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Middletown Police Department will host a daylong training session Saturday for the owners of the town's 1,100 rental properties.
In early 2011, Middletown police began receiving numerous complaints about fights and other criminal activity at a rental property on Franklin Drive.
"We went to that house numerous times for loud music, parties and some really violent activity," Police Chief Henry Tobin said this week. "We were eventually able to track down the landlord, who told us he was really surprised to learn about all the problems we were having. But we brought it to his attention, he took action and eventually the tenants were either evicted or their lease was not renewed."
Tobin said he's hoping to educate more landlords about what they can do to keep their properties from being abused by nuisance tenants.
To that end, Middletown Police Department will host a daylong training session Saturday for the owners of the town's 1,100 rental properties.
During the seminar at the Middletown Fire Department, officials from the Delaware Attorney General's Office will instruct landlords on how they can use criminal background screenings and Fair Housing laws to avoid potential nuisance renters, as well as the legal actions they can take when problems do arise.
"I certainly don't think anyone is out there intentionally renting to bad tenants, but I do think landlords can benefit from learning more about what can be done when they do get them," Tobin said. "That's why we want to educate these property owners about the tools available to them, because they can't just put blinders on and be absentee landlords when their tenants are terrorizing the community."
Rental properties are not the sole source of criminal activity in Middletown, the police chief said.
But when it comes to criminal activity at owner-occupied homes, he said the town has shown it's willing to invoke the state's Criminal Nuisance Abatement Act, which allows the Delaware Department of Justice to pursue a civil lawsuit against home owners that can result in fines of up to $1,000 a day, as well as a court-ordered seizure of their property.
Following a request from Middletown officials, the state attorney general's office pursued just such a suit against the owners of a well-known drug house on Dove Nest Court in 2011 that resulted in a court-ordered seizure of the property and the owners' eviction.
Tobin said the law allows for similar actions to be taken against the owners of rental properties, a process the police chief said he's willing to pursue if local landlords refuse to take action to deal with criminal tenants on their own.
"Right now, we're trying to be proactive by offering education as a carrot, in the hopes of giving the landlords the tools they need to address these issues," he said, adding that future landlord training sessions are being planned. "But if necessary, we will resort to the hammer of the Nuisance Abatement Law. They need to be aware that either they deal with the problem, or we will."

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This image is the equivalent of taking a black and white photo of the earth. The bright areas show where the sun is being reflected back into space as a result of clouds or snow cover. Clouds and snow show up white. The thicker the cloud, the brighter the color. Land surfaces show up as gray and ocean surfaces nearly black. The major limitation to visible imagery is that it is only valid during daylight.
There are 5 sectors for the visible image:
On Thursday, December 14th, NOAA has turned off the current GOES-13 (East) weather satellite and replaced it with the more advanced GOES-16 (GOES-R) satellite. Users will see a gap in the satellite imagery as Unisys works to release an update to the visualization software used to make the satellite images and loops. We hope to have that online by Friday, December 15th.
GOES-16 (GOES-R) Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) sectorized cloud and moisture imagery (SCMI) will be available via NOAAPort starting at around 18:00 UTC on Thursday, March 2. The products, in netCDF 4 format, should be accessible via the GRE channel (PID 108) with the most recent Unisys NOAAPort version 9.4 or 9.5.
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The complete walkthrough as best I remember it -
remember it is from memory so do not complain if I
forgot something. Do complain if I have something
AVOID ALL COMBAT when given a choice. If you must
fight, have everyone follow your lead that way you
can kill monsters faster. Talk to everyone in each
scene. Take everything that you can take.
Part 1 - Shady Vale. You are fishing by a creek when
the program first opens. Take the fishing pole and
take the broken twig on the rocks. Take your
journal. Look in the creek and look at the
reflection. Use the fishing pole on the weeping
willow and you will see something in the tree. Put
the twig on the fishing pole and get the item from
the tree - it is a locket. A play scene will occur
in which Allanon appears and lets you what to do
Part 2 - Trip to Leah. Avoid all monsters on the
trip to Leah. You will encounter the princess of
Leah (Shella) along the way. Move the rock and push
the tree off her with the fishing pole. She is
looking for a missing item which you should give
her. She will accompany you to Leah avoiding
Part 3 Leah. You meet the guard and talk to him.
Talk to the gardener on the way to meeting King
Menion. The King is ill from poison, although no
one knows it. Take the tea cup smell it and take
it to the herb shop in town and give the cup to the
owner. He will tell you the necessary ingredients
to cure the King. Take the bottle of growth potion
from the shop. Use the potion on the dogwood tree
on the left side of the screen in the garden. Take
some blossoms. Enter the main hall and take the
potpourri from the table and read the book. Go
upstairs and take the pot from the brassiere. Pour
the pot on the fire and take some charcoal. Return
to the shop and take the instructions from the dead
owner. Mix the cure and a movie scene will take
over. Allanon will appear and give you your next
directions. Follow Shella into town, talk to the
guard. Shella will give you her locket and tell you
to tell the servant to meet her in the library. Talk
to the servant - he will leave. Use the locket in
the dragon on the shield to open the secret way from
the manor house.
Part 4. The Ferry. You meet the gardener at the
ferry. Talk to him and then shoot him with an
arrow. He will reveal that he is a servant of
Brona. You need to fight 2 monsters - Attack the
closest and tell Shella to do the same. You need to
kill both monsters. After killing the monsters toss
the rope in your supplies onto the rope that holds
the ferry. Pull the ferry to you and have Shella
shoot the break on the opposite side. get on the
ferry and head to Tyrsis.
Part 5 - Tyrsis. When you get to the walled city it
is surrounded by the walking dead. Head to the
right side of the city until you get to the small
hut and Knock. Knock again. Talk to Brendel, give
Brendel some food. Talk to Brendel again and he
will tell you about the Laurel and tell you where
the tree is. Go to the tree, break off a branch and
take it back to Brendel. Go to the Gate and talk to
the guard. Talk to Brendel then - he will return to
his hut and the guard will let you enter town. Talk
to the seneschal, show him the locket. Talk to King
Balinor. Talk to the seneschal. Enter the library.
Look and read the book. Talk to the seneschal and
get him to open the locked bookcase. Take the book
and use the knife on it to get the pact. Enter the
throne room. Look at the throne. Oil the lion head
and push it and take the key. On the wall push the
animal head and use the key in the revealed keyhole.
Push the tapestry on the right side wall to reveal
the secret room. Enter the room and light the
lantern. Light the candles and when you can move
again break the mirror with the sword. Open the
secret drawer and take the Spell. Invoke the spell
of revealing on the book - read the spells. Talk to
the seneschal and then to King Balinor. Watch the
movie scenes. Take the mace and enter the wine
cellar. Put the incense on the floor. Put the Pact
on the floor and the mace. Light the incense.
Invoke the spell of summoning on the pact first and
on the mace next. Talk to Stenmin. Invoke the next
spell on Stenmin. Talk to Stenmin again and he will
tell you the ingredients for the potion to put out
the fire around the sword. Talk to Stenmin and send
him off for good. Take the bottle and a bottle of
wine. Fill the empty bottle from the wine that
turned bad - vinegar. Go to the Laurel tree and
take some leaves. Go to Brendels hut and ask Shella
to get the mistletoe out of the oak tree. Mix the
mistletoe, laurel leaves and rose petals from the
potpourri in the vinegar bottle. Return to the
castle and go the flame area where the sword is.
Pour the potion on the flames. Watch the animated
Part 6. Arborlon. Talk to Lessa. Enter the manor
and talk to Davio. Look at the everything in the
room. Try to start a fire.. Leave the manor. Get
the pot from Brendel and fill it with clay from the
area to the left of the fountain. Put Shella's
scarf in the hole in the fountain. Go left to the
garden area. Remove the vines from the gate. Close
the gate and take the life Rune diamond. Look at
the rune stone in the garden. Go back to the manor
and talk to Davio. Talk to the Prince two times.
