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Capture of Israeli soldier dims any talk of Gaza cease-fire
An agreed three-day cease-fire collapsed Friday only 90 minutes after it went into effect when Hamas militants attacked Israeli soldiers working to demolish tunnels in the Gaza Strip, killing two and apparently kidnapping a third, the Israeli army said.
The renewal of hostilities, and especially the presumed capture of the missing army officer, dimmed hopes for an early halt to the Hamas-Israel conflict, now it is fourth week.
Israeli forces, backed by tank-shelling and air-strikes, pushed deeper into the southern Gaza Strip in a search for the soldier near the town Rafah, raising the prospect of a further expansion of the Israeli offensive against Hamas.
At least 70 Palestinians were reported killed in the Rafah area, and at least 140 throughout the Gaza Strip.
President Barack Obama and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for the immediate release of the soldier, reflecting concerns that his disappearance could trigger a further escalation of fighting and an even higher toll of civilian casualties.
More than 1,600 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed since Israel launched its offensive against Hamas on July 8, according to Gaza health officials. Sixty-three Israeli soldiers have died, along with three civilians killed by rocket strikes in Israel. An estimated 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza have fled their homes, according to the United Nations.
"I want to make sure that they are listening," Obama said, referring to Hamas. "If they are serious about trying to resolve this situation, that soldier needs to be unconditionally released, as soon as possible."
Obama said Washington would continue working for a cease-fire, but it would "very hard" to reach one "if Israelis and the international community can't feel confident that Hamas can follow through on a cease-fire commitment."
Ban said the apparent abduction was a "grave violation" of the cease-fire and called for the "immediate and unconditional release of the captured soldier."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Secretary of State John Kerry, who had worked to arrange the halt in fighting announced Thursday, that Hamas had "brazenly violated the humanitarian cease-fire" and "will bear the consequences of their actions."
Israel's security cabinet met to discuss Israel's next moves, but no decisions were announced.
The suspected capture of the officer, which the army said came during an attack on troops working to uncover a Hamas tunnel near Rafah, raised questions about whether Hamas had agreed to continued Israeli operations against the tunnels during the cease-fire.
An army statement said that "initial indications suggest" that the officer had been "abducted by terrorists" when militants attacked troops working to find and destroy a Hamas tunnel at 9:30 a.m. local time, an hour and a half after the cease-fire went into force.
Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an army spokesman, said a militant suicide bomber who emerged from a tunnel shaft detonated his explosives as gunmen opened fire, and two soldiers were killed.
Findings at the scene indicated that the officer, identified as 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin, 23, of the Givati infantry brigade, was taken by the militants, Lerner said. He said he had no information on whether the officer had been wounded.
The army statement said the military was "conducting intelligence efforts and extensive searches in order to locate the missing soldier." Israel Radio said that special forces, along with armor, infantry and engineering units, were joining the search.
Israeli witnesses in the border area reported heavy artillery barrages and firing from Israeli helicopter gunships in the area of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Palestinians reported more than 40 people killed and 200 injured in the Israeli shelling and airstrikes, including at least one members of an ambulance crew who died when their vehicle was struck. Clashes between Israeli forces and militants were reported east of Rafah, and Israeli troop movements were reported in other locations. Militants fired fresh volleys of rockets into Israel, but no casualties were reported.
The armed wing of Hamas, the Qassam Brigades, did not immediately claim it was holding the soldier, though Musa Abu Marzouk, the second-ranking political leader of Hamas, told the Turkish Anadolu news agency that the officer had been captured and two soldiers killed before the cease-fire went into effect.
A Qassam Brigades statement said that early on Friday Israeli forces moved into the Rafah area for the first time since the start of the conflict, triggering a clash an hour before the cease-fire went into force, in which soldiers were killed and wounded.
The statement said Israel's "indiscriminate shelling and airstrikes at people in eastern Rafah" had violated the cease-fire. "It is the occupation which violated the cease-fire," said Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman. "The Palestinian resistance acted in self-defense."
Thursday's cease-fire announcement by Kerry and Ban called on both sides to "act with restraint" until it went into effect, and stipulated that forces on the ground would "remain in place" once it took force.
Kerry later said that the Israel "will be able to continue its defensive operations for those tunnels that are behind its lines."
Israeli forces in Gaza have been blowing up networks of tactical tunnels dug by Hamas, some leading under the border to Israel. At least 32 tunnels have been uncovered, the army said.
Although a Hamas spokesman announced the group's agreement to the cease-fire, it was unclear whether it had accepted continued Israeli operations against its tunnels in the Gaza Strip.
Osama Hamdan, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, said in an interview this week that the tunnels were "weapons of the resistance" and "were not up for discussion" in a proposed cease-fire deal.
Robert Serry, the U.N.'s Middle East envoy who helped broker the cease-fire, said that if the Israeli reports of the militant attack were "corroborated, this would constitute a serious violation of the humanitarian cease-fire in place since 8 a.m. this morning by Gazan militant factions, which should be condemned in the strongest terms."
Serry urged "the Palestinian parties to last night's understanding to urgently reaffirm their commitment to the humanitarian cease-fire," adding that he was "deeply concerned regarding the serious consequences on the ground that could arise as a result of this incident."
In an interview with CNN, White House spokesman Josh Earnest called the reported attack "a rather barbaric violation of the cease-fire agreement." Asked whether the terms of the cease-fire were clarified to all sides, Earnest said that "we were transparent, and everybody, all sides were transparent about what the agreement was."
The 72-hour cease-fire was supposed to have been immediately followed by talks in Cairo on a durable truce, addressing demands by Hamas to lift border closures imposed on Gaza by Israel and Egypt, and Israeli demands to rid Gaza of Hamas' rockets and tunnels. But with the collapse of the cease-fire, those talks seemed in jeopardy.
Still, the office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced in Ramallah that a joint Palestinian delegation, including the Hamas and Islamic Jihad factions, would travel to Cairo on Saturday "whatever the circumstances." There was no word from Israel on whether an Israeli delegation would attend.
