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Which exercise is better, Pilates or Yoga?
Pilates and Yoga both are excellent forms of exercises to give overall workout to mind and body but as Pilates already includes some exercises of yoga, it can be termed as a much more advanced form of yoga. Now, before understanding which one is a better exercise, we must first learn what Yoga and Pilates are, so for Yoga which I have already covered in my previous article, you can go through The Ultimate Benefits of Yoga.
Now I have not covered Pilates before so you can read this. Pilates is a method of mental and physical training that was invented in the 20th century by a German gymnast named Joseph Pilates. Pilates is a combined form of exercise including yoga, ballet, and gymnastics. Pilates puts special emphasis on breathing and relaxation and building muscle strength with mental control.
The creator of Pilates, Joseph Pilates, was suffering from asthma, rheumatic fever, and rickets since he was a very small child, so he decided to start studying the human body in order to find different ways to strengthen the body parts with exercise. After some years of training with his own exercise regimen, he became a great athlete, excelling in swimming, boxing, and athletics. In the year 1912, John Pilates was selected to teach self-defense to detectives at Scotland Yard. During his lifetime, John published two books. In the year 1934, John published a book by the name of "Your Health" and in 1945, he published a book by the name of "Return to Life Through Contrology". Contrology was the name he initially gave to the method now known as Pilates. After a few years, this book was exported to USA and since then, John Pilates has been adding more and more followers to this exercise regime.
Best Pilates Core Workout Video
Method of Pilates lies on six essential pillars which are concentration, control, centralization, precision, fluidity of breathing, and fluidity of movement. According to Pilates, the above six elements of this method must be present in each of the exercises. The rule is to perform these exercises very slowly and conscious, coordinated with utilization of proper breathing techniques. In this way, a person can achieve a leaner and flexible body which is very less prone to stiffening or any type of disease conditions. Pilates can be done directly on the floor or on a mat or something to cushion the movements. Pilates also uses chairs and use of elastic bands.
In Pilates, the most important thing is to centralize all the power with proper concentration and control with flow of movement and breathing. Pilates strengthens the powerhouse that consists of entire abdominal area and back of body, which initiates and sustains each of the movements, so you don't lose your balance during exercise.
The most important thing to remember is that throughout the entire session of Pilates, a person must keep an absolute control on breathing to enhance lung capacity and enhance blood circulation. This induces strength, mental coordination, good posture, and flexibility.
Joseph Pilates designed 500 types of different exercises, but before doing any one of them, it is very important for a person to meet his/her family physician to assess if he/she has a risk when practicing these exercises. However, Pilates is recommended for people of both sexes, male or female, and all ages including kids, adults, and elders. Some people also call Pilates as Western Yoga which can be called much more advanced form of yoga. The main reason for Pilates becoming so much popular all over the world is its extensive practice in the areas of sports and entertainment.
So least but not last, both Pilates and Yoga are good forms of exercises and doing any of the methods also depends on individual goals (as suggested by Simone Smith in original question). If your goals are peace, relaxation, flexibility, mental fitness, then you can practice Yoga but if your goals are core strengthening, physical therapy, better breathing, then you can practice Pilates.
Hey Soni,
Nice hub but "Pilates puts special emphasis on breathing and relaxation and building muscle strength"
and then you mentioned Yoga does not build core strength. I am doing Ashtanga Yoga and it not an easy form. The instructor (male) for P90x is for core strengthening and uses Ashtanga yoga for strength and flexibility. I think it also helps to build the core. After reading more on this from other sources it is a great form of weight loss and sculpting. Since the course also has Core Synergystics with some Pilates moves it has almost all you need. Overall, I agree it is best to build the core.
Dearest Soni2006,
I'm still here! With my publishing company being a more than full time job I don't get a chance to really write Hubs! I do try and comment on others as often as I can!
You, however are quite prolific! I am thrilled! And I hope it is paying off financially as well!
You are more than welcome for the initial boost! It took sooooooooooo long for anyone to become my fan in the beginning! I vowed then to make sure new Hubbers who were adding good content knew they were welcome and appreciated!
Glad we are able to reconnect! 733 Hubs!!?? Now you are MY inspiration!
Blessings always, EarthAngel!
Wonderful Hub Soni2006!
I have done both yoga and pilates for years! For me, combined with walking/hiking, the combination is perfect!
Thank you for sharing!
Blessings always, EarthAngel!
Great hub brother, add this video to make it complete. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw96dAsI-7s


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Vocations in the COSJ
To serve the Church as a priest or a religious is indeed a humbling honor which no one merits but which can be chosen by Our Lord for us. We must always pray for vocations to serve the Church in the priesthood and the religious life. The Holy Spirit that the Father has sent through Jesus Christ is at the center of a church vocation, just as Jesus Christ Himself is the head of the Church. For the COSJ, we have our unique formation process that has been established and endorsed by the Archbishop of San Francisco.
We want to help each interested man learn whether he has the vocation and the necessary education, experience and background sufficient to join the COSJ in our contemplative life of prayer and our Active Apostolate to the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
The short video below explains quite a bit about us and the ways we pray, live and serve the religious and faithful of the Archdiocese.
If you would like some additional information about the Contemplatives of Saint Joseph and our established requirements for admission and life-style, click here.
From time to time throughout each year, Discernment Retreats are offered at the COSJ Monastery in South San Francisco, CA. These are held to assist men who are strongly considering our contemplative life as a vocation learn more about us and for us to have the opportunity to pray together as a community to determine if God's call beckons a man to join us. We invite candidates with whom we have worked via telephone, e-mail and letter and who we believe understand the COSJ sufficiently to benefit from a Discernment Retreat. Click here to download additional information about our Discernment Retreats.
"A vocation is a grace. By its nature it
presupposes and requires that a voice
should be heard - the voice of the Father
through Christ and in the Holy Spirit, the
wonderful invitation: Come!"
Pope Paul VI

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|December 15, 2016
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General Pam Bondi and 19 other state attorneys general today filed a federal antitrust action against generic drug-maker Heritage Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Auribindo Pharma USA, Inc., Citron Pharma, LLC, Mayne Pharma (USA), Inc., Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. The drug companies allegedly entered into numerous unlawful conspiracies to unreasonably restrain trade, artificially inflate and manipulate prices and reduce competition in the United States for two drugs. These drugs are doxycycline hyclate delayed release, an antibiotic, and glyburide, an oral diabetes medication.
"Generic medicine is an important option for consumers in need of medical care and any effort to distort the price of these drugs harms consumers," said Attorney General Bondi. "Today's multistate action seeks to hold these drug companies accountable and protect the market place."
In 2015, generic drug sales in the U.S. were estimated at $74.5 billion. Currently, the generic pharmaceutical industry accounts for 88 percent of all prescriptions written in the U.S.
Attorney General Bondi and the other state attorneys general filed the action under seal in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.
The states' investigation uncovered evidence of a broad, well-coordinated and long running series of conspiracies to fix prices and allocate markets for a number of generic pharmaceuticals in the U.S. In the action filed today, the states allege senior drug company executives and their subordinate marketing and sales executives conceived and carried out the misconduct. The complaint further alleges that the defendants routinely coordinated the schemes through direct interaction with competitors at industry trade shows, customer conferences and other events, as well as through direct email, phone and text message. According to the complaint, the anticompetitive conduct – including efforts to fix and maintain prices, allocate markets and otherwise thwart competition – caused significant, harmful and continuing effects in the U.S. healthcare system.
After becoming aware of the investigation, the drug companies, knowing their conduct violated the law, made efforts to avoid communicating with each other in writing and deleted written communications. The companies' alleged conduct violates the federal Sherman Antitrust Act and various state antitrust laws. To address the violations of law and restore competition, the states are asking the court to enjoin the drug companies from engaging in illegal, anticompetitive behavior and for equitable relief, including substantial financial relief.
In addition to Florida, the other states participating in the multistate action include: Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington.
To view the public version of the complaint, click here.
A multistate investigation into potential collusion by generic drug manufacturers regarding the pricing of a number of other generic drugs remains ongoing.


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Please feel free to contribute to this frequently-updated forum, which posts selected commentary on our favorite comic strip. If you'd like your critique to be posted, please note that civility, if not approbation, counts. Click here to submit a comment.
To fight zombies or sexism? Today's strip is priceless, and works on so many levels! It has men who are fighting a real war obsessed with a war game, no doubt providing them with a welcome escape from reality and reminding us that most of the troops are very young. The strip also manages to cast an eye towards gender differences and, I think, pokes a little gentle fun at both genders. Either fewer women play war games or, if they do, they must be multi-tasking, since they are carrying on with their jobs, while men are single-task achievers? However, the guy accepts Mel's criticism of the situation, immediately labels it sexism and thus something he will deal with, but, hey, one thing at a time - he's already got to sort out those zombies. Thanks for a really good laugh! I'm going back to re-read the strip for the umpteenth time.
