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JUPITER, Fla. (AP) - Chris Carpenter realizes his baseball career may be over.
The 37-year-old right-hander made a surprise appearance Monday at the St. Louis Cardinals' spring-training camp and said he's still dealing with numbing and tingling sensations in his pitching hand, arm and shoulder.
"I'm not going to have surgery anymore," Carpenter said. "We'll see what happens. I don't see it. With the things that are going on in times of every day life, I just don't see it getting better to be honest with you."
Asked if he wanted to continue pitching, Carpenter said, "I do. I just don't think I can."
The 2005 NL Cy Young Award winner is 144-94 with a 3.76 ERA in 15 big league seasons.
He underwent neurogenic thoracic outlet surgery last July to eliminate a nerve issue that he's pitched with in his right shoulder since 2008. He returned to make three starts in September and three in the playoffs and planned on a healthful start to 2013.
But as Carpenter ramped up his bullpen sessions in St. Louis the week before spring training, the weakness and numbness that he had dealt with for years returned. He informed the Cardinals he was unable to continue pitching.
"It's just weird," Carpenter said. "Some days all of a sudden I was driving in the car, and I don't know if I'm in a certain spot or things happen, but there's definitely weaknesses. Just walking on the beach in Puerto Rico, my shoulder would get tired and start aching and be sore and things that you don't normally deal with."
Carpenter's contract calls for a $12.5 million salary this year, of which $2 million is deferred without interest and is to be paid in $200,000 installments each July 1 from 2017-26.
"I'll never officially retire," he said. "I'm going to continue to work hard and try to stay in shape and move on in the direction of what these doctors have to say to make sure nothing serious is going in there that will affect the rest of life. That's the thing that we're going to make sure is happening, and that is that my arm and my shoulder are going to be OK to do normal stuff throughout the rest of my life and not have any affects five, six, 10 years down the road."
Carpenter returned to camp at the urging of his wife and kids, who all just finished a week long spring break trip to Puerto Rico.
"I was in there working out and the game's on ESPN against the Yankees," Carpenter said. "I start thinking about wanting to try it and see what can happen, but I know the ultimate result won't be good."
Carpenter plans to stay for about a week and attend the Cardinals' home opener April 8. He spoke with manager Mike Matheny and several teammates Monday as his kids joined a pickup baseball game outside.
"I love seeing him," Matheny said. "I've been pounding on him since we first heard the news to get down here and just enjoy it. I'd love to get him in uniform, but that's a push right now. But just seeing him down here and having him here is a good thing."
Carpenter plans to visit with team doctors in the next few weeks when he returns to St. Louis. But his focus remains on eliminating the pain from his everyday life.
"I've been coming to spring training since I was 18 years old and this was the first year I wasn't able to play," Carpenter said. "It was definitely tough but it's good to see these guys."


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Birth control is not a 'hypothetical situation'
The last time Mitt Romney's campaign ran into real trouble on contraception, it dispatched South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) to argue, "Women don't care about contraception…. The media wants to talk about contraception."
Republican policymakers were, at the time, pushing legislation – at the state and federal level – to restrict access to birth control, but for Romney surrogates, the sensible response was to say contraception doesn't matter.
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Animal Control Urges Owners To Be More Responsible With Pets
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Published: July 7, 2008
The black-and-tan hound with an orange collar slouched in the mobile home's shadow. He looked up from his cozy hiding spot and cast a scrunchy-eyed glance of curiosity as Sgt. Jason Alexander approached.
It was a dog at large, source of the "No. 1 call" for Washington County (Va.) Animal Control. Alexander and his crew would prefer to focus their attention on horses roaming local roads or even goats stuck in a wire fence. Instead, their energy goes to what experts agree is a preventable problem.
The county, as well as others, has no leash law, so dog owners have no reason to contain or restrain them. But their neighbors have reason to call animal control when loose dogs wander into their neighborhoods or onto their property and become a nuisance.
Alexander has honed his ability to read a canine's body language over the years by fielding so many calls. This one, a complaint about a "friendly" stray roaming Brumley Gap, was just another test.
The drool oozing from the dog's chops could have signaled rabies. Alexander's instincts told him different. It was a hunting dog, the animal control officer surmised, and he lived to chase small animals for an owner.
Instead of rabies, the hound more likely was infected with giddy anticipation that the cat living inside the mobile home soon would prance out the front door.
Alexander, standing 5 feet away with leash ready, held out a hand and offered soothing words. The hound rose to his paws and stared at the stranger as if sizing him up. Then came the wagging tail and a short gallop to Alexander's side.
Not all reports of a loose dog are so easy to handle. Not for the dogcatcher and definitely not for the people who first spot the animal.
"There are more bites this time of year. ... I don't know whether you just have more people out in the summer or what," said Wise County, Va., Animal Control Officer Becky Phillips.
Big dogs, small dogs, or short and plumpish Bassett howlers, it doesn't matter. Alexander has corralled all types into the doggie prison in the back of his pickup.
He's never suffered a serious bite. Still, he's not too crazy about the growlers and the nippers. Those pint-sized Chihuahuas aren't to be underestimated, either.
"They can be fast and furious adversaries, I'll tell you that," Alexander said with a laugh.
Owners believe old Rover needs some exercise and then lets him loose, Alexander said.
Before they know it, the dog has wandered onto someone else's property.
"Dogs don't see the 'no trespassing' signs," Phillips said.
No matter what the size or the breed, experts say that all dogs have one thing in common when alone and away from familiar territory – a fighter's thirst for survival.
The most playful pooch can become aggressive in someone else's yard, especially if it chooses the fight instinct over flight, experts say.
All dogs will tear into flesh, said dog-bite lawyer Kenneth M. Phillips.
"Most dog bites are a surprise for the victim," he said. "On cross examining the owners, I've found that it shouldn't have been a surprise because the dog owner has received some tipoff."
A sore spot behind the ear that hurts when petted, rowdiness around other dogs, or even a sense of uneasiness while away from home are among the red flags.
Explosive behavior comes even with the owner near. Such was the case weeks ago when police report that an unleashed German shepherd standing near its owner lunged at a bicyclist in Abingdon, Va. The bicyclist, while attempting to kick away the dog, plunged face first to the pavement. His head injuries required hospitalization.
Since the mishap, bicyclists have complained en masse that unleashed and roaming dogs are the most daunting threat to their hobby.
Washington County, like most rural areas, lacks a leash law. Dogs are required to be under the control of their owners, however. The wording of such ordinances can be left to an interpretation of events. For example, police charged the owner of the German shepherd with having a loose dog.
The black-and-tan hound that befriended Alexander had roamed Brumley Gap Road for three days, said neighborhood resident Carol Matney.
"I didn't try to get ahold of him because he's not my dog," she told Alexander. The dog seemed friendly enough, except to the neighbor's cat. Matney put out food for him. But that was the extent of her contact.
She called animal control hoping officers could reunite the dog with its owner.
Some chases require return trips and even backup help. With the hound, Alexander needed only two minutes to circle around a nearby church and stop at the mobile home on the other side.
The dog acquiesced to being picked up and slid into the pickup's doggie prison. Once inside, his tail thumped against the side of the aluminum cell.
A missing hunting dog like this one should net a call to the animal shelter from a worried owner inside a week, Alexander said.
By then, he likely will have fielded more than a dozen more similar calls.
"If people would be more responsible for [their dogs'] actions, it would really help out," he said.
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Money Could Chase Missisquoi Ambulance Service out of Troy
TROY – Missisquoi Valley Ambulance Service (MVAS) and Troy residents are at odds over money, which could leave Troy looking for a new ambulance service. Scott Rappold, president of Missisquoi Valley Ambulance Service, asked for $23,460 two years ago, but voters turned it down. At this year's town meeting, he again asked for the $23,460, and was again denied."Our expenses are exceeding our revenues," said Rappold. I asked the towns to kind of help out and pay the difference. Where are we suppose to come up with that kind of money?"With the exception of Troy, all of the towns in Missisquoi Valley Ambulance Service's district approved the increase. Rappold hoped Troy residents would pay the difference between what he needed and what residents approved in 2011, but that didn't happen."After the meeting, I got an e-mail from Scott Rappold from Missisquoi Valley Ambulance saying they would not cover us for that price," said Troy Town Clerk Terri Medley. The town will hold a special meeting at the Troy Elementary Tuesday, May 15, at 7 p.m., for voters to reconsider the March decision and instead appropriate $18,585 for "ambulance service." If approved, part of the funds will be paid to MVAS for the first several months of the year; the rest would go to the replacement service, most likely Newport Ambulance Service. "If I was to be a pessimist, it could ultimately kill Missisquoi," replied Rappold when asked if Troy switching to another service would be detrimental to his service. He said his service would lose a third of the revenue on top of the $18,000. Meanwhile, the expenses will remain the same. "I'm not a pessimist; we have a great relationships with a lot of the other towns. I'm sure we would come up with a new scenario with the towns that do want to keep our service."Mike Paradis, executive director for Newport Ambulance Service, stressed his service and Missisquoi Valley Ambulance Service are not in a bidding war.Paradis said if his service gets the contract, he would try to have some first responders near Troy. However, the ambulance would still come from Newport. "In our opinion, it will be a lengthy response," said Paradis, who said it takes 15 to 25 minutes to respond to a call in Troy. It would be expensive to have an ambulance and 24-hour coverage near Troy. "That's not doable for the price we've talked about." Paradis stressed that the Town of Troy approached his service and his board of directors agreed to cover Troy if there is a need. He also said his service's prices might change in future years. Volume, size and capability is how Newport Ambulance Service can provide service for less cost than MVAS, said Paradis. The price difference for a homeowner with a $100,000 home, between Newport Ambulance Service and Missisquoi Ambulance Service, is $4.40, according to Rappold. Between June 2010 and June 2011, Missisquoi Valley Ambulance Service had 102 calls in Troy, 112 in Jay, 24 calls in Lowell and 35 calls in Westfield. "We're one of the few squads around that is not paid 24/7," said Rappold. Medley, who agreed that Newport Ambulance Service is further away than Missisquoi Valley Ambulance Service, said Newport Ambulance has personnel at the bay at all times. "We do not have any bay," said Medley. "People are coming from their homes, grabbing the ambulance and going to the scene."


