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US wildcards complete formidable line-up
Steve Stricker was the last name announced as the American wildcard picks were revealed but he would have been top of the list in the mind of skipper Davis Love III.
The 45-year-old has not enjoyed the most spectacular of years on the PGA Tour but has been steady enough to retain a place in the world's top ten.
Stricker is a former student at the University of Illinois which will sit well with the Medinah crowds, he is a very dependable putter and a great team man.
Above all of that he is a ready made partner for Tiger Woods.
Steve Stricker has been chosen as one of the four wild cards to represent the USA in the Ryder Cup. Photo: Getty
And it is Woods who is the real dangerman in this very strong looking American team. The years of flattering to deceive in Ryder Cups are long gone for the former world number one.
America's captain revealed his picks at the headquarters of New York's Stock Exchange. Love can surely bank on Woods to deliver a fund of points to bolster the US bid to regain the trophy.
In the days when Woods was golf's undisputed dominant force it was hard for American skippers to identify a partner who would not be inhibited by the great man.
Woods also found it difficult to accept the dilution of his powers when paired with an inferior golfer.
Whether it was his best friend Mark O'Meara or his greatest rival Phil Mickelson it just didn't work to the expected effect and the American cause would be duly undermined.
In 1999 Woods was given three different partners (Tom Lehman, David Duval and Steve Pate) and three years later Paul Azinger and Mark Calcavecchia tried to forge a successful alliance with the man who was sweeping the game's board individually.
Ironically it was Love who finally proved an effective second day ally for Woods in that clash at the Belfry.
Jim Furyk combined pretty well with him in 2006 and they won half their matches at the K Club, but it is the combination with Stricker that has brought the best out of Woods.
At Celtic Manor two years ago they claimed two out of a three possible points together and both won their singles matches. Their only defeat came at the hands of an inspired foursomes pairing of Luke Donald and Lee Westwood.
A year earlier they won all four matches paired together in the US Presidents' Cup victory over the Rest of the World at Harding Park in San Francisco.
So Love can rest easy that in Stricker he has the ideal partner for the biggest name in his team. Woods was America's leading point scorer in 2006 and after missing the match in 08 team-mate bettered his three out of four points at Celtic Manor.
But it would be wrong to give the impression that this US side is all about one big personality. The striking characteristic is its strength in depth which can be measured in the names who failed to make it into the team.
Hunter Mahan beat Rory McIlroy to win the year's biggest matchplay title at the WGC Championship in February - one of two titles he won this season.
Although still in the world's top twenty, Mahan's recent form has not been good enough to keep pace with those who received the call to arms; Stricker, Brandt Snedeker, Dustin Johnson and Furyk.
Nick Watney's superb victory at the Barclays last week wasn't enough and nor was Rickie Fowler's chutzpah and excellent record when representing his country.
Johnson's prodigious length should suit the anticipated Medinah set up to a tee, Furyk will be the wise grey-beard of the team room, although 15 losses in 27 Ryder Cup matches gives cause for European optimism.
Snedeker is the form man, America's hottest putter and the fourth rookie in Love's team.
The US skipper is entitled to feel he has an excellent blend of youth, experience and form.
Make no mistake this is a formidable team that along with Woods boasts major winners in Bubba Watson, Keegan Bradley, Phil Mickelson, Webb Simpson, Zach Johnson and Furyk.
As noted last week, Jose Maria Olazabal's Europe are shaping up very nicely as well, Rory McIlroy's latest brilliant win fuels the feel-good factor.
With all 24 players involved in the world's top 36 for this Ryder Cup, it threatens to be an epic match in the Chicago suburbs.
Both captains have impressed so far; both appear to have made the correct wildcard choices and the right noises.
This particularly applies to Love. He named Stricker last because he decided to announce his wildcards in height order (Dustin Johnson first).
But more significantly he announced his eight qualifiers in alphabetical order. So many of his predecessors have used the order in which their teams qualified.
This can send a subliminally hierarchical message. By using the alphabetical method preferred by European skippers, Love is showing he intends to mould a team of equals rather than a group of individuals.
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Kirk Caldwell was elected Honolulu mayor Tuesday night, defeating former Hawaii Gov. Ben Cayetano.
Honolulu mayoral candidate and former Hawaii Gov. Ben Cayetano arrives at his Election Night headquarters Tuesday night. Cayetano lost to Kirk Caldwell in the race.
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All who are led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons and daughters. 15 You didn’t receive a spirit of slavery to lead you back again into fear, but you received a Spirit that shows you are adopted as his children. With this Spirit, we cry, “ Abba, Father. ” 16 The same Spirit agrees with our spirit, that we are God’s children. 17 But if we are children, we are also heirs. We are God’s heirs and fellow heirs with Christ, if we really suffer with him so that we can also be glorified with him.
The work we have long read as the King James Bible contains numerous changes, both deliberate and accidental, to the text. David Norton has scrupulously collated the established text with the translators' original manuscripts to create this new authoritative edition. In addition, he has modernized and standardized the spelling but left intact the words and grammatical forms, and he has restored most of the original punctuation, which, unlike the standard version, largely adheres to modern practices. Finally, he presents the text in paragraph format, making this King James Bible a fully comprehensible and gratifying read.
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Writer of Mark Sheridan’s immortal I Do Like To Be Beside The
Seaside (1909) and the successful follow-up By The Sea (By The Side Of The Silvery Sea (1910), John A. Glover-Kind also wrote several songs with Fred
Godfrey in 1910: Don’t Tell The Wife! (with Harry Castling);
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The managing editor (Open door, 30 July) suggests it is distasteful to run an online advert for lager before a piece about Amy Winehouse, or to place an advert for a washing machine next to a picture of a woman washing clothes in a river. It may be distasteful, it is certainly uncomfortable; but in neither case is it untruthful. Life is full of such painful dichotomies and it's not the job of the Guardian to protect us from them. Surely the only people who need to fear these unplanned juxtapositions are the advertisers.
• Three huge cheers for John O'Farrell on why he chose state above private education for his children (Education, 31 July). I used to tell parents to have a luxury holiday on the school by not going in for private education. So many were grateful by the end of their child's primary experience and did exactly that.
Former head, Hampton junior school
• The West End isn't the only part of London that's become a ghost town (Letters, 31 July). We run a bookstall in Hampstead and our business is down as much as 50% from last year.
Bruce Paley and Carol Swain
• Now that Danny Boyle has rewakened the interests of many in the industrial revolution (Letters, 30 July), how about a push for a national museum on a scale that marks this significant period of our history and contribution to the world?
• You report (30 July) that fruit-flavoured beers are the fastest-growing area in the UK market, "even cherry-flavoured". Cherry is the most common fruit beer in Belgium. Just try Kriek – some of us have been enjoying it for over 45 years.
• Alfred Belpaire, another Belgian, invented the firebox-boiler combination which produced the steam controlled by the Walschaerts valve gear (Letters, 31 July). Too technical? May I suggest Django Reinhardt and Toots Thielemans. Also, familiar to the younger generation: Stella Artois. | <urn:uuid:9cb8a3cd-c5c4-45b3-b430-9fafa8b60dfc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2012/jul/31/adverts-schools-sales-boyle-beers | 2013-05-19T13:37:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952683 | 430 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
NHL rejects Ilya Kovalchuk's 17-year deal with Devils
NEWARK – The Ilya Kovalchuk free agency odyssey took another turn late Tuesday night, hours after a news conference to announce his 17-year, $102 million deal with the Devils.
According to a source familiar with the contract, the NHL has rejected what would be the longest deal in league history after it was ruled it circumvents salary cap regulations.
The contract pays Kovalchuk $95 million over the first 10 seasons and just $7 million over the last seven seasons. Kovlachuk’s salary for each of the last five seasons is $550,000 annually. The contract was structured so that the Devils would be charged $6 million against the cap for each year of the deal, which expires in 2026-27.
However, the money would come off the Devils’ books if Kovalchuk retires before he reaches age 44. TSN in Canada reported that the NHL rejected the deal because it believes that neither the team nor Kovalchuk expect him to still be playing in the final years of the contract.
The NHL Players’ Association can file a grievance on Kovlachuk’s behalf within five days of the league voiding the deal.
Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello declined comment when reached by phone late Tuesday night. Devils owner Jeff Vanderbeek said he had not heard the contract had been rejected.
Kovalchuk’s agent, Jay Grossman, did not immediately return a phone message.
Before the NHL rejected the contract, Kovalchuk, 27, expressed his excitement at the chance to finish his career with the Devils, begging to differ with George Young, the late Giants’ general manager who famously said it’s always about the money.
“It wasn’t really about the money, it was more where you are going to spend the rest of your hockey life,” the Russian left wing said. “That was the main concern for us, what kind of areas there are here, what kind of schools are here because I’ve got three kids and it’s really about the family.”
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NTSB Identification: CEN09CA223
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Monday, March 16, 2009 in Taos, NM
Probable Cause Approval Date: 05/12/2009
Aircraft: BEECH D35, registration: N342R
Injuries: 1 Uninjured.
NTSB investigators used data provided by various entities, including, but not limited to, the Federal Aviation Administration and/or the operator and did not travel in support of this investigation to prepare this aircraft accident report.
The student pilot was landing at the non-towered airport after a cross country flight, when he made a "short approach", did not use any flaps, and kept an approach speed that was about 30 knots faster than normal. The student pilot said he didn't use his normal checklist procedure and that everything seemed to be going "too fast" when the airplane landed on the asphalt runway with the landing gear retracted and the skin on the belly of the fuselage was ground down to the main keel. There was no injury to the solo student pilot, but substantial damage to the fuselage structure.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: The failure of the student pilot to complete the before landing checklist. Contributing to the accident was his failure to lower the landing gear before landing. Full narrative available
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Garrett Reid died of heroin overdose
The cause of death for Philadelphia Eagles Head Coach Andy Reid”s son, Garrett Reid, was heroin overdose, a coroner said Thursday.
Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli released details of the investigation at a news conference and Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek confirmed toxicology testing had confirmed the presence of heroin in Garrett Reid”s body.
The official cause of death was “acute opiate ”heroin” toxicity.”
Garrett Reid — who had a history of substance abuse — was 29 years old when he was found dead Aug. 5 in a dormitory room at Lehigh University, where the Eagles conduct their training camp.
Andy Reid said in a statement at the time of his son”s death that Garrett Reid “lost the battle that has been ongoing for the last eight years.”
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Wednesday, August 2, 2000
Steamboat Springs High school students in Steamboat Springs are counting the final days of summer vacation this week especially those who are planning on playing prep sports this fall.
The high school golf team will return to practice on Wednesday, marking the start of the 2000-2001 high school sports season. That team will play in its first tournament on Aug. 15 in Grand Junction.
Football, boys' soccer, boys' tennis, cross country, volleyball, dance and cheerleading will all open practice on Aug. 14.
"I'm planning on returning to the office early next week. I will meet with the coaches and we will decided the official practice schedules," said Steve Moos, Steamboat Springs High School athletics director.
What Moos did know this week is that golf will be the first official sport to return for the fall.
The team will start practice the afternoon after the biggest junior golf championship of the summer in Steamboat, the Inter-club Junior Golf Championship. The team has a scheduled practice at 4 p.m. at Haymaker Golf Course. The team will also hold a practice on Aug. 10 at Catamount and on Aug. 14 at the Sheraton.
With the exception of golf, all of the head coaching positions will remain the same as last year, Moos said.
Mark Drake will return to lead the Sailors football team, Wendy Hall will guide the volleyball squad, John Smith will coach the cross-country team and John Aragon will be in charge of the boys tennis team. Rob Bohlmann will coach the boys soccer team and Kim Bates will once again lead the dance team.
New this season are golf coach Jason Deigert and cheerleading coach Cathy Jones.
Cheerleading will be a new sport this fall.
Any student interested in participating in fall sports must have completed a mandatory physical and have all of the required forms signed by the time they report for the first practice, Moos said.
The forms should be available at local doctors' offices.
If students have problems finding a form, they can all Kate Park at the Steamboat Springs High School offices, beginning Monday, during business hours at 871-3687.
More information on high school practice schedules will be available next week. Check the Steamboat Today for more information on exact times.
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Japan's Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has notified prefectures, hospitals and health centers to be aware of the possible spread of HIV-2 following the first such case report involving a Japanese man. The ministry, which received the report last week, said it believes the man acquired HIV-2 in West Africa. A ministry official said routine preliminary HIV testing detects both HIV-1 and HIV-2, but called for medical facilities to maintain vigilance for HIV-2 in Japan.
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Hi Laura, I would like to say I really appreciate your visit to our blog! :)I don't know English very well, but I need to learn it, so I will visit your blog many times, ok?I see that you are moving to Canada, and if you need any help or information, pls let me know.Tks,Annaxoxo
Well Anna, your English looks pretty good to me - a whole lot better than my Portugese! How long have you been in Canada? How are you finding the adjustment? I think it must be a bigger adjustment moving from Brazil than from the US.I'd be honored if you read my blog from time to time to improve your English skills.
Ana's blog, by the way: Live In Canada.
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So it has come to our attention that Unreal World does not have an English-language Wikipedia page, and Sami put out the suggestion that we make one as a community. I think that is an awesome idea! I'll start out, and I am hoping that others can add to it, make it really great, and then we can publish it!
Feel free to copy/paste what I wrote, edit it, put the edited version back here, etc. until it really pays homage to this great game!
NOTE: I have been editing this on and off, inspired by how much awesome this game has and the small blurb on Sami's official website. Good portions of the following were stolen [I mean borrowed] from Dark Art and Vandigeth's fantastic descriptions in the thread that Erkka linked to in the post below. But plagiarizing is what Wikipepdia is all about, right?
UnReal World is a rougelike sandbox game with a focus on survival. Set in a realistic Finland in the late Iron Age, the player controls a single character attempting to live in the harsh environment. Unlike most RPGs, UnReal World has no set quests to go on or specific actions one must perform. Gameplay is entirely open-ended, and there are many ways to play the game. It has been in development for over two decades, and continues to be actively improved and updated. A free shareware trial version is available at http://www.jmp.fi/~smaarane/urw.htmlCharacter Creation
At the beginning of each game the player can choose to be a tribe member of one of ten fictional cultures, each with different skillsets based on their main activity: some are fishermen, others hunters, traders, or farmers. This choice will contribute to the balance of skills that the player starts out with. For example, those who live on the coast are better fisherman than most, while those who live next to aggressive raiders are more inclined in combat skills. Then the world is randomly generated and a starting location is chosen. After a character is created, the player can choose between tutorials or other starting scenarios and be placed next to a village or on your own as a runaway slave.The Game World
The game world is created anew with each game, and is littered with features one would expect from an untamed wild: forests, mountains, villages, rivers, caves, and pastures can be found throughout the large countryside. The human cultures occupy their own part of the land, and are distinguished by how their towns are set up, what the villagers will trade, the different products that are sold in those towns, and in some cases the types of weapons associated with those cultures.Gameplay
Gameplay is focused on interacting with the natural world and the animals and people that inhabit it. Items such as food, clothes or armor, weapons, building materials, tools, and herbs are important, because they will aid in the player's ability to survive various situations or maladies. Thus, resource management is essential because the player must eat, drink, sleep (preferably in a sheltered area), and keep warm and safe to survive. There is no set way to go about this, however; one can be a hermit fisherman, lone woodsman, traveling merchant, villager, farmer, or even a murderous town-raider to survive in UnReal World.
Players are not leveled up in the traditional sense of an RPG, in that there are no classes, skillpoints, or perks. Rather, the entire repertoire of actions is open to any player, regardless of skill level, as there is no restrictions on what player should or shouldn’t do. The success or failure of an action (whether it be skinning a hide, fishing, building a fire, climbing a tree, or attacking with a spear) is determined by one's skill in that particular area. Skills themselves are categories such as cookery or trapping that govern a broad set of actions that a player can perform, ranging from basic shamanic rituals, to making clothes, weapons, or a log cottage. As the player performs these actions, he or she will gain more experience in them and become more proficient in the given skill. All of these skills will in some way contribute to the player's success or failure to survive throughout the game.
I never really know here how much detail I should go into vs. how much should be left for the player to discover. I think that I really left out the combat and crafting system, but I don't really know how to approach describing them the proper way.
Also, I tried very hard to just give the facts and just describe what the game is without my invariable bias, and I probably failed. Of course I want to get people interested in the game, but this is Wikipedia here and we can't be too sales-persony or preachy. What we need:
Screencaps! It's always nice to have ones that are different from the ones on the webpage, so people who go there run into new things.
People who have been playing the game longer than I have! Who can write! Please add to or cut out things out of my preliminary draft. I really want this entry to live up to the greatness of UnReal World.
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Spider webs are one of the most difficult things to photograph (well, with a compact cam at least). You need to get the right angle, right lighting in order to capture the web since it is so fine. But we did it last week (hooray!) - we must have gotten lucky. ;)
Love how intricate the web looks and the spider looks so cool with its super long legs too.
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Why Knuckles Never Goes Super Anymore (Animation)Sonic animation
Posted 14 December 2011 - 10:20 AM
Haha, anyways, this is an animation that I've been working on for the last three days, and I use the term "animation" loosely. I don't have Flash... or a tablet (>__>) so this video is a bit crude, in terms of animation and artwork. Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think.
Posted 14 December 2011 - 01:03 PM
Posted 14 December 2011 - 02:58 PM
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Posted 14 December 2011 - 09:04 PM
And Legendary, thank you for the input! I appreciate it, and I actually agree with you. The lines SHOULD have been re-recorded. Some are too quiet, and some sound just off. Not trying to make excuses, but I was sick when I recorded the lines, and I wanted to get this video out as soon as possible. It was an idea I had for a while, and I was originally going to wait until I one day got Flash to make it... but I have this OCD thing were if I come up with an idea, I feel like I have to act quick, because someone else might think of it before I have a chance to make it. xD
Posted 14 December 2011 - 09:28 PM
Very nice and it made me smile, but it reminded me of this Sonic Short we received a good while ago.
Poo... I had a feeling something like this may have been done before. D: I looked around, but didn't find anything similar. At least both are different enough though. One is short, sweet, better looking, and gets to the point quicker, and one is crude and drags on for almost four minutes. :V
Posted 14 December 2011 - 09:48 PM
Posted 14 December 2011 - 10:06 PM
I was expecting Sonic and co. to make fun of Super Knuckles' lack of flight and such but you did made it pretty funny to the point you hit it right on the nail.
Edited by Nuclear Winter, 14 December 2011 - 10:07 PM.
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Posted 15 December 2011 - 01:43 AM
Hilarious, though, especially the random Pineapple Silver.
Random Pineapple Silver was my favourite part, too. Funny stuff.
Posted 15 December 2011 - 02:05 AM
It's only there because I was too lazy to draw him. xD
Posted 15 December 2011 - 03:19 AM
Seriously, your art style would lend itself perfectly to moments in Sonic Goes to the Store. Like Big the Muscle Wizard casting fist.
ANYWAY I LOVED THIS IT WAS AMAZING
God damn man, I mean, REALLY. This is REALLY good.
Edited by Colar Bear, 15 December 2011 - 02:39 PM.
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KARAHALIOS v. NATIONAL FEDERATION OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, LOCAL 1263
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Argued January 17, 1989
Decided March 6, 1989
Petitioner - a language instructor for the Defense Language Institute, a federal agency - was not a union member but was within a bargaining unit for which respondent union was the exclusive bargaining agent. He was promoted to a reopened "course developer" position, which had previously been occupied by one Kuntelos, who was demoted when the Institute first abolished the position. After respondent agreed to arbitrate on behalf of Kuntelos (who was a member of its board) and successfully argued that the position should be declared vacant for refilling, the Institute reassigned the job to Kuntelos, demoted petitioner, and denied his direct protest. Respondent refused to prosecute petitioner's grievances because of a perceived conflict of interest with its previous Kuntelos advocacy. Petitioner then filed unfair labor practice charges with the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), alleging, inter alia, that respondent had breached its duty of fair representation. The FLRA's General Counsel upheld this charge and ordered that a complaint be issued against respondent, which entered into a settlement whereby it posted notice guaranteeing representation to all employees seeking a single position. When the General Counsel rejected petitioner's contention on appeal that the settlement provided him no relief, he filed a damages suit in the District Court, which held that his charge against respondent was judicially cognizable, since the grant of exclusive union representation contained in the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA or Act) impliedly gives federal employees a private right of action to safeguard their right to fair representation. However, the Court of Appeals reversed the judgment for petitioner, stating that the CSRA's statutory scheme, which creates both an express duty of fair representation and a remedy in the FLRA for infringement of this duty, precludes implication of a parallel right to sue in federal court.
Title VII of the CSRA does not confer on federal employees a private cause of action against a breach by a union representing such employees of its statutory duty of fair representation. Pp. 531-537.
WHITE, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.
Thomas R. Duffy argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Glenn M. Taubman and Todd G. Brower.
H. Stephen Gordon argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were David Silberman and Laurence Gold. [489 U.S. 527, 529]
Richard G. Taranto argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging affirmance. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Fried, Deputy Solicitor General Wallace, William E. Persina, and Arthur A. Horowitz. *
[ Footnote * ] Gregory O'Duden and Elaine Kaplan filed a brief for the National Treasury Employees Union as amicus curiae urging affirmance.
JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.
The question before the Court is whether Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA or Act), 5 U.S.C. 7101 et seq. (1982 ed. and Supp. IV), confers on federal employees a private cause of action against a breach by a union representing federal employees of its statutory duty of fair representation. Because we decide that Congress vested exclusive enforcement authority over this duty in the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) and its General Counsel, we agree with the Court of Appeals that no private cause of action exists. Hence we affirm.
Petitioner, Efthimios Karahalios, is a Greek language instructor for the Defense Language Institute/Foreign Language Center, Presidio of Monterey, California (Institute). Karahalios was not a union member but was within a bargaining unit of professional employees for which respondent, the National Federation of Federal Employees, Local 1263 (Union), was the exclusive bargaining agent. In 1976, the Institute reopened its "course developer" position, for which opening Karahalios applied. Previously, the position had been occupied by one Simon Kuntelos, who had been demoted to instructor in 1971, when the Institute first abolished the course developer position. Because Kuntelos declined to seek the reopened job through the competitive application process, Karahalios won the position after scoring 81 on the required examination.
Kuntelos filed a grievance, asserting that the Institute's job award to Karahalios infringed the collective-bargaining agreement, and that Kuntelos should have been assigned the [489 U.S. 527, 530] position without a competitive application process. The Union agreed to arbitrate on behalf of Kuntelos (a Union board member), and successfully argued that the position be declared vacant for refilling. Because promotion selection procedures had altered, Kuntelos was permitted considerably more time on the examination. He scored 83, and in May 1978, the Institute reassigned the course developer opening to Kuntelos and demoted Karahalios to instructorship status.
The Institute denied Karahalios' direct protest against the substitution; likewise, the Union refused to prosecute his grievances because of a perceived conflict of interest with its previous Kuntelos advocacy. Karahalios filed unfair labor practice charges with the FLRA challenging both adverse decisions: He alleged, first, that the Institute violated its collective-bargaining agreement; and, second, that the Union breached its duty of fair representation. The General Counsel of the FLRA upheld Karahalios' second charge, and ordered that a complaint be issued against the Union. The Union and the FLRA's Regional Director, however, entered into a settlement whereby the Union posted notice guaranteeing representation to all employees seeking a single position. The General Counsel rejected Karahalios' contention on appeal that the settlement provided him no relief.
Karahalios then filed a damages suit in the District Court, restating his charges against the Institute and the Union. The District Court, in its first of three published orders, dismissed on jurisdictional grounds Karahalios' claim against the Institute, but declared judicially cognizable his unfair labor practice charge against the Union. Specifically, the District Court held that 28 U.S.C. 1331 supports jurisdiction because the CSRA's grant of exclusive union representation impliedly supplies to federal employees a private right of action to safeguard their right to fair representation. After trial, the District Court ruled that the Union's actions - notably its decisions to arbitrate for Kuntelos without consulting, [489 U.S. 527, 531] or even notifying, Karahalios, and, subsequently, to refuse to represent Karahalios - breached its duty of fair representation owed to him. The court confined damages to attorney's fees, however, explaining that both applicants were too similarly matched to allow judicial distinction.
The Court of Appeals reversed, stating that the CSRA's statutory scheme, which creates both an express duty of fair representation and a remedy in the FLRA for infringement of this duty, precludes implication of a parallel right to sue in federal courts. We granted Karahalios' petition for certiorari. 486 U.S. 1041 (1988).
Prior to 1978, labor relations in the federal sector were governed by a 1962 Executive Order administered by a Federal Labor Relations Council whose decisions were not subject to judicial review. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms v. FLRA, 464 U.S. 89, 91 -92 (1983). Since 1978, Title VII of the CSRA has been the controlling authority. Of particular relevance here, 5 U.S.C. 7114(a)(1) provides that a labor organization that has been accorded the exclusive right of representing employees in a designated unit "is responsible for representing the interests of all employees in the unit it represents without discrimination and without regard to labor organization membership." 1 This provision is "virtually identical" to that found in the Executive Order and is the source of the collective-bargaining agent's duty of fair representation. See National Federation of Federal Employees, Local 1453, 23 F. L. R. A. 686, 690 (1986). 2 This duty also [489 U.S. 527, 532] parallels the fair representation obligation of a union in the private sector that has been found implicit in the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), 49 Stat. 449, as amended, 29 U.S.C. 151 et seq. (1982 ed. and Supp. IV), and the Railway Labor Act (RLA), 44 Stat. 577, as amended, 45 U.S.C. 151 et seq. See Vaca v. Sipes, 386 U.S. 171, 180 -183 (1967); Steele v. Louisville & Nashville R. Co., 323 U.S. 192, 205 -207 (1944).
Title VII also makes it clear that a breach of the duty of fair representation is an unfair labor practice, for it provides that it is "an unfair labor practice for a labor organization . . . to otherwise fail or refuse to comply with any provision of this chapter." 7116(b)(8). Under 7118, unfair labor practice complaints are adjudicated by the FLRA, which is authorized to order remedial action appropriate to carry out the purposes of Title VII, including an award of backpay against either the agency or the labor organization that has committed the unfair practice.
There is no express suggestion in Title VII that Congress intended to furnish a parallel remedy in a federal district court to enforce the duty of fair representation. The Title provides recourse to the courts in only three instances: with specified exceptions, persons aggrieved by a final FLRA order may seek review in the appropriate court of appeals, 7123(a); the FLRA may seek judicial enforcement of its orders, 7123(b); and temporary injunctive relief is available to the FLRA to assist it in the discharge of its duties, 7123(d).
Petitioner nevertheless insists that a cause of action to enforce the Union's fair representation duty should be implied. Such a claim poses an issue of statutory construction: The "ultimate issue is whether Congress intended to create a private cause of action," California v. Sierra Club, 451 U.S. 287, 293 (1981) (citations omitted); see also Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington, 442 U.S. 560, 569 (1979). Unless such "congressional intent can be inferred from the language of the statute, [489 U.S. 527, 533] the statutory structure, or some other source, the essential predicate for implication of a private remedy simply does not exist." Thompson v. Thompson, 484 U.S. 174 (1988). It is also an "elemental canon" of statutory construction that where a statute expressly provides a remedy, courts must be especially reluctant to provide additional remedies. Transamerica Mortgage Advisers, Inc. v. Lewis, 444 U.S. 11, 19 (1979). In such cases, "[i]n the absence of strong indicia of contrary congressional intent, we are compelled to conclude that Congress provided precisely the remedies it considered appropriate." Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. Sea Clammers, 453 U.S. 1, 15 (1981); see also Massachusetts Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Russell, 473 U.S. 134, 147 (1985); Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Transport Workers, 451 U.S. 77, 93 (1981).
These guideposts indicate that the Court of Appeals was quite correct in concluding that neither the language nor the structure of the Act shows any congressional intent to provide a private cause of action to enforce federal employees unions' duty of fair representation. That duty is expressly recognized in the Act, and an administrative remedy for its breach is expressly provided for before the FLRA, a body created by Congress to enforce the duties imposed on agencies and unions by Title VII, including the duty of fair representation. Nothing in the legislative history of Title VII has been called to our attention indicating that Congress contemplated direct judicial enforcement of the union's duty. Indeed, the General Counsel of the FLRA was to have exclusive and final authority to issue unfair labor practice complaints, and only those matters mentioned in 7123 were to be judicially reviewable. H. R. Rep. No. 95-1403, p. 52 (1978). All complaints of unfair labor practices were to be filed with the FLRA. S. Rep. No. 95-969, p. 107 (1978). Furthermore, Title VII contemplates the arbitration of unsettled grievances, but a House proposal that the duty to arbitrate could be enforced in federal court in the first instance [489 U.S. 527, 534] was ultimately rejected. See H. R. Conf. Rep. No. 95-1717, p. 157 (1978). There exists no equivalent to 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (LMRA), 61 Stat. 156, 29 U.S.C. 185, which permits judicial enforcement of private collective-bargaining contracts.
Petitioner, however, relies on another source to find the necessary congressional intent to provide him with a cause of action. Petitioner urges that Title VII was modeled after the NLRA and that the authority of the FLRA was meant to be similar to that of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Because this Court found implicit in the NLRA a private cause of action against unions to enforce their fair representation duty even after the NLRB had construed the NLRA to make a breach of the duty an unfair labor practice, petitioner argues that Congress must have intended to preserve this judicial role under Title VII. Much of the argument rests on our decision in Vaca v. Sipes, supra. There are, however, several difficulties with this argument.
In the first place, Title VII is not a carbon copy of the NLRA, nor is the authority of the FLRA the same as that of the NLRB. The NLRA, like the RLA, did not expressly make a breach of the duty of fair representation an unfair labor practice and did not expressly provide for the enforcement of such a duty by the NLRB. That duty was implied by the Court because members of bargaining units were forced to accept unions as their exclusive bargaining agents. Because employees had no administrative remedy for a breach of the duty, we recognized a judicial cause of action on behalf of the employee. This occurred both under the RLA, Steele v. Louisville & Nashville R. Co., supra; Trainmen v. Howard, 343 U.S. 768 (1952), and also under the LMRA, Syres v. Oil Workers, 350 U.S. 892 (1955); Vaca v. Sipes, supra. Very dissimilarly, Title VII of the CSRA not only expressly recognizes the fair representation duty but also provides for its administrative enforcement. [489 U.S. 527, 535]
To be sure, prior to Vaca, the NLRB had construed 7 and 8(b) of the NLRA to impose a duty of fair representation on union bargaining agents and to make its breach an unfair labor practice. See Miranda Fuel Co., 140 N. L. R. B. 181 (1962), enf. denied, NLRB v. Miranda Fuel Co., 326 F.2d 172 (CA2 1963). The issue in Vaca, some years later, was whether, in light of Miranda Fuel Co., the courts still had jurisdiction to enforce the unions' duty. As we understood our inquiry, it was whether Congress, in enacting 8(b) in 1947, had intended to oust the courts of their role of enforcing the duty of fair representation implied under the NLRA. We held that the "tardy assumption" of jurisdiction by the NLRB was insufficient reason to abandon our prior cases, such as Syres.
In the case before us, there can be no mistaking Congress' intent to create a duty previously without statutory basis, and no mistaking the authority of the FLRA to enforce that duty. Also, because the courts played no role in enforcing a union's fair representation duty under Executive Order No. 11491 10e, 3 CFR 861 (1966-1970 Comp.), and subsequent amended orders, under the pre-CSRA regulatory regime, there was not in this context any pre-existing judicial role that at least arguably Congress intended to preserve. 3
Moreover, in Vaca and the earlier cases, it was stressed that by providing for exclusive bargaining agents, the pertinent statutes deprived bargaining unit employees of their individual rights to bargain for wages, hours, and working conditions. Hence it was critical that unions be required to represent all in good faith. Again, Title VII operates in a different context. As the United States as amicus explains, federal employment does not rest on contract in the private sector sense; nor is it clear that the deprivation a federal employee suffers from the election of a bargaining agent - if [489 U.S. 527, 536] there is such a deprivation - is comparable to the private sector predicament. Moreover, the collective-bargaining mechanisms created by Title VII do not deprive employees of recourse to any of the remedies otherwise provided by statute or regulation. See the CSRA, 5 U.S.C. 7114(a)(5) and 7121(e)(1).
We also note that Vaca rested in part on the fact that private collective-bargaining contracts were enforceable in the federal courts under LMRA 301. Because unfair representation claims most often involve a claim of breach by the employer and since employers are suable under 301, the implied fair representation cause of action allows claims against an employer and a union to be adjudicated in one action. Section 301 has no equivalent under Title VII; there is no provision in that Title for suing an agency in federal court.
We therefore discern no basis for finding congressional intent to provide petitioner with a cause of action against the Union. Congress undoubtedly was aware from our cases such as Cort v. Ash, 422 U.S. 66 (1975), that the Court had departed from its prior standard for resolving a claim urging that an implied statutory cause of action should be recognized, and that such issues were being resolved by a straightforward inquiry into whether Congress intended to provide a private cause of action. Had Congress intended the courts to enforce a federal employees union's duty of fair representation, we would expect to find some evidence of that intent in the statute or its legislative history. We find none. Just as in United States v. Fausto, 484 U.S. 439, 445 (1988), we held that the CSRA's "integrated scheme of administrative and judicial review" foreclosed an implied right to Court of Claims review, we follow a similar course here. See also Bush v. Lucas, 462 U.S. 367, 388 (1983). To be sure, courts play a role in CSRA 7116(b)(8) fair representation cases, but only sitting in review of the FLRA. To hold that the district courts must entertain such cases in the first instance would seriously undermine what we deem to be the congressional [489 U.S. 527, 537] scheme, namely to leave the enforcement of union and agency duties under the Act to the General Counsel and the FLRA and to confine the courts to the role given them under the Act.
Accordingly the judgment of the Court of Appeals is
[ Footnote 2 ] The Executive Order precursor provision likewise was interpreted to impose on federal unions the duty of fair representation. See National Federation of Federal Employees, Local 1453, 23 F. L. R. A., at 690.
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Desiree Rogers, the former White House social secretary who lost her job after a gate-crashing couple made it into President Barack Obama’s first state dinner last year, has been named chief executive of the nation’s largest black-owned publishing company.
Johnson Publishing Co., which produces Jet and Ebony magazines, announced Tuesday that Rogers would work alongside company Chairwoman Linda Johnson Rice, whose father founded the company in 1945. Rogers will assume leadership at a time when Ebony and Jet — both trendsetters and industry leaders among publications written for black audiences — have experienced sharp declines in circulation and sales at the newsstand.
Rogers, who has an M.B.A. from Harvard University, will run the day-to-day operations of the Chicago-based company. “I am humbled to have such an incredible opportunity. I consider it an honor to help continue the ... legacy of such a phenomenal company and its iconic brands,” she said in a statement.
A friend of the Obamas dating back to Chicago, Rogers became one of the administration’s most glamorous, high-profile staffers. While at the White House, she appeared in the pages of Vogue and on the cover of The Wall Street Journal magazine, and she was in the front row during New York Fashion Week last year.
But Rogers resigned in February after Virginia socialites Tareq and Michaele Salahi crashed Obama’s state dinner in honor of visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last November. The couple made it into the White House, past security checkpoints — apparently without an invitation — and shook hands with the president.
Rogers, in charge of the guest list, was criticized for failing to post someone from the East Wing to verify admission at a security checkpoint, but the administration defended her. The Secret Service ultimately took the blame for the embarrassing security breach.
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|Latin: Universitas Seattlensis|
|Motto in English||For the difference we make|
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|President||Rev. Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J.|
|Campus||Urban - 50 acres (20.2 ha)|
|Former names||Immaculate Conception Parish School (1891–1898)
Seattle College (1898–1948)
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SU is the largest independent university in the Northwest US, with over 7,500 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs within eight schools, and is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. U.S. News & World Report, in its "Best Colleges 2011," ranked Seattle University 6th out of Non-PhD schools in the West that offer a full range of programs up to Master's degree.
In 1891, Fathers Victor Garrand, S.J., and Adrian Sweere, S.J., took over a small parish near downtown Seattle at Broadway and Madison. At first, the school was named after the surrounding Immaculate Conception parish and did not offer higher education. In 1898, the school was named Seattle College after both the city and Chief Seattle, and it granted its first bachelor's degrees 11 years later. Initially, the school served as both a high school and college. From 1919 to 1931, the college moved to Interlaken Blvd, but in 1931 it returned to First Hill permanently. In 1931, Seattle College created a "night school" for women in order to allow them to attend; becoming coeducational was a highly controversial decision at the time.
In 1948, Seattle College changed its name to Seattle University under Father Albert A. Lemieux, S.J. In 1993, the Seattle University School of Law was established through purchase of the Law School from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. In 1999 the School of Law moved to the Seattle campus.
In 2009, SU completed the largest capital campaign in the university's history, raising almost $169 million and surpassing the original campaign goal by almost $20 million. The campaign has resulted in new scholarships for students, academic programs and professorships, a fitness complex, an arts center and more. The centerpiece of the capital projects is the $56 million Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, completed in fall 2010.
The Seattle University campus is 50 acres (200,000 m2) and is located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, near downtown Seattle, Wash. The SU campus has been recognized by the city of Seattle, the EPA and many organizations for its commitment to sustainability through pesticide-free grounds, a food waste compost facility, recycling program and energy conservation program.
The most well-known building on campus is the Chapel of St. Ignatius, designed by New York architect Steven Holl, born in Bremerton, Washington: the 1997 building won a national Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects in 1998. The Chapel of St Ignatius building's use of natural lighting and illuminating multi-colored lights at night transforms the chapel into a beacon of multicolored light radiating outward towards the campus and the city.
The campus includes numerous works by well-known artists (including the Centennial Fountain by Seattle artist George Tsutakawa—recipient of an honorary doctorate from Seattle U.—and a large glass sculpture in the PACCAR Atrium of Piggot Hall by Tacoma, Washington artist Dale Chihuly, as well as works by Chuck Close, Jacob Lawrence, Gwendolyn Knight, William Morris (glass artist) and David Mach) and several architecturally notable buildings.
Almost half of the overall student body represent diverse groups, in 2009–10 the makeup of the university was: 49% Caucasian 19% Asian/Pacific Islander 7% Latino/Hispanic 5% African American 1% Native American 9.7% International Students
Lemieux Library
The Lemieux Library was founded in 1991. As of 2011 it contained 216,677 books and subscribed to 1604 periodicals. It participates in the American Theological Library Association and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
Seattle University offers 61 bachelor's degree programs, 31 graduate degree programs and 27 certificate programs, plus a law school and a doctoral program in education. The university consists of eight colleges: the College of Arts and Sciences, the Albers School of Business and Economics, the College of Education, the School of Law, Matteo Ricci College, the College of Nursing, the College of Science and Engineering, and the School of Theology and Ministry. A Seattle University education is estimated to cost $150,000, although much of this is covered by financial aid.
Service-learning and social justice are components of the educational experience at Seattle University, which strives to "empower leaders for a just and humane world." Each year students, faculty and staff commit hundreds of hours to service projects and community outreach through the Center for Service and Community Engagement.
Albers School of Business and Economics
Albers School of Business and Economics was ranked 46th in the U.S. and among the Top 25 private universities in the BusinessWeek 2010 rankings of undergraduate Business Schools. Albers' faculty received an "A" rating from students and recruiters ranked Albers as the top school in the nation. The school ranked seventh in the West and was the only private university in the Northwest appearing in the Top 50. The 2009 U.S. News & World Report ranking of undergraduate business programs puts Albers in the top 30% of AACSB accredited schools and one of the top 20 private business schools in the U.S. Albers's part-time MBA program has been recognized as one of the top 50 in the nation, according to the latest issue of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools 2009." The Executive Leadership Program was ranked by CRO Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine among the top 10 executive training programs in corporate responsibility. In addition, the Albers EDGE program (Education for Global Executives) was honored in 2008 as the only academic institution to receive the President's "E" Award, which recognizes persons, firms, or organizations that contribute significantly in the effort to increase United States exports.
Seattle University's Albers School of Business and Economics, started in 1945, was named after the Albers family. George and Eva Albers were generous donors to the university and in 1971 Eva bequeathed $3 million to the school. Their daughter, Genevieve Albers, attended SU and also sponsored a business forum, established an eponymous professorship, and donated funds to create scholarships. In 1967, the business school added an MBA program, which by 2010 has grown to be a highly ranked, nationally accredited evening program for working professionals in the Pacific Northwest. BusinessWeek ranked Albers's Part-time MBA Program #25 in the nation and the undergraduate program in the top 50 in 2010. Both the Leadership Executive MBA Program and the part-time MBA Program are recognized among the Top 25 in their categories by "U.S. News & World Report's 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools." US News also ranks the Albers School among the top 10% of undergraduate business schools nationwide. The Albers School is accredited with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business AACSB.
College of Arts and Sciences
The Seattle University College of Arts and Sciences in Seattle, Washington is the oldest undergraduate and graduate college affiliated with Seattle University, the Northwest's largest independent university. The College offers 33 undergraduate majors, 33 undergraduate minors, 7 graduate degrees, and 1 post-graduate certificate. In the College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle University's graduate program in psychology is notable as one of the few schools in the country to focus on existential phenomenology as a therapeutic method.
Matteo Ricci College
The Matteo Ricci College was founded in 1973 and named after Italian Jesuit missionary, Matteo Ricci. The program allows high school students from Seattle Preparatory School and other area high schools to graduate with a bachelor's degree in humanities or teaching after as little as three years in high school and three years in college. It also provides students the opportunity to obtain a second bachelor degree in any other discipline with only one more year of study.
School of Law
The Seattle University School of Law is the largest and most diverse in the Pacific Northwest. The School of Law was founded in 1972 as part of the University of Puget Sound (UPS) in Tacoma, Wash. In 1993, the University of Puget Sound and Seattle University agreed on a transfer of the law school to Seattle University; in August 1994 the transfer was completed, and the school physically moved to the Seattle University campus in 1999. The 2012 US News and World Report Law School rankings lists the school at number eighty-two in the nation overall, adding that the school has the number one legal writing program in the nation, as well as top-twenty rankings for its part-time program and its clinical programs.
College of Nursing
Seattle University's College of Nursing celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2010. It is housed in the completely renovated Garrand building, the site of the original Seattle College and the oldest building on campus. The 19,000-square-foot (1,800 m2) "state of the art" Clinical Performance Lab is located in the James Tower of Swedish Cherry Hill, a few blocks away from the main campus. Undergraduate and Graduate students use this lab to practice skills necessary for clinical nursing. The BSN program attracts students who begin as Freshmen as well as transfer students from community colleges and those with degrees from other universities. The MSN program welcomes registered nurses with Bachelor's degrees. The Advanced Practice Nursing Immersion program (MSN) offers an accelerated program for those with a Bachelors degree in another field. Specialties available in the MSN program are Family Nurse Practitioner, Adult/Gerontological Nurse Practitioner, Psych-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Nurse-Midwifery and Advanced Community/Public Health Nursing.
College of Education
The College of Education was founded in 1935 and offers programs that include a Doctorate in Educational Leadership, Masters in Adult Education and Training, Counseling, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Administration, Literacy for Special Needs, Master in Teaching, Master in Teaching with Special Education Endorsement, Special Education, Student Development Administration, and Teaching English to Students of Other Languages. Educational specialist degree programs include Educational Administration – Principal Preparation, School Psychology, and Special Education and Certificate programs offered include Superintendent, Principal, and Professional Development.
The College of Education is accredited by the National Council of Accreditation of Teacher Education and the National Association of School Psychologists and approved by the National Association of School Psychologists.
College of Science & Engineering
The College of Science and Engineering focuses on basic sciences, mathematics and their applications. Students can major in basic science disciplines, computer science or one of the engineering departments – civil and environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, or computer and electrical engineering. Students may also obtain an interdisciplinary general science degree, or prepare for graduate work in the health professions.
The College of Science and Engineering is ranked among the top 50 in the nation as one of U.S. News & World Report's Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs (2008 edition). The college is ranked second in the nation in terms of the percentage of women faculty members, according to Prism, a publication of the American Society for Engineering Education.
School of Theology & Ministry
The School of Theology and Ministry is an ecumenical program with relationships with 10 Protestant denominations and the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle. It is committed to social justice and addressing the needs of an increasingly multicultural church. The school offers a number of master's degrees and certificates, including a Master of Divinity.
Community Investment
Investing and partnering with Seattle and the SU neighborhood are part of the Jesuit Catholic mission of education for service and social justice. More than 3,000 students—three out of every four—take part in at least one for-credit "service learning" class by the time that they graduate; nearly 45 percent participate in a service-learning class in any given year. This translates to 185,000 hours, the equivalent of more than 80 full-time workers or $6 million. By comparison, on a national level only about one-third of college students volunteer, according to the Corporation for National & Community Service.
The number of service learning courses at SU has nearly doubled since 2004. One-third of service-learning students continue their community work even after their class has ended and they've earned a grade. Many students continue serving after graduation through an SU program called Magis:Alumni Committed for Mission. In the past two years, nearly 100 alumni have participated in Magis efforts such as the Alumni Mexico Mission Trek and the annual Serve Seattle project. And in each of the past three years, at least a dozen graduates have gone into full-time service with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, the Peace Corps and Teach for America.
Because SU is part of Seattle's urban hub, students have easy access to a number of areas that offer a wide variety of service learning opportunities, including the Central District, the International District and Pioneer Square.
Environmental Sustainability
Among Seattle University's many environmental undertakings, there are projects ranging from composting initiatives to water conservation. There are also solar panels on buildings, and a central recycling yard with an extensive recycling program. The university has been composting since 1995, and in 2003 it built the first composting facility in the state on an urban campus. The University's Grounds Department is committed to fostering an organic, sustainable and environmentally friendly campus that functions as an urban wildlife sanctuary.
SU received the Sustainability Innovator Award in 2007 from the Sustainable Endowments Institute for SU's pre-consumer food waste composting program and the Green Washington Award in 2008 from Washington CEO Magazine for SU's sustainable landscape practices and pre-consumer food waste composting program. The Princeton Review's 2009 Green Rating gave the school a 97 out of a possible 99.
SU's move to a pesticide-free campus began in the early 1980s when Ciscoe Morris, now a local gardening celebrity, was head of the SU Grounds Department in the 1980s. He put a halt to chemical spraying and in its place released more than 20,000 beneficial insects called lacewings to eat the aphids that had infested trees on campus. It worked and that led to a whole host of pesticide-free gardening practices. Ciscoe began a transformation that has made the university a model for ecological gardening.
Between 1950 and 1971, Seattle University competed as a Division I independent school. In the 1950s, the basketball team was a powerhouse with brothers Johnny and Eddie O'Brien, who led Seattle University as the only team in history to defeat the world famous Harlem Globetrotters. In 1958, future NBA Hall of Famer Elgin Baylor paced a men's basketball team that advanced to the Final Four and defeated top-ranked Kansas State University before losing to the University of Kentucky. Seattle University was also a leader in the area of racial diversity, with an integrated squad known as "the United Nations team."
