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It is with great concern that the world looks to London in the days of the worst riots that the city has seen in the recent past. Pictures of burning cars and masked hordes facing armed police on the streets instantly bring back memories of the civil unrest in that spread out from the suburbs of Paris all over France in 2005. The trigger for the violence was similar: fleeing from the police after a banal incident, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traore were electrocuted while climbing into an electrical sub-station in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. In London Mark Duggan aged 29 years, got killed last Thursday after an apparent fire exchange with police officers. When hundreds of people marched one day later to Tottenham police station to ask for justice, the situation escalated and what started with thrown bottles and cars being set on fire turned into a national crisis.
Though six years and 340 kilometres of distance lie between the incidents, the causes and results seem to be identical and bring to light how dramatically politicians and the economy have failed to provide perspectives for youth even after the warnings of France 2005.
It is easy to stigmatize the rioters of London as looters and hooligans and the fact that many of them are not politicized might fuel this impression (see video).
However, to think that only well-educated middle and upper class people have the right to protest might be one of the root causes for the sudden outburst of violence itself. Like it or not, but what is happening in London right now is a public protest and there are reasons for it.
A lot of those currently on the street might actually don't know those reasons are, but the fact that there is an urge to run around and destroy things shows that something is terribly wrong with modern western society. Once again, it would be the time to rethink the principal of survival of the fittest and lend our ears to the weakest and most vulnerable.
One would have thought that the global financial crisis had taught us valuable lessons, but instead of questioning the principal of the invisible hand and the self-regulating market, voters in countries like Sweden or the Netherlands fell for neo liberal right wing parties offering (too) easy solutions.
Paying taxes to favour the "losers" of the fast pace race of modern capitalism is traditionally unpopular amongst the wealthy, even more so in times of crisis and with everyone thinking that he is treated unfair and should be helped, solidarity is hard to find.
Children and youth need a perspective in order to be expected to live within the rules of the society they were forced to be part of. If you never had a chance to make it anyway and have nothing to lose, what difference does it make not to obey the law?
Of course, violence is absolutely unacceptable and many homes and family businesses have been burned down and destroyed, but this is the result of something that happens every day and that we like to turn a blind eye on too often and eventually at some point, injustice becomes unbearable and the rage unloads in terrible acts of violence.
As Daniel McGowen, member of the Earth Liberation Front put it: "I'm not suggesting that the path of destruction is the right path," he said. "But, when you're screaming at the top of your lungs and no one hears you, what are you supposed to do?"
Photo 1: Fires in London during recent riots (Creative Commons)
Video: Interview performed by the BBC
Photo 2: Mark Duggan's death started the outburst of violence


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jon Bon Jovi, Hugh Jackman and other Golden Globe nominees celebrated their good fortune with a cup of tea.
They were the guests of honor at the annual British Academy of Film and Television Arts annual Awards Season Tea Party at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles, where the agenda was merely to mingle with the Hollywood elite while nibbling on finger sandwiches and scones with cream.
Sally Field milled about with her awards-season date, her youngest son, Sam Greisman. Jackman and Bon Jovi talked shop. Lawrence collected kudos from her colleagues, "Life of Pi" director Ang Lee posed for photos and Harvey Weinstein, whose namesake company produced awards-season contenders such as "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Django Unchained," smiled broadly as he worked the room.
David O. Russell, who showed up wearing his trademark white sneakers, complimented a BAFTA member on his cologne.
"You smell really good," the "Silver Linings Playbook" director said. "What are you wearing?"
Other guests at the afternoon affair included Ben Affleck, "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow, Amanda Seyfried, Jacki Weaver, Olivia Munn, "Les Miserables" director Tom Hooper, Chris Tucker, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and filmmaker Ava DuVernay.
The pre-Globes event was among many dotting the city Saturday, and one of three held at the hotel. Tea party guests could also get glamorous at the InStyle Beauty Lounge or gifted at the HBO Luxury Lounge.
The 70th annual Golden Globe Awards will be presented Sunday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and broadcast live on NBC.
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how about expanding your mind and step into the world of the Linux operating system?
Knowledge is power and I've been fortunate enough to have learned some wonderful things about computing from the Linux and open source world. So, I thought I'd try and give something back.
Over the Christmas holidays, I put together a step-by-step guide (from my own notes) that takes the reader through the installation of a Linux operating system called Underground Desktop.
You can read more about it on this website http://www.virtualsky.net/products.htm#modular-linux , where you can also download a PDF of the manual to help you take advantage of what Linux has to offer.
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If you've stopped by your local car dealership recently, you've probably seen them using nitrogen to fill the tires on your car. This is because nitrogen has superior resistance to expansion as heat rises when compared breathable air. Also since oxygen eventually leaks out of tires, nitrogen-filled tires retain their pressure better over time.
The list of benefits goes on for nitrogen, but the downside has always been how one maintains their tires once you get home, not to mention the arm & leg some dealerships charge for filling your tires up with the most abundant element in our atmosphere. Of course the dealers can charge what they do because there aren't that many people that have a N2 tank sitting in their garage…until now.


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It's hard to find a business participating in social media that isn't doing something on Facebook. In fact, "I want a Facebook fan page," has replaced, "I want a company blog," as the single most heard request from clients in the social media world these days. With 350 million accounts and growing, it's no wonder.
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A bright, apricot-colored car centerpieced at the upcoming University of Alabama homecoming parade might seem like an odd choice for Bama fans with an ingrained dislike of the color that symbolizes several rival schools.
A bright, apricot-colored car centerpieced at the upcoming University of Alabama homecoming parade might seem like an odd choice for Bama fans with an ingrained dislike of the color that symbolizes several rival schools.
But the 1962 Lincoln Continental convertible should revive memories of the 1963 Orange Bowl, when legendary linebacker Lee Roy Jordan led the Tide in a 17-0 shutout against the Oklahoma Sooners.
The car was specially made for the Orange Bowl parade, held on New Year's Eve 1962. President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline were the grand marshals and among the 72,880 fans in attendance the following day. A photo that ran in the Miami Herald that week shows the first lady standing in the back seat of the car while the president greeted Cuban exile leaders.
"The state of Florida ordered the car from the Lincoln plant, it was specially made for this event and painted bright orange. It was the only time Lincoln used that particular color," said owner Tom Rickman. "It's definitely an eye-catcher."
The car was later sold at a Ford auction in Memphis to a north Alabama dealer. Kay Rickman's uncle bought it, and later traded it to her father for a new Cadillac. Nicknamed "Big Orange", the car is now owned by the Rickmans and her brother Sat Gizan Khalsa, who went by Robert McMasters Jr. when he was a University of Alabama student.
The Rickmans attended UA and lived in Birmingham for a time before moving to Florida. They offered the car for UA to use in the homecoming parade this year.
"We thought that it was a good idea since it's the 50th anniversary year of that game," Tom Rickman said.
The game marked the end of the 49-year-old Paul "Bear" Bryant's fifth season as Alabama's head coach and quarterback Joe Namath's first.
It was Jordan's last game as a college player, an impressive performance that included 31 tackles and earned him a second MVP award in a bowl game.
