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How to Lose Weight With No Deprivation
My name is Paula, and I'm a shameless seeker of pleasure. (Well, as shameless as a nice Jewish girl raised with a healthy dose of guilt and possessed of limited funds can be.) My sheets have a thread count somewhere north of 650, and I like sex, well, a lot. I also like wine, chocolate and ice cream, sometimes all at the same time.
Given my pleasure-loving ways, it's not too shocking that I've struggled with my weight over the years. Dieting, after all, is about saying no. Most human beings don't like to say no. We can do it for only so long before we snap, then start saying yes, yes, yes! to fettuccine Alfredo and curly fries, margaritas and milk shakes. All that yessing leads—or at least it led me—to extra pounds, self-recrimination and fruitless dieting.
Confession: I have a long history of bingeing and yo-yo dieting. From age 14 to my mid-20s, I shot up to 167 pounds on my 5-foot-3 frame, got down to 129 (for about five minutes) and repeated the cycle again. And again. Then, when I was 24, at a doctor's urging, I joined a gym and discovered that I liked exercising. Eventually, I dropped about 35 pounds, ending up at a weight of 135 just shy of my 30th birthday. Yet, as the years passed (I'm now 47), I put nearly all of those pounds back on, and early last year made a discovery that shocked me. One morning, when my boyfriend, Randy, stepped on the bathroom scale, I peeked at the number: 146. My weight: 159! "I can't believe you weigh less than me," I wailed. My honey professed to love my curves, but I wanted to feel dainty, not as if I would crush him if I hugged him too hard. I was tired of being chubby, tired of having a tough time finding cute clothes in my size (14) and, most of all, tired of feeling guilty about food. I needed a weight loss plan for pleasure junkies, one that not only allowed but encouraged desserts and dinners out. I needed a plan that was all about what I could eat, not what I couldn't.
Except there was no plan like that to be found. In fact, the words pleasure and diet didn't even seem to exist in the same sentence. But as the articles director at SELF, I knew I had resources. I told my colleagues in our nutrition department that I needed to work with a few experts who wouldn't stress me out, force me to meticulously track calories or give me long lists of foods to avoid. With these pros' help, I would create a new kind of eating plan, one that didn't feel like deprivation but like a happy life, rich in delicious food, friendships and pleasurable experiences.
I already had one expert in my "entourage." After my scale humiliation with Randy, I had hired an adorable trainer, Rusty Ede. Being coached by a 27-year-old with big blue eyes and a sleepy smile was pure pleasure. I started exercising four or five times a week, more consistently than I had in years. Soon, I could do 15 push-ups at a pop and trot rather than trudge up the subway stairs. I dropped 7 pounds—though not without also suffering through a few bouts of starvation (not pleasurable!).
Yet after that, the scale stayed stuck at 152—classified as overweight on the body-mass index chart. To achieve a healthy BMI, I needed to get down to 135. That required more help than a trainer (no matter how cute) could provide. Enter Marissa Lippert, R.D., author of the enticingly named The Cheater's Diet. She asked me to keep a food diary for a few weeks, so she could assess my patterns. Lippert also promised to help me make better choices at the supermarket. An Italophile like me, Lippert said, "I want you to think about how you eat when you're vacationing in Rome and try to do that in your regular life. That means treating yourself to great meals but with fresh produce as the centerpiece." Just the mention of Italy put me in a happy state of mind—crucial, Lippert emphasized, to weight loss success. "If you feel negative about the process of changing the way you eat, you won't see any progress on the scale."
So: regular exercise, check. A doable eating plan (with wine!), coming up. But I also needed help tackling my emotional issues with food. SELF's nutrition team recommended Jean Kristeller, Ph.D., a psychology professor at Indiana State University at Terre Haute and a mindful-eating expert. "Traditional diets keep people stuck in a battle mentality," Kristeller said when I called her. "Willpower is like a slap on the wrist—don't you dare have that pint of ice cream. But if there was no way you'd gain weight, you'd eat the pint in a second, right?" she asked. Yes! Especially if it was Ben & Jerry's Peanut Butter Cup. "Mindful eating is about self-regulation, not self-control," she said. "When you're self-regulating, you're not saying, 'I can't have the pint,' you're saying, 'I don't want it.'"
Kristeller started my mindfulness lessons with a raisin. Feeling a bit foolish, I observed the wrinkled thing closely, sniffed it, then popped it into my mouth to experience the texture and flavor. What I discovered: When you eat one raisin at a time, rather than tossing 20 in your mouth while you're typing on your laptop, you appreciate how much flavor a single raisin contains. After eating three mindfully, I stopped without feeling deprived.
"Ultimately, you want to eat less but experience more satisfaction," Kristeller says. OK, but that was a raisin. Would mindfulness work with more tempting foods? Over the next few weeks, Kristeller had me mindfully eat cheese and crackers, candy and a brownie, staying aware of how hungry I was and savoring every bite. The process felt almost effortless and surprisingly natural. Even better, it worked: I ate quite a bit less than I normally would have and appreciated the food all the more.
Stopping the shovel-it-in effect
1. Notice how hungry you are. Take a few deep breaths and tune in to your body. Assess your hunger on a 10-point scale, 1 being not at all hungry, 10 being ravenous. Ideally, you don't want to be at a 9 or 10 before eating. Checking in with your hunger periodically and assigning it a number will also help you eat only when you're truly hungry, not just because the food is there.
2. Start eating. (See? These steps are easy!) Pause periodically to check in with how full you are getting, this time assigning it a number on a new scale that rates your fullness from 1 (not at all full) to 10 (stuffed to the gills). Remember that your body will take a while to react to what you've eaten, Kristeller says. So if you're aiming to end up at a comfortable fullness level of 7, the goal is to push your plate away at 6.
3. Tune in to the taste of every bite. Pay attention to—and enjoy!—the texture, smell and taste of your food. At some point, you'll find that the bite you're taking isn't as satisfying as the one before. That's a good time to put down your fork. "When you pause frequently, you can really think about what you want, instead of going into reactive mode," Kristeller says.
While I was mastering mindfulness, Kristeller also advised that I take up daily meditation. I was skeptical. I'd tried meditating before and ended up feeling tense. "It's easier to 'listen' to your body and tune in to your natural signals if you develop a sense of balance and calm awareness through meditation," she promised. In fact, meditation helps turn off the lower regions of the brain that react primitively to food (I want it! But I shouldn't!) and develops the prefrontal cortex, an area that "sees" the bigger picture—enabling you to make more measured decisions about what to eat. In a study Kristeller and her colleagues did with chronic bingers, those who meditated for 10 to 20 minutes a day for six weeks binged significantly less often—once or twice a week compared with four or five times a week previously. And in a study that the National Institutes of Health funded, people who went through Kristeller's mindful-eating program, which includes learning to meditate, lost an average of 6 pounds after 10 weeks, compared with a loss of less than half a pound for the control group.
I decided I would meditate in my office every afternoon, right around the time I'd usually beg for chocolate from our nutrition editors. I'd close my door, set my phone to beep after 10 minutes and start breathing deeply. When I opened my eyes, I almost always felt more focused and ready to tackle not only my food issues but whatever was on my desk. Not a bad outcome for 10 minutes a day.
