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Montreal, June 4, 2007 -- A MUHC-led study identifies a gene responsible for Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), the most common cause of congenital blindness in infants and small children. The study, partly funded by the Foundation Fighting Blindness in Canada (FFB-C), is published in today's issue of Nature Genetics. "This discovery has the potential to fast-track a cure for this disease," says lead investigator Dr. Robert Koenekoop, director of the McGill Ocular Genetics Centre at the MUHC. "Our main research goal is to identify all the genes responsible for congenital blindness in children and then study them so that we can then use gene therapy to rescue their vision."


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[JURIST] Peruvian President Alan Garcia [official website] has called on lawmakers to authorize the death penalty for terrorism offenses [press release, in Spanish]. In a speech to the Peruvian Congress [official website] Monday, Garcia urged lawmakers to "give the necessary tools to the judges and to the executive branch to definitely eliminate" the Shining Path [BBC backgrounder] rebel group. Shining Path rebels are believed to be responsible for a weekend attack in Peru's Ayacucho region [BBC report], where five police officers and three civilians - including a child - were killed.
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Irish Stew
8 Lamb Shanks
Salt and pepper
1/2 cup flour
4 garlic cloves
1 tsp dried rosemary
1 tsp thyme
5 cups Mill Race Mild beer
2 cups beef stock
3 each of the following: onions, carrots, parsnips cut into 1 inch pieces
chopped fresh parsley for garish
Combine flour, salt and pepper and coat lamb shanks. Brown shanks in large oiled casserole or Dutch oven and then remove the shanks to a plate. Stir in remaining flour mixture, garlic, thyme and rosemary. Cook over medium heat for 1 minute stirring. Gradually add in beer and bring to a boil while whisking brown bits form the bottom of the pan. Boil for 5 minutes stirring often. Add in stock and lamb shanks and bring to a boil. Then cover and place dish in a 350°F oven for about 2 and 1/2 hours until meat is tender. Add vegetables in the last hour of cooking. Garnish with the fresh parsley.
Serves 8 people.
Cheese Fondue
4 tbsp butter
1 garlic clove minced
1/4 carrot minced
1/4 celery minced
1/2 onion minced
2 tbsp flour
3 cups Galt Knife Old Style lager
1/2 liter heavy cream
5 cups grated cheddar cheese
2 limes squeezed
Melt butter in a heavy bottom saucepan and then add the garlic, carrot, celery, and onion. Cook briefly. Add the flour and cook until thickened. Add 2 cups of the beer and the cream and simmer until slightly thickened. Add the cheese, let it melt and then add the lime juice. Just before serving add the last cup of beer, stirring until heated. Serve with cubed bread, apples, grapes, pears and ham.
Serves 6 people.
Quick Muffins
These muffins are Big Hits whenever we take them to friends or the brewery. Use any prepackaged muffin mix such as Compliments brand or Presidents Choice. Prepare as directed on the package except substitute beer instead of the water and add a ½ cup raisins. We use the Mill Race Mild or the Plowmans' Ale.
Makes 12 muffins.
Pasta and Eggplant in Beer
1/2 cup olive oil
1 medium eggplant, about 1 pound, peeled and diced
Salt and pepper
6 ounces smoked ham, cubed
1 cup 1913 Traditional Ale
1 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary or l/2 teaspoon dried
1 cup fresh or frozen peas
1 pound large tubular pasta such as penne cooked according to the directions on the package
Freshly grated Parmesan cheese
In a large skillet heat the olive oil over medium heat. Put in the egg plant, and season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, for about 10 minutes, until it becomes soft. Stir in the ham, and fry 2 minutes. Add the lager and rosemary, and bring to a boil. Reduce the liquid by half. Put in the peas, reduce to a simmer, cover, and cook for 2 minutes. Stir the cooked pasta into the sauce, and cook for 30 seconds to heat through. Transfer to a serving bowl, sprinkle with plenty of Parmesan cheese, and serve.
Yield: 4-6 servings
Shrimp Cooked in Beer
4 cups 1913 Traditional Ale or Plowman's Ale
2 bay leaves crumbled
1/2 tsp crushed red peppers
1/2 tsp cayenne
2 tbsp mustard seeds
1 1/2 lbs jumbo shrimp shelled and de-veined
1/4 cup wine vinegar
1 large peeled garlic clove
Combine beer, bay leaves, red pepper, cayenne and mustard seeds in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Add shrimp and simmer for 8 to 10 mnutes or until the shrimp turn pink. Remove from heat, add vinegar and garlic. Let stand for 30 minutes. Strain and chill well before serving. These shrimps make an excellent cold appetizer or party snack. Serves 8 to 10 people.
Warm Potato Salad with Beer Dressing
2-1/2 pounds red potatoes
1/2 cup finely chopped mild red or yellow onions
1/4 cup finely chopped parsley
2 tablespoons chopped chives
Beer Dressing:
6 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup finely chopped onions
3/4 cup Galt Knife Old Style lager
3 tablespoons malt or cider vinegar
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1/2 teaspoon sugar
Salt and pepper
To make the salad:
Cook the potatoes in boiling salted water until a knife point can be easily inserted, about 20-25 minutes. Remove, and as soon as you can handle them, slice them, unpeeled, into l/4-inch rounds. While the potatoes are still warm, gently mix them with the onions, parsley, and beer dressing. Do not overmix or the potatoes may break into pieces. Taste for salt and pepper. Garnish with chopped chives. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Yield: 6 servings
To make the dressing:
Heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil in a small frying pan over medium heat. Add the onions and cook until just soft, about 5 minutes. Add the lager, vinegar, and sugar and boil for 5 minutes. Put into a food processor with the mustard. With the motor running, slowly pour in the remaining 4 tablespoons olive oil. Taste for salt and pepper.
Yield: about 1 cup, enough for 2-1/2 pounds of potatoes
Honey Lager Mussels
2 tbsp butter
1 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp minced shallots
2 dozen mussels
salt and pepper
2 cups Galt Knife Old Style lager
Melt butter in pan and lightly sauté garlic and shallot. Add mussels and cook 1 minute, then season with salt and pepper, add lager and cook until mussels are open. Seve with broth and bread
Serves 4 people.
Pumpkin Rice Pudding
1 tbsp butter
2 cups Highballer Pumpkin Ale
2 cups water
1 cup rice
1/2 cup raisins
3 beaten eggs
1/2 cup sugar
2 tbsp vanilla extract
1 can evaporated milk
cinnamon to taste
whipping cream for topping
Combine butter, pumpkin beer, water, rice and raisins in a large pot and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer until most of the liquid is gone. Add eggs, sugar, vanilla extract, evaporated milk and cinnamon. Simmer for 15 minutes. Remove form heat and chill stirring occasionally. Serve with a dollup of whipping cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
Coffee Cake with Beer Recipe
2 cups packed dark brown sugar
1 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped walnuts
2 cups chopped dates
2 cups 1913 Traditional Ale or Highballer Pumpkin Ale
Powdered sugar
Combine brown sugar and butter in a mixing bowl. Cream until smooth and well-blended. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift cinnamon, allspice, cloves, flour, baking soda, and salt together. Dust walnuts and dates with a small amount of this mixture. Add remaining flour mixture alternately with beer to creamed mixture, blending well after each addition. Stir in walnuts and dates. Spoon batter into large, well-buttered and floured tube or Bundt pan. Bake in preheated 350-degree oven for 1-1/4 hours or until cake tester comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes, invert onto a wire rack. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and place on a serving plate.
Yield: 8 to 10 servings
Curried Apple and Sweet Potato Soup
1/4 cup dark raisins
1 bottle (12 ounces) Hanneberg Pils
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter
1 onion, diced
2 tart apples, unpeeled, cored and diced
1 tablespoon best-quality curry powder
2 teaspoons finely minced fresh gingerroot
2 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour
Pam cooking spray
3 to 4 cups any well-flavored chicken or vegetable stock
1/4 cup thawed frozen apple juice concentrate, or more to taste
1 piece (1 inch) cinnamon stick
1 teaspoon tamari/shoyu soy sauce, or more to taste
2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and finely diced
Salt and freshly ground white pepper to taste
Cayenne pepper to taste (optional)
1 red-skinned apple, cored and cut into large julienne, for garnish
Creme Fraiche, sour cream, or plain yogurt, for garnish
Thin lemon wedges, for serving
In a bowl, soak the raisins in the beer for at least 30 minutes or as long as overnight. When you are ready to start making the soup, melt the butter in a 10-inch skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and sauté until it starts to soften, about 3 minutes. Add the diced apples and sauté again until some what softened, 3 to 4 minutes. Sprinkle with the curry powder, turn down the heat to medium-low, and cook, stirring often, about 8 minutes. Stir in the ginger and cook 2 minutes longer.