The success of men's basketball, in addition to men's golf and baseball, continued into to the 1960s with players Eddie Miles, Clint Richardson, and Tom Workman, all of whom went on to successful careers in the NBA. The 1966 basketball squad led Texas Western University to its only defeat in a championship season celebrated in the film Glory Road. In the course of the 1960s, Seattle University produced more NBA players than any other school.
During that time women's tennis star Janet Hopps was the first female to be the top-ranked player for both the men and women nationally. In women's golf, Pat Lesser was twice named to the Curtis Cup in the mid-1950s and was later inducted into the State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame.
Before 1980, more than 25 SU baseball players went on to play professionally in both the major and minor leagues. Men's golf and a Tom Gorman -led tennis team were also very strong[clarification needed] national programs. Gorman went on to lead the US Davis Cup team, where he captained a record 18 match wins and one Davis Cup title (1972) as a player and two more Davis Cup championships as a coach (1990 and 1992).
SU joined the West Coast Conference in 1971. In 1980, SU left the West Coast Conference and Division I membership and entered the NAIA, where it remained for nearly 20 years. In the late 1990s, President Fr. Sundborg started restoring the university's NCAA membership. The athletic program moved into Division II in the fall of 2002.
Currently, the school is reclassifying from Division II to Division I. This integration process will take five years and should be complete in 2012–2013. In 2009, the university hired men's basketball coach Cameron Dollar, former assistant at University of Washington, and women's coach Joan Bonvicini, former University of Arizona coach and one of the winningest women's college basketball coaches.
In 1938 the mascot switched from the Maroons to the Chieftains. The name was selected to honor the college's namesake, Chief Seattle. In 2000 the university changed its mascot to the Redhawks.
Notable alumni
|Elgin Baylor||NBA Hall of Famer; general manager, Los Angeles Clippers, 2006 NBA Executive of the Year.|||
|Anne Bremner||J.D. 1982||Seattle lawyer and television legal analyst|||
|Miguel S. Demapan||1975||Supreme Court Chief Justice of the Commonwealth of North Marianas Islands|||
|Rudy D'Amico||1990||NBA basketball scout, and former college and professional (Euroleague-winning) basketball coach|||
|Ada Fetters||2011||Editor of The Commonline Journal|||
|John Juanda||1996, M.B.A.||Professional Poker Player|||
|Dino Rossi||1982||Former Washington State Senator|||
|Mohamed Ali Alabbar||1981||Chairman of Emaar Properties; one of the world's largest real estate development firms with $25 billion in assets|||
|Dave Barrett||Former premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia (1972–1975)|||
|Major General (Ret.) Patrick Henry Brady||recipient of the Medal of Honor|||
|Gary Brinson||1966||founder and retired chair of Brinson Partners; GP Brinson Investments; The Brinson Foundation. The January 2003 issue of CFA Magazine named Brinson as one of seven living legends in the investment profession.|||
|General Peter W. Chiarelli||1972||Former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army|||
|William P. Foley, II||1970, M.B.A.||Chairman and CEO, Fidelity National Financial|||
|Micheal Gilleran||1971; J.D. 1975||Commissioner of the West Coast Conference|||
|John E. Hopcroft||1961||renowned theoretical computer scientist; co-winner 1986 Turing Award|||
|Carolyn Kelly||M.B.A.||President and COO, The Seattle Times|||
|Steve McConnell||1991, M.S. Software Engineering||Chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Professional Practices Committee|||
|Duff McKagan||Bassist of Velvet Revolver, former bassist of Guns N' Roses|||
|Stan W. McNaughton||1974||CEO, PEMCO Insurance|||
|Charles Mitchell||1974||Chancellor, Seattle Community Colleges; was president of Seattle Central Community College in 2001 when Time magazine named it "College of the Year." Former professional football player with the Denver Broncos and Buffalo Bills.|||
|Frank Murkowski||1955||Former Governor of Alaska and former U.S. Senator from Alaska|||
|Carol Nelson||1974; 1984, MBA||President, CEO, Cascade Bank|||
|Eddie O'Brien||Baseball player for Pittsburgh Pirates|||
|Johnny O'Brien||Baseball player for Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Braves|||
|Gerri Russell||Romantic fiction author|||
|John D. Spellman||1949||First King County Executive, Governor of Washington state (1981-85)|||
|Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift||J.D 1994||Served as legal counsel for Salim Ahmed Hamdan. Listed as 100 most influential lawyers in the US.|||
|Calvin Tang||2000||Co-founder of Newsvine, former Chief Operating Officer at NBCNews.com|||
|Jim Whittaker||1952||First American to summit Mount Everest in 1963.|||
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365 Reasons to Love Comics #183
DITKO WEEK enters its ninth day with a profile on the other great hero Ditko created for Charlton. Yep, it’s that guy. Everyone’s favorite. (Archive here, yo.)
183. Blue Beetle
Yep, Blue Beetle. And, as cool as Dan Garrett and Jaime Reyes are, I’m going to talk about Ted Kord, the greatest Blue Beetle of them all.
That’s right, Ted Kord, the awesome Steve Ditko creation first debuting in the back-up strips of Captain Atom #83. Ted Kord, the happy-go-lucky, wise-cracking superhero inventor with one of the coolest superhero vehicles around. Ted Kord, the cool inspiration for Nite-Owl in Alan Moore’s Watchmen. Ted Kord, the heart of the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League International.
If Peter Parker had Tony Stark’s money instead of a radioactive spider-bite, he’d be the Blue Beetle. Ted Kord had no superpowers, but he did have fantastic athletic skills and a brilliant mind, which he used to fight crime in order to honor the memory of the original Blue Beetle. He built the Bug, an awesome flying beetle ship, and outfitted himself with some gadgets.
He was borne out of the back pages of Captain Atom, and later received his own series (from which the Question was launched– Ditko creations begetting Ditko creations). It only lasted five issues in the late ’60s, but it put him out there. Later, DC would purchase the character from Charlton, and gave him his own ongoing, penned by Len Wein. It was a standard superhero book and it lasted two years. Did anyone here read it? Did you like it? I’ve never picked it up, myself, but I’m willing if I hear good things.
The Blue Beetle’s big break, however, came when he joined the Justice League in the much beloved Giffen/DeMatteis era, when the adventures weren’t always deathly serious and humor was much appreciated. The Blue Beetle provided transportation for the team (via the Bug) and scientific know-how, but he was also the friendly funnyman, constantly quipping and exchanging in banter. I’d say he was very much the heart of the team– as Martian Manhunter was the soul and Guy Gardner was the, er… pancreas.
Beetle put the “Bwah” in “Bwahahahah!” He became best pals with Booster Gold, enacted crazy schemes, like the one on KooeyKooeyKooey, battled with unwanted weight gain, and proved his worth as a hero, whether it was in skirmishes with Wally Tortellini or epic battles with Eclipso. The world was Beetle’s oyster– but it didn’t last. Oh, sure, he remained on the team for quite a while, even after Giffen and DeMatteis left and Dan Jurgens took over, but all good things must come to an end, and so Beetle departed from the League.
He had stints with Extreme Justice and LAW before settling into a nice supporting role in Birds of Prey, even romancing Barbara Gordon. He also reunited with his old JLI pals in Formerly Known as the Justice League, where they started calling themselves the “Super Buddies” and working out of a strip mall. It was a great little mini with a cool sequel that featured as an arc in JLA Classified. I believe they’re both in trade. Seek them out.
Beetle’s new lease on life was cut short, though, by a little one-shot called Countdown that used Blue Beetle as a martyr for a cause, and turned old JLI pal Maxwell Lord into a raving bad guy who shot his pal Ted through the brain. Let’s just say it was an awful comic and move on.
The mantle of Blue Beetle has been picked up by a new guy who is currently starring in a fun little series that really needs the sales, so I encourage you to pick it up. Still, I miss Ted, and I always will. He was a great character who was never really appreciated but always came through for his friends and for the readers. He was a terrifically written hero and starred in fun, joyous comics, including the greatest Justice League run of all time. So thanks, Mr. Ditko, for creating a guy that showed a lot of readers a good time.
The Ted Kord Blue Beetle had loads of potential left, but, like with many Ditko heroes, that potential was squandered, that awesome, fun core was thrown away. So here we are, in a silly little column, honoring a superhero the world never heard of, a guy who never existed– and yet, I mourn him. Here’s the wake he never got.
So, come on, gather ’round. Let’s all join in for one last gut-busting guffaw. Ready? Say it with me–
The Blue Beetle is dead– long live the Blue Beetle.
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371 F.3d 182
David Wachira NGARURIH, Petitioner,
John D. ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Argued: January 20, 2004.
Decided: June 10, 2004.
ARGUED: Philip Gordon Schrag, Center for Applied Legal Studies, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner. Deborah Nirmala Misir, Trial Attorney, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Papu Sandhu, Senior Litigation, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
Before WILKINSON, GREGORY, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.
Petition denied by published opinion. Judge SHEDD wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge WILKINSON joined. Judge GREGORY wrote an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.
SHEDD, Circuit Judge:
The Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirmed an order denying David Wachira Ngarurih's request for asylum but granting voluntary departure. Within the time permitted for appeal and shortly before the period for voluntary departure expired, Ngarurih filed this petition for review. Applying the narrow standards of review prescribed by Congress in the immigration statute, we conclude that the BIA's denial of asylum is neither manifestly contrary to law nor an abuse of discretion. We further conclude that the statute does not permit a court of appeals to alter the period allowed by the BIA for voluntary departure, either by reinstating or staying the departure period. Accordingly, the petition for review is denied.
Ngarurih is a native and citizen of Kenya who entered the United States in May 1995 on a nonimmigrant student visa. Ngarurih filed an application for asylum in May 2000, alleging that he had been persecuted by the Kenyan government due to his criticisms of President Daniel Arap Moi and his government's tea farming policies.
Ngarurih began farming tea on a portion of his father's land in the early 1990s. The Kenyan government owned the tea plants and licensed the right to cultivate them. Under the license, tea farmers were required to maintain their plantations in accordance with instructions issued by the Kenya Tea Development Authority ("KTDA"); farmers could neither increase nor decrease the number of tea plants they cultivated without KTDA approval. Failure to comply with the conditions of the license could result in a fine, imprisonment, or both.
Licensed farmers were required to sell their tea to the KTDA, which marketed the tea internationally. Although the KTDA sold tea on the international market for 40 shillings per kilogram, it paid tea farmers only 3 shillings per kilogram. This payment typically was inadequate to cover the costs of production, so that tea farmers were almost always in debt.
In 1992, Ngarurih and some friends publicly protested the KTDA's policies and announced that they would no longer sell their tea to the KTDA. Soon other farmers began discussing a widespread boycott of the KTDA. Ngarurih then organized a march to the local KTDA tea processing factory to demand an accounting for the excess profits that had been withheld from farmers. As a result of the boycott that Ngarurih organized, tea production in Kenya's Central Province slowed dramatically.1
On July 17, 1992, Ngarurih organized a march to take the farmers' protest to local government officials in the Central Province. Some thirty thousand people joined this march. Ngarurih spoke to the crowd, denouncing the KTDA's policies and the Moi government's failure to address the needs of poor farmers. The district commissioner heard the farmers' protests and asked that a committee present him written demands. Among the farmers' demands were that the district tea committee be dissolved, that certain licenses and taxes be eliminated, and that the KTDA decentralize management of factories and increase monthly payments to farmers.
A few days after the July 17 march, security officers escorted Ngarurih to the home of the district commissioner. According to Ngarurih, the district commissioner offered him a bribe to call off the boycott of the KTDA. Ngarurih refused the offer. Shortly after this incident, President Moi issued a statement warning "those inciting the farmers" to end the boycott or face "dire consequences." Concerned for his safety, Ngarurih went into hiding. After hearing that other tea farmers were being arrested, Ngarurih surrendered to district authorities in early August 1992.
Ngarurih testified that three officers took him from his cell at the local police station, handcuffed and blindfolded him, and drove him to a wooded area, where they demanded that he name the other leaders of the boycott. Under threat of execution, Ngarurih refused to identify the other leaders. The officers then took Ngarurih to a prison, where Ngarurih was stripped of his clothes and placed in a dark cement cell. The cell had no light, no windows, and no toilet. For one week, prison officials flooded the cell with cold water at irregular intervals. The water level rose and fell, often rising to the level of Ngarurih's chest. Ngarurih could not eat or sleep, nor was he allowed contact with other people. During this period, Ngarurih experienced hallucinations in which he saw himself separate from his own body, floating in another part of the cell. Prison officials moved Ngarurih into a dry solitary confinement cell, where he remained for several months.2
After being relocated to the jail in his home district, Ngarurih was tried on a charge of treason. The local magistrate dismissed the charge for lack of evidence and ordered Ngarurih released. Local authorities immediately charged Ngarurih with breach of the peace. The magistrate offered to release Ngarurih if he would post a bond of one million shillings and agree to refrain from political activity for one year. Under the magistrate's conditions, Ngarurih could not meet with more than three Kenyans at a time or leave his home district without permission. Ngarurih would have to report to local police officials every other week. Ngarurih agreed to these conditions, and other tea farmers raised the money (pledging their land titles as security) to satisfy the bond. Thus, after about eight months of detention, Ngarurih was released from custody in early April 1993.
Rather than face another confrontation with the government, Ngarurih decided to leave Kenya. With the help of three Peace Corps volunteers in his district, Ngarurih obtained a student visa to enter the United States in May 1995. Ngarurih attended St. Gregory's College in Oklahoma, where he played basketball and earned an associate's degree in business. Ngarurih later earned a degree in international business management from the University of San Francisco.
Ngarurih returned to Kenya in June 1997 after learning that his younger brother Njoka — whom Ngarurih had reared from childhood — had been jailed. Njoka had pled guilty to two counts of defiling a girl under the age of fourteen and sentenced to eight years in prison with hard labor and "six strokes of the cane" for each count. Once Ngarurih arrived in his village, he wrote to the trial court to obtain Njoka's file; the court granted Ngarurih's request and sent him the records. Ngarurih hired an attorney to challenge Njoka's conviction, and he traveled to other villages to investigate the facts of the case. Ngarurih's efforts were ultimately successful: His brother's conviction was reversed and his case remanded for a new trial. Ngarurih personally posted a bond to secure Njoka's release from prison. Several days after Njoka's release, Ngarurih returned to the United States in August 1997.
Ngarurih's student visa was set to expire in 2000. Not wanting to return to Kenya, Ngarurih filed an initial application for asylum and withholding of removal based on past persecution by the Moi government. The Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS") commenced removal proceedings.3 Ngarurih conceded that he was removable and applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture. Ngarurih asserted that he should be deemed a refugee based on his past persecution. In addition, Ngarurih asserted that he had a well-founded fear of future persecution because (1) President Moi remained in power, (2) Kenyan authorities continued to employ torture tactics, and (3) Ngarurih would likely come to these authorities' attention as an outspoken political opponent.
The Immigration Judge ("IJ") found that Ngarurih had been subject to past persecution in Kenya, but she denied the request for asylum because Ngarurih's two-month return to Kenya in 1997 demonstrated that he was willing to return to his native country and that he could be involved in public matters — such as a criminal appeal — without reprisal by the Kenyan government. Although the IJ denied Ngarurih's claims for asylum and withholding of removal, she granted voluntary departure, giving Ngarurih thirty days to leave the United States at his own expense and without further government action. Ngarurih appealed the IJ's order to the BIA, which affirmed the IJ's disposition of Ngarurih's claims.
The BIA concluded that Ngarurih's return to Kenya in 1997 constituted a "fundamental change in circumstances [that] diminishe[d] his claim" that he feared persecution in Kenya.4 Likewise, the BIA concluded that Ngarurih's return to Kenya diminished his claim that he was entitled to asylum based upon the severity of his past persecution. Thus, the BIA affirmed the IJ's resolution of Ngarurih's asylum claim and granted Ngarurih permission to depart the United States voluntarily. According to the BIA's order, Ngarurih had thirty days from the date of entry of the order (or any extension granted by the district director) to depart the United States. The order further provided that Ngarurih's failure to depart within that 30-day period would result in his being removed, fined, and ineligible from certain forms of relief for a period of ten years. Shortly before that voluntary departure period expired, Ngarurih filed this petition for review.
The Immigration and Nationality Act authorizes the Attorney General, in his discretion, to confer asylum on any refugee. 8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(1). A "refugee" is any person "who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, [the home] country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion." 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42)(A). An applicant for asylum may qualify as a refugee either because he suffered past persecution or because he has a well-founded fear of future persecution. 8 C.F.R. § 208.13(b). Under either standard, the applicant bears the burden of demonstrating eligibility for asylum. 8 C.F.R. § 208.13(a); Gonahasa v. INS, 181 F.3d 538, 541 (4th Cir.1999).
An applicant "shall be found to be a refugee on the basis of past persecution if the applicant can establish that he or she has suffered persecution in the past in the applicant's country of nationality ... on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, and is unable or unwilling to return to, or avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country owing to such persecution." 8 C.F.R. § 208.13(b)(1). An applicant who demonstrates that he was the subject of past persecution is presumed to have a well-founded fear of persecution. Id. This presumption may be rebutted if the immigration judge finds by the preponderance of evidence that (1) there has been a fundamental change in circumstances such that the applicant no longer has a well-founded fear of persecution or (2) the applicant could avoid future persecution by relocating to another part of his native country. 8 C.F.R. § 208.13(b)(1)(i).
Without regard to past persecution, an applicant has a well-founded fear of persecution if (1) he "has a fear of persecution in his country of nationality on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion," (2) "there is a reasonable possibility of suffering such persecution if he or she were to return to that country," and (3) he is "unable or unwilling to return to, or avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of such fear." 8 C.F.R. § 208.13(b)(2)(i). The well-founded fear of persecution standard involves objective and subjective components. "An applicant may satisfy the subjective element by presenting candid, credible, and sincere testimony demonstrating a genuine fear of persecution." Chen v. INS, 195 F.3d 198, 201-02 (4th Cir.1999) (internal quotations omitted). The objective element requires a showing of specific, concrete facts that would lead a reasonable person in like circumstances to fear persecution. Huaman-Cornelio v. BIA, 979 F.2d 995, 999 (4th Cir.1992).
We must uphold the BIA's determination that Ngarurih is ineligible for asylum unless that determination is "manifestly contrary to the law and an abuse of discretion." 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(4)(D). Considering the record as a whole, we ask whether the BIA's ruling is "supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence," and we will reverse the BIA's decision only if Ngarurih presented evidence that was "so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution." INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481, 483-84, 112 S.Ct. 812, 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). See also Rusu v. INS, 296 F.3d 316, 325 n. 14 (4th Cir.2002); Gonahasa, 181 F.3d at 541; Huaman-Cornelio, 979 F.2d at 999.
Where, as here, the BIA did not adopt the IJ's opinion but offered its own reasons for denying relief, we review the BIA's order rather than the IJ's ruling. See Rusu, 296 F.3d at 320 n. 6; Huaman-Cornelio, 979 F.2d at 999. Contrary to Ngarurih's assertion, the BIA's order adequately discloses the grounds upon which it denied Ngarurih's requests for relief. See SEC v. Chenery Corp., 318 U.S. 80, 95, 63 S.Ct. 454, 87 L.Ed. 626 (1943).5
The BIA first concluded that Ngarurih's voluntary return to Kenya in 1997 undermined his claim to have a well-founded fear of persecution. Citing 8 C.F.R. § 208.13(b)(1)(i), the BIA reasoned that although Ngarurih's past persecution established a presumption of fear of persecution, the evidence of Ngarurih's two-month stay in Kenya without incident constituted evidence of a changed circumstance that rebutted the presumption. More generally, the BIA analogized Ngarurih's return to Kenya to a case in which an asylum applicant leaves the United States without first obtaining advance parole; in such a case, the applicant would be deemed to have abandoned his asylum application. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.8(a).6
Ngarurih testified that he returned to Kenya in 1997 when he learned that his younger brother had been sentenced to a term of imprisonment for rape. Suspecting that his brother had been falsely accused, Ngarurih left the United States to assist in the criminal appeal. When he arrived back in his home village, Ngarurih wrote a letter to the trial court, bearing his own signature, requesting his brother's file. After retaining an attorney to prosecute the appeal, Ngarurih traveled to other villages to investigate the facts of his brother's case. Once his brother's conviction was reversed, Ngarurih posted the bond that secured his brother's release from prison.
Ngarurih's presence in Kenya was known by his family, other tea farmers who sought to persuade him to run for Parliament, and government officials. Indeed, Ngarurih stated that he was approached by a police officer who said, "So you're back... we know you're back and don't worry, we'll be watching you." Thus, despite his self-described efforts to maintain a low profile, Ngarurih undertook activities that placed him in direct contact with government officials, seeking the protection of Kenya's laws. Yet there is no evidence that Ngarurih suffered any mistreatment at the hands of the Kenyan government during his two-month stay in 1997.
These facts, found by the IJ and established by Ngarurih's own testimony, support the BIA's conclusion that Ngarurih's return to Kenya in 1997 constituted a "fundamental change in circumstances" sufficient to rebut the presumption (raised by the fact of past persecution) that Ngarurih had a well-founded fear of future persecution. The question for the BIA was not whether Ngarurih had a well-founded fear of persecution when he returned to Kenya in 1997. The pertinent question is whether Ngarurih qualified as a "refugee" — a person unable or unwilling to return to his home country due to a well-founded fear of persecution — at the time he applied for asylum. There is perhaps no evidence more relevant to this question than what happened (or did not happen) to Ngarurih when he actually returned to Kenya in 1997.
While one could argue that the factfinder could have reached a different conclusion, it is not our task to "reweigh the evidence and determine which of the competing views is more compelling. It is instead to ensure that substantial evidence supports the BIA's judgment." Gonahasa, 181 F.3d at 542. Considering the record as a whole, we conclude that substantial evidence supports the BIA's denial of Ngarurih's application for asylum.7 Thus, we cannot say that the BIA's ruling is manifestly contrary to law or an abuse of discretion. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(4)(D).
The BIA further ruled that Ngarurih's return to Kenya in 1997 undermined his claim to so-called "humanitarian asylum." Even in the absence of a well-founded fear of persecution, an immigration judge has discretion to grant asylum to an applicant who demonstrates "compelling reasons for being unwilling or unable to return to the country arising out of the severity of the past persecution" or that "there is a reasonable possibility that he or she may suffer other serious harm upon removal to that country." 8 C.F.R. § 208.13(b)(1)(iii). See also Krastev v. INS, 292 F.3d 1268, 1271 (10th Cir.2002) (describing asylum conferred under this regulation as "humanitarian asylum").
We have construed this exception narrowly, stating that humanitarian asylum is available only in "`the rare case where past persecution is so severe that it would be inhumane to return the alien even in the absence of any risk of future persecution.' " Gonahasa, 181 F.3d at 543 (quoting Vaduva v. INS, 131 F.3d 689, 690 (7th Cir.1997)). Accord Toptchev v. INS, 295 F.3d 714, 721-22 (7th Cir.2002); Krastev, 292 F.3d at 1280. In short, "[e]ligibility based on severity of persecution alone is reserved for the most atrocious abuse." Gonahasa, 181 F.3d at 543. Accord Bucur v. INS, 109 F.3d 399, 405 (7th Cir.1997) (describing the "humanitarian asylum" regulation as "designed for the case of the German Jews, the victims of the Chinese `Cultural Revolution,' survivors of the Cambodian genocide, and a few other such extreme cases").
The BIA concluded that Ngarurih's return to Kenya in 1997 — a return made for the purpose of assisting in his brother's appeal in Kenya's courts — was a "willing" return that undermined his present claim to be "unwilling" to return to Kenya based on his past persecution. While we have no doubt that Ngarurih felt a need to help his brother through legal processes, that fact does not answer the question whether the circumstances were so objectively compelling as to render Ngarurih's return to Kenya "unwilling." After reviewing the entire record, and considering the particular facts of Ngarurih's return, we cannot say that the BIA's conclusion was manifestly contrary to law or an abuse of discretion. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(4)(D).
Even if the BIA erred in finding Ngarurih willing to return to Kenya, that error was harmless.8 Ngarurih's mistreatment — horrible as it was — does not compare in severity to the kinds of persecution for which the humanitarian asylum regulation was designed. The seminal case on humanitarian asylum involved a native of China who testified that both he and his family suffered persecution for several years during the Cultural Revolution. Matter of Chen, 20 I. & N. Dec. 16, 19 (BIA 1989). When Chen was only eight years old, his father, a Christian minister, became a target of the Red Guards. Id. The Red Guards ransacked his house, put him in prison, and dragged him through the streets more than fifty times over several months. Id. During a Bible burning in 1967, Chen's father was pushed into a bonfire and badly burned. Id. Chen, still only a child, was put on house arrest for six months; when he cried, Red Guards kicked and bit him and deprived him of food. Matter of Chen, 20 I. & N. Dec. at 20. Although Chen was ultimately allowed to attend school, his persecution did not stop. On different occasions, Chen was pelted with rocks, denied medical care, and exiled to rural villages for "re-education." Id. Even though the regime had changed such that Chen could not demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution, the BIA granted Chen humanitarian asylum. Matter of Chen, 20 I. & N. Dec. at 19-21.
At about the same time that Ngarurih was being jailed and tortured for his political opposition in Kenya, David Daada Gonahasa was suffering similar mistreatment in Uganda. After organizing rallies in opposition to the ruling party, Gonahasa was seized by military intelligence officers, "stripped, beaten, cut on his arms by bayonets, and confined in a small cell." Gonahasa, 181 F.3d at 540. He later learned that government officers had "visited his home, roughed up his wife, and threatened to kill him." Id. On these facts, we concluded (in dicta) that Gonahasa was not entitled to humanitarian asylum because his past persecution was "simply not severe enough" to warrant such relief. Gonahasa, 181 F.3d at 544.
We later denied humanitarian asylum to Constantin Rusu, a native Romanian who was persecuted by the Ceausescu regime for organizing a transcendental meditation group. Rusu, 296 F.3d at 318. Rusu alleged that he was "interrogated and assaulted on multiple occasions by the Romanian secret police (the Securitate)" and that on one occasion, "they tortured him by removing his teeth with pliers and a screwdriver." Id. We concluded that "although the persecution he suffered ... was horrible, it is not of the scale warranting a grant of asylum." Rusu, 296 F.3d at 325.
We have reviewed the entire record in this case and conclude that Ngarurih's past persecution was no more severe than the persecution suffered by Gonahasa and Rusu, and not nearly as severe as the persecution suffered by Chen. Even if Ngarurih were unwilling to return to his home country, he cannot establish past persecution severe enough to warrant relief under § 208.13(b)(1)(iii). Thus, we cannot say that the BIA's denial of humanitarian asylum in this case is manifestly contrary to law or an abuse of discretion. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(4)(D).
Having concluded that the evidence in the record does not compel the granting of asylum, we address Ngarurih's alternative request to restore his opportunity to depart the United States voluntarily. Both the IJ and the BIA granted Ngarurih voluntary departure. This relief was available for thirty days after the BIA's order was filed, and that period has long since expired. Relying upon our decision in Ramsay v. INS, 14 F.3d 206 (4th Cir.1994), Ngarurih urges us to reinstate the BIA's award of voluntary departure by restarting the 30-day period granted by the BIA's order.
Ngarurih's request implicates the Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ("IIRIRA"), an enactment well known for restricting judicial review of discretionary decisions in immigration matters. See Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Cmte., 525 U.S. 471, 486, 119 S.Ct. 936, 142 L.Ed.2d 940 (1999) (noting that "many provisions of IIRIRA are aimed at protecting the Executive's discretion from the courts — indeed, that can fairly be said to be the theme of the legislation").9 Before IIRIRA, it was unsettled whether courts of appeals had authority to reinstate voluntary departures. Some courts held that absent a specific grant of authority to award such relief, it was left to the Attorney General alone to decide whether to extend the period for voluntary departure. See, e.g., Nkacoang v. INS, 83 F.3d 353, 357 (11th Cir.1996); Castaneda v. INS, 23 F.3d 1576, 1580 (10th Cir.1994); Alsheweikh v. INS, 990 F.2d 1025, 1027 (8th Cir.1993). The Ninth Circuit, on the other hand, held that reinstatement of voluntary departure was automatic upon affirmance of a final order of deportation. Contreras-Aragon v. INS, 852 F.2d 1088, 1096-97 (9th Cir.1988) (en banc). Other courts held that nothing prevented a court of appeals from reinstating voluntary departure, under certain limited circumstances, in the course of considering a final order of deportation. Kaczmarczyk v. INS, 933 F.2d 588, 598 (7th Cir.1991); Umanzor-Alvarado v. INS, 896 F.2d 14, 15-16 (1st Cir.1990).
We held in Ramsay that a court of appeals could reinstate a voluntary departure in two circumstances: (1) where "the INS is wielding its discretion to withhold voluntary departure to deter applicants from seeking judicial review of BIA decisions," or (2) where "the [INS] does not suggest it will present the district director with any other reason for refusing the reinstatement." 14 F.3d at 213 (alteration in original). Where a court concluded that voluntary departure should be reinstated, "the period for voluntary departure granted by the BIA begins to run anew from the date the mandate issues from the court of appeals reinstating the voluntary departure." Id. at 213 n. 8.
In reaching this conclusion, we relied in part upon the First Circuit's analysis in Umanzor-Alvarado, which offered two basic justifications for reinstating voluntary departure. First, the court expressed the concern that the INS might employ voluntary departure orders to keep aliens from prosecuting appeals from final orders of deportation. See Umanzor-Alvarado, 896 F.2d at 16. Accord Kaczmarczyk, 933 F.2d at 598. This concern reflected the fact that under pre-IIRIRA immigration law, a court of appeals lost jurisdiction of a petition for review once the alien left the United States. See 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(c) (1994). Second, the court noted that "nothing in the law ... deprives [the court of appeals] of the legal power to order the appropriate remedy." Umanzor-Alvarado, 896 F.2d at 16.
The enactment of IIRIRA undercut both of these justifications for reinstatement of voluntary departure. Perhaps most fundamentally, IIRIRA repealed former § 1105a and replaced it with a new judicial review provision, 8 U.S.C. § 1252, that does not purport to cut off appellate jurisdiction once an alien leaves the country. See Moore v. Ashcroft, 251 F.3d 919, 922 (11th Cir.2001) ("Noticeably absent from the permanent rules is any similar language removing federal review jurisdiction in the event an alien departs or is removed."). Thus, an alien may continue to prosecute his appeal of a final order of removal even after he departs the United States, and there is no longer any prospect that the government could manipulate voluntary departure orders to deprive an alien of judicial review. See Zazueta-Carrillo v. Ashcroft, 322 F.3d 1166, 1171 (9th Cir.2003) (stating that "Congress's desire to expedite removal by voluntary assent now does not conflict with the alien's ability to pursue a petition for review"); Tapia Garcia v. INS, 237 F.3d 1216, 1217 (10th Cir.2001) (stating that "deportation no longer forecloses judicial review").
IIRIRA also changed the rules concerning judicial review of voluntary departure decisions. Section 1229c specifically precludes review of a denial of a request for voluntary departure. 8 U.S.C. § 1229c(f). Likewise, the general judicial review provision precludes review of orders granting voluntary departure:
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no court shall have jurisdiction to review —
(i) any judgment regarding the granting of relief under section 1182(h), 1182(i), 1229b, 1229c, or 1255 of this title....
Id. § 1252(a)(2)(B) (emphasis added). Thus, it is no longer true that "nothing in the law ... deprives [the court of appeals] of the legal power" to reinstate voluntary departure. Umanzor-Alvarado, 896 F.2d at 16. These intervening changes in the statute make Ramsay inapplicable to this, or any, permanent rules case.10
This conclusion is consistent with Congress' expressed intention to preserve the exercise of executive discretion in granting voluntary departures. Under current law, the decision whether to permit an alien to depart the United States voluntarily is committed entirely to the discretion of the Attorney General. 8 U.S.C. § 1229c(b)(1). By regulation, the Attorney General has permitted the INS district director, in the exercise of discretion, to extend the period initially prescribed for voluntary departure. 8 C.F.R. § 240.26. As the Ninth Circuit has recognized, "it is executive rather than judicial officers who decide when an alien must depart," and "[n]either the statute nor the regulations give courts any designated role in this process of setting the deadline for departure." Zazueta-Carrillo, 322 F.3d at 1172.
The BIA gave Ngarurih thirty days from the date of its order — until February 7, 2003 — to depart the country voluntarily. That deadline has long since passed, and Ngarurih has even exhausted the maximum period permitted by the statute. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229c(b)(2) (providing that the period for voluntary departure cannot exceed sixty days). "For us to specify in effect a different period starting more than a year later would contravene Congress's scheme and invade the executive branch's authority to specify a deadline for voluntary departure." Zazueta-Carrillo, 322 F.3d at 1172-73. Because the statute plainly precludes our review of the BIA's order granting voluntary departure, we hold that a court of appeals lacks jurisdiction to entertain a request to reinstate voluntary departure.11
Relying upon recent decisions from the Sixth and Ninth Circuits, Ngarurih further contends that we should exercise our general equitable power, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2349, to stay the period specified for voluntary departure. These decisions hold that an alien may obtain a stay of his voluntary departure period if he meets the requirements for a stay of removal. See Nwakanma v. Ashcroft, 352 F.3d 325, 327 (6th Cir.2003) (per curiam); El Himri v. Ashcroft, 344 F.3d 1261, 1262 (9th Cir.2003). Having concluded, however, that 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B) precludes judicial review of the BIA's order granting voluntary departure, we cannot evade this statutory directive by resort to equity. Indeed, since we lack jurisdiction over the BIA's order granting voluntary departure, there is nothing before us to stay.
It is not enough to say that we have jurisdiction over the order of removal. That fact gives us only the prerogative to apply equitable remedies to that order. Thus, we are free to grant a stay of removal when the alien satisfies the statutory requirements for such relief. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(f)(2). We are not free to grant additional relief with respect to a voluntary departure order that even the dissent agrees is not properly before us.
Rather than explain how a court can operate on an order not properly before it, the dissent argues that appellate review is "meaningless" for asylum applicants who "are forced to return to countries where they may be killed or imprisoned and thus unable to return to the United States if we determine that they are entitled to asylum." Post at 197-98. See also Nwakanma, 352 F.3d at 326; Zazueta-Carrillo, 322 F.3d at 1177 (Berzon, J., concurring). This is not so much an objection to review procedures concerning voluntary departure as it is an objection to the procedures for appellate review of immigration cases generally. Absent a stay of removal, an alien in an ordinary immigration appeal may be removed to his home country even before his appeal is decided. Even in that case, there is a possibility that the alien will face persecution in the home country rendering him unable to return should he prevail on appeal. The remedy for this concern is the stay of removal, which we retain the option to grant in any case where the alien satisfies the statutory requirements. This relief is just as available to the alien who sought voluntary departure as it is to the alien who did not.
In essence, the dissent contends that an alien with a meritorious asylum claim should be permitted to take the benefits of voluntary departure without bearing any of the costs. See post at 198-99 (arguing that "we should not force aliens with possibly meritorious asylum appeals to choose between preserving certain benefits made available under the INA and their safety"). This contention cannot be reconciled with the voluntary departure scheme described in the statute. This statutory scheme reveals Congress' intention to offer an alien a specific benefit — exemption from the ordinary bars on subsequent relief — in return for a quick departure at no cost to the government. So important was the quick-departure aspect of this bargain that Congress provided for certain penalties to attach when an alien overstays his voluntary departure period. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229c(d). Thus, an alien considering voluntary departure must decide whether an exemption from the ordinary bars on subsequent relief is worth the cost of returning to the home country within the period specified. Having made his election, however, the alien takes all the benefits and all the burdens of the statute together.12
Under the dissent's view, an alien could request voluntary departure, overstay the specified period and deprive the government of a quick departure, wait out the appellate review process, and then demand the full benefits of voluntary departure. This scenario is not at all what Congress intended, and it is not for us to recalibrate the scheme that Congress created in the manner that the dissent now urges. The voluntary departure order is not properly before us, as Congress has insulated that order from appellate review. We are not at liberty to apply equitable remedies to that order, certainly not in a way that contravenes the statutory scheme. Cf. INS v. Pangilinan, 486 U.S. 875, 883, 108 S.Ct. 2210, 100 L.Ed.2d 882 (1988) (stating that "courts of equity can no more disregard statutory ... requirements and provisions than can courts of law").13
Congress has reposed broad authority in the Attorney General to adjudicate individual immigration cases, and Congress has expressly protected this executive discretion by restricting appellate jurisdiction and constructing deferential standards of review. The BIA ruled that Ngarurih's claim to asylum was not powerful enough to warrant the extraordinary relief of asylum. That ruling is supported by substantial evidence and applicable law, and it must be affirmed. The BIA also granted Ngarurih thirty days within which to depart the United States voluntarily. Because Congress left it to executive officers, not this court, to determine how long an alien should have to exercise voluntary departure, we cannot reinstate voluntary departure or otherwise alter the BIA's order in this respect. For all of these reasons, the petition for review is hereby
Kenya is divided into seven provinces, each of which is further divided into districts comprised of smaller villages. The Central Province is located just north of Nairobi
It is unclear how long Ngarurih remained at the prison. In his original I-589 form, Ngarurih stated that he was kept in solitary confinement at the prison for two months. In a later affidavit, he stated that he had come to believe that he spent six months there
On March 1, 2003, the immigration service functions of the former Immigration and Naturalization Service were transferred to the Bureau of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services within the Department of Homeland Security. For clarity's sake, and because these proceedings occurred before March 2003, we will refer to the INS rather than its successor entity
The BIA noted that Daniel Arap Moi had been replaced by Mwai Kibaki, who was elected President in December 2002. The BIA did not rely on this fact, however, in concluding that Ngarurih could not demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution
The Seventh Circuit's decision inMengistu v. Ashcroft, 355 F.3d 1044 (7th Cir.2004), does not compel a different conclusion. In that case, the BIA offered a single justification for denying the alien's motion to reopen, and the court of appeals invoked Chenery in declining to consider alternative grounds for denying the motion. Id. at 1046-47. The court then vacated the BIA's order because the sole ground for its decision was insufficient to sustain the decision. Id. at 1047-48. It is clear from the order in this case that the BIA, considering the circumstances surrounding Ngarurih's return to Kenya in 1997, denied relief based on findings that Ngarurih did not establish a well-founded fear of future persecution or the necessary conditions for relief based on the severity of his past persecution. We address only these findings, subject to the harmless-error analysis that Mengistu itself recognizes. See id. at 1047.
Ngarurih asserts that the BIA ruled, as a matter of law, that the simple fact of Ngarurih's return to Kenya rendered him ineligible for asylum. The BIA's order suggests no such ruling. To the contrary, the order indicates that the BIA considered the facts and circumstances of Ngarurih's return to Kenya in the context of a routine analysis under 8 C.F.R. § 208.13(b)(1)(i). Thus, Ngarurih's argument based on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Handbook — which appears to reject aper se rule that return to the home country results in loss of refugee status — is misplaced. In any event, the Supreme Court has noted that the Handbook is not binding on the BIA or this court. INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca, 480 U.S. 421, 439 n. 22, 107 S.Ct. 1207, 94 L.Ed.2d 434 (1987).
Ngarurih sought withholding of removal as an alternative to asylum. Withholding of removal is available only to an alien who can demonstrate a "clear probability" of persecution on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinionRusu, 296 F.3d at 324 n. 13. Because this standard is more demanding than the "well-founded fear" standard applicable to asylum requests, Ngarurih's failure to satisfy the lesser standard means that he cannot demonstrate entitlement to withholding of removal. See Huaman-Cornelio, 979 F.2d at 1000. Ngarurih does not challenge the denial of relief under the Convention Against Torture, and we do not consider that issue here. See Yousefi v. INS, 260 F.3d 318, 326 (4th Cir.2001) (stating that failure to raise a challenge in an opening brief results in abandonment of that challenge).
Harmless-error analysis applies in immigration casesSee Gonahasa, 181 F.3d at 544 (citing Bucur, 109 F.3d at 405-06). While the general rule is that "an administrative order cannot be upheld unless the grounds upon which the agency acted in exercising its powers were those upon which its action can be sustained," Chenery, 318 U.S. at 95, 63 S.Ct. 454, reversal is not required when the alleged error "clearly had no bearing on the procedure used or the substance of the decision reached," Massachusetts Trs. of E. Gas & Fuel Associates v. United States, 377 U.S. 235, 248, 84 S.Ct. 1236, 12 L.Ed.2d 268 (1964). Accord In re Watts, 354 F.3d 1362, 1370 (Fed.Cir.2004) (stating that the Chenery principle "does not obviate the need to consider the issue of harmless error"); Nazaraghaie v. INS, 102 F.3d 460, 465 (10th Cir.1996) (concluding that the BIA's alleged failure to consider certain evidence was harmless error since "the result in this case would be no different"); Sahara Coal Co. v. Office of Workers' Comp. Programs, 946 F.2d 554, 558 (7th Cir.1991) (noting that "harmless-error doctrine is available in judicial review of administrative action; it is an exception to the Chenery principle").
Because Ngarurih was placed in removal proceedings after April 1, 1997, IIRIRA's permanent rules applySee Orquera v. Ashcroft, 357 F.3d 413, 418 n. 1 (4th Cir.2003).
Of course,Ramsay remains applicable to cases not governed by IIRIRA's permanent rules, i.e., cases in which removal proceedings were commenced before April 1, 1997.
We are aware that the First Circuit continues to reinstate voluntary departures even in cases decided under IIRIRA's permanent rulesSee, e.g., Velasquez v. Ashcroft, 342 F.3d 55, 59 (1st Cir.2003); Khalil v. Ashcroft, 337 F.3d 50, 56 (1st Cir.2003). Citing Velasquez, the Sixth Circuit reinstated voluntary departure in Loulou v. Ashcroft, 354 F.3d 706, 710 (8th Cir.2003). Unfortunately, neither the First Circuit nor the Sixth Circuit has offered any reasoned justification for continuing this practice in permanent rules cases. The First Circuit relies upon pre-IIRIRA authorities for the proposition that reinstatement is permissible. See Yatskin v. INS, 255 F.3d 5, 11 (1st Cir.2001) (a permanent rules case citing Alvarez-Flores v. INS, 909 F.2d 1, 8 (1st Cir.1990), a pre-IIRIRA decision). We decline to follow this approach.
Contrary to the dissent's suggestion, voluntary departure is, from beginning to end, voluntary. The alien must request the relief; it is not offered as a matter of courseSee 8 C.F.R. § 240.25(c). Even if he requests the relief and obtains it, the alien may later reject it by overstaying the period specified for departure. If he rejects voluntary departure in this manner, then he is subject to removal from the United States in the ordinary course. The fact that his choice carries real consequences — a monetary penalty and subjection to the ordinary bars on subsequent relief — means that the alien has a real choice to make, not that he is, as the dissent says, "forced" to leave. Post at 198-99.
Even assuming thatNwakanma and El Himri correctly state the law, Ngarurih would not be entitled to a stay of voluntary departure because he cannot satisfy the requirements for a stay of removal. Under the statute, a court of appeals may enjoin a removal only if "the alien shows by clear and convincing evidence that the entry or execution of [the order of removal] is prohibited as a matter of law." 8 U.S.C. § 1252(f)(2). We have already concluded that Ngarurih is not entitled to asylum, so his removal is not prohibited as a matter of law. Moreover, Ngarurih's request for a stay of voluntary departure was made after the 30-day period for voluntary departure had already expired; neither Nwakanma nor El Himri purports to authorize a stay in such a circumstance. See Nwakanma, 352 F.3d at 327 (noting that the alien moved for a stay on the last day before his voluntary departure period expired); El Himri, 344 F.3d at 1263 n. 2 (expressly reserving the question whether a court of appeals can stay a departure period that had already expired).
GREGORY, Circuit Judge, concurring in part and dissenting in part:
For the reasons that follow, I concur in the majority's conclusion that substantial evidence supports the Board of Immigration Appeal's ("BIA") denial of Ngarurih's application for asylum and that the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ("IIRIRA") divests us of jurisdiction to reinstate Ngarurih's voluntary departure period. However, while I believe that Ngagurih is not entitled to a stay of voluntary departure, I respectfully dissent from the majority's far reaching, and in my view unnecessary, conclusion that the IIRIRA precludes us from exercising our general equitable powers to stay or toll a voluntary departure period. As the Sixth and Ninth Circuits, I do not believe that the IIRIRA precludes us from staying a voluntary departure period pending our resolution of an asylum appeal provided that the merits of such appeal justify a stay of the removal order. Nwakanma v. Ashcroft, 352 F.3d 325, 326 (6th Cir.2003)(per curiam)(holding that the IIRIRA does not bar federal appellate courts from staying a voluntary departure period and thus concluding that "[a] stay of voluntary departure pending appellate review should ... be available on the same showing that authorizes a stay of removal pending review"); El Himri v. Ashcroft, 344 F.3d 1261, 1262 (9th Cir.2003)("[W]e hold that [post-IIRIRA] this court retains equitable jurisdiction to stay the voluntary departure period ... [and] that the standards for obtaining a stay of removal shall also apply to stays of voluntary departure."). Without the ability to maintain the status quo by staying a voluntary departure period, our review of asylum appeals will be rendered meaningless because the alien will already have been subjected to the harm from which our decision is supposed to protect him or her. If that harm comes in the form of death, imprisonment or the inability to depart their native country, our determination that an alien is entitled to asylum is meaningless because the alien will be unable to return to the United States and thus give effect to our decision. In the instances in which aliens avail themselves of a voluntary departure and no harm results therefrom, we will be factually forced to conclude that the alien does not have a well-founded fear of persecution. Thus, our appellate review will be rendered a mere formality in the asylum application process.
The BIA denied Ngarurih's application for political asylum because "his return to Kenya for 2 months in 1997 ... constitute[d] a fundamental change in circumstances and diminishe [d] his claim to have a well-founded fear of future persecution." J.A. 319. Like the majority, I believe substantial evidence supports this conclusion. During his two month return to Kenya, Ngarurih was publicly involved in his younger brother's criminal appeal, submitting court documents bearing his signature, traveling to various villages in Kenya to investigate the facts of his brother's case and posting his brother's bond. Despite being publicly active in his brother's criminal appeal, Ngarurih, whose presence government officials were aware of, was not subjected to any attacks, bodily harm, threats or other coercive measures during his two month stay in Kenya.* Indeed, government officials did not even attempt to impede Ngarurih's efforts to assist with his brother's appeal and release from prison. Moreover, Ngarurih has not brought to our attention any events that have occurred subsequent to his 1997 trip that would cause him to have a well-founded fear of persecution if he were to return to Kenya.
