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The Dating Davening Dilemma
Many are familiar with the Mishna[1] that declares that there was no day of rejoicing in Israel like Tu B'Av due to the unique manner of attaining shidduchim on that day. Yet, for many single girls of marriageable age in the Greater New York area nowadays, the day of greatest joy might actually be Tu B'Shvat. On that day annually, the largest Yeshiva in America, Lakewood New Jersey's B.M.G., "opens its freezer", and hundreds, if not thousands, of Bochurim are now permitted to date.
These Bochurim rent cars, drive into New York, and seek out their future life partner. Lounges across the city (Brooklyn Marriot, anyone?) are taken up by black hatted and jacketed young men and their dressed-up date. After dropping their date back off at home, many of our earnest young men rush to catch Maariv at BoroPark's landmark "minyan factory", the Shomrei Shabbos Shul (Maariv Minyanim at least up until 2:30 A.M.), before grabbing a bite to eat at Amnon's up the block (before he closes at 2 A.M.) and ultimately heading back to Lakewood.
But the question is not necessarily if there is a Maariv Minyan that late; the question is whether one should daven Maariv that late. It turns out, as with many issues in halacha, that there is no simple answer. But first, some background is necessary.
Back to Basics
The very first Mishna in Shas[2] records a 3-Way halachic dispute about the final time one is allowed to daven Maariv. R' Eliezer ruled until the "end of the first watch", meaning either a third or a quarter of the night. The Chachamim ruled until "Chatzos", referring to halachic midnight, while Rabban Gamliel ruled until amud hashachar, daybreak. The Mishna then relates a story about Rabban Gamliel's sons who came home from a Simcha after midnightand told their father that they had not yet davened Maariv (Krias Shma). He replied that since it was not yet daybreak, they were still required to daven Maariv. He added that the Chachamim only ruled that one may not pray after midnightin order to "distance people from transgression" and ensure that they pray at the proper time and not be preoccupied and possibly fall asleep without davening.
The Gemara later rules[3] that the halacha follows Rabban Gamliel's opinion. This seems to imply that one may daven Maariv all night long. However, in practice, this is not so straightforward, as there is a huge machlokes Rishonim as to the Gemara's proper intent with its ruling.
Rishonim Rule
The Rambam[4], as well as many other Rishonim including the Rif, Ramban, and SMaG[5], rule that one must daven Maariv before Chatzos. If for some reason one did not, he still has until daybreak to fulfill his obligation for the evening prayer. Although this seems to sharply contrast with the Gemara's conclusion, the Beis Yosef[6] explains that this is truly the Gemara's intent. Although the halacha follows Rabban Gamliel's shitta, this is only b'dieved, when for some reason or another one did not end up davening Maariv before midnight. Yet, he maintains that l'chatchila, Rabban Gamliel would agree to the Chachamim that one needs to daven before Chatzos. In fact, this is how he himself codifies the halacha in the Shulchan Aruch[7].
Yet, other Rishonim, including the Rashba, Rosh, Sefer HaChinuch and the Tur[8], all maintain that the Gemara's intent follows its basic understanding. Meaning that the Chachamim were of the opinion that Maariv must be prayed before midnight while Rabban Gamliel argues that one has until daybreak to do so. Since the Gemara concludes that Rabban Gamliel's opinion was the correct one, they rule that one may therefore daven Maariv l'chatchila any time he wants, all night long.
There is even a third minority opinion, that of the Tamidei Rabbeinu Yona[9]. They maintain that one is prohibited to daven Maariv after Chatzos. They explain that since a related Gemara states that one who transgresses the words of the Chachamim is 'chayav missa', worthy of the death penalty, the Gemara intended to change the bottom line[10]. Although me'ikar hadin one may technically daven afterward, once the Chachamim ruled that one may only do so until halachic midnight, they aver that that has since become the new halacha.
So…What Do We Do?
Many later authorities, most notably the famed Shaagas Aryeh[11], question the Beis Yosef's understanding of the Gemara, due to a variety of concerns. Chief among their issues is that if the Gemara explicitly concluded that the halacha follows Rabban Gamliel's opinion, then one should be able to daven all night long. The ruling that one needs to daven before Chatzos (even if b'dieved one may still do so later) is essentially the Chachamim's opinion. They argue that if that is truly the Gemara's intent, it would have concluded simply that the halacha follows the Chachamim! The Shaagas Aryeh therefore rules that the psak of the Tur and Rosh is the correct one and one may daven Maariv up until Alos HaShachar. Other halachic decisors, however, defend the Shulchan Aruch's position and rule accordingly[12], while several, including the Chayei Adam and the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, simply and straightforwardly rule like the Shulchan Aruch.
The Mishna Berura[13] cites many Rishonim on both sides of the dispute, and concludes that if at all possible, one must follow the ruling of the Shulchan Aruch and daven before Chatzos. Yet, under extenuating circumstances, for example one who is busy teaching others Torah (perhaps a late night Daf Yomi shiur) may rely on the lenient opinion and daven Maariv after midnight.
So, back to our Bochur. Although some may argue that a date (especially a bad one) would be considered an extenuating circumstance, nevertheless, it just might be worthwhile for him to end the date a tad early and try to manage Maariv before midnight. Undoubtedly, his morning chavrusa will thank him too.
[1]Mishna Taanis Ch.4, 8; 26b.
[2]Brachos Ch.1, 1; 2a.
[3]Brachos 9a; statement of Shmuel.
[4]Rambam (Hilchos Krias Shma Ch.1, 9).
[5]Rif(Brachos 2a), Ramban (Brachos 2a), SMaG (Positive Commandments 18). Other Rishonim who rule this way include the SMaK (Mitzva 104), Rabbeinu Yerucham (Sefer HaAdam Nesiv 3 Ch. 2) and the AbuDraham (Hilchos Krias Shma). Rav Ovadiah M'Bartenura and the Tosafos Yom Tov in their commentaries on the first Mishna in Brachos imply this way as well.
[6]Beis Yosef (O.C. 235 s.v. aval & umashma).
[7]Shulchan Aruch (O.C. 235, 3).
[8]Rashba (Brachos 2a s.v. Masnisin), Rosh (Brachos Ch. 1, 9), Sefer HaChinuch (Parshas Eikev, Mitzva 433 s.v. uzmanei), and the Tur (O.C. 235, 3).
[9]Talmidei Rabbeinu Yona (Brachos 2a s.v. vkol ha'over). What this author finds interesting is that earlier Rabbeinu Yona (1a s.v. v'chachamim) is quoted as ruling similarly to the Rambam (although he maintained that both Rabban Gamliel and the Chachamim held that one must daven Maariv immediately after Tzeis HaKochavim). Yet, one daf later, he later qualified the ruling and effectively changed the halacha. It must be stressed that this opinion is a 'daas yachid' and many later authorities, including the poskim mentioned in footnote 11, argue quite vehemently against it. The halacha does not follow this opinion.
[10]Brachos 4a.
[11]Shu"t Shaagas Aryeh (4). Others who question the Shulchan Aruch's ruling include the Bach (O.C. 235, end 3), Pnei Yehoshua (Brachos 9a s.v. sham b'Gemara), Sfas Emes (Brachos 2a s.v. ad), and the Beis HaLevi (Shu"t Beis HaLevi vol. 1, 34, 4). Although none of them seem to actively rule against the Shulchan Aruch (as opposed to the Shaagas Aryeh who does quite vigorously), it is interesting to note that the Torah Temima, in his autobiographical Mekor Baruch (cited in Shu"t Moadim U'Zmanim vol. 4, 269 footnote 1), tells a story about the Beis HaLevi where he claimed that he ruled that one may daven Maariv l'chatchila all night long. Rav Moshe Sternbuch in his sefer Hilchos HaGr"a U'Minhagav (120, pg. 134) cites this as proof that the Beis HaLevi indeed did rule like the Shaagas Aryeh. Rav Yitzchak Isaac Chaver, in his Seder Hazmanim (2) defends the Shaagas Aryeh's shittah at length and concludes that he is indeed correct. Obviously, the poskim mentioned in this article offer much more halachic rationale and proofs to their opinions. However, the main thrusts of their views are presented here.
