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Ohio County, West Virginia (Map It) was created on October 7, 1776 from portions of the District of West Augusta (Virginia). The county was named after the Ohio River that forms the county's western boundary, the name was derived from the Indian word Ohionhiio, meaning great or beautiful river. Learn More About State of West Virginia History
Ohio County is bordered by Brooke County (north), Washington County, Pennsylvania (east), Marshall County (south), Belmont County, Ohio (west), Jefferson County, Ohio (northwest). A Map of Ohio County, West Virginia contains detailed information about roads and boundaries, these maps may include rural communities, churches, and cemeteries.
Ohio County Cities and Towns include Bethlehem, Clearview, Elm Grove, Mozart, Overbrook, Triadelphia, Valley Grove, Warwood, West Liberty, Wheeling
Ohio County, West Virginia Courthouse Records
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The Ohio County Courthouse is located in Wheeling, West Virginia. Learn More About State of West Virginia Court, Tax, Land and Probate Records.
Please contact the each clerk's department to confirm mailing address, hours, fees and other information before visiting or requesting information because contact information sometimes changes. The Clerk's Office DOES NOT DO RESEARCH. The documents are available to interested parties, barring confidential issues. Most staff will assist people in finding the materials, but it is up to the individual to do the research.
The following dates indicates what vital, land, probate, and court records are in Ohio county. The date listed for each category of record is usually the earliest registration filed. The earliest date does not indicate that there are numerous records for that year and does not mean that all such events were actually registered. Until 1863 West Virginia was part of Virginia, See Virginia State Records for Info and links for years prior to 1863.
- Ohio County Clerk has Birth / Death Records from 1853, Marriage Records from 1793, Land Records from 1778 and Probate Records from 1776. The County Clerk has many duties which include some of the following: the issuance of marriage licenses, birth and death certificates, record births, marriages and deaths in the county, serve as the recorder of all documents, prepare and send to all heirs a Notice to Redeem and take care of publications, redemptions or recording deeds with regard to delinquent property, issue military service discharge records and probate wills and assist in administration of estates.
- Ohio County Clerk of Circuit Court has Court Records from 1777. TheCounty Clerk of Circuit Court has many responsibilities which include some of the following: Serve as the Clerk to the Circuit and Family Court, Issue mesne (during the progress of a case) process, Issue final process to enforce and execute judgements, Appoint guardian ad litem where required, Responsible for all papers filed in the office; serve as registrar, recorder and custodian for all pleadings, documents and funds pertaining to cases filed in circuit court and family court, Responsible for the administration and management of the petit and grand jury systems in the county.
Ohio County, West Virginia Census Records
- Learn More: State of West Virginia Census Records
- U.S. Federal Population Schedules: 1790 (destroyed), 1800 (destroyed), 1810 (fragmented), 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 (free index), 1890 (fragmented), 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940
- U.S. Census Reconstructed Records: 1660-1820, Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890
- U.S. Federal Census Slave Schedules: 1850 and 1860
- U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules: 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880
- Selected U.S. Federal Census Agriculture Schedules: 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880
- Selected U.S. Federal Census Industry Schedules: 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880
- Union Veterans Schedules: 1890
Ohio County, West Virginia Vital Records
- Learn More: State of West Virginia Vital Records
- Birth & Death Records: from January 1917 to present
- Marriage Records: from 1921 to present.
- Divorce Records: from 1968 to present
- Locations: West Virginia Office of Vital Statistics
- Vital Records Online: USAVital or Social Security Death Index
- Vital Records by Mail: Birth Certificate, Marriage Certificate, Death Certificate Applications.
- In Person: Vital Registration, Division of Health, 350 Capitol St, Rm 165, Charleston, WV 25301-3701; (304) 558-2931; Info: (304) 558-2931
Ohio County, West Virginia Resources
- Wheeling Area Genealogical Society, 2237 Marshall Avenue, Wheeling, WV 26003
- Wheeling Area Historical Society
- Ohio County, West Virginia Message Boards
- Ohio County, West Virginia Genealogy Forum


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Moved by Movies
Cinephiles hope to spark sympathy for stranded migrants through the power of sepia-tinted film
Walter Mencken 4 p.m., Dec. 14
San Diego 'The hogs are at the trough." On February 17, 2000, David Farley, chief financial officer of Peregrine Systems, e-mailed those words to the company's attorney, Richard T. Nelson. Farley (now deceased) was perturbed that company insiders were dumping shares during a period in which they had been instructed not to do so.
But bail out they did. Between February 15 and February 18, 2000, Peregrine's then-chairman John Moores and four other officials dumped a staggering $194 million worth of Peregrine stock. Moores, who sold $177 million of the stock, eventually dumped $487 million worth while the books were being cooked; he sold well over $600 million -- almost all he controlled -- during the course of the company's tainted history. In early 2000, the insiders got out before announcement of an acquisition sent the shares on a downward spiral, as several in the company had feared.
New information from Peregrine's own records now makes it clear that Padres majority owner Moores and his fellow Peregrine boardmembers and officers were repeatedly told that the company was in deep trouble at the very time it was boasting of amazing success. Moores and other boardmembers approved press releases and signed official financial reports presenting information they knew -- or were reckless in not knowing -- was false, according to this new information detailed in investor lawsuits.
Moreover, Moores and his board colleagues had been informed that the company's accounting was highly suspect. Eventually, fraudulent accounting was the cancer that led to the company's collapse and bankruptcy. To date, three former executives have pleaded guilty to criminal charges. After the crash, the company admitted that sales had been overstated by a staggering 38 percent. Peregrine didn't just count chickens before they were hatched; it counted chickens before it had a fecund hen.
The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are still probing the fraud. As an outgrowth of Peregrine's bankruptcy, two groups of plaintiffs got access to documents that the company had submitted to the two federal agencies as well as a congressional committee.
One of those cases is in U.S. district court. The other suit was filed in superior court by the litigation trustee appointed by the bankruptcy court. That second suit was moved to federal court, but the litigation trustee, Robert C. Friese of San Francisco, wants it back in state court.
The lead lawyer on the first suit is Solomon B. Cera of San Francisco. On November 21 of last year, U.S. district court judge Napoleon A. Jones Jr. threw out most of the fraud charges but left room for the suit to be amended. The second time around, Cera and his fellow attorneys had Peregrine records at their disposal. "Before, we were painting on a blank slate. We did not have these records, which are critically important," says Cera. Friese also has the records.
But Peregrine managed to cover many of its tracks. It purchased software to make e-mail messages self-destruct. Minutes of board meetings were doctored or "cleansed of potentially damaging information," says the federal suit. "The formally approved minutes are bare bones and uniformly unenlightening as to what transpired at board meetings." Moores and his close associate and then-boardmember Charles E. Noell III communicated by wireless handheld devices that were "essentially impossible to trace or reproduce," although such security devices are common, insists John Quinn, Moores's lawyer.
"Peregrine represents one of the most egregious financial frauds ever committed," says the federal suit filed by Cera, noting that both senior management and all directors "were complicit in the company's accounting fraud." Both suits stress how insiders were unloading their shares massively, while knowing -- as internal documents reveal -- that the company was ailing, and its accounting was extremely questionable.
As both suits emphasize, the Peregrine board was told of the company's relentless woes through quarterly "review and outlook" reports from Stephen P. Gardner, former chief executive. In various reports, Gardner lamented that quarters were "tough," sales productivity was abysmal, North American business was a "disaster," and because of suspected management inadequacy, a crisis lurked.
Peregrine's auditor was the infamous Arthur Andersen, which later was effectively closed down by the federal government after helping to cook the books for Waste Management, Sunbeam, Enron, Qwest, and WorldCom, among others. Andersen, notorious for its lax standards, put Peregrine on the list of its 20 riskiest clients. Gardner warned the board that Andersen was "uncomfortable" with Peregrine's accounting.
Why was Andersen uncomfortable? In April of 1999, the company held a meeting at La Costa, attended by Moores and other directors. Farley told the board that, to meet Wall Street's expectations, the company was adopting the sell-in method of accounting, although it was not the "preferred" method. Peregrine would ring up a sale when it delivered software to a distributor -- even if the distributor had no commitment to sell the product to an end user. But shareholders and the public didn't know about this extremely dubious sell-in method.
Andersen said it would be uncomfortable if more than 25 percent of sales were to distributors, not end users. The figure hit 52 percent and normally floated close to 40 percent. Later, Andersen suggested the sell-in method be changed. Also, Peregrine management and boardmembers, including Moores, were warned that company accounting violated generally accepted accounting principles. Quinn, however, ripostes that Andersen approved quarterly statements.
In violation of sound-management precepts, the audit committee did not keep minutes (or said it didn't), and that was one factor that "permitted the pervasive accounting fraud to go forward," says the Cera suit.
Gardner warned the board that "a large amount of inventory" was piling up at distributors and had to be sold, particularly since direct sales to end users were at "a very low level." Indeed, one quarter he lamented that the "bread-and-butter business went to hell," and the productivity of salespeople selling directly to end users was "at a ridiculously low level."


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Telephone scam preys on veterans
Telephone scam preys on veterans
Veterans making health care decisions are being targeted by a telephone scam, the Federal Trade Commission warns.
According to the FTC, a fake phone number set up by scammers is nearly identical to the actual number for the Veterans Choice Program -- a Veterans Affairs program that allows vets to find providers outside of its system.
A message on the phony line says the caller is eligible for a rebate if they provide a credit card number, but instead their own account will be debited.
The FTC offers two pieces of advice to avoid this scam:
- The real number for VCP is 866-606-8198.
- The VA will not ask for financial account information.
Click here for the VA's identity theft prevention program, or here to report identity theft to the FTC.


