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Too good to be true? Not at all. Such a genealogy paradise is quite possibly in your very own neighborhood. Welcome to your local Family History Center.
Although FHCs share the same purpose, you'll find each center you visit to be fairly unique. Some are no more than a small room with one computer and one microfilm or microfiche reader. Other FHCs may have several computers and numerous microfiche and microfilm readers, with file cabinets full of local records on film and fiche. They may also have shelves full of genealogical reference books and extensive collections of data CDs. Many centers now also have digital imaging systems so you can save microfilmed or microfiched images right to a computer.
If you're fortunate enough to live near one of the few larger, "multi-stake" FHCs, you could find up to 200 computers for patrons and resources not found at the average Family History Center, including access to Ancestry.com . These "super centers" are in Mesa, Ariz.; Los Angeles, San Diego, Oakland and Sacramento, Calif.; Idaho Falls and Pocatello, Idaho; Las Vegas; Logan, St. George and Riverton, Utah; and Hyde Park, London.
You'll see each center's addresses, phone number and hours of operation. The volunteers who staff FHCs set the hours and may change them, so it's a good idea to call ahead and verify hours before your visit. At the same time, you might ask what resources are available at the center. This will help you plan how you can spend your time there. If you want to use microfilm, ask if the center has a digital imaging system for saving record images. You also can inquire whether anyone on the staff specializes in the country or topic you're researching. Many FHC volunteers have been doing genealogical research for decades and are happy to share their knowledge with you.
No internet access at home? Just look in your local phone directory under Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If the listing doesn't mention an FHC, call the number and request to be directed to the nearest FHC.
The main feature that sets an FHC apart from any other genealogical library is your ability to request and rent microfilm and microfiche from the FHL's massive collection of records from around the world.
FamilySearch began microfilming records as early as 1938, and today that collection contains 2.4 million-plus rolls of microfilmed genealogical records from more than 110 countries. These records include civil registration; court, land and tax records; as well as parish registers of recorded births, marriages and deaths that often go back into the 1500s. You can research generations of your ancestors around the world without ever leaving town.
Search the FHL catalog from home by going to the FamilySearch website, looking under the Library tab at the top and choosing Library Catalog. You'll get several search options, but using the Place option gives you the best overview of records available for a specific location. After you type in a place and click Search, you may get a few similarly named location options. Choosing one of those will show your results grouped by topics, such as Biography, Cemeteries, Census, Church Records, Court Records and many more. Click a topic to see all the related titles; click a title to learn more about that item. Once you narrow the results to a promising microfilm, click Film Notes in the upper right. Then choose the "printable version" from the bottom of the page and print a copy to take with you to the FHC. (If you've clicked on a book title, note that FHL books don't circulate to FHCs. You can look for the book at your public library or ask the librarian to help you borrow it through interlibrary loan.)
Once you've printed records for the film and/or fiche you want to request, you're ready to visit an FHC. If you plan to do any research using the on-site computers or other resources, remember to bring your genealogy charts, notes and information on the line you'll be looking up.
Chances are good one of the friendly volunteer staff will greet you and ask you to sign in with your name and perhaps a few other bits of information. This is used only for statistical purposes, to determine the amount and type of usage. If your phone number is requested, it is only to call you if you leave something behind -- otherwise, nobody will contact you unless you specifically make that request.
If this is your first visit, take a few minutes to look around. Ask a staff member to give you a brief tour and show you what resources are available for patrons. Many centers have at least a few shelves with genealogy books and reference material. Collections of this type are unique to each center and mostly donated. You never know what you may find.
Most centers also have file cabinets of microfilm and microfiche on indefinite loan. Ask whether the center has a name index for the films in its collection. Though the collection varies from center to center, a microfiche series you'll find in most FHCs is the Scotland Old Parochial Registers Index. This set of more than 1,000 fiche indexes more than 10 million names in Church of Scotland parish registers, dating from the late 1500s through 1854.
Also in most FHCs is the Accelerated Indexing System (AIS) microfilm, which indexes people living in the United States from 1607 to 1906. The information is compiled from census records and other sources, and can direct you to original records with more information.
You will definitely want to spend some time on the FHC computers. They'll give you free access to several subscription websites through the FHL's "portal" site, including:
You'll pay a rental fee of $5.50 per microfilm roll (some FHCs may add a small handling fee to cover the expense of notifying you when your film is in); bring cash in case that's all the center can accept. The best deal going, however, is microfiche, which costs only 15 cents per sheet, and once ordered, remains in that FHC indefinitely. In the FHL catalog, you can tell whether an item is microfiche by its description or its film number, which will begin with the number 6. To limit your search to only microfiche, use the catalog's Keyword search with the word "fiche" as one of your keywords.
In one to several weeks, you'll get word that your film or fiche has arrived at the FHC. It'll remain in the FHC's temporary collection for about four weeks. You'll need to return to the center within that time frame to view it on a microfilm reader (you can't take the film outside the FHC). If necessary, you can renew microfilms for the same fee of $5.50 per film. Films that are renewed a second time become part of the FHC's permanent collection instead of being returned to the FHL.
If the FHC has a digital imaging system you plan to use, bring a CD or flash drive to save record images. Otherwise, you'll reimburse staff for printouts from your film reader or use change (be sure to bring some).
Don't feel bad if you're inexperienced in using microfilm or fiche readers; just request a lesson from the staff. Remember, the volunteers are there to help you with anything from searching the FHL catalog to loading reels of film. Many will lend their genealogical expertise where they can. With all of their resources, FHCs are easily one of the best-kept secrets in the genealogy world.
TIP: FamilySearch is updating its website and the FHL's online catalog with more user-friendly features. Stay up-to-date on the changes at the Insider blog.
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The dream of wireless providers like Verizon and AT&T -- or any company, really -- is to be able to charge twice for providing the same service. In working towards that goal they're getting a big assist from ESPN and tearing down net neutrality in the process.
The Wall Street Journal reported [1] last week that ESPN is in talks with "at least one" major U.S. wireless internet provider to "subsidize wireless connectivity on behalf of its users." This means that they're willing to pay a wireless carrier like AT&T a significant chunk of change to enable ESPN viewers to stream unlimited sports programming to their mobile devices without having to worry about exceeding the carrier's monthly data caps. So wireless subscribers would pay AT&T for access to the internet, and ESPN would pay AT&T for access to the customer. One service, two charges.
And if AT&T does end up pairing with ESPN on this scheme, that wouldn't be surprising given that AT&T has been trying to work out ways to double-charge for their services for quite some time. Last February the Journal reported that the wireless carrier was scheming out a way to charge developers of data-intensive mobile apps [2] for the traffic AT&T subscribers incurred while using their products, and on May 15 AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson told investors [3] that he expects those plans to be in effect soon. They also tried to double-charge customers for the privilege of using Apple's FaceTime videochat app -- a potential violation [4] of the almost-impossible-to-violate Open Internet rules. They eventually made FaceTime available [5] to all subscribers except those who still have unlimited data plans grandfathered in from before AT&T switched over to tiered plans with data caps.
