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Overview and background
This article describes the challenges inherent in transforming from a traditional deployment approach to one using the emerging "DevOps" concepts and techniques and the changes in approach required to address them. The scope of this article includes the changes required in the definition of the deployed artifact, as well as the organizational and cultural transformations required to take advantage of the DevOps approach.
The general tenet of agile development is that an organization should be continuously delivering working software at a sustainable pace. At the same time, a number of new operations tools and infrastructure components have become available through the related movements of virtualization and cloud computing. Although agile methods have been readily adopted by many development teams, the software that they produce is often kept from users by deployment processes that are fraught with gaps, mistake-prone manual tasks, or other delays related to operational work.
Meanwhile, the pressures of an ever more competitive marketplace are causing business leaders to require faster cycle time for getting new software and features into the hands of users and customers. These three factors -- agile development, new operations technologies, and a market imperative for business responsiveness -- are causing a fundamental rethinking of how organizations think about delivering software.
The common denominator among the three trends is that the speed of change has increased. It is no longer acceptable for new software capabilities that are needed by business users to sit on a shelf for months waiting for a large deployment event. Software has value only when it is in use, and getting to that value quickly is more critical than ever in today's marketplace. This shift is causing people to challenge assumptions about how organizations deliver software, and the answers to those challenges have taken on the moniker of the "DevOps" movement.
In order to understand software delivery in general, and deployment in particular, under a DevOps approach, it is important to understand two other items:
- First, it is essential to have a clear and consistent understanding of DevOps and why it is interesting to various stakeholders.
- Second, it is important to understand how assumptions about deployment change when attempting to apply DevOps approaches.
When those items are understood, it is possible to look at a framework for executing deployments in support of a DevOps approach.
Understanding the DevOps approach and its stakeholders
The term DevOps, derived by combining development and IT operations, generally refers to an approach of unifying work on a software system across all disciplines in order to deliver changes to that system at the pace that the business needs them. It usually combines the agile approach of making rapid, small changes in order to ensure focus on top-value work, to minimize the risk of defects that is associated with large changes, and to minimize the value drift that is often associated with long gaps between a software business case and project completion. The operations worldview, on the other hand, is to treat change as a cause of instability. Instability can, of course, lead to downtime, which is the number one negative occurrence in the operations disciplines. Therefore, operations organizations generally resist change.
DevOps is usually viewed as a change movement, however, because in most organizations, development, operations, and business have a series of conflicting behaviors and rewards that lead to countless misbehaviors. Business rewards development for new features and changes but punishes operations for downtime. So development pushes operations for more deployments and operations pushes development for more structure and rigor in the delivered artifacts. These conflicts have become entrenched in many organizations and are made worse by intrinsic differences in the maturity of the respective organizations. The DevOps approach seeks to eliminate these barriers, level the playing field among the competing groups, and focus them all on a common goal. To do this, it is important to understand a bit about the mindset of each group.
Development is generally perceived to be more advanced in its efforts to become more responsive to business needs. The Agile Manifesto is more than 10 years old, and the manifesto itself is, in part, the result of earlier extreme programming and pair programming approaches and experiments. To be fair, the software piece of the puzzle was viewed as the low-hanging fruit -- easily changed and theoretically isolated "above" the infrastructure and platform concerns. And infrastructure has traditionally been treated as a very expensive capital expenditure, with long amortization cycles, that is much harder to change. Unfortunately, sophisticated software is very infrastructure intensive and requires infrastructure to evolve at the same pace as the software itself evolves. This connection is why DevOps was sometimes called "Agile Operations" in the early days.
Whatever it is called, the notion of keeping software and infrastructure separate is not sustainable if technology is to keep pace with the business needs. This is pushing development to become more engaged with the realities of sustaining complex software infrastructures in production.
Fortunately, a number of new technologies and techniques have come to the forefront in operations to help it become more responsive. The primary disruptive technology in the operations realm is the widespread availability of inexpensive virtualization on commodity hardware. This has given rise to new systems management approaches and, of course, cloud computing. This technology gained popularity by giving an immediate value by allowing organizations to quickly and easily consolidate their underutilized computing resources. Gartner analysts estimate that 50% of all applications are now running in virtual environments.
Simple consolidation, however, is just a cost-cutting measure with a finite rate of value capture. Virtualization technology also enables a level of changeability to infrastructure that allows operations to evolve the infrastructure without affecting stability at rates that were previously unattainable. The techniques used to exploit these capabilities of virtualization often appear within the cloud computing-related disciplines. These emerging techniques have given operations a way to be as agile as development and answer the responsiveness requirements of the business.
Businesses, for their part, have figured out that understanding and exploiting technology is more critical than ever to achieving results. According to IBM's 2012 CEO Survey, which was based on interviews with more than 1,700 chief executives in 64 countries, "technology factors" are the number one factor impacting organizations. That has risen steadily since 2004, when they ranked only sixth out of nine factors listed.
So business leaders have noticed that the ability to respond to their customers' needs is a competitive advantage. The corollary, of course, is that poor technological execution represents an intrinsic threat to the business. This is not an overnight realization, but it has reached a tipping point. The same survey goes on to discuss how the respondents gave an equal weight (seven out of ten) to understanding what individual customers wanted and to being able to respond to them with shorter time-to-market cycles. Ultimately, this is the business pressure that is colliding with the procedural realities of how the technical disciplines of development and operations have been operating in the past and stimulating the discussion of how to do it better.
DevOps and deployment
Achieving the ideals of DevOps represents several fundamental changes of approach and behavior for all three constituencies.
Higher frequency
One of the most obvious aspects of achieving these ideals is the assumption that getting new software capabilities into the hands of users is what makes software changes valuable. This assumption implies that delivering the new capabilities sooner is therefore better, because it means that the value from the new capabilities is achieved sooner. Most organizations, however, have historically been oriented toward delivering very large deployments at very infrequent intervals.
It is the assumption of a short interval, or high frequency of delivery, that is at the root of the transformation in the definition of deployment. DevOps does away with the notion that deployment processes are things that are pulled out a couple of times a year to move very large releases and replaces it with the notion of a delivery system that is always on and is very good at deploying a large number of small things very consistently. The key point is replaces'. Traditional systems oriented to large deployments are usually far too heavy to move fast enough to support a DevOps environment. Attempts to "do it the old way, just faster" will usually fail, because the assumptions that were used to create the old way were never intended to support a high frequency of activity. This is not "good" nor "bad;" it is simply an engineering reality that must be addressed.
Given that this new delivery process becomes an intrinsic part of deriving value from the software change investment, it becomes an extended part of the overall system. It becomes the primary route to value for development investment. This adds the assumption, then, that managing the efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery process has direct and quantifiable business value associated with the system as a whole. Implicit in this assumption is that it is not acceptable to ignore the cost of sustaining the delivery capability itself.