Of course, pleasure aside, meditation aside, I knew that at some point, I'd simply have to eat less if I wanted to lose weight. The trouble is, when I'd come up with the whole idea of dieting pleasurably, I hadn't considered counting calories, never mind cutting them. But now that I had experts in place and was starting to adopt some helpful mental techniques, I wondered if I might find something valuable in keeping track of my calories. Kristeller agreed that the practice could give me a feeling of control. "You wouldn't shop in a store that didn't put price tags on things. It's the same with calories. Knowing how many you can spend in a day, whether 1,500 or 2,500, makes it easier to choose foods you like but that won't blow your budget."
I began writing down everything I put into my mouth in the little green food diary Lippert had given me. Pleasurable? Not even close. But Lippert assured me that I would have to do it for only a few weeks. As it turned out, after only a few short days, it was easy to see where I was going astray. Usually, I'd start off with a relatively healthy breakfast (wheat toast with peanut butter, honey, sliced banana and coffee). For lunch, I'd head down to the company cafeteria to try to find something reasonably healthy (stir-fry, sushi, sometimes a salad). So far, so good. The trouble began at night, when I inevitably went out for dinner. (I stubbornly refuse to learn to cook.) Faced with an array of yummy options, I was a goner. At my favorite neighborhood tapas bar, for instance, I might start a meal with bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with goat cheese, then move on to lamb sliders with a side of spicy potato chips. All with a glass or two of Spanish red. I always tried to leave a few chips, and I would eat the lamb burgers sans buns, but even I knew this kind of indulgence couldn't continue if I wanted to weigh less than my boyfriend.
Lippert, with a New Yorker's passion for eating out, was understanding. Together, we scanned the online menu at my tapas place, and she helped me pick healthier choices that I'd still enjoy. She was also full of suggestions for controlling portion sizes at other restaurants, including my go-to neighborhood Italian spot known for having the best pasta in town.
Navigating a night out at a restaurant
__1. Start every meal with a salad or a soup—__preferably one that's vegetarian or bean-based. "That way, you'll get your fiber and vegetables in and also fill up," Lippert explains. "For the most satisfying salad, go with options that are in season—local greens, fresh tomatoes—for maximum flavor."
2. Think in halves. If the entrée you order is the typical enormous restaurant portion, eat half and have the rest packed to go. (And here's a happy thought: You've now left room for dessert!) Make a point of filling half your plate with salad or veggies, then divide the other half evenly between protein and carbs, Lippert says. "You're flipping the focus of your meal."
3. Opt for an appetizer as your entrée, especially if you're dining out frequently. "I love sharing three or four appetizers with a friend, so I get the variety and the taste without the massive portions," Lippert told me. A few of my own favorite pleasure-diet appetizers, approved by Lippert for healthfulness and (relatively) low calorie count: oysters on the half shell, tuna tartare and even linguine with razorback clams, so long as it's a starter-sized portion.
I kept Lippert's restaurant advice in mind when, a week or so later, I found myself at a barbecue, facing a table heavy with ribs, burgers and all manner of fresh-baked treats. I didn't know many of the guests, and normally, to assuage my shyness, I might have downed a few glasses of wine and eaten my way from one end of the spread to the other. This time, I took a deep breath and checked in with my hunger. (I was at about a 7—hungry but not starving.) Next, I thought about what foods I would most enjoy: a piece of barbecued chicken, a scoop of German potato salad and, mindful of Lippert's "flip your focus" advice, a healthy serving of greens. Plate full but not overflowing, I made my way to a table, took a few deep breaths and ate slowly, checking in with my fullness level and savoring every bite. When my satiety was at about a 7, I stopped, took a little break, then went back for dessert. I enjoyed a piece of brownie and a chocolate chip cookie, then got up and mingled, no more picking necessary. When I proudly relayed my achievement to Kristeller a few days later, she confirmed, "Instead of eating on automatic, you put yourself in touch with your ability to make a choice."
But was I losing weight? Yes! The first week on the pleasure diet, I lost a pound; the second week, another two. I found that by trimming certain at-home meals here and there and by having a healthy snack in the afternoon, so I didn't get too hungry, I was able to go out and enjoy restaurant dinners (appetizers only, accompanied by a glass or two of good wine!) without feeling as if I were on a diet. For instance, Lippert suggested that instead of having two pieces of toast with peanut butter and banana for breakfast, I try having one slice. "You might find that's enough for you. Right off the bat, you'll be cutting out 150 calories or so."
By the end of the third week, I was down to 148.3. By the end of the following week, I hit a low of 147.8. Nearly 4 pounds down! I was nearing my boyfriend's weight! Except the following Monday I was back up to 149.2, and the next day, 150.2. When I saw that I'd tipped back over 150, I practically cried, but I suspected the culprit: I hadn't yet tackled my biggest diet bugaboo.
"How much wine do you drink?" Lippert had asked me early on. (Uh-oh. I knew that was coming.) "Well, I never drink at home, but I always have a glass or two when I'm out with friends, and I go out maybe five or six times a week. That's, um, at least 12 glasses of wine a week." Wow. More than two bottles of wine a week! How could that be? "Why don't you try to keep wine to a glass a night during the week, and aim for two dry nights?" she suggested. "You can have more leeway on the weekends."
That sounded reasonable, but it turned out not to be so easy. Limiting my wine felt punishing, especially when I was done with my glass of Sauvignon Blanc and my friends were starting on another. Isn't this diet supposed to be about pleasure? I'd think grumpily. When I griped to Kristeller, she gave me an unexpected answer: "If you're not willing to give up that second glass of wine on occasion, then it may not make sense to do that now. Instead of beating yourself up, enjoy it, then think about how you'll subtract those 120 calories elsewhere."
She then introduced me to what she calls the 500-calorie challenge: "Instead of counting the calories of every morsel, reflect on how you can subtract 500 calories during the day. In seven days, you'll have subtracted 3,500, which means dropping a pound for the average person." What made the pleasure diet different,
I realized, is that instead of adhering to a rigid regimen, I could choose what I wanted. So I had my wine and shaved some calories off of lunches (less bread, more veggies). By not depriving myself, staying aware of how hungry (or full) I was and truly enjoying my food, I was able to stop once I'd had a reasonable amount.
Still, as much as I was learning, the annoying weight disparity between my boyfriend and me remained. Until, one wonderful morning, progress: I stepped on the scale and the display read 144. I asked Randy to step on next. His weight: 146. I pumped my fist in the air—woo hoo!—and high-fived him.
I was on a roll. But old habits die hard, and one night a few weeks later, I slipped back into my old behavior. The trouble started after I'd gotten home from a nice meal at the tapas place, tried to call Randy and discovered he'd already gone to sleep. Bummer! So I headed to the kitchen and downed two heaping bowls of granola in succession, knowing full well I'd regret this behavior in the morning.
I did, and when I called Kristeller to moan about the incident, she suggested I think back on the evening and write down any emotional triggers that may have jump-started my mini-binge. I realized the first trigger was simply that I'd let myself get too hungry. I'd worked out before dinner and had eaten lightly at the tapas bar, so when I got home, I was still craving food. Second, I'd had a stressful day at work, and I needed soothing. Third, I was lonely. I'm in a long-distance relationship, and it's tough when we're apart.
