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Screen doors are, in my opinion, one of the best inventions of modern times. I mean, think about it ... they allow lovely summer breezes to blow through your home, let you hear the birds and the sounds of your neighborhood, all while keeping those nasty biting bugs outside. Like a mythical portal into summer, screen doors allow you to experience the outdoors while protecting you from its extremes. But one problem with many screen doors, especially the bargain types you find at large home centers, it that they are a bit — well, let's just say it: they're ugly.
This project not only serves all the important tasks of a typical screen door, but does it with a degree of style that will make any woodworker proud and their loved ones happy. That's because it is a true woodworking project. With classic mortise and tenon joinery, it is within the skill level of most woodworkers ... but this door is not exactly a weekend project. It will keep you in the shop for a few days — but it's well worth the effort.
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The Arts & Crafts style of the door would work well with white oak lumber, a good exterior-use wood species, but we thought that a mahogany look would be perfect. So to play the part of mahogany, we chose Lyptus®, a plantation-grown hardwood.
Here are a couple of other important points as you consider building a door for your house. While door openings are pretty standard these days, take the time to carefully measure yours. Our door is 36" wide as we built it. Don't buy your glass pieces until you have built your door and measured its openings. Also, our art glass was provided to us by the nice folks at Gaytee Glass in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It's a standard Kokomo glass that you can purchase from most any quality stained glass company. There are many hues to choose from, but ours are classic Arts & Crafts colors. Some local building codes may require a safety film made by 3M to be applied to the glass. Check your local codes.
Before You Get Started
Before you get started on putting the door together, you'll need these sometimes difficult to find parts for the finished product.
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Building from the Outside In
Think of this project as a series of frames constructed from mortise and tenon and half-lap joinery. Although there are some really fine door-making router sets on the market (which I highly recommend), as I often do, I decided to go "old school" on this project.
Start by cutting out the large door stiles and the bottom, middle and top large rails (pieces 1 through 4). These pieces form the main "superstructure" of the door to which all the other parts are attached. My old school intentions had me reaching for my mortise chisel to chop out the through mortises on the large door stiles, but my first test mortise taught me a couple of things: first, Lyptus is really, really hard and second, if I was going to get this project done in time to use it this year, I was going to need to use my mortising machine. (Hey, if William Morris had had a mortising machine, he would have used it!) I always form my mortises first and then cut the tenons to fit. After I completed all the mortises (large and small) in the large door stiles and rails, I stepped over to the router table to plow the stopped grooves for the raised panel (piece 5). As long as you have it set up, go ahead and slice the corresponding grooves on the lower and middle rails.
Raising the tenons on the large rails was the next step on the agenda. I used a shop-made tenoning jig on my table saw for this task and finished up on the band saw, but you could use a router table or any other means that you prefer. Take the time to fit these joints well. A door puts a good deal of stress on its joinery.
Somewhere in this time frame, you should glue up the blank for the raised panel, and this brings up an important point. A screen door is an outdoor project and is subjected to the weather year after year. For that reason, I recommend using a highly water-resistant glue, such as Titebond® III or a polyurethane glue of some sort. Once you have the panel in clamps, set it aside and let the glue cure.
The narrow stiles and rails (pieces 6 and 7) are next up on the machining agenda. Rip these four pieces to size on the table saw, cut them to length, and then go ahead and raise the tenons on their ends. These narrow stiles and rails have half-lap joints that must be marked out and cut. The way I marked out the joints was to dry-fit all the door parts together except the narrow rails. After checking that everything was square and true, I put the narrow rails directly over their mortises, then I marked the joint locations right on the stiles and rails. Again, how you form these half laps is up to you, but I chose to do it on my router table using a miter gauge to push the stock across the bit.
At first blush, you might think that you were done machining these narrow stiles and rails ... but you would be wrong. First, I used my router table and a straight bit to start the rabbets that hold the art glass.
Second, the inside section of the narrow stiles needs to be reduced to 1/2" in thickness to accommodate the screen panel. I did this with a handheld router guided by a jig that controlled the cutting depth. Once that material is removed, you can return to your clamped-up raised panel blank.
Take the blank out of the clamps and scrape off any excess glue. I ran the piece through my planer to skin it down and get two parallel faces. Next, I cut it to size and stepped to my router table to raise the panel.
I used a Freud large dimension bit to raise the panel because it has a back cutting function. It sized my panel lip and provided a nice shadow line around the back of the panel, all in one operation. With that done, it was time to dry-fit all of the parts together, and, for me, a pleasant surprise: everything fit exceptionally well on the first try. Hey, sometimes you get lucky!
The final step before I put the main door section together was to stain the raised panel. After the stain was dry, I went ahead and assembled this main door section, using Titebond III. I clamped it together, checked it for square, and left it overnight.
Screening It Off
Once I removed the clamps, there was a bit more machining to do on the main door section. With a router and a bearing-guided bit, finish routing the rabbets on the glass openings. You will need to square up the corners with a sharp chisel. When that task is done, get yourself a straightedge and chuck a straight bit into your router, so you can form all the rabbets on the edges of the screen panel area. Once again, there will be some squaring up to do with your chisel. Now you are ready to make the screen panel.
The screen panel is made up of two outer stiles, two inner stiles (pieces 8 and 9) and two rails (pieces 10). All these pieces are made from 1/2" stock. Go ahead and cut them to length and width and then step over to the mortising machine again to chop the mortises on the rails. When that is done, I move to the table saw to form tenons on the ends of the inner stiles and the screen rails. Finally, shape the open mortises on the ends of the outer stiles. When everything is fitting well, you're ready to glue up the subassembly. While the glue cured, I went back to the main door section and chopped hinge mortises. (Have your hinges in hand before you do this!) I also installed the door handle and lockset (piece 11). Once it fit well, I took it off and set it aside until later.
I went back to the screen door panel and took it out of the clamps. After a bit of cleanup with a scraper and a hand plane, I grabbed a 1/2" Forstner bit and drilled little round mortises on the inside face of the panel. Then I drilled 5/16" holes through the stock at the center of those little mortises. With the panel subassembly complete, I was ready to test fit it in the main door (I suggest using a block plane to help with the fit), and mark the locations for the threaded inserts (pieces 12).
Taking the screen panel to my work table, I secured it with blocks on its inside corners. Then, with a straight bit and an edge guide mounted to my router, I cut a groove around the perimeter of the panel for the screen retaining cord.
At this point, I needed to mount the threaded inserts. So I drilled a pilot hole for them and used a special little tool to drive them home. Be careful drilling the holes for these inserts (don't drill through!): the inserts must sit just a little proud of the wood.
I needed to grind down the brass knurled knobs (pieces 13) to the proper length, and I was ready to try to put the whole door together. Well, as you can imagine, there were a couple of minor tweaks to do, and then it was time to sand, stain and finish the door parts. I used three coats of spar varnish for the top coat.
When that was completed, all I had left to do was mount the screen with its retainer strips (pieces 14 and 15) and install the art glass and its retainer strips (pieces 16, 17 and 18) — plus a bead of clear silicone adhesive. The door was now ready to be hung on its hinges, and the strike plate installed.
Final Thoughts
For those of you who, like me, live in a climate that needs a storm door panel in addition to a screen panel, here's what you will need to do. Cut out the parts for a second screen panel. Once you have all the mortises and tenons formed, take the two inner stiles to your planer and take 1/8" off of one face. Then assemble the panel. Proceed as you did on the screen door panel, but instead of routing out a groove for the screen, form a 1/8" deep x 3/8" wide rabbet all around the inner edge of the frame. Square out the corners and measure for your 1/8"-thick safety glass. When you have ordered and picked up that glass panel, mount it in the frame with clear silicone adhesive. Now you will be ready when the weather begins to cool.
Well, that is it. Now all you have to do is get busy mowing that lawn you have been ignoring while you built the screen door ... well, you knew it had to happen!


