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Martin Bonjour's first goal as a member of Vancouver Whitecaps FC in Wednesday's 1-1 draw with New York Red Bulls was taken as coolly as any striker around, as he took a touch before firing a curling effort into the top right corner past a helpless Ryan Meara.
"Martin is a really good friend and I'm happy for him," Davide Chiumiento told reporters following the match. "He deserved his goal and it shows he's from Argentina. It was a great touch – it was not just lucky. It was quality."
GOAL: Bonjour lashes it home
Chiumiento himself played a big part in that goal, juking past Dax McCarty before hitting a low cross into the box. Three Vancouver players attacked the Swiss-Italian's service before the ball fell to the goalscorer.
"I have to say thanks to him for my assist because he did everything," Chiumiento said. "It was an important goal. It shows that if sometimes offensive players can't score in a game, we have still defenders that have qualities to do it."
Bonjour's opener, however, was eventually undone by a headed goal from Heath Pearce four minutes from time. The defender snuck into the box following a corner to get on the end of a cross from Joel Lindpere to salvage a point for the Red Bulls.
"In that last little part of the game, you need to play the ball down the sides a lot more and you have to have runs that go from the centre and out to the sides," head coach Martin Rennie told reporters. "If the ball's out on the sides, it's maybe a throw in, a goal kick. Could be a throw in for us, could be possession for us. It's not dangerous – the ball isn't going to get cut out in those areas and they're not going to counter us."
The way in which Pearce was allowed to get in on goal unmarked was also something that concerned Rennie.
"On all situations on set plays, every single person knows their job," Rennie said. "Everybody's accountable for every part of the set play, whether it be who they're marking or who goes short on a short corner. The minute somebody doesn't do their job, it can cost you a goal and it did."
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SEATTLE (AP) -- Hundreds attended the latest state Liquor Control Board forum Thursday night in Seattle to talk about how marijuana will be legally sold in Washington.
Board member Brian Smith says marijuana-only stores will likely be regulated and operated like the old state-operated liquor stores.
KOMO reports (http://bit.ly/SLzgSp ) prices are expected around $12 to $15 a gram.
More public forums are scheduled Feb. 7 in Vancouver, Feb. 12 in Spokane, Feb. 19 in Mount Vernon and Feb. 21 in Yakima.
The state hopes to have a system in place for marijuana sales by December.
Information from: KOMO-TV, http://www.komotv.com/
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Fla. utility worker attacked in NY during Sandy cleanup
Fla. utility worker attacked in NY during Sandy cleanup
A Florida utility worker who was helping restore power after Sandy is recovering from an attack.
John Applewhite said he was attacked just as he was finishing a 13-hour work day on Long Island Friday. He said he was with a group headed to dinner when a man hit him.
"I could kind of sense he was maybe getting out and maybe had something he wanted to talk to me about at the time, thinking it was probably electrical related and so I started walking up to him and just as soon as I got within arm's reach, he decked me," said Applewhite.
Police said they believe frustration after the storm led to the attack.
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By Kelsey Dayton, WyoFil.comoriginally published December 4, 2012
An historic effort that could be a model for future land conservation is running out of time and still needs to raise more than $3 million by the end of the year.
In October, the Trust for Public Land announced a deal with Plains Exploration & Production Co. (PXP) to buy back several leases for natural gas drilling in the Wyoming Range. PXP had proposed a controversial drilling project in the environmentally sensitive area that included 17 well pads.
As of November 27, the Trust had raised about $5.6 million of the total $8.75 million it needs. The Trust had already raised about $4.5 million of the total $8.75 million price tag when the deal was announced. The $4.5 million mostly came from large donors, said Deb Love, Northern Rockies director for the Trust for Public Land. The rest of the money is being raised through a first-of-its-kind mass fundraising effort, Love said.
It's the first time the public, as opposed to large donors, has attempted to buy out energy leases. Other lease buyouts have been made by a handful of donors or organizations, such as efforts to protect an area on the Montana-Canadian border.
The efforts in Wyoming could provide a model for future deals. Residents in Colorado are considering similar action. Love said she's even talking with people in the eastern U.S. who are interested in buying out coal leases.
"Drilling has increased exponentially and we don't see any signs of that abating," said Love. "There are going to be places that people thought were protected … and we're going to have to make some difficult choices in the future about where are the places we're willing to sacrifice and where are the places — like the Hoback — that are too special to drill?"
Are buy-outs good or bad?
Bruce Hinchey, president of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming, says the PXP Wyoming Range deal is unique, but he's not sure whether the lease buy-out was a good or bad thing for energy development in Wyoming. "I have no idea," he said. "Each company has to make their own decisions."
Hinchey said he was surprised that the groups reached an agreement before raising the money.
However, Hinchey said he doesn't see citizen lease buy-outs becoming a trend. This deal is unique because of the controversy around the project.
"Normally you don't see people complaining that much about an operation," he said.
Neal Thagard, Western Outreach Director with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, said the deal is good for Wyoming and unique in PXP's willingness to negotiate. But he worries about setting a precedent for lease buy-outs on public lands.
"I'm a little concerned about the prospect of buying back our own public lands," he said.
For years Thagard worked on efforts to protect Big Horn sheep susceptible to disease carried by domestic sheep. Instead of abiding by policies, federal land agencies started turning to conservation groups and citizens to buy out the grazing allotments as a solution.
"Now here we're doing the same thing with oil and gas leases," he said.
The deal with PXP is different than grazing rights because PXP had undisputed claims to drill in the area, he said. Still there could soon be an assumption that anyone unhappy with a drilling project should just buy-out the leases. There's also a fear among some that energy companies could threaten to drill in areas that are likely not productive, but that people feel are too special, in an effort to negotiate a buy-out.
