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Drew Ferris will never forget the day Will Muschamp made him cry.
They were tears of joy. All of the pent up emotions from Ferris' football career had built up to that moment when the Florida Gators' deep snapper was awarded a football scholarship.
Ferris had transferred from a large public school to a tiny private school to play eight-man football. As a senior, he was part of a winning squad on the only Jewish 11-man high school football team in the country. He found a niche as a deep snapper, practiced with his high school coach and specialist Chris Rubio, who told then-UF special teams coach DJ Durkin about Ferris' abilities.
Ferris decided to walk-on at Florida, a coast-to-coast move and culture shock from San Diego, Calif., to Gainesville. He killed himself in offseason conditioning and in practices until he earned a starting spot with the team.
Then on April 5, the day before the Orange & Blue Debut spring scrimmage, Muschamp delivered the news.
"The juice was worth the squeeze as they say," Ferris told GatorCountry.com in an exclusive interview.
To set the scene, imagine a locker room full of football players, listening intently as their head coach gave a day-before-the-scrimmage pep talk. Muschamp pointed out players one by one with lines like, "(Jon) Harrison, you're going to be blocking for us" and "Frankie Hammond, you're going to be going up in the air and catching balls for us."
Muschamp also mentioned key cogs like linebacker Jon Bostic, punter Kyle Christy and kicker Caleb Sturgis. Then, out of the Gator blue, he began talking about Ferris "snapping the ball for us."
In his head, the 6-foot-1, 211-pound Ferris wondered why his name even came up. As a deep snapper, his contributions to the team often are overlooked.
"You don't hear your name like that too often, so I was kind of caught off guard," Ferris said. "Then he looked at me and said, 'From this day forward you are now on a full scholarship at the University of Florida.' And I just broke down in tears.
"That was definitely one of the biggest accomplishments of my life. It was an uplifting moment of my life — I'll never forget that day."
A "huge weight" immediately was lifted off of his shoulders. It also lessoned the burden on his parents' pocketbook as out-of-state tuition can cost around $38,000 per year, not counting all of the other costs associated with sending a son or daughter away to college.
"Drew has a really strong sense of responsibility and felt bad about us paying out-of-state tuition," said Walt Ferris, Drew's father. "We filled a lot of empty cans and bottles and scraped by, but we knew it was important to him. We knew he had the character and quality and traits to make it happen.
"Once it happened, it helped him feel like more of an integral part of the team."
It took some time before Drew could connect with his parents to tell them the awesome news. They were in Israel visiting his sister, who lives there with her boyfriend. They were in a remote area where their cell phones did not work.
Drew had to tell somebody. He phoned his grandmother, but she didn't answer. He then began calling and texting his aunts, other family members and friends. Still, he wasn't able to tell the people he wanted to share the news with the most: his parents.
Finally, his mom, Pam, logged onto Facebook. On Drew's wall were messages congratulating him on the accomplishment.
"When we found out we started yelling and shouting and we couldn't get a hold of the boy," Walt Ferris said. "When he finally told us, it was surreal. We were worried and anxious and had talked for several hours about it and thought it might be coming, so it when it did, we were obviously very excited for Drew because of how hard he had worked for it."
The work began well before he arrived at UF. Drew Ferris transferred from a public school to San Diego Jewish Academy. His junior year the Lions were playing eight-man football. He lined up as a defensive end, middle linebacker, offensive tackle and where ever else his team needed him.
"Eight-man football is tiring – very tiring," Ferris said. "It's like ironman football. I never left the field. It's a smaller field. It's more running and a more higher tempo type of football. It's definitely tough."
A new coaching staff and a switch to 11-man football as a senior resulted in a trip to the playoffs and a 6-3 season. Drew earned all-conference honors for both defense and offense. As the lone Jewish high school team in the country, the Lions had an interesting advantage over opponents.
"They would call out the plays in Hebrew and talk to each other in Hebrew," Walt Ferris said. "The boys speak English and a good deal of English at that, but if they wanted to keep something from the other team, they talked Hebrew."
In the meantime, Drew began working with Chris Rubio, one of the nation's foremost experts on deep snapping. He eventually became a five-star prospect as a deep snapper.
When Rubio was contacted by Durkin — who was searching for Florida's next deep snapper — he offered up Drew Ferris' name.
"I would not be in the position I am today without (Rubio.)," Drew Ferris said. "He taught me everything I know."
Drew was offered a spot as a preferred walk-on, which meant no athletic scholarship money. It was a difficult decision to leave sunny southern California (his home actually is in Carlsbad, Calif.) for The Sunshine State. After all, it's more than 2,300 miles away. To drive it, it would take about 33 hours. The few direct flights from Orlando to San Diego are expensive and keep you in the air for five hours.
It was a long way from home for the long snapper to travel. Still, he decided to accept the offer to walk-on at Florida, becoming the first Division-I male athlete from his high school.
"I wasn't really planning to play big-time, D-I college football," Drew Ferris said. "I was really thinking that if I was going to keep playing football of maybe going to a smaller level somewhere."
At Florida, Drew quickly connected with punter David Lerner, whose family became his "second family," according to Walt Ferris. He made tons of new friends and experienced life away from home for the first time.
In his spare time, he likes bowling, fishing and music. He said he likes to "jam out" on a guitar from time to time with teammate and roommate Christian Provancha, who also plays guitar. His other roommate/teammate is Chandler Carr.
"The culture and the change of me coming from where I came from definitely changed me as a person," Drew said. "It changed my views on a lot of things. Not having your parents down the street or seeing them at every event where or knowing they are only a couple-of-hour drive away, it made me grow up really fast."
On the football field, Drew redshirted as a true freshman in 2010. He won the starting job that offseason and served as the deep snapper on punts and field goals in all 13 games. All of his sacrifices and hard work paid off the following spring when he was awarded a scholarship.
Everything was going perfectly.
Then, it happened.
The date was Sept. 1, 2012.
Trying to make a play for his team in the fourth quarter of the season opener against Bowling Green, Ferris raced down the field after snapping the ball to punter Kyle Christy. Speedy gunner Louchiez Purifoy arrived first to knock the ball loose from the returner.
Ferris quickly scooped it up and began rambling toward the end zone before being tackled from behind. His left shoulder was driven into the Florida Field turf, fracturing his clavicle (collar bone).
