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A National Past Time
Kraft, Bill. "A National Past Time." Emmons County Record, August 2007.
|Father Matthew Fettig sometimes took over the reigns of the Little League (Midget) Team in Strasburg. (Photo courtesy of Assumption Abbey, Richardton, N.D.)
(Editor's Note: This story is reprinted with permission from the May/June 2007 edition of Minnesota Moments.)
There was, in my hometown of Strasburg, North Dakota, a structure
common to the small towns scattered across the Great Plains during
the decades of 1940 to 1960. It was the local ballpark or "baseball
diamond" as we referred to it.
These structures were a matter of community pride less for the manner in which they were built than for what they represented. They became a repository of a town's competitive spirit and, on Sunday afternoons, the scene of spirited rivalries among the neighboring towns.
The local ballpark was distinguished by its most prominent feature, the grandstand. Ours, in shades of dark green, was propped on the north edge of town where the encroaching prairie grass intruded just enough to mark the demarcation point between well-groomed lawns and the rough edges of the prairie. It stood imposingly against the harsh elements of the passing seasons, perhaps in tribute to the sturdy character and resourcefulness of the hardy German-Russianinhabitants who had built it.
Its roof was propped up on wooden pillars deeply embedded into the ground and rising to a height that slanted backwards from the front to the rear at an incline. Presumably, the angle of incline was to facilitate drainage of thawing winter snows and rains.
The roof served another purpose as well. On cold afternoons our childhood imaginations transformed that roof into a launching pad for our gambols in the winter snows. Deep drifts of snow carved by the winds into white waves became an "ocean of snow" into which we propelled out bodies from the top of the grandstand. We reached the top of the grandstand by scaling a network of X-beam supports that ran from the base of the structure to its roof. With an agility peculiar to childhood coordination, we climbed in sudden lurches from beam to beam until we reached the top. Once there we prepared ourselves for the exhilarating leap into space and the banks below.
Perched on the edge of the roof, we felt a sudden surge of fear and excitement, a vertigo that sent our equilibrium into freefall. In a moment we were into space with limbs flailing as the white rushed up. If there is a moment in childhood when you sing for the sake of singing, when you leap for the sake of leaping, then that was the moment. It is liberation. It is joy gone rampant.
The old ballpark had its seasons. During the summer baseball reigned. It was a longstanding tradition that each community fielded its own team. This was a matter of great significance since the fortunes of the local team were directly commensurate with community pride. Teams were comprised of an assortment of locals, from college students home for the summer, to the old mainstays, men who had set roots in the town, and young men between high school graduation and their first foray into higher education at college.
It was also common practice to import "outside talent" for a competitive edge. Outside talent usually came in the form of a young man with a very strong arm to be utilized on the pitcher's mound. That talent might be recruited from a location away from the competing communities so as to defuse charges of "talent raiding" among the competitors. It was also customary to arrange summer employment for the recruit. Such arrangements provided financial inducement for the recruit while keeping intact his amateur status. Direct compensation was a violation of the amateur code of ethics founded on the honor system.
It was not unknown for the parish priest to set aside his robes on Sunday afternoons for the more secular pursuits of the great American pastime and lend his talents to the local team. One such figure was Father Matthew Fettig, who was assigned to the local parish. In addition to his spiritual duties, the pastor sometimes assumed the role of mentor taking over the reigns of the little league or "midget team" as it was commonly referred to at the time.
Father Matthew, by some accounts, bore a well-cultivated resemblance to the popular crooner of his day, Bing Crosby. The ever-present pipe dangling from his mouth beneath a hard straw hat trimmed in gold was complemented by the customary black slacks and light summer shirt. At social occasions Father Matthew demonstrated an insouciant charm that ingratiated him into the confidence and good graces of his parishioners. The overall effect was an elegant sophistication and social ease that served him well in the administration of his duties in the parish.
Like his renowned alter ego, nature had also blessed him with a rich, deep-throated baritone voice. Encountering him on a snowy December day, you might have expected him to burst forth with his own rendition of "White Christmas."
On game day the opposition sometimes found Father Matthew's managerial style a bit enigmatic. From his vantage point behind third base, Father Matthew engaged in a series of elaborate motions designed to deceive and confuse the opposition, while directing base runners and batters in the usual strategies of the hit an run, the bunt or the steal sign.
Such rituals, a fundamental part of the game, assumed many variations. Father Matthew's were a bit unorthodox. From his familiar crouch along the third base line, Father Matthew dipped into the left pocket of his shirt, deftly fetched a handful of sunflower seeds, popped them into his mouth, and then cracked them open. At that precise moment, a runner on first base streaked for second. If the opposition failed to crack the code, their frustration might have been attributable to two explanations. Either Father Matthew was bestowing some sort of benediction on the proceedings, or he was invoking Divine Providence to aid the fortunes of his team.
The assistance of Divine Providence was at times much in demand. Our second baseman, not renowned for his fleetness of foot when called upon to steal a base, seemed more preoccupied with a sense of self-preservation than with the good fortunes of his team. At such times, his instinct for self-survival simply overwhelmed his competitive spirit. Somewhere between first and second base he threw up his hands flailing in desperation to cover his head to fend off the catcher's throw streaking from behind home plate. To the dismay and amusement of his teammates, he stumbled toward second base like a lumbering ox on his way to the slaughterhouse. While he seldom reached second base ahead of the ball, his cranium remained intact for the duration of his playing days. Perhaps it was an oversight that such manly feats were not immortalized in the form of a plaque bearing the image of a runner breaking for second base with his hands shielding his head and an inscription reading, "Divine Providence assists those who assist themselves."
The maxim that only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun is not inclusive enough. So do little league baseball players. Our practices were conducted in the middle of blazing summer afternoons. Since we did not have the benefit of sophisticated sun block lotions, we simply sweated it out.
A prelude to our practices was a friendly competition know as the "grandstand climb." The grandstand climb provided a formidable challenge guaranteed to get the glands pumping. A thick wire mesh anchored to a wooden base ran from the bottom of the grandstand to its top. The object of the competition was to see who could scale the wire façade to its highest point. In order to do so, competitors approached the façade with a headlong sprint and then at the precise moment hurled themselves onto the mesh to begin the ascent. In one continuous burst of motion and energy, they dug their spiked shoes, with sparks flying, into the wire and clawed their way toward the top with a force strong enough to send a ripple of waves across the mesh.
Once they had gotten as far as they could go, they began their descent in a deliberate backwards motion like a man descending a ladder. Back on the ground they inhaled great gulps of air and felt the sting of perspiration seep into their eyes. The wire mesh had left deep purple indentations and an insistent throbbing in their hands.
Part of practice was aimed at a drill designed to hone the catching
skills of the outfielders. While we settled in the far reaches
of center field, Father Matthew launched a barrage of fly balls
into the heavens. This was done with a fungo bat, a specially
designed elongated club shaped to propel the ball upwards. Ascending
rapidly into a high arc, the balls seemed to hang motionless like
tiny white dots in the sky and then began to plummet like rockets
into the leather webbing of
our gloves. We called them "dependers" because in our imaginary scenarios the outcome of the game depended on whether we made the catch at the crucial moment. Such a challenge appealed to our inventiveness.
Some of us emulated the great Willie Mays and his basket catch
tucking the glove to our midriff to catch the ball at the waist
and then firing it toward the infield. The more fearless of us
attempted the basket catch in reverse by turning our backs to
the ball and tucking the glove
at the base of the spine. The result was often painful when we miscalculated the ball's trajectory and felt the lancing impact of the
ball against our spine.
We sometimes varied our style with the under-the-leg maneuver. We executed it by resting our weight on one foot, raising the other leg into an inverted V and attempting to catch the ball with the glove under the V. From a distance our antics and the muted pop of the balls into leather seemed like a pantomime of grace and, at times, clumsy ineptitude.
Games for the adult teams were reserved for Sunday afternoons when the local ballpark became the focus of community pride and pregame preparation. While the opposing teams took their turns in the batting cages, some of us waited for the errant foul balls that came looping over the grandstand into the deep grass. Each ball carried a fifty-cent bounty for its return to the playing field. At times some of us chose sentiment over profit. Some of those balls found a place on our shelves at home alongside the treasured memorabilia of Tops baseball cards.
