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Did that second half jolt the Storm back into life?
Melbourne's first three halves of finals football weren't very Melbourne at all. Against Parramatta, they looked like a resuming galloper short of a run. Against Brisbane, who pushed the boundaries of the rules with an in-your-face (and back) defence, they were rattled at times. Then, they had a drink, talked things over, freshened up, Cooper Cronk most likely gave his socks a half-time iron and they demolished the Broncos 30-0. All of a sudden, the Storm we had seen all season were back to their crisp, clinical best. Once the first few tries arrived, the flood was unstoppable. That's the kind of team the Cowboys should expect to face from the outset on Sunday, not the one that had the fumbles and for a time looked uncharacteristically nervous under the heat of the finals spotlights.
Will this be the final time we see Billy Slater and Cooper Cronk in the NRL?
If so, what a privilege it has been. While Cameron Smith has committed to playing until his 65th birthday, the other two pillars of the Big Three are yet to decide what to do beyond this season. Cronk will move to Sydney and if he has found a new club, it might be the best-kept secret in Australian sport. The smart money continues to suggest he will retire after the World Cup. Slater has been a revelation all over again since returning from a long-term shoulder injury earlier in the season. He was wonderful for his state in the final two Origins and superb for Melbourne in their run to the grand final. A victory would cap off remarkable careers for both of them. Slater will be remembered as the finest fullback rugby league has seen, while Cronk has willed his way to a greatness of his own.
Can Michael Morgan continue to reach new heights?
For a bloke that helped win Queensland a game at centre earlier in the year, Michael Morgan makes a pretty handy halfback. What a weapon this man has become for the Cowboys and you better believe he loves the grand stage. It does feel like all of this has happened in the blink of an eye. Everyone knew Morgan was a gun with ball in hand but his kicking game has gone to the next level. His tactical kicks played a massive role in the win over the Roosters and he must repeat the dose against the best in the business in Cronk, who loves to control matches with an iron fist. Morgan plays the humble hero, but he backs himself without question and hasn't been afraid to chance his arm when needed. He was superb in the prelim but needs to be even better on Sunday. Has it in him.
Can the Storm's pack mentality take the edge off Jason Taumalolo?
This looks as if it will be the most fascinating contest across the park and someone like Tim Glasby comes right into play. Just as he did when faced with another monster in the form of Andrew Fifita, Glasby will be one of the Storm forwards asked to slow the impact of Taumalolo, who along with Morgan has been the driving force of their finals campaign. Nobody can get the better of the Cowboys lock one-on-one throughout an 80-minute contest. Melbourne's middle men will have to tackle in bunches and do their best to keep his metres after contact to a minimum, as well as his quick play-the-balls. If they can't, the other JT might just carry the Cowboys to another premiership.
Will anyone in Sydney care?
We really hope so, because this is a grand final featuring a team that has deserved it all year and a team that has deserved it all month. It's time to forget about all of the gripes about referees and the bunker and questionable concussion rulings and take in a grand final that features some of the best players the game has ever seen, as well as a few that might be on the way. Melbourne are on the verge of completing one of the NRL's most dominant seasons and are a far cry from the robotic wrestlers of previous eras. Yes, they can sour the ruck in defence but are spectacular once they get rolling in attack. The Cowboys have defied expectations and believe they can defy it one more time. You could argue their heartland loves the game like no other. This has all the makings of something special.
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We've picked a winner in our 2012 Tour Devinci, Build a Bike Giveaway – please join us in congratulating Kaden Milkovich of Ann Arbor, Michigan!
As our giveaway winner, Kaden is going to receive a 3-day, all-expense-paid, hands-on Devinci factory tour where he will get to meet Devinci staff, see how Devinci bikes are designed, tested, machined, welded and assembled and help build a Devinci bike with his own hands, from machining to assembly. To top it off, he will also get to ride local trails with Devinci staff, plus take home a Devinci Atlas RC 29er Mountain Bike as a souvenir of his trip!
Kaden was so excited to win that he wanted to share a few words with us about what he's looking forward to most about his upcoming trip up north:
When I was a kid, Toys R Us would run these lotteries for a kid to have a one-or two-minute shopping spree in their completely empty store. Touring the Devinci Factory in Chicoutimi feels kind of like winning my own Toys R Us lottery. Instead of heading to the local shop to view bikes I only wish I could own, I get to go to the place where bikes–and not just any bikes–SWEET bikes are born! I won't mortify anyone with my current ride, but suffice it to say, winning the Atlas RC 29er is a major, major upgrade. It's like switching from Dewar's(serviceable) to Lagavulin 16-year single malt (egads).
I've ridden all over lower and upper Michigan. The former's filled with tricky, rock-and rolly-single track if you know where to look and don't mind driving a bit, and the latter's a sweaty mix of steep, rooty climbs, shade-peppered piney loops and endless swaths of sandy washes. I love being the first one on the trail in the morning and I'm going to love being on the trail on probably the sweetest bike I'm ever likely to own. I can't wait to see the craftsmanship that goes into bike-building at Devinci. They source the aluminum for some of their frames locally and I am stoked to tour the factory and see how a bike comes into existence, from conception to completion.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Four unanswered goals by MIT in the third quarter helped power it to a 12-6 win over Clark University in the season finale for both squads on Saturday afternoon. Tyler Sorba tallied five goals and two assists while Jonathan Stolmeier contributed two goals and four assists for the Engineers (6-6, 4-3 Pilgrim). In net, Zach Brewer finished with 10 saves as Dylan Roden collected six groundballs.
