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Missouri's winter is coming and with it comes seasonal hazards no matter how extreme.
One of the most frequent winter-related killers is overexertion when shoveling snow. Because someone has a coat on and they're not sweating, they may think they are not or do not feel like they are exerting themselves. That exertion can result in a deadly heart attack. Shovel at a reasonable pace and rest as needed.
Winter cold temperatures also bring the danger of hypothermia. Missouri has had mild winters in the past. This may lull us into a dangerous sense of security. Our winters tend to have warm and cold spells. It is easy to be caught without the proper cold weather protection. Even though it is warm in the morning, longtime residents certainly remember when it has gotten cold by the afternoon or evening.
Simple preparation can prevent the life-threatening condition. Assemble disaster survival kits for the home and especially the car. Kits should include extra clothing, food and water, the three essentials for staying warm in cold weather.
Be sure to checks emergency survival kits every six months, replacing old bottled water with new and altering kits slightly from season to season. The change of time from daylight savings is a typical time of year when checking batteries in smoke detectors is recommended. This is also a good time to check emergency kits and supplies.
Home survival kits are in addition to normal supplies. A family should have food and other necessities at home to sustain themselves for up to four days in the event of a loss of all support, including power and water service.
Missouri can have ice storms. "We don't normally get the blizzards, but we do get the ice storms." Those ice storms have been known to leave people without electricity for days or weeks. Super storm Sandy quickly followed by the nor'easter points out the numbers of people 2.1 million, who can be without power and some for an extended period of time.
A typical home survival kit costs about $100. The kit doesn't need to be assembled all at once for households on a limited income. Items not already on hand can be purchased one or more at a time per week at a discount retail store.
Keep supplies together so they are not used during year for non-emergency needs. Home kits can be stored in large plastic storage containers and car kits in small backpacks. Keep the home kit in an easily accessible location. Each vehicle should have its own kit.
The following list includes recommendations from MU Emergency Management and the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency for a home disaster kit. Water: One gallon per person per day. That means a family of three with a standard 96-hour survival kit would need 12 gallons of water; Food: A four-day supply per person. Food sources must survive without refrigeration, and be easy to prepare during power outages. Meals Ready to Eat, the rations used by the United States military. They are hearty meals with a long shelf life; and First aid supplies: Families can assemble their own kit with larger bandages than commonly included in basic kits. Although, basic first aid kits can be a starting place for essentials. Basic supplies should include bandages, an antiseptic solution, soap, surgical gloves and non-prescription drugs including aspirin, antacid and anti-diarrhea medication.
To these items add extra blankets, sturdy shoes or boots, hats, gloves, thermal underwear, sunglasses and rain gear. Keep flashlights with fresh batteries, a fire extinguisher and a battery-operated radio. Have chlorine bleach for emergency water purification. Include tools, most importantly a natural gas shut-off wrench if your home uses gas. Store matches in a waterproof container.
Have spare cash and resist the urge to rob the kit. Banks and ATMs may be inoperable.
Include toiletries such as toothbrushes and liquid hand soap. Also have some games or other entertainment for children.
A basic winter vehicle survival kit should include: blankets, a battery-operated radio, a flashlight with extra batteries, booster cables, extra clothing and high-energy snacks. Have a charged cell phone and keep your gas tank filled.
Keep a shovel in the vehicle with either a box of sand or old shingles to use as traction in the event of a vehicle getting stuck in the snow. Inexpensive "tube sand" adds weight for traction and can be opened to give "grip" to ice or snow.
Always have drinking water in your vehicle, he said. Evans suggests a minimum of 12 ounces per person. Eating snow or ice can contribute and speed hypothermia.
For more information on preparing for disasters Evans suggests browsing to the federal preparedness Web site, www.ready.gov. The Callaway County Extension Center has an emergency backpack put together as a teaching tool. Ask to see it if you drop by the office.
The sources of information for this article are of Missouri Extension emergency management specialist Eric Evans, (573) 884-8984 and Jim Jarman, Agronomy Specialist (573) 642-0755. Eric is away helping with the super storm Sandy recovery. Barbara Jean (B.J.) Eavy is the temporary taking Eric's place, 636-797-5391


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- Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to take over operations to maintain and control U.S. borders by upgrading surveillance technology, hiring and training more Border Patrol agents, improving border infrastructure, and deploying more U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel along areas of high immigration entrance within 18 months of enactment (Sec. 101).
- Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to report to Congress the progress of controlling and maintaining U.S. land and maritime borders within one year of enactment (Sec. 101).
- Includes "repeated attempts to enter the country illegally" in the definition of an aggravated felony (Sec. 201).
- $250 million annually for state and local police agencies for their assistance in enforcing new immigration laws (Sec. 222).
- $650 million from 2007 through 2011 for the Institutional Removal Program which ensures that "removable criminals aliens" in prison are removed from the U.S. and not released into communities following the completion of their prison sentence (Sec. 223).
- $1 billion annually for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (Sec. 224).
- Requires the detention of any undocumented immigrant attempting to enter the country after October 1, 2006, until deportation or final decision granting admissions to the U.S. (Sec. 401).
- Creates the Office of Air and Marine Operations to prevent individuals attempting to enter U.S. airspace or waters for the purpose of transporting drugs, human trafficking, and terrorist activities (Sec. 502).