Other pregame preparation took place at the concession stand. Ravenous fans, in keeping with tradition, demanded the kind of cuisine synonymous with the great American pastime. That demand was met by the concession stand. Ours, painted in a muted dark green, was built on the back side at the base of the grandstand. A sliding wooden panel barred from the inside was loosened to accommodate the customers. If the stand's subdued exterior appeared a bit drab, its contents compensated for it. Inside was a larder groaning with a rich assortment of candies, soft drinks and boiled hotdogs tucked into buns dripping bright yellow mustard down the side. On the shelves, rows of Baby Ruth, Butterfinger and Snickers bars stacked up against each other to offer the kind of sticky sweetness that lodged like mortar in your teeth. To accommodate the thirsty, a steel tub of ice water held bobbing bottles of soft drinks. Of these, only the Nehi brand lorded its superiority over its rivals, whose offerings were but a mere token of competition. Its ruby-red strawberry soda inside the familiar rippled glass bottle burst into your throat with a potency that shocked your taste buds into a sensory rush of flavor rich enough to savor again and again, its aftertaste like a long sweet goodbye. It was like a first love. It held a special affection that no rival could ever match again.
As game time drew near, rows of automobiles in single file inched their way up the gravel road toward the gate. From there they formed into rows along the first base and third base lines, which gave them a vantage point directly behind the dugouts of the opposing teams. Wooden posts with wire screens ran from the main grandstand down both baselines to protect vulnerable windshields from foul balls and errant throws. Such proximity to the action gave hecklers easy access to cast their barbs at opposing teams.
However, the true "artists of invective" seemed to
gather in the main grandstand directly behind home plate. Such
proximity made an easy path to the sensitive ears of the umpire.
Umpire baiting, as integral to the game as the American hotdog,
assumed a ritualistic distinctiveness of
its own.
Local fans had a special affinity for the salted sunflower seeds sold at the concession stand. The seeds, which had to be cracked open inside the mouth to extract the kernel, came in small paper packets that tore open at the corners. A novice in the art of sunflower seed eating found it to be a formidable challenge. The older generation, however, had honed the skill to perfection. With a staccato-like precision and speed the shells shot from their mouths into small piles around their feet while the epithets they hurled like spears found their mark in the umpire's hide. Their insults often formed a strange hybrid of local German dialect and English. Thus "Kill the umpire" translated into "Dawd schalgen (beat to death) the umpire or "Mach hea (make dead) the umpire." Other colorful epithets became part of the repertoire as the game progressed and the piles of seeds grew higher.
Each game has its own dynamic, its own character and its own drama. Our house was close enough to the ballpark, so that we could hear those sudden outbursts of drama when the home team scored a run, hit a homer or made a special play in the field. Those outbursts came in a sudden cacophony of blaring horns, raised voices and the thundering of feet pounding in unison on the grandstand bleachers. At such moments a quickening in the blood sent me racing to the scene of the drama unfolding in the ballpark.
On one such occasion I witnessed an event unique in the annals of local legend. The home team was engaged in a stalemated struggle in the late innings of the game and threatening to score with men on base. As good fortune would have it, our mightiest slugger was due at the plate.
Would it be another Casey at the Bat, or would the locals tip a brew in tribute to a great victory in the taverns that night? The opposition adhered to conventional baseball wisdom and began to deliver the pitch outside of the strike zone to walk the batter intentionally. What happened next became the topic of discussion in the taverns for years thereafter. Our version of Casey stepped forward and delivered a whack that shot the ball toward the heavens in left field. Stunned silence and disbelief soon broke into pandemonium. This time Casey had not struck out! I cannot attest to it as a fact, but I would wager that many a glass was raised in tribute that night in Mattern's Blue Room.Maybe that homerun was the last call to glory for the old park. It is a truism, of course, that the only permanence is change. Maybe small town teams disbanded with the advent of television, easy access to automobiles, and an evolving pop culture that offered too many affordable distractions. The old ballpark fell into disrepair. Weeds choked off the infield. Holes and rocks pockmarked the outfield. Rain washed away the chalk baselines almost overnight. The old grandstand in my hometown was razed years ago.
Still, sometimes on a warm summer night or on a hot Sunday afternoon, I feel a sudden urge to stop behind where third base used to be. Maybe if I look hard enough, I'll see Father Matthew dig into his pocket just one more time to give the steal sign.
Reprinted with permission of Emmons County Record.


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You only get one best friend in life. Or not.
So now I remember why this post sat in draft and I never gotten to publishing it. Not because I'm not a good person to not have a bestfriend, but what does having a bestfriend even mean?
Is it growing up closely with someone? Is it having a strong bond with a person who understands you well and have been there for you all this time and vice versa?
I'm not sure. For me, he/she just gets me, in most ways, if not all.
You see, the thing is, you surely love your bestfriend, right? I do love my friends. And I only have a few of them and I kinda find it extremely hard to choose the best friend from a pool of best friends. I don't know where I am going with this post anymore yada yada haha.
Here's a photo of me and my best friend since high school.


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Tim Summervill is a fourth generation farmer. He knows what it is like as a child, watching your dad work on the farm.
This year it was time for Summervill to have his own helper, his 3-year-old daughter, Shelby.
This year Shelby added style to Summervill's beef herd by choosing the calves ear tag colors.
The heifers are pretty in bright pink, and the steers sport florescent green tags.
"They're her favorite colors right now," Summervill said. "They're not usually that colorful."
Summervill said Shelby and his 15-month-old son, Trent, enjoy going with him to feed cows. He said Trent cannot say cow yet, but he moos at them.
Because farming is something Summervill loves, he hopes his kids will grow to love it too and continue to trail him around the farm.
"If it's something they want to do in the future it's up to them," he said. "It's a hard life but rewarding."
Summervill is about 2/3 of the way through calving. He has lost a few because of cold weather and has sheltered many calves from the cold in the barn and heated office.
He tries to calve his heifers in January, so he has time to watch them and make sure they have few complications as they calve for the first time. Because of corn planting, he times his cows to be done calving by April.


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Apparently, it's safe to set 50 to 60 Christmas trees on fire on a frozen lake.
They do it every February on Lake Champlain to celebrate the start of Great Ice.
The two-weekend winter festival features skating on the ice, racing and trekking across the ice, fishing through the ice ... you get the idea.
The setting: the 20 to 30 inches of ice that forms on City Bay, off the shore of North Hero, Vermont, 100 kilometres south of Montreal.
The Christmas trees are saved by villagers after the holidays and brought out onto the ice for the bonfire, along with branches and logs.
'"It's a magical moment and quite impressive — I've seen the flames 50 feet in the air," said Bob Camp, one of the organizers of Great Ice.
Some enjoy the show with drink in hand at the 121-year-old North Hero House, a restaurant and bar whose pier received steamboats in the late-1800s.
Great Ice, now in its sixth year, was born out of a desire to get people out and enjoying the snowy winter, said Camp, co-owner with his wife, Beverley, of Hero's Welcome general store, a hub of the Champlain Islands.
"It's isolated here in a most spectacular way," added Camp, a former Montrealer who opened the eclectic store/bakery/café 20 years ago.
"You can walk down the ice on the lake at night and you can feel like Samuel de Champlain. During the day on a walk on the ice, you can look out and not see anything. Not a person, not a house. You can hear your own heartbeat."
From humble beginnings, the event now attracts up to 2,000 people, with visitors coming from Montreal, Boston, New York City and Philadelphia.
This year, Great Ice takes place Feb. 8-10 and Feb. 16-17, with most events free or almost free.
Other highlights include:
Over and Back Trek to Knight Island. After a $7-per-person pancake breakfast, participants — some years, up to 1,000 people — set off across the ice on cross-country skis, skates, snowshoes or in boots, with kids in toboggans in tow. Their destination: Knight Island in Lake Champlain, almost three kilometres from the shore. After warming up with hot chocolate on the 180-acre island (a Vermont state park), everybody turns around and treks back.