Whole system perspective
Another hallmark of the DevOps deployment is the focus on the complete system rather than simply the code changes that deliver the functionality. DevOps deliberately acknowledges that the application code depends on an infrastructure of servers, networks, and databases to deliver value. Therefore, a DevOps deployment treats all changes to all components of the system as equal and tracks them as such. Some infrastructure changes, such as a deliberate upgrade of a switch or the addition of storage, can be considered enhancements -- new functionality for the system -- even though they might be less visible. Similarly, patches to a web server or SAN firmware might be regarded as fixing bugs or defects. However an individual organization classifies things, the crucial point is that the other pieces are treated with equal thoroughness to ensure the consistent stability of the system.
Applying the whole system perspective to a top-level model yields four core categories of changes to be delivered in a DevOps environment:
- Application
- The application is the actual feature producing code in the system.
This is the high-visibility functionality that drives the core
business processes that provide the reason for the system. Its
visibility has garnered it a lot of focus over time, yet that focus
has rarely led to proactive consideration of the value of the
environment that supports it.
- OS services
- The OS services category is a catch-all for the machines (virtual or
otherwise), operating system services and libraries, and middleware
that allows applications to run. The consistency of configuration
across all environments, from test through production, represents a
key driver of application stability and quality.
- Network services
- Network services embody all of the network devices and configurations
around the application. These configurations obviously affect
performance and availability, but can also affect application behavior
and architecture as the application scales. For example, the
application and the load balancer have to agree on session handling,
among other things.
- Database
- The database underlying the application contains the critical data that the application uses and produces. The database and the application must remain perfectly synchronized with regard to the structure of the data schema at all times throughout the lifecycle.
Figure 1. Visualizing the whole system
Properties of a DevOps deployment system
DevOps-style deployments require a highly disciplined approach to delivering changes to the software systems that they support. The more exceptions, variances, or special cases that the system has to tolerate, the more expensive the system will become to create and, more importantly, to maintain. Controlling complexity of the delivery process means understanding and controlling what is being delivered as much as how it is being delivered. That means that the organization must agree on a set of defined packages that make up each delivery unit and a system for consistently getting them to the desired environment.
Defined packages
An effective delivery system requires the items being delivered to have a reasonable level of standardization. The physical world has a good example in the form of shipping containers. A standard container can be moved by standard equipment through an amazingly complex logistics network consisting of many different means of transport, including trains, ships, and trucks. With supporting cranes and tracking, it is possible to ship nearly anything anywhere as long as it can fit into a container. The act of standardizing those containers revolutionized how the entire world moved goods and conducted trade.
Figure 2. Shipping container
The good news is that there is no need to define an international standard to ship changes into a software system. This can often be accomplished through a pragmatic extension of activities that many teams already perform. Many organizations are already producing builds in a steady rhythm, either through continuous integration or through some other scheduled event. These builds have, or should have, some sort of unique identifier that enables those who use the build, such as testers, understand what to expect from that build.
This approach can provide a baseline for organizations to begin understanding change groupings in the other three components. If each of the four components can have a standard way of identifying their changes, it becomes relatively straightforward to track combinations of the four components through their unique change designators. That combination of build number of the application, configuration number servers, schema version for the database, and so forth can be tracked and deployed to any environment for any type of testing or production use.
Delivery system
Unlike shipping containers, however, the ecosystem of deployable packages does not necessarily involve hydraulics and diesel fuel. Instead, it involves a group of tools and processes that allow the organization to manipulate their dev, test, and production environments in substantively the same way and put the package into any of those environments at any time. These tools and processes deal with a variety of functions within an environment. These functions cross domains of expertise and are applied differently, depending on which of the four delivery components is in question. Given the complexity, it is helpful to apply a framework to visualize and categorize the functions into a set of capabilities that must exist at one level or another to be successful.
For DevOps, one taxonomy of capabilities involves six categories, each with a set of subcategories. This framework does not prescribe tools for the categories, nor does it mandate that all components must have all capabilities. It does, however, provide a useful tool for understanding and prioritizing gaps in achieving a functioning DevOps delivery system.
Figure 3. Delivery system capabilities map
These definitions summarize the six categories:
- Change management
- The set of activities for ensuring that improvements to the system are
properly tracked
- Orchestration
- Deals with the need to coordinate activity across a distributed system
in a synchronized manner
- Deployment
- Covers the activities related to managing the lifecycle of artifacts
of all kinds that are running on the infrastructure
- Monitoring
- Provides the instrumentation for keeping the environment healthy and
providing system behavior feedback all stakeholders
- System registry
- Provides a centralized archive of the shared infrastructure
information that the entire system requires to
- Provisioning
- Makes sure that the infrastructure environment provides sufficient
numbers of the correct components to run the system
Applying the taxonomy
The value of a taxonomy is that it is a tool for understanding an environment, identifying priority needs within it, and evaluating solutions for fit. It enables an organization to quickly create a structured understanding of both its needs and the offering's strengths. Alternatively, it can be used to assess how well an organization or solution performs in a particular area over time. This kind of structured taxonomy also allows an evaluation to be more or less detailed, depending on the situation.
For example, in August 2012 IBM released a beta version of a continuous deployment framework called SmartCloud™ Continuous Delivery. The purpose of this framework is to delivers tools and integrations that help organizations adopt DevOps delivery methods.
By applying only the top levels of the taxonomy to that offering, it is possible to see how it is laying a very broad framework for covering all six major capability areas:
- First, the SmartCloud Continuous Delivery beta leverages IBM® Rational Team Concert™ and Rational® Asset Manager to provide some change management , orchestration, and deployment capabilities.
- Second, there are also integrations that leverage IBM's line of cloud-style system infrastructure tools, such as the IBM Workload Deployer, IBM® SmartCloud™ Provisioning, and IBM® PureSystems™, to provide system registry and provisioning capabilities.
- Third, there is some monitoriing capability in the form of instrumentation of the process through reporting.
- Finally, there are integrations with tools such as the Rational Automation Framework and Rational Build Forge® that fill in the rest of the Deployment and Orchestration capabilities.
Even a shallow look using a structured approach shows that SmartCloud Continuous Delivery has some coverage in each of the six capability areas, but there are different levels of depth in each. Varying levels of depth among the capability areas are to be expected as tool providers emphasize different approaches, integrate with different products or product portfolios, and are otherwise optimized for the needs of their users. Having a consistent way to assess such solutions is the key for customer organizations to ensure that they are getting what they really need.
Operating the system
Whatever structure is used to understand it, a DevOps delivery system becomes the central broker of all changes to an application system. This centrality applies to all environments in which the application runs, including both production and preproduction environments. This ensures that the application is always running in a known state and running in an environment with a known configuration. Getting to this state requires more than a clear understanding of the principles and a structure within which to build capabilities. It requires actual application of the principles, and organizations must respect a number of factors to do so effectively.
Environment management
There are almost always multiple environments in which a given software system runs. There is production, of course, but there are also any number of quality assurance, or test, environments. Those quality assurance environments are where the organization verifies that a given change has the intended impact. These environments are often treated as second-class to production, but the truth is that false information from a test environment could lead to a production outage. This dependency means that the organization is well-served to take them seriously. Successfully executing DevOps-style delivery depends on it.
