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ort rep y Securit al NatioN JPME IntEgratIon acknowlEdgEs ValuE of rEsErVE & guard By Col Scott A. Sauter Guidance from our nation's capstone documents on national security enumerates current threats and implies competencies for our senior military leaders. Many of these competencies have stood the test of time while others, just as important, are transient and tied to temporary conditions in our current operational assessments. In all cases, there is an expectation of our military's collection of Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) institutions to incorporate subject matter into their respective curricula to create learning outcomes and, in turn, enhance the professional development of the nation's future military leadership. Tis process is codified in the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff 's Instruction (CJSCI) 1800.01D, the Officer Professional Military Education Program, known in military education circles as OPMEP . Among other things, the OPMEP outlines joint learning objectives for each JPME institution. In addition, special areas of emphasis (SAE) are prescribed to address emerging or transient issues and "highlight the concerns of [the office of the secretary of defense], the services, combatant commands, Defense agencies, and the Joint Staff regarding coverage of specific joint subject matter in the PME colleges." Included in the 2011 list of SAEs approved by ADM Michael Mullen was "integrating Reserve Component Attributes into JPME School Curricula." Tis serves as an acknowledgement of the value, both present and future, of increased knowledge of the National Guard and Reserves, as senior military leaders grapple with preserving the capability of the Joint Total Force in an environment of increased fiscal constraints. Tis acknowledgement was and continues to be the result of persistent efforts to advocate for Reserve Component interests through the OPMEP process and existing strategic communications. Whether this is considered follow-up work to support recommendations from the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves or just another necessary effort to enhance Total Force awareness, "Integrating Reserve Component Attributes" has found a larger audience in professional military education circles. To sustain its status as an SAE, this subject matter must be evaluated annually as it competes for one of ten coveted spots on the chairman's annual list. Tis process begins each year in late spring when the 42 the J-7's Joint Education and Doctrine Directorate calls for SAE proposals. Each proposal is briefed by its sponsor at the Joint Faculty Education Conference (JFEC), typically held at the National Defense University and attended by faculty representatives from all of the JPME institutions. Te JFEC representatives' deliberation and vote determines the level of acceptance and suitability of each SAE for inclusion at JPME, and a preliminary list is created. Tis list provides a rank order of all SAEs for consideration by the Military Education Coordination Council (MECC), which meets later in the year. Te MECC working group—O-6 level representatives from the JPME institutions—reviews the JFEC recommendation and makes any necessary modifications before presenting the list to the MECC Principals ("the DDJS-ME; the presidents, commandants, and directors of the joint and Service universities and colleges; the heads of any other JPME-accredited institutions; and the USJFCOM/J-7") for final review. Te Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the final approval authority before releasing the list, usually in time for the next academic year. As mentioned, "Integrating Reserve Component Attributes" made the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 list, and, for FY 12, was accepted by the JFEC by a vote of 61 percent (ranked number six of 15). While not unanimous, this puts this SAE on solid footing for a second year with the MECC and, in turn, for inclusion on the chairman's list. Ultimately, it comes down to how each JPME institution incorporates this critical subject matter into its respective curricula—whether by assigned reading, case study, formal discussion, or tabletop exercise. JPME curricula are already quite full and most academic deans lament increased demands for the limited contact time with their JPME students. However, the OPMEP's processes should ensure that the chairman's priorities are addressed and the intent of each SAE is delivered in a deliberate and thoughtful manner. And that's what will eventually affect the quality of their graduates—the future senior military leaders charged with shaping the Joint Total Force to carry out our national military strategy. Te author is deputy director of education and training in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. O fficer / M arch –a pril 2012
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Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, 1405–1408/9. Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg (Franco-Netherlandish, active in France by 1399–1416). French; Made in Paris. Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum; 9 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. (23.8 x 16.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection, 1954 (54.1.1).
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January: Youth and Old Age, Aquarius, Folio 2r
In the quatrefoil at the top of the page, a youth and an old man sit back to back, a Janus-like allusion to the beginning and end of the year. Below, the figure of Aquarius is shown as a powerful man wearing only a loincloth, pouring water from a jug supported on his shoulder and braced by his hip-planted arm. The especially elaborate border includes two additional quatrefoils at the side, with the duke's arms in a shield supported by a swan, one of his emblems.
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There are disturbing new details in the disappearance of a League City mother, Anne-Christine Johnson, 30.
Johnson's ex-husband Shaun Hardy is charged with murder. He's behind bars in the Galveston County Jail without bond.
Police told KHOU 11 News last week this couple had filed protective orders against each other. The documents KHOU 11 News obtained on Monday detail a violent and, at times, explosive relationship.
"Domestic violence is terrible," said Stephanie Johnson, Anne-Christine Johnson's mother.
It's a painful look back for the mother of Anne-Christine, who has been missing since Dec. 8. As her mom waits to hear if the body found Friday in the garage of her daughter's ex-husband is Anne Christine's, she plans to find a new purpose as an advocate for victims of domestic violence.
"I can do what I can to keep other woman from sliding into this spiral," Stephanie Johnson said.
It's a rocky relationship detailed in court documents. The couple filed for divorce in 2014. Then the next year, there were separate protective orders. Hardy filed the first one. A month later, Johnson filed one, too, saying, "He has assaulted me with a shotgun, threatened me with a knife and choked me."
Johnson says she was even hospitalized at Clear Lake Regional for treatment. "I am afraid that without this protective order, Shaun Philip Hardy will continue to hurt me or even kill me," she stated in the document.
Now, her mother hopes if anyone hears from a loved one who may also be a victim, they will not wait to get help.
"If that's the case, and you're sitting there watching this show, and you think you know of somebody, get on them right away," Stephanie Johnson said.
Both of the protective orders filed by Hardy and Johnson were later dismissed.
The Galveston County Medical Examiner's Office is now working to identify the body through dental records.


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You have in your hands one of the most advanced technologies currently in use. I would say, other than Peter, there are no advanced members using the a65 or a77, yet. If there are, they're not speaking.
I am afraid you might be better served by going to Dyxum.com, where many members have stepped up and bought these two SLTs. You, soon, will become one of the masters at how to make this particular camera sing and dance to your tune. Do not be afraid to experiment with the camera. It is in the extremes that we actually learn our limitations.
Speaking for myself, I can offer you the practical camera knowledge when using a SONY DSLR, but my personal experience stops at the a100, a700 and a850/a900. This "newer" technology is still outside my current need, although when they do release a Full Frame version, I will be a lot more interested in seeing what it has.
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Gone are the days, when television actors were considered inferior to film stars. Nowadays, these actors command equal position and status. Some of these stars receive the kind of salary that many film stars can't even dream of.
Here is a list of some of the most popular television stars and their salaries.
1. Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, and Kaley Cuoco – The Big Bang Theory – $1 million each per episode
The Big Bang Theory is one of the most popular sitcoms on-air. So, it doesn't actually come as a surprise that the three main leads of the show are also one of the highest paid actors in the industry.
On the other hand, Kunal Nayyar and Simon Helberg also pocket around $750,000 per episode.
2. Peter Dinklage – Game of Thrones – $150,000 per episode
Tyrion Lannister is one of the most loved characters in the show. His contribution to the show is invaluable and his fat paycheck clearly reflects it.
3. Ashton Kutcher – Two and a half men – $755,000 per episode
When the famous sitcom Two And A Half Men, decided to reboot themselves, they replaced Charlie Sheen with Aston Kutcher. Although, Kutcher was not paid record-breaking wages like Sheen, yet he was in no way underpaid.
4. Neil Patrick Harris – How I Met your Mother – $225,000 per episode
Neil Patrik Harris' portrayal of Barney Stinson brought the show alive. The How I Met Your Mother's producers made sure that he was properly compensated.
5. Claire Danes – Homeland – $250,000 per episode
Claire Danes is the life of the show, in more ways than one. The show has enjoyed great success and Danes' brilliant acting is undoubtedly one of the main reasons behind the show's popularity.
6. Patrick Dempsey – Grey's Anatomy – $350,000 per episode
Other stars of the show, Ellen Pompeo, and Sandra Oh are also paid almost the same amount.
The Grey's Anatomy is one of the most popular TV series that revolves around a hospital and its doctors.
The show has brought Dempsey both financial and critical success.
7. All the six F.R.I.E.N.D.S – F.R.I.E.N.D.S – $1 million per episode
During early seasons, actors were paid salaries ranging from $20,000 to $40,000 per episode. But as the show became popular, their salaries also increased.
