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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
A tale of two B.J.'s
B.J., the Birdie: Not to take all of the credit, but thanks in large part to our extensive campaign last week, B.J. Birdie lives on in the Home Run Derby Mascot Brackets. No word on who's next, but we've now set out sights on a Final Four spot. Also, note that this week's bracket features Youppi! versus some stupid White Sox tandem, and Youppi!'s getting killed. Click here to go vote for Youppi! (We can't help it...typing the word Youppi! makes us happy.)
B.J., the Closer: B.J. Ryan is in Toronto, and throwing from 40 feet. Which is, just for reference sake, about twice the distance at which you'd trust Russ Adams to throw with any accuracy.
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- Richie Rich said...
You can take all the credit for BJ Birdy's win. He was getting pummelled until some Tao saved him.
BJ Birdy matches up against The Famous Chicken in the next round.
Get ready.
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The National Center for Media Engagement published this template for partnership. I'm using it to guide a partnership agreement discussion with Jae Rhim Lee for a film we are proposing to do together about death denial and the funeral industry. I think you filmmakers out there might find it useful, too.
A Pre-Nuptial Contract
Just like personal relationships, production partnerships can be filled with satisfaction, strategy, and struggle.
The Proposal: I Think I'm In Love
Are the participants/decision-makers compatible? Will they be able to achieve resolution when potential conflicts arise? Are their editorial standards in-synch?
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Danielle Steel's secret forays to aid homeless
Loss of novelist's son drove overnight forays to help the homeless with supply bags
Fans of Danielle Steel, one of the top-selling authors of all time, eagerly await her novels, which the disciplined writer has faithfully delivered since "Going Home" in 1973.
Her stories are often set in opulent surroundings and peopled with dynamic heroines, wealthy scions and characters who triumph over illness, heartbreak, war, death or even incest.
Most assume that Steel's life is as glamorous as her fiction - brimming with exotic travel, dashing gents and couture-filled closets in her Paris home and storied Spreckels Mansion in San Francisco.
The real Steel is a bit more complicated. And she struggles with her own demons, from failed marriages and embezzling employees to the death of her son, musician Nicholas Traina, who suffered from bipolar disorder and committed suicide in 1997 at the age of 19.
But almost no one, except for the crew she worked with, her children and two close friends, had any idea that for 11 years, beginning in 1998, Danielle Steel would slip away from her Pacific Heights home under midnight shadows into a van filled with supplies to assist homeless people she sought out in the dark, dingy corners of San Francisco.
Last month, the prolific author released three books: A novel, "The Sins of the Mother"; the paperback of a previous novel, "Hotel Vendome"; and a nonfiction title, "A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless" (Delacorte Press; 144 pages; $20), about her work with the homeless and her outreach foundation, Yo! Angel!
"I started this during a very lonely, desperately unhappy time in my life," says Steel, in a drawing room of her home. "After Nicky died, I went to church and prayed for a way to help. Nicky was always very kind to homeless people, buying them a sandwich or a pack of smokes. And 'helping the homeless' is what kept returning to my mind."
As a child, Steel's first vocational dream was to become a nun.
"I guess I need to suffer a little to feel like I'm useful. I liked the fact I was putting myself at risk by helping the homeless and doing something physically strenuous," she says. Though Steel speaks about her cause with passion and commitment, she's also the first to have a laugh on herself. "When this 'help the homeless' first came to mind, I resisted and wondered, 'Why can't I help by doing something like shopping?' "
Her anonymous forays began the night before Christmas 12 years ago, when she and an employee gathered some clothes, scarves and sleeping bags to deliver around her tony neighborhood, where she'd noticed a few homeless huddled in the doorways of local businesses and parking lots.
The next night, after her elegant, black-tie Christmas dinner, which included a futile discussion with a local politician about homelessness, Steel and her employees changed clothes and hit the streets again in search of people in need.
"In the beginning we were so naive and got ourselves in a couple of dicey situations. I was afraid for the people working for me because we were at risk every time we went out," she recalled. "But on cold, rainy nights I couldn't resist throwing some sleeping bags in the trunk and going out on the streets. Helping these people brought out some strange gladiator-cowboy side in me."
The foundation's name was born one night while Steel was handing out supply bags. With a salute, a homeless man cried out his appreciation, "Yo! Angel!"
These monthly missions lasted six or seven hours. Steel's team eventually grew to 11, and included four vans and three off-duty police officers who set ground rules for safety. Steel paid for all the supplies and vehicles out of her own pocket; the police officers volunteered their time. At its zenith, on each trip out, Yo! Angel! distributed 300 bags filled with long johns, tarps, ponchos, food, toiletries and teddy bears. Steel estimates she was spending about $100,000 per mission and $1.1 million per year.
Determined to remain anonymous, both for her team's safety and to allay accusations that she was seeking publicity, Steel never asked for donations or discounts on supplies. But after the first year of giving, she realized she needed to form a charitable organization.
"Homelessness isn't a sexy problem. It's not pretty, it smells bad and many people think, 'There but for the grace of God go I,' " she said. "But as I spent more time with the homeless, I found it shocking that we sit in our comfortable homes and talk about going to Africa to help Third World countries when, 10 blocks away, there are desperate people in our own community."
Steel also discovered that for many people on the street, it's not a housing problem but rather a mental health problem.
"Nicky was young. But he'd been sick with bipolar most of his life and was used to being on his medication. So he never slipped off into the mists," she says, wistfully. "But then, Nicky never got old."
The homeless Steel encountered on her missions were off their meds, she says. They feared violence and disease in the shelters. They suffered from ill health and substance abuse. And if they'd been out on the streets long enough, who would hire them?
"For many homeless, there's some little piece that's in the machine differently," she explains. "They don't necessarily fit in, or comply or are able to live within the same framework as you or I. And they're just falling through the cracks.
"This work is totally addictive: Just one more time, just one more trip, just one more bag for one more person. You can never empty that ocean of homelessness," she says.
Her forays to the street ended about the time she decided to move, part time, to Paris. Her bookkeeper and financial adviser at the time warned Steel that she was spending too much money on supplies and on her former Sacramento Street art gallery.
However, in 2008, Steel discovered that her decades-long employee Kristy Watts was embezzling the author's money by manipulating Steel's financial accounts. Steel sued her in federal court for $2.7 million. In 2010, Watts pleaded guilty to fraud, tax evasion and stealing $768,000 from Steel and was sentenced to federal prison.
