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When most Manhattan real estate developers buy up land to build a new tower, they unceremoniously raze any existing structures. But Michael Shvo, a developer and art collector who recently bought a lot near the High Line with the intention of building a new residential tower, decided to have a little fun first.
This year, Shvo is commissioning artists to turn his future tower—currently occupied by a gas station—into art. His so-called Getty Station will showcase many exhibitions over the coming months in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The current exhibition, presented by the Paul Kasmin Gallery, is called Sheep Station for obvious reasons. It's an installation by the late French sculptor Francois Xavier Lalanne, who first debuted the pastoral piece in 1965.
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A sinkhole split open in a familiar area of 15 Mile Road today in Fraser, partially collapsing a home, endangering other structures and forcing the closure of the road in both directions between Hayes and Utica, police said.
FRASER, Mich. — A sinkhole split open in a Detroit suburb Saturday, partially collapsing a home, endangering other structures and forcing the closure of 15 Mile Road in both directions, police said.
The sinkhole is in the same general area as a massive one that opened on the same road in 2004, and authorities said they would have to cut power to almost 900 customers for several hours so electric service could be rerouted around the affected area.
It was unclear how large the new sinkhole could be, but the source of the problem begins 55 feet underground, said Lt. Mike Pettyes of the Fraser Public Safety Department. A state of emergency was in the process of being declared for the city, and it was unclear how long would be needed for the area to be stabilized.
"We're kind of in sit-around-and-wait (mode)," he said. "A lot of people are convinced that it's just a matter of time — and it's not if the house is going to come crumbling down, it's when."
The 1,800-square-foot home with three bedrooms and 2½ baths last sold in 1999 for $207,500 and was estimated to be worth about $250,000 in 2016, according to Zillow. It was built in 1998 on a little more than a quarter acre lot.
The city first received a call about the collapsing home at 6:30 a.m. ET, "then we realized it was more than just a house problem here," Pettyes said. No one was injured.
A line of shrubs near the house that previously was straight now slopes toward Eberlein Drive. The house is on the corner, and shingles have buckled. The gutter also was bent.
Homeowner Sue Albu said she and her husband awoke to popping noises at 4 a.m. Saturday and two hours later she had trouble opening doors. That's when she called police.
Evacuation orders were issued for the house and two neighboring homes. Most of the street was evacuated, and all of the cars moved away, Pettyes said.
Some 55 feet underground is an 11-foot-wide sewer line, "the biggest one they have," he said.
"You get a break in that line, it's just washing away dirt down there. It creates a void," Pettyes said. "When it creates a void, it moves the dirt out. The ground gives way."
DTE Energy, the area's electric and natural gas utility, was dispatched to the sinkhole about 12:20 p.m. though no power outages were reported, spokesman John Fosson said.
In August 2004, a sinkhole opened up suddenly in the same area when a sewer line collapsed, leaving a hole that was 160-by-60-feet on 15 Mile at the entrance to a nearby subdivision.
The road was shut down between Moravian and Utica roads while crews repaired it. It reopened nearly 10 months later.
John Roach, spokesman for Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's Office, referred to Detroit Water and Sewerage Department officials for comment and they could not be immediately reached.
With the road closed, a Macomb County Mobile Command Center and emergency vehicles were in the middle of 15 Mile near the road block. Officers, city workers and a number of neighbors were watching to see if the house sunk further.
The state of emergency was declared to prepare "us if things do get worse in the future," Pettyes said.
As police lights flashed on 15 Mile, people could be seen carrying things on the sidewalk. Two cousins, Andrea Gerard, 28, and Rosemary Bagnasco, 24, were taking a detour from a nearby shopping-center parking lot to a family Christmas party around the corner. They walked with Bagnasco's mother, Dawnw Bagnasco, 58, all of Clinton Township, Mich., because the road closure kept them from driving to the home where Gerard's family was hosting the party.
Though the roadblock affected the plans of 30 to 35 people attending the party, they're worried for the neighbors whose home is in danger.
"My prayers go out to the people that, you know, their house is in trouble right now," Gerard said. "It is really sad."
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(The Root) — On a Sunday that started out with blustery winds and slightly overcast conditions, several thousand New Yorkers gathered in upper Manhattan and marched down Fifth Avenue from 110th Street in a remarkably silent protest of the city's stop-and-frisk police policy.
Today's march — led by a coalition of organizations and prominent public figures including Rev. Al Sharpton, NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous and New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman — was aimed at drawing attention to NYPD's controversial practice of stopping and questioning residents who seem suspicious.
The tactic — which some say unfairly targets blacks and Latinos — has been defended by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other members of his administration.
Many of those who participated described situations in which they often felt like they received special negative attention from police.
Harlem resident Randy Chavis, 48, said he has been stopped but never frisked. "It's sad but it almost comes to the point that if you're careful then you almost think it's the way things just are. And it shouldn't be," he explained to The Root. "That's why I'm out here supporting this. No one should be unjustly stopped and frisked for no justifiable cause."
Jose Hernandez, 31, of the Bronx, said he regularly sees cops stopping other members of his community. Despite being confined to a wheelchair, he joined the protest to show solidarity with New Yorkers who have faced police scrutiny.
"It tends to happen more to people who are walking," Hernandez admitted. "But I don't think it matters. It's a racial profiling thing … just because you look a certain way, you shouldn't be outright targeted because of the color of your skin."
Fellow Bronx resident Anthony Cerrino, who was walking beside Hernandez, concurred. "Usually it's with no probable cause. [The police are like,] 'Come here, where are you going, what are you doing, what's your name, do you have anything in your pockets?' " he said. "It's become so commonplace that people like myself, we tend not to say anything anymore."
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Last year, 87 percent of the 685,000 (pdf) people stopped by police officers in New York City were black or Latino, and 88 percent of people stopped were innocent of any crime, according to NYCLU reports.
Mayor Bloomberg, however, has argued that stop and frisk helps reduce the number of guns on the street and deters crime. He has defended the practice, claiming that it only needs to be amended and that the tactic may be scaled back in the face of protests from residents.
According to reports, Mayor Bloomberg was not in the vicinity of the march, which ended near his home on 79th Street. Instead he spoke at an African-American church in Brooklyn, defending stop and frisk and conceding that police could improve their relations with residents. "If you've done nothing wrong, you deserve nothing but respect and courtesy from the police," he said, according to the New York Times. "Police Commissioner Kelly and I both believe we can do a better job in this area — and he's instituted a number of reforms to do that."
As the procession made its way down Fifth Avenue, what was notable was not only the size of the crowd but its diversity, as well. There were marchers of varying ethnic backgrounds, age groups and sexual orientations. Families, students, members of labor unions, elected officials, the NAACP, comic and activist Dick Gregory, the families of slain teens Trayvon Martin and Ramarley Graham, J.D. Williams (who played "Bodie" on the fictional series The Wire) and even a group of Quakers walked the route. In total, nearly 300 organizations supported the march.
Yetta Kurland, 44, a civil rights attorney who lives in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, told The Root that as a member of the LGBT community, she found solidarity with people of color who are most affected by stop and frisk. "I represent people who have been targeted … I see it in the transgender community," she said. "The pattern and practice has created a situation where our communities actually fear the police instead of as [seeing them as] a part of our government that's supposed to protect and serve us."
