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Friday, September 30th, 2011
I cannot believe that today is the last day of September. Wow. I also can't believe that the garden is still going. I am just now starting to pick tomatillos!
I have been combing through cookbooks and websites to try to find fun tomatillo recipes. And I think tomorrow I am going to try for a tomatillo chicken stew.
So fall is definitely here, but we are still having some fantastic warm temps in the 70s. I have been outside running or walking almost every night for the past 3 weeks. And we've also gotten our fair share of rain over the past weeks as well, which has greatly helped with growing grass. And now the tomatillos are ripe and ready to be picked. My own little fall harvest.
The garden is still doing its thing, and I take great comfort in that. It greatly helps with my denial that fall is here and that it is pitch black out by 7 p.m.
For reals.
Tags: autumn, exercise, gardening, gratitude, organic, running, tomatillo
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Sunday, September 25th, 2011
What have I been doing lately? Picking and eating tomatoes. Lots and lots of tomatoes from our tomato raised garden bed.
And when I'm not doing that, I am watering the lawn (it's that time of year again… the fall grass-growing project is in full effect!) And when I am not doing that, I am working. And then running. And then sleeping.
Yup, my schedule is pretty defined these days. We are two weeks into the lawn watering, so next week will ease up and I will be able to reclaim 2 whole hours of my day. I CANNOT WAIT!
But back to tomatoes. Their time is going to wind down very soon when frost comes, but so far we have had only one night when I had to cover the tomato plants with sheets. Otherwise, the temps are still fairly warm and humid here in Southern NH for early fall. So we continue to pick!
Here is a sampling of tomatoes picked over the last few weeks:
Off to peruse the garden on this lovely, warm, and finally sunny Sunday. Tomato recipes and ideas coming soon…
Tags: autumn, gardening, gratitude, heirloom, raised garden bed, tomatoes
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
No shortage of tomatoes going on around here. We are eating them all the time. I love all the different types of tomatoes we are growing, including several varieties of heirlooms. One of my very favorite dishes is a simple tomato, basil, and mozzarella salad.
It is so easy to make. Slice up whatever tomatoes you have on hand. I have been using combinations of yellow pear, orange grape, mortgage lifter heirloom, and japanese black trifele heirloom. Gently toss with some good-quality organic extra virgin olive oil, a dash of sea salt, freshly-ground black pepper, and freshly chopped basil.
Add some pearl-sized fresh mozzarella balls and gently combine.
And you are done. A great end-of-summer side dish. Also fantastic on top of a garden salad or as a bread topper.
Tags: basil, gratitude, heirloom, summer, tomatoes
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
We did it! We finally did it… we are proud cat owners! Lily has officially been a part of our family now since the middle of August, which explains a good part of my writing absence. It's been nearly a month of playing and loving our new cat who has irrevocably warmed our hearts and changed our household for the better.
Here is the story of Lily and how she came into our lives.
At the end of May, my friend Melissa's Mom and her friends found a stray cat in a window well outside a home in their development. And this cat was not alone. She had just given birth to two kitties. As in literally given birth… like that morning.
Not knowing what to do, Melissa's Mom called her, and Melissa and my older sister volunteered to come rescue the cats on a temporary basis. Melissa took the pic above. After Melissa brought the cats home to her house, she called the local animal shelter to ask them what to do about the cats. They told her that if she brought them in to the shelter, the kittens would likely be separated from the Mama. Melissa and my sister did not want that to happen. They wanted Lily (still nameless) to be able to nurse her brand new baby kitties in peace and quiet and comfort.
So Melissa decided to take them all in and keep them in her basement where they would be safe.
Melissa and my sister took the cats to the vet to be checked out, and they took turns watching out for the Mama and the kitties while they were adjusting to a new space. When Melissa went on vacation for a week, my sister called me to ask if Craig and I wanted to come over and visit the kitties while my sister was going over to change the litter box, etc. We said sure!
We had never been around kitties so tiny. We had never seen a nursing Mama cat. And we couldn't believe how loving and gentle and friendly she was toward strangers. Melissa and her Mom inquired all around to find out if the cat belonged to anyone. But it appeared that she had been on her own in the "wild" for some time. The vet estimated the Mama to be just about 2 years old. Mama and the babies all had worms. Which is pretty typical. And Mama even had giardia. Icky.
I was so taken with her on that very first visit that I went back over in the same week to visit again. And on that second visit, I just felt this unbelievable urge to have that cat in my life. The energy and loving vibes she gave off were so powerful. She was just beautiful. I loved her short tabby coat, long tail, and athletic body. I always felt like a cat would come into my life somehow, and I felt like this was the cat.
However, I was under the impression that Melissa was planning to keep her. And I was pretty bummed out because I kinda wanted this Mama cat realllll bad. I told Craig what I was thinking, and he was totally down with the idea. This all happened on a Friday. Melissa came home from vacation on that Sunday, and she was talking to my sister on the phone and told her that she and her husband had indeed talked about keeping the Mama, but that they already had two cats and didn't think they should take on a third.
My sister told Melissa that Craig and I were definitely interested in adopting the Mama! And Melissa said YES!
She told my sister that her family had been calling the Mama cat Lily. But Craig and I could rename her and Melissa would start using that name. Craig and I thought about it and decided Lily was the perfect name for her. Her markings are kind of wild and exotic like a tiger lily. And at the exact time that I realized I had fallen in love with her, my lilies were in full bloom in my garden out front. It just made sense to me.
Melissa agreed to keep Lily and her babies together in her basement and foster them all until the kittens (a boy and a girl) were done nursing. It was the nicest, most amazing gesture. Especially since Craig and I were about to leave for a two-week vacation up at a lake in Maine. So we went over and visited Lily all the time, and then left for two weeks.
When we returned, Melissa sent me a pic of Lily having put on more weight and getting healthier. And she said that by the week's end Lily would be done nursing for good and we could bring her home.
So we raced around the rest of that week getting all the cat essentials we would need: a litter box, food, a few toys, etc. We set up a little space for Lily in our basement with her litter box in the nook right under our stairs. Not lavish, but cozy enough.
We picked Lily up on a Friday night after work, and it was so hard to finally separate her from her kitties. We were nervous to bring her home. What if she hated us? What if she hid under the bed for two weeks? I had read all sort of things about how cats can have a hard time adjusting to change and that they can get very stressed out.
Well, when we got home we brought her cat carrier down to the basement. We opened up the door and out she came. She sniffed around the litter box area. I showed her the food and water bowls. We sat quietly with her in the basement. She sniffed us and walked around. And she purred. This went on for less than maybe 10 minutes before she climbed up the basement stairs, stepped right through the cat door at the basement door at the top like a pro, and ventured on into the kitchen, living room, and everywhere else.