The first step in taking the environments seriously is ensuring that all environments are truly representative. This is an engineering exercise to validate that an assumed configuration in a qualification environment is a good proxy for the production environment. After this baseline is established, it becomes a more straightforward exercise to maintain that state.
The second step is to ensure that all changes are promoted through the environments to production. Because the application system is treated as a whole, there should never be any sort of configuration change to any aspect of the production environment that is not run through the quality assurance process. This requires a change in perspective that some changes are easy or different from others. Beyond the obvious benefits of reducing risk and improving reliability, this also reduces the cost of environment maintenance and synchronization. This approach means that the environments are always in a known state and, because all changes are applied using the same infrastructure, it reduces duplication of effort to manage the configuration of multiple environments.
Exception handling
Even with a unified environment management approach, emergencies happen. An exception should be a very rare event in the environment. A critical externally driven event is the usual scenario. Good examples are vendor bugs in a platform or an emergency security patch. These should not be internally driven feature changes.
The process for handling an exception should be treat the exception as a truly important event and should include corrective and post-mortem activities. The corrective activity must focus on the resynchronization of the environments. For example, if the standard change delivery system was not used to apply the change to the emergency environment, the change must be added to the standard change delivery system. Regardless of how the change was applied, there must also be a post-mortem process to answer the question of why the emergency happened and, more importantly, how to reduce the likelihood of that emergency ever happening again.
Measurement and continuous improvement
Using DevOps methods to deliver software changes provides ample opportunity to measure and improve the process. In addition to the consistency of a standard system, the high frequency of a DevOps approach provides more data points. Various metrics for things such as cycle time, packaging gaps, or process failures are obvious things to measure. These metrics are not typical operations metrics, such as availability or uptime. Instead, they are geared toward the process that ensures things like uptime and availability as an outcome. Other good things to track are metrics about the effectiveness and efficiency of the process. Examples here are the number of person hours required to sustain the application system, the number of person hours required to maintain the DevOps infrastructure, or the wait time for delivery to a given environment.
A DevOps delivery method also enables great instrumentation for the application system. These metrics are very application-specific, but they reveal performance, user-experienced responsiveness, and so on. Thus, these metrics inform decisions about comparing the operating environments, identify bottlenecks in an application system, or manage capacity requirements proactively.
Loose coupling
Tools in DevOps delivery must be "loosely coupled" to the environment in which they are deployed. This means that teams must be able to replace individual tools without a major disruption to the overall system.
Architecturally speaking, there are several models for achieving this. For example, focusing on tools that use web services APIs as their prime integration mechanism is a popular doctrine for organizing DevOps tools. Regardless of the technical approach, the teams must realize that changing one of the tools has some level of impact on the organization's overall ability to deploy changes. When a team wants to replace one of their tools for a particular capability category, they must deliberately analyze that impact and weigh it against the timing and benefit that replacing the tool provides.
DevOps requires a fundamental change in how organizations approach delivering software to operating environments. The payoff for doing so, however, is better-quality software delivered more frequently. A structured approach to the problem that treats an application system as a unified whole can help organizations collaborate on the effort. That collaboration can be supported by a systematic approach to delivering and improving capabilities that deliver the whole application system progressively more efficiently. The DevOps approach is one that favors the agile approach of steady, incremental improvement over many cycles and provides organizations the structure and insight to consistently deliver valuable software to users as it is needed. That is really the point of deploying software in the first place.
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The soccer gods must be laughing with the family fun and psychodrama they've cooked up for Sean Moser's family this weekend.
Moser is the head coach of St. Paul's, which will play Jesuit for the Division I state championship Saturday night at Tad Gormley Stadium at 7:30 p.m.
As if Moser doesn't have enough to think about heading into his team's third consecutive state title tilt against Jesuit, his daughter, Megan, 16, starts for St. Scholastica, which plays Lafayette in the girls Division I state championship match Saturday at Tad Gormley Stadium at 5 p.m. That's right, just before her dad's match.
The perspectives on this can leave one's head spinning.
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"I am looking forward to it," Coach Moser said with a laugh. "You are so busy at Gormley with the atmosphere, team pictures and the locker room it can take your mind off it a little. I will try to see as much of it (Megan's match) as I can. I probably won't see much of the second half. I am excited for her.
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Wildcats cap undefeated season
Forty-one football seasons have elapsed since the last time an Oak Harbor High School team has finished the regular season with an undefeated record.
That long streak came to an end on Friday at Wildcat Memorial Stadium as Oak Harbor defeated Cascade 21-7 on senior night.
The victory gives the Wildcats the undisputed WesCo North championship with a perfect 9-0 regular season record and the number-one seed into the upcoming playoffs.
Oak Harbor scored on its first possession when sophomore running back Donovon Hunt swept right end for a 7-yard touchdown at the 8-minute mark of the first quarter.
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Ellen Lursen reports that the program will run indefinitely. Funds raised will support the shelter's spay and neuter fund. All shelter pets are spayed or neutered before they are adopted. So drop by with your donation at 855 Owens St., or call 251-208-2834.
The Alabama School of Mathematics and Science is hosting a showing of Sarah Brewer's artwork, "Visual Mathematics." Brewer is an ASMS alum and a faculty member. The display is in the Bedsole Building's ASMS Gallery, 1255 Dauphin St., and runs through Aug. 23. The gallery is open from Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. For details, call 251-441-2100.
The Mobile Chapter 318 of National Active and Retired Federal Employees is holding its monthly meeting at Naman's Middle Bay Café on July 8 at 11 a.m. Guest speakers are County Commissioner District 2 candidates Connie Hudson and Pete Riehm. All members and active and retired federal employees are welcome to attend. For details, contact chapter president Joe Mahoney at 251-438-1689 or vice president John Graupmann at 251-649-9446.
The Visitation Shop's annual Christmas in July Sale runs through July 31. Stop in and browse linens, gifts, books and religious items. Proceeds help support the Sisters of the Visitation Monastery. Summer hours at the Visitation Shop are Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For details, call 251-471-4106.
Did your pet get a rabies shot this year? The City of Mobile Animal Shelter is offering three cash only rabies clinics in July. On July 10 and July 17, the clinics are from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. with Dr. Quentin Meadows. On July 31, from 1:30 to 3 p.m., Dr. Ann Branch will be administering vaccinations. Alabama State Law requires dogs, cats and ferrets to have a current rabies vaccine. The City of Mobile Animal Shelter is at 855 Owens St. For details, call 251-208-2800.
Little Flower Catholic School isn't taking the summer off from education. Students are participating in the Summer Reading Camp to get a jump on the required summer reading. The Summer Reading Challenge welcomes students to campus on Wednesdays in July to check out books and take AR tests. Top readers receive prizes. There's also a Math Camp that helps students retain knowledge and build confidence before school begins. And new this summer is Art Camp with fourth grade teacher Haley Hutson. In addition to creating original works of art, students learn about famous artists. Alesa Smitherman helped to coordinate the summer camps, under the guidance of principal Clara Brunk. Interested in enrolling for the fall? Call 251-479-5761 for information.
