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Upon completion of an internal review into allegations made against the Auburn football program by Roopsitgo.com author Selena Roberts, athletic director Jay Jacobs promised a top-to-bottom external review of the athletics program via a committee.
That review has been completed and Jacobs has been given the support of university president Jay Gogue. In other words, nothing to see here, folks. As you were.
"Our review shows that overall, the Athletics Department is in good shape," Mac Crawford, one of the six members of the review committee, said in a statement, "but there are some areas where improvements can be made and our committee believes Jay Jacobs knows how to make those improvements. Now it's time to move forward, get to work, and become even more successful. Dr. Gogue has listened to our recommendations and I think that's good news for Auburn and for Auburn Athletics."
Specifically the review focused on: academic and support services for student-athletes; financial management; customer service; competition, including winning, sportsmanship and compliance; and management structure.
Auburn came under the microscope again this year when Roberts published a story in early April with a focus on former Tigers defensive back Mike McNeil detailing a wide variety of alleged violations, from academic misconduct to impermissible benefits. Auburn later put together an internal review debunking the allegations. ESPN also added to the allegations with piece chronicling a supposed synthetic marijuana problem in the program, though Auburn also fired back at that report.
Here's what Gogue said in his open letter on Monday:
Dear Auburn Family,
The committee I appointed to review operations of Auburn Athletics as part of the Department's annual evaluation has provided its findings. I'm grateful to members of the committee for their hard work, good thinking and dedication to helping Auburn Athletics move forward.
We asked the committee to review the Department's total body of work with a focus on five areas: academic and support services for student-athletes; financial management; customer service; competition, including winning, sportsmanship and compliance; and management structure.
Athletics Director Jay Jacobs and I have talked in length about their recommendations. In general, they center on steps to improve overall operations of the Department, upgrade how we interact and communicate with fans and alumni, and enhance the game-day experience, on and off the field. Jay will talk in more detail about what's in store, and I'm confident he will move forward to put in place a plan to give the Auburn family what we all expect.
There's much to celebrate about Auburn Athletics, but there's also room for substantial improvement. I look forward to Jay providing the leadership needed to make the necessary improvements.
War Eagle!
Jay Gogue


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Parks & Trails
Neighbourhood Park
Situated on Community Street in the centre of Yarrow, the park features 1.5 hectares of large trees and landscaped area. Also located in the park is the Yarrow Library and the Community Hall.
This facility provides tennis courts, basketball and a ball hockey area.
Adopt a Park/ Adopt a Trail
The City of Chilliwack has partnered with a number of local organizations and non-profit groups to develop an Adopt-a-Park and Adopt-a-Trail program. Groups volunteer their time to cleanup parks and trails in Chilliwack, to keep the community looking its best!
Greenspace / Trail Network Plans
Created as a supporting document to Chilliwack's Official Community Plan (OCP) the Greenspace Plan and supplementary Trail Network Plan sets out the City's goals and visions for developing new parks and trails over the coming decades.
The City of Chilliwack has over 100 parks and natural areas which together make up over 400 hectares of green space.
A listing of cycling / hiking trails in Chilliwack and vicinity.
Online Field Status
With the changing weather these days, it's easy to check the status of Sports Fields online.

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This weekend started off on a weird foot. Once I got off work at 5 on Friday, I headed home with big plans for visiting CVS to pick up Imodium AD for my long run early the next morning and to get the Garnier Eye Roller pen for those lovely black circles under my eyes that so many of you recommended. I left my house around 8 pm as I had been looking forward to this outing all night long.
As I get in the car and the new Britney song was playing and I was pretty stoked because I'm borderline obsessed with it. I would admit to bobbing my head at this point. As I pull into CVS, approximately .8 miles from my house, a car speeds up and pulls in right behind me. I park, swing my door open to get out of my car and realize that the car that pulled up behind me in the parking lot, yea, it's a cop, and yes, his lights are on, and yes, he's pulling me over for a reason that I don't know.
As he approaches my car, I reach for my license and my heart is pounding. Of course I really don't want to get a ticket because I just got an email about how all the ticket costs for CA went up in 2011. I hand over my license and the officer immediately asks what I'm buying inside CVS. I am nervous to not respond with the truth, because who knows if the cop is going to follow me in and see what I buy if I end up lying so out pops Imodium, which was the main product of my trip. He asks, "So you're not buying alcohol." So the guy thinks I'm drunk. Awesome. I knew I looked bad, but I wouldn't have guessed I looked that bad. If you would have seen what I'm wearing, I pretty much was rocking the homeless look, it wouldn't make sense that I would be buying alcohol. If I was going to be making that purchase I would probably be looking much better because I would have some place fun to go, not back home and in bed for a 16 miler at 7:30 am the next morning. He looked at me with a weird look. I didn't go into the explanation of why I needed Imodium and how I'd take it before bed and then drink a whole cup of water so that I wouldn't get sick on my run the next morning.
Then he went on to questioning my license for some reason and thinking it was fake, and finally let me know that he pulled me over for not signaling to get into the driveway of CVS. Yup, his lights were on this entire time. Blocking a car in the parking lot. I was sitting there awkwardly. I knew the minute he said he didn't need my registration that I was home free though. He reminded me to use my blinker and I was off to buy my Imodium ticket free. Morale of the Story: Cops want you to use your blinker so you'll be ignored by everyone else in the world when trying to change lanes.


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Little Dorrit
Publisher's Summary
William Dorrit has been a resident of the Marshalsea debtors prison for so many years that he has gained the nickname "The Father of the Marshalsea". However, his suffering is eased by his close bond with youngest daughter Amy, or "Little Dorrit".
The dashing Arthur Clennam, returning to London after many years in China, enters their lives, and the Dorrits' fortunes begin to rise and fall.
A biting satirical work on the shortcomings of 19th century government and society.
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What listeners say about Little Dorrit
- Julie
- 23-04-09
A book for our times
1. This narrator may be the best reader of Dickens ever. Perfect voice for it.
2. This book resonates with our time well when so many middle or even upper class people are struggling with sudden economic reversals. Dickens captures the pain, the flase pride,the class consciousness...And for those readers who believe that government is nothing but an obstacle to the progress of the people, he created the circumlocution office, perhaps the best parody of government inefficiency and graft in all of English literature. Funny, funny, fnny.
20 people found this helpful
- Rio
- 11-11-08
a melody of genius writer & compelling reader
Dickens and Lesser... You couldn't find a more brilliant duet!
I'm glad to see more of dickens great stories showing up with the spirited voice of Anton Lesser,.. i believe this man was born to read Dickens and Milton!
only I would like to see more unabridged, especially david cooperfield
17 people found this helpful
- Jeffrey Comer
- 01-08-10
Brilliant and Deeply Moving
I've loved this book for a long time- I first read it the summer that graduated from high school and I've reread it several times since. Lesser's reading is masterful- relevatory is another adjective that comes to mind. His pacing is perfect and, as many other listeners have noted, he has an amazing ability to create individual and very vivid portraits of the many characters. For me his reading has opened up sections of this beloved book in a way that I would have missed no matter how many times I revisited it. Simon Vance reading Trollope is top notch. Prunella Scales' Wives and Daughters is extraordinary. Juliet Stevenson reading anything is not to be missed. However, none of these amazing artists is able to hold a candle to what Anton Lesser has done with this reading of Little Dorritt. More, please!
14 people found this helpful
- scott
- 10-09-09
Great narration; middling Dickens
I have listened to many of Dickens' novels. The narration of this one is excellent--Lesser is a man of a thousand voices and dialects, making this a very enjoyable listening experience. Among Dickens' novels, this is not one of the best. PRobably because it was published in monthly installments of equal length, some chapters/installments had the feel of being padded. More significantly, even for Dickens, some of the characters were very one-dimensional and the plot depended too much on coincidence and, in one important point, deux ex machina. Having said this, if one is making one's way through Dickens oevre, this is worth a listen. For all its plot weaknesses and heavy handed social commentary about class, this novel has important messages about family relationships and human kindness. Finally, I couldn't help thinking about Bernie Madoff while listening--the book is oddly prescient, or stated differently, suckers are born all the time.
11 people found this helpful
- Fiona
- 25-02-11
A cast of thousands...
I read somewhere that Anton Lesser says he "doesn't do 'voices'", and he's right. He's more like a 'cast of thousands' - really! I'm just steadily purchasing anything he reads (though I draw the line at Jeffery Archer) and acquiring an exemplary education thereby!
