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President Barack Obama this week signed an executive memorandum setting up a special task force focused on sexual assault on U.S. college campuses. The president's order followed the release of a new report from the White House Council on Women and Girls, "Rape and Sexual Assault: A Renewed Call to Action." According to the study, one in five college students is sexually assaulted. The new task force will have three months to recommend how colleges and universities can reduce that figure. But does the problem of sexual assault on campus really rise to the federal level? Or is the Obama administration overreaching?
Be wary of the claim that one in five students have been sexually assaulted or raped at some point in their college careers. In an era of declining violent crime rates, the statistic is remarkably resilient.
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reports a sharp drop in total rapes and sexual assaults nationwide — down 38.7 percent between 2008 and 2009, which are the most recent years for which data are readily available. Yet the White House stubbornly repeats the one-in-five claim, a number that has circulated since at least 2000.
As my Manhattan Institute colleague Heather Mac Donald noted in 2011 — the last time the White House touted the campus rape issue — there were just 36.8 rapes per 100,000 residents of Detroit, a city with one of the worst violent crime rates in America. That's a rate of 0.037 percent.
"If 18-year-old girls were in fact walking into such a grotesque maelstrom of sexual violence when they first picked up their dormitory room key," Mac Donald observed, "parents and students alike would have demanded a radical restructuring of college life years ago." Obviously, that hasn't happened.
Look askance, too, at the Obama administration's claim that school officials are somehow ignoring widespread instances of sexual assault. In fact, they're obsessed with it. Federal law for decades has required schools to maintain detailed records of rape and assault — they number in the dozens annually, as opposed to thousands.
Activists claim the crimes are simply underreported, despite the fact that governments have poured tens of millions of dollars annually into campus rape prevention and awareness campaigns, such as Take Back the Night.
What's really happening here? The latest White House report offers a hint, noting how sexual assaults are "fueled by drinking and drug use." The supposed epidemic of sexual violence on college and university campuses is really an epidemic of binge drinking, drug abuse and pervasive hookups.
Changing the "rape culture" really requires cracking down on the party culture that permeates too many colleges today. But don't expect administrators to re-impose the old "in loco parentis" system that went out 40 years ago. Instead expect more demands for greater funding, and endless cries to "take back the night."
Ben Boychuk is associate editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal. Readers can email him at bboychuk@
Be wary of conservative dismissals of campus rape. A large swath of the conservative movement is convinced that the "problem" is overblown at best, manufactured by man-hating feminists to knock the purveyors of traditional morality on their heels. Conservative contempt for liberals has led them to deny that there's any problem worth addressing.
"The crisis doesn't exist," Heather Mac Donald, a leading debunker of campus sex assault, wrote in 2008.
Admittedly: It's true the 1-in-5 statistic does cover a somewhat ambiguous set of situations: It was based on a 1985 survey that asked women this question: "Have you had sexual intercourse when you didn't want to because a man gave you alcohol or drugs?"
Men and women who are parties to such incidents may not recognize them as "rape" per se — but that point of view suggests that "no means no" only until someone can induce legal compliance via drugs, alcohol or simple unwillingness to take "no" for an answer. If it is difficult for us to call such incidents "rape," it is also difficult to suggest that true consent has been granted.
Less ambiguous was a 1997 survey that questioned women in graphic language that covered the elements of a criminal rape charge. That incident found that 1.7 percent of college women had experienced a "complete" rape; an additional 1.1 percent had experienced "attempted rape."
Does the cumulative number of 2.8 percent sound small? Consider this: In 2006, Detroit (Mac Donald's favorite reference point) experienced a violent crime rate of 2.4 percent — 2,400 murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults per 100,000 inhabitants. It's possible women are safer in Detroit than they are at a fraternity party.
So campus rape is a real problem. Who should deal with it? Everybody. The federal government certainly has an interest — it spends $100 billion on higher education every year. Culture warriors should take a deep breath, then see what recommendations Obama's task force comes up with, and whether they make sense. Everything else is just posturing.
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Barcelona are preparing a bid for Fernando Torres, Graham Hunter told Sky Sports News.
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It was reported on Thursday in some newspapers that the Spanish giants were set to offer £17m to Chelsea - £33m less than the British record transfer fee that Liverpool received two years ago from the London club.
"It is a well-sourced story," said the Spain-based journalist. "Barcelona do want to add a centre forward and are in the process of selling David Villa. Although they have added Neymar and have a replete armoury of different kinds of strikers, they do want a No 9.
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One player seemingly not on the move in Spain is Cesc Fabregas with the former Arsenal midfielder rubbishing claims that he was set for a return to the Premier League.
Despite recent reports suggesting his old club and newly crowned champions Manchester United were ready to make their move, the Spain international stated: "I've always said I'm happy at Barca. If someone says I don't want to play at Barca, it's completely absurd."
Hunter explained: "It is well known that Man United would like to buy him and have been briefing round the club that it was their big intention for the summer.
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The core of Liberation's gameplay rests in the identity of its heroine, Aveline. Born to a wealthy, French father and an African mother who was a slave, this new assassin juggles the identities of an aristocrat and commoner, figuratively and literally.
In addition to carrying out missions in her traditional assassin's outfit, Aveline is able to don the guise of a slave or a damsel. All three 'roles' have distinct advantages and drawbacks, and all are accessible through the Vita's touch screen with the click of a button. As an assassin, Aveline has access to all of her weapons, but is automatically notorious - easily spotted in the Spanish-controlled, French-inhabited New Orleans.
Masquerading as an elite citizen or a slave is far more discreet. By donning an elaborate dress, hat and parasol, Aveline loses a great deal of her mobility and access to weapons, but she is instantly favored by hostiles. In fact, she can flirt with enemies, luring them to dark alleys - the perfect spot for an assassination. A slave identity exists somewhere between the other two, allowing Aveline to use some of her tools of destruction, but at the expense of the armor she has as an assassin. More important, she's able to gain the support of other slaves and poor citizens, and is able to incite riots - perfect for a necessary distraction.
The other major shift to the gameplay established in the console version of ACIII is Liberation's "chain kill" mechanic. Essentially this is the "mark and execute" functionality we've seen in the Splinter Cell franchise. As Aveline accumulates stealth kills against her opponents, she's allowed the ability to target specific enemies. A quick press on the D-Pad then gives the player the ability to use the touch screen to mark certain enemies, even allowing the camera to be rotated to get a better vantage point if necessary. The whole system works fairly effortlessly, though it does take a certain tactical feel out of the traditional AC system, which in turn robs players of that satisfaction.
Liberation's ties to Assassin's Creed III are mostly thematic (and historic), however players will directly interact with Connor, the hero of the console games, in one specific mission. Anyone playing also playing the PS3 version of ACIII, however, will be able to unlock several new elements in Liberation - including the ability to specifically play as Connor in that mission.
Beyond these additions, Liberation is very much what you'd expect - and that's not at all a bad thing. You're tasked with eliminating targets or otherwise influencing events in New Orleans, with the ultimate goal of furthering the Assassin cause against the Templars. Making matters more complicated, of course, is that Aveline's own heritage, world view and discoveries during her adventure might not align with those of her Assassin mentor, Agaté.