F-f-frozen Chosen Regatta. It's a race involving "human-powered machines" on the ice, many of them low-budget inventions created for the event. The machines feature wheels, blades or studded tires. Some do the race on bikes.
Ice fishing derbies for children and adults.
Sled-dog demonstrations and rides.
This year, for the first time, marathon speed-skating, organized by Marathon Skating International, will be part of Great Ice.
You can watch speedskaters in 21-kilometre and 42-km races on a one-kilometre oval on Lake Champlain. Or bring your skates and take part in one-km or five-km fun races. For the one-km and five-km events, participants can wear hockey, figure or Nordic skates.
Marathon Skating organizes events across the eastern U.S. and Canada, usually on artificial ice. But participants sometimes venture on to natural ice, including the L'Assomption River in Joliette.
On perfect ice, the leaders can finish a 21-km race in 37 minutes and a 42-km one in an hour and 40 minutes, said Neal Hundt, a speed-skating marathoner and an organizer of the Great Ice races. "On a lake, you have to be more cautious because of natural ice cracks and uneven surfaces," he added. But it'll be fun to watch, nonetheless.
How to get there
Avoid the busy Lacolle border crossing. Starting on Montreal's South Shore, take Highway 15 south until you reach Exit 6 (Lacolle, Hemmingford). Take Highway 202 east until Noyan, then take Highway 225 south to the border-crossing at Noyan/Alburgh, Vt.
On the U.S. side, take Border Rd. for about 2.5 kilometres until you reach Route 2, the Lake Champlain Islands' main highway.
Where to stay
Find accommodations (inns, cottages and bed and breakfasts) at the Champlain Islands Chamber of Commerce (www.champlainislands.com) and at www.vermontvacation.com, the state's official tourism site.
More information
For information about Great Ice, call the Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce at (802) 372-8400 or Hero's Welcome General Store at (802) 372-4161.
Visit www.champlainislands.com, for the full Great Ice schedule. For additional information about speed-skating events, visit marathonskating.org.


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The Bingham family thought their medical nightmare was over when their eldest daughter, Sierra, got a heart transplant 6 years ago – but the nightmare had only just begun.
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This April 2010 accident report is provided by the National Transportation Safety Board. Published as an educational tool, it is intended to help pilots learn from the misfortunes of others.
Aircraft: Beech Debonair. Injuries: None. Location: Burbank, Calif. Aircraft damage: Substantial
What reportedly happened: According to the pilot, the airplane was in a 15° banked turn and descending through 5,000 feet when it encountered turbulence. The tail started to flutter. The pilot said the airspeed was between 155 and 160 mph. He quickly reduced power in accordance with the airplane's Pilot Information Manual. This stopped the vibration.
The rest of the approach and landing at the airport was uneventful. After the flight the pilot noticed wrinkles in the ruddervator. A mechanic determined that the left ruddervator had a cracked front spar and that the left stabilizer had wrinkled top skin and a cracked rear spar, which was bent up 5 inches.
The maximum structural cruising airspeed for this model variant of the Beech 35 series is 161 mph, and the maneuvering airspeed is 131 mph. By definition, maximum maneuvering speed is that speed at which full and abrupt control surface deflection or any turbulence encounter will result in an aerodynamic stall before the structural limit load will be exceeded and damage will occur. Above this speed it is possible to incur structural damage with maneuvering inputs and/or significant turbulence encounters. The pilot was flying above maneuvering speed but within the green airspeed arc when the airplane encountered the turbulence. The pilot stated that he had no reason to believe that the airplane would encounter turbulence.
Probable cause: The airplane's encounter with turbulence while at an airspeed above maneuvering airspeed, which exceeded the limit load of the stabilizers and ruddervators.
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see histomonasmeleagridis.
chicken cecal worms
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cecal coccidiosis
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cecal intussusception
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As announced in this week's weekly update there are changes on the way L10n repackages are being done.
What has it changed?
The L10n repackages are being driven by buildbot and are being pushed at the usual place:
The old way of driving the L10n repackages with tinderbox will be pushing the repackages in here:
Where are the logs?
The tinderbox reports will be keep on being reported to "Mozilla-l10n" and "Mozilla-l10n-locale" but the header of the columns will change to "platform_l10n_nightly"
The old tinderbox machines will keep on reporting for a while to "MozillaTest" with the original names
How many times do we generate the locales?
Every 4 hours starting at 9AM PDT.
We kept 9AM for now as the "usual reference" time for an L10n nightly build. With tinderbox-driven L10n builds we could only say "it should be generated sometime after 9AM". We can now say when to happen
Restating briefly some of the benefits
The l10n repackages will now be driven by buildbot rather than tinderbox. This switch will give us more flexibility on how and when the L10n repackages happen and we will be able to trigger other steps.
Another benefit is that we will be able to run L10n repackages in parallel which will allow us to scale since the number of locales has kept on growing and our builds did not
If more interest in the benefits, please read some of the previous blogs or let me know that would be good to have a well documented post
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November 7, 2008
Three professors from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law will be invested with endowed professorships at a ceremony presided over by President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., today at 5 p.m. in the College of Law, room 405.
Luz M. Molina, J.D., is named the Jack Nelson Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law; Mary G. Algero, J.D., is named the Warren E. Mouledoux Distinguished Professor of Professional Responsibility; and Dominique M. Custos, LL.M., Ph.D., is named Judge John D. Wessel Distinguished Professor of Social Justice.
Professor Molina first joined the clinical faculty in December 1981 for one year, permanently returning in 1990. She has spent a large part of her practicing years serving the needs of poverty-stricken individuals in the areas of domestic law, children in need of care proceedings, civil rights and immigration law. She is involved in various efforts to bring systemic changes to the legal profession, such as the creation of a mandatory statewide child advocacy program. Her areas of interest include justice and law, social justice, ethics and the practical application of clinical education pedagogy.
Stuart H. Smith fully funded the Jack Nelson Distinguished Clinical Professorship in June 2008. The professorship is named in memory of one of Smith's mentors at the College of Law, John P. "Jack" Nelson, Jr., who died in 2006, and was an alumnus of the College of Law. He not only served on the faculty for decades, beginning in 1955, but he was also responsible for the development of the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center and served as its director for many years.
Professor Custos earned her doctoral degree, summa cum laude, from Panthéon-Sorbonne University, after having graduated as the valedictorian of her public law master's degree class from the same university. Custos' teaching experience uniquely includes courses falling into both common law and civil law curricula.
The Judge John D. Wessel Distinguished Professorship of Social Justice was established in 2004 with a gift from Wessel, a 1968 law alumnus and a circuit judge in the 15th Judicial Circuit Court for Palm Beach County in Florida since 1979.
Professor Algero served as the editor-in-chief of the Loyola Law Review. After graduation, she practiced law for four years with the New Orleans law firms of McGlinchey, Stafford, Mintz, Cellini & Lang and Pulaski, Gieger & Laborde, primarily in the areas of aviation, admiralty and products liability. Since she began teaching at Loyola in 1993, Algero has directed and taught in the legal research and writing programs and directs the Westerfield Fellows Program. She teaches courses in civil procedure, the legal profession and advanced legal writing.
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Surprisingly, another delivery of parts arrived late this afternoon. 6 new VDO Vision gauges to replace the original Smiths fitted in the Jag and a temp & oil pressure sender.
I originally priced doing the conversion of the original speedo, tacho and replacement of the senders for the other gauges but it worked out far more cost effective to replace the lot with these. They're the same size as the original factory gauges and are a similar style but will look cleaner and require no modifications to work with the L98 & 6L80E set up.


