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College (disambiguation)
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A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of an educational institution.
In educational institutions[edit]
- Higher education in the United States, for the main article on colleges in the United States
College may also refer to a group sharing common purposes or goals:
- College (canon law), a collection of persons to form one body
- College of Bishops, the body of all Bishops of the Catholic Church
- College of Cardinals, the body of all Cardinals of the Catholic Church
- College of Pontiffs, a body of the ancient Roman state
- Electoral college, electors who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office
- College (TTC), a subway station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- College, Alaska, a census-designated place in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska
- College (Preston ward), an electoral ward and district of Preston, Lancashire, England
- College (Southwark ward), an electoral ward in Greater London, England
- College (1927 film), comedy-drama silent film
- College (1984 film), Italian film
- College (2008 film), comedy
- College (television series), a 1990 Italian TV series
- "College" (30 Rock), eighth episode of the fifth season
- "College" (The Sopranos), fifth episode of the first season
- College (musical project), an electronica music project by David Grellier
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Any one else hold absolutely no interest in alcoholic beverages?
After work yesterday my boss suggested we all go eat out at a restaurant, there was about 10 of us in all pretty much comprised of college students. Every single guy and girl except for 2 ordered a beer/drink including my boss because the waitress said there was this killer deal going on. When they realized I hadnt ordered any they decided to ask me all these questions for a few minutes in relation to me not drinking. Afterwords I thought to myself "damn i just spent 10 minutes explaining myself." Would this have happened if I said I dont drink soda? I just dont care for it one bit. Have I drank before? FAK YEAH! I cant count the times scattered over a long period of time that was mostly in my teens, you know how it is. But pretty much for the past 7 years Ive had no interest in drinking AT ALL. Im 25 now and I can probably count on one hand how many times Ive used my ID for alcohol. Am I down to party? FAK YEAH! I love to party, my definition of partying is dressing up and going to dance with some fine ass ladies. I dont want to step one foot inside a bar tho. When we go out my friends always get drinks but getting a drink does not even cross my mind, I have so much fun and im always sober. Will I ever drink in the future? Im sure I will at some point but the last time I drank was 2 summers ago, about 2 mixed drinks I think. So wut it do? Getting that drink in your hand is not going to make you any cooler than you already are. That "cool feeling" you get when under the influence... thats vastly overrated. Why drink?
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I think I can say the same for myself as well. After turning 21, I've found myself having absolutely no interest in drinking at all, even something as small as a beer or two.
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I like red wine with my meals. Other than that...drinking sucks! I rather have a Pepsi!
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No, I drink like a sponge at times.
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Same here, I only drink a few times a year and I don't miss it. I got smashed a few times at parties but it didn't have any effect on me except making me slur my speech and making the room turn, I wasn't any happier at all. I don't need to drink to have fun.
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Depends, if I'm having a meal in a restaurant I'll usually have some wine or beer, if I'm on a night out with the lads I'll drink to excess.
But if I'm home alone for the evening or something I never will. To be frank I prefer the taste of soft drinks. Alcohol serves a specific purpose for me and I won't usually drink it outside of certain scenarios.
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The 2014 Legislative Session has begun and State Representative Paul Torkelson (R-Hanska) said the top priority for legislative leadership and Governor Dayton is to follow through on promises to help agriculture and hardworking Minnesotans.
"Last session, Democrats chose to raise taxes and fees by more than $2 billion on all hardworking taxpayers," Torkelson said. "Farmers and businesses were hit unnecessarily hard. At Farmfest, the governor promised to repeal these tax hikes in special session, but even though Democrats controlled both the House and Senate, the Governor chose not to push the issue and keep that promise."
The specific laws that are negatively impacting farmers and many small businesses and companies include sales taxes on warehousing and storage services, commercial and industrial equipment repair, and telecommunications equipment. These taxes are scheduled to cost Minnesota's business owners more than $300 million over two years.
State economists will unveil the updated February budget forecast in the coming days. If a significant budget surplus is projected, Torkelson said those funds could easily contribute the revenue needed to make the Democratic tax increases disappear.
"It will be very interesting to see what Governor Dayton and the legislature prioritize this year, because it would be very easy for them to undo many of their laws that are causing problems," Torkelson said. "Certainly I will be advocating for the elimination of these unneeded tax increases and other troublesome regulations, and I'm hopeful that the governor and legislative leadership will do the same."
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Micron Technology: New 52-Week Low Set Today (MU)
Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) traded today at a new 52-week low of $10.80. This new low was reached on below average trading volume as 4.6 million shares traded hands, while the average 30-day volume is approximately 30.3 million shares.
Potential upside of 93.4% exists for Micron Technology, based on a current level of $10.91 and analysts' average consensus price target of $21.10. Micron Technology shares should first meet resistance at the 50-day moving average (MA) of $13.75 and find additional resistance at the 200-day MA of $18.77.
Micron Technology, Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets dynamic random access memory chips (DRAMs), very fast static random access memory chips (SRAMs), Flash Memory, other semiconductor components, and memory modules.
In the past 52 weeks, Micron Technology share prices have been bracketed by a current low of $10.80 and a high of $20.57 and are now at $10.91. The 200-day and 50-day moving averages have moved 2.27% lower and 3.37% lower over the past week, respectively.
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Yorke Peninsula residents may be forced to pay an extra services charge for recycling and waste management as the local council plans drastic changes to the current service.
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The Western Australian Indigenous Affairs Department believes paying reparations to the Stolen Generations could cost the state more than $140 million.
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The Federal Coalition has backflipped on industrial relations, announcing it will support the Government's move to scrap Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs).
