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On April 19, I sent a letter to the Maine Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, asking members to take action to provide Maine drivers with a safer and more pleasurable driving experience.
Speeding is ubiquitous. Running red lights, tailgating, unnecessary passing in breakdown lanes (often near pedestrian crossings), failure to utilize headlights and adjust speed for varying conditions, ignoring and refusing to obey posted speed limits — all are rampant infractions.
Drivers could take the responsibility to obey the rules of the road, and avoid greater government/law enforcement intervention. It's not too late, but it's got to be one or the other.
Barring those alternatives, throw the book away and let anarchy reign. At least we'd know the score.
There are places where it is almost agony to drive the speed limit, but if you're driving, you obey the law.
Vehicles weigh several tons. They are not bicycles or motorcycles. If drivers are unhappy with posted speed limits, then take action to get the speed limits changed.
I have proposed methods to enforce the laws that would be cost-effective, including using public-service announcements.
Meanwhile, I want a bumper sticker stating: "I'm doing the speed limit. If you don't like the limit, contact the Legislature."
Margaret Trout
Data in gun story doesn't back misleading headlines
I recently moved back to Maine and looked forward to resubscribing to the Press Herald. I missed it while I was gone. It was always, to me, a fairly balanced news source, untainted by too much sway to either the left of the right.
Apparently, though, something happened while I was gone. You've moved decidedly left, and I'm not talking about your editorial opinions. Rather, the news is slanted.
The story April 19 by Nedra Pickler of The Associated Press was headlined "President, momentum outgunned by the NRA," with the subhead: "The passion of its members foiled new gun-control efforts despite public support and outrage over mass killings."
I read the story and tried very hard to find the data in support of the assertions in those titles. What happened was that a gun control bill was defeated because not enough senators voted for it, plain and simple.
Characterizing it as something engineered by a select few (the National Rifle Association) and accomplished in spite of the supposed majority (public support and outrage) is pure supposition.
If this were on the editorial page, I wouldn't bother to speak up because that is what it is: editorializing.
You have gone beyond the simplicity of reporting the who, what, where and when to formulate the why. You somehow have gotten into the heads and hearts of not only the senators to discern why they voted the way they did, but also the heads of the public to suggest that you know better than we what we are thinking.
This is just one example. There are others.
And please don't mistake this as a diatribe against gun control. It isn't. It is simply an appeal for you to report the facts and resist telling me how I ought to feel and think about those facts. Please.
Skip Simonds
Wind turbines undermine land values, quality of place
As rural hills and mountaintops in Maine are being rapidly developed by the wind industry, we must give thought to the impacts these projects have on Maine's tourism industry and on local property values.
Below is an excerpt from a letter submitted to the Department of Environmental Protection by Rainer and Gaby Engle of Switzerland, who bought their "American dream getaway" in Lincoln a few years ago.
The DEP is considering granting a permit to First Wind to build an industrial wind facility on mountain ridges overlooking the Downeast Lakes region.
The Engles know first-hand what kind of impact the Rollins wind project has had on the value of lakefront property in the nearby Lincoln Lakes region.
Their well-kept, attractive cabin is just three feet from the water's edge at Upper Pond, and the property has 550 feet of shore frontage.
Once the Rollins project was built, the owners faced 21 turbines — the sounds and sights of which dominated their lakeside experience. They lost their enjoyment in the property and listed their property for sale.
The Engles state, "We try (sic) to sell our camp since almost 2 years now: but no one is inquiring, since no one wants to see industry. One comes to Maine for nature and recreation. Getting away …"
What happens when a high-impact industrial facility creates, in essence, a "taking" of our property values — for some, our only investment?
"Quality of place" is a big selling point in Maine. What happens when the quality of place disappears?
Karen Bessey Pease
Lexington Township
Hospital payback deprives poor Mainers of state aid
You and I know that the math in budgets is about as simple as it gets — addition and subtraction will do. So what is the government's problem?
It appears to have something to do with priorities. The government is stuck on priorities. Perhaps the ordinary citizens in Maine could share their secret priority system.
Our first priority is putting food on the table for our families. With that priority and you face rising costs in food, gas for the car, heat and more, you know there is not enough income.
Ordinary citizens look for ways to increase their income because food on the table is first.
Family is first. There isn't enough money to sustain our families — a second or third job is required, in part because our hourly wages are lower than other states', requiring us to take more time to produce enough cash to feed our families.
Ordinary citizens sometimes don't pay their debts because they need the money for food. Sometimes they don't pay the mortgage, but pay the car debt because they need a car to get the family to doctors or school.
Family-first budgeters don't understand why the government would choose to pay off a large, mortgage-like hospital debt and allow poor members of Maine's family to go hungry.
It is hard to understand how government chooses a potentially suspect debt (see Time magazine's article "Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us") to pay off, instead of honoring the promised funds for schools.
I know hospitals had agreed to the annual payments and budgeted accordingly.
Where is the honor in choosing to speed up payment to corporations, while lowering promised education payments?
Where is the honor in not increasing the income stream, as is done by poor working families?
It is really simple math. Add income, pay down debt and keep food on the table for families in Maine.
Jarryl Larson
Feiner's writing draws on opinions, not on the facts
It was interesting that Susan Feiner's latest caustic rant ("Women and children last") was on the front page of the Insight section of the Telegram's April 21 edition.
I do wish, in the interest of full disclosure, that you label, in large bold print, her future essays as politically biased opinions, rather than factual reporting on an issue of the day. Obviously, "balance" is not a word in her vocabulary.
Perhaps it might be better, in the interest of objective discussion, to find another contributing author, rather than continuing to provide a forum for someone with obvious disdain for a substantial percentage of the reading public — that being those holding different points of view.
Robert H. Smith
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When reading through the inspiration for Le Challenge I thought that I'd use the perfect piece of fabric that was in the Goody Bag from FQR London last year. It was a small piece of lovely Art Gallery fabric which reminded me of a kimono.
I used the pattern from Homespun Magazine issue 15.1 for the little Kokeshi Doll. The pattern had 3 strung on a string, but I only had enough fabric for one.
I used a different fabric to line her sleeves. Each of the dolls has a different hair style, but this was my favourite. She is only 6 inches tall but has a big personality!
The pattern is available in the Melly and Me shop and includes a cuddle size mama Kokeshi.
I would have loved to make something from this Japanese book that I got at the Cowslip Workshop Christmas fair for £1 ... But it will be more of a long term project as it's quite complicated. I googled the isbn number and eventually found out that this type of Japanese reversible patchwork is called Orinuno. I will have a go at it as it is all done by hand and so it will be a good portable project for me.
Linking up with Le Challenge ... Why don't you pop over and check out what Lucy and Nat have made, as well as the other links.
Also linking with the Slow Bloggers as I'm averaging less than one a month at the moment as Instagram seems so much quicker, but I appreciate that not everyone is on IG. Also I can't leave links on IG either.
Moira is hosting the Slow Bloggers this month.


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Roy Rockwell's tribute to Bo Jones' venerable modified roadster
Some say you would've had to live through the '60s to understand what Bo Jones' modified-style T meant when it came out. I say otherwise.
First, I've seen the pictures. Stance and wheel fit were the most common shortcomings with rods of the era, but more than just tires stuck out. At odds with the cars' upright and conservative body shapes were the wild colors and psychedelic motifs often applied to them.
Second, I've seen Roy Rockwell's modified. Cast in the same mold as Jones', it has all the right distinguishing features: the colors, the pizza-cutter wheels, the jaunty stance, and an old-timey flavor that stops just short of clich.