Jordan received unanimous All-American status and the Lineman of the Year award after that season.
The car is now kept at an antique storage company in Birmingham. For years, it was used by grand marshals in Birmingham's Veterans Day parades, including Charles Lindbergh, Jimmy Stewart and Generals William Westmoreland, Alexander Haig and Jimmy Doolittle.
Charlie McKinney was in his 20s when he worked for Kay Rickman's father in the 1960s and 1970s. He drove Big Orange in all of the parades and picked up the parade grand marshals at the airport and escorted them while they were in Birmingham.
"I was just thinking the other day that I wish I had gotten their autographs," he said. "All I was thinking about then was driving."
McKinney also used the car to run errands around Birmingham.
"I drove it everywhere. You'd be amazed at how many people would turn around and take a second look," he said. "It was always exciting to get in that car."
Eddie Conyers will serve as the homecoming parade's grand marshal. He has served as the football team's practice referee since Bryant hired him in 1960. Conyers is also a liaison football official with the Southeastern Conference. The coaches' dressing room was named for him in 2006, and he was made an honorary member of the A-Club, the athletics alumni group.
Conyers is a Montgomery native and U.S. Navy veteran who earned a bachelor's degree in advertising from UA in 1954. He earned a master's degree in higher education from UA in 1979 and served as assistant to the dean for the College of Continuing Studies from 1978 until his retirement in 1993.
He is a popular speaker at UA Alumni Association events held nationwide.
The parade will begin at 7 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at Second Street and University Boulevard next to the Moody Music Building and will travel west toward downtown Tuscaloosa on University Boulevard.
Kickoff for the game against Georgia State University is set for 11:21 a.m. WVUA will air a live broadcast of the parade.
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Hmmmm... What about a tie off? If there is a solid place to tie it off you could toss a rope over the beam and then just pull it up to correct height, that would be easy to do.... Of course that would only work if it is a fully exposed beam. I can't think of any other way to do it.
Unfortunately it's not a fully exposed beam.......and besides the rope & bait have to be ~completely~ removed when we're open for business, not just hung out of reach... it is an art gallery afterall..
No offense, but I've seen some of the 'art' that hangs in many galleries. Just put up a small card with an artist name (Popin), the title of the work(Spring Pole) and a price ($35). Bingo! It's an installation piece!


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Denial of Health Care for HIV-Positive Florida Inmate Raises Discrimination Questions
By Kellee Terrell
January 5, 2011
Thanks to her mother's love and tenacity, Betsie Gallardo, a young, HIV-positive Florida inmate dying of cancer, is finally receiving the basic nutrition she needs to stay alive. But some wonder if she'd still be in prison at all if she didn't have HIV.
"Betsie is finally being fed, and thank God for that!" Jessica Bussert, Gallardo's mother, wrote in an e-mail update on Dec. 30 to reporter Todd Heywood. "She is very weak and thin, and I'm not sure how much longer she could have held on."
Gallardo, 27, was convicted in 2008 of battery of an officer and resisting arrest. She was sentenced to five years in prison. In early 2010, she was diagnosed with stage IV gallbladder cancer. While she received cancer treatment in prison, a tumor developed that blocked her intestines, making it impossible for her to hold down food and liquids. However, prison officials refused to provide Gallardo with nutrition intravenously. Without food, Gallardo would have eventually starved to death.
Bussert claims that someone in the "prison medical system" told her that her daughter was probably not given nutritional treatment because they had already concluded that Gallardo was going to die and they did not want to prolong her suffering.
As disturbing as this news might be, it becomes more so when we consider the circumstances behind Gallardo's incarceration. The Florida Independent reported:
Bussert is clear that what her daughter did is wrong, but she feels that her daughter shouldn't have to die for her actions simply because she is HIV positive. While Gallardo wasn't charged with attempted criminal transmission of HIV, many agree that her HIV status played a factor in her sentence. Catherine Hanssens, executive director of the Center for HIV Law and Policy, told The Miami Herald, "She's really serving most of that five years entirely for stigma."
Afraid that her daughter would eventually starve to death, Bussert went public by reaching out to the Bilerico Project to ask for help in raising awareness about her daughter's dire situation. On Dec. 23, the Bilerico Project asked for a "Christmas miracle" for Gallardo and urged its readers to help by e-mailing and calling Florida officials; signing an online petition; and reposting its call to action on Twitter and Facebook.
The media took notice. Shortly after the call to action was issued, The Florida Independent, The Michigan Messenger and The Miami Herald all published stories about Gallardo's predicament. After which Gallardo was moved from an infirmary at the Broward Correctional Institution to a local Miami hospital, where she began receiving nutrients through an intravenous drip.
While Bussert has achieved this victory, she is asking that the Florida Parole Commission release her daughter to her custody on compassionate grounds so that Gallardo can die under her care.
"I just want to take her home and let her die with her loved ones," Bussert told the press.
On Dec. 23, the Florida Parole Commission announced that it would review Gallardo's case in February. But Gallardo is expected to succumb to her cancer before then. On Dec. 24, Democratic Florida state Reps. Daphne Campbell, Hazelle Rogers, Ari Porth, Gwendolyn Clarke-Reed, Perry Thurston and Darryl Rouson, and state Sen. Christopher Smith sent a letter to the Florida Parole Commission asking that it review her case early.
The politicians' plea worked: Officials have agreed to review her case on Jan. 5.
Regardless of the outcome, Gallardo's situation never should have happened in the first place. Yet HIV criminalization cases, whether brought about by HIVers having sex and not disclosing or from something as ridiculous as biting or (in Gallardo's case) spitting, have become a serious concern for the HIV community. In 2009 in Michigan, for instance, Daniel Allen was brought up on bioterrorism charges after allegedly biting a neighbor during a fight. A circuit judge dropped those charges, but cases such as Allen's and Gallardo's continue to occur in the U.S.
UPDATE 1/5: In an emergency vote conducted this morning by the Florida Parole Commission, Gallardo has been granted a medical release and has been transferred to a Miami hospice. Bil Browning of Bilerico Project reported:
Last night Florida Representative Daphne Campbell (D-Miami) and contributor Michael Rajner took Betsie's mother to Governor Rick Scott's inaugural ball to plead for her release.
Kellee Terrell is the former news editor for TheBody.com and TheBodyPRO.com.
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Many publishers will try out a talented new illustrator by commissioning a jacket for an existing classic.
It's an excellent way to give such an artist's work exposure in book stores. It's also an opportunity to establish a working relationship with a publisher.
As for the artist, it's a one-shot deal; in other words, you complete one piece, and you're done! With a picture book, the process is on-going for several months. It can seem endless.
Hugh D'Andrade got the assignment of a lifetime: The opportunity to create the cover of a special leather-bound edition of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. What distinguished this project was having access to the author herself. Wow. . . .
Hugh describes the experience on his blog:
"…I have loved this book since I first read it in the 7th or 8th grade. . . Re-reading it a few years ago, I remembered how this book made me feel transported to another time and place, and how it helped me grapple with really difficult questions about morality and injustice. It's a powerful story, told with such simple, elegant language…
. . . As with most book covers, this one took a lot of back and forth between myself and the publisher. We had to get all those little details right, from Scout's ponytail, to the type, to the Southern courthouse featured on the back cover.
