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Monday, February 20, 2012
Putting The Positive Spin On Failure
This was said during one of the presentations during my CASA training. This can apply to just about any situation in life, I think. It certainly applied to the 10k I didn't run on Sunday. Yeah, didn't run.
I was pretty excited when I signed up in January. I decided The Lost Dutchman is going to be the marathon I run next year for my first marathon when I'm 40. So I figured a 10k would be a good way to check it out and see what the race is like. I all ready know it's beautiful. The desert lacks so much beauty so much of the year, I want to have a decent backdrop when I'm running 26.2.
The downward spiral started when I realized that no one was signing up with me. My friends were scared off by running the half marathon last month. Seriously, they may never run again. Their loss. ;) So, first thing was running with no one there. Sure, I end up running alone anyway. But knowing someone else is THERE is quite motivating. Then as the day closed in I found out my family wasn't going either. My younger one wanted to, but I am not quite comfortable yet with leaving her in a crowd of people while I go run (I don't think she's quite comfortable with that yet either).
I tried to get into a better frame of mind. Make it a personal challenge, get my first official 10k time. Enjoy the day, enjoy the surroundings. Nah, none of it worked. From the moment I woke up I felt totally alone. Worse, I felt unsupported. Totally fabricated in my brain, but all the same it's how I felt. By the time I pulled into the parking lot, and saw all the groups of people who came together, the families, etc., I just kept on spiraling.
Then the back pain started. It was pretty cold before the sun came up, and I left my jacket in the car. And my money, so I couldn't buy a cup of coffee to warm up. So I stood and kept moving around, which started putting pressure on my back. Seriously, running is the only thing good for my body. Standing hurts. Walking hurts. Biking hurts. Running works!
After an hour of waiting, I was pretty tight and no amount of stretching was helping. By the time the race started I began by walking. Half a mile into it I went into a slow jog, but it was no use. The pain, plus my mental state at watching the happy people around me with all their friends did their damage. I went back to walking, but by then it hurt too much to even do that. When we passed the parking lot at the mile mark, I turned and went back to my car, crying like a whiny loser baby.
So there it is. I lost my first race. Even walking the whole thing would have been better than quitting, but I quit. It feels awful. All I could tell my kids when they asked how it went was "ok", because I was too ashamed to tell them I quit. Eventually I did tell them, once I finished wallowing in self-pity.
Really, it's a learning experience, as is everything. What did I learn? If something is important to me, I need to express that more clearly. I said it was ok that my family wasn't there. When I got there, I realized that it wasn't ok. I honestly didn't know it would bother me as much as it did, but regardless- say what you mean!
Also, if I don't have a buddy to run these races with me, or at least someone coming to meet me at the finish line, then I won't do them. Races to me are how I show how my training and hard work pay off, and yes it seems selfish but I want to share that with someone. More importantly, I need the support. It's motivating, and also way more fun than just going to these events by myself. Sure I like the solitude of running, but races are different. Most of the time I feel really alone because I don't think anyone loves running the way I do. It always means so much when I know there's support out there waiting for me at the finish line. Perhaps I'll get past that at some point, but for now, that's what I need. What I want.
Moving forward now- and I think I'll put the phrase on a plaque:
"How you enter a situation determines the outcome."
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Rox Beat Border Cats to Improve to 2-0
The St. Cloud Rox defeated Thunder Bay 7-4 in Canada today to improve to 2-0. St. Cloud scored 3 runs in the 7th inning to break a 4-all tie. St. Cloud Apollo graduate Reese Gregory threw 3 shutout innings with no hits allowed and 3 strikeouts to get the win. Kevin Burgee threw a scoreless 9th inning to get his 2nd save in as many days.
Clay Ardeeser was 2-3 with a run scored and 1 RBI and Danny Baer was 2-4 with a run scored and 1 RBI for the Rox. St. Cloud is 2-0 and will return to Minnesota and play at Willmar at 7:05 Thursday night, pregame on AM 1390-the Fan at 6:35.
The Rox home opener is Friday night against Willmar at 7:05, pregame on AM 1390-the Fan at 6:35.


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"What Psychology Professionals Should Know About Polyamory"
2006 Incident Response Report
In 2006, the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) again took the lead in defending the rights of individuals and groups in the SM-leather-fetish, swing and polyamory communities. NCSF's coalition of over 40 educational and social groups is committed to creating a political, legal, and social environment in the United States that advances equal rights of consenting adults who practice forms of alternative sexual expression.
NCSF's Incident Response team is directed by Director Leigha Fleming. In total, over 500 individuals, groups, attorneys, prosecutors, and businesses contacted NCSF for help in 2006. Each incident sometimes required only one or two phone calls, but some evolved into much larger projects.
NCSF received 521 distinct inquiries/requests for assistance. 289 required more than one contact/response to resolve, often requiring multiple contacts. It is difficult to categorize many incident requests as clearly falling into one camp or another. Many overlap in categories. For example, many of our custody/divorce related issues involve at least 2 of our core constituent groups (i.e. SM/leather/fetish and poly for example). In trying to do a statistical breakdown of the requests, we placed it in the category it most clearly matched.
- 13% were requests regarding SM/abuse/domestic violence issues
- 6% were regarding criminal complaint issues
- 7% were regarding employment discrimination
- 13.5% were regarding child custody/divorce issues
- 5.5% were in reference to child protective services' complaints
- 14.5% were related to SM/leather/fetish group issues
- 9% were classed as non-employment discrimination
- 8% were related to swing community issues
- 8% were regarding online obscenity issues
- 10.5% were regarding zoning issues
- 5% were classed as "other"
Of the inquires:
- 73.5% were driven by SM/leather/fetish issues
- 15% by swing
- 7% by poly
- 4.5% by other
2006 saw an increased number of requests around criminal and domestic violence or SM/abuse related issues. NCSF worked with more than 30 attorneys representing defendants in criminal cases. In addition, we worked with more than 10 district attorneys and prosecutors related to SM issues. The vast majority of these criminal cases revolved around domestic abuse or consensual sex/play issues. There is a clear need for education within our own communities about the role and limits of consent and for education to police authorities about the differences between SM and abuse.
Employment related discrimination is increasing as well.
The implementation of KAP under NCSF's administration resulted in fewer requests for referrals because we were able to refer the request to our site. As we improve the KAP administration, and resource, the number of requests for referrals that need to be handled by a person will drop since we'll be able to refer people to the KAP database. The new administration tools for KAP in our website overhaul will also make the use of this tool much more efficient for both user and professional.
We continue to receive a number of requests for assistance from groups, businesses, and other support organizations who want information about how to operate legally, do law enforcement outreach, file for non-profit status, deal with the media or the press, do hotel/event outreach, or do research around zoning or other legal issues.
We also continue to receive requests for assistance involving parents who were engaged in child custody and divorce cases. Parents continue to experience difficulties gaining child custody due to their interest in SM, swing or poly activities. NCSF worked with a number of attorneys representing parents accused of being unfit because of their alternative lifestyle interests. In many cases, because of information we were able to provide, the courts decided that alternative sexual expression alone was not cause to impugn a parent's ability to be a good parent.
2006 incident response statistics are currently being compiled. As of the end of July 2007, more than 346 distinct requests for assistance have been processed.
NCSF is here to help you -- the SM, swing and polyamory communities. If you have a problem with discrimination, persecution, or harassment because of your sexual expression, please call NCSF for assistance. You can submit a request for assistance online or find a Kink Aware Professional (KAP) on our website as well at www.ncsfreedom.org. Emergency contact information is available by calling our office at 410.539.4824, 24 hours per day.