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A country once considered a threat to national security is quickly becoming a pipeline of talent for our national pastime.
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It's not just Puig, either. Aroldis Chapman throws a fastball reportedly clocked at 105 mph. Yoenis Cespedes has 49 homers in his first two seasons and won the 2013 Home Run Derby. Jose Fernandez, who defected from Cuba in 2008 while still in high school, went 7-1 with a 1.32 ERA after the All-Star break en route to winning National League Rookie of the Year honors. All have opened eyes with their elite talents. As a result, Cuban players are becoming a delicacy for fantasy baseball owners.
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Johnny DiPuglia, the director of international operations for the Washington Nationals, has scouted Latin America for 16 years. He's watched those defections increase in recent seasons.
"The last three years have been crazy," DiPuglia said. "I bet you in the last three years 60 Cuban players have defected. A lot of them aren't well known, but I'm sure it's going to get even more rampant down the road. I'm sure Cuba is figuring out that having players play in other countries can be profitable."
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Generally, Cuban players have only been seen by scouts and the public in the World Baseball Classic because outside access to the country is limited. That has made the job for DiPuglia and other scouts very difficult.
"In Cuba, you can't go in there and scout them," DiPuglia said. "You can't just sign them as a free agent. You can't just go shopping and purchase at will. With every Cuban that comes out now, we have to be intense and make the best evaluation possible. With more coming out, that's going to continue to be the case."
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What's more, these players were very advanced when they arrived in the United States, requiring little to no seasoning in the minors.
DiPuglia said that the Cuban players get invaluable experience with the national team and in their country's competitive professional league, two hyper-intense environments in a baseball-first setting that can make it easier to prepare for the major leagues.
That's why several of these players are able to quickly and seamlessly make the transition to the majors. Puig needed just 63 games on the farm before debuting with Los Angeles; Cespedes didn't even play in the minors before making his MLB debut in 2012.
Like DiPuglia, fantasy baseball owners have to make snap judgments on the Cuban imports with little information. And they must do so without getting distracted by the constant loop of SportsCenter highlights that can influence decisions and inflate draft value (e.g. Puig sliding into home plate after a walk-off homer).
That extra flair might be why when a Cuban player breaks out, especially in a major market like L.A., it attracts a little extra attention. But fantasy owners need to learn the difference between style and substance.
Fantasy baseball gamers love to be the center of attention on draft day by "discovering" the next big thing. That led to Cespedes being over-drafted last season. Will owners make the same mistake with Puig?
Puig hit .319 with 19 homers, 42 RBIs and 11 stolen bases in 104 games as a rookie. He graded out as the No. 28 outfielder in the Fantasy Source Roto Rater, a premium tool that combines a player's contributions in runs, RBIs, home runs, steals and batting average into one value. But it's impossible to ignore September, when he hit just .214.
Cespedes hit .240 with 26 homers, 80 RBIs and seven stolen bases, which wasn't enough considering owners were banking on at least a 20/20 season. Cespedes, a second- or third-round pick last year, finished between Desmond Jennings and Denard Span in the Roto Rater.
Given the choice between Puig and Cespedes in 2014, who would DiPuglia take?
"Cespedes and Puig are night and day, personality-wise," DiPuglia said. "Cespedes has high goals, is focused and is more mature than Puig. Puig might have the most God-given ability of maybe any player in the league, but it takes more than that to survive in an environment of failure."
On the mound, Chapman is 38-for-43 in save chances each of the past two seasons, but Rafael Soriano and Fernando Rodney are among those who have more saves in the same two-year stretch. Fernandez finished as the No. 7 SP in our Roto Rater, but it's important to remember he pitches for Miami, where wins are hard to come by. Still, some owners might draft Fernandez over Felix Hernandez after just one year.
Of course, not every Cuban player is a superstar right away. Leonys Martin found a niche with 36 stolen bases last season, but it took him three big-league seasons to get there. Henry Urrutia and Jose Iglesias are examples of other Cuban players who still need more time. Keep that in mind while watching the next wave of rookies roll in from Cuba.
In 2014, the Cuban conversation travels to Chicago with Jorge Soler of the Cubs and Jose Dariel Abreu of the White Sox.
Soler is a 21-year-old outfielder who has spent two seasons in the minors and could make the opening-day roster. Abreu hit .453 with 33 homers and 93 RBIs in the Cuban league in 2010-11, and he'll make the transition alongside Cuban teammates Alexei Ramirez and Dayan Viciedo.
There are other Cuban prospects already in the minors, such as middle infielder Alexander Guerrero, who signed with the Dodgers, and outfielder Dariel Alvarez, who signed with Baltimore. Middle infielder Aledmys Diaz and starting pitcher Raicel Iglesias are among those who defected but are still unsigned.
While Cuba appears to be moving toward better relations with the United States, there is still a long way to go.
For now, keep an eye on 5-foot-8 Alfredo Despaigne, a 27-year-old outfielder who hit .345 with 36 homers in the Cuban league last season. The Cuban government allowed him to play in the Mexican league last fall. Despaigne will keep 80 percent of his salary, with the rest going to Cuba's National Institute of Sport. That isn't a perfect solution, but it's an experiment that could lead to friendlier policies involving Cuban players in the United States down the road.
There's still a wealth of talent in the Cuban league we don't completely know about yet. Second baseman Jose Miguel Fernandez hit .393 last year, and outfielder Yasmani Tomas hit .345. Ismel Jimenez went 9-0 with 60 strikeouts in 76.3 innings.
The Cubans are coming, and scouts -- and fantasy owners -- can't wait to see more.
"I'm sure it will be a productive island," DiPuglia said. "We'll be signing players from there like we do at the Dominican Republic right now. It's a fertile land of baseball. It's passionate about baseball. It's like Alabama and college football in the United States. It's that crazy."