The biggest surprise in this process was the fact that Harper Lee herself was involved! Yes, she is alive, and though she is careful to stay out of the public eye, she collaborated with Sterling Publishers (a publishing imprint of Barnes & Noble) on this edition, to the degree that she looked over my sketches and gave surprisingly detailed notes.
As you might suspect, they were sharp and insightful, with suggestions on how to ensure that Scout looked as if she were actually tipping up on her toes to view the gifts hidden in the knot of that old tree. . . "
A previous assignment Hugh did for Barnes & Noble was a new edition of Alice in Wonderland.
Another recent project was the jacket and interior chapter openers for A Tale Dark and Grimm, by Adam Gidwitz, a New York Times bestseller.
Note the previous working title — it changed since then. . . .
Hugh D'Andrade:
"… the really cool thing is what we did with the wraparound dust jacket for the hardcover (see above). This sort of thing is tricky, because it has to work as a whole, but each panel has to work independently as well…"
Here is the book trailer that evolved from Hugh's iconic graphics:
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'Tis done, the 96th Grande Boucle is over. The final stage into Paris has always meant success for some - as well as relief for many others - and the champagne will once again flow for all. There is one more treasure at stake today: the highly-valued stage win on the Champs-Élysées. With its false-flat uphill cobbles between the Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe, the 'world's most beautiful avenue' is always a spectacular finish of the Tour, whether a sprinter or a puncher wins.
Tour ends with traditional parade into Paris
Champs-Élysées beckons at last
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Cavendish will have to win here if he wants to take the green back from the sprinter that survived the close-to-finish climbs in the middle of the race.
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Norwegian major Statoil ASA (STO) has commenced the drilling of an exploration well at the Nanna prospect in the North Sea off Norway.
The exploration well – 25/11-26 – is being spud by Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.'s (DO) semi-submersible Ocean Vanguard. The probe lies in production license (PL) 169 and is being drilled in a water depth of about 130 meters.
The drilling of wildcat is estimated to take about 32 days with an intention to touch a total depth of 2,222 meters. Another 20 days would be required for further appraisal of a prospective find in the PL 169.
Statoil, the operator of PL 169, has a 57% interest in the license, while partners Petoro and ExxonMobil Corporation (XOM) hold 30% and 13% interests, respectively.
Statoil has operations in all major hydrocarbon-producing regions of the world, with an emphasis on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). We believe the company's growing upstream presence in the emerging basins of the Caspian Sea, West Africa and the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico will enable Statoil to sustain its production growth for the next few years.
In early January, Statoil achieved drilling success in its latest appraisal on the Johan Sverdrup find, off Norway. The appraisal confirmed oil presence in the southern part of the find, giving a boost to the resource availability in the area.
In 2013, Statoil, along with its project partners – OMV and ConocoPhillips (COP) are also planning to advance on the development of Aasta Hansteen – a field in the Norwegian Sea. These projects show the importance of NCS in Statoil's portfolio.
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David Hall: The 1936-D is one of the most common Buffalo nickels in all grades. In mint stae and Gem condition it is not quite as scarce as the 1936-S but it is more scarce than than the 1936, 1937, 1937-D, 1937-S, and 1938-D. Strike is usually fairly sharp. Luster is typically of the subdued frosty type.


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Little Walter made a harmonica sound like nothing that had been heard before – somewhere between a saxophone and an electric guitar. By the early 1950's he not only used amplification, he used the amp to creatively alter his sound with distortion and sonic effects.
You might say he was the Jimi Hendrix of the harmonica. One song in particular has rolled through history: 'Mellow Down Easy.'
Here's a clip from his 2008 induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:
John Hammond has spent his career keeping alive the blues of the 30's, 40's and 50's, usually performing as a one-man band with guitar, harmonica and foot stomping. On albums, he's worked with a wide range of artists including Dr. John, Duane Allman, and Tom Waits. On his 1982 version of "Mellow Down Easy", it's just Hammond joined by "Washboard" Chaz.
When The Black Crowes became popular in the 1990's they were playing a bluesy form of rock and roll that appealed to fans of hard rock as well as blues-rock. They recorded "Mellow Down Easy" in 1996, and also recorded the song with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page.
Here's a clip of The Black Crowes and Page performing it live:
Kieran Kane and Kevin Welch are successful Nashville songwriters, and with instrumentalist Fats Kaplin recorded "Mellow Down Easy" in 2006. It certainly has a country flavor, and they create a hypnotic groove using guitars and dobros.
Here are the complete versions of "Mellow Down Easy:"
Little Walter "Mellow Down Easy" 1954
John Hammond "Mellow Down Easy" 1982
Black Crowes "Mellow Down Easy" 1996
Kieran Kane "Mellow Down Easy" 2006


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While bears may hibernate and cranes fly south for the winter, those individuals who choose to violate Idaho's wildlife laws are busy year round, that means that those who protect Idaho's wildlife resources can never rest.
Conservation officers in the Teton Basin have recently been dealing with violations ranging from illegal trapping and illegal wolf hunting, to illegal taking of trophy mule deer. Unfortunately violators sometimes do not react well to being detected, resulting with one even being charged for pointing a shotgun at a conservation officer.
Lauren Wendt, Senior Conservation Officer in Driggs, was addressing an illegal waterfowl hunting situation on Nov. 16, 2012, when Seth T. Mills of Driggs pointed his shotgun at her. In addition to two other wildlife violations, he was also charged by Teton County with exhibition or use of a deadly weapon.
While general seasons exist for legal wolf hunting in the Teton Basin, conservation officers have recently completed a case where an individual was not only cited for illegal trapping, but also for hunting a gray wolf without a tag and possession of an unlawfully taken gray wolf. While the wolf incident occurred on the last day of 2012, finally on Jan. 31, 2013, James D. Fullmer of Tetonia, Idaho, confessed to conservation officers he had taken a gray wolf near Squirrel Creek in Fremont County, without a tag.
Officers are also concluding an investigation regarding the illegal taking of a mule deer buck from Teton Canyon. A Boone & Crockett scorer gave the buck a green score of 181 2/8″, meaning that officers were able to cite Ben Brown of Tetonia with illegal taking of a trophy animal. Jacob Knight of Park Valley, Utah, was also cited in connection with this incident.
Citizens can report wildlife violations to their local conservation officer or the Citizens Against Poaching (CAP) Hotline at 1-800-632-5999.


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Requirement 7 differs from what is currently posted
The official requirements are available on a link at: http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2010/04/official-geocaching-merit-badge-requirements-released.html.
A quick scan shows that there is bit more to requirement 7 than what is listed here - you need ot choose one of the caches and find it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmontes (talk • contribs) 30 April, 2010. (Please, sign and date your posts on talk pages.)