Please support NCSF in our effort to change the political, legal, and social environment in the United States. We are committed to making a difference. Join NCSF as a member or please hold a fund-raiser and donate to NCSF!
Donations made to the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Inc are not deductible for charitable tax purposes.
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
822 Guilford Avenue, Box 127
Baltimore, MD 21202-3707
phone: 410-539-4824
NCSF Profile: Leigha Fleming
Leigha Fleming, Interim Executive Director
By Lou Briquant
Whether you're a swinging couple, a quiet practitioner of SM, Gay/Les couple or single, or a member of a polyamorous relationship, there are people in this world who are looking out for your interests and your freedom to be who you are. Leigha Fleming is the Interim Executive Director of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, a volunteer post that is a lot of hard work with intangible but fulfilling rewards.
Ms. Fleming got involved in the NCSF over the past few years. She tells us that she is currently doing any of several related jobs within the organization. "I most enjoy managing NCSF's Constituency Services, which include our Incident Response Program and our Legal Education Outreach Program. The most important qualities for any volunteer, regardless of position, is dependability. You have to do what you say you're going to do. You have to follow through and be accountable. We have to listen to what our constituents want and need from us, and we have to have confidence and to believe in our mission and vision."
Fleming never planned to be an activist or advocate. She was very involved in the SM-leather-fetish community and, as her participation grew, her awareness of discrimination and challenges faced by those involved in alternative lifestyles grew as well. "I've always had very strong opinions regarding governmental interference in private lives of adults. As I saw friends lose custody of their children, and SM groups getting hassled by the police, I began to get angry. Anger is a great motivator for change!"
Fleming happened to hear about the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) about five years ago, when her educational SM group began doing outreach to the local police. An NCSF staffer heard about the successful meetings, and contacted her. NCSF was just beginning its its Legal Education Outreach Program
(LEOP), so she got involved at that time. She believed, and still does, that the NCSF will make a difference.
Holding down a fulltime job, in addition to the necessary duties, is taxing and extremely time-consuming. She spends three or four hours a day on average, dealing with NCSF-related issues. The most difficult aspect of the volunteer work, outside of the time, is making sure everything is coordinated and follow-up is properly done.
The struggle continues, against with anti-privacy/anti-First Amendment forces that want to curtail the ability of our communities to meet, attend events, and become educated. "We had numerous confrontations with religious extremist organizations like the Concerned Women for America last year," Leigha said. "Their attempts to shut down our events continue. Fortunately, we local communities are beginning to utilize NCSF as a resource for dealing with media inquiries and for working with their local law enforcement."
"Our lawsuit against the federal government over the Communications and Decency Act continues. The court recently refused to dismiss our case against the government and so that is moving forward. We have a dozen or more "incidents" pending involving child custody and divorce and we're currently involved in a criminal case involving SM."
NCSF is in a growth phase right now. It's in the process of transitioning from a grassroots-model organization operated by consensus, to a professionally run national non-profit organization. Fleming, speaking on the changes, says, "They're making that transition very effectively. I expect to add more workshops to our Legal Education Outreach Program and, with the help of its new director Robyn Friedman, recruit more qualified volunteers to train. We also will be expanding and strengthening our ability to respond to both individual and group incidents. In addition, we'll be improving the internal structure of the organization and positioning ourselves to be a viable entity for many years to come. We will be filling our Executive Direction postion with a paid employee soon."
When asked what obstacles is the NCSF able to overcome in the near term, Leigha responded, "Like many non-profit organizations, we've been hit very hard by the downturn in the economy. We need to place NCSF on secure financial footing. We also need to put in place a system that can track and manage all the wonderful folks who volunteer for NCSF. In addition, we need to recruit and train qualified volunteers for our LEOP and Incident Response programs."
Fleming is responsible for the day to day oversight of NCSF's budget and finances. She says they have done a remarkable job of eliminating debt over the last six months, as well as having reduced their expenses. Fundraising Coordinator Glenda Rider does what Fleming calls "a magnificent job" of soliciting on behalf of NCSF. "We're working daily on implementing processes that increase our structural integrity."
As for problems up ahead, Fleming believes, "Our greatest external challenges in the near future come from those groups who want to restrict or eliminate the right of consenting adults to freely assemble and learn from one another. Another significant challenge rests in getting the word out about NCSF, and what we do for our own communities."
When asked what she thought of the relative amount of lifestyle freedom in the United States vis-à-vis other nations, Ms. Fleming has mixed feelings. "In some respects the US is freer. Even other first-world countries place restrictions on the practice of religion, press, etc... However, I would argue that the US is signifcantly less free when than other first-world countries when it comes to attitudes about sexuality and alternative sexual practices. In addition, the US has made a dangerous shift since 9/11. Laws allowing the federal government to invade the privacy of Americans in the pursuit of perceived terrorism have a chilling effect on us all."
"The NCSF's lawsuit against the federal government regarding the Communications & Decency Act is a significant challenge to the notion that someone in small-town USA has the right and ability to govern what a person in New York City creates online. In addition, we are actively working to dispel antiquated beliefs about alternative lifestyles, both in and out of our own communities."
Fleming has met with groups spanning the spectrum of consenting adults' lifestyles. "I've learned a number of things: First, I've learned we have a lot in common. Swingers, poly folks, and those in the SM-leather-fetish communities all face the same kind of discrimination. We all have the same challenges with our clubs, with educating others. Second, I've learned how much we tend to segment ourselves from one another. When we first included swingers and poly folks in our mission statement, I was so surprised to hear people say, "But we're not like them!" The SMers professed disdain for the swingers. The poly folks didn't think they had anything in common with the SM people, and so forth."
Fleming feels that our greatest challenge is uniting across our lifestyle lines, without engaging in fragmentation that could weaken or even destroy the advances now being made. Working together can help ensure safety and freedom for everyone.
**NCSF thanks Leigha for all her hard work and continuing support of our coalition.
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Interview Contact List
Individuals from the SM-Leather-Fetish community available for interview
Liz Highleyman
Cecilia Tan
Publisher (Circlet Press),
Boston, MA
Bill Henkin
Board Certified Sex Therapist,
San Francisco, CA
John Warren
Boston, MA
Janet Hardy
Publisher (Greenery Press),
San Francisco, CA
Jay Wiseman
San Francisco, CA
Trevor Jacques
Publisher (WholeSM),
Toronto, Canada
Susan Wright
Policy Director of NCSF,
New York, NY
Mistress Lalique
Professional Dominatrix,
Centerville, MA
NCSF's Violence and Discrimination Survey (1999)
Gather demographic data on the SM-Leather-Fetish communities.
Gain an understanding of the affect of social stigma on SM and fetish practitioners.
SURVEY INSTRUMENT - Paper and electronic distribution (see below)
PERIOD - April 1998 to February 1999
Useful demographic data on the SM-Leather-Fetish communities
Sense of the magnitude of the problems arising from the stigma against SM
Clear justification for a more professional survey
|No Response
|Under $ 10K
|Part time
|Full time
|Self employed
|Over $50K
|Over 65
1. Have you ever experienced violence or harassment because of your alternative sexual practices?
If yes, what happened? (multiple responses allowed)
|Verbal harassment
Physical assault
Property vandalized
|Sexual harassment
2. Have you ever experienced discrimination due to your alternative sexual practices?
If yes, what happened? (multiple responses allowed)
Loss of job or contract
|Loss of promotion
|Loss of custody of child
Refused membership
|Unjustified arrest
3. Did you press charges?
4. Do you freely tell others of your interest in alternative sexual expression?
If you're not out, why not?
|Fear of disapproval
|Fear of repercussions
|Fear of persecution
|Fear of loss of child custody
Only 28% of those surveyed were "out", while the vast majority don't tell other people about their sexual preferences. Some reported that "it's no one else's business," but many cited fear of job loss or child custody, or harming family relations. One respondent reported, "A formerly trusted confidant outed me to my family. As I am the primary care giver for my mother (Alzheimer's) my siblings feared that I would expose our mother to "dangerous characters". They considered making other arrangements for Mom's care and made me promise not to 'practice" my sexual preferences in our home."
