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Two Texas Democrats joined with a solid bloc of Texas Republicans to ratify new trade agreements with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia, in what are the first major trade pacts the United States has entered into since the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994.
Twenty four of the state's 32 House member voted in favor of all three agreements, which easily won passage. Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchinson, both Republicans, favored the pacts. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Lake Jackson, who is running for president, did not vote.
The three Houston Democrats in Congress voted against all three trade deals.
The Texas delegation voted mainly along party lines, with all Republican representatives except the absent Paul voting for all three agreements. All representatives who voted against any of the trade agreements are Democrats.
Two Democrats voted in favor of all three bills:
- Charlie Gonzalez, D-San Antonio
- Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo
These representatives voted no to all three of the trade agreements:
- Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston
- Gene Green, D-Houston
- Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso
- Al Green, D-Houston
These representatives voted no to some of the Trade Agreement bills:
- Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Dallas: Yes to South-Korea and Panama, No to Colombia
- Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin: No to South-Korea and Colombia, Yes to Panama
- Ruben Hinojosa, D-Mercedes: No to South-Korea, Yes to Panama and Colombia
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Five Yale Senior Honored Prior To Last Home Game
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Brown won a majority of the scrums in the box at both ends of the field, and the result was a 3-1 victory over Yale on a chilly night at Reese Stadium.
The Bears' three goals weren't necessarily pretty but were the result of hard work.
"I thought we battled in the middle of the field but lost the battles in the box," said Yale head coach Rudy Meredith.
The highlight of night for the Bulldogs came from Melissa Gavin, who scored her team-leading 11th goal of the season. It came early in the second half when she drilled a free kick from 30 yards out that deflected off the cross bar and in.
"Melissa has had a good season," Meredith said. "I think next year she is capable of scoring 15 goals. She has enough talent."
The offensive star for Brown was Alison Mullin, who scored two goals. Chloe Cross added a pair of assists.
The first goal of the game came just 2:45 in. Annie Gillen sent a corner kick into the box. Yale goalkeeper Elise Wilcox couldn't control it, and Kiersten Berg somehow poked it in amongst a horde of players in front of the net.
The Bears (9-6-1, 4-2-1 Ivy) also scored early in the second half. This time they needed just 15 seconds. Mullin finished from the left side of the box.
Mullin struck again less than four minutes later when she deflected in a ball that Cross had sent into the box.
Yale (7-7-1, 2-4-1 Ivy) applied heavy pressure the rest of the game but was only able to get the goal from Gavin.
The Bulldogs finished with an 18-15 edge in shots.
Friday was the final home game for five Yale seniors. Juliann Jeffrey, Anna McCahon, Shannon McSweeney, Jessica Schloth and Katie Underwood were recognized prior to kickoff.
"They've all remained positive through the ups and downs of the season, and I appreciate that," Meredith said. "I'm really proud of them."
The same two teams play what will be a non-conference game on Sunday at 1 p.m. in Providence.
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The Toronto Blue Jays are finally starting to live up to preseason expectations.
On Friday, they turn to one of their top pitching prospects, as left-hander Sean Nolin makes his big league debut in the second of four games against the Baltimore Orioles at Rogers Centre.
Nolin suffered a strained groin in spring training, but has showed no ill effects from the injury at Double-A New Hampshire, where he was 2-0 with a 1.17 ERA in three starts.
"He's got the stuff to do it," Toronto manager John Gibbons said. "He's pitching in a nice little groove, and we need somebody. He's a very mature kid, he carries himself well. He can handle that."
Toronto won for the third time in four tries in Thursday's opener, as Edwin Encarnacion's fifth career grand slam helped the Blue Jays to a 12-6 triumph. J.P. Arencibia added a two-run homer and four RBI for the Blue Jays, who have won seven of 10.
"Edwin hitting that ball to give us some breathing room it makes the game, definitely not easier, but definitely a little more relaxing," said Arencibia.
Brandon Morrow (2-3) picked up the win and allowed six runs on 10 hits while striking out five over seven-plus innings.
Manny Machado hit three doubles and knocked in two runs for the Orioles, who had a two-game winning streak snapped. Adam Jones, Nick Markakis and Chris Davis all hit solo homers.
Baltimore starter Kevin Gausman (0-1), making his MLB debut, gave up four runs on seven hits while striking out five over five innings. Gausman, the fourth overall pick in the 2012 First-Year Player Draft, went 2-4 with a 3.11 ERA in eight starts with Double-A Bowie this season.
"He gave us a chance to win against a team swinging the bat as hot as anybody," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said.
Getting the call for the Orioles on Friday will be righty Chris Tillman, who is 3-2 with a 3.52 ERA. Tillman absorbed the loss to Tampa Bay on Sunday, as he was reached for three runs and five hits in six innings.
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Tillman has faced the Blue Jays six times and is 1-2 against them with a 3.89 ERA.
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Brown's high hopes ran into Senate reality
Freshman senator has carved independent course
One in a series of occasional articles looking at the careers and records of the Massachusetts candidates for US Senate.
WASHINGTON - Scott Brown's frustration and dismay boiled over one September night, in a rambling speech on the Senate floor.
Suffering from what he said was a bout of pneumonia and sipping from a glass of water, the Massachusetts Republican launched into an unfiltered tirade, a diatribe against the Democrats in power, against his critics, against partisan squabbling, against gridlock.
Judging from his biting, sometimes sarcastic outburst, Brown's hope to become a catalyst for change in Washington had waned - just seven months after he exploded on the political scene in 2010.
"It's like we don't talk anymore,'' Brown shook his head, almost pleading with the few other senators on the floor, mostly Democrats. "We're just filing bills with no hopes of them passing.''
Some sort of letdown was probably inevitable.
Brown arrived as a superstar after roaring into office in a special election to replace the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. But even as he soaked up waves of media attention, Brown and his pickup truck revolution ran headlong into reality - getting things done in Washington, especially as a freshman of the minority party, is maddeningly hard.
He has discovered in his first two years in office that his considerable political charms and carefully cultivated everyman image - the ingredients for his electoral success in the Bay State - have not always helped him navigate a clubby Senate chamber that is riven by partisan divides, stocked with outsized egos, and operates under Byzantine rules and traditions.
"He's impatient, because he wants to get things done,'' said Maine's Olympia Snowe, one of the few Republican moderates in the Senate who, like Brown, often votes with Democrats. "He walked into this spotlight almost immediately.''
Shunning labels, Brown arrived in the capital promising to be a "Scott Brown Republican,'' someone guided by his own star, and he has, in fact, demonstrated ideological flexibility on some issues.
He has, for example, angered Tea Party supporters, who gave him strong backing in his special election, by veering to the middle in advance of his tough reelection fight this year against Democrat Elizabeth Warren.
But attempting to build a centrist record has required an almost weekly high-wire act, balancing the relatively liberal sentiments of Massachusetts voters against the demands of increasingly conservative Republican leaders in the Senate.