The BIA also denied Ngarurih's application for "humanitarian asylum" on the basis that "his willing return to Kenya undermine[d] his claim to have `compelling reasons for being unwilling or unable to return' such that asylum [was] warranted, even in the absence of a well-founded fear." Id. (quoting 8 C.F.R. § 208.12(b)(1)(iii)(emphasis added)). Unlike the majority, I believe that the BIA incorrectly determined that Ngarurih "willingly" returned to Kenya. Ngarurih only returned to Kenya after being informed that his younger brother — whom he reared as a son prior to entering the United States — had been falsely accused of raping their niece and forced to enter a guilty plea. Having being tortured in a Kenyan prison himself, Ngarurih understandably felt compelled to assist his brother, whom he viewed more like a son, in appealing what he believed to be an unjust conviction even if doing so required him to place his life in danger by returning to Kenya. Under such circumstances, I do not believe that Ngarurih's trip to Kenya can be considered one that was taken "willingly." Nonetheless, like the majority, I am unable to find that the BIA's denial of Ngarurih's application for "humanitarian asylum" is manifestly contrary to the law or an abuse of discretion given that "humanitarian asylum" has been limited to extreme cases, such as that "of the German Jews, the victims of the Chinese'Cultural Revolution,' [and] survivors of the Cambodian genocide." Bucur v. INS, 109 F.3d 399, 405 (7th Cir.1997)(internal citation omitted).
The majority concludes that the IIRIRA precludes us from both reinstating and staying Ngarurih's voluntary departure period. While I agree that the IIRIRA divests us of jurisdiction to reinstate Ngarurih's voluntary departure period, I do not believe that the IIRIRA precludes us from staying Ngarurih's voluntary departure period. Rather, I simply believe that Ngarurih is not entitled to a stay of his voluntary departure period because he is unable to satisfy the requirements for a stay of removal.
The IIRIRA provides that "[n]o court shall have jurisdiction over an appeal from [the] denial of a request for an order of voluntary departure ... nor shall any court order a stay of an alien's removal pending consideration of any claims with respect to voluntary departure." 8 U.S.C. § 1229c(f). The IIRIRA further provides that "[n]otwithstanding any other provision of law, no court shall have jurisdiction to review... any judgment regarding the granting of relief under section... 1229c [voluntary departure] of this title." Id. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i). Based on these provisions, I concur in the majority's conclusion that the IIRIRA precludes us from reinstating Ngarurih's voluntary departure period. These provisions make clear Congress's intent to divest federal appellate courts of jurisdiction to determine whether aliens are entitled to the discretionary relief of voluntary departure. Given that we no longer have jurisdiction to review the BIA's grant or denial of voluntary departure, I do not believe we have the authority to reinstate the BIA's voluntary departure determinations.
I do not, however, believe that these provisions preclude us from exercising our equitable jurisdiction to stay a voluntary departure period pending our resolution of an asylum appeal. The provision relied upon by the majority to reach this conclusion — 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) — only precludes us from reviewing the merits of the BIA's decision to grant voluntary departure. As the Sixth Circuit recently held: "[I]n granting a stay of voluntary departure, we do not pass on the substance of the decision to grant voluntary departure; we only stay the immediate effectiveness of the relief already granted by [the BIA] in [its] discretion, to allow the alien petitioner to receive appellate review." Nwakanma, 352 F.3d at 326. Consequently, by granting a stay of voluntary departure we do not "evade," as the majority concludes, the statutory mandate of 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) — "no court shall have jurisdiction to review ... any judgment regarding the granting of relief under section ... 1229c [voluntary departure]" — by resort to equity. Rather, we ensure, by maintaining the status quo, that our decisions rendered in asylum appeals, appeals over which we clearly have jurisdiction, are not rendered meaningless. As the Ninth and Sixth Circuits have noted, asylum appeals will in effect be rendered meaningless if individuals that have fled their native lands based on well-founded fears of persecution are forced to return to countries where they may be killed or imprisoned and thus unable to return to the United States if we determine that they are entitled to asylum. Nwakanma, 352 F.3d at 326 ("Asylum applicants with potentially meritorious cases establishing their genuine fear of persecution in their home countries will face either returning to those countries and possibly life-threatening persecution or staying in the United States, letting the clock run out on their voluntary departure periods, and suffering the penalties that attach."); Zazueta-Carrillo v. Ashcroft, 322 F.3d 1166, 1177 (9th Cir.2003)(Berzon, J., concurring)("Without our equitable authority to stay the availability of voluntary departure periods, at the time an alien is granted voluntary departure he or she would be faced with having to leave forthwith to preserve the benefits of voluntary departure, risking nonreturn in spite of a potentially meritorious case ... [thus] in effect void [ing] the asylum appeal.").
Further undermining the majority's conclusion is the fact that the IIRIRA only limits our authority to stay BIA orders so as to allow for the consideration of claims pertaining to voluntary departure. Specifically, the IIRIRA provides that "[n]o court shall ... order a stay of an alien's removal pending consideration of any claims with respect to voluntary departure." 8 U.S.C. § 1229c(f). Consequently, the IIRIRA "only prohibits stays of removal pending consideration of voluntary departure claims, not the opposite, stays of granted periods of voluntary departure pending consideration of removal orders." Zazueta-Carrillo, 322 F.3d at 1176 (Berzon, J., concurring). The fact "[t]hat certain kinds of stays pertaining to voluntary departure orders are prohibited but not others is, under the case law interpreting the IIRIRA, a strong indication that, except as limited by the statute, we retain our traditional equitable power to issue stays preserving the status quo." Id.; see Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Comm., 525 U.S. 471, 482, 487, 119 S.Ct. 936, 142 L.Ed.2d 940 (1999)(narrowly construing section 1252(g) of the IIRIRA); Andreiu v. Ashcroft, 253 F.3d 477, 481-82 (9th Cir.2001)(en banc)(narrowly construing section 1252(f) of the IIRIRA).
In addition to not being supported by the IIRIRA's text, the result that follows from the majority's conclusion counsels against it. Under the majority's conclusion, an alien denied voluntary departure, but who meets the standard for a stay of removal, can obtain equitable relief and thus remain in this country while pursuing his appeal whereas an alien granted the benefit of voluntary departure must leave the country while seeking judicial review. Some may argue that this is the price that aliens who voluntarily depart pay in return for the benefit of not being barred from obtaining relief under the Immigration and Naturalization Act ("INA") for a period of ten years, as are aliens removed involuntarily. This, however, is a policy decision best left to Congress. Thus, absent clear statutory language, which I do not find in the IIRIRA, we should not force aliens with possibly meritorious asylum appeals to choose between preserving certain benefits made available under the INA and their safety. Moreover, such reasoning fails to recognize that aliens with well-founded fears of persecution will be unable to take advantage of the benefits conferred by voluntary departure if they are killed or imprisoned upon returning to their native country.
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Classically trained on piano and cello, Pamela Bruner later found the
Celtic harp a perfect accompaniment to her singing voice, and it
quickly became the focus of her creative life. Pamela is known around
the country for her dynamic harp & voice performances, powerful
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with Love, not Fear' has been called 'life-changing'. Pamela also
writes and arranges music, and has released over a dozen CDs and
books, including the acclaimed 'Play the Harp Beautifully', a
self-teaching package on book and DVD. With her husband Dave
Woodworth of Heartland Harps, she also helps to design harps and
creates and paints soundboard artwork for harps.
- Created 'Play the Harp Beautifully', a self-teaching harp package of books and DVDs.
- Has released 17 albums for harp, and several books.
- Featured performer and in-demand workshop presenter at both national and international folk harp conferences
- Guest performer with the Grammy Award-winning Irish band, The Chieftains
- Regularly performs throughout the United States
- Performed at the Colorado Renaissance Faire
- Performed for 7 years at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival
- Renowned in the musical community as an accomplished harpist; superb lyricist; and warm, humorous, clear, and practical instructor
- Classically trained on cello and piano
- Studied music theory and composition at the University of Kansas
- Personal Life Coach, trained with Coach for Life (learn more at CreatingPowerfully.com)
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As I stepped on stage - about to perform in front of a large audience
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Since I was a girl, believing in myself has been a cornerstone of my
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Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay, The Power of Intention by
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Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker, Authentic Happiness by
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A portrait for the model Miss Mischief, done for a contest. Didn't win, but it was a really cool experience :)
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Designing the High Line: Gansevoort to 30th St
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July 2012 archive
As I’ve said before, I adore le chapeaux! I love the way a hat makes an outfit a full, complete look. According to my mom, I have had this love affair with hats since babyhood when I would refuse to leave the house without a hat.
Great topper for a picnic or concert in the park
This neutral toned look gets an extra kick with the hat and braid
I can see myself in this outfit walking along La Seine
Perfect for the beach, topping off summer whites. More ways to wear white this summer are here, here, and here
These two tops are in heavy rotation in my wardrobe lately. Both pieces are versatile and work well even with the heat waves most of the country is suffering from as they are light-weight, breathable and oh so cute.
J Crew striped linen top works well with denim and shorts
Joie Fanny lace top is so pretty and works with a multitude of looks
I woke up hungry this morning so naturally all I can think about are sweet treats to indulge in this weekend. A few I am deciding from include…
Belgian Waffles topped with fruit and whipped cream. I have been obsessed with Belgian Waffles since a recent trip to Baltimore
Coconut and lime ice cream sandwiches found on one of my favorite blogs
Raw Cookie Dough Balls sound delicious and seem easy to make
These oatmeal parfaits must be made again! I used vanilla yogurt, fresh raspberries and blueberries, and indulged in crumbled oatmeal cookies instead of cereal.
The high/low skirts are a fun summer trend that is surprisingly versatile, very cute and easy to wear casual or dressed up with tanks, blouses and blazers.
Neutral toned accordion pleats paired with a black moto jacket create a tough/sweet mix
This has several elements going on with the bright skirt, striped bustier and dusty coral blazer. All the pieces play off each other well and create a fun day or night look
This look is a much more casual with the loose tank and bandeau. It is perfect for a hot summer day in the city
One of my favorite wardrobe pieces is a maxi skirt. I love the light, breezy fabric as the skirt blows in the air on a summer day, pairing the skirts with tanks, tees and denim or mixing in bright pops of color.
Love this for a sweet take on a cutout dress. Perfect for the summer heat and casual when mixed with the tie dye cloudy denim and bold necklace
Yes a baby style muse! I was thrilled when Victoria Beckham was famously quoted in Women’s Wear Daily stating “I love the French clothes for little girls, I like little girls to look like little girls.” I wholeheartedly agree with this and love how she has embraced this look for Harper.
Adorable in dusty pink cords, tiny Chuck’s and a mini floral print top
Coordinating in shades of pink
Ruffled grey dress and bow headband with Chloe tights
Sweet white top and Minnie ears at Disneyland
Displaying her face making skills while matching her gorgeous daddy in a grey sweater dress and white knit cap
Airport style in a pale pink dress and Bonpoint sandals
Looking like a tiny dancer in Stella McCartney with a side silver hairbow
Spotted in Manhattan near Chelsea, on 9th and 14th is a Missoni clad Michelangelo statue by the Spanish artist Demo.
Continuing the 4th of July Celebration (part one here) the most important decision for any party is what to wear! I prefer to use the traditional red, white and blue in unique ways.
Star print top and white cutoffs get an extra pop with the hot pink shoes and studded clutch
Bold red lips and striped top paired with a sweet white mini create a flirty 4th
Another mix of blue and white with a sophisticated yet fun high-waisted polka dot skirt
The classic stripe sweater and crisp blue shorts are perfect with blue espadrilles and straw fedora
Blue and white chevron shorts with a red top pop when paired with a bright yellow jackets and stacked gold bracelets
I love parties and a especially a theme party so in honor of the 4th of July, here are several party ideas I will be using tomorrow…
Star shaped pizzas are a fun Patriotic snack. I’ll be making mine using a cookie cutter
Star shaped grilled cheese with red and blue fruits create a healthy treat
Cannot wait to make this parfait treat found here. I am varying the recipe slightly, using vanilla yogurt and oatmeal cookies. I am also topping them with red and blue straws with streamers attached
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After a long day of meeting people (new and old), listening to good live music, eating good food and checking out nice cars, Simply Clean 4 came to an end. A big thank you goes out to everyone who made my trip to Florida one I’ll never forget. You guys all know who you are! I will be back soon.
Can’t ever go wrong with this look
David Carrasquillo’s bagged B6 Passat!
Here’s something you don’t see… ever.
Those #Faplife guys though…..lol
Sick shades dawg!
The Simply Clean booth was crowded all day long. Great job guys!
Slammed and cambered wagon.
Another look at David Mojica S13 of We Drift with his new paint job.
Jose’s new gold cage in his RSX. We will have a full feature of this thing soon on the site.
Armanda’s CRZ looking good as always.
Matching kicks with your girlfriend? Why not.
Matthew Lamphier’s bay never gets old.
The Simply Clean staff did an excellent job all day making sure things were in order throughout the event. Good job guys!
Billham’s S14 of We Drift posing for a photo
HighwayStar Garage’s booth cars. it was nice meeting you guys at the pre-meet.
Now that’s hard!
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Suri Cruise, the cute little Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ kid, is acting out again! According to a latest National Enquirer report, the 6-year-old threw a mini-tantrum while walking home from school in New York City on the 6th of November. Allegedly, “Suri stuck out her tongue and made faces at her mom!” Insiders blame the missed connection between Suri and her uber-famous dad as the catalyst. According to a famous Manhattan psychologist, Dr. Judy Kuriansky, the behavioral problems that Suri is experiencing are actually not too abnormal. She explained to the Enquirer, “Her once-golden life has been tarnished by the trauma of the divorce and her beloved daddy being out of the picture. She’s had multiple stressors that have put her over the top and unable to cope with the reality that her fairytale world has been torn apart.”
Suri’s six tiny years of existence have not been the easiest. Her famous parents underwent a divorce that rocked the headlines of almost every major media outlet, and her life was cut open to the core by so-called insiders, sources, and family friends. The little ex-Scientologist was forced to leave her father’s side and live with her neurotically aligned mom, who not only enrolled Suri into a new school, but also broke the Scientology bonds her daughter’s first memories are based on. Unfortunately, Suri’s father is too busy with brainwashing and acting to take notice of his daughter. The last time the two were spotted out and about was when he took her to Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Water Park in early August, almost four months ago. According to another of these insiders, there won’t be a reunion between father and daughter until December of this year, when Cruise’s latest movie, All You Need Is Kill, wraps up principal photography.
However, Suri is not the only one feeling the pinch of longing, because insiders also claim that her father is “heartbroken” from being away from his little girl. “He cries at night because he misses her so much. Both of them are taking the divorce really hard, and it’s tough on Katie because she has to deal with Suri’s public meltdowns. But Suri knows she’s deeply loved by both her mommy and daddy. And she’s bravely facing all the changes brought on by the divorce just like any other normal little girl would.”
We’re not the evil villains so many make us out to be; we have a heart, and a big one at that. It’s a sad, sad situation for these two and it’s getting more and more absurd every passing day, right Elton John? If only Tom Cruise weren’t an insane Scientologist who bites the heads off of puppies in the morning, we could have also included him in our upcoming Celeb Dirty Laundry group hug.
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(each of these should generate a few paragraphs)
* find papers/chapters on advantages of p2p networks - prove load sharing, robustness (look in p2p book)
* more reading on semantic web - purpose, origins, evolution, current status - read through xml, xsl, xslt, xml schema docs/primers - what problems are these designed to solve
state of the art
* read up on openarchives.org - how does it work, how is it the same, how is it different - other meta-data search engines - are they all centralized? have they taken steps towards dist?
* read through edutella stuff again - are schema's limited? would edutella allow extensible apps? does it solve community discovery problem?
* jxtasearch - what level of structure is there in messages. can schema be shoehorned in there? how are searches specified/matches returned? can it be used to find xml objects?
* read up on chord/distributed file system stuff.
* read up on jabber - structured messaging - anything else?
* read up on bitzi - what are they doing there - trust, content-hashing - are schemas flexible? centralized.
* iptps papers - any relevant?
* read about existing structured doc initiatives - cml, genetic, biodiversity - how are these being used right now to share information - case studies have they been used with p2p
* what p2p has been used in scientific communities? (smallworld paper from iptps?)
* new chapter? - "well-known problem of sharing and discovering design patterns" - find refs - existing approaches, analyze weaknesses, etc.
* proof of concept - run on top of jxta - independent of network layer?
* test running on jetty - create simple installation.
* indexing of metadata (only applies to centralized db?)
* local "metabase" - what is format for this repository - what is query interface - investigate xml query languages: xml query, xpath? try to get a copy of felber's xml filtering paper
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We haz it. Latest time trends in first month sales, excluding Ellora's Cave which continues to lead the pack. Full figures here.
Thanks for the stats. It's good to see just about every one of those epublishers growing.
Thanks for keeping up on the stats. It's interesting to see the trends edge upward. Do you have any plans for breakout data on the books themselves? Like novellas versus full-length novels versus anthologies? I'd love to know if electronic delivery is shifting reading habits to shorter works, or if it's still too soon to tell.
This is great information to have. More importantly, it's good to note with upcoming releases, to see what kind of promotions work to help keep sales to that level. Do you know how much backlist plays a part and how many authors have crossed between publishers? I'm wondering how that also effects sales as well. *blinks* Yes, occasionally, I can be overly business. Really. LOL Thanks for this. This is fantastic!
I wish i could collect more detailed information. But even keeping the requirements very simple i barely get enough data to represent a valid sample. So I don't want to push it by asking for more detailed reports ;) I appreciate how many people take the trouble to participate.
Looks great!Thanks for posting this info. :-)jan
Am I the only one who can't see EC data on the graph?
Dude, you can't see it because it's so far above the rest it's off the chart. But for how long...?
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Right about now, Huell Howser is ambling through the pearly gates and giving souls tour of Heaven -- at least according to his fans on Twitter.
In death as in life, fans of the "California's Gold" host are continuing to gently parody Howser's folksy enthusiasm and signature catchphrase with tweets and comments. Only this time, the parodies take place in paradise.
Below, the funniest tweets in memory of Huell Howser.
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Visiting With Huell Howser The Whistling DIva and the Wizard of Bras
"Visiting" with Huell Howser in Monrovia, CA. Featuring Carole Anne Kaufman - World Champion Whistler with cameo appearance by her mom, the true Wizard of Bras, Bonnie Kaufman. Here is the full episode with much edutainment about whistling and more. Enjoy and let us know what you think. www.whistlingdiva.com www.wizardofbras.com Thank you Huell.
A tribute to Huell Howser of California's Gold
RIP Huell Howser (1945 - 2013) A tribute to the man who could make anything interesting. This is a random assortment of some of my favorite moments from California's Gold. Credit to KCET for the footage.
Huell Howser announces California's Gold Scholarship
www.huellhowserarcive.com Huell Howser discusses the California's Gold Scholarship he established at Chapman University in Orange, CA, during a rooftop event at his beloved El Royale in Los Angeles. He talks about the importance of a legacy that will live on "after everyone who has ever seen 'California's Gold' is gone..." For more Huell Howser videos and episodes of "California's Gold," go to huellhowserarchive.com
Huell Howser visiting the APPLE PAN PT 1
Part one of Huell Howser frrom his show "Visiting..." goes to the Apple Pan in West Los Angeles, first in 1992, then again in 2009. www.applepan.com 10801 W Pico Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90064-2105 (310) 475-3585
Huell Howser: Lord of the Flies
Huell Howser, Lord of the Flies. "California's Gold" host Huell Howser makes an update visit to Mono Lake. As usual, he gets distracted. LOL
Huell Howser Videolog "Elephant Man" (original segment)
In 1988, Huell attended a touching reunion between Charlie Franks, an 80-year-old elephant trainer, and Nita, the elephant he had raised from a baby of five years. When Charlie retired in the early 1970s after traveling the world with his beloved performing elephant, he donated her to the San Diego Wild Animal Park, and hadn't seen her for 15 years. Charlie passed away shortly after the segment. Nita died in 2009 at the age of 60. The video remains as a tribute.
Huell Howser Visits Old Town Temecula
Huell Howser Visits Old Town Temecula, CA
I love Huell Howser
But sometimes the things that he says cracks me up.
Huell Howser @ the Golden Gate Bridge
Huell Howser at the Golden Gate Bridge
Yosemite Firefall with Huell Howser Pt. 1
A California's Gold Classic. Enjoy. This is from an old video tape. If you want a clean copy on DVD, order it from calgold.com.
Best Huell Howser Quote
Huell stands on a field of horse manure.
Los Angeles Flower Market Tour with Johnny Mellano (Part 1 of 2)
Johnny Mellano and Huell Howser of the TV Show "California's Gold" tour the Los Angeles Flower Market mid 1990s.
California's Gold #12002 "RAIN BIRD"
Huell explores the history of Rain Bird, a sprinkler manufacturer with a remarkable history beginning with a Glendora citrus farmer named Orton Englehart who invented the first impact sprinklers in the 1930s. Rain Bird also demonstrates their latest in sprinkler technology.
Huell Howser-Champion Turf Saddle Equipment Manufacturers-How Saddles are Made
Watch Huell Howser visiting one of the only manufacturers of western saddles which are still made in the USA. See how saddles are made, the fine craftsmanship and expertise involved in producing the finest line of US horse saddles and tack in the country at Champion Turf Equipment in Los Angeles California.
Visiting...With Huell Howser #1817 - GLENDORA CASTLE
Huell has produced thousands of shows over the last 25 years and there have been many fan favorites. One of the all time greats has to be the old Videolog, "Rubel's Castle". Michael Rubel took Huell on the grand tour of his hand made home and charmed us all. Michael has since passed away and the Castle is now managed by the Glendora Historical Society with the help of Michael's nephew Scott. Huell gets an update tour of this iconic location. www.glendorahistoricalsociety.org
Huell Howser's New Job
Adam Carolla and Dana Gould discuss the antics of popular television show host Huell Howser and suggest a more fitting career. (Audio from the Adam Carolla podcast.) Be sure to hit the "like" button if this made you laugh... even if it was just a little!
Visiting...With Huell Howser #1902 - PANORAMA UPDATE
Huell starts this update with clips from the original episode, then Huell heads to the new home of the Panorama and meets up with Sara to see what has changed and what you can expect if you choose to visit.
Huell Howser's California Green Episode #134 (May 2010) - Part 1
Huell Howser investigates innovative and creative ways Californians are solving environmental challenges. Howser visits Gills Onions, which is not only the largest onion processing plant in California but also the greenest. Each day they convert over 150 tons of onion peel and juice waste to power fuel cells on site that provide enough power to run the lights and refrigeration.
Water Innovations - Stretching our Water Needs
Huell Howser tours the Delta for a first hand look at some innovative water projects. Projects that are expanding wetlands to not only improve water volume for farm and residential use, but also to improve wildlife habitat. Huell also visits a project that turns farm waste-water into valuable irrigation water and high-tech advances in gauging root moisture that literally saves tons of water.
Road Trip With Huell Howser #149 - FERNDALE
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At the end of January, I found myself in Swansea, South Carolina for three days of intensive training with the National Sporting Clays Association at Live Oaks Sportsman’s Club. This training prepared Jimmy Mootz, Outreach Coordinator for the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries in Virginia, and myself to become National Sporting Clays Association Level I Certified Instructors. What a blast! There were nine individuals in the class from three states. Rick Smith and Donny Roth were our instructors. I was impressed with their style and the years of experience they had between them. You could not ask for anything better, it was great training. One of the many things I came away with included the question: How do you teach hand and eye coordination if you are instructing a group of new shooters?
One of the sessions we participated in was titled “Teaching Tool Kit”. Donny showed how to use a tennis ball to demonstrate that keeping your focus on the target increases the success of the student. He explained that if a student is focusing on the end of the barrel they have a high probability of being behind the clay, trying to catch the clay and hoping to hit the clay. Makes perfect sense. What a novel idea to focus on the clay, not the end of the barrel. In Virginia, we not only teach individual students, but groups of students. I have adapted the following exercise to be used for small groups of students.
Tennis Balls or brightly colored Koosh Balls.
If you have 10 students, you will need 5 tennis or koosh balls. I use koosh balls that are colored with blaze orange, purple and yellow. Try to use colors that mimic the colors of the clay pigeons. If you wanted to, you can place tennis balls in a muffin tin and spray paint one side with a bright orange after they are dry, turn them over and spray some black on the bottom side. This will get the students used to seeing the colors of the clay pigeons.
- Have the student’s line up in two lines.
- The students on one line should face the other line, creating a partner across from them about 8 to 10 feet between the two lines.
- Have them toss the ball, underhand to their partner. The student has to catch the ball with one hand using either their right or left hand.
- Once the student catches the ball, they toss it back to their partner and this continues for as long as it is needed until everyone is successful.
Conducting this activity teaches color recognition, hand to eye coordination and is just plain fun; not only for the students but for the instructors as well. Again, I have to thank Rick Smith and Donny Roth for a well-executed class and all the teaching tips to help bring more shooters into the shooting sports. A job well done!
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EAST TYLER DOME (continued)
Figure 45. Isometric block diagram of East Tyler salt stock.
Figure 46. Orthogonal cross sections through major and minor axes of East Tyler salt stock.
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If you're running a stealth campaign for the Republican ticket in 2012, you can count on Fox News to play along every step of the way. Particularly illustrative was Fox and Friends Sunday's gushing over Texas Governor Rick Perry's June 18 speech at the Republican Leadership Conference. While discussing whether Perry would enter the race, co-host Clayton Morris lauded the governor for having "accomplished quite a lot" and having "quite a record" as co-host Dave Briggs interjected, "Right to the top! He goes right to the top!"
But Perry isn't the only one; Fox still revels in the idea that the former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin might make a presidential bid, too. Judge Napolitano left little doubt during his interview with Palin during last Thursday's Freedom Watch (see our softball questions of the week).
So who's winning the Fox Primary? Each week at Media Matters, we watch the interviews, crunch the numbers, and tell you what Fox is up to in the presidential campaign.
Last Week's Results
Total time: 3:06*; Total appearances: 25*
Most Total Airtime on Fox: Newt Gingrich (41 minutes)
Most Total Appearances: John Bolton (5 appearances)
Fox Show with the Most Appearances: Fox and Friends and Your World with Neil Cavuto (5 appearances each)*
Longest Candidate Interview: Your World with Neil Cavuto (17 minutes with Rick Perry)
Softball Question(s) of the Week: Napolitano's interview with Sarah Palin on the June 16 edition of Freedom Watch gives new meaning to the phrase "using kid gloves."
NAPOLITANO: You recently took a bus tour throughout the northeast, and it caused an enormous stir on the part of the media. In part because they didn't know where the bus was going to go next, but they wanted to be with you, and they wanted to see to whom you're going to speak, and they wanted to hear what your words are.
You must know from that experience that if you entered the Republican presidential race tomorrow or in the next month or so, it would be a game changer, that many of the tea party folks would coalesce behind you, that most of the current conservatives would say you are the genuine article. Have you given serious thought to how you, Sarah Palin, single-handedly could change this game and give the White House fits?
PALIN: I would love to give the White House fits. I would --
PALIN: Because, you know, I would love to stir it up even more and get the electorate to really start thinking about what the solutions are to these great challenges facing America and how it is that we're going to create jobs, how it is that we're going to get this economy back on the right track, judge. So, I would love to be able to shake it up, but I also know it's not about me, it's not Sarah Palin personally, it's about a message.
It's about what it is that I represent. What I represent is this understanding of what the middle class desires in their government. And, basically, at this point in watching government grow and overreach and overtax and create such uncertainty in the marketplace, basically, what we in the middle class want is for government to just get out of the way.
Let the private sector grow and thrive, let our job creators keep more of what we earn and produce so we can hire more people, and that'll get the economy rolling along. So, I know it's the message. It's not Sarah Palin up here in Wasilla, Alaska, and what it is that I personally bring to the table.
NAPOLITANO: Who better than you to deliver that message? Is there anyone up there on that stage without you there that in your view is the genuine article?
PALIN: There are a lot of genuine articles out there, a lot of folks who understand those tea party principles and they're common sense conservatives. They understand the free market. They understand that, unless, we change course very, very rapidly here, our country will be bankrupt.
We will be beholden to foreign countries, and, um, there are many out there who -- some declared, some not declared yet, some may never declare to want to run for public office who know what they're doing, judge, and they do want to help this country, and they do want to serve for the right reasons with servants' hearts.
NAPOLITANO: You are teasing the daylights out of our office by saying some declared, some not declared, some who may declared, some who may not declared because you may be talking about yourself.
(A table of the June 13-19 data is available here.)
The Numbers Since June 1
Total time: 8:53*; Total appearances: 61*
Most Total Airtime on Fox since June 1: Donald Trump (1 hour and 14 minutes)
Most Total Appearances since June 1: John Bolton (11 appearances)
Fox Show with the Most Appearances since June 1: Fox and Friends (10 appearances)
Longest Candidate Interview since June 1: Stossel (40 minutes with Gary Johnson)
(A table of all the data since June 1 is available here.)
Previous Fox Primary Reports
Media Matters searched the Nexis database for appearances on Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, and Fox News Sunday for the 14 declared and potential presidential candidates in question: Michele Bachmann, John Bolton, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Jon Huntsman, Gary Johnson, Sarah Palin, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Donald Trump.
For programs where a transcript was unavailable, Media Matters reviewed the raw video.
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Dana is a smart guy. I think he knows what he's doing. It could possibly be he is adding one or 2 here and there to simply keep it simplae at first, then once the "fan base" increases, he will "expand". That's what I would do. It's good business. True he might be loosing money at first, we dont know this, but eventually, he could end up the next Vince McMann (SP?).
I know folks here at work that are starting to watch it. If there are too many fighters to know, it could turn people away, because they "dont know".
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May 22 2013 Latest news:
Else Kvist, Reporter
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
MP Stephen Timms, who received Britain’s first official 3G mobile video call, has celebrated its tenth anniversary.
The East Ham MP took the call as the then Minister for Telecommunications under the Labour government in March 2003.
Hosting a reception in Parliament to mark the anniversary Mr Timms said: “Services we now regularly browse on our smartphones like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have changed the way consumers and businesses in East Ham communicate and share information.
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Clayton County tourism, economic development and community development officials pose with an enlarged check designed to represent the more than $1 billion economic impact tourism had on the county in 2011.
Tourists who visited Stately Oaks Plantation, the Road to Tara Museum or Spivey Hall in 2011, or who just passed through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport left a very big impression on Clayton County, local tourism officials announced Wednesday evening.
That impression was left by tourists buying items at stores, eating at restaurants and sleeping in local hotels. The burden of treating those visitors well, and making sure they enjoyed their stay was met by 30,200 employees in various tourism-related industries.
That amounted to a $1.04 billion economic impact on the county, according to Clayton County tourism officials.
“This is a great place, and there are great things happening here, and we just have to put our nose to the grindstone and make sure that everybody knows that,” said Clayton County Tourism Authority Board Chairperson Linda Summerlin.
The tourism economic impact figures were released by the Clayton County Tourism Authority board, and the Clayton County Convention and Visitors Bureau this week, as part of their observance of National Travel and Tourism Week.
The figures come from data that the Clayton County Tourism Authority Board obtained from the U.S. Travel Association and the Georgia Department of Economic Development, according to Summerlin.
In addition to a total economic impact of more than $1 billion, tourists also spent $31.73 million in local sales taxes, and an additional $122.96 million in state sales taxes, according to the numbers provided by county tourism officials on Wednesday. The total number of bus tours taken in the county also increased by 125 percent, with the total number of passengers on each bus increasing by 68 percent.
The total number of tour buses carrying only international tourists increased by 1,075 percent, according to the local tourism data.
The numbers are eye-catching because of their size, but Summerlin said the county can thank one famous author named Margaret Mitchell for writing “Gone With the Wind,” which the county has been able to build much of its tourism industry around. She explained that many people, particularly visitors from foreign countries, come to Jonesboro in search of Scarlett O’Hara, Rhett Butler, and the Tara plantation because of that book.
“Our hook here has been historical tourism,” Summerlin said. “We are blessed that Margaret Mitchell came to Clayton County, to visit her maternal grandparents home. Had she not chosen that, I’m not sure where our place in history in place would be, but probably not where we are now ...
“We have developed through the years, and with lots of partnerships, to create the Road to Tara museum ... With that, you cannot imagine how many tour buses are in, and out of this city.”
The economic impact felt by tourism is particularly significant because it is money that is spent by visitors who do not asking the county to spend much money on them in return. Their children are not enrolled in Clayton County schools, for example, so the school district does not have to spend money to educate their young ones.
“This is a time when we have people from outside the community, whether they are casual day tourists, or long-term tourists from outside the state and the region,” said Clayton County Economic Development Director Grant Wainscott. “These are people coming in, and spending money on gas, on food, on hotels, on the retail establishments.
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January2 to 10As the MIMIC method only enables relative orders of magnitude of the undergroundeconomy of individual countries to be calculated, some values that were calculated with thehelp of the cash approach are necessary to convert the underground economy quantities intoabsolute values (in percentage of official GDP or in billions of euros).
2. Development of the underground economy over time up to 2010
Table 1 shows the development over time of the underground economy quantities estimatedusing this process for the three German-speaking countries in the period 1975 to 2010.Table 1
2.1 Development of the underground economy in Germany from 1975 to 2010
Turning first to the development of the underground economy in
, following sharpincreases up to the beginning of this decade, there was a decline from EUR 370 billion in2003 to EUR 345.5 billion in 2006. In 2007
for the first time in three years,
there was onceagain a rise in the underground economy compared with the previous year calculated atEUR 3.5 billion or 1 percent to EUR 349 billion; one important reason for this was theincrease in Value Added Tax in 2007. However, as the official economy grew by just under3 percent in nominal terms more than the underground economy, the ratio of the undergroundto the official economy continued to improve further even in 2007. While the value of theunderground economy in relation to the official GDP was still 17.1 percent in 2003 and15.0 percent in 2006, this ratio, at just under 14.7 percent, even returned to below the level of 1998 for the first time.In 2008, thanks to the healthy economic environment, the underground economy shrank again by EUR 2.2 billion. A renewed rise in the underground economy took place in 2009and will again take place in 2010 mainly due to the economic crisis and the continuingrecession in Germany. The detailed results are set out in Table 2 for 2010.Table 2This table shows, based on the assumption of a rise in the unemployment rate of up to600.000, that the economic crisis will lead to an increase in the underground economy of between EUR 7.6 billion and EUR 10.1 billion. The underground economy is also expectedto fall slightly due to the 0.6 percentage point decrease in the health care insurancecontribution rate. Against this, the introduction of minimum wages in some areas have apositive impact on the development of the underground economy in an amount of betweenEUR 200 million and EUR 400 million. A new law of tax deductions(Bürgerentlastungsgesetz) will reduce the shadow economy between EUR 900 and EUR1.150 million The net effect of all these measures is a rise in the underground economy of between EUR 6.4 billion and EUR 8.3 billion.
2.2 Underground economy in Austria and Switzerland
the underground economy had grown from EUR 22.5 billion in 2003 to EUR 23.0billion in 2004, a rise of 2.2 percent. One fundamental cause of the increase in theunderground economy in 2004 was the continuously high burden of taxation and social
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Flowers bring bright holiday spirit to residents at Heirloom Inn
Poinsettias are presented to all 67 seniors at the Heirloom Inn. The flowers were delivered by staff members of KOAL Country radio to bring joy to the Castle Valley seniors on Dec. 12.
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Microsoft mentioned before that they will release final build of SP1 of Windows 7 for public on 22nd February. Now They have released Windows 7 SP1 RTM for all. The public release follows a private release to MSDN and TechNet customers last week. Microsoft has confirmed 7601.17514.101119-1850 is the final RTM. The software giant is expected to release the final bits to Windows Update shortly.
The update will bring additional support for Windows 7 clients to effectively communicate with third-party identity federation services and will improve the ability to communicate identity and authentication information between organizations and Improved HDMI audio device performance.
Read the points below before proceeding:
- In order to download and install Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 you must currently have a Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 already installed.
- If you’ve previously installed a pre-release version of Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 on your machine, you must uninstall that version before installing SP1.
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September 16, 2005If any one asks .. "Who pulled your ass out of the brink of disaster (several times) at Burning man Mark?".. It was Mike.. Wrenching on the Beast.. setting up shade for fellow campers.. walking my sorry butt to the sanacans one night, fending off art cars that tried to run me over.. ya Mike is One Hell of a guy! Stayed with me until I could manage on my own out there.
I have no idea how many folks Mike Helped out there that week but we all appreaciate the fact that he was out there!.. for us!
Thanks! and a big Hug!
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Sunset of Hearts
As the sun sets, it is the ending of a life. Sure, lives end every day, and new ones begin. But on this twilight, the sun was setting on the most important life in my world. But, it was also dawning on a new life as well. The only catch was, those two lives were both the same. What if Bella had come to Forks, and Edward and his family were human? What if they were like every other family? But, what if they were unfortunately pulled into a dark situation, that was to transform them into the thing of their nightmares, and inconsequentially, something darker than they had ever dreamed of? And what if Bella was the one to keep Edward going through all of this? Basically, what if Edward and his family were human in Forks? (Were being the key word.)
Okay, I know that, if you read my previously completed story, Daylight, I promised an entirely different story. But, I felt a different inspiration to write this one. So, here it is.
3. Chapter 3: Phospholipids and Plastic Cheese
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On this morning, I drove to Forks High School with a newly fueled hope. I couldn’t lie to myself – it was because I was going to see Edward Cullen. Beautiful, perfect, green-eyed, red-haired, gorgeous, mysterious, hilarious Edward Cullen. The cutest boy in school.
The thundering of my ancient truck made it hard to hear my own thoughts. Luckily, there was a thunderstorm currently in action, so I made it seem like the snarling engine was actually quiet, and it was just the sky that was growling with rage.
I pulled my truck into an open spot and made sure my backpack was securely on before opening the door a centimeter, jamming down the lock, then stepping out into the rain, where I aimed to run to the cafeteria’s overhang and wait out the rain.
As I was running through the muddy grass, I did what I normally did whilst running. I slipped and fell on my butt, looking like a complete idiot. Just as I was scrambling to get up, he rushed over to me and extended his pale, ghostly white, hand. Gratefully, I took it and allowed him to help me up.
Together, we ran the last stretch to the overhang, and then stood gratefully in the protection of the cafeteria’s extra slivers of roofing. I tried as best as I could to brush the mud off of my jacket and pants, but already I had a big dark spot on my butt. Dammit!
He stood in a similar position to mine, dark coat’s hood up over his perfectly untidy bronze hair. Droplets of the rain rested on his coat’s waterproof material, creating the appearance of dew on grass – or a rose. Well, a black rose, to be exact.
“Do you always fall like that, or was it because of the mud?” He joked lightly.
“No, it’s always like that,” I admitted, hanging my head. He laughed.
There was a long pause, but after a while, he decided to break it. “You have mud on your cheek,” he chuckled. I looked up at him from underneath my hood and soggy hair, and he looked back at me with his mesmerizingly green eyes.
Very casually, he lifted one ebony hand to touch my face, using his thumb to wipe away the speck of mud from my skin. When he did, an electric shock went through me, as if I’d been electrocuted, but without the pain. He seemed to feel it too, because he drew his hand back sharply.
“Sorry,” he breathed quietly.
I stood, unmoving and unblinking, frozen in shock, not sure what to do, not sure what to say. Not sure if I should apologize as well for something that had been neither of our faults. Not sure if I should say it was fine, pinning the blame on him, that maybe he’d shuffled a little too much along his carpet this morning and shocked me with static electricity.
There was a nasal buzzing sound, sending students hurrying to get to their classes. Edward waved good bye and walked in the opposite direction, and I went to my first class. The day passed slowly, leaving me in a daze and trying to comprehend what the teachers were saying. Not once did I pay attention, not until lunch. Not until I saw him standing at the end of the lunch line, preparing to buy food.
I hurried in front of two girls headed for the back of the line where he stood, and ran up behind him. I tapped him on the shoulder. He spun around, as to find who had tapped him. I smiled. Upon seeing me, he smiled as well.
“Hello, Bella,” he greeted me warmly.
“Hey!” I exclaimed, not able to mask my excitement. He seemed to notice how happy I was, and his mood lightened infinitesimally.
“How was your day?” He asked politely.
“Wet. And yours?” He chuckled quietly.
“Wet, as well.” I laughed.
“I was just thinking about yesterday in Bio,” I began. “And I wondered if something similar would happen today.”
His grin stretched wider across his face, revealing two rows of glistening white teeth. “I hope so,” he said humorously, “because that was hilarious!”
“Though maybe since we pointed it out, he’ll be more careful this time. You know, double check, maybe even triple check,” I laughed. How strange it was that I could laugh so lightly in his presence. How strange it was that, around him, I couldn’t help but smile and laugh and be happy with him.
He laughed in agreement. By now, we had reached the food, and he grabbed a tray of pizza. I picked the mozzarella sticks and followed him to the cash register. He paid for his food in cash, and waited politely for me to pay for mine. I used the money I’d deposited yesterday to purchase the overpriced lump of what was supposed to be cheese and breading.
“If you’d like, you can sit with my siblings and me,” he suggested. I immediately brightened, replying yes a little too quickly. He smiled to himself, proud that he’d been able to get a quick response out of me just like that. Or maybe he was proud that I was following him around like a lost little puppy, including the goo-goo eyes. Was it showing?
When we approached the table where his siblings sat, however, I became timid. I was afraid of what they would think, though I wasn’t exactly sure why at the time. Meekly, I followed, putting myself more behind him so as to try to hide.
“I’d like you all to meet my friend, Bella,” he announced, introducing me.
“Where is she?” Came a deep, burly voice. That’s my cue, I though glumly to myself. I took a step to the right, exposing myself to view. Edward smiled and continued.
“Bella, this is Emmett,” he pointed out the one who’d spoke before, a boy with curly brown hair, hazel eyes, and thick muscles on his arms, “Rosalie,” he pointed to the statuesque blonde girl with light blue eyes, “Jasper,” he pointed out the boy with light blonde hair, skin a shade darker than the rest, although still pale, and blue-grey eyes, “and Alice,” he finished on the girl I’d seen him say goodbye to yesterday before Biology, with the spiky black hair and light brown oval eyes.
He sat down next to Rosalie, leaving me sitting shyly across from him next to Alice. I timidly took a bite of my food and a sip of my drink, feeling my face turn red.
“So…um…you’re all related?” That was a polite enough question, right? Right?
“No, not really,” Edward was the one to answer.
“We’re all adopted,” Alice answered beside me. Hearing her sudden, high-pitched, musical voice made me jump, and they seemed to enjoy that. It was strange – I’d thought the topic of adoption would be a difficult one, but they seemed not to mind.
“Oh,” was all I could say in reply.
“What about you, Bella? We heard you just moved in,” Jasper asked from beside Alice.
“Yes, I just moved up from Arizona to live with my dad,” I replied in a small voice.
“Oh, wow, Arizona! It must’ve been beautiful!” Alice exclaimed excitedly.
“It is,” I replied with a smile. It seemed as though they were accepting me, able to chat politely with me.
“I bet Forks is quite a change for you,” Alice added in.
“Well…” I debated, wanting to be polite if they did like Forks, “it’s definitely rainier.” They exchanged giggles. “Back in Phoenix, it only rained three or four times a year!”
“Wow,” she exaggerated the word to sound like three syllables. The best part was, she actually seemed genuinely interested.
“How about you guys? Edward told me you moved down from Alaska two years ago. What must that have been like?”
“Well, it’s definitely warmer,” Jasper said, speaking for the first time in a while, seeing as Alice hadn’t left any openings for him.
“But not to you of course,” Edward said.
“No, I’d definitely say it’s colder,” I injected with a laugh.
“But isn’t Phoenix so hot? The humidity must’ve been unbearable,” Rosalie said for the first time. She looked like the type who would, in fact, be perturbed by a little humidity. Frizzy hair, oh no!
“Well, once you get used to it, it’s not so bad,” I remarked defensively. Phoenix was a wonderful city, warm and dry and beautiful. None of all this uninvited green. No moss on the tree trunks, no webby green branches, no green light. There was brown. Brown tree trucks, brown branches with a few green leaves compared to this place, and dirt. You couldn’t see the dirt here. Just moss and grass and tree roots.
“Hmm…” Rosalie finished, lifting her nose slightly into the air. What was her problem? If she was so snooty, why did they sit with her? Well duh, she’s their sister. Of course they’d sit with her.
The whole rest of the lunch period continued similarly, the six of us engaging in polite conversation about our pasts – though I never brought up the word ‘parents’, thinking it might be a sensitive subject for adopted children. I didn’t know if they had been orphaned, or if their parents were druggies, or maybe even in jail. Either they had unfit parents, or they had no parents. Either way, I wasn’t about to bring it up.
Edward and I waved goodbye to Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie, and walked with Alice to Biology. We left Alice at the door, and she walked down a narrow pathway to her Government class. Edward and I took our seats in the back of the room.
When we entered the classroom, everyone’s eyes seemed to bug out of their heads. There we were, the new girl and Mr. Cutest-Boy-in-School Cullen, walking into class, together. We might as well of been holding hands and kissing the way they were all staring. I was surprised at how my heart sped up at that thought.
Edward sat down first, ignoring all the stares as if they weren’t there. It took me a bit longer, self-consciously setting my book bag down and rifling through it for my binder and notebook. Finally, I plopped down into my chair and moved my hair over my shoulder, making a curtain between the rest of the class and us.
He had his notebook open, doodling aimlessly in the margins and waiting for the teacher to start teaching. I did the same, sketching nothing in particular around the sides. My right hand, the one I wasn’t drawing with, was nervously twisting into the hair at the back of my neck. We waited for what seemed like eternity for the teacher to show up. Maybe he’d chickened out and called in sick.
But, lo and behold, he backed into the room with a TV on wheels. So it was going to be a movie day. I closed my notebook and but it in my bag, along with my binder and pen. Edward did the same.
The teacher – whose name still remained forgotten by my reluctant mind – pushed a button on the ancient set and a blue screen appeared. He put a tape in the reluctant VCR and pressed a few more buttons before the credits begun to roll.
“I wonder what this one’s about,” Edward mused quietly beside me.
“Yeah. Maybe if we’re lucky, it won’t be educational,” I suggested, secretly praying that I wouldn’t need to pay attention.
“But, knowing my luck, it’ll probably be some horribly acted movie about cellular respiration or something of the sort,” he groaned. I laughed.
“You’re probably right.”
“I do have a habit of doing that sometimes,” he said through a smile. I glanced up at him, and he was looking back down at me. Our eyes met in an instant and locked each other in a strangle-hold gaze, unable to be broken. His smile faded into a look of transfixed wonderment, and I was sure my face beheld the same expression. It was only when the teacher called the class to order when he reluctantly looked away. Crimson cheeked, I did the same.