For the last two seasons all the six friends, namely, Jennifer Aniston, Matt Le Blanc, David Schwimmer, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and Matthew Perry received the same amount.
8. Charlie Sheen – Two And A Half men – $1.8 million per episode
Till date, he remains the highest paid television actor.
His record breaking salary for the popular sitcom even made it to the Guinness book of world records.
Ironically, it was his skyrocketing salary that led the producers of the show to replace him with Ashton Kutcher.
9. Kevin Spacey – House of Cards – $500,000 Per Episode
The House of Cards producers makes sure that the iconic actor is fairly compensated. The show has gained both critical and commercial success.
Paid around half a million per episode, Spacey will be more than happy to reprise the role for few more seasons I guess.
10. Grant Gustin – The Flash – $300,500 per annum
The success of Flash has made Grant Gustin one of the most recognizable faces in the industry.
We would want to see him play the role of the scarlet speedster for many seasons to come.
11. Simon Baker – The Mentalist – $300,000 per episode
The CBS cop drama has helped Baker make it to the Forbes list of the richest television actors. Much of the actor's earnings comes from the popular show.
Much of the actor's earnings comes from the popular show.
12. Ray Romano – Everybody Loves Raymond – $1.7 million
It seems not just the viewers but even the producers loved Raymond. Ray Romano's portrayal of the character made him one of the highest-paid actors ever.
Only Charlie Sheen could boast of a better salary than him.
13. Stephen Amell – Arrow – $30,000 per episode
Arrow is one of the most popular superhero series. Stephen Amell's performance is also one of the main reasons that has made the show so popular.
He also receives a better paycheck than his other superhero friend Flash.
Well, with so much money involved, no wonder that almost everybody wants to be an actor these days.


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Remember earlier this year, when Capcom outlined future plans on becoming the #1 provider of digitally-distributed content? And then we all thought of Steam and iTunes and Amazon and wondered what the hell Capcom was smoking?
Well, Capcom isn't just jumping into this without thinking. They're actually turning to fans for input, with Capcom Senior VP Christian Svensson asking gamers what they want to see from Capcom's digital (not retail!) products. Check out the survey and let Capcom know what you want available for digital distribution! Of particular note is this:
This was followed by a hefty section specifically about Mega Man, followed by Street Fighter and Resident Evil, along with questions about less-famous Capcom franchises like Power Stone and Dino Crisis. What's on my wish list?
Demon's Crest - Capcom's awesome Metroid-alike features a Red Arremer demon named Firebrand. Combat-heavy exploration using Firebrand's multiple transformations makes up the bulk of this brilliant SNES game.
Strider - The fast-paced, kill-you-in-a-heartbeat arcade actioner needs a comeback. As a super-ninja named Strider Hiryu fighting the forces of a lunatic Soviet wizard, there is no way this can go wrong.
Justice Gakuen/Rival Schools - An almost side-story to Street Fighter taking place in the same universe, this tag-team (later three-on-three) fighter deserves a go, if only for its colorful cast.
In other news regarding Capcom asking for fans' help, there's a contest for the upcoming Darkstalkers Resurrection asking artists to create their own original Darkstalkers character. Winners will get the chance to have their character drawn by Stanley "Artgerm" Lau, along with Pop Culture Shock's Lord Raptor statue and UDON's Darkstalkers Tribute artbook. Get crackin', artists!
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Go Through a Roller Coaster of Emotion with these Quotes From 500 Days Of Summer
Quotes from "(500) Days of Summer" showcase a unique and creative movie. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel as employees of a greeting card company who fall in love. "(500) Days of Summer" follows their relationship arc with a random and nonlinear timeline, peppering memorable quotes throughout the story.
"People don't realize this, but loneliness is underrated." - Tom. As the young everyman Tom, Joseph Gordon-Levitt provides a relatable character in "(500) Days of Summer" for the unlucky in love. In this quote, Tom's disdain for relationships provides a set-up for his introduction to Summer.
"It's official. I'm in love with Summer." - Tom After meeting the beautiful new co-worker Summer, Tom is immediately smitten. The two share the same taste in music and the same quirky outlook on life. After their initial introduction, most of Tom's quotes from "(500) Days of Summer" revolve around her.
"Just because she likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn't mean she's your soul mate." - Rachel Hansen Tom's little sister Rachel is perhaps even more mature than Tom. Throughout "(500) Days of Summer," she comes to him with relationship advice in quotes that are both sophisticated and practical.
"I don't know how to tell you this, but... there's a Chinese family in our bathroom." - Tom One of Tom and Summer's favorite pastimes is going to Ikea and pretending they live at the store. This odd activity serves as a bonding experience for the couple. In this quote, Tom and Summer's daydream is interrupted by another group of shoppers.
"We've been like Sid and Nancy for months now." - Summer Zooey Deschanel's character in "(500) Days of Summer" is a difficult person to get close to. Her negative view on relationships doesn't bode well for Tom. In this quote, Summer likens their relationship to a rock and roll tragedy.
"Either she's an evil, emotionless, miserable human being, or... she's a robot." - Tom Summer's pessimism begins to take its toll on Tom, and his quotes from "(500) Days of Summer" become increasingly dark as a result. Tom can't quite figure out Summer's motivations, and it drives him crazy in quotes like this.
"You did the right thing." - Rachel Hansen After a breakup with Summer, Tom falls apart emotionally. His friends don't know how to cheer him up, so they call Rachel to come over and help. This quote is Rachel's affirmation of Tom's friends' decision, just before she attempts to talk some sense into Tom.
"People should be able to say how they feel, not some words that some strangers put in their mouths." - Tom Many quotes from "(500) Days of Summer" urge viewers to take emotional chances. Tom realizes his own unhappiness in this quote, and he resolves to make some changes in his life.
"I woke up one morning and I just knew." - Summer In a later scene in "(500) Days of Summer," Tom and Summer meet by chance at one of their old hangouts. Things have changed for the both of them, as Tom is on the way to becoming an architect and Summer is sporting an engagement ring. Summer explains her sudden change of heart in this quote.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Autumn." - Autumn The final scene of "(500) Days of Summer" ends with a positive quote for Tom. Just before a job interview, he meets a stunning young woman who is competing for the same position. As they exchange names, Tom realizes that he's found the next logical step after Summer.


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The Myprotein Lifting Grips are ideal for anyone that is involved in heavy weight lifting. These improved lifting straps come in one size and are ideal for extremely heavy lifting specifically on exercises such as dead lifts and bent over rows. These will assist you when lifting extremely heavy weights by providing a secure grip and support. The straps also help to increase the contact with the bar and are padded to provide extra comfort when lifting.
Please note that the labelling on this product is provided in English as a minimum. French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Swedish and Finnish may also be present on a product by product basis.
Where reviews refer to foods or cosmetic products, results may vary from person to person. Customer reviews are independent and do not represent the views of The Hut Group.
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Absolutely a must for a great back workout or pulling exercises takes the strain of forearm and biceps only thing they are large they could do a smaller size but don't think buy
Very Hazardous! Its like ill intent to tell someone to do heavy rows with this and have the bar breaking loose and their arm shooting back in the middle of the range of motion under heavy weights with an untested product. Thank God I didn't get hurt! These are not heavy duty, they have stitching across the rubber which means that they are ok for light lifting but broke the first time they went through heavyweight!!!
I wanted these grips to assist with hanging leg raises from a chinups bar. They work pretty well. They definitely help with "hangtime". I thought they would tighten up a bit better than they do. But that's a minor issue.
Good grips for light stuff, like pull-downs, DB rows, etc. Much better then conventional lifting straps. But they are not strong enough for BB rows and Deadlift. Mine broke apart from the stitches in the midle of the rubber grip, after only 4 months of use. (Why stitches in the the midle of the grip?)
They are an excellent pair of grips at a good price. The leather used to wrap around the bar is thick and long, however the construction, specifically the metal ring is too thin and comes out of place, compromising the entire grip. This occurred with one of my grips after only the second workout.
Perfect solution for me, always get tired an slippery at the last sets, which are the heaviest, used it for the first time today. within one set i already adjusted to the feeling and this completely improved my grip of the bar. used it for deadlifts. Goes Well With:DEADLIFTS and a killer attitude
These grips have started to fall apart. They are okay for light lifting. Definitely not for "heavy duty". Disappointed in the product but then again it was cheap.
A really great product, takes less time to set up than standard lifting straps which is why I purchased them, the only downside of this is that it is made in a one size fits all but apart from that, I recommend highly!