"Scott had a tight rope to walk,'' said Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who owes his own crowning achievement - passage of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulatory overhaul - to Brown's willingness to cross the aisle. "He's walked it successfully. His dilemma is the Republican Party has become so right wing it will be harder for him to have an impact.''
Whereas other freshman senators have six years to adjust to Washington before running for reelection, Brown had just two to make his name and reputation. Brown has boasted in his reelection campaign that he voted with the GOP leadership just 54 percent of the time - proof, he says, of his moderate leanings. That is based on a Congressional Quarterly analysis that includes dozens of amendments that had no chance of passing. On the most important, news-generating votes since he arrived in office, Brown joined GOP leaders 76 percent of the time, according to an analysis by Project Vote Smart, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.
Brown has consistently opposed all tax increases, whether on the rich, corporations, or anyone else. He has voted with Republicans on greenhouse gas regulation, energy production, and insurance coverage for contraception.
Yet, on other issues, he has confounded those who sought to gain his support or thought they could count on it, often waiting until the last moment before taking a final - sometimes surprising - stand.
He initially voted against Wall Street financial reforms in spring 2010, then broke with Republicans and cast the pivotal vote in favor of the Dodd-Frank overhaul in July. At the end of another lengthy period of consideration, Brown decided to abandon his earlier opposition and support repeal of the military's ban on gay service members. By the time he weighed in, passage had already been assured.
Such twists have established Brown as perhaps the most unpredictable member of the Senate.
In a case of zigging when other moderate senators zagged, Brown joined the GOP in opposition to the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, a home-state nominee. Brown had introduced Kagan at the start of her confirmation hearings as a "brilliant woman.''
After a cordial one-on-one meeting with Kagan, he declared himself satisfied with her explanations of why, as Harvard Law School dean, she agreed to restrict campus access for military recruiters. But just hours before the vote he announced he would vote against her. He refused to be interviewed about his stance, instead simply issuing a statement echoing GOP talking points about her lack of courtroom experience.
His frequent refusal to discuss his positions or provide deeper explanations of his thinking have led to a sometimes testy relationship with the Capitol Hill press. Brown opted not to be interviewed for this story. Approached in the Capitol to discuss his record, he dismissed questions and answered with generalities.
"When I see a problem, I'm going to work to get things done,'' he said. "I'll let my record certainly speak on its own.''
Democrats maintain Brown is more conservative than he claims and is less a true bipartisan figure than a political opportunist. But some admirers say his unpredictable ways are really tactical - a way to make his vote count for more.
"Not being taken for granted by either side puts his state in a valuable position, by virtue of being a sought-after player in the time leading up to debates,'' said David Griswold, who served as chief of staff for both the late Rhode Island Republican Senator John Chafee, and his son, Lincoln, who also held the Ocean State's Senate seat and is now its independent governor.
Despite his role in the center of partisan storms, Brown often presents a cool, laid-back demeanor - the affable, athletic senator who lopes down the marble halls of the Senate, sometimes appearing puzzled over all the fuss. Early-morning workouts in the Senate gym, often with Senator John Thune of South Dakota, leave no doubt of his intensity. The two have jogged and played basketball.
"He's a serious competitor. He plays to win,'' said Thune, drawing an analogy between his performance on the court and in the chamber.
The veneer cracked that September 2010 evening, when he stood behind a podium and spoke to the C-SPAN cameras and a mostly empty room. His speech came during debate on a Democratic bill (which Brown opposed) to end certain corporate offshore tax advantages. The speech received little attention at the time, and an edited video now posted on Brown's official website does not contain the full thrust of his frustrations. In the complete speech, the senator wistfully recalled the first few months of his term, how he was "all eager and ready to go.''
"Gosh, I am going to make a difference,'' he recalled thinking, "I am going to make a difference, everybody.''
He soon learned what the Capitol was really all about - "scoring political points for November.''
Later in the rambling speech, Brown again grew quiet, almost whispering. "I don't want to seem like a downer.'' But then his frustration was back in a flash. "You're telling me we can't just do one thing? Can we do one thing? Just one?''
Interviews with Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill confirm Brown's assertion - that he arrived in the Senate full of idealism and eager to make a positive mark. He set out to put into legislative action the extraordinary outpouring of anger against the political system that resulted in his surprise election.
He was unable to deliver on his central campaign promise: using his vote as the 41st Republican senator to block Obama's health care legislation. Democrats thwarted that plan by using a parliamentary maneuver to skirt filibuster rules and pass the bill.
But Brown did land plum committee posts, on Armed Services and Homeland Security. He showed up at committee meetings on time, or even early, a practice virtually unheard of, to chat with low-level staff.
Brown's impatience with the ways of Washington sometimes bubbles up in hourlong office meetings with special interest lobbyists and advocates. Observers say that Brown has occasionally cut sessions short or changed the subject entirely. Some interpret that as a sign of a short attention span; others say Brown just wants to cut through the baloney in a city loaded with it.
As for mentors in the Senate, Brown and his staff cite Arizona's John McCain as a model for how to operate as a GOP maverick and as Brown's guide to the politics and tactics required to navigate the Armed Services Committee. But McCain seemed surprised when told Brown views him as a mentor. Mostly, Brown has not formed close political bonds with any particular senator or faction, say those who have worked with him.
"He didn't have any one single guy that was his go-to guy, and that was a key factor in building his independent persona,'' said Steven Schrage, who served as Brown's chief of staff during his first year in office and left to teach economics and national security at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. "Sometimes there tends to be different groupings in the Senate. He was like the guy that got along with all the groups but wasn't strongly identified with any of them.''
Brown did seek to build bridges. After setting up shop in Kennedy's former offices, he hosted informal, bipartisan gatherings over beer and wine on the balcony, with its impressive view of the Capitol. (He no longer occupies the spacious old Kennedy offices; he has been moved to something more suited to a freshman).
Brown has also made a point of reading books by leaders of the rival party. He keeps a copy of majority leader Harry Reid's history of Searchlight, Nevada, in his office. And one day in the Senate chamber, Brown approached New York's Chuck Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat, to sign Schumer's book on the middle class, the ultimate ego stroke.
The eventual erosion of the relationship between Brown and Schumer - tested by the Senate's partisan rancor - foreshadowed the frustrations Brown would later air in his angry speech.
Their falling-out centered not on the usual flashpoints of health care or taxes or the deficit, but on campaign finance reform. Democrats and advocates for stronger regulations said they were initially heartened by Brown's populist calls for ending business as usual in Washington.
The month before Brown was sworn in, the Supreme Court had opened election campaigns to unlimited spending by individuals and corporations, in the Citizens United v. the Federal Elections Commission decision. Schumer and his staff quickly approached Brown about signing on to a bill, called the DISCLOSE act, that would force disclosure of the sources of all the new money.