Others, like Gregory Watts, 61, of Brooklyn, decided it was a great way to spend Father's Day with his wife and two sons. He claimed that blacks have been targeted by police for years in the city but recently it has become more overt. "It's sophisticated racial profiling," he told The Root, which continues because "the court system endorses it."
Watts also pointed out that there is some added significance that Rodney King — whose beating at the hands of the Los Angeles police symbolized unfair treatment by law enforcement two decades ago — died on the same day as the march. "It's ironic, and it's sad, too," Watts said.
Despite that grim reminder, the march was a largely peaceful event. There were a few reports via Twitter of negative encounters with police, and there were also reports of scuffles. The police were seen making a few arrests. The exact number was not known at press time.
The NYCLU's Lieberman was mostly satisfied with how the silent protest concluded. "Thousands took to the streets in a dignified silent protest against the NYPD abuse," she told The Root. "What's wonderful about this march is that this march is the face of New York — people of all races, nationalities, colors — and we have a common message: that the police department that protects us is not the one we want to be afraid of."
Brett Johnson is The Root's associate editor.
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Kind of like a good hair cut, throw pillows can really transform a look. They add a unique and fresh something-new without a lot of fuss. Personally, I've had the same tired pillows on my bed for at least four years, and I was ready for a change!
These Quilted Throw Pillows, with their crisp, graphic simplicity, are really giving my bedroom the new life it needed. Normally I don't much like machine quilting, but for this project I decided to explore the more creative side to this usually tedious (for me at least!) process. With a creamy soft muslin as my canvas, I let the quilting itself be the point, creating grids of snappy red for a clean, breath-of-fresh-air look!
I discovered that I actually like machine quilting on a small scale. It makes the steps that I usually struggle with, like laying out the quilt sandwich and basting, no sweat! It's also a real joy to start with such basic materials (muslin, cotton batting, thread) and to end with something so pretty. In fact the whole process turned out to be about transformations: of the materials, of my attitude about machine quilting, and of my bedroom! –Molly
To make a set of three square pillows, one 17-inches and two 13-inches:
- 2 1/2-yards of 200 count white muslin (if you're only making one pillow you'll need 1 yard for the larger size and 3/4-yards for the smaller size. )
- 1 craft sized request weight batting
- 7 yards of bamboo bias tape in ecru (if you're only making one pillow you'll need 3 yards for the larger pillow and 2 yards each for the smaller pillows.)
- A water soluble fabric marker
- 100% cotton thread in color 1040
- 100% cotton thread in color 4930
- Curved Safety Pins
- Two 14-inch pillow forms
- One 18-inch pillow form
For the 17-inch pillow cut:
- One 17-inch square from the muslin (top piece)
- One 20-inch square from the muslin (backing piece)
- Two 17 X 12-inch rectangles from the muslin (flap pieces)
- One 20-inch square from the batting
For each 13-inch pillow cut:
- One 13-inch square from the muslin (top piece)
- One 16-inch square from the muslin (backing piece)
- Two 13X 10-inch rectangles from the muslin (flap pieces)
- One 16-inch square from the batting
Marking and Basting
For the larger pillow mark every 2 and 2 1/2-inches vertically starting at the center and then moving outward. Then mark it every 2 and 2 1/2-inches horizontally, again starting in the center, to create a plaid pattern as shown above.
To baste: Tape down the backing piece smoothly to a flat surface. Lay the batting piece on top of the taped backing and then lay the top piece marked side up in the center on top of that.
Using the bent arm safety pins pin the three layers together every few inches. Try not to pin over any of the marked lines if possible.
Untape the backing and you're ready to quilt.
For the first smaller pillow mark every 1-inch vertically and then every 1-inch horizontally to create a grid. Baste it in the same manner as described for the larger pillow.
For the second smaller pillow mark the top every 1/2-inch vertically to create stripes. Baste it in the same manner as described for the larger pillow.
For each pillow, using your walking foot and the brightly colored thread quilt over the markings. Remove the safety pins as you come to them.
Trim the batting and backing pieces to match the top piece. This is your pillow top, make sure it's nice and square.
Press a doubled 1/2-inch fold along one of the long sides of each flap piece. Edge stitch this fold down using the neutral colored thread. The folded side is the wrong side.
Pin the raw sides of the two flap pieces to the quilted front, wrong sides facing down. The hemmed sides of the flap pieces will overlap in the middle as shown above.
Using the neutral thread sew the flaps to the front with a 1/8-inch seam allowance.
Starting with a 3-inch tail pin the bias tape around the raw edges leaving a 2-inch gap unpinned and leaving a tail at the end as well.
When you get to the corners unfold the bias tape open and finger press a 45-degree angle above the corner as shown above.
Then refold the bias tape closed, keeping the 45-degree angle intact to create a mitered corner, and continue pinning down the bias tape.
Sew the pinned bias tape on around all four sides using the neutral thread, making sure you're catching both sides at every point. Backstitch at the beginning and end of this seam. Leave the gap unsewn.
Diagonally cut one of the tails to 1 1/2-inches. Lay it down over the raw edge of gap. Cut the second tail to 1 1/2-inches and finger press the end over on itself towards the wrong side of the tape as shown above.
Pin the second tail on top of the first tail as shown above.
Sew down the pinned gap of the bias tape backstitching at the beginning and end of the seam and you're all done!


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New evidence suggests David Dopp, the man who won a Lamborghini Murcielago and then crashed it six hours later speeding on an icy road, had a motive to intentionally crash the supercar. Amazingly, it turns out he asked Jay Leno to buy it from him well before he took delivery of the prize.
It only took an hour after we first posed the question for our crack-team of Jalopnik readers to unearth more suspicious evidence that Dopp was displaying a motive to intentionally crash the supercar he'd just won. And strangely, it involves Jay Leno.
Apparently, after the announcement was made that he'd won the car back in November, and then upon learning he'd owe $100,000 in taxes upon delivery, Dopp wrote on Jay Leno's Facebook page on November 28th:
Hi, I do not know if Jay sees these post but I have a problem on my hands. I know that Jay is a big car guy. I recently won a 2008 Lamborghini 2DR ROADSTER
Verde Ithaca. The stupid government wants around $100,000 dollars in taxes and so I am forced to sell it to pay the taxes. Plus as a father of six It is a very impractical car. I was wondering if anyone knew where the best place was to sell it? Thank you for any help that can be given. Sincerely David
Is this proof Dopp intentionally crashed the car for the insurance money? No. But it certainly does provide more evidence that the crash needs some serious investigation on the part of both authorities and the insurance company.
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What car chases are made of
Get high, give motherfuckers what they came for
On-sight appraisal
You ain't worth shit streaks on newspaper
Square, fruity ass nigga, you a Now and Later
Can't do me shit, you just like to say it, huh?
