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Once again, Tom Kowalski hits some early names regarding the draft and free agency in his Friday discussion on Sports Radio 1130 Detroit. The names aren't new: Gaines Adams and Jamaal Anderson. Killer also breaks down the NFL playoffs, but I'm not posting those notes here. Download the MP3 to hear the full discussion.
Q: Was Drew Brees ever truly an option in Detroit?
A: I don't think so. They looked at the shoulder situation and the money, and the fact that the Saints were about to throw $10 million at him - so they kept their distance. At the time no one thought it was a huge mistake. At the time the Chargers were ready to let him go for an unproven QB, and the Lions ended up with Kitna and McCown. So in retrospect you say they should have done it, but at the time there wasn't an uproar.
Q: Would he have been compatible with Mike Martz's offense?
A: I don't think it would have been a problem. Brees is very accurate, and Martz really wants accuracy. The problem was the shoulder injury. They didn't know if he could play right away, would his armstrength be OK, and he wasn't 100 percent when he did return. He fit the Martz mold pretty good.
Q: ESPN had a profile on how teams are no doing running back tandems. Should the Lions do this?
A: Does LaDanian Tomlinson really need another RB? No. In those situations, they drafted young guys to take over, and they haven't done that yet. New Orleans won't be that way next year. Deuce McCallister will be gone, and Reggie Bush will be by himself. Laurence Maroney will be on his own when Corey Dillon is gone. Joseph Addai will be alone at some point. It's just interesting that it's happening all over now. If they would draft Adrian Peterson, that would be a heckuva deal, but Martz wants one guy. They think Jones is that guy.
Q: What is the Jones update?
A: It's going to be a long process, but they do believe he'll be ready by the start of training camp. It's probably more realistic to say the beginning of the season. There's no reason for him to practice at the very beginning if they're taking it easy on him. They don't need him to start that early.
Q: Being ready and being effective are two different things. Teddy Lehman...
A: It's not the same. Teddy Lehman walked around on his lisfranc injury for three weeks. Doctor say you must get that operated on by a week in order for it to heal properly. If you don't you get the Lehman situation. What is a better comparison is Warrick Dunn, who had the same injury by the same doctor. He hasn't missed a game since his return, and he's rushed for 1,000 yards and gone to the Pro Bowl. That's not saying he'll do the same thing, but I made the same mistake with Lehman early on. They didn't know Lehman had the injury until a few weeks later.
Q: So when the Lions say he'll be back, he'll be ready to be the workhorse again.
A: That's what they're hoping. Their plan is to get a veteran back they can count on in case it doesn't happen. The other two RBs they have, Shawn Bryson and Brian Calhoun, are coming off of knee injuries. They need insurance.
Q: Caller says there was a report that the Lions were looking at a defensive end out of Arkansas, what do you know about him?
A: The guy is Jamaal Anderson out of Arkansas. I don't know much about him yet. There's no indication he'll be the No. 2 guy off the board. Gaines Adams out of Clemson is the best pass-rusher in the draft. We have to see how they grade out at the workouts. The Lions are, right now, facing a bad situation with the top players being QBs, RBs, or WRs - players they don't need.
Q: Jamie says Mel Kiper's mock draft, Jamaal Anderson is at No. 6 and Gaines Adams is No. 10. Caller asks what they'll go after in free agency? And, would they have drafted Reggie Bush last year?
A: I think they would have drafted Reggie Bush and used him like the Saints did. He's a complement to Kevin Jones, not a replacement for him.
Regarding free agency, they need a veteran WR like Kevin Curtis from St. Louis. They need a middle linebacker. I don't think they want to rely on the draft to get a linebacker. Then, a veteran running back.
Q: Any word on what's going on with Mike Furrey?
A: I told you this was going to be a tough negotiation. Mike Furrey wants to be paid like a No. 2 guy, and they want to pay him like a slot receiver. Martz likes guys with speed on the outside. That's why Calvin Johnson wouldn't be awful at No. 2.
Q: Caller says "Lions suck" before hanging up.
A: "There you go."
All notes are paraphrased. What I write for the answers are what Tom's saying, but not direct quotes. Listen to the full interview by downloading the MP3 or subscribing to the podcast.


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The Burlington County barn fire that killed about 1,000 hogs has been ruled accidental.
Burlington County Fire Marshal Bob Rose says the investigation of the fire that broke out Monday night at Pig Farm Recycling, Inc., has been completed.
The fire began in a kitchenette within a barn, Rose says. But he says things were burned so badly that it will never be clear exactly how the fire began.
About 900 hogs in one barn were burned to death. About 100 in a nearby barn had to be euthanized after they suffered smoke inhalation.
Pig Farm Recycling had been the state's largest hog farm, with about 1,700 animals.

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What trout? airport asks
Termites in your walls. Rats in your basement. Trout in your stormwater system?
Maybe not. The Port of Bremerton is currently trying to figure a way to deal with a recent state Department of Fisheries announcement that cutthroat trout could be living upstream of Bremerton National Airports stormwater detention pond.
Port officials say theres no way trout could be living in the airports stormwater collection system theres just not enough water.
Theres no perennial flow there, said airport operations manager Fred Salis-bury. Were trying to figure out why they believe that.
Salisbury believes the trout in question likely live in a large wetlands area by Bremerton Raceway. However, that wetlands drains into a separate basin, Salisbury said, and has no impact on the retention pond in question.
Nevertheless, state fisheries is demanding the port re-engineer its stormwater facilities to take the fish into consideration a step the port is reluctant and perhaps financially unable to take.
The ports runway re-alignment project, which prompted this review of the airports stormwater systems, falls under several jurisdictions. Although the state fisheries and the national fisheries departments usually oversee separate turf, because the port is seeking federal funds for this project, both agencies are involved. This is creating quite a bit of conflict, Salisbury said.
State fisheries, which believes trout exist upstream of the retention dam, wants the port to rip out the retention pond to allow for safe passage of the fish. National Marine Fisheries (NMFS), which doesnt believe trout inhabit the collection system, wants the port to expand the retention pond and collection network to allow for more stormwater storage.
Although the port, when it built the pond in the early 1990s, factored into its plans the runoff created by the eventual realignment, standards have changed since then. NMFS released a new set of rules in 2001 calling for tighter restrictions on outflow rates. In other words, the port now has to ensure its pond can hold more water so the water can be released more slowly than before.
Salisbury said 50 percent of the airports runoff ends up in the storage pond on the southwest side of the main runway.
Thats a lot of water, he said.
In an effort to please both parties at least partially the port is working on an alternate solution. Instead of expanding the retention pond or tearing it down, the port proposes building a second collection and treatment facility upstream of the current facility. The new facility would treat the wastewater actively, using filters and storage basins, to help meet the new higher standards for outflow water quality.
The current system treats stormwater passively using naturally occurring means of water purification.
Although a second treatment system could add an estimated $750,000 to the final cost of the project currently estimated between $3.75 million to $4.5 million Salisbury said there are several advantages to handling the problem that way.