Meanwhile, drain the raisins, reserving both the beer and the raisins. Sprinkle the flour over the apple mixture and cook over low heat 1 minute. Gradually add the beer, stirring to smooth any lumps, and cook until hot, smooth, and free of a floury taste, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer this mixture to a food processor. Add the raisins and buzz until smooth.
Spray a heavy enameled soup pot with the Pam, and in it combine the stock, apple juice concentrate, cinnamon stick, and soy sauce. Bring to a boil, add the sweet potatoes, and turn down the heat. Simmer, partially covered, until the potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes. Remove the cinnamon stick from the hot stock and stir in the apple puree. Season with salt and white pepper. You may wish to add a bit more apple juice concentrate to sweeten it, a pinch of cayenne if you want it spicier, and/or a little more soy sauce. Simmer over low heat for several minutes more to meld the flavors.
Ladle the hot soup into bowls, sprinkle each bowl with the julienned apple, and top with a generous dollop of creme fraiche, sour cream, or, yogurt. Pass the lemon wedges at the table; a squeeze sets this soup off nicely, but it's also good without.
Yield: 6 to 8 servings
Grand River Brewing Imperial Stout Cheesecake
For the Crust:
10 oz. finely ground Oreo crumbs
2 tbsp. melted butter
For the Filling:
1 ¾ cup sugar
1 cup sour cream
3 tbsp. cornstarch
3 lb. softened cream cheese
4 eggs
1 cup / 250 ml Russian Gun Imperial Stout
7 oz. semi-sweet chocolate, melted and kept warm
- First, make the crust by tossing the cookie crumbs with butter and press the mixture into the bottom of a 10-inch spring-form pan. If possible, first line the base of the pan with wax paper to facilitate the removal of the finished cake.
- For the filling, combine the sugar, sour cream and cornstarch in a food processor or large bowl, blend well and set aside. In a clean food processor or a bowl, combine one-quarter of the cream cheese with 1 egg and one quarter of the Russian Gun Imperial Stout and blend until smooth. Gently mix the cream cheese mixture unto the sour cream mixture and repeat the process with the remaining three batches of the cream cheese. After the final batch is blended but before it's added to the main mixture. Add the still-warm melted chocolate and gently blend it in. Then the final batch to the main mixture, mixing with a large rubber spatula in a figure 8 pattern to incorporate as little air as possible into the batter while still blending well.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and tamp it down to release any air. Then back the cake in a water bath to help retain moisture, first lining the exterior of the pan with a large piece of foil so that no water can seep in. Set the cake in a larger baking pan, place both in a 275°F oven and fill the pan with hot water. Bake for 1 hour, replenish the water and bake for 75 minutes longer. After the baking, turn the oven off and without opening the door, allow the cake to cool in the oven for 2 ½ hours before storing it overnight in the fridge. Remove the pan collar and cut the cake with a wet knife warmed in hot water.
Serves 12 to 16.
Slow Cooker Irish Shepherd's Pie
2 ½ lb. / 1.25 kg russet potatoes
3 lb. / 1.5 kg boneless lamb shoulder or leg, cut in 1 ½ inch/4cm cubes
3 carrots, chopped
1 parsnip, chopped
1 large onion, finely chopped
8 oz. / 250 g mushrooms, sliced
½ cup / 125 ml chopped parsley
⅓ cup / 75 ml all-purpose flour
1 bay leaf
1 ½ tsp. / 7 ml salt
1 tsp. / 5 ml fresh thyme leaves. Or ½ tsp. / 2 ml dried thyme
¼ tsp. / 1 ml pepper
2 cups / 500 ml Russian Gun Imperial Stout or Mill Race Dark
1 cup / 250 ml thawed frozen peas
2 tbsp. / 30 ml butter
¼ cup / 60 ml milk
¼ tsp. / 1 ml nutmeg
- Peel potatoes and cut in half lengthwise. Place on bottom of slow cooker. In large bowl. Mix together lamb, carrots, parsnip, onion, mushrooms, parsley flour, bay leaf, salt, thyme and pepper. Arrange over potatoes. Pour in Russian Gun or Mill Race Dark. Cook until meat and potatoes are tender about 10 hours on low or 5 hours on high.• With slotted spoon, transfer potatoes to bowl. Transfer remaining stew to casserole dish and stir in peas. Mash together potatoes, butter, milk and nutmeg. Spread over stew.
Bake in oven at 475°F/240°C for 15 to 20 minutes or until potatoes are brown and bubbly.
Makes 6 to 8 servings.
Slow Cooker Venison and Stout Stew
1 ½ lb. / 675 g Yukon Gold potatoes
1 lb. / 450 g carrots, peeled and chopped
1 lb. / 450 g parsnips, peeled and chopped
2 sticks celery, chopped
1 onion, copped
2 bay leaves
1 tsp. dried thyme
¾ tsp. salt
½ tsp. pepper
3 lb. / 1.35 kg stewing venison cubes
4 strips thick sliced bacon, chopped
1 ½ cups / 375 ml of Russian Gun Imperial Stout
¾ cup sodium-reduced beef broth
2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
⅓ cup all-purpose flour
1 cup frozen peas
• In slow cooker, combine potatoes, carrots, parsnips. Celery, onion, boy leaves, thyme, salt and pepper. Top with venison and bacon.
- Whisk together stout, broth, ½ cup water and Worcestershire sauce. Pour over venison. Cover and cook on low for 7 to 8 hours; until beef and vegetables are tender.
- Whisk flour with 1 cup of the cooking liquid until smooth. With into slow cooker. Stir in peas and cook cover on high for about 30 minutes until thickened.Tip: Substitute Venison for Beef and potatoes for turnip! Also for a bit more flavor, try adding 1 package of onion soup mix.
Makes 6 to 8 servings.


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So it comes down to this, the direction of the Chicago Bears franchise for the next five years comes down to Jay Cutler's contract year. If Cutler falters the Bears can completely blow up the roster and go 180-degrees in a different direction and the team will look completely different a year from now. If he finally lives up to the expectations of a franchise quarterback then the Bears are going to be very busy this next off-season trying to retain players who can support Cutler during a championship window that will be open only because of Cutler's success. That's the expectations and where they exist now, the window on a Chicago Bears championship has been open because of the defense, if the window is to remain it will be on the right arm of number-6. The defense can no longer be expected to carry this franchise, Brian Urlacher's retirement was the turning point away from that era. It's now or never for Jay Cutler and if finally achieves what he was supposed to when he came here in 2009, then the Bears can retain players accordingly. If at the end of the season the young players on defense step up, and Julius Peppers, Lance Briggs and Charles Tillman still play at Pro Bowl levels then you can keep Peppers and Briggs and resign Tillman for a couple more years. If Cutler falters then the Bears enter rebuilding mode and find a franchise QB to build around rather than trying to rebuild around a QB who is 30 years-old. It won't make sense to continue to draft players who need three years to develop because in three years Cutler's talent may be wasted and so would a lot of money. The Bears can't rebuild the defense entirely by letting Peppers, Briggs and Tillman walk because there is no youth in place behind Tillman and you're not likely to see elite production from either McClellin or Greene or Bostic. There has to remain a relative level of stability within the organization if you plan on extending Jay Cutler because developing a new defense, developing a new scheme will take time, time Cutler's age does not afford Phil Emery. So what will we get from Jay Cutler? The short answer should be, we should get the best season out of Cutler we have ever seen in a Chicago Bears uniform and likely the best season of his career. No, he likely won't approach 4,500 yards passing, but there should be a level of efficiency in his game we have never seen before. The head coach is a quarterback driven coach, with an offensive system that is going to get the best out of Jay Cutler. Cutler will have to be disciplined and when he's been asked to he's put together the best seasons of his career. Now he'll have a combination of discipline, protection and weapons that should maximize his production. Everyone including Cutler knows there are no more excuses, no more limitations within this offense. Now they pyramid has been built and there isn't a brick missing so it's time to reach up into the heavens and pull down a Lombardi trophy before the window to that dimension closes.
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For the last two months or so, since July 21, the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB – a centerpiece of the 2010 Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — has been up and running. It's the nation's first federal financial regulator with only job—protecting consumers, including servicemembers, from unfair financial practices.
So why did Holly Petraeus, who runs the CFPB Office of Servicemember Affairs, recently write in the New York Times that servicemembers and veterans are still being "exploited by unscrupulous for-profit colleges?" The schools, which use high-pressure sales tactics to recruit students and load them up with high-cost debt to pay for dubious educational programs, are supposed to be regulated by the CFPB. So are payday lenders, mortgage companies and other "non-banks," as well as banks.