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You could spend a couple of hours on two Sunday afternoons in March and make soap. One Sunday you will make luxurious, gentle soap from real goat's milk. The next Sunday you will learn how to dress up your soap projects by giving them color and shaping them in molds. What cool, personalized gifts these soaps would be!
Join Sandy McAntire in the Shoestring Garden at 205 Hwy 30 West. The classes will meet on March 3rd and March 17th beginning at 4 PM.
Bring $15.00 payable to Sandy at the time of the class to cover all needed materials. Tuition for this class is $32.00.
The next offering is called Guitar Exploratory because that is exactly what it is about. You will have a chance to see and experience what is involved in learning guitar. This will enable you to decide if learning guitar is really something you want to do, and you will be able to figure it out BEFORE you spend a great deal on a guitar and an amp.
The class is taught by Joe Rebik, professional musician , and will meet at the Civic Center on Tuesday, March 5, beginning at 6:30 pm. The tuition for this class is $18.00.


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- Are you finding the challenge of leading a team to be more challenging than you thought?
- Are you troubled with unwanted team member behaviors and attitudes?
- Are some team members acting more like "Lone Rangers" than you'd like them too?
- Do you believe that your teams could be more productive and efficient?
- Have they done better in the past? Is the quality of work not what it used to be?
This workshop will answer many of the questions you have about successfully leading teams while dispelling myths and other bad information you have received from others. Like many other facets of leadership, leading your team members requires you to have a plan or model to follow and to know the appropriate steps to take. That's just one way this workshop can help you!
Take this mini-assessment and determine if this workshop can help you to become a better leader of your teams:
- Do you feel like you are struggling as a leader of a team?
- Are you looking for a model of teams to lead your people with?
- Do you need help with "communicating effectively" to your team members?
- Would you like to be able to empower the team members to manage themselves effectively?
If you answered "yes" to one or more of the questions, then this workshop will help you to lead more productive and efficient teams in your workplace...without feeling like a babysitter, care taker or dictator.
Workshop Description: This fun and interactive workshop will include the use of both individual and group exercises; a Daily Interactions assessment, video based learning, group discussions and lecture. Attendees will learn and incorporate a model of team development that can be applied immediately in their workplace.
Preliminary Course Outline
- The Path to Excellence: Understanding How Teams Work
- Understanding the difference between a work team and a group
- Focusing on the 4 traits of successful teams
- Understanding the characteristics of effective teams
- Team myths: Overcoming what other people have told you is the truth about team behaviors and function
- Leading Team and Team Member Roles and Behaviors
- Using a behavioral profile to help team members understand themselves and each other better
- Understanding the two primary roles that team members assume at work
- Using the 6 step method for effectively communicating and sharing information with team members
- Building the Foundation of Your Team
- Using team values to help team members make effective decisions and to determine appropriate team member behaviors
- Mission statements: 3 things you must do in creating your team's mission statement
- Decision making: The best methods for making decisions as a team
- Goal setting with your team: What you need to know to set SMART goals
- Leading by Facilitating Your Team's Success!
- Techniques to create a culture of collaboration in your teams
- The 5 levels of teams: What to expect as your team matures and grows
- Conflict and your team: Getting rid of the bad and making the most out of your situations of healthy conflict
- Making the most out of your team meetings: A short list for leading meetings that you will begin using immediately
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and I´m doing a very close application, but I have to access to a mysql database in the web service (I use Ibatis to access it). I use the same tools that in the tutorial.
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22 U.S. Code § 275 - International Hydrographic Bureau
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(Mar. 2, 1921, ch. 113, 41 Stat. 1215.)
Annual Appropriations
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A muskox (Ovibos moschatus), photographed in Alaska. From Flickr user drurydrama. Of all the mass extinctions that have occurred during earth's history, among the most hotly debated is the one which wiped out mammoths, saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, and the other peculiar members of the Pleistocene megafauna around 12,000 years ago. It was not…


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Contractors hired by Lee County Department of Transportation have begun inspecting the support beams of the Sanibel Causeway bridges after a routine inspection last fall revealed hairline cracks in the concrete.
Crews from T.Y. Lin International of Fort Myers, structural engineers, have completed inspecting C Span at the Sanibel end and have moved to the middle span. No lane closures are anticipated as crews work from the shoulder lanes weekdays between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., pinching traffic for short stretches using traffic cones and work zone signage.
"The work is expected to continue through the end of February, weather permitting," said Lee County DOT deputy director Randy Cerchie.
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Workers for contractor T.Y. Lin use a bucket truck to inspect, identify and measure cracks in the Sanibel Causeway reinforced concrete support beams.
The Lee County Commission approved the contract for $161,000 with T.Y. Lin at a December meeting to conduct the inspections. Engineers are identifying, measuring and monitoring the hairline cracks, some of which previously had sealant applied to stop the progression.
"Finding cracks so soon after the bridge opened in 2007 caused us concern," Cerchie said in December. "After 2009 we put sealant on the cracks, but in 2011 we saw the cracks extended beyond the sealant."
The Florida Department of Transportation inspects all bridges in the state at least every two years with the first cracks in the causeway being discovered in 2009. Cracking is norman and caused by settling and should eventually stabilize.
"The bridge is safe," said Cerchie. "All of the concrete could fall off the (support beams) and would still stand with all of the (steel) reinforcement used in the beams."
Cerchie said Lee DOT has a bridge crew that monitors all bridges in the county on a regular basis.
Motorists going on and off the island are advised to slow down and use extra caution in the work zone.


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by David Crane [email protected] Ocober 28, 2004 Military Police System, out of Piney Flats, Tennessee, has come out with a unique select-fire 12-gauge combat/tactical shotgun called the "Auto Assault 12 Automatic Shotgun", or "AA12 Automatic Shotgun". The full-auto-only Auto Assault 12 Automatic Shotgun fires at a relatively slow rate of 300 rpm (rounds-per-minute) and employs the "Constant-Recoil" principle, which is a recoil attenuation/mitigation ... Read More »
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Nikonov AN-94 'Abakan' Assault Rifle: Advanced Russian Small Arms Tech
by David Crane [email protected] DefenseReview has been interested in the Nikonov AN-94 "Abakan" assault rifle for a pretty long time, now. I believe I first read about it in 1994 or 1995. Designed by Russian small arms designer Gennadiy Nikonov, the AN-94 is an interesting rifle, as it enjoys one of the same (major) advantages as the Ultimax 100 Mk3 ... Read More »
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by David Crane [email protected] June 10, 2004 The following article contains a link to the DREAD Weapon System Video. This is the first time this video has ever been shown to the public. The DREAD depicted in the video is a functional prototype that operates on a less-than-lethal mode. This prototype was dismantled for security purposes to protect the technology, ... Read More »
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by David Crane The FN M240B 7.62mm GPMG is the current official 7.62mm machine gun for the U.S. Armed Forces, and is generally considered by many small arms experts to be a masterpiece in terms of small arms design. Masterpiece or not, the FN M240 GPMG, at 27 lbs EMPTY, is simply WAY too heavy for mobile infantry unit gunners ... Read More »


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MILS2003 - Leader´s Training Course
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The Leader?s Training Course is an intensive 5 week leadership development course run cooperatively by every Army Military Science & Leadership department nationwide. The course is run in multiple iterations at Ft. Knox, Kentucky with the purpose of providing an alternate means for college students to meet the prerequisites to enter 3000-level Military Science & Leadership courses at colleges and universities nationwide. While enrolled, students are placed in an intensive training environment where they live, work, and learn in a cooperative group under 24 hour a day leadership instruction and assessment. Upon successful completion of the course, students return to their campuses and are able to contract to enter into the 3rd year of the 4-year Military Science & Leadership program. Course Offered: Summer Semester (Off Campus)
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Watford head coach Gianfranco Zola insists he's staying at Vicarage Road
Watford head coach Gianfranco Zola has dismissed stories linking him away from Vicarage Road.
Last Updated: 12/12/12 2:54pm
Quotes from an interview with France Football appeared in a selection of British newspapers and suggested that the Italian was hoping to manage former club Chelsea one day.
But Zola was left fuming with the reports and insists he is committed to his role with the Hornets.
"I don't like it at all," he told the club's official website. "I'm not using Watford as a promotion for myself.
"I care massively what happens here, and I am trying things in the best way possible.
"Most of all I am upset for fans having to read headlines which are a long way from what I am saying.
"I speak from the heart about Watford, and what we are trying to achieve here on behalf of the whole club.
"It is not about Gianfranco Zola and how he is doing personally. It is about trying to bring success to this fantastic club, these fantastic people."