Like she owned the place!
And it's basically been that way ever since.
Lily loves to hang out and snooze in the sunlight on our living room floor. She loves her cat mat that we bought that has catnip in in. She loves her toys. She loves sitting in the window sills looking out on the garden. Lily has so quickly become this amazing part of our every day. She just fits in.
Lily loves attention. Loves to be petted, and petted, and petted some more. And she loves kids. Not afraid of them whatsoever.
So yeah, coming home from work is a lot more fun when you have a cat waiting for you who just wants to play. I find myself creeping up to bed earlier at night to read because Lily loves to lie with me and snuggle in.
The other great part of this story? My older sister adopted the kitties. Their names are Daisy and Lucky.
Daisy is the "dirty" white one with a ringed tail and pointed ears. Lucky is a tabby like his Mama. And they are adorable and curious and friendly and lovey, too.
It makes me so happy to know that Lily and her babies are safe and loved and all close by.
So that is the story of how Lily came into our lives.
It has been two weeks now since we had her spayed, and she is all healed up and having a blast.
Oh yes… the bonus? Lily doesn't attack my houseplants. She will occasionally bat around an aloe stem, but otherwise she's pretty uninterested. Yeah!
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The Bridge
Whiskey 1803, Annapolis, Maryland
Hamilton Street Festival, Baltimore, Maryland
Quarry Lakes, Pikesville, Maryland
July 24-26, 2009
As bands begin to grow and tour nationally on a regular basis, it is a bitter sweet moment for their hometown fans. On one hand, you are happy to see your favorite band gain the national attention they so richly deserve, but on the other hand you miss those nights of seeing your band night after night in small intimate clubs in your hometown. That is what made the last full weekend in a July so special for Bridge fans in their hometown of Baltimore.
The band has spent much of the past few years on the road, and the time between stops in their hometown has grown with each year. Over a wet July weekend, the band played three (well three and half shows, more on that later) in three days, and it was a chance for those hometown fans to party like days long gone.
The band (Cris Jacobs – guitar, Kenny Liner – mandolin, Dave Markowitz – bass, Mike Gambone – drums, Patrick Rainey – sax, Mark Brown – keys), got the weekend started Friday night with the first of a two night stand at the Whiskey 1803 in Annapolis. The evening seemed to be a look towards the future as the band's set was heavy with material from their most recent album, Blind Man's Hill, as well as featuring three newer songs, "Chavez," "Spill Over" and "Colorado Motel," that have found their way into band's regular setlist rotation. The star of the evening though was the debut of another new song "Rosie," a Jacobs-led funky up-tempo rocker that featured a Little Feat-esque keyboard groove.
If Friday was a look forward, Saturday was a nod to the band's rich past. Liner and Jacobs started the day with a mid-afternoon acoustic set at the Hamilton Street Festival in Baltimore (the half show.) The acoustic duo set was a reminder of the band's earliest roots, two young musicians discovering their sound and starting to play for their friends before those simple acoustic jams evolvedinto a full-fledged band. Jacobs and Liner's short set in the hot afternoon sun was a mix of early Bridge songs and covers the two have long incorporated into their stripped down sets. The brief afternoon show ended with the closing combo of Bob Dylan's "Tombstone Blues" that gave way to Jimmy Cliff's "Sitting in Limbo."
That look back continued later in the evening as the band's two sets that night at the Whiskey highlighted the older material in their arsenal. The first set was all about the segues, with the "Super Funk > Chains > Super Funk" sandwich, and the exploratory jam between 'Bad Locomotive" and a cover of JJ Cale's "The Call Me the Breeze" dominating the first half of the show. "Jomotion," one of the oldest songs in the band's catalog, opened the second set and set the tone for all that was to come. Old school classics doted the rest of the night, as versions of "Drop the Beat," "Good Rhythm" (which included a hugely-intense Gambone drum breakdown), and a powerful "Jeremiah Jones," reminded many of long-gone sweaty nights at the Funk Box.
Sunday The Bridge ventured just outside the Baltimore city limits, to the small town of Pikesville, to play a free outdoor show before a crowd of a couple thousand at Quarry Lakes. Liner proudly declared the show was only four blocks from where he had grown up. With a subtle reference to the late-afternoon thunderstorm that delayed the start of their set, the New Orleans flavored "Heavy Water" opened the night. The large crowd was full of familiar friends and family, and the band made sure to include some of their longtime friends in the show. Keyboardist Mookie Siegel (Phil Lesh & Friends, David Nelson Band), a long time ally of the band, joined in for a rousing "Easy Jane."
The band wrapped up their show Sunday night with a cover of the Robert Palmer classic "Sneaking Sally Through the Alley." The tune served as the closing number for a weekend that provided a snapshot of The Bridge; Friday night's show was a look forward for the band and Saturday a reminder of their past. Sunday, however, was simply a celebration of the band and where they have come from.

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Date: 8th century
Geography: Guatemala or Mexico, Mesoamerica
Culture: Maya
Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: H . 2 1/2 x Diam. 12 3/4 in. (6.4 x 32.4 cm)
Classification: Ceramics-Containers
Credit Line: Gift of Eugene and Ina Schnell, 1989
Accession Number: 1989.110
One variety of Maya polychrome ceramic vessel is a plate or shallow bowl that is decorated with a central figure framed by a band of repeated motifs. This example features an elaborately costumed musician with a long wooden trumpet pressed to his lips. The many depictions of musicians and the survival of numerous types of musical instruments indicate that music played a role in Maya ceremony and celebration. Although the only clothing this figure wears is a short elaborate tunic with a goggle-eyed mask at the back of the waist, he is decorated by an abundance of feathers and body paint. The L-shaped glyph block incorporated above the figure's face is illegible. It may have served a symbolic or decorative purpose only.


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Penn State redshirt junior guard D.J. Newbill has the potential to be an NBA draft pick. So everyone in and around State College, Pa. had better take a collective deep breath and make sure to calm down so no one goes into cardiac arrest.
Yes, I did write that Penn State guard D.J. Newbill could get drafted. It doesn't make much sense to me, because all Penn State athletics is known for is football and the biggest sports scandal of all time. But it is true.
The Sports Bank's main NBA Draft expert has Newbill, a Southern Mississippi transfer, getting picked in one of the last few spots in his NBA mock draft.
So far Newbill's scoring average is 18 points per game, up from 16.3 points per game a season ago. And going into Friday's game at St. John's, Penn State is 5-1. Although the season is still very young, D.J. Newbill scored a season-high 23 points on Nov. 24 against Longwood. (No dirty jokes, please, but my mind was in the gutter on THAT one.)