Today's strip has Melissa claiming sexism because the female soldiers are working while the males are playing Black Ops. With all due respect, this premise itself is sexist. Why are the males the only ones interested in playing the game? There are female gamers, and some are in the military! I am a female veteran and a gamer. To have only the males gamers, and only the males slacking, isn't fair to either gender. I certainly appreciate the humor, but if you're supposed to be making a point about sexism, the joke's on you.
First Sergeant: "I can either battle zombies or sexism." I think we should train the zombies to battle the sexist idea that only men are gamers.
Maybe the Red Rascal's greatest feat was slipping out of the comics into the real world.
I started reading with B.D. and Phred as I was preparing to go to Nam in the later part. Listening to stories of grunts returning from over there let me see the parallels between what B.D. and they did. We again see the new war same as the old war with the same problems. Names and faces change but voices remain the same. The hypocrisy of Osama bin Laden saying too much money is wasted on standing armies, when he and his terrorist movement is the cause of the need for armies and security. In a modern world he is a relic, so the cycle continues until the exhaustion of men and material is complete. Sorkl Razil is art imitating life. Thanks for 40 years.
I don't know which is worse. All the GI's (mostly guys but not all) or the Federal civilians playing the game this week. The week before Thanksgiving is usually light work, or urgent stuff since the manning dwindles the closer to T-day it gets. I can totally relate to Mel in today's strip!
During the Vietnam era, GIs would go to bars and drink beer and play pinball games to "get away from it all." Now the infinite ways you can access video games results in a virtual non-stop "get away from it all" playing field. I continue to be amazed at the gamers who put these "video games" a priority in their everyday lives! I call them "game zombies." They choose to close out real life and live in that "play" world. Video games are a good healthy pastime, but, as other things in life, do not over-do it!
I couldn't believe the strip today. Hilarious. I am just back from National Guard training in Yakima, Washington where the Soldiers were all playing Black Ops with the hot Nazi Zombie action in the MWR lounge, while I tried to keep up with homework on the barely functioning wifi connection. You must have a direct line into the GI psyche.
All I need to know about the U.S. in a daily strip. Pure magic.
Here in Oz, we're also dealing with the humble bedbug (also with ants, cockroaches, and the occasional plague of locusts). Like everyone else, we're about evenly divided between those who (like Mrs. Doonesbury the elder) regard insect and rodent pests, as a sign of poor domestic hygiene, and those more sensible types who see these uninvited visitors as a necessary fact of life for many people, depending on the climate and geography of the place where you happen to live. Very perceptive, GBT, as always!
If you check out the past 20-30 years of rocker fashion culture, you'll notice that the crucifix was long ago co-opted, especially by Heavy Metal. From hair bands of the 70s to Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, to even non-metal musicians like Madonna all the way up to the current entertainment product known as Lady GaGa -- all use crosses as a jewelry accessory. Ragging on GT about the reflective aspect of his riffing on reportage unfortunately begs for a bit more of an expanded and, can we say, Christian, attitude. As one swami in my neighborhood in India says, "Hey, it's the Kali Yuga (Age of Darkness and Ignorance). What did you expect?" What we focus our attention on grows. War on Drugs = more drug-related problems. War on Teen Pregnancy = more teen pregnancy. War on Terrorism = you do the math. Let's focus on peace and love, in our hearts, in the home, and in the rest of the world, and see some more of that grow. Thanks to GT for this lifetime of art and humor!
Forty years, huh? Seems like just yesterday I was a cute little Spec. 4 stationed in Germany, buying the Europe Stars & Stripes at the messhall and enjoying Doonesbury on the comics page with my breakfast. Over the years, Doonesbury has changed and improved, but never grew up -- just like me! Keep up the good work! (But please, no more talking bugs. If I want a comic strip with anthropomorphic animals, I'll read Garfield or Get Fuzzy. I read Doonesbury for cutting-edge cultural satire, not talking animals.)
What a great 40 years it's been -- and may there be many, many more. I read you in The Boston Globe for years, but now I have to get my daily fix from the web site, 'cause our local daily is too Libertarian to carry Doonesbury. (Go figure). Thanks for all the great stuff, and for the treasures in the archive!
40 years really? Amazing and wonderful, thanks to your parents for whatever they did to let you be you! Bedbugs -- folks, get some diatomaceous earth and quit whining already. At least they aren't Black Mambas.
Congratulations on 40 years. I saw your interview on "CBS Sunday Morning." It reminded me of why I started reading Doonesbury in the first place -- in 1972 when I was 12. Our paper put Doonesbury on the editorial page instead of with the other comics. I'm not sure I would have been reading the strip all this time if they hadn't.
Doonesbury has been an important part of my life since the early 1970s, longer than almost everyone I know. As a high-school student, I wrote letters to the editor of the newspaper in Midland, MI, to support Doonesbury and Trudeau when others were writing to criticize and to request that the newspaper drop the comic because they called it offensive to local morals. I'm glad that while I lived in Midland, the newspaper continued to print Doonesbury. I've read every Doonesbury strip for years and look forward to reading it every morning. Thank you for the ongoing chronicle of our times.
Ack! Please, no bedbug stuff. People are so freakin' paranoid these days. Every time they see a fly or beetle or insect, they scream "Bed bug!" Please leave the sensationalist junk to the MSM.
I laughed at today's strip and then I laughed at myself. How silly is it that I'm looking forward to seeing Mike suffer with bed bugs? Doonesbury is my preferred reality TV, I guess.
Thanks, Garry. I have been reading you since I first ran into you while a Grunt in Vietnam in the late 60s early 70s. B.D. and Phred were my favorites. You have helped me and so many other Vets understand what is happening to us, talking about things the government denies. Your nightmare strip the other day was so real two of my ex-wives contacted me to say they understood now. I am at about at the end of my run now. And I wanted to thank you for your work.
I found it very offensive that when "ma" came home yesterday and there was the discussion about her staying out all night and the morality issues (or lack thereof) that it involved, you felt it necessary to put a necklace with a cross on it around her neck. While I suppose it was a comment regarding the hypocrisy of some who claim to be Christians, it was offensive to those of us who are.


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Previous post: Ivy's Travel: Korea trip part 4
Day 6 (Fly to Jeju Island, Lotte Jeju Hotel)
We took Air Busan to Jeju Island. The flight took around 50 minutes.I couldn't remember the flight fare, but it was not expensive as we took the budget airlines. Aside from Air Busan, one of the most frequent airlines people took to Jeju is the Jeju Air. The reason we took Air Busan is only because at that moment, Air Busan's flight schedule suited us more. We took Jeju Air for our flight back to Seoul and practically both airlines were the same.
Tips: I opened the flight websites several times before I actually did the booking. Turns out both airline will give a special discount rate from time to time. A tip, when you see the discount rate that match your schedule, quickly booked them as the ticket sold out fast. Due to my wishy washy of deciding which timing would suited us more, we didn't get the discount rate for our flight to Jeju, but at least we got the one back to Seoul with special rates. Again, couldn't remember the flight fares, but its around 1 million rupiah per person.
Tips: I opened the flight websites several times before I actually did the booking. Turns out both airline will give a special discount rate from time to time. A tip, when you see the discount rate that match your schedule, quickly booked them as the ticket sold out fast. Due to my wishy washy of deciding which timing would suited us more, we didn't get the discount rate for our flight to Jeju, but at least we got the one back to Seoul with special rates. Again, couldn't remember the flight fares, but its around 1 million rupiah per person.
As you can see from the map, our hotel is at Jungang station, 12 stops to Gimhae airport without switching lines, so it was very convenient to took mrt to the airport. Journey is around 35 minutes. The domestic airport is small and doesn't really have many stores, but there is a food court on the second floor who served a great Jeonju style bibimbap (8300 won = 91k rupiah).
At Jeju island, there are two areas to stay, Jeju City and Jungmun. Jeju City is where the airport is, some attractions like Jeju Loveland and the famous Yongduam (Dragon Head) rock. JungMun is located around 1 hour from the city, where the beach is and also Teddy Bear Museum, Ripley's Believe it or Not, Trick Art Museum (they have another one in the city also), and Cheonjyeon waterfalls. It depends on personal interest to decide which area to stay, the hotels located at the city are definitely more affordable, you can easily get a spacious and nice hotel not more than 1 million rupiah per night, while at JungMun, as it's a tourist place and centered around beach, almost every hotels are 5 stars with hefty price.