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Texans beat Titans 38-14, improve to 4-0
HOUSTON (AP) -- As good as the Houston Texans have been in getting off to the best start in franchise history, they're focused on playing even better.
''To end the month of September 4-0 is great for our team and our organization,'' quarterback Matt Schaub said after the Texans' 38-14 win over the Tennessee Titans on Sunday. ''But there are a lot of things we can correct from this game.''
The Texans were outgained 325-297 by the Titans (1-3), but their defense came through with big plays in the second half to clinch a win in which Danieal Manning and Kareem Jackson returned interceptions for touchdowns, Schaub threw two TD passes and Arian Foster ran for a score.
Titans quarterback Jake Locker left in the first quarter and didn't return after hurting his left, non-throwing shoulder on a hit by Glover Quin. Locker hurt the same shoulder in the season opener against New England.
Matt Hasselbeck threw two touchdown passes in relief of Locker, but also had three turnovers. Tennessee coach Mike Munchak said Locker was ''sore'' and would have an MRI exam Monday.
Houston coach Gary Kubiak loves that his defense pitched in on the scoring.
''Anytime you can get 14 points from some place other than your offense that's exceptional,'' Kubiak said. ''It just makes you that much tougher to beat.''
Houston went to work quickly with an 11-yard touchdown reception by James Casey to make it 7-0 in the first quarter.
The Texans challenged the spot on a third-and-1 play on their next series, giving them a first down at the Tennessee 11. Foster took it in from 4 yards out two plays later to push Houston's lead to 14-0 near the end of the first quarter.
The Titans used a good dose of Chris Johnson on a drive that ended with a 19-yard touchdown reception by Craig Stevens to cut Houston's lead to 14-7 in the second quarter.
Johnson entered the game having gained just 45 yards in the first three games combined, but had 25 carries for 141 yards on Sunday for his first 100-yard outing since last December.
''It's frustrating,'' defensive end J.J. Watt said of Johnson's performance. ''We're not happy we gave up those yards.''
Johnson said he was very concerned about Tennessee's running game through the first three weeks of the season. But on Sunday he knew from the outset that things were going to be different. He said it helped that he got a good number of carries before halftime after having just 33 combined through his three disappointing games.
''When you're playing running back, you can feel when you're in your groove,'' he said. ''I just felt like I was in my groove early and that's when I knew.''
But he isn't ready to proclaim Tennessee's problems in the running game fixed.
''I think today helped us take a step,'' he said. ''I wouldn't say we ultimately solved the problem, but I feel like we took a good step and hopefully we continue to get better.''
Houston's offense got off to a slow start in the second half, but the defense picked up the slack. Manning intercepted a pass that was tipped by tight end Taylor Thompson and Manning made a zigzagging 55-yard return for the touchdown to make it 21-7 in the third quarter.
The Titans were disappointed that they were within striking distance in the second half, only to watch things get out of hand so quickly.
''Probably the story of the game would be turnovers and their defense scoring points, and the penalties that cost us not only momentum, but big yards,'' Hasselbeck said. ''It's frustrating because I feel like we're not that far away. But we didn't play great and we had turnovers and I was a part of three of them. It's just frustrating because I know we're capable of a lot more. They were just clearly a lot better than us today.''
The Titans were penalized seven times for 73 yards and Houston had just one penalty for three yards.
Hasselbeck fumbled when he was hit by Antonio Smith in the fourth quarter, and J.J. Watt recovered at the Tennessee 24. Shayne Graham kicked a 33-yard field goal with 5:38 left.
Jackson intercepted Hasselbeck in the fourth quarter and returned it 63 yards for a touchdown to push the lead to 38-7. He did his best impression of Deion Sanders at the end, high-stepping the last 10 yards.
Hasselbeck threw a short TD pass to Kendall Wright in the final minute.
NOTES: Watt has 7 1/2 sacks this season. ... The Texans topped 30 points for the third time in four games. ... Graham reached 1,000 career points. ... Texans RG Antoine Caldwell left in the second quarter with a sprained right ankle. ... Titans LB Patrick Bailey, a special-teams player, injured his left hand and stayed in the game. Munchak said he would be re-evaluated on Monday. ... Johnson earned his 29th career 100-yard game.
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(Neb.)-USDA Says State's Wheat Remained In Bad Condition
By: Roxie Graham-Marski Posted at: 01/01/2013 09:09 AM LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - The Agriculture Department says Nebraska's winter wheat crop remained in bad condition despite some rain and snow that brought much-needed moisture to the state.
The USDA says in its December report that 15 percent of the crop was rated very poor and 34 percent poor. That total of 49 percent is 3 points above the 46 percent in a report issued at the end of November.
The USDA says unseasonably warm and dry weather in the first half of December was followed by rain and snow. The snow provided cover for fields of winter wheat.
Hay and forage supplies were rated 10 percent very short, 29 short, 61 adequate and 0 surplus. Last year at this time ratings totaled 96 percent for adequate to surplus.