D.J. Newbill also has decent size. He's 6-feet, 4-inches and is about 205 pounds, so it seems like he could handle the rigors of an NBA season. D.J. has already proven that he can withstand the intensity of a Big Ten season, especially one where he was thrown into an unusual situation that no one really saw coming.
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On Monday, August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the greater New Orleans area and changed the lives of thousands of Gulf Coast residents. A category 3 hurricane, Katrina brought 120mph winds, 8-10 inches of rain and a recorded tide increase of over 14 feet. Though the hurricane lost a great deal of its strength by the time it had made its way inland, registering as a category 1-2 storm, the devastation and loss of life left in its wake makes it one of the greatest natural disasters in the history of the United States.
To view how the flood waters affected the city you can visit this interactive map provided by the Times Picayune.
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With over 50 levee failures and numerous levee breaches causing severe flooding in 80% of the city, the death toll and structural damage continued for several days after the hurricane had passed. With the majority of the city sitting below see level (up to 4 meters in some areas), rescue missions, recovery and evacuation was severely hampered. The arrival of Hurricane Rita just a few weeks later added to the challenge of draining the city and again slowed the recovery process. It took nearly a month and a half to pump all of the water out of the bowl shaped city and when the initial recovery efforts had been completed, the death toll had risen to over 1,500.
Since Hurricane Katrina, the recovery process in New Orleans has been wrought with challenges. The early days after the storm, the rescue and recovery missions were made difficult by the extensive flooding and lack of easy access to many parts of the city. As the city was pumped dry, the sheer level and scope of damage became an insurance and federal aid minefield for many residents.
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MENDENHALL, Miss. (WJTV) – The Mendenhall Fire Department worked a structure fire Sunday morning
The fire was at the Star Theatre, on Main Street in Mendenhall, according to a representative of the Mendenhall Fire Department.
Mendenhall Mayor Todd Booth says the call came in around 10:00 a.m.
The fire was brought under control quickly by authorities.
No injuries have been reported; also, no one was inside.
The Star Theatre was featured in the movie My Dog Skip.
The city was trying to restore the structure after the roof caved in a few years ago according to the mayor.
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HUSCO International, Inc has continued to be a global leader in the development and manufacture of hydraulic and electro-hydraulic controls for off-highway applications. With over 80,000 square feet in Maquoketa, IA and additional locations across the globe, including China, India & England, HUSCO is strategically located to provide best-in-class service to many of the largest earthmoving, agricultural and construction machine manufacturers no matter where they are in the world. HUSCO provides competitive wages and benefits, 22 paid vacation and holidays, various bonus programs, uniforms, and a drug and smoke-free environment. HUSCO believes in stronger communities through volunteering and philanthropic support. To learn more about HUSCO and the career opportunities that are available, visit us at www.husco.com!
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Under the direction of the Production Supervisor or Manufacturing representative, assembles or sub-assembles, hones, tests and packages all mechanical and electrical components in the Industrial Product/Agriculture production lines.
- This is an intermediate level position. This level includes operators trained proficiently on certain areas of the assembly, hone, test operations.
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- Capable of using gauging equipment. Fully understands SPC, and capable of making adjustments based on SPC.
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- Able to do performance tests on hydraulic valves, and perform basic troubleshooting on the test equipment and/or valves.
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About a month ago Joy mentioned, during late-night, lights-out, pillow talk, that she wondered what it would be like to be spanked until she cried. Now, I'm not one to miss a blatant hint like that, but I have to say that this idea made me pause. I love my wife, and the idea of smacking her bottom hard enough and long enough to bring her to tears seemed like it might be too close to truly hurting her for comfort. I thought about it awhile, and then brought it up again a few nights later.
"Do you really want me to spank you until you cry?" I asked. "And if I did, how would you feel about it afterwards?"
Joy responded that she was curious about it, that she wondered how she would react and how it would make her feel. She also expressed trepidation about how she'd look in tears. But she didn't retreat. She had meant what she said.
And so we did it. Actually, we did it twice. The first time I used the new "ruler" (actually more of a paddle) I purchased, and the second time I used our trusty riding crop, the one that Joy says "bites". The experience has proven somewhat positive and somewhat negative for each of us, I think–it's definitely taught us some things about ourselves, about each other, and about spanking in general. Things are still settling down a bit after the experience(s), but I thought I'd chronicle some of the discoveries we've made:
- Joy doesn't cry easily–at least, not from pain. I had to go a lot farther than I thought I would to bring tears on. I had to spank her hard, fast and repeatedly in the same spot before she broke down.
- The first time, Joy used her safe word–an extremely rare occurrence. She said she got scared as soon as the tears started to come. The second time she did not. Instead, she says she had to leave her head to get away from the pain. Perhaps this equates to sub-space, but perhaps not–I'm not sure. In any event, the idea that she had to escape like this definitely bothers me.
- I did not overcome my concern about hurting her–I was worried about it all the way through, and even more so afterward. However, at the same time, I could feel a streak of cruel excitement in me as she whimpered and struggled under the bite of the crop. There is a disturbing bit of sadist hidden somewhere inside me, and I don't know that I'm particularly happy about that.
- I left marks on her bottom with the paddle–the bruising was mostly on one cheek, but was lightly present on the other one as well. Neither she nor I were happy about that–the bruises make it seem as though she's being hurt, rather than just given transient pain. However, the next time when I used the crop, the bruising was even more pronounced, probably because we went farther with the experience.
- Surprisingly (at least to me), the net effect of these spankings to our Dominant/submissive dynamic has been neutral. I had halfway expected that Joy would feel more submissive afterwards and I'd feel more Dominant, but any tendency in that direction has been countered by the discomfort it caused in both of us. My discomfort comes from my feeling that I hurt her, while Joy's discomfort comes from her bruising, her self-concern about wanting such a thing in the first place, and (I suspect) her fear that I didn't like the experience because I let her know it made me feel cruel.
- After the first time with the paddle, I asked Joy about whether it had "worked" and whether it was something she would want to experience again. At that time she replied that she thought it had and she thought she would. After round two, however, I think we're both a bit unsure about whether it would be a good idea to repeat. Still, I have to confess that there's a kind of thrill to the idea for me, and I suspect it is reciprocated in Joy. I wouldn't be surprised if one day it may be appropriate to try again. It will be awhile, though, before either of us is ready.
No spanking tonight–we need to let the bruises heal. Joy's poor bottom!
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A former SWCPD student employee filed a lawsuit alleging sexual assault, civil rights violations and a hostile work environment in the campus police department.
She also claims to have experienced long-term sexual harassment and witnessed sexual harassment directed towards other women.