We decided to stay at Jungmun to have the beach view and personally, if I ever go back to Jeju, I would again choose to stay at Jungmun. Yes, the hotel is pricey and the restaurants nearby got some serious price tags, but with the service and the view they offer, I would say it was worth money spent. However, if you decided to stay at the city, Hotel W Jeju can be a good option.
We took bus no. 600 at Jeju Airport to go to Chung Mun (read: JungMun). The bus parked in front of Gate 5. Ticket purchased inside the bus, there will be a lady who come to you to collect the bus fare. Bus fare is 3900 won (43k rupiah) with 1 hour duration.
The bus will stop in several places and hotels with route like this:
Jeju Airport - Yeomji Botanical Garden - Hyatt Hotel - The Shilla Jeju - The Suites - Hana Hotel - Lotte Jeju Hotel
Lotte Jeju Hotel (*5)
Address: Jungmungwangwang-ro 72beon-gil, Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do
Price: 6.500.000/ night booked directly to hotel
I got headache on deciding which hotel to stay in Jeju. We settled from the first that we will stay at Chung Mun, so I was not looking at the hotel at the city. But still, even though the hotels at JungMun are not as many as in the city, I still spent some time deciding between Hyatt, The Shilla or Lotte Hotel. Notice how I use I instead of We? Yup, hubs more on the type who let me decide on almost all our traveling decision. I ended choosing Lotte and it was a brilliant very satisfying choice.
Until this day, Lotte Jeju Hotel is still one of the best hotel we ever stayed in. I am losing words to describe how fantastic the hotel is. My amateur pictures will not do the justice, so for the room images only, I took it from the hotel website, and yes, it looks the same in real.
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The hotel is huge! Let's talk about the room first, there are quite categories on the room. Superior, deluxe and luxury where each has another categorization based on the view. We booked the Deluxe Double Ocean with 40,3m2 size and it was stunning. The room was so pretty and has this amazing view. We didn't really get the center beach view as the one with that kind of view would be the rooms which are more expensive. But ours was enough for me. The air was just beautiful that we often went out to the balcony just to look at the view and enjoy the breezy air. Visiting Korea at Autumn is just the perfect time.
The hotel view at night. Pay attention on how large the outdoor and swimming pool area. The space was gigantic.
We actually spent quite time just wandering through the hotel. They have humongous swimming pool and the water temperature is warm, so even during autumn, people can still enjoy the pool without getting cold. They have like five jacuzzi with big TV screen in each corners, so people can warm up at the jacuzzi while watching TV. How thoughtful is that?
The morning views
More views of the hotels!!
There's a stairs at the back of the outdoor park which we could walk down to the beach. A bit of warning, do think 10 times before you deciding to walk down those stairs. Hubs and I call it the horror stairs. It was piece of cake to walk down, the walk ups was... what is the words for super exhausted? Seriously, it was like climbing up a gazillion stairs!
The gazillion horror stairs! It might not look too horror on the pictures as the stairs comes with winding lanes, so I couldn't take the whole picture.
They also have camping tent for customers who stay in with children and wanted to do some outdoor activities. Really, this hotel is just amazing! The facilities, the service, the food, the room, the comfortableness, and oh the price!!!
The breakfast was awesome! One of the most satisfying meals we had is during the hotel's breakfast at Lotte. The selections are amazing and the taste was beyond good. I know the price per night is steep, but if you visit Jeju, I personally really recommend you guys to spend at least a night here. It really worth the money spent.
One of the must eat at Jeju is the Abalone porridge. I forgot to take a picture of it, we actually had one at the hotel and it was top notch good that I had my second bowl right at the spot. The flavor and seasoning were just lovely. It was a common dish found at restaurants in Jeju, so if you go to Jeju one day, do make sure to try their Abalone porridge. :)
All the hotels in Jungmun resort are located near each others, but as all the hotels are huge, even though they are side by side but it took quite miles to walk one from another. We paid a short visit to The Shilla which located just next to Lotte and the hotel is beautiful, as pretty as Lotte but location wise, I would still recommend Lotte as it situated as the first one, so it's the nearest hotel/ resort next to Teddy Bear Museum, Ripley's, Museum trick art and Cheonjyeon waterfalls.
The restaurants inside Lotte offers spectacular price tag. But there's a food and supermarket complex just beside the hotel. There are Starbucks, Angel in Us, Kraze Burger, and several restaurants also the 24 hours supermarket which has these amazing preheated food. I could easily be satisfied just to eat at the supermarket, the Gimbap, onigiri, bento box and instant noodles were all tasted like a decent restaurant food. I love Korean food so much!
I rambling on so much about Lotte Jeju Hotel because they practically deserves it. They have everything you look for in a hotel/ resort. Beautiful rooms, amazing service and facilities, huge swimming pool, jacuzzi, private beach, casino, beautiful parks and all the amazing outdoor activities. People with kids could also opt for their Hello Kitty room. They have this one special floor with Hello Kitty's design dedicated to children with Kitty fever. Everything is so thoughtful.
Thank you Lotte for the amazing memories!
Continue to Ivy's Travel: Korea trip part 6


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Good day everyone,
So I have a Surface Pro 3 and have updated to Windows 10. I got a new laptop and gave my brother the Surface Pro 3 with Windows 10. Instead of factory resetting,I made him a local account and deleted my account. By doing this I didn't realize I was deleting the administrator account . Now any time he goes to download or attempt to make any changes to the computer he is prompted to enter the admin password. I know the password but it doesn't give anywhere to type the password and the only option it gives is to "cancel" . The computer won't allow us to do anything without the ability to type in that admin password. If I go to "my computer" and users I can see that my old profile the admin account is still there. But I can't open it or access it since I cannot type the admin password . I can't create a new user account or elevate his privileges with that local account . How can i factory reset or re create that admin account? I've also tried resetting to factory settings but it won't allow me to do so as most of the options are not there.


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Summer's best is yet to come!
We bid good-bye to July while some islanders wonder if Mother Nature is going to cooperate this season. There have been enough days of rain and fog to put this year in the record books.
Despite the weather, Jamestown appears to be busy. The hustle and bustle in the village — the hallmark of our summer — is here at last. Parking spaces can be tough to find, even on week nights. That's really good news for the island businesses that rely on the summer traffic to keep their doors open year round.
Folks are lined up to buy ice cream and there are passengers waiting to ride the ferry to Rose Island and Newport. There's a crowd at the hot dog stand. The beach at Mackerel Cove is packed with swimmers and sun-worshipers hoping for a few rays between the whisps of fog.
August rolls in this weekend and brings with it the best part of our island summer. There are plenty of island events on the calendar like the popular Fools' Rules Regatta and the Chamber of Commerce "Night at the Fort: Dig It" dinnerdance.
If you are looking for a place to kick back and relax, Jamestown is the spot for you.
Sailors love Jamestown. Those who like to compete can find a race on Narragansett Bay just about any night of the week. The island is a popular destination for cruisers. We are surrounded by water and we're all about boats.
Then there's the fishing. You can angle from the shore or a boat. There's always something to catch. The stripers and blues will keep you busy.
Ride your bicycle, walk around the lighthouse at Beavertail, visit the historical museum and windmill. Or, grab a good book and find a hammock under a shady tree.
Ever the optimist, let's keep our fingers crossed that we'll see blue skies ahead.
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Pro cheerleading 'should be abolished'
Recent lawsuits involving the NFL suggest some women are being exploited
Critics have long been rooting for a ban on professional cheerleading.
The argument: young, attractive, scantily clad women high-kicking and shaking pom-poms on the sidelines and cheering on male players reinforces women's subservient role as eye candy in a man's world.
A recent spate of cheerleader-led lawsuits in the NFL alleging below-minimum wage pay and, in some cases, degrading treatment has only helped reinforce the notion that the job demeans women.
"Cheerleading should be abolished," former professional basketball player Mariah Burton Nelson told me.
"Cheerleading implies that women's proper role is to support men, smile at men and fulfill the sexual fantasies of males," declared Nelson, who played for Stanford University and in the first women's pro-basketball league in the U.S.
She added that a woman's place is on the field, "not on the sidelines."
It's a sound argument. Many women's pro-sports teams still struggle for recognition. Meanwhile, men's leagues take centre stage, where women's main job is to look good and entertain the crowd.
In the National Hockey League, some cheerleading squads, such as the Calgary Flames' Big Country Ice Crew, also have to clear the ice during breaks - in skimpy outfits. It's hard to imagine any female pro sports team using professional cheerleaders or ice maintenance workers in mini-skirts.
