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Some answers are much more than a few mouse clicks away.
As a parent I get asked a lot of questions, and when I don't know the answer
(which is pretty much always) I go straight to Google, or maybe Wikipedia. The
most obscure answers are always two or three clicks away.
I'm not one to criticize today's youth, complaining about video games and TV
rotting their brains, with no sense of literature and art -- that old chestnut.
These new forms of media make today's youth smarter, and most of 'em work way
harder than I did back in school.
The Internet gives instant gratification for all our curious youth's questions.
The only problem (for young and old) is that we overly rely on the 'Net.
Here's what I mean. I was driving to Guitar Center with my two sons and they
got all metaphysical, as kids who listen to too much '60s rock often do.
David, my 13-year-old, started talking about how the weight of the soul is
21 grams, then musing that "everything that moves has energy, and energy
can't be created or destroyed. What's leaving your body, that weight you lose,
might be energy. Religion may see it as the soul; scientists see it as kinetic
energy. Who knows what happens to that energy or the soul after you die? Maybe
it floats around or travels to a higher state of existence, which would explain
an afterlife."
I'm too old and weak-minded to think so profoundly, so I asked a question I
had as a teen. Everyone with a near-death experience reports the same thing
-- a soothing white light, maybe seeing folks you've lost. But is this experience
heaven or just the mind protecting you, keeping you comfortable?
And if this is a transition of consciousness to another state, does your initial
state of consciousness change the outcome? If you drive a car and are run over,
is that experience different than being in a coma and then succumbing? David,
hanging in the backseat of the Volvo, said "Google it!" But I knew
all along the answer could only be found one place -- Yahoo!
Dilbert Stole My Ziggy
I am a shallow man, and this month I spent far more time thinking about Dilbert
than the afterlife. That's because Dilbert's creator somehow managed to take
all the credit for the idea of Bill Gates for President. So when did Adams come
up with this blockbuster? Nov. 19, 2006, a mere six weeks after the Barney's
Rubble column ran titled, "Bill
for President."
Adams may or may not be funnier (he gets paid a lot more!), but yours truly
is clearly quicker on the draw.
Send your thoughts my way -- I'm at email@example.com.
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'On a flesh and bone foundation': An Irish History and Kim at Footsteps of the Past for sending the Ancestor Approved Award to me this week. I received this award last year when it was going around and am tickled to see it again this year. You can read about the 10 things that surprised, humbled and enlightened me about my ancestors in this post from April 2010.
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Welp, we're finally here. The season finale, clocking in at 81 minutes (not counting the behind-the-episode stuff), has to tie up two main storylines: the whole "show Cersei a wight and negotiate a truce" thing, and the Arya-Sansa-Littlefinger tango in Winterfell. I'm going to give each its own section.
"Why Are We Here?" – Cersei
That's a good question. The only reason given that Queen Daenerys and her Dothraki-Dragon-Unsullied three-way tag team didn't just knock over King's Landing in the second episode was a very unspecific handwave about how it would cause "too much death," so for me this entire storyline was built on a foundation of frustrating vagueness from the get go.
In the middle part of the season, Cersei scored several victories over Team Dany via a combination of Euron's teleporting fleet and Tyrion's misguided belief that Casterly Rock was tactically important. So now that the Lannisters are back in the game, Team Dany can't go north to fight the Night King and company, because Cersei will retake… something.
What exactly will Cersei retake? Near as I can tell, the only things Team Dany controls are Dragonstone and Casterly Rock. And considering that what looks like all of the Unsullied show up at King's Landing, I'm not even sure she controls Casterly Rock anymore, or if anyone even cares about Casterly Rock anymore anyway.
As for the Vale, the Stormlands, and Dorne, there's no indication at all what's happening in any of them. So, absent a truce, what exactly is Cersei going to reconquer with her armies? Oh yeah, by the way: that's "armies" – plural. The only Lannister army that I'm certain exists is the one Jaime led back from Highgarden, and they were devastated by dragonfire and Dothraki. But now Cersei makes multiple references to her "armies" that everyone on Team Dany takes at face value.
But nevermind all that. Apparently securing Cersei's agreement to a ceasefire is crucial, so in the final part of the season Tyrion hatches an idiotic plan to send the King of the North and a handpicked commando squad of six named characters and exactly two expendable redshirts north of the wall on foot to capture a wight and deliver it back to King's Landing. Upon seeing it, Cersei will hopefully agree to call time-out on the war. Of course, this plan also hinges on Cersei being trustworthy, a laughably naive assumption coming from Tyrion of all people.
If this plotline was a seven-layer cake, six of the seven layers would be undiluted nonsense.
Said plotline culminates in the Dragonpit scene, which was way longer than it needed to be. Dany isn't there at first, because obviously she's going to ride in on a dragon, but we all have to go through the motions of pretending like this is some kind of surprise, and there's the whole production with the flapping and the roaring and the swelling music and so forth. Then Euron (remember him?) decides to mock Theon for no reason I can figure out, then there's some more speechifying by Tyrion, Cersei and Jon. Scattered throughout the scene are several long, awkward pauses, where the characters are quite obviously unsure of who should speak next.
When people do speak, it's usually to repeat things we already know. Tyrion will say something like "none of us like each other," and Jon will say something like "the real war is between the living and the dead," and Cersei will point out that she thinks this whole thing is a ruse.
It's really hard to exaggerate how much directionless wheelspinning there is in this scene. Remember, it began with Team Dany arriving at King's Landing. We didn't take a detour to any other location in the meantime. And yet it's not until more than twenty-three minutes into the episode that the Hound finally kicks over the wight box, and shows Cersei the thing that was the whole point of getting everyone together here in the first place.
During that time, did we learn a single new thing about any character? Did anyone make any kind of decision, or come to realize something they didn't realize before? Did anything of significance happen? There's a part where Bronn tells Pod they should go get a drink, then Pod looks at Brienne, then Brienne nods, then Bronn and Pod walk offstage, and we get another shot of Brienne watching them go. Why is this here? I could name other examples, but I doubt you want to read a laundry list. We could have had three full Dornish coups in the amount of screentime we spent watching these people sit around in chairs and nonversate at each other.
Anyway, now Cersei believes in zombies. Well, she probably already did, considering she's had a zombie bodyguard for most of two seasons. But now she believes in a new kind of zombie, which I guess is progress. She declares that she'll agree to a ceasefire… if the King in the North commits to some kind of permanent non-aggression pact? I think? Jon refuses this vaguely-worded demand, on the grounds that he's already sworn allegiance to Dany. Everyone acts surprised at this news, which meant that Jon once again made a major political decision in private and didn't bother to tell anyone until now. Say what you want about his complete lack of common sense – at least it's consistent.
This infuriates Cersei for some reason. I guess she had some kind of plan that hinged on fighting Team Dany later but not Team Jon, even though the two of them were enemies anyway. So Cersei leaves, and the ceasefire that's either utterly crucial or completely unnecessary (depending on whether you trust Tyrion's strategic savvy or your own lying eyes) has been scuttled.
Everyone seems to think this is Jon's fault for having an Eddard Stark-like moment of stubborn honesty. He justifies his decision with the following line: "I'm not going to swear an oath I can't uphold. Talk about my father if you want, tell me that's the attitude that got him killed. But when enough people make false promises, words stop meaning anything. Then there are no more answers, only better and better lies, and lies won't help us in this fight."
You know what? I liked that line. It's a good depiction of what the difference between northerners and everyone else is supposed to be. Jon can be quite persuasive when he's not being an utter blockhead.