First, he said, expanding the current retention pond could be prohibitively expensive, depending on the amount of work needed. Similarly, tearing the current stormwater system apart and creating an entirely new one would likely be so costly many times the estimated cost of expansion as to make it unfeasible.
Finally, Salisbury said, by installing a second treatment facility upstream of the existing pond, the port would effectively remove state fisheries claim to jurisdiction, making the trout issue a moot point.
Nevertheless, Salisbury was adamant the port is not dismissing state fisheries concerns. He expects the port will eventually want to undertake a complete redesign of its stormwater management systems just not right now.
Weve got to be sensitive to their concerns, and we are, Salisbury said. But thats going to take a long-term solution. Its not going to be done overnight.
The proposed realignment has been in the works for some time. The port plans to dig up approximately 147,000 square feet of the runway and 49,000 square feet of the adjacent taxiway and then pave a similar area south of the runway, effectively moving the runway several hundred feet to the south. The move was required by the FAA, which stipulates a minimum 500-foot by 1,000-foot area of clearance at both ends of the runway.
Currently, the north end of the runway comes within only a few hundred feet of State Route 3, posing a safety risk for both planes and cars.
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Using Page Manager and Panels, clicking on the cog wheel on content that is at the bottom of the page opens the Dropdown partially hidden off the bottom of the window.
Ideally it would recognize that opening here would be off screen, and adjust the menu up.
Comment #1oresh CreditAttribution: oresh commented
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That's a really annoying issue.
Need to work on it, probably will also need to apply the changes for D8.
Comment #2merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commented
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Please read the link about "Descriptions of the priority and status values" before changing them. Thanks.
Comment #3jhodgdon CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented
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I think this is actually a major issue.
I am running into it in Linux-Ubuntu / Firefox when editing a panels page (I'm not sure what browser/OS the original reporter of this issue is using, but I can confirm it happens on this combination). In the Panels Page UI, the bottom-most item in the Content screen cannot be removed, because the pop-up menu that you get when you click on the wheel has the "Remove" option way down at the bottom, and it is scrolled off the screen and cannot be selected.
I could attach another screen shot, but it looks just like the one in the original report.
To reproduce:
a) Create a Panels page, going through the entire wizard interface.
b) If you are not already on the (single) variant's Content vertical tab, navigate to that.
c) Add a pane to the bottom-most content region shown on the screen, such as a "New custom content" saying "hello world".
d) Attempt to remove this newly-added pane by clicking on the wheel. The Remove menu item is hidden and I have not found a way to scroll in Linux-Ubuntu / Firefox to make it display, aside from hacks like using Firebug to make the menu always visible or something like that.
e) If you cannot reproduce with these steps, make your browser window shorter and you'll see it happen.
Since I don't know of any other way to remove a content item I've added to the panels page, I think this is a "major" bug rather than "minor".
As another note... When I open the menu, I notice that my overall page gets taller. However, the way it does this is that what I was looking at previously stays visible and the new part is hidden below, and I would have to scroll the main page down to see the bottom of the menu (this is also illustrated in the screen shot above). However, if I move my mouse over there to scroll the page, the menu goes away as well as the extra page height.
So somehow in the JS/CSS, what needs to happen is that if the menu would go below the bottom of the page, it needs to be shifted upwards. Or else the page needs to be scrolled down so that the entire menu div is visible. Too bad I'm not much of a CSS/JS whiz... I'm not sure how to fix it?
Comment #4merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commented
As a workaround the pane can be moved up and then removed, which is crappy but functional.
Ultimately, my dropdown .js is pretty crappy and I don't actually have the chops to be able to fix it. :(
Comment #5jhodgdon CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented
True, that is a viable workaround that doesn't involve Firebug. :) My brain usually works in the "delete the old one first, then add the new one" way, but yes you can add the replacement first, move it up if necessary, then go back and delete the original item you were trying to remove.
It sounds like maybe ctools needs to recruit someone with more JS prowess than either of us to fix this?
Comment #6justinchev CreditAttribution: justinchev commented
Comment #7justinchev CreditAttribution: justinchev commented
Opinions/feedback required... I've been playing around with the options trying to get it working while also providing a good UI experience. Each option I try seems to have it's own set of issues/drawbacks. Solutions below, ordered from best to worst as I see it...
1) Don't make the menu disappear on mouse-out
This is the most feasible option I can think of right now which doesn't involve altering too much.
On clicking the clog the menu appears, but it doesn't disappear on mouse-out. This way the user can use the browser scroll-bar to bring the hidden bit of the menu into view. To hide the menu they will need to click the cog again. Could also make it disappear with an off-menu click (like a lightbox).
Benefits include working with tablet & mobile (no hover state), and not needing to target CSS styles in external files (Panels).
2) Auto-scroll the page down to reveal the bottom of the menu
You click the menu and as it expands and the browser window auto-scrolls down to reveal the bit would have been cut off. Problem is that the mouse pointer automatically goes into the mouse-out area as the page scrolls. We could get around this by shifting the drop-down menu to the right a little bit so that the menu aligns directly under the cog and mouse pointer stays in the mouse-over zone. Suppose we could get around this by only scrolling down if the menu isn't going to the get hidden at the top of the screen, but we could end up with the 'reversal-of-problem' issue mentioned next.
3) Move menu up to reveal hidden menu bit
By shifting the drop-down menu up to reveal the hidden bit you could potentially cut off the top while making the bottom visible. Probably not an issue when the drop-down is short/standard in length, but if you have a long menu, eg. with a long list of 'visibility rules' then it would cause problems.
Problem with this approach is that it will probably need to target CSS which is Panels specific (included in a Panels module CSS file). This is obviously not CSS you want to be targeting from the cTools 'dropdown.js' file. BTW where else is the dropdown.js file used besides in Panels?
There I was thinking this would be a really quick issue to sort out ;)


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Bernard Madoff's former operations chief was charged yesterday with helping his boss run a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors and illegally infused $750 million into parts of the business that Madoff insisted was legitimate.
Daniel, 63, yesterday became the sixth person charged in the largest ever U.S. Ponzi scheme. Prosecutors and regulators said he was a key aide to Frank DiPascali, the Madoff lieutenant and Bridgewater resident who is helping the government unravel a fraud that cost investors as much as $65 billion.
"As Bernard Madoff's director of operations, Daniel Bonventre allegedly authored the fraudulent books that for years effectively hid the doomed state of an investment firm founded in fraud," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in New York said in a statement.
Bonventre's arrest yesterday morning by FBI agents follows charges against Madoff, DiPascali, Madoff accountant David Friehling, 50, and two computer operators. Bonventre, who faces up to 77 years in prison, was scheduled to appear yesterday in Manhattan federal court. He lived in Queens while working at Manhattan-based Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities.
Andrew Frisch, the lawyer for Bonventre, declined to comment.
Bonventre was hired as an auditor by Madoff in 1968. He faces charges of conspiracy, securities fraud, falsifying books, making false filings with U.S. regulators and filing false tax returns, prosecutors said.
