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Friends of the White Pine Trail meetings (2018) will be held at 7 p.m.January 10 Plainfield Township Offices *
February 14 Algoma Township Offices *
March 14 Plainfield Township Offices *
April 11 Cedar Springs City Offices *
May 9 Rockford Community Cabin *
June 13 Plainfield Township Office *
July 11 No Meeting
August 9 Howard City
September 12 Plainfield Township Offices *
October 10 Cedar Springs City Offices *
November 14 Algoma Township Offices *
December 12 Plainfield Township Offices *
* = Confirmed
<-- Please use the "Navigate To" in the side-bar to the left to find any information that you may need!
We have attempted to provide any information you may need as a trail user; or a person interested in the "Fred Meijer White Pine Trail State Park! If you cannot find what you want / need please e-mail or call the chairman whose contact information is near the bottom of the side-bar.
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We very much appreciate your feedback to us!
The Fred Meijer White Pine Trail is Michigan's longest rail/trail stretching a distance of 92 miles on the former Grand Rapids and Indiana rail bed. The trail reaches from the north end of Grand Rapids (just south of the 5th/3rd Ballpark) into the city of Cadillac. Future plans for other Michigan trail systems include intersecting with the White Pine establishing it as the backbone of the Michigan rail-trail system.
The trail is surfaced with asphalt pavement from North Park Street at the north end of Grand Rapids, with a loop capability around the 5th/3rd Ballpark and through the community of Comstock Park; north to the village of Sand Lake; a distance of nearly 22 miles.
A short section of about 5/8 of a mile of asphalt pavement exists through Howard City.
There is also a 13 mile section of asphalt pavement between Big Rapids and Reed City.
As of late 2010 there are an additional 17 miles of new pavement from Cadillac to just south of LeRoy along with an older 1 mile section of asphalt at the very northern end of the trail in Cadillac.
The remaining 44 miles of the trail is surfaced with packed gravel or cinders with pavement planned for the future. Riders with hybrid and mountain bikes will find the entire trail very enjoyable.
The complete trail is ADA compliant; with no grades greater than 5%; and at this point the only place where the grade is even close to the 5% is the approaches to the bridge over West River Road; located between Comstock Park and Belmont!
Trail Uses
The Fred Meijer White Pine Trail State Park is considered to be a non - motorized trail; and that also means there are rules / guidelines on trail use! Listed below are the overall approved and non - approved uses.
Bicycling - (non-motorized) is approved for all seasons - no exceptions
Walking - is approved for all seasons - no exceptions
Running / Jogging - is approved for all seasons - no exceptions
Skating - is approved for all seasons - no exceptions
Skiing - is approved for all seasons - no exceptions
Snowmobiling - is approved with the following conditions:
· North of the Russell Road Staging area
· Minimum of 6" of snow on all areas of the trail
· Observe posted speed limits and community regulations
Horses - NOT ALLOWED
Dogs - Allowed but must be on a leash
Hunting - Not allowed in the State Park
Events - The "Fred Meijer White Pine Trail State Park" is first and foremost a trail for the casual user! The trail was not intended or designed for major fund-raising events.
If you are planning on having an event you must get a "use permit" from the park manager.
Additionally your event must not close the trail and you must inform your participants that the casual user has the right to be there and must be respected.
The "Friends" is currently the major entity maintaining the trail; and your event is the beneficiary if you have it on the trail! Please consider a small portion of your proceeds to help the "Friends" make the trail a great place for all approved users.
During the winter months the trail has varied uses, and everyone must respect the other users, the snowmobilers, and other approved users can co-mingle on the trail if everyone respects other's right to be there!
The following is a description of an alternate route which may be followed between LeRoy and Reed City which will allow you to be on pavement for the total distance between Cadillac and the south side of Big Rapids.
Please note; on some maps; Mackinaw Trail and 210th Ave are interchangeable in the area just North of Reed City and may be labeled as either.
Mackinaw trail is the old US 131 highway and lightly used. 210th Ave is a county road with moderate traffic.
From the North going South
At the end of the pavement just South of LeRoy go West (Right approx. 300 ft.) on McKinley Road to Mackinaw Trail; then go South (Left) .
Follow Mackinaw Trail South; which makes a big curve and turns into Sylvan Rd; ending at (approx. 5 miles) 210th Ave.
Go South (Right) on 210th Ave till you come to the Fred Meijer White Pine (approx. 6 miles) Trail in Reed City.
Proceed South on the trail.
From the South going North
In Reed City - just after you go through the covered bridge go North (Right) on Mackinaw Trail (approx. 6 miles) to Sylvan Rd.
Go West (Left) on Sylvan Road; which makes a curve to the North and then becomes Mackinaw Trail.
Follow Mackinaw Trail 5 miles North to McKinley Road and turn East (Right) to the Fred Meijer White Pine Trail.
Turn North (Left) on the trail; which will take you to Cadillac.


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Robert Kraft: Agents could bungle Wes Welker deal
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- Published: Feb. 1, 2013 at 06:46 p.m.
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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has fired the first shot in the latest Wes Welker contract drama. We've been here before. Welcome to one of the next month's stories.


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Readercon Reflections
Before I get into some thoughts on some panels and discussions, some pictures: Ellen Datlow's and Tempest Bradford's. Tempest asked everybody to make a sad face for her, not because Readercon was a sad con (just the opposite!), but because it's fun to have people make sad faces. The iconic picture from the weekend for me, though, is Ellen's photo of Liz Hand's back. I covet Liz's shirt.
And now for some only vaguely coherent thoughts on some of the panels...
I actually missed my own first panel, "Interstitial Then, Genre Now", with John Clute, Michael Dirda, Peter Dube, and Dora Goss, because the battery in my car died because of absent-mindedness on my part the night before. Luckily, I have a car battery charger, but charging took just long enough to make it so there was no physical way I could get to Burlington, MA in time for the panel. (Andrew Liptak wrote a recap for Tor.com.)
My Saturday panel, "The Secret History of The Secret History of Science Fiction", with Kathryn Cramer, Alexander Jablokov, John Kessel, Jacob Weisman, and Gary K. Wolfe went pretty well, I thought, though as so often happens, it felt like it was just getting going when it was time to end. The panel allowed John to talk about the motivations for the book, some of what he thought it accomplished, etc. -- a lot of what he said parallels what he and Jim Kelly told me when I interviewed them about the anthology. Gary Wolfe offered probably the best line of the panel: "An anthology is, inevitably, a collection of the wrong stories." (This, of course, from the critic's point of view!)
I'm not very good at inserting myself into conversations, so I did a lot of observing during the panel, piping up only to offer a sort of counter viewpoint from Gary's -- where Gary was in some ways agreeing with Paul Witcover's assertion that writers like T.C. Boyle are just using science fiction as "a trip to the playground". I was hoping we'd be able to discuss this idea a bit more, but time didn't allow it. Had it, I suppose I would have tried to say that to me the resentment of writers not routinely identified with the marketing category of "science fiction" or the community of fans, writers, and publishers that congregates under the SF umbrella -- the resentment of these writers for using the props, tropes, and moves of SF is unappealing to me for a few reasons. It's a clubhouse mentality, one that lets folks inside the clubhouse determine what the secret password is and if anybody standing outside has the right pronunciation of that password. It is, in other words, a purity test: are the intentions in your soul the right ones, the approved ones? Had we had time, I would have tried to make some sort of connection between this attitude toward non-SF writers with an attitude I've seen within the field from people toward writers of a younger generation who haven't read, for instance, every story in Adventures in Time & Space.
I mentioned during the panel that my own first encounter with a T.C. Boyle story was in the August 1985 issue of Asimov's, where his "On for the Long Haul" was reprinted. I got that issue sometime in the late '80s as part of a bunch of magazines I found at a yard sale, read the story, liked it, and sought out more of Boyle's work at the local college library. There I found Greasy Lake & Other Stories, which contained "On for the Long Haul", and I read a few of the other stories, thinking Boyle was a pretty good SF writer, his stories similar in some ways to ones I'd encountered by Karen Joy Fowler, Lucius Shepard, Harlan Ellison, etc. I didn't know anything about Boyle, and his publishing in places like Esquire didn't make me think he wasn't an SF writer, since I didn't know much about slick magazines, and I assumed Esquire was something like Playboy, which published SF writers with some frequency.
