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'Bullshot' hits mark
"Bullshot Crummond" is just what we needed to shake off the winter blahs! What a kick! Superb acting, directing, props and sound, including Bill Weiler at the keyboard.
Thanks to all talented people who helped bring this little gem back to life!
Maria Kollas
Hood River
Looking deeper
The juxtaposition of two recent letters (Feb. 9) was just too interesting for me not to comment. In "Seek truth on global warming," Dr. Don Rose cited information from a group called "Friends of Science" that rebukes the idea that increased C02 is the main driver of global warming.
In the next letter "Respect other views," Kristine Wilhelm asks us to examine the source of information we read and to question the opinions that are so often presented as facts. Taking Ms. Wilhelm's advice, I googled "Friends of Science" (aka FoS). In 2006, Toronto's leading newspaper, Globe and Mail, revealed that FoS had received substantial funding from the oil and gas industry. In 2007, the University of Calgary audited FoS and determined that the group had a "partisan viewpoint on climate change." The University got a cease and desist order demanding that FoS stop saying they were affiliated with the university.
Friends of Science, a group of Canadian climate change deniers, is a "front" group for the oil and gas industry. Dr. Rose's letter, by citing misleading information on climate change, is one small cog in the huge public relations machine funded by oil and gas companies to create the illusion that there is doubt in the scientific community on climate change.
Confusing the public with self-serving, corporate-funded false science is the same tactic the tobacco industry used to delude the public on the health threat of tobacco and fight any attempt to regulate cigarettes.
As to Ms. Wilhelm, Nathan Salter didn't say that anyone was less intelligent. His point was that Fox news viewers are misinformed and subject to right wing propaganda. It's not intelligence; it's judgment.
There have been seven published studies that found Fox viewers were the least informed about current events versus viewers of other sources. The Fox Effect: the more you watch, the less you know!
Guy Tauscher
Hood River
Gun points to consider
Consider these facts: The U.S. Constitution says the reason for the gun amendment is "a well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State…." That need is now covered by the U.S. military establishment.
The new, weak colonies, having no army, needed armed men available to be quickly called together as a military force to protect the fledgling government. That need has vanished. People who insist on having military-style long guns have their personal reasons, but not the U.S. Constitution supporting their gun convictions.
Second, the "gun safety classes" being offered have to do with how to operate a gun. To my knowledge, none of them include certified training and practice in quickly and accurately evaluating an emergency situation, correctly measuring the risk to bystanders and selecting the legal and appropriate application of force. Law officers are trained in these things and even they sometimes make mistakes, as in the shootings of bystanders in Times Square.
Ordinary persons who carry guns are likely to shoot wrongly under the shock of the emergency. Just imagine what might have happened in the theater in Colorado if three or four untrained persons had joined in the firing!
I know very few people, and polls show there are not many, who want all gun ownership prohibited. However, when it comes to high-capacity long guns and high-capacity magazines, which amount to "weapons of mass destruction," it is a different matter.
Now is the time for reasonable, moderate people to express themselves in this discussion. Contact your congress persons. And, express yourself right here in this newspaper.
John Ihle
Hood River
Crossword musts
As a crossword and letter tile game addict I so applaud Hood River News for making the room for some mind exercise activities, including a crossword puzzle. However, it appears some council on the placement of the crossword puzzle on the page is in order.
First: Never, never, ever put the answers on the same page, much less directly juxtaposed to the puzzle. Upside down doesn't matter: I was raised hand-setting type and can turn letters around at will. A small notation indicating the answers will be in next week's puzzle is ideal but putting the answer on a separate page is paramount.
Two: The puzzle must fit within the edges of a paper folded easily in repeated halves until sized appropriately. This is important for transport and to have adequate backing while trying to write answers (and erase errors for us non-pen cowards) on the go. Crosswords are meant to go with a person as the mind ponders the lexical mystery: Ever just have an answer pop up after a period of time?
Three: See number one — I am weak-willed.
Dan Baxter
Hood River
A strategy that worked
Maybe I have just lived too long, but historically, a balanced package to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" and "sequester" problems, lower unemployment and eventually reduce the federal deficit would include considerably higher taxes on the richest Americans and much less near-term spending cuts than any of the current proposals. Here are some reasons why:
The top income tax bracket rate was raised from 25 to 63 percent in 1933, to 79 percent in 1936, and finally to over 90 percent in 1944, remaining there through the Eisenhower administration, and at 70 percent or above on through the Nixon and Ford administrations until the Reagan administration drastically lowered it during the 1980s.
Beginning with this tax-raising on the rich, the U.S. economy, fueled by greatly increased government spending for job creation before and during World War II, boomed thereafter like never before and the federal deficit plunged despite it being 123 percent of GDP at war's end (it is about 70 percent now).
Between the 1930s and 1980 CEOs made at most 40 times the average wages of their workers, whereas it is nearly 400 times today.
The top 1 percent now owns at least 42 percent of the national wealth (and pays only 22 percent of the nation's taxes), similar to the huge inequality of wealth when the Great Depression hit in late 1929.
Granted, this strategy of high government spending and high tax rates on the rich to raise revenue in the 1930s and 1940s was needed — and effective — in recovering from the Great Depression.
But that is why the same strategy should be used now because when the big banks were failing in 2008, fed chief Ben Bernanke warned that the consequences of inaction would be worse than the Great Depression, with its begging in the streets and 25 percent unemployment rate. That led to Bush's unpopular 2008 TARP bailout which, along with Obama's 2009 economic stimulus package, is credited by most economists with largely averting the complete economic collapse that Bernanke so feared.
However, more federal spending on job creation, e.g. Obama's proposal to restore our crumbling infrastructure, is still needed to further jump-start the private sector and complete our economic recovery.
Norm Luther
Underwood, Wash.
Bottled H2O is wasteful
Bottled water is big business, and there's big money in bottled water. But for whom? Company presidents and CEOs are the ones who gain, certainly not the city who gives up its water rights, or the few local warehouse workers.
Water for most of us flows unrestricted from our taps. It is cheap, safe, monitored, and the systems are in place. Yet for some crazy reason, the U.S. leads the world in bottled water consumption at 29 billion a year.
Bottled water takes a circuitous and very expensive detour. Seventeen million barrels of crude oil (enough to power one million cars a year) go into making the bottles. Shipping them to and from the bottler takes more fuel. And although the bottles can be recycled, only one out of six do so. Almost five billion wind up in landfills or are littered along roads and waterways.
We would be much better as responsible persons in this perilous climate-changing world to invest not in bottling water, but to ensure peoples of the world have access to clean water and sanitation systems most in the U.S. take for granted.
But such heroic agendas are not on the minds of big business, with their eyes on easy targets such as Cascade Locks, who find themselves in an economic jam. Add to that the recent shake-up and resignation of city council members in Cascade Locks, the timing is ripe for the kill.
I am very concerned how this Nestlé question will be answered. Technically, the water in question belongs to every Oregonian.
Within the past century with its many advances, science has shown some of our errors. Dams are being breached and waters are running wild again. We are questioning the safety of nuclear plants with its hazardous wastes subject to leakage into rivers, or compromised along potential fault lines and tsunami zones.
In similar ways, cities are banning plastic bags, and customers are bringing their own bags. Coffee shops encourage reusable mugs, wineries, refillable bottles.
Bottled water is a recent money-making scheme. Man has lived without it for millennia.
Ricki Duckwall
Low-info voters defined
In my letter where I meant to specify the younger generation, some older adults were very offended by the term "low-information voters." Perhaps the offended didn't see or hear the on-the-street interviews with numerous immature participants, some barely old enough to vote.
And when they were asked about regional, national and world news making today's giant headlines, their answers were mostly incorrect.
However, when queried regarding what Hollywood couples were getting divorced or what hot celebrity got plastered in Paris, instant correct replies graced the microphone. There you have it — and I stand on those grounds (Folgers or Maxwell House).
Of course, not all young adults are in the low-information situation. Many are beyond brilliant.
But, with that said, I still declare: Yes, Virginia, there are low-information voters and the president deserves categorical kudos and an avalanche of accolades for herding the immature to the polls through the entertainment media. His excellent strategy should be celebrated, not ignored.
Bill Davis
Hood River
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- Week 49. Historical Events. Describe a memorable national historical event from your childhood. How old were you and how did you process this event? How did it affect your family?