When I reported these triggers to Kristeller, she explained that they had started a chain reaction. Emotional triggers are typically followed by thoughts (e.g., I'm lonely, so I deserve a treat). Those thoughts lead to yet more emotions and thoughts—I shouldn't eat, but what does it matter anyway?—which lead to action: pouring cereal into a bowl and eating it. "By being more aware of this chain of events, you can short-circuit it," Kristeller told me. "Maybe you could have called a friend instead of going for the cereal. Or maybe you'll still choose to eat, but you'll opt for an amount of food that feels enjoyable rather than an amount that leaves you feeling bad about yourself."
Most important, Kristeller told me to let myself off the hook. Many people comfort themselves with food when they're stressed, she pointed out. "We found that even people with no weight or eating issues tended to eat more when they felt anxious. The difference is they didn't then feel as if they'd blown it, so they didn't keep on eating." This "I've screwed up, so I might as well keep going" reaction is common among chronic dieters; it even has an official name: the abstinence violation effect.
That term must have stuck with me, because the next week, I almost succumbed to it, then managed to stop a potential binge in its tracks.
Here's what happened: I met a friend for dinner at a barbecue joint—not too many healthy choices on that menu. Still, I didn't go wild. Channeling Kristeller, I took a few deep breaths and paid attention to how hungry I was (about a 6—not too bad). Then I chose exactly what I craved—a pulled pork sandwich—and ate half of it, minus the bread. I made sure to order a side of collard greens (gotta get those vegetables). I also had a bite of my friend's crab cake appetizer. But I couldn't help but finish an entire biscuit because it was so unbelievably good, especially with strawberry butter.
When I got home later that night, I felt bad about my unhealthy meal and thought, Well, I've already blown it, so I may as well have dessert. I opened the freezer, looked at my emergency pack of Skinny Cow chocolate–peanut butter ice cream sandwiches and, suddenly, a little bell went off in my brain—ping! Abstinence violation effect! Maybe it was awareness born of my meditation habit, but I paused and thought, You know, I'm still full from dinner. With that, I closed the freezer and headed to bed with a book.
Slipping between my high-thread-count sheets was supremely pleasurable, but not as pleasurable as knowing I'd avoided a binge and the familiar aftermath of shame and regret. Instead, I'd savored my dinner and a night out with a good friend. There was no reason to beat myself up for any of it.
Now, five months in, I've lost 10 pounds the pleasurable way (and kept off that first 7 I lost with the help of my trainer and no shortage of hunger pangs). At 142 pounds, I have 7 more to go to reach my goal weight of 135. The pleasure diet, it turns out, isn't a fast way to lose weight, but it's one I can stick to without bingeing or feeling even a little bit deprived. I'm still exercising regularly, still eating out most nights of the week and still enjoying dessert—and wine—when I want to (the former, about four times a week; the latter, well, most nights. Pleasure rules). I've dropped two dress sizes (going from 14 to 10), and my toned biceps and calves garner admiring glances. And the true success: I feel more relaxed about food and my weight than I ever have. I listen to my body, eat what I want and stop when I'm starting to get full. That's what I call progress—the kind that can't be measured by a scale.
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- Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2012, 2013; Spring 2013)
- Big 12 Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (Fall 2009)
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Jameson provided depth in the defensive backfield, but did appear in a game.
2012 (Junior)
Jameson added depth at corner and played in NU's win over Idaho State.
2011 (Sophomore)
Jameson was a reserve in the defensive backfield, but did not play in a game.
2010 (Redshirt Freshman)
Jameson provided depth in the secondary, but did not appear in a game.
2009 (Redshirt)
Jameson redshirted and worked on the Husker scout team.
Before Nebraska (Southlake Carroll HS)
Jameson helped Class 5A Southlake Carroll High School and Coach Hal Wasson to an 8-3 record and a state playoff appearance as a senior. As a defensive back, Jameson finished fourth on the team with 45 tackles and was named second-team all-district. He was also a track standout for the Dragons, competing in the sprints.
Seth is the son of David and Kaye Jameson, and he was born on July 26, 1990. Jameson is majoring in mechanical engineering. He earned spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in the fall and spring semesters of 2012-13, and he was named to the 2009 Big 12 Commissioner's Fall Academic Honor Roll. He has volunteered his time with team hospital visits.

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Victory Medal : Private R H Pflaum, 32 Battalion, AIF
Victory Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.
Victory Medal issued to the family of 161 Private Raymond 'Ray' Holstein Pflaum. The son of Theodore and Mary Pflaum, he was working as a shop assistant in his home town of Blumberg, South Australia when he enlisted in the AIF on 21 July 1915 at the age of 18.
Joining A company of the 32nd Battalion, he embarked on board HMT Geelong at Adelaide on 18 November 1915. He arrived in France with the battalion on 23 June 1916 after spending six months training in Egypt.
On 19 July 1916, during the Battle of Fromelles, the 32nd Battalion was involved in an attack on Fleurbaix. Pflaum was in the first wave of the attack when he was wounded by shrapnel to the stomach. He was moved into a nearby dugout and made as comfortable as possible. He was later found in the dugout by his brother, Theodor Milton Pflaum of the 25th Company, Australian Machine Gun Corps. Theodor had to find a position for his gun, and Ray could not be moved so he left Ray in the care of another 32 Battalion soldier. Due ot a German counter attack, Theodor was eventually ordered to retreat. Ray was left to be picked up by German stretcher bearers.
Raymond Pflaum died of his wounds that night. He was originally listed by the AIF as wounded in action and presumed to be a prisoner of war. Early information from Germany led the Army to list his date of death as 24 November 1916 but his family later received his identity disc and information from Germany that stated that he died on 19 July 1916.
Pflaum was buried in a mass grave at Pheasants Wood, this grave was discovered in 2009. His remains were successfully identified in 2010 and he was reburied at the Fromelles (Pheasant Woods) Military Cemetery.
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This is one of nine short interviews I made while at Netroots Nation last week. [Update: Tenth interview added.]
The series is called "Five Questions" (to keep it short and simple). I asked the same four questions of each respondent, and tailored a fifth question to the person I was speaking with.
Except for my own performance (I was occasionally froggy) I like the way this turned out. I certainly like the intelligence and diversity of responses, and very much appreciate the time and care each person took to answer.
The five questions, stated simply, are:
- Are we still in a time of pendulum swings in American history, or are we approaching a period in which things could change permanently?
- How should progressives think of Democrats — as "we" or as "they"?
- What should progressive office-holders do differently to get a different, more progressive outcome (i.e., more progressive laws and policies)?
- What American future do you see as most likely, even if the likelihood is only marginally more likely than others?
- A question tailored to the interviewee.
Former Congressman Alan Grayson is our first interview, though this was not the first I recorded. I found him sitting in a corner in the exhibition hall, talking head-to-head with another conference-goer, looking for all the world like another civilian, another attendee. (That's the shirt reference; a nice shirt, interesting checked pattern, but very un-Congress-like.)