Harmless, water balloon bomb threats
My reign supreme, I got your main bitch wet
Step the fuck off, homeboy, you lost it
See fathers be sons by my bossness
Jet life, front office
Hand orders down to my sergeant, motherfucker, we the army
Better yet, the navy, air force assault team
Game to be sold, holla at me for consulting
Success resulting from whatever I invest myself in
I come up like gull wings
From this high up, your big plans look like small things
Could you please land my plane in New Orleans?
I got the ref in my crib cause I'm balling
My bitch cook every night but I rap like I'm starving
Effortless progression
Like that moving sidewalk thing in the airport
Motherfuck that, teleport, he was last in the park scene
In a pair of Polo chinos and some white gold rosary beads
Feeding pigeons bread crust and saltines
Laying low, highly enlightened, though
Pinning these quotes
Audio dope
Steady giving these suckas rope
Audio dope
Steady giving real people hope
Audio dope
On this track off Curren$y's 2012 album The Stoned Immaculate, he brags about his swagger and success as an artist. This is the third track in his series of "Audio Dope"-titled tracks.
The song "Pursuit" by Giorgos Hatzinasios is sampled in this song (sample starts at 2:34 in this video).


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ESA Bulletin 143 (August 2010)
As part of their training, ESA's new astronauts experience 'parabolic flight', creating weightless conditions to simulate working in space, featured on the cover and inside the ESA Bulletin. Read the Bulletin and other publications online, with our visualiser tool.
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In this issue of ESA's flagship magazine, we also mark ten years of operations of the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters', demonstrating the importance of space in helping to deal with natural and technological hazards around the world.
Initiated by ESA and the French space agency CNES in 1999, the Charter officially came into operation on 20 October 2000. Since then, the Charter has grown, with more space agencies joining and many more relief organisations able to access its systems.
Next, two articles on different but timely aspects of the International Space Station: highlighting the challenges of changing from essentially a construction project to a permanently manned operational outpost, and, with the ISS partners now deciding on extending the life of the ISS, a look at ways to increase the efficiency of running a 'home' in space.
Also in this issue, we look at 'risk management', a major part of ESA's management activity. Like any other business, space programmes face risks, but these are not only from technical challenges or extreme environments, they could also come from many other unexpected situations on Earth, such as project delays, cost overruns or even from legal barriers between countries.
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AC/DC – Fly On The Wall (1985, Atlantic)
- Fly On The Wall
- Shake Your Foundations
- First Blood
- Danger
- Sink The Pink
- Playing With Girls
- Stand Up
- Hell Or High Water
- Back In Business
- Send For The Man
Band Lineup:
Brian Johnson – Lead Vocals
Angus Young – Lead Guitar
Malcolm Young – Rhythm Guitar & Backing Vocals
Cliff Williams – Bass & Backing Vocals
Simon Wright – Drums
Produced by: Angus Young & Malcolm Young
Total Time = 40:20
I listen back on FLY ON THE WALL with a lot of fond memories. The record came out in the summer of 1985 and I got it for my 13th birthday, not a bad gift! When I went back to school a few weeks later all my friends had the album too and it became one of the soundtracks of my last year of grammar school. The best songs were 'Sink The Pink' and 'Shake Your Foundations' and I remember rewinding that cassette back and forth to keep listening to those two tracks. These two singles were also the two big videos for the band on MTV but then the FLY ON THE WALL VHS came out and I started to get into 'Danger', 'Stand Up' and the title cut. Back in the day it was all about the videos. Another reason I got into the video songs a little more was that 'Sink the Pink' and 'Shake Your Foundations' were featured on the WHO MADE WHO (1986) album and that record exploded. I always got a kick out of the kids that didn't know that those two songs were released a year earlier on a "real" album.
Listening to the album now, the same five songs stand out just as much as they did 23 years ago but I had forgotten that the other half of the album was also pretty good. Of the other five, 'Hell Or High Water', 'Playing With Girls' and 'First Blood' stand out a little more than they did. What is really cool about this album is that AC/DC still made their usual brand of Hard Rock at a time when a Glam look, sex-filled lyrics and faster guitar techniques were all the rage. AC/DC came out, did what they usually did, and made no excuses! Maybe that's another reason I like this album, you could take a simple formula like this and make a solid record without all the frills and excesses.
Bottom Line:
A pretty good record with five songs featured prominently as singles/videos. The album is more of a trip down memory lane for me but it's also a "lost" album because it's sandwiched between '83's FLICK OF THE SWITCH and '86's WHO MADE WHO. When I get sick of hearing all the usual AC/DC radio hits, I put on FLY ON THE WALL and remember how exciting it was to have this record when it was a new album.
Favorite Songs: 'Sink The Pink', 'Shake Your Foundations', 'Danger'


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Last week our studio (led by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi) went to NYC to visit our site, which is the area around the "Bridge Towers" that are built directly over the I-95 highway in northern Manhattan.
[This image from Weiss/Manfredi. All other images are mine.]
Our site is as above. The I-95 crosses Manhattan at this narrowest point in the north. After crossing the Hudson River from the New Jersey side via the George Washington Bridge, one passes under Pier Luigi Nervi's bus terminal, with its concrete trusses and winged roof, and then under four massive towers--each housing about 1000 people--that alternate with ventilation gaps where the sunken highway is open to the sky. To the east of this is another gaping hole where nothing has yet been built over the highway. Then a tangle of on- and off-ramps manage snarls of traffic while blocking easy pedestrian and bike access to the river and to Highbridge Park which sits on the banks of the Harlem River.
We're dealing with this whole area and the adjacent neighborhoods, but our primary focus is around the big red question mark, where the sunken highway remains open and a lack of programmed spaces, amenities, and access to the river and its parks currently prevent the development of an active street life.
This parking lot is in fact part of the roof of the bus terminal and is two stories above grade.
The towers themselves meet the ground in a way that is not particularly elegant or inviting.
The towers have come under serious criticism for their placement above the highway, which has led to major asthma and other health problems for residents, due to the constant exposure to vehicular fumes. They are also not that fascinating, architecturally, but the aluminum cladding does have a certain appeal in the morning light.
The people who inhabit these towers have personalized their balcony spaces with bright paint
All of this cuts through a lively, largely Dominican, neighborhood.
So, now you see why our studio is called "Evolutionary Infrastructure - The New Mega Form"! Our task is to add housing for 1000 people to the site, plus whatever other program we deem appropriate. The idea is to propose a new piece of large-scale infrastructure that critiques and extends the existing structures as "unfinished utopias."
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It must be hard for professional athletes to figure out to respond to national tragedies like the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary yesterday. In times of national mourning, sports can seem pretty starkly trivial, and the juxtaposition between the day's news and the night's sporting events has a way of making us notice that athletes are not only mere entertainers, but entertainers that have to summon a sort of viciousness to do their job right. ESPN was acting upon something like this realization when they told their staff to stop tweeting about sports and refrain from using words like "shooting"—important words if you want to talk about anything sports-related—until Sunday afternoon. The vocabulary of sports overlaps with the vocabulary of violence, and that's not coincidental—playing a sport well means doing damage to your opponent. It must be strange on days like yesterday that what feels natural is also fundamentally aggressive.