Sorba opened the scoring with 6:18 remaining in the first frame. MIT quickly extended its lead on a goal by Corey Garvey that was set up by Ryan Ballentine. The 2-0 lead would hold until the 11:49 mark of the second quarter when the Cougars found the back of the net. Brennan Sherry connected on a Stolmeier pass before Clark registered its second goal of the frame. The game remained scoreless until Sorba's unassisted extra-man goal with one minute left. The Engineers entered the break up 5-2 following Sherry's goal with 16 seconds on the clock.
In the pivotal third-quarter scoring burst, Sorba was a factor in all four goals. He set up Roden for a man-up score and then recorded an unassisted strike. In the span of a minute, Stolmeier connected on a pass from Sorba and then reciprocated the act.
After being held scoreless for 26 minutes, Clark notched back-to-back goals which narrowed its deficit to five (9-4). MIT responded with extra-man strikes from Ballentine and Sherry and an unassisted goal by Sorba. The Cougars closed the game with an extra-man and a man-down goal during the final 5:14.


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Lina Germi's Parma Kitchen
When I went to Parma, Italy a few months ago, I asked everywhere I went if someone, anyone, would let me into their home kitchen for a tour. It wasn't until the final day that a taxi-driver's dispatcher offered her mother's place right in central Parma.
Lina Germi and her husband, an electrician, live in a house originally used as wine shop and trattoria in the early 1800s. Signora Germi, a tiny woman who wears a tie every single day, says that despite her retirement, she works more now than ever, feeding her children, nephews and grandchildren, and she has a freezer full of handmade tortellini to prove it.
Signora Germi's kitchen is spotless and what little she puts in it is totally organized, right down to the spacing of the bags of flour in the petite refrigerator. The fridge only has what she needs: flour, Parmegiano, Prosciutto di Parma (not kidding about the last two), butter, and eggs. She buys produce daily and that small loot sits in a basket quietly outside the kitchen door. The place is almost lab-like in its regimentation. Yet when you meet Lina, she charms you with her winking eye and deep laugh and there is nothing about being with her that feels clinical.
When they moved in, they remodeled the kitchen making it more spacious, airy and modern. She decided to splurge and get racy red cabinets, but when the cabinets arrived, they were blue. "Vabbè," she said. "Oh well." Though her kitchen has a great work triangle, crosses over the doors blessing the space, and little careful touches like having all the labels of her oils and vinegars turned out the same way, she doesn't seem to care too much for the design. This is a working home cook's kitchen. It's a place that's all about turning out pasta ("no dolci!") for her extended family who visit daily.
When she took me into the basement where she now has a full bar I asked her if they drink a lot of wine, given the way they had dedicated an entire floor of the home to it. She said not much, occasionally on Sundays. My fantasies of an Italian family who cooks every day and lives in what used to be a wine shop and restaurant were dashed!
She made up for the loss of the red cabinets by buying herself a red couch and painting the china cabinet bright red, where she insisted we pose together for a photo.
As I left I finally asked about that tie. "I wear a tie all day, even to cook and clean." I asked if she wore a dress in her wedding and she replied "Yes, and that was the last day I ever did."
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Greenville County sheriff's deputies say containers and contents from a meth lab were found in a wooded area near an Upstate golf club.
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CARROLLTON, Ga. – Sparked by 20 points off the bench from senior Brandi McKinney (Cincinnati), the Georgia College women's basketball team (1-0) started the 2013-14 season with a win at the University of West Georgia (0-1) 65-61 Saturday.
The Bobcats are now 4-1 in their last five season openers, avenging last year's loss to the Wolves at home.
McKinney played 33 minutes off the pine, hitting 3-of-6 from behind the arc and all seven of her free-throw attempts for her second 20-point game in a Bobcat uniform. She added six boards, two assists and two steals for good measure.
Junior Enisha Donley (Loganville, Ga.) had 12 points on 5-of-8 shooting, while Shanteona Keys (Roswell, Ga.) joined the duo in double digits with 11 points.
Senior Thresia Elskamp (Potosi, Wis.) had team highs with nine rebounds, four assists and five steals.
The Bobcats stumbled out of the gate, trailing 10-4 early. A short rally gave Georgia College a lead at 14-12 on a pair of free throws at the 11:35 mark. Georgia College took over for the remainder of the half, leading 34-24 at the break.
The Wolves chipped away, eventually tying the game 60-60 on a layup by Angela Davis. Donley made a jumper to put Georgia College up two, then the Bobcats iced it with free-throws.
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The Bobcats are back in action Friday, Nov. 22 in tournament action at the University of North Georgia, battling Shorter College at 4 p.m.
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Huge Stamford party ends with arrest
STAMFORD -- A city man who had been challenging people to fights at a large party on the East Side early Sunday morning fled when officers arrived, but was later caught when he returned to the party, police said Monday.
Mario Gomez-Ascom, 39, of 88 Lockwood Ave., Stamford, was charged with breach of peace and resisting arrest. He was held in lieu of $2,500 bond.
Sgt. Kelly Connelly said police were called to Lockwood Avenue at around midnight Saturday because of loud music. When they arrived, they found about 150 people at a party going full swing, Connelly said.
One of the party-goers pointed out Gomez-Ascom, who lives in the multifamily residence where the festivities were being held, and told police he was being very aggressive and trying to start a fight.
Police talked to him and tried to get him outside, but he broke away and ran down Lockwood Avenue to Lillian Street. Officers thought they had lost him, until he turned up back at the party a few minutes later, Connelly said.
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First, we need a corporate logo for "Organic Nutrients". If you look at other succesful products like Advanced Nutrients, and Vermicrop, they all seem to have some sort of plant-like symbol attached to the text of their name. You can go in that direction, or create something unique. The key is to center on the "Organic" nature of our product. We may use the name "Rainforest Frass" or "BioMass Frass" for our first product. It would be nice to see a logo for "Organic Nutrients" seperate and distinct from any product label and a label for Rainforest Frass and or BioMass Frass, but that may be another contest. Have fun!
