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Opinion: Marco Rubio's Immigration Play
Editorial board member Matt Kaminski on the prospects for Marco Rubio's proposed immigration reform. Photo: Getty Images
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... I ... wanna turn back to Washington now ... another hot button topic integration of the White House wants a deal Congressional Republicans seem to wanna deal too ... but what is politically achievable in who is going to take the lead in achieving it ... editorial board member Matthew Kaminski joins me now to talk about his exclusive interview ... with Florida Senator Marco Rubio one in the intellectual leaders of this ... debate ... Mackey weekend interview ... Mr. India set out to I in terms of a new kind of deal ... out walking a fine line between the hard right that wants a fence bill ... and left the just wants amnesty for everybody and when that when the contours of that so ... that that situation that deal is one of the queue is something of putting forward the things that have been well down on the meetings in Washington of the last few weeks that have ... I mean he's been involved in so the Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham for the Republicans ... and Democratic side you have the Menendez of New Jersey's Ocean interest in this ... and then on Sunday the White House leak to its own ... submission of what immigration reform effect is very similar to ... two with the Pope is talking about ... which is one time trying that ... can fix the guest worker program for farm workers feel it coming here ... in a way that advances to meet the need for BP made by illegals ... aam to to to increase the number of these is that we get to ... a ... high tech ... people in the high tech industry educated skilled workers ... and their three which is in wait I guess you could see the hardest is what to do at the ... age of twelve million ... illegals already in the country ... aam and both the White House and really you're talking about ... giving the pathway to official citizenship ... but they say is not amnesty which is so drowsy ... on the road ... how can Senator Rubio work with this White House he's try to get immigration reform with them ... he's gotten burned ... on what why is he still willing to put political capital into this issue ... well I mean it's it's a question for ... Obama to know why would he ... isn't such a good issue for Democrats Hispanics here saying that look Republicans are against this but ... if the book is going on to the potential and do something is carpet White House to use it against ... Republicans ... it's also question whether Obama is interested in having a legacy achievement in his room at the start of a second term ... he promised immigration reform for years go ... to college that again during this campaign on Tuesday so when you know the upside with Hispanics ... so I think there's some good to see bipartisan movement ... but darkly of problems both from the left and ... on the right ... to getting a deal done I mean some general principles are ... the seam or less ... ok but size but the Tiberio issues we get the deatails silk or should we look to for leadership on this issue clearly are your weekend interview ... Iowa Senator Rubio he he's going I think shape a lot of this debate ... I'm a Democrat is that I ... was going to try ... well again and the tax side you know I think um ... you've all been and is again from from New Jersey ... Senator Feinstein a California is very interested in a ... competition to some the best Iveco for workers ... now I think we all know Universum forces on the right ... better ... have always been saying we need to close the border first concrete we fix integration that's the interesting thing about the review saying look ... we need to improve enforcement ... that's what but says too but we need to also fix ... making easier people come here illegally ... in order to reduce number of illegals ... that on the left it there is a question mark over ... you know it it is organize labor ... going to go ahead to serve to be ok but the program that ... increases the number of non ... legal add the news ... not only for farm workers ... in the early for high tech engine years but you know for the hundreds of thousands of Mimi's and and other ... you know parking attendants ... I mean this this country can only function without illegal ... aliens but are we going to um ... making easier impossible to come in legally ... and how to handle this or future flow of immigration is not just about the legal Score Karen and for once again big labor rearing its ugly head editorial board member Matt Kaminski ... on his exclusive interview with marker Rubio thank you so much for being ... with us ...


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Handmade Ceramics from Mud Studio in South Africa
Over the past year I acquired several ceramic pieces of servingware that I really treasure. They're fluid, organic, and unique. Well, I just realized that they were made by the same artisans: Mud Studio, in South Africa. Here's a look at few more of Mud Studio's organic, handmade pieces.
Mud Studio is a small company in South Africa (and is not to be confused with Mud Australia, which is another ceramics company we like very much). They create handmade ceramics for the table, kitchen, garden, and home, including some spectacular chandeliers made of hand-rolled ceramic beads.
In the United States, their pieces are primarily found at Anthropologie stores. The juicer pictured above is one distinctive design you might remember from recent Anthropologie collections! Right now, though, we can't find any of their pieces online; they tend to just be in the street stores' collections.
I especially love my lasagna dish, which is heavy and sturdy, and decorated with an interesting motif. It can go in the oven, so it's a true deep-dish lasagna pan!
Pictured Above
• 1 Lasagna Dish
• 2 Lemon Squeeza
• 3 Nesting Bowl Set
• 4 Botanic Platter
• 5 Provincial Dinnerware Set
Have you ever come across these lovely ceramics?
See more about Mud Studio
(Images: Faith Durand; Mud Studio)

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Yesterday I came across couple guys performing some interesting maneuver on Alameda beach near Shellgate launch area. They were trying to hot launch a kite - which is a green/black 9 meter Naish Ride, I think - right between a couple of other kiters with their kites up in the air in the very same vincinity. Also, there were couple of beach goers/kids playing in the water another 50 yards down the beach. Wind speed was about 15 ish with gust to 20 - 22 which is probably a little too much for hot launching.
The kiter was in the water about 10 - 20 yards from shore. His buddy was catching/holding the kite right at the water edge and it seemed to me they tried to hot launch it. I was a couple yards away so I attempted to tell the kite-holder to go more into the beach area so that the kite will be at 90% to the wind direction.
Well, the kite-holder brushed me off and indicated that they were fine and know what they were doing. Perhaps I came across as too rude or too overbearing since they totally ignored me and carried on. It went on for a few more minutes and they gave up later about hundred yards down the beach. Perhaps it was a good thing that they were doing this at Alameda because I can't imagine the consequence of same maneuver at 3rd Ave. 's lower launch.
I wondered if there were better way to communicate to newbies and their buddies about beach etiquette and that launch area is not for practicing kite skills.


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Long-Term Review
2013 Dodge Dart Rallye: Highs and Lows
As we continue racking up miles on our long-term 2013 Dodge Dart Rallye, we're beginning to notice a few things we love -- and a few things we could live without. Spirited driving has a way of bringing out such pros and cons, so we took the new sedan on some country roads to see how it would perform.
Engine and Transmission
With a short first gear, our Dart Rallye requires quick shifts for optimal acceleration from a stop. That can be fun -- especially since the precise shifter is so enjoyable to use. But the gearing can also be a burden, as it requires constant attention to keep it in boost range. We often found ourselves in the wrong gear, meaning a downshift was needed for any real power.
Part of the reason for the gearing troubles is that the Dart has six gears -- maybe one too many. But that complaint was forgotten on the highway, where sixth gear returns a quiet, peaceful ride. Wind and road noise are also surprisingly muted at high speeds, something you don't usually get from an economy car with a base price that starts under $20,000. Sixth also functions as something of an overdrive gear, leading to impressive fuel economy. In a mix of driving that was 60 percent highway and 40 percent city driving, one of our editors averaged 32.8 miles per gallon. Another averaged 30 mpg on his daily commute -- one mile per gallon better than a Hyundai Elantra which we recently tested on the same stretch of crowded freeway. Another editor averaged 24 mpg in mostly city driving.
Room for Improvement
We quickly discovered that the Dart's high beams aren't up to the task of illuminating the darkest roads -- an important factor for anyone who frequents rural areas with 2-lane highways. We've also found the speedometer to be a bit too busy and the font a bit too small -- most editors simply revert to the large digital display to keep tabs on speed. And finally -- while a few editors really like the Rallye's exhaust note, others found it too loud. Maybe they're used to the hairdryer whoosh of a Toyota Corolla or maybe they just like to complain. Either way, we feel fairly confident that customers who are smitten with the Dart's look, color options, manual transmission and interior features will like the fact that the car has a discernible exhaust note. Will everyone like it? No, probably not. But that's exactly the kind of risk Dodge is taking with this car, it's different.
Overall, we're happy with our 2013 Dodge Dart Rallye. Quibbles aside, it offers a lot of car for the money -- and we're still taken by its handsome lines.


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Are you available to play on Wednesday morning?
hey andy,
Are you available to play this weekend? I'll be free anytime, so let me know! Shoot me a text a 916-612-4766
You are missed, man! Hope all is sunny down there
Andy, I usually play with Gunther (although I should warn you I am way below his level). I will be practicing this eve (Thursday) and tomorrow, let me know if you'd like to hit. Ale
Andy, thanks for your comment. I'm pretty much a doubles player and don't play singles. But I see you've already met Gunther, who I played dubs with today. I plan on playing more with his group, so I'm sure we'll be crossing paths in town.
My email is firstname.lastname@example.com and my phone is 805-452-4811. It was a blast playing today!
How about 4:30pm today at UCSB Rec Cen courts?
Let's play - how about this weekend? I live near the UCSB courts, but I can meet you somewhere else if it is more convenient.
Hey man,
Any interest in playing at the UCSB courts sometime this week? My schedule is wide open. :)
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Soil / Water / Energy
Soil Education Resources
Is soil an important ingredient in your every day life?
The answer is yes, and here are a few reasons why:
- Last night you slept in a building built on soil.
- You drink water that flows through soil and is cleaned by the soil.
- You breathe air that comes partly from plants growing in the soil.
- You even wear clothes made from plants that grow in the soil.