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Chair's Columnby Vickie Yates Brown, Frost Brown Todd LLC, Louisville, KY
The new ABA Bar year is well under way. The "Big ABA" held the Section Officers Conference ("SOC") in Chicago in mid-September and in conjunction, the Health Law Section held its Interest Group ("IG") training and first Council meeting of this bar year. For this Chair's column, I will share aspects of each meeting which I think the Health Law Section ("HLS") members will find of interest.
The HLS's IG Chairs and Vice Chairs kicked off their meetings with an evening of pizza and bowling. However, training began in earnest the next day under the leadership of staff, along with Joyce Hall, Martin Thompson and Kirk Nahra.
In this series of meetings we outlined the Section's expectations as well as each IG's individual responsibilities. Each IG leader also learned important components of the Section, the Section's role within the Big ABA, and how their IG coordinates with both. I joined in on several planning sessions and am particularly excited about the cutting edge teleconference programs the IGs planned for the coming year. I think you will find the programming useful, practical, and only available within the ABA.
The SOC meeting immediately followed the IG leader training and was equally productive. The HLS was well represented, and most of the Section's officers attended. In addition to attending breakout sessions and getting better acquainted with officers from other Sections, the plenary sessions devoted most of their time to identifying Section priorities and best practices -- an exercise begun last year. Some priorities identified were membership, mentoring, and publications. We are currently assembling best practices and I will update you on those adopted by the HLS.
The event culminated on the third day with the first Council meeting of this bar year. Due to the prior preparation of staff and Council members, in conjunction with high attendance, the meeting produced substantive results. The highlight of the Council meeting was undoubtedly a visit by Tom Susman, the newly appointed head of the ABA Government Affairs office, as the HLS has historically been involved in healthcare policy issues. With the leadership and collaboration of Tom, the HLS is looking forward to expanding its leadership on telemedicine, particularly the issues of disaster preparedness and provider credentialing.
The HLS has committed staff and leadership at all levels. I am looking forward to a productive year!
In the meantime, I want to share one of my favorite fall recipes with you --- my Grandmother Yates' recipe for Apple Butter. My Grandfather and Grandmother Yates were farmers in Kentucky and lived their entire lives within a 10 mile radius of their birthplaces.
During these tough economic times, we are seeing a renewed interest in living a more self sufficient lifestyle. For farm families, this usually means spending time canning and preserving fruits and vegetables grown on the farm. This recipe is the best fruit preserve recipe for apple butter that I have ever tasted. The smell of it cooking in the oven alone is worth the effort.
Mammaw Yates' Apple Butter
10 cups apple pulp5 ½ cups granulated sugar1 Tbsp. cinnamon1 ½ tsp. cloves1 tsp. allspice½ cup apple cider vinegar
Mix all of the above ingredients together well. Place in a large roasting pan and cook in a 325 deg. oven for 2 hours or until thick and beginning to turn brown. Stir often while cooking. Seal in sterile jars.
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This week we have been learning about Newton's Law of Motion. I love sharing this video with my students because it helps them connect the laws to the world.
I also found this song for the laws that I shared with my classes.
At the end of the week we were ready for our stations to help learn more about the laws. I love these stations from Focus Learning Resources on TpT.
My favorite station is where the students have 2 eggs, one raw and one boiled. They have to use Newton's 1st Law of Motion to figure out which is which.
Friday was a 1/2 day for students so the 5th grade had Explorer Day. Our students dressed as explorers and Native Americans. They all brought things to trade and had a great time!
STUDENTS: We have played Kahoot several times now. Do you like playing the game? Why or why not? It is something you would like to continue playing?


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In his wide-ranging career, John Wells-Thorpe has designed more than £65 million worth of building projects in the UK and overseas. Excelling at art from an early age, it was almost natural that John should become an architect, and he studied at the School of Architecture in Brighton before winning an award to study in Rome – where the young student, faced with modern Italian design in a historic city, felt like a child in the world's best toy shop.
Work in all five continents over the following years included a 'relocatable church', a TV studio in the Arabian Desert, financial headquarters abutting St Paul's Cathedral and an environmental impact study for a mangrove swamp in Malaysia. Dealing with Margaret Thatcher, Donald Soper, Anita Roddick, Sir Kenneth Clark, Cleo Laine, The Duke of Gloucester and Margaret Atwood along the way, John has encountered many characters, and shares his impressions of them with sharp wit and vivid observations.
Born and educated in Brighton, John Wells-Thorpe has designed buildings in many countries, including award-winning commissions. He was Honorary Librarian and Vice President of the Royal Institute of British Architects before becoming President of the Commonwealth Association of Architects, and was in private practice as an architect before being appointed the first chairman of South Downs Health NHS Trust. He is a member of the NHS Design Review Panel, advises the Commission for Architecture and Built Environment, and has led numerous technology transfer initiatives in Third World countries. Among his non-architectural areas of involvement, he has chaired government independent inquiries into ophthalmic surgery and into adolescent homicide, was a magistrate, and a member of the BBC Advisory Council. He was appointed OBE for services to architecture in 1995.


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And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted
And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic
When writer-producers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns dreamed up an edgy show about a divorced woman with a career, the CBS executives they pitched replied: "American audiences won't tolerate divorce in a series' lead any more than they will tolerate Jews, people with mustaches, and people who live in New York."
Forty years later, The Mary Tyler Moore Show is one of the most beloved and recognizable television shows of all time. It was an inspiration to a generation of women who wanted to have it all in an era when everything seemed possible.
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong's Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted tells the stories behind the making of this popular classic, introducing the groundbreaking female writers who lent real-life stories to their TV scripts; the men who created the indelible characters; the lone woman network executive who cast the legendary ensemble—and advocated for this provocative show—and the colorful cast of actors who made it all work. James L. Brooks, Grant Tinker, Allan Burns, Valerie Harper, Cloris Leachman, Betty White, Gavin MacLeod, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Georgia Engel—they all came together to make a show that changed women's lives and television itself. Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted is the tale of how they did it.
- Simon & Schuster |
- 336 pages |
- October 2013
Reading Group Guide
Topics & Questions for Discussion
1. How does this book fit into the history of the 1970s overall?
2. How does it fit into the history of Hollywood?
3. What do you think it says about women on television?
4. Who was your favorite "character"?
5. What surprised you the most?
6. How has reading this book changed the way you think of The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
7. Mary Richards: Feminist or not?
8. Which episodes did it make you want to watch (again, or for the first time)?
9. Discuss women's role in the workplace and in Hollywood during the 1970s. How has life changed for women since the beginning of The Mary Tyler Moore Show? How has it stayed the same?
10. How do you think Treva Silverman felt back when she was the only woman in the comedy writers' rooms where she worked?
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) —
The Washington Post has joined the list of targets attacked by Chinese hackers that includes The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, the Times reported.
The Times reported Wednesday its computer systems had been compromised by cyberattacks from China, with The Wall Street Journal saying Thursday it had experienced similar attacks.
The Times Friday reported The Washington Post also was attacked in 2012, when newsroom computers were found to be in communication with servers in China.
Washington Post Co. spokeswoman Jennifer Lee said the company "did not have anything to share at this time."
China has denied the hacking allegations.
"All such alleged attacks are groundless, irresponsible accusations lacking solid proof or reliable research results," a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.