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While promoting "On the Road," Kristen was asked how she and estranged boyfriend Robert Pattinson would handle doing press together for the new "Twilight" movie, she told reporters, "We're going to be fine. We're totally fine."
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The ice-covered and remote Polar Regions are still insufficiently known. The exploration of the Antarctic continent and the ice-covered Arctic oceans and the surrounding continental margins are however necessary to understand the interactions of solid earth, oceans, glaciations, atmosphere, and biosphere. Geoscientists of the BGR systematically contribute to the knowledge of the geological and structural edifice of the Polar Regions, which involves also the application of geophysical methods particularly in unexposed areas.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The rankings say Notre Dame is No. 1 going into the BCS championship against Alabama. Plenty of folks aren't buying it, starting with the oddsmakers who have the Crimson Tide as about a 10-point favorite for the Jan. 7 meeting in Miami between two of college football's proudest programs.
The Fighting Irish aren't sweating the point spread. In fact, it's pretty much business as usual for Notre Dame, which has a chance to become the first team since 1984 to start the season unranked and end it as national champions.
"Everybody thought everybody was better than us," defensive tackle Louis Nix III said Monday. "Oklahoma was better than us. USC was better than us.
"We get it. We know how everyone thinks. We're just Notre Dame. Overrated Notre Dame. No one gives us credit for anything. Just the luck of the Irish, I guess."
History suggests that being the underdog in the BCS title game hasn't been a bad thing. Of the 14 BCS championship games played since the system was implemented in 1998, seven have been won by the underdog.
It's impossible to quantify what, if any, effect being the underdog has actually had on any of those "upsets." Any team that gets to a championship game must be good in the first place.
Whether Notre Dame can or will use the slights – real or perceived – as motivation remains to be seen.
"I've used the technique before during my time as a head coach," Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said about playing the underdog card. "I don't know that that is pertinent because it's a one-game deal. It's all or nothing.
"Both teams have different dynamics to deal with because of the long layoff. Preparation is more important than any kind of fire and brimstone speech that I can bring to them."
Offensive coordinator Chuck Martin said the coaches don't even need to bring it up. The Fighting Irish have played all season like a team with something to prove.
"I think it's a little bit part of our kids' DNA now," he said. "We don't have to use it as much as maybe early in the year when we went on the road to Michigan State and they were ranked eighth and nobody was thinking we were very good. I think we've kind of just built it into who we are. Everybody likes telling us what we're not good at – which is fine by us. One of our strengths is knowing what we're not very good at. We try to play to our strengths and play away from our weaknesses."
It's a style that has led to more than a few close calls on the way to Miami.
Notre Dame beat Purdue and BYU by three points each. The Irish needed three overtimes to beat Pittsburgh by a field goal and went to overtime against Stanford, too. In both the Pitt and Stanford games, Notre Dame caught a few breaks. A missed field goal here, a questionable call by the officials there.
Meanwhile, except for its upset loss to Texas A&M, Alabama has rarely been challenged on its way to a third BCS title game appearance in the past four seasons.
The Tide is outscoring its opponents by an average of 28 points per game. Notre Dame's average margin of victory is 16 points per game, as the Irish have leaned on Heisman Trophy finalists Manti Te'o and a stellar defense while they developed first-year starting quarterback Everett Golson.
"I understand why people say Alabama's going to win," said Nix, the 325-pound anchor of Notre Dame's defensive front. "Great offensive line. Good quarterback. Great guys on the edge. They've been in the national championship twice in the last three years. I would probably pick Alabama, too.
"At the end of the day it's all about what's on the scoreboard."
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For the first time in decades, a pair of whooping cranes in Louisiana has built a nest outside captivity. But biologists say they don't expect eggs this year because the birds are too young.
The big cranes — some of the world's rarest and tallest birds — generally don't mature sexually before age 4, and they lay their first fertile eggs when they're 4 to 7 years old. This female is 2 and the male is 3, said Bo Boehringer, spokesman for the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Robert Love, the department's administrator of coastal and nongame resources, said there's another telling sign that this nest is a "dummy." Whooping cranes are very protective of their eggs, but this pair isn't chasing other birds away. Love said they also leave the area for two to three days at a time.
If one of the 27 birds in Louisiana's experimental flock raises a chick, it would be the first recorded outside captivity in the state since 1939.
The graceful cranes stand nearly 5 feet tall with a 7 1/2-foot wingspan. Just over 500 survive, all descended from 15 that lived in coastal Texas in the 1940s.
This year's nest, in the middle of a huge crawfish pond in southwest Louisiana, is the first biologists have seen for any of the 40 birds released at White Lake since early 2011. Love won't say just where it is to protect the birds and the farmer's privacy.
"Ultimately I hope we have more like a thousand whooping cranes in Louisiana, and all these farmers are making ecotourism dollars" with tours, Love said.
For now, the flock's growth will remain slow. Once they mature, breeding pairs generally raise one chick a year.
A review this year will decide whether to continue adding young birds to Louisiana's experimental flock. The only natural and self-sustaining flock consists of about 250 whoopers that migrate between northern Canada and Texas.
Whooping cranes mate for life, forming what biologists call a pair bond — though if one mate dies the survivor will take a new one.
"This is the only pair bond that we have," Love said of the two that most recently built the dummy nest. "We had one last year and the male got killed by coyotes."
He said that pair didn't build any nests, though they jumped and tossed sticks, as cranes often do before they mate. He didn't know whether they ever did a full-blown mating dance. Biologists haven't seen the current pair in a mating dance, he said.