Capturing an Israeli soldier would enable Hamas to bargain for the release of Palestinian prisoners. Gilad Shalit, a soldier seized in Israel and held captive by Hamas in Gaza for more than five years, was freed in 2011 in exchange for the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.
On July 20, the armed wing of Hamas said it had captured another Israeli soldier, Oron Shaul, giving his name and army identification number. The Israeli army said later that Shaul had been killed in action but that his body had not been recovered, suggesting that Hamas had seized the soldier's remains.
The continued fighting in Gaza set off protests in several areas of the West Bank on Friday, and two Palestinians were shot and killed by Israeli troops.
The largest protest was in the city of Tulkarm, where the army said more than 1,000 protestors confronted Israeli forces who resorted to live ammunition after riot-control weapons failed to repel the crowd. A 22-year-old was shot in the chest and killed, Palestinians said. A 19-year-old was killed by live fire in a street clash with Israeli forces at the village of Safa, near Ramallah, according to local reports.
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem on Wednesday accused Israeli security forces in the West Bank of "excessive" use of live ammunition when confronting protests set off by the conflict in Gaza, leading to the deaths of more than a dozen Palestinians since the start of the Israeli offensive. The rights group said soldiers had used live fire unlawfully when they were not in mortal danger.
Lesley Clark in Washington contributed to this report.


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Today, NBA.com posted the results of a survey they took of all NBA general managers. The participating general managers were not permitted to vote for their own teams. The topics included who the GM's thought would win MVP, who will win the NBA title, who the best players were at their position and who the best coach was.
Here is the link to the survey.
Here are problems I had with the survey:
- When asked about the MVP, the general managers voted that Durant had the best chance to win at 55.6% and LeBron had the next best chance at 44.4% Derrick Rose received 0 votes. Really? Derrick Rose got 0 votes? What the hell is wrong with these GM's? The defending MVP who's team currently sits at 12-3 has NO shot to win the MVP? I think Derrick Rose has a very good chance to win the MVP considering his importance to his team and their eastern conference best record.
- I thought it was interesting how the general managers voted at 77.8% that LeBron was the best small forward in the league followed by Durant (18.5%) and Melo (3.7%). Despite my deep hatred for LeBron James, I do not necessarily have a problem with the order of this but I find the percentages interesting. Is there really that big of a gap between LeBron and the other two players? I don't think so. All 3 players routinely compete for the scoring title and all 3 players have failed to win a championship. Melo has a winning career record over both Durant and LeBron despite having a worse team year in and year out. LeBron is not 59.3% better than Durant and he sure as hell isn't 74.1% better than Melo.
- When asked who was the best center in the NBA, the general managers voted at 96.3% that it was Dwight Howard. Who got the other 3.7% of the vote? It wasn't Andrew Bynum or Joakim Noah or even Tyson Chandler. It was Pau Gasol. The same Pau Gasol who rarely plays center and whose team was 2-2 with him as the starting center in Andrew Bynum's absence. Gasol is a power forward and is not even the best center on his team much less the second best center in the NBA.
- Iman Shumpert, at 12%, was voted second behind Norris Cole of Miami, 44%, as the best "sleeper" rookie in the league. I think Shumpert should have been placed above Cole on this list. Not because he plays for the Knicks but because of the role he plays. Shumpert is the starting point guard while Cole is not the starter. Shumpert averages more points, rebounds and assists per game and he is a much better defensive player than Cole.
- At 76.9% Dwight Howard was voted the best defensive player in the NBA. There was nobody who garnered enough votes to be placed as the runner up but some of the players that did garner votes were interesting to me. The other players were: Aaron Afflalo (Denver), Shane Battier (Miami), Luol Deng (Chicago), Luc Richard Mbah a Moute (Milwaukee), Tayshaun Prince (Detroit) and Dwayne Wade (Miami). Tayshaun Prince?? Luc Richard Mbah a Moute?? No wonder half the league is shitty every year. Some general managers actually voted 700 year old Tayshaun Prince and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute as better defensive players than Dwight Howard?? That is appalling.
- This is the one that really pisses me off. When asked who the best head coach was, Greg Popovich won the vote with 42.3%. That is not what made me angry. Coming in 4th place with 7.7% of the vote was MIKE BROWN. Yes, that MIKE BROWN that got to one championship with LeBron in which he got swept by Popovich and the Spurs. The same MIKE BROWN that was unemployed last season and wasn't chilling on ranch in Montana. This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. These general managers voted him ahead of Rick Adelman, Doug Collins, Nate McMillan, Tom Thibideau, Scott Brooks, Mike D'Antoni and Stan Van Gundy. I would take any of those coaches over MIKE BROWN in a heartbeat. Brown is a good coach no doubt but he is not the 4th best coach in the league. In my opinion he is a worse coach then all those I just listed. To my knowledge, the survey only allowed the general managers to vote for their number one choice. That means 7.7% of the general managers voted him the best coach in the league. I do not see the justification in voting Brown the 4th best coach in the league nor does he have a resume that justifies that standing.
- The general managers went ahead and voted Derrick Rose as the league's best point guard but then voted Chris Paul as the league's best passer. Rose got no votes for being the league's best passer. Steve Nash, Ricky Rubio, Deron Williams, Jason Kidd and Jose Calderon received votes. How can the best point guard in the NBA not be one of the top 6 passers in the NBA? That makes no sense whatsoever. Chris Paul far and away is the best point guard in the league in my opinion. He can score, DISTRIBUTE, defend and steal the basketball. Rose is very good but isn't the distributor nor defender that Paul is.
- I believe Melo is the most clutch player in the NBA along with Kobe. The general managers decided that Kobe (48.1%) and Durant (30.8%) were the two must clutch players in the league. Durant seems to be the new flavor of the league. He tops everyone's lists of favorite players and best scorers. I think he is overrated. He is a prolific shooter no doubt and he does have scoring titles but he is not the best scorer in the league nor is he the second most clutch player in the league. While he is clutch, I do not believe he has been doing it long enough to trump Carmelo Anthony, the leader in 4th quarter scoring this season, as the second best clutch player in the league. He may eventually get there but he's not there right now.