The Mobile Public Library 2010 Summer Reading Program welcomes two special guests this week at three of its libraries. On July 6, educators from the Dauphin Island Sea Lab will visit with readers at the West Regional Branch at 11 a.m., talking about the wonder and beauty of the ocean. Fire educator Kent Landsberg and his friends share fire safety fun at the Ben May Main Library on July 7 at 9:30 and 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. On July 8, Fireman Kent and his friends travel to the Toulminville branch for presentations at 1 and 2:30 p.m.
"Life's Celebrations" at the Cathedral Square Gallery depicts all the things we love along the Gulf Coast. The Artwalk Reception is July 9 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., featuring wine tasting, hors d'oeuvres and live music. Cathedral Square Gallery is located at 612 Dauphin St. Hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For details, visit www.cathedralsquaregallery.com or call 251-694-0278.
The Beta Theta Chapter of Chi Omega has launched a $100,000 campaign to raise funds toward the Chi Omega Amphitheatre at the University of South Alabama's Moulton Tower and Alumni Plaza. Chi Omega chapters typically give a large gift to their campuses to celebrate their 50th anniversary. The Beta Theta Chapter recently celebrated its 40th anniversary at USA with a luncheon for 186 people at the Waterman Globe in the Mitchell Center and presented an initial gift of $10,000 to USA President Gordon Moulton. For information on the Chi Omega Amphitheatre or to contribute, contact Ginny Turner at 251-460-7032 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
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1981 NCAA Div. III champions
DECORAH—The Central College men's and women's cross country squads took fourth and fifth respectively at the Iowa Conference championships Saturday morning.
Horton earns IIAC honors—Freshman Eli Horton (Runnells, Southeast Polk HS) led the Dutch men, placing 11th overall in a time of 25 minutes, 54 seconds. Drew Jackson (freshman, Johnston) was the second Central runner in 20th (26:27), with Austin O'Brien (sophomore, Bettendorf, Pleasant Valley HS) in 25th (26:36) and Brent Ewing (junior, Cincinnati, Centerville HS) in 28th (26:59). Brandon Clough (junior, Marshalltown, GMG HS) was 31st (27:03), Andrew Hamer (senior, Murray) was 38th (27:24), and Cody Doughan (sophomore, Bettendorf, Pleasant Valley) rounded out the varsity squad in 44th (27:53).
"Drew Jackson ran pretty well. He's shown a lot of maturity this year as a freshman," said coach Joe Dunham. "And for Eli (Horton) to be all-conference as freshman, that says something. He's going to be a top runner in this conference for several years."
The Central men finished with 115 points, good for fourth place. Loras College took the team championship with 53 points. Luther College was close behind after totaling 56, with Wartburg College taking third with 79. Kyle Heineman of Coe College was the individual champion in a time of 25:15
"I think we fell victim to being a young, inexperienced team," said Dunham. "We went out hard and weren't able to hold onto it. We need to learn how to let the race come to us."
But Dunham did find a takeaway from the meet.
"I'm proud of their effort and desire to get out there and compete," said Dunham. "We'll use this as a learning experience and look forward to the regional meet in a couple weeks.
Louis leads Dutch women—Senior Melanie Louis (Davenport, Central HS) was the first finisher for the Central women, placing 20th in a time of 23:50. Shelby Mendoza (sophomore, Norwalk) was close behind in 24th (24:03), with a pack of Amanda Melcher (junior, Libertyville, Fairfield HS), Alyssa Eaves (freshman, Johnston), and Emma Nelson (sophomore, Pekin) filing in at 33rd (24:49), 35th (24:51), and 37th place (25:00). Mallory Welk (freshman, De Pere, Wis.) was 43rd (25:18) with Jenna Broghamer (junior, Iowa City, West HS) close behind in 44th (25:25) to round out the varsity lineup. Usual lead runner Mel McDermott (junior, Britt West Hancock) was unable to compete because of an injury.
"I was happy with the way our runners worked together in a pack today, especially after losing their top runner," said Dunham. "And Shelby Mendoza had a great race after not being able to run for a couple weeks. It was a good all-around effort."
The Dutch women accumulated 149 points to take fifth. Wartburg won the meet with 28 points, Luther was second (45), Loras was third (78) and Cornell College took fourth (101). Emma Spoon of Luther defended her individual title with a time of 22:35.
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Ground Floor
Reception Hallway
Glazed and leaded entrance doors with beveled glass lead into the hallway. The L-Shaped hallway has returning spindle staircase to first floor landing with useful store cupboard beneath.
19' 6" x 12' 10" (5.94m x 3.91m) Front facing reception room with double glazed window and feature multi-fuel stove with attractive grand surround. Radiator, dado rail, coving and ceiling rose. Two wall lights. Archway into open hallway.
Dining Room
17' 2" x 12' 5" 13'7 into recess. (5.23m x 3.78m) A spacious formal dining room with feature carved fire surround having slate style hearth and inset decorative coal effect fire. Radiator and double glazed window to the rear.
8' 8" x 6' 10" (2.64m x 2.08m) An essential room for home workers with fitted study unit and shelving. Double glazed window and door into further WC
WC - Having low flush WC, vanity wash hand basin, radiator and window.
Store/Box Room
6' 11" x 4' 8" (2.11m x 1.42m) Providing useful storage with lighting and radiator.
Dining Kitchen
13' 9" x 13' 4" (4.19m x 4.06m) A cottage/farmhouse style kitchen with a wide range of oak style wall and base level units complemented by working surfaces and stainless steel one and a half bowl single drainer sink. Fitted breakfast bar and integral dishwasher. Freestanding Range cooker with stainless steel extractor hood. Slate tiled flooring throughout which extends into the side hallway and cloakroom etc. Beamed ceiling and double glazed window giving views over the gardens. Having radiator and generous walk in pantry with double glazed window offering space for domestic appliances and wealth of storage.
Side Hallway
Rear entrance door, access to utility room and WC having low flush WC, pedestal wash hand basin and opaque window.
Utility Room
10' 10" x 4' 5" (3.30m x 1.35m) Having a range of wall and base level units with single drainer sink. Plumbing for washing machine, tiled flooring and double glazed window.
Games Room
34'4 full length x 14' 9" (10.46m x 4.50m) Games room with adjacent library/snug. Having full size snooker table, windows to three sides and stone faced arch with step up to the library area with book shelving.
First Floor
Split level having radiator, beamed ceiling to dormer, built in double linen cupboard and access to eaves storage which is boarded with lighting. Access to all bedrooms.
Master Bedroom
16' 7" x 13' 5" (5.05m x 4.09m) A light well proportioned principal bedroom with double glazed window and French doors onto 'Juliet' Balcony overlooking the gardens. Having a wide range of fitted bedroom furniture including wardrobes, overhead cupboards and drawers. Lobby leads off to landing and shower room.
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Fully tiled with a three piece suite comprising of a step in shower unit, low flush WC and vanity wash hand basin with units beneath. Radiator and opaque window.
