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by Shimon Kanc
Translated by Tina Lunson
In pre-Christian times the area of Tarnogrod was covered with thick forests, surrounded with valleys, rivers and swamps. In later times wanderers from Mazowsze (Mazovia), Kujawa and Pomorze (Pomerania) settled in those same areas. The Slavs drew upon the abundance of animal life and the fruitful earth. Over time, Jews from Silesia and Poland also settled there.
Jews in Tarnogrod are mentioned for the first time in a document from the year 1455. The reports from that era are vague. We learn from the Lublin and Krakow pinkus [Jewish community record of important events] books that there were periods when Tarnogrod Jews went off to Lublin. In the year 1555 the borders of the Jewish quarter of Lublin were enlarged significantly. King Zygmunt August confirmed the gift-decree of the Krakow voivode [local ruler or govenor] and Lublin starosta [royal official], Stanisław Tęczyński, for about three places that were given to the Lublin Jewish community. Two years later the same starosta gave as a gift to the well-known Lublin doctor, Yitzhak Maj, a place with a lake and the right to construct a building there. The gift decree was approved by the king in 1566 and on that place was built the MaHaRaSHaL [Solomon Luria (1510 1574)] Synagogue, the yeshiva and other structures. Among those who prayed in that shul was a Tarnogrod Jew by the name of Azriel.
Thanks to the rights that Jews had received in those years, the Jewish quarter in Lublin was enlarged at a rapid pace. Individual families arrived from settlements near and far, and among them were Jews from Tarnogrod.
Lublin occupied an important place in Polish trade even in the 15th century, when the city was a central point in the intersection of the trade routes that led from the west to the north and southeast. In hindsight, its importance was no less than that of Lvov and it is no wonder that the famous fairs in the era of their blossoming (in the 16th century until the middle of the 17th century) were a meeting place for the Jewish merchants of all the towns and trade centers in the Poland of that time, among whom could be found Tarnogrod Jews who bought imported goods at the Lublin fairs and brought to them woven fabric of their own production and also furs.
In the second half of the 15th century, the Poles in the city began a war against Jewish trade. Krakow which had in 1485, through extortion, already forced the head of the Jewish community to sign an agreement that restricted Jewish trade to a selected list of families and certain Jewish workshops in tailoring and hat-making gave the signal. The Krakow merchant's slogan was soon picked up by their Polish comrades in Posen, Kuzmir, Plotsk, Lublin, and by 1521 there was effectively a tight bond among the larger Polish cities in a war against Jewish trade. On the 30th of December 1521 the King issued a decree in the parliament in Pietrokov (Piotrków Trybunalski) that forbade Jewish shopkeepers from buying the grain that the peasants brought into town. That prohibition also brought a series of limitations for the Tarnogrod Jews, limitations whose goal was to liquidate Jewish retail trade. The unraveling economic situation of the community stopped the further influx of Jews.
In the stormy period from 1648 to 1660, Tarnogrod was turned over from one government to another. Merchants and craftsmen were impoverished, the trade routes were erased. In 1672 the misfortune of the Tatar invasion was visited upon Tarnogrod and the town was completely destroyed.
Over a short period of time it was built up anew, and then, it seems, the war against the Jews was quieted. Besides trade, the Tarnogrod Jews occupied themselves with artisanry. Old historical sources mention Jewish tailors, a baker, a butcher, a shoemaker, a leather strap maker, a barber-surgeon, and a blacksmith. In those times, artisanry was tied to trade and the Jewish artisans were thus also occupied in selling the products of their labor. The population then did not hate the Jews and in a certain sense the atmosphere was comfortable for the Jews. The Jews also lived in the nearby villages. The main livelihood of the village Jews was inn keeping, estate managing and brokering for those who owned farmlands. There were also shop-keepers, from whom the village population bought the products that they could not make themselves, such as salt, fuel oil, an axe, a plow blade and so on. No doubt that the Jewish livelihoods in the towns were not much different from the livelihoods in the villages.
We have no systematic material regarding the Jewish population and occupations in Tarnogrod and their economic role in relation to the Christians. But there are clear indications that the Tarnogrod Jews dealt with Krakow and Lublin, and in several villages some Jewish families were engaged in agriculture.
The geographic situation gave the town some economic advantages that strengthened the competitive capability with Bilgoraj, which in those days was independent from Tarnogrod. But the development of the town did not go on for long because of the heavy taxation.
From the documents of the Vaad Arba Aratzot [Council of the Four Lands], the central governing institution of Polish Jewry, from the end of first century one can draw the conclusion that the Tarnogrod Jews helped in the fight that the leaders of Polish Jewry conducted against their persecutors.
These documents also deal with the running payments to the Vaad Arba Aratzot that concentrated in their hands the payments from all the Jewish communities. Their significance does not consist of their showing the exact calculation of the sum, because not even the yearly norm that the Tarnogrod community had to pay to the Vaad can be determined from the documents something that would help to determine the relative size of the community. Their importance consists in that they present a clear indication that Tarnogrod paid the taxes directly to the Vaad Arba Aratzot and not through the intermediary of a larger community. From that one can make the inference that Tarnogord was an erstwhile town at the time, with its own competence that could even take smaller Jewish communities, like Bilgoraj and others, under its protection.
Disregarding the fact that we do not have any details about the process that Tarnogrod went through until it arrived at that position, one could learn much from it about the development of the Jewish communities in Poland a development that in that time was almost unique in the land.
Among the documents from the Vaad Arba Aratzot there is a document from the year 1665 in which Avraham ben Yitzhak from Tarnogrod is among the participants in the meeting and of those who signed the obligatory note: We acknowledge in this obligatory deed that we have received from our advocate Kazimierz Kawalkowski, Secretary to His Royal Majesty and Signer for the King's Treasury, who has aided us in our most difficult situation, in our need and under pressure from the military, which has in its hands promissory notes to the King's Treasury from us and from the entire Jewish congregation in the Polish kingdom, and who have accepted on account our debt of not only our possessions but also our bodies and our soul. The representative Mr. Kawalkowski, the Secretary to His Royal Majesty, has rescued us, our soul and our possessions, from our most difficult need, having paid for us Jews, who live in the Polish kingdom, from the King's Treasury the sum of 26,000 gilden. Having received such great help we obligate ourselves in our names, in the names of all the leaders and in the names of the entire Jewish society in the Polish Kingdom that we will pay the above-mentioned sum of 26,000 gilden to the representative Mr. Kawalkowski or to him who brings this obligatory deed installments, namely the 12th of May 1667 (18 Iyer 5427) 3,250 gilden. The 12th of May 1668 (2 Sivan 5428) 3,350 gilden, the 12th of May 1669 (11 Oder 5429) 3250 gilden, the 12th of May 1670 (22 5430) 1,250 gilden . If we are not able to meet our commitment to the end and in the stated place the representative Mr. Kawalkowski or he who brings this deed is permitted to rob us, arrest us, capture us and put us in jail, both in public and in private, us and all Jews who are located in the Polish Kingdom. This applies to fairs, markets, on the roads and in our houses. In addition (it would be permissible) to confiscate all of our merchandise in any place, close our shuls [synagogues], take the houses and install Christians or whoever else in them and hold them (the houses) until the debt is paid . This is agreed upon in Yaroslav, the 3rd of January 1666.
Following are the signatures of those who signed, written in the language of Yisrael.