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First FIRE Award at IGF 2012
The Fund for Internet Research and Education (FIRE) and AFRINIC is proud to announce that from the many applications received we have selected for the category of E-Development, the Pan African Medical Journal from Uganda. The Award Ceremony was held in Baku, Wednesday 7, November 2012. Mr Raoul Kamadjeu received the Award on behalf of the PAMJ, from Ms Anne Rachel Inne AFRINIC's Chief Operations Officer.
The Fund for Internet Research and Education (FIRE) is a programme designed to encourage and support the development of solutions to information and communication needs in the African Region. The Fire programme emphasises the role of the internet in the socio economic development for the benefit of the African community. The FIRE programme, which provides small grants and awards, has been set-up to help local and regional projects designed to introducing, improving and plying Internet technology for the benefit of African users and communities.
The 2012 FIRE Award recognised contribution to ICT innovation across three categories
The Award package includes a cash prize of 3 000 US dollar to recognise projects that have finalised activities aligned with the 2012 funding categories and a travel grant for a representative to attend the Internet Governance forum in Baku, Azerbaijian.
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...I'm still in the process of shipping spice and wolf and don't have much money to buy this.
With the way it is now, I think I need another 4 months for me to finally read bungaku shoujo vol 5 Considering your guys reviews though, it seems pretty interesting and worth to wait.
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And in about a year and a half, the series will be finished translated. Volume 6 is you usual Bungaku Shoujo story, but so much drama in 7-8, which will end the volumes.
I really hope that YP does the side-stories. There are 3 in total, and they are when Konoha is in 3rd year with a brand new girl.
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Well, I guess I will start with the review. Like it was written in the fifth book, this was a side-story. It takes places 1 Month after Book 2. The purpose of this book was to show the bond between Konoha and Tooko as well as the family of Maki.
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Just got around reading vol 6 but haven't finished it yet. The sudden mentioned of Hikaru made me scared to go further
I must say that this book offers one weird experience. It seems to me that the author wanted to make mystery or horror novel based on the book reference, but it just doesn't stick. I mean, I don't get scared like the usual horror novel or curious like mystery novel. I even find it pretty sweet that as if it's a romance genre to begin with because of Tohko and Konoha in it
There's also this feeling that I can't fully described while reading this novel.. it's like getting sucked into a realm of mystic and each time I finished reading a chapter, there's some sickeningly sweet after taste
what do you guys think about this volume? oh and please no spoiler ;_;
Finally finished it, it's actually rather beautiful novel.
Also..does that mean Maki choose Ryuto as husband in the epilogue? I thought Ryuto is stuck with that yandere girl.
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Well, i guess I will start again: Book Girl and the scribe who faced god 1
Spoiler for Spoiler:
Summerazing it all, it was a very good prehistory for the last book. I really liked the fact, that every important character till now was mentioned at least once. Im really curious how the story will go on and how it will end.
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I thought the one who Yui loved was Kana damn me and muh yuri goggle
Also reading this almost made scream 'why are there no sane person in this novel!?" when looking at the characters Terada and Ryuuto somehow becomes more creepy in this novel and Tooko-senpai was just--- ;_;
Oh and this problem might won't happen in the first place if Konoha didn't date Nanase then again, if they aren't dating then maybe Tooko's problem with her mother won't ever be concluded so it's all for the better in the end? I can't hate Nanase even when she encouraged Konoha to not write again since it's her eyes, the person she likes the most is suffering because of it. Konoha should stop playing around and keeps making both Nanase and Tooko suffers like that though :<
Also... I don't think what's happening in the past is as dark as what Konoha or Kana's book makes it to be. I think that even if it ends up as tragedy, there's an underlying happiness beneath it like everything before this book
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Book girl
Just finished the last book => Book Girl and the scribe who faced god 2
The only thing i can say is....
Spoiler for spoiler:
4 years of emotion comes to an end TT_TT
Thank you for all these delicious stories, Nomura-sensei
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This tropical-flavored salmon from Carla Newman of Mequon, Wisconsin tastes very special and can be on the table in less than 30 minutes.
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- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 salmon fillets (6 ounces each)
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3/4 cup chicken broth
- 1/3 cup mango chutney
- 1/4 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the flour, curry and salt. Add salmon; seal bag and shake to coat.
- In a large skillet, cook salmon in butter for 5-6 minutes on each side or until fish flakes easily with a fork.
- Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine the broth, chutney and hot pepper sauce. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 3-5 minutes or until heated through. Serve with salmon. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Salmon with Curry Chutney Sauce in Simple & Delicious March/April 2008, p22
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"We both liked this a great deal. I omitted the hot pepper sauce because the mango chutney I use is spicy enough on its own. Next time I will increase the amount of curry powder, since that flavor is one of our favorites."
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"I made my own mango chutney recipe to go with this recipe. I loved the sweetness of the mango against the peppery spices. Would definitely make again."
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UPDATE: Port of Tauranga 1H profit rises on volume gains, C3
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UPDATE: Port of Tauranga 1H profit rises on volume gains, C3 sale, retains FY guidance
UPDATE: Port of Tauranga 1H profit rises on volume gains, C3 sale, retains FY guidance
(Adds comment from chief executive Mark Cairns, spells out change to dividend policy)
Feb. 21 (BusinessDesk) – Port of Tauranga posted record first-half earnings on increased volumes export volumes of dairy products, meat and logs and affirmed its full-year guidance.
Net profit rose to $74.2 million in the six months ended Dec. 31 from $34.6 million a year earlier, reflecting a 12 percent gain in sales to $188.6 million and a one-time gain of $35 million from the of its half-share in stevedoring firm C3, the company said in a statement.
Excluding C3, profit rose 13 percent to $39.6 million, about matching a forecast from brokerage Forsyth Barr. The shares climbed 1.4 percent to $14, matching the record high set earlier this month. The company will pay an interim dividend of 20 cents a share, up from 12 cents a year earlier, after changing the percentage of its annual payments paid in the first half to 45 percent from about 33 percent.
The Tauranga-based port, which is 55 percent-owned by Bay of Plenty Regional Council, has benefited from industrial strife at rival Ports of Auckland, which has seen freight diverted south and spurred shipping lines to switch, allowing the company to give itself the title of "pre-eminent national freight gateway."
Auckland's misfortune helped Tauranga lift the volume of export dairy products by 87 percent to 935,000 as it received all of Fonterra Cooperative Group's volume from the upper North Island. Meat exports rose 31 percent to 184,000 tonnes and log volumes gained 14 percent to 2.6 million tonnes.
Container volumes rose 26 percent to 431,840 twenty foot equivalent units.
Port of Tauranga's MetroPort hub in south Auckland, which connects by rail with its main facility in the east coast city, lifted volumes by 26 percent to 101,440 TEUs.
Total trade volume growth of 10 percent to 9.4 million tonnes was driven by exports, which jumped 16 percent to 6.4 million tonnes, while import volumes held steady at about 3 million tonnes.
Chief executive Mark Cairns said his company has kept the majority of the volumes it won off strike-bound Auckland, with about 5 percent having flowed back to Ports of Auckland.
The Auckland port and the Maritime Union have indicated they are close to settling their 18-month dispute.
The company is embarked on a three-year, $170 million programme to expand its container terminal, increase berthage, add a sixth gantry crane and dredge its shipping channel. Cairns said he is hopeful the company will gain resource consents for the dredging in the next few weeks.
The bulk of its sales gains came from port operations, where revenue rose to 14 percent to $96 million. Property services revenue rose 3 percent to $9.87 million and transport services rose to $1.2 million from $704,000.Operating expenses rose to $58.6 million from $51.8 million.
The company reiterated its full-year forecast of underlying profit of $75 million to $$79 million, up from $73.5 million last year.
It said log volumes are expected to continue growing on demand from China and it sees growth in container volumes.
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I had another meeting about the Fringe this morning and it looks like we've pretty much sorted out the venue and deals for both the stand up show and the play. I think both are going to be in a 500 seater venue so I have an awful lot of tickets to sell and in all likelihood the play will lose quite a lot of money, but I am hoping that with luck the stand up show might make up for that loss. Whilst some people mourn the fact that comedy has hampered drama at the Fringe, hopefully this will be a case of comedy actually funding theatre. Of course, it might be a huge financial disaster all round, but I think it's worth the gamble. It might be the last throw of the dice for me this year in terms of raising my profile as a writer (and to an extent a performer). If the play goes well then it might open some doors. I think the idea would make an excellent film as well. But if everything flops then it might be time to reassess my life and my priorities. Even if everything hits it might be time to do that too.
With Meaning of Life and a possible release of TMWRNJ added into the mix there's some genuine financial jeopardy here. But if nothing else that is going to spur me on to do good work (let's pray) and I would much rather get my ideas out there while I am having them than be financially solvent. Caution is being thrown to the wind and creatively speaking that is probably the best thing. What's the worst that can happen? I have to sell my house, my wife leaves me and I live like a feral beast on wasteland? Yeah, that would be quite bad. But my amazing wife not only supports this risky behaviour, but says she's proud of me for trying. I have already won, however badly things go. Remind me I said that come August's empty houses and scathing crits. It's brave or foolhardy, but at least I haven't given up yet. I suspect that as usual I will do well enough to carry on with my job, but not so well that my fortunes change in any way. And that will probably suit me the best.
And the poster images are taking shape for both shows, I Killed Rasputin and Lord of the Dance Settee. I will put a selection up here for you. Let me know which ones you like the best!
After the meeting I had two hours before my Fubar show and wondered if I could walk from Ladbroke Grove to Caledonian Road in that time. Had I not stopped off for lunch near Primrose Hill I might have made it, but I did get to Camden before time's clock pressed against me and I had to jump in a cab. I enjoyed the walk very much though, allowing my mind to flit between Rasputin and ideas for Lord of the Dance Settee. Things were fizzing up there so much that I managed to forget about half of the ideas that had excited me. Hopefully they will come back to me. Now the spring is here then maybe I will take some more walks in the hope of sparking off ideas and if not then at least seeing more of my city from ground level.
The Fubar show was a bit confusing for us, as we were recording ahead for the one going out next week, as we are recording this week's show on Thursday lunchtime. Lou continues to be a distracted and distracting comedy genius/mad woman (delete as applicable), eating her lunch and catching up with admin as the show progresses. Our guest was friend, rival and copycat Ray Peacock so as you can imagine things got a bit heated at times, but also there was a lot of loose-lipped honesty about all sorts of things. It feels a bit like these shows are going out in a vaccuum, but maybe that's good as we're all saying stuff we shouldn't. Tune in to this show if you can. It's not like anything else on the radio. Because nothing else on the radio has Lou Sanders in it. She's going to be a huge star.
Had another Tuesday night date night with the wife, grabbing a quick bite at Yo Sushi before going to the cinema. I felt a bit sorry for the once premier sushi chain as it is nowhere near as good as Itsu (or the many independent Sushi restaurants), but the food was adequate and I enjoyed a beer (which I was allowed after walking for 165 minutes today). Other people must be more impressed with the place than us, because at one point a passing couple (the restaurant is in the Westfield and open to the walkways) nipped in and grabbed one of the small Yo Sushi bowls (where you mix the soy and wasabi) and made off with it. They looked very happy with their theft. Maybe they are slowly building up a kitchen of Yo Sushi themed plates and cups. If so people are largely going to be eating off very tiny bowls.
The Robert Llewellyn RHLSTP is now available to video/audio subscribers. Or get the series pass here. Here is a short clip of the show.
Doing a few gigs this week. Aldershot on Wednesday, Hitchin on Thursday and Didcot on Friday are all sold out (check with venues for returns), but there are tickets for Hull on Saturday and Cardiff on Sunday. Leeds next week is sold out, so Hull is the last chance for Yorkshire based people to get tickets. All details are here.


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He ruled his empire with an iron fist. He had, and probably still has, masses of brainwashed followers who worshipped him like a god. Some would call him a megalomaniac - but not to his face. They had a strange sense of loyalty bred by his insular regime, hanging on to obsolete technology, whatever the cost.
The world might be different without him, but who's to say it'll be worse? Steve Jobs will be missed.