"She's basically the reason why I ceased my street work and closed the gallery," Steel says. "That was the beginning of the end of my romance with San Francisco. I loved my homeless work and the gallery. Without them, and with my kids almost grown, I felt useless." (She also found herself explaining why she remarked in the Wall Street Journal last year that "there's no style" in San Francisco, even though she admitted to looking "like a mess when I'm there, too.")
Steel designed Yo! Angel! as a hands-on organization, which allowed her to remain an active participant for those in need. In addition, to honor her son's legacy, Steel founded the Nick Traina Foundation to support people with mental illness and fund other organizations such as Larkin Street Youth Services, which she admires greatly.
Being useful is a mantra for Steel. If she doesn't keep busy, she says, she feels sad.
"Then the misfortunes of my life catch up with me: I start thinking about Nick. I get sad about other stuff, failed marriages or whatever," she admits. "What keeps my demons away from the door is being busy."
Steel says she would love to resume her Yo! Angel! work on the streets someday. (The organization still exists, but is currently inactive.) But for now she's using her gifts as a writer to give voice to the homeless and the crushing societal problems generated by mental illness. "A Gift of Hope" was first published by Presses de la Cité in France. And a portion of proceeds was donated by Steel and her publisher to Emmaüs, an international charitable organization founded in France.
"What I found on the street is there's such a generosity of spirit and heart," she says, brightening. "It brought out the best in our team. The homeless were so kind to us, and we felt grateful to them. They gave us something every time."
One Christmas, the Yo! Angel! team handed out 300 small teddy bears with each bag they delivered. It was an experiment they felt sheepish about as no one guessed the response they might receive from some of the more hardened homeless.
"The first man we handed it to must have been about six-four, a powerful man with unkempt hair, a somber face and an aggressive expression. He looked at us, staring at the bear in his hand, and as I waited for him to throw it at me, instead he melted into tears as we looked at him in amazement. 'Oh my God!' he said. 'A teddy bear ... I'm going to name him Oscar Junior The Second.' ... We quickly figured out that we had hit on something important, and the bears were then included in every trip. No one got a black bag without a teddy bear. The bears were magic. Somehow, with that single gesture, we had restored not only a memory of their childhood, but a tender part of their humanity that had been missing. It wasn't just about survival that night, clothing and feeding people and getting them into warm clothes and a sleeping bag. It was about touching a part of them that had been lost and forgotten."
Excerpted from "A Gift of Hope"
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When I was an undergraduate, in the early 1980s, I spent a semester of my junior year living in an all-women's dorm. It was cleaner, quieter, and generally pleasanter than the coed dorms I had always favored. In the lobby, flanking the wide front door, were a sunken sitting room and a glassed-in office containing a defunct switchboard. The sitting room was filled with wrought-iron furniture and glass-topped tables, and was referred to as "the porch." Both of these entities, the porch and the switchboard, were relics of the days when the university had observed parietals, the rules by which a college dormitory monitors the comings and goings of its students. Under the old system, there had been a curfew and nightly head count, and young men could not wander through the building; they were announced by the switchboard operator, and could be entertained only in certain venues—the porch, for example, or a bedroom (during posted hours), with the door left wide open.
Parietals, for the most part, have gone the way of the faculty-wife tea. Intended to regulate the sex lives of undergraduates, they belong to a time when colleges maintained a parental relationship with their students: monitoring their health, enforcing bedtimes, and ensuring that their passions did not control their behavior. The strictures were not imposed only on women; Harvard had instituted parietals by 1770, after a student—distinguished by the overweening ambition and ample pocket money of his kind—entertained not one but two prostitutes in his dorm room. But college women felt the brunt of them: Parietals in women's dormitories were typically more restrictive, and they took far more effort to overthrow, because they had a different purpose when applied to women. Keeping whores out of Harvard residence halls had to do with the honor of Harvard, but keeping Betty Coed a virgin had to do with the honor of Betty Coed.
To an extent, the history of higher education for American women can be traced through the gradual erosion of parietals. As more and more young ladies began to leave their families not for marriage but for a college education, and then to slowly be granted the freedom of the campus, something profound began to change. The nature of the education women received in college—from the things they studied in the classroom to the graces and talents they were expected to cultivate beyond the lecture hall—evolved in direct proportion to their gathering personal and sexual freedoms. To be free to sleep wherever you choose and with whomever you choose is to be free to turn up your nose at the "Ladies' Course" and to pursue instead a "classical" curriculum.
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Lynn Peril talks about the evolution of girls' college experiences, and her new book, College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now.
Flashbacks: "College Girls"
Articles from the 1890s through the 1960s explore the academic, social, and sexual debates surrounding women at college.
All of these developments are cataloged in Lynn Peril's invaluable new book, College Girls. Hers is not an achievement of analysis; almost every one of her revelations is marshaled to support the contention that colleges imposed more limits on women than on men. (Or, "Color me jeering," as she puts it at one point.) But the book can be forgiven much, because in it Peril has assembled an Aladdin's cave of treasures. She has read, and quotes at length from, a rich and various array of sources: student handbooks and yearbooks, popular novels, and advice manuals from the past two centuries. She has created a record of the daily habits of these women—from what they ate, to what they wore, to the subjects they studied—that will fascinate anyone interested in the history of private life.
As for what they ate—just about anything that wasn't nailed down, apparently. One cannot read this book and continue to believe that the "disordered eating" that besets so many college women is a recent phenomenon. Today it may be marked by grimly endured starvation campaigns or bulimia, but in decades past it was the stuff of a strange glee: festive communal gorging. The midnight suppers or "spreads," once a major pleasure of college girls' lives, were conducted around a chafing dish—by the 1890s, it was a popular gift for a college-bound girl—in which the hostess cooked rarebits, omelets, and (most popular of all) pan after pan of fudge. By the early 20th century, groups of female eaters commonly gave themselves nicknames: the Stuffers, the Nine Nimble Nibblers, the Grid L. Kakes. While college men during the same period were forging friendships through cane rushes, fraternity hazing, and other acts of ritualized violence, the girls ate—and ate—their way to community and affection.