He heard it "pop" and the sound was something he'll never forget.
"I tell people it sounded like when you break celery, that snap when you break the stick," Drew said. "Most people kind of cringe a little bit when they hear that and think of that sound."
The pain was intense as fans can tell by watching the WCJB replay, which shows Ferris being helped to the sidelines by the team's medical staff.
However, when he heard the prognosis that it would take three months to fully recover, the pain switched from physical to emotional.
"That was my season," Drew said. "That was actually more painful than the actual injury."
The pressure that comes with deep snapping is intense. About the only time a deep snapper gets mentioned by the media is if they make a mistake, or suffer an injury.
A bad snap usually equals a big play for an opponent. There's zero margin for error. Walt Ferris likened the motion to that of a quarterback, throwing a two-handed spiral backwards between your legs.
"If something goes wrong, you have that in your head, so you feel a lot of pressure to execute," Ferris said. "Definitely one of the things I had to overcome, handling the pressure and getting over the fact there's 90,000 people in the stands and I'm on TV,
"It's something you just have to stop thinking about and just focus on helping your kicker or punter to help them execute on fourth down."
Ferris has fully recovered and has been cleared to practice. He's been on campus three seasons, but has only played one. He will apply for a medical redshirt to get this past season back. If approved, Ferris will have three more years to play football despite technically being a junior from an academic standpoint.
That said, Ferris hopes to pursue a master's degree. He's majoring in psychology and is even thinking of adding a double major in business or business management.
"Because I'm going to be here for so long, I would love to get my master's here," Drew said. With so many years of eligibility (remaining), I'm just going to keep working really hard on and off of the field in hopes of getting into a master's program here at UF."
He's still not exactly sure of the career he plans to pursue. Walt Ferris is a psychotherapist and Pam Ferris is the CEO of a non-profit retirement community, so it sounds like Drew may end up in a career that is a combination of what his parents do.
No matter what avenue Ferris chooses, his parents will be there to support him — even from a couple of thousand miles away.
"We couldn't be any prouder of him," Walt Ferris said.
If he ends up getting a chance to play in the NFL, then he certainly will explore that option first. NFL deep snappers can make upwards of $1 million per year because it's a craft so few can master.
For now, he's just going to keep enjoying his college experience while staying focused on the task at hand.
"I love being a Gator," Ferris said. "I like my teammates and my coaches a lot. Definitely being a Gator has changed me for the good. I'm just looing forward to getting back and getting on the field next year to help my team."


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I'm using myself as an example to take on this thread:
Recently the issue of compromising on boundaries has come up for Redpepper and me. One of the ways I offered to create more freedom in her level of intimacy with Leo was for me to pull away from some group activities that we share as families. Admittedly, part of this is because I cannot effectively deal with the reality of how intimate they were and would like to continue being. Fair enough, like an Ostrich I burrow my head into the sand. I also know this would likely result in me being less active in a broader spectrum of poly environments/activities once again to avoid reminders or triggers which might make my issues around this topic flare. I think I would become more live in boyfriend with a separate/more introverted social life.
Essentially I would be stepping myself back into a more "secondary" role in order to deal with more openness for Redpepper. She would get something and I would get something. Compromise?
I have read of other posters on here who also want to be viewed as more secondary to cope with their partners other relationships. They too encounter resitance in the face of being asked to accept new relationships.
Yes, the dynamic of the relationship changes but it also changes with the addition of new partners. Is it "fair" to expect no change in current partner dynamics in light of the desire to change the dynamic by adding new ones?
Is it fair to ask existing partners to "not" change when they are themselves being asked to accept change?
If both people are getting some of what they want while still maintaining relationships that they both get something from...is that not feasible? Is that not what compromise is about?
I'd like to try to stay somewhat on target with this because I know there will be a tendency to ask "why don't you work on getting over this issue as opposed to avoiding it through stepping back". Been there…will be there again I am sure
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Mono, what you're proposing sounds very reasonable to me. You are protecting your heart in the best way you know how, while still staying as connected as you know you can be in such a situation. If RP and Leo do move forward in their relationship, and you step back for them to do that, it doesn't mean you cannot become more engaged with the tribe at a later date. You might just need an adjustment period. People and relationships are fluid and you can ask to create what you want. The way you put it, about there being change happening on both sides of the equation, makes perfect sense to me.
I could be wrong but I thought Leo's wife didn't want them to move forward either? It seems there are challenges in this, from more than just you, but ultimately RP and Leo need to be clear about what they want. Want, not what they would consider fair. Then you have to look at what you want, and if they want to be together and stepping back is what you want, I don't see a problem.
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In all honesty stepping back is not what I want...but what I would need to do and none of us can predict what that would lead to. But at least it is something on the table to work with if they want to continue as they are. I'm trying LOL
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Stepping back can sometimes be the only way to re-group ourselves in order to deal with the situation at hand. However, it all comes down to how far is too far or how far is far enough? When we offer up compromises we have to remember not to shut ourselves off to counter offers.
Sometimes I offer up a compromise and it gets accepted as "this is what I need/want", end of story, but now I'm misserable. What I really NEEDED, was more options, because my solution was too drastic. At the time, my head could not comprehend any other solution and the second party (my husband) was feeling too guilty to argue and accepted what I said I wanted.
I understand stepping back from activites they share as families, with the goal and understanding that this is only temporary. Some re-building might have to be done and new goals set. This doesn't necessarily mean that the entire dynamic of the relationship or how you interact within the immediate family needs to drastically change.
I think this is where I am, I'm in the process of rebuilding my relationship with my husband. While some may say that he really didn't have an affair, and other would say he did, the truth is trust was violated, boundries crossed and my families saftey was compromised. We both had decissions to make, we both had to decided how or if to move forward. In this process, I have learned a lot, but while this knocked us back for a while we are moving forward.
At first, I backed away from everything and everyone, it was very necessary, for a short while. Now I am carefully looking at what really needs to be added back and what was I doing simply out of obligation? I had to ask myself did I enjoy it or the people involved or was it causing more stress than it was worth? How was this stress effecting my relationship with my husband and children?
The fact is that life is ever-changing. Expecting ANY dynamic not to change in some manner during the course of life-is just asking to have life smack you in the face. It's expecting to be able to live with a "false front"...
