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See what happens when you have very little time, a naked gingerbread house and a bowl of popcorn?
The December 2009 Daring Bakers' challenge was brought to you by Anna of Very Small Anna and Y of Lemonpi. They chose to challenge Daring Bakers' everywhere to bake and assemble a gingerbread house from scratch. They chose recipes from Good Housekeeping and from The Great Scandinavian Baking Book as the challenge recipes.
I went with the recipe provided by Y, but I only did half of it.
Y's Recipe: Scandinavian Gingerbread (Pepparkakstuga) from The Great Scandinavian Baking Book by Beatrice Ojakangas
- 1 cup butter, room temperature [226g]
- 1 cup brown sugar, well packed [220g]
- 2 tablespoons cinnamon
- 4 teaspoons ground ginger
- 3 teaspoons ground cloves
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- ½ cup boiling water
- 5 cups all-purpose flour [875g]
In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar until blended. Add the cinnamon, ginger and cloves. Mix the baking soda with the boiling water and add to the dough along with the flour. Mix to make a stiff dough. If necessary add more water, a tablespoon at a time. Chill 2 hours or overnight. Cut patterns for the house, making patterns for the roof, front walls, gabled walls, chimney and door out of cardboard. Roll the dough out on a large, ungreased baking sheet and place the patterns on the dough. Mark off the various pieces with a knife, but leave the pieces in place. Preheat the oven to 375'F (190'C). Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until the cookie dough feels firm. After baking, again place the pattern on top of the gingerbread and trim the shapes, cutting the edges with a straight-edged knife. Leave to cool on the baking sheet.
I knew I was not going to be able to do a very detailed decorated house, because of the busy holiday baking marathons I had to run... I knew I had to do something very simple... And that's how this idea popped into my head: A popcorn house!
To make my popcorn house I've followed the recipe's instructions, did a simple template and baked the house pieces. Then I've popped my corn, did some caramel and used it to glue my popcorn to the walls of the house. I've also used the caramel to glue the house together. I've then completed the blank spaces where the walls where glued with some more popcorn strategically positioned. And that was it! Fast and fun, and if I may say myself, quite cute!
I think I'm gonna eat it while I watch a movie... And by the way, Happy Holidays everyone!


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Quote from: modbreakunnecessary quotes removed -020more excuses and of course you won't take us up on the offer. That would open you up for actually having to discuss something and not whining how much of a "minority" you are. Sorry, again, that hasn't been a problem before. You before said that you can discuss the scientific evidences for god but the forum wasn't good for that, and now you say that you *have* to go beyond science. Which is it? Or is it anything you can think of so you don't have to actually defend your baseless claims?
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Moderator, when you say "nested quoting" do you mean any quoting at all, or are you talking about 2nd and 3rd level quoting? (Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm new around here)
I believe he/she/it/not-sure-but-will-not-conform-to-your-sterotypes
No, it really doesn't. Though I do love SRV, please let's keep the conversation on topic. Thanks.020
See right below Karma? It says "Gender". Mine is a circle with an arrow pointing up. It symbolizes my big, fat, erect... spear. The circle symbolizes a shield. Together they represent Mars, the god of war and thus, masculinity. 020 is a man, baby.
Quote from: gadget777 on December 07, 2010, 02:18:05 PMHey guys! I just stumbled upon this forum and this thread was the first one I looked up. I haven't had time to dive too deep into these types of discussions but first may I ask what the definition of an amputee is?According to Luke 22, verses 49-53, Jesus heals a man who had his ear cut off by one of His own disciples.Yes many miracles happen in the Bible. Miracles that if they happened today would be proof that magic, including the possibility of divine intervention, was a real force in the world.Similarly the Quaran has similar claims, as does the Iliad, as does the Books of the Dead, as does the Arthurian Legends, as does Aesop's Fables, and Grimm's Faerie Tales.However, none of these unambiguous miracles occur in an age where people can check on wether or not they actually happened. Magic seems conspicuously absent in the presence of TV cameras; Divine intervention shies aways from being scientifically tested.So just because it happened in a book isn't a convincing argument. WWGHA is a shorthand way of asking, since people purport God to do wondrous things even in the here and now and we are to bow are heads in praise for these blessings...why does the unambiguous miracle no longer occur? Specifically, in all the hospitals, in all the world, in the past 100 years, has not one amputee been healed through prayer? Why didn't Manna not fallen from heaven for the Jews starving to death in concentration camps? Why couldn't a Minister raise his hand and calmed the storm before the Tsunami near Sumatra? Why couldn't a priest part the waters in New Orleans during Katrina?The conclusion is obvious, the stories of magic in the past are made up. Thus we need to treat those stories as unreliable sources of information. If they are unreliable on such tangible this such as 40 years of Wandering in a tiny desert...how much more unreliable are they when claiming things that cannot even be detected, like an afterlife?
Hey guys! I just stumbled upon this forum and this thread was the first one I looked up. I haven't had time to dive too deep into these types of discussions but first may I ask what the definition of an amputee is?According to Luke 22, verses 49-53, Jesus heals a man who had his ear cut off by one of His own disciples.
I see it as my job to let you know that I may need psychological help.
You believe evolution and there is no evidence for that. Where is the fossil record of a half man half ape. I've only ever heard about it in reading.
Tiptoeing in risking the charge of reviving dead threads....but if someone is reading this:A malfunctioning computer starts working. A sign on a restaurant has "hello" on it. A wrestler wins a match. The examples you give of "miracles" are certainly within the realm of normal possibility and easily explained. Not to mention trivial and only of interest to you alone or at most a few people. However, suppose these events really were miracles. How do you know who was responsible? Could be Zeus, Ishtar, Satan, Yoda, Dumbledore, Santa or any other magical figure. If you believe in one, why not all the others? And the secret of getting prayers answered seems highly bogus. Why are you so special as to merit personal attention from god, when people who are really in trouble don't get any magical sh!t when they pray? Don't you think millions of people have prayed very sincerely for a child with a severed spinal cord to be able to walk or for a friend with brain damage to be cured? For the plane, train, bus or car to not have crashed. And it does not happen. You must only ask for something that is not really magical, important or hard to do-- and make sure it is something that could happen anyway without god's help. Pray for a good parking space or to find your keys or to get a big raise. Pray for your team to win the pennant or for that certain person to ask you to the prom. God, Satan, Santa or Ishtar might just grant your wish. Or not. But people who pray for world peace, to save all children suffering from starvation or for a cure for cancer should expect nothing. They are just being selfish, and no doubt aren't praying the right way. So eff 'em...
Hi jdcpe17 I am a moderator and I am here to help you.I see you mentioned in another thread you are having trouble keeping up. I recommend you stop posting in multiple threads. Stick with one conversation at a time. That way when you feel overwhelmed we will be more likely to be sympathetic. Follow these links for additional information:Quoting FAQ and Users GuideForum RulesRegards,Screwtape
you missed it. what you pray for should not be for your earthly gain, it should always be in some way for the glory of God. if it is not, then it may not happen. keep that in mind, now read your own response.