The other thing that the girls tended to do was to fall head over heels in love with one another. The 1907 Barnard yearbook observed that crushes were "an epidemic peculiar to college girls," marked by "a lump in the throat, a feeling of heat in the face and an inability to speak." While romantic friendships between women were an accepted aspect of life in the 19th century, Peril's reporting on the nature of those relationships is eye-opening. An 1898 advice book called What a Young Woman Ought to Know describes the irritating behavior of girls who imposed their ardor on the world:
They go about with their arms around each other, they loll against each other, and sit with clasped hands by the hour. They fondle and kiss until beholders are fairly nauseated.
In 1928, one besotted "smasher" at a Texas college formalized her feelings in a yearbook entry: "Roommate, darling, how I love you."
The tendency of these crushes to tip over into actual lesbianism terrified and disgusted parents (as well as college administrators, who were ever on the watch for an "exaggerated athletic bent" or "over-boisterousness") even more than coitus, and may have played a small role in the gradual movement toward coeducation, a phenomenon that skyrocketed in the 1920s, when the population of American undergraduates swelled. Once coeducation became the norm, the goal of a woman's college years shifted from preparing to become a wife to catching an actual husband, which in turn launched the thousands of proms, formals, and education-ending proposals that gave coeds a reputation (often well-deserved) of being less intellectually serious than college men.
In all of these behaviors—the comforting with food, the lavishing of love on whoever was available to receive it, the dreaming about husbands and households—I find poignant evidence of the one fact about these girls' lives so obvious that it is rarely considered at all: They had all been abruptly uprooted from their homes. Girls have a different relationship to home than boys do: They are more sentimental about it as well as more critical of its shortcomings, and they are moored to its routines and rhythms more deeply. Even those girls for whom leave-taking is more escape than sorrow enter a period of profound self-examination—and often melancholy—when they break from the home where they were raised.
The most arresting part of Peril's book is the brief, vivid, and appealing portrait she presents of herself as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin 25 years ago. She arrived with a butch haircut, a suitcase full of punk clothes mail-ordered from New York, and a "tough-chick persona." I suspected that she was romanticizing her past, but then she shows us her freshman ID card, and she really was a fright. Underneath, though, she was as timid as any 18-year-old girl plucked from home and set down on the campus of a huge university. Too shy to raise her hand in class, or even to order a pizza over the telephone, she was so rattled by a boy who flirted with her on the first day of French II that she promptly dropped the class. "In my heart of hearts," she writes—the phrase itself a kind of linguistic Fair Isle sweater—"I knew I wasn't ready for college yet." She wandered through her four years, her melancholy settling into a depression, and despite all of her bravado—and a short, fun fling with feminist theory—she ended up in the greatest of all girl majors: art history.
Peril reports, accurately, that much of the historical anxiety about sending girls to college had to do with the question of sex. In the 19th century, many believed that too much education could rob a girl of "the womanly virtues" and set her on a course for spinsterhood. Coeducation was problematic on two fronts: Not only was a girl in danger of losing her virginity; she was also capable of falling in love with the wrong kind of fellow, perhaps even returning home engaged to someone her family had never met. Nowadays, with the threats to a woman's virginity ever more numerous, and engagement regarded by most coeds as a quaint arrangement slated for the distant future, parents' worries have only multiplied.
Proof that the sex lives of college women remain an object of intense cultural fascination can be found in a book like Laura Sessions Stepp's Unhooked (reviewed in last month's "Cover to Cover"), which documents the semi-anonymous "hooking up" that is now the norm. Stepp's intention was to study this phenomenon open-mindedly, "hoping to understand rather than intending to censure." But journalistic objectivity was soon replaced by alarm and even horror. She found girls who were "exhausted physically, emotionally and spiritually" by the practice. The girls' behavior is starkly contemporary, but the adult's characterization of it—and of the specific ways that sexuality can deplete a woman—could have been lifted from a 19th-century tract. In placing the blame for these developments on three forces ("the ethic of female empowerment; parental expectations for academic and professional achievement; and reluctance on the part of authorities on campus to intervene in students' social lives"), Stepp occupies the squishy middle ground where many progressive women unhappily find themselves: Yes, yes, yes to female freedom and empowerment, but Jesus Christ, why are these girls giving blow jobs to guys they hardly know?
She pulls herself together long enough to conclude the book with a "Dear Daughters" letter. It's the kind of "sex is a beautiful thing, when it's between two loving people" lecture that has been making young girls want to jump out of the nearest window from sheer embarrassment since the early 1970s. (My lecture arrived, in my mother's Palmer Method handwriting, on my bedside table midway through 12th grade, and the extent to which it mortified me—my mother was a nurse and knew how to draw a fairly precise medical illustration—cannot be overstated.)
I'm sure that lectures from Mom on how to have super great sex don't always fall on deaf ears. But Mom's voice becomes a distant whisper once a young woman arrives at college, where she will no longer be regarded as a cosseted girl-child in need of protection and limit setting. It is impossible to imagine nonreligious colleges involving themselves in the kind of sexual decision making that concerns Stepp, because to be an undergraduate today is to be treated as a fully independent adult, as even a cursory glance at the admissions materials of most schools demonstrates. (I would never have attended a college that monitored my sleeping arrangements; like most of my friends in the women's dorm, I often spent the night at a boyfriend's apartment.) Obviously, the young women Stepp describes in her book were almost all nice girls raised by nice parents in nice neighborhoods. But just as obviously, they changed in some ugly ways when left on their own. Given the coarsening of the culture, the intense peer pressure and corresponding desire to fit in that have always marked college life, and the way very young women are defined today as at once independent and exploitable, the bitter pill for many parents sending their daughters to college is that there is no possible way to protect them from what they will encounter once they have been dropped off at the freshman dorm.
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Lone Survivor was a stripped-back psychological survival horror experience, but it didn't push everyone's buttons. Creator Jasper Byrne's proposed effort, New Game+, may correct that, because it looks like you push a lot more buttons as you play. See it in action through the break.
Lone Survivor headed to PlayStation 3 and Vita, followup cancelled
Lone Survivor creator Jasper Byrne has shelved his unannounced new project, New Game +, citing issues of scope. A blog posts outlines his reasons and gives an idea of the project's proposed shape. It's all a bit sad, but there's good news, too – Lone Survivor is making the jump to consoles, specifically PlayStation 3 […]


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No. 5 Southeastern allowed just one run over two games en route to a double-header sweep of Southern Nazarene on Friday afternoon, taking game one 3-0 and following that with a 6-1 win in game two at the Southeastern Softball Field.