Schumer and the Democrats badly needed a Republican to support the bill so they could secure the 60-vote supermajority required to break a GOP filibuster. They targeted Brown, based on his stated willingness to take on the status quo and his goal of bringing "accountability and transparency back to our government.''
Brown and his team seemed receptive initially and Schumer's team was "pretty optimistic'' he would be a cosponsor, said a top Democratic aide involved in the talks but who requested anonymity to discuss private deliberations. In preliminary negotiations Brown staff members even suggested language that would have strengthened the bill, the aide said.
But the US Chamber of Commerce lobbied heavily against forcing companies and other entities to disclose campaign activities and contributors. Moreover, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky staunchly opposed any limits on the new, unfettered spending environment. "There were lots of pressures coming from Senator McConnell on all Republicans to oppose disclosure,'' said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a nonprofit advocacy group that supports stronger finance regulations.
After entertaining the measure for weeks, Brown's staff backed away from discussions about cosponsoring the bill. Brown publicly announced his opposition to the measure in July, echoing GOP leaders' opposition in saying it would give an unfair advantage to Democrats by exempting labor unions from some provisions. Without any Republican willing to support the measure, it died.
"That initial campaign mentality [about transparency and accountability] carried over in those first meetings we had'' with Brown's staff, the Democratic aide said, "and then it was almost like a switch was flipped and there was no interest whatsoever.''
Asked why the senator opposed the bill after initially entertaining the measure, Brown spokeswoman Marcie Kinzel would not elaborate: "He took it under advisement and reviewed it and then decided not to sponsor.''
Months later, in his evening Senate floor rant, Brown explained his reasons for voting against the bill - even as Schumer presided over the chamber with a gavel in his hand.
"Am I on a different planet or something?'' Brown declared. "We should be talking about jobs every single day that we are in session. We spent three or four days talking about the DISCLOSE Act. Give me a break.''
Creating jobs has consistently been at the top of Brown's agenda. In his first piece of legislation in March 2010, he offered an amendment to a $15 billion jobs package backed by the Obama administration. Brown sought to include a cut in payroll taxes, amounting to about $100 a month, for 130 million working Americans.
Brown proposed to fund his amendment with unspent billions from the 2009 economic stimulus package, a political nonstarter with the White House that doomed the amendment. Four Democrats voted in favor, including Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, but it was not enough.
Still, against the advice of GOP leaders, he voted for the overall jobs package even without other cuts to fund the extra spending. By contrast, Brown would later vote against an extension of unemployment benefits and against summer jobs money for teens, saying they were not paid for with offsetting budget cuts.
Those jobs-related votes built the sort of mixed record that sometimes puzzles pundits. But it makes sense in the context of internal Senate politics, where Republicans seeking to blaze a centrist path must carefully choose when they part ways with McConnell and other GOP leaders and when they toe the line.
"To his credit, I have to say he has done a pretty good job of threading the needle,'' said James P. Manley, a former top aide to Reid and to Kennedy.
Brown has denounced congressional budget earmarks as political pork and voted to ban them. But his willingness to participate in a rite of Washington budget-drafting - protecting home-state largesse - was on display when he joined Democrats and Republicans in fighting to protect General Electric's alternative engine for the F-35 jet, an engine the Pentagon said was not necessary and wasteful.
Critics viewed the engine as a giant earmark because it was not contained in the defense budget. Brown, adopting GE's argument, said requiring the Pentagon to develop two engines would reduce overall costs by forcing companies to compete for the work. Hundreds of jobs were at stake at a GE plant in Lynn, which was helping produce the engine.
"While he came to Washington as a reformer, Brown quickly showed he could play the political game,'' said Loren Thompson, a consultant and chief operating officer at the Lexington Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Virginia. "Exhibit A is the General Electric jet engine. He did exactly what Ted Kennedy would have done in those same circumstances.''
But that kind of in-the-trenches budget work garnered little attention for Brown. It was not until 2011 that the freshman lawmaker broke from the pack with a high-profile bill that he called his own and that became law.
Within three days of a "60 Minutes'' broadcast that suggested some members of Congress were financially profiting from advance knowledge of government regulations, Brown introduced a measure blocking anyone in Congress from using nonpublic information to influence personal investments. Brown muscled his way into the headlines in a race against a fellow Senate freshman, Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York who was drafting her own version of the same bill.
Brown has said that he does his homework and that he reads the bills that come before Congress. But in this instance, Brown's measure was so hastily drafted that it contained exact language lifted from an earlier House bill on the same subject. And even after Brown's draft was set aside by the Homeland Security Committee in favor of another version, Brown continued to claim credit in an encounter with President Obama. In January, Brown intercepted the president as he departed the House after his State of the Union speech.
"My insider trading bill is on Harry's desk right now,'' Brown told the president, referring to Reid. "Tell him to get it out. It's ready to go.''
As television cameras caught the moment, Obama promised Brown: "I'm going to tell him. I'm going to tell him to get it done.''
The president signed the bill on April 4, with Brown among a handful of Democrats and Republicans invited to the White House ceremony.
It stretches credibility for Brown to claim the act as his own, said Wendy Schiller, an associate professor of political science at Brown University. But the rookie showed a quick response and deft footwork that could help him rack up more significant achievements if Massachusetts voters decide to send him back to the Senate for a full term.
"What's fortunate for Scott Brown is that most people from Massachusetts aren't expecting much from him legislatively,'' she said. "His reelection campaign is not about what he's done legislatively, but what he'll do if you give him six more years.''
Bryan Bender of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Christopher Rowland can be reached at email@example.com, and Bobby Caina Calvan at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Ichthyologist John Sparks, curator of Creatures of Light: Nature's Bioluminescence, recalls two challenging expeditions in Madagascar in search of new species of blind cavefishes. Read an excerpt of the interview below.
We were in Ankarana Reserve in far northern Madagascar, a surreal landscape of exposed karst formations. These are one-of-a-kind formations of permeable rocks, with rivers and streams in between. It's kind of like Swiss cheese, with water running through it. We were looking for a species of blind cavefish endemic to this region.
But first, we had to make our way through the piles of bat guano [dung]. The cavefishes, which lack pigment and have no eyes, eat some of the invertebrates that are in the water, but a lot of them survive mainly on guano. There are enormous piles of it in these caves, 20- to 30-foot mounds. When you get closer, the mounds seem to come alive, with millions of clicking, rustling cockroaches that run over your feet and up your legs. It's just like a scene out of an Indiana Jones movie.
Once we got to the water, we snorkeled around to see if we could catch anything. What's really interesting about the cavefishes is that even though they lack eyes, they're surprisingly difficult to catch. They're highly specialized for life in the cave, with elongate snouts bearing well-developed sensory pores and canals, so they have extremely high sensitivity to water movement. They sense you approaching and just dive into the sediment—and once the sediment is stirred up, forget it. But we were lucky to find specimens that turned out to be a new species, with partially developed eyes and some pigment, a light tan.