Kevin Durant brokered the contradiction by writing a memorial for Newtown, CT on his shoes for last night's game. It's a small gesture, but if there are any kids at Sandy Hook that are obsessed with basketball—and the biggest athletic program in the state is UConn, so there are—maybe it was nice for a minute to see that a superstar cared. He proceeded to torch Sacramento for 31 points on 10/14 shooting (9/9 from the line), dropping the Kings to 7-15 and extending the Thunder's win-streak to 10. Leave it to Durant to make the rough business of crushing your opposition look pretty graceful.
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I had a few setbacks the past couple of weeks but am settling back into the saddle and getting back on schedule with the blogs and sites. (You can decide which is which.)
Look for new material on "The Gnome Tapestry" as well as a post on "Parables of Latitude". I also have done another post on "The Garden Wall." There are other posts to come as well.
A few years ago I realized how powerful WordPress could be and that it would be great for a way to produce websites without complicated site building tools. I pointed our Port Moody Station Museum in that direction and the website built using WordPress has just what the museum needs for its website.
Since then, I have noted more and more sites using WordPress, whether they are advertising such or not including very big institutions taking advantage of the strengths of WordPress.
It is pretty cool to be a trendsetter. LOL


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Pac-12 M5: 02.01.13 EditionPosted by AMurawa on February 1st, 2013
- If things weren't going bad enough for the Utah basketball team, what with a 1-7 start to Pac-12 play, they got worse news yesterday when leading scorer and rebounder, freshman Jordan Loveridge, was held out of practice with a hyperextended knee suffered in practice on Tuesday. The good news is that the results of his MRI showed no structural damage or any issues with ligaments, but Loveridge is considered day-to-day and may miss Saturday's game with Colorado.
- Following UCLA's home court loss to cross-town rival USC on Wednesday night, Ben Howland says his team has a lot of soul-searching to do in advance of the back half of the conference schedule. And, according to senior guard Larry Drew, the Bruins had guys who weren't "all the way into the game on the defensive end." There is still plenty of time to turn things back around, but after fighting off rumors of his impending demise earlier in the season with some big wins, once again Howland finds himself in need of stringing together several wins in order to feel entirely comfortable about his job. Or, as Bruins Nation puts it, in typically understated fashion, "pathetic, delusional, dumpster fire, disgraceful." I'm beginning to think those people aren't enamored of the direction of the UCLA program.
- You know how you always hear announcers talk about how a shooter who is struggling might suddenly right himself if he gets to the foul line and gets a couple unhampered looks at the hoop? Well, maybe that is what has happened to Stanford. On Sunday night, they played a Utah team that was completely uninterested in playing basketball and, as a result, the Cardinal got to roll to a blowout win, turning in their best offensive performance of the year against little more than brother-in-law defense. That was the equivalent of the shooter in a mini-slump getting to the free throw line and having a chance to see the ball go through the hoop. Repeatedly. Because on Wednesday night, they continued that hot-shooting and took it to previously unbeaten Oregon. And now that we've all of a sudden seen the type of offensive explosion out of Stanford that we had hoped to see all year, we've got to wonder if this is the start of a run. Oh, and the Ducks still haven't swept a trip to the Bay Area since, like the Garfield presidency.
- Thursday night was another wild night around the conference, highlighted by Sean Miller's first win at Washington in his fourth season as Arizona's head coach. Still, despite coming away with a road win, it was yet another underwhelming win for the Wildcats. Turnovers, poor shooting and uninspiring offense were the order of the night, and while wins are always better than losses (now there's some hard-won wisdom for ya!), this 'Cats team isn't scaring anybody lately.
- Lastly, the newest selections for the Pac-12 Men's Basketball Hall of Honor, to be inducted prior to the conference championship game in March, were announced on Thursday. Washington's Nate Robinson is the most recent player to be selected, with the other big names including UCLA's Lucius Allen, Utah's Keith Van Horn, Cal's Shareef Abdur-Rahim and Arizona's Jason Gardner. The full list is here.


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Pennsylvania, University of, in Philadelphia; private with some state support; coeducational. Planned in 1740 as a charity school, it opened in 1751 as an academy, largely through the efforts of Benjamin Franklin. In 1755 it received a college charter. Pennsylvania opened the first school of medicine in the United States in 1765, and thus became the first U.S. university, but it was called a college until 1779, when it became the Univ. of the State of Pennsylvania. It assumed its present name in 1791. A pioneer in the areas of law, botany, chemistry, and psychology, Pennsylvania has added much to the traditional curriculum. In 1881 it opened the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce (now the Wharton School of Business), the first U.S. school of its type. Well known among the many divisions of the university are its medical and law schools; the museum, which has an extensive archaeological and ethnological collection; and the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (opened 1892). Outstanding is the university library, which contains a great number of rare books and manuscripts; its other libraries have notable collections in Shakespeareana and in medieval history.
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ThyssenKrupp: Loyal Liebherr customer for 50 years
ThyssenKrupp Rothe Erde has been placing its trust in gear cutting machines from Liebherr for 50 years. A significant benefit to the industrial operation is the high level of flexibility of Liebherr machines. They can be adapted to specific production requirements in a targeted manner.
Since 1966, ThyssenKrupp Rothe Erde has been a satisfied customer of Liebherr-Verzahntechnik. Rothe Erde is the biggest manufacturer of large diameter bearings in the world. The factory in Lippstadt manufactures gears up to 10,000 millimetres, e.g. for large diameter bearings in wind turbine systems or cranes. Certain work steps, such as gear milling, are performed by the industrial company in the traditional way on Liebherr machines.
Efficient production thanks to fast retooling
The Liebherr LC 10000 gear cutting machine is employed flexibly in Lippstadt for wet and dry machining.
Currently, the main items of equipment used in Lippstadt are the modular 4-gear hobbing machines for wet and dry machining. Jürgen Lange (graduate engineer), head of factory planning in Lippstadt, is especially impressed by the high productivity and availability of the LC 10000. Fast and simple retooling contribute towards the efficient production processes. This makes it possible to quickly change to other workpieces or from external to internal machining.
Constructive partnership that has lasted for decades
The many years of co-operation enable the project partners to agree on production right down into detail. "To ensure that the level of quality is ultimately achieved, we have invested the right amount of time. Naturally, many things need to be clarified from the outset, particularly with such a large machine. It is not simply a case of erecting it in a production hall. We were constantly in dialogue with Liebherr regarding the design – even when there were slight teething problems. It is important for us as partners that there is mutual respect in projects of this kind. Discussing the projects and individual requirements is quite easy – this has always been the case with the machines", Jürgen Lange (graduate engineer) emphasises.
Mutual trust
The successful co-operation is a signal for Liebherr that the service quality is right: "We place the highest value on sustainable work", highlights Dr Alois Mundt, Manager of Liebherr-Verzahntechnik (gear cutting technology). From the initial consultation stage to commissioning and aftersales service, the customer is at the centre.
The high level of quality of the LC 10000 is in no small way thanks to the thermal stability as well as the wear-free and high precision hydrostatic bearings in the machine table. It is precisely these high quality table bearings for the machine that Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH uses from ThyssenKrupp Rothe Erde. The customer-supplier relationship, here, is reciprocated. And the trust is valued on both sides.