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she was awakened by her father when Caylee disappeared. They could do that, Burdick wrote, by demonstrating (if possible) what was actually happening (I guess that means user activity and Internet history) on the computer during the time frame." In response, lead sheriff's Investigator Yuri Melich sent Burdick a spreadsheet that, our investigation found, contained less than 2 percent of the computers Internet activity that day. Melich and Osborne relied on Internet data from the computers Internet Explorer browser one Casey Anthony apparently stopped using months earlier. Since March, she preferred the computers Mozilla Firefox browser, as investigators already knew. The spreadsheet sent to Burdick included 17 vague entries from the Internet Explorer browser history on June 16, 2008, and failed to list 1,247 entries recorded on the Mozilla Firefox browser that day -- including the search for foolproof suffocation. The mistake meant prosecutors went to trial unaware of 98.7 percent of the browser history records created that day. Even the scant data the Sheriff's Office did manage to find showed computer activity inconsistent with the claim that Casey Anthony was awakened that morning to learn her daughter was missing and then drowned. In his powerful opening statement, Baez described the resulting scene between father and daughter, after Caylee's wet, limp body was recovered. "He immediately began to yell at (Casey). Look what you've done! Your mother will never forgive you and you will go to jail for child neglect for the rest of your fricking life." So, the jury was told, George Anthony disposed of the body and both he and Casey re-launched their lives in a secretly shared compact of denial and deceit. "This is strange," Baez told jurors. "This is bizarre. This is the life of Casey Anthony." No, prosecutors countered, this was about the murder of Caylee Anthony one accomplished, they claimed, with poison, suffocation and plastic bags. Had Casey Anthony testified, as Burdick said she expected she would, prosecutors wanted to use the browser information to impeach her. But Casey Anthony never took the stand and the state did not elicit from any other witness even the skeletal browser evidence it did have. Melich's spreadsheet does show activity from Casey Anthony's password-protected account beginning at 7:52 a.m., indicating that she was on MySpace and researching sexy costumes for "shot girls" to wear at her then-boyfriend's nightclub events. But none of the 1,247 overlooked Firefox browser actions that day -- including the potentially incriminating search that afternoon -- appear in the easily extractable Explorer browser files that Melich relied upon for his timeline. Investigators knew Casey Anthony preferred the family computer's Mozilla Firefox browser, but they previously had trouble decoding it, sheriffs officials said. In 2008, in a deleted section of Firefox browser records, they found searches from March 2008 for "how to make chloroform, neck breaking, death and other terms after they requested that Osborn search the hard drive for the word chloroform. That request came after the Sheriffs Office found traces of chloroform in the trunk where, they claimed, Casey Anthony hid her daughter's body. But when Melich assembled his 114-line spreadsheet in 2011, he transferred data from the Internet Explorer browser that Casey Anthony rarely, if ever, used after March 6, 2008. Melich and Osborne declined comment, and the then-head of the computer crimes section, Sgt. Kevin Stenger, has retired and could not be reached for comment. But in a Sept. 6, 2012, email exchange with a Phoenix attorney who obtained the browser histories in August through a public records request, Osborne offered this explanation for the oversight: "I have a very good reason why (the foolproof suffocation search) wasn't brought up during trial. I was never asked to conduct a search for 'suffocation' and the word does not appear in the Internet artifacts we prepared for trial, unfortunately." In a statement to Local 6 on Monday, the Sheriff's Office stood by Osborne and echoed her defense: The Firefox record which contains the Google search for suffication was neither extracted nor examined. A search for the keyword suffocation was never requested from any OCSO investigator or the prosecutors office at any time during the investigation; therefore, this Internet record was inadvertently not discovered by Detective Osborne. The agency has confidence in her knowledge and expertise in this very complicated field of computer forensics. When it comes to blame, the prosecution notes it requested the information from the Sheriffs Office; the Sheriffs Office states it was never asked to search for suffocation. But both agree on this point: No one can say for certain whether the jury would have reached a different verdict if the evidence had not been overlooked. Bringing the evidence to light Repeated requests by Local 6 beginning in 2009 for a copy of the hard drive that contained the Internet histories were denied by the state attorney's office, which claimed -correctly, it turned out -- it did not have the data in its possession. Sheriff's computer investigators copied the entire hard drive from the Anthony's HP desktop computer after seizing it in July 2008 and gave prosecutors vague analysis of its activity and fragments of a minuscule amount of the vast information on them. The sheriff turned over the original hard drive to the Baez team in 2008 after it had been copied, Baez said. After Baez revealed the "foolproof suffocation" search in his book, Phoenix attorney Isabel Humphrey requested and received a copy of the browsers histories from the Sheriff's Office. Baez's theory that George Anthony did the search while contemplating suicide "was as crazy as the nanny story," Humphrey told Local 6, referring to Casey Anthony's original claim that a babysitter had kidnapped Caylee. She obtained the data in August and turned it over to John Goetz, a retired engineer and computer expert in Connecticut. The pair had become acquainted online while following and discussing the case through the amateur sleuthing web community, Webslueths. Using free software available on the Internet since 2004, Goetz said it took him less than two hours to extract more than 35,000 records detailing the computer's online activities from 2004 until it was seized in July 2008. "Once you have converted the Internet history records, it really doesn't take more than 15 to 20 minutes to look through the entire Internet history for June 16," said Humphrey. "And I would think if there was one day you would pick to look at, that would be the day." Goetz and Humphrey homed in on June 16, 2008, and quickly discovered the misspelled search for "fool-proof suffication." "It shows you a state of mind that was present on the actual afternoon it appears the child had died," Humphrey said. "So I think it would be important regardless of who it was making the searches, but in this case it's certainly important that it appears to be Casey Anthony herself." What they found astounded them and left at least one crucial question unanswered: How could prosecutors have not used this at trial? Searching for that answer, they turned the browser history files over to Local 6.
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After authenticating the records and interviewing defense, prosecution and Sheriffs Office sources, it became clear: two citizen-investigators accomplished in less than three hours what an army of Orange County investigators and prosecutors failed to do in three years: uncover in detail what Casey Anthony was doing online the day Caylee died. Of course, unbeknownst to investigators and prosecutors, it was also uncovered many months earlier by someone else: Jose Baez. The defense: George did it "I don't understand how no one ever knew about this evidence," Baez told Local 6. "We were keeping it close to the vest and ready to counterpunch in the trial, and it never came out." The defense's still-cocked counterpunch: George Anthony did it. After Baez's computer expert found the June 16 search for foolproof suffocation" (Baez said he cannot reveal exactly when that was), Baez said he suspected the state knew about it, too, and was going to surprise the defense with it at trial. In his revealing book, "Presumed Guilty," Baez accused investigators of "pulling a fast one" by concealing the vast majority of the June 16 computer history from the defense. Mostly vague references to that day's activity and some images were included in the documents turned over to the defense by the state in the discovery process. What our reporting confirmed happened never occurred to Baez: that, in this small but crucial area, the investigation was so lacking it failed to discover the search. But if they had, Baez said, he was ready. "It turned out to be a huge bombshell that we thought would be the knockout blow in this case," Baez said, anticipating the defense would knock out the state by arguing the search showed George Anthony contemplating suicide, not Casey Anthony researching how to kill. "It appears suicide had long been on George's mind," Baez wrote in Presumed Guilty, noting George Anthony attempted suicide in January 2009. Asked by Local 6 if the foolproof suffocation search and visit to the site discussing ways to kill showed consciousness of guilt, Baez said, "To me, it tells me someone's feeling very guilty of something and is considering suicide. To be considering suicide the day Caylee died was huge for us." Asked if that meant he believed whoever did that search was responsible for Caylee's death, Baez said, "I think 'responsible' is too strong a word." His book explores various scenarios, all pointing to George Anthony. But, in doing so, Baez relies on several assumptions that are refuted by evidence developed and confirmed by Humphrey, Goetz and Local 6. The defense's flawed timeline As part of the book's "concrete proof" it was George Anthony and not Casey Anthony doing the foolproof suffocation search that afternoon, Baez notes correctly it was immediately preceded by a login to an AOL Instant Messenger account. "Right after someone logged in to instant messenger," Baez writes in his book, "the first search was to Google" for foolproof suffocation. That much is confirmed by the evidence. But then Baez errs in writing, "George had an AOL Instant Messenger account. Casey didn't." In fact, Baez now concedes, Casey Anthony did have such an account, known as AIM. And Goetz recovered encrypted data showing it was Casey's Anthonys AIM account screen name casey o marie and not George Anthonys that logged in just before the foolproof suffocation search. The same AIM account was used to chat on the computer at 7:56 a.m., and was logged in at the outset of other Casey-related Mozilla Firefox browsing session on that day and several others. That June 16 AIM chat was clearly between Casey Anthony (casey o marie) and a friend known on AIM as WitePlayboi. "So what r u up 2," WitePlayboi asked at 8:01 that fateful morning. "Not a whole lot. Checking up on all the MySpace/Facebook hoopla," casey o marie replies 30 seconds later. Baez said he has corrected the error in subsequent editions of the book. But, he insists, there is still plenty of evidence that it was George Anthony doing the search that afternoon. To support that theory, though, he has to discredit the times logged in the browsers software. Baez claims the foolproof suffocation search occurred at 1:51 p.m., not 2:51 p.m., and that the times on the browser history extracted from the sheriffs copy of the hard drive failed to take into account the beginning of daylight saving time in March 2008. A 2:51 p.m. search time makes it difficult for Baez to argue George Anthony was responsible because George Anthony claimed he left the house around 2:30 for a work shift that began at 3 p.m. In addition, a detailed comparison of the browser times to independent evidence -- some direct, some circumstantial -- corroborates the contention that the search occurred at 2:51 p.m. and not 1:51 p.m., as Baez claims. Consider: When Osborn first seized the computer and started it on July, 18, 2008 at 12:13 p.m., she testified, the computer's time was "right on the money." On June 16, at 11:27 a.m., the browser logged a photo accessed through Facebook, then a visit to the Photobucket photo sharing site. Eighteen seconds after the photo was accessed in Facebook it was uploaded to Caseys Photobucket account, according to Photobucket records subpoenaed by the Sheriff's Office in 2008. If the browser time were incorrect as Baez claims, Photobuckets records would have placed that activity at 10:27 a.m. (Melich's spreadsheet prepared for the prosecution inaccurately states the photo showing the inside of a lounge where Caseys boyfriend held weekly nightclub events -- was uploaded at 9:27 a.m., failing to note Photobucket's record was based on Mountain Time.) Cellphone call and text records also align with the times of computer activity logged by the browser, but only if one accepts the later 2:51 p.m. time for the foolproof suffocation search. Most strikingly, the browsing session that included that search logs its last activity, involving MySpace, at 2:52 and 55 seconds. Cellphone records show Casey Anthony answered a call from former boyfriend Jesse Grund that was logged at 2:52:53.