That should give you an idea how much wireless carriers love data caps and how central they are to their future business models. It's a lucrative proposition for them: set up the cap, charge customers who go over it, and charge companies who can afford to pay to get around it. And that's where the net neutrality concern comes in: wireless carriers who allow companies to circumvent their data limits are, in effect, prioritizing the content of those companies and disincentivizing subscribers from seeking out content from companies who haven't paid for the exemption. As Public Knowledge put it [6]: "Imposing data caps on consumers and then allowing wealthy content holders to buy their way around them is a recipe for stagnation online."
So it's not that great a deal for consumers or smaller app developers who don't have deep pockets, but it's FANTASTIC for the wireless providers and the companies that can pay their way through the caps -- the wireless company gets a big check, and ESPN gets enhanced access to subscribers. It's anti-competitive and doesn't really represent the ideals of a free market. As Andrew Leonard at Salon points out [7], conservative bloggers and industry-funded telecom mouthpieces are defending ESPN's proposed deal with wireless carriers by comparing it to the introduction of toll-free 800 numbers, the exact same language AT&T has used in the past to defend such arrangements. One writer for the impressively named American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research lauded the proposed deal under the headline: "ESPN considers picking up the tab." Whose "tab" is ESPN picking up? Nobody's. It wants to pay a wireless provider to get around the customer-access limitations that carrier put in place.
As for the data caps themselves, this new vigor for pay-for-play data cap exemptions for high-bandwidth apps does much to undermine the initial rationale for imposing the caps: controlling network congestion. When AT&T made the switch from unlimited to capped data plans, it said it was because the popularity of audio and video streaming apps on smartphones and tablets put too much stress [8] on its network. Now that the caps are in place, mobile providers are saying they can carve out exceptions for popular apps that stream audio and video -- for a price. A 2012 report [9] from the New America Foundation whacked monthly data caps for mobile providers as an ineffective remedy to network congestion and said the only reason they exist is to boost profits:
Though mobile providers may need to utilize some usage limitations on their network given greater capacity constraints as compared to wired broadband, the use of flat monthly caps makes little sense when congestion on the network is likely to be time and geographically limited. Instead, the decision by AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless to move users onto tiered plans and the current price levels are largely influenced by Wall Street demands to report ever-growing revenue and profit margins. Rather than effectively managing use of the network, data caps are a strategy for ISPs to increase their revenue per user.
In the end, though, there really isn't anything in the FCC's Open Internet rules that would stop Verizon or AT&T from making a deal with ESPN. A company that provides wired broadband internet almost certainly could not enter into such an arrangement, but the FCC gave wireless providers far more leeway. They have a much freer hand to set their own rules, and they're gaming the rules they made up to boost their own profits while sticking it to consumers.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by buddahfan, Aug 28, 2007.
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Wait until AJ and Hot Rod start showing their stuff for real. LOL
Orlando is going to miss Darko dearly. Battie may be done for the year with a torn rotator cuff: Battie's Injury Puts Magic in Big Man Crunch - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog
I'm not sure if anyone "misses" Darko. ..especially euro refs and their families.
Oh, come on, Low, he was heads above Battie for Magic last season. He's a better player. And while he may never reach so-called "stardom", he'll be a solid contributor on his team.
I don't miss Darko, but I sure miss that #2 pick we had back when it was shiny and new and full of promise.
Obviously not seeing as how he was benched for one Tony Battie. I'll consider Darko a solid contributor when he actually becomes a solid contributor. How many coaches have to bench this guy before he stops getting the benefit of the doubt?
Maybe our collective obsession of granting Darko the benefit of the doubt comes from the fact that most of the roster that won the ship in '04 was existing of players that actually got benched or underrated until they were formed to a group that won it all.
Here's the message that tells my feelings.............
darko hasn't truly been given a chance by any of those coaches who've "benched" him. 2 out of 3 of those coaches were fired the year after the job they did with developing darko. i watched lots of orlando games darko outplayed tony battie on a regular basis. so this showed me it was the coach and not darko. which solid contributor did orlando go to in the 4th in game 4 of the playoffs?? dwight howard??? no tony battie?? no grant hill?? no orlando went to darko milicic. i think that coach was trying to save his job.
and how did that work out for Orlando in that 4th game?
they lost. if they had been going to darko all series it may have turned out differently. the offense should have been ran through darko instead of howard.
Do you think the Grizzlies will be smart enough to run their entire offense through Darko?
It looks like Darko has bulked up this past summer. I hardly recognized him at first.
Is that a Grizz or just a big Brown bear? Don't try and fake me out. Could it be a Kodiak?
the griz should run the offense through pau gasol. i do however think darko should get plenty of shots. i haven't seen the new grizzlies offense yet but i'm sure it won't be like orlando's slowdown and drop it in the post to a guy with no post moves offense. i said orlando should run it through darko because darko is a better fit for that style than dwight "turnover" howard.
Now that is one of the most intelligent things I have read from the pro-Darko side in quite some time. An argument that is plausible and makes sense. If no one replies, you will probably fake yourself out! :D
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I originally thought on reading the weekly nonsense by Uncle Tom that appears in my throwaway newspaper, that he was referring to the administration of George Bush. The arrest of thousands of people who happened to be of Muslim background, the wire tapping of our phones, claiming the right to have librarians inform the government what is read by people, the arrest and detention of hundreds of people in jails without specification of charges or the right to a fair trial, the torture of prisoners — a violation, not only of the Constitution, but of the Geneva Accords that America promises to obey. I would think Uncle Tom would be concerned that an American president lied about WMD and sent over four thousand Americans to their deaths, but I guess Uncle Tom is a self hating black man who sucks up to those in authority and will vilify President Obama in order to get a better salary for the garbage he prints.
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Morongos donate 10,000 turkeys to community
Local tribe helps hungry leading up to Thanksgiving holiday
CABAZON, Calif. - - In these tough economic times, there are many people who can't afford a Thanksgiving dinner.
That's why the Morongo Band of Mission Indians is helping those less fortunate, by donating turkeys.
"We're trying to help families who don't have turkeys so that way they can have a turkey for this Thanksgiving," explained young tribal volunteer Caleb Anderson.
The outreach program began long before Caleb was born. Over the last 27 years, the tribe has given out 70,000 turkeys to the hungry in Southern California.
"Morongo is doing a really fantastic job, but I still think there's a lot more that can be done, there's a lot of homeless people out there," expressed John McCoy.
He would know. "I used to be one." McCoy admits. "I was a homeless person, yea."
McCoy is now a medical support assistant with Loma Linda Hospital, delivering turkeys to veterans in need. Loma Linda is one of 113 pre-selected organizations feeding families, veterans, and seniors ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, with the help of the outreach.
The tribe will donate 10,000 turkeys -- enough to feed 200,000 people.
"There's so much need in our communities right now, we actually aren't even making a dent," said Holly Valencia, Community Outreach Rep for the tribe.
"We're giving out 10,000 turkeys today, but we had organizations asking upwards of 22,000 turkeys."