This was quite a fortunate find for me. Mr. Grayson was relaxed, personable and easy to talk with — a real pleasure. I hope you agree as you listen.
(Note: We had to change locations midway through — turns out that table was reserved and only temporarily empty. You'll hear a difference in audio for the later part of the interview. Again, forgive my occasional frogginess.)
The good people at Virtually Speaking have kindly agreed to host this audio while we sort through our other embed options for the rest of the interviews. [Embed moved to archive.org. Thanks to VS for the loan of their bandwidth!]
Five Questions: Alan Grayson with Gaius Publius, recorded at Netroots Nation 2012. Enjoy:
The full list of "Five Questions" interviews appears below. Links on names indicates that the interview has already been posted:
- Alan Grayson, former (and perhaps future) U.S. Congressman
- Marcy Wheeler, of emptywheel.net
- Cliff Schecter, who comments regularly with Sam Seder at Majority.fm among many other places
- Tom Tomorrow, cartoonist with DailyKos and This Modern World
- Alex Lawson of StrengthenSocialSecurity.org
- Josh Orton, with Russ Feingold's Progressives United
- Frances Causey, producer–director of Heist, the documentary
- Chris Pearson, a Progressive Party Vermont state legislator
- Susan Smith, Progressive Caucus chair of the Florida Democratic Party
- Sarah Burris, labor activist and progressive youth organizer
These interviews will be presented in some order in the upcoming days. Thanks for listening.
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'Real & Chance: The Legend Hunters,' 'Fantasia For Real: Season 2,' and 'La La's Full Court Wedding' premiere on Sunday, September 19th starting at 9PM ET*
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"Real & Chance: The Legend Hunters" premieres Sunday, September 19 @9 PM
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"Fantasia For Real" Season 2 premieres Sunday, September 19 @10 PM
Season 2 of "Fantasia For Real" follows American Idol and Grammy winner Fantasia Barrino as she balances her complicated personal life with her desire to connect with her fans through music. As Fantasia works with her record label, J Records to promote her long awaited new album, "Back to Me" she continues to attempt to instill values of independence and integrity into her life and be a positive role model for her daughter and the rest of her family
"La La's Full Court Wedding" � premieres Sunday, September 19 @10:30 PM
Former MTV VJ and television personality, La La Vazquez is set to star in a new series about her wedding, including all the planning and festivities leading up to her big day. The series begins with La La meeting with Mindy Weiss, A-list wedding planner to the stars, and follows her through all her wedding planning activities and Las Vegas bachelorette party. Viewers will ride along as La La shops for the perfect designer wedding dress, chooses the wedding venue, picks out the ultimate wedding cake and menu, plans their honeymoon, and contemplates the guest list.
Sneak peek episodes from these four new shows will launch online at VH1.com the week prior to each on-air premiere. Subsequent episodes will be available on VH1.com the morning after they premiere. Additional video content from each series will be available on VH1.com and on VH1 Mobile throughout the season. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.vh1press.com.
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Jason Gilder, Ph.D. is a Systems Engineer at Forensic Bioinformatics, Inc. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering in 2001, a Master's degree in Computer Science in 2003, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering in 2007 (all from Wright State University).
The entirety of his graduate research work was in the field of forensic DNA analysis. Gilder is the first full-time employee of Forensic Bioinformatics and he is the primary author of the Genophiler® automated DNA software analysis system. He has used Genophiler® to analyze the electronic data in more than 700 DNA cases over the past seven years and has provided expert testimony and lectures frequently at CLE seminars.
Gilder continues to perform research in the areas of forensic DNA interpretation and population genetics. He also continues to develop new software tools (such as GenoStat®) and has published multiple scholarly papers and authored a chapter in Wiley's Encyclopedia of Forensic Science.
Gilder also has been involved in the review of the following cases: Washington D.C. Beltway sniper, the Jaidyn Leskie Coroner's Inquest in Australia, the Omagh IRA bombing in Northern Ireland, and the Deventer murder case in The Netherlands. In addition, he works closely with the Innocence Project and has been involved with exoneration cases, including most recently Paul House in May 2009.


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I used turkey franks, stuffing in a box because I couldn't see making the tiny amount needed for four hot dogs, and vegetarian "bacon" because it's what I had on hand. I don't have any toothpicks but when I googled for ideas on what to use instead, I decided the idea of uncooked spaghetti, broken into pieces, would work. The stuffed dogs were on the prepared pan and I went to get the spaghetti and ooops, I'm out of that. So, I made the dogs without anything to keep the bacon on and had a mental image of bacon flopping around in my oven but the skinniness of the franks and the length of the strips worked to my advantage. I just tucked the end of each bacon strip under the dog and after 20 minutes in a 350 degree oven, the bacon was still in place. Oh, and I put the bacon on only two of the dogs and the ones without the bacon were just as good as those with.
So, here you have it - stuffed hot dogs. I ate them with steamed spinach and am a very happy camper!
I'm going to play with different low carb stuffing ideas to see if any of them will work in these delicious dogs but in the meantime, I have a new meal idea to enjoy now and then.
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Time to pick All-Star Game starting lineups
Now that baseball season is in full stride, it's time for voting season.
Balloting is underway for Major League Baseball's 85th All-Star Game on July 15 at Target Field in Minnesota, with the traditional launch of the 2014 All-Star Game MLB.com Ballot Sponsored by Experian and the first chance to punch names at ballparks.
Now that baseball season is in full stride, it's time for voting season.
Balloting is underway for Major League Baseball's 85th All-Star Game on July 15 at Target Field in Minnesota, with the traditional launch of the 2014 All-Star Game MLB.com Ballot Sponsored by Experian and the first chance to punch names at ballparks.
Submit up to 25 online ballots and earn a one-time bonus of 10 additional online ballots. To access these, you must be logged in to your MLB.com account when you submit any online ballot. If you do not have an MLB.com account, register on the site in accordance with the enrollment instructions for a free MLB.com account.
So begins the largest All-Star balloting program in sports, one that produced the two highest totals in balloting history the last two years, including a record 40.2 million ballots cast in 2012. Vote exclusively at MLB.com or via your mobile device until 11:59 p.m. ET on July 3, and help influence the makeup of an event that has resulted in league home-field advantage for the last five World Series champions, easily the longest such streak.
"Major League Baseball is proud to stand alongside one of our model franchises, the Minnesota Twins, as we renew a special baseball tradition today," Commissioner Bud Selig said. "The participation of our fans in the All-Star balloting process is a key part of their extraordinary bond with the Midsummer Classic. The Twin Cities will be marvelous hosts for a celebration of the very best of our game."
MLB and the host Twins marked the official start of balloting with a news conference at Target Field. In attendance were owner Jim Pohlad and president Dave St. Peter of the Twins; Tim Brosnan, MLB executive vice president of business; six-time All-Star Joe Mauer; Hall of Famers and T-Mobile All-Star FanFest spokespersons Rod Carew, Paul Molitor and Bert Blyleven; eight-time All-Star and T-Mobile All-Star FanFest spokesperson Tony Oliva; Minneapolis City Council president Barb Johnson; city of St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman; Hennepin County Commissioner Mike Opat; and Twins radio play-by-play broadcaster Cory Provus, who served as master of ceremonies.