Liberation is shaping up to be a worthy addition to the Assassin's Creed lineage, one that is attempting to add its own thoughts as far as franchise gameplay. That it stars the series' first playable female assassin, one that appears to have a layered, complex background, makes that package even more alluring. The real question is this - will the game be able to stand outside the shadow of its console counterpart, which is releasing on the same day? Stay tuned to IGN as we attempt to find out in the coming days and weeks.
Rich is an Executive Editor of IGN.com and the leader of IGN's Nintendo team. He also watches over all things WWE, Resident Evil, Assassin's Creed and much more. Follow him on Twitter, if you dare!


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thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian
Friday, October 7, 2016
Say Hapa, With Care
this piece was originally published June 2014 on (the now defunct site) AAPI Voices
by Sharon H. Chang
What does Hapa mean? One way to know is to look at the ways in which the word is used.
It's a "Hawaiian word for 'mixed-race'," says Hapa Kitchen Supper Club, "coined to refer to people of East Asian and Caucasian backgrounds." Hapa Sushi Grill & Sake Bar calls it "a harmonious blend of Asian and American." It's a "slang term," proclaims The Natural Hapa: Bamboo Bundles and Hapa Time: Style Inspiration chirps it's "just one of the coolest words ever." There's Hapa Yoga, Hapa Ramen, Hapa Grill, Hapa Cupcakes, Hinode sells a "Hapa Blend" of brown and white rices and Hapa Culture sells…erasers?
Let's talk about this word, Hapa.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
SHELFTALK Nightstand Reads: Seattle author Sharon H. Chang shares from her bookpile(s)
Dear Readers,
First. Truth. I've got books on my nightstand but I don't read at night. I mostly read in the early, early morning before the sun comes up; when the air outside is quiet, still and fresh; when cars are parked, the hustle bustle of the day hasn't begun and most people are still sound asleep; most importantly my six-year-old son is still sound asleep. And I keep books all over the house. On my nightstand yes. But also on shelves, counters, in book bags, unopened and opened boxes, upstairs and downstairs, half-read, read twice, never read, will read later, reading now. In my head I have a rule "one book at a time, finish first then the next." But in reality that never works out. There is - to simply put the simple truth - just too much exciting stuff to read and not always the perfect time to read it in.
So what's in my for-the-morning nightstand/all-over-the-house piles right now?
YOU'RE INVITED! Raising Mixed Race @ Central Library, Seattle
That's a wrap! Please join me for the LAST STOP on the Raising Mixed Race book tour!!! (sniff) Poetry, dance, performance and an author talk by me to celebrate my journey over the last year with this book and many amazing collaborators. You really don't want to miss this one at an incredible venue, Seattle's world-known Central Library, with an incredible lineup.
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Parking in the Central Library garage will be available for $6 after 5 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Books and band merchandise will be available for purchase. This event will be recorded for future podcast.
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Parking in the Central Library garage will be available for $6 after 5 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Books and band merchandise will be available for purchase. This event will be recorded for future podcast.
Poetry / ANIS GISELE ~ Anis is a queer immigrant writer, by way of Manila, Philippines. Her work is celebrated as much as it is minimized and/or blindly consumed. She is a 2016 Everyday Feminism fellow, a 2016 VONA/Voices fellow (fiction), and a 2016 King Country Artist for Equity and Social Justice (poetry).
Afrofuturism: Amalgamation / LUZVIMINDA "LULU" UZURI CARPENTER ~ also known as Ms. Lulu, Ate "Big Sister" Lulu, and #LuluNation... is an artist, educator, consultant, cultural and youth worker, producer, community organizer and strategist. She is the Seattle Girls' School Performance Studies Teacher & Resident Artist; Hollow Earth Radio Youth & Young Adult Program Coordinator & Anti-Oppression Consultant; Radio Host of LuluNation + Crew; Co-Chair of the City of Seattle LGBT Commission; and was an Ambassador for On the Boards (OtB). She shows her commitment and love towards Duwamish territory through projects with UZURI* Consulting & Productions, and weaves intersections of community, nonprofits, business, and organizing through Green Bodies & WonderLab. You can find her on instagram and twitter @LuluNation206 and #LuluNation via social media.
Dance / JASMMINE RAMGOTRA
Dance / ANGEL "MOONYEKA" LANGLEY ~ Moonyeka is a young Filipina-American street dancer and choreographer and recent dance graduate from the University of Washington. She has been a teaching artist teaching ballet/modern/hip hop at Rainier Dance Center, Remix Dance Team at My World Dance and Fitness Studio, Arts Corps as a resident artist, at Mt. View Elementary and other Seattle elementary schools, D&G Dance Studios, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, Massive Monkees Studio: The Beacon, and local community centers. Moonyeka has also collaborated and organized with Youth Speaks Seattle, Moksha, Arts Corps, Anak Bayan, and the Seattle dance scene.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
IN THE WHITE FRAME : An interview with mixed-race dancers Angel Langley & Jasmmine Ramgotra
[photo by Jean-Stéphane Vachon]
by Sharon H. Chang
STRANGE COUPLING is an annual juried exhibition of collaborations between University of Washington (UW) student artists and local professional artists. Over a decade old, the School of Art + Art History + Design program aims to connect campus and community through teamwork and direct engagement. This year I was entirely captivated by one of twelve projects, a performance piece entitled In The White Frame by mixed-race student dancers Angel Langley and Jasmmine Ramgotra with local sound artist/composer/teacher Byron Au Yong. The piece is a stunning work of art and innovative look at the experience of multiraciality within our white dominant culture.
A stunning work of art and innovative look at the experience of multiraciality within our white dominant culture.
Monday, July 18, 2016
Tragedy, Trauma, and Telling Our Kids the Truth
by Sharon H. Chang
On Thursday morning, July 14, I had the honor of talking on-air with Minelle Mahtani -- author of Mixed Race Amnesia and host of Sense of Place at Roundhouse Radio -- about race, tragedy, parenting and our kids. Of course we did this show to engage with a string of recent tragic shootings that have left many reeling: the mass shooting of queer people of color (predominantly Latinx) at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, FL, which resulted in 49 deaths; the highly publicized police shootings which killed two Black men - Alton Sterling and Philando Castile - in Baton Rouge and Minnesota, respectively; and the subsequent mass shooting of police officers in Dallas, TX, at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest, which resulted in 5 officer deaths. And sadly much more has happened since.
Minelle and I took questions via email, tweet and call-in. Parents and teachers asked, how do we broach this incredibly painful subject of racism and escalating violence with children? It is more and more obvious that we have to as our children pick up and absorb the increasing myriad of racialized messages being delivered by society about these tragedies. We're seeing, hearing, observing our kids using race and racist words and ideas, and they're also starting to ask us really tough questions. What is our response? How do we know what's age appropriate? When do we start? What if we frighten our kids or leave them depressed with hopelessness? How do we find time and space to even begin said conversations when we don't have a lot of time and space ourselves?
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
YOU'RE INVITED! Raising Mixed Race at Elliott Bay, Seattle WA
SO EXCITED to invite you an incredibly special Raising Mixed Race book event at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, WA!!! If you're a Seattle-ite (or can be for the evening) you seriously don't want to miss this interstellar collaboration including book talks, readings, local music, powerhouse Asian Pacific Northwest women writers and contributions from local chefs. Our night will open with a set by super talented local musician Brenda Xu + yummy food samples from Hood Famous Bakeshop and Marination. Next up, I will of course speak and read from Raising Mixed Race. But then it's not over. Following I'm so honored to panel with badass Canadian authors/editors Minelle Mahtani and Brandy Lien Worrall-Soriano for critical conversations on mixedness. There will definitely be time for Q&A ~ and ~ Brenda Xu merchandise + copies of all writers books will be available for sale/signing.