I have used these grips for quite a while, mainly borrowing them of one of my mates, and found that it helps in ensuring that the focus of the lift is on the right muscle group. I personally still believe in doing most exercises without grips etc but for going that extra bit on the weights it is ideal. Great grip and comfort via these grips ensure better results are achieve in your heavier lifts without putting strain on the wrong muscles.
Good product, lifting is way more easier than without and faster than with any original liftingstraps! Only thing is that these are a little too long, for me atleast! 1-2cm shorter and these would be perfect. Ofcourse theres always scissors to do so, but let's see couple more trainings!
This heavy duty padded lifting grips are amazing. My friend let me to make one workout in this then I decided to buy my own. Strong sure and secure hold bar, barbell, dumbbell or anything. I make better PR's in deadlift. Not much but still few kg more.Goes Well With:With good motivation :)
Really good product, wanted Versa gripps but I thought I would these grips ago first. Was worth me doing this, really happy with them!
This grip it's fantastic. Give you the push to lift with more perfection and more confidence! It helps you to pass your goals easier! I recommend it! The bar doesn't fall from your hands never more!!! Believe it!!!Goes Well With:Deadlift...
Great product.i've been lifting for quite long time and for example doing deadlift i used chalk all the time,but this is far better: very good grip,no more messy white stains from chalk and also in my opinion more comfortable than straps:)Goes Well With:Deadlift
Pleased with these, offer good grip, fast to put on and take off and are comfortable. Could do with being slightly longer but it's a small issue.Goes Well With:Your hands...
Durable, well padded, quick and easy to use, though not a solid a grip as conventional canvas straps.
A hundred times better than conventional straps. they are comfortable, they do not spend your time. Great rubberized material, it is better than other peers that I used.? great find for me !
The web image doesn't do these justice. Heavy duty, excellent lifting grips - if you aren't having 'fun' with gloves and straps and want something different and seen Versa Grips from the USA - then these are for you. Quicker and easier to use than standard straps for pulling exercises and very comfortable for pushing exercises. Once you get the hang of them they are just perfect. And the price ! Amazing. Versa Grips from the USA are treble the price with postage etc - it's a no brainer!Goes Well With:Liquid Chalk - if you suffer from sweaty hands while training like me !
I've owned the previous ultimate grips and they broke very easy with 200kg plus weight i got refunded as they were about a month old good while they lasted tho --- But these are improved and beefier stronger versions and are taking the weight easily unlike the others ,these are the closest your gonna get to versa grips from usa these could even be better than versa grips top marks to my protein for improving these grips Goes Well With:Deadlifting, Rack pulls, Heavy Dumbbell rows/Deadlifts
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Tour de France 2005 - Stage 16
Tour de France 2005 route map
Stage 16 - Tuesday, July 19: Mourenx - Pau, 180.5 km
After the rest day, this is the last mountain stage in Pyrenees and TdF, and it at least decide the mountain champion.
The focus is on Col d'Aubisque, the last Cat H peak that all contenders have to get over.
I added some path thru the finish line in the city of Pau refering the map below.
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Because our furry friends will never independently decide to go on a diet, it becomes our responsibility to help guide them back to their ideal weight.
Here are some practical solutions to help prevent obesity in dogs and cats so they stay healthy and happy:
Overeating is the primary cause of weight gain in pets. And for them, overeating is usually a simple matter of overfeeding — giving them huge portions and an overabundance of between-meals snacks and fatty table scraps. Talk to your vet about reducing your animal's caloric intake, the possibility of switching to a "diet" food formula, or choosing a higher quality brand of pet food — one with whole, healthy and nutritious ingredients (like meat!) and less fillers and preservatives.
Keep their water bowl full. Hydration is important for good digestion and overall health.
Offer healthy treats like carrot sticks, cantaloupe (many cats love it!), unbuttered popcorn, apple slices, or even bits of banana. Try experimenting with a few crunchy alternatives. You both might be surprised.
Schedule more pet play into your week. Keep in mind that cats need exercise too even through they don't require walks like their canine counterparts. (Check out Feline Minds suggestions for crafting your own interactive cat toys on the cheap.) And for dogs, remember that having a back yard isn't enough. Your pooch won't "automatically" exercise when presented with a grassy patch any more than you will. If you already know your schedule is too packed to make it to the park, hire a dog walker or barter your gardening prowess for a few walks from a petless (but pet-loving) friend or neighbor who works from home.
If fatty snacks and too much food isn't the problem, here are a few other possible reasons for weight gain:
- Hormonal disorders, such as an underactive thyroid gland or overactive adrenal gland can often trigger weight gain in our animals. When a dog's adrenal glands produce too much cortisol it can lead to a condition known as Cushing's disease. While dogs with Cushing's disease don't actually gain weight, their weight is redistributed to the abdomen, giving them that unflattering pot-bellied look. (If you are concerned, ask your vet to check your pet's hormone levels during his or her next checkup.)
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The perfect compromise between performance and portability, these lightweight notebook computers are the solution for the business person on the go. Capable of delivering the processor speed and power of a full desktop, notebook computers are ideal for use at home, work, or even school to keep track of your documents or projects. These premium notebooks feature smart operating systems and brilliant displays in a compact frame that is small enough to fit in a briefcase or backpack for ultimate convenience. With top brands such as Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, or Dell available for your selection, Overstock.com has a variety of both new and refurbished notebooks to continue your enterprises wherever you may be.
I bought this to replace my very old laptop.. I was use to windows and this is a bit different, however if you take your time and just explore you will come to Love it too.. Very light and portable, I Love the size too.. Has a Great Screen and the keyboard has a couple of different keys, there is no CAPS LOCK but still has a very comfortable keyboard.. It isn't sonic fast but is much faster than what I had.. Has a Plug and Play Port for Wireless Devices such as a Mouse. Overall I would recommend this a a Great Buy and would recommend it for All ages including kids 8 and above. My Granddaughter is 9 and she has no problem with using this at all .. Great price and if you buy it New instead of a Refurbished one it comes with a 1 year warranty, the Refurbished are cheaper but only has 90 warranty.. You can buy extended warranty on both New and Refurbished.. I am Very Happy I went this route instead of a Laptop for a much greater price..
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2014 Big Six Swim Meet Results
The Dysart Swim Team competed at the Conference Swim-Offs on July 12th in Parkersburg. Dysart won the meet making its 5th straight win as Big 6 Conference Champions.