Bedroom Two
15' x 9' 8" (4.57m x 2.95m) Having window to side, radiator and fitted eaves wardrobe.
Bedroom Three
11' 7" x 10' 8" front of wardrobes.(3.53m x 3.25m) Rear facing bedroom with radiator and built in mirror fronted wardrobes.
Family Bathroom
11' 6" x 8' 7" extends to 10'8" (3.51m x 2.62m) A spacious and fully equipped modern style bathroom. Being fully tiled with chrome towel radiator. The suite comprises of a corner 'Jacuzzi' spa bath, low flush WC, pedestal wash hand basin and corner shower enclosure. Mirrored bathroom cabinets and double glazed window.
A private gated sweeping driveway leading to turning areas, ample parking for a number of vehicles and under house double garage. As previously stated the property stands in approximately two acres including formal gardens, wooded areas and mature trees throughout. In addition there are informal park style gardens onto a rural outlook , raised sitting area adjacent to the entrance plus secluded sunbathing/entertaining area to the side. A gardeners dream but planned for low maintenance by the current owners.
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17' x 17' (5.18m x 5.18m) Under house double garage with up and over door power and lighting
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LISBON – Edward B. Chamberlain, 88, of Lisbon, died at 1:38 p.m. Thursday at Salem Community Hospital following a recent illness.
Born Nov. 13, 1924, in Lisbon, he was the son of the late William F. and Mary (Thorton) Chamberlain.
Mr. Chamberlain was an electrician for 30 years at NRM, retiring in 1987. He was a member of the Trinity Friends Church and served in the U.S. Army, at the end of World War II.
He was preceded in death Jan. 12, 2013, by his wife, Annabelle (Smith) Chamberlain, whom he married Sept. 2, 1950.
He was also preceded in death by his daughter, Bonnie L. Chamberlain.
Survivors include two sons, Steve (Marilyn) Chamberlain of Salem and Jon (Pam) Chamberlain of Fort Worth, Texas; a sister, Josephine (Joe) Pugia of Chetsworth, Calif.; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Trinity Friends Church, 33937 U.S. Route 30, Lisbon, with the Rev. Richard Jones of the church officiating. Burial will follow in the Lisbon Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at the Eells-Leggett-Stauffer Funeral Home and on Tuesday from 10 a.m. until the time of service at the church.
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Two people are facing criminal charges after allegedly spraying mace at a St. Helens Safeway store last week and sickening 31 customers.
Elisha Kimberly Nichols, 18, of Rainier, faces assault, disorderly conduct, recklessly endangerment and unlawful use of mace after about 100 customers had to be evacuated last Wednesday from the store at 795 S. Columbia River Hwy.
An unidentified child is also facing charges after customers reported having trouble breathing, dizziness and other symptoms after inhaling something in the air, according to Columbia River Fire and Rescue. One man was taken to the hospital as a precaution.
The cause of the customers' sickness was initially believed to be linked to a possible equipment malfunction in the store. Investigators soon discovered the cause was not accidental, which led to Nichols and the other person being arrested on Monday, said St. Helens Police Chief Steven Salle.
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Siegfried gets 7 years in domestic violence case
August 27, 2013
A Nevada City man was sentenced to seven years after being found guilty of depriving a custodial parent of a child, stalking, spousal abuse, making criminal threats, disobeying a court order and disobeying a domestic restraining order and resisting arrest in two separate incidents involving the mother of his child.
Jacob Siegfried was arrested in September 2011 after he refused to return the 3-year-old boy to the custodial mother after taking him to Burning Man, and then threatening to take him to San Diego or Arizona. In November of that same year, Siegfried allegedly grabbed his ex-girlfriend by the hair and tried to pull her into his vehicle during a child custody exchange.
He was sentenced Monday in Nevada County Superior Court on those charges — as well as a separate case in which he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of making a criminal threat after he allegedly threatened his ex-girlfriend as the verdict was being read.
Siegfried still faces criminal charges in connection with the November 2011 discovery of a trailer containing 50 pounds of marijuana.
Siegfried's court-appointed defense counsel, Stephen Munkelt, called the proposed prison sentence a "great injustice" and asked Judge Tom Anderson to consider probation and a jail term instead.
"I don't want to minimize the impact of his behavior," Munkelt said, before arguing that the push for a prison term was "totally inappropriate."
Munkelt argued that Siegfried had learned his lesson and would "conform" his conduct.
Both Munkelt and Deputy Public Defender Tamara Zuromskis, who handled the criminal threat case, argued the incident never happened.
"The people have formed this picture … of a dangerous individual," Munkelt sad. "To send him to prison for that would be wrong … There's no reason for this exaggerated fear."
Munkelt argued that a longer, more intensive probation term would be better for Siegfried and the community than prison and subsequent parole.
"He deserves the opportunity to prove to you he can conform," Munkelt said.
Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Ow read a statement from the victim in which she said she suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome as a result of the incidents.
While listening to the statement, which detailed how harmful his actions had been to his son, Siegfried briefly broke down, sobbing as he bent his head.
Ow conceded that Siegfried has no significant criminal record but told Anderson that was the only thing weighing in his favor.
If there were a picture of Siegfried as a dangerous individual, it is because "he drew the lines and colored in the squares," Ow said.
"He was, is and will continue to be a threat to (the victim)," she added.
Anderson said he was deviating from the pre-sentence report in sentencing Siegfried to an aggregate term of seven years; he had pleaded no contest to the criminal threat case in return for time served. He has more than three and a half years credit for time served and good behavior.
A trial date for the marijuana case was set for Oct. 8 with a conference scheduled for Sept. 20.
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It's very likely that Nintendo will reveal a Mario Kart Wii U game at E3 next week. There are many directions in which they can take the Mario Kart franchise on the Wii U, but they certainly won't go in the direction that artist Jose Emorca Flores took Mario Kart in.
Emorca took the fun and cartoony Mario kart series and turned into a sort of Tim Burton-esque 1930s-style grand prix. Bowser and Toad look downright scary, and Mario looks more bad-ass than we've ever seen him.
Called "The Kingdom of Krash", his take on Mario Kart will be available on display at the iam8bit gallery in Los Angeles.
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Well, maybe Snooki's boyfriend thought it would increase his odds of getting a yes if he proposed very publicly- like on a magazine cover. Well, Snooki gave her response: via twitter.
Just want to set the record straight. I'm single and I'm not going to get married!
So it sounds like the answer was a no. Well, judging from the pictures of Snooki partying (even if it is for the cameras), I'm guessing she's not ready to settle down yet 🙂
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The Dow Jones industrial average rallied 123 points Friday as the market showed signs of stabilizing after a rocky Thursday.
It appears investors' initial negative knee-jerk reaction Thursday to the downed Malaysia Airlines jetliner and Israel's military foray into the Gaza Strip was an overreaction, at least for now.
Investors, for the most part, are back to worrying about U.S. corporate earnings (which are coming in strong) and underplaying the potential economic fallout due to geopolitical troubles overseas.
