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League of American Bicyclists: UVM a "Bike Friendly" University
- 10-11-2011
- By Joshua E. Brown
The League of American Bicyclists selected the University of Vermont as one of the nation's most "Bicycle Friendly Universities," Oct. 10, at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education conference in Pittsburgh, Pa.
UVM was one of 26 schools in 20 states honored by the League for its leading efforts to "encourage students and staff to travel to and on their campuses on bicycles," the group noted in a release.
"It does say something about how quickly in the past few years things have turned in a more positive direction for cyclists on campus," says UVM's Luis Vivanco, a professor of anthropology who was instrumental in applying for the award and promoting biking on campus.
"Just a few years ago it would have been difficult to imagine our new bike share program, the rise of an active student group -- "BUG" -- pushing for bicycle friendly accommodations, and the increasing support that various key offices on campus have been providing for bicycle mobility on campus," Vivanco said.
Vivanco noted that improved biking amenities -- like more bike parking -- as well as the award application itself, was " a real team effort," drawing support from many people across campus including students in BUG -- as well as staff in Transportation and Parking Services, Physical Plant, Campus Planning, Residential Life, Office of Sustainability, Police Services, Student Government, the Campus Area Transportation Management Association and others.
"Not that we don't have major challenges still," Vivanco said, noting that he hopes further efforts to accommodate and promote biking on campus will move UVM up from its current bronze-level award to the higher levels given by the League. Only Stanford University received the organization's highest platinum award.
Andy Clarke, president of the League of American Bicyclists, noted in his organization's release that UVM and the other award-winning schools are models for universities and communities nationwide.
"For many Americans, the college years are when they are reunited once again with their bicycles," said Bill Nesper, director of the League's Bicycle Friendly America Program. "Bicycle Friendly Universities are welcoming them by making bicycling the safest, most efficient and enjoyable way to get around."
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Thursday, August 10, 2006
Breaking (But Not Surprising) News: Clarett Arrested Again
Police arrested him early Wednesay after a chase, finding four loaded guns on him. They had to use mace to subdue him when a stun gun didn't work because he was wearing a bullet proof vest!
Clarett had made an illegal u-turn on the east side of Columbus and failed to stop when officers tried to pull his SUV over. Then came spike strips, driving across the median, blah, blah, blah. Officials say it's the fastest they've seen Clarett since his freshman year at Tosu.
Besides the guns, police also found a half-full bottle of vodka in his vehicle. No word yet if he was drunk or tried to blame Wolverines for all the wars in the world.
You know, when it was announced recently that planned to play for the five team Eastern Indoor Football League, we didn't know the "indoor" part of that meant prison.
More on this story to come, thanks to numerous readers for the tip.
UPDATE: Here's a link to a local news story on the arrest from reader CS.
27 comments:
- srudoff said...
actually he was on his way to try out for the Bengals....
- August 09, 2006 10:58 AM
- Cool Hand Mike said...
4 guns? You only have two hands.
This reminds me of the deputy in Unforgiven.
"Why do you carry 2 guns if you only have 1 arm?"
"If I get shot, it ain't gonna be for lack of shooting back."
- August 09, 2006 11:02 AM
- Sean said...
I'll be the first to note that Clarett had a Buckstache during the arrest.
- August 09, 2006 11:37 AM
Now we finally have a running back from tOSU that can compete with O.J.!
- August 09, 2006 12:24 PM
- Can't spell Lloyd without 2 "L's" said...
Well, the odds are pretty good that his cellmate will be a former tOSU teammate. It'll be good times, just like back in dorm, only without the illegal payments.
- August 09, 2006 12:27 PM
gotta credit a tosu education.
he was probably excited to be going to training camp and trying to be all prepared.
the new team? hitmen.
- August 09, 2006 12:29 PM
- St. Simons Island Nole said...
Geez, at this point I almost feel for the kid....Ever wonder what was going through his head when he put on the bullet proof vest? What could he have possibly be thinking? I know the answer is nothing, but geez Mo, what up, Dog?
- August 09, 2006 1:05 PM
I love how tOSU has completely abandoned this guy. He pretty much won them a Nat'l Title, and how do they repay him? By making him a scapegoat for all that is bad at tOSU and cutting off all ties. Hold your head up high, Jim Tressel, hold it way up there.
- August 09, 2006 1:12 PM
- Andy said...
This is starting to get beyond sad. Clearly the kid has some major issues -- and although it is funny to push it back on the Buckeyes. Someone needs to help this kid out.
I wonder how much revenue was generated by Tosu by selling #13 jerseys ?
Do you think it would cover his bail ?
- August 09, 2006 1:28 PM
- Can't spell Lloyd without 2 "L's" said...
Don't worry about the bail. Art Schlicter has 5 large on "Sweatervest" in the 6th race to cover the bail.
- August 09, 2006 1:33 PM
#7 you're an idiot. clarett said tress was in regular contact with him and also spoke to several NFL teams on his behalf when he was draft eligible. coach t certainly can hold his head up high.
so how often has anyone from michigan been trying to help Larry Harrison??? yeah thought so
- August 09, 2006 2:51 PM
Seriously...what the hell is wrong with him?!?!?
- August 09, 2006 2:55 PM
- Yost said...
I too actually feel bad for him... until I stop to wonder where he was heading w/ 4 loaded guns and a bullet proof vest. He's not a little kid. He's an adult and actions have consequences.
Unfortunately, his have been bad for a long time now.
- August 09, 2006 3:22 PM
More late breaking news ... Starting TE for the tOSU lawbreakers has been suspended for the upcoming season for breaking team rules.
- August 09, 2006 3:33 PM
Buckstache rides again!
- August 09, 2006 3:33 PM
Yahoo has some police pictures of the guns, vodka, and bullet proof vest. Looks like he is a Gray Goose man.
- August 09, 2006 4:04 PM
- Erik said...
"Officials say it's the fastest they've seen Clarett since his freshman year at Tosu."
- August 09, 2006 4:41 PM
It is 5pm in the NYC area & so you are probably gone for the day. I just heard that the starting TE for tosu has been suspended for the yr. Any news? If so when does this ant-social behavior become a reson for concern in columbus.
- August 09, 2006 5:16 PM
Michigan native and Rivals100 CB Dionte Allen decided to make a commitment to FSU.
- August 09, 2006 5:17 PM
Oh well, as long as UM gets Ronald Johnson, everything will be gravy.
- August 09, 2006 5:21 PM
YES, a great pick up for the NOLES baby....
- August 09, 2006 5:21 PM
Tell Allen they, FSU, supply all his footwear.
- August 09, 2006 6:19 PM
I don't understand why the biased media feels the need to pick on Clarett. They need to get over the fact that he didn't stick around to win more titles for JT. Personally, I think he was on his way to redeem himself-although I know this isn't the case-he could have been going to turn in the guns for a good cause. I don't know why WBNS has to throw gas on the flames by saying that he was arrested near a key eyewitness' residence in his armed robbery case. They are just making assumptions b/c they are upset about not winning more hardware. Me personally, I never claimed the kid and we WOULD have won without him.
- August 09, 2006 7:12 PM
"Tell Allen they, FSU, supply all his footwear."
While Big Blue could have supplied all those fourth quarter melt downs.
- August 09, 2006 8:19 PM
Unlike a lot of Buckeye fans, I don't think this kid should be hung out to dry, although I do think he needs to be held responsible for his actions. Clearly, MC has some major problems, and I can see the (sad) humor of his situation - especially from Michigan fans. This does mean however that MC hasn't been through a lot, and needs to know he has a long life to live..after certainly a stint in prison, hopefully he will get the help he needs, find some peace is his situation in life; thankfully he hadn't hurt anyone.
- August 10, 2006 12:08 AM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
This has veered off into tragically sad territory. There's not even really anything funny to say about Clarett anymore.