Vulnerable to exploitation
But some women enjoy cheerleading, and perhaps it's not our place to tell a woman (or a man) what job she can do (as long as it's legal, of course).
Even so, it's becoming increasingly clear that some cheerleaders are being mistreated. They are vulnerable to exploitation because of the nature of their business: they work in a male-dominated field where their main role is to please male sports fans.
If you disagree that that's their primary role, check out the countless calendars, where they often pose provocatively in bikinis, or do a Google search with the keywords "hottest cheerleaders."
Now let's talk about working conditions. We got a peek into the cheerleading world because of documents that have surfaced during recent court proceedings.
The first of six wage-theft lawsuits involving five NFL teams kicked off early this year when a former cheerleader filed a class-action suit against the Oakland Raiders. Lacy T. (she withheld her last name to protect her privacy) alleged Raiderettes cheerleaders were paid below minimum wage and could be excluded from games for misdemeanours such as declining skills or "gaining as little as 5 pounds or appearing 'too soft.'" The Raiderettes would then be fined for missing the game, she claimed.
The Raiders just settled the case, agreeing to pay $1.25 million to 90 former cheerleaders. The football team is now paying the Raiderettes minimum wage - $9 an hour, which is not exactly a grand victory considering the team is worth $970 million US, according to Forbes.
Five former cheerleaders are also suing the Buffalo Bills, alleging not only that they worked for hundreds of hours for free, but also, that they were subjected to degrading treatment such as a jiggle test to check their weight as well as sexual harassment at community events.
A Buffalo Jillsglamour and etiquette guidebook has also recently surfaced. It instructs cheerleaders how to wear tampons, wash their vaginas and how much bread to eat when dining at a fancy restaurant.
A Jills 2013-2014 Agreement and Code of Conduct has also been leaked. Among other things, it explains that Jills must buy and maintain their $600 uniform, do unpaid appearances and pass a "physique evaluation" before they can perform at games.
Perhaps it's no shock that NFL cheerleaders, unlike football players, are not represented by a labour union.
Looking for rationales
I was surprised by some reader comments when I recently wrote an article about the miserable pay and treatment alleged by suing cheerleaders. A recurring comment was that if a cheerleader didn't like her working conditions, she should just walk away.
"No one is forcing them to be cheerleaders. Suck it up!" commented one reader.
"If they don't like it, quit," wrote another in agreement.
So it's OK to exploit and degrade your employees as long as they aren't being "forced" to do the job? If, say, a bakery was underpaying its workers and telling them how to wear their sanitary supplies, that would be OK, so long as the workers weren't being held at gunpoint? Is the rationale that any company can exploit its employees as long as they are free to quit?
The bottom line is that any team that does not treat its cheerleaders fairly and with respect relinquishes the right to have a squad cheering on its players. The Buffalo Jills are sitting out this season because of the ongoing lawsuit.
Teams that want to keep their squads should perhaps look to the National Basketball League's Toronto Raptors Dance Pak for guidance. These women call themselves dancers rather than cheerleaders, don't shake pom poms and, according to Dance Pak choreographer Amberley Waddell, "are paid for all rehearsals, games, as well as appearances" and "definitely make more than minimum wage."
As long as pro cheerleading continues to exist, perhaps that's the kind of gig we should be cheering for.
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This learn Spanish grammar lesson goes over Spanish object pronouns, which can be broken down into direct object pronouns (D.O.P.) and indirect object pronouns (I.O.P.) In this learn Spanish grammar lesson, we will focus on Spanish direct object pronouns. At the end of this lesson, you can click on the link to review the indirect object pronoun in Spanish. The final lesson, page 3, is on using both in a sentence.
In a sentence the object or a person that directly receives the action of the verb is called the Direct Object. The direct object answers the question "what?" or "who?" in regards to what the subject of the sentence is doing.
The Direct Object in each sentance is in bold.
Maria is the direct object and la is the direct object pronoun.
Una carta is the direct object and la is the direct object pronoun.
These are the forms:
In Spanish, the D.O.P. that replaces the direct object when it is a noun must agree in number and gender of the noun.
In Spanish, the D.O.P. must be placeed before the verb when there is only one verb.
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Brazil's Renova to bid 240MW PV
Brazilian independent renewables company, Renova Energia, plans to list 240MW of PV projects at auctions this year encompassing the technology, CEO Mathias Becker told Recharge.
The projects are about 30MW each in size and are located in the northeastern state of Bahia, where the company operates and is building 1.2GW of wind farms.
Becker said that he expects the solar auction to be competitive and Renova will aim to sign between 10% to 20% of all contracts in this year's upcoming solar power auctions.
"We don't want to win just one race, we want to win the whole championship," he said.
The total installed capacity of solar projects that Renova should list this year is the same as in 2013, when the government allowed solar projects to compete with other sources in the auctions.
No power was sold because the price set was considered too low for PV power in Brazil to compete.
This year, however, the government will hold separate auctions for solar power which, according to officials, should occur by the end of the third quarter. Guidelines are expected to be published before the end of May.
The auction will also include waste-to-energy projects. Nevertheless, Becker said that the price cap and local content rules will determine whether Renova will effectively bid at the auction.
"A price cap anywhere between R$200/MWh ($90.7/MWh) and R$250/MWh makes solar feasible," he said.
Solar is the most expensive energy source in Brazil. By comparison, large-scale hydroelectric projects reach wholesale market prices around R$100/MWh; the price of wind is around R$120/MWh; and thermoelectric plants sell power around R$160/MWh.
The government has signalled that it will ease rules for local content in the case of solar by giving equipment suppliers enough time to reach levels set by the national development bank BNDES of at least 60%.
So far Renova has installed about 10 micro-generation solar projects for clients, but since last year it has more actively sought opportunities to develop its own medium and large scale projects.
A reduction in consumer power bills decreed last year and the government's decision to promote larger solar PV projects brought about the change, said Becker.
The company's first wholly-owned solar project was announced last week – a solar-wind hybrid project with 4.8MW and 21.7MW of installed capacity respectively.
Becker says he wants to take advantage of the complementary nature of solar and wind in Brazil, and more specifically in the state of Bahia.
"Very few people in the world combine the two sources and here they complement each other since stronger wind start picking up between 4pm and 5pm and increase during the night, while solar peaks during the day," he said.


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Paul is now part of the fourth generation in America that is involved in farming and hopes the next generation will be involved also. Through his blog he provides analysis and insight to farmer tax questions.
There are officially two weeks until April 15 to get your taxes filed (unless you elect an extension). If you have not filed yet, here is a check list of things to do between now and then:
This is a quick check list for the last two weeks of tax season. The delay in the release of the tax forms has caused this tax season to bunch up even more than normal. We will be preparing many returns between now and April 15 and if yours is one of them, make sure to get is filed timely.
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No puppies for now
Because Nora has now went empty twice, this summer she will be reassessed as a breeding bitch.
For now it is very likely she will – sadly – not breed again. See puppies page for the litter she had in 2013.
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Welcome Back To Haiti in Focus
It has been about four years since we last released an episode. But we are back. We explain the hiatus in the episode and also talk about Carnival. We also chat with Kristen Hertzog, Executive Director of the Haitian Connection Network, about her connection to Haiti and the work her organization is doing there. You can find out more about the work of the Haitian Connection Network here.
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The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, has invited 29 individuals convicted following the Drax Power Station protest in 2008 to appeal against their convictions. This protest involved the former undercover officer Mark Kennedy.
Mr Starmer has also asked the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to examine records of all operations involving Mark Kennedy that led to convictions.
He has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with police and other investigative agencies that will ensure information about undercover officers is shared between investigators and prosecutors and disclosed to the defence when required in future cases.
Mr Starmer said:
"As a result of concerns raised with me about the convictions of 29 individuals for offences committed during a protest near Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire in 2008, I ordered a review of the case by a senior CPS lawyer with no prior involvement in the case and asked Brian Altman QC, First Senior Treasury Counsel, to advise on the safety of the convictions.
"Having considered the conclusion of that review carefully, I have decided that the safety of the convictions should be considered by the Court of Appeal. That is because it appears to me that a senior CPS lawyer, who has since left the organisation, may not have complied fully with disclosure obligations in this case.
"The prosecution cannot lodge an appeal in these circumstances, so I have taken the unusual step of writing to the legal representative of those convicted, inviting them to appeal on the basis of non-disclosure of material relating to the activities of the former undercover officer, Mark Kennedy. The safety of the convictions is a matter that can only be dealt with by the Court of Appeal.