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I'm pretty much obsessed with Instagram (follow me here), so I was happy to see that the new version released today finally ads the ability to tag other people. The new featured called Photos of You adds a new section to your profile that allows you to see all the pictures people have tagged you in. Instagram has always allowed you to include @mentions of other users, but now you can add people (and brands) to photos, similar to how tagging works on Facebook. Grab up the update from Google Play and check out the video below to see the new feature in action.
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November 14, 2018 - 10:00 PM Los Angeles Times - Nicole Santa Cruz, Dakota Smith, Joseph Serna
The grim search for victims of California's deadliest fire continued Wednesday as firefighters made progress in containing the Camp fire that burned the town of Paradise. The fire has killed at least 56 people, destroyed more than 10,300 structures and scorched 138,000 acres in Butte County. It... [Read More]


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In France, food is an art. Even UNESCO seems to agree, having named French gastronomy part of the world's "intangible cultural heritage" last year. Yet unlike other cultural contributors, great French chefs, the artists of the business, say they suffer from an unflattering and undeserved reputation. The nose-in-the-air, slave-mastering perfectionist, who thinks traditional, butter-dripping French cuisine is the be-all and end-all, is one image that comes to mind.
French chef Frédéric Vardon is one of many who would like the public to give them a second chance. His luxurious restaurant, the 39V, tucked away on the sixth-floor roof of a Haussmann-style apartment on Avenue George V, is all modern elegance, and with its glass walls, feels as if it could float over the Paris rooftops to the Eiffel Tower seen in a distance. But Vardon wants you to feel right at home. Never mind that his version of home may be fabulously different from yours.
"Above all, we give bonheur [happiness] to people. Our job is to share and have people discover cuisine," Vardon said. "I just wish we could stop showing this bad side of our job — one that we see on television," he said.
In part of his effort to improve their rep (and gain a few new customers in the long run), for a week Vardon offered a free, full meal (worth about $118) with every one purchased, during a festival called Tous au Restaurant (or "everyone to the restaurant"), which has latched on to a broader, new government-organized annual festival celebrating French gastronomy at the end of September.
The national gastronomy festival includes about 2,000 events ranging from cooking classes to DJ'ed, late-night parties centered on culinary themes, such as this year's "the land." The event coincides with a growing return to simple, "naturally" grown produce that is affordable and at the heart of regional French culinary tradition. Similar to the "bistronomy" trend that brought three-star-quality food to a wave of reasonably priced bistros, organizers hope to show that eating well is an ever-evolving French hallmark accessible to anyone interested.
"The idea is to be more open to the masses, less arrogant," said French chef Alain Ducasse, lifting his nose in the air and flicking it with his finger. Ducasse runs a culinary empire of his own and initiated the Tous au Restaurant weeklong event after a similar program in New York.
For unlike other art forms, the restaurant business is made to please, meaning Vardon spends a good amount of time with his ear locked to the trends, lifestyles and habits of his customers. "At the end of the day, it's a customer service job, and it's hard work. You have to like other people. They bring their problems here, but also their joys, and it makes for a cocktail of life," Vardon said.
Vardon's popular recipes respond to a robust demand for simple, traditional French cooking, done "perfectly," he says, and modernized to be lighter and butter-free. Such as his traditional picked crab starter with a light, bubbly bisque-vinaigrette, twisted with an avocado and apple salad, or his popular rabbit chasseur (hunter's rabbit) and tagliatelle. He has studied traditional techniques under French culinary maestros such as Ducasse and Alain Chapel, and uses only the best ingredients. "We make beautiful what is already really good. I don't invent anything," he said. He even admits being open to other cultural influences, if the cooking technique "is intelligent."
Vardon has hit on a trend for a return to simple, natural products. Even in France, mass consumption has taken its toll on culinary tradition, and by the 1960s and '70s, French families resorted to packaged goods at industrialized supermarkets, shopping less at local, small distributors and farmers markets.
But on Sept. 23, the country's first national Gastronomy Day, young foodies celebrated their love for local produce with recycled paper plates piled with organic vegetarian cuisine at its finest by French chef and all-natural guru Arnaud Daguin. With electro tunes blasting in the background of a hip, new restaurant, Les Grandes Tables on the Ile Seguin, many agreed: They were going back to more "natural" foods in a way their parents had neglected.
"You'd think France is where all this starts, but no," said 26-year-old chef Benjamin Darnaud, who was at the party. Compared with New York or northern Europe, "Paris is not as motivated to go more natural," he said. "Small producers have disappeared over time, and fewer French chefs work directly with farmers."
Now food culture was finally shifting in France. "Everybody wants to find a really good carrot now. It's like buying caviar," he said.
Darnaud agreed chefs should reach out more to customers. "Being a chef doesn't mean just being a chef. It means talking to people and about food today. We can do a lot better," he said.
At the same party, Anne Metrard, 37, said it wasn't until she was an adult and started shopping at farmers markets, cooking large meals every day and looking for local foods, that she really began to understand how to cook, an effort she makes because otherwise "we'll end up eating plastic if things continue in the current direction," she said, referring to the effect of the supermarket industry.
"We live in tiny apartments and can't choose the space we live in — we bear with that. But we can't bear with bad food — that's the limit," Metrard said.
Metrard also agreed she'd be thrilled to give luxury dining a try more often, but there was the obvious cost issue — though she felt the two-for-one Tous au Restaurant deal was tempting.
At L'Assiette, a top French bistro in the Left Bank's 14th arrondissement, which also participated in the two-for-one festival, chef David Rathgeber makes a point of greeting his guests from the open door of the kitchen near the entrance. Most of them are regulars he knows by name.
Regular 9-year-old Cannelle Lacombe gave Rathgeber a kiss on both cheeks before sitting down to a steak whose diameter was larger than her face. "It's her favorite," explained her father, Serge Lacombe, 46. "She just really likes meat. And once you start with the best, it's hard to switch back."
Nevertheless, despite examples such as Rathgeber, and as with many clichés like that of France's culinary royalty, there's often a grain — or a fistful — of truth to them.
At the decadent, 18th century Grand Vefour restaurant, a two-star historic landmark off the Palais Royal gardens, a request to speak to the chef on the day the nation was supposed to be celebrating its gastronomic heritage "in the streets," was met by the receptionist with raised eyebrows, an inhale, a roll of the eyes and a "non." Speaking to the chef was "emposseebl." An appointment would have to be made for some time in the distant future. "Au revoir, madame," she said.


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Tom TonePrint by Jon Thorne
'Tom' is Jon's creation for the Vortex Flanger pedal. It is a slightly slower flange that emits deeper, darker and more mysterious tones, especially when used in combination with a bow. Jon likens the sound to the daunting experience of "being under water."
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TC: What does this tone sound like? Thorne: It sounds a little like being under water.
TC: Who has inspired you over the years when you were creating your personal tone? Thorne: I was very inspired by a lot of bass players on ECM. It was one of three things that tipped me into bass playing. One of them was hearing Danny Thompson, the English double-bass player, whose tone is still my favorite of any player. Reading Charles Mingus' book 'Beneath the Underdog' was really inspiring. It was wild stories of jazz lifestyle. Thirdly, was when a friend handed me a cassette compilation and on it were Gary Peacock, Miroslav Vitouš, Charlie Haden, Eberhard Weber and Dave Holland. People who had taken double bass a long way down the road from where it was in the 50s and 60s and really turned it into a very expressive instrument in its own right.
TC: How has your time with Lamb influenced your playing style? Thorne: It was immediately a brand new world because I had no reference points for that and the music was as futuristic and interesting as anything I had heard. It was bringing elements from all kinds of situations. It was really fresh. Andy's programming is highly unusual and you had the two human voices and also myself. It was almost less about bass playing for me and rather about trying to evolve a different kind of way of approaching playing within that framework because there was already a lot of bass there. So you had to go with that or keep out of the way or find a way to enhance the music appropriately. Andy mixes the gig live every night and sometimes he'll throw things on my sound and I'll react to that, which will bring something else out. So it does have jazz elements in it in that respect, in the improvisation.
TC: How is it to play a double bass in an electronic band? Thorne: It has been great to take double bass into electronic music and use it as a viable instrument rather. To actually be able to evolve a language over the last 14-15 years playing live with the band has been brilliant. They have given me 'carte blanche' to go and try stuff right the way through so it has been very liberating and highly enjoyable, and it's a constantly evolving process.
TC: What do you want to call this one? Thorne: I'll call this one 'Tom', after my son.Read more about Jon Thorne