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Housing prices dropped about 5 per cent in the Riverland last year, despite growth in housing markets across the State.
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Yemeni Police Arrest Female Suspect in Explosive Plot
Yemeni security forces arrested a woman suspected of attempting to send two parcel bombs to the U.S. via air-cargo services, the nation's defense ministry said.
Authorities took the woman into custody at her home in Sana'a, the capital, the ministry said in a mobile phone text message yesterday. A lawyer claiming to represent the suspect identified her today as 22-year-old Hanan Al-Samawi, an engineering student at Sana'a University.
"We are afraid she might be a victim of the war on terror," said the lawyer, Abdulrahman Barman, a member of the National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedom, a prominent Yemeni human rights group.
The local NewsYemen website reported that the suspect's mother was also arrested at their home. Barman said the mother is 45 years old and suffers from asthma but did not provide the woman's name.
The arrests came as officials in the U.S. and the Middle East linked the attempted bombings to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemeni branch of the international terrorist organization.
Police in Dubai said a parcel from Yemen intercepted and defused at a FedEx Corp. facility in the emirate on Oct. 29 was similar to an al-Qaeda bomb. That package and another containing explosives that was intercepted in the U.K. were both being shipped from Yemen to synagogues in Chicago, President Barack Obama said on Oct. 29. The parcels represented a "credible terrorist threat," Obama said.
Intervention Rejected
As police surrounded Al-Samawi's house, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh held a press conference to announce the expected arrest and to declare he wouldn't accept any outside attempt to deal with al-Qaeda operatives in the country.
"We will not accept any intervention in our internal affairs," Saleh said. "We do not want anybody to hunt down al-Qaeda, for we will chase down al-Qaeda wherever they are, using our own planes and equipment."
Yemeni authorities expect to begin screening 100 percent of air cargo leaving the country, Mahamed Abdul-Kader, deputy chairman of Yemen's Civil Aviation Authority, told reporters today at a conference in Doha, Qatar.
"We think Yemen is able to handle" security, said Saif al-Suwaidi, director general of the United Arab Emirates' general civil aviation authority. "This could have happened anywhere," al-Suwaidi said, speaking at the same conference in Doha.
Al-Qaeda Link Seen
The parcel intercepted in Dubai included a computer printer with explosive materials hidden inside the ink cartridge and an electric circuit connected to a mobile phone's SIM card, the emirate's official WAM news agency said, citing a statement from Dubai police.
"The targeting manner carries characteristics similar to methods previously carried out by terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda," the statement said.
The package originated on a Qatar Airways passenger flight from Yemen, Akbar Al Baker, the airline's chief executive officer, said in an interview yesterday.
One of the two intercepted packages was set to be detonated by a cell phone and the other by a timer, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing. Authorities don't rule out other potentially lethal packages having been shipped and so far not detected, the person said.
No Political Ties
Barman, Al-Samawi's lawyer, said the suspect had no political affiliation, citing information provided by students at Sana'a University and members of her family.
"She might have been victimized, and some people might have used her mobile number, which is not evidence of her involvement," Barman said. Al-Samawi was in her fifth and final year as a student in the computer department of the university's faculty of engineering, he said.
Barman, whose rights group is involved in defending detainees at the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said that Al-Samawi's family had asked him to represent her and her mother. The pair's relatives were "in a state of shock and fear," he said.
The "plot does have the hallmarks" of an attack by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on the CBS "Early Show" yesterday.
British Steps
British Home Secretary Theresa May said yesterday steps will be taken to stop all unaccompanied cargo entering the U.K. from Yemen after interception of a device at East Midlands Airport the previous day. The package seized was viable and could have exploded on board an aircraft, she said.
May said the U.K. threat level was at "severe," though there was no indication "that another attack is imminent."
Authorities in Yemen were searching for more packages yesterday and had examined 24 suspect parcels in Sana'a, the Associated Press reported, citing a Yemeni security official.
The Oct. 29 discoveries triggered examinations of three air-cargo flights that landed in Philadelphia and in Newark, New Jersey.
Authorities are trying to "understand who is behind" the explosives and "the scope of the threat that we might face," John Brennan, Obama's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, said at an Oct. 29 briefing at the White House. Brennan said authorities are conducting a forensic analysis and examining intelligence that might indicate "how this was going to be used."
Additional Screening
Additional steps are being taken to screen cargo, Obama said in remarks at the White House. Brennan said it is "prudent" to ensure that packages from Yemen are "looked at very carefully, and that's what we're doing right now."
The incident spurred United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx to put an embargo on shipments from Yemen. The U.S. Postal Service also suspended acceptance of international mail originating in Yemen.
Obama said he and his top intelligence aides concluded that there was "a credible terrorist threat against our country" and pledged to "destroy this al-Qaeda affiliate" based in Yemen. The president spoke yesterday about the plot with British Prime Minister David Cameron, according to a White House statement.
Brennan notified Obama about the potential threat at 10:35 p.m. on Oct. 28, setting in motion a response that included the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Aviation Administration, Gibbs said.
Yemen also figured in the U.S. inquiry on the last major security threat on a U.S. jetliner, the attempted bombing of a Delta Air Lines Inc. plane on Dec. 25. Obama told reporters in January that evidence indicates that the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was trained and equipped by a Yemeni group affiliated with al-Qaeda.


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The Wire (6/01, p.42) - "...The most important record Coltrane ever made. It marked such a violent severance with his past that many critics at the time thought he had lost his mind..."