"Because I have real concerns about any prosecutions involving Mark Kennedy, in April I asked the Metropolitan Police Service to examine their records relating to Mr Kennedy's deployment to confirm that the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, which sets out disclosure obligations, was adhered to.
"The MPS has agreed to that request and is currently engaged in that exercise. This is a task that can only be carried out by the police because they hold the relevant records, but should any issues arise in cases prosecuted by the CPS, I will ensure those cases are reviewed by a senior CPS lawyer.
"More generally, I have asked Sue Hemming, the head of the CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, to work with our Complex Casework Unit Heads to identify, from our available records, whether there are any further cases involving undercover officers that might need to be examined.
"What happened in cases involving Mark Kennedy cannot be allowed to happen again. I have therefore negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding between ACPO, SOCA and HMRC and the CPS setting out in clear terms the approach to be followed in criminal cases involving undercover officers where it is essential that there is early, frank and regular liaison between investigating officers and prosecutors.
"In addition, I have put in place mandatory training for all senior CPS staff who supervise prosecutions involving undercover officers. That training commenced in January this year and is ongoing."
- The defendants were charged with obstructing engines or carriages on railways, an offence under section 36 of the Malicious Damage Act 1861.
- 22 of the 29 individuals were convicted on 3 July 2009 at Leeds Crown Court after trial. The remaining seven pleaded guilty on different dates: five on 29 June 2009, one on 3 July 2009 and one on 4 September 2009.
- The legal representative of the defendants raised their concerns with the DPP in a letter on 17 August 2011. The case was then reviewed by a senior CPS lawyer, who reported her findings to the DPP on 12 January 2012. Brian Altman QC, First Senior Treasury Counsel, was then instructed to review the case. He provided his advice to the DPP on 3 April 2012
- The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Keir Starmer QC, Sir Hugh Orde OBE QPM (Association of Chief Police Officers), Trevor Pearce QPM (Serious Organised Crime Agency) and Donald Toon (HM Revenue & Customs) in June 2012 and is now in force.


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United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday called for a coordinated international response to the Ebola outbreak and appointed Britain's David Nabarro as the world body's coordinator in its fight against the deadly disease.
Ban spoke about urgent steps in combating the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which its specialised agency, World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared a public health emergency of international concern, Xinhua reported.
The Secretary-General urged the international community to respond urgently to the shortage of doctors, nurses and equipment to address the severe lack of capacity in the most severely affected countries.
The UN chief stressed that he has designated Nabarro as Senior United Nations System Coordinator for Ebola Virus in close coordination with Margaret Chan of WHO, as "a coordinated international response is essential".
According to Ban, Nabarro would be responsible for ensuring that the United Nations system makes an effective and coordinated contribution to the global effort to control the outbreak of Ebola.
Warning against panic and fear, Ban said, "Ebola can be prevented with resources, knowledge, early action and will, people can survive the disease."
The largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded began in Guinea in December 2013 and spread to Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, where a total of 1,848 cases have been reported, including 1,013 deaths, according to the latest WHO figures.
Born in London, Nabarro was qualified as a physician in 1973.
In September 2005, he joined the office of the UN Secretary General as Senior Coordinator for Avian and Pandemic Influenza.


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MOSCOW -- When Mikhail S. Gorbachev's Soviet government was overturned last week, it had about as much noisy drama as a ball of yarn slowly unraveling down a stairway.
Average Russians, lining up yet again for milk in the 3 p.m. darkness, wondering how long their jobs would last and calculating how much less their rubles were worth than the week before, might not have noticed.
Rarely have such sweeping changes been accomplished with such a small national expenditure of adrenalin.
Maybe it's the darkness, or maybe Russians have had their fill.
Even the perpetrators seemed decidedly lacking in passion.
August's Man on the Tank became December's Paragon of Moderation. Boris N. Yeltsin, the Russian president who joined two other republic leaders in proclaiming a new Commonwealth of Independent States, made sure he wasn't going to lose -- but did so with surpassing tact.


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In the Guardian, there is a profile of a report by the Institute of Race Relations concerning the condition of asylum seekers in Britian. Drive to Desperate Measures documents violence, much of it self-inflicted, that occurs in detention centers. As Melania McFadyean notes, the rise in suicides among asylum seekers reflects their growing desperation as new legislation makes finding sanctuary in Britain more elusive. She points out, however, that these conditions are being exacerbated by the profit motives of the private corporations that run these facilities.
Although some would consider asylum seekers a class apart from illegal immigrants–they are victims of persecution, and their plight is judged as a matter of diplomacy and politics rather than naturalization–their treatment can be similarly desperate. It is questionable that the economic motives faced by one group have no political basis, and vice-versa. The threat of deporation can be seen as a matter of life and death. Refugees enjoy more legitimacy that illegal immigrants, but their lives are perhaps more circumscribed as they await judgment of their fate.


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Looking back through our 1999 pages at a very big year
Our People - You Met All Sorts
Swing dancers
Our dancing reporter Donna Ayres - along with photographer Mark Burns - toured the thriving local swing dance scene introducing you to the dancers and the dances:
Chesapeake Country is speaking a new language: the language of swing. On a recent Wednesday, novice and experienced Lindy Hoppers gathered again to speak that language. As instructors Gay and Dave Shepardson called out the steps, students intently swiveled their bodies and kicked their legs
Hobbies along the Bay come in many forms, as writer Christopher Heagy proved in his profile of pigeon expert George Adriani.
I've been racing since the 1940s. The train would take the birds to Charlottesville or another stop down the line and the station master would let their birds go. The first boy that got a bird back would run around and check with the other guys. If no one else had a bird, he was the winner.
Unity Walkers
From Ocean City, seven stepped out on faith to walk 3,200 miles across the country for the sake of a National Unity Day. The Annapolis expedition led by Paul Callens was set in motion by the city's unified response to a Ku Klux Klan rally.
To look back and see 100 people following you is just stirring, said Callens as the march crossed the Ocean City bridge.
We followed their progress across the country. By Annapolis, the number was five. By West Virginia, three were still walking. In October, two of the original walkers - plus one new walker and a pair of helpers - arrived in San Francisco. They'd had to ride across the desert, but they made it and claimed victory.
Millennium managers
We did our best to add a note of sanity to the scaremongering accompanying the calendar change. In a feature-length interview in November, Maryland 2000 executive director Louise Hayman told us about MaryLandscapes, preservation efforts and programs that will endure long after the champagne fizz of New Year's Eve is gone.
We're focusing on everything that is going to happen during the year 2000 We invented it completely; no one has ever done anything like this before. There was no manual about how to do a millennial celebration.
Grandmothers Galore
In our "Living Treasures" feature in October, we introduced some of the women who have helped to shape our Chesapeake community.
New bosses
Interviewed by self-employed journaling teacher Rosalie Evans, a half dozen self-employed Chesapeake citizens shared their success stories and offered tips on independence. The new bosses: consultant Doug Coulson; Shiatsu therapist Leeann Irwin; animal communicator Janet Shepherd; counselor Norman Lowrey; novelist Carol Bennett; and, of course, Evans herself.
Writers, Performers, Artists
Native Daughter Parris Lane
The versatile singer told us about her roots:
I had two older sisters who sang, so basically I was around music. My next-door neighbor, Miss Annie Henry, was the minister of music at the Asbury United Methodist Church on West Street. When she would practice, I could hear the music coming through the walls.
John W. Taylor: Naturalist and Artist
Chesapeake Spring begins early - in January, according to the man who's written and illustrated the book on the subject. His Chesapeake Spring documents the season's progress with observations of over 200 animals, amphibians, reptiles, flowers and trees. Says Taylor:
One could hold with good cause that there are not four seasons at all in this part of the world, but only two, spring and fall. For one half of the year, the days become progressively longer; during the other half, the amount of daylight lessens. In Chesapeake latitudes, the first day of winter might well count as the first day of spring.
Visionary Art & Artists
We took you to the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore and introduced you to works that you might have thought pop up only in dreams. There was, for example, psychic Uri Geller's 1976 Cadillac adorned with 5,000 mentally bent forks and spoons. Then there's junk-sculptor Bob Kelbaugh, of Shady Side, who recycles throwaway metals and spare parts into masterpieces you can't forget.
Bay Country Theater
Writer Carol Glover chronicled the efforts of a dozen community theater troupes in the region. One of their directors, Bob Kauffman, chairman of Anne Arundel Community College's performing arts department, helped us understand what we see on the stage:
Theater is part of our cultural heritage. It shows us life as it is and as it should be. It shows us fantasy worlds and provides comic relief from everyday humdrum affairs. We can go to a serious show and say 'there but for the grace of God go I'.