But that's not to say one's a clone of the other. Roy found creative space within the design's narrow confines–quite literally, in fact. As Jones did, Roy started with the front half of a late Model T touring–at least parts from three tourings, anyway. Mike Smith at Fosses' Hot Rods and Cool Cars narrowed that body. Only instead of cutting it down the foot or more that Jones did, Smith stopped at a passenger-friendly 8-1/2 inches.
Fosses fabricated a chassis in the likeness of a T, parallel from rectangular tubing. From the cowl forward it's open to the elements; however, behind that it disappears behind a mock bellypan. The framerails emerge at a steep angle immediately behind the cab and meet at a round-tube crossmember.
The rear suspension is fairly conventional: shortened '35-36 radius rods bolted to similar-vintage axle bells but split to meet the framerails. Only the rear spring doesn't mount on the radius rods behind the axle. Instead it mounts spring-over style to homespun perches welded atop the axlehousing ends a la Model A.
The front suspension is a little less than conventional. Like the rear it consists of '35-40 rear radius rods, only these have front wishbone perches welded to their ends. The spring arrangement is every bit as unorthodox: It consists of parallel quarter-elliptic leaf springs tucked into the chassis on one end and pinned to the axle vis–vis shackles on the other. Jones used a stretched and chromed Deuce axle, but given their rarity and relative expense nowadays Roy specified a painted Super Bell. All said and done, 100 inches separates the front axle from the rear.
At face value the 1.8L Mazda engine Roy employed seems an odd choice for a hot rod but then again the car that inspired him ran an engine just as unlikely in its day: a Chevy II. But it made a bit of sense: At the time Model Tpowered cars similar to Jones' were thriving as hill climbers. Only to get them to produce the 90 hp the Chevy turned out in stock form required exotic obsolete parts, speed secrets to fill a book, and a guardian angel to help not if but when it broke.
The Mazda engine, on the other hand, makes 133 hp. If you're into irony, get this: that's 43 more horsepower than the Chevy II despite a 43ci handicap. In old-world bragging rights that's about 1.2 hp per cubic inch.
The matching transmission has five closely spaced gear ratios that promise to exploit that engine's powerband to a far greater degree than the Powerglide in Jones' car could dream of. And if that isn't enough, consider that Roy bought his the same way Jones did: for peanuts from a wrecking yard.
Once Smith fabricated the aluminum hood and false bellypan sides, Jason Hill at Fosses shot the car in its trademark orange, only this time in PPG Concept-Series urethane. Smith also fabricated the seat pans before turning the car over to Charlie Rowell at Holcomb Upholstery for distressed-leather trim.
Roy is quick to point out that he didn't clone Jones' legendary T modified. That much is obvious in the specific parts he used; the two cars are different.
At the same time they're incredibly alike. Both cars were built from authentic parts where visible and convenient ones where not. Both builders nailed something so many people overlook when they endeavor to clone a car: its spirit. Jones' car wasn't so much a clone of a particular car as it was a recreation of the jaunty cut down that made prewar racing exciting.
In that sense you wouldn't have to have lived the '60s to understand what Jones' modified meant. Roy's version sums it up perfectly


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Prospect Q&A: Wheeler dreaming big
Giant turned Met ready for the bright lights of New York City
By Ashley Marshall / Special to MLB.com | January 25, 2012 5:09 AM
Acquired by the New York Mets in the deal that sent outfielder Carlos Beltran to the San Francisco Giants in July, the right-hander figures to play a key role in the team's rebuilding efforts over the coming years.
Wheeler went 9-7 with a 3.52 ERA and 129 strikeouts over 115 innings between Class A Advanced San Jose and St. Lucie last year. The 21-year-old made six starts in the Florida State League after joining the Mets, and it's likely he will move up to Double-A Binghamton in 2012.
MiLB.com talked with Wheeler about growing up in a sporting family, learning about baseball from his brothers and ironing out the creases in his mechanics.
MiLB.com: The 2011 season marked your second year as a pro. What did you take from the campaign?
Zack Wheeler: I think I developed my off-speed stuff. That came from my pitching coach at San Jose, Brian Cooper, who really just pounded the mental side of baseball into all of the pitchers there, and it showed because some of them were the best in the league.
I was thinking about it like I had never thought about it before. He helped me develop my slider and curve. Like on the curveball, just getting my fingers in front of the ball instead of on the side so it's actually a legit curveball. It helped me out tons.
MiLB.com: Considering the work you've been doing with your breaking pitches, how would you rate your slider and curve compared with your fastball?
Wheeler: I'd never been able to throw a curve ball or anything really. I threw a pretty good one in high school, scouts said, but once you get up to where I am now people will be hitting it. My fastball is my best pitch and it's up in the air after that. I throw the curve ball at certain times and I throw the slider at certain times.
They're both pretty good now. I can use my curve for strike three or I could use it to set a guy up early in the count and then come back with a harder slider or a fastball. I hope to be able to use it a bunch of different ways. That's what I'm trying to figure out right around now so that I can be prepared later on.
MiLB.com: What do you still need to do with your curve to get it ready for the season?
Wheeler: I need to work on location, that's about it. The pitch is how I want it. It doesn't have a huge loop, but it has a lot of break. It comes in on the same plane as my fastball. I just need to learn how to locate it whenever I want. It's not like I'm not throwing it for strikes, I just want to be able to locate it better.
I also want to work with my changeup a lot more to keep my walks down. For about two games before I left San Jose -- and all the time in Port St. Lucie -- I went back to my old mechanics that I was using in high school and I think it showed. My [pitches per] inning went down, but my strikeout numbers stayed the same and my strikeout-to-walk ratio was better. I think it's going to help going back to those mechanics.
MiLB.com: What's the difference between your high school mechanics and the motion you were using at the start of last year?
Wheeler: Before, the Giants had me slow down. I'm a tall lanky guy, so if I slow down, my arms start dragging. I might be out in front of myself, but my arms are dragging behind me so the ball is high or my curve is just loopy or whatever. When I went back to my old mechanics, everything just flowed a lot easier. I bring my hands up higher, I bring my knee up higher and everything flows together.
It comes out of my hand easy and it has movement. Before, I had the same velocity, but the ball was straight so people were hitting it and I couldn't figure out why. Then finally I just thought I should go back to my old stuff.
MiLB.com: When you were slowing down, did that make it harder to hit a consistent release point?
Wheeler: It made everything difficult. Whenever you slow down your mechanics, it slows your arm down. I had the same velocity, but mentally while I was doing it I was counting "one ... two ... three" all throughout my motion, and that's hard to do when you're out there trying to pitch and throw. You don't want to be thinking about your mechanics, you just want to let it come naturally.
MiLB.com: From the discussions you've had with your new coaches, do you have a sense of how the Mets would like you to progress over the coming season?
Wheeler: When I first got there, they told me to do whatever I did at the end with the Giants. They said they just wanted to sit back and watch me and learn about me. They wanted to learn what I do and what I need to work on. They're going to come back and let me know what to work on in Spring Training.
They told me to keep doing whatever I'm doing -- keep the same throwing program and the same running program -- and then we can try to learn about each other. I think it's going to be really good. We have a lot of really good pitchers and position players coming up, and I think we can help out in the next couple of years. It's something to look forward to. It makes you want to work a little harder. It should be fun.
MiLB.com: What message do you have for the Mets fans who maybe aren't too enthusiastic for the 2012 season?
