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With hurricane season upon us, it's time for boaters to be prepared. Considering the increasingly more violent weather that we're experiencing globally due to warming waters providing more energy, we might want to insure our boats this year — and every year from now on. When the inevitable storm comes our way, we need to protect our investment.
First, take everything valuable off your boat. Then secure it, protecting it from the wind in as safe a spot as possible, preferably away from crushing tree branches, which are a major destroyer of parked boats. Tie it down, deflate its tires, and weigh it down, preemptively filling it with stabilizing water as well.
The storms that are born off the West African coast may luckily miss us this year, but with global warming providing ever more energy to storm systems, we'll surely be hit again all too soon, and possibly more frequently than ever.
Boating after a hurricane can be dangerous, too. A number of serious coastal boating accidents last year were the result of hitting flood debris at high speed. BoatUS warns that small, fast-moving boats can be sunk easily by striking submerged objects like trees, building parts, fences and landscape timbers awash from tropical storms.
Since fewer boaters are on the water now, recreational captains need to be far more self-reliant, as help may not be readily available.
Be certain your communications equipment is working. Stop immediately if you hear a thud and put life jackets on if you see even a trickle coming on board. Be prepared to improvise if your bilge pump proves inadequate to stem the flooding.
Towels, wooden bungs for plugging round holes or other gear to wedge into holes or cracks can be lifesavers while you're waiting for help.
Lake Ontario yields salmon
Lake Ontario is attracting many local anglers, who are typically trolling for brown trout up to 15 pounds and king salmon averaging close to 23 pounds. Boat fishing remains far more productive than river fishing now, but heavy winds can keep the fleet off the water. Trolling now means going deep — generally well below 100-foot depths.
Best results seem to be coming from boats that hit the water very early. Small numbers of king salmon have been observed entering the Salmon River, and a few were caught there in early August. But numbers of fish in the river don't yet warrant a trip there. It's far better to fish the lake now.
Catfish have been providing good action for knowledgeable night fishermen on the Connecticut River. Chicken liver bait is attracting cats over 10 pounds.
Gate 31 at Quabbin Reservoir has been giving up landlocked salmon and rainbows. Gate 8 has been good for both landlocks and lakers.
An 11-pound laker from Quabbin has been the most remarkable locally caught fish lately. The Millers River has been poor, thanks to warm waters, but the colder Deerfield and Swift rivers have provided fly fishermen with consistent action.
Anglers on the Quinapoxet continue to take landlocks and rainbows. Worm dunkers have been doing better than fly fishermen. But largemouth bass fishing has been even hotter lately.
A huge bluegill allegedly in the 2�-pound class was recently reported and photographed from Stoneham's Spot Pond. The released fish was never certified and still swims. Had it been confirmed as measured, it would have set a state record.
Moose population swelling
The young 400-pound bull moose that was killed in a motor vehicle collision on I-290 in Shrewsbury recently is more evidence of our expanding moose population. The vehicle's occupants fortunately did not suffer life-threatening injuries. It seems just a matter of time before we'll need to have a limited moose-hunting season to keep the population at a safe level.
The chances for gaining an antlerless deer permit for state zones vary, depending on deer density.
Our chances for a Zone 5 permit were just 36 percent; Zone 6 was 48 percent; Zone 7, 6 percent; Zone 8, 64 percent, and Zone 9, 8 percent. With the exception of Cape Cod, zones east of I-495 afford us the greatest deer densities and opportunities to fill our freezer.
Migratory bird hunters planning on shooting woodcock, snipe, ducks and geese need to register with the Harvest Information Program and complete their survey of last year's harvest. Your license should read "Waterfowl Stamp" or "HIP Survey Complete."
If your license already has the duck stamp, you completed the survey earlier.
Auburn Sportsmen's Club scores
Ron Kazlauska sent in the results of the Safari 3D League Championship held at the Auburn Sportsmen's Club on Aug. 4. A perfect score for the 30-target tournament is 300.
Taking first place with an almost perfect score of 294 was Adam Carlise. Joe Santos was second with 290, and Steve Santos was third with 288.
In the Men's Bowhunter competition, Peter Turco came in with 261, followed by Rick Convery with 260 and Jeff Haines with 250.
In the Men's Traditional competition, Dave Lamoreux was first with 272, Gary Greene took second with 260 and Paul Muise was third with 244. Top Women's Bowhunters were Virginia McKinstry with 215, Ginny Lilly with 157 and Jess Arsenault with 142.
The team competition was won by The Chickens. Chicken Meriano, Jason Lusignan, Jay Buxton and Matt Witkowski combined for 1,060.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - UCSB Athletics has announced its community outreach programs for the 2010 soccer season. Programs include opportunities for local youth to serve as ball kids at Gaucho games, have UCSB soccer stars coach their practice, the chance to play games during halftime at Harder Stadium and much more!
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Youth soccer teams can now sign up to serve as ball boys or girls at UCSB men's and women's soccer games. To register your team, click here.
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As part of the Gauchos Give community outreach initiative, UCSB soccer players will be filling in as guest coaches for local soccer teams. The Gauchos will run a one-hour practice for your team at Storke Field on the UCSB campus. To sign your team up, click here.
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Under the Gauchos Give Tickets program, UCSB will be offering family nights for local elementary, middle school and junior high Parent Teacher Associations. On these family nights, students will receive free admission while parents and school faculty get in for just $3. The students have the opportunity to take part in the pre-game introduction tunnel that the players run through onto the field and can also take part in the post-game autograph session. To register your school, click here.
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Before and after every home game, kids can partake in fun and games at the enhanced Soccer Town Playground, which features several fun inflatables for young Gaucho fans to enjoy.
For more information on all of these programs and to register, click here.
Season tickets for the 2010 soccer season are now available and start at just $75, which includes one ticket to all home men's and women's regular season games and one College Cup All-Session ticket. UCSB staff and faculty can purchase their season tickets for a reduced rate of $50.
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Great Bull! That mass is sick!
awsome job ss great elk
Great bull need to hear the story congrats
I tell you what, that moment when I first got him in the binocs with those heavy, curved fronts and thick main beams, is etched on my brain forever. Translate: Drop the binocs immediately, and figure out how to get to shooting position ASAP.
To make a long story short, this is a sage/prairie/breaks region, with cedars in the draws. It is tightly limited, but don't let that fool you, these elk are skiddish esp. after the deer hunters look around for a few days. Finding a good elk requires LOTs of glassing from looking into the cedars 100 yds away to looking in the crannies and cedars at 2 miles.
The first day we saw a couple of mature bulls but it just didn't work out, both had cows with them and the older cows had seen this game before and led the way out of there before we could make a move. Then, we didn't even see an elk that afternoon. No bugling either.
First light 2nd day, this bull was laying low in the cedars and probably had been for a while. The site of him surprised us at about 225 yds. He was with a smaller bull and luckily (no cows) they just tried to hide and sneak up and out instead of bailing quickly. It took a couple of minutes but I finally got the broadside shot. Shots, that is. After he laid down out of site the smaller bull got curious and walked right up to him and nearly got poked with an antler when he got close. That's how we knew the big one was still laying down.
Well, he got up about a minute later and we had about an 18" window where his mane met the shoulder. I waited until the pulse got down to maybe 120, squeezed, and that's all she wrote.
great bull ss!! congrats
Awesome bull snowstorm. I never even noticed the gut pile until I read your second post. Can't wait til I can go again someday.
That's a true trophy right there, congrats!