"Prosecutors will be looking for him to give up everybody he knows," said Stephen J. Nelson, a securities lawyer at the Nelson Law Firm in White Plains, who isn't involved in the case. "He's pretty well-placed."
In his guilty plea on March 12, Madoff said the market-making and proprietary trading side of his firm was "legitimate."
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What is in this article?:
- Plan to make corn profitable in 2014
- A few corn marketing tips and ideas for 2014
- Marketing plans are more important this year with decreases in corn prices.
- No marketing plan is going to work out exactly but it will give a grower a structure and discipline for making marketing decisions.
LOWER CORN PRICES this year will make profits harder to come by and require more marketing expertise by growers.
The days of planting a corn crop, applying one chemical, harvesting it and then taking it to the grain elevator and expecting a profit are probably over.
Considering current prices and market conditions, making a profit will take effort, agree Extension economists Max Runge and Nathan Smith, speaking at the recent Alabama Corn/Wheat Short Course held in Shorter.
"The price outlook for corn is not so great," says Auburn University's Runge. "If we look out to 2015 and 2016, the markets are telling us that there won't be a lot of movement in price. But keep in mind, a lot could happen between now and then."
Weather, politics and a lot of other things can and will change in the next two years, he said.
"Our improved yields, technology and management, and we've got better irrigation and precision agriculture practices. Our yields will continue to increase, but the demand is out there. However, it has to be at the right price. Lower prices are expected to spur demand for ethanol, so that'll help with prices. Hopefully, we're looking at close to the floor with some of these prices now," Runge said.
Higher prices in recent years have resulted in more corn acres throughout the world. "China was the No. 2 exporter in the world 10 years ago. And now they're the No. 5 importer of corn, going from a competitor to a customer, so changes such as this are impacting the market," he said.
U.S. corn acres and yields continue to increase, he says. "We've also got more corn being planting in non-traditional areas, such as in some parts of the Midwest where cattle formerly were grazed. Our yields are becoming more consistent because of improved genetics and cultural practices such as irrigation."
This past year, the average corn yield in Alabama was 150 bushels. "I can remember a time when the average state yield was half that number. Our yields are going up, and that's a good thing. Our five-year average on corn is 117 bushels per acre," Runge said.
There's an increasing demand for food and food products as the world population increases, he says. "But probably more important is that the middle class is increasing, and it'll triple before 2050. Demand and consumption of grain continues to climb."


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The photo was taken on a very windy winter's day - the wind so strong that it plucked a few leaves prematurely from the branches. I caught one leave as it fluttered down. It's a precious moment when a young man decides to grow up, and take the risk to leave home and experience the real world, where opportunities abound for those who are young and ambitious. The title makes a reference to the opportunities (wind) that buoy the young and ambitious (green leaf).
Technically this is a quite a difficult photographic situation using either manual or auto focus, but here the photographer has succeeded wonderfully by simplifying the image. When taking this photograph, the photographer's thoughts were on the journey the young make out into the world, and I think it shows a fine sensibility to see the leaf as representing the future world of youth and adventure. This dancing leaf is certainly not one of those withered leaves that so often symbolize old age!(Judge:Naotaka HIROTA)
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Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Southern Tier students are using their imaginations to become some of the State's youngest inventors.
The New York State Invention Convention is Saturday at Binghamton High School.
25 finalists from our area will show off their ideas.
Alexis Hussar has the solution to the problem of staying on budget when you go to the grocery store: The budget keeper,
You put your budget in at the grocery store.
"As you go through the store, you scan your items," says Hussar, a 10 year old at Homer Brink Elementary in the Maine-Endwell School District.
It counts down and beeps when you've hit your budget limit.
Not bad for a 10 year old.
"Me and my family were sitting at the dining room table and we were talking about how much groceries had got to be; how little money people have. You have your amount of money and that's how you stay where you need to be."
Take a walk or run in "Light Ups".
"When you walk it, gives you power so there's no batteries needed," says Emily Gesel, a 12 year old, at Ann G. McGuinness Elementary in the Union Endicott School District. "Your hands are free and you can see where you're running and it's easier."
Don't like waiting for your cookies to cool?
Then Siera West's Cook and Cool, is perfect for you.
"I hate waiting for cookies to cool off because you have to wait for them to cool off on the pan," says the 10 year old from CFJ Elementary in Endicott. "Then you have to put them on the cooler and wait even longer. And I really like cookies."
The Army could benefit from 8 year old Andrew Gesel's idea.
"Too many guys have lost their lives in the war so something was needed to protect them," says the Linneus West student.
It even has a first aid kit in it.
Sydney Kwasek loves to ride horses, but when brushing her horse, her allergies flare up.
"I have to wear a mask because of the hair,'" says the 11 year old MacArthur Elementary student. "I cough and sneeze alot."
So she created the Automatic Horse Brusher for her first entry in the competition.
Anna Gesel's bottle funnel drink helps you get the amount of water out of your bottle that you want.
And then there's her favorite invention to date: The Ski Sled.
"You would go sledding like you normally do then you would get up and then you would unbuckle it and you pull it apart."
All of these bright ideas will be on display Saturday at the Invention Convention.
NYS Invention Convention is a statewide invention education program for public and private school students.
Some inventions from past Invention Conventions have gone big time.
A few years ago, a student teamed a pet snake with a flashlight.
Black & Decker later patented the idea as its Snake Light.


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Central (21-9) turned a four point halftime deficit into a 44-38 lead it wouldn't lose after the third period in the win at Alabama State's Acadome in Montgomery.
Shantoine Levy scored 25 points, including nailing Central's four 3-pointers, and added seven rebounds. Jonathan Wallace added 10 points, seven rebounds, five assists and three of the Red Devils' 10 steals in the game.
Jeff Davis (14-15) got 13 points from Maurice Crenshaw while Brandon Davis added 11 points and three steals off the bench.


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Single Blogger Looking To Knock Out Amazon's One-Click Patent
from the prior-art dept
theodp writes "What does an annotated bibliography of every article ever written about Sandra Bullock have in common with the Amazon One-Click Patent? More than you might think. A lone blogger is seeking donations to fund his 1-Click Patent reexamination request, a surprisingly impressive effort, which cites an earlier patent and DigiCash as prior art. He also encourages others to disclose pertinent prior art before a reexam is ordered." The blogger in question is looking for donations to pay the fee required by the Patent Office to re-examine the issue. You may recall that Amazon's 1-click patent has been subject to plenty of scrutiny before, including being the key point behind BountyQuest, an organization founded by Jeff Bezos and Tim O'Reilly to explore prior art on various patents. BountyQuest eventually failed to find any reasonable prior art (they didn't look into the obviousness question at all), eventually leading to the collapse of the organization. It's unclear if the information this blogger has turned up was reviewed earlier at all. Either way, none of this explains why the concept of the "one-click" ordering should be patentable at all.