Soils make our lives possible. We build on them, play on them, drive on them, eat food grown in or raised on them, take medicines from them, wear clothes we wouldn't have without soils, drink water that wouldn't be clean without soils, breathe air we wouldn't have without the plants and trees growing in soils. The entire earth—every ecosystem, every living organism—is dependent upon soils.
A Few Facts about Soil
- Soil makes up the outermost layer of our planet.
- Topsoil is the most productive soil layer.
- Soil has varying amounts of organic matter (living and dead organisms), minerals and nutrients.
- Five tons of topsoil spread over an acre is only as thick as a dime.
- Natural processes can take more than 500 years to form one inch of topsoil.
- Soil scientists have identified over 70,000 kinds of soil in the United States.
- Soil is formed from rocks and decaying plants and animals.
- An average soil sample is 45 percent minerals, 25 percent water, 25 percent air and five percent organic matter.
- Different-sized mineral particles, such as sand, silt, and clay, give soil its texture.
- Fungi and bacteria help break down organic matter in the soil.
- Plant roots and lichens break up rocks which become part of new soil.
- Roots loosen the soil, allowing oxygen to penetrate. This benefits animals living in the soil.
- Roots hold soil together and help prevent erosion.
Information provided by U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service and listed on the Environmental Protection Agency website at http://epa.gov/gmpo/edresources/soil.html<;/span>.
Soils Education Materials
NACD has been working with the Smithsonian and Soil Science Society of America in the development of soils materials to compliment the "Dig It! The Secrets of Soils" exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (http://www.forces.si.edu/soils/<;/span>). These materials can also be used in conjunction with 2009 NACD Stewardship Week, which is also themed "Dig It! The Secrets of Soil," or in addition to your conservation education outreach projects and programs. The soils education materials were designed to teach students (K-8) as well as adults about the importance of soils in their everyday lives. The exhibit will be in Washington, D.C. until January 2010 and then will travel to ten cities around the United States through 2013.
Soil Materials Preview Flyer - Download a flyer of the "Dig It! The Secrets of Soil" materials.
NACD Marketplace - The "Dig It! The Secrets of Soil" education materials are available for to purchase at the NACD Marketplace.
2009 Soils Material Planning Sheet - A one-page overview of all the soils education materials available for purchase. Download the planning sheet and start planning your soil education order today!
2009 Soil Stewardship Week Page - For more than 50 years, NACD has sponsored "Stewardship Week", a national program to encourage Americans to focus on stewardship. The program relies on locally-led conservation districts sharing and promoting stewardship and conservation activities. Stewardship Week is officially celebrated from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in May. The theme for NACD's 2009 Stewardship Program is "Dig It! The Secrets of Soil."
Soils Activities
Soils Educators Guide (1.2 MB, PDF) - This online interactive guide is full of great resource to use in a classroom or other educational programs. It contains activities, science standards that complement the Dig It! student booklets, literature connections, links to additional soils outreach materials and more. The printed educators guideis also available in quantities of ten from the NACD Marketplace.
Soil Activity Worksheets (linked below) - The K-7 soils education worksheets listed below complement the Dig It! student booklets or are great for use with soils outreach programs.
Soils Topic Book List (PDF) - Looking for books to read to students or add to your library collection? Download this list of books that will give students a better understanding of soils in their everyday life.
Fun Facts about Soil and Worms (PDF) - Use these fun and informative facts as part of an exhibit or question and answers with student or adults. This activity covers the importance of worms and our soil.
2009 NACD "Dig It! The Secrets of Soil" Poster Contest - Check with your local conservation district to see if they are sponsoring a local, area or state contest utilizing the DIG IT! The Secrets of Soil theme for a poster contest. Additional information can be found on our poster contest site.
Additional Soils Resources
Dig It! Logo and Soils Images - Several images that go along with the 2009 Stewardship theme,"Dig It! The Secrets of Soil," use on your website, promotions or publications.
Smithsonian DIG IT! The Secrets of Soil Exhibit
News Article: "DIG IT! Soils Takes Center Stage at Smithsonian" (PDF)
Soil Science Society of America - This site contains soil lesson plans and more.
Scoop on Soil
This site has a variety of soil education information from USDA-NRCS and University of IL Exension including fundamental soil concepts, soil biology printer, soil quotes, a help stop soil erosion activity and more.
Dr. Dirt! - Great selection of hands on soil activities to share with students.
Soil Paint Recipe | PDF |
Soil Presentations - Keep the attention of the students and community members you are educating through these catchy presentations on soils!
Soil Texture Lesson - A soil texture lesson, a soil texture analysis experiment and an accompanying PowerPoint presentation are available from the Soil Science Society of America at https://www.soils.org/lessons/plans/lessons/texture.html<;/span>.
Soil Color Lesson - A soil color lesson, a soil crayons experiment and an accompanying PowerPoint presentation are available from the Soil Science Society of America at https://www.soils.org/lessons/plans/lessons/color.html<;/span>.
Water Education Resources
Is water important to your daily life? The answer is yes, and here is why: We use water each and every day. Some of the direct uses are cooking, cleaning and brushing our teeth. There are many indirect uses that sometimes we forget how much water is needed to produce items we use everyday. The food you eat each day relies on water and good soil to produce it. About 4,000 gallons of water are needed to grow one bushel of corn, 11,000 gallons to grow one bushel of wheat and about 135,000 gallons to grow one ton of alfalfa. It also takes 30,000 gallons of water for to manufacture 1 ton of finished steel to build the vehicles we drive.
Water is important to us each and every day, and we all must work together to take care of it.
A Few Facts about Water
- Of all water on earth, 97.5 percent is salt water, and of the remaining 2.5 percent fresh water, some 70 percent is frozen in the polar icecaps. The other 30 percent is mostly present as soil moisture or lies in underground aquifers. In the end, less than 1 percent of the world's fresh water (or about 0.007 percent of all water on earth) is readily accessible for direct human uses. It is found in lakes, rivers, reservoirs and in underground sources Water is the only substance found on earth in three forms solid, liquid, and gas.
- A person can live more than a month without food but only about a week, depending on conditions, without water.
- 66 percent of the human body is water; 75 percent of the human brain is water.
- The average American uses over 100 gallons of water per day; the average residence uses over 100,000 gallons during an entire year.
Sources: http://www.water.org/resources/waterfacts.htm<;/span> and http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/sdwa/30th/factsheets/pdfs/fs_30ann_waterfacts_web.pdf<;/span>
Water Education Materials
Catalog - Review our Water Is Life catalog before you shop the NACD Marketplace and place your order.
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Water Education Educators Guide - Activities and information tailored around water use in our everyday life to use with students and adult programs. | PDF |
Water Activities
Activity Supplements (Activities in educators guide)
"Where's the Groundwater" Vocabulary - A vocabulary list of groundwater-related words and definitions to supplement, Water Is Life Intermediate (Gr 2-3) activity "Where's the Groundwater." | PDF |
"Clean the Water" Vocabulary - A vocabulary list of words and definitions for the "Clean the Water" activity, Advanced (Gr 4-5). | PDF |
Exhibit, Field Day and Classroom Activities (adaptable for all ages)
Healthy Water Hopscotch Activity - Participants in this printable activity learn about their own impacts on the quality of the water. This activity is great for field days, exhibits or school lesson plans.
Additional resources needed: 11"x17" paper for printing.
Water Cycle Spinners - This printable activity goes along with Project WET's "An Incredible Journey" and is great for field days, exhibits or school lesson plans. | PDF |
Additional Water Resources
Urban Water Garden Project - This project, courtesy of Northern Rhode Island Conservation District, has lessons and activities about rain gardens, teaching students what rain gardens are and how they can plant their very own.
Action Class Project on Water Outreach Information – This resource includes interactive sites, water games, videos and lesson plans, articles and quizzes compiled by students in the classes of Peggy Pennington, ACTION Teacher at the Nevada Middle School and Truman Elementary located in Nevada, Montana. The school works with the Vernon County SWCD, and they are past winners of the Lexus and Scholastic Environmental Challenge
Energy Education Resources
Each day we read about the need for energy conservation and alternative energy sources. Energy plays a large role in our daily lives. We need energy to have electricity and run our automobiles. It even takes energy to make our bodies move. Conservation's Power education materials explore these important topics and more. NACD's education booklets and educators guide will assist you in your promotion of wise energy use and its importance to each person.
A Few Facts about Energy
- Almost one-fourth of the energy used in homes is used for lighting and appliances. Lighting is essential to a modern society. Lights have revolutionized the way we live, work, and play.
- America is a nation on the move. About 28 percent of the energy we use goes to transporting people and goods from one place to another.
- Gasoline is used mainly by cars, motorcycles, and light trucks; diesel is used mainly by heavier trucks, buses, and trains. Together, gasoline and diesel make up 86 percent of all the energy used in transportation.
- The first modern wind turbine was built in Vermont in the early 1940s.
- Wind farms currently produce enough electricity to meet the needs of more than 600,000 families in the United States.
- Almost half of the renewable energy produced in the United States comes from biomass sources, like wood and paper products.
- In Iowa and Wisconsin, biomass energy from landfills and dairy farms is being used to make electricity.
Information gathered from Energy Information Administration, the National Energy Education Development Project and Alliant Energy
Energy Education Materials
Energy Educators Guide (PDF) – Energy is an growing topic for education and outreach. This guide will assist in your planning for energy education outreach. Information for youth as well as adults. Provided are links to a variety of energy education material.
Educators Guide Addendum (PDF) – This addendum to the Energy Educator's Guide includes additional links to energy information and energy efficient facts.