He peoples this world of Dickens so vividly it's hard to pull yourself away when the real world intrudes. I found myself thinking that certain actors in the reading were especially good and I must note who their names... and having to recall that it was one man only.
9 people found this helpful
- Shelly
- 02-04-09
Anton Lesser is extraordinary.
I highly recommend Anton Lesser's reading of Little Dorrit. I particularly love his character readings - Flora Finching is priceless.
9 people found this helpful
- Marek
- 26-11-08
Brilliant reading
Marvellous voices. I was able to recognize which character was speaking from the first word. Lesser is a master at characterization. I found myself looking forward to encountering them again and again. Flora in particular was a delight.
9 people found this helpful
- Merlin
- 05-05-12
Anton Lesser is a genius: Dickens is OK too
Little Dorrit offers the best and worst of Dickens (wit, lyricism, character, humanity, caraciture, sentimentality, over-extended passages, great plot with some very clunky bits). Overall, though, it's in the top half of his novels. I can't praise Anton Lesser enough. His narration is simply fantastic. Audible has some great readers but Lesser is unsurpassed. It's not just his mastery of accents; it's also his perfect but subtle timing and stress. Just listen to the way he puts he emphasis on "off" when he reads the brilliantly funny account of the "circumlocution office". Thats shows absolute mastery and understanding of his material.
7 people found this helpful
- C. Liddiard
- 06-04-11
Fantastic Reader
Anton Lesser is a fantastic reader and although this may not be the best of Dickens, it isn't the worst of Dickens. Highly recommended.
6 people found this helpful
- Reader
- 01-05-14
Great story and wonderful narrator.
Any additional comments?
I have listened to a lot of Dickens over the last year, much of it narrated very well by Simon Vance. Decided to switch narrators and I loved Mr. Lesser also. Audible has a couple of versions of Little Dorrit, and this is the older, and longer one (which is why I chose it...). Who am I to say Dickens was a good writer, but Dickens was a good writer.
3 people found this helpful
- Amazon Customer
- 20-06-09
little dorrit, narrated by Anton Lesser
Wonderful reading by Anton Lesser, sensitive and insightful characterisation - a gripping tale to be revisited often.
15 people found this helpful
- Ian
- 09-03-09
Thoroughly enjoyed
Superb reading by Anton Lesser, with a distinct voice for each character, bringing them all very much to life.
13 people found this helpful
- Heather
- 08-01-09
High Recommended
It may not be one of Charles Dickens?s best known books but I would thoroughly recommend it, especially if you like thumping great Victorian novels! However it wouldn?t be half as good without the narration by Anton Lesser. Every character is given their own voice, making them instantly recognizable and the plot that much easier to follow. And some of them are very funny and so cleverly done. Altogether this book is a joy.
23 people found this helpful
- Karen Williams
- 07-06-12
Anton Lesser superb
Having listened to this story brought vividly to life by the superb Anton Lesser, I feel I have only now "got" Dickens (and that's after studying him for A level, admittedly many years ago). I simply had no idea he was so funny! Anton Lesser's characterizations are perfect and his delivery of Flora's rambling speeches made me laugh out loud. This was my first Dickens audiobook and I am sure that I got infinitely more out of it (again thanks to the brilliant narration) than I would have done if I had simply read the novel. I am going to buy my next one right away.
10 people found this helpful
- Anna HG
- 22-09-11
A Great Introduction To Dickens...
Having reached that stage in my life when I feel I ought to have done certain things, one of those things was to read some Dickens! OK, so an audible book is not quite "reading" it, but I won't tell if you won't.
I have to say I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED this book!
Dickens was a fabulous writer and paints wonderful portraits of society in his time, littered with amazing characters that are totally brought to life through description and analogy (Mr Panks - what a masterpiece!).
My enjoyment of this book was probably due to a great extent to the wonderful narration by Anton Lesser - he reads so fluidly and his emphasis is spot on. He engages different voices for each of the characters - even the ladies, which are just as good as the men, none of these thin, reedy voices employed by some of his peers!
I absolutely recommend this book for Dickens Novices - it has it all: characters, storyline, descriptive... and is not so long-winded that you lose interest!
8 people found this helpful
- 03-02-11
Anton Lesser is a genius
The narration of Anton Lesser brings this marvellous book to life. Dickens' own early experience of debtor's prison makes this one f his most moving and interesting works, and the fabulous Anton Lesser plays a cast of dozens, giving even the most minor character a distinctive voice.
8 people found this helpful
- Jane
- 18-05-09
Excellant Audiobook
Anton Lesser reads this book beautifully. Because Dickens novels are filled with so many varied characters it is crucial to have it narrated well or you get 'lost' whilst listening. He breathed life into them all and made it such an enjoyable experience. Well worth the money.
7 people found this helpful
- Emma
- 25-11-09
Fantastic story and reader
Why this is one of Dickens' lesser known works I do not understand. It has his distinctive humour throughout and a superb collection of wonderful characters. Both comic and moving, it is a brilliant commentary on society and is remarkably relevant for today.
I've listened to a number of books read by Anton Lesser and am always amazed at his characerisations. Each has their own distinctive voice, bringing Dickens' rich characters to life brilliantly. I laughed everytime chatterbox Flora was speaking. I enjoyed this book and narration immensely.
6 people found this helpful
- Matthew
- 10-09-09
Truly Sublime!!
My first audiobook and every time I treat myself to a listen, I end up grinning from ear to ear. Mr.Lesser does a fantastic job of bringing all the wonderful characters so vividly to life. Hilarious and heart-breaking in turn, this is a masterpiece given a masterful treatment. Highly recommended,
5 people found this helpful
- James G
- 17-12-09
great classic!!!!
This audio book is so well read by the narrator. And Charles Dickens is just a cool writer. The character come out with the narrator. This is my first Charles Dickens audio book and i love it. 5 out of 5. Download this audio book you will be very please with it.
3 people found this helpful
- Rodney Wetherell
- 30-07-16
Overlong brilliance.
Little Spirit is verbose, but the writing is often brilliant. this reading is outstanding indeed.
- Colette Frank
- 07-03-16
Anton Lesser reads quite wonderfully and I shall look for more books read by him.


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Nearly half (46%) of American adults are smartphone owners as of February 2012, an increase of 11 percentage points over the 35% of Americans who owned a smartphone last May. Two in five adults (41%) own a cell phone that is not a smartphone, meaning that smartphone owners are now more prevalent within the overall population than owners of more basic mobile phones. Nearly every major demographic group—men and women, younger and middle-aged adults, urban and rural residents, the wealthy and the less well-off—experienced a notable uptick in smartphone penetration over the last year. Overall adoption levels are at 60% or more within several cohorts, such as college graduates, 18-35 year olds and those with an annual household income of $75,000 or more. (PEW, 2012)
Text messaging is the communication of choice for Generation Y, those born between the late seventies and the late nineties, many of whom regard phone conversations and email as obsolete and old-fashioned modes of communication.
In fact, the popularity of texting amongst all cell phone users has increased dramatically in just a few years. However, the importance of text messaging (SMS) and the risks it brings should not be taken casually by psychotherapists. As with any other conversation a counselor may have with a client, safeguards must be in place to properly record and document the texts produced during a patient's treatment. Despite many therapists' reluctance to text with patients, consumer demand for the efficiency of text messaging may outweigh its disadvantages.
This course will cover how to think about text messaging, some clinical issues related to text messaging and the legal as well as ethical requirements we face when we choose to use text messaging with mental health consumers. Encryption, security, downloading messages to one's computer and specific technologies that can be used for these functions will all be covered. Three real life stories about how to use or not use text messaging and cell phones will bring this issue to life in a way that makes it relevant to the everyday practitioner.
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Dr. Phil Family Returns: Alexandra and Katherine's Rivalry
After years of sibling rivalry, Alexandra and Katherine finally face off in an honest, intense, and raw dyad with Dr. Phil. Can they get past their jealousy and bitterness and chose to forgive each other? And Erin, who is often caught in the middle of her daughter's tug of war for her attention, is called out on why she tolerates her daughters' bratty and entitled behavior. Alexandra catches her younger sister on a home video camera to show how Katherine speaks to her mother and to her. Plus, will Katherine admit to having a substance abuse problem?
Get caught up with the Dr. Phil Family
The choices you make are 100 percent your responsibility, and they affect your interactions with everyone else in your family. Are you accountable for your behavior? Ask yourself these questions and find out.
Erin is caught in the middle of Alexandra and Katherine's sibling rivalry, as her daughters battle for her attention. Dr. Phil puts her in the hot seat to find out why she lets her daughters disrespect her. Learn why she breaks down and what Dr. Phil tells her she must do to change her life.