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In 2009, I chose to run for Detroit City Council because I believed that we could bring a new direction that Detroiters trust. Voters granted me the honorable privilege to serve as the Council President Pro Tem for the past 42 months.
As an elected official, my focus has always been on improving public safety, educating our kids and operating a fiscally-responsible government that delivers quality services. I believed -- and still believe today -- that these three areas are necessary in creating a thriving environment for residents and businesses.
When Governor Rick Snyder appointed an Emergency Manager in the City of Detroit, I began considering if the role on City Council or another role would best place my skills to work on those three areas mentioned above for the betterment of Detroit. Because the challenges facing Detroit are as much about addressing the finances as they are about managing the current resources.
In April 2012, I partnered with council colleagues to craft a consent agreement with the State of Michigan to afford us the tools and accountability to address our fiscal challenges. However, the political will in the city did not exist in order to have Detroit's elected officials lead implementation of the necessary reforms.
Under the Public Act 436 law, City Council's power is limited in scope and the legislative responsibilities do not provide any authority over city departments, and thus does not afford the opportunity to affect change in the areas of public safety and city services.
When the opportunity arose to serve in a leadership role in restructuring operations with the City of Detroit, I seriously considered it. This includes thoughtful contemplation for continuing my current role as Council President Pro Tem for the remainder of the year. However, each day that implementation of restructuring is not done; it makes turning around the city that much more difficult. Therefore, we must act now.
I have chosen to resign my position on Detroit City Council as President Pro Tem effective July 1 and accept a new role in the Emergency Manager's office with the City of Detroit. This position affords the opportunity to focus more heavily on the pivotal areas I mentioned above where Detroiters will feel the greatest positive impact.
With the knowledge, skills and ability I have acquired over the past decades in both the public and private sectors, this opportunity was the perfect fit in my effort to provide meaningful service to all Detroiters.
Your support and that of other Detroiters has made the following possible during my tenure as Detroit City Council President Pro Tem.
During the past three-and-a-half years, I collaborated with my council colleagues to restore unity, order and dignity to Detroit City Council and address the city's most urgent challenges.
As the Chair of the Public Health and Safety Committee, I partnered with the Bing Administration to improve public safety by leading the charge to pass and adopt the Secondary Employment program ordinance, allowing off-duty police officers to work private security in order to increase police presence without added cost to the city. A number of businesses, block clubs, community associations and community groups are utilizing this program.
I also joined the Bing Administration and Wayne County Officials to lure more than a Billion Dollars in economic development by enabling the Detroit Medical Center to merge with the Vanguard Medical Corporation.
Prior to this, soon after I became a Councilman, I supported the strip club ordinances that would improve the health and safety of employees and customers, as well as nearby residents and businesses, by licensing club employees and enhancing restrictions on and monitoring of operations. Standing with council colleagues this action took place in early 2010.
I worked with the Administration to fast-track the vacant housing demolition program by suspending random demolitions in favor of the clustering process. I was a tenacious advocate for utilizing more than $20 Million from the City's fire escrow account to further impact the safety and well-being of Detroiters by demolishing even more dangerous structures in our neighborhoods.
I have been fiscally-responsible, leading the attack to reduce the annual budget and structural deficit, prioritize core services and urge contractors to cut their costs. I often recommended balanced budgets to colleagues and the Administration that lessened operating costs and prioritized services with a focus on public safety, trash pick-up and the Detroit Water & Sewerage Department (DWSD).
In terms of City Council, I was the first to advocate for a 35 percent council budget reduction and while serving as Councilman I have never used a city-owned car, city purchased gas or city purchased auto insurance.
I served on DWSD's Root Cause Committee to restructure the department. This committee has been instrumental in reducing environmental violations, creating a stronger governance structure that retains Detroit ownership of the system and integrating efficiencies. This effort resulted in the lowest annual water rate increase in the past 10 years. In March, federal Judge Sean Cox released the federal oversight of DWSD largely due to the work of the Root Cause Committee and the department's new director.
As an advocate for education, my council office adopted Bethune Fitzgerald Academy on Detroit's northwest side in the fall of 2010. The objective was to spearhead a pilot reading program and to improve the environment, thus allowing teachers and staff the capacity to focus on academics. We led efforts to create partnerships with the corporate and philanthropic communities to have the school cleaned regularly, added security measures, school uniforms for students that were donated and received donated school equipment.
I have continued supporting other schools in these areas since Bethune Fitzgerald transferred from DPS to the State's Educational Achievement Authority (EAA).
We partnered with military and veterans affairs officials from federal, state and local agencies, as well as representatives from corporations, non-profits and associations, to connect Detroit's veterans to available federal, state and local resources as well as job opportunities. It has been quite an honor to serve as the Founding Chair of the Detroit City Council Military and Veterans Affairs Task Force.
Since March 2011, I have proudly served on the National League of Cities, Public Safety and Crime Prevention Policy and Advocacy Committee. This committee provides public safety advocacy on behalf of cities to the federal government.
I want to thank the Detroit voters and supporters who put their faith in me as Councilman. I will need your continued prayers for the difficult days ahead. Many unpopular and necessary decisions must be made to return Detroit to its prominent position. I am fully committed to the task at hand!
With that said, I want to express gratitude to my colleagues for their collaboration, partnership and expertise exhibited daily at the council table. It has been truly an honor to serve on Detroit City Council with them.
I look forward to this new role as we will build the future Detroit.


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This guest post comes from Marc Mezzacca, founder of NextGen Shopping, a company dedicated to creating innovative shopping mashups. Follow him on Twitter or LinkedIn.
I'm an online shopper who loves efficiency and hates filling out forms, so TwoTap's solution that automates the checkout process across top e-commerce websites immediately grabbed my attention. Not only does TwoTap help automate checkout, but the TwoTap API gives developers a new way to handle referral-based e-commerce. With just a few calls to the API, developers can complete a purchase on a customer's behalf.
Here's an example. Let's say you're a developer with a fashion discovery app. You have product data coming from a variety of retailers (Gap, Nordstrom, Banana Republic, Macy's, etc.) and one of your users finds a nice spring dress from Nordstrom. She decides to purchase it. Normally, at this point, you'd send her off to the Nordstrom.com website. But suppose you could keep her in your app to fully complete the purchase. You can do just that if you've integrated with the TwoTap API.
Capturing the sale in-app is incredibly important in mobile apps, where window shopping is high and conversion rates are still very low. The merchant still handles the transaction, and TwoTap doesn't handle any of the credit card processing. In fact, TwoTap is built on top of the merchant's existing e-commerce system, so no integration is required by the merchant. This differentiates it from other systems like Google Wallet, which offers a two-click checkout process through its Instant Buy APIs, but requires a bit of integration by the merchant.
Continuing from the previous example, the revenue model of choice is likely affiliate-based. In the affiliate model, the website or app passes the user to a retail website to make a purchase, and referring party is rewarded a commission when a purchase is made. There are two things at play that are currently a concern in this type of referral-based e-commerce: abandonment and attribution.
Abandonment in the shopping cycle (i.e., shopping cart abandonment) is a huge problem. When you send your user out of your app or website, you lose control of the environment. If the retailer's site isn't mobile-optimized, problems instantly arise. If it's the user's first time shopping on that website, it means forms to fill out. The more actions (clicks, typing, etc.) a user must execute to make a purchase, the higher the likelihood that user will abandon the purchase. Customers want things done instantly and effortlessly (which is one reason Amazon has been so successful with its Prime shipping and One-Click checkout).
The other concern, specifically for an affiliate marketer, is that of losing the commission. The widely accepted affiliate attribution model is known as the "last-click attribution." In this model, the last website or app to send the user to the retailer's website gets 100% of the referral commission on the sale. So a product discovery app which comes at the beginning of a consumer's shopping cycle has a much higher probability of losing out to something farther down the line, such as a price alert, price comparison, or coupon/loyalty app or website.
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TwoTap helps eliminate both of these concerns by allowing the developer to have complete control of the purchase cycle. A digital wallet provided by TwoTap cuts down on the number of actions required of the end-user. And since the entire transaction can happen in-app, the chance of a completed sale increases and the appropriate affiliate attribution credit is guaranteed.
Of course, building directly on top of the existing shopping cart has its own issues. If a retailer changes its site, this could potentially cause the TwoTap system to fail. However, TwoTap has taken the necessary precautions to set up an alert system which allows it to fix these types of issues within minutes.
From a technology standpoint, integration with TwoTap seems pretty straightforward. A pre-built HTML5 widget-based implementation exists for developers who want quick integration. There's RESTful API for those who want a fully customizable experience.
A few mobile apps have already integrated with TwoTap, such as Shopsy, and many more existing apps could benefit from this technology—fashion discovery app Kaleidoscope and decor recommendation app RoomHints come to mind.
It'll be interesting see how retailers, developers and affiliate marketers react to this type of evolution in e-commerce technology. Anything that makes the process more efficient seems like a strong move in the right direction to me.