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December 13, 2011, 09:20:54 PM »
Searching the archives, it seems like the quality and tone of family Christmas letters varies, to say the least! My family doesn't do them but LordL's does and I've received 3 so far. One was pretty average (a general recap, nothing particularly exciting or offensive). The other two...well I'll break it up by what I think they did wrong:
1. Writing stuff just to fill the page - this letter included random information such as what baked goods the couple had prepared for each holiday (no tasty recipes, just "Bob and Sue baked pies for Thanksgiving, cookies for Christmas, and muffins for Easter"), details on every single out of state trip they'd taken that year ("In February Bob spent a weekend at a work conference in Nearby State"), and job accomplishments too out of context to be understood ("Sue earned her ACY3.1 certification this year" - her what?).
2. Including overly depressing/medical info - this year I got one that included info about Doug's elderly mother who passed away after a long life. It included a line about how she was "ill for many months before she passed. Towards the end she had nothing left to live for."
What are the most notable letters you've received?
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December 13, 2011, 10:24:12 PM »
I only know a few people who do Christmas letters but the worst one I've ever received was by a relative who had temporary custody of another relative's child and went into great detail about the circumstances, child's poor hygiene and habits, bed wetting, dental appts, etc. It was awful. It felt like she was talking about some dog she had picked up from the pound instead of a very young child who deserved his privacy to be protected by the people who cared about him. What made it worse was all the wonderful glowing things she had to say about her own children. I still have a hard time being kind to this woman and this happened years ago. Now that I think about it, I'm all mad at her again! BTW - the child was given back shortly after the Chrismas letter.
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December 13, 2011, 11:33:34 PM »
I have a friend who writes WONDERFUL Christmas newsletters. Yes, a newsletter. About one person's year. About 4 pages, and I looooove getting it every year. She's a professional writer, so she does have a distinct advantage there, and she splits it up into different articles, such as one about an interesting trip she took, or a list of books she read, etc. One election year, she included a list of campaign promises if she were ever to run for president .
My cat Pollux says hi, by the way.
Anyway, one of her promises was to implement a soy sauce packet recycling program. I don't remember what the rest of them were, but since I never use the soy sauce packets that invariably come with my Chinese takeout, I thought that was a great idea! :-)
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December 14, 2011, 06:36:46 AM »
We also used to get them from a neighbor - sadly, no longer. They were beautifully written and I wish I had that skill! She would focus on one thing - say, the rel
that each of her children had with her newest foster child - and it was awesome. Really reminded you what the season was about.
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December 14, 2011, 07:35:35 AM »
One of the nicest ones I ever received was a single sheet of paper with a recent photo or two of each family member with a short caption (Betsy in her cheerleader uniform; mom tending her herb garden; Baby Timmy is walking now).
It was lovely seeing photos of them in their everyday normal life. And they all signed the letter, including a little pawprint for their cat.
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December 14, 2011, 07:45:06 AM »
I have a few people who send them. Most are pretty normal. A former boss of mine did a couple really nice ones that were themed. One year it was themed for three cookbooks (we are in the food industry) and it was amazing to see her transition for each book.
One of my Great-Aunts would do newsletters, but every other year or so she would do a theme one. My favorite was the "New Home" theme. Two of her married kids moved to new houses, one daughter had gotten her new home via new missionary field assignment, G-Aunt & Uncle had just remodelled a room or something, and youngest son had gotten his new car which he spent so much time in that he practically lived in it.
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December 14, 2011, 07:52:53 AM »
Last year we received one from a friend of mine that I've known for 25 years. She is a nice woman, but writing, grammar and spelling are just not her strong suit. Her letter was so poorly worded and had so many errors, I was embarrassed for her. The worst part is that she has a couple of home sales businesses and I later found out she sent it out to all her clients.
I still remember a letter my family received when I was about 15--and someone mentions it every year when we are going thru my mom's cards and letters. One of the families we were friends with had moved across the country and the first few years after they left, they sent newsletters each year. One year they let each of their kids write whatever they wanted in their space. It was a great idea--the two older kids wrote nice paragraphs. The youngest wrote something hysterical that probably should have been filtered a little bit and then she drew a picture of their new dog. Their new male dog. And she drew it very correctly if you catch my drift. So now when we read the newsletters someone will say--oh that was a nice letter, but a dog with a p**** drawing would have really made it better.
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December 14, 2011, 08:31:29 AM »
I used to receive a delightful letter from a grad-school friend, who was an amateur novelist and would write the letter as a dialogue between her and her husband about what they would put in the annual letter. It was always charming, and I've missed receiving them since I moved a few years ago.
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When I was a kid, my parents would open each day's haul of Christmas cards at the dinner table. We'd sit around, eating dessert, and everyone would get a share of the cards to open and read aloud. One of Dad's old Army buddies always sent a long, detailed letter describing everything everyone in his family had done that year. For some reason, Sid's letter was the highlight of Christmas-card-opening and we all wanted to get his letter.
Well, sadly, one year the letter, in addition to describing every trip, every score of every high school football game his son had played in and every note of every concert his daughter had played the clarinet in, Sid also announced that he and Nancy, his wife, had separated. There were long paragraphs about how he hoped that the separation was only temporary, he wanted to get back together, what he was doing to ensure that would happen. It was all so completely out of the blue and unexpected that everyone was stunned. And Sid, who usually just reported the year's events in a very matter of fact way, revealed himself to be a very emotional and romantic kind of guy.
I must admit that we all waited eagerly for the following year's letter, to see what had happened. The divorce wasn't final, Sid was still hoping, Nancy was reconsidering, etc., etc. For years, we waited with bated breath for Sid's Christmas letter and the next installment in his hopeless romance with his eventual ex-wife. All through his kids' marriages and the later grandkids, Sid kept up hope of a reunion. Dad got to the point where he'd save Sid's letter for Christmas Eve dinner, when most of us would be home.
Dad died a few years ago and we all thought the Sid saga was at an end for us, but Sid somehow got our oldest sibling's address and is still sending the letter! Somehow, it isn't really Christmas until we have heard about Sid's struggles and successes for the year. He's still friends with Nancy, but since she's remarried, we don't think they will be getting back together, by the way. And as far as we know, none of us kids has ever met Sid or Nancy--we think he is an Army buddy from before our parents were married.
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December 14, 2011, 10:41:01 AM »
I used to get random letters, not just Christmas, for a number of years after I broke up with a BF, from his best friend's wife. They had one child at the time, and now have two. But she would go on inexcruitiating detail about every little thing the child had done, and that was it. thankfully, I eventually moved and haven't received one since!
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December 14, 2011, 10:56:06 AM »
One year, my mother broke her arm just after Thanksgiving, and decided that since her children were all teenagers, we had to do more to help get ready for Christmas, including writing and printing off the Christmas letter. We also signed and addressed all the Christmas cards, and delivered them to the post office. Imagine my Mom's surprise when she started getting phone calls about the "funniest Christmas letter ever."
We detailed my sister's acne & unrequited crushes, my older brother's many many trips to the principal's office, my habit of tripping over everything and finally my little brother's failing grade in social studies. We also included how Mom broke her arm (borrowing Sis's roller blades.)
Mom was so embarrassed she never sent out another Christmas letter, while the extended family likes to recount those stories year after year.
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December 14, 2011, 10:58:25 AM »
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I have two that made me go "huh"?
1) One year I received a Christmas letter from my cousin and his wife, which mentioned the
2 miscarriages
she suffered during the year. Most of the family knew of them anyway, but it just seemed odd and a little bit of a downer to include them in the Christmas letter!
2) Another year my parents received a Christmas letter from my sister's ex-husband's new wife, which included information regarding their adoption process. My sister's marriage ended amicably and my parents wouldn't have minded receiving a Christmas card from the ex-husband/new wife. But it just rubbed us the wrong way that the new wife sent the letter with the adoption information. (I don't think it was sent maliciously - just out of cluelessness!)