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Canned Salmon
Beautiful wild Coho salmon has been coming in to my local market in Hotchkiss and as usual, I bought too much. I decided to can the leftover salmon and was thrilled with the results. Home canned salmon is tender and moist, with no fishy taste. It's really a great product to preserve and have on hand.
Canning salmon, and any other fish for that matter, is different from canning tuna. (All fish must be pressure canned.) With salmon, you do not add any liquid. The salmon extrudes quite a bit of water during processing, as well as rich fat. If you topped off your jars with oil or water, your seals would fail. Some recipes call for a bringing stage, but that's for flavor, not safety. I prefer to add a ½ teaspoon or so of salt to my jars, and then process as usual. You can also lightly smoke salmon before canning it: the method is the same as putting up the raw fish. I am going to be teaching a class at the Brooklyn Kitchen in NYC this fall on canning salmon, and demonstrating a few unusual recipes for using it. http://www.thebrooklynkitchen.com/
With the leftover bits of salmon I made a salmon confit, which I first tasted at the Smith Fork Ranch in Crawford, Colorado. I've been eating there as much as possible this summer, as they have a gifted young chef named Seth Bateman—one of those kitchen magicians who I think we will all be hearing more about in the future.
Four years ago, if you followed the Smith Fork river upstream from the town of Crawford, into the Elk Mountains of southwest Colorado, you might run into a few wayward cows or a fallen tree before you'd pass by a collection of disintegrating ranch structures, various rusting appliances and abandoned vehicles junked beside the road, and pastures defined by a crazy quilt of barbed wire enclosures with wobbly, twisted Cyprus-wood gates. It was not picturesque. Today, you still have to drive around pokey cows, but the run-down ranch is gone. Or rather, not gone, but reincarnated as the Smith Fork Ranch, an elegant, low key guest ranch.
The Smith Fork Ranch was homesteaded in 1890 and traded for a banjo before its first incarnation as a guest ranch in the 1940s. www.smithforkranch.com But the 250 acres along the pristine Smith Fork River had degenerated severely by the time Marley and Linda Hodgson bought the ranch in 2000. The Hodgsons, who were preparing to sell their luxury leather goods company Ghurka anyway, quickly realized they wanted to restore it as a guest ranch and, as Linda says, "honor the heritage of the place."
And honor it they did. Today, almost everything you see on the ranch was fabricated by local artisans, using local materials: the braided leather and elk horn door handles, the whimsical iron hardware, the handmade pottery, elk antler chandeliers, and river stone fireplaces. In all, well over 100 craftspeople worked with Marley–who designed the simple, sophisticated Ghurka luggage, wallets, and belts–to renovate the ranch. The results are true to the region's history, but also significantly more luxurious than anything the valley has ever seen before.
Ah, Colorado. It's a flannel pajamas and jeans kind of luxury.
Canned Salmon
4 half-pints
You can preserve salmon with the skin on (but scales off!) and with little bones in. Pressure canning softens them up enough to eat, but I find it easy to remove the skin. Just slip a long sharp knife between the skin and flesh and press down on the knife with one hand while wiggling the skin away with the other. Pin bones are easily removed with tweezers. You can double, triple, quadruple this recipe: it's basically ½ lb salmon per half-pint.
2 lbs salmon, filleted, skin and any pin bones removed
2 teaspoons salt
Have ready four very clean half-pint jars and bands, and new lids that have been simmered in hot water for a few minutes to soften the rubberized flange.
Cut the salmon into big chunks and press them into the jars leaving 1 inch of headroom. Wipe the rims, place on the lids and screw on the bands fingertip tight.
Place the rack in the bottom of your pressure canner. Place 2 to 3 inches of boiling water in the bottom of your pressure canner. Place the jars on the rack. Align the cover handles so they are locked into position as per the instructions for your pressure canner. Remove the pressure regulator from the steam vent. Heat the canner over a high heat. Allow steam to be released from the vent for 7 to 10 minutes, and then put the pressure regulator over the steam vent.
Process the jars at 11 pounds of pressure for 100 minutes. If you have a dial gauge, then add a pound of pressure for every 2,000 feet above sea level. If you are using a weighted gauge canner then process at 10 pounds of pressure for 100 minutes at sea level, and 15 pounds of pressure if your altitude is over 1,000 feet.
If your dial gauge canner runs slightly more than 11 pounds of pressure, it's okay. Just don't go under 11 pounds. If the pressure dips under 11 pounds you can't count those minutes against the hour you must process the salmon. First bring the canner back up to pressure by increasing the heat, and then continue timing. If you are using a weighted gauge canner then you are listening to the rattles—the gauge needs to rattle every 30 seconds are so. If it rattles constantly then your heat is too high.
Turn off the heat and allow the pressure to drop naturally. When the canner is depressurized (this will be evident as per the instructions for your specific pressure canner) remove the gauge, then remove the top, opening it away from your face. Remove the jars and allow them to rest for at least 6 hours. Check the seals and store in a cool dark place for up to a year. Refrigerate after opening.
You don't need to age salmon like you do tuna. It's good to eat right away. If little crystals form in the inside of your jars, don't worry, it's safe to eat. This is magnesium ammonium phosphate, a naturally occurring mineral in fish's bodies that crystallizes under certain conditions. They usually dissolve when heated. You may also see creamy white matter in the jars. Lucky you! This is fat, and fat is good.
Smith Fork Ranch Salmon Confit
Makes 1 cup of confit
This is a perfectly elegant little recipe, excellent as hors d'oeuvres with a sparkling wine. Seth Bateman also serves the confit as an appetizer, with shaved cucumber tossed in a bit of vinaigrette and garnished with caper berries.
½ lb salmon, filleted, skin and pin bones removed, and chopped fine
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons salt
1 stick unsalted butter
1 tablespoon minced dill
Combine the salmon, sugar and salt in a food grade baggy and refrigerate for 1 ½ hours.
In the meantime, clarify the butter. Slowly heat the butter in a small pot over a low heat. When the butter is liquefied, skim off any solids that have floated to the top and pour off the clear butter on top into a small bowl: at the bottom of the pot you will see some white gunk. These are the milk solids from the butter. Discard (it is not useful stuff: the solids burn quickly).
Remove the salmon and place in a sieve. Rinse all the salt and sugar off. Place the salmon into the bowl with the butter and combine. Add the dill and pack into a small jar—a half-pint will usually do, but a pretty serving jar is nice, too. The confit can hold in the fridge for a week.
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Homebirth & Midwifery Care
I consider pregnancy and birth to be a natural and healthy occasion in a woman's life, while honoring it as a powerful and transformative process as well. As a society we have largely moved away from this perception and turned birth into a medical event. By hiring a midwife who supports the unfolding of natural events, as opposed to expecting problems, most imbalances are corrected with as minimal intervention as possible. Then if a time emerges where medical care is deemed necessary, we can be grateful that we live in a time and place where this is available to us, and act accordingly. This model of care holds the space in which a woman, her partner, and family, can give birth in full awareness.