Still, the fighting still rages on in Gaza and the finger-pointing over who shot down the jetliner over Ukraine is still front-page news. In pre-market trading Monday, the Dow was down 40 points as geopolitical uncertainty continues to weigh on investor sentiment and limit risk-taking.
Wall Street pros lay out the path back to stability. Here's a short list of "5" market "stabilizers."
1. End to the fighting. "The (pro-Russia) rebels need to pull out of Ukraine and Israel needs to pull out of Gaza," says Uri Landesman, president of Platinum Partners.
2. End to uncertainty. "In order to restore longer-term stability, investors have to get comfortable with the belief that things are going to get better as it relates to global conflicts," says Ann Miletti, senior portfolio manager at Wells Fargo Advantage Funds.
"This is difficult as tensions continue to rise in many parts of the the world," Miletti adds. "There are a lot of questions that remain unanswered and the market doesn't like surprises, so the near term is bound to be choppy."
3. De-escalate the conflict. "The realization that neither issue will escalate much further," says Alan Skrainka, chief investment officer at Cornerstone Wealth Management.
"Israel and the Palestinians have been fighting forever and that is likely not going to change in our lifetimes," adds Skrainka. "The U.S. can up the ante by increasing sanctions on Russia, but will not involve U.S. ground troops. The only impact of sanctions has been to hurt the Russian economy, which is not a major player in terms of the global economy."
Heading into the new week, some U.S. lawmakers are calling on the Obama administration to hit Russia with further economic sanctions. Sanctions targeting Russia are likely to have the biggest economic impact on Europe's economy, as Russia is a major supplier of natural gas to the eurozone.
4. Restoration of confidence. "The main thing is more confidence about the global economic outlook being less under threat," says Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Asset Management Group.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – This weekend's big events include Bruno Mars, the Tri-C JazzFest and the annual Pride Festival.
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One of the biggest concerts of the summer arrives in Cleveland when pop star Bruno Mars' "Moonshine Jungle Tour" hits The Q on Friday night. Tickets for the show, which is almost sold out, start at around $50. Aloe Blacc (hit single "The Man") is the opening act.
Grapes and Ale
The Cleveland Grapes & Ale event at Progressive Field is pricey (Tickets are $50), but you get bang for your buck. The event features souvenir wine glasses, wine samplings, a silent auction, a line of craft beers and live entertainment. Joe Crea has more details.
Tri-C JazzFest
The annual Tri-C JazzFest is off and running. The festival runs from June 26-28 with a variety of local and international musicians of the highest caliber. The list of headliners includes Christian McBride, Dave Holland and Trombone Shorty, the later of which will be performing Friday night at PlayhouseSquare.The event also features nine hours of free outdoor shows on Friday and Saturday. For more info, visit www.clevelandfoundation.org/jazzfest.
Cleveland Block Party 2
The latest incarnation of Cleveland Block Party takes place on Saturday at 6 p.m. at Lake Affect Studios on E. 25th St. The event will feature sets from several DJs, pop up shops, art displays and food. For more, check out the hashtag #ClevelandBlockParty2.
Pride Parade and Festival
The annual Cleveland Pride celebration has been going strong for two and a half decades. The community is celebrating in major fashion. The parade will begin at noon on Saturday, but the festivities don't stop there. This year's headliner is none other than 1980s icon Debbie Gibson.
American Liberty Fest @ Crocker Park
The 2014 Liberty Fest at Crocker Park takes place Sunday, June 29 and features performances by the Cleveland Pops Orchestra and others. The event will also feature the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Things kick off at 3 p.m.
Sunday Yoga
The first in a series of "Cleveland Yoga @ CMA" events kicks off on Sunday as Cleveland's yoga community partners with the Cleveland Museum of Art for large yoga demonstrations in conjunction with art exhibits. The first class begins at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. Click HERE for registration details.


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A Thursday night police raid of a home in South Bethlehem netted three drug-dealing suspects and 270 bags of heroin with a street value of $2,700, according to a news release issued today by the Bethlehem Police Department.
The city's vice unit, street crimes unit and emergency response team converged on a home in the 300 block of State Street at 5:44 p.m., police report in the release. They had a search warrant that was obtained following a "lengthy investigation" into citizen complaints about drug dealing and suspicious behavior at the home, the release states.
In addition to the drugs, police said, they also found a digital scale, drug packaging materials, a pellet gun and about $1,000 in cash.
The three city residents arrested in the raid are each charged with possession of heroin, possession with intent to deliver heroin, possession of drug paraphernalia and criminal conspiracy to commit possession with intent to deliver heroin, according to police.
Police identified the people as: Pedro Hornedo-Espinal, 24, of the 1000 block of Mechanic Street; Albert Flores, 30, of the 300 block of State Street; and Jonathan Manuel Hidalgo, 18, also of the 300 block of State Street.
They were arraigned before District Judge John Capobianco and sent to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $15,000 bail apiece.
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"The future economy is going to be based upon skills that are founded in the sciences. We know that in a knowledge-based economy, technology is going to be one of the leaders," Haas said. "Skill sets in the STEM area are going to be critical as you move into new jobs."
Haas hopes GVSU can help develop new curriculum that inspires students in the Grand Rapids Public Schools and other districts to pursue math and science careers.
"That motivation from early on is critical in terms of the success of this program and the success of maybe 100,000 students that are going to be touched by this new cadre of science teachers," he said.
Haas spoke last week with Business Review Associate Editor Mark Sanchez about the school's participation in the Woodrow Wilson program.
What will this funding allow you to do that you cannot do right now?
It's a motivator to bring on board very, very well-qualified people in those science disciplines. They may be engineers that want to teach. They're going to be people who have degrees in the sciences that want to teach. And what that will provide us is a very good cadre of well-qualified candidates that will be supported by a $30,000 stipend.
Do we need to do a better job teaching the sciences or do a better job in getting students fascinated by science?
It's not an 'either/or.'
What we need to do is create a curriculum that's exciting and relevant and there has to be applications. Students, we know, learn best when they do things, not just sit in a classroom and try and absorb material.
In a curricular perspective, it's a change of culture to move from a more passive learning style to a more active learning style that's going to be assessed so that we know what the students are learning.
And then what we do through that is motivate and inspire the kids to say, 'Hey, I can do this. This is exciting. I might even be able to do this in a new job and a new profession.'
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Man wanted in Fitchburg murder arrested in Indiana
Dinkue Brown accused in man's stabbing death
A Massachusetts man wanted in connection with a fatal June stabbing during a home invasion has been arrested in eastern Indiana.
Dinkue Brown, of Gardner, Mass., was arrested Monday in Richmond by members of the Indiana State Police and the U.S. Marshal's Fugitive Task Force.
The Palladium-Item reports the 27-year-old Brown was taken into custody without incident during a traffic stop. He's being held at the Wayne County Jail to await extradition to Massachusetts.
Brown was wanted in connection with the June 21 stabbing death of 26-year-old Luis Rodriguez during a home invasion in Fitchburg, Mass. Brown and another man face murder, home invasion and armed assault charges in that killing
Brown's arrest came after State Police learned he might be staying with relatives in the Richmond area.
