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Irondale Youth Hockey Association
Board Meeting: Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 6:30 p.m.
at the New Brighton Family Service Center, New Brighton, MN.
Address: IYHA, PO Box 120114, New Brighton, MN 55112 Website: www.iyhaleague.org
From President (Tom Lucarelli):
Hopefully you have been able to get your hockey fix by watching some of the playoff games in the NHL – there sure has been some great action!
A big thanks to Cheryl Mason (Vice President), Tom O'Keefe (Treasurer) and Mark Mohar (Boys Coordinator) for the their time and commitment to IYHA and welcome to new board members Monica Crandall (Vice President), Theresa Spiering (Treasurer) and Mark Rupp (Boys Coordinator).
If you or anyone you know may be interested in coaching for the upcoming season, please contact the boys or girls coordinators.
The program is always looking for new skaters – spread the word especially at the Initiation level.
In the next few months go through your old equipment and consider donating back to IYHA – contact Tom Johnson (equipment manager).
From Boys Coordinator (Mark Rupp):
1. Thank you to everyone who came out to vote. From all accounts, it appeared we had a wonderful turnout. Every vote does count and all of us have an ownership stake in our association when we exercise our rite to vote.
2. A coaches meeting will be coming up fairly soon to talk about our just completed year and plan for the 2008-2009 season. Watch for more details shortly.
3. A meeting will be announced soon for all of those parents who have Bantam eligible children. We will be discussing a number of topics and your attendance is very important.
From Registration Coordinator (Jeanne Falconer):
Team books still outstanding are the 12U Girls, A PeeWees and B Squirts.
Please make arrangements to get these returned ASAP.
Thank you.
IYHA Board Meetings are open meetings.
Please feel free to come to the meetings. If you wish to have a copy of any information which is distributed at any meeting, please email or call Jean and it will be mailed to you. Upcoming dates for 2007/2008 Board meetings are the
third Thursday of every month at 6:30 p.m. Our meetings are held at the New Brighton Family Service Center.
Meetings will be: June 19, July 17 and August 21.
NOTE: If you wish to be on the agenda for the meeting, please contact the IYHA President.
Lake Region Board Meetings:
Lake Region Hockey meetings are open meetings. Contact Jeanne Falconer for dates and times of the next meetings.
Sponsors for teams are listed below. This part of the newsletter will continue throughout the rest of the IYHA season. Please notify Jean Aukee of any additions or corrections. (Please forward information about websites and addresses, etc.) Many thanks to our sponsors!
IYHA: **Lake Region Hockey Association**, **Moes**, **Champps**, **Katies**, **Make It Big Photos**, **Our Bar and Grill** and **Big 10 Tavern**
Team Sponsorships:
Bantam: **Response Fire Protection**
Pee Wee A: **Synergy Hockey.net Ltd** and **Minnesota Conway**
Pee Wee C: **Western Bank**, ** Dr. John Hollerud, MD** and **Minnesota Epilepsy Group**
Squirt B: **Caroline Bell Beckman & Law Firm of Jensen, Bell, Converse & Erickson** and **Bio Instruments Incorporated**
Once again, many, many thanks to our sponsors! Please support them!
When you see them, please tell them you are from Irondale Youth Hockey.
Irondale Youth Hockey Association (IYHA) Board Members 2007-2008
Tom Lucarelli
Vice President
Monica Crandall
763-234-9316 (c)
Theresa Spiering
763-780-4548 (h)
Jean Aukee
763-783-8561 (h)
Ice Commissioner
Jackie Rog
651-636-6978 (h)
Boys Program Coordinator
Mark Rupp
651-269-3027 (h & c)
Girls Program Coordinator
Mike Nundahl
651-633-8287 (h)
Initiation Coordinator
Bob Gabler
651-697-4708 (h)
Tom Johnson
Jeanne Falconer
763-458-5946 (cell)
651-486-1235 (w)
District Representative
Chris Drews
651-329-3124 (cell)
Non-Board Position:
ACE Coordinator
Tadd Tuomie and Player Development Committee
IYHA Meeting ANNUAL Meeting: April 17, 2008. Note: These minutes have not been approved. They will be reviewed, corrected as needed, and approved at the next regular Board of Directors Meeting.
Called to order at 6:34 p.m. by President Tom Lucarelli.
Board Members Present: Tom Lucarelli, Cheryl Mason, Jeanne Falconer, Mike Nundahl, Jean Aukee, Bob Gabler, Mark Mohar, Chris Drews, Tom Johnson and Jackie Rog
Board Members Absent: Tom O'Keefe
Guests: Jim Cich, Beth Soberg, Torri Johnson, Mark Rupp, Chuck Ferraro, Colin Crandall, Bo Parsons, Paul Dulin and George Mohar
Minutes: Motion to accept minutes as presented (CD) (JF), motion carried.
Old Business:
a. Fundraising Committee Document – Jean didn't finish getting it updated before the meeting – will review this next month. Tom stated there was a working meeting of the board to review/update the document. Once finalized we will get it back to fundraising committee
b. Final Costs of Initiation – Bob needs to finalize monies with the 4 initiation team managers/treasurers – also needs to get together with Tom O. Looking to set up a turn key program like swimming – flat fee for the whole year for 1st and 2nd yr mites and U8s. Won't know ice times by 8-16-08 per Jackie – would be mostly weekends – would like to publish dates at start of year – i.e. all Saturday am at a specific time – announcement could be 8:00 to 12:00 noon (sometime during that timeframe) and specific times will be communicated later – Bob sending out communication this weekend to initiation that this is the amount due and tell the treasurers to either refund or collect depending – what do with monies from previous years? Bob only resolving last year's initiation – will discuss the rest of the money at a budgeting meeting as with other overages in association.
New Business:
a. Pee Wee A Regional Tournament – costs should be sent to association and not just to Pee Wee A team – per Torri at meeting last month – brought up and in the minutes but Tom O still sent bill to Pee Wee A treasurer – could it be part of line item 3A on budget? or board make a motion to have association absorb cost? – board apologized for not resolving after discussed at last month's meeting – CD made a motion that going forward should an Irondale team make it to a regional and state tournament the association should pay those tournament fees – JF second. Discussion – kids are expected to go if they make it so far in districts – representing our community – C level teams never get to go – why subsidize? Why does the association pay for goalie pads – same idea with this. Should be 2 rulings – 1 for the situation today with last year's Pee Wee As and one for all future teams – need to make another motion specifically for the Pee Wee A team from last year – board members with kids on that team will not vote – TJ made the same motion for Pee Wee As as CD motion for all future teams - CD second – all approved – both motions carried – Jackie, Jean and Tom abstained from voting – Tom L will contact Tom O regarding paying the fee.
b. Community Task Force Meetings – Emails from Brad D - school district planning sports – school district help funds it – arsenal land uses – outdoor chilled surface – all athletic facilities in the mounds view school – Tom will attend meeting in June and then decide if worthwhile to attend the September meeting
c. Bank recommended software for online registration – Torri – handout – credit card payments online – merchant account set up with Premiere Bank – could accept payments thru website – software company has a connection to hockey – CornerStone bank – lower processing fees – c/b lower than current bank fees – portion of transactions goes to a cancer foundation – Pay Pal another option – fee is more and you go from IYHA site to Pay Pal site – all transactions – Chris knowledgeable on these things – no minimal monthly fee is a good thing – no one has said anything bad on this – Jeanne attending meeting in May – at district level they will require online registration – so our fees could be done at the same time – with computers – USA and MN and IYHA fees all done at once – people paying online will be assessed the fee not those in the assn paying with cash – make it mandatory? USA and MN will be mandatory next year per Chris Drews – treasurer should review along with board members and make proposal to the association – Per Torri our website can handle this kind of thing.
d. Changing voting time at the 11th hour - wasn't changed just added a new time offer - needs to be discussed by the board before a decision is made – need to address next year that there should be an absentee ballot system of some kind – we need more opportunities for others to vote – ask all three candidates who are here if they agree with the process as we speak before we conclude the process tonight – how do we know which votes were cast at 5:30 that may have been cast at 7:30 – communications sent said you will receive a ballot as you enter – if all 3 candidate in agreement with what we do tonight they we will proceed – Mark M – came up last time he was up for election – previous meeting stated it is an in person voting – Mark M says Yes – Mr Rupp agrees with Mark M – need to bring up the absentee ballot discussion at a future date – Mark R agrees with process – Bo agrees with process – Bob made a motion to accept the outcome of this election today – rationale being all 3 candidates accept the outcome of this – TJ second – all approved – motion carried.
Board Roundtable:
President: Tom Lucarelli. – American Family – March 10th Wild Game - $10 for every save – Program Sales Wild Game too – 2 checks coming – didn't hear from One Goal Equipment – that's OK – per Torri Wild game program sales night the jumbotron read Washburn hockey instead of Irondale
Vice President: Cheryl Mason. – spoke today with new MV VP – she understands the history of the tournaments at the SSR – very committed to the tournaments – her name is Michelle Lacy – Cheryl will continue to be tournament director – will work with all people in both associations – need to get more younger families involved
Secretary: Jean Aukee. – no report
Treasurer: Tom O'Keefe. – not here – report sent out – Jackie needs to talk to him - we are $500 short on U of M ice bill – Bob will follow up with him on amounts for initiation – looks like Tom O did finalize it per his report
Girls Program Coordinator: Mike Nundahl. – U14 will be available to all DIST1 girls for 2008/2009 season – there will be at least one DIST1 U14 team – St Anthony is no longer with Roseville – We will encourage the St. Anthony girls to join with Irondale like the boys program and continue to work with St. Anthony and MN hockey to try to make it happen.
Initiation Program Coordinator: Bob Gabler. – met with Curt from Acceleration MN – programs to offer to Irondale – needs support to communicate to the kids in the association – get together with 4 to 6 friends and go thru the exercises – would be no cost to us just help them communicate – do thru the website or via email? If they donate to us then we could advertise for them on the website – we can't promote them unless we give equal time to competitors – just allow him access to our parents – Herb Brooks is changing to FHIT – we can't promote hockey camps etc – could be done via an email to association members blind copied – Acceleration MN just wants to build a better relationship with IYHA – Torri OK to work with Bob and make a proposal and come back to board in May
Boys Program Coordinator: Mark Mohar. – 20,000 puck club & goalie clinic this summer – thanks to all who have helped Mark in the last 3 years
District Representative: Chris Drews. – updating rules – New Richmond WI will be fielding 2 teams at each level and will be added to DIST1 – talking with DIST 3 – except Maple Grove and Wayzata – add additional games for Bantams – State Tournament the DIST lost $7000 to host – Per MN hockey we have to host a banquet – 2 separate proposals – single sight A tournament at Xcel center (televised) – no regional tournaments for level B and below – SEE DIST1 WEBSITE for detailed minutes – report of game misconducts – Irondale had 5 – we were in the upper 1/3rd – we need to keep a good name and a good face – 3 penalty rule not included in these misconducts – going back to old way of scheduling games – not by district – will be done by ice coordinators – registration meeting in May for Jeanne – MN and USA hockey required to be online
Ice Commissioner: Jackie Rog. – Greg Kraut with MV (new President for MV) – new ice schedules – he is doing ice with Jackie – warm up and tryout ice – what hours will be split with IYHA and MV – Edison arena – park board heads up – B Pee Wee coach knows him – Chuck opened door for us to get some ice there
Registration Coordinator: Jeanne Falconer. –- May 1st can start registering online with MN and USA hockey – 2008 to 2009 season – still need team books for some teams
Equipment Manager: Tom Johnson. – trying to get a handle on what goalie equipment we need – should be added to next years budget – Mark – new rule book – goalie equipment shrinking – Tom get together with Jean and Torri to communicate with goalies
Standing Reports:
Player and Coach Development: Mark Mohar. – no report
Lake Region: Jeanne Falconer. – The scholarships were voted on and will be presented at each high school whenever the presentation programs are. When the LR board members receive the essays to vote on, the association name, high school name, coach's names and the writer's name have all been deleted. Lake Region is holding $4000 for IYHA. A check had been issued to SSR but it was returned to LR because the SSR bill has been paid. The issue came up about writing checks to the association rather than an ice arena again, but it didn't change.
More business – Thank you to the outgoing board members – Mark M, Mike N, Cheryl M and Tom O
No additional business
Motion to adjourn meeting (MM) (JF); motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 7:29 p.m.
Break between meetings for balloting for boys coordinator board position.
IYHA Meeting ELECTION Meeting: April 17, 2008. Note: These minutes have not been approved. They will be reviewed, corrected as needed, and approved at the next regular Board of Directors Meeting.
Called to order at 8:01 p.m. by President Tom Lucarelli.
Guests: Too many to list
Agenda reviewed
Motion by JF for one white ballot for all 3 open uncontested board positions – CD seconded, all approved, motion carried
Introduction of Theresa Spiering
Introduction of Monica Crandall
Introduction of Mike Nundahl
Introduction of Mark Mohar
Introduction of Bo Parsons
Introduction of Mark Rupp
Ballots tallied in private by Jean Aukee and Jeanne Falconer
Results presented to all in attendance by Tom Lucarelli – congratulations to Mark Rupp the new boys coordinator and thanks to Bo and Mark M for running.
Motion to adjourn meeting (BG) (MN); motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:18 p.m.
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Global Relay Launches $400,000 Cycling Development Program
VANCOUVER, BC (Nov. 28, 2012) — Talented Canadian cyclists looking to one day compete in the world's biggest races will have access to new funding and mentorship, thanks to a new $400,000 program called the Global Relay Bridge the Gap Fund, which will be funded by Global Relay and managed by Canadian professional cyclists Svein Tuft, Andrew Pinfold, Will Routley, Ryan Anderson and Erinne Willock.
Vancouver-based Global Relay provides the worldwide financial industry with cloud-based message archiving and compliance services. This $400,000 investment in cycling follows a five-year $1-million commitment the company made earlier in 2012 to bring back the Gastown Grand Prix — a legendary criterium held each July. "Becoming the Title Sponsor and Operator of the Gastown Grand Prix provided us with an in-depth look at the tremendous work and dedication it takes to be a professional cyclist and the sacrifices these young athletes have to make to get to that level," said Warren Roy, CEO of Global Relay. "As Canadian cyclists work toward representing Canada internationally and racing professionally, we're pleased to support their efforts and partner with five exceptional Canadian cyclists in Svein, Andrew, Will, Ryan and Erinne."
According to Will Routley, who rode with Team SpiderTech powered by C10 in 2012, the Global Relay Bridge the Gap Fund will help bridge the gap between the amateur and professional ranks and national to international racing.
"The bottom line is that the cycling is extremely difficult, and assistance is not always easy to come by. When we saw the opportunity to improve the situation with the help of Global Relay, we were really excited. This will give us a chance to mentor younger athletes in the sport, give back, and share some of the experience we've gained, and truly make an impact on cycling in Canada."
The Global Relay Bridge the Gap Fund will support cyclists between the ages of 19 to 25, which is a critical time in their career as it's when many have left home and must earn a living. With many days spent racing away from home and training consuming 30 or more hours per week, dedicated athletes typically have little time for employment and often resort to financing living expenses on a credit card, shirking critical off-season training hours to work, or quitting the sport entirely. Those who do stay in the sport often can't access optimal coaching, physiological assessments, and equipment due to lack of financial resources. The Bridge the Gap Fund will help address those issues.
Riders in the fund will be selected the same way trade teams select riders. The Fund's Board (Svein Tuft, Andrew Pinfold, Will Routley, Ryan Anderson and Erinne Willock) will look for athletes with the right mix of ability, determination and attitude that is required to be a successful professional athlete. They'll then assess the rider's need and allocate what they feel would best serve the rider in moving them to the pro ranks, be it supporting them financially with travel or stipends, supplying equipment, or coaching. Importantly, each rider will be assigned a mentor, which will keep tabs on the rider, support them and maximize their chance for success. "
We'll also have our Board and contacts working to help them gain spots on professional squads should they be ready," says Andrew Pinfold. "Victory for us will be when a rider signs a pro-contract for a living wage and graduates from the program."
The Global Relay Bridge the Gap Fund is currently supporting riders that were chosen based on recommendations of Provincial and National Team Coaches, along with team owners and directors, and some of Canada's top professionals. Factors considered in the selection process were potential to turn professional within two years, attitude, work ethic, results, and their need for support.
For more information, please visit www.GRBridgeTheGap.com