Wheeler: I mean, it's baseball, stuff happens. Teams go through tough times, but fans have to hang in there and stay positive. Maybe this year the team will shock the fans and be good. You never know what's going to happen over the next few years. Just be ready.
MiLB.com: Take me back to the day you got drafted. What do you remember about that?
Wheeler: It was crazy. I remember getting ready at my house with all my friends and family, and we went to this place called Stars and Stripes, which is like a family place which has bowling and video games and stuff. We were all sitting in this room and I had my Little League baseball coaches and coaches that I had played for over the summers there and all that.
It was just a special time. It's all like a blur, but I remember stuff every day. I've been thinking about it lately, I don't know why, but I have. It was a lot of fun, and there was a little team from around this area up there having a team party and they came over even though they didn't know me. It was fun.
MiLB.com: Did you have an expectations of where you were going to be drafted?
Wheeler: We sort of had a clue that I could go anywhere from four to seven, but I knew I wasn't likely to go past the Braves because they always take the hometown kid. We sort of had a clue, but we didn't know if the Giants were going to pass on me or not, but we thought they might get me.
Having that idea in my head that I wasn't going to fall past seven was a really good feeling. Of course, like 28 of the 30 teams contacted me throughout high school, only two didn't, but I don't remember which two.
MiLB.com: How did you react when the Giants took you sixth overall?
Wheeler: It was a shock. Growing up, I never would have thought that I would be able to do that. My brother got drafted in '01 so we sort of had a clue, but back then, we were listening to the Draft over the Internet, so it was a different situation. Once he went away for a year or two and then came back and started helping me out, I felt like I was ahead of the game because he had learned from Doc Gooden and all them. I was just going into high school, so I felt like I was ahead of the game mentally.
MiLB.com: Were you ever competitive with your brothers?
Wheeler: Not really. I was always too young. I have two older brothers and I am the youngest of the three. Adam (28) is the middle brother and Jacob (30) is the oldest, and they're two years apart so they would always play around together. They would be playing basketball on the driveway and I would always want to join in, but I was too small. So they would give me a whistle and make me stand there and be the ref.
I was always just hanging out with them -- they had me dribbling a basketball, throwing baseballs and switch-hitting when I was 2. It was fun.
MiLB.com: What did you learn most about baseball from Adam?
Wheeler: It was the mental side of it, really. Just going out there and thinking that nobody can hit you. It sort of sounds cocky, but that is how you have to feel when you're out there. You have to compete and be strong. If somebody hits a home run off you, you just have to be, "Oh well it's one home run, let's go -- let's get the next guy."
That was the biggest part that I got from him in high school. Then he came back and helped me out with my mechanics, and that's where I am right now. He helped me out a lot and told me what to expect with the teams and the bus rides and things like that. I was ready for it.
MiLB.com: What early baseball memories do you have from your childhood?
Wheeler: My brothers were always there to support me, that was the main thing. We would be in the backyard before they went to their Little League games when I was like 3 years old, just this little kid. I would put on these huge shin guards that were for a grown person and a chest protector and a mask and they would just throw the ball at me because I wanted to get hit by it every day.
We always played around during the summers and just hang out at the house playing sports all day. They always played high school ball, so I'd go to those games, and then Adam got drafted and I'd go visit him and watch his games. I always just loved my family and looked up to them.
MiLB.com: And you're also a college football fan. How much of that was because of your brother?
Wheeler: The University of Michigan, yeah, I love them. My brother grew up liking them, I think, because of their colors. We had no ties to the North or anything. Like I said, I have always looked up to my brothers and I just followed them and started liking them. Next offseason, I want to go to a game. I want to go to the Alabama game at Texas Stadium, the first game of next year. It should be fun.
MiLB.com: When did you know you wanted to play baseball for a living?
Wheeler: Probably when I was 13 or 14. I couldn't make a travel team to save my life. I wasn't throwing hard and I was sort of short and skinny before I hit my growth. I was probably a little below-average baseball player and nobody wanted me on their team. And then going into my 16-year-old summer, I got on with the East Cobb Astros which is like the No. 1 team in East Cobb and that's what started it all off.
Once I made that team -- it's elite in that age group and they beat 17- and 18-year-olds -- once I made that team, it boosted my confidence. Since then I took off and I realized that I could do it for a living. I was so determined about getting drafted and playing baseball for my career, I just worked hard every offseason. I would work out three times a week, putting on muscle, throwing and working hard and that paid off.
MiLB.com: You seem pretty active on Twitter. What's it like interacting with fans in this way?
Wheeler: It's always fun hearing people's thoughts and people's questions. It's not always about baseball, sometimes random questions. Coke or Pepsi? I know they want to know about me, the little stuff. I've got time on my hands, so why not answer some questions? It's fun.
MiLB.com: I heard a story that when you got traded to the Mets. Did your number of Twitter followers exploded?
Wheeler: Yeah. I went from San Jose where they have an awesome fan base and they are die-hard and they love their players. I had like 3,500 followers which is pretty good, but as soon as I got traded my phone started blowing up and I had to hurry up and turn off that email from Twitter that tells you every time you get a new follower.
It was just blowing up. I got back on two hours later, and people were asking me so many questions about the trade. I had like 7,000 followers and I was like, "Oh my gosh, I guess I am with a New York team now. Everybody loves me."
Ashley Marshall is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Four of our top ten Most Anticipated Movies of 2011 - Thor, X-Men: First Class, Green Lantern, and the first place-ranking Captain America: The First Avenger - are comic book movies that all arrive in theaters this summer. We've gotten to see footage from all four films, and debates are already raging over the actors/actresses cast, character portrayals, costumes, visual F/X, action sequences - you name the detail, it's already been analyzed to death.
So here comes the big one question: Which one of these films looks the best? Which one appears to feature the best acting, direction, story, characters, and stands out above the rest as the best superhero movie of Summer 2011?
We could spend all day talking about which of these films appears to be the most loyal to the source material, but the convoluted nature of these superheroes' mythologies makes that discussion tricky, to put it mildly. So I will be focusing specifically on how these films look based off the previously-released footage, previews, and trailers.
To refresh your memory, check out all the trailers, previews, and clips released for these films at their respective links below:
- Thor (Theatrical Trailer #1) (Theatrical Trailer #2) (Super Bowl Trailer) (TV Spots) (1st Clip)
- X-Men: First Class (Theatrical Trailer #1) (Russian Theatrical Trailer)
- Green Lantern (Theatrical Trailer #1) (WonderCon footage)
- Captain America (Super Bowl Trailer) (Theatrical Trailer #1)
I will be focusing on three aspects of each film, as they are presented (briefly) in the previews - namely, the main/supporting characters, the action/effects, and the story as a whole.
The Characters
All four of these movies boast an impressive collection of leading men, ladies, sidekicks, and villains, and a couple minutes of footage can't do justice to all (if any) of them. Based off what has been shown to us, which of these motion pictures looks to have the best cast of characters so far?
The Thor footage has done a nice job of illustrating the complex and multi-layered nature of the Asgardians (Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Anthony Hopkins as Odin, and Tom Hiddleston as Loki), but the regular Earthlings seem all the less interesting and one-dimensional in comparison. To be fair, though, Natalie Portman, Kat Dennings, and Stellan Skarsgård haven't gotten to do much of anything so far - save fleeing in terror, looking confused by Thor's behavior, and (in Denning's case) providing comic relief.
All the same, this is (of course) foremost the God of Thunder's story, and Hemsworth is the one who really needs to sell Thor's transformation from an arrogant warrior to a more humble hero in order for this film to work - and so far, it looks like he's done a pretty good job of just that.