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Robert H. Bell
BELL, Robert H., 76, of Wintersville, OH, died Sunday, November 3, 2013, at his residence of natural causes.
He was born in Steubenville on March 31, 1937, a son of the late Robert Bell and Georgine Fisher Bell Turvey.
Robert was retired from U.S. Continental Can as a pressman and was a member of Jefferson Sportsman Association and Clendenning Fisherman Club.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Bernadette Lee "Bernie" Smitz Bell; and his brother, Ed Turvey.
Robert is survived by his daughter, Barbara (Mark) Jones of Locust Grove, VA; brothers, Robert C. (Jamie) Bell of Wintersville, Richard Bell of Florida and Spirit Eagle also known as Dan Turvey and his wife Spirit Dove of Maine; sisters, Janet (Bill) Barnett of Wintersville and June Ann (Randy) Gardner of Steubenville; grandchildren, Trey Jones and Sagan (Chris) Brummett.
Services will be private.
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What about URIs in general? Here you get back to the difference between identification and addressing. Without some additional infrastructure, you have no way of locating URIs that aren't URLs. However, as was mentioned previously, URLs are unreliable naming schemes.
URNs are fabulous at naming things in generic, long-lived ways, but they have a serious problem: there is no support for converting a pure name into a location on the web or in a corporate enterprise environment. You could certainly constrain the problem for a particular system and build your own resolution mechanism, but there is no clicking with URNs and clicking is what has made the web what it is. Your grandma clicks. (Well, at least my wife's grandma does.)
Solving this problem was one of the main motivations behind purl.org's Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL), which is a service that has been run by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) in Dublin, OH for 12 years. Users may register with the PURLS system and create URIs that map to a URL. The name begins as a part of a URL that serves as both the identifier as well as a path to a resolver.
For example, the Dublin Core vocabulary has been defined as a series of PURLs. You can refer to the title term through a PURL: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title. If you attempt to resolve that link, you'll be taken to the definition of the RDF vocabulary. That location can change over time. As long as the PURL maintainer keeps the link current, this URL will remain stable and serves its purpose as both an identifier and an address.
It is now possible to make logical references to elements that move. A major goal of the semantic web is to be able to accumulate metadata about both information and non-information resources. You are no doubt familiar with the Sisyphean comedy of keeping address books current. The problem is that you are constantly ingesting a physical representation of a logical resource.
What you'd really like to know is, where in the world is http://purl.org/name/WaldoJohanssen? You would need a naming scheme that allowed for people with the same namesbut job changes, marriages, physical moves, title changes, and so onto all be managed with this level of indirection. You can imagine an address book that works with URIs only as being much easier to maintain. When you need the information, you simply ask for it.
What about the problem discussed previously about referring to a concept versus referring to a document about the concept? How do you know whether you are interpreting metadata about Mr. Johanssen or a document about him? With only a simple HTTP redirect you still run into this problem.
Recently, Zepheira, a provider of products and services for the semantic web, was contracted to modernize the architecture of the PURL service for scalability and to support new features to solve this problem. The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) came up with something of a compromise to manage this signifier/signified problem, and Zepheira intended to extend the OCLC PURL service to support it.
The HTTP code 303 ("see also") will be used in place of the 200 code to respond to requests for non-information resources. In a way, the PURL service will be saying, "I acknowledge your request; yes, there is something here, but not a document." Ultimately, it will allow systems to be built that are able to tell the difference between information and non-information resources, concepts, or documentspotentially about those concepts.
This new capability will be a powerful means of achieving a compromise on the identification/addressing conflation issues discussed here. You want good names, and you want stable and persistent ways to refer to the things they represent. You want a resolution mechanism that works within the software frameworks and protocols that have found their way into widespread use. With that resolution in place, you can start to realize more of the semantic web's potential on the web we already have.
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- 1 can (16 ounces) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (15 ounces) pinto beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes and green chilies
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) vegetable broth or reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 2 cups frozen corn, thawed
- 1 can (4 ounces) chopped green chilies, undrained
- 3 cups water
- 2 medium carrots, sliced
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- In a 3-qt. slow cooker, combine the beans, tomatoes, broth, corn and green chilies. Stir in the water, carrots, onion, garlic and chili powder. Cover and cook on high for 4-5 hours or until vegetables are tender and flavors are blended. Yield: 6 servings.
Originally published as Zippy Bean Stew in Light & Tasty October/November 2002, p13
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Growing Pot Arrests
Do you get high? If so, you have a lot of company. Although no country has yet legalized marijuana, almost half of the world's 147 nations have, to some extent, decriminalized it. In the United States, according to an April 2009 Zogby poll, 52 percent of the population now favors legalization—the largest percentage ever.
Despite marijuana's growing acceptance, most of our elected officials are still reluctant to advocate for the cause. As Rick Doblin, President of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)—a nonprofit that has advocated on behalf of medical marijuana since the 80s—points out: "Most politicians still won't come out in favor of medical marijuana because they don't want to appear pro-legalization. And they're afraid of appearing pro-legalization, because they're scared of being accused of wanting to give drugs to children."
And it's unlikely things will change anytime soon. Pot's continued criminalization has been championed, sometimes overtly, often covertly, by powerful groups—among them law enforcement agencies, the alcohol and tobacco industries, pharmaceutical companies and the prison-industrial complex—who have repeatedly shaped laws and public opinion to reflect their views.
So weed remains a crime, albeit a very popular one.
Pot Arrest Statistics
Pot arrests are at a near-record high. According to FBI statistics, in 2009 more than 1.7 million people were brought in on marijuana-related charges—almost half of them (758,593 to be exact) for simply smoking pot (as opposed to growing or dealing it). According to "Lost Revenues and Other Costs of Marijuana Laws," a report written by Drug Science public policy analyst Jon Gettman, enforcing America's pot laws costs taxpayers an annual $10.7 billion. Not to mention the overburdening of our criminal justice system and disruption of the lives of those who find themselves with a criminal record for smoking an occasional joint.
"If an arrest leads to a conviction, as it often does," says American Civil Liberties Union policy advocate Mark Cooke, "it can lead to a lifetime of collateral consequences. These include loss of employment, loss of housing, loss of voting rights, loss of federal financial aid for college, seizure and forfeiture of property, termination of child visitation rights and deportation for legal immigrants. If an arrest results in incarceration, the offender will face lower job prospects and have diminished earning capacity. Even if someone is merely arrested for using marijuana and doesn't actually get charged, they will still bear the stigma of being labeled a criminal."
Medical Marijuana as Miracle Drug
Meanwhile, medical marijuana has come to be seen as something of a wonder drug. Researchers have declared it one of the most successful palliatives in the medicine chest—beneficial in the treatment of pain, nausea, vomiting, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), lack of appetite, migraines, fibromyalgia, cancer, depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Lyme disease, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), Tourette's syndrome and many more. "There's nothing in our current pharmacopoeia that comes close," says Michael Backes, owner of the Cornerstone Research Collective, a Los Angeles-based medical marijuana dispensary and research organization.