Christian Intercessors Pastor Vivian Stancil and her congregation drove from riverside to donate their time, and in return will receive 75 turkeys to give to needy members of the community.
"In these economic times, we reach families that's unemployed, that's on food stamps, seniors that's raising young children," Stancil said.
"It brings joy to my heart because as a result of what we do today, there's going to be a lot of families here in this area that will have food when they wake up on thanksgiving morning," congregation member Melvin Bryant told us.
The Morongo Band of Mission Indians may donate the turkeys, but the turkeys are not donated to them.
"It's over 250 thousand dollars each year," Valencia said.
A cost that, she says, will never be taken out of the budget.
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Just created first XML Encrypted document using the library! Now need to decrypt it :)
Created RPM package for XMLSec library and uploaded it to
redhat. This is my first expirience building RPM packages.
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What is the Jersey Devil? Does it exist? Where does it hide? The origins of the Jersey Devil are as mysterious as its home-the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, almost two thousand square miles of sparsely inhabited woods and marsh in Southeastern New Jersey, where whispering pines and white cedar, bubbling bogs, and shifting sands, create a land rich in vegetation, wildlife, minerals and...
A creature with the head of a horse, large wings and claws, and an elongated serpent's body.
Seeing this creature is supposed to foretell disaster, from shipwrecks and war to crop failures, although no sighting of the Jersey Devil has ever resulted in harm to a person. Some sightings have involved attacks on livestock and dogs, including dogs that are found mysteriously mauled to death. However, almost every sighting story ends with "and then it fled into the night." In fact, in early sightings, many people reached instinctively for a weapon to attack the Jersey Devil, which fortunately seems to have escaped both injury and capture.
Where did the Jersey Devil come from? The stories are as varied as the animals that make up the Jersey Devil's body. Some stories involve a young girl who was cursed by a gypsy, or a young girl who fell in love with a British soldier and was cursed as a traitor by the townspeople when she gave birth to his child.
The story that most people agree on is that an impoverished Quaker woman with twelve children, Mother Leeds, discovered that she was expecting another baby. Mother Leeds lived in the Leeds Point area, in Galloway Township, Atlantic County. She was furious at the idea of another mouth to feed and exclaimed, "let the child be a devil!" Some stories say the child was born deformed. In other stories, the child was normal in appearance and grew deformed. In any case, the child left the family and escaped into the woods, where it became a supernatural beast with the body parts of many creatures.
It became known most popularly as the Leeds Devil, but it was also called the "Hoodle-Doodle Bird" and "Wozzle Bug." Some stories name the mother as Mrs. Shourds (also called and spelled, Shrouds), who lived near Leeds Point. The New Jersey Historical Society identifies Mrs. Leeds as a Deborah Smith, who emigrated from England to marry Mr. Leeds. [1] Devil hunter Laura Leuter notes that a Daniel Leeds and a Samuel Shourds both lived in Leeds Point at the time the Jersey Devil was supposedly born. [2] The Jersey Devil's birth place has also been variously identified as Leeds Point, Burlington, Estellville, and Pleasantville. All this occurred back in time, in the early 18th century, before New Jersey was an official colony in a recognized nation. Some stories pinpoint the exact year of birth as 1735, and the night the devil was born was, of course, dark and stormy.
The Leeds Devil was allegedly exorcised in a ritual in 1740 that banished the creature for one hundred years. The Jersey Devil has been sighted over the years by famous people and ordinary citizens, including Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napolean. The American naval hero, Stephen Decatur, is supposed to have seen the Jersey Devil when he was testing cannonballs in the Pine Barrens that were produced in a forge at the Hanover Mill Works. He saw a strange flying creature and fired a cannonball directly through it. Supposedly, he hit the creature dead on, but it flew away unharmed.
Sightings of the devil began to be documented as fact in the nineteenth century. A sighting was recorded in 1899 in a Philadelphia newspaper, when a man, George Saarosy, was awakened by screams in his yard and saw the Jersey Devil.
Imagine what this would be like. You are upstairs in your room one night, by yourself, getting ready for bed. You hear something outside - a snuffling, shuffling sound and then a high-pitched scream. You look out your window - just there! Rooting in the garbage cans, a hunched over creature with glowing eyes, sharp teeth, and what is that lashing around? -- Does it have a rope? No, that's a tail, and what looks like a tattered leather coat unfurls into - wings. The creature screeches and flies away before you are even convinced you saw something. Only the scattered trashcans remain to confirm that you did see something. Of course, raccoons and groundhogs are always getting into the trashcans. But they can't fly. Okay, a hawk. But do hawks have horsy faces and look at you like one person to another? What did you see? And should you tell anybody? This is what it might be like to see the Jersey Devil -- just a few minutes out of your life, really, but something you will never forget.
A flurry of sightings occurred one week in January 1909 that terrorized thousands of people in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and as far away as Delaware. Councilman E.P. Weeden heard flapping wings outside his Trenton home and found cloven footprints in the snow. Many people saw the creature, which was described by at least one witness as hissing and flying, with glowing, phosphorescent eyes. The sightings were widely described in the Philadelphia Press. Mr. Evans of Gloucester described the beast, which he and his wife watched for ten minutes from their bedroom window, as "about three and a half feet high, with a head like a collie dog and a face like a horse. It had a long neck, wings about two feet long, and its back legs were like those of a crane and it had horse's hooves." [3]
The Philadelphia Zoo offered a $10,000 reward for its capture. Two men claimed to capture the devil-by painting stripes and gluing wings and claws onto a kangaroo, which they exhibited in a cage and tormented so that the poor beast shrieked at frightened visitors. Ultimately, they admitted the hoax. At least a hundred people claimed to see or hear the Jersey Devil in at least thirty sightings that week of 1909. Although the rest of the country laughed at the panic, people locked away livestock and pets and walked around with guns. It was not safe to be anything that flew or hissed in January 1909!
Although the Devil was sighted intermittently in the early 20th century and in 1939 was allegedly designated the "Official State Demon," the next major series of sightings would occur in 1951, when a ten-year-old boy saw a creature dripping blood outside his window, sparking the "Gibbstown-Paulsboro invasion." Other people heard shrieks and screams and saw a creature that varied from seven foot tall to cave man size. "Posses" of hunters with guns began to comb the woods. Strange footprints in the snow were seen, but upon investigation were found to be 'stamped" prints made by a bear paw on a stick of wood. The police were not amused by the gun-toting townspeople, several of whom were arrested. As in 1909, the sightings dwindled away, people lost interest, and the Jersey Devil apparently slunk away into the pines.
The Jersey Devil continues to fascinate people, particularly South Jerseyans, who often know somebody, who knew somebody, who had an encounter with the Jersey Devil.
Is there really a Jersey Devil? And if there is, what is it and why is always sighted alone? In 1909, scientists in Philadelphia and at the Smithsonian speculated that the Jersey Devil was a prehistoric creature from the Jurassic period that somehow survived, perhaps entombed in a limestone cave.