"This cannot have been your dream when you had children."
Jealousy, betrayal and bitterness keep Alexandra and Katherine from being close. In an emotional dyad, one sibling makes a shocking confession, and the other pours her heart out.
"I felt like everybody was against me, and I just wanted to talk to you."
Find out what Alex fears the most for her sister. "I've been at the bottom. I've been where all you care about is going out, and partying with your friends and where you're going to get messed up next. I've been there, and I know how hard it is," Alex says. Will Katherine admit to having a substance abuse problem?
"I sure as hell don't want to see her go that way."
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One of Dr. Phil's steps in creating a phenomenal family, is to promote a rhythm in your family life. This can be achieved by being accountable for your choices. Ask yourself these questions to see if you accept the choices you're making.
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Critic-Turned-Cook Gets a Beer Lesson
Critic Turned Cook follows former Seattle Post-Intelligencer food critic Leslie Kelly on her journey away from the keyboard and into the kitchen. Take it away, Leslie!
I love wine. I started writing a column called "Grapevine" for the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, way back when there were 30-some vintners in the state. Now there are more than 600, many of them world-class producers.
One of my greatest pleasures in being a restaurant critic was exploring the intriguing wines of the world, savoring the way wine made wonderful dishes taste even better. I once heard somebody describe wine as their favorite condiment. Couldn't agree more.
But my knowledge of beer is sadly lacking. I like my pints frosty and light. None of that hoppy, heavy stuff for me. Until, that is, I got a lesson from Bruce Ryan while working at Shultzy's, the wildly popular pub near the University of Washington.
Ryan is the resident beer guru, a recovering Microsoftie, who also happened to be from Memphis. He had been a longtime customer at Shultzy's, and when he moved back to the Northwest after teaching math in the Mid-South for a several years, he had so much fun hanging at the pub, owners Don and Susan Shultze put him to work. Don't worry. He's still having a blast.
Ryan's actually the reason I got my foot in the door at Shultzy's. He had been a reader when I was writing for the Commercial Appeal, and after I started Twittering in Seattle, we got reconnected. As I was winding up my apprenticeship at Tom Douglas's restaurants, I sent out feelers on the social network, and faster than you can say "Pour me a PBR," Bruce came through.
It was such a treat for me to finish a shift and sit down to hear Bruce talk about the basics of changing a keg, or listen to him describe the next seasonal beer rotating onto the lineup of taps. The excellent pub grub at Shultzy's cries out for beer, for heaven's sake. Plus, we got to gab about our favorite barbecue in Memphis. He showed me where he kept a stash of dry rub from The Commissary in Germantown.
Bruce showed me beer can be as esoteric as wine, and as much fun to pair with food, too. Here's a few things he taught me about the current lineup of beer at Shultzy's:
Veltins Pilsener (Germany) is a crystal clear German lager that's very smooth and great with food; perfect for an American beer drinker looking for something a little different.
Hoegaarden is a Belgian witbier (White Beer) made in Germany. The unfiltered wheat beer is spiced with dried Curaçao orange peel and coriander, which makes it a great summer beer.
Bitburger Pils is a classic German pilsner, crisp and refreshing with characteristic Saaz hops bite for a clean finish.
Hale's Kölsch is made by one of Washington State's oldest handcrafted breweries in Köln's (Cologne's) classic summer beer style. The light lager has plenty of malt sweetness.
Newcastle Brown Ale from the UK was the first northern brown ale. Full-bodied, amber brown color, sweet maltiness creates a smooth, soft mellowness.
Ayinger Braü Weisse is an unfiltered wheat beer from Germany with characteristic hints of clove and banana.
Köstritzer Dark Lager was my favorite. A German schwarzbier, dark-roasted malt with hints of coffee, caramel, and smoke, but light bodied so you can drink it by the liter. Göethe drank it for the "health benefits."
Big Sky IPA is a Northwest-style India Pale Ale from Missoula, Montana, with big citrus nose, plenty of hop bitterness, but enough malt balance to make it refreshing and very drinkable.
Spaten Optimator is a traditional German Doppelbock: more malt, more hops produced a hearty medium-dark beer with complex, deep flavor.
I'm tickled to have soaked up this new knowledge, but, honestly, will probably always prefer the grape to the grain. What about you? Are you in the wine club or are you a hophead?
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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Every time my friends and I go to some skecthy area I carry a mace key chain,
but this shit is hot!
It's a Mace Gun that sprays the mace as you squeeze the trigger.
My Dad won't let me get a real gun (he thinks I'll get to mad and actually shot someone lol) , so this will just have to for now.
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Young continues playoff swagger with Rays
Outfielder belts MLB-high ninth postseason home run since 2011
CLEVELAND -- Danny Salazar was rolling.
The Indians right-hander mowed down the first six batters he faced with a blazing fastball that reached as high as 100 mph to invigorate the 43,579 fans at Progressive Field who hadn't seen their club in postseason baseball since 2007.
But Salazar opened the third with his first mistake -- a first-pitch 95-mph heater at the letters -- and Rays designated hitter Delmon Young capitalized with a home run to left field to silence the crowd.
"It was a good pitch to hit -- I wasn't going to let it go by," Young said. "It was a ball up in the zone. I got ready in time and it looked fat out of his hands so I decided to take a rip at it."
From the energized Tampa Bay bench, first baseman James Loney said he called Young's shot.
"I told Wil Myers he was going to get him and then he hit that first pitch right there," Loney said with a smile. "So I'd like to take some credit for that."
It was just another clutch postseason performance from Young, who has been in the playoffs every year since 2009, playing with the Twins (2009-10) and Tigers ('11-12).
The homer was Young's ninth in 29 career playoff games, with his nine homers since the 2011 postseason ranking as the most in the Majors during that time. Including Wednesday night's shot, five of those homers came on a first-pitch, fitting since Young has the highest first-pitch swing rate of any active Major Leaguer at 45 percent.
Young has always feasted on first pitches, as he's a career .350 hitter with 26 homers on the first offering of an at-bat during the regular season.
But he was still an unlikely hero for Tampa Bay, as he was released by the Phillies on Aug. 14 before signing with the Rays on Aug. 22 to bolster their lineup, especially against left-handed pitchers.
It was a homecoming of sorts for Young, who was a top prospect with the Rays before being sent to the Twins in the 2008 trade that brought Matt Garza to Tampa Bay.
Bringing Young back has paid off for the Rays, who are now heading to Boston for Game 1 of an American League Division Series showdown against the Red Sox, Friday at 3 p.m. ET on TBS.
"We don't have a payroll where we're forced to win," Young said. "No one ever picks us. So it's a lot easier to go out there and win a ballgame instead of a $200 million payroll where it's win the World Series or bust. Everyone is more relaxed here and has a lot of fun, so it's just a great environment to play in."


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Biscuit backstory: Flips would have rewarded Craig's fees
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i can not for the life of me figure out why these people think they deserve more money as far as i can see we need to just give them there land back and what ever happens with it happens you win some you loose some we the tax payers should not have to be involved with it at all and we should not have to pay anymore money there must have been some kind of agreement to the amount given for the land to become a park ,as you can see this is still a huge piece of property sitting empty
Concerned citizen should be more concerned about their lack of capital letters, punctuation and grammar.
Dennis Rooker can blame the State but The BOS are also to blame. They knew that this property was going to be flipped. The only way that we get to where we are today is because the BOS was so eager to rezone. Albemarle country did not need this development. They should of told Hunter Craig to develop what he can by right. The BOS are the ones to blame for the loss of the growth area. I won't be long now till they say yes to Wendall Woods request to add his land on the other side of RT. 20 to the growth area. We need for the BOS to think about the future of Albemarle County and its citizens. Not the wants and needs of the few select citizens. Whether we are talking about Albemarle Country, Richmond or DC. It is always the same, the middle class tax payers eventually pay the bill for their screw ups.
It's time for Creigh Deeds and the Va. legislature to eliminate this tax loop hole for the wealthy. Put it to a vote and let's see who represents the people and who represents the 1%.
"I don't blame the developers; I blame the state," says independent Albemarle supervisor Dennis Rooker. "The state should not be talked into doing deals like that."
Blame the state? Rooker and the other members of the BOS never met a developer they didn't kowtow to. Biscuit Run was in Land Use taxation for decades even though EVERYONE knew the owners were just waiting for the right time to sell. Land Use is supposed to protect rural areas from development, not finance carrying costs for would-be developers.