Talk to Davio. Leave the manor and go to Lessa at
the entrance scene and talk to Lessa. Use water on
the dark stone on the path. Take the stone. Put the
clay in the diamond impression on the rock on the
left. Put the rock on the clay to make the earth
rune diamond. Take the earth rune diamond. Give
the rope to Lessa and take the ladder. Climb the
ladder and remove the bird nest. Put oil on the
wind vane and turn it. Take the loose shingles.
Climb down and enter the manor. Talk to Davio and
show him the diamond runes you have. Start a fire
in the fireplace. Climb up the ladder and put a
shingle on the chimney diamond shape area. Turn the
weather vane and look at the design. Show Brendel
your journal and he will carve the air rune. Return
the ladder to Lessa. She will give you a ring for
the elf prince. Go talk to Davio and show him the
ring. Talk to the prince and ask him about his
insignia of office. Talk to Davio and the to Lessa.
She will get the last rune from the prince. Take
the rune parts to the rune rock in the garden.
Place the elf rune in first, followed by earth, air,
fire, water and the life rune last. Take the
elfstones. Talk to Davio and show him the stones.
Part 7. The Plains of Streleheim. Fight the
monsters and meet Panamon Creel and Telsek the
troll. Talk to Telsek and Creel. Follow the tracks
to a box canyon. Look around and talk to everyone.
Have Telsek pick up the boulder in front and toss it
at the arch. Fight the monsters - order Davio to
user the elfstones on the leader. otherwise you will
have an endless succession of monsters to fight and
can't win. Order everyone to follow your lead.
Attack and finish off the monsters. Look at the
cave - enter the cave and light the lantern. Talk
to the boy. Show the boy the "writ of passage"
given you by the elf prince. Look at the Black Irix
above the tunnel beam. Talk to the boy. Tie the
rope to the Irix and leave the cave. Give the rope
to Telsek. Go to the plains and look at the war
camps. Enter the troll war camp and talk to the
troll king. Talk to everyone in your party and talk
to the troll king again. Go to the elf war camp and
show the guard the writ of passage. Talk to the
King. Talk to everyone in your party. Talk to the
elf king again. Return to the troll war camp and
talk to the King. They now should have a combat of
challenge doing riddles as weapons. The elf will
give the first riddle. Go to the bluff between the
2 camps look at the nest on the bluff and take the
nest. Give the feather to Telsek. The elf answers
Telsek's first riddle. 2nd riddle go to the troll
camp look in the pot, talk to the chef. Go to the
elf camp and put the fishing pole in the creek - you
need bait. Enter the elf camp and talk to Brendel,
take the wine from him. Return to the troll camp
and talk to the chef. Try to get worms. Trade the
wine for worms Talk to Panamon Creel and take the
helmet from the tent he is in. Return to the Elf
camp and talk to the guard - it is Hani - Lessas'
brother. Fish in the creek and give your catch to
Telsek. The elf answers Telsek's riddle. 3rd
riddle - talk to the elf guard. Look at his shield.
Try to get his shield. Offer the sword of Shannara
for the shield. Give shield to Telsek. Select
elfstones as the next troll riddle.
Part 8. Storlock. On the way to Culhaven you fight
monsters - have Davio use the elfstones on the shape
shifter (leader). Fight the other monsters. Head
to Storlock - Davio was shot with a poison arrow.
Talk to the Gnome healer. Go to the source of the
pollution of the river. Look at the monster. Smell
the monster. Talk to the others in your party. Get
an arrow from Stella. Tie the handkerchief from
Stella on the arrow. Put oil on the arrow. Light
the arrow. Have Stella shoot the monster. Have
Telsek drop the rock on the monster. Talk to the
gnome healer. Talk to the others in your party. Go
to Culhaven.
Part 9 Culhaven. Talk to the King. Talk to Kili.
Go into the next room. Talk to Kili. Look at the
cupboard. Look on the ground near the guard. Go to
the right and talk to your group that is in the
cell. Look at the barrel Telsek is siting on. Go
into the room where the hammer was stored. Look at
the fireplace. Look at the hole on the right side
of the fireplace. Talk to Kili. Look at the soot.
Move the chair. Talk to Kili. Go back and talk to
your friends. Get the beer stein from the cell
open it. Look at the sash. Talk to Kili. Fight
Kili Telsek will help. Talk to the King. Return to
the room of the fight. Look at the backpack. Go
into the room where the hammer was. Use the handle
on the hole on the right side of the fireplace.
Look at the scene. Talk to your party. Go to the
pond. Talk to everyone in your party. Use the
powder the King of the Silver River gave you on the
pond. Talk to Davio. Return to the Bridge and talk
to your party. Fight the monsters.
Part 10.Dragons Teeth Mountains. Talk to everyone
in your party. Cross the bridge. Give the rope to
Davio. Look at Allanon. Now cross the bridge.
Talk to Shella. Kiss Shella. Kill Shella.
Part 11. Gnome Camp. Use the cursor in the middle
of the black screen until you find your boot heel.
Take the heel. Use the heel on the ropes. Look
around the tent. Look at the guard shadows. Use
the nails on the left side of the tent. Use the
boot heel on the wall of the next tent. Take the dagger
and the Magic Troc. Use the blindfold to gag the
sheman. Use the rope to tie up the sheman. Leave the
tent. Enter the original tent. Unlock both metal boxes.
Enter the shamans tent. Talk to Geeka. DO NOT give him
the Torc or promise it to him. Keep talking to Geeka
until he agrees to help you if you get him the Helm of
Command. Leave the tent. Talk to Geeka and have him
open the pit door with the handle he has. Enter your
original tent. Have Geeka take the chest with everyones
items. Tie the rope to the chest and put it in the pit.
Have Geeka enter the pit first. Enter the pit. Use
Geeka's handle to close the pit door. Have Brendel use
the hammer on the grating. Have Brendel enter the grating.
Open the metal box by the door with the wheel. It is broken
- fix it. Turn wheel. Have Telsek use the Black Irix
and have ghim open the door. Leave. You get to Hadeshorn
and find Allanon. Watch the sequence and fight the
Part 12. Hall of Kings. Have telsek push the statues.
Enter the main door. Fight Shifter - Davio uses the
elfstones twice (you can't stop it or want to stop him)
Pickup the Diadem and go through the door. Go back and
get Telsek to pick up the door and put it across the
chasm. You get trapped in a cage. Lift the cage with
Brendel. Geeka can now get out. He proves that once a
Geeka always a Geeka. Push cage over the hole over the
hole the Helm of Command fell into. Tie the rope to the
cage and climb. Have Brendel use the Hammer on the Idol.
Fight the monsters and climb the idol. Animated sequence.
Draw the Sword of Shannara. Follow the sequence selecting
the appropiate answer (correct answer will only talk
once before you proceed) Move through any door - they all
lead the same place. At Alter select your true enemy
and attack it. If you didn't choose the book - you blew
it! Watch the sequence for the end of the game.
To bad about Shella and Davio.


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Job development can be a challenge for anyone, but even more of a challenge for someone with autism. While most people work to pay their bills, there are many other reasons for seeking employment. While we haven't historically thought about autistic adults as employable, many people with autism want to work for the same reasons that you and I do—for money, friends, housing, and to give them something to do. One question I always remember from all the job interviews I have been on was "Why would I want to hire you over anyone else?" In my current position, I do not have to sell myself to the employer but I have to sell an employer on hiring someone with autism over someone who is not autistic.
Recently, I went to a conference on just this subject and found it very useful for someone in my position. It was called "Employment Supports for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder" and the speaker was Dan Baker, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Baker gave me a different way of looking at employment for someone with autism, and I learned a lot from his presentation. In the beginning, one of the things that he pointed out was that employment is not "all or nothing." People can work part-time and have other day activities. The way many supported employment providers measure their success is by having all the individuals employed full-time. But success can also be measured by how many individuals with autism are employed at all, whether full-time or part-time. If someone with autism can work part-time and get paid for it, that is better then having no employment at all.
