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According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), justice, professional, and public establishments are at high-risk for workplace violence. They claim, "Employees in these high-risk establishments and occupations need to be aware of the risk for homicide and take steps to ensure a safe workplace." In an effort to make our facilities safer to all county employees and visitors, the Sheriff's Office will begin eliminating certain items from being brought into the entrances of the building.
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Each week, an average of twenty people are murdered and 18,000 are assaulted while working or on duty in the United States. (NIOSH, 1996) . A study by the U. S. Department of Justice found that 1 in every 6 violent crimes occurs at work. The following items WILL NOT be allowed in the Winnebago County Court Complexes and the Winnebago County Administration Building
Pocket knives……………any size
Kitchen knives
Razor knives
Safety razors
Box cutters
Carpenter knives
Coupon razor cutters
Razor blades……………any type
Or any spring activated knives
P38 Can openersSprays [Pressurized]
Hair sprays
Mace sprays
Pepper sprays
Or any pressurized container
that is FLAMMABLE…….any sizeGlass Objects
Glass bottle drinks
Other drinks (regardless of container type) not purchased within the buildingsElectronics
Cameras, Video Recorders, and Cell
Phones are prohibited from use in the
|Other Objects
Scissors……………..any type
Pliers………………...any type
Wrenches…………...any type
Wire cutters
Kitchen forks
Kitchen spoons
Laser pointersFingernail clippers/with files
Fingernail files
Nails…………………any type
Screws………………any type
Letter openers
Can openers (Church Key)
Knitting needles
Flashlights (not to exceed 3 inches)
Metal Combs/PicksLocks [any size]
Firearms…………...…any type*
Ammunition……….....any type*
Handcuff keys……….any type*
Any Contraband Item
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Authorities chase robbery suspects on I-4
Chase ends in crash, arrests of 2 suspects
Two robbery suspects were taken into custody after a chase and crash on busy Interstate 4 east early Friday.
Officials immediately took one suspect in custody, authorities then searched for the other and found him hiding in a nearby apartment complex.
The suspects were identified as 21-year-old Anthony Sterling and 22-year-old James Earl.
Investigators chased the robbery suspects, who were believed to be armed, until the their black Chevy Camaro crashed just off I-4 on County Road 46-A.
Ahead of the chase, the suspects stole the Camaro from its owner at gunpoint, according to investigators. The incident happened at the Lemon Tree condominiums in south Orange County.
The victim was not hurt in the robbery.
Detectives said the vehicle's LoJack system helped law enforcement confirm the vehicle's position, allowing officers to locate and pursue it.
Additional charges are pending in the case, but Sterling was immediately charged with armed robbery and grand theft auto.

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Editor's note: Museum volunteer and Ecoteen Myria Perez was recognized by Mayor Annise Parker on Friday after earning the Girl Scouts' highest honor for her work with HMNS. Perez collaborated with the HMNS paleontology department to construct a Permian-period touch cart using specimens that she helped uncover at our dig site in Seymour, Texas. We caught up with Myria to talk a bit about her project and what it means to get the mayoral stamp of approval.
HMNS: You were an Ecoteen and have logged some 1,000 volunteer hours at the Museum. When did you start volunteering at HMNS and what's been your favorite project or memory?
Myria Perez: I started volunteering at HMNS in the fall of 2008 when I was 12 years old. During that time, the Leonardo Dinosaur Mummy CSI exhibit was up on display. During my visit to the Museum for Leonardo's exhibit, I found out about Dino Days and Breakfast with Dr. Bakker and immediately saved the date. When November came around I was able to meet paleontologist Dr. Robert Bakker. There I was, wearing my over-sized Leonardo Dinosaur Mummy shirt with a pen and drawing in my hand for him to sign.
Volunteering was brought up during our conversation. "The minimum age is 14; how old are you?" And of course, I responded, "12." Dr. Bakker looked at me and repeated the question. "12," I chirped once more, until I realized I had repeated my mistake. The third time, "The minimum age is 14; how old are you?" I was 14 now! The first thing I learned from paleontologist Dr. Bakker was to lie about my age; I was good to go!
My favorite memory was helping my mentor [associate curator of paleontology] David Temple with the new hall of paleontology during the summer of 2011 by preparing, painting, and packing up specimens such as the Megalodon jaw, Triceratops skull, and Edmontosaurus bones. An unforgettable memory was a trip to Seymour, Texas for a paleo excavation in the Permian red beds. The drive is around eight hours, so my mom and I arrived in the town of Seymour around midnight. My mom decided to stop and stay at the Sagamar Inn, the one and only inn in Seymour. The rest of the crew was staying at their normal place.
My mom and I checked in and got ready for bed. About an hour passed since I had drifted to sleep when I woke up to foul words from my mother's mouth. She was half-awake, jumping up and down, throwing her hands around with a disgusted look on her face. Her bed sheets were stripped away and little black and red bugs scurried, fearful of the lamp light.
This was the horrific bed bug encounter. From nymphs to adults, each part of life cycle stages were present. They were in my sheets, as well. At 1 a.m. we notified the people in charge; they denied the bed bugs and offered us another room — the room next door. Of course, we called poor David Temple and relocated under the darkness of the premature morning to the old tractor factory to join the rest of the crew.
HMNS: What got you interested in paleontology? Is it something you'd pursue as a career path?
Myria Perez: I caught fossil fever back when I was 2 years old, and still to this day have yet to find a cure for it. I never played with Barbie dolls. Instead, I spent my time analyzing dinosaur bones (garden rocks in my backyard) and conducting prehistoric battles with plastic dinosaurs. Every year, my mom would take me to the Houston Museum of Natural Science to see ancient life. I could say I just grew up with a passion for paleontology.
My ultimate goal is to achieve my doctorate of vertebrate paleontology. I want to study the paleobiology of ancient life.
HMNS: How many hours did you spend on the touch cart? Can you tell us a bit about the process?
Myria Perez: I spent a total of 129.5 hours on the Permian touch cart. This included the planning, presentation of the cart to the museum guild, the Seymour trip to collect fossils with the paleo crew, specimen molding and casting (as well as painting), creation of the manual, docent/volunteer training on the cart, and touch cart presentations to museum visitors.
Myria poses with her touch cart in the new Morian Hall of Paleontology
The Permian touch cart was a great opportunity to combine Girl Scouts, paleontology, and earth science education. The timing could not have been better with the Houston Museum of Natural Science's new hall of paleontology that opened the summer of 2012. The Permian time period (around 287 million years ago) and the critters that inhabited the earth at that time were and are still being excavated and studied by the paleontology crew at HMNS. This was the perfect opportunity to show museum visitors the entire process of fossil display. In the touch cart, I was able to include items such as excavation site pictures, tools used in the field, and a "fossil hunt" for visitors to spot the fossils as if they were looking for them in the field, ultimately achieving the goal of "bringing the field to you."
HMNS: What does it mean to you to be receiving the Girl Scout Gold Award, and to receive personal commendation from Mayor Parker?
Myria Perez: The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest award to be earned in Girl Scouts (it is the equivalent of the Boy Scout's Eagle Award). The project must be sustainable and address a community issue. I thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of this project because I was always learning about not only myself, but also about how to work with all kinds of people, how to write a manual, and important paleo skills such as molding and casting specimens. This project has been a wonderful experience and opportunity for me to meet and work with new people and promote earth science education.