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(MCT) — CHICAGO — One skinny scar lies just to the side of Minoo Panahi's left eye from when a Muslim classmate threw a rock at her. Several round spots mark her face — the result of a nervous scratching habit developed after years of stress. An emotional ache lingers decades after her father was murdered, shot in the head when he opened the front door.
The River North resident is one of an estimated hundreds of Chicago Baha'is who share the pain of a persecuted past.
An estimated 12,000 Baha'is have fled Iran for the United States since 1980, making up about 7 percent of 170,000 Baha'is in the country. About 3,000 Baha'is live in the Chicago area, divided into hundreds of microcommunities and holding worship services in their homes.
With language and cultural barriers, the adjustment to Western society can be difficult, Panahi and her sisters said. What's more difficult is the healing process.
But here in the Chicago area, in a vista so different from their homeland, Baha'i immigrants say they find support, religious freedom and peace in the prayerful folds of their Midwestern communities.
In a spacious house in Northbrook, Manijeh Bayzaee welcomed more than 20 guests into her home on a recent Friday night for a Baha'i devotional service and a modest meal. They read scriptures and played music. The Panahi sisters sat on a decorative couch with their petite 70-year-old mother, Nasrin, who has Alzheimer's.
"We always question, why has this family been tested so much?" said Bayzaee, who is Nasrin's cousin. "And we think that there is a purpose."
When new Baha'is arrive in the area, they are immediately welcomed, Baha'is said. An email from the community goes out and, days later, a Baha'i will welcome the family with a U-Haul of furniture, clothes or even a place to stay.
Established families will make home visits and check in by phone, especially with those who have suffered harsh religious persecution in Iran. They also host prayer meetings.
Prayer is central to the community's support — a familiar comfort to those who have moved thousands of miles from their torn homeland.
At the end of the hourlong service in the Northbrook home, adults and children prayed and sang in English and French. After a period of silence, Dianne Seppelfrick, a longtime friend of the oldest Panahi sister, Mina, recited the prayer of healing from memory. Panahi cried silently.
"If it wasn't for the Baha'i faith, I don't think we would have really been able to process what the whole family has gone through, because it was so traumatic," Panahi said.
In America, that faith is practiced largely in Baha'i homes. The Wilmette temple, called the Baha'i House of Worship, is used for private meditation and prayer most of the year, but Baha'is don't typically gather there for group worship. Instead, every 19 days, the length of a Baha'i month, they meet at a community faith member's home for worship, announcements and food — events called feasts.
Many of the Baha'is who move here say they do so to leave a restrictive, dangerous and fear-based land. Baha'is believe in the "essential oneness of all world religions," according to Glen Fullmer, director of communications for the Baha'is of the United States. They believe many prophets such as Muhammad, Jesus and Buddha are legitimate, along with Baha'u'llah — whom Baha'is believe to be the most recent prophet in a cycle of about 1,000 years. But many Baha'is who come from Iran say the government there doesn't allow them to practice.
"(Iranian government officials) actually don't recognize the Baha'i faith as a religion," Panahi said. "So when they find out you're Baha'i, for them it's almost like you're nonexistent."
Baha'is in Iran cannot attend universities, participate in government or own a business without fear of having it stripped without cause. Seven Baha'i faith leaders have been imprisoned since 2008, sentenced to 20 years in 2010. One of those is Vahid Tizfahm, whose uncle now lives in Skokie, Ill.
"They cannot handle this religion in Iran, because this is too much freedom for people," Tizfahm's uncle Foolad Alavian said.
More than 100 others are behind bars, charged with espionage and propaganda activities against the Islamic state, but their only real crime is their faith, the Baha'is of the United States reported.
Fullmer said U.S. senators and representatives from Illinois have taken the lead on resolutions condemning Iran's government for its state-sponsored persecution of Baha'is. On Jan. 1 Congress passed a resolution spearheaded by U.S. Rep. Bob Dold of Illinois. It called on the U.S. president and secretary of state to demand the release of Baha'i religious prisoners in Iran, who have doubled from 56 to 116 since the beginning of 2011.
The exact number of Baha'is killed in Iran each year is not known, but the stories resonate with all Chicago Baha'is, said Fullmer.
Growing up in a relatively small town in the Iranian province of West Azerbaijan, called Urmia, many people knew Panahi's father, Habib'u'llah. He owned a large appliance shop and when a customer was in need, he was known to loan appliances, trusting the person to pay him back.
In 1979, an extremist group burned down his store, and at 17, Panahi was shipped off to Carbondale, Ill., where her father knew she'd be safe. She moved in with relatives she barely knew and began attending Southern Illinois University.
Although she learned English grammar at school in Iran, she had no conversational skills at first. No one in her classes at school was Baha'i. They had no idea what she went through in Iran, or even that her faith existed.
The only place she felt at ease speaking in English was at Baha'i gatherings. Still, the Baha'i community was very different from back home. While Panahi was used to gatherings of 200 or 300 people, here, they were lucky to have 10.
"It's more formal at home. (Chicago Baha'is) are more casual, but we are not," she said. "So that was a big shock."
Months after she arrived in the United States, Panahi's father was killed and she returned to Iran briefly.
"I forced myself to be strong," Panahi said. "I wanted to go back to the house, wanted to see exactly how it had happened."
When she returned to her father's home and opened the door, she saw a bullet hole and found a Persian rug, soaked with what she believed was her father's blood.
She eventually returned to SIU and graduated with a business administration degree. She and her sisters were granted refugee status, and her sisters came to live with her.
Panahi's sisters, Mina and Parisa, live with their mother in Golf, along with Parisa's husband and two children. Panahi said her mother, who spent nearly eight years in prison in Iran for her religious beliefs, taught her the strength of her Baha'i faith.
"She's such a strong lady," Panahi said of her mother. "Every time she talks about it, she says, you know what, there was a plan. At least right now we have our family."
Bayzaee said the Baha'is are all family, and their persecution is just one more example of their resilience.
"Knowing that they belong to a group of Baha'is that have given the ultimate sacrifice — it just, it takes you to such a level of certitude and belief that you might not have otherwise had," Bayzaee said. "You rise to that occasion. I think that's what they did."


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Given the incredible interest sparked by last week's "Drowning On Dry Land," there's no surprise that Caption Contest XLII generated a record number of responses. Which, in turn, made it that much more challenging to pick this week's Caption Contest winner.
The image below comes from the first episode of the three-part event, "Walk On Water." Given the events of the enusing "Drowning On Dry Land," we had to go with the caption sent in by Eliz as this week's winner.
The winning caption appears below the picture. Congrats to the winner, and to all of you who wrote in. It was a great contest and a terrific episode. Scroll down and see the complete list of responses you sent in. Good luck again this week, Grey's Anatomy fans. Good luck.
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MINOOKA — Local historian Michele Houchens admits she gets wrapped up in history and genealogy. So much so, in fact, she feels like a detective.
"I get just as excited finding information about other people's families as I do my own," Houchens said. "I sometimes get carried away doing other people's stories, especially if I get on a good trail."
Houchens, the local history librarian and technical services assistant for Three Rivers Public Library's Minooka branch, is the sleuth in charge of working to preserve the history of the Minooka-Channahon area.
Specifially, Houchens oversees the local history collection, an eclectic display of "this and that" that offers glimpses into the beginnings of the area as it now exists. The display, which is typically on display in the basement of the Three Rivers Library Minooka branch, is in the midst of renovations and is hoped to reopen in early June.
In her time as the local historian, Houchens has developed a unique insight into the area's past and a kinship with those who gave the towns their beginnings.
Q: Tell us a little bit about yourself.