- I made the change based on the official BSA reference you provided. Thank you for pointing this out! —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 19:30, May 1, 2010 (EDT)
Geocaching MB worksheet
I have created a Geocaching worksheet for scouters to use. How do i upload it to the Geocaching page? I do not understand the directions, or it does not allow me to upload.--Soberholt 12:55, May 3, 2010 (EDT)
- Send it to me via e-mail so I can see why the system is refusing the file. (I'll send you an e-mail to which you can reply and attach the file.) —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 13:29, May 3, 2010 (EDT)
- Thanks, I'll do it this evening.--Soberholt 13:58, May 3, 2010 (EDT)
- Great! —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 14:07, May 3, 2010 (EDT)
- Worksheet? I see that someone had a worksheet they were tring to upload, but it doesn't look lik the worksheet has been updated yet. Does anyone have access to this worksheet? Regards, Christian
- Done! Initially created by User Soberholt; modified and uploaded by User RWSmith (based on User Milominderbinder2's format). —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 18:52, June 15, 2010 (EDT)
- Thanks to Soberholt, I got a working draft; modified it to meet our needs; and uploaded it... Geocaching.pdf —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 23:24, June 18, 2010 (EDT)
Geocaching Requirement 5 d Resource
I located what I think is a good link to do a hands on lesson in UTM and exercise demonstrating to Scouts how to locate UTM coordinates. I pulled down a UTM exercise (one requirement for Geocaching is to review the UTM coordinate system). Here is the link to the exercise: http://maptools.com/UsingUTM/UTMexercise.html
Two notes on the UTM exercise 1) For the UTM grid tool -I took a 'resourceful' approach -I printed a UTM Grid on paper (same scale), got plastic report presentation covers and just traced it -then the Scouts could place that on top of the UTM exercise paper and work on mapping the locations. 2) On the UTM Exercise itself, the answer key -I think the first set of coordinates is mapped wrong -the ones 943 265 -but then again I am not an expert on UTM. .--JSturgis 06:00, July 30, 2010 (CST)
MB # is 145
Please update the Geocaching MB number to 145 http://usscouts.org/mb/mb145.asp Make it a Tremendous Day and Thanks for a great Resource! Bwalker 18:55, January 8, 2012 (EST)


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2015: Played in 10 games at defensive end ... Had seven tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss and one sack ... Had two tackles against WKU ... Recorded a sack, forced fumble that linebacker Martez Simpson returned for a touchdown at Southern Miss ... Totaled two tackles in the finale against FAU.
2014: Played in all 12 games at defensive end ... Made 14 tackles, three tackles for loss, one sack, four quarterback hurries and a forced fumble ... Had a sack in the win over Eastern Michigan ... Had three tackles apiece at Vanderbilt and WKU.
2013: Appeared in 10 games, starting eight ... Led the defensive line in tackles with 31 while recording 6.5 tackles for loss, three sacks and a forced fumble ... Had a career-best eight tackles, a sack and a forced fumble in the win over Howard ... Notched five tackles and half a tackle for loss in the win at NSU ... Notched four tackles, two tackles for loss and a sack in the win at Idaho ... Pulled down four tackles and a sack in the win over Campbell.
2012: Redshirted.
HIGH SCHOOL: Played tight end, running back, defensive end, and linebacker at McKinley Tech High School for Antonio Price...Named DCIAA First Team Defense as an outside linebacker...Captained the 2011 McKinley Tech squad...Totaled 109 tackles in his career, including eight sacks and 10 tackles for loss...Also forced seven fumbles...Carried the ball 18 times for 300 yards and made 12 receptions for 185 yards during his senior campaign...Registered eight touchdowns...Was also a member of the basketball and baseball teams.
PERSONAL: Born July 11, 1994 ... Son of Terrill Reid and Shara Thomas ... Has one sister, Taleah ... Majoring in criminal justice.


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The Marquette Elementary School annual carnival will be Nov. 2.
The Marquette Elementary School annual carnival will be Nov. 2. It will be a fun-filled family night that is also the primary fundraiser for the Marquette Wolverine Booster Club. Booster funding supports numerous projects, including educational opportunities, student learning materials, special items for teachers and classrooms and new library books.
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George Clooney & Stacy Keibler: Cabo Couple
George Clooney and girlfriend Stacy Keibler enjoy some R&R on Tuesday (December 20) in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
The 50-year-old actor and Stacy, 32, enjoyed some drinks before hopping in a golf cart.
George will be starring in the West Coast premiere of 8, the stage play about Prop 8, which denied gays and lesbians in California the right to marry.
THR reports the one-night showing, directed by Rob Reiner and written by Dustin Lance Black, will take place at L.A.'s Wilshire Ebell Theatre on March 3.
"It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens," George said. "I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people – like all human beings – are born equal in dignity and rights."
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As I don't have the latest magical technology, I had to conceptualize, compose and implement these images by myself <sigh>. It ain't easy being so blasted old-school.
They're all gorgeous and some of the most impressive landscapes I've seen here.
You're treading, to my eye, a very very narrow line that falls between "real" looking and "obviously processed"...
Splendid stuff, Chuck -- as usual. Are you familiar with Cole Thompson's work? These five remind me of some of his finest.
I'm pondering the D800 thing. Street doesn't require it, but . . . well . . . I'm sure you understand what I'm saying.
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Ramsay, Allan
Ramsay, Edward Bannerman, LL.D.,
Randolph, Thomas
Rawlinson, The Rev. Professor George (b. 1815).
Rawlinson, Major-Gen. Sir Henry Creswicke, F.R.S., D.C.L., LL.D.
Rayleigh, John William Strutt, Lord, D.C.L., LL.D.
Reade, Charles, D.C.L.
Reeve, Clara
Reeves, Mrs. Henry,
Reid, Mayne
Reid, Sir T. Wemyss, LL.D.
Reid, Thomas
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Ricardo, David
Richard of Cirencester (d. 1402).
Richardson, Sir Benjamin Ward, M.D., LL.D.
Richardson, Samuel
Riddell, Mrs. Charlotte E. L. (b. 1837).
Rigg, Rev. James Harrison, D.D.
Ritson, Joseph
Robertson, Frederick William
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Robinson, A. Mary F.,
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Rochester, Earl of,
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Romanes, George John, LL.D.
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Roscommon, The Earl of (b. 1663; d. 1684).
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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
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Harold Drayfus Smith, 81, died Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010, at Landmark Hospital in Joplin, Mo.
He was born on Jan. 23, 1929, in Ottawa County, Okla., to Joe Bearskin and Iola (Smith) Waldon.
Harold served in the United States Army during World War II. He retired from the Harvey Aluminum plant in The Dalles, Ore.
Harold married Vera (Mathis) Frazier on May 18, 2000, in Hood River, Ore. He lived in the Wyandotte, Okla., area for eight years after moving from Oregon.
Harold enjoyed fishing, hunting and working on cars. He was a member of the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma.
Survivors include his wife, Vera; his children, Betty Wollam and Sherry Taylor, of Milwaukie, Ore., and Harold D. Smith Jr., of Hood River; stepchildren Darrell Frazier and Dale and Anita Frazier, of Wyandotte, Okla., and Brenda Brock, of Fairland, Okla.; brother Tommy Ray Waldon, of Hood River, and sister Vestena "Foxie" Emerson, of Grove, Okla.; and grandchildren Michelle, Aaron, Jaret, Alicha and Darrick.