Court documents filed with the Superior Court detail repeated sexual harassment the anonymous victim, Jane Doe, alleges to have experienced from Oct. 2014 to Oct. 31, 2016.
A "right-to-sue" letter signifying that Doe had exhausted all other administrative courses of action was issued by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing in February.
Doe is suing the college, former employee Kevin McKean, Emergency Management Officer Joseph Martorano and Cpl. Ricardo Suarez. She said in the charge document that she reported sexual harassment to SWCPD Chief Michael Cash, but that he did nothing to assist her.
She is seeking damages and civil penalties.
"In addition to sexually charged and vulgar comments made towards Doe," the document says, "she was also sexually assaulted by one coworker at her workplace while another coworker aided and abetted in the sexual assault."
Doe claimed McKean sexually assaulted her while Martorano aided and abetted by luring her into a storage room and shutting her in.
"McKean forcefully grabbed her, turned her around, bent her over the sink and proceeded to force his groin into Doe's buttocks area," the lawsuit reads. "As Doe struggled to get loose, McKean stuck his tongue in Doe's mouth as he tried to forcefully remove the clothing from her body."
Documents say Doe believed this was a rape attempt, but she did not report this incident because of trauma, humiliation and fear of reprisal from command.
In July of 2015, the documents state, Martorano asked Doe if "her boyfriend knew she had 'fucked Kevin (McKean)'" in front of a student worker.
Doe was a student when the SWCPD hired her as a Public Safety Assistant in January 2014.
Court papers claim the problem began when Suarez returned to work from leave in fall 2014 and reportedly asked Doe for nude photos, inquired about her sex life and shared unsolicited details about his sex life.
In January 2015 Suarez told Doe to grow her hair longer because he likes to pull on long hair during sex, according to documents.
The lawsuit also states Suarez bragged for months about seeing a female employee's undergarments when strong winds blew her dress up. Suarez allegedly also bragged about walking in on another employee changing in the women's locker room. The employee said she saw texts on Suarez's phone about herself written in a "sexual nature."
Doe stated that complaints to supervisors, including Cash, were ignored or mishandled.
In July of 2015, Doe complained to Suarez, her immediate supervisor, about Martorano's behavior.
"Suarez did absolutely nothing to investigate Doe's complaint or discipline Martorano for his inappropriate behavior," court documents say. "Instead, Suarez' solution was to move Doe away from Martorano (into) a back office where she was relegated to doing needless busy work in order to kill time."
Doe then complained anonymously about Martorano to Cash, court papers say, but Cash revealed to Martorano that Doe was the source of the complaint.
"As a result," papers say, "the tension in the office grew more unbearable for Doe, especially when she worked near Martorano, who continued to repeatedly harass her."
In November 2015, Suarez advised Doe not to complain to Cash again because he favored Martorano, the suit states. Suarez said he would talk to the chief, but the court documents say that he never followed through. Suarez advised Doe to apply for a Campus Security Officer (CSO) position so she would not have to work near Martorano, and in January 2016 she was informed that she was not selected for the position. Around that time, Suarez was promoted to Corporal, and he denied Doe's request for a transfer to a clerical position on grounds that Martorano worked near the clerks and her complaint against Martorano would "bar her transfer." Suarez said she would be granted the transfer if she remained silent about Martorano, Doe charged.
"I was denied transfer opportunities that would have lessened my contact with the individuals who were sexually harassing me and was told by one supervisor that I would have gotten the transfer I requested had I not complained about the sexual harassment I experienced," court documents say.
In spring 2016, Sgt. Robert Sanchez told Doe he would grant the transfer if she could work with Martorano. Doe agreed, and as a result she saw Cpl. Suarez less often. Suarez, however continued to harass her, according to the lawsuit.
"Suarez continued to make inappropriate remarks about Doe's body and clothing and expressed how much more he preferred looking at her body as a clerk than when Doe would wear the (Public Safety Assistant) uniform," reads the court document.
The complaint states the harassment by all three McKean, Suarez and Martorano continued until Doe was relocated off the main campus in October 2016.
Marlea Dell'Anno, the attorney who filed the complaint, was formerly in charge of the city's criminal division as an assistant San Diego City Attorney. She recently initiated a lawsuit against former San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith for wrongful termination.
Her law firm has not replied to interview requests.
SWC officials are currently reviewing the complaint, according to a written statement.
"The District is reviewing the complaint and takes such claims very seriously," their statement said. "The District will take appropriate action, as needed, to prevent workplace harassment and to remediate any instances of harassment that are found to have occurred."
Also named in the suit are 20 "Roes," unnamed people who could become potential defendants in the future.


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ReviewBought this vehicle used just recently after looking for the past 3 months for an SUV that suited my needs. I test drove SUVs ranging from the kia Sorento Base all the way upto a Mazda Cx9 loaded. The Veracruz V6 and 6 speed transmission gives it plenty of power to get out into traffic, merge, and pass. The ride is incredibly smooth as well as the transmission shifts. I also love the fact I found an SUV that averages 20.5 MPG in mixed driving when my 2007 V6 sedan was averaging 25 mixed, I figured I'd be dropping MPG a lot more than that and I am quite satisfied I was wrong.
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Mr - I have bought this vin several times before and enjoyed it very much. However, now the taste is not good anymore. First bottle was bad. We thought it was only one but the second one was the same. Now I have four bottles which I can't drink. Taste is acid and bouquet not nice!
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Editor's Note: This is part two of Liberty's coverage of a subculture of so-called "bug chasers," HIV-negative men who seek out HIV-positive men for unprotected sex, some even seeking infection, or "sero-conversion." You can read part one here.
Octavio Gonzalez, an Assistant Professor at Wellesley College, is one of the few academics who's looked into bug chasing. Here he explains why his work has led him to believe that chasing is largely an invention, perpetuating paranoia about "dangerous gay promiscuity."
I got into studying the topic of barebacking and bug chasing / gift-giving [the term for an HIV-positive man who, usually willingly, fulfills the chaser's fantasy] as a subset of that larger issue, in graduate school. I had trained in HIV/AIDS research and prevention, and when I began my graduate training in English and American Studies, I took a seminar on Disability Studies.
There is a "social model" of disability, which counters the "medical model." HIV/AIDS, when seen through the social model of disability, bears very different values and fosters different forms of community, as opposed to the (phobic) medical model of HIV/AIDs, which bears the sign of death and pathology. Many bug chasers are seen as having a "death wish."