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.52) - Ranked #8 in Mojo's "The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time" - "ASCENSION remains a uniquely draining, frighteningly human and intense experience."
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Personnel: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); John Tchicai, Marion Brown (alto saxophone); Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders (tenor saxophone); Freddie Hubbard, Dewey Johnson (trumpet); McCoy Tyner (piano); Art Davis, Jimmy Garrison (bass); Elvin Jones (drums).
Producer: Bob Thiele.
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Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on June 28, 1965. Originally released on Impulse (95). Includes liner notes by Lewis Porter and A.B. Spellman.
Digitally remastered by Kevin Reeves (Universal Mastering Studios-East).
Personnel: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); John Tchicai, Marion Brown (alto saxophone); Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp (tenor saxophone); Dewey Johnson , Freddie Hubbard (trumpet); McCoy Tyner (piano); Jimmy Garrison, Art Davis (bass instrument); Elvin Jones (drums, drum).
Liner Note Author: A.B. Spellman.
Recording information: Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (06/28/1965).
Author: LeRoi Jones.
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The album ASCENSION played a profoundly important role in John Coltrane's final period. Recorded in June 1965, almost exactly two years before his death, this session marks Coltrane's final stepping off point into free jazz. The album also marks a division for Coltrane's fans, as there are some that applaud his final escape from jazz tradition while others simply couldn't follow him into the great unknown.
One way or another, ASCENSION refuses to be ignored. A stunning list of colleagues joins the legendary saxophonist on his final quest. Besides his famed regular quartet, avant-garde saxophonists Pharaoh Sanders and Archie Shepp, extra bassist Art Davis, and even trumpet star Freddie Hubbard, among others, produce an intense sonic assault. If you're sensitive to dissonant noise and uncontrolled barrages of sound, ASCENSION will offer you no comfort. However, the unbridled emotional onslaught that Coltrane unleashes here dwarfs any other artist's entire output. Love it or hate it, this is one disc that's sure to stay on your mind long after its din has faded.
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Skip to comments.It Was Shockingly Easy For The Batman Shooter To Buy A Massive Arsenal
Posted on 07/21/2012 12:31:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Denver shooting suspect James Holmes purchased some 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the internet before carrying out hismassacre at a midnight screening of Batman.
The ammunition was part of a massive arsenal he gathered in the run-up to the killings, which also included four guns legally purchased at local gun shops.
His weapons were two Glock pistols, a 12-guage shotgun, and a high-powered AR-15 assault rifle fitted with a drum magazine allowing a fire rate of 50 to 60 rounds per minute.
Dan Oates, the chief of police in Aurora, Colorado, where Holmes killed 12 people and injured 58 others, said: He purchased four guns at local gun shops and through the internet he purchased over 6,000 rounds of ammunition, more than 3,000 rounds of 0.223 ammunition for the assault rifle, 3,000 rounds of 0.40 caliber ammunition for the two Glocks in his possession, and 300 rounds for the 12 gauge shotgun.
Also through the internet he purchased multiple magazines for the 0.223 caliber assault rifle including one 100-round drum magazine which was recovered from the scene.
Even if it was semi-automatic Im told by experts that with that drum magazine he could have got off 50 to 60 rounds within a minute. As far as we know it was a pretty rapid pace of fire in the theatre.
My understanding is that all the weapons he possessed, he possessed legally and all the clips that he possessed, he possessed legally and all the ammunition he possessed, he possessed legally.
Holmes is also believed to have joined a casual sex website where he apparently hinted at his plans for his killing spree, asking potential suitors: Will you visit me in prison?
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Who'd a thought that being a student would pay so well? That's some expensive artillery.
Just needed some Second Amendment folks in the theater, imho.
Where is the "massive arsenal"? That sounds like what is normally in my trunk on any given day.
I'm not accepting this story at face value. There are too many oddities.
"You have the right person." - Mom Holmes
>>through the internet he purchased over 6,000 rounds of ammunition,
So what? If I hadn't lost all my guns, magazines, and ammo in a boating accident two years ago, I'd have more ammo than that.
My FIL misplaces that many of his guns and ammo EVERY MONTH!
They forgot the bic pen converted to a spitball gun.
Yah beat me to it. Great minds and all that rot. lol
Was thinking the same thing. How does a student manage to come up with the loot to buy all that hardware and don't know what kind of car he was driving, but it was not a Klunker either?
Financial Aid and Student Loans?
Even then, when I was in college (having availed myself to both as well as working 2 jobs and that was many moons ago) I was not exactly rolling in it and lived very frugally.
Steer Manure.
He didnt have a "massive" arsenal. He had a FEW firearms. A couple of handguns, a rifle and a shot gun. Everyone of my friends is similarly equipped, several times over.
6,000 rounds is possibly adequate for a summar of training for a father and son. Given the fluctuation in ammo pricing thanks to O, one buys when the price is right. That reminds me: i am getting low on 5.56 NATO.
My thoughts too. He was unemployed receiving unemployment payments. How could he afford so much ammo and so many fine weapons? AR-15s ain't cheap.
So how is Colorado supposed to "tighten" gun laws?
Refuse gun or ammo sales to 24 year old medical students with no police record? He obviously took advantage of existing laws.
So what new laws would have stymied a closet perv psycho with mass murder plans?
My question still is WEAPONS TRAINING.
He HAD to have gotten it, at some point in his life
Especially when you buy it at Gander Mtn.
Who says he paid for it? If he ordered by credit card knowing what he was going to do, how're the card companies going to collect?
Excellent point.
Someone has already pointed out that his meek surrender seems very odd after shooting 71 people. A lot of valid questions are going unanswered and something is VERY strange about all of this.