Also, take a look at how the BOS has kowtowed to developers like Frank Kessler, Wendel Wood, Charley Hurt, etc. over the years. It's pitiful.
Instead of blaming the state, Rooker needs to take a look in the mirror.
Betty, you have a good point. Land use taxation breaks are costing the taxpayers millions of dollars in lost revenue and I'll bet Biscuit Run isn't the only property that paid a lower tax rate until the right deal was put in front of them to develop. Why would any property in the growth area ( as this one was ) be allowed to qualify for land use taxation breaks ? And although I'm sure there is property that should be kept undeveloped or low density , this could be accomplished through zoning without losing income on property not in this category such as that of the owners of Biscuit Run.
I would like to know how much money the county lost before Biscuit Run was sold to developers by charging a lower tax rate.
@NancyDrew The Assessor should have what Land Use for Biscuit Run has cost this county on speed dial. Give him a ring!
Bisquit Run WAS paying 325k a year in taxes... now it is ZERO.
I suppose the next lawsuit will be a refund of the 5 year penalty that was paid when it was converted since technically it was never actually used for non agricultural/park use.
The REAL cost will be when the county has to build more infrastructure in ten different places because it lost Bisquit run and all the proffers, self contained green spaces, parks and school land that were part of the deal.
The property should have been passed on by the state and let go to auction. The new owners would have been obligated to the old proffers to keep the new zoning..
The procurment guy from the state says he "saved" the land. He didn't save ANYTHING he just spread those 3100 homes all over the coiunty (and they WILL be built) in 100 unit developments where it will bankrupt the county trying to widen roads, redistrict schools and provide other services that cannot be centrally located. If a developer builds "by right" the county can't demand anything. The Board of Supervisors should have raised the roof, but they have been curiously silent....
I wonder why.
Just curious Bill if they had not had lower taxes because of land use taxation rates what would they have been paying ?
What an incredible example of the worst kind of socialism: privatization of the benefits, while spreading the risk to the middle class and all taxpayers.
In this case the private benefits of hundreds of millions of dollars could not be realized, so of course, the risk when the deal fell through was "given" to the public.
Why is Hunter Craig still allowed on the Board of Visitors at UVA? It's a disgrace to that institution. A true example of the 1%!
Nancy the 325k was AFTER it was taken out of land use.
Here you are again, defending the abusive and indefensible. Come on, so what if its not paying taxes anymore. It belongs to the public for real, and gets used by the public. It also won't be needing all sorts of things being built like schools, and more fire departments, and traffic signals. The Biscuit Run deal was a classic piece of welfare for the wealthy and connected, which comes with huge costs. It was and is a fleecing of the state Taxpayer who otherwise can't qualify for the nice kickbacks, and works for a living.
BR failed because of pure market realities. That means the real demand for housing isn't there right now. You of all people should approve of that. And without the tax credits for donation, Hunter Craig and his cronies would be feeling the real bite of laissez-faire economics they should be. How about they get nuttin? But what the market will pay them for the value of that property when they foreclosed?
This is an opportunity for people to think if they really want to live in a piece of NoVA, like Chantilly. Why does Albemarle need growth areas anyways. Isn't there a City right in the center of it all? Hmmm...people want to live in the City with County tags. Gotcha.
The County doesn't need a growth area. The County needs to start being a County again, or simply let the high growth areas go to the City, and let them deal with the infratructure costs. if you don't need infrastructure, you can have low taxes.I am totally OK with that. Maybe you disagree, but that's hardly a reason for you to suddenly defend these abuses of the Taxpayer.
Kaine will pay a political price for this piece of cronyism for the rest of his career. The whole thing is crooked, and frankly it is a textbook example of everything that is wrong with our culture today.
Old Timer,
I don't think Bill was "defending" anyone. I think he was blaming the county for rolling over like a fat dog on Thanksgiving.


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Handel blasts move to halt voter ID for July 15
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Published on: 07/03/08
The Georgia Democratic Party late Thursday asked the courts for a temporary order to stop the state from requiring photo identification of potential voters in the July 15 primary. The secretary of state blasted the move as a legal maneuver intended to disrupt voting, and noted that advance voting will get under way Monday and a photo ID will be required.
The state Democratic Party had filed a new lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Georgia's voter ID law more than a month ago. With its latest request, the party is asking the court to step in now, before the suit has had its first hearing or any depositions taken, because an election is little more than a week off. Attorney Emmet Bondurant said people who are refused a ballot because they do not have the required identification would suffer "irreparable harm." "The idea is to get an injunction that will prevent the state from enforcing the voter ID act," said Bondurant, one of the attorneys representing the Democratic Party in the suit.
"I am truly dismayed by this latest legal maneuver on the part of those opposed to Georgia's common-sense photo ID law," said Secretary of State Karen Handel, a Republican. "Given the timing of the Democratic Party's motion, this is clearly nothing more than an attempt to create confusion and disrupt the July 15 primary and the November general election. The Democratic Party seems to be more concerned with disrupting the elections process than with the security of the process."
Handel vowed her office will continue to fight attempts to dismantle the law.
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INVERCARGILL, New Zealand — Pilot Raymond Hector banks his nine-passenger Britten-Norman Islander wide over the Southern Ocean heading for a beach landing at Mason Bay on rugged Stewart Island, a 20-minute flight from New Zealand's southernmost city, Invercargill, and a cornerstone of the Southland tourism district.
Minutes later, skimming only 50 feet above the sand, traveling at 120 miles per hour, with a rocky outcrop on the left and sea surf pounding on the right, the plane appears to be running out of room for a landing. Suddenly Hector pulls up a sharp left, cascades over a coastal range, and does another circuit of the beach before making a spectacular sandy touchdown a few minutes later.
It's only just after 7 a.m., but the passengers have had their first adrenaline rush of the day, and perhaps one of the best of their lifetime.
"All part of the experience, just a gentle pull-up," says the former Air New Zealand pilot, smiling and realizing that it's somewhat of an understatement. "We do a beach inspection, just to see what shape the sand is in. We can tell by the color whether it's soft or hard, and most people get a bit of a kick out of it."
The same could be said for the entire experience on the Jurassic Park-like island which also features a combination of fossilized and lush rainforests and clear, pristine bays. In 2002, 85 percent of the island was designated as Rakiura National Park, named for an indigenous Maori word meaning "Land of the Glowing Skies."
Not too crowded
Stewart Island is just 67 square miles, about the same geographically as Singapore. But Singapore has a population of 5 million. Stewart Island has only 300 to 400 year-round residents, most around the township of Oban. The number swells to more than 3,000 in the Southern Hemisphere summer.
But it's a finite population in the peak season around Christmas, with Hector and the local ferries from Invercargill having to cut incoming service to the island. "We can get them there, but there won't be anywhere for them to stay once we do," says Hector.
The island is known, among other things, as home to the highest per capita number of millionaires in New Zealand, most of whom remain low-key and mix with the locals as if they had no money in their pockets. One, in retirement, started up an island spring water business which is thriving on the mainland. Its profits help support local environmental projects like Ulva Island, an eight-minute water taxi ride from the main island. Ulva has been predator-free since 1997, allowing for a wide range of native birds such as brown kiwi and fernbirds to flourish.
Locally caught fish is also part of the island experience. Hector, speaking outside the quaint South Sea Hotel, recalled catching some blue cod and taking them into the restaurant there. "They battered them, threw in a few chips and a bit of lemon and we sat down to eat. It was like 40 minutes from the time the fish were minding their own business until we were having them for lunch," he said.
Back on the nearby mainland, the southern coastline offers great hiking, or tramping, as it is often called in New Zealand. For the serious enthusiasts, the Tuatapere Hump Ridge track offers a three-day walk from beach to mountaintop. The town of Bluff is known for its plump oysters, and Invercargill, a city of 50,000, also known as "The Friendly City," offers heritage buildings, museums and the Queen's Park botanical gardens.
A back-room visit to the boutique Invercargill Brewery shows six large tanks representing the company's line of beers. Brewmaster Steve Nally explains that it's a never-ending battle to withstand takeover attempts from the two biggest multinational breweries in Australasia.
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"We want to call our own shots," says Nally.
Hector flies several times a day between Invercargill and Stewart Island, and as he swoops over the island's interior, he points out areas that look positively untouched.
"I've been down here for many, many years, and nobody has ever set foot in some of these remote areas," Hector says. "This area is positively Jurassic. You get the sun in the right place and if a dinosaur was to poke his head out, it wouldn't surprise me."
