that last to make my point clearer. (I don't really care about their point.)
This is what the Yippies managed to turn Disneyland into
(As if it weren't already that in plainclothes drag).
Look familiar "Occupiers"?
Abbie Hoffman and Tom Hayden had as much to do with electing Richard Nixon as anybody else.
Which is NOT the outcome that either wanted or intended. But, you know in American politics, those who think that their VISION really matters are more than happy to piss away their vote for some Quixotic notion that ends up biting them in the ass.
Another case in point, the 2000 Democratic National Convention, to which I was a delegate. Outside, the protests and the "Free Mumia!" crowd, and the Shadow Convention complete with suddenly "see the light" Arianna Huffington were happy to piss on the DNC, and the Independent Media Center (in which I was also credentialed press) were thrilled about how pure and noble they were, not like these scumbag Democrats. When I slogged back to our Westwood hotel (miles from downtown, but the "official" quarters assigned to Oregon and Iowa), I turned on the hotel TV and there was Tom Hayden, former Chicago 7 defendant, pimper of Pigasus, on the air pissing on the Democratic party (his party) and the nominee, Al Gore, and I thought to myself, DID YOU LEARN NOTHING FROM ELECTING NIXON?
And, again, as the pie-in-the-sky, holier-than-thou votes were bled away, they were just enough of a wedge to swing that election.
This is what America looked like in 1968.
Raloh Nader's campaign was always a vanity campaign, except that he and all his followers rationalized (and still rationalize) that its high-mindedness and correct thinking didn't have NUTHIN to do with the outcome.
Much of what Ralph said was correct and spot on. But his campaign was always idiotic. Even assuming that he MIGHT have won (when pigs fly) he'd still have had to deal with Congress, and his election would have been a sad disaster with a dysfunctional government (remember what the GOP did to Clinton? Think what they'd have done to Ralph) and discredited ALL progressive politics for a generation.
(The real world has consequences. Let your heart follow your ideals, but let your head govern your steps.)
Because we are at that silly season when, rather than banding together with those who best express one's beliefs, it's time to roll out the Green Party and piss on the Democrats for not being "progressive enough," while, on the other side, there are a number, like Gary Johnson's libertarian campaign, who will claim that their votes for him aren't wasted and might as well have never been cast.
To the Greens: How much better was George W. Bush than Al Gore would have been on the environment? What did that childish "my way or the highway" get you?
marching for pigasus 1968
Attention? Certainly that was true of the yippies, except that trading personal notoriety for Nixon (who announced his resignation 38 years ago today, after his excesses and crimes became to egregious that even Republicans refused to defend him) seems like the worst rational tradeoff since they burned the Library of Alexandria for a better view of the sand dunes.
Either your vote counts or it does not. And yet, we think that taking it as a lark, as a moment to express our deep idealistic beliefs actually matters, which is, when you think of it, oxymoronic. Throwing away your vote for an impossibility is the same as not voting, and that doesn't bespeak much respect for the process of democracy. You are presented with a choice, but decide to get "cute" and waste that choice, rationalizing all the way how you're "too good" for the parties, and that they're "Tweedle dum and Tweedle dee" when nothing about your non-choice bespeaks a level of sophistication any higher than could be expected of the imaginary Carrollian twins on their worst day.
This "they're both the same" notion isn't exactly original with you
This is the silly season when "high minded" voters decide that their votes do not count and scream "look at me! I'm TOO GOOD for the rest of you! I'm MORALLY SUPERIOR, which is why I throw away my vote on a hopeless campaign."
Woo hoo.
(You will NEVER get 100 percent of what you want in a democracy. That only works for dictatorships, and then, only if you're the dictator.)
And it gives us Bush the Dumber and Nixon, and, arguably Reagan. (Little-known fact: if you add John Anderson's third party insurgency to Carter's total in 1980, you come up with Reagan winning 51-49, and that's not factoring in that a unified Democratic party might well have been worth an extra point or two in the final tally. In other words, thanks, Anderson voters, for Ronald Reagan. How'd that work out for you?)