I love all the epigraphs before the stories in The Secret History, but in some ways they're prejudicial -- Boyle, for instance, is quoted with a perfectly silly statement about genre fiction being formulaic and therefore worthless. This is true if you use terms like "genre fiction" and "science fiction" as evaluative labels, which some folks do (stories they like are "literature" or "stories", stories they don't like are "genre fiction" or "science fiction" or whatever), but most people who are willing to admit they read SF use the terms for description, not evaluation, thus making "bad science fiction" a possible label rather than a redundant one.
After the panel, I happened to end up in a conversation with Junot Diaz, Eric Schaller, and Brian Slattery. I told Junot about the panel, and he said he'd liked to have seen it, and wondered if we'd talked at all about institutional privilege and access to resources. We hadn't, but his point, as he elaborated it, was an interesting one that I hope we'll be able to continue to explore -- applied to the socio-political realm, it's an idea I try hard to impress on students in the Intro to Feminism class I teach, but I had not really considered publishing structures in quite the same way: that systems of privilege are not eradicated by individual exceptions; if anything, they're strengthened by them because they create a perception of equality or freedom where significant inequality and oppression exist. (Thus, a Michael Chabon or Jonathan Lethem, who can play in multiple realms, and have access to Guggenheims and Pulitzers along with Hugos and Nebulas, do not invalidate the boundaries, which remain strong as ever.) I'm not sure I'm entirely on board with such an analysis, because there's so much else going on within the worlds of publishing and within the communities of writers of various sorts, where all the other systems (class, race, gender) are also always in force, but I do think it's a useful way to analyze certain segments of the publishing and writing worlds -- Brett Cox and I, for instance, have spent years talking about the differences between the fairly narrow options for what is "good" writing within many MFA programs versus the growing passion for all sorts of different types of writing within literature departments -- certainly, there are fuddy-duddy programs where all the faculty might prefer a student write the millionth dissertation on Jane Austen than one on Zenna Henderson, but I'd bet those are, or at least are becoming, the minority. And there are certainly more open-minded MFA programs these days than elsewhere, including some of the most prominent programs in the country, such as Brown's, which is currently headed by Brian Evenson. (Mark McGurl's The Program Era is a book that annoyed me for a few reasons, but it's worth reading for its portrait of some of the forces that shaped the creative writing industry in the US.) Defining power and identifying the structures that create and support it within and between genres is a useful critical function, but a difficult one, one that needs to be sensitive to nuance -- to the fact that Michael Chabon started by writing very traditionally "literary" novels before he wrote Gentlemen of the Road, and so perhaps he's got a certain privilege not available to other writers, but Jonathan Lethem started by writing stories for Aboriginal SF before he achieved a similar sort of status. Does the Library of America's collections of Lovecraft and Philip K. Dick and American Fantastic Tales mean they feel they've done enough SF and so never need to add Samuel Delany to their canon? (I know they'd never do my dream book of Dhalgren/Hogg, given that including Hogg among the LOA titles would cause people to move from saying LOA's jumped the shark to saying they've gone totally freakin' insane, but still...) Is power just about access to awards and grants? What about sales and placement in stores? Access to book reviews? How does that work, and is the fact that most genre-identified books don't get reviewed in the NYTBR significantly and meaningfully different from the fact that most books full-stop don't get reviewed there? What about the deafening silence that follows publication in one of the hundreds of lit'ry journals in the country as opposed to the relatively prodigious reviewing of SF short fiction? (I remember my shock when a friend who'd published over 30 stories in some of the top literary journals in the world told me the first review she'd ever received was for her first novel. Even my most marginal and smallest-press short stories published in genre markets have been reviewed, at least in passing, somewhere.) In terms of access to audience and money, genre writers are doing a heckuva lot better than most "literary" writers -- but if we speak only of bestsellers, then we're speaking only of the rarest of exceptions. Writing fiction is seldom a path to riches. Etc.
Anyway, a structural/institutional power analysis of the ways writing is distributed, received, awarded, and perceived would be an interesting one, probably well beyond my capabilities, but I'd love to see an anthology of essays about the topic, with contributions from people of different backgrounds and experiences, who know various corners and realms...
These ideas in some ways echoed through Peter Straub's wonderful talk about writing The Skylark / A Dark Matter. One of the things that Straub kept experiencing was editors' inability to actually read the manuscript for what was written in it rather than to read the manuscript against their own expectations of what "a supernatural thriller" is (since they were bound and determined, against all evidence, to pigeonhole the book as "a supernatural thriller"). Straub broke through this by changing their expectations, giving them a new way to read the story. This reminded me that one of the things a genre does is manage expectations. I thought of this again during the "Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Fantasy & Science Fiction" panel, which became most interesting at the end when Cat Valente, Ben Rosenbaum, and Caitlín Kiernan engaged with a member of the audience who suggested it is a writer's responsibility to recognize readers' potential taboos. Previously -- possibly at another panel, possibly here, I don't remember -- someone had said that publishers of romance novels often hear from readers who are outraged that there was something in the novel they didn't expect (a certain type of relationship, a certain approach to love or sex). One of the things that perhaps keeps people invested in strict genre boundaries is their desire to always know what they're getting themselves into, and this desire is frequently at odds with writers' desires to follow where their muse leads them.
The only panel I found really disappointing was one called "Imagining Anarchy". Ben Rosenbaum did his best to try to moderate it, but the participants all seemed ignorant of the history of the various political philosophies of anarchism. Walter Hunt seemed particularly lost, defining "anarchism" however he felt like it in whatever way would make it seem most unreasonable and ridiculous. Despite proclaiming himself a historian, he demonstrated no knowledge whatsoever of anarchist history, whether from the left or right. The Dispossessed came up frequently, but no-one seemed to have read Le Guin's introduction to the story "The Day Before the Revolution" (a story with the dedication line, "In Memoriam Paul Goodman 1911-1972") in The Wind's Twelve Quarters, where she writes,
My novel The Dispossessed is about a small world full of people who call themselves Odonians. The name is taken from the founder of their society, Odo, who lived several generations before the time of the novel, and who therefore doesn't get into the action -- except implicitly, in that all the action started with her.It was a painful, frustrating panel. Much better was Sunday's panel on punctuation, with John Crowley, Samuel Delany, Ron Drummond, Victoria Janssen, and Barry Malzberg.
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social Darwinist economic "libertarianism" of the far right, but anarchism as pre-figured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. Anarchism's principal target is the authoritarian state (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.
Ron Drummond opened by saying, "I really adore the semi-colon, and expect many of you do as well." Wild applause followed that statement. This was an audience passionate about punctuation.
Drummond, who was the discussion leader, asked the participants how their approach to punctuation had changed over their lifetime. John Crowley began, "Well, when I was very young, I used none at all..." After a pause for laughter, he continued more seriously, stating that punctuation has, for people sensitive to it, an emotional quality, and so there is change over a lifetime, because our emotional responses change and develop as we age. His own punctuation, he said, has become somewhat simpler, with fewer semi-colons, though he still loves that particular punctuation, a mark he finds contemplative and meditative. He said these days, though, he has somewhat fewer sentences with multiple semi-colons in them.
Delany then said that punctuation in general has become simpler in English, and we tend to forget why it was made complicated in the first place. He noted that a single punctuation mark can make a big difference, e.g. "What do you do with a stiff neck?" vs. "What do you do with a stiff, neck?" And he proclaimed himself, as all rational people do (contra Vampire Weekend), a fan of the serial (Oxford) comma, noting the probably apocryphal but nonetheless perfect tale of the book dedication, "To my parents, Ayn Rand and God". "This is why you need a serial comma," Delany said. "Without it, you sound like a fool!"
Barry Malzberg said the most important comma in Western literature is the one in, "God rest ye merry, gentlemen." He said Faulkner and James Jones (in From Here to Eternity) showed the superfluousness of quotation marks and offered the world a new way to write. He also said he had no idea why anybody would be interested in a panel like this, which he compared to people being interested in the finest points of playing a violin, an interest unnecessary to appreciate a performance of great music. (Someone pointed out that the musician's hands may be invisible to an audience, but punctuation is integral to how an audience perceives the sound and rhythm of a piece of writing.)
Delany talked about working with students in the creative writing program at Temple University, and the many errors of punctuation and grammar he fights against. He said he thinks he's turning into an old fuddy-duddy, and it's the fault of his earliest teachers, strict grammar prescriptivists. Their lessons took hold at an early age, and so, he said, "I know there's supposed to be no such thing as prescriptive grammar, but back in my lizard brain there are prescriptions." He said that when errors are thoughtlessly committed by enough people with enough frequency, they become normalized, and this affects how (and if) we communicate.
