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Whenever, during any war in which the United States is neutral, the President shall find that special restrictions placed on the use of the ports and territorial waters of the United States by the submarines or armed merchant vessels of a foreign state will serve to maintain peace between the United States and foreign states, or to protect the commercial interests of the United States and its citizens, or to promote the security of the United States, and shall make proclamation thereof, it shall thereafter be unlawful for any such submarine or armed merchant vessel to enter a port or the territorial waters of the United States or to depart therefrom, except under such conditions and subject to such limitations as the President may prescribe. Whenever, in his judgment, the conditions which have caused him to issue his proclamation have ceased to exist, he shall revoke his proclamation and the provisions of this section shall thereupon cease to apply, except as to offenses committed prior to such revocation.
By Proc. Nos. 2375, Nov. 4, 1939, 4 F.R. 4494,54 Stat. 2672; 2400, Apr. 25, 1940, 5 F.R. 1570,54 Stat. 2699; 2406, May 11, 1940, 5 F.R. 1690,54 Stat. 2705; 2409, June 10, 1940, 5 F.R. 2192,54 Stat. 2707; 2445, Nov. 15, 1940, 5 F.R. 4524,54 Stat. 2672, submarines of France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, and Greece were denied use of United States ports and territorial waters.
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Dana White Holds Out Hope for Alexander Gustafsson to Fight at UFC on Fuel TV 9
The UFC on Fuel TV 9 fight card was hit with horrible news over the weekend when Swedish news outlets reported that main eventer and home country favorite Alexander Gustafsson suffered a severe cut in his final sparring session, putting his headlining bout with Gegard Mousasi in jeopardy.
UFC president Dana White, however, insists that the fight has not been cancelled… at least not yet.
Swedish MMA Federation president George Sallfeldt on Sunday told MMANYTT.se that three doctors, one in person and two examining photos, have determined that the cut Gustafsson suffered will take weeks to heal.
Sallfeldt added that, even if the cut were to heal by Friday, letting someone go into a fight "with heavy scar tissue would not be an option."
"It is very difficult to see that this will be medically approved on Friday," Sallfeldt commented, adding that Gustafsson wanted to go ahead with the fight, but "this is a medical decision and not up to Alexander himself."
White on Sunday night, however, told MMAFighting.com via text message that "the (Swedish Mixed Martial Arts Federation) has not said he can't fight, and he wants to fight," leaving the door cracked open, if ever so slightly, for the fight to happen.
To be clear, Sallfeldt never came out and stated that Alexander Gustafsson would absolutely be denied medical clearance, but his comments obviously lead to the conclusion that due to the nature of the cut it would be nearly impossible to medically approve Gustafsson's participation.
The UFC is in a difficult situation if Gustafsson is unable to fight. There are no other bouts on the UFC on Fuel TV 9 fight card that would typically be considered a UFC headlining bout, and there is little time to line up a worthy replacement for Gustafsson.
Still, it would be difficult following Sallfeldt's comments to see the SMMAF approving Gustafsson for the fight, and if they did so contrary to their own requested medical assessments, what would that say about the Federation's credibility as a sanctioning body?
MMAWeekly.com on Monday made a follow-up request for more information on Gustafsson's status, but there was no update as of the time of publication.
Mousasi's camp told MMAWeekly.com that, as of Monday morning, Mousasi and his team are still flying to Sweden expecting to fight, and have not been told that the fight is off or that any change of opponent has been made.
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In recent years, there's been a lot of buzz about automotive infotainment systems — features that are built into recent model cars that can offer anything from satellite navigation, DVD players, internet access and more. This has led to concern from regulators about driver inattention and its impact on safety. As more infotainment features are added to vehicles, any legislative action to ensure safety would seem like closing the barn door after the animals got out.
It's easy to forget, however, that car manufacturers and researchers are indeed working to enhance automotive safety. ECN associate editor Kasey Panetta recently wrote about Automatic Emergency Braking Systems (AEBS) (bit.ly/PcoOAu [1]) and Mercedes' Belt Bag strap (bit.ly/On032z [2]), while Anthony Le of Winbond Electronics has provided an overview of Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) (bit.ly/NU4lSg [3]). Now comes word of a new year-long, $22 million smart-car testing program being conducted by the University of Michigan Transportation Institute (UMTRI) and led by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The goal is to "see how well wireless communication technology works in the real world."
The UMTRI will install 3,000 wireless devices and several cameras on 3,000 cars, trucks, buses, traffic lights, and other road signals in the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan. By wirelessly conveying vehicle data to other vehicles and between vehicles and infrastructure, drivers will be alerted — via an audio or visual cue inside the cabin — to potential accidents or hazards that other connected vehicles encounter that may require immediate attention.
The data collected will be available to the transportation industry to help develop new initiatives for safety, mobility, and environmental sustainability, and the U.S. DOT will study the data for regulatory and policy decisions, although there are no immediate plans for rules requiring wireless safety devices in cars.
All this promising technology of course brings some potential drawbacks. Regular readers of this column may expect me to warn against over-legislation and abuse of data by law enforcement, and both are likely. Also, too many alerts and stimuli may create white noise for the driver, which combined with the wealth of safety features going into automobiles, will lead to complacency issues.
Still, this initiative, along with those safety technologies mentioned earlier, signal a coming wave of societal benefits thanks to the way cars can interact with their surroundings. First, the technology is in place to help drivers respond to — and even act on behalf of the driver in — potential crash situations. Beyond individual driver safety, fewer accidents theoretically should reduce traffic tie-ups along with their associated environmental and economic costs. According to The Texas Transportation Institute's (TTI) 2011 edition Urban Mobility Report, based on U.S. traffic congestion data for 2010 and prior years, commuter delays cost more than $100 billion, or nearly $750 for every commuter in the United States. Says UMTRI Director Peter Sweatman, "Connected vehicle technology has the ability to address as much as 80 percent of crashes of unimpaired drivers and greatly reduce carbon emissions."
And in challenging economic times when local and state government budgets are tight and there's little political will for infrastructure improvements and mass transit initiatives, vehicle-to-infrastructure communications may well guide officials to direct limited funds and resources to potential roadway improvements where they're needed most.
There's much to gain when intelligent vehicles share information wirelessly, not just in saved lives, but also increased productivity, efficiency, and a cleaner environment. And when the auto industry, academia and government work together toward such laudable goals, it's just plain smart.
In recent years, there's been a lot of buzz about automotive infotainment systems — features that are built into recent model cars that can offer anything from satellite navigation, DVD players, internet access and more. This has led to concern from regulators about driver inattention and its impact on safety.


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If you hate our players that much go root for a different team or turn the TV off.
Michigan vs. Ohio State Basketball Open Thread
I don't give up on games easily, but it's looking grim.
is it me, or does THJ go 1/2 everytime he goes to the free throw line?
Its just you. He's roughly ~75%
so he goes 1 for 2 roughly half the time.
He's one of our better FT shooters. If you shoot 75% you only have a 50% chance of hitting both.
Let's just cover.
Holy hell people, relax. We are losing to a top 5 team. Did you really expect anything else? We are still having a decent season and we are (probably) going to make the tournament. Would you rather go back to the days of sucking hard and maybe making it to the NIT?
1. They are a top 3-4 team for a reason.
2. Been forever since they've lost in the Nut House.
3. We've reeled them back in a couple of times.
4. We have talent, but not enough depth.
5. Our best players will continue to get better; seniors will get replaced by better hoopsters and more depth.
Everyone said this was a ten-point game, and they were right.
With more athletic wings to replace a few of the guys we have now. Novaks loss will be the most glaring.
It's just you. At 72% i'm pretty sure that's better than 50/50
Woo! It's makeup call time!
It's hard to win when Morgan is missing bunnies and Stu and Novak don't make any threes.
from your senior captain just won't cut it.
Let's shock these arrogant, stupid fuckers.
Sullinger just made him look silly.
Line is 13.5.
glad I followed my never ever bet on Michigan policy then
The Bucks didn't beat us, we lost it.
eh they definitely beat us.
Fuck ohio
there goes our cover
Fuck Ohio.
Burke just totally fucked up the betting line.
this was a game we could have had. osu shot horribly today - give credit to the D. but our rebounding was horrible and we missed way too many wide open shots.
Couldn't buy a bucket. So many close misses, rim-outs.
We needed to play better to have a chance to win this game in Columbus. We'll see these guys in Ann Arbor later, let's see how we do then...
was is wrong with your English. It's basketball. geez
So there.
What they hell is up with the number 64 the past couple games.
I've got feb 18 circled now
Gotta be honest, Sullinger is not as impressive as I'd have thought. He's just beefy.
I'm not sure how effective he will be in the NBA. If he is projected to be a power forward at the next level, then he will be the slowest power forward ever.
he's one of the most polished post players in college basketball, if not the best. one of the reasons his teammates get so many bunnies is because the D is focused on him. he's a good passer too.
i admit though, i've seen him play better.
He looked slow.
But they still suck.
14 more FTs by the Bucks.
Hard to be mad.
It's not easy beating a Top 5 team in their house, no matter how good you are.
Let's just get them when they visit Ann Arbor.
I think we can take these guys in Ann Arbor
We had our chances. We needed a little more luck on shots and a little more size. Hopefully a healthy Horford helps give us some more depth to play these guys. We can beat them at Crisler.
