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Hey Dad, Wanna have Catch?
How can you not think of this clip when the notion of Father's Day comes up every year in baseball. It is one of the classic baseball movies of all time, and this scene in particular makes it all worthwhile to watch again and again every year. How many of us, as young boys got that same opportunity with our fathers to enjoy a simple game of catch on a cool spring night, or a balmy summers eve. It was a basic bonding moment that was forever etched in your mind and memories for all the right reasons.
It is one of the most cherished moment of my younger life. My father was a boxer in the Navy before and during World War II. He also dabbled playing semi-professional baseball with my uncle Johnny, who did get to play a bit with the New York Giants in their Philadelphia neighborhood before my father joined the Merchant Marines in 1941, right before the United States involvement in the world conflict.
He always loved the game of baseball and settled in St. Petersburg, Florida after the war just for the purpose of raising a family and watching summer minor league baseball in the warm balmy Southern nights under the swaying palm trees. That same love for the game was instilled in my blood early in life as each Christmas and birthday baseball goods were the first thing I usually opened either at the table or under the tree.
I had the same bug he had, I loved baseball with a such a forgiving passion, my glove slept right next to me on the bedpost every night. I was always playing some sort of sandlot baseball before dinner on the vacant lot right next to our house on Central Avenue. And you could always see me at the mini golf batting cages in South Pasadena across from the hospital from the time I was 8 years old.
While my mom and sister did their 18 holes of golf, my dad and I would take turns in the cages with him giving me instruction and fine tuning my young swing into a more precision stroke. It was a special time for us, that bonding moment where you knew the two of you enjoyed something with the same passion and the same love for this simple game.
When business was slow at my dad's gas station at Pasadena Avenue and Central during the weekends, we would pop out the back door and throw in the alley behind the station for hours. He tinkering with my throws to try and develop some sort of new pitch that would set me apart from the other kids in the Little League.
That pitch never came, but my dad always taught me to strive harder and dig deeper if you really want it, and that instilled a hearty appetite for always wanting to be the best. I used to sit in the station when I was working for him oiling up my mitt and even brought a bat to work to practice my swing and even improve by hitting a tennis ball dangling off one of the car lifts.
We had a concrete block storage shed on the side of the station that I painted a strikezone and I would always spend at least an hour a day, mostly during my lunch time throwing towards it dreaming of that ninth inning save, or striking out Hank Aaron or Willie Mays. And we both looked forward to going down to Al Lang Field and watch the Florida State League St. Petersburg Cardinals play every summer.
Loved watching some of the games future stars play on this simple stage amongst the twilight of a Florida summers eve. It was poetry in motion to watch these guys doing their orchestrated baseball ballet, and I learned the essence of the game watching players like a young Tito Landrum and Gary Templeton play while the team won 88 games in 1975. And even seeing a young prospect named Cam Bonifay play back in 1974 as a 22-year old before his days in the suites as an executive in baseball.
But those times before my own baseball games, or the ones down by the St. Petersburg waterfront, we always took a few minutes to throw to each other before I ever headed to the field to warm-up with my team, or go to our seats in the stadium. It was my time to put the emphasis on our bond, to throw a few with the old man and try and mess him up with a quirky slider or curveball.
But he never seemed to miss the ball on purpose, but a few times did it to show his vulnerability to me. He passed away trying to get to one of my High School baseball games at a friend's gas station getting ready to head over to the Dixie Hollins field to watch me play.
I knew the minute he was not there something was wrong, but a friend of the family came over the threw with me on the side of the dugout to keep with my superstitious nature. But about 5 minutes into the game without anyone telling me, I want to say there was a warm calming feeling going through me, but it was more of a stark reality that I would never throw with him again.
On Father's Day I always say a prayer to that great man. Not because he threw a ball with me or taught me to truly love this game, but because moments like that are not just for movies and dramatic television. I was truly one of those things in my young life that made me who I am today. I have tried to pass that same tradition on to my daughter's, but they are not at all into the game.
I will credit my daughter Tracey with throwing with me for a few years, but she did not have that passion for the game my father and I shared. She was the cheerleader type, and not the jockette. But she has gone to games with me and actually enjoys watching the Rays play baseball. But she is not hooked on it, or even mildly interested like her Old Man.
So on days like today it hurts a bit. Not because he did not see me after my 16th birthday flourish, or even see my first college game, but because I miss those solitary moments of throwing with him. Most people tend to bawl like babies when Bambi is killed in the Disney movie. For me it is that scene of Ray and his dad finally throwing on that Field of Dreams.
I miss you Dad. Every time I throw the ball. Every time I sit and watch the Rays. But mostly I miss you loving the game with me. I know where you are they have a helluva baseball team, but we do too. And it is a true shame I can not enjoy it with you every game.
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Rays – Thank you for sharing your story. While your dad might not have been in the bleachers, know that he saw every game you played in high school, college and the NFL. Happy Father's Day!
I have that feeling too.
More becuase it seemed that his voice would hit my head at certain times of crisis or high stress and it eased my mind.
But today is still hard and great at the same time.
At least my daughter is a heck of a softball player. lol
Best to all the dad and the dad-to-be……….You are in for a treat!
Rays Renegade
I loved this one too, Rays. great story, you pay great respects to your dad. I was reminded of the same clip from field of dreams today when thinking about fathers day. keep up the great writing
Thanks for that Fenway.
I do have great respect for him and the things he valued in life.
My mother used to tell me I am my dad's son in so many ways. Hopefully in good ways.
I get lucky sometimes and find a good subject or get to voice an opinion sometimes that flows nicely on the blog.
Just glad people can take something from it.
I know I read blogs all the time and enjoy the different views on MLBlogs.com
Rays Renegade
Great memories. I enjoyed reading about them. And give me ten minutes with Tracey and I'll have her loving baseball!
I have had her for 21 years and I can not get her to love anything other than the University of Florida football team.
But that makes sense because she was born during the homecoming game in 1988.
I am fine with her at least loving the Gators, but baseball will come to her one day, and hopefully dad will still be living in Florida.
Rays Renegade
Wow, what amazing memories you have with your dad. While it's tough that he wasn't there physically, to have such great memories for the time he was, clearly means a lot to you. This was a really moving entry, thanks so much for sharing it.
I was one of those kids who did not really tell him a lot of what I felt as a kid.
As I got older it was easier, but still I was brought up to be the strong silent type in person, just like him.
I never understood what my mother told me at his funeral about the memories will help you in the future, but I understand now.
Funny as a kid I only half listened to some of those stories. I now wish I had written each one of them down to tell again and again with perfect clarity.