Harold was preceded in death by his first wife, Wilma L. Smith, and his son Johnny A. Smith.
Indian services will be held at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17, at Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home in Grove, Okla., with Ceremonial Chief Charlie Deibold officiating. Visitation will follow the service.
Hood River services will be held on Thursday, Sept. 23, at 11 a.m. at Anderson's Tribute Center followed by gravesite service at Mountain View Cemetery in Hood River.
Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson's Tribute Center (Funerals, Receptions, Cremations), 1401 Belmont Ave., Hood River, OR 97031; 541-386-1000. Please visit www.andersonstributecenter.com to leave a note of condolence for family.
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By Mary A. Sego
Title: Albert J. Gowan papers, 1890-2011
Predominant Dates:1968-1969
Primary Creator: Gowan, Al
Extent: 0.95 Cubic feet. More info below.
Date Acquired: 05/08/2010
Subjects: Purdue University, Purdue University--Faculty, Purdue University. Department of Agricultural Economics
Forms of Material: Clippings (Information artifacts), Correspondence, Ephemera, Magazines (Periodicals), Negatives (Photographs), Photographic prints, Reports, Seals (artifacts)
Languages: English
Albert J. Gowan grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois, the son of a steel-worker family. He studied at Southern Illinois University, 1953-1955, where he first gained an appreciation for the impact designers can have in contributing to the socio-economic change in people's lives.
He went on to an advertising agency job in St. Louis for two years, then for two more years was an artist-designer with a church publishing house in Nashville, Tennessee, and in 1959 he returned to Southern Illinois University to study with R. Buckminster Fuller. An opportunity became available for a job in Columbia, Missouri with a publishing firm, so he left Southern Illinois University and enrolled in the University of Missouri. While working full-time jobs, he earned a B.A. degree in 1964.
Gowan began teaching at Indiana University in 1964 and for two years he practiced and preached the role of the visual designer as a social force. He came to Purdue as an assistant professor in 1966 when the Department of Creative Arts expanded its design program to include the responsibility of designers in society, under the direction of Professor Victor Papanek.
Soon he was chairman of the visual design section, involved in teaching what is generally labeled commercial art in many schools to about 60 undergraduates and a dozen or so graduate students annually.
From 1957 to 1985, he won more than thirty medals and awards for posters, packaging, catalog design, logo design, and filmmaking in art director's competitions in Nashville, Tennessee, St. Louis, Missouri, Indianapolis, Indiana, Chicago, Illinois, and Boston, Massachusetts.
He takes special pride in accomplishments of students, some of which have won distinction while still students. One such student, Dan Estes, designed the official Purdue University centennial logo, several have won professional awards in competition with professionals, and some have stepped into directorships upon graduation.
Gowan has stated that designing the Purdue seal became just another way to demonstrate the validity of his ideas. But he is quick to point out that it was a team effort – the same process needed to solve society's problems. It is this kind of cooperation he promotes among students, "I just try to help them find a sense of personal satisfaction in solving some pressing problems through their specialty." "We've all got to be concerned about the environment which can kill. We're never idle, "Something is always working – even if it's only our stomachs growling."
Gowan left Purdue in 1970. He is now Professor Emeritus of Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Repository: Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Alternate Extent Statement: 0.95 cubic feet, (1 mss box and 1 small flat box)
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions: Purdue University per deed of gift.
Acquisition Source: Albert Gowan
Acquisition Method: Donations received from Al Gowan, May 8, 2010, November 9, 2010 and May 13, 2011. Additional donations were given on August 18, 2010 by Professor Robert W. Sovinski, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue College of Agriculture.
Related Publications:
Report to university resources policy committee. Purdue seal grant, number 0001-56-352, PRF general fund-Gowan. April 14, 1967. March 1, 1968 located in Archives & Special Collections - Bruce Rogers Collection call# 808.861 P9725r
Purdue Crest: a visual history / by Michael Horoho located in Archives & Special Collections - Purdue History call # 929.82 H785p 1992
Processing Information: Whenever possible, original order of the materials has been retained. All materials have been housed in polyester sleeves, acid-free folders, and acid-free boxes. Some clippings containing images of people or color graphics, or front pages of newspapers, have been preserved for display purposes, with photocopies made available for research. Oversized material has been separated and grouped into an individual box for preservation purposes.
Other URL: http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/fa/pdf/msf474_gowan.pdf


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Agent Spotlight: Tom Malmgren
September 1, 2012
Tom Malmgren has 39 years experience in real estate in Summit County. He is a broker with Carbonate Real Estate Company at Copper Mountain. You can reach him at (970) 968-6854 or online at http://www.skicopper.net. Q: Where did you grow up? I was born and raised in Leadville. I named Carbonate Real Estate Company after the mining related history of the region.Q: What do you love about Summit County?The mountains, beauty of the environment and the surrounding areas. Diversity, the people and world class skiing!Q: What do you enjoy doing when you're not working?Ski, golf, hike, photography … but I work a lot, seven days a week.Q: How long have you worked in real estate?41 yearsQ: What is your specialty? I specialize in properties only at Copper Mountain.Q: What designations do you have and what does that mean for people with whom you work?I graduated from the University of Denver with a BSBA degree from the business school and with a major in building industry & real estate. Having focused on real estate throughout my 41-year career, people with me profit from my knowledge and experience. I also have a GRI, attained through continuing education courses.Q: What is the most challenging/gratifying aspect of what you do?Every transaction involves different personalities. Adapting to the requirements of each is a balancing act.Q: What is the most unique property you've listed or sold?During my 39 years of selling real estate at Copper Mountain, I have sold the entire top floor of the Mountain Plaza building twice to single buyers. Today, for the first time in over 20 years, the Mountain Plaza penthouses are individually owned, as they were originally.Q: What are the top three things that separate you from your competitors?My experience, my knowledge and, as I have been told, my low key personality.Q: What is one tip you have for someone looking to buy or sell a home?Work with a real estate broker who has the most knowledge and experience in the area where your property Is located or where you are interested in owning. Summit County is rich with resort properties but each community is unique; choose a real estate broker who can lend insight to the area where you wish to buy or sell.Q: What do you see in the future for real estate sales/prices?Based on past experience, I believe we will continue with the recovery we are currently experiencing. Real estate in Summit County is a finite item and the supply/demand relationship will result in long-term growth of real estate values.Q: Why should someone chose you as their real estate broker?Having been in the same Copper Mountain location since 1974, I have worked with thousands of sellers and buyers of Copper Mountain properties. I am honored to have a reputation worthy of the numerous personal referrals that I receive every year.Q: Is there anything else you would like to tell us about yourself?I am an avid skier which is why I have made my home in Copper Mountain. I started skiing at 3 years old and ski racing at 4. Growing up in Leadville, I skied the Climax Ski Area when there was a ski area there. I was the 1966 Junior National Combined Ski Champion in the US. Skiing earned me a full scholarship to the University of Denver, three of the four years I was at DU we won three NCAA Ski Championships. During college breaks I worked summers at the Eisenhower/Johnson tunnels during their construction. I opened Carbonate Real Estate Company at Copper Mountain in 1974 and became a member of the Summit Association of Realtors that same year. I was the 1981 president of the Summit Association of Realtors and in 2010 I was named the SAR Realtor of the Year. I served 12 years on the Ten Mile Planning Commission, including as chairman. I have been a publicly elected board member of the Copper Mountain Consolidated Metropolitan District for over 30 years and I am the current chairman. Carbonate Real Estate Company has grown into Carbonate Real Estate and Property Management. We are the managing agent for seven homeowner associations in Copper Mountain and we manage short-term rental properties. My son, Eric Malmgren, grew up at Copper Mountain and now works in our property management department. Eric offers guests great advice on the best places in Copper Mountain for their favorite activities. Ski racing is still my passion and I ski in the Copper Mountain Business League Ski Race Series held every winter. Throughout my career I've had the pleasure of meeting and working with several ski industry pioneers – Peter Seibert in Vail, Dave McCoy in Mammoth, Ernie Blake in Taos Ski Valley and Chuck Lewis in Copper Mountain.
