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Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 12:00 AM
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Have you had your say on the new gym?
Original post made on Feb 7, 2008
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 12:00 AM
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a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Feb 7, 2008 at 12:12 pm
As a gym- and basketball-parent who attended one of the focus groups, I'm a little puzzled by the tone of this article. ("Have you had your say on the new gym?") Is the reporter is pursuing his own complain-about-City-staff agenda? Too lazy to capture what was said so non-participants who might have other views would get involved? Proud to have 'discovered' that the focus groups were taking place but suddenly aware that they were too banal to report any substance on?
It seems to me that, like any good architectal team, the groups investigating the gym renovation project were talking with current users, current staff, and neighbors first (NOT exclusively) to decide what direction to take this in. It is a reality in busy Menlo Park that, until you put some plans on the table, 99% of the opposition stays home. (See the school redesigns as an example -- did neighbors come to the school board and informational meetings BEFORE there were plans showing two-story buildings covering playing fields? No. Did they show up in droves afterwards? Yes.) Bottom line: get some plans, then everyone will start a dialogue. Hold a focus group and either keep it to those people who really care or open it to every blowhard who wants a forum, which bores away the truly involved parties.
Personally, I thought the City was very thoughtful in their attempts to schedule focus group sessions so those of us with school kids could attend, so neighbors could attend, etc. They should be commended, not damned, for their efforts to address needs, retain what's great about their programs, and do so in a way that gets this moving forward quickly.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Feb 7, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Actually, it seems to me that there has been an awful lot of foot-dragging on this. It's been what, 2 years now, since they redid the park & pool and I thought the gym was supposed to be redone right behind that effort, with the money having already been committed. I'd like to see a story why it's taken so long and they're only not just "meeting" with small groups of people to "discuss" things!
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Feb 7, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Good points Menlo Mom, but let's not misinform re:school plans.
Oak Knoll, for example, had a 2005 plan drawn by the present district architect and presented to the voters in June 2006 with the 2 story gym/theatre/music rooms in the back of campus (on the present paved basketball courts) based on his assessment of best location and available utilities, minimal impact on the neighbors... During the whole part of committee site planning in late 2006, early 2007, none of the immediate neighbors were invited to participate. They had no idea that the site committee would throw out the voter approved and neighbor supported plan and stick the massive building and adjoining parking lot right in the middle of the current Oak Knoll front playground, removing a perfectly healthy 400 year Heritage Oak in the process and impacting the immediate neighbors. With the proposed site 3 feet above Oak Street the visual impact will be monumental, where the original site was 3 feet below Vine AVe., and sinking the bldg. down like many gyms,theatres, would have topped out at maybe 20 feet, hardly visible from residents across Vine. The offsite impacts on traffic circulation, storm drainage (did you see the flooded Oak/Bay Laurel intersection on Friday Jan. 25th), loss of heritage oaks and open space, and additional creek pollution are astounding, and are just now being understood, and city and other agency officials are alarmed and prepared to challenge the district.
This is an example of bad planning at its worst and the district taxpayers and children deserve a lot better than the current plan.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Feb 8, 2008 at 10:40 am
To Inside Out Planning:
Your school & the gym: apples vs oranges.
At Burgess, everything else has been redone - park, pool, parking lots. They're not going to turn around now & put the gym somewhere else. The "footprint" is set - its just a matter of renovate vs. knock down & start from scratch, along with how to allot the available space (gymnastics, b-ball court, etc.). It ain't rocket science. But instead, this city council seems to much more interested in "grand plans" for the city than actually getting things done!
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Feb 8, 2008 at 11:16 am
AnotherView: our downtown plan trumps the gym project by a huge margin. Take all the pot shots you want at the council, but don't even try to equate a new gym with a 20-year downtown city plan. Planning may seem like a new foreign idea to all the old school MP politicos, but plan we must. Sorry for the inconvenience.
a resident of Menlo Park: Linfield Oaks
on Feb 8, 2008 at 7:58 pm
If you read this thread, you'll understand why the city invited gym users and neighbors to the focus groups--those are the people who care about the gyms! There are way too many posts on this thread about issues that are totally irrelevant (Oak Knoll, El Camino). Can you blame the city for wanting to keep the discussions on the matter at hand rather than hosting a free-for-all where people can air any gripes they may have about anything related to Menlo Park?
I went to one of the meetings and agree with MM that the consultants, staff, and commissioners were eager to get input from anyone willing to give it. They were respectful of all comments. I am sure that they will be equally available to listen to anyone who has something to say about the gym.
Thank you, council, for getting this moving. We have been waiting a long time for better gym facilities.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Feb 8, 2008 at 9:12 pm
New Gyms Now:
"We have been waiting a long time for better gym facilities."
That was exactly my point! And why have we been waiting? Because the city council has had "grander things" in mind - too much to be bothered with a "little old thing" like updating an old/obsolete public facility that is heavily used.
Its funding mechanism - Measure T - was passed over 6 years ago (in 11/01)!
Here's a quote from an Almanac story back on June 21, 2006:
"Mr. Cline said Measure T funds could go toward building fields at the park, but he doesn't want to lose funding for other projects. Fields are a top priority because of the current limitations, but the gym and the recreation center are at the top of the queue, too," he said.
Almost 2 full years later and we're still just "discussing things."
What a joke!
a resident of Menlo Park: Linfield Oaks
on Feb 8, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Rich wasn't on the council in June 2006, and parks and rec is only an advisory group with no decision-making power. Kelly, who was mayor from the time the new council majority took office until December 2007, had her own agenda. I am hoping that with Andy at the helm, we will not only get this gym moving but the rec center too. If the city can invest big $$$ in private dance studios, they can surely spend some money to fix up their own dance facilities that are also heavily used every day by kids.
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Feb 8, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Another View:
Keep it in context if you can. Cline was a commissioner responding to that ridiculous Bayfront Park $18M boondoggle and he also authored the fields study to prove that we did not need Bayfront fields. That was four months of wasted time by your last council just trying to push a crap idea down the residents throat!
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Feb 9, 2008 at 10:21 am
Rich, Kelly, Andy, etc., etc. ect. - the names change, but the story's still the same - ALL TALK BUT NO ACTION!
Let's take another poll, let's do another survey, let's hold a series of "town hall" meetings - don't look now, but we've become PALO ALTO!
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Feb 9, 2008 at 9:35 pm
I wondered about the time lapse, too, Another View, and can only wonder whether the pool/Sheeper situation played into this ... that is to say, whether discovering that building a great new site and having the funds to operate it were two different things. The last-minute scramble to find a tenant was a bit bizarre.
Inside Out, I'm sorry, I was thinking foremost of the process at Hillview where many of us were surprised to have neighbors talk about the shock of needing to have the campus extended -- after we'd heard and read about months of discussion of this at the school-board level.
That said, the Oak Knoll example is a good one -- sketching out a pretty design for voting without full information, then deciding to pursue another, leaves a terrible taste in everyone's mouth.
In any case, I sincerely hope that the city got whatever basic requirements information it needs from current users. That should allow it to design something that addresses that set of needs, at least, which then can be used as a stalking horse to solicit full community input. And I am glad that neighbors were among the first groups to be consulted, instead of the last.
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Feb 10, 2008 at 11:25 am
AnotherView: I have a suggestion. Since you seem so passionately negative about anyone who serves on council (well not everyone), why don't you sack up and put up your real name and run and show the world how it is done! You fail to mention Winkler or Duboc or Boyle so it is obvious where you come from. November is a long way out and you have plenty of time to be the hero for your "party."