Unfortunately, staying in the closet doesn't protect people - only one-third of those who suffered violence or discrimination reported that they are "out". The other two-thirds were minding their own business and keeping their mouths shut when they were either harassed or discriminated against.
Discrimination cuts very deep, in places we may not even realize. One respondent wrote, "My doctor called my desire for body modification 'sick'. Medical doctors have with held information of safe piercing practices from me because they consider all piercing to be 'self destructive', 'sick' and dangerous."
Other people are haunted by a fear of losing their jobs. Many who have answered the survey are educated professionals, and they can't afford to jeopardize their income. One University professor wrote, "We are very careful about outside appearance because of the fact that we live in a predominantly student section of town, where in fact several of my students live within shouting distance."
We also received a response from an ordained minister who has been involved in SM for several years. "I shared with my former roommate from seminary details about my lifestyle & interest. She took it upon herself to "save" me & report me to my superiors. I was up on a years leave of absence & required to participate in therapy."
There are many responses from people about being "ostracized... for getting mail that included SM/Leather/Fetish publications," or "harassed and threatened with being fired," or "laid off."
Of the violence that occurs against SM practitioners, there is an appalling amount of sexual abuse being perpetuated because someone believed they "deserved it". Many survey responses reported incidents of: "Simply; I was beaten up due to the jerk thinking that since I was submissive, that also meant free game to beat up and rape."
Despite the fact that 36% of the respondents reported being harassed or attacked because of their diverse sexual practices, 96% never reported the crime. Some of the reasons given were: "Didn't think authorities would believe me." "Chalked it up to ignorance & prejudice. "Wouldn't have been taken seriously." "Who would believe me?" "A waste of time."
NCSF hopes with the results from this survey, law enforcement officials will have to listen to the facts about violence taking place against people because of their interest in alternative sexual practices. NCSF hopes that media professionals will realize there are serious repercussions when SM and fetishes are sensationalized.
645 hard surveys returned
372 computer surveys returned
1,017 total returned surveys
Respondents were actively encouraged to fill out the survey whether or not they had experienced discrimination or violence. Most of the survey questions were geared toward gaining demographic information on the SM-Leather-Fetish communities.
The computer survey form was posted on the NCSF website. Hyperlinks were sent through NCSF and other e-mail newsletters, and the URL was posted on various internet sites, bulletin boards, and chat rooms.
5,000 surveys were printed and distributed at dozens of meetings and events, including the following major community events:
- Leather Leadership Conference, NYC, April 1998
- IML, Chicago, May 1998
- Folsom Street East, NYC, June 1998
- IMsL, August 1998
- Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, September 1998
- Living in Leather, Texas, October 1998
- BR 98, DC, October 1998
The Member Organizations of NCSF mailed an additional 4,600 surveys directly to each of their members:
|Member Organization
|Society of Janus
|The Eulenspiegel Society
|Black Rose
Tips on Meeting with Elected Officials
Our legislators work for us. They want to know what we think about issues on the local, state, and national level. You can always write letters and should but actually meeting with your elected official is easier than you think.
Our legislators work for us. They want to know what we think about issues on the local, state, and national level. You can always write letters and should but actually meeting with your elected official is easier than you think.
What is a lobby visit?
A lobby visit is a meeting where you tell your elected representative what you think about a certain issue or bill. Whether it is a City Council Member or your Congressional Representative, as one of their constituents you can ask them to take action on an issue or legislation.
You can find the office of your local and national elected officials in your area. Some Members of Congress have more than one office in their congressional district, and permanent staff members are usually available for you to meet with.
Requesting Your Meeting
Make your request in writing and follow up with a call to the Appointment Secretary/Scheduler.
Suggest specific times and dates for your meeting
Let them know what issue or legislation you wish to discuss.
Make sure they know that you are a constituent.
Prepare for Your Meeting
Contact the NCSF to help you decide on your talking points, and get information that you can leave with your elected official.
Decide who will attend the meeting. Bringing more than four or five people can be hard to manage
Agree on talking points. Your goal is to make a strong case for your position, so don't disagree in the meeting. If a point is causing tension in the group, leave it out
Plan out your meeting keeping in mind that time is limited. Decide who will start the conversation, and which points each person will make
Decide what you want achieve. Do you want your elected official to vote for or against a bill? Do you want them to support your issue or oppose a restrictive ordinance? Ask them to do something specific.
During the Meeting
Be prompt and patient. Elected officials run on very tight schedules.
Keep it short and focused. You will have twenty minutes or less with a staff person, and as little as ten minutes if you meet with your elected official. Stick to your talking points.
Know your elected official's record on similar issues or legislation. Begin by thanking them for voting in support of your issues, and for taking the time to meet with you.
Leave only a few pages of information that contain your main points. Include your contact information.
Provide concise personal and local examples of the impact of the legislation or issue. This is the most important thing you can do in a lobby visit.
You don't need all of the information on an issue. If you don't know the answer to a question, it is fine to tell the elected official that you will get that information. This gives you the chance to contact them again about the issue.
Set deadlines for a response. You sometimes won't get a definitive answer at the meeting. Ask when you should check back in to find out what your elected official intends to do about your request. If you need to get information to them, set a date for when this will happen.
After the Meeting
Right after the meeting, compare notes with everyone in your group to confirm what the elected official committed to do and what follow up information you committed to send.
One of you should promptly send a thank you letter for meeting with you.
Follow up immediately with any requested materials and information.
If the elected official or staff member doesn't meet the deadline for action you agreed to during the meeting, ask him or her to set another deadline. Be persistent, polite, and flexible.
Meeting with your elected officials is the best way to demonstrate that there is a constituency for civil liberties in your district. It's easy to make a difference.
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Moderators: Three Stars, dagny, pfim, netwolf
Jaromir Jagr met with the media Saturday afternoon after an informal practice at the Dallas Stars' practice facility in Frisco, Texas.
The 40-year-old signed a one-year deal with the Stars this summer after spending last season with the Philadelphia Flyers. Jagr spent the past few months playing for Kladno, the team he owns in the Czech Extraliga.
Jagr is aware of the expectations the Stars have for him entering this season as a big-ticket name, and he wants to live up to those expectations.
"When I decided to sign here, I felt like they were interested and they wanted me here," Jagr told reporters. "On the other side, it's kind of extra motivation to prove the people made the right choice."
The Stars also signed 40-year-old forward Ray Whitney, who brings an impressive resume of his own with 1,003 points in 1,229 NHL games. A trade sent center Steve Ott to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for center Derek Roy, who joins an already talented club that boasts Jamie Benn (a restricted free agent) and Loui Eriksson up front.
There won't be much time for Jagr to familiarize himself with his new teammates. He spent last season in the Eastern Conference and the previous three seasons playing overseas, so he doesn't have much of a scouting report on the Stars.
"I didn't play much against Dallas the last five years because I wasn't here, and last year we played only once," Jagr said. "But of course I know those players and they have a lot of skill. Hopefully we can do some damage this year."
With the compressed schedule, Jagr said he doesn't want to take any extra days off during the season despite his age.
"I'm an old-schooler. I like to practice a lot," Jagr said. "The more I practice, the better I feel. Of course, sometimes you need a day off; but for me, not very often. I feel a lot worse after a day off than if I don't take any."