X-Men: First Class previews have so far focused on the relationship at the heart of the film: the bond between the young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender). There have been brief hints about the personal conflicts and issues that supporting players like Beast (Nicholas Hoult) or Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) will have to deal with, but nothing substantial enough to really pass judgement on just yet.
Much like the success of Thor rests in part on Hemsworth's shoulders, McAvoy and Fassbender really have to pull off the difficult friendship between young Professor X and Magneto for X-Men: First Class to be engaging - and early signs indicate they've done just that.
Green Lantern's WonderCon trailer has really turned the tide of negative buzz this pic's been riding on since the first trailer premiered. Now we've gotten a solid glimpse of Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, and concerns that the character will come off as Reynolds doing his goofy but charming schtick have abated.
While we haven't seen much of players like Carol Ferris (Blake Lively) or Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard) yet, Green Lantern Corps members like Tomar-Re (voice of Geoffrey Rush), Sinestro (Mark Strong), and Abin Sur (Temuera Morrison) all appear readily distinguishable and interesting, with respect to their personalities. That's definitely a good thing in my book.
If Reynolds deserves credit for not doing his customary bit as Hal Jordan, then Chris Evans really ought to get props for ditching his usual comical bend as Steve Rogers in Captain America. The character seems quite genuine so far, like someone who earnestly wants and deserves the chance to help the world - and while that sort of do-good attitude won't be to everyone's tastes, Evans looks to have nailed it.
A shout out should go to Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) as well, since she seems a very active figure who's more than just a love interest for the hero (I'm still skeptical about Portman's Thor character in that regard). Tommy Lee Jones as Col. Phillips seems rock-steady as always, but we haven't really gotten to see Hugo Weaving as Red Skull yet; still, it's hard to imagine him not making a fantastic villain.
Verdict: This one is a close call, but for now I'm going to give X-Men: First Class the lead - with both Captain America and Thor being close behind.
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Born in 1976 in Oklahoma City to a bass player father and a piano player mother, David Paul Bowen came into music by birth. David determined his career path of drumming after witnessing the drum battle between Buddy Rich and Animal on The Muppet Show in 1979.
Later that same year, 3 year old David happened across a pair of sticks mistakenly left in his living room by the famous Carmine Appice, which he slyly hid from his parents beneath his mattress. At age 5, David's parents finally grew wary of his incessant banging on everything within reach, from pots and pans to furniture, so they decided to place him in drum lessons covering the basic fundamentals of drumming to give him a better outlet for his obviously budding talent. By age 11, David had already begun performing in various bands - noteably, the Bessie Masopust and the Jerry Kaplan Polka Bands.
Over the next several years, David continued his lessons and also began to study jazz drumming under the keen eyes of his junior high and high school band directors, Mrs. Jenny Rucker and Mr. Wayne Coon, respectively. Devoting his studies to only jazz at this time, David honed his skills playing every gig he could, from dance bands to cover bands to dinner sets with jazz trios.
At age 18, armed with prodigious versatility, playing dexterity and polished reading skills, David set out to pursue higher education. Though he was recruited to several schools including the University of North Texas and Wichita State University, David decided to honor his Oklahoman roots and accepted a full scholarship to the University of Cental Oklahoma. UCO provided him the oportunity to study with some of the region's best educators and musicians, including Dr. Kent Kidwell, Mr. Lee Rucker, Ms. K. Dean Walker and Mr. Mike Walker. During his freshman year, David took a one semester sabbatical to study in Los Angeles with Tonight Show drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith.
When he wasn't devoting his attention to UCO's jazz, concert and marching bands, David co-led and played with fellow students in a jazz group named Inside Outfluence. Both David and the group as a whole performed at various jazz festivals including the Wichita Jazz Festival, the Edmond Jazz Festival and Norman Oklahoma's Jazz in June, as well as numerous summer workshops with such artists as Phil Woods, Slide Hampton and Dave Pietro (to name a few.)
Once his time ended at UCO, David went on to freelance throughout Oklahoma and Texas with various jazz groups. He was then recruited to New York by saxophonist Peter Yellin (Buddy Rich, Tito Puente, Joe Henderson) to attend Long Island University in Brooklyn. While in New York, David played with many legends and studied with various artists such as Carl Allen, Ralph Peterson, Jimmy Heath and many more.
David eventually dropped out of LIU to pursue music education via clubs and the street scene, but he ultimately grew exhausted and financially depleted, so he obtained a gig playing in the Carnival Cruise Lines show band with fellow UCO alum Zac Lee for 18 months. David then decided to return to Oklahoma to follow up on a few personal endeavors, which led him to working in retail and teaching at Mars Music.
When the doors closed at Mars, David (having no idea what to do) was called by fellow musicians and long-time friends Cross Canadian Ragweed to help out a friend of theirs in need of a drummer, Bleu Edmondson. David toured with the Bleu Edmondson Band for the next 3 1/2 years, playing shows for up to 100,000 screaming country and alternative country fans. After recording "One Voice - the Live Album" (over 10,000 copies sold) and "Lost Boy" with the BEB, David moved on to a world-wide tour with Stoney LaRue and the Arsenals.
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Wow, it is already December! Less than a month until 2013! What a year it has been.
I thought it was time to kick off the Christmas season with a little tea for you and me.
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By Jordan Burchette, Special to CNN • Updated 17th December 2012
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If the last several years have taught us anything, it's that the world is in constant flux. Regimes topple, borders are redrawn, whole countries are born anew.
While the fighters are remaking their world, however, the lovers are evidently stuck in the 1800s. Ask anyone what the world's most romantic cities are and they'll likely reply in kneejerk fashion, "Paris..." "Venice..." "New York..."
But what's so romantic about coffee breath, crumbling infrastructure and the smell of urine?
And what is romance, anyway? Is it a ride on a unicorn over a rainbow through a glitter storm? Or is it the excitation of the senses that forms the preamble for the box spring bustle?
Dispensing with the typical fairytale travel planning, we've opted for a more results-oriented approach to crowning the world's most romantic cities. Because while a romantic city should grab hold of your heart, it shouldn't stop there.
Sure, there's an element of magic to a romantic city, but that magic is supposed to beget love or at least the making thereof. And these cities are municipal Viagra.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Place: This former French colony on the Mississippi River offers all of the ornate architecture, rich food and freely flowing booze of Paris, without the Parisians.
But belying the carefree geniality of its gumbo of assorted peoples is a dark mantle of sinful abandon and occult worship that makes the Crescent City colorful, crass and occasionally creepy.
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People: Once the fifth-largest city in America, New Orleans has been content for decades to rest on its leisure laurels, promoting an atmosphere of laissez faire inhibition that provokes many visitors to spontaneous fits of nudity. Adjust gazes accordingly.
Things: The charm, fun and filth of the French Quarter; the mist and mystery of the bayou; the pomp and botany of the Garden District; the majesty of the mighty Mississippi.
Moscow, Russia
Place: Seldom included on lists of romantic things: fear. But it's an exciting feeling all the same, just one among many aroused in the former capital of communism.
It's all here: the derelict and the opulent, the authoritarian and the lawless, the oligarchic and the proletarian. Generations of strife and triumph abound: a Tzarist palace beside a Stalinist square beside a capitalist Starbucks.
People: Loving is romantic but fighting can be too, and Muscovites are historically adroit at both. For those who find romance in power, there's always plenty on display, as well as a notorious live-for-today attitude that has yet to find the envelope.