[12]See Shu"t Pri Yitzchak (vol. 2, 2), who attacks the Shaagas Aryeh's position at length, and concludes that the Shulchan Aruch was correct in his ruling. Other later authorities including the Chayei Adam (vol. 1, 34, 5) and the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (70, 2) simply and straightforwardly rule like the Shulchan Aruch. The Aruch Hashulchan (O.C. 235, 18) writes that it was the Shulchan Aruch's prerogative to rule like the Rambam and SMaG without even mentioning the dissenting opinion of the Rashba, Rosh, and Tur, as apparently that shitta is the "ikar one according to his great knowledge". [Although he does argue on the Shulchan Aruch ruling like the minority opinion of the Talmidei Rabbeinu Yonah that one should ideally daven immediately after Tzeis HaKochavim, and concluding that perhaps this why we find that many are not too'medakdek' with this.] Oddly, this author did not find the Shulchan Aruch HaRav, Ben Ish Chai or Kaf Hachaim discussing this issue. The Yalkut Yosef (on Hilchos Brachos pg. 753 & Kitzur Shulchan AruchO.C. 235, 3) follows the Shulchan Aruch's ruling.
[13]Biur Halacha (235 s.v. uzmana). The Shaarei Teshuva (ad loc. 7) rules this way as well.
Disclaimer: This is not a comprehensive guide, rather a brief summary to raise awareness of the issues. In any real case one should ask a competent Halachic authority.
L'iluy Nishmas the Rosh HaYeshiva - Rav Chonoh Menachem Mendel ben R' Yechezkel Shraga, Rav Yaakov Yeshaya ben R' Boruch Yehuda, and l'zchus for Shira Yaffa bas Rochel Miriam and her children for a yeshua teikef u'miyad!


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Hello all,
I pulled my guitar out of the case the other day to use it and noticed that the phase button had nearly come out of my anthem system I had installed in my guitar in November. It was fine, to the best of my knowledge, when I put the guitar in the case the previous time but when I pulled it out this time it was like the button was broken and about to fall out. It is very loose and it will not stay in when you push the button in. The phase still works the best I can tell but it is sometimes hard to get it to engage because it is so loose. Has anyone else had this problem and what can I do to fix it? I am not rough on my guitars but this is my main guitar and it gets used live whenever I play live and also for practice.

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Basel Convention to adopt strategic plan for global action on hazardous and other wastes
Geneva/Nairobi, 9 December 2002 - Ministers and government officials are attending a major conference in Geneva from 9 - 13 December to decide on further action to alleviate the burdens imposed on society and the environment by hazardous and other wastes.
The agenda features the launch of a unique partnership with major mobile-phone manufacturers, a ministerial roundtable on "e-wastes" and the release of new data on global trends in waste generation and transport.
The Sixth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 6) to the Basel Convention on the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal will consider a strategic plan running through the year 2010 aimed at accelerating concrete action to protect human health and the environment from hazardous wastes.
The Meeting also expects to adopt technical guidelines on the disposal and recycling of lead-acid batteries, plastic wastes, biomedical and healthcare wastes, and obsolete ships.
"With some 150 million tonnes of hazardous wastes produced every year, the industrial world needs to accelerate its investments in cleaner production technologies and processes that can reduce wastes," said Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, under whose auspices the Convention was negotiated and adopted.
"Governments and industry must also work together to improve recycling systems and treatment plants. In all cases, poorer countries and communities must not be forced to shoulder the burdens of our industrial economy by being on the receiving end of hazardous wastes that they did not create," he said.
On Thursday morning, 12 December, top officials representing nine leading mobile phone manufacturers from around the world will announce their intention to form a partnership with the Basel Convention on the environmentally sound management of end-of-life mobile phones. This first-ever initiative on e-wastes exemplifies the vital contributions being made by industry to the Convention.
The mobile-phones signing ceremony will be followed by a ministerial roundtable on the emerging issue of "e-wastes". The communications, information and entertainment revolution of the past two decades has led to a dramatic increase in electronic and electrical wastes. Industry executives are expected to participate in the debate.
The Basel Convention promotes the environmentally sound management of various categories of wastes through the development of technical guidelines. In addition to the 12 sets of guidelines already in use, the meeting will consider approving new guidelines on:
* Plastic wastes. The draft guidelines respond to concern that developing countries often lack the necessary legislation and facilities for coping with the dramatic growth in these wastes. In many of these countries, plastics are disposed of through open, uncontrolled burning and landfilling. Open burning releases pollutants into the air that can cause various health problems.
* Dismantling of ships. Ships are built using a wide range of materials, including asbestos and other dangerous products. Decommissioning a large vessel can thus involve the removal of many tonnes of hazardous wastes. The draft guidelines have been developed in cooperation with the International Maritime Organization, the International Chamber of Shipping, the International Labour Organization and non-governmental environmental organizations.
*Biomedical and healthcare wastes. Hospitals and other healthcare centres can generate large quantities of wastes, including infectious materials. Gloves, gowns, hypodermic needles, and scalpels are exposed to blood and other bodily fluids. Chemicals, pharmaceuticals and vaccines also enter the waste stream. The guidelines recommend measures for segregating, collecting, labelling, handling, and sterilizing these wastes and for dealing with spills and accidents.
* Lead-acid batteries. Widely used in industry, automobiles and other consumer goods, lead-acid batteries are the number one source of secondary lead in the world today. In many developing countries, retired batteries are still broken manually using an axe, which is dangerous to the workers. Inhaling dust, fumes or vapours dispersed in the workplace air can lead to acute lead poisoning. The more common problem, however, is chronic poisoning from absorbing low amounts of lead over long periods of time.
Other issues on the agenda include a discussion of efforts to combat illegal trade in hazardous wastes, a decision to establish a mechanism for compliance and implementation, and the development of regional centers as the main instruments of the Convention to assist in building capacity in member governments.
The conference will include a high-level segment attended by ministers and heads of delegations during the final two days. Some 600 participants are expected.
The Basel Convention on the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal was adopted in March 1989. It regulates the movement of these wastes and obliges its member countries to ensure that such wastes are managed and disposed of in an environmentally sound manner. Governments are expected to minimize the quantities that are transported, to treat and dispose of wastes as close as possible to where they were generated, and to minimize the generation of hazardous waste at source.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Thrift Store Finds
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Rita, I like to poke around in thrift stores, too, but I don't think I do nearly as well as you do. Or my cousin -- you should see her finds!ReplyDeleteReplies
It takes deligence and some depends on what you are looking for. Often I don't find anything.Delete
Did you mother have a "button box?"ReplyDelete
Mine did - - - it was a round flat tin. We used to dump it out on the floor and play with the buttons. I still remember lots of button cards on top with still one or two buttons left on them from sewing projects that didn't use all the buttons.
I believe my youngest daughter now has that tin - - - what a precious thing to have!Replies
Yes. Mom had a button tin but I can't remember if it was round. I think it went to my niece. I loved that button box and have since made my own just to delve in to every so often.Delete
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ACN108 - History of Interactive Entertainment
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|This unit is offered in the wholly online teaching mode only - there will be no face-to-face teaching
Note:Online teaching methods require internet access. Please refer to the most current computer specifications.
This unit will examine how interactive entertainment has emerged from and been shaped by various cultures since recorded history. In the study of games and modes of interactivity, students will attempt to define the essential ingredients and the experience of play - as such, students are expected to play games and report on their findings. The unit considers what can be learned from the iconography, technical design and modes of play associated with various games, and provide an opportunity for analysis of play through reference to key theories of game-play and 'game culture'. The unit incorporates game play from ancient times to the 21st Century, and includes examination of new handheld devices that not only play games, but display photos, movies, calendars and even wirelessly browse the Internet. Importantly, the unit speculates on the future of games and game-play, while encouraging reflection on the games played in ones' own childhood.
Wholly online, the unit allows students to utilize the Internet as well as local resources such as libraries, museums and even toyshops and flea markets. It is expected that students will research and review the games in their collection, document the various experiences involved in playing them, and put their own experiences and observations into the context of critical theory. The unit explores (through online discussion and assigned research activities) the various meanings we can associate with 'play', 'game', and 'interactivity'. As definitions of 'play' and 'interactivity' continue to be shaped by various sub-cultures and technologies that emerge from developments in the entertainment (games) industry, the unit is an opportunity to understand and appreciate this universal form of human activity in the contemporary context.