Jagr said he doesn't feel any added pressure as a potential help to the Stars in terms of selling tickets.
"Of course, I understand that if more people come to the rink, it's better for our owner, it's better for our team," Jagr said. "But I think the most important thing that I've always believed that if you play good hockey and you're going to win, they're always going to come. They like the winners. There's no question about it."
Malkamaniac wrote:I drafted Jagr this year as a late round player. My luck he'll tear his groin apart.
Hello again! After a week, I'm sending all of you my greetings, only now for the first time from Dallas. I have to admit that I left Kladno with a heavy heart, because as I wrote in my last column, I got used to being at home. You know the saying - home sweet home.
Now, I must concentrate on something entirely different. It's a whole new world for me. New city, new club, new teammates. In addition, it's a different conference of the NHL. So even though you could say that I have seen a lot in my 40 years on earth and there are only a few things that could surprise me, I am still discovering something new. At least I won't get bored.
When it comes to first impressions, I don't have anything to complain about. I am living in a hotel near the training center and I am spending all my spare time training. I am not concentrating on anything else because I'm here for the hockey. Either I'm on the ice or I'm resting - I dont have the energy for anything else. I don't do a lot of sightseeing, but I never did. I'm going to have enough time for that when I hang up my skates.
Therefore, I don't have much to write about regarding the city of Dallas. I could describe my hotel room to you, because that's the place I know best, but it's nothing special. I am exaggerating a bit, but it's true that I haven't seen much of Texas during the few days I've been here.
I recall that it was the same at the beginning of my stay in Philadelphia. Training, eating, sleeping. Over and over again. I remember that the people from Sport (Deník Sport, the only Czech sports daily - translator's note) tried to persuade me to go see the famous Rocky Steps in Philadelphia, the ones that he used to run up during his workouts. They wanted a picture of me from there.
I had to admit that the idea itself was pretty good, but I ending up not going. I am not the right guy for these kinds of things. When I am in training, I need all my spare time for resting. As you might understand, training is no joking matter at my age.I will do my best to help the team into the playoffs
To get back to talking about Dallas... I'm happy that I got the keys to the training center. After all, this was my main condition before I even signed the contract with the Stars! It was the most important article that really had to be in the contract.
I'm just kidding a bit again, which I was also doing during one of my first interviews with the American journalists. I pulled some random keys out of my pocket in front of them and claimed that they were the keys to the practice rink.
Are they really the right keys? I am trying to think how you would know if I am telling the truth. Maybe you should just try them for yourselves...
Now, on a more serious note; the schedule ahead of us is going to be extremely challenging. During the opening eleven days, we will play a total of seven games, four of them away. However, I expected that it was going to be crammed like that. Also, it's a lot of hours on the plane.
In that respect, it will be something completely different than in Philadelphia where the majority of our competitors were located much closer. However, I knew this when I signed with Dallas and I am ready. I went through a similar travelling schedule when I played in Russia and I managed to cope with that one too.
Regarding the team, I am getting to know my fellow players. Unfortunately, there's not much time to build proper chemistry on the ice. After a short training camp, we will go straight into the season. Therefore, I don't want to talk about our chances yet, it would be a bit premature.
Regardless, I will do my best to help the team into the playoffs. I'm glad that Dallas gave me a chance and now I feel that I have to return the favor.
Speaking of the playoff atmosphere, I don't think anyone anticipated just how pumped up this crowd would be for opening night. It seemed to be a combination of hockey finally returning after such a long hiatus and having a player like Jaromir Jagr on the ice in a Stars jersey. The fans were great, the atmosphere was great and the only hope is that the momentum with the fans continues to build as the season continues.
Back to the hockey: Jaromir Jagr is incredible. He was the best player on the ice, his puck possession skills are off the charts and it's clear that he's already building some great chemistry with Loui Eriksson. Almost as importantly, Jagr is a hockey legend that these Stars fans are openly and fully embracing. The AAC was sold out because Jagr was on the ice, I guarantee it, and getting two goals and two assists in his Stars debut couldn't have made for a better script.
It was the first year in which Jaromir Jagr really became an NHL offensive superstar.
The 21-year-old Czech winger scored 94 points during the 1992-93 regular season and showed the world that he was ready to dominate the League in the near future. But from his own point of view, he recalls that year almost as if it was a disaster, and not only because it was his first NHL season that didn't finish with a Stanley Cup raised above his head.
"I'd rather erase that season from my memory," Jagr wrote in his Czech biography 'From Kladno to America.' "Until Christmas, I just fought myself. And January was even worse. I scored just three goals during that month and one of them was an empty-netter."
In Jagr's opinion, the only two good things that happened during the 1992-93 campaign were attending the NHL All-Star Game in Montreal and meeting former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who had been a secret idol of Jagr's growing up in communist Czechoslovakia.
In the book, Jagr spoke about issues between him and legendary coach Scotty Bowman.
"I felt like I was in a pressure cooker and it was just a matter of time when I was going to blow up," he wrote. "The thing was that I did not play. Scotty gave me just about two or three shifts per period. I almost did not play any power plays and I got sick and tired of sitting on the bench."
After he earned his second Stanley Cup in his first two years in the NHL with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1992, Jagr set his personal goal for the next season - to score at least 100 points.
"I did not achieve that goal and it felt disappointing," said Jagr, who later won five Art Ross Trophies as the League's leading scorer and a Hart Trophy as the League's most valuable player.
But while Jagr himself does not like to recall the 1992-93 season, he still finished it with 25 more points than the previous year. And for Czech fans, 1992 was the year when Jagr's popularity really started to spread all over the country.
After Jagr's excellent performance in the 1992 Stanley Cup Playoffs, more and more people back home were ready to watch Jagr's magic dekes and moves during late night's broadcasts from North America. He drew more Czech attention to the NHL than any other person before and turned most Czech hockey fans into Pittsburgh Penguins fans.
The fact Jagr comes from Kladno has helped his hometown become the greatest hotbed of current NHL players from the Czech Republic. Goalie Ondrej Pavelec, defensemen Tomas Kaberle and Marek Zidlicky, forwards Tomas Plekanec, Jiri Tlusty, Jakub Voracek, Michael Frolik and to a certain extent also Patrik Elias, Tomas Vokoun and David Krejci all grew up in Kladno adoring Jagr and watching him rule over the NHL in the mid-to-late 1990s.
"As kids in Kladno," Plekanec said, "we'd be playing hockey watching Jagr and trying to play like him."
It was like that not only in Kladno, but all over the country.
"Who was my idol? Jagr, of course. Or do you think it could have been somebody else?" said Tomas Hertl, a first-round pick of the San Jose Sharks in the 2012 NHL Draft and probably the brightest Czech prospect today. Hertl grew up playing for Kladno's rival, Slavia Prague.
"He's got such impact in the Czech Republic. And he's got the ability to play here even after a long time [away]. He still has everything: size, strength, hockey sense. We could see him on the ice for many years." --
But there is no rivalry in the Czech hockey world when talking about No 68.
Jagr is a legend, probably the most popular athlete in the history of Czech sports. No one else draws as much attention and no one else gets as much coverage in the news -- from the tabloids to lifestyle magazines of all kinds. In many interviews, Jagr tries to point out the priorities in life and inspire people. Even those who don't care about hockey at all, they listen.
When Jagr played for Kladno in the Czech Extraliga during the NHL lockout, some home games of his club Rytiri Kladno were moved to Prague's O2 arena in order to accommodate bigger crowds. And while the league's average attendance slightly exceeds 5,000 spectators per game, more than 17,000 people went to see Jagr and Co. at almost each game in Prague.
At those games, about one fifth of the fans usually cheered for Kladno, and another fifth for the other team. The rest did not care about the result. They just came to see Jagr.