Okay, back to griping. Tyrion decides that the only way to change Cersei's mind is for him to talk to her alone. In this the show follows a by-now familiar pattern: all important decisions must be made either by Tyrion or as a direct result of Tyrion's advice. I could probably write a whole separate essay on how Daenerys Targaryen is practically a supporting character at this pointDid you notice how the two Queens barely interacted with each other at all?, but let's keep the focus on what's happening.
I think we in the audience were supposed to be worried that Tyrion might not survive this meeting. Maybe back in season four I might have been worried, but those days are long gone. Had there been any danger, he could have just dived into his wine glass and resurfaced two miles downstream.
This whole scene was a masterclass in two talented actors making the best of bad dialogue. It ends with Tyrion realizing that Cersei is pregnant. This provokes an offscreen decision to send the Lannister armies north to fight the Night King. But – and this is a twist that will absolutely blow your socks off – it turns out that Cersei Lannister is being dishonest. Her brilliant deception goes like this: instead of sending the Lannister armies north to support Teams Jon and Dany, she's going to… not do that. They're just going to stay in King's Landing.
Well, there is one final wrinkle: she's going to hire the Golden Company, a band of Essosi mercenaries. Only I'm not sure that's really a surprise, because didn't she say she was going to do that earlier in the season? In two different scenes, no less? What's more, it looks like Euron is going to be the one ferrying them across the narrow sea. Just when I thought we were finally done with him, we learn that we've got another season of Eurony goodness in store. Hooray. Let's bust out the confetti.
At this, Jaime finally gets the character development he should have had three seasons ago, and abandons Cersei, probably for good. As he's riding out of King's Landing, the first snowflakes of winter fall on him.
Oh yeah, and at the end, boatsex happened. Boatsex was one of the few season seven leaked spoilers I was unable to avoid. The leak stated that Jon and Dany would have epic sex on a boat. Instead, it was just normal sex on a boat. Maybe exposition-bot Bran's narration is what killed the mood for me, or maybe I just haven't seen enough boatsex to truly appreciate how epic this was.
During the boatsex, we learn that Jon is actually the legitimate son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. The portion of the audience that didn't already know this could be completely forgiven for not remembering who Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark even are.What's more, flashback!Rhaegar looked so much like Viserys – Dany's asshole brother from season one – that I got a confused text from a friend asking if Viserys was Jon's father.
As we wrap up this mess, it's good to remember just how unnecessary it all was. They spent two episodes planning and executing the wight-capture plan, then another showing it to Cersei and negotiating with her, then they finally got her to agree to truce that she never had any intention of honoring. In fact, assuming that the absence of the Lannister armies was noticed at roughly the same time Jon and Dany were having sex on a boat, she openly breaks the truce in the very same episode she made it, a development that should surprise exactly no one. Go team!
Writing about the Arya-Sansa-Littlefinger Winterfell storyline for too long gives me a pounding headache, so I'm gonna try and get this over with as quickly as possible.
After spending most of the season building up some kind of showdown between Arya and Sansa, events take a swerving left turn that ends with Sansa accusing Littlefinger of various crimes and Arya slitting his throat with the valyrian steel dagger (irony!). There are two ways of interpreting the events at Winterfell this season:
- The conflict between Arya and Sansa was genuine. Arya really was threatening to kill Sansa, both for not being sufficiently loyal to Jon and out of residual childhood resentment.
- The conflict between Arya and Sansa was staged for Littlefinger's benefit. In most or all of the conversations they had, Littlefinger was listening – hiding under the bed or something, or possibly braced against the ceiling ninja-style.
If you believe the first interpretation, the final-act swerve was completely random and unearned. If you believe the second interpretation, the entire storyline was pointless. Littlefinger, it turns out, was not needed to retain the loyalty of the Vale Knights after all. Bran would have had knowledge of Littlefinger's betrayal this whole time. And Sansa has had dirt on Littlefinger – both that he killed Lysa Arryn AND that her "kidnapping" by the Boltons was not a kidnapping at all – this whole time. (To make things even more confusing, the dirt she exposes – Lysa Arryn's murder – is a lie in which Sansa herself was complicit! Fortunately Lord Royce seems to have forgotten about that, I suspect because the writers have as well.)
The most plausible explanation for all this I can see is that Benioff and Weiss are just deliberately yanking our chains for their own amusement. Have they gone mad with power? I would advise HBO's top brass to start searching for caches of wildfire in the New York subway system.
Anyway, the season ends with Arya and Sansa standing between Winterfell's Crenellations of Deep Thematic Significance. At least now they finally seem to have a supportive and loving relationship, complete with an against-all-odds touching callback to Ned's "the pack survives" line. It's what they should've had from the beginning of the season.
Did We Mention that Theon Doesn't Have a Penis?
Theon gets a very abridged storyline as well. First, he has a scene with Jon, where Jon forgives him for all the things Jon feels he has the right to forgive. I've personally found Kit Harrington to be a limited actor, but there are certain notes he can hit very well. And Alfie Allen is, in my opinion, too good for this show.
Then, Theon regains the loyalty of the Ironborn via the ancient ritual of "beating up some jerk in front of everyone."
Theon's secret weapon in this fight is that he doesn't have a penis anymore. You know, I don't think I've ever encountered a movie, show, book, or anything else that's been so consistently preoccupied with the presence or absence of male genitalia. Constant Varys eunuch jokes, Unsullied eunuch jokes, Theon eunuch jokes, magical severed dwarf cock jokes… if there isn't a graduate student out there right now writing their thesis on castration in Game of Thrones, then America's institutions of higher learning have failed us.
The final thing that happens this episode is the Blue Eyes Wight Dragon attacking the wall and crumbling a section of it. This is a momentous occasion, of course, though it does make me wonder whether the wall could have stopped the Army of the Dead before they had a zombie dragon.
Benjen, who is a wight-kind-of-but-not-really (it's never quite explained) states that he can't go south of the wall. But team capture-a-wight brings theirs south of the wall without having it crumble or anything. The Night King seems to be in no rush to get to the wall, and it may be that he deliberately sought to lure one of Dany's dragons north so he could javelin it to death and then zombify it.
What would he have done if he didn't have a zombie dragon? Would he have just been stuck in the far north forever? When Bran learned that the wights were marching towards Eastwatch it seemed to be a matter of some urgency. I'm not sure if it actually was – several times characters on the show say things like "the wall should stop them, right?" but no one gets a chance to answer this question.
Was the Night King just killing time until a dragon showed up? Did he somehow know that Tyrion was going to send Queen Daenerys' secret crush on a suicide mission, and that she'd rush to save him? If so, that's some real eleven-dimensional chess going on. This might all be cleared up next season, but I suspect it's just going to be added to the pile of things that were never really explained.
Aaaaaand that was season seven. I'm going to try and arrange some thoughts on the season as a whole into a coherent post for next week. The next season apparently won't premiere until 2019(!), so we'll have plenty of time to think about everything.
[1] Did you notice how the two Queens barely interacted with each other at all?
[2] What's more, flashback!Rhaegar looked so much like Viserys – Dany's asshole brother from season one – that I got a confused text from a friend asking if Viserys was Jon's father.
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The National Weather Service issued several flash flood warnings throughout the state Wednesday evening, as heavy rain turned roads into sheets of water.
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|Young George H. Tannahill
When he was a young man he moved with his widowed mother to Phillips Co., Kansas where they homesteaded adjoining farms. Prior to this time, another family had come to New Jersey from England, looking for a place to make their permanent home. While in New Jersey, a lovely little girl was born to Fredrick Robinson and his wife, Sarah. They named her Mary Evelyn. When she was a young girl her family moved to Springbrook, Pa. and then came on to Phillips Co., by covered wagon to settle on a homestead near George and his mother. On Oct. 5, 1881, Mary Evelyn Robinson became the bride of George Tannahill..