Research exercise 40% - Write a research report on your experiences of specific games and modes of interaction, using the methodology suggested.
Essay OR Proposal 60% - Either write an essay on one of the topics listed, OR write a proposal for a new type of game or interactive entertainment product.
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Martin C. Martin
doctoral dissertation, tech. report , Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 1998
|Surprisingly, the state of the art in avoiding obstacles using only vision--not sonar or laser rangefinders--is roughly half an hour between collisions (at 30 cm/s, in an office environment). After review ing the design and failure modes of several current systems, I compare psychology's understanding of perception to current computer/robot perception. There are fundamental differences--which lead to fundamental limitations with current computer perception.
The key difference is that robot software is built out of "black boxes", which have very restricted interactions with each other. In contrast, the human perceptual system is much more integrated. The claim is that a robot that performs any significant task, and does it as well as a person, can not be created out of "black boxes." In fact, it would probably be too interconnected to be designed by hand--instead, tools will be needed to create such designs.
To illustrate this idea, I propose to create a visual obstacle avoidence system on the Uranus mobile robot. The system uses a number of visual depth cues at each pixel, as well as depth cues from neighbouring pixels and previous depth estimates. Genetic Programming is used to combine these into a new depth estimate. The system learns by predicting both sonar readings and the next image. The design of the system is described, and design decisions are rationalized.
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|Martin C. Martin, "Breaking Out of the Black Box: A New Approach to Robot Perception," doctoral dissertation, tech. report , Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 1998
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Peggy Paxton, 68
Peggy Paxton, 68, of LeGrand, Iowa, passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2013 at Iowa River Hospice Home with her loving family by her side.
Funeral Services for Peggy will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, August 30, 2013 at Mitchell Family Funeral Home. Public visitation will be held from 4:00 p.m. until services on Friday, August 30, 2013 at Mitchell Family Funeral Home where her family will be present to greet friends. For further information or to send a condolence please visit www.mitchellfh.com or call (641) 844-1234. Mitchell Family Funeral Home is caring for Peggy and her family.
Peggy was the first born child to John and Genevieve Mae (Paulson) Bailey in Grinnell, IA. She was raised on a rural farm west of Newburg. Peggy attended grade school at Newburg and graduated from Grinnell High School in 1963. She attended Marshalltown Community College for 1 year. In January 1965, she was married to William Vint of Marshalltown; they were later divorced. Of that union, two children were born, Chad and Jennifer.
She met Gary Paxton, the love of her life in 1987. They married on Nov. 5, 1994 at their home in LeGrand, Iowa. Gary and Peggy tore down the old homestead and rebuilt a beautiful home in LeGrand where they resided the last 21 years.
In her youth, time spent driving the tractor; sewing her wardrobe and playing outdoors were treasured. Later in life, she enjoyed gardening, crocheting, camping, reading, and Sudoku. She especially cherished spending time with family and friends.
Peggy loved working with numbers and worked as an accountant for thirty years; the majority of those were at Marshalltown Printing Company and Marshalltown Orthopedics.
In death, she has rejoined her son Chad who passed in 1984; parents, grandparents and Sister Bonnie Casey.
Left to cherish her memory are her husband Gary Paxton of LeGrand; her daughter Jennifer (Robert) Nazario of Wellsburg; her step-daughters Kimberly (Justin) Blue of Gifford and Dina (Ross) Wiebensohn of Reinbeck; grandchildren Brittney Spear, Kayla Nazario, Isaiah Nazario, and Hayley McCord; her siblings, Kathie Karam of Wesley Chapel, FL; Ed Bailey of Gilman; Jim (Billie) Bailey of Cedar Falls; Bill (Kathy) Bailey of Grinnell, numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and a host of friends.
Memorials in lieu of flowers may be directed to the Peggy Paxton Memorial fund which will be distributed among the organizations that touched her life.
Peggy was a good neighbor, loyal friend and loving wife, mother, and grandma. She will be greatly missed.


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School board hears from IM parents on class sizes, art cuts
By LINDA LOBECK
Staff Writer
IRON MOUNTAIN – Nearly 50 people – mostly parents – attended Monday's meeting of the Iron Mountain School District Board of Education to talk about some concerns they have with recent decisions made to balance the budget for 2013-14.
And that was exactly one of the main agenda items at the meeting – to approve a resolution adopting the budget. All school boards must take this action and submit their budget to the state by June 30.
Of most interest is the general fund budget, which deals with sources of money mostly from local, state and federal sources on the revenue side, and then the instructional programs and the people that are involved with the students on a daily basis – the staff – for the expenditure side.
Total revenue for the general fund was $7,794,428 with an unassigned fund balance from 2012 of $793,564, making the total to appropriate of $8,587,992. On the expenditure side, the total was $7,923,025.
Director of Finance Jennifer Huotari noted that the projected year-end fund balance for June 30, 2014, is $6,000. That fund had been at a little more than $1 million in 2011-12, but was down to $671,000 by the end of 2012-13 year.
Huotari explained that when coming up with the 2013-14 budget, there were certain assumptions that needed to be made. They assumed that there would be 941 full-time-equivalents (FTEs) when it came to the student count in September and the district is expecting a foundation allowance from the state of $7,026 per FTE.
In the areas of best practices and other standards required by the state, the school district could get additional amounts per FTE. Huotari said that this could be $50 per FTE for an equity payment; $40 per FTE for meeting performance based standards; $52 per FTE for best practices; and hopefully an additional $63 a student to offset the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System (MPSERS) costs. She said that with MPSERS, $63 would be the best scenario or the district could get no additional funds.
She added that no increases in steps for staff salaries was in the 2013-14 budget, using the same salaries as were place for 2012-13.
"Everything else in the budget was held at it has been or cuts were made including 15 percent in supplies and cuts in maintenance and technology expenses. A couple of reductions were also seen in the Medicaid funds received for special education students – where we get reimbursed less at a reduction of an average of 5 percent from the 2013 federal government budget cuts sequester," Huotari noted.
Supt. Tom Jayne noted that without making cuts of just more than $1.07 million from the current budget, the school district would have been in deficit spending next year.
Huotari noted that state law requires school district to have a balanced budget. "You can't have negative spending in your budget or you'll have to file a deficit elimination plan with the state."
During public comment time, the board heard from parents concerned about increased elementary class sizes, moving the adult education program to the Central School building, security with seventh and eighth graders moving between buildings, changes resulting in art not offered in the elementary grades, and a need for better communication from the board/administration to the parents.
Katie Maxon, of 318 E. Grand Blvd. in Iron Mountain, talked to the board about a meeting that the parents held and a list of concerns that came from it including the fact that class sizes of 30 students at any level wasn't healthy.
She also noted that the board had said there would be no extra-curricular cuts made and offering more band at the elementary level was not the answer for eliminating art. In addition, several clubs at the high school lost advisers, which are usually covered through the Schedule B assignments.
"We feel that there should be an even distribution of reductions made in the school district. Concerns were also made about reinstating the preschool program at North Elementary so we can keep our kids in our district. We are also concerned about the issue for seventh and eighth graders – with going back and forth between Central and other buildings," Maxon said.
She added that the board and administration needs to take more time to listen to the parents, and talk to them about the decisions being made and why. "I'm angry that good teachers lost their jobs. I'm hopeful you will hear us tonight and find a way to address our concerns. We all deserve a say in this district," Maxon said.
Sara Heathman, of 830 East F St. in Iron Mountain, also expressed her concerns about children getting a quality education.
She asked that the administration be accountable and get back to people when they have questions or concerns. She had questions about the school budget, and asked whether there was a lien on the school property that was kept quiet.
Huotari explained to the group that after she had taken over the position of director of finance through the Business Services Consortium, she got information about a lien that the IRS said was put on the school district property until taxes were paid.