I'm so fucking tired of this. Without Jon we are a team with a 6 foot ten joke, a power forward who's been garbage for weeks, and one decent power forward being forced to play center because he's the only one on the floor who can even think about playing it.
in college basketball. Basketball officiating in general is a farce - in the NBA though it's the superstars who get the calls.
They have like 18 free throws at this point and we have 4. They shot 16 before we even got ONE. And don't give me that "it's only because they have a different style of play" garbage - we had MORE points in the paint than they did for most of the first half.
Can't wait 'til we play these hooligans at home.
Did you watch the game? Are you really arguing that we took it to the paint more than OSU?
There was one, maybe two times where I thought "that'll get us to the line" and one of those was called. OSU was bigger, faster, quicker and we played on the perimeter. That's why we didn't get to the line.
most of their free throws were NOT coming from them working the paint.
Statistically, I really find it highly improbable that they could have had 16 free throws before we had any at all. Tell me, how often do we end up with 4 free throws, zero before the last five minutes, when we're playing at home? How often does Burke end up with no free throws?
EDIT: Ouch. Triple. Post.
in college basketball. Basketball officiating in general is a farce - in the NBA though it's the superstars who get the calls.
They have like 18 free throws at this point and we have 4. They shot 16 before we even got ONE. And don't give me that "it's only because they have a different style of play" garbage - we had MORE points in the paint than they did for most of the first half.
Can't wait 'til we play these hooligans at home.
The team just needs to slow the hell down and play their game. Beilein has to be so frustrated with the lack of concentration and patience.
this team often gives up a couple buckets then rushes down, hucks up a 3 and exacerbates the problem. to beat better teams, you have to minimize the # of possessions. it's ok to run if there are #s, but it's important to pull it back, run the offense and work the clock, when nothing is there.
I thought the team came out and played focused. THe problem is that in order to beat ohio state you probably have to keep sullinger on the bench and if he's not on teh bench you need morgan on the floor. sullinger was on the bench in the 1st half. he wasn't in the 2nd and morgan had to sit. that alone is a HUGE advantage for ohio
1. We're going to have to get stronger if we're going to win on the road. You've got to finish on those second chance opportunities, whether they're hacking the crap out of you or not. Because you're not going to get the whistle.
2. We have got to get some help for Jordan Morgan. The drop off is just too great when he is on the bench. When he AND Smotrycz are on the bench its just lights out. That's recruiting.
3. We're not that far off. Tim is getting his groove back. It seemed like every one of the "good" shots he took went down. Shot selection still needs work. They play like that and they're going to beat a lot of teams, including little bro in Lansing.
Smotrycz looked better today than he has of late, too, in my opinion.
but 1-6 with 3 pts and 1 rebound ain't gonna cut it.
Days like today make me really miss Horford.
That fat OSU 'tard (yes, that basically applies to all OSU fans) who wears nuts around his neck (again, any OSU fan at any time of day) was given a gratuitous three second shot at the end of the game. That man is the reason that Ohio's fans are viewed as uneducated anchors on humanity. I am a libertarian but some people are just born to be serfs, in the feudal sense of the word. I hate Ohio.
There are LOTS of reason Ohio fans are viewed as uneducated humanity anchors. Dont pin it all on bucknuts guy. He just doesn't know any better.
I don't even see the nuts. I just see heart disease, missed opportunities, and profoundly average to below average minds.
If there is any excuse other than "they have better athletes at nearly every position and absolutely crush us on the boards," then we are kidding ourselves. I want to route for guys like Douglass, Novak, Smotrycz, and some of our bench players, but let's get real, Burke and Hardaway, and sometimes Morgan are the only ones that belong out there on a consistent basis if we want to consider ourselves in the same sentence as some of the elite teams. In other words, some of the core of our team are, if anything, only role players in the elite basketball programs.
We will look back in 2014 and realize that these guys who play 20-35 minutes for us in 2012 would be mop up time eaters.
We can win with this team. Just not on the road against #4. No reason Michigan wont beat this team at home.
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Sun-lovers should head to the Bay of Plenty or Hawkes Bay for the best weather this summer, but most of the country can expect warmer, drier weather.
The Coromandel and Gisborne are safe bets for sunny, settled weather, said Niwa climate scientist Georgina Griffiths.
Unlike the cold, rainy conditions of last summer, this year will be more what New Zealanders expect from a summer, she said.
Niwa has issued its seasonal outlook for the next three months and a lot of it is better than last year - for holidaymakers at least.
Normal to dry weather is likely for the North Island and in Nelson-Marlborough.
Rainfall in these areas is forecast to be lower than usual.
A combination of La Nina and easterly winds last year brought a cloudy, wet summer for the North Island and Nelson-Marlborough, said Mrs Griffiths.
"This year we're forecasting more southwesterlies, so that's the reverse of last year. We're expecting dry weather in the northeast of the North Island.
"Everywhere else we're expecting normal summer rainfall - it depends on where you live what that means," she said.
Western areas from Taranaki to Wellington and the West Coast of the South Island and Southland can expect temperatures to be average or slightly below average overall.
Everywhere else temperatures will be average.
"For the bulk of the population I would say it's a much better forecast than the one we had last year."
But the weather won't be good news for everyone.
An unusually dry November for many regions, including much of the North Island and Nelson-Marlborough, dried out the soil and the average rainfall forecast would bring only limited relief to the areas, said Mrs Griffiths.
The east coast of the North Island, north of Taupo, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa and Nelson would have drier than normal soils for summer.
"If you're a holidaymaker, excellent, and if you're a farmer perhaps not so good in those regions.
"They'll get some rain over summer but we're forecasting below normal rain for them."
And if you're looking for settled, warm weather over the summer, the traditional hotspots are your best bet, said Mrs Griffiths.
"If you want settled, hot perhaps if you think about what's typical for the summer, it's always warmest in the northern North Island, so Coromandel or Gisborne, Hawkes Bay and parts of Canterbury are quite warm for summer.
"The dry forecast is really in the northern east, so my bet would be on Coromandel, Bay or Plenty, or Gisborne, Hawkes Bay.


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Seriously; this look to government to protect one's self has gone too far.
The people who knowingly decided to live below sea level bear no responsibility?
Seriously; this look to government to protect one's self has gone too far.
In the US of A, being stupid is a civil right.
60% of the population of the Netherlands live below sea level. Are they all stupid too?
60% of the population of the Netherlands live below sea level. Are they all stupid too?
No, but they all have their fingers stuck in dikes.
Send the Army Corps of Engineers to the Netherlands. All the folks that live below sea level will move, real fast.
They don't tend to pray that hurricanes decide to change direction to avoid them... So I say no.
Location. Location. Location.
60% of the population of the Netherlands live below sea level. Are they all stupid too?
Not yet - but they would be if they were devastated by a natural disaster exacerbated by their elevation (say, a tsunami or hurricane), and then proceeded to whine to their federal government for not protecting them from it. However, unlike Louisiana, the Netherlands is not in a prime hurricane or tsunami path, so their elevation in relation to the sea is less of consequence.
Actually, they did. In 1953, some 1800 people drowned when storms combined with a high tide ripped through the dikes. Some people died in England too.
The difference is, the government took a good look at the dike system, and decided it wasn't up to scratch. Cue a massive program of dike improvements and dams to shorten the coastline, and we're expected to be safe from catastrophic floods for millennia.
Now, if you compare the dikes around the Dutch polders to the levees in New Orleans, it becomes clear where
"60% of the population of the Netherlands live below sea level. Are they all stupid too?"
The Dutch don't live in an area plagued by hurricanes, they don't have much alternative due to crowding (which is what drove land reclamation in the first place), and they don't live in a willfully culturally backward and infamously corrupt state.
The US has vast amounts of land. No one "needs" to live in New Orleans, below sea level or otherwise. (Do note that the old French Quarter wasn't wiped out because they didn't
Appealing to "individual responsibility" is fun and all; but senseless if perspective is not kept. Living below sea level is stupid. However, living below sea level behind a levee designed specifically to make that area habitable, which has been doing exactly that for years and years now is considerably less stupid. Does "individual responsibility" require near-Cartesian levels of doubt in every possible piece of infrastructure?
The levee could not handle a Category 3 hurricane. Category 3 hurricanes which hit that area are periodic events that happen from time to time; they are absolutely inevitable. So you have a city below sea level protected by a barrier which cannot possibly handle an event that you know with certainty will one day happen. Additionally, all those years that passed without it happening were ample opportunity to reinforce the levee and otherwise to prepare for that eventuality. This did not happen. This alone would dissuade me from living there because the result is absolutely predictable. It's only a question of when.
What do you call it when people make themselves available for preventable disasters that are easy to foresee? Usually the word "stupid" is used to describe actions like this. "Stupid" is also used to describe people who need a politician or other official to tell them when something is a bad idea because they've lost their common sense and have replaced it with various authority figures. So without a government mandate or official inquiry they, acting on their own, would not seriously question the integrity of the levees or the tremendous risk they were taking. That sheeplike dependency, that inability to independently question and reason, explains not only why New Orleans was such a terrible diaster but also most of American politics and government expansion.