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Police on Thursday identified the man found fatally shot in Northeast Baltimore two days ago.
Travis Jennings, 29, who lived in the 1600 block of N. Warwick Avenue, was pronounced dead at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He had been found by police in the Lauraville neighborhood, hours after police received an emergency call reporting gunshots near the 4900 block of Morello Road at 2:30 a.m.
They found Jennings about three blocks away in the 2600 block of Southern Avenue.
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Vegan Ice Cream at Stogo
Starting with the Ten Best NYC Vegan Experiences of my winter vacation, in no particular order:
- The entire Vegetarian Dim Sum House Experience
- Carrot Tahini spread and Terra Sana Syrah at Candle Café – nothing else I sampled there interested me. It was underwhelming the more 'upscale' dining attempt (on a budget) of my vacation. Photos below.
- Earl Grey infused Vodka Cocktail at Angel's Share
- Toasted Cinnamon Raisin Bagel with blueberry tofu cream cheese from Bagels on the Square – plus the half dozen I brought back with me
- Dinner at Soy & Sake – specifically, the specialty sushi rolls and shrimp tempura appetizer. It was the vacation of fake shrimp and Daiya. Overall, the best dinner of my vacation was here. No photos, because every now and then I refrain.
- Gluten & Vegetables Pan Fried Noodles at Buddha Bodai – I get this every time I'm there.
- Vegan Knuckle Sandwich at Boneshakers -While I still think Daiya is more to look at than actually eat, I appreciated it in this glorious bagel sandwich.
- Dr. Cow's cashew hemp nut cheese from Lifethyme Market – brought back to Portland, but in the running!
- The atmosphere & organic Ambrosia White Plum Tea at Wild Ginger, NYC
- Side note: They refer to themselves as a vegan cafe, but the menu notes a few non-vegan offerings with whey, for example. Order carefully. My lunch here was the night after food poisoning, so I can't say much about my meal because I picked at it.
- Toasted Almond Joy ice cream at Stogo – I dig this solid, gelato style shop. I'm not trying to take sides in the vegan ice cream shoppe wars, I just really like their ice cream. I haven't been wowed by every flavor I've sampled, but I've been at least intrigued. Toasted Almond Joy and Coffee have been my favorites so far, and my sister repeatedly orders the Coconut Vanilla..
Honorable Mentions:
- Veganized Novice Pesto slice with sun-dried tomatoes and Daiya at Slice – even though once my friend Millie sampled it and said the pesto tasted like pickles, it invaded my experience. You order custom, organic slices here, and they offer vegan pesto and Daiya – which again, was all over NYC.
- Soy Latte at Tillie's of Brooklyn (another place with Daiya!)
- Soy Cappucino at the dear minibar, East Village
- and because it may have been the cause of late night food poisoning, but I'll return for more, just the same: Oasis falafel, Brooklyn
- Economy Candy – because it rules.
Recs? I'm well aware of favorites I didn't stop by during my brief vacation, and places I wanted to try (like Cocoa V, the freaking new vegan chocolate shoppe, Counter and Blossom) – any suggestions for my next pilgrimage?
The Photos and the arrival:
Upon arrival in NYC via good 'ole Fung Wah from Boston, I decided to walk a few blocks into Chinatown for some vegan Chinese food. It was time for an early lunch after a long bus ride, the sibling I was staying with was just waking up for the day (of course), and her current neighborhood isn't exactly known for its vegan options. Little did I realize, I was walking into the Chinese Lunar New Year Parade. I didn't quite comprehend the growing crowds, and then I was stuck first inside, and then within 1 block of Buddha Bodai with my suitcase, unable to go further for a couple hours. On the plus side, I had meal in Chinatown, in New York City, and I witnessed the excitement of the New Year Parade! It was wild, and I remembered what crowds are like, to an extreme. Towards the end I did get a little angry, knocked over a few dozen people with my suitcase, and inched my way to a subway entrance and my mini family reunion.
Smiley Soy Latte at Tillie's of Brooklyn (I was way too excited to be at a cafe named Tillie's, with my friend Millie. It made my day).
Candle Cafe
The wine
Carrot Apple Ginger juice
Blueberry smoothie
Bread with marinara dip
Bread with carrot tahini spread
Millet Casserole
Daily Special Lasagna (with Daiya)
Cajun Seitan Sandwich
Daily Special: Macadamia encrusted tempeh with quinoa and sautéed vegetables.
This was my entrée – the sides well cooked, but utterly boring, and the tempeh was bland, which breaks my heart to say that anything encrusted, in macadamia nuts, could be.
Vegan Knuckle Sandwich with soy sausage, Daiya cheddar, and tofu scramble on a bagel at Boneshakers in Brooklyn
Vegan sausage sandwich at Boneshakers
Cappuccino from miniBar
Falafel at Oasis, Brooklyn
My sister, Jen, creepily waving her hand, in front of the Vegetarian Dim Sum House. The rest of my photos can be found on the Stumptown Vegans Guide.
Pesto Slice, at Slice
Stogo counter
Lifethyme Natural Market – I've rarely been in NYC and not stopped here.
Wild Ginger – first time.
King Oyster Mushrooms appetizer
Sauteed Tofu & Vegetables in Brown Sauce (lunch special, my order – I really appreciated the side of kabacha squash)
Smoked Teriyaki Seitan with Sugar Snap Peas (lunch special, not vegan, not mine!)
Miso Soup
Singapore Mai-fun with vegi fish cake (lunch special)
Ambrosia White Plum Tea
Wild Ginger, and my reckless suitcase
Only in New York.
Jenny, Millie, and Mike in front of MooShoes
Alright, that's it for the travel recap of my winter vacation in Boston and NYC! Here's Part I and Part II.


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Since its 4.4.10 release way back in 2008, Damn Small Linux languished as an inactive project. But a month ago John Andrews announced 4.11 release candidate 2. It includes updated apps and bug fixes. Download from here (only 50m). More on what's in the release candidate here. DSL is popular for making older computers useful and also works well as a tiny live distro.


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"Mom Knows Best" Hysterical Stories In New Book
Description: New York Times Bestselling author Joan W. Anderson has put away the diapers, strollers and strained spinach and brings us her hilarious stories of her five children as they go through their toddler years, teenage years and young adulthood. She intuitively captures what we all fear at each of these stages and brings levity to her daily encounters. Most Moms try to make everything perfect for their husbands and children, no matter what the cost to themselves. Joan recognizes these stressful situations all Moms face and turns them inside out. From setting New Year's Resolutions for everyone but herself, to taking a day off so her husband can see for himself exactly what she does all day, her maternal instincts may not be the most conventional, but they are wise and entertaining. MOM KNOWS BEST addresses the inevitable changes in family life, such as dating, proms, jobs, college, and the ever-present text messages. But it also points out the ambivalent nature of parenting during the second half of the job. Anderson shares these stories in such a heartfelt and motivating style that you get to know her family and husband as if they were your own. We get to meet her neighbors (The Hickory Nuts) and the numerous neighborhood children that join in on any and all festivities.
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persons whatsoever, & will do what may be further needfull
for ye Confirmation of the sale of sd: negro Jack to ye said
John Hancock his heirs & assigns. In Wittness whereof I
the sd: Isaac Powers have hereunto putt my hand & seall this
twenty second day of Aprill Anno Domi: one thousand
seven hundred & twenty Eight, In the first year of his
majes: Reign.
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Mr: Hancock


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As this is a cupcake blog, doughnut cupcakes were my only choice if I wanted to participate in the Time to Make Doughnuts event by Peabody and Tartlette. I definitely wanted to play, so the chocolate doughnut cupcake was born.
Doughnut Cupcakes are Harder Than Cupcake Cupcakes
It typically takes me about two hours to bake a batch of 24 cupcakes.
My doughnut cupcakes required two sets of rising, each of which was an hour long. Other time-consuming tasks included dough rolling and cutting out circles.
When Making Doughnut Cupcakes, Shortcuts Don't Pay
The first time I attempted to make my doughnut cupcakes, I took some shortcuts. Any number of these could have been the fatal misstep. My doughnut cupcakes ended up like hockey puck cupcakes / dog biscuit cupcakes. They ended up feeding my trash.
Things I Did That I Probably Shouldn't Have
Yeast experts, please comment if you disagree with anything below or if you have other ideas of mistakes I may have made.
- Attempted to prepare doughnut dough in the bread machine
- Used cold milk (This one was just plain dumb. I had this crazy idea that if I put the dough in the bread machine, the milk didn't need to be warm. Sometimes crazy ideas are successful. Sometimes, they are just crazy ideas.)
- Added a randomly guessed amount of cocoa powder to a yeast-based recipe.
- Let the dough rise in a cold place (Maybe I would have had more success baking in the summer or in Hawaii?)
Were the Doughnut Cupcakes Better the Second Time Around?
The doughnut cupcakes were better the second time around, but just a bit. The first time they were inedible. The second time, they were edible but didn't get fluffy and tasted more like pretzels or chocolate bread than doughnuts. If you like pretzels or chocolate bread, try a baked doughnut. If not, and you are not a yeast expert, I recommend going the fried doughnut route.
The Chocolate Doughnut Cupcake Recipe
The first time I heard about baked doughnuts was when Gigi Cakes made them. She got her recipe from 101 Cookbooks. This was the recipe that I put in the bread machine with the cold milk and killed. I'm sure the recipe was actually fine. In fact, I encourage you to try it.
The second time, I decided to use a different recipe. This one was from Coconut and Lime and had a chocolate option so I didn't have to guess how much cocoa. Her recipe with my slight modifications is listed below.
For those who skipped directly to the recipe, please note that I had no success with this recipe. I am posting it because it looked crazy good on Coconut and Lime's site and maybe you've got the skills to make it work.
I used the same vanilla frosting that I used on my black and white cupcakes.
If you've tried this recipe, please RATE THE RECIPE and leave a comment below!
Chocolate Doughnut Cupcakes
Yeast doughnuts in cute cupcake form.
Cupcake Ingredients
- 1 2/3 C warm milk
- 2 T melted butter
- 2 t vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 5 C flour
- 3/4 C sugar
- 1 package 1/4 oz yeast -The recipe called for instant. I used active dry. This may have been another big problem. Gigi's recipe, however, called for active dry yeast.
- 5 t dutch process cocoa
Vanilla Frosting Ingredients
- 2 3/4 cups confectioners sugar
- 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 to 6 tablespoons water
Cupcake Instructions
Whisk together the egg, milk, butter, and vanilla. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, yeast, sugar, and cocoa powder. Slowly mix the milk mixture into the dry mixture until a dough forms. I found that using my hands worked best for this. Move the dough to a clean counter top and knead it until it is slightly sticky and elastic. Coconut and Lime suggested that you might need to add additional flour to make it reach this consistency. I actually needed to add additional water. Do whatever works for you. Put your dough ball into a buttered bowl. Cover and let sit for an hour or until it doubles in size.
Roll dough to about 1/2 inch thick. Use 2.5 inch circle cookie cutters to cut doughnuts and 1 inch cookie cutters to cut the holes. Put doughnuts in cupcake wrappers in cupcake tins. Cover with a towel and let rise for another hour.
Vanilla Frosting Instructions
Stir together confectioners sugar, corn syrup, vanilla, and 2 tablespoons water in a small bowl until smooth. If the icing is not easily spreadable, add more water, 1/2 teaspoon at a time. If you will not be using it right away, cover the surface with a dampened paper towel, then cover the bowl with plastic wrap. With an offset spatula, spread icing over the cupcake.
Will There be a Doughnut Project?
Doughnut cupcakes were certainly a new challenge. By no means would I consider giving up cupcakes to make lots of doughnuts. It's way too much work! Besides, doughnuts taste better fresh out of the oven / fryer and I can't eat that many doughnuts at once. My cupcakes often still taste good a week after I bake them (stored in a Tupperware in the fridge).