More than 20 million Firestone All-Star ballots will be distributed at MLB's 30 ballparks, each of which will have 23 dates for balloting. Every club will begin its in-stadium balloting no later than May 12. When the in-stadium phase of balloting concludes no later than June 26, you will have the opportunity to cast your ballots exclusively online or via mobile.
Cardinals right fielder Allen Craig had the dubious distinction of lining out as a pinch-hitter in the bottom of the eighth inning of last year's Midsummer Classic at Citi Field in New York, part of a 1-2-3 inning recorded by Mariano Rivera, ultimately given the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. With the National League losing that game, 3-0, the American League earned World Series home-field advantage, so Craig and the Cardinals wound up going back to Boston for that decisive Game 6.
During a visit this week to the same Citi Field for a series against the Mets, Craig said that just making it to his first All-Star Game was an incomparable experience. And merely being on the ballot, he said, is something that "means a lot" to today's players.
"As a kid, I remember going to games and really looking forward to the All-Star ballot and seeing who's on there and putting in the guys I thought should be in the All-Star Game," said Craig, who grew up in Southern California. "To be a player and to see your name on it, to have the opportunity to go to the All-Star Game, is really special. I got to go to my first All-Star Game last year and it was one of the greatest experiences I've had, just being in the locker room with the guys.
"I went to a lot of Angel games growing up, because they were closest to me. I filled out the All-Star ballots there. I was always a big Angel fan, and I was also a fan of Ken Griffey Jr. growing up. Definitely I always voted as many times as I could for Griffey. I think [the fans] do a pretty good job. I think the fan vote is important because the fans support the game. All the players appreciate all the votes they get from fans so it's an important thing."
The online ballot will be available in English and Spanish and will offer audio CAPTCHA functionality for visually impaired fans. Traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese versions of the online ballot will be available in May. Banco BHD will sponsor online All-Star balloting in the Dominican Republic, making Spanish-language ballots available to fans in the Dominican Republic via LasMayores.com, the official Spanish-language site of MLB.
Firestone, the official tire of MLB, is once again the exclusive sponsor of in-stadium balloting. The ballot features an All-Star sweepstakes, in which a winner will be rewarded with a trip for two to All-Star Week, including airfare, hotel accommodations, tickets to the All-Star Game and other All-Star Week events, and VIP on-field access to watch batting practice before the All-Star Game with an MLB legend.
The Home Run Derby Fan Poll is back as part of the main ballot. Select three players in each league you would most like to see participate in the Home Run Derby. That event will be broadcast live on ESPN, ESPN HD, ESPN Deportes and ESPN Radio in the U.S. beginning at 8 p.m. ET on Monday, July 14.
The 2014 All-Star teams will be unveiled on the 2014 MLB All-Star Game Selection Show during the weekend of July 5-6, with further details to follow on MLB.com. The AL will have nine elected starters via the fan balloting program, while the NL will have eight fan-elected starters. Pitchers and reserves for both squads -- totaling 25 for the NL and 24 for the AL -- will be determined through a combination of "Player Ballot" choices and selections made by All-Star managers Mike Matheny (NL) and John Farrell (AL).
Immediately following the announcement of the rosters, you can select the final player for each league's 34-man roster via the 2014 All-Star Game MLB.com Final Vote Sponsored by Experian. Last year's winners were Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman and Blue Jays right-hander Steve Delabar. Choose again at that point from among five players in each league. The Final Vote returns for its 13th season with more than 430 million votes cast to date, and you'll be able to make selections on MLB.com, club sites and your mobile device.
You'll be on a voting tear at that point, having already selected starters and the last men, and the ritual will not end there. The final phase of All-Star Game voting will again have fans participating in the voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the big game, vote exclusively online at MLB.com via the 2014 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote Sponsored by Pepsi. The fan voice will represent 20 percent of the overall vote that determines the recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.
MLB.com will provide extensive online coverage of the All-Star Week festivities.
The 85th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network and SiriusXM will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com.
Mark Newman is enterprise editor of MLB.com. Read and join other baseball fans on his MLB.com community blog.


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Poet, playwright to read from his works
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
The Pittsburg State University Distinguished Visiting Writers Series will host poet, playwright and fiction author Paul Dickey for a reading of his works at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, in the Governors Room of the Overman Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public.
Dickey holds a master of arts degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, in the history and philosophy of science and a bachelor of arts degree from Wichita State University. In the 1970s, he studied in the creative writing program at Wichita State.
Dickey's poetry has appeared in a numerous university publications and in journals such as Rattle, Mid-American Review, Our Stories, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, Southern Poetry Review, Cider Press Review, Free Lunch and Crab Orchard Review. In all, Dickey has been published in nearly 100 literary journals.
His chapbook, "What Wisconsin Took", was published in 2006. His first full-length book of poetry, "They Say This Is How Death Came Into the World," was published in 2011.
Besides writing, Dickey teaches philosophy at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Neb.


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Certified Organic Farmland Still Lagging Worldwide
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In recent decades, organic products have occupied something of a niche market. (Andrew Hyde)
Despite the growing worldwide demand for organic food, clothing, and other products, the area of land certified as organic still makes up just 0.9 percent of global agricultural land. In 2010, the latest year for which data are available, 37 million hectares of land were organically farmed—an area that has grown more than threefold since 1999.
There is large regional variation in the area of land farmed organically. Oceania, which includes Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Island nations, leads the world in certified organic land, with 12.1 million hectares in 2010. In contrast, North America had 2.6 million hectares of organic land, and Africa had just over 1 million hectares.
Reliable data are lacking for land that is farmed using organic principles but that is not certified organic. Many farmers, particularly subsistence farmers or those selling to local markets, farm organically but do not acquire organic certification. Certified organic products have created a niche market in recent decades, allowing farmers to earn premium prices over conventional products, particularly when selling to supermarkets or restaurants.
The countries with the most certified organic producers in 2010 were India (400,551 farmers), Uganda (188,625), and Mexico (128,826), while the region that added the most organic farmland between 2009 and 2010 was Europe. Overall, the amount of organically farmed land worldwide dropped slightly, by 0.1 percent, between 2009 and 2010—due largely to a decrease in organic land in India and China.
The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements defines organic agriculture is a production system that relies on ecological processes, such as waste recycling, rather than the use of synthetic inputs, such as chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The benefits are myriad: organic farming can require up to 50 percent less fossil fuel energy than conventional farming, and boost on-farm biodiversity by an average of 30 percent. It can help soil retain water and nutrients, improving resilience to drought and other harsh weather patterns. And it reduces human exposure to chemicals or toxic residues, which have been linked to a variety of illnesses. Organic land can return higher yields than land farmed conventionally, particularly when the land has been farmed organically for several years running.
The modern organic farming movement emerged in the 1950s and 1960s largely as a reaction to consumer concerns about the rising use of agrochemicals. The period after World War II and through the 1950s is commonly known as the "golden age of pesticides." But as the health and ecological impacts of agrochemicals began to be understood, governments started to regulate their use and consumers began demanding organically certified foods.