If you want to do something constructive, don't feel sorry for them or make excuses for them. Those sentiments are probably meant well but they accomplish nothing. They have no power to prevent a future disaster. If you want to do something, use this as an example for why there is no substitute for thinking for yourself and assessing your own risks. Let it represent why there is no substitute for those things, that all kinds of preventable harm is caused by the failure to value those things. The (minority of) people who understand this got out of New Orleans a long time ago and wouldn't have considered moving back without substantial improvements to the inadequate levee. The rest were surprised by the inevitable, which is like choosing to be a victim.
So yes, individual responsibility was a big factor here. It's not about doubting everything to an absurd degree. It's about knowing the situation you're in and putting yourself into a different situation if it's an invitation to disaster. But the folks who were hit hardest were not thinkers. They didn't think about their situation or compare it to other situations or evaluate risks. They had no such awareness. They just did their daily thing without a second thought and were surprised when something happened. That's the real message here.
So you have a city below sea level protected by a barrier which cannot possibly handle an event that you know with certainty will one day happen. Additionally, all those years that passed without it happening were ample opportunity to reinforce the levee and otherwise to prepare for that eventuality.
The judge agrees with you:
'It is the court's opinion that the negligence of the corps, in this instance by failing to maintain the MR-GO properly, was not policy, but insouciance, myopia, and shortsightedness,'
The thing is, the judge lives, along with most of us, in a world where people and organizations have some minimal obligation to other people. Thus, when there is a government organization whose responsibility it is to build levees that will protect a city full or people, and when this organization fails to protect against something that is, as both you and the judge point out, perfectly predictable, then we say this organization has been negligent, and we hold it responsi
As much as I'd like to agree, my guess is most people would simply assume that the levee would do the job.
Those who did question it probably couldn't afford to move on a hunch. We're not talking about wealthy areas here.
Even worse, any plea to local government was probably deferred in favor of other issues considered more pressing to a depressed area.
Just guessin'.
The levees in New Orleans were not ever designed to make a Category 3+ storm survivable, and they've always been in a TERRIBLE state of repair (anyone who's actually been the the area could tell you that water constantly seeped through them in several places). New Orleans floods during normal rainstorms. Anyone who thought they were safe there during a Hurricane doesn't deserve any pity.
Also, the money allocated to levee repair/upgrade was spent on things like off-ramps for casinos and such by the local levee boards. This judge declaring the Corps. to be responsible while ignoring the gross criminal negligence by state and local officials is one of the biggest miscarriages of justice I have ever seen.
These very factors are why the smart and able people evacuated, like my family. AND these reasons are why home owner's insurance policies are now being written with much more stringent base flood elevation requirements. The number of homes in the worst hit areas are being raise 4 to 12 feet is impressive, now some of these folks will actually have a chance of not having their homes destroyed if another levee failure happens.
The lessons learned in New Orleans after Katrina are the lessons that folks who have lived along the coast of Florida and elsewhere have known for a while. Hurricanes come and they blow shit over and make water rise up to crazy heights. So if you want your stuff to make it through you need to build your house up about the storm surge height and add some extra strapping to your roof and walls to keep them from blowing away.
Having grown up in Florida, lived in New Orleans for 3 years up to Katrina, and now being back in New Orleans again I have only modest levels of sympathy for the folks who lost everything, seeing as I lost a good deal myself. But I was properly insured, evacuated as advised and knew what to expect from 21 years of hurricanes in Florida. The anger needs to be directed at the incompetent local government that didn't take care of its own. Nagin waited too long to order the evacuation and, instead of using the city's fleets of public and school buses to get people out he had everyone go to the Superdome and people died en masse because of his and other local politician's incompetence. And yet he got re-elected because he and the idiot populi blamed the federal government rather than pointing the finger where it rightfully belonged.
The people who knowingly decided to live below sea level bear no responsibility?
So, let's get this right... If you contract me to do some work on your roof and it leaks -- it's your own damn fault for choosing to live in an area where it rains?
I like it!
That's the irony, actually. Normally, the same people who are big on "personal responsibility" are also big on "accountability". Why would they be opposed to the Army Corps of Engineers being "accountable" for fucking up?
I personally think the Army Corps of Engineers should be held partly accountable for its actions contributing to the mess. But it's worth noting that the Corps isn't the primary source of blame. The city of New Orleans and its inhabitants have to be responsible for their part in this mess as well.
It's because the ACoE DIDN'T fuck up. They'd been calling for upgrades since the 60's and couldn't ever get the funding! The secondary problem was the lack of maintenance. The dollars for maintaining the existing levies did exist but the LOCAL, as in not the ACoE, boards kept rejecting the maintenance requests and spending the money on other projects. Such as golf courses and on/off ramps.
So in this case the analogy of roofs and rain, as presented, is broken. It's more like you told the roofing contractor you wanted a lightweight roof and the contractor said you should really have one made of tiles. You say you don't want to pay for that so build the cheap. The contractor builds the cheap one, tells you again that it's insufficient for the storms you get in your area and then keeps coming back to your house asking to do upgrades and repairs...which you refuse to allow even when the contractor is willing to pay for it.
Actually yes. Eventually those shingles will wear and be damaged and it'll rain again and it'll leak again. Move to the desert if this arrangement bothers you. Its not the governments responsibility to control weather, raise land to above sea level, plug faults, super glue cliffs together by the ocean, fireproof trees or quench volcanos. If you choose to live where there are naturally dangerous occurrences and they occur , It isn't my fault, it isn't the governments fault, it isn't even the insurance companys fault , it's yours.
To further look into this, It isn't the governments job to make you safe against anything but invasion (what a fine f**king mess that is) and various sundry constitutional duties. If you really want to know what the states liability is, then read your states constitution. The rest is in your hands. Live in a flood zone? Build on stilts and take the elevator up. Live in a quake zone? Build a single story in the wide open. Live on a volcano? Buy some barbeque sauce , Einstein.
Unless my semen had something to do with your birth and it was my responsibility to teach you how to get along in life, everything else is your responsibility.
While I agree that trying inhabit the New Orleans area is rather stupid, this ruling was pretty specific about this particular canal's design and maintenance. Apparently residents and city officials have been complaining about this thing since a 1965 hurricane that did a miniature version of what Katerina did and have been begging the Corp to change the canal to prevent exactly what happened.
That's what I got from some extensive radio news coverage yesterday.
Particularly, in the two years immediately before Katrina, a huge amount of the Corps budget ($2-300 milllion, IIRC) was switched to funding the occupation of Iraq because, since it was already Army money, it could be switched without permission of Congress. Which puts the blame squarely on the Adminstration, rather than the Corps of Engineers. And also shows how silly it is to have what is basically a civil job being done by the Army.
So the two years before Katrina outweigh the 30+ years, since 1965 or so, that the Corps had been asking for budget to fix JUST THIS?
Talk about myopic!
Mmm. I think if you check the New Orleans flood map, you'll find that the hardest hit districts were the ones with the lowest social mobility. If you're born there, and can't afford to move anywhere else, then should you be damned for your "decision" to be poor? [cityofno.com]
Perhaps the State has no responsibility to act for the benefit of its citizens, but if not, then what is its purpose?
Mmm. I think if you check the New Orleans flood map, you'll find that the hardest hit districts were the ones with the lowest social mobility. If you're born there, and can't afford to move anywhere else, then should you be damned for your "decision" to be poor?
Very, very few people in the US are so poor they cannot move elsewhere. Yes it's harder for those without means but it's not remotely impossible. I grew up in a family that was poor as church mice when I was little. We could have moved if we felt the need. Saying you can't move because you are poor is demonstrably untrue most of the time. Nobody promises you it will be easy but it most definitely is possible.
Perhaps the State has no responsibility to act for the benefit of its citizens, but if not, then what is its purpose?
Of course its job it to act for the benefit of the citizens but ONLY for those things the citizens can't do themselves. There is hardly an able bodied or able minded adult person in this country who could not pick up and move to another location within the US if they set their mind to it. They don't need the government's help to do that in most cases.
Well... the government did allow people to build there. Insurance companies considered it an acceptable risk (pre-Katrina). Most of the houses would be saved if the Levies didn't break.
I would say this would go under normal government protection not excessive one. When it is an individual who knows the risk then it is their fault. However if you expand a city to these areas then it becomes a government concern.
Well *NOW* maybe a lot. but how many did back then ?
Any competent buyer, who would demand a correctly-surveyed piece of property before purchase. We didn't invent elevation in the last decade or anything, just easy ways to get a bad estimate thereof (Elevation is GPS' key weakness.)
who is responsible else how will the lawyers get paid?
So, the Corp is responsible. Big deal. Fix the problem. I do not see how this entitles anyone to sue the government for money. Whats next? Suing the government for permitting tobacco sales? Its not like the government doesn't know they are bad for you.
The people who knowingly decided to live below sea level bear no responsibility?
They probably didn't even know they were below sea level. What is your town's elevation? Hell, Cahokia IL is smack in the middle of the midwest and it's only 400 feet above sea level.
And a lot of people, especially the poor, don't have much of a choice where they live. If you were talking about the rich people in California who build mansions where they can slide off a cliff, or in a wooded area that was prone to wildfires you would be right. If someone's home Kansas gets blown away by a tornado do you blame them because they live in Kansas? If someone's house in Japan gets destroyed in an earthquake do you blame them for living in Japan? If someone in Florida's house is destroyed by a hurricane do you blame them just because they live in Florida? There aren't many places on earth that are immune from natural disasters. But the disaster in N.O. was caused by the Corps of Engineer's incompetence. It's scary; I have friends in the St Louis area. I just saw in the paper yesterday that the levees in Alton, IL are in bad shape. I hope the one in Caholia is good, I have friends there. When the hundred year flood hit in the nineties, the Mississippi was at the top of the levee there.