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The first home that George and Mary had, was called a dugout and was made in a bank of dirt. They had 2 little boys in this home, then they moved into a house and the rest of their 11 children were born there. Iva Bushman has this to say of their early years; "In early years our home in Phillips Co., was the stopping place for many a traveler. Always they found the welcome mat out, an extra place at the dining table and sleeping quarters. I always remember the "Patent Medicine Man" and the pay for board and lodging was usually a jar of brown salve and a bottle of liniment, a cure all for aches and pains for both humans and livestock.
Besides caring for her family of almost a dozen, Mary Evelyn boarded the country schoolteachers, one Susie Rollins and Mary McKown. The school known as the Tannahill Schoolhouse was also the place of Sunday morning worship. Out of this hospitality a romance blossomed, for Bert Tannahill married Susie Rollins on June 10, 1908. George served in the Kansas State Legislature from Phillips co. for three terms. In the year 1910 the family moved from their farm near Long Island, Kansas to a farm near Vernon where George and Eva resided until their deaths. This was also the year that Irma was born. He was again elected as Representative this time for Woodson Co. And served two terms.
Iva says, "Dad was a diligent worker for all projects for the good of the community, among them the Vernon Rural High School. Many a pupil received an education here, that never could have otherwise. Among them Vernon and Irma, also nine grandchildren were graduates of V.R.H.S."
At one time George went to Washington to have the body of his father, William Tannahill moved from the Cemetery there, and brought to Nashua co. Cemetery near the Little Brown Church, but was informed that a body could not be removed from a national Cemetery. He went back to Iowa and had a tombstone erected for his father and markers for James Tannahill and his baby sister, Ella, who died when she was only 3 yrs. old.
Eva was a charming and gracious companion to George. Their home, overflowing with love and happiness, was noted far and wide, for it's hospitality. They identified themselves with the Church and were active in the various organizations of the church and raised their children in this tradition
The Farmer Boys band was organized of neighborhood boys and numbered in the teens. Of this band, Fred played horn, Art, slide trombone and Bert was an accomplished musician on both the trumpet or cornet and also violin. Many an evening was spent at home with music as our entertainment and both Nettie and Anna played piano.
Our house was a Community gathering place, playing games of hide and seek in the big hay barn in summer and Puss-in-the-Corner and Fruit Basket Upset in the winter. The same was true after moving to Vernon but by this time the three older boys were in homes of their own".
This last week as I was googleing, I found another account of William Tannahill in a publication called "Stirpes" on the Portal to Texas Website. http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth39868/m1/22/sizes/
The article was called "The Man Who Had Three Tombstones". I had never seen this publication and maybe some of you might like to read this account. It is on pps. 20,21,22. Follow the link above to find it.
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The Chiropractic Avenue
The idea for the name, The Chiropractic Avenue, came because we want our future patients to "try a different avenue of health"; an avenue that is new, effective and offers a smart alternative to regular healthcare (including regular chiropractic). The technique that I practice (called NUCCA) involves taking highly specific x-rays of the upper cervical spine (neck), which are then meticulously analyzed. This allows me to give a very precise, personalized adjustment to each patient. The main things that make this different from regular chiropractic is:
- It is very gentle/soft with no cracking or popping of the neck/back.
- The patient only has to be seen a few times at first, then about 2x/yr.
- The patient receives a lot more personal attention.
- It is relatively new, very effective, and it restores the patients posture to a straight, upright balanced state.
The inside of the office will consist of red brick, tan walls, white wainscoting, white crown molding, and accents in black. I want the feel inside the office to coincide with the logo on the outside of the office. I want a simple, but cutting edge design.
I will be using the logo on a business sign, letterhead, banners, business cards, mailers, etc.
- A logo that looks fresh/new/innovative.
- The logo must include the name "The Chiropractic Avenue".
- Some colors I like are dark red, chocolate brown, tan, cream, black, mustard yellow possibly?, but am open to other colors.
- When I think of the name I think of a very traditional/classical look.
- I like the look when gradient is used - either in the background, wording, graphics, or multiple uses.
- The font should be very professional/traditional (serif) - nothing too contemporary looking, but NOT your basic word/excel fonts.
- Some ideas that maybe used as symbols are: a park bench, a lamp post, a tree, a tree with an iron gate around it, a road/path way, etc. Please be creative. Please NO clip art. Original work is wanted.
- The finished product must be in a vector format that can be manipulated in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. Also, the designer must be willing to give me full rights to the artwork after payment is rendered.
- I don't want any spines or medical emblems - too overdone.
- I don't want the logo to contain a photograph. Just graphics.
- I don't want anything too busy or big as far as graphics go. Simple is good.
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Could this really be true? A Minneapolis couple named Pete and Alisha are letting the internet decide if they should keep or abort their baby. Yes, deciding whether or not to become parents comes down not to serious soul-searching but to an internet poll. Although the poll lets you weigh in multiple times, Pete says he will weeds out multiple votes to in order to make it a true representation of how readers feel.
Why in the world would someone let total strangers make such a deeply personal decision? Says Pete:
"The whole point here is to let people have a real way to voice your opinion on the topic of abortion and have it actually make a difference in the real world. By voting on whether to continue or abort an actual pregnancy, you are doing so much more then simply telling an elected representative your feelings. You are actually changing something in the real world."
As the voting continues, the couple posts sonogram shots and tidbits about what's going on inside the womb, now that Alisha is almost 17 weeks. They plan to wait until the last possible moment to decide; according to the laws in their state, December 9th is the last day they could go through with the procedure. The couple told Gawker that the poll will influence their decision heavily but won't be binding.
Should a decision like this ever be put to a public vote? Do you think this is really a prank?


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - DoubleLine Capital LP, the $53 billion firm run by star bond investor Jeffrey Gundlach, said on Wednesday it is now managing stock portfolios in a new division called DoubleLine Equity LP.
The firm, which surpassed $50 billion in bond assets last year after launching in 2009, said in a news release that it has tapped former TCW Group Inc portfolio managers Brendt Stallings and Husam Nazer to expand its stock division.
In an interview on Wednesday, Gundlach, DoubleLine's chief executive officer and chief investment officer, said stock mutual fund strategies suffer from a lack of new ideas.
"We think the equity business is ripe for creative thinking," he said.
Gundlach said he plans to start with one or two mutual funds that offer a strategy focusing on U.S. stocks, and quickly follow with a hedge fund whose strategy would focus on "best ideas" in international stock investing.
"We're really not prepared to do a lot of individual stock selection outside of the United States," he said.
Gundlach had hinted at the firm's move into stocks in a webcast on September 11, citing the broad disinterest in equities and their potential as a hedge against inflation.
He said on Wednesday that some of the stock funds he plans to offer will have a strategy that focuses on specific sectors among small and mid-cap stocks, while others will have a broader strategy that could vary widely in its stock selection.
Gundlach said DoubleLine's business plan had been to build the firm's bond management side to between $50 billion and $60 billion in assets before diversifying into areas such as stocks, a goal it has achieved.
"This is our first move to diversify. There's very likely to be one if not two more over the course of 2013," Gundlach said. He said he is seeking to reach a maximum of about $10 billion in assets within DoubleLine's equity division.
Gundlach has made pointed calls on stocks in the past, including one at the Ira Sohn investing conference in May to buy natural gas while betting on a decline in the shares of Apple Inc, the world's most valuable technology company.
On Wednesday, Gundlach recommended trading the volatility in Apple's stock price.
"Apple's flopping around like a fish in a boat. When it has a big rally, you should probably sell it. When it goes down a lot, you should probably buy it," he said, and reiterated a call he on CNBC in November that its stock price may drop to $425 a share. Apple's stock was up 3.2 percent to $549.03 at the close of trading on Wednesday.
DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund, the firm's flagship, earned a return of 9.2 percent in 2012, beating 97 percent of other U.S. mortgage-focused funds, according to Lipper. The fund, which oversees $37.1 billion, took in $19.7 billion last year, making it the most popular mutual fund by asset growth.
Pacific Investment Management Co, the world's largest bond fund manager with $1.92 trillion in assets as of September 30, 2012, began moving into equities when it launched its first actively managed stock mutual fund in 2010.
Gundlach told Reuters that his foray into stock investing could also come with a downturn in the stock market, which he said he could overcome through active management.
"There's a really good argument that you could have a major correction in the S&P; 500 in 2013," he said. He cited the heavy influence of U.S. policymakers on markets.
Stallings and Nazer were previously group managing directors at TCW, the highest title for managers at the firm, where they oversaw $5 billion in assets in stock portfolios.
Gundlach founded DoubleLine after a nasty split with TCW, where he was fired as chief investment officer in December 2009. The two sued one another in 2010, but settled in December of that year without disclosing terms.
Private equity firm Carlyle Group struck a deal in August to buy a 60 percent stake in TCW from French bank Societe Generale. TCW management and employees will own the remaining 40 percent stake in the Los Angeles-based investment firm, which has $135 billion in assets.
DoubleLine, which is also based in Los Angeles, employs more than 80 people. Stallings and Nazer plan to hire at least five investment professionals this year, the news release said.
Nazer said in an interview on Wednesday that dividend-paying stocks in general and consumer staple stocks are particular bright spots.
(Reporting by Sam Forgione; Editing by Kenneth Barry and Mohammad Zargham)


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Help us protect Louisiana's children. Report Child Abuse & Neglect: 1-855-4LA-KIDS (1-855-452-5437) toll-free, 24 hours a day, seven days a week
DSS Launches Online Adoption Initiative
Profiles featuring foster children available for adoption now on DSS Web site
Profiles of more than a dozen foster children available for adoption now appear on the main page of the Department of Children & Family Services (DSS) Web site, allowing potential adoptive parents to see a photo of the child and learn more about him or her.
Currently, there are 4,696 children in the state's foster care system, 685 of whom are available for adoption. Of those children, 336 do not have an identified adoptive home.
"Our goal is to see every child in the foster care system who is available to be adopted find a permanent home,'" said DSS Secretary Kristy Nichols. "Our hope is that this new web feature will make prospective parents open to the idea of adopting a foster child. Even if the child that is right for their family isn't featured on the Web site, the DSS Office of Community Services (OCS) can help them find a match."
The children currently featured on the DSS Web site include Gregory, a 12-year-old who dreams of fighting fires when he grows up, Heather, a 15-year-old who is learning to cook, and four siblings, C'Kiryla, Cantrell, Davon and Jakira, who are looking for a permanent home that will give them lots of love and attention. There are 14 children currently profiled on the site, www.dss.louisiana.gov , ranging in age from four- to 15-years-old. DSS plans to add additional profiles each month. Information on how to adopt each child is included on each individual profile.
The featured children live in every region of the state. Along with profiles on the DSS Web site, the children are featured in their regions on television and radio segments and in newspaper articles.
The DSS Web site also features information for prospective adoptive parents, including guides to determine if you are ready to open your home to a child and instructions on how to start the adoption process at www.dss.louisiana.gov/adoption, as well as a link to a national adoption Web site, AdoptUSKids, which features information about 136 Louisiana foster children available for adoption.
"We know that foster children who are adopted into permanent homes have a better chance at succeeding in life than those who age out of the foster care system," said Nichols.
A 2006 American University study found that children who are adopted are 23 percent more likely to complete high school or its equivalent and are twice as likely to obtain additional schooling after secondary school relative to peers who remain in their original inadequate environment. The same study found that adopted children are 22 percent more likely to be in the labor force and earn higher incomes as young adults.
Last year, 433 families made adoptive commitments to 597 Louisiana foster children.
Find out more about adopting at www.dss.louisiana.gov , or contact a local OCS office. For a complete list of OCS offices, visit www.dss.louisiana.gov/OCSoffices.


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RESTON, Va., Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A $49 million follow-on contract to produce future radiographic imaging systems for detecting explosive ordnance has been received by Leidos.
The single-award, firm-fixed-price contract was awarded by the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division.
"Leidos is proud to continue its leadership in support of the mission of the Warfare Center Division by meeting the security product needs of the Department of Defense," said John Fratamico, Leidos group general manager.
The Warfare Center Division focuses on the research, development, test, evaluation, in-service support, and disposal of energetics and energetic systems and provides information and technological solutions to detect, access, identify, disarm and dispose of explosive threats.
Leidos, formerly named Science Applications International Corp., changed its in September in connection with the spin-off of its former technical, engineering and enterprise information technology business.
Additional details of the award were not provided.


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Contact EPA Pacific Southwest Air Program
Pacific Southwest, Region 9
Serving: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Pacific Islands, Tribal Nations
Air Actions, Nevada
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Las Vegas (Clark County) Particulate Matter Pollution
Finding of Attainment for the Las Vegas Area for Particulate Matter
On July 21, 2010, EPA determined that the Las Vegas Valley had attained the PM-10 NAAQS as of its applicable attainment date of December 31, 2006 and continues to attain the standard. This determination was based on three years of quality-assured, certified air quality monitoring data.
Direct Final Federal Register Notice Finding Las Vegas Area Has Attained the PM-10 Standard (Aug 3, 2010)
EPA Approval of Clark County PM-10 Plan
On May 3, 2004, EPA finalized its approval of the Clark County PM-10 Plan as meeting the Clean Air Act requirements for serious PM-10 nonattainment areas. As part of this action, EPA approved a series of rules adopted by the Clark County Department of Air Quality Management (DAQM) that control fugitive dust sources, including disturbed vacant lots, construction sites, unpaved roads, paved roads and unpaved parking lots. These are the major control measures relied on in the PM-10 Plan to demonstrate attainment of the health-based standard.
EPA had proposed to approve the Plan in January 2003. EPA received public comments on the proposed approval and has responded to those comments in the document below titled "Response to Comments document".
Documents and related information
- Press release (May 3, 2004)
- Fact Sheet (PDF) (2 pp, 42K )
- Federal Register Notice Finalizing Approval of the Clark County PM-10 Plan (June 09, 2004)
- Response to Comments document (PDF) (58 pp, 241K)
Additional documents related to the proposal
- Fact Sheet (PDF) (2 pp, 316K)
- Federal Register Notice proposing approval of the 2003 PM-10 Plan (January 22, 2003)
- Technical Support Document (PDF) (154 pp, 879K)
Past EPA Actions
In June of 2000, EPA proposed to disapprove the Moderate and Serious Area plans for attaining the 24-hour and annual health-based standards for PM-10 in the Las Vegas Valley, and to deny Nevada's request for an extension to December 31, 2006, to attain the standards. Specifically, EPA proposed to disapprove the following portions of the plans: Reasonably Available Control Measures and Best Available Control Measures (RACM/BACM); Reasonable Further Progress (RFP) and quantitative milestones; and (in the Serious Plan) the emission inventory and the attainment demonstration.
Subsequently, the State of Nevada, at the request of Clark County, withdrew their PM-10 attainment plan submittal. In December of 2000, EPA filed a finding of failure to submit their required PM-10 Plan.