It's fortunate that the police saw him make that u-turn. The last time I drove around with loaded weapons while wearing body armor I wasn't exactly on my way to the corner grocery to pick up a gallon of milk.
- August 10, 2006 1:26 AM
at least Mo' didn't make any anti-semitic comments
- August 10, 2006 9:06 AM


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This Fourth of July holiday many teachers will enjoy this one because next year most veteran teachers are getting out of teaching because this right to work for less law will eliminate these veteran teacher positions. I don�t suppose most voters will ever realize that by voting Republican they are voting away worker rights. Quit buying into the lies.
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I thought there was a noise ordinance on how many decibels something could be? If the concert isn�t violating the noise ordinance, then maybe they shouldn�t complain.
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I�ve been unemployed more than a year and looking for a job. They talk about things getting better and more jobs out there. I�d like to know where they�re at?
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Lincs bloke fined in deceased hedgehog outrage
Broad daylight cable-laying rocks the Fens
A Lincolnshire man who decided to take a dump on a dead hedgehog on a roadside verge in broad daylight has been fined £100 for the cable-laying outrage.
Victor Ford, 34, was caught with his pants down at 1.20pm on 3 July, when a passing copper spotted him on Balmoral Avenue, Spalding, "squatting over the grass verge with his jeans around his knees".
He pleaded not guilty to "outraging public decency by defecating in the street" when dragged before Spalding Magistrates' Court, but later took the rap when the Crown Prosecution Service "offered a lesser public order charge".
Judge John Stobart slapped Ford with the £100 fine, as well as £85 costs and a 15 quid victim surcharge.
Further details are promised in today's print edition of the Lincolnshire Free Press, including "the amazing quote Ford told the arresting officer and the advice the judge gave Ford should the situation ever arise again".
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At Ensia (formerly Momentum), Bill Chameides tackles compost, or our lack of it.
The thing that really caught my attention was a report on the results of a series of student dumpster dives around campus. After collecting and sorting all the garbage, they found that about three-quarters of Duke's so-called non-recyclable trash destined for area landfills was compostable—things like food scraps, napkins, paper towels, etc. Based on calculations fromgovernment data [pdf], the national average is closer to 50 percent, but that's still a lot of compost mostly headed for a landfill.
While I agree with the gist of his post – we should stop sending so much compostable material to the landfill, it makes good dirt – he reaches, what seems to me, a somewhat troubling conclusion (bold emphasis mine):
Right now we send a lot of compostable materials to landfills. If you'll pardon the pun, that's a waste. Instead of being treated like trash, compostable items can be converted into organic-rich soil for growing crops. And that could even help slow climate change. The anaerobic decay that occurs in landfills produces methane, a greenhouse gas that can escape into the atmosphere if a gas-capturing system is not installed. Composting, which is primarily an aerobic process, generates very little methane.
But the real challenge in making a compost economy is moving our compostable trash toward 100 percent. Let's replace recyclable, petroleum-based plastics with nontoxic, cellulosic, compostable plastics. In addition to making compostable products, let's make the packaging compostable too.
Now, in that first quote he says half our of current trash is compostable. That seems to me to indicate that our trash is already fairly compostable, and we aren't doing anything about it. It seems our real challenge(s) is/are:
- Make sure compost collection is available (far from standard across the country, and certainly not in Minnesota).
- Education/coercion (get people to throw it in the right bin). No small task.
- Make sure that ability to process compostable material is available. This is not a minor issue. Consider that in the Twin Cities metro, there is one location that processes organic compost. Many items collected through composting collection regimes can't simply be thrown on a compost pile, they need specific temperature, moisture and material mixtures to break down properly. Processing needs to expand if we're going to get that other 50% composted.
My other issue is with Bill's conclusion: let's turn all our disposable products into compostable products. This is backwards. If collection isn't available OR people don't separate their compostable material properly (and just about universally), the results (for the climate, at least) could be worse.
Consider work done by David Allaway at the State of Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality. They looked at the lifecycle impacts of different water delivery systems (water bottles), including PLA (compostable) and PET (oil-based, recyclable) water bottles. As Bill notes, in a landfill, compostable materials produce methane, which when combined with the upstream impacts of making the water bottle, are worse than just using a regular, oil-based recyclable bottle.
The scenario above, represented by the green bar, shows that even if you're successful at collecting and composting 62% of compostable bottles entering the waste stream, the emissions from the landfill of the remaining 38% offset any benefits. This includes "upstream" emissions, like making each bottle.
And this assumes a collection regime is in place. Every time I see a Twin Cities restaurant trying to up their green cred by offering "compostable" cups or flatware, I check their waste disposal area. Nine times out of ten there is no "compost" container available.
So, is promoting a conversion of "throw away" products like flatware and packaging to compostable materials a good idea? At best, maybe. At worst, well, it could make things worse. I think much more analysis needs to be done, and certainly more collection infrastructure and a highly-effective education campaign about sorting need to be in place. Of course, composting food waste that's already in the waste stream is a no-brainer, but let's take a closer look at compostable products.


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Hate to correct you, but Manning was a undrafted free agent signed by green bay
Unverified Voracity Looks At Manning
Roy Manning return? With Jerry Montgomery gone to Oklahoma, Michigan needs to fill a spot on their coaching staff. No, it will not be Mike Hart or Ty Wheatley. It'll be a defensive guy. But there is another dude floating out there who is a young former Michigan player: Roy Manning.
Manning was a little-regarded recruit who came seemingly out of nowhere to start as a senior and did well enough to get drafted and have a few years in the NFL. Like Montgomery, he's become a hot name hopping to and fro. He was hired at Cincinnati in February, got a standing ovation for doing so, and had just landed at NIU after Jones took the Tennessee job. Fluff bits:
He's got a Ron English basso going on.
Home ice and the future. Michigan finishes its regular season this weekend with a home and home against Ferris State needing a sweep and some help to secure a first-round home series in the playoffs. If they don't acquire the requisite points, Michigan's last home game in front of the students will have been the February 1st matchup with Michigan State. Which… wow. Just another way in which this season has been bizarre and disappointing.
It's senior day for the, uh, seniors, and it looks like a pretty manageable class to replace:
- Lee Moffie: Michigan's #4 or #5 defenseman in the unlikely event everyone is healthy.
- AJ Treais: Tied for second in scoring with 11-12-23; had excellent start to the year and tailed off as guys like Sinelli and Copp moved onto his wing because they did that skating hard stuff. Copp has actually produced decently, but not having a reliable offensive option on the other wing has hampered production from him.
- Kevin Lynch: I have no idea what line he's on; ideally would have become a Rust-like shutdown center. Instead is anonymous middle-of-lineup guy with 6-13-19.
- Lindsay Sparks: diminutive winger will go down as Craig Murray 2010 for me, a player on the third line who I liked more than is rational and spent four years expecting a breakout from that never came. 4-4-8 in 16 games this year.
- Jeff Rohrkemper: fourth line jack of all trades.
The key, of course, is what happens with Michigan's offseason defections. There are a ton of guys who are departure threats, starting with the dream D pairing of Merrill and Trouba and extending to Nieves, Guptill, Bennett, and Di Giuseppe. While none of those extended guys seems NHL-ready, Guptill was left at home for a series this year and is a third-rounder. He seems like a candidate for the Chris Brown "really?" departure.
A goalie will be scoured for, of course.
Welcome to the team. Here is pack of raving dingoes. Enjoy. From ESPN's exit interview series comes this nugget from Mike Kwiatkowski($):
My lowest moment of my career was probably be my first year, [Rich Rodriguez'] last season, when I was playing scout team left guard. I had thought about if this decision was right for me. I wasn't playing my position and going against Mike Martin all the time.
Despite being a freshman walk-on tight end, he did not die. I'm using Mike Kwiatkowski as a bomb shelter in the event we teleport back to 1980 and there is a nuclear war on.