Blaming the victim is despicable, and that's just what you're doing. The government reassured these people and they believed the gov. Who's to blame, the liar or the one who believes the lies?
They probably didn't even know they were below sea level.
I don't buy that bit of excuse making for a second. If they didn't know they damn well should have known. It's not as if it was a secret.
What is your town's elevation? Hell, Cahokia IL is smack in the middle of the midwest and it's only 400 feet above sea level.
About 630ft in my case. If I get flooded animals will be lining up in twos.
And a lot of people, especially the poor, don't have much of a choice where they live.
Only the children and the handicapped. I've been poor myself but even poor people can move in the US. It isn't as easy as for those with means but its entirely possible. Even poor people in the US aren't generally so poor they can't relocate. It might be hard but most definitely have a choice
You, like most people, are overlooking a few facts here. New Orleans used to be well inland and above sea level. A long series of environmentally disastrous policies lowered the water table, removed natural barriers, concentrated storm surges, and generally guaranteed that NO was a disaster waiting to happen.
Unfortunately the government and Army Corps aren't legally liable for severe technical malpractice and rank stupidity. This suit slips through a loophole in the legal immunity the government gave the Corps.
New Orleans could be saved. And the cost of abandoning a major city is immense, far more than building better hurricane defenses. Building better hurricane walls will cost far more than restoring wetlands, allowing the water table to recover, and re-engineering the waterways. Of course, the best/cheapest solution is probably the one least likely to be selected by our broken political process.
And the cheapest solution of all (short-term) is to blame the victim and do nothing. It's worked really well so far.
I wish this was right at the top. I was hoping someone would point out that New Orleans was not naturally in a dangerzone.
The Army Corp of Engineers over a century of work has done so much damage to the surrounding wetlands that the Gulf has encroached hundreds of miles, and the city itself has sunk. The Army Corp in trying to tame the Mississippi doomed New Orleans to this fate, and then did nothing to protect it. Instead they waste money on dredging more channels that will be barely if ever used, and lead
I just got off work, and I'm just to tired to do the search that I ought to do. Anyone can google if they care to.
The retaining walls in New Orleans failed in exactly two places. No more, and no less. In precisely those two places, the N.O. water and sewer department had disturbed the wall, years earlier. They lifted the panels out of the wall, and out of the prepared soil in which they had been planted. After making alterations to these panels, they were lifted back into place, and set back on the very same groung, without any work being done to the ground.
Some people who have never been around a construction site may need to ask around, or research, but I'll tell you what you'll find. Lifting a fencepost, a wall, or anything out of the ground, breaks built up adhesion. In fact, adhesion is going to lift great gobs of dirt along with whatever you are lifting. When you put that fencepost, or panel, or whatever BACK into the hole, you will have voids. Voids are conducive to water flow.
And, those two panels that failed, did so BECAUSE water had percolated UNDER them, removing all the loosened soil under and around the panels. Once all the loose soil was gone, water flow increased, washing out more and more stabilized earth.
Eventually, the walls collapsed when several panels were left without any support.
Bottom line? That judge is full of shit. The New Orleans water and sewer department caused the city to flood. Katrina was not the primary cause, nor were the Corps of Engineers. Water and sewer fools who had no idea what they were doing, took it upon themselves to tamper with vital infrastructure, without consulting the Corps.
I'm going to bed. If I'm barraged with challenges, maybe I'll find the pertinent reports for everyone when I get up. But, I'm sure that SOMEONE can find the news articles as well as the reports.
Have fun!
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1103/p02s02-ussc.html [csmonitor.com]
"We found dozens of breaches throughout the levee system," says Peter Nicholson, who leads the American Society of Civil Engineers' levee-assessment team."
ASCE senate testimony: http://www.ewrinstitute.org/files/pdf/katrinalevees.pdf [ewrinstitute.org]
"Rather than a few breaches through the floodwalls in
the city caused largely by overtopping, we found literally dozens of breaches throughout
the many miles of levee system. A number of different failure mechanisms were
Its paranoia, but partially justified paranoia. In 1927 they did blow the levee to prevent economic damage to New Orleans (and causing a flash flood that killed several people south of the city).
They did it once? why not do it again? The circumstances were different, and it wouldn't work this time. And the water wouldn't have anywhere to go. The "rich" french quarter was "saved" by being the oldest part of the city, built on dry land before the levees and higher than the rest of the city. Its a ridiculous notion, and not correct, but sometimes ridiculous things happen.
I've read in several disparate sources that the Corps repeatedly informed the powers-that-be in Louisiana and New Orleans that the levies were insufficient but were regularly ignored.
This was not-so-widely reported during the Katrina situation, because people were too busy jumping on the "Katrina is Bush's Fault!" bandwagon. Funding was funneled away from the levees and put into other projects.
That isn't to say that the ACE isn't at fault either; some of the levees seem to have been poorly built, but I am not convinced this is due to malicious intent.
The Corp was backed up by an exercise called Hurricane Pam [wikipedia.org]. In that exercise, FEMA headed by Mike Brown (the same Mike Brown) simulated what would happen if a hurricane hit New Orleans. This was conducted in 2004 (a year before Katrina). The results showed that a slow moving Category 3 hurricane (Pam) would wreck the city and topple the levees. Almost a million people would be homeless with 600,000 buildings damaged or destroyed. In other words: catastrophe.
After the initial part of the exercise that
While Katarina was ongoing, there were plenty of independent news outlets running video footage of professionals warning what would happen. It made the Bush mantra of "No one could have predicted..." out to be just as much of a joke as the "No one could have predicted..." 9-11 version. (And then the Aug 6th PDB title was released.)
It also makes the entire state of Louisiana look stupid for not declaring an emergency (Federal gov't can't send in the national guard without the state's say so) or forcing an evacuation, even though they are the ones who should have best known that anything above a category 3 would put the city underwater.
At the beginning of the trial this summer, US District Court Judge Stanwood Duval asked, "You all know what this is about:
He answered in a 158-page ruling late Wednesday.
"It is the court's opinion that the negligence of the corps, in this instance by failing to maintain the MR-GO properly, was not policy, but insouciance, myopia, and shortsightedness," he wrote.
He awarded 4 people (presumably New Orleans landowners) about $750,000 apiece for a lawsuit that's been going on since 2006. I don't know any more specifics about this case, but that seems like a small price to pay compared to the millions/billions that were spent immediately after the storm.
What I don't understand is why natural disasters should have been mitigated by technology. There are certain areas of the country that are susceptible to certain disasters. They wouldn't blame a construction firm w
I don't buy the argument that we should be expected to spend the money up-front to guard against storms that big.
You're missing the point, which is that the badly maintained canal made the situation worse than it would have been had the canal never been built (at which point nobody would have lived in the area in question because it would _always_ flood). People would have been better off if they had done nothing at all, but that's not what they did.
In my opinion, it wasn't just myopia and shortsightedness, but nearsightedness as well!
You're neglecting the "insouciance".
They also went through a massive geo engineering project to prevent the natural course of the river from moving west of the city away from the city of new orleans. To save its port economy instead of building a different god damn port.
They did not build the city next to the gulf and below water. Open a history book, this is a man made disaster, we humans have moved the Gulf to New Orleans and sunk the city. Its what happend when you destroy thousands of square miles of wetlands to allow a couple more ships per day up the Mississippi and ignore why people built New Orleans so far inland (it was to the Gulf originally as Baton Rouge is now.)
For a supposed bunch of intelligent people, most of you readers on Slashdot seem to know nothing of
They did not build the city next to the gulf and below water. Open a history book, this is a man made disaster, we humans have moved the Gulf to New Orleans and sunk the city. Its what happend when you destroy thousands of square miles of wetlands to allow a couple more ships per day up the Mississippi and ignore why people built New Orleans so far inland (it was to the Gulf originally as Baton Rouge is now.)
I'd mod you up...
For a supposed bunch of intelligent people, most of you readers on Slashdot seem to know nothing of history, nor of engineered malfeasance.
But you're a douche.
The same Army Core of Engineers recommended for years the levies be reinforced. There is no reason to think doing so would not have avoided the flooding problems. The people there failed to make the investment. Its the local government there that is responsible and nobody else.
What we have here is a professional organization said the situation was unsafe and recommended a fix. The customer did not elect to implement the fix. Then when things went wrong the customer is trying to blame that organization for not having recommended something else.
Its total crap.
Now Corps would have a case against the city and the state an
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IL – Incredible Change Bots Signing
November 23, 2010 by Colin Solan
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Jeffrey Brown signs on December 11th from noon to 2pm. The author of Clumsy, AEIOU, Every Girl is the End of the World for Me, Bighead, I am Going to be Small and Sulk, is signing copies of his books and doing sketches for fans at Third Coast Comics.