The same holds true for the second question. No it's not fair to ask for someone to uphold the impossible test of maintaining the facade of a false front just because it makes one feel more secure.
It's impossible to guarantee no change in a world that is ever-changing. To ask someone else to give that guarantee is asking them to lie to you.
If both partners agree that the compromise is suitable, then it is certainly feasible.
That is my understanding of what compromise is about...
WOW-I feel so smart! I got through the questions without thinking "WELL SHIT.."
"Love As Thou Wilt"
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(this is a joke, we are at least at the joking stage. Please note, a joke, I am not angry, I'm joking... )
Love you LR, you are a pretty lady! *flirt* (I'm allowed to flirt with the ladies )
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you feel free to flirt with me.
I need all the flirting I can get.
Thank you both for the vote in prettiness.
You guys are a couple of cuties too. XO
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My heart is sick today thinking of the poor folks in Moore. I know that life is not about things, but as a genealogist I can't help but also mourn the memories that have been lost. I wish the people of Moore the strength to get through this horrible day and the weeks to come.


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Ever get a System.Xml.XmlException that says:
"Hexadecimal value 0x[whatever] is an invalid character"
…when trying to load a XML document using one of the .NET XML API objects like XmlReader, XmlDocument, or XDocument? Was "0x[whatever]" by chance one of these characters?
The problem that causes these XmlExceptions is that the data being read or loaded contains characters that are illegal according to the XML specifications. Almost always, these characters are in the ASCII control character range (think whacky characters like null, bell, backspace, etc). These aren't characters that have any business being in XML data; they're illegal characters that should be removed, usually having found their way into the data from file format conversions, like when someone tries to create an XML file from Excel data, or export their data to XML from a format that may be stored as binary.
The decimal range for ASCII control characters is 0 – 31, and 127. Or, in hex, 0x00 – 0x1F. (The control character 0x7F is not disallowed, but its use is "discouraged" to avoid compatibility issues.) If any character in the string or stream that contains the XML data contains one of these control characters, an XmlException will be thrown by whatever System.Xml or System.Xml.Linq class (e.g. XmlReader, XmlDocument, XDocument) is trying to load the XML data. In fact, if XML data contains the character '\b' (bell), your motherboard will actually make the bell sound before the XmlException is thrown.
There are a few exceptions though: the formatting characters '\n', '\r', and '\t' are not illegal in XML, per the 1.0 and 1.1 specifications, and therefore do not cause this XmlException. Thus, if you're encountering XML data that is causing an XmlException because the data "contains invalid characters", the feeds you're processing need to be sanitized of illegal XML characters per the XML 1.0 specification (which is what System.Xml conforms to—not XML 1.1) should be removed. The methods below will accomplish this:
/// <summary> /// Remove illegal XML characters from a string. /// </summary> public string SanitizeXmlString(string xml) { if (xml == null) { throw new ArgumentNullException("xml"); } StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder(xml.Length); foreach (char c in xml) { if (IsLegalXmlChar(c)) { buffer.Append(c); } } return buffer.ToString(); } /// <summary> /// Whether a given character is allowed by XML 1.0. /// </summary> public bool IsLegalXmlChar(int character) { return ( character == 0x9 /* == '\t' == 9 */ || character == 0xA /* == '\n' == 10 */ || character == 0xD /* == '\r' == 13 */ || (character >= 0x20 && character <= 0xD7FF ) || (character >= 0xE000 && character <= 0xFFFD ) || (character >= 0x10000 && character <= 0x10FFFF) ); }
Useful as these methods are, don't go off pasting them into your code anywhere. Create a class instead. Here's why: let's say you use the routine to sanitize a string in one section of code. Then another section of code uses that same string that has been sanitized. How does the other section positively know that the string doesn't contain any control characters anymore, without checking? It doesn't. Who knows where that string has been (if it's been sanitized) before it gets to a different routine, further down the processing pipeline. Program defensive and agnostically. If the sanitized string isn't a string and is instead a different type that represents sanitized strings, you can guarantee that the string doesn't contain illegal characters.
Now, if the strings that need to be sanitized are being retrieved from a Stream, via a TextReader, for example, we can create a custom StreamReader class that will skip over illegal characters. Let's say that you're retrieving XML like so:
string xml; using (WebClient downloader = new WebClient()) { using (TextReader reader = new StreamReader(downloader.OpenRead(uri))) { xml = reader.ReadToEnd(); } } // Do something with xml...
You could use the sanitizing methods above like this:
string xml; using (WebClient downloader = new WebClient()) { using (TextReader reader = new StreamReader(downloader.OpenRead(uri))) { xml = reader.ReadToEnd(); } } // Sanitize the XML xml = SanitizeXmlString(xml); // Do something with xml...
But creating a class that inherits from StreamReader and avoiding the costly string-building operation performed by SanitizeXmlString() is much more efficient. The class will have to override a couple methods when it's finished, but when it is, a Stream could be consumed and sanitized like this instead:
string xml; using (WebClient downloader = new WebClient()) { using(XmlSanitizingStream reader = new XmlSanitizingStream(downloader.OpenRead(uri))) { xml = reader.ReadToEnd() } } // xml contains no illegal characters
The declaration for this XmlSanitizingStream, with IsLegalXmlChar() that we'll need, looks like:
public class XmlSanitizingStream : StreamReader { // Pass 'true' to automatically detect encoding using BOMs. // BOMs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark public XmlSanitizingStream(Stream streamToSanitize) : base(streamToSanitize, true) { } /// <summary> /// Whether a given character is allowed by XML 1.0. /// </summary> public static bool IsLegalXmlChar(int character) { return ( character == 0x9 /* == '\t' == 9 */ || character == 0xA /* == '\n' == 10 */ || character == 0xD /* == '\r' == 13 */ || (character >= 0x20 && character <= 0xD7FF ) || (character >= 0xE000 && character <= 0xFFFD ) || (character >= 0x10000 && character <= 0x10FFFF) ); } // ...