Massive arsenal??????????????4 weapons???????????????
You know that's what I would like to know, if this kid was out of work or was working part time at McDonald's where did he get the money? That just doesn't seem right, at all.
Anyone hear about the Ft. Hood shooter lately? Murdered people several years ago in an action of domestic Islamic terrorism, killed a baby, and his name stays largely out of the news while his lawyer keeps playing the "postpone" game.
He HAD to have gotten it, at some point in his life
Another very good point. Where did he learn to shoot and reload? This whole thing points to a well-put-together operation. This guy is an operative. Where did he get the money to buy all of that ordnance with no real job? Hmmmmm???
No. It was shockingly easy to follow a script that had been done before, in other countries, in print, and, on screen.
That it is shockingly easy for Americans to run and NOT RUSH the shooter is discouraging. Then again, these people were sitting ducks...and unarmed to a man.
Too many of us, Freepers, need to take some Coast Guard boating classes!
You know, living in CO with a CCW I've thought about what would have happened had I been there.
I'm pretty sure the honest answer is either died or ran. If I had a shot and took it, it wouldn't have worked. He was in all over body armor with a ballistic helmet. He wore a gas mask and was tossing out tear gas grenades. Honestly someone with even a top end CCW pistol would have had a very very slim chance at best. You don't bring a pistol to a rifle fight, and you sure as hell don't when the target is pistol proof.
This dirtbag really was just too well prepared.
But as to the original article- who cares if he had 6k rounds of ammo? I doubt he fired off more than 100 all told. The other 5900 are a moot point.
Purchasing 6k rounds is pretty moot for any given tactical situation unless you happen to be toting a minigun.
Happened to you too, huh?
Two glocks and an AR15 is going to be around $2K
Not just to shoot and reload - but to do it in full body armor, in the dark, in a closed area saturated with tear gas, while masked!
Ask anyone with military training if this is an operation a first time gun shooter just up and does, managing to shoot 71 targets in the dark, with no training or range practice, with no dry run, based on reading directions from the manual or paying a video game
"Anyone hear about the Ft. Hood shooter lately? Murdered people several years ago in an action of domestic Islamic terrorism"
No, because as Mark Steyn pointed out, Allahu Akbar is Arabic for, "Move along, nothing to see here."
See #15
3K rounds of .223 will be about $1.5K
3K of 40SW will be another $1K
4 guns is a massive arsenal?
I'm assuming this writer is a Limey Tw@t. They (Limies) have no appreciation for the concept of 2nd Amendment rights.
OTOH, they're probably still smarting from what a bunch of armed Scots-Irish did to them a couple on centuries ago.
Glocks will run you maybe $600 each or so (might be less, I don't price Glocks since I don't like them) for the .40S&W pistols. A 12 gauge should be another $500 or so. The AR price could be all over the place. Last gun show I saw some as low as $800 (a bit under). Those large magazines run you around $100. 6K of ammo is going to be fairly expensive (I can get reloads for around $1800 for that many).
Let's claim a ballpark of less than $5k.
If one goes to the range once a week, and expends 100 rounds of ammo at each visit, then 6,000 rounds is a year's supply. There's lots of gun owners who have more.
The punk could have charged it all with no intention of ever paying the bill.
If this guy had been a Mexican drug lord, our government would have GIVEN him the guns.
Then he could have shot 100 Mexicans (and a border agent) and the media would not just be silent, but cover it up.
Thus is life in Obamaland. We fear citizens and count terrorists as friends. :)
At some point they may start to describe his residence as a "compound".
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We Freepers seem to have terrible problems with tragic boating accidents that cause us to lose thousands of dollars worth of arms and ammo. My condolences to you..
Exactly right! But, brace yourself for an all-out assault on the 2nd Amendment now to include the one and only Mitt Romney aided by John McCain and other, oh, so reasonable GOP'ers.
It was shockingly easy to legally buy not one, or two, but three cans of green beans last week!
4 firearms with ammo for each is not a "massive arsenal".
Also they don't note there's no way in hell he'd be able to lug 6000 rounds around, much less fire them all. Nutball gave himself up with 5900 rounds left in his apartment.
Again all this example illustrates is INTENT IS EVERYTHING.
There are people who deliberately run people down in their cars and they have a legal driver's license and legal plates. They may own multiple cars. Do we ban everyone else from driving or owning cars because of these idiots? Cars are efficient killing machines and you may not get caught, and if you do the sentences are less severe than if you used a gun.
It was shockingly easy to attack a theater full of dis-armed Americans.
And of course the DC Muslim killers.
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Worst balance sheet I've ever seen on a stock and not making profits to solve it.. Is there a stock worse than this in the entire world markets?
Indeed. And now, yet more share dilution. It just gets worser and worser.
40% more shares and the stock is down less than 10%. impressive. nice call.
you don't short this because the company has a natural bid from several different players. you could wake up one morning and the company is sold for 9-10 a share. without this bid, you are correct that shorting is a nice way to make some money
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By ALLEN SALKIN
Published: April 13, 2003
J. PIERRE GAGNE swept his arms across the misty horizon, taking in the former garbage dump under his feet, the soaring arches of the Whitestone Bridge above him and the gray tips of the Manhattan skyline eight miles in the distance.
'''The Power Broker,' page 775,'' Mr. Gagne said, referring from memory to a page in Robert A. Caro's famous book about Mr. Gagne's hero, Robert Moses.