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Submission + - Blizzard announces Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft "Card Game" (playerattack.com)
UgLyPuNk writes: Blizzard has revealed its "something new" at PAX East 2013: Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft — a "charming collectible strategy game set in the Warcraft universe."We've been working on a little something, different from our other games, and we're pleased to invite you to be the first to see it. It's not a sequel, expansion or that rumored next-gen MMO, but it's something we're excited for you to get your hands on."


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Infectious volunteerism
Last Thursday was a special evening. Sequins glittered, lights twinkled, music blared and dresses whirled. The crowd sat in awe as familiar faces took to the floor in a show of agility, dexterity and elegance.
Hundreds came out to see the sixth annual Dancing with the Stars of Mentoring event at Rhodes on the Pawtuxet in Cranston. The yearly gala benefits the Rhode Island Mentoring Partnership, which pairs adult mentors with Rhode Island youth.
The attendance of the fundraiser was a testament to the importance and far-reaching impact of the program.
But what was more impressive than the hefty turnout was the effort put into the event in the previous months.
Six Rhode Island "celebrities" donated spare moments from their busy schedules to learn and rehearse ballroom dance routines. Since January, the six stars have been practicing at Dancin' Feelin', devoting themselves to a foreign art for a good cause. For some, it came naturally, and for others, it was a struggle. But at the end of the day, they were all doing it for the same reason: Rhode Island's youth.
When they came out onto the dance floor last Thursday evening, it was clear that despite the nerves, the struggles and the second thoughts, each was proud of themselves for conquering their individual challenges, and for giving back to something greater than themselves.
But the stars weren't the only ones volunteering their time. The professional instructors and dancers all stepped up to the plate, too. Each met with their partner and taught them the steps, helping their "star" to shine the brightest. They, too, took pride in their performances and in their charitable contributions.
Then, of course, there are the volunteers who lie outside of the bounds of last week's event. They are the mentors, the people without whom the Partnership could not exist.
There are currently 4,601 volunteer mentors working with youth throughout Rhode Island, and each mentor meets with their child for an hour a week. It may not seem like much time, but it adds up, and makes a significant difference. According to the Partnership, children with mentors are less likely to skip school, abuse alcohol or drugs, and engage in violence.
The essence of volunteerism lies in every facet of the partnership, from their daily outreach to their fundraising efforts. People are willing to step up and offer their time for a good cause.
This year's event raised $77,000, a testament to the infectious power of volunteerism – give of yourself, and others will give, too.


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2010: Two-year letterwinner … a solid all-around player that will compete for significant playing time as a member of the attack unit.
2009: Saw action in 17 games and tallied 11 points on five goals and six assists … also collected eight ground balls … notched a career-best four points on one goal and a career-high three assists in an 18-3 win over DeSales (3/4) … scored a career-best two goals in an 18-9 win over Greensboro (3/21).
2008: Played in five contests as a first-year, totaling two goals and one assist ... tallied one goal and one assist in a 23-3 win over Savannah Art & Design (2/21).
High School: Lettered in lacrosse and hockey at Deerfield Academy ... lacrosse team won the league and New England Championships as a senior.
Off the Field: Serves as vice president of the club ice hockey team at W&L ... sister, Claire, played lacrosse at the UMass ... member of the Williams Investment Society ... ODAC Scholar-Athlete … economics major.


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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Have You Seen This Show?
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I've seen it far too often.
I actually don't think the entire offense is lost. I just think Jeffy misplaced his box of crayons, so he's having to go with his old doodles instead of being able to make new ones.
- September 12, 2006 1:18 AM
- Boomer Bear said...
FSU has an offense???!!!?
"The Bear"
- September 12, 2006 9:04 AM
- bigndfan175 said...
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- September 12, 2006 12:05 PM
- bigndfan175 said...
Okay - I'm a life long Irish fan (insert pithy remark here________ ) however; hats off to your blog site its one of the best out there. The humor (even at ND's expense)is hilarious. Our joint hatred of tOSU is only rivaled by my hatred of USC and LLLLLLLloyd Carr. I actually repsect the MI fb program but LLLLLLLoyd is a cry baby. Keep of the great work, from an admiring (not quite a man crush) Irish fan.
- September 12, 2006 12:06 PM
- Yost said...
LOL, bigndfan.
Thanks for reading.
- September 12, 2006 12:37 PM
- Can't spell Lloyd without 2 "L's" said...
Well, it's not like you made them your pre-season #1. Oh, wait...
- September 12, 2006 1:00 PM
where are titties? you promised me more tournaments and titties!
- September 12, 2006 2:24 PM
I concur TMB. Need. More. Boobies. Let's finish the BCS already!! Though I never tire of the tOSU bits. That and the inevitable onslaught of buckeye fans wondering why a Michigan site makes fun of them.
Go IRISH!
- September 12, 2006 4:01 PM
- Yost said...
The BCS shall continue. Just haven't had a chance to get around to it w/ season started.
- September 12, 2006 4:37 PM
You are all funny. It's like you don't realize the inevitable loss of the game again. When will you bring in a new coach so we can beat him years in a row?
- September 12, 2006 6:19 PM
You'd think a Buck fan coming in here and taking a cheapshop at the authors who take a lot of time to create a great sports page (and funny as hell), would at least have the marbles to use a name- or his community service identification number. Maybe just maybe the Bucks will lose 3 or 4 this year and get pounded by the mediocre Gamecocks in the Outback Bowl- AGAIN.
- September 12, 2006 9:20 PM
Love the pix --- you guys ar SO funny!!!!
- September 13, 2006 6:51 AM
You can use that "Lost" graphic for the Real BCS.
- September 13, 2006 2:53 PM


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Independent developers in the United States can now submit proposals for a game--not necessarily backed by a demo--for the chance to win the top prize of $175,000 or a second-place prize of $75,000 in this first stage of the two-stage competition.
"This competition underscores our commitment to supporting the creative spirit and innovation of developers," said Activision executive vice president of studios Dave Stohl in the announcement. "I started my career as a software developer, so this opportunity is something I'm personally very proud to offer to the industry's young visionaries."
Winners must consent to granting Activision first right of refusal to publish the finished product and inserting a splash screen acknowledging the contest cash.
The contest ends on August 31, after which "a panel of qualified third-party independent judges" will whittle down the entries to a handful and Activision will pick the two winners.


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I suppose one of the advantages of being a guitarist/musician is that work can be found on many levels. It seems true that it's even harder to find good work these days as a guitarist, but there are so many ways people enjoy music, that it seems that if one puts their mind to it, they can really make a living as a guitar player.
Lord knows that against all odds, I was certainly able to do it, and I stayed in guitar, and the music world in any way I could. For example, when I started Hot Licks, it was because the yearly touring I was used to doing had temporarily ceased, and suddenly there was no income! I started teaching guitar again to supplement my income (another good alternative for players!) and turned all those well-honed teaching "chops" into a series of taped lessons called Hot Licks that I had planned on doing since the early 1970s! My feeling about this in regards to my music was that it would still keep attention on me as a guitarist, not just as a teacher….that people would want to look deeper into what I had done, and was still doing, with my solo albums, etc. In this way, I still felt the "forward motion" of my career, and I was getting further attention, not only for my teaching, but for the uniqueness of what I taught, and how it pertained to me as an artist!
This was a critical decision to make, and actually, if I must say so myself, I was ahead of my time! Back then, many players had never done anything like this and there was still an "un-coolness" factor when it came to teaching. To me, it was all a very important part of the legacy I wanted to leave and pass on to others, and I wanted to document as many of the great players as possible! This also points to now why my newly planned Guitar Hall of Fame seems like such a logical step for someone like me, who's been involved in "passing it on" for so many years!
So, the teaching aspect is really important as a form of "other" work and let's face it, people love to hear music in many situations. There are restaurants to play, bars, outdoor gigs, weddings, birthdays, so many ways a guitar player can, solo or with a band, continue to hone his/her skills! If we were into acting, we'd be just waiting for that "break" to come…..you can't just go to a restaurant and "act" in the corner while folks are eating, but they love to hear some quiet background guitar! There's also the solo verses band factor, and I think it's critical to be able to do both. It not only creates more work for you, but it will really "fine tune" your skills as an overall player!
So, never be discouraged. There are lots of ways for a guitarist to work, to find work and to just generally keep his or her name "out there." The main thing is having the persistence and courage to do so. There's no "corporate" ladder when it comes to moving up in the world of the guitar; it's really all up to you! Best of luck!


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Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut returned to lineup for Monday's matchup with the Toronto Raptors.
Bogut has been out of action since Nov. 7 to strengthen his surgically repaired ankle.
The Milwaukee Bucks dealt the former No. 1 pick in the 2005 NBA Draft to Golden State last March. Bogut underwent microfracture surgery on his left ankle one month later.
The Australian native played in four of the Warriors' first five games this season, averaging 6.0 points and 3.8 rebounds in limited minutes, before taking time off to strengthen the ankle.
Over 412 career games, Bogut has averaged 12.6 points and 9.3 rebounds per contest.


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In the beginning: The origins of U.S. Catholic
How U.S. Catholic got its start 75 years ago
This year marks the 75th anniversary of U.S. Catholic magazine, and throughout 2010 we will dig into our archives to unearth some gems from our history.
Over the past 75 years this magazine has undergone two name changes and several evolutions and shifts in mission and focus. What has remained constant, though, has been the commitment, passion, and direction of our publisher, the religious order of the Claretians, who started this venture in 1935 as The Voice of St. Jude.