But the CFPB doesn't gain its full authority over for-profit schools or payday lenders until a director is confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Unfortunately, at the behest of Wall Street, 44 Republican Senators, led by Richard Shelby (R-AL), wrote the President in May and told him that they would block confirmation of any director forever unless the CFPB is first torn down and rebuilt the way the big banks want it– weak and powerless and with a tin cup in hand.
These 44 Senators include Maine Senators Collins and Snowe. Worse, Collins also is a sponsor of S. 737, to weaken the CFPB. The threat is real. The House has already passed legislation to weaken the CFPB.
So, our military are in harm's way right here at home due to politics. It shouldn't be that way. Veterans and current servicemembers have long been targeted by private student lenders, payday lenders, rent-to-own-stores, auto-title-pawn shops and others of their ilk. Numerous commanders have testified that bad credit has harmed security clearances, military unit morale and unit preparedness.
Earlier this year, for example, JP Morgan Chase Bank apologized and paid civil penalties for illegal foreclosures on servicemembers. Holly Petraeus, a consumer expert and wife of General David Petraeus, is the CFPB's voice on military families' behalf in the financial marketplace, but until the CFPB gets a director, she cannot do much more to protect them, unless they are harmed by a big bank.
On July 18, the President nominated former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, the current enforcement chief of the Bureau, as the CFPB's first director. On September 6, the Senate Banking Committee held his nomination hearing and is expected to vote on the nomination soon. Cordray has already received strong support from Ohio papers and praise from the current Republican Attorney General of Ohio, Mike DeWine, who had defeated him. Even many Ohio bankers have commended the nomination.
The failure of the current bank regulators to stop predatory lending and other reckless Wall Street practices is widely recognized as a primary cause of the 2008 mortgage meltdown that caused the loss of millions of homes, millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in lost retirement income and triggered the current recession.
In response, Congress established the CFPB as part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Many consumer advocates and experts consider it the most significant consumer financial protection since deposit insurance was created after the 1929 Great Crash. Its mission is to use research, regulation, education, and enforcement to protect all consumers in the financial marketplace. Congress gave the CFPB special responsibilities to protect older Americans, servicemembers, and students.
The choice for Maine Senators is clear. Confirm the president's well-qualified nominee to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Otherwise, the CFPB cannot do its job. That leaves military families, veterans and the rest of us at the mercy of unscrupulous lenders, whether banks, for-profit schools, mortgage companies or payday lenders.
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Re: Mazenko Family in Blair and Cambria Counties, Pennsylvania
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Re: Mazenko Family in Blair and Cambria Counties, Pennsylvania
Terry Kruise 10/01/03
Thanks for posting back. Your post is encouraging. I was very excited when I found the census records for this family. There are lots of unanswered questions, of course, but it is a start, a solid start.
I have no pictures of John Misinco. I have at least one of my grandfather, taken in the late 70s or early 80s in Indiana County.
I only obtained this information in the last few days. My next step with this line will be to request a death certificate for John Misinco. I am assuming he lived in Patton until his death. I believe I have notes somewhere that John's son, Mike, died at Patton in 1971. I will start working on getting the death certificate for John Misinco (Sr.) and let you kow what I find.
I do know he was born in Slovakia (1920 census) or Czechoslovakia (1930 census).
I talked with my aunt, Joe's daughter, tonight. She is very excited about all the developments of the last couple of weeks, first her cousin's familiy contacting me (and we have traded a lot of anecdotal info on the Marletts) and now this. Christmas in September!
A large question now is why my grandfather assumed the name Whitey sometime between 1921 and 1932. He used it in the 1930 census, but my mother's surname is the old family name (a variation of it): Mizenko. His son, born in 1929, is listed with the surname Whitey, but he used Mizenko and that's the name on his death certificate.
It's also interesting that it does look like I am related, distantly, to both you and your wife, you through Jacob Stiffler and your wife through the Mazenko/Misinco lines.
I'll be back in touch soon. Please keep in touch and let me know if you find anything, or if I can provide any information (on either Stifflers or Mazenko/Misinco) that might be helpful to you.
Thanks again, Terry.


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Low-cost Sensors Based on the GMI Effect in Recycled Transformer Cores
AbstractSensors based on the giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) effect in silicon steelswere constructed. Strips of silicon steels (0.500 mm-thick, 35.0 mm-long) with widthsranging from 0.122 to 1.064 mm were cut from recycled transformer cores. Since amaximum GMI ratio of 300% and a maximum field sensitivity of 1.5%/Oe were observedin a 1.064 mm-wide sample at 200 kHz, the 1.064 mm-wide strips were chosen as sensingelements in a slot key switch, angular velocity sensor, current sensor and force sensor. Thesensing elements were integrated into electronic circuits and the changes in impedancewere monitored. Variations in voltage due to these changes were typically small and musttherefore be amplified by the electronic circuits. For the current sensor and force sensor,the variation in the voltage drop across the GMI sensing element had non-linear variationswith either current or force and a conversion formula from a computer program wastherefore needed. The performance of the systems was tested. These sensing systems werestable, highly sensitive, hysteresis-free and could be produced on a mass scale. Based ontheir GMI effect, the silicon steels are versatile alternative low-cost sensors. View Full-Text
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What to do in Houston this weekend
Spring is in the air. And so is fun.
Published 1:25 pm, Friday, March 21, 2014
Spring is here, which means Houston is bursting at the seams with activities around the city. This weekend alone, there's no shortage of fun to be had.
It's your last chance to catch the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The iconic event closes its doors on March 23. On Friday, March 21, Easton Corbin performs. The Band Perry plays on Saturday, March 22. Zac Brown Band wraps up the rodeo's concert lineup this Sunday, March 23. Check out rodeohouston.com to get the full event lineup.
It's also crawfish season. Check out the Kemah area's dueling crawfish festivals or you can grab your own mudbugs at one of Houston's many Cajun restaurants.
From noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 22, Evelyn's Park Pop Up in the Park will feature jewelry, clothing, art, plus music and food trucks at its new outdoor marketplace. If you miss it this weekend, you're still in luck: it's a monthly event . Evelyn's Park is located at 4400 Bellaire. For more information, visit: evelynspark.org.
For a kid-friendly time, check out the Annual Nano-Days Wonderweek at the Children's Museum of Houston. This event, seven years running, takes a look at nanotechnology, including microscopes, DNA and piezoelectric materials. The event runs 10 a.m.-6 p.m., now through April 2. Sunday hours at noon-6 p.m. Tickets are $9.
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It's not a very good thing to listen to a footballer speak if you love watching him play. The sound of his voice will make a stranger of him because it will not be as you imagined it, and the shape of his sentences will be disappointing because he cannot say with them what the shape of his drop punt says. He cannot recall for you with words what the dash in his legs told you earlier. It's gone, on the wind, into nothing.
I don't understand why we seek out the players' words in such certain terms if we love what they do. Their act is a transitive one, lost to the vagaries of the past in the moment it ends. To ask a player why, or how it happened, reduces the idea of his performance to a lifeless pulp and, many times, makes him sound like a fool.
But when he does dare try and say something, and he reaches back to describe his performance, we get giddy with the thrill of telling him he has failed. Jack Reiwoldt knows this. So does Damien Hardwick. All of them know. I understand why Jack tries to not speak. As long as he is still a performer, he cannot say much that won't disappoint people, one way or another.
We know there are two distinct football worlds in Melbourne. In one of these worlds there is football, real footballers, and metaphors. In the other there are midweek machines, wired to echo business interests and the dull recitation of the dead responses we keep asking for. Language is lost to footballers when it is not spoken through action.
Football does, however, exist as a powerful tool in language elsewhere. On Thursday night I heard writer Kevin Brophy using Carlton footballers as a metaphor to describe the style of another author. The author he spoke of was poet, Paul Mitchell, whose book Brophy was launching.
"Paul, you are Michael Jamison," Brophy said, "with a little Dylan Buckley thrown in."
Later, I asked Paul what this meant. "Michael Jamison is about knowing when to keep your words to a minimum," he said. "It's about holding your ground and not being swayed or threatened by flashiness, either in the writing, or the writing community. And Dylan Buckley is about being direct when you need to be."
This was a revelation to me. These poets were nodding at each other, satisfied that saying Michael Jamison was saying enough. What would Jamison make of this, I wondered? Would he agree with this definition? Could he possibly know that he is exuding all of these ideas through his performance on the field?
The poets were using football to describe poetry and not, as might be expected, the other way around. A poet will sometimes seek out a simple, clear image, to evoke a feeling that is too slippery for a word alone to satisfy. And this is the true language of football: it's the stiff arm on the wing, or the clutch tackle that stops a kick from spinning.
The first poem is Paul's book is called Give the Poem Room to Speak. It begins: Please, sit down. Let's talk. I know you might be put off by line breaks and other conventions, but let's look past these to see what really shines: a car roof at midday, a streetlight in afternoon fog. That wasn't too hard.