Clark County was then required to submit a revised plan to EPA within 18 months after the finidng. Without an approved pan, the Clean Air Act mandates sanctions, including:
- More stringent permit requirements for industrial sources
- Freezing of the county's share of federal highway funds (after 24 months)
Related Documents: EPA's Proposed Disapproval of PM-10 Plan (June, 2000)
- Fact Sheet on Proposed Disapproval (June 5, 2000)
- News Release on Proposed Disapproval (June 5, 2000)
- Federal Register Notice of Proposed Disapproval of Las Vegas PM-10 Plan (June 14, 2000)
- Technical Support Document (WPD 186KB, WordPerfect document)
Related Documents: EPA's Finding of Failure to Submit PM-10 Plans (December, 2000)
- Fact Sheet on Finding of Failure to Submit
- News Release on Finding of Failure to Submit (December 20, 2000)
- Finding of Failure to Submit State Implementation Plans for PM-10 for Clark County (PDF) (20 pp, 26K)
Contact Information
Eleanor Kaplan (email@example.com)
Office of Air Planning, EPA Region 9
(415) 947-4147


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While the Margaritaville complex has been one of the most visible efforts to attract new visitors to Atlantic City, it's hardly the only one.
The grand opening Thursday of the $35 million Margaritaville, at Resorts Atlantic City, is expected to bring about 160 permanent jobs to the city, along with plenty of visitors.
"It's going to be great for Atlantic City," said Jeffrey Vasser, president of the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority. "The quality of the project is absolutely amazing and it will do a lot to draw attention to that end of the boardwalk. The fact that a $35 million investment in Atlantic City was made, that says a lot about this being a viable place to invest."
There are plenty of other new developments for Atlantic City, also.
The Golden Nugget this weekend will open its new Haven Nightclub, a 12,000-square-foot space features a state‐of-the-art lighting system, special effects and a DJ booth that sits in front of an LED video wall. Meanwhile, at Revel, HQ Beach Club is slated to open this weekend, as well. The 45,000-square-foot, adults-only club is billed as a day-to-night pool party experience in tandem with HQ Nightclub. It features several pools and bars on multiple levels, with daybeds, cabanas and bungalows for rent.
"It's important to continue to add new product to contribute to the perception that we are a lot more than just a gaming destination," Vasser said.
In addition to opening Margaritaville, Resorts is spending $25 million to renovate its hotel rooms, casino floor and dining options. The Tropicana Casino and Resort is adding several new restaurants to its Marketplace on the boardwalk, anchored by Chickie & Pete's Crab House and Sports Bar, which is well-known for its crab fries. Steel Pier, meanwhile, has added new rides for this year.
Some tried-and-true favorites will be returning, as well. The Atlantic City Air Show, which drew 908,000 people last year returns on June 26, while the Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival, featuring some of the country's top chefs, will take place July 25 to 28.
Finally, in September, Atlantic City will welcome back the Miss America Pageant with 13 days of events. That's expected to generate at least $30 million in economic activity for Atlantic City and the surrounding region.


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The greatest quarterback show I have personally witnessed this year occurred not on a football field, but in a banquet room.
Last summer, I was emceeing a charity event for Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters at the Galen Center on the USC campus. At the end of the evening, in an unscripted surprise, organizers brought up this giant smiling kid who wore a crew cut and seemed to be suffocating under an ill-fitting suit.
The kid was carrying a bag of footballs. For a $200 donation, he would throw you a football from the podium.
My tepid announcement was greeted by awkward silence. The several hundred guests and I were clearly thinking the same thing. Was this such a good idea? Somebody whipping regulation footballs into a crowded, elegant room filled with tables adorned with wine bottles and glasses and half-eaten pieces of cake? Did you really want middle-aged men fortified by liquor trying to catch passes directed at their tie clasps from a kid throwing from a spotlight into shadows?


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The metals and mining industry hasn't inspired many notable novels; Nostromo, Joseph Conrad's tale of Latin American silver mines, and Emile Zola's Germinal, an exposé of coal mining in 19th Century France, are perhaps the two most famous exceptions.
That's puzzling. The nature of the industry—the transformation of rock into material wealth, the sometimes hellish working conditions and the great mass of men and women who have worked in and around its mines and smelters—would seem to be rich material for fiction.
Ivan Doig, a longtime chronicler of the history of the American West, pursues some of these themes in his new novel, Work Song, set in the copper mining town of Butte, Mont., in 1919. Not that Butte was just any mining town—the "Richest Hill on Earth," as it was known for many years, held at the time the world's largest-known copper deposit. And while the lure of Montana's copper was never quite as strong as that which generated California's gold rush more than half a century earlier, a massive mining industry grew up around the West's reserves of copper, drawing in workers from Europe and beyond.
Doig writes that Butte in those days was the "Constantinople of the Rockies," with workers from across Europe flocking to mine the riches beneath the city. "It was as if Europe had been lifted by, say, the boot heel of Italy and shaken, every toiler from the hard rock depths tumbling out here."
But this is no idealized vision of America as an immigrant paradise. As the book's narrator watches Italians, Welsh, Serbians, Chinese, Irish and more emerge from The Hill at the end of a shift, he notes that "husky Finns clustered with other Finns, the Cornishmen not mingling with the Italians," as each nationality retired to their own neighborhood. "If America was a melting pot, Butte seemed to be its boiling point."
If life in a mining town was hard, conditions in the mines themselves were far tougher. We see them firsthand through the eyes of the narrator, Morris Morgan, a claustrophobic ex-schoolteacher whose first (and presumably only) experience 3,000 feet below ground level provides one of the novel's more memorable descriptive passages.
This and other set-pieces in the novel have the sense of being meticulously researched, and give a hint of the huge human toll inflicted by the mines just two years before the novel opens, a fire in Butte's Speculator Mine killed 168 people, at the time the worst mining disaster in history.
The villain of the novel is the owner of Butte's riches, the Anaconda Mining Co., which cuts wages and hires goons to rough up or murder troublemakers among the miners. The local union has seen its power decline due to losses from World War I, rivalry with the more radical Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and Anaconda's ruthlessness. Morgan, who comes to Butte looking only to make a living, is slowly drawn in to taking sides in the battle between the mineworkers and Anaconda.
The broad outlines of Doig's story won't win any awards for originality, involving as they do a mysterious stranger, a love interest in the form of a widowed landlady and union battles against an exploitative mining company. And what should be the heart of the novel, the attempt to unify the workers against Anaconda and reduce support for the IWW by composing the morale-boosting "Work Song" of the title, fails to ring true.
However, the novel is given life by the depth of the characters that Doig portrays. Morgan is a many-layered character, with an unexpected past in the boxing rings and underworld gambling dens of Chicago (indeed, betting forms one of the novel's secondary themes, with the notorious 1919 World Series hovering in the background). But perhaps the most memorable is Sander S. Sandison, an imposing Montana cattle rancher who runs the local library and harbors his own grudge against Anaconda.
But even if the plot sometimes disappoints, the portrait of Butte in its heyday is fascinating a city built on mining and immigrant labor, famous for its rough-and-tumble saloons and brothels, and for a time flaunting its wealth—Doig writes of the city's business district that "every block or so a grandiose hotel or office building stood out, as if bits of Chicago's State Street or New York's Fifth Avenue had been crated up and shipped west."
And while it's not within Doig's remit to explore the later history of Butte, the knowledge of the environmental degradation to come and the long decline and eventual sale of Anaconda add poignancy to his story.
Work Song is a reminder that once, Butte's copper was worth fighting for.
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Staten Island, N.Y. - Despite an early 2-0 lead, the CSI Dolphin's (2-2) came from behind to defeat Farmingdale State (1-4) in non-conference women's soccer action played Wednesday afternoon at the CSI Soccer Complex in Staten Island, N.Y.