To be able to share the HMNS paleo crew's discoveries in Seymour with Mayor Parker was an honor! It made it very exciting to share a few fossils with her, as she also exhibited great interest in ancient relics. She enjoyed a coprolite (fossilized poop) from a Permian shark called a Xenacanth as well a skull from the boomerang headed amphibian, Diplocaulus.


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Headley and Blanks drive in late runs, but homer stings Street
SAN DIEGO -- It's not the distance of the hit, but the cost of them that bothers Huston Street the most.
"They're runs on the board and that's all that really matters to me in the end," said the Padres' closer.
Street was dinged again on Friday, as he allowed a pinch-hit home run to Chad Tracy in the 10th inning, which proved to be the critical blow in the Nationals' 6-5 victory over the Padres in front of a crowd of 29,898 at Petco Park.
Street has already allowed six home runs this season in 17 1/3 innings and three home runs in his last three appearances. For perspective, Street allowed two home runs in 39 innings last season.
"It's only six swings, but its six homers," Street said. "Sometimes you give up six hits and they're singles and it's on the same pitch. You go through streaks like that. Baseball is a streaky game."
Tracy's home run with two outs in the 10th inning was one of five home runs hit Friday, as teammates Adam LaRoche (two home runs) and Ryan Zimmerman also went deep. San Diego rookie Jedd Gyorko also hit a home run, his fourth.
On a rare night game in May when the ball carried well, the rally the Padres pieced together in the ninth inning was comprised of small -- but important -- hits, as they rallied from a two-run deficit to tie the game.
In that inning, Chase Headley and Kyle Blanks each had two-out, RBI singles off Nationals reliever Rafael Soriano to force extra innings.
"I do think it helped last night that he [Soriano] was out there for 20-plus pitches and some guys got a look at him," said Padres manager Bud Black. "We put some at-bats together. We didn't sting the ball, but we battled."
But that momentum didn't last long, as Tracy jumped on a changeup from Street, a pitch that Street said Tracy "put a good swing on."
Street, now in his ninth big league season, can be as humbled just as easily as a hard-throwing, 23-year-old rookie.
San Diego starting pitcher Burch Smith, who in his Major League debut didn't get an out in the second inning and allowed six runs to the Rays, pitched considerably better against the Nationals.
Charged with the edict of mixing in more changeups and curveballs, Smith sprinkled in more secondary pitches this time, though he got a lot of mileage out of his mid-90s fastball, especially early in the game.
"I felt like I made an improvement and I was able to mix up some pitches," Smith said. "It's all a learning process."
Smith struck out five of the first 11 hitters he faced and blazed through the Nos. 5, 6 and 7 hitters in the Nationals' lineup in order with strikeouts in the second inning.
"He came out firing," Black said.
Smith allowed singles to Bryce Harper and Zimmerman to start the fourth inning, though he was ahead in the count of each batter. Smith then left a fastball out over the plate to LaRoche, who hit it into the sand box beyond the center field wall.
Two innings later, Smith allowed consecutive home runs to Zimmerman and LaRoche, as the Nationals took a 5-2 lead. Smith admitted afterward that, by that point, he was starting to tire.
"I felt like I lost some velocity," he said. "[The home runs] were up and over the plate. Guys at this level will make you pay for it."
All told, Smith allowed five runs on six hits with one walk and eight strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings.
But, Black said, there were enough positive signs to lead him to believe that Smith will be fine moving forward. There's ability, good command of the fastball and a high aptitude.
"He'll get there," Black said. "There's a lot to like about his stuff. There's a lot to like about his delivery. He's going to be fine long-term."
The Padres scored first as Blanks had an RBI single in the first inning off Gio Gonzalez with another run scoring on the same play when Harper's wild throw to third base that bounced into the seats, allowing another run to trot home.
Gyorko hit his home run off Gonzalez in the sixth inning, helping set up a wild ninth inning that forced extra innings.
After Tracy's home run, the Padres got one-out singles from John Baker and Alexi Amarista in the 10th inning. But Nationals reliever Drew Storen struck out Chris Denorfia and then got Everth Cabrera to ground out to Zimmerman to end the game.
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From the beginning, he has been heavily involved in constructing the arrangements for the Heartbreakers' tunes. As a coauthor, Mike has been responsible for some of the band's biggest hits, as well as two of Don Henley's biggest songs, "The Boys of Summer" and "Heart of the Matter." Time and time again, he has demonstrated that great songs are all about melody, construction and amazing guitar sounds. Like George Harrison before him, Mike reminds us that no matter what guitar he is playing – be it 12-string, slide, acoustic or electric – the most important thing is to always respect the song.
To celebrate the 30 plus years of the Heartbreakers, director Peter Bogdanovich put together a high-quality DVD boxed set called Runnin' Down a Dream, which has the potential to go down as one of the best rock n' roll documentaries ever created. In the film, Mike displays a sense of candor and comes across as both caring and wise – qualities which also emerged in our interview. Shortly after our chat, it was announced that Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers would be joining a small but elite class of musicians who have been chosen to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show.
Hi Mike, and thank you for taking the time to speak with us today. First off, congratulations on the new DVD, Runnin' Down a Dream; Peter Bogdanovich did a fantastic job on it and the amount of old footage is amazing. It's a great close-up of the band's 30-year career, but I still get the feeling that there's plenty ahead for the Heartbreakers. Are you guys planning on touring in 2008?
Yes we are – we're planning on putting a tour together for next summer.
I understand you have a new side project called The Dirty Knobs. Can you tell us about that? Are you guys doing mostly original stuff?
We do mostly originals, but do the odd cover now and then, like The Beatles' "She Said, She Said," or something by the Kinks or Chuck Berry – older stuff – and then arrange it to fit our group. The Dirty Knobs is myself and another guitarist named Jason Sinay, Matt Laug on drums and Lance Morrison on bass. It's all about fun, it's a very spiritual band, and we're not concerned about trying to get a record deal.
Have The Dirty Knobs been in the studio, and if so, can we expect a release anytime soon?
We've recorded a lot and it's great stuff, but I don't know that we want to take on the industry right now because we've got such a good thing going. I almost don't want to bring that energy to it, because it is such a great way to just go out and play.
How did you develop your style of playing? Did you take lessons or learn mostly from records?
Back then we didn't have cassette players or anything, but I would sometimes slow the records down and listen real close and try to figure out how the guitar player was doing certain things. I had a couple of guitar books too. There was one I had, I wish I still had it – it wasHow to Play the Guitar with Carl Wilson [of the Beach Boys], and it had pictures of his hands. I met him several years later and said, "Hey, I had your book" and he was sort of blown away, and said, "Oh, my Dad put that together!" So I got a couple of ideas on how to finger certain chords from that, but most of it I just picked up by ear, off the records.
So no formal lessons?
No, I never did, but when I was real young – I guess I was in sixth grade – my parents got me some accordion lessons in school, so I kinda learned a little bit of basic theory from that. I can read, really painfully slow, but not enough to actually use it.
Were you just playing with an acoustic at that point?
My mom got me my first guitar, a Harmony acoustic for $30 that was unplayable. The strings were so high and I would struggle like crazy and my fingers would bleed trying to play the damn thing. Then I went to a friend's house one day and he had a Gibson SG, and I could not believe how easy it was to push the strings down. So I started on that Harmony acoustic and later on my Dad got me my first electric guitar, a Goya. I wish I still had those, but I gave them away over the years.


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The campsite is next to the 12 mile set of mountain bike trails. It is a great mountain biking/camping getaway. The trails are easy, so for all levels. Nice camping for families. There is also a very nice children's playground near the campsite.