All this pro-pot sentiment is not new. One of the earliest laws passed in the New World—a 1619 Jamestown colony law—required all settlers to grow cannabis (some of this was for domestic use, but much was at the "request" of our colonial masters who used the plant for everything from rope to medicines). Two hundred years later there were more than 8,000 hemp plantations in the colonies—with nothing less than 2,000 acres counting as a plantation.
So how did we get from hemp being as American as apple pie to U.S. prisons overflowing with marijuana offenders?
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NEWARK -- A city man was arrested and charged today for fatally shooting a 17-year-old resident and wounding a 19-year-old man on Saturday, according to police.
Altariq Carter, 18, of Newark, is facing charges for murdering Dozier and shooting another man on the leg, said Detective Todd McClendon. The shooting occurred at 5:45 p.m. at 653 Martin Luther King Boulevard, where Dozier's body, which had been shot numerous times in the torso, was found.
McClendon said Dozier was transported to University Hospital where he died a short time later. The second victim was treated and released.
Investigators from Newark Police, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, and U.S. Marshals Service tracked down Carter at 100 North 18th St. in East Orange, McClendon said. Carter has been charged with murder, possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and aggravated assault.


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|I like very much this two summits, especially the views from the summits, really amazing and among the best in the Carnic Alps main ridge. I've been many times there and I've got very nice memories of that hikes, but unfortunately I don't have pics of this area.
So, if I remember well, now you miss only the wild Scinauz in your collection...
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|Well, there's no particular collection. On these summits of Carnic Alps main ridge many more accesses and hidden places could be visited. I would still have more than a dozen wishes of tours, skiings, etc. But peaks themselves were visited. I was also not on Monte Salinchiet, On Monte Malvuerich etc., etc. For Scinauz - I'd really try to go up there. Even Andrej said he would join. What about you? Let's break the NATO curse ;)
|Posted Jan 29, 2009 2:30 pm
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|Well, I'd be very pleased to join you and climb that summit, the fact that has been closed to visitors for such a long time makes it a very "different" mountain from all the others. The route is long but not impossible, though there can be some difficulty in finding the right trail.
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Hi all,
I've been on gmap-pedometer, just trying to find out how much exercise I'm getting, how active I am overall, etc.
Monday - 4km walk + training
Tuesday - 2.6km walk + 2 hrs training + 2.4/4.8 km walk.
Wednesday - 0
Thursday - 6.4km walk + training.
Friday- 2.6 km walk
Saturday - 1.5 hr cycling.
Sunday - 0
Hmmm. If I can get to gym, wednesday and friday could be weight-lifting, maybe?
Good luck.
"Adapt and Overcome"
You're right, Em - it's definitely mostly cardio, with the odd high intensity workout in training. Yes, weights is definitely a good idea.
Hi all,
I'm thinking about eating once every 24 hrs. For example, just eat dinner everyday and nothing else.
I tried it out today, and my energy levels were constant, I performed well at training, the walks were fine...
D - Massive salad, made with spinach, 2 boiled eggs, 2 fried eggs, fried bacon, chicken, salmon, fried broccoli, avocado and olive oil. Seasoned with turmeric and garlic. Reeeaaaalllly nice!
My brother came down with some sort of bug today. He's vomited once, and is in bed with stomach aches. And 10 minutes ago my sister said she felt sick too. I really really really hope I don't get it. Hate being sick, but especially hate stomach bugs.
Cheats: a couple of squares of milk choc. That stuff is as addictive as cocaine.
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I'm getting so worried about my Dad. He's almost 47, and really overweight.
I talk to him about it, telling him he won't get to see his grandchildren if he carries on like this. He acknowledges that he needs to lose weight, but he just won't do anything about it!!
I get frustrated talking to him, and ask him 'what are doing about your weight?' (we're very direct). He thinks about it, and says
''I've cut down on my eggs''. Or, ''I've cut out cheese''. Or, ''I'm seeing a naturopath that's costing hundreds of dollars a week''. I'm literally like >facepalm<.
He used to rave about this naturopath, saying she was amazing, he felt so much better, etc. The reason he's feeling better is because she told him to take 5-6 different pills/supplements. Not because he's eating any better, or lost any weight.
And he cheats. We're preparing dinner, and he's scrubbing the potatoes, and he says ''I shouldn't be eating these, my 'path said not too, but...>shrug<''
How can he expect to see any results if he cheats like that??!! Plus that same night he drank 3 bottles of beer.
He went off bread for a bit, which I was happy about. But after a month or so he was back on it.
I don't know. I just don't want another funeral anytime soon. My Grandfather's was hard enough.
What about your Dads blood pressure? Is he on meds for weight related issues... that might be a way to lure him back off bread and sweets. That's what I've done with my diabetic brother. So far it's working.
It's so hard to get someone to change if they aren't interested. I try it all the time with my step mom and Dad. They are smokers. Food is just as addictive as nicotine.
Why are you cutting down on your food intake? I thought you weren't getting enough calories so what are you thinking? You train hard and need fuel. If your not feeding it, your body is still burning fuel... if not fat then it goes for muscle. From the earlier post in your journal... i don't think you have much fat to burn. Don't starve yourself for no reason. Be careful.
"Adapt and Overcome"
No no, relax. I'm not cutting my calorie intake, I'm just getting it all in one sitting. As for how much fat reserves I have...it's hard to explain. I'm not fat or overweight, I just have more (cringe) belly and hip fat than I'm comfortable with.
No, he's not on any meds. He hates going to doctors, so getting his blood pressure or anything is next to impossible. He was having heart issues, so he went off coffee which he claimed fixed it. Of course, he's back on that now, too. Basically, he has no health issues except for the occasional heart palpitations, 'brain fog' (which is why he takes those pill-thingies), and being drastically overweight. But his apparent good health can't last, which is why I really want to see him changing a few things for the better.
Okay, I don't think once every 24 hrs is going to cut it. In the last couple of hours I just had zero energy. I don't know why, because I can do 3 day fasts easily enough. I'm going to change it to once every 12, I think.
D - BAS, with bacon, eggs, spinach, herring, avocado and broccoli. 1 banana. I really shoveled this down, was quite hungry!
So, I'll have brekkie tomorrow, then dinner. See how that goes.


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In announcing the move, Rev. Warren Hall, president of the school, issued this statement: "I am committed to the growth and success of our athletic program in general, and football in particular, as it is an integral part of the life and tradition of our school.
"Over the course of the year, it became apparent that Mr. Demarest's strengths are better suited to the college arena and, after discussion, it was mutually agreed that it would be best to make the change at this time."
Demarest took the job last July after an interview process at Hudson Catholic that included discussions of his arrest on a domestic violence assault charge involving his girlfriend in July 2007. The charge was dropped in February 2008 after Demarest completed counseling for anger and stress management issues.
Demarest resigned from his position at Rutgers a month later.
According to Hall's statement, Terence Matthews, Hudson Catholic's dean of students, has been appointed dean of student affairs and athletics and will oversee athletic operations in the wake of Demarest's departure.


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