Other explanations are that the Jersey Devil is actually a rarely seen or extinct wildlife denizen of the Pine Barrens - most often the sandhill crane, formerly found in the Pine Barrens, that is believed by some to resemble the Jersey Devil because of its prehistoric wingspan and gawky, hunched appearance.
Folklore - myths and tales - are often a way for people to make sense of natural phenomena that may be strange, inhospitable or frightening. The Pine Barrens is a rich and unique habitat, but also a very different kind of place that clearly belongs more to its natural inhabitants than to the people who homesteaded there. The Jersey Devil may have been a way for people to adjust to the habitat-to keep their children safe at night from bears, coyotes and cougars by warning of the Jersey Devil that screams in the woods. The Jersey Devil combines in appearance and behavior many of the wild animals that inhabit the Pine Barrens - and that may have seemed strange and scary to the people who lived and worked there.
But does this really explain the sightings, the stories, the strength of the legend that keeps people interested and searching for the Jersey Devil almost three hundred years after Mother Leeds cursed her unborn child?
Maybe you can solve the mystery of Mother Leed's unfortunate son.
Take a field trip with the Pinelands Preservation Alliance. The PPA offers walks, canoeing and other adventures, including nighttime "hunts" for the Jersey Devil, with Russ Juelgs. "All hunts begin at 7 pm at a remote location in Wharton State Forest." Need I say more? http://www.pinelandsalliance.org/
The New Jersey Pinelands Commission offers a calendar of events to celebrate and explore the Pine Barrens, including the Pinelands Discovery Festival and moonlight walks in the Pine Barrens. http://www.state.nj.us/pinelands/pastimes/calen/
Nixdorf, Bert. Take Ten: 5 Hikes, 5 Bikes, 10 Easy Trails in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. New Lisbon, NJ: Pinelands Commission, c1995-2004. This wonderful guide, with maps, photos and history snippets, is a great guide to exploring the Pine Barrens, from the New Jersey Pinelands Commission. Also includes a "heart of the pines" driving tour. http://www.state.nj.us/pinelands/pastimes/ten/TAKETEN.PDF (PDF File)
Read or recite some folk ballads of the Jersey Devil, written by Lillian Arnold Lopez:
Lopez, Lillian Arnold. "Ballad of Leeds Devil" in Pineylore: the History and Folklore of the Pine Barrens. Updated September 2004. http://home.midmaine.com/~lopez/leedsdevil.htm (accessed September 18, 2006)
Lopez, Lillian Arnold. "Hey Mother Leeds" in Pineylore: the History and Folklore of the Pine Barrens. Updated September 2004. http://home.midmaine.com/~lopez/motherleeds.htm (accessed September 18, 2006)
Read about the exploits of the Devil Hunters. Located in South Jersey, the Devil Hunters are a real-life band of supernatural investigators who search for the Jersey Devil in the heart of the Pine Barrens. Among other adventures, they have located and explored the famous "Shrouds house" ruins, believed to be the birthplace of the Jersey Devil. If you want to conduct your own investigations, you can also pick up some tips by reading their investigation pages. Not the X-Files, exactly, but perhaps the J-Files?
Leuter, Laura K. "Hunts for the Jersey Devil." The Devil Hunters, the Official Researchers of the Jersey Devil. c2004. http://www.njdevilhunters.com/hunts.html (last accessed September 18, 2006)
The Jersey Devil: Fact or Fiction. Atlantic City, NJ: Atlantic County Government, last modified July 21, 2005. http://www.aclink.org/HISTORY/mainpages/jerseydevil.asp (accessed September 18. 2006)
Juliano, Dave. The Jersey Devil. The Shadowlands, c1995. http://theshadowlands.net/jd.htm (accessed September 18, 2006)
Legend of the Jersey Devil. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society. c2001. http://jerseyhistory.org/legend_jerseydevil.html (accessed September 18, 2006)
Leuter, Laura K. Legend of the Jersey Devil. Devil Hunters, the Official Researchers of the Jersey Devil, c2004. http://www.njdevilhunters.com/legend.html (accessed September 18, 2006)
Perticaro, Anthony. The Jersey Devil of the Pine Barrens. Rockville, MD: Strange Magazine. http://www.strangemag.com/jerseydevil1.html (accessed September 18, 2006)
[1] Legend of the Jersey Devil. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, c2001. http://jerseyhistory.org/legend_jerseydevil.html (accessed September 18, 2006)
[2] Leuter, Laura K. Legend of the Jersey Devil. Devil Hunters, the Official Researchers of the Jersey Devil, c2004. http://www.njdevilhunters.com/legend.html (accessed September 18, 2006)
[3] Juliano, Dave. The Jersey Devil. The Shadowlands, c1995. http://theshadowlands.net/jd.htm (accessed September 18, 2006)


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Canisius College men's and women's diving coach Meili Carpenter was named a Sportswomen of Colorado Award honoree on March 10 at the 39th annual Awards Banquet at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center in Denver, Colo. Carpenter was joined by 45 of Colorado's top-female athletes and contributors to women's athletics.
"This is an amazing honor," said Carpenter. "I am especially excited that the award mentions coaching contributions to the sport of diving, because of the impact it can have on the growth of the Canisius diving program!"
A Boulder, Colo. native, Carpenter was selected by a panel of local media for her contributions to the sport of diving as both an athlete and coach.
In her third season as the Golden Griffins' diving coach, Carpenter has changed the face of the program. Since her arrival, the 2012 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Diving Coach of the Year has helped the Griffs rewrite three of the four combined program records. This season, sophomore Taylor Epstein set the program mark in the 1-meter event and freshman Audrey Mulhisen set the standard in the 3-meter portion. Last season, sophomore Eddie Quarantillo broke the school's 3-meter record, which previously stood for 18 years.
"Meili has raised the level of our diving program in the time that she has been here to a top-notch program," said Canisius men's and women's swimming and diving head coach Scott Vanderzell. "Being awarded MAAC Diving Coach of the Year in 2012, shows the great progress she has brought to the program."
Along with her coaching responsibilities, Carpenter competed at the 2012 Olympic trials, finishing eighth overall after qualifying at the 2011 USA Diving Winter National Championships.
A two-time All-American in the one-meter diving at Fairview High School, Carpenter went on to have a storied career at the University at Buffalo. At UB, she earned All-MAC honors four times and was a three-time Division I NCAA qualifier in the platform, and 1- and 3-meter events. In addition, she was a finalist in the National Diving Championship in both the 1- and 3-meter events in 2010.


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If you are having problems with the cooler lines.
I use 5/16 steel brake lines with the steel coil around the exterior.
They can be bent, twisted, cranked on and not kink.
Plus the steel coil protects them from abrassion.
They come in various lengths. A 4 foot section will do one line.
But then in Canada it wouldn't be a 4 foot section eh.
It would be in millipedes.