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CHICAGO, Ill. (Friday, December 6, 2013) – The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced Tuesday that Brian Bliss has been named the club's Technical Director.
"Brian brings a wealth of knowledge to this position and will be a tremendous asset to the technical staff," said Fire Head Coach and Director of Soccer Frank Yallop. "Brian has been involved with MLS for many years and has a proven track record of building championship-caliber squads. I'm excited to add Brian's expertise to the Fire and look forward to working alongside him."
Bliss joins the Fire after six years serving as the Technical Director of the Columbus Crew. On Sept. 2, 2013 Bliss was appointed Interim Head Coach of the Crew,where he led the Crew to a 4-4-0 record to close out the 2013 season.
In January 2008, Bliss was appointed the first-ever technical director of the Crew. That year, the Crew went on to capture both the Supporters' Shield and the MLS Cup. During his time with the Crew, Bliss oversaw all player personnel matters, player assessment and domestic and international scouting. In 2012, the Crew signed Argentinian striker Federico Higuain, who was named 2012 MLS Newcomer of the Year.
Bliss began his coaching career in 1999 with the Connecticut Wolves of the A-League. In 2000, Bliss was appointed assistant coach for the Kansas City Wizards. In six seasons in Kansas City, the Wizards won the 2000 MLS Supporters' Shield, 2000 MLS Cup and the 2004 U.S. Open Cup.
Following his time with the Wizards, Bliss spent 2007 as the State Director of Coaching for Kansas Youth Soccer.A defender by trade, Bliss represented the United States at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul and the 1990 FIFA World Cup held in Italy. From 1984-95, Bliss earned 33 caps and scored two goals.
A native of Rochester, N.Y., Bliss played professionally in the United States with the Cleveland Force of the Major Indoor Soccer League, the Albany Capitals of the American Soccer League and the Boston Bolts of the American Professional Soccer League. Following the 1990 World Cup, Bliss headed abroad where he played for Energie Cottbus, Chemnitzer FC and FC Carl Zeiss Jena of the German Second Division.
In 1996, Bliss returned to the United States and was allocated to the Columbus Crew, where he made 31 appearances and scored one goal of the course of one-and-a-half seasons. Bliss was traded to the New York/New Jersey MetroStars in July 1997 where he finished the season, playing 16 matches and tallying two assists. Bliss concluded his MLS career in 1998 with one season with the Kansas City Wizards.
Bliss has also served as an assistant coach for the United States Under-20 Men's National Team since January 2012. Bliss was most recently with the side for the team's run to the 2013 FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Turkey with the Fire's Homegrown midfielder Victor Pineda.