John Crowley said, "The whole history of grammar and punctuation is the history of the normalization of error."
Asked for examples of punctuation used for a purpose -- as opposed to punctuation removed for a purpose, which is perhaps more often the case -- someone on the panel suggested John Barth's "Menelaiad", a story in Lost in the Funhouse that uses quotation marks and other punctuation to create an extraordinary structure of stories-within-stories-within-stories.
The time passed so quickly the panel felt like it only last 15 minutes. One of the joys of Readercon is the intelligence and passion of the panelists and audience, and the punctuation panel perfectly displayed this. For those of us who really do like thinking about punctuation, it was an absolute delight.
I'm on the programming committee for Readercon for next year, an exciting and daunting duty, with a bunch of qualified and marvelous people, so I am looking forward to Readercon 22 even more than I normally look forward to Readercon, because this time I will have a small part in shaping a little bit of what happens there.


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Indian Ocean's percussionist and singer, Asheem Chakravarty passed away yesterday after a heart attack. This is truly sad news; Indian Ocean is one of my favorite bands and I have been to many of their concerts. Losing a member of a band as tight-knit and flawless as Indian Ocean is quite a big blow. My heart goes out to Asheem's family and friends, Sushmit, Rahul, and Amit.
Asheem's percussion was the backbone of the band, and if you listen carefully you'll notice that it only stops for one thing — his vocal solos (This is why having 2 percussionists in a band is awesome). My most distinctive memory of Asheem is his solo singing of a sloka that opens a song from the Kandisa album, Khajuraho:
Brahmanandam parama sukhadam kevalam jnanamurtim dvandvaateetam gagana sadrusam tatvamasyadi lakshyam ekam nityam vimala machalam sarvadheesaakshibuutam bhaavaateetam triguna rahitam sadgurum tam namaami.
(Rough translation from here — "I salute to that true teacher who is the source of eternal bliss, supreme happiness, who has true wisdom who is beyond the dualities, who is infinite, whose attention is always on the divine, who is unique, eternal, pure, steady, and who sees with the eyes of wisdom who is beyond thoughts and beyond three faculties.")
I am thankful for the wonderful rendition of slokas that are thousands of years old into your songs and making this accessible to our "pop-rock" generation. You may not be with us any more, but your voice and your tabla will echo in the universe forever. Rest in peace.


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ARLINGTON (AP)- How 'bout them undies?
Victoria's Secret on Monday will open a store at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington featuring lingerie promoting the NFL's most valuable team. Dallas Cowboys executives will also be on hand for the unveiling of the co-branded women's tees, sweats, hoodies and tank tops.
Victoria's Secret says it's the first time the company has opened a store at a professional sports venue. The limited edition Cowboys Collection items will also be available in Victoria's Secret stores throughout North Texas.
Forbes magazine this month named the Dallas Cowboys the NFL's most valuable team for the sixth consecutive year, worth more than $2 billion.
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When two sisters engage in sexual intercourse with the same man, in the same night, and are impregnated by him. The offspring (male example) would be referred to as Brouthins.
Those mexican sisters Maritza and Ana totally three-wayed with that white guy, and used no protection! I bet they'll have Brouthins!
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Apple The Latest To Convict Wikileaks Despite No Charges Or Trial; Kills Wikileaks App For Violating Unnamed Laws
from the say-what-now? dept
"We removed the WikiLeaks app from the App Store because it violated our developer guidelines. Apps must comply with all local laws and may not put an individual or targeted group in harm's way."The thing is, Wikileaks hasn't even been charged with a crime yet, let alone found guilty of one, so it's not clear why all these companies claim that the app does not comply with he law. Also, while we're still waiting for evidence of anyone actually put in "harm's way" due to Wikileaks, that reasoning doesn't make any sense either. The information found on Wikileaks is being written about in all sorts of major news publications -- so if a Wikileaks app is putting people in harm's way, then so is the Safari browser on the iPhone that can be used to access all the same information. And, before anyone says it, yes, Apple is absolutely free to do whatever it wants with the iTunes store, including blocking apps if it doesn't like them. I'm just pointing out that it's stated reason for doing so doesn't make much sense.


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Stack's/Bowers 8/2013:4037, $28,200
Stack's/Bowers 8/2012:11259, $20,562
Ron Guth: The 1901 Liberty Nickel very common, with a mintage of over 26 million coins. As such, it enjoys attention from both date and type collectors. Certified Mint State examples number in the hundred, particularly in the MS63 to MS65 grades. Superb examples become quite scarce and the best examples certified by PCGS include a trio of MS67s.
Most examples of this date are well struck, but occasionally, one will see weakness on sections of the denticles and the outer borders. Try to locate well-struck, lustrous examples with good eye appeal.
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Combine sugar and corn syrup in a medium saucepan. Place over medium-high heat and stir until the mixture comes to a full boil. Remove from heat and stir in the whole container of peanut butter. Mix well.
Add corn flakes to a large bowl. Pour warm peanut butter mixture over corn flakes and mix well, making sure to coat all of the corn flakes.
Scoop out and form into 1-2 inch balls (I used my hands, but you could use a spoon if you wanted to), and place them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment or wax paper.
If using chocolate, put the chocolate chips in a small bowl and melt in the microwave for about 30-60 seconds. Stir until smooth.
Drizzle the melted chocolate over the cookies.
These cookies are delicious when they are still warm and gooey and equally delicious when they have cooled down and set up a little bit.
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As the school year nears its close, St. Francis DeSales High School has a number of activities and events planned.
As the school year nears its close, St. Francis DeSales High School has a number of activities and events planned.
* The Eighth Annual Alumni Awards of Distinction will be held Friday, May 3. Doors open at 6 p.m. in the school cafeteria, with wine and cheese at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p.m. The awards ceremony will take place directly after dinner. Honorees include: Linda Vollmer '69 and Patrick McGinnis '74 (Sr. Sharon Goodburn Award), Paul Hamann '84 and Ted Gartner '88 (Msgr. James Berendt/Patrick Rossetti Award), Judy Ross and Fritz Hoefer (Barbara O'Riordan Award), Samuel Chapman '82 and James Bownas '65 (Forrest "Treeze" Sharrock Award), and Chris Doughty '04 and Kelly DeLauder Pohly '06 (Young Alumni Award).
* Spring Choir Concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 5, in the SFDHS Little Theatre.
* The Class of 2017 Merit Scholarship Dinner will be held Sunday, May 5. This is a special dinner in honor of Class of 2017 recipients of a St. Francis de Sales Scholarship or a Franciscan Sisters Scholarship.
* The Evening of the Arts, set for Thursday, May 16, includes an art show and spring band concert featuring students from St. Francis DeSales High School as well as students in grades 5-8 from feeder schools. The art show begins at 6 p.m., followed by the Spring Band Concert at 7 p.m. The SFD Choir will also perform at the end of the concert. The art gallery will reopen at 8 p.m. Admission is free.
* Seniors will honored for their academic and service achievements at the Senior Awards Assembly at 8 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, in the SFDHS gymnasium.
* Baccalaureate Liturgy for the Class of 2013 and their families and friends will be held at Church of the Resurrection at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 6.
* Graduation will be held at St. Francis DeSales' Alumni Stadium at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 8. Dr. Gordon Gee, the president of Ohio State University, will be the graduation speaker.


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Hotel and Travel
This year, ACNM has partnered with Orchid Event Solutions as our official housing company in order to provide a hassle-free booking process for attendees at ACNM designated hotels, offering discounted hotel rates for all tastes and budgets. We ask that you use only the official ACNM hotels to book your stay for the ACNM 58th Annual Meeting. Click here to find out why.
NEW: We are sold out of our original hotel block! We use historical information to help us determine the number of rooms to protect and this year we held significantly more rooms than any previous year - yet we still sold out! We now are offering a small block at Homewood Suites (very close walking distance). Included in the rate is breakfast and a light dinner. In addition, we have continued to increase availability at our existing hotels. Please contact Orchid Event Solutions, the official housing company for ACNM, for additional assistance.
*Please note that the Renaissance Nashville hotel is no longer accepting reservation requests. If you have an existing reservation with the Renaissance that requires changes, you may now contact them directly at 615-255-8400.