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("Revenge of the Moonshiners")
There's this family of moonshiners that hide their stills in the woods of Virginia during Prohibition. Supposedly based on a true story, "Lawless" follows the boys as they are threatened by a slick, ruthless, fancy-dressed gangster from Chicago (Gary Oldman). The gangsters move in, killing whomever gets in their way.
The brothers take as much as they can, then strike back. Lots of people are killed.
Jack, the "runt of the litter" (Shia LaBeouf), is shown before the credits as a scared boy who is afraid to kill a pig and is taunted by his brothers. He is abused by everyone as he tries to finagle his way to taking over the family business. He is enamored with the preacher's daughter, while his older brother is pining for the woman from Chicago who takes a job in their rundown saloon.
The still is blown up by the gangsters, who are in cahoots with the local sheriff. It comes down to the big gun battle, where just about everyone is killed.
Who will be the big hero? A guy that won't even shoot a pig?
Rated R, with lots of violence, profanity, nudity and sex.


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Even though most of the details about how to gear up are neatly put together here, I wanted to write a post since a couple of people have asked me about the game lately.
First, Mists was bad for alts. It was extremely difficult to play a alt during the start of this expansion but they have gradually made things easier for alts. Also while the story was very engaging for your first character the quests really did not bring anything new the second time around so there was tons of burnout. So if you leveled during the start and kind of got tired of dailies, it is the perfect time to catch up.
The story has moved forward and in a week or two you can catch up not just gear wise but story wise as well. Domination front and then the Thunder isle will not just take the story further but it will gear you up quite a bit. Also the barrens are a good catch up but there is only a week left before patch. Also a note is that the battlefield barrens is going away forever after the patch drops, so if you want the title and the pet this is the last chance to get it.
If you are thinking of coming back to the game I would suggest that you get your 90 and start domination front and then the thunder isle. You will quickly catch up with the story and be able to gear up. I would also suggest you hoard all the Justice Points and Valor Points until after the patch in a couple of weeks. Once you have gone through that content you can jump into LFR and finish up your gearing. I might be running some older raids next week prior to patch so people that just came back and have not seen it in anything other than LFR can get the experience.
A couple of key things to keep in mind is the introduction of coins in the game. There are now coins that you collect to turn into tokens that give you extra rolls in the current raid. Also the old coins give you extra rolls on the old raids. It can feel like another gate, but for all content it is truly a quick way to catch up. There is also a new loot scenario that will fill up your coins quickly so you can do the old LFR and get tons of loot pretty quickly(see this guide for more details on that). You get one key to that loot scenario minimum every week, if you are lucky you can sometimes get more.
So TLDR get ready to go kill Garrosh!
Garrosh Must DIE