Rays Renegade
Thanks for sharing, RR. That was a telling and heartfelt account. I feel good having read it.
If I can make you feel good about it, that makes me proud to write it.
Always look to people like you and Lady Jane and Julia to get a reaction. Glad it was a good one for you.
Rays Renegade
Thanks for sharing your story, RR. That was a great reminder of how lucky I was to have been sitting next to my Dad yesterday watching the Marlins and Yankees on Father's Day. I'm one of five siblings, and my dad and I never tossed a baseball when I was a kid (seeing as I am the least athletic girl on the planet), but a passion for the Marlins is something that only he and I share. Thanks for reminding me how blessed I am. :)
As I told my daughter once, it is not about the athletics.
Throwing the ball is a ritual of spring and summer to me.
I watched the NY Met and Rays game thinking of how my dad would throw something at the TV and laughed out loud a few times.
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'File 4/1 General Information regarding Kuwait and Hinterland' [27r] (53/474)
The record is made up of 1 file (235 folios). It was created in 1933-1948. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers.
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which is hardly ever seen there except as a iaiarxxx
dealer's boat.
Very similar to the above is the Shu'ai, except that
it is usually smaller. The only difference, however,
is in the stem-head, as can be seen below.
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The Shu'ai is a very common boat in Kuwait. Itbis used
for fishing, for pearl diving, and four or five of
them are used in the local carrying trade.
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- Note on Kuwait in 1933 incorporating Geography, Administration, History and Trade (folios 2-62)
- Note on Villages of Kuwait State (folios 63-76)
- Note on the Various Districts in Kuwait, Kuwait Neutral Zone, Summan Area , Hussaim and Suda (folios 77-104)
- Notes on the "Batin" Valley, and "Dibdibba" Country (folios 105-120)
- Note on the "Shaqq" Depression (folios 121-123)
- Note on "Failakah" Island (folios 124-130)
- Note on Native Craft of Kuwait (folios 131-135)
- Note on the Prevailing Winds of Kuwait (folios 136-138)
- Note on the Different Kinds of Fish found at Kuwait (folios 139-144)
- Notes on the Drinking Water (Wells, etc) available in Kuwait Town, in Case of Military or Naval Operations (folios 145-147)
- Notes on Personalities in Kuwait (folios 148-154)
- Notes on Kuwait (folios 155-159)
- A report on Kuwait Dhows (with odd notes attached at rear) written by Alan Villiers in 1939 (folios 160-183)
- Leading Personalities of Kuwait written by Major Tom Hickinbotham in 1942 (folios 187-198)
- Who's Who in Muscat written by John Baron Howes in 1942 (folios 199-209)
- Conditions in Kuwait written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy in 1947 (folios 226-228)
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It's with great surprise to have won an award from the Canadian Weblog Awards by Ninjamatics. In honesty, I did not expect to get through the shortlist and then getting the top spot for Best Weblog About Music. It was awesome getting kind messages from friends with a congratulation. I never expect to do a good job blogging but lacked the confidence in being positive to bringing my blog forward. All in all, it's nice that the awards is not based on popularity, it's based on the quality and accessibility. I do forget that I do provide excellent content in terms of audio. I got to thank the jury for their extra hard work and judging on all the blogs that competed. There are a lot of excellent blogs throughout Canada.
If CKCU-FM wasn't a big supporter, this blog wouldn't get far with the contents I provide and I wouldn't be able to showcase Canadian indie and local talent as the Internet has become beneficial to music and how shifts in traditional media is getting weeded out because social media is giving musicians and bands a better avenue to showcase their materials.
I should thank a lot of people for their support; Nat & Marie, the CKCU-FM staff, hosts & volunteers, CHUO-FM shows like Now Playing, Ivory Antenna, & Best In British Music, Gloria Song, Candice So, Alan Neal, CBC Radio 3 fans and hosts, Strombo (not writing his full name), the two Brian's, and various Canadian indie musicians & bands. The Ottawa Twitter people I've met and there's a whole bunch to list that I can think of.
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I will continue to bring the best on my blog.
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Using social media to attract and retain customers and drive revenue requires more than a simple online presence: It requires a focused, well-planned business strategy.
Learning a New Language
Sales and support are also at the center of Rosetta Stone's strategy. The provider of technology-based language learning systems has turned heavily to social media to market and sell its products. About two years ago, the company developed a set of goals and a road map for using social media: It established a dedicated social media department and launched a Facebook page during the summer of 2009.
"There is a huge word-of-mouth component to our business," states Jay Topper, senior vice president of customer success. "Social media is a perfect way to interact with customers and extend the brand." (See "What's Next for Customer Service?" on page 8.)
The Facebook page includes general information, embedded videos and demos, discussion and review threads, events and support. The latter feature provides an FAQ, a searchable database and a live chat function. In fact, Rosetta Stone has extended its Website functionality to Facebook through the use of Parature customer service software. "Facebook is simply another channel," Topper notes. "It's important to give customers a choice about how they interact."
Rosetta Stone has also turned to Twitter to address issues, questions and complaints; LinkedIn to facilitate hiring and human resources tasks; and YouTube to provide informational videos. "The idea is to create a more cohesive and recognizable brand," Topper points out. "With all the different social media components in place and a focus on market and customer research, it's like running a 24/7 focus group." In addition, Rosetta Stone culls data and runs it through analytics software to better understand customers, channels and behavior.
When social media is used effectively, "People feel as though they have a personal relationship with a company," author Libert explains. Through the use of polls, quizzes, games, customer reviews and discussion pages where the public can suggest new and better products, it's possible for an enterprise to get closer to customers than ever before and tap into "market research opportunities that weren't possible in the past," he notes.
In fact, Accenture's Dempski says that when all this data is plugged into an analytics program, it's possible to gain insights into the types of marketing initiatives and advertisements that work best. For example, a clothing designer might post photos of a new line of coats in both color and black-and-white. The firm might ask customers which ads are the most appealing and study the results based on the specifics of the photos overlaid with the customer's gender, age and geographic location. This might lead to different marketing campaigns for different market segments and for people in different geographic regions.
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South African Journal of Science
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S. Afr. j. sci. vol.107 n.7-8 Pretoria Aug. 2011
Male philopatry and female dispersal amongst two species of early hominins from the Sterkfontein valley
Nikolaas J. van der Merwe
Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
An article by Sandi Copeland and colleagues,1 which appeared in Nature on 02 June 2011, strongly suggests that amongst two species of early hominins that were present in the Sterkfontein Valley, the male individuals were much less likely to disperse from their natal group than the female individuals. The two species were Australopithecus africanus from Sterkfontein and Paranthropus robustus from nearby Swartkrans. The ranges on the landscape of the male and female fossil specimens were determined by measuring the strontium isotope ratios in their tooth enamel and comparing the results with those from the geological substrate of the Sterkfontein Valley. Most of the male specimens had lived in the area from birth (thus male philopatry), whilst a substantial number of the female specimens had come from somewhere else.