The hard part of this will be for me to pick just one event. I'm young enough to have missed John F. Kennedy's assassination, just young enough I don't remember Robert Kennedy's assassination either. I do vaguely recall Richard Nixon resigning and flying off in a helicopter. I would have been about 8 years old. I vaguely recall thinking it was a good thing he was resigning, but I'm not sure I had a real good understanding of why it was happening. I do remember Watergate being in the news a lot, and thinking Watergate was an odd name. I don't remember there being any direct effect on my family, though my parents didn't really talk about politics with me at the time.
More of my remembrances deal with the space program. I remember some of the later lunar landings in the Apollo program, and I remember Skylab being manned. I was about 9 years old at that time. And I also remember it falling back to Earth. I really remember the Viking probes landing on Mars, and the full-color supplements in the newspaper with color pictures from the Red Planet. I was 10 years old when they landed. I remember the Apollo-Soyuz joint mission with the Russians, and the special docking module they had to use to join the spacecraft. It was a major milestone, being done during the Soviet era, between two normally competing space programs. When I was this age, I really planned on a career as an astronaut. I don't think my parents cared one way or another about anything in the space program, but it was quite important to me. Later, I remember being shocked by the Challenger tragedy, and still later by the loss of Columbia. Fourteen astronauts died in those two accidents.
I remember the hostage crisis in Iran, and how every day the Days counter on the news programs would increment by one. I remember it dragging on and on, and finally coming to an end after Ronald Reagan got elected President. Was Iran afraid of what President Reagan was going to do to them if they didn't release our people, or was the timing coincidental?
I remember hearing about the terrorist bombing of US Marines barracks in Lebanon.
I remember the first gulf war, Operation Desert Shield, later Operation Desert Storm. I remember this one very well, because I was on active duty at the time in the US Navy. In fact, I was in VF-32, a squadron of F-14 fighter jets assigned to USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), and our battle group was the one tagged to go over first. At that time, I was preparing to transfer to shore duty, and I wasn't sure if they would drag me overseas and send me back at some later time, or if they would leave me behind to transfer on time. It ended up the latter. I transferred to the Photo Lab on the base I lived near about a month after the squadron left for the Gulf. That month I spent standing watches in an empty hangar full of the files and equipment they hadn't taken along, cleaning and basically just waiting for my transfer. I remember watching on CNN as the reporters filmed and described the night time attacks with tracer fire looking like fireworks. I was glad I wasn't over there, as we had no idea of Saddam Hussein's capabilities and whether we would have been in danger (turns out the ship was safe enough), but was concerned for the well-being of my former squadron mates.
A bit later, I remember the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was about 23 when it happened, and I remember being stunned that it actually happened, and watching people on CNN with sledgehammers breaking down parts of it. Of course, any time prior to this, people would have been shot for doing that. I remember when the Soviet Union collapsed, with a similar sense that it wasn't real somehow, that we would always have our communist rivals.
I remember again watching CNN as a white Ford Bronco made its way slowly down an abandoned freeway followed by a lot of police cars as O.J. Simpson ran from them. I remember watching more of his trial as well. CNN figures prominently in my memories, as it seems I caught a number of major events as they happened that way.
As I watch world events today, I wonder which ones we will remember in years to come as being the major, pivotal events that changed history. Will the Occupy movement make a real difference? Will Iran get nuclear power, or weapons? Will they use them if they do? Will we ever finish the War on Terror? The War on Drugs? Any of the other "wars" we're fighting? Will our leaders manage to fix our country and economy before we go down the tubes? Will global warming actually come about, or will we do something to mitigate it? The problem with historical events is that by the time you realize what events were really important, and what effects they had, you're past where that knowledge can be of any real use to you.
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Key West 2012 Kicks Off For The Melges 24s
16 January 2012
Today, the twenty-fifth running of Key West Race Week is realized. The venue is expected to live up to its reputation with stunning conditions in the forecast for the Melges 24 fleet, which will be featured on the Division 2 racecourse. Only 15 Melges 24s are in attendance. It's quality versus quantity as once more, the Melges 24 fleet has attracted some of the very best sailors and owners in the world to Florida.
Clearly, there are frontrunners, 2011 U.S. Melges 24 National Champion Bora Gulari on West Marine Rigging/New England Ropes, 2010 National Champion Alan Field on WTF, multi-Corinthian Key West Champion Bruce Ayres on Monsoon, Don Wilson's Convexity and Guy Mossman's Battle Rhythm are among the higher-up American contingent.
Defending Melges 24 Key West Champion and 2011 Boat of the Week winner, Franco Rossini's Blu Moon is back, locked and loaded, ready to pull the trigger on another title. He is no stranger to the tough competition yet to come and, most likely, poised to win.
The class would like to take the opportunity to welcome some new faces to the fleet. Congratulations to Kurt Winkelmann, owner of brand new USA-829 Navega Racing. He carries the legendary Brad Boston as tactician.
After an almost ten-year Melges 24 hiatus, Richard Thompson and his Black Seal team, which includes his long-time friend and tactician Nigel Young, is roaring back onto the scene in Key West with a boat of the same name. We look to see great things from Thompson and team, as they have previously celebrated World and European Ranking titles in the fleet.
Each day, postings will be made available on usmelges24.com and regular shorts will be made at the U.S. Melges 24 Facebook Page from the course.
Full Results can be found online at the Official Event Website.
1.) Nate Duer, Bologney Blowout
2.) Guy Mossman, Battle Rhythm
3.) Richard Thompson, Black Seal
4.) Franco Rossini, Blu Moon
5.) Don Wilson, Convexity
6.) Rob Britts, Hot Mess
7.) Catherine Evans, Mojito
8.) Bruce Ayres, Monsoon
9.) Kurt Winkelmann, Navega Racing
10.) Jens Altern Wathne, Party Girl
11.) Steven Boho, Shockwave
12.) Tom Ritter, TRAMP
13.) Bora Gulari, West Marine Rigging/New England Ropes
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When, late on a Sunday night, Barack Obama went on television to announce that Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the September 11th terrorist attacks, had been killed by Navy SEALs, Americans, or at least those paying attention, were seized by a strange dichotomy. There were those who celebrated — most famously, right outside the White House — and those who felt that maybe celebration was the wrong response, inexact and tasteless. Our biggest bogeyman — an emblem, terrorism incarnate — had been taken out, but did we really want to cheer for death? And what did Osama bin Laden amount to, exactly, in 2011, nearly ten years after he'd pulled off his most infamous act? We were quickly distracted from that quandary by the action-movie plot of it all, as we learned details about a place called Abbottabad, about the mighty SEAL Team 6, about the strange things found in bin Laden's compound (porn, namely). But what was lost in all these exciting bits of narrative, perhaps, and in the torn emotions of a country unsure of what, exactly, it had "won," were the real nuts and bolts and process of the years-long hunt for this Big Bad Man. And so, in an effort to sift through the historical data and explain to us how this all went down, director Kathryn Bigelow has made Zero Dark Thirty , a long and sober and thoroughly compelling account of CIA people treading moral lines and sifting through piles of nothing to find one seven-foot Saudi.
Our follow car through this nearly-a-decade span is a young CIA officer named Maya, played with theatrical vigor by Jessica Chastain and based on a real person — a lot of this movie is real, and in new and surprising ways, which makes it newsy and relevant here and now, three weeks before its release. At the beginning of the film, Maya is new to the field, arriving in Pakistan and going straight to a brutal water-boarding interrogation. She's hesitant and off-put — she looks away at particularly gnarly moments — but Maya is not, it's carefully pointed out, without spine or conviction. That the film opens with such a graphic depiction of torture is both unnerving and oddly welcome. Yes, OK, here you go. Right out front for all to see. This is how information was found, this is the anonymous, spirited away origin of the great patriotic deed. And Bigelow is careful not to editorialize on the matter. We are simply seeing what happened. But there is a sense, throughout the opening sequence, that bigger issues are afoot. Whether Bigelow or her screenwriter Mark Boal are pro-torture in cases like these, or vehemently against it entirely, is not really the point; that America employed such ugly means, by way of our version of the good guys, very much is: The usefulness of torture is one of Zero Dark Thirty 's several hard and unflinching and deliberately presented truths. Maya is eventually inured to this brutality (and by extension so are we), singlemindedly determined as she is to wrestle some justice into the world.