The movie was just as we had expected – an hour long educational documentary about cellular osmosis and respiration, oxidation and reduction, how the proteins embedded in the cell’s phospholipids bilayer were semi permeable and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Overall, it was torture.
But, having him beside me, breathing the same air I was breathing, less than a foot away from me, sitting with his chin propped up on his palm, stealing glances at me every few seconds, made everything…bearable. It made me feel like I wasn’t alone. And, to be truthful, I wasn’t. I was the farthest I could be from alone.
Reluctant as ever, I waved goodbye to Edward after he’d walked me to the gym. I stood there, leaning up against the door frame, staring after him as he walked down one of the school’s infamous narrow walkways, glorious as ever, even in his bulky bio-hazard-like coat, and even in the pouring rain, which, by now, had completely drenched my hair. I imagined I probably looked like something not far from a half-drowned cat.
That night was the first night I dreamed of Edward Cullen.
- Chapter 1: Fateful Hello
- Chapter 2: How Strange It Was
- Chapter 3: Phospholipids and Plastic Cheese
- Chapter 4: "Three days could change everything."
- Chapter 5: All At Once
- Chapter 6: Chicken Noodle Soup WITH A SODA ON THE SIDE
- Chapter 7: Vampiran Flu
- Chapter 8: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
- Chapter 9: Remembering
- Chapter 10: Visting Hours
- AUTHORS NOTE
- Chapter 11: March the Second
- Chapter 12: Exchanging Body Heat in the Passenger Seat
- Chapter 13: Flashbacks are Finally Helpful
- Chapter 14: Vampires Will Never Hurt You
- Chapter 15: The Hardest Part of This is Leaving You
- Chapter 16: The Double T Diner
- Chapter 17: Reunion?
- Chapter 19: The End!
- Chapter 20: A/N My bad!
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Pancrezyme Powder, 12 oz pet meds contain protease, amylase, and lipase to help your pet digest carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Additional fat-soluble vitamins (vitamin A, D, and E) are added for extra nutrition.
- Digestive enzymes for pets with pancreatic insufficiency
- Helps prevent malnutrition by aiding digestion and absorption of basic nutrients
- Given with each meal to aid digestion
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Did your last trip to the beach leave your back as red as a ripe tomato, scorched hot enough to scramble eggs over? Have no fear, aloe vera is here! Aloe (a plant related to the cactus and a member of the family Asphodelaceae) can grow to be four feet tall with leaves that can be as long as 20 inches (1). Within these tough, fleshy leaves are “over 200 nutrients, including 18 amino acids and a variety of vitamins and minerals”(1). This multi-purpose plant fuses benefits for skin, dental and digestive health to serve your needs.
A Multi-Purpose Plant
Picture slicing through one of the plant’s spear-like leaves, where you will find a clear, thick gel oozing out, which is commonly purified and used in topical sunburn relief products. A bitter, yellow juice is found between the gel and the outer skin of the leaf. This can be dried and taken orally in supplement form as a laxative to help with constipation.
When it comes to mouth ulcers, aloe vera gel may also be formulated in mouth rinses due to its anti-inflammatory effect. It also appears to have a soothing effect on stomach ulcers, and interferes with the release of hydrochloric acid by the stomach (1). Let’s take a closer look at how these benefits work.
How Does Aloe Revitalize Skin?
When you have a sunburn, turn to aloe vera. Topical aloe gels offer softening, soothing, healing and cell repair to the applied area (1).
Due to aloe’s anti-inflammatory attributes, such products may help stimulate skin growth and repair. Aloe can also be used on minor cuts, wounds, injuries and rashes. Another healing factor of aloe is its ability to promote collagen formation when applied to the skin. Your skin relies on collagen for strength, structure and a healthy look.
Our skin is a close pal, whom we need to maintain on a daily basis. When our skin burns, moisture is lost, but with aloe you can replenish and revitalize your skin.
Soothing Mouth Ulcers and Stomach Discomfort
On the oral front, aloe vera may offer relief for those with mouth sores and ulcers. “Aloe vera has proven anti-inflammatory and wound-healing properties. This is an interesting development for the treatment of mouth ulcers,” said Nina Goad of the British Association of Dermatologists (2).
In 2007, a study published in the British Journal of Dermatology indicated aloe vera gel can benefit people who suffer from Oral Lichen Planus, a chronic inflammatory disorder of the mouth (2). For eight weeks, a group of 54 participants was split in half; one half was treated with aloe vera gel and the other half was given a placebo. A total of 81% of the patients treated with aloe vera had a good response (reduced inflammation and pain) after eight weeks of treatment, while only four percent of placebo patients had a similar response (2).
One of the study’s authors, Charoen Choonhakarn, dermatologist at Srinagarind Hospital Medical School, Khon Kaen Univeristy in Thailand, said, “We found that the effect of 70% aloe vera gel on the disorder was significantly better than a placebo. The results showed decreases both in clinical signs and in pain scores” (2).
To calm the rumbling in the stomach, such as from constipation and acid-related conditions, aloe juice supplements may have a laxative effect. In 2008, a study was published in the Research Journal of Medicine and Medical Science from Tamilnadu, India. Findings included protection of the stomach walls against acid and neutralization of excess stomach acid. (5).
Aloe and Your Inner Body
When it comes to your body, proper nutrient absorption is important—and aloe may help. An aloe supplement manufacturer sponsored two independent studies in 2008 on an absorption-enhancing product made from 100% certified aloe. These studies revealed that the aloe juice (with high concentrations of polysaccharides) helped increase one’s vitamin C absorption by 20 times more in the first hour than if you were to take vitamins with water alone (4).
Also, with such high-molecular weight polysaccharides, you will obtain the greatest benefits for digestive health, vitamin C absorption and immune support to maintain your health (4).
What to be Aware of
When taking aloe vera (and all supplements), you should always carefully read the label and find out the proper dosage, how many times to use it, for how long and whether it will be topically applied or taken orally. In some individuals, abdominal cramps and diarrhea have been reported when taking aloe supplements to achieve a laxative effect (3). Also, the use of certain forms of aloe may turn urine red, which is usually harmless (1). And, like any changes in dietary habits, be sure to check with your healthcare provider before taking aloe for the first time. WF
1. Vitamins & Health Supplements Guide, updated 2006, www.vitamins-supplements.org/herbal-supplements/aloe-vera.php, accessed June 2009.
2. R. David, “Another Role for Aloe Vera: Tackling Mouth Ulcers,” The Times, updated Dec. 18, 2007, www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style /health/article3065814.ece, accessed June 2009.
3. National Center For Complementary And Alternative Medicine, “Herbs At A Glance,” http://nccam.nih.gov/health/aloevera/, updated, April 2008, accessed June 2009.
4. L. Tully, “Peer Review of Clinical Research on Lily of the Desert Aloe Vera by Fenestra Research,” February 6, 2008.
5. A. Rajendran, “Study on the Effective Supplementation of Aloe Vera Gel Antacid to Peptic Ulcer Patients,” updated 2008, www.insinet.net/rjmms/2008/132-134.pdf, accessed June 2009.
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Harriet J. Bauman
Saturday is important to the Cajuns because it is the end of the work week and the day before the Sabbath.
On Saturday, from nine in the morning to past midnight, all over Acadiana—and especially in its heartland, around Mamou and Eunice and Opelousas—is impossible to escape the sound of the fiddle, the guitar, and the accordion, the nasal singing of the old Cajun lyrics, the tingle of the triangle and spoons, and the rhythmic clomping of the two-step, the most popular Cajun dance because a two-step works well with the simple rhythms of the songs. (Amy Wilentz, “Bon Temps on the Bayou”, Condé Nast Traveler (New York: Condé Nast Publications Inc.; June, 1991), p. 145)Cajun life is defined by its music. Cajun music is the focus for this unit as it reflects Cajun family life, customs, and language.
Using music to discuss a culture, its background and influences, is a special approach to the study of the family. For the Cajuns, music reveals their deepest feelings and expresses their philosophy of life. Cajun music can be studied in several different ways: 1) historically, as to its origins; 2) culturally; and 3) socially. With the family as the center of the ethnic group, and the focus for this unit, Cajun music will provide here the means for exploring the latter two aspects, for understanding the culture and the people.
As a French teacher in the New Haven Public Schools, I am required to teach a particular curriculum. Included in this curriculum are aspects of French culture which are highlighted in the textbooks for every level. In addition to the “mandatory” culture, there are cultural topics that I include because I am interested in them, and, because the students find them interesting as well.
I enjoy teaching French culture. Sometimes, however, the information seems too remote from my urban students’ American experience. Therefore I make an effort to include cultural topics based on French influence on the United States (food, fashion, language, etc.), as well as the study of French Americans. Because I am fascinated by the culture of the French Americans in Louisiana, especially the Cajuns, I take every opportunity to learn more about them. I have written two other units about the Cajuns which can be used along with this unit: “The Preservation of a Heritage: A Study of the Acadians” in 1983, and “The Cajuns: Natives With a Difference!” in 1988.
This unit is designed for French classes in levels 2, 3, and 4. It can be used in a U.S. History class, an American literature class, a music class, and an art history or Humanities class. The unit may take between five and ten weeks, depending on the interest of the students, and the constraints of the curriculum.
In order to learn about Cajun music within the context of its culture, I am using an object analysis approach. Object analysis concentrates on an object from a particular time or culture. In studying the object thoroughly, conclusions about the culture can be reached.
Jules D. Prown, in his article “Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method,” (see Bibliography) describes the three major phases of object analysis as description, deduction, and speculation. In the descriptive phase, the observer is limited to what can be seen in the object itself: its measurements and weight, the materials used, and the ways in which the materials are put together. All decorations, designs, words, and letters are examined. And, as the final step in this phase, “formal analysis” occurs in which the observer describes the object two-dimensionally and three-dimensionally, as well as in terms of color, lights and darks, and texture.
In the deductive phase, the observer uses the information learned in the first phase. He/She interacts with the object and draws some conclusions about the society from which it comes. This phase relies on the observer’s senses, and his/her intellectual and emotional responses to the object.
The final phase of object analysis is speculation. In this phase, the observer is required to use his/her imagination in a creative manner to hypothesize about the object. The theories derived from these hypotheses need to be tested through research, so that questions raised from the close observation of the object can be answered satisfactorily.
Music, though not a material object, can be analyzed using Prown’s method. The record album cover, the lyrics, and the music itself, all can be studied to provide insight into the Cajun culture.
The album cover can be examined descriptively, deductively, and speculatively as a cultural object. Cultural information can be gleaned from the design of the cover, not only from what is included, but from what is not, as well.
One can study the lyrics of a song in their original form linguistically and grammatically, in translation, and as presented in different versions. The lyrics may be studied historically and culturally. The lyrics provide several lessons for language classes to analyze Cajun French.
The music can be studied historically to learn how it has been influenced. In addition, one can examine the music for its unique qualities—elements that make Cajun music different from other forms of American music.
1. To use the Cajuns and their music to engage an interest in and to learn French. 2. To learn about the Cajuns, their customs, work, leisure time, food, and how their music unites them as an ethnic group, with emphasis on the family. 3. To learn the history of Cajun music. 4. To learn about Cajun music of today. 5. To analyze several Cajun songs, using the object analysis method.
Because they felt that they had found an “earthly paradise” like Virgil’s Arcadia, these settlers started calling themselves “Acadiens” (Acadians). Politically, however, there were problems in paradise. The British and the French were beginning their struggle for domination of the Americas. The Acadians were neutral in this struggle, but because they were French, the British became suspicious of them.
At the same time that the French were settling Acadia (Nova Scotia), other groups of French settlers were establishing themselves in Louisiana. The political situation was getting worse and worse in Acadia, so much so that some of the Acadians began thinking about moving to Louisiana where the French ruled the area securely and the Catholic religion was supreme.
In 1713, Acadia was ceded to the English under the Treaty of Utrecht. The population was entirely French Catholic. The treaty allowed the people to leave the country within one year, with their belongings, or to remain and practice their own religion insofar as British law allowed. (Jacques-Donat Casanova and Armour Landry, America’s French Heritage (La Documentation FranCaise and the Quebec Official Publisher, 1976), p. 64)In 1754 the Mouton family left Acadia for Louisiana. Their move became the first recorded migration of Acadians to Louisiana, and the Moutons became the first “Cajuns” (an Americanization of the word Acadian). In 1755, Governor Charles Lawrence of Nova Scotia formally expelled the Acadians.
This is the central experience of Cajun history and lore. In French it is called ‘Le Grand Dérangement,’ the great disturbance, in English commonly known as the Expulsion. Between September, 1755 and the end of the year, more than five thousand Acadians were shipped out of their homeland for unknown destinations. Families were separated, often on purpose, by the British, who would put men on one ship and women and children on another. The deportation continued in spurts, until almost every single Acadian had been expelled from the land his or her forebears had tamed. (Wilentz, p. 106)The Acadians were dispersed far and wide. Some went to France or England. Others settled in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Maryland, the Carolinas, or Georgia. Still others ended up in Haiti, Martinique, or Guadeloupe in the French West Indies. It sometimes took many months and even years before the exiles reached Louisiana where the King of France was offering them land for settlement.
When the Acadians finally arrived in Louisiana, they discovered a hostile, disease ridden environment. Even with all the problems they encountered here, they found that the land was rich for farming; there were thick woods teeming with game, and rivers, marshes, and swamps filled with fish of all kinds.
It was hard to starve in the new Acadia, and even if the French Creole planters of New Orleans and its environs did not want to have much to do with the now penniless Acadians, at least French was spoken throughout the colony, even during its brief cession to the Spanish. The religion was Catholic, and the Acadians could erect their churches here without fear that the Protestant English would burn them down the next day. (Wilentz, pp. 106-107)Cajun farmers settled on the prairie, and the trappers and fishermen built their houses in the bayous (“Bayou” is from a Choctaw Indian word “bayuk” meaning creek or small river). The Cajuns made use of the natural resources of the area, and, in so doing, created a new way of life.
Early Cajun music was born in the struggle to survive in a difficult living situation. Cajun music reflected the day to day problems and the hardships faced by the new settlers. They worked hard and played even harder. Their music defined a sense of community as several musicians worked together in playing their music for social gatherings.
The first music of Louisiana was brought by the settlers. The music was that of their ancestors, “... beautiful ballads that told stories of bygone years. Many of these songs can be traced back to France and many songs from France drifted to the bayou and prairie region via New Orleans and Nova Scotia.” (Savoy, p. 13)
The voice as well as the fiddle were the instruments of choice in early Cajun country. There were two fiddles customarily employed for playing this music; one played the tune while the other played the rhythm. Later the Germans brought the button accordion to Louisiana and it was incorporated into Cajun music. It became the instrument of choice in the 1920’s.
Here was an instrument that could withstand the problems that ravaged violins in the semi-tropical climate... Here also, was an instrument of huge volume that even offered its own accompaniment by supplying a bass and a chord section, so its full sound was an asset to the packed, noisy dancehalls. Thus Cajun music began a major change. (Savoy, p. 13) Because the accordion was simple, it could not form the delicate nuances of the old songs. But many beautiful songs were written for it. The era of the accordion is considered by some to be “traditional Cajun music.” (Savoy, p. 13)The Cajuns also started using a guitar for rhythm. A typical Cajun band was made up of a fiddle, an accordion, and a guitar or triangle for rhythm. In the 1930’s the accordion began to lose its popularity due to the influence of hillbilly music which was introduced during the discovery of oil in Louisiana. During World War II the typical Cajun band consisted of the fiddle, the guitar, the upright string bass and drums. Sometimes mandolins and banjos were included.
After World War II, accordions became popular again. “Not only was the availability of the accordions the reason for this instrument’s regained popularity, but Cajun national pride was in full bloom; those who had left during the war saw that the Cajuns were as ‘good as anyone else,’ and they had longed for the symbols of their homeland.” (Savoy, p. 14)
As soldiers, the Cajuns were used to translate and to act as liaisons with the French allies. The Cajuns were amazed that the language they were forbidden to speak outside their homes in Louisiana, was not only acceptable but respected by everyone they met. They felt very important because they could contribute something unique to the war effort—their language. Their renewed pride in their culture manifested itself in their music when they came home. They wanted their music played and sung the way it had been before World War II. Nevertheless, changes occurred in the music after the War.
An important structural change was the phasing out of the ‘bridges’ used in the old songs. A ‘bridge’ is an alternate tune (usually formed by omitting the second chord of the melody) used to break up the monotony of one or two instruments repeating the melody over and over again. The addition of the steel guitar as a third lead instrument omitted the need for an alternate melody since enough variety was already offered by the increased instrumentation. (Savoy, p. 14)
Slaves were brought to Louisiana from the west coast of Africa between 1719 and 18O9; ‘Gens libres de couleur’ (free people of color) came to and developed in Louisiana before and after the Haitian revolution; French planters exiled from Cuba in 1810 brought Caribbean French slaves with them; blacks from Virginia and Maryland also came to Louisiana, Slavery, though common in eastern Louisiana, was practiced on a small scale in the Cajun part of Louisiana. Many blacks found work as tenant farmers among the hard working Cajuns after their release from slavery. To the Cajun culture these people of many nations brought spices, new language elements, culinary arts, and rhythmic influences to the music. (Savoy, p. 304)Early Creole music was made without instruments because instruments cost money. Therefore the Creole musicians used what they had, their bodies, their voices, or simple instruments made from ordinary household items to make their music. “When instruments became available the black Creoles were among the earliest to master the accordion. The early available recordings of Creole musicians show a closeness in style to the Cajun musicians.” (Savoy, p. 304)
The early singers were mainly women who sang old ballads or story songs that came from Old World sources, brought over by French and Spanish settlers. Other singers were called “juré singers” who sang inspirational songs praising God with hand clapping, foot timing, calling and singing testimonies to God. Surrogate instruments were sometimes used such as mule jaws or bones, washboards, and sticks rubbed on wood.
After World War II rhythm and blues and other instrumental music influenced black Creole music. The washboard was replaced by corrugated steel vests. French songs were played faster, and the words of songs were simplified. There were changes in rhythm also. “La-la” music was characteristic of this period of Creole music. “La-la” music is fast French dance music with a rhythm and blues influence. Single row and triple row accordions were the instruments of choice for “la-la” music. “‘Zydeco’ is really the expression that replaced ‘la-la’ and ‘pic-nic’ in referring to a dance or the music played at a dance.” (Savoy, p. 305)
Music has been important to Cajun families since they arrived in Louisiana. After a long day’s work building houses, or plowing the fields, “families would gather... to sing complaintes, the long unaccompanied story songs of their French heritage. They adapted old songs to reflect the Louisiana experience. They sang children’s songs, drinking songs, and lullabies in the appropriate settings and developed play-party ditties for square and round dancing... They filled the loneliest nights in the simplest cabins with wisdom and art.” (Barry Jean Ancelet, The Makers of Cajun Music Musiciens cadiens et créoles (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press,984), pp. 21-22)
No holiday is complete without music. The Cajuns have special songs for Christmas and for Mardi Gras (Shrove Tuesday). They celebrate their holidays enthusiastically and play their music, or sing, or dance with gusto. Even common events such as a “boucherie” (hog butchering), for example, are celebrated with music.
Joe was friendly with Amédée Breaux. He spent a lot of time with Amédée’s band playing the triangle while Amédée played the accordion. Amédée’s sister, Cléoma, played the guitar in Amédée’s band. She soon played the rhythm guitar while Joe played the accordion in the dancehalls. They were married and made their musical partnership a permanent one.
In the late 1920’s when Louisiana was blooming with some of the finest Cajun music and the accordion was, for the first time, the ‘king’ instrument, the musical team of a feisty, tough young man and his beautiful wife electrified the Cajun dancehall scene. Joe and Cléoma Falcon’s popularity was outstanding and they packed the dancehalls from Lafayette to East Texas. The curiosity of a woman playing the guitar in a dancehall at a time when the family unit formed the law in the community was a shock to the people of southwest Louisiana. (Savoy, p. 90)Joe and Cléoma’s band was made up of family members. The band had a powerful sound played by an accordion, fiddle, steel guitar, and washboards. Its songs were predominantly old songs that were part of the family’s heritage.
Cléoma’s voice was in the middle range. She sang with a lot of emotion. “Her favorite themes were the sorrows of being taken away from one’s family and lost love. Besides the traditional songs of the past, Cléoma would translate popular western songs into French.” (Savoy, pp. 91-92) She and Joe also sang some black blues songs to fill out their repertoire.
Cléoma died in 1941 in mysterious circumstances. She had had an accident three years earlier when her sweater was caught on a car, and she was dragged a quarter of a mile and injured badly. She never recovered from the traumatic experience, and died at thirty-six years of age.
Joe continued to play with his band, but not with the interest he had shown before Cléoma’s death. His second wife, Theresa, joined the band a few years later. She played the drums and sang until Joe stopped making public appearances. Joe died in 1965.
Joe and Cléoma’s records are still well loved in Louisiana and Joe Falcon’s style of playing the accordion, though not technically as outstanding as others who followed, is considered to be a standard—a definition of traditional Cajun accordion playing. (Savoy, p. 91)
We are looking at an album cover entitled “Cléoma B. Falcon: A Cajun Music Classic” put out by JADFEL Record Company in 1983. In describing this album we would say that it is approximately 12” X 12”, a perfect square. It weighs about 10 ounces with the record inside. It is made of paper with ink on it. What we would call the front of the album has words in the center: “Cléoma B. Falcon A Cajun Music Classic, along with some other letters and numbers in the upper right hand corner: JADFEL LP-101. The words “Cléoma B. Falcon” form an arch over a rather large circle with a picture of a woman holding a guitar. The other words “A Cajun Music” are in a straight line underneath the picture, with “Classic,” also in a straight line underneath “A Cajun Music.”
The picture of the woman in the center appears to be a photograph. The circle is defined, but by a fuzzy outline. The woman has her hair parted in the middle. It is dark and curly. She seems to be wearing an earring in her left ear. She has a beaded necklace around her neck, and is wearing a soft dress with a frill of some kind on her left shoulder. She is young and pretty. She is holding a large guitar with both hands poised to play, even though we only see her right hand ready to pick the strings or strum them. The guitar has six strings. It appears to have a small border outlining its shape.
On the back of the album, there are many more words in different styles of printing, and a rectangular picture in the upper left hand corner. This picture is a more complete photograph than the one on the front cover. It seems that the picture on the front is a blow-up of the woman in the picture on the back. In this picture we see all of the woman. She is sitting on a chair or a stool with three legs, which appear to have two sections separated by circular designs. Her dress is short, with lace on the bottom. The frill on her left shoulder now seems to be a long scarf going down below her waist with a cloth flower on her shoulder either holding the scarf or part of it. Her left hand is holding the neck of the guitar with her fingers holding certain strings. She is wearing high heeled shoes.
There is a man in the picture also. He is seated to the left of the woman. He is seated on a very large chair, rectangular in shape with four legs, stretchers holding the legs together, and a back which comes up to the middle of the man’s back. It appears to be all wood with some very simple designs made with the wood, on the legs, the stretchers, and on the back.
The man is good-looking and the woman is beautiful. He appears to be taller than the woman, and much larger physically. His hair is parted in the middle and lies close to his head. He is dressed up in a suit with wide lapels on the jacket. The lapels appear to have a trim outlining the shape of the lapels. The pants have cuffs with a trim similar to that on the lapels. He is wearing a plain white shirt and a striped tie. His shoes seem to be made of soft leather, but they are not dressy. He is holding an accordion which seems to be a one row accordion. He is holding the accordion with both hands as if he is ready to play.
In back of the two people there seems to be a stage backdrop. There is a building in the background behind the man, and at least one other large object, perhaps a bench, which is located behind the woman.
Underneath the picture is the title: “1928 Photo of Cléoma and Joe Falcon Photo courtesy of their daughter, Lu Lu Falcon Langlinais.” Under the title are five paragraphs telling about the people in the picture. On the right hand side there are twelve songs listed with the titles in French and English and the credits for each song. There is also a paragraph thanking a collector for his recordings which were used to put this album together.
The album is buff colored, perhaps a pinky beige, with brown lettering. It is not shiny. The pictures have light areas which are beige, the same as the album cover. The pictures’ dark areas are the same brown as in the lettering. The sepia tones give the pictures and the album a feeling of a time long past. The woman and the man stand out from the background as they are lighter and more clearly defined. The woman is lighter than the man and she is highlighted by a plain light area in the background of the pictures.
There is a feeling of antiqueness on both sides of the album cover. The lack of shine in the material of the album cover, and the sepia tones give one the feeling that one is looking at a daguerreotype or a very old photograph. The fuzziness around the picture on the front cover, and in the background of the picture on the back cover make one think that the pictures are much older than they are. The fancy printing of the title of the album evokes a feeling of antiquity as well. In addition, the hairstyles of the two people in the picture, as well as their clothes and their instruments, vice strong evidence of the age depicted.
For the deductive phase of the study of the album cover, one may conclude that the era depicted is important and is revered. The person who created this cover is nostalgic for a time long past where pretty women and hand some men played beautiful music on guitars and accordions for special occasions.
The woman and man are not equal. The woman is set apart from the man by the long neck of the guitar, as well as by the light area behind her. She is the focus of this album. He is included because he is important to her and to the music. His importance is indicated by his equality of size with the woman; the same color for his clothes as for hers; his musical instrument which covers as large a part of his body as her instrument does to her; and the size of his chair as well as the turning of the chair toward the woman and toward the person who is looking at the album.
Speculation about the relationship between the man and the woman and their music leads one to ask the following questions: Where are the man and the woman? In what century or year is the event taking place? Why are they there? Who are the man and the woman? Are they related or not? Are they married or not? Do they only play the instruments shown in the photograph? Do they play together or separately? Are they equal as performers? Do they write their own music? Does one of them play and the other plays and sings? Are they famous?
The hypotheses to be tested are: The man and the woman are on a stage somewhere; Because of their old-fashioned hairstyles and clothes the man and the woman might be living in the early Twentieth Century, perhaps in the 1920’s or 1930’s; They are in this place to perform, to play their instruments and perhaps sing; Because there is no written music to be seen in the photograph, one might assume that the people know their music by heart; The man and the woman may be related or married, or not but they are connected by their music; They play the instruments they are holding but there is no apparent evidence that they play other instruments; The people play together; The man and the woman are not equal as performers; One cannot tell from the photograph if the man and the woman write their own music, or if one of them plays and sings, or if they both play and sing; They are famous.
The speculations and the hypotheses above lead one to the paragraphs below the picture on the back of the album. We learn that this album was put together by Cléoma’s great nephew as a tribute to her and to her husband Joe Falcon and their music. “Aunt Cléoma deserves the spotlight for once. Listen to her extraordinary sounding vibrato voice as she sings beautiful Cajun and Cajun interpreted songs... Enjoy the songs as they roll from her heart to her lips as she strums her guitar to the accompaniment of her husband (Joe Falcon) on the accordion and Cléopha Breaux (her brother) on the fiddle. Truly a classic collection of pure, authentic Cajun music.” (Johnnie Allan, Cléoma B. Falcon A Cajun Music Classic, (Lafayette, La.: JADFEL Record Co., 1983), rear cover) One might read Ann Allen Savoy’s book entitled Cajun Music A Reflection of a People (see Bibliography) for more detailed information about Joe and Cléoma Falcon.
To her great nephew, Cléoma Falcon was extraordinarily special. He admires what she and Joe accomplished with their style of Cajun music. He wants the listeners to appreciate their music as he does.
The lyrics of one of Joe and Cléoma Falcon’s songs can be analyzed using the object analysis method. The song is called “Léve tes fFnetres haut” (Raise My Window High—in standard English translation the title would be: Raise Your Windows High). In looking at the sheet music (see Appendix), we notice that the tune is in the key of G and played in 2/4 time. The French words and the English translation contain the main interest for the observer. A musician might be more interested in the music, however. One may listen to the song (on tape and on file at the Yale New Haven Teachers Institute Office, 53 Wall Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511) to hear the melody and the words of the song.
To describe “LEve tes fenFtres haut,” we can say that the song has four verses of unequal lengths. The lines do not rhyme, but there are repetitions of words and whole lines. There are letters missing from words and some very different than traditional French grammatical constructions. There seems to be a progression from one verse to the next, with the last verse summing up what was said before, and bringing the problem to a resolution.
In the first verse the person telling the story asks another person to open the windows wide when he comes, and when the narrator leaves, the other one must cry. The second verse tells about the narrator getting drunk a great many days, especially this particular night that the song is being sung. A switch takes place in the third verse where the singer discusses working very hard for very little money. His wife takes most of it, leaving him with the change. Finally, the fourth verse asks the listener to give the singer her right hand if she doesn’t want him, and if she doesn’t, he doesn’t want her either.
“Léve tes fenFtres haut” is a good example of Cléoma Falcon’s most interesting songs. Singing about unrequited love suits her emotional singing style. It is interesting to note that in this song Cléoma sings a male role. One might say that gender in Cléoma’s songs is unimportant because she is singing about the human experiences which can happen to men and women.
A careful look at the French lyrics reveals some characteristics of Cajun French. “Je” (I) is frequently written without the “e” when it is followed by a consonant: “j’suis (I am).” In standard French “je” drops the “e” only when it is followed by a vowel. “Moi” is used a great deal: “quand tu vois moi venir...” (when you see me coming...); “Si moi je...” (If I...); and “Ma femme prend la piastre et moi faut je fais avec les sous” (My wife takes the dollars and I have to make do with the coins). “Moi” is an emphatic pronoun underscoring the importance of “I.” In standard French the correct use of “moi” is found in “Si moi je...” Cajun French has used “moi” differently in the other two examples. In standard French, the line “quand tu vois moi venir” would be written “quand tu me vois venir;” and the line “Ma femme prend la piastre et moi faut je fais avec les sous” would be written “Ma femme prend fasse avec les sous” or, “Ma femme faut faire avec les sous.” In the second verse a reflexive verb is conjugated with “avoir” instead of “Ftre” in the passé composé: “Je m’ai saoulé...” instead of “je me suis enivré.” These differences of language make Cajun French more colorful and vibrant, not incorrect.
The other songs from the album “Cléoma B. Falcon A Cajun Classic” contain equally fascinating lyrics as “Léve tes fenFtres haut.” After listening to these songs and studying them linguistically, one might begin to understand the Cajun soul.
Objective To analyze a Cajun song, using the object analysis method.
Procedure The teacher sets the stage by explaining to the students that they are going to learn about Cajun culture through a study of their music. (They will have learned about the Cajuns’ history and life in Louisiana in previous lessons.)
1. The teacher will play the song on tape for the students several times, asking them to listen closely to the music. The students will be asked what instruments they can recognize, and how the music makes them feel, as the music is played. A list of feelings and a list of instruments can be written on the blackboard or overhead projector as they are mentioned. The lists could be written in French or English. These lists should be saved for further discussions. 2. The song is played again for students to discover words, phrases, and sentences that they know. Another list may be compiled of the recognized language expressions, and what they mean in English. 3. The teacher hands out the French lyrics to the song. The students read the song to themselves as it is played once more. 4. The students take turns reading the lyrics out loud. 5. The students work together in small groups to determine the meaning of the lyrics. 6. The students study the lyrics for differences between Cajun French and standard French. This activity can be done in small groups. 7. The students study the lyrics for cultural information. 8. If there is more than one version of a particular song, the students can compare and contrast the versions, especially if they are from different French-speaking groups (Cajun, Creole, Zydeco, French Canadian, or French). 9. Students may compare a Cajun song with a traditional French translation of its lyrics. 10. Some students may want to learn the song and perform it for an audience. 11. Other students may want to learn a typical Cajun dance that might be performed with the song.
This unit is the second in a series of units on the Cajuns that I have written. It uses the poem “Evangeline” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as a means of studying Cajun culture. Many student-centered activities are included in the unit.
Bauman, Harriet J. and John C. Warner. “The Preservation of a Heritage: A Study of the Acadians” Cross Cultural Variation in Children and Families Curriculum Units by Fellows of the Yale New Haven Teachers Institute, Volume VI (53 Wall Street, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute), 1983.
The first unit in a series on the Acadians and Cajuns. It gives useful background information on both the Acadians and the Cajuns, as well as a somewhat detailed look at their houses, customs, holidays, food, etc. There are several useful student activities included in this unit.
Broven, John. South to Louisiana: the Music of the Cajun Bayous (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company), 1983.
A good source of information about popular music in Louisiana, particularly Cajun music.
Dupont Jean-Claude. Histoire populaire de l’Acadie (Montréal: Leméac), 1979.
Interesting information about the Acadians’ social life and customs and the Cajuns’ social life and customs. There is a useful list of films on page 435.
Prown, Jules David. “Style as Evidence” (The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur, Museum), 1980.
Good background explanation with reasons for studying a culture’s objects.
Prown, Jules David. “Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method” (The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum), 1982.
This article explains the techniques for studying a cultural object. An important source for how to learn about a culture. Both of Prown’s articles give the teacher new tools for teaching.
Reed, Revon. L‰che pas la patate: portrait des Acadiens de la Louisiana (Montréal: Editions Parti pris), 1976. This whole book is interesting, particularly the chapters on language, customs, and music.
This record is the source of the songs studied for this unit. It is on tape and on file at the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, 53 Wall Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511.
Ancelet, Barry Jean. The Makers of Cajun Music Musicians cadiens et créoles (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press), 1984.
A history of Cajun music, with interviews with famous musicians, as well as interesting photographs. It is written in French and English and can be used for cultural readings in the classroom. An important resource for teaching about the Cajuns and their music.
Butler, Joseph T. Jr. “Bayou Lafourche” Travel/Holiday magazine, March, 1978.
An informational account of life today in southern Louisiana. It ends with short blurbs describing five fairs or festivals typical of the region.
Casanova, Jacques-Donat and Armour Landry. America’s French Heritage (La Documentation FranCaise and the Quebec Official Publisher), 1976.
A very well written book with short chapters divided into five categories. All of the book is useful, but read “Louisiana the Beautiful,” “Forced Exodus,” and the whole section entitled “The Urge to Explore.”
Ramsey, Carolyn. Cajuns on the Bayous (New York: Hastings House Publishers), 1957.
This book is a collection of stories gathered in visits to Louisiana by the author. Chapter VII “Fais-Dodo with Grand Isle Baratarians” tells about a typical Saturday night, Cajun-style!
Reed, Roy. “Down Home in Acadia.” The New York Times Magazine The Sophisticated Traveler Part 2 (New York: The New York Times), October 9, 1983.
Another way of getting familiar with Cajun life today! A short article that captures the spirit of the Cajun people.
Savoy, Ann Allen. Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People Vol. I (Eunice, Louisiana: Bluebird Press, Inc.), 1984.
One cannot teach Cajun music without this book! Not only does it contain information about important musicians and their music, but it has complete discographies of each musician discussed.
Saxon, Lyle, Edward Dreyer, and Robert Tallant. Gumbo Ya-Ya A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company), 1945.
See chapter 21 “Songs” for a detailed discussion of Creole music.
Wilentz, Amy. “Bon Temps on the bayou” Condé Nast Traveler (New York: the Condé Nast Publications, Inc.), June, 1991.
A well written article on Cajun life today. The flavor of Cajun life portrayed in this article makes one hungry to visit the area.
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Professor Erik Lehnsherr moves in across the street from Professor Charles Xavier a week before Charles has his annual 'Your Pokemon And You' lecture scheduled down at the university. In the spirit of neighborliness, Charles bakes him a casserole and breaks the ice by telling him about the skit (complete with hand puppets) he plans to put on this year. He's quite proud of it really, and suspects it will draw his largest audience yet.
Erik smiles and nods the entire time; for his part, Charles mistakes the mischief in Erik's expression for actual interest, and goes on for half an hour longer than he generally would, based partially on Erik's perceived absorption but mostly on the fact that it's not every day handsome men join the neighborhood.
On the day Charles gives his lecture, Erik puts on a lecture of his own at the exact same time, in the auditorium across the hall. His is entitled 'Eeveelution: Up Close And Personal.' The highlight involves an Eevee evolving into a Jolteon on-stage. There doesn't appear to be any educational value involved, but flash trumps actual content every time; and so it is that Charles' skit pulls in an audience of five in a hall that sits three hundred.
Later, Charles calls up Armando Munoz, who he thought was his friend, but all he has to say for himself is, "First of all, Lehnsherr was paying well. And secondly, Eevees from that line won't evolve without an audience. I'm being serious here; her mother wouldn't, and her grandmother wouldn't either. They're amazing battlers, but just so vain. I'm working on breeding that quality out, but it's going to take a few more generations at least." He goes on for a while about the difficulties inherent in breeding out undesirable traits while holding onto the desired ones, and ends the conversation by offering Charles a front row seat for the next time and a discount on an Eevee egg should Charles ever like to have one. It's that latter that makes Charles forgive him; he knows how picky Armando is in evaluating homes for the Eevees he doesn't keep as breeding stock.
After that initial incident, Charles does his best to ignore Erik, neighborliness be damned; but considering that Erik is, well, Erik, he makes it pretty difficult for anyone in town to ignore him at times. But as the next couple years pass, Charles manages it fairly well, overall.
Charles' Rodex radiates a sense of amused knowing at him all that morning. By the afternoon, he's working on a headache from the bright yellow glow she's projecting to the inside of his head.
Though he's curious, he doesn't bother to ask her what she's on about. Since she hasn't come out with it on her own yet, she'd likely refuse to tell him anything were he to ask; and the more irritated he would get, the more smug she would get, until his irritation and her smugness reach critical mass and she returns to her Poke Ball for a nap (or a sulk, if he were to win the argument for once. How he can so often lose the argument when the only word she knows is her own name, he doesn't know or care to dwell on).
As he's locking up his lab for the day with Ro sitting on his shoulder, her ear-wheels softly whirring as they spin to either side of her head, she finally gets tired of the secrecy. Her ear-wheels click as they change direction, and the color of what she's sending him becomes darker, the lines of it sharper.
Charles recognizes it at once as her way of indicating Erik Lehnsherr. There are only a few human beings for which Ro has a specific mental signature, and Erik is one of them.
"What about him?" Charles takes his key from the lock and turns around to see that Erik is in fact at the other end of the hall and approaching briskly. "Well, thank you ever so much for warning me in time for me to avoid him. How thoughtful of you."
The inside of his head goes yellow again as Ro's whiskers tickle his ear. Charles sighs. He considers heading the other direction, even glances toward the opposite exit to gauge the distance - but Erik's legs are quite a bit longer than his own, so if he's intent on catching Charles then he will either way.
Charles glances back to Erik, then does a double-take. "What happened to you?"
Erik has a split lip, not one but two black eyes, and a bruise on his cheek. Additionally, he's carrying a wooden baseball bat and grinning like a loon, showing all his teeth.
"I finally did it," he answers.
"...Did what?" Charles asks, so unbearably curious he can't resist asking, even though showing disinterest has long been the most effective method of ridding himself of Erik's presence.
Erik actually manages to grin even wider, causing him to resemble nothing so much as a Gengar (especially considering the current purplish shades of his face). He pulls a Poke Ball out of his pocket and waves it at Charles. "I got my Magnus to evolve into a Magneto."
Charles just stares at him. "You didn't."
Ever since Erik moved here, he's been telling anyone and everyone who will listen (as well as Charles, who won't) that he intends to evolve his Magnus into a Magneto. Charles has never paid much attention to this assertion; while Magnetos have been proven to exist, they are exceedingly rare, to the point that no one even knows what conditions cause Magnuses to evolve. Charles has never seen a Magneto and doesn't know anyone who has.
"I did," Erik says.
"And how did you manage that?" Charles manages himself, after a moment, still not really believing it. "Were you being mugged? Was it forced to evolve in order to rescue you?"
The barb strikes home. Erik's smile fades and he says, "No. Don't be stupid. Now do you want to see it or not?"
Charles may not care much for Erik, but he can't turn down an opportunity like this (assuming, of course, that it isn't some trick). A Magneto. He may never have the opportunity to observe another one.
"I suppose I would like to see it," he admits. "But let's take it outside."
As they walk down the hall, footsteps echoing, he wonders what the bat is for.
"Rodex," Ro says, projecting yellow laughter at him once again, so bright.
They head out the rear door to the large yard at the back of the facility.
When they come to a halt in the center of the lawn, Erik takes the Poke Ball back out of his pocket and says, "Are you ready?"
"I suppose," Charles says, affecting disinterest to the best of his ability, though he suspects some of his undeniable eagerness still comes through around the edges. At any rate, the words seem to provoke Ro to chuckle yet again at the back of his mind. For some reason, she's tickled to death by any situation relating to Erik; Charles isn't entirely sure why, but suspects she's a sadist who enjoys his misery.
Erik grins and offers him the Poke Ball. "You can do the honors," he says. And, so saying, he goes into a batting stance, feet apart, both hands gripping the handle of the bat as he raises it.
Charles presses the button on the Poke Ball to release Magneto.
A red and magenta blur emerges, spinning around at such a speed that Charles can make out no details. It rises fifty feet into the air at an incredible clip -
And immediately plummets back down, straight toward them.
The bat connects with a resounding crack!, and Magneto arcs away like a well-hit baseball - but unlike a baseball, it doesn't descend, but slows, stops, hovers in the air for just a moment, long enough for Charles to get a better look at it - it resembles nothing so much as a fishing float in red and purple - before plunging back down.
"As you can see -" Erik begins.
The bat connects again.
"- I'm going to need your help -"
Magneto recovers more quickly this time, its eyes flashing under the shadow of its helmet; and this time when it dives, it curves toward Charles at the very last second, and it's only the warning from Ro flashing red into his skull, Ro's claws digging into his shoulder, that lets him duck in time.
And it's a doubly good thing that he does duck, because although Erik's wild swing misses the Magneto this time, it would not have missed Charles otherwise.
"- to train this thing," Erik finishes, as Charles straightens back up.
"Rodex!" Ro calls up to Magneto, waving a tiny fist.
Charles turns, apprehensive and poised to run for his life should Magneto attack again.
But Magneto only hangs in the air, seeming to think for a few moments. Then it blinks. "Magneto," it says, and instead of targeting them again, it turns and darts above the roof of the facility, toward the center of town.
"Why do you want my help?" Charles asks Erik. "You can't possibly think that my 'touchy-feely' training methods would improve this situation. Not when you so clearly have your new Magneto under complete control."
Erik gives him a flat look. Charles feels no small sense of satisfaction at the thought that he may have gotten his own back, for once. Just last week, Erik got wind of Charles' tutoring sessions with stutterer Sean Cassidy and his grounded Zubat with performance anxiety, and took it upon himself to intervene; his solution for both problems involved flinging the Zubat off the roof (and it worked, which was both fortunate, for the Zubat, and unfortunate, for Charles). Charles has been grouchy over that ever since it happened, the latest in a long line of slights for him to brood over.
Charles would be perfectly happy - even thrilled - to go home now, patting himself on the back for that zinger, and spend the rest of the evening chuckling over Erik's predicament. Except that, after approximately one second of triumph, the guilt starts rolling in. It's clear that Erik really does need help with his Magneto; and while Charles could easily walk away from Erik, he cannot so easily walk away from a Pokemon in need. Not if he wants to live with himself afterward.
"Oh, all right," Charles says. "All right, I'll help. I don't promise to be nice about it, but I'll help. Now, let's go catch up with your Magneto before it does anything -"
It's at this point that he realizes that Officer MacTaggert's squad car is floating in the air, approximately three streets over.
"- problematic. Oh god, we're going to get arrested."
"We're not going to get arrested," Erik says dismissively.
"We might get arrested," Erik amends when they round the final corner just in time to see the squad car drop like a rock. The crash when it meets the concrete is unbelievably loud. Charles can't hear anything but crackling in his ears for several minutes afterward as Erik grabs the Poke Ball back out of his hand and points it at his Magneto to retrieve it, and as he follows Erik at a trot back the way they came before anyone comes to investigate.
"Let's try walking out of town a ways before you release it again," Charles says once he can hear his own voice. "Get away from all this metal."
There's some concern, of course, that the Magneto will concentrate its ire further on Erik and Charles if it has nothing else to occupy it; but it's not like allowing it free reign of public property is a reasonable option.
They take one of the less-traveled paths out into the hills, and see no one and nothing other than several Rattatas and an Oddish in the grass. Charles is actually surprised that they see those; the area has been largely tapped out of wild Pokemon due to university students coming out here and catching everything they see move. The remaining Pokemon out here are generally the shy ones, the ones that avoid people.
"Right," Charles says when they're a mile or so out of town, and a few hundred feet from the river. "We may as well do it here."
"What's the plan?" Erik asks.
"Well, theoretically speaking, it ought to get bored of launching itself at your face after a few tries, and thereafter become more willing to listen. You've had it for years, after all; there should be some manner of bond there to work off of."
If he sounds skeptical, well, most people who have formed a lasting bond with their Pokemon don't need to carry around a baseball bat.
"Alright," Erik says, and re-releases Magneto.
When Magneto wearies of being hit with a bat, it bobs off toward the river. Charles exchanges a glance with Erik, and then they follow along behind it. Charles lets Erik go first, on the theory that he can use him as a human shield should Magneto do an abrupt about-face. Erik is, after all, both taller and carrying the bat. Considering this is also his fault, it seems only fair that if anyone is in the line of fire, it should be him.
By the time they reach the riverbank, Magneto has bobbed its way halfway across the suspension bridge spanning the water.
"Rodex," Ro warns, with a flash of red into Charles' mind.
The bridge looks sturdy enough, so Charles mutters, "Worrywart" at her, and they proceed to cross.
As they advance, Magneto retreats, until it's on the other side with them smack in the middle.
It's at this point that the bridge begins to shake and shudder beneath their feet, which is when it occurs to Charles -
This bridge is made out of metal.
"Is your Magneto doing that," Charles says. "Make it stop."
Erik glances back at Charles, then back toward Magneto. "Stop!" he calls out.
"Magneto," Magneto taunts.
The bridge continues to shudder and shake, and even bucks once.
"That was effective," Erik shouts over the din.
Despite their predicament, Charles still feels his face go hot. "...Point taken," he yells back.
The bridge lurches to the side, and Charles lunges with it for the railing, hangs onto it for dear life, and out of the corner of his eyes sees Erik doing much the same.
"Why don't you get it back into its Poke Ball now -" the bridge begins to tilt to the side "- and we'll figure the rest out -" Charles' knuckles go white on the rail, and he lets out a yelp "- later."
Suddenly, he remembers Ro, and looks around wildly for her, terrified that she may be about to fall off the edge - or worse, that she may already be in the water below.
It takes him a few sweeping, panicked glances, but finally he sees her, and she's almost fully across the bridge now, which would be nice if it weren't for Magneto hovering in the air waiting for her, eyes gleaming.