Close to the town of Yellow Springs, Ohio.
The sites are close together and not much privacy, but convenient.
Facilities are fine and there are nice outdoor fireplaces.
The mountain bike trails are all-purpose so you can enjoy hiking them also. They are very well-maintained.
I came here and stayed in my tent (family had their horse trailer with camper) for a night during the chilly nights of October. I wish all campsites were like these - very, very spread out!
Totally makes sense given that you have large horse trailers/campers and also horses at each site, but even then, they were very spread out and had lots of great space to actually enjoy nature.
In terms of trails, there was a starting access point at the horse campground for horseback riding trails that also led to the horse barn, but if you are wanting to hike, you have to drive, unfortunately. Another flaw is that the bathrooms in the horse campground aren't modern and they're pit toilets. Even with the cooler weather, they still wreaked and were not pleasant to use.
This park is super convenient if you're planning on going to the ark encounter and the creation museum because it's about 30-45 minutes in either direction. The park itself is quiet, clean, fairly spread out, and has helpful staff. Only water and electric hookups, common for state parks, but that's the only reason I couldn't do 5 stars. Our kids enjoyed the playgrounds, the mini golf, the museum, and the trails to see the salt springs and the bison. Super neat area.
Wonderful campground for the whole family. Lots to do, great children's activities and playground. spacious and well organized with a great host. A lot extended stay guests but there is usually room for weekend and short term guests. Friendly location and the grounds are supervised so quiet in the evenings.
For us this campground didn't work, so much so we left after the first night of a 3 night stay and threw away $80 essentially. We had zero cell reception on both our ATT and T-Mobile phones (huge problem since my husband works from home), there was no water hookups (problem for a family of 6), and the nearest potable water you had to Drive careful to, and the grey tank dump closest to us was in the middle of the campground (couldn't drive there, so not sure how that was supposed to work). If you want just electric and enjoy peaceful/quiet, this is probably okay for you, but for us we will not be returning nor recommending this campground.
We really enjoyed our stay at Campshore. We had a 50/30 pull thru site with water, a fire ring, and a brand new picnic table. The owner was efficient and kind and we felt very welcome. Many of the sites were for seasonal guests who were able to enjoy full hook ups.
Even though we were not seasonal guests, many of those that were, were kind, one offered us kindling to get our fire going! Our children were able to do homeschooling while there and then we had ample time to explore the river shore and play on the playgrounds. We would definitely stay here if in the area again.
We stayed at Campshore in order to attend the Creation Museum. It was a great weekend all around and we enjoyed our stay.
Great tent sites on mowed lawn under old growth trees. Our night's rest was interrupted multiple times with airport noise—airplanes and helicopters. Note that at this time (COVID) you cannot just pull in and occupy a site. You must call in for a reservation.
Close to Cincinnati but each site is wooded and on lake front , lots to do!
My wife and I love this small state park. There are two main camping areas, wooded and shaded for smaller rv's, trailers, tenters while the other section caters to larger RV's and Motor homes with pull thru and longer pads. This section does have some trees but mostly sunny. There is one main bath house that is quite nice and kept clean. Several restrooms are scattered throughout with flush toilets. Camp hosts are friendly and helpful and do a great job of keeping the campground clean when folks leave. There is a small camp store, though its been closed this summer. There are places to get firewood and prices vary from $5-20 per bundle or stack. Marina is on the other side of the lake but only rents small boats and pontoons. The lake is limited to 9.9 hp motors. OK fishing from the beach area and docks. There are a few hiking trails and they do have cabins that have been updated recently. We are there several times a year camping with our teardrop.
Nice site!


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You could drive across the country a couple of times over, from Freeport, Maine, to Carlsbad, California, from Miami all the way up to Seattle, and you'd be hard pressed to roll through a more unique place than Idaho's Hagerman Valley.
And if you do decide to make such a trek, please be sure that anytime you see trout on a restaurant menu during your travels, to ask where it comes from. Chances are they'll say it comes from Idaho, which more than likely means it once swam in the "Valley of a Thousand Springs."
But that's just the tip of this tale about a place where alligators and the world's oldest fish swim, where one of the earth's best fossil beds can be found and where the locals know how to have a rousing good time.
The Banana Belt
As the mighty Snake River winds its way through the harsh, sage-covered plains of southern Idaho, travelers have long found respite in a wide swath in the canyon known as the Hagerman Valley.
The original travelers, those hardy souls trudging their way along the Oregon Trail, would stop to trade with the native Shoshone-Bannock and Paiute tribes. Native Americans, who called the Snake "Pohogawa," the River of the Sage Plain, have been inhabiting Hagerman Valley for some 12,000 years, getting much of their sustenance from the region's historically rich fisheries; salmon, steelhead, trout and sturgeon said to weigh as much as dairy cows.
The Idaho gold rush of 1862 brought the first permanent settlements to Hagerman and while most of the businesses didn't make it, some farmers did. By 1895, Stanley Hagerman established the valley's first post office and both the small town that sprung up around it and the valley in which it sits took his name. Local legend, however, has it that Stanley's last name was actually "Hageman" and that a clerical typo added the r.
Farming, especially for trout, has continued to be a strong driving force in the local economy. Thanks to the numerous natural springs that seep out all over the Hagerman Valley with clean, cool water from the Snake River Aquifer, it's an ideal place to raise trout. That's why over 75% of the commercial trout produced in the country comes from Idaho, primarily the Hagerman Valley.
From huge facilities like the Clear Springs Foods complex (which also raises commercial sturgeon) to the Hagerman National Fish Hatchery (which rears threatened steelhead) to the simplicity of a couple of trout runs running across someone's front yard that are leased out to fish farmers, the entire valley is literally littered with trout. But the "Thousand Springs" of Hagerman Valley aren't just good for trout.
Many of the springs (which were once said to number in the thousands, but now are in the hundreds), are actually hot, which is why Hagerman has long been an oasis for folks in search of a nice soak. The warm springs also allow the valley to commercially grow a few aquatic species that definitely aren't native to Idaho, like alligators and tilapia.
Rumor even has it that a gator once escaped and made it to the much chillier Snake River. But there has yet to be a single report about any sightings of an alligator wearing a wetsuit or resembling a super-sized Popsicle.
Add the odd aquatic species together with all the hot water, mild winters and steamy summers and the Hagerman Valley has a near tropical feel to it—at least by Gem State standards. Even though it seems like bananas are the only thing they don't grow in Hagerman, it makes sense that it's often referred to as the "Banana Belt of Idaho."
The Hagerman Horse
Old Highway 30, the "Thousand Springs Scenic Byway," cuts a path through the heart of the Hagerman Valley, covering nearly 30 miles from beneath the bench where Buhl sits following the Snake River up to the edge of Bliss. But long before the road was cut, Mother Nature took a crack at it.
The Bonneville Flood, which tore open the Snake River canyon about 15,000 years ago, scattered "melon gravel"—rocks as big as watermelons and Volkswagen Beetles—on the valley floor and ripped off layers of the bluffs above, exposing the most varied fossil bed of land and aquatic species from the Pliocene Epoch found anywhere on earth.
Of course, no one knew that then. It took until 1928, when a local rancher named Elmer Cook clued in the scientists at the Smithsonian. Mastodons, sabre-toothed cats, camels, antelope, fish, frogs and snakes of all kinds all left evidence they'd lived here eons ago. But the big finds were the horses, many of which were over three million years old.
