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Haikus for Jews
Filling this gap in poetic literature, David M. Bader has recently written a book entitled Haikus for Jews.
Here are a few examples of his poetry:
Hey! Get back indoors!
Whatever you were doing
could put an eye out.
Firefly steals into
the night just like my former
partner, that gonif.
Testing the warm milk
on her wrist, she beams; nice, but
her son is forty.
Lovely nose ring;
excuse me while I put my
head in the oven.
After the warm rain,
the sweet scent of camellias.
Did you wipe your feet?
Today I am a
man. On Monday I return
to the seventh grade.
Is one Nobel Prize
so much to ask from a child
after all I've done?
Left the door open
for the Prophet Elijah.
Now our cat is gone.
In the ice sculpture
reflected bar-mitzvah guests
nosh on chopped liver.
Beyond Valium,
the peace of knowing one's child
is an internist.
The same kimono
the top geishas are wearing.
Got it at Loehmann's.
Jewish triathlon:
gin rummy, then contract bridge,
followed by a nap.
Scrabble anarchy
after "putzhead" is placed on
a triple-word score.
The sparkling blue sea
beckons me to wait one hour
after my sandwich.
Hava nagila,
hava nagila, hava....
enough already.
Today, mild shvitzing.
Tomorrow, so hot you'll plotz.
Five-day forecast: feh.
Lonely mantra of
Jewish mother: "They never
call, they never write."
No fins, no flippers
the gefilte fish swims with
some difficulty.
Yenta. Schmier. Gevalt.
Schlemiel. Schlemazl. Tuchus.
Oy! To be fluent!

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Prior to his residency in Florence, Kastner spent two months as a visiting astronomer at the Institut de Planetologie et Astronomie de Grenoble, or IPAG, in France, studying the compositions of planet-forming disks around young stars in a collaboration with scientists there who work in the areas of interstellar and solar system chemistry.
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I was recently turned to shredded chicken red posole at a Christmas pot-luck while at work. It was definitely authentic, as it was prepared by one of our coworkers who always brings the most delicious homemade Mexican dishes to our work potlucks. I loved all the condiments that went along with the already flavorful soup itself. I just about died and went to foodie bliss when I had my first bite of the posole. It was the perfect blend of acidity from the limes and spicy from the chiles, plus other complex flavors of the stewed pork, cilantro, and hominy. I only had one word to describe how it tasted… yum.
I was craving posole after my initial tasting. In fact, I would go to bed dreaming of his red posole and wake up salivating for it. So I sought out for the most "authentic" recipe that I could find. I suppose I could have asked my coworker for the recipe, but some people can be very secretive about family recipes. I digress. I perused through a number of posole recipes, and came across one that seemed to be authentic. We made this a few days before the New Year, and then realized that this is something enjoyed as a New Year's celebration, which explained why there were only a few cans of hominy left at the grocery store. This recipe yielded a very flavorful posole, one that we will certainly make again in the near future. This is a wonderful prescription for a cold, wintery day.
Posole Rojo (from Rick Bayless' Mexico One Plate At A Time)
3 1/2 pounds pork shanks, cut into 1 1/2-inch thick pieces (ask the butcher to cut this for you)
1 1/2 pounds (2 medium) pork trotters (aka, fresh pig's feet), cut lengthwise in half (ask the butcher to cut this for you)
1 1/2 pounds bone-in pork shoulder, cut into 3 or 4 large pieces (again, ask the butcher)
8 cloves of garlic, minced
2 white onions, finely chopped
8 medium (4 ounces total) dried ancho chiles (or dried New Mexico chiles), stemmed and seeded
2 cans of white hominy
Lime wedges
6 cups thinly sliced cabbage
15 radishes, thinly sliced or diced
Cilantro, chopped
3 to 4 tablespoons dried Mexican oregano
2 tablespoons coarsely ground dried hot red chile
Place all the meats in a large pot, cover with 4 quarts of water, add 2 tablespoons of salt, and bring to a boil. Skim off the grayish foam that rises during the next few minutes, then add half the chopped onions. Partially cover the pot and simmer over medium-low heat until all the meat is thoroughly tender, about two hours. Cool the meat in the broth for the best flavor and texture, then remove it.
Skim the fat from the broth; you'll have two generous quarts of broth. Pull the meat from the pork shanks and pull the shoulder meat into large shreds. Cut the bones and knuckles out of the trotters. Discard the bones and knuckles, then chop what remains into 1/2 inch pieces. Add the shredded meat (there will be about 6 cups of meat in all). Cover and refrigerate if not serving within an hour.
While the meat is cooking, rehydrate the ancho chiles in enough hot water to cover (lay a small plate on top to keep them submerged) for about 20 minutes. Puree the chiles, liquid and all, in batches if necessary, in a blender or food processor. Press the chile mixture through a medium-mesh strainer (this removes tough chile skins) directly into the simmering liquid. Add the pork broth and 1 tablespoon salt, partially cover, and simmer for 1 hour.
Add the meat and the hominy to the simmering posole, and allow to simmer for an additional 30 minutes. The consistency of the stew/soup should look hearty – full of hominy with bits of meat – but brothy enough to be thought of as a soup or brothy stew. If necessary, add water. Taste the posole and season with additional salt if you think it is necessary; since hominy soaks up a surprising amount of salt, you may need as much as another tablespoon.
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Paraguay Promulgates the Law based on the Draft Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts
20 enero 2015
In line with the Draft Principles, this Law accepts party autonomy for choice of law in international contracts, which enhances legal certainty and predictability in the contractual dealings concluded between Paraguayan companies and companies from around the world. It therefore will contribute to the facilitation of foreign investment and trade in Paraguay.
In addition to confirming the pioneering role played by Paraguay in bringing the Draft Principles into operation, the enactment of the Law affirms the objective of the Draft Principles as a guide to "best practices" with regard to the choice of law in international commercial contracts.
The Draft Principles are set to be officially approved by the Members of the Hague Conference in the near future.