Note: All reservation requests must be accompanied by a credit card guarantee or check equaling the amount of one night's room and tax for each room reserved. Please note, your credit card will NOT be charged at the time the reservation is made. As is the standard practice, your hotel will charge your card upon check-in, or they may process a one-night deposit on or after May 6, 2013. Cancellations received between May 6 and 72 hours prior to arrival will be subject to a $25 cancellation fee. If cancellation occurs within 72 hours of arrival date, the deposit of one night's room and tax will be forfeited entirely. Please note that the ACNM housing company follows the same standard practices as those used when making a direct reservation.
Online: Book a new reservation, modify a reservation, or cancel a reservation here.
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Print the Hotel Reservation Form and fax or mail to Orchid Event Solutions
Fax: Fax completed forms to (801) 355-0250 (do not mail after faxing)
Beware of false and fraudulent housing claims. ACNM has designated Orchid as the only housing provider for the ACNM 58th Annual Meeting & Exhibition.
Changing your Reservation
NEW: If you must modify your existing registration, please contact your hotel directly.
Flights: You Can Get There from Here
Nashville is accessible from the Nashville International Airport (BNA), which has more than 40 direct, non-stop flights to and from various US locations.
The following airports offer direct flights to Nashville, TN:
Ground Transportation
Hotel/Airport Shuttle
Catch the Nashville MTA's route 18 Airport/Elm Hill Pike bus between the Nashville International Airport and Downtown Music City for a thrifty $1.60. The bus leaves from level 1 of the airport's ground transportation area.
The Gray Line Airport Express also services the downtown and West End hotels of Nashville from the Nashville International Airport. One-way trips for $14 begin at 5:00AM and run until 11:00PM – reservations are not required for service from the airport. Shuttles depart every 15-20 minutes from the airport and every 30 minutes from most hotels.
You may take advantage of valet parking through the Renaissance hotel, which is $30 a day with unlimited in and out privileges. Other options include the city garage across the street, which is $8 per day with no in-and-out privileges. If you must leave and then re-enter the city garage in the same day, you will be charged for the length of time you were parked, plus a new charge will begin at re-entry.
Roomshare Listserv
ACNM members may sign up for the Roomshare Listserv to arrange to share a room with a fellow attendee. See below!
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The Earthquakes face the LA Galaxy on Sunday, Oct. 20 at the StubHub Center with both teams aiming to find their way into the MLS Cup Playoff field. Kickoff is 6 p.m. PT on ESPN, 1590 KLIV and 1370 KZSF.
San Jose's Record in October
The Quakes are 11-11-13 all-time in October in MLS play.
Last Game
Earthquakes 1, Colorado Rapids 0; Oct. 9, 2013; Buck Shaw Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
Chris Wondolowski kept the Earthquakes' MLS Cup Playoff hopes alive with a goal in the 69th-minute, leading San Jose to a 1-0 win against the Colorado Rapids in front of a sold-out crowd at Buck Shaw Stadium. Wondolowski headed home his 10th goal of the season off a Shea Salinas corner kick. The marker was his 33rd career game winner, tying him for No. 3 in MLS history with Ante Razov. He also became the 11th player in league history to record double-digit goals in four consecutive seasons. The Earthquakes would have found the net sooner if not for a gritty defensive effort from the Rapids. Alan Gordon clipped the post with a header in the ninth minute and then defender Drew Moor went to the ground to block point-blank shots from Wondolowski and Gordon on the Rapids' goal line midway through the second half. Colorado goalkeeper Clint Irwin also made a diving one-handed save to deny Wondolowski at the near post in the 69th minute, just before the corner kick that netted the eventual winner. San Jose's defense kept the Rapids quiet for most of the night, yielding just six shots – none on goal.
Earthquakes vs. LA Galaxy All-Time
MLS Regular Season: 18-26-9
Home: 13-9-6 (42 GF, 37 GA)
Away: 5-17-3 (30 GF, 48 GA)
Shootout (1996-99): 1-4; Overtime (2000-03): 0-0-4
Playoffs: 4-5-1; US Open Cup: 0-4-0
All-Time Scoring: San Jose – 72, LA Galaxy – 85
LA Galaxy Scouting Report
The LA Galaxy (14-11-6, 48 pts.) enter the week fourth in the Western Conference with two matches on tap. Their last time out was a 5-0 rout of Chivas USA at the StubHub Center on Oct. 6. Robbie Keane and Landon Donovan had two goals apiece while rookie Gyasi Zardes accounted for the fifth goal. Keane has been the club's most consistent offensive threat with 15 goals and 11 assists while Donovan is next on the list with 10 goals and nine assists. The Galaxy host the Montreal Impact on Wednesday, Oct. 16 ahead of the California Clasico.
Last Game vs. LA Galaxy
Earthquakes 0, LA Galaxy 3; Aug. 31, 2013; StubHub Center in Carson, Calif.
The Earthquakes closed a stretch of three road games in eight days with a 3-0 loss against the LA Galaxy at the StubHub Center in front of a sold-out crowd of 27,000. San Jose had its chances early, but it was the Galaxy who found the scoreboard first. Robbie Keane chipped a pass over the Earthquakes' backline, springing Landon Donovan on the run. Donovan carried the ball into the box and beat goalkeeper Jon Busch one-on-one to give the Galaxy a 1-0 lead in the 26th minute. Keane tacked on the next two Galaxy goals, the first of which came from the penalty spot in the 43rd minute. The Irishman capped the scoring midway through the second half, volleying home a header from Sean Franklin for his 12th goal of the season.
History of the Earthquakes – LA Galaxy Rivalry
As the two original MLS teams in California, the Earthquakes (then known as the Clash) and the Galaxy met for the first time on April 28, 1996, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. … In front of a crowd of 40,347, the Clash fell to the Galaxy, 2-1 … From 1996-2005, the in-state rivals matched up more than any other teams in the league … Along with playing each other 48 times in the regular season, the Quakes and the Galaxy have also faced off eight times in the postseason and four times in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup … The teams squared off in the playoffs in 1996, 2003 and 2005, as well as the 2001 MLS Cup … The Galaxy captured the 1996 conference semifinal series, two games to one, taking the final two contests at the Rose Bowl by identical scores of 2-0 … In 2001, the sides met in the MLS Cup, with the Quakes producing a come-from-behind 2-1 triumph at Columbus Crew Stadium as Dwayne De Rosario scored the winner in overtime … The 2003 Western Conference Semifinal series produced one of the most memorable games in league history … After dropping the road leg of a two-game set, 2-0, San Jose fell behind by that same score after just 13 minutes of the home return to trail the series, 4-0 on aggregate … The Quakes responded with a four-goal explosion in regulation to level the aggregate, 4-4, getting the fourth from Chris Ronér in the 90th minute just moments after he had come into the game … Fellow second-half substitute Rodrigo Faria then struck six minutes into sudden-death overtime to send San Jose to the Western Conference Finals, and ultimately its second MLS Cup … In 2005, having lost the first leg of the Western Conference Semifinals, 3-1, at The Home Depot Center, the Quakes needed another two-goal comeback to win the series … After going up 1-0 on a Brian Ching goal in Game 2 on Oct. 29, 2005, Ned Grabavoy scored for the Galaxy to end the Quakes' hopes … That match marked the Quakes' final game before the team was relocated to Houston on Dec. 15, 2005 … Since the Earthquakes rejoined MLS in 2008, the teams have met 10 times … San Jose has gone 3-4-3 during that stretch, including a 1-0 win in front of what was then a stadium-record crowd of 10,799 at Buck Shaw Stadium on Aug. 21, 2010, thanks to a fourth-minute goal by Chris Wondolowski … The sides played to a scoreless draw in front of a new Buck Shaw record crowd of 10,872 in last year's first meeting on June 25, with the Quakes unable to find a goal despite out-shooting the Galaxy, 25-8, and playing with a man advantage for 47 minutes … The return fixture in Carson resulted in a 2-0 victory for LA as Robbie Keane scored the winner on his MLS debut … The Earthquakes were 2-0-1 against the Galaxy in 2012, rallying from two-goal deficits to knock off their Southern California rival on May 23, 3-2, at The Home Depot Center and June 30, 4-3, in front of 50,391 at Stanford Stadium … San Jose again came from behind in their final regular season meeting of 2012, equalizing a pair of one-goal deficits for a 2-2 draw at Buck Shaw Stadium … After defeating the Galaxy 1-0 in the first leg of Western Conference Semifinals, the Quakes dropped the second match at Buck Shaw Stadium 3-1 and were eliminated from the postseason … The 2013 California Clasico got off to a lively start as the Earthquakes rallied from a 2-1 deficit while playing a man down with goals from Shea Salinas and Alan Gordon in second-half stoppage time, making San Jose the first team in league history to accomplish that feat … The Galaxy won the two teams' next meeting in 2013 with a 3-0 rout on Aug. 31 at the StubHub Center thanks to a goal from Landon Donovan and a brace by Robbie Keane.