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Eller and Alex Galchenyuk each had a goal and two assists and Brendan Gallagher had two points as the Montreal Canadiens ended a four-game winless run with a 4-2 victory over the New York Islanders on Sunday night.
All three started the season on fire but cooled off in recent weeks, so a big game and a much-needed win was just what their line and the Canadiens needed.
"When you're losing and you want to help the team by scoring, it takes a toll on you," said Eller, who had picked up only two assists in the 12 previous games. "But there was never any panic.
"In a lot of the games we played well and were creating chances. The puck just wasn't going in. Today it did and it was nice to get a win."
Michael Bournival also scored for Montreal (9-8-1), as Canadiens coach Michel Therrien earned his 250th career NHL win.
Pierre-Marc Bouchard and Brock Nelson had goals for the Islanders (6-9-3), who ended a four-game road trip without earning a point.
The Islanders were playing a second game in less than 24 hours and were without recently acquired forward Thomas Vanek, who suffered an upper-body injury in a 5-2 loss Saturday night in Columbus.
"Everyone finds a way to do what they have to do at this level," said Nelson, who sat out the Columbus game. "I think everyone did a good job. We had good energy from the start, so I don't think it was a factor."
The Eller-Galchenyuk-Gallagher unit had a combined 19 points through Montreal's first five games of the season, but points have been harder to come by of late as the entire team struggled to put the puck in the net. The squad had only seven goals in the four previous games.
But everything clicked together against the struggling Islanders.
"For some reason we just have that chemistry," said Eller, who has been briefly moved to other lines at times recently to try to shake up the attack. "Things just come naturally.
"Everybody's playing on their instincts, so there's not too much hesitation."
It started with the opening goal 1:46 into the second period when Galchenyuk sent Gallagher in on the right side for a wrist shot that beat backup goalie Kevin Poulin, who started in place of Evgeni Nabokov.
Eller's turn came at 16:34 on a power play when he one-timed Galchenyuk's cross-ice pass inside the far post from the right circle.
Galchenyuk got his goal at 10:37 of the third frame as he completed a tic-tac-toe play with his linemates, tipping the puck in from the edge of the crease after Gallagher had caused a turnover in the New York zone.
The line combined for 10 of Montreal's 31 shots. New York shot 26 at Carey Price.
"They did a lot of a good things as well as contributing on offence," said Therrien. "I like how they pressured the puck carrier and created a lot of turnovers."
New York's penalty killing woes on their road trip continued as Montreal went 2 for 5 with the man advantage. The Isles killed only nine-of-17 penalties in the four games.
The good news was their power play scored twice, ending an 0-for-22 drought spanning their previous seven games.
Bouchard beat Price with a shot from the top of the left circle to tie the game 1-1 at 7:23 of the second frame.
And Nelson saw a John Tavares pass from behind the net go in off his skate 4:10 into the third. The goal passed video review.
"I knew I got a little piece of my stick on it and I felt it hit my foot, but I knew I didn't kick it in any way," the rookie centre said of his second career goal. "It was kind of a lucky bounce."
Notes — Montreal forward Travis Moen left after the first period with a flu. . . . Forward Gabriel Dumont was called up from AHL Hamilton to play and George Parros sat out. . . . IIHF president Rene Fasel was in attendance, as was former Soviet goaltending great Vladislav Tretiak, who was applauded by the Bell Centre crowd. . . . Hard times for struggling Canadiens centre David Desharnais: Even new Montreal mayor Denis Coderre tweeted that he should be given a one-way ticket to Hamilton.


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A KosherEye Signature Recipe
Prepare your favorite 2-pound sweet style challah dough, and let it go through the first rise. (In a hurry? Use the dough cycle on a bread machine.) You will need a recipe* that calls for at least 4 cups of flour. Spray a 9-inch springform pan with cooking oil.
Combine 2 1/2 tablespoons of cinnamon and 1 1/2 cups of cup sugar -– set aside.
Use the prepared dough to form challah dough into balls, about 1-inch in diameter; Place in 1 layer on waxed or parchment paper.
Dip each ball quickly and lightly into tepid water and then in cinnamon sugar
Starting at outer rim of pan, place each dipped and coated ball into springform. Balls do not have to be touching, but should be close together. Use all of the batter and keep stacking as evenly as possible until you run out of dough. There should be at least 2 layers of balls.
Optional: Between layers scatter any combination of a total of 1/2 cup of chocolate chips, nuts, dried cranberries or raisins.
Spray plastic wrap with oil and cover pan. Let rise until doubled in size, about 1-1/2 hours. Bake at 350 degrees about 40-45 minutes or until golden. Let cool 10-20 minutes, and then use springform release latch and carefully pop out of pan.
Optional Icing: Why not? After challah is removed from pan, mix 2 cups of confectioner's sugar with a few drops of orange juice until of spreading consistency and gently brush on top of challah.
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With more than 1,500 contributors, the High Line Flickr Pool gathers some of the best photographs of the park. The images are displayed in a rotating gallery on our Web site, giving High Line fans from afar, or those stuck in the office, a great way to keep track of park life. On the blog, we like to recognize the talented photographers who share their unique perspectives of the park.
Over the past six weeks, as volunteers and staff worked hard to trim back dried plant material during Spring Cutback, the park's plants have reemerged with new spring growth. It's the perfect time to be in the park – you'll find blooms covering shrubs and trees, vibrant green grasses, and spring bulbs popping up everywhere.
Here is a look back at the progression of spring, as seen by contributors to the High Line Flickr Pool.
Make the most of your next visit by downloading our monthly blooms guides or purchase a copy of the High Line Plant Guide, which will help you identify the plants of interest at the High Line.


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Super Meat Boy Devs Discuss Development, Publishers, PETA, Future Endeavors, and More
According to McMillen, Meat Boy began his life as a character he co-designed with his friend Jon McEntee called "Inside Out Ninja," who he describes as "a ninja that was super agile, but had no skin so he was in pain always and if he touched anything he would die." It wasn't too long before McMillen's original Flash title Meat Boy was climbing the charts over at Newgrounds, and he enlisted the help of programmer Tommy Refenes while beginning discussions with Nintendo to bring the game to WiiWare.
McMillen had already been in discussions with Microsoft about bringing Gish or Gish 2 to the Xbox 360, so when publishing Gish fell apart, McMillen offered up Super Meat Boy as an alternative. The stellar reception that the first 100-level demo of Super Meat Boy that Team Meat showed off at a 2009 Nintendo event in London convinced the duo to add a ton of extra content, from boss battles to doubling the number of levels. It's an ironic footnote, given that Super Meat Boy is no longer making it to Nintendo's console.
Refenes and McMillen also reveal their inspiration for Super Meat Boy's death-replay feature was inspired by Quantum Mario, a video of a hacked version of Super Mario World in which each attempt to complete the level was recorded by an emulator and replayed simultaneously in one stream.
When animal rights group PETA created vegetarian parody, Super Tofu Boy, shortly after Super Meat Boy's release, Team Meat couldn't resist putting him into the PC release of their own game. "Wouldn't it be funny if Tofu Boy was actually in our game but he was so shitty you could barely beat a level with him?" mused McMillen. "We can do that. At that was it. It took like 45 minutes to make him and Tommy put him in [the PC version]." It turns out that PETA's little stunt resulted in Super Meat Boy sales spikes on both Xbox 360 and PC, and resulted in about 5,000 new Twitter followers.
In discussing how some of the bonus characters from other games made it into Super Meat Boy, McMillen also shares the little-know fact that he designed Tim, the protagonist from last year's smash indie hit, Braid.
Yeah, I designed Tim. I actually did all of the animations for the game as well. It was a long process, though. I worked with Jon [Blow] for a year on it and did all of the animation and all of the character design. Then, once David [Hellman] came in and did all of the background stuff, Jon wanted that style to go through everything. David just painted over my sprites. It wasn't sprites like 8-bit sprites. It looked more like a cartoony style. Not painterly.
On the publishing front, McMillen also shares some very positive thoughts about Steam, and some mixed feelings about Microsoft.
Working with Steam is amazingly easy and straightforward. There's no headache at all. They know how to promote a sale, and they know how to treat their developers. Microsoft doesn't do that as well. They're kind of falling in that department. I don't know why. They thought our game was going to do a lot worse than what it did. It's not that our game did bad. Our game did very very well. They just didn't expect it to do well. They expected it to be a short burst flame that just kind of went away.
We just happened to be in development when Microsoft was developing Kinect and putting all of their focus on that. We happened to launch in the hardest week of the hardest month, most competitive-wise for any video game. And we launched alongside Costume Quest, which was bizarre for us because we thought we would get an exclusive week. I'm sure Double Fine was even more upset over that. It was like all of these bizarre factors that lined up. Seemingly just bad luck. It's nice to still have come out on top.
The interview also touches things like recruiting Danny Baranowsky to compose the game's soundtrack, some subtle inside jokes and references buried within Super Meat Boy, and the team's general plans to work on a smaller project for handheld devices before tackling their next opus, whatever the subject or genre may be.
We've talked about dabbling in the dynamically generated genre, the brawler genre, the shooter genre, and the casual genre. Me and Tommy love video games. I don't think we discriminate on what genres we'd want to do. As an artist, you just want to push yourself and experience all aspects of the art. And I think we're pretty much interested in making awesome games in any genre. But I think pure platformers we're pretty much done with. I don't foresee us going back to a platformer like this anymore.
Whatever the future holds for Team Meat, it won't be more Super Meat Boy. "We've farmed this. It's done," stated McMillen. "There's no more coming out of us."
That said, enterprising PC gamers have already begun creating custom Super Meat Boy levels using the PC versions "accidentally" included "developer mode."
This isn't even stuff that they can do much with. But they're already amazing so I know for a fact that once an actual functional level editor comes out it can be a self sustaining endless barrage of Meat Boy levels that people can enjoy forever. We can just close the book, move on to whatever we're doing next, and let them forever build on a game that they love. I think that's an appropriate way to end it.