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Hi everyone, a colleague of mine told me that the savings that are presumably accrued following the purchase of a hybrid vehicle wouldn't be realized for at least 10 yrs post-purchase. He also informed me of an article in the New Yorker (???) that noted the increased maintenance costs for hybrids, including the need to purchase a new electric motor a few years down the road. I'm still trying to get a copy of this article from him but I was hoping the discussion group had some insight into this issue. As it stands, the hybrid is still more expensive than the standard configuration for the same vehicle (e.g., ESCAPE). I imagine that IF an electric motor needs to be changed every 5 yrs, the total cost of regular gas engine and electric motor maintenance (which is quite high already at the dealerships and I don't know if MIDAS can take care of a hybrid) will be absolutely prohibitive for middle class families.
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U.S. EPA orders immediate cleanup and needed controls at Waimanalo Gulch Landfill
Release Date: 01/25/2011
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(01/25/11) HONOLULU – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued an order to Waste Management, Inc., with the company agreeing to take immediate steps to clean up recent releases of waste and contaminated stormwater and prevent future releases from the Waimanalo Gulch Landfill on Oahu.
Waste Management is the contractor operating the landfill for the City and County of Honolulu. On January 12 and 13, heavy rains caused extreme flooding at the landfill. A section of the landfill's property filled with stormwater, causing waste to be released and resulting in beach contamination and beach closures.
"This catastrophic failure subjected Hawaii's residents, visitors and coastal waters to a deluge of contaminated runoff, medical waste, and other trash. Our order requires immediate cleanup, continued monitoring of the beaches, and enhanced controls for stormwater runoff," said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA's Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest. "EPA is working closely with the Hawaii Department of Health to prevent future incidents and protect residents' health and the environment."
EPA promptly dispatched an emergency responder and engineers to assist the Hawaii Department of Health and the City and County of Honolulu with the response at the landfill. The response included monitoring ocean water and any water released from the landfill, stabilization of the site, and cleanup of waste from the landfill that reached nearby beaches.
The EPA Administrative Order sets a specific schedule with milestones to protect the environment and the public. The order requires the company to stop discharges to the ocean of stormwater currently being held at the landfill, continue daily beach inspections and cleanup, and improve the landfill's stormwater diversion and sediment control to successfully handle runoff from rain events. The company must also report immediately to EPA any event that has the potential to cause a violation of the order.
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The Middle East Channel
How Assad might strike back
It looks increasingly likely that the United States, in conjunction with key allies, has decided to launch a limited military strike in the coming days to punish Syria for its apparent use of chemical weapons on August 21. But U.S. President Barack Obama has also made it clear that he seeks to fulfill that goal ...
It looks increasingly likely that the United States, in conjunction with key allies, has decided to launch a limited military strike in the coming days to punish Syria for its apparent use of chemical weapons on August 21. But U.S. President Barack Obama has also made it clear that he seeks to fulfill that goal without destroying the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, killing more innocent people, or sparking further regional escalation of the war. While the United States has considerable military assets at its disposal, including ships in the region carrying scores of Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (the likely stand-off weapon of choice), it is a challenge to calibrate the response just right. Too little force could have little effect, while too much could backfire.
The United States is not alone in this delicate balancing act. Assad, too, must carefully weigh his options as he ponders how he can respond to an anticipated U.S. strike without unleashing the wrath of the U.S. military and, as a result, jeopardizing his own survival.
Predicting Assad's response requires, in part, an understanding of the reason for his use of chemical weapons in the first place. Was it a step taken out of frustration or desperation? If the regime believes it needs to maintain a chemical weapons option it might be more inclined to respond. Conversely, was it a misstep, possibly reflecting divisions within the regime or poor command and control? In that case, retaliation might be less likely.
Assad's response will depend, perhaps to an even greater degree, on the nature of U.S. action and how he perceives U.S. strategy and intentions. Is a strike seen as merely symbolic? Substantive but limited? Or is it part of a new effort to overthrow the regime? A panicky regime that feels its survival is at risk is more likely to miscalculate or escalate. So too, conversely, is an overconfident one that believes an attack is little more than a slap on the wrist indicating weak U.S. and international resolve.
In an attempt at reducing the risk of escalation, Obama has publicly telegraphed his intentions to Assad, making it clear that the U.S. goal is not to topple the regime. A similar message has likely been passed on to Syria's key allies, Russia and Iran.
As careful as both sides might be to calibrate action and response, developments can always spin out of control. Assad knows the "law of unintended consequences" well from earlier in his presidency: in 2005 Hezbollah's suspected assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri ultimately resulted in Syrian troops being forced to leave that country. In 2007 Syrian efforts to develop a covert nuclear capacity ended when Israel bombed the suspected reactor site. In 2011 efforts to crush largely peaceful protests sparked the current bloody civil war. This month's use of chemical weapons is another action for which the consequences — an impending U.S. military attack — were almost certainly not those that Syrian officials intended.
Moreover, in the fog and friction of war intelligence is imperfect and bombs and missiles don't always end up in the right place. Given the deaths of hundreds of civilians when the United States bombed the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad in 1991 as well as the accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in 1999, American targeteers had better be very sure they know what not to hit in Damascus this time around. If a U.S. attack results in high Syrian civilian casualties or costs the lives of key regime figures, Assad might find himself under greater pressure to respond.
When and if the U.S. launches its attacks (likely targeting command and control centers, airfields, and strategic weapons and delivery systems), Assad might well do very little beyond issuing rhetorical condemnations. However, he will still have several possible retaliatory options that the United States and its allies will need to consider:
- While very unlikely, if the Syrian leader believed that the end was near he could attack neighboring countries with a barrage of surface-to-surface missiles tipped with chemical warheads. Syria has a large, dispersed, and somewhat hardened strategic chemical weapons arsenal that might well survive a first hit by the U.S. military. If Syria's target were Israel, this would invite swift and decisive Israeli retaliation, but the damage would already have been done. While Israel's missile defenses are more robust than any in the world, no such system is perfect. Jordan and Turkey are at risk, too. The former has hosted up to a thousand U.S. troops since June, including Patriot missile systems, fighter aircraft, and related support, command, control and communications personnel and systems. Turkey currently has Patriot missile batteries deployed from fellow NATO members Germany and the Netherlands. All of these Patriot systems are the PAC-3 variant able to intercept ballistic missiles, and their presence underscores the understandable nervousness of U.S. regional allies.