"Ro, you come back here." Charles tries not to look down at the water as he begins edging his way along the railing toward Ro and Magneto. "It isn't safe."
Ro neither looks at him nor sends him anything mentally. Charles has no idea what she thinks she's up to; she has never, in all her time with him, bestirred herself to enter a battle, or even to perform any of the moves Charles knows she ought to be able to do, no matter how he tries to persuade her. As far as he can tell, she's either a pacifist or exceedingly lazy. He can't imagine what she's trying to accomplish here.
She continues on to the end of the bridge, and when she's on solid ground she looks up at Magneto and says, firmly, "Rodex."
Magneto goes very still, then blinks and cants to the side.
"...Magneto," it says after a few moments, sounding bemused.
The bridge goes still, and as Magneto continues to stare at Rodex, Erik makes his move, striding quickly toward Magneto with the Poke Ball raised in his hand, until the red beam touches Magneto and it dissolves back into the Poke Ball.
Charles lets go of the railing, then, and as he stretches his cramped, sweaty hands, he wonders whether tilting bridges is better or worse than smashing police cars in the greater scheme of things.
"So, what do you want to try next?" Erik asks when they're halfway back to town.
It's a sign of just how deep Charles is in this that he doesn't tell Erik to go to hell right here and now. "For myself, I'm going to go home, take a shower and relax for what remains of my evening. If you'll come by my lab tomorrow morning, we can recommence then." He hopes it's not too terribly obvious that this is code for 'I have no idea what we could possibly try next, since your Magneto is clearly insane and my prior experience has all involved shy, sensitive or snarky Pokemon. I can only hope the answer will come to me in my sleep, and plan to keep a notepad on my bedside table on the off chance that it does.'
"Alright," Erik says.
And that would be that; except that, several minutes later, a sizzling sound comes from Erik's pocket.
"Shit," Erik hisses, and digs the Poke Ball out, dropping it to the ground like a hot potato.
It bursts into flames.
"Rodex," Ro squeaks. She ducks behind Charles, and peeks around his legs at the Poke Ball while clutching his trousers.
"Oh dear god," Charles says, then asides downward, "Really?"
"Rodex," Ro answers stuffily.
"Shut up, both of you." Erik kicks some dirt over the Poke Ball, then nudges it with the tip of his bat.
The Poke Ball, now charred black, remains still for a few seconds, then begins to wobble.
"Rodex," Ro says in the same tone that most people would use to say 'uh-oh.'
And then the Poke Ball explodes open, the top half flying off into the grass, and Magneto materializes.
It says, "Magneto." And it slowly, oh-so slowly floats upward until it's eye-to-eye with Erik. Then it says, "Neat-o. Magneto."
Charles gulps and braces himself for the sight of blood, as he fully expects Magneto will begin by breaking Erik's nose.
"Neat-o," Erik agrees, dryly, and hits the Magneto squarely with the fresh new Poke Ball that he's produced from somewhere.
Magneto doesn't even have time to react before it's pulled back in.
After several moments' stunned silence, Charles says, "Perhaps we'd be better off doing something about this tonight after all. I can't imagine it will stay still and allow you to re-capture it so easily if it escapes again."
"No," Erik agrees. "Aren't you going to compliment me on my quick thinking, Charles?"
Charles ignores this.
On their way in to see Hank, Charles stops to greet Hank's Mystique, who is currently blowing bubbles in her fish tank. "Did you get tired of flying?" he asks her.
She rolls her eyes (she's very expressive) and dives downward in order to recline in her fish castle (it's quite the nice castle, featuring a Charizard on the lawn and a knight on the roof).
"Have you had any luck getting her to return to her normal form?" he asks Hank.
"Not yet," Hank responds glumly.
Hank listens attentively to their story, nodding frequently and taking notes as they detail the situation (with the occasional "Rodex" inserted at the more action-packed parts of the tale). When they're done, he says, "So Magnetos are Steel-type, right? Like Magnuses?"
"Some of the texts I've found say they're part Dark-type," Erik says.
"I'd say that's likely." Charles tries to cover up his snigger by coughing into his sleeve, but judging by the impatient look Erik shoots him, it's not terribly convincing.
Hank makes several more notations on his clipboard. "Alright, I should have a prototype for a stronger Poke Ball ready for you within the next couple of days." He adjusts his glasses on the bridge of his nose, then leans forward and asks, "So how did you get it to evolve, anyway?"
"Yes, how did you, Erik?"
Erik grins, leans his baseball bat up against the wall, and pulls a handful of pennies out of his pocket. He chooses one and flicks it at Charles.
It bounces off Charles' forehead and onto the floor. "...Ow. What was that for?"
Erik's grin widens, and he flicks another penny Charles' way. This one hits the same place as the last one, but this time it sticks.
Charles picks the penny off his forehead and frowns at it. "Are you saying that you - just how many pennies did you throw at it before it evolved?"
"I didn't count. It took about four hours."
"...For god's sake, Erik. Torture is not a viable training method," Charles says. "Honestly, I would have beaten you around your face too, if it had been me. In fact, I still might."
"I thought it was mortal terror that's not a viable training method," Erik says, proving he has listened at least once out of the many times Charles has made this point to him. "Or was it abject fear?"
"It's both," Charles says. "I mean it's all three. Obviously it's all three."
"I wasn't trying to torment it," Erik says a moment later, slipping the pennies back into his pocket. "I was showing it how to do a Coin Toss."
Charles would be willing to bet that Erik knows as well as he does that only a very small percentage of Magnuses ever manage to learn that particular move. For one to do so would be the equivalent of a Rodex learning the Pilot move. "Well, congratulations. You taught it so well that it now knows how to do a Car Toss."
Erik rolls his eyes. "No, that was more of a Car Drop."
"That is utterly absurd. There's no such move."
Hank, intelligent man that he is, does not attempt to have an opinion at any point, though he does jot down some more notes.
As they're on their way out, that sizzling sound starts up again. Erik, who's halfway out into the hall, steps back inside quickly and closes the door before dropping the Poke Ball to the floor.
When Magneto emerges this time, it immediately darts out of the front room toward Hank's lab.
After a moment, Mystique launches herself out of the aquarium, splashing water all over everything as she does, and skims after Magneto on newly-formed wings.
Ro begins to follow, but Charles reaches down to scoop her up before she can go far.
"It may not be safe," he says, setting her on his shoulder and giving her a gentle pat on the head.
"Rodex," she gripes.
They proceed into the lab after the other two Pokemon, who are bobbing up and down in the center of the room, conversing in low murmurs that Charles can't make out (though, given that their vocabularies are limited to the syllables in their names, he doesn't really need to).
"It's not breaking any of my stuff," Hank remarks. "Maybe it's calmed down?"
Charles exchanges a look with Erik. "I doubt that," he says when he looks back to Hank. "I doubt that very much."
Magneto and Mystique plot together for a few seconds more, then rise up in the air in concert until they're nearly touching the ceiling. Then they turn to face Charles and Erik.
"Magneto," Magneto announces.
Then, without warning, it divebombs Ro, Mystique following closely behind.
Ro ducks flat onto Charles' shoulder, and both Magneto and Mystique miss her, coming so close to the side of Charles' head that the rush of air ruffles his hair.
"Rodex!" Ro jumps up to right herself, whirls around and shakes her fist at Magneto and Mystique, who are again conferring in low tones. "Rodex."
Magneto and Mystique again turn to look in Charles' and Ro's direction.
Erik steps between them, bat raised.
"Oh, will you put that down," Charles says. "If you hit it in here it'll ricochet all over the place. I can't see that helping one bit."
Magneto and Mystique exchange a glance, then dart off into the front room.
"Do you have a spare Poke Ball you could loan me?" Erik asks Hank. "Unless you really want to hurry with the fancy one."
Hank does, but by the time he's located it deep within his desk drawer, Magneto has already rearranged most of his lab, for a value of 'rearrange' that indicates quite a bit of twisted metal that will never be put right again. Charles offers Hank the use of his own lab for his work on the new Poke Ball prototype, and the use of Erik's lab (over Erik's glare) afterward until Hank's lab has been repaired.
"So, what now?" Erik asks when they've finally gotten Magneto contained once more - this time in a Poke Ball Hank has made some minor adjustments to for the short term, which may or may not actually help.
"Now? Now I'm going home, and I'm going to bed. I will see you in a day or two when Hank has the prototype ready."
"But can't we -"
But Charles really has had quite enough at this point. "I'm going home."
So Charles goes home, and he makes up a nice dinner and takes a long shower and spends half an hour reading a Pokemon biology text aloud before bed.
He sleeps very well that night, right up until he starts awake at three a.m., freezing because he kicked his covers off the bed at some point and now there's the most horrid draft in the room. There should be no draft, there never has been one before, and so he gets up out of bed and heads down the hall in his bathrobe and slippers until he comes to the source. He switches the light on to find that there's a fire hydrant in the middle of his living room, glass all over the carpet around it; his front window has been smashed in.
"Ro?" he says, suddenly realizing she's not with him.
She's not in the hall, nor in his room, and though he calls out her name repeatedly, she fails to answer.
Charles dresses as quickly as he ever has in his life, throwing on yesterday's cardigan and slacks because the hamper is closer than the closet, and stepping into his shoes where normally he would sit and put them on properly. On his way back to the living room, he peeks into the guest bedroom, the kitchen, the hall closet and the bathroom, and does not find Ro anywhere.
There is only one conclusion he can reach here.
The doorbell rings right as Charles approaches his front door.
Charles flicks the outside light on, and opens the door to find Erik standing on his stoop, wearing a blue turtleneck of a slightly darker shade than the one he had on yesterday.
Ordinarily, Charles would continue this train of thought by mentally noting that Erik's turtleneck is very form-fitting indeed - an observation he would only make because there's a certain small subset of the population that's capable of pulling off a turtleneck, and Erik is absolutely not in it - and possibly even say something cutting about it, but since this is an emergency he'll bypass all of that.
"Have you seen my Magneto?" Erik asks, peering over Charles' shoulder to the mess of his living room.
"What do you mean, have I seen your Magneto? Your bloody Magneto has abducted my Rodex!"
Erik stares at him a moment, then laughs. Actually laughs. Charles is tempted to slam the door in his face, but considering he'd just have to open it again in a minute, he glowers instead, the doorknob gripped tightly in his hand.
"It's not funny," he says. "This is serious, Erik. We need to locate them before your Magneto does something -" and here he draws a blank, because he has no idea whatsoever what use a Magneto could have for a Rodex. "Before it does something bad."
Erik's mouth twitches. "I'm sorry."
He doesn't look sorry, but he hands Charles a flashlight and Charles decides not to nitpick about it.
As they follow the metal debris that marks Magneto's passing, they come to a street corner with a huge great geyser of water shooting straight up into the air, surrounded by police officers and fire fighters, including Officer MacTaggert. Someone has brought out a Blastoise to assist.
Erik actually changes direction to try to get a closer look; Charles grabs him by the elbow and hustles him the other way, wondering just how in the world he's going to explain away the hydrant in his living room.
"Where do you think it would have taken her?" Charles asks when they're standing in the dark together, just outside of town and away from the streetlamps. He turns his flashlight on and skims the beam of light over the grass, but the trail of metal debris has ended and no clues wink back at him.
"If I knew that, I wouldn't have asked you."
They search, search and search some more, heading down one trail and then another, Charles' flashlight slowly sweeping back and forth through the grass to the right as Erik's does the same to the left. They look for hours, seeing nothing except for the occasional wild Pokemon, stumbling upon no clues, until the sky begins to lighten.
Where are you? Charles thinks as loudly as he can every minute or so. Thinking things loudly has occasionally resulted in a response from Ro in the past; her psychic abilities do tend to be better suited to projecting her own emotions rather than picking up on others', so Charles usually doesn't bother trying to communicate with her mentally, but there's just a chance it could help and so he keeps it up now.
Once the sun is up, it begins to drizzle, then to rain outright.
"Let's go see if Hank can come up with something to track them," Erik suggests.
"You do what you want," Charles answers, miserable and wet and determined. "I'm not going anywhere until we find Ro."
"This is all your fault," Charles informs him, and that's when he gets a familiar flash of yellow inside his head, along with the distinct impression that she's somewhere very close now. This is followed up immediately with a flash of brown and blue, which seems self-explanatory considering that they're close enough to the river right now to hear the running water.
Charles veers off into the tall grass toward the river. When he reaches the riverbank, Erik on his heels, it takes a moment to process the sight before him.
Ro's sitting on a picnic blanket, both of her ear-wheels shuttered closed. One of them is acting as an umbrella for both herself and Magneto, who's hovering an inch above the ground across from her. Her other ear-wheel is acting as a tray for the tea party they're having; it's holding a tea kettle, cups and saucers, all with Bulbasaurs on them (indicating that they've all been swiped from Charles' kitchen).
"You go around and scare it towards me," Erik hisses. "I'll wait here."
But it's too late for that, because Magneto turns their way and says, "Magneto." Its eyes glowing, it darts out into the rain, on a straight path to Erik's head.
Erik drops his flashlight in the mud, brings his bat up in both hands. Magneto dodges as Erik swings, and it continues to head away from them, back toward town. As it goes, it says, "Neat-o. Neat-o. Mag. Neat-o," in a sing-song voice.
Erik watches it go for several stunned moments, then pulls yet another new Poke Ball out of his pocket and jogs off after it.
Charles looks back at Ro. She's holding the comparatively enormous teacup in her hands, her mouth gaping open as she watches Magneto go. Then she notices Charles watching her and her cheeks turn pink. She closes her mouth, raises the cup, takes a dainty sip out of it and says, "Rodex."
Charles reaches down, pours out the remaining tea from the kettle and Magneto's cup onto the ground. He picks the teaware off Ro's ear-wheel piece by piece and places it down on the blanket, then shoos Ro off the blanket entirely so he can bring the corners together and heft it all up into his arms.
Ro finishes off her tea, then offers Charles her empty teacup.
"Don't think it hasn't occurred to me that there's only one way I could have slept through a fire hydrant coming through the window," Charles says, Ro very quiet on his shoulder on their way back. "So I must ask: were you kidnapped, or did you elope?"
"...Rodex," Ro says vaguely, and angles her ear-wheel so that while she's still shielded from the rain, Charles is getting it right in the face.
Clearly he's struck a nerve. "I'll take that as an admission," he says.
Charles' actual plan is to let Erik and Magneto fend for themselves while he goes back to bed; but when he gets to his street, there's a squad car parked right in front of his house.
Lovely. Just lovely.
He does an abrupt about-face. "Let's go see Hank."
"So, had any luck yet?" Charles asks, trying not to wince too visibly at the horrible unorganized mess Hank has already made of his lab.
Mystique glides down from a high bookshelf to land on Charles' left shoulder, where she proceeds to preen her feathers. Ro stamps down hard on Charles' right collarbone and firmly says, "Rodex." Then she sends an ear-wheel around Charles' head to try to nudge Mystique off.
"Actually, I did," Hank says. He brings out a yellow-and-blue Poke Ball, not only differently colored than the norm, but also slightly larger. Instead of the standard plain button, it has one with an X on it. "I had a breakthrough right after you left last night, so I came over here and stayed up to work on it. I started by trying to think of a way to keep a Poke Ball closed without using magnetism - that's the problem, you know - but then I thought, what if I used stronger magnets instead?"
"Wouldn't that just make Magneto that much more irritated when it did finally manage to escape?" Charles asks, as Ro mountain climbs her way over the front of his shirt and sets herself up between Mystique and his neck. He can't help but comment, "Oh, for god's sake, will the two of you please not do that?"
"Mystique, will you please come over here?" Hank says. Mystique fidgets her weight from one talon to the other, then jumps off Charles' shoulder and wings her way over to land on the top of Hank's head, where she squishes herself down into a sullen little blue ball, red wings tucked underneath her body. Hank reaches up to give her a pat, then says, "My theory is that if the magnets used to close the Poke Ball are strong enough, the Magneto will actually stay in it of its own accord - it'll enjoy being in there."
Charles has no idea how likely this is to work. "Have you tested it yet?"
Hank shakes his head, causing Mystique to grumble. "I don't have any steel-type Pokemon to test it on. I tried to get Mystique to try it to make sure it's basically functional, but she won't have anything to do with it."
Charles looks at Mystique, who still can't return to her normal form without wings, fins, gills or scales - who may never be able to return to that form. "Considering what happened the last time, I really can't say that I blame her."
"Hey, I'm still working on that," Hank says, somewhat lamely.
Mystique rolls her eyes, then nestles further down into Hank's hair and closes her eyes for a nap.
"Let's see it then," Charles says. Hank hands him the Poke Ball, which is quite a bit heavier than Charles expects it to be. "What does the X stand for?"
"Oh, nothing in particular. I just thought it looked neat."
Charles sincerely hopes that Hank put more thought into the underlying science than he did in what to call the results. He considers the Poke Ball briefly, hefting it in his hand. "I suppose we could call it the Extreme Ball. That seems fitting."
"...Rodex," Ro says, and taps her foot on Charles' shoulder.
"Yes, quite right. We'd better head out to find them," Charles says. "Thanks ever so for your help, Hank."
Finding Erik and Magneto is both quicker and easier than Charles expected.
They simply follow the screaming, which begins approximately five seconds after they walk out of the facility.
Of course, if it weren't for the screaming, they'd still be just fine following the floating cars. Every vehicle in town is headed toward the center of town, with or without a driver.
"You have terrible taste in suitors," Charles informs Ro, then begins trotting in the direction the cars are headed.
They find Erik standing in the shadow of all the cars, the ruined remains of yet another Poke Ball lying at his feet, his baseball bat hanging from one hand.
Magneto bobs in the air some twenty or so feet away, eyes glowing at least twice as manically as they have up to this point.
Charles goes up to Erik, holds the Extreme Ball out to him. "Here, try this, Hank finished the prototype."
Erik takes the Extreme Ball, glances at it, shrugs; then he rears his arm back and heaves it at the Magneto.
At the same moment, the word STUPID erupts behind Charles' eyes, sharp and white and blinding; and Ro leaps from Charles' shoulder and slams into Erik's elbow right as the Extreme Ball leaves his hand.
The Magneto doesn't even have to dodge as the Extreme Ball goes into foul ball territory, then hits the ground and continues rolling away. There's no chance, none at all, of trying to retrieve it without Magneto noticing and taking action.
"Rodex!" Ro says before Charles or Erik can say anything; and she points up at all the cars levitating in the air, which is the moment it occurs to Charles what would have happened to the cars and people in them, and to the three of them below, if Magneto were suddenly contained within a Poke Ball.
"Magneto," Magneto crows, and it begins angling the cars downward so that their grills are aimed straight at Charles, Erik and Ro.
"We're going to die," Charles says.
"We're not going to die. Don't be stupid." Erik raises the bat again, likely more out of habit than anything else (surely he can't think it will help?).
Ro jumps to the ground in one smooth motion, placing herself between them and Magneto. "Rodex," she says.
"Neat-o. Magneto," Magneto boasts, and begins cackling evilly.
"ROdex!" Ro scolds.
"Neat-o," and so saying, Magneto backs the cars up in the air, clearly intending to propel them forward -
But then the most extraordinary thing happens.
"RoDEX," Ro says; and she begins to glow.
Her ear-wheels shutter again, but this time instead of acting as an umbrella or a tea tray or a Mystique-shover, they move out away from her body, one to the left and one to the right, parallel to one another. They grow larger and more solid until they're resting on the ground. Her rear legs then straighten out to the side, losing their joints as they elongate and attach to her wheels, while her forelegs and tail disappear, completely reabsorbed into her torso. Her head changes its shape too, her forehead tapering upward to be topped by a flat knob, a diagonal slash cutting down the middle of her face and ending right between her eyes.
Ro, once a Rodex, has evolved into a Profex.
Charles has never seen one, nor has he ever expected to; Profexes are at least as rare as Magnetos, if not moreso.
"Profex," Ro says.
"Magneto," Magneto answers, dismissively, as though it isn't the least bit impressed.
"PROFEX," Ro says, and ghostly cannons unfold out from her wheels. She points them straight at Magneto.
Charles is suddenly quite certain that she has just threatened to make Magneto think it's a Jigglypuff for the rest of its life if it does not immediately stand down.
Magneto stares at Ro for a long moment, then blinks. "Magneto?" it says, sounding plaintive.
Ro says nothing.
"Neat-o," Magneto whines. Its eyes dart from side to side. Then it sighs and seems to deflate as the cars slowly, oh-so slowly return to earth.
When the last car's tires gently touch asphalt, Ro says, "Profex," and gestures toward the fallen Extreme Ball with her left-side cannon, keeping the other trained on Magneto.
"Neat-o," Magneto complains; then, when Ro's left cannon swivels back around to join her right one in pointing at it, it begins slinking toward the Extreme Ball, all the while grumbling, "Neat-o neat-o Magneto."
"Well," Charles says as Erik leans down to pick up the Extreme Ball with Magneto now inside.
He's not sure what he would say then, because that's when Officer MacTaggert's voice rings out behind them, saying, "Just what the hell is going on here?"
Charles turns to see that she's looking at them with a very hard expression, her hands on her hips.
He does the only thing he can do; he takes a long step away from Erik, points a finger at him, and says, "Erik did it."
"Thanks, Charles," Erik says.
"Well, you did," Charles says. "As for Profex and I, we're heroes."
"...Mm-hmm." Officer MacTaggert looks even less impressed, if that's possible.
"Profex," Ro says.
Officer MacTaggert has two sets of handcuffs out, and Charles has just about resigned himself to spending the night in jail, when Officer Platt comes up and says, "Oh, wow; is that a Profex?"
"Yes, yes it is," Charles says.
Officer Platt walks up to Profex and bends down to look at her, hands on his knees. "Hello there."
"I have a Magneto," Erik says after a moment. "It's a lot more impressive. Here, I can show you."
"Don't you dare," Charles says, and neatly confiscates the Extreme Ball before Erik can press that button.
In the end, they don't actually get arrested. Since no one has been hurt, it's a matter of property damage via Pokemon, which, as Officer Platt reminds a fuming Officer MacTaggert, requires a citation for the repairs, not an arrest.
So it is that Erik gets cited for the damage to Officer MacTaggert's squad car, to all the other cars, the fire hydrant and related pipe damage and flooding, and (this at Charles' insistence) for Charles' shattered front window. Neither Charles nor Erik mentions what Magneto did to the bridge; it's still functional, after all, and Charles thinks putting it back the way it was will make for a good training exercise for Magneto later on.
Charles gets off scot-free when neither Officer MacTaggert nor Erik can think of a single destructive thing to pin on Ro.
Charles gloats all the way home. He's earned it.
"It won't come out," Erik says the next day, frowning at the Extreme Ball. They're well outside of town, away from the river too, with no large metal objects anywhere in the vicinity.
"Huh," Charles says. "Are you quite certain it's still inside?"
"Profex," Ro says, and translucent hands come out of her wheels, stubby little hands attached to long arms, and she gestures at Erik to give her the Extreme Ball.
Erik shrugs, and hands it to her.
She takes it, peers at it, shakes it like a magic 8 ball and peers at it again. "Profex."
Magneto emerges. "Magneto," it grumps. Its eyes dart from side to side, as if looking for an escape or an opening - but Ro's arms have transfigured into cannons over the last several seconds, and she now has them trained on Magneto.
It occurs to Charles a few times over the next several weeks that mortal terror and abject fear may occasionally be valid training methods, though only in certain very special cases.
One day, they teach the Magneto to do a Coin Toss. It takes some coaxing - Charles vetoes throwing currency at it; torture is still not a viable training method - but eventually the Magneto, looking put-upon as it usually does now, begins to spin in the air, faster and faster, all of Erik's collected pennies orbiting around it at incredible speeds -
And then Magneto comes to a sudden halt and every one of the pennies launches straight at Erik.
Hilariously and because Erik is a one-trick Ponyta, he actually swings at the pennies with his bat.
Just as hilariously, after the pennies knock Erik onto his back, Magneto bobs over and says, "Magneto," and though it's hard to say for sure, Charles thinks it looks somewhat concerned for Erik.
"Now we're even," Erik informs Magneto. "So no more bullshit."
"Magneto," Magneto says, and it bobs companionably after Erik for another hour, until Erik absentmindedly sets his bat down and it takes the opportunity to aim itself at his head.
A week or so after that, they return the bridge to its original location. Charles stays on solid ground and watches as Erik stands in the center of the bridge giving it directions. At some point, Erik has developed jazz hands as part of his repertoire for communicating with Magneto.
On their way back to town, it occurs to Charles that there's not much left for him to help with; Erik and Magneto are getting on so well now, even if Erik likely never will be able to leave his bat at home.
The thought makes him feel oddly left out.
The next day, Erik rings the doorbell while Charles is still in his pajamas, half an hour earlier than their training sessions usually start. He's wearing sunglasses, a T-shirt and hiking boots, and has a large pack on his back. His baseball bat is hanging from his belt like a sword, and Magneto is bobbing above his shoulder.
Other than the latter two things, it's a familiar getup, especially in this town with so many young students who end up taking semesters off to go traipsing off in search of adventure; and Charles has no illusions about what it means.
"You're leaving," he says dully - vaguely aware that he ought to be rejoicing, and yet something feels tight in his chest.
"Come with me," Erik says.
"Get dressed first," Erik adds, after looking him up and down.
"But, my classes," Charles says, trying to catch up to this development.
"That's what sabbaticals are for," Erik says, and grins.
"...Just where is it you're going?"
"I'm going to enter the tournament at the Hellfire Gym," Erik says. "I can beat them all with my Magneto."
Well, that's awfully ambitious. The best trainers in the world will be competing in that tournament; they'll have the most powerful teams, the cleverest strategies. Erik doesn't have a chance, but somehow it's not surprising that he has delusions of grandeur; they suit him, somehow.
"I really can't -" Charles begins, because obviously, obviously he's not about to go gallivanting off when there's so much work to do here, when he has responsibilities -
But then Ro sends him an image, crystal-clear behind his eyes.
Erik isn't the only one with delusions of grandeur here.
I thought you were a pacifist, Charles thinks toward her.
"Profex," Ro says, and bumps one of her wheels affectionately against Charles' heel.
Charles looks back at Erik, and thinks of how long it's been since he's had a vacation; and more, thinks of how good it would be to have and keep the upper hand over Erik for the duration. And then they could come back home and -
"Oh, my friend," Charles says, reaching up to pluck Erik's sunglasses right off his face, "you're going to have to beat us, first."
He slides the sunglasses onto his own face as Erik gapes at him.
"I've changed my mind," Erik says, after the wrestling match during which he fails to retrieve his sunglasses. "You can't come. I'm uninviting you."
Charles beams at him and adjusts the sunglasses on his nose. "Oh, Erik; I’m afraid it's much too late for that." | <urn:uuid:013d5383-3eee-40e8-97e8-37b9d0f20fa5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archiveofourown.org/works/455152?show_comments=true | 2013-05-24T18:31:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704943681/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114903-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978853 | 10,884 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
* TSX rises 36.79 points, or 0.29 percent, to 12,762.48
* Eight of 10 main sectors advance
* Rona shares climb on boardroom shuffle
By John Tilak
TORONTO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index hit a
near 11-month high on Monday, led by a jump in Research In
Motion Ltd on comments that it could license its
software and rising financial shares after a move by U.S. House
Republicans to try to end a budget stalemate.
RIM shares rose 8 percent to C$17.02 after its chief
executive told a German newspaper the company will explore
strategic alliances with other technology companies once it has
launched its new BlackBerry 10 models.
U.S. House Republican leaders said on Friday they would seek
to pass a three-month extension of federal borrowing authority
in the coming days to buy time for the Democrat-controlled
Senate to pass a plan to shrink budget deficits.
"In the fullness of time, most people believe that this is
going to get resolved one way or the other," said Rick Hutcheon,
president and chief operating officer at RKH Investments.
"The only real issue is how much angst do we have to get
through along the way. But it will get fixed."
At midmorning, the Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX
composite index was up 36.79 points, or 0.29 percent,
at 12,762.48, after touching 12,766.96, its highest since Feb.
Eight of the 10 main sectors on the index were trading
The financial sector, the weightiest on the index, rose 0.4
percent, and played the biggest role of any single sector in
leading the market higher.
Royal Bank of Canada gained 0.4 percent to C$61.99
and Bank of Nova Scotia added 0.5 percent to C$58.16.
Energy shares slipped 0.2 percent, tracking a decline in oil
Cenovus Energy Inc fell 1.1 percent to C$32.70.
In other company news, Rona Inc named a new
executive chairman and reshuffled its board of directors on
Monday, after reaching an agreement with its largest
shareholders, who have been calling for changes. Shares of the
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A light summer cocktail
, suitable for pouring into tall plastic glasses
, dumping big chunks of virgin, uncrushed refrigerator ice
into, and otherwise adulterating.
Garnish with a slice of pickled ginger
The ginger ale actually makes the plum wine less syrupy-sweet, and almost completely masks the alcohol. This is a fine drink for those unaccustomed to the flavor of more sophisticated cocktails, or who have trouble metabolizing more concentrated mixes.
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Posted December 17, 2004 ATLANTA
Communications & Marketing
Contact Lisa Grovenstein
DENTSPLY International Inc. (NASDAQ-XRAY), the largest manufacturer of professional dental products in the world, has joined with Georgia Tech's Dental Technology Center (DenTeC) to partner on several innovative research projects.
DenTeC, a non-profit, multidisciplinary research center focused on advancing dental science and technology, is bringing its engineering expertise to dentistry by integrating engineering and dental science to develop new products and technology for dentistry and craniofacial medicine. The center will pursue dentistry-related research in nanotechnology, photonics and optics, imaging, rapid prototyping, material development and testing, tissue-material interface evaluation and software and hardware development.
DenTeC's partnership with DENTSPLY will help jumpstart work on several real-world innovations needed in dentistry. Through these and other innovations, DenTeC hopes to decrease the cost of patient care, reduce or eliminate patient discomfort, reduce the time required for treatment and help create more aesthetically pleasing treatment options.
Gary K. Kunkle, DENTSPLY's vice-chairman and chief executive officer, commented that, "Technological innovation is an important factor in our efforts to achieve market share gains. As such, we are pleased to affiliate with a world class research facility like Georgia Tech's DenTeC to accelerate the process of bringing new technologies to dentistry."
Don Ranly, director of DenTeC, notes, "Working with a market leader like DENTSPLY is a wonderful opportunity for DenTeC. Our researchers are dedicated to developing technology and techniques that not only help dentists work smarter and patients heal faster, but also are appropriately designed and timed for the market. DENTSPLY brings that deep market understanding that helps us focus on the most promising areas of research, where we can help DENTSPLY bring innovations to market sooner."
DENTSPLY designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of products for the dental market. The company believes that it is the world's leading manufacturer and distributor of dental prosthetics, precious metal dental alloys, dental ceramics, endodontic instruments and materials, prophylaxis paste, dental sealants, ultrasonic scalers, and crown and bridge materials; the leading U.S. manufacturer and distributor of dental handpieces, dental x-ray film holders, film mounts and bone substitute/grafting materials; and a leading worldwide manufacturer or distributor of dental injectible anesthetics, impression materials, orthodontic appliances, dental cutting instruments and dental implants. DENTSPLY distributes its dental products in over 120 countries under some of the most well established brand names in the industry. For additional information about Dentsply, please visit Dentsply's Web site at www.dentsply.com.
DENTSPLY is committed to the development of innovative, high quality, cost-effective new products for the dental market.
About the Dental Technology Center at Georgia Tech (DenTeC)
Georgia Institute of Technology's Dental Technology Center, DenTeC, demonstrates a unique commitment to dentistry by a world-renowned engineering university and research center. By integrating engineering knowledge and dental science, DenTeC is developing new products and technologies for dentistry and craniofacial medicine via multidisciplinary research, testing, innovation and education. DenTeC works with the dental industry, research and educational centers, and healthcare providers to improve dental healthcare worldwide. DenTeC is a non-profit, multidisciplinary partnership between Georgia Tech's College of Engineering, College of Computing, College of Sciences, College of Management, Ivan Allen College, College of Architecture, Continuing Education and the Georgia Tech Research Institute. For additional information about research and professional education at DenTeC, e-mail Jennifer.email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:b6017bf6-efd4-42c5-ba64-ede37bb5aec0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=79761 | 2013-05-24T18:49:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704943681/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114903-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904259 | 813 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
German born Heiko started 30 years ago to see the world through a third eye: the lens of a camera. First meant as a pastime, it did not take long for him to realize that with every new day he was seeing his surroundings more closely. Always having been touched by nature, it became even more important to 'take time for the little things,' to slow down and notice what others tend to ignore, to see things from an entirely different angle.
I like minimalist photographs.
Thank you so much for your time and interest in my art web site!
All photographs and digital art on this web site are fully protected by U.S. and international copyright laws, all rights reserved. The images may not be copied, reproduced, manipulated or used in any way, without written permission of Heiko Koehrer-Wagner.
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Cedar Creek Productions is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the BUCK the Film theatrical release! The public is invited to a special screening of the award-winning documentary BUCK at 7:30 pm on Saturday, June 16, 2012, at the Wilton Library in Wilton, Connecticut. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers, including Cindy Meehl, Toby Shimin, Joy E. Reed, and Jen Stamps.
If you aren’t near Wilton, you can still celebrate with us! Cedar Creek Productions is going to give away great prizes to 12 lucky BUCK fans (one for every month the film has been out). Enter before June 24, 2012 to win specialty BUCK the Film goodies, including film posters, tote bags, and t-shirts!
1. Share a BUCK the Film Facebook post with your friends–then send an email with subject heading “BUCK Anniversary Celebration” to email@example.com
2. Sign up for the Cedar Creek Productions newsletter via BuckTheFilm.com (see link under Recommended Links)
3. Send a photo of you with a BUCK film poster or DVD to firstname.lastname@example.org or post the picture on the Buck the Film Facebook page
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Why the chemical is of concern:
Naphthalene is an organic compound found in coal, petroleum and related products such as creosote and asphalt. Naphthalene exposure has been shown to lead to hemolytic anemia in humans, a condition in which red blood cells break down and die prematurely (see here, here and here). High levels of exposure can also cause nausea, vomiting, headaches, dizziness, diarrhea, blood in the urine and yellowing of the skin (jaundice). Ingestion of naphthalene likely causes liver and kidney damage. Other hazards include eye irritation and cataracts.
Animal studies have shown an increased incidence of lung and nasal tumors, as well as eye injuries resulting in cataracts. A few case studies suggest that the latter effect may also occur in humans, but this has not been substantiated in formal epidemiological studies. Naphthalene is carcinogenic in animal studies, and has been classified as possibly carcinogenic to humans by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and as reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Workers employed in the coal-tar, wood preservation, tanning, ink and fabric dying industries may be exposed to high levels of naphthalene in the workplace.
In the human body, naphthalene is metabolized to form several compounds, including 1- and 2- naphthol and naphthoquinones which are themselves toxic. These metabolites can cause methemoglobinemia (an abnormal build-up of hemoglobin). Reaction of naphthalene metabolites with sulfate or glucuronic acid – termed conjugation – aids in their excretion. Newborns are unable to conjugate naphthalene, however, and are thus more susceptible to napthalene toxicity.
Children have exhibited hemolytic anemia after ingesting mothballs or using fabrics treated with naphthalene insecticides. Pregnant women, through their own exposure, may also pass naphthalene to their unborn children. Naphthalene can move from the mother’s blood into the unborn baby’s, and can also be transferred through breastfeeding. In one case study, a woman inhaled fumes from mothballs while pregnant. She and her newborn child exhibited symptoms of hemolytic anemia and methemoglobinemia, and in treating the infant a double-volume blood transfusion was required.
In a case study of 21 newborns in Greece, naphthalene exposure was linked to hemolytic anemia, jaundice and kernicterus, a severe, potentially fatal jaundice-related syndrome producing neurological effects (also see here). Twelve of the newborns in the study were deficient for the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD), while the remaining nine infants had normal enzyme levels. This enzyme deficiency is genetically inherited and affects the body’s ability to break down and excrete naphthalene and its metabolites.
Individuals with the G-6-PD deficiency are at a greater risk of developing hemolytic anemia. The frequency of the G-6-PD deficiency varies across different populations, placing some at higher risk for naphthalene-induced illness. This enzyme deficiency is more common in African-Americans and people of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean descent. In a cohort study of 500 African American newborns, G-6-PD deficiency was found in 12.8% of the infants. The G-6-PD deficient infants in this study had a higher occurrence of hemolysis and jaundice, and required higher levels of treatment, than infants without the enzyme deficiency.
Naphthalene is released into the environment from industrial and domestic sources. The chemical partially dissolves in water, and binds weakly to soil. It may evaporate from the surface of bodies of water, or be broken down by aquatic bacteria. In the atmosphere, naphthalene breaks down from moisture and sunlight, usually within one day.
Where the chemical is found:
As noted earlier, naphthalene is found naturally in fossil fuels like coal and petroleum (crude oil). The burning of fossil fuels and wood releases naphthalene into the air, and as a result, naphthalene is a common pollutant found in urban air. It is also the single most abundant compound found in coal tar.
Naphthalene is used in the synthesis of several chemicals, including phthalate plasticizers, dyes, resins, and synthetic leather tanning agents. It is commonly used in industry as a starting material in the manufacture of synthetic plastics, including polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics. Naphthalene is used in toilet deodorant blocks, household and automobile products, and as a repellant in moth balls and moth flakes. Naphthalene is present in cigarette smoke and motor vehicle exhaust.
Occupational exposure to naphthalene is regulated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). In the workplace, naphthalene levels may not exceed 10 parts per million (ppm) over an 8 hour work day, during a 40 hour work week. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has stated that naphthalene exposure exceeding 500 ppm is immediately dangerous to life and health.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers naphthalene to be reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen and has recommended safe levels of naphthalene in drinking water. EPA has determined that it is unsafe for children to drink water containing greater than 0.5 ppm of naphthalene for more than 10 days, or greater than 0.4 ppm of naphthalene for longer than seven years. For adults, EPA advises not drinking water contaminated with greater than 1 ppm naphthalene for more than 7 years or drinking water with more than 0.1 ppm naphthalene over a lifetime.
What should be done:
To limit your exposure to naphthalene, avoid generating and inhaling smoke from fireplaces, heating, and cooking appliances that use petroleum-based fuels or wood. Avoid tobacco smoke, and check toilet deodorizers to see if they use naphthalene before bringing them into your home. Extreme precaution should be taken when handling naphthalene-containing moth repellants as well as blankets and clothing stored with them. Some moth-repellant alternatives are suggested here.
Individuals with G-6-PD deficiency should be especially wary of products containing naphthalene and avoid exposure entirely. Workers in naphthalene-related industries should wear appropriate personal protective equipment and work in well ventilated areas.
The hazards presented by consumer products containing naphthalene raise a much bigger issue: the inadequate regulation of toxic chemicals in the U.S. Consumers are often not appropriately informed of the presence of toxic chemicals in the products they use or are otherwise exposed to, and the possible harms such chemicals pose to their health. Current legislation, most notably the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), fails to adequately regulate substances like naphthalene. Some 60,000 existing chemicals, including naphthalene, were grandfathered into TSCA at the time of its enactment in 1976 without requiring any health or safety data or assessment. Unfortunately, this lack of data and safety assessment hasn’t improved much in the past 35 years. This outdated legislation is in need of serious reform to give EPA the authority is needs to require basic information on chemicals from the chemical industry. Effective reform, like that presented by Senator Lautenberg in the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011, would help ensure the safety of chemicals before they reach or as a condition for staying on the market, offering better protection for consumers. Help make this possible by showing your support here.
“I feel like a total basket case. I feel so insecure about myself, like I am defective or something. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t feel like being around people anymore.”
It can be difficult to figure out exactly why a woman is having trouble conceiving. For one-third of couples experiencing infertility, complications can be traced to the man. In another third of cases, complications can be traced to the woman. And for the remaining cases, infertility complications can be traced to both or are simply unknown. Uncertainty adds to the frustration, and can make women and men feel inadequate or blame themselves.
Emerging research suggests that chemicals found in products we use every day may be contributing to difficulties conceiving. We use scented laundry detergent and air fresheners or handle cash register receipts without realizing we are exposing ourselves to chemicals that might interfere with our ability to have children.
Some chemicals can affect our biology even in tiny amounts
Certain chemicals can fool our bodies by mimicking natural hormones like estrogen. These chemicals can disrupt the normal function of our hormones (the endocrine system). Scientists call these hormone-mimicking chemicals “endocrine disruptors.” Research suggests that certain endocrine disruptors can throw off our hormones in ways that contribute to reproductive problems and reduced fertility.
Even if you avoid high levels of exposure to endocrine disruptors, you may still be at risk from low-level exposures. Animal studies have revealed that even very small amounts of endocrine-disrupting chemicals can seriously disrupt endocrine system function with damage equal to, and in some cases greater than, that caused by higher amounts. For example, a study in mice found that the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA)—found in water bottles, food can linings, and receipt paper—can damage the reproductive tract even when only a very small dose of BPA is administered. During critical periods of development, exposure to BPA can have serious adverse effects.
Chemicals can affect our health even before we’re born
One of the most worrisome findings from research on endocrine disruptors is that early life exposures to such chemicals can result in long-term damage.
Indeed, these chemicals can have some of their worst consequences when exposure to them occurs prenatally. Even before a baby girl is born, the chemicals she is exposed to through her mother have potential to influence whether she’ll suffer from fertility problems when she grows up. In animal studies, prenatal exposure to BPA can lead to physical defects in the uterus of the developing female fetus. Uterine damage can lead to infertility later in life.
The problem of phthalates
Endocrine disruptors are found just about everywhere. Members of the phthalates chemical group are found in medical supplies, plastic wrapping, varnishes, paints, cosmetics and more. In animal studies, certain phthalates have been shown to cause a number of male reproductive developmental effects that lead to decreased fertility. In other animal studies, certain phthalates have lead to spontaneous abortions and birth defects.
Scientists, can't, of course, intentionally expose pregnant women to these chemicals to confirm that the same effects occur in us. But when researchers look at what's already happening in the human population, they see troubling corroboration of the damage seen in controlled studies with laboratory animals.
Prenatal exposure to certain phthalates has been linked to reproductive defects in boys, such as impaired testicular descent. Exposure to the phthalate DEHP (Bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate)—found in plastics used in floor coverings, furniture upholstery, and shower curtains to name a few products—is associated with greater frequency of cesarean section delivery.
If that weren’t troubling enough, everyday chemicals might also be interfering with pregnancies in their later stages. Certain phthalates have been linked to premature birth.
The law doesn’t work — toxic chemicals have become impossible to avoid
Unfortunately, it is an impossible challenge to avoid chemicals that may harm our fertility. How can you be expected to learn and know which products contain hazardous chemicals? And even if we could avoid chemicals that scientists know are problematic, we’d still run the risk of exposing ourselves to any of the thousands of chemicals that have not been adequately assessed.
Why are we in this situation?
The Toxic Substances Control Act was enacted in 1976. It’s one of our oldest and least effective environmental laws and desperately needs to be reformed. When it was passed, it grandfathered in 60,000 already-existing chemicals without requiring that they be assessed for safety. Since then, EPA has only been able to require testing of around 200 of those chemicals. TSCA lets companies introduce new chemicals — 20,000 such chemicals have entered the market since TSCA was passed — into products used by millions of people without requiring any health and safety data of them.
We need better legal protection
New legislation is under consideration that will protect against endocrine disruptors and other toxic chemicals: The Safe Chemicals Act of 2011. If passed, this legislation would require manufacturers to submit a minimum data set on all chemicals, including new chemicals before they show up in the market and our homes.
Six million American women are having difficulty conceiving a child. It is too late to protect current generations of women (and men) from endocrine disruptors or other exposures they may have experienced before they were born, but there’s still time to protect the children they hope to have.
Some industry lobbyists are working hard to weaken or stop the Safe Chemicals Act, but if enough voters speak up, we can still get it passed.
Tell your Senators now to support the Safe Chemicals Act and help eliminate harmful chemicals that show up in products we buy.
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“This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it’s related primarily to the obesity problem.” – Actress Judy Davis
Celebrities like Judy Davis aren’t the only ones worried about the obesity epidemic. It is on the minds of millions of Americans. It is also worrying — even frightening — public health officials.
Obesity is the fastest-growing cause of disease and death in the United States according to the U.S. Surgeon General. A full third of Americans suffer from obesity, and another third are overweight. That means two-thirds of the American public are either obese or overweight!
Why is this so worrying? Obesity is associated with diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure.
Puzzling trend: Obesity in the babies
The growth of fast food chains and our dependency on cars seem to be among the obvious explanations for our society’s collective weight gain. So why would scientists look beyond poor diet and lack of exercise for answers?
Epidemiologists find obesity trends very puzzling. Not only are more adults becoming obese, but so are very young children and even infants. One third of babies nine months or younger are overweight or obese, compared to just 18% twenty years ago. That’s nearly double.
These infants aren’t eating fast food or developing bad exercise habits. They’re on a milk-only diet and can’t walk.
What’s going on here?
“Obesogens”: Chemicals that can contribute to obesity
As scientists search for answers, they’re finding disturbing links between obesity and certain chemical exposures. Researcher Bruce Blumberg has coined a new term for chemicals that can disrupt normal metabolism and contribute to obesity: “obesogens.”
Early life: Obesogens make stem cells develop into fat cells
Epidemiological studies have shown associations between certain chemicals and obesity in adults, but perhaps the most disturbing finding so far is that obesogens appear to have the greatest effects during early stages of development. This is a striking example of how toxic chemical exposures before birth or in the first few years of childhood can cause negative effects that last for the rest of our lives.
Every cell in our body starts out as a stem cell before it becomes a specific cell type, such as a muscle cell or skin cell. Experiments show the chemical tributyltin (TBT), a paint additive, predisposes stem cells to become fat cells rather than bone cells.
Another potential obesogen is bisphenol A (BPA), used in food can linings, polycarbonate plastics, and even paper receipts. A study published in the journal Endocrinology showed that exposure to BPA both prenatally and just after birth led to metabolic deficiencies and body weight increases.
Can taking a shower make you fat?
Phthalates are a large class of chemicals found in everything from fragrances to medical devices. Human epidemiological studies have correlated exposure to certain phthalates with increased fat mass and larger waist circumferences.
People use an estimated four million tons of phthalates every year. They’re used heavily in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) products like vinyl shower curtains and flooring, and can also be found in paints, lubricants, and nail polish, to name just a few of many uses.
Can cooking a healthy meal make you fat?
Next time you try to cook a healthy meal, make sure your pan isn’t undoing your efforts. The surfaces of many non-stick pans are made using the chemical PFOA, and if overheated, chipped, or scratched, the chemical may be released.
In animal studies, in utero exposure to PFOA was shown to alter the levels of hormones involved in metabolism and cause excess weight gain in offspring. These observations add to PFOA’s list of toxic effects — it is already known for its developmental and systemic toxicity.