- Establishes an employment eligibility verification system which requires employers to verify the legal status of each employee or face a penalty for withholding employee information (Sec. 701).
- Sets a civil penalty for employers of $5,000 to $7,500 per undocumented immigrant for failure to comply with requirements of the employment eligibility verification system (Sec. 706).
- Requires the construction of approximately 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexican border (Sec. 1002).
- Ends the Diversity Immigrant Program which randomly selects and grants green cards to individuals awaiting entry into the U.S. (Sec. 1102).
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Kuala Lumpur, 5 May 2014 - The third day of operations at klia2 with Malindo Airways, Lion Air, Tiger Airways International and Cebu Pacific Airways continues to run smoothly.
From 12.01am on 4 May until 12.01am on 5 May, a total of 52 flights movement and 7,300 passengers were recorded for both international and domestic, arrivals and departures. There were 32 total flights from Malindo Airways, 6 from Lion Air, 10 from Tiger Airways and 4 from Cebu Pacific Airways. klia2 has handled 20,500 passengers since its opening on 2 May.
The public transportation systems at the Transportation hub including Taxi, Bus and Express Rail Link (ERL) have also seen an increase in usage by the public with a total of 541 taxi trips and 263 bus passengers. The ERL services have also seen an increase in traffic as public become more familiar with the services.
The core operational systems at klia2 such as the check-in system, baggage handling system and the passenger boarding bridge (aerobridge) continues to operate efficiently.
On the commercial offering, a total of 219 shops comprising of F&B and retail outlets have started operating at klia2 since 2 May. 103 of these shops are at the klia2 terminal while 116 are at Gateway@klia2. These provide the passengers and public with ample choices for shopping and dining upon arrival or while waiting to catch their flights.
The passengers are reminded to contact their respective airlines in advance to confirm details of their flights, especially the departure and arrival terminal to avoid any inconveniences.
AirAsia, AirAsia X, Indonesia AirAsia, Thai AirAsia and AirAsia Zest will start to operate at klia2 starting on Friday, 9 May when all their flights will arrive and depart from klia2.
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1967 Topps WHO AM I ?NM/MINT to MINT COMPLETE 1976 Crane Potato Chip Football Discs Set.
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The players picture on the front is covered with a scratch-off disguise with silly, exaggerated features like hair, moustaches, hats, noses... and clues to help kids identify the famous person pictured. The backs contained additional clues and instructions to "Scratch off disguise on front to discover Who I Am. Use a coin or fingernail."
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1964 Topps Stand-UpsTopps most popular 1960's test issue !!!
Blank-backed and unnumbered, these standard size cards were called "Stand-Ups". "Stand-Ups" refers to a type of card that was die cut around the player's picture. The background section then could be folded in half, so the card could stand up by itself while the player's picture stood alone. Directions for folding are on the background and when folded only the green background remains. 1934-36 Batter Up and the 1951 Topps All-Star sets are 2 other popular standup issues.
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The set is packed with Hall-of-Famers including MICKEY MANTLE, Willie Mays, Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente, Carl Yastrzemski, Al Kaline, Brooks Robinson, Don Drysdale, Ernie Banks, Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey and more !!!
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – His re-election in doubt, President Barack Obama conceded only halting progress Thursday night toward solving the nation's economic woes, but vowed in a Democratic National Convention finale, "Our problems can be solved, our challenges can be met."
"The path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place," Obama said in advance excerpts of a prime-time speech to delegates and the nation.
The president's speech was the final act of a pair of highly scripted national political conventions in as many weeks, and the opening salvo of a two-month drive toward Election Day that pits Obama against Republican rival Mitt Romney. The contest is close for the White House in a dreary season of economic struggle for millions.
With unemployment at 8.3 percent, Obama said the task of recovering from the economic disaster of 2008 is exceeded in American history only by the challenge Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced when he took office in the Great Depression in 1933.
"It will require common effort, shared responsibility and the kind of bold persistent experimentation" that FDR employed, Obama said.
In an appeal to independent voters who might be considering a vote for Romney, he added that those who carry on Roosevelt's legacy "should remember that not every problem can be remedied with another government program or dictate from Washington."
His campaign said the president would ask the country to rally around a "real achievable plan that will create jobs, expand opportunity and ensure an economy built to last."
He added, "The truth is it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over a decade."
The evening also included a nomination acceptance speech from Vice President Joe Biden, whose appeal to blue collar voters rivals or even exceeds Obama's own. Delegates approved his nomination to a new term by acclamation as he and his family watched from VIP seats above the convention floor.
Biden told the convention in his own speech, "We're on a mission to move this nation forward – from doubt and downturn to promise and prosperity."
The vice president jabbed at Obama's challenger, as well.
"I found it fascinating last week – when Governor Romney said that as President he'd take a jobs tour. Well with all his support for outsourcing – it's going to have to be a foreign trip."
First lady Michelle Obama, popular with the public, was ready to introduce her husband, two nights after she delivered her own speech in the convention's opening session.
Delegates who packed into their convention hall were serenaded by singer James Taylor and rocked by R&B blues artist Mary J. Blige as they awaited Obama's speech.