Things: The intellectual arousal of its late night bookstores; the metamorphosed grandeur of Gorky Park; old factories and warehouses transformed into galleries, clubs and performance spaces; countless monuments to lovers; vanishing vestiges of the Soviet era.
Victoria, Seychelles
Place: You know what's romantic? A beach. You know what's not romantic? Barf-discharging college kids, shrill children (shrilldren?) and sunburnt albinos in socks and sandals, making coastal mainstays like Phuket, Honolulu and the Bahamas as enchanting as hair on soap.
There's nothing more romantic than being as far from other people as possible, and no other capital city offers this kind of isolation with this kind of beachfront.
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Plus, the architecture of this former British colony often mimics that of its former empire. It's like they put England somewhere good.
People: It's 80 degrees (27 C) almost every day of the year -- warm and cool enough to keep clothes and sweating respectively minimal.
Things: The transcendence of its pristine beaches; the prehistoric beauty of Vallée de Mai (the reputed original Garden of Eden); the eroticism of moutya dancing, which increases as the rhythm quickens.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Place: Assimilating generations of native Argentines, German expats and Italian and Spanish immigrants, Buenos Aires is a petri dish of fiery European and South American culture.
But, contrasting their showier Brazilian brethren to the north, the flash and passion of Porteños simmers without boiling over, yielding a city renowned as much for art and architecture as it is for spherical backsides.
People: Porteños are an amorous lot, with some of that Parisian poutiness, only supplemented by actionable desire. It's a sentiment that often transfers osmotically to visiting tourists.
Things: The electrostatic sensuality generated by tango -- watched or danced; the lawns full of frisky youth at Tres de Febrero Park; the unparalleled showcase for the city's passion and potency that is soccer at La Bombanera. Also: always order the steak.
Amsterdam, Holland
Place: The canals of Venice. The art of Paris. The laws of Gomorrah. Even if you don't partake of the Dutch capital's approved vices, there's a romance that accompanies the freedom to do so.
You know what's not romantic? Bus fumes. Which is why anything in this city is accessible by boat, bike or boot.
People: The town is to professionals what Vegas and Bangkok are to amateurs, offering at the front door the sex and drugs everyone else keeps in back. Amsterdammers are the sinful world's grown-ups.
Things: The titillation of women twisting in the windows of the Red Light District; the puritanical eye of the RLD's carnal storm that is Oude Kerk ("old church"); 10 p.m. summer sunsets; a kiss under the Magere Brug ("skinny bridge"), ensuring fidelity.
Havana, Cuba
Place: Think old stuff is romantic? Well, it's still 1959 in the capital of Cuba, where the development -- and commercialism -- of the outside world has yet to sneak past the bouncers.
The resultant sensations of risk and antiquity in this forbidden time warp make romance unavoidable. So if you ever wanted to have sex in the 1950s, here's your chance -- but time's running out.
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People: Just about everyone in Havana is an artist of some kind, underscored by live music -- and dancing -- everywhere. While not as outwardly sexual as some Latin American capitals, this populace is as carnal as they come.
Things: The bars 'n' cigars of Hemingway's Havana; the intimacy of dinner at an in-home paladar; the unspoiled virginity of the Eastern Beaches; the fear- and awe-inspiring Plaza de la Revolución.
Barcelona, Spain
Place: If having nowhere to be is your idea of romance, the capital of Catalonia wins on two counts: it's easy to get happily lost and no one wakes up until 8 p.m.
Like Los Angeles or Sydney, Barcelona is dense, cultured and cosmopolitan, and is also a beach town, offering fickle lovers a broad romantic spectrum. One avenue that's no longer available to paramours? Public nudity. It was finally -- in some cases, mercifully -- banned in 2011.
People: Trend-centric, cocksure, proud and partying, Barcelonans will steal your heart if not your wallet.
Things: The weird feeling in one's pants upon beholding Gaudí architecture; the corpuscle of seemingly endless branching alleyways housing the galleries, cafés, bars, restaurants and museums of the Born neighborhood. No two trips are ever alike.
Paris, France
Place: OK. Fine. Hard as it is to admit, even the laziest "romantic cities" lists are right -- the Big Baguette is still among earth's most enchanting municipalities.
Paris is an urban engineering conundrum: its architecture all differs vastly, yet simultaneously adheres to a singular, uniform vision, making the world's most visited city also probably its most beautiful. There, we said it.
People: Pouty, self-righteous, indolent, aloof, tempestuous, hot. The contemptibility of Parisians is exceeded only by the self-hatred among those of us who lust for them.
Things: The stupid views of the entire city from Montmartre; the lousy majesty of the Champs-Élysées; the crummy uplifting Wall of "I Love You's"; the idiot engineering marvel of the Eiffel Tower; the rotten eroticism of Pigalle; the insufferable grandeur of the River Seine.
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With 31 beautiful colleges, choosing the right one for your event can be difficult. Whilst your event at King's will be special, here are a few ideas that will make your event really sparkle!
The King's Men and King's Voices
It's not often that you get that spine tingling feeling, but these world famous choirs manage to succeed the moment they start to sing. They are truly hypnotising and will give your guests a once in a life time experience that few get to see up front and personal.
In the past year, The King's Men (formerly Collegium Regale) have performed alongside high-profile artists such as rapper Dizzee Rascal. The choir are especially well known for the services, Carols from King's and A Festival of Nine Lessons, both broadcast on Christmas Eve.
King's Voices, the mixed voice choir of King's College, was founded in October 1997 under the direction of Dr John Butt (Director of Studies for Music at King's, 1997-2001) to give the women of King's the opportunity to contribute vocally to the musical life of the College.
They both have a varied repertoire, from fifteenth-century sacred music to folk-songs and pop songs, so they have songs for all occasions. They can provide anything from a Latin Grace to a full set.
The Chapel
King's College Chapel is one of the most iconic buildings in the world, and is a splendid example of late Gothic (Perpendicular) architecture. It was started in 1446 by Henry VI (1421-71) and took over a century to build. The Chapel is also the venue for the Christmas Eve service, A Festival of Nine Lessons, which is broadcast to millions around the world.
Let your guests wander at their leisure and enjoy this spectacular building. If your event is held during term time, you can hear the world famous King's College Choir sing Evensong at 5.30pm.
Why not choose one of our packages that include complimentary access to the Chapel?
Private tours
The blue and green badge guides from the Cambridge Tourist Office have many years of experience and knowledge of Cambridge. They can offer anything from a half an hour tour of King's College Chapel to a two-hour guided tour of Cambridge. See the Visit Cambridge website.
Organ recitals and concerts
Dating back to 1605 this beautiful organ, including the console, is invisible to the public. Treat your delegates to a mesmerizing organ recital performed by one of our highly talented organists – a great way to de-stress you and your delegates!
King's is a thriving venue for concerts performed by internationally-known artists as well as student music societies and local musicians. You can see a listing of events on the Events calendar.
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Chris Paul and Dwight Howard became free agents at 9:01 p.m. PT on Sunday.
At 9:02 p.m., all but a handful of NBA teams stopped daydreaming and resumed their pursuit of more realistic options.
If Paul and Howard represent the Rodeo Drive of this year's free-agent class, available to a select few, then there is still plenty of quality shopping to be done at nearby mega-malls.
Andrew Bynum, Al Jefferson and Nikola Pekovic are all available. And those are just some of the top centers.
"A lot of teams are going to be able to make some serious improvement," TNT analyst Greg Anthony said recently. "It's not going to be what you saw a couple of years ago when LeBron [James] and Dwyane Wade became free agents, but you're still talking about some significant pieces. There's a lot of guys out there who are going to have an impact and help change the fortune of a franchise."