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We're on a mission this summer to try to find some interesting and different whisk(e)y cocktails. We will try some old favourites as well as hopefully managing to find some new ones. Whisk(e)y is beginning to be marketed internationally as a more flexible cocktail ingredient and we are keen to see what is coming out of this trend.
Starting with an old favourite, and a regular on the cocktail list of many bars worldwide - Lynchburg Lemonade. It is named after Lynchburg, a city in the American state of Tennessee, home of the Jack Daniel's distillery.
In Spring 2006, the drink's creator, Tony Mason, filed a lawsuit in the Madison County Circuit Court against Jack Daniel's Distillery claiming, among other things, "that the defendants had misappropriated his formula, or recipe, for a beverage known as Lynchburg Lemonade". He sought compensatory and punitive damages of $13,276,335. After approximately four days of testimony, the jury found in his favour, however, the trial court refused to give Mason's requested compensation leaving him instead to walk away with the lesser amount of one dollar.
Lynchburg Lemonade
1 part Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey
1 part triple sec
1 part sours mix
squeeze of lime juice
Shake all ingredients together with ice. Strain into a glass over fresh ice, top with lemonade then garnish with a slice of lemon and a maraschino cherry.
This is quite a sweet cocktail and the whiskey is by no means over powering. It would be a good cocktail to get a non-whiskey fan interested and really does suit a lovely sunny summery day.


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It's Go Time In Garda - 2014 Audi Melges 20 World Championship Is Open
26 August 2014
Riva Del Garda, Italy - Registration, measurement and practice day are officially complete at the 2014 Audi Melges 20 World Championship, hosted by Fraglia Della Vela Riva. An unprecedented 57 entries will take to the starting line tomorrow, Wednesday, 27 August for the first of four competitive days of premium performance racing.
The weather pattern in Garda over the last few days has been a bit on the light and rainy side. Even today, teams waited for several hours before leaving the docks to practice due to no breeze. They tinkered with the boats, walked the docks, had lunch at some of Riva's beautiful outdoor cafe's, while others relaxed in the Audi hospitality area and caught-up up on sleep due to jetlag. The breeze came up around 3 p.m. and teams rushed off the docks to practice. Unfortunately, no practice race was held as a storm developed with incredible wind forcing everyone back to shore.
The entry list is star-studded, not to mention loaded from top to bottom with some of the very best amatuer drivers in the world.
"It is impossible to predict what will happen on Lake Garda over the next few days and with 57 teams on the line it will surely will be a spectacular event," said International Audi Melges 20 Class Chairman, Manfredi Vianini Tolomei. "So much work has gone into making the next four days unforgettable. From the Melges organization, to the International Class Association as well as the regional fleets, everyone has worked very hard to make it the greatest regatta ever. We are happy to have so many entries and among them, two lady helms as well as three youth sailors - one of them also a helm."
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Editor's note: Ford revised its EPA fuel economy numbers for the 2013 Ford Fusion Hybrid. The new numbers show 44 mpg in the city and 41 mpg on the highway. This review has been updated to reflect the new numbers.
Aesthetics may be subjective, but I believe the 2013 Ford Fusion is the best-looking midsize sedan of the current crop. Despite its trout-mouth grille, the Fusion exudes premium-car style. The only other midsize sedan that comes close in looks is the new Honda Accord.
But a midsize sedan must do more than look pretty. This class of car tends to be a multipurpose vehicle for a majority of Americans, a comfortable car for the daily commute that can also take the family to the relatives' on holidays. It is the weekend errand runner and road-trip vacationer.
The Fusion, with its spacious, comfortable cabin, fills all these roles very well. Ford offers the vehicle with a number of engines to suit different needs. The 2013 Fusion Hybrid, which I reviewed, looks like the best of the bunch with its 44 mpg EPA rating for city and 41 mpg rating on the highway.
However, it fell substantially short of that fuel economy in my testing. Further detracting from its practicality is a loss of 4 cubic feet in the trunk due to the lithium ion battery pack. The 12 cubic feet remaining is still a substantial amount, but might require smarter packing for a family of four on vacation.
Near autonomous
What stood out when I reviewed the Ford Fusion EcoBoost last year was how the various driver assistance features give a preview of autonomous car technology. The Fusion Hybrid that Ford sent us came similarly equipped, including adaptive cruise control, automatic parallel parking, and lane departure prevention.
I made heavy use of adaptive cruise control, setting out on long freeway cruises in moderate to heavy traffic. With the car's speed set at slightly over the limit to keep up with the flow of traffic, the adaptive cruise control used its radar to match the speeds of slower traffic up ahead. For 100 miles, I did not touch the brake or gas pedals except in tricky freeway junctions or when other drivers cut in too close.
And in that latter circumstance, the Fusion Hybrid might have handled everything just fine if I hadn't given in to fear and hit the brakes.
The system seemed programmed to drop acceleration when something interrupted its radar fix, such as another car cutting in front. It took a short moment to reestablish its fix on the car in front, after which it dropped back to whatever following distance I had set.
Using the adaptive cruise control was not proof against the collision-warning system coming on. If cars suddenly began stopping on the freeway ahead, the Fusion Hybrid flashed a red light on the windshield, a good suggestion to take over control and get on the brakes.
Lane departure prevention is another proto-autonomous technology, this one using a forward-looking camera to recognize lane line markings. Drift over the lane line, and it steers itself back into the lane.
Testing this feature on a rural highway, I let the car drift over to the shoulder. At the lane line it steered itself back to the left, and I waited to see if it would hit the center line and nudge itself right.
Instead, the car lit up a message telling me to keep my hands on the wheel. Smart car.
Another couple of miles down the road, it brought up a message suggesting I pull over for a cup of coffee. I figured that next it would suggest I try a driver training program.
The Fusion Hybrid's electric power-steering system makes this feature possible, and also enables automatic parallel parking. Unlike older hydraulic power-steering systems, electric power steering not only makes it easy to turn the wheel, it can also steer the car itself.
To use the automatic parallel parking, I pushed a button on the console, then drove the congested streets around my San Francisco home. Whenever the Fusion Hybrid's sensors noticed a gap big enough for it at the curb on the right side, it sounded a tone. As it couldn't distinguish a driveway from a curb, I had to visually confirm a legal spot.
When it found a good one, I pulled forward until the car told me to stop, then put it in reverse and took my hands off the wheel. It did an amazing job each time I tried it, perfectly steering into the spot without touching the curb. I could do it that well maybe 85 percent of the time, but I would rather let the car get it right all the time.
Power mix
As a hybrid car, the Fusion Hybrid employs a gas engine and electric motor, either of which can drive the front wheels. This drive system is the same as in the Ford C-Max Hybrid. The 2-liter engine makes 141 horsepower and 129 pound-feet of torque, while the electric motor is rated at 118 horsepower and 117 pound-feet of torque.
An electronic continuously variable transmission combines the output of engine and motor for total system horsepower rated at 188.
The Fusion Hybrid is not a fast car, something I found out once I stopped trying to hypermile the thing. The display next to its speedometer kept showing me fascinating information about how the hybrid system was operating, encouraging me to drive gently and maximize electric motor use. A braking coach even rewarded me by reporting a percentage of how much energy I recovered when I brought the car to a stop.
The Fusion Hybrid handles the transition from electric motor to gas engine very smoothly. The engine added a little sound and vibration to the silent running of the electric motor at low speeds, but at anything above 40 mph the beginning of the engine's combustion became lost in the general cacophony of wind and road. Not to say there was any excess cabin noise; the Fusion Hybrid offered a comfortable and relatively quiet interior.