Tom Malmgren was selected as this week's Agent Spotlight in Summit Homes & Properties. Malmgren was asked to provide information to a standard set of questions designed to help the reader learn more about him.


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Ottawa Regional Medical Center, a Part of OSF HealthCare, announces promotion of physician
Brian S. Rosborough, MD has been named as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center as well as Regional Director for OSF Medical Group – I-80 Region.
In his position as CMO, Dr. Rosborough participates as an administrative officer of OSF Saint Elizabeth. He reports to Robert A. Chaffin, CEO of OSF Saint Elizabeth.
As Regional Director for OSF Medical Group – I-80 Region, Dr. Rosborough manages the OSF employed physicians in the I-80 Region. He is responsible for the operational and financial performance of OSF Medical Group's assigned practices in the region. Dr. Rosborough reports to Charles A. Dennis, MD, Vice President – OSF Medical Group, Central Region.
Dr. Rosborough is no stranger to a leadership role – he has served at Ottawa Regional Medical Center, a Part of OSF HealthCare, as its Vice President of Medical Affairs since 2010. He was President of Ottawa Medical Center from 2000 to 2010, and has experience both as an independent practitioner and as a physician in a group practice.
The promotion will not impact Dr. Rosborough's patients. He still intends to schedule appointments throughout the week and will be assisted by Ami Dose, a Family Nurse Practitioner within the same practice.
Dr. Rosborough graduated with honors from the University of Illinois College Of Medicine at Peoria, and completed his residency at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and belongs to the American Academy of Family Physicians.
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While Brad Pitt and friends filmed Moneyball, Paul DePodesta roamed America, far from his computer and his famous past.
You could find DePodesta at ballparks in cities, suburbs and country towns, eyeing ballplayers at high schools and colleges. Flesh and blood ballplayers, he surveyed, not their statistical lines.
If you wanted to agitate him to Billy Beane levels -- OK, Beane on a good day -- you told "DePo" what the potential draftee's on-base percentage was. Or his WHIP.
"Most of the time when I go to the park," DePodesta told this blog last month, "I try not to look at the stats until after the fact, and then see whether or not what I saw with my own eyes agrees with what the page says."
DePodesta, a former power broker with the Padres and still a La Jolla resident, soon will finish his first year with the New York Mets as vice president of player development and amateur scouting.
The draft is his baby. If his nomadic preparations for it this year were at odds with his stat-crunching persona created by Moneyball, the Michael Lewis best-seller of 2003 soon to hit the movie theaters, so was his new role.
The Mets hired him in large part to scout the amateur ballplayers recommended by their area scouts, and to oversee those scouts and the national cross-checkers. DePodesta said he scouted 150 or more ballplayers to that end.
One of the knee-buckling scouting tasks in all of sports is to predict which of the better amateur baseball players will evolve into worthwhile pros. With Lewis embedded in their front office leading up to the 2002 draft, the A's worked to hedge the risk. At the top of the draft, where the costs are much higher, they favored college players and cleaved to data showing that footspeed and pitch speeds had become overvalued, whereas OBP was a vein of gold.
DePodesta, who graduated cum laude from Harvard with a degree in economics, was the top assistant to general manager Beane and in charge of Oakland's statistical analysis for the draft. The statistics of a college player being far more valuable than those of a high school player, DePodesta's work trimmed the cost of scouting thousands of players.
Nevertheless, DePodesta told me in 2007 that if the low-budget A's had as many great amateur scouts as the Braves had, Moneyball wouldn't have been written. The book belonged in the business sections of bookstores and libraries, he said, not the sports sections.
The Braves, who trusted scouts such as Paul Snyder and Roy Clark, drafted a large number of high school players who became stars, among them Chipper Jones, Tom Glavine, Ron Gant, Ryan Klesko, and, more recently, Brian McCann, Freddie Freeman and Jason Heyward.
Another scout who had the knack for reading high school players was Logan White, a former West Coast Scouting Supervisor for the Padres who oversaw drafts for the Dodgers starting in 2003. Moneyball aided him, White told me for a story many years ago, by encouraging other clubs to draft college players and leaving him a wider choice of prep players, among them future Dodgers stars such as Matt Kemp, Clayton Kershaw, Chad Billingsley and Jonathan Broxton.
DePodesta, a former baseball and football player for Harvard, caught the scouting bug long before Beane hired him in 1999. One of his favorite gigs was the advance scouting job he worked, studying big league players for the Indians in 1997 and 1998.
He enjoyed his job with the Padres in large part because it had him scout 100-120 amateurs a year.
"I think anybody, the longer they do it, the more players they see and the larger library of players they have, the more they sort of trust their own eyes," he said.
If statistics discourage ballclubs from being overly subjective -- acting on only what their evaluators see or don't see -- an amateur scout is stat-leaning to his peril.
"One of the things I try to tell our guys all the time is, in your scouting report especially, don't ever reiterate the stats," DePodesta said. "I think you need to try to explain them. That's what I certainly try to do in my own mind."
He bears in mind that "the stat sheet's there for every night."
"But," he said, "it also makes you sleep well at night when you see something, and then you look at the performance and you say, 'That makes sense.' Those are the decisions you feel good about."
In charge of the Padres from April 2005 through March 2009 was the spiritual godfather of Moneyball, Sandy Alderson, and in all four of those Junes the Padres selected a college player in the first round. None of the four panned out. In other rounds, the Padres found value in the college ranks, landing future starters such as Chase Headley, Nick Hundley, Will Venable, Mat Latos (out of a community college) and Cory Luebke, a supplemental pick,
Non-Padres scouts with friends in San Diego's organization said Padres scouts felt disenfranchised where the top of the draft was concerned. If a Padres scout wanted the club to invest a high-end pick in a high school player, he felt like the club would find reasons to take the college player who had the thicker statistical profile.
Alderson said the club's statistical analysts were adept at sifting the college markets; conversely, the GM at the time, Kevin Towers, blamed the first-round selection of Allan Dykstra on a statistical analyst having too much clout.
Grady Fuson, who oversaw drafts for the A's in the Moneyball era and for the Padres from 2006-09, said San Diego needed to draft for depth, given the depleted state of the farm system when Alderson and he arrived in early 2005.