Jagr's popularity is widespread across all generations, political orientation, towns and provinces.
"I was not surprised at all seeing how Jags made the whole nation crazy while playing in the Czech league," Philadelphia Flyers forward and Czech native Jakub Voracek said. "I also think he will be able to repeat this again when he comes home the next time after his NHL career is over. He's got such impact in the Czech Republic. And he's got the ability to play here even after a long time [away]. He still has everything: size, strength, hockey sense. We could see him on the ice for many years."
But Jagr today is a different type of a role model for young athletes and little kids than he used to be in the '90s. In 1993, people liked his light-hearted smile, his carefree approach and frisky character. But there were some who did not like him, for Jagr was also a superstar in the negative meaning of that word. He had gambling issues, he had issues with his coaches, he did not like to backcheck -- he was basically an independent player in a team game.
"The most important thing for me was to score goals. I felt that was the best way to help the team," Jagr explained. "Goal scored by number 68 - to hear that, that was my motivation. But today, the best feeling for me is when our team wins. I used to love the games such as Penguins vs. the Rangers, those usually ended 7-5 or 8-7. Today, the best match-ups for me are when we win 2-1 because we fought as a team to the very last second."
In 2012, there is a different Jagr -- a grown, wise man. He changed his approach to put the team first. He helps young players grow, he works harder on and off the ice than ever before.
His late night practices became well known in Philadelphia the same way they did in Kladno. When he recorded one of those practices (including skating with ankle weights and a 50-pound vest) on camera and put it on Facebook, it instantly turned into a viral hit among Czech and Slovak fans.
There might have been some in the Czech Republic who did not like the early version of Jagr from the '90s. But today, there are none.
There may be some people there who do not care about hockey. But there are none who don't care about Jagr.
It was past 10 o'clock on Tuesday night, and the Dallas Stars were going through the usual postgame routine. Some players rode stationary bikes in the middle of the visitors' dressing room at Joe Louis Arena, pushing so hard they were out of breath. Others stretched on the floor.
Jaromir Jagr's postgame routine includes a weighted vest and media scrums. And then there was Jaromir Jagr.
Out in the hallway – where equipment guys loaded gear into a truck parked indoors, where arena workers pushed carts of beer into a huge cooler, where reporters scurried to the media room to file their game stories, where all sorts of family and friends and hangers-on gathered to catch a glimpse of backstage glamour – Jagr did his own thing, as he always does.
He wore a weighted vest. He wore weights on his ankles. On the grungy concrete floor, along the spartan cinderblock wall, he did deep-knee bends. He did lunges from side to side. He did sprints.
Jagr walked into the dressing room, his hair a wet mop, sweat dripping through his salt-and-pepper stubble. He did an interview with a Czech TV crew and a couple of North American writers. Some of his teammates stared.
"This one's not much," Jagr said, looking down at his weighted vest. "Twenty-five pounds."
So there are heavier ones?
"I've got 45 [pounds]," he said. "I've got to wait. Before playoffs."
He burst out laughing.
"Don't want to show them everything now."
This is like Philadelphia all over again. When Jagr returned to the NHL last season, after three years in the Kontinental Hockey League, the moody superstar had morphed into a wise old man. He asked for a key to the practice facility so he could work out late at night. He was a mentor, especially for young star Claude Giroux. He was still a dynamic, productive player.
The Stars are counting on Jagr to be an example for the team's younger players.When Jagr arrived in Dallas, he asked for a key to the practice facility. A team official had suggested he work with a realtor to find a big place in a beautiful neighborhood, but Jagr chose an extended stay at a mid-range hotel about a block-and-a-half from the rink. Three of the first four nights he was in town, he was working out at approximately 11 p.m. The Stars think he will help Loui Eriksson and Jamie Benn, if and when Benn signs as a restricted free agent.
So far, so good. Jagr had two goals and two assists in the Stars' opener, a 4-3 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes, and he was strong in a 1-0 loss to the Minnesota Wild. Detroit Red Wings assistant coach Bill Peters did the pre-scout on the Stars before Tuesday night's game. When head coach Mike Babcock asked him whom the Wings needed to watch, the first name Peters mentioned was Jagr's.
"It could have been Eriksson or [Kari] Lehtonen or lots of guys, but it was Jagr," Babcock said. "So obviously he's a high-end player still."
Jagr was strong again in the Stars' 2-1 victory over the Wings. It's only a matter of time before he gets the two goals he needs to reach 669, overtaking Luc Robitaille for 10th place on the NHL's all-time list. He's already eighth on the all-time scoring list and the league's active scoring leader with 1,657 points.
"He's not just playing because of who he is. He plays because he can still play and because he loves it. That's what amazes me," said Stars defenseman Stephane Robidas, a 35-year-old veteran. "I think he's just a good influence for young guys and even for a guy like myself. Sometimes you're like … You don't feel as good some days, and you see him walk in the locker room and he's smiling, and life is beautiful. With everything he's done before, that's pretty impressive."
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It seems obvious why the Stars signed Jagr and why Jagr signed with the Stars. After four years out of the playoffs, with too many empty gray seats at the American Airlines Center, the Stars needed to sell tickets. Who better than the most accomplished scorer in the league? They also needed to reach the salary floor and gave Jagr a one-year, $4.5 million contract. Who else was going to pay him that at his age? But there is more to the story.
At this time last year, the Stars were not planning on pursuing flashy free agents. They were focused on drafting and developing, the long-term plan to re-establish themselves in what had been the highest-revenue market in the NHL in 2003 and a top-10 market as recently as '08. But they had a new owner in Tom Gaglardi – no more bankruptcy, no more lender headaches, no more league control – and that meant they could spend and hire again.
Dallas also bolstered its roster with the addition of 40-year-old Ray Whitney. (AP).Gaglardi brought back Bob Gainey as a senior advisor to hockey operations. He involved Mark Recchi, a former NHLer and one of his partners with the Western Hockey League's Kamloops Blazers. When the staff met at the draft in Pittsburgh, Recchi pointed out how signing the right veterans could help the Stars draft and develop. It could buy time for the kids to get ready, take pressure off them, give them examples to follow.
"It's not that you want to go old," said Stars president Jim Lites. "It's that you want to build your team around players that can influence other players and build the right way."
Recchi suggested two Phoenix Coyotes free agents: Shane Doan, a fellow partner with the Blazers, and Ray Whitney, a former Carolina teammate. The Stars signed Whitney to a two-year, $9 million deal.
And then there was Jaromir Jagr.
The Flyers had put Jagr on hold while pursuing Ryan Suter, and Jagr didn't want to wait. Agent Petr Svoboda reached out to the Stars to gauge their interest. Recchi, who had played with Jagr in Pittsburgh, reached out to Jagr.
The Stars liked the idea of Whitney and Jagr showing the youngsters how long they could play if they took care of themselves, and they liked the idea of Jagr on a line with Benn and Eriksson. A one-year deal came with limited risk.
Jagr wanted to play on the top line and first power play, as he had in Philadelphia. The money had to be important from a pure dollar standpoint, but it also showed respect and implied a role and responsibility. (What about the travel? No, Jagr had never played in the West before in the NHL. But remember: He had played in Omsk in the KHL. That's travel.) The deal was done July 3.
"Some teams if you go, you don't get the opportunity to play a lot from the start," Jagr said. "Now I get it, and it's up to me. If I'm gonna play good, I'm gonna play. If don't, I don't deserve it. Plus, I felt like they're interested to have me."
Lites said the Stars increased their season-ticket base by 12 percent before Sept. 16, when the NHL lockout began and business stopped. They filled their building for the opener and sold 75 Jagr jerseys that night, far more than any other player's.