Earthquakes – LA Galaxy Connections
Galaxy midfielder Landon Donovan began his MLS career with the Earthquakes, producing 32 goals and 29 assists over 87 appearances from 2001-04 and helping lead San Jose to both of its MLS Cup titles in 2001 and 2003 … Quakes forward Alan Gordon played for the Galaxy from 2004-10, scoring 16 goals in 99 games … Quakes assistant coach Ian Russell played in three games for the Galaxy in 2007 … Galaxy defender Todd Dunivant was San Jose's first-round selection in the 2003 MLS SuperDraft and played 46 games for the Earthquakes from 2003-04, producing one goal and six assists … Dunivant and Earthquakes forward Adam Jahn both attended Stanford … Dunivant was teammates with Quakes defender Nana Attakora on Toronto FC from 2007-08 … Galaxy assistant coach Curt Onalfo played in six matches for San Jose in 1997 … Galaxy technical director Jovan Kirovski played in nine matches for the Quakes in 2008 … Quakes defender Jason Hernandez was teammates with Galaxy midfielder Mike Magee with the New York/New Jersey MetroStars in 2005 … Quakes goalkeeper David Bingham (2008-10) and Galaxy midfielder Hector Jimenez (2006-10) were teammates at Cal … LA Galaxy defender Tommy Meyer and San Jose defender Brad Ring both attended Indiana University … Galaxy midfielders Colin Clark (2006-10) and Pablo Mastroeni (2002-13) played on the Colorado Rapids with Quakes midfielder Mehdi Ballouchy (2007-10), defender Dan Gargan (2006-08) and defender Ty Harden (2009) … Clark also played with Earthquakes goalkeeper Evan Newton on the Houston Dynamo in 2011 … Galaxy midfielder Robbie Rogers was teammates with Quakes forward Steven Lenhart on the Columbus Crew from 2008-10.
Earthquakes Leaders vs. LA Galaxy
Chris Wondolowski has three goals in 10 appearances … Alan Gordon has six goals in six matches against his former club … Steven Lenhart has four goals and an assist in 10 appearances … Jon Busch is 9-8-5 with six shutouts in his career against the Galaxy, including a 3-2-3 record with two shutouts in a Quakes uniform.
LA Galaxy Leaders vs. San Jose
Midfielder Landon Donovan has eight goals and seven assists in 14 games against his old club … Forward Robbie Keane has four goals and three assists in five appearances … Midfielder Pablo Mastroeni has two assists in 25 career appearances.
XFINITY Soccer Clinic
Who: Earthquakes players Justin Morrow, Mike Fucito, Nana Attakora and Dan Gargan
Where: Cesar Chavez Academy, 2450 Ralmar Ave, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
When: Tuesday, October 15 at 5:15 p.m.
Closing Ceremony Assembly for Get Earthquakes Fit presented by Kaiser Permanente
Who: Earthquakes player Adam Jahn
Where: Sherman Oaks Elementary School, 1800 Fruitdale Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128
When: Thursday, October 17 at 1:30 p.m.
Closing Ceremony Assembly for Get Earthquakes Fit presented by Kaiser Permanente
Who: Earthquakes player Evan Newton
Where: James McEntee Academy, 2851 Gay Avenue, San Jose, CA 95127
When: Friday, October 18 at 2 p.m.
XFINITY Soccer Clinic
Who: Earthquakes players Jordan Steward, Rafa Baca, Ty Harden, Nana Attakora
Where: Latino Community Foundation's Health and Technology Fair at Google Campus Soccer Field, 1945 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
When: Friday, October 18 at 3:30 p.m.
Autograph Session
Who: Earthquakes player Chris Wondolowski
Where: Wells Fargo Branch, 360 North Capital Avenue, San Jose, CA 95133
When: Friday, October 18 at 5:45 p.m.
Milestone Alert
Chris Wondolowski (33) is tied with Ante Razov (33) for No. 3 on the all-time MLS game-winning goals list … Ramiro Corrales is one game away from No. 250 in his Earthquakes' career … Steven Lenhart (19) and Alan Gordon (18) are both closing in on Jeff Baicher (20) for No. 7 on the club's all-time goals list. … Sam Cronin is one start away from his 100th in San Jose … Shea Salinas (20) is tied with Ian Russell for No. 10 on the club's all-time assists list and is three behind Brian Mullan for No. 9 … Sam Cronin (8,673) is 194 minutes behind Eddie Lewis (8,867) for No. 10 on the club's all-time minutes played list … Jon Busch (976) is nine saves behind Zach Thornton (987) for No. 7 on the league's all-time list … Busch (75) is one shutout behind Thornton (76) for No. 4 on the league's all-time list … Busch (104) is also three wins behind Scott Garlic (107) for No. 6 on the all-time MLS list.
Bernardez Goes 90 for Honduras
Earthquakes defender Victor Bernardez played 90 minutes in Honduras' 1-0 win against Costa Rica on Friday, Oct. 11 in San Pedro Sula. Teammate Marvin Chavez did not see time in the game, but he is also with Los Catrachos. The win positioned Honduras firmly in third place with one game remaining in CONCACAF's 2014 World Cup Qualifying. Los Catrachos can secure their passage to Brazil with a win or a draw against Jamaica in Kingson on Tuesday.
Wondolowski, Goodson Called to United States Duty
Earthquakes duo Chris Wondolowski and Clarence Goodson were added to the United States National Team roster last week and will be available when the Americans face Panama on Tuesday at Rommel Fernandez Stadium in Panama City. That match kicks off at 6:30 p.m. PT on beIN Sport.
Beitashour Joins Iran for Asian Cup Qualifier
Earthquakes defender Steven Beitashour joined Iran for training camp ahead of their 2015 AFC Asian Cup Qualifier against Thailand on Tuesday, Oct. 15 in Tehran. Beitashour, 26, is aiming to make his first international appearance. He participated in United States camps in August of 2012 and January of 2013, but did not make gameday rosters. His parents were born in Iran, opening up the possibility that Beitashour could suit up for Team Melli. Iran hosts Thailand on Oct. 15 in their third match of 2015 AFC Asian Cup Qualifying. Team Melli beat Lebanon 5-0 and drew 1-1 with Kuwait in their previous two matches. The top two teams in each group as well as the best third-placed team will join Australia, Japan, North Korea and South Korea in the final.
Cato Called to Trinidad & Tobago National Team
Earthquakes midfielder Cordell Cato was among 22 players called to camp for Trinidad & Tobago ahead of their upcoming friendly against New Zealand. Cato, 21, is aiming to earn his first cap for the Soca Warriors. Trinidad & Tobago hosts New Zealand in an exhibition match on Tuesday, Oct. 15 at Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain.
Mr. October
No player has scored more goals in October than Chris Wondolowski. San Jose's striker added to his total in last week's 1-0 win against the Colorado Rapids, upping his career haul to 17 during the month. The next-closest total is 12 from Rapids striker Edson Buddle. Of those 17 goals, six have been game-winners, three more than any other MLSer.
Chris Wondolowski recorded his 33rd career game-winning goal in last week's 1-0 result against the Colorado Rapids, tying him with Ante Razov for No. 3 on the league's all-time list. Wondolowski is four game-winners behind Landon Donovan for No. 2 on the list and seven back of Jeff Cunningham for the all-time lead.
More Game-Winners
Chris Wondolowski's game-winning goal against Colorado marked the 12th of his career in a 1-0 result, tops in league history. Landon Donovan and Jeff Cunningham are next on the list with 11 a piece.
Iron Man
The Earthquakes have one player that has played every minute of all 32 matches this season, Jon Busch. Sam Cronin is the only other player on the squad to start all 32 matches; he has logged 2,391 minutes in the process.
Clean Sheets Galore
The Earthquakes have recorded shutouts in four of their last five regular season games. Including a 3-0 win against the Montreal Impact, San Jose has five clean sheets in their last six matches.