No more flyovers? Step A in any debate about cutting spending is to go right to the stuff that people notice no matter how small. Like flyovers:
Federal budget cuts would end flyovers at sports events
Of course, they have to fly the planes at some point—can't have a war with a bunch of crop dusters flying F-16s unless you can start cloning Randy Quaid—so the net additional cost of having some of those flights buzz stadiums is, um…
"It's no additional cost to the government for support of any public events. Typically, if you see a unit fly over a football game, that is 90 seconds out of a several hour training sortie that they're flying."
Zero? Here is someone's attempt to explain why this is a thing:
"We just have a reduced number of those training hours, and so everything is being dedicated to just preparing for that overseas deployment and for flying that's actually happening overseas," Varhegyi said.
Not very good. Later they mention that Army/Navy/Air Force sports could get hit despite 95% of Navy's funding coming from sources other than the government. Filed under scare tactic—dollars to donuts the flyovers continue.
Something that is not true at all. Drew Henson talks about his brief baseball career in a non-bylined article that prevents me from hammering whatever intern wrote this:
But he always had his sights set on baseball — simply, he said it was more fun — and even signed with the Yankees after they made him a third-round pick in 1998. They agreed to let him finish his college football career, and he played summer ball in the Yankees system while still at U-M.
John Navarre would not be a divisive figure if this was true. Oh, and Michigan probably would have been awesome in 2001. Also that article is based on another article, which it links right at the end of the piece in a non-underlined URL link. Bad intern.
Etc.: Derrick Walton is a Mr. Basketball finalist, puts up 31 on Taylor Truman for senior day. WTKA afternoon show is kaput. Recruits' 40s are lies. Does the recruiting deregulation need to be salvaged? If so, suggestions to do so.
...I need more Cousin Eddie movies
But I would guess that flying warplanes over stadia filled with people would be the ideal training. I mean all those poeple just sitting there, out in the open. Be easier than going after baddies one at a time at night by helicopter.
Ha freaking ha. Flyovers allow for timing practice and formation discipline, plus for a pilot they are fun as all get out for the pilot flying them(used to be one). Their primary purpose is PR, admittedly, but the stadium full of people but was over the line.
Thus sure never kill all our enemies in one place at one time, like in a big stadium during a scheduled event. It's like the pilots aren't even trying.
This is a joke,btw
You may be getting the Lynch's confused, Kevin is a wing Travis is a center.
For the last few games, Lynch has been on the first line as a right wing with Di Giuseppe and Nieves. Copp has taken the 2nd line center spot and bumped Treais down to the 3rd.
With 14 points and the teams best option on the PK, Andrew Copp has exceeded all expectations for someone who was headed to the USHL.
As for attrition, I expect our defensemen more likely to jump to the NHL, and our incoming forwards to be on CHL watch this offseason.
Excellent Independence Day reference.
"Hello, boys! I'm back!!"
...but I've alwasy felt that flyovers & other overt displays of the military at games were unnecessary. Patriotism is fine and all but it feels a bit at odds with the sporting ideal of peaceful competition to be flashing military hardware.
I would agree if Michigan ever played the Iranian national team. Seems ok when both teams are American, though.
years ago, flyovers had to be requested. It isn't like the Air Guard, USAF, or USNAVY think to themselves, "wouldn't it be cool to overfly Michigan Stadium just before kickoff"? Nope, that would be the University of Michigan Athletic Department through the University, that is requesting and coordinating the flyover. So if you have a burr under your saddle, you might want to take it up with the University, not the Military.
The sequester amount is supposed to equal $88B or so annualized. But fear not, as Fed issuances just added another $80B to the national debt YESTERDAY.
If you think this is political, take a deep breath, and then count to 16.87 trillion.
Okay, I just got to 16.87 trillion and I still think this is political. What should I do now?
Bonus points for having started while men were still apes.
Now just count the primes.
Were you at the Big Chill when the stealth bomber flew over the stadium???
I was, and I will never forget that sight...
Here's the clue:" Hey look an airplane!!!"
And I've been accused on this very blog of having no sense of humor, but isn't the comment, "hey look an airplane" mocking people who like flyovers? I guess it could be sarcasm, but I don't think the poster you are ridiculing is ridiculous for taking it at its word that the commenter who said both, "flyovers are stupid" and "hey look, an airplane." may in fact actually think that flyovers are stupid.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't fighter jets awesome? I was under the impression they were awesome. And I like seeing awesome things I don't get to see very often, especially in action (well, in motion at least). Very rarely during a flyover do you see anyone not watch, and almost all of those people seem to think it's pretty cool.
I'm all for keeping awesome things, flyovers included.
When I lived in San Diego I used to drive under miramar air base every day for work. Usually something was in the air and I would look at it as long as I could while driving . I agree jets are pretty cool they feed the boy inside.
Though I believe they are over done. More than once a year, not including the occasional skydiver, and IMO, flyovers lose their luster.
Side note, as a young lad in the early '60s, I thought it was way cool when interceptors would go sonic over A2. My mother, on the other hand, wasn't so enthused and did cartwheels when the FAA, or whomever, put a stop to it.
Balanced budgets are awesome too.
But doesn't Brian's post say it doesn't cost any extra money? Maybe I can't read good.
As evidence of Brian's love for Lindsay Sparks...from the start of last season:
Lindsay Sparks is going to lead hockey in scoring this year and make everyone wonder how he got scratched most of the last two years.
Since then, he's probably been scratched more times than he's scored.
In theory Lindsay Sparks was the ultimate weapon and the coaches tried really hard to get him on the ice. The thought of having that speed on the PK, the powerplay and 5 on 5 was too much for the coaches to let go of.
The average CCHA defensemen could easily backskate with him and his game was one dimensional, since his defense was horrible there's no point in having him out there.
We will always have the "What might have been" everytime we think of Sparks. We will also always have that tweet to remind Brian.
"Cincinnati players give former Roy Manning standing ovation after introduction."
Is Roy Manning an alias? Is he an imposter?
Perhaps the headline writers don't have an edit button.
How do you have a rule about no talk of politics, delete a thread about flyovers because it got to political, then on the same day, make political comments on that same topic? Does that make it fair game to comment on your political opinion about the cutting of flyovers being, "scare tactics."?
Well, it is his blog so he can post what he wants moreso than the MGoCommunity, but I'd also argue that Brian's statement had little to do with politics and more to do with the fact that it was is a story about college sporting events. He is just saying that when the USA Today (one of the most read papers in the country) has a story about no flyovers at sporting events and in that same article points out coherent reasons why it shouldn't happen, one should perhaps question the merits of the original claim.
But when he holds himself to a different standard with regards to a pretty badic and strictly enforced rule, that seems to me to be wrong. While I understand you argue that the statement is not political, I do not see how that could be so. Just because USA Today points out reasons it should not happen, that does not mean there are not legitimate counterarguments.
Something has to be cut,. There are choices about what has to be cut. The leaders of the organizations making the decisions are political appointees. That seems to suggest that politics could be involved in the choice.
Characterizing the choice as "scare tactics" seems to imply the coice was made for political purposes. That seems to be bringing politics to the blog. Furthermore, early today, a thread on this very topic was locked down because it became to political.
I happen to also think that the choice to cut this part of the training rather than other training was politically motivated. I just don't think it eas a "scare tactic". I think it was the only way to really bring home to much of the american public that this sequester is impacting the amount of training our military does.
Please every single cut trotted out in front of us has been designed to scare us. Can't deploy a carrier, firefighters out on the street, etc. the scare tactic thing isn't political by this point it's a simple observation.
Making the value judgement that it is a, "scare tactic" is where it becomes political.
The fact that you and I both disagree on that point demonstrates that it is political. The earlier post and ensuing lockdown demonstrates that its political.
All I'm trying to point out is the hypococy of not allowing politcs on the blog unless Brian feels its ok.
speakng for Zone Left, Brian isn't either instructing the mod team on what to do (obviously he'd just do it himself) or giving feedback on every action. Assuming ZL gets the same stuff PGB and I do, Brian didn't have anything to say about the original thread getting locked.