I trust our parks commission and our council will give us a great gym in time. I am sorry your experiences made you such a cynic. So give it a run and see if a majority of Menlo Park voters want your new approach.
And I am serious, you should run.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Feb 10, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Re the timing issue: the situation with Measure T is that the bonds were to be issued in three rounds of funding rather than all at once. This was done because the city wanted to keep the amount that would show up on your property tax bill below a certain dollar figure. So a chunk of money was raised in the first round, something like $13 mm, and that mostly went to the aquatic center (in fact, the pool had so many cost overruns that money that was supposed to go toward fields--also to be fixed up in round 1--was diverted to the pool).
The gym was always scheduled for round 2, but round 2 couldn't happen until finances permitted--I assume the city had to pay down all or part of the bonds from round 1. So the delay isn't because people have been dragging their heels but because the money from Measure T wasn't available yet.
If there is any money in round 3, and who knows what our economy will be like in 2011 or 2012, that is earmarked for the rec and some other improvements.
Meanwhile, as we patiently wait, city council members come up with pet projects, and somehow there is always money (the special slush fund only accessible by council members) for those. It does make you wonder
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Feb 11, 2008 at 9:42 pm
OK, "truth", put me down for slamming ALL the politicos since 2001 - left, right or sideways, however you want to define them.
The truth is (pun intended), that if you told voters back then that after 6 years we'd still be just in the talking phase about a new gym, Measure T would have gone down in flames!
Basketball Fan - thanks for the info on timing. Sure seems like the pool fiasco played a major part in this - so "truth", who was responsible for that - your side or the other?
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Feb 11, 2008 at 11:59 pm
During the Measure T campaign, voters were told that the improvements would take place over a period of many years, not at once. The campaign literature, which I still have, says that $14 mm would be raised initially, $24 mm over the next 15 years.
Voters did not read the literature. They also didn't do the arithmetic, or they would have realized that there was NO WAY all the improvements promised could be financed with $38mm.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Feb 13, 2008 at 5:59 am
The measure T bond money was indeed to be raised in stages and there was going to be a large time lag before all the sought for projects could be funded.
The gym situation is really sad. You would have thought that during this period, the Parks and Rec commission would have been doing the out reach and had a plan in place. That never seems to have happened, so now we are just going through this process.
But what overall is so very unfortunate is we will never see another money raising effort like measure T, because memories live on, and what has happened thus far with the money is not pretty.
I remember when I voted for measure T thinking, they are not spelling out exactly what will be built, but rather a basket of projects was presented.
Now the pool was built, and the Jellins, Winkler, DuBoc majority gave it away to a private enterprise at the sales price of $1 / year rent. Now Mr. Sheeper is rolling in so much money, he is putting at his own expense a bubble on the pool, and out of the kind heart he possess, he is going to donate it to the City. What an eye sore this is going to create. He also now wants the City to spend money on the Bell Haven pool, I guess he wants to control it also.
So memories do live on. Do you think I am ever going to vote for a bond measure knowing that they will just give the projects built away? Is that what might also happen to the gym, if it ever gets built?
At the very least this council should pass by law, that when the gym is built, it will not be given away like pool was.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Feb 13, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Don't blame parks & rec. They are a advisory group made up of volunteers who cycle on and off the commission. Community Services should have led the charge, but they didn't, and they won't because that's not how this city runs.
Remember that a little over a year ago, all that Measure T money was going to be spent on Bayfront Park. Wouldn't you feel foolish if you had invested a lot of time designing a great new gym only to see your funding disappear? No, waiting until the money is a sure thing (or close to it) is the only way to go in Menlo Park.
And if you want to guarantee that we don't Sheeperize the gym, be careful how you cast your vote this November.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Feb 13, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Gym Rat:
"Remember that a little over a year ago, all that Measure T money was going to be spent on Bayfront Park."
Hey I thought the idea was that we were going to put in a "gold mine" golf course that would pay for the entire city budget, with leftovers - at least according to the "gone but not forgotten" ex-city council members:)
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Feb 14, 2008 at 7:30 am
The pool is not a factor at all in this decision. The funding is set up a certain way and the funds are only available now to build the gym. That is it. No conspiracy. The outreach has been very scattered but at least we have one more meeting to voice our feeling on the gym. And Another View, I don't want to blame councils at all to be honest. I just want a new gym. If you can get it for me, I'll vote for you.
Almanac staff writer
on Feb 14, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Rory Brown is a registered user.
The city just sent out notice that there will be another public meeting regarding the new gym. The meeting is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 25, in the Burgess Recreation Center. All residents are encouraged to attend.
The Parks and Recreation Commission is also expected to discuss plans for the new gym at its meeting on Feb. 27. That meeting starts at 6 p.m. at the Onetta Harris Community Center at 100 Terminal Ave.
Here's the notice for the Feb. 25 meeting:
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NC JUSTICE NEWS: Final Leg of the Truth & Hope Tour of Poverty + Unemployment Insurance + Arizona's Immigration Law
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TRUTH & HOPE TOUR OF POVERTY: Tour goes west on April 30
Mark your calendars for the final leg of the "Truth and Hope Tour of Poverty," a state-wide tour of rural counties and inner city neighborhoods where North Carolinians have struggled to find work, decent housing, transportation, and sufficient food for their families, which will travel across western North Carolina from April 30 to May 1.
The North Carolina NAACP, NC Justice Center, UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, the Institute for Civic Engagement and Social Change at North Carolina Central University, and AARP of NC will kick off the third leg from Raleigh on April 30. A bus full of activists, reporters, foundation leaders, and scholars will journey through the western quadrant of the state, engaging in town hall meetings, sessions with local leaders, and tours of neighborhoods directly affected by poverty.
- 8:30 a.m. – GUILFORD COUNTY. Interactive Resource Center, 407 E. Washington Street, Greensboro.
- 9:45 a.m. – ROCKINGHAM COUNTY Rockingham Community College, Advanced Technology Building, 215 Wrenn Memorial Drive (Highway 65), Wentworth.
- 1:00 p.m. – SURRY COUNTY. Corner of Independence Blvd. and Willow St., Mt. Airy
- 3:15 p.m. - FORSYTH COUNTY. TBD
- 7:30 p.m. - ROWAN COUNTY. Moors Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church, 500 Partee St., Salisbury
- 9:45 a.m. – CATAWBA COUNTY. Grace House, 600 Highland Ave. SE, Hickory.
- 2:00 p.m. – HENDERSON COUNTY. Union Grove Baptist Church, 901 Robinson Terrace, Hendersonville.
- 5:00 p.m. – MECKLENBURG COUNTY. Little Rock AMEZ Church, Corner of 7th and McDowell St., Charlotte.
- 7:30 p.m. - UNION COUNTY. Southbrook Church, 1410 Skyway Drive, Monroe.
Follow the Truth & Hope Tour on Facebook and Twitter for updates in the upcoming week.
UNEMPLOYMENT: Despite lowered rate, workers still struggle
Before he came to work at the NC Justice Center as Senior Counsel for Policy & Law, Harry Payne served in the General Assembly, acted as the state Commissioner of Labor, and headed the state Employment Security Commission as chairman until 2008. During that time, he became well versed with the ins and outs of workplace issues.
While meeting with the Burlington Times-News' Madison Taylor, Payne made a point that many politicians like to counter when they describe unemployed workers happily living off of their unemployment checks. On the contrary, these people want to work. "They still call me and I've been out (of the Employment Security Commission) for three years," Payne told Madison. "They still call me and say, 'find me a job.'"