Producing food sustainably, which includes farming without chemicals whenever possible, will be as important as ever in the coming decades, as the global population continues to grow and as climate change affects land quality worldwide. Organic farming has the potential to contribute to sustainable food security by improving nutrition intake and supporting livelihoods in rural areas, while simultaneously enhancing biodiversity and reducing vulnerability to climate change.
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PhoneGap, Adobe's open source mobile application development framework, has been upgraded with a streamlined plug-in architecture and tools for shifting between native platforms.
Plug-ins provide capabilities such as geolocation, contact, and camera. Previously, developers had to find plug-ins in GitHub or on the Internet, download the package, then compile them into applications. Adobe also has broken out core APIs and made those into plug-ins. Developers install only what they need. "It's more configurable, so the end app experience is going to be lighter-weight and more optimized. You're going to get a better-performing app, Charland said.
Native platform CLI tooling has been aligned in version 3.0. "We've made it easier to quickly shift between native platforms without learning new vocabularies by aligning the native platform CLI tooling," said Colene Chow, Adobe product marketing manager, in a blog post. "Don't have a native platform SDK installed? No problem. Our tools now integrate with PhoneGap/Build."
APIs have been added for InAppBrowser, which supports logging into third-party services, and globalization. Adobe also is planning PhoneGap support for Firefox OS and Ubuntu. Adobe has contributed PhoneGap code to the Apache Software Foundation, where the project is known as Cordova. PhoneGap serves as Adobe's version of Cordova. The project was given to Apache to enable other parties to contribute to the technology, Charland said. PhoneGap had been developed by Nitobi, which was acquired by Adobe in 2011.
This story, "Adobe's PhoneGap 3.0 smooths the way for plug-ins," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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As part of the Three Blows all sound performances at the beautiful St Cecillia Church in Edinburgh, Danny and Richard from Correcto will be performing a special acoustic show on Saturday 5th July.
The event consists only of acoustic music, divided into two themed evenings entitled 'For the Voice' and 'Imaginary Landscape' and a third strand, 'Thinking Music' and highlighting innovative Scotland-based artists/musicians including Correcto, Tattie Toes, Richard Youngs, Red Krayola frontman, Mayo Thompson and 'prepared guitar' pioneer, Keith Rowe.
Three Blows sounds like an intriguing event, "derived from the pious romance of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of church music" , her desire to 'cantantibus organis illa in corde suo soi domino decantabat' (sing in her heart to God only) and who's appointed executioner let his sword fall three times without succeeding in severing her head from her neck. Gruesome eh?
Correcto's kinetic self titled debut album is out now and available from the Mart.


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Owners of Big Scoop plan to reopen after fire
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There was a fire at The Big Scoop restaurant in the early morning hours Monday.
Marion Fire Chief Mike Regnier said the fire was spotted at 2:25 a.m. and it took until about 5 a.m. to extinguish the fire. Owner Rusty Stenseng said the damage was extensive including the dining room ceiling that collapsed.
"There is virtually nothing in the building that doesn't need to be replaced," Stenseng said. "Stuff that wasn't damaged by fire was damaged by water or smoke."
The Kansas Fire Marshalls Office investigated the fire on Monday. Regnier said the cause of the fire was still undetermined at 4 p.m. Monday. Stenseng said the investigators concluded the fire was started because of spontaneous combustion because of chemicals. Investigators told Stenseng that the fire was ruled an accident.
The Big Scoop was open on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Stenseng said every employee was out of the restaurant by 2 p.m. Stenseng and co-owner Leeann Smeaton were out of town at the time of the fire, visiting grandparents in Fort Scott.
Stenseng has meetings planned with insurance adjusters and contractors. He said those meetings will determine if there can be repairs to the existing building or if a complete rebuild is necessary. Stenseng said he wants to reopen the Big Scoop at some point.
"We 100 percent want to bring the Big Scoop back," he said. "It's an icon in the city."
One of the few items that was not damaged by fire or water was a safe. Inside the safe was money raised for Deanna Snyder.
Stenseng said he has received several calls from Marion residents asking if they can help in any way. Stenseng also talked with Police Chief Tyler Mermis who said patrols around the restaurant would increase; there may be items people would try to steal.
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Pakistan: Shell Under Fire for Pipeline
KARACHI, Pakistan -- Environmentalists have taken multinational oil giant Shell to court over its plans to build a pipeline for mineral and gas exploration in Pakistan's Kirthar National Park.
Located about 130 kilometers (80 miles) northeast of Karachi in Sindh province, Kirthar is Pakistan's oldest and largest national park.
Its 740,000 acres are a haven for Urial sheep, ibex and chinkara gazelle. Jungle cats, desert cats, leopards and desert wolves prowl the park, which was established in 1974.
The park includes archaeological sites dating back to 3500 BC and is home to 20,000 herders who depend on its resources for their survival. The Kirthar watershed provides the people of Karachi and Hyderabad with water for drinking, agriculture and industry.
In July 1997, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government opened the park to prospectors, inviting British Premier Oil to search for an estimated three trillion cubic feet of gas believed trapped in the porous rock.
Premier Oil later formed a joint venture company with Shell Oil Group, now known as Shell-Premier.
Resistance from environmentalists kept the project dormant, and Sindh Wildlife Department turned down requests by Premier to conduct an environmental impact assessment.
In May 1999, Sindh's regional government and environmental groups, including the World Wildlife Fund, agreed to form a committee to conduct an independent assessment of the park, with a view toward looking into the ecological and management concerns at Kirthar.
But later the same year, Pakistan's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources finally awarded Premier Oil, Lasmo Oil and Shell Exploration a licence to explore for oil and gas.
The concession, known as the Dumbar block, covers more than 90 percent of Kirthar National Park.
The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan's leading environmental group, has stated that any mining or exploration in the park is illegal according to Section 14 and 15 of the Sindh Wildlife Ordinance (Amendment) Act of 1993 -- an update of the Sindh Wildlife Protection Ordinance 1972.
SDPI adds that mining or exploration would violate the country's international commitments to protect biodiversity made under the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
More than 170 countries are parties to the 1992 UN Convention on Biological Diversity, which promotes the conservation of biodiversity, the sustainable use of its components, and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from genetic resources.
SDPI and other groups have called for an independent, participatory study to assess the state of the park with detailed studies on legal, socio-economic, environmental issues. They envision a management plan which would ensure protection of species and the ecosystem of the park area, rather than paving the way for oil and gas companies to prospect.
Last Wednesday, nine environmental organizations petitioned the Sindh High Court, stating that mineral and gas exploration inside the national park is illegal under the Sindh Wildlife
Protection Ordinance.
One of the local organizations, Shehri-Citizens for a Better Environment (SCBE), called on "investors with money in Shell to ask this company how it can defend its actions."
"We have already seen the damage that Shell's activities can have on wildlife, such as at Dureji Wildlife Sanctuary," said SCBE spokesman Farhan Anwar.
"We find it quite outrageous that they are now planning to plunder one of our most precious national parks - in Kirthar - home to some of our most endangered species."
Since 1998, Shell has been involved in exploration in Dureji Wildlife Sanctuary in the Pakistan province of Baluchistan - an area important for Sindh ibex and rare mountain sheep.