Dysart Swim Team Results:
8 & Under
100y Medley Relay: Alley Freemon, Landry Blackburn, Haven Barnhart, Reagan Glenn 2nd Place
25y Free: Reagan Glenn 3rd Place
25y Breast: Landry Blackburn 5th Place
25y Butterfly: Haven Barnhart 4th Place
50y Free: Reagan Glenn 5th Place
25y Back: Alley Freemon 3rd Place
100y Free Relay: Alley Freemon, Landry Blackburn, Abby Wilkins, Reagan Glenn 3rd Place
200y Medley Relay: Olivia Smith, Lizzie Borton, Carlie Spore, Aubree Monat 3rd Place
100y Individual Medley: Olivia Smith 5th Place
50y Free: Aubree Monat 2nd Place
50y Breast: Olivia Smith 4th Place
50y Butterfly: Aubree Monat 6th Place
100y Free: Carlie Spore 1st Place
50y Back: Carlie Spore 4th Place
200y Free Relay: Carlie Spore, Lizzie Borton, Olivia Smith, Aubree Monat 1st Place
200y Medley Relay: Natalie Tecklenburg, Carlie Hoppe, Sophie Winkelpleck, Ellie More 1st Place
100y Individual Medley: Natalie Tecklenburg 1st Place
50y Free: Carlie Hoppe 2nd Place
50y Breast: Carlie Hoppe 1st Place
50y Butterfly: Sophie Winkelpleck 2nd Place
100y Free: Sophie Winkelpleck 2nd Place
50y Back: Natalie Tecklenburg 1st Place
200 Free Relay: Sophie Winkelpleck, Ellie Moore, Carlie Hoppe, Natalie Tecklenburg 1st Place
200y Medley Relay: Emma Alpers, Cylie McNeal, Megan Carty, Allie Carty 1st Place
200y Individual Medley: Emma Alpers 3rd Place
50y Free: Allie Carty 1st Place
100y Breast: Allie Carty 4th Place
100y Butterfly: Megan Carty 1st Place
100y Free: Cylie McNeal 3rd Place
100y Back: Emma Alpers 2nd Place
200y Free Relay: Emma Alpers, Cylie McNeal, Megan Carty, Allie Carty 1st Place
15 & Over
200y Medley Relay: Kassie Hennings, Anna Garwood, Lauren Krupa, Bobbie Hilmer 2nd Place
200y Individual Medley: Kassie Hennings 1st Place
50y Free: Anna Garwood 1st Place
100y Breast: Anna Garwood 2nd Place
100y Butterfly: Lauren Krupa 1st Place
100y Free: Lauren Krupa 1st Place
100y Back: Kassie Hennings 1st Place
200y Free Relay: Anna Garwood, Bobbie Hilmer, Kassie Hennings, Lauren Krupa 2nd Place
8 & Under
100y Medley Relay: William Koenig, Josh Rivera, Lucas Albertsen, Hayden Spore 1st Place
100y Individual Medley: Josh Rivera 2nd Place
25y Free: William Koenig 2nd Place
25y Breast: Josh Rivera 2nd Place
25y Butterfly: Lucas Albertsen 4th Place
50y Free: Lucas Albertsen 4th Place
25y Back: William Koenig 2nd Place
100y Free Relay: William Koenig, Hayden Spore, Lucas Albertsen, Josh Rivera 1st Place
100y Individual Medley: Lance Moore 4th Place
50y Free: Caleb Rivera 2nd Place
50y Breast: Lance Moore 3rd Place
100y Free: Caleb Rivera 1st Place
50y Back: Evan Waller 4th Place
200y Free Relay: Lance Moore, Timothy Griswold, Evan Waller, Caleb Rivera 3rd Place
200y Medley Relay: Kolten Crawford, Marcus Albertsen, Tanner Porter, Zachary Griswold 2nd Place
100y Individual Medley: Marcus Albertsen 2nd Place
50y Free: Kolten Crawford 4th Place
50y Breast: Kolten Crawford 5th Place
50y Butterfly: Tanner Porter 2nd Place
100y Free: Marcus Albertsen 1st Place
50y Back: Tanner Porter -3rd Place
200y Free Relay: Kolten Crawford, Zachary Griswold, Tanner Porter, Marcus Albertsen 4th Place
200y Medley Relay: Kody Crawford, Ben Dvorak, Tate Hookham, Carter Spore 2nd Place
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Seventy-five years looks insanely good on Wonder Woman. It's a good thing, too, because it's finally her time. The Amazonian warrior princess, variously armed with indestructible bracelets, a Lasso of Truth and an invisible plane, is, according to her December 1941 DC Comics debut, as "lovely as Aphrodite, as wise as Athena—with the speed of Mercury and the strength of Hercules." Yep, she's all that: powerful, smart, athletic, with a banging costume and a take-no-prisoners attitude that makes her the equal or better of any man. Seriously, what's not to love?
Over the decades, the feminist icon sex symbol birthed by psychologist-writer William Moulton Marston has turned up in hundreds of comic books and as a character in '70s animated TV shows including Super Friends and Justice League. But she truly scorched our collective psyche a year after a 1974 TV movie starring a modestly dressed Cathy Lee Crosby, when the role was recast with Lynda Carter, who strutted her stuff in star-studded hot pants for four memorable years on the Wonder Woman TV series. The wildly entertaining show changed minds by showing how powerful and erotic kickass women can be. To date, Carter still has a lock on the role, even though Hollywood has been floating the idea of a Wonder Woman feature film since the mid '90s. Sandra Bullock, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jessica Biel and ex-Bond girl Olga Kurylenko have been mentioned as top choices for projects meant to be helmed by directors from Joss Whedon to George Miller.
But those efforts never achieved liftoff. Instead, Carter got succeeded by the voice of Keri Russell in a 2009 animated TV film Wonder Woman and, in 2011, by Adrianne Palicki who took a whack at the role in a NBC re-launch attempt that never went beyond pilot. It's hard to fathom why Hollywood's been so slow at unleashing such a bombshell character on the big screen. But that all changed earlier this year, when Israeli actress and former army combat instructor Gal Gadot's take on Wonder Woman—part gladiator, part barbarian princess, all take-charge boss—stopped the show with her brief appearance in the otherwise inept Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (my review of that one is here). Some whined that the new Wonder Woman didn't have the right body for the role. Gadot put it best: "You know men. Every one of them is obsessed with breasts."
Creepy fanboys aside, Gadot takes centerstage next June in her own $150 million origin epic Wonder Woman, set during World War II and directed by Patty Jenkins (Monster). Batman v Superman director Zack Snyder describes it as the "gateway drug" to the long-promised Justice League films. Greek mythology? Martial arts? Swords and sandals? No gateway drug needed, Zack; we're already addicted to Wonder Woman. Long may she rule.


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The Fife City Council will likely take action on an ordinance that would extend a ban on collective gardens for medical marijuana at its meeting Tuesday night.
The city first passed a moratorium on collective gardens in August 2011, after the state Legislature authorized qualifying patients to create and participate in the gardens for medical purposes.
Collective gardens allow people with diagnosed terminal or debilitating illness to share responsibility for acquiring and supplying the resources required to produce and process cannabis for medical use.
The state's law is subject to guidelines, which limit the number of participating patients and the number of plants, among other requirements.
The city has extended the ban three times for a number of reasons, the most recent of which was in January this year amid the passage of Initiative 502 that legalized recreational marijuana use in Washington state.
Given the conflict between state and federal law regarding the substance — and the city's lack of regulation — council members are once again considering an extension on the ban.
"The city has not yet completed (a) study of the potential impacts of medical marijuana collective gardens and needs more time to do so," according to a summary on the City Council agenda. "Another moratorium extension is therefore needed to allow additional time to analyze the potential impacts of medical marijuana collective gardens and to develop appropriate zoning regulations."
The City Council will review and likely vote on the issue at its meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m.


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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WYTV) – A new poll shows that Democratic challenger Ed FitzGerald has gained little ground against Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
The poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University in Connecticut shows Republican Kasich ahead of FitzGerald 48 percent to 36 percent.
The same poll in May had Kasich leading by a 50-to-35 percent margin.
The July 24 to 28 survey notes that many Ohioans still don't know much about FitzGerald, the Cuyahoga County executive. The survey said 65 percent of voters don't know enough about FitzGerald to form an opinion of him.
Fifty-five percent of Ohioans questioned approve of the job Kasich is doing. He was elected governor in 2010.
The survey of 1,366 Ohio voters has a margin-of-error of just under 3 percentage points. The election is Nov. 4.
On Friday, it was a packed house at the Maronite Center for a big Democratic party rally, which included FitzGerald.
He said it's important to not look too heavily at any one poll.
"I would just say that there was one poll that said that and there are lots that don't. We have polls from my county that says our name ID is 90 percent. It just depends on the poll. The polls are all over the place," FitzGerald said.
FitzGerald did acknowledge that the governor is at an advantage when it comes to name recognition, and that name recognition is important to win votes. He said his campaign started television advertising last month and he expects that will help make his name more recognizable.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Serves 20
- 4 sticks non-hydrogenated, non-dairy margarine, softened
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup confectioner's sugar
- 1/4 cup applesauce
- 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
- 4 1/4 cups gluten-free flour mix, King Arthur preferred, plus about 1/4 cup more for rolling
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup Apple Fig Jam
- 1/4 cup rice or hemp milk, vanilla flavor preferred
- 1/2 cup demarara sugar
- In standing mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix the margarine and sugars until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes, scraping the sides and scooping the bottom once or twice to incorporate the margarine.
- Add the applesauce, vanilla paste and lemon zest and mix to fully incorporate.
- Sift the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt onto a sheet of parchment paper or into a medium bowl.
- Add the flour to the margarine and mix until completely incorporated.
- Scrape the batter onto a sheet of plastic wrap. Pat flat, about 1-inch thick, and cover completely with plastic wrap. Refrigerate overnight.
- Remove the dough from refrigerator 15 to 20 minutes before proceeding.
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a sheet pan with silpat liners or parchment paper.
- Place a second sheet of parchment paper, the same length as sheet pan, on work surface. Roll the dough into a rectangle about 14 inches long (or 2 inches shorter than your baking sheet) by 6 inches wide. Evenly spread the filling from end to end along one side of the dough's long edge, about 2 inches wide. Lift the parchment paper and roll the dough lengthwise in a log, 2 to 2½ inches wide. Flip onto the prepared baking sheet and flatten evenly with your hand into a rectangle.
- Brush with rice or hemp milk and sprinkle with demarara sugar. Bake until the dough has turned a pale, nutty brown and the filling is heated through, about 12 to 15 minutes.
- When done, remove and allow to cool in the pan. Cut into 2 to 2½-inch squares.