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December 14, 2011, 11:12:59 AM »
The itemization of who did what might be a way to keep score for lack of a better term. I could see some families needing to keep track and reduce it to paper so as to avoid people saying things like "always" and "Never" when they start fighting over who should bring the pies this year, they can at least check the letter to see who did it last year.
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December 14, 2011, 11:33:23 AM »
I've received three distinctly different kinds:
1. The overly religious newsletter. On and on and on about what the holiday really represents. Yes, we know. A simple card with a manger would have been more appreciated.
2. The newsy ones others have described above. These can be interesting or boring, depending on what's included and how it's written. I used to have an aunt that exaggerated everything her family did to such a ridiculous degree that the letters became famous for being funny even though we were clearly supposed to take them quite seriously. Example: We knew my cousin worked for a pharmaceutical firm in a clerical (secretarial) position. If you read my aunt's newsletter you'd have thought my cousin was the CEO of the company. According to the letter, the place would have completely self destructed without my cousin's intense supervision and frequent intervention.
3. The best ones -- are truly and intentionally funny. I
getting them, with or without pictures. Example: " (#1 son) spent six hours making an entire quite elaborate Lego village. (#2 son), apparently envisioning himself as a one man demolition crew, demonstrated that he could totally destroy it in six seconds."
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My cousin's (ex)wife sent out newsletters several years in a row. She went on and on and on about her older daughter's high school life while completely leaving out anything about her son even though he was quite remarkable in many things throughout the year. He had one line about him..."He really enjoys spending time at his grandmas after school." Wow, what a way to make your kid feel loved.
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Greek uncertainty grows as coalition effort fails
- New Democracy finishes first but will have an uphill battle to form a government
- The Greek stock market plunges as the last votes are counted
- Several parties see their support soar, fueled by those upset with austerity measures
- No one party comes close to a majority and established parties suffer setbacks
Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Greece's center-right New Democracy party looks set to get the first chance to form a new government Monday, but party leader Antonis Samaras will have a complicated task after an election where angry voters punished politicians for backing harsh government budget cuts.
No party is likely to have anything approaching a majority, leaving the politically and economically volatile nation even more in flux.
The Greek stock market plunged about 7% Monday morning as the final votes from Sunday's election were being counted.
With 97% of votes counted early Monday by the interior ministry, New Democracy -- part of the present ruling coalition -- finished first with 19% support to capture 109 seats.
That figure is barely half the percentage that it won in elections in 2009 and well short of what party leader Samaras admitted it hoped for entering this weekend.
"I asked for a strong mandate, but people chose differently. I respect their message," Samaras said in remarks carried live on state television. "Today's result expresses people's disappointment towards the implemented dead-end economic policy that tested their limits and didn't include the necessary development policy."
In an apparent backlash against austerity measures, the two parties that spearhead the current coalition government earned far short of 50% of all 300 parliamentary seats. That means a new coalition government will again have to be formed.
Politicians have until May 17 to come up with a new working alliance or, if they cannot, set a date for another round of elections.
Samaras acknowledged the results were disappointing to his party, but said that as the first-place finisher and "only pillar of political stability in Greece," New Democracy now has even more responsibility.
If a coalition government can be formed, he said its two priorities would be to remain in the eurozone and alter existing policies, including stringent austerity measures, to "achieve development and offer people relief."
"I understand people's rage, but I will not let the country (exist) without a government," Samaras said.
The other party to see its support plummet was left-leaning PASOK, New Democracy's coalition partner.
Three years after beating out all other parties with 44% of the vote, PASOK took 13.3% this time -- giving it 41 spots in parliamentary, compared to 160 after the previous election.
PASOK's leader, Evangelos Venizelos, said he favored the formation of a unity government that is "EU-oriented, regardless of what their take is on" previously implemented measures.
The tribulations of New Democracy and PASOK were matched by triumphs of a number of other parties that were also-rans and in some cases nonexistent just a few years ago, propelled by voters angry about stringent austerity measures.
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The radical leftist coalition Syriza passed PASOK with a strong second-place showing. Exit polls predicted it would garner 10% support, but instead Syriza garnered 16.7% support, according to the results. That more than triples its parliamentary representation to 51 seats.
"This is a message of a peaceful revolution," said Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras. "European leadership and especially (German Chancellor Angela) Merkel have to understand that austerity policies have suffered defeat."
The fourth-place finisher, the Independent Greek party, was founded in February by ousted New Democracy parliamentarian Panos Kammenos. With 10.6% backing, this right-wing nationalist party, which opposes Greece's agreement with the European Union and International Monetary Fund, will now have 33 seats in parliament.
The Communist Party, which wants Greece to leave the single-currency eurozone, also saw gains in winning 8.5% support.
And the far-right Golden Dawn party, which got 0.3% of votes the previous election, ended up with 7% support on Sunday. That equates to rise from zero to 21 parliamentary seats.
Its leader, Nikos Michaloliakos, gave a rousing speech after Sunday's vote saying Golden Dawn would "fight so that Greece won't be a slave of the memorandum and of the social jungle that illegal immigrants have brought in this country."
"Everyone who betrays Hellenism should be afraid. We are coming," he said.
Katerina Sokou, financial editor of the Greek daily newspaper Kathimerini, called what happened Sunday "a protest vote (against) the main two political parties of Greece."
Yet Sokou added that she expects New Democracy and PASOK again will be part of the ruling coalition government, even though there may be notable policy changes and challenges to come, including a "renegotiation" of already approved austerity measures.
"I believe that these electoral results ... show that people need a coalition government," she said. "They also want the parties to cooperate."
One young mother interviewed by CNN said her aim Sunday, before the voters were counted, was to "punish" pro-austerity politicians and "get rid of them for good."
Austerity is "the wrong path," said the woman, who did not give her name.
"Austerity measures just make people poorer and the situation does not get any better in the long term or in the short term either," she said.
But another voter at the same polling station said politicians have been doing the right thing.
"We don't have an alternative," he said, saying he backed "whichever party actually understands that and wants to deal with it and wants to take these hard measures."
He also did not give his name.
The country's national debt threatened to force it to drop Europe's common currency, the euro, prompting the European Central Bank and other lenders to swoop in with emergency funding last year. In exchange, they demanded that the government slash spending brutally.
Austerity measures already enacted have led to cuts in jobs, wages, pensions and benefits, and have negatively affected many people, especially pensioners and those who get state assistance.
Taxes have gone up and the national unemployment rate for January, the latest month for which figures are available, was just under 22%. Among 25- to 34-year-olds, it was nearly 29%, leading many young people to leave the country in search of work.
Furthermore, for the past two years, the country's massive amount of debt has threatened the stability of the 17-country eurozone.
Greece pushed through a huge debt swap in March to save it from disorderly default and clear the way for it to receive a second bailout from the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, worth ?130 billion ($171.5 billion).
The debt restructuring deal gave some breathing space to the eurozone bloc, where fears that Greece might collapse had increased pressure on other debt-laden nations such as Spain and Italy.
But the outcome of Sunday's vote raises fresh questions as to whether Greece will stick with the painful path of austerity.
CNN's Antonia Mortensen and Matthew Chance contributed to this report.
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Would you please tell me if cremini mushrooms are ok to eat for type O and type B? Crimini mushrooms look just like the white button mushrooms but are light tan to medium brown in color. Should they be considered to have the same blood reaction as the domestic white button? or the portobello? Carol
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"She must've lost her marbles!"
"She went termporarily insane!"
"The girl never was right in the head!"
"She never did know which end was up!"