They have a lot more work to do to recover from the bankruptcy and the losing and the lockout. They have not sold out Thursday night's game against the Chicago Blackhawks or Saturday night's game against the St. Louis Blues. This is the home of the Cowboys, Mavericks and Rangers, owned by Jerry Jones, Mark Cuban and Nolan Ryan. You have to go big in Big D.
But Jagr is big. As nice as it was to add Mike Modano as an executive advisor, bringing the former face of the franchise back into the fold, Modano doesn't play anymore.
"Don't think we don't think about marketing all the time, and it doesn't hurt to have great veteran players on your team," Lites said. "It's hard not to fall in love with Jagr."
Especially when he says stuff like this:
"I think the fans gonna come when the team's gonna win," Jagr said. "They're gonna come first game. They're gonna come second game. If they see you work hard and you're winning and you're attractive – you play attractive hockey – they're gonna come. That's what they're waiting for. Of course, some of them, they're mad. I don't blame them. But it's up to us how we're gonna play to make them come to the rink."
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Last faceoff, season opener. Jagr tapped coach Glen Gulutzan on the shoulder on the bench. He had two goals. Did he want to get out there to go for the hat trick? No. He wanted to remind Gulutzan to put two centers on the ice, in case one got tossed from the circle.
Stars coach Glen Gulutzan says Jagr has bought in to Dallas' structure and strategy Morning skate, Tuesday. Jagr sat on top of the boards at the Stars bench, running his finger over a rink diagram, discussing strategy with Gulutzan, while the rest of the team went through drills. The Stars hadn't gotten to the net enough in their 1-0 loss to the Wild, and Jagr, the almost-41-year-old vet, was sharing ideas with the 41-year-old coach.
"This is not all-star, when you play wide-open game and just go home next day," Jagr said, reminding reporters the Stars had six days of training camp and no preseason games. "You have to learn. It doesn't happen over one night. This league is too good just to go and play. You have to be in structure. You have to play the details or you don't have a chance to win in this game."
Gulutzan is willing to listen – he tweaked a route on the power play, so Jagr could get the puck in a certain spot with speed the way he likes it – as long as Jagr is willing to do things in return, like commit to stopping, coming back and playing hard defensively.
"It is a give and take," Gulutzan said. "So far we've talked about those openly, what the give and take is, and he's 100 percent on board. He's not 99 percent on board. He's 100 percent on board."
Jagr said you look at hockey a little differently when you're older. When you're young, you don't think about the team. You're more selfish. But when you're older, you want to help the team. You want to do whatever it takes. You don't want to be the guy who made the mistake to lose the game.
You can wonder about that. If it's all about the team, why didn't Jagr go to a team with a better chance to win even if he had to accept a lesser role? Why didn't he stay in Philly?
Well, there is what you do when you choose a team and what you do once you're on one, and this is Jagr. He has a unique perspective, balancing the business and the sport. During the lockout, he played for the team he owns in his hometown of Kladno, Czech Republic. He helped revive a franchise, and he did it not just by showing up to play, but by playing a leading role and scoring 57 points in 34 games.
He loves a challenge. He loves to practice. He thinks age doesn't matter as long as you're healthy, and so he lives near the rink and works out late at night and wears his weighted vest after games. He wants to keep playing a leading role in the NHL before going back to Kladno again.
"You play [as long as] you love the game, when you love it, when you want to be with that game," Jagr said. "It's like a marriage, I think. Would you have imagined you're going to stay with your wife that long? Well, you love her. You're going to stay with her as long as you can. If you don't, there's no reason to be with her. It's the same thing with hockey for me. I just love the game."
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Stars forward Jaromir Jagr left the ice late in the third period with an undisclosed injury.
The NHL and the player's union have rules in place on veterans who qualify for a single room; Jagr has been in the league for so long he has had his own room forever.
The team didn't arrive to the hotel until 2:30 a.m., at which point Rademan just started handing guys room keys. That was fine except no one wanted to room with veteran Jagr. They were all too intimidated because he's Jaromir Jagr.
It was mostly the young guys who shyed away from rooming with one of the best players in NHL history. That left the team's director/producing of TV broadcasting, Mark Vittorio.
"He was actually a really good sport about it," Vittorio said. "We talked a little tennis and it was fine. The only problem might have been that I snore."
I asked Jagr if Vito's snoring was indeed a problem.
"Oh, (bleeping) unbelievable," he said. "I feel bad for his wife."
allas Stars forward Jaromir Jagr is going to be day-to-day due to back issues, according to Mark Stepneski of the Dallas Stars official website.
Jagr suffered an injury in the third period of Thursday night's overtime loss against the Chicago Blackhawks. After being evaluated by the team's medical staff it was determined that he would not return to the game. During the postgame, head coach Glen Gulutzan was unable to give an update about Jagr's status.
On Friday morning, reports from practice detailed that the 40-year-old forward was not on the ice surface. It was later learned that he had been participating in off-ice workouts. Obviously, with a day-to-day projection, it remains unclear whether he will be available for the team's game against the St. Louis Blues on Saturday night.
In four games played with the Stars this season, Jagr has registered two goals and two assists for a total of four points. That total was compiled during the team's first game of the season against the Phoenix Coyotes.
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Lydia Harrison, 85, of Leavenworth, went to be with her Lord on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She was born Jan. 24, 1927, in McLouth, Kan., the daughter of Archie and Goldie (Laster) Allen and attended Lansing Schools.
In November 1943, she married Neal Harrison. He survives her at the home. She is also survived by a son, Neal (Cathy) Harrison Jr. of Towanda, Kan.; a daughter, Janice Sifford of Leavenworth; three grandchildren, Neal (Karen) Harrison III, Todd Harrison, Rev. Amy (Todd) Seifert; four great-grandchildren, Emily Seifert, Joshua Seifert, Corrin Harrison, Sophie Harrison; a sister, Goldie Miesner of Leavenworth; and several nieces.
She was a loving and nurturing wife, mother, and homemaker who enjoyed crafts and needle work. She was a lifelong member of the First Baptist Church, where she remained active in the White Cross Ministry. She was honored as the American Baptist Women's Mother of the Year in 2010.
She was preceded in death by her parents, son-in-law David Sifford, sisters Velva King, Clara Bentley, and Frances Flynn.
At the request of the deceased and her family, private services were held with internment at Mt. Muncie Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to the First Baptist Church or the American Lung Association. Services by R.L. Leintz Funeral Home.


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Cline Oakley fiveREDS 2002 13.5 % 4-23-06 $9.99
Nice purple color, shiny, clear on the edges becoming darker towards the middle. Large bright cherry berry fruit in the nose. Also a little bit of plum and a meaty smell. A little smoke as it opens. On the palate lots of spicy fruit and a ton of smoky oak. Great acidity makes it a very drinkable wine. Mild tannins and nice long finish. This one would be good for a party quaffer for sure.
Peter Lehmann Clancy's 2003 Vintage Barossa Valley Shiraz 42% Cab Sauv 41 % Merlot 17 % 14.0 % by vol. 15.99 Bassets 4-30-06
A dark yet clear purple color gives this wine a rather dull look. In the nose there seems to be a lot of bright red fruit and almost a sort of flower note to it. A little burnt vanilla and fat behind that, but in a good way. Sweet aromas (brain has stopped) Little tannin on the palate but thankfully not as sweet as expected. Much lighter in body than most of the Australian shiraz's that I've drunk. Awesome acidity, not as fruit forward as expected (also from the nose). A little lighter chocolate in the nose as well. This isn't that bad! Great intensity on the finish as well as enough acidty.
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Parallele 45 Cotes Du Rhone AOC 2003 12.99 Bassets 13.5 % vol.