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Suspect Flees on Foot After Crashing Into A House in Rockford
Location: Parkside and Elmwood
On 090416 at around 9:30 pm, Rockford Police responded to a Car VS House Hit and Run accident. Upon arrival Police located a silver in color Volkswagen Jetta lodged against the front of a house at this location. Witnesses advised that a black female was observed leaving the scene on foot, northbound from the crash. No other occupants were found in the vehicle.
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How Facebook M Will Hook Us On Shopping At Facebook
In March, Facebook quietly revealed a major play. Their Messenger platform, with 700 million users, would be updated to allow you to buy things right in the chat window. Looking for a new pair of black pumps? Need to book a ticket to Hawaii? Just want some gift for your friend's new baby? Messenger would have you covered in a user interface based upon casual texting.
Today, Facebook has shared how they'll make that reality possible: Facebook M. Facebook M is a(nother) personal assistant—like Apple's Siri or Microsoft's Cortana—that lives in a tab at the bottom of Messenger. You just tap on it to begin a text-based conversation with someone ready to work for you, for free.
From Wired's early report, M is designed brilliantly. Here's why the few beta testers in the Bay area now may quickly find themselves hooked:
M Is Not A Man Or A Woman…
Cortana and Siri are, notably, female assistants. M is more like Google Now: A genderless construct.
…So M Actually Hides Human Help…
The benefit of no gender means that, while M can operate off artificial intelligence, it can also enlist human helpers—hired by Facebook—to seamlessly tap in when a request confounds the computer.
…And Makes A Virtual Assistant Feasible Today…
Let's be honest—while Cortana and Siri are both clever, they're 100% driven by AI, and AI isn't yet good enough to handle all of the intricacies of our natural language requests. Meanwhile, some services like GoButler are sidestepping the AI problem by relying 100% on humans as free assistants in the hopes of inventing some wild profit model that doesn't exist. Facebook is finding a happy medium, between human help and computer help.
…That Is Really Quite Powerful…
Facebook M won't just find you plane tickets and baby shoes. It will wait on the line with Comcast for you. That sort of capability is created in part by a human backend, but it's only made possible by a chat-based UI that can cut through what would need layers upon layers of user interface to communicate extremely specific requests.
…In Order To Hook Us On Them Tomorrow…
No doubt, M, powered by an unspecified number of human contractors, is a loss leader for Facebook today, but it's a model—supported by the platform's very design—that can allow M to transition to using more AI in the future without the user ever knowing. Meanwhile, since we've all had such a good experience from day one (one hopes) we become hooked by the time every big company has infallible artificial intelligence.
…As Long As We Continue Not To Really Care About Privacy.
Notably, Facebook M only mines information from the conversation you have in the chat window. It doesn't look through who your friends are or what you've liked in the past on Facebook (though it may in the future). In other words, Facebook is holding back its most powerful tool—that Social Graph—in order to avoid the uncanny valley of AI, or what might happen when companies are suggesting ideas to us that are so tailored, or so good, that they actually creep us out a bit.
Source: How Facebook M Will Hook Us On Shopping At Facebook
Via: Google Alerts for AI


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BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock took to Yahoo! Sports last week to once again defend the BCS against its many, many detractors.
The sport is thriving. College football works and works well, because of its unique regular season and because of the bowl tradition and bowl experience for the student-athletes…As the person who managed the NCAA men's basketball tournament for 13 years and who now administers the BCS college football championship game, I think the differences among the sports should be celebrated, not vilified.
Fine, let's celebrate. Let's celebrate what Hancock loves about the BCS. Hancock believes in the BCS because he thinks the BCS is a fair system that works.
So if that's the case, you have to wonder…What If Everything Worked Like The BCS?
Special shout-out and thank you to everyone who helped make the video.
Lucy Pearce, a.k.a. Mrs. Hancock a.k.a. Mrs. TNIAAM
Sophia Mitri Schloss, a.k.a. Boise. She's big-time, you guys, make sure you keep an eye out for her in the upcoming NBC show, "Grimm."
Cinematographer Jon Peck, sound designer Austin Chick and editor Sanjeev Tandle. Serious rockage on their parts.
Fremont Abbey Arts Center, for letting us turn their storage room into a classroom.


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"One way or return?"
Only then did the tears begin to fall, in front of the bewildered gentleman at the sky bus kiosk.
"One way" I finally managed to say.
It wasn't saying my goodbyes to people that started the tears, extremely hard as that had been, it was realising that I was getting a one way ticket to the airport, that I wasn't coming back to Australia for a while, and that I was being torn apart from the life that I had carved out for myself.
Of course I could visit, that's always an option but it's not the same as living there.
I had found some incredible and inspiring people on my journey. I found this insane love for food, coffee and wine that I never really explored because I was so sick all the time. I found that I really enjoyed riding a bike, no matter how bad I was at it, but most importantly I found my health and I found me.
I've always been me, obviously, but through illness and operations I had lost a lot of myself. In Australia I got back to myself and then some; I had never felt more me than when I did in Melbourne. I wish I could explain to you what it was exactly, it could have been because I was allowed the freedom to just be, with no back story or preconceived notions of my character. No one really knew me. Or it could have been that I felt I belonged there.
Whatever it was, all I know is that I had never felt more comfortable and able to express myself.
It's hard to give that up when you're not ready to. It felt as though the Australian immigration was ripping a piece of my heart out, setting fire to it and stamping on it.
Totally dramatic, I am aware.
I know that I have made some life long friends and that those connections won't disappear but its sad to know that I won't be sitting at my kitchen table talking complete shit with my housemates. That I won't be inviting people round for a cuppa and an in depth chat about life, or finding new places to have amazing breakfasts and an awesome cup of coffee.
Side note, Melbourne has taken breakfast to a while new level, I have never experienced anything like it – which is why my Instagram has been predominantly food based- Melbourne, you've set the bar which is simultaneously amazing and soul destroying.
So in September I left Melbourne to start a new adventure in Auckland. I was hopeful that it was the right thing to do. New Zealand after all is a beautiful country and I thought what I needed after Australia was a little bit of down time. Time to reconnect and get used to my "new" me.
A huge lesson was learnt in this, you can think and expect all you want, but you won't know until you are there.
There where signs, when I spoke about Auckland to people I would say "If I don't like it, I can always go home" "I'll give it through the summer" "I have to give it a chance"
My heart was already telling me that it was going to be a struggle. I didn't tell people "I'm really excited to go to Auckland and see what its like" "Maybe if Auckland doesn't do it for me, I'll go somewhere else in New Zealand"
I was already focusing on the negatives, which is most probably why, after 6 weeks in Auckland I felt the most insane relief when I booked my tickets home to London.
As beautiful as Auckland is, something just wasn't sitting right. People gave me a weird look when I said that I was moving back so soon. Their replies of "But you never even gave it a chance" stung slightly because I know that I could certainly have given it longer.
But when you know, you just know.
I felt at home in Melbourne within the first 2 weeks of being there. I didn't have many friends, I didn't have a stable place to live, but I just knew that I was meant to be there.
I don't have even a hint of that in Auckland.
The next chapter of my life is insanely terrifying but extremely exciting. I have no idea what my next steps are. Sure I have a few avenues to explore, but it means that I get to have the time to figure out what it is that I want on a professional and personal level. I'm really looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and most importantly spending some quality time with my family.
I have really missed writing, and though I won't go into the ins and outs of why I stopped or decided to continue again, I'm excited to be using the space once more.


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Fasting on Thanksgiving Day 2009 (9th Dhul Hijjah – Yawm al-Arafat) will remove 2 years of sins
It was reported from Abu Qutadah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was asked about fasting on the Day of Arafah. He said, 'It expiates for the sins of the previous year and of the coming year.' Narrated by Muslim.
Tomorrow is the 9th of Dhul Hijjah which is known as the Day of Arafat. It's also Thanksgiving Day in America. Time for some Turkey iftar!


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Lake Cora Hills Golf Course
- 56640 C R 671, Paw Paw, MI 49079
- (269) 657-4074
- www.lakecorahillsgolfclub.com
Lake Cora Hills Golf Course is an 18-hole regulation length golf course in Paw Paw, Michigan. This short layout has adequate length for a regulation course. Some holes are quite challenging and interesting, but overall it can be somewhat forgiving. Online tee times may be available at Lake Cora Hills Golf Course or at nearby golf courses, often at a substantial discount from the going green fees rate.
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She hung herself when the only friend she had turned on her.
She hung herself and her killers laughed.