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
Quote from: jdcpe17 on July 08, 2011, 09:37:43 AMyou missed it. what you pray for should not be for your earthly gain, it should always be in some way for the glory of God. if it is not, then it may not happen. keep that in mind, now read your own response. How are the 'miracles' you mentioned in your original posts not instances of earthly gain?
Hey jdcpe17, personal experience is a factor eh?Is this yours? http://medskobook.onlinewebshop.net/
Quote from: Ambassador Pony on July 07, 2011, 03:52:42 PMHey jdcpe17, personal experience is a factor eh?Is this yours? http://medskobook.onlinewebshop.net/
Jesus was seen and heard by hundreds after He died.
3) Since I know who I am praying too, all other possible Gods are excluded.
I am not so special at all. I am just like you. You are just like me.
The other one is kind of iffy, except that, I was able to make it known to MANY people what happend and why.
These things did happen as I said they did though.
Quote from: jdcpe17 on July 08, 2011, 09:47:31 AM Jesus was seen and heard by hundreds after He died.Those are the allegations. However, we have no conclusive evidence that this was the case. Quote from: jdcpe17 on July 08, 2011, 09:47:31 AM3) Since I know who I am praying too, all other possible Gods are excluded.Is it possible you were just ringing a phone, as it were, and another god picked up while the one you hoped to call was either out for a bite or was just a name written on a bathroom wall?Quote from: jdcpe17 on July 08, 2011, 09:47:31 AMI am not so special at all. I am just like you. You are just like me. You must be special. You cannot be just like me. I have never had the omnipotent deity that created all Being grant my wishes. Quote from: jdcpe17 on July 08, 2011, 09:51:15 AMThe other one is kind of iffy, except that, I was able to make it known to MANY people what happend and why. Ah, but could that not be said of any miracle? In fact, that was the very reason jesus H did miracles[1] - to make people believe. So if jesus H doing miracles to help people believe is okay and yhwh doing miracles for you or your loved ones to help people believe is okay, why not doing miracles for me when I needed one to believe? That is the crux of the point of the question "why won't god heal amputees". Your god does not appear to be consistent in his miracles, or he is completely consistent in ways that can only lead to certain conclusions. He seems to randomly help you and many other xians in the US in incredibly trivial ways. But for starving african children, his miracles dry up every single time. He helps people with ambiguous ailments. But he never, ever regenerates a limb, makes a person younger, or restores mental faculties to alzheimers victims or the retared. There are limited conclusions to come to that explain this.Quote from: jdcpe17 on July 08, 2011, 09:47:31 AMThese things did happen as I said they did though.Is it possible that things did happen, but not for the reasons you think? 1. allegedly
Quote from: Ambassador Pony on July 08, 2011, 09:54:31 AMQuote from: Ambassador Pony on July 07, 2011, 03:52:42 PMHey jdcpe17, personal experience is a factor eh?Is this yours? http://medskobook.onlinewebshop.net/Yea actually i remember it now. its been a long time. probably not the best thing ive done with my time. probably not the worst thing ive done with my time either.


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The Smyrna High School JV boys basketball team narrowly defeated Salesianum last night 28-27 in overtime in front of a home crowd.
The Eagles were led by Timer Garnett with 7 points and Donte Ritchie with 6 points and 14 rebounds. Jerry Williams had a strong rebounding performance with 9.
The JV squad notched another win even with another loss of a player to varsity. Freshman Charlie Taylor was moved up to varsity just a few days after teammate Latrelle Lee.
Smyrna improved to 14-1 on the season with the win.
Next up is a home game Saturday against Cape Henlopen at 5 p.m. The team is also home on Monday versus St. Andrews at 5:30 p.m. Monday's game is Smyrna basketball's "PINK" event for cancer.


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Sellvana is a new, open source ecommerce solution newly announced this week as a project offering a limited preview to developers. With a full product launch scheduled for later this year, the project claims to be backed by $5 million of private equity seed funding.
More ecommerce? So what? Created by Boris Gurvich, the original lead technical architect of Magento, Sellvana asserts its "USP differentiators" as its high speed of development through a simplified architecture with streamlined APIs and a built-in debugging environment.
Built on a PHP framework, this tool has "true modularity"; i.e., the ability to switch on and off each module. A fast learning curve here comes about as it enjoys "natural adoption" by most IDEs and simplified coding requirements.
"The established generation of open source ecommerce platforms have not aged gracefully — they have not looked after themselves or their community. Give them their credit, these platforms triggered a revolution in their time, but it was a long time ago. Modern ecommerce development requires faster, more flexible, more Agile solutions. Also, many members of these original, open source ecommerce communities now feel cheated and sidelined by corporate interests," said Gurvich.
He continues, "We are building a new platform that removes all technical roadblocks for merchants, developers, and designers and puts community back at the center. Based on our own Fulleron PHP Framework, Sellvana provides powerful features that are easy-to-use. In starting afresh, we have looked at every aspect of an ecommerce platform and worked out how to improve on it. We have delivered the changes that the open source ecommerce community has been calling out for, with radical improvements in functionality, flexibility, performance, and security."
Sellvana will be released officially, later this year, under the Open Source Licence (OSL v3.0). Ahead of this, the firm is providing limited access to its private alpha technology preview.


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The kidneys remove waste in the form of urine from the body. They also balance the water and electrolyte content in the blood by filtering salt and water. When one or both of the kidneys are not able to perform these functions, kidney failure may result.
Kidney failure is divided into 2 categories:
- Acute kidney injury—sudden loss of kidney function
- Chronic kidney failure—slow, gradual loss of kidney function
Kidney disease occurs when nephrons lose their ability to function normally. Nephrons are cells in the kidney that filter the blood. Damage to the nephrons may occur suddenly after an injury or poisoning. Many kidney diseases take years or even decades to cause damage that is noticeable.