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Researchers from Spain studied potential links between dietary choices and the incidence of depression, particularly in relation to the Mediterranean diet plan. The Mediterranean Diet focuses on plant foods like fruits, vegetables, breads, cereals, potatoes, beans and nuts. In this diet, olive oil is the main source of fat. There is very little red meat, with moderate amounts of fish and poultry. Past research has indicated that this type of diet may decrease blood vessel, metabolic, and inflammatory problems that may otherwise contribute to the development of depression. This study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry , found that a Mediterranean-based diet may have a protective effect against the development of depression.
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The prospective cohort study followed 10,094 people over an average of 4.4 years. The participants submitted food frequency questionnaires that were designed to determine the amounts and types of food they ate. Participants were divided into four groups based on their level of adherence to a Mediterranean-style diet. Habits that were considered adherent to the Mediterranean Diet included:
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How Does This Affect You?
This type of study has an fruits and vegetables in your diet, replacing some of your red meat choices with fish, nuts, or legumes, and opting for better fat choices like olive or canola oils. A well rounded diet that adheres closely to the Mediterranean diet is best, but you may find it easier to manage if you choose one or two changes at a time and work your way toward your goal. It is important for you to play an active role in your health care with good lifestyle choices, but if you feel you or someone you know may have depression, it is important to talk to your doctor. Together you can develop a plan to help manage the illness.
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Follow the next corridor and you'll come to another shut door. This time the fuse will be on the floor. Use your force grip to maneuver it into the open fuse slot and electrify it to open the door. With the door open advance into the next room. Follow the adjoining corridor and you'll come to an elevator. Ride it down to the floor below and proceed. You'll come to another empty corridor. Follow it to the broken door at its end and use your force grip to pull it open. This leads to yet another broken door. Pull it open and head into the next room where you'll finally run into some action.
When you enter the next room some terror droids will drop in. On their own these are not a threat, but they don't attack alone. They attack in huge swarms. Lay into them with your light saber and kill the initial swarm. Doing this will just see another group attack you. Luckily, to make things easier the game introduces you to a new skill: force repel. This allows you to create a shockwave that will simply obliterate all the nearby terror droids. Use it until there's only a few left and then mop up the remaining droids. After they're cleared out, pick up the nearby fuse and use it to open the next set of doors.
Proceed down the next hall and the double doors will open to another elevator. Ride it further down to the next level of the ship. When you near the bottom another swarm of terror droids will drop in. Destroy them and exit. Follow the next corridor you'll come to and you'll enter a large room with several large tanks. To advance, head through the burning door. You'll eventually come to a force field behind which you'll see Juno unconscious. From here, head back the way you came. When you re-enter the large room you'll be attacked by some terror troopers. These buggers like to phase in an out of sight. If you try attacking them directly, they'll just evade you. Rather, hit them with a blast of force lightning to stun them into vulnerability. After you beat the first terror trooper, a swarm of terror droids will drop in, accompanied by a few more of the Invisible Woman wannabes. Destroy them all and then return to door that was on fire. To the right of it is a fuse. Pull it out with your force grip and then use it to open the door opposite the one on fire.
Head into the next room and advance down the hall to the left. You'll be attacked by a group of the terror troopers. Dispatch them and head through the door at the end of hallway. As you enter the next room, another swarm of terror droids will drop in. Destroy them with some force repelling and then head toward the door opposite where you entered. Replace and electrify the fuse to open it. You'll come to a large window facing the room where you saw Juno earlier... just in time for Boba Fett to cart her away.
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Four years old!
A happy birthday to my big boy Tiberius today he's four years old. We intend to get our free and discounted treats today and go for a nice long walk.
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Happy belated birthday Ty, you are looking great!
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Happy belated birthday to you What a handsome boy you are! Sounds like your mom had some neat plans made to celebrate your special day. Wishing you many more birthdays!
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It is a somewhat philosophical question. I personally believe that the importance of math is due to its usefulness and lots of applications. Mathematics is used in everywhere nowadays; as Ian Stewart said in his book Letters to a young mathematicians, if we put 'MATH IN IT' stickers on everything that used math, then it will be hard to find a thing without the sticker. In this point of view, math is important because of its useful results.
However, some of the most sophisticated results of math, such as Fermat's last theorem, is not that useful or applicable in other fields. Despite their seemingly unusefulness, I think these results are also important because they have extended the boundaries of human knowledge. Knowing is important because it gives us some answers about who we are and how the universe is like. In the ancient times, people thought that the earth is flat and is the center of the whole universe. But now we know that the earth is round, and we are probably not the major characters in the history of universe. In this sense, mathematics is important because it gives us truths.
Now let me give you my personal anecdote. I was occasionally talking about the proof assistant Coq to my analysis professor. Of course Coq cannot prove everything, but she asked me whether I want all the problems in math to be solved by computers, supposing the proofs of computers are just like those of human mathematicians that no one can distinguish the proofs by computers from those of humans. I said yes, since I thought whether it is done by computers or humans, knowing the truth is important. But my professor said she don't like it. She thinks proofs made by computers are not as beautiful as those of humans. She thinks the importance of mathematics is in the joy of solving problems, and the beauty of mathematics comes from the efforts put in when solving problems. In this point of view, unknown mathematical truths are something like undisturbed nature that we have to prevent computers from pervading mathematical world.
Now I am confused. Where does the importance of math come from? Is using computers to prove theorems damage the very nature of mathematics?


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Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I've recently started a job administering chemotherapy [to cancer patients]. Does it matter in what order R-CHOP (R= Rituxan, CHOP = chemotherapy regimen of Cyclophosphamide, Adriamycin, Vincristine, and Prednisone) is given? I was told to always give Rituxan last, even if the MD writes for it first, due to the higher incidence of side effects. Thanks for your input.