This is what the Chicago Seven got out of their 'hilarious' prank
You've got to understand the teleological implications of your actions — teleol0gy means the study of "ends." In other words: what you do has consequences, and no matter how far America is from your IDEAL of America (and I promise you, nobody's entirely happy with things as they are, and far more are REALLY upset with how things are; those few who ARE entirely happy with the USA today are institutionalized and unable to vote, so we'll pass over them) — no matter HOW unhappy you are, you can still choose between "better and worse."
Richard Nixon = "worse."
Jimmy Carter = "better."
George W. Bush = "worse."
President Nixon on television at moment of his resignation 8-8-74
(And, if you're on the other side of the aisle, come up with your own examples. You are not my primary audience here, although what I say applies equally to both sides of the political spectrum.)
The point here is that the new tr0lling of the "look at me! I'm so RIGHTEOUS!" crowd is EXACTLY the same as the trolling of the other side. And that's true of ALL sides.
Is that really what you FUNCTIONALLY want? Is that the "better" choice? Or would you rather be Abbie Hoffman and elect Richard Nixon and spend the rest of your life rationalizing it? Or electing George W. Bush and pretending that since some of your issues were correct that you actually did right in voting for Ralph Nader and he had a snowball's chance in hell of winning.
And then no chance whatsoever of governing?
This ain't a monarchy. The congress and Supreme Court are co-equal branches, and you'd better make the choices that are going to be BETTER for your point of view. Look at the final outcome, and ask yourself if my vote matters, shouldn't I make sure that I cast it responsibly? Vote for the party (and none of this "I vote for the man, not the party" nonsense — because it is demonstrably nonsense. The Republican congress or senate votes with their party 99 44/100ths percent* of the time, and the Democratic representative just a little less, unless bullied by the fear of Tea Parties or anti-abortion hooligans) and vote for the outcome that's going to BEST represent your views in the next two years.
[* for those that remember Ivory Soap commercials of old, yes, the joke is intentional.]
If that doesn't at least convince you to consider it, consider instead what actually happened to Pigasus:
Sources vary on the fate of Pigasus. There is some speculation that a police officer took him home for dinner.*
Pigasus arrested by Chicago police
That's an apt metaphor for what happens when you betray your realities to your ideals.
[* Wikipedia [ibid]: "The Chicago Tribune, on September 30, 1968, said that after Pigasus was taken into custody by Chicago police, they transported him to the The Anti-Cruelty Society, along with a sow called "Mrs. Pigasus, and a piglet, all collected after being paraded by the Yippies as part of their demonstrations around the time of the convention. The swine were later transferred to a farm in Grayslake, Illinois."
There is n0 mention of what happened to the pigs at the farm. But I don't think the answer is that obscure. Very doubtful in America that they ended up as "petting zoo" pets. Pass the bacon.]
Hail Nancy Ray-Gun: This is your brain on the drug of self-righteousness.
A writer, published author, novelist, literary critic and political observer for a quarter of a quarter-century more than a quarter-century, Hart Williams has lived in the American West for his entire life. Having grown up in Wyoming, Kansas and New Mexico, an honorary Texan, Clown (ditto) and a veteran of Hollywood, Mr. Williams currently lives in Oregon, along with an astonishing amount of pollen. He has a lively blog His Vorpal Sword. This is cross-posted from his blog.


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The players involved in last year's successful season who are heading to Auckland are props Nicky Thomas and Nicky Smith, hookers Elliot Dee and Ethan Lewis, back row James Benjamin, centres Steffan Hughes (captain), Jack Dixon and Harri Evans and full backs Ashley Evans and Hallam Amos.
Hayward, whose side will play Scotland in a warm-up game on Wednesday 14 May at The Brewery Field said, "We're happy with the strength in depth we built during the Six Nations through ensuring everyone got a decent amount of game time in order to develop at this level and stake a claim for a place in this squad.
