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Something about soft-serve ice cream makes it irresistible on a sweltering summer day. Don't deny your taste buds — just make sure to keep it healthful. This homemade version combines the idea of soft-serve with the health benefits of plain, nonfat Greek yogurt and raspberries. The result should be smooth, creamy and thick. It is the perfect combination of sweetness and tartness.
With a simple ingredient list, this homemade dessert not only is easy to prepare but also beats store-bought varieties because you will know exactly what you're putting in your body.
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Greek yogurt has a rich, creamy texture and is thicker than regular yogurt. Compared with regular yogurt, Greek yogurt contains nearly twice the protein, fewer carbohydrates and less sugar because of the straining process, which removes some of the whey.
Greek yogurt, like all varieties of yogurt, is made by introducing "live cultures" (good bacteria) to milk. This is what gives yogurt its sour taste and thick consistency. The addition of the live cultures helps with digestion of lactose, making yogurt more tolerable for those who cannot typically digest lactose in other dairy products. So, if you are sensitive to lactose, try yogurt in small amounts, as it contains less lactose than ice cream or milk.
Live cultures also promote overall gut health and boost immunity. Make sure your yogurt has the National Yogurt Association's "Live and Active Cultures" seal or lists live active cultures such as Lactobacillus acidophilus, L. casei, L. reuteri or Bicfidobacterium bifidum (or Bifidus) on the ingredients list.
Nonfat or low-fat plain yogurt is a great way to consume important nutrients such as calcium, Vitamin D, protein, potassium and B vitamins. However, with Greek yogurt, some of the liquid whey (and therefore calcium) is removed. Check the nutrition label to see whether calcium has been added back.
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Raspberries are a delicate yet powerful little fruit. A cup of raspberries offers up high amounts of both heart-healthy dietary fiber (32 percent of your daily value) and the powerful antioxidant Vitamin C (40 percent of your daily value).
For convenience, you can use unsweetened, frozen raspberries. If you are able to get fresh raspberries at your local farmers market, you can select red, black, purple or gold raspberries and freeze them prior to preparing the recipe. They are in season from early June through July.
When selecting fresh raspberries, look for dry and firm berries without the stem attached. The sign of a good raspberry is when each cell of the raspberry is plump. Do not rinse them until just before using them. Raspberries can be stored in the refrigerator for one to two days.
This summery treat is very satisfying without being too filling. With every bite, you can enjoy knowing that it does not contain any added sugar. In fact, one serving contains only seven grams of sugar but also 12 grams of protein — all for just 97 calories.
Makes 3/4 cup (1 serving)
Fresh raspberries may be used, but they need to be frozen until firm to achieve the proper soft-serve consistency.
MAKE AHEAD: The plain yogurt needs to be frozen for 30 minutes before blending. The soft-serve is best on the day it's made. From Elaine Gordon, a master certified health education specialist and creator of EatingbyElaine.com.
1/2 cup plain Greek-style nonfat yogurt
1/2 cup frozen (unsweetened) raspberries (see headnote)
Scant 1/2 teaspoon powdered stevia, or to taste
1 teaspoon agave nectar/syrup (optional)
Freeze the yogurt for 30 minutes.
Transfer to a mini food processor or blender. Add the raspberries and powdered stevia; blend until smooth. Taste, and add stevia or agave nectar, if desired.
Serve right away.
NUTRITION Per serving: 97 calories, 12 g protein, 12 g carbohydrates, 0 g fat, 0 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 48 mg sodium, 4 g dietary fiber, 7 g sugar


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St. John's School in Dover is offering a 2013 summer camp where students will learn Chinese language and culture.
Why is it important to learn a second language, particularly Chinese?
Just ask Dr. Dina Vendetti, principal of the St. John's School on Walker Road in Dover.
"We're living in a global society and chances are good that as our students grow up and go into business, and especially international business, the acquisition of the Chinese language will be very important to them," she said.
So important, in fact, that the school's traditional summer camp in 2013 will be devoted exclusively to Chinese language, art and culture. It will be open to students ages 5 to 14.
The children will be under the supervision of teacher Jianglin Shi, a native of Nanjing, a city in eastern China. Shi holds education degrees from both American and Chinese universities, and has taught regularly at a Chinese community center in Hockessin which specializes in working with businessmen and professionals doing business in China.
It seems a lot of Americans are recognizing the need to discover the Chinese language, Shi said.
"Language skills are important," she said. "Doctors and lawyers and others, all have been learning Chinese."
"We will be giving the children just a taste of Chinese," Shi said. "It will give them a little experience of what it's like learning a second language."
During the camp, which runs from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., June 17 through June 21, Shi's students will learn basic phrases in Mandarin Chinese, which is considered the official language of both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China. The students also will learn Chinese calligraphy, folk dances, games, songs, food and play activities. They'll even learn the proper way to use chopsticks.
Because it's an Immersion Summer Camp, students will be encouraged only to speak Chinese; any time they use English, they'll have to whisper.
"That's the best way to learn a foreign language," Shi said.
Shi will be using a number of methods to teach Chinese. Students will see and hear the language being used by familiar cartoon characters such as Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob SquarePants. Games and puzzles will be explored on computers, with interactive lessons for all.
As she holds a music degree, Shi also will be using songs and musical accompaniment in her lessons.
The daughter of a research chemist, Shi went into teaching because she wanted to help others learn and because teaching is a much respected job in China. She came to the United States 14 years ago with her husband, who was studying at the University of North Carolina.
Shi was in for a bit of culture shock as soon as she stepped off the airplane. At the time, she didn't speak English and had never driven a car.
"I'd never even eaten cheese before," she said. "Now I really think cheese tastes good."
After they were finished in North Carolina, Shi and her husband lived in Georgia, California and Ohio before settling in Delaware six years ago.
Remembering what it was like for her when she first arrived in America, Shi and Vendetti hope the Chinese Immersion Summer Camp will help local students if they ever journey to China.
"A lot of times school like ours are looking for a language teacher. They get someone who speaks the language. We were lucky. Shi has learned all the skills, strategies and methods that you need for teaching children," Vendetti said.
Because of the demand, Vendetti has extended the registration deadline for the St. John's camp to May 31.
For more information about the program, call 734-3767 between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.


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Taurasi's still the greatest
Diana Taurasi's talent for basketball has no chance - never has - against her real talent, otherwise known as serve-and-volley on the podium with the cameras rolling and questioners questioning. Among the topics she addressed Saturday after the WNBA All-Star game:
• UConn and Tennessee should play again, although it would be nice if Tennessee made the Final Four now and then.
• She would engage Swin Cash in a duel of past and present ESPN The Magazine Body Issue subjects, challenging her former teammate to "full frontal."
• She said she gets the occasional text from Chris Dailey, UConn's associate head coach, calling CD "that cranky aunt I've never had."
She could have sat there for hours - and who would have minded - wisecracking the day away, in need only of Paul Simon in the background:
She would not be convicted by a jury of her peers, still crazy after all these years.
All these years, indeed.
It was July 18, 1999 (the day David Cone pitched his perfect game) when she was first introduced to Connecticut, via a couple of newspaper stories from UConn beat writers who attended the Nike All American Camp in Indianapolis. Diana was a high school kid from Chino, Calif., an entire country away. Who knew … this?
The writers took one look at her game, talked to her after and later joked to Geno Auriemma that if he needed to cheat to get her, they'd make sure the entire state looked the other way.
Diana is 31 years old now. She's the leading scorer in the WNBA. She won another news conference Saturday, extending her news conference streak to somewhere past Ripken and Gehrig. She is the greatest there's ever been, the greatest there will ever be in the women's basketball, at least until another player comes along who can deliver the whole package - assassin, comedian, tactician - perpetually and faithfully.