The 2 most commons causes of kidney disease are:
- Diabetes—high blood sugar can damage nephrons
- High blood pressure—severe high blood pressure can damage blood vessels in the kidneys
Others causes include:
- Kidney infection—pyelonephritis
- Glomerulonephritis
- Genetic disorders, such as polycystic kidney disease
- Bilateral renal artery stenosis
- Birth defects
- Abnormal build-up of substances within the kidneys such as amyloidosis and protein build-up
- Toxic reaction to drugs or injections of contrast material used for imaging studies, such as CT scans
Risk Factors
Factors that increase your chance of kidney failure include:
- Chronic diseases that affect kidney function
- Genetic abnormalities or birth defects that affect kidney function
- Autoimmune disorders, such as systemic lupus erythematosus, polyarteritis , and Wegeners granulomatosis
- Cancer
- Severe trauma
- Viral infections, such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV
- Long-term use of aspirin or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), especially in high doses
- Conditions that affect blood volume, such as burns, pancreatitis, peritonitis, bleeding, and dehydration
- Conditions that make it difficult to urinate such as enlarged prostate, kidney stones, and tumors
- Recent heart surgery, such as open heart surgery or abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
Some kidney diseases begin without any symptoms. As the disease progresses, some of the following symptoms may develop:
- Fluid retention
- Swollen and numb hands and feet, itchy skin
- Fatigue and/or insomnia
- Low or no urine output
- Frequent urination
- Altered consciousness
- Loss of appetite, malnutrition
- Sores, bad taste in the mouth
- Nausea, vomiting
- Muscle cramps and twitches
- Shortness of breath
- High blood pressure
- Low temperature
- Seizures, coma
- Breath smelling like urine
- Yellowish-brownish skin tone
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Your bodily fluids and tissues may be tested. This can be done with:
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Images may be taken of your kidneys, bladder, and ureters. This can be done with a renal ultrasound or CT scan.
Most chronic kidney diseases are not reversible, but there are treatments that may be used to help preserve as much kidney function as possible. In the case of acute kidney injury, treatment focuses on the illness or injury that caused the problem.
General Measures
- Restricting fluids
- Doing daily weight checks
- Eating a high-carbohydrate, low-protein diet
Medications used in acute or chronic kidney failure may include:
- Diuretics —to flush out the kidneys, increase urine flow, and rid the body of excess sodium
- Blood pressure medications
- Medications to treat anemia
- Sodium polystyrene sulfonate or insulin in dextrose to control high potassium levels
- Medications to control high phosphorus levels
Talk to your doctor about other medications you are taking. These include prescribed and over-the-counter medications, as well as herbs and supplements. Since the kidneys are no longer working properly, waste can build up in your body.
Dialysis is a process that takes over for the kidneys and filters waste from the blood. This may be needed until kidney function improves or a kidney transplant is done.
Kidney Transplant
This may be the right option for some people. Having a successful transplant depends on many factors, such as what is causing the kidney damage and overall health.
Lifestyle Changes
You can take the following steps to help your kidneys stay healthy longer:
- Have your blood pressure checked regularly. Take medication to control high blood pressure.
- If you have diabetes, control your blood sugar. Ask your doctor for help.
- Avoid the chronic use of pain medications.
- Depending on the severity of kidney disease, there may be dietary restrictions on protein, cholesterol, sodium, or potassium.
In some cases, you cannot prevent kidney failure, but there are some steps you can take that will lower your risk:
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The Greensburg City Council voted unanimously to approve a 50 percent decrease in Big Well Museum single admission rates for Kiowa County residents at the behest of Big Well Manager Stacy Barnes during their regular meeting on Jan. 7.
The Greensburg City Council voted unanimously to approve a 50 percent decrease in Big Well Museum single admission rates for Kiowa County residents at the behest of Big Well Manager Stacy Barnes during their regular meeting on Jan. 7.
"We've been open for more than a half of a year now and seeing the response from local residents, I'd like you to consider lowering the rate," said Barnes. "I want the locals to really appreciate what we have and I don't want it to be cost prohibitive."
Admission to the museum was $8 per person and will now be $4 per person for county residents. Barnes said on Tuesday she has instructed her staff to use the "honor" system with county residents, but they may request an ID if they are unsure.
"This is a small town and a small county. We pretty much know everyone," she said.
In her brief letter to the city council Barnes said local taxes contributing to the operation of the museum, encouraging locals to explore in-county attractions and less-than-expected membership sales were the prime motivation for the reduction request.
The membership levels start at $25 a year for an individual and go up to $1,000 for a lifetime family membership.
A $75 family membership offers one-year of free admission to the museum for two adults and children who live at home.
Each membership also comes with a discount at the gift shop and incentives.
To-date the museum has sold a total of 26 annual memberships.
"[County residents] haven't purchased as many memberships as we thought they would," she said.
Speaking on Tuesday, Barnes said a reduction in the single ticket price for locals and an anticipated second-year increase in admissions should stimulate more local interest in the multi-million dollar combination Big Well and tornado museum that opened last May.
The museum will also begin tracking local admission and will have access to county specific admissions data though a guestbook was able to provide some information on Kiowa County entries.
In previous years The Big Well had been a reliable tourist attraction for the city.
Barnes and city officials hope local incentives will drive area residents to the museum.
She said she has seen many locals bring family and friends to the museum over the course of the year.
"We had family visits over the holidays," commented Councilwoman Sandra Jungemann. "We went twice in two days."


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MANCHESTER - Public Service of New Hampshire is inching closer to the energy supply rates offered by competitors in a preliminary forecast filed Thursday with state regulators.
If the PSNH rate request is approved by the PUC and goes into effect on July 1 as proposed, the company's energy service rate would be cut from 9.54 cents per kwh to 8.98 cents per kwh.
ENH Power is offering 7.28 cents per kwh and North American Power is offering 7.29 cents, both with a six-month guarantee. PSNH delivers the power and bills the customers, no matter who provides the energy.
In addition to lower rates for energy supply, the company is also seeking a decrease in its stranded costs recovery charges, which are allowed by the PUC to compensate the utility for costs brought about by deregulation of the energy industry in New Hampshire.
The lower energy supply and stranded cost charges would be offset somewhat by an increase in the distribution charge, the third portion of an electric bill designed to pay for the transmission system.
With all charges accounted for, the monthly bill of a PSNH customer using 500 kwh per month would drop $3.42 from $92.43 to $89.01.
PSNH spokesman Martin Murray said there were several factors contributing to the lower energy charge, including lower than expected energy prices on the wholesale market.
"We have been operating since Jan. 1 on the basis of what we expected costs to be moving forward for the full year," he said. "Now we have updated information on what our costs have actually been, and firmer information on what they will be going forward."
Murray said the company was able to take advantage of low natural gas prices as they declined, but when they spiked in January and February, the company was able to use power from its coal-fired plants in New Hampshire for a brief period at prices lower than the wholesale price.
"If those plants had not been operating efficiently during that period and we had been forced to purchase at market prices during that period, our costs would have been higher by more than $45 million," he said. "The vast majority of that savings was during January and February."
The company also cited favorable changes in renewable energy rules and the expiration of expensive contracts with independent power producers as contributing to the lower rate.
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Lyons man decides to change his life, and completes Ironman Triathlon
Nicholas Lemke weighed in and more than 300 pounds when he woke up one day and decided. Just like that.
"I wanted to make a change in my life," said the 29-year-old Lyons man.
It was April 2008. He bought a bike and started riding. A friend invited him to run, so Lemke tagged along. Then winter came.
"I thought, what else can I do? I joined the YMCA and started swimming," Lemke recalled. "Then I thought, why don't I put it together and do a triathlon?"