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Flights to Stewart Island from Invercargill depart three times a day, with extra flights during peak periods. Round-trip airfare: Adults, $145 (NZ$190), seniors $130 (NZ$170), children under 15 $84 (NZ$110). Ferries from Bluff to Stewart Island are $50 (NZ$66) one way. Guest houses, bed and breakfasts and lodges on the island include the iconic South Sea Hotel at Half Moon Bay. The island has no banks or ATMs, though most establishments accept credit cards.
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The New York Mets owners agreed to pay up to $162 million in a settlement announced Monday with the trustee for Bernard Madoff's fraud victims, a deal that left open the possibility they might pay much less and caused two principal team owners to emerge smiling from the courthouse.
"Stick with us," Mets chief executive and co-owner Fred Wilpon said outside court. "Now I guess I can smile. ... Maybe I can take a day off."
The agreement was announced by Judge Jed Rakoff just as a civil trial was set to begin in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to determine if the team's owners might owe as much as $386 million because they were among those who made significantly more than their original investment in Madoff's investment company.
The deal left Wilpon and team President Saul Katz, who together personally promised to pay $29 million, speaking confidently of the team's future.
Katz said outside the courthouse that the Mets were on secure financial footing. "Always was," he said.
The settlement gives the team breathing room because it does not require any money to be paid for at least three years. It also creates the possibility that the owners could owe nothing if they can secure $162 million of the $178 million they are seeking in claims of their own against the Madoff estate.
"In a sense, we're now partners," David J. Sheehan, the lawyer for trustee Irving Picard, said outside court as he described how the Mets owners could benefit from the trustee's recovery efforts.
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He also said the amount the team owners could afford to pay was "one of the many factors" that were considered as the two sides negotiated a deal in talks that gained momentum last week and reached a conclusion on Friday.
The formal agreement read aloud by Rakoff included a statement by the trustee "that he has reviewed the evidence and will no longer pursue the willful blindness claim against the defendants."
The trial was set to showcase what the trustee said was a conscious decision by the Mets owners to ignore warnings that Madoff was operating a multibillion-dollar fraud over several decades, costing thousands of investors about $20 billion.
Outside court, Wilpon and Katz seemed relieved that they were freed from the accusation. They have always insisted they knew nothing of Madoff's fraud.
"We are not willfully blind," Wilpon said. "We never was. We acted in good faith."
Katz called litigation "negative energy."
"We are very pleased to have this behind us," he said. "We have done everything in good faith. The settlement itself bears that out."
Picard originally sought $1 billion from the owners, putting a dark cloud over the team that led to an effort over the past year to raise money through new investors. The club also has slashed payroll as its revenue has suffered with declining attendance and product sales as the team has struggled on the field.
As he stepped into a car, Wilpon declined to discuss how the settlement might affect the club's efforts to raise additional cash.
"We'll address that," he said.
Earlier, he said he was "very, very pleased for ourselves and our families. This was really a team effort."
He said he was going to Florida Tuesday to resume work at "trying to bring the New York Mets back to prominence."
Rakoff already had ruled the team's owners must pay up to $83.3 million in profits they received from Madoff. That amount would now be included in the $162 million.
The way to a settlement may have been cleared weeks ago when Rakoff ruled that Picard could only try to recoup $386 million from the Mets owners.
Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who acted as mediator in the deal, said the settlement allows Picard to focus on another 800 pending lawsuits against those who profited from their investment with Madoff.
He said Picard and the Mets owners "avoided the risks and uncertainty of ... a long, bitter and expensive trial."
As to the financial condition of the Mets, Cuomo said: "As far as I'm concerned, they're not broke."
He called the deal "fair and reasonable, as fair and reasonable as it could be," though he added, "Nobody gets everything they want in a settlement. But both sides helped their causes."
Dodgers Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax had been scheduled to testify in the trial about Wilpon's intentions. Koufax invested in Madoff's private investment business at Wilpon's recommendation.
"Although this is something of an anticlimax, it is always helpful and positive when the parties are mutually able to resolve their dispute," Rakoff said.


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Number 1: Simple Gastric Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss
Obesity not only affects the person physically, emotionally and spiritually, it affects their circle of family and friends. There is always an underlying reason for the person to use this form of body armour as protection. And unfortunately this body armour has a negative effect because the person stops loving themselves.
Hypnotherapy's benefits help thousands of people for virtually hundreds of different conditions, and it has been clinically evidenced from many countries for a number of years. We go through states of trance approximately 120 times a day, which is a light state of hypnosis.
Statistics why gastric hypnotherapy may help obesity in the UK
Obesity amongst adults over 16, according to the Health Survey for England (HSE), shows that over 62% of adults are obese and a substantial proportion of these adults have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of over 30. In Europe: UK is the highest in terms of obesity rates. Added to this, northern England has the highest levels of obese.
How gastric hypnotherapy is more cost effective
Cost of obesity and its burden on the state has increased from £479.3 million in 1998 to £4.2 billion in 2007, and has a projection of over £27 billion by 2015. It costs £9,500-15,000 for gastric bypass surgery, whereas 4-session gastric hypnotherapy is a fraction of the cost and has an unprecedented safe success rates.
Risks of gastric band surgery compared to gastric hypnotherapy
Weight loss surgery, as with all other surgeries, carries the risk of complications; some of which can be potentially serious and fatal such as:
Blood clot inside the leg (deep vein thrombosis), internal bleeding and blood clot or other blockage inside the lungs (pulmonary embolism)
The overall risk of death in hospital after having any kind of weight loss surgery is around 1 in 1,000
On the other hand, gastric hypnotherapy carries minimal to zero risk
Possible health benefits of gastric hypnotherapy
Once the recipient has decided to lose weight and is willing to take on the positive benefits of gastric band hypnotherapy they should:
Reduce their intake of fast food high in fats and sugar
Reduce their intake of sugary drinks and large quantities of alcohol
Reduce eating out in restaurants
Reduce comfort eating when feeling low or just due to a habit of eating
Obesity carries a number of serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, such as:
Type 2 diabetes
Coronary heart disease
Some types of cancer, such as breast cancer and bowel cancer
Obesity can also affect your quality of life and lead to psychological problems, such as low self-esteem or depression.
What is gastric hypnotherapy?
Once the conscious mind is bypassed, the subconscious mind is more receptive to going through the imaginational construct of having a pretend gastric band installed. This aids the conscious mind in triggering a fuller tummy. By having 3-4 sessions the therapy compounds the positive effects.
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The New Orleans Botanical Gardens also feature nurseries, lily ponds, an indoor waterfall, desert greenhouse and gift shop. Nature enthusiasts can enjoy the walkways and breezeways which are lined up with beautiful seasonal flowers in bloom.
The sunflowers are in full bloom and reach sky-ward highlighting the simple yet detailed beauty of the gardens. I love the sunflowers as much as I love the wildflowers and the tulips at New Orleans Museum of Art.
I love the fountains and sculptures throughout the garden. The gardens have flowers and plant varieties from all around the world. The Botanical Gardens are open year-round and are a most welcomed retreat for a change of pace in the city.
The Shade Garden has colorful swings and beautiful old trees. It's a nice place to rest a while beneath the shady trees while surrounded by so much beauty.
The Zen Asian Gardens offer a peaceful oasis to nature lovers. Here you will see bamboo, flowers, stonework, and a water oasis. There is also a Japenese fest that celebrates tea, haiku, origami, and dance.
The Butterfly Walk and Hummingbird Garden highlights some of natures most beautiful and graceful gifts. Watch for the enchanting Monarch butterflies as they land on the flowers and feed on the nectar.
The Aromatic Gardens feature herbs and flowers. The Jasmine flowers are just heavenly. The Aromatic Gardens also features medicinal herbs.
New Orleans Botanical Gardens also feature New Orleans style architecture in the New Orleans Historic Train Garden, which has miniature model trains, railroads, streetcars, and New Orleans style homes, or shotgun houses.
The Pelican Greenhouse features many desert wildflowers, plants, succulents and cactus varieties from the great Southwest. There is a multitude of cacti and succulent varieties on display including Barrel cactus, Aloe, and Jade.
The Conservatory of the Two Sisters is home to The Tropical Rainforest which houses a stunning waterfall and cave, gorgeous colorful and tropical flowers, and low-hanging plants. The Tropical Rainforest also is home to Living Fossils. The Conservatory of Two Sisters features beautiful domed architecture and floral lined walkways.