We got to see her here all weekend, Diana Unplugged, although rare is the day she's plugged. And it was here that you realized your good fortune to be in her presence again all these years later, knowing you should be smart enough to enjoy it.
The baseball fan says: "I got to see Mo pitch."
The women's basketball fan says: "I got to see Diana play."
Taurasi's appearance in the all-star game Saturday was her first game of the week. That's because the league suspended her for a game in Minnesota last Wednesday because she was slapped recently with her seventh technical foul of the season. This is called channeling her inner Rasheed Wallace.
So an inquiring mind asked Taurasi, who happened to be sitting alone for a second Friday, how she could explain seven technicals in 18 games.
"Pretty easy," she said. "Just watch the games."
Connecticut Sun fans, who have been known to voice their objections with WNBA officiating, might have chuckled at that. Except Taurasi wasn't finished. She was asked what could be done to remedy the officiating issue.
"You probably have to ask the league," she said. "I mean the coaching has gotten better, the players have gotten better, the fans have gotten better ..."
She finished the sentence with a wry grin.
Then she said, "I probably speak for every player in this league that consistency is something that I don't think is always there. That frustrates a lot of players, not just myself. I just don't hold back. A lot of other players don't hold back either, but they seem to get a little more rope."
Stand back. She's rolling.
"Overseas," Taurasi said, "the officiating is consistently bad, so you can live with it."
This is not meant to take a sledgehammer to the officials. Just to illustrate that Diana brings an element, a je-ne-sais-quoi, no other player in the history of the game ever has.
Maybe that's why Brittney Griner has such a smile on her face now. She gets to be herself, not Baylor's affectation. Plus, she's learning from the best. And this just in: Taurasi really likes her.
"A relationship either happens or it doesn't. You can't try to force it. People asked me before she came to Phoenix, 'did you text her? Call her? E-mail her?' No. When I meet her I meet her. She's who she is and I am who I am. We complement each other. We like each other.
"I'm telling you she's one of the funniest people I know and that comes from her being herself," Taurasi said. "She'll learn how to put up walls when she gets older. Right now, she's uncensored and gives you no fake. It's kind of cool. I like that she is what she is."
And doesn't that sound familiar?
Let the record show that Candace Parker won the MVP here Saturday. Parker is the most talented player in the game. But she's not the best. She's not the whole package. That's Diana Taurasi until further notice. How lucky we were she was back in Connecticut for the weekend.
This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro.
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WHY WE REPORTED IT The concept of a new Smyrna Police station has been around for years, and crept back up into the conversation during the 2012 budget process. Council at the time, agreed to the put a new police station on a referendum in the April 30 town election. Council also approved the use of funds to pay for a feasibility study, which resulted in a $4.9 million facility addressing several needs, including storage space and the logistics of having all the officers housed in one building.
The non-binding referendum failed in the April 30 election by 20 votes 327 to 307.
Council eventually approved the feasibility study in September with the stipulation that the cost should not exceed $3.5 million, excluding contingencies. A construction manager was hired, and then in November Smyrna Town Council passed a motion to move forward with Fearn Clendaniel as the architects for the project.
WHY IT'S IMPORTANT Town Council repeatedly said throughout the year at meetings it was obvious the town needed a new police station, but there were concerns with how the project would be paid for as several council members were against a dramatic tax increase.
WHAT'S NEXT The town is in the process of putting together a contract for Fearn Clendaniel Architects. Construction Manager Ed Ide said the next step in the process is the design phase. He said construction should start sometime in the spring.
Police Chief Wil Bordley is happy the town has voted to move forward with the project.
"I'm optimistic with the progress," Bordley said. "Hopefully in the spring we'll demolish the old Public Works Building. That's when I'll get really excited because it'll be a signal we're physically moving forward with the project."


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TRAINING: My training schedule at the Arena in San Diego has been the same for the most part, with just harder sparring and conditioning. I'm always training and always doing my best to hone my craft. All I really focus on is training hard, listening to my coaches, and, more than anything, having fun :). I still work 40 hours a week at the Law Firm and I train at lunch time and after work. It's crazy because I'm still able to train about 3.5-4 hours a day M-F and then I do about two hours on Saturday, so I guess you can say I have been pulling 12 hour days and working 6 days a week. On a typical day of training, I wake up at 6:15 and get to work at 7. I then work till about noon and hit the gym for striking for about an hour. I get off work at 4 and then train pro practice at the arena from 4:10 to 5:30, then I do either wrestling/grappling from 5:30-6:30, then after that I either work strength/conditioning 3 days a week or run 3 days a week. I take Sundays off and I like do this thing called adventure Sunday, where I will do a non-fight related adventure like skydiving, surfing, rock climbing, etc. I used to drink myself into oblivion on Sundays, but since I'm in recovery, I don't get to indulge my alcoholic tendencies anymore. I've been sober for 13 months now. Woooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!! I tell you what, my life sober is 10x better than what it used to be and I wouldn't have been able to accomplish what I have in the last year if it wasn't for my sobriety. That is why this fight is pretty cool because Matt Brown is clean from prior drug use and I'm sober from alcohol, so I guess in a way it's like a battle between two men that have both battled with substance abuse.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I started training in fighting when I was 8 years old, doing karate, and I received my black belt in taekwondo when I was 15. In 2003 I started doing kickboxing and then transitioned into MMA in 2006. Made my pro debut in 2007.
What ranks and titles have you held? I have a blue belt in BJJ and I won the IKF light cruiserweight Muay Thai kickboxing title
Do you have any heroes? My heroes are anyone that has stood up for what they believed in and has made the world a better place. Bruce Lee, Malcolm X, Abe Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Muhammad Ali, My Parents, Michael Jordan, Martin Luther King, Sylvester Stallone, Tony Robbins, Warren Buffet etc.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? Fighting for the UFC is one of my three goals obtained. They are: fight for the UFC at least once, fight in Japan, and win a belt in a major organization.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? I graduated from the University of Southern California at Santa Barbara. I majored in Sociology and minored in psychology
What was your job before you started fighting? I work at a Law firm now and I will always work no matter how big I get in fighting. My dream is to be a professional MMA fighter and a lawyer at the same time. Best of both worlds because I can beat people up mentally in court and then beat them down physically in the cage or ring.
Favorite grappling technique: Everything. I love it all
Favorite Striking technique: I love every striking technique. My whole goal is to just constantly evolve in fighting and get better, so I'm constantly trying to learn as much as I can. There is so much to learn and infinite ways to get better in a sport that is constantly evolving.
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During the ravages of The Famine a man by the name of James Fraiser toured Ireland and produced a publication, A Hand Book for Travellers in Ireland.[1] He briefly mentions squalid and wretched poverty when travelling through Galway town[2] but that is the merest of mentions that is given to what was a desperate time to be touring Ireland. One of his journeys takes him from Dublin to Kilkenny, where he travels through Paulstown, calling it "the hamlet of Shankill". As usual with these publications, the only people that are mentioned are the local gentry.
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Car slammed into tree, ejecting driver. Police say it is alcohol related.
The driver was critically injured and his two passengers escaped with minor injuries in a single-vehicle crash on Highway 119 just north of East Kern Street Sunday evening.
The driver was ejected from the car after it struck a large tree on the west side of the highway about 7:30 p.m.
The names of the drivers and two passengers were not released.
Both passengers declined medical transport.
The driver was taken to Taft Airport and transferred to a helicopter that took him toer KMC.
His name, the the names of his passengers, was not immediately available
Witnesses said the car was northbound on Highway near East Kern when is slid out of control and crashed.
The driver was not breathing when passers-by arrived, and two, Chaney Burris and Curtis Ashmore, started CPR on the driver.
They said the driver's heart started, then stopped. A Kern County Sheriff's deputy arrived and help revive him a second time.
They were at the Veterans Memorial park when the crash happened.