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Summer Flora 2011
Summer Session I
June 1st to July 8th
M/W/F 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Nicholas Tippery (firstname.lastname@example.com)
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Course description
New England is home to a diverse and thriving selection of plants, many of which reach their peak exuberance during the summer. Proper identification of plants and an understanding of their interactions with the environment are important facets that aid in the appreciation of our natural resources. In this course, students will:
- learn to recognize by sight some of the more common plant species
- develop a skill set for identifying unknown plant species
- gain experience in plant census, collection and curation techniques
- learn the system of classifying plant diversity and of naming plant species
- learn about the diversity of plant habitats in New England
The course focuses primarily on plant identification and classification, but students also will acquire skills that would serve them in any number of careers dealing with natural resource management.
Required text (not available at UConn Co-op)
L. Newcomb. 1989. Newcomb's Wildflower Guide. ISBN: 0316604429.
Required equipment (all available from UConn Co-op)
- 10x hand lens
- field notebook
- pencils
Recommended optional texts
J. G. Harris and M. W. Harris. 2001. Plant Identification Terminology. ISBN: 0964022168
D. W. Magee and H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. ISBN: 1558495770 ( 1999 edition ISBN: 1558491899)
Student plant collection: 25%
Exam 1: 30%
Exam 2: 35%
Quizzes: 10%
Tentative schedule
|Week 1
|Wed., June 1st
|Introduction to course
|Review of plant terminology
|Campus walk
|Fri., June 3rd
|Plant identification using keys and other resources
|Vegetative features
|Week 2
|Mon., June 6th
|Plant nomenclature and taxonomy
|Reproductive features
|Wolf Rock
|Wed., June 8th
|Fern identification
|Webster Fern Garden, Pink Ravine
|Fri., June 10th
|Phylogenetics and Systematics
|Gymnosperm identification
|Mansfield Hollow S.P.
|Week 3
|Mon., June 13th
|Trees and shrubs
|Brassicaceae / Ranunculaceae / Rosaceae
|Boston Hollow
|Wed., June 15th
|Invasive species and species of conservation concern
|Moss walk
|Room available for review after class
|Fri., June 17th
|Lamiaceae / Plantaginaceae / Scrophulariaceae
|UConn Forest - student collection 1
|Week 4
|Mon., June 20th
|Natural History collections
|Tour UConn Herbarium
|Identification of student collection 1
|Wed., June 22th
|Plant and animal interactions
|Goodwin S.F.
|Fri., June 24th
|Apiaceae / Asteraceae / Fabaceae
|UConn Forest - student collection 2
|Week 5
|Mon., June 27th
|Graminoid (grass / sedge / rush) identification
|Cyperaceae / Juncaceae / Poaceae
|Identification of student collection 2
|Wed., June 29th
|Ecological survey techniques
|Fenton River
|Fri., July 1st
|Aquatic plants
|Amaranthaceae (incl. Chenopodiaceae) / Ericaceae / Polygonaceae
|Bigelow Hollow S.P.
|Week 6
|Mon., July 4th
|NO CLASS - Independence Day
|Wed., July 6th
|Collection notebook due
|Student collections due (dry!) / Collection labels due (electronic document)
|Hammonasset S.P.
|Room available for review after class
|Fri., July 8th
|Specimen mounting.


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A blog about travel, art, writing, and great reads. (Posts and photos are copyrighted, except for icons or pictures that are in the public domain.)
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Kiyo's Story
Kiyo was nineteen when she and her family, as well all of the Japanese -American communities on the West Coast, were sent to an interment camp; in the Satos' case, in Arizona. Prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, there was already a mindset in place: Japanese immigrants were not allowed to become citizens or to own land. Their children, however, were citizens by reason of birth. But following Pearl Harbor, and Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, anyone with 1/16 or more Japanese ancestry was suddenly declared a "non-alien". Curfews were established. They were not allowed to travel more than a five mile radius from their homes. Finally they were rounded up, and forced to abandon their homes, taking only whatever they could carry on the train to an interment camp. The Sato family, like neighboring families, were fruit farmers; their fields would be untended. Some farms were simply taken over by squatters.
Kiyo Sato first acquaints the reader with her parents' lives before this tragedy. Her father, Shinji, left Japan as a boy because of extreme poverty in his village. He labored for farmers in California, returned to Japan to wed a pretty nurse, and saved enough money that, through the help of others who were citizens, he could obtain a parcel of land. (At the time, Japanese immigrants were not allowed to own land.)
Kiyo's mother, Tomomi, worked side by side with Shinji in the fields, as did Kiyo and, later, her eight brothers and sisters. Slowly they brought the barren acreage to life until their produce was in demand and they had markets as far away as Canada. The close-knit family lived frugally, with dignity, as did their neighbors, happy to be making their way in the Promised Land.
Skip ahead twenty years, and they are stripped of everything they worked for, on their way to a camp guarded with soldiers, living with minimal privacy in cramped, thinly partitioned rooms, eating meals in overflowing mess halls meant for 250 people.
This could have been a scaldingly bitter book. Instead, it is a testimony to how the spirit can triumph. Kiyo's Story charts the course of lives lived with integrity, no matter what the injustice: Some young men, including one of Kiyo's brothers, enlist in the military to show their loyalty. The Satos and fellow inmates farm the land in camp, bringing flowers and crops out dessert soil. Classes are started for the children. Adults hold meetings to resolve festering problems.
Their repeated reminder to each other is, "For the sake of the children . . . ." They bend gracefully to what cannot be helped and hope for the future, rather than breaking down. Shinji never loses faith that this will pass, they will return home, and he and Tomomi will one day be granted citizenship -- which does come to pass. Tomomi is selfless in her devotion to family and friends. Both show their trust in life by deeds rather than words.
I cried several times while reading this book, not just because of the sadness they experienced, but in the deeper recognition of how they triumphed over hardships that could have destroyed them. Tomomi's gentle spirit shines as she takes unceasing care of her family. Shinji, a farmer with the soul of a poet, writes haiku and nurtures beauty. The devotion and wisdom of both permeate every thing they do. This is a book to be read more than once -- one that shows the true meaning of abundance and grace.
Kiyo's Story can be purchased here, and here, and here.
22 comments:
- Rosi said...
Nice review about a book by a lovely woman. It's on my list. I'll move it up now.
- July 31, 2011 at 6:48 PM
- Michelle Fayard said...
I've just made a note to share this book with my mom, who I know will love it. I had read other books about this topic while writing my Civil War novel to get a feel for how the unscientific hatred of a group of people has manifested itself through the ages. I wish I had read this book at that time but will certainly do so now. Thanks, Mitty!
- July 31, 2011 at 8:04 PM
- Peaches Ledwidge said...
Thanks for sharing the review.
- August 1, 2011 at 4:43 AM
- Lydia K said...
Wow, this sounds wonderful, tears and all.
- August 1, 2011 at 9:17 AM
- David Powers King said...
I was moved halfway through your review of this. What an excellent read. Thanks for bringing it up.
- August 1, 2011 at 10:54 AM
A while back I read a beautifully written book on this subject, a true-life story. This one also sounds wonderful. Thanks for reviewing it so I could learn about it--and for stopping by my blog today, which got me here!
Ann Best, Author of In the Mirror, A Memoir of Shattered Secrets
- August 1, 2011 at 11:23 AM
- Elizabeth Varadan aka Mrs. Seraphina said...
Thanks all of you. I'm glad the book and it's subject matter appeal to you. It's such a worthwhile read; just brings one back to what is most valuable and enduring in the human spirit, despite so much heartache that goes on in the world.
- August 1, 2011 at 1:23 PM
- Jayne said...
This sounds a deeply moving book, and I especially like how you say it's not just about the sadness but the deeper recognition of how they triumph over hardships. I'll look out for this one, thank you.
- August 2, 2011 at 7:53 AM
- Rachna Chhabria said...
I alwawys enjoy your book reviews, Elizabeth. Sounds like a great book.
- August 2, 2011 at 8:58 AM
- Elisabeth said...
Hi Mrs seraphina, another Elizabeth I see, though I spell my name with an 's'.
I'm here via your comment to Jim. This is a terrific review. I know something of the treatment of so-called enemy aliens.
We did a similar thing in Australia to German people during WW2, regardless of how long they had lived here.