The wins lifted the Savage Storm to 27-6 overall on the year and 12-2 in Great American Conference play with the final two games of the four-game set against the Crimson Storm set for noon on Saturday.
All four SE pitchers saw action on the day, and while they scattered 13 hits over two contests the staff managed to work itself out of three bases loaded jams and strand 16 SNU runners overall.
Mindy McElroy got the start in the series opener and came one out away from recording a complete game shutout, but finished with her 11th win of the year after scattering five hits over 6.2 scoreless innings with five strikeouts.
Jacee Bennett came on to record one out, doing so with a strikeout, to end the sixth inning with the bases loaded.
On the offensive side, The Storm spread five hits over five different hitters, with Jessica Simmons, Courtney Moore, Whitney Hamilton, Laramie Beal and Paige Priest each recording a hit.
Darrian Williams, Hamilton and Rachel Jones each drove in a run.
SE got on the board in the first inning when Williams was hit by a pitch with two outs and followed by stealing second. She would come home on a Hamilton hit.
The lead would move to 2-0 in the second inning as Beal doubled to lead off and was replaced by pinch-runner Kelsey Overacker who moved to third on a Priest sac bunt and scored on a Jones squeeze bunt.
In the fifth, Simmons would lead off with a single and steal second. She moved to third on a Lacie Cook sac bunt and scored on a Williams groundout to fashion he 3-0 final.
In game two, Bennett got the start and allowed a run on five hits with four K's in 4.0 innings of work to earn her 15th win of the season.
Shayna Milam tossed 1.2 innings in relief, allowing a pair of hits while striking out one, before handing the ball to Jones who three the final 1.1 innings and allowed just one hit and struck out one.
Simmons, Moore and Lauren Renneker each posted two-hit outings, while Courtney Riddle, Bennett and Brittany Wilson each added a hit.
Moore and Renneker each drove in two runs, while Williams and Riddle added an RBI each.
Renneker also connected on her third home run of the season.
SNU actually jumped to the early lead with a run in the top half of the first inning, but the Storm had an answer in the bottom half when Simmons walked and stole second before coming around to score on a Williams sac fly to center to even the score at 1-1.
In the second inning, Bennett would reach on a one-out double and score two batters later on a Renneker single to left-center.
The score would double to 4-1 in the third as Williams led off with a walk and scored when Moore doubled in the next at bat. Dakota Palmer would come on to run for Moore and move to third on a Hamilton sac bunt and score on batter later when Riddle doubled down the left-field line.
Renneker would then lead off the fourth inning with a homer to centerfield that was nearly robbed, but deflected off the centerfielder's glove and on over the wall to make the lead 5-1.
Simmons would follow that with a single and a stolen base before moving to third on a Cook sac bunt. She would score two batters later on a Moore single, moving the advantage to 6-1 which would hold to be the final score.


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It was yet another beautiful day here in kiteboarding paradise. The sun was out and the wind was howling yet again as the riders made their way to the beach this morning for the mandatory 8:30am skippers meeting.
The main focus today was the long distance race, where riders and their gear would be transported 1 hour away to an island off the coast of New Caledonia where the race would formally begin and end between the judging tower and a red buoy in front of the main competition site on the mainland.
Riders packed up their 7m and 9m kites, jump into the boats provided by the organization team and were off to the island near 10:00am. Competitors had a small picnic on the island and got acquainted with a few sea snakes known as the Tricot Rayé sea snake, although extremely venomous, these snakes are usually not aggressive towards humans, children normally play with them and bites are extremely rare. Racers began the long distance mission near 12:00pm. Slingshot rider Michael Siret (Slingshot, FRA) would be the first competitor to cross the finish line with a time of 25:45, following a hair length behind him was Tom Hebert (Airush, NCL) who finished 3 seconds behind Siret in second place with a time of 25:48. In a brief conversation with Hebert, he mentioned how extreme the conditions were. "At the beginning the wave swell was really big and then towards the middle to the end of the race the chop was pretty bad. I was full power on my 9m and followed behind Siret for most of the race. When he would crash, I would overtake him, and then I would crash and he would take the lead again. I kept yelling at him go, go, go… it was a lot of fun!" –Hebert Finishing in third place with a time of 26:38 was Sebastien Garat (RRD, FRA) while Julien Kerneur (Takoon, FRA) took fourth with a time of 26:46.
Karolina Winkowska (Slingshot, POL) would be the first and fastest female competitor to cross the finish line today with a time of 30:10. In a conversation with Winkowska she mentioned how difficult the race was, "at the beginning of the race I was so super fast, and towards the end my legs could barely take it anymore." –Winkowska Finishing in second place was the current women's freestyle leader Gisela Pulido (Airush, ESP) with a time of 32:08 followed by Noemie Le Bouteipper (Ozone, FRA) in third with a time of 39:26 and Nina Cavalie (Liquid Force, FRA) with a time of 49:43.
The day wrapped up with a kite loop competition where local competitors dominated the discipline. Mega loop winner was Antoine Monnerville (Ozone, FRA) followed by Sebastien Nguyen (Slingshot, FRA) in second and men's long distance winner Michael Siret (Slingshot, FRA) finished in third place.
Tomorrow's skippers meeting is scheduled for 11:30am with a first possible start of 12:00pm.
The Teri Kitesurf Pro 2010 was made possible in part by the Kiteboarding League of New Caledonia, LVLNC with official partners Orangina, Le Meridien, Nissan, Teri and SeaDoo with special support from NRJ, Air France, RFO Nouvelle Caledonie and Total.


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16-year-old Chris Fowler knows an automated external defibrillator, or AED, saved his life, but he didn't realize how many people did, too.
More than a dozen people were honored Monday night in the Ovid-Elsie High School auditorium for their heroic actions last fall.
"I was just standing there counting them," Fowler said. "It makes me realize how fortunate I am to actually be here and to have the people around me that I did on that day, and that I continue to have around me."
They're the ones who sprang into action when Chris collapsed from sudden cardiac arrest during a regular football practice in early October. Community members, coaches, EMTs, and the Athletic Director who grabbed the AED herself, all played a part.
"When it shocked him, when it said 'stand clear' and everyone had to back away, it truly was a miracle that day," Ovid-Elsie Athletic Director Sonya Latz said. "It was the scariest thing that I have ever encountered."