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Motorcyclists Ride for Hospice
The expected number of riders was impacted a little by an early harvest. Instead of the 250 or so expected, there were maybe only 200. That's 200 motorcyclists riding in the Fourth Annual Debbie Gabel Memorial Ride, this past Saturday.
The riders and a raffle for a brand-new Harley-Davidson motorcycle help raise nearly $60,000 for the Thundering Saints Inc. foundation, said ride organizer, Rocky Gabel, husband of the late Debbie for whom the ride and the foundation are dedicated.
"We raise nearly $52,000 on the bike raffle alone," said Rocky. "And of that, $10,000 goes to hospice, $2,000 goes to Relay for Life, and $500 to $1,000 goes to Women's Way. And throughout the year, we give a little here and a little there to help families who are going through tough times, whose family members are dealing with cancer."
Saturday was the right day for the ride. More than 140 miles of the area was mapped out for the ride, and "crossing guards" were posted along the way to help with traffic and the number of bikes. The night ended with a silent auction and a dance.


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When I was little, playing Old Maid with a specially designed set of cards beat a standard deck hands down. The peculiar characters were much more satisfying than the expressionless flat faces of the kings, queens and jacks in the old Bicycle deck, with the cupids peddling for dear life on the blue backs…
When my daughter was little, it never occurred to me to make her a unique deck of Old Maid cards (cards were not all that high on the list of fun things to do until Five Crowns came along). Designing the twenty-odd pairs of characters would have a bit a challenge: my daughter's repeated requests for the beautiful Chicken of the Sea mermaid strained my ability to draw to the breaking point!
However, some children are lucky enough to know adults who have the skill to craft toys and games for them and sometimes the rare specimens that survived against the odds are offered to lucky curators. This little set of Schwarzer Peter cards is just one such find. The cards cannot be earlier than the 1930s: the pair with the Union Jack in the upper left hand corners consist of Pamela and "Margaret Rose aus England." Margaret Rose is a little girl in a blue coat and hat with a green scarf, who must be the late Princess Margaret (1930-2002), Queen Elizabeth II's sister.
For the most part, the cards depict all kinds of toys made of porcelain, clay, celluloid, and wood, such as Hansli and the matryoshka doll Tatyiana and her five daughters shown below.
A famous character from children's books also makes an appearance here: Beatrix Potter's Hunca Munca from The Tale of Two Bad Mice, identified only as "nach einem Englischen Kinderbuch," that is, "from an English children's book." It's amusing that the illustrations of Hunca Munca were redrawn from ones where this bad little mouse was behaving well relatively well.
Another interesting feature of this homemade pastime is the size: it has twenty-seven instead of the usual fifty-two cards. It seems to be complete because it fits perfectly in the blue box with the illustrated title label that reads in German: "This game of Black Peter was painted for her dear friends Ernst and Anneliese Grossenbacher in St. Gall." It is signed Gertrud Lendorff, who just might be the Swiss art historian from Basel (1900-1981). My guess is that little Grossenbachers for whom Lendorff made the cards might have been reading The Tale of Two Bad Mice in German translation. But perhaps s Lendorff was introducing them to a childhood favorite of her own. The cards don't provide any clues about the circumstances in which they were made or how they were received, but they are testimony to Potter's appeal outside her homeland.
One thing we find unacceptable today is Lendorff's inclusion of toys that perpetuate offensive stereotypes. The title label depicts a black baby doll and Lendorff's model might have been a Heubach bisque character doll. She redrew the same doll on the card with the caption "Der Schwarze Peterli! Nicht der Schwarze Peter!" [The little Black Peter! Not the Black Peter!]. It is an opprobrious caricature with unnaturally bright red lips. But unlike some Heubach black baby dolls, it wears what looks like a knitted onesie instead of some spurious form of "native dress."
The "Schwarzer Peter"—that is, "Black Peter"–mentioned on the title label is the name that the Old Maid card goes by in German, Danish, Swedish, Hungarian, and Finnish. The card with Black Peter is the hot potato that all the players try to get rid of as quickly as possible so it won't be in their hands at the end of the game. In this particular set, the Black Peter is depicted offensively as a black rag doll (possibly inspired by Florence Upton's famous character, the Golliwog) instead of the more usual chimney sweep.
In spite of the unpleasant images, this card set is a fascinating addition to Cotsen's collection of manuscripts made for children over the last three hundred years..
See more Beatrix Potter at the Cotsen virtual exhibitions page


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Bobby Rogers
Bobby Rogers, age 73, of Malvern, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Saturday, April 20, 2013.
He was born in Boxelder, Texas on December 18, 1939.
The family will receive friends at J. A. Funk Funeral Home on Monday evening, April 22, 2013 from six until eight o'clock.
The funeral service will be two o'clock Tuesday afternoon, April 23, 2013 in the chapel of J. A. Funk Funeral with Brother Larry Stinson officiating. Interment will follow in Rockport Memorial Gardens.
Online condolences may be sent via jafunkfuneralhome.com.