- Assad could attack U.S. allies with conventional means. Such a strategy would have limited effects and would be almost self-defeating, however, because most U.S. allies are (especially with U.S. assistance) capable of protecting themselves from Syria's war-ravaged forces.
- Aware of his limited conventional capabilities, Assad might try to drag his allies into a war with Israel. While Hezbollah already has thousands of men in Syria fighting alongside government forces, attacking Israel directly would risk another 2006-style war in Lebanon. Furthermore, Hezbollah's zeal and eagerness to fight Israel notwithstanding, the organization is in a politically sensitive position in Lebanon at the moment, a condition that would likely further deter it from opening two large-scale military fronts simultaneously. Given its long-term investment in Hezbollah, Iran would be equally unlikely to see its Lebanese ally dragged into a damaging fight with Israel at this juncture.
- Some Iranian lawmakers have suggested that Iran would retaliate against Israel directly if Syria is attacked, but neither Iran's supreme leader nor the country's president has issued similar statements. This doesn't categorically guarantee that Iran will remain on the sidelines — in theory Iran could decide to attack U.S. assets in the Gulf — but this is extremely unlikely given the huge risks and consequences of such an action.
- Assad could resort to covertly supporting terrorist attacks against neighboring states, or against U.S. targets in the Middle East or elsewhere. This is the least costly and most likely retaliatory option for Assad. However, it is not clear that Syria has much current capacity to organize such attacks, and might instead find it necessary to rely on Iranian or Hezbollah assistance. The 2012 bombing of a tourist bus in Burgas, Bulgaria — an act for which Hezbollah was ultimately blamed, and which led to European Union measures against the group — shows that even carefully-planned operations can go wrong or backfire.
- Assad could escalate domestically and pound rebel-controlled areas even harder to show that he is not intimidated. He would be smart not to use chemical weapons again, but even conventional escalation that results in heavy civilian casualties — a more prominent use of surface-to-surface missiles, for example — carries the risk of spurring a U.S. reaction. It is also doubtful how much ability the Syrian army has to step up the pace of its war-fighting.
All signs from Washington so far indicate that the U.S. strike will be limited. And Obama's declared Syria policy has not changed; it still seeks a political settlement between the government and the (still divided) opposition. The hope is that with the recent massive shipment of ammunition and light weapons from the Turkish border to the Syrian rebels and with the likely U.S. strike, the Syrian opposition will receive the help it needs to go to the negotiating table in Geneva with its morale boosted and its bargaining position strengthened (again, assuming it unifies and gets its act together). However, don't be surprised if the rebels, angered by the chemical attack and emboldened by a U.S. strike, harden their positions. Also, don't expect restraint from hard-line jihadist elements affiliated with al Qaeda either. They too will see an incentive to push even harder to topple Assad.
Bilal Y. Saab is the executive director and head of research of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis (INEGMA) North America. Rex Brynen is a professor of Middle East politics and security at McGill University.


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Check out a behind-the-scenes look at the Battlestar Galactica prequel Blood & Chrome, exclusively on io9. Syfy's BSG series included a hefty amount of FX work — but now, Blood & Chrome is almost entirely green screen. It's completely insane to watch them putting this together. Check out how they built future world ski resorts and massive spaceships from nothing.
If you want to catch up on the series, here are the first four episodes — featuring Young Adama fighting Toasters. We missed hearing people saying "frak"...
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In 2006, British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon starred together in director Michael Winterbottom's "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story," a film within a film in which they played versions of themselves making a film adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 18th-Century novel. Winterbottom was so taken by the dynamic between the two men that he convinced them to go on "The Trip," a tour of Northern England's finer restaurants, to be filmed as part of a TV series. Now Winterbottom has culled from the six episodes a feature length film.
Brydon and Coogan have been working together off and on for some time now, having developed a great affection for and rapport with one another. Like any gifted comedy duo, they're yin and yang: Brydon is the happy-go-lucky mimic, always making a good-natured joke. Coogan, of course, is the bitter, sardonic, over-it-all prick eager to cut down anyone--especially Brydon--at every turn. It's magic to watch.
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One of their first meals includes all manner of modern gastronomy, from micro greens to foams to duck-fat lollipops. Watching the two of them confront and comment on each—"like snot, but I like the taste"—is hilarious. In a time when even the most passionate food lovers have grown weary of the tiresome fawning over technique, watching these two roll their eyes is a treat. Unfortunately, Winterbottom doesn't give us much more if it.
Instead the film takes an unexpected turn into the introspective, as the focus shifts to Coogan's incessant womanizing, his failing relationship with a younger woman who's moved to the States and his frustrations with his inability to take his career to the next level.
While Brydon has enjoyed a successful career as an entertainer (though it hasn't really extended beyond England), Coogan once seemed poised for global superstardom in the late '90s (if you haven't seen his Alan Partridge, google it immediately and be amazed by a genius at the height of his powers). But the right role never came his way, and now those of us who were lucky enough to come across him a decade ago have been wondering, What went wrong?
Despite all the soul-searching, Brydon, Coogan and Winterbottom keeps things light, making "The Trip" well worth taking.
"The Trip" is showing as part of the Tribeca Film Festival on April 21, 23, 26 & 30.


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I don't know the exact percentage of married people with children, but my guess is the number is pretty high. For 33 years and through four children, I've been counted in that statistic.
It's kind of a cool club when you think about it because there are so many shared experiences that the members can relate to each other. We all share our kids' first tooth, first word, first step, first school day, first soccer goal and numerous other sports, academic, and artistic firsts. Experiencing these and the many of life's other mile posts never get old.
I recently crossed another threshold with the marriage of my oldest son. He is the first of my children to take the plunge, and his bride is a lovely girl who has assimilated well into our growing family.