To get this XmlSanitizingStream working correctly, we'll first need to override two methods integral to the StreamReader: Peek(), and Read(). The Read method should only return legal XML characters, and Peek() should skip past a character if it's not legal.
private const int EOF = -1; public override int Read() { // Read each char, skipping ones XML has prohibited int nextCharacter; do { // Read a character if ((nextCharacter = base.Read()) == EOF) { // If the char denotes end of file, stop break; } } // Skip char if it's illegal, and try the next while (!XmlSanitizingStream. IsLegalXmlChar(nextCharacter)); return nextCharacter; } public override int Peek() { // Return next legal XML char w/o reading it int nextCharacter; do { // See what the next character is nextCharacter = base.Peek(); } while ( // If it's illegal, skip over // and try the next. !XmlSanitizingStream .IsLegalXmlChar(nextCharacter) && (nextCharacter = base.Read()) != EOF ); return nextCharacter; }
Next, we'll need to override the other Read* methods (Read, ReadToEnd, ReadLine, ReadBlock). These all use Peek() and Read() to derive their returns. If they are not overridden, calling them on XmlSanitizingStream will invoke them on the underlying base StreamReader. That StreamReader will then use its Peek() and Read() methods, not the XmlSanitizingStream's, resulting in unsanitized characters making their way through.
To make life easy and avoid writing these other Read* methods from scratch, we can disassemble the TextReader class using Reflector, and copy its versions of the other Read* methods, without having to change more than a few lines of code related to ArgumentExceptions.
The complete version of XmlSanitizingStream can be downloaded here. Rename the file extension to ".cs" from ".doc" after downloading.


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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — The end of one season parts the waters for the beginning of a new one every year this time in the NBA.
For some, the end can't get here fast enough, while others will fight until the very end to be a part of the new season. For Kobe Bryant, his bittersweet ending to his 17th NBA season comes with loads of uncertainty.
Will the Los Angeles Lakers' icon return to form after tearing his Achilles April12? Will he ever be the same? Is it reasonable for anyone to expect him to?
Instead of just asking the questions we sought out the experts for answers on Episode 113 of the Hang Time Podcast featuring legendary trainer Tim Grover, the man who has helped the likes of Kobe, Dwyane Wade and Michael Jordan before them, set the standard as the ultimate competitors in their field. We also picked the brain of Dr. Thomas Best, the Director of Sports Medicine Research at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, for some history and cold hard facts about what Kobe is facing from medical standpoint.
Grover's already mapping out an extensive plan for Kobe to get back sooner rather than later and you can identify some of his strategies in his new book, "Relentless: From Good To Great To Unstoppable," which highlights the training methods the greats have used to separate themselves from the pack.
We've also discuss our picks for MVP (LeBron James) and several other awards, debate whether or not Kevin Durant should have chased a fourth scoring title instead of handing this year's trophy to Carmelo Anthony and handed out a little internal hardware of our own with the crowning of the regular season winner of Braggin' Rights (and believe it or not, the rookie did it)!
Check out all of that and so much more on Episode 113 of the Hang Time Podcast featuring Tim Grover and Dr. Thomas Best.
As always, we welcome your feedback. You can follow the entire crew, including the Hang Time Podcast, co-hosts Sekou Smith of NBA.com, Lang Whitaker of SLAM Magazine and Rick Fox of NBA TV, as well as our new super producer Gregg (just like Popovich) Waigand and the best engineer in the business, Jarell "I Heart Peyton Manning" Wall.
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We are writing in support of John S Rodgers' run for Vermont State Senate. Many know that John is a hard working man born and raised in the hills of the Northeast Kingdom. He is a proud father and loving husband and an contributing member of his community. He is honest, and is a man of strong conviction who is dedicated to representing the diverse voices of his constituents. What you may not know is the work John has done for people in the area even while out of office. John reached out to our family, during a time of great need, purely out of the kindness of his heart. He provided an invaluable amount of support completely unsolicited and expected nothing in return. It is the strength of this character that will represent the needs of the people of Vermont and be the best choice for Senate in the Essex/Orleans district.
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East Albany, Vermont


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- Where: Sulphur
When: September 6-8, 2012
Attending Filmmakers Rachel Perkins Asif Kapadia BRAN NUE DAE SENNA
FILM FORWARD will travel to Sulphur, Oklahoma (80 miles south of Oklahoma City), collaborating for the first time with The Chickasaw Nation to present screenings and filmmaker discussions to the local community. Directors Asif Kapadia (Senna) and Rachel Perkins (Bran Nue Dae) will attend the Oklahoma program to participate in post-screening audience Q&A's, panels, and moderated discussions. Senna is the thrilling story of the legendary charismatic Brazilian motor-racing driver Ayrton Senna. Director Asif Kapadia joins the program via London, UK. Bran Nue Dae uses a comedic approach and the musical form to redefine the Aboriginal experience. Rachel Perkins, an indigenous filmmaker from Australia, will also participate on a panel discussing Perspectives on Indigenous Filmmaking with Sundance Institute alumni filmmakers (to be announced) and moderated by Bird Runningwater, the Director of Sundance Institute's Native American and Indigenous Program.
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Note: Due to last minute scheduling conflicts, Bran Nue Dae actress Ningali Josie Lawford will attend in place of Rachel Perkins.Schedule Of Events
All events are free and open to the public unless noted. All events will take place at the Chickasaw Cultural Center, 867 Charles Cooper Memorial Road, Sulphur, OK 73086. Schedule subject to change.
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In The News
- Film Forward comes to Sulphur, KXII-TV
- Native Filmmakers Bring Expertise to Oklahoma, Red Lake Net News
- Sundance brings Film Forward to Sulphur, NewsOk/The Oklahoman
- Sundance heads to Oklahoma for Native Filmmaker Summit and Film Forward, Park Record
- Chickasaw Cultural Center - Film Forward Event, OklaVision
- Sundance Institute brings Native Filmmaker Summit and Film Forward, Wimgo Blog
- Sundance Institute to host Native filmmaker summit in Oklahoma, Tulsa Business
- Sundance Institute to hold Native Filmmaker Summit in Sulphur, The Journal Record
- Oklahoma Chickasaw center sets Sundance film summit, News OK
- Film Forward and Native Summit coming to Sulphur, OK, KGOU
- Tribe, Sundance to present indie films at Cultural Center, Chickasaw Times
- Sundance Institute collaborates with Chickasaw Nation to host film events in Oklahoma, Native Times
- Sundance Institute collaborates with Chickasaw Nation, Red Lake News
- Tweets about ""filmforward""
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Chickasaw Cultural Center
The Mission of the Chickasaw Cultural Center is:
- To capture the essence of Chickasaw culture
- To revitalize and share Chickasaw culture and traditions through cultural demonstrations, and community outreach activities
- To preserve, protect, and add to Chickasaw history through archives, collections, and research
- To provide educational opportunities to the Chickasaw people
- To share the unique Chickasaw culture with the world.