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Body Hair: Follicular Follies
Why do humans have much less body hair than other primates? Then again, if we really were naked apes, the body hair removal industry wouldn't be booming and no-one would bother getting more and more parts or their bodies shaved, plucked, waxed and lasered.
So why do we have body hair at all? We actually have the same number of hair follicles over our bodies as other primates. Is our body hair vestigial or does it serve a purpose? And is the burgeoning trend for Brazilian waxing merely a fashion?
Amanda Smith: And on RN this is the best of The Body Sphere with Amanda Smith. Today: we've all got it, but nobody knows why. Men have more of it than women. And, these days we're pretty keen to get rid of it.
Mark Elgar: Because it's you know the difference between males and females, evolutionary biologists will typically start thinking well it must have something to do with a mating preference - that females typically see hairy males as more attractive.
Amanda Smith: Not anymore!
Mark Elgar: That's right, but perhaps in our Neanderthal past that might have been the case.
Natasha Smits: For younger women, teenage girls, their partners expect it. We do have a lot of younger women who come in and say they wouldn't dream of not having it done and the boys that they've started dating would definitely expect it. I think for older women it's about confidence, the confidence of feeling that groomed in an area that previously we didn't really groom.
Meredith Jones: But I wouldn't be at all surprised if in 40 or 50 years it's again fashionable in some way for women to have some sort of body hair. You know there was a brief trend just prior to the French Revolution for women to wear almost completely see-through garments and to tease up their pubic hair and actually decorate it with strands of pearls and jewellery.
Amanda Smith: Give that a go at home. So hairy questions and follicular challenges ahead in The Body Sphere: the long and short and curly of why we have body hair and why we've invented all sorts of ways to remove it. But also, in the first place why we have so much less body hair than other primates. Mark Elgar is an evolutionary biologist.
Mark do we know why we're so denuded compared to the hairy apes?
Mark Elgar: I guess the short answer is that we don't. It's quite a lively debate, that's on-going. There have been over the years quite a number of explanations. And many of those early ones in fact were somewhat erroneous in the nature of the question that they were asking, because we're not as Desmond Morris pithily put it 'a naked ape'. We do in fact have just as many hair follicles as you would expect for an ape of our body size, but the difference of course is the length and coarseness of our hair is so much different.
Amanda Smith: So you and I have as many hair follicles as a gorilla?
Mark Elgar: Pretty much yes. So the question really is not quite so much as to whether we've lost hair but it's rather there's been a change in the length and nature of the hair that we have.
Amanda Smith: So do we know why?
Mark Elgar: Boringly no, probably not. These kinds of questions are really difficult to answer because of course we're talking about something in our past. But I think the prevailing arguments that are kicking around at the moment got are that it's got something to do with bi-pedalism, our change from walking on all of our limbs to simply walking on our hind limbs. And with that, a change in our exposure to sunlight and so something to do with thermo regulation. Now you might imagine that that seems a bit crazy, why would you have your skin more exposed to the sunlight than having hair all over your body?
And the answer seems to be something around well, if you haven't got this insulation hair, it allows you to sweat. And the small hair doesn't get in the way of that cooling process and so you have a very effective whole body cooling process.
Amanda Smith: So it's about cooling down rather than warming up.
Mark Elgar: That's right.
Amanda Smith: Alright well that's one question that people like you have pondered for a long time. But now, a couple of biologists at the University of Sheffield in the UK have asked what's in a way a more interesting question about body hair and that is why we have it at all. And they got a bunch of volunteers - students - and on one arm of each they shaved a patch of skin and then without the student volunteers being able to see they put a bedbug on either their shaved arm or the unshaved arm. Can you pick up what happened?
Mark Elgar: Yes, a really intriguing experiment and a really fun experiment too, I think they would have had a ball doing that.
Amanda Smith: I don't know, students with bedbugs on their arms?
Mark Elgar: Yeah well the students themselves may not have had so much fun but I think for the researchers I can imagine they would have had an enormous amount of fun dreaming up that particular experiment. So yes, you're right, the question that Isabelle Dean and Mike Siva-Jothy were asking is not why we have no hair but rather why is it that we still retain this very fine hair on our body, or on most of our body. Their explanation was that we know that these hairs act as little neuro- transmitters, and the movement of the hair will act as a stimulus to various nerves telling us that we've got something on our skin. So it provides us with a warning about what is or isn't on our skin. And they wondered whether this had a genuine functional affect on various ectoparasites.
Bedbugs, of course, they are not very nice to have on you and the idea is whether this is a line of defence, your hairs are a line of defence against been bitten by bedbugs. And what they found was that where the hair had been shaved the students were less able to detect the movement of a bedbug than where their hair hadn't been shaved. That might suggest then that the longer or the thicker the hair the more powerful or the more sensitive I suppose the hair is to movement.
Amanda Smith: I'm tempted here to say something about Brazilian waxing and crabs, but perhaps I'll leave it at that.
Mark Elgar: I think we all thought that. If it is true that your body hair provides a way of early detection of various ectoparasites then clearly you might want to think twice about depilating. And yes, a thought that came up.
Amanda Smith: Yeah, although I have to say that when I read about this study my first thought was actually that the results were counter intuitive, because I thought that body hair is where parasites can hide, like fleas on a dog.
Mark Elgar: Yes. So I think you have to remember of course the relationship between a host and parasites is really a dynamic relationship. And so, we have hairs on our body and they may act as an early warning defence mechanism, and a smart parasite (if you can use that kind of phrase, selection might favour particular kinds of parasites who are in fact able to cling onto the hairs as a means of staying on the body. So yes, it is counter intuitive from one perspective but absolutely not from the other. And the other thing you have to remember of course with these host/parasite systems is that any defence or offense from one side will act as a selection pressure favouring some kind of counter adaptation on the other side.
Amanda Smith: Another question that remains unanswered though by this study I think is that, well anyone who has spent a night in a cheap hotel knows bedbugs are nocturnal; they get you while you're asleep.
Mark Elgar: Well that's right and I think that's the major limitation of this particular study. I think the ideal experiment would have been to have done this when the students were asleep and then looked at whatever movements they might have made to try and brush off these bedbugs, whilst they were asleep. But I think the other side of this is to simply move away from just thinking about the specific species and the question addressed is can we actually detect the movement of things on our skin through these hairs? And that they absolutely demonstrated, so yes, this really does confirm, and in a very simple experiment but a very powerful one, that these things act as a kind of early warning defence.
Amanda Smith: And as you said it seems that the hairier you are, the more body hair you have, the more likely you are, the more sensitive you are, to detecting something on your skin. Now, men have more body hair than women so I'm just wondering then, if what the study has found is true, is there an evolutionary purpose to men being able to detect bedbugs or parasites on their skin...
Mark Elgar: I'm not sure that that's necessarily the case because it's quite possible that it's actually the movement of the hair right at the surface of the skin that's critically important. So the length of hair may in fact not have anything to do with it. But you know this is something that hasn't really, as far as I'm aware, been investigated.
Amanda Smith: Are there other reasons that have been posited for why women aren't as hairy as men on their bodies?
Mark Elgar: Well the development of hair on human bodies is driven by hormones and it's the predominant male hormone androgen that stimulates the growth of body hair on men, it's not produced in such quantities in women and so you don't have that strong stimulus for the growth of body hair. That's a mechanism, I mean that's in a sense what causes the difference but exactly why there is such a difference between the two I think still remains something of a broad question. Because it's, you know, the difference between males and females, often it does sit around the idea of a mating preference: that females typically see hairy males as more attractive for whatever reason.
Amanda Smith: Not anymore!
Mark Elgar: No that's right. But perhaps in our Neanderthal past that might have been the case. Or alternatively of course another way of looking at it is that the hairy male is actually signalling to other males: 'Look out, I'm a big hairy monster and I can knock you out of the way if you irritate me'. So it can be both a case of female preference or it might be some cue in the context of competition between males.
Amanda Smith: And Mark Elgar is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Melbourne University.
You're listening to The Body Sphere on RN. I'm Amanda Smith and I've got an appointment now at the beauty parlour.
Natasha Smits: Hello would you like to come on in.
OK – how's your day been?
Amanda Smith: Fine thanks Natasha. I'm at Natasha's Skin and Body Salon and Natasha is just about to do some hair removal on me, some waxing on my legs. Ouch.
Natasha Smits: How's that feeling
Amanda Smith: Yeah, okay.
Natasha Smits: Did you ever have waxing when it was the old days of filtering the wax?
Amanda Smith: I can't remember.
Natasha Smits: So where they used to put it on and it would set and then you rip it off, and then at the end of the day it used to go into a big old pot with a sieve in it ,a mesh sieve, and they would filter out all of the dead hairs. And every night in the salon they'd turn the wax up to boiling point and it would burn the hair off the top, I kid you not. And you'd come in in the morning and the salons would smell like burnt hair. It was disgusting.
Amanda Smith: The secrets of a salon, I never knew any of this.
Natasha Smits: It was the bad old days before the Health Department got involved.
Amanda Smith: So Natasha I'm interested actually talking to you about more intimate areas of hair removal than my legs: Brazilian waxing . Now, the trend for complete removal of pubic hair, do you reckon that this has increased in the time you've been involved in the industry?
Natasha Smits: Hugely, so when I first trained I can remember being at Beauty Therapy College and thinking I want to know about this Brazilian waxing and it actually had just begun at the time with Vogue magazine covering a salon called The Jay Sisters in New York, Brazilian sisters who had taken the trend of full pubic waxing and open a salon based around it. And someone from Vogue went and got waxed and it was all over the world, people were asking for it everywhere. And I was in New Zealand, in Auckland, and you couldn't get one. There was just no one, I remember going from salon to salon wanting to find out about this Brazilian wax, determined I was going to do it, because I was about to graduate and I wanted to be in on it.
In the end I went to a little salon upstairs in a shopping centre and a lady said look, I don't know how to do it but I'll give it a go. Well we were there for 2 hours, no gloves, it was the dirtiest little salon you've ever been to, it was actually terrifying but however, I got a Brazilian wax and I walked out crying, just about. And then I went home and my friends and I learnt on each other and eventually the school said god, we'd better teach these girls how to do it because they are learning on their own. And that was only ten years ago and people weren't really being trained. Now it's a post graduate course that the girls can do but every salon offers it now and it would be very rare to find a salon that doesn't offer it.
Just keep that one straight for me – thank you.
Amanda Smith: Is it a generational thing among women, having that done? You know is it largely younger women?
Natasha Smits: Younger women tend to start it rather than having, where you've got older women who might have had bikini waxes for a long time and then started to have Brazilian waxing, anyone in their 30s and below will just be looking for Brazilian waxing. And in fact it's very rare for us to even do a bikini wax in my salon.
Amanda Smith: Because everyone is getting the full monty.
Natasha Smits: Everyone does the full monty yeah. And the therapists probably encourage it because to be honest it's easier, it's just as easy to do a Brazilian as it is to do a bikini wax, it takes the same amount of time.
Amanda Smith: Except it's much more intimate. I mean what is it like to do something as intimate as remove all of someone's pubic hair?
Natasha Smits: There is a fantastic beauty therapist who works in Toorak and she summed it up best when she said, someone asked her you know what is it like to look at another woman's private parts. And she just said I have never seen one. And it's true, you just don't see it, you're there to do a job and you really don't see what you're looking at. You don't have time, you're always moving, there's always something to be put on, or removed, or stretched, or whatever you're doing. You just don't see it.
Amanda Smith: Do you get any clients who are though wanting it done but uncomfortable about having it done?
Natasha Smits: Yes in other salons I've worked in yes, we have come across those people. But when people enquire, just from the very moment people ask, we are saying yes it's something we do, we do lots of them, it's completely normal so by the time people get on the bed I think most of them have gotten over that fear.
Amanda Smith: Why do women do it?
Natasha Smits: That's a really interesting question. I do believe that for younger teenage girls their first partners expect it. We do have a lot of girls - and that actually bothers me – there are a lot of younger women who come in and say that they wouldn't even dream of not having it done and that the boys that they've started dating would definitely expect it. And those girls, I tend to undo a bit of business for myself and try talk them out of it, because I think it's a terrible reason to start. I think for older women it's about confidence, the confidence that women get. I mean I've had girls write me thank you cards, thank you you've changed my sex life. Because the confidence of feeling that groomed in an area that previously we didn't really groom is quite liberating.
I also think that it's exaggerating a feminine difference, men grow more hair naturally than women, women grow less hair naturally and I think that waxing it is really just exaggerating that. And that's probably also why we don't offer men's Brazilian waxing because it's not really an area we want to go into.
Amanda Smith: OK, I'll let you get on with waxing just my legs Natasha – thank you
Natasha Smits: That's okay, you're doing very well. No squeals at all.
Amanda Smith: Didn't hurt a bit. Amanda Smith with you on RN and The Body Sphere.
So the desirability of having pretty well all hair except what's on your head removed: well you can blame it on Rio, or maybe on the ancient Greeks. Classical Greek sculpture has had a profound influence not just on Western art, but on how we think about our own bodies. And according to the art historian Michael Squire, on our attitudes to body hair.
Michael Squire: I think when we think about this question one of the things we have to think about is the reception of a particular sculpture by Praxitiles, and it's made around 360 BC, and it's a statue of the goddess Aphrodite. One of the things that's so interesting about this statue when we're thinking about body hair is that this statue shows a naked Aphrodite, and yet an Aphrodite without genitals and indeed without any body hair whatsoever. And one of the things that's therefore so important about this is that it sets up a template for the ideal female body in the longer legacy of western art. So whenever we look at Renaissance Venus's for example or indeed at neoclassical Venus's, there's this absence of pubic hair that comes from the Greek inheritance in particular.