Here's a look at the top five free agents at each position not named Paul or Howard:
Bynum: This could be a strike or a gutter ball for the team that lands the most intriguing-yet-infuriating player in recent memory. If his knee issues abate and he stays out of local bowling alleys, Bynum could be a franchise player. If not, he could be a huge bust.
Jefferson: As prolific as he has been the last six seasons, Jefferson remains somewhat underappreciated because he spent that time in Minnesota and Utah. A large-market team would be thrilled to make him one of the game's most recognized players.
Pekovic: Only 27, he is coming off a breakthrough season for Minnesota. The fact that he looks like a villain from a James Bond movie is a bonus.
Robin Lopez: The less heralded of the Lopez twins may never match his brother's offensive output, but last season with New Orleans, he more than doubled his scoring average from his final season in Phoenix.
Chris Kaman: His disappointing season with Dallas was more indicative of a bad fit with the Mavericks than of a skill set on the decline. In fact, his averages per 36 minutes were the best since he was an All-Star with the Clippers during the 2009-10 season.
Point guards
Brandon Jennings: The precocious scorer is improving at making the smart play, averaging a career high last season in assists (6.5). Imagine what he could do by the time he turns 25.
Mo Williams: Freed from life as Paul's backup, Williams showed last season he is still fully capable of being one of the league's better starters.
Kyle Lowry: Though he wasn't quite the revelation Toronto had envisioned, the dynamic playmaker retains plenty of upside.
Nate Robinson: His stirring playoff performance landed the super-sub onto the most-wanted list of numerous general managers.
Jose Calderon: Even at 31, one of the smartest players in the league remains a threat to log double digits in assists in every game.
Shooting guards
Monta Ellis: Who wouldn't want to add a player in his prime who has averaged 19.5 points per game in his career?
Kevin Martin: After coming off the bench for Oklahoma City, Martin will be wooed by plenty of teams interested in making him a starter again.
O.J. Mayo: Tip for those pursuing the former USC star: He likes large-screen televisions and free cellphone service.
Tyreke Evans: Onetime rookie of the year whose development has stalled still holds plenty of potential.
Manu Ginobili: He probably will take a steep discount after his epic playoff failures, making the borderline Hall of Famer a bargain.
Power forwards
Josh Smith: Perhaps the most coveted free agent besides Paul and Howard, Smith will meet only with team executives who arrive in Brink's trucks.
David West: Scoring and rebounding force will be an immediate pick-me-up for whatever lineup he joins.
Paul Millsap: A favorite of stat geeks and lowbrow fans alike, Millsap had a player efficiency rating last season higher than that of Howard, Dirk Nowitzki and Marc Gasol.
J.J. Hickson: A double-double machine as an undersized center for Portland, the possibilities are intriguing once he returns to his natural position.
Carl Landry: Productive reserve compensates for his lack of size with immense hustle.
Small forwards
Andre Iguodala: All he has to offer is lockdown defense, reliable scoring and a coach's feel for the game.
Andrei Kirilenko: The former All-Star showed he had plenty of game last season after one year out of the NBA.
Mike Dunleavy Jr.: Still one of the league's better shooters, Dunleavy retains some value despite athletic limitations.
Matt Barnes: His 30-point outburst in Clippers' final playoff game could have priced him out of a return to a team with limited spending power.
Kyle Korver: A player who made 45.7% of his three-pointers last season figures to have 100% chance of drawing interest from multiple teams.
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Two days after about 300-square-feet of brick pavers were stolen from a homeowner's driveway, Marion County sheriff's deputies on Thursday arrested a man they say tried to take more bricks from the site, officials said.
On Thursday, two days after a farm's driveway in Reddick was reported stolen, sheriff's deputies arrested a man seen taking the leftover concrete pavers.
Late Thursday afternoon, a neighbor called the Marion County Sheriff's Office and reported seeing two people with a truck removing more bricks. Deputies Michael Robinson and Ed Graham were nearby and soon arrived at the farm in the 4500 block of Northwest 120th Street.
They saw a woman standing behind a blue 2000 Dodge extended cab pickup, while a man was taking the pavers from the ground, according to the Sheriff's Office. Forty to 50 pavers were in the bed of the truck.
The deputies called Rachel L. McCarty, who on Tuesday evening had reported the theft of 300 square feet of pavers from the driveway. McCarty told them she did not give anyone permission to take the bricks and that she didn't know the man nor the woman.
"In my 22 years with the Marion County Sheriff's Office," said sheriff's Capt. Eric Rawls, "I've never seen someone's driveway stolen,"
Detectives charged the man, Anthony O. Jones, 49, with grand theft. He was taken to the Marion County Jail, where he posted bail and was released overnight.
The 42-year-old woman who was him was not arrested. Officials said Jones works for her and the truck belongs to her husband.
"I can't believe they came back. I'm glad someone was caught," McCarty told a Star-Banner reporter on scene.
Jones at first told the reporter that he "didn't know what was going on" and that it was the first time he was out that way. Then Jones said he had "permission to come and take the things."
Jones said he met a man at a bar off Northeast Jacksonville Road. That person, he said, told him he had a residence in foreclosure and that he could go there and take the bricks.
State records show Jones has a criminal history dating back to December 1989 and has been in and out of prison for various offenses, such as drug possession, robbery and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. He has been out of prison since April 2000 but has pending cases on new charges, including drug possession and soliciting another to commit prostitution, according to court records.
Deputies on scene Thursday said the man and woman told them the woman had a suspended license and she needed to go to the store. Jones allegedly told her he needed to pick up the pavers and offered to drive her to the store if he could collect the pavers.
McCarty said the driveway leads to a 10-acre farm she has that has four horses and a pony. She had fed the animals Thursday and gone to her home nearby. The witness told her, McCarty said, that when she left the truck pulled up.
On Tuesday, McCarty had called the Sheriff's Office to report the other stolen pavers. When she arrived home at 6 p.m. and drove onto the driveway, McCarty said, she felt a big "bump." She got out of her vehicle and saw that the concrete pavers used to make the driveway were missing.
A witness had seen two men digging up the pavers but told a deputy the activity didn't seem suspicious because McCarty had workers constructing a barn on the property.
The men were described as a tall, heavyset black man in his 30s and a 5-foot-3 white male of small build. They were driving an older model black pickup hauling a flat-bed utility trailer.
Detectives are continuing their investigation and urge anyone with any information can call them at 732-9111 or Crime Stoppers at 368-STOP, or visit www.ocalacrimestoppers.com.


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Those front-of-the-plane seats attract the highest-paying passengers. They're also a sought-after upgrade for frequent fliers. Airlines have been focusing their spending on the premium seats as they compete for the passengers who fill them.
American didn't give a specific cost estimate for the overhaul, but said it will spend "several hundred million dollars per year in enhancements to the customer experience." At the same time, it's juggling its bankruptcy reorganization and asking a judge to let it throw out employee contracts so it can replace them with cheaper ones. It's also dealing with US Airways Group Inc.'s efforts to convince creditors to think about letting it merge with American.
Most of the seating changes American announced Wednesday don't begin until 2014.
All of American's planes have at least two cabins — coach, and a front cabin called first class or business class, depending on the flight. Some of its international flights have a third cabin, called Flagship Suite, on its 777-200s. Some of those were added as recently as 2009, according to American's website.