Getting to the point: it's Brian's show, but he isn't personally involved with things like locking threads most of the time. He might have left it up (as profit originally wanted) or done the same thing ZL did if he was the "mod" who made the call; we don't know which way he would have gone.
While the no fly-overs issue itself is sports related, it is clearly only a very small part of a much larger political issue. I personally think zone left made the right call.
With regards to the small flyover part of the issue - how can that be a scare tactic? Is anyone scared that we aren't having flyovers? Flyovers are about PR, not training. By combining it with training, it is a very smart way to get low cost or free PR. In this case, the military has decided that the PR they'd prefer at the moment is that our armed forces are getting less training. Unless one is going to argue that given the rules of the sequester, they don't have to cut any training, this seems to me to be a smart move, not a scare tactic.
only that the double standard could just be two people with different conclusions/responsibilities.
Because I read it on the App and it seemed pretty tame. There was one joke that someone didn't get that people took offense to, but it really wasn't much worse than the "gay questions at the combines" thread. ZL said there were F bombs galore, but other than Team America quotes I didn't catch that. So I wonder if people got Ziggy-d before it got locked.
and didn't log on until after it was locked, so I honestly don't know (locks work on us too) what all went on. I'm sure ZL had good reasons for locking/removing stuff, though.
You can use te App too. :-)
Love the way people on this blog moderate
First, it does sound like scare tactics. But more importantly, the thread you mentioned got REALLY combative. If someone had just said stuff about scare tactics, no one would care.
Also, what his Roy Manning's job exactly? All I see is that it says he's some sort of assistant. Is he a DL assistant like Montgomery was?
As I've noted, choosing to use the term scare tactics moves from reporting to opinion. Its opinion on a politcal topic. If an exception is being made for this particular topic, and it is ok to discuss politics that is one thing. If Brian is allowed to voice a political opinion and no one can disagree that is hypocrocy.
It's Brian's blog, so it's Brian's right - I just feel he should be called on it.
It is a Britatorship
There's plenty of good about this blog and its his baby, so he does get to make the rules. I have been reading it for a long time and its not like this is a recurring issue. Frankly its in large part because of the othe thread that got taken down that I made the point.
Was! i not respectful enough in criticizing Brian?
Am I not allowed to critisiize him at all?
Something else?
But at this point it's probably just for whining.


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CHAMPAIGN – Discretion doesn't exactly run in the Monheim family.
On football weekends, several of the clan pile into the family's RV while a few cars follow in pursuit.
Dozens make the trek from tiny Orrville, Ohio – home to Smucker's – to Champaign to support Mason Monheim, a sophomore linebacker for Illinois.
"We don't want to be too obnoxious," said John Monheim, Mason's father. "We don't have any big fatheads [on the RV] or anything like that."
But it's hard to miss the posse wearing No. 43 jerseys as it rolls into Memorial Stadium – just as it has been hard to miss Mason flying around the field.
He debuted in a big way last fall, leading the Illini and all Big Ten freshmen with 86 tackles and providing a reason for optimism amid the doldrums of a 2-10 season. This year, he is second on the team behind Jonathan Brown with 30 tackles.
His knowledge of the defense is clearer after spending his first year trying to get by without getting embarrassed.
"I know what I'm doing now," Monheim said. "Now I can focus more on the keys of the offense, and I'm not really focused on, 'Oh, what do I have to do on this play?'"
Monheim's lack of elite size – he's listed at 6-foot-1, 235 pounds –
played into his three-star rating in high school from Scout.com and Rivals.com. But coach Tim Beckman
and his staff, who recruited Monheim at Toledo, saw the intangibles necessary for Monheim to transcend his measurements.
On a young defense trying to find its way, Monheim has carved out a niche as a leader.
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Alumni Association Honors Outstanding Graduates, Faculty, Philanthropists
Annual Alumni Association and UVM Foundation Awards
- 10-08-2012
- By Jay Goyette
The University of Vermont Alumni Association and UVM Foundation honored outstanding graduates, faculty and philanthropists at its annual Reunion & Homecoming weekend celebration on Oct. 5. Award citations were presented by UVM President Thomas Sullivan, Alumni Association President Ted Madden, and UVM Foundation President and CEO Richard Bundy to the following honorees:
Outstanding Young Alumni Award
2012 University of Vermont Alumni Association Outstanding Young Alumni Award
to Kesha Ram '08, Burlington, Vt.
Kesha Ram graduated from UVM magna cum laude in 2008 with degrees in natural resource planning and political science. She later completed a public law program at American University in Washington, D.C. During her tenure at UVM, she was the first person of color and the seventh woman to fulfill a term as the Student Government Association president. In that role, she represented nearly 10,000 young people while overseeing a budget of $1.5 million and 150 student organizations. She also taught preschool, serving as the head start advocate at Burlington Children's Space and led the policy team for Burlington's Climate Action Plan. The sense of community and connection to the natural world she found in Burlington, she has said, drew her to make it her permanent home.
Kesha was elected state representative on Nov. 4, 2008, and was sworn in on Jan. 7, 2009. She served for three years as the clerk of the General, Housing, and Military Affairs Committee and was subsequently appointed to the Ways & Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over revenue generation for the state. She also serves on the Joint Legislative Technology Committee.
Kesha is a passionate leader advocating for green job creation, affordability of early childhood and higher education, reducing environmental toxins, tribal rights and recognition, accessible health care and affordable housing.
Outside of the legislature, Kesha is the legal director for Women Helping Battered Women, assisting victims of domestic violence in the courtroom and throughout family and criminal legal proceedings. She serves on the boards of the Center for Whole Communities, the Sudan Development Foundation, and the Board of Trustees of the University of Vermont.
Kesha's leadership and service have earned her notable recognition and distinction. She has been named a Lola Aiken Scholar, Morris K. Udall Scholar, Ronald E. McNair Scholar, and Harry S. Truman Scholar. She is a member of the University of Vermont Tower Society and Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society and was named an Oxfam "Sister on the Planet" Climate Change Ambassador.
Alumni Achievement Award
2012 University of Vermont Alumni Association Achievement Award
to C. Norman Coleman, Class of 1966, Chevy Chase, Md.
Dr. C. Norman Coleman graduated from the University of Vermont in 1966 with a bachelor of arts in mathematics and from Yale University School of Medicine in 1970. He trained in internal medicine at the University of California - San Francisco, in medical oncology at the National Cancer Institute and in radiation oncology at Stanford University. He is board certified in all three fields.
Coleman was a tenured faculty member at the Stanford University School of Medicine before joining Harvard Medical School in 1985 as Fuller-American Cancer Society Professor and Chairman, Joint Center for Radiation Therapy. In 1999, he created and became director of a new Radiation Oncology Sciences Program at the National Cancer Institute formed to coordinate all radiation oncology activities. He served as chief of the Radiation Oncology Branch (ROB) from 1999 to 2004 and is now an adjunct member of ROB.
Coleman serves the NCI as associate director of the Radiation Research Program in the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis and special adviser to the director of the NCI. Since 2004 he has been senior medical adviser and chief of the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Team in the Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations, Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Health and Human Services.
He has written extensively in the fields of radiation modifiers and, more recently, on preparedness and planning for radiological or nuclear emergencies. He is the 2011 recipient of the Samuel J. Heyman Award, one of the most prestigious awards dedicated to honoring America's civil servants, for developing a blueprint for the U.S. to deal with the health consequences of a radiological or nuclear incident and helping the Japanese respond to radiation from earthquake- and tsunami-damaged nuclear power plants.
Distinguished Service Award
2012 University of Vermont Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award
to Paula Oppenheim Cope '75, Shelburne, Vt.