The Voice of St. Jude was the brainchild of a diminutive, charismatic Spanish-born Claretian, Father James Tort. A born entrepreneur, Tort not only built Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, the first Mexican American parish in the Archdiocese of Chicago, but in 1929 he also started the National Shrine of St. Jude in that church.
Tort launched the first issue of The Voice of St. Jude as the shrine's "official organ." In its "Foreword and Dedication," he laid out as its main purpose "to make St. Jude Thaddeus, relative and apostle of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, better known in every city, town, and hamlet in this country."
As a second goal, Tort also charged the new publication with "spread[ing] a greater knowledge of the divine mission and work of . . . the Claretian Missionary Fathers." He dedicated the inaugural issue to his order's founder, "Blessed Anthony Claret, C.M.F., who has been called by Pope Pius XI the 'Modern Apostle of the Good Press.' "
A review of the 12 issues of the inaugural year shows how closely the new publication hewed to that double mission: Of 264 pages, more than half (140 pages) were related either to St. Jude, his South Chicago shrine, and the devotion to the saint, or to other activities of the Claretians and hymns, poems, art, and stories of Blessed Anthony Claret (who would be canonized 15 years later).
Admittedly the promotion of the patron saint of seemingly hopeless cases occasionally went a little over the top. Given how thin the biblical and historical record of the saint is, Claretian Father Eugene Sugranes went out on a limb when he wrote whole articles not only about "St. Jude's feeling on Christ's parting from the apostles" but also, in a Christmas special, about how the "Christ child and St. Jude chum and pal together."
In addition to its two main areas of content, The Voice of St. Jude from its very beginning focused on a theme that has remained another constant throughout the publication's 75 years: a focus on the Catholic laity and a mission to encourage, inspire, and equip ordinary Catholics to live their faith in their everyday lives.
In the 1930s that mission was expressed in the ubiquitous call to "Catholic Action." Tort included it in his foreword, expressing his hope that this publishing venture would "add to the sum total of Catholic Action in the United States."
In a five-part article series during the first year of The Voice of St. Jude, Claretian Father Charles Fabing urges readers to "Be Catholic!", "Think Catholic!", "Read Catholic!", "Talk Catholic!", and "Act Catholic!" After 75 years his call to view our Catholic faith as a "24-hour-a-day religion [that] requires a good supply of what some people call (excuse the term) 'guts' " bears heeding.
"Remember," Fabing writes, whoever "is not interested, who doesn't take the opportunities that are offered him in the glorious field of . . . Catholic Action is a slacker, and well does Bishop Sheil of Chicago write, 'No one who glories in the title Christian . . . can afford to be a slacker while a life-and-death struggle for Christ's Cause is in progress.' "


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Cedar Fair says its parks on pace for record year
- Written by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SANDUSKY, Ohio (AP) — Amusement park operator Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. says guests are spending more money at its parks and hotels this year.
The company whose parks include Cedar Point and Kings Island in Ohio said Thursday that it's on pace for a record year in net revenue.
Attendance is up slightly this year, but spending in the parks is up significantly over a last year.
The company with headquarters in Sandusky says preliminary figures through the beginning of November show that 22.7 million people have passed through the gates at its parks.
Cedar Fair owns more than a dozen amusement parks and water parks around the country, along with a handful of hotels.


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Lets have a show of hands from everybody thats going to miss Jason. Anybody? No? Yeah, thats what I thought. Not only could the dude not cook (OR remember the freakin dessert menu), but his personality was somewhat lacking, to put it mildly. But, not to worry. There's a new whipping boy in the form of Craig, who helped the guys lose the Great Chicken Challenge last week. Let's see how badly they screw up this week, shall we?
We join our cheflings fresh from the failure that was last weeks dinner service. Gordo sends them off to bed with a few sweetly worded goodnights, such as punk and useless. Ben is the punk in question, and he jokes with the guys about it. Hes trying to test me, claims Ben. No, hes wondering why you tried to serve raw salmon last week, Ben the Electrician. Louross says that Chef is getting personal now. Now? Vanessa cries her way up to the girls room, knowing she can do better. The cheflings gather their thoughts and try to relax before hitting the sack - but Gordon has other plans. He tells them over the intercom to get their happy asses downstairs and clean up that filthy kitchen.
Yeah, that goes over like a lead balloon. Corey gets pissy because the other girls are talking too much instead of working, and heads upstairs to lie down. With work left to be done. This doesnt endear her to her team mates, not that Corey is ever going to win Miss Popularity with them anyhow.
Morning comes, and with it, a fresh new opportunity to screw up. Gordon lines up the teams and asks the women who is their strongest person. Of course, Corey thinks highly of herself and raises her hand while the others snicker. Instead, they offer up Jen as their strongest. Gordo asks why not Corey, and they tell him about Coreys non-cleaning up self the night before. Corey thinks they tattled because theyre feeling threatened. No, hon, they just dont like you. The men unanimously pick Ben the Punk as their bestest chef.
Gordon proceeds to remind them of their utter suckage at the first three dinner services, and tonight things are going to change. For the first time ever, theyre going to have a family night dinner service. With kiddies. And a new menu. Because they didnt have enough trouble memorizing the first one, I suppose.
The challenge tonight is Pasta Making 101. And none of that funky dried up boxed stuff, thank you very much, only fresh will do in Gordos kitchen. He demonstrates how to crank the dough through the machine by hand, flour it, and hang it to dry. The team with the most pounds of perfect pasta in twenty minutes wins. The guys think they have this one in the bag, since its all about speed and muscle power. Quality, guys, dont forget the quality. You can see where this ones going.
Jen isnt worried that the men have strength on their side, because shes going to make up for it in determination. And damned if she doesnt pounce on that pasta roller with all her might, cranking the dough through like a wild women. Petrozza cranks it out for the guys, sweating up a storm while Matt stands at the end of the table with his arms sticking out, waiting for the pasta to be hung on him to dry. Except, the guys havent finished any pasta yet. So Matt just stands there looking like a big dumb coat rack. A coat rack with freaky, freaky eyebrows. Craig mucks up the pasta and gets shoved out of the way by Bobby, and Craig is now officially on the crap list.
After Gordon picks out the knots and sticky pasta, the men end up with 5.48 pounds and the women.....6.57 pounds. Guys lose. Again! They get to think about their failure as they spend the day prepping both kitchens. Before they go, the women rip into the guys for being slobs, and Christina berates Ben for leaving his nasty spit cups of tobacco juice on the counter. He goes to get it, telling her not to cry about it, and she rails back I dont leave tampons on the sink! Indeed.
The women? Get another weird reward. This one is a trip to an amusement park/pier in a stretch Hummer. Last week was a restaurant with a mechanical bull. Yet the guys get to stuff their faces with lobster and caviar on a yacht? Mmm, okay. But, the girls have fun, so all is well. The men mutter and bitch back in the kitchen, with Craig wishing for the ferris wheel to collapse. Charming guy, that Craig. The sous chef gets Ben to volunteer to help outside. Too bad for Ben, he didnt ask what it was first - he gets to shovel horse manure out of the outdoor playground set up for the kids. The girls arrive just in time to see him scooping up the meadow muffins, and hes not a happy camper.
Time for the dinner service, and the kids are already packing the playground outside, working up an appetite. The girls worry because theyre just getting up to speed on the new menu, but Jen tells them to chill. Its burgers and pasta and onion rings - if we cant do this, I dont know what the hell we can do, says Jen. The men try and pump up Craig, telling him this is his night. His night to do what, I dont know. Craig, the little ingrate, doesnt appreciate the pumping-up.
Gordon tells Jean-Phillipe to open Hells Kitchen, but before he does - he must take off the tie and loosen up his shirt a little. Jean-Phillipe balks at this, but Gordo insists. The doors open, and in pours the throngs of soon to be disappointed diners. Think the cheflings can handle mac n cheese, onion rings, barbequed wings, and burgers? Think again.
The women start off well, getting their first appetizers out quickly. Ben sends out a plate of unseasoned onion rings and is promptly reamed by Gordon. The manure rally hits the fan, though, when Matt sends out undercooked chicken wings to one of the kids. Ramsay kicks, he screams, he brings up the nasty raw scallops that Matt called his signature dish way back in episode one. Its the tartare again with you, isnt it?! he snarls at Matt. Craig is happy that someone else is screwing up besides him.
Things are going smoothly on the womens side, until Shayna torches something in a pan. Vanessa grabs the flaming pan to put it out, and ends up sloshing hot oil on her hand, burning it badly. She says the skin is peeling off as Rosann hollers for some ice. Someone smears ointment on it instead. Ouch. She gets carted off to the hospital, and Gordon tells the ladies not to panic and to get back on track. Vanessa comes back later, and informs them that she has to see a plastic surgeon.
Food fight! Gordon spies Matts little overcooked hockey puck burgers, as he calls them, and gets to hollering again. And throwing the hockey pucks all over the kitchen. General Bobby (or is it Admiral? I cant remember) tries to get Matt back in gear, telling him to put his head back down and get cooking. Meanwhile, Craig is back to screwing up. He mixes up the spaghetti with clams versus the one with meatballs (yeah, because they look so much alike) and is promptly yelled at by Gordon. Who yells some more when he tastes the undercooked spaghetti, flinging it into the trash.