My main theoretical question was, 'do bug chasers exist?' My article on the subject ["Tracking the Bugchaser"] investigated the "bug chaser" figure as primarily a rhetorical trope—one in a long line of similar figures, who have been ideologically mobilized by media and other apparatus to discipline the public and control HIV/AIDS. The earlier [examples] include: "Patient Zero," the promiscuous flight attendant famously captured by Randy Shilts in And The Band Played On; the "down low" figure, who threatens heterosexual women (especially women of color); the "barebacker;" and more recently the "Truvada Whore," another promiscuous gay male trope of sexual licentiousness linked to HIV transmission.
Though I didn't seek out chasers, I did do informal reviews of websites to see if I could hear "the bug chaser speak," and found basically nothing. The real research showed that many so-called bug chasers were actually already HIV-positive, and were merely engaging in a fantasy of HIV acquisition – a form of taking control of a virus that had already infected them. (And most sources agree that most barebackers, for that matter, are either already HIV-positive and seek out those who are also already infected, or are HIV-negative and seek out those who are uninfected. This form of risk-reduction, called sero-sorting, is a way to reduce risk, not a way to increase it, as the general media/public understand it.)
The research showed there was a tiny minority of bug chasers in actuality, despite the moral panic incited by the bug chaser accounts in 2003. —Octavio González


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I didn't get much sleep after that and was dragging all day long. I came home and took a nap hoping to get some much needed rest and energy and it was awesome. I slept so well after teaching today. I woke up and my wife said, "let's do Subway tonight"; good idea! We did Subway and I don't remember the last time it tasted so good. We ate it while watching the Biggest Loser. I have to admit that I have been going for the underdog black team to lose the most weight because they have lots going against them. It's always fun to watch and it's inspiring to me.
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Critical Evaluation
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From the time A Hundred Sundrie Flowres Bound up in One Small Posie was published in 1573, until the twentieth century, most readers have taken the prefatory letters to the volume at face value and believed that George Gascoigne was responsible for only a few of the works included; but now G. T. Prouty has proved beyond doubt that Gascoigne was responsible for all of them. This unquestioning acceptance in Gascoigne's time was fortunate for him: when the volume first came out, he was in Holland fighting for his country, and he was not the only one blamed in the severe attack on the work. Yet, in 1575, when Gascoigne had had time to go over the volume and revise it somewhat, he brought out a new edition in which he acknowledged authorship of the previous volume, openly repented what he had done, and vowed that he would write in the future only works which would have a definite positive influence on the nation. Then he showed how he had revised the volume and how even it could be used for a good purpose. He was equally unsuccessful in this attempt at revision, but he continued to pursue a career in writing. Since the A Hundred Sundrie Flowres and Posies contain essentially the same material, they may be considered together.
The volumes can be broken down into three main groups: the drama, the fiction, and the poetry. In the drama section are two plays translated into English—the Greek tragedy Jocasta, by Euripides, and the Italian comedy, I Suppositi, by Ariosto. The fictional section contains "The Adventures of Master F. J."; in the later edition this work is considerably revised and is called a translation of a work by an unknown Italian writer, Bartello. In still a later work, Gascoigne reveals that he himself is Bartello.
Gascoigne used another method of division in Posies. He divided his material into sections which he called "Flowres, Hearbes, and Weedes." He justifies this classification by saying, "I terme some Floures, bycause being indeed invented upon a verie light occasion, they had yet in them some rare invention and Methode before not commonly used." The herbs are "more profitable than pleasant," and in this section he includes I Suppositi and Jocasta. The value of the "Weedes" may be questionable, but none is "so vile or stinking but that it hath in it some vertue if it be rightly handled." As one might expect, it is in this section that Gascoigne places "The Adventures of Master F. J."
Various poems are scattered throughout Gascoigne's three sections. The first poem is typical of the age in the way it is "The Anatomye of a Lover." This poem is typical of the age in the way in catalogues the physical features of the lover, not the loved one. Starting at the top of the head with "unkempt lockes" and progressing down through the body all the way to the feet, Gascoigne shows what happens to one snared by love. The poem is so typical that a certain humorous tone creeps in and hints that Gascoigne is actually parodying the conceit instead of copying it. This tone of humor continues in the next poem, "The Arraignment of a Lover." Love was a stable topic during this Elizabethan period, and Gascoigne used it over and over in his poems. These titles are typical: "The Passion of a Lover," "The Divorce of a Lover," "The Lamentation of a Lover," and "The Lullabie of a Lover."
A paraphrase of "The Lullabie of a Lover" might go like this: As women sing to quiet the child, so do I sing, for I have many children to quiet. First, silence my youth for I am now an aging man. Next, rest my eyes; I have wandered too much for pleasures of the flesh. Third, let my passion rest and be ruled by reason for a change. Fourth, let my little "Robin" rest and let "lust relent." Thus may my whole body rest. Now that pleasures are past, welcome pain.
"The Lamentation of a Lover" follows the same general theme. Gascoigne is saying that once he enjoyed many pleasures, but since he is no longer able to enjoy them, his sadness is double because he knows what once was and can no longer be.
One of the longer poems in "Flowers" is "Dan Bartholmew of Bathe," a verse narrative. This poem is actually a linking together of verses written at various times by putting them in a narrative framework, rather than a group of verses written in chronological order. The poem did not appear in its completed form in A Hundred Sundrie Flowres. Because of its concern with a single love affair, some consider the poem to be a forerunner of the sonnet sequence. The story is of Dan Bartholmew and his love for Ferenda Natura. Not until he is middle-aged does the hero fall in love, but when he does, his passion is so great that even when his love proves faithless he cannot forget her. The only way he can soothe his torment is by telling his sad story. In the end, Ferenda writes a letter in her own blood, begging forgiveness, which Bartholmew quickly grants, even though he suspects his beloved Ferenda will soon be searching for a new lover.
Another long poem appearing in the "Flowers" section of Posies is "The Frutes of Warre," which has the subtitle "Dulce Bellum Inexpertis." In it is found in verse form the story of Gascoigne's war experiences in Holland. His discussion of the nature of war can be summed up in his definition of war: "I say that warre is even the scourge of God,/Tormenting such as dwell in princelie plight."
After the "Flowers" comes a section of "Herbs." First in this section are the translated plays, and after these are some eighteen short poems on such various subjects as reconciliation, friendship, virtue, and, of course, love. In "Gascoigne's Woodmanship," the poet is reviewing the various events in his life for his patron, Lord Grey of Wilton. In the form of dialogue, Gascoigne answers the question of why he always misses the mark with his bow, by showing that he has always missed the mark; he has missed as student, lawyer, courtier, and soldier:
For proofe he beares the note of follienow,Who shotte sometimes to hit Philoso-phie,And aske you why?Next that, he shot to be a man of lawe,Yet in the end, he proved but a dawe,From thence he shotte to catch a courtlygrace,And thought even there to wield theworld at will,But now behold what marke the mandoth find,He shootes to be a souldier in his age,
Thus he has failed in each attempt, yet he still has hopes of being a successful professional writer.