Paula Cope is president of Cope & Associates, Inc., a management consulting and training firm based in Burlington, Vt., since 1991. Paula is a consultant, facilitator, and trainer specializing in management and organizational development; strategic planning, and project management.
Over the past 20 years, she has presented professional papers nationally, is a published author in health care, and has chaired several statewide conferences on the economics of child care, total quality management and volunteerism. She has been the project director for the Governor's Commission on the Public's Health Care Values and Priorities, a board member for Leadership Champlain and is a founding member of the American Society of Training and Development - Vermont Chapter.
In 2003, Paula was one of six recipients worldwide to be named an Exemplar of Excellence by Hillel International Center. In 2004, she and her family received the YMCA's Character in Action Award. In 2005, she was named Small Business Woman of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Paula has served on many of her class reunion committees as well as a career network member and admissions volunteer. She was the recipient of UVM's Outstanding Young Alumna award in 1980.
2012 University of Vermont Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award
to David Godkin '77, West Roxbury, Ma.
David Godkin has fulfilled numerous volunteer roles at UVM since his graduation, defining the very model of alumni volunteerism the university seeks to inspire in word, in action and in advocacy. His volunteer engagement with UVM spans more than three decades, including effective and valued leadership in such key alumni points of continuity as the Career Connection; Ira Allen Committee, member and chair; UVM Fund Executive Committee, member and chair; Boston Regional Board member; Reunion Committee, member and chair; Boston Regional Campaign Committee; and Alumni Association Board of Directors.
Those who nominated Godkin for this honor spoke without exception of his selfless dedication to alma mater in whatever capacity he has been called upon to serve, despite maintaining a successful and demanding legal career. Godkin is the father of Katherine Godkin, UVM Class of 2009.
George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award
2012 George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award to Dr. Luis Vivanco,
Burlington, Vt.
Luis Vivanco came to UVM in 1997 as a New England Board of Higher Education Dissertation Write-up Fellow, having earned his bachelor of arts in religion from Dartmouth College in 1991 and his master of arts in cultural anthropology from Princeton University in 1995. His doctorate in cultural anthropology was also awarded from Princeton, in 1999. He was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at UVM in 1999 and was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor in 2005. He has been director of the Global and Regional Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences since 2007 and founding director of its global studies major since 2009.
Professor Vivanco's scholarship focuses primarily on the cultural and political aspects of "saving nature" in Costa Rica and Mexico, research exploring how the meanings of nature and social change are debated, negotiated, imposed, and resisted in the context of environmental and indigenous social movements, ecotourism and sustainable development.
He is a widely published author of books and articles in scholarly journals and a sought-after speaker at academic conferences and symposia nationally and internationally.
Complementing his academic work, he has been involved in indigenous tourism activism as a board member of Indigenous Tourism Rights International and during 2006-07 was a visiting public policy fellow at the Snelling Center for Government.
He has received a number of prestigious awards to support his ethnographic research, including Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation and the New England Board of Higher Education.
Luis teaches a variety of courses for the Anthropology Department, and in 2006, he co-led UVM's first semester study abroad program in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Leadership in Philanthropy Award
2012 Leadership in Philanthropy Award to Eugene '50 and Joan Kalkin,
Bernardsville, N.J.
Eugene and Joan Kalkin are among the University of Vermont's most dedicated and committed volunteer leaders and philanthropic supporters, dating back to Eugene's student years as a member of the Class of 1950.
Eugene is the founding chairman of the Board of Directors of the University of Vermont Foundation, and Joan is an inaugural member of the Foundation Leadership Council. Together, they have served the University of Vermont in numerous volunteer capacities over many years. Each has been a member of the UVM Board of Trustees and served at various times as advisory board members for the School of Business Administration, the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Fleming Museum.
Together as well, they were awarded honorary doctorates at the UVM Commencement Ceremony in 1998 and were emeritus co-chairs of the national steering committee for the university's second comprehensive fundraising campaign from 2001 to 2007, raising more than $278 million in support of university priorities.
Founder of the national retail chain store Linens 'n Things, and later Kalkin & Company, in the 1990s Eugene chaired the fundraising committee spearheading a drive to construct a new home for UVM's School of Business Administration. The couple were major donors to that project, and Kalkin Hall was named in recognition of their involvement in that effort. In the 2000s, they established the Kalkin Family Exhibitions Fund to support the Fleming Museum. Both gifts were the largest ever made to that area of the University of Vermont at that time.
About the Alumni Awards
The Alumni Distinguished Service Award has been awarded since 1958 to volunteer alumni leaders whose service to the University of Vermont and the Alumni Association has enhanced the reputation and furthered the mission of the university.
The Alumni Achievement Award has been awarded to alumni since 1985 for outstanding achievement that has been recognized at the local, state and/or national level.
The Young Alumni Award has been awarded since 1979 to alumni who graduated within the past ten years for volunteer service to the University of Vermont and to the Alumni Association and for commitment to furthering the mission of the University.
The George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award was established by the UVM Alumni Association in 1974 to honor excellence in teaching. It is given annually to a faculty member nominated by alumni, students, faculty, and staff for significant contributions to the broadening of students' academic experience and the enrichment of campus life. The award is named in honor of the late Dean Emeritus George V. Kidder '22, who served the University of Vermont for more than seventy years.
About the UVM Foundation Leadership in Philanthropy Award
For the first time in 2012, the University of Vermont Foundation added to the great tradition of alumni association recognitions with a new award — the Leadership in Philanthropy Award — which is presented to a deserving individual or couple for a passionate commitment to furthering the efforts of philanthropy at UVM through their leadership, vision, volunteerism and personal philanthropy. Recipients of this award must be lifetime members of UVM's Ira Allen Society with demonstrated impact in promoting and expanding philanthropy that supports the University of Vermont.


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2012-13 Men's Basketball
Bluffton 106, Wright State-Lake 65
Bluffton dismantles Wright St.-Lake in McDonald's Tournament
December 28, 2012
By: Evan Skilliter, sports information assistant
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Beavers hosted Wright State-Lake in the nightcap of the 2012 McDonald's Holiday Tournament at the Sommer Center on Friday, Dec. 28, and advanced to the championship game after a 106-65 victory. The 41-point spread marked the largest margin of victory in any McDonald's contest, breaking the old record of 40 points set by Bluffton last year against OSU-Lima.
Junior Josh Johnson (Ottawa-Glandorf) started things off with a three-pointer on Bluffton's first possession. After a Ryan Payne answer from deep, the Beavers took the lead back when senior Tyler Neal (Bluffton) found Johnson open for two. Payne tied it up again, but Neal collected his third assist of the game when he hit Dustin Kinn (Alvada/New Riegal) under the basket an easy deuce, giving Bluffton a 7-5 lead at the 18:35 mark.
The Beavers found themselves up by just one at the 13:38 mark, but back-to-back layups from bigs Thayne Recker (Arlington) and Will Pope (Somerville/Preble Shawnee), respectively, sent the home team on a massive 20-6 run that was capped by a three-pointer from freshman Billy Taflinger (Lima/Central Catholic). That spurt put Bluffton up 36-22 with 6:48 remaining in the half and helped them to a 53-33 halftime lead.
After Payne continued his scoring with a three to start the second half, Bluffton senior Josh Fisher (Rockford/Parkway) scored the next five points of the game with a three, then a steal and layup that gave the Beavers a 58-36 lead with just over a minute gone in the half.
Freshman Nate Chambers (Miamisburg) pushed the Bluffton lead to 30 at the 10:12 mark after putting back his own miss. The home team continued to pour gasoline on the fire and nine minutes later Jacob Mahnke (Defiance/Tinora), playing in his first collegiate game, pushed the Beavers over the 100-point mark with his third trifecta in three attempts. After a Matt Gerdeman (Delphos/Jefferson) layup gave the Beavers a 39-point cushion, sophomore Zach Rumbaugh (Lima/Senior) put a cap on the game with a jumper, making the final score 106-65.