Swapping a Muncie SM465 to a TH-350 on a FS Chevy Truck
I wrote this post to try and help the people out there with a 73-87 Full size Chevy pickup, that are looking to swap the Muncie SM465 with a TH-350 Transmission. I have seen many posts on different boards out there with people looking to see if this is possible, yet with no replies. Well it is, I have done it. I just hope by posting here that it will be of use as this is the largest, most informative site on the net!
I did this swap on my 78 Chev 3/4 ton, with all the parts from my 73 1/2 ton. I basically took out my muncie SM465 (granny low 4 speed manual) and replaced it with a TH-350 auto. This was done in my home garage, with no special tools. Just a lot of grunting, and brute strength to lift that puppy up there! This is for the most part what you need to complete the swap. From a donor truck, or your local wrecker, grab the steering colum with the shift arm, (unless you use a floor shifter), the transmission cooler lines and transmission cooler, or a radiator with it built in, the flywheel that came off of the truck with the auto, the torque convertor and the bolts that held it to the flywheel. If its a Muncie 4spd w/ granny low, the cross member on your truck is like a big "U". This will line up with the holes on the auto TH-350, but you will find that the vacum modulator will hit, so if you dont want to notch out the original x-member, replace it with the "straight" one out of any 73 to 87 truck with an auto tranny. When you take out the old manual and clutch assembly, you will be removing the neutral safety switch at the back of the pedal as well. Make sure when you have the new tranny and steering colum in, that you re-hook up the neutral safety switch wires to the new colum. If you dont do this, it won't start. If you bypass this, it may start while in gear, and this would not be ideal. The linkage that goes from the steering colum in the engine compartment, to the tranny itself, and the kickdown cable that goes towards the carb are also required. It wouldnt hurt to get the speedo cable as well, as you may find the orignal too short. You will more than likely need the driveshaft from the donor truck as well, just the front section can be changed, but you may need to get a different sized U-joint. My 3/4 ton had larger U-joints than my half ton donor. This was swapped with the use of an adapter U-Joint. And last but not least, A LOT of time and PATIENCE.
I Hope this helps you all out, and I hope I didnt miss anything critical! If I have missed anything please post after me, as there is a lack of information on this subject. I have done my best to provide correct information, but such a swap should really be done by a professional, or at least with the guidance of someone that is mechanically inclined. I really hope this helps you all out, as I myself spent 3 months trying to find information that was non existant on the net. This swap can be done on a 4x4 as well, and more information can be found here, http://www.geocities.com/spencerhut/...trans_swap.htm
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|Have fun Casper.
|thanks for the advice it really helps a lot
|Rick WI
There are two reasons you don't want to piss away a lot of money on fancy pumps and stuff like that. First, it may not be legal. Second, if it is legal all the buddies around you that you are racing tend to hit each other. One smack in the wall and you'll be shelling out a lot of dough to replace those parts. So no, it's not an area you'd want to put your money in.
When someone comes in and wants to get into racing we'd steer them to a nice car that is for sale. By nice I mean one that we know is setup for the track they want to run on and handles well. Spending the money up front on a car that is well sorted out I think is the best investment. You will most likely have a spec on the tires you will have to run and fresh tires are a plus. Good shocks are also a plus but there will also be a spec on these. Spec meaning the rules will dictate the type/style.
On the engine, yes keep it simple. The first year you will be learning the ropes. Not having a ton of power will help you learn the car and work on what it likes and doesn't like.
Claiming is a rule that allows another racer to "claim" parts off your car. The purpose of the rule is to keep trick hidden stuff, or obvious for that matter, parts out of the car. Lets say you build a super trick motor with all the lightest and best bottom end components. A racer could have $3000 in crank, rods, pistons, coatings. If a claim rule exists where another racer can put up $1000 for the guys motor, the logic is folks won't build that stuff. Claim rules though are seldom if ever used in our area. The reason is if one person does it, the next week they can, and will be claimed. Plus whoever does it will probably get the crap beat out of him in the pits.
|would it be a good idea to make everything electric (fans water pump fuel pump etc.) or is there something about dirt track that u dont do none of that to and i was wonderin exactly wat is "claiming" a part?
|so i shld just get a plain stock motor and not worry about pushin the specs. thanks a lot for the help and that saves a lot of money and time on my part for now.
|Rick WI
These are the general rules we build our street stocks to for the tracks we run on. If you build to the exact letter of the rules you are going to end up making around 300 or so HP. This class is very competitive here in WI and some racers are willing to dump some significant dollars to make power, not unlike our Late Model series racers. The two areas where the power is made is tricks we have found in cylinder heads, the 052's, and lots of time on the cam doctor designing lobe profiles. Carbs have not been a source of major power. Those are teched pretty well so even a full blown Braswell carb is going to be only worth a couple, if that, HP as compared to a stock 4412. The carb spacer and type of "stock" intake though can really help out.
ENGINE -- Engine must be of same manufacturer as chassis and body. Maximum of two valves per cylinder. No Aluminum blocks or heads. Maximum displacement 362 cid (Chrysler products 373 cid). All engines must meet following specifications regardless of manufacturer; Stock or stock replacement cast iron untouched heads (no porting, polishing, acid dipping, or gasket matching allowed) required. The only stock replacement heads allowed are World Product SR 1052 #4266B and #4267B. Minimum combustion chamber 62cc, maximum 2.02-inch intake and 1.6-inch exhaust valves required. Valve spring retainers are the only titanium parts allowed. Flat top pistons required. A minimum of zero deck height required. Maximum 10.8 to one compression ratio. Steel connecting rods only. No Bowtie, Vortec or 18 degree heads allowed on GM products. Roller tip rocker arms allowed. A 3/4" inspection hole in oil pan required. ]nspection hole must be located in line with second or third rod journal of crankshaft, on either side of pan and above sump area (oil level). Hole in windage tray in line with inspection hole required.
CAMSHAFT & IGNITION -- Hydraulic cam only. Maximum lift at valve: GM-.480 inch, Ford/Mopar-.520 inch. No solid lifter or roller cams allowed. Stock type (HET) ignition components only. Any coil permitted. NO MSD boxes or duel-point distributors.
CARBURETOR -- Stock Unaltered 500 CFM Stock Holley 4412 2 bbl. Or I 3/8" Rochester allowed on all cars. $200 claim on any carb at any time (after racing event) by any competitor in Sportsman Division or management. No alterations except removal of choke "Butterfly" allowed. 1 1/4" maximum adapter/spacer plate allowed. Double return springs. Air cleaner required to act as flame arrester. No air induction boxes or ram air units allowed. Steel fuel lines required, remote fuel filter allowed.
INTAKE & EXHAUST MANIFOLDS -- Completely stock passenger car 2-bbl.. cast iron intake and exhaust manifolds required. No grinding, polishing or altering allowed. No Bow-Tie manifolds, internal heat riser crossover must remain in place. Center dump and log style manifolds allowed. Max exhaust manifold inside diameter 2-inches No cast iron header style exhaust manifolds allowed.