The said they heard the cars tires, then turned around just in time to see the car go sideways in the roadway.
It left the road and they then saw a large cloud of dust, Ashmore said.
Taft Police said the accident is alcohol related.
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Lack of transcript leads Western District Court of Appeals to write, "Because it is impossible for this court to conduct a meaningful review of Barber's criminal trial without having a transcript that includes Barber's testimony, we reverse the judgment of the trial court and remand for a new trial."
Arnold Stephen Barber is heading back to court, thanks largely to an egregious error made by court officials during his criminal trial at the Adair County Courthouse.
The Western District Court of Appeals, which heard arguments in Barber's case in Linn County two weeks ago, issued a ruling Tuesday morning reversing Barber's conviction on two counts of felony witness tampering and ordering a new trial.
In their ruling, Chief Judge James Edward Walsh, Judge Mark D. Pfeiffer and Special Judge Gary E. Ravens contend that a meaningful review of the case is impossible because all of Barber's direct testimony and much of his cross-examination were not transcribed.
"Somehow the machine that recorded the trial for transcription was not turned on during most of Barber's testimony," the filing says.
"We are mindful the State's attorney is not at fault for the mistake occurring when someone fails to press the 'record' button on the recording equipment at trial. It is, however, the State that seeks to take Barber's freedom from him. Due process and fundamental fairness require that the State ensure the right of the accused to have a transcript of his testimony or, at least, a stipulation as to the specific content of his testimony below. Here, we have neither."
Barber had been convicted by an Adair County jury last June of offering a $150,000 bribe in exchange for the parents of the victim in the Tom Oswald sex abuse case to not cooperate with the prosecution. Judge Karl DeMarce later sentenced Barber to a pair of five-year prison sentences, to be served concurrently.
Barber has been free since August on an appeal bond.
Barber's attorney, J.R. Hobbs, listed seven points on appeal in his original filing, one of which was that the lack of a transcript prevented meaningful review of the convictions and denied Barber due process.
The state has argued that the jury heard whatever evidence was not recorded or transcribed in Barber's testimony and still convicted him.
The appellate court disagreed.
"Were we to accept this argument, however, it would render transcripts of trial testimony meaningless - something which we are not willing to agree," the court's ruling says.
The lack of Barber's testimony prevents the judges from even conducting meaningful reviews of the other errors claimed in the appeal, the decision says.
"One of Barber's alleged errors is that his conversations with [Seth] Shumaker should have been excluded by the attorney-client privilege. Key to determining whether an attorney-client relationship existed is testimony from the would-be client about his belief that the attorney from whom he seeks advice is capable of providing him legal advice," the ruling says.
At trial, the state's key piece of evidence was a secretly recorded meeting between Barber and Shumaker, who was representing Oswald's victim's family.
It was not immediately known when the process toward a new trial would begin.


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The Development Review Commission is composed of seven (7) members and three (3) alternates. Alternate members serve at the Commission hearing whenever a regular member is unable to attend or must decline due to conflict of interest. At least three (3) regular members of the Commission and one (1) alternate member shall be currently practicing in the field of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, land use law, real estate, engineering, or otherwise qualified by a design background, training, experience, or similar related field. The members of the Commission are Tempe residents, and terms of service are for three years. Meetings are typically held at 6:00 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month in the Tempe City Council Chambers, 31 East Fifth Street, Tempe. A study session is usually held at 5:30 p.m. on the same date and in the same location. (Zoning and Development Code, Part 1, Chapter 3, Section 1-312)
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sounds like you just need a group of players that are fun to play with, more then you need a classic marker rule. on any given rec day around here there is everything from SC pumps to the newest and fastest.Originally Posted by OPBN
sounds like you just need a group of players that are fun to play with, more then you need a classic marker rule. on any given rec day around here there is everything from SC pumps to the newest and fastest.Originally Posted by OPBN
I remember that, but it was for bounce more than bps.Originally Posted by BTAutoMag
Except for the Automag in front, its usually the man behind the equipment that counts.
Okay I am not siding with either sides of any of this ROF loopholes thing (although Qloaders are not difficult and unfair!!) but what about this. You alert everyone ahead of time that it is CO2 only. Bam. Some of you may not like it but if you look at it, it would be the easiest and simplest way to keep down ROF and amount of paint in the air. And this wouldn't be difficult because I hope that most of us still have our old CO2 valves lying around somewhere. and if not they are very cheap. When using CO2 there is no walking the trigger, there is no RT effect and most especially there is some shoot-down depending on whether you changed up the trigger pull to be insanely light on a CO2 valve.
This would be great in my point of view as not everyone is being forced to use a rental marker and they still get to keep their custom gear. I will never use a rental as whenever I walk around with one I feel exposed and out in the open, I feel uncomfortable for some reason.
-No high ROF
-Performance playing field is largely evened out
-Does not ban any equipment except for HPA tanks.
-No high ROF
-You cant run a slaughterhouse
Just thought to express my point of view although I am nearly the heavy gunner you described. I carry almost a case of paint on me (1600 shots) on field with a 90/45 1100 psi output. But I am not rolling in $$$. I am able to easily control my ROF and I dont use it often. I never buy more than a case a day (exceptions on big games) and my technological abilities do not come without a downside. My vest is not exactly lightweight as I carry 15 Qpods in it (using Q is heavier if you use a lot of them) and quite a few more 140 pods for my friends as I have been dubbed the human pack mule I carry all of this because I enjoy staying out in the field as long as possible and not having to worry about the efficiency of my equipment holding me back. Not to spray and pray on rental users.
I wasnt.Originally Posted by Lohman446
you can run co2 in most any gun without issue.Originally Posted by Freedy500
Not X-valves though. And I was pretty sure that would cause damage to your marker unless if it is made mainly for CO2 or else the electronics and operation of it would get damaged. I am pretty sure but would not mind if corrected.Originally Posted by cockerpunk
Until I find out otherwise I would say feel free to use CO2 and ruin your high end electro.
No I�m not. Go ahead and bring it.Originally Posted by Justus
And I think it will limit the ROF. Tune hasn�t changed. Without RT (and that was a long a standing rule, back when there literally was nothing but mech available in the first place), I believe it works.Originally Posted by Justus
It takes a certain amount of work to get through that �loophole� if you want to call it that. And if they go through that, I would actually be OK with it. They have to expend non-negligible effort to get there and to actually make it work, as opposed to just talking about it in the forums or making �shooting videos�. I mean, seriously, how many Q-Loaded pneumags are there running around out in the wild?
Also I think you should let the Tippmann players speak for themselves. Are you one of them?
Funny, you just described normal recball.Originally Posted by Justus
You still play recball, right? Even at the risk of someone bringing an electro or an excessively bouncing RT?
Oh, wait, you�re one of the guys that brings those kinds of guns to recball...
You mean like normal recball?Originally Posted by Justus
I think that this thread is evidence that it doesn�t need to be taken any further. The rules as I would envision them are working as intended.
And that�s fine too. If you want to have an all standardized gun game, that�s fine. Knock yourself out. We�ve actually talked about doing that at our field as well. In fact I played with a Tippmann with a shake and bake in just normal open rec play earlier this year (field owner was curious to see how I would play without my normal marker). Then I did it again with a BT-4 with Prophecy (and I think I would have been better off with a shake and bake on that one) against a bunch of electros because a friend and I had kind of a debate going.Originally Posted by Justus
I didn�t get �pasted� or feel cheated, even against electros on the airball field. I took 1 hit to the hopper because I�m not used to hoppers. I forgot to turn on the hopper another game (because I�m not used to hoppers), and then the BT-4 finally just up and died on one game. No pasting or cheating, I just hated that gun. I didn't hate the fact that the others were using electros.