Local environmentalists claim that access roads built for heavy machinery have damaged the delicate mountain environment and increased erosion while opening the area to poachers. They claim seismic testing has disturbed wildlife populations.
Friends of the Earth intends to launch a campaign against Shell in the UK.
"This scandalous project must not go ahead," said Craig Bennett, habitats campaigner at Friends of the Earth.
"We will be working with local campaigners in Pakistan to fight this project. We want the public, banks and pension funds to challenge Shell to stop putting profits before people and the planet.
"Shell claims that it cares about poor people and the environment, yet its massive profits are being used to open up and plunder some of the world's most precious and sensitive areas."
Bennett said Shell should invest more of its profits in renewable energy, such as wind and solar power.
"If it doesn't, then its claims to care about the planet and its people will be nothing but hot air."
In a Sunday Times story last August, Shell defended its work in Asia, saying environmental protests did not take account of "today's high standards of exploration and production."
A spokesman was responding to complaints about its plans for Kirthar and the Sunderbans area of Bangladesh, where Shell plans to survey the world's biggest tiger reserve after company geologists pinpointed it as one of the richest potential sources of oil and gas on earth.
Shell told the Sunday Times that it does not plan to exploit the central area of Sunderbans, which is home to 450 Bengal tigers, but confirmed that it intends to carry out aerial surveys and back them up with studies that will involve drilling test wells.
"Shell and its partners respect the Sunderbans and are committed to carrying out all the required environmental and social studies prior to commencing any operations," said the spokesman.
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Indian Land Middle School has been in the limelight a lot lately. The school stepped into the national spotlight early last month when its principal, David McDonald, was named the 2013 South Carolina Middle School Principal of the Year.
A few weeks later, ILMS learned it had been redesignated as a National School to Watch, an honor given to high-performing middle schools.
So the school has had a lot to celebrate lately and it begins 2013 glowing with deserved pride.
It's hard to believe 2012 is nearly over. It's been a busy year, much of it focused on local, state and national elections and the still-struggling economy. But the election is finally over and while the county's unemployment rate is still in the double digits this year – 10.8 percent in October, that is an improvement on the 12.6 posted at the same time last year.
The Lancaster County Parks and Recreation 9-10 all-star football team's season didn't end the way it wanted, but the team's run was quite stunning.
The 9-10 stars fell to defending state champion city of Florence in the S.C. Athletic Programs Division II state champion game at Florence Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Dec. 8.
Florence built a 12-0 halftime lead on the way to the 20-0 win over the Lancaster County stars.
Florence scored on its first two possessions on the way to the win.
A toast to South Middle School's recent success is in order. The toast would likely go something like this, "Here's looking at you, SMS."
South has earned the coveted honor of a School to Watch.
The honor puts SMS in elite company as less than 350 schools nationwide have earned the honor, and only 13 in the Palmetto State.
One of those lucky 13 is Indian Land Middle School in the county's Panhandle, which was recently redesignated a School to Watch after garnering the title in 2010.
Not every mentally-ill person is violent. Not every gun is used to kill first-graders, principals and teachers. Evil is, has always been and will always be with us. Our hearts were broken, our breath sucked away and we were left completely helpless when mental illness, weapons and evil combined at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 14, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
With Christmas lights up and area holiday parades starting this weekend, it's definitely starting to look and even feel, with the recent frost, like Christmas here in Lancaster County.
With Black Thursday/Friday behind us and the holiday shopping season in full swing, we'd like to remind shoppers to Think Lancaster First.
The Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce's shop local initiative is also in full swing with discounts galore in its new Think Lancaster First coupon book.
There's been plenty to cheer about this fall at Andrew Jackson and Buford high schools.
Both of the county schools earned playoff berths in the Class AA Division II Upper State football playoffs.
AJ notched a postseason win for the first time in eight seasons, while BHS earned a home playoff game with a solid regular-season finish.
This Thanksgiving, take time to be thankful for more than just a good meal. Give thanks for what you've been blessed with and share what you can with those in need.
It's hard to believe that tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day, the traditional kickoff of America's holiday season.
Our national day of giving thanks dates back to 1621 in Massachusetts, when we believe the Pilgrims and Native Americans celebrated a successful harvest with food and festivities.
On Election Day – Tuesday, Nov. 6 – registered voters across the country will be able to exercise one of the most precious privileges our democracy grants us – the opportunity to determine who will represent us in our government.
Lancaster County voters will help choose our next president, U.S. and S.C. House representatives, county sheriff, County Council member and Lancaster City Council members. The other races on local ballots are all unopposed.
County voters will choose between these hopefuls:
Every couple of years, right before elections, certain topics are frequently discussed, then fade into the background once politicians have secured your vote.
Budget deficits and the national debt are among the ones that come up most often.
Debt is also among the most difficult topics for the average person to understand. After all, if you're an average South Carolinian making $32,000 a year, it is difficult to understand exactly how much money $1 trillion is.
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Growing up, Memorial Day weekend was always spent driving several hours to the small town of Muscoda, Wis., to lay flowers on the grave of relatives I didn�t remember.
Growing up, Memorial Day weekend was always spent driving several hours to the small town of Muscoda, Wis., to lay flowers on the grave of relatives I didn�t remember.
While we were there, we�d visit my father�s second cousin and then drive through the town where businesses and parks were named after my relatives.
I continued this tradition, on and off, through my 20s and can still picture the large gray granite tombstone marking my grandparents� final resting place. And then I stopped.
For close to 20 years, I have lived half a country away from Muscoda and doubt I will ever go back.
But each year on Memorial Day I remember.
I think of all the people who have slipped through my life and onto the next one.
I think about my father � not as he was in the end � but as how he must have been as a young man shipping out to World War II.
I still have his impossibly small white T-shirt with U.S. Army stenciled across the front and his government-issued duffle bag.
I also have the hasty notes he wrote to his mother, who had been widowed since Dad was 16, and a few faded square pictures of him in his uniform.
For awhile, I also had wallet-sized photos of the girls he dated during those years. My father was a busy man, with a life I scarcely know about.
That�s the way it is, though.
We leave behind our childhoods and eventually most of the people who knew us then.
We move into our young adult years, sometimes with the people with whom we will spend the rest of our lives and sometimes with people we will never see again.
Then we hit our 30s and it�s like we sat on a giant slide and started hurtling toward the bottom. We pass our 40s and rush into our 50s, trying to slow down long enough to grab onto the folks we left behind.
And then we become the generation who longs for Memorial Day to return to what it was intended to be: a day to remember.
It is inevitable that each of us will someday become a memory, no longer here to see and touch and hug and reminisce with.
All the houses and boats and cars and Facebook pages in the world will not change that.