"Her poor Mama tried!"
Yep, I have heard it all!
In 1975 I got married at the tender age of 16, much to my parent's dismay. I was a sophomore in high school, and he'd been out of school for a little over a year. He worked in a lumber mill as a sawyer.
Well, I finished high school, and even waited four years before having my first child. Then I didn't stop at one. I had five. In five years!
I got my first degree in 1983 when the 4th child was a newborn. In journalism.
In 1988 I went on to get my second, and became a geriatric nurse practitioner.
In 1990 I divorced my husband after 15 years. [Up until then, only telling one person how abusive it was. I hid it all that time.]
I went on to get an advanced degree. Raised my children on my own, while their father went his separate way and didn't pay a penny of the child support he was ordered to pay.
And then in 2001, three years after remarrying, this time to RIGHT man, I totally switched careers. Again!
I picked up genealogy as a hobby. It morphed slowly into a business, which I went public with in 2006. And my hobby became my full-time career.
I have family members who will forever think I am crazy for changing from my stable career as the caretaker of the elderly, to the "unstable" career of the caretaker of the family history.
My parents, while they say they are proud of my new career, never fail to have the final say in a conversation with, "You know, she had it made as an R.N.! Could've worked for any hospital in the world! But, nope, you see what she's doing now!"
Well, maybe I am crazy. But if so... let me leave this world in my happy state of "madness", doing that which I love most!
Perhaps I am the keeper of the family history. And of finding the history of other families. And if so, then I am quite content to be in this state of "madness"!
I for one, feel blessed to be able to do that which I love most. Dare I say it? I sincerely doubt that those who mock me are even one-quarter as content in their careers as I am in mine!
And with that, I leave this... my "Madness Monday" post!
Monday, April 12, 2010
Madness Monday
3 comments:
- Joan said...
Gotta love a gal who follows her heart.
- April 12, 2010 at 3:04 PM
- Cindy said...
All I have to say... "You Go Girl!" I married the right man the first time, had 5 children in the span of 12 years and now I'm a full time Mom. I am astounded at your drive and ambition to do what you wanted to do, against the odds though it may have seemed at the time; you are a very strong woman!
- April 12, 2010 at 3:07 PM
- Barbara said...
Cyndi, good for you. Of course, I wish I could be smart like you, but I take comfort in knowing we share the same passion. If there is anything I can ever help you with in the Boston area, drop me a note. You are a strong woman, and I admire you.
- April 12, 2010 at 8:45 PM
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NEW YORK - Nine newcomers will join the Columbia's women's rowing program for the 2012-13 season, head coach Scott Ramsey announced.
"I am personally thrilled and our returning athletes are extremely excited to have this group join our team in September," head coach Scott Ramsey said. "We only had three rowers and one coxswain graduate in 2012, so this group is going to provide us with some more depth right away.
"During the recruiting process, we are looking for women who are driven towards the challenge and opportunity to be the first team to win an Ivy League and national championship for Columbia Women's Rowing," Ramsey continued. "We set the bar as high as possible and then focus on the process of doing the work necessary to achieve those goals. These women are ready to contribute positively to that culture and we can't wait to see them arrive on campus in the coming weeks."
A snapshot of the incoming class follows:
Aneesha Baliga - 5-0 - CC - El Dorado Hills, Calif. - St. Francis
Has been a coxswain for seven years ... fourth place finisher in the lightweight four at the 2011 National Championships ... won a gold medal at the 2011 Head of the American in Northern California ... silver medalist at the 2012 Southwest Regional Junior Rowing Championships in the lightweight four ... National Merit Scholar ... Student Body Spirit Coordinator in high school.
Mia Ciccaglione - 5-9 - CC - West Simsbury, Conn. - Simsbury
Rowed for three years in high school ... team was the 2012 Connecticut Public Schools State Champions ... has completed two half marathons and a triathlon ... AP Scholar.
Colleen Condon - 6-1 - CC - Lake Oswego, Ore. - Lake Oswego
Earned a silver medal at the 2012 Northwest Regionals in the women's eight ... first place finish in the women's quad at the 2011 Portland Fall Classic ... attended the 2010 United States Junior National Team development camp ... competed at the San Diego Crew Classic ... Lake Oswego Community Rowing team captain ... Presidential Scholar ... high school student body vice president.
India Knight - 5-4 - CC - Norwalk, Conn. - Convent of the Sacred Heart
Team captain of the Connecticut Boat Club ... stroked the varsity 4+ at the 2011 Head of the Charles to win first place out of 60 crews ... finished third at the 2011 Head of the Charles ... two-time bronze medalist at Youth Rowing Nationals ... also competes in karate.
Elisa Mirkil - 5-8 - CC - Devon, Pa. - The Shipley School
Team captain at The Shipley School ... three-year rower ... has rowed in all three of Shipley's top boats ... reached the semifinals at Stotesbury in the varsity quad ... also reached semifinals of Scholastic Rowing Association of America National Championships ... received The Shipley School's leadership prize as a senior.
Madeline O'Brien - 6-0 - CC - Modesto, Calif. - Central Catholic
Began rowing as a junior in high school ... member of Stockton Rowing Club ... has rowed in a four and a double ... volleyball team captain and three-time all-league player ... also ran track and swam ... father played football at Fresno State ... president of high school's spirit club.
Carly Tashijan - 5-10 - CC - Clifton Park, N.Y. - Shenendehowa
Seventh place finish in the youth four at the Head of the Charles in 2012 ... first place in junior eight at the 2010 Canadian Secondary School Rowing Association Championships ... National Honor Society member.
Abigail Thacher - 5-9 - CC - Piedmont, Calif. - Piedmont
Rows for highly regarded Oakland Strokes club, where she was a team captain for two years ... finished second at the 2011 National Championships in the lightweight eight ... finished fifth at the 2010 National Championships.
Hayley Weil - 5-7 - CC - Chicago, Ill. - Walter Payton College Prep
Four-year member of Lincoln Park Rowing Club's varsity eight ... two-time team captain ... two-time Midwest Junior champion ... club has ranked in the top 12 nationally ... competed at U.S. Rowing Youth National Championships in 2008 ... National Honor Society member ... Illinois state scholar.


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Monticello, Florida - November 14, 2012
A local woman accused of faking a fall for insurance money appeared in court Wednesday.
Jefferson County Sheriff deputies arrested 23-year-old Selina
Williams and charged her with two counts of insurance fraud.
Officials with the state believe Williams faked a fall at the IGA grocery store in Monticello.
It took two years to investigate and officials arrested her back in July.
In court, the judge granted Williams' attorney's request to move her trial date to December.
Monticello, Florida-October 21, 2012
A woman accused of insurance fraud is set to enter a plea Monday morning in Jefferson County.
Selina Williams, 23, claimed she slipped and fell in the Big Save IGA grocery store in Moticello back in 2010.
Store owners reviewed the surveillance video and realized it was a ploy.
Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputies arrested her July 26, 2012 and charged her with two counts of insurance fraud.
Monticello, Florida- August 1, 2012
The Patel family has run the Big Save IGA grocery store in Monticello for more than a decade.
They've enjoy working in this community, but now are more cautious.
"She was out to get us and trying to take money away from the business," said Anil Patel, whose family owns the store.
Jefferson County Sheriff officials said 23-year-old Selina Williams claimed she slipped and fell in the store back in 2010.
Instead, Patel said the woman tried to fall near an area with a wet floor sign.
"She got up, started looking around, looking around at items and stuff. Soon as she saw us coming back she sat down."
At first, Patel thought Williams really fell on the ground and hurt herself, but then he looked at the surveillance video and said he realized it was just a ploy.
