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The Irony of Richard Socarides' Disbelief Over Team Obama Defending DOMA
—Richard Socarides, former, uh, senior adviser to President Clinton who, uh, "permit" President Clinton to sign both the Defense of Marriage Act and Don't Ask Don't Tell into law. It's like, dude, you freakin' wrote the Clinton administration's talking points on these laws, like where you suggested Clinton officials, when asked about DOMA, respond, "[S]ince the President does not believe that the federal government should recognize gay marriage, he does not believe it is appropriate for scarce federal resources to be devoted to providing spousal benefits to partners in gay and lesbian relationships." Obama doesn't get to use the same line?
That was 14 years ago, for Christ's sake. A lot of people (including a lot of gay people) have changed their minds about same sex marriage since then. But I guess Queerty never forgets or forgives… how nice for you…
In September of 1996 BILL CLINTON signed the DOMA into LAW….
^^^ That's all that needs to be said!!!
I'll let you Obama hating queens defend the
When gays finally have full, nationwide equality we can start talking about forgiving the people who opposed it.
Until then people like Clinton and his minions are S.O.L.
@Devon: So we can't forgive people who have changed their minds until we have all of our rights?? You actually think we're going to make any progress that way?? By turning away anyone that comes to our side?
No wonder the gay rights movement is stalling, the people running it are just like the editors of queerty, bitter bitchy retards.
I'm way too traumatized by the now missing Clay Aiken story to make a meaningful comment.
@Devon: With that attitude I guess that includes Obama, Biden, and Hilary Clinton (Whom I personally adore). Bill Clinton may have signed it into law, but it's not like any of the 3 mentioned above came out in favor of same-sex marriage themselves (and saying leave it up to the States does not count).
Let me be the She-Devil's Advocate: In 1996 they were talking about a US CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT forbidding gay marriage, and since many states passed their own constitutional amendments, it might have worked. DOMA was the compromise of the day that allows us now to have a law that can be repealed more easily than requiring the consent of 37 state legislatures.
You're right that an amendment would have been worse, but there really wasn't a chance in hell they'd have gotten one passed, everyone knew that. Clinton signed DOMA and spent the run up to the 96 election all over evangelical radio bragging about how he had "protected marriage." He used it as a vote getter just like Bush.
Listen, I voted for the guy, but let's not rewrite history here. His entire reelection campaign was based on "triangulating" (fuck you Dick Morris) awful Republican ideas, the legacy of which is a deregulated financial sector and a ban on gay marriage. Obama may not have it in him to fix things, but he sure doesn't need criticism from those that fucked it all up in the first place.
I never heard the compromise/heading off the Constitutional amendment argument in favor of DOMA until Hillz started running for prez and needed gay votes.
Like Dan said above, it was highly unlikely a cons amend would have been ratified. The constitution's only been amended a couple dozen times times since the Republic was founded and is an extremely onerous process.
It's more Klintonian revision and rehabilitation of their not-so-perfect record on anything.
No. 9 · Dan wrote, "You're right that an amendment would have been worse, but there really wasn't a chance in hell they'd have gotten one passed, everyone knew that. Clinton signed DOMA and spent the run up to the 96 election all over evangelical radio bragging about how he had 'protected marriage.' He used it as a vote getter just like Bush."
Not exactly like Bush – DOMA was introduced by Clinton's opponent Bob Dole and Clinton diffused the issue by saying he was in favor of it. He didn't (as far as I know) actively push it but he did brag about signing it to keep Dole from getting an advantage by using it as an issue.
Read http://newyorklawschool.typepad.com/leonardlink/2009/03/the-legal-challenge-to-doma-the-defense-of-marriage-act-is-filed.html (which BTW was written by New York Law School professor Author Leonard, who thinks the recent DOMA decision should be appealed so that an appellate court can set a nationwide precedent, not because he doesn't like the outcome).
@B: 'B' is wrong.
Clinton didn't jsut support DOMA he championed it and then went on redneck radio to boast about it.
From Time Magazine, "By the time Clinton arrived in Chicago for his party's convention in August, nothing that hinted at liberalism was left hanging on him. When the President, who had begun his term advocating the rights of gays in the military, came around to supporting the Defense of Marriage Act, which barred federal recognition for gay and lesbian unions, Dole was wide-eyed. "Is there anything we're for that he won't jump on?" Dole asked. The answer, essentially, was nothing… http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/time/9611/23/kramer/
Bob Barr wrote DOMA, not Bob Dole.
Socraides, Clinton, Obama and Biden (who voted for DOMA. are defined by their role in a right centriost party of bigots no worse than the Republicans. The vote on DOMA was 85-14 in the Senate and 342-67 in the House.
Obama was lyng when he said he'd fight to get rid of DOMA. He's done nothing but pass out a few easter eggs. Bigots in politics and many religious bigots prefer working with Democrats like Obama and the Clintons – they're greedier, they fool more people and they're able to get away with a lot more than Republicans.
@whatever: For the first, last and only time in his life 'whatever' is right. The original Federal Marriage Amendment was first introduced in 2002, six years after DOMA passed in 1996 by Ronnie Shows, another rancid bigoted Democrat. There was no threat of a constitutional amendment at the time and Clinton was ahead in the polls when he championed DOMA in 1996. It was an act of pure bigotry as harmful as Obama's sabotage of same sex marriage in California.
Later, in 2004, another foul bigot, GW Bush called for a constitutional amendment to take away our right to protect marriage. Bush concentrated his bigotry in using same sex marriage as a wedge issue and promoted the passage of anti-LGBT marriage laws in some 40 states.
Both parties are run by bigots and bigot panderers.
@Bill Perdue: lol piss off, you nasty little communist troll, you.
@whatever: Awwwwww. Poor little Obot.
@Bill Perdue: hey, write another blathering 10,000 word screed on class consciousness and gay rights. it's been a while.
Do I think Clinton basically acted as our enemy for political expediency, and am I angry about what he, aided by this fellow did?
HOWEVER, am I going to look a gift horse in the mouth, when there is a high ranking DNC type, who is countering the White House advisors attitudes of basically "Screw the Gays"?
Sure, this guy was out there helping his boss defend DADT because it was good for them politically. NOW he is telling the current people in the White House that continuing to defend the law is bad for them politically. If I was Obama, I would take notice that a person who's only concern is the vote is telling me I need to court the gays more, especially if he is telling me to stop defending a law that he himself used to defend.
What is it with all this nonsense about "changing minds" and "forgiveness"?
Socarides has not changed his mind: he was always for gay civil rights, its just that when he was working in the White House, he served his master, Clinton, at the expense of his fellow gays/lesbians. He is, really, no different today. He says whatever white-washed version of the Clinton DADT and DOMA story so that he can make $$$ dissing the current administration.
As for forgiving Socarides; forgive what, exactly. He isn't apologizing for his earlier conduct of sacrificing gays/lesbians with his support of Clinton's gay/lesbian policies, he is simply ignoring his vile self-serving conduct while focusing contempt for the current Administration's weak attempts to undo the harm he and Clinton inflicted.
Certainly Mr. Obama has failed to create the "Hope" and "Change" he championed during the election. And due criticism is fair. But not at the hands of the very man who sacrificed our rights for his political gain (and keeping a senior White House job is a personal political gain, as is the ability to then sell your whoreass to Faux News/Murrock).
I've argued with David Erhenstein on other Queerty thread about the inappropriate use of the word KAPO. Socarides proves that my absolute position against calling a fellow gay a KAPO is wrong; Socarides was and is a KAPO. He needs to make amends and seek forgiveness BEFORE receiving any forgiveness for his vile anti-gay rights activities. Then we might, just might, accept his voice concerning repealing the very measures, DADT and DOMA that he personally participated in enacting and publicly supporting.