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Nicole Dabbs, a University of Mississippi doctoral student in Health and Kinesiology, has been named the School of Applied Sciences Student of the Month for December 2012. Read full story…
Catherine Woodyard named November 2012 – Student of the Month
Catherine Woodyard, a University of Mississippi graduate student in health behavior and health promotion, has been named the Applied Sciences Student of the Month for November. Read full story…
Katie Kaiser named October 2012 – Student of the Month
Katie Kaiser a senior majoring in Hospitality Management within the School of Applied Sciences at The University of Mississippi in Oxford takes the meaning of "hospitality management" to a new level. Read full story…
2012 Commencement Photo Album
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White House Chef Speaks on Healthy Lunches
March 30, 2012 By Lindsey Abernathy
White House assistant chef Sam Kass spoke to K-12 nutrition leaders at the University of Mississippi Wednesday about a national movement to improve the quality of school meals through the Chefs Move to Schools program, part of first lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative.
Kass' address was part of the National Food Service Management Institute's second Major Cities Training Symposium, which attracts chefs and nutrition directors from the 40 largest school districts in the U.S. to discuss healthy food initiatives &emdash; including changes to the nation's meal pattern &emdash; strategies and challenges faced by the country's schools.
"There's not a school chef who doesn't have limited resources, a very limited kitchen and very little time to serve a lot of kids," said Kass, who is also senior policy adviser for healthy food initiatives for the White House. "These are challenges every day that folks are overcoming. I think they're heroes. I think folks are coming together; they're understanding their role even better, and they're realizing that 'Yes, we do great work, but we have some real improvements we can make.' We're seeing incredible changes across the country."
The symposium, hosted in partnership with the School Nutrition Association and U.S. Department of Agriculture, was created in 2011 to address the challenges large school districts face, said Katie Wilson, executive director of NFSMI.
"These school districts serve 80 percent of children in America," Wilson said. "The lowest enrollment is about 85,000. They have some very significant training needs because of their size. They might have 500 vacancies in the kitchen at one time. How do you deal with substitutes? How do you train that many people with a limited budget?"
With more than 31 million children participating in the National School Lunch Program, initiatives such as Chefs Move to Schools, which pairs local chefs with schools to help educate children about nutrition and healthy lifestyles, can have a significant impact on childhood obesity rates, which have tripled in the past three decades &emdash; nearly one in three children in America is overweight or obese.
"The work that you guys are doing is so critical to the future of this nation," Kass said to the symposium participants. "Everywhere I go, and everywhere the first lady goes, we're just blown away by the commitment to our kids' health, the dedication on a daily basis. Schools are the heart and soul of a kid's life, and we know they need to be places that foster support and the healthy well-being of our kids."
Sam Kass, White House Assistant Chef and Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives, speaks at the second annual Major Cities Training Symposium at the National Food Service Management Institute Wednesday, March 28. (Photo by Nathan Latil/UM Communications)
Robin Gourlay of the Scottish Government Food and Drink Industry Division also spoke at the symposium, via webinar, on Scotland's "Hungry for Success" nutrition overhaul, as well as the unique school lunch system in the East Ayrshire school district. Like America, the United Kingdom's obesity rate lands it in the top three worldwide.
"We have a professional partnership with the UK," said Wilson. "They've put in very strict nutrition standards in their schools, only they did it with a commercial look and a sort of commercial feel to their cafeterias. East Ayrshire is a rural community &emdash; it's a whole different perspective of how school nutrition runs there."
Seventy percent of food served in East Ayrshire is locally produced, while 90 percent is unprocessed, and 35 percent is organic &emdash; qualities that have gained the school district international recognition as one of the most creative school food systems in the world.
Other speakers included Janey Thornton, USDA/Food and Nutrition Service deputy undersecretary, who discussed the changes to the school lunch patterns, which include the addition of more leafy greens, orange vegetables and legumes to school menus, and provided updates from the USDA; Lindsay Graham, independent school food and health adviser and registered nurse; and Kevin Roberts, executive director for the Center of Excellence for Food Safety Research in Child Nutrition Programs. The symposium also offered training opportunities and resource tables from 10 nonprofits including the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, the National Dairy Council and the Centers for Disease Control.
Wednesday's activities ended with a chef cook-off, during which teams of chefs created meals using ingredients from the new school menu pattern. The cook-off was judged by NFSMI staff and Lafayette Middle School students.
On Thursday, participants took part in a food defense tabletop exercise in partnership with the USDA Food Safety section.
"For our district, we come to the symposium partially so we can see what other large districts are doing and be able to improve the services we offer," said Debra Ann Brunner, supervising dietitian for Milwaukee Public Schools. "It's also to hear updates as well."
The Milwaukee Public School District consists of 142 schools and 87,000 students. Representatives from the school district also attended the inaugural Major Cities Training Symposium.
While the symposium ended on Thursday, the effort to improve school meals, promote healthy lifestyles among the nation's youth and combat obesity continues nationwide.
"This is much bigger than just serving school meals," Kass said. "It's so important in our nation for our kids' lives. The first lady knows that, the president knows that, and we're going to work really hard to support the effort in any way we can. It's about being a strong, young kid. That's what we're after."
The NFSMI, part of the UM School of Applied Sciences, is dedicated to providing information and services that promote continuous improvement of child nutrition programs. It was established in 1989 by Congress and funded at the UM campus by a grant administered by USDA and FNS in 1991. The institute is the only federally funded national center with a focus on applied research, education and training, and technical assistance for school nutrition programs.
- For more information on the NFSMI, visit: www.nfsmi.org.
- To learn more about Chefs Move to Schools, visit: www.chefsmovetoschools.org
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The interests of Israel and major Arab powers like Saudi Arabia and Egypt have never coincided more than they now do, wrote Dr. Yaron Friedman, an Israeli expert on Islam and the Arab world.