As a midwife it is my role to share my knowledge and experience, so that you may make informed choices; observe your pregnancy from a space of trust, righting most discomforts or imbalances with holistic options; assess and take action if a situation requires medical attention; encourage a process of discovery into the parents you are becoming. By providing care throughout your pregnancy, labor, and postpartum, we will have a connection of understanding and fine tuning. The blend of your self knowledge, our combined intuition, and my clinical skills, provides the guides for creating an optimal pregnancy and birth experience.
Midwives have been serving women throughout history. In June of 2005 the British Medical Journal published the landmark CPM 2000 Statistics Project which showed that care with a Certified Professional Midwife (like myself) is as safe if not safer for women with low risk pregnancies. The study showed that midwives had lower intervention rates, lower C-section rates, lower neonatal mortality rates and higher rates of satisfaction for mothers than those receiving hospital based medical care.
I am happy to provide you with a packet of information about homebirth, midwifery care, and myself. I offer a free one hour consultation appointment. Please feel free to contact me so that we can explore the possibility of working together for your pregnancy and birth.
Janelle Boyington, RM, CPM
Homebirth & Midwifery Care


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Here's his bio from TRU.com:
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Consumer spending rose in February and sentiment among Americans perked up this month, further signs of an acceleration in economic activity in the first quarter after a near stall late last year.
The data on Friday also showed a rebound in income growth, putting the economy in a better shape to deal with tighter fiscal policy, particularly $85 billion in across-the-board federal government spending cuts, known as the "sequester."
"The economy is in a good place now in terms of momentum and strength, and it will need it as the government spending cuts will take something off growth as the year progresses," said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ in New York.
Consumer spending increased 0.7 percent last month after a 0.4 percent rise in January, the Commerce Department said.
Though part of the increase in spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity, was because of higher gasoline prices, Americans also bought long-lasting goods such as automobiles and spent more on services.
Gas prices at the pump increased 35 cents a gallon last month.
After adjusting for inflation, spending was up 0.3 percent after advancing by the same margin in January. As a result, economists said consumer spending in the first quarter was on track to record its fastest growth pace since 2010.
"It appears that consumer spending actually accelerated in the first quarter despite the tax hikes implemented at the start of the year," said Daniel Silver, an economist at JPMorgan in New York.
Some economists bumped up their first-quarter economic growth estimates.
Barclays raised its gross domestic product forecast by 0.7 percentage point to 3.3 percent. Macroeconomic Advisers lifted their estimate by three-tenths of a point to 3.5 percent.
The economy grew at only a 0.4 percent annual pace in the fourth quarter.
A separate report showed households this month shrugged off the deep government spending cuts, focusing instead on a steady labor market improvement, which is starting to boost wages.
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's index of consumer sentiment rose to 78.6 from 77.6 in February.
"Consumers have discounted the administration's warning that economic catastrophe would follow the reductions in federal spending, and consumers have renewed their expectation that gains in employment will accelerate through the rest of 2013," said survey director Richard Curtin.
And they have reason to be optimistic. Income increased a healthy 1.1 percent after tumbling 3.7 percent in January.
Personal income had increased sharply in December as businesses rushed to pay dividends and bonuses before tax hikes took effect this year. That also skewed income data for January.
U.S. financial markets were closed for Good Friday and will reopen on Monday.
A 2 percent payroll tax cut expired on January 1 and tax rates for wealthy Americans also went up. The consumer spending and sentiment reports were the latest to show little sign the tighter fiscal policy has been a major drag on the economy.
Employment growth gained steam in February, factory activity touched a 1-1/2 year high and first-time filings for jobless benefits have only increased modestly so far in March.
Last month, the income at the disposal of households after inflation and taxes increased 0.7 percent after dropping 4 percent in January.
With income growth outpacing spending, the saving rate - the percentage of disposable income households are socking away - rose to 2.6 percent from 2.2 percent in January.
The higher gasoline prices pushed up inflation, with a price index for consumer spending rising 0.4 percent after being flat for two straight months. February's increase in the PCE index was the largest since August.
But a core reading that strips out food and energy costs rose only 0.1 percent after increasing 0.2 percent in January, showing no sign of underlying inflation pressures.
Over the past 12 months, inflation has risen 1.3 percent after a similar gain in the period through January.
Core prices were up 1.3 percent, well below the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target. They also had risen 1.3 percent in the 12 months through January.
The benign inflation picture should give the U.S. central bank room to continue with its monetary stimulus as it seeks to boost job growth.
The Fed said last week it would maintain its monthly $85 billion purchases of mortgage and Treasury bonds until it saw a substantial improvement in the job market.
"This is plenty of ammunition for all those Fed officials, who currently do not want to scale back the degree of monetary accommodation," said Harm Bandholz, chief U.S. economist at UniCredit Research in New York.
"For investors this must look like Goldilocks: Better economic data and ongoing monetary accommodation at the same time."
Reporting by Lucia Mutikani, additional reporting by Luciana Lopez in New York; Editing by Neil Stempleman


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The threat of a debt default by Greece and other European countries has created financial turmoil for investors, banks and government officials. It's also provided a boon to U.S. homeowners.
Long-term mortgage rates have been drifting to their lowest levels of the year, sparking a new wave in mortgage refinancing activities, industry experts say.
The reason? Despite the anxiety over debt talk brinksmanship in Washington, investors have been flocking to dollar-based investments including U.S. Treasuries, because euro-based securities seeem riskier. Even as a potential U.S. default looms, the odds seem lower than a default in Europe. It's like living in the nicest house in a bad neighborhood.
Investor fears about Europe were stoked again Wednesday after the head of the European Commission gave an an unusually somber warning to EU leaders, saying that if they don't find a convincing solution to Greece's debt crisis at Thursday summit, the global economy will pay the price.Story: EU warns of economic damage if Greece summit fails
The investor "flight to safety" into dollars has forced up prices of Treasuries, which pushes interest rates lower. For homeowners looking to refinance their mortgage, there are fresh bargains available. As of last week, the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage had fallen to just 4.54 percent.Story: Homebuilding leaps, led by condo construction
"Ongoing turmoil in the financial markets primarily due to the sovereign debt crisis in Europe has brought mortgage rates back to their lowest levels of the year," Michael Fratantoni, vice president of research and economics at the Mortgage Bankers Association said in a statement. "Refinance applications have surged in response."
The MBA's mortgage application index, which tracks both refinancing and home purchases, spiked up 15.5 percent in the week ended July 15. That's the biggest increase since early March. The index for refinancing applications soared 23.1 percent.
Those refinancings are helping homeowners lower their monthly payments and free up a little more cash to pay bills. Mortgage payments made up just under 10 percent of household debt in the first quarter, down from 11.3 percent when the recession began in 2007. (Some of that drop is the result of homeowners who lost their homes and no longer have a mortgage.)
But unlike the days of "cash-out" refinancings during the housing boom, there's little home equity left to cash out. With home prices down one-third from their peak and still falling, roughly one in four homeowners have no equity at all. At the height of the mortgage mania in 2006, American households scooped nearly $350 billion out of their houses by refinancing and taking out home equity loans. In the year ended in April, that had fallen to less than $60 billion.