The Rams started the game off on the offensive with a goal 1:17 into the game by sophomore midfielder Amanda Biondi (West Islip, N.Y./West Islip). Still coming on strong Farmingdale scored another goal about seven minutes later when sophomore forward Tricia Pickford (Massapequa Park, N.Y./Massapequa) punched in a goal assisted by Biondi.
Just minutes after Farmingdale's starting sophomore goalie Kimberly Sontag (Lynbrook, N.Y./Lynbrook) was forced to leave the game due to injury, CSI's Fiosa Begai started the Dolphin's rally. At 38:05, Begai tallied her first goal via an Alyssa Pontecorvo and Lisa Gino assist. Less than two minutes later, Begai struck again with a pass off Kristin Kvetkoff to tie the game going into the second half.
With no goals from either team well into the second half and 7:33 left on the clock, Begai dribbled 30 yards from the left side to score the final goal of the game and lead the Dolphins to the 3-2 victory. CSI junior goaltender Tina Bellocchio finished the game with a total of 12 saves.
The Rams will host Manhattanville College this Saturday, September 15th at 1:00 p.m.


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Question: Why do people purchase SAN over DAS?
Answer: This is actually a question that I get a lot when talking to people about moving from DAS to a SAN platform. The short answer is manageability and better utilization of disk resources. What that really means is that when you use a SAN overall manageability of the storage environment becomes much easier as you can manage the entire storage environment from a single console. This allows for not only centralized management but monitoring as well. With a SAN platform you can see quickly and easily where your storage performance problems are which allows you to easily move resources from one server to another to increase performance where needed.
Related: SANs: Always Better Than DAS?
You get better utilization of disk resources with SAN than you do with DAS because when working with SAN the spindles aren't dedicated to a specific server. With DAS what ever server the disks are plugged into is the server that those spindles are going to be used for. If you needed 1TB of space, but had 3TB of space attached to the server, you can't allocate that 2TB of space to other servers. With a SAN platform you take the 3TB of space and carve up the space and allocate it to servers as needed. This makes adding more space to servers much easier as well. Most DAS platforms don't give you an easy way to add disk space to a single volume (or drive letter). With DAS when you need to add more disk space you need to create another disk and configure the application (or database in our case) to use that new disk. In a SAN platform you can simply tell the SAN to add additional space to the end of the disk. Then tell Windows that the disk is bigger and Windows will see the disk is bigger and the new space will be available.
Related: What are the benefits and issues with booting SQL Servers from the SAN?
Another utilization performance bonus that you get with SAN over DAS is that if you have applications which only use the disks at night and other applications which only use the disks during the day you can put these on the same physical disks for maximum utilization. This will allow you to have all the performance that you need for both applications without having to purchase double the disks. With DAS the only real way to do this would be to host both of those applications on the same physical server which would work, except that you no longer have any maintenance window for that server.
Beyond these two huge points there are a number of other things that SAN platforms can do that DAS simply can't. The most popular of these that people use is the ability to take snapshots and/or clones of LUNs. By using snapshots you can easily do things like offload the bulk of your DBCC CHECKDB commands to another server. You can also minimize the amount of space needed for down-level environments like Dev, QA and Staging which may need full data sets, but you don't have the budget for a full sized Dev, QA and staging platforms.
Assume for a moment that you have a 1TB database that you need to duplicate in your Dev, QA and Staging environments and you need to be able to refresh these databases on a monthly bases from production. With DAS you would need to backup and restore the 1TB database to each of the three other platforms. This requires purchasing 4TB of space, 1TB of space for each environment. By using snapshots on a SAN instead you could snapshot the production LUNs and then present these snapshots to the Dev, QA and Staging platforms. At this point the only space used by the Dev, QA and Staging platforms will only be what ever data is changed in these platforms. Typically this would only be a small amount of data. On a 1TB database the amount of data which changes in Dev, QA and Staging would probably be around 10 Gigs per month. So added up the four platforms would now only require about 1.03TB of space (1TB for Production and about 10 Gigs for each of the other environments).
Yet another benefit that SAN storage gives you over DAS is the ability to quickly and easily change the RAID level which is used under the LUN. In a DAS to change the RAID level you'll need to delete the disk, rebuild the RAID array with the new RAID level then restore the data. On a SAN platform you can simple configure other disks in the needed RAID level then move the LUN from the old RAID set to the new RAID set. With DAS this would be a multi-hour down time to do this. With a SAN platform this can all be done with no outage to the system, and only a minimal performance hit to the performance of the system while the data is being moved to the new RAID set. (This ability will depend on your SAN platform as some SAN platforms require that you use only a specific RAID level instead of being able to select the RAID level that you want to use, so check with your SAN vendor to see if you have this option or not.)
Hopefully this helps answer why you have, or may want to have a SAN platform in your environment.


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A testicular ultrasound (sonogram) is a test that uses reflected sound waves to produce a picture of the testicles and scrotum. An ultrasound can show the long, tightly coiled tube that lies behind each testicle and collects sperm (epididymis) and the tube (vas deferens) that connects the testicles to the prostate gland. The ultrasound does not use X-rays or other types of radiation. See a picture of the male reproductive system.
A small hand-held instrument called a transducer is passed back and forth over the scrotum. The transducer sends the sound waves to the computer which converts them into a picture that is displayed on a video monitor. The picture produced by ultrasound is called a sonogram, echogram, or scan. Pictures or videos of the ultrasound images may be saved as a permanent record.
Testicular ultrasound is done to:
No special preparation is needed for a testicular ultrasound.
If you are having a biopsy or another test during the ultrasound, you may need to sign a consent form.
Talk to your doctor about any concerns you have regarding the need for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will mean. To help you understand the importance of this test, fill out the medical test information form (What is a PDF document?).
A testicular ultrasound is usually done by an ultrasound technologist. It is done in an ultrasound room in a doctor's office or hospital.
You will need to remove all your clothes from the waist down and put on a gown before the test. You will be asked to lie on your back on a padded examination table. Folded towels will be used to cover the penis and lift the scrotum. A gel (such as K-Y Jelly) will be spread on your scrotum for the transducer. The transducer is pressed against your skin and moved across your scrotum many times.
You will need to lie very still during the ultrasound scan. You may be asked to take a breath and hold it for several seconds during the scanning. Testicular ultrasound takes about 20 minutes.
When the test is finished, the gel is removed from your skin. You may be asked to wait until the radiologist has reviewed the information. The radiologist may want to do more ultrasound views.
The gel may feel cold when it is applied to your scrotum unless it is first warmed to body temperature. You will feel light pressure from the transducer as it passes over your scrotum. If the ultrasound test is being done to determine the extent of damage from a recent injury or to investigate testicular pain, the slight pressure of the transducer may be somewhat painful. You will not hear the sound waves.
If a biopsy is done during the ultrasound, you may experience slight discomfort when the sample is obtained.
There are no known risks associated with a testicular ultrasound test.
A testicular ultrasound (sonogram) is a test that uses reflected sound waves to produce a picture of the testicles and scrotum.
The testicles are normal in shape and size and are in the normal position.
There is no evidence of a non-cancerous (benign) or cancerous (malignant) lump in the testicles.
There is no evidence of infection or inflammation of the testicles or epididymitis.
There is no twisting of the spermatic cord, cutting off blood supply to the testicles (testicular torsion).
There is no sign of fluid in the scrotum (hydrocele), blood in the scrotum (hematocele), fluid in the epididymis (spermatocele), or pus in the scrotum (pyocele).
A lump is present in the testicle or there are signs of a recurrent testicular cancer.
Signs of infection or inflammation of the testicles or epididymis is present.
The spermatic cord is twisted, cutting off blood supply to the testicles (testicular torsion).