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They spoke for nearly 12 minutes, the call ending at the 3:04:06 -- the exact second the cell records show a call from George Anthony to Casey Anthony's cell, indicating she disconnected with Grund to take a 26-second call from her father. In his book, Baez said the call at 3:04 p.m. is "exactly when (George) would have arrived at work." Records also show George used his cell to call his house landline at 3:02 p.m., indicating he was not home at the time. It was during that 3:04 p.m. call, Baez writes, that Casey Anthony claims her father told her, "I took care of everything," meaning he disposed of the body and warned her not to tell her mother, Cindy Anthony, about Caylee's death. Thirty minutes later, Casey Anthony called her then-boyfriend, Tony Lazzaro. Baez suspected the state did not want to introduce at trial cell and computer records because they refuted something George Anthony had insisted on all along: that he is certain Casey Anthony and Caylee left the house at 12:50 that afternoon. As Local 6 first revealed in 2009, Casey's cellphone indicated it was at or near the house that entire day, until she headed toward Lazzaro's apartment at 4:11 p.m. And the newly uncovered browser histories further indicate Casey Anthony was at the house past 12:50 that afternoon. Her password-protected computer account activates the browser at 1:39 p.m., revealing activity associated with her AIM account and MySpace and Facebook. The last browser activity during that session is at 1:42 p.m.; two minutes later, Casey Anthony calls her friend, Amy Huizenga, and they talk until 2:21 p.m. Twenty-eight minutes later, browser histories show, Casey Anthony's account on the computer is back online just before the search for foolproof suffocation. Later, in testimony, neither Huizenga nor Grund recalled anything unusual about Casey's tone during those phone calls. Questions remain None of this, of course, is proof that Casey Anthony killed Caylee. A jury has found her not guilty and the Constitution generally precludes her from being tried again for the same crime. While the state now says it would have argued the search showed her interest in killing with poison, suffocation and plastic bags, the defense would have countered the computer user was researching suicide and, as Baez wrote, George Anthony "was the only one out there trying to kill himself." The timeline could support one of any number of other possibilities, including one Baez did not raise, but could have used to his advantage: that Caylee did, in fact, die in an accidental drowning and George and Casey Anthony agreed they would conceal the death. But, after George Anthony left to dispose of the body and go to work, Casey Anthony went online to consider suicide that afternoon. Still, why she would search for "foolproof suffocation" and not, say, "how to commit suicide," is another unanswerable question and one of many. Baez concedes the records are open to interpretation, and notes browser data alone cannot conclusively prove who was using a computer at any given time. And, he stressed, several of his experts independently confirmed the search in question occurred an hour earlier than the records provided to Local 6. While he argued in his book someone "signed on to" George's AIM account that afternoon, the records show it was Casey Anthonys account. Informed of that, Baez now notes the login may have been automatic whenever someone started a browser. Even so, browser records indicate Casey's password-protected account is the only one that generated a login to her AIM account, as it did just before the foolproof suffocation search. George Anthonys attorney, Mark Lippman, said he would relay a request to George Anthony for comment on what happened that afternoon, but neither has responded. In our October interview, Baez at first agreed George Anthony was at work by 3, but -- after Local 6 challenged his timeline -- he noted last week his assumption was based on work schedules, not time-stamped cards, and on George Anthony's unverified testimony. He also said his expert found some computer system files with times that support his contention the browser's reported times were off by an hour. But those records have not been released and, therefore, cannot be verified by Local 6. So, 16 months after a verdict that shocked the nation, the case continues to leave heads shaking. How could a massive investigation fail to uncover crucial evidence created during the most important hours of its most important day? And why didn't prosecutors request the records sooner, making a more forceful, specific, wide-ranging demand for every byte of data on the computer browser, then followed up more vociferously, utilizing the vast array of experts and resources available to the sheriff's and state attorney's offices? The incoming state attorney, Ashton, said he "can't think of a policy or procedure I could put in place to make sure this wouldn't happen again." He repeatedly cited Burdick's asking the Sheriff's Office for June 16 browser data, saying, "It appears Linda's question covered the material." But that request came less than two months before jury selection in a case that had consumed investigators and prosecutors for nearly three years by then. The Sheriffs Office said its computer forensics section, where Osborne is still employed, is walking away from it knowing there are things we can do better in the future. The sheriffs computer examiners had other problems with evidence. The times associated with the chloroform searches in March 2008 and produced by the Sheriffs Office were, indeed, off by an hour, because the software they used to extract it did not take into account the change to daylight saving time on March 9, 2008. Also, in trial, the sheriffs independent computer consultant inaccurately testified the browser made 84 visits in March 2008 to a page that showed a recipe for making chloroform. The defense proved the software was flawed and there was only one visit a major blow to a state case that rested on circumstantial and scientific evidence. Still, the Sheriffs Office stands by its work. We have reviewed this incident and have confidence in (Osbornes) ability to provide current and future computer forensic analysis, the sheriffs statement read. We have reviewed our procedures and based on the needs of a future investigation, we will seek outside assistance and expertise as deemed appropriate on a case by case basis. For Humphrey and Goetz, who easily uncovered from afar what the Sheriffs Office and prosecutors were unable to find for years, the failure to do whatever was necessary to get to those browser records still leaves them astounded. "I'm just really surprised by that," said Humphrey."I don't want to comment on their competence. I think the prosecutor and Sheriffs Office both had a huge job before them on this case and they both obviously worked very hard. But, asked if she would have done more to make sure the state had the entire computer browsing history from that crucial day, Humphrey said, Certainly, if I had been in the prosecutor's office, I would have." 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Pool Cleaner Tune-Up - Polaris Type Pool Cleaner repair
Pressure type pool cleaners are those that operate from water being pushed to the cleaner, usually from a booster pump. Mostly used on in ground pools, pressure pool cleaners include Polaris 180 / 280 / 380 / 480 and Letro JetVac, Legend and Platinum Cleaners. Hayward Turbo, Viio and Phantom cleaners are also pressure cleaners that operate with a 3/4 hp booster pump to power the hydraulic power train.