Obesogens are very hard to avoid
These few chemicals, already enough to make us worry, aren't the whole story. Research continues on others suspects too, such as the flame retardants known as PBDEs, and as more studies are done, even more chemicals may be found to have obesogenic effects. The prevalence of obesogens in our lives works against any of us who are trying to be healthy, and threatens to undermine our public health officials' best efforts.
We can try to avoid obesogens and other toxic chemicals. We can spend hours researching products and chemicals on our own. We can scour the Internet for safe alternatives. But that’s a lot to ask. How many of us have the time or expertise to sort through all the options, or the luxury of avoiding certain products or foods? In a recent blog post, José Bravo, Executive Director of the Just Transitions Alliance, calls this issue a matter of environmental justice.
Even if we could dedicate all the time in the world to avoiding obesogens, at best we’d only be able to avoid those that scientists have identified. Thousands of other chemicals haven't been evaluated, so we have no clue whether or not they may be obesogenic. There has to be a better way.
Let’s fix the law
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), enacted in 1976, is one of our oldest and least effective environmental laws. It desperately needs to be reformed. TSCA allows companies to use chemicals in products sold to millions of people, without requiring their safety to be shown first. This law grandfathered in 60,000 already existing chemicals without requiring them to be tested. Unfortunately, persistent deficiencies in TSCA have resulted in EPA being able to require testing on only around 200 of them. There are now over 80,000 chemicals on EPA’s chemical inventory.
Even if chemicals are shown to be dangerous, TSCA makes it nearly impossible for the EPA to restrict their use in consumer products. Because TSCA is so weak, even asbestos hasn’t been banned.
We need a stronger law to help us identify obesogens and other harmful chemicals before millions of us are exposed to them.
New legislation is under consideration that will help eliminate obesogens and other toxic chemicals: The Safe Chemicals Act of 2011. If passed, this legislation would require manufacturers to submit safety data on new chemicals—which would be made publicly available—before they are sold in products destined for consumers.
Some industry lobbyists are working to weaken or even kill the Safe Chemicals Act, but if enough voters speak up we can get it passed.
Tell your Senators now to support the Safe Chemicals Act to make sure that chemicals in the products we buy don't undermine our best efforts to stay healthy.
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You’ve probably heard some anxiety over whether radiation from cell phones and laptops is lowering sperm count, making men infertile.
While the jury is still out on that one, what you might not have heard is that scientists are discovering that chemicals used in everyday products may contribute to reduced male fertility. Years of research have unveiled a number of chemicals linked to infertility in men.
Epidemiological and laboratory studies have associated certain chemicals, including BPA, certain phthalates, nonylphenol, and the flame retardants tris (1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP), triphenyl phosphate (TPP), and Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), with male infertility. These chemicals can be found in everything from furniture to laundry detergent to cash register receipts.
Studies on these chemicals reveal that they affect hormonal systems in ways that may lead to reduced sperm count, motility, or quality; result in undescended testicles and deformities of the penis; and contribute to testicular cancer. Other research has shown that such chemicals can cause “feminization” of fish.
A young man's attempt to avoid chemical exposure
Andrew, a 19-year-old college student, read an article about ways to reduce exposure to these toxic chemicals. Not wanting to jeopardize his ability to reproduce, he took the advice to heart. Here’s what he did:
Certain members within the class of chemicals called phthalates can be found in many products, including most products with “fragrance” listed as an ingredient. Andrew decided to stop using air fresheners in his home and in his car. He also asked his mom to switch the household over to unscented laundry detergent.
BPA, a chemical shown to decrease male fertility rates, is often found in the thermal paper used for cash register receipts. Andrew tried to handle sales receipts as little as possible when making store purchases or signing for meals at restaurants. He even used napkins to transfer receipts into his wallet.
Is this really what we're asking of our young men?
Watching Andrew try to sign and put receipts in his wallet without touching them may be slightly humorous, but is this really what we’ve come to?
Andrew made valiant efforts to minimize his contact with chemicals. Sadly, he can’t truly avoid them on his own. When he placed receipts in his wallet using napkins, BPA likely rubbed off the receipts and onto the cash inside. Studies have found that paper money has detectable amounts of BPA on it. Beyond paper receipts, BPA is prevalent in food can linings and polycarbonate plastics. The ubiquity of this chemical is evidenced by its presence in the bodies of over 90% of Americans. Even if Andrew decided never to handle another receipt in his life, he wouldn’t be able to prevent his exposure to BPA.
And his exposure to harmful chemicals doesn’t stop with BPA. Andrew also has to worry about risky substances he might encounter while sitting on the couch at his school’s student center or while walking through air-freshened department stores.
There has to be a better way.
A broken law exposes us all to a chemical free-for-all
Why does Andrew have to worry about all these chemicals he encounters, anyway?
This year marks the 35th anniversary of one of our most inefficient and ineffective laws: The Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA. Enacted in 1976, this law grandfathered in 60,000 existing chemicals without requiring any assessment of their potential health effects. There are now 80,000 chemicals available for use, and new chemicals continue to enter the marketplace without any requirement for basic health and safety data. Of these 80,000 chemicals, the EPA has only been able to require adequate testing of about 200.
We’re putting ourselves and future generations at risk by not requiring chemicals to be properly assessed for safety. How can we stand by and allow more and more potentially unsafe chemicals into everyday products?
Better legislation: The Safe Chemicals Act
The best way to fix this situation is to pass new legislation that reforms TSCA. The Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 would do just that. This fall, Congress is poised to take up the Safe Chemicals Act.
The Safe Chemicals Act would give us much stronger protection against toxic chemicals. Manufacturers would have to show their chemicals are safe in order to stay on or enter the market. The act would require that a chemical’s safety be assessed before it is used in the products you buy.
Andrew’s efforts to change the products his mother uses and pick up receipts with napkins were commendable, but asking anyone to undertake such measures is unreasonable – and they won’t stop his exposure to harmful chemicals. The truth is, he shouldn’t have to worry about toxic exposures in the first place.
Certain industry lobbyists are working hard against the Safe Chemicals Act, but with enough support from concerned voters, it can pass. We need to make sure that only safe chemicals are used in the products we buy.
You can protect your and your loved ones’ health — ask your Senators now to support the Safe Chemicals Act.
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One in eight American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetimes. Of the women who get it, one out of five will die from it.
Understandably, given these statistics, many women worry about their chances of getting breast cancer. Some women with high risk factors, such as having close relatives who have had breast cancer, go through extra screenings. Some even consider preventative removal of their breasts.
We know that more cases of breast cancer are occurring than fifty years ago. Unfortunately, a whopping 70% of these breast cancer cases are not associated with any known breast cancer risk factors. Scientists are searching for answers.
Everyday chemicals can act like hormones
Over the last decade, scientists have established that some of the chemicals women exposed to can affect their chances of getting breast cancer. For example, certain chemicals called endocrine disruptors can interact with our biology by mimicking the hormones our bodies normally produce (the technical term is the endocrine system). Some of these interactions are thought to increase the chances of getting breast cancer.
How much should we worry about endocrine disruptors? Well, exposure data indicates that we ought to be fairly concerned.
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals are all around us. They are used in everyday products like detergents, antibacterial soaps, plastic containers, air freshener sprays and flame-resistant furniture. We take in these chemicals through our skin, through the air we breathe, and even through chemically contaminated food.
Everyday chemicals are affecting young girls
Phthalates are a group of chemicals produced in huge amounts, exceeding 470 million pounds per year. Phthalates can be found in products made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic, like shower curtains and flooring. They are also found in varnishes, paints, medical devices like IV tubing and blood bags, and more.
Certain phthalates are endocrine disruptors and have been linked to early puberty and breast development in girls. Research has shown an association between early puberty and breast cancer.
Everyday chemicals can affect our health even before we’re born
Scientists have found that it's especially problematic when a developing fetus is exposed to certain chemicals. In studies on mice, prenatal exposure to the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) led to harmful effects that persisted over a lifetime. Specifically, mice exposed to BPA while still in the womb and in the earliest stages after birth had greater sensitivity to the hormone estrogen during puberty.
The authors of this study note that changes in estrogen levels are a known, central risk factor for breast cancer and that increased sensitivity to estrogen may be of concern.
Everyday chemicals can make it harder to fight cancer
For women already diagnosed with breast cancer, toxic chemicals can do further damage. For example, a number of alkylphenols, chemicals found in detergents and cleaners, and BPA have been shown to stimulate faster division and growth of mammalian breast cancer cells.
BPA may also confer “chemoresistance,” which can make cancer treatments like chemotherapy and other anti-cancer drugs less effective. Scientists have found that breast cancer cells respond less well to chemotherapy treatments after having been exposed to BPA. This has serious implications for the chemotherapy treatment of breast cancer patients who have been exposed to BPA.
Unfortunately, almost everyone is regularly exposed to BPA. The Centers for Disease Control’s biomonitoring data reveals that BPA is present in more than 90% of Americans.
Why are all these chemicals in our bodies?
If we know these chemicals can cause us harm, why isn’t the government protecting us from them?
This year marks the 35th anniversary of one of our most inefficient and ineffective laws: The Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA. Enacted in 1976, this law grandfathered in 60,000 already existing chemicals without requiring any assessment of their safety. There are now over 80,000 chemicals on EPA’s chemical inventory. Unfortunately, persistent deficiencies in TSCA have resulted in EPA being able to require testing on only around 200 of them.
For the great majority of chemicals available for use, then, we are left in the dark as to how they’re being used, who’s being exposed, and what harm they might be causing—whether we're talking about breast cancer or other conditions, such as obesity, infertility and Alzheimer’s, for which evidence is also mounting that links them to chemical exposures.
We need a better law: the Safe Chemicals Act
This fall, Congress is likely to take up the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011. This legislation would vastly improve TSCA, giving us much stronger protection against toxic chemicals. Chemical manufacturers would have to provide basic safety data on their chemicals. New chemicals would be assessed for safety before they are allowed onto the market and into the products we buy.
Unfortunately, effective chemicals policies weren’t available for the 40,000 women who died of breast cancer in the past year. But for those of us lucky enough to be free of it or fighting it, for the babies not yet born and the young girls who haven’t made it to puberty yet—we can and need to do better.
Tell your Senators now how important it is to support the Safe Chemicals Act.
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More than five million Americans have Alzheimer’s. This devastating illness has no cure. ABC reporter Terry Moran shares his experience of watching his mother struggle with Alzheimer’s:
"The worst thing for me, I think, was that I could tell my mother knew what was happening to her; she had watched it happen to her mother. She was terrified as the disease tore apart her mind. I remember sitting with her one morning, for hours, as she said over and over to me, ‘I want to kill myself. I am going to kill myself. I wish I could kill myself.’ For hours. My mom."
Mr. Moran watched his mother lose the ability to keep track of her belongings, schedule, and forget the names of people she loved. At the same time, he grappled with a big decision: should he undergo genetic testing for Alzheimer’s? He wondered if it was really worth knowing that he might be predisposed to suffer the way his mom did.
Genes aren’t the whole story
People in situations like Mr. Moran’s can spend hours agonizing over their family history. What many might not realize is that factors in addition to our genes can also affect whether we develop Alzheimer’s. Scientists are beginning to find links between exposure to certain commonly found chemicals and Alzheimer’s.
We have no control over our genetic make-up, but effective laws and regulations can control our exposure to harmful chemicals.
Why worry about chemicals and Alzheimer’s?
Scientists don’t yet know exactly how Alzheimer’s develops, but research is turning up important clues. For instance, researchers know that a protein called amyloid-beta is very important in Alzheimer’s prognosis. People with higher levels of this protein appear more likely to develop Alzheimer’s.
While specific genes do influence how much amyloid-beta is in the brain, they aren’t the only factor. Studies show that certain chemicals, such as lead, can increase amyloid-beta accumulation in the brain. This frightening effect is worse when the exposure to lead happens early in life because the brain is less developed and thus more influenced by changes in the environment.
But wasn't lead banned?
You might think that lead isn’t used anymore, given broad awareness of its hazards. Sadly, that’s not so.
In the U.S., lead is restricted in specific uses, but not banned. In paints, the most notorious use of this toxin, up to .06% lead is still allowed. Even after the public outcry about the alarming levels of lead in children’s toys and jewelry, the law guiding the US Consumer Products Safety Commission still allows products for children under the age of 12 to contain up to 100 ppm (parts per million) of lead–or 300 ppm lead when it is deemed not technologically "feasible" to attain the 100 ppm limit in a product.
Some may think that lead in small amounts is not harmful. But we know that’s not the case. Even very small amounts of lead have been shown to cause detrimental effects on the brain and nervous system. The Center for Disease Control’s chemical profile of lead cites numerous studies demonstrating that low levels of lead can cause harm. Further, several studies like this one, performed by the director of the Children’s Environmental Health Center, indicate that there is no “safe” level of lead exposure.
PCBs: Another story of how regulations failed us
PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) are another group of toxic chemicals that increase the likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s. PCBs were once used in television sets, fluorescent lighting, and electrical insulators. We know now how dangerous they are, and since 1976 PCBs have been banned from commercial production and most uses in the United States.
But we learned of the danger too late. PCBs are persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals (PBTs). They remain in the environment for a very long time and are still found today in dangerous quantities in the in soil, water, and air. Some uses that were allowed have turned out to be a continuing source of release to the environment. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control's biomonitoring data, which measures the presence of chemicals in people's bodies, indicate our continued exposure to PCBs despite their not having been used in 35 years. If PCBs had been adequately tested for safety decades ago before their widespread use, maybe their lingering presence might not be still threatening our health today.
We need to worry about other chemicals, too
Lead and PCBs aren’t the only chemicals that may increase our risks of developing Alzheimers.
Many chemicals on the market, like BPA (found in food cans and paper receipts) and certain phthalates (found in certain plastics, varnishes, paints, and fragrances) have been shown to lower testosterone levels. Lowered testosterone levels are a risk factor for Alzheimer’s. While studies have not yet linked these chemicals directly to Alzheimer’s, what we do know raises troubling questions.
There may be even more chemical contributors to Alzheimer’s risk. Identification of toxic chemicals, such as those associated with Alzheimer’s, is difficult because of weak chemical safety laws that don’t require adequate testing of the thousands of chemicals in use.
The main chemical safety law isn’t protecting us
Why are potentially dangerous chemicals used in consumer products at all? The main reason is an ineffective and outdated law called the Toxics Substances Control Act (TSCA). When TSCA was enacted in 1976, it grandfathered in the 60,000 chemicals already on the market–with no questions asked about their safety and no testing required.
And even today, TSCA does not require that new chemicals be tested before being used in everyday items. There are now over 80,000 chemicals available for use, and EPA has managed to require testing of about 2% of them. Given what we know about the potential dangers of chemicals, these numbers are frightening and unacceptable.
We can fix the law—support the Safe Chemicals Act
A lot of damage has been done. We can’t change the history of PCBs and lead. Widespread use of risky chemicals like BPA and phthalates continue in the market today.
But we have an opportunity to make things better now and for the future. The Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 would require that existing and new chemicals be found safe in order to remain on, or be introduced into, the market. Chemical manufacturers would have the burden to provide data that demonstrate their chemicals are safe, rather than government – and the public – having the burden of showing they’re not.
Some industry lobbyists are hard at work against the Safe Chemicals Act, but with support from enough concerned voters, it can pass.
Tell your Senators now how important it is to support the Safe Chemicals Act.
We can’t change our genetic risk of Alzheimer’s, or keep people like Mr. Moran and his mom from facing awful choices. But through common-sense chemical safety policies, we can make big steps toward reducing preventable risks that stack the deck against our health.
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Why the chemical is considered of concern:
Styrene is a colorless liquid, which is reacted with itself or other chemicals to produce polystyrene and synthetic plastic resins. The U.S. National Toxicology Program has classified styrene as a chemical reasonably anticipated to be carcinogenic to humans. Exposure to high levels of styrene in occupational settings has been associated with an increased risk for lymphohematopoietic cancers, which include leukemia and lymphoma. These cancers are characterized by abnormally high levels of white blood cells, which are thought to result from DNA mutations. In the human body, styrene is metabolized to styrene-7, 8-oxide, which has been shown to cause DNA damage in white blood cells. This damage is thought to result in chromosomal abnormalities in lymphocytes, a potential mechanism for styrene-induced cancer. Styrene exposure may also increase the risk for other cancers, including those of the esophagus and pancreas.
Styrene is hazardous if inhaled or ingested, and by means of skin or eye contact. Chronic exposure to styrene, or acute inhalation at high levels, negatively affects the nervous system. Changes in color vision, slowed reaction time, lethargy, headaches, memory deficits, hearing loss, and concentration and balance problems can occur and may be permanent. Styrene is also suspected to be toxic to the kidney, liver and respiratory system [pdf]. In animal studies, mice exposed to styrene developed lung tumors and nasal passage linings were damaged.
Styrene may be inhaled from off-gassing of building materials, tobacco smoke, photocopier fumes [pdf], and automobile exhaust. It is incorporated into a widely used polymerized plastic, polystyrene. While the polymer is non-toxic, styrene may leach from polystyrene containers into food at low levels. Styrene exposure has also occurred from drinking and bathing in contaminated water.
Occupational exposure occurs through inhalation and skin contact. Workers in the reinforced plastic, styrene-butadiene rubber, and styrene monomer and polymer industries are especially at risk for exposure. Workers in car, truck and boat fabrication industries are also likely to be exposed to high levels of styrene.
A cohort study of 17,924 workers in the styrene-butadiene rubber industry in North America found that leukemia-related mortality was elevated 16% compared to the general population. Cases of mortality were even higher among those having worked 20 or more years in the industry. Leukemia incidence was concentrated in those with jobs with a higher likelihood for chemical exposure. However, uncertainty remains about the specific chemical agent(s) that contribute to the increased leukemia incidence. In addition to styrene, workers could have also been exposed to the chemicals butadiene and dimethyldithiocarbamate.
Styrene is detected in air, water and soil as a consequence of its release from manufacturing processes involving styrene, as well as from the use and disposal of styrene-containing products. Styrene breaks down [pdf] in the air within one to two days and binds with ozone and hydroxyl radicals in the atmosphere. In bodies of water, styrene volatilizes quickly, and in soil, styrene is typically broken down by bacteria and microorganisms.
Where the chemical is found:
Styrene is used to manufacture polystyrene, a widely used category of plastic. Polystyrene is used in CD hard cases, plastic silverware and other rigid molded plastics. Polystyrene foams, like Styrofoam™, are commonly used for their insulating properties and are found in building and home maintenance materials, craft supplies, packaging peanuts and disposable coffee cups.
Styrene is also used to produce reinforced plastics and rubbers used in insulation (building construction and refrigeration equipment), pipes, automotive parts, tires, printing cartridges, food packaging and carpet backing. Trace amounts of styrene may also be found naturally in some foods.
Styrene is regulated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; worker exposure is limited to an average of 100 parts per million (ppm) over an 8-hour workday during a 40-hour work week. The US Food and Drug Administration regulates styrene in bottled drinking water; the concentration of the chemical may not exceed 0.1 milligrams per liter (mg/L).
Styrene is regulated as a contaminant under the Safe Drinking Water Act. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that exposure to styrene from drinking water is not expected to cause adverse health effects in children at concentrations at or below 20 mg/L for one day, or 2 mg/L for 10 days. EPA has also indicated that lifetime exposure to 0.1 mg/L styrene in drinking water is not expected to cause adverse effects. Styrene is listed under the EPA’s Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA), and as part of the Toxic Release Inventory, industries must report environmental releases and waste management of styrene.
What should be done:
You can play a role in limiting your exposure to styrene. Try to avoid inhaling cigarette smoke and car exhaust. Don’t microwave food or beverages or put hot drinks in polystyrene foam containers and cups. Heat may permit styrene monomers to leach from the polystyrene material and into your food or drink.
Workers who use styrene-containing materials can protect themselves from skin absorption of the substance by wearing protective gloves and clothing. Exposure by inhalation can be reduced with appropriate ventilation of the workspace.
But despite all personal measures, the significant potential for adverse health effects from exposure to styrene really demonstrates a larger problem: inadequate chemicals policy in the U.S. The current legislation, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), is flawed and limits the EPA’s authority to require chemical information from industry or ensure safe use. Through effective reform, like that presented in the Safe Chemicals Act, measures will be put in place to ensure the safety of all chemicals on the market and better inform and protect consumers from the harms of toxic chemicals. Show your support for smart, safe chemicals policies here.
Why the chemicals are considered of concern:
Diisocyanates are a group of chemicals—within the larger isocyanate family of chemicals—primarily used to make polyurethane polymers found in products ranging from bowling balls to insulation foam. During polyurethane synthesis, diisocyanates react with other chemicals—a process called curing—to form polyurethane polymer chains. When the curing reaction is complete and virtually no unreacted diisocyanates remain, the polyurethane product is said to be “cured.” Cured products, which contain fully reacted diisocyanates incorporated into polyurethane polymers, are essentially non-toxic. However, unreacted diisocyanates – whether those remaining unreacted in cured products or those present in uncured products – are highly toxic, especially to the respiratory system.
Diisocyanates are known to induce and exacerbate asthma, damage the lung, cause irritation of the skin, eyes, nose and throat, and in severe cases, result in death. They have also been linked to cases of hypersensitivity pneumonitis (inflammation of the lungs) and pulmonary edema (fluid in the lungs). A specific diisocyanate – toluene diisocyanate (TDI) – has been identified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), as carcinogenic in animals, while the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) considers it a "reasonably anticipated human carcinogen."
Exposure to diisocyanates occurs most often through inhalation, although skin contact can also cause irritation and sensitization. Exposure potential is increased when products containing diisocyanates are sprayed or heated.
Diisocyanates are chemical sensitizers, that is, repeated exposure results in increasing sensitivity to their effects such that even low levels of exposure can trigger severe asthmatic reactions. In addition, asthmatic response can be delayed by up to 12 hours following exposure.
The two most commonly used diisocyanates are Methylene Diphenyl Diisocyanate (MDI) and Toluene Diisocyanate (TDI), which make up about 90% of the entire diisocyanates market. They are frequently used in the automobile and construction industries and are a leading cause of occupational asthma (see here, here and here). The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) highlights several case reports of isocyanate-induced asthma, respiratory problems, and in a few cases, death. In fact, each year about 280,000 workers are exposed to diisocyanates, yielding a substantial prevalence of isocyanate-induced asthma.
Consumers are vulnerable bystanders to commercial application of diisocyanates when used to seal concrete, wooden decks and roofs. More recently, potential exposure of the general public to diisocyanates has risen due to the increasing availability of household products containing these chemicals. In particular, do-it-yourself homeowners may inadvertently expose themselves to higher levels of diisocyanates as commercial-grade polyurethane products become ever more available to consumers.
Children are especially susceptible to diisocyanate exposure and resulting illness. Diisocyanate vapors are heavier than air and settle close to the ground, leaving children more vulnerable to inhalation and skin absorption. In addition, children breathe in more air relative to their body size compared to adults. In one case study, school children were exposed to MDI from a polyurethane-based artificial surface applied to an athletic track. Of the children exposed to fumes from the track material, 60% with no prior history of asthma reported asthma-like symptoms of shortness of breath and coughing, and many students suffered eye and throat irritation, nausea, headaches and vomiting.
Air releases of diisocyanates are of concern because of the potential for direct inhalation exposure. Diisocyanates can also react with water in the air – a process called hydrolysis – to form other hazardous chemical compounds called diamines (TDI forms toluene diamine; MDI forms methylene diphenyl diamine). The stability of diisocyanate and diamine compounds in air depends in part on humidity levels. Under conditions of low humidity, diisocyanates may remain stable enough to be transported across long distances.
Where the chemicals are most commonly found:
Diisocyanates are found in a broad range of products, including adhesives, sealants, binders, coatings, spray paints, whiteboard paints, rubbers, plastics and crafts materials. They are used extensively in industries that produce and repair automobiles, boats, furniture, appliances and electronics.
Many other products contain diisocyanates in an uncured and much more toxic form, however, usually in the form of liquids, sprays, aerosols or foams that stiffen as polyurethane polymers are formed through the curing process. The curing time for polyurethane products has been shown to be variable. As a result, the recommended amount of time one should wait before entering an area in which diisocyanate-containing products have been applied also varies. The curing rate depends on several factors, including product type, application method and ventilation. Diisocyanate-containing products remain hazardous until curing is complete.
Of note, government programs have incentivized the use of polyurethane foams for increasing energy efficiency. These products are used for insulation and are available in uncured forms as “pour in place” foam, spray polyurethane foam (SPF), and one-component foam (OCF).
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulates worker exposure to diisocyanates through the establishment of permissible exposure limits (PEL). OSHA also requires the use of personal protective equipment when workers are using diisocyanates. Employers are charged with determining appropriate protective equipment for hazards encountered by their employees and training of employees on how and when to use such equipment.
Under the Clean Air Act, diisocyanates are regulated as hazardous air pollutants. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) regulate diisocyanates as hazardous when present in wastes.
Twenty diisocyanates are subject to Section 313 of the EPA’s Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA). This section requires businesses to report environmental chemical releases and waste management of identified toxic chemicals. The reported information is subsequently made publicly available on the EPA Toxics Release Inventory.
In the European Union, measures have been taken to limit MDI in consumer products under the EU’s REACH Regulation. Since December 27, 2010, MDI has been banned in quantities greater than 0.1% in products sold to the general public. Products exceeding that limit may only be sold to consumers if they contain approved protective gloves and are visibly marked with the chemical hazards, application instructions and warnings of the health risks associated with product use.
What should be done:
Users of products containing uncured diisocyanates should take all necessary precautions to protect themselves when using these products. This starts with informing yourself as to whether the products you use contain diisocyanates. Call the product manufacturer when chemical ingredients aren’t listed or if you are unsure whether listed ingredients are diisocyanates. Do-it-yourselfers should be especially wary and take extreme precaution when using uncured polyurethane products, including using personal protective equipment (PPE). Workers must also use appropriate PPE and those sensitized to diisocyanates should cease work with these chemicals to avoid severe health complications.
Industry should look towards the use of new non-isocyanate polyurethane alternatives. There is a new class of non-isocyanate polyurethanes and isocyanate-free expanding foam products that show potential. These products are purported to be equally as effective as their isocyanate counterparts, less costly to produce and safer, all claims that must be further evaluated and substantiated.
The widespread, expanding and largely unregulated use of dangerous diisocyanates in consumer products underscores the larger problem of inadequate chemicals policies and the need for reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Effective TSCA reform would assure that full safety data would be generated and made available to consumers, and that consumer uses of these chemicals be shown to be safe. As it stands, there is little information on consumer uses and consumer exposure to diisocyanate-containing products. Unfortunately, current TSCA does not provide EPA with authority to require better chemical use information from industry, let alone adequate chemical testing, as a condition for entering or remaining on the market.
In April 2011, Senator Lautenberg introduced legislation that would provide critical reforms to TSCA: the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011. Among other things, this legislation would enable EPA to obtain and provide public access to better use, hazard and exposure information on chemicals. This necessary reform would improve public protection from diisocyanates and the thousands of other chemicals poorly regulated in the US. Show your support for stronger toxic chemicals regulation here.
If You Don’t Tell Your Senator That You Want TSCA Reform Who Will?
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011, people across the country will join forces for a National Call in Day to show that chemical safety reform is a priority to the American public. You can contribute by asking your Senators for their help in ensuring that chemicals on the market today and in the future are safe for every American citizen and family. Tell your Senators you want them to support the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011. We know you’re passionate about this issue, and now your Senators need to hear from you.
Over the past 35 years, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been able to require testing of only around 300 of the tens of thousands of chemicals in use today. The major U.S. law monitoring toxic chemicals — the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) — is woefully out of date and too weak to ensure health and environmental protection from toxic chemicals. By the time TSCA was passed in the 70’s, it was merely a watered down version of the original plan intended to ensure chemicals were safe with respect to our health and the environment.
Please call your Senators on Wednesday July, 20! If you don't know your Senators' numbers, call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you.
Here is an example of what you can say to the Senator's staffer when they take your call:
"Hi my name is _______ and I am a (insert something like mom, dad, aunt, nurse, doctor etc). I am really concerned about toxic chemicals in consumer products and their impact on my family’s health. I’m calling Senator ___________ to ask him/her to co-sponsor the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011. American families deserve to be protected from toxic chemicals in our homes, workplaces and communities.”
For more information about the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 and TSCA go here.
For more information on Not a Guinea Pig and the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families coalition visit here.
Thank you for taking 3 minutes out of your day to make these important calls and for staying involved on this issue.
Why the chemicals are considered of concern:
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are synthetic chemicals added to foam cushioning, plastics, and other materials used in a variety of consumer products to make them less likely to catch fire and burn. PBDEs are suspected endocrine disrupting chemicals, with neurobehavioral effects, identified by the EPA as the critical health impact of concern for humans. | <urn:uuid:a2f75519-6550-4aba-94f1-1f8602f7d226> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://notaguineapig.org/updates/ | 2013-05-24T18:43:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704943681/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114903-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942481 | 13,913 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Archive for the ‘ferric fang’ Category
Regular Retraction Watch readers may have noticed that many of the people whose fraud we write about are men. Certainly, the top retraction earners — Yoshitaka Fujii, Joachim Boldt, Diederik Stapel, and Naoki Mori, to name a few — all have a Y chromosome. But that doesn’t necessarily mean our sample size is representative.
Now along comes a study of U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) reports suggesting that men are in fact overrepresented among scientists who commit fraud. In a study published online today in mBio, Ferric Fang and Arturo Casadevall — whose names will also be familiar to Retraction Watch readers for their previous work — along with Joan Bennett analyzed 228 ORI reports since 1994, and found that 149 — or 65% — were male. (The vast majority of the 228 cases — 94% — involved fraud such as falsification or fabrication, while the others presumably involved misconduct such as plagiarism.)
And it’s not just that there are more men in the life sciences. At every stage of a life science career, the percentage of males found by the ORI to have committed misconduct was higher than the percentage of male life scientists overall: Read the rest of this entry »
October, apparently, is “studies of retractions month.” First there was a groundbreaking study in PNAS, then an NBER working paper, and yesterday PLoS Medicine alerted us to a paper their sister journal, PLoS ONE, published last week, “A Comprehensive Survey of Retracted Articles from the Scholarly Literature.”
The study, by Michael L. Grieneisen and Minghua Zhang, is comprehensive indeed, reaching further back into the literature than others we’ve seen, and also including more disciplines: Read the rest of this entry »
Majority of retractions are due to misconduct: Study confirms opaque notices distort the scientific record
A new study out in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) today finds that two-thirds of retractions are because of some form of misconduct — a figure that’s higher than previously thought, thanks to unhelpful retraction notices that cause us to beat our heads against the wall here at Retraction Watch.
The study of 2,047 retractions in biomedical and life-science research articles in PubMed from 1973 until May 3, 2012 brings together three retraction researchers whose names may be familiar to Retraction Watch readers: Ferric Fang, Grant Steen, and Arturo Casadevall. Fang and Casadevall have published together, including on their Retraction Index, but this is the first paper by the trio.
The paper is Read the rest of this entry »
A group of authors at a Pittsburgh company have proposed a new way to write, review, and read scientific papers that they claim will “radically alter the creation and use of credible knowledge for the benefit of society.”
From the abstract of a paper appearing in the new Mary Liebert journal Disruptive Science and Technology, which, according to a press release, will “publish out-of-the-box concepts that will improve the way we live”: Read the rest of this entry »
We often hear — with data to back the statement — that top-tier journals, ranked by impact factor, retract more papers than lower-tier journals. For example, when Murat Cokol and colleagues compared journals’ retraction numbers in EMBO Reports in 2007, as Nature noted in its coverage of that study (h/t Richard van Noorden):
Journals with high impact factors retract more papers, and low-impact journals are more likely not to retract them, the study finds. It also suggests that high- and low-impact journals differ little in detecting flawed articles before they are published.
One thing you notice when you look at Cokol et al’s plots is that although their models seem to take retractions “per capita” — in other words per study published – into account, they don’t report those figures.
Enter a paper published this week in Infection and Immunity (IAI) by Ferric Fang and Arturo Casadevall, “Retracted Science and the Retraction Index.” Read the rest of this entry » | <urn:uuid:fd45b66f-92e6-41d1-a78e-88d5cea7a194> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/category/ferric-fang/ | 2013-05-24T18:28:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704943681/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114903-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939429 | 916 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Spring Break and Alcohol Abuse
It’s that time of year again when the weather starts to warm up and colleges go on their spring break. Many students take this time off and travel around the country or even abroad to party with their friends. College students already feel a sense of freedom when they’re at school and binge drinking can result from this, but there’s an even stronger sense of freedom when students are not only away from home, but also away from school in a place that they will most likely not return to.
According to many different alcohol and substance abuse studies, alcohol consumption has its peaks and valleys—but around Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Spring Break is when alcohol abuse it at its highest, in that order. There are obvious dangers that come with binging and alcohol abuse, especially when students are off on their own, on vacation with their friends. Every year there’s a handful of horrible stories about college kids falling off of balconies or getting into car crashes or being involved in other terrible accidents because of how drunk they were. If you’re a parent or a friend a student who is going on a spring break vacation within the next few weeks, be sure to emphasize safety and be careful with drinking. Excessive alcohol consumption can lead to devastating accidents and it can lead to a very unhealthy and dangerous lifestyle of alcoholism.
Many students who abuse alcohol and binge drink in college do so in a progressive manner—meaning the older they get the more they binge drink. Unfortunately this pattern leads many towards a life of alcoholism after they get out of college. Today it can be very common for people to fall into an alcohol addiction to try and cope with their problems, but substance abuse is never the right way to go, and unfortunately sometimes people learn the hard way. But in order to recover, it’s extremely important to first become conscious of your problem, or make your loved one conscious of their problem, and then find that burning motivation to change the addictive ways. It can be very difficult for a drug addict or an alcoholic and their family to accomplish these things on their own, so that’s where Seabrook House can help. Seabrook House is an internationally recognized inpatient drug rehab and alcoholism detox treatment center with rehab facilities located in New Jersey (NJ), Pennsylvania (PA), and an outpatient office in New York (NY). If you’d like to learn more about alcoholism and alcohol treatment programs contact Seabrook House today! | <urn:uuid:f8259085-044a-4da3-938e-ed0a35c70e7a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://seabrookhouse.org/archives/2796 | 2013-05-24T18:36:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704943681/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114903-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964361 | 509 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Their rapidly growing architecture and design collections number almost 3,000 objects – mainly concentrated in two areas: works by Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff
The Center has produced the first publication of Bruce Goff in ten years, to document the gift of its collection of Bruce Goff material. The book, Free Thought: The Art and Architecture of Bruce Goff (Bartlesville 2003) is a chronology of the life, art and architecture of Goff. It also contains the Price Tower exhibition checklist in the back, along with a map of the Goff structures in Bartlesville. It is available for purchase from their museum store. Call 918-336-4949 or write
In this creative doumentary, filmmaker Heinz Emigholz presents a series of filmed photographs of the work of “the exceptionally inventive American architect, Bruce Goff. His work ... displays a unique style that sets it apart from most 20th Century architecture ... he is the great unknown of an original American form of architecture.
“Through his photo-driven style, Emigholz brilliantly exposes details of Goff’s structure that might otherwise be missed, making these fascinating artifacts even more intriguing.” (Editorial Review, Amazon, 2005)
Out and about Wright: Kansas City Tour
All-day tour of notable Kansas City architecture including all three Goff houses. The tour was sponsored by the Frank Loyd Wright Conservancy and hosted by Scott Lane of KCModern
Guided Tours of the 3 Goff Homes, sponsored by the Kansas City Chapter of the American Institute of Architects“... the three houses the architect designed will be open to tour, giving people an inside look at how he used the geometric shapes, bold colors and glittering details that have made his work famous around the world.”- Kansas City Star, May 12, 2005
Guided Tour by the College of Design, Department of Architecture, Iowa State University, Ames, IA - for the students of Dr. Daniel Naegele. This tour included the 3 Goff houses, the Frank Lloyd Wright Bott house and Sondern/Adler house; the Louis Curtis Tromanhauser house, and other Kansas City architectural landmarks.
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The City of Toronto claims to be interested in your opinion about the proposal to allow the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission develop an integrated casino/entertainment complex here, and is now in the throes of a well publicized effort to solicit the public’s views.
So here’s my question: why are Toronto residents being asked to respond to staff reports that are hardly forthright about two major elements of the OLG plan: the size of the hosting fee for the City, and the viability of the Port Lands as a venue.
Casino proponents have positioned the remittance to the City as a key carrot in winning over a skeptical public. The City’s online consultation form acknowledges as much by asking, in questions four and five, whether the revenue generated for the City would influence the respondent’s opinion, and how much annual revenue would be necessary “to address of balance your concerns…?”
Participants in this process need only read the “Consultation Guide” or city manager Joe Pennachetti’s November 12 presentation to the Executive Committee to discover the City can expect annual payments in the range of $66 to $168 million, with those figures attributed to an Ernst & Young casino study released in October.
Strangely, the 188-page E&Y study offers a far more tentative estimate. In Section 5 (pages 61 to 68 in the pdf), E&Y says OLG explained to City officials that it plans to be using a “new” hosting fee formula that would generate $18 million from an integrated casino complex that generates $1.4 billion in annual revenues.
How did we get from $18 million to the $66 to $168 million range? Lots of untested assumptions, that’s how.
- If OLG adopts a flat 4% fee, E&Y says, you can move the needle up by $50 million.
- Alternatively, if OLG pegged its hosting fees on the medium fee per resident in communities with casino/slot facilities, and then applies this formula to the City of Toronto, you could move to a 6% flat fee.
- Finally, if the City and OLG could work out a deal such that Toronto shares the incremental tax revenues generated by a casino, that arrangement might add another $50 million.
Nowhere in the E&Y document or the City summaries are there explanations for the upside figure of $168 million, which, it seems safe to conclude, is every bit as fictitious as the $400 million windfall promised by the Toronto Taxpayers Coalition this week in a release that should win a prize for sheer mendaciousness. Nor does the document explain whether OLG is prepared to absorb the cost of increasing the hosting fees of other Ontario communities if Toronto gets a pot-sweetener.
In short, residents aren’t being asked to comment on actual hosting fees, but rather a series of thoroughly speculative scenarios based on negotiations that have not yet taken place (a point that is made in the fine print of one City document).
Theoretically, residents, satisfied by the City’s numbers, could push council to say yes, only to see the City end up with a hosting fee on the low end of that range. In retail, they have a phrase for this sort of thing: bait-and-switch.
THE PORT LANDS
According to all the aforementioned public consultation documents, the City is looking at four zones within the 416: a downtown location (Metro Convention Centre precinct); the CNE, Woodbine, and the Port Lands. The city reports note that the Port Lands have been identified as a major revitalization area, and include city-owned land, the sale of which could produce millions in one-time revenue.
Now here’s what the E&Y report says about the Port Lands: “Most of the Casino Operators we spoke to indicated that, while the site has enormous potential, they were not interested in this location citing concerns over the cost of remediation, flood protection needs, infrastructure needs and distance from other attractions in the City [emphasis added].”
Let’s rewind the tape for a moment and play it again: “They were not interested in this location…”
In a background briefing this week, Waterfront Toronto officials put some meat on the bones of what E&Y had dutifully reported. Over the next two to three years, the City and WT need to complete a detailed environmental assessment on re-routing the mouth of the Don and other flood protection measures. For a casino complex — a use not currently contemplated even in the revised Port Lands’ revitalization strategy — the City would also have to secure an official plan amendment and new zoning, and then fight it out at the OMB.
The approvals, one official suggested, could take as long as six years to nail down. In short, a casino complex in the Port Lands would achieve precisely the opposite of the acceleration process the brothers Ford have claimed to be pursuing.
Then, there’s the little matter of actually building flood plain protection and reconstructing the river and the Keating Channel. Areas east of Cherry Street, which sit in the Don flood plain, are highly problematic, the officials said, because of the need to construct a new spillway. Flood plain protection, road infrastructure and a new bridge over the Keating will cost almost half a billion dollars and take years to complete, provided the source of funding is identified, which is not now the case.
The officials said they’ve had discussions with Port Lands landowner groups about transferring these infrastructure costs to private developers, but those plans haven’t generated interest. (It’s kind of like asking trucking firms to build the 401.)
Even more tellingly, neither the City nor Waterfront Toronto have been asked to brief OLGC about the complexities of a Port Lands venue, according to spokespersons for both organizations.
Why not? On a conference call last week with the other participants of a Canadian Urban Institute forum on the casino scheduled for January 23, OLG chair Paul Godfrey told me the agency would like to have the new resort operating by 2017. But if that’s the time horizon, it’s inconceivable that the Port Lands would be in the running. Which, in essence, is what the casino operators have told E&Y.
So why are Toronto residents being asked to opine on the appropriateness of the Port Lands as a venue in these consultations? The only explanation I can see is that the City is hoping against hope that a casino operator will come out of the woodwork offering to ante up for millions of dollars for infrastructure costs.
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Got an email from Christine about her Mayan Week 2009. I love reading this stuff and seeing what the kids come up with. This year, Christine modified the challenges a bit - some nice new tricks for the participants.
You can read about the challenges and see some pictures here.
As for "LEGO MINSDTORMS NXT 2.0: The King's Treasure" - look for 5 more challenges using the new kit. But don't worry - I'm doing my best to make certain that NXT 1.0 owners will be able to run the challenges with minor changes/modifications to the robot and/or challenge area.
I'll try to get some teaser photos uploaded very soon. | <urn:uuid:59a8db99-4384-419d-ba7b-e83c96d218c7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com/2009/07/mayan-week-2009-completed.html | 2013-05-24T18:49:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704943681/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114903-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916683 | 142 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Hmmmm, let me see what I can come up with... :kinky elf: Do you mean awkward gifts that are wrapped or just creative, pretty wrapping?
Can we do both?
They are a beautiful couple...:kinky elf:
I love the dog nativity! I saved it to my pictures! !
oh that dog pic is histarical!! brilliant though!keep em comin! i love pics where its all snowy and theres a town or a house which is all lit up and looks really comforting and warm..maybe with xmas trees everywhere! thats what gets me all christmasy!! :jumping:
and can someone PLS tell me how to upload or put these pics on here?? and where do u get them from???!! I am lacking in computer expertise!!!
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United Way already nearing halfway pointPublished 11:34am Thursday, November 1, 2012
The United Way of Mower County is getting closer to its goal this year.
So far, UWMC has raised about $445,300, or 40.5 percent of the community goal of $1.2 million.
United Way kicked off its 2012 campaign Sept. 11. The United Way campaign publicly runs until Dec. 15 although many campaigns wrap up in January and February of 2013. In 2011 the United Way had a record setting year, raising $1.03 million. | <urn:uuid:289004ee-a6da-45ee-8edc-5f0a99e36846> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.austindailyherald.com/2012/11/01/united-way-already-nearing-halfway-point/ | 2013-05-24T18:50:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704943681/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114903-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971917 | 116 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
When I hit my twenties, the BMW K1 was impossibly glamorous. It was the poster bike for motorcycling. As a casual observer, I didn’t realise it was BMW’s attempt to appeal to younger riders, seduced by Japanese sportsbikes such as the Suzuki GSX-R1100. And I didn’t know that BMW’s engineering and quality control—for once—was deeply flawed. To me, the K1 was the kind of motorcycle Luke Skywalker would ride if he existed in real life: a blend of warp speed power and futuristic styling.
It was a machine straight from the pages of JG Ballard’s Vermillion Sands: glossy, lurid and bizarre, a vehicle for the wealthy and disaffected. (For what little it’s worth, it was also the world’s first production motorcycle with a three-way catalytic converter.) The 987 cc, 100 bhp K1 sold less than 7,000 units between 1988 and 1993, and its dynamics were trumped by machines such as the Honda CBR600F. But it’s still beautiful two decades later. And it broke the mould in the realms of styling and marketing, catching the eye of people who would never have otherwise looked at a motorcycle. I’d still choose one today over any 1990s Japanese or American bike—and not just because it’s the only motorcycle you can ride while wearing a scarlet leather one-piece. | <urn:uuid:fb4eb65c-90dc-4599-8ea1-7ff7f7f828e5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bikeexif.com/bmw-k1 | 2013-05-24T18:49:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704943681/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114903-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963985 | 307 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Creating UI Automation Client Applications (Cont.)
UI Automation Properties for Clients
Properties of IUIAutomationElement objects contain information about UI elements, usually controls. The properties of an element are generic to all elements and not specific to a control type. Control patterns, discussed later, expose control-specific properties.
If a UI Automation provider does not implement a property, UI Automation is able to supply a default value for that property.
UI Automation properties are read-only. To set properties of a control, you must use the methods of the appropriate control pattern; for example, use the IScrollProvider::Scroll method to change the position values of a scrolling window.
To improve performance, you can cache property values of controls and control patterns when you retrieve elements.
Some generic properties, and all control pattern properties, are available as properties on the IUIAutomationElement interface or control pattern interface, and you can retrieve them with accessor methods.
When using the generic accessors, you must specify properties with the property identifiers defined in UIAutomationClient.h. You use them to specify properties when retrieving property values, constructing property conditions, and subscribing to property-changed events.
If a UI Automation provider does not implement a property, UI Automation is able to supply a default value for that property. For example, if the provider does not support the property identified by UIA_IsDockPatternAvailablePropertyId, UI Automation returns FALSE.
Control patterns complement properties. Control patterns are collections of associated properties, events, and methods that describe an element. More than one pattern can apply to a single element.
A control pattern represents a collected group of capabilities. The pattern might be something simple like the Invoke pattern, which lets clients invoke a control. In contrast, the more complicated Value pattern supports getting and setting a control’s value, and then checking whether the value is read-only.
You can obtain a control pattern by calling the IUIAutomationElement::GetCurrentPattern or IUIAutomationElement::GetCurrentPatternAs method, or their cached versions. Once you get a control pattern interface, use it as you would the element itself, either by directly calling control pattern methods or by accessing control pattern properties.
The TurnItUp method in Listing 2 uses the RangeValue pattern to set a control (such as a volume slider) to its maximum value.
In addition to checking for errors when getting the current pattern, this example also checks for NULL because NULL is a valid return value when a control does not support the pattern requested.
While a control type is mechanically a simple enumeration property, on a conceptual level it is much more important. An element’s control type is a broad classification of the control, such as button, window, or list box. Each control type has certain expected control patterns. For example, a button control should support either the Invoke pattern or the Toggle pattern, and a hyperlink should support the Invoke Pattern and possibly the Value pattern.
Some controls have conditional support for several control patterns. For example, the menu item control has conditional support for the Invoke, Expand Collapse, Toggle, and SelectionItem control patterns, depending on the menu item control’s function within the menu control.