"We've said from the start that the Junior World Championship is the main focus of our season and to that end, all of the management team were keen to arrange a warm-up game in order to arrive in New Zealand raring to go from Day One.
"We play Fiji, Ireland and France in our Pool so the game against Scotland will help us to try out some of our game plans in a match situation.
"Having reviewed our Six Nations performances, we can be happy with our performance against Ireland, where our set-piece was key in grinding out an important win in Athlone, we lost to France, the other Six Nations team in our JWC pool, by one score and we were down to 14 men for 20 minutes in that game. We learned a lot of lessons in that match and if we get the tactical game right and the players adapt to the opposition in front of them, we certainly have a chance against all the teams in our group.
"Our aim is to get through to the semi-finals and as we all know from our win over South Africa in last year's semi, anything is possible at that point. It will be a different challenge playing in New Zealand, hence travelling a couple of days early and thinking about the consequences of having to fly players out in case of injury but we have built that into our selection as much as possible."
Wales Under 20 Junior World Championship squad 2014:
Forwards: Nicky Smith (Ospreys), Luke Garrett (Dragons), Nicky Thomas (Ospreys), Callum Lewis (Blues), Benjamin Leung (Scarlets), Ethan Lewis (Blues), Elliot Dee (Dragons), Scott Otten (Ospreys), Joe Davies (Dragons), Rory Thornton (Ospreys), Scott Andrews (Dragons), Will Boyde (Carmarthen), Olly Cracknell (RGC), Scott Matthews (Dragons), Ben Roach (Blues) James Benjamin (Dragons)
Backs: Tom Williams (Blues), Luc Jones, Angus O'Brien (both Dragons), Luke Price (Ospreys), Steffan Hughes (Scarlets), Jack Dixon (Dragons), Harri Evans (RGC), Tyler Morgan (Dragons), Joshua Adams (Scarlets), Dafydd Howells, Ashley Evans (both Ospreys), Hallam Amos (Dragons)


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Quinn's anti-violence program mess
Some Illinois Legislative Black Caucus members are saying "I told you so" in the wake of a stunning state Auditor General's investigation into misspending, waste and possibly even fraud in an anti-violence initiative hastily created by Gov. Pat Quinn.
Quinn created the program in August of 2010, a few days after meeting with ministers from Chicago's Roseland neighborhood about rising violence. In early September, several Chicago aldermen gave their lists of preferred local groups that could administer the state program. Quinn's administration sent requests for proposals only to those alderman-recommended groups.
By October, just weeks before the November 2010 election, the program had mushroomed to $50 million.
Despite initial claims that a specific formula was used to choose the targeted neighborhoods for violence reduction programs, no actual documentation exists for how those decisions were made.
Some of the requests for proposal applications were changed retroactively and, curiously enough, quite a few of the highest crime neighborhoods received no funding at all.
The audit found that up to 40 percent of spending couldn't be documented, several neighborhood groups did not maintain required time sheet documentation, and $2 million in unspent funds couldn't be explained.
The audit produced some of the most scathing findings and harshest language of any such reports since the Rod Blagojevich days. The audit uncovered "pervasive deficiencies in [the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority's] planning, implementation and management of the [Governor's Neighborhood Recovery Initiative] program," for instance.
Some Legislative Black Caucus members say Gov. Quinn was specifically warned in 2010 not to deal directly with aldermen or allow them to pick local groups. State grants have a history of problems, and tough regulatory and reporting laws meant that letting politicized aldermen control the recipients could only lead to trouble.
Plus, this was state money. Legislators viewed that as their domain. Going around them to the aldermen was seen as an insult.
But Quinn went around the legislators anyway, threw the program together in a rush and then the whole thing disintegrated.