While I subconsciously expected this day might come as we raised our young man, it always seemed to be something that was in the future. It amazes me how quickly the future can become the present and then the past.
The wedding, like so many, was a gathering of friends and family all brought together with a connection to my son's life. It's a special event and celebration as this wonderful, newly minted couple signs on to become members of the married people's club.
As I pondered the event in real time, watching the gathered guests mingle together and participate in making it a special day for the bride and groom, I allowed myself to reflect on the road taken to get us and my son to this point in his life and ours. I say this because the family and friends who attended and those who were not able to, comprise in the sum of my son's life many ways.
"It Takes a Village" is the title of Hillary Clinton's book from a few years ago, and I find that title very descriptive of child rearing, at least my experience with it. Looking out over the room of revelers gathered to wish Godspeed to my son and new daughter, I see each individual as having an impact both large and small on the molding of these two kids.
In attendance were first and foremost us parents who bring many of our collective influencers to the party and pass those on to these children. But also included were many influencers unique to these kids such as teachers, coaches, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings and many friends, each of whom played a role in the upbringing of the guests of honor.
As the father of the groom, I say with pride that the end result of this village's work is two solid, smart and contributing citizens who will take the lessons learned from the many people they have known in their youth and apply them in a positive way to their lives together and then, hopefully, pass that template on to the next generation.
It also occurs to me that each of us can be influential beyond our family. It extends into our other numerous spheres of activities, especially our working lives. To me, experience lies at the heart of what each of us can bring to a given activity, whether it is raising or teaching a child or helping a co-worker learn what he or she needs to know for success in their career.
We call it parenting when it involves our children and mentoring when it involves our co-workers, but I think in many ways they are the same thing. A parent helps the child find his or her way through the beginning of life with the goal of some day letting that child apply the lessons learned.
A mentor is in the position to receive the baton that has been passed from parents and help take the resulting adult into the next level of life. If the parents did well, the adult will be accepting to the need to learn, and if the mentor does well, the adult will gain the experience necessary to one day help another younger person. It is said we reap what we sow and that, to me, means that it is vital to closely tend the fields.


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The Racine Boat Manufacturing Company (RBMC) of Racine, Wisconsin, was founded in November 1893 by Fred Martin, right after he left the Racine Hardware Manufacturing Company. Martin did not stay long; he left after about a year to start the Racine Yacht and Boat Works.
RBMC built a wide range of boats ranging from steam and gasoline yachts and launches, to schooners and other sailing craft, to canoes.
The Racine Hardware Manufacturing Company (RHMC) was incorporated in 1874 for the purpose of manufacturing a variety of goods, though not specifically boats. In 1879 they started producing canoes using a molded veneer construction technique for which U.S. patent no. 250,717 was awarded in 1881.
The Rhinelander Boat Company of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, was incorporated in 1903. They built four models of canoes, some based on the B.N. Morris Canoe Company model, until about 1946
The Shell Lake Boat Company of Shell Lake, Wisconsin, was first incorporated in December 1904. In addition to canoes, the company also built a variety of outboard rowboats and hunting skiffs. Shell Lake ceased building canoes by 1957.
The company changed several times throughout its existence, being sold in 1910, 1912, 1929, 1933, 1944 and 1959. Lund Boats of Minnesota purchased Shell Lake Boats in the 1960s, and Lund shut them down permanently circa 1980.
The Skowhegan Boat & Canoe Co. was founded in 1930 by Walter D. Grant. Grant was previously a superintendent at the Kennebec Boat and Canoe Company. The Skowhegan factory burned down on December 12, 1946, taking with it all of the company's records and molds. The company survived at least until Grant's death in 1951.
St. Lawrence Boat Works was founded just after World War I by Joseph Leyare in Ogdensburg, NY. Leyare had a long career building boats, first working for the St. Lawrence River Skiff, Canoe and Steam Launch Company in Clayton, NY, then the Spalding St. Lawrence Boat Company and Leyare Boat Works, the latter two also located in Odgensburg.
The St. Louis Meramec Canoe Company (Meraco) was founded by Alfred Wickett in the early 1922. Wickett had previously worked for the Old Town Canoe Company from ca.1900 to 1914, and he had founded the Penobscot Canoe Company (Pecaco) in 1915.
In 1930, the name of the company was changed to St. Louis Boat and Canoe Company. The company ceases to manufacture canoes in 1978. Also in 1930, Alfred's son Lawrence "Chummy" Wickett formed the St. Louis Boat and Motor Company.
The Thompson Brothers Boat Manufacturing Company of Peshtigo, Wisconsin was founded in 1904 by Peter and Christ Thompson. Peter had learned boat building by previously working for the Racine Boat Manufacturing Company and for Chris Smith, founder of Chris-Craft. In 1924, Thompson Brothers expanded and added a second factory located in Cortland, New York. Thompson Brothers built wood canoes through 1962.
The Veazie Canoe Company was a spin-off of the B.N. Morris Canoe Company, established in approximately 1905 to offer a less-expensive, factory-direct canoe. Until this time, Morris had offered the canoe models "Special Indian" and "Special Indian Extra Beam" in two grades, but around 1905 the company began advertising the Morris as an all-one-grade mahogany-trimmed canoe in models A-D (see B.N. Morris Canoe Company).
The W.H. Mullins Company of Salem, Ohio, was founded circa 1894 as a manufacturer of stamped steel boats. By 1910 they offered two models of wood canvas canoes; the 16' Yale and 18' Harvard. Sometime around 1916-17 a third model, the 17' Princeton, was added to the line. The firm changed its name to Mullins Body Corp. circa 1919, and to Mullins Maunfacturing circa 1928. The last year that wood canoes were offered was 1923


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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Yasiel Puig loses to Freddie Freeman in Final Vote
I'm tired.
From MLB.com {linked here}
Freddie Freeman of the Atlanta Braves and Steve Delabar of the Toronto Blue Jays were chosen by fans as the winners of the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com Final Vote Sponsored by freecreditscore.com in record-shattering online voting on MLB.com, club sites and Twitter, where designated player hashtags counted during the final six hours of balloting today.