Mr. Gagne, 50, is interested in that part of the book about the famed public works chief because it discusses Ferry Point Park, the land on which he now stands and on which, he figures, he can forge his own immortality. Moses' asphalt-and-steel legacy included the West Side Highway, Triborough Bridge and Jones Beach; Mr. Gagne's dream, more modest, would feature putting greens and golf balls.
Ferry Point Park is a 414-acre parcel in the southeast Bronx between the Whitestone and Throgs Neck Bridges; it borders the Throgs Neck neighborhood on the east and slopes down to the East River on the south. It is here, on the undeveloped eastern section of the park, that Mr. Gagne and three partners, including the legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus, are engaged in an on-again, off-again effort to build a $50 million, championship-quality public golf course.
The project, originally expected to cost $22.5 million and to open as early as 2001, is now on again, thanks to a decision last October by the State Department of Environmental Conservation about the amount of landfill the developers can use.
The course is now scheduled to be completed by fall 2005 and to open the following spring, but there is still risk, opposition and much undone work. Mr. Gagne needs to bring tons of dirt and rubble to make his course real; as golf lovers watch the 67th Masters Tournament today, he will be preparing for the hectic part of the construction season, when as many as 200 trucks bearing landfill will arrive daily at his site. He worries about the security of the finished course, too, and, despite the recent regulatory victory, some environmental concerns persist.
Surprisingly, the biggest concern traces back to Mr. Gagne's hero, Robert Moses, who wanted to turn a marshland into Ferry Point Park. He did so, but he did it by filling the marsh with garbage, which has been rotting and exuding methane gas, the major environmental problem that Mr. Gagne faces.
Despite that baggage and despite the revulsion that many people have for what they see as Moses' highhanded destruction of neighborhoods, Mr. Gagne still likes the man. ''I liked the mover and shaker attitude he had,'' said the developer, who first learned about Moses when a college professor recommended he read the Caro book. He has been aiming for his own chance to move and shake ever since. His chance is Ferry Point Park.
The other day, a tanned, suave Mr. Gagne stood near the southeast edge of the golf course of his dreams and evoked what he considers the two greatest public works of the borough, the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden. ''Over 130,000 cars a day pass over the Whitestone Bridge and see this property,'' he said. ''This is the gateway entrance to the Bronx. This will become the Bronx's third jewel.''
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To build a 222-acre golf course and park on top of an old garbage dump requires a degree of finesse that Moses, who amassed near-dictatorial power in the mid-20th century, never needed.
But Mr. Gagne (pronounced gah-NYAY), who was born in Montreal to French-speaking parents, moved with his family to Tarrytown, N.Y., at age 9, and has a degree in engineering from Manhattan College, brings some assets to the task.
''His strength, in contrast to other developers with financial or legal backgrounds, is that he has technical skills that are important in these sorts of complicated projects,'' said Michael Divney, the owner of a White Plains planning and engineering consulting firm where Mr. Gagne held his first job.
Early in his career, the projects he zeroed in on were golf courses. Mr. Gagne believed they were the places to which aging baby boomers would turn when their basketball and softball days were behind them.
''He was always talking about the future of golf courses, about the potential for high-end public golf courses in the Northeast because there weren't enough of them,'' said Steven J. Caspi, owner of Caspi Development in White Plains, where Mr. Gagne worked as a consultant from 1982 to 1992. As it happened, Mr. Caspi's company was hired by Japanese investors to help develop the Golf Club at Purchase, in Purchase, N.Y. Mr. Gagne, a golfer since he was a teenager, worked diligently on the building of that lush private club.
Mr. Gagne, who now lives in Greenwich, Conn., with his wife, started his own development company in 1993. Four years later, New York City asked for proposals to build a public golf course at Ferry Point Park. With partners Jonathan Stern and Paul Kanavos of Flag Financial Corporation of New York, who handle the financing, and Mr. Nicklaus, with whom Mr. Gagne worked on the Purchase project, he won the bid. Under it, Ferry Point Partners must pay a minimum of $1.25 million a year to the city once the course opens, more if revenues are high. Thirty-five years after opening day, the city assumes ownership.
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Washington: Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda chief, was unarmed and had already died with a bullet to the brain when the US Navy commandos entered his bedroom during a raid in Pakistan`s Abbottabad city, a US Navy SEAL has revealed in a book.
Giving a firsthand account of last May`s raid, the SEAL who also participated in it, has disclosed that Osama had been fatally wounded before they entered the room.
As the SEALS ascended a narrow staircase, the team`s point man saw a man poking his head from a doorway, wrote the SEAL using a pseudonym Mark Owen (whose real identity has since been revealed by Fox News) in "No Easy Day," a copy of which was obtained at a bookstore by The Huffington Post.
"We were less than five steps from getting to the top when I heard suppressed shots. BOP. BOP," writes Owen.
"I couldn`t tell from my position if the rounds hit the target or not. The man disappeared into the dark room."
Contrary to media reports that Osama had a weapon and resisted when Navy SEALs entered the room, he was unarmed, writes Owen.
Team members took their time entering the room, where they saw the women wailing over bin Laden, who wore a white sleeveless T-shirt, loose tan pants and a tan tunic, according to the book.
"Blood and brains spilled out of the side of his skull" and he was still twitching and convulsing, Owen writes.
While bin Laden was in his death throes, Owen writes he and another SEAL "trained our lasers on his chest and fired several rounds. The bullets tore into him, slamming his body into the floor until he was motionless."
Then the SEALS repeatedly examined his face to make sure he was truly bin Laden. They interrogated a young girl and one of the women, wailing over bin Laden`s body, who verified that it was Osama.
The book calls out inaccurate accounts of the assault.