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Scientific Name: Ursus americanus
Classification: Game Species (Big Game)
Abundance: Common in coastal and mountain regions of the state, Uncommon in Piedmont region
Access Survey
Click here or the logo to see a video on how to remove the premolar from your harvested bear.
The black bear is the only bear species found in North Carolina or anywhere in the eastern United States. The successful comeback of the American black bear in North Carolina represents one of wildlife management's greatest achievements. Black bears were once restricted to remote areas and reached very low population levels in the mid-1900s. Today, black bears are found approximately 60% of the total land area of North Carolina.
As habitat is developed and human populations increase, it is ultimately human attitudes toward bears that will determine whether bears will continue to exist in the state. Unfortunately, bears are viewed either as dangerous animals or cuddly pets. It is best to avoid these extreme views and instead show a healthy respect for this magnificent forest animal.
Their diets typically consist of acorns, berries, carrion, corn, fish, frogs, fruits, grasses, grubs, honey, insects, larvae, leaves, nuts, peanuts, reptiles, roots, seeds, small mammals, soybeans and wheat. Bears prefer large expanses of uninhabited woodland or swampland with dense cover. In the east, lowland hardwoods, swamps and pocosins, provide good bear habitat. These types of habitat provide the necessary travel corridors, escape cover and natural foods that bears need to thrive in North Carolina.
Click here for a detailed report on the History of NC bears (PDF)
Before Europeans came to the New World, black bears lived in all forested regions of North America and were abundant in the area that would one day become North Carolina. However, like mountain lions and gray wolves, black bears were often killed by early settlers to protect their families, crops and livestock. In time, bears across the state were impacted by human development. By the early 1900s, black bears were found only in the most remote mountains and coastal swamps of the Tarheel State. Compounding the decrease in available habitat, the American chestnut blight (a tree-killing fungus) hit the mountain region in the 1920s, causing the loss of the most important nut-producing tree for bears and other species of wildlife. As a result, bear populations suffered. Mountain lion and gray wolf populations never recovered, but the black bear has made a remarkable recovery in both population and range over the last 30 to 40 years. Bears have come back to North Carolina without the aid of stocking efforts like those used to bring back wild turkeys and white-tailed deer. Black bear expansion has occurred naturally as bears have moved into suitable, but previously unoccupied, habitats at a rapid rate. Today, there are approximately 15,000 bears in the state, occupying about 60% of the state's total land area.
The black bear is an omnivore with a diet of both plants and animals. It varies in color: in North Carolina, the black bear is usually black with a brown muzzle and sometimes a white patch on its chest, commonly referred to as a chest blaze. In other areas of North America, black bears can be a very common brown color or a more rare blue and white. All bear species have five toes on each foot and each toe has a sharp curved claw enabling the bear to feed on insects and grubs in decaying logs. Black bears rely mostly on their sense of smell and hearing due to poor eyesight, but are adept at climbing, running, swimming and digging. They have been clocked at speeds of 35 miles per hour over short distances.
Bears prefer large expanses of uninhabited woodland or swampland with dense cover. In the east, lowland hardwoods, swamps and pocosins, provide good bear habitat. Recent research has shown bears to be much more adaptable to habitat changes than previously thought and some bears have adapted to living near developed areas.
Bears put on additional weight in autumn to prepare for winter denning. They build dens in cavities of live trees, hollow logs, caves, rock outcroppings, cavities in the ground, or in a thicket. Usually black bears construct nests of leaves, sticks, and grass within the den, which often resemble giant bird nests. In North Carolina, den entry can occur as early as November or as late as January, though male bears in the coastal plain region may active throughout winter. Most North Carolina bears emerge from their dens in March or early April, depending on the weather and mobility of their cubs. To find out more about bear hibernation, click here.
Deer Zones Maps
Black Bear Public Forum Schedule 2017
N.C. Black Bear Management Plan
North Carolina Black Bear Annual Report (PDF)
Black Bear Management in NC (PDF)
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission's black bear management involves:
Bear safely crossing Highway 64 by using a wildlife
underpass in Washington County.
NCWRC oversees all bear research conducted in North Carolina through direct studies by Commission personnel as well as participation and oversight on a variety of research projects involving professors and students from universities.
In recent years, numerous universities including Auburn University, North Carolina State, the University of Tennessee and Virginia Tech have performed research in North Carolina under permit from NCWRC.
Research has focused on issues ranging from bear habitat use and home ranges to procedures for estimating bear populations and reducing vehicle collisions. The results of these research studies are often published in scientific journals.
A cinnamon-phase black bear observed
in Avery County.
(Photo credit: Travis Proctor)
NCWRC biological staff can assess the status of the bear population through various monitoring indices derived from harvest, non-harvest mortality, scent stations, nuisance activity, and bear observations. This information, collected over along time period, allow us to monitor population age structure and reproductive parameters of the bear population. This data also helps NCWRC to estimate population levels. The information derived from these monitoring activities help NCWRC track trends in the bear population and provides for science-based decision making and biologically-sound management principles.
Below you will find reports on the surveys conducted by NCWRC biologists:
Hunters, we need your help! Click here to find out how you can participate in the Bear Cooperator Program!
Black Bear Harvests by County
Black Bear Harvest Summaries by Region
Black Bear Harvest Summaries
Black Bear Harvest by Method
Black Bear Harvest by Weapon-type
Black Bear Weights Summary
Black Bear Harvest by Game Land
2017 Official Black Bear Harvest
2016 Official Black Bear Harvest
2015 Official Black Bear Harvest
2014 Official Black Bear Harvest
2013 Official Black Bear Harvest
2012 Official Black Bear Harvest
2011 Official Black Bear Harvest
2010 Official Black Bear Harvest
2009 Official Black Bear Harvest
2008 Official Black Bear Harvest
2007 Official Black Bear Harvest
2006 Official Black Bear Harvest
2005 Official Black Bear Harvest
2004 Official Black Bear Harvest
2003 Official Black Bear Harvest
2002 Official Black Bear Harvest
2001 Official Black Bear Harvest
2000 Official Black Bear Harvest
Coastal Bear Harvest 1996-2017
Piedmont Bear Harvest 1996-2017
Mountain Bear Harvest 1996- 2017
Statewide Bear Harvest Graph 1976-2017
Statewide Bear Harvest Table 1976- 2017
Bear Harvest By Method 2009-2017
2017 Bear Harvest By Method
2016 Bear Harvest By Method
2015 Bear Harvest By Method
2014 Bear Harvest by Method
2013 Bear Harvest by Method
2012 Bear Harvest by Method
2011 Bear Harvest by Method
2010 Bear Harvest by Method
Bear Harvest By Weapon-Type 1981-2017
2017 Bear Harvest By Weapon-Type
2016 Bear Harvest By Weapon-Type
2015 Bear Harvest By Weapon-type
2014 Bear Harvest by Weapon-type
2013 Bear Harvest by Weapon-type
2012 Bear Harvest by Weapon-type
2011 Bear Harvest by Weapon-type
2010 Bear Harvest by Weapon-type
NC Black Bear Weights (1969-2016)
Bear Harvest By Game Land 2008 -2017
2012-2016 Bear Hunting and Harvest Estimate Maps
NOTE: All files are in PDF format. You will need Adobe Reader® to read reports.
If you don't have Reader, use this link to get the latest version.
Black bears are an important part of North Carolina's fauna. As human populations increase, it is ultimately human attitudes toward bears that will determine whether bears will continue to exist in the state. Unfortunately, bears are viewed either as dangerous animals or cuddly pets. It is best to avoid these extreme views and instead show a healthy respect for this magnificent forest animal.
Please read how you can take simple, common-sense steps to do your part in ensuring that bears and people can live together. Implementing these steps will avoid attracting bears to your property and prevent conflicts from occurring. Remember, prevention is the best medicine!
The Bear Facts: A Story of a North Carolina Treasure
You can purchase this documentary about the history and biology of black bears in North Carolina.
Bear Facts DVD
Attention Educators
(K-4 through high school)!
Click below to find out how you can receive a free copy of our Educator's Edition Bear DVD for your classroom.
***** We need information on all harvested bears, young and old, to accurately model the bear population. *****
How to submit?
During 1st week of bear season:
Remainder of the Bear Hunting Season:
(919) 707-0050
Click here for a YouTube video on pulling the bear's upper premolars from your harvested bear!
Please submit both first premolars from the upper jaw (see picture below). Click on picture for a closer view.
Proposed Regulation Changes for Bear Season for 2018-19
2017 Bear Forum Summary Document (PDF)
Aligning Coastal Bear Seasons to Biological Zones (PDF)
Bear Forum Questions & Answers (PDF)
Presentation for August 2016 Bear Forums (PDF)
Summary of Input from August 2016 NCWRC Public Black Bear Management Forums (PDF)