The drop in mortgage rates has done little to revive sales of new and existing homes. Bankers are still very choosy about approving loans for home buyers, and consumers have gotten more nervous about buying as the job market and economy have weakened.Story: Home sales on track for worst year since bust
Sales of previously-owned homes fell more the forecasters had expected in June hitting a seven-month low and extending a dismal spring selling season. More troubling was a surge in cancellations of pending contracts as home buyers found themselves unwilling or unable to close on their purchase. Some 16 percent of buyers backed out of their contracts in June - up from 4 percnt in May.
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This global consumer goods manufacturer had launched a performance improvement program, but there was no buy-in on the shop floor. Key performance indicators were not standardized, creating a lack of transparency across the company's network. With BCG, the company conceptualized and piloted a new client learning and enablement program across its factories. Increased transparency and focused measures soon revealed significant improvement potential.
The project focused on a three-phase, bottom-up approach:
Clear explanations were offered at every step for why rote processes needed to change. Customized, hands-on simulations were developed and used for training to further illustrate the positive impact of recommended actions.
Today, line workers not only understand why they must measure, but they also actively ask for standards. The performance team has grown by 400% as company-wide rollout continues. In addition, performance rooms are being set up in all factories to help embed measurement in the company's culture.
One worker commented after training, "On my way home, I thought about how my daily actions impact the entire team."


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I am sure the answer to this question is well known, but I am not able to figure it out.
Question: Let $U$ be a finite set. Let $F=(S_1,S_2,...,S_n)$ be such that:
(1) $S_i\subset U$
(2) $|S_i|=n$
(3) $|S_i\cap S_j|\leq n/2$
Then, what is the lowerbound on $|U$|? In other words, what is the smallest $U$ for which there exists an $F$ satisfying the above conditions.
Clearly, if $U$ has size $n^2$, it easy to construct such an $F$. You can also do this with just $n^2/2$ elements in $U$. Can you do this with just $O(n)$ elements? What about $O(n^{1+\epsilon})$ for a constant $\epsilon<1$?


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USAID plans for improved contracting performanceOn April 1, 2011, the federal Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan (Commission) held a hearing to evaluate the progress of the U.S. Agency for International Development reforms to its contracting policy, including reforms to USAID procurement practices, and its potential to cut waste and identify effective and sustainable projects in the non-military aspect of its contingency operations. USAID administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah was the sole witness.
In Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as in more than 90 other countries, USAID provides humanitarian assistance, promotes stability and good governance, and fosters economic development, primarily through contracts and grants. At the hearing, Dr. Shah outlined his reform agenda and fielded questions from the Commissioners concerning the implementation and impact of the reforms in the two wartime theaters. The major themes addressed, included: the agency's efforts to combat fraud, waste, and abuse; procurement reforms to better deliver assistance in a much more effective and evidence-based manner with a greater focus on sustainability; the utilization of the agency's Office of Transition Initiatives; and the effectiveness and promotion of contractor competition and accountability. Methods and solutions to the challenges impeding reform were explored. Dr. Shah also provided his vision for USAID's future in contingency operations.
The hearing began at 9:30 a.m. in Room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC. Commission Co-Chair Christopher Shays presided.
Transcript: April 1, 2011 hearing transcript
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Lewis Dale Fuller, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother, peacefully passed away on Wednesday, October 2, 2013 in Provo, UT surrounded by his loving family following complications from surgery.
He was born on February 28, 1932 to Lewis C. and Della Marie Fox Fuller in Monticello, UT. He was the third of six children and was the only boy in the family. He was a very mischievous little boy and kept the five girls wondering what was going to happen next.
One year for Christmas he got a pair of boxing gloves and the only one that would box with him was his older sister, Jean. One day, Dale decided to pull a trick and his little sister, LaRee, and had her stand on the bed so she could put her finger in the light socket as he flipped the light switch on. Needless to say that was the last time he tried that stunt.
Dale attended school in Monticello until his parents divorced, at which time he went to live in Salt Lake City with his Grandmother Fuller. He attended Bryant Jr. High and West High School while living there. He became homesick and returned to Monticello to finish the school year. During the tenth grade at Monticello High, he met Jacqueline Harvey and asked her to the Deer Hunter's Ball. They became good friends and married on May 28, 1949. To this union was born six children Kathryn, Lewis, Lane, Russel, Laile and Kendall. Dale and Jacque celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary in May.
Dale had a deep love for horses. When he was about four or five he would shinny himself up the leg of the horse, pull himself on its back then go for a ride. This love stayed with him his entire life. The rodeo's called his soul and he was readily available for riding any animal that could buck. Later in life he became a team roper, where he was the header, and followed the circuit in Utah and Nevada. Dale and his horse Black were well known by everyone in the circuit and all looked forward to watching him and Black working the steers. It was a sad day in his life when Black was called to horse heaven. They are probably riding the ranges in heaven now.
He worked for his Dad, running heavy equipment, then began his career with the San Juan County Road Department. When he was 19 years old, he was made foreman over the east district roads. The rest of his life was spent working for the State or County Road Departments. He was foreman for the Monticello District until he retired in 1997.
Dale never knew a stranger and loved everyone that he knew. Friend were dear to him and he cherished those friendships. His most valued possession was his family. He gave nicknames to every family member. He called his wife "Baby Doll" and nearly every child, grandchild and great grandchild received a nickname.
Dale is survived by his wife, Jacqueline, his children Kathy (Richard) Madsen, Lewis (Marsha) Fuller, Lane (Helen) Fuller, Russel (Brenda) Fuller, Laile (Clay) Fuller-Tolbert, Kendall (Tami) Fuller, 26 grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by three sisters Jean Otteson, Sherry (Leon) Behunin and Yvonne Walker.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, Lois and LaRee, grandson Heath Fuller and granddaughter Kristin Hughes.
Funeral services were held Friday, October 11, 2013 at the Monticello LDS Stake Center. Interment was at the Monticello Cemetery.


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This is the hilarious (and helpful) result!
Thanks to Joanna Stampfel-Volpe, Michelle Andelman, Laura Whitaker, Suzie Townsend and Kathleen Ortiz!
Kirsten is the author of Like Mandarin, Wanderlove, and the middle grade novel Watch the Sky.
Dear God, I love these women.ReplyDelete
"And she didn't even wash her hands."
That was priceless, thanks YA Highway!
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Thanks Joanna, Michelle, Laura, Suzie, and Kathleen. You guys were seriously awesome :)ReplyDelete
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Kody, you SAID it! They are pure fabulosity.ReplyDelete
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Lovelovelove. Thanks awesome agents and editors!!ReplyDelete
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Jo, the Purell doesn't work "in your bag."
(And to think, I shook hands with Joanna... ick.)LOL
This was great fun. Thanks, Kristen!
thanks for all the comments, guys! maybe we'll have to film a round two this summer in LA :)ReplyDelete
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Such a great post, glad that it's received so many hits on it.
I'll be posting a link to the video on my Tip Tuesday post on my blog The Write Words. Hope it brings in some more hits!(www.thewritewords-lindsey.blogspot.com)
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The section begins with an excellent assessment of our current tax system –
"America's tax code is broken and must be reformed. In the quarter century since the last comprehensive tax reform, Washington has riddled the system with countless tax expenditures, which are simply spending by another name."