All the cave sites that have yielded hominin fossils in the Cradle of Humankind occur in the Malmani dolomite formation. These sites include Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, Makapansgat and Drimolen. The Malmani dolomite is a relatively narrow formation on the landscape, running from south-west to north-east for more than 60 km, but with a width of only 7 km - 9 km. From the cave sites of Sterkfontein and Swartkrans, the formation extends about 2 km - 3 km to the south-east and 5 km - 6 km to the north-west.
The 87Sr/86Sr ratio of the Malmani dolomite ranges between 0.721 and 0.734. All of the plants that grow on the dolomite and the elements of the food chain that are based on them have the same strontium isotope ratios.2 Their mean value differs significantly from nine nearby geological substrates and overlaps with only two, which are quite small. The teeth of the hominins incorporate the strontium isotope ratios of the geological substrate during the first eight years of life and can thus be identified as being local or non-local in origin.
Darryl de Ruiter selected from the collections of the Transvaal Museum (now the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History) 19 tooth crowns of early hominins for analysis. Of these 19, 8 were specimens of Australopithecus africanus from Sterkfontein Member 4, dating from ~2.2 Ma (million years ago) and 11 were specimens of Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans Member 1 (~1.8 Ma). The tooth sizes of each species were compared with all the specimens of the same species from Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, Makapansgat and Drimolen. The teeth could be separated into male and female specimens, based on the sexual dimorphism of these early hominins. For both species, the body weight of male individuals has been estimated at about 40 kg and that of female individuals at about 30 kg.3 The teeth of the male specimens, therefore, are significantly larger than those of the female specimens.
By way of comparison, the strontium isotope ratios in the teeth of 38 fossil mammals from Sterkfontein and Swartkrans, of the same age as the hominins, were also measured. These fossil mammals were from taxa with small home ranges, such as Procavia (rock hyrax) and Raphicerus (steenbok), as well as some monkeys, baboons and bovids. To place the ranges of the hominins and other mammals in the context of biologically available strontium,4 170 modern plant and animal specimens were collected by several members of the team within a 50 km radius of Sterkfontein and Swartkrans, covering 11 different geological substrates.
The 87Sr/86Sr ratios of the tooth enamel specimens were measured using a New Wave UP213 laser ablation unit, coupled to a NuPlasma high-resolution multicollector inductively coupled mass spectrometer (LA-MC-ICP-MS). This instrument is located at the Africa Earth Observatory Network (AEON) at the University of Cape Town (UCT), to which it was granted by the Department of Science and Technology, and it is operated by geochemist Petrus le Roux. The plant specimens were dried and ashed in the Department of Archaeology at UCT and their strontium isotope ratios measured by solution MC-ICP-MS at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, where Copeland is currently located.
Laser ablation MC-ICP-MS is less accurate than solution MC-ICP-MS,5 but it has the advantage that it is essentially non-destructive, leaving only small traces (200 µm × 750 µm) on the enamel surface of a tooth. However, LA-MC-ICP-MS requires that the tooth be brought to the instrument. The fossil teeth from the collections of the Transvaal (Ditsong) Museum cannot be taken out of the control of the curators. This problem was solved when curator Stephany Potze, accompanied by the museum's information officer Tercia Perrigil, flew to Cape Town with the specimens and observed the laboratory work. Potze graciously declined the offer of co-authorship, because '... I am only doing my job'. The 87Sr/86Sr ratios of the fossil mammals from Sterkfontein and Swartkrans show that very few are non-locals. Of the Cercopithecidae (monkeys), 1 out of 7 specimens were non-locals, as were 1 of 11 Procaviidae (rock hyraxes) and 3 of 19 Bovidae. Of the 19 hominins, 6 were non-local and 4 of these had tooth sizes below the mean for their given species. At least 50% of the small hominins were non-local, but only 11% of the large hominins were. One can conclude that the male hominins lived where they were born, whilst the female hominins were likely to have arrived from somewhere else. This example of male philopatry is exhibited by many groups of modern humans and also by Pan (chimpanzees).6 Amongst gorillas, however, both male and female individuals disperse at similar rates.7 The authors think it unlikely that there is a modern analogue for the male philopatry of the early hominins, given that the low sexual dimorphism of their canine teeth indicate relatively low competition amongst the male hominins.
The importance of this study lies in the fact that sophisticated new technology was used to determine the behaviour of early hominins. The demonstration that male individuals stayed where they were born and female individuals moved towards them is not in itself of major importance. Chimpanzees do the same and so do my farming relatives in the Karoo. In the case of modern farmers, this has to do with farms that are inherited by sons and wives that are recruited from somewhere else. In the case of the Sterkfontein Valley, the caves in the dolomite may have been the draw card, but this is a matter of interpretation.
The study has already received attention in the scientific literature,8 but especially so in the popular press, where the response has ranged from serious to funny. An interesting example is the article titled 'Cavegirls rule, OK!' by Paul Harris and Fiona Macrae in the Daily Mail of 06 June 2011. It is illustrated with an image of a scantily clad Racquel Welch on a poster reading 'Was this the way it was one million years BC?' I have no comment on the ruling cavegirl theme, but I do on a statement in the article that the findings were '... made by Oxford University researchers and an international team of scientists'. Although funded by the US National Science Foundation, three of the eight authors are South Africans (Julia Lee-Thorp, Daryl Codron and Le Roux). Sponheimer completed his PhD at Rutgers University, but was trained in isotope work by Lee-Thorp at UCT; Lee-Thorp also trained Codron and De Ruiter, a Canadian who did his PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand. Lee-Thorp, formerly a member of the UCT Archaeology Department and now Professor of Archaeological Science at Oxford, comments that the study could not have been done without the LA-MC-ICP-MS facility at AEON, the fossil collections in the Transvaal Museum and the considerable help of the curators.
1. Copeland SR, Sponheimer M, De Ruiter DJ, et al. Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins. Nature. 2011;474:76-78. doi:10.1038/nature10149, PMid:21637256 [ Links ]
2. Sillen A, Hall G, Richardson S, Armstrong R. 87Sr/86Sr ratios in modern and fossil food-webs of the Sterkfontein Valley: Implications for early hominid habitat preferences. Geochim Cosmochim Acta. 1998;62:2463-2473. doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(98)00182-3 [ Links ]
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What makes a grouse dog?