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Donovan McNabb's off-season home in Chandler, Ariz., was vandalized overnight last week. "Go Cards" and other messages were burned on the front lawn. Quite a thing to learn on Martin Luther King Day.
From Mike Silver's blog at Yahoo Sports:
What was going through the mind of the misguided juveniles who used gasoline to desecrate the front lawn of the house in Chandler, Ariz., where McNabb and his wife, Roxie, live with their children over the offseason. According to a friend of Mrs. McNabb's, "Go Cards" and other similar messages were burned into the front lawn one night last week. This had to be especially scary to the couple's four-year-old daughter, Alexis, who was staying in the house with Roxie and the couple's six-week-old twins. Apparently one of the culprits was identified after leaving a box at the scene with a mailing label affixed bearing his name and address, so we're obviously not talking about criminal masterminds here. But it's tough to imagine that anyone over the age of eight doesn't understand that burning something on the lawn of a house occupied by African-Americans carries deeper social overtones that are highly disturbing. I'm told Donovan took a photo of the damaged lawn and used it as a motivating force for Sunday's game. I hope it's the last time he or any other professional athlete ever has that opportunity.
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First Alzheimer's case has full diagnosis 106 years later
More than a hundred years after Alois Alzheimer identified Alzheimer's disease in a patient, an analysis of that original patient's brain has revealed the genetic origin of their condition.
The brain specimen tested was discovered in a university basement late in the nineteenth century after a search by rival teams of academics.
"It is extremely satisfying to place this last piece in the medical puzzle that Auguste Deter, the first ever Alzheimer patient, presented us with," Professor Manuel Graeber, from the University of Sydney, said.
"It is not only of historical interest, however, as it ends any speculation about whether the disease is correctly named after Alois Alzheimer. Alzheimer's ability to recognise this dementia more than a century ago provides compelling support for specialisation in medicine.
"Alzheimer was a founding father of neuropathology, an important medical specialty that is still underrepresented."
Professor Graeber, from the University's Brain and Mind Research Institute, Sydney Medical School and the Faculty of Health Sciences, collaborated with Professor Ulrich Müller's team from the Institute of Human Genetics of the University of Giessen in Germany to produce the molecular diagnosis recently published in Lancet Neurology.
For years scientists have been wondering whether the first case of Alzheimer's disease had a genetic cause. In 1901 Auguste Deter, a middle-aged female patient at the Frankfurt Asylum with unusual symptoms, including short-term memory loss, came to the attention of Dr Alzheimer.
When she died, Dr Alzheimer examined her brain and described the distinctive damage indicating a form of presenile dementia.
For decades the more than 200 slides that Alzheimer prepared from Deter's brain were lost. Then in 1992, after Professor Graeber uncovered new information pointing to their location, two teams of medical researchers began a dramatic race to find them.
One team searched in Frankfurt but it was a team headed by Professor Graeber, then working at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology that finally located the material at the University of Munich in 1997.
The slides were examined and confirmed beyond doubt that Deter was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, with large numbers of amyloid plaques and neurofribrillary tangles in the brain that are hallmarks of the disease. Until now a more sophisticated DNA analysis of the small amount of fragile material in single slides has not been possible.
Since their rediscovery, a significant number of brain slides have been under the official custodianship of Professor Graeber who has been at the University of Sydney since 2010. He is preparing a book on the material.
"We found a mutation whose ultimate effect is the formation of amyloid plaques. These plaques, which form between nerve cells and seem to suffocate them are the key diagnostic landmark of the disease," he said.
Alzheimer's disease represents one of the greatest health problems in industrialised societies today. An estimated 100 million dementia sufferers are predicted worldwide by 2050, the vast majority of whom will have Alzheimer's disease.
Ninety five per cent of Alzheimer's patients suffer late onset of the illness after they turn 65. Five per cent fall ill before that age (early onset) and Auguste Deter belongs to this group.
"We have revealed that Auguste Deter is one of those in which early onset of the disease is caused by mutation in a single gene," Professor Graeber said.


