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One way to never forget how to say Basil May's first name: he'll either DAZZLE you or FRAZZLE you with his snake collection.
Basil is a lifelong Bronson resident who recently acquired a new hobby. Snake rescuing, he said, was something of a happenstance.
"I just sort of fell into it about a year and a half ago, when I got Mr. Green Jeans," Basil said.
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Jessica Dresang, project manager at Carollo Engineers, has been named the 2012 Outstanding Young Engineer, an honor that acknowledges Arizona engineers who are 35 years of age or younger and have already made outstanding contributions to the profession, society and their communities. The award was presented during the National Engineers Week in Phoenix on February 23.
Dresang earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Arizona and an MBA in Business Administration at Arizona State University. She began her career at Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. in 2002, where she worked for nine years as a Senior Project Engineer/Project Manager before moving to Carollo.
Dresang has been with Carollo Engineers since January 2012, where she is involved with projects including the Pascua Yaqui Tribe Water Reclamation Facility, a greenfield 0.5 MGD facility expandable to 3.0 MGD, which will serve the community and provide reclaimed water to the new Sewailo Golf Course. She also recently completed several water and wastewater-related projects for the City of Goodyear.
"I was extremely surprised to be nominated," says Dresang. "I am passionate about my work in protecting public health, involving young people in science and engineering education and fighting hunger and homelessness. I feel very honored to be recognized for these things in front of my peers."
Dresang's longtime involvement with key industry organizations has also contributed to her recent award. Since 1998, she has belonged to the Society of Women Engineers, holding leadership positions for six terms and, most recently, the title of president of the Phoenix Section. Jessica is also a participating author for three publications.
In addition to Dresang's professional accolades, she is also highly engaged in civic and humanitarian efforts, including Canstruction, Habitat for Humanity, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer and Race for the Cure. She has also made important societal contributions while employed as an environmental engineer, all of which helped provide the public with clean drinking water and safe treatment of wastewater.

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England, the home of football, are arguably one of the most frustrating international teams. They have always created a ton of top talent, but with the over praise, comes the ability to always let your fans down, and that's exactly what they've done. Their self proclaimed 'Golden generation' let them down, in which David Beckham, Michael Owen and Paul Scholes were key members of a very good team. England are always a top team to consider in each tournament, but they never look like winning. Their fans deserve more, and they've pinned a lot of their hopes on Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshere which hasn't resulted in anything yet. Perhaps they will pull off a surprise and win a trophy, as they're more than capable. Until a world class players steps on to the field, it's David Beckham that the fans adore and have on the back of their jerseys.
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Letizia has also denied a romantic relationship, but Zappadu's sequestered photos may prove otherwise.
One is time in romantic relationships, and one is time in family.
Did you and Christian Slater have a romantic fling on True Romance?
William is on duty flying rescue 'copters in Anglesea so there is to be no romantic dinner tonight.
Joran van der Sloot is the latest jailbird to get romantic attention from women.
Every neighbourhood has its stories, its legends, and romantic histories.
For the soul of it is the romantic, not the funny and the grotesque.
She had told him, as she might have told any decent soul, her sad and romantic story.
At first the romantic movement was Christian and monarchical.
Which is a correct verdict, as to the romantic appetites and it.
1650s, "of the nature of a literary romance," from French romantique, from Middle French romant "a romance," oblique case of Old French romanz "verse narrative" (see romance (n.)).
As a literary style, opposed to classical since before 1812; in music, from 1885. Meaning "characteristic of an ideal love affair" (such as usually formed the subject of literary romances) is from 1660s. Meaning "having a love affair as a theme" is from 1960. Related: Romantical (1670s); romantically. Cf. romanticism.
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I wanted to write and tell you that I've become a major fan of the Inn & Restaurant, which is not something I can say about any other such business. I stumbled across your establishment more or less by accident, as the result of a vaguely-defined goal to "drive down the Pacific Coast Highway."
As it turned out, I was passing your establishment right around mid-day, and was feeling hungry, so I stopped for lunch. As I was in no particular hurry, I decided to bypass the café and eat at the restaurant. As I read through the selection, it seemed to me that the menu was typical PCH fare: average food for a premium price. Not a big deal, I thought. This is what I expected, and in fact what I'd had for dinner the previous night at Nepenthe.
Once I'd finished my lunch, however, I felt I'd been undercharged. It seems strange to say it, but I didn't realize it was possible for a club sandwich to obviously be the best I'd ever eaten. After all, it's a common sandwich. How could one be particularly better than another? This one was. So were the stuffed mushroom caps, and the berry tart I convinced myself to have for dessert. Ordinarily, I would never have dessert with lunch... but everything else was so good, I had to try it.
About a week later, I was staying with some friends about three hours from Ragged Point. I was raving about how good the lunch had been-- a week had gone by, and I was still talking about it-- and I convinced them to drive over for dinner. The whole way, I worried to myself that maybe the dinner wouldn't be as good as I had built it up to be, and that I'd have dragged my friends over 200 miles for no good reason.
Of course, I need not have worried. They spent a good deal of the trip back home thanking me for convincing them to go. We all agreed it had been well worth the drive. How many restaurants can claim that they're good enough to warrant six hours on the road, just for dinner? Roger is an absolute genius in the kitchen, and I consider it my great good fortune to have encountered him.
I have since been back to visit many times, despite the distance I must travel to get there. Every time I am in California, I always do my best to arrange things so that I can spend at least one night, and more if at all possible. Between the restaurant and the incredible view from the rooms in the Inn, I can think of no better place to spend time relaxing and enjoying the simple pleasure of being alive.


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Not sure where to ask this question...
On my website, I allow Members to post Comments beneath Articles.
And for each Comment, I want to add a radio-button pair so people can vote on "Was this Comment helpful? __Yes __No"
The problem is that it appears all of my Yes/No button pairs are being treated as one gigantic group?! :eek:
What I want is each pair to be discrete and linked to the "Submit" button next to it.
In other words, I do NOT want people to go through voting for every Comment all at the same time. This is a "one-off vote" if that makes sense?
BTW, as you probably know, JavaScript is NOT an option...
How can I achieve the design I want?
The trick here is to assign unique variables in the form for each comment. Something like this, where the comment ID is 1234...