This wine has a nice glimmering purple color, but is suspiciously clear for a CDR. Nose of plum and ambiguous dark fruits. A little dirty barnyard approaches with some air. Burnt, toasty aromas as well. Red Current pops up after awhile, and maybe a little cherry. Sweet and lighter bodied as expected, the fruit is almost juicy. No discernable fruits on palate. A moderate amount of tannin, this one would probably stand up nicely to some light foods, but is a-typical for me in terms of Syrah and my experience with CDR's and southern France.
La Font du Vent Cotes du Rhone Les Pomesses 2003 13% vol.
This wine has a purple color. Cherry, Raspberry, wood chips and saw dust waft from the glass, earthy. Subtle nose. On the palate its much more supple, almost new world Joss comments. Tastes follow the nose, middle amount of tannin. Finish is non-remarkable.
Beaumes de Venise 2001 Cotes du Rhone Villages Paul Jaboulet Aine 14% Vol.
This wine had a dark purple color. The nose gave musty berries and a little barnyard funk and some interesting spice complexity. On the palate the wine had a decent tannic grip. There wasn't as much fruit on the palate as in the nose, but I was able to taste black licorice, which I hadn't found in the nose. The wine ended with a nice long finish with enough acidity to support itself. I found this to be an excellent wine.
Cheatau L'Elglise 2000 Cuvee d'Excellence Bordeaux Superieur 12 %
Lighter red color, clear. Nose of plum and blackberry pie and also a little new oak. Also a little bit of flowers. Pretty watery in the mouth, tastes following the nose. Finish and wine non-remarkable.
Tohu Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2003 12.5 %
Very light yellow with green hues. Nose of grassy aromas, lots of citrus and some great gooseberry and buttery pee aromas. Olives were also mentioned. Slightly larger in body with good acidity. Silky almost buttery mouth feel. Almost too big for me. Tastes follow the nose, maybe a little blurred on the palate. Nice finish, short and sweet. Nice wine, a quaffer.


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The first tip that I want to share is all about buying the products online. Especially from Amazon since they always have good deals with good warranties and policies. You can easily pick up a good rain fall head for less than $50, or a good new hand held detachable head for less than $100. They're all good deals.
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REDWOOD CITY — In his first public comments on the case, former San Mateo County probation chief Stuart Forrest — who's charged with child pornography possession — told a jury Wednesday he lied to police when he denied ordering the illicit images.
When confronted by two detectives in December, Forrest, 61, told them he had no idea why a customer database of a child pornography mail-order company contained his personal information. But on the stand, he admitted that he had ordered several films from the company, including one of nude boys cavorting on a beach. Forrest said he'd lied to the officers because he felt they already considered him guilty.
"At that point I no longer trusted them. I wanted them out as quickly as possible," Forrest told jurors in San Mateo County Superior Court. "I felt my interviewers had already made a judgment about me."
In an afternoon of testimony full of revelations, a defense psychiatrist also claimed Forrest was molested as a boy and suffered from major depression. Forrest's mental state was so dire at one point he attempted suicide by playing Russian roulette while still head of the nearly 500-employee county department, said defense-retained psychiatrist Rahn Minagawa.
Forrest, who retired in December after investigators found some 500 images of child pornography on his computers, testified he had the pictures as part of his research into human trafficking and child exploitation. Though he was probation's top administrator, he considered himself a "working chief" who helped his workers carry out and research various projects, including research of child porn.
One such initiative, he said, was to develop a protocol for detecting instances of human trafficking, including children exploited for pornography, among people serving court-ordered probation. Deputy Attorney General Johnette Jauron, hammered at the idea that he would be involved in work that could be carried out by his underlings or obtained from other agencies.
"You took it upon yourself to develop the child exploitation protocol for other officers?" asked a clearly skeptical Jauron. "Yes," replied Forrest.
Forrest testified that the hundreds of child pornography pictures that law enforcement agents found on computer equipment at his office and San Mateo home were part of his research. Along with the photos, agents allegedly confiscated videos titled "Beach Bums" and "Beach Bums 2." Forrest faces two counts of felony child pornography possession, which carry a maximum penalty of three years eight months behind bars.
"It's a kind of criminal activity that I wasn't really acquainted with, except through training," Forrest said of the videos. "I wanted to know a little bit more. Plus I wanted to be a resource for our own officers in researching cases."
Defense attorney Jaime Leanos asked his client about his attempt to cut his own throat just hours after the Dec. 20 meeting with the detectives in his San Mateo office. Forrest said he was unhappy even before the possibility of criminal charges. Minagawa, the psychiatrist, said Forrest's elderly father was suffering from worsening dementia, the housing crisis had hurt the value of his home in Tracy and his probation job was a "drag for him emotionally." The visit from the officers pushed him over the edge.
"It became clear that I was being investigated for a crime against children," said Forrest, who wore a dark suit and spoke in a relaxed manner during direct examination. "It was, for me, a considerable blow. I couldn't imagine, even if cleared, having any kind of career left."
Forrest added he had made two previous suicide attempts before the scandal, which began with a U.S. Postal Inspection Service probe into the child porn-selling company. Minagawa also said Forrest was molested at school by a teacher when he was 5, but the incident didn't considerably affect Forrest's life.
The case before retired Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Robert Atack is due to continue Thursday with more defense evidence. Forrest is out of jail on $100,000 bail.
Contact Aaron Kinney at 650-348-4357. Follow him at Twitter.com/kinneytimes. Contact Joshua Melvin at 650-348-4335. Follow him at Twitter.com/melvinreport.


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So I have been doing a little research and clearly for Augustus the Teutonberg disaster was his worst where Varus lost his legions, but since Augustus introduced the Pax Romana (Roman Peace?) which lasted a couple hundred years I am wondering what was the most succesfull battle for him. I realise Augustus focus was on strengthening the borders and that there was some small scale battle on the frontiers, however since Augustus is meant to have reformed the army in to the 'classic legion' that is s famous i wondered if there was any exceptional examples of the new classic legion showing off it's new prowess.
I won't pretend I have agreat knowledge of any of this but this is what I have understood so far and any help or correction would be appreciated.
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'Los Angeles 1957' was a setting ripe for American avant-garde. The city was growing by leaps and bounds, architecturally too, including the striking new Capitol Records building. Fledgling artist Edward Kienholz co-founded the Ferus Gallery on La Cienaga Boulevard to help nurture and market the town's artistic growth, and a talented community blossomed from it.
One such artist was John Altoon, an L.A. native typified by a latter owner of the gallery as the one "closest in spirit" to that group's collective identity. Trained as a commercial artist in the city's best art schools—Otis, Chouinard, Art Center College of Design—Altoon exhibited at Ferus and was a central figure in that community.
Altoon had returned home in 1956 after four years studying with Abstract Impressionists in New York and one living in Europe. In the meantime, L.A. had lost a promising star from its signature industry in James Dean.
Los Angeles would likewise lose Altoon prematurely to a heart attack in 1969, three years after Ferus closed. Like Dean's limited body of work, Altoon's legacy in the art world is small but powerful, taking commercial and Abstract Expressionist influences to a place rarely visited by his peers.
Now, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is giving Altoon's work a stage it has lacked with the first major retrospective on this little known and somewhat controversial artist, running June 8 to September 14.
'John Altoon,' LACMA's exhibition of approximately 70 pieces of Altoon art on loan from various collections, tracks a life plagued by depression and schizophrenia through the man's work. Presented chronologically, it starts with a 1950 oil-on-masonite titled 'Jazz Players' and ends with an untitled drawing from 1968. Obvious highlights in between are three oils from three different museum collections drawn from Altoon's L.A. masterwork, the 18-painting Ocean Park series (1962).