Love said Louisiana biologists called their counterparts in Florida, where whooping cranes were first led by ultralight planes in 2001, to ask what they can expect. "They said some of their young birds would make seven of these dummy nests without defending them in a single year," Love said.
The Louisiana birds are two of 10 hatched in 2010 and released in early 2011; 12 of 16 born and released in 2011, and 13 of 14 released last December. The 14th bird released in December went missing in February, Boehringer said in an email. The bird's transmitter stopped working, and searches turned up nothing. The bird is presumed dead, he said.
None of the birds live around White Lake, where all 40 were released. One lives in the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge and some are living in St. Mary Parish marshland, but most spend their time in rice fields and crawfish ponds, Love said.
"It seems like the agricultural landscape is managed wetlands that all wading birds love," he said.
That makes farmers' cooperation crucial to the birds' survival.
The nesting season in central Florida runs from January to May. The eggs take about a month to hatch and fledglings can fly when they're 80 to 90 days old, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission.
If farmers accept them and are willing to work around their nests, their fields often stay flooded into June, Love said.
"There's not much difference between ... shallow water impoundment in Rockefeller and 6 inches of water in a rice field, from a wading bird's standpoint — whether you're an ibis, an egret, a black-necked stilt or a whooping crane," he said.
And, eggless or not, the nest-building has state biologists taking notice.
"We're excited that they're taking a progressive step and trying to experiment," Love said.
Janet McConnaughey of The Associated Press wrote this report.
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I've been terrible about posting recently, I know. Part of that is due to the fact that I didn't feel I had anything particularly interesting to say, part of it is because my del.icio.us account is really my blog, and part of it was because I have been avoiding computer use at home like the plague due to recent overuse injuries and paranoia that I'm getting carpal tunnel. (Are all medical librarians hypochondriacs? That's a post for another time, I suppose.) In any case, I would never say that it is because I am too busy. Lazy, sure. Too busy? No.
And why is that? Frankly, because saying that you are "too busy" to do x, y, or z just insults the people around you who are doing x, y, and z. I read an article quite some time ago called "Librarianship and the culture of busy." I really liked it the first time I read it (I mean, really now, who ISN'T annoyed when everyone around you keeps talking about how busy they are?), but events of late have made me particularly attuned to the whole "I'm just too busy" mantra.
Here's a quote from that article:
Librarians engage in this battle for superiority, based not on individual accomplishments, we're far too modest for that, but rather on one's "volume of busy". The point of this battle is to prove that we do more and have less free time than our peers, and are thus more important. We have so much on our plates, we cannot possibly take on another thing, so we are increasingly forgiven from additional contribution by nature of our busy excellence.
In the days after reading this article, I came across this same theme over and over again, both in the blogosphere and in my own life. In the blogosphere, it most seems to relate to being too busy to learn or too busy to use social software tools. Here's a sampling of some posts:
- More on community (David Lee King) – He says, ""I'm too busy" – this isn't the fault of front-line staff. I think this excuse (that's what it is, after all) falls squarely into management's lap. Is a blog important to your library? Is the interaction and growth that can be had via a social network part of your library's strategic plan?"
- Creating a technology tutorial (Library 2.0 – An Academic's Perspective) – The discussion covers more of the actual references to time and learning, but the whole post is very interesting
- Making time (Academic Librarian) – "The difference between these librarians and some of us more kept-up librarians isn't that some of us work like we're in a library sweatshop and others of us just goof off playing around with social software or something. It's a difference of priorities."
Of course the ones I am really interested in are the ones that have cropped up after the MLA Task Force on Social Networking Software survey results analysis was released. For those of you who read David's blog and the Krafty Librarian blog, or even for those of you who follow the task force's blog, you will have seen that hospital librarians were not only less likely to use blogs professionally and personally, but that they were much more likely to think that blogs were of little importance to MLA's sections, chapters, SIG's, and etc.
The responses to the task force results in the blogosphere, particularly in the comments on these posts, mention one or more themes, the biggest one of which is time–hospital librarians don't have the time to learn or use these tools. First of all, may I remind everyone that David, Michelle, and Mark are all hospital library bloggers? And that David and Michelle are both solo librarians? Clearly, even if you are incredibly busy, you can make the time–if you want to. T. Scott made what I think was the best point of the whole discussion in a comment on the Krafty Librarian's blog. He said,
"Hospital librarians feel they are always pressed for time." So do academic librarians. Ask the most productive folks in my library and they will tell you they always feel they are running behind, they're always working extra hours trying to catch up, and they never feel that they have enough time to get the essentials done, much less have time for the "extras". That being said, with more people, it is possible to specialize some and spread the work in different ways. And there is probably also a culture in academic institutions that supports experimentation more than is the case in hospitals. So academics may end up having a little more flexibility over how they distribute their time (depending on how much support they have from administration); but they don't feel any less pressed.
One of his points is exactly the point that the "Culture of Busyness" article made–everyone is busy. Let's all just realize we are all busy. Academic librarians don't sit around all day, and those of us who do keep up to date with new technologies aren't slackers who don't have anything else better to do. It is a question of priorities, and though there may be good reasons why hospital librarians don't use blogs (restricted access, hospital guidelines, a culture that doesn't support experimentation, less flexibility, etc), busyness or lack of time as the reasoning is just an excuse and frankly an insult to those people who make time.
This post has largely been a gut reaction to the blog malaise post on the UBC Google Scholar blog, and though I can't nicely tie in my commentary here, that whole post is ripe for discussion. One of the things that he mentions is that there are very few top names in medical librarianship blogging.