Over 20 complete skeletons of horses were found. The horses, which had much in common with modern-day zebras, were sent to museums all over the globe, making Equus simplicidens, "The Hagerman Horse," world famous.
"One More Won't Hurt"
As was the case with many towns from the Old West days, the opening of the post office was soon followed by the opening of a bar. The first one in Hagerman was said to have been opened by a fella named Billy Colthrap and all it offered was a barrel of whiskey and a tin cup.
There are two watering holes in Hagerman now, with a third legendary spot overlooking the valley up in Bliss. Perry Pleyte has lived along the edge of the Hagerman Valley for close to two decades now and likes the place so much that he and his wife, Karen, happily call five acres on the bluff above the Snake River home, even though he works in Hailey as the Director of Philanthropy for The Nature Conservancy and she works as an international flight attendant.
Perry was kind enough to play tour guide for Sun Valley Magazine's romp through Hagerman, which naturally included stops at the (and just about any) region's real cultural and historical hubs—its bars. Time does seem to stop, or at least come to a crawl, in most small town bars.
Since 1943, Wilson's Club has been a family-run staple in the center of downtown Hagerman. Serving a full bar and some snack food, the walls of the place are adorned with knickknacks from yesteryear.
Farming equipment, faded photos of celebrities, moose and antelope mounts and a barber's pole cover the walls. In the back, there's a fenced off "museum" full of antiques from the mining and horse and wagon days.
"The 'Rusty Zipper' we call it," jokes bartender Cindy Webb. "It's the only museum with a liquor license."
The floors are well-worn wooden slates that, could they speak, surely have many stories to tell. It's a sunny Saturday afternoon and the bar is full, primarily with locals. As is the case everywhere we go, from the Visitor's Center and golf course to the old bars, Perry's is a familiar and welcomed face.
"It's a beautiful area and an interesting place to live. There are a lot of characters around here and there's a lot of dichotomy. There's everything from mansions to 'break out the banjo,'" Perry jokes, as we tip back a couple of cold ones.
"I prefer this to a big city," Perry says, as we prepare to ignore the Wilson Club motto of "One More Won't Hurt" and head across the street to the Angler's Club. "It's like stepping back in time."
Much like it's neighbor, the Angler's Club—in various forms—has been hooking in thirsty patrons since the 1940s. Jim Achabal has owned the place since 1980 and it appeals to a younger crowd than Wilson's. The Angler's Club also serves solid food, to go along with lots of beer and whiskey.
"We have a lot of regulars and a lot of people who are just in town to hunt or fish or are on a bike ride," bartender Mary Norman says. With later falls and earlier springs than most spots in Idaho, Hagerman is a popular spot for motorcyclists, and stopping in for a cold one at the Angler's Club is usually part of the ride.
There are various motorcycles on display throughout the bar and the folks sitting around it can be friendly enough to even buy a stranger a beer—especially if you're hanging out with a local.
"This is the type of place," cook Kevin Hennagir says in a thick Bayou accent that lets you know he's not a native Idahoan, "where everybody knows your name."
Located "1/2 Way Between Heaven And Hell," as their motto goes, Outlaws and Angels isn't what you'd expect somebody to name a bar in a town called Bliss. But there it sits, a rather simple, single-story building overlooking the Snake River as it leaves the Hagerman Valley and heads northwest toward Glenns Ferry.
Under various names and numerous owners, Outlaws and Angels has been a bar on and off for as long as anyone can remember—which, guessing by their typical crowd, probably dates back to about yesterday afternoon.
"Everybody who grows up here has a little bit of wild in 'em," Michele Hobdey says, while the late-afternoon bar crowd of folks from 21 to "darned near 81" reveled in familiar cheer. Michele's family first homesteaded in nearby King Hill in 1870 and her uncle once owned the bar.
"There's nothing more beautiful than north of Bliss," Michele said, going on to describe the natural splendors to be found under the big skies of the Snake River Plain. From grouse and sunsets, talk soon returned to the little town on the edge of the Hagerman Valley.
"It is an odd town, though, I'm telling you that. It's pretty close to the 'Twilight Zone,'" Michele says with a wink, adding, "and if you stay long enough, the women will start booming like sage hens."
From farms raising alligators, sturgeon and most of the nation's edible trout to hot springs, classic Old West watering holes and world-famous horse fossils, there are plenty of fun, unique reasons to roll into the Hagerman Valley.
"There's a little bit of everything down here," Perry explains as we called it a day. "Sometimes it's hard to believe this is Idaho, isn't it?"
Which made me think of something else Michele said as we looked out toward the Hagerman Valley. Something that didn't sound like it should be spelled with a capital 'B." She smiled, made a sweeping gesture with her hand and said, "We're just bliss."


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[Intro: Tech N9ne]
Jeffin, the act of kissing ass in or brown nosing in a persons face
When in actuality you really have I'll feelings toward that person
[Chorus: Krizz Kaliko]
Lady momma momma top of the world and I ain't stoppin' no
Things goin' change today my thing droppin'droppin'
See you when I was broke-broke
Ain't said nuttin'-no
Now that the nigga poppin all them bitches get to jeffin
When you see me rollin' up- Stop Jeffin! Stop Jeffin!
They be like "whassup" Stop Jeffin! Stop Jeffin!
Yea you- Stop Jeffin!
We ain't cool- Stop Jeffin!
Point your fingers- Stop Jeffin! Stop Jeffin! Da na na na
[Tech N9ne:]
This is Kansas City lingo blurrr you mungo single
You call it jockin' but stop jeffin's what we bring you
It's when people really hate you but love you when you in the place
So if ya "don't like me stay the hell up out my face Hey! "
Don't be jeffin with me Mr. Jefferson I pill fit-it
Jeffery from Jefferson City I'm sick and I'll pull the kill-switch
Talkin' behind my back gotta wrap your man and tell me how you really feel with' it
And if it's real then we can deal with' it
Jeffin is ass-kissin' then talkin trash dissin'
When you missin' when you present he bitchin' "have chicken"
No gizzard he 'bout to get it with' a liver be
Welcome to misery, cookin Jeffery rotisserie
Swinging on the deals-nic, jeffin for a hot second
Turn around and cut me down I'm a catch you rollin' Prospect
And my obsession will begin or I consend a nigga in glock heaven
So mafucka stop jeffin!
[BG Bullet Wound:]
What's happenin'
This for them niggas that saw we shappin' them Jeffro Bo Dean niggas
"oooo he so clean with' it"
Slappin' two fifteens canary yellow bright
Ho's like to jeff with they jizzle they flaunt it every night
Every night poppin this pistol bottles up off every flight
Mafuckers they won't do it but they ain't livin' right
Where you get your shoes from? where you get your weed at?