Through Sparrow Health System's Thoracic and Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation, 39 schools have received a donated AED over the last 10 years. Doctors hope it will be more.
"I think every school should have an AED," Dr. Daryl Melvin said. "And I think it should come from the communities, and then the people need to be trained to use them, and it will save lives."
Dr. Melvin works at Sparrow's Thoracic Cardiovascular Institute and is an Ovid-Elsie alum. He's the main reason why the AED was there in the first place, after he suggested the donation several years ago. A realization the Fowler Family faces every day.
"I didn't even know what one was, but now every time I walk into a building, I immediately look for it," Chris's mother Amy Fowler said.
Chris can't play basketball this season as he usually would, but he's helping coach the freshman. At away games he enjoys being the poster child for AEDs everywhere.
"There's always a picture of me that ends up on Facebook the next day of me like looking at an AED or standing next to it, just 'cause it's just such a big part of my life," Fowler said.
The October incident was the first and only time thus far Ovid-Elsie has need to use its AED.
The school has a second one now and the staff is going through more extensive training with the device. They hope to serve as an example for other schools.


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Switch-hitting paying off in big way for Fowler
DENVER -- Rockies switch-hitting center fielder Dexter Fowler entered Saturday with three home runs this season -- all no-doubters, and all left-handed.
Well, remember 2011, when Fowler struggled from the left and there were suggestions being floated that he should quit switch-hitting? Fowler sure remembers answering questions about it, sensing that there was the possibility the Rockies would ask him to bat only right-handed. Fowler was a right-handed hitter in high school, and was taught to switch-hit when he turned pro with the Rockies.
No one ever actually asked him to end switch-hitting, nor did he ever figure out who thought that was a good idea. No person was ever publicly identified. Former manager Jim Tracy said at the time Fowler was going to find his stride as a switch-hitter, and there was no reason to change him.
"I'm still trying to figure out who the culprit is," Fowler said. "Tell them to come raise their hand and say, 'You know what? I was wrong.' I don't know who said it. Nobody's fessin' up to it. If you're man enough to say it, you should fess up to it. Nobody ever says anything.
"There's always a grapevine and nobody knows the source. And the source never speaks up when they're wrong."
Fowler spoke without bitterness, but he is proud of how he has developed as a switch-hitter. Last season, when he finished with a career-best .300 average, he hit .315 right-handed and a respectable .293 left-handed. He had more than twice the at-bats from the left (311) than from the right (143). He also hit 10 homers left-handed and three from the right.
"I knew I could hit right-handed and left-handed," Fowler said. "When I first started, obviously, it was a little difficult like anything you do starting from scratch. But I put a lot of work into it."
New Rockies manager Walt Weiss said that he is surprised by the power shown by Fowler, who is about 6-foot-4 and entered the Majors no heavier than 180 pounds and now weighs around 220. But he knows as long as Fowler's athletic ability isn't stifled it isn't an issue. Over his career, there have been suggestions he eliminate the upper-cut from his swing and concentrate on hitting the ball on the ground. But when Fowler takes his full swing, he not only has more power, but he's better able to hit doubles and triples to the gaps.
"There's a tendency in this game to get real mechanical, whether it's your footwork defensively or your swing," Weiss said. "In the end, you've got to go out there and be an athlete. These guys are great athletes. We don't ever want to put handcuffs on these guys."


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Normal and Abnormal Imaging Appearances
Thomas Learch, MD, Rasu Shrestha, MD, John Itamura, MD, Charles Brown, BS
In the 1970s and early '80s, the primary complication rate for elbow arthroplasty was rather high, and in many cases elbow arthroplasty was not recommended for joints with severe destruction. However, improvements in hardware and surgical technique within the last 20 years have resulted in clinical outcomes which are now approaching those of hip arthroplasty. In light of this, indications for elbow arthroplasty are expanding. Although elbow arthroplasty is much less frequently performed than hip and knee arthroplasty, radiologists must be aware of the normal radiographic appearance of post-operative and follow-up studies. They must also be aware of complications that occur over the course of implant use. Baseline and follow up imaging studies assist in determining the success or failure of elbow joint replacement surgery and aid in identifying common complications. These pages will demonstrate normal imaging appearances as well as imaging of common complications in these patients.
Learning objectives
- Understand surgical technique and hardware implantation as a background for radiographic interpretation
- Describe normal imaging features of elbow arthroplasty
- Understand potential complications of elbow arthroplasty and their imaging features


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Equalization (California Board of)
The California Board of Equalization (BOE) administers the Sales and Use Tax Law and adopts regulations that interpret the law. It hears appeals of business tax assessments, final Franchise Tax Board actions, and utility assessments. The BOE issues guidelines for certain other state taxes in the form of rules and regulations, sets the property values of utilities for tax purposes, sets the tax rate under various tax laws and guides, and evaluates the assessment practices of the state's 58 county assessors.
The BOE information line provides information about sales and use tax, personal income tax, employee taxes, property taxes, environmental fees, and excise taxes. Consumers may order tax regulations, pamphlets, and law guides from the Center.
Board of Equalization (BOE)
450 N Street
PO Box 942879 (mailing address(
Sacramento, CA 94279-0001
(800) 400-7115
The BOE Account Information Center provides verification of seller's permits.
(800) 225-5263
The BOE Property Taxes Department assess public utilities and railroads, timber yield tax, denial of claim for property tax welfare exemption, property tax appeals procedures, taxability or exemption of property, determination of property reappraisal by county ssessors.
(703) 997-4890 Fax
The BOE Environmental Fees Division handles hazardous waste facility fees, hazardous substance tax, annual generator operating fees, potential response party fees, application/certification fees, occupational lead fees, hazardous spill prevention fees, and environmental fees.
(800) 400-7115
The BOE Fuel Taxes Division handles the new diesel fuel tax program, used fuel tax program registration for a license or permit for the underground storage tank maintenance fee, motor vehicle fuel license tax, oil spill prevention and administration fee, childhood lead poisoning prevention fee, new propane safety inspection and enforcement program and application of a particular tax law.
(916) 322-9669
(800) 400-7115
(916) 323-9352 Fax
The BOE Taxpayers' Rights Advocate Office advocates on behalf of taxpayers' rights, may introduce legislation related to taxpayers' rights, schedules public hearings to hear taxpayers' ideas, concerns, and recommendations on programs and laws administered and over-seen by the Board.