"You open up the cookie jar for everyone to put their hand in," said Thagard.
Despite his concerns, Thagard said he wants the PXP deal to move forward because of what it will mean for the area, and also because failing to raise the money could result in natural gas development and negative environmental impacts.
Variety of donors pitch in
As of November 27, the Trust had raised about $5.6 million of the total $8.75 million it needs, according to Love. "It's tremendous progress, but clearly we have a long way to go," she said. "If people want to save the Hoback, now is the time." Since fundraising began, the Trust has received about 300 donations from people in 36 states and Hong Kong.
If the money isn't raised by the end of the year the deal is void and PXP could go back to its original plan of drilling and producing natural gas in the Wyoming Range. The company could not be reached for comment for this article.
The Trust began negotiating with PXP about a year ago. Love said she doesn't know exactly how much PXP originally paid for the mineral leases. However, the pending deal between PXP and the Trust represents about 80 percent of the leases' current market value ($10.5 million), according to a recent market assessment.
The agreement was reached before the U.S. Forest Service released a draft supplemental environmental impact statement that was expected to require the company to comply with all existing forest regulations, and it could have seriously restricted PXP's development plans. But the only way to know is if the buy-out effort fails, and PXP asks the Forest Service to proceed with the approval process.
While the money might be slow to come in, Love said it is coming from a variety of people; from elected officials to a Wyoming Steelworkers group from Rock Springs that voted to contributed $1,500. About 40 of the group's members vote in favor to donate, said Mike Burd, vice president of United Steelworkers 13214 and a member of Citizens for the Wyoming Range, which has been working to block energy development in the Hoback.
Most of the group likes the outdoors, hunting, fishing and camping with their families, Burd said. They wanted to protect the area so they can enjoy it in the future. The fundraising effort gives people a sense of ownership, while still honoring the rights of PXP who own the leases, he said.
Final push
The Trust for Public Land is ramping up its fundraising efforts this month, presenting to community groups like rotary clubs in Jackson.
"If we don't reach our goal, the Hoback will again be at jeopardy," Love said. "The Trust for Public Land does not have the resources to just buy this ourselves."
If the money isn't raised by December 31 the leases will stay with PXP. If PXP wanted to move forward with their original plans the Forest Service would pick up where it suspended work on the draft supplemental environmental impact statement, said Jacque Buchanan, forest supervisor for the Bridger-Teton. The forest was a month or less away from releasing the draft supplement when the deal was announced, she said.
Love said supporters of the buyout are thinking positively.
"We're optimistic, we're going to get there – if people dig deep into their pockets," she said. "This is what we've been waiting for."
— Kelsey Dayton is a freelance writer based in Lander. She has been a journalist in Wyoming for seven years, reporting for the Jackson Hole News & Guide, Casper Star-Tribune and the Gillette News-Record. Contact Kelsey at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Use the interactivity to listen to the bells ringing a pattern. Now it's your turn! Play one of the bells yourself. How do you know when it is your turn to ring?
Use the interactivity to play two of the bells in a pattern. How do you know when it is your turn to ring, and how do you know which bell to ring?
An irregular tetrahedron is composed of four different triangles. Can such a tetrahedron be constructed where the side lengths are 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 units of length?
This article for teachers describes several games, found on the site, all of which have a related structure that can be used to develop the skills of strategic planning.
This pair of linked Sudokus matches letters with numbers and hides a seasonal greeting. Can you find it?
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You have been given nine weights, one of which is slightly heavier than the rest. Can you work out which weight is heavier in just two weighings of the balance?
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Two sudokus in one. Challenge yourself to make the necessary connections.
Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 x 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?
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The number of plants in Mr McGregor's magic potting shed increases overnight. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of his gardens, planting one garden each day. How can he do it?
A game for 2 people. Take turns placing a counter on the star. You win when you have completed a line of 3 in your colour.
Mr McGregor has a magic potting shed. Overnight, the number of plants in it doubles. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of three gardens, planting one garden each day. Can he do it?
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A Sudoku with clues as ratios.
This second Sudoku article discusses "Corresponding Sudokus" which are pairs of Sudokus with terms that can be matched using a substitution rule.
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Given the products of diagonally opposite cells - can you complete this Sudoku?
Problem solving is at the heart of the NRICH site. All the problems give learners opportunities to learn, develop or use mathematical concepts and skills. Read here for more information.
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Imagine you have an unlimited number of four types of triangle. How many different tetrahedra can you make?
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Four numbers on an intersection that need to be placed in the surrounding cells. That is all you need to know to solve this sudoku.
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A 2 by 3 rectangle contains 8 squares and a 3 by 4 rectangle contains 20 squares. What size rectangle(s) contain(s) exactly 100 squares? Can you find them all?
Given the nets of 4 cubes with the faces coloured in 4 colours, build a tower so that on each vertical wall no colour is repeated, that is all 4 colours appear.
Solve this Sudoku puzzle whose clues are in the form of sums of the numbers which should appear in diagonal opposite cells.
The idea of this game is to add or subtract the two numbers on the dice and cover the result on the grid, trying to get a line of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
First Connect Three game for an adult and child. Use the dice numbers and either addition or subtraction to get three numbers in a straight line.
This sudoku requires you to have "double vision" - two Sudoku's for the price of one
Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9$cm$^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?
Play the divisibility game to create numbers in which the first two digits make a number divisible by 2, the first three digits make a number divisible by 3...
A pair of Sudoku puzzles that together lead to a complete solution.