Also in the category of pressure side pool cleaners are what I call the Low Pressure pool cleaners. These operate internally identically, but do not require a booster pump or even a dedicated cleaner line. These cleaners tend to need more repair and tune-ups, because they usually are not controlled by a time-clock, so they run much more often (too much). Low Pressure Pool Cleaners include Polaris 65 / 165 / 360 and Letro Legend II pool cleaners.
Here's the steps involved in a Top to Bottom pressure side pool cleaner tune-up.
1. Check the water pressure / flowrate to the pool cleaner. One method of checking flow supply to the cleaner is to count wheel revolutions. Place a small mark on the edge of the tire, and count the revolutions for a period of time. 28-32 revolutions per minute would be ideal. Much slower than that and you may need to find out where the pressure loss is. A more advanced method of checking proper pressure is to remove the feed hose from the cleaner and attach a polaris pressure tester. This has a gauge on it, and most booster pump driven cleaners operate best at around 30 psi.
2. Check the entire hose for leaks. With the cleaner running, gently pull up the hose out of the water, checking each section for bulging, splits or leaks that reduce the volume of water reaching the cleaner. Swivels in the hose may dribble some water normally, but should not be spraying. Back-up valves should spray water every 3 minutes or so, and in between not be leaking. Wall fitting connections can also lose pressure, and sometimes this is intentional - adjusting for cleaners over-powered by large booster pumps.
3. Check the Hose Floats. they should be...floating. Many older designs became water logged and would not keep the hose up on the water surface. If your hose is dragging behind your pool cleaner, or your cleaner is getting tangled, check / replace / reposition some hose floats to keep the hose up and out of the way.
4. Check the Wheel Wobble. Most pressure cleaners that roll around the bottom have wheels, with wheel bearings in the center. Holding the cleaner in your hand, the side-to-side play in one of the large wheels should be only 1/4". If you can wobble the wheels greater than this, you may need to replace the wheel bearings. Also important during a tune-up is to adjust the wheel axles. Removing the top to the side, a screwdriver can be inserted behind the wheel to loosen two screws. This allows the axle to slide to make the optimum contact with either the belts (belt driven models, like Polaris 380), or the driveshaft used on Polaris 180 and 280 models. Tighten the screws back down on the axle plate to lock the adjustment in place.
5. Check the Tires, Rotate if needed. Your rubbery tires should have fairly square corners. If they are rounded off, you may be losing traction and speed. Rounding can be caused by worn out wheel bearings, rough pool surfaces or over-use of your pool cleaner. On Polaris 180 / 280 models, two of the plastic wheels are making contact with the steel driveshaft. The inside of these wheels have teeth to mate up to the gear-like driveshaft. If wheels have been out of adjustment, or sand and gravel has been a problem in the pool, the plastic teeth on the inside of the wheel can break off or wear down. You can rotate the back right wheel, which is not gear driven, up to the front to extend overall wheel life.
6. Check the Sweeper Hose. The tail should have a soft, lazy back and forth motion. An adjustment knob will allow you to control the flow. Too much action will wear out the tail wear rings faster, and may bring the tail up off the floor, where we want it. Inspect your tail wear rings, and replace as needed. They are much cheaper than having to replace the entire tail! If you develop a hole in the tail, you can slide the smaller wear sleeves down over small holes, which can buy you some time on the tail replacement.
7. Check the Venturi Jets. Remove the debris bag, and take a careful look inside the cleaner throat. There will be 2 or 3 jets down at the bottom of the throat, that spray water up into the debris bag. Make sure they all are equally operating, sometimes debris can find it's way inside and partially clog one of these jets. With the bag off, and the pool cleaner sitting on deck, these jets will normally shoot 20 ft in the air.
8. Check the Thrust Jet. With the Also a good time to check the thrust jet, at the rear of the cleaner. Out of the pool, this jet should spray water 10-15 feet behind the cleaner. The position of the jet will affect the pattern of cleaning around the pool. Default setting is at 11:00, but for an opposite cleaning pattern, set at 1:00 or even 2 o'clock.
9. Check the Turbine Jet. Most pressure cleaners have a turbine, or a paddle wheel that is turned by a stream of water spraying at high speed and volume. Back-up valves work the same way. Inside of a polaris, for example, the WMS (water management system) pushes the water through a small jet that sprays the paddle wheel (turbine). It can happen that this small jet becomes clogged with bits of debris. Easily cleanable with a bobby pin or other small tool.
10. Check the Belts. On Polaris 380 models, belts are used to turn the wheels. These belts should be snug, but not too tight. Pushing down with your finger, no more than 1/2" of deflection should occur. Too tight, and it will restrict movement of the wheels, and too loose and the belts won't grip the gears tight enough and may slip, especially during wall or step climbing.
Bonus Tip! Check the Debris Bag. For holes mostly. After emptying debris from a bag, dunk it in the pool skimmer repeatedly to clean the bag and the zipper/velcro. Inspect for any holes or unraveling of stitching. Small holes can be fixed with a layer of silicone - allow to dry overnight before use.
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Elizabeth Aguilera covers the issue of immigration and changing demographics in the San Diego region. She also contributes to business coverage of the economy. Aguilera joined the U-T in late 2010. Previously a writer for the Denver Post, she covered urban affairs, including the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and later joined the business team and helped chronicle the impacts of the Great Recession. She has also written for the Orange County Register and the Long Beach Press-Telegram.


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AMHERST, Mass. – Biologist Jeffrey Blanchard and microbiologist Kristen DeAngelis at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with other New England researchers, recently received a $500,000 grant from the Joint Genome Institute at the U.S. Department of Energy to identify soil microbes in Harvard Forest and track how they break down forest litter in a simulated warmer climate. The goal is to determine the impact of a warmer climate on microbes and their production of greenhouse gases.
The study takes advantage of three long-term soil-warming experiments already in place in the forest, where heating coils similar to those used to keep football and soccer fields from freezing are buried about 4 inches (10 cm) deep in several plots. They keep the soil surface exactly 5 degrees Celsius warmer than the ambient temperature, creating an outdoor laboratory of artificial climate change. The three patches have been kept warm for six, nine and 20 years, corresponding to three distinct phases of projected CO2 emissions, to provide a timeline of soil changes, the researchers say.
"This study will help us to understand how climate change affects the composition and activities of soil microbial communities over time, in particular changes that go beyond what one would expect from normal temperature variation," says Blanchard.
He and DeAngelis began collecting microbes in the Harvard Forest soils in north central Massachusetts near Petersham about two years ago. The high-throughput DNA sequencing grant, shared with researchers at the University of New Hampshire and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, will support analysis and experiments to test the hypothesis that specialized microbial communities have emerged in the soil plots in response to warming and that they reduce organic materials in the topsoil faster than in soil at current temperatures, thus emitting more CO2 and contributing to higher greenhouse gas levels.
DeAngelis, a microbial ecologist, says many bacteria found in soil can't be grown in the laboratory, in part because their nutritional and other growth requirements are not yet known and in part because they have symbiotic or interconnected relationships with others. So the availability of natural soil samples from the differently warmed plots is a key to exploring the microbial role in a warmer forest ecology. For this study, the researchers collected soil cores to about 10 inches (15 cm) depth.
The researchers say about 10,000 microbe species can usually be found in a gram of soil, about the size of a sugar cube. To identify the specific organisms present, Blanchard, a genome scientist, and the research team will sequence three terabases (3,000,000,000,000) of extracted DNA and RNA. This is equivalent to sequencing 500,000 bacterial genomes or about 1,000 human genomes, he points out. Each investigator will train undergraduate and graduate students to assist in the research and analysis.
Blanchard explains, "RNA analysis will show us the activated genes, the fingerprint of what these microbes have been up to, such as whether they're eating the woodier parts of plant litter faster in the warm plots, as we suspect."
Normal topsoil may be 3 inches deep, but in some of the long-term warm patches it is half that depth, he adds. "We think this is because certain communities of microbes have emerged who can digest that material and turn it into CO2 more readily than others. We'd like to know which microbes are responding to warming. We expect to find that a particular group is becoming more active, that is the guys who can eat up the cellulose and lignin, the hard-to-digest fibrous parts."