A 2012 CNN report included minutes from a September 2010 IVPA meeting that quoted an official from the governor's office saying, "The governor's office is committed to allocating some of the funds for this initiative immediately and will allocate the rest after the election," which was deemed a "smoking gun" by some Republicans, who claimed that it proves Quinn used millions in state money to boost his tough election campaign against Bill Brady. Quinn barely edged out Brady that November.
Currying favor with Chicago aldermen also resulted in a recent benefit for Quinn. Some members of the Legislative Black Caucus met with African-American aldermen, who are also ward committeemen, last year and asked them to hold off on an early Cook County Democratic Party vote to slate Quinn.
The legislators wanted the opportunity to push Quinn on things like Medicaid funding, but their pleas were dismissed, with aldermen saying that, unlike the legislators, they had built a strong relationship with Quinn.
The result is that Quinn isn't currently finding many allies among the Black Caucus as he gears up to defend himself against the allegations.
In fact, the Senate's Black Caucus Chairman Sen. Emil Jones III, D-Chicago, has introduced legislation to require that members of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority be confirmed by the Illinois Senate.
The ICJIA is now administering the scaled back anti-violence program. Jones' bill has been assigned to the Senate Executive Committee and Sen. Jones said last week he wants to use the legislation to bring some "accountability" to the violence programs.
Quinn has been in hot water with the Black Caucus for a while now. For instance, African-American Senators, along with Latinos, have refused to support the Senate's confirmation of Julie Hamos for another term as director of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
They're angry at the way Hamos has pushed for cuts to the state's Medicaid program. "Let her get Republican votes," said one Senator recently when asked about Hamos' prospects.
The governor recently hired a formerly popular black state official to handle Hamos' relations with the General Assembly, but the political brick on Hamos appears too big to be schmoozed away.
Anyway, Republicans want a full-scale criminal investigation of this violence program mess, with some justification, so things could get really hairy, really soon. And Gov. Quinn will need all the allies he can get. It's time he made a peace offering.
Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax, a daily political newsletter, and CapitolFax.com.


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Back in 1982, over in Switzerland, we got into rap and were constantly searching for new releases. One of the important series was Street Sounds Electro 1–22, with the outstanding no. 2 that included "Beat Bop" by Rammellzee versus K-Rob. Rap was part-party, part-pushy (and who remembers the short-lived Washington Go Go?), but "Beat Bop" wasn't. It was a slow and lazy 10-minute piece (listen below) and we loved it for this.
In the mid-1980s, I visited Rome with my father and we happened to walk by Piazza di Spagna where we suddenly saw a big crowd. It was a public fashion show by Valentino and all flashes were directed on the Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida. But the really important thing (at least to me) followed once the show started: Rammellzee came on stage and did the live music. Later on I found out that Basquiat had done the sleeve for the 45 rpm release (see images below). And only many years later, when researching Rammellzee on the net I found his site, Gothic Futurism, with a mind-boggling text on "Ikonoklast Letters Racerism" and the Letter Racers. I always wanted to see them and finally did, last week, at The Suzanne Geiss Company (until April 21). The show is great, although suffering from Rammellzee's absence (he died in 2010), but it included an amazing drawing from 1979 (see a detail above). And MoMA (I can't believe that they did) included his work in Print/Out (until May 14). So Christophe, are you going to add Rammellzee's work to MoMA's collection? Can you go that far?
Tags: Basquiat, Rammellzee, rap


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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) -- "We should all be prepared," said Mark Nave, who is the Health and Safety Manager for Black Frac Tanks.
Mother Nature can unleash at any moment, destroying homes and businesses. That's why the Red Cross wants business owners to have a plan of action.
"If we are prepared, we can come back to work the next day, maybe two days," said Nave.
Nave learned a thing or two about making sure his business is prepared for disaster.
"Having insurance in line, and that's part of being prepared because if you do lose that income, there's an insurance that could help you with that," said Nave.
And now his isn't the only business with a plan after a seminar the Red Cross held for businesses this week.
"Specifically ordering chemicals and repair parts so that we have them available in the event we had an impact to our supply delivery," says David Reinersten who works for Clifton Water.