I thought of Damien Hardwick this week, caught up, and put off by the conventions of the midweek machine, and into my mind came a flood of solid, shining images that I have of him as an assistant coach at Hawthorn, and as a fearless competitor at the end of his career in Port Adelaide.
He once told me that his son called me Gumby when they reviewed games together on his computer. We were sitting in Hardwick's office to review my match but instead of doing this, Hardwick laughed at a video on his screen that he'd put on repeat, in which I was falling foolishly to the ground for no apparent reason, and then bouncing back up again.
Before I met Hardwick I'd seen him playing on television. I recall thinking that he would not be a good bloke while I watched him antagonise the Brisbane Lions during Port's 2004 grand final win. But secretly, I admired how tough he seemed.
Two years later, on a pre-season escapade with Hawthorn, I saw Hardwick standing atop a cliff, somewhere in southern New Zealand, completely afraid.
The cliff was maybe 10 metres high, and leaned out over a cold, rushing river. Hardwick was surrounded by a group of players who knew he had to jump. His face was concerned and still. The wetsuit he wore was too tight, and when he set off for the ledge, the yellow helmet he wore bobbed furiously on his head, and looked in terrible pain. Hardwick left a trail of expletives until the sucking sound of his body breaking the water, and the shock of the cold, made him quiet again.
In the real football world, at the ground on weekends, those who run and jump make speaking about it seem very boring. Damien Hardwick and Jack Riewoldt are jumpers.
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The mere mention of the name Pebble Beach conjures up images and emotions in golfers and nongolfers alike. For some, the dramatic ocean view from the seventh tee comes to mind. Others may envision Tom Watson, silhouetted against the Pacific, as he hits a nearly impossible shot from the deep grass to win the 1982 U.S. Open.
For me, the name elicits memories of my father, his beautiful smile, his leathered hands, the joy he found in the game of golf, and the way he passed that joy to me when I was just a scrawny little pickle from West Texas.
By the time I stepped once again onto Pebble's famous first tee, my moderate jitters of the year before had been replaced by absolute terror.
When I hear Pebble Beach, I see the practice green near the first tee, where I was standing when my brother called to say, "Come fast." And I think of sitting with my dad the next day in the hospital room in Texas, the two of us watching Pebble's famous Pro-Am—the AT&T they call it now—on television, just as we had in my childhood when the tournament was known simply as the Crosby. And I think of what were very nearly my father's final words to me. "That's such a beautiful place," he said as he squeezed my hand. "We should have played there together."
But we didn't. My father and I never played at the Pebble Beach Golf Links together. We never walked the course in each other's company, never enjoyed cold beers and a couple of those magnificent burgers in the Tap Room together. And yet the words Pebble Beach incite in me vivid recollections of my father, and of a place that healed a broken heart.
My father's name was Raymond Pipkin, but everyone knew him as Pip. What Pip wanted in life was to hunt, fish, play golf, and be a good father to his five children. He was skilled at all of these and loved by just about everyone who met him.
When Pip first took me to the sunburned links of San Angelo, Texas, and taught me how to carry a bag and tend a pin, I was too young for the work, and I think he knew it. But the bond of golf we forged that day would not be broken.
Why we never played Pebble Beach together—father and son at a place we both worshipped—was the result of both poor timing and a lack of foresight. Pip loved the fact that I had become a golf writer, but soon after I dedicated my novel Fast Greens to him, he suffered a stroke and never played the game again.
A few weeks after my father's funeral, unable to shake the loss or his near-final words, I called and booked a tee time to play the 18 holes that I should have played with him many years earlier. I intended to play one round of golf at Pebble Beach that would have made Pip proud.
A couple of months later, as I turned onto 17-Mile Drive and headed down the hill toward the ocean and clubhouse, I felt the first-hole jitters rising inside me. They had not subsided by the time I stepped to the tee. Taking a deep breath, I smacked a 3-wood up the fairway, avoiding the bunker on the left and Pebble's upscale inn, Casa Palmero, on the right. Not bad, but my next shot landed in the bunker to the right of the green. I blasted out and over, chipped on, and two-putted for a double-bogey six. Welcome to Pebble Beach.
A long string of bogeys followed, but boring these bogeys were not. On the short par-4 fourth, I hit my tee shot over the bluff to the shores of Stillwater Cove. Seeing the ball on the beach, I climbed down the cliff with wedge in hand, and then knocked my ball back into the fairway. Several sunbathers applauded. This was Pebble at its finest.
I had never set a specific goal for my round at Pebble; the idea was simply to strike crisp shots and walk proudly with my club at my side as Pip had taught me. Despite my early string of bogeys, on the 15th hole I calculated that soon I would be in the clubhouse with a score in the mid-eighties, not too shabby for Pebble Beach. In the Tap Room, I would raise a toast or two to Pip, and then I would go home to my family and my writing, and life would carry on.
But at Pebble's famous par-3 17th, I topped a shot that bobbled halfway to the green. I hit my next one just as poorly. Still fuming as I stepped to the 18th tee, I dunked my drive into the ocean, and for the first time in 40 years of golf, I asked myself a frightening question: "Why do I play this stupid game?"
I had practiced hard so I could play well for my father, but it hadn't been enough. I'd played one of the most beautiful golf courses in the world and had achieved nothing but a temper, the last thing Pip would have wanted. The solution seemed so simple: Why not make this the final frustrating round of my life? Why not just hurl my bag and clubs off the bluff into the ocean and be done with golf forever?
But then I thought of Pip and how he had taught me to walk proudly down the fairway. And I remembered that every time I do so, my father walks with me. And I knew I was not going to give up golf—not then, not ever.
The next thing I knew, in spite of the ball lost to the Pacific Ocean, I was jamming a 40-foot putt in for a double-bogey. I had shot 89 at Pebble Beach, not what I had in mind to honor my father, but good enough to know that I could do better.
And that gave me an idea. What if I were to dedicate not a round, but a year to my father?
"You could be good," golf instructor David Leadbetter had told me a few months earlier after watching me hit balls one day in Austin. "But you'd have to work at it."
And so, staring out at the beautiful ocean and the gathering dusk from Pebble's 18th green, I vowed that I would indeed work at it. In one year, on my 50th birthday, I would return to Pebble Beach and take 10 strokes off my score. It was a crazy idea, and Pip would have loved it.
One year and about a million practice balls later, I once again turned onto 17-Mile Drive and headed down the hill toward the ocean and the Pebble Beach clubhouse. I carried a new set of custom-fit Callaway golf clubs in my trunk and a new swing—courtesy of several dozen lessons with David Leadbetter, Dave Pelz, Ben Crenshaw, and other top instructors—in my head.
So by the time I stepped once again onto Pebble's famous first tee, my moderate jitters of the year before had been replaced by . . . absolute terror. What if I failed after all that work? I was trying to break 80 at Pebble Beach on my 50th birthday, and truth be told, even after a year of nonstop instruction, I still wasn't a great golfer.
Gripping my 3-wood, I aimed at the bunker on the left side of the first fairway and fired away. I'm not exactly sure where the ball stopped, because that swing was the last thing I remembered about the hole until I stroked in a short putt at the green.
"Good bogey!" someone in my group said.
And so the holes passed by on a perfect, sunny day at Pebble Beach. Playing with purpose, and satisfied with nearly every shot I hit, I continued to make bogeys. But such is the nature of Pebble: Miss the green by 3 feet and land in the deep, wet grass, and you'll be hard-pressed to make par.
When I lipped out a 5-foot putt for par on 11, I checked my card and realized that I was already six over. To finish seven over after 18, I'd have to give up only one more stroke to par while playing against the wind all the way home.
I was toast. Shoot, I'd be lucky to bogey every hole.
While we waited for the group in front of us to clear the green on the next hole, I remembered that the night before I had scribbled some essential golf advice to save for just such a moment. Pulling from my pocket a beer coaster from the Britannia Arms Pub in Monterey, 11 holes into the final round of my quest, I finally got down to the essence of what I had learned—and it had nothing to do with golf mechanics. If I couldn't be a good golfer, I'd have to be a wise one. That's why I titled my beer-coaster list "The Seven Pillars of Golf Wisdom."
1. Every Shot Counts.
2. Pull the Right Club.
3. Call Your Shot.
4. Take Dead Aim.
5. Believe in Yourself.
6. Complete Your Swing.
7. Never Give Up.
My guess is that any golfer could make a list that suits his or her game as well as this list suits mine. The one thing I am certain about is that the list worked for me, because one swing after reading through it on the 12th tee at Pebble, my ball was sitting 8 feet from the hole. And one putt later, I had made my first birdie of the day.