The current regime of Jeff Moorad and Jed Hoyer more than doubled the number of area scouts, a clear sign the Padres intended to vet both the prep and college markets. Driven by scouting reports, the Padres invested $6.5 million this year in three high school players chosen between 25th and 82nd in the draft and offered $1.5 million to a prep catcher who turned them down. The $3 million they guaranteed to Orange County catcher Austin Hedges reflected their belief that he is a top-5 talent.
Alderson became GM of the Mets last October and hired DePodesta in November. In June, the Mets used a first-round pick on a high school outfielder from Wyoming, Brandon Nimmo. A anti-Moneyball pick that like that would've made Brad Pitt sneer as Beane in 2002. Then again, each draft has its own DNA.
"It's a matter of being in a position to try take the best player that's on the board at the time," DePodesta said. "This year, we thought there was a lot of good college pitching out there that we liked. At the same time, we didn't think it was a terribly deep class position player-wise. We felt if we were going to take one that we really liked, we had to take one early."
He said his use of statistics for the draft "is still all just part of the package and in many respects always was.
"Even if a guy appeals to you statistically," he said, "you still need to go out and see him and try to understand how he's achieving that performance, and to try to figure out whether or not that performance is likely to continue going forward at a higher level.
"I'm still trying to get better at it, like we all are."
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Last year, BVN Architecture completed two dormitories for Monash University in Melbourne, and we adore everything about them — from their articulated facades to their connection with the environment, shared common areas, and spacious studio apartments. BVN designed the dorms based on standards they helped develop for affordable housing in Australia, and the project achieved a 5 star Green Star rating for its energy efficient design, solar power and water efficiency.
When BVN Architecture was designing the new dormitories for Monash University, they focused on the residents' experience rather than just ensuring they met the spatial requirements. The project consists of two, 5-story buildings flanking a central common courtyard from which access is gained. Each building contains 300 private studios that each enjoy floor to ceiling windows, views a kitchenette, en suite bathroom and built in furniture. While the rooms are only 20 sm2 (212 sq ft), the buildings provide additional shared space by way of kitchen facilities for every 30 students and double height common rooms. The idea was to create as much opportunity for the students to connect as possible in order to encourage community and collegiality, and minimize the chance for anyone to feel lonely or isolated.
The articulated facades feature timber paneling to give movement to the volumes and help them blend in more with the surrounding woodsy landscape. Stormwater run-off was reduced through selection of surface materials and appropriate planting. The roof harvests rainwater and stores it in an 100,000 liter tank, while grey water from baths, showers and kitchen sinks is collected, cleaned, and stored for use in toilet flushing and irrigation. A 2,000 m2 solar system on the roof provides electricity for the buildings. Overall the project was awarded 5 stars in the Green Star rating program from the Green Building Council Australia. The project is also the first university project to be completed under the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS), which was established as part of the nation building fund formed in response to the Global Financial Crisis.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts in Congress to provide emergency drought aid to hard-hit farmers and overhaul crop subsidy programs appear to be falling victim to Washington gridlock.
Talk of action now to avoid sending the economy over the "fiscal cliff" is just that, talk.
Indeed, lawmakers have only been back in session for a couple of days since returning from their August recess, but on Tuesday were already anticipating a quick exit from Washington to hit the campaign trail — with the only significant accomplishment being a must-pass bill to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month.
Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol, like so many other days, featured lots of talk but little action.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, started the day off on a sour note by telling reporters after a closed-door morning caucus with the GOP rank and file that he's not confident Congress can reach a budget deal late this year and avoid a downgrading of the U.S. debt rating.
A couple of hours later, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, again threw cold water on GOP hopes of passing a short-term extension of food and farm programs when they expire Sept. 30.
For his part, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was far more hopeful that "some kind of agreement" would be reached to avert the fiscal cliff — a one-two combination of automatic tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts set to strike the economy on Jan. 2.
After the election, though. Not now.
"I'm hopeful we will reach some kind of agreement," Reid said, suggesting that the results of the Nov. 6 elections will weaken the GOP's resolve to block tax increases on wealthier earners and that Republicans will be more willing to compromise.
"I believe that once the elections are over, the tea party's strength will be significantly weakened," Reid added.
Reid's GOP counterpart, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, let the cat out of the bag just minutes after Reid's remarks. He said the six-month spending bill, called a continuing resolution in Washington lingo, would be the last order of business until the postelection lame duck session in November.
McConnell told reporters that Reid "has indicated to us that the continuing resolution would be the last item of this work period."
The House is set to pass the continuing resolution on Thursday, which means the Senate would pass the measure next week before making its getaway.
On the food and farm bill impasse, McConnell said: "I don't believe that we ought to let the current farm bill expire if we're unable at this point to pass a replacement." Hope for that is fading however; Congress is instead on track to fund food stamps through the continuing resolution.
With the demise of the annual appropriations process that sets the day-to-day operating budgets for federal agencies, Congress invariably requires a stopgap continuing resolution. But six months is a long time for such measures, which causes problems for agency budget chiefs, who typically are denied authority to start new projects.
The Pentagon, for example, is warning that it may have to delay the overhaul — in the electoral hotbed of Newport News, Virginia — of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carrier. An administration request for an exception to guarantee work could begin in January was denied by House Republicans, who are frustrated that Senate Democrats have sat on both the annual defense appropriations measure and a companion military policy bill.
Typically such temporary funding bills freeze spending at current levels. But the measure slated for a vote this week actually allows for a 0.6 percent increase to every program, reflecting a slight increase in spending permitted by last summer's hard-fought budget and debt-reduction accord.
Just a handful of high priority programs would be awarded larger increases, including a government cybersecurity initiative, wildfire suppression efforts, a drive to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal and processing of veteran disability claims.
The 2012 budget year ends on Sept. 30. But not one of the 12 annual agency appropriations bills has become law, requiring lawmakers to step in with the stopgap funding measure to avoid a disastrous partial shutdown of the government. Six of the 12 measures have passed the House; none has passed the Senate.
The six-month measure all but guarantees the leftover business of setting agency budgets will be kicked over to the next Congress.
But the matter of the fiscal cliff — the combination of expiring Bush-era tax cuts and more than $100 billion in automatic across-the-board spending cuts set to take effect in January — will demand some kind of action in the lame duck session, if only a brief reprieve to give the next Congress and administration more time to address them.
The automatic cuts are punishment for the inability of last year's deficit reduction "supercommittee" to strike a bargain to cut 10-year deficits by at least $1.2 trillion as promised by last summer's debt and budget pact.
Also on Tuesday, a leading federal judge, Chief Judge David Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, warned that if the automatic cuts were to go into effect, federal civil jury trials across the country probably would grind to a halt.
Meanwhile, in the Senate, a measure to establish a $1 billion Veterans Jobs Corps to relieve high unemployment among servicemen and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan easily passed a procedural hurdle and is likely to pass by week's end.


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Burton Ristine, 83 - October 14, 2009
Burton M Ristine, 83, of Gothenburg died Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, at Hilltop Estates of Gothenburg.
Services were held Oct. 14 at the American Lutheran Church of Gothenburg with the Rev. Matthew Groneke and Lonna Grabenstein, PMA, officiating. Burial will take place at the Gothenburg Cemetery with military rights.