See? Told you. Don't want to miss it...
Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 - 10th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 624-6600
This event is free and open to the public. Doors open 6:30p.
Go to the --> Facebook Event Page: Raising Mixed Race @ Elliot Bay
Music / Brenda Xu ~ Ambient/folk artist, Brenda Xu (pronounced "shoo") has been building a steady following since her arrival on the Seattle music scene a few years ago. The momentum she created with the release of her last album "For The Winter" (2014) has led to two successful western U.S. tours and a recent feature in the MTV show "Awkward." Compared to artists such as Cat Power, Daughter, and Aimee Mann, her sound has been described as "treading the delicate line between washed-out ambient tones and carefully crafted acoustic arrangements." She is currently working on her fourth album and plans to tour the U.S. and Europe this year. http://brendaxu.com/
Panel / Brandy Lien Worrall-Soriano ~ Brandy is editor of the recent anthology Completely Mixed Up: Mixed Heritage Asian North American Writing and Art (2015) and author of What Doesn't Kill Us (2014), a groundbreaking memoir about growing up in the din of her Vietnamese mother and American father's trauma from the Vietnam War, and how it related to her breast cancer experience as a young adult. She is also the author of eight collections of poetry and owner/editor of Rabbit Fool Press, a small family-owned-and-operated publishing company based in Vancouver. https://brandyworrall.com/
Videography & Photography / Devon de Leña ~ Devon is a storyteller, filmmaker, and powerful community facilitator. As a mixed-raced filipina/white woman she values the importance of intersectionality and honoring complexity within our stories and movements. She believes in building power through healing, creativity and cultural work. Her vision is to weave stories of identity, resilience and imagination together so that we can cultivate authentic representations of people living at the intersections and fringes of our society. http://www.devondelena.com/
Cheesecake / Chera Amlag ~ Chera is a co-founder of the Food & Sh*t monthly pop-ups in Seattle, where diners became enamored with her desserts that blended Filipino flavors with familiar Western desserts. When her ube cheesecake debuted in 2013 it quickly became the most demanded item on the menu leading Chera to grow a branch on the Food & Sh*t tree and the larger Filipino food movement -- the Hood Famous Bakeshop!
Sliders & Tacos / Kamala Saxton & Roz Edison ~ In 2009 Marination owners Kamala and Roz decided to run their own business. Big Blue took to the streets in June with a unique Hawaiian-Korean fusion cuisine in tow. Over one million tacos and nearly five incredible years later, Marination has grown into a big aloha family! One truck, one little brick-and-mortar in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, and one beachside restaurant with a full bar, huge patio, and a TO DIE FOR view.
Saturday, June 25, 2016
These 2 Ads Might Say Everything About How Global Racism Really Is
by Sharon H. Chang
Alright that's done. I want (pause) -- well I don't want, but feel like I need to show you two TV ads recently posted to YouTube literally within days of each other. Both are out of east Asia, Japan and China respectively. The first is a Toyota commercial out of Japan. It portrays a shiny techno-future funneled through the nostalgic eyes of a white father and happy memories of his mixed race Japanese family/children:
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Public defender Dina Chavar asked Sleet for a sentence of no more than four months, near the bottom of the recommended range of three to nine months. Wolf sought a sentence of eight months.
Federal prosecutors initially alleged that David Matusiewicz violated his probation by not properly disclosing his whereabouts and not paying court-ordered child support and restitution. They said Matusiewicz, in receiving permission to travel to Delaware for a hearing on his request for a reduction in child support obligations, said he would be staying with an uncle in Bayville, N.J., and that he failed to disclose that he spent the night before the shooting at a friend's home in Elkton, Md. Prosecutors also claimed Matusiewicz was behind on child support payments of $2,200 a month and has yet to pay $9,674 in restitution and a $200 court assessment from his 2009 criminal case.
Matusiewicz's mother, Lenore, has said the family left her brother's home in New Jersey and spent the night in Elkton because there was a threat of bad weather and they wanted to be closer to the Wilmington courthouse. Because it was a Sunday, there was no way to notify David's probation officers of the change in plans, said Lenore Matusiewicz, who served more than a year in Delaware state prison for endangering the welfare of her three granddaughters after helping her son take them to Central America.
Prosecutors later revised the probation violation charges, saying David Matusiewicz violated prohibitions against having guns or ammunition. Authorities executing a search warrant at his parents' Texas home the day after the courthouse shooting found ammunition and guns inside the home, in a recreational vehicle parked just outside the home, and in a storage shed.
Wolf said Matusiewicz lied in telling probation officers that all the guns had been removed from his parents' home.
Lenore Matusiewicz said in an email Tuesday that her son was being persecuted for the mistakes of his father and others, including his Texas probation officers and attorneys and judges in Delaware.


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2012-13: Rowed in every race throughout his sophomore season … competed in the #5 seat of the Varsity 8 A boat at the Head of the Charles (10/21) and at the Princeton Chase (10/28) … sat in the #3 seat of the Varsity 4 C boat at the Foot of the Charles (11/17) … saw action in the #5 seat of the Varsity 8 A boat at the Joy Cup (4/06), against Dartmouth and Harvard (4/13), at the Dad Vail Regatta (5/11) and at the EARC Sprints Regatta (5/19) … rowed in the #2 seat of the Varsity 4 A boat at the IRA National Championships (6/02).
2011-12: Saw action in the #6 seat on the varsity boat at the Head of the Charles (10/22) … competed in the MIT A boat at the Foot of the Charles in the #8 seat (11/19) … rowed in the #8 seat on the MIT freshman team at Yale (4/7); against Harvard (4/14); versus Cornell (4/21) and at Penn (4/28).
Off the Water at MIT: Majoring in computer science and electrical engineering … secretary and brotherhood development chair for Kappa Sigma fraternity.
High School: A 2011 graduate of Lakeside School … team captain … first place at the US Rowing Club National Championship in the Jr. A 8+ … second place at the US Rowing Youth National Championship in lightweight. 4+ … rowed with the Seattle Area Rowing Association … National Merit Finalist.
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A Sept. 5 wedding is being planned by Catherine J. Spafford and Stephen Loeffler, both of Evans City.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of James and Regina Spafford of Chicora. Parents of the prospective bridegroom are Randy and Eileen Loeffler of Carnegie.
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She is an attorney at Rawle and Henderson LLP in Pittsburgh.
Her fiance is a 2002 graduate of Chartiers Valley High School. He graduated in 2006 from Robert Morris University with a bachelor's degree in manufacturing engineering and in 2012 from Robert Morris University with a master's degree in engineering management.
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Comparing the public persona of Jacksonville's Gus Bradley to New England's Bill Belichick, you would think the latter is the one with the losing record. NFL head coaches simply don't sound like Jacksonville's Gus Bradley. He's way too cheerful.
Listening to the next two head coaches who will send their teams against the Browns, you would think the one who is 2-9 is the one who is 8-3.