We continue to watch Maya over the course of about eight years, as American foreign policy creaks and groans under the weight of two wars and leads grow cold or disappear around dark corners. The bulk of Zero Dark Thirty is fits and starts, progress met with terrible setbacks. Maya befriends, in an aloofly professional sense at least, some of her colleagues, all played by strong actors like Jason Clarke, Harold Perrineau, and the indispensible Jennifer Ehle, and they aid her in her search while also warily detecting a bit of mania. (A comparison to Homeland 's Carrie Matheson is tempting to make here, but I think that silly show doesn't really have a seat at this serious, real-life table.) Maya, though, is our Final Girl, and as she loses colleagues to violence and the siren song of an easy life in bureaucratic Washington, her focus grows ever sharper. In one of the film's strange moments of emotional exposition, Maya tells a special-ops guy that she believes she alone has survived and maintained because she is meant to see this thing to its end. There's a whiff of righteous, almost religious conviction in that sentiment, but Bigelow doesn't dwell on it for long. We only get to know the inner Maya in brief glimpses; most of our time is spent peering over her shoulder and watching her pursuit.


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So I don't know what's wrong with Space but, Teams were opening the poitstop location clue right now and in commercial I got a preview of the now airing Leg 2... this is so weird...
Now, is it possible a taxi surpass 3 other taxis without exceeding the speed limit?
Ad latere: there's no Budget for Detours? Three legs and still no notice of them.?
Brazil first! Prize: wireless speakers.
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I'm so mad at the production team too, they are still making the racers use the same flight, I know the lack of money is an issue here, but, I don't think this is fair for the racers, I don't think they are respecting their time to rest at the mat, the last team is probably getting fewer time to sleep or eat because of it, I really don't like it, especially because we don't get to see them start the race, they just magically appear in the airport, we never get to see their departure time either. I feel like TARLA is lying to me and they are not respecting some of the rules of the race.
If they're still doing what they did in the first season, they sign-up for the flight and then they depart the airport based on the time differences, which in turn makes it extremely difficult for the trailing teams to catch up except for HoO. Unless there's an HoO soon, the Brazilian girls will end up with a huge lead.
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CRESTVIEW � Allen Anderson scored a touchdown with 1:56 left in the fourth quarter and Austin Minks added the extra point as Fort Walton Beach came from behind to beat Crestview 21-17 in District 2-6A football action Friday night at Jack Foster Stadium.
While it was Anderson going in for the winning score it was the passing duo of Blake James to Marquese Davenport that sparked the winning drive for the Vikings. James and Davenport teamed up on three passes for 40 yards as Fort Walton Beach (5-1, 2-0) covered 77 yards for the winning score.
And the passing tandem worked in sequence all night as James hit Davenport 12 times for 140 yards. Nine of the completion came in the second half as the Vikings rallied from behind.
The Fort Walton Beach passing attack was at its best early and late in the game.
The Vikings took the opening kickoff and covered 61-yards on four plays in less than a minute to draw first blood. It was only appropriate that Fort Walton Beach�s first play of the game was a 34-yard strike from James to Davenport.
Three plays later, James found Chris Bauduin with a 24-yard pass to put the Vikings in front 7-0 with 10:41 left in the first period.
Crestview (2-4, 0-1) tied the game early in the second quarter on a 5-yard run by Micah Reed.
The quick-strike Bulldog drive came after Jalynne Robinson recovered a Xavier Gibson fumble at the Viking 46-yard line. The Bulldogs started the drive with a 41-yard pass from Dakota Davis to Emmanuel Reed on a flea flicker play that gave Crestview a first down deep in Fort Walton Beach territory. Austin Smith�s extra point tied the game at 7-7 and that�s where the score stood until the 3:16 mark in the half when Micah Reed scored from four yards out to give the Bulldogs a 14-7 lead.
The touchdown capped a 14-play, 70-yard drive with Micah Reed serving as the workhorse on the drive carrying the ball nine times for 52 yards.
The Bulldogs covered 60 yards on 11 plays on their opening drive of the third quarter, but were only able to get a 22-yard field goal by Smith out of the drive.
With less than a minute left in the third period James hit Davenport with a 16-yard touchdown pass to pull the Vikings to within three points of the Bulldogs and set the stage for the late game heroics.
At times it seemed as the Vikings were their own worst enemies as they committed four turnovers, but the Bulldogs were only able to capitalize on the first one as Fort Walton Beach held serve to remain in a tie for first place in the District.
James finished the night 16-of-35 passing for 191 yards and two interceptions to go along with his two touchdown passes.
Anderson led the Vikings in rushing with 55 yards on nine carries.
Micah Reed turned in another stellar effort on the ground for the Bulldogs as he gained 179 yards on 33 carries.
Davis was 6-of-14 passing for 96 yards for Crestview. Emmanuel Reed had four catches for 68 yards.


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With the death of president Karkin and the elimination of the Kuragin supporters, a new nation has risen to take the helm of the failing Kuragin government. Michael Williams, a former high-ranking cabinet member and chief official of the old government, has now allied all of the military and political bodies in the Kuragin sphere of influence to write a new constitution and create a new country where all minifigs can live in freedom and equality. Man and woman, peach and yellow now all stand under the mighty banner of the new Adamarian Federation.
Following the dissolution of the Kuragin government, all military assets have been integrated and updated for service under the new order. With the crippling Kuragin economy now non-existant, and the new Adamarian currency booming, military expansion has grown dramatically. This is an essential plan for Mr. Williams, who intends to rid the Brikverse of the Calvarian empire and establish the Federation's dominance among the other Brikverse nations.
Shown here is President Williams himself, along with two of his closest allies: Director Martin Steele, the new financial director for the Adamarian Federation who is known to have a bill obsession that rivals even squidtrons, and General Bradley Davidson, a veteran Kuragin general who was one of the first to swear loyalty to the new power.
Here is a shot of Jennifer M. Harlen, a skilled explorer who is now in the employ of the Adamarian federation. She is a skilled navigator and survivalist, although her appearance is used more often than not to boost the troop's morale. Next to her is Jack B. Bambo, a veteran of countless battles against the Calvarians. After suffering from severe trauma he developed PTSD and was abandoned on the jungle planet of VTC-1975. That didn't stop him though, and an Adamarian rescue party found him and brought him back, where he now fights against the Calvarians on the battlefield once again with his favorite light machine gun. Next to Jennifer and Jack are two adamarian officers, recognized by their tan uniforms.
The newly-christened Adamarian Infantry Corps have expanded greatly after the fall of the Kuragin government. Under the new Adamarian policies, these infantry troops are now better trained and equipped than their Kuragin predecesors. Trooper armaments have also become more diverse, and their numbers have grown exponentially to where they are now believed to be larger in number than even the Calvarian infantry divisions.
Adaptations in armor design have lead to the creation of the new Adamarian battle dress, a suit of combat armor that consists of thicker metal plating over a green and black body suit. Although the older Kuragin infantry vest remains popular, many soldiers now favor the newer design due to its increased combat survivability rate. The new Adamarian helmet design has also been issued in large quantities, which is very similiar to the versatile Calvarian combat helmet. Weapons loadouts are variable, and include anything from SMGs and assault carbines to light machine guns and rocket sticks.
Here are some Adamarian demolitionists, specialized troops equipped with rocket or missile based weapons and explosive charges for destroying enemy armor or fortifications. Their thicker helmets and combat vests help to protect them from shrapnel.
The old Kuragin rangers are now known as the Adamarian rangers. They still serve the same role as scouts, snipers, and long-range fire support. Each ranger is trained to operate in wilderness or hazardous environments for extended periods of time withough support or evacuation, and they are also skilled assassins.
Adamarian mediks are lightly armed and armored, as their main duties on the field are to help revive fallen allies so they can keep fighting. They typically wear the old Kuragin combat jacket, but the white cross on their helmets and their medikal bags help identify them. It also means that they are usually the first ones to get shot at, so they tend to stay in the rear of their squad. Since most mediks are looked down upon as pacifistik sissies in the Brikverse, the Adamarian commanders make sure to arm them with at least pistols or SMGs so that they can fight if necessary.