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WEST ORANGE — This month, students at Hazel Elementary School were surprised with a gift from Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen's office.
In February, during the Hazel Valentines for Veterans drive, the students made more than 300 Valentines for the congressman's office to distribute to the veterans at Lyons and East Orange VA hospitals.
To thank them for their work, Frelinghuysen sent them an American flag that had flown over the United States Capitol building.
The school will hang the flag inside the school's office.
"Our students did an amazing job of showing great character and care for our veterans," said Ed Acevedo, Hazel Elementary School principal.
To submit school news send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Harbor Freight Tools Black Friday
Leaked Oct 11, 2016 @ 3:54p
We just posted the 68-item Harbor Freight Black Friday sale listing along with the 8-page Harbor Freight Black Friday ad scan!
Harbor Freight will be opening at 7AM on Friday and the sale runs until Sunday. If you prefer to shop online, items will be on sale starting on Thanksgiving. If you're a fan of comparing ads you'll be excited to see that this year's ad is very similar to last year's. We see a lot of stores use the same formats for their ads, Ace Hardware being one of the most talked about, and Harbor Freight seems to be following that trend. A lot of the items are the same price as last year, some being a few dollars less.
If you're unfamiliar with Harbor Freight it's a great place to pick up some freebies with their weekly coupons, but even their ad states "No Lines Before 7AM" so you know there's not much of a draw during Black Friday. The ad also says that there will be "hundreds of unadvertised specials" which they say every year, so you can keep an eye out for extra discounts if you stop there on Black Friday. Harbor Freight isn't going to stock fancy air tools or really anything that's very high-quality -- however, if you're in need of cheap tools to keep around your home or in the trunk of your car, keep them in mind. Harbor Freight's Black Friday ad leak means more are on the way so make sure to subscribe to our free newsletter or follow us on social media to stay in the loop! read more on BFAds.net
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Education doesn't end after high school or even after college. Learning new things is part of our daily life after we leave the confines of traditional education. The same is true when it comes to agriculture. There are new technologies, new inventions, new genetics, and new equipment. Continuously agriculture is changing and the information farmers need to know is changing too. Did you know farmers take time to get educated off the farm?
During the winter months across Michigan, grain farmers, livestock farmers, dairy producers, small farmers, large farmers, old and new – they're all gathering to increase their learning opportunities for their farms. Depending on the crop, many farmers are part of associations or attend conventions and trade shows to learn about the previous years' harvest, disease pressures and new technologies. They bring their families, employees and sometimes even friends and neighbors to sit in sessions, walk through new equipment and take in what they can do to make their farm better.
From the Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable and Farm Market Expo, Michigan Agribusiness Association's Winter Conference and Trade Show, to the Great Lakes Regional Dairy Conference, Michigan Bean and Beet Symposium and Winter Corn and Soybean Research Meetings. There are meetings, conventions, conferences and trades shows oh my!
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. Well farmers are making improvements, implementing change and continuously evolving to bring you healthy, nutritious food at a reasonable cost. The crops are in, and farmers are going back to school this winter to get ready for the next advance in agriculture.
As farmers continuing to change, take time this January to make a few changes yourself. Many New Year's resolutions centered on weight loss, financial management or improving health in some way. What about making one family meal a week? Visiting a farmers' market once a month, or trying a new recipe every weekend?
Give this one a shot with a twist on an old favorite:
Chicken, Mushroom, Broccoli and Rice Casserole
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 onion
- 1 lb mushrooms quartered
- 1 stalk of celery diced
- 1 box of Long Grain & Wild Rice, prepared per instructions
- 2 cooked chicken breasts, cubed or left over roasted chicken meat
- 1 6-8 oz can of sliced water chestnuts, diced
- 1 cup of broccoli florets
- 1 10 3/4 oz can of Cream of Chicken soup
- 1 10 3/4 oz can of Cream of Celery soup
- 1/4 cup light mayonnaise
- Salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare rice per instructions. In a heated pan add 1/2 tbsp oil and cook mushrooms until golden brown - remove from pan. Add the other 1/2 tbsp of oil to the pan and cook onions and celery until soft. Steam broccoli until just fork tender, then cool. In a large bowl, combine all ingredients and mix well.
Put into a baking dish and heat uncovered for 30 minutes. Let cool for a few minutes prior to serving. Enjoy.


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Children's and women's apparel retailer ThredUp.com also sends postage-paid bags for sellers to fill and return. ThredUp primarily sells goods from mass-market brands like The Gap and J. Crew, and consequently has to inspect, catalog and manage a lot of inventory. About 20,000 items arrive each day and about half are accepted for resale after passing a 12-point inspection, says Anthony Marino, chief marketing officer. (Items not accepted for resale are donated or returned to the consumers who sent them for a $12.99 fee.)
On Thredup.com, the e-retailer explains to consumers considering selling their clothing its requirements regarding the brands, styles, sizes and condition products must meet for ThredUp to buy them. "We want the customer to find inventory that's relevant to them," Marino says. "It's also a process of communicating to our [consumer] suppliers, here are the things we're looking for."
Offering sellers better financial terms than they might get from local resale shops also opens the door to acquiring desirable inventory. That's the tack taken by high-end online watch consignment site Crown & Caliber, which launched in January 2012, to scale up its inventory.
With resale prices that can sometimes be more than $100,000, the company's primary competitors for reselling these high-end watches are auction houses and bricks-and-mortar dealers, says Hamilton Powell, the retailer's founder and CEO. But Crown & Caliber offers a larger commission to sellers. Crown & Caliber keeps 19.5% of the purchase price as its consignment fee, which is considerably lower than the 50% commission many bricks-and-mortar consignment shops rely on, he says. "We want to develop a reputation quickly," he says. "We think we can do so with a much lower rate."
By accepting merchandise on consignment, merchants like Crown & Caliber don't have their capital tied up in inventory. Yet some online resellers see advantages to purchasing product outright from sellers.
Yoogi's Closet offers sellers a choice between consignment, with the retailer taking a 30% commission fee, or direct purchase, with the site paying the seller at least 60% of the expected selling price of the item up front. Less than 10% of sellers opt for consignment, Han says. "They want cash now," he says.
The 60% payout is at the high end of what bricks-and-mortar resale shops might offer sellers. A typical commission fee for resale stores is 50% to 60%, although it is less for high-end items, according to Adele Meyer, executive director of NARTS: The Association of Resale Professionals, an association that represents resale professionals. Han says by offering better terms for merchandise than many bricks-and-mortar consignment stores, Yoogi's Closet improves the flow of inventory, which keeps buyers and sellers coming back. "Sellers are intelligent," Han says. "They can figure out the average selling price by going to eBay. The last thing we want to do is offer an unfair payout." He notes that the company is on track to gross more than $10 million this year.
By offering experiences similar to first-run high-end retail sites, upscale resale sites are pitching to consumers the fact that they offer first-rate items at a fraction of the price. And that's a value proposition many consumers are buying.
Ann Meyer is a freelance writer based in Wilmette, Ill.