On the National League ballot, both Freeman and Puig paced a close race by each finishing with more votes than the previous record-holder, Shane Victorino (15.6 million in 2009). Freeman's total of 19.6 million is the new all-time Final Vote record as he becomes the second Braves player to win the online balloting. They were followed by Hunter Pence of the San Francisco Giants, Ian Desmond of the Washington Nationals and Puig's teammate, Adrian Gonzalez.
Congratulations to Freddie Freeman and the Atlanta Braves.
Might be difficult but maybe Puig gets in if someone gets hurt or wants out.
We'll see.
Puig was on ESPN earlier today. Video:
4 comments:
- PJ said...
Are there that many Freeman fans, Puig haters or was it traditionalists that don't want to see a rookie with limited at bats in ASG? Maybe acombination of all. It is what it is. Thanks for voting!
- July 11, 2013 at 3:08 PM
- chris b said...
That's bs I don't believe there are that many freeman fans, really!!!! Yasiel puig should have won that, either that or a lot of these l.a. Fans didn't vote I did my fair share and must have voted a minimum of 1000 times . I love the dodgers and will be a lifetime supporter. I guess I'm just a tad frustrated!!!! Hopefully someone will come up with an injury bug and he will get in. Go big blue lets bring that trophy back home after a 25 yr absence!!!!!
- July 11, 2013 at 3:29 PM
- Ed Santos said...
There is a reason this was a recording breaking fan vote and it had nothing to do with Freeman and others. People were voting because they either did or didn't want Puig in the game. simple as that.
- July 12, 2013 at 12:54 AM
- Unknown said...
Who is Freddie freeman???
- July 12, 2013 at 3:08 AM


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A Douglas man yesterday was found guilty of manslaughter in connection with his wife's fatal jump from a second-story window of the couple's home after a horrific alcohol-fueled fight.
Prosecutors said 44-year-old Lisa A. Stilkey jumped from the window to escape Allen M. Stilkey, who had threatened to kill her.
It took the six-man, six-woman jury less than five hours to find Mr. Stilkey, 41, guilty of manslaughter and threatening to commit a crime. He showed no emotion as the verdict was read. He will be sentenced on Friday.
During the three-day trial, which began Wednesday, the prosecution maintained that the two had a volatile relationship. They met online four years ago and married in Las Vegas in 2010. Mr. Stilkey, a former 230-pound national arm-wrestling champion, testified that the two were swingers and agreed to have sex with other people. A police search of the couple's home, at 38 Gilboa Street in Douglas, revealed a large quantity of steroids.
On Feb. 9, the two fought after returning home from "date night," which centered on heavy drinking, and Mr. Stilkey began texting a 20-year-old woman he said was his friend.
Assistant District Attorney Brett F. Dillon had cellphone records that revealed that Mr. Stilkey would text the woman 100 times, sometimes 200 times in one day. He also texted the woman 11 minutes after he called 911 while his fatally injured wife was lying on the ground.
Michael S. Hussey, the defense attorney, maintained that Mrs. Stilkey, heavily intoxicated and jealous, was the aggressor. He said after crashing a glass coffee table and breaking two bottles of wine, she threw a key holder at her husband, causing a scratch on his face. He also said that Mrs. Stilkey pushed her husband's head into a flat-screen TV on the wall, leaving a large dent.
Mr. Hussey said his client became angry and reciprocated by knocking things off a mantle and throwing a vacuum cleaner into a wall outside the upstairs bedroom. All the while the two were hurling profanity at each other.
Mr. Hussey said the death was a tragic loss that does not make sense. He said it was a decision "that was no doubt driven by anger, turmoil and fueled by alcohol.
"The absolute unfairness of Lisa's death cannot be made right by unfairly blaming him," Mr. Hussey told the jury.
Mr. Dillon, however, painted a picture of Mrs. Stilkey barricading herself in the bedroom, with a chair braced against the door to keep her husband out. The hole in the wall outside the bedroom door, Mr. Dillon said, was likely made when Mr. Stilkey, angry that he couldn't get to his wife, punched it with his fist.
"She had no choice. The defendant forced her to jump out that window," Mr. Dillon told jurors. "His words, his actions, nothing else led to Lisa's death."
Mr. Stilkey said he called his wife derogatory names, but had never hit her during any of their fights. But a former next-door neighbor, who said she saw or heard several of the couple's late-night fights, contradicted Mr. Stilkey's testimony.
"On two occasions, I saw the defendant actually put his hands on Lisa," said 21-year-old Brianna Defreitas, whose home next door shared a driveway with the Stilkeys. "The first time I saw him slap her. The second time, he punched her and grabbed her arms and shook her. It took place when they were in the garage going into the home."
Mrs. Stilkey's 23-year-old son, Timothy MacIntyre, testified at the opening day of the trial that his mother called him during the fight, something that she had never done before. He said he heard Mr. Stilkey in the background threaten to kill his mother after she got off the phone.


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TOKYO -- U.S. military officials won't name the tattoo shops whose unsanitary conditions likely sent a handful of U.S. troops to the emergency room recently, despite a potential public health risk. Officials said Monday that singling out one business could give the wrong impression that other tattoo parlors are safe.
Officials at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa gave the names of three shops to local government officials on July 3 for their possible role in last month's surge of tattoo-related skin infections that landed five servicemembers in the hospital with infections.
But Okinawa Prefectural Government officials said the names of those shops -- in Chatan and Nago -- will be withheld from the public as U.S. military officials investigate. The Okinawa government will "launch an investigation of the tattoo shops in question on their own at the earliest possible time," officials said.
That's not enough for some.
"They should come out with the name so people don't get sick," Air Force spouse Terri Hochstein said.
Since the shops have not been publicly identified, none has been declared off limits to base personnel. There are no tattoo establishments off limits in Okinawa or Japan -- even though a tattoo artist operating without a medical license in Japan is violating the law.