In Comment No. 12 · Bill Perdue put out more of his misinformation. Contrary to his claims I was not "wrong" but rather Bill Perdue is wrong regarding the facts.
First Bill Perdue claims, "Clinton didn't jsut support DOMA he championed it and then went on redneck radio to boast about it." Not true at all – Clinton "announced his support of it" after it was introduced (see below) merely to neutralize it as an issue. Read http://prideagenda.blogspot.com/2008/03/our-two-cents-on-bill-clintons-doma.html for a more balanced opinion – Clinton had a Republican-controlled congress that was trying to use gay rights as a campaign issue. Clinton didn't "champion" it – the Republicans were the ones pushing it. DOMA passed by an 84 to 15 vote in the Senate and a 342-67 vote in the House ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Marriage_Act ). Vetoing the bill would have helped Dole in his presidential campaign and would not have prevented DOMA from being enacted – the vote in favor was well over the amount needed to override a veto. Clinton's interests (getting re-elected) were such that he would have been better off without DOMA being passed (Clinton knew that signing it wouldn't be popular with gays and lesbians, but that not signing it would have been worse given public attitudes at the time). So, the optimal campaign strategy was to announce his support and then ignore it in the hope that it would get buried – voters would not blame Clinton for congress not getting around to passing it.
Second, Bill Perdue claims, "Bob Barr wrote DOMA, not Bob Dole" but what I had actually said was the Bob Dole introduced it, quoting a law professor's article. According to http://newyorklawschool.typepad.com/leonardlink/2009/03/the-legal-challenge-to-doma-the-defense-of-marriage-act-is-filed.html "The leading Republican presidential candidate, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, introduced the so-called 'Defense of Marriage Act' in Congress, and President Clinton, seeking to neutralize the issue, promptly announced his support for it." According to http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/dt/V129/N12/02-defense.12v.html states, "DOMA was sponsored in May by a very important senator at the moment, one Bob Dole of Kansas." According to http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/25/opinion/journal-i-got-you-babe.html?pagewanted=1?pagewanted=1 "Bob Dole is a lead co-sponsor of the bill. President Clinton this week announced that he'd sign it the moment it reached his desk." I'll note that http://www.pensitoreview.com/2009/01/05/author-of-doma-says-it-should-be-repealed/ lists Bob Barr as the author, which is not the same as the person who introduced it or sponsored it (and there can be multiple sponsors, but in this case Bob Dole, being a presidential candidate at the time, is the most prominent one).
Third, Bill Perdue is still blaming Obama, even though his term of office is not yet finished and he can only sign a bill repealing DOMA, not pass one. Apparently Perdue wants Obama to be as obnoxious as Perdue is rather than working quietly to actually get something done (and letting key members of the legislature get plenty of credit, which helps in getting their cooperation).
Regarding No 18, Bill Perdue got the facts wrong again. Clinton did not "champion" DOMA (it came out of a Republican-controlled congress). Bob Barr authored it, but Bob Dole was a sponsor (and as a presidential candidate the most noteworthy one), and I never claimed that Dole was the author.
http://newyorklawschool.typepad.com/leonardlink/2009/03/the-legal-challenge-to-doma-the-defense-of-marriage-act-is-filed.html , http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/dt/V129/N12/02-defense.12v.html states, and http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/25/opinion/journal-i-got-you-babe.html?pagewanted=1?pagewanted=1 .
All give Dole as a sponsor.
Richard Socarides = Weasel
The only good thing he did was make sure GetEQUAL "activists" are paid $90,000 a year. That's why I have made Activism my new career. Does PETA pay? I like animals, too. Well, except weasels.
No. 19 · Jason_Activist wrote, "Richard Socarides = Weasel"
Then what would you make of Bob Dole, who was one of the sponsors of DOMA, helped get it through the Senate, and had a personal incentive to get it passed: if Clinton vetoed it, that would be unpopular with quite a few voters at the time and if he signed it (which he did), that would annoy his gay supporters.
Basically, the Republicans were gay-bashing legislatively in the hope of getting an advantage in the upcoming presidential election.
Some people will of course object to hearing this – they don't want to hear the truth.
No. 13 · whatever wrote, "@Bill Perdue: lol piss off, you nasty little communist troll, you."
Hey, I know one person who is philosophically a communist, and he's a lot more reasonable and civil than Bill Perdue! Don't insult the communists by calling Bill Perdue a communist. A more accurate term might be "Stalinist" – Stalin would not accept any difference in opinion, whereas the one communist I know would.
When B loses an arguement he always gets personal. What else can he do?
"B" just can't help lying. It comes with the territory when you spend all your time defending rightwing scum like Rekers, McCain, Ratzinger the Nazi, Obama's fake DADT compromise, and everything bigoted that comes down the pike like Bill Clinton's championing of DOMA and then boasting about it on redneck radio.
Unfortunately for 'B' there are plenty of honest pro-GLBT people at Queerty who call him on his lies and question his motives. Here's how they responded to one of his many pro-Rekers posts:
Posted: May 14, 2010 at 6:50 pm • @Reply • [Flag?] No. 2 • WalkderDC
The point is, Rekers is claiming Jovani advertised as a travel companion. Yet not only has he not produced any other ad, nor the website where he found him. But Jovanni has said that he only advertised on Rentboy. B you have now been on 4 threads defending Rekers. What is your agenda?
Posted: May 15, 2010 at 10:03 am • @Reply • [Flag?] No. 3 • romeo
Yeah, B, I'm for freedom of speech and all, but you really need to stfu. Rekers is indefensible.
Posted: May 15, 2010 at 11:44 am • @Reply • [Flag?] No. 4 • schlukitz
@WalkderDC: "B you have now been on 4 threads defending Rekers. What is your agenda?"
@romeo: Yeah, B, I'm for freedom of speech and all, but you really need to stfu.
Gentlemen, B sees himself as a self-appointed moderator whose agenda is to make everyone who posts on these threads, including Queerty.com look dumb, while attempting but failing to make himself look smart, flag posters he disagrees with and trying to get folks like 1EqualityUSA and myself banned from this site.I have no doubt that B is the person responsible for every post that 1EqualityUSA and I make being moderated for the past several months now.
B apparently believes that he alone is entitled to freedom of speech but that is all other posters on this site that should stfu. For that reason both 1EqualityUSA and I rarely post on Queerty anymore.
Posted: May 15, 2010 at 11:49 pm • @Reply • [Flag?] No. 6 • Bill Perdue
If it's rightwing, if it defends bigotry and religion, if it denigrates the LGBT communities – then B is for it.
There are dozens of us who say the same thing and we're pleased not to have your respect. If you liked us it'd be very damaging to our reputations.
Posted: May 16, 2010 at 3:05 am • @Reply • [Flag?] No. 14 • WalkderDCNo B You aren't Just trying for accuracy. What you are doing is inventing scenarios to pretend that he isn't lying. First you attack the reporters for not contacting him, then when it was pointed out to you in another post that he was contacted you immediately scramble and say "But maybe he didn't understand what they were talking about!"b>So you are desperately trying to find any reason as to why he is somehow the victim here, and I am curious as to why.
Posted: Jun 15, 2010 at 7:00 am • @Reply • [Flag?] No. 19 • schlukitz
@Bill Perdue: Truth be known, I never got the impression that 'B'had any special love for me (or anyone else on these threads, for that matter), from day one. And that's what I get for having the unmitigated gall to disagree with "B'. Who do I think I am? ;P What I find particularly noteworthy, Bill, is the fact that 'B' has never once denied that he might have had anything to do with getting OneEquality1 and my comments moderated on this forum".
@B: Glad you're backing down 'B'. At first you lied, as usual, and said Dole introduced DOMA but now you're getting closer to the truth. He, like Clinton, championed it.