I can�t tell you to not have a simple rule like that because it�s perfectly fine. You can have that rule if you want. I�m not saying you can�t. If you want your own game with your own rules, feel free to do so. I�d be happy to play that game too.Originally Posted by Justus
This one�s easy.Originally Posted by Justus
The goal is to see how well people play without batteries or RT triggers. Therefore, the rule is to not allow batteries or RT triggers.
How�s that?
Look, if you don�t get it, that�s fine, don�t worry about it. You don�t have to play. Play an electro/ROF/paint limited game if you like. I think some of the old schoolers get it, and some of the Rampy McReactivetriggersteinovichs won�t and will stay away. No harm, no foul.
I think the biggest limiting factor for turnout isn�t the fear of a Q-Loaded Rainbow Laser Shooting Mech Pneumag Unicorn, it�s what athomas mentioned -- there are a lot of players that indeed sink everything into their electros and just don�t have enough scratch to find a good mech that they would actually like. Sure, they could pick up a cheap crappy mech, but between playing with a crappy mech and not playing at all, they�d probably sooner not play at all, especially if normal play is available to them anyways. I know quite a few players like this. And I can�t blame them.
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"Accuracy by aiming."
Definitely not on the A-Team.
you were already corrected in the post you were responding to. you can, if you want to, run co2 through most if not all current high end guns, with less then 100 bucks in parts, if not bone stock already.Originally Posted by Freedy500
Well nevermind then. Dang I thought I had a good idea If I was right then it would have been perfect and easy to enforce. Worth a shot. I gotta keep up with electro'sOriginally Posted by cockerpunk
It started off as simply "mech only", with no batteries even for the hopper. When I pointed out that a qloaded X-valve Mag would still have an absurdly high rate of fire (and even posted a video to prove it), you changed the rules to include "no excessively reactive trigger". I've got a pneumag in the works, just need the time and cash to put together the remaining parts. They're really not as uncommon as you make them out to be. Sure, qloaders are uncommon right now, but that's because people have always been free to use battery-powered hoppers that are much easier to set up and use. But my point is that if you create a game whereby a certain set of equipment has the advantage, then people will build it as it becomes their priority. As that happens, I can foresee another rule revision to exclude spring loaded or pneumatic hoppers and triggers. Otherwise, the rules really have no purpose if the goal is to limit ROF.Originally Posted by GoatBoy
So the goal did change. First it was mech only to limit ROF. Now it's to simply play without batteries or RT triggers.Originally Posted by GoatBoy
You want to have a game where the only purpose is to play without batteries and RT triggers, that's fine. I'm just pointing out the pitfalls and asking the question, "with xyz setup, what's actually changed about the gameplay?" If nothing... then what's the point of telling someone else what they can or can't play with?
I run a field where the rentals are shake & bake Alpha Blacks, and I ran an A5 marker before I got into Mags. I still have a 98 Custom in my gearbag as a backup/loaner, and some games I'll roll out with nothing but my TPX. So, yeah, I kinda am one of them.Originally Posted by GoatBoy
Yeah, I play recball. Try to at least monthly. There's usually a pretty good mix of modern electros, RT's and blowbacks. Some people use pumps, others use ramping - and it's all by choice, not by any certain set of rules. If I use my ETac rather than my pump or TPX, I have it set at 10 to 12 bps limit, semi auto, and I honestly don't shoot any faster than the blowbacks - primarily because I've never been good at walking the trigger and refuse to use ramping. Because I run a field it's my first priority to make sure the walk-ons have fun and are excited about returning to play again. If you're trying to insinuate that I shoot ropes on people with rental markers simply because I have the possibility of a ROF advantage, think again.Originally Posted by GoatBoy
And no, when I warned about the huge playing-field gap that will result from your proposed rules, I wasn't describing anything remotely like recball, which has players at both extremes and also dispersed throughout the middle of the ROF spectrum because they all have the ability to choose what equipment setups they want to use.
Yeah, of course this is a good point, aside from the implication that a pneumag is like a unicorn. I mean, c'mon, you can buy a bolt-on sleeper frame pretty easily if you just look in the BST from time to time. And you don't even need a pneumag. A finely tuned ULT is darn near walkable by itself. But, I digress. What athomas said ties right in with my point - if the purpose is to limit the ROF, then just allow people to limit their ROF and use their desired equipment. You'll get your gameplay change without prohibiting people from using the equipment that they prefer and have invested in.Originally Posted by GoatBoy
I don't "want my own game", I'm simply trying to further the discussion on some possible alternate game formats and what I believe will work, and what I believe will ultimately not do enough to make any noticeable difference.Originally Posted by GoatBoy
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AKA, IIRC, said that an anti-siphon CO2 tank attached to a Palmers stabilizer was just acceptable to use in a Viking. This is why you have to actually write rules to accomplish what you mean to accomplish because otherwise someone will "side step" what you were trying to do with a creative solution. I would guess the electro-Blazer would have no issueOriginally Posted by Freedy500
For the record the old PSP and NPPL rules required that loaders have some gravity portion in them - the warp was questionable if it met the rules requirements. For some reason the HALO was given a pass.
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That�s my point. The number of Q-Loaded pneumags out running in the wild, as far as I can tell, is currently: 0.5. The half of one that you haven�t even finished yet. It will take some amount of tinkering and tweaking, and I�m betting when you field that thing, it won�t make that much a difference because there is a certain amount of *operator skill* that�s still necessary to make it work out in-game.Originally Posted by Justus
If I were running the game, I�d be all for you bringing that gun.
Once you�ve finished it.
Yes, this �started off as mech only�. Mech only means without batteries. Goal didn�t change. Goal started out as: mech only, and it ended up as: mech only. There are some effects that I�ve tried to outline, but they�re not sinking in so it�s simplest to say: mech only means no batteries. How I am perceived as vacillating, I have no idea. Mech only. Real simple.Originally Posted by Justus
The non-bouncing RT rule has been in place for a long, long time. I find it shameful that people actually have to be reminded of it. The old timers around here remember it. Shameful.
And that�s part of the problem. You perceive zero change in gameplay. And I think that is simply a reflection of the way you play. And it�s not something someone else will be able to explain to you.Originally Posted by Justus
Great, excellent. So as one of these operators, do you personally feel pasted/cheated when you step out into a game where someone else has an overwhelming advantage? If not, why would you think someone else would feel the same way?Originally Posted by Justus
There�s that *operator skill* component I keep referring to. If you can�t walk an electro, good luck successfully walking a pneu. Please, bring forth the Q-Loaded pneumag for all to witness, in-game.Originally Posted by Justus
Once you�ve finished it.
Then... why... would you... post... a video of yourself actually doing so?Originally Posted by Justus
And if you wouldn�t do it (despite video evidence), why would you assume someone else would?
I mean, in the context where bunch of guys are going, �Hey, let�s all switch to mech and play a few games�, whipping out a video of you hunkered in the back of what appears to be a rec game ripping a string into a bunch of nothing isn�t exactly a highlight. There�s just something very � I don�t even know what the right word for this is.
If I had a video of myself doing that, I would quietly bury it somewhere where nobody would ever find it.
So the huge gap in a mech-only game would be larger than the huge gap in a recball game where everything else is allowed.Originally Posted by Justus
You are absolutely right! You sure can! Show us how damn near overpowering a damn near walkable ULT is, in game.Originally Posted by Justus
Once you�ve finished it.
Great, you�ve stated your *beliefs*.Originally Posted by Justus
Now let�s validate them.
Meh, the rants are getting too long and off focus. Edited this post out in an effort to stop the landslide. Do whatever you feel will work, GoatBoy, and good luck with it. I sincerely hope people will end up playing within the spirit of your proposed rules.