Whatcha freakin' eyes on man I know your gee's fat
But I don't really fuck with' this nigga
Put him off in the back seat with Tech N9ne he stuck with' this nigga
Cause I'm jeffin-jeffin no I can't help ya-help ya
Grab your sack and get to steppin'-steppin
Off of deuce click homie yea I'm keepin' it reppin'
Keepin' it flexin' keepin' all you Jeffery's in session
"correction" and I don't really know what the fuck
Hell nah I don't know no Tech and no Kutt so quit jeffin
[Kutt Calhoun:]
They rest to death in my skinny's and twenty-three's
You get dressed to impress but you lookin' like mini me's
But the jeff is un-neccesary that you givin' me
Makes me question the jesture of your sexuality "Hey! "
You niggas approach me like y'all the bitches be all up on my dick
Askin' for telephone numbers hopin' to take pictures of shit
If I wasn't in this business you niggas wouldn't even call
You see me the source of the murder dog now you swingin' balls
Hey Kutt can you get on my album nigga y'all click is the shit
You puttin' the town on the map I'm thinking this nigga's a bitch
When I wasn't makin' no noise you wasn't a part of no Kutty
No I'm a tax you mafuckers for half of your budgets
Take a big breathe of this hella shwagga with relish it
Inhale it and tell me if you can handle the smell of it
It smell like I'm rich don't it, I know when you pimps want it
So quit all that chattin' you ain't equip for this shit fold-it


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7 Hottest Fall Makeup Trends
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These trends are hot off of the fall 2011 New York Fashion Week runways. And we know what you're thinking: "High fashion" often looks too gaudy for everyday wear and not appropriate for non-models. That's why we talked to Uzo Ukaeje, Nars International Lead Makeup Artist, who understands the difference between the runway and real life. We got her to spill all her secrets about how to turn these fall makeup trends into looks you can wear anywhere, from the office to a girls' night out.
We're not saying that the earth's relative location to the sun should dictate how you wear makeup all the time -- and of course there are endless ways to experiment with colors. But we think you'll find that the best fall trends are just new spins on classic looks -- and these how-tos will inspire you to spice up your same-old morning routine. So, grab that pumpkin latte and start taking notes -- you don't want to miss these.
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I'm going to try the upside down cat's eye. I can' seem to get the up-angled cat's eye without a lot of smudging. Maybe this will be easier.
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No upside down cat eye for me, even though i must admit it looks artistic.
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No big brows for me!
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Navy nail polish is one of my fall/winter favorites!
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I have to agree that there are some "interesting" hot trends out there. Come on, as far as trends the fresh look and wine stained lips are always in. As for the others... Would you really do the upside down cat eye? Really.
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I have bold brows! But that picture is just way too dramatic! I guess that's because it's on the runway....
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Business situationIn 2012, the asset management firm launched the You! Initiative – an internal initiative geared towards its New Ways of Working program. With "Bricks, Bytes & Behavior" as its core concepts, You! encompasses change in the areas of accommodation, technology and behaviors: how to work together, how to share knowledge and how to use communication tools more effectively and efficiently.
As far as the technological aspect was concerned, Robeco faced an uphill struggle with a relatively antiquated IT system currently in place. "The goal of New Ways of Working was to enable our people to work more efficiently, communicate and collaborate at optimal levels. This proved nigh on impossible with our existing IT infrastructure, which consisted of Office XP, Lotus Notes and Windows XP. Our users weren't especially happy with that environment," comments Ton Ligtvoet, IT development manager and member of the Robeco IT management team responsible for commissioning the "Workspace 2014" workplace program.
"With Office 365, place and time no longer represent restrictions."
SolutionRobeco employs more than 1,600 people, and 1,200 of them are already working with Microsoft Office 365, not only within the Netherlands, but also at a number of sales offices in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. That makes Robeco the first of the major financial institutions to make the move to Office 365 on this sort of scale. "Because we're among the first in financial services to start to work with this Microsoft solution, we did come up against a few unanticipated hurdles during the initial phases. These have since been overcome by Microsoft and Avanade but, looking back, we definitely learned from them," says Johann Corlemeijer, vice president of technical infrastructure at Avanade.
"One of Robeco's challenges revolved around compliance and security regulations. In theory, Office 365 is a 'one-size-fits-all' solution, meaning that each customer has the same functionality at their disposal. But Robeco is not just any customer. Compared with other customers, security requirements are more stringent and compliance specifications have to be fulfilled, as required by the regulator, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). Last November, this regulator removed a significant barrier to the use of Microsoft Office 365. In agreement with Dutch financial institutions, such as Robeco, Microsoft incorporated a clause in this regard, which grants the DNB the right to investigate. As such, the DNB is entitled to conduct investigations into Robeco's regulatory compliance within the Office 365 environment. This doesn't mean that a financial institution is relieved of its duty to carry out a thorough risk analysis and risk assessment prior to introducing Office 365, whilst also observing the DNB rules on outsourcing," adds Ligtvoet.
"The greatest advantage of Office 365 for us is the ability to have a single, modern environment that integrates mail, calendar and Office functionalities," says Ligtvoet. "We now also have the tools available to share our knowledge and facilitate collaboration. And, as we predicted, costs have dropped. Microsoft automatically updates our Office 365 environment, adding new functionalities that our end users can enjoy instantaneously."
Ligtvoet also lists ease of use, broad functionality, increased collaboration within his organisation and the option to use smartphones as additional benefits. "Partly thanks to the introduction of webmail and the option of accessing mail, calendar, communication and collaboration functionalities via both business smartphones and personal devices, primarily iPhones and iPads in Robeco's case, we are improving basic IT support, be it at work and home, on a business or personal device."
Cost reductions formed a large part of the business case. Corlemeijer: "Large or small, one mailbox, 25,000 mailboxes or more, Office 365 is suited to any organisation. Costly customisation is no longer required, nor is maintenance and service; these are all taken care of by Microsoft. As a result, the Office 365 option is significantly less expensive than 'on premises' solutions on in-house servers," said Corlemeijer.
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Miller arrives at camp prepared to fight for spot
After a solid rookie season, Miller will square off against Franklin at shortstop
PEORIA, Ariz. -- A year ago at this time, Brad Miller was the wide-eyed kid with the high socks and gangly running style, one of the group of up-and-coming prospects who seemed still a long way from cracking the Mariners' Major League roster.
If you listen now to the unassuming Miller, he's still all those things. Still the young guy trying to soak up knowledge, still the old-school throwback with the high socks and no batting gloves, still the lanky athlete whose arms and legs seem to go every which way when he's sprinting around the bases.
But don't be fooled by the low-key approach and fresh-faced innocence. Miller is a ballplayer, which he proved last year every time he was given a chance. And this spring he's a ballplayer bolstered by the confidence of 76 games in the Major Leagues, his dream now a reality following a rookie season in which he hit .265 with eight homers and 36 RBIs after taking over at shortstop for Brendan Ryan at midseason.
Miller is competing for that shortstop job this spring with Nick Franklin, his middle-infield compatriot who got pushed out of his second base job by the arrival of Robinson Cano. So there is nothing assured about Miller's immediate future, given new manager Lloyd McClendon's insistence that he has zero predetermination about who will win that competition.
Whoever doesn't claim the shortstop job almost certainly returns to Triple-A Tacoma, given the Mariners will prefer to let that youngster play and develop every day rather than sit on the bench in a backup role. But Miller isn't worrying about that right now.
He figures his job is to prepare himself and continue getting better. It will be somebody else's job to determine whether that's good enough for him to remain the shortstop.
Yeah, he's more comfortable this spring. He'll allow that. But only because he knows where he's going now, understands the big-league routine and isn't in awe of the fact that Felix Hernandez's locker is just across the room or that he's now shoveling tosses to Robinson Cano in infield drills.
"I think the biggest thing is just being a little more comfortable with the surroundings, the big league clubhouse and everything like that," Miller said. "But it's still the same mission. I come in here and it's still eyes wide open and I'm all ears, just trying to soak everything in from our coaches and some of the veterans and just get better. But I'm definitely a little bit more comfortable with the routine."