We nearly missed a great find a few years ago in southwestern Madagascar. There, the limestone runs in massive plateaus that collapse in places creating, sinkholes that must be accessed using climbing gear. I had forgotten my diving mask and went back to the camp with a colleague. By the time we got back, two members of our team who'd been swimming around for an hour in the sinkhole yelled out, "There's no fish in here. Let's move on." But it was a sinkhole like I'd never seen before: deep, relatively clear water. It looked really promising. I couldn't believe there weren't any fish there. So I said, "We'll take a look."
We went in and swam around for maybe an hour or so, and then I spotted a bizarre looking fish. We stayed in there for nearly three or four hours, and I was able to get two specimens of a new species of blind cavefish, totally different from anything that had been found before, pigmented and dark brown all over, and both anatomically and genetically unique. Although we all got quite sick from swimming in that sinkhole, which is reflected in the species' name—which translates as "seriously ill" in Malagasy—finding such a strange new fish made it all worthwhile.
A version of this story originally appeared in the Spring issue of Rotunda, the Member magazine.
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6:49 a.m. — Peabody ambulance transported a woman in her 80s who fell and had a laceration from Peabody Care Center to Newton Medical Center.
9:17 a.m. — Marion ambulance transported a 91-year-old female unable to get up and walk in the 2000 block of 140th to St. Luke Hospital.
2:28 p.m. — Marion Fire Department responded to a fire alarm at USD 408 Sports and Aquatics Center. It was a false alarm. Another false alarm tripped at 2:49 p.m.
Oct. 24
2:26 p.m. — Florence ambulance and Burns first response transported a man in his 50s with chest pain and a history of heart problems in the 300 block of Washington, Burns, to Newton Medical Center.
6:18 p.m. — Peabody ambulance and Marion ambulance transported a man in his 50s with left side numbness and a headache in the 300 block of Elm Street in Peabody to St. Luke Hospital.
8:48 p.m. — Burns Fire Department responded to a man with back and neck pain 12700 block of N.W. Boyer Road at Butler County's request.
No dispatches.
10:57 p.m. — Hillsboro ambulance transported a patient with a fall and knee pain in the 400 block of Floral Drive to Hillsboro Community Hospital.
9:33 a.m. — Marion ambulance transported a man in his 80s passing blood clots with weakness in the 000 block of Lakeshore Drive to St. Luke Hospital. Marion Fire Department provided lifting assistance.
12:06 p.m. — Marion ambulance provided emergency transport from St. Luke Hospital to Via Christi-St. Francis in Wichita.
1:24 p.m. — Marion rescue, Tampa ambulance, Lincolnville Fire Department, Lincolnville first response responded to a one-vehicle, one-patient accident one-quarter mile north of Lincolnville on U.S. 77. Lifestar helicopter ambulance was called but canceled. Tampa ambulance transported the patient to Herington Municipal Hospital.
11:39 a.m. — Florence ambulance, Florence Fire Department, Florence rescue, Marion rescue, Marion ambulance, and Peabody ambulance responded to a one-vehicle four-patient rollover 3 miles north of the U.S. 50/77 junction on U.S. 77. Patients were transported to St. Luke Hospital.
8:33 a.m. — Marion ambulance responded to the 600 block of South Lincoln Street after a medical alert company was unable to make contact after an alert button was pushed. No transport was needed.
10:01 a.m. — Peabody ambulance responded to U.S. 50 between Sunflower and Timber for a one-vehicle accident. No transport was needed.
10:40 a.m. — Goessel Fire Department responded to Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church for a report of a smoke detector going off. The smoke detector went off again at 12:35 p.m. Both were false alarms.
2:01 p.m. — Peabody Fire Department and Peabody ambulance responded to a combine and field fire at the intersection of Nighthawk and 110th, with a house north of the fire threatened. Hillsboro Fire Department was dispatched to aid firefighting.
9:08 p.m. — Hillsboro ambulance transported a fall victim complaining of back and right hip pain to Hillsboro Community Hospital.
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Research by an international research team co-led by the American Museum of Natural History shows a surprising diversity of malaria parasites in West African bats as well as new evidence of evolutionary jumps to rodent hosts.
Led by Susan Perkins, an associate curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology, and Juliane Schaer, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, the new study also offers a new look at the evolution of rodent malaria, which is commonly used to model human malaria in laboratory studies. The results will be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Bats, which are important reservoir hosts for many pathogens, particularly viruses, have been hosts to malaria parasites for more than a century," said Perkins. "Understanding the evolution of malaria parasites in bats and other animals, and how they fit into the tree of life, is key to understanding this important human disease."
Malaria is caused by a handful of species of parasites in the genus Plasmodium through the bite of mosquitos and remains a widespread vector-borne infectious disease, sickening almost half a billion people every year around the planet. Experimental research on drugs, immunology, and the development of malaria is typically done on related Plasmodium species that infect rodents, including laboratory-reared mice. The parasites' natural hosts are African thicket rats that use shrubs and trees as habitat.
To further investigate how bats fit into this picture, the researchers surveyed more than 250 bats in remote forest ecosystems in Liberia, Guinea, and Cote d'Ivoire in Western Africa. They found a vast diversity of malaria parasites that included not just the Plasmodium species, but also members of three other genera. The DNA from several genes of the bat parasites was sequenced at the Museum's Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, resulting in the most comprehensive evolutionary tree of life for malaria parasites of bats to date.
The authors report that two parasites, Plasmodium voltaicum and Plasmodium cyclopsi, show patterns of evolutionary jumps from the rodent lineage into bats and then likely a reverse jump, with a bat parasite re-infecting rodent hosts. The authors suggest that the bat hosts, which roost in trees, may have been exposed to the same mosquito vectors that transfer the parasites between the tree-dwelling rodent hosts.
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A 14th Circuit Court of Appeals judge on Tuesday could rule on Hardeevile City Council candidate Scott Ready's eligibilty.
Ready's lawyer, Jared Newman of Port Royal, on Wednesday filed an appeal of Ready's disqualification. In the appeal he named Hardeeville Municipal Election Commission members Joyce Meeks, Mae Montgomery and Lyndia Daniels in their official capacity as election commissioners.
The appeal listed main four issues:
• Whether the local elections commission erred as a matter of law in its application of Section 8-13-1356 and Section 8-13-1120;
• Whether the elections commission violated Ready's right to due process;
• Whether member Joyce Meeks had a conflict of interest;
• Whether the commission denied equal protection of law to Ready.
The hearing is set for 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Beaufort County Courthouse.
Newman said Thursday he expects a ruling at Tuesday's emergency hearing.
"This is an appeal for a reversal of the MEC's decision so that I may be added to the ballot. We have confirmation from Jeanine Bostick (director of Jasper County elections and voter registration) that if we have the information to her by 5 p.m. April 4 that my name can be added to the ballot," Ready said Thursday.