Poshmark gives fashions a second life
Poshmark Inc. CEO Manish Chandra knows fashion-conscious women are passionate about their smartphones.
That's why Chandra chose to go mobile from the start with Poshmark, a smartphone app that allows women to turn their closets into virtual resale boutiques on the company's platform. Individual sellers use their iPhones or Android smartphones to photograph the apparel, jewelry and accessories they want to sell. Then they upload the photos, write brief product descriptions and post prices to their resale accounts—called "closets"—on Poshmark.
The platform launched as an iPhone app in 2011, then added a web site in late 2012 and introduced the app for Android smartphones last November. About 90% of the company's sales are from the apps.
"We make it very easy to manage [shopping] while you are on the go," Chandra says. When a buyer purchases an item, Poshmark notifies the seller and sends a mailing label for the seller to print out and put on the package. Once the buyer accepts the item, Poshmark sends a check to the seller.
Poshmark, which keeps 20% of the selling price on completed transactions and gives 80% to sellers, features more than 300,000 resale closets. For the first eight months of 2013, more than 1 million items were sold on Poshmark, Chandra says. But he says the company is only scratching the surface of what he estimates is a $35 billion resale apparel market.
About 70% of Poshmark's customers also sell merchandise on the platform. Chandra calls the sellers "closet entrepreneurs," with some generating $70,000 or more annually. "Many of these women started with their closet and found they were really good at it," he says. Now they are sourcing merchandise to sell on the platform.
Chandra, who previously founded social shopping site Kaboodle Inc., launched Poshmark after looking at the clothes in his wife's closet and finding many items still in bags and that hadn't ever been worn. He saw a business opportunity. By allowing women to serve as merchandisers, Poshmark provides an incentive for sellers to do their own marketing, largely using social media. The platform also hosts "posh parties," which often focus on a specific designer or category of clothing, where buyers and sellers connect virtually at a set time.
The company has raised $15.5 million in venture capital from Mayfield Fund, Menlo Venture and SoftTech VC and individual investors, including stylist Rachel Zoe. The funds have allowed Poshmark to improve its systems and launch its Android app. The company's streamlined system, including a Share button that makes it simple to posts merchandise photos to Instagram, Pinterest or Facebook, has helped to create a community of loyal users.
"It's selling, but it's also self expression," Chandra says. "I don't think [other] people have focused on women and their closets and mobile the way we have." — Ann Meyer
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Syracuse, NY -- A man with mental problems pulled a realistic-looking revolver from the waistband of his pants Thursday night and crouched in a shooting position just before he was mortally wounded by two sheriff's deputies and a Syracuse police officer.
Benjamin J. Campione, 55, of 120 Court Terrace, died at Upstate University Hospital after the 6:15 p.m. shooting in the parking lot of the Regional Transportation Center off of Park Street.
In the grass lay the revolver Campione pulled from his pants, which Syracuse police Chief Frank Fowler identified as a Crossman pellet gun that resembled a .357 Magnum handgun.
"It's an extremely realistic handgun," Sheriff Kevin Walsh said.
The incident started when Campione drew attention to himself inside the Market Diner on Park Street, Fowler said. The manager told 911 call takers that Campione was highly intoxicated, acting in a bizarre manner and making the diner staff uncomfortable. And, the manager noted, there was a handgun in the man's waistband.
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The man with the shaven head was dressed in black with white sneakers, Fowler said. He was wearing a black trench coat.
Two Onondaga County deputies on an Operation Impact patrol and a Syracuse officer appeared on the scene, Fowler said.
The officers called out to Campione and he reacted by taking a crouching position, "like officers on a firing range," Fowler said.
"It happened over a matter of seconds," Fowler said. "We're not sure he said anything."
Campione has an extensive history of schizophrenia and was off his medications at the time of the shooting, Fowler said. He has been hospitalized for his mental problems at Hutchings Psychiatric Center and at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Fowler said.
Campione also had extensive history and contact with police, including arrests for attempted unlawful imprisonment, assault and driving while intoxicated, Fowler said. At the time of the shooting, Campione was wanted on a warrant stemming from a DWI arrest.
Syracuse police were unable to give details of Campione's previous arrests, saying that all the arrests were done by deputies.
The attempted unlawful imprisonment arrest was Nov. 2, 1999, according to a Post-Standard news story. He was accused of approaching a woman in the parking lot of a Brewerton Road store in Mattydale and attempting to force her into a car, the story says.
That arrest came a week before he was charged with trespassing for refusing to leave a dance studio where children were taking a class, the story says.
All three police officers at the scene fired their weapons, although police were not able to give how many shots were fired in the shooting. Fowler also was not able to say how many times Campione was hit by gunfire, saying that the department was waiting for the autopsy report.
The two deputies and the officer have not been identified, and Fowler cited department policy saying that they will wait 72 hours before making the identification. The police officer has 25 years on the force, while the two deputies have three and five years experience, according to Fowler and Walsh.
The officers' guns were turned over to authorities after the shooting. The shooting will be put before a grand jury for review. Fowler, however, said he believes the officers did what they were supposed to do.
"This is a completely justified shooting," Fowler said.
There are no background checks, or anything else for that matter, required to purchase a pellet gun, Sgt. Tom Connellan said. Anyone with money can purchase one from a sporting goods store, he said.
The Syracuse police officer did not carry a Taser weapon at the time and training calls for police not to use a Taser when a suspect is in possession of a firearm, Connellan said.
Police do not know where Campione was before he showed up at the diner, Fowler said. Police are asking anyone with any information on the whereabouts yesterday of Campione to call the Syracuse police at 442-5222.


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Jack Curry of the YES Network is reporting on Twitter that the Yankees have spoken with the agent for former Red Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis about a one-year contract to fill in for injured third baseman Alex Rodriguez. According to Curry, Youkliis is open to the idea of signing a one-year only if the price is right.
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The Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, and Philadelphia Phillies have also shown interest in Youkilis, while the White Sox have not ruled out a new deal. Youkilis earned $12 million last season, a number the Yankees are not likely to match.
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The event was held April 13 and Pussehl said he was informed of the potential cheating, opening an investigation into the alleged incident on April 15.
Three days after the investigation began, the officer resigned, according to Pussehl.
"I was beginning the termination process when he resigned," Pussehl said.
Results of the investigation found that the officer did cheat, in order to win an Apple iPad mini tablet, Pussehl reported.
Pussehl said he had suspended the officer with pay on April 15, while an investigation took place.
Other officers reported to Pussehl that they were suspicious of the same officer cheating during the 2012 ball, he said.
"It had piqued some of the officers' interest to watch him this year," Pussehl said.
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Proceeds from the annual event are set aside for two scholarship funds sponsored by the police department and also used for separate public relations purposes, according to Pussehl.
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"Modern Dads" basically takes the same formula as "Duck Dynasty" -- make a sitcom using untrained actors and dress it up to look like a reality show -- albeit with less entertaining characters.