Comparing the public persona of Jacksonville's Gus Bradley to New England's Bill Belichick, you would think the latter is the one with the losing record.
NFL head coaches simply don't sound like Jacksonville's Gus Bradley. He's way too cheerful.
As the former North Dakota State safety said hello to Ohio writers in a conference call, he sounded like he was doing a Frosted Flakes commercial in the way he said, "I'm doing great!"
There are the serial sourpusses, like Tom Coughlin, the droll workaholics, like Belichick, the chip-on-the-shoulder contrarians, like Mike Tomlin, the eyes-bugging-out-intense types, like Jack Del Rio, and the polite but serious aspirants, like Rob Chudzinski.
Pete Carroll, who was Bradley's boss last year, maybe breaks the mold in that he can be very bubbly, but he also can seem rather arrogant.
Bradley, the NFL head coach no one knows, comes off as down-to-earth happy. If he ever wins big, he may become known as the NFL's Man From Glad.
Just how effervescent is the 47-year-old Minnesota native and father of four? Think the Indians' Nick Swisher.
You half imagine Bradley doing radio spots in Jacksonville, ignoring the empty upper decks, putting exclamation points on ... "This is a Jags town!!!"
Bradley's team comes to Cleveland for a 1 p.m. Sunday kickoff having won two of its last three games.
"The attitude has been a big part," he says. "If you asked our players, not many of them knew what our record was."
Can he actually believe that? Were they the only people who follow the NFL who didn't know the Jaguars were 0-8?
"We focused on competing every day, getting better every day," Bradley insists.
The teams they beat were the so-so Titans and the imploded Texans, but both victories, sandwiched around a home loss to Arizona, were on the road.
Veteran quarterback Chad Henne is infected with Bradley's optimism.
"I think we're only going to get better. We get that first win under our belt, and I think we're going to keep going and they'll come in bunches," Henne said.
Henne said so in September, when the Jaguars were 0-3 and had been outscored 92-28 by the Chiefs, Raiders and Seahawks, under this USA Today headline:
"Is an 0-16 season inevitable for the Jaguars?"
Not now. The No. 1 overall pick in the draft isn't inevitable, either. If, at Cleveland, Bradley's team wins its third straight road game, the Browns will be just one game away from Jacksonville in draft positioning, heading into a game against Belichick.
The Jaguars tried stability, going from 1995 to 2011 with just two head coaches, Coughlin and Del Rio.
A new owner, Shahid Khan, fired Del Rio shortly after a loss at Cleveland in 2011, then went for just one year — a 2-14 collapse in 2012 — with Mike Mularkey.
Khan's choice for 2013, Bradley, had come in to the NFL from out of the cold. In 2005, the native of Zumbrota, Minn., ended a 10-year run as an assistant coach at North Dakota State by talking Jon Gruden into a job with the Buccaneers. After Gruden fired, Bradley jumped to Seattle to work with head coach Jim Mora in 2009, then, after Mora was dumped, stayed on as defensive coordinator in 2010 under Carroll.
In Jacksonville, the relative unknown, Bradley, was paired with new general manager David Caldwell, another unknown. Caldwell, 39, is a former John Carroll teammate of Josh McDaniels, the New England offensive coordinator the Browns will face next week.
"Dave and I put together a culture," Bradley said.
If the approach was fresh, the record was rotten. The first four home games were blowouts of 28-2 (Chiefs), 45-17 (Seahawks), 24-6 (Chargers) and 42-10 (49ers).
The 49ers debacle took the Jaguars into the bye with an 0-8 record.
"Going through what we did," Bradley said, "really tests your conviction and how strongly you believe in what you're doing."
Bradley has worked through issues great and small.
Blaine Gabbert and Henne have not been Montana and Young.
Not long after former Round 1 pick Eugene Monroe was traded to Baltimore so rookie No. 2 overall pick Luke Joeckel could move in at left tackle, Joeckel suffered a season-ending injury.
Wideout Justin Blackmon, last year's first-round pick, missed the first four games on suspension, put up big numbers when he came back, then was suspended again, this time for at least the rest of 2013.
Those problems were much harder to deal with than wideout Cecil Shorts' recent complaints about not getting the ball enough.
"We got on the same page," Shorts said this week. "I wasn't trying to start anything."
"Cecil's been great one of our strongest competitors," Bradley said of the former Mount Union star. "He's elevated everybody's play around him. I can't say enough good things about him."
It is conceivable good things could happen for the Jaguars in the next month, and the Browns could wind up with a worse record than them.
After the Browns game, Jacksonville's next three are at home against the Texans, Bills and Titans. Bradley seems to honestly believe the plan is working and wins can be had.
"The first Tennessee game (a 29-27 win coming off the bye) validated it," he said. "Every week, we just stayed convicted."
That's convicted in a cheerful way, not sentenced to an 0-16 way.


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What is a QR Code?
I am still hoping for the day that QR codes, "Quick Response Codes", become a regular on the advertising scene. QR codes put an end to the "I hope you remember the website in our magazine ad so you will go home later and type it in off the top of your head" issue. These codes create a direct channel to your website right then and there. Let me paint a picture…
You are waiting at a bus stop. Nothing is around you but strangers and a giant advertisement wrap around the bus stop station. The advertisement is a poster for a new movie out with, *gasp*, your favorite actor! Well, hopefully you remember the name of the movie so you can go home and look it up. BUT WAIT! You have the QR Reader App on your smart phone. You hold your phone up to the little digital square and your phone immediately opens up your browser and takes you to the movie's website. BUT WAIT! Not only does it take you to the website, but a video pops up. It's the trailer to the movie! Now you scroll below and enter your zip code to see when the movie is playing in your area and can directly buy tickets from your phone! BAM. Conversion goal met.
Here is an example of how Blockbuster used QR codes:
The great thing about a QR Code is that you can make one for ANY landing page. It is entirely too simple. All you have to do is go to Kaywa.com and enter your URL. Once you get your QR code, you can pretty much place it on anything. I even had one on my resume that led to my own personal website. I've seen people add them to business cards as well.
What's the catch? In order for the camera on your smart phone to read these little digital squares, QR codes, you need to download the application for it. Just do a search for QR in your app store and download the QR app.
If you are a fan of the popular HBO show, "True Blood", you would be happy to know they've actually designed a very branded QR code. From what I've researched, this is the first designer QR code to appear on TV. Imagine what you can do with this. Since QR codes can go pretty much anywhere, they can use this image in a magazine ad, a giant poster, or even in their commercials (which they did, and you can read about it and watch the commercial here):
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Have you used Map Parts in Mindjet / MindManager for Windows? With just a little bit of effort you can be very efficient and effective when working with repeated use of topics. The product comes with some useful ones: Days of the week, Ideas, Issues and Messages. Each Map Part has a parent topic and several sub topics. When you click them they are added to the map at the selected topic. They are very useful in meetings. Someone makes a suggestion, add a map part and start capturing the details within a defined structure.
Map Parts are easy to create. Select the parent topic of the group you would like to be a Map Part and then click Add Selected Topic(s) in the Map Part pane. Your Map Part is now part of the library and can be added to any open map with a click.
I have two Map Parts I use frequently:
Virtual Boardroom
At a monthly meeting with a group of business friends we present an issue for discussion by the group. I use the map part as a template for each person's issue. As we progress around the table I add this map part for each issue. Then I use the topics as prompts for questions and recording the discussions. At the end of the meeting it is easy to share the map as a whole or relevant sections to the person with the issue.