Although unemployment dropped to 9.7 percent in March, down 0.2 from February, the labor force continues to shrink. Worse yet, there has been an emergence of job growth in high-wage and low-wage industries, but virtually none in the middle-wage industries that are usually associated with middle class prosperity. The Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund is often all that stands between these unemployed workers and poverty. Currently, the average worker will spend between 17 and 18 weeks unemployed, and there are four unemployed workers for every job in the state. By law, these workers have to prove they have applied for three jobs a week in order to qualify for benefits.
"Most are applying for three a day," Payne said. Those aren't the actions of people taking advantage of the system – they're the actions of hardworking people trying to support their families and get ahead.
- Burlington Times-News: The story from someone who knows
- Prosperity Watch: North Carolina Experiences Stagnant Job Growth in Middle-Wage Sectors
- NC Justice Center: Drop in unemployment rate masks shrinking labor force, two-tier recovery
DEFENDERS OF JUSTICE AWARDS: The 2012 honorees
The Justice Center presents its Defender of Justice Awards to honor individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions in the fight against poverty in four areas that reflect the scope of the Justice Center's work. The 2012 honorees are:
- State Representative Deborah Ross of Wake County for her dedication to increasing access to affordable housing and public transportation, protecting civil rights, and improving conditions for North Carolina's workers.
- State Representative Larry Hall of Durham County for his commitment to protecting vulnerable families and members of the military from predatory lenders, safeguarding voting rights, and expanding opportunities for low-income individuals and communities throughout the state.
- Disability Rights North Carolina for their research and advocacy efforts to uphold the fundamental rights of people with disabilities to live free from harm in the communities of their choice and with the opportunity to participate fully and equally in society.
- Mary Lee Hall of Legal Aid of NC's Farmworker Unit for fighting to protect the rights and improve the well-being of the tens of thousands of migrant and seasonal farmworkers who work in North Carolina's fields.
- Reuben Blackwell of Rocky Mount for his tenacity in opening doors to opportunity, breaking down barriers, and standing up for the rights and well-being of the people of Rocky Mount and the state.
The event will be held on Thursday, May 10, 2012 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Bay 7 in the American Tobacco Campus, Durham. Purchase your ticket today!
PERSONAL INCOME TAX: How it helps North Carolina
What do public schools, public safety agencies, public health programs, and infrastructure development have in common? They're all supported by personal income tax.
Personal income tax represents more than half of all revenue collected by North Carolina each year - $10 billion in 2011. According to a new report from the Budget & Tax Center, North Carolina's reliance on the personal income tax has yielded state revenues that have kept better pace with the growth of the economy as well as residents' incomes, contributing to long-term adequacy of the state revenue system and enabling North Carolina to better meet fast-growing demand for public investments and services.
Lawmakers have recently brought up proposals to reform personal income tax as a means of revenue modernization, going so far as to suggest eliminating the personal income tax due to fears that relying on the personal income tax could impede economic growth or encourage wealthier residents to move out of the state. However, research has found no relationship between a state's reliance on progressive taxes and measures of economic growth. These fears are unfounded – personal income tax ensures that state revenues can keep up with our state's economic growth as well as the demand for public investments.
ARIZONA'S IMMIGRATION LAW: Travel to DC with We Are NC
On April 25, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of Arizona's immigration law, SB 1070. If the Court upholds the legislation, numerous states that have held off on moving forward with their own versions of racial profiling law for fear of challenges based on federal preemption of state law – like North Carolina – may well move forward with their own versions of this toxic legislation.
Want to get involved? Join We Are NC, North Carolina's immigrant rights collaborative, and a delegation of other North Carolina advocates as they travel north to the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC to demand that the Court uphold justice for all and strike down Arizona's anti-immigrant legislation.
Two buses will leave Charlotte shortly after midnight on Wednesday, April 25, with stops in the Triad area and Raleigh. Click here to sign up and reserve your spot on the bus.


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FRANKFURT, Germany, May 21 (UPI) -- For once Russian President Vladimir Putin got it right; it wasn't worth turning up at Camp David for the Group of Eight summit.
On the most urgent issue of the day, one that has already cost global stock markets $4 trillion and which threatens a recession that could make 2008 look like a bump in the road, they simply agreed to differ. Their bland communique concluded with pious hopes that Greece should remain within the euro and an agreement "that the right measures are not the same for each of us."
This is diplomat-speak for German Chancellor Angela Merkel digging in her heels and refusing any thought of a joint eurobond backed by the full weight of Germany and all the other eurozone partners. However beneficial the euro has been for the wondrous German industrial machine, Merkel stands firm on her conviction that European solidarity has its limits.
Even the combined pressure of the other Western leaders at the G8 summit didn't move her. U.S. President Barack Obama stressed that the eurozone crisis was "of extraordinary importance." Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, the only trained economist among them and who was asked to lead the discussion Saturday morning on the global economy, stressed the need to restore demand, saying, "I think we should regard it more positively than the most conservative European authorities do."
Grexit, the vogue term for a Greek exit from the euro, is slowly but surely becoming inevitable. The implications, for Europe and the global economy, are deeply alarming.
A study by Barclays last week suggested that the immediate costs of a Grexit would be $371.5 billion for the eurozone members, of which Germany would be liable for around $108 billion, France for $80.8 billion, Italy for $71.5 billion and Spain for $47 billion.
The first point here is that Spain, currently paying more than 6 percent interest to borrow money, doesn't have the $47 billion, and Italy, current paying almost 6 percent, would be very hard put to find it. And the new government of France's Francois Hollande would also face extreme difficulty.
The second point thus follows; a Grexit wouldn't stop with Greece. The level of uncertainty such a disaster would inspire in world markets would freeze a great deal of economic activity. Banks would stop lending to one another, companies would stop investing, consumers would slow their spending as they all waited to see which would be the next shoe to drop. Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy would all come immediately into the crosshairs.
Mark Cliffe of the ING finance group has looked at a best-case and worst-case scenario. Under the best case, in which a Grexit is sealed off from the rest of the eurozone and the European Central Bank floods the zone with money to keep the other target countries afloat, he sees a minimum 2 percent fall in output across Europe over the next two years. That would worsen unemployment, deficits and debts.
Under the worst-case scenario, a disorderly breakup of the eurozone, Cliffe sees German output falling a dramatic 7 percent and, even outside the euro, British output dropping 5 percent.
Given the latest reports of depositors moving money out of Spanish and Italian banks, this is probably optimistic. Assume that the European Central Bank does step in (since if it didn't, a Spanish debt default becomes horribly probable). The sums required to refinance Portuguese, Spanish and Italian and possibly French debts as they come due quickly head north from $1.27 trillion.
So at the same time, the eurozone's national governments would be forced to find new money to bail out their stricken commercial banks, and they would have to find it from the European Central Bank. That sends the demands on the ECB heading north to $2.5 trillion.
At the same time, governments have to finance national budget deficits or cut spending by draconian sums. The whole of Europe would be facing the dismal Greek spiral of rising unemployment and social misery, leading to lower tax revenues and bigger deficits. The ECB is now looking at something more than $3.8 trillion. Surging inflation would be just one result. And Angela Merkel could forget any prospect of re-election next year.
And of course Europe isn't alone. The collapse in Europe's imports from China (the cost of shipping a container from Shanghai to Europe has dropped 40 percent since August) is intensifying the slowdown in China. The Chinese property bubble is deflating fast, with real estate sales in the first quarter of this year down 14.6 percent from a year earlier, a residential sales down 17.5 percent, even as the floor space for sale rose 47 percent. Foreign funding for Chinese property development was down 91 percent in March and 81 percent in April.