Harden, Earthquakes Partner for LLS' Light the Night Walk
The Earthquakes and defender Ty Harden have partnered to help raise funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Light the Night Walk on Saturday, Oct. 19 at Discovery Meadow in San Jose. The Earthquakes' Front Office has opened up a donation page on the event's website. Fans can pledge money to a team member or sign up to walk with the Earthquakes by visiting www.sjearthquakes.com/lightthenight. San Jose is an official sponsor of the event and currently leads the Corporate Cup Challenge for organizations with fewer than 250 employees; the Earthquakes have raised over $15,000 to date. At the Light the Night event, participants walk carrying illuminated balloons to celebrate and commemorate lives touched by cancer. All funds raised through the Light The Night Walk support LLS's mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life for patients and their families. Children, adults and seniors are all encouraged to participate in the event. Harden and members of the club's Front Office will walk at the event.
Earthquakes to Host Inaugural Awards Gala, Presented by Franco Uomo
The Earthquakes will host the inaugural Earthquakes Awards Gala, presented by Franco Uomo, on Sunday, Oct. 27 at the Fourth Street Summit Center in Downtown San Jose. In addition to the awards ceremony, attendees will be treated to a fashion show courtesy of Franco Uomo. The event will also include hor d'oeuvres and cocktails. Tickets are available through a special early bird sale for $80 starting. To purchase a ticket, visit www.sjearthquakes.com/gala.
New Stadium Update
The Earthquakes celebrated their latest milestone in the construction process on Friday, Sept. 17 with a Foundation Pour Ceremony attended by randomly selected season ticket holders, front office personnel and other stakeholders. The construction crew poured 670 yards of concrete using over 70 trucks, laying the foundation for the future locker rooms and Earthquakes office building. General manager John Doyle and Merryl Zuparko, a longtime season ticket holder, participated in a "lever pull" ceremony. As part of the club's commitment to keep its closest stakeholders involved in every step of the construction process, select season ticket holders were invited to take part in the momentous event. That list included: Virginia Gelczis, Mitch Diamond, Jennifer Echeverri, Nelson Celada Ned and Merryl Zuparko.
Limited Tickets Available for Deciding Champions League Match at Buck Shaw
The Earthquakes will decide their CONCACAF Champions League fate when they host CD Heredia on Wednesday, Oct. 23. San Jose can advance to the next stage of the tournament with a win. Only 5,000 tickets will be sold for the match. For more information and to secure your seat, visitwww.sjearthquakes.com.
CONCACAF Champions League Schedule
The Earthquakes will play four CONCACAF Champions League matches in group play after qualifying for the tournament by virtue of their Supporters' Shield win in 2012. The schedule is as follows:
Wednesday, Aug. 7 – Earthquakes 0, Montreal Impact 1 at Saputo Stadium
Wednesday, Aug. 28 – Earthquakes 0, CD Heredia 1 at Cemento Progreso Stadium in Guatemala City
Tuesday, Sept. 17 – Earthquakes 3, Montreal Impact 0 at Buck Shaw Stadium
Wednesday, Oct. 23 – 7 p.m. PT – CD Heredia at San Jose Earthquakes
Quakes President Dave Kaval's Office Hours
Earthquakes president Dave Kaval's office hours are held every Tuesday between 3 and 5 p.m. Participants are welcome to call or visit in person at our Front Office at 451 El Camino Real, Suite 220 in Santa Clara. In addition, Dave will be holding his office hours from the new stadium site located at 1135 Coleman Ave, San Jose, Calif., on the second Tuesday of each month between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. To make an appointment during his office hours, email Dave directly at firstname.lastname@example.com. Office hour dates are subject to change. Be sure to read his blog, Kaval's Kickoff, available exclusively at www.sjearthquakes.com, and follow him on Twitter at @QuakesPrez.
Wells Fargo Goals for Education
Wells Fargo has again pledged to donate $250 for each goal the Earthquakes score in 2013 through the Goals for Education program. The club has raised $8,250 so far this season thanks to 33 goals. The Earthquakes raised $18,000 in 2012 after scoring a club record 72 goals.
U-14 Update
The Earthquakes' U-14s were idle over the weekend. They're back in action on Saturday, Oct. 19 against Juventus Sport Club at the Earthquakes Training Facility in San Jose.
U-16 Update
The Earthquakes' U-16s were idle over the weekend. Next up is the De Anza Force on Sunday, Nov. 3 at the Earthquakes Training Facility.
U-18 Update
The Earthquakes' U-18s were idle over the weekend. They return to action on Sunday, Nov. 3 against the De Anza Force at the Earthquakes Training Facility.


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Birner Dental Management Services, Inc. Declares $.20 Quarterly Dividend
Dec 16, 2010, 12:00 ET
DENVER, Dec. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Birner Dental Management Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: BDMS), operators of PERFECT TEETH dental practices announced its regular quarterly dividend. The Company's board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of 20 cents per share of common stock. The dividend is payable January 14, 2011, to shareholders of record December 30, 2010.
Birner Dental Management Services, Inc. acquires, develops, and manages geographically dense dental practice networks in select markets in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. The Company currently manages 64 dental offices, of which 38 were acquired and 26 were de novo developments. The Company operates its dental offices under the PERFECT TEETH and Vantage Dental Implant Center names.
Certain of the matters discussed herein may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. These include statements regarding the cash flow and financial position of the Company and the ability of the Company to pay dividends. These and other risks are set forth in the reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
For Further Information Contact:
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I bought RoR yesterday, and after several hours of play, I can say war steeds are not the least enjoyable. RoR itself is somewhat enjoyable.
I have ridden a lot of different horses traveling over many types of terrain. I can tell you that a trotting horse can make a sharp turn and can do it without sliding sideways. Not in RoR. In RoR my war steed can, from a standing start, jump over a wall, the road on the other side and the wall on the other side of the road. All I wanted to do was jump the wall, but noooo. This is absolutely the worst horse control I have ever encountered in any game.
The combat is even worse. Fortunately I am using a hunter so at least I do not have to perform the ridiculous close combat. Being hit with a sword when
the enemy is 30 or more feet away is beyond ridiculous. Being able to do it myself is just as bad. Having an enemy ride through a camp and attack me while I am conversing with a merchant is ridiculous. All the Rohirrim acting as if nothing is happening is just pathetic. If you do not want your NPCs killing each other, then separate their AOs. Do not set them up to just ignore each other. Major fail.
I already quit using my war steed for combat. This makes RoR much better except for the mounted enemies. These seem to be scripted to ride around in huge
circles. This means I have to wait for them to come back around so I can shoot them as they ride by 40 feet away, hitting me with a sword. At best RoR is something to endure until what? Helm's Deep? Is this going to have MC also? If so, I think I may pass. I will not be bringing any of my 7 other toons to Rohan other than on my way to future content that will hopefully be better.
Players have been asking for years for an upgrade to the poor housing. Instead the Devs spend precious resources producing a terrible MC system. There is
absolutely no reason to play this horrid MC. I can play M&B when I want to play actual Mounted Combat done as well as can be done in a game.
Please Devs, do not waste any more time on this MC. With all that you do from now on, just pretend MC never happened and keep the game in boots.


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The record industry's blatantly greedy ploy of remastering and "upgrading" CDs is shameful. The sonics are usually improved, but the CDs could have been mastered properly the first time. But then fans wouldn't buy the same titles twice. The Allman Brothers Band's indispensable compilation A Decade of Hits 1969-1979 was reissued in 2000, just nine years after the original release. The remastered 2000 edition still features the same 16 songs, but the packaging and liner notes include an essay by Guitar World journalist Alan Paul, photos, and detailed recording credits. It would be easy to argue that individual albums like Idlewild South, Live at Fillmore East, Eat a Peach, or Brothers and Sisters are more cohesive artistic statements, but no self-respecting rock & roll fan should be without a copy of A Decade of Hits 1969-1979, which includes the cream of those albums. It's impossible to go wrong with one CD featuring Gregg Allman's harrowing "Whipping Post" and gorgeous "Midnight Rider," Dickey Betts' soaring "Ramblin' Man," and the lovely instrumentals "Jessica" and "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," let alone the blues covers "Statesboro Blues" and "One Way Out," which many people probably don't realize are covers because the band embodies them so much. Fans shouldn't have much of a problem recognizing the 2000 version. The cover featuring the band logo stitched on the denim jacket is still intact, but the white lettering is laid out a little differently on both the front and back covers. Plus, the shrink-wrap has an identifying sticker. Better still, just look at the copyright date. The first pressing's liner notes include a typographical error; there's a noticeable gap within the essay text where the Enlightened Rogues title is missing. ~ Bret Adams
1) Statesboro Blues (04:08)
2) Ramblin' Man (04:47)
3) Midnight Rider (02:57)
4) Southbound (05:10)
5) Melissa (03:52)
6) Jessica (07:05)
7) Ain't Wastin' Time No More (03:37)
8) Little Martha (02:09)
9) Crazy Love (03:43)
10) Revival (04:03)
11) Wasted Words (04:19)
12) Blue Sky (05:08)
13) One Way Out (04:57)
14) In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (06:54)
15) Dreams (07:18)
16) Whipping Post (05:17)


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December 10, 2018
Company Misleads Consumers by Touting Cereal as "Natural," Fails Transparency Test by Heading Up Fight to Block Disclosure of GMOs in Foods, Offers European Consumers Non-GMO Cheerios - But Won't Do So in the U.S.