It's a crazy madness takes over during times of war. And it's happening today to some extent between so-called christians and muslims.
It's scary, this wish to polarise into good and bad when life is never as simple as that.
I'm pleased to meet you.
- August 2, 2011 at 3:50 PM
- Elizabeth Varadan aka Mrs. Seraphina said...
Hi, Rachna, i was so moved my it. Normally I'm not a big memoir reader, but this chained my mind.K
Hi, Elizabeth, nice to meet you. I have another friend in Australia who is an expert on kangaroos and helped me with a children's story about kangaroos. As for the treatment of German-descent Australians, the same thing happened to quite a few Italian-Americansq on the East Coast here in the States. Something comes over people. It's terrible.
- August 2, 2011 at 6:20 PM
- Elizabeth Varadan aka Mrs. Seraphina said...
Oh, dear, I meant to spell that with an s. Years of habit! :-)
- August 3, 2011 at 10:58 AM
- David Powers King said...
I gave you a shout-out on my blog today.
Just so you know. :)
- August 3, 2011 at 11:29 AM
- Donna K. Weaver said...
Wandered over from David's blog. *waves*
Hope your foot's doing well.
- August 3, 2011 at 11:56 AM
- Elizabeth Varadan aka Mrs. Seraphina said...
Thanks, Donna. And thanks for following me. I took a peek at your blog, too, after seeing his post. Foot is doing fine. The pin comes out tomorrow, and then soon I'll be up and running around again. I am so ready!
- August 3, 2011 at 12:24 PM
- Rebecca Bany said...
Great review. Sounds amazing.
- August 3, 2011 at 12:39 PM
- Elizabeth Varadan aka Mrs. Seraphina said...
Hi, Rebecca, thanks for stopping by, and thanks for following me. I visited your blog, and I see you're published through Create Space. That's who I went through for my book.
- August 3, 2011 at 1:07 PM
- Kelley said...
Hi Elizabeth!
Wonderful review. I'm moving the book over to my TBR list as we speak :)
Love the blog too. I can't wait to keep following you!
- August 3, 2011 at 2:52 PM
- Elizabeth Varadan aka Mrs. Seraphina said...
Nice to meet you, Kelley. You have a nice blog yourself. I'll be reading more of your posts.
- August 3, 2011 at 4:11 PM
- Stacy Henrie said...
What a moving story - sounds like a great read.
- August 5, 2011 at 8:51 AM
- Elizabeth Varadan aka Mrs. Seraphina said...
Stacy, it is. Well worth getting.
- August 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM
- J.L. Campbell said...
I'm usually not a big fan of memoirs, but this one sounds like a good and relevant read. Hard to believe that stuff like that happened in America, though I do know it did.
- August 9, 2011 at 9:21 AM


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March 24, 2007
When a team only gets five hits in a game then they better be big ones.
Such was the case of for the Lady Bisons softball team. In the second day of the Stetson Invitational in DeLand, Fla., the Lady Bisons beat Kent State 4-2, with every run the result of a home run.
In the second inning Abby Keese hit a solo home run with one out, her first of two in the game.
In the fourth inning Heather Collins homered with one out. Keese hit her second home run with two outs. It was the sixth home run of the season for Collins.
Kristie Sirus closed out the scoring for the Lady Bisons in the fifth inning with a solo home run with one out. It was her first home run of the season.
Christen Campbell raised her record to 9-6 with the win for the Lady Bisons. She gave up seven hits and three runs, all earned. She walked two and struck out seven.


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In volume one:
Halleluia Chorus - Handel
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel
Jesu Joy of Our Desiring - J.S. Bach
Ave Maria - Gounod
Humoresque - Dvorak
"Finale" from the Violin Sonatina - Dvorak
Nocturne in Eb Major - Chopin
"Largo" from Violin Sonata in D Major - Handel
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair - Debussy
Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner
In volume two:
"All We Like Sheep" from The Messiah - G. F. Handel
"Prelude" from English Suite No. 3 - J. S. Bach
Symphony No. 5, Mvt. 1 - L. van Beethoven
"Flower Duet" from Lakme - L. Delibes
Für Elise - L. van Beethoven
Gymnopedie No. 1 - E. Satie
Symphony No. 77, Mvt. 4 - J. Haydn
"Three Little Maids" from The Mikado - A. Sullivan


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[Frontispiece. The Author at Twenty-two]
Printed in the United States of America
and to
Many of the following stories are oft-told tales at my fireside—others were written to record phases of the patriarchal existence before the war which has so utterly passed away.
They have been printed from time to time in the pages of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, the editor of which has very kindly consented to their publication in this form.
of hectoring over price, and feeling, no matter how the trade ended, you had a bargain after all, was denied the customers of Mr. Alfred Munroe. The innovation was startling, but Munroe retired with a fortune in course of time.
Children's clothes were homemade. A little wool shawl for the shoulders did duty for common use. A pelisse made out of an old one of mother's, or some remnant found in the house, was fine for Sunday wear. Pantalettes of linen, straight and narrow and untrimmed, fell over our modest little legs to our very shoetops. Our dresses were equally simple and equally "cut down and made over." Pantalettes were white, but I recall, with a dismal smile, that when I was put into what might be called unmitigated mourning for a brother, my pantalettes matched my dresses, black bombazine or black alpaca.
Our amusements were of the simplest. My father's house on Canal Street had a flat roof, well protected by parapets, so it furnished a grand playground for the children of the neighborhood. Judge Story lived next door and Sid and Ben Story enjoyed to the full the advantages of that roof, where all could romp and jump rope to their heart's content. The neutral ground, that is now a center for innumerable lines of street cars, was at that
time an open, ungarnished, untrimmed, untended strip of waste land. An Italian banana and orange man cleared a space among the bushes and rank weeds and erected a rude fruit stall where later Clay's statue stood. A quadroon woman had a coffee stand, in the early mornings, at the next corner, opposite my father's house. It could not have been much beyond Claiborne Street that we children went crawfishing in the ditches that bounded each side of that neutral ground, for we walked, and it was not considered far.
The Farmers' and Traders' Bank was on Canal Street, and the family of Mr. Bell, the cashier, lived over the bank. There were children there and a governess, who went fishing with us. We rarely caught anything and had no use for it when we did. Sometimes I was permitted to go to market with John, way down to the old French Market. We had to start early, before the shops on Chartres Street were open, and the boys busy with scoops watered the roadway from brimming gutters. John and I hurried past. Once at market we rushed from stall to stall, filling our basket, John forgetting nothing that had been ordered, and always carefully remembering one most important item, the saving of at least a picayune out of the market money for a cup of coffee at Manette's stall. I
drank half the coffee and took one of the little cakes. John finished the repast and "dreened" the cup, and with the remark, "We won't say anything about this," we started toward home. We had to stop, though, at a bird store, on the square above the Cathedral, look at the birds, chaff the noisy parrots, watch the antics of the monkeys, and see the man hang up his strings of corals and fix his shells in the window, ready for the day's business. We could scarcely tear ourselves away, it was so interesting; but a reminder that the wax head at Dr. De Leon's dentist's door would be "put out by this time," hurried me to see that wonderful bit of mechanism open and shut its mouth, first with a row of teeth, then revealing an empty cavern. How I watched, wondered and admired that awfully artificial wax face! These occasional market trips—and walks with older members of the family—were the sum of my or any other child's recreation
Once, and only once, there was a party! The little Maybins had a party and every child I knew was invited. The Maybins lived somewhere back of Poydras Market. I recall we had to walk down Poydras Street, beyond the market, and turn to the right onto a street that perhaps had a name, but I never heard it.
The home was detached, and surrounded by
ample grounds; quantities of fig trees, thickets of running roses and in damp places clusters of palmetto and blooming flags. We little invited guests were promptly on the spot at 4 P. M., and as promptly off the spot at early candlelight. I am sure no débutantes ever had a better time than did we little girls in pantalettes and pigtails. We danced; Miss Sarah Strawbridge played for us, and we all knew how to dance. Didn't we belong to Mme. Arraline Brooks' dancing school?