The hall erupted in tumultuous cheers when former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, grievously wounded in a 2011 assassination attempt, walked slowly onto the stage to lead the Pledge Of Allegiance. The cheers grew louder when she blew kisses at the crowd.
Delegates also cheered when video screens inside the hall showed the face of Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind killed in a daring raid on his Pakistani hideout by U.S. special operations forces, approved by the current commander in chief.
"Ask Osama bin Laden if he's better off than four years ago," said Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, who lost the 2004 election in a close contest with President George W. Bush. It was a mocking answer to the Republicans' repeated question of whether Americans are better off than when Obama took office.
The campaign focus was shifting quickly – to politically sensitive monthly unemployment figures due out Friday morning and the first presidential debate on Oct. 3 in Denver. Wall Street hit a four-year high a few hours before Obama's speech after the European Central Bank laid out a concrete plan to support the region's struggling countries.
Convention planners shoehorned a few more seats into the Time Warner Cable Arena for Obama's remarks, pushing capacity to about 15,000. Even so, the decision to scrap plans to hold the night's session in a 74-000-seat football stadium meant a far smaller crowd than the president's campaign hoped would hear him speak and present an enthusiastic show of support on television.
The economy is by far the dominant issue in the campaign, and the differences between Obama and his challenger could hardly be more pronounced.
Romney wants to extend all tax cuts that are due to expire on Dec. 31 with an additional 20 percent reduction in rates across the board, arguing that job growth would result. He also favors deep cuts in domestic programs ranging from education to parks, repeal of the health care legislation that Obama pushed through Congress and landmark changes in Medicare, the program that provides health care to seniors.
Obama wants to renew the tax cuts except on incomes higher than $250,000, saying that millionaires should contribute to an overall attack on federal deficits. He also criticizes the spending cuts Romney advocates, saying they would fall unfairly on the poor, lower-income college students and others. He argues that Republicans would "end Medicare as we know it" and saddle seniors with ever-rising costs.
After two weeks of back-to-back conventions, the impact on the race remained to be determined.
You're not going to see big bounces in this election," said David Plouffe, a senior White House adviser. "For the next 61 days, it's going to remain tight as a tick."
Romney wrapped up several days of debate rehearsals with close aides in Vermont and is expected to resume full-time campaigning in the next day or two.
In a brief stop to talk with veterans on Thursday, he defended his decision to omit mention of the war in Afghanistan when he delivered his acceptance speech last week at the Republican National Convention. He noted he had spoken to the American Legion only one day before.
Romney's campaign released its first new television ad since the convention season began.
It shows Clinton sharply questioning Obama's credibility on the Iraq War in 2008, saying "Give me a break, this whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen." Obama was running against Hillary Rodham Clinton at the time for the Democratic nomination.
It will likely be a week or more before the two campaigns can fully digest post-convention polls and adjust their strategies for the fall.
Based on the volume of campaign appearances to date and the hundreds of millions of dollars spent already on television advertising, the election appears likely to be decided in a small number of battleground states. The list includes New Hampshire, Virginia, Ohio, Colorado, Nevada and Iowa, as well as Florida and North Carolina, the states where first Republicans and then Democrats held their conventions. Those states hold 100 electoral votes among them, out of 270 needed to win the White House.
Money has become an ever-present concern for the Democrats, an irony given the overwhelming advantage Obama held over John McCain in the 2008 campaign.
This time, Romney is outpacing him, and independent groups seeking the Republican's election are pouring tens of millions of dollars into television advertising, far exceeding what Obama's supporters can afford.
Officials disclosed that former President Bill Clinton, who made a forceful convention speech advocating Obama's re-election on Wednesday night, would campaign aggressively for the Democratic ticket this fall. His first appearance is set for Florida next week.
On the conference call with supporters who were cut out of Thursday night's session, Obama exhorted them to continue their work on voter registration and other pre-election activity.
He said North Carolina is "Exhibit A of the unbelievable work that's being done at the grassroots level. You guys are blowing it up when it comes to registering voters."
Official figures show about 30,000 Democrats have been registered to vote in the state since 2008, but some party leaders said recent canvassing had pushed the actual figure far higher.


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1974 Topps DECKLE EDGEThis 72-card test issue set was released with a very limited distribution on only the East Coast around Massachusetts making them quite scarce. They were Officially simply called "Topps Baseball Photos" but their serrated or "DECKLED" edge gave them the name they go by today. The 2 7/8" x 5" inch cards were sold in either a 2 card pack with gum or a 3 card pack with no gum for 5 cents.
The cards were meant to have the look of the black and white movie star photos from the 1950's and feature a black & white photo with a blue facsimilie autograph on the front. The backs make this very scarce test issue even more interesting ! They feature handwritten script of the player's name, team, position & date and location of the photograph as well as a mock newspaper article on the player's career.
This was Topps 2nd "Deckle Edge" issue, their first being their smaller and much more common 1969 Topps Deckle Edge which were inserts in certain series of packs of 1969 Topps cards.
Variations of 1974 Topps Deckle Edge do exist, making this issue even more fun and challenging to collect. The backs can be found in either gray or a much scarcer white version. Also, a more limited proof version with non-scalloped edges exists and occasionally can be found.