<input type="hidden" name= "helpful" value="1234">

<input type="radio" id="yes1234" name="helpful" value="1"> Yes
<input type="radio" id="no1234" name="helpful" value="2"> No
Note: the for and id attributes are in valid if starting with a number so just prepend alpha characters
Some related questions that you may or may not be able to answer...
1.) Is it a bad design to just want people to vote on one comment at a time like I described?
(With your suggestion above, I could probably make it so people could vote on all Comments at once...)
2.) Would it be better if I had a separate Form for each Comment?
Not at all, in fact I can't imagine many people wanting to sift through numerous comments to mark them useful. I'd think that the majority of times you'd only select one item to mark...?
Depends how you want it to work. You could wrap all comments in one form and let users select many items, but then where would you put your submit button(s)? Could make it hard work! I'd say one form per comment, keep it simple.
Your comments in #2 are my exact concern!!
I agree that i don't think people naturally would want to reviews 150 comments and then click "Submit"
I see this more as someone reading a really good or bad comment and wanting to voice their impression.
Also, how would I handle error messages if I let people vote on numerous comments at once?
And, yes, where would the submit button go?!
Okay, but to be clear....
If I have an article with 227 Comments, you are saying it is okay if my PHP dynamically generates 227 corresponding Forms?! :eek:
Would I have to assign a unique "Form ID" or how would that work?
If you want each pair of radio buttons to be treated separately then you also need to insert the comment ID in the end of the name. If you do that then the hidden helpful field would not be needed,

<input type="radio" id="yes1234" name="helpful1234" value="Y"> Yes
<input type="radio" id="no1234" name="helpful1234" value="N"> No
<input type="radio" id="yes2468" name="helpful2468" value="Y"> Yes
<input type="radio" id="no2468" name="helpful2468" value="N"> No
Let me explain again what I am trying to do, and maybe you can share your thoughts with me - since you generally give good advice!
Beneath one of my articles are Member Comments. I expect any given article could have from 50 to 500 Comments.
For each Member Comment, I want to ask at least 2 Questions:1.) Was this Comment helpful? (Yes/No)2.) How would you rate this Comment? (1 to 5 Stars)
My assumption is that a person would be reading through the Comments, see one that stands out - good or bad - and decide to take my "mini-survey" on said Comment.
As such, the design I was going for is one which assumes a reader is submitting answers for ONE COMMENT versus going through and rating every Comment.
The more I think about it, it sure seems to me that each Comment would be encapsulated in its own Form.
Is my thinking correct?
Is there any damage if I have 500 Comments on an Article, and thus I need 500 Forms?? :eek:
Right now, all of an Article's Comments are already wrapped in a Form because I use that when the reader wants to sort things or navigate between pages.
I do NOT think it is a good idea to let my two questions above exists in this current "parent" Form because then a reader could go crazy and start rating everything under the stars all at once.
If it IS okay to encapsulate my two Comment questions in a "mini" Form, then the next question would be, how do I do the HTML?
Would your advice above still apply or not?
It seems to me that I would want the NAME to be the same for everything, because there would be a distinct Form for each Comment, and so there wouldn't be any "collisions".
Anyways, I would be interested to hear your thoughts, Stephen - along with any other gurus lurking out there!
bluedreamer's solution will work if you want each as a separate form . I was providing an alternative for if you want everything in the one form. It all depends on how many submit buttons you want on the page and what you want to happen if someone decides to fill out fields in more than one form before trying to submit any of it.
As long as it is clear to your visitors whether the page is all one form or lots of separate forms then there shouldn't be too much of a problem. You will get people upset if they fill out all of the fields thinking it is all one form and then submitting only captures a small part of what they typed or of they think they are all separate forms, part fill out one then change their mind, go to fill out another and find that the part they thought they'd abandoned part way through gets submitted with the one they wanted to submit.


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The Levy County Health Department is not taking any chances with a possible flu outbreak and is administering flu mist to students in the county's schools this week and next.
"We're giving flu mist in the schools and day cares and pre-k," said Barbara Locke, health department administrator. "I think it's really making a difference."
Levy is only one of about three counties in the state doing flu mist in the schools, she said.
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REDNOCK School has failed to improve enough in the last year but leadership and management is better, according to its latest Ofsted report.
Inspectors visiting the secondary school and sixth form in Dursley recorded the rating "requires improvement" again after not hitting targets in its quality of teaching or in the achievement of pupils after an inspection in December.
The Ofsted report, headed by lead inspector Chris King, did note behaviour among pupils and the leadership and management shown by staff were of a good standard and some improvement had been made.
"Despite improvements, too many students still do not make good enough progress from their starting points in year seven," he said.
"The least effective teaching has now been eradicated, but the overall quality of teaching over time has not been strong enough to drive students' learning and progress at a fast enough pace."
The school has had three Ofsted inspections in two years after receiving a level three rating each time, with four being the lowest.
A school with level three ratings across all four subjects would need another inspection six months later.
Mr King did however highlight a number of strengths at the school, which has 1,370 enrolled pupils, including sixth formers.
"There are good systems and processes in place to check on the quality of the school's work over time. There is a good range of training opportunities in place to help the school improve the quality of teaching and other aspects of its work," he said.
"Pupils' behaviour is good and the number of exclusions has reduced greatly and there have been good improvements in students' attendance.
"The headteacher has a clear and accurate view of the strengths and weaknesses of the school and is supported effectively by governors and is resolute about bringing about improvements, particularly in the quality of teaching," he said.
Headteacher David Alexander said that while there was still work to do he was confident the school was only going to get better.
"That there has been an improvement in terms of leadership and management is the significant thing," he said.
"Don't get me wrong it is the same level so still there is a need to improve. Historical results weren't good enough but things are now in an upward trajectory.
"We are now quite rigorous in ensuring that teachers' assessments of their classrooms is robust and we are now really sharp in getting to lessons and checking on how things are going, we are talking daily.
"We know where we should be and it didn't feel like a report we should feel particularly unhappy about. We are on a journey and a good way along it."