Adamarian Irregulars are a new unit type, and primarily consist of civilian volunteers or recruits. They fulfill a role similiar to that of the rangers, and so their is a lot of competition between the two (although the rangers are much more badass and usually win). The Irregulars do have some benefits in the sense that they are more relatable to a civilian populace and can operate behind enemy lines better than the common soldier in full battle dress. Irregulars tend to wear only light (if any) armor and are armed with randomized weapons, typically whatever they can get their hands on.
Adamarian heavy infantry are elite shock troops deployed to areas of heavy enemy resistance where normal troopers could not hope to overcome. Though slow-moving on foot, the heavy infantry are equipped with bullet and laser-resistant armor and advanced, fully-covered helmets with HUD systems. They are also armed with high-caliber weaponry such as light machine guns, grenade launchers, heavy assault rifles and automatic shotguns.
Adamarian paratroopers are trained for high-altitude drops and fast attack in atmospheric conditions. They are equipped with the same inertia-suppression boots worn by their Kuragin predecessors, which drastically reduces the damage from a fall. They are equipped with lightweight weapons and armor to increase their mobility. Behind them are some Adamarian tank crewmen, who function as pilots.
The deadliest new infantry unit in the Adamarian arsenal are the feared MYRMIDON-super soldiers. Genetically altered to be much faster, stronger, and deadlier than an average human, these elite soldiers are said to be the equal of a Calvarian Knight in combat, though this remains to be seen. Each soldier is equipped with thick body armor that contains a prototype personal shielding unit, as well as an oxygen buttplug to help them operate in hazardous environments and magnetic boots for operations in zero-gravity. Shown here is DARKSABER, perhaps the most infamous of the MYRMIDON soldiers, along with two of his peers. Their immense strength allows them to carry larger weapons with ease (up to size 3). Other than this, they are perhaps best-known for their feared "lunch thief" attack, which involved punching an enemy trooper in the gut with such force that it tears through their stomach and exits through their spine.
Adamarian marines are trained for operations in hazardous environments or deep space. Their full-body armor is more resistant to attack than standard infantry suits, and they also possess more advanced weaponry. Many of these brave men aspire to one day become MYRMIDONs, although they are often just fooling themselves. Still, the marines are elite troops who are trained not only in assault tactics but also many forms of unconventional warfare, similiar to the irregulars, and they also possess numerous specialists amongst their ranks. In a way, the marines are more like a smaller, separate military within the ranks of the immense Adamarian armies.
The old Kuragin scout jeep has found a new home in the ranks of the Adamarian Federation. Though unarmed, the scout jeep is a fast vehicle, and can easily be modified to carry heavier weapons or supplies, such as ordinance crates or anti-tank rifles.
The Initiate armored car has been replaced by the new "Footman" FAV, a lightweight multi-purpose vehicle. Highly adaptable, it can carry a wide variety of weapons on its rear turret, including machine guns, miniguns, flamethrowers, gauss cannons, missile launchers, and grenade launchers. Alternatively, the turret can be removed altogether in favor of an extended cabin for extra carrying capability. Though not as armored as the Initiate, the Footman is much more adaptable and faster, and its cheaper cost enables it to be produced en masse.
Shown here is the new M90(B) Squire medium tank. Rather than relying on older Calvarian designs, the Adamarian military began to replace the older variants with a new model that features thicker frontal armor and a larger turret for an increased weapons load. Its main cannon is roughly the same as the Calvarian Tempest in terms of firepower.
Not all of the old Kuragin vehicles recieved the new Adamarian update, however. The Archer missile tank and the newly-named Charger IFV are such examples. The archer is feared by both ground forces and AeroSpace fighter pilots for its devastating Mk. V missiles, although its ammuntion is limited. The Charger is basically the tried-and-true Tempest chassis with a 30mm autocannon and an ATGM launcher instead of a high-caliber cannon.
The HMSDV-Mk5 Bishop AMV is identical to the variants used by the Kuragin Republic. Adamarian commanders loved the vehicle so much that it has recieved little changes. The Bishop is a highly adaptable vehicle that can funtion well in any environment (even underwater for short periods of time!). Its primary armament is a 30mm autocannon for engaging infantry threats or clearing a deployment zone, coupled with a pair of ATGM launchers for anti-tank duties.
The M908(D)-Crusader MBT is the main battle tank of the Adamarian Federation military. It is identical to the Kuragin model, except that it has a newer turret design and larger treads for crossing over hazardous terrain more easily. The tank is armed with two heavy machine guns (one on the hull and one coaxial), a 120mm smoothbore HVC, two ATGM launchers, and a small smoke grenade launcher. It also features two access hatches (one on top and one in the rear) so that the crew has multiple avenues of escape in case of an emergency. The Crusaders feature thick frontal armor that allows them to ram enemy targets with ease, and its sloping design helps to reduce damage from most enemy weapons.
A better shot of the new tread design, credit for which goes to RoC's awesome tanks.
The XM107-HT Paladin is a highly adaptable heavy tank originally in service with the Kuragin Republic. Its sheer power on the field of battle led to it being adopted by the Adamarian Federation as a heavy assault vehicle. The Paladin is equipped with a high-velocity explosive gun and composite armor plating that make it a deadly enemy to face. Its low profile and short chassis also makes it more difficult to hit. (Also, this one was inspired by Peter L. Morris' Panterra tank on Brickshelf)
The MP/S/A-G5 Seraphim Gunship is a Kuragin design that has been integrated into the Adamarian Federation with little changes. It is armed with a light auto cannon for engaging infantry forces, as well as a pair of rocket launchers and two Mk. V missiles for anti-vehicle duties.
Among the deadliest vehicles to roll off the Adamarian assembly lines is the new SASF-100 Cherubim AeroSpace fighter, the replacement for the aging Eagle design. Incredibly fast, cheap, and versatile, the Cherubim is a fearsome addition to the Adamarian military, a multi-purpose fighter with a pair of missile launchers and two 30mm autocannons. As if that weren't enough, it features additional weapon hardpoints on the wings and main fuselage for even more weapons to be installed, at the cost of speed and mobility. The Cherubim is powered by a powerful VTOL Ion-drive engine that allows for high-speed flight even in deep space, as well as air intakes and large, wing mounted fuel tanks for atmospheric flight.
Finally, the MPHVTOL-X96 T/VC Archangel Dropship has been integrated into the Adamarian arsenal. It has seen minor changes, mainly to its structural integrity. The main variant is armed only with an autocannon, although other variants featuring superior weaponry do exist.
Well, that's it! Hope you enjoy the new Adamarian arsenal!


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In honor of the occasion, we bought a Western Electric Clothes Washer because the ad said, "Everything spick and span for the birthday party, thanks to this dependable Clothes Washer." "Everything" included sheer window curtains, a dainty white dress, a heavy rag rug, a damask table cloth, and a delicate georgette waist. (Of course, we washed them in separate loads.) Our Western Electric Clothes Washer worked great and you can see we are spick and span. On to the games!
Game #2: Hide-n-Seek
(or Where is He or She Hiding Behind that Brick Wall?)
Ancestor #1: Fred Gerner's mother or father, names unknown, probably born in Germany, probably before 1828, may have died after 1855, possibly in the U.S.
Ancestor #2: Henry Meinzen's mother or father, father was Carl Meinzen, probably born in Germany, probably before 1817, probably died in Germany
Ancestor #3: John Froman's mother or father, probably born in Germany before 1820
And now for refreshments. Let's have a slice of refreshing Blueberry Cheesecake, a glass of lemonade, some popcorn and peanuts, and chocolate cake and ice cream.
Thanks for coming to celebrate with us. We're glad you came and hope you had a good time.


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OT Cass Tech @ Saline Friday Night
If you're in town for the NW game and want to see some future UM guys playing prep ball then considering a short drive to Saline Friday night. Game is at 7 and it's the 3rd round (elite 8) and Regional Championship in Division 1 Michigan High School Football.
Should be a great game. Cass Tech (Defending State Champs) have at least 7 Div I seniors. Including Jourdan Lewis and David Dawson. Damon Webb is heavy on Michigan's radar and they have 3 or 4 other Div I guys in that Junior class. Probably another 3 or 4 Sophomores that will play Div I ball.
Saline has had a great season under new coach Joe Palka who came from Whitmer in Toledo. Ex UM TE Kevin Koger is on his staff and even though Saline does not have a stud Div I kid .... they do play very well together as a team and should be able to hold their own vs Cass Tech.
It's $5 and a great time.