Jen has taken charge of the women and the food is flying out of their side, with the added bonus of actually being fully cooked. And, you guessed it - the women complete all their tickets first, winning the dinner service. Gordon sends the girls over to help the men complete their tickets, and Ben is embarrassed. No, not by that hairstyle of his, but because they had to get help from - gasp - the women. Craig refuses any help, catching a major attitude with everyone. He even yells at Gordon when he has to ask several times how long it would take Craig to finish. Big mistake, Craigy boy.
When all is said and done, Gordon compares the first family night service to a horror movie. He picks Jen as the standout of the girls team, and then turns his glare to the men. He rips on Craig, then tells Ben that he was surprised by him. Ben takes it as a compliment, and begins rambling on about giving 110 percent...until Gordo informs him that he was surprised by how BAD he was. Oops. Bobby is picked as the best of the worst.
Ben tries to campaign for himself, throwing Craig under the bus. Hes a pain in the ass, he says. Craig still has a huge attitude, refusing to kiss anyones butt to stay. Good move, Craig! Of course, Bobby nominates Craig, comparing him to a broken compass - whatever station hes at, hes lost. Matt is the second nominee, for being nervous all the time. They both step forward, but Gordon wants to hear from one more person. Ben knows its him, and steps forward to plead his case. Ben says hell give 100 percent, and Matt pipes up to say hell give 125 percent. Is this an auction? Clueless Craig says he doesnt know percentages, but, yeah - Over that. Gordon is disgusted by the stupidity, and chooses Craig to get the hell out. Craig is Like, stunned, and amazed.
Im not. Next week? Romance! Rivalries! Backstabbing! And Vanessa tries some one-handed cooking. See you then!
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The dive site MV Rockeater is a recent wreck in the Smitswinkel Bay area on the Cape Peninsula side of False Bay, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
Get in
This site is only accessible by boat. Usually from the slipway at Miller's Point.
S34°16.135' E018°28.855' (Bow)
S34°16.127' E018°28.890' (Stern)
The MV Rockeater is the southernmost of the 5 wrecks in Smitswinkel bay.
This site is in a Marine Protected Area (2009). A permit is required.
The "MV Rockeater" was built in New Orleans in 1945 as a coastal freighter for the United States navy. The ship was bought by Ocean Science and Engineering (South Africa) in 1964 to be used for marine prospecting. The ship could be positioned with an accuracy of 8 metres using on-board instrumentation and shore based transponders, and could be held in place by four anchors or positioned dynamically by using the twin propellers and thrusters.
Seabed surveys were carried out using acoustic reflection profiling to map sands and gravels over the bedrock, and an airlift could be used to suck up bottom sediments for sorting and grading. The Rockeater was also equipped with a drilling derrick to take core samples. This was cut off before the ship was scuttled and lies next to the wreck on the starboard side. After twenty years of this work the Rockeater was in poor condition and no longer seaworthy. It was planned to use the ship as a naval target, but because of fears that she might sink at her moorings in Simon's town, it was decided to donate her to the False Bay Conservation Society. The Rockeater was towed to Smitswinkel Bay on 15th December 1972 and scuttled.
Sand bottom is at about 34m. The main deck is a few metres above this and the superstructure is a few more metres up.
The wreck lies upright on flat sand at about 34m, with bows to the west. The drilling derrick lies on the sand to the north west of the superstructure, and the helicopter pad has collapsed to port. The structure of Rockeater is basically intact as far as framing goes. Hull plating is still more or less intact, but superstructure plating is heavily wasted and there are big gaps between most frames. There are many openings in the deck and superstructure.
Geology: Flat fine white sand.
The site is exposed to swell from the south east, and to a certain extent, from the south west. Longer period swell will make conditions on the wrecks uncomfortable or hazardous due to strong surge, but short period waves will just make it uncomfortable on the boat. Visibility is less predictable, and at this time is largely a matter of luck and reports from divers who were in the area recently.
The site is usually at it's best in winter but there are also occasional opportunities at other times of the year, though least often in summer, when the south east wind tends to blow much of the time.
Marine life
The wreck is too deep for much seaweed, but it is heavily encrusted with invertebrates, some of which are seldom seen aywhere else but the Smits wrecks.
Recent wreck of a medium sided steel vessel in fairly intact condititon.
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Suggested Routes
No particular route recommended. Limited but challenging penetrations have been reported.
Stay safe
The structure has lost a great deal of strength due to corrosion, and it may be unstable. It will most likely collapse during bad weather, but should be considered a risk in a strong surge. Scorpion fish have been seen on the wrecks, and are well camouflaged. Their spines carry a dangerous venom.
Certification appropriate to the depth is expected. Some level of training or experience in wreck diving is recommended, and penetration should only be attempted by suitably competent divers after reconnaisance and appropriate planning.
Equipment appropriate for the depth should be used. Nitrox is recommended for those competent to use it. A light is strongly recommended, and penetration should not be attempted without the appropriate equipment and planning. If you are not entirely certain what this would be, you are not competent to do the penetration.
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Kalymnos - Spartacus
Located high above and to the left of the sectors Afternoon and Grande Grotta, the spectacular Spartacus offers a series of fabulous routes between 6a and 8a.
The walls are steep and pocketed and almost all routes are recommend, making the walk uphill highly rewarding. Given its orientation it is ideal in summer as the sun arrives late in the day, allowing you to escape the heat until 6.00 pm.
Do not miss out on the following:Les Amazones, 30m of 6c up a spectacular tufa.Harakiri, 26m of 6b of mother nature's best.Spartacus, the 7c which gives the name to the sector. Overhanging stamina fest on good holds. Kerveros, this 6c+/7a on its own is makes the trip to Spartacus, and Kalymnos, worthwhile.
Most routes were put up by Michel Piola, a certain guarantee for their quality and beauty!
Reach Masouri and park at Hotel Filoxenia. Follow the obvious path through the olive grove and via red markers to Grande Grotta. From here continue left past Afternoon to reach Spartacus (15 min from Grande Grotta).
Pumpy stamina climbing on grey and yellow limestone.
Kalymnos rock climbing in Greece
By boat
Kalymnos can be reached by boat from the island Kos. Once you have landed in Kos, take a taxi to the port at Mastichari and catch the next boat to Kalymnos from there. Mastichari is 10 minutes by taxi from Kos airport and the taxi ride costs €12 - €15 euro in total. Regular ferries and smaller speed boats make the Mastichari – Pothia (Kalymnos) route regularly. The ferry ride takes approximately 45 minutes and costs €4; the speedboat takes approximately 25 minutes and costs €6.00. When you arrive at Pothia (the main port in Kalymnos) you will find a number of taxis waiting. A taxi ride to Massouri costs between €10-15, depending on the number of passengers and luggage. Alternatively, you can rent a scooter or car, or inquire about the public bus schedule departing in front of the City Hall. There is a tourist information kiosk at the port exit.To check the Kos – Kalymnos ferry timetable, go to www.danae.gr and enter 'Mastichari' and 'Kalymnos' in the respective fields. You can also call the Port Authority of Kos for an automated timetable message in English on the following number: +30 22420 26594. In the unlikely event that there is no taxi waiting at Pothia, call the taxi station on the following number: +30 22430 50300.
By plane
In high season Olympic Air flies Athens - Kalymnos regularly and a return ticket costs approximately euro 200.
Further info
Full info on getting to Kalymnos here: www.climbkalymnos.com/?page_id=2628
Kalymnos Rock Climbing Guide 2016 Edition. Aris Theodoropoulos. 3000 rock climbs, English
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From his garage in Dorset, James Hathaway helps run an organization that helps rid the world of land mines as part of an organization called Clear Path International. In Brattleboro, World Learning employs 185 people who help prepare young people for life in a globally connected world and prepares adults from all over help in the ongoing struggle to end poverty. Those are just two of the nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations that call Vermont home but work across the world in fields as varied as promoting democracy or clean water. Taken together, the organizations are pumping millions of dollars and hundreds if not thousands of jobs into the Vermont economy. Regional Peace Corps recruiter Brian Melman said he thinks many Vermonters are willing to think big with small resources.
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Trevor Mbakwe overcame a poor shooting performance, finishing with 20 points and 10 rebounds, as Minnesota downed visiting Fairfield, 67-57, at Williams Arena.
Mbakwe shot just 2-of-7 from the field, but made up for it at the foul line, where he hit 16-of-18 free-throw attempts.
The 16 free throws were one short of tying the school record set by Larry Mikan in 1969.
Neither team established much of a rhythm in this game as Minnesota (3-0) and Fairfield (1-2) combined for 43 turnovers. The teams also combined to hit just four of their 24 attempts beyond the arc.
But Mbawke's proficiency at the foul line was one of the few bright spots in this mistake-filled game and allowed him to stretch his double-double streak to six games for the Golden Gophers, who improved to 43-6 in non-conference games under coach Tubby Smith.
Minnesota, which finished with 23 turnovers, was able to overcome their carelessness on the offensive end in large part because it hit 27 of its 31 free throws.
Rakim Sanders and Ryan Olander led the Stags with 14 points apiece.


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By Team Titleist On April 23, 2012
Please file away Titleist Brand Ambassador Ben Curtis' victory at the Valero Texas Open as a blueprint for overcoming some of golf's toughest conditions.