Clinton has a nasty habit of marching in lockstep with the Republicans on a lot of bills. Using state terrorism in the form of an embagro to murder half a million Iraqi children. Deregulation. NAFTA. Cutting welfare but adding 100,000 cops and hundreds of new prisons to hold African Americans jailed under draconian Jim Crow drug laws. DOMA. DADT. The list goes on and on. That's why Time Magazine said "By the time Clinton arrived in Chicago for his party's convention in August, nothing that hinted at liberalism was left hanging on him. When the President, who had begun his term advocating the rights of gays in the military, came around to supporting the Defense of Marriage Act, which barred federal recognition for gay and lesbian unions, Dole was wide-eyed. "Is there anything we're for that he won't jump on?" Dole asked. The answer, essentially, was nothing… http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/time/9611/23/kramer/
No. 24 · Bill Perdue put out more spin by saying, "@B: Glad you're backing down 'B'. At first you lied, as usual, and said Dole introduced DOMA but now you're getting closer to the truth. He, like Clinton, championed it."
Perdue, you are a bald-faced liar – I didn't "back down" at all. Dole introduced DOMA according to a web site I cited (written by a law professor) and other web sites agreed including the New York Times. Clinton didn't "champion" it – he simply tried to neutralize it as an issue by preventing the Republicans from being able to state that he opposed it (which was their goal in introducing it in the first place). Announcing "support" and then doing nothing to help the thing along is not "championing" it – what Clinton was doing was very simple: he was trying to get re-elected and getting re-elected was his number one priority.
The fact is that I said Dole introduced it, as explicitly stated in the URL I cited http://newyorklawschool.typepad.com/leonardlink/2009/03/the-legal-challenge-to-doma-the-defense-of-marriage-act-is-filed.html : "The leading Republican presidential candidate, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, introduced the so-called 'Defense of Marriage Act' in Congress, and President Clinton, seeking to neutralize the issue, promptly announced his support for it."
Furthermore, Clinton had every reason not to "champion" it – it was in Clinton's interest for Congress to not get it passed that session because the Republican strategy was to give Clinton a choice between pissing off gay voters versus pissing off homophobic straight voters (who outnumbered gay voters). Clinton signed it, but even if he had vetoed it, the veto would have been overridden as DOMA passed by a very high margin. He may have bragged about it after the fact (to a select audience), but that wouldn't be the first time a politician had taken credit for something he had next to nothing to do with.
Regarding the propaganda in No. 23, Bill Perdue is up to his old tricks trying to turn this thread into one more of his personal vendettas, showing a level of obsession that is really pathological.
I'll refer readers to http://www.queerty.com/did-olson-boies-just-secure-the-death-of-prop-8-20100617/comment-page-2/#comment-323398 where Perdue repeated basically the same baseless personal attack a large number of times – at least 30 messages in all, a significant fraction of which consist of the same list of "claims" printed over and over. See that thread for a response to them.
He's been trying to give readers a false impression (using innuendo) about an alleged attempt to have him banned from QUEERTY. Given how obnoxious Perdue is, and how many people detest him, it would take an incredible level of paranoia to blame it on me. The first time he made this claim, I pointed out that people don't "deny" something they had never heard of. He's been repeating his garbage ever since. He's sick.
How much money do you want to bet that Richard Socarides was one of those pathetic "PUMA" freaks who supported Hillary in the 08 primaries till the bitter end and then haplessly supported McCain in the general election?
In No. 22 · Bill Perdue sets a new level of hypocrisy.
'B', who pimps for everything and everyone who's anti-LGBT can't help lying. Claiming that Im "trying to give readers a false impression (using innuendo) about an alleged attempt to have him banned from QUEERTY" might work in divorce court but not here.
Heres the relevant message, not from me, but from shulkitz to me: "Posted: Jun 15, 2010 at 7:00 am • @Reply • [Flag?] No. 19 • schlukitz
@Bill Perdue: Truth be known, I never got the impression that 'B'had any special love for me (or anyone else on these threads, for that matter), from day one. And that's what I get for having the unmitigated gall to disagree with "B'. Who do I think I am? ;P What I find particularly noteworthy, Bill, is the fact that 'B' has never once denied that he might have had anything to do with getting OneEquality1 and my comments moderated on this forum".
Reading is fundamental, little 'B'. Your daily dunderhead homework assignment is to look up the difference between 'from' and 'to'.
When 'B'loses he always gets underhanded and dirty. What else can he do.
In No. 29 · Bill Perdue lies through his teeth, even denying what he himself said – the claim about getting him(?) (whoever doesn't matter) banned/moderated/whatever is simply unsubstantiated innuendo. As I said the first time, people don't deny things they never heard of.
Perdue, being a dishonest piece of trash, has been repeating this "when did you stop beating your wife" claim ever since. He does it because of what he is – a pathological liar.
BTW, If there is any confusion about who is saying what, I suggest Bill Perdue follow standard English conventions regarding quotations – I'm simply not going to spend a lot of time reading his rantings in detail as that is a complete waste of time.


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The Massachusetts Parole Board recently recommended a release plan be created for Ralph Stevenson before it makes a final decision on parole.
Stevenson was convicted in Hampden Superior Court in 1984 of second degree murder for the stabbing death of 58-year-old Francis Driscoll on Nov. 21, 1981, in Francis Driscoll's 1341 Dwight St. apartment in Holyoke.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - What first appeared to be an isolated problem in one Florida county has now spread statewide, with election officials in nine counties informing prosecutors or state election officials about questionable voter registration forms filled out on behalf of the Republican Party of Florida.
State Republican officials already have fired the vendor it had hired to register voters, and took the additional step of filing an election fraud complaint against the company, Strategic Allied Consulting, with state officials. That complaint was handed over Friday to state law-enforcement authorities.
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But late Friday the company put out a lengthy statement on its website and said that it was aware of questionable forms in other counties and that it confirmed in each of those counties that the problem was with "one individual." Strategic said it had more than 2,000 people working in the state of Florida.
Strategic insisted that it has "rigorous quality control measures" and it blamed the Republican Party of Florida for the decision by Republican National Committee to dump the company on Thursday.
"When the Republican Party of Florida chose to make likely libelous comments about our effort and stated that the Republican National Committee suggested us as the vendor, the RNC was put in the unenviable position of ending a long-term relationship for the sake of staying focused on the election," the company stated.
In Florida, it is a third-degree felony to "willfully submit" any false voter registration information, a crime punishable by up to five years in prison.
In recent years, Florida's Republican-controlled Legislature - citing suspicious voter registration forms turned in by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN - has cracked down on groups holding voter registration drives.
The League of Women Voters filed a federal lawsuit against some of the restrictions and Florida agreed earlier this month to drop a new requirement to turn in registration applications within 48 hours after they are signed. The state has reinstated a 10-day deadline.


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The car carrying the 17-year-old went off the road and hit a patch of trees on the north side of the road across from 5130 Clinton Road. The car's driver side was up against the trees at the end of a driveway.
Public safety officers were called to the area about 4:07 p.m.
The car was badly damaged. Its windshield was shattered and looked to be torn from its frame.
For a while, the area of the road was closed to traffic, but emergency personnel were leaving the crash site at about 6:10 p.m. A wrecker had pulled the car from its spot among the trees.
A woman whose house is at the end of the driveway where the crash occurred appeared relieved when she did not recognize the wrecked vehicle.


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he's a keeper
I told him on the phone. He said "I wonder of she well ever call me daddy".
I told him we just have to tell her to, because she doesn't know the word.
He say she had no problem saying papa. She called his dad and step dad papa on her own.
But he wants to be called daddy. I'm so happy now.
Happy for you that you found a good man that wants to take on the daddy role!
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Happy for you that you found a good man that wants to take on the daddy role!
that is great that your daughter is getting close to your bf that means she likes him congrats mama
I think that you are right HE IS A KEEPER!!
thats awesome:) it always melts my heart when my kids ask for my boyfriend all the time and when he tells them he loves them. My daughter started calling him daddy right off the bat...and I wasn't ready for that so i put and end to it right away but now that we've been together awhile i wish i wouldnt have it was so cute lol.