The corner of Camp and Julia Streets, diagonally across from the then fashionable 13 Buildings, was occupied by Mme. Arraline Brooks, a teacher of dancing. Her school (studio or parlor it would be called now) was on the second floor of Armory Hall, and there we children—she had an immense class, too—learned all the fancy whirls and "heel and toe" steps of the intricate polka, which was danced in sets of eight, like old-time quadrilles. Mme. Arraline wore in the classroom short skirts and pantalettes, so we had a good sight of her feet as she pirouetted about, as agile as a ballet dancer.
By and by, at a signal from Miss Sarah, who had been having a confidential and persuasive interview with a little miss, we were all placed with our backs to the wall and a space cleared. Miss Sarah
struck a few notes, and little Tenie Slocomb danced the "Highland fling." Very beautiful was the little sylph in white muslin, her short sleeves tied with blue ribbons, and she so graceful and lovely. It comes to me to-day with a thrill, when I compare the companion picture—of a pale, delicate, dainty old lady, with silvered hair and tottering step, on the bank of a foreign river. It is not easy to bridge the seventy years (such a short span, too, it is) between the two. Then the march from "Norma" started us to the room for refreshments. It is full forty years since I have heard that old familiar air, but for thirty years after that date I did not hear it that the impulse to march to lemonade and sponge cake did not seize me.
Alack-a-day! Almost all of us have marched away.
but stockings in those days did not extend over the knee, and old St. Angelo was sure to see that the pantalettes were well rolled up. This method of discipline was not acceptable to parents whose children came home with bruises and wounds. That dominie retired from business before the forties.
Mme. Granet had a school for girls in the French municipality. Elinor Longer, one of my most intimate friends, attended it, and she used to tell us stories that convulsed us with laughter about Madame's daughter. Lina had some eye trouble, and was forbidden to "exercise the tear glands," but her tears flowed copiously when Madame refused to submit to her freaks. Thus Lina managed, in a way, to run the school, having half holidays and other indulgences so dear to the schoolgirl, at her own sweet will.
At the haunted house (I wonder if it is still standing and still haunted?) on Royal Street, Mme. Delarouelle had a school for demoiselles. Rosa, daughter of Judge John M. Duncan, was a scholar there. I don't think the madame had any boarders, though the house was large and commodious, even if it was haunted by ghosts of maltreated negroes. The school could not under those circumstances have continued many years, for every child knew it was dangerous to cross its portals. Our John told
me he "seed a skel'ton hand" clutching the grated front door once, and he never walked on that side of the street thereafter. He even knew a man "dat seen eyes widout sockets or sockets widout eyes, he dun know which, but dey could see, all de same, and they was a looken out'en one of the upstairs winders." With such gruesome talk many a child was put to bed in my young days.
Doctor, afterward Bishop Hawks, when he was rector of Christ Church, then on Canal Street, had a school on Girod Street. It was a temporary affair and did not continue over a season or two. It was entirely conducted by Mrs. Hawks and her daughters, so far as I know, for, as before mentioned, I attended none of the schools.
In 1842 there was a class in Spanish at Mr. Hennen's house, on Royal Street, near Canal. Señor Marino Cubi y Soler was the teacher of that class; a very prosaic and painstaking teacher he was, too, notwithstanding his startlingly high flown cognomen. Miss Anna Maria and young Alfred Hennen and a Dr. Rhodes, from the Belize, as the mouth of the Mississippi is called, with a few other grown-ups, formed the señor's class. I was ten years old, but was allowed to join with some other members of my family, though my mother protested it was nonsense for a child like me and a waste of money.
Father did not agree with her, and after over sixty years to think it over, I don't either. When the señor's class dispersed I imagine the text-books, which, by the way, he was author, were laid aside. But years and years thereafter, during the war, while traveling in Mexico, some of the señor's teaching came miraculously back to me, bringing with it enough Spanish to be of material help in that stranger country.
Another teacher wandered from house to house with his "Telemaque" and "colloquial phrases," giving lessons in French. Gimarchi, from the name may have been partly, at least, Italian, but he was fine teacher of the sister language. Por supuésto, his itinerary was confined to the American district of the city.
Is it any surprise that the miscellaneous education we
girls of seventy years ago in New Orleans had access to,
culminated by fitting us for housewives and mothers,
instead of writers and platform speakers, doctors and
lawyers—suffragettes? Everybody was musical; every
girl had music lessons and every mother superintended
the study and practice of the one branch deemed
absolutely indispensable to the education of a
The city was dotted all over with music
teachers, but Mme. Boyer was, par excellence,
the most
popular. She did not wander


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A photo of an Army Air Corps dance at the City Auditorium 70 years ago. It was possibly the 1943 graduation dance for pilot class 43-B. The City Auditorium is now known as the Trotter Convention Center and was the site of Friday night's Air Force Birthday Ball. Photo by: Courtesy photo
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Friday night the Trotter Convention Center was filled with our nation's finest, for it was the annual Air Force Birthday Ball. Seventy years ago, predating the birth of the Air Force as a separate service, there were also pilots and other servicemen dancing at the Trotter which was then called the City Auditorium. It was a different time but the same place with different men and women but with the same sense of duty and commitment to our country.
The Air Force Birthday Ball is now one of Columbus Air Force Base's social highlights of the year. Its roots, however, extend back over 70 years to dances held during World War II. In 1942, Kaye Field was established at Columbus but was later renamed Columbus Army Air Field and finally Columbus Air Force Base. Probably the most popular base social activity during World War II were dances.
With so many of the young men of Columbus enlisted in the military and serving away from home there was no shortage of local girls for the young men on base to take out, when busy schedules allowed. Dances were very popular and at least one a month was held at the Officer's Club on base. There was a USO club downtown known as the Aviation Cadet Club and it also hosted regular dances. Larger dances, often sponsored by the USO, were held at the City Auditorium, now known as the Trotter Convention Center. That is the same location at which the Air Force Ball is now held. While the ground floor of the Trotter now contains meeting rooms, in the 1940s it served as the local National Guard Armory.
Buses were provided for the transportation to and from the dances. If the dance was on base Columbus girls would ride a bus to the base to meet their escorts and when dances were in town base personnel would ride a bus to the dance. A photo of one of the Columbus dances even appeared in the Illustrated Magazine in London, England, in May of 1943. It was a hoopskirt party and the photo's caption read, "They danced rumbas and minuets. Hoopskirts didn't hamper cheek-to-cheek dancing." The dances extended into the night with the music most favored locally being swing and jazz played not only by the Base band which was called the "Rhythm Flyers" but also by regional bands such as Don Taylor and his Biltmore Boys from the Tuwiler Hotel in Birmingham.
Friday night's Air Force Birthday Ball was totally funded by private donations and ticket sales. In late summer there was a fundraising social event held at the Columbus Club on base and the sale of tickets to the ball began. This year's ball commenced with Commander of the 14th Flying Training Wing, Colonel James Sears Jr., hosting a pre-reception honoring former Air Corps and Air Force personal who had been prisoners of war. That was followed by a dinner with the keynote speaker being Lt. Colonel (retired) Gene Smith, a former Vietnam prisoner of war. The evening concluded with a dance on the same floor where airmen have danced for over 70 years.
While the Air Force Ball was a delightful fun-filled evening there remains the realization that there are airmen from the base in harm's way deployed to the Middle East and pilots who gained their wings at Columbus flying combat missions. The reality of the fun-filled evenings contrasted with the risk accepted in service to our county is exemplified in a story my mother told me. During World War II she worked at the base hospital. One night she and her cousin, Southworth Kimbrough, had a double date with two pilots from the base and they had talked about going out together again. The next morning she was working at the hospital when news arrived that both pilots had just been killed in a plane crash.