"There is no license or permission for tattoo businesses in Japan," said Hiroaki Arakaki, spokesman for the Health Care Policy Division of the Medial Department of the Okinawa Prefectural Government. "If we can confirm that the subject shops engage in tattooing, the government will instruct the shops to stop the illegal conduct," he said.
While it is regulated by the U.S. military, getting a tattoo is not a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
"If we posted a list of tattoo parlors that were linked to infections, it would imply that establishments not on the list were safe and tacitly endorsed by the hospital," Navy hospital officials said in a written response.
The officials pointed out that all businesses of this type are unregulated and recommended that U.S. troops and other Defense Department personnel avoid tattoo parlors completely while stationed outside the U.S.
"Servicemembers receive briefs about health concerns and tattoo safety which instruct them about the risks of getting tattoos and what measures to take in ensuring that the tattoo establishment they have chosen abides by the necessary health standards," 1st Lt. Noah Rappahahn, a spokesman for the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force in Okinawa, said in an email to Stars and Stripes. He added that a "public health announcement regarding tattoo safety was pushed out to all commands within III MEF and is readily available online for all servicemembers and their families stationed in Okinawa."
Naval Hospital Okinawa issued the warning to servicemembers that Japanese tattoo establishments are not regulated nor inspected under Japanese law.
"I would not recommend getting a tattoo, but if personnel choose to they should do some careful research before selecting a tattoo facility," Lt. Cmdr. Marion Gregg, director of public health at the Okinawa hospital said last week in a news release. "Take a close look at the facility for cleanliness and observe the artist at work to make sure that the tattooing process is as safe and sterile as possible. And don't be afraid to ask questions."
The warning did not keep servicemembers and their families out of the tattoo shops over the Fourth of July weekend.
Inside the bevy of shops outside Camp Foster's front gate, there was barely a free seat in any waiting room. Everyone waiting to get inked up said they were aware of the risks but were going by word of mouth, past experience and the recommendations of friends.
"This is the only place I go," Hochstein said as she exited one shop with a fresh, elaborately detailed bird and cage on her upper thigh.
Airman Johnattan Hutchinson, 22, from Puerto Rico said he was scared when he heard about the warning, but he has a history with his tattoo shop and trusts their procedures. He was in to get color added to a spider/skull tattoo on the back of his calf.
Tattoo shop owners and employees said they were making an extra effort to tell customers about their safety procedures.
According to the base hospital in Okinawa, all five of the recent infections were easily treatable and no servicemember contracted hepatitis B or any of the other potential life-altering diseases associated with unsanitary needles.
However, the local Marines, family members, base civilians and tattoo shop employees who Stars and Stripes interviewed said the shop responsible for the scare needs to be identified and shut down.
"Those rumors don't help anybody," Hutchinson said.
-- Stars and Stripes reporter Chiyomi Sumida contributed to this story.


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Chris Krueger, an analyst at Guggenheim Partners, gave attendees at the 2013 NAAIM Annual Conference his insights on various topics playing out in Washington today, including tax reform, the sequester and debt ceiling, immigration and the 2014 and 2016 elections.
On tax reform, Krueger suggested lowering the corporate tax rate from 35% to a rate in the "high 20s." The lower rate would be paid for by broadening the base and closing some loopholes, he said.
Any reform must be "revenue neutral," he added, noting that each percentage point the tax rate is lowered is equivalent to $100 billion.
It's likely that the more than $85 billion in cuts made as part of the sequester for 2013 will stay the same, Krueger said, but some flexibility could be given to agencies about where to make those cuts.
The debt ceiling fight will continue in July, according to Kreuger, but he expects a deal is likely in order to avoid default. The House will likely pass a debt prioritization bill in coming weeks, he said.
Krueger suggested there are four aspects of immigration that take priority. In addition to border security and enforcement, he expects H1B visas for STEM workers (those with a background in science, technology, engineering or mathematics) will increase. He also anticipates an increased focus on guest workers and a path to citizenship or amnesty for the approximately 11 million workers who are here illegally.
Krueger also offered his predictions for the 2014 elections. The House will likely remain in Republican control, he said, as the Democrats need to win 17 seats to take the majority. In the Senate, there will be 35 seats up for grabs. "Republicans have a huge mathematical advantage," he said.
But the biggest impact will likely come from gubernatorial changes, Krueger said. Governors in 36 states will be up for re-election in 2014.
For the 2016 presidential elections, Krueger said Hillary Clinton was almost guaranteed to be considered. If not, he suggested Joe Biden was one of the "routinely most underestimated" politicians. Other contenders include Govs. Andrew Cuomo of New York and Martin O'Malley of Maryland.
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Ryan W. McMaken
November 7, 2012
This election proved once and for all that the Democrats don't need the Catholic vote to win, and it proved that evangelicals aren't enough to hand victory to the Republicans.
As an electoral force, the Catholic Church is dead as a door nail. The American bishops. too lazy or too cowardly to actually preach their own doctrines for the past 40 years, now face a situation in which Catholic voters are now indistinguishable from the population at large, and thus are irrelevant as any sort of a unified voting block. The rank and file Catholics can't even agree on the abortion issue. Thank the bishops. If there was a religious version of breach of fiduciary responsibility, the bishops would be guilty of it.
Conservative evangelicals, on the other hand, have become little more than a niche interest group within the GOP. This is the group that gives rise to people like Todd Akin, and who are far more of a liability for the party when it comes to appealing to urban and educated people, which is a huge part of the voting population.
In order to actually hope to win any national elections, the GOP or its successor party will need to flee from the religious conservatives. The new coalition will have to appeal to young Ron Paul people, to gays, to Hispanics, and to other anti-drug war libertarian types.