Reporting for Israel's Yediot Ahronot, Friedman noted that despite the images coming out of Gaza, Saudi Arabian news network Al-Arabiya recently ran a feature titled "Peace With Israel is the Solution!"
Friedman further pointed out that the author of the piece was far from being just some random contributor. Rather, he is a member of an influential Saudi family that includes respected religious leaders and government officials.
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Given the successes of the radical Sunni Islamic State (formerly ISIS), the lingering threat of the Muslim Brotherhood (which birthed Hamas), and the rising Shiite power in Iran, Riyadh is seen as more keen than ever to complete that process so it can formerly align with Israel, and thereby gain the advantage of its military and economic might.
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Speaking to the Corona del Mar Chamber of Commerce Tuesday afternoon, Newport Beach Mayor Keith Curry announced a proposed pact that would increase some city employees' pension contributions.
"I want to thank our employees who've been real partners with us," Curry said during his State of the City address at the chamber's annual Mayor's Lunch at Five Crowns.
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Fewer than 300 non-public-safety employees would be affected, and the increases would be phased in incrementally over three years.
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In 2007, Curry said in his speech, employees contributed "zero."
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Kiff concurred.
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"What will be interesting to see is in three years, will everybody have moved toward that?" he said. "The council has said they really want us to focus on this right away. In order to survive the pension problems, most cities have to go in the same direction."
At the lunch, Curry lauded the city's overall fiscal health — the product, he said, of careful management through the recession.
"Our city is financially strong," he said, citing a 10%, or 84-position, reduction in city staff since 2008 and the more than $100 million Newport has in reserves.
He commended the efforts of his predecessors on projects wrapped up in 2012, such as the new Civic Center near Newport Center, the entirety of which will open to the public in early May.
Last year's contentious harbor-fee increases, Curry said, were necessary to help fund about $29 million in infrastructure improvements the city hopes will take place in the next five years.
The plan, he said, aims to make the harbor "safer, easier to navigate and a better amenity."
Curry also outlined tasks for the new year, including taking a closer look at possibly outsourcing the city's trash collection services, creating a bike-safety master plan and moving forward on the redevelopment of the old City Hall site on Newport Boulevard.
In a brief question-and-answer session after the speech, audience members asked about the status of beach fire rings and the Banning Ranch development, two issues that have stirred intense debate in recent years.
The city's plan to remove the fire rings, he said, is awaiting action by the Coastal Commission, as is Banning Ranch.
Above all, Curry urged residents in 2013 to get involved in the community — whether through volunteerism or contributing to local foundations — to make Newport better for future generations.
"We have a job to do," he said. "So let's get at it."
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Solid Overall Board
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
The climbing gym I go to has this board and I've been using it fairly regularly with a large amount of success. You can get a good overall grip workout from it. The different edges allow you to work a wide range of open hand/crimp holds, with the jug at the top, a small slope/crimp, and a couple in between. The slopers are pretty rock solid and they are big enough so you can vary where you hold them to increase/decrease difficulty. The only drawback are the pinches. Since they form opposing holds it is easy to engage your shoulders so you kind of cheat out your forearms out of a true pinch grip but if you keep yourself focused you can pretty much negate that drawback.
Ergonomically flawed IMO
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So, I had this hangboard for a little while. I found that the jug rail on the top forced your hands so close together that it'd inevitably create shoulder pain if trying to do pull-ups or high lock offs. Also, it seemed to lack options as far as crimp strength goes. Lastly, the material is almost too sticky. I will say that the slopers and pinches are great.
No other hangboard offers slopers like these! they are awesome, great for training your open hand and pinch grip as well. Would not get as your first hangboard since it doesn't have a lot of variety in hold size.
Nice board
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Good tool for moving from beginner to moderate level finger strength
great training device with cool surface feel
Of all the hang boards I've used, this one takes the cake in the sloper division. Those giant, slightly suggestive holds are awesome for training your hands to stick to slopers, and the rails in between are pretty sweet too.
yes, the suggestive slopes are so perrrrfect!
palms of iron
the iron palm is incredibly rough on your hands. not necessarily a bad thing, but whatever.
Chalk is not 100% necessary, but does help with hand-oil. The holds are mostly well thought out and work well for training. The paddles, pinches, and iron palm are the reason to get this thing otherwise it's exactly like every other board.
the horizontal holds are deeper at the top, thinner at the bottom and there's one in the middle that is pretty sloped for those 1 to 1 and 1/2 pad slopey crimpy deadhangs.
I love the pinches and the palms, but for the money there are better hangboards to train with. If you get it at a discount or really need to work on those slopers/pinches go ahead hang it above your doorway!
PS. pullups on anything but the palms/paddles are very narrow and no where near a comfortable shoulder width. so if you're getting it for pullups, look elsewhere.
what is a better board in your opinion?
sorry for the delayed response. . . I like the Revolution Grillito --> Costs about the same $$
The basic Metolius Project Board which is like 1/2 the price, and you can do comfortable shoulder width juggy/crimpy deadhangs
They have this at the gym I climb at, and it is great. I like the massive bulbous holds on the outside as a break for the crimps and pinches on the inside. Solid board.
Great Hang board
I love the Iron Palm. Nice Hang board, but if you want to spend a little more money, look into the Etch Motherboard. Both are excellent.
Hold descriptions on Iron Palm:
Bottom Edge - One pad (Flat) (Similar to a Door Frame)
Second Edge - One pad (Sloping)
Third Edge - One Pad and Half (Sloping)
Top Edge - Two Pads (In-cut)
The Slopers are also really cool, Probably the main feature of this hang board.
The pinches are cool too, they are flat just to let you know, (not in-cut or sloping), and can be used for compression workouts too.
I Mainly do campus workouts, and practice bumping using every hold. I like this hang board because you get a little bit of every type of hold you need to get stronger, (especially the bottom edge and the slopers in my opinion!)
oh yeah... brutal
This is not your average hangboard! Please note the description- "for mid-level and higher skilled climbers"
I own two hangboards, this one is for when i'm feelin EXTRA frisky. The slopers are sweet, you can pick how much you wanna punish yourself. Put your hands straight on top and it's easy. Closer to the face and you're gonna get a workout.
The edges vary greatly, top rung is great for a burnout set of pullups, bottom rung... well, you better start there while you're fresh.