Michael Vozniak, PharmD, BCOP, Hematology/Oncology Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, responds:
There are no specific rules that I know of with regards to delivering R-CHOP. I think you could argue either way, i.e. to deliver Rituxan first or last. Depending on whether the patients are treated on an inpatient or outpatient basis, on which of the various regimens Rituxan is used in, and on the availability of lab results, Rituxan is administered both before and after chemotherapy in our institution.
The side effects can occur regardless of the sequence. If the Rituxan is given first, and there is an infusion reaction, we would typically bring the patient back the following day to receive the chemotherapy part of the regimen. If the Rituxan is given last and a reaction occurs, a delay in the chemotherapy until the next day is avoided, which is inevitably more convenient for the patient.


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Just a short little quip here about Eyonix's post on the offiical forums:
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Any plans to bring Prot Warriors and Prot Paladins up to snuff? Not looking for anything huge, I'd be more than happy with "close to Feral" dps though when we're not actively tanking.
We do want to make solo/grinding more viable for all non-dsp, support oriented specs, including protection warriors and paladins. We're looking into ways to improve this for the future, so please just hang in there.
Of course any added ability to solo while prot will be greatly appreciated. I'm curious though just how many Prot spec'd folks actually try soloing much. With the change to Devastate, I concentrated a little on changing my DPS/Solo gear up a bit and found that I'm not half bad at soloing anymore going with a dual wield, DPS gear set and just spamming the heck out of Devastate. Maybe I just never really tried it much pre 2.3, but post 2.3, dual wield prot spec Devastate spam does pretty well


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Hair, hair and more hair is all you hear black women talking about nowadays. Almost everything from the design and style to the color and texture. Black hair can be so diverse to have. All-natural hair is quite common right now but also making a strong come back in the year 2012. Hair is so important to so many women since hair is one of the first things you see on them. With the new energy of heightened positivity in the world, more men and women are savoring the benefits of living a brighter, more easier life. Consequently, more women are also wanting to reverse the appearance of their hair to a more stress-free look.
Black hair is stunning when it's worked well. If it's not, curly hair can be a fairly unsettled subject matter to cope with. One of the main considerations in the black community and precisely with African American women is the permed verses natural hair saga. One of the largest difficulties with women leaving their permed straight hair for natural hair is the (hair length loss factor). That was a tongue twister!
What I'm speaking of is the way that African hair has a tendency to normally be springy, tight coily and kinky curly. There is so much one can do to their hair when they enable it to grow out chemical free. On the other hand most women don't care anything about that but would much rather have their hair length instead.
Most major hair transitions take time. Switching from chemical to naturally treated hair is a significant phase in ones' life. This is definitely the case with permed to natural hair. There are some obvious changes that have to happen in order for a woman to successfully have the head of hair that she desires. For one, the perm kit days are over as soon as she decides no more straight hair. Now instead of continuing to care for her hair with chemically treated products, a woman may usually switch to using organic, holistic products on her hair since it just makes sense.


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Simple French Desserts Recipes
Tarte Tatin aux Pommes (Upside down Apple Pie)
Tarte Tatin sounds like a fancy dessert, but really, it's just an upside down caramel apple tart. I made a simple tart shell using dough called pâte brisée. Instead of filling the shell though, I placed slices of apples that were cooked in a caramel sauce into the mold and then covered them with the tart shell. The tarts then went into the oven to cook the shell.
You really should eat these treats almost as soon as they come out of the oven. To plate, just flip each mold and the apples will now be on top. If you wait too long, the caramel will harden and it will be difficult to unmold. If you flip the tart out and let it sit, the crust will get soggy. This has never been a problem at my house because the smell of freshly baking apples always manages to gather the entire family in the kitchen.
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Mango and Coconut Creme Caramel
Matcha Green Tea Creme Brulee
This dessert combines two of my favorite things, crème brulée and green tea. I love the natural jade color of matcha green tea powder, along with its distinctive flavor. It's an ingredient I use a lot in desserts. Whether it's in cookies, madeleines, pound cakes, crème pâtissière or chocolate truffles, the result is always a success.
My personal favorite application for green tea powder though is crème brulée. One could probably add spinach to crème brulée and it would still taste great, but there's something special about the flavor of green tea that cuts the decadence of the dessert while enhancing its elegance.
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Coffee and Cardamom Flavored Creme Caramel
Crème caramel is one of my favorite desserts. It's basically a rich custard with a layer of soft caramel. I dressed this one up with a little espresso powder and cardamom.
Making these desserts reminded me of my childhood. My mom would tell me every day not to eat anything before dinner, but after coming home from school, I would always make a beeline to the refrigerator when she wasn't looking. I would get one crème caramel, flip it onto a plate, and let the delicious caramel flow in every direction. It didn't last very long; I would inhale the dessert and lick all the caramel off the plate before I got caught. You would think that I wouldn't really have enjoyed the dessert because I ate it so fast, but there was something thrilling (and delicious) about sneaking a bite without anyone knowing. Maybe that's why I named my site Pham Fatale. I've been in the (food) espionage business for a long time!
These covert operations inevitably would make me too full for dinner. I know I was a terrible child! My parents always wondered why I never ate, and have probably been unaware of my antics until now. Sorry Mom!
I think, in America, crème caramel and flan can be used interchangeably.
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January 2, 2012 was my last day as owner of Woody's Pizza. I would like to start by saying a big thank you to all the people of Estherville who have done business with me and my family over the past 50 years. I have been fortunate in being able to go to work every day and enjoy my job. I have been able to make a living and raise my family in a great community. When I took over the family business from my parents in 1980 I had no idea how long I would be able to stay in business. We have weathered a couple recessions and the closing of a major employer in Estherville. The 80's were very interesting times to own a small business in Estherville. With the closing of John Morrell who employed around 600 people and the crash of land values during the farm crisis we were never sure if anyone was going to stay in business. For the most part, the small businesses of Estherville managed to keep things going and made it to the 90s and beyond. We are honored to be a part of that group. There are very few family owned businesses in Estherville that have managed to hit the 50 year mark. I can only think of a handful. Pretty impressive when you think of the number of businesses we have had in town over the past 50 years.