Rreinersten says they've been prepared in the past, but thought a refresher course would be helpful. He learned pre-planning isn't one-size-fits-all.
"Someone in retail establishment verses a manufacturing establishment has different needs and different operational perimeters. All those things need to be considered when developing a pre-plan," said Reinersten.
Red Cross officials call having a good plan in place a ready rating.
"A full on 123-point assessment that helps a business put together a disaster plan, a contingency of operation plan, get them connected to Red Cross services that could help them be a better prepared service," said Red Cross official Eric Myers.
If you missed the seminar this week, they're still willing to help you out. The best part, it's free to any business.
Red Cross officials say it's vital to have a resilient business community because that's what helps a community recover faster after a disaster. For everyone in our community, there's an app for safety preparedness. Just search for the Red Cross in your app store to download apps for wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes and more.
Find more information its website, a link to which can be found below under Related Links. You can also contact the local office at 970-242-4851


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Which ever anti-ageing lotions and potions Tom Cruise is using, we'd like some please. It was like the clock had turned back two decades as he attended the UK premiere of Rock Of Ages last night.
The star looked the spitting image of how he did 26 years ago in his breakthrough role in Top Gun, as he walked the red carpet at London's Leicester Square.
He even sported a pair of aviators, looking just like his iconic character Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell.
And with his wrinkle free complexion and pearly whites, Tom made it hard to believe he is celebrating the big five-oh next month.
At the premiere Tom told HuffPost UK Entertainment, that opening his mouth to sing for his role as Stacee Jaxx in Rock of Ages was up there with the scariest things he's done during his career.
"This was different, but it's definitely up there," he said.
"The singing, I spent five hours a day, I spent hours dancing every day, I read a lot of books, I called my friend Cameron Crowe, and he gave me books, biographies, not just from that time period, but the history of rock and roll... different stories about bands, and hearing what they went through, and looking to find common denominators for that rock and roll lifestyle.
"This is a character that you can't go half-way with. So, it wasn't scary, it was fun."
The film, which tells the story of a young couple falling in love in a 80s' nightclub, also stars Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta Jones and Alec Baldwin, and is in UK cinemas on Friday.
> Rock Of Ages Review: Tom Cruise Comes Of Age As Rocker Stacee Jaxx, A Wounded, Six-String Warrior
> Malin Akerman Steals The Show In Nude Sparkler, Reveals What Tom Cruise Tastes Like
> Tom Cruise Tells HuffPostUK About The Challenge Of Playing The World's Biggest Rock Star


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RALEIGH — The Boston Bruins live to fight another day, again.
This time they rode a two-point night by Patrice Bergeron and a 31-save performance by goaltender Tim Thomas to a 4-2 win over Carolina in Game 6 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series at RBC Center tonight.
After trailing the series, 3-1, the Bruins have forced a Game 7 in Boston Thursday night. You can read the complete Game 6 recap at Yahoo!
Bergeron and his line made sure the Bruins got off on the right foot with some ferocious forechecking and a goal just 2:01 in, as the center fed the puck to the front for a redirect by Mark Recchi. With Carolina coming hard and down two late in the second period, Bergeron pulled the same trick by throwing the puck to the front, where this time Chuck Kobasew buried it in the net.
"I thought we carried it over from last game. I thought the forecheck was better and tonight was the same thing," Bergeron said after the game. "When you have time, you're going to make some good plays. So we want to make sure they don't have time and we put some pressure hard on them and make them cough up the puck."
For the night, Bergeron was a plus-2 with three shots on net. He won just six of 18 draws, but was key in two huge third-period penalty kills by the Bruins when the 'Canes were back within two.
"This to me was a huge game by Patrice — in both ends of the ice," said Bruins head coach Claude Julien. "He was outstanding in penalty kill. He got us going with his forecheck and determination to make the plays. And he got a couple assists tonight and to me was probably, without a doubt, his best game of this series."