EXHAUST SYSTEM -- Maximum diameter 2 1/2" before collector and/or muffler, 1 1/2" maximum diameter behinds muffler. Exhaust must exit left or rear (not right side) and behind driver. Effective mufflers required, Collector or muffler must not be located forward of transmission, tOO-decibel limit measured from front row of bleachers. No car expelling flame, smoke or backfiring will be tolerated
Casper, no need to feel stupid. No matter what you do or how you do it I am sure you will have fun at the track once you start. If you don't want to spend a lot of money on the engine just build a stock 355 and bolt it in. Take the extra time to learn about setting up the chassis and practice whenever possible. No matter how much HP your motor is making if you can't roll through the corner and it doesn't hook coming out you are dead meat.
Bolting on a part that doesn't conform to the rules and is obvious, like mentioned, will get you in trouble. They can claim the part and will toss your points. If it's a gray area they may simply say don't show up again with that setup. Tech folks generally can catch the obvious violations so fully worked carbs, weight violations, incorrect head castings, intake castings, displacement errors and compression issues will get discovered. If the folks down your way are like those up here many of the top racers are pushing the rules. I suspect they know the tech officials and know what they know and what they don't know, then work the rules to their benefit. The better engine builders will certainly know what it takes to pass tech.
|what exactly does the carb rule say? some 500 based 2bbls can be made to flow way more than the stock rating depending on mods allowed.You said the rules were cast intake and exhaust manifolds 400 h.p will be a good mark to start with you can step up later.Now with that being said if you are just starting out a good reliable engine is far more important than all out power.A 355 with vortec heads flatops and small hydraulic cam that will run at a reasonable rpm with good tourque AND NOT BREAK every time you turn around will allow you to concentrate on learning to drive and set up the car.what is the tire rule beleive it or not it can be hard to hook up 300 horsepower on a dry slick track with small tires.And after you figure out setup and driving then upgrade the engine.
|The average power for the class is going to vary depending on the tracks rules and limitations. As RickWI mentioned though, they can be capable of 400hp. If you're running illegal parts the very least they're going to do is tell you to make it legal. At our local track you'll forfeit your points up to that point in the year and not allow you to race until you make it legal.
|well im just tryin to get into dirt track racin do yall kno what the average hp is in a street stock? and wat happens if i build something "illegal" and they figure out? (this website makes me feel really stupid but thanks a lot for the help)
Rick, your cars are running almost 400hp on two barrels? That's impressive. What other restrictions do your cars have? The cars in the Hobby Stock class at a track near my house can run any size engine as long as they're all iron and run iron intakes and factory iron exhaust manifolds. There is a $1000 claim but nobody abides by it. I've got a 350 in the car I'm working on and I'm going to get my butt kicked by all of the 383s and 400s most other racers have out here.
Casper, as far as your question goes. Do as the others have already said and drop in the biggest engine you can. Also, I've been told to run lots of compression. If you're limited on compression then run the max allowable amount. The 350 I have now has about 11.9:1 compression but I'm thinking about tearing it back down and shooting for closer to 12.5:1. You're gonna have to run race gas. It's expensive but hey, it's racing and racing isnt cheap.
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You would not be correct, throughout the Midwest you'd be in last place with a 305 against our class rules 350 motors in Street Stock. I suspect Ark is no different, you'd be a back marker.
A 305 would make a lousy race motor. Bore is WAY too small.
We build lots of Street stock, limited late model, late model and dirt modified motors and have done so for years.
If the class rules let you build to 356 that's what you want to shoot for. If you can run a 400 and stroke it down to that size, use super lightweight cranks and get a 1500 bobweight that's what I suspect some of the top engines are in your class. Within our class rules and within the tech inspectors abilities to inspect our top street stock motors are running just shy of 400 HP SAE on the dyno.
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would a 305 be a good dirt car motor (street stock)to me it seems since u can only use a 2 barrel 500 cfm carb it wouldnt smother a perf. built 305 as much as if u were putin it on a performance 350 givin it kind of an advantage but am i right in a way?
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Not only did Doug Dickey reestablish an elite football program at UT, he also brought a large helping of tradition that many Vol fans now take for granted.
His teams were the first to run through the band's power 'T' formation, beginning Sept. 25, 1965, against Army. It wasn't done for style or intimidation, but rather to get from the dressing rooms on the East side of the stadium to the team's sideline on the West side of the field. Now, although the formation is not necessary, it's just as traditional as the game itself.
Dickey also put the power 'T' on the football helmets during the 1964 season and was the first to order the endzones painted in an orange and white checkerboard, beginning Oct. 10, 1964, against Boston College. The colorful checkerboard is now a UT signature that has extended to several other Vol sports.
Dickey began his ties with Tennessee as head football coach from 1964-69. His tenure included a 46-15-4 record that took the Vols from mediocrity to national prominence in the late 1960s. Two SEC championships (1967 and 1969) were brought to Knoxville during Dickey's term as head coach and he was named SEC Coach of the Year in 1965 and 1967.
After a nine-year stint as football coach at Florida, his alma mater, Dickey returned to Tennessee as athletics director in 1985. Dickey was widely recognized as one of the nation's best, earning numerous awards for his work and molding of the UT Athletics Department.
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I decided to test this out, so I mailed myself a clasp-closed small envelope. It got to me fine with the 'letter rate' postage on it -- no nonmachinable surcharge, no postage due. Since clasps are supposed to make an envelope considered nonmachinable (and therefore subject to the surcharge), I guess this is another case of mail rules being unequally applied.
Whenever I bring something up to the counter with a metal clasp, the clerks always charge me the "large envelope" rate. Being the tightwad that I am, I pull off the metal clasps from all envelopes before I mail them. Envelopes without metal clasps seem harder to find around here.


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Since President Obama announced he would seek Congressional approval to send missiles into Syria in retaliation for the gas attacks on its people, I've followed coverage of the situation even more closely.
I suspect you have, too. The news is full of debates on the subject, as well as countless newspaper columns and television interviews, including Charlie Rose's exclusive conversation with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
We'll dig into the Syria issue tonight on Kentucky Tonight. As usual we've assembled a fantastic panel for the discussion:
Lori Hartmann-Mahmud is an associate professor of international studies at Centre College. She has degrees from Dennison and the University of Denver, and she served in the Peace Corps. In 2004 and 2009, she took groups of Centre students to Cameroon to study politics and civil society.
John Stempel is a senior professor of international relations at the University of Kentucky Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. He served 23 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, including postings in Guinea, Burundi, Zambia, and Iran. His experience in Teheran, where he was the embassy's principal liaison with opposition groups, provided material for his book, "Inside the Iranian Revolution."
Bruce Hicks has been at the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg since 1986. He earned a Ph.D. from Emory University the following year. His areas of expertise include political theory, American politics, and American foreign policy.
Born in Iran, Hossein Motamedi came to the United States in 1977. He is a graduate of Rhodes College in Memphis and the U.K. Patterson School. Motamedi is associate professor of political science and history at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. He teaches about culture and politics of the third world, politics of the modern Middle East, and world politics.