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"Beautiful Creatures" is a sassy new love story about two young lovers who find out each others dark pasts. It's going to be oozing with delights. Margot Martindale and Zoey Deutch have just been added to the cast. That's the news here. This morning on the bus I blacked out for a few seconds and when I came to I thought the bus had plunged into the Hudson river for a second. It was awesome.
Jake Gyllenhaal is in talks to star in a new thriller currently titled "An Enemy". The film focuses on a man who rents a video that turns out to star himself five years in the past. Wait does that sound real? I seriously can't even see straight so I may have just made that up. It sounds made up.
Don't ask my why but "The Mortal Instruments" sounds like a porno to me. Alright in all honesty 90% of the movie titles I read sound like porno's to me. But this is a big screen adaptation of the book by the same name and it's about a NYC lass who discovers she's a half angel warrior. News today has dropped that Harald Zwart, who directed "The Karate Kid" reboot a couple years back will take up the directing duty. If you're thinking about having kids I'll give you some insight. Kids do not care what time you went to bed. If they want to wake up at 7 you're waking up with them.
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A trailer for Danny Boyle's "Frankenstein" has made its way online and from the name I'm guessing it a retelling of the classic story but from the video I have no clue what the hell is going on. I would think you can't call a movie "Frankenstein" and then have it be about to star crossed lovers who find each other in the middle of an amusement park but what the hell do I know.
A new trailer for "Source Code", which I had no idea about but Duncan Jones made it and he made "Moon" so now I'm excited, has hit the tubes and it's your civic duty to watch it. I'm not even sure how to explain it because the description sounds fake but I think there's something about Jake Gyllenhaal trying to stop a bomb from going off, or a web site from crashing, probably the first one though.
You like the Ha-Ha yes? Good, if you said no I was going to ask you to get the hell of my lawn. But since you do here's the new trailer for "Paul" which stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as a couple of comic book geeks who come across an alien during a road trip. I swear you better like the Ha-Ha.
Flesh eating acid, a killer High School Mascot and a bunch of kids stuck in a school? Sign me up folks! Here's the trailer for the new flick from "Gutterballs" director Ryan Nicholson titled "Famine". Just so we're clear I don't want those things to happen to me, I just want to see a movie with it. Don't show up to my house dressed as a Spartan looking to murder me or anything.
Inspired by true events? Anthony Hopkins? Exorcism? Movie? These are all words you can read! There also words that describe the film "The Rite" which finally has a trailer. We're off to a good start today.
Patrick Alvarez, someone I have no idea about, has been tapped to direct "Girls", a movie about a girls slumber party gone terribly wrong. Apparently this is not a porn, which might explain the terribly wrong part. Or maybe that's just for me. At the very least there better we a tickle fight.
If you didn't see Duncan Jones' "Moon" then you missed out because it was awesome and it had zero Jake Gyllenhaal's. Unfortunately his follow up "Source Code" has one Jake Gyllenhaal but you should still give it a chance. Based on the new behind the scenes photos of the pic it might have a chance, if that jackass doesn't smile with the stupid goofy face of his.
Johnny Depp on the new Tim Burton film "Dark Shadows" which is based on the cult TV show, "it's gotten f**kin' good". That is all.


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In October 2011, the Senate Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans was asked to undertake a study on the Management of Grey Seals in Atlantic Canada. A large part of what the Senate Committee is looking at is culling tens of thousands of grey seals, in addition to the currently sanctioned commercial hunt of grey seals, as a way to supposedly further "manage" the seal population and benefit fish stocks. On Tuesday the Senate Committee recommended a large-scale cull, and in anticipation put together a recap of what the Committee has heard.
The Senate Committee received testimony from a number of witnesses over the past year. Some, like Dr. Jeff Hutchings, were acknowledged world experts in issues concerning marine mammals and fisheries, others less so. The Canadian Sealers Association, for example, freely admitted that grey seals were not their area of expertise and instead decided to talk about harp and hooded seals -- two entirely different species.
Dr. Hutchings, who is a Professor at Dalhousie University and Chair of the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on Sustaining Canadian Marine Biodiversity, was clear in his opinion that trying to benefit fisheries is an insufficient reason for a cull. Why? First, the effects of a cull can't be credibly predicted from a scientific perspective. Secondly, the deliberate killing of one species native to Canada because of the human-induced depletion of another native species, is indefensible.
Dr. Hutchings went on to point out that the cod fishery in the Southern Gulf of St Lawrence opened too soon -- and at quotas too high -- to allow the stock any chance of recovery. For over a decade, the Government of Canada has allowed a commercial fishery to take place on cod in the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence with catches that fisheries scientists said were unsustainable. Now, they want to place the blame on seals for preventing cod stock recovery.
IFAW's science advisor, Dr. David Lavigne, presented IFAW's position. His testimony noted that there was substantial evidence that grey seals also had positive impacts on other species, and played a key role in the structuring and stabilizing of marine ecosystems. He warned that by removing predators, we change ecosystems, sometimes in ways that are neither anticipated or desired.
Further scientific evidence was presented by a panel of highly-respected biologists from Dalhousie University: Dr. Boris Worm, Dr. Sara Iverson, and Dr. Heike Lotze. The scientists were direct, making three main points: First, that there are numerous examples from around the world of large-scale removals of seals and other marine mammals from ocean ecosystems, and in most of these cases these removals had either unknown or no effects on fish stocks.
It is therefore unlikely that a seal cull in Eastern Canada would have a substantial positive effect on cod populations. Second, that the majority of grey seal diets consists of fatty forage fish such as herring, sand lance, and other small fish, and therefore they would not expect much, if any, benefit of culling seals on cod. Third, studies show that both the depression and recovery of cod in certain areas is explained not by the abundance of seals, but the abundance of forage fish such as herring. Because seals eat mostly forage fish, including herring (which eats young cod), a seal cull could even have a negative effect on the recovery of cod.
Many witnesses saw seals as competitors for fish (Morrow, Cunningham) -- competitors that should be eliminated. This is not surprising. Throughout history, everywhere that seals and fisheries overlap there have been calls to kill seals. What some might find surprising, however, was the fact that even sealers and the associations they represent stated that they were opposed to a seal cull.
In addition to scientists and sealers -- most Canadians are also opposed to a seal cull. In a nation-wide poll recently conducted by Environics research, 73 per cent of Canadians were opposed to a government-sanctioned cull of grey seals.
There was plenty of evidence presented to the Senate Committee that a cull of grey seals would be scientifically risky, unethical, and expensive. Yet, the senate recommended the cull anyway.


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Second officer-involved shooting in Town of Menasha in a month
TOWN OF MENASHA, Wis. — An armed robbery suspect is behind bars in Winnebago County following a police shooting outside a gas station.
Town of Menasha police say the man robbed a PDW store Sunday afternoon, then was confronted about a block away in the parking lot of a Citgo station. Authorities say an officer fired two shots at the 24-year-old man, who had a handgun. No one was injured.
WLUK-TV said it's the second officer-involved shooting in the Town of Menasha in the last month. Winnebago County investigators ruled an officer was justified when he shot and killed 66-year-old Wilson Lutz, who had pointed a shotgun at police.


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ROCHESTER — A review by Foster's Daily Democrat has found emergency calls for ambulances service in Rochester have been on the rise since 2007 and, to some extent, may be stretching the community and mutual aid resources available to handle the calls.
Foster's has learned from local fire chiefs the increase has meant firefighters and paramedics have had to take on an additional workload in Rochester and from surrounding communities, but that increase has not prompted an increase in resources or staff.
At this time officials say the current coverage is adequate.
According to data available from the region's dispatch center, which coordinates the transporting of patients to Frisbie Memorial Hospital Hospital, emergency medical service (EMS) calls have gone up 35 percent, from 3,741 in 2007 to 5,056 as of November 2012.
Frisbie Memorial Hospital's ambulance service is the primary responder for medical calls in the city of Rochester. Other departments are called in for mutual aid when necessary.
Calls for mutual aid regarding medical service in Rochester have more than doubled in the last five years, from nine requests in July 2007 to 20 in July 2012, according to numbers provided by the local dispatch center. In October 2007, there was a call for mutual aid eight times as compared to the same month in 2012, which had 27 requests as well.
Rochester Fire Department Chief Norman Sanborn, confirming the rise in calls, said he has not heard complaints from any of the other fire departments that provide mutual aid, including additional ambulance service, to the city of Rochester.
The included in the regional mutual aid agreement with Frisbie are the Farmington Fire Rescue Department, the City of Dover Fire & Rescue, American Medical Response (AMR) based out of Somersworth, Barrington Fire & Rescue, Milton Fire & Rescue and the Lebanon Rescue Department in Maine.