This is the language of the document, and it is worth turning our attention to the announcement from the 16th of November 1663 (16 Cheshvan 5424), in which the Polish king Jan Kazimierz warns the Jews, men and women, that they must pay the head tax that has been assessed on them by the last parliaments. If not, he was permitted to confiscate all their merchandise that is found in the customs houses, on the roads, in the towns and villages and also to arrest Jews themselves, rich and poor, and hold them in jail until the tax is paid (according to the archive in Lvov).
From this document can be drawn a picture of social life against the background of the circumstances of that time, and from that we can see that the Tarnogrod Jews were interested in the protection of their rights exactly as were the residents of the big towns. Those rights ensured the Jews the proper conditions for their existence.
One of the key factors that made possible the enclosure of the Jewish settlement in Tarnogrod in that era was their comfortable position regarding their rights, as expressed also in the comfortable living conditions, more so than in many of the Polish towns. The main document that teachers us about the rights position is the decision from the Vaad Arba Aratzot which requires that the institutional leaders of the Krakow province come to judgment before the Tarnogrod Vaad, which would deal with the unjust conduct of the Krakow leaders, who had to take upon themselves the sentence that the Vaad decreed.
The decision was given in the year 5427 at the Gromnitzer fair, a Christian holiday during which the fair in Lublin also occurred and when the Vaad Arba Aratzot also convened. The fair began on the 2nd of February and lasted for seven days. Jews also called it the Oder fair.
In 1685 during the reign of King Jan Sobieski, the Vaad met in Yaroslav and among the decisions made was the agreement of the rabbonim [rabbi, plural] to publish the book Nakhlat Azriel [Azriel's Legacy] by Rav [Rabbi] Azriel Halevi, who was the head of the beit-din [Rabbinical court] in Tarnogrod. It says:
We are presented with remarkable things from the great and preeminent Rav, our teacher and rabbi, Azriel Halevi, may his holy memory be for a blessing, who was head of the beit-din and leader of the holy congregation of Tarnogrod, may his rock and redeemer protect him, and who wrote new commentaries on the Torah, the Poskim [Rabbinic authorities and literature on questions of Jewish law], Gemara [300 years of rabbis' legal and ethical commentaries on the Mishnah], Perush Rashi [Rashi Commentaries], Tosafot [Supplements and additions 12th to 14th century commentaries on Talmud] which were sweeter than honey; knowing and understanding him as a great Talmud scholar, large in Torah and in good works, spreading Torah among the Jews of several communities; and as soon as the news reached our ears that it was the will of the community leaders to bring his marvels to print to the merit of the community, to the use of his soul and for his good remembrance, and so as the Sages have said: 'What are the achievements of a person Torah and good deeds', those are the generations of that Talmud scholar, for he left no children behind him, and therefore even though there is a statute against the printing of any new treatises we have abolished the statute for the above-mentioned book for the honor of the Rav and for the spiritual pleasure of his pure soul.
Among the rabbonim who gathered at the conference of the Vaad Arba Aratzot and gave his approval for the book was the name of Rav Natan-Nata bar Yakov, the current rav of Tarnogrod, who signed Natan-Nata of Lublin, leader of the holy congregation of Tarnogrod. We assume from this that the Tarnogrod rav took part in the gathering of the Vaad Arba Aratzot.
The document from the year 1717 (2nd of Heshven [October-November] 5478), leaves no doubt that Tarnogrod was already outstanding, that its representatives came from an independent province in the Vaad. The document from the Vaad Arba Aratzot deals with (p. 275) the conflict between the Jewish community in Pshemishl and the local rav, who was afraid of being taken by his debtors and the Vaad ruled: there shall no kind of harm and no kind of persecution befall him from any debtor or from any person in the world and the Jewish institutional leaders shall also swear a firm oath here in the presence of the Vaad Arba Aratzot, that they will implement this and all the previous writings and the court ruling having to do with these debtors
Among the participants in that meeting and those who signed the court ruling was Shlomo, son of Rabbi Shimshon from Tarnogrod and Aizik from the holy congregation of Tarnogrod, whose names are also among the participants in other meetings of the Vaad Arba Aratzot.
It can also be seen that those rabbonim who were great minds of Torah study attended the meetings on the merit of their importance, but this also gives witness to the importance and esteem of the town that was able to invite such Torah greats as these rabbonim.
An even clearer indication, although from a later time, is in a Polish source, in the lists dealing with the Vaad Arba Aratzot and its composition, from which it is clear that the Tarnogrod rabbonim in certain time periods belonged to the Vaad.
Tarnogrod is also proud of one of the pillars of Hasidism, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, The Berditchever Rov, who on his mother Sosha-Dvora's side, was from the R. Samuel Eliezer ben Judah Levi Edels' family and of the Gaon [honorific title for eminent scholar] Rav Moshe Margoliot, head of the beit din in Tarnogrod
Although the town was never a big Hasidic center, the spiritual situation there was like that of a large city that had a big Hasidic center, with the same enthusiasm for doing mitzvot, for dance and for nigunim [wordless melody; tune. Often used when referring to prayer melody], that occupied an important place in Hasidism. Tarnogrod Jews stayed true to the core principles of Hasidism in the various eras until the horrible destruction of Polish Jewry.
So the Tarnogrod Jews understood the honor and importance of having Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heschel, The Apter Rov, whose name was associated with the Tarnogrod rav, Rav Shimshon, in whom the greatest rabbonim of the time took pride, a son-in-law of Rav Feivish, son of the great Gaon Rav Moshe, head of the beit din and head of the yeshiva of the community of Tarnogrod.
During the 200 years of its existence the influence of the Vaad Arba Aratzot was huge in the whole Diaspora and so the honorable relations that the Vaad had to the Tarnogrod rabbonim, placed the town among the most esteemed communities in Poland.
The unusual times that were to befall Poland in the coming eras left their deep mark on the position of the Tarnogrod community as well and in particular on its future development. The disrupted political situation whose alarm was the partition of Poland and the loss of its political independence, the wars and rebellions that came as a result of the national awakening, all caused the instability and undermining of the previous blossoming, and laid a new yoke on the Jewish community and disallowed its further development. And its position as a trade center for the area was destroyed. In time the surrounding towns developed and began to compete with Tarnogrod and after a while, it seems, pushed Tarnogrod into a corner and Bilgoraj began to take its place.
These changes are the reason that Tarnogrod remained stalled in place, both the town in general and the Jewish community. Yet it must be emphasized that this was not a uniform process, and that the activity of the Tarnogrod Jews showed that the community had not settled for its situation and continued to struggle with new aspirations.
We have assembled a small part of the history of Tarnogrod. There remain many chapters of other eras, for which not so much material has been preserved. But even the modest material gives witness to the important role that Tarnogrod played among the Jewish communities in Poland; but new times came, new events, new circumstances, that did not allow the Jewish community in Tarnogrod to plant its glorious traditions.
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Gary Ablett's hopes of a third Brownlow Medal could be in jeopardy after he appeared to elbow Western Bulldog Liam Picken during Gold Coast's 45-point AFL win on Sunday.
The Suns' skipper, who was clearly frustrated by the close attention he received from Picken during the first half, seemed to swing his right arm at the Bulldog when the pair lay on the ground in backplay during the second quarter.
The incident wasn't picked up by any of the on-field officials during the Suns' 18.11 (119) to 10.14 (74) win but is sure to attract the attention of the match review panel.