There's also this wonderful story of the Victorian art critic named John Ruskin and it's a story about his ill fated wedding night. And John Ruskin takes his new bride to his bridal suite and sees her naked body for the first time. And he's absolutely shocked to see that this woman not only has genitals but also pubic hair. And the story goes that he left the marriage forever unconsummated, and indeed they were divorced several years later.
Amanda Smith: And this was because supposedly all that he knew about women he'd learned from Greek sculpture?
Michael Squire: Absolutely, and not just from Greek sculpture but the whole classical tradition of western art. It's a tradition that has this absence of female genitalia and this absence of pubic hair.
Amanda Smith: Why did the Greeks give men pubic hair on their sculptures but not the women?
Michael Squire: That's a very good question and some people have tried to get round it by saying well perhaps the Aphrodite from Knidos had her pubic hair painted on, perhaps it wasn't actually sculpted by painted – and of course you can see that's going to be something of an argument of desperation. But I think it has to do with a kind of construction, a kind of impossible sort of womanhood, that has to do with a construct of what it means to be masculine as opposed to what it means to be feminine.
Amanda Smith: And you wonder if in years to come there will be more people like old John Ruskin who think that real grown women are as smooth and hairless as Greek statues. Michael Squire is the author of The Art of the Body: Antiquity and its Legacy.
Meredith Jones attributes the current trend for Brazilian waxing to something else. She's a Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology in Sydney and one of her special subjects is body modification. Meredith what do you think has prompted it?
Meredith Jones: Well it's a very interesting form of body modification this one. It's one that I've definitely seen rise in my lifetime, just in the last ten years or so. And really it comes down to one thing, although that thing is linked to many other things, and that is pornography. As pornography has become more and more mainstream and more and more accessible it's become necessary for pornography makers to get more and more competitive because obviously there's a lot more of it out there. And they've upped the ante if you like, they've upped the ante in several ways that I won't go into, but one of them is that they began to remove more and more pubic hair. That was men and women, just a way to sort of show more of what was happening. And it gradually became more and more standard. I
think that the first people who weren't in some way involved in some sort of sex industry work who had Brazilians were doing it for kind of sexy or erotic reasons. But it's now something that really is much more associated with what people think of as good grooming.
Amanda Smith: Well also having your body shaved or waxed or lasered may also simply be about how it feels nice to have smooth, silky skin. Sometimes it's also about things like athletic performance, you know swimmers for example remove their body hair to swim faster, cyclists do that too. But as a fashion for women, Brazilian waxing is also leading to the rise of other possibly other more extreme procedures, and I'm talking about cosmetic genital surgery which I know you have written about. How is the hair removal leading to the surgical removal?
Meredith Jones: Well it's a complex little path actually. The simple answer is that we can now see what's down there. So maps of Tassie used to hide all the details, now if there's no map of Tassie you can see what other women have down there, especially images that we see in the media. The more complex part of it is the relationship between the Brazilian wax and photo shop. The relationship there is to do with laws and regulations. There are laws in Australia and similar ones in the UK and the US that say that an image will get an X rating if it shows genitals in an explicit way. That's usually interpreted by image makers to mean full frontal for men or for women to mean pink bits showing, if you like.
Now given that at least 50% of women have labia minora that protrude further than their labia majora this means that if those women have had a Brazilian wax then their labia minora are going to be on display; even if they are just standing up straight, so even if they are not in any sort of sexually explicit pose. So for fear of having those images X rated we got image makers using photo shop to get rid of those pink bits and then that in turn led to a whole lot of women seeing that every image of a woman's vulva in the press didn't include any labia minora, and therefore coming to the conclusion that perhaps their own vulvas were abnormal in some way. And going off to have them fixed. And of course cosmetic surgeons absolutely jumped on that and have completely fed that beast with a whole lot of propaganda about women's self esteem.
Amanda Smith: Shame we just can't photo shop ourselves
Meredith Jones: Indeed. You know I had a woman once who I was interviewing, not in relation to vulval cosmetic surgery, but in relation to her face, and she was yet to have her cosmetic surgery. We were flicking through a magazine together and she was telling me who she found beautiful. And she stopped at one image and could point out all of the ways that this image if this beautiful woman had been photo shopped and then said to me I wish we could just photo shop me now.
Amanda Smith: Well the other thing about the trend for hair removal, body hair removal, is that especially for women if you choose not to do it, if you choose not to wax your legs or your underarms never mind anywhere else, you're kind of considered these days ugly or unhygienic. In a world where otherwise it seems to me having choice is considered a very valuable thing, we seem to be closing down choice in this area.
Meredith Jones: But things like body modification, and especially things that are temporary like hair removal, really are subject to fashion so I wouldn't be at all surprised if in 40 or 50 years it's again fashionable in some way for women to have some sort of body hair. You know there was a very brief trend just prior to the French Revolution for women to wear almost completely see through garments and to tease up their pubic hair and actually decorate it with strands of pearls and jewellery.
Amanda Smith: So this is a variation on a theme of the vajazzle?
Meredith Jones: Yes, it's the vajazzle yes but it's on a kind of afro! Yes, I do think it's harder to be hairy though and removal of body hair has become a kind of fetish, it's a fetish and the moment. It's very hard to work against when the Kim Kardashians of this world are saying that the only hair on a woman's body should be on her head.
Amanda Smith: Well for blokes there is the trend for manscaping now, if you're a bloke you can have what's bluntly described as a back, sack and crack. Is it different for men to be hairy or hairless at this point in time?
Meredith Jones: Yes it is. I think there's still at least in people's memory a time when hair on men was considered an indicator of their virility. You know that was definitely the case in the '70s. It's still definitely possible to get away with being hairy and in fact beards have made a big comeback recently. I don't think anyone could really still get away with having a hairy back and being considered sexy, but maybe that will come back one day. As you said before hairlessness on men is also associated with athleticism so swimmers and cyclists have done it for a long time. So being hairless for men isn't just an indicator of being sexy it's also sometimes an indicator of perhaps being a good sportsman.
Amanda Smith: It's interesting; we do make a lot of work for ourselves, all this plucking and shaving and waxing and lasering. If only we really were the naked ape, but then we'd probably be inventing all sorts of intricate and painful ways to, I don't know, to attach merkins or mohair stockings or chest rugs to ourselves.
Meredith Jones: Exactly, to add hair. I think it's you know one of the sort of ongoing conditions of being human that we change our bodies and that we want what we don't have or that we don't want we do have.
Amanda Smith: And Meredith Jones is from the Institute for Interactive Media and Learning at the University of Technology Sydney.
I'm Amanda Smith and if you've got anything to add to this subject: personal experience or opinion or observation you know where to go - The Body Sphere website post a comment there and if you like you can subscribe to the podcast or listen to previous episodes of The Body Sphere if there's any that you've missed - at abc.net.au/radionational.
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Terry :
20 Jan 2013 5:38:46pm
The program started with ` like our neanderthal ancestors'. I sincerely hope this sophomoric ingnorance isn't a foretaste of things to come. I was expecting something a _little_ more to do with this planet.
[ObClue - try ` cousins'.
Rachael Cramp :
20 Jan 2013 5:39:46pm
I thought the program was interesting, however, there should have been more said about sexism and the huge pressure women are under to conform to Hollywood body standards.
It is disturbing that teenagers think they need to get a Brazilian wax and this reflects on the porn industry and the portrayal of women as pre pubescent girls. The time and cost that women spend on their appearance is at least 5 times more than men based on my personal experience.
Hair is natural and if I had never felt pressured (at the the of 11) to shave I would never have done it.
David Barry :
20 Jan 2013 8:12:55pm
It has been my belief that the reason we humans have such modified hair all over our body is because we were the aquatic apes. We are the ape that lives by the sea. It is also the reason we are the upright ape.
Rosie Milenkovic :
21 Jan 2013 1:37:57pm
I wish you had discussed the most interesting thing about humans and hair, and that is , why do we have head hair that continues to grow, unlike any other mammal?
What possible purpose does it serve?
Debbie Johnson :
03 May 2013 1:30:17pm
No expert here, but humans are not the only animal where the hair continues to grow...
One example which comes to mind is that of horses. Their manes and tails continue to grow too.
Goldele :
21 Jan 2013 1:40:16pm
It is so refreshing to hear this conversation in the public sphere.
This topic has been a personal battle ground and frustration for me since I became sexually active.
At high-school the boys would "rate" out of 10 how smooth our legs were. My mother always had hair in her underarms, and I was not allowed to shave my body and I was teased by my school mates. SO shame began.
Once I became sexually active and would talk with men and women about the pros, cons, preferences and feelings about body hair. I would propose that no pubic hair made a woman look like a pre-pubescent girl. When I would refuse brazilian waxes, and in my young ears as an outspoken feminist, a number of poor beauticians looked which shocked when I would say this.
My personal battle with my relationship to my body hair has seen me attempt to let my body hair grow, only to feel unattractive. Having had partners to like and dislike pubic hair so pandering to their preference.
I shall leave you with one of my favorite theatrical comment of body hair by the infamous playwright of the Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler.
A Monologue called HAIR
You cannot love a vagina unless you love hair. Many people do not love hair. My first and only husband hated hair. He said it was cluttered and dirty. He made me shave my vagina. It looked puffy and exposed and like a little girl. This excited him. When we made love to me, my vagina felt the way a beard must feel. It felt good to rub it, and painful. Like scratching a mosquito bite. It felt like it was on fire. There were screaming red bumps. I refused to shave it again. Then my husband had an affair. When we went to marital therapy, he said he screwed around because I wouldn't please him sexually. I wouldn't shave my vagina. Therapist had a think
German accent and gasped between sentences to show her empathy. She asked me why I didn't want to please my husband. I told her I thought it was weird. I felt little when my hair was gone down there, and I couldn't help talking in a baby voice, and the skin got irritated and even calamine lotion wouldn't help it. She told me marriage was a compromise. I asked her if shaving my vagina would stop him from screwing around. I asked her if she'd had many cases like this before. She said that questions diluted the process. I needed to jump in. She was sure it was a good beginning. This time, When we got home, he got to shave my vagina. It was like a therapy bonus prize. He clipped it a few times, and there was a little blood in the bathtub. He didn't even notice it cause he was so happy shaving me. Then, later when my husband was pressing against me, I could feel his spiky sharpness sticking into me, my naked puffyvagina. There was no protection. There was no fluff.
I realized then that hair is there for a reason---it's the leaf around the flower, the lawn around the house. You have to l
Pamela :
21 Jan 2013 2:30:53pm
Pubic hair is there for a reason. Any male who demands a woman remove it, or is disgusted by it, has a problem of his own. 'Good grooming' can be a bikini wax and some soap and water. We need to think about who we're doing it for. Also, from a psychological viewpoint, why do these males prefer genitalia that looks like that of a little girl? Creepy.
deforested :
21 Jan 2013 5:13:45pm
I think it's a pity that even a bikini wax is considered necessary. I did try it once and found myself with bumpy sore skin for about a week. Haven't revisited that again.
deforested :
21 Jan 2013 2:43:58pm
Really enjoyed it. Over the years I have spent a lot of time and a LOT of money dealing with unwanted facial hair, in particular. I'm glad my generation didn't worry about pubic hair, at least! Also found the discussion about female genitals v interesting: for so long it bothered me greatly that I had 'pink bits' that showed. This stuff matters a lot. It matters that young women get accurate information.
Pamela :
21 Jan 2013 2:44:23pm
I believe we have evolved over the millennia to have less hair than our ancestral cousins since we began wearing the skins of other animals and therefore no longer had a great need for it ourselves.
pat moore :
21 Jan 2013 4:08:34pm
Thanks for your lively & interesting programs Amanda. David...maybe that's uptight as well as upright?
I agree with Rachael. Though internet-popularized pornography was rightly cited as the source inspiring the fashion of hairless adult women there was no mention of the originating source of that pornographic obsession itself which is fantasized sex with prepubescent girl children ie paedo "philia" (more properly abuse). Cold Greek marble statues, photoshop & plastic Barbi dolls speak of man-maleable, manmade,'civilized', tamed, perfected & "madeover" woman, removed from the real, the natural animal Earthiness of hairy ape woman who would remind man of his own animality?...a Pygmalion project? An Athena, motherless daughter, sprung-from-the-fathergod-Zeus' head alone without input from any Earth goddess? A man-fashioned compliant doll, a 'Stepford wife', a fetish object. The global epidemics of brutal rape & murder perhaps speak of this massmedia fetishization of woman, consequent of her being made into a thing for male sexual consumption & gratification?
The politics of hair runs deep??...how far we've fallen since "Hair" the musical!!!
Anthony Cole :
21 Jan 2013 4:37:29pm
Peter Wheeler, in the 1980s and 1990s proposed that we lost our body hair as we developed increased sweating, to improve thermoregulation. This improved thermoregulation allowed us to run for very much longer than our non-sweating, hairy prey, so that we could run them to exhaustion.
Here is a recent update of the current supporting evidence for the hypothesis:
Cathy Lewis :
22 Jan 2013 12:34:20am
No reference to feminist theory? Hmm, did you consider the link between the incidence of child molestation (usually by dad, less so by the local priest or pedophile) and the male attraction to prepubescence in women? Personally I shave nothing in protest.
Philippa :
23 Jan 2013 4:01:47pm
Amanda, I'm so glad you're back on air again.
Just listening to the episode on body hair removal, particularly pubic hair.
What a fascinating thought, that looking like a plucked chicken, and face it, that's what the whole pubic area looks like without pubic hair, is considered sexy!!!
Under arm hair and pubic hair are what makes a naked woman look sexy. Where did this idea come from that it doesn't?
Ok, a bit of a trim around the edges if it's out of control, but where are these guys coming from?
I have to say, I can't imagine any guy who would actually say " sorry, can't go there cos you're not waxed"
A few friends of mine and one of their daughters were having a chat about it one day, and the daughter was saying she always waxed and we were asking her why. " Oh it's so much cooler" she said. Well, we all cracked up and decided we didn't realise it was so hot down there! Thank for your great program. Cheers, Philippa