In some of their recent posts, Michelle Kraft and David Rothman have pointed out that there are very few hospital librarians who blog or care to blog. Do you know very many top names in medical librarianship (with the exception of T. Scott) that blog? Furthermore, with the exception of Mark Rabnett in Winnipeg, I know of very few new hospital librarian bloggers. We've had maybe a handful of new medical librarian bloggers in the last calendar year.
I'll just point out that Jane Blumenthal blogs, Mark Funk blogs, practically all of the tech-oriented medical librarians are blogging at the Task Force blog or elsewhere, and I have seen multiple new medical librarian bloggers who don't just have link blogs. I may personally have gotten blog malaise, but I think there has been a huge upsurge in medical librarian blogging in the past few months. And I find that really exciting.


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Don Bayes, Sr., age 62, of Adrian passed away peacefully, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, at his home, surrounded by his loving family.
Don Bayes, Sr., age 62, of Adrian passed away peacefully, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, at his home, surrounded by his loving family.
He was born Feb. 11, 1951, in Adrian, to Richard B. and Phyllis (Fowle) Bayes, Sr. On Sept. 8, 1978, Don married Renee Louise Reno and she survives. He was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church.
Don was self-employed in many aspects of construction and received many Golden Hammer Awards and national awards for innovation in home improvements. He enjoyed yardwork, spending time with his family, and helping others. He was a loving husband, father, brother, uncle and grandfather who treasured his loving grandchildren, whom he would do anything for.
In addition to his wife of 35 years, Renee, Don is survived by his three sons, Don (Amy) Bayes, Jr. of Ypsilanti, Doug Bayes and Coty Bayes of Adrian; two daughters, Karissa Kubacki of Adrian and Brieana (Corey) Corona of Somerset Center, Mich.; two brothers, Richard (Mary Lou) Bayes, Jr. of Hudson and Ronald (Jean) Bayes of The Villages, Fla.; 14 grandchildren, Ashleigh, Megan, Scottie, Eric, Gage, Karter, Kira, Aubrieanne, Rilee, Ryder, Alexandria, Cassandra, Kyle and James David; his father-in-law, Norm Reno; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. He was preceded in death by his son, Dougie; his parents, Phyllis and Richard, Sr.; and his mother-in-law, LaDonna Reno.
Funeral services for Don will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20, 2013, at the Anderson Funeral Home, Adrian, with his brother, Deacon Richard Bayes officiating. Interment will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday and from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Anderson Funeral Home, Adrian.
You may send condolences to the family at www.andersonfuneralservices.com. Memorial contributions may be made to the family of Don Bayes. Envelopes are available at the Anderson Funeral Home, Adrian.


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Package Quality: 5.0
Price: $$$$
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Sophomore co-captain Jordan Wilson finished third in the Vanderbilt Commodore Classic this weekend leading the Bisons to second place in Division I competition. Wilson finished the 8K race in 27:53.
Freshman David Wolfe finished in the top ten as well with a time of 29:08 for 9th place. Paul Irvin placed 11th (29:24), Jared Carlson placed 13th (29:42), Andrew Shankles placed 16th (30:35), and Tim Cotton placed 20th (32:56).
Ryan Chastain who finished first in both of the previous races didn't compete this week and Co-Captain Clint Carter is still recovering from an injury.
Vanderbilt placed 1st at the meet and Tennessee Tech and Tennessee State finished 3rd and 4th.
There were 28 Division I runners and 62 competitors overall.
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About TheSteelGeneral
... if you think that Repukes are supporting LESS intervention on the Net. They only want to give Big Corp the power to rule the net, so they get bribes and kickbacks. "senators" like rand paul are batshit crazies who think that freedom only applies to the rich or white (see: his Civil Rights stance)
I wouldn't mind seeing commercials now in the way I see these announcements for follow up programs. Just as long as they don't interfere with content ... much. Let's say, bottom of the screen, 20 percent max. Sure, they'd lose some money, but I don't remember signing up to make some a-holes rich.
Sorry, what misleading statistic is that?
Could it be the statistic (= common sense, but measured in cold hard numbers) that tells us the gap between rich and poor in these United States is ever widening?
In the seventies, a companies President made about 75 times what Joe Sixpack made. Now, that's a staggering 450 times.
Could be the statistic that the government funded Harvard School of Economics calculated of 45,000 (that's FORTY FIVE THOUSAND) Americans dying each year because of not enough health care coverage. It was healthier to live in Dickensian times. Ooh wait, Harvard is NOT EVEN funded by the government but privately!
But you know:
The fact that you parrot any misleading statistic the the Heritage foundation/Teabaggers/FoKKKs puts out without critical thought does TOO do you justice ... since it reveals you as the moron you are.
"I suspect that statistically speaking, most of the people behind this are heterosexual. Regardless, it is irrelevant to how badly they behave."
I suspect that statistically speaking, most of the people behind this are white christians (or rather, thinking of themselves as christians). Sadly, that is VERY relevant to how badly they behave, which is very bad indeed.
But .... it won't be held against them, since they are "real" Americans ....
and pray do tell us what precise flavor of Ron Paulism you prefer? is it the Good Ol' racist Ron Paul? The anti-abortion Ron Paul? or the new and Improved-its-not Randy Paulism?
Oh sorry, you're not a fan? so called libertarian perhaps? Please do tell, the suspense is killing ... sorry, boring me to death.
Things that Obama does differently:
Established the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. ref
Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010. ref, ref
Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act.
Established new offshore investment policy that promotes in-sourcing.
but, feel free to yell tax-and-spend from the top of your lungs, we've only heard that one 11,583 times, room for more.
Civil Rights
- Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act; Instituted equal pay for women.
- Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act to include gender, sexual orientation and disability.
- The repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT).
- Increased minority access to capital
The Economy Has Been Growing, The Private Sector Has Begun to Add Jobs and GDP would have been lower without the Recovery Act, Unemployment would have been higher without ARRA the STIMULUS
I know, you listen to FoKKKs and they tell you that the stimulus is actually your tax money going to poor blacks so they can live in the lap of luxury, like innercity Detroit, the lower ninth ward of New Orleans (where they aren't living anymore, btw, cos it's been seized to build homes for rich whites)
Jobs for Main Street Act (2010).
American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010.
Job training programs in clean technologies for displaced workers
CBO found 3.7 Million jobs created by stimulus (May 2010). http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/801-economy/99915-cbo-finds-stimulus-bill-boosted-job-growth
Sorry, I can't help you. If your anti-governmentism makes you so blind that you can't see the difference between Obama and Bush, you're beyond repair.
Really, again:
don't come to me with some type of "both equally bad" message, cos it's a load of BS.
Time and again, Democrats and Obama take measures that aim to strenghten the middle class and yes, even the poor! I know, helping the poor via taxes it's really sacrilegous in Teabaggers eyes, but that's why they're teabaggers.
Look at the health care measures alone, the fact that he saved the financial system.
Anyone who claims Obama is "just as bad" is either lying, stupid, a troll or wilfully ignorant. Probably all of the above.
Very nice that you're against both, but you seem to be drinking the Kool-aid of insane anti-governmentism (btw, where did you all get this idea that goverment is inherently bad? that taxes are bad? http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=7&p=4)
Or is it the Kool-aid of fake-libertarian fantasy "Independents"? Who claims to be neutral is just a too much of a coward to choose one or the other, it's as simple as that.
The retreat of the socially progressive, moderate rightwingers into some fantasy-"both sides are equally bad"-land is perhaps understandable, but should be rejected with full force.
We are BETTER people than rightwingers, and they know it. They are the ones who are lying through their teeth, and they know it.
They're being hypocrites about their Family Values and they know it. They all vote for prostitute lovers like Vitter, cheaters like McCain, Gingrich and Giuliani.
They have an insane anti-government rhetoric, which says: Don't tax, but spend MORE on guns killing brown people.
Don't tax, but just export our jobs overseas.
So, don't come to me with some type of "both equally bad" message, cos it's a load of BS.
TSA is NOT lying. There is such a thing as a Supremacy Clause (I love it when supreme-racists get struck down by something that's called the Supremacy Clause!!)
which says that Federal law is more important than local Podunkakadunk law, especially where it concerns INTERSTATE COMMERCE, and tiny things like oh say ... preventing Americans getting blown up!
What, do you think this some game? That some imaginary Washington bureacrat is sitting in his office thinking every day: "Now, how can I Fcuk up the lives of Americans today?" Ooops sorry, perhaps you think he should think "Real" Americans?
Even if you think there's some liberal elitist bureaucrat who came up via a scholarship in Washington (how anyone can study on a scholarship and still be an elitist is beyond me, but I know it makes perfect sense to your feverish paranoid little minds) doing this "just to get back at us", perhaps you should think about WHY he might wanna "get back" at you. Is it because "real" Americans were racist against him and people like him? Is it because, after enslaving people like for 300 years, you've started lynching them, denying them homes, loans and education?
Maybe. I mean, who could resent all that? Who could be so ungrateful not to be thankful for 300 years of slavery?
The larger issue is of course, the sudden discovery of civil liberties by the ReichWing. They had no problems with the Patriot Act, but against the TSA? All of a sudden THEY want civil liberties, "probable cause", to the point that they don't mind the chance of being blown to pieces in the air?
Bunch of hypocrites.
Oh wait. Of course its not about them wanting civil liberties. It's about them telling the Feds to go fcuk themselves. Well, I got news for you, although it's very old (but your kind doesn't read newspapers, so...)
This matter has been already settled in the 19th century!!
TSA outranks whatever the Texas legislature comes up with regarding interstate affairs and security.
And if the Feds can't do their jobs, that's because Repukes have bled the Federal Govt dry. Up to the point where it's now a failed state.
This is America first, then Texas. States come second. If it's the other way round, you either start a war, again! or move to Europe. ... Oh wait ... they have REAL governments, not the bought and paid for by Big Corp kind we have here.
This does remind me of GOP tactic of defunding IRS because ... they don't like taxes. (the gop? who knew?)
Then complaining about the debt.
So, they'll neuter the TSA to nothing.
Then complain about terrorism.
you pose a false dichotomy, aka Strawman:
It's not the producers that were argued against earlier, but the photographer. The example that was given, was if you ask a random passerby to take a picture of you, HE then has the copyright. This is a ridiculous interpretation of the law, most anybody can see that.
But even your strawman, the producers, are weak. It ain't necessarily so. I can see that you would think that, being a capitalist and all that, but it's actually the director. read a lawbook.
on matters of national security, the Federal Government DOES TOO have that right, are you all crazy? Do you prefer to be blown up or something? the fact that you all are ignorant about what the constitution says, and how many would-be bombers the TSA caught does NOT mean you're entitled to your own set of facts.
The best thing about this issue that 90% of people screaming about this, were cheering the Patriot Act and still support that.
A govt agent spying on you could detect a whole lot of stuff, like creditcard data, where you keep your cash and who your wife is screwing besides you.
But you're okay with that, and you take the chance of being blown up in an airplane for granted. That makes no sense. Then again, it's Texans doing most of the yelling ...
if you're okay with the govt spying on you, you're okay with the govt patting you down. Oh wait ..... is it because this time a black dude "ordered them to do that". Do you feel violated cos Obama's president? Well, feel violated no more, cos it was buddy D0bya who started all of this.