NACD Marketplace - NACD has developed student booklets our NACD Marketplace that cover many of the topics in the Energy Educators Guide as well as an activity sheet/placemats and more. Click here to browse the energy education materials available at the NACD Marketplace.
Energy Activities
The activities listed below are for use in classrooms, field days and other outreach events.
Energy Squares - Developed by NEED, the National Energy Education Development Project (www.need.org), this project is suitable for grades K-1, this activity is also adaptable for grade 2-3, 4-12 and for adults.
Energy Bumper Stickers - Developed by NEED (www.need.org), this project is suitable for grades K-1, this activity is also adaptable for grade 2-3, 3-8 and for adults.
This Week in Energy Conservation - Developed by NEED (www.need.org), this project is suitable for grades K-1, this activity is also adaptable for grade 2-3, 4-12 and for adults.
Don't Use it all Up - Developed by FLP, Food, Land & People (www.foodlandpeople.org), this project is suitable for grades K-1, this activity is also adaptable for grade 2-3, 4-5 and for adults.
Additional Energy Resources
The Basics on Renewable Energy - This November/December 2006 NACD News and Views feature story is all about renewable energy. It explores the different sources of renewable energy and its future potential as well as stories of districts who are working with renewable energy.
Homegrown Energy—America's New Power Plants (2007) - The way we farm is rapidly changing rural America and agricultural policy must adapt to new social, economic and environmental forces. Leading the way are clean, renewable biofuels.


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Lost productivity through strikes will have a negative effect on the economy, which drives up the cost of living. It sounds as if they are talking about the 1970s, when British car companies were always on strike, losing orders, not meeting deadlines, and going bankrupt. This is what is meant by 'crippling the country'. Productivity was low, as was quality with all the disruptions, so no one wanted to buy British cars. That's why our car industry disappeared. I presume the use of mothers is to include unmarried workers, to show that all women were affected by the strikes.
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9×12 in. mixed media. Wasn't Sure where I was going with this at first, but after the texture started coming thru the netting, everything started to fit nicely. The under layers in this were vastly different from what the viewer is seeing, but I am sure the results wouldn't have been as nice. The building up of layers to get the netting to settle in gave me a double bang, as they subdued the under layers quite well. Was going to place some dark rub-on fonts in this but the dark pieces of mat-board served the need better and doesn't distract the viewer from the rest of the work. I also used a mat knife to dig thru the layers to add contrast and interest in several needed areas. Why the title? This piece feels like night in a downtown area after a rain storm, some mist, city lights and glares reflecting the urban colors and maybe a photo flash here or there…it would be too easy to say the netting is like metal fencing, not sure about that however the squares the netting creates don't feel organic but more like man-made structures. I don't share this much normally about a work as I want viewers to figure for themselves what a piece says to them,however in this case I couldn't resist…:-)
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Microsoft says that it will have more information on the self-publishing program and how it will work at the upcoming Gamescom in August. It will be very interesting to see what Microsoft has planned for its self-publishing support.
For indie developers their remain a significant number of questions that Microsoft will have to answer. The company has talked about streamlining their certification process to make it take less time and get it down to a two week time frame as developers have been on other platforms. Again details about this are also sketchy at best, but we look for Microsoft to fill in at least some of these blanks at Gamescon.
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Patent Aggressor Microsoft Files EU Complaint Against Google/Motorola For Charging Too Much To License Patents
from the live-by-the-sword dept
Of course it was partly Microsoft's aggressive patent position against Android that put Google in the position of feeling compelled to buy Motorola Mobility to get its patent portfolio, mainly for the sake of protecting itself and having a bunch of patents that it could use as a shield against a lawsuit from the likes of Microsoft. Of course, Microsoft was already suing Motorola over the company's use of Android.
A few weeks ago, we discussed the tough spot that Google was in over Motorola's patents. The company has indicated that would keep in place Motorola's current patent licensing strategy. While many of us would prefer that Google make a big statement by freeing or opening up many of these patents, the company is actually in something of a ridiculous position: if it does that... its competitors (mainly Microsoft) will claim anti-trust violations by saying that the company is using its market position to undercut the prices that other charge.
It's other choice? Keep the current rates. And that's what it's indicated it would do... so the second that the EU and the US approved the merger, Microsoft files this antitrust complaint, arguing that the rates Motorola charges for its patents is too high. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't position for Google. Keep the rates as they are, and they're violating antitrust rules by charging too much. Cut the prices or free up some of the patents, and it's an antitrust issue for leveraging their position and "dumping" in the market.
Of course, Microsoft's almost gleeful blog post about its complaint ignores all of this reality and history, and tries to position it as if Motorola and Google are trying to "kill" web and mobile video by charging too high a royalty rate. Frankly, for anyone who knows anything about Microsoft's patent practices over the past few years, they'll see through this and recognize how laughable Microsoft's claims are.
Either way, the situation is ridiculous. Fighting over patents doesn't help bring any new innovations to market. It just diverts money to the lawyers.


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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - The Westchester County wrestling coach accused of having sexual contact with a minor appeared in court on Tuesday.
Tyler Sick, a 29-year-old Tarrytown man who teaches in New York City and formerly served as an assistant coach at Edgemont High School, appeared in Greenburgh Town Court for a brief appearance.
Sick saw his case adjourned until next month as lawyers continue evaluating evidence and building their cases. Sick is due in court in Tarrytown on Wednesday, where he faces a third-degree rape charge for an unrelated incident.
A complaint that Sick had been involved with illegal sexual contact with a minor led to the investigation conducted by the Special Victims Unit detectives were assisted by the Special Prosecutions Division of the Office of the Westchester County District Attorney, the Westchester County Children's Advocacy Center and the Village of Tarrytown Police.
It is alleged that Sick had sexual contact with the minor for more than a year, beginning in December 2016. The nature of the sexual contact has not been disclosed by officials. Following his arrest, Sick was dismissed from his position as the assistant varsity wrestling coach. He has also been reassigned from his teaching position in the Bronx without pay.
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Last week I wrote a guest post for BookLifeNow where I talked about being aware of your language choices when writing stories set in the future. It's a first step kind of post, covering a few different points, and encouraging writers to think more about the topic. One of the issues I brought up was writing a multi-cultural future:
It's terribly easy to slap on a few "exotic"** words and think you're creating accessible multi-cultural characters but if you don't know what the words mean or how language evolves over time, it sounds slapped on. It shows very quickly that you don't know what you're talking about. Mixing languages gives you a more honest feel, but that means you'll either have phrases your readers don't understand or you have to find a way to explain everything in context.
I gave two examples of this – Firefly, the popular but short-lived scifi television show, and Godzilla, King of the Monsters, the 1956 American reboot of Gojira (the Japanese-language production of the classic rubber suit monster movie). In one, the characters used two languages mixed together in the dialogue, and the other used the original Japanese footage cut together with scenes of a white guy, speaking English, asking "What did he say?" It was my way to help people visualize the difference between having "phrases your readers don't understand", or having to "find a way to explain everything in context".
In that sense, I felt, it worked. But one of the readers rightly argued that Firefly was problematic in its portrayal of Asians (and, I agreed, its treatment of women). What "worked" as an example for my blog post didn't work for the reader, who said:
I, the viewer, was very confused because I kept trying to parse the Mandarin they were speaking. Their diction was, on the whole, terrible. So, no, for me, I did not know what the inserted language meant. (And what's so wrong with subtitles? If we had subtitles, we could have had a more realistic portrayal of the integration of English and Mandarin rather than the derogatory portrayal of Mandarin as being "that language you swear with.") …. to me, the way it used Mandarin is symptomatic of those problems, not separate from them.
In that sense, no, Firefly doesn't work at all. I meant it in a different way than it was taken, but there are times when intention doesn't matter as much as what actually got said, and this is one of them. My motivation for writing the post was to get people thinking about their language choices, particularly as it pertains to race, and this is all part of that conversation. It's a conversation we should be having, not just about a show that was cancelled a decade ago, but about how we write fiction now. A few places to start:
Mike Le asks some important questions in Frustrations of an Asian American Whedonite (there's video of Le asking that question at Comic Con and Whedon's response here).
You can download and read Jennie Fong's paper "Stuck in a Blender: Genre and Racial Hybridity in Joss Whedon's Firefly", which suggests that:
Instead of a completely blended East-West culture, Firefly only persisted in detaching Asian cultural signifiers from their cultural significance. By blurring distinctions among the different Asian ethnicities and borrowing from Asian cultures without acknowledging the population, Firefly fell into the trap of cultural appropriation rather than cultural blending.
and that this actually influenced the network's decision to cancel the show.
Thea Lim points out Whedon's tendency to put Asian characters in the background in her essay for Racialicious.
And someone put together a brilliant Firefly recast showing the characters portrayed by Asian actors (found on tumblr). Very fine actors on that list.
Look, it's easy to get defensive when our words get taken in a different way than we'd like, but do you want to be right, or do you want to be better? I'm going to keep working on my writing, and the way I talk about writing, which means getting a few things right and acknowledging when I don't. Hopefully you'll all stick around, and we can work on these issues together.


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Mavericks Maul Wolves Sunday Night At Target Center
The Timberwolves woes continued with a blowout loss at home against an average Dallas team.
The Timberwolves were blown out by the Mavericks 100-77 Sunday night at Target Center in Minneapolis. The Wolves are now 21-39 on the season.