"We'd all love to have more people but we make it work…," Sanborn noted. "You make it work with what you've got."
The current system
Frisbie Memorial Hospital has a contract in place with the city of Rochester that says it will provide ambulance service primarily to the Lilac City 24/7. The current contract was put into effect in 1998 and recently extended to 2021. In it, the hospital agrees to provide two ambulances all day, every day, in three shifts, or to make provisions for two ambulances to always be on call from other towns, including by means of mutual aid.
Sanborn and Frisbie EMS staff confirmed while two staffed ambulances are on call from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the first shift, and the second shift from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., there is only one staffed ambulance for the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift along with Frisbie's intercept vehicle. That singular ambulance has been assigned to the late night shift since Frisbie began providing ambulance services to Rochester in 1980, according to Frisbie Vice President of Planning and Project Management Joe Shields.
Frisbie Memorial Hospital representatives said the operation of one ambulance and the intercept vehicle for the third shift is not a breach of the city's contract with the nonprofit hospital, because other mechanisms are in place to provide assistance to Rochester, should several calls come in at once.
Frisbie must have at least one advanced life support ambulance and one basic life support ambulance in service or "take necessary steps to ensure the same level of ambulance protection is available" according to the contract.
The intercept vehicle, a black pickup truck staffed with one medic and regular ambulance supply, is on call throughout all shifts regularly, except between the hours of 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. It was brought on in October 2009 to respond to incidents in Rochester and surrounding towns without sending out a full ambulance. Sanborn explained most times, departments requesting the service only need one paramedic and advance life support ambulance equipment, and it was wasteful to send a full ambulance in the past, with two paramedics aboard.
Frisbie staff noted since the intercept vehicle joined the hospital's resources in 2009, the occasions for which a Frisbie ambulance is sent to neighboring towns has reduced by more than four times. The truck reportedly responds to calls about 850 times a year, both inside and outside of Rochester, they say.
"That might be the issue that people are looking at," Sanborn added, when asked whether staff in Rochester and other towns are feeling overworked, "… (but) we don't feel that's an issue because what happens is we get the medic truck and we get the firefighters (to an incident), to stabilize the patient and by the time the patient is stabilized, the mutual aid is there and then they transport."
Sanborn noted in Rochester, all firefighters are trained by Frisbie staff at the basic level for medical response. For his department, he said he has observed the least number of emergencies occurring during the third late-night shift. When the intercept vehicle is tied up in another community and a town requests advance life support from Frisbie, the hospital will send a full ambulance to that town through dispatch communications.
"There are some times at night when it does get busy, though," Sanborn added. "I'm not going to say it doesn't, but that's when (Frisbie) has got to use mutual aid … and it does happen."
John Levitow, director of Frisbie's emergency nursing and EMS department, said in general, about 33 percent of medical calls to Frisbie do not require transport to the hospital and in the hospital's view, only having one ambulance staffed during the night is not a violation of the hospital's responsibilities to the Lilac City. Frisbie EMS also responds to various other towns outside of the towns that currently provide mutual aid to Rochester.
Levitow added during the third shift, the types of calls received — typically having to do with assault and domestic disturbances — usually do not result in a need to transport a patient to the hospital.
How mutual aid and service works for Frisbie
Levitow explained Rochester is divided geographically into four regions — it's a system that helps determine which mutual aid department will be called when Frisbie's ambulances are tied up. For each region, there is a first, second, and third choice of which agency would provide mutual aid. Ideally, the closest agency to the incident would respond, but if that department is tied up as well, then Frisbie requests mutual aid from the second choice.
"We work closely with area communities," said Gary Brock, assistant director of EMS at Frisbie. "We depend on each other for things."
While Rochester is the only town with which Frisbie has a contract for ambulance services, the hospital also provides mutual aid to neighboring towns that don't have as many resources, particularly when it comes to having paramedics on staff. Brock explained that EMTs typically have at least 150 hours of classroom training, while paramedics have about two years of classroom and clinical training experience. During serious medical calls, smaller towns have to rely on services from Rochester, Dover and AMR for their paramedics to arrive on scene.
Frisbie Memorial Hospital has 38 paramedics, and one intermediate EMT who has had an extra 100 hours of training. That person partners with a paramedic when going out to medical calls.
Sanborn described the mutual aid coordination throughout the region as one based on "teamwork."
"We figure as a team, we're going to do whatever it takes to save somebody's life and that's our goal," he said.
Sanborn noted even with a high increase in calls, the department has not experienced a lag time in response. According to Shields, the city's contract with the hospital requires Frisbie staff to respond to medical incidents within 10 minutes for 90 percent of the time. Shields said that Frisbie's average response time is 5 minutes and 25 seconds.
Sanborn also pointed to the city's recent "HeartSafe" award. In February, the state awarded Rochester with the HeartSafe stamp, for survival rates of cardiac arrests reported in 2011. Frisbie previously told Foster's the survival rate in Rochester for a patient is four times higher than the national average, with a 28 percent survival rate recorded in 2010, as compared to the country's average 6 percent rate. Rochester is one of 14 communities in New Hampshire to have the designation.
Frisbie staff say this achievement could not have been possible without the community's emphasis on teamwork with various agencies.
A response from local officials
In interviews with Foster's, several local chiefs and fire officials said they feel the departments have been handling the rise in calls well. They claim have one Frisbie ambulance available during the third shift does not negatively affect their mutual aid operations.
Farmington Fire Rescue Chief Rich Fowler said he recalled a time before he took over as chief when there was an apparent "abuse" of the mutual aid system, on Farmington's end, around 2001. He said the town requested service from Frisbie hundreds of times a year, and only reciprocated a handful of other times in the Lilac City. Fowler said today, the kinks have been worked out and he feels Farmington and Rochester truly have a "mutual" agreement in place, assisting one another when it is necessary.
"That was an abuse of the system..." he said, referring to that period of time. "That's when Frisbie said… 'This is not mutual aid. This is Frisbie handling the daily EMS calls in Farmington.' So they called for a solution and we have called for a solution. We've moved to part-time positions and we've grown to where we are today."
The small Farmington fire department relies heavily on volunteers as well, and Fowler commended his staff's diligent work. He said he does not believe the current system today puts additional stress on his workers.
In Barrington, Fire & Rescue Chief Rick Walker said his department "couldn't survive" without Frisbie's assistance in their mutual aid system. The Barrington department does not have the staffing or the resources to have more than one ambulance, Walker said, and typically has to rely on Frisbie, McGregor Memorial EMS, or at times Dover and Strafford EMS departments when a second ambulance is needed.
The call volume, Walker added, does not currently show a need for two Barrington ambulances, but that's a question that has to be re-evaluated on a regular basis. Eighty percent of the time when paramedic services are needed, either Frisbie or McGregor Memorial EMS responds. Walker said Barrington only has one paramedic, who works full-time in another community.
"We rely pretty heavily on (Frisbie) as a second due ambulance," he explained.
Bruce Snyder, president of the Rochester Firefighters' Association, added he has not heard from his local firefighters there is an issue with the current system in place.
"When the call comes in, it's not a question of, 'Should we decide to go or not?' It's not a question of whether we're tired. The run volume speaks for itself," Snyder said. " … The call volume is the call volume. Sometimes we do one run and sometimes we do 10 runs … It is what it is."
Dover Fire & Rescue Chief Richard Driscoll said his department was designated as the primary responding ambulance service for Rochester's mutual aid requests in early 2011 and since then, he has seen a rise in times his staff has been called out. According to data provided by the department, Dover provided mutual aid to Rochester 39 times, for both medical and fire-related calls, from January to November in 2012, compared to 4 times in 2008, 19 in 2009, 6 in 2010 and 23 in 2011. Dover's response to Rochester accounts for less than 1 percent of their calls though, with nearly 4,400 calls in the year for medical and fire-related incidents for the department as of November.
Dover staffs 11 to 12 firefighters at all times, compared to the Rochester Fire Department, which staffs eight. Dover has its own ambulance service, with two ambulances and a crossover staff from the fire service for the second ambulance needed on a second call. All firefighters there are trained at a higher level of EMT response, at a paramedic level as a minimum requirement.
Driscoll noted with the lack of an ambulance in Rochester during the third shift late hours, he has not personally noticed a rise in calls for his crew to respond.
"The funny thing with ambulance calls is … it's a crapshoot," Driscoll said. "There's no method to figuring out when the calls are going to come in."