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Air in Expectant Moms' Homes Contains Pesticides
|Will Sansom
|July 10th 2012
University of Texas San Antonio
Air samples from homes of Hispanic mothers-to-be along the Texas-Mexico border contained multiple pesticides in a majority of the houses, according to a study conducted by the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio.
All the women were in the third trimester of pregnancy, when the fetal brain undergoes a growth spurt. Several studies have reported that pesticide exposure may adversely affect mental and motor development during infancy and childhood. The new report is in the summer issue of the Texas Public Health Journal sent to members this week.
Two-thirds of the families surveyed said they used pest control methods to kill cockroaches, rodents and other pests. Pregnant women and infants often spend 90 percent of their day indoors. "There is a lack of education in our communities regarding the health hazards of these toxic pest control methods," said lead author Beatriz Tapia, M.D., M.P.H., lecturer at the UT Health Science Center — Regional Academic Health Center campus in Harlingen, located 10 miles from the border. "We should concentrate on trying to educate families about low-cost methods that prevent infestations and use the least toxic pest control methods first."
Integrated pest management (IPM) is a low-cost strategy to replace the use of residential pesticides, Dr. Tapia said. IPM focuses on installing screens and caulking doors and windows to keep out pests, putting away food and placing boric acid, a low-impact alternative, in walls.
"Once we educate our women of childbearing age about how they can safely and in a healthy manner diminish pests in their homes, they will feel empowered that they can make a difference in their family's life," Dr. Tapia said. She is a faculty associate in the university's Department of Family and Community Medicine and serves as environmental medicine training coordinator for the South Texas Environmental Education and Research Center (STEER). She co-coordinates a 30-day Harlingen student elective in environmental and occupational medicine.
The team sampled air in 25 households, finding at least five pesticides in 60 percent of the dwellings. Nine other pesticides were identified in less than one-third of the homes. Ninety-two percent of the air samples contained o-phenylphenol, which is used as a fungicide, germicide and household disinfectant, while 80 percent included chlorpyrifos, employed in agriculture to kill mosquitoes and other pests. Propoxur, present in granular baits, pet collars and other products, showed up in 76 percent of samples, along with the insecticide diazinon in 72 percent. The herbicide trifluralin turned up in 60 percent of samples.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in June 2000 entered into an agreement to eliminate virtually all homeowner uses of chlorpyrifos, except ant and roach baits in child-resistant packaging. The EPA banned residential use of diazinon as of Dec. 31, 2004.
"Increasingly, pesticide exposures are being linked to neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)," said co-author and STEER Director Claudia S. Miller, M.D., M.S., professor in environmental and occupational medicine with the Department of Family and Community Medicine. "Planning for pregnancy today should include not only prenatal vitamins and a good diet, but also avoiding potentially hazardous pesticides. Instead, use non-toxic approaches for pest control and IPM."
Environmental medicine researchers at the Harlingen campus modeled the pilot project on studies conducted by the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health. These studies, which sampled air in homes of mother/newborn pairs in northern Manhattan or South Bronx, showed that fetal and childhood exposure to pesticides can be measured in indoor air and can adversely affect fetal growth in a minority population.
The Harlingen researchers recruited pregnant Hispanic women from two maternity clinics in Hidalgo County. Enrolled women were 18-35 years old, had no serious medical conditions and had reached 30-34 weeks of gestation. The team asked the women questions about pesticide use and exposure, proximity to agricultural fields, and how often they saw spraying operations or detected pesticide or other odors drifting from fields.
Air samples were measured for multiple pesticides used in agriculture, given the close proximity of the fields to participant homes. These pesticides turned up in 12 percent of the homes, not as high a number as expected. "The reality is, when these pesticides are used outdoors, the sun and soil do their part and eliminate them from the environment," Dr. Tapia said. "Indoors you don't have nature helping you."
Outdoor and indoor exposures are measured differently. "Agricultural spraying tends to result in shorter-term bursts, so-called acute exposures that may not be captured in a study like ours," Dr. Miller said. "This is a limitation of most pesticide exposure studies in agricultural areas."


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This is Tassy in a Witch costume. Cindy sent us more photos of her beautiful cats: Muffin the Pirate, Salem the Pumpkin Cat, Simba the Jester, Nakita the Witch, Rascal the Cowboy.
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This homemade costume for pets entered our 2011 Halloween Costume Contest,
A word from Cindy, the 'Witch Cat' costume creator:
My cats humor me by dressing up in various holiday attire! All of my cats are feral cats that I have tamed from the wild and given them the life of luxury, I have 8 in total.
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You can Invite your guests to paint the roses red in honor of your little ones birthday, or of course, OFF WITH THEIR HEAD!
Originally designed as a custom order for Alana Saleh of Frost the cake Bakeshop, for her daughter Iiana's 5th birthday garden party, I now offer this whole printable collection in my shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/CutiePutti?ref=si_shop
I created this dessert buffet with items that I found at my local Michael's craft store. I purchased the mini round topiary trees there, along with the white paper flowers, that I painted the edges with red craft paint. I then hot glued them to the topiary trees. I also purchased the adorable mini paint cans that the cupcakes are sitting on at Michael's as well. How perfect are they for this theme :-) The cupcakes I purchased from a local bakery. How divine and luscious are the huge red buttercream flowers that cover the whole top? I topped them with my custom designed cupcake toppers punched with a 2inch round scallop punch and then backed on red sparkle paper, punched out in the shape of a scalloped heart.
Candy for the table included the "Queens Temper" red hot cinnamon heart gummy candies, and Royal M&Ms. I also placed little Debbie valentine heart cakes in a bell jar with a cute label thats says the famous Alice in Wonderland line "Eat Me! Or off with your head"
Frost the Cake Bakeshop on Etsy made me the cutest custom "Queen's Royal Rose Bushes" cake pops. The flavor is their famous "Royal Red Velvet" (so fitting to the theme I couldn't resist) covered in green piped vanilla icing and topped with sugar flowers, off course in white with red dyed edges! I am in love with these!!!
Clear plastic sparkle heart containers were purchased at Target in the dollar section, and filled with sugared heart gummies, as cute little favor packages for each guest to take home.
Mini glass bottles were filled with red fruit punch and adorned with a mini "Drink Me" scalloped circle!
The invitation and birthday banner are shaped as Queen of Hearts playing cards. While the stop watch on the invite displays the date and time of the party, the white rabbit suggests "Don't be late!" and guests are told to R.S.V.P. or they'll have to face the red tempered queen!
This party theme was so fun to create and design! I fell in love with all the fun details and little touches that make this collection so unique."
Printables and party styling- Cutie Putti Paperie
Cake Pops- Frost the Cake Bakeshop
Paper Straws- Hey Yo Yo Etsy


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Man's Funeral Procession Stops At Fast Food Drive-Thru
A recently deceased Pennsylvania man went to a fast food restaurant so often that his daughter arranged for his funeral procession stopped by the drive-thru on the way to his burial. This is why you should be nice to your family: when you are dead, they're in charge.
David Kime Jr., 88, of West York, Pa. was a World War II veteran who stopped by a nearby Burger King so often that the manager knew his order. When Kime died, his daughter, Linda Phiel, decided her father's funeral procession should stop at 'The Home of the Whopper.' Each mourner got a Whopper Jr. — Kime's favorite sandwich — on their way to the cemetery. Phiel placed a final to-go bag on Kime's coffin at the cemetery, too.
"All of us are going to be in this position," Phiel said. "And I think there's a certain group who think we should be crying. But on the other hand, he lived a wonderful life and on his own terms."
No word if the detour substituted for the funeral breakfast, but perhaps that's a trend waiting to happen. Kidding aside, the man lived to be 88 despite a penchant for eating burgers, tacos, pizza and hot dogs. There are worse lives to have lived.


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James Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1943. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry including his first volume, The Lost Pilot, which was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1967, The Oblivion Ha Ha (1970), Hints to Pilgrims (1971), Absences (1972), Viper Jazz (1976), Riven Doggeries (1979), Constant Defender (1983), Reckoner (1986) and Distance From Loved Ones (1990).
In 1992, Tate was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the William Carlos Williams Award for his Selected Poems (1991). His most recent collection, Worshipful Company of Fletchers (The Ecco Press, 1994) received the National Book Award for Poetry. Among his other awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Institute for Arts and Letters Award for Poetry. He also received the $100,000 Tanning Prize for The Academy of American Poets in 1995.
He has taught poetry at the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University, and Emerson College. He currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he has worked since 1971.