Never Give Up, I read again. Then I walked to the 13th tee.
Now I was having fun. Suddenly I felt like I had in those early years in West Texas. Like those first times I actually got the ball airborne. Like teeing off at dawn, then walking down the middle of the fairway, making the first footprints in the wet grass. Like my father's hand on my shoulder as he said, "Good shot."
An hour later, I walked to the 18th tee at six over par, needing only a bogey to break 80. Having hit my tee shot in the ocean a year earlier, I aimed right—way right—and landed safely. For my second swing, I aimed down the right side again, and I realized my mistake as soon as I swung.
"No!" I yelled at the ball in flight.
But yes, my ball was heading out of bounds. Landing hard, it bounced past a white OB stake into someone's yard. But just as suddenly, the ball bounded left and rolled back into play. It reminded me of Ben Crenshaw's kick at the Masters, when my father and I were convinced that Harvey Penick, Crenshaw's former instructor, had given his ball a helping hand from heaven. "Thanks, Pip," I said out loud.
And so I came to the 18th green, with a 30-foot putt and two strokes to get in the hole. Walking the line of my shot, I thought, "This is it; this is everything!" But as soon as I thought it, I knew it was a lie. This putt wasn't everything. This putt was nothing. It simply didn't matter. What mattered was that my father took me out to the golf course, put a golf club in my hand, dropped a ball, and said, "Hit it in the hole." And that's what I've been doing ever since.
In my mind, I had made this putt well over a year ago. Shoot, I made this putt when I was 10 years old. Thirty feet, right to left, slightly uphill. I could see it, and I could trust it.
And then I knocked it in the cup.
A fter a ceremonial beer and burger in the Tap Room, I drove up the hill from the clubhouse and pondered what I had accomplished. I hadn't brought my father back to life, of course, and I hadn't seen a rainbow in the sky that told me he was watching. But the truth is, I never expected a miracle.
The night before, I had lain awake worrying that I was forgetting my father's face, but now I could see him clearly. I still see him as I write these words. I see him walking down the fairway just ahead of me at the San Angelo Country Club. I'm a little young for the task, and with his heavy bag over my shoulder, I'm falling farther and farther behind. And then he stops, looks back at me with a smile, and waits for me to catch up.
I see him years later on the only day my oldest daughter ever saw him play golf. Pip and I are coming up the 18th fairway at San Angelo. It's about 105 degrees and we're half-fried, but we haven't played with each other in a couple of years, and I can see how happy he is that we're together.
I see him in the nursing home, confusing everyone's names but sharp enough to push a checker to the back row, turn it into a king, and hop my pieces all over the board. What a triumphant grin he gives me.
I see him in the hospital on that last afternoon, the tournament broadcast showing Pebble's 18th fairway from the tee.
"That's such a beautiful place," he tells me.
And now we have played there together.
Actor and writer Turk Pipkin is the author of the golf novel Fast Greens and a recent nonfiction book, The Old Man and the Tee, which tells the story of the year he dedicated to breaking 80 at Pebble Beach for his father.


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The wine-focused Le Meritage (1001 Toulouse St., 586-8000; www.lemeritagerestaurant.com) has officially replaced Dominique's as the main restaurant at the Maison Dupuy Hotel. Chef Michael Farrell's menu lists four categories of wine characteristics and suggests complementary vintages and dishes for each flavor profile. Every dish is available as a small plate or full-size entree. This week, Le Meritage kicks off the hotel's annual series of wine dinners called "French Quarter Wine Festival." Details at www.frenchquarterwinefestival.com.
K-atered Lunch
K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen (416 Chartres St., 524-7394; www.kpauls.com) now serves lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. The service is described as deli-style, and customers can order sandwiches, gumbos, salads and plate lunches to go. Seating is available in the dining room, but there is no table service at lunch.


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Title: Tony and His Elephants, Best Friends Forever Text and photos by: Cathleen Burnham Published by: Crickhollow and Crispin Books, April 2017 Themes/Topics: elephants, baby animals, environmental conservation, Thailand, youth activism, wild animal rescue Genre: Nonfiction – 32 pages Suitable for ages: … Continue reading


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Carly Rae Jepsen was in Quebec City today doing interviews. She also had time to go sightseeing with her friends. The singer was entranced by the views and wrote: "Falling in love with Quebec City! Wow" on Friday (July 12).
Speaking on Tonight I'm Getting Over You remixed by Nicki Minaj – in a recent interview she described hearing the song for the first time.
"Nicki did a fantastic job on the remix. I was so pumped the first time I heard her verse. She brings confidence and power to everything she touches, and that energy fit the song perfectly. I think I am a little shy in comparison. As for fashion … I can tell we both love to experiment. I love her hair! I saw her with a light pink 'do once … that was my favorite."
Asked about how she worked the songs on her Kiss album – Jepsen shared, "I am a bit of a chaotic writer. I write on planes, inthe shower and even in my sleep. I've been known to scribble lyrics on the back of my hand in a pinch. That being said, I love the idea of taking time off to write a full album in one cozy studio. I plan to do more of that for my next album."
Jepsen will be performing in Saint Petersberg, Florida this Sunday, July 14.


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OK I have several users using outlook 2003 and pearls and curves. Not on exchange. We've had this setup for the last 4+ years
Everything seemed fine until about 6 months ago where a users previous calendar entries in outlook was disappearing. I found they were moving to deleted items. Like hundreds together. The user was not doing this. I dragged them back, and done a BB wipe and sync, made sure options on BB handset in calender said never to delete entries and things seemed OK.
Its now started happening with several other users but because some of the users have a message pop up when they close outlook which asks if they want to delete everything in deleted items, theyve said yes and hence deleted moved calender entries. At least I think this is whats happened as I cant find the deleted entries anywhere.
Ive googled this problem and couldnt find anything. I was wondering if you guys think its outlook or the BB's
I cant afford for it to take out my other users one by one on a random basis.
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Two years ago, talk of corruption and public officials on the take was an inside joke at the Alaska Capitol as many made light of the Corrupt Bastards Club and those who might qualify for membership.
It wasn't quite as funny yesterday as Jim Clark, former Gov. Frank Murkowski's chief of staff, entered a guilty plea to federal corruption charges that stem from a two-year investigation that now touches state government at the highest level.
What a shame and an embarrassment to see Clark, a longtime Juneau citizen, lobbyist, attorney and public servant, admitting he's just as sleazy and as greasy as former legislators Pete Kott and Vic Kohring, both of whom are now felons convicted of corruption.
Clark's plea raises some interesting questions about the federal investigation that now seems to be zeroed in on the office of Murkowski himself. Among them are:
Clark pleaded guilty on Monday before being charged, indicted and tried for any crime. Does that mean the FBI had enough evidence to persuade him to make a plea deal, thereby sparing himself the prospect of serving more time in prison than he will otherwise have to spend?
If the FBI's case is ultimately leading to Murkowski, is it possible others who were closest to Murkowski (staff, aides) may find themselves under the corruption microscope? I'm going to answer yes to that one.
In copping his plea, is Clark maintaining more blind loyalty to Murkowski, thereby falling on his proverbial sword for the man, or does it mean he's saving his hide and dishing dirt on others who are as corrupt as he's admitting he is?
What might Clark's plea mean for former state Senate President Ben Stevens and former Juneau Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch? Stevens has been implicated in court testimony as accepting bribes, but has not been charged with a crime. Weyhrauch pleaded not guilty to corruption charges and is awaiting trial. If Clark is forthcoming about what he knows, might information he gives the feds be enough to seal the cases against Stevens and Weyhrauch?
As a man in a former position of such power, prominence and prestige, how does Clark face the friends and colleagues who heretofore may have held him in high regard?
If Clark's case weren't so ironic - this from a career attorney who certainly knew better - it might actually be sad. But he broke the law, plainly and simply, and neither he nor anyone else can argue that he didn't know exactly what he was doing at the time he did it. Clark's friends and political buddies will try to dress it up differently, but if it were anything else, he wouldn't have pleaded guilty to a crime (or crimes) he didn't commit.
Going back to early 2004, I've suspected Clark of being loyal to a fault to Murkowski, who on numerous occasions made Clark take the heat for him privately and publicly. But to knowingly take a fall like this for a man as arrogant as Murkowski, who expects undying loyalty but doesn't give it, is far beyond fault.
Because he's now guilty of a federal crime, Clark will have to surrender his license to practice law and, longer term, live with a reputation he alone destroyed by placing himself above the law and everyone else in this state.
Clark was, for a time at least, "someone" in the realm of Alaska politics. Today, though, he's been reduced to criminal status all because he dishonestly hustled $68,000 to help further a political cause, a political party and what he thought would be a political campaign. Maybe it was worth it to someone, but surely not to Jim Clark.