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Next week, Chestnut Hill College will present a deal to the community it hopes Chestnut Hill can be excited about. After two years of negotiating with neighbors and neighborhood institutions, the College wants to grant an open space easement on 19 of 32 acres on which its SugarLoaf property sits. In exchange, it wants all parties in a nine-party negotiating group to sign a Community Development Agreement.
Sounds easy enough, but that Community Development Agreement may still be as far away now as it was when the negotiating group first sat down to talk two years ago. One of the things the college wants is the withdrawal of at least four lawsuits filed against the college and the City of Philadelphia for zoning changes granted the college to move forward with its development.
Two groups composed of nearby neighbors responsible for the lawsuits, The Northwest-Wissahickon Conservancy and the North Chestnut Hill Neighbors, have so far shown no sign that they are willing to sign off.
When the negotiating group's chairman, Larry McEwen, called a meeting to vote on accepting the CDA, both groups declined to attend, insisting that their absence would nullify anything the group accomplished because the meeting would fail to have a quorum.
That remaining members voted unanimously to accept the CDA. Of course, the vote and its ultimate support by the CHCA will not mean a thing to the near neighbor groups, which have challenged the group's legitimacy throughout the last two years.
Though the members of both groups have insisted that they are not opposed to the colleges plans to develop and expand at the property, they have been opposed to nearly every step the college has taken, including its decision to seek and receive an Institutional Development District that gives it flexibility to pursue a pre-approved master plan. Those neighbors have openly criticized nearly every aspect of the college's proposal, from the number of students it plans to house on the property to its financial ability to fund long-term development at the site.
So now, the college clearly hopes that it can persuade residents in an open and public meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, to voice support for the expansion. It's not hard to imagine that many in the neighborhood would support the college's plans. A growing college would not only be a benefit to local businesses (exhibit A1, last weekend's busy Harry Potter event) but would likely benefit the community as a whole by providing public meeting spaces, facilities and jobs. Small college towns are not the nicest places to live by accident.
Yet, the neighbors, as is their right, remain unconvinced. Underneath what may seem like selfish concern only for the view out their windows are legitimate concerns about precedent and what might happen to the property if it is sold, particularly now that the IDD zoning has greatly increased the value of the land.
It's too tough to predict human behavior, but based on what I've seen and heard, I don't expect the neighbor groups to be moved by the college's presentation next week. I don't think the college expects different results after two years, either. The wild card here is where public opinion in Chestnut Hill falls, whether it's ultimately supportive, dismissive or indifferent.
Who knows if public opinion will sway the college or neighbors one way or the other. But what is important is for some sense of public opinion on the matter to take shape and help guide decision makers on what is best for the community.
Be sure to attend next Thursday. There really is no bigger development facing Chestnut Hill than Chestnut Hill College's expansion proposal.
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A Bimonthly Email Newsletter from the International Mathematical Union
Editor: Mireille Chaleyat-Maurel, Université René Descartes, Paris, France
In recent years the International Mathematical Union has been paying special attention to the promotion of mathematics in developing countries. Mathematical communities in the third world of course welcome the interest taken by IMU and are looking forward to greater interaction with their colleagues in the advanced nations. That there is abundant mathematical talent in the developing countries is seen from the success of some of these countries in the International Mathematical Olympaid competitions as well as from the presence of a large number of students from these countries in the graduate schools in the West.
To transform this talent into excellence in mathematicians in these countries need a lot of exposure to deep and profound mathematics at the frontiers of current research. Individual mathematicians working in advanced nations can contribute very meaningfully to this by visiting mathematical centres in third world countries for extended periods of time giving courses of lectures and otherwise interacting with students and researchers (such visits are taking place but they are far and few between). Short visits are also of course useful but are of limited value. The few centres of excellence which exist in the third world countries indeed owe their success to such help from individuals. One man who rendered yeoman service to this cause in this way was Professor Laurent Schwarz. One hopes that IMU's increased interest in promoting mathematics in the third world will act as a catalyst for increasing this kind of interaction.
Madabusi S. Raghunathan
Member of the IMU Executive Committee
IMU and ICMI Nominating Committees
These Nominating Committees have been formed by the procedures described at http://www.mathunion.org/Organization/NomComms.html and will work to propose nomination slates for officers and members of the IMU and ICMI Executive Committees, of CDE (Commission on Development and Exchanges)and ICHM (International Commission on the History of Mathematics). A formal call for nominations will be sent in the form of a circular letter to the Adhering Organizations of IMU in August 2005.
The members of the IMU Nominating Committee are:
Ludwig Faddeev (Chair, Russia)
John Ball (President IMU, UK)
Christian Berg (Denmark)
Jennifer Chayes (USA)
Gil Kalai (Israel)
Shigefumi Mori (Japan)
Wieslaw Plesniak (Poland)
The members of the ICMI Nominating Committee are:
Mogens Niss, Chair (Denmark)
John Ball, (IMU President, UK)
Hyman Bass (ICMI President, USA)
Victor Vassiliev (Russia)
Tomas Recio (Spain)
Guenter Toerner (Germany)
Lim-Teo Suat Khoh (Singapore)
Abel Prize
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2005 to Peter D. Lax, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
Peter Lax receives the Abel Prize for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions.
He is expected to receive the Abel Prize from His Majesty, King Harald V of Norway, in Oslo on May 24th. The honor is accompanied by a prize of $980,000.
The Developing Countries Strategy Group
The Developing Countries Strategy Group (DCSG) was established by IMU in order to augment in kind and duration IMU$B!G(Bs support of mathematics and the study of mathematics in developing countries. In particular, DCSG will be available as a "clearinghouse" for the activities of individual countries and mathematics societies in this direction, in order to enhance the effects of those individual initiatives, and ensure that they complement and reinforce each other. Enthusiastically responding to IMU President John Ball's New Year appeal, committees, member societies and their affiliated bodies have been coming forward with information on their initiatives in developing countries and have been listing opportunities for participation in these efforts. All this is now being publicized on DCSG's website (www.ictp.it/~dcsg). (The website is still "under construction", so please excuse any anomalies or omissions.)
Suggestions from readers in the international mathematical community as to opportunities to support mathematicians in the developing world, such as programs of sponsorship of attendance at conferences, research collaborations, visiting lectureship programs, joint degree programs, etc., will be gratefully received, and posted on the website. They may be e-mailed to DCSG's Administrative Secretary at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Another "clearinghouse" website, the Clearinghouse for African Mathematicians (CAM), whose purpose - as its name suggests - is to act as a clearinghouse for activities specifically in support of mathematicians and mathematics educators in Africa, is also in the initial stages of its development under the direction of Professor Le Dung Trang, Head of Mathematics at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), in Trieste, Italy, and may be viewed at www.ictp.it/~cam.
Among its recent initiatives, DCSG has been active in support of the African Mathematics Millennium Science Initiative, a consortium of centers of advanced mathematics education and research institutes in sub-Saharan Africa. DCSG has also assisted ICTP in the establishment of ICTP$B!G(Bs newly announced Ramanujan Prize for mathematics done in the developing world. The latest initiative to which DCSG has offered support is the First African Regional Congress of the International Council of Mathematics Instruction (ICMI), which will take place at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, in June this year. Finally, DCSG is about to begin work on the IMU$B!G(Bs travel grant program which funds mathematicians working in developing countries to participate in ICM2006 in Madrid, Spain.
IMU/DCSG gratefully acknowledges major support in 2004 by the Niels Henrik Abel Memorial Fund.
Herb Clemens
Chair of DCSG
IMU on the Web
It's not all that hard to find a mathematician: I imagine that most readers of this item need only look in a mirror. More usefully, in the good old days one could locate virtually any particular mathematician in a fine book, updated quadrennially, the World Directory of Mathematicians. But the WDM will not be compiled and printed in 2006; it has has fallen fate to, well, 'economic and practical considerations'. What to do? It seems pretty obvious what to do. Just create an Electronic WDM (http://www.mathunion.org/ewdm/). Sadly, that can't be done. First, such a directory would be in severe breach of many national privacy laws. Second, it anyhow could not just be done --- it's an astonishingly labour intensive matter to create and, much worse, to maintain such lists. Happily, it seems there may be an effective solution ...