THE PINCHES- this is what i really love about this hangboard, not offered on my other (big brand name) version. Two different sizes. I love doing lockoffs on these pinches. or pullups. or just staring at them in defeated awe.
note- as seems to be true for most so ill holds, this hangboard is very gritty. It will tear up your hands a little. But hey, quit bein' a puss. builds character.
make sure you've got a good mount for this thing, you're gonna need it.
Better than a bar
Just getting into climbing and wanted to increase my steez. Much more enjoyable than a standard pull up bar. Plus it looks sick over my door. I did snap one of the included screws during installation so you might want to predrill your holes.
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When I need that extra edge, Cryptochild's Iron Palm Training Board dramatically boosts my finger strength. With perfectly sculpted pinches, slopers and crimps, I can get a full workout in the convenience of my own home.
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Width: 27 in
Height: 11.5 in
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what are the dimensions?
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27 in x 11.5 in x 4 in
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AUSTIN, Texas—A fourth person has died of injuries suffered earlier this month when a suspected drunken driver drove into a crowd at the South By Southwest festival, police said Thursday.
DeAndre "Dre" Tatum, 18, died from the injuries he sustained after being run over when a driver who was fleeing police crashed through a barrier and into a street crowded with festival attendees on March 13. The Austin Police Department confirmed Tatum's death via Twitter and with a brief, subsequent statement, but spokeswoman Veneza Bremner said no further information would be provided.
Tatum, of Fort Worth, was in a crowd outside an Austin club at the time of the crash. He was the last of the victims who had remained in critical condition at University Medical Center Brackenridge.
Austin resident Jamie West, 27, and Dutchman Steven Craenmehr, 35, were killed at the scene. Sandy Le, 26, died of her injuries March 17.
More than 20 others were injured.
Family members had previously told several North Texas media outlets that Tatum graduated last year from Fort Worth's Trimble Technical High School and was at South By Southwest with his girlfriend, Curtisha Davis, a Trimble senior and cheerleader who sustained injuries that were not life-threatening.
Police have identified the driver of the vehicle as 21-year-old Rashad Owens. He is charged with capital murder and aggravated assault with a motor vehicle, and prosecutors are expected to seek additional charges against him from a grand jury. He's accused of driving drunk and fleeing from police, then intentionally steering into the festival crowd and accelerating.
An aspiring rapper from Killeen, 65 miles north of Austin, Owens is jailed on a $3 million bond.
The South By Southwest festival attracts more than 200,000 people to Austin for a technology conference, film festival and thousands of music performances.


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Blackhawks rally in third, edge Canucksby Kevin Woodley
VANCOUVER -- The Chicago Blackhawks know better than most how quickly a game can turn.
Chicago shocked the Boston Bruins and won the Stanley Cup in June by scoring two goals in 17 seconds.
The NHL's leading offense needed all of nine seconds to beat the struggling Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night.
Andrew Shaw tied the game on a redirection 4:40 into the third period, and Marcus Kruger put the Blackhawks ahead on a 2-on-1 break nine seconds later en route to a 2-1 victory against the Canucks at Rogers Arena.
"It can turn around pretty quick if we get some chances," said Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford, who secured the win with 14 of his 36 saves in the third period. "Especially the opportunities we got. They were A-plus chances, and usually we bury those."
Vancouver led on Ryan Kesler's 5-on-3 goal late in the first period and had just killed off a Chicago power play that included Patrick Sharp hitting both posts and the crossbar when Shaw tipped Patrick Kane's backhand shot between the legs of Roberto Luongo from the top of the crease. A miscue on the ensuing faceoff led to a 2-on-1 and Kruger kept the puck, firing it through a stunned Luongo.
"Obviously the past year we have had a lot of goals scored back-to-back quickly," Shaw said. "We stuck to it all game and it just took nine seconds, I guess."
Crawford made several great stops after taking the lead, and Kane extended his point streak to 10 games. The Blackhawks won for the seventh time in nine games despite missing top-line forward Marian Hossa, who returned to Chicago earlier in the day to attend to a family matter.
"We haven't played a low-scoring, tight game like that in a couple of weeks, but I've said before we are never out of a game," Crawford said. "We can all score goals so everyone in this room was confident we would get one, and then that was a good break to get that 2-on-1 and a nice goal by (Kruger) to get the winner there."
It didn't quite compare to the 17-second, Cup-clinching outburst, though.
"No," Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said with a smile.
But it was a positive sign for a Chicago team that struggled to defend at times lately, giving up seven goals in a loss to the Nashville Predators on Nov. 16 and five in a loss to the Colorado Avalanche four days ago. Crawford was pulled from both games, but was perfect after Kesler's goal and made a couple of great saves late to preserve the lead. He threw out the left pad to deny Dale Weise from the top of the crease midway through, and gloved Brad Richardson's dangerous shot with five minutes left.
"I love the way he played," Quenneville said. "It was nice to see him really strong in the net. They had a lot of bodies and shots and traffic when the game was on the line and I liked his response."
In a battle of Canadian Olympic hopefuls, and the NHL's two busiest goaltenders, Luongo and Crawford were both good.
Luongo, starting on consecutive nights for the first time in two years after making 14 saves in a 6-2 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday, finished with 27 saves. But he was upset Kruger's shot from the faceoff dot went past him.
"I've got to come up on a save on that one," Luongo said.
The win against Columbus is Vancouver's lone victory in the past six games (1-4-2), and the only time the offense has broken out. The Canucks have scored seven goals in the six losses. Their only one against Chicago came courtesy of a two-man advantage.
"We have to put pucks away," said captain Henrik Sedin, who had his stick checked while facing an empty net on a rebound attempt in the third period. "It can't just be one game and then you're off again."
It's the 10th time in 25 games Vancouver has scored one goal. The Canucks are 12-0-1 when scoring three or more, but 0-9-3 when scoring two or fewer.
For all the focus on the missing offense, Luongo said the Canucks need to find ways to win those low-scoring games.
"We have to learn how to win some games 1-0, 2-1," he said. "That's the way the League is right now. We can't just focus on the offense."
Ironically, Chicago captain Jonathan Toews was saying the same thing in the Blackhawks' dressing room.
"We've got a lot of offensive talent, but we have to remind ourselves when we play that team that we have to smarten up defensively," Toews said. "(Crawford) was huge for us."