She noted that when it comes to the IRS, the taxpayer must provide and show documentation that the payments were indeed made. Huotari said that when the Business Services Consortium was formed, the school districts changed bank accounts within this new structure and all taxes were paid online. The IRS was pulling the payments from an account that was no longer open and it took some research on Huotari's part to trace and detail that the payments were made. All payments were made on time with the exception of one payment in 2009 had been made a day late. This resulted in a fine from the IRS of $1,600.
This problem with the payments being documented occurred during 2009-2011. But once coming to the attention of the school district, Supt. Tom Jayne noted, it was dealt with within 24 hours. He found out about this problem during his first year as superintendent, and with Huotari's diligence in resolving the matter, no legal fees were incurred by the school district.
Huotari agreed that the issue with the IRS not finding the path that the payments went through has been resolved.
Christine McMahon, of 1128 East E St. in Iron Mountain, was concerned about parents taking their children out of the Iron Mountain School District because of these issues that had already been raised.
"They are good families who have been involved in the school and love this district. They are concerned with the larger class sizes. Studies have shown that class sizes of 15 are a small size and 25 is considered on the big side. I'm concerned with class sizes larger that 25, and that the teachers will be giving more easy-to-grade tests and not essays. My concern is that this district is already below in the MEAP testing in writing and going to larger class sizes will make it harder to work on writing. I'm also concerned with taking away art and putting music place of it. I don't know why the homeroom teacher can't teach art like they did when I was younger," McMahon said.
Julia Berglund, of 705 5th St. in Iron Mountain, is also worried about larger classes – 33-34 in the third grade. "I'm proud to be a Mountaineer and that my kids are in the district. I'm finding it hard when I'm confronted with possibly moving my kids to Kingsford because of these changes. My husband and I have been huge volunteers in this district."
Berglund suggested that they need to do more in looking for grants and that teachers have voiced a willingness to look for grants. "I am going to have to send my kids to Kingsford next year to give them what they deserve in education."
Sandy Lefebvre, of Iron Mountain, noted that she had come to the board meeting in January and didn't feel she had received any response to her concerns as a parent-stakeholder in the school district.
"We have an excellent staff that are providing a good education, but class sizes are a big concern. And there's the issue of curriculum with a parent committee that should be asked about what we can do to keep kids here in the district. We need to look into why we don't offer as many AP classes as Kingsford does and why too many kids are taking online classes."
Lefebvre said that her son was told there were no electives available for him and he'd have to take an online class. "An online class only offers a pass/fail grade and doesn't average into the student's GPA. Plus there's the issue of supervision for students to work under while taking an online class. These are just a few of the issues. I'm asking you as a board to please remember all of us are stakeholders and need to be included in your decisions and told why and what led up to those decisions," Lefebvre said.
Mary Couper, of Detroit Avenue in Iron Mountain, told the board this group is concerned for their kids. "Times are changing. Parents that are treated disrespectfully are bolting from here and Kingsford is getting more students."
She added that she personally went to the courthouse and got copies of documents concerning the lien on the district property and asked how they could put a bond proposal to a vote with a lien.
Scott McClure, of 1001 East F St. in Iron Mountain and former superintendent, told the group the district is in a tough financial situation like many other schools in the state and the board and administration have had to make some tough decisions.
"You can only spend what you have. We have to work together to provide the best education for the students. Pounding at each other is not doing any good. When I came here 22 years ago, we had no fund balance and it gradually got better. Now we are trying to work out of another tough situation – it's the only way that things will get any better," McClure said.
Huotari addressed a question about the district getting $600,000 less in federal funding than was received two or three years ago. She said that money was from the American Recovery Reinvestment funds, and when the district received that from the federal government, the state reduced the amount of funding they provided to school district.
Jayne agreed, noting that the funds were a part of one-time funding that went to school district that was a part of the stimulus package.
Chuck Lantz, of 1400 West A St. in Iron Mountain, also asked questions about the property lien and expressed concerns over larger class sizes next year. "It's not appropriate for learning. Anyone struggling will be left behind. I think class sizes are a big issue. You have excellent teachers, but they won't be as effective without appropriate class sizes. We are all big stakeholders in your school."
Michael March, of Stockbridge Avenue in Iron Mountain, told the group that his four children all attended Iron Mountain Schools.
"The education they got here was second to none. And this education stood the test in college, because they all did well there with what they learned here. When there's not enough money in the budget, it's an economic reality that tough choices have to be made. But you still get an education at Iron Mountain that you can't get anywhere else. I'm proud my kids went here."
Susan Strang, of 365 East C St. in Iron Mountain, said she heard a lot of anger from people as well as genuine concern at Monday's meeting.
"I've also seen and heard concerns from the administrators. There is nothing harder than having to tell someone they are being laid off. I've also heard frustration from the parents who are not getting all the answers – they don't have all the pieces to see where the budget needed to be balanced. There is only so much money that the school district has and sometimes you have to move players around to make the best team," Strang said.
She encouraged the parents to contact their legislators and representatives since the funding is what is making it difficult for public schools. "They (legislators) are the ones taking money away from schools and they haven't been investing in education. It's frustrating as a resident and teacher."
Jeff Poirier, of 915 West B St. in Iron Mountain, served on the Iron Mountain School Board for 16 years. He told the board that they have to do what is right and make hard decisions – a ton of unpopular decisions.
"But at the end of the day you have to do what's best for the students."
Board President Marv Harry thanked everyone for coming to the meeting and he realized how passionate and sincere they are in their concerns about the school district.
"We respect your concerns and as we move forward will consider what has been said tonight. As we move forward, we want things to be better and correct any mistakes. The administration is doing everything they can to move the school district forward. I appreciate the education my kids got here. Let's work together as we move ahead," Harry said.
Other concerns over budget cuts were expressed by Shannon Powell, Mary Martin, Tina Dabb, Amy Geronomi, Barb Gerhard, and Michelle Haferkorn.
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BROCTON – Adam Neubauer, 22, of 32 Ponderosa Drive, Brocton, and Clint Catchot, 19, of 30 Sequoia Drive, Brocton, were each charged following a fight Saturday. Chautauqua County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to 30 Sequoia Drive at 2 a.m. to investigate a verbal fight. Upon arrival, deputies found Neubauer and Catchot both in an intoxicated state. Further investigation revealed that Neubauer had purchased an alcoholic beverage, gave it to Catchot, and shared a drink with the underage Brocton resident. Neubauer was charged with unlawful dealing with a child while Catchot was charged with underage possession of alcohol. Both were issued appearance tickets for Village of Brocton Court at a later date.
BEMUS POINT – Brianna R. Lopez, 24, of Bemus Point was charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation and inadequate lights Friday. Deputies stopped a vehicle driven by Lopez at 6:39 p.m. for inadequate headlights. An investigation showed that her driving priveleges were suspended in New York state for failing to appear to answer a summons. Lopez will appear in Town of Ellery Court later this month.
DUNKIRK – Maria A. Rios, 27, of Dunkirk was turned over to Dunkirk City Police after being pulled over for inadequate headlights Friday at 10:14 p.m. on Route 60. It was determined that Rios had an active warrant in the city of Dunkirk for second-degree harassment.
HANOVER – Alberta C. Bogle, 57, of Angell Road, Silver Creek, was charge with second-degree harassment Thursday. Deputies were dispatched to the Angell Road trailer park at 9:35 p.m. for a harassment complaint. It is alleged that Bogle flicked cigarette ashes on the face of her co-tenant's daughter after Bogle had threatened the daughter that she was going to burn her face. Bogle was taken into custody and released with appearance tickets for Town of Hanover Court at a later date.
HANOVER – Aaron C. Seitz, 43, of Silver Creek was charged with failure to signal a turn and unlawful possession of marijuana Friday. Deputies stopped a vehicle for failing to signal a turn from Alleghany Road onto Angell Road at 7:30 p.m. Deputies determined Seitz to be the operator and allegedly smelled the odor of marijuana. Upon investigation, Seitz was found to be in possession of a small quantity of marijuana. He was taken into custody and later released with traffic citations and appearance tickets for Town of Hanover Court at a later date.
Aaron A. Chase, 24, of Jamestown was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana Saturday. Chase was found to be in possession of a small amount of marijuana in the village of Lakewood at 5:58 p.m. He was issued an appearance ticket for Town of Busti Court at a later date.