Go to http://www.ceic.math.ca/News/IMUonWeb.shtml#CEIC7 and read about early steps towards a Federated World Directory of Mathematicians
Alf van der Poorten
Member of CEIC
List of the new satellite conferences, approved at the meeting in Madrid (4 March 2005)
- Associative and non-associative algebraic structures and applications, Oviedo (Asturias), 18-20 August 2006
- Workshop on Geometric and Topological Combinatorics, Alcalá de Henares, 31 August
- 5 September 2006
- Noncommutative Algebra, Granada, 31 August
- 6 September 2006
- Mathematical neuroscience, SantJulià de Lòria (Andorra), 1-4 September2006
- Barcelona Analysis Conference, Barcelona, 4-8 September 2006
Ramanujan Prize
Call for nominations for the Ramanujan Prize.
The Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries is a new prize which will be awarded by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, through a selection committee appointed in conjunction with IMU. The first winner will be announced in 2005. Nominations should be sent no later than 31 July 2005 to:


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After a disappointing start to the season, the Abt Co-Ed Softball team finally did what they do best, WIN. The team that consisted of 18 men and women took first place in the recent Glenview Co-Ed softball tournament. This is an amazing accomplishment considering they started the season 0-5. After a few additions to the roster, the team started to win every game. Co-Ed softball works a little differently than a normal softball game. Girls must occupy the positions of first base, third base, and center field. Girls must also bat every other player. Because of these rules, there had to be an equal number of both guys and girls on the roster.
The variety in the roster showed the versatility in the Abt employees. The roster consisted of 11 customer service members, 2 drivers, 2 service employees, and even one accountant. The captain of the team was from our routing department and our team was managed by the customer service manager. It was a great way for people from all departments to get together every week and partake in a common interest. Throughout the season, everyone's main goal was to have fun, and winning came second. Some games were tough to watch, but the constant humor kept everyone going. A game was never complete until the captain, Dave Reis, got dirt on his pants. Sometimes, he would even fall on purpose (or so he said) to get messy. This is the second year in a row the co-ed team took the first place trophy. We can't wait to see what next year brings. – Megan B.


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Gregory Hartley's hands shake and he wipes away tears. Recounting the more than 50 days he spent in the Jackson County Jail as an accused rapist floods the Ashland resident with anxiety.
"I was in with the worst of the worst," Hartley said, taking a steadying breath. "I just lost all hope."
Hartley, 50, has no criminal record in Oregon, according to court documents. He has run a successful floor business in Ashland for years and is an upstanding community member, he said.
Hartley said his father's former wife made "unfounded and unproven allegations" that he assaulted her during a family visit at his home in July 2011.
The woman told her story to police a year later, following her second divorce proceeding against Hartley's father. Things went from bad to worse when her allegations caused Hartley to be arrested and lodged in jail on June 24, he said.
Hartley vehemently denies any sexual activity occurred between the two, even consensual acts, and said he remains stunned at the allegations.
"I was raised by my mom and my two sisters. You do not violate people," Hartley said. "If a woman is raped, you go 100 percent against that guy in court."
Bail initially was set at $1 million for the four Measure 11 charges, then reduced to $500,000. But Hartley was unable to raise the 10 percent required to bail himself out of jail, he said.
"I'm a big guy," Hartley said. "But you fear for your life in there."
Facing up to 25 years in state prison if convicted of first-degree charges of rape, sodomy, sex abuse and unlawful sexual penetration, Hartley said he refused to negotiate a plea deal. But he was terrified at the prospect of losing his case, his sanity or worse.
"At 3 a.m. when you can't sleep," Hartley said, "yes, I would have sold my soul to the devil to get out of there. But I didn't."
On Aug. 16, all counts against Hartley were dropped by Jackson County Deputy District Attorney David Hoppe.
At the request of Hartley's public defender, Kelly Ravassipour, Hoppe had a jailhouse meeting with Hartley just days before the case was slated for trial.
Hoppe said evidence that came in after Hartley's grand jury indictment, combined with the alleged victim's mental health issues, her drug and alcohol consumption the night of the allegations, and his duties as a prosecutor, caused him to drop the case against Hartley in the interest of justice.
"It's not about conviction rates," Hoppe said. "We need to sleep fine at night. Allegations are not proof. Every prosecutor wants to avoid the risk of sending an innocent person to prison, especially in a crime of this nature."
By the same token, Hoppe cautioned that his decision should not be over-interpreted. He stressed an unfounded allegation is not the same as a false one. The woman could have been victimized by someone or believed she was, he said.
Hartley said inmates cheered as word of his release spread through the jail and he walked toward freedom.
"It was like a unicorn had just passed by," he said. "They couldn't believe it."
Hartley wants to know why police and prosecutors are not charging his accuser with perjury or filing a false report.
"Put her in (jail) for 53 days," Hartley said. "Why isn't she being charged? It needs to be on her record."
Hoppe said no charges will be filed against Hartley's father's ex-wife. Just as Hartley is innocent under the law because of his constitutional protections, so, too, the same presumption of innocence applies to his accuser, Hoppe said.
"How would we prove it?" Hoppe said. "There was no confession or recantation."
Just because this woman had self-admitted diagnoses of bipolar disorder and post traumatic stress disorder, and that she consumed drugs and alcohol the night of the alleged incident, doesn't mean she was not victimized, Hoppe said.
"What I would say is that at the end of the day, I did not feel morally certain that these alleged crimes had occurred," Hoppe said.
Hartley said he's going to have to pay more than $1,000 to get his record expunged and his picture off mugshots.com.
"It destroyed my life. And she might believe it happened," Hartley said, shaking his head and adding the thought of being accused of sexual assault again has him terrified.
Susan Moen, executive director of Jackson County Sexual Assault Response Team, said she is unfamiliar with the specifics of Hartley's case. But Moen detailed the legal process that tries to prevent incidents like this from happening, "including the need for a grand jury to believe there is credible evidence that a crime was committed before a DA can put forth a case to trial."
Hartley and the public should understand that false reporting is a rare occurrence, she said.
In fact, Moen and Hoppe said, sexual assault is underreported nationwide.
"The crime of sexual assault is different from many crimes, in that we see an underreporting of the crime much more than we see false reports," Moen said.
One study showed that the reporting rate in Oregon is about 10 percent. That means up to 90 percent of sexual assault victims never report the crime against them, she said.
"When I ask people what they guess the false report rate to be, I routinely hear '50 percent' or higher," Moen said. "However, the highest we have seen in a credible study puts that number at 6 to 8 percent, and many studies show it to be much closer to 2 percent. So if 2 to 8 percent of that 10 percent is the false reporting rate, we really can say it is a rare occurrence."
Hartley said the fallout from the accusations continue to haunt him. His mental and physical health, along with his personal and professional reputation, have all been negatively impacted by the ordeal, Hartley said.
"One day I'm on my way to work, then I'm gone," he said. "I'm not a rapist."
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By SUE RYAN
News staff writer
September 30, 2006
The sign posted in an orchard near Pine Grove Grocery this week spelled the situation out in English and Spanish: Pickers needed.
Pear growers have been squeezed during the past weeks of harvest as fruit ripens at both ends of the Hood River Valley. Some growers have finished harvest while others are midway or have just begun the race from tree to bin.
"The pears come off in 21 days," said Pat Moore, of Moore Orchards. "You adjust crews to get done by that time frame."
His operation finished harvest Wednesday without any labor issues.
"We got lucky," he said. "We had enough crews to get through the season and didn't experience any slowdown except for that one rain day last Tuesday."
Orchardists are currently working on their fall crop of fruit known as winter pears for the fresh market. These include several varieties, of which Green Anjou are the most predominant.
But Moore said he knows of several orchardists who have not been as fortunate as he. Field men who work as the essential link between growers and the packing houses see firsthand the day-to-day needs in the orchards.
Craig Mallon, a field man for Duckwall-Pooley Fruit Co., said the Parkdale orchardists are the ones still needing to finish their crops.
"They are not quite halfway done. For this time of year there should be enough pickers," he said.
As far as where all the pickers are, some growers said that there is the same number as usual but overlapping harvests throughout the valley have stretched thin available resources.
"Think of the difference in elevation between Hood River and Parkdale," said Leonard Aubert, a Parkdale grower. "Usually there is 10 to 15 days' difference between fruit ripening (from one end of the Hood River Valley to the other). In my opinion, during the past three years fruit is ripening at the same time or closer together than before."