Two years later, Lemke had lost 108 pounds. He put 15 pounds back on, after he realized he had gotten too thin, and has maintained his new weight, as well as found a passion for long-distance races. He started competing in 2010 in endurance races, primarily bicycling, and in a few triathlons. In 2011 and 2012, he did strictly triathlons.
It took him a year to prepare, but Lemke participated in the world-renowned Ironman Triathlon, when one was held in Sept. 9, 2012, in Madison, Wisc. The races include a 2.4-mile swim, an 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile marathon run – all consecutive. To be a finisher, athletes have to complete the course in 17 hours. Lemke's time was 14 hours, 31 minutes and 39 seconds.
"I didn't race. I went there for the experience," Lemke said, adding that he took the advice of a fellow athlete, who told him, "'Have fun, and take it all in. You can race in the next one.'"
Lemke has signed up for another Ironman competition this year, Aug. 25 in Louisville, Ky.
Lemke said at his current weight of 218, he is "big for a triathlete. They are usually 150 to 160 pounds," he said. He swims in the middle of the pack, but the bike is his event.
"For my size, I can really push the bike," he said. "It comes easily."
Lemke races across Michigan and in other states now. It's an every weekend-thing for him, he said.
"I'm single, no kids, no restrictions, which is why I can do this. Friends with wives and kids have said, 'You might as well do it now,'" he said, adding that his girlfriend since November is "new to this world."
Lemke said his life in changed in a few ways. He's definitely healthier.
"At the gym, I walk around holding a 50-pound dumbbell in each hand and think, how did I lug this extra weight around?" he said.
He's also learned a lot about himself, pushing himself to explore new limits.
"I am a determined person," he said. "I like to see what I can do next. I'm never satisfied, and I want to see how far I can push myself."
Lemke said he still has to be watchful of how he eats. Sometimes he slips.
"But the next day is a new day," he said. "I wish it was as easy to lose as it is to put back on."
Lemke said he gets asked for advice from people who want to know how they can do what he did.
"When it gets hard, don't give up," he said he tells them. "There are bad days and good days, but remember it's just one day. And tomorrow is another day."
When he finished the Ironman challenge, Lemke said he was awed by the support of the community, including people he hadn't talked to since high school, who posted congratulations on Facebook, sent emails and text messages.
"I was really overwhelmed how many people cared," he said. "I'm just one person, and they took time out of their day."
Jennifer Roundtree, who has known Lemke for 12 years – they worked together at Michigan One Credit Union – said the change has made him "a lot happier." The two supported one another during some difficult personal times, and became closer. Roundtree travels with Lemke when she can to take photos. Last year Lemke encouraged her to take up running, and accompanied her in four 5K races.
"He ran with me so I'd finish. That's friendship. He took the time to help me, to encourage me. He was right there," she said. "I wanted him to be proud of me like I was proud of him."
Mike Ralston, Lemke's friend since fourth grade at Twin Rivers School in Lyons, said the change in his friend physically, from before to after, is "amazing, just ridiculous." Emotionally, Lemke has always been loyal and would do anything for anyone, but now he is much more confident in himself, Ralston said. The impact he has had on those around him "who are along for the ride" is the real life-changer.
"It's the inspiration you get from the things he's doing, for the people near and dear to him," Ralston said. "If you think about the distances, the Ironman event itself, it's crazy. He's my best friend, and to see him accomplish a goal he's wanted to do, words can't express."
Ralston said he is proud of his long-time friend.
"I'm a 30-year-old man, and he makes me cry," Ralston said. "He was a big boy when he started this, and he's a totally different person. It'll get you."
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Stacey Cole's Nature Talks: Readers tell of visits by wild, winter guestsSTACEY COLE March 01. 2013 9:37PM
I have decided to back this column up to pick up some letters that I should have used earlier. On New Year's Day a gentleman from Londonderry wrote in part: "You can imagine our surprise when four bluebird pairs visited us on Christmas Day, 2012. They checked out the suet, feeders, and the bird house, stayed about fifteen minutes and left. I thought they might stay overnight in the birdhouse. We had a pair that used it last summer. After they had left, I cleaned out the house and noted that their nesting material was almost exclusively pine needles. The prior summer we had chickadees in the house. Their nest material was fine grasses, dryer-lint, down and mosses." Also enclosed were two excellent, recent bluebird photos.
Here at the farm we had one nesting pair of bluebirds that used only pine needles. Other nesting pairs have used grasses as a base and lined with feathers, mostly from chickens. Tree swallows use very similar material, especially chicken feathers. In cleaning the birdhouses after chickadees have used them, I have found comparable nesting material to that as described by our reader.
I was delighted to receive visits from a pair of bluebirds both before and after Christmas Day. What a delight to see them!
Since mid-January, I have been watching for a flock of so-called "winter robins." Two reports have been received from readers who have seen them. In late January, a long-time reader friend who lives in Henniker, phoned to describe a small flock of robins as being "heavier and brighter-colored" than so-called "summer robins." This is the usual description of robins that visit New Hampshire in winter. It is believed that these so-called "winter robins" nest in northern Canada or Labrador and change their food from worms and the like to fruit such as tree-dried apples, crab apples, mountain ash, and other berries they find. Our Henniker reader said that their robin flock hung around for about three hours and ate the old apples they had cast out for birds.
An Exeter reader also reported having a flock of robins that met the "winter robin" description visit them for a short while later in January.
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A Concord reader wrote an interesting letter and enclosed a computer-photo of a hawk to be identified. He believed the hawk was a red-tailed. Since the pictured hawk appeared to me to be basically black with a narrow tail, a white breast and several flecks of white on its back and wings, I could not identify it. However, I am sure someone at NH Audubon in Concord could.
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On Jan. 6 a Campton reader wrote in part: "This letter is not about birds but about a bird feeder visitor. Since early December we have a youngish or small raccoon as a regular visitor to our bird feeders, both the feeders on the porch and those on poles down in the yard. We've had occasional visits from raccoons in past years, and they normally only stay for a couple of nights, cleaning up the bird seed before leaving us. This raccoon has stayed as long as 4 hours on the porch where we have 3 feeders - one on the deck, the second on the railing and a third on a pole with a red squirrel shield. He/she spends the visit time cleaning up the seed in and around the deck and railing feeders. The box-type feeder on the railing is 20 inches long, 10 inches wide and 12 inches high, to give you an estimate on the raccoon's size (as shown in photo). Though he/she normally comes at dusk, a few times we have had he/she as a daytime visitor. Sometimes he/she will curl up inside the box feeder and appear to nap for 20-30 minutes before rousing and resume snacking.
"Realizing it is a wild animal we do give it a wide berth, but we did have an outside lighted Christmas Tree on the porch and when I went out to plug it in, the raccoon would turn its back and shield its eyes as though saying: 'If I can't see you, then you can't see me.' Once I go inside it will resume eating. Our cat will stare at it through the closed sliding doors but gives it rather little notice other than that.