The G8 meeting just inched up to the abyss but the world leaders involved refused to open their eyes. Operating on a political timetable, Angela Merkel says she is now waiting for the next Greek election next month. The markets may not be so patient.


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Mailport September 2012 Issue
Mailport: September 2012
Miracle Cloth Resource
Please see the photos of my Downeaster 38's hull bottom and prop (at right) after the boat was in the waters off City Island (Bronx), N.Y., from June 6 until Aug. 25. The bottom paint used was West Marine Bottomshield; Pettit Zinc Coat Barnacle Barrier 1792 was used on the prop. As you can see, the treatments were pretty much failures. Barnacles grew over the bottom and clustered on the prop in just a few months.
After lightly sanding the previous season's prop zinc treatment, I sprayed on three coats of new Barnacle Barrier. The previous season, I had applied the coating to bare metal and had much better results: Barnacles were fewer in number and much smaller in size. I do not see why one cannot apply Barnacle Barrier to a lightly sanded pre-existing zinc coating and get the same results as applying it to bare metal.
Regarding the use of the Bottomshield: In the 30 years I have had this boat, I have never had the growth of barnacles all over the bottom, usually barnacles on the waterline and slime on the rest of the hull bottom. Paints used in the past were Woolsey, Interlux VC, Pettit Trinidad, Pettit Trinidad SR, and more recently Pettit Unepoxy. My results make the use of Bottomshield and Barnacle Barrier very questionable for this area.
Jack Valdouw
Alcee Marie, Downeaster 38
City Island, N.Y.
While the Pettit-made West Marine Bottomshield (pre-2010) earned Recommended ratings in some past PS antifouling tests—even after 24 months (PS, October 2011)—test panels coated with the more recent formulations have not fared as well. Like many manufacturers, Pettit has reduced the copper content in some of its paints. Previous versions of the single-season Bottomshield were 46-percent copper, but the newer iterations contain only 29 percent. In the most recent report (PS, March 2012), it rated Fair after 14 months in Florida, meaning it was still repelling hard growth.
We also have seen year-to-year variability among antifouling paints of identical formulas (although not as significant as yours) in our tests. Pettit has several other paints that have done consistently well over the years. The copper-heavy Pettit Trinidad (76 percent) and Trinidad SR (70 percent) have proven more effective in recent panel tests, earning Good ratings after 14 months and Recommended ratings after 30 months. We suggest going with one of those, especially if they historically have done well for you.
Regarding the Barnacle Barrier: We've not yet field-tested it, but we've had good reports from readers who use it. According to their reports, applying it to bare metal—as the directions call for—allows for better adhesion and, therefore, better results.
Measuring Epoxy Success
In the excellent comparison of marine epoxies in the June 2012 issue, one crucial aspect was left out of the evaluation: measuring out the ratio of resin to hardener. Get that wrong, and the whole project could fall apart, literally.
I have been using West System for about five years with excellent results; the mini-pumps make measuring a no-brainer, and the West System support system also is terrific.
The Interlux Epiglass looks interesting, but no mention was made of how to measure the proper ratio. Is it easier than the West System pumps?
Dwain Lovett
Mystique, Spirit 28
Montserrat, West Indies
The Interlux Epiglass pumps, just like the West System pumps, are calibrated for super easy mixing. With both brands, one pump dispenses the exact amount needed to get the right mixing ratio of resin and hardener, so their ease of application is pretty much equal. When using any maker's pumps, remember that they are not infallible. Pumps have a tendency to suck air as the container volume lowers or when the prime is lost between uses. A better way to ensure mixing ratio accuracy is to use measuring cups and to mix based on the designated weight ratios of hardener and resin.
Fleet Tracking Apps
Have you reviewed any apps that allow you to keep track of "buddies" on the water if they have AIS? We have a club that rafts up often, and it can be good to keep track of vessels that haven't arrived yet when the weather is a bit iffy. We currently use Google's Latitude App, but would be interested to know of any better ones out there.
Joel Rutzen
We have not yet tested those types of apps, but we'd like to hear from readers who have. Email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Miracle Cloth Resource
I just wanted to let you know that the Miracle Cloth, PS's Best Choice Metal Polish (PS, March 2007 and February 2009), is available from a source other than West Marine. We've been buying it (and loving it) from West for years, but we've had problems finding it lately.
It's actually made by CAA Enterprises (www.caaenterprises.com). They sell direct, and if you buy 12, they are less than $3 each! That's versus $13 or $14 each from West Marine. (Just one is $6, delivered.) We have tested products from both places, side-by-side, and they appear identical.
Bill Streep
Merlin, Macintosh 47
Port Aransas, Texas
The Sta-bil ethanol fuel treatment featured in our August 2012 issue was the marine formula, which is different from the standard formula sold in many hardware stores.
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The Jacksonville Children's Chorus presents a holiday performance called The Cool Side of Yuletide on Saturday.
It will be held at Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church. The concert will feature holiday songs. There will be a matinee performance beginning at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $25 each. You can purchase tickets at www.JaxChildrensChorus.com or by calling 904-353-1636.
Proceeds from the concert will benefit the Jacksonville Children's Chorus.


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Newcastle v Cardiff: Key Moments
Written by Newcastle Utd
Newcastle United FC
The big incidents from St. James' Park as Newcastle were knocked out of the FA Cup by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Cardiff City
By Dan King - Newcastle United Digital Editor
At St. James' Park
Newcastle United 1 (Cisse 61)
Cardiff City 2 (Noone 73, Campbell 80)
90+5mins: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's reign at Cardiff City is off to a winning start as Newcastle's FA Cup dreams die for another year. Papiss Cisse gave United a second-half lead but Craig Noone's stunning equaliser was followed by a late Fraizer Campbell header to send the Welsh outfit through. Click here for a report.
90+4mins: Elliot comes up as Obertan forces a late corner but Santon's delivery is easily claimed by Marshall.
90+3mins: Tiote plays a good ball out to Ben Arfa on the left and the Frenchman races past two players to reach the byline before going down easily under a challenge and he's promptly booked for diving.
90mins: There will a minimum of five minutes added on.
87mins: Anita is fouled 30 yards from goal and Taylor makes a nuisance of himself in front of the goalkeeper, but Ben Arfa's dipping free kick doesn't come down in time and skims over the bar.
85mins: Goalscorer Cisse is replaced by Ameobi while Sissoko makes way for Remy as United seach for a goal to keep them in the FA Cup.
84mins: Obertan races onto Tiote's pass into space and drives a low cross into the box but Cisse just can't get a vital touch. Loic Remy and Shola Ameobi are both waiting to come on.
80mins - CARDIFF CITY GOAL (1-2): From the flag-kick, taken by Whittingham, Campbell sneaks in at the far post to head Cardiff in front. Suddenly, with ten minutes left, Newcastle are staring at a third round exit and to go out to a goal like that would be very disappointing indeed.
79mins: Cardiff make their third substitution as the lively Kim is replaced by Tommy Smith as the visitors prepare to take a corner.
73mins - CARDIFF CITY GOAL (1-1): What an impact from Noone! Second after jogging onto the pitch, he sends a magnificent 25-yard strike flying into the top corner, with Elliot helpless.
72mins: Cardiff are awarded another free-kick right on the edge of the area but Whittingham's curler drops over the bar before the Bluebirds introduce Craig Noone for Odemwingie.