No one who is at all sensitive to criticism or who does take kindly to being disagreed with, should speak openly of his grouse dog ideas; much less permit them to become recorded in lasting print.
~ William Harnden Foster, New England Grouse Shooting, 1942
Ruffed grouse tend to inhabit wooded areas with high stem density which makes it more difficult for ground predators to approach. Generally, they prefer a bare forest floor with good visibility and an over story for protection from aerial predators. Grouse live singly and are therefore responsible for their own survival. Their preferred means of travel is walking. When threatened, evasive options are many and grouse will run, flush, fly into a tree, sit tight or any combination.
What Betsy and I seek in a grouse dog are qualities that allow the dog to find the most birds and the ability to point them in a manner that provides the best shooting opportunities. We choose our grouse dogs based on the habits, and habitat, of the birds.
Ruffed grouse are solitary birds that live in big woods.
Even though the woods are vast, only a small portion holds grouse. We require a dog that will cover a good amount of territory searching for these individual birds while staying in contact with the handler.
Ruffed grouse inhabit some nasty areas.
Not only does a grouse dog have to penetrate the bird's realm but it also has to get there. This includes traversing rough cover of debris-strewn, moss-covered, logged-over areas, tall grass, thorny berry briars and lots of water—whether in swamps, streams, marshes or ponds. A grouse dog is constantly ducking under, jumping over or otherwise dodging something in its path. We want a tenacious dog that is not deterred by tough terrain.
Ruffed grouse also like bare forest floors.
A grouse leaves little scent on a bare forest floor. That open-ness at bird level also gives grouse a good view of its surroundings. We require a dog with superb scenting ability that can follow a bird's movements. The dog should have the dual qualities of strong pointing instinct and boldness to engage the bird.
In addition to those qualities that are bird-oriented, Betsy and I want a tractable, intelligent dog with physical ability and style. It should have good hearing with natural ability to orient to its handler. It should effortlessly adapt to different cover. It should move easily and hunt for long periods of time, even under hot, dry conditions. Finally, we want a stylish dog that hunts with zeal.
We know that's asking a lot of a dog but we've seen many dogs do it.
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it will happen when your baby is ready. my son didn't start crawling till he was almost 10 months old my daughter started at 7 months. every baby is different there is no set age when they should start..
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At what age do babies start to crawl and how do I help them learn?
Crawling is the first way babies start moving around their world. When does this usually happen? Are there ways you can help your child learn how to crawl?
My daughter just started to crawl and she is 9 months. (Granted she was 5 weeks early.) Her crawling is more of an army crawl now, but she does get on her knees once in a while and scoots! I let her get as much practice as possible and give her room to roam. Good Luck!!!
when your baby is ready for it.
I agree that each baby is different. Also don't be surprised if they roll or go backwards first. As for helping them learn, just make sure they're in comfortable clothes i.e. no dresses if a girl. Otherwise they can accidentally tread on the "skirt" and choke themselves a little. Onesies and pants are best to protect little knees. They're also some legwarmers you can purchase to cover their knees instead of the pants.
I would say 6-9 months. If you want to help her crawl, put her on her belly and put a couple of toys just out of reach, and let her try to get to them. As she's able to get to them move toys a little farther away. If she gets frustrated after a while, then give her the toy and try again another time.
Every baby is different, I know some that never crawled, however made a sooching movement, and skipped right to walking.
at birth!! I kid....my oldest son crawled at 9 mos and started walking at 10 months. he is now 30 years old and his dad and i are looking forward to this milestone with his baby brother who is almost 9 mos,
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2011 is an off-year for statewide elections, but this week saw local elections for city councils, mayors and other local offices and measures across California.
The most prominent elections took place in San Francisco, where interim mayor Ed Lee was running for a full term.
The results of some races have not been finalized, but there are lessons to be learned from these local contests.
Here are five such lessons.
1. Liberals won't go for pension reform unless it's backed by unions.
The San Francisco elections offered two competing measures to save money on pensions -- the union-backed Proposition C and the union-opposed Proposition D.
Prop D, backed by public defender and mayoral candidate Jeff Adachi, would have saved more money on pensions, but it lost.
Prop C, which was backed labor as a less severe alternative to Prop D, won. The labor endorsement mattered.
This is an interesting and timely political message because Gov. Jerry Brown is pushing for pension cutbacks. Many in labor are opposing him.
The San Francisco election result, if anything, would strengthen labor's hand.
2. San Francisco opposes reform like the rest of the state.
In a dispiriting outcome, San Francisco voters on Tuesday turned down -- by a 2 to 1 margin -- a proposal, Proposition E, to permit the board of supervisors to amend measures put on the ballot by the board itself.
This proposal offered badly needed flexibility -- the type of flexibility that is badly needed at the state level, where initiatives are also not subject to amendment.
San Franciscans often express the belief that the state would be governable if the rest of California thought and voted like they do.
But in turning down Prop E, San Franciscans sided with anti-tax activists and others who refuse to give elected officials the freedom to negotiate and fix problems.
Instead, San Francisco, like the rest of California, prefers to lock in its policy preferences by the initiative ballot -- even when those preferences make the system so much harder to manipulate.
3. Money can't buy you turnout.
A special election to replace Janice Hahn on the Los Angeles City Council sparked an expensive campaign -- more than $2 million was spent -- but not voter interest.
Just over 16,000 of the more than 100,000 registered voters in the council district bothered to show up.The LA Times didn't even carry a story on the race in the election day paper.
But that's not the bad part.
The bad part is that there will have to be another election -- a runoff between the top two votegetters, neither of whom drew as many as 5,000 votes in an election to represent more than 200,000 people.
4. Who says inland California hates taxes?
California commentators, including this blogger, often portray inland California as implacably opposed to tax increases -- and portray coastal California as a place where people want their taxes raised.
But the elections a different look. Liberal, coastal San Francisco voted down a sales tax increase. Meanwhile, Voters in the small city of Oakdale, in the center of California near Modesto (Bay Area residents have probably driven through on their way to Yosemite), voted to raise their local sales tax by a half-cent over three years to stall cuts in local services.
5. Most people don't care.
Off-year elections often have low turnouts, and Tuesday's contests were no exception. Even the high-profile San Francisco races drew turns out of less than one third of registered voters.
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The quote above by Tertullian refers to a predecessor of today's organ:
The Hydraulic Organ. It was invented around the 3rd century before Christ.