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I've found a caster who is willing to do a run of RED ABS TK(TX) kits (armor & helmets)... but in order for it to be cost effective, he needs to be able to sell a minimum of 30 kits.
While the price is obviously not set (and I wouldn't be the one setting it), you could expect the full kit to cost in the neighborhood of $500-$600. These would be untrimmed, ANH style TK kits, much like the black ABS kits currently being offered by some casters.
I believe the last run of red ABS kits happened a decade ago, and they were FX style kits with GIGANTIC helmets. I would think there must be at least a moderate amount of interest in these...
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You have a leak. Or you used water that was too hot and it killed the yeast. Open up the bottle and see if the yeast is working, you should also be able to smell it. If the yeast is alive then you have a leak. Tighten the lid and check the tubing for nicks and cuts. You should know that the Hagen unit is really for smaller tanks, under 20 gallons. It's not going to help you a lot with a 55 gallon tank. As far as lights, do you have the standard 2 bulb top on your 55? If so get a glass canopy and use a couple of shop lights. Or if those offend your sense of order go to www.ahsupply.com and get a 2X55 watt upgrade kit.
great thanks I checked the yeast and it was working (awfull smell) so I changed the tubing and in less then a hour I have bubbles very slow around 1 every min but they are started. With the hagen plant gro if I have 3 of them would that be better?? And does anybody know if I can set them all into the one diffuser?
you still have a leak you should get a buble every second. At least thats what i get from my DIY yeast CO2. Check the seals and see if you can smell CO2 leaking from the container. if you can theres a leak
sorry cant smell anything I dont know I'm stumped. Wish I had found out about this DIY system before I bought this thing. Is it possible for me to add yeast to the canister?
The Hagen system really does work well but it is limited to smaller tanks. For a while I was running the Hagen system with an additional bottle set up so that the bubble rose into the bottom of the Hagen diffuser. That worked pretty well actually, once I got the hose set up just right.
No the canister is just too small to work any faster. I tried adding extra sugar and it slowed it down a lot. I didn't try adding extra yeast, but it ought to multiply up to whatever working population the bottle can hold fast enough anyhow.
What is your water, pH and KH in the tank before CO2?
Two 2 liter bottles might be good for that size tank, I use a 2 liter on my 20 gallon tank with a Hagen diffuser and on my 29 gallon tank but with a DIY vortex-style reactor. I still have a Hagen running on the 10 gallon, and I am trying to duplicate the yeast and stabilizer ingredients. Still don't know what the stuff is in the stabilizer, but it is mostly baking soda.
do you think I need the two bottles and the hagen system?
It may be that you will need more CO2 than the Hagen can deliver due to the size of the tank. Depending on your filtration (surface disturbance) and your water, you could get a good response though. I think that you need to get the Hagen system running and see what effect it has when it is going correctly.
Your particular water chemistry is very important. If you have not tested for starting pH and KH, do so now. Go buy a test kit if you don't have one. This is critical to know before you start messing with the water chemistry. Lots of good info here, spend some time reading.
The Hagen diffuser works great unless you send too many bubbles in at one time. The Hagen system mix is amazingly regular in the bubble production, no doubles, ever. Even a single DIY yeast bottle using the diffuser, alone, without combining with the Hagen bottle, might send out two bubbles at the same time which are so large that they race through the diffuser, and one bubble is pretty much wasted. I am currently doing that in the 20 gallon tank, and it is only a problem when the bubble rate is pretty low. So, two bottles are workable, if you decide that this is necessary. But, make an educated decision, don't just jump in and do this.
Really, you will just have to experiment. Start with what you have, get it working correctly, test and see if the results are adequate. If not, try adding a second bottle to feed into the diffuser. If that is still not enough, you may need a different input method to be able to use more DIY bottles, like a power reactor of some sort.
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One of the hallmarks of Obamunism is that "due process" becomes irrelevant: Whatever the great man decides the people "need," whatever he decrees, shall become law, by hook or by crook (mostly the latter).
Thus, when Congress fails to enact Barack H. Obama's "cripple and tax" energy bill, despite staggering Democratic majorities in both houses, the president's Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, issues the very same rules that failed to gain majority support as administrative EPA regulations instead.
If the intricacies of Senate debate prevent ObamaCare from being enacted due to a potential GOP filibuster, the Obamunists in Congress concoct a scheme to misuse the reconciliation process as an end run around standard practice and due process. If even Democratic senators and representatives are reluctant, no problem; a series of bribes, including offers of federal jobs after the congressman is booted out by his irate constituents, will fix the vote right up.
Following the correct process is irrelevant… we need action, action, action! Our ends are so vital they justify any means necessary (or expedient) to enact them.
Thus, today's ruling against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in its quest to impose "net neutrality" rules on the internet was an amazing and hopeful sign that the federal courts may finally be willing to clip the wings of Obamunism, before it becomes as powerful as New Dealism did 75 years ago. And this is true regardless of whether net neutrality itself is good or bad: Today's ruling struck a blow for due process and rule of law, and against the Obamacle's penchant for rule by decree:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the FCC lacks authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks. That was a big victory for Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable company, which had challenged the FCC's authority to impose such "network neutrality" obligations on broadband providers….
The FCC now defines broadband as a lightly regulated information service. That means it is not subject to the obligations traditional telecommunications services have to share their networks with competitors and treat all traffic equally. But the FCC maintains that existing law gives it authority to set rules for information services, including net neutrality rules.
Tuesday's court decision rejected that reasoning, concluding that Congress has not given the FCC "untrammeled freedom" to regulate without explicit legal authority.
FCC Chairman Julius "Caesar" Genachowski, a crony of Obama's from their Harvard Law Review days — meet the new boss, same as the old boss — takes exception to the very idea that he cannot enact any regulation he deems fit. True, the FCC predictably blames George W. Bush for the ruling, since the FCC originally promulgated its order in 2008; but that only proves the will to rule as a Caesar didn't begin with the Obama administration.
But Genachowski took up the cause as soon as he was appointed; he enthusiastically supported it, and now he owns it. And it is Genachowski who now mulls ways to slalom around the federal circus court ruling, according to one of his allies:
With so much at stake, the FCC now has several options. It could ask Congress to give it explicit authority to regulate broadband. Or it could appeal Tuesday's decision.
But both of those steps could take too long because the agency "has too many important things they have to do right away," said Ben Scott, policy director for the public interest group Free Press. Free Press was among the groups that alerted the FCC to Comcast's behavior after The Associated Press ran tests and reported that the cable company was interfering with attempts by some subscribers to share files online.
The more likely scenario, Scott believes, is that the agency will simply reclassify broadband as a more heavily regulated telecommunications service. That, ironically, could be the worst-case outcome from the perspective of the phone and cable companies.
Process, schmocess; who cares what the Constitution says about the legislative branch, not the executive, having exclusive power to enact federal legislation? There are too many important things we must do right away — we need action, action, action!