A: I've always been interested in history. Growing up here in Minooka, I felt I knew the people. I knew the older people. I like talking to them, hearing their stories and looking at the old pictures. My degree is in biology. After college, I worked for the Department of Conservation back then, but it's the Department of Natural Resources. There were big layoffs in 1982, when I got laid off. I got married and started a family. When I was ready to go back to work, my boys were in school, and this job opened up at the library. It was perfect. It's part-time, I got to set my own hours, my kids could come to work with me, it's a block from where I live. This is where I've been ever since.
Q: How did you earn the role of local historian?
A: We had a local history group back before we opened the branch here. It eventually just died out. People lost interest, moved away and got older. I was the last girl standing. The board members knew I was real interested in local history so they offered me the position.
Q: When did you first realize you wanted to pursue a job like this?
A: I've been into genealogy since 1982. That's when I started and took my first class. It's been a passion of mine since. This kind of all fell into place. I never thought about having this as my job. I knew I would get a job some day.
When I was in about fifth grade, I wanted to be a librarian. I love to read. My sister worked at a college library and I would help her. That's when I wanted to do that. When I got my degree, I wanted to be a biologist.
Q: Do you still keep up with biology?
A: My husband teaches biology, so I kind of do. We like to bird watch, camp and go out into nature.
Q: As the local history librarian at Three Rivers Public Library District, what does your job entail?
A: I collect items, memorabilia, photos and stories. I catologue them, display them, archive them. I do programs. I talk to school groups and scouts. I just try to preserve as much of the local history as I can and learn more about it.
Q: Where is the local history collection found and what does it include?
A: It is in the basement of the Three Rivers Library Minooka branch. Once we reopen, we have open hours on Monday evenings. I'm also available if someone wants to call and make an appointment. I will bend over backwards to open this for people.
I have photos, maps, plat books, yearbooks, genealogy, family history and just about anything I can get my hands on eBay. I have memorabilia items from the different businesses over the years.
Q: Where have the items in the history collection come from?
A: Mostly it's been donated from residents, people who had parents who lived here or somebody bought a house, moved in and they found stuff in their attic.
I always tell people 'Don't throw anything away. Give it to me first.' I'm kind of a hoarder. (Laughing)
Q: What is happening right now with the history collection?
A: We're getting new flooring and painting the walls. After 21 years, it needed it. Hopefully, we'll be open by June 1. I don't know how long it's going to take them to do the floors because they're doing the whole basement.
Q: How often do you receive items from the public?
A: It depends. It goes in spurts, it seems like. Every month or so I get something new. A lot of people keep newspaper clippings, obituaries and that type of thing.
They don't know what to do with them. Or their parents passed away and they're wondering 'What do I do with this? It doesn't mean anything to me.' They bring it to me.
Q: How do you see the collection growing in the future, and what artifacts would you most like to see the collection obtain?
A: In the future, I would like to be available more online. I'd like to get things indexed and more available to the public.
I'd love to see more photos of people and activities. I wish I had photos of the activities from this building because I really don't. This has always been the social center in town. I know there's people out there with photos of parades, school functions and everything.
Q: Explain what you mean about this building being the "social center."
A: This was built in 1924 as the Masonic Lodge Hall. The Masons met up on the second floor. The first floor was a large meeting room and dance hall. It had a stage at one end. This was where all the graduations, parties, programs and dances were held. In the basement was a kitchen and a big dining room, so there were a lot of meals here for the people of Minooka. It's always been a social center.
Q: Tell us about the Native American tribe lived in this area.
A: The last group of Native Americans in the area were the Pottawatomie. They were here when the settlers first came to the area in 1820-1830s. That's when Channahon and the town of Dresden were settled. Minooka wasn't established until 1852 when the Rock Island railroad came through.
The man who founded Minooka was Ransom Gardner. He bought 500 acres here. The purpose was to establish a grain elevator. He was the first developer. His agent, who actually lived in town, was Leander Smith. His wife Dolly spoke Pottawatomie. They were from Michigan. She is credited for naming Minooka, which means "place of contentment" or "good earth." She is also credited for naming many of the streets in the old part of town.
Dolly lived right across the street from the library building, and she had a bay window. One of the stories about her is that Chief Shabbona used to come on the train from Seneca. They would sit in her bay window and speak Pottawatomie about the "good old days."
Q: Describe the famed toboggan slide that was erected every year in Minooka during the 1880s and 1890s.
A: It was just a big old wooden toboggan slide. It was put up on Osceola Street every winter by A.K. Knapp, who owned the lumber yard. It ran by his house. He and his wife didn't have any children. They put this up so they could watch the children having fun. They loved kids. It was so popular that people from different towns could only come on certain nights. I was told, though, that Minooka kids could go anytime they wanted. I don't know the dimensions of it, but from the pictures it was pretty impressive. I guess they poured water on it so it would freeze and they would really shoot out.
Q: What is one of the most interesting pieces of history about the Minooka-Channahon area that you've come across?
A: I'm fascinated with the old settlements that are no longer here, and the ways the roads were laid out. I have a map I found from before Minooka even existed and the roads were totally different from what we know now. There was a main road, which when I lay it out was McLindon Road and it connected to Hare Road up in Kendall County, and it was called the Jugtown-Oswego Road. They were two of the main towns in the area. I love that kind of stuff. I love looking at maps and seeing where people lived and where houses used to be.
Q: What do you enjoy most about your job?
A: I like doing the genealogy of the people of Minooka and Channahon. I get just as excited finding information about other people's families as I do my own. I sometimes get carried away doing other people's stories, especially if I get on a good trail. It's like I'm a detective. One of the projects I'm doing in my spare time is I'm trying to fit together all of the old families from the Minooka and Channahon area — the McClennons and the McEvillys. It just fasinates me. You can do so much online.
Q: If you had a time machine, what time period would you most like to visit and why?
A: I would like to go back to the very early days of Minooka — the 1850s and 1860s. I would like to meet the people that I read about and talk about, because I feel like I know them. I would like to see what the town really looked like. I would do that in a heartbeat.
Q: What historical figure would you most like to meet and why?
A: Dolly Smith, just because I've read so much about her. She seems like an interesting person. After Ranson Gardner passed away, the family moved out west and started a store and lived out there. I wish I knew more.
She spoke Pottawatomie so I'd be interested to know why — if she was part Native American or did she learn it because she lived in Michigan.
Q: What is your favorite hobby?
A: Geneaolgy. My sister took a genealogy class, but before that I always liked talking to my grandparents about what it was like when they were kids. My grandma had a family bible that was her mother's. I loved when she would let me take that out and see where the names were and see where the names where. Now I have that bible. It was left to me.
Q: What is your favorite music?
A: I like all kinds of music. It just depends on my mood.
Q: What is your favorite book?
A: My favorite book that I recommend to people is "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon. It's a time-travel romance. I've seen her speak many times about her books. She makes me want to be a writer.
Q: Where would you most like to travel?
A: Everywhere. My husband and I went to Alaska last summer on a cruise. We were on land for six days. We would go back in a heartbeat and spend more time there.
We don't get to travel very much. I go to Minnesota every summer and then Michigan. Just locally.
Q: What is your favorite food?
A: Anything somebody else makes.
Q: What is your favorite place to eat in Minooka?
A: It would have to be Cookie's. Probably the fried chicken and Angie's peanut butter pie.
NAME: Michele Houchens
TOWN: Minooka
EDUCATION: Degree in Environmental Biology from Eastern Illinois University
JOB TITLE: Local history librarian/Technical services assistant
FAMILY: Married to husband Terry. Two grown sons, Michael and Christopher.