Each clue in this Sudoku is the product of the two numbers in adjacent cells.
This cube has ink on each face which leaves marks on paper as it is rolled. Can you work out what is on each face and the route it has taken?
Given the products of adjacent cells, can you complete this Sudoku?
This Sudoku combines all four arithmetic operations.
In this Sudoku, there are three coloured "islands" in the 9x9 grid. Within each "island" EVERY group of nine cells that form a 3x3 square must contain the numbers 1 through 9.
Make your own double-sided magic square. But can you complete both sides once you've made the pieces?
Rather than using the numbers 1-9, this sudoku uses the nine different letters used to make the words "Advent Calendar".
You need to find the values of the stars before you can apply normal Sudoku rules.
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Quiet, unassuming, direct, shy, solid, dependable; these are all terms that apply to Ashley Kearns of the Brookfield Lady Dogs Softball Team. Some words that also apply are: only four-time District Champion in Brookfield High School history.
Quiet, unassuming, direct, shy, solid, dependable; these are all terms that apply to Ashley Kearns of the Brookfield Lady Dogs Softball Team. Some words that also apply are: only four-time District Champion in Brookfield High School history.
"That sentence makes me feel fantastic," said Kearns of her historic effort. "The year-round hard work and dedication to softball since I was five years old has finally paid off."
"Ashley doesn't say much and isn't a loud person, but her softball play speaks loudly," said Head Coach Julee Reese. "She is very passionate about the sport and has a burning desire to win. She will do whatever it takes to get her team the win."
Coach Reese continued: "I have seen her make phenomenal plays no one else could have made at second, and hit the ball when others of her team are in a slump. She is a great talent and a great player, and she will be very difficult to replace."
Ashley Kearns came into the starting lineup for the Lady Dogs in the post-season of her freshman year when an errant ground ball struck senior Vanessa Shaw in the eyebrow at Central Methodist University. An unassuming young lady (i.e., Ashley) took the field, finished the game, and rarely ceded second base for the rest of her career.
Often, Kearns (or AK as her teammates call her) is the last to speak. Instead, she has let the stellar defensive play at second base shout where her quiet voice could be. "I lead by example," said AK. "As they say, 'actions speak louder than words.' If my teammates see me giving 100 percent effort every day, then we all motivate off of one another to become a very successful team."
So what is this example? Kearns explained her softball philosophy: "When I get on that field, I close everything off and zone in on what I have to do to help prepare us to win games. I feel that to be successful, you have to put in long hours beyond the scope of the actual season."
Kearns knew coming into this history-making season for her team that she had a chance at individual glory as well. While her team's success was paramount, the feat she could accomplish was not lost on the senior.
"It was a feeling beyond any feeling I've ever felt before," said Kearns of her goal. "I felt it was more a team accomplishment because softball is a team sport. It takes every single player to do their part to have a successful season."
This commitment to winning on the part of the often described "backbone of the Lady Dogs defense" was on display in a big way at the Missouri State High School Activities Association's (MSHSAA) State Softball Championships.
It was in her second trip to Springfield that Ashley played arguably the two most complete (offensive and defensive) games of her already stellar career. Kearns, positioned late in the Lady Dogs' lineup, seemed to find big hits against both Kelly and Pleasant Hope.
"It was a goal of mine to leave as a champion," admitted Kearns. "I knew in the playoffs each and every game could be my last at BHS. It would take everyone's best effort to do so, and being a senior on the team—as well as having a younger sister playing with me—I knew my teammates would rally behind me and I didn't want to disappoint them."


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BIOL 497 Research in Biology (.25 - 1)
Individualized program of investigative research in which student works directly with a biology faculty member in his or her area of research expertise. Nature of participation varies from collaborative research to the design and execution of an independent project equivalent to a thesis. For all students, course provides hands-on experience in literature search, data collection, and the synthesis of results in a formal paper and oral presentation. Upon completion faculty may nominate students with outstanding projects for credit in Honors Research in Biology (BIOL 499) in lieu of BIOL 497. May be repeated for credit.
- Prerequisite: Consent of instructor; research methods course (BIOL 350W-358W) recommended
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This story appears in the March 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Heads bowed, hands in the soil, people are clustered around a huge rock, planting marigolds. It's an annual custom, explains Michelle Leger, a member of the extended family that congregates on this Massachusetts town common to do the honors. The Rollstone Boulder, she says, "is the pride of Fitchburg. We're lucky to be able to make it more beautiful—as it deserves."
Granted, at ten feet tall, the boulder is impressive. But do even really big rocks deserve anything? Whether they do or not, it's clear that some of them have devoted admirers. Rocks like the Rollstone Boulder are called glacial erratics. And countless numbers of them lie strewn about the planet.
Photographer Fritz Hoffmann first became obsessed with erratics while reading up on the random boulders around his property in Connecticut. And then, on a road trip in Massachusetts, he whizzed past a sign pointing the way to Plymouth Rock. "Wait! I wonder if …" He made a quick U-turn and pulled up at the Plymouth visitors center. "I just have one question," he told the women at the desk, already gathering brochures for him. "Is Plymouth Rock an erratic?"
"A glacier brought it here, if that's what you mean," came the response.
The journeys of erratics, carried by glaciers during a succession of ice ages, were long, sometimes hundreds of miles. Their name comes from the Latin errare, to wander, which makes sense because they have been carried by ice from their original locations to where we find them today, deposited over the northern U.S. On prairies the anomalous stones fracture the horizon. Early stone carvers gave them buffalo ribs and hoofprints; later fans painted them, carved initials, honored them with plaques. In forests they are enigmatic giants penned in by trees. On mountaintops they perch as though balanced by impish fingers.