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Northern '89 Connects Liberals Arts and FBIby Steve Charles • September 26, 2012 Share:
FBI agent Drew Northern '89 returned to campus Monday to meet with students and "to tell an adventure story as a 'thank you' to Wabash.
"I'm honored to be here, and to be standing in the room with these professors and coaches and friends who taught me," Northern began. "Whatever good things I am today are due to what they did to help me. I was a farm kid from Greenwood, Indiana, and wasn't sure I belonged here. But they saw something in me, encouraged me to do something good with my life."
Then he told his story.
"On December 26, 2007, as I stepped past the door gunner of the Ambassador's Huey and onto the tarmac at a forward operating base in Iraq called Delta, I looked over my shoulder and at 53 people getting off helicopters all coming my way—Special Forces guys, archaeologists, FBI agents, all members of our team. It was the beginning of one of the coolest things I've ever been involved in."
Northern was in Iraq as coordinator of the FBI's Baghdad Major Crimes Task Force, leading an operation which helped shut down a major antiquities smuggling pipeline, recovered stolen and counterfeit artifacts, and located a valuable archaeological site in dire need of cultural protection.
That "coolest thing I've ever been involved with" was the Lost City operation, a mission into an active combat area to investigate a site rumored to be the ancient lost city of Ur-Sagrit, where antiquities had been routinely looted.
"Most Iraqis thought United States was in Iraq to steal its cultural heritage, something much more important than oil," Northern explained. Further stoking those suspicions was the fact that when Operation Iraqi Freedom started, the military had been unprepared to prevent the looting of the Baghdad museum and other sites.
"If we could show Iraqi people we weren't there to do that, but to help preserve that cultural heritage, then we could change Iraqi public opinion," Northern said.
"You known, if you tell a Wabash guy to do something, and he makes it happen," Northern said. His task force made arrests of forgers, recovered more than 600 pieces of that cultural heritage, and, on the December 26th mission, re-located a site that may be a lost city with extraordinary archaeological value.
"They said if we found this, it would be the Iraqi equivalent of finding the lost city of Atlantis," Northern said.
In the process, Northern and his team worked with Iraqi law enforcement officials to restore the rule of law to a country that had fallen into disorder and become the kidnapping capital of the world.
"It was scary to see how quickly the Cradle of Civilization had devolved into a Cradle of Chaos in which sectarian violence, public corruption and lawlessness threatened the stability of the Iraqi government and the safety of the Iraqi people," Northern said. "As coordinator of the Major Crimes Task Force and the Rule of Law Initiative, I mentored police and military investigators in the investigative and interrogation techniques that would work in a democratic state."
It would prove a difficult transition.
"Many of these people had been investigators under Saddaam Hussein, and most of the police stations had cattle prods, knives, hooks from the ceiling, and car batteries used as instruments of torture during interrogations."
But Northern also worked with an Iraqi judge with great courage.
"A very brave man who put the justice ahead of his career and even his own safety," Northern said. "It will take many people like these, who stand for what's right, no matter what. Iraq is going to have to battle this out for a long time, but these are the people who will ultimately restore the rule of law to their country."
For Northern, though, the high point of his service in Iraq was that day at Ur-Sagrit.
"Every time I hear a helicopter blade I think back to what we did that day, summoning all the different elements of my liberal arts background to make this lost city operation work."
He credited his Wabash education for teaching him the value of teamwork and how to communicate effectively.
'This is where I developed my intellectual curiosity, and that confidence that comes from the Wabash experience," he added.
Northern is currently the FBI's Chief Division Counsel/Supervisory Special Agent in the Indianapolis Field Office, and he also spoke to students about careers in the bureau. He noted that 30 is the average age of those starting at the FBI—he advised students to gain life experience, noting the military was an excellent stepping stone into the bureau.
Anne and Andrew T. Ford Chair in the Liberal Arts and Professor of English Tobey Herzog H'11 was Northern's freshman academic advisor in 1984, and he introduced Drew Monday night, recalling the time he saw him dressed in army fatigues and jeans wandering around the local Target store.
"I thought he was just desperate to meet local girls," Herzog said. "So I stopped him and asked what he was doing."
Northern had been hired by the store to look out for shoplifters.
"So I saw it, firsthand." Herzog laughed. "The very beginning of Drew's illustrious career in law enforcement."
Following the talk, Northern presented Herzog and Wabash with an American flag that had flown over the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Northern's presentation Monday was the first of a new lecture series titled "The Liberal Arts at Work," which is funded by the Anne and Andrew T. Ford Fund in the Liberal Arts.


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Bill Lewis and Meriwether Lewis have much in common as it turns out. Like Meriwether, Bill suffers from periodic, but chronic, depression to such a degree that thoughts of death and suicide are never far away. Bill dislikes men and finds it as difficult to build a friendly relationship with another man as Meriwether did two hundred years before him. Meriwether yearned constantly for female companionship and wanted nothing more than to marry. Bill, although married, is in such an unstable relationship with his wife and son that he finds himself drawn to unlikely candidates with whom he might be able to begin a new life.
Michael Pritchett tells the intertwining story of these two men by alternating chapters in the voice of each man. He relies heavily on the actual journals of Lewis and Clark to tell the story of their famous expedition, quoting directly from the journals at times and using the same flowery language of that time to detail their adventures and the battle that Lewis waged with depression even as he pushed westward. As Bill Lewis gets closer and closer to the chapter of his book that will describe Meriwether's apparent death at his own hand, he seems to be sinking into the same state of melancholy that claimed Meriwether's life. For Bill, it becomes a race to the finish but it is a question of whose life will end first, his or Meriwether's.
Pritchett has written an interesting book but at times I found that the language and style of the early nineteenth century made for slow and difficult reading in the Meriwether Lewis chapters. The Bill Lewis chapters were a welcome break from that style but, as Bill began to identify more and more closely with Meriwether, even those chapters began to use Meriwether's antique style. Michael Pritchett's The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis puts a human face on Meriwether Lewis and, although it does not claim to solve the mystery surrounding his death, it is a book that will very likely encourage many of its readers to seek out the original Lewis and Clark journals.
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I'm interested in buying poultry and meat that doesn't come from factory farms — both for my family's health (no antiobiotics, grass-fed, etc.) and for the health of the livestock it came from.Why doesn't my Schnucks (Richmond Center in Clayton) carry lines of meat and poultry that are sustainably raised? (You could even advertise that fact.) Many customers would be willing to pay more for this choice.
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The San Mateo Operational Area Emergency Services Council is comprised of all local governments within the geographic area of the County, special districts, unincorporated areas, and participating non-governmental entities. The purpose of the organization is to operate pursuant to Presidential Directive 5, the National Response Framework, National Incident Management System (NIMS), Presidential Directive 8, the National Preparedness Goal and California's Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) and local adopted Emergency Operations Plans and Annexes. The Emergency Services Councils collective goal is to provide coordinated plans for the protection of persons and property based on the five phases of emergency management, prevention, protection, response, recovery and mitigation; and support existing regional Public Information and Notification systems to include SMC Alert and TENS, as well as other Situational Awareness Tools; and, to continue to support the regional hazardous materials emergency response program.
Click here to view the Emergency Services Council agendas and meeting dates.
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The San Mateo County Hazardous Materials Team is a partnership between Belmont Fire Protection District, San Mateo County Environmental Health and the San Mateo County Office of Emergency Services through the San Mateo County Emergency Services Council. It has been providing service to all areas of San Mateo County since 1984. The Response Team is staffed 24/7/365 with seven cross-trained firefighters from Belmont, as well as an Environmental Health and an OES Officer.
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