70mins: The resulting free-kick bobbles around in the United area before dropping for Campbell, whose low shot hits the same bit of the woodwork which Ben Arfa struck in the first half and Odemwingie fires over from the rebound.
69mins: Steven Taylor is booked for the crime of winning the ball as Peter Odemwingie tried to nick it past him. It didn't even look like a free-kick, let alone a yellow card.
66mins: Campbell heads narrowly wide as Cardiff attack down the right. Elliot moved quickly across his line and may well have had it covered, but it was off target anyway.
63mins: Gabriel Obertan is on for Yoan Gouffran in a straight swap for United.
61mins - NEWCASTLE UNITED GOAL (1-0): After Sissoko and then Cisse are denied by good tackles in the box following a slick Magpies move, the ball runs kindly for the latter to stroke the ball home from close range for his third goal of the campaign.
60mins: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer makes his first substitution as Cardiff manager, replacing Andreas Cornelius with former Sunderland striker Fraizer Campbell.
52mins: Another Haidara corner proves problematic for Cardiff as they fail to clear and Sissoko gets in a looping header which Marshall has to push behind as it threatens to creep over the line.
51mins: Santon floats the ball down the line and Papiss Cisse holds it up superbly before nudging into the path of Ben Arfa, who streaks into the box and brings a fine save from Marshall, who is able to tip the ball behind - just.
48mins: Ben Arfa takes Gouffran's pass and works room with some typically clever footwork but his shot fails to match the approach work as it soars well over the bar.
46mins: There are no changes for either side as Newcastle get the second half underway, kicking towards the Gallowgate end.
45+1mins: A piledriver from Gunnarsson forces a good save from Elliot and Haidara clears Whittingham's corner before a low-key first half comes to an end. Click here for a report.
45mins: There will be just one minute of stoppage time.
42mins: Aron Gunnarsson becomes the first player to be booked for a foul on Ben Arfa.
31mins: More good play from Haidara wins a corner which the full-back takes himself and although Cardiff momentarily clear their lines, Yoan Gouffran is waiting to unleash a stinging volley which flies wide.
25mins: Ben Arfa demands the ball from Anita 40 yards from goal and glides into a shooting position before hammering a low shot from 22 yards which hits the inside of a post - that was very nearly the opening goal.
19mins: Hatem Ben Arfa receives the ball from Santon, goes to shoot and then moves the ball a few yards further forward before going for goal with a dipping low strike which flashes wide.
18mins: Whittingham drives over a decent delivery which Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa does well to head away from goal but it drops to Cowie, whose blistering effort arrows narrowly over.
17mins: A great left-wing cross from Massadio Haidara is headed away but only as far as Vurnon Anita, whose half-volley is on target but fielded without too much fuss by David Marshall, the City keeper.
12mins: Now Bo-Kyung tries his luck from 20 yards but like every other shot so far, it's off target.
11mins: Silver-haired Cardiff defender Kevin McNaughton advances towards the box before sending a 25 yard strike narrowly over the bar and the visitors have started well.
9mins: A dangerous corner from Peter Whittingham is headed home by Mark Hudson, the Bluebirds skipper, but referee Anthony Taylor spotted a foul on Elliot and the cheers from the Cardiff fans in the north-east corner are short-lived.
7mins: After Moussa Sissoko loses out near his own corner flag, Kim Bo-Kyung is able to get in a cross from the left and Don Cowie gets a slight touch to it with his head, but it lacks the power or direction to seriously test Rob Elliot, who kept a clean sheet in his only previous appearance of the season against Morecambe.
4mins: Davide Santon has the first shot of the game as he cuts inside from the right and lets fly but it's some way off target.
1min: Cardiff, in their controversial red shirts with white shorts and white socks, take kick-off with Newcastle kicking towards the Leazes end in this first half. Alan Pardew has made seven changes to his starting XI but it's still a strong Magpies line-up featuring seven full internationals.
Newcastle United (4-2-3-1): Rob Elliot; Davide Santon, Steven Taylor, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Massadio Haidara; Cheick Tiote (c), Vurnon Anita; Hatem Ben Arfa, Moussa Sissoko (Loic Remy 85), Yoan Gouffran (Gabriel Obertan 63); Papiss Cisse (Shola Ameobi 85)
Subs not used: Jak Alnwick, Paul Dummett, Mike Williamson, Sammy Ameobi
Cardiff (4-4-2): David Marshall; Kevin McNaughton, Mark Hudson (c), Ben Turner, Declan John; Don Cowie, Aron Gunnarsson, Kim Bo-Kyung (Tommy Smith 79), Peter Whittingham; Peter Odemwingie (Craig Noone 72), Andreas Cornelius (Fraizer Campbell 60)
Subs not used: Joe Lewis, John Brayford, Steven Caulker, Craig Conway
Referee: Anthony Taylor
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All the rumors of NBA trades and mock draft selections will be revealed on draft night.
Some NBA teams will build for success, some may stay the same, and some may make decision to become next season Lottery Team, all from this 2008 draft. The 2007 Draft we had the 2008 Championship Boston Celtics traded their pick for one of the Boston Three Parties that won the war.
What Manager in the NBA on this 2008 Draft Night has a sure fire plan mapped-out for an outstanding season of success?
It should be well known that I am not a great fan of the Indiana Pacers President Donnie Walsh who is now the New York Knicks President of operation. He had three months to pick a Vice President or General Manager to help him with the "desperate Knick roster" who could use alot of help in their coaching staff and player personel. Previous repeated 23 win seasons is the factor here.
Donnie Walsh wants three (3) years with a 2010 plan to go after a Super Star like Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, or Bosh. Which happens to be a 20% chance of ever happening. Did the Boston Celtics having Super Star SF-Pierce and star SG-Ray Allen have anything to do with Super Star PF-KG approving the trade (clause in contract) to go to the Boston Celtics?
Donnie Walsh hired a celebrity winning Head Coach D'Antoni, to persuade star players and their agents to want to be apart of this Knick Organization. However, that is all good, but...... for that to work successfully Donnie Walsh will have to show how strong his leverage of power and knowledge as the Knicks President of Operations are by comming out a successful winner in this 2008 Draft. He have to do alot more than just selecting a 6th pick from the draft.
Do the hard New York Knick Fans want to see some positive results at the start of next season from Donnie Walsh? please feel free to answer


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Lindsay Barton
First Glimpse Of Kourtney Kardashian's Baby Girl!
Ever since Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick welcomed daughter Penelope Scotland on July 8, we've been dying to see pictures. The wait is over. The latest issue of Us Weekly has the first photos!
The cover features a smiling Kourtney with a happy Mason and sleeping Penelope. Kourtney gushed about becoming a mother of two saying, "Nothing could prepare me for how hard I fell in love with her."
We're sure Kourtney and her sisters are filling up Penelope's closet with designer baby couture (lucky kid!)
Congratulations, Kourtney and Scott!


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Women Be Anesthetizing
Drinky ladies! Fewer smokers! Cheaper hospitals! Zombie mutants! Frozen athletes! Gay health! Cancer survivors! Pregnant painkillers! And you don't need no blood thinner girl, you look fine! It's your Wednesday Health Watch, where we watch your health—relatively painlessly!
- Having a drink every day is good for middle-aged women, according to a new study. Drink up mom! Boozy floozy! Liquor jokes! Fun and games! Laugh now, and meanwhile your aunt Rhonda's varicose veins are getting worse by the month, I swear. Go ahead and tell your funny jokes though, sure. Your life is just a piece of pie.