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"The Office" closes on Thursday after 200 episodes which is about 199 more episodes than some cast members anticipated.
Jenna Fischer, who plays Pam, recalled meeting with Ricky Gervais, the creator and star of the British version.
"We had lunch and got to ask him any questions we wanted," she said. "And I remember going home and thinking, 'Oh, my gosh. If nothing else happens except that I got to have lunch with Ricky Gervais, this is amazing.' And now look. It's 10 years later and we made, like, a whole show."
A whole show that adapted a very dark British sitcom about an inept, clueless boss and a staff caught in dead-end, unfulfilling jobs.
Gervais' version ran for just two six-episode seasons and a two-part special. American TV considers anything less than 100 episodes a failure.
And NBC's "The Office" did not get off to a rousing start. Greg Daniels readily admits the six-episode first season was not particularly good because he was trying too hard to mimic the British version by making his clueless boss, Michael Scott (Steve Carell), too unsympathetic.
"We kind of made him more threeâ€'dimensional after Season 1 and put him into more of a tradition of American character comedy where you are rooting for him as opposed to judging him," Daniels said.
But this was no cookie-cutter American sitcom. Never expecting success, Daniels and his team made the show they wanted to see.
"We didn't really have any expectation of going nine years, and so it was all about kind of pleasing ourselves and coming up with some weird stuff," Daniels said.
"The Office" has become a pop-culture icon of sorts, but it has never been a mainstream success. In its first eight seasons, the show ranked 102nd, 67th, 68th, 77th, 52nd, 52nd, 53rd and 87th overall, averaging about 6.7 million viewers.
But "The Office" had its devoted fans, many of whom were among the advertiser-friendly 18-49 demographic. And it had the good fortune of being on NBC, which struggled mightily in the ratings over the past nine years.
"The Office" was, for a time, NBC's highest-rated scripted series.
There is an argument to be made, however, that 200 episodes was 52 episodes too many. "The Office" should have shut down when Steve Carell left in Season 7 and took Michael with him.
There's plenty of evidence to support that. Most of the publicity surrounding "The Office" finale has been a series of conflicting reports as to whether Carell will appear.
(NBC is refusing to confirm and Daniels has denied with varying degrees of certainty Carell will show up. If he does, it's likely to be a brief, cameo appearance.)
But a 200-episode run for a show that is still decent at the end is a huge achievement. And, yes, unexpected.
Rainn Wilson (Dwight) recalled another lunch with Carell, John Krasinski (Jim) and Fischer while shooting the pilot. They were talking "intensely" about how "cool" it would be if the show got picked up. And if it ran for one season. If "we actually did a full run of this show."
"And we were all, like, 'You know, it would change our lives,' " Wilson said. " 'And it would be incredible. And these would be the roles that we would be known for for the rest of our lives.' "
'The Office' finale
NBC will air an hourlong retrospective of the sitcom on Thursday, May 16, at 7 p.m. on Channel 5. The super-sized final episode follows from 8-9:15 p.m.
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OffBEAT with Bleachers
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You know musician Jack Antonoff as lead guitarist and one third of pop rock band Fun. (and co-writer of such massive hits as "We Are Young" and "Some Nights"). Or perhaps you know that he's the boyfriend of HBO darling, creator and star of Girls, Lena Dunham.
He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the song "Sweeter Than Fiction," which he co-wrote with Taylor Swift for the film One Chance. Oh, and did we mention that he co-wrote Sara Bareilles' inspiring anthem, "Brave," which resulted in a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Solo Performance?
Jack is deliberate in what he chooses to spend his time and talent on, which is evident in his impressive musical resumé, so it's no wonder that his current solo project is drawing a lot of buzz. Bleachers is Jack Antonoff's newest project, which he launched by releasing the anthemic and arresting indie pop jam, "I Wanna Get Better." The single led to Bleachers being chosen as the latest iHeartRadio Artist On The Verge, and precedes a full-blown studio album, which will be released later this Spring.
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"The message is heavy, it's not dummed down," Jack tells iHeartRadio about the single.
"I didn't write this song thinking to myself, 'Well this is what I wanna say, but this is what people can handle.' I just wrote the song and recorded the song. And I didn't say to myself, 'Well I want to have all this distortion in my vocal, but on mainstream radio that's not really what people are doing right now.' I did it anyway and thought, 'Well, if the radio plays it, then I can be really proud of it, 'cause then I can feel like I'm a part of something that is pushing things into a different place."
Jack Antonoff stopped by the iHeartRadio Studios recently to talk to us about his new project, Bleachers, and to talk about everything BUT the music.
Check out OffBEAT with Bleachers below.
How did you get here?
I got here in a panic because I woke up late, and there was a chain of emails the night before that made the time I was supposed to leave unclear. So I got here in a dizzy.
What is the view like from the bleachers?
I don't fully know yet. So far it's pretty lonely, because I've been at it really alone for a long time. It's been a secret, not because I thought it would be cool to keep it a secret, but because I didn't want to talk about it and not have context. What am I gonna do, Tweet, 'I'm making an album' and have people be like, 'What?'
I just wanted music to exist, so that was the idea behind it, but then it turned into a year and a half of making an album and feeling very alone because I wasn't talking about it. It's very rare that you have something that's big in your life that you don't share with people, so at the moment, it was very lonely. Now it's extremely encouraging.
Which is more frightening: the world or yourself?
I think myself. I don't know – You see throughout history really wild situations in the world, and people depending on themselves make it through or don't make it through. I think you have your own version of beer goggles towards the world, depending on what kind of mental state you're in. I've been in really sh***y situations that I was fine with 'cause I was really in a good place. So I'm way more terrified of myself.
Can you identify the moment that made you realize your whole life had changed?
What an interesting question. I guess probably my first tour, which was when I was like 16. I went on tour -- I was in high school then -- and I was already sort of planning on not going to college and going on tour a lot. We left for tour and at this point in my life I hadn't been anywhere but New York, New Jersey and Florida. That sounds so pathetic. I remember driving south and getting into Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and being in all these places for the first time -- and I guess it sounds very cliché and cheesy -- but I remember thinking, 'This is what I'll do,' and feeling like things had changed forever.
Did you pass the acid test?
No, not at all. I had a horrible experience. That changed my life too. I was 19 and my friends were into The Grateful Dead and things like that, and I think that's something that happens when you're quite young – there's a quick shift with the idea of getting f***ed up that changes... it's very cute when you're 17 or 18, then it slowly becomes very pathetic at some point. I used to smoke pot and then I did acid, and it really was a horrible experience for me.
I think hallucinogens spin certain wheels that my head are already spinning, so it's like they spin twice as fast, where for someone else they're like, 'Oh, cool that's spinning now,' and for me it was the worst thing ever. I came home the next day and went to my mom and said, 'I took acid and I haven't come down yet and I think I destroyed my life,' and she was like, 'Don't worry about it, this happened to me in 1975.' And then I called my family doctor and told him that and he was like, 'You're f***ing crazy.' It was a whole bizarre experience. I don't really even drink right now at this point in my life. I find it far out enough just existing.
Are you better?
I wanna get better, which is better than being better. I think that's the most that I can aspire to is wanting to be better. I think that's he pinnacle.
Does your art expose, protect or heal you?
I would definitely say all three. I don't think you can have one without the other of those three. If you tried to eliminate one, you would somewhat be faking it. Fully put, those are the three perfect words.
If John Hughes made a movie of your life, what would the plot be?
What I like about his films is not always big stuff necessarily happens. So it would probably be me in New Jersey going out for a bagel and spending the day trying to make plans, and then going to the city and hanging out with some friends and then the night sort of transpires into something more interesting and disastrous. Sounds kind of mundane but I bet he would do a great job.
What is the biggest sh** right now?
I think that there's a divide... there's space in mainstream for things to jump in. You see it happening... like the Gotye single happened or like Lumineers or like Of Monsters and Men. These bands, they don't even sound like each other, they just sound different. And what's interesting about those things... they end up being the biggest things. Because I think people want different, want interesting, and they don't get credit for that.
I'm not really answering your question. I think if you look back at the 70s, 80s, early 90s, there was this whole time when the biggest stuff was also the best stuff. I grew up in the 90s and I remember you'd walk down the street and see someone your age, and you knew that you were friends because you knew that you both listened to the same music, which is not the case. Nowadays if you see someone your age, you don't know if they're into this, that or whatever -- if you listen to mainstream radio or if they're into weird [stuff]. When I was young, I would go to the mall and everyone liked The Smashing. Pumpkins, Green Day and Pearl Jam, and it wasn't a weird, shameful thing, 'cause it was the best stuff.
Do you consciously set out to be different?
No, it's sort of the opposite. Sometimes I set out to make things that I think are different to be more accessible so they can exist in a way where lots of people can hear them and it can be what I think is good for a lot of people.
What do you think of Adam?