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"In progress" saving of data collected using Reap/Sow
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- Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:40:11 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello to everyone, I'm quite new to Mathematica, so please be patient if I ask something trivial. I wrote a little simulation program that need to iterate a calculation thousand of times, storing the result of each iteration. At first, I used the "Append" function to store data in a list at every iteration, but I noticed that this operation become slower and slower as the list increases in size, so that appending a single data at the end of a quite big list takes a lot of time. So I migrated to the reap/sow functions that are written exactly for this purpose, ad gives much better performances. My code now is something like: results = Reap[Do[a lot of iterations with almost a call to Sow in each]]]; The problem now is that, since the collected data are returned by the Reap function only whern it terminates, I have no way to access that data if the calculation is in progress, ie if the Do loop is not completed. This way, I can't check the status of the calculation nor provide backup save of data during the calculation itself, that can last for days... As you can imagine, using the Append function both this (and others) tasks where easily accomplishable, since in every moment I had a list whith all the results obtained so far... Any idea on how I can solve the problem? Thanks a lot Giacomo


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BUENOS AIRES — Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio was 39 years old when Argentina's military junta seized power in March 1976.
The seven years that followed were a time of infernal darkness in his country. Union leaders, students, journalists and other left-wing activists were rounded up on the mere suspicion of "subversion." Many were tortured and raped, or tossed alive from military airplanes into the mouth of the Plata River. As many as 30,000 Argentines were murdered or went missing.
As the young leader of the country's Jesuit order, Bergoglio was aware of the atrocities that were being carried out and worked quietly to save victims, according to people who knew him then. But Bergoglio, like many other clerics at the time, remained publicly silent about the abuse and did not openly confront the military leaders.
"He was anguished," said Alicia Oliveira, a former federal judge and top human rights official in Argentina, who said that she has known Bergoglio for more than four decades. The two met frequently during the "Dirty War" years, but when Oliveira urged him to speak out, "he said he couldn't. That it wasn't an easy thing to do," she said.
Exactly what Bergoglio did — and didn't do — during the years of the dictatorship is now the focus of intense scrutiny since his ascendancy to Pope Francis, with the Vatican pushing back forcefully against allegations that Bergoglio failed to protect two left-leaning priests in his Jesuit order, Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics, who were kidnapped by soldiers in 1976 and imprisoned for five months.
On Friday, the Vatican denounced the allegations as "slanderous and defamatory." The Vatican spokesman, Federico Lombardi, said the accusations against Bergoglio were the work of "anti-clerical left-wing elements to attack the church [that] must be decisively rejected."
In October, Argentina's bishops issued a collective apology for the church's failures to protect victims during the dictatorship, but the statement seemed to place equal blame for the violence on the military government and its leftist opponents.
Bergoglio did not speak publicly about his role during the dictatorship until 2010, when he told an interviewer that he hid and protected several persecution victims at the Jesuit seminary, but could not say how many. He also recounted helping a young man who shared his likeness to escape across the Brazil border, giving the man his identification card and dressing him up in clerical vestments as a ruse. "It saved his life," Bergoglio said.
In 2010, Bergoglio declined to appear in court after being called to testify as a witness in the trial of 18 military officials who ran the Naval Mechanics School, where detainees were often taken and tortured. It was the same detention center where Yorio and Jalics were taken after their arrest on suspicion of associating with left-wing guerrillas in the Buenos Aires slums where they worked under Bergoglio.
Citing "clerical immunity" granted by Argentine law, Bergoglio insisted on giving testimony in his church offices and told investigators that he personally intervened with the country's military rulers on behalf of the young priests. A transcript of his four-hour interview has been published online by Argentine rights groups, and attorneys close to the case verify its accuracy.
At one point, Bergoglio said he met privately with military commanders, including coup leader Emilio Massera to inquire about the missing Jesuits. "Look Massera: I want them to appear," Bergoglio said he told him in a tense encounter before abruptly walking out of the room.
Yorio and Jalics were eventually freed, dumped off in a field after five months, half-naked and drugged.
Yorio later blamed Bergoglio for the imprisonment. In a 1999 interview with a respected Argentine journalist, he was quoted as saying, "I have no reason to believe [Bergoglio] did anything to free us, in fact just the opposite," suggesting his superior had lifted his protection on the men as a punishment for their political views.
Yorio died in 2000.
Jalics, the other priest, had been silent about Bergoglio until Friday, when he issued a statement saying he had spoken with Bergoglio years later and the two Jesuits embraced "solemnly."
"I cannot make a statement about the role of Father Bergoglio in these events," he said. "I am reconciled to the events and consider the matter to be closed."
Throughout Latin America during the Cold War, priests who were adherents of the Marxist-inspired "liberation theology" movement were often targeted by right-wing governments. Other clerics went to great lengths to protect victims of abuse and their families, and denounce abuses.
But Argentina's church leaders did not confront the country's military rulers with anything approaching the public fervor of fellow clerics facing other dictatorships, as in Chile or El Salvador, where Oscar Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador, was assassinated in 1980.
Some of Argentina's best-known rights advocates, the mothers and grandmothers of disappearance victims, have been outspokenly critical in recent days of Bergoglio's handling of another case involving a child born to a mother inside a military detention facility in 1977.
The mother's family appealed to Jesuits in Rome for help, and they asked Bergoglio to intervene. But the child was never returned to the family, becoming one of hundreds of babies allegedly stolen and illegally adopted by military officials after their parents were killed.
Bergoglio later said in a 2011 written testimony related to the case that he was unaware of the practice at the time.
"He did nothing to help us during those years," said Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit, 92, a member of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo whose daughter Patricia disappeared in 1978. "But he was only one of many," she said.
Tex Harris, a U.S. Foreign Service officer who was based in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship and worked to document disappearance cases, said that while many in Argentina knew what the military was doing, few had any idea of the scope of the "state terrorism."
"In every secular and religious organization in Argentina, there was ongoing debate in this period as to what was the most effective way to bring back the disappeared," he said. "Should they work quietly or confront the government?"
The goal, Harris said, was to get the victims — often young adults and teenagers — back from military custody. "They were convinced that they were being held in detention facilities." But many never came back. "Most ended up in mass graves," he said.
The criticism of Bergoglio for not doing enough has prompted several prominent Argentine rights activists, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel, to come to his defense in recent days.