A rise in emergency calls
From figures provided by the Rochester Fire Department, the total number of annual medical runs the department makes to assist Frisbie has gone up, from 1,983 calls in 2008 to 2,206 in 2012. Rochester's data system only tracks information going back to 2008, Sanborn noted.
The number of medical assist calls, in which Rochester firefighters assist Frisbie's EMS crew, has more than doubled in the last four years, from 218 calls in 2008 to a whopping 588 in 2012 as of data released in mid-December.
Sanborn and Frisbie officials say the rise in calls can be tracked to the nature of the economy. Fewer people can afford proper health care, and they rely on ambulances and emergency rooms to take the place of a primary care doctor, he said.
Sanborn also pointed to the growing and aging population in Rochester. Around 2005 and 2006, the fire department approached Frisbie and asked to take on more responsibility, he said. Sanborn said the department requested a "first responder role" on medical calls, given the fact that Rochester firefighters have basic EMT training. From there, the department took on a greater volume.
Frisbie staff said the Rochester Fire Department has taken on more calls today "because they asked," Brock said.
"That's part of building a system," Brock explained. "The outcome is going to be better if a half dozen people are there rather than the two paramedics."
"They requested it because it was a good idea," Shields added.
The need for another ambulance?
As the number of EMS calls has increased in Rochester over the years, the percentage of times when Frisbie responds to incidents with its own ambulance, with no mutual aid, has stayed pretty stable— around 3 percent or below, according to provided figures.
"Our target is to keep that percentage low," said Brock. "We are looking at this every month, every year."
Through November, mutual aid responded to 3.5 percent of all medical calls in Rochester during 2012, according to figures provided by Rochester's dispatch center. That equals a total of about 178 times out of 5,056 calls for EMS according to data provided in November.
With mutual aid ambulances coming in about 3 percent of the time, Levitow said it would not be practical for Frisbie to purchase another ambulance. Brock also point out based on an informal query he conducted, other ambulance services across the country ask for mutual aid around 10 to 25 percent of the time.
Brock said that another ambulance is not being considered because the calls for EMS tend to be spread out as well, and are not concentrated during one time period. This means that Frisbie Memorial Hospital does not typically need multiple ambulances at once.
Levitow also noted that about one-third of EMS calls do not require an ambulance transport. He said he's not certain when Frisbie officials would begin discussing the necessity of an additional ambulance, but that it would depend on the volume of EMS calls and the hospital's ability to handle those calls.
"We have looked at our volumes and we have addressed those volumes (through placing into service the paramedic intercept vehicle)," he said.
Dover is experiencing a similar rise in calls, Driscoll said. The department is constantly approaching the Dover City Council to review the budget to see what can be done but he said taking on another ambulance at this time is not an option for his department.
"We have addressed it a couple of times, but right now, we know where the budgets are and we're limited," Driscoll said.
Driscoll said this past November the Dover department responded to "simultaneous calls," or two incidents at the same time, 65 times. That month, at 18 different times, there were three or four incidents being called in at once as well.
In Rochester, Sanborn said he believes the ambulance system with mutual aid is "well-oiled," though his department could always use a little more help.
"We could always use more people but we understand in these economic times, we're trying to maintain what we've got," Sanborn said. "Where the economy's been the last few years, it's hard to go in and ask for additional people."
In the next one to two years, Sanborn noted his department will consider taking on new positions and at least eight or 10 years from now, there are plans for taking on a third station in the northern part of the city.


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Whether any storm is brewing comparable to last year's dust-up over deer regulations is likely to become apparent during the next few weeks.
Whether any storm is brewing comparable to last year�s dust-up over deer regulations is likely to become apparent during the next few weeks.
Open houses are scheduled at Ohio Division of Wildlife district offices and other locations from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday for public dialogue, including criticism, clarification and comments, about division plans related to hunting for the 2014-15 season. The central Ohio district office is located at 1500 Dublin Road in Columbus.
Open houses also will be held in Xenia, Athens, Findlay, Akron, Port Clinton and Fairport Harbor. Additionally, comments about regulations can be posted through next Sunday
at the website wildohio.com.
A year ago, Ohio Sen. Chris Widener (R-Springfield) found the proposed deer regulations for 2013-14 not to his liking and received an at-the-time unprecedented opportunity to plead his case to the Ohio Wildlife Council after the public comment period. The council, after several weeks of vacillation by wildlife division officials, decided to keep the proposals made in February 2013 to eliminate the state�s three traditional deer zones, to set county bag limits and to do away with the bonus deer gun season in December.
Last year�s changes have become the current status quo, although some tweaking has been proposed for 2014-15.
Among the significant deer changes is the elimination of antlerless permits in 27 counties, including Morrow, Fairfield, Hocking, Perry, Muskingum, Guernsey, Noble and Coshocton. Hunters can take three deer in those counties but must pay for regular permits to do so.
�We felt like we were close or at our (population) goals in those counties and no longer need to use the (antlerless) tool,� said Scott Zody, chief of the wildlife division.
Antlerless permits, which are sold at a discount from the regular either-sex permits, have been offered in recent years to get hunters into the field early in the season to knock down does, whose survival is the main contributor to population growth or decline.
A single antlerless permit is proposed for the three-deer counties that include Licking, Pickaway and Union, for the four-deer counties that include Franklin and Delaware, and for the two-deer counties that include Madison and Fayette. Anterless permits are not valid in any county after Nov.?30.
All told, a licensed hunter with the necessary permits may take as many as nine deer during the season (though only one can be a buck). That can be accomplished by hunting various counties as long as the bag limit for that county is not exceeded.
�As far as the seasons go, we are not proposing major changes,� Zody said.
Ohio�s bow season would begin Sept.?27 and run through Feb.?1. The statewide antlerless muzzleloader season, offered for the first time last year, would run Oct.?11-12.
The statewide deer gun season is scheduled Dec.?1-7, preceded by the youth gun season Nov.?2 2-23. The muzzleloader season, Jan. 2-5, will start a day early to take advantage of the holiday and potentially give Ohioans with time off from work an extra day to hunt deer.
Another seemingly significant change is being proposed in the type of firearms used for deer hunting during the gun season. In addition to shotguns, certain pistols and muzzleloaders, a number of rifles using pistol-cartridge ammunition will be legal pending wildlife council approval.
Proposed is the use of rifles limited to three live rounds in the following calibers: .357 Magnum, .357 Maximum, .38 Special, .375 Super Magnum, .375 Winchester, .38-55, .41 Long Colt, .41 Magnum, .44 Special, .44 Magnum, .444 Marlin, .45 ACP, .45 Colt, .45 Long Colt, .45 Winchester Magnum, .45 Smith & Wesson, .454 Casull, .460 Smith & Wesson, .45-70, .45-90, .45-110, .50-70, .50-90, .50-100, .50-110, .475 Linebaugh, .500 Smith & Wesson.
�These are not high-powered rifles,� Zody said. �We have consulted with Indiana, where they have put in place rules that permit similar rifles. They have not seen any increase in safety issues or accidents related to the use of these rifles.�
The complete list of proposals can be found at wildohio.com.
A statewide hearing, during which public comments will be accepted, is scheduled for 9?a.m. on March?6 at the Columbus district office.
The wildlife council will vote on the proposed rules and season dates during its meeting on April?9. Comments no longer than three minutes in length will be accepted from members of the public who have registered at least two days before the meeting by phoning (614) 265-6304.


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Ricotta Nut Pie
I'm proud to serve this tall pie at special dinners for family and guests. Similar to a traditional Italian ricotta pie but with a few fun twists, it's a satisfying dessert that's not overly sweet. I can't resist the yummy combination of almonds, ricotta cheese, apricots and chocolate. -Renee Bennett, Manlius, New York
Total TimePrep: 20 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min. + cooling
Makes6-8 servings
- 1-1/2 cups crushed vanilla wafers (about 45 wafers)
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/4 cup apricot preserves
- 1 carton (15 ounces) ricotta cheese
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 1/2 cup finely chopped toasted almonds
- 1/4 cup chopped dried apricots
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream, whipped
- 1/4 cup slivered almonds, toasted
- In a small bowl, combine the wafer crumbs and butter; press onto the bottom and up the sides of an ungreased 9-in. pie plate.
- Bake at 375° for 6-8 minutes or until the crust is lightly browned; cool on a wire rack. Spread preserves over crust.
- In a large bowl, beat the ricotta, sugar and vanilla until smooth. Stir in the chocolate, chopped almonds and apricots. Fold in whipped cream. Spoon into the crust. Sprinkle with slivered almonds. Cover and refrigerate overnight.


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