As for the fact he's been tossed into an open competition with Franklin, a guy he grew up playing against in high school and was teammates with on some select All-Star squads growing up not far from each other in Orlando, Fla.?
"We got a lot of time last year up the middle together, so we have a pretty good relationship," Miller said. "Honestly, we're more just working together. We're trying to get better, supporting each other and the main thing, at least how I look at it, we're competing against the other teams. But me and Franky, we're coming out here and trying to get our work in and trying to get better."
McClendon likes what he's seen so far of Miller, but isn't making any judgments yet on that competition.
"He's looked great," McClendon said. "He's moving well. His drills have been outstanding. He's swinging the bat well. Listen, he's the incumbent, but he's got to compete. Both of those guys understand that. I don't have any preconceived notions. I want them to go out and compete and may the best man win the job."
Both youngsters came to camp ready to give it their best shot. Franklin dropped a few pounds to 192 while noticeably adding muscle to his 6-foot-1 frame, looking like a youngster filling out at age 22. And Miller, 24, hit the weights hard as well and bulked his once-lanky 6-2 frame up from 193 pounds to 210.
"After last year, I kind of wanted to reflect and I realized, I'm playing against grown men, some strong guys, and it's a long year," Miller said. "I looked at myself and figured I need to get a little more physical. So I really just hit the weight room and track hard, trying to put on some good weight and get stronger.
"It feels good," he said. "I feel strong and I've just got to keep it going, keep up the work in the weight room throughout the year and keep working on my running form. That's pretty much it. I just want to be stronger and more physical."
As for that running form? Miller good-naturedly takes grief from teammates about his gangly style.
"It's all over the place," he said with a grin. "A wounded deer or baby giraffe come to mind. So hopefully I've cleaned it up a little bit."
But the truth is, he was able to show off that running style more than most last year when his aggressive hitting approach and baserunning led to 11 doubles, six triples, eight homers and five stolen bases in 306 at-bats, with a .418 slugging percentage that ranked fourth on the team behind only Raul Ibanez (.487), Kendrys Morales (.449) and Kyle Seager (.426).
While Miller clearly wasn't in the defensive class of Ryan, he played a solid shortstop and his OPS of .737 obliterated the .520 mark Ryan put up before being shipped to the Yankees late in the season.
McClendon says he just needs a shortstop who can make the routine plays and isn't worried about Web Gem highlights, using the Tigers' Jhonny Peralta as an example of a guy who gets the job done defensively and brings some offense to the table as well.
Miller doesn't have as much pop as Peralta, who has hit 20-plus homers in four of his last nine seasons in the Majors. But Miller has the speed to have filled the leadoff role a team-high 67 games last year and led all American League rookies with his six triples, and the power to put up three two-homer games, a feat not accomplished by a rookie since Chris Young of the D-backs and Ryan Braun of the Brewers did the same in 2007.
So while he may not look like a power hitter, don't tell him that.
"Actually, at least in my mind, I'm trying to go up there and drive a ball. I'm trying to do damage," he said. "And for me, I want to consistently drive it. Those three games where I had a couple homers, I believe you've got to do a lot right to really get into a ball. So I'm just trying to be consistent with that.
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"'Now that we've made it here, we'll make it everywhere,' said prominent activist Evan Wolfson, who took up the cause of marriage equality as a law student three decades ago…
"The work — as envisioned by leading activists — is a three-pronged strategy unfolding at the state level, in dealings with Congress and the Obama administration, and in the courts where several challenges to the federal ban on gay marriage are pending…
"Brian Brown, president of the conservative National Organization for Marriage, vowed to seek defeat of the New York Republicans who helped the marriage bill pass. He also predicted victory for the amendment to ban gay marriage next year in Minnesota, and said this would belie the claims that the same-sex marriage campaign would inevitably prevail nationwide.
"'We've won every free, fair vote of the people,' Brown said Saturday. "Backroom deals in Albany are not an indication of what people in this country think about marriage.'"
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"'I think you're going to see an evolution toward this position on all levels,' Cuomo said in a possible reference to the White House's contention that President Barack Obama's own views on gay marriage — he opposes it but favors civil unions — are evolving. 'I think you're going to see an evolution, and I think you're going to see a rapid evolution.'…
"Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said, 'Rarely have you seen political advocates pushing for this like they did in New York. To me, what's amazing is that (defenders of traditional marriage) held out as long as they did. Support for traditional marriage is still extremely strong.'…
"'I think this increases the pressure on Washington and Republicans in particular to defend the Defense of Marriage Act,' Perkins said Saturday. 'Without that, the … states that have taken a stand for (traditional) marriage could potentially have that wiped away.'"
"Obama's reluctance to come out for gay marriage seems hugely and willfully inconsistent with what we know about his progressive worldview. And it is odd that the first black president is letting Andrew Cuomo, who pushed through a gay-marriage bill in Albany on Friday night, go down in history as the leader on the front lines of the civil rights issue of our time.
"But for the president, 'the fierce urgency of now' applies only to getting checks from the gay community, not getting up to speed with all the Americans who think it's time for gay marriage.
"As with 'Don't ask, don't tell,' Obama is not leading the public, he's following. And worse, the young, hip black president who was swept in on a gust of change, audacity and hope is lagging behind a couple of old, white conservatives — Dick Cheney and Ted Olson."
"Without even bothering to look it up, I know that some people opposing gay marriage argued at some point that gay marriage in some states would create a chaotic patchwork of inconsistent marriage laws in the several states, and that gay marriage should be resisted on these grounds. Without looking it up, I know that gay marriage proponents cried hogwash to this concern, and claimed that the states should serve as laboratories of democracy (even court-imposed non-democracy) and certainly the idea of 'uniformity' was a trivial and silly matter that should not be used as a basis of argumentation.
"However, I know this: Now that a small but nontrivial minority of states have implemented gay marriage, the gay marriage lobby will begin to argue that 'uniformity of marriage laws' is a paramount consideration, and that we surely cannot tolerate a chaotic patchwork of differing marriage laws in the several states, and of course that means we must have nationwide all-50-states gay marriage…
"It becomes harder and harder to believe anything gay marriage proponents claim about their future agenda when every past claim about their next moves has been false (and false from the moment of utterance).
"The claim is being made that 'Of course we will not impose gay marriage on religious institutions.'
"Um, yeah. Because you've been so upfront and candid with me in the past."
"It seems very quick to you folks in the media but for me it's been a long struggle – and [now] a great sense of elation and joy. I think it's the right thing to do, the majority of New Yorkers think it's the right thing to do and it's about time that we treat gay and lesbian couples the same way we treat everyone else.
"The first time I debated this bill on the floor I pointed out that two drunk people can get on a plane, fly to Las Vegas, stand in front of an Elvis impersonator and they get to have something that I cannot get from my government. This is not about a seat in your synagogue, it's not about a pew in your church – this is about a document that the state issues to people, and it issues it every day. And many of my straight colleagues in state government have had this license two or three times. It's about time that I have the right to have it once."
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In congressional testimony on Dec. 11, American Legion Legislative Director Lou Celli characterized a commonly employed government buying process as unfair and even harmful to veteran-owned small businesses. Celli appeared at a joint hearing of two U.S. House subcommittees examining the practice of utilizing "reverse auctions" in federal agency acquisitions.