Pope led the Beavers with 15 points on a 7-of-12 shooting performance from the field. The junior also tallied three boards, two steals, two assists and a blocked shot. Kinn finished with 13 points and three rebounds after shooting 4-of-5 from the field and 5-of-6 at the free throw line. Rounding out the double-digit scorers for Bluffton was Johnson with 12 counters and three rebounds.
Taflinger and Mahnke added nine points each for the Beavers, while Gerdeman, Chambers and Neal each totaled seven. Recker finished the game with eight points, four rebounds and three assists, while Dillon Long (Rockford/Parkway) and Jon Fowler (Cincinnati/St. Xavier) added six each. Rounding out the scoring for Bluffton were Fisher with five and Rumbaugh with two.
Bluffton shot 60.3 percent from the field (44-of-73), including 47.4 percent (9-of-19), and 81.8 percent from the free throw line (9-of-11). The Beavers out-rebounded the Lakers, 43-22, and committed eight fewer turnovers, 22-14.
Bluffton will take on a talented Ohio Wesleyan squad at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the McDonald's Holiday Tournament Championship. That contest will follow the 1 p.m. consolation game between Pittsburg-Greensburg and Wright State-Lake.


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Instead, we throw a TV dinner down and wonder why we're all looking bloated lately.
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quote:In other parts of life, women's emotions totally overwhelm IQ and all rationality and render them moot. She can be genuinely brilliant and in Phi Beta Kappa and, still, in some areas of life will 'emotionalize' instead of 'rationalize' and show less rational ability than an inebriated, half-witted cockroach.
quote:...for a young woman to insist that she will be independent, autonomous, self-sufficient, 'equal', etc. as feminists such as Ms. Corinna do is taking on a relatively new and unproven but very heavy, dangerous, and possibly fatal load in life. My fervent advice is: Don't do it; don't try it; regard it as one of the worst dangers you face; don't even think about trying it.
quote:When you are ready for marriage, diet and exercise to achieve your ideal weight; get a good hair style; do whatever is needed for you to have clear skin; get some attractive clothes; circulate where there are good candidate husbands (sadly, not in a college or university -- the men are too young).
quote:en are MUCH better at being alone, both economically and emotionally, than women are. The only advantage the women have is that women easily form 'herds' with other women. But the herds are mostly superficial and do not do much for the women.
quote:I have a friend who does some simple arithmetic and concludes that the person who hurt or killed the most people in the 20th century was not Hitler, Stalin, or Mao but Gloria Steinum and her feminism.
quote:In the final chapter of Plato's Republic, Socrates says that the wise ones who have seen the light of truth must go back and help the others find their way, even knowing that s/he won't be believed and may even be harmed in the process. (Philosophy is totally not my thing, so I'm sorry if I butchered that.) So perhaps it's necessary that we expose ourselves, holding in our bile as possible, in order to achieve a better society.
quote:what we mostly need to do is marginalize these kinds of folks. They really are unlikely to change their minds, and if they do, are more likely to do so on their own steam than based in anything we say.
quote:I also want to add that some people with divergent opinions are better than others, and DO want to have real discourse, and ARE willing to evaluate how they think.


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Moore Named ABAC Department Head of Forest Resources
TIFTON—Dr. William Moore, associate professor of wildlife ecology and management at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, added a new role to his already busy schedule this year when he was named Department Head of Forest Resources in the School of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Moore is looking to continue to strengthen the forest resources program in days ahead.
"We just had the first graduates of the four-year degree program in forest resources this spring," Moore said. "I want to maintain the program's success of being the highest quality with the best academic standards for our forest resources students."
According to the University of Georgia's Cooperative Extension Service, Georgia forests cover some 24.8 million acres. In the past 10 years, total forest land has increased and now covers 67 percent of the land area statewide and is home to nearly 1,400 forest products manufacturers, making Georgia the largest timber-producing state in the southeastern U.S. The state is consistently ranked near the top in pulp and paper production and sits in the top 10 lumber-producing states.
"Tens of thousands of timber products come from Georgia," Moore said. "Since timber is a renewable resource, it gives sustainability to both the product and the economy that provides growth for the state."
As his first official role as department head, Moore traveled with the ABAC Forestry Club advisors and members to Valdosta to attend the Georgia Chapter of the Society of American Foresters (SAF) meeting, where the Forestry Club received its official charter as a Student Chapter of SAF. The campus organization was established in 2012.
Moore also advises the ABAC student chapter of The Wildlife Society. The campus organization was established in 2006. Moore is a member of The Wildlife Society, through which he became a certified wildlife biologist. The certification criteria includes educational background and years of professional experience.
Moore found his way into the field of wildlife and forest resources unexpectedly.
"When it was time for me to go to college, I only knew what I didn't want to do," Moore said. "I heard about the field of wildlife management, decided to give it a shot, and ended up really enjoying it. The choice to go into wildlife conservation was simply out of luck. The field found me."
Moore received his associate of science degree in Forest Resources from ABAC before heading to the University of Georgia where he earned both his bachelor and master of science degrees in forest resources. He then attained his Ph.D. in forest resources from Clemson University. Moore has been a member of the ABAC faculty since 2002.


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"He was seeking redemption," [said Roy Ratcliff, minister of the Mandrake Road Church of Christ in Madison], recalling how Mr. Dahmer often spoke of being the worst of sinners. "He was seeking forgiveness."...Well, he also wrote a book about it. As Barry puts it: "'Dark Journey, Deep Grace,' has sold poorly — perhaps, he says, because people cannot see that a story about Mr. Dahmer is a story about all of us." Oh, please! It's one thing to recognize the proper role of a minister baptizing someone who has committed murder. It's quite another to read the book he writes about a famous serial killer. I haven't seen this book, but is it the best book to read if you want to curl up with info about Dahmer or if, alternatively, you want to read a book about Christian redemption? What's with Barry/Ratcliff acting like people are shallow for not wanting to read it?
Every Wednesday for months afterward, Mr. Ratcliff met with Mr. Dahmer to pray. The convict said he should have been put to death for his crimes, and his minister agreed. He talked about suicide, something the preacher had flirted with many years earlier, after being fired from another church. A shared faith drew the different men together....
After a discreet memorial service at the minister's church in Madison, after the notorious surname had slipped into the recesses of public consciousness, Mr. Ratcliff continued to be identified as the man who baptized the serial killer. Both in and out of the Church of Christ community, some embraced him for it, while others shunned him.
March 11, 2007
"People cannot see that a story about Mr. Dahmer is a story about all of us."
7 comments:
- chuck b. said...
On the other hand, the movie Zodiac was really good! Well, i enjoyed it.
- Galvanized said...
All that bothers me is the fact that any minister would be shunned by any Christian for befriending anyone. As Christ said, "I come not to judge," so neither should we, and "Judge not lest ye be judged." His sentence, of course, was a matter of "rendering unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" (law), but a man's salvation is quite another matter. Perhaps he wishes for people to read it to take the goriness out of Dahmer's story and instead remind readers of the possibility for spiritual rebirth despite the most evil past, and every person's quest for redemption.
- Robert said...
For some reason, this reminded me of one of several Jack Chick tracts. The gist is, a vile career criminal who has killed many people accepts Jesus the night before execution, and goes straight to Heaven. The dedicated and virtuous lawman who brings the criminal to justice also dies the same night, but has _not_ accepted Jesus, and so, despite a life spent doing 'good' things, goes straight to Hell.
I'm not at all comfortable with anyone who finds this an acceptable theology. I don't have any problem with a clergyman trying to 'save' Dahmer's soul, but some of the subtext is queasy-making.
- Galvanized said...