The earliest known organist was Ctesibius of Alexandria, who lived around
200 B.C. Pipe organs existed throughout the ancient world although they
were quite different from the organs of the 16th century and later, which
are the organs familiar to us today. The Hydraulic organ used the weight
of water to keep the wind under pressure so that the wind blowing through
the pipes would be steady. These early organs did not have manuals but used levers. The levers were further apart than today's keys on a manual.
These organs did not have pedals because the pedalboard was not invented until the late 15th century. The largest organs had 22 pipes and four different kinds of pipes per note. Today's organs have 61 notes an
d can have over 100 different kinds of sounds per note, although the average large organ will have about 50 to 60 different sounds to use. When Tertullian wrote about the organ, he was speaking of the small organs of ancient times. Imagine how he would fe
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The path to reconciliation with Canada's Indigenous Peoples is proving to be a long and difficult journey. Injustices continue to surface.
Two disturbing examples over the past week demand changes in our criminal justice system. They show why Indigenous people believe there is a double standard in this country — one set of laws for aboriginals and another for everyone else.
A verdict last week in Saskatchewan shook Canada's First Nations to the core. A jury acquitted a white farmer in the death of a young aboriginal man, Colten Boushie. The farmer shot and killed the 22-year-old during an incident on his farm. People expect that when a serious case goes to trial, the jury will representative of the population at large. The way the jury was selected, with the defence team using challenges to remove prospective jurors who appeared to be of Indigenous ancestry, suggests that wasn't the case in Saskatchewan.
Equally disturbing were details presented Wednesday in Moncton before the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The family of a P.E.I. aboriginal woman, who died under suspicious circumstances more than 40 years ago, gave testimony to hammer home the message that her life mattered, that a mother matters and First Nations women matter.
The family didn't get much co-operation about the death of Mary Francis Paul, who was found on the Charlottetown waterfront in 1977. The family was told that Ms. Paul had been found dead near the water and had a broken neck after falling. Police said there was no suggestion of foul play.
It was 12 years later before the family found out the body had been in a metal bin, which certainly raises serious suspicions.
Police should give the family a full account of the investigation. If the evidence warrants, the case should be re-opened and perhaps the family might finally get justice, some answers or closure.
Boushie's family members met with the prime minister and the federal justice minister early this week. The PM later addressed the House of Commons to outline pending legislation changes to ensure that justice might finally come to Canada's Aboriginal Peoples. He vowed that going forward, recognition of rights will guide all government relations with Indigenous peoples.
It's long past time that those hard-fought rights were recognized.
The Boushie family, despite their grief and anger, focused not on themselves in Ottawa, but on how to work together to make the system and our institutions better, such as reforming jury-selection rules and bail processes.
Indigenous peoples are getting impatient with federal promises. It's time to move from words to action.
Indigenous Peoples have long been over-represented in the criminal justice system, whether as victims of crime or in jails. It's time for juries, verdicts and court benches to be well represented with them as well.


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Recent advances in the hydrostratigraphy of Paleozoic bedrock in the Midwestern United States
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In a departure from GSA Todays usual single lead science article format, the following four articles are meant to familiarize you with the span of geologic time represented in the Upper Midwest and the expertise of its geoscience community as we prepare to assemble at the Annual Meeting in Minneapolis. These articles also emphasize the critical role geologists are being asked to play in a society that is increasingly focused on sustainable resource use and the long-term resilience of the planet.
The first two papers treat geologic events from opposite ends of the timeline as a controlled experiment that can be studied to help understand, and thereby forecast, system responses. The latter two speak directly to our role in society.
The EarthScope USArray is currently deployed in Minnesota. Seth Stein and colleagues describe how the information coming in regarding the failed, 1.1-Ga midcontinent rift, frozen in time, will provide a way to test the two leading theories about the fundamental cause of rifting.
Next, Karen Gran and colleagues describe Holocene valley evolution. A well-constrained downcutting event is driving continuing adjustment on tributaries to the Minnesota River, the history of which has a strong influence on modern sediment loads and direct resource-management implications.
Ken Bradbury and Tony Runkel, geologists with two state surveys, partnered up for the third article, which examines how the mechanical behavior of Paleozoic rocks affects groundwater flow systems. This information is critical for sustainable groundwater use in the face of challenges ranging from the presence of live viruses deep beneath Madison, Wisconsin, USA, to evolving cones of depression that change hydraulic gradients.
Finally, Cathy Manduca introduces readers to the process of producing an educated citizenry (and a well-prepared geoscience community) that understands the ways that Earth and society are linked. The article also illustrates the need to act collectively to share experiences, develop them into classroom activities, and accurately diagnose student challenges.
Carrie Jennings, Minnesota Geological Survey
Vice Chair, 2011 Annual Meeting Organizing Committee
Relatively undeformed Paleozoic bedrock forms the most widely used aquifers in Minnesota and Wisconsin (Fig. 1). Increasing demand for groundwater and concerns about contamination of deep aquifers have led to the need for a more comprehensive understanding of the hydrogeologic attributes of these strata than was deemed suitable just a few decades ago. Modern field techniques, coupled with advances in numerical modeling, are providing new insights into bedrock groundwater flow systems and redefinition of the classic divisions of the section into regional aquifers and aquitards. In Minnesota and Wisconsin, we commonly undertake borehole flowmeter logging, optical and acoustical borehole imaging, temperature profiling, short-interval packer testing, multi-level hydraulic head measurement, and dye tracing to evaluate the hydrogeology of bedrock formations. These techniques are widely available today but were beyond the reach of most field hydrogeologists only a few years ago.
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General distribution of the Cambrian-age units (stippled) and generalized Cambrian stratigraphic column in Minnesota and Wisconsin, USA. These rocks form several regionally important bedrock aquifers.
Advances in our understanding of groundwater flow through fractures have been a critical outcome of recent hydrostratigraphic research. For example, clusters of bedding-parallel (subhorizontal) fractures that are commonly restricted to relatively discrete stratigraphic intervals can dominate flow systems (e.g., Muldoon et al., 2001; Runkel et al., 2006a; Tipping et al., 2006; Swanson et al., 2006). They are now documented not only in carbonate rock, but also in friable sandstone aquifers and in aquitards of greatly variable lithic properties (Eaton and Bradbury, 2003; Runkel et al., 2006b; Meyer et al., 2008). Although the distribution of bedding-perpendicular (subvertical) fractures remains poorly understood in comparison, integration of mechanical stratigraphy (the subdivision of rock into discrete intervals [mechanical units] according to the structures found in those intervals [Underwood et al., 2003]) with hydrostratigraphic data is leading us toward potentially significant advances in understanding vertical groundwater flow paths. Discrete stratigraphic intervals apparently resistant to the development of through-going vertical fractures appear to play a key role in limiting hydraulic connection between the major aquifers. Demonstration of stratigraphic control on fracture systems both parallel and perpendicular to bedding has provided us with better predictability in groundwater flow paths and velocities.