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BAY CITY, MI — Delfine the dog and Cosmos the cat are this week's Bay County Animal Shelter pets of the week.
Delfine is a black and white beagle mix about 5 months old. She loves to cuddle and play. Delfine is available of immediate adoption.
Cosmos is a two year old orange tiger cat. He's litter trained but needs his rabies vaccination. Cosmos likes attention.
Visit Delfine, Cosmos and many more cats and dogs at the Bay County Animal Shelter, at 800 Livingston St. on Bay City's East Side. The shelter is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. For more information, call 989-894-0679.
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It's mac and cheese time in the kitchen at St. Vincent de Paul Church on Syracuse's East Side.
The cooks – volunteers all – meet in the cafeteria of what once was St. Vincent's School at 1101 Burnet Ave. The school closed in 1970 and has had various uses since. Just now, it's home to St. Vincent's Day Care Center and Trinity Fellowship church.
Not to forget the annual Lenten fish dinners, which have been going on at the church for eight years. The dinners are served every Friday in Lent, except Good Friday, 4 to 7 p.m. Roman Catholics fast from meat on Ash Wednesday and Fridays in Lent as a sign of penance.
The chairman of the dinners is Mike Lavelle, who graduated with the school's last class in 1970 and has been a member of the parish 56 years.
One of the cooks on the job during my visit is Mike's mother, Mary, who is 95 and the senior maker of the mac and cheese, the house specialty. "Our mac and cheese is the best in town," Mike says proudly.
Mary's helper in the kitchen the Thursday of my stopover is Marian Brooks, who's only 88. Marian, another vet, says she brought the mac and cheese recipe to the dinners. It's from Alberta DeStefano, a fellow member at St. Vincent's.
"The older generation is teaching the younger people how to make mac and cheese," Mike Lavelle explains. "We have people come to our dinners from all over the city just to taste it and they keep coming back for more."
The youngers in the kitchen that day include Jackie Aloi, 64, and John Mangan, 61. John showed up a bit after 2 p.m. to cook the macaroni, a job he says takes about 20 minutes. He also does the heavy lifting.
Alberta's recipe is taped inside of a cupboard door but one seems to be checking it. It's a simple combination of melted butter, flour, milk, non-fat cheese and of course, macaroni, which is combined with the other ingredients at the final step.
The recipe calls for the cheese portion, about four pounds, to be "good and hot" for the blending.
Marian Brooks is watching over two large pots of the butter, flour and cheese on a gas stove. She stirs the stew and says "You want it to be pretty thick. Of course, every cook is a little different. I'd rather use Cracker Barrel cheese but we have to think about peoples' diets these days."
There's an air of confidence and comradely in the old cafeteria, where places are neatly set for the next day. There's lots of banter, including from John Mangan, who seems to be the kitchen clown. He tells me he'll show up the next day to act as an informal doorman for the dinner. Parking's always a challenge, he explains.
Mike Lavelle says the volunteers serve between 300 and 350 sit-down dinners every Friday. They also do about 200 takeouts and 100 deliveries to seniors who can't make it out. St.Vincent's has about 350 families on the rolls, a third of them, according to Mike, refugees from the Sudan.
People get to choose between a fish dinner with either French fries or mac and cheese as the starch for $7.50 ($6.50 for seniors). Mike says the fries get the edge. There's also a weekly non-fish special of something like egg plant or shells. A slice of pie or cake sells for a dollar. They're baked by parish members.
Mike figures they fry about 600 pieces of fish every week.
On Fridays, he leaves work at 1 p.m., picks up his mother and arrives at the kitchen shortly. Mary Lavelle says she's there until 7 p.m., looking for "what needs to be done," including breading the fish, which is cooked fresh every week.
Just then Mary notices the cheese pots are "spitting." That means they're ready to pour onto the macaroni, which has been arranged in individual tins. There are 12 pans today but Mike says they're gone though as many as 26 on a Friday.
"When we started this, to raise a little money for the church, we used to make six pans," Mike said.
Mary and Jackie Aloi do the honors, carefully ladling melted cheese over the pasta. Mary expertly blends the mixture, making sure she spoons the cheese out of the corners and over the macaroni. "It soaks up the liquid," Jackie explains.
Each tin will then be covered with an aluminum top and marked with an "X" (meaning it was done Thursday) and placed in the freezer, to be baked in two of the big revolving ovens Friday. Leftovers from last week will be added to the menu. The cooks average about 25 pounds of mac and cheese a week.
I ask Marian Brooks if she ever eats mac and cheese at home. I get a firm "No." But she will be there the next day.
"If I'm going to cook," she says, "I'm going to come in and eat."
Dick Case writes Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Reach him at 470-2254, or by e-mail, dcase@syracuse.
At St. Vincent de Paul Church in Syracuse, they keep coming back for the mac and cheese
on March 04, 2012 at 2:14 AM
It's mac and cheese time in the kitchen at St. Vincent de Paul Church on Syracuse's East Side.


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KALAMAZOO — The Comstock Township mother who drove drunk and crashed into a utility pole in June, injuring her two young children, was sentenced Monday to 45 days in jail.
Valerie Jean Phelps, 24, was also ordered to spend two years on probation, pay victim restitution, court costs and state fees.
"I know what I did was wrong," said Phelps, crying, to Kalamazoo County Circuit Judge Gary C. Giguere Jr., who sentenced her.
Phelps received the same concurrent sentence to one count each of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated causing injury, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison; reckless driving causing serious impairment of a body function, also a five-year felony; and operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated with a passenger under age 16, a misdemeanor carrying a 93-day jail sentence.
The 11:10 p.m. crash on June 19 occurred when the Ford Escort she was driving north on Portage Street near Dewey Avenue struck a utility pole.
Police have said she was arguing with her boyfriend in the car and driving erratically before the crash.


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Through a microscope, you can see a cell plate beginning to develop across the middle of a cell and nuclei forming on either side of the cell plate. This cell is most likely
A. an animal cell in the S phase of the cell cycle.
B. a bacterial cell dividing.
C. an animal cell in the process of cytokinesis.
D. a plant cell in the process of cytokinesis.
E. a plant cell in metaphase.
Vinblastine is a standard chemotherapeutic drug used to treat cancer. Because it interferes with the assembly of micro-tubules, its effectiveness must be related to
A. suppression of cyclin production.
B. myosin denaturation and inhibition of cleavage furrow formation.
C. disruption of mitotic spindle formation.
D. inhibition of DNA synthesis.
E. inhibition of regulatory protein phosphorylation.
One difference between cancer cells and normal cells is that cancer cells
A. cannot function properly because they are affected by density-dependent inhibition.
B. continue to divide even when they are tightly packed together.
C. are always in the M phase of the cell cycle.
D. are arrested at the S phase of the cell cycle.
E. are unable to synthesize DNA.
The decline of MPF activity at the end of mitosis is due to
A.the accumulation of cyclin.
B. decreased synthesis of Cdk.
C. the destruction of the protein kinase Cdk.
D. synthesis of DNA.
E. the degradation of cyclin.
In the cells of some organisms, mitosis occurs without cytoki-nesis. This will result in
A. cell cycles lacking an S phase.
B. cells lacking nuclei.
C. cells that are unusually small.
D. destruction of chromosomes.
E. cells with more than one nucleus.
Which of the following does not occur during mitosis?
A. spindle formation
B. separation of sister chromatids
C. condensation of the chromosomes
D. replication of the DNA
E. separation of the spindle poles
A particular cell has half as much DNA as some other cells in a mitotically active tissue. The cell in question is most likely in
A. metaphase.
B. prophase.
D. anaphase.
The drug cytochalasin B blocks the function of actin. Which of the following aspects of the animal cell cycle would be most disrupted by cytochalasin B?