More Time Savers
There are more sophisticated map parts which will:
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- Display the recent topics from an RSS feed
- Add links to Files and or Folders on your PC
Set aside some time to see how you could use Map Parts to make you more effective and efficient with Mindjet MindManager.


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Stroke is the third leading cause of death for women (in comparison, stroke is the fifth leading cause of death for men). Each year 55,000 more women have a stroke than men. Because in general women live longer than men, stroke will have a more negative impact on their lives. More women will:
Common Stroke Symptoms
It is important to learn the many warning signs of a stroke so you will be able to recognize them if one or more happens to you or a loved one. Once you know the signs, it is extremely important to recognize them and get to the hospital immediately when the first symptoms appear. You may be tempted to downplay your symptoms and not want to go to the hospital. This is normal, but instead you need to get to a hospital where experts are trained in diagnose treatment and can make the difference between life and death.
Learn the symptoms, often called suddens. Remember that the key to identifying these symptoms is that they come on very suddenly.
|SUDDEN numbness or weakness of face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body
|SUDDEN confusion, trouble speaking, or understanding
|SUDDEN trouble seeing in one or both eyes
|SUDDEN trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
|SUDDEN severe headache with no known cause
Remember that every minute counts and acting FAST can save a life.
Unique Symptoms in Women
Women may report symptoms that are different from the common symptoms. They can include:
Unique symptoms create a problem, as they are often not recognized as a stroke symptom and treatment is often delayed. The most effective stroke treatments are only available if the stroke is recognized and diagnosed within the first three hours of the first symptoms.
Unique Risk Factors in Women
One way you can improve your odds for not having a stroke is to learn about the lifestyle changes and if necessary, medications, you can take to lower your stroke risk. In addition to the general risk factors like family history, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, lack of exercise, and being overweight, as a woman you are faced with unique risk factors which include:
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Each year stroke kills twice as many women as breast cancer. However, this fact is widely unknown among the general public. Women are also less knowledgeable about the risk factors and don't perceive themselves at risk for stroke.
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Sidestepper wrote:3) What IS Horatio anyway? He's kind of a fourth wall creature, and there can never be a real ingame explanation for him, but his speech makes me think that he was a character in some previous, possibly unreleased game made by one of the devs a long time ago.
Nandrew wrote:Hah, nice!
We've tried making the writing more succinct in recent versions -- particularly with regards to what Bloggorus mentions about the start being overwhelming. I think that chunks of text are possible (and even forgivable) but they really need to be at a point in the game where you're *already* invested in characters or events. There's a lot of semi-story-based indie games I see which make the mistake of loading up a small novel on the opening screen, before letting players do interactive stuff.
With regards to the more speculative parts of the game's lore, I've technically tried to provide players with most -- but not quite all -- of the information needed for them to properly "figure out" the game world. I think direct information on Horatio is the most difficult to find and I'm trying to provide enough of a playground for theories without stating the whole crazy idea.
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[/quote]You need to visualize all sorts of situations, including the awareness, decision-making, actions and aftermath. If you can't deal with all those ramifications in your imagination, you can't do it in real life. By the same token, if you do imagine these various situations enough, you train your mind to respond properly if you end up having to deal with them in real life. You are truly programming your heart and mind to handle the problem in the way you wish.
Isn't this what should be going on internally when we practice kata, i.e. "seeing' or visualizing the opponent? Lot's of research in brain science indicates that visualization is a powerful tool for success if used correctly as the brain and our physiology cannot tell the difference between that which is real and that which is imagined.
Many, myself included, struggle with the visualization in kata. I find that if I break kata down and practice chunks of it I can program some of the techniques that work for we. drilling them on BOB also helps.
Too many dis kata as irrelevent, but there is some solid brain science behind the theory if we look deep enough.


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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Svetlana Kuznetsova, refreshed but unseeded and unheralded after being sidelined for half of 2012, announced her return to the big time in some style on Monday with a win over Caroline Wozniacki at the Australian Open.
The Russian ended a streak of 40 consecutive grand slam appearances stretching back a decade when she pulled out of last year's U.S. Open because of a knee injury, but she was back at her battling best to reach the last eight at Melbourne.
Two grand slam titles and a career high ranking of second in the world bear witness to a big tennis talent but along with those successes there was always a maddening inconsistency.
Both were on display in the 6-2 2-6 7-5 win over former world number one Wozniacki as she mixed 52 winners with 41 unforced errors, the latter often coming off miscued forehands.
Still, she prevailed in a highly competitive 75-minute third set to move into the last eight and an appointment with world number one and defending champion Victoria Azarenka.
Despite missing the entire second half of the season after Wimbledon because of the injury, she never doubted she would back and only the speed of her return to the big stage has surprised her.
"If you had asked me before coming to Australia I would have laughed, definitely, and I wouldn't have been so sure about it," the 27-year-old told reporters.
"I have been working hard, but still I didn't have much time to do what I like to do with my fitness and everything else.
"It's amazing. It's a very good result for a first grand slam, and especially as I don't remember when I was last in the quarters."
Her last trip to the quarter-finals at Melbourne Park was in fact in 2009, when she lost to eventual champion Serena Williams.
A few months later she won her second grand slam title at Roland Garros to add to her 2004 U.S. Open crown, and she finished that year as world number three.
Her slide down the rankings to her current 75th in the world started long before her injury, however.
Despite the slump, she said she never really considered calling time on tennis even if a long rest for the first time in her career was welcome.
"I never had a thought of stopping tennis," she said. "I was just laying in bed, and I was like, thanks my knee. At least I can rest.
"When the knee was sore it was so annoying to walk with the crutches all day long. I went to Thailand, I went to Bali, on the beach with crutches, all day long, and I had blisters on my hands.
"This was the most annoying thing, and then recovery. But anyway, I had time at home to just refresh my mind, and then I just understood that I wanted to play this game.
"I mean, I always loved it, but I wanted to have this desire to bring me back. This is what happened."
After 12 years as a professional Kuznetsova knows what she does best and is confident she can have a good go at improving still further her 4-3 head-to-head record against Azarenka.
"I play good forehand, serve well. To be aggressive, this is my main key. But I keep some secrets for me, not everything for you," she laughed.
"I have nothing to lose, she has all the pressure," she added. "I know I have got the game to give her some problems, and I will just do my best and just try to enjoy it."
Wozniacki was disconsolate after failing to reach the quarter-finals at Melbourne Park for the first time in three years.
"I had my chances and I didn't take them," said the Dane.
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Lost and Found
Carrie, an abused teenager, has moved to Forks, Washington. She longs to find freedom, but is it as she has expected? Will she ever find happiness. Sorry I suck at summaries. My first fanfic. Read and review please. rewrite with chicke
Disclaimer: I do not own twilight and my friend doesn't mind being a character and is looking forward to what I write Lost and Found A Twilight crossover Pairings usual except for Edward/my character Bella/Jacob My character is based on my best friend, the only one that I ever trust. There are similarities between them, but this one has an ending. I'm trying to write it as if from her point of view. It will change POV sometimes. Senior year, Edward and Bella have split for good, but the Cullens haven't left. I would like a review or something before I post the next chapter
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Ch 1 Prologue
Forks, Washington, the wettest place on Earth apparently, but it didn't matter to me. We wouldn't be staying here for long anyways; we never stay anywhere for long. It doesn't matter; it's never home to me. No. Home is where the heart is, as the saying goes. Home is where there are people who look forward to your return from school. To see your parents smiling at you, asking how your day has been, stuff like that. No. There is never anything like that here or any where for me.