"Prior winters we have had Snowshoe Hares come up the porch steps and eat the seed out of the feeder sitting on the deck, but none have ventured up to the deck this year yet."
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In my column of Dec. 29, I referred to Stinson Lake as Stimson Lake. I regret the error.
Writing letters continues to be very difficult. Questions will continue to be answered in columns, but delayed due to my publication schedule. Columns are written two or three weeks in advance. To receive a more timely answer please enclose a phone number. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.
Stacey Cole's address is 529 W. Swanzey Road, Swanzey 03446.


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Cholesterol is a type of lipid in the blood. High cholesterol is an abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood.
There are different types of cholesterol in your blood including:
- Low density lipoproteins (LDL)—causes build up of cholesterol and other fats in the blood vessels. Known as bad cholesterol because high levels can cause disease in the arteries and heart disease.
- High density lipoproteins (HDL)—can remove cholesterol and other fats from the blood. Known as good cholesterol because it may protect against heart disease.
Causes of high cholesterol include:
- Genetics
- High-fat diet
- Excess weight
- Sedentary lifestyle
Risk Factors
The risk of high cholesterol increases with age. It is more common in men. It is also more common in women after menopause.
Factors that may increase your risk of high cholesterol include:
- Family members with high cholesterol
- High-fat diet
- Excess weight
- Sedentary lifestyle
It is rare for high cholesterol to cause symptoms. However, high cholesterol can increase your risk of atherosclerosis, a dangerous hardening of the arteries. It can block the flow of blood. Some complications of atherosclerosis include:
- Chest pains—angina
- Heart attack
- Stroke
- Peripheral artery disease
Some people with high cholesterol may also have cholesterol deposits in tendons, under the eyes, or in the eye.
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. You will be asked about factors that may increase your risk of heart disease or stroke.
A blood test will also be done. Blood will be sent to a lab to measure lipid levels in your blood. Tests may include:
- Total cholesterol
- HDL cholesterol
- LDL cholesterol
- Triglycerides
Other tests may be done to look for other conditions that can be associated with high cholesterol levels.
Talk to your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. Treatment is aimed at decreasing your LDL cholesterol levels and decreasing your risk for heart disease and stroke. Options include:
Nutritional Changes
Talk to your doctor about the best meal plan for you. Consider the following changes:
- Balance the amount of calories you are eating with the amount of calories you use through physical activity and basic body functions. This will help you reach or maintain a healthy weight.
- Eat a diet that is high in fruits and vegetables .
- Include foods that are whole grain and high in fiber .
- Eat fish at least twice per week.
- Limit foods with saturated fats, trans fats, or cholesterol .
- Avoid processed and refined sugars and starches. This includes white bread, white potatoes, white rice, and simple sugars like soda.
- Choose and prepare foods with little or no salt.
- Consider drinking green or black tea, which have been shown to help reduce cholesterol.
- If you drink alcohol, drink in moderation.
Lifestyle Changes
- Begin a safe exercise program with the advice of your doctor.
- If you smoke, talk to your doctor about ways to quit .
- If you are overweight, talk to your doctor about ways to lose weight .
- Make sure other medical conditions, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, are being treated and controlled.
Cholesterol-Lowering Medication
You may be prescribed statins to help lower your cholesterol. Statins have been shown to reduce mortality, heart attacks , and stroke.
These medications are best used as additions to diet and exercise. They should not be use in place of healthy lifestyle changes.
To help reduce your chance of getting high cholesterol, follow the lifestyle and nutrition changes above.
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Accusoft has released a USB Scanner SDK as a means for software application developers to add document scanning, via USB-based hardware scanners, to their Android apps.
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Developers are offered options to a) integrate USB scanning into existing Android applications, or b) design and build new scanning-enabled apps.
If correctly deployed, users will be able to connect their Android devices directly to a scanner via a USB cable and run the scanner from within the app. This will enable the user to control features such as resolution, brightness, and color.
NOTE: Apps using this toolkit can scan single- or multi-page documents, and save them in PDF, JPEG, TIFF, or BMP format.
The SDK's developers insist that building USB scanning into a workflow has a number of "immediately apparent" beneficial application scenarios. "It can give mobile or home health workers in the field the ability to record and transmit signed medical forms efficiently, improving productivity and patient care."
NOTE: Developers of mobile applications that have a document workflow can use the USB Scanner SDK to get documents into the flow without having to write code to support specific scanners.
The SDK comprises code libraries, Java source code examples for reference and testing, plus access to help files for advanced applications and troubleshooting. Applications require Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) or later and a supported scanner; supported scanners are listed here.
Developers and users can see and test this technology in action by downloading a trial app version from Google Play (search for "USB scanner trial"). Users who do not see their scanner in the list of supported scanners can also use the app to try the technology with their scanner model.


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Editor's note: This story has been updated to add a business that has donated supplies. The information was left out of the original interview.
Leo, an Australian shepherd/Labrador retriever mix puppy at the Lenawee Humane Society, may not yet realize how important he will be to his future new owner.
In a couple of weeks, training will begin to make him a potential lifesaver to his human companion.
Clay Paul, a junior at Adrian College and resident of Findlay, Ohio, has Type 1 diabetes and, due to early childhood health concerns, has seizures. Leo, who will be officially ready for adoption March 9, will then be trained to detect when Paul's sugar levels are off or if he is about to have a seizure.
Paul said that because of his health concerns, he is sometimes afraid to go to bed if his roommates are gone, for fear he will have diabetic concerns or a seizure.
"Sometimes I'll stay up really late," he said.
That is where the help of the college's disabilities director, Danielle Ward, and the Lenawee Humane Society came in.
Through the help of Ward, Paul connected with Leo at the humane society Jan. 31 and, according to director Marcie Cornell, it was an instant match.
"He's going to come in a couple of times a week and bond with the puppy until it's weaned," Cornell said.
Paul spends much of his spare time at the humane society, playing with Leo and watching him grow. The humane society will waive the adoption fee, and pet behavior specialist Ted Aranda has offered to train Leo, also for free.
Cornell said Pet Supplies Plus in Adrian will donate supplies, Red Mill Pet Supplies in Tecumseh and The Cutler-Dickerson Co. of Adrian have pledged to donate food, and Kelly Veterinary Clinic in Adrian will cater to Leo's medical needs through age 2.
"Our goal is to have Clay live a normal life," Cornell said.
Paul saw the splotched puppy in a creative way and named him Leo for the famed artist.
"He looks like something Leonardo da Vinci could have painted," Paul said.
And later this year, Leo and Paul will head out in to the world, partners and companions for years to come.
"Leo will help me take better care of myself," Paul said. "He will help me be independent."
Raising a lifesaving pal
Editor's note: This story has been updated to add a business that has donated supplies. The information was left out of the original interview.