Derrick Williams led the Timberwolves with 18 points and JJ Barea contributed 16 in the loss. Minnesota shot just 36% from the floor and 11% from three point range.
The Wolves host San Antonio on Tuesday night.


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Andrew Solomon on Horizontal Identities, Extreme Difference and Connectedness, and Sexuality
Andrew Solomon with his spouse and son. (Photo by M. Sharkey)
National Book Award winner Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree has the feel of a book that opens up a new way of looking at something so usual, one sees it for the first time.
People who bear children have told me (a woman whose biological clock ticked only once for about five minutes when I was 35) that being a parent is the definitive event of their lives, forever changing and shaping their destiny and sense of self. Far From the Tree, through interviews with over 300 families, explores the nature of the familial bond between parents and children whose identities render them different — both from the parental lineage, and from the culture at large. Chapters on autism, schizophrenia, deafness, dwarfism, disability, and prodigies detail how parents and families have coped with the fall-out of what Mr. Solomon calls "horizontal" identities.
Readers will be familiar with the idea of deaf culture perhaps — the phenomenon in which a medical diagnosis is embraced as a vibrant and worthy aspect of one's being, and not endured as a condition of impairment. What happens when one applies that sensibility to mental illness, autism, gender, even the tendency toward crime?
Like others, I was at first cowed by the 700-page text, with its additional 200 pages of meticulous notes. But those experiencing similar awe should know that each of the book's 12 chapters can be read individually, as manageable courses one can digest while making a long meal of the book itself. It's a surprisingly rapid read, both because of Solomon's variously droll, insightful, and heart-breaking prose, and because the writing encodes the deep and respectful — even loving — relationships he seems to have developed with the book's sources, the parents of children who are different, and the children they love.
I found the stories deeply reassuring. They offer a kind of moral lesson for all of us at sea in a world of confusing and sometimes alarming diversity: that is, even extreme difference does not require us to sacrifice connectedness. As we confront our own warring subjectivities about what is normal, what is unnatural or unnatural, and even what values inform those concepts, Mr. Solomon shows us that we can and do still belong to each other. He agreed to take a few questions via email:
You write about your own difference as one of the reasons you undertook this book. As a gay man, who is now a father yourself, were there things you learned about yourself as a result of this work?
I've often heard people give a date when they came out of the closet — when they turned what had been secret into public information. And I used to say that I had come out in my twenties, giving the process a full decade. There was admitting it to myself, admitting it to the people I slept with, admitting it to my parents, admitting it to friends.
I moved in with my first serious boyfriend when I was 24, and then I thought the information was out, but when I published a novel that dealt with my sexuality and began doing readings, I found that I hadn't yet reckoned with what it meant to be full open with the world, and the process was part of what knocked me down into depression. I come out of the closet every day. I go to a doctor's office and tick the "married" box on some medical form and brace myself for the possibility that the nursing staff holds prejudices against people like me; I sit next to someone on an airplane who asks whether I have children and find myself having to explain; I get to know a bunch of gang members in researching Far From the Tree and have to tell them at some point about who I am and what my life looks like.
I'd hoped that this book would take care of the coming out forever, that I wouldn't have to do it any more. What it taught me instead is that we are all constantly coming out about one thing or another, that my experience of coming out as a gay man is part of a vast web of people negotiating the tension between their acknowledged and unacknowledged selves. Understanding that made me less self-pitying, and perhaps less self-aggrandizing, and certainly less sad. I felt that I was part of a human fabric of struggle, that my highly personal experience was part of a larger collective experience. Knowing that made it much easier to tolerate.
I think, also, that the book made me more forgiving. One tends to be most forgiving of the things for which one needs forgiveness oneself, and unforgiving of what is foreign and strange, and now almost nothing is foreign and strange to me. If that doesn't make me a better father, I don't know what will.
Your chapter on autism, with its exploration of the controversial neurodiversity movement, was able to present all sides of that issue — that autism is an identity which the world should welcome and adapt to, and that it is a diagnosis that entails suffering, impairment, and loss. Where did your personal views of this end up after all of the research?
I know this sounds like a cop-out, but my personal view ended up being that this is a very complicated area and that one person's affliction is another person's identity. I definitely came to believe in the deep worth of the autistic experience, and I think we would impoverish the world if we were to eliminate it. I also met many people with autism in whom it seemed to engender (or at least be accompanied by) suffering. I do think there's a difference between having some capacity for communication and having none, and that people without communication have difficult lives.
Autism isn't my way of thinking; I am not neurodiverse in that sense. But I ended up thinking that much as I am happy with my own life despite the characteristic of being gay, which seems alienating to many straight people, many people with autism are content in who they are and how they think. And I think we have an obligation to respond to those people's self-esteem with respect.
The chapters on children of rape and criminality seemed different to me in nature from the other chapters. I find it harder to describe that part of the book, and harder to think about it. How did you decide to include those chapters? And, do you think they raise somewhat different questions?
Part of my objective in writing this book was to say that these impediments to love, these forms of difference, reflected not only the child's unusual genome, but also that child's point of origin or type of behavior. I wanted to ensure that people understand the true complexity of this idea of a child who is "different" — that the difference can take many forms. Additionally, I wanted to look from the perspective of the child. While we have a social impetus to treat criminality as an illness, we are dishonest if we don't acknowledge it as an identity as well. And for children conceived in rape, the difficulty is often that they experience themselves as different without understanding the nature of that difference — that they cannot seek community because their identity goes unacknowledged.
Of the many ways these stories instruct us (how to be brave, how to be steadfast, how to surrender, how to accept limitation, how to give up) were there particular instructions you took to heart, or that you would recommend to others?
I needed the span of the book fully to answer that question, but the essential messages are that people dealing with all these situations are less alone than they imagine — less alone insofar as there is community around each of these topics, and less alone in that each of these individual topics has so much in common with the others. Community is an essential part of healing. Any aspect of any person can be seen as an illness (negatively) or as an identity (positively). Holding onto that reality, even in the moments of shock when it seems implausible, is a key way of coping with problems that may look very intimidating.
At the presentation you gave in St. Paul, Minnesota, which I attended, the crowd sat forward on their chairs. There is a sense for many of us who read it that you are telling our stories. You are bringing certain things out of the closet we have been unable to say for ourselves. Do you see that also? And, what is that like for you?
It's the most gratifying thing in the world. I hope the book will serve in its tiny way to make a kinder and more tolerant world. If I can help people to experience their own lives anew, to see meanings they had not previously noted, then I'll feel like I have been doing my job. I lived with a big secret — my sexuality — for years, and casting off that burden of secrecy was the great liberation of my adulthood. I hope that others, in reading the book, will feel empowered to redirect the enormous energy that keeping secrets requires, and will be able to use that energy to build rich and productive lives.


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"We don't want teachers who just lecture and leave. I tell my teachers: 'first we have to really get to know and respect the students; then teach them'. Accompaniment comes first", said Falah Matti, an Iraqi refugee and the Director of the school.
The school is based at a Greek Catholic school, which operates as a public school during the mornings. Since 2009, JRS has held afternoon courses there. Four days a week, yellow buses drive refugees and local students from all across the city to the school.
Lessons take place in the afternoon and evening. The afternoon classes are usually frequented by Iraqis, Syrians and Jordanians. While the evening classes are taken by Somalis and Sudanese, most of whom work in the informal labour market, doing jobs others refuse to do.
The staff comprise 30 volunteer teachers. They teach English language, conversation and computer skills. As many of the teachers are refugees, they are prohibited from undertaking paid employment, a big change for a person like Abu Hassan who was a headmaster before he fled Iraq.
Coping with change. In the last three years the number of students has increased from 35 Iraqi refugees to 600 students, mostly women, from a wide variety of countries, including Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Somalia and Sudan. In three years more than 3,000 students have successfully completed courses and graduated from the school.
The rapid expansion of the school is a clear sign not just of the demand for education, but of success. Many schools offer vocational training courses, but they are expensive and without any quality guarantees.
"We have a good reputation…The number of students has increased without any advertisement. We respect certain rules, choose our teachers carefully and offer a friendly environment", said Mr Matti, known to his friends and students as Abu (or the father of) Hassan, a title conferred on him as a sign of respect.
Under Abu Hassan, the school celebrates success and listens to the views of the students.
Those who complete the courses successfully receive a certificate at a graduation party. In addition, all students are asked to give their suggestions and opinion on the quality of the lessons.
"We ask them to fill in a questionnaire at the end of each year. The results are presented to everyone, so they realise that their opinion is valuable for us and we respect it. It boosts their self-confidence", explains Abu Hassan.
Integration. A cursory glance at this heterogeneous group of students together – chatting, making friends, learning new skills – demonstrates the value of this approach.
When the bell rings and students gather in the school yard to play soccer, enjoy an Arabic coffee or simply chat, the friendly atmosphere is evident. In the evening, the classrooms are packed with students, young and old. The younger ones are taken care of in the childcare room downstairs while mothers attend lessons.
"We teach the students that we belong to one human family. Politics and religion are a red line. We don't avoid these topics but whenever students talk about them, it has to be with an attitude of mutual respect. You can express your personal opinion but whoever starts a fight, be it verbal or physical, has to leave," explained Abu Hassan.
Uncertainty. Despite the success, the drop-out rate from the courses is extremely high, 35 percent. The uncertainty of the lives of refugees makes delivery services extremely complex.