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WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani, a GOP moderate on social issues, is quietly trying to sell himself to Iowa and New Hampshire voters as a conservative on fiscal and security matters with an under-the-radar campaign of direct mail and radio ads.
His fliers contend he "cut more taxes than any mayor in New York City history" and restored fiscal discipline to a city out of control. They say he "made families safer, putting criminals in jail." His radio spots echo those themes. Like his campaign speeches, his media pitches ignore his left-leaning stances on issues like abortion, gun control and gay rights.
Giuliani's roughly $5 million flurry of outreach activity in Iowa and New Hampshire over the past few months counters a belief among political insiders that he has given short shrift to those early voting states.
Indeed, he has shunned the broad-reach costly television ads typical of a front-running candidate. Rather, Giuliani has chosen quieter, relatively cheaper avenues to target voters more precisely in both states — conservatives who make up a large part of the GOP primary electorate and others his campaign has identified as likely to be persuaded to vote for him.
"He's running the pragmatic campaign," said Evan Tracey, president of TNS Media Intelligence/Campaign Media Analysis Group, which tracks political advertising. "He's being efficient, and I think he's doing the type of media right now that the campaign is comfortable with."
The reasons for his TV absence are twofold:
—He became a national figure following the 2001 terrorist attacks, leaving many people with a positive image of him and a sense that they know him. Thus, his campaign sees little reason to air the early television ads typically used to introduce a candidate to voters.
—He also must preserve his bank account to be able to compete against ultra-wealthy Mitt Romney, who already has sunk $17.5 million of his own money into his bid — including more than $10 million for TV ads — and has tens of millions of dollars more available to tap.
In the meantime, Giuliani has paid at least $4 million to a Texas-based direct mail company for at least a dozen mailers in Iowa and New Hampshire combined, while spending more than $500,000 for radio ads in both states as well as South Carolina.
"No one is going to spend that kind of money if they're not serious about competing there. If they were going to write those states off, they wouldn't be spending a nickel there, they'd spend it somewhere else," said Christopher LaCivita, a Republican strategist unaffiliated with any presidential candidate. "If you're spending that kind of money, you're playing to win."
Giuliani's media approach has borne mixed results.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
He is locked in a race for second place behind the double-digit leading Romney in Iowa, a state where social conservatives dominate and where Giuliani was not expected to do well given his moderate views on such issues as abortion, gun control and gay rights.
In New Hampshire, Giuliani is in a close race for the lead after starting to close a gap with Romney, who led by wide margins over the summer.
Giuliani's aides still view Florida and delegate-rich states that hold contests on Feb. 5 as the most amenable territory. But the recent mail-and-radio effort reflects a recognition that Giuliani can't afford a series of losses before those states vote — and that he's making a play to do well in both Iowa and New Hampshire, if not win.
He has visited both states multiple times this year, but he has intensified his campaigning in New Hampshire over the past two weeks and was in the state Monday.
Compared with Iowa, aides believe his message has a better chance of resonating in New Hampshire because Republicans there aren't overly focused on social issues and Giuliani is a fellow Northeasterner.
Over the past few months, a glossy brochure was sent to Iowa and New Hampshire voters laying out Giuliani's so-called 12 commitments — broad policy positions that amount to "a promise to this generation and generations to come that we will keep the American dream alive."
On security issues, he pledges in one mailer: "I will end illegal immigration, secure our borders and identify every non-citizen in our nation." Another references Sept. 11, 2001, and includes this quote from him: "You face bullies, tyrants and terrorists with intelligence and strength, not weakness. This is going to be our challenge for this generation."
On government spending: "I have the strongest record of fiscal conservatism, and I developed this record in one of the least conservative cities in America.
The radio ads carry largely the same themes, and one other: He can beat Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.
An Iowa spot calls Giuliani the Democrats' "worst nightmare." Another in New Hampshire argues that he's "the Republican that Democrats just don't want to run against."
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Everyone knows Autumn has the best sunsets. Out and about near Henley yesterday evening. It's lighter than it appears: hard to get the sky and ground to both expose nicely; presumably need some HDR trickery.
Archives for September, 2012
New TrainGame release
It's been ages since I did much work on my unimaginatively-titled train driving game. Surprisingly some people have actually been trying to build the last release and it turns out anything using Boost bit-rots at an alarming pace. So I've bundled up the latest working version as TrainGame-0.2.2.tar.gz. It's not all build fixes though. Looking […]
Out wandering high up in the Chilterns near Russel's Water I came across these pretty fluffy things. No idea what they are as usual. Perhaps some sort of dandelion? Blodgett would know. Daily factoid: perusing the previously linked Wikipedia article, I discovered that these plants are adjacent to a pond featured in Chitty Chitty Bang […]
The protagonist was thrilled to finally meet his long-standing hero, cyclopean freak "Mandeville", at the Paralympic rowing this weekend.


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In Memoriam: Dave R. Swormstedt, Jr.
The patriarch of Signs of the Times Publishing Co. (now ST Media Group International) served as company president for 15 years.
Dave R. ("Reid") Swormstedt, Jr., died January 17, 2013, at age 83. He served as president of then Signs of the Times Publishing Co. (now ST Media Group Intl.) from 1979 until his retirement in 1994. The company is the publisher of Signs of the Times, The Big Picture, Screen Printing, Industrial + Special Printing, and several other B2B magazines. A 1951 graduate of Cornell University, Dave – affectionately known by his middle name, Reid – joined the company in 1954, after having served in the US Army medical laboratories during the Korean War.
He became president of the company in 1979 following the death of his father, Dave, Sr., who helped found the National Electric Sign Association (now the International Sign Association, ISA) and the Screen Process Printing Association (now the Specialty Graphics Imaging Association, SGIA). Reid retired in 1994 after having guided his company from hot type and color separations into the computer age of modern publishing.
He leaves behind his wife, Win; daughter Wynne Anne; sons Tod and Wade; and four grandchildren: Abby, Dylan, Hank, and Megan.
"My dad, first and foremost, was a man of integrity, of substance over style," says Wade Swormstedt, publisher and editor of Signs of the Times. "He was fair, and impeccably honest. When an insurance company advised him that we could get much lower premiums if we got rid of an employee with a handicapped daughter, he canceled all relationships with the company. During the company's heyday, he lobbied stockholders for larger bonuses for the employees.
"'Pop' – I called him that simply because that's what he called his dad – was a scoutmaster for several years. When some parents complained about his allowing a lunch-time prayer to be 'Lub a dub dub, thanks for the grub. Yeah God!' he suggested that perhaps The Creator was just fine with boys' joyful praise in the vernacular. While some leaders were sticklers for pressed uniforms, Reid was busy teaching boys to recognize the constellations and to experience first-hand that snakes are not slimy. As an amateur ornithologist, Pop's 'bird count' was somewhere in the 400s.
"During his adulthood, Pop's family included a beloved mutt, Skippy, for 17 years, at least four raccoons, and several dozen snakes. As a child, he had a pet fox squirrel. He played in a poker group for several decades, and the stakes were literally never higher than nickels, dimes, and quarters. Pop loved reading Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour novels, and Grandpa Jones was a favorite singer. We used to watch 'Hee-Haw' and 'Hogan's Heroes' together. Season tickets to the Cincinnati 'Bungles' were priceless during the Bengals' 'gory' days because of time spent together by father/sons and grandfather/grandsons.
"At our church, Pop performed behind-the-scenes work: serving as church treasurer for several years, braving the sub-zero temperatures as the parking-lot attendant during the Blizzard of 1978, brightening many lives serving Meals on Wheels, and, somehow, anonymous donations ended up in the plate when the church had special needs. And yes, he helped out when the church sponsored a Boy Scout troop for a few years. 'Mr. Dave' also tutored (along with Mom) at a lower-income school.
"During his last two years of life, Pop enjoyed attending the weddings (ranging from Maine to California) of three of his four grandchildren, and celebrated his 60th anniversary with his beloved Win at a gala party held at the American Sign Museum (which is headed up by Tod Swormstedt). Without Reid and Win, and Jim and Sharon Weinel, there simply would not be a museum."