Still more short poems appear in the section called "Weeds," including "The Frute of Fetters," "The Greene Knights Farewell to Fansie," and "The Praise of Phillip Sparrowe." This last poem shows the Gascoigne must have known John Skelton. One stanza should be sufficient to show the similarities:
And yet beside all this good sportMy Phillip can both sing and daunce:With new found toyes of sundry sort,My Phillip can both pricke andpraunce:As if you saye but fend cut phippe,Lord how the peat will turne andskippe.
After witnessing the acceptance, or rather, the refusal of acceptance of the revised Posies,...
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At the beginning of the month my friend and I spent 2 weekends together and last weekend we were suppose to get together and he never showed up nor called to tell me that he couldn't make it. I got mad and I haven't tried to talk to him since then. I haven't seen him since last Wednesday, all the obvious signs were there that he likes me and now we aren't talking. I was thinking maybe he stood me up because I went out of town the weekend before last weekend and did not ask him to come with me. I miss him and I do not want to text or call him because he might not pick up or text back. What should I do?
The obvious signs are there that he likes me. Why would he leave me hanging?
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that happened to me too, a guy liked me and I got all excited and liked him too then when I started texting him to hang out he disappeared its like wth! I don't know from experience I've learned that these type of guys have committment issues and freak out because they don't wanna get serious and they like the idea of liking a girl but when it comes down to business in dating and getting to know the girl they panick and just distance themselves, simply because theyre not ready or theyre too scared of getting attached
i think you should let it go and let him come to you if he's ready, don't make the same mistake I made by texting him a lot because he will think your clingy desperate, and in reality I don't see myself in that category at all, I just genuinely really liked him and wanted to be his friend at the same time, I'm not the one to play the game to keep things interesting I just wanna be real and have a good time, and if a guy doesn't get that then screw him. its his loss because he missed out on having a good friend and girlfriend who really admired him and liked him for him.00|00|0
Yea that's all true what you said. I don't try to text or call him much, simply because I don't want to look needy, clingy, and desperate. He knows I like him too. We are really close friends and been friends since we were younger. I'm just simply going to let him come to me. I got some of his stuff I've had for a week and I know he'll be over to get it.Then last week was the time we really texted a lot and it all quit, he was either texting me first or me texting him. Thanks for your reply!
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He left his ipod here and his music he made. I feel that he made me keep his ipod and his other music for a reason. He does make music, music is his passion. I was the first one to hear one of his tracks since he's been home. I felt special, like that was only meant to be. Maybe he could of been using me? I don't know, but I been there for him a long with his grandparents and sister while he was away, it seems as if his kids mother only came through for him when he was getting ready to come home
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What is your relationship with failure?
If you're like most of us who were programmed early on that "failure was bad."
Then this type of mindset limits ALL of our actions.
Any of these thoughts sound familiar?
Some meetings – "Don't mention_______. Everyone will think it is a stupid idea."
Some Sales calls – "I hope they don't pick up, and I can just leave a voicemail.
I don't want to be a pest."
At home talking to a teenager about college – "Why don't we look at some more realistic schools.
I don't want you to be disappointed."
"Whether we want to admit it or not, we unconsciously make a majority of our decisions based on our relationship with failure." – E. Papp
So how do we reprogram our mind to have a different view of failure?
3 Steps to Undo Years of Learning Failure is Bad
1. Quickly assess your behavior at work and home. Identify where you are limiting your results and the results of others by this crippling perspective.
If we are not aware of it, we won't look for it, and, nothing changes.
2. Shift from the mindset of "Certainty and Avoiding Failure" to one of "Experimentation and Levity."
Ever notice how serious and heavy an environment(team or culture) is where people feel they can't make a mistake?
You think people do their best work in this culture?
Are people more concerned about creativity/collaboration or covering their *ss and comparison?
3. Don't confuse your actions that failed with your confidence. When most of us fail, our confidence takes a big hit.
Confidence is one of the key ingredients to a successful life. Please protect it.
Remember, You didn't fail, your actions didn't simply produce your desired result.
Here is a 1min. video where I explain this concept.
My actions failed….so….I'm gonna take a different action.
Repeat and write down
"It's not over until I win."
Famous people who failed their way to success
J.K. Rowling
was a single mom living off welfare when she began writing the first "Harry Potter" novel
Albert Einstein
had difficulty learning as a child
Walt Disney
fired from the Kansas City Star because his editor felt he "lacked imagination and had no good ideas."
Vera Wang
didn't start designing wedding gowns till age 40
Check out more people who failed before they succeeded.
How has your relationship with failure limited your past accomplishments?
Please leave your comments below.


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Lynda Hennebry gives us her top tricks and tips to help you make your CV stand out to potential employers.
We've all sat those career classes back in secondary school where the teacher spends 45 minutes hounding us about making your CV stand out.
Of course at fifteen or sixteen we're really not interested in making sure every date is accurate and we continuously question why babysitting isn't seen as a skill?
It's not until we get older that we realise how important having a good CV is and how much a piece of paper can stand between you and your dream job.
Having just the right amount of detail is essential on a CV, so we've put together the top ten tips to help you make your Curriculum Vitae stand out.
Cover Letter
It's the one thing I remember from third year careers and that is if you send a CV, you send a cover letter. It's like bread and butter, Tom and Jerry, one comes with the other and don't forget it.
The cover letter is where you can really highlight your key points that you want the employer to pick up on.
Update and clean up regularly
I can't stress how important this is. An employer doesn't have time to wonder why it's 2015 and you haven't achieved anything since March 2012, even though you've just spoke about your new degree in April 2013 - keep it updated.
Equally if you're going for a job in teaching, do you really need that week's work experience that you have in the local butchers in transition year? Didn't think so.
Keep it short and sweet
I know, we're all fantastic and could write a novel about how fantastic we are, but trust me, employers really don't care.
They want to look through CV's as quick as possible so you shouldn't have any more than two pages. If you do, you need to do some editing.
Make it easy to read
Okay, so you have took my advice and you have edited it down, but making the writing so tiny so that they can't read it doesn't help your case.
No employer will spend time looking for a magnifying glass to try read your tiny writing. Make sure to keep it easy to read.
Font size 12 usually works best and don't be afraid of a bit of colour here and there.
Include a 'personal profile' or as I call it my 'career objectives' at the top of your CV
Emphasis yourself in a quick sentence, state your desired career path and what career path you're looking for. Keep away from the cliché words, but allow an employer to realise what you're all about.