A. spindle attachment to kinetochores
B. spindle formation
C. cell elongation during anaphase
D. DNA synthesis
E cleavage furrow formation and cytokinesis
What is true of all cancers?
A. They are inherited.
B. They have escaped normal cell cycle controls.
C. They are caused by chemical carcinogens.
The cell cycle control systems of cancer cells differ from those of normal cells. Select the best explanation for this fact.
A. Cancer cells divide excessively and invade other tissues.
B. Genetic changes alter the function of the cancer cell's protein products.
C. Cancer cells are immortal.
If a eukaryotic cell is in the G1 phase of the cell cycle, which statement about the cell's chromosomes must be correct?
A. Each chromosome consists of two identical chromatids.
B. The chromosomes are preparing for DNA synthesis.
C. Each chromosome is made of a complex of DNA and associated proteins.
Which statement provides the best description of the interphase portion of the cell cycle?
A. During interphase, a cell is metabolically active.
B. Interphase is a resting stage prior to cell division.
C. Interphase is a brief period between mitosis and chromosome duplication.
Starting with a fertilized egg (zygote), a series of five cell divisions would produce an early embryo with how many cells?
If there are 20 chromatids in a cell, how many centromeres are there?
At which phase are centrioles beginning to move apart in animal cells?
A. telophase
B. anaphase
C. prometaphase
D. prophase
E. metaphase
How do cancer cells differ from normal cells?
A.Cultured cancer cells exhibit anchorage dependence.
B. Cancer cells trigger chromosomal changes in surrounding cells.
C. Cancer cells may be immortal.
If there are 20 centromeres in a cell at anaphase, how many chromosomes are there in each daughter cell following cytokinesis?
Measurements of the amount of DNA per nucleus were taken on a large number of cells from a growing fungus. The measured DNA levels ranged from 3 to 6 picograms per nucleus. In which stage of the cell cycle did the nucleus contain 6 picograms of DNA?
A group of cells is assayed for DNA content immediately following mitosis and is found to have an average of 8 picograms of DNA per nucleus. How many picograms would be found at the end of S and the end of G2?
The beginning of anaphase is indicated by which of the following?
A. Spindle microtubules begin to polymerize.
B. Kinetochores attach to the metaphase plate.
C. Chromatids lose their kinetochores.
D. Cohesin is cleaved enzymatically.
E. Cohesin attaches the sister chromatids to each other.
What is a cleavage furrow?
A. a ring of vesicles forming a cell plate
B. the separation of divided prokaryotes
C. the metaphase plate where chromosomes attach to the spindle
D. the space that is created between two chromatids during anaphase
E. a groove in the plasma membrane between daughter nuclei
Using which of the following techniques would enable your lab group to distinguish between a cell in G2 and a cell from the same organism in G1?
A. labeled kinetochore proteins
B. electron microscopy
C. fluorescence microscopy
D. radioactive-labeled nucleotides
E. spectrophotometry
You have the technology necessary to measure each of the following in a sample of animal cells: chlorophylls, organelle density, picograms of DNA, cell wall components, and enzymatic activity. Which would you expect to increase significantly from M to G1?
A. chlorophyll and DNA
B. organelle density and enzymatic activity
C. chlorophyll and cell walls
D. organelle density and cell walls
E cell wall components and DNA
A plant-derived protein known as colchicine can be used to poison cells by blocking the formation of the spindle. Which of the following would result if colchicine is added to a sample of cells in G2?
A. The chromosomes would segregate but in a disorderly pattern.
B. The cells would be unable to begin M and stay in G2.
C. Each resultant daughter cell would also be unable to form a spindle.
D. The chromosomes would coil and shorten but have no spindle to which to attach.
E. The cells would immediately die.
The lettered circle in the figure shows a diploid nucleus with four chromosomes. There are two pairs of homologous chromosomes, one long and the other short. One haploid set is symbolized as black and the other haploid set is gray. The chromosomes in the unlettered circle have not yet replicated. Choose the correct chromosomal conditions for the following stages.
What is the correct chromosomal condition for one daughter nucleus at telophase of mitosis?
If the cell whose nuclear material is shown in the figure continues toward completion of mitosis, which of the following events would occur next?
A. formation of telophase nuclei
B. synthesis of chromatids
C. nuclear envelope breakdown
D. spindle fiber formation
E. cell membrane synthesis
In the figure above, mitosis is represented by which numbered part(s) of the cycle?
G1 is represented by which numbered part(s) of the cycle?
A. I or V
B. II or IV
C. III only
D. IV only
E. V only
The data were obtained from a study of the length of time spent in each phase of the cell cycle by cells of three eukaryotic organisms designated beta, delta, and gamma.
Of the following, the best conclusion concerning the difference between the S phases for beta and gamma is that
A. beta and gamma contain the same amount of DNA.
B. gamma contains 48 times more DNA and RNA than beta.
C. gamma contains more DNA than beta. D. beta cells reproduce asexually.
E. beta is a plant cell and gamma is an animal cell.
The data were obtained from a study of the length of time spent in each phase of the cell cycle by cells of three eukaryotic organisms designated beta, delta, and gamma.The best conclusion concerning delta is that the cells
A. contain no RNA.
B. contain only one chromosome that is very short.
C. contain no DNA.
D. divide in the G1 phase.
E. are actually in the G0 phase.
Several organisms, primarily protists, have what are called intermediate mitotic organization.These protists are intermediate in what sense?
A. They maintain a nuclear envelope during division.
B. They use mitotic division but only have circular chromosomes.
C. They reproduce by binary fission in their early stages of development and by mitosis when they are mature.
D. They never coil up their chromosomes when they are dividing.
E. None of them form spindles.
Several organisms, primarily protists, have what are called intermediate mitotic organization.What is the most probable hypothesis about these intermediate forms of cell division?
A. They demonstrate that these species are not closely related to any of the other protists and may well be a different kingdom.
B. They may be more closely related to plant forms that also have unusual mitosis.
C. They represent a form of cell reproduction which must have evolved completely separately from those of other organisms.
D. They rely on totally different proteins for the processes they undergo.
E. They show some but not all of the evolutionary steps toward complete mitosis.
Nucleotides can be radiolabeled before they are incorporated into newly forming DNA and can therefore be assayed to track their incorporation. In a set of experiments, a student-faculty research team used labeled T nucleotides and introduced these into the culture of dividing human cells at specific times.
Which of the following question might be answered by such a method?
A. When is the S chromosome synthesized?
B. How many cells are produced by the culture per hour?
C. When do spindle fibers attach to chromosomes?
D. What is the length of the S phase of the cell cycle?
E. How many picograms of DNA are made per cell cycle?
Nucleotides can be radiolabeled before they are incorporated into newly forming DNA and can therefore be assayed to track their incorporation. In a set of experiments, a student-faculty research team used labeled T nucleotides and introduced these into the culture of dividing human cells at specific times.
The research team used the setup to study the incorporation of labeled nucleotides into a culture of lymphocytes and found that the lymphocytes incorporated the labeled nucleotide at a significantly higher level after a pathogen was introduced into the culture. They concluded that
A. the presence of the pathogen made the experiment too contaminated to trust the results.
B. infection causes cell cultures in general to reproduce more rapidly.
C. infection causes lymphocyte cultures to skip some parts of the cell cycle.
D. their tissue culture methods needed to be relearned.
E. infection causes lymphocytes to divide more rapidly.
Where do the microtubules of the spindle originate during mitosis in animal cells?