I doubt the real problem is lack of time to go through Congress and properly enact FCC authority to regulate the internet. Rather, I believe the real worry is that Congress might not do it. Republicans and some Democrats might object to the power grab, especially now, after ObamaCare and all the other government takeovers. The only time limiter is that, if this "due process" drags on long enough, we'll have a new Congress that will at the very least have much stronger Republican minorities, and could very well have a Republican majority in one or both houses.
At that point, any "net neutrality" rules will necessarily give more consideration to intellectual property rights… and rely less on the Left's hippie-mantra, "information wants to be free" — by which they generally mean, "I want to be able to download my favorite music, books, and movies without having to pay the copyright owners a dime."
But at core, this argument is not about the merits of "net neutrality"; it is instead about whether we are to be a constitutional republic that limits what each branch of the federal government can do; or whether we are to retravel the Woodrow Wilson, liberal-fascist route of disdain for constitutional limitations in favor of pure populism… defined, as populism inevitably is, as the immediate imposition of whatever policy is popular — among the federal government's inner circle of powerful congressmen, cabinet officials, and the president.
To heck with rule of law; and for that matter, to heck with rule by the people themselves. No need to think for yourselves, we'll tell you what you think.
Bear in mind, if the FCC can promulgate "net neutrality" rules all on its own, without any grant of authority from Congress, then why couldn't it likewise promulgate the "Fairness Doctrine" the same way? Or a rule making it illegal to broadcast "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" against the government — or to undermine government policy — à la Wilson's Sedition Act of 1918? Adios, Fox News and conservative talk radio; buenas dias, the Government Broadcasting Agency.
It's not a pretty future. But as Ebenezer Scrooge asked, is this the future that will be, or only a future that may be? As an optimist, I opt for the latter; the future is never fixed and can always be changed if we change our own ways.
We'll have a perfect opportunity to demonstrate such hope and change on November 2nd.
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Named Horizon League Player of the Week on March 11 after shooting 9-12 (75 percent) from long range in two games the week prior
19 points on 5-6 3-point shooting at Milwaukee, setting a career high for made threes (3/9)
12 points, eight rebounds and six assists vs. Cleveland State (2/14)
19 points, career-high seven steals vs. Detroit in the Horizon League opener (1/8)
Became the 30th member of the Green Bay women's basketball 1,000 point club on a three from the wing against Indianapolis (11/30)
Scored 12 points and had six rebounds against Wisconsin (12/23)
Scored 17 points and had three assists at Marquette (12/8)
Had 20 points and nine rebounds at Central Michigan (12/5)
Scored 16 points and had a season-high seven assists and a career-high six steals against Indianapolis (11/30)
Recorded her first career double-double against Central Michigan, tallying 25 points and 10 rebounds (11/17)
Horizon League Preseason First Team All-League selection
Member of Spring Horizon League Academic Honor Roll
Phoenix Award recipient (voted on by coaches for players' attitude, effort, coachability, modeling The Green Bay Way)
Led the league in free throw percentage (84.4)
Sixth in the league in field goal percentage (46.0)
Finished tied seventh in the league with 1.8 steals per game
Tied career high eight rebounds in second round of NCAA Tournament game
One of four players to score in double figures (15 points) in first round of NCAA Tournament while leading the Phoenix with six rebounds
Averaged 14 points and four rebounds in Horizon League Tournament (three games)
Led team in scoring in Horizon League Tournament semifinal vs. UIC with 22 points
Horizon League Second Team All-League
College Sports Madness Second Team All-Conference selection
Scored nine points in final 35 seconds of regulation including three free-throws to send the game into overtime at Youngstown State Feb. 18
Scored career and game-high 26 points at Youngstown State Feb. 18
Winter University Leadership Award recipient
Led all players with a game-high 20 points at Detroit Jan. 14
Tied a career high eight rebounds against Ball State Dec. 20 and Loyola Dec. 31
Scored 10 second-half points to lead all scorers with 15 against Marquette Dec. 2
Sank three pointer with 0.6 seconds remaining against No. 25 Georgia Tech to send the game into overtime, giving Green Bay the eventual 67-62 win
Grabbed a career high eight rebounds in home opening 84-68 win over Toledo Nov. 16
Considered to be one of the top Mid-Major players to watch according to ESPN.com writer Graham Hays, "A long-limbed 5-11 guard, Ritchie has the tools for a breakthrough junior campaign."
Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll
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Scored a game-high 20 points in the second round NCAA Tournament win over Michigan State
Made 4-of-5 three-pointers against Michigan State and 6-of-7 from long range in the team's first and second round games of the NCAA Tournament
Made 7-of-10 shots, including 3-of-5 from long range while tallying a team-high 18 points in Green Bay's win over Butler in the Horizon League Championship title game
Grabbed a career-high eight rebounds in Horizon League Tournament semifinal against Loyola Mar. 9
Scored 11 points in 11 minutes, including three-consecutive three pointers at Detroit Mar. 5
Dished out a career-high eight assits in Green Bay's 93-57 win against Butler Feb. 26
Suffered a sprained right MCL Jan. 8 three minutes into the contest against Cleveland State
Returned to action with 11:36 to play in the first half against Cleveland State Feb. 3. In the contest, Ritchie tied a then career-high 5 assists
Sprained right ankle at Milwauakee on Feb. 19
After going 0-8 in the first half Nov. 26 against Penn State, scored 13 second half points
Horizon League Player of the Week Nov. 15
Named Tournament MVP in Best Buy Classic while averaging 19 points per game, combining for 38
Scored a career-high 24 points while playing a career-high 40 minutes vs. George Washington Nov. 13
Dished out a career-high eight assists in Green Bay's 93-57 win against Butler on Feb. 26
Made first collegiate start in the regular-season opener against George Washington on Nov. 13 in the Best Buy Classic
Averaged 6.2 points per game while coming off the bench in all 33 contests
Was the leading scorer off the bench and ranked fifth on the team in points
Had seven double-figure scoring games
Began her career with a 12-point performance at North Dakota on Nov. 13
Sealed an upset victory over Wisconsin from the free-throw line on Nov. 24 with 2.5 seconds left
Scored 14 points in Green Bay's NCAA tournament victory over No. 5 seed Virginia
Connected on 4 of 6 three-point tries en route to 13 points at UIC on Jan. 23
Had seven points, four rebounds, four steals and two assists against Loyola on Feb. 20
Grabbed a season-high seven rebounds in the second round of NCAA Tournament against No. 4 seed Iowa State
Averaged 8.5 points and 5.0 boards in the NCAA tournament
Named Miss Basketball by the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association
Was one of two unanimous picks to the Associated Press all-state first team, the other being fellow Phoenix freshman Sarah Eichler
Named first team all-Fox River Classic Conference as a junior and senior
Earned FRCC Player of the Year honors as a senior
Averaged 15.4 points, 7.7 rebounds, 5.1 assists and 3.9 steals per game in senior season
Led De Pere to a conference title and to the semifinals of the Division 1 state tournament in 2009
As a junior, garnered honorable mention all-state accoladed from both the WBCA and the AP
Ended high school career with 872 points, 494 rebounds, 323 assists and 278 steals
High school coach was Dave Johnson