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Looking at Tango's Run Expectancy Matrix (1993-2010) we see with men on 1st and 2nd and no outs the run expectancy is 1.557 runs. What happens if you lay down a successful bunt ? With men on 2nd and 3rd and 1 out the run expectancy DROPS to 1.447. Why then bunt at all? Let the player swing the bat Ozzie.
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quote:Originally posted by bigcitygal:
Actually, it's one in four:
Note that this is not broken down in terms of male/female Clinton supporters.
What would be interesting to ponder is why. Because of anger over the Barack nomination win? Because of the "support any woman" kookiness? (Which I personally believe is a myth, btw) Because of "support the all-white ticket"? I'm not sure if it's possible to answer this with any real meaning.
I agree that it is a myth that there is this significant portion of women that only see gender and are not intelligent enough to vote based on policy.
I do think that there are Hilary supporters who are going to vote for McCain because they are angry that Obama did not pick her as his veep and they may think that she can come back in 2012 if he loses. If Obama wins, then Hilary is mostly likely done.
quote:Originally posted by Ghislaine:I see no reason to call it a myth.
I agree that it is a myth that there is this significant portion of women that only see gender and are not intelligent enough to vote based on policy.
There is a significant portion of men in Amerika who would not vote for a woman for President, and are not intelligent enough to vote based on policy.
I believe the same would be true of women, mutatis mutandis.
ETA: Also, the idea that Clinton supporters are holding their noses and voting for McCain just to spite Barack Obama is ludicrous. The above figures show that 20% of Clinton supporters view Palin "positively", so if they support McCain/Palin in November, it won't be just out of negativity towards Obama.
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quote:Many parishes distributed a voter guide, produced by an outside conservative Catholic group called Catholic Answers, which identified five "nonnegotiable" issues for faithful voters: abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning, euthanasia and same-sex marriage.
The environment, the economy, foreign affairs...meh, not nearly as important as reproduction. Amazing how incredibly stupid religion can be.
Edited to add...above from Josh's link.
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- why he feels that she's proving to be a pathological liar
- how her "magical evangelical thinking" is not what the US needs right now
- how she's supposed to be an energy expert but can't get the percentage of energy produced by Alaska correct.
This next issue isn't directly about Palin so I could start a new thread, not sure. Let me know if I should repost it separately.
McCain and the Issue of Spain.
This isn't getting a lot of MSN airtime yet but it's been simmering for a few days.
quote: In McCain's bizarre interview with Spain's Union Radio he refused to say whether he would meet with Spain's Prime Minister, Josй Luis Rodrнguez Zapatero. Listening to the interview repeatedly, it simply seemed that McCain had no idea who Zapatero actually was. McCain seemed to think he was a Latin American autocrat - despite the reporter repeatedly saying "I am talking about Spain." This gaffe would seem to have very significant implications. Not knowing who the leader of Spain was or thinking Spain was in Latin America would not really be shocking coming from his running mate, but McCain has run on his foreign policy expertise and such confusion completely undercuts his credibility. Furthermore this gaffe would bring up real questions about his age. Is McCain really prepared to deal with a crisis at 3AM, when he can't even remember who the leader of Spain is during a late evening interview?
But was it a gaffe? While it definitely seemed so, now Randy Sheunemann, McCain's foreign policy adviser is shockingly saying that this is not a gaffe but an intentional expression of policy toward Spain.
The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on McCain
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The macro picture:
This presidential contest has certainly been a roller-coaster ride. And as we suggested yesterday, something in the race turned this week. Two new national polls now show Obama with single-digit leads over McCain -- about where the race was before the conventions. The reason why Obama's up: women. According to the latest New York Times/CBS survey, Obama is ahead overall by five points (48%-43%); a week ago after the GOP convention, CBS had McCain up two points overall (46%-44%) and five points among women (47%-42%). But in the latest poll, Obama once again has the advantage with female voters (54%-38%). The same holds true in a new national Quinnipiac survey, which finds Obama with a four-point lead over McCain (49%-45%) and a 14-point edge among women (54%-40%). Every poll out this week -- whether by a good pollster or a mediocre one -- has shown the same trend: movement towards Obama. It's hard to ignore and one can sense the conventional wisdom shifting again. We have literally lived the adage this week: seven days is a lifetime in politics.
It seems mutual. In 2003, as head of the Socialist Party then in opposition, Zapatero declined to join other Spanish officials in standing up when U.S. troops marched past a VIP stand during a parade to mark National Day. The next year, as prime minister, he did not even invite the Americans.
quote:Originally posted by Willowdale Wizard:
Yes, I've seen a transcript, and McCain seemed very befuddled. Still, Republicans have hated Zapatero for years, mainly for withdrawing from Iraq. He's not been invited to the White House under Bush. He openly supported Kerry on the eve of the 2004 election. Rice has criticised him over Zapatero's Cuba policy.
It seems mutual. In 2003, as head of the Socialist Party then in opposition, Zapatero declined to join other Spanish officials in standing up when U.S. troops marched past a VIP stand during a parade to mark National Day. The next year, as prime minister, he did not even invite the Americans.
I think what is significant about this beyond was it initial confusion and those implications is that since his advisor has now come out and said, 'No he really meant it" that it's indicating an even worse relationship. He pretty much called them enemies outright who want to harm the US. It also contradicts what he said back in April.
From the first 'gaffe?" link:
quote:Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, is ready to change the policy of estrangement with the Spanish government that was put in place for four years now by George Bush. He declared that he was ready to fully normalize bilateral relations and that Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was invited to the White House.
quote:Originally posted by Willowdale Wizard:
I don't get why the accepted wisdom is that McCain's strong suit is international relations ... when he says things like this, or "Czechoslovakia" ... or that Iraq has a land-border with Pakistan.
Me neither. I guess we'll see with this goes now.
The Spanish Press apparently pretty much came to the conclusion that he was just confused, likely between Zapatero vs Zapatista and were leaving it as a dumb slip up. That was before the advisor came out and said, "Um nope he actually meant it." Might get stirred up again.
quote:Politics has always been lousy with blather and chicanery. But there are rules and traditions too. In the early weeks of the general-election campaign, a consensus has grown in the political community — a consensus that ranges from practitioners like Karl Rove to commentators like, well, me — that John McCain has allowed his campaign to slip the normal bounds of political propriety. The situation has gotten so intense that we in the media have slipped our normal rules as well. Usually when a candidate tells something less than the truth, we mince words. We use euphemisms like mendacity and inaccuracy ... or, as the Associated Press put it, "McCain's claims skirt facts." But increasing numbers of otherwise sober observers, even such august institutions as the New York Times editorial board, are calling John McCain a liar. You might well ask, What has McCain done to deserve this? What unwritten rules did he break? Are his transgressions of degree or of kind? ..................................
Almost every politician stretches the truth. We journalists try to point out the exaggerations and criticize them, then let the voters decide.
McCain's lies have ranged from the annoying to the sleazy, and the problem is in both degree and kind. His campaign has been a ceaseless assault on his opponent's character and policies, featuring a consistent—and witting—disdain for the truth. Even after 38 million Americans heard Obama say in his speech at the Democratic National Convention that he was open to offshore oil-drilling and building new nuclear-power plants, McCain flatly said in his acceptance speech that Obama opposed both. Normal political practice would be for McCain to say, "Obama says he's 'open to' offshore drilling, but he's always opposed it. How can we believe him?" This persistence in repeating demonstrably false charges is something new in presidential politics.
Ideological differences aside, John McCain's campaign has been more dishonest, more unfair, more -- to use a word that resonates with McCain -- dishonorable than Barack Obama's.
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McCain's transgressions, though, are of a different magnitude. His whoppers are bigger; there are more of them. He -- the easy out would be to say "his campaign" -- has been misleading, and at times has outright lied, about his opponent. He has misrepresented -- that's the charitable verb -- his vice presidential nominee's record. Called on these fouls, he has denied and repeated them.
The most outrageous of McCain's distortions involve Obama on taxes. He asserts that Obama's new taxes could "break your family budget," and that an Obama presidency would inflict "painful tax increases on working American families." Hardly. Obama would lower taxes for most households, and lower them more than McCain would. The only "painful tax increases on working American families" would be on working families making more than $250,000.