Research combining many of these techniques has provided new insights into aquitard properties, and the concept of aquitard integrity (Cherry et al., 2006). For example, the Cambrian St. Lawrence and Ordovician Platteville aquitards are now recognized as complex "hybrid" hydrogeologic units. These aquitards have well-developed conduit systems accommodating rapid horizontal flow analogous to karstic aquifers (e.g., Green et al., 2011). From a vertical perspective, under certain geologic conditions they appear to have only very limited integrity, and in other conditions appear to contain discrete intervals highly resistant to vertical flow. This aquitard research will also be highlighted as part of a Twin Cities Metro field trip associated with the 2011 annual meeting (Anderson et al., 2011).
Ongoing evaluation of the Cambrian Eau Claire Formation in southern Wisconsin provides an example of modern bedrock aquitard studies. The Eau Claire consists of generally fine-grained sandstones, siltstones, and mudstones (Aswasereelert et al., 2008) and lies stratigraphically between two important coarser-grained sandstone aquifers—the overlying Wonewoc Formation (Upper Cambrian) and underlying Mount Simon Formation (Middle Cambrian). This stratigraphic position has caused the Eau Claire Formation to be considered a major regional aquitard, yet historically the hydrogeologic characteristics of the Eau Claire Formation were confusing. Subsurface logs indicate that its thickness ranges from absent to >75 m, and parts of the formation yield significant amounts of water to wells. Recent evaluation of numerous downhole geophysical logs, especially gamma-ray logs, combined with studies of well cuttings and outcrop observations show that the Eau Claire Formation consists of five lithofacies ranging from fine-grained sandstone to shale (Aswasereelert et al., 2008), arranged as complexly stacked, discontinuous packages that form a heterogeneous and anisotropic aquitard. Two hydrogeologically critical components are low hydraulic conductivity mudstones and siltstones and high permeability sandstones.
A key part of modern aquitard hydrogeology is the integration of multi-level hydraulic head measurements into hydrostratigraphic analysis. In south-central Wisconsin, regional groundwater withdrawals from the confined Mount Simon aquifer have created a regional cone of depression. As a result, vertical hydraulic gradients are downward: The elevation of the shallow water table can be many feet above water levels in deep wells. Careful measurement of this hydraulic gradient through the Eau Claire Formation has shown that the major head loss occurs near the very bottom of the formation, where >12 m of head drop corresponds to an interval of <3 m of shale and siltstone identified by borehole geophysical logs and cuttings (Fig. 2). This same interval shows very low hydraulic conductivity in short-interval straddle-packer tests. Collectively, these data lead to the conclusion that the Eau Claire aquitard, as opposed to the Eau Claire Formation, is only a few meters thick and is discontinuous, ranging from absent to ~9 m thick across the study area. Regional groundwater modeling has demonstrated that this relatively thin unit exerts a major control on regional groundwater flow in the ~300-m-thick bedrock aquifer system and that it is critical in protecting deep wells from contamination.
Hydrogeologic data across the Eau Claire aquitard. Optical borehole image (left) shows shaley facies. Relative water levels show head drop at base of aquitard. Horizontal hydraulic conductivity based on straddle-packer tests (no data collected between 87 and 88 m); cps—counts per second; m/d—meters per day.
Combining these hydrogeologic techniques with recent advances in water quality measurements provides new insights into aquifer vulnerability. For example, ongoing work has documented the presence of human enteric viruses in deep wells in Madison, Wisconsin, USA (Borchardt et al., 2007; Bradbury et al., 2010). These viruses originate near the land surface, and their presence in deep wells suggests a very rapid transport path. Movement through cross-connecting wells is one such pathway, but transport along fractures or windows in aquitards are also possibilities. Ultimately, understanding of the mode(s) of transport of the virus and other contaminants is dependent on the level of understanding of the hydrostratigraphy.
Current studies link these new hydrostratigraphic advances to water sustainability issues at a variety of scales. A recent Twin Cities metro-wide (southeastern Minnesota, USA) compilation depicting the 3-D distribution of hydrochemical facies, including contamination zones, interpreted within the context of a well-developed hydrostraphic framework, provides important new bases for decision making as the region grapples with resource sustainability. These are exciting times for hydrogeologists interested in bedrock groundwater flow systems in the Midwest, as we learn that rocks long considered "layer-cake" aquifers and aquitards contain fascinating complexity.
- Anderson, J.R., Runkel, A.C., Tipping, R.G., Barr, K.D.L., and Alexander, E.C., Jr., 2011, Hydrostratigraphy of a fractured, urban aquitard, in Miller, J.D., Jr., Hudak, G.J., Wittkop, C., and McLaughlin, P.I., eds., Geological Society of America Field Guide 24, doi:10.1130/2011.0024(22) (in press).
- Aswasereelert, W., Simo, J.A., and LePain, D.L., 2008, Deposition of the Cambrian Eau Claire Formation, Wisconsin: Hydrostratigraphic implications of fine-grained cratonic sandstones: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Geoscience Wisconsin, v. 19, p. 1–21.
- Borchardt, M.A., Bradbury, K.R., Gotkowitz, M.B., Cherry, J.A., and Parker, B.L., 2007, Human enteric viruses in groundwater from a confined bedrock aquifer: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 41, no. 18, p. 6606–6612.
- Bradbury, K.R., Borchardt, M.A., Gotkowitz, M., and Spencer, S.K., 2010, Human viruses as tracers of wastewater pathways into deep municipal wells: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey Open-File Report 2010-04, 40 p.
- Cherry, J.A., Parker, B.L., Bradbury, K.R., Eaton, T.T., Gotkowitz, M.B., Hart, D.J., and Borchardt, M.A., 2006, Contaminant transport through aquitards: A state-of-the-science review: Denver, Colorado, Water Research Foundation Research Report 91133A, 126 p.
- Eaton, T.T., and Bradbury, K.R., 2003, Hydraulic transience and the role of bedding fractures in a bedrock aquitard, southeastern Wisconsin, USA: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 30, no. 18, p. 4-1–4-5.
- Green, J.A., Runkel, A.C., and Alexander, E.C. Jr., 2011, Karst conduit flow in the Cambrian St. Lawrence Formation, southeast Minnesota, USA, in Yuhr, L., Alexander, E.C., Jr., and Beck, B.F., eds., Proceedings of the Twelfth Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst, St. Louis, Missouri, 10–14 January 2011 (in press).