"There were some priests and bishops that helped the dictatorship, and others who spoke out and died because of it. But Bergoglio wasn't a collaborator," said Graciela Fernandez Meijide, a politician and prominent human rights investigator whose 16-year-old son vanished after being snatched from his bed by soldiers in the middle of the night.
It was an era during which the clerical vestments offered little protection, she said, and prominent members of the clergy were targeted. "And even if he wanted to denounce the government, who would he have turned to?" she said.
Julie Tate in Washington, Jason Horowitz in Rome and Michael Birnbaum in Berlin contributed to this report.


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Las Vegas and Tokyo - (Business Wire) - Toshiba Corporation will invite visitors to the CES 2011 to experience how life can be "Fun and Easy by Leading Technology" with the company's latest advances in digital technologies and new products and services. (Toshiba booth: LVCC Central Hall Booth #11026)
1. Display of 3D TVs without any need for dedicated glasses
Toshiba will unveil the future of 3D at CES: prototypes of large-screen LCD TVs – in 65-inch and 56-inch models – that deliver full 3D without the need for dedicated glasses.
The company will also show how it has realized glasses-free 3D now, and display the world's first commercialized LCD TVs that do away with dedicated glasses. Already available in Japan, where they are winning a lot of attention, the "Glasses-less 3D Regza GL1" TVs are specifically designed for personal use and come in two versions, the 20-inch 20GL1 and the 12-inch 12GL1. The TVs employ an integral imaging system and perpendicular lenticular sheet to display smooth, natural images, while a wide viewing angle is secured by Toshiba's proprietary image processing technology that creates nine parallax images from the original content and then converts them to 3D. The overall result is precise rendering of high quality 3D images throughout the viewing zone.
2. Bringing network services to TVs and PCs
As the world of computing develops cloud-based storage and services, Toshiba ensures that digital TVs, digital recorders, PCs and smartphones can make full use of this new level of interconnectivity. The CES display will feature forthcoming networked TVs that support diverse services, including Yahoo! Widgets, YouTube Leanback, and demonstrate TV and PC interconnectivity using Skype.
3. PCs
Toshiba will demonstrate concept models of glasses-free 3D notebook PCs and of tablet PCs running the Android and Windows operating systems.
4. Environmental Activities
In seeking to become one of the world's foremost eco-companies, Toshiba Group promotes three green initiatives: greening of process, greening of products and greening by technology. The company will introduce environmentally conscious business activities, products and technology in these three categories. The greening of process area introduces the activities of MRM, a leading provider of TV recycling management services to manufacturers, jointly operated by Panasonic Corporation of North America, Sharp Electronics Corporation and Toshiba America Information Systems. The greening of products area features environmentally conscious products, including LEDs, PCs, TVs and air-conditioners. The greening by technology area showcases Toshiba's environmental technologies including know-how in smartgrids, photovoltaic power generation and home energy management system (HEMS), all of which will contribute to the achievement and management of low-carbon society.


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Yes, shaders are the best thing since sliced bread.
Yes, they are still quite limited.
Here is my problem:
I want to do Oran-Nayer diffuse shading with pure phong specular as well as per-pixel bump mapping. No problem.
I also want to do a sky-scattering shader. No problem.
Doing both = big problem.
I'm out of pixel shader inputs. The sky scatter shader plus the other shader require far too many inputs.
So my question is:
How do you chain shaders w/o performing multiple passes? Multiple passes on terrain that stretches to the far clip plane is totally 100% out of the question.


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Mr. Robert Mazrim, Illinois State Archaeological Survey, will present a lecture titled: "Archaeological Reflections of the American Frontier in Illinois 1815-1840" at the Wednesday, March 5, 2014 meeting of the Illinois Valley Archaeological Society. The presentation will begin at 7:00 p.m. This lecture is free and the public is invited to attend.
American settlement expanded into central Illinois just after the close of the War of 1812. For the next generation, ancient woodlands and prairies were rapidly transformed into the agriculture landscape that is still familiar today. At the same time, Native American populations were pushed westward, and their traditional practices shattered. Although the resulting frontier-era American settlements were often composed of crude, neo-medieval log dwellings, they were stocked with a wide range of surprisingly fashionable and modern goods, which today are recovered as archaeological artifacts at the sites of these long-vanished communities.
Robert Mazrim currently serves as Historic Resources Specialist at the Illinois State Archaeological Survey. He has practiced historical archaeology in Illinois for over twenty years, and is the author of four books and numerous articles about the colonial and frontier cultural landscapes of the Midwest.
The Illinois State Museum—Dickson Mounds is located between Lewistown and Havana off Illinois Routes 78 and 97. The museum is open free to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every day. Tours and special programs are available for groups with reservations. For more information call 309.547.3721 or TTY 217.782.9175 or visit the museum's web site at www.ExperienceDicksonMounds.com. Also check out weekly updates on Facebook at "Illinois State Museum – Dickson Mounds".
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The parole officer who failed to track down Evan Ebel, the parolee accused of killing corrections chief Tom Clements, is one of eight officers selected for a newly created Department of Corrections Fugitive Apprehension Unit.
Ebel removed his tracking monitor on March 14. Police believe he killed Nate Leon for his pizza-delivery uniform on March 17 and then killed Clements at his home near Colorado Springs two days later. Ebel died in a shootout with Texas law enforcement officers on March 21. A warrant for Ebel's arrest had been issued March 20.
Colorado Division of Parole warden Steve Hager wrote in an e-mail obtained by 7News that the new unit was created with funding approved by the Joint Budget Committee. The unit began work on Thursday.
"The FAU officers will work as a team, statewide, to assist and collaborate with local parole offices and law enforcement agencies in Fugitive Apprehension efforts," Hager wrote. "It is expected that the numbers of fugitive/absconders will be reduced over time, due to increased apprehension efforts, and by sending a clear message to offenders that we will place a priority on apprehending them should they contemplate fleeing from parole supervision."
Read more of the article Officer who didn't track Evan Ebel named to fugitive apprehension team at TheDenverChannel.com.