(888) 324-2798
(916) 323-3319
If a consumer has a dispute with the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) over corporate or personal income tax and all rights with the FTB have been exhausted, the consumer may file an appeal with the BOE Appeals of Final Franchise Tax Board Decisions.
(916) 445-7086
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View all images from the Pockets of History collection
The Pockets of History collection contains new digital photographs of over three hundred tie-on pockets of the 1700 and 1800s, with overviews and close-ups of details. The photographs come from the first survey ever made of women's tie-on pockets surviving in Britain. Very few have been photographed before.
The teaching of needlework to girls during this period often involved the making of scaled-down simple garments and it is possible that some of surviving exercise pieces have become thought of as 'dolls' clothes.
The pockets are in almost thirty different collections across the country, the majority in public museums and a tiny number in private hands. The survey and the website are not intended to be comprehensive, but rather their purpose is to provide sufficient examples of tie-on pockets to establish an understanding of their construction, materials and decoration and to facilitate comparisons between pockets normally geographically dispersed in different collections. Many of the pockets are fragile; it is hoped that the information contained in the photographs will help to preserve them by reducing the need for handling them.
Pockets were common but obscure objects, without great value and used by women of all social backgrounds for a long period of time and very few of those that survive have a known provenance. So it is not always possible to be certain about dates or materials. Therefore in some cases information given in the website about extant pockets may be provisional.
The website also contains visual and written material that has been selected to show in other ways how the pockets were made and used, even how they were lost and stolen, and what they meant to people at the time. The website has examples of paintings, prints, novels and letters, along with records of court proceedings, newspaper stories, advertisements, bills and inventories. As everyday objects, the pockets featured over time in many kinds of public and private source and the website can only give a taste of these.
The Pockets of History collection is made for everyone interested in historic dress and textiles from a general or a specialist perspective. It is a unique visual archive of many surviving examples of women's tie-on pockets of the 1700s and 1800s. It is also designed to tell the story of the social and cultural life of these once common, now largely forgotten objects. The website can be searched in different ways so if you are a designer, maker or embroiderer looking for ideas and inspiration, or a curator, conservator or historian in search of references and sources, or a newcomer to this area of interest, there should be relevant material for you.
|Getting Pockets
|Using & Losing Pockets
The Pockets of History research project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the University of Southampton. Additional support was provided by the Pasold Research Fund. The Hampshire County Museums and Archive Service, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Fashion Museum at Bath also gave invaluable aid throughout the project. We acknowledge the help of many other individuals and organisations with the wider research project and its outcomes, not least the team at the Visual Arts Data Service. We are particularly indebted to Dr Jonathan White, members of our AHRC Pockets of History Steering and Expert User Groups and colleagues at the Textile Conservation Centre and elsewhere in the University of Southampton.
The information within and all images that appear may be used for educational purposes only. They may not be copied, altered or amended for any other purpose, without prior permission of the copyright holder(s).
|Barbara Burman
Pockets of History
c/o VADS


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Imagine the possibilities. This is such a cool idea.
(Try to ignore the cutesy scarecrows.)
Image source.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Fireplace Face
Imagine the possibilities. This is such a cool idea.
Posted by Rot at 6:20 PM
Labels: disney, disneydena, fireplace, flickr.com, jack o'lanterns, Scarecrows
2 comments:
- Steve said...
I get hot just thinking about it.
- January 10, 2010 at 2:27 AM
- The Frog Queen said...
Oh, what a wonderful idea! I wonder if I could get a big ceramic pumpkin made and leave it in the fireplace all the time! :D
Thanks for the inspiration.
- January 11, 2010 at 4:33 PM
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Okay I am being mean. It isn't really other people. It's meeting new people. People who I probably will never meet again, not because they are not nice, but simply because of the law of averages. These people are lovely, kind people who give to charities and raise puppies and frolic in fields of golden sunshine. But I'm sorry, if one more of these people asks me in that supremely innocuous, let's get to know each other way, "What is it you do then?" I am going to blow a gasket.
Yes, yes I know! I know what you're going to say, they are only making conversation, they don't even really care - but it is so damn hard to explain to people that I am an actor. How can someone be something when they aren't actually doing it, and especially, with acting, if you haven't done television or film?
You see, when I meet a doctor (which granted aside from my new housemate isn't all that often), I confess I make an assumption. I assume he's a good doctor. When I meet an architect (which granted I never have), I confess there too I make an assumption. I assume he is a good architect. But when one meets an actor, the assumption is the complete opposite. This of course is reasonable. I am a very reasonable person. When people over here ask me if I am American, I am one of the few Canadians who does not get offended. After all there are more Americans out there than Canadians and the accent is almost indistinguishable (no, it really is).
Anyway the reason it is reasonable is because of the nature of celebrity these days. The desire for instant fame. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" "I want to be a doctor, or famous." And for many people the way to this fame and life of perfectness is through becoming an actor. What is even more depressing is how almost anyone would give up their job, the one they worked years to be promoted to, the one they spent years studying for, the one they spent thousands of dollars to pay for, if some Hollywood director offered them a lead in their major blockbuster (and by the way, props to those of you who wouldn't).
And so, when they meet an actor they assume they are just one of those thousands of wannabees out there. There is little to no way to convince someone who has never seen you perform that you are a good actor short of telling them, "Hey, I'm a good actor" (and that doesn't work either). Especially if after they ask what the actor has done the actor replies, "Well I just finished drama school and have done a few things, profit-share on the fringe." The person will invariably think, "Poor thing must not be that good then. I mean Orlando Bloom got Lord of the Rings right out of his drama school." (okay they probably don't think that last bit, I'm just bitter - but not as bitter as my male colleagues, you should see how they respond to his name).
And then . . . and then!! What makes the answering of the question even more difficult is when you actually are doing a show, but the show is something like, I don't know, a production of Peer Gynt at the Rosemary Branch Theatre in Islington for the month of October.
Because then. . .
"You're doing what?"
"Peer Gynt. It's by Ibsen. Who wrote Hedda Gabler? A Doll's House?"
"I've heard of those ones. What is it about?"
"Well it's the story of one man's life, about him not being himself. He travels . . . there are trolls . . . "
"I see. Where is it?"