There have been some stories posted about the 'hacking' of Palin email account. Some screenshots were posted and that's about it.
Well it may not be over, there's a little storm brewing off the port bow. There's been some speculation on who it was. Was it just a dumb teenager? Some sort of rovian planned 'thingy'? The theory on that one goes, 'well isn't it convenient that at the very time that the whole email issue is under scruitiny because of Troopergate that something happens that not only could garner sympathy but could cover email deletion'.
So of course the secret service and FBI is on the case. Looks like the perpetrator isn't so smart:
Memo to US Secret Service
It looks like a flashing news story is breaking care of Michelle Makin and Ben Smith from politico.
quote:Michelle Malkin posts a reader's very plausible, if unconfirmed, account of exactly how a hacker got into Palin's account, a feat which seems to have required patience at guessing and deducing security questions, but no particular tech savvy.
From what appears to be the hacker's own recounting:
Earlier it was just some prank to me, I really wanted to get something incriminating which I was sure there would be, just like all of you anon out there that you think there was some missed opportunity of glory, well there WAS NOTHING, I read everything, every little blackberry confirmation… all the pictures, and there was nothing, and it finally set in, THIS internet was serious business, yes I was behind a proxy, only one, if this sh**ever got to the FBI I was f***ed
Ben's Blog (This links to the full Malkin Blog)
And now apparently readers from Malkin and Little Green Footballs are saying that the guy is the 20 year old son of a Democratic senator from Tennessee.
edited to add: Tenneesee News Story on State Reps comments
I think maybe we can see where this may be going.
The comments sections are already screaming, "Obama did it. He organized it. We demand a full inquiry! Emailgate emailgate! Only evil liberals would stoop this low.."
Fox and Drudge are already on the case.
This one is very smelly no matter how you look at it.
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[ 18 September 2008: Message edited by: ElizaQ ]
From the description the guy just stuck in her zip code and figured out the answer to her security question. 'Wasilia High'. In answer to the question...'So where did you meet your husband?" Or something like that. Yep super hacker genius needed for that.
It will be interesting to see if this goes any further. Drudge is trying to push it, along the 'it's Obama meme' but I can also seriously see it coming back and biting them in the butt. I don't agree with the break in, but for petes sake, doing government business on a yahoo account where any semi intelligent person could reset the password with some basic personal knowledge? Holy heck.
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And then if you want to get even stranger. This is beginning to make the rounds today.
Palin, the Pastor, Prayer and for added 'wow' add some 'witches' into it.
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OK, now I'm looking forward to a McCain/Palin presidency. She consulted with someone who literally led a "witch hunt." This is great. I'm looking forward to their Supreme Court nominations.
My personal soothsayer told me the Supreme Court deliberations would sound like this:
Those thousands of inmates waiting on death row for their lethal injection ought to worry though, what with the proposed adoption of crucifixion as the new means of dealing with sin and criminality.
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Not a U.S. senator, but a state rep.
Cool thanks for the correction. I think though in the eyes of those that are glittering with scandal, it's the 'Democrat' part that has the sirens going off.
Meanwhile 'anonymous' has launched or is attempting to launch and internet attack against Fox. They're pissed off cause Bill O'Reilly called them 'leftists' in one of his diatribes last night.
I swear if I was writing fiction I couldn't make this stuff up.
Stonewalling witnesses may stall Palin probe until after U.S. election
quote:ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A key legislator says unco-operative witnesses are stalling the investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin - delays that could last until after the U.S. elections.
Senator Bill Wielechowski, a Democrat from Anchorage, says subpoenaed witnesses who are refusing to testify can continue to do so for months without penalty. Wielechowski, a member of the panel that summoned the witnesses, says court actions to force the witnesses to appear are unlikely.
How conveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenient.
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PS, re the investigation of Palin...
Stonewalling witnesses may stall Palin probe until after U.S. election
How conveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenient.
Yeah this is starting to get big. It was headlining on CNN every 10 mins or so.
quote: ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's husband won't comply with a subpoena issued by state lawmakers who are investigating her firing of Alaska's public safety commissioner, the McCain-Palin campaign said Thursday.
Gov. Sarah Palin has refused to cooperate with an inquiry into the firing of her public safety commissioner.
A state Senate committee is scheduled to meet Friday to take statements from the 12 people they subpoenaed last week, including Todd Palin.
But campaign operatives have spent a week assailing the investigation as "tainted" by partisan politics since the governor became the Republican vice presidential nominee.
Campaign spokeswoman Maria Comella said Todd Palin would not face a "fair hearing" before the committee. The governor argues that the state Personnel Board is the proper forum to investigate her July firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.
Sarah Palin's aides said she will not comply with subpoenas, either, because the governor has "declined to participate" in the inquiry, Alaska's attorney general said Wednesday.
Meanwhile the Spain issue seems to be getting bigger and Spains angry. It's also apparently causing some noise from Hispanics and Latinos in the south. Trying to find a good link to a story. It's just on blogs right now so maybe nothing has been written yet.
And on a more amusing note. In an campaign stop in Cedar Rapids today it became the "Palin/McCain" administration according to Palin and the crowd chants.
Cedar Rapids
quote:Make a donation to Planned Parenthood IN HONOR of Sarah Palin. When you make a donation to PP (secure site) in her name, they'll send her a card stating the donation was made in her honor. (Not that I'm into avian homicide, but this is like killing two birds w/ one stone: it financially supports beleaguered PP and protests the threat to female rights by one of our own.
Here's the link to Planned Parenthood's website:
Open 'Donate'. Click 'Honorary or Memorial Donations'. Fill in your info and donation, then scroll down to 'I would like to give to': fill
in 'Sarah Palin' and use the McCain campaign headquarters address:
1235 S. Clark Street
1st Floor
Arlington, VA 22202
Now they're campaigning for Obama too.
quote:Palin's transparency proposal already exists in D.C.
Sarah Palin says she will bring the same kind of transparency she brought to Alaska to Washington, D.C..
Sarah Palin says she will bring the same kind of transparency she brought to Alaska to Washington, D.C..
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (CNN) – Sarah Palin likes to tell voters around the country about how she "put the government checkbook online" in Alaska. On Thursday, Palin suggested she would take that same proposal to Washington.
"We're going to do a few new things also," she said at a rally in Cedar Rapids. "For instance, as Alaska's governor, I put the government's checkbook online so that people can see where their money's going. We'll bring that kind of transparency, that responsibility, and accountability back. We're going to bring that back to D.C."
There's just one problem with proposing to put the federal checkbook online – somebody's already done it. His name is Barack Obama.
I guess transparency and accountability only matter in Washington and not backwater places like Alaska where ethics inquiries are going on.
I should be trying to post news of what the other guys are up too, but they two seem to be the top headline getters right now. Maybe they're going for a sort of 'all publicity is good publicity' strategy? [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img]
quote: As everyone who reads this blog regularly knows, I responded pretty enthusiastically to the Palin nomination in its first minutes. And, honestly, I didn't know that much about her. But what I knew, I liked.
Pretty much everything she has said or done since her appearance on the national stage – beginning with her acceptance speech – has soured me on her. It's decreasingly plausible to me that she's who I thought she was when she was nominated. Based on her performance on the campaign trail so far, she's a shallow and demagogic politician. And if, on the off chance, that's not who she is, then it's instructive that the McCain campaign seems to be eager to have her play this particular character.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's husband won't comply with a subpoena issued by state lawmakers investigating her firing of Alaska's public safety commissioner, the McCain-Palin campaign said Thursday.
A state Senate committee is scheduled to meet Friday to take statements from the 12 people they subpoenaed last week, including Todd Palin. But McCain-Palin spokeswoman Maria Comella said Todd Palin would not face a "fair hearing" before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
. . . .
One Judiciary Committee member said lawmakers would have little recourse if witnesses refused to comply with the subpoenas. Only the full Senate, which does not reconvene until January, can vote to hold them in contempt, state Sen. Bill Wielechowski said.
"It appears that the McCain campaign is now very heavily involved in this, and they're attempting to stonewall the investigation," Wielechowski, a Democrat, said just before Thursday's announcement.