They turned the video over to their insurance carrier. The Florida Department of Financial Services then investigated and concluded Williams committed insurance fraud.
"I shop at this store all the time and they seem like good people, so I don't know why someone would really fake falling in the store," said Big Save customer, Buster Edwards.
Deputies arrested her July 26th. She's charged with two counts of insurance fraud.
"We work hard for this business. We don't actually sit around and let other people work for us," Patel added.
A judge granted Williams bail of $5,000 at her first appearance in court. She has bonded out of jail.
As for the Patel family, they said they hope this sends a message to people to not try and commit fraud.


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Each year since 1977, Oak Crest DeKalb Area Retirement Center has named a community Good Samaritan. A Good Samaritan is a person who cares for others beyond the normal compassion of most people; who actively participates in community organizations and combines community service with personal caring; who works quietly to better the lives of others. Over the years, outstanding individuals have been selected for this special award.
This year, Oak Crest Board President Tim Dunlop made the presentation of the 2012 Good Samaritan Award to Lou Jean Moyer.
Having spent most of her adult life in service to this community, Moyer personifies the Good Samaritan. Many organizations have benefited from her time and talents. Prior to making her home at Oak Crest, she served on the Oak Crest Board of Trustees as a member and president.
Always one to recognize a need and see that it is met, it was through Moyer's generosity that a covered entry was added to Oak Crest's west entrance. She continues to volunteer as a greeter, serves at special events, opens her home to visitors as they tour the campus and makes frequent visits to residents recuperating in the Oak Crest Health Center. After retiring from Northern Illinois University, Moyer has remained active in a variety of university-related activities and programs and established a scholarship for students majoring in physical education. Additionally, she uses her time and talents to support many civic organizations and agencies. She continues to serve on the Kishwaukee Health Foundation Board and volunteers at the hospital several times each month. She is an active member of the First United Methodist Church in DeKalb, where she has served as chair of the Church Council and the Newcomer's Committee. Her service to her faith community also includes her roles as president of the United Methodist Women's Chapter, an elected delegate to the Northern Illinois Conference, a delegate to the Laity Council at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and service on the Board of Ordained Ministry.
Moyer's energy, enthusiasm and interest in the world and her community make her an invaluable asset to the many organizations benefiting from her support. Those who have had the privilege to work with her in her many volunteer roles would describe her as a professional, with strong convictions and a warm and giving heart. They would also tell you that her love for her family, friends and neighbors is genuine.


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Writer Jonathan Morris on Tales from the Vault
What was the brief for this story?
Big Finish producer David Richardson emailed me to say he had a 'bonkers idea for a Companion Chronicle about a character who 'is the clean-up man after alien invasions'. The brief also included the idea of featuring cameos from three companions, which soon became four. I suggested doing a Amicus-style portmanteau story, where four alien artefacts suggest four different stories. And then David suggested making the 'clean-up men' two American UNIT agents, so the roles could be played by Daphne Ashbrook and Yee Jee Tso.
How complicated was it working in all the elements and a linking storyline?
I was given the choice of which companions should feature, so I chose one from each Doctor, favouring companions I hadn't written for before. The main difficulty was that each of them could only feature for about 2 or 3 pages' worth of dialogue, so the two UNIT agents, Ruth Matheson and Charlie Sato, would have to fill in a lot of the narrative. I wanted that to be done in a different way each time, and for each recording of a companion to be by a different means (a tape recording, a memory crystal, a wax cylinder etc.). It was quite tricky coming up all the devices, as well as thinking up the four short stories. The real headache, though, was finding a way of incorporating elements from the four short stories into a 'pay-off' in the framing narrative without it seeming contrived.
Was it fun creating new characters for Daphne and Yee Jee to play?
Absolutely. It's unusual to create new characters knowing they will be played by specific actors, but it does help to write for known voices. And I think we've only scratched the surface as far as those Ruth and Charlie are concerned; I worked out background stories for them both which never got used in Tales From The Vault.
Did you listen to the final play?
I did. I always listen to my things as soon as possible! I thought the two leads were excellent and I loved what the four guest stars did with their cameos, particularly Katy Manning's ad-libs for the bit where Jo makes the Doctor's tea (my favourite part of the story).
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The potential of literature and poetry. Gallagher, A.; McKie, Andrew (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009)GALLAGHER, A. and MCKIE, A., 2009. The potential of literature and poetry. In: T. WARNE and S. MCANDREW, eds. Creative approaches to health and social care education. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp. 113-128.Literature and poetry are being increasingly used as learning resources in professional health care educational curricula (McKie & Gass 2001; Tschudin, 2003; McAteer & Murray, 2003; McKie et al 2008). Less attention has, ...


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On Tuesday, the trial of Army Maj. NidalHasan begins in earnest. Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder in the shooting at the Army's Fort Hood military base near Killeen, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009.
Early in the afternoon of that day, Hasan allegedly entered Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Processing Center, where he worked, sat briefly at a table with his head bowed, then stood up and shouted, "Allahuakbar" (God is great), and opened fire. Prosecutors say he was armed with an FN Five-seven pistol, a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Hasan was shot four times and is now a paraplegic.
The Defense Department and federal law enforcement agencies have deemed it to be an act of workplace violence, not an act of terrorism, even though the National Counterterrorism Center immediately labeled it as a terrorist attack.
In November 2011, survivors of the shooting and family members of those who were killed filed suit against the government for negligence in preventing the shootings and in an effort to force the government to classify the shooting as terrorism. Absent such a reclassification, the victims of the attack are not eligible for the Purple Heart.
Hasan is an American citizen and a Muslim whose parents came to America from Palestine. He joined the Army in college and graduated from Virginia Tech University in 1995. In 2003, he received his medical degree from the federal government's Uniformed University of the Health Sciences. He was trained in psychiatry at Walter Reed Army Hospital.
During residency training, he gave a lecture titled, "The Koranic World View as it Relates to Muslims in the United States Military." His lecture was not related to health or medicine, and it was jarring to many who heard it.
Hasan was known to express extremist views, which were brought to the attention of his superiors in the military and to the FBI. His behavior, his views respecting Islamic extremism and his email exchanges with Anwar al-Awlaki, an imam and former senior leader of al-Qaida, were known to officials of the military and the FBI.
Al-Awlaki, an American citizen, was killed Sept. 30, 2011, in Yemen while riding in a vehicle that was struck by Hellfire missiles that had been launched from a Predator drone based out of a secret CIA facility in Saudi Arabia by the Joint Special Operations Command. The strike had been authorized by President Barack Obama.
But instead of being discharged, Hasan was promoted from captain to major in 2009, and in July he was transferred to Fort Hood. Four months later, the massacre occurred.
Hasan is an Islamic extremist who should have been drummed out of the Army. He should not have been promoted, and he should not have been transferred to Fort Hood. Instead, driven by political correctness, the military airmailed Hasan to Fort Hood. Think of it as a cowardly, out-of-sight, out-of-mind move! The military should be charged as an accomplice to murder.
Understanding why and how the military acted as it did is found in the Report of the Senate Homeland Security Committee's investigation into this preventable tragedy. The March 2011 Report, authored by then-Chairman Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and ranking minority member Susan Collins, R-Maine, is titled, "A Ticking Time Bomb — Counterterrorism Lessons from the U.S. Government's Failure to Prevent the Fort Hood Attack."
Here are highlights of the report:
Witnesses reported that Hasan expressed support in open class presentations for the principles of violent Islamic extremism. His officer evaluation reports were uniformly positive and described his exploration of violent Islamic extremism as praiseworthy. The Senate Report concluded that "an individual who embraces violent Islamic extremist ideology clearly is unfit to serve in the U.S. Military."