On Wednesday American said it will return to having two cabins on those planes "to better match capacity and demand." American flew 47 of those aircraft as of the end of last year, out of 617 in its mainline fleet. It said it will install new lie-flat business class seats on those planes. The 777s are its biggest planes, and airlines have traditionally seen international first class as especially important for competing against overseas airlines.
American is getting 10 new 777-300ERs, and those planes will have three cabins. Those are set to begin arriving late this year, continuing through 2013. American is also keeping three cabins on its 767-200s, which it uses between New York's John F. Kennedy Airport and Los Angeles and San Francisco.
American, based in Fort Worth, Texas, also said it will overhaul up to half of its 58 Boeing 767-300ERs. They are mostly used on flights to Europe and South America, as well as some long-range U.S. flights. The overhauled planes will get 28 lie-flat business class seats. The new 777s and refurbished 767s will also have American's new "Main Cabin Extra" coach seats with more legroom. The airline plans to charge extra for those.
The 767-300s that aren't overhauled will be retired over time, American said.
Also, US Airways said on Wednesday that it is wrapping up an upgrade to business-class seats on its 16 Airbus A330s, which it uses for flights to Europe and to Tel Aviv, Israel. US Airways calls that front section of the plane "Envoy." Those seats recline flat and include a power outlet, along with other amenities.
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NEW YORK — Todd Bradley, the head of Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) printing and personal computer business, has been appointed to a new position in charge of the company's strategy with a focus on China, the company said Tuesday.
HP said Bradley, 54, will be in charge of strategic growth initiatives and will work with CEO Meg Whitman to improve the Palo Alto company's business in China and extend relationships with important partners worldwide. His tasks will include identifying small companies and startups that "could partner with HP to spur growth," Whitman said in a statement.
Bradley was in charge of HP's PC business from 2005 to 2012, when it combined the printing and personal systems business into one unit under his leadership.
HP became the world's leading PC maker during Bradley's tenure, but the distinction is less relevant amid a drastic shift in the computing landscape. PC sales have been declining as consumers delay replacing machines and spend their money instead on smartphones and tablet computers. Like many other PC manufacturers, HP was slow to respond to the shift and then stumbled trying to catch up with Apple (AAPL) and other manufacturers, such as Samsung, that make devices running Google's (GOOG) Android operating system.
Whitman has portrayed HP's turnaround as a multi-year effort. She has been overhauling the company's product line and pushing into more profitable niches in business software, data analysis and storage and technology consulting. HP also is in the process of eliminating nearly 30,000 jobs and shedding other expenses to help offset declines in revenue.
Emerging markets represent a potential area of growth. But HP has faced competition from a Chinese company, Lenovo, which bought IBM's PC business years ago. In the first three months of the year, Lenovo was the only top-5 manufacturer that saw PC shipments unchanged from the previous year, according to research firm IDC. All others saw a decline.
Dion Weisler, who is in charge of printing and personal systems for Asia-Pacific and Japan, will take Bradley's former role. The company said Weisler has been with HP since January 2012.
Nick Lazaridis, the chief operating officer of the Asia-Pacific and Japan printing and PC business, will become interim head of the division while the company looks for a permanent replacement.
HP's stock rose 29 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $25.45 in midday trading Tuesday. The stock is near the upper end of its 52-week range of $11.35 to $25.52.


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The Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences is housed on the first floor of the Meyer Hall of Science and the first and third floors of the Mathile Center for Natural Sciences. Faculty offices, research laboratories, classroom/laboratories, laboratories for forensics, medical laboratory science, human anatomy downdraft dissection, a wet lab, a teaching museum, animal holding facilities and a 2500 square foot greenhouse area are part of the space dedicated for use by students and faculty of the department. The Metzger Nature Center and Bolon Hall is located near Stone Creek in Tuscarawas County in eastern Ohio. The 8,500 ft Bolon Hall of Academic Field Biology was dedicated in September 2001. A 300 acre Wetlands Restoration Project study area and research lab are located in the historic Scioto Marsh twelve miles from our campus.
The department has eighteen full-time teaching faculty members. Adjunct faculty are used to teach in some specialty areas on an "as needed" basis. The teaching areas and research interests of the faculty are varied and diverse from the molecular to field studies. Other members of the staff include a laboratory coordinator and technician, an administrative assistant secretary,and an greenhouse technician.
320 plus students are majors and minors in the department. They are majoring in biology, environmental studies, molecular biology, forensic biology and medical laboratory science. Students choose specific career tracks with professional goals such as pre-medicine, pre-dentistry, pre-veterinary, pre-physical, pre-occupational therapy, pre-physicians assistant, pre-optometry, pre-chiropractic, and secondary teacher licensure. The programs are designed and structured in consultation with the student's academic advisor. The study of the biological and allied health sciences is the central theme in all of these various programs, but specific majors and degrees differ in the type and number of required courses. The University is on the semester system.
Participation in an internship experience in various professional areas is encouraged and available to student majors entering or during their senior year. Some program options require the internship experience, while others permit it as an elective in the major. A Co-Op program is also available in certain areas. Internships are one of the ways you can satisfy part of your senior capstone.
You can also use the international study tract for the senior capstone. Opportunities are available and encouraged at affiliated foreign universities such as the University of Ulster in the United kingdom, Glasgow Caledonia University and the University of Eastern Finland. Additional programs include the University of Havana in Cuba. Students are strongly encouraged to consider an international studies experience during their junior year. It will provide a dimension to your education that will be invaluable to your future, and one of high marks of your life.
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I always get excited when trying out a brand that is totally new to me. I got a selection of cosmetics from Artistry to try. I've never heard of the range before but it is supposed to be a skincare and colour cosmetics company – more about them here.
The packaging is simple stuff:
So that's not madly interesting but the cases are lovely – the blusher I tried out came in this pretty compact with some crystal detail:
It's a plastic compact so is quite light.
Blusher duo in Sunset:
This blusher is really lovely – it's got a light peach one one side and a darker peach with gold shot through it on the other side.
Although it's quite a sheer powder I like it – makes it less likely to overdose on blush! I like this shade because I'm into peaches and corals anyway.
On my cheeks:
Love the blusher, score = 4/5
Here is the eyeshadow trio. This is in Tender:
It's quite a neutral palette – a plum/brown, white and a mossy green. I think this would work quite week as an office palette but it is quite sheer. I prefer richer and more pigmented colours but if you were a bit scared of strong colours, this might give you the sheer finish you want:
Nevertheless I'd prefer something more pigmented than this.
Score: 2/5
I also got two retractable pencils in Opulent and Neutral:
I wasn't sure what to think of these – I don't have a great time with retractable pencils, however these were surprisingly good, creamy and pigmented. One is a rich chocolate brown and a rich black:
This worked nicely on my waterline too and being retractable makes it quite useful. It lasted for about 5 hours which is decent although it would be good if it was just slightly softer.
Score: 3.5/5
Finally I got the lipstick in Apricot Blossom:
It looks like quite a bold orange but this was my favourite product of the bunch! This is a beautiful soft peach-coral on the lips and it felt really hydrating and looked glossy. Staying power was about the same as for most glossy lipsticks so it needs to be reapplied:
Verdict: My favourite product was the lipstick and blusher – all in all an interesting range and worth checking out.
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Melissa Katherine Rycroft-Strickland (born March 11, 1983), from Dallas, Texas, is a reality television contestant and former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. She was a drill team officer at Newman Smith High School in Carrollton, Texas where she graduated in 2001. She participated as a contestant on the thirteenth season of ABC's The Bachelor, and CMT reality TV series Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team. She was a contestant on the eighth season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Rycroft was named to People magazine's list of World's Most Beautiful People 2009 and was also named as #99 on Maxim's list of "Hot 100 of 2009".