Resettlement to a third country, such as Australia, Canada or the US, is the main cause of drop-outs. Abu Hassan knows this only too well; today his family is spread across the globe, with daughters in Australia and Greece, and a son in Germany. All the while he and his wife are still in Jordan, awaiting resettlement.
Others drop out because they find a job or enrol in UN-sponsored activities, such as vocational training, for which they receive an allowance for attendance.
"Many students have been resettled. Some stay in touch, they call or email", says Abu Hassan.
Ashrafiyeh restores a sense of normality to the lives of refugees; although some students remain in classes for only a brief period, the social and educational benefits will continue for some time to come.
Angelika Mendes, JRS International Fundraising Coordinator
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The region is particularly interesting from the perspective of wine tourism because they make wine like this nowhere else in the world. The difficult but noble nebbiolo grape is used in Langhe to make two of the best wines in the world, Barbaresco and Barolo, "the king of wines and the wine of kings". There have been attempts to export the grape, but so far the resulting wine has failed to reach the quality of the nebbiolo wines of Langhe.
Other interesting red wines include barbera and the simpler dolcetto. White wines are not as famous, but among others arneis and chardonnay are produced. There are also unusual local varieties such as freisa, used to make a lightly sparkling red wine, and grignolino. The moscato grape is used to make above all a low-alcohol dessert wine.
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There are few important sights. But as the region is hilly, it offers some great views. Good places to admire them are La Morra and the castle in Grinzane Cavour (housing the regional wine cellar and a restaurant).
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If you are really interested in wine, it pays off to go visit a producer for a tour and a tasting. Like everywhere, visiting wineries in the Langhe is like visiting a working farm. It is a good idea to call ahead before you show up, but it may be possible to taste wine without an appointment at some wineries.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 10, 2010) - Coming off a turbulent Florida road swing this past weekend, the ETSU women's basketball team returns home to the friendly confines of the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center when the Lady Bucs host Mercer on Thursday night. Tip is set for 7 p.m.
The Lady Bucs, who are currently 8-0 at home this season, sit 1.5 games behind Florida Gulf Coast for first-place in the Atlantic Sun Standings at 14-8, 12-2. Ironically, ETSU's last loss in
Since that setback back on Feb. Feb. 28, ETSU has dominated its opponents in the dome - winning on average of 18.6 points per game. Over this impressive streak, two games have been decided by five points, while the remaining six have been determined by 18 points or more. Four Lady Buccaneer players are averaging double figures at home with senior and A-Sun scoring leader TaRonda Wiles (
After suffering a 37-point loss at
Meanwhile, Mercer is coming off a tough 87-78 home loss to USC Upstate on Monday night, and enter Thursday's contest with an 11-12, 8-6 record. The Bears, who are the host of the 2010 General Shale Brick Atlantic Sun Women's Basketball Tournament, are still fighting for one the top two seeds in the single-elimination tournament.
Mercer is led by senior guard Courtney Ford, who ranks second in the league in scoring (17.7), fourth in rebounding (8.2) and fifth in assists (4.2). In addition, fellow senior LaToya Jackson ranks seventh in scoring (13.5) and is coming off a 23-point, 4-assist effort against the Spartans on Monday night.
The series between these two programs is tied a nine apiece with the Lady Bucs taking the last meeting, 81-60, back on Jan. 9 in
Fans unable to attend the game on Thursday can catch all the action online courtesy of ASun.TV. To access ASun.TV and live stats, please click on the links above.
In addition, ETSU students who attend Thursday's contest - along with a handful of selected Lady Buccaneer games - will have a chance to win a Nintendo Wii and enter a drawing for a $1,000 cash giveaway, which will be announced at the last regular season game on Feb. 22. Each time ETSU students attend a Lady Buccaneer game, they will have an opportunity to enter the drawing for more chances to win the cash prize at the end of the season against USC Upstate.
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Our recent dog sled "races"
After months and months of big time training both for myself and the dogs we finally have raced a couple 'races' ( fundraising races)
The classes were 2 dog or one dog races so I couldn't run my entire team but we went out and did our best.
First weekend we ran the 1km track in 9 minutes and a bit ( it took the fast more motivated dogs 3 minutes lol)
I was super proud of my guys, Elmo did amazing as did Karma. they pulled their little hearts out at a brisk walk lol.
Here we are coming up to the finish line
For some reason the dogs decided to stop AT the line to say hi to the guy running the timer lol
"Oh yeah, we forgot... keep going"
We came in 10th out of 13 teams which is SUPER amazing to me
Last weekend we ran another race, the snow was super fluffy and deep on the trail which made it really hard. This time I ran Elmo and Marv and lent Karma to another driver who only had one dog. Karma did great with her new buddy that she had just met, Their time was worse than mine but I was so proud that Karma could go on another team with a dog who really had no idea what he was doing and work it out.
Elmo and Marv did really well, even though the trails were rough and our time was 10 minutes and some ( plus we stopped twice to pick up a camera and car keys dropped by another racer) we did far better in my eyes due to condition. This time we were 9th out of 12 teams, Karma was 10th with her team.
There was a race after that was the "anything goes" race so I got to hook 3 of them up for it. As you can see they run MUCH better in their places and together.
Elmo takes his job really seriously as the lead dog... "Be the lead dog, I am a lead dog"
I do have to have a little talk with him about sportsmanship though, when I told them that they didn't win again he was quite upset with this lol
"So, you're telling me we STILL didn't win"
I'm very sad to see all the snow leaving, this has been a great winter for us and having something that all of us can do together several times a day and still keep learning and getting better. I'm really looking forward to fall training now and next winters races
I have been officially bitten by the dog sledding bug
Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyways. ~John Wayne
Great pics, Erykah!! And don't you worry about it, Elmo--you're all winners in the Pack's eyes!!
"We are--each of us--dying; it's how we live in the meantime that makes the difference."
"It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived!"
"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
Wonderful pictures and great storyline Erykah. That Elmo sure does look like quite the little character.
Thanks for sharing.
A dog wags his tail with his heart
Dogs have Masters--Cats have Staff
Rest in Peace Bailey: 12/10/95-1/9/09 (Golden Retriever)
Rest in Peace Kitty: 7/1/2000 - 10/7/2013
Rest in Peace Gryphon (sounds like Griffin): 10/15/2004 - 11/18/2017 (English Springer Spaniel)
Bella: 3/09/2005 LHD Cat adopted by/from Child
Mollie: 6/2/2009 (English Setter)
So much fun to do stuff with your doggies!!! I miss agility classes. Lovely pack you have there!!!!
OMG Erykah,LOVE the look on Elmos face in the last pic,poor pup
"The cruelest animal is the Human animal"
3 kitties,Rocky(r.i.p my boy),Chico,Vinnie
Don't know how I missed this thread earlier, because I love pics of your pack in action. I love Elmo's pout and your captions. Too cute. He sure does take that job seriously!
If I showed him how and asked him to do it that boy would run through a wall if I told him to. I have never had a dog with as much work ethic as he has. I love it. He has the brains and the energy that makes him excel at anything I throw at him (except for swimming last year but this year he has a fancy new life jacket to keep him a float)
Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyways. ~John Wayne
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HUNTINGTON BEACH – A single-car crash in Huntington Beach today left a man and a woman dead, police said.
The pair died at the scene of the crash, which occurred about 5:20 a.m. at Ellis Avenue and Main Street, said Huntington Beach police Lt. Gary Faust. The names of the dead were withheld, pending notification of their relatives.
According to the preliminary investigation, a Honda sedan was traveling westbound on Ellis Avenue at a high rate of speed when it failed to negotiate a turn at Main Street, just west of Beach Boulevard, and crashed into a palm tree, Faust said. There were no survivors.
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By Patrick C. Dittamo
Title: Roderic Simpson papers, 1937-1984
Primary Creator: Simpson, Roderic (1922-)
Extent: 3.0 Linear Feet
Arrangement: This collection is arranged into 3 series by type of material: 1) Papers, circulars, and printed materials, 1937-1984, undated; 2) Film and slides, 1938-1940, undated; 3) Books and artifacts, 1949-1981.
Date Acquired: 01/27/2017
Subjects: Kansas life and culture - Agriculture and rural life
Languages: English
Roderic Simpson, born in 1922, worked in cooperative agriculture. He was among the first to complete a pilot program under the aegis of the United States Department of Agriculture through Dodge City Community College (previously Dodge City Junior College) and received a certification in lieu of a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture, making him eligible to be a county Extension Service Agent. This program entailed 60 credit hours of science coursework at Dodge City Community College followed by three years of employment under the supervision of an Extension Agent.
After completing the certification, he worked for three months as Gray County Extension Agent in Cimarron, Kansas before receiving his draft notice in December 1944. After serving in the Navy, Simpson was brought on by his father to a series of cooperative projects in Mullinville, Kansas. Galvanized by the attacks of the National Tax Equality Association on cooperatives, he embarked on a career in cooperative agriculture.
Roderic Simpson began working in a management position at a general purpose cooperative in Peetz, Colorado; and then transitioned into work as a fieldman in eastern Nebraska and western Wyoming for the CCA (Consumers Cooperative Association, predecessor of Farmland Industries). He then worked for the Dodge City Cooperative Exchange for 15 years as a local cooperative fieldman, and later joined FAR-MAR-CO in 1971 as a territory fieldman based out of Hutchinson, Kansas.
Repository: Morse Department of Special Collections
Access Restrictions: No access restriction: All materials are open for research.