We have done business with most every other business in town at one time or another. And in return they have done business with us. Through our pizza delivery service there is probably no house in Estherville that Woody's hasn't been in over the past 50 years.
I am now proud to be turning over Woody's Pizza to a new family in Estherville. Travis and Rebecca Bates have taken over starting Jan. 3, 2012. I wish them well and hope they can continue with the long and proud tradition Woody's Pizza has been in our community.
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Below I'll address two things that seem to plague many MTB'ers in the off-season: 1) what I call "gym-rat burnout". And, 2) body weight management.
The following is purposely not very specific or in-depth, but more of something to think about and address on your own. This is mainly because we all have different goals and aspirations, time crunches, athletic endeavors, etc, outside of biking (which is my area of expertise) and the off-season is the time to partake all kinds of other fun/necessary stuff that we have a tough time doing during the summer because we have other very important things to do … like ride our bikes! I'm also not an expert at weight training, pilates, road riding, xc skiing, or many other activities that MTB'ers use for off-season fitness, but I am very aware of how difficult it can be to maintain fitness over the winter. So again, I'll keep this kind of loose, but these are two things that most of us, as riders, have to deal with in one way or another.
If you're a fairly serious rider or racer (and you live in an area where it is the off-season) you should currently be enjoying a break from the intensity of training, racing, serious rides, etc. This doesn't mean that you have to stay off of your bike. But bike rides should be fun and enjoyable at this time. If you're a cyclocoss racer, or serious skier, or snowboarder, or something of that nature, great, just make sure that you will be able to get enough time to fully recover and then be ready to go again (both mentally and physically) for MTB in the spring.
Just because we don't have a race right around the corner doesn't mean that we can completely forget about what our goals are as riders. The off-season can and should play a very important role in your success next spring and summer.
First, I'll address "gym-rat burnout":
We ride bikes because riding is fun. Even if we take it extremely seriously, even if we make money doing it, we still do it because it's enjoyable. We get outside. We get to compete (even if its with just ourselves). There's often a good dose of camaraderie. Often, bikes give us a reason to travel. For most of us, the gym offers nearly none of this. The gym is a means to an end, and therefore, just not a whole lot of fun (for me at least). Ditto with road riding, running… So, it's often tough to stay motivated to do these things for a long period of time.
Motivation is the key to anything as far as I'm concerned. This winter, if you spend three intense hours per day on your trainer in your basement, putting in thousands of miles and tons of interval work, and also hitting the gym like Lou Ferrigno, and then when you emerge in the spring, you hate your bike and the pain that it represents… well, you're probably not going to be very motivated to kick the season off correctly. I'm guilty of this myself pretty much every year (kinda). I take about a week off somewhere in November, and after a week off of the bike, I get super motivated!!! I then get in the gym and put a program together, start trail running, start backcountry snowboarding like a banshee, ride my bike in the snow… I feel like an animal all winter long until around March and then I peter-out. I'm over it, over winter, over the gym, over running, over snowboarding… I end up eating like crap and being lazy for a couple of weeks right when I should be ramping up for the riding season to start. This has happened, consistently, for as long as I can remember. Sounds like I need to make some conscious adjustments to my off-season program, huh?
I'm not the only rider guilty of this. This happens to a lot of people. So relax a little and pace yourself. Stay active but do some other things besides road riding and the gym (that are fun or, at least, mix it up a bit). If you are very serious and want to make some fitness gains over the winter, cool, but be conscious of your mental state and put yourself on a pace where you'll be chomping at the bit and ready to rip out the throats of your fellow competitors' and/or riding buddies' in the spring (literally, of course!!!). You want to be hungry when the season starts.
Something else that many of us need to deal with in the off-season is weight. And I'm not talking about shaving grams off your bike! The off-season is the time to make adjustments in body weight, or, at the very least, keep weight gain (or loss, for some people) under control. In my own case, I would like to slim down and improve my power to weight ratio (o.k., keep it under control, also!). While I'm not necessarily a fat-ass, 5'6" and 165 isn't really ideal for getting from point A to point B (got some great 'short-and-stocky' genes from my mom). I do have a nice layer of beer and pizza induced baby-fat that I can rid myself of, but also, I can lose a bunch of muscle (especially upper body) that actually hinders me, speed-wise, on the bike. But in order to do this correctly, I need to maintain a calorie deficit. During the season — though I definitely don't get to race as much as I'd like to — I do a lot of hard riding. This includes a lot of intense trail riding, motocross, dirt jumping MTB's – stuff that I could easily get hurt doing if things go wrong (which, of course, they do from time to time), and often, on back-to-back-to-back days, whenever I have the opportunity. So during the season, recovery with adequate food intake, and being strong and fit is more important then focusing on losing weight (and doing it correctly, which is difficult). The time for me to do this is now (please don't ask how its going!).
On the other side of this is simply not gaining unwanted weight. We all know how the wintertime, football season (obligatory beer drinking), the holidays, etc, can be a fat-laden kiss of death for keeping weight in check. Let's be realistic about this: ideally, we'd all get down to our perfect "fighting weight", during Nov, Dec and be on our way with our off-season training (and if you're serious, you need to do this). But sometimes real-life does get in the way for real people. However, there's no excuse for coming into the riding season 10-15 lbs heavier (fat wise – bad heavier) then you were at the end of the previous season. Five lbs.…? O.k., I'll give you that… But, trying to dial in weight while you're also trying to get stronger is a difficult thing to do and you're starting in a hole if you begin your fitness and race training overweight.