Ready, 48, was ruled ineligible March 15 by the local election commission - appointed by City Council - because of an error on his Statement of Economic Interests. Ready marked "elected" instead of "candidate" on the filing form.
Filing for two City Council seats and mayor opened Feb. 8 and closed March 8.
Meeks told City Clerk Lori Pomarico at the March 9 closing that Ready had an error on his statement. In a memorandum, Pomarico wrote that she explained the 10-day period allocated by the state ethics commission in which candidates may make any corrections found by themselves or others, including the commission.
On Thursday when asked what the elections commission members said when she explained the standard procedures to them, she said: "They listened to what I had to say and that was it."
Pomarico emailed the candidates' roster to the ethics commission March 9, a day after filing closed.
Cathy Hazelwood, deputy director and general counsel for the State Ethics Commission, said when the Hardeeville candidates roster was received it was reviewed and the files were correct.
Ready filed as a write-in candidate March 21, forcing an election between himself and the two incumbents Roy Powell and Michael Sweeney.
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Three other issues on Ready's appeal include violation of due process, conflict of interest and denial of equal protection of the law.
Newman said Meeks had a clear conflict of interest. Meeks' son-in-law is Roy Powell, an incumbent seeking re-election to City Council. Newman wrote in his appeal that Meeks' failure to recuse herself from any decision that had an economic impact on a family member "appears to be a direct violation of Section 8-13-700," and Ready's removal from the ballot "must be reversed for this reason alone."
When reached Thursday for her reaction to the scheduled appeal, Meeks said "I have no reaction. In fact, I have no comment."
When asked why she did not recuse herself, Meeks said, "Right now I don't have anything to say."
Daniels could not be reached on Thursday and Montgomery said she had no comment.
Another issue raised by the appeal concerns whether the local elections commission violated Ready's right to due process. In the course of certifying a candidate, the ethics commission allows 10 days for candidates to make corrections, fill in any blanks and confirm their information. After the 10 days, candidates may pay penalty fees for late filing if their applications are not completed.
When certifying the closing of the filing date, all three commission members were present, a clerical matter that is normally witnessed by only one member of the commission, wrote Pomarico in a memorandum to the mayor, City Council, candidates, city attorney and city manager.
The final issue Newman is appealing is whether the commission applied the law equally to all candidates. In the electronic communication from the State Ethics Commission following the submission of the Candidates Roster, Karen Wiggins of the commission noted that all candidates "appear to have properly filed a 2012 Statement of Economic Interests report ... and may have their names appear on the election ballot."


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Hispanic Student Enrollments Reach New Highs in 2011
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I. Overview
The nation's Hispanic 1 student population reached a number of milestones in 2011, according to an analysis of newly available U.S. Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.
For the first time, the number of 18- to 24-year-old Hispanics enrolled in college exceeded 2 million and reached a record 16.5% share of all college enrollments. 2 Hispanics are the largest minority group on the nation's college campuses, a milestone first achieved last year (Fry, 2011). But as their growth among all college-age students continues to outpace other groups, Hispanics are now, for the first time, the largest minority group among the nation's four-year college and university students. And for the first time, Hispanics made up one-quarter (25.2%) of 18- to 24-year-old students enrolled in two-year colleges.
In the nation's public schools, Hispanics also reached new milestones. For the first time, one-in-four (24.7%) public elementary school students were Hispanic, following similar milestones reached recently by Hispanics among public kindergarten students (in 2007) and public nursery school students (in 2006). Among all pre-K through 12th grade public school students, a record 23.9% were Hispanic in 2011.
The new milestones reflect a number of continuing upward trends. Between 1972 and 2011, the Latino share of 18- to 24-year-old college students steadily grew—rising from 2.9% to 16.5%. During the same period, among all public school students, the Latino share grew from 6.0% to 23.9%. In both cases, rapid Latino population growth has played a role in driving Latino student enrollment gains over the past four decades.
However, population growth alone does not explain all the enrollment gains made by Hispanic students in recent years (Fry, 2011). Today, with the high school completion rate among young Hispanics at a new high, more young Hispanics than ever are eligible to attend college. According to the Pew Hispanic analysis, 76.3% of all Hispanics ages 18 to 24 had a high school diploma or a General Educational Development (GED) degree in 2011, up from 72.8% in 2010. And among these high school completers, a record share—nearly half (45.6%)—is enrolled in two-year or four-year colleges. Both demographic trends and greater eligibility have contributed to growth in the number of Hispanic young people enrolled in college in recent years.
In addition to gains in enrollment, the number of degrees conferred on Latino college students has also reached new highs. 3 In 2010, the number of Latinos who received a bachelor's degree reached a record 140,000 recipients, according to data published by the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education (Snyder and Dillow, 2012). A record number of associate degrees were awarded to Latinos in 2010 as well—112,000. In both cases, Latinos are a growing share of all degree recipients—13.2% among those with an associate degree and 8.5% among those who received a bachelor's degree in 2010. Despite these gains, the Latino share among degree recipients significantly lagged their share among 18- to 24-year-old students enrolled in two-year colleges (21.7%) and four-year colleges and universities (11.7%) in 2010.
Hispanics are the nation's largest minority group, making up more than 50 million people, or about 16.5% of the U.S. population. Among the 30 million young people ages 18 to 24, 6 million, or 20%, are Hispanics.
- The terms "Latino" and "Hispanic" are used interchangeably in this report. ↩
- College enrollment refers to persons enrolled in a two-year college or a four-year college or university and includes both undergraduate and graduate students. The population of 18- to 24-year-old college students includes those enrolled at private and public colleges and universities. ↩
- The U.S. Department of Education reports the number of degrees conferred on graduates of all ages. While the majority is likely between ages 18 and 24, many graduates will be over age 24 and some may be under age 18. ↩


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The Sam Allardyce PollThe very best posts from KUMB over the years ...
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Still a stick from me, although I could understand if he got the sack. Our great support that travelled to Forest and City, those performances were not fair on them.
I believe, and still do, that Allardyce is a good fit for us. The last month or so has been atrocious, but before then I felt we finally had a team and manager worth getting behind:
- Allardyce himself, a stubborn b*stard, who seemed to have instilled some fight and grit into us. Genuinely seemed to embrace wins and I actually felt he even had a connection with fans.
- A young CB pairing, one of whom imo is up there with the best in the league (Winston). Tomkins and Reid have improved greatly under Allardyce.
- Leadership and team spirit, largely I felt was down to Nolan
- Noble was maturing into a fine CM like we all hoped he would
- Flair,pace and power in Downing, Ravel, Diame, Vaz Te (Jarvis has been Allardyce's worst buy imo)
- A genuine England no.9 CF we were all excited to see play for us
Recently though, it's all gone to sh*t. We haven't got enough depth in our full squad to cope with all the injuries. Players who were maybe playing above themselves last season aren't hitting the same levels this season. No matter what league we are playing in next season, can see a lot of changes coming this summer.