Searching and Navigation
There are two major ways of getting to elements. The first is to use a Find method, which lets the UI Automation core minimize cross-process calls and improve searching time. The second is to use a tree walker to walk a UI tree.
Using Find Methods
The Find methods require three things: a parent element, a scope to search on, and (most importantly) a condition to search for.
You create conditions by calling various APIs on the CUIAutomation object. You can create simple Property conditions, or combine them with And, Or, and Not operators to produce more complex conditions.
Once you create a condition, you need to specify the element to start searching from and the search scope. The element you want to start from is the element on which you call the FindFirst or FindAll method. The search scope is typically one of three choices: the element itself, its children, or its descendants.
You usually want to limit search scope as much as possible to improve performance and to reduce the chance of finding an element you weren’t looking for.
Listing 3 is a simple example of searching for a named application window using FindFirst methods. In the example, the search condition (a particular name) is quite simple. However, conditions can be considerably more complex.
Using Tree Walkers
Another method for navigating through the tree is the use of tree walkers. Tree walkers allow use of direct-navigation methods such as moving between parent, child, and sibling to walk through a filtered view of the tree. There are several built-in filtered views:
- Raw or unfiltered, which shows all elements.
- Control view (the default), which filters out elements that either are redundant or are just used for layout.
- Content view, which filters controls even more selectively than Control view does.
Users can also create their own custom views with Conditions.
The following simple example shows how to walk to the first child of the control referenced by pElement:// Get the control view walker
IUIAutomationTreeWalker * pWalk;
// Go to the element's first child
IUIAutomationElement * pFirst;
UI Automation and Threading
Because of the way UI Automation uses Windows messages, conflicts can occur when a client application attempts to interact with its own UI on the UI thread. These conflicts can lead to very slow performance or even cause the application to stop responding.
If you intend your client application to interact with all elements on the desktop-including its own UI-you should make all UI Automation calls on a separate thread. This recommendation also applies when your application locates elements and uses control patterns.
It is safe to make UI Automation calls within a UI Automation event handler because the event handler is never called on a UI thread. However, when subscribing to events that may originate from your client application's UI, you must make the call on a non-UI thread. Remove event handlers on the same thread. | <urn:uuid:9803d8f7-b071-48e2-9feb-78c75f88dcba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.code-magazine.com/article.aspx?quickid=0810122&page=2 | 2013-05-24T18:22:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704943681/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114903-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.852468 | 1,311 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
When I finished all three of the Beach Towel Quilts, I had this lovely little pile of jelly roll ends just begging to be used.
So, I squared them all up to 2 1/2" (that's 33 little squares) and then stared at them for a while. Finally, I decided that I wanted something that would reflect the three quilts I'd finished.
I sewed them into three strips that reflected the Beach Blanket Quilts exactly (ignore my toes peeking through in the pic!). Then I gave them a good ironing.
Then I cut four strips of white fabric 6" x 22 1/2" each. Beginning white a white strip, I sewed them together alternating between white and the colour strips, keeping the orange/red one in the middle as that seemed to balance better. I ironed all seams towards the colour strips.
Simple, quick and certainly complements the big quilts! I put together a backing that alternated white and very dark purple and layered, basted and quilted it (straight lines only!). | <urn:uuid:fc0f3427-6c10-4ca4-ab40-044cbcbed489> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.craftyneo.com/2011/07/mini-beach-towel-quilt.html | 2013-05-24T18:28:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704943681/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114903-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965559 | 220 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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The last week of term past quickly. And before they knew it they were on their way to Hogsmeade station. They boarded the train and the journey past quietly and uneventfully. When they arrived at Kings Cross Hermione had barely stepped off the train when she was pulled into a tight hug.
"Hello," George said cheerfully as he took her trunk and headed towards Mrs. Weasley who was chatting happily to Mrs. Granger.
George lay the trunk down on the trolley which Hermione's mum had by her side before hugging Hermione again.
"Guess what?" he asked her.
"What?" Hermione asked suspiciously.
"You get two Christmas' this year!"
"What do you mean?" she asked curiously.
"I mean, your mother very kindly invited us all round for Boxing Day so we can give you your presents then and you can give us ours!" he grinned.
"Really?" Hermione pulled away from George to address her mum.
"Of course dear," she smiled warmly.
"I'll see you then I guess," Hermione grinned and hugged George, Ginny, Harry, Ron and Mrs. Weasley before leaving with her mother.
Spending time with her family was great for Hermione but the excitement constantly building inside of her was leading up to Boxing Day.
As the days flew by Boxing Day finally arrived. Hermione was literally buzzing and the second she'd eaten breakfast she was in her room getting ready. She put on a deep blue strapless dress which had a silver ribbon across the waist and fell just below her knee. She brushed her hair, which she'd tamed into glossy ringlets, before sitting down on her bed to read 'Hogwarts: A History' her favourite book.
"Hey 'Mione, can I borrow your hair dryer?" asked her cousin Layla.
"Sure Lays, it's on the dresser," she said not looking up.
"What are you reading now?" she asked.
Hermione's eyes widened and she quickly covered the book under the blanket on her bed. "N-Nothing," she stammered.
"You've become oddly secretive since you started at that boarding school. You used to tell me everything, you never write anymore either!" Layla pointed out.
"It's really busy at school and I don't often get a chance, but I don't know your address either so I can't exactly send a letter."
"True," she shrugged. "So who is it that's visiting today?"
"My other family," Hermione smiled. "Friends from school and their parents."
"Right and which one do you have a crush on?"
"George huh? Is he cute?" she asked.
"H-how did you know?"
"You are literally bursting with excitement!" Layla pointed out. "I may not see you often but I know you Hermione and you're not usually this excited."
Right," Hermione sighed. "In other words I'm completely obvious about everything."
"Yes," she laughed and they talked for a short while and Hermione explained all about her friends. "Anyways you didn't answer me- is he cute?"
Hermione laughed and blushed. "Yes he is and he's funny and smart and caring and considerate and..." Hermione stopped as the noise from downstairs escalated.
"They're here!" Hermione leapt up from her bed glanced in at her reflection in the mirror and bounded downstairs dragging Layla with her.
"Hermione!" Ginny exclaimed upon seeing her. "You look great!"
"Thanks Gin! You too," Hermione smiled. "This is my cousin Layla."
Ginny hugged Hermione as she reached the bottom of the stairs. "Nice to meet you, I'm Ginny," she said with a smile towards her cousin.
"You too," she smiled.
Hermione went around introducing Layla and greeting the Weasleys.
"Hey Granger, you forgot to greet the two most important people here," Fred called across the room to her where she was chatting with Harry, Ron and Ginny.
"No Fred, Harry and Ron are right here," she teased.
"Whatever Hermione," he chuckled.
Hermione grabbed Layla's wrist and dragged her over to the twins. "And these two are the twins: Fred and George."
"Hi, I'm Layla," she smiled.
"Fred," George said.
"George," Fred said.
"Or I might be George," George said.
"And I might be Fred," Fred grinned.
"But you will never know," they said in unison.
Hermione rolled her eyes. "In other words that one is Fred and this one is George."
"And this one is the only person on earth that can always tell us apart," George smiled and hugged Hermione who returned the hug.
"Nice to meet you," he said to Layla after pulling away from Hermione.
"You too," she offered him her hand to shake.
George laughed. "Oh come on we're all friends here," he grinned and hugged her.
Layla looked to Hermione for help but she just laughed and smiled at her. "You people are a friendly bunch."
Fred shrugged. "You get used to it."
"I didn't think this house could hold so many people," Hermione said.
"I would have come alone if we couldn't all fit," George told her.
Hermione smiled up at him. "Presents?"
"Presents," he agreed.
Everyone gathered around and the Weasley's having exchanged presents the day before between themselves ended up with a present each from Hermione but Hermione had presents from everyone. Most people had opted for the obvious and bought her books like Harry, Ron and Fred. Then Ginny had bought her a pair of boots and a matching bag and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley had given her homemade sweets and a Weasley jumper as usual. She opened her last present which was a very carefully wrapped, small, golden box with a tag attached to it. 'Merry Christmas 'Mione, love always George xxx' She looked up at him across the room and found he was watching her intently. Upon catching his eye he grinned.
He shook his head at her. "Not now," he mouthed at her across the room.
She looked at him curiously, raising an eyebrow at him across the room. He got up and sat beside her. "Not here," he whispered resting a hand on the present.
"Why?" she asked quietly glancing around. Her cousin sitting to her left was watching the pair with increasing interest.
"Magic," he answered lowering his voice and glancing at Layla who looked away pretending to be once again interested in her very own Weasley jumper.
After dinner George called Hermione out of the living room.
"I want you to open it whilst I'm here," he told her pushing the gift into her hand. "Not here though...where's your room?"
Hermione took his hand and lead him up the stairs. She pushed open the door to her room and sat on her bed. He paused- taking in his surroundings before sitting beside her.
"Nice room," he grinned.
The walls were a welcoming scarlet colour and they were covered in posters which all appeared to be of Muggle things. There was a large bookshelf along one wall and more books stacked beside it.
"Thanks," she smiled. "Can I open it?"
"No I'm going to make you sit and stare at it," he said sarcastically.
She laughed. "I was just checking." She opened it carefully unwrapping it and removing the lid from the box. As she three boxes sprung out of it resting perfectly around the original box. All the boxes were the exact same size as the box she had initially unwrapped. She glanced at George who simply smiled at her. She opened the first box and a crystal vase revealed itself, it was filled with a dozen red roses.
"George they're beautiful," she breathed.
"They'll never die," he told her. "So that you can keep them forever as a memory and a reminder of how much I care for you."
"Thank you so much," she said and hugged him.
"Hey hug me at the end- you've still got two more to open," he said.
She nodded and opened the next box. It was a pair of lilac, heart-shaped crystal earrings. "They match my necklace," she said as she gazed at them and her fingers brushed the pendant that George had bought her for the previous Christmas.
"That's not a co-incidence," George smiled and watched her remove her hoops and put in the new earrings.
She opened the final present and found a locket. It was gold and heart-shaped and she opened it to reveal a picture of herself on one half of the locket and a picture of him on the other. Her fingers felt numb as she grasped it and she turned it over in her hand to see a message engraved on the back. 'With love, George xxx'
Tears streamed down her face as she fumbled with the clasp in an attempt to put it on. George's warm, steady hands held her shaky one's and fastened the chain around her neck.
"George you are so thoughtful and sweet but you- you shouldn't have spent so much money on me. George having you in my life is a gift and blessing in its self I can't believe you did all of this!" she said softly as she wrapped her arms around him.
"You're worth it Hermione," he told her. "I just wanted to give you some stuff that can always be with you even when I can't be. To remind you how much I adore you and how much I care for you. So that whenever you feel alone you still know that I will always be with you," he said sincerely.
"George," her voice came light and soft. "There is nothing in this world that could make me forget how much I can trust you- how much I can depend on you and I will always be thankful for that. I will always appreciate having such an amazing friend and I just I want you to know that no matter what I will be here for you. I mean I don't know what the future holds even though I have hopes for it there's no way of me knowing but I know that you will be part of my future. I don't know how or in what way but you will always be a part of my life and just a part of me."
"George time to go home," Mrs. Weasley called.
He closed his eyes clearly feeling very torn. "I guess I should be going," he sighed.
"Yeah," Hermione agreed and stood up to hug him. She rested her hand on the side of his face kissing his cheek.
"I'm going to miss you," he breathed.
"I will miss you too," she smiled and he took one of her hands in his and kissed the back of it softly.
"Oh wait," he said as he remembered something. "I never opened it," he muttered pulling out the present Hermione had given him. He unwrapped it to find a photo frame with a picture of the both of them from Christmas day last year. It showed them beneath the mistletoe and the short clip in which George kissed her cheek and transfigured the mistletoe into a rose and given it to her.
"Wow..." he smiled at it."How...?"
"Ginny got out her camera to film a kiss but this is what she got instead and when I saw it- I just had to do this," she smiled at him.
"Hermione I love it really," he grinned and examined the frame closely. The frame itself was dusted with glitter and it changed colour, melting slowly into a new shade every few seconds. Etched into the bottom of the frame was a short message 'All my love, always. Hermione xxx'
"Thanks for everything George," she smiled hugging him again.
"You're welcome. Thank you as well," he grinned returning the hug.
She said goodbye to the rest of the Weasley's and to Harry before giving George a final hug.
After everyone had left Hermione helped clean up.
"He's a lovely young man, darling," said Mr. Granger.
"Sorry Dad?" Hermione asked.
"George, he's a real gentlemen."
Hermione almost choked on air. "Excuse me?"
"Well it's just that if there's someone you'd like to be with we're glad it's a nice boy who will treat you well," her mum said as she joined the conversation.
"Yeah you were right 'Mione he is cute," Layla said.
"Ahh I'm so not having this conversation," she laughed and ran upstairs.
"Mione?" Layla's voice floated through the door.
"Doors open," she called back.
"So what did he get you?" she asked excitedly.
Hermione gestured to the items sat on her bed.
"He bought you roses? And earrings? And a...a locket with pictures of you in it? I've never known anybody to be so romantic he must really like you!"
"And I really like him..." Hermione sighed. "No I love him with all my heart. I just can't tell him because I'm afraid of it not working...he means too much to me. He means too much to me for me to risk having him in my life..." she admitted.
"Whoa...you’re serious about him?" Layla asked.
"I want to spend the rest of my life with him Lays... I can't picture myself with anyone else," she told her.
"Oh 'Mione you're only sixteen how can you possibly know that?" she asked her.
"Because the thought of being with someone else hurts me. Because being away from him hurts me. Because I've never felt this way about anyone else."
Layla nodded. "Then what are you waiting for?"
"I don't know- I guess I'm just afraid it won't work out..." she trailed off.
"Girls lights out in five," Mrs. Granger called.
"You'll never know unless you try."
"I suppose," Hermione sighed.
That night Hermione's thoughts and dreams were filled with images of George. She had been so touched by his gifts and after he'd given them to her he'd been prepared to finally tell her. Why were they always interrupted? Were they really not supposed to be together? Or was it just that they weren't supposed to be together yet...?
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As English learners , what is the English word that took alot of time and effort from you to pronounce it correctly.For me, I had a lot of words which I have the habit to call them " Naughty words" .An Example of them is " suggestion" . What about you ? What is your NAUGHTY word in English . Thanks :)
i would say"heterogeneity"
there are three consecutive schwa
I have not thought about it yet.
( World ).... I don't know how to pronounce the r then l clearly.
I'm not sure but I think you can pronounce it without the th as (muns) .
The samething for (clothes) you can say ( close)
The words of Woman and women or building are hard to pronunce for me.
Could you explain what syllables or sounds you have found a difficulty in pronouncing them in those words ?
While I'm speaking to pronounce "wo" and "uil" sounds are difficult to me. My mouth and tounge couldn't give me an easy way to pronounce this sounds.
three and tree , car and card , and very word like this
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“God Will Get You Through”
A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me.”So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?” So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about.” Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’?Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy. When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
(John 16:16–24 ESV)
Every time we read John 13-17, we can come away with a new-found appreciation for the depth of emotion that was being experienced by the disciples in those final moments before Jesus' arrest. Now at the end Jesus tries, in the best way possible, to comfort the disciples and prepare them emotionally for what is about to happen. They were about to experience the most incredible low - as Jesus would be crucified. But yet, as they endured the pain - there was hope. Beyond the dark events ahead of them, there would be times of joy. Today, if you are experiencing rough times, filled with worry and anxiety - know that what you are experiencing is only temporary. Know that because of your relationship in Christ, that He is with you all the way. You are never alone. God will get you through. Do you trust Him? | <urn:uuid:c113771f-ff4b-4481-85a2-2e5cf92be9d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ketteringchurch.com/resources/minute-in-the-word/2011/11/07/god-will-get-you-through | 2013-05-24T18:43:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704943681/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114903-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983812 | 547 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak's fragile health and the rifts in his party are two key reasons why Kedah is likely to go along with the general election.
Joceline Tan, The Star
DATUK Seri Azizan Abdul Razak has been faithfully chairing the weekly state exco meetings since his discharge from the hospital a fortnight ago.
The Kedah Mentri Besar is also quite amused to find that the media entourage waiting for him after each Wednesday's meeting has been bigger than usual. He knows they are there not to ask about current issues but to have a close-up look at him and to assess his health situation.
His health is still a matter of much speculation mainly because there has been few details from his office.
Reporters have noticed that he is still on what looks like an “invalid's diet”. While the other exco members at the meeting ate nasi lemak and kuih, Azizan had rice porridge with bits of fish, a sprinkling of chives and a dash of soya source.
The other thing was that whereas the post-exco press conferences used to be quickie affairs held in the lobby area, reporters are now ushered into the meeting room. Azizan said it would be more comfortable for the reporters to take down notes sitting down. But reporters suspect it is because the Mentri Besar's aides think he is not strong enough to stand and they prefer him seated.
Yesterday, Azizan had his most gruelling assignment. He spent three hours at Kolej Universiti Insaniah in Kuala Ketil where he also delivered a speech. But he did not really mind because the tertiary institution is his pet project. It was quite a grand affair, attended by the leading members of the Kedah royalty, including the King who is also the Sultan of Kedah.
Azizan is on the road to recovery. The concern of PAS leaders is whether he will recover in time for the general election.
The party has resigned itself to the fact that they will have to go with Azizan regardless of the state of his health. He had made it very plain that he does not intend to step aside nor is he keen to give way to an acting mentri besar. He saw how Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid took over from Datuk Seri Syed Razak Syed Zain after only three months as the acting mentri besar.
Azizan intends to go the full term. This is now the scenario in Kedah.
Azizan's administration, unlike his counterpart in Kelantan, has been non-committal about whether the state will go along with the general election or go solo like Selangor. He said he was still mulling about the option and would decide depending on when the election is called.
But few expect Kedah to go it alone, particularly not with the question mark over Azizan's health and given the rifts in the party caused by a botched attempt to oust him last year.
Moreover, the battle in Kedah will be largely a Malay fight. Malays make up 71% of the population in Kedah and PAS knows better than to take on the Umno machinery in a stand-alone election.
His aides have been rather touchy about photographers taking pictures of their boss. Shortly after Azizan reported for work, he was a little unsteady on his feet and had to be helped around. Press photographers were not allowed to take pictures of him holding on to his aides as he moved around.
One photographer who had waited outside the Mentri Besar's house, hoping for a picture of him leaving for the office after his hospital stay, was shooed away by a young bodyguard.
Azizan is a quick-witted man and has quite a sharp tongue but he has been in a more mellow mood following his illness. At the end of his first exco meeting, the first question was about his health. He flashed his laconic smile and told everyone they had eyes and they could see for themselves whether he looked well or otherwise.
Then, in his usual wit, he added: “I can still marry another one, don't put anyone eligible in front of me.”
He was also aware that the pressure to appoint an acting mentri besar was now coming from outside the party, from people hoping to capitalise on his state of health. He told one reporter that these people should not “press their nose on other people's window”; it was his way of saying that they should mind their own business.
Besides, he added, Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat has had a history of poor health and is often in and out of hospital, yet there is no pressure for him to step aside.
Anyway, speculation has now shifted to who will succeed him as Mentri Besar after the general election.
The money is on state exco member Datuk Amiruddin Hamzah, a handsome engineer who has become Azizan's staunchest ally in the wake of last year's attempted coup. Although Datuk Taulan Mat Rasul is the second most senior state exco member after Azizan, he is older than Azizan and appointing him would not be seen as a succession.
Datuk Phahrolrazi Mohd Zawawi had been the early front-runner but his role in the failed coup had put him in Azizan's black books. Some are not sure whether Azizan will even retain him as a candidate.
People noticed that at the luncheon in conjunction with Kolej Universiti Insaniah convocation, Phahrolrazi was not at the VVIP table with the King who is said to enjoy playing golf with Phahrolrazi.
Azizan has said several times that he will lead the state as well as defend his Sungai Limau seat in the general election. But insiders say he is aware that he cannot go on as Mentri Besar after the polls and already has a candidate in mind.
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A former employee of the National Restaurant Association on Monday said Herman Cain groped her 14 years ago during an unwanted sexual advance, becoming the fourth woman to accuse the presidential candidate of sexual misconduct and the first to publicly identify herself.
Cain angrily denied the charges, but called a news conference for Tuesday afternoon in Phoenix to address them -- a sign that he believes he needs to speak in more detail about the allegations to try to prevent further damage to his campaign.
Speaking at a press conference in New York City and flanked by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, Sharon Bialek, a Chicago resident who worked for the NRA from 1996 to 1997, said Cain suddenly reached out and grabbed her after drinks and dinner in Washington D.C. in the summer of 1997. She had left her association job in Chicago, Bialek said, and had traveled to Washington to meet with Cain to ask him for help finding a new job. It was then, she alleged, Cain attempted to force her into a sexual favor in exchange for a job while the two were in a parked car.
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“I was very, very surprised and very shocked,” Bialek said, recounting in detail the aggressive sexual overture. She said she decided to come forward after three other women who worked for the trade group alleged that Cain sexually harassed them on the job. “Mr. Cain, I implore you. Make this right,” Bialek said.
Bialek is the fourth woman to accuse Cain of sexual misconduct, after reports surfaced last week that three subordinates claimed he sexually harassed them when he was the top executive of the NRA from 1996 to 1999. Those women have chosen to remain anonymous, and Bialek’s description is by far the most explicit accusation to date.
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As he has with the prior accusations, Cain on Monday denied any wrongdoing. In a statement, his campaign highlighted the involvement of Allred, an attorney who has represented many celebrities and supported feminist causes, and called the accusations a distraction.
“All allegations of harassment against Mr. Cain are completely false. Mr. Cain has never harassed anyone,” the statement said. “Fortunately the American people will not allow Mr. Cain’s bold 9-9-9 plan, clear foreign policy vision and plans for energy independence to be overshadowed by these bogus attacks.”
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After being introduced by Allred at a packed press conference, Bialek described her job as a manager with the NRA’s educational foundation, which provided help for high school students interested in restaurant careers. She met Cain at the trade group’s annual convention in Chicago, and chatted with him over the course of dinners and a luncheon, where he was seated next to her.
Bialek, a college graduate and today a single mother of a 13 year-old son, said that when she later lost her job at the foundation, she called Cain to see if he could help her find another position with the NRA or with another employer. She set up a meeting with him in Washington, where the trade group is headquartered.
On the evening she arrived, she had drinks and dinner with Cain, who also told her in the course of the evening that he had taken the liberty of upgrading her room at a Hilton hotel to a suite. After dinner, Cain offered to show Bialek the NRA’s headquarters, but on the way there, he pulled the car over and parked, she said. | <urn:uuid:38c16926-be83-49e9-808d-287a99f262c9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/fourth-woman-accuses-cain-of-sexual-harassment-20111107?page=1 | 2013-05-24T18:42:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704943681/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114903-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980538 | 747 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
(NaturalNews) When a newborn baby takes her first breath she is already contaminated with a range of chemicals... this is the finding in the latest compelling research conducted by several leading authorities in the field of health and wellbeing. Raising awareness of toxic chemicals present in our everyday environment (food additives, personal care products, cleaning products etc.) and having the understanding that these chemicals, in most cases, are absorbed directly into the blood supply is fundamental to the health and wellbeing of our children and future generations. Most shocking from these latest findings is the fact that some of the chemicals found in newborn cord blood were banned decades ago!
The following points are a summary from author Dr. Sarah Lantz in Chemical Free KidsWhat's inside a newborn's body?
* Non-stick chemicals and flame-retardants
* Artificial musks used in cosmetics and cleaning products
* Non stick and water-proof coatings
* Cleaning fluids
* Tin can linings
* Chemicals from baby bottles
* Banned, yet persistent, pesticides such as DDT
[World Wildlife Fund (WWF) U.K., A Present for Life: hazardous chemicals in cord blood; The Environmental Working Group's report, Body Burden -- The Pollution in Newborns; WHO, 2002]How do they get in there?
* Umbilical cord
* Placenta (a semi-permeable membrane, which passes many chemicals. Many soluble chemicals will cross the placenta very quickly. There's no such thing as a 'placental barrier' that so many people assume)
* Breast milk (in addition to its nutritional and immunological properties, research continues to reveal a full range of toxins and contaminants in breast milk, including the presence of suspected carcinogens especially fat-seeking, chlorinated organics (a large class of chemicals
including vinyl chloride, PCBs, and chlorinated solvents, insecticides, pesticides and herbicides)WWF Research
Blood tests taken from the umbilical cords of 30 newborn babies and from more than 40 new mothers were analysed for the presence of eight groups of chemicals. Every single sample of mother or baby blood
tested positive for an array of chemicals, many of which are suspected of links to health problems ranging from birth defects and genital abnormalities to certain types of cancer. All umbilical cords contained a minimum of five of the 35 chemicals tested for, some contained as many as 14. Two of the mothers tested had 17 of the 35 chemicals in their blood.
[World Wildlife Fund (WWF) U.K., A Present for Life: hazardous chemicals in cord blood]Environmental Working Group (EWG) Research
EWG research found an average of 200 industrial chemicals and pollutants in umbilical cord blood from 10 babies born in August and September of 2004 in U.S. hospitals. The umbilical cord blood of these children harboured pesticides, consumer product ingredients, and wastes from burning coal, gasoline, and garbage. Of the 287 chemicals detected in the umbilical cord blood, 180 cause cancer in humans or animals, 217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 208 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests
[The Environmental Working Group's report, Body Burden -- The Pollution in Newborns]What makes children particularly vulnerable to chemicals?
* lower body weight
* lower metabolic rates
* few detoxing enzymes
* a blood brain barrier that is not yet fully matured
* they eat 3-4 times more food in proportion to their body size than adults, and therefore ingest more chemicals per unit of body mass
* drink as much as seven times more water than an average adult
* children breathe more than adults per kilo of body weight
* the skin of children is also more permeable than adult skin.
[Dr. Sarah Lantz - Chemical Free Kids; LifeSuccess Publishing]
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How to Beat Georgia Tech, Steps 1-4
By Paul Myerberg // Nov 11, 2011
Georgia Tech’s approach to the option differs from the approach once espoused by Nebraska, back when the Cornhuskers were running roughshod over all comers under Tom Osborne. Way back when, Nebraska won games before kickoff: opponents shuddered at the idea of simply playing the game, and when it came time to buckle up and meet between the white lines, well, the game was over before it even began. The Yellow Jackets do things differently, not intimidating opponents in the hours and minutes leading up to kickoff but with paper cuts: little nicks and bruises, cut blocks and play-action, all designed to frustrate you to no end.
It often works. Ask Clemson how it works; the Jackets simply wore down the Tigers, keeping their prolific offense along the sidelines while they picked and nipped away for 60 minutes in a 31-17 win. But the key to beating Georgia Tech’s option attack is fairly simple, believe it or not, even if Clemson believes otherwise:
Get stops on first down. Georgia Tech hasn’t attempted a single pass all season when needing between one and three yards on third down. Georgia Tech doesn’t have to pass on such down and distances: the Jackets convert those at a ridiculous clip, and led the nation heading into last night with a third conversion rate of 57.6 percent. When facing third down and at least seven, however, the Jackets entered last night with rather unimpressive totals: 19 carries for 55 yards, 13 of 25 passing for 174 yards.
Don’t make things easier. No penalties, no turnovers, nothing that can give Tech an added advantage. Entering last night, the Jackets were 7-0 when committing the same number or fewer turnovers than the opposition; the Jackets were 0-2 when committing more turnovers than the opposition.
Control the football. Western Carolina won the time of possession battle, surprisingly. So did Kansas, perhaps more surprisingly. Neither made the Jackets work, however, which might explain how each lost by 42 points. But Virginia and Miami (Fla.) controlled the clock, forced Tech turnovers and limited their own: a simple plan for beating any team, but especially so against the Jackets.
Don’t give up. The most intangible key to victory doubles as the most vital. The Jackets aren’t bullies: they’re the fire ants to Nebraska’s elephant, picking away until you give up rather than crushing you under their massive weight. It’s easy to get discouraged, what with the cut blocks and drip-drip of the option, but maintaining focus for 60 minutes is positively vital.
So how did Virginia Tech beat Georgia Tech, 37-26, in Atlanta? The odds seemed somewhat against the Hokies: the game was on the road, in cold weather, against a team it has struggled with over the last half-decade. But with a strong finish and a taste of Georgia Tech’s own medicine, the Hokies virtually assured another trip to the A.C.C. title game.
The first down defense wasn’t perfect. But Virginia Tech held Georgia Tech to three yards or less on 13 first down plays, forcing the Jackets to work a little harder to extend drives. Georgia Tech averaged 3.5 yards per play on first down in the second half, and that total is aided greatly by a 29-yard run by Tevin Washington midway through the third quarter.
The Hokies were minus-one in turnovers, losing a David Wilson fumble deep in Georgia Tech in the third quarter. The Jackets turned that into a touchdown, reversing the field and the game, as a Virginia Tech touchdown would have given the Hokies a 28-19 lead. The Hokies also committed 6 penalties for 56 yards; the Jackets had 3 penalties for 35 yards.
Time of possession: a clear Virginia Tech victory. Here, in the running game, the Hokies took a page out of Georgia Tech’s playbook. In doing so, the Hokies controlled the tempo of the game. Logan Thomas attempted 13 passes, but he made them count: 209 yards, 16.1 yards per attempt, with three touchdowns. Overall, Virginia Tech rushed for 267 yards on 52 carries — Thomas had 70 yards, David Wilson 175 — while the Jackets rushed for 243 yards on 49 carries.
Most importantly, Virginia Tech kept its cool. The Hokies maintained their composure even after Wilson’s fumble resulted in a 14-point swing; what could have been a 28-21 lead turned into a 26-21 deficit. Several teams not just in 2011 but in the recent past have ripped their hair to shreds after falling victim to Georgia Tech’s ability to wear them down in the second half — taking a third quarter lead, for example, and playing keep-away until the final whistle.
Not so last night. The Hokies scored 16 unanswered points over the game’s final 16 minutes to turn that five-point deficit into a 37-26 win. It was done partly on first down, partly by limiting mistakes and partly by controlling the clock. Most vitally, however, Virginia Tech won with intangibles. It wasn’t the first time the Frank Beamer-led Hokies have done so.
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Ramona Country Fair Days starts Thursday
By Pixie Sulser
Ramona’s 41st annual Country Fair Days from Thursday through Sunday provides the community with the “traditional fair they have grown to love, complete with fair food and carnival rides,” said Jason DeLeo, Ramona Chamber of Commerce president and Country Fair Days chairman.
Admission to the fairgrounds at 421 Aqua Lane is free all four days, but there is a $5 parking fee with proceeds split among the nonprofit groups assisting with parking.
Gates open for the Country Fair, presented by Ramona Chamber of Commerce, from 5 to 11 p.m. on July 28 and 29. On Saturday, fair goers may enjoy the festivities from noon until 11 p.m. and on Sunday, July 31, from noon until 10 p.m.
“The fair will have all of things people look forward to every year,“ DeLeo said, “but what is really big this year is the
Ramona Idol. We have really stepped up the whole process.”
According to DeLeo, there has been a huge turnout of contestants at all of the auditions. During each tryout, aspiring singers from 5 years old and up sang for a Golden Ticket, which was their invitation to the main competition held during Ramona Country Fair Days. Contestants competed in one of four age categories: ages 5 to 10, 11 to 15, 16 to 20, or 21 and up. Each audition was judged by a panel of music professionals, including the CEO of a record company, said DeLeo.
“Part of our putting more emphasis on the Ramona Idol competition was having quality judges,” said DeLeo. “The judges were at each tryout, providing constructive criticism and suggestions for the singers.”
Approximately 12 Idol hopefuls from each age category were awarded a Golden Ticket, he said.
Those ticket holders begin their bid to be a Ramona Idol by performing in the quarterfinals starting at 6:15 p.m. on Thursday. Performers chosen to move on to the semifinals will strut their stuff on July 29 at 6:15 p.m., and the Ramona Idol finalists will heat up the stage on Saturday beginning at 6 p.m. A Ramona Idol will be named in each of the four age categories at the Awards Ceremony on Sunday.
The title of Ramona Idol is on the line as well as a host of other prizes including studio time, cash awards, a karaoke machine, gift certificates from local businesses, trophies and medals.
Throughout the four days a variety of homegrown talent will showcase their skills.
“Entertainment includes several local bands, past Ramona Idol winners, dance troupes, and martial arts groups,” said DeLeo. “There is something for everyone.”
- Four days of Country Fair fun
- Four days of family fun packed into Country Fair
- Ramona Junior Fair starts July 31
- Ramona Country Fair
- Ramona Idol Contest 2009: Keystone of Country Fair
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1929 Rogers Peet #47 Babe Ruth - PSA NM 7
Starting Bid - $500, Sold For - $1,763
Graded NM 7 by PSA. Extremely high grade example of this classic Babe Ruth card featuring an image of Ruth hitting a homer. This is one of the rarest multisport issues of the late 1920s. This series was a promotional vehicle for a chain of boys' clothing stores in the New York and Boston areas. Each boy visiting the store with a parent would receive a set of four cards to be stored in a 14-page album specifically designed for this issue. Eight baseball players are included in the 44-card set and Babe Ruth is one of the key cards. Other sports featured in the set include football, hockey, golf, tennis, swimming, track, and aviation. Presented is an extremely high-grade Rogers Peet example of Ruth that is certainly one of his rarest cards. Perfectly clean, front and back, with a flawless image, four razor-sharp corners, snow-white borders, and a flawless reverse. Centered to the right (approximately 70/30 L/R). It is interesting to note that this card was produced with the same image as the 1932 Sanella Margarine card. Few cards of Ruth date from the 1920s. This outstanding high-grade Babe Ruth card, dating from the heart of the career of the great “Bambino," represents a remarkable value in comparison to gum cards of Ruth from the 1930s. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000/$2,000. SOLD FOR $1,763
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Ipswich — Wesley J. Evans, 21, of Washington Street., Ipswich, died Tuesday in the Beverly Hospital following his long illness.
Born in Denver, Colo., October 19, 1991, he was the son of Jon and Jo Evans of Ipswich. At a young age, Wes developed an amazing love for Denver and the beautiful Rocky Mountains and even though he moved to Ipswich with his family at the age of 4, annual summer trips to Colorado to visit his grandparents, aunt and uncle and cousins, only reinforced his love for Denver, the Colorado Rockies Baseball team, and for life in the mountains.
Wes graduated in 2010 from Ipswich High School. While being on the Honor Roll throughout his high school years, Wes played varsity soccer, varsity golf, swam on the swim team and played baseball. His real love in high school was woodworking and during his senior year he crafted two guitars. In addition, he worked as a teaching assistant for the adventure classes. Upon getting his driver's license, Wes could be seen all over town in his blue Jeep Wrangler.
Wes loved God and his church, First Presbyterian Church in Ipswich. He served God by using his musical talents. He loved playing guitar in the praise band. He also was very active in the youth program and went on several Mission Trips to Jackson, Miss., to learn about racial reconciliation and to serve and work in the inner city.
As Wes started to look beyond high school, Colorado and the beautiful outdoors was the obvious choice. He got a summer job with Noah's Ark Rafting Co. where he served on the land crew, and then he enrolled in Colorado Mtn. College where he was pursuing a degree in Outdoor Education and Wilderness Safety and Rescue. He loved hiking, climbing, camping, fishing and mountain biking.
Wes had an infectious love for life that was easily caught by anyone who was around him. Never one to sit around and be bored, he always found adventure and someone to do adventures with.
In addition to his parents he is survived by a sister, Shelby Evans of Ipswich; his grandparents, Jim and Lola Reffel of Denver, Colo.; grandmother Beverly Evans of Rochester, N.Y.; Doug and Cheryl Coleman of Littleton, Colo.; and his cousins Jonathan Doehling and Jake, Kim and Maddie Hemelstrand.
ARRANGEMENTS: A time of visitation will be held 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 15, in the First Presbyterian Church North Shore, 179 County Rd. (Rt. 1A), Ipswich, followed by a Memorial Service in the church at 11 a.m. on Saturday. Family, friends and Nurses are respectfully welcomed. A committal service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday graveside in the New Highland Cemetery, Town Farm Road, Ipswich. Arrangements are under the direction of the Whittier-Porter Funeral Home of Ipswich. Memorial contributions in his name may be made to Summer's Best Two Weeks, 111 Lake Gloria Rd., Boswell, PA 15531. To leave a condolence please visit www.whittierporter.com. | <urn:uuid:48f26a0d-7b1a-4e53-943d-a730c3788e9b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.salemnews.com/obituaries/x1221089476/Wesley-J-Evans-21 | 2013-05-24T18:14:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704943681/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114903-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981753 | 653 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
These two motherless babies were at PAWS Sunday for a few hours.
Shelter Kittens are lovingly fostered in homes until they are older.
When they come back in a month or so, they’ll be well socialized and ready for adoption.
Have you held a kitten lately? A miniature miracle in your two hands, with a purr out of all proportion to its size.
Capable of revving up from sleep to extreme action in a second’s time.
Morgan and Emily are waiting at PAWS.
It’s the start of a long happy love affair for some fortunate family.
Adopted! Morgan and Emily have gone home.
Fendi, Vuitton, and Ferragamo are back at the shelter and available for adoption. They were fostered by PAWS volunteer Cheryl with their momcat Givenchy and two other kittens (Hermes and Dior have already been adopted).
They’ve been well loved and are very affectionate and playful. Cheryl had her hands full, but she did a great job socializing them.
This is Fendi, she and her brother Vuitton are polydactyl.
Heard in the Kitten Room:
“They untied my shoelaces again.”
“Ut oh, there are four kittens in this cage. Now I only see three. What’s that noise in the trash can?”
“Argh! He climbed up my leg!”
“Oh no. I just cleaned that cage. They dumped the litter box all over!”
“Look out! There’s one right behind you.”
PAWS has many beautiful kittens available for adoption.
Two years ago this week, we took delivery on a 11 week old kitten that we were supposed to foster for PAWS until the shelter had room for him. He had been living in the woods along the edge of the city’s dog park.
It wasn’t long before we realized that he wasn’t a temporary visitor- he was family. It took a bit longer to convince Tommie and Ms Grace Lillian! Happy Gotcha day, Mickey!
Now that Loreen and Krystal have been adopted, I was very curious to see who moved into their old room at the shelter.
The new residents are a mother and daughter. Meet four month old Daisy.
And her one year old mother Dolly.
Little Daisy was very busy exploring the room while Mom kept a watchful eye on her baby.
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Thx for the comments, the monitor is a good one and if i could get hold of 2 more i would but as mentioned they don't make em anymore so i have been looking at going down the 30" 2560x1600 route.
I would love to go eyefinity or 2560x1600, but both too expensive.
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It could have been called "Clam House."
Also considered were "C-Section," "Shade House," and "PHNOSS," which stands for "Passive House New Orleans Shotgun Style."
Today, despite the agreed-upon and somewhat pedestrian moniker of "Low Cost/Low Energy House," this design by local good guys Sustainable.TO can also be called No. 1 with a Bullet. Announced last month, the young firm-with the experienced "green" hands of principal Paul Dowsett at the helm-was awarded first place in an international competition hosted by websites DesignByMany.com and ArchDaily.com.
The task was to design an inexpensive single-family dwelling for residents of New Orleans' hardest-hit Lower Ninth Ward. In addition to being cheap to build and conforming to post-Katrina building codes (which states that houses be raised five or more feet above grade, among other things), the home would also conform to the Passive House Standard, "the world's most rigorous building energy standard" according to the DesignByMany website. This meant that it would be airtight, super-insulated, contain no thermal bridging (i.e. exterior building materials cannot transfer heat or cold into interior spaces), and harness the free power of the sun.
It should also use the vernacular "shotgun" form, built from the Civil War era to the 1920s: A long, narrow, corridor-less floor plan with doorways that line up in such a way that "when you open the front door and you open all the doors to the other rooms, you could fire a shotgun through the house and not hit anybody," says Mr. Dowsett with a chuckle.
Oh, and do all of this in just two weeks: "It was a very short time frame," agrees the 49-year-old, LEED-accredited architect. So, after a Friday briefing where the competition guidelines, shotgun typology and the New Orleans climate were explained (Mr. Dowsett has spent a lot of time in New Orleans), the five-person staff was sent home to doodle out ideas.
Back at Sustainable's Leslieville offices on the Monday, the team presented their ideas, and the best of each were incorporated into a "mash-up" design. "And every step along the way from that point forward was just a process of simplifying and simplifying … we as a group agreed that the winning entry was likely to be one of the most simple."
And it is simple, but brilliantly so: The gently pitched roof, north wall and floor combine to form a "C" shape. Cradled underneath the deep overhangs of this Galvalume-clad C (self-venting, corrugated Galvalume not only lasts a half-century, it reflects heat away) is a cypress-clad box with a three-sided porch. On the south, the porch is faced with a series of sliding panels, which when used in conjunction with the various sliding doors in the living/dining space of the home's mid-section, incredible seasonal adaptability is achieved. To give the shotgun model a modern twist, bedrooms have been placed on either end of the floor plan.
Instead of raising the home the standard five feet, the team raised it to seven so "you could drive a car under there, have storage under there [and]have shaded outdoor living space … because, in New Orleans, as long as you're in the shade, there are some temperate periods that are really nice," says Mr. Dowsett.
A radiant concrete floor helps with heating during inclement periods - both active heat from the imbedded tubes and passive heat from concrete's ability to trap the sun's rays - and with cooling in summer, since when shaded by the roof overhang the concrete stays cool, which in turn keeps bare homeowner feet refreshed.
"We relied on using design first to solve problems, and the simplest technology we could find second," Mr. Dowsett explains. This highly considered yet simple approach resulted in the surprise grand prize announcement a few weeks later: "We were thrilled, there's no other way to put it."
Unfortunately, that thrill might not carry over to watching their design get built, since that's not a promise of competition organizers. However, with the endorsement of the Canadian Passive House Institute (CanPHI), the networking power of the judging panel (which included a University of Louisiana architecture professor and a co-founder of the Passive House Institute United States), and the fact that the design was showcased at the American Institute of Architects' 2011 National Convention last month, it's not a stretch to suggest that Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation might decide to make it real; since the Toronto-based television personality Mike Holmes has been involved with Mr. Pitt for some years now, there is, perhaps, an even greater chance.
In any case, it couldn't have happened to a nicer firm. I've been following Mr. Dowsett's career with interest since 2006, when I toured an off-grid, straw-bale, Modernist home he designed southwest of Peterborough. In addition to the innovative projects I've seen (and covered here) since, what has also impressed me is Mr. Dowsett's continuing advocacy of green practices and his mentorship program for architecture students.
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Clarence and Irene Stull of Ashland will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006. Clarence M. Stull and Irene G. Knowlton were married Aug. 31, 1946, at the Methodist church in Greenup, Ky., with the Rev. White Performing the ceremony. They have three children: Rick L. (Vickie) Stull of Wooster, Terry L. (Catherine) Stull of Virginia and Jill J. (Michael) Galbraith of Loudonville. The couple also has eight grandchildren living with two deceased and 10n great-grandchildren. Mr. Stull is a World War II veteran retired from U-Brand Corp. Mrs. Stull is retired from Cresco Manufacturing. Both have been lifelong residents of Ashland County. | <urn:uuid:e634bb14-d426-4ca1-b7f3-103f0f1761ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.times-gazette.com/lifestyle/2006/08/29/60th-wedding-anniversary-clarence-and-irene-stull | 2013-05-24T18:53:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704943681/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114903-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938192 | 169 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
2007: Year in review
July 3, 2008 · Updated 11:27 AM
Democrat John Dean took his seat as an Island County commissioner, having beat Bill Byrd in the election.
Ground was broken for construction of Wildcat Memorial Stadium.
The planned successor to the P-3 Orion at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station got its name: The P-A8 Poseidon, built by Boeing.
Former Sheriff Mike Hawley announced he would still be with the force, as a lieutenant at the North Whidbey precinct.
An Oak Harbor woman charged with voting for her daughter pleaded guilty to the charge of attempted voting absentee ballot unlawfully, and received 365 days in jail, all of which were suspended, and $2,217 in fines and fees.
Karen Gervais, 47, mother of two and a tireless advocate for Coupeville schools, was killed in a car crash near Freeland. The other driver was arrested on suspicion of DUI.
On a visit to Oak Harbor, U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen took criticism for voting against the presidents plan to send more troops to Iraq.
For the first time since the 1950s, the Coupeville and Oak Harbor boys basketball teams met on the hardwood. The feisty Wolves gave the Wildcats all they could handle before succumbing 66-63.
The school board directed Superintendent Rick Schulte to begin the process of closing Clover Valley Elementary School.
Mark Preiss was named manager of Ebeys Landing National Historical Reserve, taking over from Rob Harbour.
Concern was raised that the spit at Ala Spit was eroding away.
Oak Harbor lost its orange as the abandoned Copeland Lumber building was demolished to make way for a new development.
Whidbey Island Bank donated $30,000 for the scoreboard at the new Wildcat Memorial Stadium.
The Hearing Examiner sided with the city and allowed a variance to condo developers to prune the giant Garry oak tree on Fidalgo Avenue, allowing six main stems to be cut back to one.
A new business, Deception Pass Tours, opened to provide boat tours of the popular tourist area.
The Oak Harbor Wildcat cheerleaders repeated as state champions in the WIAA/Dairy Farmers of Washington competition in the Yakima Sundome.
Separate car accidents on the same day, March 22, killed two women, one from Oak Harbor and one from Anacortes.
Property taxes increase from 8 to 10 percent, raising the publics ire as well.
The first gray whale of the spring was spotted in Saratoga Passage.
Former Congressman Jack Metcalf of Langley died at an Alzheimers care center in Oak Harbor.
The county commissioners voted to conduct future elections in Island County entirely by mail.
The Klickitat, the only ferry serving the Keystone to Port Townsend route, broke down. As a result, the route was closed for two days.
Island County Sheriff Mark Brown, alarmed by the death of 12 people in 2006 on Whidbey Island roads, designated a deputy to full-time traffic duty.
The Oak Harbor City Council passed a 14 percent utility rate increase, boosting bi-monthly bills by $20.
Marine Pfc. Kenny Van Slyke, who grew up in Oak Harbor, was killed by a snipers bullet in Iraq.
A pretty snow storm covered Oak Harbor in white on the first day of March.
The Legislature created a new Superior Court judgeship for San Juan County, which means Island County judges Vickie Churchill and Alan Hancock will no longer have to fly periodically to Friday Harbor. The change starts in 2008.
Residents of Dillards Addition learned of their new sewer system after it had been installed.
Island County committed $750,000 to the Hoypus Point purchase.
Work started on an $8.3 million highway safety project just south of Oak Harbor.
Three Whidbey sailors from EOD Unit 11 were killed in Iraq: Chief Petty Officer Gregory J. Billiter, Petty Officer 2nd Class Curtis R. Hall, and Petty Officer 1st Class Joseph Adam McSween.