How did the rocks arrive in such unlikely places? Did a primordial volcano cough them out? Did the Arctic Ocean flood so violently that it swept boulders onto mountains? Did a stutter in Earth's orbit cause uphill avalanches?
It was Louis Agassiz, a Swiss scientist at Harvard, who popularized the Ice Age theory of how such boulders came to their odd contexts.
Agassiz had explored glaciers in the Swiss Alps and observed battered rocks disgorged at their melting snouts. He had seen deposits of similar rock in the British Isles where no glacier now stood. He had a hunch that glaciers had once been widespread.
In 1871 Agassiz presented his observations on boulders scattered across Massachusetts's Berkshire mountains: A glacier must have crept down from the north, engulfing everything in its path. When the ice melted, the detritus was left on the ground. What's more, Agassiz reported, glacier-borne boulders had left scratches on rocks 11,000 feet high in the Rocky Mountains.
This means that the Rollstone Boulder, Plymouth Rock, and all their cousins were once blocks of mountain face or bedrock, possibly loosened by freeze-thaw cycles: Water seeped into fractures and then expanded into ice crystals, wedging the blocks free from their parents.
As the climate cooled and the glaciers expanded 25,000 years ago, a southbound ice sheet slid over the loose blocks like molasses over spilled sugar and dragged them along. Under perhaps a half mile or more of ice, they grated against other stones, losing their sharp edges and leaving telltale gouges. Up and over bedrock the ice carried them—and then stopped. And sometime around 21,000 years ago, the ice began melting away.
"We still use erratics," says Carrie Jennings, a geologist at the Minnesota Geological Survey, "to map glacial deposits. In some older deposits the finer grained sediments made of clay, sand, and gravel have eroded from wind and water; the boulders may be all that have survived."
If some people doubt the staying power of those boulders, they need only consult the Rollstone. Long ago, it resided at the edge of town, hovering like Humpty Dumpty on the brink of an expanding quarry. Its fan club, fearing it would tumble in, blasted it to pieces, hauled 110 tons of it to its place of honor, and put it together again. There it has stood since 1930, surrounded by traffic signs, fire hydrants, bikes, and strollers—and every May, admiring townsfolk planting a garden around it.


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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Nike Event: Bo Jackson, Albert Pujols & Joe Mauer
Before going to the All-Star Fan Fest, I stopped by a Shoe Store in the O.C. area. Bo Jackson, Albert Pujols and Joe Mauer were in hand to talk about Shoes. Nike Shoes to be exact. It was a great event if you like sneakers. Around 40 High School students were in hand to get advice from these great athletes.
The Shoes: In 1990, Nike released a Bo Jackson Shoe edition titled "Bo Knows Nike Trainer SC". Fast forward two decades later and Nike releases "Nike Trainer SC 2010" to pay tribute to Jackson and Pujols. The famous slogan "Bo Knows" is now "Albert Knows" to pay tribute to Albert Pujols. There are dozens of different editions of the "Nike Trainer SC 2010". Besides Jackson and Pujols, there are also different tributes to Ken Griffey Jr and Nolan Ryan.
Former Dodger, 1979 N.L. Rookie of the Year, Rick Sutcliffe hosted the event
Bo Jackson telling Sutcliffe "Give me new legs and I can still play!"
A video that I shot of Jackson telling his audience about hard work and what kind of training he did as a youngster:
Bo Jackson - Nike Event from Roberto Baly on Vimeo.
July 13, 2010 Bo Jackson speaks at a Nike event in Southern California
Joe Mauer
A video of Joe Mauer speaking to the crowd:
Joe Mauer @ Nike Event from Roberto Baly on Vimeo.
July 13, 2010 - Joe Mauer speaks at a Nike Event in Southern California
Albert Pujols
Again, huge thanks to Mr. Pinga and Mr. Pancrasio! For more info, go to Nike USA.
3 comments:
- bluefanforever33 said...
Nice post. I have many memories of Bo Jackson and my childhood. Makes me want to buy some Nike Shoes!
- July 14, 2010 at 5:51 PM
- thegreatpiazza said...
Damn! Bo Jackson looks like he's still in top shape. I believe him, if he had new legs, he would out run any football player. He would be stealing bombs and hitting bombs!
- July 14, 2010 at 6:00 PM
- dodgerbobble said...
Bo Jackson may be the greatest athlete of all time. Looks like Bo has a bit of a gut. Not a Tony Gwynn size gut, but a gut nonetheless.
- July 14, 2010 at 7:24 PM
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Kids do the darndest things, and when it comes to promposals, it has gradually become a consistent game of one-up-manship.
A teen in Peachtree City, Ga. got a little creative and employed the local police department in his efforts to win over his prom date. In a dash-cam video posted to Facebook, the two teens are pulled over by the officer who asks the two to exit the vehicle, claiming that this truck has had a previous history with prior stops.
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After the boy refuses to reveal any more information, he is handcuffed and the girl is left in bewilderment until the officer hands her an envelope with a piece of paper inside. Once she realizes it's all a fraud, the guy appears with a sign saying, "Prom? Say yes or you're under arrest!"
With the two walking away un-cuffed, it would appear as though the female unsuspecting victim said yes. Although the whole bit seems a tad criminal, you can't fault the guy for taking his chances with the law. In this instance, he fought with the law, and they all won.
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Eva's Play-filled "Corners"
Name: Eva (2)
Location: Brisbane, Australia
As much as I would love to have a house big enough for my daughter to have her own playroom, it's just not viable in our townhouse. Instead our living room has become a shared space -- now filled with a mini-kitchen and a teepee! So, when I say that this is "Eva's Playroom", I really mean her designated corners.