Diamond Fruit field man Bruce Kiyokawa said some growers have told him their regular pickers have switched from seasonal harvest work to full-time jobs at mills or other businesses. Kiyokawa oversees 25 growers and said three are short on their crews to complete harvest. While the Hood River Valley is not new to the fluctuating supply and demand of the agricultural industry, he said this year's shortage is notable for its duration.
"It's the first time it's been a prolonged period with growers going eight to nine days in length with low crews," he said.
Many growers think the labor shortage will ease up within the next week as more orchardists in the lower valley finish up their crops.
Many other factors contribute to the shortage of labor at a critical time. This includes the timing of the harvest. Moore said during his 40 years of experience as a Hood River Valley orchardist that it should not be said that the situation is as simple as not having enough pickers.
He said contributing factors to a harvest crunch can include whether or not orchardists are using a spray program that delays or hastens ripening of the fruit, marketing needs or issues, and also regional pressures from other crops.
"Some of it depends on who stays to pick and who goes to Wenatchee to pick apples up there," he said. "If someone is paying $25 a bin to pick apples up that way, well, it's hard to compete with that."
The picker shortage has not been limited to the Hood River Valley. Washington Growers Association Vice-President Dan Kelly said their 2,200 members are hurting.
"Everybody is having issues with labor; from the Tri-Cities to Oroville to Yakima," he said.
Kelly said he doesn't know anyone who has a full crew and crews are working longer hours to compensate. He cited three reasons why he thinks crews are down, including fuel costs, immigration, and a change from older to younger workers.
"The immigration issue has blown up this year and people are afraid to travel up here," he said. "But another issue people don't think of is that just like in farming many of the pickers are older guys who are retiring and younger people aren't interested in the work."
Aubert said he thinks the key to getting dependable pickers relates to pay and housing but he also said the work itself can be a deterrent.
"Everything changes every year," he said. "We pay very good wages but it's hard work, very hard work."
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Hi forum - hope that you can help me here:
I created a R&R on my external drive, which already contains all my files and documents from the last 2-3 years.
It installed the R&R succesfiully, but now when I connect the external HDD, I can only see the R&R cbd-drive files and not see any of all my folders and files that I had on the hard drive.
I didnt see any thing about R&R would delete existing files and the drive... how do I roll back in order to access my old files?..
really hope that you can help me, as the files are of great importance.
thank you in advanced!
I using a lenovo w520
The external HD shows that 500+ GB is used... so the files must be there somewhere...
When i insert the USB Disk, Windows mounts cbd_drive (F.)
There are boot and factoryrecovery folders and usb.tag and winRE.wim files.
Just read this:
jfatlenovo, welcome to the forum,
the difference is as follows; if you plan to create your backups using R&R to external network or hard drives the "boot media" will enable you to access these backups after booting from it.
** Very important consideration; if you choose to make an external hard drive bootable this process will delete the files you already have stored on it - back it up first.
does this mean that my files are deleted????
I dont recall R&R ever to say anything about formatting / deleting existing files... this is terrible..
I don't know how to recover your files, but I don't think R&R did this. It seems to me that you created factory recovery media on your USB HDD and answered "yes" to the following message box that was displayed:
That's the only way I know to end up with "cbd_drive" with a factoryrecovery folder...
so the same thing just happened to me on my brand new lenovo x220. what a complete disaster.
I saved the recovery media and boot onto my existing external hard-drive and it erased everything else, including video too big to have saved anywhere else. I very carefully read every single panel that came up and read all the instructions in the user guide pdf. there was nothing that even hinted at loss of all my other data. boo, lenovo.
it seems this might be a good place for improvement as no other file added to an external hard drive would be expected to erase all existing files. this is an unexpected result and no logical warning is given in either the user guide or during the backup. what's worse, I can't make another copy of the media.
can I even use my external hard drive anymore or is it now as useless?
the program allowing me instant backup, etc is also erased. wow.
You should look at your software again (w520 version) because it just did this to me without asking...
A warning to any user. If you are creating BOOTable material, I would never use a USB-hdd, 2nd HDD etc with my loved pre-existing data.
(1) For create recovery media, the message could say format (and all data will be erased on device).
(2) The same exists for creating Rescue media.(standalone RNR boot). I backup to my 2nd HDD. Every install of RNR will also install the bootable RNR standalone. Therer is a box, which is unchecked, it says Delete exisiting files. What delete RNR boot files or the WHOLE drive. (the whole drive is the answer).
A better worded Message would help.
Other back up utilities have created folders on the drive (usb or sata whatever) example windows 7 backup. Bootable or whatever RN...whatever jargon does not matter. The answer is simple people; who know what to do, will do it correctly; for the rest of us the back up utiltiy does not work as expected. There is a pop up but it says nothing about wiping your drive clean. While I appreciate many of the utilties my laptop came with this one should simply be corrected to inform the layman.
hi. i am panicking now because i just expeirenced the same problem and have lost my files. can you tell me if you ever found a fix to this and were able to recover your information? i would REALLY appreciate your help.


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The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements added four more categories of textile and apparel products to the list of safeguard cases it has accepted involving Chinese textile imports.
The four new cases covering man-made fiber shirts, non-knit (woven) shirts, man-made fiber trousers and combed cotton yarn brings to seven the number now being pursued by CITA, an interagency group with members from the U.S. Departments of Commerce, State, Labor and Treasury and the U.S. Trade Representative's office.
"It is important to note that the cases approved today (May 20) were filed as threat-based cases in October 2004," said Auggie Tantillo, executive director of the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition, one of the filers of the safeguard cases.
"Today's approvals validate the U.S. textile industry's prediction that China would surge into the market in a disruptive way."
Under China's WTO accession agreement, the United States has the right to limit the growth of Chinese imports if those imports threaten the economic viability of a U.S. manufacturing sector that the government believes should be safeguarded.
The U.S. government must first consult with the People's Republic of China to determine if China will voluntarily limit its exports. If those consultations fail, the United States can restrict the growth in specific categories of textiles and apparel to 7.5 percent of the total for the previous year.
Through April 2005, the volume of U.S. imports from China has risen:
- 364 percent in MMF shirts
- 293 percent in non-knit shirts
- 287 percent in MMF trousers
- 78 percent in combed cotton yarn
The figures, compiled by the U.S. Office of Textiles and Apparel, show China's impact on the U.S. retail market since worldwide textile quotas expired on Jan. 1 of this year.
Tantillo said Chinese manufacturers obviously benefit from China's extremely low wage rates, but that those don't tell the whole story of why China's textile and apparel exports have gained a 70 percent share of the market in some categories.
"Unfair trade practices like export tax rebates, non-performing loans, currency manipulation and other subsidies fuels China's export surge," he said. "Failure by the U.S. government to discourage these practices would make a mockery of America's free markets."
The four latest cases to be accepted by CITA were part of 12 filed by the U.S. textile industry between October and December of last year. In late December, the U.S. Court of International Trade granted an injunction sought by the U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel barring CITA from taking any further action on the so-called threat-based cases.
The Federal Court of Appeals in late April ruled that the CITA could resume its consideration of the filings. On May 13, CITA accepted the first three of the threat-based cases filed last fall, cases covering cotton knit shirts, cotton trousers and cotton and man-made fiber underwear.
The U.S. textile industry has six other safeguard cases pending, and Tantillo said more could be filed in coming weeks.
"The U.S. textile industry has been reviewing the data of U.S. imports from China in other categories," he said. "Several of them are ripe for safeguard filings and the U.S. textile industry will act soon."
In 1995, the WTO began implementing a 10-year phaseout of worldwide quotas on textile and apparel products. When China joined the WTO in 2002, it was allowed to join the quota phaseout in lockstep, giving it a three-year transition period compared to 10 years for the rest of the world.
"China agreed to be subject to textile and clothing safeguards through the end of 2008 in return for receiving the reduced transition period," said Tantillo.
But Chinese officials have chastised U.S. and European officials for imposing limits on textile imports, calling the actions to slow the flood of cheap garments "unfair."
China's Commerce Minister Bo Xilai said the jump in Chinese shipments in the first four months of 2005 occurred because the United States and Europe were slow in lifting quotas prior to the expiration of all quotas in January.


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Placement Exams
Any student wishing to enroll in first semester calculus (MATH 75 or MATH 75A) is required to take and pass the Calculus Readiness Test or by ALEKS PPL Placement. See the link at the left for times and locations for administration of this test.