The sequencing analysis will take two to three years, setting up "an amazing foundation for further experiments," says Blanchard. DeAngelis adds that in the future they hope to identify which ecological processes are changing with warming and which specific pathways the microbes are using to turn lignin and cellulose into CO2.
She adds, "One of the interesting stories will be the one about adaptation. Warming is changing not just the community, but how the communities respond to other stress, to each other and to the changing environment."


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Josh Brent will get four more weeks of freedom before finding out whether he'll have to go to jail until his intoxication manslaughter trial starts.
According to the Dallas Morning News, the latest hearing on whether Brent's bond will be revoked has been postponed from June 21 to July 19. The delay resulted from the unavailability of a witness from the lab that tested a urine sample Brent provided at (and hopefully not during) his most recent bond-revocation hearing.
Yes, the last time Brent was in court facing jail pending his September 23 trial, he allegedly had a high concentration of marijuana metabolites in his system.
Last December, Brent allegedly was driving a vehicle at a high rate of speed, and with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.189 percent. The car crashed, killing teammate Jerry Brown.
The NFL and the Cowboys have managed to keep Brent away from official team events since the 2012 season ended. He reportedly has been seen, however, at the Cowboys' facility. It is widely expected that he'll be suspended for a year or longer if he pleads guilty to or is convicted or any crimes relating to Brown's death.


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Cher has been encouraging her son to lose weight by handing over $1,000 for every two pounds he drops.
Chaz Bono has lost more than 43 pounds by embarking on a new healthy diet and exercise regime, and recently revealed he wants to lose another 40 pounds.
Cher is keen to see her son succeed, so she has been offering a monetary reward for every pound dropped.
On Twitter, the "Believe" singer writes, "I'm paying him 1K a lb. 2 lose weight … So he has made $65,000!"


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NEW YORK, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- A study of African-American youth in Baltimore schools found almost half had gambled at least once before age 18, U.S. researchers say.
First author Dr. Silvia Martins, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, also found more gamblers than non-gamblers had initiated sexual intercourse by age 18.
The data also showed that for those who had gambled by age 18, 46 percent were frequent gamblers.
The study, published online in Addictive Behaviors, found among those who had initiated sexual activity, more gamblers than non-gamblers with high impulsivity at age 13 had become pregnant or had impregnated someone.
The study also found approximately one third of the gamblers had sexual intercourse by age 13 and 89 percent had engaged in sexual intercourse by age 18.
By age 18, more male gamblers had impregnated someone by age 18 as compared to female gamblers becoming pregnant. Nine percent of the sexually active youth had ever has an sexually transmitted disease.
"Our findings are complementary to earlier studies that showed an association between gambling with an earlier age of onset of sexual activities, however, participants in these samples were predominantly white," Martins said in a statement.
"Despite evidence that problem gambling is more prevalent among African-American adolescents and adults, few adolescent studies included a large subgroup of African Americans in their samples. This study also goes above and beyond prior research as it shows that gambling youth are not only at risk of gambling problems, which are associated with numerous adverse interpersonal, financial, criminal and psychiatric consequences, but also at risk for sex-related behaviors such as adolescent pregnancy/impregnation."


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Food as Self Healing Medicine
The Greek physician Hippocrates, known as the "father of medicine," said, "Let food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food." We think he's right, too, because what he knew centuries ago has been confirmed by science today—that food can be medicine. However, one must choose food wisely—whole organic foods, including plant foods.
Likewise, food is more than just energy or calories; it also contains hidden information that communicates to your genes and results in your state of health. Whole, organic, unprocessed foods positively speak to our genes in their native language, so eating foods closest to their natural state can help our bodies be their healthiest.
You'll also want to make sure your food is organic. Why? The USDA Certified Organic seal means high-quality, pure, nutritious foods that are not filled with toxins, including prohibited pesticides, GMOs and much more. Organic foods help keep the body clean, too. For example, scientists confirm that eating an organic diet makes pesticide levels in the body drop to undetectable levels, while pesticide levels return almost immediately with a non-organic diet. It's no wonder, though, because over one billion tons of pesticides are used in conventional farming in the United States each year.
And while certain foods can serve as "medicine," other foods can do the opposite. For example, processed foods have had those phytochemicals purged from them, and they speak negatively to your body.
The truth is that there are more than 320,000 processed foods and beverages available to us on the market. They can cause a host of problems, too, including genetic communication breakdown, but processed foods have been with us for decades. For example, in the 1970s, major changes in U.S. agriculture led to an overproduction of corn and an extra 500 calories available daily for every American—mostly in the form of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is hazardous to health and has no vitamins, minerals, or enzymes and robs the body of micronutrients. Additionally, HFCS messes with healthy cholesterol and insulin levels and converts to fat faster than any other sugar, while raising serum triglyceride levels—and that's not a healthy combination.
What commercial, processed foods also do is provide a host of unwanted toxins, including multiple pesticides, GMOs and others. Simply put, they're not the kind of food that act as "medicine."
Hippocrates was right, though. Food can be medicine—the right kind of food, that is. So, choose your food and your nutritional products wisely.


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Internet providers Broken Bow NE – Broadband Satellite Internet Services
The internet has become a household necessity. The changing world in Broken Bow NE requires internet providers to offer faster and faster internet download and upload speeds. Gone are the days of dial-up service. Broken Bow NE internet providers must meet the demands of consumers. Streaming HD content is becoming more and more common in Broken Bow. Video requires the download of massive amounts of data. Wide screen HD TVs are one of the reasons internet providers in Broken Bow Nebraska are scrambling to boost speeds.
Internet providers Broken Bow Nebraska
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Broken Bow Nebraska Cable Broadband & DSL broadband internet providers
There are 3 types of broadband Broken Bow internet providers. Typically satellite internet providers have been limited in their speeds. Satellite based broadband with speeds from 1-3Mbp has been typical (New technology has increased this to a top speed of triple that). Satellite is now offering blazing fast internet in Broken Bow of up to12mbps. The internet providers have evolved to keep up with the bandwidth demands from their Broken Bow NE internet customers.
The main advantage of a satellite provider is the access it affords homeowners in areas where DSL or cable broadband is not available. There is a vast area in rural America that depends on satellite for their internet needs. The new technology that is just being offered will enable these rural NE homes to enjoy the speeds previously limited to city dwelling DSL and Cable Broadband subscribers. As technology marches on, who knows, maybe there will be a internet satellite on homes in denser populated areas similar to the satellite TV expansion we have seen in the last 10 years.
DSL Internet Providers in Broken Bow NE
Broken Bow NE phone based DSL broadband is typically the least expensive of all the broadband internet providers. Speeds range from 1.5Mbps to 6Mbps depending on the distance from the ISP. The price is right, however DSL has a somewhat limited service area. DSL broadband has to be within an 18,000ft radius of the internet service providers central office. Call for Broken Bow NE DSL internet availability.
Many people are confused as to exactly what DSL is. DSL is delivered to your home via the good old telephone wire. Yes, the wires running around the neighborhood. These same wires that have been used primarily for phone service. Pretty amazing how the internet providers new technology allows a small copper wires bandwidth to be split between phone service and DSL high speed internet. Probably much to many peoples surprise, only a fraction of the bandwidth is actually used for the telephone. This leaves you're your local phone provider with a huge opportunity to provide you with high speed internet.
DSL is an affordable answer for many home owners who are looking for an internet connection to their home. One draw back to DSL service is that it does require a telephone line service provider. In other words to Have DSL you need a Land-line Phone provider. But don't despair, the phone service internet providers realize many people today only have cell phones and do not need a landline service too. So within the last couple of years the internet providers have begun offering DSL without landline Phone service. The DSL internet providers call this a DRY LOOP. At first this option was a little pricey but as the competition among the Broken Bow internet service providers has heated up recently, the prices have dropped. DSL can be a pretty neat alternative to Cable, as the price for internet service can be a little cheaper. If you do not have cable service at your home or use the internet where speeds of 1.5-6mbps are sufficient, then you can save a couple bucks and the internet service will be just fine.