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Regarding the possibility of listing the sage grouse as endangered, I'm by no means alone when I say if this happens it will lead to the end of the livestock industry in 11 western states. Some optimism might be gained if listed Alternative G' the rural community alternative' were to be the chosen plan, but the possibility of that happening seems pretty remote. In reading through it versus Alternative D, BLM favored, Alternative G in my opinion has a more sensible approach to both grazing and wildfire management and fire control. Also, it seems more financially feasible for those who will have to pay the bill out of their livestock budget.
Regarding wildfire management and fire control, Alternative G also seems to encompass a more thorough, comprehensive approach than the BLM-preferred alternative. As for the goal of retiring permits, I can think of no better example of the cure being worse than the disease. It is evident that grazing should be a priority preventative fire management tool.
Landowners and permit holders with their stewardship are a vital part of maintaining habitat, not only for the sage grouse but all wildlife. The reality of this is starkly evident in our forests, once beautiful, healthy and a source of pride, and most importantly providing a livelihood for innumerable people as a renewable resource. Since the demise of the timber industry to the spotted owl, the forests, at least in our area, are a disgrace. There are many dead and dying disease-threatened trees, with unrestricted undergrowth providing an ample fuel source for yet more wildfires.
This same scenario must be expected as an eventuality if the sage grouse is listed. Please consider people and land preservation when settling on a management plan for the sage grouse.
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Taft falls 53-38 to end the season
After going through a roller coaster ride of emotions, the No.3 seeded Taft varsity girls basketball team saw their season come to and end Tuesday night in a 53-38 loss to the No.2 seeded Mendota Aztecs in the semi final round of the Division IV playoffs.
Scoring was quiet early on before the Lady Aztecs exploded for a 12-2 run. Taft's offense picked up with Caitlyn Emberson sinking a free throw to cut the Lady Wildcat deficit to 18-7 at the end of the first quarter.
Mendota held a double digit advantage in the second quarter until Emberson scored on a basket with 4:09 remaining. After the Lady Aztecs on on a 6-0 run, Taft came to life with a 10-0 run in the final 1:35 of the half to cut the deficit to seven at 29-22.
Mendota and Taft traded points early in the third quarter However, the Lady Aztecs erupted for 16 points while Taft was held to three.
The Lady Wildcats bounced back in the fourth quarter by outscoring Mendota 10-7.
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The mayor's pay: Past time for a raise in Manchester
March 10. 2013 5:21PM
Back in 1996, a voter-approved revision to Manchester's City Charter gave aldermen the authority to raise the mayor's pay. Though the voters obviously thought the mayor deserved periodic pay raises, aldermen never gave them. "It always came up in an election year, and nobody wanted to get involved," former Alderman Mike Lopez, a member of the new charter commission, said last week.
That is why charter commissioners were right last week to approve a motion to raise the mayor's pay substantially. The current salary is $68,000 a year. Veteran teachers and police officers can make more than that. The commission approved a proposal to set the salary at $107,937, an increase of almost 59 percent.
That is a huge jump, and such a big move would be better made in smaller increments. But the ending place is roughly appropriate. The mayor of the state's largest city need not be paid as much as a hospital CEO, but the pay needs to be enough to land top executive talent from the private sector. A salary in the $100,000 range would do that.
Mayor Ted Gatsas is independently wealthy (by his own hand), so the pay is not an issue for him. It would be for many others. Unlike serving in the Legislature or on a city board, being mayor is a full-time job. If the city wants executives of skill, talent and experience, it should offer a level of compensation that would not necessarily attract them, but that would not be a disincentive to them.
Public service is its own reward, to a point. People who could be making $200,000 a year in the private sector might sacrifice a few years of financial rewards to serve the people of the city. But requiring them to take a 66 percent pay cut makes it much less likely that they will.
Though we are not sold on the charter commission's method for this pay increase, a significant raise is needed, and they are right to propose one.


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10 days after home invasion, Bedford neighbors want answers on attackBy SIMON RIOS
Union Leader Correspondent
December 03. 2012 10:47PM
BEDFORD - Some neighbors near the site of a reported home invasion say they are not happy with the small amount of information they have received from police.
"I can speak for a majority of (the neighborhood) that we're just not getting any answers, no answers at all," said a Wallace Road resident who asked that his name not be used.
Elliot Hospital anesthesiologist Dr. Eduardo Quesada and his wife, Sonia, were found bloodied the night of Nov. 24 in their upscale home at 7 Proclamation Court. Their 2-year-old was unharmed.
Police said they were told a man at least 6 feet tall who wore a black ski mask and dark clothing confronted the couple inside their home about 10 p.m.
Quesada, 52, suffered a serious head injury and remains in the hospital.
Bedford Police Chief Jon Bryfonski said investigators cannot give out information that would harm the investigation. But the Wallace Road resident said he believes he has the right to know if the neighborhood is secure and called for more "heartfelt" communication from police. He said his children are now sleeping in his home's living room, where they feel safer.
"Me and my wife are just so scared and paranoid in a way, because we don't want them in their rooms," he said. "It happened in our backyard."
Bryfonski said Monday that Bedford's crime index of 52 incidents per 100,000 inhabitants is very low (based on 2010 data) when compared to similarly-sized communities. Burglaries this year are below 2011 levels, he said. But he acknowledged that statistics don't make people feel safe.
"Therefore, it is imperative for the Bedford Police Department to assure our residents that everything possible is being done to identify, arrest and successfully prosecute the person(s) responsible for this crime," Bryfonski said.
Tom Tamulevich lives on Spring Hill Road, parallel to Proclamation Court.
He said he considers the Bedford Police Department one of the finest in the state.
"We had Mont Vernon a couple years ago," he said, referring to the 2009 murder of Kimberly Cates and brutal attack on her then 11-year-old daughter. "That was horrific. We have this now. That's horrific. But we'll see if the (perpetrator) profiles are any different or if there's something else going on - we just don't know."
Asked if he was frightened, Tamulevich said no.
"That guy ain't coming back ... We're all at DEFCON 5 over here," he said.
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The natural gas got a boost on weather but in reality the bigger boost may come from President Obama's new Energy Secretary. President Obama's choice of Ernest Moniz to lead the Department of Energy may be a signal to the gas market that indeed the U.S. will start along a path of sharing our natural gas abundance with the world and start exporting it. Dow Jones reported that Moniz, a nuclear physicist of Portuguese descent, served in the Energy Department under President Bill Clinton. He is the director of MIT's Energy Initiative and sits on Obama's council of scientific advisers. If confirmed, Moniz would play a role in deciding whether to allow energy companies to export U.S. natural gas. In his current role, Moniz was the co-chairman of a 2011 study that found "there are substantial economic benefits to a global natural-gas market" and said "the U.S. should not erect barriers to natural gas imports or exports."
As readers know I have been predicting that natural gas has put in a longer term bottom based upon low prices creating demand. Now it appears that the biggest holder of U.S. natural gas reserves, Shell oil, agree. As reported in Zero Hedge, Shell is predicting that Natural Gas will become the number one energy source in the world.