The cast includes first-time dad Nate, 37; single dad Stone, 41; stay-at-home stepdad Sean, 38; and vetera father Rick, 42.
"Occasionally you get a baby who slips into the dishwasher and pulls a knife on you," says Rick in a been-there, done-that voiceover.
Everything on the show feels outlined, if not scripted. Nate doesn't want to stop his car, for fear of waking a sleeping baby, while picking up Sean. The guys plan a party while meeting at a playground. Stone takes his daughter with him to see a doctor about getting a vasectomy.
"I'm gonna sleep on it," Stone says, beginning the wind-up to a line of dialogue that sounds like it was fed to him by the show's writer/producers. "Taking a casual attitude toward my genitals is how I ended up here in the first place."
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Those arrested were Jonathan Franklin, 27, and Elizabeth Merlino, 19, both of the 1300 block of Richmond Avenue, Graniteville; Michael Locascio, 18, of Hope Avenue, Fort Wadsworth, and Justin Menitta, 17, of Nostrand Avenue, Bulls Head.
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"This is Compton. No Dre, no Cube, no guns, no gangsters. It doesn't fit the story we all know," said host Guy Raz of NPR's Weekend All Things Considered, which on Sunday featured a Southland neighborhood close to the hearts of many here at KCET. Richland Farms is the long-lasting agricultural pocket of Compton. About 10 square blocks in size, the community practices a type of sustainability from yesteryear and has seen racial change throughout the years: white, African-American and now a growing Latino population.
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Langley Marina expansion green lighted
There was a party going on at the Port of South Whidbey meeting Tuesday night, even it it was only in the head of Port President Curt Gordon.
"There should be champagne or something," Gordon said. "This is a big deal."
His comment came in response to Port Operations Director Ed Fields' announcement that he had "good news." Just the day before, the Army Corps of Engineers had approved the port's expansion plans at the Langley Marina.
"I got the call and was down there in one hour," Field told Gordon and Commissioner Chris Jerome. Commissioner Dennis Gregoire did not attend the meeting.
The port has been waiting literally for years for the Army Corps permit. It means that port engineers can begin detailing the design, then the port can call for bids from contractors.
The final Corps permit had been anticipated for several months, but apparently needed a kick in the pants from higher officials. Fields said help was found in the offices of Senator Patty Murray and Congressman Rick Larsen.
"Our representatives were working for us at the Corps," Field said.
Rep. Larsen visited the marina Thursday where he was given a quick tour and shown drawing of the expansion plans. They were talking on the marina's walkway, to which was tied 400-feet of breakwater-style dock that can now be arrayed to accommodate more boaters visiting Langley.
The three sections of dock, purchased from Bremerton for $350,000 in 2007, will be arranged in a long triangular fashion, with the higher breakwater sides facing north and south where the strong winds come from.
Field told the commissioners the bid documents should be ready in two to three weeks. "It's a fairly complex job," he said. Access to the new dock must be provided, along with anchors, electricity, water, lighting and other accoutrements.
One last holdup is a $750,000 Federal Emergency Management Grant to purchase two emergency boats, one for South Whidbey Fire/EMS and another, perhaps, for the Sheriff's Office. If received, it will require a slightly different docking arrangement. The commissioners hope to get the final word from FEMA in a week or two. Gordon asked Larsen for help during his marina visit.
The newly enlarged marina will be finished and ready for the 2014 boating season working with just the Army Corps of Engineer permit. However, the project will have to be shifted into high gear if the FEMA boat grant is received, as it will require project completion by Dec. 31, 2012, Field said.
The existing marina will accommodate about 38 boats, while the addition is expected to provide space for about half that number while allowing whale watching and other tourism boats to dock in Langley.
The revisions are the latest in a project that has been repeatedly sent back to the drawing board in recent years. The port took over the marina from the city of Langley in 2009, and an early proposal envisioned a $15 million rebuild that would create spaces for 117 to 245 vessels, as well as room for float planes.
The port asked voters to approve an $8.2 million bond measure to help pay for it, but voters rejected the proposal. Last year, the port used its bonding authority to sell $850,000 in bonds for the smaller project, which is estimated to cost about $2.4 million. The port also has a $1.2 million economic development grant from Island County and $300,000 from the state Recreation and Conservation Office.
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If you buy the premise that independent voters in general and independent female votes in particular hold the key to the race for governor, the latest EPIC-MRA survey reveals some fascinating data.
With four months to go before the November election a hefty number of those voters are on the fence. Check it out.
32% of independent men and 30% of independent females haven't the foggiest notion whom they are going to support, Rick Snyder or Mark Schauer.
Regarding independent females not on the fence, it's the governor 42% to Mr. Schauer at 28. And independent men break 35% governor and 33% challenger.
It is true many undecided citizens take their good old time before making a decision. They demand more information and are not knee-jerk partisans who have already picked-up sides. 81% of the Democrats say they will plunk for Mr. Scahuer and 88% of the Republicans are ready to go with the guy from Ann Arbor. In that voting segment, the game is basically over.
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Mr. Snyder leads with a significant 51% of men to 38% for Mr. Schauer. But Mr. Snyder is down by a hefty 11 points with younger women while the two contenders are virtually tied for the older female vote.
The female angle has been glaring in the last two pro-Snyder commercials. The first one featured a young business women hawking flat bread and thanking the governor for making her business grow. The second centers on a mom, holding a baby and complaining about the number of times Mr. Schauer voted to raise revenue. You don't see hide nor hair of the governor in any of these spots.
Mr. Schauer does appear in his commercials, because he needs to up his ID with voters, and he's complaining about the tax hikes imposed by Mr. Snyder.
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly and Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan jointly announced the crackdown today in a news release.
The investigation, known as Operation Artificial High, led to the seizure of more than 300,000 doses of various synthetic drugs that carry an estimated street value of $1.25 million, authorities said. More than 50,000 pieces of drug paraphernalia along with about $250,000 in cash and other assets were seized in addition to the synthetic drugs.
Authorities said that agents and troopers conducted undercover purchases and recorded transactions and surveillance as part of the investigation. Residences, businesses, smoke shops, gas stations and convenience stores were searched.
Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli and Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin were listed as cooperative prosecutors in the operation.
Morganelli said efforts to curb the sale and distribution of bath salts in Northampton County have been in effect long before the state's recent involvement, but he still applauded any help his office receives from Harrisburg.
"We've been on top of this for awhile," Morganelli said.
Morganelli did not comment on the specifics of the operation in Northampton County but maintained that it was an ongoing effort.
"We're trying to spread the word to local businesses that these synthetic drugs are a violation of the law," Morganelli added.
Deb Garlicki, a spokeswoman for Martin, deferred all comment on the operation to the attorney general's office.
Though synthetic drugs were banned in Pennsylvania last August, some have argued that they are still readily available for purchase in convenience stores, particularly in the Lehigh Valley, as well as online.
Kelly said synthetic drug producers often repackage the banned product with an alternative name for resale, and that practice will no longer be tolerated.