Many of these items were collected over time or given as gifts including her teepee, which has to be one of her favourite toys. Not only does she love to read in it, but play hide-and-go-seek as she carefully closes each velcro strap before ripping it open again to yell "boo"!
Along with Eva's reading corner, we created a mini-kitchen area for imaginary play and crafting. Complete with the IKEA toy kitchen, table and chair set, various fruit and veggie sets and a growing collection of play foods, the final touch to Eva's kitchen was to frame and hang her own artwork.
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Teepee: An Angel at my Table
Table and Chair Set: Svan
Mini-Kitchen: IKEA
Easel: IKEA
Alphabet Wall Decals: Love Mae
Thanks Amber! Readers, say hello at Happiness is Eva.
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North Las Vegas Deputy Chief dedicates construction of '56 Chevrolet pickup to his late father, Harold Woods.
As a 25-year veteran of the North Las Vegas police department, native Southern Nevadan Victor Dunn has always been an automobile enthusiast.
By happenstance, the 49 year-old Dunn ran across his latest purchase, a 1956 Chevrolet pickup in 2006.
The story of how he landed the classic car is as interesting as the car itself. In a sense, Dunn — a deputy chief with the NLV police department — ran into the deal of a lifetime.
"I was talking with my friend Mario Berlanga, Jr., about the fact that I wanted to find a classic car to buy in memory of my dad (Harold Woods), who had died about a year earlier," said Dunn, who lived in Bastrop from 1964-70 prior to moving to Las Vegas. "I wanted something that I could restore in my dad's memory."
What happened next was mind-boggling considering that Berlanga made Dunn the offer of a lifetime; especially when considering today's value of classic cars. The two had become friends considering that they were friends in high school and Berlanga was also a North Las Vegas reserve police officer.
"Out of nowhere, Mario suddenly informed me that he had a '56 Chevrolet pickup," explained Dunn. "We went to his house to look at it and it was exactly what I wanted.'
Just when Dunn began to think about the price, Berlanga sweetened the deal even more.
"He gave the title and the keys to the truck and said that we'd talk price later," Dunn said. "I couldn't believe what I was hearing."
To this day seven years later, Berlanga — a North Las Vegas businessman who owns Mario's Westside Market — continues to say, "We'll talk about it sometime," so no money has changed hands.
"I keep asking him when we're going to settle up and I get the same answer every time," said Dunn shaking his head. "Needless to say, this may be the best gift I have ever received. Mario knew my dad, too, and we used to go out together whenever my dad would come to town. We would have dinner and talk about the old days."
Dunn immediately went to work reviewing automotive magazines. He discovered that his '56 Chevy pickup was a long bed and the short bed model was more popular in what would become a frame-up restoration.
"I assembled a team that included (former off road racer) Howard Ringe, who is a fabricator now living in Idaho," said Dunn. "The team also includes Ken McDaniel, (he built the 454 cubic inch Chevrolet power plant), Henry Mendoza (interior) and Norberto Hernandez (ADESA Las Vegas Car Auction painter).
"We had many others who contributed to the project, but these were the key people who were involved."
While Dunn doesn't have an exact figure, he's relatively certain that he has about $60,000 invested in the project. In fact, he spent much of his time working with the folks of Ed Bozarth Chevrolet in the northwest valley.
"I talked with the mechanics at Bozarth when we were building the motor," explained Dunn. "I went from a small block 350 to a big block 454 and it took some specialized mechanics to figure it out. You learn to appreciate people like the mechanics at Bozarth when getting involved in a project like this.
"It's been worth every penny. It's a tribute to my dad and something that I think about every day."
Dunn and his family have brought the pickup to Bastrop, where a memorial will be held for his father on Friday, July 5, at 6:30 p.m. at Trouser Hill Cemetery, off the Collinston Road. Dunn's pastor, Dr. Robert E. Fowler Sr., is sending associate pastor Rev. Charles Smith of Victory Baptist Church to conduct the memorial.
"It's going to ride really nice on the open road," said Dunn of his '56 Chevy. "And my brother tells me that there is nothing close to this truck back there, so I'm sure the looks will be amazing.
"Since we got it done, driving it on the streets has really been interesting. People love looking at the truck. It's going to be one heckuva ride."


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This morning, I woke up and cannot seem to have a let down for my LO. I've had supply issues in the past and am on domperidone. I supplement but, only 2 oz a day. Lately, she has been sleeping larger chunks in the night and I have been letting her. I wonder if I've damaged my supply.
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Quick History: Marimekko
Marimekko is one of the rare brands that seems to evoke universally positive reactions, evoking memories of childhood or of first apartments. So what is Marimekko, and where did it come from?
Marimekko began in the late 1940s, when a Finnish couple, Viljo and Armi Ratia, bought Printex, a company that produced printed oilcloths and textiles. Armi, Viljo's wife (image 2), was the creative vision behind the new company, hiring young designers to create new patterns. Her main directive in those early days was that the patterns and colors must be bold, and that she did not want any floral patterns.
Although people liked the new patterns, no one was buying, since they weren't sure how to actually use them. Armi hired her friend, the clothing designer Ritta Immonen, to create simple clothes out of the fabrics. The collection was an enormous success, and though Immonen left shortly after to return to her own projects, other new designers continued to inspire their female customers with modern, clean-cut, easy clothing.