"With high government involvement in dictating energy and policies, Shell believes that natural gas will flourish to become the number one energy source in the world over the next couple of decades, overtaking coal and helping to reduce carbon emissions. Zero Hedge reports that Royal Dutch Shell has just released new forecasts for its 'New Lens Scenarios' program, which aims to predict how current business decision and policies may unfold over time and affect the markets in the future.
It also predicts that hydrogen and electric power cars would become the common methods of transportation and as a result oil prices will drop. This in turn will mean that high-cost unconventional fossil fuels would remain in the ground as it would be economically unfeasible to extract them. Of Course in the short term oil is rebounding on global economic nirvana.
Stimulus and the fact that crude filled its gap is giving the market support. The gas bubbles has burst and the cold temperatures could bring back heating oil.
Bloomberg reports that gas at the pump, averaged nationwide, fell 0.9 cent to $3.746 a gallon, AAA said today on its website. It was the sixth consecutive drop. Prices, which have risen 14% this year, are 7 cents below a year earlier. Prices in 2012 peaked on April 5 at $3.936 after climbing every day but one from March 8.
Still the downside now is limited and now the question is when oil will start to establish a base for its seasonal spring run. We should see choppy action in oil over the next couple of days as we try to find a bottom to work with.
Brent crude has been strong due to North Sea problems. Bloomberg report that Buzzard may be coming back on line but the TAQA pipelines remain down.


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When people in Oak Ridge talk about Pat Rush, a couple of words come through loud and clear: Community Service.
When people in Oak Ridge talk about Pat Rush, a couple of words come through loud and clear: Community Service.
Former Oak Ridge Council member Pat Rush died Wednesday at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge. The 82-year-old civic leader served on Oak Ridge City Council from June 1987 until June 2001.
The city's current mayor and three former mayors who served with Pat told The Oak Ridger that Pat Rush earned their respect and was an asset to the community. Pat served with mayors Al Bissell, Ed Nephew, Roy Pruett, Kathy Moore and David Bradshaw.
"She did a great service to the city during her tenure on City Council," said former Mayor Ed Nephew, who also said he considered Rush a friend.
"I had a good relationship with her," Nephew said. "She was very informed about a lot of different things, and she did a good service as a Council member.
"I knew her, and her husband as well … from his work at the lab. It turned out as a surprise to me that we both spent time in Germany and she attended the same university I did for one year. We had that in common.
"We discussed our reactions to what life in Germany had been while at the University of Göttingen, the same college the 'father of the atom bomb' attended," Nephew said, referencing J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was certainly no stranger to Oak Ridge's "muddy-booters" and whose nickname came from Oppenheimer's role in the top-secret Manhattan Project of World War II.
Kathy Moore also said Rush gave a lot to the community.
"She was a really good person," Moore said. "She studied her material really hard. Though we didn't always agree on all of the city's issues, I respected her very much.
"We've lost a good woman."
David Bradshaw said, "Our community will surely miss Pat. As a new Council member, it was an immense pleasure learning from Pat — and I will always remember her conviction."
"Pat's best known for her service on City Council, but she was always on duty — encouraging and pushing to make sure Oak Ridge was the best," Mayor Tom Beehan said. "She will be missed, but her spirit and love of Oak Ridge will always be present."
Pat shared her own thoughts about her Council service in a City of Oak Ridge Oral History.
"I tried to represent the District when it was that way, but I always felt I should think at-large. It's the city; it's not my little neighborhood," Pat said about City Council changing from a 12-member district board to a seven-member at-large board.
Additionally, as a member of the National League of Cities, Pat attended "virtually all" of the meetings.
Pat Rush proudly talked about Oak Ridge's history and how changes were made for the good of the city and its citizens; but she also talked about her beginnings from a small town in Kentucky to "Secret City, Tennessee."
In her oral history, Pat described herself as "a genuine Kentucky hillbilly."
She was born Feb. 24, 1930, in Middlesboro, the daughter of Walker Burton and Helen Lewis Paynter. She said her father served on the school board in Middlesboro.
Pat graduated from Hollins College in Roanoke, Va., in 1952, with a bachelor of science degree in physics. She met her future husband, Richard M. Rush, while working as a laboratory assistant to his aunt at the University of Virginia.
They were married on June 25, 1955, and moved to Oak Ridge a short time later.
Dick, a chemist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, according to Pat's oral history, died in 1996. He was also a former member of the Oak Ridge Board of Education.
Pat became involved in the community — as both a civic leader and volunteer.
According to her oral history, "I started out through music, the Oak Ridge Chorus and the church music choir — so I guess music has always been a thread, too."
The church choir she sang in was at First Presbyterian Church, where she also served as a member of the church Session from 1981 to 1983.
Pat served on the board of directors of the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association and The Arts Council, and joined Altrusa International in 1979, an organization in which she was very involved.
Pat and Dick, along with their children Helen and John, lived on Alder Lane for many years before moving to their home on Dana Drive.
Pat talked about that move for her and her family in the oral history, stating: "When we moved here, you could not buy property and our rental property, of course, was on Alder Lane.
"But then, it looked like they were going to be selling property — so we bought this big old vacant lot on Dana Drive and built there, and that was all fun.
"It was interesting to feel like you were a part of something that was really growing, and trying to make it nice. So that was a good time in history."
Pat moved to Greenfield of Oak Ridge about six years ago.
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Investigators unearthed murder victim Chevelle "Chevy" Wheeler early this year from a Calaveras County hillside, where 26 years earlier serial killer Wesley Shermantine buried her.
Investigators unearthed murder victim Chevelle "Chevy" Wheeler early this year from a Calaveras County hillside, where 26 years earlier serial killer Wesley Shermantine buried her.
Yet, Paula Wheeler, the 16-year-old's mother, said investigators told her this month that they recovered her daughter's purse and lavender jacket about 30 miles away in San Joaquin County at the bottom of an old ranch well near Linden.
The well on Flood Road is where investigators in February also found broken bones from at least three people and a fetus in addition to a long list of personal items.
The victims are believed to have been disposed of there by Shermantine and his friend Loren Herzog, who together led a drug-fueled murder spree in the 1980s and '90s.
Wheeler said officials intend to return her daughter's jacket and purse.
"We will be getting them back soon," Wheeler said in a letter to The Record sent from Crossville, Tenn., where she lives with her husband, Raymond. "Something we can actually see that she had on that last day."
The touch of solace the Wheelers feel opens new questions in the ongoing recovery effort:
How did Chevy's personal items get into the well, and when will the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office make public the trove of unearthed clues, possibly providing answers to the relatives of other long-missing people?
Sheriff's investigators are working to recover and return all of the killers' victims and personal items to their relatives, said Deputy Les Garcia, spokesman for San Joaquin County Sheriff Steve Moore. He gave no time line.