Keep the important stuff to the top
It may seem like common sense, but you'd be surprised. Keeping in mind an employer usually gives 15-20 seconds per CV, so make sure they see what you want them to see straight away.
Don't be boring
I know CV's aren't exactly a wonderful colouring book full of bright colours and happiness, but they don't have to be boring.
You don't just want pages of bullet points saying 'I did this' 'I've achieved this' - give it a heading at least.
Don't Lie
What's wrong with a tine tiny white lie? Everything actually. Trust me, nothing good ever comes of a , so please don't say you traveled the world learning Japanese for the year of 2012, when really you were working in a call centre.
Trust me, you'll wish you listened to me when they ask you to read a poem in Japanese.
Spell check everything
As an aspiring journalist this is obviously something I feel very passionate about, but please spell check everything.
Spell check it on the computer, again in your head and then pass it to someone else to triple check. If it comes down to two people and one CV has perfect spelling and the other is littered with spelling mistakes, who do you think has the job?
Tailor your CV to the job
Finally, it's always a good idea to tailor a CV to the jobs you're applying too.
Update your career objectives to the job you're going for. For example if you're applying to a radio station it may not be the brightest idea for your career objective to be 'to work with children', always pretend you're applying for your dream job.
And there you have it, your top ten tips to help you get the perfect CV.
Happy job hunting.


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The Avengers star Tom Hiddleston is set to take on country music legend Hank Williams in an upcoming biopic.
The British actor will play Williams in I Saw The Light, a film based on author Colin Escott's book, Hank Williams: The Biography, according to Deadline.com.
The movie will chronicle Williams' meteoric rise to fame and his untimely death at the age of 29.
Hiddleston is expected to take on the singer's classics including Your Cheatin' Heart, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry and Hey Good Lookin' in the film.
Children of Men filmmaker Marc Abraham is set to direct I Saw The Light, which will begin shooting this autumn (14) in Louisiana.


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8 Reasons You Must Eat Olives
Olive oil is perhaps one of the most celebrated oils across the world for their taste and goodness. However, the source from which the oil is extracted – olives are a silent yet potential source of health and goodness. Olives are a part of many dishes invariably and there are reasons why they are or must be included. Here are the top reasons you must eat olives.
1. Prevent obesity and control weight gain
Olives are one of the most conducive foods to weight loss. Olives are rich in monounsaturated fats that have been proven to eliminate belly fat and bring down insensitivity to insulin. People who consume generous amounts of olives also consume high levels of serotonin. Serotonin has been shown to make us feel fuller for longer periods of time. They manage to cut down an individual's calorie intake by 200 a day.
2. Reduce risks of cancer
Black olives are rich in vitamin E that is responsible for ensuring safety of cellular processes. They neutralize free radicals that cause damage to cells and thus prevent formation of cancerous cells. Colon cancers especially are significantly reduced with consumption of black olives.
3. Boosts iron in your body
Black olives especially are a rich repository of iron. And only when there are adequate levels of iron in the body does the immune system function efficiently. The red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body and they do so effectively only with the presence of iron. Iron deficiency can bring damage to tissues and hence it is recommended to consume food sources rich in iron every day.
4. For your healthy heart
Olives contain fat but these are healthy fats that neutralize free radicals and unclog fat from arteries. They increase levels of good cholesterol in the body and reduce risks of atherosclerosis. Olives, thus have the ability to bring down risk of heart diseases.


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Washington | Following one of the worst weeks of his campaign, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was on defence as he kicked off a three-day sprint to Wisconsin's primary.
Contenders in both parties crisscrossed the Midwestern state seeking an edge ahead of Tuesday's primaries, none more actively than Trump, who's had a rough week and faces a likely struggle against Texas Senator Ted Cruz in the state, who has passed Trump in recent Wisconsin polls.
The Republican race is overshadowed by a persistent effort by Trump's rivals in the campaign and the party to force the nomination fight into the July convention and by his equivocations on whether he will be loyal to the Republican Party or bolt for an independent candidacy if he feels mistreated.
Trump began the afternoon with a rally in the Milwaukee suburb of Racine yesterday, where he defended a series of controversial comments in recent days on NATO, abortion and his remark that Japan and South Korea should perhaps be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.
This politics is a tough business, said Trump. Because you can say things one way and the press will criticise you horribly. You say it another way and the press will criticise you horribly.
Off the stage, in a more reflective moment, Trump expressed regret that he had re-tweeted an unflattering photo of rival Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi, paired with a glamorous photo of his own wife, Melania, a former model, as part of a bitter feud between the two men.
Yeah, it was a mistake, he told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. If I had to do it again, I wouldn't have sent it. Cruz sought favour in North Dakota, which is not holding a primary or caucuses in the 2016 Republican race.
He addressed Republicans at a state convention that is selecting delegates who will go to the national convention unbound to any of the presidential candidates.
Trump and Ohio Gov John Kasich sent supporters on their behalf to make the case that they should be backed by North Dakota's delegates at the Cleveland convention in July.
The Democratic race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders has grown increasingly bitter, too, though it has not matched the Republican contest for raw hostility.
Their attention will quickly turn to an even more consequential contest, in New York on April 19, where the Democratic front-runner dearly hopes to avoid an upset in the state she served as senator.
Sanders, who was born in Brooklyn, can claim New York as his home state. Sanders urged rally-goers to come out in droves Tuesday. Here is the political reality, he told a young and pumped-up crowd of thousands on the University of Wisconsin's Eau Claire campus.
If there is a large voter turnout, if working people, many of whom have given up on the political process, if young people come, perhaps for the first time. We will win on Tuesday.
Clinton sought to draw a contrast with Sanders by emphasising her Democratic bona fides. Before hundreds gathered in a hotel ballroom in Eau Claire later yesterday, the former secretary of state stressed that she has been a proud Democrat all my adult life and I think that's kind of important if we're selecting somebody to be a Democratic nominee of the Democratic Party.


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text: my sup is telling me its mandatory and that the union signed a contract stating we must come in. I talked to my other coworker and he said that same sup told him it would be helpful if he came in(proving he was lying to me) I would probably have came in either way but its kinda annoying they lied to me saying its mandatory. Is it mandatory to come in black friday? Package handlers.