"The raid was being reported like a bad action movie," Owen writes. "At first, it was funny because it was so wrong."
Contrary to earlier accounts, Owen says SEALs weren`t fired upon while they were outside the gate of the compound. There was no 40-minute firefight.
While searching Osama`s neatly organised room, Owen writes, that he found two guns -- an AK-47 and a Makarov pistol -- with empty chambers.
Owen also writes that the shots fired inside the room appear to contradict the mission they were given.
During a meeting with top commanders, a lawyer from either the Pentagon or the White House "made it clear that this wasn`t an assassination," writes Owen. He recounted the instructions: "I am not going to tell you how to do your job. What we`re saying is if he does not pose a threat, you will detain him."
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March 28th, 2010 | by Jocie Ingram | 8 Comments
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At any time of year it is nice to go for a stroll in the forest and seek out some of the weird and wonderful things living there. One of the most overlooked, and interesting of these are the slime molds. Often found on rotting logs or decaying stumps, slime molds may be bright yellow like a blob of scrambled eggs, or grey-white like tapioca pudding. Despite their unattractive name, slime molds come in a wide variety of forms and colours, some of which are strangely beautiful.
Scientists have long debated what slime molds are, since they have features in common with both fungi and animals. Like animals, slime molds are free-living and capable of locomotion. Like fungi, slime molds form fruiting bodies that produce reproductive units called spores.
Not fitting clearly into any category, slime molds have been placed in their own group, known as the Myxomycetes. This Greek name means myxa (slime) and mycetes (fungi). Around 700 species of myxomycetes have been described worldwide.
People who have never encountered slime molds have been known to react with fear to these unusual organisms. In Dallas, Texas in 1973, an unusually large mass of slime mold was discovered on the lawn of a suburban resident. Locals panicked, thinking that it was harmful bacteria, or an alien life form. When doused with water, the slime mold appeared to grow, which didn't help matters. After making national news, the situation was resolved by a local science student, who identified the strange yellow blob as a slime mold. In a few days it completely disappeared.
Slime mold reproduction is very complex, and begins with a single spore. Under favourable conditions the spore germinates, releasing cells that either have whip-like tails (flagellate) or no flagella (amoeboid). Whether the cells are flagellate or not depends upon moisture conditions.
These cells may act as sexual units called gametes, and will merge with compatible cells to form a zygote. The zygote then feeds and grows, and expands into a larger form called a plasmodium. During this process, the nucleus (core material of the cell) divides many times, but cells do not divide. As a result, a mature plasmodium may have thousands of nuclei, but consists of only one giant cell. This cell is bound by cell membrane or enclosed by a slime sheath. The sheath may be shed as a "slime track" behind the moving plasmodium.
The plasmodium usually lives in cool, dark places, where it creeps slowly forward, feeding on bacteria, yeast and bits of organic matter. Plasmodia vary in size, form and colour. Some are very small, and rarely noticed, while others are several centimeters wide. Plasmodia may be yellow, orange or red in colour, and may consist of a network of vein-like strands or be granular in appearance. During dry or cold weather the plasmodium may convert into a hard, crust like form called a sclerotium. This enables the slime mold to go dormant until conditions become favourable.
After sufficient feeding the slime mold migrates to a drier location with more light. Here, a remarkable transformation takes place. The slime mold stops feeding and moving, and the plasmodium produces a fruiting body. This transformation is brought about by certain signals such as exhaustion of available food, and changes in temperature and moisture. During this stage, the slime mold completes its life cycle by releasing spores from the fruiting body, which are dispersed by wind to new locations.
The fruiting bodies of slime molds are the phase of the life cycle most visible to humans. Fruiting bodies are found in diverse shapes and colours, and may appear as a cushion-shaped mass or a cluster of globe-shaped sporangia (spore bearing sacs) balanced on thin stalks. Fruiting bodies may also be goblet or plume shaped.
Slime molds have been used in some interesting experiments. Japanese scientists constructed a maze, and placed food at the end of two exits, with four possible routes. Surprisingly, the slime mold squeezed itself into the shortest section of maze to reach the food. Dr. Tanya Latty at the University of Sidney conducted an experiment that assessed the ability of slime molds to choose between different quality food sources with different degrees of risk. Both of these experiments may indicate that the slime mold, a single-celled organism, may possess a primitive intelligence. Another Japanese experiment tested the efficiency of slime molds in choosing food sources with the idea that complex communication and subway systems could be modeled by the choice patterns of slime molds.
Another experiment, conducted at the University of Southampton in England, involves a slime mold plasmodium operating a small robot, known as a "slime-bot". The legs of the robot react to the movement of the slime mold, which gravitates towards dark, hidden places.
So far, slime molds have not been known to be of medicinal value to humans, though they have been used in cellular studies connected with cancer research.
Slime molds are often encountered in the moist, shady forests of our area on decaying logs and stumps or on leaf litter of the forest floor. They may also be found on grass or bark mulch. Slime molds are harmless and delicate, so it is best to observe these mysterious organisms without disturbing them.
More information about slime molds is available in Myxomycetes: A Handbook of Slime Molds by Steven L. Stephenson.
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Jocie Ingram is a naturalist and writer based in the Comox Valley, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. More of her nature writing can be found on her blog.
lea coleman says:
October 9th, 2010 at 11:45 am (#)
I have just noticed some white slime mold on the long grass in my garden it seems to be dotted along a line of grass each about 5 feet apart it's sitting on top of clumps of long grass, not shaded it's a sunny spot during the day although the earth is always very damp.