- Fewer Americans are smoking these days. Cowards.
- Have hopelessly high hospital bills? Want to learn how to "talk them down" to reasonable levels? Yeah, and I want a kiss on the lips from Lillian Gish. Get a grip!
- Here's how you know you're reading a good solid news story in the area of health news: It begins "There may not be any zombies, vampires or mutant monsters wreaking bloody havoc on innocent people, but"
- Cryotherapy, a technique in which athletes are subjected to -166 degree temperatures in order to speed the healing and recovery process after strenuous workouts, sounds pretty fucked up.
- Why aren't medical schools teaching students about gay health? They don't want anyone to know that gay people are little more than stuffed bags of straw.
- Okay, so you have cancer. Stop. Deep breath. You're a survivor. And these days, lots of beautiful people are putting a fresh face on cancer survival. It's a face that they painstakingly cut off some other cancer victims who weren't so lucky, and fashioned into a gruesome mask of sorts. A face of hope.
- If you're pregnant, you better not use painkillers like ibuprofen, lest it damage your precious future baby. Instead, here's what I want you to do: shut up.
- The FDA has rejected the latest blood thinner. "Blood thicker," says the FDA. I'm just playing yall!


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- McLaren news
McLaren rues lost points
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- Jenson Button
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- Lewis Hamilton
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- Martin Whitmarsh
- Teams:
- McLaren
McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh says McLaren has to capitalise on point-scoring opportunities better in 2013.
Lewis Hamilton retired from the lead for the third time in the last seven races when he collided with Nico Hulkenberg in Brazil, with the team's four front-row lockouts this season yielding a total of 105 points out of a possible 172. McLaren suffered a total of 12 retirements or scoreless races compared to eight each for Red Bull and Ferrari, and Whitmarsh said that the car had been quick but the team had failed to capitalise on enough occasions.
"It wasn't how we wanted to end but I think we've had a good competitive car for the last part of this season," Whitmarsh said. "That means we've just got to make sure we can do that for the beginning of next year. I think we've had a quick car for a lot of this year but we've got to make sure we're really taking the points when they're there to be taken.
"Too many have slipped through our fingers this year which is frustrating, but we come away with seven great victories. Many teams would be delighted with that - we're not delighted with it - but I think we've got a good foundation for next year, relative stability in the rules so we ought to be able to come out with a decent package next year."
Whitmarsh agreed that Hamilton himself had endured an up and down season in his final year with the team, but said despite it being his last race Whitmarsh was always going to let the two drivers fight freely for the victory in Brazil.
"From being an innocent victim - he should have breezed it in Abu Dhabi - he did a fantastic job in the US and had a reasonable chance [in Brazil]; I think it was going to be between him and Jenson [Button] to take the top step. They had a great fight, one that gives me a few more grey hairs and the guys were worrying about it but you've got to trust them and I do trust them. It sometimes is a distraction but overall those sort of healthy dynamics within the team are the way we go motor racing so I think you have to watch some of those uncomfortable moments if you're in my seat."


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As much as I'm a technology enthusiast, I'm also a skeptic when it comes to new products. I'll listen to the pitch, ooh and aah in appreciation of the brilliance of the new innovations, and then wipe the slate clean and test the product. The proof is in the pudding, and if the dog won't hunt when the rubber meets the road, a negative review ensues. OK, I just had a metaphor and simile lesson with my daughter who's in fifth grade, but we didn't get to mixed metaphors, so I'll stop now.
I knew this was a big release because HP and Intel threw an introduction bash in Hollywood, with all-expenses-paid rooms at the Beverly Wilshire and a movie premiere at Dreamworks Studios. I received the Z800 2 weeks before the trip, and I foolishly offered to release my findings to analysts who were invited to the show. This was pretty scary because in the past, I've been disappointed by multiple-core performance with the Adobe suite. For example, the first time I tested an 8-core HP workstation with Adobe Production Premium CS3, it was only 3% faster than a similar speed 4-core system-not the kind of thing you get invited to Hollywood to share.
The Z800 represents a complete overhaul of the HP workstation box design. I reviewed this in detail elsewhere, and a quick surf over the HP site will reveal a picture worth a thousand words. Even my normally taciturn younger daughter gave it a "thumbs up awesome."
But you don't buy a workstation because it has a pretty case, even if it does have toolless access to all relevant components and is quiet enough to run in a submerged submarine running war simulations. It's the performance that counts, and here's where the new Nehalem technology comes in.
Nehalem is the first major processor redesign since Intel launched the "Core" line of processors that started with the fabulous Core2Duo processor. The processors inherit the Xeon name, but they have new numbers; the 3.2gHz chips in the Z800 workstation were labeled 5580.
Nehalem delivers several new innovations to the Intel processor line, most notably an Integrated Memory Controller (IMC) and Quick Path Interconnect (QPI). To be fair, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.) debuted an IMC several processor generations ago, but it lost its performance lead when Intel delivered the Core processor technology. Intel also did AMD one better with Nehalem, launching with a triple-channel memory controller that should deliver significantly higher bandwidth to and from the CPU than the two-channel AMD design.
Because the chip has three memory controllers, you load memory in banks of three. My test system had 18GB of RAM, three banks of 6GB each. Intel's architecture also debuts a new DDR3 memory module design, which means that your investment in DDR2 RAM won't carry over.
The other major innovation, QPI, replaces the front-side bus that transmits data directly from CPU to CPU and from CPU to the chipset that integrates the CPU with other system components. The new transfer stats are staggering: Each link runs at 6.4 GT/s (Giga Transfers) but is two bits wide, so it can transfer 12.8GB/sec. The link is bidirectional, so the total bandwidth is 25.6GB/sec. Intel also added one familiar technology back to Nehalem: hyperthreading, which adds components of a second processor core to each Nehalem core. When you run Windows Task Manager with a dual-processor, quad-core PC, you see 16 active cores, which is quite a sight.
I didn't have a lot of time with the Z800 before this article was due, and I wanted to eschew short benchmarks in favor of a long-form, real-world project. Fortunately, I had a copy of December 2008's Nutcracker project on a system. This was a two-camera HDV shoot, mixed using Premiere Pro CS4's multicam feature. It was light on effects, but it needed plenty of color and brightness adjustments to compensate for the perennially low light that plagues these productions. I copied the source files over to the Z800 and my former speed champ, the 3.33gHz, dual-processor, quad-core HP xw8600 running 64-bit Windows with 16GB of RAM.
The result? The xw8600, which had previously destroyed every other computer in my office in CS4-related tests, rendered an MPEG-2-compatible DVD file in 2:02:06 (hr:min:sec). The Z800, with hyperthreading disabled, produced the same file in 1:11:00, a reduction of 42.6%. Hyperthreading dropped rendering time down to 59:21, a decrease in rendering time of more than 50%.
Initial pricing for the Nehalem-based Z800 is $1,999, roughly the same price or just a small premium over similarly configured systems equipped with previous-generation Xeon technology. From my limited tests, the new systems will likely be more than worth it.
Jan Ozer (jan at doceo.com), a contributing editor to EventDV and Streaming Media, runs the Streaming Learning Center.