Marimekko — whose name contains an anagram of Armi and 'mekko,' the Finnish word for 'dress' — was at the vanguard of mid-century lifestyle revolutions: the sexual revolution and what we can call the 'casual revolution,' when white-glove luncheons gave way to backyard barbecues. Marimekko presented clothes to be worn without a corset or hose — sometimes even without shoes! Though Marimekko dresses and textiles were gaining traction in America throughout the 1950s, the company's popularity exploded in 1960, when Jackie Kennedy bought six Marimekko dresses for the campaign trail and wore one on the cover of Sports Illustrated (image 3).
In its informality and its flouting of European tradition, Marimekko fit neatly into 20th-century Scandinavian design in general. Scandinavian design is characterized by simplicity and practicality, clean lines and hygiene, bright colors, references to nature, and, fundamentally, the idea that things must be easy and comfortable for all people to use, including children. Marimekko embodied these traits not only in their designs but even in their marketing. The famous Marimekko spread in Life magazine in 1966 situated the designs — and the women wearing them — within the Scandinavian landscape of birch trees, crystalline lakes and rustic farmland (images 1, 4-7). The models, naked, in bikinis, or wearing loose Marimekko frocks, embody an innocent, happy sensuality that could be read like a creation myth for both Woodstock and Carnaby Street.
Although Marimekko became known as a clothing company, it was still fundamentally a textile producer. The first to introduce Americans to Marimekko textiles as furnishing fabrics was Ben Thompson, an architect and Harvard professor who opened a design store in the 1950s called Design Research. He sold Marimekko textiles starting in 1959, and expanded his stores during the '60s to Philadelphia, San Francisco and New York (image 9). In 1966, Crate and Barrel founder Gordon Segal, visited Design Research for the first time and organized his own business plan around Thompson's paradigm. Crate and Barrel also began buying Marimekko fabric wholesale from Design Research, and using them in upholstery and other designs.
Armi Ratia died in 1979, and the company endured a decade of shaky ground, facing bankruptcy. In 1991, Kirsti Paakkanen, a former advertising executive, bought the company, and is credited with reinvigorating the brand and creating its current successes. Staffed by talented young designers, Marimekko is now run by its first male president and CEO, Mika Ihamuotila, who took over in 2008. They continue to produce new patterns and have expanded into more decorative goods including tablewares (image 10) and wallpaper.
(Images: 1, 4-7 Tony Vaccaro for Life Magazine, 1966, via solothais.com; 2 & 8 zavodbig.com; 3 David Drew Zingg for Sports Illustrated's December 26, 1960 cover; 9 Thisisluster.com; 10 via AlwaysMod, the Marimekko blog)
Sources: For more information on the company, I recommend the book Marimekko: Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture by Marianne Aav, a book that accompanied a fabulous 2004 exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center. The co-owner of Design Research, Jane Thompson, recently co-wrote a book about the iconic store, Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes.
- New Marimekko Shop at Crate & Barrel SoHo
- ColorTherapy: The Colorful World of Marimekko
- Marimekko Expands in US Market
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Is Education for All Finally Possible?
The tragedy of our times is that access to quality education is limited. Whether in the US, internationally, education remains a privilege that only select few are entitled to, whereas a majority of this without financial resources are forced to compromise on the quality of education or go without. This perpetuates a cycle of poverty and illiteracy which condemns the poor to stay poor. In the past few years technology has emerged as the single biggest game changer in the field of education. As computing has become cheaper and more powerful, access to technology has increased proportionately. Another trend has been led by those who question traditional education methods and structure. For example many feel that teachers unions lead to a shift in focus away from the child to the pecuniary interests of the teachers. Others argue that the traditional classroom lecture where teachers talk and students listen is no longer effective. These trends have led to some interesting developments. Of these one is the focus of nonprofit organizations on supplying cheap tablets for free in the developing world. Another is the interesting possibility of eliminating school systems and teachers via innovative use of technology.


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Clarkson University's Concrete Canoe Team Takes Fourth Place in Regional Competition
Clarkson University's Concrete Canoe Team recently took fourth place in competition at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Upstate New York Regional Student Conference at the United States Military Academy at West Point. The team is part of the University's Student Projects for Engineering Experience and Design (SPEED) program.
Teams designed and built a boat out of concrete. Each team designed its own hull and concrete mix to keep the concrete density as close to the density of water as possible. In order to achieve this decreased density, rocks and sand were removed and replaced with polystyrene beads and hollow glass spheres to make the concrete light enough to float. This left the concrete very weak in tension, so reinforcement such as steel or fiberglass mesh was used to accommodate the tensile stresses applied to the canoe.
The event included men's, women's and coed sprint races and a men's and women's distance race. The Clarkson team placed 4th in the men's slalom or endurance race as well as in the men's sprint race. The team finished 5th in the co-ed sprint race and 4th place overall. In addition, the teams presented orally and submitted a display and technical paper to the judges.
The Clarkson concrete canoe team members are Alex Brown, a junior civil engineering major from Glens Falls, N.Y.; Ben Brown-Steiner, a senior environmental engineering major from East Rochester, N.Y.; Ben Dates, a sophomore civil engineering major from Martville, N.Y.; Ryan Doyle, a sophomore civil engineering major from St. Albans, Vt. ; David Grant, a senior aeronautical engineering major from Saranac Lake, N.Y.; Max Martin, a senior civil and environmental engineering major from Saranac Lake, N.Y.; Matt Strawser, a junior environmental engineering major from Dunkirk, N.Y.; Mike Tucker, a senior mechanical engineering from Gabriels, N.Y.; Dan Zielinski, a sophomore mechanical engineering from Hilton, N.Y.; Christine Benetti, a junior civil engineering major from Cranston, R.I.; Katie Jones, senior civil engineering major from Groton, N.Y.; Alicia Shelvay, a freshman civil and mechanical engineering major from Buffalo, N.Y.; and Natasha Coon, a freshman civil engineering major from Tully, N.Y. Their advisors are Narayanan Neithalath, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Robert J. Davis, director of the SPEED program.