Hasan reportedly told several of his classmates in residency training that his religion took precedence over the U.S. Constitution that he had sworn to support as a U.S. Military officer.
In summary, he made off-topic presentations on violent Islamic extremism rather than medical subjects; he justified suicide bombings twice in class presentations; he stated that some of the actions of Osama bin Laden were justified; and he stated three times in writing that Muslim-Americans in the military could be prone to fratricide.
But Hasan was never disciplined, never referred to counterintelligence officials and never discharged. The Senate Report states, "One of the officers who report Hasan to superiors opined that Hasan was permitted to remain in service because of political correctness."
That same officer added "that he believed that concern about political discrimination complaints stopped some individuals from challenging Hasan."
The Senate Report also indicates that Hasan received evaluations that flatly misstated his actual performance. They described him as a star officer, recommended him for promotion to major and stated that his "work on violent Islamic extremism would assist U.S. counterterrorism efforts."
In conclusion, the Senate Report states, "The officers who kept Hasan in the military and moved him steadily along knew full well of his problematic behavior. As the officer who assigned Hasan to Fort Hood admitted to an officer at Fort Hood, 'You're getting our worst.' "
The only way to serve justice in this case is to haul the military into the dock with Hasan and convict all of them of murder.
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Put the military in the dock with Hasan
On Tuesday, the trial of Army Maj. NidalHasan begins in earnest. Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder in the shooting at the Army's Fort Hood military base near Killeen, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009.


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As part of our process, we perform a rigorous discounted cash-flow methodology that dives into the true intrinsic worth of companies. In Apollo Group's (NASDAQ:APOL) case, we think the firm is fairly valued at $66 per share, which is higher than where it is currently trading (our report on Apollo Group and other companies can be found here).
For some background, we think a comprehensive analysis of a firm's discounted cash-flow valuation, relative valuation versus industry peers, as well as an assessment of technical and momentum indicators is the best way to identify the most attractive stocks at the best time to buy. This process culminates in what we call our Valuentum Buying Index (click here for more information on our methodology), which ranks stocks on a scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being the best.
If a company is undervalued both on a DCF and on a relative valuation basis and is showing improvement in technical and momentum indicators, it scores high on our scale. Apollo Group scores a 5 on our scale (reflecting its fair value and neutral technicals).
Our Report on Apollo Group
Investment Considerations
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Apollo Group 's business quality (an evaluation of our ValueCreation™ and ValueRisk™ ratings) ranks among the best of the firms in our coverage universe. The firm has been generating economic value for shareholders with relatively stable operating results for the past few years, a combination we view very positively.
The company looks fairly valued at this time. We expect the firm to trade within our fair value estimate range for the time being. If the firm's share price fell below $53, we'd take a closer look.
Apollo Group has an excellent combination of strong free cash flow generation and low financial leverage. We expect the firm's free cash flow margin to average about 14.3% in coming years. Total debt-to-EBITDA was 0.5 last year, while debt-to-book capitalization stood at 32.6%.
Although we think there may be a better time to dabble in the firm's shares based on our DCF process, the firm's stock has outperformed the market benchmark during the past quarter, indicating increased investor interest in the company.
The company's shares are overbought based on its money flow index. A short-term pull back in the stock price wouldn't be unexpected.
Economic Profit Analysis
The best measure of a firm's ability to create value for shareholders is expressed by comparing its return on invested capital (ROIC) with its weighted average cost of capital (WACC). The gap or difference between ROIC and WACC is called the firm's economic profit spread. Apollo Group 's 3-year historical return on invested capital (without goodwill) is 136.3%, which is above the estimate of its cost of capital of 9.4%. As such, we assign the firm a ValueCreation™ rating of EXCELLENT. In the chart below, we show the probable path of ROIC in the years ahead based on the estimated volatility of key drivers behind the measure. The solid grey line reflects the most likely outcome, in our opinion, and represents the scenario that results in our fair value estimate.
Cash Flow Analysis
Firms that generate a free cash flow margin (free cash flow divided by total revenue) above 5% are usually considered cash cows. Apollo Group 's free cash flow margin has averaged about 18.1% during the past 3 years. As such, we think the firm's cash flow generation is relatively STRONG. The free cash flow measure shown above is derived by taking cash flow from operations less capital expenditures and differs from enterprise free cash flow (FCFF), which we use in deriving our fair value estimate for the company. At Apollo Group , cash flow from operations decreased about 6% from levels registered two years ago, while capital expenditures expanded about 28% over the same time period.
Valuation Analysis
Our discounted cash flow model indicates that Apollo Group 's shares are worth between $53.00 - $79.00 each. The margin of safety around our fair value estimate is driven by the firm's LOW ValueRisk™ rating, which is derived from the historical volatility of key valuation drivers. The estimated fair value of $66 per share represents a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of about 16.4 times last year's earnings and an implied EV/EBITDA multiple of about 6 times last year's EBITDA.
Our model reflects a compound annual revenue growth rate of -2.9% during the next five years, a pace that is lower than the firm's 3-year historical compound annual growth rate of 14.6%. Our model reflects a 5-year projected average operating margin of 21.3%, which is below Apollo Group 's trailing 3-year average. Beyond year 5, we assume free cash flow will grow at an annual rate of 1.1% for the next 15 years and 3% in perpetuity. For Apollo Group , we use a 9.4% weighted average cost of capital to discount future free cash flows.
Margin of Safety Analysis
Our discounted cash flow process values each firm on the basis of the present value of all future free cash flows. Although we estimate the firm's fair value at about $66 per share, every company has a range of probable fair values that's created by the uncertainty of key valuation drivers (like future revenue or earnings, for example). After all, if the future was known with certainty, we wouldn't see much volatility in the markets as stocks would trade precisely at their known fair values.
Our ValueRisk™ rating sets the margin of safety or the fair value range we assign to each stock. In the graph below, we show this probable range of fair values for Apollo Group. We think the firm is attractive below $53 per share (the green line), but quite expensive above $79 per share (the red line). The prices that fall along the yellow line, which includes our fair value estimate, represent a reasonable valuation for the firm, in our opinion.
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The high school "Let's Put on a Show!" genre has churned through so many Shakespeares that Steve Coogan was forced to invent "Hamlet 2." No matter. "Hunky Dory" director Marc Evans is happy to recycle "The Tempest" with a twist: classic rock. Picture Caliban singing the Byrds.
Minnie Driver plays the pushover drama teacher who tries, and largely fails, to wrangle her students at a blue-collar Welsh school in 1976. She's so bad at establishing adult boundaries that if this were a Lifetime flick she'd cross a criminal line with swoon-worthy student Davey (Aneurin Barnard) in the play's role of Ferdinand instead of merely mooning over him when she subs in as Miranda and later sneaks a quick kiss. That movie would be more interesting than this golden-hued, feel-good treacle, the sort that the U.K. has tried to export ever since "Billy Elliot."
A series of escalating disasters threatens to derail the big show (among them, a fire that incinerates the psychedelic papier-mâché mushrooms), and Driver responds with the wan fretfulness of someone who's misplaced her keys. The larger problem is Laurence Coriat's shapeless script, which pads its overlong running time with standard teen trauma — band squabbles, girl betrayals, skinhead brothers — that saps the audience's energy before the grand finale: a heady, glitter-infused "Tempest" that's David Bowie meets Wes Anderson meets ELO.


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In the shadows of Downtown Houston, you'll find yourself being looked down upon by faces that feel as big as the facades that make up the city.
But these faces aren't from the future, they're from the past and they're a big part of artist David Adickes' life.