A. centriole
B. kinetochore
C. centrosome
D. centromere
E. chromatid
Taxol is an anticancer drug extracted from the Pacific yew tree. In animal cells, Taxol disrupts microtubule formation by binding to microtubules and accelerating their assembly from the protein precursor, tubulin. Surprisingly, this stops mitosis. Specifically, Taxol must affect
A. chromatid assembly.
B. the S phase of the cell cycle.
C. formation of the centrioles.
D. anaphase.
E. the formation of the mitotic spindle.
Which of the following are primarily responsible for cytokinesis in plant cells but not in animal cells?
A. tubulin and dynein
B. actin and myosin
C. centrioles and centromeres
D. Golgi-derived vesicles
E. kinetochores
Movement of the chromosomes during anaphase would be most affected by a drug that prevents
A. formation of a cleavage furrow.
B. elongation of microtubules.
C. nuclear envelope breakdown.
D. cell wall formation.
E. shortening of microtubules.
During which phase of mitosis do the chromatids become chromosomes?
A. metaphase
B. anaphase
C. cytokinesis
D. prophase
E. telophase
Cells from advanced malignant tumors often have very abnormal chromosomes as well as an abnormal number of chromosomes. What might explain the association between malignant tumors and chromosomal abnormalities?
A. Chromosomally abnormal cells still have normal metabolism.
B. Cancer cells are no longer density dependent.
C. Cancer cells are no longer anchorage dependent.
D. Transformation introduces new chromosomes into cells.
E. Cell cycle checkpoints are not in place to stop cells with chromosome abnormalities.
Motor proteins require which of the following to function in the movement of chromosomes toward the poles of the mitotic spindle?
A. intact centromeres
B. synthesis of cohesin
C. a kinetochore attached to the metaphase plate
D. a microtubule-organizing center
E. ATP as an energy source
When a cell is in late anaphase of mitosis, which of the following will he see?
A. individual chromatids beginning to separate from one another
B. chromosomes clustered at the poles
C. a clear area in the center of the cell
D. chromosomes clustered tightly at the center
E. breaking down of the nuclear envelope
Which of the following is released by platelets in the vicinity of an injury?
A. protein kinase
D. Cdk
E. cyclin
Which of the following is a protein synthesized at specific times during the cell cycle that associates with a kinase to form a catalytically active complex?
A. protein kinase
B. cyclin
D. Cdk
Which of the following is a protein maintained at constant levels throughout the cell cycle that requires cyclin to become catalytically active?
B. Cdk
C. cyclin
D. protein kinase
Which of the following triggers the cell's passage past the G2 checkpoint into mitosis?
B. Cdk
C. protein kinase
E. cyclin
The cyclin component of MPF is destroyed toward the end of which phase?
The MPF protein complex turns itself off by
A. binding to chromatin.
B. exiting the cell.
C. activating a process that destroys cyclin components.
D activating the anaphase-promoting complex.
E. activating an enzyme that stimulates cyclin.
Density-dependent inhibition is explained by which of the following?
A. As cells become more numerous, the level of waste products increases, eventually slowing down metabolism.
B. As cells become more numerous, they begin to squeeze against each other, restricting their size and ability to produce control factors.
C. As cells become more numerous, more and more of them enter the S phase of the cell cycle.
D. As cells become more numerous, the protein kinases they produce begin to compete with each other, such that the proteins produced by one cell essentially cancel those produced by its neighbor.
E. As cells become more numerous, the cell surface proteins of one cell contact the adjoining cells and they stop dividing.
Which of the following is true concerning cancer cells?
A. They are not subject to cell cycle controls.
B. They do not exhibit density-dependent inhibition when growing in culture.
C. When they stop dividing, they do so at random points in the cell cycle, and they are not subject to cell cycle controls.
D. When they stop dividing, they do so at random points in the cell cycle; they are not subject to cell cycle controls; and they do not exhibit density-dependent inhibition when growing in culture.
E. When they stop dividing, they do so at random points in the cell cycle.
Which of the following describe(s) cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk)?
A. Cdk is inactive, or "turned off," in the presence of cyclin and it is present throughout the cell cycle.
B. Cdk is an enzyme that attaches phosphate groups to other proteins.
C. Cdk is present throughout the cell cycle and is an enzyme that attaches phosphate groups to other proteins.
D. Cdk is present throughout the cell cycle.
E. Cdk is inactive, or "turned off," in the presence of cyclin.
Why do neurons and some other specialized cells divide infrequently?
A. They show a drop in MPF concentration.
B. They no longer carry receptors for signal molecules.
C. They no longer have active nuclei.
D. They can no longer bind Cdk to cyclin.
E. They have been shunted into G0.
Which of the following most accurately describes a cyclin?
A. It is present in similar concentrations throughout the cell cycle.
B. It activates a Cdk molecule when it is in sufficient concentration.
C. It is activated to phosphorylate by complexing with a Cdk.
D. It activates a Cdk when its concentration is decreased.
E. It decreases in concentration when MPF activity increases.
At the M phase checkpoint, the complex allows for what to occur?
A. Daughter cells are allowed to pass into G1.
B. Cohesins alter separase to allow chromatids to separate.
C. All microtubules are made to bind to kinetochores.
D. Separase enzyme cleaves cohesins and allows chromatids to separate.
E. Kinetochores are able to bind to spindle microtubules.
A research team began a study of a cultured cell line. Their preliminary observations showed them that the cell line did not exhibit either density-dependent inhibition or anchorage dependence. What could they conclude right away?
A. They were originally derived from an elderly organism.
B. The cells originated in the nervous system.
C. The cells are unable to form spindle microtubules.
D. The cells show characteristics of tumors.
E. They have altered series of cell cycle phases.
For a chemotherapeutic drug to be useful for treating cancer cells, which of the following is most desirable?
A. It interferes with rapidly dividing cells.
B. It only attacks cells that are density dependent.
C. It interferes with cells entering G0.
D. It does not alter metabolically active cells.
E. It is safe enough to limit all apoptosis.
You have a series of cells, all of which were derived from tumors, and you first need to find out which ones are malignant. What could you do?
A. See which ones are not overproliferating.
B. Karyotype samples to look for unusual size and number of chromosomes.
C. Measure metastasis.
D. Find out which ones have a higher rate of apoptosis.
E. Time their cell cycles.
Proteins that are involved in the regulation of the cell cycle, and that show fluctuations in concentration during the cell cycle, are called
A. cyclins.
B. ATPases.
C. kinetochores.
D. kinases.
E. estrogen receptors.
Besides the ability of some cancer cells to overproliferate, what else could logically result in a tumor?
A. enhanced anchorage dependence
B. lack of appropriate cell death
C. changes in the order of cell cycle stages
D. inability to form spindles
E. inability of chromosomes to meet at the metaphase plate
All cell cycle checkpoints are similar in which way?
A. They give the go-ahead signal to progress to the next checkpoint.
B. They each have only one cyclin/Cdk complex.
C. They activate or inactivate other proteins.
D. They utilize the same Cdks.
E. They respond to the same cyclins.
Anchorage dependence of animal cells in vitro or in vivo depends on which of the following?
A. response of the cell cycle controls to signals from the plasma membrane
B. the binding of cell-surface phospholipids to those of adjoining cells
C. the binding of cell-surface phospholipids to the substrate
D. the absence of an extracellular matrix
E. attachment of spindle fibers to centrioles
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inputs can make a major impact on the bottom line.
Yet many farmers are far from the nearest load scale or rely
on grain cart spindle scales or volumetric measurements whose accuracy often is
less than desired.
As an alternative, more farmers in the U.S. and Canada are
turning to axle pad scales, which allow them to quickly check weigh inputs in
the truck at seeding time or product right off the fields before it goes to
market or the grain bin, which can prevent costly overweight load fines.
The axle pad scales also enable farmers to check weigh input
costs on receipt to ensure accuracy, as well as benchmark and optimize
productivity by verifying the accuracy of farm equipment.