I'm sorry my name is Carrie. I don't go by last name. I have one, but I don't use it. It's the family name. I have no family. Ok I have family in the biological sense siblings and parents, but that is as far as the word family gets me. Sure I have parents and siblings, who have moved off to start their own lives, but I have no family. They don't acknowledge me, and I don't acknowledge them. That's the way it always has been, that's the way it will always be. My parents, and I use the term loosely are not like parents at all. A Mother is suppose to be nurturing and caring, and a father is suppose to represent safety, protection, a provider or at least that is what I have heard. Not one of these qualities can be found in my parents at least not directed towards me. In a way I don't even live with my parents. I'm not even really allowed in the house. I wouldn't go in there even if you paid me.
But I digress. My point is this; I thought that this place would be like all the others. I would fade in then fade out and none would be the wiser. Another day would pass that I would be forever stuck in this jail, and in my shell. It may sound as if I have given up, and in a way I guess I have for I know that I will never truly be free until my death comes to claim me. But do not mistake my words for being suicidal I am not weak enough to take my life. All the things i have been through and all the pain I have experienced only makes me stronger. It's only the chains that keep me down and discourages, that prevents me from blooming. I'm just too scared to break free for I have closed my eyes to the matter and accepted it as normal. I have discovered long ago that my chains represent my fear, I am too scared to break free. My eyes cant not see in the dark and without any light I can not move forward without risk of tripping, so I stay. I have become accustomed to my life and have long ago excepted it as normal.
I just accepted this hollow, lonely feeling with in me for it defines who I am. I am nothing, I am no one, my sole purpose in life was to just take up space, as I have been told repeatedly by my parents. I have come to accept everything they ever told me, when they did speak to me. Or more precisely at me; that is because I have never been told or shown otherwise. I wasn't worth anything to anybody or anything. So I continued with my empty existence living only for myself and no one else.
That all changed when I allowed him in, or more accurately he forced himself in. With him I eventually opened up, but as I've said before, my true freedom will only come with my death. Or is it just an exchange of cages. A change for a cage that is less constrictive. I still haven't really figured it out yet, but I'm not complaining.
As I've said before, my name is Carrie, and this is my story. My story of being lost then found.
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On video review, Pirates awarded wild walk-off win
PITTSBURGH -- On further review ... the Pirates on Tuesday night celebrated the first jump-off triumph in their history.
Their 2-1 victory over the Giants in PNC Park seemed already delayed, considering how difficult they have found it to come by early-season wins.View Full Game Coverage
PITTSBURGH -- On further review ... the Pirates on Tuesday night celebrated the first jump-off triumph in their history.
Their 2-1 victory over the Giants in PNC Park seemed already delayed, considering how difficult they have found it to come by early-season wins.View Full Game Coverage
So another minute, 14 seconds -- the time it took for replay review to reverse a call at the plate that would have sent the game into extra innings -- certainly didn't matter.
Or, did it?
"We just had to wait it out. What else could we do? Wanted to make it more exciting," said Starling Marte, whose frenetic tour of the bases ended in front of a bank of big-screen televisions in New York, and the Pirates became the first team to win on a walk-off review decision.
With the Bucs and the Giants in a ninth-inning deadlock, Marte hit a two-out drive off Tim Hudson and high off The Clemente Wall in right field. When the relay throw from second baseman Ehire Adrianza skipped through third baseman Pablo Sandoval, Marte jumped to his feet to race home -- without knowing where the ball was but hearing third-base coach Nick Leyva's urging.
"I didn't see the ball. I was just trying to take another base," Marte said.
Home-plate umpire Quinn Wolcott ruled catcher Buster Posey slapped a timely tag on Marte. However, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle challenged the call.
"I thought he was safe," said Hurdle, "then got the thumbs up [from bench coach Jeff Banister], so went ahead and asked for the look."
While umpires consulted with the Replay Operations Center in New York, replays of the play on the PNC Park video board elicited loud cheers from the stands.
San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy saw the same images, and wasn't sure.
"I couldn't really tell on the scoreboard," Bochy said. "I couldn't see it that well, but obviously they thought it was conclusive enough. You're at the mercy of whether or not they consider it conclusive, and they did."
When crew chief Gerry Davis removed his headset and spread his arms to indicate the reversal of the call, and a victory for the Bucs, the crowd really let loose.
As did Pirates players congregated in front of their third-base dugout.
"I was safe," said Marte, adding that he felt his hand slide across the plate before feeling Posey's mitt.
"Honest opinion ... I mean, it's really close," Posey said. "I feel like most of the plays I've seen that could go either way they usually stay with the call on the field. I don't know if they saw a different angle than we had. I think the best shot is the one coming from behind me and you can see his hand and my glove, and to me, it's a little bit inconclusive whether my hand is on his chest before it hits the plate. That's just what I saw."
"I love the aggressiveness on that play," said Hurdle, who may have loved it in any event, but certainly more for giving his club some life.
The Bucs haven't yet excelled in many things this season, but walking off is one of them. Of their total of nine home wins, four have come in walk-off style.
The dramatic end concluded a tense pitchers' duel, for most of the night between Charlie Morton and Hudson.
The Pirates' Mr. Nasty showed up Tuesday. But Hudson was even nastier and for longer.
Neil Walker calls Morton "just about the nastiest pitcher in the National League when he is on," and Morton certainly brought his "A" game, silencing the Giants on three hits, or 17 fewer than they'd had the night before.
"Eight fantastic innings," Hurdle said. "The sequences to the top of the order were about as good as I've ever seen."
Hurdle alluded to the first four in the San Francisco batting order. Angel Pagan, Hunter Pence, Posey and Michael Morse had combined to go 11-for-22 and score nine runs Monday. On Tuesday, Morton collared them, 1-for-16.
Hudson, however, was doing the same job on the Pirates. Ultimately, it wasn't enough to keep the Bucs down.
But it was enough to send Morton off with another "Hang with 'em."
For despite the brilliance, he remained winless for a 12th straight start, dating back to early last September. Which means the Pittsburgh rotation also remained stuck on a composite 3-15 record which, in a season 33 games old, is beginning to take on urban myth status.
However, Tony Watson, the reliever who picked up Tuesday's victory after holding the Giants down in the ninth, has three wins.
Morton allowed three hits and one unearned run in his eight innings, striking out three, walking two and also hitting two.
When Morton walked off the mound after retiring the order in the eighth, he received something not heard or seen by a pitcher for a very long time at PNC Park. The crowd of 18,881, aware that his spot was leading off the bottom of the inning and would go to a pinch-hitter, accorded him a standing ovation.
Catcher Tony Sanchez's throwing error on a second-inning steal of second by Brandon Belt gave the Giants the first run of the game, scored on a sacrifice fly by Adrianza. The run was unearned, a familiar development for Morton, whose sinkers always agitate infielders.