"This ban cannot be skirted by rebranding these hazardous drugs as 'window cleaner,' 'plant food,' 'incense,' 'not for human consumption' or moving them behind the counter," she said in the release.
Noonan said state police will take a hard-line approach to combating the flow of bath salts and other synthetic drugs across the state.
"Let this be a warning. If you are dealing or using -- we will arrest you," Noonan said in the release. "This crackdown should send a serious message across Pennsylvania, these drugs can kill and we're taking action."
The statewide crackdown was held in conjunction with a national initiative conducted by the Drug Enforcement Agency that targeted multiple levels of the synthetic designer drug industry.
A DEA spokesperson in the department's regional Philadelphia office said on Thursday that the national investigation yielded one arrest in Luzerne County but none thus far in Lehigh or Northampton counties.


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proposals in Central Iowa have failed this year, but will this time be successful? Greene County voters go to the polls next week. Our Vanessa Peng was in Jefferson and shows us how people in town feel going into the big vote.; 1:20:38 "KEVIN, INITIAL PLANS CALLS FOR THE PROPOSED CASINO TO BE BUILT AT THAT FIELD, WHICH IS AT THE INTERSECTION OF US HIGHWAY 30 AND IOWA HIGHWAY 4 JUST NORTH OF JEFFERSON." 48 NATS bell tower The sounds of the Mahanay Bell Tower boom throughout downtown Jeffersonbut it's the residents' thoughts on a proposed casino..soon to go up for vote... that is making the biggest noise around town. 51:49 "IT'LL BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST AND GREATEST THINGS THAT'S HAPPENED TO GREENE COUNTY." 52 Patrick Daughtery, 1:00:36 "MY DOUBTS ON WHETHER THAT'S A MEANS TO AN END." 38 Guy Richardson is part of the Grow Greene County Pactan organization going around Jeffersonasking people to vote yes on August 6th for the Wild Rose casino. Guy Richardson, 44:03 "THIS IS SOMETHING THAT STIMULATES GROWTH AND STIMULATES POPULATION." 07 Richardson is also a Greene County Supervisor..one of the five that unanimously voted in favor of the casino He says it will bring tax revenue and 275 jobs to an areathat doesn't have any. Guy Richardson, 46:40 "WE THINK PEOPLE ARE FOR THE MOST PART VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF THE ISSUE." 46:44 50:40 "I WANT A JOB OUT THERE EVEN IF IT'S PART TIME." 44 Patrick Daughtery says he doesn't know he'll vote, but he's not so sure a casino can solve all the county's financial problems. Patrick Daughtery, 1:00:46 "I'D LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING MORE SUBSTANTIAL THIS IS LIKE A HOLIDAY VISIT TO LAS VEGAS , BUT IT WOULD BE GREENE COUNTY." 55 Julie Poulsen is the Vice Chair for No Greene County Casino. Julie Poulsen, No Greene County Casino Vice Chair, 1:03:00 "I'M WORRIED THAT IT WILL CANNABALIZE BUSINESSES, AND I DON'T THINK IT WILL REALLY GROW GREENE COUNTY, IT WON'T REALLY BRING POPULATION TO TOWN." 07 1:21:29 "IF IT'S APPROVED, THE COUNTY WILL HAVE TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION TO THE IOWA RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION AND FROM THERE IT COULD TAKE UP TO A YEAR TO BUILD THE CASINO." VP..IOWA'S NEWS LEADER." 42
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THE NEIGHBORHOOD: The French Quarter, or Vieux Carré, bounded roughly by North Rampart Street on the north, the Mississippi River on the south, Esplanade Avenue on the east and Canal Street on the west.
One of the latter was John James Audubon, whose illustrated volume "The Birds of America" remains one of the most important -- and valuable -- works of its kind.
Audubon lived for about four months at what is now 706-08 Barracks St. in early to mid-1821 during an especially frustrating time in his life, as he struggled to make ends meet and get recognition for his work. Audubon (called "Jean-Jacques" before emigrating to America from France in 1803) kept a journal of his travels in 1820 and 1821 and documented his thoughts about his Barracks Street lodging:
"Our present situation is quite a curious one to Me, the room we are in and for which We pay $10 per Month is situated in Barraks (sic) Street near the Corner of that & Royal Street between Two Shops of Grocers and divided from them ... by Mere Board Partitions, receiving at once all the new Matter that Issues from the thundering Mouths of all these groupes."
THE BLOCK: The 700 block of Barracks Street on the even-numbered, or west, side, between Bourbon Street on the north and Royal Street on the south.
Just a block from Esplanade Avenue and a few to the French Market, the block is in the residentially zoned portion of the Quarter and so is today perhaps a little less "thundering" than it was in Audubon's time.
THE HOUSES: A collection of eight buildings dating from the early 1800s to the very early 1900s. Types range from one-story shotguns and Creole cottages to two-story townhouses.
As a preview to Satchmo Summer Fest, I take a walk in the Quarter this week and happen upon the 700 block of Barracks Street, where I learn from a wall plaque that John James Audubon once lived for a short period of time.
It seems as though it's impossible to walk the street in the Vieux Carre without stumbling on a place of interest, be it architectural, historical, culinary or musical!
If you would like a brief time out from the Satchmo birthday celebration at the Old U.S. Mint today and Sunday, consider a detour to Barracks Street and enjoy ogling (as I do) its collection of buildings that are as quintessentially New Orleans as Louis Armstrong himself.
Anatomy of the block
The first house facing Barracks at the Royal Street end of the block is a brick Creole cottage with Caribbean-hued shutters covering the windows and doors. A tiny plaque attracts my attention, and I learn that this is where John James Audubon lived for a few months in 1821, the same place he wrote about in his journal. I stand outside and picture him there, with his landlady (Old Miss Louise) and the grocers surrounding him, his delicate senses offended by the ruckus.
A wider Creole cottage follows, this one with six openings instead of four on its facade and a trio of dormers on its roof. Creole cottages are tricky -- you can't always tell from the number of openings on the facade how many units they house, as you can with shotgun houses. Many single Creole cottages have four openings and four equal-sized rooms, without an interior hallway. Other times, this configuration connotes two side-by-side, one-room-wide units under the same roof. But six, as I see here? I have my theory but I plan to ask a pro.
I pass a pink masonry townhouse with its filigreed balcony, then a blue Creole cottage getting a fresh coat of paint before stopping in front of a double townhouse painted a pale peach with acid-green shutters and front doors.
I notice a balcony cantilevered from the front of the building, supported by metal braces, and spot the cast-iron brackets and lacy eave trim above. Familiar with the tradition of three bays (or openings) on a townhouse, I interpret six openings here to indicate two side-by-side townhouses, with hallways or open passages behind the doors in the center of the first-floor facade.
The blue shotgun double (now a single, it appears) that follows seems to be about the same width as the four-bay Creole cottage down the block. That makes sense, I think to myself. If a cottage were lost to fire or another catastrophe, wouldn't the only rebuilding option be a new house of the same width? The cottages and townhouses I've passed on the block likely date to the first half of the 19th century, but the shotgun's wood siding and bracket-style details tells me it likely dates between 1895-1910. The giveaway? A Neoclassical-style window in the gable.