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quote:Yesterday in his town hall meeting with Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) advocated offshore oil drilling by pushing three myths: 1) Hurricanes won't damage oil rigs, 2) Fish love oil rigs, and 3) Cuba is allowing China to drill near the U.S. coast:
McCAIN: An oil rig off of the Louisiana coast. It survived hurricanes. It is safe, it is sound, and to somehow —
And by the way, on that oil rig — and I'm sure you've probably heard this story — you look down, and there's fish everywhere! There's fish everywhere! Yeah, the fish love to be around those rigs. So not only can it be helpful for energy, it can be helpful for some pretty good meals as well. […]
As far as China and Cuba are concerned, we continue to hear that there is negotiations or conversations or — I'm not exactly sure what the state of play is, but it's not a healthy thing, obviously.


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"Guys and Gals Senior Fitness" free weekly classes are open to seniors of all abilities and led by certified instructor Marty French. Sponsored by Oriol Health Care. Classes are held Mondays in Sterling, Tuesdays in Princeton, Thursdays in Paxton, and Fridays in Rutland at the senior centers, 10:15-11:15 a.m. Drop-ins welcome.


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Nintendo has reportedly managed to trim its already low manufacturing costs of Wii video game console by 45% since the launch in late 2006, which means that presently it costs the company less than $100 to build Wii system that retails for $249 in the U.S.
According to Koya Tabata of Credit Suisse, production costs of Nintendo Wii have decreased by 45% since its release about two and half years ago. According to estimates published earlier, it cost Nintendo about $160 to make its Wii game console back in late 2006, which means that present fabrication cost of the most popular game machine in this generation can be as low as $88, a truly unbelievable price for a current-generation system that has years of lifespan left.
Potentially, claims Mr. Tabata, Nintendo could easily drop the price on the Wii or even introduce a low cost version of the console in emerging markets, which could dramatically widen the addressable market for Nintendo Wii game developers. Some analysts estimate that emerging markets, such as Latin America, Eastern Europe and others represent a billion of potential game console buyers, a massive amount for companies like Microsoft Corp., Nintendo or Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
Nintendo set the recommended retail price of ¥25 000 (about $249) in Japan, $249 in the U.S. and €249 ($330) in Europe, which means that the actual price of the console exceeds the bill-of-materials cost by up to more than three times, implying that the company makes profits on its hardware, something unusual in the game console business.
So far Nintendo has sold more than 50 million of Wii game consoles.
Nintendo Wii features IBM's custom PowerPC architecture-based microprocessor named Broadway clocked at 729MHz and code-named Hollywood chip with built-in graphics core, DSP and I/O features from ATI that operates at 243MHz, earlier reports suggested. Nintendo Wii uses 91MB of memory in total: 23MB of "main" 1T-SRAM, 64MB of "external" 1T-SRAM and 3MB texture buffer on the GPU. Nintendo's Wii does not feature a hard disk drive, instead, it boasts with 512MB of flash memory, but the console also has a SDHC card reader, which allows installing up to 32GB of flash memory.


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BRONC FOOTBALL - The Sheridan Bronc football teams is nine days from the opening of the 2016 season Head coach Don Julian says now is the time they start to transition practice into game planning for Laramie.
We will have it all live for you next Friday starting with our First Federal Savings bank pregame show at 5:30 kickoff is scheduled for 6:00.
LOCAL FOOTBALL - Big Horn, Tongue River and NSI will all have Zero week scrimmages next week and the Wyoming Cowboys have their season opener at home September 3rd against Northern Illinois.
BRONC FOOTBALL - The Sheridan Broncs are starting to look ahead towards the season opener with Laramie next week.
Head coach Don Julian says they have a lot to get in and the players have done a good job taking in all that information.
We will have the season opener live on the 26th live on 14-10 KWYO kickoff at Homer Scott stadium is set for 6:00.
RAMS / EAGLES / WOLVES FOOTBALL - Next week Big Horn, Tongue River and NSI will have Zero week scrimmages, opening day is September 2nd.
BRONC FOOTBALL - The Sheridan Broncs start week two of preseason drills today we talked with Head coach Don Julian and he told us about how the team emphasis changes this week. The Broncs open a week from this Friday at home against Laramie kickoff will be at 6:00.
RAMS / EAGLES / WOLVES FOOTBALL - The Big Horn Rams and Tongue River Eagles open practice today, the season opener for both teams will be September 2nd both play at home the Rams host Lovell the Eagles have Wind River the NSI Wolves open their 6-man season on the road at Burlington.
2016 FALL SPORTS KICK OFF - The 2016 fall sports season for all fall sports begins Monday including all Wyoming high school football teams.
The Bronc and Lady Bronc cross country teams open practice Monday morning at 6:30.
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The Lady Bronc swimmers will open Monday evening at 5:00 and the Bronc and Lady Bronc tennis teams will go Monday afternoon at 4:00
BRONC FOOTBALL - Sheridan Bronc Head coach Don Julian says a very good opening week continues today, the Bronc football numbers are strong with the underclassmen backing up a smaller senior class for 2016.
And as day for of drills begin the transition for the players into game mode continues.
Finally today Julian has been pleased with the senior class leadership.
X-COUNTRY - The Bronc and Lady Bronc cross country teams open practice Monday morning at 6:30.
BRONC FOOTBALL - The Sheridan Bronc football team is three days into fall camp and Head coach Don Julian says it's gone pretty much as he expected.
SHS FALL SPORTS - The rest of the fall sports begin practice Monday and Julian has the most important reminder for all those athletes.
The Sheridan high school booster club will host their member and parent fall BBQ at Sheridan high school in less than two weeks.
SHERIDAN BRONC FOOTBALL - The Sheridan Bronc football team opens the 2016 season in 18 days when they host Laramie, this season it appears Wyoming 4-A football will be very tough with several contenders with a shot to cracking the big four.
For the last several years Natrona county, Gillette, Cheyenne East and the Broncs have been dominate in the league this season however Broncs Head coach Don Julian believes there will be more company at the top.
BRONC FOOTBALL - The Sheridan Bronc football team opens the 2016 season today with the the first practices of the new season the first game will be at home on the 26th against Laramie.
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The tendency to dig is a common trait among a variety of dog breeds. VCA Animal Hospitals reports that some Northern breeds like Huskies or Malamutes or any large dog with a thick coat will dig "cooling holes" during the summer months as a way to beat the heat. Terrier breeds were bred to dig out prey and rodents and maintain these traits today, while other dogs simply dig to bury bones, to curb separation anxiety or out of sheer boredom.
If an owner notices that the problem has gotten progressively worse, then it's time to address the reason behind the digging in order to find a solution. VCA reports that most often owners need to find a new form of entertainment that could replace this activity.
VCA suggests that if a dog is digging to seek out small animals it often won't stop until owners eliminate the prey, whereas if the dog is digging to keep cool, providing it with a shelter where it can be in the shade may stop the problem. If the dog is digging out of boredom, then owners need to provide the animal with more exercise, leaving it less likely to be destructive and in better pet health.


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Exhibition Review: "Mythologies" at SAIC's Sullivan Galleries
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Upon entering the exhibition space of "Mythologies," an excellent showing of artwork produced by six young artists at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Sullivan Galleries, the eye is almost instinctually drawn to the bold, blood red palette of Rashayla Marie Brown's video installation "Puro Teatro (Coming to Theatres)." Projected large upon the far wall of the gallery, the single-shot, still-frame video elegantly documents what appears to be the meditative staging of a soon to occur evocation. Brown's hands extend from beyond the frame to light three white votive candles placed in a triangular formation on the red surface, later joined by the slow setting of a steel incense burner, rosary beads, and the black winding cord of a microphone. The video is accompanied by the tune "Puro Teatro," meaning 'pure theatre,' performed by Latin soul and salsa singer La Lupe in the 1960s. La Lupe was a known practicer of SanterÃa at the time of the song's recording, and the romantic drama of her singing coupled with the ritualistic imagery Brown has produced certainly evokes the sensation of saints being summoned.