Ristine was born Dec. 3, 1925, to Cecil and Elsie (McCance) Ristine on a farm northeast of Gothenburg. He graduated from Gothenburg High School in 1944.
On Nov. 20, 1948, he married Marilyn Larsen at Gothenburg. To this union, three children were born.
Following his first marriage, on Dec. 26, 1994, he married Lona Abelbeck Nelson at North Platte.
Ristine served the United States from 1944 to 1946. While serving his country, he received the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Good Conduct Medal and Army of Occupation Medal.
He worked as a farmer and rancher, and was a member of the VFW, American Legion, Banner United Methodist Church and American Lutheran Church.
Ristine served on the Gothenburg Airport Authority Board, the Farmland Service Cooperative board and the District 62 School Board.
He farmed from 1946 to 1992, flew airplanes, enjoyed antique cars, collecting cars, Halloween and pulling pranks, said family members. He also enjoyed jet skiing and boating at the cabin at Jeffery Lake, learning about history, watching Husker football, his cattle, telling stories and lighting off fireworks.
Ristine was preceded in death by: his parents, Cecil and Elsie Ristine; his first wife, Marilyn Larsen Ristine; brothers—Paul and Thaine Ristine; a cousin, Margie Roberts.
Survivors include: his wife, Lona; sons—Ross (Kressy) Ristine and Jim Ristine, all of Gothenburg; a daughter, Ann (Bruce) Hausmann of Highlands Ranch, CO; step-son, David (Pam) Nelson of Liberty, MO; step-daughters—Pamala (Mike) Derreberry of Newport News, VA, and Lori (Addam) Maxwell of Elkhorn; brother-in-law, Mike (Marian) Larson of Gothenburg; sister-in-law, Doris (Ralph) Craig of Gothenburg; five grandchildren, seven step-grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and three step-great-grandchildren.
Memorials are suggested to the to the American Lutheran Kitchen Fund, 1512 Ave. G, Gothenburg, NE 69138.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.blase strauser.com. Arrangements have been placed in the care of Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel of Gothenburg.
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Three-legged Occasional Table
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The design of this table is part of a series that I revisit from time to time. The original concept for the series was based on a pinwheel (a common example of which is a child's pinwheel on a stick that blows in the wind.)
This shape lends itself to repeating one design element several times then attaching them together, an efficient approach when making furniture. So far I've made several different stools, cabinets and even massive boardroom tables based on the same pinwheel motif. Generally speaking, I come up with an idea then problem-solve how to do it, often relying on the well documented history of furniture making in books and magazines.
For this table I revisited a sketchbook that is 25 years old. At the time I had completed a commission for stacking tables with Australian lacewood tops and steam-bent cherry frames. In my design exploration there were several sketches that I thought had some value but didn't work for that particular commission so so I filed them away for use at a later date. My old sketchbooks have become an idea bank that I'll make a withdrawal from when I'm casting about for something to make.
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Gerald R. Martin age 71, passed away on June 9, 2013. He was a loving Husband, Father, Grandfather and Brother. He will be missed by all. Everyone is invited to the Memorial Service held on Monday, June 24, 2013 at 1 pm,
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Brady girls improve to 8-2
Eagles defeat Wildcats, Wolves.
Two nights, two opponents, two wins might sound a little like same old, same old for the Brady girls.
But last week's games were far from carbon-copy routine as the Eagles move to 8-2 on the season.
Brady's 48-38 win over Maxwell on Jan. 4 and the girls' 52-13 victory over Arthur County Saturday night couldn't have been any farther apart on the intensity spectrum, said Eagle coach Lance Arterburn.
The hard-fought battle against Maxwell was a typical Wildcat-Eagle contest.
"Any time you put Brady and Maxwell on the court together, you can throw out the records," Arterburn said.
Maxwell led 10-8 after the first quarter but Brady came back to lead 21-16 at halftime.
"Our defense worked well," Arterburn said. "At times we looked sloppy and out of control but chaos is kind of how we operate best."
The Eagles surged ahead of Maxwell in the third period, pushing the margin to double digits at 27-16 after just a couple of minutes but the Wildcats refused to go away.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Brady was back to a slim 33-27 lead.
"We had 18 turnovers," Arterburn said. "That's not as bad as I thought it was during the game but it's still too many."
Brady solidified the victory in the fourth period hitting 9-of-14 free throws.
Junior Courtney Widick led Brady with 16 points. Dakota Terry and Maggie Burke added nine points each.
Arterburn said because his girls like to run the floor and create fast-break points with their defense, it was difficult to
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Minneapolis area arts economy sixth biggest in nation
The arts economy in Minneapolis is one of the biggest of any city in the nation, according to a new report that examines arts jobs, consumer spending and revenue of arts organizations. Data in the Creative Index shows that the Minneapolis area arts sector is the sixth biggest in the nation and is an integral, thriving part of the local economy that has stayed steady even during tough economic times.
This index examines aspects of the creative economy that have never been measured before in Minneapolis. The data measures the Minneapolis creative economy down to the ZIP code level of detail, and it compares the concentration of Minneapolis creative jobs to the national average for those fields (for instance, the concentration of photographers or dancers, etc.).
This is the first time this data has been compiled for Minneapolis, and it places the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metro area sixth nationally behind that of Washington, D.C.; New York; Los Angeles; San Francisco and Boston. The creative index score for just the city of Minneapolis outpaces the national average by 4.8 times. Minneapolis nonprofit arts organizations have 13.5 times the national average in revenue and charitable giving. Minneapolis per capita revenues for theater companies and dinner theaters are 14 times the national average. Performing arts revenues in Minneapolis earn nearly 10 times more than the national average.
The nonprofit and for-profit creative sector pumps an annual average of $700 million into the Minneapolis economy. It is a significant piece of Minneapolis employment that employs nearly 20,000 workers, making up 5 percent of all jobs in Minneapolis proper. Retail sales in the Minneapolis creative economy are roughly 70 percent of the size of retail in the Minneapolis sports economy. Nonprofit arts and culture attendees are known to create an average ripple effect of $20.40 per person in event-related purchases such as restaurants and parking.
The report broadens the definition of the creative sector to show artists as skilled producers of products and services at the center of a thriving, active creative economy that includes creative industries, community participants and arts audiences. Members of the public have a vital role to play in supporting the creative ecology, and the creative index demonstrates the value of cultural participation whether folks are attending a play, photographing their surroundings or buying their first guitar.
Policymakers, arts professionals, grant-makers, artists, workers, audiences, fans, advocates and neighborhoods will use the index and its annual updates in multiple ways. The City of Minneapolis will use the index as a baseline measure to develop its next arts and culture plan, to develop arts and culture goals for the Minneapolis Convention Center, to reinvent the city's oldest street in "Plan-it Hennepin," and to play on the identified strengths – or to work to counter deficiencies – in affected plans and policies.
In the coming weeks, staff of the City's Arts, Culture and Creative Economy will present the findings to stakeholder groups and arts participants. For more information and a copy of the report, visit www.minneapolismn.gov/coordinator/arts/index.htm.
Published Feb 28, 2013