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1961 Topps Baseball Cards AUTOGRAPHED Set info/informationBy now you all heard of the rash of counterfeit autographs on the market.
The following autographs all come with auction house LOA's (Letters of Authenticity) from the top authenticators in the hobby - PSA/DNA or James Spence !!!
The 1961 Topps baseball card set included 587 standard size 2˝" x 3˝" cards (#1-#598 with several skipped numbers). 2 cards were accidently numbered #463, one of them (the Braves Team card was supposed to be card #426).
The 1961 Topps set included the following special "subsets":
* League Leaders (10 cards)
* World Series highlights (10 cards)
* Highlights (11 cards)
* MVP's (16 cards)
* Checklists (7 cards plus several variations)
* Team cards (xx cards)
* Special Multi-Player cards (xx cards)
* Managers (xx cards)
* Topps Rookie All-Star Trophies (xx cards)
* Sporting News All-Stars (#566-#589)
1961 Topps was the first of the very popular and continuing Topps Rookie All-Star Trophies subsets. Cards from the last series (#523-#589) are scarce "High Numbers" making the set fairly expensive to complete.
MLB Baseball expansion led to one of the least attractive aspects of the 1961 Topps baseball card set. The American League made several changes. The Los Angeles Angels were added, the Washington Senators became the Minnesota Twins and a new franchise was granted to the Washington Senators who also debuted in 1961. Possibly because of these team changes, many players had their portrait photos taken without their baseball caps. Not only did most of the players look awful without their caps, they looked more like your old, not so handsome uncle then athletes!
Card backs were black print on an army green background on a dark card stock making them somewhat difficult to read. TOP ROOKIES: #35 Ron Santo, #141 Billy Williams, #417 Juan Marichal, Willie Davis, Zoilo Versalles & Jim Maloney; are popular players but still reasonably priced.
More interesting tid-bits from the 1961 Topps set:
Card #1 features All-American basketball player Dick Groat
Collectors of 1961 Topps cards may also want to take a look at 3 other baseball issues Topps released that year: a Topps Dice Game, Topps Magic Rub-Offs and a series of Topps Stamps.
Although some dealers and collectors consider this set boring, with it's clean design, many special subsets
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Many of you know how I have been pitching this whole direct sponsorship thing as far back as 1990 in The Ren and Stimpy Show and then on the web in 1997 with the first online cartoon series, The Goddamn George Liquor Show.
It's an idea that should have clicked long ago, but the business world has been slow to embrace this idea, even though the technology has been here for at least 8 years to completely change the way entertainment and advertising works.
It looks like the time may have come for it to finally happen.
The whole advertising business is trying to figure out what to do now that no one is watching ads on TV anymore. Sponsors know that the web is where they need to go, but no one yet has figured out how to best take advantage of it...even though I've been telling everyone for so long!
In 1997 till about 2000 I marketed the whole concept by calling every magazine I could think of and pitching the idea to Wired, Yahoo, Millimeter and tons of others.
Unfortunately, I was too early. The Internet boom crashed around 2,000.
So I shook my head, went back to TV and waited until the business caught up with the idea.
When I discovered the blog model last year, I thought, "Hmmm.... maybe I should just write up all my ideas and put them online myself and see if anyone notices." I figured it would be a good way to do some underground marketing.
When the blog caught on, Mark Frauenfelder from Boing Boing called me to interview me, and he told me about Federated Media who was buying him ads. FM, founded by John Batelle (who also was a founder of Wired Magazine) met with me and I pitched him my idea of online direct sponsorship and he got it and said he would get his team to help pitch the idea to his sponsors.
You know all those Google Ads on the sides of websites? I've never understood those. Why is there so much money being spent on them? No one reads them. We automatically just tune them out when we visit websites. We don't even see them.
It seems like a huge waste of money to me. I also don't understand popups. Popup ads just piss everyone off! Like TV and movies. Modern corporate thinking has a strange habit of doing things to make the audience mad:
Commercials in movie theaters.
Network bugs crawling all over the TV screen when you are trying to watch your favorite shows.
Commercials that are obnoxious.
It used to be that big companies would compete with each other by making their products more appealing and attractive.
Movie theatres ran short cartoons before the movies.
TV Networks tried making shows better than other TV networks.
I pitched my idea to John and the FM shows. It's so simple:
Make an attractive animated banner ad that the sponsor places on various websites.
If it is fun and attractive, people will notice it and click on it.
The banner then takes you to another site where there is full blown animated content.
The content can be pure entertainment, or entertainment coupled with ads.
BUT!!! The ad has to be entertaining too, or no one will want to watch it!
Joe Kressaty at FM called me last November or so and told me he found a sponsor who was interested in the idea. They wanted to do some more adventurous type of internet ad that matched their adventurous internet product: Raketu.
I began working with Raketu's iconoclastic Irish marketing director Oliver McIntyre. I pitched him my general concept of making advertising entertaining online and he was already thinking along the same lines, so it was a perfect match.
Here are his own words:
Four months ago we embarked on the task of reinventing the Raketu world. We needed to differentiate the brand and transform it from one that merely offered a great service to one that had a personality. It had to entertain, be engaging and communicate the raft of different services to the very broad 15-75 year old target group. The brand had to be truly global.