Everyone knows that most if not all, missing person are blacks, Latinos and Asians, and they LIKE to be beaten up, murdered or raped, so of course the FBI is gonna prioritize money over missing persons!!! Unless it's a pretty blond rich girl, like Elizabeth Smart, or Natalee Holloway, missing persons are NEVER gonna get FBI agents basking in the shine of national media coverage, and who's gonna get them a lifetime multiplex subscription? Not those missing persons, bubba.
It's high time for this new phrase "Despite Obama ..."
In this case it goes like this:
"Even despite Obama, these things keep happening!"
@Mighty Buzzard: "That said, capitalism, like anything else, taken to the utmost extreme winds up being a pretty bad idea. Which is why we go nowhere near pure capitalism here in the US."
Yah. the scary thing is, you prolly believe that. it's not pure capitalism, but it's REALLY NEAR pure capitalism!
In the end RepuKKKes support feudalism, or oligarchy: The rich and big companies decide everything. Democrats are more on the side of the people, defending them against Big Corp and Big gov.
Besides, Government Intervention is GOOD, except when it's done to save big companies. That wasn't the case with the bailout, since that was more about saving the system for the people (but RepuKKKe senators managed to cut themselves and Big Corp special deals) than about saving companies.
Who really believes FoKKKs anymore, save for stupid Palin-lovers, but those also believe the earth is 6000 years old, so do the math.


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Few community colleges boast an award-winning talk radio show but, for the past year, Bristol Community College staff hosts Kevin Spirlet and Patrick Stone have hit the airwaves to great acclaim.
SOMERSET — Few community colleges boast an award-winning talk radio show but, for the past year, Bristol Community College staff hosts Kevin Spirlet and Patrick Stone have hit the airwaves to bring students news about everything from new programs on campus to keeping New Year's resolutions.
"I said, 'Why don't we do a radio show?'" said Stone, a former radio journalist turned marketing specialist for BCC. "We didn't expect to win an award for it."
The weekly show, called "OnCourse with Bristol Community College" and broadcast Monday afternoons on Somerset's WSAR-AM 1480, became a hit on campus and in nearby towns, drawing feedback from students and residents alike, Stone said. OnCourse episodes also make up 10 of the top 12 podcasts on WSAR's website, he added.
Stone and Spirlet, a media specialist at BCC, worked together to start the program last February to bring BCC news to the community that departed from a typical marketing pitch or advertisement and that could connect them to the campus, they said.
"We meet a lot of students. It connects us to what's happening on the ground," Spirlet said.
And as far as they know, they're one of the only community colleges putting on a show like this.
"It was sort of a bizarre idea when we launched it," Stone said. "We're lucky that WSAR is letting us use the media like this."
That "bizarre idea" eventually garnered some national recognition, however, with the pair recently taking home a "Bronze Medallion Award" from the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations.
A panel of guests typically joins Spirlet and Stone for live broadcasts and past shows have featured the college's eHealth nursing program, BCC President John Sbrega and world-renowned mime Michael Grando — who could talk on the radio even if he can't during performances, Stone said.
The pair taped a show Thursday about the college's new paralegal associates degree, bringing faculty and a student guest into a cramped, back-room studio at WSAR to talk about what the program is and why people should consider it.
Searching for stories, finding guests and drawing them out of their shells on the radio gives BCC an idea of what students want and how they think, Stone said.
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MBTA Police say the man took the back from the undercover officer when his back was turned.
BOSTON - A 25-year old Whitman man faces a charge that he stole an MBTA detective's backpack while the officer's back was turned at South Station.
The detective, part of the T's Special Crimes Unit, was in plain clothes Monday night just before 10 p.m. when Cory Deboer allegedly engaged the detective in conversation and then took his backpack, containing police gear, the MBTA Police said on its website.
Deboer was charged with larceny and was expected to be arraigned Tuesday.
More in Wednesday's print edition.


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Eyesore is an ugly word. Yet compared to how Maria Meniago described her hospital's 10,000 square foot asphalt courtyard, 'eyesore' is diplomatic. Meniago is vice president of facilities management at the 451bed The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
"Our hospital was built on three sides around this horrible monstrosity," Meniago says bluntly. "There were a few planters scattered around with ugly bald trees. That's it."
When the hospital renovated its underground conference center in the mid 2000s—the courtyard is actually the conference center's old roof—it was also time to do something about the 'monstrosity.'
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey landscape contractor Steve Wilson wanted the job. Having done maintenance there for years, he knew the space intimately. He wanted the job so much that he did a plan on spec, envisioning a welcoming garden with a lawn, sculptures, trees, benches and pathways.
The hospital loved his vision, gave the Wilson Horticultural Group a budget, and told him to get to work. They named it the Friendship Garden.
That was more easily said than done. Access would be a problem. There was but a single opening to the west. Nor was the roof strong enough to support heavy equipment. That meant that everything needed to be toted in by hand, under a sweltering mid-summer sun.
Of major concern was that, no matter what work was to be done, it had to be done quietly. Patients were recovering in rooms on two sides of the courtyard. "Plus, we didn't want Dr. So-and-So to worry about construction noise while he was doing open heart surgery," Wilson recalls with a smile.
"We put down thousands of pavers," Wilson recalls. "Each paver weighed up to 62 pounds. My guys carried those in, one by one." When the garden was completed, there were 3,000 square feet of pavers on the ground.