It goes on to state that –
"The current individual income tax system is hopelessly confusing and complicated" and "fundamentally unfair, far too complex, and long overdue for sweeping reform."
The Commission believes that –
"Tax reform should lower tax rates, reduce the deficit, simplify the tax code, reduce the tax gap, and make America the best place to start a business and create jobs."
As discussed in the initial draft report, the Commission recommends we use "zero-base budgeting" by "eliminating all income tax expenditures". Basically we would begin with no exemptions, deductions or credits. Congress and the President would then "decide which tax expenditures to include in the tax code in smaller and more targeted form than under current law, recognizing that any add-backs will raise rates".
The report states that add-backs should be included for –
"* Support for low-income workers and families (e.g. child credit and EITC);
* Mortgage interest only for principal residences;
* Employer-provided health insurance;
* Charitable giving;
* Retirement savings and pensions."
The report's "Illustrative Proposal" would
* Create three (3) tax brackets – 12%, 22% and 28%.
* Repeal the dreaded Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) and "PEP and Pease" (the "read my lips" taxes).
* Keep the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit either in current form or in some revised alternative (I assume this includes maintaining the refundable component).
* Keep the current law for the Standard Deduction and Personal Exemptions. Itemized deductions would be eliminated – so no more Schedule A.
* Tax capital gains and dividends at ordinary income rates.
* Create a non-refundable (thank God) 12% credit, available to all taxpayers, for mortgage interest on up to $500,000 of acquisition debt on a primary personal residence. There would be no tax benefit for equity loans or second residences.
* Create a similar, and also non-refundable, 12% credit for all taxpayers for charitable giving, with a 2% of AGI exclusion.
* Continue to exclude from income the cost of employer-provided health insurance premiums, capped at 75% of 2014 premium levels.
* Tax the interest on newly-issued currently tax-exempt state and municipal bonds.
* Consolidate the current menu of retirement accounts into one plan that limits "tax-preferred" contributions to the lesser of $20,000 or 20% of income.
* Expand the Saver's Credit.
All other "tax expenditures" (i.e. deductions and credits) would be eliminated.
The Commission wants the tax rates to be structured so that $80 Billion in excess income is generated to reduce the deficit in 2015 and $180 Billion is generated in 2020.
To make sure that Congress moves quickly to pass comprehensive tax reform legislation, "the Commission recommends enacting a 'failsafe' that will automatically trigger should Congress and the Administration not succeed in enacting legislation by 2013 that meets specified revenue targets". So if Congress remains true to form and sits on its arse too long the "failsafe" would impose across-the-board reductions in deductions and credits.
So that is what the final report, which will be voted on by the members of the Commission today (Friday), recommends.
Over the week-end I will work on my own tax reform plan, using this report as a starting point, and let you know my recommendations next week. I look forward to hearing what you think.


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Canucks' new coach John Tortorella impressed GM Mike Gillis with attitude, preparation, technical knowledge
'I was extremely impressed with the passion and the excitement that he had … how technically sound he was in his approach and how felt the game should be played'
New Vancouver Canucks head coach John Tortorella at Tuesday's introductory news conference at Rogers Arena.
Photograph by: Ward Perrin , PNG
VANCOUVER — When Vancouver Canucks general manager Mike Gillis dismissed head coach Alain Vigneault on May 22, John Tortorella was still in the employ of the New York Rangers. Then a week later, he wasn't and Gillis acted.
He liked Tortorella's record, felt it was worth speaking to him and, ultimately, loved what he heard. On Tuesday, Gillis introduced Tortorella, the 55-year-old Bostonian, as the 17th head coach in Canucks history. Tortorella received a five-year contract.
So why Torts?
"His record is very strong and he's won at every level he's coached," Gillis explained in a hallway at Rogers Arena following a formal news conference. "So when you have people like that, you definitely want to talk to them and you want to hear what they think and what they think about your organization and in what ways they can help you."
Tortorella obviously talked a good game. He made a believer out of Gillis. Extremely so.
"What impressed me the most was his attitude about coaching a team, how to bring it together, how to prepare it for the playoffs and how to prepare for specific opponents," Gillis said. "I was really impressed with the level of detail. I was extremely impressed with the passion and the excitement that he had. As we got to know one another a little bit more, I became even more excited about how technically sound he was in his approach and how he felt the game should be played."
Tortorella clearly brings a plethora of experience to the job. He's been a head coach in the NHL since the 2000-01 season, first with the Tampa Bay Lightning where he won a Stanley Cup in 2004, and then with the Rangers. He also served as an assistant with the Buffalo Sabres, Phoenix Coyotes and Rangers and spent five years apprenticing in hockey's minor leagues.
Tortorella called it a "pretty unique situation" to join a team that has been winning (although not in the last two playoffs). He did emphasize that he is going to poke and prod everyone on the roster to try and obtain more.
"Listen, there is no question I am going to push the players," he said. "That's a big part of coaching. I am going to push them as individuals and also to create a team concept. I really believe that's where the improvement needs to be as individuals and as a group within a concept. That's how I am going to go about it.
"I know it's been a bit of a struggle the last two playoffs and I know the owners and I know you and I know the province wants a winner here — and a winner here is a Stanley Cup."
Although Tortorella had wonderful success with the Lightning, where his "safe-is-death" approach resulted in a Cup, he is more recently noted for a collapsing defence that required shot-blocking from all Ranger players on the ice. It's a style that Gillis last year dismissively referred to as "goalie" and not hockey.
"I think coaches coach the players they're given and they find a way to win with the players they have," Gillis said, going on the defence. "If John felt that was the way to win with the New York Rangers, then that's what he was going to do. He'll discover the way to win with our team. He will have the opportunity to understand the players who are here, understand that skill set, and work with that skill set to be the most successful team we can be."
Tortorella is a father of two adult children, a 26-year-old daughter who teaches Grade 5 on Long Island and a 23-year-old son in the U.S. Army. He is a dog lover, has four of them and plans to bring them to Vancouver. Like most coaches, he preaches accountability.
"We have a really good leadership group here but we have not won a Stanley Cup," he said. "There is going to be more asked of them and that starts from the (Sedin) twins right on down as far as accountability and asking them for more. I don't think that changes no matter how old or how young you are. I think it's very important when you're dealing with a team concept that accountability is across the board.
"I also think we need some more bite," Tortorella added. "I think the attitude of just being a stiffer team is going to come to the forefront as we try to build this to another level."
The Canucks still need to round out the coaching staff beneath Tortorella. Gillis confirmed that Mike Sullivan is a candidate as the team has asked for, and received permission from, the Rangers to speak to him. Sullivan has been Tortorella's assistant for the last five seasons. He is former head coach of the Boston Bruins.
Scott Arniel, currently under contract to coach the Canucks' AHL afflilate in Utica for two more seasons, is also a candidate. Goalie coach Rollie Melanson and video coach Darryl Williams remain from Vigneault's staff.
Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini, who attended Tuesday's news conference, declined to be interviewed. He then pointed to Gillis and Tortorella and said: "This is their day."
And it will be their team, too.