She hung herself when she once sang and danced.
She hung herself and her memory was dashed with attention.
She hung herself when so many others had not.
She hung herself when the world stayed silent.
Bullying, they say. And they wear pink shirts and wear purple bands. And the world has opened its eyes, because people have died, more than one—too many.
And finally, the cruelty of the young has flipped itself over, exposed its belly with gleaming eyes. And finally, the world speaks.
People speak.
Now. Change. They want it. They cry. And howl. They stomp in outrage, and mutter with venom. Because they want justice, because students, innocent students, have become murderers.
And I think, think back to when I clung on, when "bullying" seemed too small a word, and a by-product of life—tearful nights and emptiness—
They are so late.
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Help Make Fresh Start Farms a Farm Forever!
Our Story Hill
Land Purchase Project Commences
Manchester, November 15, 2016: The Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success today announced the commencement of their land purchase project Our Story Hill. The project aims to purchase a 56.8 acre parcel located in Dunbarton, NH which will secure a permanent farming location for ORIS's constituents. The 56.8 acre farm parcel is in a mature state of agriculture operation with infrastructure, buildings and soil developments. 14 refugee farmers currently grow on the Dunbarton land. These farmer entrepreneurs represent the Somali-Bantu, Bhutanese, Burundi, and Congolese communities, as well as other ethnic groups all permanently relocated to America through our established legal process and review. They have worked the land for five years, building the soil and creating infrastructure within their farm businesses. The farm successfully grows thousands of pounds of produce each year that is sold through farm stands, farmers markets, CSA membership and wholesale accounts throughout the southern tier of New Hampshire.
The project was developed to address the needs of the landowners, ORIS and the farmers. The landowners need to sell and have provided the opportunity for ORIS to become permanent owner, through a generous bargain sale. The refugee farmers have worked hard to build their own sustainable businesses, but without land security their investment will be lost. ORIS must now raise the funds to purchase the land and provide long term secure use to the farmers.
With the assistance of The Russell Farm & Forest Conservation Foundation (www.russellfound.org), ORIS has secured the amazing opportunity to purchase the land through a Purchase and Sales Agreement bargain sale price of $90,000 (appraised at $187,000 in 2015).
Successful purchase of the land will provide further opportunities on this 56.8 acre parcel, creating the possibility for ORIS to pursue goals of developing a permanent farm community for refugee farmers to continue their successful careers as farmers and further develop independence.
To follow along with the Our Story Hill project, or to get involved, please visit http://refugeesuccess.org/our-story-hill.
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Hill walkers rescued after straying into live army firing range
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Five hill walkers had to be rescued today after straying into a live army firing range in Wicklow
The group of three men and two women, who were experienced walkers, had started from the Glenmalure Youth Hostel.
It is believed that they became disorientated and wrongly descended towards the Glen of Imaal.
They were located using their smart phones and custom built mountain rescue GPS location software.


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Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: A Top Rating For Trade Center Tower
By GLENN COLLINS (NYT); Compiled by John Sullivan
Published: March 8, 2006
The United States Green Building Council, a nonprofit group that promotes energy efficiency in construction and design, today will designate 7 World Trade Center, a 52-story skyscraper at ground zero, as the first office tower in New York City to be certified as ''green.'' The building, at Greenwich and Barclay Streets, developed by Silverstein Properties, is scheduled to open in May. The council cited the use of such design strategies as energy-conserving ultraclear glass, the recycling of rainwater to cool the tower, and construction from recycled materials. GLENN COLLINS (NYT)


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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block in Washington.
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And I'm Madeleine Brand in California, which was the first state to legalize marijuana for medical use.
In many California cities, cannabis dispensaries have sprung up like weeds. But in more conservative places, it's harder to find medical marijuana.
Debra Baer has this story of a group of seniors in Orange County who are determined to set up a pot collective in their luxury retirement community.
DEBRA BAER: For decades, Leisure World's resort lifestyle has attracted retirees to its swimming pools and golf greens.
Margo Bouer's passion is synchronized swimming.
Ms. MARGO BOUER: The water's magnificent. I'm me in the water, what keeps me alive.
BAER: The 73-year-old is one of the younger members of the Aquadettes, a synchronized swimming group. She's a retired nurse who moved to Leisure World, now known as Laguna Woods Village, 16 years ago. For her, water is more than fun - it means relief from multiple sclerosis.
In the water, she doesn't shake, or lose her balance. She doesn't need a walker or worry about a new symptom that began last year.
Ms. BOUER: Suddenly, I'd have a wave of nausea. And from that wave, I'd vomit, and I'd vomit from the tip of my toes all the way up. And I had no clue as to what was going on.
BAER: In April, a neighbor who happens to be a doctor encouraged Bouer to go to a meeting about medical marijuana. She says it was a stretch for her, a former psychiatric nurse whose generation considered cannabis little more than a gateway to harder drugs. But she went, and then she experimented.
Ms. BOUER: That night, I'm sitting out on my balcony. That wave of nausea came. I lit that pipe and I just held it in my mouth, afraid to even inhale, but I held it in my mouth, blew it out, like that. I was so preoccupied: Now what's happened? Has anything happened? Well, what happened was that nothing happened, except that I wasn't nauseated.
Dr. BILL SCHWIED: The only risk involved is the legal risk.
BAER: That's Bouer's 88-year-old neighbor, retired Dr. Bill Schwied.
Dr. SCHWIED: That is still very frightening to many doctors and patients.
BAER: Actually, there's not enough research done yet on the long-term or on elderly use of marijuana to know all the medical risks, and the legal risks are clear. The federal government still classifies the plant, along with cocaine and heroin, as an illegal, Schedule I, controlled substances with no accepted medical use. [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: Cocaine is classified by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II drug.]
Despite that, the retired doctor and nurse in Laguna Woods have become vocal advocates for elderly use of medical marijuana. Since the spring, they've appeared publicly at community meetings.
Ms. BOUER: And guess what? I slept like a log.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Ms. BOUER: It was wonderful.
(Soundbite of applause)
BAER: More than 200 seniors turned out for this panel discussion on medical marijuana at the retirement community in June. No one spoke against it.
Unidentified Woman: Can you recommend a doctor?
(Soundbite of laughter)
BAER: Getting a doctor's recommendation is easy; getting the cannabis is a problem for the seniors. Laguna Woods passed an ordinance allowing dispensaries a year ago, but so far, retail property owners have refused to lease to marijuana businesses.
So the elderly retirees are forming their own nonprofit medical marijuana collective. A small group of them has been meeting to study their options.
Unidentified Man: We could give them these little plants that they could grow on their balcony, you know, that won't take much room at all.
Unidentified Woman: You mean, most plants don't get huge?
BAER: They are getting legal advice for their collective. But even if they follow the letter of California's law, which permits doctor-recommended use of cannabis and allows patients to legally buy it or grow their own, they're still taking a risk, says Don Duncan. He's the director for Americans for Safe Access.
Mr. DON DUNCAN (Director, Americans for Safe Access): The federal government typically doesn't target individual medical cannabis patients. But if one or more of these patients wants to join together into a collective or cooperative, there is a substantial legal risk in providing that service to the community. And we think that risk is diminishing under the new administration and with the new attorney general. But until the federal law changes, there's always a chance that somebody could be arrested or indicted.
Ms. BOUER: I'll be a test case.
BAER: Margo Bouer.
Ms. BOUER: You can arrest me. What are they going to do, throw me in jail? A 73-year-old person with MS?
BAER: If that happens, she's likely to have a lot of supporters. Her group recently held a community meeting to announce the collective. More than 70 people turned out.
For NPR News, I'm Debra Baer.
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|Opposed ciliary bands in the feeding larvae of sabellariid annelids.
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|PMID: 21712227 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review
|The larvae of marine annelids capture food using an unusual diversity of suspension-feeding mechanisms. Many of the feeding mechanisms of larval annelids are poorly known despite the abundance and ecological significance of both larvae and adults of some annelid taxa. Here we show that larvae of two species of sabellariid annelids, Sabellaria cementarium and Phragmatopoma californica, bear prototrochal and metatrochal cilia that beat in opposition to each other. For larvae of S. cementarium, we provide evidence that these opposed bands of cilia are used to capture suspended particles. In video recordings, captured particles were overtaken by a prototrochal cilium and then moved with the cilium to the food groove, a band of cilia between the prototroch and metatroch. They were then transported by cilia of the food groove to the mouth. Lengths of the prototrochal cilia, lengths of the prototrochal ciliary band, size range of the particles captured, and estimated rates of clearance increased with larval age and body size. Confirmation of the presence of opposed bands in larvae of sabellariids extends their known occurrence in the annelids to members of 10 families. Opposed bands in these different taxa differ in the arrangements and spacing of prototrochal and metatrochal cilia, and in whether they are used in combination with other feeding mechanisms. Opposed bands appear to be particularly widespread among the larvae of sabellidan annelids (a clade that includes sabellariids, sabellids, and serpulids), even in some species whose larvae do not feed. A parsimony analysis suggests that opposed bands are ancestral in this clade of annelids.
|Bruno Pernet; Richard R Strathmann
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Alexander Bloom, ed. Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. vi + 229 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-512515-3.