NAS Whidbeys future the EA-18G Growler, visited the base for its first public appearance there.
Coupeville School District Superintendent Bill Myhr resigned to take a job in Arizona.
The city installed new tourist-oriented directional signs on the highway and major thoroughfares, marking the first implementation of ideas in the Windjammer Plan.
The life sentence of Darrin Hutchinson, who shot and killed two Island County Sheriffs deputies 20 years ago, was upheld by a judge in Skagit County.
After a search, Navy Lt. j.g. Jennifer Kincaid was determined to have left Oak Harbor of her own free will for Canada.
Three friendly fixtures in the Island County Commissioners office, Jan Ford, Donna Benson and Ellen Meyer, all retired after decades of service.
Oak Harbor Mayor Patty Cohen shocked the city by announcing she would not seek another term.
Oak Harbor, Island County, the Navy and state teamed up to pay $2.2 million for the 18-acre Boyer property located in the accident potential zone north of town.
Patty Page was named the new superintendent of the Coupeville School District. She has been assistant superintendent in Kelso.
Oak Harbors mayor and council members started pointing fingers at who was to blame for perceived lack of progress on a number of fronts.
A memorial service was held at the Navys Skywarrior Theater for three EOD Disposal Unit 11 sailors killed in Iraq: Chief Petty Officer Gregory J. Billiter, Petty Officer 2nd Class Curtis R. Hall and Petty Officer 1st Class Adam McSween.
Coupeville held a farewell ceremony for its old high school which was built in 1943. It was demolished to make way for a new school.
A mother and daughter sleeping in their house at Dugualla Bay were saved from roaring flames when neighbor Bill Young pounded on their door, yelling fire! fire at 2 a.m. Kim Gieratz and Kailee, 13, thanked him for saving their lives.
The Oak Harbor City Council listed its priorities, naming the marina redevelopment project as number one on a wish list totaling $92 million.
Oak Harbor School District cut 28 support staff jobs in an effort to balance the budget. Most came at Clover Valley Elementary which was slated for closure.
The last dairy operation on Whidbey Island came to an end when Wilbur Bishop loaded up 437 cows onto trucks bound for southern Idaho. The Sherman-Bishop Farm couldnt compete with mega-dairies in Eastern Washington.
The landmark Central Whidbey barn on Hill Road near the intersection with Engle Road was destroyed by fire. It had stood for 71 years.
Hundreds of islanders participated in the North Whidbey Relay for Lifes 20th anniversary event in Oak Harbor. More than $142,000 was raised, with more money coming in.
Seven passengers sustained minor injuries when the 65-foot tour boat Explorer II out of Anacortes ran aground near Deception Pass State Park. Damage to the vessel was extensive.
The Washington state ferry Cathlamet hit a wingwall in Mukilteo, sustaining $180,000 in damage. The wingwall had to be replaced, costing $700,000.
Coupevilles 10th-grade math scores dropped 15 points from the year before.
The Believe Foundation to help island kids with cancer was started, in memory of Greenbanks Kaitlin Richmond.
Five members of Explosive Ordnance Mobile Unit 11 received the Bronze Star at NAS Whidbey for heroic and meritorious service in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Named were Lt. Cmdr. Nicholas Smith, Ens. Robert Mendenhall, EOD Technician Senior Chief Robert Zimmerman, EOD Chief Richard Higbee and EOD 1st Class Petty Officer Harvey Zimmerman.
Dr. George Fairfax donated 50 acres off Zylstra Road to the Whidbey Camano Land Trust in order to preserve its natural beauty.
A former deputy prosecutor, Amy Dempsey, who accused Prosecutor Greg Banks of pressuring her to support him in the last election, received a settlement of $300,000 from the Washington Counties Risk Pool. Banks never admitted any wrongdoing.
An A-6 Intruder was placed at the Intersection of Highway 20 and Ault Field Road after extensive restoration by volunteers. It was formerly located in City Beach Park.
It was announced that after six years and a cost of $400,000 to the city, Oak Harbor and the Navy decided not to pursue full privatization of the air stations sewer and water systems.
Long-term plans were announced to water farmers crops around Coupeville with the towns treated wastewater.
Temperatures soared into the mid-80s in the islands hottest heatwave of the summer.
An Oak Harbor man who vandalized an ATM machine was caught as a result of images from the machines video camera.
Mayoral candidate Jim Slowik had amassed $15,000 in campaign funds a month before the primary.
In a change of pace, Oak Harbor was approving more building permits for multi-family housing than single-family homes.
Veteran Island County Commissioner Mike Shelton announced he was resigning after 15 years to take a job in Olympia as executive director of the Washington Counties Insurance Fund.
An outside investigator ruled that Oak Harbor City Councilman Paul Brewer had gone on a physically intimidating tirade during a meeting the prior September.
The county started the process to more strictly regulate on-site septic systems.
Chief Petty officer Patrick L. Wade and Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey L. Chaney, both of Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit 11, were killed in Iraq by an improvised explosive device. Hundreds turned out for a funeral honoring their memories.
Capt. Gerral K. David relived Capt. R. Sydney Abernethy as Commanding Officer of Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.
The ferry Illahee sprang a leak on the Keystone/Port Townsend run one day after being inspected.
Naval Hospital Oak Harbor announced it would no longer operate an emergency room, changing instead to an urgent care clinic. Emergency patients would be taken by ambulance to Whidbey General Hospital or Island Hospital in Anacortes.
A sewer dispute at Dillards Addition bubbled over when several residents complained to the city council that they werent notified a new sewer system was being put in by a private developer.
Whidbey General Hospital caused a stir by announcing it might quit accepting Tricare patients due to low reimbursements. The threat never had to be implemented.
Jim Slowik finished first in the primary race to see who would replace Mayor Patty Cohen. Paul Brewer was second and Sue Karahalios was eliminated from contention.
Judge Vickie Churchill threw the book at convicted child molester John Cowan, 61, giving him the maximum sentence of 11 ½ years to life in prison.
The Keystone ferry route was reduced to one boat after leaks were found in the Nisqually.
Two Island County residents were sickened by an E. coli outbreak in ground beef.
The new Coupeville High School, made possible by a $22.8 million bond issue, opened to students.
Thousands turned out for the opening in Oak Harbor of the new Wildcat Memorial Stadium. After a Navy flyover, the Wildcats football team beat Arlington 35-0 to start its undefeated 2007 regular season.
Phil Bakke was appointed to take the place of Mike Shelton on the Island County Board of Commissioners.
An EA-6B Prowler joined the A-6 Intruder at the Navys new Gateway display south of town.
Wildcat Stadium was credited with boosting the Booster Clubs hotdog sales from 400 per game to more than 1,400.
Alana Miller, age 2, became a celebrity when she called 911 to report her mother had collapsed on the floor from a migraine headache.
Snohomish County Public Utility District tested the waters of Admiralty Inlet to see if they are suitable for a tidal energy project.
Oak Harbor school officials decided it would be cheaper to construct a new building rather than massively renovate the old fieldhouse during the remodeling process approved by voters.
Whidbey Island Bank announced it was being taken over by Frontier Bank of Everett, ending 46 years of independence since its start in 1961 in Coupeville.
The state Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Oak Harbor native and Spokane resident Robert Yates who went on to become a serial killer of at least 15 people.
The animal shelters operated by the Whidbey Animals Improvement Foundation were being overrun by pit bulls, which took up 11 of the 18 kennels at the Oak Harbor facility.
Hundreds turned out in Coupeville for the formal grand opening of the new high school.
Hopes that the historic Oak Harbor Theatre on Pioneer Way would some day open again were dashed when the building was razed. It was built in 1929 by Howard and Bessie Maylor but no films had been shown there for years. A fire last year damaged the empty structure extensively.
Ballots were sent out for Island Countys first all-mail general election. No polling places were open for the first time in history.
Wet weather forced a delay in the highway project just south of Oak Harbor. Final paving now will not be done until spring.
Deception Pass State Park sealed a dangerously attractive cave with an iron bat gate that allows bats in, but not people. The move followed the accidental death of an Oak Harbor boy in 2006.
A notorious report listing Oak Harbor High School as one of the states top dropout factories gained widespread media attention. Authors of the study from John Hopkins University later recanted, acknowledging they had used the wrong numbers.
Coupeville announced it would try to raise $400,000 from private sources to purchase and preserve two vacant lots next to Tobys Tavern.
Ground was broken at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station for a support building for the EA-18G Growler, the next generation of electronic warfare aircraft to be stationed at the base.
It was reported at a meeting of public health officials that 30 percent of Island Countys population is dealing with a mental illness.
Nichols Brothers Boat Builders in Freeland suddenly announced it was closing as 150 workers were laid off. Some hope remained that the boatyard might resume work in the future.
In the general election, mayoral candidates Jim Slowik in Oak Harbor and Nancy Conard in Coupeville jumped out to early leads and held on to win the positions. New council members elected in Oak Harbor were Jim Palmer, Beth Munns and Rick Almberg; and in Coupeville Ann Dannhauer.
Whidbey General Hospital officials acknowledged that the MRSA superbug is present in Island County, and it was doing its share to combat it with an extensive cleanliness program.
Oak Harbor High School graduate, First Lieutenant Bryan Jackson, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for valor in Iraq, only the seventh such award the Army has handed out since the Vietnam War.
Petty Oficer 2nd Class Kevin Bewley was killed in action in Iraq. He was the sixth member of NAS Whidbeys EOD Mobile Unit 11 to die in action during the year.
Oak Harbor High School Wildcats lost to Bothell in the football playoffs, ending an 18-game winning streak and dashing their hopes for a second consecutive state title.
Oak Harbor announced its preferred site for a future sewer plant is at the Navys Seaplane Base lagoon site.
Washington State Ferries suddenly pulled its Steel Electric class vessels from the Keystone to Port Townsend run, leaving some passengers stranded and kicking off weeks of controversy and foot ferry service.
Three Oak Harbor sisters afflicted by the BRCA1 breast cancer gene went in for preventive mastectomies.
Greenbank residents expressed alarm over plans by Rempel Brothers Concrete to expand its gravel mine by 100 acres.
A limited number of Nichols Brothers employees returned to work to finish boats in progress, paid by the boats owners.
The crews of two Knighthawk helicopters from Whidbey Island Naval Air Station rescued 91 people caught up in the huge flood in southwestern Washington.
Tenth District State Rep. Chris Strow, R-Freeland, resigned, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family.
Coach Dave Ward ended his successful 17-year career at the helm of the Oak Harbor Wildcats football team, a run that peaked in 2006 with a state championship.
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire announced the state would fast-track the purchase of three new ferries suitable for the Keystone to Port Townsend route, and in the meantime lease a car ferry to start serving the route in January.
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Clay City times (Clay City, Ky.): n. Thursday, March 26, 1908. Clay City times (Clay City, Ky.). 400dpi TIFF G4 page images J.E. Burgher, Clay City, Ky. 1908 cla1908032601 These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Clay City times (Clay City, Ky.): n. Thursday, March 26, 1908. Clay City times (Clay City, Ky.). J.E. Burgher, Clay City, Ky. 1908 $IMLS This electronic text file was created by Optical Character Recognitio n (OCR). No corrections have been made to the OCR-ed text and no editing has be en done to the content of the original document. Encoding has been done through an automated process using the recommendations for Level 1 of the TEI in Librar ies Guidelines. Digital page images are linked to the text file. s of 1 M N THE CLAY CITY TIMESw 10 IVOLH rF l11t A GOOD I All Time Resol 1 tion Going to save all I can and to this end I will begin by buying at Shimfessels Large select 7 Stock good Qualities everything honest dealings Goods delivered Phone 32 I II C SHIMFESSEL III I RfibNEB MFG Glo Winchester Ky i jW4t Qufcture e l1li tash r Ftoorfng door Ceillny r Jliirways rf1Weatherboarding 118 Shingles and Etc Store Fronts Send us Your estimates I Prompt Shipments Society of Equity Maligned The abominnl night riding in Kentucky is almost universally contributed to the Society of E quity while in fact where this sociery is strongest in the tobacco growing disticts there is the least nightriding In the first place the unsrcupu lous papers of Louisville have enlarged upon the real facts in the case until one can hardly believe half what appears in their columns 0 M Barnett speaking of the situation says Taking a deeper dip at the pro vincialcorrespondentsJCo Bar nett said that in more than one instance they had purposely sent in stories to Louisville papers which were palpably false and that in one instanco of which he personally knew a mere family brawl was enlarged upon until it reached the alarming proportions of a wholesale descent of the night riders upon the family of u farmer which resulted in the farmers being flogged within an f inch of his life Col Burnett stated that the Rev Mr Gordon of whom it was reported in Ohio county that he head received threatening letters and a bunch of switches from the night ridcrshadpersonllyapp- eared in his office ut Oxford and made affidavit to the effect that he had never gotten threatening i if fI tileQre KeadqIjartars for J Building Paper Felt Roofing Flintoid Roofing and Etc letters nor received any intima tion that he was the object of night rider hate Col Barnett also said that in the counties where most of the depredations are reported to have occurred the Seciety had but a small following He said that there was not a member of the Society in Trigg county only three members in Logan county and but 300 members in Ohio county Death of Milton Vaughn Milt Vaughn died at his home on Galloways Creek Estill count March 20 of intestinal tuber culosis aged 74 years Burial Sunday at the Vaughns Mill Christian Church by the side of hi wife who died about eight years ago Deceased was the Assessor in Estill when Clay City was in that county and he has many friends in this part of Powell who regret to learn of his death Dog Law tot Repealed The dog law Sot repealed as it was thought to be It was sure a compromise was won in which every householder was allowed one dog free and all over one was to be taxed 50 cents This was defeated at the last hour so the law stands as it was 100 tux on every log y Twelve Months Dead bine By order of the Postoffice Department all weekly papers can no longer be mailedas secondclass matter to subscribers twelve months or more in arrears In complying with this new ruling we have been compelled to cut off 300 names and all subscribers from this time on will have to be promptly dropped when their subscription becomes twelve months past due Please keep yourself from under the dead line by paying one year in advance Publisher Our Money In Banks According to the report of the Comptroller of Currency there are 140 national banks in Ken tucky with a combined capital of 10254000 and individual de posits amounting to 45002784 There are also in this State 408 State banks with a capital of 14179177 and individual de posits amounting to 58604171 At the time there are 28 trust companies with a capital of 5650500 and individual depos its of 0517457451- In the above we find 114 024 416 individuall deposits in a the Kentucky banks There are 2 000000 people in the State This makes more than 57 for each man woman and child in the State to say nothing about the floating cash in pocket The a mount of cash per capita in the United States is hut 31 or 20 less than that in Kentucky This is a good showing for the people of the grand old Corn monwealth and persons thinking of leaving the State should investigate well and see if the coun locatingisThe School Census The month Qt Aril Is tlie month for Phe school census tak ing by the OI of school districts All children living in the district April 1st should be taken Children that will be six July 1st are eligible to be listed Children moving into the district after April 1st must not be ta ken but children moving nut of the district after April 1st should be counted The work must be completed in the month of April and into the County Superintend entsoflico by May 1st A Peculiar Creature Maine is the first state to elect a man to Congress when he doesnt want it However incon sistent it may sound Littlefield is his name and he is a lawyer with such a big fiold of practice that ho cant attend to both so he chooses the lessor of two evils and sticks to the practice of law He has resigned his job at Wash ington Died In Texas James S M Brock died March 21 at his home in McKinney Texas aged eighty years Mr Brock married Miss Catherine Kimbrell of Spout Spring and used to live in this county where they have many relatives He moved 88 years ago to Texas where he has since lived His wife and eight children all grown and married survive NOTICE to Members of Lodge No 171 100 F All members of this Lodge are specially requested to be at the first meeting in April Business of importance J D Hall who has been lo cated at Coopercville Ky for the past five years has returned to Powell county and located at Clay Oity The heavy bloom now out on the plum pear and peach trees is encouraging if it doesnt do like it did last year An old say ing however is that fruit bloom ed out in the light of the moon never gets killed It is hoped that this will prove true this year The public roads through the country are said to have never been in a worse condition than at the present time We can ex pect nothing else so long as we have such a poor system for working them It is three weeks yet till Eas ter The millinery folks are a little impatient but the Spring girl will be glad if it doeset get cool enough to frost bite that pretty hat after the glad event is overH e 0 Warmouth is still im proving about his premises with new fences walks and paint brush Others could emulate his steps with great benefit and gen eral appearance to the town 1 I LeechRIng Wednesday evening March 18 Mr G B Leech and Mies An nie Ringo were united in mar riage at the home of the bride Wm Ringos in this city in this city the Rev R A Irvin officiating A number of friends were present and gifts were co piously bestowed No more long time subscriptions so renew today Gumption on the Farm TIs well to apply the line growIDoth surely save nine Sometimes a minute of think is better than an hour of hustle Are you ready to jump into spring work when Nature says Jumps 2 About the time some people get ready to saw wood it is time to begin planting potatoes The outlook is good for those farmers who after they have harrowed their ground twice will give it several turns more changoAsTo her we bow and doff our hate But will not doff our flannels Anybody can whack his thumb while pounding tacks and such things but it takes a nice man to hold still and not say bywords Make your plans to sow some corn next month for green feed when the dry weather cuts tho pastures short A single acre splendid Fixing fence is a good deal like darning stockings Only you cant take the fencemending when you go down to see Aunt Sally It must be done right on the spot no matter how irk some it may be The beautifying of your place may mean to pull up grass and weeds to trim shrubbery and trees to cart away rubbish and f to nail up a plank or two also to do a little whitewashing and cleaning But after it is done you will be glad of it and so will your neighbors Does the spring workcrowd you Do not got into a fret Ke member the largest house is built simply by laying one brickupon another Lay out beforehand u definite amount of work for each daynot more than you can comfortably get through with and then do it be surpris ed in a short time to find how steadily everything is moving on April Farm Journal Sacrifice Sale Beginning on THURSDAY DEC 12 We will sell at Sacrifice prices every article in our store con sisting of Trimmedand Untrimmed Hatsr Plumes Velvets Wings etc Ho siery Gloves Fasinators Mts Combs Hairpins many jfiier useful things Nice line white goods cheap Come early and get choice we mean business Dont let this opportunity pass to get GENUINE BARGAINS Mrs W N Bush 3 tl 1 t i flti r r THE TIMES rUDLISIIED EVERY TUUKSDAY J Ii Hurgher Publisher Subscription Rates 50 Cents per year in ai ranee otherwise 75 Cents Entered ns secondclass mail matter Thursday March 2G 1008 CLUB RATES For the convenience of our sub scribers wo have arranged club rates with the following papers at prices below mentioned The TIMES and CourierJournal 100 14 Cincinnati Enquirer 110 Louisville Commercial 75 Home and Farm 75 ANNOUNCEHENTS I For County Clerk Vc are authorized to announce CIIAS EWKN candidate for County Court Clerk subject to the action of the Dem oem tic party For Jailor We are authorized to nnnounce Jonx P GAYLORD candidate for Jailor sub ject to the action of the Democratic party Fairbanks and Democrats Governor Goebel was assassi nated from the Executive Build ing in Frankfort in 1000 while the Legislature was in session Several prominent Repeblicans were indicted for this murder only upon the evidence of other prominet Republicans Some of them have been convicted others are up for trial while some of them escaped to Indiana where they have since been shielded bj the Republican officials of that State Among the most ardent supporters of these fugitives being Vice President Fairbanks now candidate for President of the United States In the State race last fall many Democrats of Kentucky voted the Republican ticket and helped to elect that ticket None of these Democrats approved of the disgraceful meth ods of the party in the Goe bel affairs They did not think of extending such a club as they have to the enemy Now every one of these officials are for Fairbanks because ho has shielded these Goebel fugitives How do you like that Democrats who voted for Willson c and Dem ocrats who stayed at home Win H Taft of Cincinnati Ohio is fat above such party pre judice and he isa candidate for President and would carry ev ery delegate vote of Kentucky were it not for the stand taken by the Republican State admin istrationThe Republicans supporting Fairbanks say Fairbanks is the only man that can carry Ken tucky while in fact ho is the last Republican that can carry the State iSTollepublicaucan carry the state without Democrat votes Does any one think Fair banks with his record toward 1 Democrats can carry a single Democrat vote Well wait and see A National I There are many country mer chants who see their trade gradually slipping away groin them leaving the country town and go ing to the great cities by the channel of the mail order trade There are many countryedi tors who rqee the prosperi loftheir towns depletedand circula tion and advertising income re duced for the same reason There are J very few however who realize that their problem is It h national ono and that it is wrapped up in and a part of the great fundamental question whether this nation shall bo perpetuated or shall be destroyed by the physical degeneration of humanity the social unrest industrial discontent amoraland political corruption and class hatred bred in the city Blunts and tenements and certain to culminate in anarchistic crimes riotous mobs and alldestroying social upheavals as the result of some long continued period of industrial and commercial de pressionThe is that the upbuilding of time country town and subur ban village as an antidote and safeguard against the poisonous social moral physical and po litical consequences of herding millions of our working people together in the unnatural con gested life of the tenements is thoone great question that rises above nil others in importance as a problem that this nation must solve Unless it does solve it it will suffer death from human de generacy the fate of so many nations and civilizations that have risen in the past only to be destroyed Ours will be likewise destroyed unless wo take heed in timeThe Jackson Democrat is for Judge J Wise Hagins for Cir cuit Judge in the 23rd judicial district The Democrat is for the right man Judge Hagins has been a man who has always followed honest convictions of right as ho saw them He may have been in bad company but not al together for whereeveryoti have found the Judge for the past few years you have also found about 1000 other Democrats of his county Such men are not to be driven from the party if wo expect to gain any victories in the future Judge Hagins is honest capable and from principle every inch a Democrat He can carry 1000 more Democrats than any other man which means his election Then why not nominate him Fairbanks supporters hadn big meeting at Louisville Mon day There were present about 250 picked men from all parts of the State Senatorelect Bradley was the principal speaker and he scored the Federal office hold ers and said they had no right to combine and force the nomina tion of any man for President A demand was made to the Re publicans of Kentucky to carry all 20 votes of the State for the Hoosier because he Fairbanks had been kind to Kentucky Re publicans If what Porry says about Bru ner and Thatcher and what Bradley says about Willson and what everybody says about Bradley is true and wo believe it all thats u sweet scented lot of gcraniume nt and around Frankfort that the misguided people of Kentucky have turned the affairs toWinchester Gov Yill8on has shown some sense of decency in his delay of the Caleb PowQrs pardon which everyone expected to be forth coining before this time He has signified his intention to let an otlforjury pass upon his inno cence A man approachedone of our prominent citizens inWinches ter time other day and said iU1 dont like to talk about thadead but how is Ojay City golfing a= long When he regained his feet ho decided there was one live article in this town Wo fail to see Where Kentucky Republicans owe any debt of gratitude toIndiaiia Republicans while theyare holding two prom inent members of time party so securely over thero and at a time when there is such a demand for them in their own fair State rWhats the difference between a Commercial Club meeting and show One can draw a crowd in Cloy City while the other can not Shake in a Bottle Now is tho time when the doctor gets busy and the patent medicine manufacturers reap the harvest un less great care is taken to dress warmly and keep the feet dry This is the advice of an old eminent au thority who saysthat Rheumatism and Kidney trouble weather is here andnlso tells what to do in case of an attackGet any good prescription pharmacy onehalf ounce Fluid Ex tract Dandelion one ounce Com pound Kargon three ounces Corn pound Syrup Saisaparilla Mix by shaking n a bottle and take a tea spoonful after meals and at bed timeJust try this simple home made mixture at the first sign of Rheu matism or if your bnck aches or you feel that the kidneys are not acting just right This is said to be a splendid kidney regulator and almost certain remedy for all forms of Rheumatism which is caused by uric acid in the blood which the kidneys fail to filter out lithomneDruggists in this town and vicin ity when shown the prescription stated that they can either supply these ingredients orif our read ers prefer they kill compound the mixture for them Twohundredand fifty boss politicians called to meet in Lou isville Monday to devise plans to corrall a whole party in the sup port of one man How many men from Powell 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I SPECIAL i APRIL I FOR t I During the month of April we will put on Sale all thert Left Overs Short Lengths I and Odds 4 and EtldsII i i In Dress Goods which will include I some of the best things in our immenseI stock of staple and fancy goods This twill be a Gleanout Clearout and I Cleanup sale to make room for our I SPRING STOCK whion will begin to come in in a shore jd while WC MrseWilliams + 2LC AY CITY tiftThe Whitest White Cake The Lightest gl tRoUsIAnd Flakiest Biscuit Arc I I IJLinio Yllon Yon Uwe I Pearl and Bakers Pride Flour Take no Other Every Sack Guaranteedf I MANUFACTURED BY J A CAIN VERSAILLES KY 4a Sold by our Leading Merchants great guaranteed cure for Croup Colds IIThe Whooping Cough Sold undent pos I Your money returned ifH ever ails It is the only remedy that cures in one dose and with out vomiting Always have a bottle on hand It may save your childs life Recommended by physicians Price 35 cts per bottle FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS THE mSSNgR MEDICINE COMPANY Sob props Findlay DM 2130 Syracuse EASY WashersI were ordered for 30 days trial by readers of our advertising in ono causesItmustboassumcdthattho2018peoplewhokeptand returningtheFASYatourexpense Tlicy kept It because it solved the washing problem for them You tryitThey most positive requestAskmachine Pages 32O tell you how to cut washing expense In half and save 3z34tell1 DODGE Ie ZUILL 25 Dillaye Bldg Syracuse N Yi i THE TIMES AN ALL HOMEMADE PAPER THURSDAY Mar 26 1908 ILOOAl BREVITIES I Miss Bertha Mapel visited Mrs James B Hall at Lexington this weekI IRW Garrett was in Win r Monday on a business mission Wm Crabtree of Genet wns transacting business in the city IllondnyDr B R Smith is visiting home folks in Indiana but will return Saturday Mrs H Johnson of Lexing ton was the guest of Mrs Wm O Martin Tuesday Attorney J H ORear visited t relatives at Mt Sterling from I ISaturday till Monday Cashier A T Whitt and Mrs I Whitt visited friends in Lexing ton Saturday till Monday The two heavy frosts the lat I ter part of the week fortunately 1 left the fruit crop uninjured II F Christopher of Spout Spring visited his sister Mrs t Henry Tuttle at Ford Monday night Wm Charles died at the home h of James Kincuid on Hardwicks creek last Wednesday of enlarged liver + Miss Carrie Barrntt has suffer ed a relapse and was very sick several days but is now much improved Bush leaves today fipatsyto make the Spring the millinery store of Mrs W N Bush Mrs J B Eaton and daugh ter Miss Ruth returned Saturday I I from Florida where they have been spending the winter I I A company of Lexington capi talists have organized to put up an electric light plant ice plant and waterworks plant at Jack I sonThe I second convocation of County Superintendents of the r Eastern Normal School district J will he held at Richmond April 1 2 and 8 I Next Wednesday will be all fools day Despite our attempts i to keep wise on this occasion we usually are caught fooled sonic time during the day beentu time it was thought the end was near She is getting some I better at this time we are glad to state j Johnnie Cash who went with I tho Win Curtis family to Colo rude a few years ago returned lust full and died at the homo of his sister Mrs Haggard a short time ago of consumption The style of tlenew firm which succeeds A E Burnett Son is J 0 Allen Company with- J 0 Allen general manager The services of Judge Fletcher ttins been retained by the new flrin Spring time clean up time and this all important job should wit be put otfuutil disease germs n are spread A little cleanup K and a little whitowash improves a place sometimes one hundred percent We handle all the latest Butter ick Patterns at 10 and 15 cents Mrs J W Williams Green Blanton a valued sub scriber to the Times is dead at his home at Fox Estill county Circuit Court is still in session at Stanton The grand jury was held over this week and up to Saturday night had returned 75 indictments many ofthem being for violating the Local Option law The meeting of the Commer cial Club Saturday night was not largely attended and no impor tant business was transacted Some of the most interested members were called from the city that night Pat Henry left Tuesday morn ing for Sardis Miss where he hoe employment in the big saw and planing mills there This adds one more to the Clay City colony at that place which seems to be growing pretty fast of late To all who will pay upallar rearages and one year in advance we will send the Southern Agricul turist free for one year If you want it dont forget to ask for it The Agriculturist is one of the best furm papers published Dr and Mrs B R Smith were in Lexington a few days last week buying furniture preparatory to- go to housekeeping in their new home Since located in Clay City Dr Smith has been a regular boarder at the Clay City Ho Hotel The lines of the Clay City school have been extended so as to include Charlie Welchs place on Hardwicks creek road This is much more convenient for the children that far out than the lIard wicks creek school from which they were taken The Negro Minstrel at the Gymnasium Hall last night was under the auspices of the Odd Fellows and a pronounced success There will be another en tertainment tonight by the same Negroes and under the same management It is well worth the admission The Lucky Quarter Is the one you pay out for a box of Dr Kings New Life Pills They bring you the health thats more precious than jewels Try them for headache biliousness con stipation and malaria If they dis appoint you the price will bo cheer fully refunded SwannDay Lum ber Gos store IPressedJ the sick room We have produced the delicious Naboth Grape Juice for many years but we believe this years perfectionNaboth gression Better each year Im proved by the wisdom of each years experience in careful pressing jud developing Naboth Grape Juice now going out is We think a little better than ever befdrc In color a beautiful deep red flavor that of the Concord Grape taken from he cluster in October The delicious sweetness Is due to the superior quality fXllbotb Concord Every guaranteed to complywith the National Pure Food Law Iure InvigorutI ing For sale by dealerlITHE NABOTH VINEYARDS Brocton New Y kI The K P Lodge in Kentucky John W Carter grand keeper of records and seal of the Knights of Pythias in his annu al report shows the order in Ken tucHy to be in a flourishing condition as to numbers condition of lodges rate of increse charit able work and in fact in all of phasesThe shows a total mem bership in Kentucky of 18002 an increase of 1033 during the year 1907 Twelve new lodges were instituted during the year Three lodges forfeited their char ters making a net increase for the year of nine lodges The report shows expenditures for relief work during time year of 30880 15 A great deal of money expended in this way is never reported so that the actual amount spent is probably nearer 50000 than 80000 Best Healer In the World Rev F Starbird of East Ray mond Maine sayIII have used Bucklers Arnica Salve for several years on my old army wound nnd other obstinate sores and find it the best healer in the world I use it too with great success in my vet erinary business Price 25c at SwannDay Lumber Cos store The headlines of the daily pa pers Tuesday state Four Night Riders Killed j Others badly wounded secret burial held1 This report is communicated to Gov Willson and is alleged to have taken plaice in the Southern part of the State This is possi bly one of these papers scurrilo reports intended to inflame the minds of decent people and to encourage the sale of their pa pers magnified from an acciden I tal killinggood for Everybody i R Coulter a pro a inent architect in the Delbert Building San Francisco says I fully endorse all that has been said Qf Electric Bitters as a tonic medi cine It is good for everybody It corrects stomach liver and kidney disorders in 11 prompt andefficient manner and builds up the system Electric Bitters is the best spring medicine ever sold over a druggists counter as a blood purifier it is unequaled 50 cents at SwannDay Lumber Cos store To Subscrbers Remember that the new postal laws which took effect Jan 1st pos itively prohibits us from mailing time Times to subscribers who are 12 months or more behind on sub scription This forces us to cut off some good names each week which we very much dislike to do but we must obey thn law If you are cut off dont blame the publisher Please renew and not lUiss an issue Most of us do not know our own power because we would rather stay in a ditch and complain No Use to Die I have found out there is on use to die of lung trouble as long as you can get Dr Kings New Dis covery says Mrs J P White of Rushboro PatI would not be alive today only for that wonderful medicine It loosens upnI cough quicker than anything else nnd cures lung disease even after the case is pronounced hopeless This most reliable remedy for coughs and colds lagrippe asth 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Wearing Apparel for Men and Women and children is the equal of stores in much larger cities Our Shoe Department is Complete with shoes for the working man shoes the gentleman and lady shoes for tender feet shoes for baby children and shoes for every body at prices to suit you What U saidof our Shoe Department may be said of Every Other Department in the Store You are invited to call and inspect these goods we will take pleasure in showing you and strive to please you SwannDay Lumber Co INCONPORAUD Clay City Ky vwTT7CTCwTTTTTTw7vwWI 4 rrsrr S iINSUI E WITH t i 6c SON i AjfontHX+ I i Over 200000000 IRepresented f t Every one who knows anything about insurance knowtt they are leaders in this line IIM 1 J F +F4s +++++43 +++a+i t ++ MFl 4++F34td + I The hoe comes in handy just now The garden man and the boy who wants bait to go fishing both use it these pretty Spring days PROFESSIONAL CARDS 44404404 41 b4444NNNMNW404441 R A IRVIN M D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON CLAY CITY KY B R SMITH M D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON CLAY CITY KY DraggingDown Pains are a symptom of tae most serious trouble which am attack a woman viz falling of the womb With this generally comes Irregular and painful periods weakening drains backache headache nervousness dizziness ir ritability tired feeling etc The cure Is I I WINEOF ECardui Ii The Female Regulator that wonderful curative vegetable ex tract which exerts such a marvelous strengthening Influence on all female organs Cardul relieves pain and regulates the menses It Is a sure and permanent cure for all female complaintsAt fsts and dealers In 5100 bottles I SUFFERED AWFUL PAIN In my womb and ovaries writes Mrs Naomi Bake of Webster Grove Mo also in my right and left sides and my menses were very painful and Irreg ular Since taking Cardul feel liken new woman ad do not suffer as I dla It Is the best medidne I ever took THE CHILDRENSS GUARDIAN THE DOCTOR IN YOUR HO- MEVICKS Group and Pneumonia SALVEEXTERNAL Endorsed by Registered Nurses and 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race and are willing to mnlo something of a sacrafice to re move from them temptation to crime Any thing you can dsspring DALVAY Chesnut horse 0 by the Commoner son of Hanover and Jlurgcrlnc by AI erinc dam Levlx ilu by Brutus second dam Llera by Fonso third dam Acldcnt by Cunudu Bred and raced by Tulbot- Bros Penis Ky and sold as u three yrold toM II Tichenor of Chicago Dalvays only start as u was at Washington Park track Chicago on July 14 1903 when ho ran unplaced In u purse race Avon by Blumenthal with Dung neon second and Mnrtlus third nighInvincibleeach of his starts With a single break where he finished second Dalvay won eight straight rrces beating the best horses at the Ceicngo track The fol lowing is his recorh for the year 1001 Juno iO Hawthorne Purse three yearold 0 furlongs Peter J Somen SingingITime 115 25 80 July 4 Hawthorne Purse 3yr one mile Ananias 109 Won Vul MissCrawford 104 third Sevenbtarters Time 1 jH 35 75 July 16 Harlem Purse thrceyrolds und upward 7 furlongs Dnlvay 8 03 won j Dont Ask Mu 5 111 second Comrade 3 03 third Ten starters Time 1 27 35 405 July 21 HawthornePurse 3yrolds 7 furlongs Dalvay 112 won T J Carson 112 second j Dell Leuth 101 third Sixstartcrs Time 12835 500 July 24 Hawthorne Purse threeyr olds and upward one mile Dalvay f3J 04 won Foncnsta 3 89 second Greg or K 4 09 third Six starters Time 141 f400 Aug 4 HarlemPurse threeyear old and upward 1 110 miles Dalvay 3J 102 won Jake 4 108 second j Fon soluca 5J 107 third Five starters Time 147 35 100 Aug 21 Hawthorne Purse three yearolds mile Emppf India 102 won Dalvay 105 second Foncusta 105 third- Seenstarters Time 143 75uollnrs Aug 29 Harlem Pursovthreeyear oldund upwaard 1 mile Dalvay 3 100 won The Lndy aged 104 second Pc ter Paul 3 03 third Six starters Time 140 35 Five hundred dollars IAug 31 Harlem Purse threeyear upward 1 mile and 70 yards seeIISept 9 Harlem Purse threeyear upward 1 mile Dalvay 3 100 won Waimimoinen509 second Greg or K 4 102 third Five starters Time 139 500 Sept 15 Hawthorne Purse three 70Ij Four starters Time 145 35 500 Oct 5 Kansas City Purse threeyr olds 1 mile Judge 105 won Dalvay no second Toledo 105 third Three start ers Time 142 75 dollars Oct 22 KansusCityTllo Foster Trophy twoyearold and upward 1 mile Dalvay 3J 112 won Otto Stifo 3 107 second j McGee 141 120 third Six starters Time 1 3114 1140 Oct 25 Kansas City Handicap all ages 5 furlongs McGee 4 117 won Otto Stelfel 81 111 second Dalvay 3 118 third Seven starters Time 112k 25 dollars Oct 20 Kansas City Purse three yearold and upward one mlleDal vay 3J 103 won thirdFour second j Foristir 3J 01 starters Time 140 Four hundred dollars In 1005 Dalvay started three times and was once unplaced His winning races follow Jan 10 Los Angeles Purse all ages 5J furlongsDalvay 4 103 won T nt- Hurst 3 01 second j Pnssadctm 3 00 third EiglitstartcrsTinte10K 325 Feb 1 Los Angeles Purse all ages 0 furlongs Dalvay 4 114 won Tom Payne 4 105 second j Om Vita R 108 third Four starters Time 1136 325 In 1900 was started twice At Brighton Bench July 20 hu finished n good fourth after having been practically left at tho post and Aug 13 at Saratoga broke down and has not since been trained It will be noted that in his race at Hrirlem Sept 0 1001 Dalvay ran a mile In 130 defeating number of the fastest horses in tho West He wonl pulled up by two lengths and unquestionably have made better time it been necessary In all Dalvay won twelve races was four times second once third and four times unplac ed His winning totaled 9200 This most excellent horse will make the season of 1908 at the stable of Thos onleo 1 west of Stanton at the low service fee of 1000 This is nn excellent opportunity for Powell county farmers to get tho service of n thoroughbred horse There is- no better in the State to make the farm home look nice Might set out u few choice trees Some frames for the ro ses to climb on would be pretty Maybe the house is beginning to show signs of luck of paint It will be time and money well spent if you can do such things Plant Locust Trees for Profit Farmers who are planting locust trees declare that there iS no more profitable way of utilizing cheap land They figure in this wny Two thousand nnd four hundred trees can bo planted to an acre in eight years these trees will be large enough to cut for fence posts and each tree will yield two post At retail these trees will be worth 25 cents or 50 cents a tree That menus 1200 for the crop at the end of eight years or an average of 150 an acre for each year It seems but few other crops could beat this No more long tune subscriptions so renew today Euclid Sulky TT1E I Wmchestei BankINC- OHPOKATKl N H WiTiiEiisrooN Pres Capital Stock 200000 Surplus 2000 We solicit the nrcllun14 of individ ualt firms and 81 1 I WANTED I o want agents in nit parts of the United States to sell our fn I mans Dr Williams Pills Send us your name and address and wt will tend vou 12 boxes to sell at 2t1 wr box when sold send us the S3 nnlll 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The International Agency for Research on Cancer and the US National Toxicology Program have identified more than 100 environmental substances that cause cancer, like cigarette smoke and air pollutants. Avoiding these carcinogens can be difficult so it’s important to take steps to reduce the risks that exposure carries.
A review published in last month’s issue of Topics in Current Chemistry looks at how a phytochemical found in broccoli helps protect us from these environmental carcinogens. The authors of the review are among the world’s leading experts in cancer, phytochemistry, and toxicology.
In a series of clinical trials conducted in China, they found that sulforaphane may protect us from airborne and foodborne toxins by switching on a cellular pathway that regulates cells’ abilities to protect themselves from environmental carcinogens.
Sulforaphane is the end product of a reaction between two chemicals produced in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables that protect the plant from insect attack. When an insect (or a human) bites into the plant, the two chemicals come together to form sulforaphane. It is what gives broccoli its somewhat pungent flavor. Continue reading | <urn:uuid:037c842d-dbbc-4b16-a7f4-c9b0ac0ff13c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.aicr.org/tag/broccoli/ | 2013-06-19T08:51:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708145189/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124225-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93258 | 236 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
One of the many perks of going to college at Fontbonne is that it is located in St. Louis. St. Louis is a city full of life and places to go. The reason why being in St. Louis is so exciting for me is because it is the town of the St. Louis Cardinals! I am a huge, dedicated fan of the Cardinals and going to Busch Stadium to see them play is one of my favorite things to do in the city. Busch Stadium is one of my favorite places. I love not only the baseball, but the atmosphere the stadium offers. The exterior of Busch Stadium itself is a masterpiece, but the inside offers so much more. Going to a game and being around all the fans is an exhilarating experience. Get yourself a hot dog, bratwurst, or platter of nachos and you’re set to go! Surrounded by fans all in Cardinal red, it’s easy to have a good time. The Cardinals and Busch Stadium offer entertainment found no where else in St. Louis. Attending a Cardinals game with friends is a great way to spend any evening during baseball season, and one of my favorite things to do!
While it is not currently baseball season, you can still get your fix of the St.Louis Cardinals online. I am a big fan of the Cardinals and follow them daily so I thought I would use a little space of this blog to give all you readers an update:
The team is currently at Spring Training in Jupiter, Florida gearing up for the next season. Manager Mike Matheny seems to be a good fit for this year’s team, taking his time to get to know the Cardinal players he hasn’t played with before. Although he may be young for a manager, I think that Matheny is going to go great managing this season. He is authoritative while being friendly at the same time. Carlos Beltran arrived last week, and looks pretty darn good in the Cardinal uniform. He has chosen the number 3 for this season, allowing Rafael Furcal to keep Beltran’s old number 15. It will be interesting to see who plays most at second this season. Tyler Greene, Skip Schumaker, and a few other minor league players are competing for the spot. There is talk of the team extending Yadier Molina’s contract that expires at the end of this season. They have reported reached a deal worth about 75 million over five years. I sincerely hope we can keep Yadi for years to come. Hometown MVP David Freese is getting a little bit of a break from third, allowing for his ankles to rest. A Cardinal player that I love to watch every game is Lance Berkman, who believes that this season’s team has what is takes to go to the playoffs for some October baseball. So do I Lance, so do I!
When it gets to be baseball season once again, you can bet you’ll find me in front of the television watching the game, but I would rather be at Busch Stadium (my favorite place in St.Louis) seeing it right before my eyes. Go Cards! | <urn:uuid:6761541a-2f5b-4954-bce5-b371797cb0ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.fontbonne.edu/2012/03/birds-bat-busch-stadium/ | 2013-06-19T08:19:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708145189/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124225-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974834 | 647 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
John Schneider knew the question was coming. How much, exactly, was he responsible for in the front-office dealings and success of the Green Bay Packers organization during his time as director of football operations.
“I did it all,” the new Seattle Seahawks general manager said with a laugh. “I signed all of them. I was responsible for the whole thing.”
Two seats over, his new partner and semi-boss Pete Carroll chipped in.
“That’s what you told us in the interview anyway,” said Carroll.
But that exchange was about as far from Schneider’s real personality and plan as you can get. The youthful-looking GM prides himself on being a hard-working team guy, concerned mostly with getting the right players for the coach and franchise to succeed.
He’s a personnel man, a scout, a draft expert. In other words, exactly what CEO Tod Leiweke said he was looking for to head the Seahawks’ football operation and work in conjunction with Carroll.
While Leiweke finally acknowledged that Carroll would have final say in player decisions, Schneider comes across as one with a strong belief that he can help find the best fits and do the legwork required of any personnel director.
“I was extremely involved in every decision that was made there (at Green Bay),” Schneider said. “That’s the best way I can describe it.”
And, no, he won’t get hung up on wanting or seeking credit or fighting for control with Carroll. That’s not his way.
Asked if there was any decision or personnel move with the Packers that he was specifically proud of, Schneider pounced.
“Hey, we don’t go there, brother. It’s all about we, all right?” he said. “It’s all about us as a team, OK? The getting into ‘He signed this guy or he drafted that guy, he pushed this guy, he pushed that guy,’ is extremely awkward for myself and it’s awkward for a number of personnel people around the league.”
Leiweke said Schneider’s approach to the job has already been visible.
“He brought enough clothes that he’s not going to be going home for a while,” Leiweke said. “Really, he started last night. He laid out the schedule going up to the combine and the man is going to work 24/7. It’s clear this work ethic we’d heard about lives in the guy.”
While Schneider is more low-key than Carroll, he is no less energetic. At 38, his boyish face belies his lengthy NFL background, but it does lend to the eagerness he exudes.
Leiweke said Schneider and Carroll hit it off so well that the two hugged at the end of their first-day interview last week.
“We’re not out to reinvent the wheel, but we’re going to try to improve it every single day,” Schneider said. “It’s something I’m extremely passionate about and it’s something that really fed the energy between Pete and myself. The first night we met I felt like we could have just kept going. I wanted to roll up the sleeves and just keep rolling.”
Schneider said he’ll employ a “comprehensive, aggressive approach” to player acquisition.
“We’re going to go down every road. We’re going to explore everything,” he said. “We don’t have to do it. We don’t have to sign the guy or trade for the guy, but we’re going to be involved in everything.”
The Packers’ recent history under GM Ted Thompson has been to build largely through the draft, with just three unrestricted free agents on the team that went 10-6 this season.
Schneider knows the coming months are critical, with the Seahawks owning three of the first 40 picks in the April draft, but he’s not opposed to other avenues as well.
“Obviously the draft is your life blood. We’re going to be working our tails off the next couple weeks,” he said. “But I also think you can supplement your roster in free agency, and I think you can supplement your roster with reserve/future guys, some minor-league players here and there that step up, come out of nowhere, and just every avenue.
“So I understand where you’re going with what the philosophy is in Green Bay. I just feel it’s extremely important, but free agency and especially we’re coming into a little bit of a new era right now (with the Collective Bargaining Agreement uncertainty), we’re not going to turn our backs on anybody.
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Next Thursday, March, 24, NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the SSRC’s Program on Religion and the Public Sphere will host the launch of Princeton University Press’ new book series, “The Lives of Great Religious Books:”
Join three authors from the series in discussion about their new books with Jeremy Walton, Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow of Religious Studies at NYU.
Donald Lopez will discuss The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography. Lopez is Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan.
Martin E. Marty will discuss Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison: A Biography. Marty is Professor Emeritus of Religious History at the University of Chicago.
Vanessa Ochs will discuss The Passover Haggadah: A Biography. Ochs is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at University of Virginia.
The Lives of Great Religious Books is a new series of short volumes by Princeton University Press that recount the complex and fascinating histories of important religious texts from around the world. Written for general readers by leading authors and experts, these books examine the historical origins of texts from the great religious traditions, and trace how their reception, interpretation, and influence have changed—often radically—over time. As these stories of translation, adaptation, appropriation, and inspiration dramatically remind us, all great religious books are living things whose careers in the world can take the most unexpected turns.
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|a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.|
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