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Happy Candy Corn Day! I've been bursting at the seam waiting for Candy Corn Day to arrive this year! Not only because I get to share this final week of Cookbook Party entries but also because, at last, I can show you my Candy Corn plant!
Don't you just want to snap off that tender candy corn flower and see if it smells like candy corn. Don't you dare, its quite fragile. It may not have the sweet scent of candy corn but boy oh boy, it sure is pretty, isn't it? This is the first year I've ever grown Maniettia inflata. That's the botanical name for Firecracker Vine, Candy Corn Vine and Brazilian Firecracker. Whew! I just call it Candy for short:) Marion calls it the Firecracker but that's probably because she's quite the snapper herself:) And, because it travels up the gutter to her living room window; exactly where she wanted it:)
Regrettably, I didn't take as many pictures of Candy as I should have this past season. She was hiding behind the Datura which has a way of sprawling all over everybody.
I did manage to get a few clippings of Candy Corn before the snow flew this morning. (yes...we...have...snow...) I'm going to try growing it as a houseplant. I think it might work. I'll start it in a hanging basket because I think it will be more comfortable hanging in the sun. I just put a new sky light in when the roof was repaired. (don't ask:) It isn't as aggressive as a morning glory vine but I have a notion it will be as easy to grow. We'll see...Maybe, I'll have a bunch of "babies" for you guys next year. In most places, except for Zone 10, the Candy Corn Vine grows as an annul but with its tender perennial tendencies, its still blooming outside, through the snow, and up the gutter. I'm thinking of planting them late in the season next year for an Autumn touch.
I'm must apologize for not be able to show you Candy, peeping through the layer of snow outside but it seems I procrastinated my camera to deadsville. New battery on order...
Cookbook Party: Week Four
Apple MonthI'm delighted to introduce a new guest to the Cookbook Party this week; #3 Ruth hostess of the blog The Mid-Century Menu. Ruth baked up an Apple Cider Upside-Down Cake for Apple Month from a new to me cookbook titled The Apple Kitchen Cookbook. (1966) Pop on over and say Hi! You just never know what she'll be tossing about.
#5 Annie's at it again. Today we have Apple Pie-in-the-Sky for Apple Month. It sure looks Out of this World!!!
Cool Food for KidsCool Food for Kids was a surprisingly popular October celebration. Here we have Halloween Party Cupcakes that are sure to give you the creepers. Pam, our #7 partying guest, harvested this recipe from "Betty Crockers Bisquick Classics and New Favorites cookbook.
I'm not quite sure where our online Pampered Chef "gal" #11 Channon snatched this recipe from. I do know her "girl" Gretchen had her "say" when it came time to naming it, Cheater Pumpkin Eater Muffins. Pop by and check out the recipe. You'll see why it sure is a Cool Food for that "kid." Thanks Gretchen!!! Say hi to Sissy:)
Cranberry Month#1 Joyce, hostess of the blog My Kitchen Flavours, submitted a tempting recipe for Plainly Perfect Pound Cake with Brandied Cranberries for Cranberry Month. ooo la la...
Dessert MonthDid you think we had enough recipes for National Dessert Month? Of course not. Me either.
First up we have Fried Ice Cream from Helene #2 this week. After you read Helene's picturesque post, you will, without a doubt, want to dive into her Fried Ice Cream. Mind you, I'm writing this as the snow is gently falling outside:)
Admittedly, Susan #4, hostess of Black-Eyed Susan's Kitchen, loves Autumn! Wait til you see her post. I shamelessly admit, I absolutely adore Tiramisu. Don't you? It's brought to us via Saveur Cooks Authentic Italian. Heavenly!
I'm going to crown Joyce #9 the Pound Cake Queen! Just look at her Toasted Almond Pound Cake she adapted from from The Cake Book by Tish Boyle. That book is really beginning to grow on me and I'm not even a baker!
In classic "superwoman" style, Marjie, #10 my very best favorite Modern Day
Eat Better, Eat Together MonthYou see what I mean? Here's #12 Marjie's Soup: It's What's for Lunch setting. Wait until you see how she concocts the meal!
Pork MonthIntroducing Dumas Celebrates Pork Month. Brought to you by; #6 Mae's Food Blog!
Sausage MonthI couldn't have chosen a better guest food to end this post today. After all, tomorrow is Halloween. And, Sausage Month is the last category this week. Look at these. Need I say more? Lena is #8 this week...She resides at Her Frozen Wings.
Just in case these ol' eyes of mine don't stay open until midnight tonight (Saturday) I'll be using the Random Generator Sunday morning to choose this week's winner. The Cookbook Party Winners will be posted on Monday; Halloween. See ya then, Louise


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Module Lwt_main
module Lwt_main: sig..end
Main loop and event queue
This module controls the ``main-loop'' of Lwt.
val run : 'a Lwt.t -> 'a
run t calls the Lwt scheduler repeatedly until t terminates,
then returns the value returned by the thread. It t fails with
an exception, this exception is raised.
Note that you should avoid using run inside threads* The calling threads will not resume before run returns.
- Successive invocations of run are serialized: an invocation of run will not terminate before all subsequent invocations are terminated.
val yield : unit -> unit Lwt.t
yield () is a threads which suspends itself and then resumes
as soon as possible and terminates.
val exit_hooks : (unit -> unit Lwt.t) Lwt_sequence.t
Sets of functions executed just before the program exit.
Notes:* each hook is called exactly one time
- exceptions raised by hooks are ignored
val at_exit : (unit -> unit Lwt.t) -> unit
at_exit hook adds hook at the left of exit_hooks


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Ground, water, lava, fire, plants and trees -model the world like a child playing sand castles on the beach. With such powers, players will help their people resist, expand and migrate so they can accomplish their quest to find a safe place.
Project Dust is based on a technological breakthrough which allows us to have a world that's entirely dynamic. Players will be able to manipulate ground, water, vegetation, lava as if playing sandcastles on the beach. Breaching a lake open, digging craters, flooding valleys… And all this is simulation, not just graphics visualization.
Key Features
- Ground-Breaking Technology - Play in the sandbox of one of the most advanced real-time nature simulations, where everything you see and interact with evolves dynamically, offering a constantly renewed experience.
- Unique Art Direction - Discover a large variety of environments: Tropical islands, volcanic landscapes, deserts and so much more ...
- Rich Story Mode - Explore 13 breathtaking territories of emergent gameplay. Master the natural forces at play on a mysterious archipelago and help a primitive tribe to recover the lost powers of their ancestors.
- Confront Mighty Nature - Protect your tribe against Nature's most devastating attacks. Face down tsunamis, wildfires, earthquakes, volcanoes, torrential rains…
- Master Godlike Powers - Control the forces of nature to sculpt the world in your image. Hold back lava, stop raging waters, empty lakes, grow forests and raise mountains!
- Live Up to the Challenge - Race against the clock on 30 additional maps in Challenge Mode. Each scenario is a puzzle-like challenge where time is of the essence...
- Online leaderboards - Compare your Challenge Mode scores with the community on worldwide leaderboards.
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