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(July 13, 2012) On July 4, 2012, Pierre Moscovici, France's Minister of Economy, presented a revision of the 2012 Finance Law to the Council of Ministers. (Loi de finances rectificative pour 2012, Portail du Gouvernement (July 4, 2012).) The amended budget is designed to meet the promise of holding the budget deficit to 4.5% of the gross domestic product in 2012. The Minister announced €7.2 billion (about US$9 billion) in increased taxes, to be borne by large corporations and wealthy households. A freeze on government spending is expected to save €1.5 billion (about $1.8 billion). (Id.)
A recent report prepared by France's National Audit Court showed that to maintain a deficit of no more than 4.5%, France needed €6 to 10 billion (about US$7.5 to $12.5 billion) in tax revenues and spending cuts in 2012. In addition, €33 billion (about US $41.2 billion) in revenue or cuts will be needed in 2013 to bring the deficit to 3%, assuming that the economy grows at a rate of 1% in 2013. The auditors urged the government to cut spending rather than raise taxes, because they saw the latter as hurting economic growth. They also asked the government to prepare structural measures to curb inefficient public expenses. (Press Release, Situation and perspectives des finances publiques 2012 (July 2, 2012), Cour des Comptes website.)
Key measures proposed by the government include:
- an extraordinary levy on the assets of individuals who hold more than €1.3 million (about US$1.62 million) in total assets, which is expected to bring in €2.3 billion (about $2.87 billion). Next year, the government is also expected to tax those with incomes of more than €1 million (about US$1.25 million) a year at a rate of 75%. The modalities of this new tax have not yet been determined, and efforts will be made to take into account the risk that companies may send their high-level management personnel out of France or change their legal seat;
- a reduction of the personal allowance that applies to inheritances and gifts within direct lines of descent, from €159,325 (about US$199,000) to €100,000 (about US$125,000). This decrease would bring an additional revenue of €140 million (about $175 million) in 2012 and €1.2 billion (about $1.5 billion) in 2013;
- an increase in the taxes on income from real estate owned by non-residents in France. Taxes on rentals would be raised from 20% to 35.5%, and capital gains tax on property would rise from 19% to 34.5%. In both cases, the increase of 15.5% has been labeled by the government a "social contribution." This increase would add €50 million (about US$62.5 million) to France's revenues this year and €250 million (about US$312 millions) in 2013;
- a one-time tax of 4% on oil inventories owned by oil companies, expected to raise €550 million (about US$688 million);
- elimination of the tax exemptions on individual income tax and social security for overtime income, which had been created by former President Nicolas Sarkozy to raise take-home pay. This measure is expected to bring in €980 million in 2012 and €3 billion in 2013;
- a new 3% tax to be paid by companies on dividends distributed to shareholders;
- a doubling of the tax on financial transactions to 0.2%;
- repeal of a law that as of October 2012 would have shifted 1.6% of labor charges onto the consumer through an increase in the sales tax (TVA, value-added tax);
- the levy of an additional extraordinary contribution from large banks equal to the systematic risk tax for 2012;
- limits on exemptions for employee saving schemes; and
- advance payment of a 5% corporate tax for corporations having a turnover equal to or higher than €250 million (about US$312 million). (Loi de finances rectificative pour 2012, supra; Anne Eveno, 7,2 millards d'impôts supplémentaires en 2012, LE MONDE (July 4, 2012).)
These figures are based on the assumption that the economy will grow by 0.3% this year, 1.2% in 2013, and then by 2% each year thereafter. (Eveno, supra.)


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What are the differences between Bengal cats and other tabby cats?
Some of the most common questions we're asked are "What are the differences between a tabby cat and a Bengal cat?" and "Is my cat a Bengal cat?" So we thought it might be handy to write our thoughts down on how you can tell whether your cat is a Bengal or a lovely tabby or even some other breed.
Before we go any further, we must point out that in writing this article, we're not inferring that tabby cats are in any way inferior to Bengal cats – we love all cats in our World, and have our very own ginger tabby cat, Robbie and have had lots of tabby cats in the past, including our gorgeous girl, Friday.
They're going to help us explain the differences between Bengals and tabbies in this article 🙂
My Cat has Spots, so it must be a Bengal, Right?
Not necessarily!
We'll begin by saying that just because a cat has spots or marbling in its fur, this doesn't automatically mean it's a Bengal! There are many cats who have this who aren't Bengals. Regular tabby cats can have spotty or marbled fur too – here's our very own Robbie cat showing off his spots!
There are other spotty and marbled pedigree breeds too, so let's look at the spotty ones first: there's one of the oldest domesticated breeds, the Egyptian Mau, and also the Ocicat, Brown Spotted Manx, Brown Spotted British Shorthair, the Oriental Spotted Tabby and the Brown Asian Spotted Tabby. Here's some examples:
Turning our attention to marbled breeds, there's the Marbled British Shorthairs, marbled Manx cats, and marbled Oriental and Asian tabbies. Here's some photos of these lovely cats:
On our Bengal Cat Facts page, we explain lots of different facts about us Bengals which may help you if you want further information about the breed; in this article, we're going to be more specific about what makes Bengals different to the other cats we've mentioned.
Spots and Marbles
So in our quest to identify whether your cat is a Bengal or not, let's first examine what coat patterns are unique to a Bengal cat, whether spotted or marbled… If your cat doesn't display these features, then they are not a pedigree Bengal.
This lovely girl is called Fire Dancer – she belongs to Jessie, who's a great friend of ours from our Facebook page 🙂
We're using her gorgeous photo to demonstrate to you how fantastic a Bengal's spots – or rosettes – can be. In the other spotty breeds we mentioned, the spots are round and evenly distributed, though they might vary in size. A Bengal's spots should be more randomly distributed, with no set patterns, and are usually larger and more distinct than those of other breeds.
A Bengal's spots are often arrowhead-shaped like you can see on some of Fire's in the picture and there should be a sharp contrast of colour between the spots and the base coat. Here is where we can talk about rosettes too – which is a unique feature to the Bengal cat (unique when talking about domestic cats, many of our wild cousins have rosettes). A rosette is a spot that has a dark outline with a lighter colour inside, with the inside colour being darker than the base coat. I'm sure you can see why we chose this pic of Fire to illustrate this – her rosetting is superb!
Because a Bengal's spots are random, the pattern on each side of the cat will be asymmetrical – i.e. one side will be different to the other.
In the same way that Spotted Bengal cats have asymmetrical markings – marbled Bengal cats do too. This makes it quite easy if you're wondering whether or not your marbled fur baby is a Bengal. All the other breeds we mentioned have a symmetrical pattern on both of their sides, but Bengals don't and this is unique to the Bengal breed.
So take a look at your marbled cat: if the coat is the same on both sides, you don't have a Bengal! If it's different, you do!
The Bengal marbling is a unique patterning of horizontally aligned swirls that are not found in the other breeds who tend to have bull's-eye patterning. The patterns should be in at least three colours – the base colour, pattern outline colour and pattern centre colour (if you read the info on rosetted spots, this should sound familiar to you!).
Each cat has their own unique marbling pattern which often develops over time.
In what other ways are Bengal cats unique?
Alongside the specific markings we've discussed for the spotties and the marbled, there are other things that are unique to the Bengal that can help you if you're still not sure….
One of the most beautifully unique characteristics of the Bengal cat is the glitter in our fur. This is so exquisite, yet so hard to capture in its entirety on film! The golden glow of a Brown Bengal or the pearl dusting effect on a lighter coloured Bengal must be seen in person to be fully appreciated. Here's a photo of our Uncle BooBoo which shows some of his glow to demonstrate a little of what we mean, though even this great picture doesn't capture it fully:
There are other aspects of the Bengal fur that are also unique – it's often said that you can tell a Bengal by touching it when blindfolded. Some find the best way of describing it is that it's more like a pelt than fur with its feel of satin or silk, being short and plush.
The fur of a regular tabby cat is often "ticked" whereas this should not occur in Bengals – ticking is where each strand of hair is broken up into different bands of colours. Our Friday cat has ticked fur – we can see the difference this makes compared to a Bengal:
As well as the fur and the coat which we've focused on a lot, there are other characteristics of the Bengal breed which when you put them all together, makes us a uniquely beautiful cat.
Our bodies are large, lean and muscular with substantial bones. Our back legs are slightly longer than our front ones, reminiscent of our wild ancestors. Our heads are relatively small in relation to our bodies and should be a little longer than wide, with medium to small ears. Our tails are thick and can be ringed, spotted or marbled, but should always have a solid dark coloured tip. Our chins should be light and our whisker pads prominent. Noses are large and broad with slightly puffed nose leather which is often a rich colour.
Even our voices are different to most other cats and we use them often – you certainly know if you have a Bengal in your house, because we loudly remind you often throughout the day! We can be quite fussy about our litter trays, and will refuse to use them if not clean so will let you know when they're not up to our standards 🙂 We'll also remind you when it's dinner time – you'll soon stop whatever you're doing, just to shut us up!
We hope you've found this a useful guide for you to identify if you have a true Bengal or not.