That was already the sixth unearned run on the 2014 ledger of Morton, who endured nine of them all last season and has a disproportionate career total of 45 in 115 starts.
Also familiar: After the Bucs tied it in the bottom of the second, Sanchez's infield dribbler scoring Ike Davis from third base, Morton hung a zero in the third. It was his 11th shutdown inning -- following scores by that pitcher's team -- of the season, and the ninth time he converted.
Morton would have loved a chance at another shutdown inning, but it never came.
They certainly were not going to get any help from Hudson, who was making his first start in May after ending April with the most precision in Major League history, at least among pitchers to work at least 45 innings.
His 15.5 strikeout-to-walk ratio (31 to 2) wasn't only the all time pre-May best, it lapped No. 2; Jim Merritt posted an 8.67 (26-3) with the 1970 Reds.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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Hi, I'm a french 38 years old guy. I freshly moved to the US. I've been into gaming for many years, and used to play to Ghouls n Ghosts, Road Blaster or Final Fight in amusement parks when I was a kid. I'd go then to play to Street Fighter 2 in a bar as a teenager, but I had no real access to neo geos cabinets until a few years later. I knew the AES, we used to call it there the "consoles' Rolls Royce" that made all of us gamers dream of having the 330 MEGA POWER hooked up to our TVs ! When I had a chance to play neo geo games it was amazing. Fatal Fury, View Point, KOF, Metal Slug, etc... So many great games !
Back in 2006 I had my first cabinet, it was an european cab with a bootleg SF2' in it. It was like I was living a dream... An arcade cabinet at home ! And I bought more games like TMNT, Two Crude Dudes, MK1 and 2, and then CPS2 games. And I got my first mvs motherboards. 1, 4 and even a 6 slot in a time where you didn't have to sell a kidney to grab one
I own around 40 games and it's a real blessing.
Later I sold this cabinet and bought a japanese cab : the New Net city. Tri-sync screen, sanwa controls, etc. Candy cabs are pretty famous and easier to find than in the US (at least on the West coast) and look great
But recently I've seen an ad for MVS cabinets very close to my home, and I ended up buying 3... which was unplanned. But I had an offer I couldn't refuse ! So here I am with my MVS cabinets (all have issues that I'm trying to fix), a MVS-4 ver3, a MVS-4 and a MVS-2. BTW if one of you lives in RI I could use some help -rewards in beers !
Anyway I'm glad to be part of this community, see ya guys !


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July's uninterrupted hot, dry weather has upstaged arid August, and water supplies are a concern in the Hood River Valley.
Water district authorities aren't yet sounding an alarm; call it raising an alert, but the effect is the same: Growers and other large users, as well as homeowners, need to look at cutting back on use, according to John Buckley and others.
"The main thing right now is that conservation is very important," said Buckley, manager of East Fork Irrigation District (EFID).
"We've seen some early summer water usage," Buckley said. "We got heavily into water in May, and we don't normally get into heavy water until June."
Watching Your Water:
Middle Fork Irrigation District officials said they appreciate its patrons' conservation efforts and efficient use of water. With the hotter than normal temperatures early in this season, stream flows are getting lower than normal. Users should know water rights and stay within them. Fix broken and leaky gaskets and nozzles and utilize the district's exchange program. Call 541-352-6468 for assistance.
Cindy Thieman, with the Hood River Watershed Group, urges residential water users to consider salmon and the local economy when making choices about irrigation this time of year.
"Every time we water our lawn or landscaping, we're taking water out of the river. This leaves less water for fish and irrigators who are producing food for our tables and fueling the local economy," she said.
"The standard guideline for lawn watering is 1 inch per week," she said. "This promotes deep root development and avoids over-watering. During late summer, consider cutting back on this amount. It's OK to let your lawn go dormant for several weeks this time of year."
For more on backyard water conservation and landscape care, visit the Oregon State University Extension Service website at extension.oregons... or contact Thieman at cindy@hoodriversw....
EFID serves 930 customers on the east side of the Hood River valley from the slopes of Mount Hood to the lower valley. EFID has no reservoirs, and pulls directly from the river.
"The glaciers are receding, but the volume of water in East Fork of the Hood River is not there," Buckley said. "Normally there is approximately 200-250 cfs (cubic feet per second) at the headworks, but this year we'll be lucky to be a half that. It decreases rapidly in summer but this year is unusual in that it happened this early."
He said that as of Monday, the headworks near Tollbridge Park showed 45 cfs. In a normal year you'd have 100-125 cfs.
Over at Farmers Irrigation District, manager Jer Camarata reports that its main source, Kingsley reservoirs, are taking in 700 to 800 gallons and seeing 4.2 million going out every day. He said this imbalance of intake-output, termed a "burn rate," is cause for concern.
"It varies year to year and this can be normal in August, but in mid- to late-July it's going to be dry," Camarata said. "You see demand at that level and you put up a yellow flag and ask people to realize it's going to be tight, water-wise, this year."
EFID serves primarily growers, while FID's user base is about half residential and half agriculture.
In the Upper Kingsley reservoir it works out to a burn rate of 6.5 cfs or approximately 4.2 million gallons per day.
At the current rate of use there are approximately 46 days of irrigation supply left in the Kingsley reservoirs, yet there are 61 days left in the irrigation season, which runs April 1 to Sept. 30.
"Through careful management, asking users to voluntarily cut back, and the hope of rain, we are essentially trying to make up a projected deficit of two weeks supply due to the drought-like conditions," Camarata said.
"There is very little coming in and a whole lot going out," he said. "If we can get people to cut back a little bit, and think about it a little bit, usually what we see is that demand will drop."
Buckley and Camarata both said their districts are still at the point of asking people do make voluntary cutbacks — for now.
"We look at stream levels historically, where they were 10 years ago, five years ago, and last year," Camarata said. "We're concerned, and every August we look at the issue. This year (the drop came) a little earlier, so you start cutting back. What we have to do as a district is cutting everyone back, asking people voluntarily, up to one-fourth of the (water) right." That's one-quarter of 5.62 gallons per minute per acre.
"We ask that people cut back, but we're not there yet," he said when asked about mandatory reductions. "We still have to assess burn rate, and we have another week, two weeks to look at it before we say, 'We need to go to a curtailment plan; we need to cut people back,' and start putting people on a rotation.
"So what we're doing is just asking our patrons, all of our patrons, not just the orchardists or the golf course or schools, to cut back and think about ways they can use water conservatively, because if they don't, we could force them into a curtailment or a rotation system, which we may still have to do."
"We haven't gone directly to the growers," with an appeal, Buckley said. "We're hoping the micro-sprinklers they're using will help and we hope they comply and not pull what their actual quantity is. This time of year it's easy to add an extra line or two hoping to get a little more growth for your pears.
"Our concern is that if they try to pull extra water then we can get into a situation where we'd have to ask for a cutback," Buckley said. Buckley is looking ahead at the pattern of harvest and water use, and hoping things will level off by September, and that come winter the glaciers will get a heavy dose of restorative snow.
"A lot of times when you start the harvest, you'll have the lower east side that will turn some of the water off while they do harvest, and they do harvest, right up the valley, and the lower ones will gradually turn the water back on again," Buckley noted.