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Kitchen Gallery: Living Plants in the Kitchen
Are you craving a little green this time of year? How about some plants in your kitchen? Herbs, ivy, potted flowers? We love having fresh herbs to snip, but even non-edible plants brighten a kitchen and make it feel more like home. Here's a look at a few real-life kitchens and the ways that they've incorporated living plants.
• 1 42anderson's Love, Eat, Party - An entry in Small Cool 2007. Love how the pots in the window take advantage of every scrap of urban sunlight without blocking the view or light to the rest of the kitchen.
• 2 Monika's Evolving Experiment - A trail of ivy defines the boundary between kitchen and living area.
• 3 Abby's Mom's Home - A cozy, old-fashioned New York apartment with a whole window of plants.
• 4 Mariah's Eclectic House of Curios and Collectibles - This San Francisco kitchen has small green things growing in every corner, it seems!
• 5 Mariah's kitchen - Another set of plants in Mariah's kitchen.
• 6 Karen and James' Color Commitment - Bold and red on the countertop.
• 7 Peter's Light Loft Living - We showed you Peter's shopping cart kitchen island; now look at how he dramatically fills the space between cupboard-tops and loft ceiling.
• 8 Ben's Mid-Century Mecca - Ben has an unusual element in his tiny urban kitchen: a bonsai. A nod to the pressures and pleasures of small urban living, perhaps?
• 9 Jeremy's Lovely Vertical Kitchen Storage - So much green here; we like how the plants and accessories work so well together.
• 10 Brian's New Beginning - Here the plants really help an eat-in kitchen feel more cozy and homey.
• 11 Margaret's Recession Proof Home - It's great how Margaret casually throws a plant in with the jumble of diverse and interesting ingredients on her counter.
• 12 Chad and Ed's Warm Neutrals - This kitchen is fairly dark, but the plants seem to thrive here.
• 13 Chad and Ed's kitchen - An up-close shot: geraniums, in the kitchen! They have such a wonderful smell.
• 14 Chris and Nyla's Passive Solar Cottage - Wow, this is a lot of plants! They echo the view of the trees outside.
• 15 Adelle and Justin's British Retro Modern - From a favorite kitchen tour. Fresh basil is such a good thing to keep around!
Do you have plants in the kitchen, and how do you keep them alive? If you have photos, post them here, and we'll do a roundup next week of readers' plants in the kitchen!
Related: Hot or Not? Ivy In the Kitchen
(Images: Please see linked posts for individual photo credits.)