I think he's one of the best characters on TV.
What would you like to learn this year?
I'd like to re-learn certain things. I think it's always nice to keep starting over, and this is a project that I'm starting from new. It would be nice to re-learn a lot of the things I've learned in the past, 'cause there are a lot of great lessons. I don't know what I want to learn, I think when I learn something I'll be surprised.
Check out the Lena Dunham-directed video for "I Wanna Get Better" below.
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comfortable but too big
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from Texas
It does as it says and fully supports neck and back for back sleepers, but I am very short - just under 5' - and so it was a little too high for my neck and did not let my neck and head lay flat. It was comfortable to the feel but not comfortable for my size as it put my head up too high.
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from White Oak, Tx
I have had back and neck issues for many years. Have not found a pillow that really seemed to make a difference. This seems to have been a solution if it continues to maintain its comfort level
Very Comfortable for Neck & Upper Spine
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from Rochelle, GA
I use this pillow for sleeping. It is both supportive and cushioned for gentle support for neck and upper spine. I have gotten relief and sleep by using the pillow. I bought a set of king size pillow cases because the standard size is too small.
Been able to sleep again
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This pillow has been a life saver..I am finally able to sleep without a crick in my neck the next day..and I'm sleeping thru the night
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Quite unique shape, but works well.
good pillow
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Well, how about checking the /var/lib/dpkg/info and look for every file matching "your package" (rubygems), and delete them all. Then make an autoclean to the /var/cache/apt/archives: aptitude autoclean (to remove the packages that cannot be downloaded).
Then clean all other .deb packages with clean: aptitude clean.
Now, try this: aptitude purge "your package". If an error comes up, then it never got to install completely, it did not even got to create any configuration files, then just remove it: aptitude remove "your package"..
Then, try to install: aptitude install "your package"
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Louis Latour Aloxe Corton Premier Cru Chaillots 2009
Pinot Noir from Aloxe-Corton, Cote de Beaune, Cote d'Or, Burgundy, France
Winemaker's Notes
Ruby red with a perfume of cherry and licorice, typical of Pinot. On tasting it is round but still a little tight. With time this will evolve beautifully. The Aloxe-Corton 1er Cru "Les Chaillots" reveals a beautiful garnet color and fragrance intoxicating spice, licorice, dried fruit and underbrush. On the palate there are hints of underbrush. Aromas of chlorophylle characterize the finish.
Critical Acclaim
Wine Spectator - "A rich, juicy style, featuring black cherry and blackberry flavors tinged with mineral and spice notes. This turns a little firm on the finish, but is balanced overall, with plenty of sweet fruit up front. Long, stony finish."
Louis Latour Winery
Maison Louis Latour is one of the most highly-respected négociant-éléveurs in Burgundy. Maison Louis Latour is the producer of some of the finest Burgundian wines but has also pioneered the production of fine wines from outside of the confines of Burgundy. These wines from the Ardèche and the Côteaux de Verdon are slowly gaining esteem for their unmatchable quality outside of Burgundy.
All of the grapes from the vineyards owned by the Latour family are vinified and aged in the attractive cuverie of Château Corton Grancey in Aloxe-Corton. The winery was the first purpose-built cuverie in France and remains the oldest still-functioning. A unique railway system with elevators allows the entire wine-making process to be achieved by the use of gravity. This eliminates the threat of oxidation from unnecessary pumping of the must. Since 1985, Louis Latour has been selling the wines of its own vineyards under the name Domaine Louis Latour.
Louis Latour has been a leader in the environmentally responsible winemaking for over 15 years. Louis Latour has had ISO 14001 accreditation for Environmental Management Systems since 2003 and has been a member of the European association FARRE since 1998- a group of like-minded companies who seek to develop and promote sustainable methods of agriculture. View all Louis Latour Wines
About BurgundyView a map of Burgundy wineries
Burgundy is a small region, only about a fourth the size of Bordeaux. The narrow thread of vineyard land stretches from the city of Dijon to Lyon. The five main districts of Burgundy are – from North to South - Chablis, Côte d'Or, Côte Chalonnaise, Maconnais, and Beaujolais. Chablis is far removed geographically (above Dijon) and adheres to its own classifications. Beaujolais is its own region due to grape variety, vinification methods and regulations. Leaving us with the Côte d'Or, Côte Chalonnaise and Maconnais as the heart of Burgundy.
Grapes of the region are easy to remember - Pinot Noir for reds, Chardonnay for whites. Burgundy can be called home for both varietals, despite their increasing presence in every winemaking country. In this area red wines out number whites, although the quality for both is unparalleled.
A bit of History...Once owned and run by the church and nobility, the vineyards of Burgundy were seized during French Revolution and sold off piece by piece. Further separation occurred with Napoleonic Law, which ordered that inherited land be divided among children equally. These two factors put Burgundy where it is today – a myriad of vineyards and villages, each with a number of growers and producers.
NégociantsBurgundy is organized by plots of land and labeled as such. About half of Burgundy works on a négociant system. Growers of small plots sell grapes, or more often, barrels of already made wine, to négociant houses who then blend it with other wines from that region and put it under their label. While the négociant system may sound like a way to produce mass amounts of anonymous wines, that is, luckily, not the case. Wines are labeled with a sense of place, so you know what land you are getting. There are some négociant houses that are much more renowned and consistent than others, and for the most part, the system works. But times are changing. Some growers are purchasing more land and making the wine on their property, under their label, for more consistency. On the other side, négociant houses are buying up their own vineyards so they will have more control over winemaking.
Classification SystemThe classification system is similar to a pyramid. At the base of the pyramid is the most basic of the classifications, the Burgundy AC, meaning grapes can come from anywhere in the Burgundy region. Next up is a village wine, such as Côte de Beaune or Côte de Nuits, or the villages within these regions, like Givery-Chambertin or Puligny-Montrachet. The label will say Appellation Puligny-Montrachet Controlée. At the next level is the premier cru. A wine that says Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru will still be Appellation Puligny-Montrachet [premier cru] Controllée, but may include the premier cru vineyard name, such as Les Pucelles. At the tip of the pyramid are the grand cru vineyards. There are only 30 in the Côte d'Or and the name of the vineyard is the appellation name.
About France - Other regionsWhen it comes to wine, France is a classic. Classic blends, grapes and styles began in the country and they still remain. Think about it - people ask for a Burgundian style Pinot Noir, they refer to wines as Bordeaux or Rhone blends - Champagne even had to pass a law to stop international wineries from putting their region on the label of all sparkling wine.
The top regions of France are: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Loire, Rhone. And these regions are so diverse! It makes sense that wine regions throughout the world try to emulate their style. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah are no longer French varieties, but international varieties. They may not be the leader of cutting edge technology or value-priced wines, but there is no doubt that they are still producing wines of great quality and diversity.
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Hooters, the restaurant known for its voluptuous waitresses, will not open in downtown St. John's.
Hooters was set to open in late spring in the location of the now-closed Club One. Owner John Cook told The Telegram the decision to back out was a personal choice.
"It just really wasn't something I wanted to do right now, personally," said Cook. "I've got four places happening in one area and I figured it might be best to cut it."
Cook owns the Sundance Bar and Grill, Dusk Ultralounge, the George Street Beer Market and Big Ben's.
"It may not be the fit we're looking for, and there's a heck of a lot of other little things behind the scenes that I just didn't want to get involved with," he said.
Hooters is known for its "Hooters Girls"— a waitressing staff of attractive women in tight uniforms who are encouraged to play up their appeal.
The announcement that Hooters was coming to St. John's attracted much controversy, with some people concerned about the restaurant's objectification of women, sexist hiring practices and the possibility for sexual harassment. Others mourned the loss of Club One as a performance venue.
However, Cook says those objections had absolutely no influence on his decision not to open the restaurant.
"It had nothing to do with the controversy around it whatsoever. None whatsoever," said Cook. "It was great advertising! I could never afford to buy that advertising."
Cook says Club One will not reopen and he's not yet sure what he will do with the space.
"There's a few avenues we're looking at, but we'll wait until the end of the summer to see what's happening and we'll go from there," he said.
"I'll say there'll be something else in the future. I've got a few other things that I'm doing right now but I can't say right now."
Cook says he may open a Hooters at some point in the future, but right now it is not his best option.
"I think it would have been a great fit for downtown, but it's just some other things came up and I thought it might be better to go a different direction," he said.
"Maybe another younger generation might do it. I've been in this market for over 40 years, so maybe somebody might who wants to work six nights a week like I did for 15, 20 years, which I didn't want to do anymore.
"I think there will be some disappointed, but that's the nature of business. I've been in business now for 40 years. I've closed some, I've opened some, so I really can't worry about that part of it."