"In . . .Islington."
"Ah it's fringe."
"Yes, but it's really professional. All the actors and the director are profess. . .ion. . . al . . ."
"So it's paid."
" . . . not exactly . . ."
Then I go home and cry.
Okay, so maybe there is something to be said in that I shouldn't care what other people think, and I am working on all that and everything, but maybe, while I deal with my psychological issues, in the meantime we could all make a little pact now that when we meet someone new (and even though this is actor specific I can tell you most twenty somethings resent that question equally as much) we could ask something else. Like . . . "Have you ever studied Latin?" I, for one, have not. But I do think it might be cool actually to study Latin. But it would have to be taught in a fun way, I could see it being sort of dry. I think they've translated Harry Potter into Latin, or was it ancient Greek, well I think that could be a fun way of learning it.
For those of you who are interested in finding out what Peer Gynt IS about, do check out the show. You can get information by visiting www.daletk.co.uk and clicking on current productions.


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Cream of Pea Soup
Field editor Edie DeSpain of Logan, Utah suggests, "This creamy soup is nice for supper on a chilly night. It's so simple to make with canned peas."
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 10 min.
Makes4-5 servings
- 1 can (15 ounces) peas
- 2 tablespoons chopped onion
- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon rubbed sage
- 2 cups water
- 1 can (12 ounces) evaporated milk
- 4 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
- Drain peas, reserving 1/3 cup liquid. Place peas and liquid in a blender or food processor; cover and puree until smooth. Set aside. In a large saucepan, saute onion in butter until tender. Stir in the flour, sugar, salt, pepper and sage until blended. Gradually add water; bring to a boil. Cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Stir in milk and pureed peas; heat through. Garnish with bacon.


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We hit 2 Billion, go frogs
We hit 2 Billion, go frogs
Kewl !!!!!
Very cool!
Well I am back to help contribute to that 2 billion ... now that winter is upon us I can heat the house with some good cheap electricity. Oil prices are through the roof here!
Great work everyone on the 2 million ..
The frogs are almost room temperature .... compared to the old days....
Lifes Trail is long and steep & only gets Steeper!
Hi LostInTennessee I signed up for the Asteroid@home project and I agree the frogs have cooled compared to the old days, but I have cooled myself.
My computers actually are a major part of my household heating and used to be a big part when I was running 2 over clocked i7920's 2 295's and 3 5870's all over-clocked, they had what felt like a hair drier blowing out of them.
The whole population of crunchers changed with the introduction of GPU projects, people used to have farms and all of a suddlooks lien they became obsolete. My 1st million took years, not one day as it was at it's peak. What I need to do is sell some of my old equipment, which currently is everything I suppose as I only have one machine running and my ASUS P6T6 WS REVOLUTION motherboard can't run Windows 8, maybe my old Rampage II Extreme is able to run it but I bought that system a year before the other. I bought a new washer/drier last winter and the delivery guys asked if I ran a computer repair business, not surprising given the parts I have everywhere and old machines used as end tables etc. I'm not a hoarder just not the type to sell old stuff so I still own all my obsolete (to me), I have a Q6600 with a GTX 250 fully functional just retired as it didn't produce enough as a cruncher to make the electricity costs worth it, getting repeated hard disk errors currently so better backup or image while I can.
go frogs
I know what you are talking about. I have about 11 old computers running now and most have old ATI 4800/5700 GPUs. This could be my last winter of crunching, we'll see.


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Springs and Swamps
These photographs were made in a geographical location that is both seductive and sickening. This place is Florida, home to some of the most unique and breathtaking ecosystems in the world. But it is no secret that Florida is a victim of its own allure. Along with these remarkable environments, it is screaming with out of control development. I am not interested in making pictures of what created this mayhem; it's all over the media. The New Yorker in April 2009 had an article about what happens in communities near the Everglades when non-native species invade. In July 2009 the national nightly news had a story about a 14-foot python eating a 6-foot alligator. We all know what post Disney strip malls, towering condominiums and McMansions look like. I want to show what you haven't seen.
I bring you unique views of rare landscapes. The pictures are hard to classify, try as people will. No one genre fits. They are landscapes, most shot underwater, and combined with elements of street shooting, documentary, the pictorial and the ethereal. This ambiguity is their strength and very much part of the world from which they come. The photographs are not manipulated.
The pictures are from two related bodies of work, Springs and Swamps. The first series was shot in the pristine freshwater rivers and springs of north and central Florida. This exploration and the resulting photographs inspired a trek to the southern part of the state where the most magnificent primordial swamps are located in Big Cypress National Preserve and its neighbor, Everglades National Park. Parts of the park and preserve are a mere forty-five minutes from the sprawl of Miami to the east and Naples to the west, much of these areas are wild and untouched. Via the good fortune of Artist-in-Residence awards from both the park and the preserve I got to explore this vibrant and organic region.
The exquisite natural light that graces the springs and swamps is used solely to illuminate my pictures. In open water there is ever-present particulate matter. This layering of mud and muck, although it may appear to interfere with the water's clarity, is in fact its lifeblood: the living, and breathing, matter seasons the soup and reflects, refracts and bends the light to create its complexity. There is no attempt by me to slick up the environments or for that matter, the pictures. These places are powerful and visceral and to show the essence of these remarkable areas, the photographs are as layered and rich as are the environments. And sometimes, therefore the pictures are unapologetically messy, messy at its most appealing.
These photographs are in no way intended to be a scientific mapping of Florida's wilds. But, due to my pure obsession with these phenomenal places it has become some sort of survey in a looser and more poetic way. One location leads me to another and
I continue my trek through Florida's fresh waters.
Living preoccupied lives, water is far from our day-to-day consciousness and concern. My pictures remind you of the intricate and infinite nature of water. The images are sensuous because the places I photograph are. If the images can provide a respite for the viewer he or she might have a moment of awareness and consider one of many possible scenarios. For example, you are in a gallery in Miami viewing my pictures and you are enjoying a refreshing glass of water. Only a short distance from the wilds of the Everglades, you may very well be drinking water that originated in the swamp I slogged through to make the picture you just viewed.
The mystery of these waters and the complicated puzzle of their continued existence inspires these pictures and continues to summon us to look even deeper.


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State Codes and StatutesStatutes > West-virginia > 16 > 16-30c-3
§16-30C-3. Definitions.