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History and Old Stuff... Some Interesting News...
The Associated Press by Jill Lawless
Centre Daily Times, August 13, 2006
LONDON -- The Middle Ages met the Internet age last week when the Domesday Book -- a survey of England conducted almost 1,000 years ago -- went online.
The book, a record of the people and lands ruled by William the Conqueror, is the oldest record held by Britain's National Archives and one of the country's most valuable documents. Now anyone with an Internet connection can -- for a fee -- download copies of handwritten records that provide a picture of life in the 11th century.
Read more: England's ancient Domesday Book goes high-tech
I am so glad I live in the age of the internet. I often think how much my mother would have enjoyed it.


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|2008-08-17, 16:56
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Does anyone know where I can find a site that sells Japanese manga for a good price and ships to America? All of the sites I see people post for Japanese manga have prices that are either equal to or above the yen price of the manga (example: a manga will be priced, say, $5.00, when it really only cost 480 yen ((and 100 yen is equal to less than $1.00 U.S. Dollar, so the price should really be more like $4.00!))). I would want a site that would (preferably) have english translations of the Japanese page (like what amazon.co.jp does) or be an original English site.
I'm thinking of ordering from amazon.co.jp, since they are the only English-friendly site I can find that doesn't have crazy prices. But still, their prices for their manga aren't discounted either, they are just not overpriced.
On the amazon.co.jp site, they said that when they bill me on my credit card, it will be converted into my currency (dollars). Do all foreign sites do this, or is amazon just one of the few sites like CDJapan that will convert it for you?
|2008-08-17, 18:47
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Pretty much all foreign sites that display their prices in yen will charge you in yen. However, the majority of credit card companies will add transaction fees for currency conversions.
|2008-08-17, 19:37
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Is there anywhere where I can get a rates for how much the transaction fees would be? Would it usually be equal to the yen rate (changing the currency rate to make 100 yen=$1.00)?
|2008-08-18, 07:42
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|2008-08-19, 18:28
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nippon-export.com (owned by matthew) is really a lot cheaper. It's english-based. I was wavering between that and amazon.co.jp, since nippon didn't have some of the newer (and older) releases, but decided to go with nippon and emailed them to request manga by ISBN. They found them all for me and the shipping was a lot cheaper.
|2008-08-23, 15:55
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See username, this is my first post here because it's the best resource I found whilst googling. I'm trying to learn to read Japanese, and I'd love to get my hands on some Japanese manga to help immerse myself. My usual site for ordering from Japan so far has been 1999.co.jp (/eng), and only because of their great navigation and Gundam model selection. They only sell erotic manga as far as I can tell, which is where my problem lies.
Specifically, one manga I'd really love to get is (Kureyon/Crayon) Shin-chan. Mostly, I find the comics hilarious and from what I've seen they have the small kana for aiding people who haven't picked up their kanji yet. When I search amazon.co.jp though, all I can find is something that translates to "Shin-Chan the Little Horror". Hope the link works.
What the heck is this product? Also, on 90% of the sites I've checked, they might even picture the Japanese version of the manga but they're really selling the American translation when I check reviews. Does anyone have any suggestions for stores or ways to ensure I'm getting the Japanese version (aside from writing and requesting, which I could do as a last resort)?
|2008-08-24, 01:11
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That site doesn't seem to have as high prices as most other English based sites, but it still seems to be higher than amazon's. Buying a volume of I''s Complete Edition (Wideban... or whatever it's called) costs 980 yen on amazon, but costs 1127 yen on Nippon-Export. It's the same with other manga.
Thanks, though.
Which reminds me, is Borders even supposed to carry Japanese manga? I remember one time I went to a large store far away from me and they had a Japanese tankoban of Pastel. They had the English edition of the same volume right next to it, so I was shocked to see it. The only indication of it being at all English was a sticker on the back of it with the price ($10.95). I wonder if they somehow received a Japanese volume from their warehouse, or something?
As for クレヨンしんちゃん (Shin-chan), check here. If you ever want to find Shin-chan manga without that link, just copy-and-past the Japanese characters I posted before the link.
You're not going to be able to find many Japanese manga without typing in hiragana/katakana. To find out how to type in Japanese, google "How to type in Japanese". If you don't want to do that (you should), you can copy-and-paste the characters that animenewsnetwork posts under their Alternate Title column on each individual encyclopedia page.
You might also want to check out hesjapanese.com. That's a good site to learn Japanese from.
|2008-08-24, 03:34
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Thanks for the site link, btw. Looks helpful. On a learning and somewhat topic-related note, in case it can help anyone else, what got me into wanting the Japanese manga in the first place was "Learn Japanese the Manga Way", which uses real manga panels to teach the language, and is one of the most brilliant ideas for a language course I've seen in a while. It has full references to all the manga it uses, usually including descriptions of which ones suit which level of learning. I'm also using "Kana/Kanji Pict-O-Graphix" for memorization, which has pictures in the shapes of the characters set to mnemonic phrases. Imagine mo (も) as "catch MO fish with two worms"... yeah, just try and forget that character now. I've tried.
|2008-08-24, 14:34
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Also, if you click the "このレビューの作者: Crayon Shinchan 1 (ペーパーバック) " link on the English review that's available, it will take you to the English edition. Just like with the description, amazon is probably taking it from the English edition.
Basically, as long as you can see a picture of a manga with Japanese text in it, or the price is some where under 1000 yen (English manga is expensive), you can tell it's a Japanese manga.
You may want to try setting your computer up so it can type Japanese. This can actually be a usuful Japanese training method. The way a lot of Japanese keyboards work is by having you type the romaji out, and then the computer will transfer it into Japanese. For instance, type "ku", get "く". While you type out stuff in romaji, you are also helping yourself learn Japanese.
Another helpful way is to play Japanese visual novels. Since nowadays, most visual novels have their dialouge spoken, as well as in text, you will eventually get to understand characters if you try reading them when they are spoken, instead of skipping trying to read the dialogue.
|2008-08-25, 12:15
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|2008-08-25, 23:51
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Do you have any shipping rates?
|2008-08-26, 13:28
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amazon.co.jp offers free shipping only within Japan unfortunately.
Rates for shipping could be found here. They only offer expresss shipping:
|2008-08-26, 13:31
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Nippon may not have every item listed, but they can get used and new copies quickly (in less than a day) as long as you provide an ISBN or the title and author, and if possible, what site you found it on.
after you check it out with amazon, I usually do this with nippon to compare rates:
I like to see which one will come out cheaper.
|2008-08-26, 13:55
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amazon.co.jp became MUCH less attractive when they dropped all but the most expensive form of international shipping.
yes-asia.com has very good shipping prices but they far too often have been unable to complete requested orders.
I've worked with nippon-export.com for several years and found them to be not only professional but even personally helpful. Example: I was looking for a poster of Fuuka from Yotsuba I'd seen on the web... sent them a pic and they actually tracked down that it was a poster advert placed on the public transit systems and they weren't able to snare a copy. I was very impressed they went to that length of trouble.
|2008-08-26, 21:47
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Thanks for the links.
*sigh* I guess I'll have to try Nippon-Export... At least their manga isn't really overpriced like how some sites are. I hope the service is as good as it's supposed to be.
|2008-08-28, 13:08
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Vexx: Yesasia completes all of my orders, it just takes over a month. But understandably so, as I get newer issues, and those are most likely preorders 19 days ahead of the release. However, there were times where they took 2 months, and that was killer.
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The Central Connecticut women's golf team won the Mount St. Mary's Spring Invitational on Tuesday for the second consecutive year. Central led the field on both days finishing with a team score of 927, a 25 stroke victory over runner-up Robert Morris.
The two day tournament, which was scheduled for two rounds on day one and one round on day two, was hosted at Quail Valley Golf Club in Littlestown, PA. Northeast Conference rival Mount St. Mary's hosted the event.
Central (308/309/310/927) finished 63 strokes over par as a team, second place Robert Morris (309/319/324/952) followed the Blue Devils at 88 over-par. Saint Francis U (320/321/330/971), Fairleigh Dickinson (327/321/327/977), and Fairfield (328/322/334/984) rounded out the field's top-five, finishing third, fourth, and fifth respectively.
Senior Katie Reid (79/73/76/228) claimed the tournament's individual championship winning the event after a sudden death playoff round with teammate Albrianna Farnum (76/77/75/228). Reid started the day in second place and shot a 76 on Tuesday to give her the victory after defeating Farnum on the second hole of the playoff.
Head Coach Carly Ludwig said about Reid and Farnum, "I am very proud of both Albrianna and Katie for playing a solid 54 holes. This is a great win for Katie as a senior captain on this team. It was definitely a great way to finish out her last regular season tournament."
Farnum led her team on Tuesday shooting the lowest score of any Blue Devil, a 75, to give her a share of first-place at the conclusion of tournament play. Both Farnum and Reid were 12 strokes over-par heading into the playoff, four strokes ahead of the next competitor.
The vicory is Reid's first individual victory of her career and her second top-ten finish of the 2012-13 season. Farnum's second place finish is her highest individual finish of her career as a Blue Devil.
Both golfer's hit scoring milestone's at the tournament, shooting their lowest round scores of the season. Reid's 73 in round two marks her lowest round score of the season while Farnum's 75 in round three marks hers.
The Blue Devils were the only team in the field to place three competitors in the individual top-five. Senior Anna Ausanio (75/81/77/233) also placed in the top-five shooting a 77 on Tuesday to give her a fourth place finish. Ausanio started the third round in fifth place and shot 17 strokes over-par for the tournament to give the senior her fifth top-ten finish of the season. Ausanio leads the team in the category.
Freshman Sarah Boden (78/86/82/246) had her best round in round one to give her a 15th place finish individually. Boden was 30 stokes over par for the tournament. Senior Stephanie Bednar (88/78/92/258) tied for 32nd place.
The victory at the Mount St. Mary's Spring Invitational is Central's first tournament win since claiming the event's championship last season. The Blue Devils' team score of 927 is a boasting 47 stroke improvement from last year's 974.
"We couldn't have asked for a better prelude into NEC's. We set out to defend this title at the beginning of the semester and it's great to see their hard work paying off. I am hopeful that we can continue to ride this wave of confidence into the conference tournament next week and continue our season."
Central will be back in action at the NEC Conference Tournament on April 26th. The tournament is scheduled for three days, three rounds, and will conclude on April 28th. The Blue Devils will look to improve on their seventh place finish at last year's NEC Tournament.


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Thursday will mark the seventh anniversary of the death of Cpl. David Unger, who was killed while serving in Iraq.
Thursday will mark the seventh anniversary of the death of Cpl. David Unger, who was killed while serving in Iraq.
And that day was chosen for the dedication of a memorial that will honor Unger and all other veterans.
The dedication ceremony for the Leavenworth Veterans Memorial is scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday. The memorial is located near the main entrance to the Eisenhower VA Medical Center, 4101 S. Fourth St.
Unger's mother, Diana Pitts, serves as chairwoman for the committee that has raised the money to erect the memorial.
"It is a veterans memorial," she said. "It is not a war memorial."
Pitts said the decision to construct the memorial came after she was asked where something a battlefield cross honoring her son would be placed. Initially, it was thought that it would be placed at the local veterans memorial. But Pitts said there wasn't one.
"So that's how it started," she said.
Fundraising for the memorial began in 2008.
Pitts said about $70,000 has been raised for the memorial so far. She said a lot of the work required for the memorial has been provided through in-kind donations.
The committee has money left over, but the group's work is not completed. There are plans for a second phase of the memorial.
Pitts said she kept looking for dates related to veterans or the military for scheduling the dedication ceremony. One of her friends recommended Thursday's date.
The dedication ceremony will include a ribbon cutting for the memorial.
Pitts said the memorial will be turned over to the VA during the ceremony.
"They'll take that portion over," she said.
The first phase includes granite pieces as well as battlefield crosses, or soldier's crosses.
"It's looks amazing," Pitts said.
The second phase will feature panels with the names of veterans.
"We're trying to accommodate as many veterans' names as we can in the area we've been given," Pitts said.