"But it plays like it never comes back to a total catch-up, because when (the south end) starts to finish up harvest with their Bartletts, then the north end is starting up with d'Anjous, and from that point on we start to increase water rapidly. They increase back up once they've harvested their Bartletts; they'll (spigots) go back on again. They cut back on some of the water but they pretty much go full-bore again. We never play a total catch-up to our 100 percent because what happens is someone is always doing harvest going farther south."
Buckley said the Bartlett season appears ready to start on Aug. 8 or so, about 5-6 days earlier than usual.
"With a little luck and the freezing level stays up, we'll probably squeak by; but if growers decide they want to go into heavier quantities than what they're already using we'll probably have to go into voluntary cutbacks," he said, noting that the last time the county was in this situation was 2005. "We've been doing very well the last several years; water quality has been good, turbidity levels have been better.
"Glaciers are real critical to the water source of this valley and if they start depleting faster than what we can carry or keep water on the mountain, then we keep depleting our source every time," Buckley said. "We want to keep the glaciers abundant as much as we can. When we get warm weather earlier than normal they have a tendency to melt off faster."
"The only thing we can hope for, in the irrigation districts and the patrons we have, is we get a real good snowfall in the winter. That's about the only thing we can depend on. Our district has no reservoir; we're dependent totally on the northern glaciers of Mount Hood."
EFID also provides water for customers of the 1,000-acre Mt. Hood Irrigation District, at 1,000 acres located on Leasure Drive and east to portions of Miller Road.
"What we do, when we see demand go down, we close the valve on the reservoir and cut it back, so we can keep it (water level) up there as long as possible. We don't want to just open the faucet if no one has their glass underneath. If there's no glass under the faucet, meaning the sprinklers aren't on, then we're going to turn it off up top and then try to anticipate that demand, when people are going to have their faucet underneath."
How does FID anticipate demand? "Our biggest demand is the big growers; so we just reach out to them. Some of the demand we can anticipate, and ask them to use different watering strategies such as watering in the morning or at night.
"We haven't done anything official yet, but before it gets to that point we want to ask people to think of things they can do voluntarily. Usually if you don't tell people 'We're in a drought and flows are low,' they just go home and turn on the faucet and the water's there, and it's no problem. But since we're on the ground we see it every day."
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Towards the end of 1892, after three years of wandering across the length and breadth of India, a young monk found himself at Kanyakumari, the southernmost point of the country. To quell the questions raging in his mind, he leapt into the sea and swam across shark-infested waters to reach a holy rock in mid-sea—the very last bit of Indian land.
On the rock, he meditated, taking in the whole of India as it were, from that vantage point. At the end of three days and nights, the monk found enlightenment on his life's mission: to arouse the nation from its dismal slumber of a thousand years of slavery and rediscover its past glory.
Thus was born on that rock, Swami Vivekananda—the spiritual teacher, prophet and patriot-monk of modern India. The rock became doubly blessed.
To honour Swami Vivekananda's vision, the idea to construct a memorial on that particular rock was mooted on the eve of his birth centenary in 1962.
It took a person like Shri Eknath Ranade, who truly understood the depth of Swami Vivekananda's vision, to realise that a structure of mere brick and mortar could not be a monument in the real sense. The memorial had to be a national monument, built by the dedication and co-operation of the entire country.
A static structure would not suffice; a living body of men and women dedicated to Swami Vivekananda's vision for the upliftment of India was also needed. Thus came into being the Vivekananda Kendra.
Led by the concerted efforts of Shri Eknath Ranade, who made it his life mission to establish the memorial and the Vivekananda Kendra, overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles of politics, funding and labour, the Vivekananda Rock Memorial was dedicated to the nation in 1970.
Today, over a million visitors come to the Rock Memorial every year, and pay their homage to the man who brought about the rebirth of India. The Vivekananda Rock Memorial is a national monument in every true sense.
This website is dedicated to the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, a monument about which every Indian ought to know. (Of course this does not imply that people from other countries should not know about it!) The information presented here has been culled from various sources, but mainly from publications of Vivekananda Kendra.


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Technically, the 2013 Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid, but it functions and feels like an electric car. If you exceed the Volt's plug-in range (about 35 miles), a gas motor kicks in to make more electricity. So really, the Volt is an electric car that sometimes uses gasoline to make that electricity. When it comes to electric vehicles (EVs), the Volt is probably the best of the bunch. It's true, though, that if you really want to use no gas at all, the Volt might not work for you.
Inside, two 7-inch LCD screens dominate the dash, each giving different pieces of information. You can even change the type of information you want to see. There are a few limitations inside the Volt. First, the rear seats can only handle two people, because the battery takes up some of the interior space. Second, the Volt's sweeping roofline makes that back seat feel kind of cramped.
The most noticeable thing about driving the Chevrolet Volt is its superb off-the-line acceleration. This is a common trait among electric vehicles, due to their high torque output at low engine speeds. For the same reason, the Volt is an assertive left lane passer -- it's one of the most rewarding EVs to drive. And it's that acceleration that makes the Volt so much fun.
The Volt's ride is smooth and quiet, especially in all-electric mode. And the changeover to generator mode is almost seamless, preserving a ride that feels refined in most driving conditions.
The Volt's road manners are nicely balanced. Its well-tuned suspension makes it a capable handler, able to take corners with confidence. Road grip is good and body roll is minimal. Despite its hefty weight, the Volt feels reasonably nimble at virtually all speeds.
The only peculiarity is the twitchy feel of the Volt's brake pedal, which can be attributed mainly to the car's regenerative braking technology.
When the Volt's gasoline engine is running, it gets 35 miles per gallon in the city and 40 mpg on the highway. When the car is in all-electric mode, it gets the electric equivalent of 98 mpg, and that's expressed like this: 98 mpge.
Base price for a 2013 Chevrolet Volt is just under $40,000. That's a lot for a small 4-passenger car. But if you have a daily commute that's less than 40 miles round trip, you may save a good deal of money by fueling up less. Also, many Volt buyers are eligible for tax incentives that essentially lower the price.
If this kind of car appeals to you, consider the 2014 Honda Accord Plug-in Hybrid and the Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid, as well as the Nissan Leaf and Ford Focus Electric.


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It's out with the old and in with the new at Six Flags America this summer.
The waterpark Hurricane Harbor beckons thrill seekers with the opening of a faster, better and wetter attraction — ZoomAzon Falls, the park's first body slides for tweens, teens and adults.
Meanwhile, an old favorite – Skull Mountain – this week begins its countdown to retirement. The part-water flume and part-coaster ride ends its decade-long run on July 10, when it will be dismantled to make way for a new attraction. The park will donate a boat from Skull Mountain to the National Roller Coaster Museum in Texas after the final voyage.
The plan: Starting today, Six Flags visitors will have special photo opportunities for Skull Mountain. A pirate festival goodbye party is planned for July 9-10. After paying your respects to the old ride, head for the new Amazonian-themed water attraction at ZoomAzon Falls. Choose one of four twisting and turning body slides, each enhanced by a waterfall, tropical decor and an authentic jungle soundtrack. The new aquatic adventure is more than a half-mile of splashing fun, but you have to be a minimum 48 inches tall to ride the attraction.
The details: ZoomAzon Falls is open through Sept. 5. Admission prices vary for Six Flags. A 2011 Splash Pass is $54.99 – the same price as a one-day admission — and includes unlimited visits through Labor Day.
Information: Go to sixflags.com/america