- Meyer, J.R., Parker, B.L., and Cherry, J.A., 2008, Detailed hydraulic head profiles as essential data for defining hydrogeologic units in layered fractured sedimentary rock: Environmental Geology, v. 56, p. 27–44.
- Muldoon, M.A., Simo, J.A., and Bradbury, K.R., 2001, Correlation of hydraulic conductivity with stratigraphy in a fractured-dolomite aquifer, northeastern Wisconsin, USA: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 9, p. 570–583.
- Runkel, A.C., Mossler, J.H., Tipping, R.G., and Bauer, E.J., 2006a, A hydrogeologic and mapping investigation of the St. Lawrence Formation in the Twin Cities Metropolitan area: Minnesota Geological Survey Open-File Report 06-04, 32 p.
- Runkel, A.C., Tipping, R.G., Alexander, E.C., and Alexander, S.C., 2006b, Hydrostratigraphic characterization of intergranular and secondary porosity in part of the Cambrian sandstone aquifer system of the cratonic interior of North America: Improving predictability of hydrogeologic properties: Sedimentary Geology, v. 184, p. 281–304.
- Swanson, S.K., Bahr, J.M., Bradbury, K.R., and Anderson, K.M., 2006, Evidence for preferential flow through sandstone aquifers in southern Wisconsin: Sedimentary Geology, v. 184, p. 331–342.
- Tipping, R.G., Runkel, A.C., Alexander, E.C., and Alexander, S.C., 2006, Evidence for hydraulic heterogeneity and anisotropy in the mostly carbonate Prairie du Chien Group, southeastern Minnesota, USA: Sedimentary Geology, v. 184, p. 305–330.
- Underwood, C.A., Cooke, M.L., Simo, J.A., and Muldoon, M.A., 2003, Stratigraphic controls on vertical fracture patterns in Silurian dolomite, northeastern Wisconsin: AAPG Bulletin, v. 87, p. 121–142.


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Edward Lee, aged 81 years, one of the oldest and best known citizens on this side, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William Quirk, at Jeanesville last night about 7 o'clock. The deceased was in perfect health up to Monday. He partook of his Monday dinner as usual, but shortly after while lying on a couch he was stricken suddenly ill with what looked like paralysis and he was unable to utter a word from the time he was taken ill until he died. Mr. Lee was born in county Cabin (sic), Ireland, and emigrated to America about fifty-seven years ago. He resided in New York and Nesquehoning previous to locating in Jeanesville. His wife preceded him in death about sixteen years ago. He was a man who was well liked by every person. He was very active notwithstanding his advanced age and was a great lover of base ball. During all of last season he witnessed every game that was played at Park View and was first among the spectators on the ground. He was a great favorite of the children and often he could be seen with a crowd of little ones about him as they listened to the tales he used to relate. He enjoyed a large circle of friends and all will be sorry to hear of his death. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. William Quirk, with whom he resided for the past number of years."
For those of you that have done Irish genealogy research or are familiar with Ireland, you'll know that there is no County Cabin, but County Cavan. In Irish Cavan is spelled Cabhán. You don't really hear the "b" in the pronunciation, but perhaps there was some miscommunication when relaying the information for the obit. Edward, given the time of his birth in Ireland, would have most likely known Irish. Spelling wasn't necessarily as important as it became over time and who knows how well Edward was educated. I could hypothesize for hours, but the bottom line is they got that bit wrong in the obit. I have no proof that Edward was from County Cavan, but this does give me a starting point when trying to continue his line.
The obituary also gives me an approximation for when he came to America, although still trying to find an immigrant by the name of Edward Lee is no small task. Knowing that he lived in New York and Nesquehoning before Jeanesville will help as well. A bit disappointing that no mention of his parents were made or any other brothers and sisters in America or Ireland. Disappointing, but not surprising. Almost as equally disappointing is that his grandchildren were not mentioned in his obituary. They were adults and many were living together. I blogged about the individual children of William and Mary Quirk nee Lee here.
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Edward Lee. One of the first people that I learned about when starting out on my genealogy research over a decade ago, and I never posted his obit. Shame, shame on me, but better late than never. Rest in peace to my 3rd great grandpa.
NOTE: Attached to the inside cover of an old family photo album that was passed on to me were newspaper clippings. None of the clippings had the name of the paper that they were taken from, but it's safe to say that they most likely came from the local Hazleton area papers (The Standard Sentinel, The Plain Speaker, or the Standard-Speaker).


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Slightly Stoopid, a band formed in 1996 by Miles Doughty and Kyle McDonald and quickly signed to Sublime leader Brad Nowell's Skunk Records, built a sustained career.
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Slightly Stoopid followed Top of the World this month with the DVD Slightly Stoopid & Friends: Live at TRI Studios. The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir not only owns TRI Studio in San Rafael, Calif., he's also a guest for the DVD.
"I grew up listening to the Dead," Moran said. "So to go up to the Bay Area and actually work with Bob Weir and record at his place, it was a huge honor."
Other DVD guests include Karl Denson, Tommy Chong and Dumpstaphunk members Ivan and Ian Neville. The latter Nevilles also will make guest appearances with Slightly Stoopid during the band's Thursday, April 25, show at the House of Blues in New Orleans.
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REPORT #1 -FAYETTVILLE, NC, at 22:40 hrs. (local) on February 20, 2008
Approximately 22:40 EST, 20 February 2008, at XXXX ((deleted)) Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28311, I was observing the lunar eclipse that began about 22:30 EST. From my position in North Carolina, the moon was in full lunar eclipse; weather was ideal- "clear blue and 22" as we say in aviation; the moon was approximately 55 degrees South/ Southwest overhead- in other words, I had a clear unobstructed view of the lunar eclipse from my position on my front porch in Fayetteville, NC. I normally wouldn't be looking at the moon except this Lunar Eclipse event had been widely publicized on TV that evening. I was enjoying an event with unobstructed view that few will ever witness in their life time.
Approximately 10 minutes into the full lunar eclipse, about 22:40 EST, I noticed on the left side of the moon (as I was facing it), a very bright, round object resembling a satellite; a bright pin-point of light object; clearly not a naturally formed object appeared suddenly, traveling in a straight line from the left side of the back side of the moon- it was clearly traveling in a straight line towards Earth. In about one to two seconds, the object made a 90 degree turn to my right, directly in front of the face of the fully eclipsed moon. As quick as it appeared and shot across in front of my unobstructed view of the eclipsed moon, it disappeared off to my right side of the Moon and became invisible almost immediately of passing out of the Umbra shadow of the Earth eclipse of the Moon. The entire event was less than 5 seconds.