A great way to help you keep things in check weight-wise? Keep a food journal. Especially over the holidays! Write down absolutely everything that you eat. Make sure that this is a small notebook or something that can be kept conveniently with you at all times so that you WILL actually do this! Every cheese sample at Whole Foods, every stray piece of Halloween candy, the dressing that you put on the salad… EVERYTHING! If you have to write it down, you're conscious of it, you can't simply "pretend it didn't happen". You won't be saying, "man how'd I get so fat… I thought I was doing pretty good…"
So, a little advice on two things that most of us wrestle with during the off-season…
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A crowd of more than 100 piled into the Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School auditorium on Tuesday night to learn more about a financial issue in the school system causing Dighton to pay more than necessary while Rehoboth has paid less.
A task force looked into the problem recently, learning that in fiscal 2014 Dighton paid around $1 million more than it should have and Rehoboth paid around $1 million less.
To rectify the issue, a state consultant strongly encouraged forming a committee to take a closer look at the regional agreement between the towns.
State consultant Stephen Hemman, a Department of Elementary & Secondary Education representative, offered a presentation on how the Chapter 70 system works and how assessments are calculated and allocated.
Hemman went over every line item that determines how much a community needs to spend, including transportation and wealth factors.
He mentioned that there are alternative assessment methods to determine how the money is assessed. That, however, would require changes to the regional agreement.
Hemman offered three alternatives. One method includes allowing one community to spend more than what is required. That would require a Town Meeting vote to reduce the assessment for one community. For instance, if it is determined that Dighton owes $400,000 less, with the new method, it would need to a vote.
Another method would be to refigure how each town pays for transportation.
Hemman said the school committee could name an amendment committee, come up with another method and have it approved.
He said part of the problem is the district works with three different budgets. Hemman said he understands that in the late 1980s both communities feared their elementary schools would be underfunded. He said times and priorities have changed since then. He said Dighton-Rehoboth is the only district he knows of that works with three different budgets.
Dighton Finance Committee Chairman Edward Swartz said Dighton officials have spent the extra money over the years under the belief that not doing so would affect the children's education and cause problems with the regional school agreement.
"We in Dighton have always supported an over (the) minimum (budget for education)," Swartz said, insisting that such a method has especially hurt taxpayers this year
The property taxes in town have increased, he said, and the extra $1 million costs an extra $1.21 per thousand of assessed property value and "that's a substantial amount."
"You need to create a committee and look at it. It will take you six to 12 months to look at the regional agreement and change it," interim Superintendent Michael Malone said.
He cautioned people should avoid devising an alternative method for next year given how late it is in the budget planning process.
"I will have some serious work over the next few months to pull this budget apart," he said, adding that "looking backwards" is not the best way to do it.
Concerned resident Nancy Goulart said the three budgets were created because parents wanted local control and a say in their local schools. She also said that three budgets were established because one school was running in debt.
Goulart said the development of three budgets did not lead to this problem.
"The people in Dighton and people in Rehoboth .... are not responsible for this mess. They are the victims of this mess," she said, adding that the fiscal 2015 budget needs to be fairly constructed.
"I don't see the people of Dighton having to overpay $1 million to educate their children," she said.
Dighton Selectman Thomas Pires also encouraged changing the system for fiscal 2015.
According to officials, in 2007 the state Department of Elementary & Secondary Education changed how it allocates Chapter 70 funds. Since that time, Dighton has not adopted some of those changes.
Hemman, who also teaches finance to college students, recommended that the district come up with one budget. He said it would not "hog tie" how school authorities use their money. It would allow them to spend money as they see fit for the entire kindergarten through Grade 12 district.
Earlier this month, Dighton Selectmen Chairman Dean Cronin said the new funding mechanism was supposed to be adopted seven years ago. In fact, to keep it the same would have required a vote from both communities.
Committee member David Katseff said that in 2007 authorities were under the impression that it was following the statutory method. The district did not learn until recently that it was conducting the budget incorrectly.
Malone said there are several components to the Chapter 70 budget and allocation of minimum requirements.


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In the Administration Console, open the Resources component, select Connectors, select Connector Connection Pools, and select the Security Maps tab. For details, click the Help button in the Administration Console.
Use the asadmin create-connector-security-map command. For details, see the Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Reference Manual.
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When an application principal initiates a request to an EIS, the GlassFish Server first checks for an exact match to a mapped back end EIS principal using the security map defined for the connector connection pool. If there is no exact match, the GlassFish Server uses the wild card character specification, if any, to determined the mapped back end EIS principal.


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Ah! Breathe deep, Cat Bloggers! That wonderful smell is the dawning of a Sparky-free Era – thanks to me, Godfrey Goodmouse and the well-oiled machine that is Anonymouse. It was I who spiked her toy mousie with Ambien! It was I who thought ahead and purchased Delivery Confirmation on a Sparky Care Package for the Antarctic researchers of Vostock station and while some may scoff (looking at you, Mr. Black), this is how I now know that the vile Murderess has in fact, been delivered – safe and sound and probably doing her imitation of an ice cube.
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Carlos R. Romero said he doesn't "feel comfortable around people" and has "never been a people person."
OCALA – Carlos R. Romero said he doesn't "feel comfortable around people" and has "never been a people person."
A farm hand, Romero said he has always felt an attraction toward animals, especially horses, because, as he describes it, with humans, they've been known to "stab you in the back, give you diseases, lie to you" and are "promiscuous." He compared them to animals, who, he said, "are usually there for you" and "do not seek other pleasures." Their feelings, he said, are "100 percent honest."
His love for animals, mainly horses, was the cause of his arrest on Monday on a warrant for cruelty to animals. Sheriff's deputies say he was caught in a compromising position with a 21-month-old miniature donkey named Doodle.
The donkey, who Romero said he purchased from a man in Lake City and brought to the farm in northwest Marion County a couple of months ago, has been removed by animal control.
Marion County Sheriff's Office Deputy Edward Graham and Detective Ollue Myers interviewed the 31-year-old on Friday. He described intimate contact with the donkey but not intercourse, according to a Sheriff's Office report.
Romero was arrested Monday on a warrant.