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|Uganda Ministry of Health - UNAIDS HIV/AIDS Drug Access Initiative - Preliminary Report (UNAIDS, 2000, 14 p.)
The early successes of the UNAIDS Drug Access Initiative pilot programs have come through an important human and financial investment and national commitment. Training and capacity-building have proved to be important components in a program aimed at expanding access to antiretroviral therapy in Uganda. Access to antiretroviral therapy, however, remains extremely limited, primarily due to the high cost and technical sophistication required for medications and monitoring. To date, nearly 1,000 AIDS patients have started ARV therapy out of an estimated 1.5 million persons living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Efforts to expand access to antiretroviral therapies must weigh the benefits and costs to the health sector. Even if patients meet the costs of their medical care, costs of training, development and implementation of treatment guidelines, and expanded access to laboratory diagnostics require substantial investment. Although newly-reduced drug costs have been announced, scaling up of antiretroviral treatment programs will be limited by the rudimentary laboratory infrastructure in the periphery and the median $300 annual per capita income. In this context, the importance of HIV prevention must remain the cornerstone of programs to prevent AIDS-related morbidity and mortality in Uganda.
That being said, the benefits to patients accessing this initiative are already evident. Although adherence has not yet been evaluated, changes in viral load and CD4 suggest that patients are taking their medications and responding to treatment. In this regard, this pilot program has demonstrated that AIDS patients can be managed successfully with antiretroviral therapy in a developing country setting. Promoting access to therapy earlier in the course of the patients disease would be expected to further improve patient outcome in this initiative.
To date, approximately half of patients started on antiretrovirals were started on 2NRTIs. The drug costs to the patient are lower, and clearly patients on 2NRTI fared better than what would be expected without therapy. Dual NRTI therapy still bears a substantial cost to the patient in this setting and is associated with a less durable benefit compared to HAART; average CD4 counts and viral load of patients on 2NRTI approached baseline values by one year after initiation of therapy. Extending survival for a matter of months might drain family resources needed for living expenses and education of surviving family members. More information is needed to assess the social and economic impact of this program on patients and their families. Lowering costs of protease inhibitors and nonnucleoside RTIs in this environment would have an important impact on the number of patients who can access HAART and the outcome of patients who are started on antiretroviral therapy.
Resistance to 3TC is conferred by a single drug mutation; emergence of 3TC resistance would be expected to occur, particularly when 3TC is not used as part of a maximally suppressive regimen. With recently reported reductions in the cost of AZT/3TC combination therapy, it is possible that more patients might access this regimen without the ability to afford HAART. It will be important to continue to evaluate clinical practices, patient response, and emergence of resistance as this initiative continues and as new programs develop.
This initiative to date has focused primarily on access to antiretroviral drugs. The initiative has also served to increase awareness of AIDS care and to the fact that patient management, record keeping, laboratory monitoring, and capacity building for the early diagnosis and management of opportunistic infections are all critical to the appropriate care and support of AIDS patients. The medical information system has proved to be an important tool for program evaluation and identification of ways to improve patient care within Initiative. To date, CD4 and viral load monitoring have been supported by outside agencies; the impact of moving this financial burden to the patient is unknown. More work is needed to define if alternative, less expensive monitoring strategies can be developed and implemented in resource-restricted countries. Promotion of AIDS care, and not just AIDS drugs, has been an important component to the success and evolution of this pilot program.
Programs are now underway to expand access to prophylaxis, diagnosis, and treatment of opportunistic illnesses in Uganda. This will benefit both patients who are on antiretroviral therapy and those who are unable to afford or otherwise access antiretrovirals. In addition to clinical training activities, these initiatives will need to address issues of drug procurement and distribution, stock management, and quality control of drugs used for the prophylaxis and treatment of opportunistic illnesses. In these ways, improved AIDS care can be expanded to reach more of those in need.


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MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) — The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration has ordered the closure of a northwestern Indiana day care center where a 5-year-old boy died after accidentally hanging himself with a jump rope.
FSSA spokeswoman Marni Lemons says Tricia's Playhouse in Michigan City has 30 days to appeal the closure.
LaPorte County Coroner John Sullivan says Amareon Williams died Monday from asphyxiation due to hanging after getting caught in a jump rope left hanging over an outside play fort.
Lemons tells WSJV-TV the licensed day care was on probationary status at the time and undergoing a plan of correction after an April 21 inspection found several violations. The problems included failure to report suspected child abuse or neglect.
Day care owner Tricia Calvin declined to comment on the closure.
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Salix interior
Willow family (Salicaceae)
Description: This shrub has two growth forms: a small tree up to 20' tall with a trunk up to 6" across, or a thicket of little-branched woody stems up to 8' tall. An older tree develops gray flaking bark on its trunk, while the trunk bark of younger trees is gray and more smooth. Woody branches and slender stems are variably colored, but often gray or yellowish-brown and smooth. The alternate leaves are up to 5" long and 2/5" (1 cm.) across; they are linear in shape and remotely denticulate along their margins (small distinct teeth that are widely spaced). Mature leaves are usually hairless; their upper surfaces are medium green, while their lower surfaces are pale green. At the base of each leaf, there is a short petiole that is hairless and light green. Sandbar Willow is dioecious: male florets and female florets are produced on separate plants in the form of catkins. Whether male or female, a catkin consists of a raceme of florets that are arranged in a spiraling pseudo-whorl.
Male catkins are ¾–2" long and narrowly cylindrical in shape; they are erect, ascending, or lean sideways. Each male floret consists of a pair of stamens and a single oblong-oval bract that is deciduous; there are neither petals nor sepals. The lower half of the filaments of the stamens are densely covered with short silky hairs; the anthers of the stamens are bright yellow. The bract is yellow and covered with short silky hairs. Female catkins are 1½–3" long and narrowly cylindrical; they are mostly green while immature, later becoming light brown. Each female floret consist of an ovoid-conic ovary about 5-9 mm. in length and a single oval-oblong bract that is deciduous. Both the ovary and bract are sparsely short-pubescent to hairless. At the apex of each ovary, there is a pair of tiny stigmas. The catkins usually develop at about the same time as the leaves from mid- to late spring. However, some shrubs bloom later during the summer. Each fertile ovary develops into a seed capsule that splits open into 2 parts to release numerous seeds that are minute and hairy. These seeds are distributed by the wind. The root system is branching and woody, often forming underground runners that develop into vegetative offshoots. Colonies of plants are often formed from these clonal offshoots.
Cultivation: The preference is full or partial sun and consistently moist to wet conditions. Different kinds of soil are tolerated, including those that are sandy, gravelly, silty, or loamy. This willow can spread aggressively from vegetative offshoots. Standing water is tolerated if it is temporary. A new willow shrub can be cultivated by breaking off a stem and sticking it into moist ground; new leaves will develop at the top while new roots develop below the ground surface. Willow seeds have a short period of viability; they must be scattered across moist ground within a week after the seed capsules split open.
Range & Habitat: The native Sandbar Willow has been collected from nearly all counties of Illinois (see Distribution Map); it is quite common and probably occurs in every county. Habitats include shrub swamps, borders of ponds and slow-moving rivers, gravel bars and sandbars, lake shore beaches, marshes, damp swales in prairies, and ditches. This weedy willow often appears in wet areas with a history of disturbance; it can reduce soil erosion.
Faunal Associations: The flowers are pollinated primarily by bees and flies, including cuckoo bees (Nomada spp.), Halictid bees, Andrenid bees, Syrphid flies, dance flies (Empis spp., Rhamphomyia spp.), thick-headed flies, Tachinid flies, and flesh flies. These insects seek nectar from the flowers, although some Halictid and Andrenid bees also collect pollen. The following oligolectic Andrenid bees are floral visitors of Sandbar Willow: Andrena andrenoides, Andrena erythrogaster, Andrena illinoiensis, Andrena mariae, and Andrena salictaria. A large number of insects feed on the leaves and other parts of willows. Such insect feeders include the butterfly caterpillars of Nymphalis antiopa (Mourning Cloak), Nymphalis vau-album j-album (Compton Tortoiseshell), Limenitis arthemis arthemis (White Admiral), Limenitis arthemis astyanax (Red-Spotted Purple), Satyrium acadicum (Acadian Hairstreak), and Satyrium liparops strigosum (Striped Hairstreak); also the skipper caterpillars of Erynnis icelus (Dreamy Duskywing). The caterpillars of several dozen, if not hundreds, of moth species feed on willows. Other insect feeders include numerous leaf and flea beetles (see Leaf & Flea Beetle Table), plant bugs (see Plant Bug Table), aphids (Cavariella aegopodii, Chaitophorus viminalis), leafhoppers (Idiocerus spp., Davisonia spp.), long-horned beetles (Oberea spp., Saperda spp.), sawfly larvae (Nematus ventralis, Trichiosoma viminalis), and thrips (Heterothrips salicis, Mycterothrips betulae, Pseudothrips inequalis). Many of these insect feeders are an important food source of insectivorous birds. Some birds feed on the buds or catkins of willows; these include the Mallard, Northern Pintail, Ruffed Grouse, and White-Crowned Sparrow. Fallen willow leaves are eaten by the Wood Turtle (Clemmys insculpta) and Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina), while the seed capsules are sometimes eaten by the Fox Squirrel, Gray Squirrel, and Red Squirrel. Willow branches are a favorite food source of beavers; they also use the branches in the construction of their lodges and dams. White-Tailed Deer and Elk also browse on the leaves and twigs. In general, the value of willows to wildlife is high.