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Tucked in a side street in London Bridge today, a police stand handing out devices which I suspect.
I suspect an effort to distract from this evening's BBCLondon report that Scotland Yard's heavily redacted Operation Tiberius investigation covers up the exposure of 42 senior cops (and 19 former cops) for close links with drug crime and contract killings.
It is our duty, we are told: if you suspect it, report it.
On offer: this little show-bag of stuff from the dodgy non-uniform suits who refused to be photographed. I guess the key ring for terror is handy because I so want to be carrying that number around with me as a permanent anxiety reminder. That it came in what seems to be a used gram bag may only be coincidentally linked with the – let me repeat – exposure today that 42 members of the senior police were well paid crime syndicate stooges – as revealed in documents from Operation Tiberius previously heavily redacted by Scotland Yard but exposed tonight by BBCLondon.
The pen speaks for itself, was it previously used to sign payola cheques perhaps? I suspect it, so I report it.
And this one just really is the perfect Fathers Day Trinket, no?
FFS, I say, for fucks sake. Get these people a water cannon as soon as possible. Anyone need a news item to distract from the – did I mention – massive exposure of senior cops linked to crime syndicates?
Trinketization as damage control.


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Collard greens, we need some muthafuckin collard greens (yes indeed!)
Collard greens, we need some muthafuckin collard greens (no sticks, no seeds!)
Collard greens, we need some muthafuckin collard greens (in my weed!)
Collard greens, we need some muthafuckin collard greens
Burn one, smoke some
Who got tha blunts, blazin one
Lift it in ya hand, then raise em up, light em up, take a puff
Inhale, exhale, what's that smell, can't you tell
Talkin bout that god damn herbal tea, puffin on damn marijuana trees
What's wrong with these, real g's, goin in, all stank
Everybody pullin out a bag of dank, shit in the air, so funky stank
What the hell, might as well, smoke em all, we can ball
Sit down playa before you fall, sesh kickin in on all of y'all
Now take it in, through the nose
Hold the smoke, let it go
If ya choke, then you know, that's that, sell some mo'
Fill up the weed pipe, keep all the seeds tight
Do one hit it, mine does always keep me high,
Gimme that green hella green, or that reefer cheba
Let me show you how we, put em up, put em up, get a little high
Gotta go get dank, stop at the liquor store, get dat drank
Don't forget yo blunts, and yo razor
Tell yo folks you were high, let em later, don't wanna save a
Split the blunt, dump the tobacco, leave the paper, then put in the weed
Roll it up, then grab yo lighter, ain't no way you can get no higher
Take it from me, I smoke everyday, ridin away, gotta cheap that hay
By the road, yes here that's right, gettin fucked up (that's riiight!)
Just an average day in ma hood, in the wood, baby liquors all good
Comin straight from the atl, dc that's what we all grill
Blow a gun, shoot smoke in the air
Pour some liquor, for your niece who ain't there
Gotta get this shit crunked up, sittin around, just gettin fucked up, yup
Mary jane, is my, everythang, and I, think I love her, more than a lady
She'll never kick me out the door, or try to play me
I guess that that's the reason, she my muthafuckin baby
Till death do us part, mary got my heart
Only thing can stop my from dyin with her is god
I don't know bout you, but I know bout me
Yes indeed, I'm a smoke weed
All we do is smoke weed, get it till we see or call the weed man
I love that shit with no seeds in it, shit that have purple leaves in it
Shit that smell like outdoor, but we call that shit indoor
I grow, purple, we don't fuck with it
If yo weed got seeds in it, you can keep that shit
Cause I'm a hella reefer choka, big weed smoka
Cause nigga we smoke that quick green, that shit that we call collard green, yep