"Accurately weighing the load on a triple axle B-Train
semi-trailer before it goes to market can prevent an overweight ticket that
could pay for the axle pad scale," said Rod Swystun, owner of a large grain farm
north of Blaine Lake in Saskatchewan, Canada.
"I use the Massload scale in my farmyard to verify the
weight load of semi-trailers going to market, the accuracy of my field yield
monitor and the capacity of my grain dryer and grain cleaner."
Though built-in spindle scales are common in new grain carts
and air seeder carts, due to mechanical constraints in design they are not as
accurate as advertised for measuring weight. Also, volumetric measurement of
contents of grain storage bins is inexact and not of much help to those needing
to measure more accurately.
"Volumetric measuring is just 'guesstimates' because the
actual weight can be misrepresented when there's chaff and foreign objects in a
load," Swystun said.
For grain and crop farmers, it is easy to lose money on
weight estimates. Unless there is a check weigh at the fields before the crop
goes to market or to the storage bin, farmers may have no way to detect if key
measurements are off or even if the entire load safely makes it to market or
Volumetric measuring also cannot help farmers check weigh
their input costs for seed, fertilizer and other items against their invoice
receipt. With the value of crop farming doubling due to larger farms producing
greater volumes of product over the last six years, even a small error in
weighing can be costly.
"What we do at seeding time dictates our income for the
year," said Gordon Spencer, who farms 3,500 acres of wheat, barley, peas,
lentils and canola in Saskatchewan, Canada. "But the manufacturer's seed drill
output rates were inaccurate, so we had to recalibrate everything."
"When fertilizer is $1,000 per ton and amounts to a few
hundred thousands of dollars during the planting season, you don't want errors
on those rates," he added. "Apply too much and it's wasted, too little and your
income will be off on that field. Without our own scale to measure output, we
estimated weight because driving to town to use a scale or weighing out pails of
grain was too time consuming."
A better option for many farmers is to use axle pad scales,
which allow easy dual-axle and tri-axle weighing of product in the truck before
it goes to market or the storage bin, as well as weighing of inputs in the truck
on receipt.
Spencer uses an above-ground axle pad scale in a farmyard
building to check seed drill rate settings each spring and to check that the
combine is recording accurate data.
"Once we get seed drills adjusted and set for the product,
it's quite reliable," he said. "I got payback on our Massload axle pad scale in
one spring planting season.
"During harvest, we use the scale almost every day to check
that the combine is recording accurate field yield data."
While axle weighing systems are not legal-for-trade,
gathering weight data is quick and easy as the vehicle moves axle by axle over
dual weigh pads and a total is given. This not only provides a check weigh to
assure that all crop gets to market and a check weigh against grain cart scales,
but also a check weigh against input receipts, which can help benchmark input
costs to optimize productivity.
Use of axle pad scales at the farm also can help speed
product to market or storage by minimizing the time wasted at off-farm
"The accuracy of our Massload axle pad scale is improving
our cost of production," Spencer said. "It's helping us to get the best output
with the least input by applying the right amount of seed and fertilizer to
maximize our productivity."
But not all axle pad scales are constructed alike. To
maximize use without premature troubleshooting or replacement, it is vital that
certain components be robustly constructed and made to last for prolonged use
and severe weather conditions.
The key components in axle pad scales are its load cells,
which are located in the weigh pad platform and convert mechanical energy to
electrical energy that is measured to determine weight.
Unfortunately, in some axle pad scales made offshore, the
load cells are sub-par and not individually tested. Often, these axle pad scales
contain load cells that do not extend the full width of the weigh pad platform,
which makes inaccurate measures more likely depending on truck axle weight
One offshore-built model, in fact, contains six small load
cells, one in each corner and two in the center, which makes accuracy dependent
on axle weight placement and multiplies the probability of one of the load cells
failing by six-fold.
One innovative manufacturer of axle pad scales, Massload, a
Saskatoon-based manufacturer of quality weighing systems, uses a 26-inch-long
load cell in its weigh pad that essentially is as wide as the platform. This
provides accurate dual or triple axle weighing regardless of truck axle weight
These weigh pads have a very large weighing surface and low
6-inch profile, making them an easy method of determining truck axle weight.
They can be used portably above ground at multiple locations or can be pit
installed for permanent use.
Since the company's environmentally sealed double-ended
shearbeam load cell is fully electronic, there are no moving parts to wear out
or adjust. All gauges are individually tested and electronics done at its
headquarters, which manufactures the only load cells of this type at a North
American Verified Conformity Assessment Program certified facility.
This allows its axle pad scales to weigh accurately and
reliably to 0.25 percent in temperatures from minus 40 degrees Celsius to more
than 57 degrees Celsius.
Unlike offshore manufacturers which typically use thin cable
in their axle pad scales, the Canadian company also uses heavy-duty cable that
can withstand temperature extremes without breaking to ensure prolonged use even
in cold Canadian weather which can reach minus 40 degrees Celsius.
"The Massload axle pad scale works fine in minus 30 degrees
Celsius outdoor weather and is holding up to a high volume of use," Swystun
For grain and crop farmers who want to account for every
pound of their product and inputs by the truckload, the good news is that these
axle pad scales come in several sizes that can handle even the large tri-axle,
B-Train Double truck rig sizes favored by Canadians.
For example, while Massload's axle pad scales are all 30
inches wide and 6 inches high with an active weighing surface capacity of 30,000
to 40,000 pounds per pad, their 84-inch-long model weighs dual axles and their
144-inch-long model weighs tri-axles.
Of particular interest to Canadian farmers, the company is
the only one in the world that manufactures a 168-inch-long axle pad scale
capable of weighing the extra wide tri-axle B-Train rigs popular in Canada,
whose axle sections to be weighed can each be more than 12 feet long.
While crop farmers may have believed that built-in grain
cart spindle scales or volumetric measurements were sufficient, those who turn
to accurate truckload axle pad scale weighing systems will have the advantage.
By accounting for every pound of their product and inputs by
the truckload, these farmers will add to their bottom line much faster than the


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The Ava 4H Club will meet Sept. 12, at the Ava Elementary School, in Mrs. King's classroom. The meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m. and will continue with the aviation project. Anyone interested in the aviation project is invited, including ...Read More »
Rieken Receives Scholarship From MSU-West Plains
Ashley Rieken, of Ava, has been awarded the Leadership Scholarship from Missouri State University-West Plains. Rieken, a 2013 graduate of Ava High School, is a freshman nursing major at MSU-WP. She is the daughter of Larry and Sheila Rieken, Ava. ...Read More »
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Alert your friends and family! Start calling the folks in your phone tree! Send out smoke signals! Tweet! Facebook! The word is out on the street now—the initial lineup for this year's MusicfestNW is here!!!!
Please accept our excitement as genuine because, even though we have a bit of an inside track on this event—WW puts the thing on every year—the lineup that organizer Trevor Solomon and his crew put together never ceases to thrill us. And this, the 12th MusicfestNW, is no exception. Just a few highlights: Silversun Pickups, Girl Talk, and Beirut are all doing shows at Pioneer Courthouse Square! The Old 97s will be performing Too Far To Care in its entirety! The Red Bull Common Thread series featuring sets by Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, and J. Mascis!
If you want to hurry to the lineup, scroll on down from this introduction here, but first some pertinent details:
This year's MFNW is going down from the 5th to the 9th of September. Wristbands and tickets for shows at Pioneer Courthouse Square, Crystal Ballroom, Roseland Theater, and the Aladdin Theater will be going on sale this Friday, June 1st via Cascade Tickets (click here to find out just which shows are happening where). The prices are $125 for a wristband that gets you into everything - including the three shows at Pioneer Courthouse Square; or you can pay $75 for a ticket to one of the outdoor shows and the rest of the fest.
Now, we could go on and on about each of the local and international acts playing at the festival this year, but instead, we just wanted to take a moment to highlight those bands that we wouldn't dare miss at MFNW 2012. We hope this helps you work out your own plan of attack for what is sure to be a busy, busy five days.