Photographic Location: The photograph of the male catkins was taken at a city park in Champaign, Illinois, while the remaining photographs were taken at Meadowbrook Park in Urbana, Illinois.
Comments: This is probably the most common willow in Illinois. Without the assistance of a beaver colony, it is difficult to control and its use is not recommended for wetland restorations. While willows are often difficult to identify, the Sandbar Willow can be readily recognized by its long slender leaves with widely spaced teeth. Other similar willows have teeth that are more densely spaced along the margins of their leaves, or their leaves lack distinct teeth altogether. Sometimes the Sandbar Willow is referred to as Salix exigua.


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"A Wonderful Asset": DePauw University Nature Park Dedicated
September 11, 2004
September 11, 2004, Greencastle, Ind. - [Download Video: "Welcome from Dr. Bottoms" - 615kb] "This is a day we've been looking forward to for a long time," DePauw University President Robert G. Bottoms said this morning as he officially opened the new DePauw University Nature Park. The 480-acre facility -- which features four trails (covering approximately 10 miles) for walking, jogging, hiking and biking; arboretums; a canoe launch; and outdoor classrooms -- was dedicated today as part of Community Day at DePauw. The event was attended by students, faculty and local citizens, including Greencastle Mayor Nancy Michael, and two representatives from Hanson Aggregates Midwest, which donated the land. "Some of you were here a little over a year ago when we made the announcement of the gift to DePauw, and you can see what we've been able to do in a relatively short time."
Hanson Aggregates mined a limestone quarry on the site, which is located one-third of a mile from the western edge of the DePauw campus, for nearly a half century (map above shows the new Nature Park in yellow, the existing DePauw campus is in red). The company donated 280 acres of the land, and is leasing the remaining 178 acres to the University for $1 annually for ninety-nine years. DePauw acquired 23 acres of adjacent property to increase the total to 481 acres.
John B. Lawson, president of Hanson's Mideast Region, and James Smith, an environmental engineer for the company, were on hand for the ceremony. President Bottoms thanked the men and Hanson for their generosity and dedication to reaching an agreement. Since both men planned on attending the Community Day football game in the afternoon, Bottoms presented them with DePauw caps so they could display their Tiger pride. [Download Video: "'Capping' off the Agreement" - 474kb]
About $1.5 million dollars in improvements have been made to the site since DePauw announced the Nature Park project one year and one day ago. Dr. Bottoms thanked DePauw Trustees Judson Green '74, Martha Robes '66, and Tim Solso '69 for their generous gifts that funded the improvements. [Download Audio: "Thank You" - 203kb]"These three individuals together gave us the money to do all of this, and just last week we received funding for the first building that we will erect out here and that's the classroom facility. Mr. Solso of Cummins Engine makes that possible."
The President also offered thanks to professor of biology Wade Hazel, who put in long hours to help develop the vision for the Nature Park, [Download Audio: "Prof. Wade Hazel" - 117kb] "particularly from an educational perspective in representing the faculty, and helping us to develop what we realize will be an outstanding teaching facility."
[Download Video: "A Wonderful Asset" - 951kb]"We hope you'll begin today to enjoy this park," President Bottoms told the first official visitors before they set off on tours. "It's a wonderful asset to the University for teaching and for recreation, and I think it's a wonderful thing for our city and county to have. You'll find out as the development goes on there are very few towns the size of Greencastle that will have anything like this to offer to students and to the public."
Effective today, the DePauw University Nature Park is open to the public from dawn to dusk, seven days a week. Camping is permitted only in designated areas and with authorization. For more information, contact Brien Holsapple, park ranger, at (765) 653-5139, or the Public Safety Office at (765) 658-4261. Visit the DePauw Nature Park online by clicking here.Back


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New York Softball Cricket
Nationals Strikes Phantom Hard, But Fails To Conquer
By James Persaud
As Phantom continued to blather in the field, Nationals struck early and hard, in a game where fielding looked to be off the least of interest to the Phantom fielders. It was an exact continuation of one Sunday ago when the Phantom fielders floored three very valuable catches late in the game and somber to be defeated.
The Nationals members arrived very early at the park and got in some very valuable practice, while the Phantom players sat around and played with their fancy electronic gadgets. Nationals took the crease first with Anand Singh and Salim Ulla. The Phantom bowlers, Amit Doma and Harold gave their team a perfect start as they held both batsmen in check. Anand Singh was batting defensively, while Ulla looked a little uncomfortable at the crease as the bowlers were on top.
After eight overs the scoring rate was about four runs an over, and Anand Singh was already dropped twice, he ended the day scoring 103 runs after being dropped five times. Anand Singh made use of his chances and took the challenge to the bowlers; he lost his partner Ulla in the tenth over with a total of 53.
The new batsman coming in at number three was the Nationals captain Faizul Ulla, after another ten runs was added Faizul was caught of Leonardo Vasquez. Shazam Husain joined Singh at the crease and they created huge trouble for the Phantoms. It was not as if the bowling was bad, it was just that the fielders could not hold onto to the ball.
This pair would bring much life to the huge Nationals supporters' base that was present; Phantom would use a total of seven bowlers in trying to break the partnership. After Anand Singh reached his century he retired hurt on a score of 103. The next wicket fell in the twenty fifth over with a total of 216 runs.
Steve Ally came to the crease and tried to keep the run rate up but was unable to put Vasquez or Doma and Harold away, he scored seven runs including a boundary before losing his stump to Vasquez. Ramkarran added ten runs with Husain before Vasquez bowled him for one. The bowling was good to this point and Husain looked determine to get his score to a triple figure. R. Ulla partner with Husain and gave him most of the strike, this Husain made use of as the overs were coming to an end.
Husain treated the slower blowers with no respect, especially Javid Salim and Ryan Ramjas he struck 24 and 25 runs off one over each. Husain was very powerful with his straight drives over long on and long off; he was dropped by Terry Sital at long off when his score was on 68. It was a good display of powerful stroke playing by Husain as he reached his century with two balls remaining in the innings.
Husain finished with 100 not out and R. Ulla on 7 not out in a total of 252 for 4, the only wicket taker for Phantom was Vasquez with 4 for 15 of his six overs.
Phantom sent Ryan Ramjas and Rudy Narine to reply to Nationals huge total, Nationals had the feeling after scoring well over two hundred runs that this game was already in their pocket. But Phantom had other plans and they were not prepared to go down easy. As the sun made its way across the field and a most welcoming wind gushing off of the bay at Bay Park, it was a do or die for Phantom or rest in peace and waits for the Twenty20.
National handed the new ball to Shazam Husain and Ramjas greeted him with two boundaries of the over. Faizul Ulla continue the attack and Narine knocked him over the ropes to get off the mark and Ramjas would take two more boundaries of the same over to finish with 17 runs of the second over.
The fireworks continued well past Independence Day as Phantom score raced to 56 after four overs, a double bowling change was made in the sixth and seventh over with Ramkarran and Anthony Howard. Ramkarran was on target and bowled well and put a check on the free flow of runs, while Howard took some heat and Phantom reached 100 in the twelfth over. The Nationals captain changed his wicketkeeper as fast as he could change his bowlers, they used about 6 keepers.
The thirteenth over from Howard started with a boundary and the fifth delivery had Narine hooking, the ball took the edge and went high into the sky, the keeper moving to his left took the catch. Phantom losing their first wicket, Narine was gone for 25 in a total of 105. With the fall of the wicket, this brought the tall and lanky hard hitting Leonardo Vasquez to the crease, Vasquez moved up the order to try and continue the fireworks and that was exactly what he did. He opened his account with three consecutive boundaries bringing the total to 125 after fifteen overs.
Phantom took a water break and knew that they were in a very comfortable position only losing one wicket, while Nationals had a team meeting of their own, knowing that to stay in the game, they would have to get wickets.