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I bet the results of this poll would look a lot different if we could start again.
I know a lot of West Ham fans that have changed their opinion after these two cup games.
Although I originally voted "no",I was on the fence. Now it would a firm "NO" without hesitation.
We appear to be going down without a fight and a new manager is the last throw of the dice IMO.
I would rather they spent 4M on Sam's compensation even if it means no further signings. I think we have a decent squad and a better manager could get these players winning.
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and it might turn again back into his favour if we win in Wales
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Just got back from City. Chatting in the pubs and clubs to some of the away regulars I've never seen the away support so disheartened and negative about it all. How anyone can think we should keep this negative **** and that he hasn't lost the dressing room is beyond me.
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It's obvious the players have lost faith in his philosophy to me.
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Sam needs to be backed.
As a club we have been completely distracted by getting the OS and forgetting the basics.
The board need to forget about Carroll and get a top duo signed.
Relegation is far more expensive than £15 million in this window.
Come on G&S get cracking. No more excuses
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The injuries are a somewhat valid excuse but at a certain stage all teams have injuries. The worst part of our time under BFS is the decline in quality of the playing squad but I'll say this, as much as I want a new manager ASAP, I want G&S as far away from this club as possible. Is it too much to ask that we have someone running West Ham who actually knows what the **** they're doing and performs their job like a regular person?
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It's a no from me.
I thought it would be harsh to get rid the manager that got us to a Wembley final, so seeing as that's not going to happen................
I think too much damage has been done now, to the club's reputation and Fat Sam's, he's looked and acted like a beaten man for a few games now.
Time for a parting of the ways and it's not about a new man keeping us up, he probably wont, it's about yet another rebuild but it's needed, West ham under Allardyce is broken.
Lets be honest, it was never a good fit, we took some enjoyment out of being organised and hard to beat but it was rarely pretty, now we haven't even got that in the plus column.
So what's left, an uncompetitive (in all competitions) squad of journeymen, playing dismal uncompetitive football.
Fat Sam's given up, despite the posturing and so has the team, time to move on.
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Not sure where to put this or if it's even been mentioned on here yet but here is what ex player Ilunga mentioned on Twitter:
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Can we have a Angry Terry in option?
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I've somehow missed 'Angry Terry' and shamefully had to do a twitter search - found the recorded video thats on youtube to listen to in the middle
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here he is again. what a good looking guy! no relation, but here's his history...born Dec. 10 1886, married Maude Shirley June 20 1907. she died July 10 1910. married Bertha F. Colwell Nov. 16 1912. , they were the parents of Lester Aude b. 1913, Loma Marie b. 1915, Bertha died Aug 16 1917. Nov 7 1929 married Lulu Walker. they were the parents of Prescella Elizabeth b.1929, Arthur Lee b.1932, Mary Ann b.1934, Jessie May b.1936, John Sherman b.1939, James Matthew b.1942, Marion Glenn b.1944, Joyce Loretta b.1946, Gilbert Leroy b.1950
Samp Hughes lived and reared his family on acres acquired by his father John W. . located about two and a half miles southwest of Brimson. after his father died Samp maintained the farm and later bought it. Samp died Oct 16 1966. he is buried in Coon Cemetery . Lulu Huges lived on the farm for several years but now resides in Topeka, Ks. near a daughter.
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ACCOMACK, Va. – An abandoned home is the latest arson target on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
Authorities say the Thursday night fire is believed to be related to a string of arsons in the area. The home in Painter was uninhabitable and overgrown with trees and thick brush.
The Virginian-Pilot (http://bit.ly/10Yj4PT ) reports that another fire Thursday night near the front steps of a home in Greenbackville was deliberately set but not related to the other arsons.
More than 70 deliberately set fires have occurred on the Eastern Shore since last November. Most of the structures have been abandoned. No injuries have been reported.
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CHICAGO – Chicago Bulls center Nazr Mohammed was ejected from Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Miami Heat on Friday night after shoving LeBron James to the court.
As James dribbled up the floor early in the second quarter, Mohammed reached in and tried to steal the ball near midcourt. Their arms got tangled and Mohammed fell.
He then got up and shoved James to the court.
Both players got called for technical fouls, with Mohammed also picking up a foul and getting tossed from the game.


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If you think the good guys are winning the war on drugs, you don't have a sinus problem.
The removal from the shelves of West Virginia Rite Aid stores of products with pseudoephedrine as their main ingredient is a sad and perhaps necessary step in trying to curb the runaway damage caused by methamphetamine manufacture and sales in the Mountain State.
One of the easy ways to make meth involves using the drug that, when used properly, is a great relief to those who suffer with sinus troubles.
A couple of years ago, it became difficult to buy pseudoephedrine products in an attempt to curb meth manufacturers. Instead of simply walking to the cold and flu aisle in the drug store, consumers have faced a set of rules aimed at keeping them from buying too much of the product at once, providing ID or not buying more within a few days. Heaven help a household where mom and dad and a couple of adult kids all needed pseudoephedrine at the same time. They were made to feel like criminals.
And all the while, apparently, the real criminals were continuing to buy up the drug and cook it into their meth stew.
While we applaud Rite Aid for the effort at fighting the drug problem, we worry about the long-term implication. It is the removal of a legal product from the shelves to protect idiots from themselves while people with a legitimate need suffer.
And while taking the product from the shelves completely may seem to be a viable solution, we wonder about its impact. Even if the drug went prescription-only, abuse would continue. One needs only look at the pill mills cranking out scripts for pain killers to know that's true.
And the meth cookers will simply work a little science to come up with ways to get their necessary chemicals out of other pills and substances.
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Professional Experience
Cotsirilos is a criminal law specialist in private practice, which includes defending death penalty cases both at the trial and appellate level.
Professor Cotsirilos teaches in the areas of criminal law and the death penalty.
Honors and Affiliations
Cotsirilos received the E. Stanley Conant Award for Defender Programs of San Diego for Protecting the Rights of the Indigent Accused in both 1988 and 1998 and the Trial Attorney of the Year award from the San Diego Criminal Defense Bar Association in both 1999 and 2006. He has been president of the Criminal Defense Bar Association of San Diego and co-chair of the Death Penalty Committee for the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice. Cotsirilos lectures at California's Death Penalty Seminar and Death Penalty college each year to attorneys handling capital cases and has published in the area of capital litigation.


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Kids Up North: Kid Friendly New Year's Eve Celebrations
Break out the kid-friendly bubbly and prepare to party family-style at these Northern Michigan New Year's Eve Bashes from Petoskey to Traverse City. From babysitting on-site to a midnight (wink, wink) ball-drop, here's a list of events planned with the pint-sized in mind.