Any ban would deny Ablett the chance of adding to his 2009 and 2013 Brownlows.
Ablett was restricted to just eight disposals in the first half of Sunday's clash, at one point kicking out on the full as he battled to make his usual impact.
The 30-year-old was on the receiving end of a heavy bump with Bulldogs star Adam Cooney in the second term, for which Cooney was placed on report for high contact.
Despite his first half woes, Ablett played a key role with four clearances in the third term as the Suns booted eight goals to turn a six-point halftime advantage into a 53-point three-quarter time lead.
Ablett left the scoring to the rising stable of Suns stars with Charlie Dixon and Tom Lynch kicking four goals each while Brandon Matera had three majors.
Despite the lack of scoreboard presence, Ablett (24) finished with the third-most touches for the Suns, behind Dion Prestia (35) and ex-Bulldog Jarrod Harbrow (26).
Suns coach Guy McKenna believed his skipper had handled the physical attention from the Bulldogs well.
"That's testament to him to keep his discipline in those situations," McKenna said.
"He gets frustrated. He's got an expectation of how he wants to play and how he wants to lead the side and when he's denied that, unfairly, all we talk about is he just has to remain cool.
"He's our captain. He sets a fine example on and off the field and to his credit today, I didn't see anything but if there was anything undue you wouldn't have picked that up from Gary."
The victory lifts the Suns up to third on the ladder with seven wins and two losses, but McKenna wasn't getting carried away with a tough stretch ahead in the next six weeks.
"I'm probably scarred by Fremantle and Hawthorn (the Suns' two losses) to be honest," McKenna said.
Bulldogs coach Brendan McCartney said his team had battled well but were made to pay for a lack of belief in the third term.
The Suns kicked seven unanswered goals after the halftime break to take the game away from the visitors.
"They just lost a smidgen of belief for five minutes," he said.
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McCartney also felt confident Adam Cooney's report wouldn't eventuate into anything more serious with Sydney's Daniel Hannebery cleared for a similar incident with Essendon's Michael Hurley last week.
Cooney was reported for high contact after sliding into Ablett as the Sun was crouched over the ball, appearing to make contact with his head as well as catching Ablett's legs.
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Since the lead engine developer 27 has stopped working on the fstech1 engine and my pleads to do something about the lighting were utterly ignored by the FS team I've lost my hope this game will graphically move forward.
Now the the FS team has a new engine developer, Fenix. I have no doubts he knows what he's doing, but I"m not sure fresh blood always means fresh ideas and updates.
So far we've had periodical updates on UrT HD progress, but last 6 months or so we haven't heard anything about it.
The current engine right now is utilizing the GPU a lot, which allows us to use models that have a lot of polygons. My test showed i can push in 850 000, yes 850 000 polygons, without having a single drop in framerate. Anything above that, doesn't compiles, so i think 900 000 is the top limit.
Which is something no mapper can reach.
But what's the point in having a high poly model when you can't lightmap it. Lightmaps are too low res even on highest lightmapscale to produce acceptable results.
And if vertex lighting is the way to go, it is not. Even vertex lighting has limits and will break on smaller or high detail models, or look bad on any flat surface.
I know it's limits cause i reached them with my 400 polygons torch model, which i had to turn into a super low poly 100 polygon model in order to get the vertex lghting to work. Yes, it breaks that fast.
So what's the point in making an engine that now supports 3D models when you cannot use them the way you want to and should.
Mapping community is dying, and it's dying cause the engine is outdated massively. Best example is CS:GO.
Nothing too special about that engine, post processing sucks big time, maps are made out of brushes in hammer, and yet those maps look brilliant.
The lighting is changing the way the map look so much, it's amazing how much can be done with it.
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After a young woman was attacked outside the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house on Tuesday night, November 19, it wasn't long before the entire university community was made aware of the issue through the campus alert system.
Vice President for Integrated Communications at the University of Montana Peggy Kuhr said the alerts are delivered primarily by email, but may also be in the form of a text message.
"The way the alert system works is that we deliver them via email, but as you know, not everyone regularly checks email these days," Kuhr said. "Now we have a text messaging system that students and campus personnel can sign up for, so if you have a cellphone and want to receive emergency or warning texts from the university, you can opt in to be able to receive those messages."
Kuhr said she, or another university official, will compose the text alerts.
"I or someone else on campus will write a short text and we always refer people to their email account for additional information," Kuhr said. "So, ideally, people would sign up to receive a text alert, and they would also automatically get an email alert."
Kuhr said the campus alert system has already been used three times in this fall semester.
"We had one early in this semester in which there were two reports that an individual was meeting female students in the university center and then going to their rooms and touching them inappropriately," Kuhr said. "The second one was in early November where we had a man touching a student in a stairwell in one of the campus buildings. The third alert, of course, was last night with the attack outside the sorority house."
Kuhr said the university also has a legal obligation to inform students when there is danger on campus through the Clery Act.
"Through federal law, we have the Clery notification procedure, where any campus needs to notify students of any instance where there may be an ongoing threat regarding safety," Kuhr said.
The law was named for Jeanne Clery, a 19 year-old freshman at Lehigh University who was raped and murdered in her campus residence hall in 1986.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors who are the most worried about malpractice suits are more likely than less fearful colleagues to order extra diagnostic tests and refer patients to emergency rooms, even if the real threat of a lawsuit is low, according to a new U.S. study.
The practice of so-called defensive medicine "is one of those things that everyone knows goes on, but doesn't know how to control," said Michelle Mello, senior author of the new analysis and a professor of law and public health at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.
The problem is a driver of excessive healthcare costs, but tackling it effectively requires a better understanding of what drives defensive medicine, Mello and her colleagues write in the journal Health Affairs.
In earlier research, Mello found that medical liability and defensive medicine accounted for approximately $55.6 billion or 2.4 percent of U.S. healthcare spending in 2008.
"It's an area where we can chip away at healthcare costs without causing pain to the patient, since these are services ordered not primarily because doctors think they're medically necessary," Mello told Reuters Health.
Past research has surveyed doctors about their behavior or their level of concern about malpractice, according to Emily Carrier, a senior researcher at the Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington D.C. and lead author of the new study.
Other researchers have gauged the amount of defensive medicine in everyday practice by looking at insurance claims, she said.
To get a better sense of the reasons doctors may engage in defensive medicine, Carrier, Mello and their coauthors combined both approaches.
The researchers started with a database of 1.9 million Medicare claims for 2008 as well as responses to a survey that same year that asked some 3,400 doctors about their malpractice concerns.
Among the Medicare patients in the database, there were 29,000 who had visited an office-based physician that year for one of three complaints: chest pain, lower back pain or headache, but who were not later diagnosed with a serious illness related to that complaint.
"The three complaints were chosen, in part, because each could indicate relatively minor problems, but could also suggest more severe and even life-threatening issues that would be likely to trigger testing in a risk-averse provider," Carrier told Reuters Health in an email.
Based on the survey results, the researchers designated doctors as having a low, medium or high level of concern about malpractice, and then linked those doctors using the claims data to the tests they had ordered for patients.
The team found that patients with a headache who saw a physician with a high level of malpractice concern were more likely to receive advanced imaging like a CT scan, than patients who saw a doctor less worried about malpractice.
More than 11 percent of the headache patients seen by a physician with a high level of concern got additional services and testing, versus 6 percent of patients seen by a physician with a low level of concern.