Stage Aspirations
In a feature interview in June, casting agent Sharon Steele told us what it takes to become an actor - and what you don't need. Said she: There are plenty of actors with ego and attitude. I tell them to leave it at home.
Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts
The Annapolis institution is where talented people gather and in an NBT interview, executive director Linnell Bowen told us why:
There's magic at Maryland Hall, and I would love for others to experience that magic.
On the Water
Chesapeake Country is as much water as land. Europeans came here by boat, and from the beginning boats have given us a living and a way of life.
Not to mention adventure.
We began our year with a cold water cautionary tale of a pair of kayakers overtaken by fog on Chincoteague Bay. NBT co-founders Bill Lambrecht and Sandra Martin scraped by with only a scare. The same day, not seven miles away, a commercial fisherman died when his boat went down in 53-degree waters.
We celebrated Maryland's boating tradition this year with our Boat Ride series, boarding four of the Bay's distinctive vessels to tell you their stories under the banner "Boat Rides on the Bay."
With the coming of the U.S. Sail- and Powerboat Shows to Annapolis in October, we visited the city's only production boat builder, Performance Cruising of Eastport, to record how Gemini Catamarans rise from designer Tony Smith's molds.
Finally, in November, you heard in Captain Wade Murphy's own words how his boat and the Bay's oldest skipjack, the Rebecca T. Ruark, rose from the cold waters of the Choptank River after foundering on the second day of oyster season when ...
Seas turned rough, very rough. It was the biggest seas I've ever seen in my life on the Choptank River. She started diving her bow under. Sometimes there'd be water up on my forward deck up to my waist. My crew was scared to death
Chesapeake Country Life and Lore:
Chesapeake history is a book we can't stop reading.
A chapter that's getting more familiar each year is our region's African American history. For Black History Month this year, editor Sandra Martin took a look at the "Big and Baby Steps" taken by our cultural institutions in telling the story:
African American history has been the hidden treasure of Chesapeake Country. Slow to be mined, it's a treasure now being recovered in sparkling lodes and veins revealed for all the world to see
Love's the chapter that catches our attention every Valentine's Day. This year we considered sweet words - love letters, billets-doux and valentines, taking a special side trip to Surratt House in Clinton to see its extraordinary collection of valentines. This age-old, world-wide custom continues strong into the electronic age, we're happy to report:
Millennia later, the same old urges are urgent as ever. About the time the groundhog seeks his shadow, the birds start singing and the sap starts rising, Valentine's cards - and all the holiday's attendant parade - make their appearance.
The synchronicity of April Fool's and Maryland Day gave us a new take on another chapter of history. "State House Snatched!" we wrote on April 1, using the occasion - and Mark Burns' inimitable comic style - to revive the rivalry of Puritan and Cavalier and retell the story of how Annapolis replaced St. Mary's City as Maryland's capital.
~ Done in the Dark of Night;
~ Sen. Mike Miller, a Southern Marylander, Rejoices;
~ AA Co. Ex. Owens Sees Open Space Benefit;
~ "Finders, Keepers," says St. Mary's City.
Annapolis' family of statues experienced a baby boom this year, with the December arrival of the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial. On Dec. 9, the day of the unveiling, NBT introduced not only the four newcomers but also the whole family:
It isn't a very large family. Unlike the District of Columbia and many other state capitals, Annapolis has not turned to statues to commemorate its shared triumphs, salve our losses or uplift the spirits of the living. Alex Haley and company account for as many as have joined the family in the past 75 years
Inspired by Marion Warren, Chesapeake Country's signature photographer, writer Christopher Heagy caught us as we were on the brink of the millennium in "A Day in the Life ~ Annapolis."
What were we doing this November day?
Savoring the sunrise; cleaning up the city's mess; checking parking meters; breakfasting on the fly; rebuilding Eastport; saving a boat, finding a friend; cooking fried fish and chicken at Zion United Methodist Church; stopping traffic; remembering the dead; working with feet; looking back in history; emptying Hechinger's shelves; waiting for shoppers at Johnson's on the Avenue; catching a game at Alumni Hall; serving beer; talking on the radio; finishing a song; figuring out how to get it all down.
Bay Creatures
Oysters are a favorite Chesapeake Country creature, and NBT's hot on the trail of their recovery. Each year, we track a new recovery strategy. In 1999, in "At Century's End, Last Harvest, New Hopes" we reported Standish Allen's work at the Virginia Marine Institute crossbreeding disease-resistant oysters to get a mollusk that will survive both of the Bay's deadly oyster plagues, dermo and MSX.
The single-mindedness that once went into harvesting oysters goes now to their planting. The wild oyster still survives in Chesapeake Bay - with a lot of help.
In what's being called the Mikulski project, $450,000 is on its way from the Department of Commerce to test CROSBreed oysters in five plots in the Maryland Bay.
At Rest & Play
We don't take nearly enough time to play (do you?), so we try to make up for it by writing lots of stories about the many good ways to spend time off in Chesapeake Country.
New Wave Restaurant
A Tsunami is more than a monster sea wave. In Annapolis, it's a new wave restaurant with oodles of sushi and trendy treats. Writer Heagy took you into the minds of the young entrepreneurs who risked plenty to open their dream establishment.
Our mild climate is fine for flowers - unless your soil is clay. Just in time for spring, writer-gardener Patricia Acton told us how she learned to garden in Chesapeake Country on one-third of an acre full of poison ivy and scraggly bushes with no names.
Women's Sports
In "How Dreams Come True," Kristin Hagert took us on the field and into the locker room of a college lacrosse team. It is not always a pretty sight. I've had my share of black eyes, fat lips and bloody fingers, she wrote.
And we rode with Anna Chaney on her four-day, 330-mile bicycle journey from Raleigh, N.C., to Washington, D.C., which helped raise $4.8 million for AIDS research. I think I did it because I thought I couldn't, Chaney said to writer Mary Catherine Ball.
In one of our favorite '99 stories, Christopher Heagy spent time with ballplayers who keep at it for the love of the game, not just the money and the fame. I've tried to walk away, said Baysox pitcher Terry Rosenkranz, who, pushing 30, is still chasing his dream. Baseball is like an addiction.
We love to help you celebrate your holidays.
On Earth Day, which is our birthday, NBT co-founder and general manager J. Alex Knoll took you "Inside New Bay Times" to tell you how we were born and what we strive to do each week. He wrote that the paper is a family business and dream of three journalists with writing in their blood ...
On Father's Day, we presented a revealing portrait of the relationship between First Lady Frances Glendening and her father, former Maryland General Assembly member George Raymond Hughes who, unlike her husband, was a Republican.
On the Fourth of July, we gave you, as usual, the region's best calendar of fireworks - plus a bonus: a behind-the-scenes trip into a fireworks factory. As Burns wrote: For you and me, it's 20 minutes of high-impact thrills and colored stardust. But people like Dennis Coster work all year long or we Marylanders would have nary a sparkler.
September wouldn't take place without the annual New Bay Times-Bill Burton Fishing Frenzy and this year's tournament with 70 entrants was something special. This year's whopper won Andy Charney, of Fairfax, Va., a day of fishing, food and fun at Harrison's Chesapeake Inn on Tilghman Island. Stay tuned for next year's event and all the wacky coverage that surrounds it. Said Burton: We're having too damn much fun to stop it now.
As the weather cooled, we chronicled the Thanksgiving-season generosity of Chesapeake Country volunteers like the Friends of Calvert Cliffs State Park, whose giving natures have kept open the 1,460-acre Mecca for fossil-hunters, and Mohan Grover, of Shady Side, who is known for the collection jars for worthy causes on the counter of his Renno's Food Market.
Finally came Christmas. We celebrate the season with three traditional issues. First, Local Bounty, our annual and very portable supplement, details all the things to do in Chesapeake Country - and a bit beyond - in this month of holiday celebrations.
Next came our 11th-Hour Guide to Shopping Solutions, in which the NBT family share their strategies for successful shopping for everyone from father-in-law to family dog.
What's Christmas without a story? To the delight of all, we ended the season with holiday legends shared by a dozen writers and readers, for, in the wise words of young writer Hagert -
Our shared stories fit together like puzzle pieces revealing who we are ...
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Volume VII Number 52
December 30, 1999 - January 5, 2000
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Harley-Davidson's first sidevalve engine was also its first horizontal flat-twin engine.
A look back at the 1971 Harley-Davidson Super Glide and the history of the term "Superbike."