None or only one testicle is present in the scrotal sac.
Fluid (hydrocele), blood (hematocele), or pus (pyocele) is present in the scrotum or fluid is present in the epididymis (spermatocele).
There is a hernia in the scrotum.
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
Other Works Consulted
- Chernecky CC, Berger BJ (2008). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 5th ed. St. Louis: Saunders.
- Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009). Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
- Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
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6 oz. Tavern Traditions Thin Regular Cut Beer Battered Fries (#45Q)
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Dec. 20, 2012) – East Tennessee State University head volleyball coach Lindsey Devine and her staff announced Thursday that Briana Allmon (Flower Mound, Texas) and Kristen Favre (Plano, Texas) have signed their national letters of intent to play for the Bucs starting in the fall of 2013.
With senior setter Kayla Williams (El Paso, Texas) set to graduate this spring, the Bucs added depth to their setter position with Favre, while Allmon joins a group of talented outside hitters. Both players come from winning backgrounds and look to continue the theme at the collegiate level.
"I am very excited about both Briana and Kristen joining our program," said Devine. "Both of these players have a great work ethics and love the game of volleyball."
Allmon spent her last four years playing for head coach Marci Brinkman at Flower Mound High School, which is right outside Dallas. During her time with the Jaguars, Allmon totaled 1,038 kills, 478 digs, and 168 total blocks, while hitting nearly .400 (.396). Allmon – who played at the varsity level all four years at Flower Mound HS – was named First Team All-District and Team MVP as a junior, along with receiving All-District Honorable Mention honors as a sophomore. Along with the strong numbers put up in high school, Allmon has also enjoyed an outstanding career playing for the Instinct Tigers club team.
"Briana's competitive attitude and high level experience set her apart from other recruits we were looking at to join our 2013 team," commented Devine. "She is a six rotation player who will offer ball control and attacking power to our offense. She plays with fire and passion, which is why she will be a great fit for our team."
"I chose the Bucs because of the connection made between the coaches and players, as well as the strong nursing program ETSU offers," said Allmon. "I hope to become the best athlete during my playing career at ETSU, while also doing everything I can to make the team reach their fullest potential."
Favre also hails from the Lone Star State as she has spent her last four years playing for coach Nick Gonzalez at John Paul II High School in Plano. Favre, a four-year letterwinner for the Cardinals, averaged 7.73 assists per set (711 total) as a senior. The Plano, Texas native was named team captain as a junior and senior, while being tabbed Most Valuable Player in 2012. Favre was also a two-time All-District selection and was named Offensive Player of the Year as a junior. Favre spent her time playing club volleyball for the Dallas Summit under head coach Mike Minnis.
"Kristen has an athletic presence on the floor," said Devine. "With her speed and understanding of running an offense, she has the potential to compete for the setting position. She is a player who has the desire to do whatever it takes to be better every time she steps out on the court."
"I decided on ETSU due to its competitive volleyball program, but also because of the strong exercise science program," added Favre. "I want to be able to help the team be as successful as they can both on and off the court."
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Curtis Trafton had never been to a protest before. He was 50 when the war in Iraq began, and he went with his wife, adult daughter and father to the March 20, 2003 demonstration that began in front of the UNM Bookstore. "I felt that the war was being waged against the wrong people for the wrong reasons," he said. He made a sign out of poster board that said "No War" and found a serious but upbeat crowd when he got to the university.
It's the way the protest went down that propelled Trafton into court seven years later to recall the events of that evening. The demonstration is remembered as one of the most volatile conflicts between civilians and the Albuquerque Police Department. Eleven protesters filed suit against the city and APD officers, saying their civil and constitutional rights were violated that day, including the rights to free speech and assembly. Some are suing for battery and excessive force.
Trafton testified on Friday, Feb. 26, that because of that charged night in 2003, he didn't attend another demonstration for two years.
At first, he said, he stood on the sidewalk and showed his anti-war sign to passing traffic. Then the flow of cars stopped, choked off by police who had blocked the road. So he moved with other protesters into the street and headed east, aiming to again show his sign to traffic. The group swung back west, he said, and he was separated from his family.
He hurried forward with his sign over his shoulder, he said, looking for his family and chanting, "Whose streets? Our streets!" with everyone else when he was blindsided by a horse-mounted police officer. The horse's head struck Trafton in the chest and under his chin, he said, and spun him around. "It was a powerful blow." He couldn't recall a chunk of time after that, Trafton testified. He said he heard loud bangs, smelled a strange odor on the air. His wife called him on a cell phone he forgot he was carrying, he said, and the family met up and left the nasty situation.
"I was furious that a person trying to do a nice, peaceful protest would be put in a situation of danger, to my mind, by police," he said.
Two years later, he went to a demonstration on the anniversary of the bombing of Baghdad. He said he was sick of feeling like a coward. "I was raised to fight back," he said. "And that's what I'm doing here today. I'm just fighting back."
His wife, plaintiff Christina Maya Trafton, testified that at the intersection of University and Central, a man carrying a child told her, "They're going to use gas." Acrid orange smoke billowed in her direction, she said, and her skin and face were burning. "My daughter grabbed me and said, 'We have to get you out of here.' " It was dusk and cold; a light rain was falling. When they got to their car at Silver and Yale, she remembered hearing what she thought were two rifle shots. She called 911, afraid someone had been injured, she said. She called her husband and told him they needed to leave, because she didn't "want to die in Albuquerque" that night.
"I was very angry. I felt very helpless. It left a bad taste in my mouth for APD and police generally."
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She initially felt relieved when they left the protest, she testified. "Then I was very angry. I felt very helpless. It left a bad taste in my mouth for APD and police generally."
Her husband insisted they attend the two-year anniversary protest. She said she made him drive the perimeter of the site to find the staging area. She wanted to make sure the same force was not present. "We didn't stay long" at the protest, she testified.
Sgt. Steven Hill didn't get down to the protest until about 6 p.m. on March 20, 2003. He was off-duty, got the call and drove to the location, he said, using his lights and sirens. He'd been told the crowd had broken through the police line and was headed toward the freeway. He dressed out as quickly as he could next to his Suburban, he said, then heard a loud retort. When he looked up, he said he saw a flash and some smoke. Hill testified that he wondered why someone would have chosen to drop a flashbang, a nonlethal stun grenade, in that location—then he realized it was not APD artillery.
Part of Hill's job is to order and catalog ammunition for the SWAT team. He keeps track of who it's been issued to and when it is deployed. He testified that no officers used flashbangs that evening.
But APD did use tear gas. Hill was one of the officers who threw a gas grenade, the effects of which he outlined during the trial. "You could feel like you're drowning," with your eyes and nose running and tightness in your chest. He said people could feel like they were having respiratory problems.
A crowd of students sat in the road, their arms linked, he said. Officers would select one of the sitting protesters at a time and manipulate pressure points on their body to separate them—a common tactic. Some demonstrators sneakily tried to remove others who had been arrested from the hands of police, he testified, and pull them back into the crowd. Officers confiscated backpacks, he said, and two were loaded with clothing and water bottles. One smelled strongly of vinegar, he added.
Officers warned the crowd they would use chemical munitions, he said. "It's important to do your best to get the message to the crowd." The protesters' drumming and chanting interfered with that warning, he said. "It was quite loud out there." He first tried to use the smallest amount of gas possible, he said. The crowd scattered, he testified, but then came back. Then officers launched four gas grenades to the far side of the crowd. Still, some demonstrators remained sitting in the road. Someone advanced on officers, he testified, with a group in tow. Hill said he ordered officer Michael Fisher to shoot them with pepper ball rounds (pepper spray projectiles).