Creative Families Unite
Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey End the year with an artistic bang. Performances and workshops in dance, theater, music and more will be happening from 5-9 p.m. At the end of the alcohol-free festivities, little ones can pretend they made it until midnight and gather on Division Street in Petoskey to watch the ball drop. Reservations strongly suggested. crookedtree.org
Savor Every Second
Boyne Mountain Alpine glow takes on a new meaning on December 31. The annual torchlight parade and fireworks show illuminates the slopes starting at 9:15 p.m.. There's plenty to do before that too: horse-drawn sleigh rides, zip line, family-friendly buffet, bonfire, movie and more. Have teens that are ready for some 'rent free time? They can ring in 2011 with other angst-filled adolescents thanks to an Avalanche Bay Teen Dance Party, happening from 9-1 a.m. boyne.com
Hey Kids, See You Next year!
Raven Hill Discovery Center in East Jordan It isn't everyday you get to have a sleepover with snakes and lizards, so kids will dig this overnight bash complete reptile holding, monkey bread making, hot cocoa sipping. Oh, and you grown ups can stay too, but only if you want—there are chaperones ready to watch ages 4-14 from 6p.m.-9 a.m. Pre-registration required. ravenhilldiscoverycenter.org
Check the Children at the Door
Grand Traverse Resort in Traverse City We all love of our little ones, but let's face it: trading pizza and television for high heels and fancy food on the last night of the year isn't such a bad idea. The folks at Grand Traverse have families covered with two parties. Grown-ups can indulge in a plated-six course meal before hitting the dance floor with the Bay Area Big Band, while kids ages 6-14 can swim, play games, and generate plenty of supervised mayhem from 6 p.m.-1 a.m. The resort has a sitting service available for those totting toddlers or babies. Reservations required. grandtraverseresort.com


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Agencies' annual reports get mixed reviews
Most federal agencies' annual reports need to be clearer, more honest and easier for people to find, a study released Tuesday said.
The Mercatus Center at George Mason University scored the annual reports, which agencies produced for the first time this year. The reports were intended to serve much the same purpose as corporate annual reports, demonstrating what the organization accomplished over the past year.
The Mercatus Center gave the highest scores on the quality of the reports to the Agency for International Development and the Departments of Transportation and Veterans Affairs.
The performance reports mark the culmination of the first complete cycle of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), a 1993 law requiring agencies to write strategic plans and prepare annual performance plans and performance reports. Agencies wrote their first performance reports-due to Congress in March-assessing how well they met their goals in fiscal 1999.
A Mercatus research team evaluated the quality of 24 major agencies' reports. The analysis focused on three areas: clarity and accessibility of the reports is to the public, demonstration of agency results, and leadership in identifying problems and offering solutions to them.
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., Rep. Stephen Horn, R-Ca., chairman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Managment, Information and Technology, joined Maurice McTigue and Jerry R. Ellig of the Mercatus Center in announcing the report.
"As long as Americans keep giving their tax dollars to the government, federal agencies should be prepared to report in a very forthright, revealing manner just how their money is being spent. We didn't observe that openness with many of these reports," said McTigue.
Thompson, McTigue, and Ellig emphasized that the rankings were not a reflection of how well the agencies were performing their individual missions, but rather how well they are reporting them.
McTigue underscored this point using NASA's handling of the Mars expedition as an example. He praised the agency for doing an excellent job keeping the public apprised of the situation as it developed, but critized it for not "telling the story" well enough in its performance report.
NASA received an overall score of 27 out of a possible 60 points.
The average score was 31 points, with the top-ranked agencies scoring almost 20 points above the average and those in the bottom tier scoring about 10 points below average. The Agency for International Development received the most points with 52, while the National Science Foundation finished last with 21.
Overall, agencies did well describing their goals and including baseline and trend data to put performance measures into context, the report said. The report said agencies need to provide cost data, assess the reliability of data and demonstrate the impact of agency actions on the public.
AID received high scores for making its report clear, concise, and easily accessible on its Web site, while the Transporation Department garnered praise explaining its financial management performance measures.
The performance reports from the top-rated agencies were all lauded for discussing problems and failures candidly.
"You have some [agencies] holding press conferences, and some who are hunkered down in the weeds," said Thompson.
In addition to the National Science Foundation, the lowest-ranked agencies included the Departments of Commerce and Agriculture. NSF was criticized for not demonstrating a link bewteen results and cost, while USDA was chastised for overly technical and acronym-laden language in its report.
Thompson said he wants to integrate the report analyses into the appropriations process.
"If we don't integrate this into the budget process, it is meaningless," he said, adding that Congress should support agencies who report goals and accomplishments candidly and sanction those who do not.
The Mercatus Center is located at George Mason University in Arlington, Va. The report, Performance Report Scorecard: Which Federal Agencies Inform the Public?, is available at the Mercatus Center Web site.


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Catholic schools serve area well
There has been a Catholic School System in Fort Dodge for almost as long as this town has been in existence. There are other Messengerland towns that can make a similar claim.
Catholic education got under way in Fort Dodge more than 150 years ago. The first Catholic school came into being during the dark days of the U.S. Civil War. While many Iowans were serving their county in the Union Army, Corpus Christi Parish, in 1862, put the finishing touches on its first school building.
It would be easy to recite the landmark events in Catholic education in Fort Dodge and Webster County and other areas of north central Iowa. In a century and a half there have been a great many.
Catholic Schools Week is a good time to reflect on the important place Catholic schools have in our community.
Fort Dodge and other area towns have excellent public school systems, but the Catholic schools offer a special blend of educational excellence and religious instruction. They provide an alternative approach to education that many in our communities prize highly.
For many centuries in Europe, and later the Americas, churches played a central role in educating young people. Catholic schools preserve that important tradition in a much more secular era. In so doing, they enrich the diversity of educational opportunities available.
Catholic schools deserve praise for the excellence they bring to the educational marketplace. Here and throughout Messengerland, Catholic schools are valued parts of their communities.


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Franklin Peters, Acoma, Black and white jar with geometric design
Pueblo: Acoma
Dimensions: 5 3/4 in H by 7 in Dia
Item Number: xxacd8131m1
Price: $ 675
Description: Black and white jar with geometric design
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Franklin Peters Huwaka Acoma NM
Date Created: 2018
Franklin Peters
Franklin Peters entered this world in May of 1978, son of potter Ella Peters (Vallo). He learned the basics of the traditional methods at an early age by watching and working with his mother. He still counts his mother as his greatest inspiration but he also early on received inspiration and instruction from his aunt, Phyllis Juanico. He's been producing pots for more than 20 years and has participated in shows at Santa Fe Indian Market and at the Heard Museum in Phoenix.
In 2011 Franklin was selected as the Rollin and Mary Ella King Native Artist Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. He spent that fellowship studying the Research Center's pottery collections to better understand the techniques and processes used by his ancestors. He is also interested in exploring more contemporary designs, advancing his own sense of style, increasing the size of his ollas and incorporating more historical designs into his work.