When play resumed Faizul Ulla continued the attack against Vasquez, his first delivery knocked back the middle stump and Vasquez walked back to the pavilion looking very disappointed. Nateram Seepersaud came to the crease and after hitting a boundary; he played a very poor shot to Ramkarran and lost his stump in the process. Andrew Haniff and terry Sital was moved up the order to put some speed in the running between the wickets.
Both Haniff and Sital played very poor shots, Haniff (3) giving Faizul Ulla his second wicket and Sital (7) gave Howard his first. The game had made a sudden shift Phantom losing 3 wickets for only 18 runs added; Deodat Boodhan strides to the crease to do some damage repair with Ramjas. Ramjas was looking solid as his selection of strokes was very good; he played every ball by its merit.
Ramkarran was bowling well and Ramjas tried to face his bowling whenever he was on since he is a much better defensive batsman, it worked for a while until a running mix up between Boodhan and Ramjas, Boodhan was run out for 5 and the total 189 and twenty three over gone.
With 64 runs of seven overs still needed by Phantom, it was as if the sun just went away-the chill was on, on the other side Nationals knew that they were back in the game. Harold joined Ramjas at the crease and they had a long mid wicket conference, Nationals had many meetings themselves.
For the next three overs Nationals did exactly what was needed, they bowled very tight and only 10 runs were added. As the inning prolonged Ramjas was looking stronger as he played some superb cricket strokes, he was dropped at deep backward square when he was on 78. Harold looked very desperate especially when he played defensive, he was great when he played attacking strokes and made contact. With the run rate climbing the batsmen knew they would have to take the attack to the bowlers. This they did in the twenty-seventh over 13 runs come off, in the twenty-eighth over gave up 11 runs.
With Phantom still needing 24 runs from two overs, Nationals still had a chance. But this was not to be Husain bowled the twenty ninth over, Ramjas struck 3 consecutive fours and a single to bring up his century, Harold took the strike and hit a huge six and a four to finish the over. After twenty nine overs the game was tie, Nationals captain set a very close field to start the thirtieth over and Ramjas hit the first ball from Faizul Ulla to the long on boundary for the victory. Faizul Ulla finish with 2 for 69, Ramkarran took 2 for 32 and Howard claimed 1 for 22 off 3 overs.
Ramjas top score for Phantom with 105 not out and Harold was left unbeaten on 33.This was a very exciting game, in a game where over five hundred runs was scored both teams display great sportsmanship and friendship, the umpiring was excellent, umpires Sumra and Massiah did great work. Ramadan greetings to all my Muslim brothers and friends and I will be seeing you at the parks.
Royal Challengers B trounce Caribbean Boys
By J. Misir
A match winning performance by Captain Shuk Dundee ensured a convincing victory by Royal Challengers B over Caribbean Boys at Roy Wilkins Park last Sunday. Batting first, Royal Challengers B made 172, with Dundee hitting a quick fire 74 not out, R. Peters 41 and Albert Baldeo 19.
Dundee and Peters featured in a crucial partnership of 102 runs after Baldeo was incorrectly given out, adjudged caught by a delivery that was bowled over his shoulders. At this point, Royal Challengers were in trouble at 58 for 6, before Dundee and Peters struck Caribbean Boys bowlers to all parts of the ground. K. Williams took 4 wickets for 22 runs with some accurate bowling.
Caribbean Boys, desperate for their first win in this competition, were bowled out for 158 in a spirited reply, led by Gary and Vishal with 53 and 24 each. Tony Thakurdeen bowled impressively to take 4 wickets for 42 runs, including a stunning return catch.
He was well supported by J. Sukhu with 2 for 19 and J. Misir 1 for 14. Needing 15 runs for victory, it was Dundee who bowled an accurate maiden over to deny Caribbean Boys victory.
United Crucify GT Punisher
By Danny Singh
It was another fantastic day for the United cricket team since they have proven to be unconquerable against GT Punisher. United won the toss and decided to bat. The team made a phenomenal score of 229 all out.
In addition, unfortunately the United team had a big struggle when opening batsman Danny Singh and third order batsman A. Ali went down regretfully at a sore of 8 runs for 2 wickets. It began to look like United was being incarcerated by the GT Punisher. However, United made a huge combat with their two distinguished, all-rounder batsman. Both players Anoop Mangar and F. Khan made an impressive partnership of 115 runs. This partnership puts United back on track.
Furthermore, four brilliant batsmen were recognized for their outstanding performance for the match. These Players were A. Mangar with 58 runs, F. Khan with 51 runs, D. Persaud with 46 runs, and S. Deodat with 27 runs. The main bowler for GT Punisher Darren who took 3 wickets for 29 runs, G. Narine and V. Persaud took two wickets each.
GT Punisher accumulated a poor score of 63 runs all out. It appears that the GT Punisher was getting a taste of they own punishing medicine. Their main scorers were Ravin with 20 runs and Daren with 18 runs. Y. Maystry was the key bowler for United who acquire 3 wickets for 8 runs while A. Ali and F. Khan took two each.
Young Warriors Defeat Friends For Their Fifth Victory
By Roy Jaikaran
Last Sunday, match between Young Warriors and Friends played at the North Conduit, Young Warriors won the toss and bat first. Young Warriors made 144 all out in 24.5 overs. Akash Jagdeo made 33, G. Sarwan scored 18 and Roy Jaikaran had 18 runs, and these were the top of the batting. Best bowling for Friends was D. Rampersaud with 5.5 overs 3 maiden 6 runs and 4 wickets and Farouk with 2 wickets for 13 runs.
Friends replied with 104 all out in 23.4 overs. A very impressive batting display was done by openers C. Fitzpatrick who top score with 34 runs and J. Ramdial with 20 runs. Bowling for Young Warriors was Roy Jaikaran with 2.4 overs 10 runs and 4 wickets and A. Gobin with 3 wickets for 12 runs in 6 overs. This massive victory will take Young Warriors with a record of 5 victories from 5 matches.
Knight Riders Beat Flasherz B To Stake Claim For Playoff Spot
By Sase Radhay
On a humid Sunday afternoon Flashers B won the toss and invited Knight Riders to take first strike. Knight Rider's young Kevin Hardial once again opened the batting and after five overs Knight Riders were struggling at twenty four for two. Kevin was joined by his captain A. Singh and together they added one hundred runs in a power hitting third wicket stand.
A. Singh was caught in the thirteenth over for thirty one and was followed next ball by Kevin Hardial who was bowled for a well played ninety two. His knock was made off forty two deliveries and contained twelve sixes and three four. In the second match in this 30 Over Cup competitions Kevin Hardial scored one hundred and seventeen runs against Falcons.
Eventually Knight Riders were bowled out for two hundred made in twenty overs. Other useful contributions were made by Joseph Jerrick who made twenty five and fifteen each by Alvin Seemadray and M. Hassan. Bowling for Flashers B Avinash took five for fifty six and Rabin Sookraj had three for twenty one.
When Flashers B took their turn at the wicket they found batting tough and were bowled out for one hundred and seven in seventeen overs. Andrew contributed twenty five, Rajiv twenty and Kevin seventeen. For Knight Riders M. Singh took five for seventeen in four overs and T. Hardial three for eight in three overs.


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Matt Clark is the Chief Operating Officer for Corcentric, responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations and ensuring companywide alignment with competitive strategies to enhance marketplace execution and service delivery for Corcentric's customers.
He oversees all software engineering and operational efforts, including implementation, client services, integration, and IT infrastructure. Most recently, Matt was Vice President of Operations for Corcentric. He joined the company in 2004 as Director of Sales.
Prior to his tenure at Corcentric, Matt worked in various key roles at Infolinx System Solutions where he managed the implementation of records management solutions at large government agencies, including The National Institute of Health (NIH) and DC Child Support.
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What year did income taxes become law? I don't remember paying any tax in 1925.
The federal income tax came into existence under President Wilson when the 16th Amendment was passed on February 25, 1913. Nearly everybody laughed it off. The tax was one cent on a dollar; a single person was exempt $3,000; a married person $4,000; and average wages being $624 a year meant that few ordinary people paid. Rates and wages changed as the years went on, so it was probably in the mid-1920's before taxes caught the common man. Incidentally, there was a federal income tax during the Civil War, but the law was repealed when the war ended. Massachusetts taxed income for the first time in 1916. The rate was one and one half cent on income above $2,000; a wife was worth another $500 exemption; with children or other dependents, the extra exemption could rise to a total of $1,000.
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Items not eligible for return:
- Special Order (SPO) items, including custom rugs and furniture
- Drop Ship items, with the exception of wall art
- Monogrammed items
- Mattresses
- Gift cards
- Final sale items (with prices ending in $.X7 or $.X9)
- Items damaged through normal wear and tear
Complete details
For full details, please visit our Returns Policy page. For further assistance, please call our customer service department at 1.888.922.4119 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.