Almost 30 percent of patients with lower back pain seen by a physician with high malpractice concern were given additional imaging services, compared with 18 percent of patients who saw a physician with low concern.
For chest pains, however, the less worried physicians were about malpractice, the more likely they were to order a stress test.
Stress tests can involve running on a treadmill, or taking medication to make the heart work harder. Carrier said physicians who are already nervous about medical liability might avoid this test and instead choose to admit the patient to a hospital for more evaluation.
The study also found that physicians' level of malpractice concern didn't change, even if they were practicing in a state with medical liability reforms like caps on how much money patients can claim in damages.
"Even with caps or other reform measures, it' doesn't make physicians feel safer," Mello said. "We are finding that the focus should be on how physicians are feeling - that has real implications for future policies."
Maura Calsyn, associate director of health policy at the Center for American Progress, a think tank in Washington, D.C., said the new study highlights the need for national medical liability reforms.
Calsyn has advocated for evidence-based practice guidelines known as safe harbors. By following the safe harbor guidelines, a doctor would be delivering the highest standard of care and in principle could not be accused of negligence.
"We recommend safe harbors because they will help improve patient care and go a long way to help the doctor practice better medicine," said Calsyn, who was not involved in the new study.
The federal Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, which tests pilot programs to improve U.S. health care, has examined safe harbors as well as a process called communication and resolution.
The latter, according to the new report, involves a hospital "proactively" disclosing errors, apologizing and offering a patient compensation instead of waiting for them to file a claim.
Still a third option, Carrier and her colleagues write, is an administrative compensation system akin to workers compensation, which dispenses with the need for a patient to prove negligence, only that the injury could have been avoided.
"The average physician spends almost 11 percent of his or her career practicing in the shadow of an unresolved malpractice claim," the researchers write.
"Physicians have told me that next to the death of their father, going through a malpractice claim was the worst experience of their life," Mello said. The goal, she added, for future medical liability reform is to find innovative ways to address the cause of defensive medicine and ensure the patient is getting proper care.
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Members of the Schechter Leadership Society braved the icy elements Jan. 25 to attend the 2013 Schechter Leadership Society Reception at the Community Council for the Arts.
The annual event honors the commitment of leaders in the community for their gifts of volunteerism, advocacy and financial support of the Lenoir-Greene United Way.
The Society is named in memory of Sol Schechter and in honor of Pearl Schechter for their longstanding support and leadership of United Way.
In addition to those shown in the photographs, leaders recognized were: Felix and Margaret Harvey; Gordon and Linda Vermillion; Ed Barrow; Alban and Juliet Barrus; Scott and Diane Bowen; David and Laura Brody; Myrtilla Brody; Joe and Laverne Burks; Paul and Debbie Chused; Mark and Susan Conway; Jim and Ann Cullen; Jerry and Gwen Devaughn; and Don and Lynn Davenport.
Others were Jim and Teresa Dobbins; Ashe and Anita Exum; Bob and Lou Friend; Al and Ann Gold; Alice Gray; Jim Haddix; JV and Emily Hartzog; John and Renee Herlong; Patrick and Jeannie Holmes; Dwight and Pat Howard; Robert and Joan Jones; Randy and Molly Kelly; Scott and Roxanne Mayfield; Dan and Sarah Mayo; John and Leigh McNairy; Emily Moore; Dan and Margaret Perry; Pete Pully; Herbert and Crystal Rouse; Harrison, Linda and Patricia Smith; Joe and Rebekah Stark; and Clark Tutt.
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A cavernous hall at McCormick Place filled with deafening cheers late Tuesday night as President Barack Obama was re-elected for a second term, launching a wild celebration among thousands of his supporters.
The nervous anticipation that marked much of the evening quickly melted as Obama's victory became clear. People in the crowd danced, hugged and high-fived as election results streamed in over huge television screens flanking the stage where Obama would speak. "Twist and Shout" blared over the loudspeakers, and Julie Lawrenz, 42, twisted nearly to the ground.
"I'm just really happy," said Lawrenz, of Chicago. "And I'm happy it's over quickly."
The timing of the announcement came as a surprise, with many in the crowd having been prepared to wait all night without a declaration of victory. As the win was announced, supporters screamed and hugged one another, waving American flags and snapping cell photos of the jumbo TV screens.
Actress Vivica A. Fox, walking away after finishing a television interview, froze in her tracks and began to cry. Mayor Rahm Emanuel strode past her, grinning, on his way backstage. Reporters jumped on tables to get a better look at it all.
Just moments before the race was called, two Chicago friends stood clutching each other's hands and anxiously watching the screen. When it flashed the word "elected," both erupted in jubilant yells, pulling nearby strangers into hugs. "That one time, I went to sleep thinking one thing and woke up to learn that George Bush had won," said Laverne Parker, a substitute teacher from Lisle. "I was going to stay up all night to make sure. ... But this is better."
Though the venue for Obama's Tuesday night election-results viewing party lacked the spectacle of 2008's sprawling event in Grant Park, revelers made the most of it. Many said they wanted to be part of history. Personally invested in the campaign, Sylvia Williams, 80, and Mary Austin, 82, missed their usual night with the Classy Divas bowling league for an opportunity to hear the president speak at McCormick Place.
"I'm on top of the world," said Williams, of Markham, who spent weeks working to get out the vote for Obama.
"This is history all over again," said Austin, who lives in Harvey.
Planners never expected the rally to equal what took place in 2008, when an estimated 240,000 people streamed into Grant Park to see a victorious Obama speak. His campaign chose to remain indoors this year, where the crowd was limited to a few thousand supporters. For Obama supporters who got a ticket, the change in venue mattered only a little.
"I miss the skyline and ambience of the city," said Craig Porter, a union official who attended the Grant Park rally in 2008. "But here, I guess it's OK. I like it because we are here all together."
Shortly before Obama's win was official, Emanuel said the results showed the breadth of Obama's support.
"Everybody talks about the president's coalition, heavily in the sense of minorities and women," Emanuel said. "Iowa, heavily white, heavily old, and yet he's going to, it looks like, if trends continue, win Iowa. I think everybody should step back with what they think about, what they're saying, and take a look at really what's going on."
When the doors opened around 7:30 p.m., people rushed into the hall, snapping pictures of themselves and the Obama campaign signs that covered the walls.
Janice Haywood, who was in Grant Park in 2008, arrived at McCormick Place with her 5-year-old daughter more than six hours before supporters were allowed to enter.
"My heart didn't start pumping until all the people started coming in," said Haywood, clutching toys and a laptop that she had used to entertain her daughter in the hours before the doors opened.
Having a black president has been important for both of her children, said Haywood, who also is African-American and has an 8-year-old son.
"It is so important for my kids to see the president," said Haywood, 43, of Bolingbrook. "(They) look through the presidents at school and now (they) can see someone who looks like them."
Bridget Turner, 41, of Homewood said she and her children attended Obama's election night rally at Grant Park in 2008, and they all volunteered for his 2012 campaign. She donated money to the campaign, made phone calls and canvassed neighborhoods on the president's behalf.
"I can say I had a hand in history," she said. "I'm very excited about that."
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn described Obama's re-election campaign as distinctly different from the 2008 "movement campaign" four years ago: "The president inspired, literally, hundreds of thousands of volunteers all across America to take on the super PACS and show what grass-roots democracy is all about."