The ball's pre-reception hosted by Col. James Sears Jr. was another reminder of the sacrifice by other Air Force or Air Corps personal, for it honored former Prisoners of War. To those who danced the night away and to those who had danced before them, we owe a debt of gratitude we can never repay.
Rufus Ward is a Columbus native a local historian. E-mail your questions about local history to Rufus at [email protected]
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O'Reilly's two goals lead Avalanche past Wildby Dan Myers
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Colorado Avalanche coach Patrick Roy decided about halfway through the game against the Minnesota Wild to put Matt Duchene and Ryan O'Reilly together.
While the line change didn't pay off right away, it did in the end as the two teamed up for the go-ahead goal with 7:16 remaining in regulation of Colorado's 4-2 win.
It was O'Reilly, returning from a shoulder injury that cost him two games, who was the beneficiary of a Duchene pass that set up the goal that broke a 2-2 tie. Duchene got a pass from O'Reilly in the left corner and returned the puck quickly to O'Reilly near the right post. With goaltender Niklas Backstrom already in his butterfly to take away the low shot, O'Reilly floated a high backhander over the goaltender's glove for his 16th of the season.
"We both really like playing with each other and really understand the way each other play," Duchene said. "We like that give-and-go hockey, try and jump into holes and that's how we got the game-winner tonight."
O'Reilly's first goal put Colorado up 2-0 in the second period. His two-goal effort was especially big for Colorado, which played a man short after forward Paul Stastny went down with a leg injury in the second period. The newly named U.S. Olympian did not return, and Avalanche coach Patrick Roy classified his injury as day-to-day.
"A character win for us," Roy said. "When you're losing players like this and we keep going, don't look behind. … Both teams have been hit pretty hard with injuries. It was an important game for both teams, we're glad we are on the winning side."
Both of O'Reilly's goals came from within eight feet of the net. On his first, he was able to sneak a shot through Backstrom's five-hole that just trickled across the goal line. On the winner, Backstrom cut off the bottom of the net but O'Reilly simply found open space.
"Coming in there, [Wild forward Mikael Granlund] had pressure on me on my forehand," O'Reilly said. "A lot of times, bringing over that quick shot, [Backstrom] is going to have that angle. I was just trying to beat him to the spot. Hopefully he wasn't going to be there."
Maxime Talbot hit the empty net with 1:10 to go for Colorado, which was playing its first road game after going 4-1-2 on a seven-game homestand that ended with a 2-1 overtime loss to the New York Islanders on Friday.
The regulation win could end up being a big boost to Colorado in their attempt to return to the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2010. The Avalanche lead the Wild by eight points for the third and final automatic qualifier spot in the Central Division. Colorado also has two games in hand.
"We want to keep them behind us," Duchene said. "We have games in hand, we have a lot of points in hand. We want to keep them as far behind us as possible. We're happy with where we're at right now."
Minnesota had won four straight and was back at Xcel Energy Center after road wins against the Los Angeles Kings and Phoenix Coyotes.
"We weren't giving up much," Wild coach Mike Yeo said. "Maybe we could have done a few more things to create here and there, but we had the puck a majority of the time. It's frustrating, not to get at least a point there for sure."
After 29 scoreless minutes, the teams combined for four goals in less than six minutes midway through the second period.
Colorado opened the scoring by taking advantage of a 3-on-2 rush. Gabriel Landeskog passed to Talbot on his left at the Wild blue line and went to the front of the net. Talbot passed back Paul Stastny who dished to Landeskog at the doorstep. He worked the puck to his backhand and beat Backstrom at 9:07 for his 13th of the season.
O'Reilly made it 2-0 at 13:25 but the Wild quickly got even thanks to Charlie Coyle and Dany Heatley.
The two worked a pretty give-and-go of their own at the Colorado blue line, Heatley fed Coyle with a pretty saucer pass in the slot and Coyle slipped the puck through Semyon Varlamov's five-hole at 14:19.
Coyle and Heatley combined again 40 seconds later for the tying goal. Heatley set up behind the net, took a pass from Nate Prosser at the right half wall and one-touched a feed to Coyle in the slot. He one-timed a shot over Varlamov's blocker for his sixth of the season. The two-goal game was Coyle's first in the NHL.
"It was a good shift by the guys before us and we carried it over," Coyle said. "Some big plays, especially by my linemates. It was nice to switch the momentum at that point."
Minnesota outshot Colorado 13-7 in the third and 27-18 for the game, but couldn't solve Varlamov late. He made 24 saves to improve to 21-8-5 this season and 8-0-5 in his past 13 starts.
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Farmland sales may be frequent, but does much of it really get new ownership?Tweet
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How many farmland sales do you attend if the land is selling in your neighborhood? In recent months of high priced land, they have held as much entertainment value as anything. You will see neighbors competing for land that will be the last time they may say anything to each other. You will see bidders gulp and swallow hard and pay more for an acre of land than they did for their last pick-up truck. You will see sellers go home with the prospect for a payday they never dreamed of in 50 years of farming. Farmland sales continue to demonstrate that land has an increased value and that land is continuing to be the dominant input for agriculture.
In recent weeks the number of farm sales have increased, but is that a function of the time of year, or a function of the land market, or a function of the government's financial challenges that may be facing sellers after January 1? Several years ago, conventional wisdom indicated that about half of one percent of all farmland sold in any given year, compared to stocks, one percent of which sold in any given day. But University of Illinois agricultural economist Bruce Sherrick has studied tens of thousands of land sales in Illinois and has developed a series of trends that will be applicable to many other Cornbelt states.
Interestingly, Sherrick has found that nearly all of the 102 counties in Illinois record sales on 1.5% to 2.5% of their land in any given year. So the rate of the rate of turnover is higher than conventional wisdom of a few years back. The change in acreage size being sold is almost negligible.
One of the challenges to reaching that conclusion was the need to define a farm, and also eliminate all of the sales that did not occur at an arm's length, such as a sale to a family member. He also eliminated sales of less than 10 acres and more than 1281 acres, which are frequently not market based. He also excluded sales of more than $20,000 per acre and particularly around metropolitan areas which would indicate the land was needed more for development than for farming. That left about 81,000 land sales over the past 12 years, or an average of 6,732 per year, involving more 545,000 acres per year. Sherrick reports that from 1979 to 1999 half of the sales were between relations, closely correlated with USDA data.
Does more land sell closer to the end of the year, so financial issues can be controlled? Sherrick found the first quarter of the year recorded over 2.1 million acres in land transfers, compared to 1.6 million acres sold in the second quarter of the year, 1.1 million acres in the third quarter and 1.7 million acres in the fourth quarter. However, that trend is changing significantly, and for the past two years, fourth quarter land sales have become dominant, as first quarter sales have diminished.
When Sherrick compiled land sales per county, only two metropolitan Chicago counties had less than 1% in sales per year. But in the counties that form a collar around Chicago, a minimum of 2.5% of the farmland changes ownership in a given year. There are also small groups of counties in the south-southeastern and south-southwestern parts of the sale with minimal sales. Nearly all of the rest of the state has recorded 1.5% to 2.5% of land sold annually.
About two percent of farmland transfers ownership in any given year, and while most of the sales have been scattered throughout the year in the past decade, the past two years have recorded distinct trends for sales to occur in the fourth quarter of the year.
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I have been chosen to tell you about our most recent day. I was chosen because I wanted to tell a particular story. My congregation has been blessed to know and support a Palestinian family that runs an Olive wood co-op. The husband and wife have visited and met my congregation. They have shared their personal, difficult story. He was born in Bethlehem and she Jerusalem. They are not able to live in the same house most of the time. One of the ladies in my congregation was shocked when I said I would be sharing coffee this week with the Zoughbi's in Bethlehem. Well I have done that. Several of our group went with me last evening. The Zoughbi's share a DVD which contained a part of their personal story (WOW). Josh King identified a feeling of nails in a cross as Palestinian homes were destroyed by the Israeli's.
Folks we do not know our simple blessings! We do not have to go through check points to get to the next city. We don't know how to identify with not being able to visit family or friends in an adjoining city. Occupation is cruel on so many levels.