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This miraculous icon was made about 1600 and resides now as before at Holy Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos. The position of the Lord's and the Virgin's hands tell us a vivid and instructive story of love, protection, and a call to repentance.
Tradition at the monastery relates that as the abbot was handing over the keys of the monastery to the monk doorkeeper one morning, the Virgin spoke from the icon warning the abbot to not open the doors but have the monks climb up on the monastery's walls to repel the pirates who had surrounded it. She repeated this again, and when the abbot turned towards the icon, the Holy Infant extended His hand to cover her mouth, indicating that they were bad monks, and maybe shouldn't be saved, but the Virgin held His hand and warned the abbot again. The hands show the Virgin and the Lord not as it was painted, but as this miracle took place.
What does this mean for us? We often are careless, negligent, and leave ourselves unguarded against evil which can lurk just outside our awareness. Although we do not deserve mercy, God and His Mother love us and will help us if we just try to ask.


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The BMW 5-Series (E39 chassis) was introduced in the United States as a 1997 model year car and lasted until the 2004 when the E60 chassis was released. The United States saw several variations including the 525i, 528i, 530i and 540i. -- View the E39 Wiki
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Let me know what you guys think. I have a RF bearing out. I was thinking maybe it was serviceable without replacing the entire assembly but I surmise that is not the case.
The issue started with what I thought was brake noise. I had a blowout on my RF wheel last night (heading to the parts store to buy pads). Today I started removing the brakes & rotor which both required servicing, then found the bearing was noisy as well.
It is amazing how many layers of repair you find that need to be done with every little project. From this tear down I can see the need for the following:
1) Need to rebuild the front suspension - shocks and other components (thrust arm, control arm, tierod ends, bushings, etc). Shocks are leaking fluid.
2) Replace brake pads
3) Turn rotors
4) replace front bearing hub assemblies
5) Go back and hopefully get tire replaced for free.
6) Rob bank to pay for repairs (not necessarily in that order).
Do any of you think any of these issues could have resulted in a blow out of a tire that is relatively new (about 6 months and scarcesly 6 k miles on them). The intire inner side wall has come separated from the rest of the tire. I am really struggling to keep up on the maintenance of this car and am getting very frustrated with it.
Thank you in advance for your replies.
I just love this logo...
Doubtful. How many miles are on your car? If over 100K, that is your answer for the cause of 1-4.
Yes I have all the miles...
I am at about 155k miles on this '97 E39. I tell you what, the engine and transmission run great. The rest of the car is falling apart. I am thnking of chopping it down into a dune buggy.
I have done the following repairs on this car over the past 1-2 years:
1) door handle broke on me a few months ago (fixed w/ wrecking yard part),
2) power steering leaks (cut hose ends and put new clamps for now)
3) brake jobs (twice)
4) Front Hub Bearing Assembly - today driver's side.
5) Flex disc
6) Transmission filter and fluid change
7) VCGs
9) A/C selenoid (twice).
10) A/C fan replacement
11) Pull out and clean Speed Sensor (car would not shift).
12) Repair of Wipers - (would not park - removed cleaned and reassembled wiper motor).
Aside from these repairs, normal maintenance such as oil changes, air filters, etc.
The list of things to do is almost equally long:
1) Overhaul both front & rear suspension.
2) Fix both driver's side windows motor/regulators.
3) Fix sunroof (gets stuck and difficult to completely close).
4) Seal windshield.
5) Repair glove box door (handle broke off).
6) Fix tool box in trunk lid (screw broke off).
7) Replace shocks for trunk lid (Won't stay up - using piece of PVC pipe).
8) Stereo needs to be upgraded from factory (presets don't work half the time).
9) Driver's door back twists (researched this). Leather also tearing.
10) Fix dents in hood & rear passenger door and re-paint.
Part of me wants to get rid of the car and part of me says I know what I got. I think I will keep it and it will be a hand me down for my kid when she is old enough to drive. I won't get enough for it if I tried to sell it in its current condition and I could spend easily $2-$3000 to do everything I want to do. For that I could buy another one of these cars.
This is my 3rd 5 series I have owned and I am used to working on them so that helps keep the ownership costs down.
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Founded in 1997, The Community-Word Project is a New York City based arts-in-education organization that seeks to increase the literacy and leadership of at-risk public school children.
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While occupying the margins of the literary world, the small press and the chapbook are often vehicles for defining historic poetry communities and shifts in poetics. This exhibit highlights new works published by contemporary small presses that continue this dynamic tradition while exploring the possibilities of the chapbook form.
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These works on paper bring together text and image in what Black describes as "visual pages," which, like linguistic acts of creation, are "brief and bounded by space."
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Same at my place, plenty of specifics, works well at all levels
Just curious, if you only have positional sparring and no free sparring, how do white belts prepare for comps? Is it through open mat sessions?
We do some of the specifics or positional stuff, but free spar at the end of every class.
as for grading online... no need for it IMO. plenty of places to train in the UK.
Sorry for the delayed reply!
I can't think of any white belts who have competed without doing at least a few of the advanced sessions (where there's plenty free sparring).
White belts are welcome to join the second session (advanced BJJ) where Martyn teaches a little more quickly and drills against resistance and then we roll for approx 40-45 minutes. Most of our white belts do both sessions, unless they are brand new or just coming back from a layoff.
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So, I don't generally have to worry about making sure they get in lots of free sparring on Thursdays. Instead, my focus is to make sure everybody has had plenty of time to try out the techniques we learned that day: IMO, you don't always get the chance during free sparring, especially if you're not very experienced yet.
E.g., if you learned how to set up a choke from the back that day, but you spend most of free sparring getting squashed under side control, trying to pass somebody's guard, not quite managing the arm drag from guard, etc, then you don't get a chance to try it out in a sparring setting. If you start off already on the back during sparring, then you do.
How about if one was to use the Gracie university but took the blue belt test live at the academy. Is the issue for people the way in which the curriculum is taught or the way in which the belt promotion is handled?