Quinn added that another four years of Obama — whom he described as a supporter of the middle class — would be good for Illinois. "The president has been very good to Illinois from day one," Quinn said. "The president rode to our rescue."
Genise Smith-Watkins, of Matteson, said she began her day shortly after sunrise, loading volunteers on a bus to canvass Iowa and arranging phone calls in the president's south suburban campaign office. She left around 1 p.m. to head to McCormick Place, confident she had done all she could to help her candidate win.
"I feel good. I feel good about the president winning and I feel good about my contribution."
Tribune reporters John Byrne, David Heinzmann, Christi Parsons, Kathleen Hennessey and Michael A. Memoli contributed.


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November 29, 2007
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MIDDLEBURY — Discussion of a bill before the Vermont House that would create a single-payer health insurance system to pay hospital bills for all Vermonters met with mixed reaction in Middlebury on Tuesday.
The group Vermont Health Care for All played a large role in the discussion of bill H.304, the Vermont Hospital Security Plan, which was held at Ilsley Public Library. State Rep. Topper McFaun, R-Barre, one of three co-sponsors of the bill, said that health care costs are shooting up throughout the country and Vermont has to make major changes to how it pays for its citizens' health care.
"Something has to be done that's more than what we're doing," McFaun said at the meeting, which was called to raise support for the effort. H.304 would create the Vermont Hospital Security Trust Fund, he said, that would be used to pay hospital bills for all Vermonters.
Dr. Deb Richter, president of Vermont Health Care for All, said that a major driver of the growing costs of health care is mounting administrative costs from many different health care providers dealing with many different private insurance companies and overlapping plans. This bill would greatly reduce that growth, she said.
The tidal wave of paperwork was familiar to those at Tuesday's meeting. One woman at the forum brought a stack of dozens of bills from recent emergency surgery to the meeting. Some should have gone to her insurance company in the first place, she said; some were from the hospital itself while others were from an individual specialist, and one apparently charged different rates for the same test on different days.
"I'm spending hours and hours going through these," she said.
Under H.304, the dozens or hundreds of billing addresses hospitals now need to track would be reduced to one: the state.
November 29, 2007
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HANCOCK — By the time Thomas Fabbioli arrived at the auction of the former Vermont Plywood plant in Hancock two weeks ago, the representative from the bank was packing up to leave.
None of the 40-some people present on Nov. 13 had bid on the plant. So when Fabbioli offered $120,000 at the last minute, the building and 49 acres of land around it became his.
But the equipment was sold separately and the nature of the future economic activity at the plant, which has been Hancock's largest employer since 1925, is not clear. What is clear is that Fabbioli will not immediately employ the 35 people who lost their jobs when on Sept. 6 the Union Bank of Morrisville, the United States Department of Agriculture and the Vermont Economic Development Authority foreclosed on Vermont Plywood.
With the Route 100 plant a crucial engine of the local economy, a lot hinges on Fabbioli's plans. At the plant's peak in 1969, it employed 180 people, and it employed 90 as recently as 2003, when it was owned by Chesapeake Hardwoods.
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"The town doesn't have anything else," said Perera, who attended the auction. "For 82 years, this plant has been supplying work for people. All of a sudden it looked as though it would disappear."
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Research in general anesthesia helps us understand self-awareness, maybe the essential trait of being human.
f you've had surgery, you may recall noticing the brightness of the ceiling lights in the operating room. Next thing you know your eyes peel open and a voice asks, "How are you feeling?" In the meantime, someone has sliced your body open and put it back together.
General anesthesia is one of the wonders of medicine. The ability to induce a deeply unconscious, immobile state makes possible life-saving procedures no one could have imagined 150 years ago, when surgeons were "saw-bones" and tooth extraction or amputation of a limb was excruciating beyond description. The discovery of ether's anesthetizing effect in the 1840s has led in recent decades to new, safer anesthetics. An estimated 15 million Americans undergo general anesthesia annually. Despite the advances in pharmacology and wide use, however, no one can tell you how anesthetics do what they do.
"General anesthesia has been used for more than a century," says Pei Tang, a physical chemist and assistant professor of anesthesiology and pharmacology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (UPSM). "It's one of the most important tools of medicine, and yet it remains mysterious. Despite years of research, we still don't understand the molecular mechanism."
It's an alluring mystery. What's known about general anesthetics suggests they are a peculiar class of drugs, with their own way of acting in the body that doesn't fit the standard model of how drugs work. Understanding the molecular details would likely lead to better anesthetics, with fewer side effects, but perhaps even more importantly it should tell us something about consciousness itself, one of the grandly intriguing questions in science.
An unconsciousness deeper than sleep, general anesthesia involves complete muscle relaxation — the loss of fight or flight response, which persists in sleep — and total amnesia. Arguably the ultimate altered state, it's like flipping a switch to temporarily turn off the nervous system. Understanding how this happens will increase our feeble knowledge of what it means biochemically to be switched "on" with the self-awareness that may be the essential trait of being human.
Tang is part of a UPSM team that uses a range of techniques to investigate how anesthetics work. In collaboration with Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center scientists Marcela Madrid and Troy Wymore, she has used computational methods to simulate how the drugs interact with the cellular membranes where they have their effect. The results of these studies challenge accepted thinking and offer support for an emerging new hypothesis.
A Tale of Two Theories
In the normal, undrugged state of consciousness, sense perceptions trigger a chain of events that releases electrical signals, in the form of ion flow — sodium, calcium, potassium and other ions — through channels in the cell walls, better known to biologists as membranes. General anesthetics appear to exert their effect by changing ion flow through these membrane channels, either slowing it down or speeding it up. Thinking about how this happens falls generally into two schools: the lipid theory and the protein theory.
The lipid theory, the older point of view, says that general anesthetics work by their ability to dissolve in lipids, the fat that forms the cell membrane and seals it against the watery environs inside and outside the cell. This view arose, initially, from finding that the potency of an anesthetic chemical corresponds to how well it dissolves in olive oil. Following from this awareness, some experiments suggest that anesthetics make the lipid more fluid, a structural loosening that relaxes and changes the shape of the channels that control ion flow.
The protein theory is more recent and says, on the other hand, that general anesthetics interact directly with the channels, which are complex proteins, rather than indirectly through the lipids. This idea is closer to the lock-and-key model of how most drugs work, by binding with a specific site on a protein and blocking its interaction with other molecules. This model doesn't fit well with anesthetics, however, because there's little structural similarity among different anesthetics, one reason the lipid theory gains adherents. The drug can't have its effect by acting like a key in a lock, in other words, when there are so many different shapes that work.
Experiments have shown, nevertheless, that a range of anesthetics have the ability to radically slow down flashes of light from a protein called luciferase, which makes the tails of fireflies glow. Luciferase doesn't exist in cell membranes, so in this case at least, the effect is direct. Still the question is how. Anesthetics are "low-affinity" drugs — they must be administered in relatively high concentration, another indication that they don't latch on tightly at a specific site like most other drugs, which are high affinity. In experiments with membranes, as opposed to isolated proteins, it's extremely difficult to test the protein theory because it's nearly impossible to disentangle direct from indirect action.
For that, computational simulations, which track the atom-by-atom details of the drug-membrane-channel interactions, have the potential to break through the theoretical logjam. "Only new techniques like large-scale simulations," says Tang, "that permit analysis at or near atomic resolution can test these theories."