In the ad agency world where I had spent all my life we always started by defining a brand's USPS before drafting a strategy/positioning. However, Raketu had multiple usp's and all appealed to different elements of the target audience. Every member of the family has different communication needs and I had to figure out how to show which aspects of Raketu would appeal to each.
My want was to create a Simpsons type cartoon family online, a family that could show off different elements of the brand/product.
The brief from my peers was to establish the Raketu family and drive downloads and users ASAP.
Then in mid November 2006 I talked on the phone to this cool guy called John K. The guy didn't really say a lot during our initial telephone conversations but he was funny, talented and most importantly, he got it. I knew he was "the one" that would help me to develop the Raketu family.
Just before Christmas John came to NYC. Meeting in a café on the corner of 38&8th we started to discuss/develop the family. I didn't give him a break all day and I remember the guy must have had 20 Diet Cokes throughout the day.
John suggested creating a mascot, along the lines of Tony The Tiger for Raketu. He came up with Raketeena the space imp. Raketeena lives in the far future and she visits our time to show today's primitive humans about how this great brand called Raketu can make their lives better. She would explain to each member of the family in a funny way which aspects of Raketu could work for them.
Raketu does so many things that it would take a lot of patience to read through pages of text, so having animated cartoons do the explanations in an entertaining way was the perfect solution for us. Who likes reading manuals? But everyone loves cartoons!
The role of the blog campaign was two fold, first to get some brand understanding and awareness here in the US and secondly to test the Raketeena concept. When we first put up the banner, the click through rate went through the roof and so we knew we were on to something hot and we decided to then redesign our website and use John's characters to pitch our products and services.
The past two months have been awesome and have had the late night calls, the occasional drama, the constant explanations but I have to say I have really enjoyed working with John and his team. He's a true pro, and I want to thank him and his team as I think they have done an amazing job.
Oliver McIntyre,
VP Marketing, Raketu
I thought it might be a good idea to do a post about all this history just for press purposes.
Oh and here are some more of my predictions about the web from way back in 1997!
If you wanna know more about the history of direct sponsorship and how all this stuff works, here are some links to previous posts:


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Alright this question is going to sound pretty elementary but I have never seen a topic on everyone's favorite Seahawk. So, who is your favorite player on the team right now and why? If you have a reason. Just to throw another question out there, who is your all-time favorite Seahawk?
Picking just one can be tough, so if that's the case, give me your favorite offensive and defensive player on the current roster.
I am really liking Earl Thomas and for all-time Seahawk I would have to say Grant Wistrom. I know he was only on the team for three years but I met him at a Thunderbirds game one time (he was there to drop the puck for the opening face-off ceremony). Funny thing is, he was just in a pair of shoes and he was taller than both of the players he stood next to on the ice and they had skates on (giving them about three inches extra height).
Wistrom just about broke every bone in my hand when we shook hands. After meeting him, although very briefly, I had a pretty clear understanding on just how big and strong NFL offensive linemen had to be in order to stop a man like Grant Wistrom.
Apologies if anyone thinks this is a ridiculously stupid question. Work is dead and i'm interested in seeing if there is a clear favorite among Seahawk fans.
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Have you ever met a Seahawks player? Details if you have, I like to know what players are like off the field.


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Several would-be operators are expected to file bids today in the state's plan to privatize its $2.8 billion lottery system, despite ongoing protests from a retail group and skepticism from some lawmakers.
After two postponements of the bidding deadline, submissions are due at 2 p.m. today, a spokesman for the state Treasury Department said. Four companies from as far away as Greece are expected to offer proposals.
But one of the most vocal critics of the state's plan, the Green Brook-based Asian-American Retailers Association, is still calling the effort premature. Satish V. Poondi, director of legislative affairs for the group, said ideas such as the launch of online lottery sales would hurt small retailers, but the association has been unable to find an audience with the Chris Christie administration and Republican lawmakers.
"What we're trying to do is create that dialogue, because we think it's necessary for the governor to hear from retailers such as ourselves," said Poondi, whose group formed the Big Gamble NJ coalition. "At every level we've tried to initiate that discussion."
Poondi would not rule out a lawsuit, he said, though he was still hopeful the administration would at least listen to retail stakeholders. The governor's press office referred questions to the Treasury Department, which did not immediately return a follow-up call early this afternoon.
New Jersey is not the only state considering a privatized lottery system. Published reports this week say in Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Corbett has been negotiating with Camelot Global Services, a British firm that submitted the lone bid for the contract. But the plan also faces uncertainty, with Corbett reportedly trying to persuade Camelot to extend its bid past Dec. 31 as the state's lottery employees' union prepares an alternative plan.
Camelot is also one of four firms that met with New Jersey officials in September and that were expected to submit bids today. The firms also include New York-based Scientific Games; Greece-based Intralot; and Lottomatica, the Italian company that owns Providence, R.I.-based GTECH Corp. GTECH has been supplying lottery technology to the Garden State since 1984.
The retailers group has found support from some Democratic lawmakers, but the administration appears to be moving forward. Still, Poondi said it was tough to believe that the state wouldn't "just hear us out before you change this entire system," which includes 6,500 retailers statewide
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Childhood memories from the 40's and 50's are of safety, security and vast views.