He had little chance on Kesler's goal.
With Brandon Saad already off for slashing, Shaw was called for interference on a shorthanded rush when he bumped Henrik Sedin, who was trying to catch up to the potential 2-on-1.
Vancouver wasted little time converting its second 5-on-3 opportunity of the season, with Kesler feeding Jason Garrison for a one-timer at the point and then sliding the rebound through the legs of a sliding Crawford to end his seven-game goal drought.
It stayed that way until shortly after Chicago's second power play, which produced several great chances, and led to the tying goal 10 seconds after the advantage ended.
"We beat ourselves, and teams like Chicago will capitalize," Canucks coach John Tortorella said. "We kill a penalty, we get our guy on the ice and we throw the puck away [and it] ends up in our net. We run how we forecheck off a faceoff every time, [but] we decide to go off the map and we give up an odd-man rush [and] it's in our net. We played a good hockey game, but we beat ourselves in those few seconds."


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THE CLASSIC RODGERS and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music," which originally opened on Broadway in 1959, comes to Vergennes Union High School this week with performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. The show features Katie Jordan as Maria.
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November 8, 2007
By MEGAN JAMES
WHITING/SUDBURY — The proposal to form a joint school district between Whiting and Sudbury was defeated on Tuesday when the two towns split the decision: Sudbury voters approved the plan, 53-39, and Whiting said no, 47-26.
In order to pass the measure, both towns had to agree.
Bill Mathis, superintendent of the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, attended a portion of both town meetings Tuesday night where school board members discussed the merger with residents before the floor vote.
In Whiting, he suspected one reason voters rejected the joint school district was that they wanted to retain a sense of ownership over their village school.
"People have a tremendous amount of pride in their local community," he said. "It's something that's precious to them. And even though their school would remain open, it strikes at some core values."
According to Whiting Town Clerk Grace Simonds, Whiting voters were also wary of the costs involved in merging the schools, despite calculations distributed by both school boards showing a $134,000 decrease in the annual spending plan — each school would only need four teachers, rather than six, because class sizes would be larger — were the schools to merge.
In Sudbury, cutting costs was a key issue, but one that led the voters to draw the opposite conclusion. The school's student body is declining — it serves 31 students this year — and taxpayers face a potential penalty from the state if the trend continues into next year. This is a typical problem for schools with small populations because at a certain point a school's infrastructure costs remain fairly consistent even when the number of students falls.
November 8, 2007
By ANDY KIRKALDY
FERRISBURGH — Sixty-nine years ago, Ferrisburgh's John Lenk joined the U.S. Navy because jobs were scarce during the Depression, his older brother had already signed, and the Brooklyn native bought into a famous marketing slogan.
"There wasn't much going on, and I said I'd join the Navy," Lenk, now 89, said at his Basin Harbor Road home. "'Join the Navy and see the world.'"
It was 1938. Lenk didn't know that World War II loomed, and he would see more of the world than he ever imagined: Japan; China; Hawaii; the Phillipines, where a kamikaze and a torpedo gave him two unscheduled dips into the Lingayen Gulf; the Aleutian Islands; Panama; Leyte Gulf; the Palau and Admiralty Islands; Guam and Guadalcanal, to name a few stops.
"I had no idea," said Lenk, who served the Navy for 20 years in all — after the war he continued traveling the seas on two ships before ending his military career with California shore duty.
During WW II he worked as a water tender and non-commissioned officer in the steam room of the high-speed mine-sweeper U.S.S. Long, keeping her engines purring as she cleared the way for Pacific Ocean invasions.
Before the war Lenk first trained at Newport, R.I., and Norfolk, Va., then headed to Cuba's Guantanamo Bay. It was there he was assigned to the Long, a 314-foot destroyer capable of 25 knots. The Long was soon converted to a minesweeper and sent through the Panama Canal to the West Coast, where it joined the Pacific Fleet.
On Dec. 5, 1941, the Long was in Hawaii's Pearl Harbor and was sent on maneuvers 700 miles to the west. There, Lenk and his shipmates received the stunning news of the Dec. 7 Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor.
By LEE J. KAHRS
Brandon Reporter
BRANDON — Two young children are without fathers after a love triangle erupted in a tragic murder-suicide in Brandon on Nov. 1.
Police said Todd English, 32, of Forestdale went to an apartment at 26 Union St. to confront his ex-girlfriend, Amanda Corey, 27. The couple had split up in September and Corey was in a relationship with Richard Griffin, 35, whom she had been with in the past, police said.
According to the account given by Brandon Police Chief Christopher Brickell, English forced his way into the apartment and began to argue with Corey, who led English back out of the house. English then re-entered the apartment and shot Griffin in the stomach with a .357 Magnum revolver. The injured Griffin stumbled outside and went to the neighbor's for help. English then stood on the front steps of the apartment and shot himself in the head. He died instantly.
Griffin later died of his injuries following surgery at Rutland Regional Medical Center. The incident took place at approximately 10:45 p.m. on Thursday, capping a deadly 24-hour period in Western Vermont in which five people were killed.
Corey had a child with each man, a 14-month-old daughter with English, and a two-year-old son with Griffin. Brickell said only the baby girl was in the apartment at the time, but did not witness the shootings.
Brickell said Corey got a temporary restraining order against English on Oct. 18, which was valid for 10 days and expired four days before the shootings. The chief said Corey apparently never pursued a final abuse order against English.
Whether or not that would have prevented last week's tragedy is uncertain.
"It's debatable," Brickell said. "If there had been a final order in effect, maybe he would not have done what he did."
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You must also demonstrate an understanding of Agile engineering practices by passing a CSD assessment/evaluation provided by the REP/trainer. The REP/trainer will upload and pay the certification fees for students as they take CSD-track courses in 2014.
If you are a Scrum Alliance member and a CSM and take a three-day CSD-track Technical Course, then you will receive notification to accept your CSD license, and the CSD certification will be added to your profile. There is no need for you to apply. Your certification is good for two years.
If you are not yet a Scrum Alliance member at the time of the first CSD track course, then you will receive membership for one year. After you complete all CSD requirements, as listed above, you will receive CSD certification notification. Your certification is good for two years.
You must make a lifelong commitment to continuous improvement by incorporating Scrum principles and practices into your world of work.