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How do you enforce a ROF cap on a mechanical marker? Just because player A can get it to do 15BPS does not mean player B or the ref has a chance. I think this is a major flaw in your reasoningOriginally Posted by Justus
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Yeah, enforcement of the rule is an issue that would need to be hammered out. How do they enforce the ROF cap in PSP tournaments? I'd say start there, and work something out.Originally Posted by Lohman446
But the issue of enforcement isn't a major flaw in my reasoning, because it's already being done (see the aforementioned PSP tournament example). A flaw in the reasoning would have to be something that a player could legally exploit to gain an advantage.
Yeah man. I feel ya.Originally Posted by BTAutoMag
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wow. And I thought my rants could get long. Sorry I am just giving up on this thread. To much to read and I am very lazy
The major difference is that legally set PSP ramping markers the ROF can be attained by virtually anyone. So a ref can readily check it. In a mech there is no software limiting it so a player may attain ROF a ref is not able to duplicate. Or a piano playing ref might disqualify every marker handed him.Originally Posted by Justus
In NPPL back when the RT came out, they used adjustable tank regs and NPPL limited them to 600psi input. That pretty much took care of crazy RT bounce.
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Yeah, but I said to just make a rule limiting ROF, not make a mech-only rule. Maybe this means that mechs aren't allowed since there's no way of limiting the ROF?Originally Posted by Lohman446
Or, because there's no way of limiting the ROF on a mech, go ahead and allow it but disallow trigger bounce and also require mechs to have a certain trigger pull weight to be classified as legal. It's not a perfect rule, but probably better than eliminating all mech-only markers.
Any time the goal is to limit ROF, there's going to need to be multiple rules to achieve that and still allow the widest array of equipment choices. And this enforcement problem actually illustrates my point better, too - if the goal is to limit the ROF, then eliminating electros from participation is wholly unnecessary because it's actually easier to limit the ROF on an electro than it is a mech.
And probably most Automags. None of my Mags will even operate that low.Originally Posted by Shane-O-Mac
Haven't you just effectively "created" the tournaments that are readily available then?Originally Posted by Justus
If I want to go to an electro ROF limited tournament there are a tremendous amount to pick from.
I'm now lost to what your point was
My point was that the idea of going "mech only" as a way to really limit down the ROF is seriously flawed. A simply "mech only" rule will not work to limit the ROF. If you want to honestly limit the ROF, then it's actually much easier to do with electros.Originally Posted by Lohman446
As for the ample amounts of tournaments that are already available, I was thinking that the goal was to get the ROF down lower than 12.5 bps with ramping. Make the rule 8 bps, no ramping. Make it whatever you want. Just don't think that having a "mech only" rule will solve the problem of ROF.
I guess when you get down to it, my point was to not have a silver bullet answer; it was to point out the problem with the "mech only" proposition. I have never been a proponent of anything other than saying "that (mech only) won't work to meet the goal (lower ROF)."
EDIT: When looking back over the thread, here's where I think it started:
My response: "Yeah, I agree"Originally Posted by Lohman446
My response: "No, it won't"Originally Posted by GoatBoy
Honestly i think this is a lot easier to solve than you all make it out to be. Eliminate ramping. electro mech makes no difference one pull one fire. I have no issue with high rates of fire as long as it is accomplished by player skill not the programing on the guns bored. And pretty much all electros have a uncapped or capped semi auto mode.
The ideal of limited ammo i feel is intriguing as well hopper ball would offer a very different style/tactics of play.
And i also understand the premis of a all mech game for pure nostalgia point. But with guns like the newly coming GOG Enmey, and Tippmans Crossover (without a batt in mech mode), or the Tippmann Phenom i think you would not see the nostalgia you looking for. A best bet would be a limit on year of manufacture.
Another game i would love to see is just a big game cocker vs mag game.
I still play pump almost every time i play regardless who i playing against and what they shooting. I get shot out more than some but i still get out get a few eliminations and have a blast.
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I think we just got turned around somewhere in the discussion. I think if we are attempting to limit paint instituting a paint limit (per player, per team, per tournament, per game, whatever) would be a lot easier (especially to enforce) then instituting a ROF cap.Originally Posted by Justus
That's very true and I agree it would be much easier. It would probably even have the total effect of toning down the overall ROF on each game, as teams have to deal with the strategy of making most of their shots count for something. Of course, that's just a nice byproduct and not necessarily a goal, which makes the enforcement issue (when it comes to ROF) go away.Originally Posted by Lohman446
What would it take to get the gameplay level changed? An average of 200 rounds per player, distributed among a team however they feel necessary? That would be like a souped-up version of hopperball.
200, 400, 600? I'm not sure. I don't think we have to go down to the point of a single hoppers worth per player (be interesting though to see teams exploit that by giving the front guys 20 rounds or something freeing up a pod for the back players).Originally Posted by Justus
I don't know at what number it would start to influence game play but it would be something worth toying with. When I used to play tournaments I shot very little paint compared to others but going out with less than two pods made me feel like I was going to run out at any moment (though I seldom used the second one). This was in the era of a 15BPS ROF cap. Some of my back players would carry a case or very close to it.
Last edited by Lohman446; 11-12-2012 at 03:37 PM.
I played in a 3-man benefit tourney a few weeks back, using a high-cap Rotor and carrying 4 pods. After the first game I shucked the pods and just went out with a full hopper each time. Never ran out of paint. But, I didn't sit in back holding a lane the whole time either, I pushed up and only shot when attempting to get an elimination or keep a head down for movement.Originally Posted by Lohman446
It's an interesting concept. And I'd bet it works a whole lot differently in a woodsball game (which is 95% what I play). As a matter of fact, if it were in a woodsball game I'd be tempted to just go mag-fed with my TPX and let teammates provide the suppressive fire.


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From the writing of local historians two Marie Laveaus emerge; one is a free woman of color born in New Orleans in the mid 1790's. The other is a woman considerably younger than the first and believed to have been the elder Marie's illegitimate daughter.
There are countless stories about the power of Marie Laveau as a voodoo queen, sorceress, healer, and psychic, but none of these are documented historically. Voodoo, brought to New Orleans by African slaves and immigrants from Santo Domingo and Haiti, has been practiced since the 1700s. Even today some people have voodoo altars in their homes and participate in voodoo rituals.
The voodoo queen, unlike the voodoo doctor (male) was in charge of ceremonies and dances in the 1800s and held a powerful position in black, quadroon and white society because of her reputed ability to use the occult. The profession of hairdresser gave both Marie Laveaus access to the private lives and secrets of the women's hair and dispensing ample advice. Some of the Laveau magic may have been common sense and homespun psychology.
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When Marie Laveau discontinued voodoo after the Civil War, Malvina Latour took over as New Orleans voodoo queen for another twenty years, but she never gained the notoriety of her predecessor. The cult began to disintegrate, and in the past ninety years there has been no acknowledged queen.
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Even with an expected increase in milk production and a subsequent drop in milk prices, dairymen are set to realize the second-highest average income over feed costs on record, said Eric Meyer, president of HighGround Dairy, a division of Chicago-based HighGround Trading Group, a brokerage and consulting firm.
Producers will be going into the new year with high milk futures prices and sharply lower feed costs, and the outlook looks good for 2014, he said.
He expects prices for Class III milk for cheese to average $17 per hundredweight and prices for Class IV milk for butter and powder to average $18.41 in 2014. That's down from 2013 year-to-date averages of $17.81 and $18.66, respectively, but lower feed costs will bring much improved margins, he said.
Income over feed costs (IOFC) should average about $8 per hundredweight of milk in 2014, compared with the $6.74 average from January through September of this year, he said.
Other analysts are expecting even bigger margins.
The widening gap between milk prices and feed prices raised October's IFOC to $10.57 per hundredweight of milk, based on USDA's monthly agricultural prices report showing prices received by ag producers.
An IOFC of more than $7 typically points toward an increase in milk production, and the IOFC hit $7.86 in August and $9.43 in September, said Jerry Dryer, editor of Dairy & Food Market Analyst and chief market analyst for Rice Dairy, a Chicago trading brokerage.