Lipids, Drugs & Protein in a Water Sandwich
Cellular membranes are complex molecular assemblies involving tens of thousands of atoms, and only in recent years has computational capability evolved to make it feasible to simulate these structures. Starting in 1999, as the first step in a staged process, Tang constructed and tested a computational model of a cellular membrane called DMPC (short for dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine).
Lipids are long-chain molecules with one end, the "head-group," that gets along chemically with water and a tail-end that's hydrophobic, water avoiding. Cellular membranes are bilayers of these molecules, with head-groups facing outward and inward to meet with water while the tails converge in the hydrophobic interior. Tang built a bilayer of 200 DMPC molecules and added a layer of water on each side, 5,483 water molecules, to realistically represent the chemical environment. Using the NAMD2 molecular dynamics program on PSC's CRAY T3E, she simulated how this structure, a lipid bilayer in a water sandwich, changes under realistic conditions. The results gave structural parameters for the membrane that agreed well with experimental data.
The next step was to compute the structural details and electronic properties of two frequently used general anesthetics, halothane and sevoflurane. These quantum-theory calculations provide information such as the precise distance and angles between atoms in the drug molecules along with the electronic charges that influence their interaction with other molecules. The results, which again agreed well with experimental data, provided parameters for Tang's next step: to simulate how anesthetic drugs act within the membrane-channel environment.
With the groundwork in place, Tang used NAMD2 and the CRAY T3E for a simulation that included 10 halothane molecules inside the DMPC membrane, which itself included a protein molecule, gramicidin, as an ion channel through the lipid bilayer. This very large-scale computation included 38,724 atoms and tracked the molecular movements for two nanoseconds (a billionth of a second) with a freeze-frame picture of the system every femtosecond (a millionth of a billionth of a second).
After about 240 hours of processing time (on 128 processors), the results show, contrary to accepted understanding, that halothane in the center of the lipid moves away from this hydrophobic environment toward the water. "People have believed that all anesthetics prefer hydrophobic environments," says Tang. "Even those who support the protein theory thought that anesthetics interacted with hydrophobic cavities in the channel. We found, however, that the halothane always moves away from the center toward the interface between the lipids and water."
This result supports an emerging hypothesis that bridges between the two competing theories and suggests that general anesthetics act at the channel-water interface. The simulation lends further support to this view by showing that halothane interacts strongly with one of the protein's amino-acid side-chain (tryptophan), which resides close to the channel. This finding appears to coincide with recent UPSM laboratory work.
To further test the interface hypothesis, Tang looks forward to PSC's Terascale Computing System. She'd like to simulate other anesthetics and extend simulation time into the millisecond range. She also plans to simulate compounds structurally very similar to anesthetics but that produce no anesthetic effect. These studies, she expects, will help pinpoint the molecular events that lead to general anesthesia. "With these simulations," says Tang, "I believe we'll be able to draw some conclusions that will lead us closer to solving this mystery."


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Signing up couldn't be easier - you can say hello to Storify the first time by signing in via your Facebook account or your Twitter, then you just give it a username, email address and password, and you can't start Storifying straight away.
Hey, once again I managed to grab the username Isha - I'm getting good at this - all those Indian Ishas are so slow!
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MERCEDES-BENZ POLO CHALLENGE AT THE BRIDGEHAMPTON POLO CLUB (Week 2)
Saturday, July 29, 2006 Heather Graham Hosts Launch of Gold Peak (a new premium iced tea from The Coca-Cola Company) at Mercedes Benz Polo Challenge at Bridgehampton Polo Club, Two Trees Farm, 849 Hayground Road Bridgehampton, New York 11932. Attendees included Heather Graham, Chloe Sevigny, Christina Applegate, Mayra Veronica, Denise Vasi, Samantha Cole, Richard Johnson, Sessa von Richtofen, Damon Johnson, Chris & Michelle Barish, Greg Bello, Jason Binn, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Nacho Figueras, Neil Hirsch, Sir Ivan Wilzig, Sky Nellor, and Stella Keitel. Despite the nearly 100 degree weather, week two had an exceptional turnout of the bold and the beautiful. They stayed, cooling off with generous amounts of Gold Peak Ice Tea. This photographer/journalist had a few of them as a matter of fact and for the record, in my estimation, Gold Peak Ice Tea is the best tasting beverage of its kind. The sport�s greatest athletes will compete for one of polo�s most treasured prizes on six consecutive Saturdays. Returning as well will be the East End�s most high profile and influential audience of V.I.P�s, celebrities and media. eason partners include Island of Barbados, Intermix, Citigroup and Gold Peak, a new premium iced tea which celebrated its national launch at Polo. The season will commence Saturday, July 22nd and will continue for six consecutive Saturdays, ending August 26th. All proceeds from the Mercedes-Benz Polo Challenge will go to the South Fork Breast Health Coalition. The V.I.P. tent hosts an invitation-only cocktail reception for exclusive guests each Saturday afternoon during the tournament. Matches will take place from 4pm � 6pm and catering will be provided by Rob Cano. MEDIA/PRESS: Norah Lawlor |Lawlor Media Group |tel: 212.967.6900|e-mail: e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com PHOTO CREDIT: ©Manhattan Society.com 2006 by Christopher London |tel: Private |e-mail: email@example.com More


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Ever since first appearing on 16 & Pregnant, and continuing with her stint on Teen Mom 2, Jenelle Evans has consistently exhibited poor behavior, bad decision making, and a lack of interest in raising her son. But on last night's reunion special, her issues seemed a little more explicable after her mother—on national television, mind you—couldn't think of three positive qualities about Jenelle, and then admitted that she is not lovable. That kind of rejection would make being a competent human being a difficult task.
Another mess worth noting is Chelsea and Adam. Get a load of those backwards sunglasses. He also wore thong flip flops. It's so hard to understand why anyone would even have sex with, let alone take such abuse from him when he looks like that. And that has to be his "good" outfit, the one he thinks would present him the most positive, flattering way on TV. He really is disgusting, though, as evidenced by this clip.


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With former LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu declaring his intent to enter the NFL draft, the obvious question becomes when will he be drafted?
We cast the net on Thursday, and there's a school of thought that he's headed for round four.
Of course, if only one team thinks more highly of the Honey Badger, he could go higher than round four. For now, though, the middle rounds are where he'd likely go — if the draft were held today.
One evaluator said that Mathieu was a better college player and hype machine than pro prospect. He projects to be a reserve defensive back and a kick returner at the next level, with his return skills being regarded as more valuable than his coverage skills.
Another said that Mathieu is a quick, instinctive, tough playmaker in the slot. But his size and character will be major concerns.
The fact that Rams rookie cornerback Janoris Jenkins is looking like a second-round steal could help Mathieu. But there are major differences between the two players. Jenkins found a landing spot and turned himself around after getting kicked out of Florida. Mathieu bottomed out after getting the boot from LSU, and he will have gone a full season without playing at the time he enters the draft.
Based on numerous reports, Mathieu's major problem seems to be an affinity for marijuana. Most NFL teams don't care if guys smoke it; the problem arises when a player, when forced to choose between marijuana and football, chooses marijuana.
Mathieu's biggest challenge will be persuading teams that he is now choosing football. And that he's not just saying what he thinks he needs to say. If he can do that, and if he can generate some positive buzz with his physical skills during the pre-draft workouts, he could move up as April approaches.