He says it usually takes him about 1 1/2-weeks to complete an 11-inch pot. Peters' designs originate with the traditions of his clan – the Sky Clan. The thin, fine lines usually found on his pottery symbolize rain. "They're more or less praying for rain," he said of his pots. "As a member of the Sky Clan, that's what we pray for all the time."
Today, he still uses the pigment stones and scraping gourds his mother gave him. His sisters Rose Histia Vallo and Katrina Lewis Vallo also make pottery but he is the only male in his clan to do so. He wants the world to realize the Acoma pottery tradition continues, partly through his own efforts to replicate traditional styles and designs and through his efforts to educate younger members of his family in the traditional ways.
We recently learned that Franklin will be demonstrating his pottery making techniques at the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market in Phoenix, AZ, March 5 & 6, 2016.
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Acoma Pueblo
Sky City
According to Acoma oral history, the sacred twins led the ancestors to "Ako," a magical mesa composed mostly of white rock, to be their home. Acoma Pueblo is called "Sky City" because of its position atop the mesa. Acoma lays claim to being the oldest continuously inhabited community in the U.S. It is located about 60 miles west of Albuquerque.
While the people of Acoma have an oral tradition that says they've been living in the same area for more than 2,000 years, archaeologists feel more that the present pueblo was established near the end of the major migrations in the 1300's. The location is essentially on the boundary between the Mogollon (Mimbres), Hohokam (Salado) and Anasazi (Ancestral Pueblo) cultures. Each of those cultures has had an impact on the styles and designs of Acoma pottery, especially since modern potters have been getting the inspiration for many of their designs from pot shards they have found while walking on pueblo lands.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado ascended the cliff to visit Acoma in 1540. He afterward wrote that he "repented having gone up to the place." But the Spanish came back later and kept coming back. By 1598 relations between the Spanish and the Acoma had deteriorated to the point where a group of Acoma warriors attacked a group of Spanish soldiers, killing 11 of them. Don Juan de Oñaté retaliated by attacking the pueblo, burning most of it and killing more than 600 people. Another 500 people were imprisoned by the Spanish, males between the ages of 12 and 25 were sold into slavery and 24 men over the age of 25 had their right foot amputated. Many of the women over the age of 12 were also forced into slavery and were parceled out among Catholic convents in Mexico City. Two Hopi men were also captured at Acoma and, after having one hand cut off, they were released and sent home to spread the word about Spain's resolve to subjugate the inhabitants of Nuevo Mexico.
When word of the massacre (and the punishments meted out after) got back to King Philip in Spain, he banished Don Juan de Oñaté from Nuevo Mexico. Some Acomas were able to escape the Spanish attack and returned to the mesa top in 1599 to begin rebuilding.
In 1620 a Royal Decree was issued which established civil offices in each pueblo and Acoma had its first governor appointed. By 1680, the situation between the pueblos and the Spanish had deteriorated again to the point where the Acomas were extremely willing participants in the 1680 Pueblo Revolt.
After the Spanish had retreated back to Mexico, refugees from other pueblos began to arrive at Acoma, fearing the eventual Spanish return and probable reprisals. That strained the resources of Acoma until a few years later, most of those refugees relocated to found Laguna and make peace with the Spanish as soon as the Spanish reappear in the region.
Over the next 200 years, Acoma suffered from breakouts of smallpox and other European diseases to which they had no immunity. At times they would side with the Spanish against nomadic raiders from the Ute, Apache and Comanche tribes. Eventually New Mexico changed hands, then the railroads arrived and Acoma became dependent on goods made in the outside world.
For many years the villagers were content on the mesa. Now most live in villages on the valley floor where water, electricity and other necessities are easily available while a few families still make their permanent home on the mesa top. The old pueblo is used almost exclusively these days for ceremonial celebrations.
Acoma's dense, slate-like clay, allows the pottery to be thin, lightweight and durable. After the pot is formed, it is painted with a slip of white clay. Black and red design motifs are added using mineral and plant derived paints. Fine lines, geometrics, parrots and old Mimbres designs are commonly seen motifs. The traditional paintbrush for Acoma potters is made from the yucca plant.
Historically Acoma was known for large, thin-walled "ollas", jars used for storage and water. With the arrival of the railroad and tourists in the 1880's, Acoma potters adapted the size, shapes and styles of their pots in order to appeal to the new buyers.
Acoma Pueblo is home to noted potters of the Lewis and Chino families, as well as many others. Acoma potters felt it was an inappropriate display of ego to put their signature on a pot up into the mid-1960's. The 1960's is also a time when the primary white clay vein mined by the Acomas passed through a layer of widely distributed impurities, impurities that passed through the pottery making process and appeared only in the firing. Or worse yet, sometimes well after firing. The clay problem was so bad it affected virtually every potter in the pueblo and every pot they made. So many pots spalled that even the best potters sold them anyway, often signed. Thankfully, by the late 1960's they had dug through that layer of clay and into a layer without the problem.
Acoma Pueblo at Wikipedia
Pueblo of Acoma official website
Pueblos of the Rio Grande, Daniel Gibson, ISBN-13:978-1-887896-26-9, Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2001
Upper photo courtesy of Marshall Henrie, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License
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Pottery Care & Consideration
- The most obvious tip: Yes, the pots will break if you drop them!
- Do not expose pottery to water (Inside or outside). Do not wipe with a damp cloth.
- Dust pottery only with a soft, smooth cloth (no terry cloth or textured fabric). A very soft paintbrush (sable or camel) can be used.
- Always use two hands to carry your pot: one on top and one on the bottom, or one hand on each side. Be careful with handles, they can be fragile. Do not grip or lift pots by the rim. Take care when wearing jewelry, rings can scratch the finish.
- Place a piece of felt or cloth between the pot and the shelf to protect the signature.
- Avoid exposing pottery to extreme temperature changes.
For those who live in "earthquake country" (also good for mischievous pets):
- Weigh pots down with a small zip lock bag containing sand, glass marbles, rice, etc. Do not fill the pot more than one third full as you want them bottom heavy. Remember to remove the weight before moving.
- Secure your shelves; make sure they are well attached to the walls. Shelf brackets should be of sufficient length and strength to support the weight of your pottery.
- Prevent pots from sliding. Consider attaching a small wooden molding to the front of shelves. Line shelves with non-slip material (a thin sheet of rubber foam, Styrofoam sheeting, etc.)
- If you need assistance with special problems, major cleaning (your grandchild spills ice cream on your pot), restoration or repair (the cat breaks a pot), or replacement (irreparable damage), please feel free to call us.
We hope these ideas help you maintain the beauty and value of your pottery for years of enjoyment.
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-website is to show our presence so people can refer to their friends
I want it to be a fun take on professional, yes we have to be professional but doesnt mean that we need to be suffocated with suits and ties and speak in a foreign accent that our target audience wont understand anyway. we can speak the speak and walk the walk when we need to but we'll use whatever is effective at getting the message across.
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