When Hill was deposed in 2005, he said without the tear gas, "We'd still be there today."
Lou Reiter, a police consultant, took the stand on Monday, March 1, as an expert witness for the plaintiffs to talk about handling protests. The former Los Angeles Police Department officer has been called in other cases to testify on behalf of APD.
Over the course of his 20 years with the LAPD, Reiter handled civil rights demonstrations and Vietnam War protests. He spoke of the differences between crowd management and crowd control. In management, police are just a presence. They've gathered information and try to anticipate what may go wrong. In crowd control, officers are protecting property and people, and they make arrests.
When people are passively resisting arrest—sitting with locked arms, for example—use of force by an officer is not acceptable, he testified. It's OK to deploy gas and beanbag guns, he said, when there is a high likelihood of injury or damage to public property. In most cases, when chemical agents are used, he said, it's a good idea to have a means for people to wash the chemicals off, and it's also reasonable to have medical assistance nearby.
After reviewing video tapes and documentation, he testified that at no time did the 2003 march become a riot and the crowd did not fit the definition of a mob. He said without violence and property damage there should be no need to disperse a crowd. "You have to wait it out."


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And so it came to pass that the last of the Big Three (though they were no longer as big and were now more than three) proclaimed that factory bundles would no longer be sold openly.
And was there great wailing and moaning throughout the land? Nope.
There were a few dealers and scrap buyers who wondered aloud, "How will we know what to sell or buy scrap for?" Then they went back to their usual monthly go-rounds of haggling and bargaining—the same way that the buying and selling of scrap metal has been done for decades. Sure, the auto bundles did provide a starting point for some, but it was never carved in stone that grades like No. 1 dealer bundles and No. 1 busheling would rise or fall by the same dollar amount.
There has always been some measure of give and take in ferrous scrap transactions, sometimes not on the most polite terms, with irate buyers or sellers sometimes trading a few choice words. Maybe this wasn't as tactful as Miss Manners would recommend, but deals got done and the same buyers and sellers would be back on the phone again the following month exchanging pleasantries.
Twenty years ago General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. all sold their upcoming month's output of baled sheet steel scrap—usually totaling around 150,000 long tons—within a day of each other. Normally this occurred about five working days before the end of the month; in that five-day span, buyers and sellers were able to haggle.
Detroit-based GM halted its auctions in the mid-1980s and set up buybacks, or contract sales, with steelmakers. Ford slowly cut back the number of plants from which it sold bundles until only a few thousand tons were sold each month from its big Chicago plant, and the Dearborn, Mich.-based automaker hasn't sold a single bundle on the open market from that facility in almost two years.
The last to abandon the auction block was Auburn Hills, Mich.-based Chrysler, which announced a few months ago that it would no longer auction its bundles each month. Instead, the automaker said it would sell them on a formula tied to a published price. Whether that will still be the company's practice is uncertain at this time. What is clear, as one of its managers said at an AMM/World Steel Dynamics Inc. Steel Success Strategies conference earlier this decade, was that auctioning the bundles wasn't part of the company's plans.
But steelmaking hasn't come to a screeching halt because scrap sellers and buyers no longer have a factory bundle price, which was a comfortable—but outdated and often unrepresentative—price of industrial steel scrap, and junk vehicles aren't piling up on city streets.
Market participants will always find or devise new mechanisms. For example, scrap buyers and sellers complained when the auto bundle sales were shifted to the last day of the month or into the next month, but industry veterans had already done some polling and had a fair idea of what they would pay for, say, shredded scrap.
But the most critical issue was never pricing. It is supply.
Today, unlike several decades ago, few steel mills carry much inventory at the mill. Some might have only a few days worth and others a week or more, but none carries the traditional month or more of supply. That practice prevailed in the 1960s and 1970s, but better inventory management practices and freight scheduling has allowed many to operate without huge piles of scrap outside their melt shops.
That also has put more stress on the cardinal rule for the scrap buyer at a steel mill never run out of scrap. You can pay more for material, but don't run out. They'll fire you for that, and for good reason No executive wants several hundred workers standing around waiting for a rail car or a single truck full of scrap to arrive.
So many buyers at steel mills and their most trusted scrap suppliers have come to what lawyers like to call a "meeting of the minds." They hashed out a mechanism to use when ferrous scrap prices are gyrating wildly and no one is sure what the final price will be. It's called the "price-to-be-determined" purchase order.
While few might be pleased with the process, since they would prefer to know the price for 10,000 tons of busheling ahead of time, the mechanism—and not the price of factory bundles—has kept scrap flowing to the melt shops.
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LODI – It's not hard to find L.J. Reed on a crowded football field.
LODI – It's not hard to find L.J. Reed on a crowded football field.
The 6-foot-3, 215-pound wide receiver towers over high school friends and foes like it's a father-son game, and he's headed to play for UCLA on scholarship next fall. Reed, formerly of Elk Grove-Cosumnes Oaks, is transferring to Tokay for his senior year of high school.
"It's like winning the lottery you didn't know you even entered," Tokay coach Louis Franklin said during Wednesday's practice. "That doesn't happen."
Reed said he moved from Elk Grove because of family issues and is living with family friends in Lodi. The Sacramento Bee reported Reed was dismissed from Cosumnes Oaks due to "conduct detrimental to the team" during a team trip to Oregon.
Regardless, Reed has moved on to play for the purple and gold, and has a clean slate for his final year of high school.
"I like it out here. I had no choice but to move, we had financial problems," said Reed, also a basketball standout at Cosumnes Oaks. "I can't miss the dudes in Elk Grove. I've got a fresh, new start."
Reed shined with ease Wednesday – the first day teams could practice in full pads, per state rules. He hauled in touchdown passes, bumped shoulders with his teammates jovially and seemingly fit in easily.
"In the short time, we can tell he's really competitive. He likes the kids," said Franklin, whose Tigers went 8-3 and reached the Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs last season. "He's cracking jokes with the kids. He's been really supportive."
Franklin found out about Reed's transfer from his players' text messages the weekend of Aug. 2-3. Transfers are nothing new, he thought. Then he got the name, looked him up and saw he had a receiver bound for the Pac-12.
"I'm going, 'What? Someone's messing with me,'" Franklin said.
It didn't seem true until the school's counseling office called Franklin in to meet Reed.
Reed powered Cosumnes Oaks to a Sierra Valley Conference crown a year ago with nine touchdown catches, and wants to dazzle in the Tri-City Athletic League (TCAL) once his transfer sit-out period ends. He'll miss the first five games of the season, per California Interscholastic Federation rules.
Franklin submitted Reed's transfer paperwork to the section office on Tuesday, he said.
Reed's debut could be timely, as Tokay hosts defending San Joaquin Athletic Association champion Tracy Oct. 10 in its TCAL opener.
"It just takes patience. I'm going to get hyped up for my teammates even though I'm not out there on the field the first five games," Reed said. "As soon as that sixth game comes, it's going to be a fun ride."
Tokay won't have Reed in uniform for home games against Hercules, Bear Creek and Franklin, and road trips to Modesto-Downey and McNair. Even without Reed for half the regular season, Franklin, who is entering his eighth season, said he has the most talented roster he's ever had.
For Reed, this experience could help him at UCLA, where he'll join former Cosumnes Oaks teammate Alex Van Dyke.
He'll be competing in one of the best conferences in college football. He'll wear the same powder blue and gold uniform that Troy Aikman and Jackie Robinson once did. And he'll be far from home.
So, learning to acclimate to new surroundings quickly could prove valuable.
"This is mirroring what his college experience will be. New offense, new defense, new head coach … new everything," Franklin said.
"Take that as an opportunity to get ready for the next stage of your life."
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