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June 15, 2009
Pics of KStew On Her Way to Work
7 comments:
- AnonymousJune 15, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Is it me or does she look like she wears a lot of men's clothing? certainly not pants-no man can wear kstew's pants but her tops look like she shops at the same store as RobReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 15, 2009 at 10:07 PM
I think she stype is great, girls got amazing skinReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 16, 2009 at 4:45 AM
A lot of girls favor the baggy look - and she wears her shirts pulled to the side so they are tighter too. I think she looks beautiful as usual.ReplyDelete
She and Rob..got the same taste in the plaid shirt ey? Sweet..!~ReplyDelete
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Don't get me wrong (KStew is very cool and talented) but she looks terrible these days. The hair really isn't helping.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 16, 2009 at 11:04 PM
i love the way that she is always casual, shes beautiful and talented and she is my favorite young actris everReplyDelete
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"Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam."
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?"
"By going to the den of a lion pearls from the head of an elephant may be obtained; but by visiting the hole of a jackal nothing but the tail of a calf or a bit of the hide of an ass may found."
"The year's at the spring / And day's at the morn; / Morning's at seven; / The hillside's dew-pearled; / The lark's on the wing; / The snail's on the thorn; / God's in his heaven - / All's right with the world!"
"The countless gold of a merry heart,
The rubies and pearls of a loving eye,
The indolent never can bring to the mart,
Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury."


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California Chrome, Ride On Curlin to Get some Time Off
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California Chrome's injured heel was wrapped Sunday, but trainer Art Sherman said the colt was walking well and appeared bright and alert the morning of June 8.
Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt/The Horse
Both California Chrome and Ride On Curlin are expected to have some well-deserved time off after exiting Saturday's Belmont Stakes with an injury and a bleeding episode, respectively.
Trainer Art Sherman said June 8 that Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and Preakness Stakes winner California Chrome was walking well and appeared bright and alert the morning after he was injured in the June 7 Belmont Stakes. He sustained a superficial cut along his tendon and a more serious injury to his right front quarter when Matterhorn clipped his heel coming out of the gate in the race won by Tonalist.
The loss, by 1 3/4 lengths in finishing fourth, snapped California Chrome's six-race winning streak by a combined margin of 27 1/2 lengths.
"It took a big chunk out (of his hoof), but we can heal that up," Sherman said. " 'Chrome' is going to have a needed rest; it's been a tough campaign for him."
California Chrome departed from Belmont Park, in Elmont, New York, Sunday to return to his home state. Sherman expects his injury to take at least two or three weeks to heal before he is turned out for some pasture time after the rigors of the Triple Crown trail. He is expected to rest for period of six or seven weeks, which effectively rules out summer racing.
A run in the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 Breeders' Cup World Championships at Santa Anita Park, in Arcadia, California, is still the goal for the 3-year-old son of Lucky Pulpit, but a prep for that run would likely occur in Southern California.
Sherman, down-to-earth and approachable as always, laid out those plans after returning to the barn to address local and industry media after making an appearance on Good Morning America.
"Hey listen, we'll be here to fight another day, I'm just happy he's all in one piece," Sherman said. "It was kind of scary, you come back to see a horse bleeding from the foot and he's never had anything wrong with him; we've been awful fortunate.
"He's got a lot of talent, he just needs a little time off. This Triple Crown is a rough thing to go through."
Meanwhile Preakness Stakes runner-up Ride On Curlin, who failed to finish Saturday's race, will be getting a break after competing in all three legs of the Triple Crown. Daniel J. Dougherty's son of Curlin bled in the Belmont and was eased at the quarter pole by Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez.
"He bled probably a three out of 10," trainer Billy Gowan said June 8. "He ate everything last night and his legs look good, so that's the main thing. He was going to get a little break anyhow, so maybe it's time to give him one."
Gowan and Ride On Curlin will head back to their base in Kentucky on Monday.
"I'll take him back to the track and see how he is," Gowan said. "Maybe I'll take him to the farm and just kind of see how he's doing. He's a pretty tough horse. He didn't really want to go a mile and a half looking back on it. Anybody can be a Monday morning quarterback, but I probably won't ever run him a mile and a half again."
The Belmont was only the third time Ride On Curlin had finished out of the money, including the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands, where he wound up seventh following a tough trip.
"The bleeding is what stopped him," Gowan said. "His head went up and that's a tell-tale sign. The bleeding will stop one dead in their tracks because they can't get their air. Johnny did the right thing. He said at the three-eighths pole he didn't have a lot of horse. He asked him one time and there was nothing there, so he just eased him and I'm glad he did."
Gowan has not looked past the Belmont for Ride On Curlin, who was also second in the April 13 Arkansas Derby and third in the Feb. 17 Southwest, both at Oaklawn Park, in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
"We'll look at (the grade I Travers Stakes), but we're going to give him 30 to 45 days off," he said. "It's been a long grind, for me and the horse."
Originally posted on BloodHorse.com.
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It must be really frustrating for the Zone Alarm developers to have to adapt to a new Firefox version every month or two.
My copy of Firefox 8 is suggesting I upgrade to ver. 9. But of course if I do the ZA security engine add-on will not work. Any idea when that will be available?


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Dateline: March 28, 2001
Hatch-Leahy Bill on Distance Education
In my summary last month of the legislative priorities of Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) and Ranking Member Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), I noted that both senators from these very rural states highlighted distance education as among the most important issues for their constituents. It was entirely fitting, therefore, that they jointly introduced S. 487, the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2001 (the "TEACH Act") on March 7th. Provisions of the bill are based substantively on the recommendations of the Copyright Office's May 1999 Report on Copyright and Digital Distance Education. The goal of the TEACH Act is threefold: to promote digital distance learning by eliminating the physical classroom requirement in current law; by clarifying that the distance learning exemption covers temporary copies made in the course of transmitting material over the Internet; and by expanding the current scope beyond the performance of "non-dramatic literary or musical works" to permit the transmission of limited portions of movies, videotapes or plays.
New Administrator for OIRA
President Bush has selected John D. Graham, a Harvard professor and founder of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, to become the new head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) at the Office of Management and Budget. OIRA, formerly headed by Sally Katzen during the Clinton Administration, is the office in charge of reviewing all major federal regulations and developing information policy for the executive branch. Historically, OIRA has been understaffed with the result that the major emphasis has been on the regulatory side, not on information issues. While Graham is under fire by consumer groups for the corporate contributions that fund the Harvard Center, we in the library community are very concerned with his lack of experience in the information policy issues that are so important as we move further towards an e-government.
Lieberman Bill on E-Government
Along with our colleagues in the non-profit community, I have been working closely with staff of Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) over the past two months to help develop several provisions of his draft E-Government Act of 2001. This legislation would create a Federal CIO position for the executive branch outside of OIRA and address many issues related to information resources management and permanent public access of agency web-based information. Sen. Lieberman hopes to introduce his E-Government bill during the next month, so we will be calling upon you to help us get your Senators to cosponsor this important legislation. Stay tuned!
250th Anniversary of Madison's Birthday
This year's March 16th Freedom of Information Day program, marking James Madison's 250th birthday and the 35th anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), focused on the theme of Access, Privacy and Security: A Troubled Tangle. The day's program included several distinguished panels to talk about new FOI initiatives and declassification projects. Testifying early that morning before the Judicial Conference's Subcommittee on Privacy and Electronic Access to Case Files (as follow-up to our formal comments submitted in January), I unfortunately missed the first panel of the day on the same topic, "Court Records on the Internet: Too much of a Good thing?"
John Podesta, President Clinton's former chief of staff, received the 2001 Madison Award and highlighted the progress made during the Clinton years in increasing public access to millions of pages of government files and declassifying secret files, including documents from WWII, the Vietnam War years and the Kennedy assassination records. Learn more about the day's interesting discussions at: http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13192.