Internet Providers in Broken Bow by Cable
Broken Bow cable internet service providers are in the middle as far as price range. Cable internet providers supply a vast part of our country with broadband internet. Cable usually is supplied to your home on a coaxial RG6 cable line from a nearby telephone pole. The readily available access to this form of broadband delivery gives your Broken Bow cable company a huge advantage in the cable service provider's world.
Broken Bow NE Internet Providers Speeds
Cable also boasts speeds as fast as 105 mbps. Although a bit pricey at these speeds, this wins cable, the holy cow that's really fast award. Typical Nebraska cable internet providers speeds subscribed to by the average homeowner are in the 6-20mbps. This is a great and affordable option for Broken Bow NE Internet to enjoy uploading and downloading large files and streaming a video with little or no buffering. Cable broadband internet providers have filled a new nitch in the market of NE. HD video streaming. A couple of years ago no one could have imagined the advances we have seen. What wonders will the cable internet providers achieve in the next couple of years. The internet and the data delivered to your home in Broken Bow by your cable internet providers is truly amazing.
Order Internet service in Broken Bow NE by providers you can trust
What a world we live in today. Sounds like something out of a SIFI book. Broken Bow is streaming video to their HD LCD TVs with 5.1 surround. You've arrived home and video conferenced with some clients in Hong Kong. Grabbed a cold beverage and downloaded a couple of HD movies to watch later. Your buddy calls your Broken Bow home, and you answer on your VOIP sip phone. The wife is surfing the web to shop for a new laptop. Your smartphone rings and your off to the golf course. Perfect time to pull up that new GPS golf app on your smartphone. The internet and technology sure have changed things in a very short time. One thing you can count on, your internet providers in Broken Bow Nebraska will be evolving with us.
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Solar Water Heating Calculation Using SRCC Certified Solar Water Heating System ratings (OG-300)
This Solar Fraction Calculator for Rated Systems (OG 300) calculation sheet is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet used for determining the credit for certified solar water heating systems towards complying with the Building Energy Efficiency Standards, meeting the energy efficiency requirements of the New Solar Homes Partnership, or other incentives programs that require specific percent savings beyond the standards. The calculation uses the SRCC OG300 Solar Energy Factor to determine the Solar Fraction to be input into a Commission-approved building energy compliance computer program. The solar energy factor is defined as the actual solar energy collected by the system divided by the electrical or gas energy supplied to the system.
Required Information
To use the certified Solar Fraction Calculator for Rated Systems (OG-300) calculation spreadsheet, the following information is required. Obtain this information from the building plan set for your project, and from the SRCC data sheet for the system that will be used. Refer to the example spreadsheet for additional guidance in filling out the required information.
- Project Title: Enter the name of the project.
- Project Address: Enter the address of the project.
- Floor area of the home: in square feet: This information can be found on the construction plan set. (This approach can be used only for a solar water heating system serving a single family home or an individual dwelling unit in a multi-family building).
- Climate zone number: Enter the California climate zone corresponding to the geographical location of the building. This can be determined by clicking on the following link California Climate Zone Maps.
- Solar Energy Factor (SEF): Find the solar water heating system you are using in the OG-300 Directory of Certified Solar Water Heating System Ratings. Refer to the solar system design specifications to determine the Solar Energy Factor (SEF) in the Directory. Print a data sheet for your system to include in the documentation package. Click on the following link to download: SRCC OG-300 Directory.
- Energy Factor for Water Heater: Enter the energy factor of the water heater used to rate the OG-300 Water Heating System. This will be either 0.6 for a gas, or 0.9 for an electric water heater.
Run the Solar Fraction Calculator for Rated Systems
Click on the link below to download the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and save the file on your computer. The spreadsheet is formatted as a compliance form, CF-SR-300. Open the file to activate the spreadsheet.
After the required information is entered, the calculated Solar Fraction will be reported at the bottom of the spreadsheet. Print the completed spreadsheet (CF-SR-300) for submittal with the SRCC data sheet and the CF-1R.
The Solar Fraction determined by the spreadsheet is entered as an input to a Commission-approved building energy compliance computer program to determine the contribution of the solar water heating system towards compliance with Building Energy Efficiency Standards, meeting the New Solar Homes Partnership energy efficiency requirement, or qualifying for other incentive programs.
If this does not work or you have questions about the program contact the Energy Hotline at (916) 654-5106, toll free at (800) 772-3300 or send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please do not contact the Webmaster for assistance.
Download Solar Fraction Calculator for Rated Systems
Right-click the link to download and save the file (PDF file, 2 pages, 70 kb).


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History of OC
Oklahoma Christian University is a comprehensive Christian university with an enrollment of almost 2,200 students. Oklahoma Christian is affiliated with the churches of Christ and provides an outstanding education for many interests that prospective students might have while incorporating spirituality into the academic environment. More OC information is available in the Oklahoma Christian University Profile.
Career Services
The Career Services department is available for students who need assistance in finding employment during school and after graduation. Career Services also provides assistance in interviews and help with marketing yourself to employers.
IT Services
OC is very technologically savvy and equipped with Apple. Informational Technology Services is available to students who need assistance with their computers and/or Apple handheld devices.
Student Handbook
The OC student handbook is provided for all prospective and current students to access the information they need to have a successful year at OC. It provides an understanding of what is expected of students in every aspect of campus life and the classroom experience.
Health and Safety Information
The Eagle Community Clinic is available for students who need medical care while enrolled in school. Counseling services are also available for students during the year.
Hazing Policies
- Social Service Club Handbook
- Anti-Hazing Policy
- Risk Management
- State of Oklahoma Hazing Laws
- StopHazing.org
Student News
The university's newspaper: The Talon, provides students with information about the university and what students find passionate about OC.
OC Sports
Oklahoma Christian University is involved in many sports, which provides great opportunity for students who love to play and represent their school, and is great for students who enjoy watching a good game of basketball, baseball, soccer and much more.
OC Summer Groups
- New Reign is the a cappella admissions group that travels during the summer and occasionally during the school year.
- Summer Singers is the contemporary, instrumental admissions group that also travels during the summer and occasionally during the school year.


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Our Own Backyard
October 26, 27, 28th
Keynote Speaker Apela Colorado comes to Anchorage this year, plus Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben, Marina Silva & many others from Bioneers main stage
Be Inspired by Practical LOCAL Sustainability Workshops
Hear the latest National & International Sustainability Developments
Bioneers in Alaska seeks to connect, educate and inspire effective practical solutions for innovative solutions. Speakers and workshops offer unique strategies and link Alaskans with other communities at annual gathering.
Come be inspired! Learn what's happening elsewhere, and right here, in "Our Own Backyard."
Workshops offer practical ideas. Learn models others are using. Participate both as "teacher" and "learner." Connect and collaborate with fellow Alaskans. (Applications now available for workshop proposals if you have expertise or skills to share. See details on website.)
Registration is now open!!!
Network with Your Neighbors ~ Meet Other Alaskans Working to Build a Resilient Future for Southcentral & beyond! Learn What's Happening ~ Share Knowledge
Tiered Registration to allow as many as possible to attend ~ Plenary Sessions free to Students with ID
Sponsorships & Donations gratefully accepted! Mail to: Green Star, 333 West 4th, Suite 301 Anchorage AK 99501
Registration Form at www.greenstarinc.org
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Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman denied ingesting any form of the banned prescription drug Adderall in any way, saying any reports or anything to the contrary are "incorrect."
In a text message Tuesday, Sherman said, "I did not take anything." He said the same thing in a text message Monday after reports surfaced that he and fellow Seahawks cornerback Brandon Browner were facing four-game suspensions for testing positive for Adderall, a medical narcotic typically prescribed for patients with attention deficit disorder. Sherman acknowledged that the NFL notified both players about positive results for a banned substance.
Sherman and Browner are appealing their suspensions, and no date for the appeal has been set. There are indications, according to a source, that appellate hearings might not take place for several weeks, which would allow Browner and Sherman to compete through most of the regular season -- at the least. Players can continue to work until the entire appeal process is complete.
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