I am a US Army trained combat helicopter pilot, Desert Storm veteran of the Gulf War. I'm accustomed and trained to look for things, especially at night. This was not a naturally occurring object. This object made intelligent turns and in relation to the position of the moon, was traveling at as fantastic rate of speed. I am not a UFO nut. You may even call me skeptical. I have been able to observe a great deal of objects while flying with night vision goggles at night in various parts of the world. I have witnessed many naturally occurring and man-made events in the sky normally not seen with the naked eye. But this object appeared from the back-side of the moon with my un-aided view and flew directly across in front of the moon was of intelligent design and flight path. It probably would not have been visible during the lighted or visible, not eclipsed, moon, by an un-aided human eye. But during the eclipsed darkened view of the Moon, it was so clearly visible to the naked human eye! I truly believe the object I observed was not of natural origin but of intelligent origin. I am capable of distinguishing the difference between a circular type orbit versus a straight flight path. This object was of the latter. And I know of no known human-made objects that could have produced such incredible speeds and turns based upon its observed position that night from the back side of the moon, making an instant 90 degree right turn in front and across the eclipsed moon that night.
By the way, I was 47 years old at the time of the lunar eclipse and my eye sight has been evaluated as 20/12 & 20/15 in each eye during every one of my US Army Flight Physical Evaluations for the past 20 years.
I honestly believe I witnessed an intelligently driven object not of man-made origin. I have reluctantly not reported this event to anyone before now because it was so incredible to believe myself. And I do not want to be labeled a "UFO Nut". But I witnessed, regardless of scrutiny, a truly incredible event that evening on 20 February 2008 during the Lunar Eclipse.
(NUFORC Note: I have spoken with this witness on several occasions, and my impression is that he is an excellent witness. PD)
REPORT #2-YAKIMA, WASHINGTON, at 19:50 hrs. (local) on October 07, 1974
Huge search light beam from 4 miles high in the sky illuminating a one mile diameter circle on the ground.
Passenger asked pilot what was a light in the sky overhead. Flight was direct from Pendleton, Oregon, to Sea-Tac (Airport) at 10,500' msl. The light source seemed to be sourced at about 20,000' msl like a huge landing light or search light that illuminated the ground below about 1 mile in diameter. The source was not visible as though a wing-light was blocked by the fuselage, but the cone of light got brighter and ATC denied any traffic in the area.
At this point I elected to change course and fly around, rather than through, the light beam area. Air to air queries to other pilots affirmed that the anomaly was visible to others that night. At this point "Deep Throat" advised to "can the chatter if you want to keep flying". The beam was visible until descending into Sea-tac.
The next day a Seattle radio station reported that some hunters in Winthrop, WA, called in to report seeing the same light to the south and wondering what it was.
(NUFORC Note: We have contacted the source of the report, requesting more information about the incident. PD)
UPDATE TO MORRIS PLAINS, NEW JERSEY, CASE, JANUARY--Several individuals allegedly launched pyrotechnic devices, attached to helium-filled balloons. NUFORC will post links to the news articles about the two men who launched them, and the subsequent court cases, in which they pleaded guilty to minor charges.
ryguy wrote:Great work longhaircowboy - what a great article.
MikeJamieson wrote:I'm only revealing my own subjective filtering and projection process when I say "yes" to the 2nd question.
Access Denied wrote:Agreed, however I'm afraid the same can't be said for our editorial staff… I spent some time today fixing typos that our Editor In Chief missed.
Access Denied wrote:I'm thoroughly convinced I have no idea what I saw…
MikeJamieson wrote: Fact is, ANYTHING existing is weird.
What I mean for example is if I take my own sighting (seeing is believing!) into account, I think my initial interpretation that I held for many years (must have been alien!) was significantly influenced by the popular (pseudoscientific) thinking at the time regarding Aliens and UFOs I had already been exposed to.
The osmosis hypothesis if you will...
The rare earth folks are mostly creationists and IDers and have no room in their thinking for anyone but us humans. It seems that it would be sad to be so tunnel visioned.
Access Denied wrote:
What I mean for example is if I take my own sighting (seeing is believing!) into account, I think my initial interpretation that I held for many years (must have been alien!) was significantly influenced by the popular (pseudoscientific) thinking at the time regarding Aliens and UFOs I had already been exposed to.
The osmosis hypothesis if you will...
Access Denied wrote:These days however, based on decades of my own research into the subject, talking to those who would be in a better position than me to know what's going on, and what I've learned since then of the very real limitations presented by our ever increasing knowledge of physics, I'm thoroughly convinced I have no idea what I saw…
I seriously doubt it was an alien spaceship though.
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Sarah Edney tallied two goals against the Bears Friday (Gil Talbot)
Game Highlights: Harvard v Brown, Feb. 17, 2012
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The No. 8 women's hockey team was able to put away the Brown Bears 5-1 this evening. The Bears tried to take advantage of the five penalties Harvard put on the board but came up short adding another loss to their record (8-13-7, 5-12-4 ECAC). The Crimson earned another tally in the win column (19-8-1, 16-4-1 ECAC) and with a loss by Clarkson to No. 3 Cornell, clinched the No. 2 seed in the ECAC Hockey standings. Freshman Sarah Edney was the star of the evening, racking up two goals to increase her season total to seven.
The Crimson came out of the gates firing with two big shots on goal from Jillian Dempsey in the first possession of the game. The Bears were able to hold off the Crimson for most of the first period, until Edney received a sharp feed from Hillary Crowe to give the Crimson a 1-0 lead going into the first intermission. The Crimson was whistled for two penalties in the first period but the Bears were unsuccessful in converting the power play. Harvard led the period in shots on goal, with goaltender Laura Bellamy grabbing five saves compared to her counterpart Katie Jamieson with seven saves.
The Crimson started the second period shorthanded due to a checking penalty from Michelle Picard, but was able to keep the puck out of the net on the power-play opportunity. At 10:25 Jillian Dempsey tallied her 23rd goal of the season, giving the Crimson a 2-0 lead. Dempsey received a flush pass from Samantha Reber to take the goaltender one-on-one and stuff the puck in the back of the net. Three minutes later Edney continued the scoring pattern for Harvard with her second goal of the night with an assist from Kalley Armstrong to make the score 3-0. With 1:30 remaining in the second period, Harvard's Kaitlin Spurling was able to slip in one more goal during a power play opportunity to go into the second intermission with a 4-0 lead.
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