Futures prices for milk and feed suggests an IOFC of more than $9 for every month of 2014, which would indicate a lot more milk production. Feed quality issues, however are hindering production increases in the U.S, but there will be higher production next year in the U.S. and abroad, he said.
IOFC is an indication of how things are going at the farm level. In general, the rule of thumb is that expansion starts to occur when IOFC is above $6.50 per hundredweight of milk for a period of time, said Sara Dorland, market analyst with CME Daily Dairy Report.
On a national level, producers are definitely seeing improvement, and it looks like that improvement will continue in 2014, she said.
California and Idaho haven't seen IOFC level this high for 70 months, she said.
Based on USDA's report of milk and feed prices received in October, the IFOC for California was $9.07 and Idaho's was $9.04. But calculating things on a six-month rolling average of feed costs, those figures would be $7.25 and $7.58, respectively, she said.
The national IOFC of $10.57 based on USDA's October prices would amount to $8.59 with the six-month feed costs calculation.
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The admittedly unrehearsed musician told the crowd he did not practice his speech but was speaking from the heart.
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Even the competitive picture is mixed. Cleartrade Exchange Pte Ltd., Singapore, just started trading a scrap contract that settles against the Turkish Scrap Index, and Indias National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange said it plans to launch a ferrous scrap futures contract by year-end, but a representative of the London Metal Exchange, which has no current ferrous scrap contract, declined to comment on whether it was contemplating developing something similar.
The new CME scrap contract is settled against AMMs Midwest Ferrous Scrap Index for No. 1 busheling. That is relevant because both the CME and the LME launched steel futures contracts competitively in 2008. At the time, global steelmakers expressed concern that such a contract would stoke speculation in a market that traditionally has been the domain of just buyers and sellers. The CME primarily handles contracts in agriculture and energy, precious metals and currencies, as well as equity indices and interest rates. In contrast, more than three quarters of the LMEs business is in industrial metals futures, including steel, aluminum, copper and nickel.
The world economy fell into a major recession at the end of 2008, led by the financial sector. Banks, brokerages and trading houses, the institutions that might have been willing to speculate in the steel market, were instead fighting for their lives. Still, the same specter of speculation shadows the new CME scrap contract.
The big exchange is sticking to its guns. Since the Sept. 10 launch, the reaction so far has been positive, CME director of metals research and product development Yong-jin Chang said. For any brand-new contract, there is a very steep learning curve and a long education process.
That said, Chang is cheered by some good news for the scrap contract. We saw some early adopters, as well as regular clients who are users of our hot-rolled coil contract, take some interest in the scrap contract. There was 420 gross tons of open interest in the first few weeks, which we are taking as a very positive sign. Those early adopters are taking one contract at a time, one position at a time, concentrating on the shorter months, November through January mostly, she said.
According to the exchange, daily volume traded in the CMEs domestic hot-rolled coil futures index peaked at 536 contracts in August. In contrast, there were 90,793 copper contracts traded on the CMEs Comex subsidiary in New York.
There are two primary drivers behind the new scrap contract, which is traded on CMEs Globex electronic platform. First is the sheer size of the market and the reality that it is just about the only major industrial commodity without some hedging tool. The second is that the CME has been promoting its integrated risk management suite, called the virtual steel mill, for some time. Chang said that a scrap contract is an essential component in the full steel life cycle.
In 2011, about 65 percent of the steel produced in the United States was based on scrap, according to the CME. About 73 million tons of scrap were produced last year, for a total domestic and export market of $35 billion.
Looking out across the broader base of the steel sector, on the yard side and on the producer side we are getting a lot of calls with inquiries. People are really trying to understand the new contract, and it seems clear to us that the industry is starting to see the value of this contract, Chang said. At the most basic level, then, the CME believes that a worldwide business of the size and scale of scrap steel needs a futures contract as a hedging tool for the same fundamental risk management reasons as other global commodities.
Based on those figures and that premise, everything the CME has said indicates high hopes for a large and robust trade in the new contract. But reading between the lines, there also seems to be the business proposition that even if the scrap contract by itself doesnt become a big standalone winner, it is still an element in the virtual steel mill and will be retained as a role player in that capacity. The virtual steel mill goes to the big picture in the industry, Chang said.
In either case, building liquidity takes time, she added. That liquidity is what people want to see in these contracts. And building that liquidity gets back to education and awareness. The education process is a very big portion of our development plan. We are holding hedging workshops and conferences around the country.
At the same time that the CME is working hard to enlighten the market and drum up interest in both the scrap contract and the wider virtual steel mill concept, the exchange is playing down any near-term expectations for the scrap offering. At this point, we would not want to speculate on future volumes for the scrap contract, Chang said. We are very encouraged by the fact that it was traded on its very first day and that volume is already building so soon after the launch.
Both developments are very rare in a new contract, she said. There is definitely capacity in the physical market against which this contract can grow. Just look at the growth in the (hot-rolled coil) contract. And look at the record volumes in iron ore contracts. We take all of that as very positive for the scrap contract. When the market becomes aware of these tools and understands how to use them, the adoption accelerates. The scrap contract is a nice addition to those.
Cleartrade chief executive officer Richard Baker said his exchange received regulatory approval for the Turkish scrap export contract in late August. We already trade north Europe (hot-rolled coil) and south Europe (hot-rolled coil), and we have looked at Midwest (hot-rolled coil), but we have not looked at North American scrap. The market is just too immature at this point. The players are not really ready for a scrap contract.
That said, Baker has every confidence in the long-term growth of the markets and their eventual need for more sophisticated risk management tools. We are seeing paper contracts in steel, he said. It took two-and-a-half years to get the iron ore contract to work, and we are only now just seeing volume increase. I tend to be practical about these new contracts. In the next 12 to 18 months, I expect to see broader contracts in steel as that market becomes more mature. There will be more acceptance of the paper contracts.
Baker offers a global perspective on the scrap market, beyond the shredders of Middle America. He sees the scrapping of ocean vessels as an important driver in the global scrap business. In the boom before the big recession, new shipyards were created across China, elsewhere in Asia and in many other regions. Since the recession, hundreds of ships have been idled. In the last few years, all those new shipyards have turned to disassembly, he said. The typical lifespan of an ocean vessel over the past several decades has been about 20 to 25 years. Just within the last 18 months, the average lifespan of the world fleet has gone down to 15 years because the owners of older or underused vessels are getting good prices for the scrap. This is a buoyant market.
Far from competition or complication for North American scrap markets, we see strong organic growth in scrap. But we dont yet see significant need for risk management in those markets. Certainly it would be nice to have, but the ecosystem is not ready yet, he said.
What gives Baker confidence in the ultimate growth of scrap contracts is straight economics and basic risk management, arising out of the needs of buyers and sellers rather than fueled by speculation. End-users and mills will wake up to the fact that they have a floating price behind their raw materials, and that has a profound effect on their profitability, he said.
Bakers model is the iron ore market. Until recently, iron ore was settled 100-percent bilaterally. Today, about 90 percent of the market is done in spot index contracts. Beyond that, the worldwide ore market was 43 million tons last year and there were about 165 million to 170 million tons of derivatives used. From ore to scrap is the full product cycle; scrap as a raw material brings the supply chain around 360 degrees, he said.
And that is where the market is headed, Baker believes. Today, however, scrap merchants are getting reasonable prices in bilateral trade so there is no need yet for more sophisticated risk management tools.
We have been watching steel and scrap and all the other futures for five years, Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA) president Thomas Danjczek said. The worth of any of those things is the real value added to mills or yards. So far, the exchanges and the traders have failed to sell the market as a whole on the value. That is why the volumes have not taken off.