Bike builder extraordinaire Greg Hageman turns a Sportster into a tribute to the Harley XLR.
A nearly unused Harley-Davidson MX250 will be among the bikes offered at the Mecum 2017 Las Vegas auction.
The roots of the Harley-Davidson S-125 go all the way back to World War II.
Old race bikes never die, they just get recycled, as this custom Harley-Davidson XRTT-750 shows us.
This 1920 Harley-Davidson was one of hundreds of classic motorcycles at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Birmingham, Alabama.
Alan Cathcart rides the 1975 Harley-Davidson RR500, an Aermacchi-based 2-stroke racer.
The Harley-Davidson SX250 was created to counter the Yamaha DT-1 during the offroad bike craze in the 1960s.
The Hollingsworth Race Team fired up its 1959 Harley-Davidson XLCH Sportster drag bike. Watch it roar!
The Harley-Davidson EL with its overhead valve engine took awhile to perfect but the wait was worth it.
Bill Sherman reunites with his old Harley-Davidson XLRTT after more than 30 years.
If you had a need for speed, the Harley-Davidson JDH, arguably the first Superbike, was the machine for you.
This 1932 Harley-Davidson RL Sport Solo was one of hundreds of classic motorcycles at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Birmingham, Alabama.
The 1964 Harley-Davidson XLR-TT on display at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Birmingham, Alabama.
In 1961, there was nothing on the market quite like the big 648-pound Harley-Davidson FLH.
Harley-Davidson reveals Project LiveWire, the first electric Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
The 1958 Harley-Davidson XLCH Sportster was born of competition stock.
What's in a name: Trying to understand the Harley-Davidson model code lettering system.
After languishing for some 17 years, a 1974 Harley-Davidson roars back to life following a sympathetic refurbishment by owner Ken Peters, who sold the bike 19 years ago and just got it back!
Mike Toth's restoration of a Harley-Davidson FL took a long time, but it's good as new now.
The pope's 2013 Harley-Davidson Dyna Super Glide and matching leather jacket sell for €299,000 ($407,000) at the Bonhams Paris sale.
A 1980 Harley-Davidson XR-750 on display with a wide array of other classic motorcycles at the Barber Motorsports Museum in Leeds, Alabama.
Our friends at Klim Technical Riding Gear shared this video of Aaron Moore and his restored 1946 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead with us. Aaron dropped by the Klim offices while on a trip from Dallas, Texas to the through Inuvic, Canada, and back. We think you'll enjoy watching it. — Ed.
Steve McQueen's 1931 Harley Davidson VL 74 (1200 ccm) will be sold to the highest bidder at the inaugural Mecum Celebrity Items Auction: Celebrating the Legendary History of Hollywood, July 26-27, 2013, at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, Calif.
Tomorrow's classics:
1971-1974 Harley-Davidson Sprint SX350.
A 1955 Harley-Davidson FL Panhead on display with other classic motorcycles at the national Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa.
A 1961 Harley-Davidson KR 750 on display with other classic motorcycles at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Leeds, Alabama.
A 1928 Harley-Davidson JDL Sport Solo on display with other classic motorcycles at the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa.
A 1957 Harley-Davidson St 165 on display with other classic motorcycles at the Barber Vintage Motorcycle Museum in Leeds, Alabama.
Ed Mitchell shares his experience with his first motorcycle, a 1945 Harley-Davidson WL 45 nicked named Suicide Sadie.
Painter Mike Vils brought his 1929 Harley-Davidson J along on the Motorcycle Cannonball.
A 1949 Harley-Davidson Dragon Bike replica, like the one ridden by Peter Fonda in "The Wild Angels", on display with other classic motorcycles at the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa.
Used to deliver booze during the Prohibition era, this Harley-Davidson V Series with sidecar rig is a well-worn survivor.
A 1963 Aermacchi motorcycle, a lightweight motorcycle produced by Aermacchi and Harley-Davidson, on display with other classic motorcycles at the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa.
Legend has it that the Harley-Davidson XLCR was Willie G. Davidson's baby, a bike he designed for himself.
Greg Hays shares the details on the restoration of his 1978 Harley-Davidson XLCR "Café Racer."
A profile of the 1934 Harley-Davidson VL on display at the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa.
The 1909 Harley-Davidson police motorcycle on display at the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa, is considered to be the earliest known police Harley in existence.
In spite of their shortcomings, Aermacchi Harley-Davidson 350 Sprint singles are actually quite well made.
Launched in 1957, the roots of the Harley-Davidson Sportster go back to the days immediately after World War II.
Tony Long readily admits to a love-hate relationship with his Harley Café Racer.
Bevo Bowen shares some vintage photos from the 1940s of the U.S. Army Harleys his father used to ride.
If this antique motorcycle isn't a 1911 Harley-Davidson Model 7D, what is it?
The Harley-Davidson XR1000 had an XLX Sportster body with the soul of an XR750.
A closer look at the Then Came Bronson Sporster and Don Collins' custom replica built from a 1974 Harley-Davidson Sportster.
There's something about really early Harley-Davidson Sportsters that we've always loved, and this one of the earliest. 1957 was the first year for the Sportster, and with less than 2,000 made that first year, this has got to be a fairly rare specimen more than 50 years later.
Two AHRMA racers talk about their passion for hand-shift motorcycles.
Though we normally prefer more photos and a more complete description in our "Found on eBay" picks, this Sporster caught our eye for a couple of reasons. One is it's exacly the bike featured in our "Model Highlight" box to the left, and then there's the fact that you just don't run into many clean XLCH 1000's that haven't been chopped, wrecked or customized heavily.
Freestyle motocrosser Seth Enslow broke the existing record of 157 feet for a successful long distance jump aboard a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, sailing 175 feet through the air on a specially prepared 2010 XR1200. And he did it twice!
With an unbroken production run of 53 years, the overhead valve Harley-Davidson X-series Sportster has outlived all of its early rivals, and is still able to raise its middle finger to the vagaries of the motorcycle marketplace.
Chalk it up to the fact that our next "Under the Radar" focuses on the 1972-1985 Harley-Davidson Sportster, but this week we found ourselves trolling through eBay's Harley listings to see what kind of old American Iron we could find.
Though we're big fans of buying bikes we can afford, ride and enjoy, we occasionally come across a piece of unobtanium that's just too cool not to be shared. This 1968 Harley-Davidson KR-TT is a perfect example.
Reeling from even worse than expected third-quarter results showing an 84.1 percent decline in net income over the same period last year, Harley-Davidson has announced it will shut down its Buell division and sell off MV Agusta, the Italian manufacturer H-D bought just last year. A visibly stunned and emotional Eric Buell, founder of the brand that carries his name, has posted a video announcing the planned December closure. To view Buell's video press release and read the rest of the story click on the title above.
The Harley-Davidson XLCR was Willie G. Davidson's one and only brush with the cafe racer set, and it created a classic for all time
Wrecked and retired, a 1977 Harley-Davidson FLHS thunders back to life
Forget everything you thought you knew about Harley-Davidson motorcycles, because the XR1200 is like nothing H-D's ever made, including Harley's 1970-1980 XR750 flat tracker that inspired it. Although everything about the XR1200 screams yesterday, it's a thoroughly modern machine.
Back to the beach on the 1955 Daytona-winning Harley Davidson KRTT
The Knuckleheads are coming! And so are the Fat Boys, Panheads and Silent Gray Fellows. Over a century of Harley-Davidson's finest motorcycles will be on display for Harley-Davidson: Building a Legend. From its humble beginnings in Arthur Davidson's backyard shed to its preeminent status as an American icon, visitors will learn about Harley Davidson's fascinating history, while also getting a chance to learn about Studebaker's role in the American automotive industry.
Add one more bike to the growing list of new retro-themed bikes — this time from right here in the good old U.S. of A. Harley-Davidson has released the new XR1200, a Sportster-based hot rod whose styling draws heavily from Harley history, mimicking H-D's iconic and race winning XR750 of 1970-1980.
American muscle and British style come together for a modern take on a classic theme
Unusual and beautiful in its own way, this 1957 Harley-Davidson FL is a neat old Panhead that's ready for a new owner.
A classic motorcycle scene from the early 1960s.
Though we've featured a few Harley-Davidsons (including a nice race-ready XR750 and a 1978 Harley XLCR ), the Servi-Car is a Harley that even some of the most die-hard V-twin fans aren't familiar with.
There are conflicting stories on how Bob Steig's 1934 Harley-Davidson VLD came to be named Annie.
One part Harley, one part Norton, lightly shaken: Nick Roskelley's Harleyton combines a Norton featherbed frame and Harley flathead engine.