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Saving Ethiopia's "Church Forests" - T. Delene Beeland, The Orthodox Church
How to Hear Women's Confessions, From an 1897 Manual - Pat McNamara
Petrine Primacy in the New Testament (Part I) - Michael Barber, The Sacred Page
"The Entire Mystery of Christ" - Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing
Religion: Encouragement Is Not Establishment - R.R. Reno, First Things/On The Square
Attacking the Last Acceptable Prejudice - Michael Coren, MercatorNet
Fairy Tales and Holy Week - Daniel McInerny, High Concepts
Richard Rich Quits as Ambassador to Malta - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic
Spiritual Direction is Not Spiritual Friendship or Spiritual Mentoring - Catholic Spiritual Direction
The Time is Near, Have You Gone to Confession? - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington
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Very nice basic shirt that falls well and can be worn zuvielem. Would I buy in other colors yet.
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High over Prima Deshecha Landfill, hundreds of seagulls are soaring – flying circles – looking for a chance to pounce on fresh heaps of table scraps dumped by garbage trucks.
Many of these hungry gulls are commuters from the beaches of San Clemente and Dana Point. Since Jan. 28, they look more like planes flying an endless holding pattern over a closed airport.
Most of the time they don't dare land. Falstaff and Boris won't let them.
Falstaff is a 6-year-old Saker falcon, Boris a 2-year-old Harris hawk. Adam Chavez, a master falconer from San Juan Capistrano, has trained his predators to harass seagulls, pigeons, blackbirds, sparrows, crows or any other birds that think of Prima Deshecha as a free lunch.
Every day in the hills behind San Clemente, a drama plays out as hungry birds flock to the trash heaps, expecting easy grub like they've devoured for years. This time, Chavez' predators are there to hold them at bay.
The scavengers might get in a quick hit here or there, but they expend so much energy flying futilely for meager pickings that they're frustrated at the end of the day.
"There's birds that don't even get a bite in all day," said Peter Marino, a falconer working with Adam's Falconry Service on a three-month, $36,444 experiment by Orange County Landfills. The goal is to bully the birds, scare the wits out of them, starve them out by making them spend hours burning too many calories and frustrate them into looking for friendlier skies elsewhere.
The county wants to reduce a bird population that has swelled while dining on endless feasts of leftover turkey, unfinished bags of Doritos, half-eaten hamburgers or rotting slices of pizza.
Those include hundreds of pigeons that live beneath the deck of the San Clemente Pier and thousands of gulls that pollute Doheny State Beach and Poche Beach with droppings. The landfill is just a three-mile commute from Poche, slightly longer from Doheny or the San Clemente Pier.
Neighborhoods bordering the landfill can be repositories for fallout from the flying fast-fooders. "They'll grab trash and try to fly off with it," Chavez said. "I worked another landfill," Marino said, "and people would find things in their swimming pools, in the backyard – chicken legs and ribs. That is what we are trying to avoid."
Doheny and Poche appear regularly on the environmental group Heal the Beach's list of most polluted California beaches. A study of the 4,400-acre Prima Deshecha watershed that drains from the hills seaward to Poche Beach blamed bird droppings for most of the pollution.
Chavez, a 30-year falconer, said one falconer or two works 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. six days a week. The landfill is covered with a tarp one day a week, closed, and is tarped from the end of one workday to the next.
Falstaff will fly early to keep the earliest arrivals – pigeons – away from breakfast. Arriving gulls may number up to 5,000. Boris will be placed on a perch. "His presence alone keeps them out for a good majority of the time," Chavez said, "but then they'll get really hungry and they'll press hard, like 11 or 12 (o'clock)."
Falstaff might go up on a speed run four times a day. Boris can go up more often, as his style is different, burning fewer calories cruising back and forth over the trash heap. While the falcon and hawk are at rest, Marino or Chavez will fly a kite or use other tricks – bull whips, a starter gun, mirrors and a whistle – to hassle scavengers, keep them off balance. There's no pattern to guess when the predators will be up again.
"In your bag of tricks, you have to have the birds of prey," Chavez said. "It's the fear of death."
Falstaff and Boris are trained to hassle, conditioned to respond to a whistle. They'll return to the falconer for a treat if called by whistle, by name or by a waved hat, Chavez said. "It just puts the (gulls) on edge … makes them crazy," Marino said. "We don't fly (Falstaff and Boris) every hour, every half hour. We might fly them three times in an hour and (then) not for four hours."
Greg Dayak, landfill operations superintendent, has seen a big drop in birds' food pilferage. "They're still around the boundaries, but they're not in our active fill area," he said. "From seeing the falconers at work, I'd say it's very worthwhile."
"What we really hope to see … and we don't really know if this is possible … is to see the gulls give up and go elsewhere to find their food," said Julie Chay, public-information officer for county landfills.
"You've got to break the habit," Chavez said. "These gulls have been coming here for years and years. It's not something that is going to end in a day. We've cut it down dramatically, but they still keep trying to come in."
Seagull season at Prima Deshecha is October through March or April. Then most of the gulls migrate somewhere, Dayak said. The county has budgeted $60,000 for bird control for the fiscal year that begins July 1. That would buy a limited program. Chay said the county will evaluate the experiment and decide what's needed.
"It's part of our permit to have bird control in place," Dayak said.
Chavez said he hopes to win a Prima Deshecha contract, as both he and Marino live just over the hill and know the turf. The pilot program has two months left and Chavez said the county wants to reduce it to five days a week, eight hours a day, next month to see how that works.
"If we have to go back to just eight hours … we'll just try to pick the best times," he said. "You really want someone here the whole time. The longer you're here, you're not allowing them to get into the trash."
Chavez said he understands budget constraints and will do his best, but if it's five days a week, one day will be vulnerable and gulls are smart – "they'll find out."
In 2002: Prima Deshecha hired a falconer as an experiment, hoping to shoo away birds foraging for trash.
The falconer: Sent up four falcons – Ahmed, The Prince, Faith and Wicked Wanda – one at a time, in shifts, to make hungry gulls decide they didn't want to be there.
The experiment: Was fiercely effective, at first.
Within a month:The falconer quit, finding the job too demanding.
In 2003: Prima Deshecha hired a model-plane expert for a test run.
How it worked: A radio-controlled plane made life so grim for gulls that the landfill's bird population plummeted to less than 1,000 from about 3,500.
What went wrong: Competitive bids showed the cost would be more than $100,000 a year, much more than the county had figured on.
A flying club: Offered to do bird abatement for free in exchange for recreational use of landfill airspace.
It didn't fly: Club couldn't guarantee consistent coverage, and county risk managers balked. What if a plane crashed on someone?
An alternative: Hassle the birds with cracker shells. They sound like cherry bombs.
Why not: Nearby homeowners. Discontinued, maybe five years ago.
In 2012: San Clemente tried a month-long falcon experiment at Poche Beach.
The goal: To oust hundreds of gulls from Poche's beachfront and a pond that attracts them there between dining excursions to Prima Deshecha.
Result: The trial was very effective displacing gulls, but evidently not far enough away from Poche to produce clean enough water samples, city said.
In 2013: County is trying a 3-month falcon experiment at Prima Deshecha Landfill, costing $36,444. County budgets $60,000 for fiscal year that begins July 1.
Meanwhile: A year-round falcon program began in November at county's Olinda Alpha Landfill, costing $150,000.
Difference: County says Olinda has a much larger exposed trash area than Prima.
Next: County will evaluate Prima Deshecha trial, try to craft an ongoing program.
Source: Sun Post News archives, County of Orange
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