Indeed, preceding the video spatially are three artworks intent on making explicit the theme organizing the included artworks altogether: a contemporary consideration, and continuation, of black aesthetics from a political, art-historically informed subject-position. "Black Motif," a 7 by 6.5 foot mixed-media painting on cotton by Cameron Welch, features a golden, protruding mask in the style of African ancestral objects (or commercial knock-offs thereof) surrounded by layered, clashing colors and patterns of different kente cloths that the artist has painted asymmetrically into a patchwork composition. Neighboring the painting is "All American (Banner Series)" by Alexandria Eregbu, a triptych of bedazzled vinyl wall-hangings heralding famed contemporary black artists Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, and Mickalene Thomas as though they are college sports stars. Mirroring these works is "Pomba Gira (Deja Vu)," an installation by Brown replicating the aesthetic of her aforementioned video in three dimensional form, but instead featuring a vinyl LP copy of Beyonce and Jay-Z's hit song "Deja Vu" suspended over two self-portraits the artist intentionally produced in the style of Lorna Simpson.
Images of earlier, though none too far gone, eras permeate throughout "Mythologies." Elsewhere in the exhibition, Welch paints black and white appropriated civil rights era imagery for the diptych "Misspelled Aggression," hanging the companion artworks across from one another like mirror images. Scrawling the words 'nigga please' over a photorealistic rendering of civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael mid-speech, and the words 'nigger police' over an image of attack dogs being used against black protestors in the 1963 Birmingham, AL, "race riots;" Welch's large-scale paintings of bold aggression (both state-sponsored and grass-roots resistant) make enormous and unavoidable the persistent issue of racial violence and the failures of binary 'riot vs. revolution' understanding. Photographer David Alekhuogie similarly investigates the mediation of racial violence, but with more of a critical orientation towards the marketing and mass-manufacture of stereotyped black male aggression. In a stunning photo simply titled "Beef," Alekhuogie places a super-sized McDonald's cheeseburger (and Monopoly themed bag) at the center of two posters hanging on a deep blue bedroom wall, one of Notorious B.I.G. and the other featuring Tupac as the star of the 1992 gangsta film Juice. The work produces a thoughtful visual metaphor for the corporate profiteering of engineered black-on-black violence. In the exhibition's most contemporary reference, Alekhuogie places a mass-produced ceramic head labeled 'Africa, Cameroon' purchased from a local art supply store, featuring generically racialized facial characteristics, within a pale grey hoodie now indissociable from the image of Trayvon Martin for a photograph the artist provocatively titles "Self Portrait (Africa, Cameroon)."
It is a compelling commingling of artworks: expansive in its time-lapsing pastiche of (art-)historical and pop-cultural references, polymorphous in its inclusivity of art forms (video, painting, textile, photography) typically segregated museologically. Additionally, "Mythologies" adds an interesting, youthful dimension to conversations currently about the importance and relevancy of identity-themed group exhibitions at a time when post-structural criticality and neoliberal pipe-dreams of being 'post-whatever' threatens to make irrelevant concerns over specific authorship. This is particularly so in the wake of the much maligned New York Times review of "Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980" at MoMA PS1 by critic Ken Johnson, who reductively oversimplifies the insurgent artistic strategies of assemblage (while assuming it to be an exclusively white tradition) and insipidly criticizes a portion of that show for perceived failures in the Modernist ideal of universal aesthetic communication, as though that's the primary artistic motivation behind producing (and promoting), for instance, gnarly, gorgeous, challenging artworks made with detritus collected from the Watts Rebellion.
What the content of "Mythologies" seem to be suggesting, instead, is that the formation of group exhibitions linked to the theme of identity offers a powerful means by which to outline, preserve, contextualize, build upon, and (as this exhibition especially makes clear) assert one's own artwork as participating within a specific aesthetic lineage. This is, perhaps, why Beyonce and Jay-Z's "Deja Vu" on vinyl (something contemporary being delivered through the media of an earlier era) makes for such an ample metaphor within Brown's Lorna Simpson-quoting installation, and for the entire exhibition furthermore. It is why Welch's and Alekhuogie's respective aesthetic investigations of the evolving mass-mediation of racial violence transcend disciplinarity. It is also why the tongue-in-cheek cheeriness of Eregbu's banners feels so sincere, if also abundantly fan-girl self aware. The works seem produced as knowing, generative gestures of willful apprenticeship derived from self-tailored canons of influence made available and immediate, at last.
"Mythologies," featuring the work of David Alekhuogie, Rashayla Marie Brown, Alexandria Eregbu, Christina A. Long, Hannah Rodriguez, and Cameron Welch, is open now through January 8, 2013, at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Sullivan Galleries (33 S. State Street, Seventh Floor).
Top 5 Weekend Picks! (12/7-12/9)
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1. Between Places: Chicago-Detroit at 6018NORTH
Work by College for Creative Studies students Austin Brady, Megan Leigh Jessup, Sean Maxwell, Tom Burns, Fatima Sow, Andrew Mehall, Maggie Kozma, Benjamin Thompson, Eric Maurer, Kristina Sheufelt, Shaina Kasztelan, Jen Wang, Leucochloridium Paradoxum, Joanna Marie Care, and Jordan Stohl.
6018 NORTH is located at 6018 N. Kenmore Ave. Reception Saturday, 5-9pm.
2. 24HRS/25DAYS Presents: Schlong Night at New Capital
Work by Anastasia Chatzka, BEERY/KARP, Carl Moberg, Catie Olson,EC Brown, Jonathan Ozik, and Tom Burtonwood.
New Capital is located at 3114 W. Carroll St. Reception Friday, 7-10pm.
3. Life, in Some Form at Chicago Artists' Coalition
Work by Marissa Lee Benedict and Brittany Ransom.
Chicago Artists' Coalition is located at 217 N. Carpenter St. Reception Friday, 6-9pm.
4. Mythologies at Sullivan Galleries
Work by David Alekhuogie, Rashayla Marie Brown, Alexandria Eregbu, Christina A. Long, Hannah Rodriguez, and Cameron Welch.
Sullivan Galleries is located at 33 S. State St. 7th fl. Reception Friday, 4:30-7pm.
Work by Sam Jaffe.
65GRAND is located at 1369 W. Grand Ave. Reception Friday, 6-9pm.
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Work by Alberto Aguilar, Peter Fagundo, Julia Fish, Michelle Grabner, Jessica Labatte, Nick Ostoff and Allison Wade. Organized by Michael Milano and Jeff M. Ward.
Adds Donna is located at 4223 W. Lake St. Reception Sunday, 4-7pm.
2. Ill Form and Void Full at Valerie Carberry Gallery
Work by Laura Letinsky.
Valerie Carberry Gallery is located at 875 N. Michigan Ave. #2510. Reception Friday, 5:30-8pm.
3. Blood Work at the International Museum of Surgical Science
Work by Jordan Eagles.
International Museum of Surgical Science is located at 1524 N. Lake Shore Dr. Reception Friday, 5-9pm.
4. The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics at Sullivan Galleries
Curated by Oliverio Rodriguez, with work by Jordan Avery, Beatriz Aquino, Shandi Hass, Kiam-Marcelo Junio, Nicole Ricket, Jackie Rivas, Hannah Rodriguez, Ali Scott, Jannah Tate, Dana West, Sky White, and Nikki Woloshy.
Sullivan Galleries is located at 33 S. State St. 7th Fl. Reception Friday, 4:30-7pm.
5. Alleys and Parking Lots at moniquemeloche
Work by Joel Ross and Jason Creps.
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Margaux Isaksen, 20 (Fayettville, Ark.), will compete on Saturday, June 16, in the $130,000 Kremlin Cup of Modern Pentathlon in Moscow, Russia. Isaksen is returning to the form which saw her win the Champion of Champions event in Sicily last October on the heels of winning a gold medal at the Pan American Games where she secured an Olympic berth.
Perennially a World Cup medal threat, Isaksen has been sidelined for much of the early part of the 2012 season following a bout with mononucleosis. A team of supporters has helped Isaksen steadily regain her strength and conditioning to earn a place in this prestigious invitation-only event. Given the rate of her return to form, U.S. coaches and officials are confident that Isaksen will be ready to make a run for the podium on August 12th, the date of the women's pentathlon event of the London Games.