Deborah Callicott says:
March 29th, 2011 at 10:24 am (#)
Yesterday we noticed a number of bright yellow spots on the old portion of the trunk of an elephant plant on our property, this morning there was just one GIANT "spot". During the night the smaller spots migrated to one of the larger spots, leaving a brown spider web looking residue in the vacated areas. When we touched it with a stick it had the consistancy of "wet" spray insulation foam.
My daughter said it was alien and called it the "blob", so I reached for my balsamic vinegar and attempted to destroy the creature, only to find that the vinegar just rolled off the back of said "blob"…. now my back yard area smells like vinegar, and I fear some of our hens (yes, the egg laying type) will attmept to eat the mess …..
We live in NE Florida and I have never seen anything like this before … Does anyone know if this stuff is dangerous? Can unseen spores be inhaled ? Could the recent low-grade plutonium radiation now being found here from the Japanese meltdown have activated this stuff?
Quite frankly it just creeps me out ……
Dave Ingram says:
March 29th, 2011 at 9:09 pm (#)
Thanks for visiting Deborah! I'm not sure what affect vinegar will have on slime mold but you've got a very cool opportunity to observe it change from the active creeping form to a reproductive state.
I don't think that Japanese radioactive "fallout" is anywhere near the levels needed to create a spontaneous mutation (or if that is even possible – don't remember reading about any giant slime molds near Chernobyl). I think more likely that overall climate change might be encouraging certain types of organisms to do better than others but again, I think that even that would be unlikely to create a dramatic slime blob!
hippo says:
May 31st, 2011 at 5:58 am (#)
Live in Charlotte,started to get this stuff bout 2 weeks ago.didnt think much of it.My main concern with 3 kids a dog & cat,is ifis harmfull.I got mt wood mulch from our local recycle center,witch they use wood from whoever brings it in from probably a 15-20 mile radious.Our mold eventually turns brown and powdery and goes away
Dave Ingram says:
May 31st, 2011 at 7:56 pm (#)
Thanks for stopping in Hippo! I can't see it being harmful to kids or pets and it is kind of fascinating to look at up close!
Don't give up – Peter Gabriel | Vancouver Island Big Year says:
February 23rd, 2015 at 10:09 pm (#)
[…] This blog post by Jocie Ingram provides a lot more information on them, and even has a picture of one that I believe is the same as this one. […]
Kyle says:
July 16th, 2015 at 6:31 pm (#)
I had yellow the yellow fluff slime in my mulch and was fearful that my children would eat it or touch it not sure if it is toxic but poured bleach over it and it made a chemical reaction decomposing the fungi like bubbling effect ditereating down to almost nothing the the rain washed away the rest stayed gone for about a month or so then came back in the exact place and size not sure it can be gone for good.
Dave Ingram says:
August 10th, 2015 at 8:03 am (#)
Hello Kyle – as far as I know slime mould isn't toxic and there's no reason to get rid of it, it will just slowly crawl away and eventually dry out. My kids and I have touched it with no ill effects, wouldn't recommend eating it though.


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Tresa Harrington said in a statement on her Facebook page that Harrington died on Wednesday evening.
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Located in the northwest corner of Davenport, the Eastern Iowa Industrial Center saw more new tenants arrive and building projects go up in the past 18 months than in any single year in its history.
In addition, the park — epitomizing the real estate mantra of "location, location, location" — is in the hunt to become one of Iowa's first large certified sites. That designation would show potential developers it is a shovel-ready industrial site.
Built on 500-plus acres of former farmland at Interstate 80 and Northwest Boulevard, the Greater Davenport Redevelopment Corp. has sold ground for five projects since early 2012. That nearly rivals the seven projects that have sprung up there since 2000 when what now is called the Blong Technology Center became its first tenant.
"We had a terrific year last year," said Tim Wilkinson, who was hired as the organization's executive director in February 2012 and is tasked with "selling dirt" and marketing the industrial park. "A lot of projects had been put on hold by the recession."
In fact, between 2008 and 2011, the park's only sale was a four-acre parcel to the Iowa Department of Transportation for right-of-way for roads. But Wilkinson said that some of the most recent projects had first shown interest in the park as early as 2007, before the recession hit. One of corporation's sales was to the city of Davenport for the development of a transload facility to serve the rail spur.
"When you look at the land sales, you can see when things were not happening," said Brock Earnhardt, Greater Davenport Redevelopment Corp. board chairman. He said some of the projects that did materialize took years to complete because "it wasn't the right economic climate."
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"I've seen nine prospects here in the last 18 months," said Wilkinson, a retired Alcoa Davenport Works executive who was involved in park's creation when he was part of the former Quad-City Development Group.
He credits the majority of the recent prospects to Quad-Cities First, the Quad-Cities Chamber of Commerce's marketing arm, which succeeded the development group.
"The last few years have been the kind of level of activity and successful development of the sites that the community envisioned," said Tara Barney, the chamber's CEO.
"It can't all happen in one-year increments. Some of it happens in 20-year increments. That's why you've got to have a 5-, 10- and 15-year plan."
The pace of development can be slow and frustrating, but the private-public partnership behind the industrial park is a best practices that the Quad-Cities needs to see more of, she said.
"It's very easy to say we want more, faster. But what we see lately in this country is having existing industrial parks and buildings is the difference between landing deals and not."
Today, the park has a mix of light and advanced manufacturers, logistics companies, a truck stop, state and federal agencies as well as the Blong Technology Center, a training center operated by Eastern Iowa Community Colleges. The latest property owners to put down roots are Sadler Brothers Properties, which is about two months away from opening its new Sadler Power Train facility, as well as Penske Truck Leasing, Roemer Machine and Love's Travel Plaza, which all occupy their new buildings.