Government reverse auctions are those in which a federal agency, such as the Department of Veterans Affairs, solicits a series of bids for needed good or services from vendors in an online auction setting. Critics claims that reverse auctions are do not necessarily provide the government with the financial savings for which they were designed since bidders – the would-be suppliers of goods and services to government – have little if any incentive to offer their best price up front, or ever. Also, the practice has become so unpopular among some vendors that single-bidder reverse auctions are not unheard of, thus providing no competitive bids for the government buyer to consider. Reportedly, many construction companies are especially wary of reverse auctions since they must consider the sometimes undisclosed complexity of a job, plus the expense of supplies, materials and subcontracting, before making an intelligent and informed bid on a project. Critics also argue that reverse auctions can deliver inferior results since only price is considered by the buyer in this scenario, rather than overall value intrinsic in the bidder's experience, commitment to quality and proven efficiency and expediency.
Celli's testimony dealt with reverse auctions from the veteran owned small business (VOSB) and service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVSOB) points of view. He said the reverse auction practice discourages the profits that are especially critical to the survival and prosperity of small businesses such as VOSBs and SDVOSBs who have limited resources.
"The only real argument for using (reverse auctions) is 'to drive prices down'," Celli said. "Since small business accounts for almost 90 percent of all reverse auction bidders, it's the small businesses who are suffering the most."
Celli went on to register the opinions of reverse auctions expressed by veteran business owners, including members of The American Legion Small Business Task Force. "The American Legion works with hundreds of veteran business owners and has consistently received negative reports regarding the reverse auction process," he said. "The most common comment we hear is that the process is unfair, deceptive, and fraught with cheaters. This is not a characterization by The American Legion as to the quality of reverse auction services. It is only offered as a perspective of what the overwhelming opinion is regarding reverse auctions.
"From our research, we have found that the No. 1 problem with the reverse auction system is that it poises the federal government in a predatory position, and without a highly skilled and highly ethical oversight mechanism in place to ensure the government isn't being wrongly enriched by creating an overbearing procurement process, then reverse auctions are a recipe for disaster."
Celli also criticized the process as encouraging small businesses to underbid while in the heat of a fast-paced auction, thus ultimately harming themselves financially, and being coerced into selling their goods and services below fair-market value. "The only way to make the process fair is to guarantee that the federal government is statutorily prohibited from purchasing goods or services through the reverse auctions process, below fair market value," said Celli.
In written testimony submitted to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations and the House Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting & the Workforce, Celli stated, "While reverse auctions may have a place in federal procurement in a limited capacity, The American Legion believes that the federal contracting office has the primary responsibility to ensure that every product that the government spends tax payer dollars on is purchased at fair market value. This assurance protects the tax payer, the small business, and the market."
Celli also wrote, "The American Legion is extremely concerned that reverse auctions will lead to decreased quality and decreased employment opportunities for veterans, which is in direct violation of American Legion Resolution No. 50 that supports more hiring opportunities for veterans. " In his written testimony, Celli also referenced Legion Resolution No. 321 supporting "reasonable set-aside of federal procurements and contracts for business owned and operated by veterans.
In oral testimony near the conclusion of the two-hour hearing, Department of Veterans' Affairs' Veterans' Health Administration (VHA) deputy under secretary Jan Frye said, "VA supports the use of reverse auction(s) as an acquisition tool…primarily limited to contractor support for VHA", but noted that the process has not been problem free. "Early in fiscal year 2012, concerns surfaced regarding management of the reverse auction process,' he said."As a result, VA…made the decision to invoke a moratorium and conduct a comprehensive evaluation of VA's current compliance with policy and regulations." The moratorium lasted one month, March 3 to April 3, 2012.
Frye noted that VA is again "pausing further utilization of our reverse auction tool. We are assessing the degree to which we can ensure a consistent application of this solicitation method, which includes thorough documentation and conforms to all aspects of VA policy. The department will continue to procure products and services through other procurement methods."
In his closing remarks, Congressman Richard Hanna, who chaired the hearing, stated that the month-long moratorium on reverse auctions imposed by VA in 2012 was lifted due to "political pressure." He did not cite the source of that pressure.


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Yet Another Trumpet of the Horn
~by Carmen Schwartz
This subject is talked about, it seems, when there is no other thing to talk about. Politics, religion, gun laws, conservative versus liberal, moronic news stations versus…everyone else on the planet. Issues are debated each and every hour on television, but when it comes to endangered species, it seems that the subject is buried a great deal of the time by something 'more important.'
National Geographic states facts. Unfortunately, the worst fact of all, is that the threat against the rhino is still massive. Perhaps it would be easier to feel for this subject if you knew more about them.
Both black and white rhinoceroses are actually gray, and they are truly stunning, magnificent creatures. The Black rhino has a pointed upper lip, because of the fact that they are the roamers of the two species. They shop, browse, pick out their food from finding and consuming the best trees or bushes. They pluck the leaves and fruit from above, while the White rhino grazes, choosing the grasses for their meals.
When it comes to the Black rhino, they live life in an almost self-imposed solitary confinement. They like to be alone, with females reproducing only every two and a half to five years – which means a new generation takes a while to create. Feeding under the stars, Black rhinos like the nighttime hours, which makes sense, because under the serious rays of the African sun, they wish to stop roaming during the day and sit in the cover that the trees provide.
They keep the bugs off their skin by themselves, by rolling around in a water or mud hole and taking care of their skin. And when they do wish to find another, their incredibly keen hearing and sense of smell allows them to locate the trail of their friends that they left behind.
These horns, that seem to be their undoing, are apparently a 'must have' pair, with the foremost one being larger than the other. The Black rhino horns grow as much as three inches a year, with some being seen up to five feet in length. Females use their horns to protect the young, while males must use them as warriors in battle to keep away unwanted, unnecessary and classless human attackers.
It is ridiculous, after all this time and many good people bringing the Black rhino nightmare to the world so they can hear and STOP the murdering from happening, that these animals are still being killed for their horns. Some are used for medicinal purposes in the Far East. And even worse than that, other locations only want the horn to use as an ornament – a handle on a dagger that they will never use – just place under glass and never even think about the fact that their stupid decoration actually took yet another life from the almost nonexistent Black rhino population.
Poaching grows bigger…because of commercial demand. Armed poachers are on record for slaughtering twice the number of Kenyan rhinos in 2013 compared to 2012. (At least 59 this past year and 30 the year before). Good people in Kenya have increased the number of guards for these poor creatures. Heavily armed guards, in fact, roam Kenyan capital's national park, but poachers seem to not care in the least, willing to risk their lives for the cash.
Barely over a thousand left, rhinos are being erased from this planet. An actual report from Interpol stated there had been 'record levels of global ivory seizures worldwide in 2013.'
Powerful (but absolutely unrecorded) healing properties? Decorations for your home? Jewelry you don't need in the slightest? These are the reasons why this amazing creature is being killed??
Don't you find it odd that we scream and yell and stand on pulpits when it comes to children being killed in schools because of poor gun rights, but we can not seem to yell loud enough about another innocent (one among a big list), that have done nothing wrong, do not cause pain to the world, and are an addition to the world that should never be in pain or turmoil?
No offense to anyone…but is it REALLY more important to constantly rant about the ridiculous things future political frontrunners do than actually saving a life?
This is a call to action! The sad part is, this is a call to action…AGAIN, and AGAIN, and AGAIN!


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The music video produced as the centrepiece of the 2012 World Humanitarian Day campaign has been nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for Best Video With a Social Message.
The video for the song 'I Was Here', performed by Beyoncé and penned by songwriter Diane Warren, was filmed in the UN General Assembly Hall in front of a live audience. It has been viewed more than 21 million times.