Robert Ham's Picks:
Swans - Michael Gira has made it clear that this is no reunion, this is a resurrection. And you can hear it in the sound of the previous Swans album My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky, and the band's upcoming two disc release The Seer. Gira and his band sound fiery, spiritual, intense, and a little frightening. Presented in a live setting, their soulful scratching rock only burns hotter and provides more spine-chilling moments.
Mirroring - Liz Harris aka Grouper and Jesy Fortino aka Tiny Vipers join forces on this project, and the result of their intuitive and brilliant collaboration, the recently released LP Foreign Body, is one of those albums you don't recover from easily. The two combine the already perfect crystalline sounds of ethereal dream pop (Harris) and space folk (Fortino) and create a kaleidoscopic vision that will leave you reeling as you float gently downstream.
Omar Souleyman - This singer's music has been described by no less than Bjork as being "Syrian techno." It's a fair shorthand for what Souleyman's sound (traditionally known as dabke) is all about, but in place of the 4/4 pulse is a loping, stomping almost glam-like Middle Eastern beat. Souleyman has become an international sensation via a series of compilations released on Sublime Frequencies which cherry pick from the singer's 500+ releases, and his live performances inspire the kind of wild dance parties rarely seen outside of The Matrix Reloaded.
John Maus - The last album We Must Become Pitiless Censors of Ourselves by this 32-year-old former sideman for Animal Collective was one of the most talked about albums of 2011. For good reason too as Maus took the dreamy hypnogogic swirl of his former employers and applied it to the glitterbomb joy of modern techno and IDM. His is the kind of music that never really resolves, choosing instead to melt away into the distance and leaving you scrambling after it.
Redd Kross - The last we heard from this long-running glam-garage outfit was way back in 1997 with the release of Show World. The band - led by brothers Steve and Jeff McDonald - never really disappeared though, hitting the road for short tours including stops at Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah shows and playing through Australia at the behest of Hoodoo Gurus. The quartet has finally hit the studio again for a new album Researching The Blues, a disc that finds the Kross in fine fettle with a raging joy that belies their advanced collective age.
Casey Jarman's Picks:
Girl Talk - Okay, he truth is I'm not all that big of a Girl Talk fan. But where spectacle is concerned, I can't imagine anything cooler than watching him play Portland's Living Room. When I mentioned this to someone the other day, they said "yeah, but what if it rains?" If it rains, things will get immeasurably more epic.
Hazel/Gossamer Wings reunions - A few months back I watched Hazel's low-key reunion show at Al's Den in the basement of the Crystal Hotel. It was revelatory for me: I had seen the legendary Portland group's reunion show in 2005, but the members seemed at odds with each other and somewhat distracted. Here they looked at home and genuinely stoked to be playing together, and it sounded amazing.That Hazel founder Pete Krebs is gathering up his old Gossamer Wings buddies for another run is also fantastic, unexpected news.
The Tallest Man on Earth - That voice—a little bit early Dylan, a little bit Jeff Mangum—is pretty addictive. The questions have always revolved around Kristian Matsson's staying power. There's a new record on the way, and new single "1904" is pretty good, so I've got high hopes. Matsson played MFNW when he was just a babe, but he's returning a lion.
A-Trak - He's the first name on the list, so it may seem like I'm cheating, but perhaps nobody on this list—save Big Freedia—can get asses shaking like A-Trak can.
Menomena/Typhoon - Both acts have new albums coming out; both have huge expectations on them; I have absolutely no idea what either record is going to sound like. Menomena's new lineup should mean something different and Typhoon has been working in leisurely fashion on its new record out at Pendarvis Farm. We're sure to hear a lot of new material at these giant Portland gigs, and that's cause for celebration.
Initial MFNW 2012 Lineup:
Alialujah Choir
And And And
Arrington De Dionyso
Big Business
Big Freedia
Black Mountain
Bobby Bare Jr.
Brown Bird
Casey Neil & The Norway Rats
Cheap Girls
Chelsea Wolfe
Craft Spells
Crystal Antlers
Danny Brown
Dante vs. Zombies
Daughn Gibson
Dinosaur Jr.
DJ Beyondadoubt
DJ Cooky Parker
DJ Mr. Jonathan Toubin
Erik Koskinen
Evian Christ
Fort Lean
Fucked Up
Future Islands
Gardens & Villa
Girl Talk
Guantanamo Baywatch
Hey Marseilles
Holcombe Waller
Hot Snakes
Hungry Ghost
I Break Horses
J. Mascis
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
Joe Pug
John Maus
Joyce Manor
Julia Holter
Kendl Winter
King Khan & the Shrines
Lightning Bolt
Mac Demarco
Mean Jeans
Milo Greene
Mrs. Magician
Nite Jewel
Old 97's
Old Light
Omar Souleyman
Passion Pit
Pete Krebs and the Gossamer Wings
Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three
Pure Bathing Culture
Purity Ring
Quest For Fire
Radiation City
Red Fang
Redd Kross
Sad Baby Wolf
Silversun Pickups
Snow Bud & The Flower People
Stay Calm
Sun Angle
Tender Forever
The Builders and The Butchers
The Curious Mystery
The Dangerous Boys Club
The Dimes
The Drowning Men
The Growlers
The Helio Sequence
The Men
The Needful Longings
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
The People's Temple
The Soft Moon
The Suicide Notes
The Tallest Man On Earth
These United States
Touche Amore
Trampled By Turtles
Tyler Lyle
Vice Device
White Fang
White Lung
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So far I have many more women's matches than men's, but maybe the men will catch up eventually..... (as in tennis, also in life... :)) )
Cincinnati.2014.R1.Zhang Shuai vs Heather Watson
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Here are more women's matches ....
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Cincinnati.2014.R2.Agnieszka Radwanska vs Kurumi Nara
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Joshua Ledet was our obvious favorite to compete in tonight's "American Idol" finale, but since that's not happening — Ledet was eliminated last week — Louisianians will have to pick a favorite. Will the Pelican State get behind Jessica Sanchez, the 16-year-old powerhouse singer from Chula Vista, Calif., or Phillip Phillips, the 21-year-old alt rocker from Leesburg, Ga.?
Something tells us that the South will get behind the Georgia boy. Not only is he easy on the eyes, but he's been competing while in extreme pain from a kidney condition that may require surgery as soon as possible after the winner is announced, he's stuck to his "my way or no way" approach to the competition and Southerners have a historic edge over other contestants. (Think Texan Kelly Clarkson, Alabamans Ruben Studdard and Taylor Hicks, Arkansan Kris Allen, North Carolinian Fantasia Barrino.)
But does the title really matter at this point? Runner-ups have a record of doing as well or better than the actual winners. (Think Jennifer Hudson, Clay Aiken, Adam Lambert, Katherine McPhee, to name a few.)
It has been reported in the past — by the celebrity gossip website TMZ.com — that the winner gets an estimated $350,000 for recording their first album; second place gets $300,000 for an album; and, if the "Idol" label is interested, the third through 12th place winners can earn $200,000 for doing an album.
What's more, the Top 10 — Phillips, Sanchez, Ledet, Elise Testone, DeAndre Brackensick, Hollie Cavanaugh, Colton Dixon, Skylar Laine, Heejun Han and Erika Van Pelt — will hit the road on a summer tour for which they get paid a reported $1,000 per show. (The closest the tour is coming to New Orleans is Lafayette (for Ledet fans) on July 30 and Jackson, Miss., (for Skylar Laine fans) on July 31. Add on some inevitable endorsement deals and nobody really goes home empty-handed.
Still, Phillips and Sanchez, as judge Randy Jackson likes to say ad nauseam, are "in it to win it." So, who will you vote for after Tuesday night's performance? Take our poll below and see if we can pick the winner.