Submitted by: Green America
Categories: Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment
Posted: Oct 16, 2013 – 10:40 AM EST
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /CSRwire/ - Food giant General Mills – the maker of Cheerios and other popular brands – prides itself on being at the forefront of corporate social and environmental responsibility. But a new report from Green America's "GMO Inside" campaign exposes General Mills as anything but a corporate leader.
Available at www.NoGMOsCheerios.org, "Deception at General Mills: The Real Corporate Social Responsibility Report for General Mills" focuses on Cheerios, America's most popular breakfast cereal, as a litmus test for the company:
Why focus on General Mills and, more specifically, Cheerios? According to the new report, Cheerios is America's favorite cereal brand. AC Nielson reports that more Americans (about 6.4 million people across the nation) start their day with Honey Nut Cheerios than any other cereal. In 2012 Honey Nut Cheerios sales reached nearly $556 million and regular Cheerios were not far behind, with sales of $364 million, making it the country's fourth most consumed cereal. General Mills takes pride in the fact that Cheerios is the #1 most trusted cereal for parents with new babies. Cheerios is often among the first solid food fed to infants in the U.S.
Elizabeth O'Connell, campaigns director, Green America, said: "Everyone should have the right to choose foods that are safe for themselves, their families, and the environment. That's why GMO Inside urges food manufacturers to be environmentally responsible, transparent with their ingredient sourcing and disclosure, and end their use of genetically modified organisms. If General Mills can sell Cheerios without GMOs in Europe, there is no reason why the company cannot phase out GMOs in Cheerios and its other products in the US as well."
Dr. Robin Berhoft, spokesperson, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, and director, Bernhoft Center for Advanced Medicine, Santa Monica, CA, said: "GMOs have never been proven safe for human consumption and there is a growing body of evidence that suggests we should take great precaution when developing and marketing genetically engineered foods. In the absence of clear labeling of GMO food, I advise my patients and consumers to avoid anything packaged and stick to organic and non-GMO products as a healthy step."
Alexis Baden Mayer, political director, Organic Consumers Association, said: "General Mills has defied consumer demand for non-GMO choices here in the US, while it boasts about the fact that General Mills' offerings throughout Europe, including Cheerios, are made without any GMOs. Why should Europeans have access to non-GMO Cheerios, while here in the US parents can't even know that the Cheerios they purchase for their kids have GMOs?"
Michelle Perro, M.D., pediatrician, Institute for Health & Healing, Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation, San Francisco, CA., said: "The state of our children's health should sound the alarm for every parent, every health care provider, and politicians. The common denominators in the decline in their health are GMOs and Roundup Ready contamination. Scientific data has shown that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the pesticide Roundup, causes disruption in the biome of the gastrointestinal tract as well as direct toxicity on gut function. In addition, it interferes with liver detoxification pathways so that normal removal of toxins is impaired. As a result, the list of disorders that now are common occurrences in our children includes asthma, allergies and autoimmune diseases."
Green America's GMO Inside campaign is calling on General Mills to be a leader in its industry by being the first major food corporation to announce a phase-out of GM ingredients, starting with Cheerios. This change will create ripple effects up the supply chain that will lead to increasing acres of cropland being converted to less destructive, less risky and less corporate-dominated, non-GMO farming techniques.
GMO Inside also released today a video highlighting the campaign's concerns with GMOs in Cheerios. The video lets viewers know that contrary to General Mills' assertions that Cheerios remain unchanged, the recipe has altered to include GMOs. The video can be found at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbiDgOkhoyY&feature=youtu.be.
BACKGROUND ON GMOs
As the new report notes, concerns about GMOs are growing. Contrary to the promises of biotech companies, GMOs are actually increasing pesticide and herbicide use worldwide. The increased use of these chemicals leads to increased damage to the health of water, soil, air and pollinator populations (bees and butterflies). The advent of herbicide-resistant GMOs has contributed to the rise of superbugs and superweeds that cannot be controlled, even with the use of ever more toxic chemicals. The increased use of pesticides also leads to greater chemical residues on food, which increases consumer health risks.
The increasing reliance on pesticides and herbicides in GMO farming also has a direct impact on the health of farmworkers and their families. The federal government estimates that there are 10,000 to 20,000 acute pesticide poisonings among workers in the agricultural industry every year and exposure to these chemicals can lead to cancer, neurological impairments and death, especially in children.
GMO crops are contaminating fields of non-GMO and organic farms. Farmers who experience this contamination may be sued for growing patented GMO crops that they never intended to cultivate and do not want in their fields, jeopardizing their organic qualification.
Finally, increasing research is pointing to negative health impacts of consuming GMOs, which have never been thoroughly evaluated for safety. Studies on lab animals are demonstrating that GMOs may have alarming health impacts, and more research needs to be conducted, especially long-term studies. There is growing consumer concern about the health and safety of GM crops and more consumers are demanding the right to know what's in their food.
Green America is the nation's leading green economy organization. Founded in 1982, Green America (formerly Co-op America) provides the economic strategies, organizing power and practical tools for businesses, investors, and individuals to solve today's social and environmental problems. www.greenamerica.org
GMO Inside is a coalition of businesses, organizations, and individuals that support a healthy, GMO-free food system. The GMO Inside steering committee, led by Green America, includes: Food Democracy Now!, GMO Free USA, Institute for Responsible Technology, Label GMOs, Nutiva and Food Babe. gmoinside.org
MEDIA CONTACT: Will Harwood, (703) 276-3255 or email@example.com.
EDITOR'S NOTE: A streaming audio replay of the news event will be available on the Web at www.NoGMOsCheerios.org as of 3 p.m. EDT on October 16, 2013.
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b. 20 Feb 1897, Lena Valley, Greenwood Co, KS
d. 02 January 1914, Lemoore, Kings Co, Calif.
First, I apologize to those who find this photo offensive.
Obviously it is not a tombstone, and normally I consider
photos of the remains of a Recently Departed to be, at
the very least, in poor taste. I've never understood
why anyone would make such photos in the first place.
However, I've always been fascinated by the composition
of this particular photo. Because the gunshot wound
that ended Arthur's life isn't visible, and because
before I ever saw the photo I knew he was only
16 at the time, it's easy to imagine he's only
playing a teenage prank, and afterward stood
up and had a good laugh with his buddies.
He didn't get up, of course, but teenage horsing
around gone horribly wrong may've been what
caused him to be the subject of this photo.
The Emporia Gazette on 14 January 1914 reported
discharge of a gun while riding in an auto with
his cousin John Kerby. The gun had been slipped
under the lap robe to protect it from the rain
which was falling. Young Kerby heard the
report and looked quickly around to get a
glance from his cousin, who dropped dead."
That was the version relayed from California
to the hometown newspaper back in Kansas.
A now-elderly relative claims what really happened
was John Kerby, believing the gun wasn't loaded,
had reached under the lap robe and was holding
it against Arthur's side when it went off.
But back to the photo...
In 1914, the deceased would be embalmed by an undertaker,
then returned to his or her home to be dressed and put on
display for mourners until the funeral and burial. Much
like present-day viewings (or visitations) at a funeral
home, except family members were expected to
take turns "sitting [with] the body" at night.
Where the deceased was "laid out" for viewing was a
matter of personal choice and size of the dwelling. If
the front parlor was large enough, the kitchen table
was brought in, covered, and the body placed on it.
If not, as it wasn't at my grandparents', the dining room
and its table would be used. Or the body might be placed
on the bed in the bedroom closest to the front door.
That said, I can't for the life of me figure out if
the room Arthur is in is the parlor or a bedroom.
Its size suggests the parlor, but the dresses
hanging at the left would indicate a bedroom.
And the hangings around the body... Could be
something the funeral home provided, but might
just as easily be the curtains from the parlor.
Now two photos from happier times...