All the fear mongering about school safety has sent my mind meandering to my childhood.
We didn't have a TV nor a car. We read and walked where we wanted to go. I read comics like Archie and Little Lulu. I used my allowance to buy a Bobbsey Twins book every couple of weeks, and few years later the Nancy Drew books. We played board games and cards. We did puzzles and crafts. We walked 12 blocks to the swimming pool and about the same distance in the opposite direction to the park or tennis court. We didnt need to join health and fitness clubs, as we played outside, even in the snow.
I had living dolls---dogs and cats who allowed me to dress them in doll clothes and push them around the block in a doll buggy. I had a horse named Buck and to go with that, I had a cap gun six shooter, cowboy boots, a fringed skirt and vest, and a cowboy hat. I loved Roy Rogers and Gene Autry (who purchased his last Champion in Mandan from the uncle of one of my friends. I walked to school and back home, regardless of the weather. It never occurred to me someone might kidnap me. I knew the names of all the dogs between my home and school. If the homeowners were in the yard, they greeted us kids. I still remember the names of the neighbors and all of my teachers. Our second grade teacher often sat at her desk and wept---we kids wondered if her boyfriend was hurt in WWII, and we tried to be extra good on her sad days. No parent complained and we kids learned compassion.
What a wonderful time to grow up! The pasture across the street had a dozen or more horses that belonged to various people. I was allowed to take my little mutt, Bootsie, and freely roam in the hills. I was warned to listen and watch for rattle snakes, not people. Sometimes I took my lunch and stayed most of the day.
My favorite spot was a huge granite rock which provided a panoramic view of the Missouri Velley. When I sat up there, curious horses came to check out Bootsie and me. From that place I could see the block houses where Custer and his men guarded the Missouri. I could see The River, and imagine Lewis and Clark and their men pulling keel boats up the Missouri. I could feel the sun and the eternal wind, and Imagine! No need for video games or I-pods, as meadowlarks and wind in the grass made beautiful music---and I was free and safe. (And I did not have to dress up!)
I cannot imagine Miss Harrington, Miss Hamilton, Miss Neuman, Miss Remington, Miss Crawford, or Mrs. McCone wielding a gun! These were educated ladies, who liked kids and encouraged us to learn. They contributed to my becoming a teacher. The worst threats were the mean boys from St. Joseph who came to our playground when they had "Holy Days," and intimdated us. The other threats were chicken pox. measles, and mumps, or falling off the slide or the Merry-Go-Round. In an attempt to make everything safe, some play gound equipment has been removed and anti-bullying rules have been enacted. I am wondering how kids learn to use common sense and avoid danger while playing, or how to negotiate with peers, help each other, and solve their own problems. Now, a few think armed teachers or guards will keep kids safe in schools.
LIfe is risky. But lunatics with guns shooting little kids? Unimaginable! Sadly, the dangerous stranger hastoo often been replaced by armed classmates. And it isn't only guns---what about trusted people who are quiet precators: Jerry Sandusky, club leaders, teachers, priests, relatives? Guns don't protect kids from those "bad people."
As a teacher, IF I were told I had to take classes in weaponry, I would quit and find another occupation. If those teachers of my childhood had quit rather than be armed, if they not been teachers, many of my classmates would not have made the contributions to society they have in education, in law, in medicine, in agriculture, in the military, in businesses, and as citizens and family members. These ladies were examples of lives well lived---unselfish, kindly, wise. They lived Humilty and Goodness.
The days of mental illness, rage, and predators now hover over us. I am so sorry electronic devices, violence as entertainment, broken homes and people, garrulous politiciams, greedy and corroupt businesses, abuse of the environment and animals, abuse of family members, sex and drugs, will be the memories of today's children.
But arming school personell won't solve the problems. Maybe we need to go with a dog to a place with a view and think! May we all create Peaceful memories for children.


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Related post: Plans for APE
Wow, what can I say about APE?
Well, this was definitely an experience!
Firstly, I believe that APE (Alternative Press Expo) was a productive endeavor. I learned much more about the nature of each publisher I've been tracking online. I hope that Shannon and I managed to get the names of our projects (The Poet and the Flea and The First Reich) out there just a little. And I learned a lot about what techniques make a successful table.
As far as the bigger publishers go (Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly, Last Gasp, Top Shelf, etc.), I was glad to see them at the Expo — to see all their products laid out in front of me, rather than squinting at images on a computer screen. Some of them only had marketing representatives who didn't know much about the submissions process, which was too bad. Others had more knowledgable people to talk to, who offered some useful advice. I guess it really just boils down to submitting material and seeing what happens!
I very much enjoyed talking to some of the smaller publishers. They were very enthusiastic, helpful, and informative. And just because they're smaller doesn't mean they have inferior products. They are extremely professional (but in a laid back sort of way) and their books are gorgeous!
I loved talking with the kind folks at Yam Books. Tim Hensley (creator of Ticket Stub) was shocked that someone in their twenties (me) was a Barbara Stanwyck fan!! Both Saturday and Sunday, we had conversations about the film noir starlet, exchanging movie titles and laughing away. He even drew me this awesome illustration of Barbara (see below) in Double Indemnity — bangs and sunglasses and all!