Danjczek suggested several tactical reasons why industrial users, at least, havent rushed to embrace the new futures instruments. Lead time in our business is down to something like two weeks, he said, suggesting that the real-time physical market moves too fast for a paper market. Also, the size of scrap lots bought and sold doesnt fit well with standard volume contracts. Scrap goes in truckloads or railcars or shiploads. A shipment is usually the sum of lots of small orders. It is tough to handle that in a futures contract with all those different lots and sizes, he said.
Beyond the structural and logistical questions, there are some practical financial ones as well, Danjczek said. These days, with interest rates so low, you can just buy a pile of scrap and keep it for as long as you need. Who needs a futures contract to manage that?
In essence, scrap isnt a high-value or perishable commodity like gold or grain, he said. I dont know if we need to pay someone to manage our risk for us. I go back to my first question: what is the real value to the mill or the yard? What is the real cost reduction?
Then, of course, there is the shadow of speculation. Some SMA members simply see these derivatives as speculative, Danjczek said. Look at aluminum. The volume traded on the LME is seven times the volume of physical metal produced in a year. Look at copper, look at grain. They all have impacts in their markets that do not pertain to steel and scrap. What affects our business are location and logistics, freight costs and demand. You cant change any of those things with a futures contract.
For all his reservations, Danjczek is willing to concede that there may be a time and a place for a scrap futures contract. However, this is not it yet.
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FORT WORTH — Gay Western Hills High School teacher Kristopher Franks, put on paid administrative leave on Monday, Sept. 26, following allegations of improper behavior, has been cleared of all allegations and was set to return to work today (Friday, Sept. 30).
Franks is the teacher who became the target of ire from the religious right after he sent a student in his German 1 class to the principal's office for saying in class that as a Christian he believed "homosexuality is wrong." The school's assistance principal then suspended the student, setting off a controversy that made headlines around the country.
That student, freshman Dakota Ary, and his mother enlisted the assistance of Liberty Counsel attorney Matt Krause in fighting the suspension on the grounds that Franks and the school had violated Ary's right to freedom of speech.
District officials quickly reversed their decision, lifting the suspension.
But Steven Poole, deputy executive director for the United Educators Association of Texas, a teachers union, said Tuesday, Sept. 27, that the allegations leading to Franks being put on leave were unrelated to the incident with Ary.
Franks, who had not spoken to the press previously on the advice of his union representative, said Thursday afternoon that he had just met with Fort Worth Independent School District administrators, who told him the nearly weeklong investigation had determined that the allegations against him were unfounded. He did not elaborate on the substance of those allegations.
Franks also said administrators had given him the option of returning to teach at Western Hills High or transferring to another school in the district.
"I haven't made up my mind yet what I'm going to do," Franks told Dallas Voice by phone Thursday afternoon. "I'm going to go back to work tomorrow, and I will talk to my boss [the district's world languages supervisor], and see what she says and decide what's the best thing to do from there."
FWISD Board of Trustees member Dr. Carlos Vasquez told Dallas Voice in a phone call Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 28, that any time allegations are made against a teacher, those allegations have to be investigated, and it is routine for the teacher in question to be placed on paid administrative leave.
Franks said Thursday that he was pleased with the outcome of the investigation, carried out by an independent investigator, and that interim FWISD Supt. Walter Dansby was "very nice" when they spoke.
"I think they did the right thing," Franks said. "I can go back to work, which is great. But now I just have to figure out how to fix the damage this whole thing has done to my personal life."
Franks said since the investigation is closed, he is no longer being represented by a union attorney. He has, instead, retained the services of attorney Stephen Gordon to "represent me on any aspects of this whole thing going forward."
He also indicated that he and Gordon would be discussing what possible actions he might take against "those people who have lied and made false allegations against me."
While Franks had previously declined to speak to the media, Daokta Ary, his mother and Krause as their attorney went immediately to the press, telling their side of the story in several TV interviews and saying Franks and the school had violated the student's right to freedom of speech. The case quickly became a rallying point for the religious right.
Krause this week told Dallas Voice that he and his clients are satisfied with school officials' decision to rescind the unexcused absences the suspension left on Ary's record, but "we would still like for them [school officials] to completely vindicate him and say that he did nothing wrong. He should never have been written up for an infraction. He should never have been sent to the office, and he should never have been suspended."
Ary said in media interviews that he made the comment quietly to a classmate sitting next to him in response to a discussion going on in the class at the time.
But Franks told friends shortly after the incident that there was no discussion involving homosexuality at the time, and that Ary made the comment loudly while looking directly at Franks.
Franks also told friends that the comment was only the latest in an ongoing series of incidents in which Ary and a group of three of his friends have made anti-gay comments to and about him.
Franks told friends that the harassment by Ary and his friends began several weeks ago after Franks, who also teaches sociology, posted on the "World Wall" in his classroom a photo, taken from the German news magazine Stern, of two men kissing. The photo was ripped off the wall and torn in two at some point during Ary's class, and Franks told friends he believes that Ary or one of his friends tore up the photo.
During a later sociology class students upset that the photo had been torn up replaced it with a hand-drawn picture, and another student then covered that picture with a page bearing a hand-written biblical scripture from Leviticus calling sex between two men an abomination.
Franks told friends that since that incident, Ary and his friends had continued to make derogatory and harassing comments.
Franks' friends also said that the teacher, a Fulbright scholar, has been the target of anti-gay harassment for at least the last two years, including having hateful messages left in his classroom and, in one case, having his car vandalized.
FWISD teacher Martin Vann, spokesman for the group LGBTQ S.A.V.E.S. that was formed about a year ago to help protect students and teachers in the district from anti-gay discrimination and bullying, said that Franks told his version of the incident last week, before the current investigation was launched and Franks was required to sign a statement saying he would not discuss the incident with other teachers, administrators, parents or students. Vann said Franks denied getting angry and yelling at Ary, as Ary had said, and reiterated that Ary's comments were not pertinent to any discussion in the class at the time.
Vann said Franks told him that another student had asked him what the German word for "Christian" was, and how, if he moved to Germany, he could find an English translation of the Bible. That's when, Franks told Vann, Ary looked directly at him and said loudly that as a Christian, he believes homosexuality is wrong.
It was not, Franks told Vann, a simple statement of belief or opinion but rather an intentional effort to insult and harass the teacher that Ary perceived to be gay.
Krause this week again said that Ary did not direct his remark in class that day at Franks, and that Ary had nothing to do with tearing down the photo of the men kissing.
The attorney also said that Ary told him he did not know to whom Franks was referring when he talked about Ary's "three friends."
The Franks case comes in the wake of months of scandal over allegations by teachers that administrators routinely allowed some teachers and administrators to harass and bully students and other teachers, and that teachers who complained often faced retaliation.
Vasquez, who is openly gay, said Wednesday that he believed the Franks investigation would be fair, that he would watch the situation closely "to make sure all the proper procedures are followed," and that he believed Dansby would handle the situation fairly.
"Considering all the problems we've had, I know he [Dansby] will be watching this closely," Vasquez said.
Vasquez said it is the school district's responsibility to make sure there is "no harassment in our schools, whether it's from the teacher to the student, or student to student or even student to teacher. I know that happens, sometimes, too.
"There should be no harassment whatsoever in our schools," Vasquez , himself a former teacher, said.
Fort Worth ISD has been credited with having one of the most comprehensive anti-bullying and anti-harassment policies in the state, having adopted individual policies within the last year to include prohibitions against harassment and bullying, including that based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, for both teachers and students.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition September 30, 2011.


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A crowd of about 2,500 people attended Christmas on the Square Thursday night in downtown Waynesville.
Tim Berrier, president of the Waynesville Downtown Business Association, said that about 50 vendors, including several area churches, had booths at the festival. In addition, about 30 businesses in downtown Waynesville stayed open for the event, which ran from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m.