In a jailhouse interview, Romero told a Star-Banner reporter that he masturbated while the donkey was inside his room and that it wasn't his first time doing that. He said he has had sex with horses since he was 18 and likes their "feminine shape, behavior and raw power."
"I've had a sexual excitement with animals more than humans. … I would've eventually had sex with her," he said of Doodle. He chose not to, he said, because "she's blooming into maturity."
The alleged crime had come to light on Aug. 15. Gerald Joseph James, who rents the farm in the 9100 block of Northwest 60th Avenue, walked by a tack room and saw Romero behind the donkey with his pants down, according to the Sheriff's Office.
In a later interview, James said he saw Romero having sex with the animal.
Romero calls James a "peeping tom" and thinks he should be arrested for invading his privacy.
"I'm not harming the animal or other people," Romero said.
But if Romero posts his $2,000 bail, James doesn't want him back on the farm.
"No one feels comfortable around him," he said.
Romero said he was born and raised in Florida but has worked at several race tracks around the country. During that time, he said, he had thoughts about having sex with the horses but didn't because it was "too open."
Romero said he "didn't want to have sex with the athlete that would suddenly be gone. … I thought about it."


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Congratulations to Tom Wallbank MRICS from Faithful + Gould for winning this year's Mentor of the Year award.
Tom Wallbank, Director within Faithful + Gould who has people development high on his agenda. He has impacted on the success of many of the team giving candid and constructive feedback.
He provides encouragement and opportunities, majoring on developing presentation skills and confidence building. Tom takes a genuine interest in helping those early in their careers to identify strengths as well as gaps in experience in order to successfully progress to becoming chartered.
He invests his own time to guide and support team members and is very humbled by positive feedback when mentoring staff; seeing this as being part of his job role and his contribution to the profession.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
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Diana Kander is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the
Kauffman Foundation. Visit her blog on idea validation
at www.dianakander.com or follow her on twitter.
At age 25, Laura Sanko was a founding member of a startup that raised $3.5 Million from some world-famous investors and the Founder's Fund. The business model was simple: a website that rented high-end jewelry for special occasions for a fraction of the retail value of each piece. Three years later, the investment money was all gone and while the site continued to operate, it had failed to meet the investors' expectations. I sat down with Laura to figure out what went wrong.
Diana: What was the problem you were trying to solve?
Laura: We thought that women wished they could wear real diamonds on their wedding day and other special occasions, and that the only thing stopping them was that they couldn't afford purchasing the jewelry.
Diana: So you bought several really expensive pieces of jewelry and rented them out?
Laura: That's right. Our pieces ranged from a few thousand dollars in value to over fifty thousand. And you could rent them for your special occasion for as little as a hundred dollars.
Diana: This might be a silly question, but where did you keep all those diamonds?
Laura: Actually, I kept most of them in my apartment. Our investors thought a New York City presence was important, so I moved out there. I was the only one in New York for a while and I had to travel around the country for TV segments and conferences, so I would regularly be carrying around up to five hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry.
Diana: Wow. Were you nervous carrying all those diamonds around?
Laura: I got used to it. Traveling was always interesting, especially if you were selected for a security screening. I learned quickly that you can always ask for a private screening. Remember that…when you're traveling with six figures worth of diamonds.
Diana: (Laughing) That's very helpful advice, thank you. So back to the problem you were trying to solve. Did you do anything to test your assumption before you went to the investors or bought all those diamonds?
Laura: Not really. We did a lot of research and had a ton of comparable examples for each of our assumptions, but our first real test was launching our site.
Diana: So what did you learn after launching the site?
Laura: We learned that it was really difficult to gain customer trust for high-end jewelry rental online. We got a lot of very positive publicity and were strong at getting traffic to the site and getting visitors to put something in their shopping cart, but we had an extremely difficult time converting them into paying customers. Some of the visitors thought it was a scheme, some were worried about losing the diamonds, and many weren't convinced why real diamonds were better than fake ones.
Diana: So how did you try to get past this setback?
Laura: We tried all kinds of design changes to improve conversion on the site, but they didn't seem to make a big difference. So we resolved to partner or advertise with the large, well-known players in the wedding industry and hope that they would lend us their credibility and help convince the marketplace that we were a smart decision.
Diana: Did that work?
Laura: Not really. The wedding industry turned out to be a lot more fragmented than we thought. The large, well-known companies in the industry just weren't able to lend us the credibility we needed to increase conversions.
Diana: So then what?
Laura: We had already gone through a lot of our investment dollars, but we thought our only option was to have a personal interaction with the customers. So we opened a physical location in New York City.
Diana: How did the physical location work out?
Laura: It was really strong. Our ability to convert visitors to the physical store into paying customers was very high, but we only had one store and the foot traffic was limited. Maybe if we had implemented the physical location earlier in our lifecycle things would have been different, but at that point, we didn't have the capital to scale the physical locations, and the investors didn't have the appetite to invest more money and make a big gamble on the small success we saw at the physical store.
Diana: So what happened to the company?
Laura: We eventually just ran out of money. Our CTO decided to keep running the site on his own at a smaller scale than what we were trying to accomplish. And the rest of the team disbursed throughout the country.
Diana: When did you know your concept was in trouble?
Laura: (Smiles). There's a pretty clear moment in my mind. We were having trouble increasing sales past a certain baseline and money was running out, so we started trying more and more extreme marketing tactics to try to get ourselves back on track. We hired a company to make a viral video about us. The company said they could virtually guarantee 300,000+ views on the video because of some proprietary technology and viral video formula they had come up with. They charged $60,000 for their services. And our team thought that was a small price to pay for the hundreds of thousands of bride email addresses we would collect and the publicity we would receive. I really didn't like this idea. I tried to explain to our team how hard it was to create a viral video but I was the only one opposed to the concept.