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How Gary Vaynerchuk Went from 'America's Wine Guy' to Business Expert
Entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk made his name with brash online videos about wine on his blog Wine Library TV. He posted videos from 2006 to 2011 and one could say he became known as "America's Wine Guy." But Vaynerchuk knew he was an entrepreneur at heart and didn't want to be pigeon-holed. He had co-founded VaynerMedia, a New York-based social media and digital branding agency based in New York City, and wrote two business books: Crush It! Why Now Is the Time to Cash in on Your Passion (Harper Studio, 2009) and The Thank You Economy (HarperBusiness, 2011). In this video, he talks about his to recast his personal brand.
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BUCKHORN MEADOWS, Calif. — Calls for massive salvage logging, restoration and reforestation projects in the 257,000 acres of public wilderness scarred by the
"We're hoping to negotiate our way through this, but we need the infrastructure and personnel," said Jerry Snyder, a spokesman for the Stanislaus National Forest. "This effort will be huge, so we'll also need additional help from Washington."
But time is running out. The fire left behind about 1 billion board feet of salvageable timber, much of which could be rendered worthless by fungus and wood-boring beetles within a matter of months. At least 200 miles of roads are endangered by collapsing trees and fallen power poles. Existing culverts are no match for mudslides expected to choke Sierra streams after winter rains hit the fire-stripped slopes.
Then there is the federal government shutdown, which could hamper firefighters' efforts to mop up hot spots smoldering since the fire — touched off in August by a hunter's illegal campfire — burned across the Stanislaus National Forest,
Although no one disagrees with the need for safety in an area so badly damaged by fire that much of it will remain closed for a year or more, there are disagreements about everything else.
On one side are those — mostly federal land managers and timber industry advocates — who want to get large-scale salvage logging approved before snow starts to fall. Reforestation projects later in the year, they say, would also boost economic activity in a region with only 30% of the mills it had a decade ago.
"No doubt there's more timber out there than can be absorbed by the mills," said Mike Albrecht, president of the Calaveras County forest products firm Sierra Resource Management. "But I want to see that become the problem, not that we can't get the wood to the rails."
A week ago, Rep.
But critics argue that such proposals — coupled with global warming, inadequate federal funding to manage replanted forests and unnaturally dense vegetation resulting from strict fire suppression policies — would only set the stage for more catastrophic blazes.
Beyond that, salvage logging operations and tree plantings do not always go as planned.
In 2011, Forest Service crews planted nearly a million pine and fir trees to try to reclaim land scorched clean by the devastating Station fire in Los Angeles County. Most died within months.
Funding for federal reforestation efforts typically includes proceeds from salvaged timber sales, such as those that followed the Stanislaus Complex fire in 1987. However, millions of pine trees planted over 145,000 acres damaged by that blaze 26 years ago were consumed by the Rim fire.
Logs salvaged from last year's 1,150-acre Ramsey fire remain unsold, forest service officials said.
Justin Augustine, a spokesman for the Center for Biological Diversity, argues that high-severity fire is a natural component of healthy Sierra Nevada forests. Claims about excessive fire severity are often used to justify and hasten what he described as "unnecessary salvage logging operations."
"Salvage logging for other than safety concerns is barbaric," Augustine said.
Malcolm North, a scientist at the Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station in Davis, Calif., would not go that far.
"Post-fire salvage doesn't help the environment because snags are important to wildlife and influence how the forest recovers," North said. "But it's a tough situation for the Forest Service, which has more houses embedded in the forests they manage. As a result, their approach to fire is containment, which can have negative consequences for the natural environment."
Limited soil stabilization and salvage operations are already underway. The Forest Service is clearing slash and fire-weakened trees from alongside main roads and trails. Contract crews are removing dead trees from utility rights-of-way used by firefighters and employees of the city of San Francisco's Hetch Hetchy water and power system. Sierra Pacific Industries, which operates two mills near the city of Sonora, is aggressively logging its 16,000 acres that burned in the fire.
Those efforts represent the potential Rim fire salvaging world in miniature.
On a recent weekday, Dennis Seastron waded through snags and ashes on his 126-acre holding in the community of Buckhorn Meadows, about 10 miles west of Yosemite, angrily taking stock of the devastation and his potential losses.
Clear sap oozing from charred trees signaled the arrival of wood-boring beetles that he compared with "starving hound dogs running to dinner plates." Timber prices are low, fuel and transportation costs are high, and heavy equipment is hard to come by. Logs that would have fetched $950 each a decade ago are worth half that at best, he said.
On a hillside with sweeping views of the rugged expanses burned by California's third-largest wildfire, Seastron shook his head and said, "Even if it were possible to access all those dead trees, there's no infrastructure to process them."


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A proposal to regulate the placement of businesses with video poker machines in Thibodaux is in the hands of the state attorney general's office.
A proposal to regulate the placement of businesses with video poker machines in Thibodaux is in the hands of the state attorney general's office.
The Thibodaux City Council unanimously approved an ordinance Tuesday to ask the attorney general to determine the city's ability to restrict the placement of any video poker facility with more than three machines. To do so, the council would have to amend the city's zoning ordinance.
Council Chairman Lloyd "Chip" Badeaux said he was concerned about the city's liability in making a decision that would affect local businesses.
Several members of the public wrote up the amendment and presented it earlier this month to the city's Planning and Zoning Commission. The commission requested the council ask for the opinion.
"They don't have a problem with what's proposed. They just want to make sure that it's within the city's power to regulate," Council Administrator Jenny Morvant said.
If approved, local businesses that already have more than three video poker machines would be grandfathered into the new rules.
The proposal stems from the Aug. 20 council meeting where residents debated allowing the city's only offtrack betting parlor to change locations. The council did not take action.
Tony Lafaso is manager of M&B Rentals of America, which owns the land where the Fair Grounds offtrack betting casino is located at 1766 Canal Blvd. He said he has been in talks with the offtrack casino company for more than a year about whether it will move its location when its lease runs out next October.
"They see where everything is going at North Canal and are considering relocation," Lafaso said, adding that a specific site has not been chosen or purchased.
The area along North Canal includes a Wal-Mart, a few hotels and numerous restaurants. Some residential neighborhoods are also located on the road's most northern stretch within the city.
Representatives of a local gambling equipment operator and video poker casino argued against the business changing locations because they said it would hurt other businesses that have video poker machines.
While businesses with video poker are prohibited from being within a mile of churches, schools and libraries, and now even residential areas after the Legislature's session this year, offtrack gambling locations have no such restrictions, allowing them to escape video poker regulations.
State law limits offtrack betting parlors to a 55-mile radius of their home racetrack. For Lafourche Parish, that's the Fair Grounds in New Orleans.
Dale Fremin, president of Delta Coin Machines, a gambling equipment operator, urged the council at the August meeting to ban construction of any new offtrack betting locations until state or local governments address how close they can be to residential areas.
Grady Gaubert, president of Gaubert Oil, who owns Lucky Star Travel Plaza, Thibodaux's only truck stop with gambling, said he is concerned the offtrack facility could hurt his business if it moves closer to him. The business opened 10 years ago.
Lafaso said the offtrack betting parlor is looking to move into a more commercial district with looser regulations but may leave if it faces obstacles.
"I understand what Mr. Fremin is asking, and I understand where he's wanting to go with this. ... If this doesn't come to pass, that's it. They're going to pack up and leave," Lafaso said.