As for paver placement, the roof would have been too stressed if the pavers had been laid directly atop the asphalt. To distribute the weight more evenly, and to help with drainage, each paver was laid atop a "waffle" of rubber pedestals about 1/4" thick and the size of a cigarette pack. Wilson varied the height of the waffle to account for variations in the roofing. Water drained out from under the pavers into the regular sewage system.
Planting was done in four-foot-by-four-foot boxes eight inches deep, in a custom blend of topsoil, sand, peat moss, and humus. Like the pavers, these boxes were brought in one-by-one, because of their weight.
The courtyard's configuration, with structure on three sides, spelled major temperature variations. No matter what the season, half the garden is in constant sun, while the other is in constant shade. Wilson had to account for these variations in everything from plant material choices to turf and bench placement.
Finally, there were elements that could not be moved. A permanent stairwell leads from the center of the roof down into the underground conference center. There was an external air conditioning unit, piping and the like. All needed some sort of design treatment.
Wilson says the best entrance to the Friendship Garden is from the west, where it abuts the hospital parking lot. (There's another door leading in from the employee cafeteria). He notes that those looking east from the parking lot can't see the garden, and those looking west from the garden couldn't see the parking lot. A large stand of bamboo trees planted between the two created a green barrier.
From that entrance, you step onto one of the Friendship Garden's paver paths. This one is three-feet wide. On the right side is native plant material: rhododedrons, azaleas, dogwood trees, and various shaded perennials. A copper beech tree provides color not far from the stand of bamboo. On the left are liriope, clethra, and flowering plants appropriate for full sun.
From here, you reach another stand of bamboo. This one is larger —probably 20 feet high. Wilson reports that it's teeming with life: both birds and butterflies call it home. There are benches on both sides made of Ipe wood. The three-foot wide walkway continues for another 40 feet.
There, the path opens into a larger seating area, with more benches. In front of you now is one of the two original sculptures in the garden—a three-pillared water-spilling piece by the Culver City, California artist Sean So. This sculpture rests on an artistic stainless steel catch-basin, which seamlessly recycles the water up to the top of the pillars.
"It's built in such a way that it's not a cigarette butt receptacle, and not a place for people to toss good-luck pennies," Wilson explains. "In our original design, we were thinking about the concept of a sculpture or a pond—I think I wrote in, 'water feature'—and I contacted So. His piece is that water feature. If I had been thinking some soothing, waterfall, cutesy thing, his sculpture showed me what could really be done. It was flown out in pieces; he assembled it in place, and I just said, 'Wow, wow, wow!' when I saw it."
The second piece of art in the Friendship Garden is by Brooklyn, New York sculptor Ron Mehlman. Placed in the middle of the garden lawn, Wilson represented it in his original plans simply with a circle and the word, "sculpture."
"The hospital president saw that notation on the plans and just ran with it. She found the artist. The piece represents life. It's two people becoming one," Wilson explains.
"Two sides of the lawn are bounded by the building, and two sides by pathways. One of the paver paths is narrow, but the other is a full ten-feet wide. On the wide pathway are four Ipe wood planters. In those planters are our magnolia trees." (Since the time of the garden's creation, a third sculpture, by Vermont artist Richard Erdman, has been installed.)
Wilson took special pains with the planters, custom-building them from Ipe wood, and crafting an 18-inch wide shelf around each of the planter's decks. "They're big enough for people to sit on," Wilson relates proudly. "I've seen some people leaning on them, eating their lunches, or reading." In between the planters are specially crafted backless benches, so garden visitors can face whatever direction they would like.
As for that unsightly stairwell, Wilson hid it behind a gleaming black granite wall. Hospital donors can have their names carved into that granite.
Wilson not only built the Friendship Garden, but also maintains it. Maintenance requires making special allowances for the garden's location, particularly in terms of noise. Mowing, for example, is done with a 21" push mower, during off-hours. Leaves are raked in- stead of blown. Shrubs are hand-pruned, perennial plants are hand-pinched, and snow-and-ice removal is done with shovels and picks in- stead of power equipment. Much is accomplished during off-hours— even in the dead of night!—so that visitors won't be distracted by the maintenance."You should see it now," Meniago says with pride. "I've watched people in the lobby stop in their tracks, move to the big window, and gaze at how beautiful it is. Four thousand people see that garden every day."
Patients, visitors, and staff aren't the only ones who took notice of Wilson's work. The project earned the New Jersey Landscape Contractors Association's (NJLCA) prestigious "Award of Excellence for Commercial Design/ Build: Over $150,000 Category" in 2007. In addition, since Wilson's firm does all the maintenance for the Friendship Garden, his company also garnered the 2011 NJLCA "Award of Excellence for Maintenance: Commercial."
Gail Woolcott, in charge of operations at the NJCLA, confirms that it's the first time in the Association's history that a landscape contractor has won awards for both constructing and maintaining the same project.
"Hospitals are emotional places, so I wanted to construct a spiritual environment," Wilson says. "I wanted it tranquil and welcoming— a place that represents the continuity of life, in a location where life is fought for. I'm telling you, there's something holy about that garden."
It's hard to argue with Wilson's assessment. A story he tells about the grand opening of the garden in 2007 underscores his point.
"On opening day," he recounts, "I was there at six a.m., setting up for the ceremonies. I came into the garden, and I see some guy walking along, and I wonder, 'Who's out here at this hour?' " It turned out that the sunrise visitor was a friend of Wilson's, a deacon from his church, who had made an unannounced visit to the garden to offer a blessing. "Well, he blessed it in front of me," Wilson reminisces. "Immediately after, it started to rain. It was like tears of joy from heaven."
Sanctified from on high or not, there's no doubt that the Friendship Garden is a year-round center of calm amidst the high emotion and intense effort of saving lives and helping the sick and injured get better. That's a blessing in and of itself.