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Beat the heat with visit to Renaissance Academy
Richard Ramos
According to common usage, we're in the dog days of summer — that sultry period marked by lethargy, inactivity and indolence. Frankly, it's just too hot and humid to do much, especially when you break a sweat just taking the garbage to the curb or getting the mail.
At Florida Gulf Coast University's Renaissance Academy in downtown Punta Gorda, the dog days are, likewise, a period of relative quiet. The summer curriculum is winding down, the fall curriculum is waiting in the wings for an October start, and only ongoing programs like Foreign Films, tai chi, and qi gong are in full swing.


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|11 years ago :: Nov 06, 2007 - 6:41PM #51
Thank you for reading for me-
You are right I did seem to get cards which were not 'good cards'! To some extent I can relate to them- I am not currently 'in a relationship', I am seeing someone- the situation is quite complicated and right now I am feeling a little frustrated and maybe a little confused which is not really my nature. The first card did not really resonate with me that well since I feel (in my intuition) that things are going to be fine between us most of the time ( I have been feeling a little negative since Saturday).
Our whole interaction with each other is bulit on compromise- I do have to say I am compromising more than he is at this point. I do tend to over analyze things to the nth degree- the letting go could be eluding to that - that I need to stop doubting things so much and analyzing them to death and just 'let go' and let things run thier course- or it could mean like you said that I should move on to a new 'relationship' not really sure.. usually my gut feeling is quite strong but as I mentioned it has been a little 'whack' for the last few days.. I do know that the relationship that I was previously in was very very difficult and it took me a while to be able to have the courage to stand up for myself and admit that it was not working and neither party was going to be happy at the present moment-
Again I very much appreciate you taking the time and energy to do a reading for me - if you or anyone else had the time and could delve further into the cards I would be very grateful-- if not I understand and hopefully the meaning of the cards which are not so clear to me will make sense soon..
thank you :)
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|11 years ago :: Nov 06, 2007 - 8:59PM #52
Using the Rider/Waite deck here is Solful's reading
What trends are developing in Solful1's current path
Page of Pentacles upright
In this card a young man richly dressed gazes intently upon a golden pentacle. In the distance there are mountains and forests and at his feet there are small but beautiful flowers.
This Page speaks of youthful energy, practicality, the beginnings of experience, the building of skills and the learning of whatever it is you are engaged in upon your current path. He speaks of the hope and excitement of attempting, of doing, of engaging the world by participating in endeavors and enterprise. The world lies open to him as it does to you upon this path surrounding him and you with possibility and at his feet and yours should he/you tend the path he is on there are blossoms ready to bloom.
What information is there from the universe that Solful1 should pay attention to
9 of Pentacles reversed
In a lush garden filled with blooms a wealthy woman enjoying the fruits of her labor
This card is in a reversed position indicating blockages, roadblocks. The message: there will be some moments in whatever your doing that are not going to be what you hoped for. Don't get caught in those stopped moments, pay attention to them. Why are they happening? What are you suppose to learn from them? If you would like whatever garden your working on or intend to work on to bloom don't take shortcuts, review and make revisions where you need to, tend your gardens. Learn from those spaces in the places you walk.
What solful1 should know about the relations with the people she has named…
The World upright
A giant wreath, a floating figure, mystical symbols in a clear blue sky reveal The World. In this card there is a coming together of elements: an involvement, a participation to complete a cycle in a way that achieves integration and wholeness, a successfully total experience one infused with work and struggle and energy and spirit.
Your relations with these people is all of that. A working experience that in its functioning that will lead to wholeness even though the elements might seem disparate.
This reminds me of 2 ideas - one that there is a belief about what we contract to do together before each life with each other during a lifetime and secondly the idea that sometimes we go around with people sometimes the same people in successive lifetimes in order to learn from each other in a more connected fashion.
This group of people is involved together like that. It feels like that.
This is all I have for now...
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|11 years ago :: Nov 06, 2007 - 9:56PM #53
Dear Angelpeace,
Sweetie I absolutely understand your upset and fear and I sympathize and don't mind your need to know but you must understand I do not read for the future. I read for things that are developing at the moment I am doing the reading. Right now your terrified and trapped getting so caught up in that fear that its taking you over.
You need to breathe.
IF I were to say yes your going to lose your house - what would that do to you? Conversely if I said no you won't- youi may feel overjoyed and miss doing the thing that would help you to keep your house.
If I had any advice it would be slow your breathing, calm yourself so you can think clearly and then prepare like you will lose your house and do what you can to make sure you don't.
Stay calm and plan ahead.
(((Hugs and much love)))
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|11 years ago :: Nov 07, 2007 - 12:03AM #54
Single Gay woman wants to know what the cards say about her love life. Born 12/28/76 of Asian descent with black hair and brown eyes. If there's already someone who's interested? Or should I still wait for next year for anything to result or anyone special to appear for a long-term relationship and someone who wants to settle down? Anything else about my present situation with regards to my love life. Thank you!
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|11 years ago :: Nov 07, 2007 - 8:27AM #55
Dear Tattwo,
I pulled 3 cards out of my Gilded Tarot deck for you.
The 3 of Wands shows a man standing on shore watching a ship sail off.Or perhaps returning?Either way he has invested in it.Whether he will have sucess or failure,his huture is out of hiscontrol.He cannot affect the outcome.
The Emperor is the mirror of the Empress.Although the obvious difference is thereversal of his garments colors.Here his outter garment is of red,which represnts his actions.He holds the realistic Zodiac signs in his hand,not the glyph symbols as the Empress does.His actions are more realistic & external.He is more concerned about the realistic funtonong of everyday life.
Here a chest lays open under a tress full of pentacles.A turtle slowly makes it's way past,unconcerned,as a ferret peeks over the edge of the chest in curiosity.Who's chest is it?Why is it unattended & left open?Evidentily,the owner isn't to concerned.
[SIZE=3]Tattwo,the cards are clearly saying that this is the end of a cycle.The 3 of Wands represents achievment,& inspiration,projects. AS the man who watches the ship,you have felt helpless in the situation with your Father.which is totally understandable in your circumstances.Whether you have the patience or not in the situation-the outcome of the circumstances in your Father's life are something you can't control.This is however a good time for learning patience & self-control.Although it may be frustrating to just sit & take no action,let things take their course.
The Emperor represents a Father,,our experience with authority,reason,& logic.His message is one of healthy stability.Create an evironment that allows you to function at your best.Try & seek order in your life in terms of home,your workplace & relationships.Coming to terms with your own sprituality is a good path to work on.
The tens represent the end of a cycle the penacles the earth,physical world,resources.
The person who owned this chest has left it to give back the lone pentacle that he was once given in a time of need.You've reached an end of a cycle.Just as once someone gave to you,you should now be inspired into being creative & giving your abundance back.
You are a very spititual person,& although you may feel upset with God because times aren't what you think they should be,you need to take a step back & look at the overall path you're on.Being upset with Our Father is part of the path we all encounter on our path to enlightenment.It's a lesson that only you can learn-patience & empathy for others,such as your love for your worldly Father.He may not always do what you think is right,but set in his ways, he probably feels he's doing what is bestor at least doing the best he can with his own health.Learn to give on your path to enlghtenment as you seek to find the spitituality you feel you have misplaced.It's still there,just seems to be a bit dimmer when life isn't going well.Patience will brighten it back up shinier then you will believe,because when you give,you recieve.
I hope this reading helps you.I'm sorry that it's taken so long but I haven't had a very good year healthwise.Then the new Bnet hasn't been very co-operative for me! LOL! bUt I'll get used to it soon I hope! Thank you for allowing me to share in your light by doing this reading
May you walk in God's light always in All ways.
Cathy :)
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|11 years ago :: Nov 07, 2007 - 8:39AM #56
I will post your reading this afternoon after I get some rest.
Thanks for the patience!
Cathy :)
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|11 years ago :: Nov 07, 2007 - 9:24AM #57
Dear Urukai,
Thank you for your comforting words. I know I need to get back to the basics....as you said breathe etc. I seem to have gone on such a snowball effect in the last few years and I just want everything to fall back in place .This period of my life has been the most frustrating, confusing and hardest period of my life. It has taken an emotional and physical toll. And it all started out as good intentions. Thank you for your advice and the hugs. I thought I had gone thru horrible times during my life but they pale to this .Thank you again.
In Peace and Love,
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|11 years ago :: Nov 08, 2007 - 2:41PM #58
Hi Manidooke,
Not sure how often you check your messages, but just wanted to let you know that I sent your reading to your other aol account.
And for...I think it was Urukai...I think I skimmed a post in which you said you would read for me. I had noticed that my request got skipped over and I realized how busy this thread can be, so I didn't re-request. But I am still interested and will check this board periodically. I can also help out more with giving readings, depending on the feedback I get for the one I did.
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|11 years ago :: Nov 08, 2007 - 3:02PM #59
It is true stuff does get buried around here fast but I did do a read for you a couple of days ago - lets see it was post #48 in this board I think page 5...
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|11 years ago :: Nov 08, 2007 - 6:55PM #60
I pulled 3 cards from my Gilded Tarot deck for you,
The Chariot
The Chariot is a card of Victory.The medallion of the sun atop the Chariot indicated the immense power & focus of the woman's mind.Although victory seems a rather straightforward concept,the card is full of contradictions.
The Emperor
The Emperor represents realistic choices & stability in everyday life.
8 of Pentacles
A lonely apprentice works late into the night,he is focused & determined.
The message of the Chariot is one of willpower & control.Recognize your own stregnth & ability to maintain order in the midst of choas.Know that you can achieve more than you think & celebrate your acomplishments.Once you achieve your goals,do not come to a complete stop,thinking that you're doneThere is always more to learn & acomplish,
The Emperor's message is that of creating a healthy stability & for you to create an environment that allows you to function at your best.Seek order in your home,workplace & in your relationships.Appreciate the rules of society that allow a smooth & peacful life.
The 8 of pentacles indicates you're involved in a course of study in preperation for a better future.Your discipline & drive will serve you well.Do remember to take a time-out now & then & enjoy yourself,
Magnum,I feel,in reference to your post,that you should stay on the path you are already on,but take some time out for the lady you are already with.I don't think you are giving her the attention she may need in order to blossom.It seems to me as if you are a very intelligent,orderly person,but maybe a bit ridged in your lifestyle.Loosen up a bit & I think you'll be happy where you are.
Thank you for allowing me to share in your light by doing this tarot reading.I'm sorry it took me so long to get it to you.Please let me know if you have any questions.
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Hospital unlawfully fired nurse who complained of bullying
Sunday, August 12th, 2012
In December 2009 CEO Ryan Smith of Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna Alaska brought us in to implement our comprehensive program to prevent and correct workplace bullying. One year prior, there had been an on-site gunslinging event that claimed two lives, the shooter, fired employee Joseph Marchetti, and one of his victims. Others were paralyzed and wounded.
Trouble had been brewing beforehand. There is nearly always a story behind the headline-grabbing "shooter as mental nut" cover story (the theme of the documentary Murder By Proxy). A VP of the nurses union, Ray Southwell, had briefed his fellow union members and the CPH Board that "the environment is ripe for another shooting." He spoke regularly of bullying of nurses. Smith hated Southwell. Eventually, Smith, who had been brought in to "clean up" certain departments fired Southwell.
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The awards were announced following the conclusion of the Northern Lights Conference tournament Saturday. The honorees follow:
All-Northern Lights Conference
MVP: Damien Fulp, Colony
Coach of Year: Tom Berg, Colony
First team: Cory Carver, Soldotna; Joe Gray, Colony; Brian Selmer, Palmer; Austin Frick, Kodiak; Dane Kuiper, Wasilla; Connor Looney, Palmer; Antonio Bush, Colony; Hunter Eisenhower, Colony; Jemuel Medina, Kodiak; Damien Fulp, Colony.
Second team: Nathan Umbarger, Colony; Wyatt Fitt, Kenai; Nathan Mayer, Palmer; Hayden Niekamp, Palmer; Colton Young, Soldotna; Cash McGregor, Wasilla.
Player of Year: Alysha Devine, Wasilla
Coach of Year: Jeannie Hebert-Truax, Wasilla
First team: Alexis Imoe, Wasilla; Leya DePriest, Palmer; Jerica Nelson, Kodiak; Julie Litchfield, Soldotna; Kyla Dinkel, Wasilla; Kaillee Skjold, Soldotna; Mary Klapperich, Colony; Taylor Blake, Palmer; Hannah Wandersee, Kodiak, Alysha Devine, Wasilla.
Second team: Carissa Cannon, Kodiak; Savanna Burke, Wasilla; Caitlin Scott, Palmer; Sydney Taylor, Kenai; Kelci Benson, Soldotna; Jenna Ford, Wasilla; Izzy Tweed, Colony.


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After shooting several baptisms at various Catholic churches in the Rochester area, I captured this image at Easter Vigil mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral.
Seven-year old Marcos Ortiz has just emerged from the holy water during his baptism by Matthew Clark, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester.
I really like this photograph because of the expression on Marcos' face. His mother, Rosemary Atiles Torres, is observing in the background following her own baptism moments before. Torres joined the congregation in 2009 and has enjoyed becoming part of the church. "This church has turned my life around," she says.