"I am delighted by this nomination," said Valerie Amos, the United Nations Humanitarian Chief. "This song and video helped us reach more than 1 billion people around the world with the core message of World Humanitarian Day: the importance of people helping people. It encouraged people around the world to do something good for others."
Last year's World Humanitarian Day campaign, also built around the theme 'I Was Here', called on people to make their mark by doing something good, somewhere, for someone else. The campaign was produced with the support of Beyoncé's Parkwood Entertainment and advertising agency Droga5.
The campaign reached more than 1 billion people through social media. Thousands of those involved decided to make a more personal mark, and spent the day volunteering in their local communities.
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Monday, May 27, 2013
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Songdo mural
Sometimes, nothing reminds us what a small world it is quite like a collaborative public art project.
Songdo, South Korea, was built from the ground up and opened for business in 2009. Hailed as the city of the future, it's an aerotropolis — purposely positioned near Incheon International Airport — where green buildings and sustainable infrastructure are mandatory, and movers and shakers are expected to solidify its spot as a global business hub.
Against the city's modern, concrete-and-steel-heavy architectural landscape, a shot of color from a brand-new outdoor mural really pops.
If "A City on the Rise" looks similar to something you'd see on the side of a building in Lawrence, there's a good reason.
Here's how artists, students and teachers reached halfway around the world from Lawrence to Songdo to make it happen.
Long way from home
Vanessa Vanek grew up in Lawrence, graduated from Kansas University and taught art at Topeka High School before she "went international."
After three years in Bangkok, she got a job teaching art at Songdo's Chadwick International School in 2010. The fledgling school in the fledgling city is a sister school to Chadwick School — a prestigious Los Angeles day school with a handful of celebrity alums — and leaders encourage collaboration between the two.
Vanek had an idea.
In 2005, her Topeka High art students collaborated with Lawrence muralist David Loewenstein on the Aaron Douglas Mural in Topeka. Maybe he would do a project in Songdo?
Vanek had no idea whether Loewenstein was still in Lawrence or even still an active muralist (he is). But on a trip back to the States last summer, she asked around. Soon, she and Loewenstein were discussing the idea over coffee.
'Not just a conversation'
Loewenstein has painted murals in Lawrence, all over the United States and in Northern Ireland, where he collaborated with five schools — some Catholic, some Protestant — on artwork in 2000.
Collaborating to create a mural in South Korea was going to be tricky — especially since Songdo's governing body wanted to approve the design before Loewenstein would have a chance to visit the site, Songdo Central Park.
Enter modern technology.
Through email and Skype, Loewenstein asked Vanek and her students — plus several from California who flew in to take part in the planning process — to talk about the iconography of Korea, define Songdo's importance as a green city and physically act out the core values of their school. Vanek sent Loewenstein photos of the students' gestures, as well as their color studies and sketches of mural designs.
The students' first video chat with Loewenstein was early, at 7:45 a.m., but 18 students were present and "pumped," Vanek said.
"They just loved the idea that they were meeting this professional working artist, a mural artist that does this for a living," she said.
Loewenstein incorporated the students' ideas and gestures into a sketch, with a crane carrying the Songdo skyline on its wings as the focal point.
"The process is a way of engaging people about issues and issues that concern them, and, often times, heritage or visioning of what they want to see happen in the place that they live," Loewenstein said. "It's nice because it's not just a conversation, it's all pointed toward the creation of this artwork."
Handing them a brush
With the design approved, Loewenstein and his assistant Ashley Laird flew to Songdo at the end of April for a week of painting, and that's when even more people got involved.
Loewenstein, Laird, Vanek and the Chadwick students outlined the mural onto the wall and began to fill it with vivid splashes of yellow, turquoise and blue. Curious passersby from small children to senior citizens stopped to talk, Loewenstein said, and "we usually handed them a brush, if they were willing."
Songdo dignitaries, developers, students, parents and Chadwick International School, which funded the project, all were represented at the mural's dedication ceremony April 29, when Loewenstein, Laird and Vanek helped unveil the new work.
"Having come from Lawrence, I've seen how art can impact a community in powerful ways," Vanek said. "The whole idea of this mural at the beginning, for me, was how could we connect our students to the city of Songdo? ...This process did become about the community of Songdo."
Besides its modern architecture, Loewenstein said Songdo is home to wonderful public sculptures and "exquisite" landscaping, but there's nothing quite like the new mural.
"For sure our little painting stood out as something that looked like it had a little more human touch to it," Loewenstein said. "We were thrilled that IFEZ (Incheon Free Economic Zone) and the city of Songdo would let us do this there."
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Ken Lassman 7 years, 6 months ago
Pictures, please? Surely you have pictures of the mural to share, along with more pictures of the mural being painted.
bluegirljazz 7 years, 6 months ago
Annyeonghaseyo DougCounty, Vanessa here, I actually created a video that talks about the process Dave, Ashley, and I went through with the students as well as pictures from beginning to end, link: https://vimeo.com/66491777
A shame that the Journal World didn't put a finished photo here, it turned out beautiful!
Lawrence Morgan 7 years, 6 months ago
I agree. The video is wonderful. The Journal-World didn't put it with the article because their staff didn't make it. So much for citizen-journalism at the Journal-World.
msezdsit 7 years, 6 months ago
Very down to earth but yet very powerful. It kinda makes you think of what the world would be like if more people were able to make the contributions that connect the circle of so many people with such a positive message . Should also make you think about those who do and appreciate them. Awesome, Dave and Ashley and the entire corroborative!!!! Some day I hope to meet you two. Thanks to Vanessa for a great idea.
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Last week, I had the privilege of taking an American Sign Language Class here in Belize. It was incredible and I learned so much. During this week, I was able to develop some great friendships, with others interested in the same thing I am.
We spent the entire week role playing and actively learning all aspects of sign language. In the pictures below, you will see pictures our classroom. We learned by question and answer, doing presentations, following DVD examples, and role playing (as you see Fonzie, my dad's friend & work associate) doing below. All of this, helped me to have a new appreciation for what it means to be deaf.
I have several friends here on the island that are deaf, and I want to be able to communicate with them better. Here are some pictures of yesterday - this was graduation day for me You can see my sister Lauren watching me graduate. I have lots to learn in the weeks and months to come.
Afterwards, we had a big blow out party with all our friends. Dad and Dennie broke out the BBQ grill, and did hamburgers and hot dogs for the whole group, mom made 2 of her famous chocolate cakes (family recipe right from my grandma Smith). Stephanie decorated all the platters, served up the beans and we laughed, swam in the pool and watched more videos on the deaf culture.
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Whining down under.
Yesterday over 200 GAC early warnings to new top level domain applicants were published.
The biggest complainer?
The country filed early warnings on 129 top level domain names covering everything from .baby to .weather.
'cause you know, weather is such a controversial thing.
One of Australia's big peeves is that groups want to use generic terms exclusively. That's its complaint about both .baby and .weather. Johnson & Johnson wants the first, The Weather Channel applied for .weather.
Australia also objected to strings that cover what are regulated industries in some countries, such as .architect and .accountant.
Also on the hit list are two applications for .city. The submissions say the applicants haven't afforded enough protections to cities to protect their domain names at the second level.
My god, can you imagine what would happen if city names were freely available as second level domains? Like NYC.com or Boston.com? Man, that would be chaos.
(Germany also objected to .city applications.)
The United States, which many people view as being overprotective, basically only objected to three strings that refer to branches of the armed forces.