Clarkson University crosses the boundaries of disciplines, nations and cultures in order for discovery, engineering innovation and enterprise to come together. As a result, faculty and graduates grasp the full impact of their calling, direct their research to the world's pressing issues and lead with confidence and distinction. One in seven alumni is already a CEO or other senior executive. Located in Potsdam, N.Y., just outside the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, Clarkson is home to 3,000 students preparing for rewarding careers through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, science, and health sciences, as well as unparalleled outdoor recreation and life experiences beyond the classroom.


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A year after fans came through (and then some) to make the Veronica Mars movie a reality, the film is finally ready for its audience. Last week, we had the opportunity to talk to director/series creator Rob Thomas and stars Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars), Jason Dohring (Logan), Chris Lowell (Piz), Krysten Ritter (Gia) and Ryan Hansen (Dick) about the film. Because you may not have seen it yet, we've left out all spoiler-chat for this one, but they did have some fascinating things to say about the movie, including what it was almost about, whether or not they thought fans would meet the Kickstarter goal, the digital spinoff that's in the works, and what Veronica's up to these days. And for you LoVe fans, Jason Dohring told us how he and Kristen Bell reacted back during the first season, when they first found out Veronica and Logan were going to kiss.
The Plot Almost Involved The FBI, A Tijuana Drug Cartel And An AssassinationThe actual plot of the movie has Veronica on the brink of working as an attorney in New York when she's called back to Neptune to help Logan, who's suspected of murdering his pop star girlfriend. There's also a Neptune High reunion (Go Pirates!), which offers plenty of opportunity for familiar faces to make appearances. But Rob Thomas said that before they went in that direction, there was a whole other plot -- alterna-plot? -- being brainstormed that sounds like it would've linked to Veronica's planned (but unfulfilled) FBI pursuits to her present-day situation.
"I had this whole other plot, that we found her in the FBI and there was a San Diego politician assassinated by what we think is a Tijuana drug cartel," Thomas revealed. "And Veronica is sent there as an FBI agent." But he said trying to get that to dovetail with things going on in Neptune began to feel strained. So they went with the murder mystery, which gave Veronica a reason to return to Neptune, and just in time for the reunion.


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George Zimmerman Forced To Leave Miami After Death Threats + Bounty On His Life?
Word on the street is that George Zimmerman was at the beach with his girlfriend, her son and his younger brother. Once the beach-goers noticed who they were sharing the sun with, they started harassing him, and someone even screamed there was $10,000 on his head!


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The junior quarterback helped the Timberwolves answer a league-opening loss to Oakdale with a big night in a 63-7 win over East Union at Daniel Teicheira Memorial Stadium. Pruitt was 13 for 15 passing for 192 yards with one touchdown. He also ran for 80 yards on four carries with another score. And he did it all in the first half.
Like Pruitt, the senior was limited to one half because of the lopsided score, but it was enough to record 76 yards and four touchdowns in a 63-7 win over East Union.
The Mustangs kicker kicked two field goals and went 3 for 3 on extra points in a 27-0 victory over Thunder Mountain in Juneau, Alaska.
The two-way lineman was head coach Eric Reis' pick for player of the game following a 34-6 win over Weston Ranch. He had two sacks for a defense that held the Cougars scoreless after the first quarter.
The junior running back and linebacker rushed for 101 yards with one touchdown and caught a touchdown pass in the Indians' 52-0 win over Modesto Christian.
The senior running back finished with 326 yards and four touchdowns for the Eagles, who won their fourth game in a row, 55-0 over Clarksburg-Delta.
The junior running back and team captain carried 26 times for 187 yards with five touchdowns, including three in the first quarter of the Knights' 50-14 victory.
With the Redskins trailing 12-0 in the second quarter, Seawell's 84-yard kickoff return set up Calaveras' first score and spearheaded their comeback in a 21-18 win over Lodi.


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Community banks, credit unions applaud Senate bill focused on easing mortgage, loan restrictionsBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 15. 2018 11:13PM
CONCORD — Community banks and credit unions in New Hampshire applauded Senate passage of a bill that would make it easier for people to get mortgages and other loans.
"Community banks across the country will do more mortgage lending if this bill goes into place," Dan Morrison, Optima Bank & Trust president and CEO, said in an interview Thursday.
But the House might put the brakes on the proposal, which seeks to roll back some Dodd-Frank banking restrictions imposed after the national financial crisis.
"Dodd-Frank has crimped our ability to be more flexible with members and work with them on their lending needs," said Maurice Simard, president and CEO of Triangle Credit Union.
"The (Senate) bill keeps a tight regulatory watch on the big mega institutions and Wall Street, but gives relief to where it is most needed, community institutions like credit unions that are firmly planted on Main Street," Simard said.
The New Hampshire Bankers Association said the bill would give community banks more latitude in making decisions on home mortgages, reduce capital requirements and cut the paperwork burden. The legislation mostly provides relief for smaller banks by freeing them from some constraints imposed on lenders deemed too-big-to-fail.