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Cyprus (Greek Κυπρος, Turkish Kıbrıs, [1]) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Turkey. After Sicily and Sardinia, Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Although the island is geographically in Asia it is politically a European country and is a member of the European Union.
Cyprus gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1960. Despite a constitution which guaranteed a degree of power-sharing between the Greek Cypriot majority and the Turkish Cypriot minority, the two populations – with backing from the governments of Greece and Turkey, respectively – clashed vehemently in 1974, with the end result being the occupation of the northern and eastern 40% of the island by Turkey. In 1983, the Turkish-held area declared itself the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus". So far, only Turkey recognizes the TRNC, while all other governments and the United Nations recognize only the government of the Republic of Cyprus over the whole island. The UN operates a peacekeeping force and a narrow buffer zone between the two Cypriot ethnic groups. Fortunately, open hostilities have been absent for some time, as the two sides (now with the growing involvement of the European Union) gradually inch towards a reunification of some sort.
Temperate; Mediterranean with hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters.
Central plain with mountains to north and south; scattered but significant plains along southern coast.
Cyprus is divided into 6 administrative regions, each named for its administrative capital. Since 1974, the whole of Kyrenia district, most of Famagusta district, and the northern portion of Nicosia district are occupied by Turkish forces. The Turkish Cypriot community administers those areas. The Republic of Cyprus administers the following districts:
Note that Cypriot cities have a variety of historical spellings and writings, all in fairly common use, and which change according to the context, whether it be Greek Cypriot, Turkish or English tourist. The following list emphasizes traditional English spellings, that will most often be encountered by the traveller.
Other destinations
Get in
Cyprus is a member of the Schengen Agreement but has not yet fully implemented it. For EU and EFTA (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) citizens, together with those of Switzerland, an officially approved ID card (or a passport) is sufficient for entry. In no case will they need a visa for a stay of any length. Others will generally need a passport for entry.
Travel to/from any other country (Schengen or not) from/to Cyprus will (as of now) result in the normal immigration checks, but travelling to/from another EU country you will not have to pass customs. However, if Cyprus normally requires a visa for your nationality, this may be waived if you already have a valid Schengen visa.
Inquire at your travel agent or call the local consulate or embassy of Cyprus.
The visa list is already consistent with those of the Schengen countries fully implementing the agreement.
Only the nationals of the following non-EEA countries do not need a visa for entry into the Schengen Area: Albania*, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Bosnia and Herzegovina*, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Dominica, El Salvador, Georgia_(country), Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Japan, Kiribati, Macedonia*, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro*, Nauru, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Palau, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Serbia*/**, Seychelles, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan*** (Republic of China), Timor-Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City, Vanuatu, Venezuela, additionally persons holding British National (Overseas), Hong Kong SAR or Macau SAR passports.
These non-EU/EFTA visa-free visitors may not stay more than 90 days in a 180 day period in the Schengen Area as a whole and, in general, may not work during their stay (although some Schengen countries do allow certain nationalities to work - see below). The counter begins once you enter any country in the Schengen Area and is not reset by leaving a specific Schengen country for another Schengen country, or vice-versa. However, Australian and New Zealand citizens may be able to stay for more than 90 days if they only visit particular Schengen countries—see the New Zealand Government's explanation.
Note that
However, all British Overseas Territories citizens except those solely connected to the Cyprus Sovereign Base Areas are eligible for British citizenship and thereafter unlimited access to the Schengen Area.
Further note that
(*) nationals of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia need a biometric passport to enjoy visa-free travel,
(**) Serbian nationals with passports issued by the Serbian Coordination Directorate (residents of Kosovo with Serbian passports) do need a visa and
(***) Taiwan nationals need their ID number to be stipulated in their passport to enjoy visa-free travel.
By plane
Cyprus' main airport is Larnaca International Airport (LCA) and is on the outskirts of Larnaka.
The previous main international airport located SW of Nicosia is now located on the Green Line separating the Greek and Turkish parts of Cyprus - it has been out of use since 1974.
Cyprus is serviced by a variety of different carriers, the main one being the Cypriot Cyprus Airways. There are flight connections with most major European cities, e.g. London, Birmingham, Manchester, Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam, Rome, Milan) and many Eastern European countries. Unfortunately almost all non-Cyprus Airways scheduled flights arrive and depart in the middle of the night (2/3 o'clock). There are also connections to almost all Middle Eastern capitals. There are no flights to Turkey from the south.
There are also charter flights to the western airport of Paphos.
By boat
Occasional ferries connect Cyprus to Greece. Services to Israel and Egypt have been terminated for the time being, however there are 2 and 3 day cruises running in the summer months from about April to October. These mini cruises also run to Syria, Lebanon, Rhodes, the Greek Islands, The Black Sea and The Adriatic. The ferry service from Greece runs from Piraeus, Rhodes and Ayios Nikolaos in Crete to Limassol. See the itinerary here: You may also catch a freighter from Italy, Portugal, Southampton and various other European ports. See Grimaldi Freighter Cruises providing you with the opportunity to bring a vehicle to Cyprus throughout the year.
There is a regular ferry service from Turkey, connecting Taşucu to Girne (north of Nicosia) .
Travelling to and from the north
Prior to Cyprus's accession to European Union, evidence of entry to Northern Cyprus resulted in denial of entry to the Greek part of Cyprus at the very least. After the accession and according to EU legislation that considers Cyprus to have been admitted in full an entry to the Turkish part is formally an entry to whole Cyprus and must therefore not result in any disadvantage to travellers from the EU. Travellers from non-EU member states (as, for instance, Turkish citizens) must enter the island via one of the legal entry points (i.e. entry points in the Southern part of the island) in order to visit the Southern part.
The Cyprus embassy in Washington on the phone (June 2006) when asked if the border is open to U.S. citizens, didn't give a 'No', but said that they recommend entering from the "legal" points in the Greek side.
Different entities and web pages claim different things. But there are recent (2006) examples of people entering Northen Cyprus from Turkey, crossing the border without any problems, although it was noticed when leaving Cyprus.
The main crossings between the south and north are:
Get around
Public transportation in Cyprus has been revamped with all new buses in Nicosia. Still, most Cypriots drive. There are no railways in Cyprus.
By bus
Bus Routes all over Cyprus Lefkosia: www.osel.com.cy
Lemesos: www.limassolbuses.com
Pafos: www.pafosbuses.com
Larnaka: www.zinonasbuses.com
Ammochostos: www.oseabuses.com
Intercity Routes: www.intercity-buses.com
Services run every half-hour or so from 6 or 7 in the morning, but terminate at 5 or 6 PM on the dot. You can book a taxi to pick you up anywhere and ask to be dropped off anywhere in city limits; the flip side is that it will often take you longer to get in or out of the city than the journey itself! Figure on £4-6 for a taxi ride on any of these, with an increased price on Sundays and holidays. Also known as a service taxi.
By car
Car hire is the easiest (but the most expensive) way to get around the island. Cypriots drive on the left side of the road, in keeping with British and British Commonwealth practice. However, driving standards are poor. Drivers attack their art with an equal mix of aggressiveness and incompetence and view road rules as mere guidelines. Some main roads do not even have road markings and people often sound their horn, especially in Nicosia. Take care when crossing the roads, and even greater care when driving on them.
The official languages of Cyprus are Greek and Turkish. Greek is spoken predominately in the south and Turkish is spoken predominately in the north. English is very widely spoken by locals of all ages because of previous British rule. Other common languages spoken on the island are French, German and Russian.
Cyprus has the euro (€) as its sole currency along with 24 other countries that use this common European money. These 24 countries are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain (official euro members which are all European Union member states) as well as Andorra, Kosovo, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino and the Vatican which use it without having a say in eurozone affairs and without being European Union members. Together, these countries have a population of more than 330 million.
One euro is divided into 100 cents. While each official euro member (as well as Monaco, San Marino and Vatican) issues its own coins with a unique obverse, the reverse, as well as all bank notes, look the same throughout the eurozone. Every coin is legal tender in any of the eurozone countries.
Things to buy
There are countless hotels and hotel apartments of varying degrees of luxury within Cyprus. Some of the hotels are: Holiday Inn, Four Seasons, Le Meridien, Hilton, Elias Beach Hotel. Alternative self-catering accommodation is offered in restored traditional houses in picturesque villages all over Cyprus through the government Agrotourism initiative.
Cyprus' climate and natural advantages mean that there is always a steady supply of travellers seeking employment and residency on the island. Perhaps the biggest change that has occurred in recent years has been the accession of southern Cyprus to the European Union on 1 May 2004, opening up new employment opportunities for European citizens.
The burgeoning Cypriot tourism industry, however, means that there is a huge seasonal demand for temporary workers of most nationalities during the summer months, with a definite preference for English-speaking workers in order to service the very large numbers of British tourists. The Greek Cypriot South remains the best overall bet for jobs, as the South is where the majority of the tourist trade is located. The Turkish North is much harder to get work in as a traveller, as the local economy is in a precarious position and high local unemployment means competition for work is fierce.
Seasonal employment will most probably involve working in one of the countless bars, hotels and resort complexes of the South. Such work is usually poorly paid, but accommodation is often thrown in as some compensation and the Cypriot lifestyle usually makes up for low wages. Many holiday companies employ 'reps' (representatives) and marketing staff to assist their operations on the island - this work is usually more financially rewarding.
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) is another worthwhile option, well paid though often difficult to find.
Finally, Cyprus' ongoing construction boom in tourism infrastructure results in a demand for skilled builders and tradesmen.
If you are considering an extended stay on the island, there are a number of educational courses that you can take. Popular options include Greek language courses and arts courses. Most will have a tuition fee attached, and EU nationals should not have any visa problems. If you are from outside the EU, you will need to speak to individual colleges/organisations about visa requirements. Some popular travel and learn programmes include:
Cyprus operates on a 230 V, 50 Hz electrical system using the 3-pin British plugs.
Stay safe
Cyprus is a remarkably safe country, with very little violent crime. Cars and houses frequently go unlocked. That said however, it is wise to be careful when accepting drinks from strangers, especially in Ayia Napa, since there have been numerous occasions of muggings. There also used to be some residual hostility towards people of Turkish origin or appearance but not anymore.
Note also that the numerous Cypriot "cabarets" are not what their name implies but rather brothels associated with organized crime.
It is best to avoid discussion of the various merits of the Greek-Turkish divide and events beginning in 1974 in some quarters. Any sully of Archbishop Makarios will be looked down upon.


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There are several JPAs "how to�? that we can find on the internet, here in this blog, that teaches how to do several tasks with JPA.
Usually I see some people asking questions about Queries with JPA; usually to answer this kind of questions several links are provided trying to find a solution to the question.
Until today I could not find a blog post that puts together a good subject about queries with JPA, tips about performance/utilization, source code to download…
Today we will see:
- Model classes and a class that will generate database data
- Find method; Use the getReference method to get a better performance, displaying query parameters in the console with the log4j
- JPQL: Queries with simple parameters or objects, Joins, Order By, Navigating through relationships
- JPQL: Functions: AVG, COUNT, MAX, MIN, TRIM, SUM, UPPER, LOWER, MOD, LENGHT, SQRT; Using HAVING, GROUP BY
- JPQL: Filtering Conditions: LIKE, IN, DISTINCT, EMPTY, BETWEEN, NULL, MEMBER OF, EXISTS (Subqueries), ANY, ALL, SOME, CONCAT, CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, LOCATE, SIZE, SUBSTRING
- JPA: NamedQuery, querying with dates, warnings about the getSingleResult method
- JPA: NativeQuery, NamedNativeQuery
- JPA: Complex Native Queries
- JPA: Optimizing queries with EJB
- JPA: Pagination
- JPA: Database Hints
- JPA: Creating a object from a query
- JPQL: Bulk Update and Delete
- JPA: Criteria
You will see that in every main class we will invoke the method "CodeGenerator.generateData()�?. This class method only creates data in the database; with this data our queries will find the correct results.
In the last page of this post you will find the link to download the source code of this post.
In this post we will use JPA 2.0 with Hibernate as the provider. The database will be the HSQLDB and will be attached to this project. You can download the source code and run the project without the need of any extra configuration. We will not talk about how to set up the HSQLDB because the focus of this post is how to query data of the database.
This post will not use best practices of development in some points. The focus of this post will be to display how the JPA queries works.
Read the rest of the article at the following URL:
Java Code Geeks : Ultimate JPA Queries and Tips List - Part 1


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BenS wrote:Any updates or videos to share with the setup?
I used it for first time in Rusty's Cave this past weekend. Still working on getting vids uploaded, though. That 1080 res eats up some serious memory, even after I run it through my video processor program. It took most of the day to upload a 12 min. video the other day. I will post a link in a day or two, but my preliminary review is that it looks pretty good. I just have to learn to keep my head still for a few moments when looking at items of interest (formations, people, animals, etc.). Aside from that, the lighting was fairly good. But then, Rusty's Cave is a far cry from Surprise Pit.