As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following definitions apply:
(a) "Attending physician" means the physician selected by or assigned to the person who has primary responsibility for treatment or care of the person and who is a licensed physician. If more than one physician shares that responsibility, any of those physicians may act as the attending physician under the provisions of this article.
(b) "Cardiopulmonary resuscitation" means those measures used to restore or support cardiac or respiratory function in the event of a cardiac or respiratory arrest.
(c) "Do-not-resuscitate identification" means a standardized identification necklace, bracelet, card or physician orders for scope of treatment form as set forth in this article that signifies that a do-not-resuscitate order has been issued for the possessor.
(d) "Do-not-resuscitate order" means an order issued by a licensed physician that cardiopulmonary resuscitation should not be administered to a particular person.
(e) "Emergency medical services personnel" means paid or volunteer firefighters, law-enforcement officers, emergency medical technicians, paramedics or other emergency services personnel, providers or entities acting within the usual course of their professions.
(f) "Health care decision" means a decision to give, withhold or withdraw informed consent to any type of health care, including, but not limited to, medical and surgical treatments, including life-prolonging interventions, nursing care, hospitalization, treatment in a nursing home or other extended care facility, home health care and the gift or donation of a body organ or tissue.
(g) "Health care facility" means a facility established to administer and provide health care services and which is commonly known by a wide variety of titles, including, but not limited to, hospitals, medical centers, ambulatory health care facilities, physicians' offices and clinics, extended care facilities operated in connection with hospitals, nursing homes and extended care facilities operated in connection with rehabilitation centers.
(h) "Health care provider" means any physician, dentist, nurse, paramedic, psychologist or other person providing medical, dental, nursing, psychological or other health care services of any kind.
(i) "Home" means any place of residence other than a health care facility and includes residential board and care homes and personal care homes.
(j) "Incapacity" or words of like import means the inability because of physical or mental impairment, to appreciate the nature and implications of a health care decision, to make an informed choice regarding the alternatives presented and to communicate that choice in an unambiguous manner.
(k) "Physician orders for scope of treatment (POST) form" means a standardized form containing orders by a qualified physician that details a person's life-sustaining wishes as provided by section twenty-five, article thirty of this chapter.
(l) "Qualified physician" means a physician licensed to practice medicine who has personally examined the person.
(m) "Representative" means a person designated by a principal to make health care decisions in accordance with article thirty-a of this chapter.
(n) "Surrogate decision maker" or "surrogate" means an individual eighteen years of age or older who is reasonably available, is willing to make health care decisions on behalf of an incapacitated person, possesses the capacity to make health care decisions and is identified or selected by the attending physician or advanced nurse practitioner in accordance with applicable provisions of article thirty of this chapter as the person or persons who is to make decisions pursuant to this article: Provided, That a representative named in the incapacitated person's medical power of attorney, if such document has been completed, shall have priority over a surrogate decision maker.
(o) "Trauma" means blunt or penetrating bodily injuries from impact which occur in situations, including, but not limited to, motor vehicle collisions, mass casualty incidents and industrial accidents.


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Municipal courts
The majority of municipal court cases involve traffic, parking, and ordinance matters, including first-time drunken driving offenses. Juvenile matters, such as truancy, underage drinking, drug offenses and curfew violations are also a significant part of municipal court caseloads. The laws governing municipal courts include Wisconsin Statutes Chapter 800, Municipal Court Procedure and Wisconsin Statutes Chapter 755, Municipal Court (external links).
Common cases include:
- Traffic
- First offense drunk driving
- Underage alcohol
- Parking
- Building code violations
- Disorderly conduct
- Trespass
- Health code violations
- Animal control violations
- Truancy
As of February 2014, there were 237 municipal courts and 240 municipal judges in Wisconsin. Sixty-seven of these courts are joint courts that serve from two to seventeen municipalities. Milwaukee has the largest municipal court, with three full-time judges and four part-time court commissioners handling more than 110,000 cases annually.
Creating municipal courts
Municipalities may join together to form one court. The contracting municipalities need not be contiguous or even in the same county. Any number of municipalities may join and voters in all the municipalities elect the judge.
A packet entitled Starting a Municipal Court is available to assist municipalities interested in creating municipal courts. It contains statistics about municipal courts, sample ordinances, answers to commonly asked questions, ethics advice and general information. The guide is continuously updated and distributed to municipalities upon request.
Use the navigation on the right to explore the municipal courts.


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Manage saved passwords
You can have Chrome remember your passwords for different sites. To use your passwords on different devices, turn sync on in Chrome.
If you enter a new password on a site, Chrome will ask to save it. To accept, click Save.
- To see the password that will be saved, click Preview .
- If there are multiple passwords on the page, click the Down arrow . Choose the password you want saved.
- If your username is blank or incorrect, click the text box next to "Username." Enter the username you want saved.
- If you want to save a different password, click the text box next to "Password." Enter the password you want saved.
Sign in with a saved password
If you saved your password on a previous visit to a website, Chrome can help you sign in.
- On your computer, go to a site you've visited before.
- Go to the site's sign-in form.
- If you've saved a single username and password for the site: Chrome will fill in the sign-in form automatically.
- If you've saved more than one username and password: Select the username field and choose the sign-in info you want to use.
See, delete, or export saved passwords
- On your computer, open Chrome.
- At the top right, click Profile Passwords.
- See, delete, or export a password:
- See: To the right of the website, click Show password . If you lock your computer with a password, you'll be prompted to enter your computer password.
- Remove: To the right of the website, click More Remove.
- Export: To the right of "Saved Passwords," click More Export passwords.
To clear all your saved passwords, clear browsing data and select "Passwords."
Start or stop saving passwords
By default, Chrome offers to save your password. You can turn this option off or on at any time.
- On your computer, open Chrome.
- At the top right, click Profile Passwords.
- Turn Offer to save passwords on or off.
Fix problems with passwords
If Chrome isn't saving or offering to save passwords, learn how to fix issues with saved info.
How Chrome saves and syncs passwords
How Chrome saves your passwords depends on whether you want to store and use them across devices. When synced, passwords can be used on Chrome on all your devices, and across some apps on your Android devices.
When sync is turned on for passwords in Chrome, your passwords are saved to your Google Account.
Otherwise, your passwords are only stored on Chrome on your computer.