"I can't retire, I wouldn't know what to do," joked Adickes.
Born in Huntsville 86 years ago, David is known all over the world for his works of art. His series of presidential portraits make his former studio a hot spot in Houston for visitors. As do the enormous beetles, of the music variety that is.
And while his piece called "The Cello" in the middle of downtown is well known, there is another that stands above them all-literally.
"Of course I'm proud of Sam because it's so big but it's a realistic interpretation. Sam had to be. Anything else would not have been appropriate there," said Adickes.
The 67 foot tall statue of Sam Houston in Huntsville is David's biggest project of his career and it all got started back in 1991.
"The reason for doing it was to celebrate the bicentennial of Sam Houston's birth," said Adickes.
In order to give back to the city he was born and raised in, David constructed the giant statue with his own money and the help of a few friends.
For three years he worked on Sam at the W.S. Gibbs Farm north of town. Through summer heat and winter chills, the statue came together piece by piece.
By the summer of 1994, it was ready to start being delivered to the sight it stands today-on the side of Interstate 45.
"The statue is just an icon for Huntsville. When people drive past it on the highway, they're going to stop and see what's going on," said Jamie Matthews with the Sam Houston Statue Visitor Center.
Matthews is getting ready for a huge celebration for Sam.
"The biggest thing we're working on is our 1 millionth person signature and we hope to reach it by Friday," said Matthews.
"People have signed in from 120 countries, so people from all over the world literary have seen it," said Adickes.
It's a chance to celebrate the statue that's brought in visitors from all over and to honor the man who put it all together.
"It is amazing that a great artist would build something and donate it to the city of Huntsville as a gift. It's a great tribute," said Matthews.
To celebrate the 1 millionth visitor to the statue, the visitors center will be giving away $10,000 in cash and prizes to one lucky visitor. The names of all visitors will be put into a drawing for the winner.
Walker County residents are also eligible to win a $500 gift card if they're the 1,000,000 visitor to sign the guest book at the visitors center.


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Sweden's Olympic hockey team was banged up even before Thursday — then came the biggest hit yet.
Detroit Red Wings forward Johan Franzen will miss the 2014 Sochi Games because of a concussion, according to the Detroit Free Press. He had nine goals and 14 assists this season for Detroit. Other Swedish players fighting injuries: forwards Henrik Zetterberg and Henrik Sedin, and defenseman Alex Edler.
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Patric Hornqvist, Nashville Predators. Hornqvist, like Franzen, is a big right winger who can score goals; he's got 10 so far this season and three others of 21 or more. He also drives puck possession; when he's on the ice at even strength, 51.8 percent of all shot attempts are for his team. That's the best Corsi percentage among the Predators' forwards. He probably makes the most sense, based on need, production and underlying stats.
Marcus Johansson, Washington Capitals. On the other end of the spectrum is Johansson, who plays on a line with Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom and, against all odds, has one even-strength goal on 54 shots this season. That, as noted by Japers Rink, is more bad luck than anything, and the Caps as a whole struggle at 5-on-5. Johansson is certainly productive on the power play (six goals). He's also not a right winger or a goal-scorer.
Gustav Nyquist, Red Wings. Franzen's teammate is a more efficient scorer than Johansson (9G, 8A in 28 games). He's also capable of playing on the right side — plus he's a Red Wing, which might win him brownie points. He has a 13.6 percent even-strength shooting percentage and 1050 PDO, though, which is indicative of some pretty significant luck.


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Champion Hill Toppers split 4 at Milwaukee
Gib 'Judge' Young - Tuesday, September 3, 2013 3:06 PM
The Milwaukee Cream Citys, the host club, held a fine weekend of baseball with five visiting clubs having a grand time at the old game at Greenfield Park in West Allies, WI, on Saturday, Aug. 24, and Sunday, Aug. 25. It was one of those tournaments in which anyone could have won or lost the four matches each club played. In weather fit for kings on lush green fields, the local champions took the field with nine ballists on Saturday and then added one for Sunday. Considering the aged condition of the right side of the infield and the injury condition of the hurler and right fielder, the club did all that could be expected of them.
On Saturday, the green clads took the field against a new opponent, Delton Base Ball Club of Wisconsin, and by some excellent fielding, the boys came out a 5-3 victor. Our scouts chased down long balls and our sure-handed infielders demoralized the Delton club, who could not find any rhythm at the bat. Our boys hit well, but not in bunches, and could not break it open -- but a win is a win. In the second match of the day, the boys hit a little better, but the Springfield Illinois Long Nine, who are younger and a bit snooty, had the number of the Huntington lads. By taking advantage of Topper errors, the club from Illinois was able to glide to a 13-6 win.
On Sunday, Quickstep Haugland had to withdraw due to injury, old age and blindness, so the club, in a desperate attempt to field a full club, had Judge Young suit up and hurl the first match of the day. Knowing the Judge's abilities and Pops Wiegman's gastronomic condition, Scribes Wiehe's fiance, Ashley 'Red' Smith, put her hair up and the uniform on to help as needed.
The Hoosier club seemed to have their good friends of the Cream City club ready for a knockout punch all during their match, but couldn't quite pull it off. Judge Young, on the mound wheezing and puffing, and Pops Wiegman, held the host club down to zeroes for five innings. It must be noted that the Toppers found a defense again and the infield of Scribes, Pee Wee Krcmarik, Weege Bugge and Bird Dog Morrison played a steady game. Red Smith helped keep the strikers for the Cream Citys off balance with her comments about their weight and marriage prospects.
She was also able to get on base and make a couple of key outs, which is more than her fiancé did. Being the manly fellow he is, he went off to the woods and hid his shame and vowed to do better in the last game of the day. In any event, his shame was no greater than the ballists from Indiana, who once again forgot how to hit or run or just got tired. The one ace the Huntington squad scored in the first inning just would not hold up and in the last two innings the Milwaukee club pulled it out by a 5-1 count.
The last match of the day was a seesaw affair with the Chicago Salmon. The field was a little tilted with the hurler's box being quite a bit lower than home base and the first and second bags being lower yet than the hurler's box.
But it was the same for both clubs. In a display of what makes vintage baseball so good, the two friendly clubs traded jibes, jokes, good wishes and pickles during the match. The local lads finally had a big enough inning in the fifth to build a lead they would not lose and made it stand up for a 10-6 victory. Scribes Wiehe made a spectacular catch at third sack of a hard drive that gave him something to soothe his ego on the long train ride home with Red. The Brothers Redner, Toots and Splinter, were once again very strong in the field and at the bat. All the club members hailed the return of Gary 'Dodger' Rowe who hit well, ran OK, and had a gimpy throw in right field. Unfortunately for our opponents the wounds Dodger received at Ft. Donelson did not affect his ability to jabber endlessly.
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Notre Dame officials defended their handling of the Manti Te'o hoax saying "we handled it as best we could."
School officials spoke with the South Bend Tribune on Saturday, offering details of how they learned of the hoax and the school's decision not to go public before the Jan. 7 BCS Championship Game.
"Hindsight is 20-20," university spokesman Dennis Brown said. "Like most everybody else, except perhaps the makers of the documentary 'Catfish' and fans of that form, we were utterly stunned to hear the news on the first day and had difficult time getting our arms around it.
The school thought about releasing details of the hoax, but didn't think it would be in the best interests leading up to the title game.
Coach Brian Kelly first found out about the hoax the morning after Christmas when the Heisman Trophy finalist called from Hawaii.
The hoax about Te'o's "dead" girlfriend became public Wednesday when it was reported by Deadspin.com.