"This (Senate) bill is the result of a bipartisan compromise that protects the reforms on the biggest banks and Wall Street while addressing unintentional consequences that had impacted smaller community banks and credit unions, affecting their capacity to lend to entrepreneurs and small businesses," said Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-NH.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, who backed Dodd-Frank, said: "As with most broad reform legislation, time reveals improvements that need to be made, and Dodd-Frank is no exception. Main Street lenders did not cause the financial crisis."
Last, June, the House passed much more ambitious legislation, dubbed the Financial Choice Act, sponsored by House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling, a Dodd-Frank opponent. It would do away with regulators' ability to wind down Wall Street banks should they run into trouble, reduce the frequency of bank stress tests and repeal the Volcker Rule ban on banks making speculative market bets with their own capital.
Hensarling said he had no intention of demanding that the Senate sign off on the Financial Choice Act. Instead, he said he wants the Senate to add to its legislation at least some of the 30 stand-alone bills that the House has passed on financial rules in recent months on a bipartisan basis.
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This question has probably created more atheists than any other question. Worse, the seething anger that sometimes lies behind it has probably created more insane people than any other. And justly so. While faith in God doesn't logically stand or fall just on this matter, it hinges on it more than any other so far as our experience of the life of faith is concerned.
If that offends some of you, well, tough . True, we have no right at all to expect or demand a suffering-free state of false bliss that would leave each and all of us as bored dilettants living a sterile and stupid life. That is, if you can call something 'life' which has no challenges, no repentances, no learning, no growing, all of which only come through trial, error, taking part, success, pain, loss, and hurt. (We can safely ignore the many fools who think that way.) But does there have to be the kind of suffering that some people go through? Of apparently unquenchable pain, immeasurable loss, utter hopelessness, total abandonment? Suffering that will end in a slow death, like lung cancer? The very fact that there is such human suffering gives good cause to doubt not only the value of the whole human race, but also the existence of any God that can be said to care in the slightest for what's been created, any God who has power over all things, any God who is anything other than a horrible brute who finds sadistic whimsical joy in squeezing every last drop of anguish out of those who've been created. It would seem to rule out anything even vaguely resembling the God that Christians speak of -- and rule in a God who deserves our utter hatred not our worship.
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. Not by overriding the freedom God had put into nature and into creatures, especially the human ones. Not by working instant repairs on the universe so that all is blissfully well (that would be a jerk-God, a more powerful version of the fools I wrote off earlier), or by pulling a string here or there from a distance. But by
choosing to
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By TO Acorn Staff | on July 05, 2018
A legal fight between a local blogger and an individual she says has been harassing her since she spoke out against the Conejo Valley school board majority has an unexpected player: California Assembly candidate Ronda Baldwin-Kennedy.
The Republican attorney, who is in the midst of an underdog campaign against incumbent Jacqui Irwin (D-Camarillo), signed on late last month to represent Thousand Oaks resident Emily Bartley-Gonzales, the recipient of a temporary restraining order granted to the blogger, court records show.
Bartley-Gonzales is disputing the restraining order filed by Newbury Park resident Jess Weihe, otherwise known as Anonymous Mommy.
Weihe gained public notoriety last winter after school board trustee Mike Dunn contacted her employer following critical comments she made about the board majority during a public meeting, a move for which Dunn was later censured.
Since she began blogging about issues regarding CVUSD in late 2016, especially the district's new core literature policy, the outspoken mother of two has generated a large contingency of supporters as well as critics.
Bartley-Gonzales, a parent and prolific commenter on the Thousand Oaks Acorn Facebook page who supports the new policy, would fall into the critic category. She could not be reached for comment for this story.
Asked how she came to represent Bartley-Gonzales, Baldwin-Kennedy told the Acorn last week she doesn't comment on how she meets clients but said Weihe—an Irwin supporter—is not on her radar.
"I represent people who need legal help," she said. "I'm surprised that this is actually newsworthy."
In paperwork filed with the Superior Court of Ventura County and obtained by the Acorn, Weihe, who declined to comment for this story on the advice of her attorney, says her opposition to the school board majority has fueled an online campaign of hate against her and her family.
Included in a packet of evidence provided to the court is a comment Bartley-Gonzales left Jan. 25 on the Acorn Facebook page under a story about Weihe's dispute with Dunn. She says of Weihe: "I wouldn't wish what's about to befall you on anyone."
According to the filing, in the months to follow Bartley-Gonzales began making untrue claims about Weihe online, including that she is a liar and an alcoholic who uses funds from her nonprofit to pay for her drinking. Weihe says Bartley- Gonzales created multiple Facebook accounts for the express purpose of defaming her.
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For many Northeastern University students, Patriots Day and the Boston Marathon are a magnet. Sarah MacKay, a Northeastern senior, has been to a few, and was there with her roommate this year, too.
After lunch on Newbury Street, they walked to the finish line on Boylston. But it was chilly, and after standing there for 10 minutes, they thought about leaving.
Then the first bomb went off. MacKay called for help for her friend, whose leg was bleeding badly, and stayed with her until an ambulance took her to Tufts Medical Center.
"Compared to people all around me, I was fine. I had all my limbs, I wasn't bleeding," says MacKay, who is from Franklin.
Then she realized that she, too, had been injured. "I had glass stuck in my pants, up and down my leg. I had big welts on the side of my right leg." She had been hit by shrapnel and had a blown eardrum.
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MacKay's hearing is back, and though her right ankle is black and blue and in a brace, she resumed classes. "I tire easily and am weak in my legs," she says. "Everything's normal, or as normal as it can be."
A biology major, MacKay spent last fall in South Africa, taking part in a co-op program at three places: a horse rehabilitation center, a wildlife conservation project, and a lion breeding and research program. She loved the country and its animals, and hopes to go to veterinary school after graduating.
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