Laura showed me the video. It was a "Pimp my bride" contest offering a makeover to brides on their wedding day in exchange for their contact info. It was really hard to watch. The cinematography and acting resembled a bad B movie from the 80s and it needlessly made fun of southerners, and for some odd reason, George W. Bush. The video was posted to youtube in February of 2009, and at the time of my viewing in 2012 it had 275 views. Not 275 thousand. Just 275.
Laura: That's when I knew. I knew that we had run out of runway to make sober strategic decisions and we were now just hoping to get lucky with marketing ideas. I really believed in this idea. I think it provided a valuable service and with additional capital, it could have been successful.
Diana: So what was your biggest takeaway from this experience?
Laura: I learned that you need to treat investor money like it's your personal money, because otherwise you are going to substantially cut down your runway (the amount of time and money you have to get your business to take off). I think we could have had another 2 years of trying to make it work if we had been more careful with the money. And it wasn't like there were any extravagant expenses that did us in, it was the little decisions to overnight a business package when standard shipping would work. It was the office space we could have grown into rather than the smallest amount of space we needed. It was death by a thousand paper cuts. With more discipline over our use of resources, we could have made all the same marketing mistakes, and had time to bounce back. But instead, just as we started seeing positive traction in the physical location, we ran out of money.
Laura's experience is not uncommon. Many startups raise money before they've had an opportunity to test their assumptions. As a result, they spend the money validating their ideas instead of using it to execute a sound business model. Startups are all about runway. Almost all startup failures are the result of founders running out of resources to keep pursuing their ideas. The more runway you can give your startup, the greater your chances of success. Laura's experience could have been a lot different if she and her team just had an extra year of capital or – more specifically – if they had tested some of their assumptions before spending their investors' money.
For the last two years, Laura has been training as a mixed martial artist full time. Today, she has an amateur record of 4-1 and is three months away from her first professional fight. She is also launching a new company, Grassy Pants, a locally raised, grass fed, ground steak company.
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Just a small post to share what my kids are giving to their school teachers this year as school is coming to an end. I found this cute "orange you glad it's summer" printable here, found an orange insulated tumbler at the grocery store, and filled it up with a variety of crystal light drink mixes along with a hand-made card from my child. I also wrote a short note to the teacher on the back of the orange tag expressing my appreciation.
Happy summer vacation!


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BOSTON - Teenagers sprang up and overhead, their bodies buoyed by the hands of their peers, the crowd-surfing stopped only by the hulking bouncers at the edge of the stage, as the young punk band SWMRS tore into their racing rock anthem �D�you Have A Car� Thursday night at Paradise Rock Club.
�D'you got a car? D'you got a set of keys? Tell me where you're going. Is there room for me?� sang the Oakland, California, band's co-leader, Cole Becker, his hair dyed black and wearing a janitor-style jumpsuit.
Band members, ages 22 to 24, include lead guitarist and singer Cole Becker, his older brother Max (also lead vocals and guitar), drummer Joey Armstrong (he's the son of Green Day�s Billie Joe Armstrong) and Seb Mueller (bass). Their latest album, �Drive North,� was released in February 2016.
With �D�you Have A Car,� about suffocating from loneliness and isolation, Cole sang over a driving beat that became more frenzied after each verse until he finally screamed, �Do you got a heart? Do you got an empty seat? Take me driving bloody somewhere, set me free.�
Armstrong and the Becker brothers have known each other since Cole and Joey were 4. As 9-year-olds, they started a band together called Emily�s Army after they were inspired by the 2003 film "School of Rock."
�What was really cool about that movie, too, was that they wrote their own songs,� Cole told Entertainment Weekly in 2016. �From the outset we were always like, �We�re going to write our own songs, that�s what real bands do.�
They write their own songs and they write their own rules. The band is also taking on a timely important topic. At the Paradise show, after singing �Miss Yer Kiss,� a chilled-down pop song about a one-night stand he hopes will turn into a romance, Cole told concertgoers that they �better [expletive] listen.�
"We can�t keep tolerating sexual assault at shows,� he yelled. �If someone�s groping you, you have full permission to turn around and punch that [expletive] in the face.�
Free "zines" denouncing sexual assault and harassment were offered at the band's merch table. Partly scrawled in pen and partly typed, the printed material included advice on what to do as a victim of sexual assault, such as �Yell! Make it known! Expose the abuser!� and instructions on �How to punch an abuser.�
The zine also included message from an anonymous �femme who works at venues (and grew up in the punk scene).�� �From creepy old men blatantly trying to get in my pants, to guys in their early 20s, subliminally hitting on me in a predatory way, it was rampant,� the message said. �I was groped at shows. I was taken advantage of.�
The zine encouraged victims of assault to flag down band members during the show so they could intervene. SWMRS also set up a �safety line� email, email@example.com, as another way for concertgoers to make the abuse known.
Cole expressed frustration with such criminal behavior at concerts. �You people � 22 and younger, the adults have done the best they can [expletive] do, and it�s still [expletive],� Cole said. �So we need to get creative. You�re strong and powerful.�
Leading up to their defiant, pounding rock track, �Uncool,� about getting �drunk on image� instead of staying true to yourself, Cole declared messages of equality and self-love.
�Disabled lives matter. Trans lives matter. Black and brown lives matter,� he said. �This song is about being proud of whoever the [expletive] you are.�
SWMRS also performed the scornful, screaming, �Drive North,� a sonic middle finger to Los Angeles -- �I hate the Dodgers! I hate the Lakers!� and that night, �I hate the Yankees!�� �Turn Up� was a sweet wistful head-bopper sung by Max Becker, about having limited time with a crush, and listening to music together.
�So turn the music up louder, girl / I know we only got an hour, girl / Before I leave you for a long, long time / And I really wanna make you mine,� he sang.
In the middle of the show, Cole expressed his feelings about the impact of music and the community it creates.
�If you remember nothing else, remember this: rock 'n' roll and real music are not gonna solve your problems, but they will help you to figure them out,� he said. "So sing with us.�
SWMRS's set was sandwiched between performances by fellow California bands The Regrettes and The Interrupters. Learn more about SWMRS at www.swmrs.com.