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A Chino man is behind bars after he reportedly stabbed one family member and attacked another during a fight Friday evening, Chino police said.
Dean Frymire, 49, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and was being held at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, authorities said.
Around 6 p.m., police were called out about among siblings in the 12000 block of Cypress Avenue near Riverside Drive, police said Saturday.
A man later identified as Frymire had reportedly attacked and stabbed his brother several times with a knife during a fight. His sister was also injured, though she had not been stabbed. Initial reports indicated three people had been hurt but authorities said only the two were injured.
Frymire was taken into custody without incident near the family's home, according to reports.
Paramedics took the stabbing victim to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton where he was treated and released. The woman was also taken to a hospital where she was treated for minor injuries and released.
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Today Baseball America finished up their looks at the Top-20 prospects in each stateside league of minor league baseball, and the Seattle Mariners organization was well represented in those reviews, which can be found here. Out of the club's seven U.S. affiliates, 12 Mariners players took up 15 of the 140 available slots in those Top-20s, with three Seattle prospects being named among the best in two leagues.
Those three were left-hander Danny Hultzen (Southern League and Pacific Coast League), shortstop/second baseman Nick Franklin (also Southern League and Pacific Coast League) and shortstop Brad Miller (California League and Southern League). Hultzen, Franklin and Miller made up 60% of the five players from the Jackson Generals that were represented on the Southern League team where they were joined by left-hander James Paxton -- pitching well in the Arizona Fall League right now -- and right-hander Carter Capps -- who spent the last two months of the 2012 season pitching out of the major league bullpen for Seattle. Absent from that Southern League list is Brandon Maurer, who was named the Southern League Pitcher of the Year and the Mariners organization's Most Improved Player for 2012. That Jackson assemblage was the largest single representation, with the Everett Aquasox falling just short, placing four on the Northwest League list.
Seattle had at least one player named for each league that they have an affiliate except for the Midwest League, where the Clinton Lumber Kings were shutout despite making the playoffs behind a monster month from Dan Paolini and their pitching staff down the stretch. The complete list is below, broken down by league, and subscribers to Baseball America can also read their full lists for each league complete with scouting at the first link above.
Arizona League (ROOKIE)
Gabriel Guerrero
Tyler Pike
Appalachian League (ROOKIE)
Jochi Ogando
Northwest League (SHORT SEASON A)
Mike Zunino
Victor Sanchez
Patrick Kivlehan
Ketel Marte
Midwest League (LOW-A)
California League (HIGH-A)
Brad Miller
Southern League (DOUBLE-A)
Danny Hultzen
Nick Franklin
James Paxton
Brad Miller
Carter Capps
Pacific Coast League (TRIPLE-A)
Danny Hultzen
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MSI has announced its latest netbook, the Wind U160DX, which supports DDR3 memory and comes with the Intel Atom N455 processor and MSI's own Turbo Drive Engine (TDE) technology.
Sheathed in MSI's own Color Film Print technology, the Wind U160DX is less than one-inch thin and tips the scales at 1kg.
The Wind U160DX features a 10.1-inch LED screen with a refresh rate of 8ms, twice as fast as similar products on the market, MSI claimed, an independent chiclet keyboard, seamless touchpad, and a battery that holds a 15-hour charge.
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'It was believed Regier was content to keep Biron as insurance behind starter Ryan Miller, even though Biron is expected to leave the Sabres this summer as a free agent and seek out a No. 1 job. Now, however, Regier might be more open to moving Biron before Tuesday to shore up his depleted ranks.'
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Thomson Reuters took a close second, at 30.05 percent, and Dow Jones, a distant third, with 1.6 percent.
Thomson is one of those gifted writers who make any subject that they choose to pick up lively and instructive.
According to Thomson Reuters, 150 of the 500 companies in the SP 500 make 95 to 100 percent of their revenue inside U.S. borders.
Dean used to purposefully break up a line and take its grammar apart—anything to make it less clear, Thomson says.
She is the global head of public relations for Thomson Reuters, appointed April 2008.
Such acquired traits are not transmitted, as Prof. Thomson of Edinborough, tells us.
Thomson had many enemies, and Pope was persuaded to dismiss him.
Some account of these Notes will be given in a later chapter on Thomson's hydrodynamical papers.
Thomson, at any rate, since he has taken to the game, has never been quite fit.
The first, second, and fifth of the series were written by Thomson, the others by Stokes.
British physicist who discovered the electron in 1897. While experimenting with cathode rays, he deduced that the particles he observed were smaller than an atom. Thomson also made noteworthy studies of the conduction of electricity through gases. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1906.
Our Living Language : Nowadays we take for granted the existence of electrons, but this was not true just over 100 years ago, when the atom was thought to be a single unit that had no parts. The breakthroughs came in the late 1890s, when the British physicist J. J. Thomson was studying what we now call cathode-ray tubes. As an electric current passed from the cathode at one end of the tube to the anode at the other, raylike emanations were seen to proceed from the cathode to the anode. Thomson examined the nature of the rays' charge by bringing a positively charged and a negatively charged plate near the path of the rays, and observed that the rays were deflected toward the positive plate, suggesting they had negative charge. A series of experiments in which various objects were placed in the path of the rays showed that they also had momentum (they would cause a small paddle wheel to turn, for example). If they had momentum, that meant (in the physics of the time) that they had mass, suggesting that the rays were composed of tiny particles. Other experimental results, some by other scientists, suggested that the ratio of the charge to the mass of these particles had to be less than one-thousandth the ratio for charged hydrogen atoms. By examining both the energy of the rays and the amount by which an electric charge deflected them, Thomson was able to calculate that these particles had one two-thousandth the mass of a hydrogen atom. The particles, first named corpuscles, were later called electrons. (The term electron was not completely new; it had been invented in 1891 for the rays themselves.) Thomson was thus the first to discover that particles smaller than atoms existed, and for his pioneering work he was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize for physics.