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Threat From The Shadows
Here we have Threat From The Shadows by Mister Shadow Knight. This map is set for duel and powerduel for your entertainment. OK, on to the review. The map is on location in a set of mountains
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centered on a platform connected to a facility of sorts. Kinda brings back memories of Little Annie\'s and mean Obi-wan\'s duel where big bad Ben struck down the younger inexperienced youth so harshly. But, thats another story. Anyway, Mister Knight used (with permission) a lava texture/shader from one of SJC\'s maps which works well here. I wish the textures was stretched just alittle bit but thats just my opinion. The fps in this map is pretty good so few if any players should have difficulties. The map itself is set in the late evening if not night so expect it to be dark, which I think adds to this map. The author does have various lights here and there which could have been alittle brighter in their casting, and two smaller lights on a lower area didnt have any light emitting at all that I could see. Also, a clip brush on the stairs to get rid of the bumpy effect would have been nice. The music included here fits well for duels. Overall this map should be very functional for duels or powerduels. The map itself has a nice feel to it and should provide for some very fun duels. The platform does have railing around it, but their placement allows for you to fall off if one is not careful. This map would be a nice one to add to those duel servers out there! Textures: yes bots: no music: yes ~LK~
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Haiti's deadly hurricane season just getting started
Haiti Action.net — Just as the north coast of Haiti is being saturated by the outer rainbands of the storm in the Bahamas three new storms line up in Hurricane Alley. By this afternoon, Tropical Depression Nine will, most likely, become Tropical Storm Ike. However, the menacing tropical wave approaching the Leeward Islands appears similar to the development of Tropical Storm Fay which was the first storm of the 2008 Hurricane Season to hit Haiti.
Following closely on the freshly saturated mountains, what could become Tropical Storm Josephine will cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides on the storm-battered Island. So far the death toll in Haiti, of this season, is in excess of 100 lives. The damage to the desperately needed food crops in this starving nation have been severely damaged by the previous storms.
In addition a strong tropical wave has emerged off of the west coast of Africa and is is likely to develop into another tropical cyclone soon. For Haiti the next three weeks could be even more challenging than the month of August.
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HaitiAction.net will host a page with many Tropical Cyclone resources so you can find the latest information when you are searching for current updates. We suggest that you bookmark that page for this busy 2008 Hurricane Season.
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Dangerous Hurricane Gustav will hit Haiti Aug 25
Haiti's crops will be devastated by Hurricane Gustav Aug 26
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A Wise Old Coach Surveys Pro Scene
By JOHN UNDERWOOD, Special to The New York Times
Published: January 23, 1991
TAMPA, Fla.— People are pouring into this city for the 25th Stupendous Bowl. John McKay, the smartest coach never to coach in one, will be pouring out. McKay gave away his six tickets, passing up an offer of $1,000 apiece (which, he says, "tells you how smart I really am"), and he and his wife, Corky, will fly to a retreat they lease in Palm Springs, Calif., every year.
There, McKay will hack around the golf courses for a few days before settling in on "Super Sunday" to watch the game on television, at which time he will cheer not for either team but for the coaches. Nowadays, he says, he always cheers for the coaches, if only as response to the "geniuses" (Madden, Maguire, et al.) that the networks hire to second-guess them from the television booth. McKay thinks second-guessing in its advanced form is about the only thing new in pro football these days. When he says "geniuses," it comes out sounding a lot like "morons." Huge Success at U.S.C.
In his Hall of Fame career at the University of Southern California from 1960 to 1976, McKay's teams won four national championships and went to nine Rose Bowl games. Then, abruptly, he quit to become the first coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a high-paying but lower-flying job that, despite early successes that included making the National Football League playoffs in record time, crash-landed in 1984 when he quit for good.
Knowing the amount of bile in that last episode, it was surprising the other day to find McKay living in Tampa and at peace with what had been an unfit finale to a supernal coaching career. The bristling McKay wit was still intact, the bitterness was mostly gone. But he said he hadn't talked to the press for publication in five years, "which would make a happy man out of anybody."
He and Corky stayed in Tampa because two of their four children live there (their son Ritchie is the Bucs' chief counsel), and they'd grown to appreciate the conveniences: 10 minutes to the yacht club where they dine, 10 minutes to the country club where McKay plays golf, 15 minutes to the office of the Bucs' owner, Hugh Culverhouse, when McKay is needed for consultation.
After dining on crab meat at the yacht club, McKay diagrammed plays on a napkin. He sees more beauty in X's and O's than Botticelli saw in belly buttons, and in his hands the cocktail napkin came alive. He said he had watched the Giants beat the Bears and heard the analysts raving about the Giants' four-man line "as if they'd invented it." But it worked, he said, because it was the equivalent of an eight-man front, with the safety cheating up as a fourth linebacker. Now He Cheers For the Coaches
"The thing is, the Bears were using the same defense," he said. "The experts never said a thing about it. The difference was the Giants did what you're supposed to do when you see an eight-man front. They passed on first down. The Bears ran. They got nowhere. One of the experts said, 'We never saw that before.' Well, the University of Oregon used it in 1954.
"So I cheer for the coaches, now. I think Bill Parcells of the Giants does a hell of a job, so I cheer for him. Mike the Spitter Ditka, I cheer for him. The teams don't mean anything to me."
McKay said he still thought the best offense for running and passing was the I-formation, which he fashioned into a force majeure at U.S.C. He was pleased to see the Raiders (and an old U.S.C. tailback, Marcus Allen) apply it so thunderously against Cincinnati. He said the only thing he wished he had been able to use at Tampa Bay was the option, "which the pros never see, although there's some of it available now with the run-and-shoot."
McKay also thinks specialization is out of hand in pro football, with coaches making four or five mostly unnecessary substitutions every down "so people will see how much they're coaching." And that slows the game.
"I used to like to run plays fast, get some tempo going, get momentum, keep the other guy off balance," he said. "Now they've got the equivalent of 45 seconds between plays, and they go through all those signals on the sidelines, guys pulling their ears, scratching, with another guy next to 'em doing something different to confuse the other side, and by the time the team drags up to the line they barely get the play off.
"Then the team that does the best job doesn't even use a huddle. The quarterback just comes up to the line and calls the play and goes. I was watching Buffalo beat Miami, and they're saying, 'Kelly's calling his own plays!' And all Kelly does is take the team right down the field, phweeet, touchdown. Phweeet, another touchdown. Sent signaling back a hundred years." Out of Favor With the Fans
The next day, McKay said his health was what had made him quit. Cataracts that had to be removed, angioplasty a year later. "And, too, I didn't think the people here wanted me," he said. "I thought, hell, if they don't want me, I'll get out."
It's difficult to imagine anyone not wanting McKay. Bear Bryant, the former Alabama coach, once said that McKay ranked among the smartest football coaches.
Bryant and Lombardi may have been the most awesome, and Parseghian, Paterno, Shula and, now, Schnellenberger would be among the greats. But McKay was the smartest.