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Tipster Jack M. says watching 13 seconds of Justin Tuck pushing his baby in a carriage toward Mike Francesa and Tom Coughlin while in full uniform "could be one of the oddest things I've ever seen." Tipster Jack M. probably hasn't seen Michel Lotito in action.
It's from 2:08 to 2:21 of this Yes Network video.


text: Yeah, I know it's gross, but give me a chance here. When you do a lot of walking in the cold weather your legs get mighty dry. And your skin gets itchy. So itchy, in fact, that you can't stop scratching it. Regular moisturizer doesn't work. You begin to think you have a strange skin disease. You scratch until you bleed in places. And your housemate, a nurse practitioner, recommends Crisco. Gross. But it works. After a shower, regular moisturizer. Then lock it in with Crisco or Vaseline. The itching stops. And pretty soon your skin is so smooth and soft and supple that you feel like you've been let in on some kind of sorority sister secret. I'm sticking with it (in moderation).


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Driver's Fred Flintstone Braking Technique Results in Multiple Crashes [VIDEO]
A Georgia man was aware that his pickup truck had no functional brakes when he took it for a drive Wednesday afternoon. But the 24-year-old was under the mistaken — and likely Saturday morning cartoon-influenced — impression he could just stop the vehicle by sticking his foot out the door and dragging it across the pavement, Fred Flinstone-style.
Four collisions and one blown red light later, he learned this is not the case. "This guy is no rocket scientist," explained Roseville Deputy Chief James Berlin.
The man, whose name hasn't been released because he has yet to arraigned, was jailed on multiple vehicular violations. Check out his comic attempt at cartoon driving below.
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MacPhun has updated their iPhone photo editing apps, FX Photo Studio, with a new Masking Studio. This allows the user to apply a filter to only part of an image.
Masking tool allows applying effects on a particular part of the image. With a selection of 194 effects, which can be customized and mixed, masking tools gives close to unlimited creative possibilities when it comes to image processing on your iDevice. Masking studio lets users choose a brush type and supports maximum iPhone 4 image resolution.
Here are all of the update details:
- Masking Studio: apply effects to any part of the image
- 7 new effects, including 3-D filter
- Performance improvements - with some filters 2X faster processing
- Improved editing tools: gamma, saturation, hues, etc
- Improved in-app camera
- Possibility to import images from Facebook
- Instagram sharing
- Centering for Tilt Shift, Radial Blur effects
- Printing
- Square crop option
- Enhanced user interface
- Restore in-app purchases from inside the app
The Masking Studio is such a great feature! I've never been much of a fan of drastic filters because although they make part of the picture look great, they commonly ruin (in my opinion) another part of the photo (like skin). I'm looking forward to seeing the type of images I can get out of FX Photo Studio with masking.
The good folks at MacPhun have given us a couple promo codes to give away to you! For a chance to win, let us know how many photos are in your camera roll!
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- Greek: lepo, peel
A chronic disease of an infectious nature, caused by the germ bacillus leprae, which produces bodily deformations and mutilations, including destruction of tissue, and bodily decomposition, motor paralysis, anaesthesia, etc. It is fatal in the majority of cases although various methods of treatment, including the application of chaulmoogra oil which has met with appreciable success, have reduced the mortality. Bad nutrition and insanitary conditions are favorable to its generation and propagation, and it is endemic in certain localities, as parts of Africa, Arabia, China, Japan, India, Italy, Spain, etc.; it is also found in the United States, particularly in Louisiana and California. It was carried to the Western world from Egypt where it was believed to be contagious and hereditary (2 Kings 29) and entailed exclusion from the community, the afflicted being shunned as "unclean." The New Testament contains references to the miraculous cure of lepers by Our Lord, notably the healing of ten at one time (Luke 17). In the early Christian era it was prevalent throughout Europe and strict regulations regarding lepers were adopted; they were prohibited from public meeting places and churches, although in some of the latter they were permitted to watch services celebrated on the main altar by means of a hagioscope, or small opening in the chancel wall of the church. They were obliged to carry wooden clappers to signal their approach, and were gradually segregated in leper houses or "Lazaries," under the administration of religious communities, each of which had its own churchyard, chapel, and ecclesiastics. The view that leprosy is due to the consumption of fish and that hence the Church is responsible for much of the disease is exploded by the fact that it is not as prevalent in Catholic as in other localities, and Catholics, though obliged to abstain from meat, are not obliged to eat fish. The Church which from very early times has promoted the spiritual and temporal welfare of the leper continues the work in various leper colonies, including Carville, Louisiana, where the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul minister to them, and Molokai, scene of the heroic labors of Father Damien and "Brother" Joseph Dutton.
- "leprosy". . CatholicSaints.Info. 19 December 2010. Web. 23 January 2019. <http://catholicsaints.info/leprosy/>


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Research Country Contact (Personal Names, Addresses, Phone) Information (Croatia)
Budżet $30-250 USD
The context of this work is in relation to the country of Croatia.
Please refer to the attached document full requirements with examples and general requirements.
Data Requirements
- Personal Names
- Make sure to describe all forms a name can take in official and non official documentation
- List of First Names ordered by popularity using native character set (if possible 1000, more is better)
- List of Last Name ordered by popularity using native character set (if possible 1000, more is better)
- Pattern Logic (Country specific)
- Describe any rules regarding composite names (eg, names separated by hyphens), either first or last. How many composites are allowed?
- For example, German might have a "von" prefix for some last names as in "von Ludwig"
- For example, U.S: Middle name would consist of similar names as First name list
- Context
- Different way name, first name, given name, last name, family name, maiden name is referred to in the country language
- What is the official way to address someone?
- Mr, Mrs, etc.. (also list the typical shorten forms that are used if different)
- Is some form considered disrespectful, preferred, etc...
- List of characters used in names (Upper case, lower case, romanized, other cases)
- Mailing Addresses
- Format (Structure) of Address (all possible combinations)
- Context - Ways any part of the address is referred to in the country language
- Examples of Address Form formats (image of form (physical or online) + typed out version in language with English translation)
- Pattern
- Pattern Logic
- Postal Codes structure broken up with their area code
- A list of common street prefix or postfixes with their abbreviation (For example, Street, St, Str, Road, Rd, Way, Path)
- A list of all States, Cities and Towns in possible for address
- Country specific logic
- For example, In Germany the postfixes might be joined as part of the street name.
- "Hauptstraße", where "Haupt" = Main + "straße" = "Street"
- Germany has different spelling names of cities in English which are also commonly used and cannot be converted directly. Give a list of all "München" = "Munich"
- Common patterns, Addresses with:
- Apartments
- PO Box
- On the Road (km instead of street #)
- etc
- Telephone Number
- Format
- Country Code
- Trunk Code
- Area codes for all locations within the country with their descriptions, eg in 212 is one of New York's area codes
- Subscriber numbers
- Mobile operators, do they have different dialing prefixes?
- Minimum and Maximum number of digits in a phone number.
- All possibly dialing prefixes.
- For example, is there a different way to dial a mobile number inside the country vs outside.
- For example, in US, to dial a mobile or a regular number is the same. However both can be prefixed with '1', the US country code. In Australia, the number format for mobile numbers and land lines differ. So dialing from outside the country is also different for each one.
- All common ways to write a phone number down in both official and non official documentation. Provide references if possible.
- Context - Different ways phone number, phone or handphone (cellphone, mobile) is referred to in the country language (For example, German "Handy", "Telefon")
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The MOBIL toolbox operates with MATLAB and can be included in standalone programs created by MATLAB Compiler. The toolbox combines MATLAB with the real-time image acquisition of a frame-grabber for processing camera images. The interface displays camera images as stills or live video. A MEX-DLL places function calls for initializing the frame-grabber, changing camera parameters, acquiring and displaying of live images, and transferring images into MATLAB arrays. Further image processing functions are included in the toolbox as fast MEX-DLLs.
MOBIL was developed for applications and users working with live camera images. The frame-grabber hardware and the toolbox with fast DLL's enables real-time image acquisition and processing to be done with MATLAB. MOBIL is delivered for use with MATLAB only, or for use with MATLAB and the MATLAB Compiler to generate standalone programs. Functions of Image Processing Toolbox can be added as an option in a user application program called from the MOBIL interface.
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