Though it may not be the world's most practical motorcycle, you've got to admit that a highly-modified XR750 just sounds like it would be a ball of fun.
Late 1970s "Southern Rock" music inspires Harley-Davidson.
Stymieing U.S. buyers, earlier this year Harley-Davidson introduced the flat-tracker inspired XR1200, whose styling draws heavily from Harley history, mimicking H-D's iconic and race winning XR750 of 1970-1980. The hitch? It was a Euro-only offering.
We're not sure why, but this week's eBay wandering led us to several Harley-Davidson Sprints, the nicest of which is this 1967 250cc Sprint.
This week's eBay searching led us to an unusual discovery, and one that we just had to share with our readers. Between 1977 and 1979, Harley-Davidson produced just 1,923 XLCR's, and it's not too often you see them up for sale.
When was the last time you saw a Harley-Davidson VR1000 for sale? We couldn't remember either, and that's why we thought our readers might find this interesting.
The last few months of 2007 were rough for motorcycle legends. After losing Bud Ekins, 77, in October, Evel Knievel, a stuntman of a different kind, passed away Nov. 30, 2007.
When Carl Fronk returned from his tour of duty in Vietnam in June 1968, the first thing on his mind wasn't finding a job — it was finding a new Harley Davidson Sportster.
Ross Puleo is a man with a mission. A lover and restorer of Aermacchis, the little Italian imports that Harley-Davidson sold in the Sixties and Seventies, he wants to spread the word about the Italian-American classic known as the Harley-Davidson Sprint H.
Restoring a 1959 Harley-Davdson XLH Sportster proves to be the perfect cure for one man's blues.


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Researchers prove great white sharks love listening to heavy metal music
RESEARCHERS claim to have discovered that the ocean's most feared predator has a soft spot for a certain type of music – and the results are surprising.
Great white sharks have a reputation as fearsome man-eaters, responsible for countless deaths over the last decade.
While the accompanying statistics indicate that the animal's terrifying notoriety might be somewhat unfair, scientists have been working to discover more about the mysterious beast.
Their most recent breakthrough shows that great white sharks have an ear for music – although their choice of track might not be to everyone's taste.
By blasting heavy metal music underwater, scientists claim to be able to summon great whites to the area.
Incredibly, the clip appears to prove their theory correct, with two huge sharks showing up to investigate the source of the noise.
Researchers say certain types of heavy metal music resonate underwater at the same frequency as flailing prey, effectively acting as a "dinner bell" to the ancient predators.
More than 335,000 people have seen the clip since it was posted on YouTube during last year's Shark Week – a week-long programme of documentaries and films dedicated to the animals on the Discovery Channel.
"This is f****** cool," said one viewer.
Another added: "Sharks have better ears for music than the rest of society. That is kinda sad."
Earlier this week, 17-year-old surfer Cooper Allen was attacked by the jaws of a four-metre long Great White off the coast of Ballina, New South Wales, Australia.
Allen survived, but remains in a serious condition in hospital.


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This blog is part a series of entries from inside the production mind of Audio Production & Engineering Associate Program Chair Kevin Bowe. Kevin will detail the audio production sessions that he and his Production Portfolio class run during the course of the term. This term, Kevin and his class are working with artists like Hot Date, Alexander Young, Jonah Marais, Batteryboy, Hot Date, Maudlin, Jake Ilika, and Communist Daughter.
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On Wednesday, Oct. 28, our AP292 class had one of the most popular indie/folk/rock bands in the midwest as our guests. I've worked with Communist Daughter for years and on this occasion they wanted to record a version of the Pogues Christmas classic "Fairy Tale In New York".
Bandleader Johnny Solomon wanted a live and loose feel for this one and Mastermix is the perfect studio to achieve that – just because of the physical layout. Basement recording is great (I'm sitting in my basement studio right now) but setting up a full five-piece band can be tough.
Using Mastermix's large physical plant, we put Steve Yasgar and his drums right in the middle of the main room, with Al Weiers on guitar right next to him. Al's amp was in Iso #2, while Adam Switlickon bass recorded DI. We put Johnny and Molly Solomon in Iso #1, both singing into SM7's. That mic provides so much rejection it's like high school all over again… (what?). Johnny was also playing a beautiful Guild acoustic guitar with a Neumann KM84 on it (we also got a DI signal off his pickup just for safety). Dylan Marchus played vintage synths right in the control room, we DI'd him with those 2 funky API DI's – they have a lot more mojo than regular ones.
Dylan is an IPR grad and actually met this band years ago when he was a student in my AP292 class! He fell in love with their music the first time they ever came into record. He approached Johnny, asking to help them in any way he could: being a roadie, running sound, whatever. After a short while, he worked his way up to being a full band member on keys and guitar; he's now toured the country with them several times!
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UF's law community is experiencing anger and embarrassment due to the rejection of two dean candidates who provided us with an great chance to move forward.
I am a tenured full professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. I came to this institution in 1993, as both the college and the university were struggling to free themselves from the legacy of southern segregation.
Between then and now, the College of Law has experienced many tumultuous moments, particularly over diversity issues. These chaotic upheavals have rarely produced anything of value for our college. The same can be said of the current fiasco created by UF President Bernie Machen's act of failing our dean search.
An article in The Sun last week did not adequately reflect the depth of the anger and embarrassment our community is experiencing as a result of the rejection of two candidates we believed provided our college with an excellent opportunity to move forward. Machen could not give any concrete explanation for why the candidates forwarded to him, particularly University of Kentucky College of Law Dean David Brennen and former ambassador to New Zealand David Huebner, could not satisfy his criteria.
In an email sent to our faculty, he stated that he made his decision after consulting "stakeholders." These "stakeholders" could not have been anyone from our community who would have worked with the new dean. We suspect that these "stakeholders" were the individuals who tried to force Alex Acosta, dean of the Florida International University College of Law, upon our faculty.
Our faculty rejected him as unsuitable. Machen was quoted as saying he wanted a "visionary" to lead the law school. Where was his concern for visionary leadership when he reappointed our current dean six years ago, despite the fact it was clear he had absolutely no coherent vision for our college? Machen stated he met with us so that we could have a fresh start to "deal with our problems." But the problems our college is facing have been caused in part by leadership's lack of vision and then aggravated by central administration's incessant interference with our process of faculty governance.
As The Sun has noted in its coverage of the search, there were grave concerns from its inception over what was perceived as central administration's repeated attempts to exclude the law faculty from having any real impact on the process. Florida's public records law was not and is not an impediment to a good search, as is being asserted. However, spending $90,000 on a search firm that was ignorant of the requirements of Florida law was a problem.
Despite all the odds, the searched produced three acceptable and qualified candidates, two of whom were highly qualified. Our students, our staff and our faculty, which has become increasingly fractious due to the lack of leadership from our current dean, managed to come to a strong consensus that at least two of the candidates had the potential to help take our college to the next level.
About one week before the university search committee met for the final time to select the three names that would be forwarded to Machen, rumors began to circulate that he would fail the search if Acosta did not make the final list. Surely, I thought, Machen would not be so foolish as to miss the historical significance of this moment for the university and our college. Surely, Machen would understand that it would be a bold and courageous move to propel Florida into the future by appointing either a black man or an openly gay man as the new dean of our college. I was wrong.
How ironic can it be that at an institution that constantly claims it cannot find enough "qualified" minority candidates to hire, our university president decides that a black man — who is a nationally recognized scholar, guided another law school upward in the rankings, served at our national accrediting institution for two years and presented very good ideas to us about how our college could re-envision itself for these new times — could not be transformative.
Our other candidate was a managing partner at two internationally known law firms. He too offered some exciting ideas about how we could propel ourselves to the next level. His connections with lawyers and law firms at the national and international level were incredible. And yet, Machen found him lacking as well.
Machen's decision delivers a terrible blow to our college. He has damaged our institution in the eyes of our peers throughout the country, and has now burdened any search we will conduct next year. What candidate of high quality would consider applying to be dean at UF after these shenanigans? Machen disrespected our faculty, students and staff, not only by crushing our hopes, but also by reminding us that he neither values nor understands the assets here at the College of Law.
For far too long the college has rested on laurels it achieved decades ago. We routinely squander opportunities that open the door to greatness, but this time, our college stepped up to the plate. We dared to hope and speak out loud that we could become great. But Machen was not ready. UF is not ready.
Perhaps the saddest truth is that we are now forced to admit publicly what we have only whispered among ourselves privately: this university and our college, pulled in the wake, are not capable of being more than what they were 20 years ago.
Michelle Jacobs is a UF law professor.