Today we visited with folks from Bethlehem Bible College, Bethlehem University, the local Mosque and Dheisheh refugee camp. At this moment, I can do little more than say my heart cries out. Laments are real among so many of us as we process what we have seen, smelled and felt deep within our souls.
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NASA Shuttle Enterprise makes way to Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
This past weekend was a busy one for the Space Shuttle Enterprise and the Shuttle replica Explorer as they both made their way by land and sea to their final museum homes. As with any shuttle activities, these were big events in New York and Houston respectively as the pictures reflect. The shuttles join Discovery, which was sent to Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in April and Atlantis in their new retirement locales. Have a look.
Here the Space Shuttle Enterprise passes under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge on a barge, to dock at Weeks Marine in Port Elizabeth, N.J., on a four-day journey to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York.
The One World Trade Center is seen behind the Space Shuttle Enterprise, being transported on a barge to dock at Weeks Marine in Port Elizabeth, N.J.
The lower Manhattan skyline and Statue of Liberty are seen behind the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
More of the lower Manhattan skyline is seen behind the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
The Enterprise waits to be lifted onto a barge at John F. Kennedy International Airport's harbor.
Workers secure the Space Shuttle Enterprise while it is being lifted onto a barge at John F. Kennedy International Airport's harbor.
The Enterprise is being held aloft by a yellow sling and a set of cranes after it was removed from the top of NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft after it arrived at John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York, May 13, 2012 .The 747 was towed backwards so that Enterprise could be lowered.
The Space Shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft as it flies near the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York – its ultimate destination.
The Space Shuttle Enterprise rides atop a NASA modified 747 plane over New York, April 27, 2012.
In Texas, paddle boarders watch as the Space Shuttle replica "Explorer" moves by barge into Clear Lake toward the dock at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Kayakers and paddle boarders watch as the Space Shuttle replica "Explorer" moves by barge into Clear Lake towards the dock at the Johnson Space Center.
Spectators line the street as the Space Shuttle replica "Explorer" moves along NASA Parkway to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston June 3, 2012.
More spectators watch the Explorer in Houston.
The replica Explorer is seen docked in Clear Lake before being moved to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.
Space Shuttles Enterprise, left, and Discovery meet nose-to-nose at the beginning of a transfer ceremony at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, in Chantilly, Va., April 19, 2012. Space Shuttle Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA's shuttle fleet, completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times, and traveled 148,221,675 miles will take the place of Enterprise at the center to commemorate past achievements in space and to educate and inspire future generations of explorers at the center.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 test rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., May 22, 2012. The mock shuttle Explorer, in the foreground, had been on display at the Kennedy Space Center Complex, and was moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston in order to make room for the arrival of Space Shuttle Atlantis.
Space Shuttle Discovery passes the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol atop a NASA modified 747 plane in Washington while on its final mission. The Space Shuttle Discovery made its way to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Virginia annex in April where it will become an attraction to visitors there.
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text: 2013 Dairy Outlook: Is There Enough Milk? December 9, 2012 10:08 PM Tweet Hit hard by the drought's high feed costs, dairies worldwide cut milk production -- even as dairy demand continues to grow. © Catherine Merlo TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Catherine Merlo Farm Journal's Milk Western and Online Editor Email Tightening supplies, higher milk prices and lower feed costs could boost profits for U.S. dairies in the coming year. Could dairies see higher milk prices and lower feed costs in 2013? Shrinking global milk supplies have the potential to drive dairy prices higher in 2013, industry analysts say. Better yet, the prospects of a return to normal weather and a larger U.S. corn crop could send feed prices lower, providing relief to tens of thousands of U.S. dairy and livestock producers. The big question for now is whether there's enough milk to meet the world's needs after a year of drought, soaring feed costs and shrinking milk output. Despite 2012's high milk prices of $18.50 and higher per cwt., U.S. and other global dairy producers substantially reduced production. "In the U.S. and globally, there is a shortfall of milk relative to demand," says Robin Schmahl, hedge and marketing specialist with AgDairy, LLC. Hit hard by the drought's high feed costs, U.S. dairies responded with unusually heavy cow culling. In September, they ended 31 consecutive months of year-over-year increases in milk output. Among the nation's top 10 milk production states in October, California cut output by a whopping 3.5% from year-earlier levels, a big drop for the nation's No. 1 dairy producer. New Mexico fell 5.9% and Texas by 5%. The milk slowdown both in the U.S. and abroad leads many to anticipate short supplies in 2013. Low dairy farm margins everywhere will constrain expansion, and it could take months for herds to rebuild and milk production to ramp up. USDA expects 2013 U.S. milk production to remain at 199.7 billion pounds, equal to this year's output. The U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) believes global signs point to continued demand for dairy products. "That means the market will be undersupplied in 2013 because demand continues to grow and milk expansion has slowed worldwide," says Alan Levitt, USDEC's vice president of communications and marketing analysis. "The market absorbed Oceania's [New Zealand and Australia] 2012 peak production flush, and prices didn't go down." Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis with the University of Wisconsin agrees. "The world market took Oceania's dairy products without a major depression in prices," he says. "That tells me the world is ready for dairy products." In fact, export demand will remain strong for U.S. dairy products, particularly for powders, Levitt says. Exports of U.S. dairy products now account for nearly 14% of the nation's milk production. World trade is expected to rise 10% this year, and the U.S. is maintaining its share of that. "Next year, the world will need our milk, and it will have to pay for it," says Levitt. "Expect higher prices." In the U.S., dairy demand has held up well through 2012's lackluster economy. Stephenson has looked at several key demand indicators, such as restaurant performance, and sees improvement that bodes well for consumption of dairy products. "Consumers are starting to spend again," he says. Another factor in a bullish dairy scenario is the potential for increased corn production if the weather returns to more normal patterns in the Midwest. "That could pressure corn prices down to $5 per bu.," Schmahl says. Based on the futures market, Stephenson projects soybean meal prices to decline about $70 per ton. Corn prices are likely to hold steady until next fall's harvest, when increased production fills inventories. He expects to see corn prices then decline by $1 per bu. Levitt doesn't foresee a drop-off in feed prices. "In fact, I expect corn to make another run at $8 and maybe more," he says. "We have very low stocks to buffer volatility, and any shock to the system could cause prices to take off again." Whichever direction feed prices take, milk prices seem poised to climb higher. "I'm optimistic that tight supplies in milk could push prices up about $1.50 per cwt. next year," says Stephenson. Like USDA, he foresees the All-Milk Price reaching $20.00 per cwt. in 2013, compared with this year's $18.50. "Milk prices will head up and feed prices go down," Stephenson says. "Dairies' margins will be vastly improved." But that optimistic outlook is tempered by uncertainty over the weather, economy, government budget problems and the new farm bill. "Two-thirds of the U.S. remains under drought conditions," says Levitt. "The drought is out of the headlines, but we're not out of the woods yet." Although abating feed prices would ease profit pressure on U.S. dairy producers, USDA says a decline won't be enough to spur an expansion in cow numbers. The nation's cow herd is expected to shrink to just over 9.1 million cows in 2013, down from 9.2 million this year. Further, economic uncertainty could upset any bullishness in the dairy outlook. "What if Europe really does fall apart?" asks Stephenson. "Will that spill back on the U.S. and Asian economies too?" While the milk supply is short, "economic uncertainty leaves buyers unwilling to hold big inventories," Levitt says. Schmahl also points out that conditions could remain tough for dairies through the spring. Grain prices will remain high, since the new-crop harvest is months away. High feed costs will persist, pressuring dairies and continuing the decline in cow numbers. While he thinks milk prices could reach $20 per cwt., he doesn't expect to see a huge price rally in the coming months. "But if consumer demand and the economy remain strong, exports will increase," Schmahl says. "And if the milk supply remains tight and we see a better crop, 2013 could improve profitability for dairies." Back to news