Wilkinson said he works closely with Quad-Cities First and the city of Davenport and Scott County economic development staff.
"I really depend on them as we do all the partners, all the cities and local economic development organizations," he said. "If someone is looking for an industrial park with large lots and wants to be in a Foreign Trade Zone, they come look at us. If someone wants to come to Davenport and our site doesn't fit, we try to find a spot that fits in Davenport."
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The shovel-ready park has more opportunities for growth. Earnhardt said the corporation has sold 160 of the 500-plus acres to 10 owners/11 tenants over the years. Those owners have made $78 million in capital investment and created 468 jobs.
"The pattern here is tremendous," said Earnhardt, retired president of Iowa American Water who also was involved in park's early development in his former role. "If the remaining 70 percent of the property produces jobs at the same rate, we'll be over 1,600 jobs out here."
In addition, he said the current $78 million capital investment could blossom to $268 million if all the remaining ground is sold.
The next boost could come from the park's efforts to become one of the state of Iowa's new large certified sites. Tory Brecht, the city of Davenport's business development manager, said the park is competing against other sites for the certification from the Iowa Economic Development Authority.
"We're already in phase 2," he said. "We've been approved through Phase 1, and we're going to get a site visit from the state in November."
The certification, he said, "allows you to say you are shovel-ready and you have done a lot of the necessary due diligence for companies that may be looking to come in and build a plant."
According to Brecht, the Davenport park is the only contender in the Quad-City region for the designation. The next closest is a site in Marion. To be considered a large certified site, the site must be a minimum of 100 acres. The industrial center has 142 contiguous acres remaining for sale.
Sites that make the list, he said, "are being more actively marketed by the state when a lead comes in. If someone comes in and says, 'We're interested in putting a facility in Iowa, where should we go?' then we're on a list of pre-qualified sites."
Project began with a vision
Wilkinson said that from the park's beginnings, "the concept was patient money. You put the money in and you don't expect the return for a while."
He and Earnhardt credited John Gardner, former president of the Quad-City Development Group, for having the vision for the park.
"Twenty years ago, we weren't thinking about a global economy. John led the charge to get all the right people at the table," Wilkinson said, adding that many of the tenants operate in the global business arena.
Barney said that the Greater Davenport Redevelopment Corp. board "really recognized the importance of having infrastructure in place and having design and development standards that make sure they took the most advantage as possible of the great location on the interstate."
Asked about the tenant mix, she said, "I think they thought it would be tenants that wanted very big sites. But since then, manufacturing has become very tighter ..."
The physical space needed by manufacturers has been decreased by changes in processes, robotics technologies and the shift in supplier relationships. "There are few manufacturers that are doing everything in one space."
Barney said she is excited by the Greater Davenport Redevelopment Corp.'s interest in expanding the park.
"This is the perfect example of the high-quality development we need from our cities, our collective cities, to make sure we have sites to land prospects in," she said.
The corporation recently purchased a 70-acre parcel north of the park from Scott County farmer Glenn Keppy, Earnhardt said.
"The option came due; we had it for 10 years," he said. "We would not have been acting responsibly if we didn't exercise it."
Rather than going back to the corporation's original investors, he said they borrowed the $2.2 million from the bank. The corporation originally was a public/private partnership that included the city of Davenport, Scott County and MidAmerican Energy Co.
Earnhardt recalls how the project's site stirred some controversy back in the 1990s.
"This was some of the best farm ground in eastern Iowa, but it also was some of the best industrial ground in eastern Iowa because of its location," he said.


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A pretty good tasting Spanish Rice. Thanks Juju Bee. Bullwinkle
Wonderful. Had great taste and couldn't be simpler. I added about 1/4 cup diced roasted red bell pepper (store bought)at the time I added the rice and other ingredients. Did not use black beans. Instead I used what I had...2/3 cup of mixed vegetables consisting of green peas, corn, and small diced carrots. It was great! Once it was done I just stirred in about 1/2 cup of mixed jack and cheddar cheese. I loved the creamy texture the cheese gave it and really made a great dish taste even better. So easy and good.
This is great! I never cared for Spanish rice until I found this recipe. It is so flavorful, and like DH says, kind of dry like Spanish rice should be. I used the Taco Seasoning recipe by Michael on this site - it is wonderful. Now my family wants Mexican all the time!
I could eat this at every meal! My husband loved it, too. I added a little bit of chopped green olives, but not too much because it would be too salty. Thank you.
No more spanish rice out of a box for me:)I have always been hestitant to make spanish rice from"scratch"however, with all of the reviews for this I had to give it a try.I used corn and carrots and added garlic. I think I will add peas next time, too as our Mexican food place uses peas also. Terrific and easy--thanks!PeggyLynn
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This is wonderful! It looks great and tastes really good. This is now one of my favorite rice dishes, and I can't believe how easy and quick it is to make. I served it along side of rolled tacos.Next time I might even throw in some minced garlic, well because I love garlic. Thanks Juju Bee....
This rice was very good, mine ended up too hot(spicy) but that was my taco seasonings fault. I had no black beans so I used black olives for color. No corn either but it was still good. Thx for the recipe!
I just came home from work and was in the mood for spanish rice, and I wanted something new, so I googled it and found this recipe! It is fantastic! I also left out the black beans, but added a 1/3 cup diced mushrooms and a 1/3 cup diced black olives (personal pref). Once again Awesome recipe, Thanks Alot Juju Bee!!!
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