Also had good but brief conversations with the good people at A Raven Above Press and Never Press.
I've only recently become interested in learning more about the world of zines. And Tugboat Press seemed like a good place to start. I really admire what they're doing. I'm glad I talked with them because I learned that, rather than taking submissions, they commission artists. I also received recommendations about which volumes of their anthology Papercutter to buy and realized that they are interested in a vast array of genres. I'm excited to really sit down and read my purchases.
Sunday, I finally figured out where Uncivilized Books got to (I just could not figure out that map!). Their chief Tom was excellent at patiently answering my questions and encouraging me to submit my work. I'm excited to start working on sending out some follow-up e-mails to everyone I talked with!
Also, I picked up a lot of interesting flyers, cards, stickers, etc. from around the expo and from the free table. Below are some of my favorites!!
Here are my notes of what makes a successful table in case I end up getting one for APE next year!
(This is just a rough list for my personal use. In no particular order!)
- Need a billboard/banner advertising name of artist/graphic novel.
- Need a tablecloth.
- Need a sign (or maybe t-shirts) to hang off the front of the table.
- Wear one of your own t-shirts to further advertise your graphic novel.
- Perhaps a sign or two saying: "Please talk to us — we're friendly!"
- Perhaps a big bowl of free candy.
- Attract customers with a selection of cheaper items ($1 pins or stickers?).
- Need a clipboard and form for customers to sign up for your mailing list.
- Provide plenty of business cards and/or postcards.
Among the flyers and such was a postcard for the East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest, free and taking place December 8th in Berkeley. I'm very interested in checking it out!
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Tonight, the Neosho City Council will vote on final reading on proposed changes to the Neosho Municipal Golf Course budget, to reflect the transition from a contractor to city-run operation.
Tonight, the Neosho City Council will vote on final reading on proposed changes to the Neosho Municipal Golf Course budget, to reflect the transition from a contractor to city-run operation.
The council meets at 7 p.m. this evening at the Neosho City Hall Council Chambers, 203 E. Main St.
The budget adjustment reflects a total decrease of $29,700.18.
Council voted on first reading in their Dec. 18 meeting to approve the changes, which include a decrease of $128,333.34 for the remainder of the city's contract with current golf course manager Justin Beck.
Beck submitted his 90-day notice to the city in mid-November.
The city was paying Beck $220,000 annually to run the golf course, which included labor expenses and incidentals.
If approved, the amended budget would reflect the city's expenses at the golf course from Feb. 1 through Sept. 30.
The budget would also include the addition of $54,400 for golf salaries for three full-time employees, $75,000 for 10 part-time employees, $400 for cell phone allowance, $9,899.10 for social security, $5,004.80 for retirement, $9,150 for health insurance, $4,179.62 for workers compensation, and a $4,495 transfer from the general fund.
Troy Royer, Neosho City Manager, said the move will allow the city to gain more control over the day-to-day operations at the 18-hole golf course.
The city is currently hiring for a golf course maintenance worker, manager, and golf course pro shop clerk and worker.
Beck's current part-time employees will also need to reapply for their jobs, and if hired, would be considered a city employee as of March 1.
The council gave Royer permission to pursue a city-run operation at the golf course in their Dec. 4, 2012 council meeting.
Also on the agenda for this evening:
• Council will consider a bid of $7,066.13 from HD Supply for water repair parts, to restock the public works department on parts used to repair water mains, services and to set meters.
• The council is set to vote on awarding a bid for six vehicle light bars and four siren switch box systems for the Neosho Police Department. The light bars are priced at $1,175, while the switch box systems are set at $718. The police department was recently awarded funding for safety equipment. The grant is a 10 percent match program and will require a $1,000 match from the city of Neosho, which is included in the department's budget. The total bid from Ed Roehr Safety Products out of St. Louis comes in at $9,997.
• Council members will consider the disbursement of $660 from the city's hotel/motel tax fund to support the printing and distribution of the 2013 Neosho/Newton County Walking and Driving tour of the Murals brochures. The invoice for the total due will be provided to the city before the city makes its payment.
• Council will vote on final reading on an adjustment to the information technology budget, to decrease the amount spent on professional IT services by $30,200 and add $34,202.50 for salary, cell phone allowance, social security, retirement, health insurance and workers compensation for the city's recently hired junior IT employee.
• Council plans to vote on a proposed new light pole and streetlight to be installed on Fairway Circle, which would be the first for the city street. If approved, the city would be charged $37.94 per month.
• Council members will also consider an amendment to the city's electric service agreement with Empire District Electric to replace a streetlight at the intersection of Hickory and Lafayette. If approved, this amendment would allow the size of the bulb to be changed from 7,000 MV to 6,000L HPS, and would increase the monthly payment by 53 cents.
• Council is expected to consider eight city code changes, including amendments to the buildings and building regulations city code of ordinances, the electrical code, the international residential code, the international property maintenance code, the international energy conservation code, the international fuel gas code, and the plumbing code.
• Consider approval of an aviation project consultant agreement with H.W. Lochner, Inc. to update the property map at Hugh Robinson Memorial Airport. On July 3, 2012 the council voted to authorize Richard Davidson, Neosho mayor, to execute a contract between the City of Neosho and the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission to provide state block grant funds to fund the updates to the property map.