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After folowing the movie created by :"muts" i tried to create a bootable form of the live cd but i got something wrong
I guess because the movie was made on BT 2 and i use BT3 there are some diferences.I am new in Linux and i couldnt fix them so if anyone can help -please do it.
This is some of the information concerning the differences i found during the instalation :
bt ~ # cp /boot/boot/vmlinuz /mnt/backtrack/boot
cp: cannot stat `/boot/boot/vmlinuz`: No such file or directory
This is the first problem -I ve tried cp /boot/vmlinuz /mnt/backtrack/boot
but it doesnt work.When lilo is initiated :
bt ~ # lilo -v
LILO version 22.8, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Development beyond version 21 Copyright....
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Fatal: creat /boot/boot.0300: Read-only file system
This Live CD 3 Final was booted on no HDA mode - probably this is the problem?
I would be really greatful to receive some help.
Best Wishes : Jack


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'"I started to come to my own on how to produce points and what to do in certain situations in the offensive zone, and I tried to take that into Buffalo. It's been going well so far. I want to make sure I keep playing with the intensity that allows me to get those opportunities to get points on the board. It's a long season, but I want to keep that going."'
The Sabres Report - November 13, 2009


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Finance directors in small and medium-sized enterprises face a changing relationship with their accountants as the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms take effect.
In the lead-up to the replacement of the accountants' exemption with a new limited licensing regime from July that will govern the scope of financial advice they can provide, some have argued that accountants need to get licensed or be quiet.
But many in the profession are awaiting further clarification from ASIC to help them navigate the often fuzzy line between presenting facts and offering a recommendation (before they decide if they really do need to apply for a limited financial advice licence in order to continue providing their clients with answers to the types of questions they ask of them).
The FOFA reforms have made many accountants extra-cautious about responding to any requests for advice.
But under the new regime, as now, accountants will still be able to talk about the implications, both positive and negative, of different classes of financial products. The new limited licence will allow accountants to offer a recommendation on which class of product clients should use. They can not and will not be able to talk about specific products without a full financial planners license.
The FOFA reforms are targeted at protecting retail clients.
But a person with income of over $250,000 per annum or assets in excess of $2.5 million is automatically classed as a wholesale, or "sophisticated", client and is not subject to the same protections regarding the provision of financial advice.
The same exemption applies to the trustees of super funds with more than $10 million in net assets.
"Many individuals or families with these levels of assets do not necessarily have a sophisticated understanding of their finances and it is no longer appropriate to automatically exclude them from the protections provided to retail clients," says Keddie Waller, a policy adviser on financial planning with CPA Australia.
Another aspect of the new limited licence, which accountants who want to provide non-product financial advice expect ASIC to give further clarification on before the end of the year, is the provision for "scaled advice". This will allow accountants to advise on one or two areas, without the need to provide a comprehensive financial plan.
Normally, scaled advice will mean responding to specific questions from clients wanting to know if they should top up their super, take out more insurance, consider investing in managed funds and the like. A potential hazard in providing scaled advice is that it may expose accountants to liability if the client also needed advice in another area and that was not offered. New best-interests duty obligations commence on July 1.
Changes to the rules governing tax advice further complicate things.
Only tax agents are authorised to give tax advice. Most accountants are also registered tax agents
Financial planners currently have a limited exemption but will move into the new regime. Nearly every financial decision has tax implications. For instance, discussing options about salary sacrifice with a client is in many respects a tax issue. Accountant-tax agents are concerned about financial planners moving into the field of tax advice.
The application of the Tax Agents Services Act has been delayed twice and is due to start on July 1, 2013. The industry is awaiting the next level of consultation from ASIC and the Tax Practitioners Board.
Accountants will retain a little more scope to offer high level of strategic, non-product advice to their business clients.
That's pretty cut and dried for accountants working with chief financial officers, treasurers and corporate finance teams. Not least because larger companies usually employ larger accounting firms which tend to have special financial planning divisions that can get involved at the slightest hint of a request for advice.
But in small and medium-sized enterprises there is often quite a lot of overlap between the business's finances and the personal finances of the owner-operators, through the establishment of structures such as trusts.
At BDO, which works with mostly mid-tier clients, someone from the financial planning division comes in to assist their colleagues in about 90 per cent of cases where a client asks for information about different classes of products.
Distinguishing between financial information and advice is even more difficult for accountants in small local firms working mostly with micro-businesses or sole traders, where it is extra tricky to disentangle business and personal finances . Many single partner and smaller accounting firms are already making the move to consolidate their practices or formalise referral arrangements with financial planners in their local area.
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As we know from our years at school, it is important to measure our progress, whether it pertains to our ability to learn and use information or to our work restoring water quality. Over the past 30 years, many non-governmental organizations, academic institutions and even individuals have used grades to measure how well we are doing in correcting environmental problems. In Maryland, former state Sen. Bernie Fowler uses his annual Paxtuent River Wade-In to bring attention to the need for continued vigilance on cleaning up our waterways. As a youth, Sen. Fowler could wade into the Patuxent up to his chest and still see his sneakers; this is now his modern-day yardstick, known as the "Sneaker Index."
Each year, Sen. Fowler wades into the Patuxent until he can no longer see his shoes. He comes out of the river and measures the water line on his denim overalls. Over the years, this number has become the "grade" for the river's water quality. A number of other organizations publish similar report cards for different water bodies. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Blue Water Baltimore and others have developed sophisticated methods of measuring the health of our waterways, issuing letter grades to show how well or how poorly our efforts are working to improve the environment.
But, just like our report cards from school, water quality report cards don't tell the whole story. While they can tell us what conditions are right now—whether we did well or poorly in a particular course or over the school year—there are a lot of factors that can influence a waterway's score from one year to the next. We are making progress, although at times we may see setbacks. And as Sen. Fowler reminds us each year, we must stick to it, redouble our efforts and work even harder if we want to get and keep a passing grade.
For close to a decade, scientists and volunteers have spent their springs at the Nanticoke Shad Hatchery, working to rebuild populations of American shad.
In this small building near Bethel, Del., hundreds of thousands of American shad are raised each year before they are returned to their native spawning grounds in the Nanticoke River. This spring, the hatchery stocked about 558,000 fish to the waterway.
In the early 1900s, excessive commercial harvests took a heavy toll on American shad. Over the past century, poor water quality and the construction of dams that restrict the anadromous fish's access to upstream spawning grounds have caused shad populations to decline.
Today, restoration efforts are giving American shad a much-needed population boost. Restocking programs across the Chesapeake Bay watershed—combined with harvest restrictions, improved water quality and the removal of dams—are critical to the re-establishment of the species.
American shad spend most of their lives in brackish and saltwater before returning to their birth waters to spawn. The Nanticoke Shad Hatchery collects its brood stock directly from the Nanticoke River and its Deep Creek tributary to ensure adult fish will return to the waterway and to preserve the genetic integrity of the local shad population.
Throughout the spring spawning season, which runs from mid-March through April, mature shad that are held in the hatchery's closely monitored, 3,500-gallon spawning tanks periodically release eggs and sperm.
On the morning after an overnight spawning event, pea-sized eggs are filtered into an egg collection tank.
"Bad eggs" are removed from the tank before fertilized eggs are measured by volume and placed in incubation jars to grow.
Eggs that survive to the "eyed" stage are moved to one of four culture tanks, where they will hatch into larval fish within a week.
After a few more days spent in the safety of the culture tanks, the larval fish absorb their nutritive yolk sac and transform into fry that are ready to feed on their own in their natural habitat.
Before the hatchery-produced fish are released into the Nanticoke River, scientists mark them with oxytetracycline. Tracking the fish will allow scientists to gauge their survival and stocking success over time.
Six years of sampling surveys on the Nanticoke River show that adult American shad abundance has increased, while the number of hatchery-produced juveniles has decreased. According to hatchery manager Mike Stengl, this suggests the hatchery is succeeding in its long-term goal: to reduce the percentage of hatchery-grown fish in the river and encourage the wild population to spawn on its own.
Success at the Nanticoke Shad Hatchery and at other hatcheries across the region are giving American shad a second chance at survival in the watershed.
View more photos on the Chesapeake Bay Program Flickr page.
Natural gas resources underlie almost half of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, but some of the regulations that govern Bay cleanup do not take extraction-related pollution into account.
According to the Chesapeake Bay Program's Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), more research is needed to track the environmental effects of natural gas extraction and to help jurisdictions determine whether or not they must implement conservation practices to offset potential pollution loads and meet the Bay pollution diet.
Image courtesy WCN24/7/Flickr
The pollution diet, or Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL), limits the amount of nutrient and sediment pollution that can enter the Bay from across the watershed. According to STAC, hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," has the potential to change local pollution loads, as natural gas extraction increases the erosion of sediment into local rivers and withdraws water from area sources, altering aquatic habitat and river flow.
In a factsheet released this week, STAC outlines the recommendations that the panel made following a workshop on shale gas development. STAC recommends that the Bay Program incorporate natural gas drilling into the Bay Watershed Model, which estimates the amount of nutrients and sediment reaching the Bay. STAC also recommends that the industry, scientific and policy-making communities continue to research shale gas development and implement conservation practices to lower natural gas extraction's cumulative impact on the Bay.
Read more about the environmental effects of shale gas development in the watershed.
On a quiet cove in Southern Maryland, a series of orange and white markers declares a stretch of water off limits to fishing. Under the surface sits spawning habitat for largemouth bass, a fish that contributes millions of dollars to the region's economy each year and for whom two such sanctuaries have been established in the state. Here, the fish are protected from recreational anglers each spring and studied by scientists hoping to learn more about them and their habitat needs.
The largemouth bass can be found across the watershed and is considered one of the most popular sport fishes in the United States. While regional populations are strong, a changing Chesapeake Bay—think rising water temperatures, disappearing grasses and the continued arrival of invasive species—is changing bass habitat and could have an effect on future fish.
For decades, scientists with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) have collected data on the distribution of largemouth bass, tracking the species and monitoring the state's two sanctuaries in order to gather the knowledge needed to keep the fishery sustainable. Established in 2010 on the Chicamuxen and Nanjemoy creeks, both of which flow into the Potomac River, these sanctuaries have been fortified with plastic pipes meant to serve as spawning structures. And, it seems, these sanctuaries are in high demand during spawning season.
On an overcast day in April, three members of the DNR Tidal Bass Survey team—Joseph Love, Tim Groves and Branson Williams—are surveying the sanctuary in Chicamuxen Creek. Groves flips a switch and the vessel starts to send electrical currents into the water, stunning fish for capture by the scientists on board. The previous day, the team caught, tagged and released 20 bass; this morning, the men catch 19, none of which were tagged the day before.
"This [lack of recaptures] indicates that we have quite a few bass out here," said Love, Tidal Bass Manager.
Indeed, the state's largemouth bass fishery "is pretty doggone good," Love continued. "That said, we recognize that the ecosystem is changing. And I don't think anybody wants to rest on the laurels of a great fishery."
As Love and his team learn how largemouth bass are using the state's sanctuaries, they can work to improve the sanctuaries' function and move to protect them and similar habitats from further development or disturbance.
"We can speculate where the best coves are, but this is the ground truthing that we need to do," Love said.
In the fall, the team will return to the cove to count juvenile bass and report on juvenile-to-adult population ratios. While the assessment of the state's sanctuaries is a small-scale project, it is one "aimed at the bigger picture," Love said.
Love's team is "doing what we can to improve the use of these coves by bass." And protecting bass habitat and improving water quality will have a positive effect on the coves overall, creating healthier systems for neighboring plants and animals.
"By protecting these important areas, we are also protecting the larger ecosystem," Love said.
Photos by Jenna Valente. To view more, visit our Flickr set.