Reviewed by Dominick Cavallo (Department of History, Adelphi University)
Published on H-Pol (October, 2001)
The Elusive Sixties
The Elusive Sixties
Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now is a new addition to the already voluminous and ever swelling list of histories of the 1960s. The decade will not go away. It retains its allure and remains contentious ground for scholars and others. And its implications remain stubbornly elusive, including its place in the larger sweep of American history. The elusiveness, allure, and contention are evident in Long Time Gone, a collection of original essays edited by Alexander Bloom. A brief description of why this is so is a necessary prelude to discussing Bloom's book.
One reason the decade remains elusive is because there were so many sixties, as distinctive as they were intertwined. One's view of the era depends on which "sixties" one is talking about, committed to, nostalgic for, or infuriated by. Is it the triumphal Civil Rights era of the early to mid sixties recalled by African Americans and their white allies? Or the sixties marked by Lyndon Johnson's simultaneous and failed wars on poverty and the Vietnamese? Those dual failures, not only of Johnson but of post World War Two liberalism as well, breathed new life into conservative political and religious movements that thirty years later remain powerful forces in American society. Or the decade experienced by working class whites, dubbed "Middle Americans" and the "Silent Majority" in the sixties? This group felt alienated and excluded by Great Society programs that focused on the poor and minorities, and scandalized and threatened by a youth culture's often insolent challenges to their religious, sexual, and gender role verities. Or the era of assassinations that by 1968 brutally demolished the hopes of millions for a more tolerant and just America? Or, finally, is it one of the multiple faces of the sixties seen by Vietnam War veterans, by those in the antiwar movement, by feminists, by gay rights activists, by Washington policy makers, by government agents who spied on dissidents, by iconoclastic rock musicians, by New Leftists and hippies?
Then there is the mystery about the origins of political and cultural rebellion among young whites. There are no other comparable instances in American history of reform or radical movements led (much less created) by so great a percentage of a generation of young people. Why then and why them? The motivation of black college students to organize the sit-in movement in 1960 can be traced to the long history of white racism and brutality visited on African Americans. Similarly, the vital role played by young feminists in the women's liberation movement toward the end of the decade was inspired by discrimination and worse at the hands of men. But how to account for the rebellion of young, white New Leftists and cultural radicals who frequently hailed from secure, affluent upper middle class backgrounds and were blessed by unprecedented opportunity? What were their motives? Why did so many of them view their "plight" as students and their bright economic future as exploitative and alienating? How can understanding this issue shed light on the American experience during, before, and since the sixties?
The fragmentary quality of sixties movements and moments, is addressed by Bloom in the Introduction to Long Time Gone. Bloom, a professor of History and American Studies at Wheaton College, writes that "lost in the modern imagery of 'sixties' life is the interconnection of the political, the cultural, and the social." One "intention" of the collection is to describe what happened in the sixties and disclose how the "lives, ideas, and actions" of individuals were "wound together--the personal became political and the cultural and political seemed to be two parts of a whole" (p. 8). One of the ways Bloom and the contributors to Long Time Gone hope to redress this problem is to "reestablish this sense of the 'sixties' experience. Thus, a number of the essayists have introduced personal stories...to try to recapture the inner resonance of life in the 1960s, that intimate interconnection among elements that seem so disparate today" (p. 8). Along with describing what happened in the sixties, Bloom hopes the book will uncover "the meaning of these issues for our contemporary world," while also dispelling the "myths" (he doesn't specify them) surrounding the sixties (p. 8). Toward these ends the contributors range from those who were alive and active in the sixties to younger scholars currently at work on that decade.
Does Long Time Gone achieve these goals? On the whole, the authors, particularly the more established ones, do a fine job on one of them: describing what happened in the sixties. This is not surprising. The essays by established scholars, while technically "original" (that is, written expressly for this collection), are rehashes of their former work, each of them a major contribution toward understanding the sixties. Essays by Wini Breines ("'Of This Generation': The New Left and the Student Movement"), Sara Evans ("Sources of the Second Wave: The Rebirth of Feminism"), John D'Emilio ("Placing Gay in the Sixties") and Tom Wells ("Running Battle: Washington's War at Home") fall into this category. Scholars will find little new in these articles, though undergraduates would benefit mightily from exposure to them (or better still, to the originals).[1] In addition, there is an important essay by the journalist Tom Wicker, "Lyndon Johnson and the Roots of Contemporary Conservatism," as well as an informative article, "Negroes No More: The Emergence of Black Student Activism," by a younger scholar, Karen Miller.
For the most part, Bloom's hope of reestablishing the "sense of the sixties" through personal stories, falls rather flat. With two exceptions, they are mostly throwaway "I was there" lines unintegrated into the overall discussion. One of the exceptions is Barry Melton's essay, "Everything Seemed Beautiful: A Life in the Counterculture." In the sixties, Melton was a guitarist with the politically-minded folk and rock group Country Joe and the Fish. A defense lawyer for the past two decades, Melton does a wonderful job of recreating a rock and roll life amid the fads, flowers, flashbacks, and fleshpots of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury. And he avoids the intellectual cul-de-sacs common to so many sixties memoirs. Although Melton is keenly aware of the youth culture's (and his own) excesses, he abstains from the hand wringing "sorry we overdid it" apologies of some former sixties radicals. Nor does he impale his remembrances on a maudlin longing for the good old days expressed by others. "I sure don't want to go back to the 1960s," he concludes with balance, "but I'm glad I was there" (p. 157). Julian Bond's article ("The Movement We Helped To Make") is similarly evocative. Bond, the director of communications for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from its founding in 1960 to 1965, describes with a calm passion (if I might put it that way) the first sit-ins, the creation of SNCC, the enormity and effectiveness of that organization's mobilization of thousands of activists in a murderously hostile South and the repeated efforts of Georgia legislators in 1965 to bar him from a seat in that state's House of Representatives that he had legitimately won.
Bloom's most important stated goal, that the essays decipher the "meaning" of the sixties then and for now, is unsuccessful in some ways while achieved nicely in others. That is hardly surprising in a volume written or co-written by eleven authors. On the positive side are the previously mentioned essays by some of the established scholars. Breines is characteristically astute in describing the origins of the New Left and student movements. In her conclusion she notes (how couldn't she?) that the New Left "did not prevail," even in "its basic critique of the university;" indeed, today its ideas "seem quaint." Yet she points out as well (quite correctly) that despite the contemporary triumph of American capitalism at home and abroad, along with the country's orgy of promiscuous consumption and the disengagement of most citizens from public life, "the New Left's analysis was not wrong. The Port Huron Statement is as relevant today as it was almost forty years ago. New Left concerns about participatory democracy and bureaucracy, meaningful work and fairness, concentrated power, and the rights to a decent and meaningful life have never been addressed." Her main suggestions about why this is so are rather weak--political and economic power are more concentrated now than in 1960, and the majority's relative paucity of community ties and its feelings of powerlessness have "deepened" over the past three decades (pp. 42-43).
One could reasonably argue, however, that even if these conditions are more acute now than ever before (and logically more necessary to rebel against), they have been fundamental elements of American history and culture since at least the last third of the nineteenth century. They did not appear out of nowhere circa 1960 and from there become more lethal in ensuing decades. The sway of what C. Wright Mills over forty years ago called the "power elite," and the "loneliness," "powerlessness," and "estrangement" decried by Students for a Democratic Society in the Port Huron Statement, existed long before the sixties (as did racism, poverty amid plenty, and other issues that helped galvanize the New Left). Neither the New Left, its failure, nor the fact that most Americans refuse to seriously address the issues it raised, can fully be comprehended by focusing exclusively on what happened during and since that decade. To be properly understood, the New Left, the counterculture, and the conditions each reacted against should be placed in a broader historical context. And that means digging within but deeper than post-World War Two society. These were uprisings against values and conditions whose seeds were sown long before 1945, just as the most vital ideals and ideas of the youth culture originated well before the twentieth century.