Robert, I totally agree with you that that theology is erroneous. In Philippians, it states that the Christian is to "continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling...to will and to act according to His good purpose." I think that a lot of Christians would agree with me that salvation only begins when the person accepts Christ but is worked out on a daily basis in living a repentent and productive life thereafter (hence an end to the argument of "once saved not always saved" after the prayer and baptism because, frankly, it's just not scriptural). The Bible is also clear to state that one does not reach heaven by good works alone but by picking up one's cross and following Christ daily. I hope that Dahmer, like many of us, worked out his salvation. He seems to have repented, but I am not one to judge as I have respect for everyone alongside me doing the same.
- Galvanized said...
*Sorry, that's an end to the argument "once saved, always saved."
- mikeyes said...
Or, as Jeffrey Dahmer said to Lorena Bobbit, "Are you going to eat that?"
Maybe he just wanted to sell a book.
- Kansas Bob said...
An excerpt from my blog post on Luke 18:10-14:
Forgiveness is acquired by humbling ourselves ... often we get it when we don't even know what we are doing ... we are just beating our breast in repentance ... throwing ourselves on the mercy of God. Religious people like the Pharisees often lose sight of this ... lose sight of people like Dahmer who desperately need forgiveness ... and sometimes we shy away from people in prison.
I am thankful for Roy Ratcliff, minister of the Mandrake Road Church of Christ in Madison Wisconsin, who looked on this serial killer and helped him beat his breast and repent. I am glad that he could get past his preconceived ideas about Jeffrey Dahmer and share Jesus with him in friendship. It is what life is all about - sharing Jesus and making new friends.


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Qosmotec announced that it would support Azimuth's portfolio of real world test solutions with the Qosmotec Propagation Effects Replicator (QPER) software. With QPER, Azimuth's customers will have access to a powerful application that creates virtual environments, which can then be recreated with the dynamic RF fading capability available with the Azimuth ACE MX MIMO Channel Emulator.
The Qosmotec Propagation Effects Replicator is a powerful software tool for subscriber mobility and MIMO simulation and is designed for lab usage. It can simulate drive tests in a virtual landscape, handover, and cell reselection scenarios, and can verify network set-ups by virtually driving through a predicted network. QPER also supports simulation of fast fading amplitude fluctuations, antenna coverage patterns, as well as radio shading.
Azimuth's portfolio of solutions enables network operators, network equipment manufacturers, device and silicon vendors to recreate real world network conditions in an automated lab environment. Azimuth's solutions include:
- The ACE MX MIMO Channel Emulation platform, the industry's leading, easy to use bi-directional MIMO channel emulator
- Azimuth's award winning Field-to-Lab (FTL) Solution, which provides a repeatable and automated environment for replaying field conditions within the labs of mobile operators
- Azimuth's RPM Real World Performance Measurementsolution, Azimuth's automated and cost-effective over-the-air device performance test solution.
QPER support for the ACE MX channel emulator means that customers will now be able to leverage Qosmotec's solution for network modelling with the power of Azimuth's wireless channel emulation platform to define and develop customized network fading channel models and scenarios, which they can use to simulate and evaluate device and network performance before committing to actual network modifications.
Dr. Dieter Kreuer, Qosmotec managing director, stated, "We are very pleased to be cooperating with Azimuth Systems. By adding support for the ACE MX MIMO channel emulator, we provide our customers with the most robust platform on the market to develop new network models, and predict and evaluate device and network performance."
Pete Paglia, senior vice president of Field Operations, Azimuth Systems, said, "Azimuth is very excited that Qosmotec will now support the ACE MX channel emulator with their Qosmotec Propagation Effects Replicator. Together, we enable operators, infrastructure and device vendors to test proposed network configurations - modelled with QPER - using real world fading implemented using the ACE MX MIMO Channel Emulation platform. With Qosmotec's help, Azimuth has yet another way to put the world in our customers' lab and we look forward to working closely with Qosmotec to bring this new capability to our customers."


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|Pretty in Pink
|Tuesday, 20 August 2002
John Hughes is widely credited as the godfather of the '80s teen comedy genre. Whether or not this view is technically correct, he is probably the most influential figure in that genre. "Pretty in Pink" is perhaps the best example of Hughes' style, even though Howard Deutsch is the director (Hughes co-executive produced with Michael Chinich and wrote the script). The plot seemed familiar even at the time of the movie's 1986 theatrical release, but the approach is so genuine and urgent – it captures that everything-is-the-end-of-the-world ambience of high school so completely – that it somehow all feels fresh anyway.
Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) is a high school senior at a school where the social caste divide is like the Grand Canyon. Andie's crowd, the "zoids," tend to give a wide berth to the "richies" and vice versa, except when members of the two groups come into contact to exchange insults or blows. It therefore comes as quite a shock to everyone, Andie included, when Blaine (Andrew McCarthy), a polite and handsome young "richie," determinedly comes courting. This doesn't sit so well with Blaine's snobbish friends and it goes over even worse with Andie's devoted best pal Duckie, who's head over heels in love with Andie himself. Andie, meanwhile, is torn between suspicion of Blaine's motives and being swept away with the romance of it all.
Ringwald is natural, affecting and beguiling and McCarthy has a winsome, scared vulnerability that fleshes out a few thin spots in Prince Charming. However, Cryer is the real standout, wonderfully funny as he tries to clown his way into getting the object of his adoration into taking him seriously and wrenchingly easy to identify with in his multi-faceted responses to rejection. Harry Dean Stanton is touching as Andie's quietly sweet, shattered father and Annie Potts is vivacious as Andie's adult chum Iona.
It's a bit of a trip to see movies set in record stores with giant vinyl 33/3 discs everywhere and there's a classroom scene with a 1986 computer that's will mentally time-warp anyone old enough to remember devices that primitive and cause younger viewers to blink in disbelief. However, the human interactions feel perfectly contemporary – fashions may change, but cliquishness among teens is eternal.
"Pretty in Pink" had a hit soundtrack, with an opening/closing title track by The Psychedelic Furs (Chapters 1 and 15) and Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark's "If You Leave," which shows up here full force in Chapter 13 in the prom sequence and is threaded more lightly into the beginning of Chapter 14 as the characters move outside. There's also hilarious use of an Otis Redding track in Chapter 7, as Ducky convulsively lip-syncs his way around the record store, serenading Andie karaoke-style as she watches dumbfounded. However, this isn't a big sound effects movie. There are a few nice directional touches, as in Chapter 5 when Andie is listening to Ducky sing in another room – when she hears his voice coming through a vent on the screen's right, we hear him in the right main; when his voice moves to a mid-wall window, we hear him in the center channel. Likewise, during the Redding crooning in Chapter 7, we hear realistic little impact sounds as Ducky bumps into the record racks. For the most part, though, the dialogue is the most important sound we hear, which is reproduced sturdily in the 5.1 mix. The rear speakers loyally bring up the rear, with no noticeable discrete effects.
The print transfer is extremely good, although Andie's fondness for busy patterns and the characters' affinity for cluttered surroundings makes for the kind of imagery that gets a little glittery when played back on most monitors. This said, the picture is pretty sharp throughout, with only a few shots in Chapter 8 betraying the age of the print negative.
Deutsch directs with exuberant humor, style, real feeling and a sure sense of pace; it's a measure of his success with the material that by the climax, Andie's presence at her senior prom has become a matter of genuine concern to us. Writer Hughes has never been more on-target than he is here, showing compassion for all his characters. The result is a movie that's still pretty engaging 16 years after it was made.


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Road Crew wrestlers beat Blackduck
The visiting Pequot Lakes/Pine River-Backus Road Crew registered seven pins in defeating Blackduck 52-22 in a non-conference meet on Tuesday, Jan. 8.
The Road Crew dominated the Drakes by winning the first eight matches. Blackduck then won the next four matches before the Road Crew captured the final two weights.
The Road Crew's Anthony Philipson started the match with a 5-0 win after two takedowns and an escape. Spencer Richards then had a quick takedown and worked it into a pin at 1:41.