• Council will announce vacancies that exist on the airport industrial development board; board of adjustments/zoning; board of appeals; economic development sales tax committee; historic district commission and the planning and zoning commission.


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In my years of teaching, I always included the Robbers Cave Experiment by Sherif and Sherif, a famous couple of social psychologist researchers who came on faculty during my years as an undergraduate at OU. (In the early '50s, his Middle Eastern appearance stood out.) Young boys who were friends were selected to attend a summer camp near Wilburton where they were split apart into teams that engaged in zero-sum competition that led to former friends feeling hostility toward each other.
In my years of teaching, I always included the Robbers Cave Experiment by Sherif and Sherif, a famous couple of social psychologist researchers who came on faculty during my years as an undergraduate at OU. (In the early '50s, his Middle Eastern appearance stood out.) Young boys who were friends were selected to attend a summer camp near Wilburton where they were split apart into teams that engaged in zero-sum competition that led to former friends feeling hostility toward each other.
I always wondered why in the heat of their play battles some of those boys didn't stop and question what had happened to them and opt out of the contrived situation causing them such hostility toward those who should otherwise be their friends.
Ordinarily I don't include extensive quotations in my articles, but when I read this account in my reading about WWI, I felt it was worthy of inclusion.
"It was cold enough in December 1914 in France that the mud had frozen hard, making it easier to walk about. Christmas day, a spontaneous truce occurred in different places on the Western Front. Soldiers put their heads above the trenches and called out 'Merry Christmas' across the barbed wire in their enemy's language. They crawled out to greet each other, met in no man's land, shook hands, exchanged souvenirs, smoked and drank together, and played soccer."
Many soldiers wrote home about it in wonder, including the following excerpts from a letter by Capt. E.W. Hulse, a graduate of Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, to his Mother.*
Flanders 28/12/14
"Just returned to billets again after the most extraordinary Christmas in the trenches you could possibly imagine. Words fail me completely in trying to describe it, but here goes.
We stood to arms as usual at 6:30 a.m. on the 25th and I noticed that by 8 a.m. there was no shooting at all. At 8:30 a.m. I was looking out and saw four Germans leave their trenches and come towards us; I told two of my men to go and meet them UNARMED [as the Germans were]. We were 350-400 yards apart at this point. I and one of our ensigns went out and met them. They were three private soldiers and a stretcher-bearer and their spokesman started off by saying that he thought it only right to come over and wish us a happy Christmas, and trusted us implicitly to keep the truce…"
"We then entered on a long discussion on every sort of thing…I asked them what orders they had from their officers as to coming over to us, and they said NONE, they had just come over out of goodwill. They protested that they had no feeling of enmity towards us at all, but that everything lay with their authorities, and that being soldiers they had to obey. They said that unless directly ordered, they were not going to shoot again until we did. We parted after an exchange of English cigarettes and German cigars."
"At 10 a.m. I saw to my amazement a crowd of about 150 British and Germans at the half-way point [in no man's land] , but six or seven such crowds, all the way down our lines. Scots and Huns were fraternizing in the most genuine possible manner. Every sort of souvenir was exchanged, addresses given and received, photos of families shown, etc…. A German NCO with the Iron Cross started his fellows off on some marching tune. When they had done I set the note for "The Boys of Bonnie Scotland." And so we went on singing everything [German and British]. If I had seen it on a cinematograph film, I should have sworn that it was faked….."
It was a perfect day, everything white, and the silence seemed extraordinary after the usual din. From all sides birds seemed to arrive, and we hardly ever see a bird. Later in the day I fed about 50 sparrows outside my dug-out which shows how complete the silence and quiet was. It is the first time, day or night, that we have heard no guns, or rifle-firing, since I left Havre. During the afternoon another meeting took place, and at 4:30 p.m. we agreed to keep in our respective trenches and told them the truce was ended…"
Three weeks later Captain Hulse was killed, aged 25. It was the only unofficial truce of the war. By the following Christmas orders had been given to both sides prohibiting any repeat of it.
"These were young men who obeyed orders, who wanted to be heroic, who felt no enmity toward those on whom they inflicted mortal violence. They killed in response to a higher command. Christmas was a day to go beyond military orders to the idea of peace and goodwill to all men.
Corporal Adolph Hitler entered combat as a runner in the First Battle of Ypres Oct. 23, 1914, and remained in that position and at that grade throughout the war. Only 600 of his unit's 3,500 men survived that battle. Back near Ypres in Oct. 14,1918, he was blinded by a British gas attack and taken to a hospital in Poland where he was convalescing when the war ended Nov. 11.
Corporal Hitler always disapproved of the Christmas truce. He felt that there should be no question of something like that during war. For him, there was no higher law than martial law.* He was awarded the Iron Cross First Class for extraordinary bravery in WWI—an unusual honor for a corporal. As Chancellor of the Third Reich, he wore that medal throughout WWII—his war. **
• Souhami, Diana, 'Edith Cavell,' London: Quercus Pub.,2010, Ch.27.
• Bullock, Alan, "Hitler: A Study in Tyranny," NY: Harper & Brothers, 46.


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