Use Restrictions: The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
Physical Access Note: Original materials available during open hours of repository and any digitized materials that are online are available with Internet access.
Technical Access Note: Collection contains materials that are not accessible without proper technology.
Acquisition Source: Roderic Simpson
Acquisition Method: Collection materials were donated to Special Collections through the Arthur Capper Cooperative Center connected with K-State's Agricultural Economics Department.
Appraisal Information: Materials supplement and closely align with FAR-MAR-CO and Farmland Industries collections in Kansas life and culture collecting areas.
Preferred Citation: [Item title], [item date], Roderic Simpson papers, Box [number], Folder [number or title], Morse Department of Special Collections, Kansas State University Libraries.
Processing Information: Patrick C. Dittamo, graduate student at Kansas State University, processed the collection, and curator David Allen reviewed it, in July 2017.
Other Note: URL provided to interview on Youtube by Seliese Barrett of the Arthur Capper Cooperative Center with Roderic Simpson (first interviewee) and John Minor.
Other URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OijMkTNmnAM&feature=youtu.be
Repurposed HyVee Fiber Nuts ceral box.
Label reads: "Union Oil Co. 1930s
Consumers CoOp Assn. [Association]
Archives Film 1940s
Roderic Simpson"
Hardback. Bound materials, including:
Dodge City Cooperative Exchange Newsletter, Vol. 1 No. 1 (1959) to Vol. 12 No. 1 (1971)
Assorted correspondence (1961)
"Fifty Year History of the Dodge City Cooperative Exchange," undated
"Hanston History," E.D. (Ed) Miller, undated
"Address prepared for 50th anniversary / Dodge City (Kansas) Cooperative Exchange / April 6 1965," Howard A. Cowden, 1965
Hardback. Bound collection of circulars, including:
Leaflet, "Milestones in Helping Farmers Build Cooperatives" (1964) 1p, r+v
Information 48, FCS, USDA (1965); "Cooperatives- Partners in America Life" 24 p.
Educational Aid 7, FCS, USDA (1966); "Cooperatives: One of Four Kinds of Business Firms" 8 p.
FCS Circular 31 (1962); "Helping Farmers Build Cooperatives: The Evolution of Farmer Cooperative Service," 82 p.
Educational Circular 19, FCS, USDA (1965); "Sample Legal Documents for New Cooperatives," 27 p.
Bulletin Reprint 3, FCS, USDA (1965); "Basic Cooperative Features," 11 p.
Bulletin 758, California Agricultural Experiment Station (1957); "The Principles of Cooperation and Their Relation to Success or Failure," 32 p.
Bulletin Reprint 4, FCS, USDA (1965); "Agricultural Cooperation: Pioneer to Modern," 23 p.
Educational Circular 17, FCS, USDA (1963); "Managing Farmer Cooperatives," 15 p.
Educational Circular 24, FCS, USDA (1965); "What Cooperative Members Should Know," 10 p.
Educational Circular 21, FCS, USDA (1965); "Assuring Democratic Election of Cooperative Directors," 14 p.
Educational Circular 26, FCS, USDA (1966); "Recognizing the Ideal Cooperative Director," 9 p.
Educational Circular 22, FCS, USDA (1965); "Creating Training Programs for Cooperative Directors," 14 p.
Educational Circular 23, FCS, USDA (1965); "Using Cooperative Directors to Strenghen Member Relations," 8 p.
Educational Circular 25, FCS, USDA (1965); Directors of Cooperatives and Their Wives - A Good Member Relations Team," 11 p.
Bulletin Reprint 5, FCS, USDA (1965); "Communications Vital to Cooperatives," 14 p.
Educational Circular 27, FCS, USDA (1966); "Should Cooperatives Tighten Membership Requirements," 10 p.
Information 21, FCS, USDA (1961); "Providing Equitable Treatment for Large & Small Members" 31 p.
Information 47, FCS, USDA (1965); "Adjusting Farm Supply Cooperatives to Member Needs in the 1970's" 12 p.
Bulletin 777, California Agricultural Experiment Station (1961); "The Role of Mergers in the Growth of Agricultural Cooperatives," 65 p.
"Youth and Cooperatives," American Institute of Cooperation (1966), 28 p.
"Youth and the Future of Cooperatives," American Institute of Cooperation (1965), 26 p.
Circular 36, Farm Credit Administration (1965); "The Cooperative Farm Credit System… Functions & Organization," 22 p.
Circular 7, Farm Credit Administration (1963); "Federal Intermediate Credit Banks …How They Operate," 16 p.
Circular 35, Farm Credit Administration (1965); "Federal Land Bank System …How It Operates," 29 p.
Circular 37, Farm Credit Administration (1963); "Production Credit Associations …How They Operate," 11 p.
Circular 40, Farm Credit Administration (1967); "Banks for Cooperatives …How They Operate," 15 p.
Bulletin 450, Agricultural Experiment Station, KSU (1962); "A Decade of Farmer Cooperation in Kansas," 21 p.
Paperback. Jamestown, North Dakota: Farmers Union Education Service
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It's Saturday Night again -- and time for more Genealogy Fun!!!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) Use the Population Counter on the BBC News website to determine your place in the current world population, and your place in all of history (of course, these are estimates...see the website for how they calculated this). Enter your birth date into the fields and click on "Go."
2) Tell us about your results in your own blog post, as a Comment on this blog post, or as a status line in Facebook or a Stream post on Google Plus. For extra credit, show us the image from the website with your information on it.
Here's mine:
When I was born, I was number 3,392,183,111 (and take with a grain of salt, these are all estimates based on a number of factors). Since I was born, the population of Earth has more than doubled. In my lifetime. That's redundant, but I think it's an impressive thing to say.
77,340,061,230 people came before me. Seventy-Seven Billion. That's a lot of people. How many are in your genealogy database? Mine currently has about 5,500. I wonder where they figure the first person was - what made that one the first person? I'm assuming the people making this are evolutionists, so which proto-human was good enough to call the first Person? If they're Creationists, is Adam #1? And have we had time to have 77 billion people since Adam?
Randy is giving bonus points (where can I redeem those?) for including a screen shot of our numbers.
This and all other articles on this blog are © copyright 2011 by Daniel G. Dillman


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Form Validation in Custom Forms
When you create a custom form you may want to have code behind to evaluate the user's data entry based on some business logic before the object is created/updated. To demonstrate how to do this I have extended the Service Request CodePlex project to provide a simple example of form validation. In the code behind… Read more


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In the Matter of
Leonard L. Zanello, Sr.,
ORDER INSTITUTING ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(b) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, MAKING FINDINGS, AND IMPOSING REMEDIAL SANCTIONS
The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") deems it appropriate and in the public interest that public administrative proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted pursuant to Section 15(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") against Leonard L. Zanello, Sr. ("Zanello" or "Respondent").
In anticipation of the institution of these proceedings, Respondent has submitted an Offer of Settlement (the "Offer") which the Commission has determined to accept. Solely for the purpose of these proceedings and any other proceedings brought by or on behalf of the Commission, or to which the Commission is a party, and without admitting or denying the findings herein, except as to the Commission's jurisdiction over him and the subject matter of these proceedings, and the findings contained in Section III. 2 below, which are admitted, Respondent consents to the entry of this Order Instituting Administrative Proceedings Pursuant to Section 15(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Making Findings, and Imposing Remedial Sanctions ("Order"), as set forth below.
On the basis of this Order and Respondent's Offer, the Commission finds that:
1. Zanello is a resident of Coral Springs, Florida. During 1999, Zanello acted as an unregistered broker.
2. On February 26, 2003, an order of permanent injunction and other relief was entered by consent against Zanello, permanently enjoining him from future violations of Sections 5(a), 5(c), and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act"), Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder, and Section 15(a) of the Exchange Act, in the civil action entitled Securities and Exchange Commission v. Leonard L. Zanello, Sr., Ihor A. "Gary" Humesky, Steven B. Rodd and Robert F. Broege, Jr., Civil Action File Number 1:02-CV-3308 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The order of permanent injunction against Zanello directed that Zanello shall pay disgorgement, prejudgment interest thereon, and a civil penalty in amounts to be resolved upon motion of the Commission at a later date. The order of permanent injunction provides that for purposes of disgorgement, prejudgment interest and the civil penalty, the allegations of the Commission's complaint shall be deemed to be true, and Zanello may not, by way of defense, contend that the disgorgement, prejudgment interest and the civil penalty should not be imposed.
3. The Commission's complaint alleged that, during 1999, Zanello and others, fraudulently offered and sold securities of LinkTel Communications, Inc. ("LinkTel") in unregistered transactions. The LinkTel investment program consisted of (a) the purchase of a pay phone, (b) leaseback agreement in which the investor leased the pay phone back to LinkTel and (c) LinkTel's offer to "buy back" the pay phones from the investor at the end of the lease. The agreements obligated LinkTel to manage the pay phones, pay annual returns of 12% to 14% and then repurchase the phones. The complaint further alleged that LinkTel and its promoters raised more than $6.4 million from over 270 investors and that the investment program was a Ponzi scheme. The complaint also alleged that in offering and selling LinkTel securities, Zanello and others misrepresented that LinkTel was a profitable company and that LinkTel investments were fully insured and safe. In fact, the company was losing money and insolvent and was not fully insured or safe. The complaint alleged that Zanello thereby violated Sections 5(a) and 5(c) of the Securities Act [15 U.S.C. §§ 77e(a) and 77e(c)], Section 17(a) of the Securities Act [15 U.S.C. § 77q(a)], Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act [15 U.S.C. § 78j(b)] and Rule 10b-5 thereunder [17 C.F.R. § 240.10b-5], and Section 15(a)(1) of the Exchange Act [15 U.S.C. § 78o(a)(1)]. Zanello consented to the entry of the order of permanent injunction without admitting or denying the allegations contained in the Commission's complaint, except as to jurisdiction and venue.