Despite this reservation, Breines' essay is thought-provoking and informative, as are those by Wicker, Wells, Evans, and D'Emilio. Wicker's beautifully written article on the relationship between Lyndon Johnson's administration and the rise of contemporary conservatism is especially incisive. Wicker argues that just as much (or perhaps even more) than the tragedy and ultimate unpopularity of America's war on Vietnam, it was Johnson's Great Society programs aimed at minorities and the poor that soured those who were conservative and/or middle class in the sixties. In addition, Wicker points out that in fashioning his War on Poverty Johnson was keenly aware of the rock-ribbed American hostility toward government sponsored social welfare programs. Unless, of course, they benefited wealthy corporations and middle class homeowners. In order to get congressional approval for his array of anti-poverty programs, therefore, Johnson diluted them. The vision and political acuity that should have made Johnson one of the nation's most esteemed presidents (instead of one of its least beloved) banged up against these limitations. "Just as Johnson's downfall was rooted in his achievements," concludes Wicker, "so his splendid vision was frustrated by the limits he believed he had to impose on it" (p. 121).
Tom Wells' piece on the war at home caused by the war in Vietnam is a trenchant analysis of the duel between Washington policy makers and the antiwar movement. Wells shows not only how often antiwar activists actually impeded potential escalation of the war, but how ignorant policy makers were about the motives of the activists--"there is a communist under every bush," noted one such policy maker (p. 89). Wells also demonstrates how unaware those in the antiwar movement were about their actual impact. Their misplaced sense of impotence pushed some of them to the edge, especially the Weathermen faction of SDS, who didn't have far to go to begin with.
Sara Evans' essay on the rise and implications of the feminist movement and John D'Emilio's on the surge of gay rights activism are also outstanding. D'Emilio suggests that the gay rights movement, rather than being simply a sort of tag-on as an end of the decade event, has been more like a custodian of what was best about sixties' activism. His notion that it has helped keep the sensibilities and activism of the sixties alive is nicely advocated. And Evans' article demonstrates once again why she is the premier historian of the relationship between the New Left and Civil Rights movements on one side and the rise of women's liberation on the other.
Despite these splendid contributions, Long Time Gone is marred by a few defects. Some concern the causes of what happened in the sixties, others the consequences. One of Bloom's stated goals was to demonstrate how the "personal became political" in the sixties and thereby defined both the tone and texture of the era as well as its ongoing impact on the country. Yet, this notion, which has become something of a cliche, is hardly self-evident or even logical. Nor does it necessarily define what was distinctive about the decade. To cite just one example in the book, Sara Evans points out that as "women focused on personal issues and the body, they forced new issues on the political agenda...." (p. 202).
Obviously this is an accurate description of what happened. Yet, the pervasive discrimination and frequent brutality to which women were (and too often still are) subjected were legitimated by the culture and often reenforced by the rule of law. How else, then, could these "personal" issues be addressed and redressed without becoming part of political discourse and thus subject to legal remedy? That the "personal became political" here (as it did in other ways for mid nineteenth century transcendentalists and turn of the century progressives, including feminists) is not at issue. That this somehow accounts for the historical uniqueness of the sixties or the significance of its various movements, is.
The same holds true for some issues pushed by the New Left. Without question, a sense of personal "powerlessness" and "estrangement" helped galvanize the New Left to political action. Personal issues and political postures were frequently entangled. But these "personal" feelings were inseparable from political arrangements, institutionalized among other places in the Constitution of the United States, that were deliberately designed to keep the exercise of genuine political power (as distinct from the right to vote for those who can exercise it) away from the mass of citizens. How else could this sense of powerlessness, the feeling that individuals lacked control over the public decisions that affected their lives, be addressed except through political action?
The danger in suggesting that the New Left, the counterculture, the woman's and other sixties movements were defined by an entwining of the personal with the political is that it makes it easy to dispose of them. Their grievances can be waved aside as divorced from "practical" political considerations (i. e., politics as practiced by the usual interest group suspects). From there it is easy to judge sixties movements as utopian or irrational. Either way the place of a radical movement in the country's history, along with the legitimacy of its challenges to an elitist economic and political culture during the sixties, can be conveniently cast aside. And not for the first time--recall how the Populist movement was dismissed by "consensus" historians of the 1950s as an apolitical eruption of "status anxiety" and paranoia.
A variation on the theme of the personal becoming political, one that reduces it to near absurdity, is explored in the essay "The Freedom Singers, The Living Theatre and Public Performance," by a younger scholar, Bradford Martin. Martin claims that performances by SNCC's Freedom Singers early in the decade and those of the Living Theatre in the late sixties were significant because "both pursued an impulse to stage performances and actions in public spaces.... Public performance encouraged a convergence of everyday life, politics, and artistic concerns...in a way that expanded the boundaries of what was considered political" (p. 160). During the sixties the work of some rock singers, actors and other artists became infused with political content of one sort or another. But to claim, as Martin does, that politically-informed public performances maximized "art's potential for social impact since it minimize[d] mediating factors between performers and audience," requires evidence not found in the essay. Worse, his belief that the songs sung by Civil Rights activists, including the Freedom Singers, helped push the movement "into public space" and thereby "signaled the end of the McCarthy-era stranglehold on public dissent," (p. 173) begs the question: what "space" other than "public space" could be occupied by a movement dedicated to challenging laws and mores that mandated racial segregation?
Another cliche about the uniqueness of the sixties dots the book: that the participation of young people in various movements and protests was emblematic of their "idealism," their desire to bring American realities in line with American ideals of equity, fair play, democracy and so forth. Here too there are problems of logic and of defining how the era was distinctive. The number of young people involved in every facet of sixties events that upended the status quo, from the Civil Rights movement to rock and roll, was unprecedented. Are we to suppose, then, that their generation was inherently more moral, or committed, or idealistic than those who came before or since? If so, why? If not, how can we account for their idiosyncratic behavior? Sadly, this crucial issue is not addressed in Long Time Gone.
If the rebellious members of that generation were indeed uniquely idealistic it could not have been solely because they were offended by the specific issues they rebelled against. Those issues were as generic to the nation's history as they were endemic to the sixties. If a reason for rebellion was Vietnam in the sixties, then why not Korea in the fifties? If it was poverty and the unfair distribution of wealth in the sixties, why aren't we witnessing a revolutionary surge in 2001? And if it was racism in the sixties, why not a rebellion by committed youth at any point in the country's history? Clearly, the upheaval of the young in the sixties was an extraordinary event of major historical significance. But why it happened and what it meant remain, to paraphrase the words of one of that era's rock songs, not exactly clear.
The consequences of the sixties on contemporary America are generally well crafted in Long Time Gone. A glaring exception, one that crops up in various articles, is dealt with in depth in an otherwise fine essay by Christian Appy and Alexander Bloom, "Vietnam War Mythology and the Rise of Public Cynicism." Appy and Bloom suggest that the lies and deceptions of government officials about the purposes and progress of the war helped sow the "seeds of...cynicism" that make contemporary Americans "wary, cynical, and pessimistic--untrusting of our leaders and unsure about the future of the nation" (pp. 71-72). Wariness and cynicism were proper responses to the deceptions about Vietnam foisted on the American public by officials in the sixties and early seventies. But to suggest that cynicism toward politics and wariness of government in general some thirty years later is a result of the Vietnam tragedy is to forget that Americans have a two hundred year old tradition of mistrust toward government and politicians. The Vietnam era may have confirmed that such mistrust is warranted, but it did not create it.
Finally, Long Time Gone would have benefited from more careful copyediting. Some essays are studded with repetition. For example, Bradford Martin's claim that singing freedom songs created a "sense of unity" among activists is stated on page 161, repeated on pages 164 and 165, reiterated twice in a single paragraph on page 167 and, in case the reader somehow managed to miss the point, re-asserted in two consecutive paragraphs on page 168. And there are some errors of fact. Students for a Democratic Society was created in 1960, not 1962 (p. 4). On page 49 of the Appy and Bloom article they write that two million Vietnamese were killed during the war, while on page 61 they claim the number was three million.
On balance, however, Long Time Gone's value far exceeds its shortcomings. It is a volume that faculty teaching undergraduate courses on the sixties would find valuable.
[1]. Wini Breines, Community and Organization in the New Left, 1962-1968: The Great Refusal (New York: Praeger, 1982); Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (New York: Vintage, 1979); John D'Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983); and Tom Wells, The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam (New York: Henry Holt, 1996).
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