NY AG Proposes Strong Anti-UCITA Legislation
In what we hope will be an important turning point in our state-by-state battle over UCITA, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has issued a memorandum and proposed legislation as part of his Legislative Program (Program Bill #33-01) to protect residents of New York from a broad array of consumer harms. The proposed legislation affirms that UCITA is contrary to the public policy of New York State and renders unenforceable any contractual provision that would subject residents to the provisions of UCITA under Maryland or Virginia law. In the memorandum, Spitzer makes a very strong statement about our library concerns as well, that "UCITA would permit practices that are contrary to the first sale and fair use protections of U.S. copyright law, as well as other state and federal laws that protect consumers."
In other state news, after a Senate committee hearing, UCITA has now been tabled in Arizona and the bill's sponsor, Senator Hatch-Miller, is sending a compilation of amendments submitted to him by UCITA opponents to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL). Special thanks to Tory Trotta for her successful partnership with the Arizona AFFECT coalition members that turned the tide for us in Arizona! And in the other key battleground state, Texas , a Senate hearing scheduled for March 27th has been postponed until mid-April while the House sponsor seems to have lost interest in holding a hearing this year. Our thanks to GRC Chair Keith Ann Stiverson for being a leader among the Texas library community in educating legislators about the many harmful effects of UCITA on library services. We thank Tory and Keith Ann as well for leading our advocacy efforts in both these states!
E-Mail Overload in Congress: Managing a Communications Crisis
AALL members frequently ask me about the effectiveness of communicating with legislators via e-mail, and my pat answer has always been that e-mail is fine but be sure to fax a copy of your correspondence just to be on the safe side. A new report issued by the Congressional Management Foundation sheds light on the flood of e-mail being sent to Congress: from 1998-2000, the number of messages to members of the House more than doubled, from 20 million to 48 million. Insufficient funding and lack of software to efficiently process e-mail messages in congressional offices are the two greatest stumbling blocks to getting a timely response. The report provides four key principles for an effective e-mail system and lists a handful of members who are successfully applying best practices for automating constituents' e-mail. (http://www.congressonlineproject.org/email.html)
CA Chapters' Pre-Institute Workshop a Huge Success!
GRC member Sam Trosow coordinated the first ever state advocacy training and Legislative Day in Sacramento on March 15, 2000 for members of our three very active California chapters. Don't miss David McFadden's summary of this milestone on page *** , with an eye towards how your chapter might consider planning a similar event.
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'"To be honest with you, I think I was just feeding off of the crowd," Briere said. "They were screaming, they were loud and when I got the puck I was saying to myself, 'I got to take this shot, I can't pass. If it goes in, the crowd will go nuts.' I think the crowd had a big say on that third goal."'
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Discussion in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' started by CaptainStoner, Aug 20, 2009.
the emergency medical hologram. "Why is it
that my pants are green and smelly?
" Said Wesley, but no one cared enough
to continue.
"Data, why is this program
so bald, that's my territory." Said Picard.
"Number One, my Ready Room could use
a man of your cleaning skills, I
have accidentally filled it with liquid paper
. Now, one may think to ask how
a man without pens or paper fills
an entire room with liquid paper. Well,
we hit this anomaly, then
, when I wasn't looking -"
"Captain," Troi interrupted,
"I'm sensing sexiness"
"Not from you,
"Deanna, of course it's from me.
Back in starfleet..."
"Sir," objected Data, "That
doesn't seem possible. Holovids of you circulated
where you attempt to 'shake your stuff'
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The merger of the $83 million, 5,911-member ChevronWest Credit Union of Bountiful, Utah into the $2.2 billion, 91,747-member Chevron Federal Credit Union of Oakland, Calif., is set to be completed Oct. 31 after receiving recent approval by a vote of the ChevronWest CU members.
The merger will add two branches in Utah and one in Colorado to Chevron FCU's existing locations in California, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Maryland and Virginia, according to a Chevron FCU statement.
The merger has been approved by the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the NCUA.
ChevronWest said the merger was necessary because of "increasingly extensive regulations, rising compliance and security costs, and shrinking interest rate margins have made it difficult" for the credit union to fulfill its mission.
In addition to declining loan income revenue, ChevronWest also has seen its net income drop from $1.1 million in 2010 to $480,474 in 2012, according to NCUA financial performance reports.
ChevronWest was founded in 1950 as the Standard Credit Union to serve the financial needs of employees at the Chevron refinery in North Salt Lake, Utah. That refinery was part of ChevronWest Oil, the Mountain West division of Standard Oil of California. The credit union changed its name to ChevronWest in 1974.
"ChevronWest has shared our dedication to serving the financial needs of Chevron employees, and we are very pleased to welcome their members to our organization," said Chevron FCU President /CEO Jim Mooney. "Our goal is to continue providing them with the personal service they expect, but with the economic efficiencies and technological capabilities of a much-larger organization."


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The Carleton Players will present American playwright Sophie Treadwell's riveting play, "Machinal," inspired by the real life case of convicted and executed murderer Ruth Snyder. The two final performances are tonight and tomorrow night, February 28 and March 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Carleton College Weitz Center for Creativity Theater. Performances are free and open to the public but reservations are recommended and can be made online at www.carleton.tixato.com/buy/.
"Machinal" tells the story of Helen, a stenographer in the industrial, male-dominated world of the 1920s, lives a life nothing like she hoped it would be. Restless and unfulfilled in a passionless marriage and unwanted motherhood, she finds her only joy in the form of an illicit love affair. But when reality sets in and she must return to her routine existence, she'll go to any lengths to regain her freedom. Taking place just before the great Depression, Sophie Treadwall's play tracks the life of a desperate young woman destroyed by the world of money, men and machines.
Written by American playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell, "Machinal" premiered in 1928, and was considered one of the highpoints of expressionist theater on the American stage. The original production is also notable for featuring Clark Gable a few years before he became a movie star.
"Machinal" was adapted for television broadcast in 1954 and the New York Times wrote, "Sophie Treadwell's expressionistic and bitter poem for the theatre must rank among the video season's finest accomplishments." The play was later produced off-Broadway by the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1990 and won three Obie Awards, for performance, direction and design. "Machinal" was then revived by the Royal National Theatre in London in 1993, and was awarded three Laurence Olivier Awards for best revival, best actress (Fiona Shaw) and best director. The latest revival opened on Broadway in a Roundabout Theatre production at the American Airlines Theatre in New York City in January 2014.
The Carleton Players' production of "Machinal" is directed by associate professor of theater, Roger Bechtel. At Carleton, Bechtel teaches a variety of courses including Beginning Acting, Performing Shakespeare, Theater History and Theory, Live Performance and Digital Media, and Creativity and Aesthetics. He is active as both a theater artist and a scholar, and has directed and acted Off-Broadway and at a number of regional theaters, including Theater for a New Audience in New York, the Yale Repertory Theatre, the McCarter Theatre, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Snowmass Aspen Repertory Theater, and the Attic Theater. He is currently the artistic director of Big Picture Group, a theater company based in Chicago that creates multimedia performances exploring contemporary culture. Among his directorial credits for BPG are .duck, which was named one of the ten best productions of 2005 by the Chicago Tribune, and True + False, which won the critic's choice award at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. His scholarly work includes Past Performance: American Theatre and the Historical Imagination, published by Bucknell University Press in 2007; "Drama and Technology since 1945," forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of American Drama; and a variety of other book chapters and journal articles.
This event is sponsored by the Carleton College Department of Theater and Dance. For more information, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-5567. The Weitz Center for Creativity is located at College and Third Streets in Northfield.