I walk on to a blue masonry townhouse with black shutters and ironwork on the second-floor balcony. The cornices over the openings on the facade likely are late 19th-century additions to the building, as is the overhang with its milled brackets. My favorite feature is the bands of "rustication" across the very bottom and very top of the facade, a rough-finished stucco meant to mimic a stone surface.
Are you surprised to see a tiny single shotgun with a camelback inserted in the mix? Despite its need of attention, the Italianate single adds spatial variety to the block's narrow proportions and stylistic dimension with its terrific details. Is it just me, or is it leaning a bit toward the blue townhouse on the left? If so, that wouldn't be uncommon in New Orleans (just ask artist James Michalopoulos).
At the Bourbon Street end of the block stands a two-story, sidehall house painted a creamy color with sage green shutters. Like both of the shotgun houses on the block, it has a front-gabled roofline (whereas the Creole cottages have side-gabled rooflines). I count drop-lap siding, quoins, fish-scale shingles, turned spindles and milled brackets among the decorative features that infuse its sense of style. A stained-glass gable window adds the final touch of elegance.
Life on the street
Ellen and Troy Abbey stand in the shade at the corner of Bourbon and Esplanade with their 20-year-old son Luke, perusing a perspiration-dampened map.
"Ma'am, can you tell us how to get to the St. Louis Cemetery?" Ellen Abbey asks.
I learn that the Abbeys live in Florida and are vacationing in New Orleans for a few days. They assure me that they are used to the heat, given where they live, but not because they cool off at nearby beaches.
"Once you live in Florida for a while, the beaches aren't that big of a deal," Troy Abbey says.
I show them on the map where the St. Louis cemeteries are and perform my best New Orleans tour guide imitation to ensure that they fall madly in love with our city. Then the Abbeys tell me that son Luke has instigated the field trip to the cemeteries, so I ask him why.
"I just like looking at the designs of the tombs," he says. "We don't have anything like that at home."
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Fighting child abuse with motorcycles
Bearcat clearly remembers his first "level two."
A child had been sexually abused by his varsity wrestling coach and family members of the accused were trying to intimidate the victim against testifying.
Before Bearcat and the other motorcycle riders — all clad in leather — showed up, the young victim hadn't slept for days and would change clothes every time he walked out of the house. But during Bearcat's first shift covering the front porch, the boy came outside just to say, "hi." He was also wearing the same clothes as he'd been in before. He eventually slept for 17 hours straight.
"This kid doesn't need to be afraid, to hide when coming out of his house," said Bob Stutz, a.k.a Bearcat, president of the Lake Washington chapter of Bikers Against Child Abuse. "It is very rewarding."
BACA is an international nonprofit organization that assists any child exposed to domestic violence or child abuse and live in fear of the perpetrator. Members of the Lake Washington chapter in Seattle are currently working with the Covington Domestic Violence Task Force in order to build a partnership in Covington and the surrounding communities. Members of the BACA chapter are expected to be involved in the Covington Days parade on July 19th.
BACA only works with children who have been referred from child protective agencies. Victoria Thron, director and founder of the Covington Domestic Violence Task Force, said she has been working to collaborate with BACA for a couple months. Thron said she discovered BACA through a Facebook post.
"I'd never heard of them before," she said. "It was video. I was so moved by it."
Covington hosts the annual Domestic Violence Regional Task Force meeting. Last year a forensic nurse presented on strangulation. This year, they hosted Bearcat and his Vice President, Danger, who told BACA's story and mission to about 60 people in the business of helping children.
"Everybody was just so blown away at what they do," Thron said. "The commitment they have as warriors for children is just phenomenal."
The stereotypical perspective of bikers is slightly misleading in BACA's case — these are certainly not Hell's Angels. BACA is a 100 percent voluntary organization filled with social workers, mechanics, software engineers, farmers and even a minister who goes by the monicker Preacher Man, who must all pass background checks. No matter the professional background, the mixture of leather jackets, revved cycles and rugged road names seem to come together as exactly the kind of friends a scared child needs.
"We use that image to our benefit," Bearcat said.
Bearcat, a retired social worker who worked for more than 40 years with neglected and abused children, wears multiple patches, including one that says, "No child deserves to live in fear." When he started with the organization, he'd tell people that BACA "brings purpose" to his bike.
"The more I got into BACA, the less I needed that statement," he said. "It has nothing to do with my bike. It has to do with protecting and empowering kids."
There are five BACA chapters around the state and about 153 more in 44 states, plus in countries around the world, such as Australia, Italy, France and Canada.
There are approximately 30-35 bikers in the Lake Washington chapter, split about evenly between men and women. Bearcat said the chapter has helped 135 kids since it started in 2007. Each accepted child gets a bicycle jacket and picks a "road name" to be part of the BACA family. The level one acceptance ceremony involves all available bikers coming together at the victim's home for a united front that often leaves the child in awe.
"The only reason I'm here, the only reason I do this, is to see the smile on that face," said Celt, a member of the Lake Washington chapter for five years.
BACA members attempt to form relationships with victims, taking them to ice cream and going on rides. Victims are also invited to come together barbecues and a Christmas party.
Kids may stay under the BACA wing until the age of 18, but it is not typically a multi-year process. Still, BACA members are available all day or night, every day of the year, for help.
"Even though a case may end, that doesn't necessarily mean the case goes away," Bearcat said.
Bearcat said he's never been involved in a fight over his nine years as a BACA member. He said the organizations goal is to always get the proper authorities involved.
"We don't believe in violence and don't condone violence," he said. "If push comes to shove we will protect the kid… but it's never come to that."
The group's physical presence is most powerful at home and in the courthouse.
BACA members are known to surround a child victim as he or she walks into the courtroom to testify – providing a shield from the eyes of an alleged abuser. They will give the kids trinkets to hold on the witness stand and tell them to only look at the people in leather; no need to look at the other table. This is an especially important tactic when the other family members are not allowed in the courtroom since they will also be testifying.
"Often times kids have no one in their with them," he said. "But we are there. The kids can feel empowered and supported to testify against the perpetrator."
If there are any imminent threats of intimidation or concern, a level two of protection is called, where a minimum of two BACA members camp outside the child's doorstep all day and all night until the threat is over. Bearcat said members once camped out in two to four hour shifts three straight days in Everett.
"It really empowers the children because abuse takes away that power," Thron said.
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No NFL team has gone through a deeper roster overhaul this offseason than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The Bucs should have at least nine new starters in 2014, as well as a handful of fresh faces to provide much-needed depth. The starting spots at key positions like quarterback, left tackle, defensive end, center and cornerback will look decidedly different for Tampa Bay this season, which should be good news for a team that went 4-12 in 2013.
Let's take a look at the new additions who are likely to make a significant impact for the Bucs in Lovie Smith's first season as head coach.