Notre Dame officials were concerned the hoax involved some sort of extortion, gambling or NCAA violations in an effort to influence the outcome of the national title game, Brown told the Tribune.
In the week leading up to the title game, the university hired a private firm to investigate the hoax. The investigation focused on electronic databases to determine if Te'o' girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, actually was real.
The day after arriving in Miami for the championship game, investigators told Notre Dame officials "nobody by the name Kekua appeared in any of several sophisticated databases," Brown said.


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Even though spring break left public school buildings empty for the week, some elementary students still chose to go to school, but for a different kind of learning.
Mt. Pleasant's PEAK program offered a spring break getaway camp for elementary school students.
Not all students showed up to the week-long day camp just because they needed babysitting, though.
"It's really fun," Ganiard third grader Abbie Dziuk, 8, said. "My dad stays home, so it's basically just because it's fun."
Day camp site coordinator Zach McMurray said PEAK teaches character development every day, focusing on core values of respect, responsibility, caring and honesty.
"It's just a service that we offer through Parks and Rec," McMurray said. "It helps parents out. We provide (a) safe, fun place to go with a lot of great staff."
During the camp, students participated in activities, like a quidditch match and dance-off.
Students got to play with a water balloon launcher, and took a day trip to the Grossology exhibit at the Midland Center for the Arts.
Program assistant Bri Weldy said the participants had recess and gym time, computer time and reading time as well.
Abbie said her favorite game was Star Wars dodgeball.
"It's just the same as dodgeball ... it's just that there's a jedi who can save people if they're out," she said.
Abbie didn't come to the camp with her friends, but met new students during the week.
She said she comes to the camp every spring break.
McMurray said PEAK also holds winter break and holiday day camps, as well as six weeks worth of summer day camps.
PEAK also offers after school programs at elementary and middle schools in Mt. Pleasant.
"PEAK is just a cheaper form of after school daycare where they can just come and hang out,"
McMurray, studying recreation at Central Michigan University, said all 30 PEAK staff members are studying either recreation or special education in school.
"I love kids, and I love the staff that are here," he said. "It makes a great place to work."
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Charities would reap an extra £1 billion a year under think-tank proposals unveiled today to "turbocharge" corporate giving.
The Centre for Social Justice, founded by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, has devised a tax relief scheme to encourage businesses to subsidise voluntary work carried out by their employees.
It claims the move would boost "unfashionable" grassroots charities that struggle to compete with the major organisations for volunteers and donations.
Under the "C-Volunteering" plan, drawn up with social enterprise group 'C', employees would be encouraged to give up some of their working time to charity and their employer would donate cash for every hour volunteered.
In return, firms running the scheme would be eligible for tax relief in a similar way to the existing system that encourages research and development.
The report suggests there would ideally be no limit to the amount of tax relief that could be reclaimed but suggests that if it was capped overall at £330 million a year it could generate an extra £1.3 billion for charities.
CSJ Executive Director Gavin Poole said: "We need imaginative new schemes to get British companies playing a bigger role in tackling deep-seated problems, such as educational failure and welfare dependency, that are holding back the country economically and socially.
"These proposals are a practical blueprint for revitalising Britain's hugely important and valuable third sector and helping them at a local level to rebuild shattered lives.
"Britain has a great track record for charitable donations and for people freely giving up their time as volunteers. But we are still far behind the United States, where the charitable impulse is more deeply ingrained.
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I stood Saturday morning and looked up at the massive oak tree broken about twelve feet up the trunk and fallen on my roof. At eight in the morning the temperature was eighty-seven degrees and heading toward a high of 105. We had no power, and word was it would be out at least a week.
Another tree had smashed through the back fence and lay across the yard, its small top branches bent and broken on the far fence. The yard smelled like fresh-cut firewood.
Strange iridescent-green insects flitted around, bugs who normally live in the tops of those trees where we never see them.
Knocked from their nests, baby squirrels swarmed the yard. Small as hamsters they skittered and chirped and chased one another in confused play. There must have been forty of them. They are gone now, I don't know where, but I have an idea—our neighborhood is not short on cats.
Though limbs rest atop the house, there isn't much damage. A massive white oak outside my daughter's window—we call it Gracie's oak—caught the bulk of the falling tree, and it still hangs, the two trees' branches clasped together like hands sprouting out into the sky a gnarled and broken here is the church… see all the people.
The arborist who came to give an estimate has names for everything. The way this tree has hit my tree and slid back onto its own trunk is known as a barber's chair. A large branch broken and hanging is called a widow maker.
I know a lady who was made a widow in just this way: She and her husband were at a backyard barbecue. He was holding a beer and watching his daughters play and a fat limb fell on his head and killed him while the burgers smoked on the grill.
Trees are down all over town. Blocked roads, smashed power poles, cars, houses. The weather event that caused all this wreckage is called a derecho (Spanish for direct or straight ahead). I'd never heard of a derecho, but apparently the unrelenting heat created conditions right for this straight-on windstorm that blasted across the eastern U.S. at eighty to one hundred miles per hour.
When the windstorm hit so unexpectedly Friday night, my wife and I were in our basement watching the HBO show Treme.
On the show, a chef forced to close her restaurant and leave town after Hurricane Katrina comes back to visit. She rides on the newly reopened trolley, looking at her beloved but wounded New Orleans, and she is crying. The singing vagabond played by Steve Earle has just been mugged and shot dead in the street. Cops have shot kids, people are desperate, some still without homes, some trying to cobble a life together, exposed to the elements and predators—both in masks and dapper suits—running the streets. People are understandably angry and fearful and desperate. Some are suicidal.After five days in the dark, our electricity is back. I spent five days cooking our meals on the backyard grill. I even made coffee on the grill, and sat outside in the morning air listening to the chainsaws and chippers and sirens ring out in every direction as I drank it.
All in all, it was a little uncomfortable—and we still have a tree looming over our bedrooms and must stay out of them until the arborist can get a crane and remove the tree without destroying the house.
We didn't suffer. Not really.
It was more like a window to the suffering of New Orleans was briefly cracked open and we got a glimpse inside before it closed and we were once again out of the brutal sun in our cool dark homes.
In his novel Villages, John Updike's protagonist muses that the two greatest arguments in favor of Christianity are the fact that we want to live forever, and this nagging sense that something is wrong, something is fundamentally broken. The first he dismisses as a byproduct of the evolutionary survival instinct. The second he claims is the stronger of the two. Something is wrong with the world.
People are doing a lot of good around here in the wake of the storm, as Karen Swallow Prior describes in her July 6, 2012 Think Christian post.
I think of a memorable line about misfortune from Ha Jin's novel Waiting: "Every fist holds a gift." That is true here too, but it doesn't mean the fist hasn't pounded and crushed, because it has.
From the backyard, through the tree's twisted branches I see truck after battered truck of profiteers, riding the streets like revolutionaries, gripping their chainsaws like guns.
Many houses emptied by those fleeing the storm and heat are being broken into by looters. A group of homeowners near us discovered just such a thief the other night. In a fit of vigilante justice they attacked and beat the guy. How little it takes for our polite suburban niceness to collapse.
A friend asked me how anyone could not believe global warming is really happening, as these extreme weather events become more common, and more severe. I'm not a scientist, but it sure seems to be true.
Even if it isn't quite that bad, would anyone believe that our relationship to the rest of the natural world is hunky dory? Our relationship with one another?
Last night we had another storm. Heavy rain and lightning and thunder. And more wind. We once again heard trees cracking and ripping outside the dark window, and again we took to the basement to sit in the dark and wait it out.
Gracie's oak held. Our house is still intact. I imagine that the crooks were also taking cover somewhere during the storm. In these moments I feel what Updike writes:
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