In view of the foregoing, the Commission deems it appropriate and in the public interest to impose the sanctions specified in Respondent Zanello's Offer.
Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED:
Pursuant to Section 15(b)(6) of the Exchange Act, that Respondent Zanello be, and hereby is, barred from association with any broker or dealer.
Any reapplication for association by the Respondent will be subject to the applicable laws and regulations governing the reentry process, and reentry may be conditioned upon a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the satisfaction of any or all of the following: (a) any disgorgement ordered against the Respondent, whether or not the Commission has fully or partially waived payment of such disgorgement; (b) any arbitration award related to the conduct that served as the basis for the Commission order; (c) any self-regulatory organization arbitration award to a customer, whether or not related to the conduct that served as the basis for the Commission order; and (d) any restitution order by a self-regulatory organization, whether or not related to the conduct that served as the basis for the Commission order.
For the Commission, by its Secretary, pursuant to delegated authority.
By the Commission.
Jonathan G. Katz
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Dear MySQL users, MySQL 5.5.30 is a new version of the 5.5 production release of the world's most popular open source database. MySQL 5.5.30 is recommended for use on production systems. MySQL 5.5 includes several high-impact enhancements to improve the performance and scalability of the MySQL Database, taking advantage of the latest multi-CPU and multi-core hardware and operating systems. In addition, with release 5.5, InnoDB is now the default storage engine for the MySQL Database, delivering ACID transactions, referential integrity and crash recovery by default. MySQL 5.5 also provides a number of additional enhancements including: - Significantly improved performance on Windows, with various Windows specific features and improvements - Higher availability, with new semi-synchronous replication and Replication Heartbeat - Improved usability, with Improved index and table partitioning, SIGNAL/RESIGNAL support and enhanced diagnostics, including a new Performance Schema monitoring capability. For a more complete look at what's new in MySQL 5.5, please see the following resources: MySQL 5.5 is GA, Interview with Tomas Ulin: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/interviews/thomas-ulin-mysql-55.html Documentation: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-nutshell.html Whitepaper: What's New in MySQL 5.5: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/introduction-to-mysql-55.html If you are running a MySQL production level system, we would like to direct your attention to MySQL Enterprise Edition, which includes the most comprehensive set of MySQL production, backup, monitoring, modeling, development, and administration tools so businesses can achieve the highest levels of MySQL performance, security and uptime. http://mysql.com/products/enterprise/ For information on installing MySQL 5.5.30 on new servers, please see the MySQL installation documentation at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/installing.html For upgrading from previous MySQL releases, please see the important upgrade considerations at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/upgrading.html MySQL Database 5.5.30 is available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our download pages at: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ The following section lists the changes in the MySQL source code since the previous released version of MySQL 5.5. It may also be viewed online at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-30.html Enjoy! Changes in MySQL 5.5.30 (5 Feb, 2013) Known limitations of this release: On Microsoft Windows, when using the MySQL Installer to install MySQL Server 5.5.30 on a host with an existing MySQL Server of a different version (such as 5.6.10), that also has a different license (community versus commercial), you must first update the license type of the existing MySQL Server. Otherwise, MySQL Installer will remove MySQL Server(s) with different licenses from the one you chose with MySQL Server 5.5.30. On Microsoft Windows 8, updating a community release to a commercial release requires you to manually restart the MySQL service after the update. Functionality Added or Changed * InnoDB: The innodb_print_all_deadlocks configuration option from MySQL 5.6 was backported to MySQL 5.5. This option records each deadlock (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/glos_deadlock.html) condition in the MySQL error log, allowing easier troubleshooting if frequent deadlocks point to application coding issues. (Bug #14515889) * In RPM packages built for Unbreakable Linux Network, libmysqld.so now has a version number. (Bug #15972480) Bugs Fixed * InnoDB; Performance: Some data structures related to undo logging could be initialized unnecessarily during a query, although they were only needed under specific conditions. (Bug #14676084) * InnoDB; Performance: Optimized read operations for compressed (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/glos_compression.html) tables by skipping redundant tests. The check for whether any related changes needed to be merged from the insert buffer (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/glos_insert_buffer.htm l) was being called more often than necessary. (Bug #14329288, Bug #65886) * InnoDB; Performance: Immediately after a table was created, queries against it would not use loose index scans (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/loose-index-scan.html) . The issue went away following an ALTER TABLE on the table. The fix improves the accuracy of the index statistics (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/glos_index_statistics. html) gathered when the table is first created, and prevents the query plan from being changed by the ALTER TABLE statement. (Bug #14200010) * InnoDB; Partitioning: Previously, when attempting to optimize one or more partitions of a partitioned table that used a storage engine that does not support partition-level OPTIMIZE, such as InnoDB, MySQL reported Table does not support optimize, doing recreate + analyze instead, then re-created the entire table, but did not actually analyze it. Now in such cases, the warning message is, Table does not support optimize on partitions. All partitions will be rebuilt and analyzed. In addition, the entire table is analyzed after first being rebuilt. (Bug #11751825) * InnoDB: On systems that cannot handle unaligned memory access, depending on the stack frame alignment, a SIGBUS error could occur during startup. This issue was observed on Solaris 64-bit systems. (Bug #16021177) * InnoDB: The status variable Innodb_buffer_pool_read_ahead_evicted could show an inaccurate value, higher than expected, because some pages in the buffer pool (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/glos_buffer_pool.html) were incorrectly considered as being brought in by read-ahead (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/glos_read_ahead.html) requests. (Bug #15859402, Bug #67476) * InnoDB: Creating an index on a CHAR column could fail for a table with a character set with varying length, such as UTF-8, if the table was created with the ROW_FORMAT=REDUNDANT clause. (Bug #15874001) * InnoDB: The server could halt with an assertion error while creating an index: InnoDB: Assertion failure in thread thread_num in file row0merge.cc line 465 This issue affected tables with a combination of ROW_FORMAT=REDUNDANT off-page columns (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/glos_off_page_column.h tml), and an index on a column prefix (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/glos_column_prefix.htm l). (Bug #14753402) * InnoDB: If the server crashed at a precise moment during an ALTER TABLE operation that rebuilt the clustered index (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/glos_clustered_index.h tml) for an InnoDB table, the original table could be inaccessible afterward. An example of such an operation is ALTER TABLE ... ADD PRIMARY KEY The fix preserves the original table if the server halts during this operation. You might still need to rename the .ibd file manually to restore the original table contents: in MySQL 5.6 and higher, rename from #sql-ib$new_table_id.ibd to table_name.ibd within the database directory; prior to MySQL 5.6, the temporary file to rename is table_name#1 or #2. (Bug #14669848) * InnoDB: An error at the filesystem level, such as too many open files, could cause an unhandled error during an ALTER TABLE operation. The error could be accompanied by Valgrind warnings, and by this assertion message: Assertion `! is_set()' failed. mysqld got signal 6 ; (Bug #14628410, Bug #16000909) * InnoDB: A RENAME TABLE statement could stall for several minutes before timing out. This issue could occurred for a table using compression (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/glos_compression.html) , with change buffering (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/glos_change_buffering. html) enabled. (Bug #14556349) * InnoDB: During shutdown, with the innodb_purge_threads configuration option set greater than 1, the server could halt prematurely with this error: mysqld got signal 11 A workaround was to increase innodb_log_file_size and set innodb_purge_threads=1. The fix was backported to MySQL 5.5 and 5.1, although those versions do not have the innodb_purge_threads configuration option so the error was unlikely to occur. (Bug #14234028) * InnoDB: If the value of innodb_force_recovery was less than 6, opening a corrupted table might loop forever if a corrupted page was read when calculating statistics for the table. Information about the corrupted page was written repeatedly to the error log, possibly causing a disk space issue. The fix causes the server to halt after a fixed number of failed attempts to read the page. To troubleshoot such a corruption issue, set innodb_force_recovery=6 and restart. (Bug #14147491, Bug #65469) * InnoDB: The value of the innodb_version variable was not updated consistently for all server releases for the InnoDB Plugin in MySQL 5.1, and the integrated InnoDB component in MySQL 5.5, 5.6, and higher. Since InnoDB and MySQL Server development cycles are fully integrated and synchronized, now the value returned by the innodb_version variable is the same as for the version variable. (Bug #13463493, Bug #63435) * Partitioning: Concurrent ALTER TABLE ... REBUILD PARTITION operations could interfere with one another, even when not running against the same table, because they both used global memory for storage. Now each partition rebuild operation stores intermediate data in memory that is local to that process. (Bug #14589559, Bug #66645) * Partitioning: Inserting any number of rows into an ARCHIVE table that used more than 1000 partitions and then attempting to drop the table caused the MySQL Server to fail. (Bug #13819630, Bug #64580) * Replication: After dropping a column from the slave's version of a table, then altering the same column of this table on the master (so that a type conversion would have been required had the column not been droppped on the slave), inserts into this table caused replication to fail. (Bug #15888454) * Replication: When a binary log is replayed on a server (for example, by executing a command like mysqlbinlog binlog.000001 | mysql), it sets a pseudo-slave mode on the client connection used, so that the server can read binlog and apply binary log events correctly. However, the pseudo-slave mode was not disabled after the binary log dump was read, which caused unexpected filtering rules to be applied to SQL statements subsequently executed on the same connection. (Bug #15891524) * Replication: When using statement-based replication, and where the master and the slave used table schemas having different AUTO_INCREMENT columns, inserts generating AUTO_INCREMENT values logged for a given table on the master could be applied to the wrong table on the slave. (Bug #12669186) * Replication: Repeated execution of CHANGE MASTER TO statements using invalid MASTER_LOG_POS values could lead to errors and possibly a crash on the slave. Now in such cases, the statement fails with a clear error message. (Bug #11764602, Bug #57454) * Replication: If the disk becomes full while writing to the binary log, the server hangs until space is freed up manually. It was possible after this was done for the MySQL server to fail, due to an internal status value being set when not needed. Now in such cases, rather than trying to set this status, a warning is written in the error log instead. (Bug #11753923, Bug #45449) * Microsoft Windows: Dynamic file names (with colons) are no longer allowed. Static file names using the Alternate Data Stream (ADS) NTFS functionality of Microsoft Windows may continue to be used. (Bug #11761752) * Directory name manipulation could result in stack overflow on Mac OS X and Windows. (Bug #16066243) * Joins of exactly 32 tables and containing a HAVING clause returned an empty result. (Bug #15972635) * A buffer-handling problem in yaSSL was fixed. (Bug #15965288) * A mysys library string-formatting routine could mishandle width specifiers. (Bug #15960005) * In certain cases, UpdateXML() could return NULL incorrectly. (Bug #15948580) References: See also Bug #13007062. * Metadata locking and table definition cache routines did not always check length of names passed to them. (Bug #15954872) * XA START had a race condition that could cause a server crash. (Bug #14729757) * Enabling the query cache during high client contention could cause the server to exit. (Bug #14727815) * There was a performance regression for queries using SELECT ... INTO user variables and a WHERE condition on one or more of the variables in the INTO list. (Bug #14664077) References: This bug was introduced by Bug #12408412. * The server sometimes failed to respect MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR limits on user connections. (Bug #14627287) * Output generated with mysqldump --routines could produce syntax errors when reloaded. (Bug #14463669) * With the thread pool plugin installed, a workload consisting of concurrent KILL statements and ping queries caused the server to exit. (Bug #14458232, Bug #14458002) * CHECK TABLE and REPAIR TABLE could crash if a MyISAM table had a corrupt key (.MYI) file. Now the server produces an error. (Bug #13556107, Bug #13556000) * Passing an unknown time zone specification to CONVERT_TZ() resulted in a memory leak. (Bug #12347040) * For dumps of the mysql database, mysqldump skipped the event table unless the --events option was given. To skip this table if that is desired, use the --ignore-table option instead (Bug #55587, Bug #11762933) * For MEMORY tables with HASH indexes, DELETE sometimes failed to delete all applicable rows. (Bug #51763, Bug #11759445) * The mysql client could mishandle the delimiter command if it occurred on a line during which mysql was looking for the end of a quoted string. (Bug #64135, Bug #13639125) * mysqld_safe used the nonportable -e test construct. (Bug #67976, Bug #16046140) * Configuring the server with performance_schema_events_waits_history_size=0 and performance_schema_events_waits_history_long_size=0 could cause a Performance Schema segmentation fault. (Bug #68008, Bug #16060864) * DECIMAL multiplication operations could produce significant inaccuracy. (Bug #45860, Bug #11754279) * For subqueries executing using a filesort, the optimizer could produce an incorrect result containing wrong rows. (Bug #66845, Bug #14636211) References: See also Bug #12667154. * UNION type conversion could incorrectly turn unsigned values into signed values. (Bug #49003, Bug #11757005) * During the startup process, mysqld could incorrectly remove the PID file of an already running mysqld. (Bug #23790, Bug #11746142) References: See also Bug #14726272. On behalf of the MySQL/ORACLE Build Team, Sunanda Menon
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One key person in the emerging scene is music ambassador and Ocean Beach resident Chris Leyva.
He's a crossover contender. Originally from Mexico, over the last decade, beyond his work as a singer and guitarist, Leyva has emerged as the main man behind music label and promotion company Black Cherry Music Company, establishing himself as a musician, promoter and lobbyist for San Diego music.
Leyva is all over the place; one night at the Grammy's, the next in London recording, then heading to Europe for a tour and back to Ocean Beach for a gig at Mother's Saloon.
It's a whirlwind life, and Leyva said he loves every second of it.
"How could I not?" he asked. "Music is all I've ever wanted to do and I've been lucky to have that happen."
He said it helps to be able to have variety in his life.
"The fact that I'm kind of all over the place helps a bit," he said. "I never get bored or tired of what I'm doing because it changes so much day to day. Sure, it's all music, but some days I'm working with bookings, other days it's songwriting or mentoring, so it's a real range of things that I'm involved in."
While he's proud to be an Ocean Beach resident, he considers himself a citizen of the world.
"OB is my home and I love it," he said. "At the same time, I'm on the road a good portion of the year. Let's put it this way: I'm comfortable anywhere I am, but there's no place like home."
Leyva's love for his adopted hometown is evident in his recent album "Summer of Life," which was released this summer.
"I like to say that Ocean Beach is my co-producer on this one," he said. "I wrote the material here and recorded the whole thing at my home with help from engineer Dan Shannon and lots of others. I was influenced by the way life unfolds in Ocean Beach, both my own and those around me that I observe. As a songwriter — and for me as a citizen — OB is gold."
Prolific to a fault, Leyva is constantly recording. While he is known as a rock performer, his most recent forays have crossed over into EDM (electronic dance music) territory, recently working alongside electronica pioneers Red Flag and rapper Tha Franchise on his new single "Love Is Slow."
"Rock 'n' roll is the core of who I am," Leyva said. "However, there's so much out there to explore. Plus, I meet so many cool people in my travels and I love to collaborate. So it's only natural that I work with new sounds. But I'll always come back to rock 'n' roll. That's what made me want to have a life in music."
Next up for Leyva is recording a follow up to "Summer of Life" and more touring.
"I hope I can do more things in town next year," he said. "I love traveling, but there is a special feeling when you play before a hometown crowd."
He said he's happy with what he's accomplished to date, but is still hoping to take things further.
"Things have been nice, but as far I'm concerned, I'm just getting started," he said.


text: Motorola Announces Photon 4G on Sprint, Triumph on Virgin Mobile This afternoon in New York City, Sprint and Motorola's press event has revealed the Photon 4G, along with the Motorola Triumph on Virgin Mobile pre-paid. Available Photon 4G specs: qHD display dual-core Tegra 2 A gigabyte of RAM The Photon 4G's screen measures in at 4.3 inches Motorola's laptop dock. Gingerbread-running Photon 4G will include a GSM modem for international support. Motorola's Triumph has: 4.1-inch 800x480 WVGA screen Contender for thinnest smartphone, is respectably slender at a hair over a centimeter thick. 512MB of RAM and runs a MSM8655 Snapdragon, presumably at 1GHz. Rear five-megapixel camera for 720p video recording HDMI-out Android2.2 This is the first Motorola Phone on Virgin Mobile, Both the Photon 4G and Triumph will become available this summer. For More Specs:Sprint Newsroom | Motorola Photon 4G fact sheet Source: PocketNow Via:Motorola


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BANGOR, Maine. - MIT women's soccer defeated Husson University 5-0 on Tuesday afternoon, registering its sixth shutout of the season. Senior defender Andrea Park (Irvine, Calif.) scored the first two goals of the day, giving the Engineers a sizeable lead just 30 minutes into the game. MIT are now 10-2-1 for the season, while the Eagles fell to 5-10.
MIT started the game off strongly, making five shots in the first 15 minutes, with all but two of them needing to be saved by goalie Jessica Poulin. The sixth shot finally made it past Poulin when a cross from senior Merricka Livingstone (Palm Bay, Fla.) found Park, who lobbed it into the back of the net in the 20th minute. Less than ten minutes later, Park scored her second goal of the day, and, only a minute and a half later, freshman Jennifer Ibanez (West Windsor, N.J.) scored her third goal of the season, leaving the Cardinal and Gray with a 3-0 lead over Husson with 13 minutes remaining in the half.
Even with a three goal lead, the Engineers continued to fight in the second half as if they were behind, taking shot after shot at net, most of them being saved by keeper Anna Wolterbeek. In the 75th minute, sophomore Ambika Krishnamachar (Darien, Conn.) scored MIT's fourth goal after a pass from freshman Morgan Moroi (New Albany, Ohio). With just 52 seconds left on the clock, sophomore Jessica Ong (Oklahoma City, Okla.) netted MIT's fifth and final goal following a cross from freshman Zara Perumal (Poway, Calif.), ending the game with a Cardinal and Gray victory.
Throughout the 90 minute game, MIT outshot the Eagles, 32-3. Husson goalkeepers had to make eight saves in the first half and seven in the second, while senior Meghan Wright (Devon, Pa.) only had to save three shots total.
MIT will be back at Steinbrenner Stadium for its next game against NEWMAC rival Springfield College on Saturday, Oct. 13 at 1:00 p.m.