Rycroft was a contestant during the first season of the CMT reality TV series Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team. As the first season concluded, Rycroft was selected as one of the 36 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (DCC) for the 2006 NFL season. Rycroft remained on the DCC squad through the 2007 NFL season.
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Backhoed: Vandals trash Monticello graduation
Monticello High has never had an outdoor graduation since it opened its doors in 1998, and this year's senior class had its fingers crossed for one. The chairs and stage were already set up on the football field in anticipation that the weather gods would smile at 10am Saturday, June 5.
Lead custodian Simon Parker had worked Friday afternoon to have everything perfect for the Class of 2004. But it was another factor that would squash plans for an outside graduation.
When Parker showed up at 5:45am Saturday with Principal Billy Haun, the football field no longer contained the orderly rows of 300 chairs he'd set up the day before.
In fact, a backhoe now rested on top of the chairs. And its rampage from a nearby construction project left the field gored, damaging the sprinkler system. The goal posts were knocked down. Nor did the running track escape damage. And in a final insult, the vandals hurled mud upon the stage.
Initial estimates of damage were put at $100,000. That number has been revised down to between $65,000 and $75,000. Estimates for damage to the track alone are about $43,000, according to Haun.
"Stupid and senseless," is how Albemarle County spokesperson Lee Catlin describes the deed, which has prompted a $1,000 reward from the school and the Monticello Boosters Club for information leading to arrest and conviction.
"Police will be anxious to charge someone as aggressively as possible," says Catlin. "This is not a childish prank."
Sgt. Duane Karr with the Albemarle police says typical graduation antics are running something up the flagpole or painting a sign.
The perps at Monticello High could be facing a couple of felony charges: destruction of public property and possible grand larceny of the backhoe, according to Karr.
Police are looking at a couple of leads. "Somebody knows something," says Karr. "We just want them to come forward and tell what they know, and we'll put it together."
Another heavy-equipment-run-amok incident took place in Granby, Colorado, June 4. A man in a homemade, armored bulldozer demolished or heavily damaged at least five buildings to protest a zoning dispute before shooting himself. It is not known whether that rampage influenced the Monticello High 'dozing spree.
June 5 was Mary Slosson's graduation day, and she was not happy about the devastation. "I had a pretty strong reaction," she says. "I ran track for four years at Monticello High School." To see the damaged track, "It angered me," she says.
And the reaction of her fellow grads? "Disbelief that one of our classmates would do something like that."
Despite the befouling of the field, Slosson says the graduation ceremony still had a good feel and still was celebratory.
"But it was a shame somebody had to do that," she adds.
"A lot of students were very angry," says Haun. The Monticello High football team came in second in the state, and he imagines it a bitter pill for the 17 graduating football players to see what had been done to their field.
Haun notes that many people in the community use the taxpayer-funded track, as well. "I'm angry, too," says the principal.
Perhaps the person or persons responsible may want to skip those first few reunions of the Class of 2004.
Party gone out of bounds: A senior prank turns into a felony and mars the Class of 2004 graduation at Monticello High June 5.


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If you believe you have discovered a vulnerability or have a security incident to report, let us know using the form below. Please include a detailed description of the possible vulnerability and an email address where we can reach you in case we need more information. We'll work to assess your report as quickly as possible. We appreciate your help in making Garmin products, apps and websites secure. We'd also like to thank all those who have already reported security issues.
If you'd like, you can download our public PGP key and use a third-party encryption site to increase the privacy of your report.
Garmin has dedicated security personnel who are armed with an array of security tools that protect and monitor for threats 24/7. Security personnel work closely with teams throughout Garmin in an effort to keep products, apps and websites safe. Members of the Garmin team are also continually keeping our servers up to date with security patches and operating system updates.
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Do you get enough sleep? If you're like most folks, the answer to that is a likely resounding NO . . . followed by a yawn.
But when you do drift off to the land of Nod, are you getting quality sleep?
You may be able to answer that question with Sleep Cycle, an iOS-only app that I've been using for a couple of weeks. While I'm a bit skeptical as to how well it actually judges sleep quality, it does provide some insights into what happens while you're getting 40 winks.
The app uses the accelerometer in an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad to sense movement. When you sleep, you go through cycles of light and deep sleep. During the latter you move less, a fact that Sleep Cycle uses to calculate how much restful sleep you're getting.
Before you turn out the light for the night, turn on Sleep Cycle and put your iOS device next to you on the bed. Maciek Drejak Labs, the app's developer, suggests you not cover it with a pillow, but you'll want to place it so it won't fall off the bed. Sliding the device under the fitted sheet on a mattress is one approach. Don't place it under your pillow – this can deaden motion sensing and prevent heat from escaping. And keep your device plugged in to the charger – Sleep Cycle can eat up 30 percent of your battery's full charge overnight.
During the night, the app senses your movement and records the results. It also has an alarm feature designed to wake you when you're in a light part of your sleep cycle and within a time period you specify. For example, I normally get up about 6 a.m., so I set the alarm to wake me between 5:45 and 6 a.m. The app watches for light sleep and then sounds off with soft, melodic tones. (You can also set it to use your own music library.)
You can also enter notes related to your behavior before you go to bed. Did you drink alcohol or caffeine in the evening? Did you exercise heavily during the day? Are you stressed about work? Entering details about daytime activities can provide context for the nighttime data Sleep Cycle generates.
My wife started using Sleep Cycle first, and I initially scoffed at it. But she said it seemed to accurately reflect how she felt the next day. And the alarm clock feature indeed woke her more gently. That inspired me to give it a try.
While I'm not complete believer, I do think Sleep Cycle provides at least a rough estimation of sleep quality. I have sleep apnea and use a CPAP machine, which has improved the quality of my sleep. I usually feel pretty good when I wake up. But Sleep Cycle often shows me having poor sleep quality – there are nights when I barely go over 50 percent, yet I don't feel particularly tired on those days.
The app's developer says the software learns your sleep patterns over time and adjusts its motion sensitivity accordingly, so maybe I'll eventually see a better correlation between the numbers and how I feel.
Even though I'm not completely sold, I'll keep using it. Sleep Cycle is fun, at the very least, and the alarm feature alone is worth the 99-cent price.


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Why Do We Love Chocolate?
My granddaughter is bright, bubbly, tall, slender, beautiful… and a chocoholic! Everyday she requests a chocolate croissant and chocolate ice cream! When we go to the store she routinely asks for a piece of chocolate candy. So what is it about chocolate that even a three year old finds it so enticing?
Well, the list can go on and on. It's moist, sweet, yummy, invigorating, …. A zillion scientific studies have been done attempting to answer this question, but the only conclusion that I can come to is that it is personal. My granddaughter, the expert, has her favorites, and here they are:
Divine Milk Chocolate Bar – Made with the finest cocoa, smooth cocoa butter and real vanilla, giving it a distinctive creamy flavor. Divine is the only fair trade chocolate company which is owned by its cocoa farmers.
Large Gold Foiled Milk Chocolate Coins – Known as "gelt" in our house.
Godiva Chocolatier Gold Ballotin (8 pc.) – Also makes a pretty gift.
M&M Milk Chocolate Candy – Can't go wrong with M&Ms!
Hershey's Kisses, Milk Chocolate – An old favorite.
Ghirardelli Chocolate Squares – These are creamy and individually wrapped for a quick treat.
Give them a try and enjoy!