Gaubert said the residential restriction has "basically killed" any video poker truck stops in the state.
"Truck stops can still be built, but the video poker part of it, once you put it a mile away, it becomes unattractive. People don't travel that far to play," he said.
Offtrack betting parlors have an unfair advantage, he added.
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U.S. stock markets ended narrowly mixed today, as many investors continued to position themselves for several bellwether's fourth quarter earnings reports slated to come out later this week. In economic news, U.S. retail sales came in better-than expected for December; the month saw a 0.5% increase in sales, compared to the forecasted 0.2% increase. New York-area factory activity contracted at a faster pace than economists had predicted, while U.S. wholesale prices slipped in December due to lower food and energy costs. U.S. business inventories, however, expanded in November in line with expectations. Meanwhile, traders remained cautious ahead of earnings reports due tomorrow from Goldman Sachs ( GS), JPMorgan ( JPM), and Ebay (EBAY) [see also Seven Simple & Cheap ETF Model Portfolios].
Global Market Overview: Retail Sales Pop, Apple Drags On Tech
As investors digested a slew of economic reports, only two major U.S. equity indexes managed to close in positive territory. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIA, B) reversed earlier losses on the day to end 0.14% higher, while the S&P 500 (SPY, A) gained 0.07% to end at 1,472.34, its five-year high. Tech-heavy Nasdaq (QQQ, A-), however, fell 0.49%, dragged down by Apple ( AAPL) shares. In Europe, markets were mostly lower with the Stoxx Europe 600 falling less than 0.1%. Japan's Nikkei Stock Average logged in a 0.7% gain after hitting its 32- month high. China's Shanghai Composite Index ticked 0.60% higher.
Bond ETF Roundup
As bond traders remained wary about the coming fiscal talks in Washington, U.S. Treasury prices rose today, pushing long-term yields to their lowest levels of the year. Yields on 5 and 10-year notes fell 3 basis points, while 30-year bond yields slid 1 basis point.
Commodity Roundup
Commodities were mixed across the board today, as traders kept their focus on U.S. debt woes. Crude oil futures were bolstered by a weaker dollar, though uncertainty surrounding the U.S. debt ceiling limited gains. Gold and silver prices rallied today, while platinum futures hit three month highs after rallying for a sixth straight session.
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Ken Griffey Jr. wasn't able to hit his 600th homer yesterday, depriving the Great American Ballpark fans from the opportunity to see the milestone. (And then see Griffey get traded.) The Reds now take off on an eight-game road trip, and you'd have to think Griffey's gonna hit at least one over those eight games. And that would make him the fourth ever player to hit 600 homers. Wait ... fourth? Well, according to MLB, yep.
Constant MLB.tv ads have featured the following copy:
"Willie Mays, September 22, 1969…600.
Babe Ruth, August 21, 1931…600.
Hank Aaron, April 27, 1971…600."
Then the screen flips to Griffey, who sits at 599, and he says, "Ken Griffey Jr…. keep watching."
This ignores, of course, Sammy Sosa and that Bonds guy, who actually reached a rather lofty milestone just last year. (And it really was just last year.) The big question has been how MLB would handle the steroid era, and we're already getting a pretty good idea: Just ignore it. Boy, doesn't Tim Forneris feel even dumber now?
As Griffey Approaches 600, MLB Whitewashes History [Wicked Good Sports]


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The Central Connecticut men's track & field team finished third at the AIC Yellow Jacket Invitational posting 105 team points. Central finished behind only UMASS Amherst who placed second (107) and meet champion Rhode Island (163.66).
The John G. Hoyt Track & Field Complex played host to the meet in Springfield, MA. AIC held the meet which fielded 11 teams.
Junior sprinter Aaron Radden won a pair of events on Saturday. He took gold in both the 100m and 200m with times of 10.79 and 21.19 respectively. Juniors Elijah Boles and Dan Hopper both finished third (11.23) and seventh (11.43) in the 100m respectively. Boles also placed sixth (22.53) in the 200m. Both of Boles' times were personal best marks. Hopper's 200m time was also a personal best time.
In the field, sophomore Leonardo Davidson placed seventh in the shot put with a 14.09 throw. Throwing the hammer a personal best 41.92m was sophomore Michael Ficorilli who also placed seventh. Both throwers gathered 2 points apiece. Senior Matt Berube won the triple jump (14.14) and placed third in the long jump with a distance of 6.44m.
A trio of Blue Devils placed third, fourth, and fifth in the 5,000m. It was freshman Brian Biekert (15:11.88), senior Anthony Gonsalves (15:12.72), and freshman Andrew Hill (15:13.37). Gonsalves' time marked a new personal best time for the senior. Junior Nick Lindblom came in sixth in the 110m hurdles with a time of 15.25, a new personal best.
The freshman duo of Patrick Hubbell and Andy Pullaro placed top-ten in the 1,500m coming in at fourth (3:58.91) and sixth (4:03.69) respectively.
Central's 4x400m relay team won the event with a time of 3:26.01 and the 4x100m relay team placed second (42.25).


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text: Nicholas Lockyers' collage work distorts the human figure in response to out of balance priorities placed on the pursuit of external beauty. Death and Misfortune remain a constant throughout each piece, lending a certain gravity to the fairly familiar aesthetic of "collage culled from vintage illustration archives" which is kind of popular right now. Lockyers definitely has his own thing going on though. His particular selection of imagery is set at a pretty good pitch, and I dig the dark vibes. More snakes, skulls, and bats after the jump.


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Cincinnati, Ohio's Rose Funeral bring fast paced riffs, bone crushing breakdowns, and just the right amount of melody to make the group brutal yet still catchy.
Rose Funeral has built a sizeable fan base over the past few years in their hometown and across the US and Canada. This band is determined to tour nonstop.
They've endured countless DIY shows and tours even as many of their peers have struggled to tour at all. Their style of death metal and their unquenchable drive to be successful has helped them rise among the ranks of the finest in underground American metal bands. Rose Funeral's first demo, Buried Beneath the Blood, was self recorded and self released in March of 2006.
The demo was followed quickly by the release of their EP, Crucify.Kill.Rot, in August of 2006. The EP was well accepted among their fans in the tri-state area and helped to further their national presence.
It was enough for them to get picked up by Siege of Amida Records, who re-released Crucify.Kill.Rot in March of 2007. While promoting their debut, they toured and played shows with: The Black Dahlia Murder, Unearth, Walls of Jericho, The Red Chord, Animosity, Too Pure To Die, The Faceless, Dead To Fall, As Blood Run Black, Emmure, With Blood Comes Cleansing, Becoming The Archetype, Dead Man In Reno, For The Fallen Dreams, Diskreet, Last House On The Left, Once Nothing, My Bitter End, Endwell, Year Of Desolation, Nights Like These, In This Moment, The Burning Season, Veil Of Maya, Iscariot and more. Their numerous regional and national tours helped gained the attention of Metal Blade Records and by early 2008, they had landed a deal. Since then, Rose Funeral has been hard at work continuing to tour across North America as well as writing their Metal Blade debut.
The Resting Sonata is the title of that debut and will, no doubt, solidify them as one of the best up and coming young death metal bands in the US..
We are Rose Funeral. We enjoy long walks on the beach. Sunsets. and Rape. We enjoy watching kids make idiots out of themselves playing uno! We create mean ass death metal. See you on the road!
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The Resting Sonata
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Gates of Punishment
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