~ Arthur's parents ~
Albert Isaac "Bert" CUPP, 20, & Jennie May MORRIS, 16,
on their wedding day, 22 Feb 1894, in Emporia KS.
Eldest child Clara Etta was born 18 mos later.
Arthur arrived 15 months after "Etta".
A year or two after Arthur's birth, Bert decided he didn't
want to be married to Jennie any more and went to
California. Jennie eventually divorced him (in 1899),
also went to California, married a not-very-nice man
named Emerson Brown, and had seven more children.
The eldest is in the center of the next photo.
with half-sister Mary Ellen Brown, almost 2, in Dec 1903
See "Etta" as a teenager with some of her Morris
cousins (the photo is toward the end of the post).


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Looking for George Holmes, Balmain, NSW married Margaret Wade and Theresa Ford
I am looking for George Holmes son of John Holmes, a type founder of
Pyrmont and Balmain and Caroline Gager. George had a sister Rosa who married Charles Lake at the Scots Church l862. George married Margaret Wade in l866 and had l0 children. He was foreman boilermaker at Cockatoo Island and lived at 46 Louisa Road, Balmain for most of his life. He was a champion sailor and along with retailer Mark Foy foundered the 18footer sailing club. After Margarets death in l896 he married Theresa Ford of Nursling Farm,
Amaroo NSW and had 2 girls Theresa and Ellen. Theresea Snr. died in l915 and George died in l918 and is buried in Cudal, NSW where he had built a property for Theresea to be near her family. He sailed the
boat "Donnelly" to win many championships and called his Cudal property "donnellyville" so I believe this may be a family held name from whence he came. Can find no record of his arrival nor of his father who is listed on the death certificate of George as Hotel Proprietor. There is one other confusion. George HOlmes was supposed to have been given an Imperial Service Order by the King in l915 for his service to Cockatoo Island for 40 years. Can only find a George
Fletcher getting the honour and co-incidentally George Fletcher was the builder of the house at 46 Louisa Road. Did George Holmes have an
alias? or was it his half brother the George Fletcher? Help wanted
His daughter Caroline Holmes married George Henry James in l906 my grandparents who lived in Moruya and then Haberfield and Ashfield. CM
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If We Taught English the Way We Teach Math
Imagine that your only contact with "English" as a subject was through classes in school. Suppose that those classes, from elementary school right through to high school, amounted to nothing more than reading dictionaries, getting drilled in spelling and formal grammatical construction, and memorizing vast vocabulary lists — you never read a novel, nor a poem; never had contact with anything beyond the pedantic complexity of English spelling and formal grammar, and precise definitions for an endless array of words. You would probably hate the subject.You might come to wonder what the point of learning English was.
In response perhaps the teachers and education system might decide that, to help make English relevant to students, they need to introduce more "Applied English". This means teaching English students with examples from "real life" (for varying degrees of "real") where English skills are important, like how to read a contract and locate the superfluous comma. Maybe (in an effort by the teachers to be "trendy") you'll get lessons on formal diary composition so you can better update your MySpace page. All of that, of course, will be taught using a formulaic cookbook approach based on templates, with no effort to consider underlying principles or the larger picture. Locating the superfluous comma will be a matter of systematically identifying subjects, objects, and verbs and grouping them into clauses until the extra comma has been caught. Your diary will be constructed from a formal template that leaves a few blanks for you to fill in. Perhaps you might also get a few tasks that are just the same old drills, just with a few mentions of "real world" things to make them "Applied": "Here is an advertisement for carpets. How many adjectives does it contain?".
In such a world it wouldn't be hard to imagine lots of people developing "English anxiety", and most people having a general underlying dislike for the subject. Many people would simply avoid reading books because of the bad associations with English class in school. With so few people taking a real interest in the subject, teachers who were truly passionate about English would become few and far between. The result, naturally, would be teachers who had little real interest in the subject simply following the drilling procedures outlined in the textbooks they were provided; the cycle would repeat again, with students even worse off this time.
And yet this is very much how mathematics tends to be taught in our schools today. There is a great focus on the minutiae of the subject, and almost no effort to help students grasp the bigger picture of why the subject might be interesting, and what it can say about us, and about the world. Mathematics has become hopelessly detail oriented. There is more to mathematics than mindlessly learning formulas and recipes for solving problems. And just like our imaginary example, the response to students lack of interest in mathematics has only served to make the problem worse. The "applications" and examples of using the mathematics in the "real world" are hopelessly contrived at best, and completely artificial at worst, and still keep a laser like focus on formulas and memorizing methods without ever understanding why they work.
Of course the opposite situation, with no focus on details, can be just as bad. Indeed, that is where English instruction finds itself today, with students never learning the spelling, formal grammar, and vocabulary needed to decently express the grand big picture ideas they are encouraged to explore. What is needed is a middle ground. Certainly being fluent in the basic skills of mathematics is necessary, just as having a solid grounding in spelling and grammar is necessary. What is lacking in mathematics instruction is any discussion of what mathematics is, and why mathematics works as well as it does.
The discovery and development of mathematics is one of the great achievements of mankind — it provides the foundation upon which almost of all modern science and technology rests. This is because mathematics, as the art of abstraction, provides us the with ability to make simple statements that have incredibly broad application. For example, the reason that numbers and arithmetic are so unreasonably effective is that they describe a single simple property that every possible collection possesses, and a set of rules that are unchanged regardless of the specific nature of the collections involved. No matter what collection you consider, abstract or concrete, it has a number that describes its size; no matter what type of objects your collections are made up of, the results of arithmetic operations will always describe the resulting collection accurately. Thus the simple statement that 2 + 3 = 5 is a statement that describes the behaviour of every possible collection of 2 objects, and every possible collection of 3 objects. Algebra can be viewed the same way, except that instead of abstracting over collections we are abstracting over numbers: elementary algebra is the combination of objects that represent any possible number (as numbers represent any possible collection with the given quantity), and the set of arithmetic rules for which all numbers behave identically. Numbers let us speak about all possible collections, and algebra lets us speak about all possible numbers. Each layer of abstraction allows us to use an ever broader brush with which to paint our vision of the world.
If you climb up those layers of abstraction you can use that broad brush to paint beautiful pictures — the vast scope of the language that mathematics gives you allows simple statements to draw together and connect the unruly diversity of the world. A good mathematical theorem can be like a succinct poem; but only if the reader has the context to see the rich connections that the theorem lays bare. Without the opportunity to step back and see the forest for the trees, to see the broad landscape that the abstract nature of mathematics allows us to address, it is rare for people to see the elegance of mathematical statements. By failing to address how mathematics works, how it speaks broadly about the world, and what it means, we hobble children's ability to appreciate mathematics — how can they appreciate something when they never learn what it is? The formulas and manipulations children learn, while a necessary part of mathematics, are ultimately just the mechanics of the subject; equally important is why those mechanics are valuable, not just in terms of what they can do, but in terms of why they can do so much.
So why is it that this broader view is so rarely taught? There are, of course, many reasons, and it is not worth trying to discuss them all here. Instead I will point to one reason, for which clear remedies to exist, and immediate action could be taken. That reason is, simply, that far too many people who teach mathematics are unaware of the this broader view themselves. It is unfortunately the case that it is only at the upper levels of education, such as university, that any broader conception about mathematics becomes apparent. Since it is rare for people going into elementary school teaching to take any university level mathematics, the vast majority of elementary teachers — the math teachers for all our children in their early years — have little real appreciation of mathematics. They teach the specific trees outlined in textbooks, with no real idea of forest. A simple but effective measure that could be taken is to provide stronger incentives and encouragement for prospective elementary school teachers to take extra math; whether it takes the form of courses, or math clubs, doesn't matter, the aim is to get teachers more involved and better exposed to mathematics in general so that they can become familiar with the richer world beyond the specific formulas and algorithms. This exact approach was tried in Finland as part of their LUMA project starting in 1992. As a result the number of teachers graduating with higher level had increased dramatically by 1999. And the results are also clear: Finland finished first, showing continued improvement in mathematics and science, in the 2003 PISA survey of the reading, math, and science skills of 15-year-olds in OECD countries (Finland finished second, just behind Hong Kong, in the mathematics section). Finland has continued to do extremely well in other more recent (though less major) studies.
Whether you view mathematics as an important subject or not, it is hard to deny that, currently, it is being taught poorly in many countries around the world. With such scope for improvement, and clear examples such as Finland showing the way, isn't it time that we took at least some of the obvious steps toward improving the quality of mathematics education?