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text: Will Arnett and Amy Poehler have been separated for so long that I think everyone just assumed someone had already filed for divorce. Nope. Will filed last week. It isn't like they were making an effort to get back together so they probably just settled everything and now are filing. Either that or Will found someone else to marry. Doubtful. He has been an aging Wilmer Valderrama around town. What I totally forgot was back in the day Will was married to Penelope Ann Miller. Many of you probably have no idea who she is, but back in the day she was the "it" actress of the day. There was a time in the early 90's that it seemed she was in every movie or talked about or attached to every movie. Then she got involved with Will Arnett and had a year long marriage to him and it all came crashing down. I was really happy to see her in The Artist a couple of years ago and she does work steadily, but it is nothing like it used to be. Another interesting note is that about the time Will and Amy split, Penelope also split with her husband although they have since reconciled.


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|BCS Bits - Facts on Revenue Sharing, October 27, 2009This week's topic is BCS revenue sharing. It's pretty simple. (You will see in No. 6 that the six automatic-qualifying conferences receive a disproportionally smaller share than might be expected.)
Here goes, in sequence as the pencil-pushers (does anyone still use a pencil?) do the math:
1. The non-AQ conferences received $19.3 million in total in 2008-09; 18 percent of the net BCS escrow revenue goes to those conferences if one of their members participates in a BCS game. If no team participates, the five conferences share 9 percent of the net revenue. The five conferences divide the revenue among themselves.
In Other News....As usual, the BCS Standings compiled on the first Sunday in December will determine which teams have earned automatic qualification and which have earned eligibility for at-large selection to the BCS games.


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Viktor Fasth will play between the pipes on Friday.
Viktor Arvidsson has signed a seven-year, $29.75 million contract extension with the Nashville Predators.
Jordan Martinook has signed a two-year, $3.6 million contract with the Arizona Coyotes.
Tomas Tatar has signed a four-year, $21.2 million contract extension with the Detroit Red Wings.
Ryan Dzingel has signed a two-year, $3.6 million contract with the Ottawa Senators.
The Detroit Red Wings and Tomas Tatar weren't able to avoid an arbitration hearing.
Colton Parayko and the St. Louis Blues have agreed to a five-year, $27.5 million contract extension.
Owen Tippett has signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Florida Panthers.
The Dallas Stars will get Valeri Nichushkin back in 2018-19.
Jean-Gabriel Pageau has agreed to a three-year, $9.3 million contract.
Nolan Patrick has signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Philadelphia Flyers.
Brian Campbell has decided to end his playing career and join the Blackhawks' operations department.