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Js Data Framework (Eg Ember) Integration
Posted 05 March 2013 - 05:45 AM
I think the MVC structure of Yii, and the way widgets like CGridView work should make Ember an attractive proposition for Ajax-based applications (the widget renderers should be able to translate their logic into Handlebars templates fairly easily, and the Html5 history API routing integration could stick quite nicely with Yii's path routing model.
Again, I have just thrown this out there for discussion, without actually doing all necessary research as to whether it would be technically feasible, so please let me have your thoughts.
Posted 05 March 2013 - 07:22 AM
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Posted 05 March 2013 - 07:40 AM
And it shouldn't interfere with the front-end. It should stay out of that domain.
What Yii can do, is to serve JSON in a REST-like fashion, but Yii can do this today already.
See this: https://github.com/c...ech/YiiBackbone
Posted 05 March 2013 - 08:02 AM
samdark, on 05 March 2013 - 07:22 AM, said:
No particular reason - all are valid - I did say "eg". It's just that Ember is the only one I have any real experience with, and (I may be wrong here - like I say, I don't really know them) it seems to me that Backbone doesn't include live templates, and Angular makes great use of element markup, while I quite like the idea in Ember of keeping data out of the Html (that being said - this is Html5 now, with support for data in tags...).
As for Yii not interfering with the front-end, I do take the point, but Yii already does interfere with the front-end through things like the (very useful) widgets CListView/CGridView, which produce a similar effect (including Html5 history API routing to a limited extent) but without the structure and extensibility of things like Ember - so why not integrate that instead of the custom JS we use currently. And since these widgets are not actually part of the core anyway, we can say that it's not interfering
While Ember may be over-engineered, the example you gave includes a fairly hefty amount of backbone plugins, that probably make it just as engineered as Ember.
Anyway, like I said - just throwing this out for discussion...
Posted 05 March 2013 - 08:38 AM
Backbone, on the other hand, is much lighter, and leaves us with a lot more freedom.
As for grids, I won't use what Yii provides. I'd use Backgrid instead:
The grid in Yii is just an optional plugin, by means of Zii. I think it would be more trouble than it's worth trying to make it work with Backbone.
All we need Yii for is to spit out some JSON.
Posted 05 March 2013 - 10:02 AM
jacmoe, on 05 March 2013 - 08:38 AM, said:
Backbone, on the other hand, is much lighter, and leaves us with a lot more freedom.
As for grids, I won't use what Yii provides. I'd use Backgrid instead:
The grid in Yii is just an optional plugin, by means of Zii. I think it would be more trouble than it's worth trying to make it work with Backbone.
All we need Yii for is to spit out some JSON.
Spitting out JSON is not too hard, but what I like about CGridView is the way that (mostly) it fails gracefully in case of JS problems - eg the sorting link on a column will work as a hard link if the click event is not triggered properly.
I'm probably not thinking about this deeply enough (my head hurts from work at the moment), but a Yii controller whose default view could implement an Html page with an Ember controller, generating routes that follow the same convention, using the history API so that the url functions as a proper route whatever the circumstances (js or no) sounds like something good to me...
I did (and still do) find Ember a steep learning curve, all the more so since they have made major breaking changes, so that most of the examples around are obsolete, but I think their philosophy is the same as the Ruby-on-Rails convention over configuration, and if I recall correctly, Yii is inspired from R-o-R.
Anyway, I'm going to give my head a rest...
Posted 05 March 2013 - 10:11 AM
Posted 05 March 2013 - 11:27 AM
Anyone who's deciding for themselves which JS MVC framework they want, check out this site. They have made a TODO application for all major JS frameworks:
Posted 05 March 2013 - 12:07 PM
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Posted 06 March 2013 - 01:50 AM
jacmoe, on 05 March 2013 - 10:11 AM, said:
I wouldn't expect that, but what I would like is for a front-end generated history url to work appropriately on a page refresh when js is disabled (so if I have a front-end page generated at mysite.com/posts, which lets me view a particular post, while changing the history url to mysite.com/posts/76 to represent its state, if I were to refresh that url without js enabled - or copy and paste the url into a browser without js enabled, then the back-end should generate the same representation as was used by the front-end controller with js enabled) - that is what would be advantageous about back-end/front-end integration.


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McGauley Scores First Career Goal
BURLINGTON, Vt. – A goaltending duel between Yale's Genny Ladiges and Vermont's Kelci Lanthier ended with a 1-1 tie Saturday afternoon at Gutterson Fieldhouse. Ladiges made 31 saves in her first start of the year, while Lanthier had 23 stops. Freshman forward Patricia McGauley scored her first career goal to help Yale earn the tie.
Ladiges' performance Saturday comes on the heels of a 29-save effort by senior goalie Jackee Snikeris Friday night.
"Genny played great," said Yale head coach Joakim Flygh. "She played with confidence. It's great to see we have some competitive goalies."
The two teams combined for 35 shots through the first two periods, but neither team could find the back of the net. Vermont defenseman Peggy Wakeman broke the scoreless tie 34 seconds into the third on a power play, blasting a slap shot past a screened Ladiges.
Ladiges went right back to work after that goal, stopping the next eight shots she faced – including one on a power play -- but the equalizer proved elusive for the Bulldogs. Junior forward Aleca Hughes hit the crossbar nine minutes into the third.
Yale (0-1-1) finally got the game-tying goal when sophomore forward Alyssa Zupon won a faceoff and McGauley got off a snap shot that hit Lanthier's right shoulder and bounced over her head, falling into the net behind her.
Two freshmen – McGauley and forward Jenna Ciotti -- accounted for both of Yale's goals this weekend, showing that Yale's large Class of 2014 is ready to contribute.
"The freshmen are doing very well," Flygh said. "We have five of them on our top three lines. They've got to learn on the job, and learn very quickly, and they're doing a great job with it. The work ethic is there, we just need some more time together as a group."
The Bulldogs had the best scoring chance of overtime, but Hughes' shot 30 seconds in hit the cross bar in the upper left corner. Ladiges made three saves in OT to finish with 31.
Yale opens ECAC Hockey play next Friday at Harvard.
Report by Sam Rubin '95 (firstname.lastname@example.com), Yale Sports Publicity


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Hong Kong: America's Showcase to China
NEW YORK, September 24, 2010 - "What sells well in Hong Kong, sells well in mainland China," said C.Y. Leung, Chairman of Asia Pacific DTZ, referring to the importance of Hong Kong in the retail industry in mainland China. Leung continued, "It is the popularity of the brand established in Hong Kong that carries the goodwill that gives people the extended popularity of the brand in the rest of the country."
Leung was introduced by Vishakha Desai, President of the Asia Society, and Jeffrey Shafer, Vice Chairman, Global Banking at Citigroup, at the Asia Society's Headquarters in New York, where he discussed the mutually beneficial relationship of Hong Kong and America in the past and the many future opportunities available for America as Hong Kong grows and reinvents itself.
Highlighting the rapid growth of mainland China and its positive effect on Hong Kong, Leung focused on Shenzhen, a border city in close proximity to Hong Kong. He stated, "30 years ago, Shenzhen was a fishing village with less than twenty thousand people." Today, "Shenzhen has a population of 10 million people and it has one of the highest GDP per capita in the country." Of the 10 million residents, thirty-six thousand visit Hong Kong each day. Visitors from Shenzhen and many other Mainland tourists come to Hong Kong to buy retail products, including baby milk powder, consumer electronics, and even Chinese herbal medicine, which is actually imported from Mainland China in the first place. In referring to this bizarre fact, Leung stated, "This phenomenon illustrates the general higher level of competence in the retail industry of Hong Kong." He continued, "This is where American producers and suppliers can find Hong Kong very useful."
Later in his speech, Leung looked beyond the retail market into other areas of potential for America in Hong Kong, including education, professional services, and the financial industry. In terms of the financial industry, he added, "Hong Kong is one of the major global financial centers in the world, but compared to New York and London we are tiny." He noted that while Hong Kong is very skilled at Initial Public Offerings (IPO's) for mainland enterprises, significant opportunities for other financial activities exist as well. In the Q&A session, Leung suggested that Hong Kong has the available land to build another financial district of the same size as the current one located in Central.
Leung concluded the talk with the following message: "There is a case, in my view, for America businesses and the American people to rediscover Hong Kong as Hong Kong keeps reinventing itself."
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As I write today, the month of November is half over and so far we have had hardly any snow though it's been in the 20's several nights. Many other places, however, have had snow and also rain and wind storms far worse than in our area. My thoughts and prayers go out to those who have suffered greatly during the storms and those who lost loved ones. It has certainly been a difficult November thus far for millions of folk in our country. Meanwhile, time goes on and we have arrived at the holiday season.
I enjoy this time of year, but I dislike the way stores and other businesses have commercialized the holidays. Even before Halloween and Thanksgiving, many area stores are decorated for Christmas and have wares pertaining to it available. For several weeks, Black Friday has been advertised immensely, and now we're hearing Santa promotions. Sometimes I ponder how those special holidays are promoted and spent so differently than they were in yesterday.
I recall how the early settlers prepared for and spent Thanksgiving and Christmas in yesteryear, and how it was when I was a child. It isn't that they didn't celebrate those special days and spend time getting ready for them, but I'm sure it was much more difficult especially in the 1800s and early 1900s.
In those days, travel was more difficult, though often families lived near each other. Also food was usually homegrown. There were no modern methods of preparing the meal and no supermarkets where food could be purchased. Nevertheless, adults and children looked forward to those special holidays. Preparation began early, and they were family affairs. Often they worked together, and even the young ones took part in the preparations.
Often the families gathered for a church service early in the morning before the other activities began. Those long-ago holidays sometimes lasted for days as folk came from far and near. Life was simpler and children were happy just to get together and play games such as hide and seek, anti-I-over and with homemade dolls and toys. Their ingenuity was sharp, and it didn't take money to entertain them. In fact, money was scarce in the majority of families.
Nowadays, folk often think and plan for days before a holiday arrives. They purchase the most and best foods and decorations, but I don't think the people who get together enjoy the day any more than the simpler celebrations of yesteryear, especially the children. They don't usually think about what has past or what is to come. They just enjoy the present day, which many of us do not, despite the fancy or exotic preparations.
I think to have an enjoyable and fun holiday celebrations this time of year, it doesn't matter how fancy or if the weather is perfect. We can all be thankful there is still is sunshine, we still can glimpse the blue of the sky and in our onward way keeps looking up. Just be thankful for family and friends with kindly smiles and cheerful words. This is the time of year for grateful thanksgiving to God for all that we have.
An unknown author once said, "The beauty of the house is order. The blessing of the house is contentment. The glory of the house is hospitality. The crown of the house is godliness." I agree, and that goes for every day not just on holidays.
Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the following saying long ago, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference." I would add, "trusting and living for Jesus is the best way to live and die."