Garcia confirmed that some of Chevy's belongings were found in the well, but he declined to say what items they were or speculate how they got there.
"The only person who can truly answer the question ... is Shermantine himself," said Garcia, adding that the well was also full of animal remains, trash, car and washing machine parts.
Shermantine led investigators to the well and burial sites in letters sent from death row at San Quentin State Prison, where he remains today.
Shermantine and Herzog were arrested in 1999 after the murder and disappearance of Cyndi Vanderheiden, 25, of Clements. Shermantine was ultimately convicted of four murders, while Herzog was convicted of three. The bodies of Vanderheiden and Chevy Wheeler were not found until this year.
Herzog's case was overturned on a technicalitywww and, in January, he hanged himself while on parole as Shermantine started revealing where he buried the victims, all along blaming Herzog for the crimes.
Paula Wheeler said by phone that investigators from San Joaquin County this month mailed a folder filled with photos of the personal items retrieved from the Linden well to deputies in her area. On Dec. 12, she and her husband looked through them.
A deputy there asked her mark the items she recognized as belonging to her daughter. She noted the jacket and contents of the purse: wallet, drivers license and compact powder with her daughter's name.
In another photo, Wheeler said she saw a turquoise ring, which she didn't recognize as belonging to her daughter, who had skipped classes at Franklin High School in Stockton on Oct. 7, 1985, with Shermantine and was never seen again.
Rob Dick, a Sacramento bounty hunter involved for years in the search for Shermantine and Herzog's victims, said prosecutors convicted Shermantine, in part, using blood splatters found in a hunting cabin on the Shermantine family's property in Calaveras County.
Dick said Shermantine, at the time age 19, probably found Chevy's things in his red pickup and decided to dispose of them in the well on his drive home to his parents' house in Linden. By then, Shermantine and Herzog had already used the well to dispose of Kimberly Billy, who had vanished in December 1984, and Jo Ann Hobson, who had disappeared in 1985, about one month before Chevy Wheeler's murder.
The remains of Billy, Hobson and another woman who has yet to be identified were also found in the Flood Road well. Shermantine and Herzog are suspected of murdering many more.
The revelation that Wheeler was buried in a separate location from her belongings underscores the need for the FBI to oversee the ongoing recovery effort, said state Sen. Cathleen Galgiani, D-Stockton, who has corresponded with Shermantine and made repeated visits with him in prison.
Several other law enforcement agencies have expressed interest in hopes of finding answers to their missing persons cases, and Shermantine has said that victims were taken from towns throughout the Central Valley.
"I believe from what Wesley has shared this far with me ... that the magnitude of this case is beyond what any one law enforcement agency alone can be expected to handle," Galgiani said.
Bounty hunter Leonard Padilla, who offered Shermantine $33,000 to reveal the burial places, said he doesn't understand why Sheriff Moore didn't promptly explore every possible well for murdered victims.
The FBI in August took Shermantine out of prison to point out other wells and burial places in Linden, which have yet to be excavated. Padilla said he suspects he knows why they're stalling.
"It's totally financially inconvenient for the sheriff or FBI to find any more bodies," Padilla said, estimating the Flood Road excavation cost more than $100,000. "What if it were your son or daughter?"
Contact reporter Scott Smith at (209) 546-8296 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/smithblog.


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St. Jilji was founded in 1238 by Bishop Jan IV, then remodelled by Dominican monks in 1340-1370, when it became the base of the religious reformer Milic of Kromeriz.
Gothic on the outside, Baroque within, St. Jilji is a large church, ornately decorated and with beautifully crafted high ceilings.
Baroque elements added during the 18th century include the stuccoed interior by B. Spinetti and ceiling frescoes by V.V. Reiner.
The main altar is breath-taking, adorned with polished gold relics centred around an image of the crucifixion. Throughout the church there are impressive marble spiral columns and intricate wood-carvings. And of note are the four confession booths, carved in the 18th century by R. Prachnerem.
Extensive restoration work allows us to admire the finer details and the vibrant colours of the church. This is paid for in part by visitors' contributions and receipts from classical concerts held at St. Jilji.
The magnificent organ at St. Jilji dates from 1737 and has rare historical value, with Baroque wood-carvings by F.I. Weise. It is the biggest classical organ in Prague with 3500 reed-pipes.
The unique acoustic quality of the organ is demonstrated during classical concerts, which draw some of the finest organists in the country to perform all year round.
The historical beauty of St. Jilji Church attracts film makers. Scenes from the film Amadeus, directed by Milos Forman, were filmed here.
If you wish to attend a concert, it is wise to book in advance - in the knowledge that by doing so you are contributing to the upkeep of this wonderful old church (even the benches you sit on date from around 1686).
During the winter the interior of the church is heated, but it is advisable to wear warm clothing for the concerts.
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"And who are you supposed to be then?" Ser Boros Blount garbled, looking at Velaquo and Quills now with mean, piggish eyes.
"A knight fom the Free Cities, dear Ser, keeping a man from dying" Velaquo answered nonchalantly, as if such a thing was commonplace.Friendly, seemingly preoccupied with the task of first aid, no thread to ol' Pig-Eyes."This is my faithful squire, Ser" he nodded to Quills - who nodded back.Over their years together, Quills had pretended to be a merchant, cobbler, messenger, noble, barbarian, slave, dragon and a bride - to name a few. Squire? That one's easy.
"Are you the captain of this mighty fort? I am but new to this land, and unaware which coat of arms deserves most respect. You seem well-versed in matters of nobility - care to enlighten a brother in arms?"
Walking in as erect as possible, the pain in his side made it difficult, yet he suffered through it. The cold stares from all those present bore deep into his soul and peered in the very being that lay inside. Pushing out of the hands of the soldiers who were 'helping' him walk he walked as a knight should in the presence of the King and Council. Stopping shy of the stairs he bended knee and lowered his head fighting the spasm in his back with every ounce of strength his powerful frame could, twitching only slightly. Noticing the lack of the King made a slight twitch of the side of Rufus' mouth but little else showed in his face."My Queen Cersei. My Lord Hand Tywin. Lord Tyrion and gathered Council. I am here as summoned by Law to swear to the King and Country my name, my armor, my house, and my soul."Rufus stayed kneeling as the feeling in the room was palpable and unnerving. He was sure that Ser Korley spoke of their encounter which with Lord Tywin being present could actually end up with his head laying six feet from his shoulders. If the rumors were true of the young King, that could be the a more gentle ending. He awaited their reply, any reply, so that he could stand proud and accept whatever fate that befell him.
"Tell me, my old friend, what dangers keeps the majority of folk penned up inside the fortress? IS there an illness or enemy force encroaching on the Neck we should be aware of?"
"You're as nervous as a swam-rat, boy. What's wrong?" He gave the young man's shoulder a reassuring squeeze. "Tell me, friend. Help me to keep Kat safe, and perhaps we can help you as well."
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