"I knew that if we would win in the lower weights then we would do all right," said Road Crew coach Travis Hoffarth, whose team built a 40-0 lead after eight matches. "To get behind going into the upper weights would not be good."
Brandon Mager dominated with takedowns for an 8-3 decision at 130. Getting a takedown and three near-fall points in the first period Nat Adkins (126) then got his pin 24 seconds into the second period. Triston Rubner went in for a quick takedown then got his pin at 1:06.
Jace Loge dominated his contest with a takedown, two reversals and six near fall points before getting his pin. Nick Gravdahl had two takedowns before getting his opponent on his back for a pin in the 145 match. Drey Loge, rated No. 4 in the state, was productive in every period to win 12-0.
Ozzy Miller then came back in the third period with an escape and a takedown, but it was too late as he lost 12-3. The Road crew lost the next three matches, but Kurt Kent came back with seven seconds remaining in the second period and pinned his opponent in the 220 match. Jared Adkins needed just 50 seconds to win by fall.
"Bradon Mager did an outstanding job," Hoffarth said. "I knew then that we were in good shape. The lower weights took the pressure off the upper weights. Our wrestlers took the hometown crowd out of the picture. I was very happy by the way they wrestled."
The Road Crew, 10-1 overall, is scheduled to compete at Osakis on Thursday, Jan. 17.
JV wrestlers compete
Junior varsity winners for the Road Crew at Blackduck included the following: Darian Anderson won with a pin at 2:25, Isaac Manthel won 2-0, and Evan Gravdahl found himself behind 7-0 when he got a reversal and pinned his opponent. Dallin Sonenstahl was ahead 9-0 before he won with a pin at 4:06. Chris Foster won by fall in 2:45 and John Vrseth won with a pin at 1:15.
Peter Koering was tied going into the third period, but got an escape and takedown, plus three near fall points to win 10-2. Devyn Richards turned it on in the third period with a takedown and three near-fall points to claim an 8-2 decision.
Justin Newmann was behind 4-0 going into the third period when he escaped and got a takedown, but lost 4-3. Luke Sescher won with a pin, Mike Hudak won 5-1, Justin Neumann earned a 6-4 decision and Joe Harrison dominating to win 15-0.
Cody Booth was behind 5-0, but came back for his first win with a pin. Luke Sescher registered a pin, Evan Gravdahl won 13-0, and Jace Leabo and Chris Foster both had pins.
PL/PR-B 52, Blackduck 22
106: Anthony Philipson (RC) dec. Andrew Nissen 5-0
113: Spencer Richards (RC) pinned Michael Juelson 1:41
120: Brandon Mager (RC) dec. Kyle Michalek 8-3
126: Nate Adkins (RC) pinned Mason Preston 2:24
132: Triston Rubner (RC) pinned Jason Yates 1:06
138: Jace Loge (RC) pinned Mason Frenzel 5:36
145: Nick Gravdahl (RC) pinned Matthew Patch 1:23
152: Drey Loge (RC) maj. dec. Cooper Jedlizka 12-0
160: Daven Staples (B) maj. dec. Ozzy Miller 12-3
170: Nate Jablonski (B) pinned Kyle Jordan 1:25
182: Brady Gross (B) wins by forfeit
195: Tanner Templin (B) pinned Cadel Roeder 3:08
220: Kurt Kent (RC) pinned Paul Eckstrom 3:53
285: Jared Adkins (RC) pinned Andrew Grundmeier :50


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Carter Stroud studied the dinosaur lunchboxes carefully.
The Stegosaurus one had to have ferns and grasses in it. The T-Rex was even more obvious: "Other dinosaurs." But what, the 9-year-old wondered, did an oviraptor eat?
"I don't know what he eats," Carter finally admitted. Katie MacDonald of the WOW Children's Museum opened the lid. Inside lay toy insects, lizards and leaves.
"Would you eat that for lunch?" MacDonald asked the crowd of kids at the Boulder County Fairgrounds.
"NO!" they laughed back.
OK, it's not the usual sheep or chicken show of a county fair. But for the kids at the Exhibit Building, Tuesday morning's "Investigating Dinosaurs" activity would do just fine.
"I like the big teeth," said 5-year-old Jeremy Hartemink of Westminster, referring to the broad, brown pointed replica of a tooth on the display table. Others hefted a baby Stegosarus doll — about the weight of an unabridged dictionary — or simply grabbed some stencils and began drawing diplodocuses.
"It's really neat," said Catherine Medal, the owner of Miss Catherine's Creative Learning Center in Gunbarrel, as a dozen of her 5-year-olds descended on the table. "It gives the children a chance to learn about dinosaurs in a fun way."
The morning activity was an offshoot of WOW's dinosaur exhibit, which opened July 26 and runs through the end of December at the museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave. in Lafayette. That one also includes interactive activities, such as a chance to strap on "dinosaur flip-flops" and make footprints in gel.
"There was a lot of prototyping to see how the flip-flops would hold up and if the gel would hold the impressions," MacDonald said.
It was a win for Carter, who wore his affections proudly, arriving in a dinosaur T-shirt.
"I like that they're sort of like reptiles and birds at the same time," said Carter, a Longmont resident. "I think they're really interesting. ... I read a lot, I have a lot of models and when they talk about dinosaurs in school, I listen. "
His mom, Nicole Stroud, watched with a smile as he and his three siblings tried out one activity after another.
"I enjoy them enjoying dinosaurs," she said.
Contact Times-Call staff writer Scott Rochat at 303-684-5220 or email@example.com


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Get The Kids Outdoors
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See how to get the kids off the computer and outside with fun hands-on activities that connect them to real-life wildlife explorations. On tour, visit a habitat garden of discovery for children.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02) released the following statement today to commemorate the upcoming Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday on Monday, January 21, 2013. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a federal holiday observed on the third Monday of January each year to mark the birthday of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"As we celebrate the life of a gifted, courageous, and inspiring leader, we remember that the vision of brotherhood and non-violence that guided the movement Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led became the driving force behind revolutionary non-violent political and social change in our country.
"The legacy he left behind was not just the progress that has been made in fulfilling the country's great promise—but the standard of morality that he firmly established in social and political activism that continues to guide us today. It was not only a moral imperative, but, by inspiring countless millions, it also proved to be the most effective strategy for success.
"Throughout his years in the public eye, Dr. King challenged every American to stand up for the things that are good and great about our country-- to be ready, always, to defend her against those who would trample on the bedrock principles of freedom and justice for all, whether threatened from abroad or at home.
"For Dr. King, and all of us who follow in his footsteps, the 'dream' is anything but an empty fantasy. It is an on-going call to action. It is a renewal of our commitment to stand up for the cause of freedom that is the heritage of each and every one of us as American citizens and children of God.
"Certainly, according to his own words, 'We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.'
"As we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., let us stand together for strength and brotherhood and unity within our great country. Let us rededicate ourselves to the good and great things the country stands for—and let us pray for a more peaceful, compassionate, and loving world for ourselves and all humankind."


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Dreamin' California's Coast - Malibu To Big
series: Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope
air date: 12/30/12 4:00 AM
Joseph and Julie are California Dreamin' as they celebrate their anniversary along the state's romantic coast. They join up with a California Luxury Tour which begins in Southern California in their hometown of Topanga and travels to the nearby Getty Villa where they partake of the glory that was Greece and Rome. From there they follow the winding coast to Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo County and then northward to the edge of the Big Sur. Highlights of their adventure include wine tasting in the sampling rooms of some of Malibu's little-known, but star-studded wineries, visiting Santa Barbara's famous mission, horseback riding on the Pismo dunes, soaking their bones at Sycamore Hot Springs and strolling the peddle-strewn beaches of Cambria. California Dreamin' takes on new meaning when they imagine life among splendor that is Hearst Castle in San Simeon - where the rich and famous once played at being common folk. The sun dramatically sets on their adventure at the world-famous Point Dume State Beach in Malibu.
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