Trusting a Pro V1x golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs – including a set of new Titleist AP1 (712 Series) irons – Curtis got the best of a trying TPC San Antonio layout in an impressive display of consistency and control.
The result was Curtis' fourth-career PGA Tour victory, as well as one of four wins on the weekend for Titleist golf ball players around the world. Also raising trophies Sunday: Pro V1x loyalists Lee Westwood (Asian Tour) and Chris Swanepoel (Sunshine Tour) and Pro V1 loyalist Hiroyuki Fujita (Japan Tour).
Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x players have now won 48 times across the worldwide professional tours in 2012, eight times the nearest competitor with six and more than all competitors combined.
A total of 5,618 players have teed up Titleist golf balls in those same events, more than six times the nearest competitor with 916 and more than all other golf balls combined.
Curtis' victory at TPC San Antonio, the statistically-toughest track on the PGA Tour last season, can be summed up in a few key stats.
He finished first in Greens in Regulation (68.1 percent), becoming the first player to win on the PGA Tour while gaming new Titleist AP1 (712 Series) irons.
Curtis's final G.I.R. came on the 72nd hole, his Pro V1x landing 12 feet from the cup on the two-tiered 18th green. He rolled it in for birdie for an even-par 72, 9-under 279 total and two-shot victory.
"I love hard golf courses. I love it when par is premium. …," said Curtis, the 2003 British Open champion. "I just love courses that set-up that way where you got to control your distance not only in the air but also on the ground."
Carrying a Titleist 910 driver, 910Fd metal wood and pair of 910 hybrids, Curtis finished second for the week in Driving Accuracy at 73.2 percent, including a perfect drive Sunday down the 18th fairway.
He also ranked third in the Strokes Gained-Putting statistic (2.061), averaging just over 27 putts per round with his Scotty Cameron Newport 2.
Curtis' final round will be remembered most for his 23-foot par putt at the 17th hole to complete what seemed like an impossible up-and-down from the back of the green, which began with a severeley-downhill pitch.
"I was just trying to get it down there somewhere on that right level, just give myself a good look and it was the best putt I hit all week," he said.
Curtis topped a leader board that featured nine Titleist golf ball players in the top 10 – including the runner-up, who played a Pro V1.
Titleist Brand Ambassador Brendan Steele (Pro V1x), the 2011 champ, tied for fourth with Bob Estes (Pro V1) and Charlie Wi (Pro V1). Titleist Brand Ambassadors Hunter Haas (Pro V1x) and Cameron Tringale (Pro V1x) tied for eighth.
In total, 105 players relied on Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls for their success at TPC San Antonio, more than seven times the nearest competitor with 14 and more than all competitors combined. Titleist was also first in iron sets (35); sand, lob and approach wedges (123); and putters (62).
Here's a closer look at Ben Curtis' Titleist equipment:
Ball: Titleist Pro V1xDriver: Titleist 910D3 8.5º (Aldila RIP NV 65X)3-wood: Titleist 910Fd 13.5º (Aldila RIP 80X)Hybrids: Titleist 910H 18º & 20º (Aldila NV Hybrid 85X)Irons: Titleist AP1 (712 Series) 4-P (Dynamic Gold)Wedges: Vokey Design Spin Milled 52•08º, TVD58º (Dynamic Gold)Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2
• ASIAN TOUR: Lee Westwood successfully defended his title at the CIMB NIAGA Indonesian Masters after a 32-hole marathon Sunday, trusting a Pro V1x golf ball to his first victory of 2012.
Because of weather delays, Westwood arrived at Royale Jakarta GC early Sunday morning to complete his third round. He made seven birdies in those 14 holes to finish off a 7-under 65 and take an eight-shot lead into the final 18.
"You never know how to play with such a big lead. You don't know if you should attack or defend. It is quite hard to get your mental attitude around it," said Westwood, who closed in 2-over 74 for a two-shot victory.
He hit 81.94 percent of greens in regulation for the week.
"Hopefully this will kick-start my year. I've played well without any wins so hopefully I can go on and win other tournaments.
"It is tough when you are the favorite because if you don't win then it will be disappointing. There was a lot of pressure so I'm glad I did it."
Westwood led a 1-2-3-4 finish for Titleist Pro V1x players. Thaworn Wiratchant closed in 67 to finish second at 14-under 274. Titleist Brand Ambassador Gaganjeet Bhullar and fellow countryman Shiv Kapur tied for third, another two shots back.
Of the 13 players who finished among the top-10 at the Indonesian Masters, eight trusted a Titleist golf ball for their success.
A total of 99 players in the field played Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls, more than four times the nearest competitor with 21 and more than all competitors combined. Titleist was also first in iron sets (46); and sand, lob and approach wedges (150).
• SUNSHINE TOUR: It was a 1-2 finish for Titleist Pro V1x players at the Golden Pilsner Zimbabwe Open, where Chris Swanepoel outlasted Titleist Brand Ambassador Trevor Fisher Jr. in a sudden-death playoff.
Swanepoel, who started the final round five strokes off the lead, closed with an 8-under 64 at Royal Harare Golf Club to force a playoff with Fisher (3-under 69) at 15-under 273.
On the second playoff hole, Swanepoel claimed the title with a tap-in for par.
"It's a fantastic feeling," Swanepoel said of his third Sunshine Tour win. " I love playing out here on this fantastic course – it has a lovely layout. It's my first playoff win in three tries, and it's an incredible feeling."
Swanepoel was one of 114 players in the field that teed up Titleist golf balls, more than three times the nearest competitor with 33 and more than all other golf balls combined.
• JAPAN TOUR: Pro V1 loyalist Hiroyuki Fujita won his 12th JGTO title Sunday at the Tsuruya Open. Fujita closed with a 4-under 67 at Yamanohara GC for a 15-under 269 total, four shots clear of Pro V1x loyalist Kyoung-Hoon Lee.
Eighteen-year-old Titleist Brand Ambassador Masahiro Kawamura tied for third, another shot back.
Titleist was the overwhelming golf ball of choice at the Tsuruya Open with 63 players, nearly twice the nearest competitor with 32. Titleist was also first in hybrids (46); and sand, lob and approach wedges (119).
• CHAMPIONS TOUR: Titleist golf ball loyalists Michael Allen (Pro V1x) and David Frost (Pro V1) captured the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, posting a 29-under 187 total for a one-shot victory over four other teams.
Their performance at Savannah Harbor included three nearly flawless rounds of 62-63-62 in the better-ball format.
• EUROPEAN: At the Volvo China Open, 94 players teed up Titleist golf balls, more than four times the nearest competitor with 21 and more than all other golf balls combined. Titleist was also first in iron sets (49); and sand, lob and approach wedges (142).
• LPGA: Titleist was the overwhelming golf ball of choice at the LPGA LOTTE Championship with 100 players, more than seven times the nearest competitor with 13 and more than all other golf balls combined. Seven of the top 11 players on the final leader board were Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x players.
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April 30, 2012 at 11:39am
very happy to see ben win
April 25, 2012 at 1:40am
Congrats everyone, you played well and deserved to win.
April 24, 2012 at 5:22pm
Just bought myself a set of AP1 712 4-PW from my local pro .
LOVE 'EM . Was a Ping guy before. The local pro did a great job making sure he got my specs right.
Awesome to hear here was a winner on Tour with these too.
April 24, 2012 at 5:17pm
Ben Curtis you could say, was a little fortunate to win considering the two players challenging at the finish made mistakes. Still we all suffer in tight finishes and good luck to Curtis, having a tough time since winning 'The Open'. Maybe this win will set him up for better times.


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Harold Ray Johnston, age 94, of Adrian died Sunday, March 23, 2014, at home surrounded by his family.
Harold Ray Johnston, age 94, of Adrian died Sunday, March 23, 2014, at home surrounded by his family.
Harold was born Jan. 30, 1920, in Lyons, Ohio, to Virgil and Tressie (Denius) Johnston. He moved to Michigan as a young man with his family. He was a farmer and part-time factory worker. On Sept. 3, 1944, he married Harriet Jane Mitchell at the Raisin Presbyterian Church in Holloway, where he was a longtime member and elder. They were married 69 years. He liked to fish, hunt and garden, and helped his sons with 4-H projects.
Harold is survived by his wife, two sons, Steven (Trudy) Johnston and Ray (Janice) Johnston, both of Adrian; four grandchildren, Kenneth and Jeffrey Johnston, Angela (David) Kintner and Elisa (Daniel) Prichard; five great-grandchildren, Cody, Maegan, Ty, and Ben Kintner and Lilian Prichard; sister, Ethel (Calvin) Gritzmaker; brothers, Harlan (Judy) Johnston and Russell (Joann) Johnston. He was preceded in death by his parents and sisters, Ila Dickerson, Wilma Cousino and Lois Matheny; and brothers, Clare, Carl, Brice and Gerald.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Thursday, March 27, 2014, at Anderson Funeral Home, Tecumseh, with the Rev. Karen Zurokowski officiating. Burial will be in Raisin Presbyterian Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Anderson Funeral Home, Tecumseh.
You may send condolences to the family at www.andersonfuneralservices.com. Memorial contributions may be made to the Raisin Presbyterian Church, the Salvation Army or Great Lakes Hospice. Envelopes are available at the Anderson Funeral Home, Tecumseh.