"About 85 percent of the stuff here tonight is free," said Berrier, who, along with seven other people, helped organize the event. Hot dogs, hot chocolate and chili were some of the free items.
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Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Employers added workers in December at about the same pace as the prior month, and the unemployment rate matched a four-year low, showing sustained gains in the U.S. labor market even as lawmakers were struggling to reach a budget deal.
Payrolls rose by 155,000 workers last month following a revised 161,000 advance in November that was more than initially estimated, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The median estimate of 82 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a increase of 152,000. The unemployment rate held at 7.8 percent after the November figure was revised up from a previously reported 7.7 percent.
Improved hiring, hours worked and wages are helping underpin spending at retailers from Macy's Inc. to Gap Inc., where December sales beat analysts' estimates. Even bigger advances in employment may depend on lawmakers reaching an agreement on a deficit-reduction plan after Congress this week averted income-tax increases on about 99 percent of households.
"The labor market continues to recover," Brian Jones, a senior U.S. economist at Societe Generale in New York, said before the report. "The pace of hiring is respectable, and the unemployment rate will gradually keep coming down. With the fiscal cliff having been averted, this should be good for job growth. The labor market will continue to make progress this year."
Stock-index futures held gains after the figures, with the contract on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index expiring in March rising 0.3 percent to 1,457.2 at 8:38 a.m. in New York. Treasuries fell, pushing up the yield on the benchmark 10-year note to 1.94 percent from 1.91 percent late yesterday.
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Annual revisions to the household survey showed the unemployment rate averaged 8.1 percent in 2012, the lowest in four years.
Average hourly earnings climbed 2.1 percent from December 2011, to $23.73, the biggest gain in a year, today's report showed. The average work week for all workers climbed to six minutes to 34.5 hours.
Private payrolls, which exclude government agencies, rose 168,000 in December after a revised gain of 171,000. They were projected to rise by 155,000, the survey showed.
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Factory payrolls increased by 25,000, the most since March and compared with the Bloomberg survey forecast of a 4,000 increase.
Employment at private service-providers increased 109,000. Retailers decreased staff by 11,300. Construction companies added 30,000 workers, the most since September 2011. The figures may have received a boost from rebuilding efforts following superstorm Sandy, which left about 8 million homes and businesses without power for days after making landfall on Oct. 29.
Government payrolls decreased by 13,000 in December, the third straight month of declines.
Progress in the labor market is driving Americans' confidence and spending. Macy's, the second-biggest U.S. department-store company, reported a 4.1 percent rise in December sales at stores open at least a year, while Gap, the largest U.S. specialty-apparel retailer, had a 5 percent increase.
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Congress this week reached a compromise that averted the so-called fiscal cliff of $600 billion in tax increases and government spending cuts. At the same time, a battle still looms over raising the $16.4 trillion debt limit, and on automatic spending reductions, known as sequestration, that were delayed for two months.
Some chief executive officers including David Cote of Honeywell International Inc. are urging lawmakers to move quickly.
"A plan that will truly help to expand the U.S. economy over the long term" is needed, Cote, who leads the maker of flight controls and thermostats, said in a Jan. 2 e-mailed statement.
"We're in the same old fight with uncertainty still in the market," said Brad Thompson, CEO of employee-owned Columbia Forest Products Inc., the largest North American maker of decorative hardwood plywood.
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The goal of faster progress in the economy and labor market is one reason Federal Reserve policy makers, four years after cutting the main interest rate to around zero, have expanded their third round of so-called quantitative easing. The central bank on Dec. 12 said it would hold borrowing costs low "at least as long" as the unemployment rate remains above 6.5 percent and inflation projections are for no more than 2.5 percent.
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Inquiry follows allegations that assistant football coach groped a high school student.
Bradenton Police recommended this week that Manatee High School assistant football coach Rod Frazier and four school district officials, including Assistant Superintendent Bob Gagnon, face criminal charges stemming from allegations that Frazier groped a high school student.
The charges recommended to prosecutors include battery, lying to police and failing to report allegations of child abuse to the state, sources close to a police investigation confirmed to the Herald-Tribune.
The exact distribution of the charges is unclear.
Gagnon, a former Manatee High principal who was briefly district superintendent; Frazier; and former Manatee district investigator Debra Horne are among those whom police say should be charged, sources said.
The Herald-Tribune has been unable to verify the identities of the two remaining employees.
Frazier has denied any improper behavior with students. His attorney, Ed Mulock, would not comment.
"We'll make our comments in court," he said.
Reached Tuesday afternoon, Gagnon said that at no time were there suspicions or worries about Frazier's behavior.
"I have a daughter in the school system. I know what reporting is," Gagnon said. "There's no way I would knowingly let someone hurt a kid.
"This is going to ruin a lot of lives," he said.
Horne would not comment.
School Superintendent Rick Mills declined to discuss the matter, instead releasing a statement late Tuesday which said in part, "If charges are eventually brought against any of our personnel, the district will take appropriate action which may include placing employees on administrative leave while the matter is processed through the judicial system."
Bradenton Police detectives launched their investigation on Feb. 7 after the Herald-Tribune revealed that the district had probed allegations that Frazier groped a student and sent her inappropriate texts.
Police, who are recommending 17 charges against the five employees, met Monday with the State Attorney's Office and delivered the results of their investigation, sources said.
BPD Chief Michael Radzilowski confirmed that his department had sent capias requests to the State Attorney's Office, but said he would have no further comment on the case.
The State Attorney's Office may take weeks to determine if it will prosecute the five employees named in the Bradenton Police report, submitted after detectives had interviewed more than 50 students, teachers and school staffers.
Battery is a misdemeanor punishable by one year in prison. The charge involves any kind of unwanted touching, from a punch during a fight to grabbing someone by the shoulders.
Failure to report child abuse is a felony punishable by as much as five years in prison, along with fines.
Making a false report to the police is a misdemeanor punishable by one year in prison.
The police inquiry was prompted by a Herald-Tribune story that detailed the school district's quiet investigation of allegations of groping and inappropriate texting between Frazier and a female high school student.
Police and the Department of Children and Families had never been contacted about the incidents, even though school employees are required by law to report suspicions of child or sexual abuse.
Reports of inappropriate behavior on Frazier's part toward students had arisen before.
On Nov. 15, Horne interviewed at least six school employees, but no students or parents, about reported inappropriate incidents between Frazier and four female students. That day, Frazier was put on paid leave by Interim Superintendent David Gayler and ordered to stay away from school property. But Frazier coached a Manatee High state playoff football game against St. Petersburg Northeast the next day.
District officials have not answered questions about why Frazier returned to work after only one day, or whether the investigation was officially closed at that point.
Frazier, 35, was still working Jan. 9 when the mother of a female student who had attended Manatee High delivered a letter to Principal Don Sauer's office. The letter stated that Frazier had improperly touched the girl, sent her text messages, told her he loved her and asked her for a naked photograph of herself.
Horne interviewed the student and her mother just days before Horne was transferred to an assistant principal position at R.H. Prine Elementary in Bradenton.
Assistant Superintendent Scott Martin then took over the Frazier case, and charged district-level directors of schools with handling other investigations that formerly would have been conducted by Horne's department.
The district halted its investigation of Frazier after the police became involved on Feb. 7.
Martin said last week that freezing investigations when law enforcement is involved is typical for all district inquiries.
Frazier was placed on paid leave on Feb. 8. In addition to being an assistant football coach for the Manatee High Hurricane football team, he has been a parent liaison at the school.
The Hurricanes won the state championship in 2011. Last year the team was ranked No. 1 in the country by several polls for much of the year before losing in the semifinals to the eventual state champ, St. Thomas Aquinas.
"The Manatee County School District is for once going to be held accountable for their actions and that is awesome," said the mother of the student who wrote the letter complaining about Frazier. "Not only for me, but for every other parent in Manatee County."