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Even cops are split on the issue of gun control
As sheriff's Deputy Yvonne Vann and a canine unit searched an abandoned lot for a fugitive one night in 1999, she heard what sounded like steadily approaching whispers. She soon realized they were gunshots.
A nearby homeowner with a hunting rifle had taken aim at Vann and the other deputy as they searched the brush near the Buena Vista neighborhood in southern Bexar County, not realizing they were police officers. Vann said she managed to drag the other deputy to the ground before the shooter could hit them.
In the years since, she's wondered what would have happened if the gunman had a high-capacity magazine in his rifle.
"If he'd had more than 10 rounds, (the bullets) would have gone across me and Bobby, and the two of us would have been taken out," said Vann, a sergeant with the Bexar County Sheriff's Office.
Only days later, she saw how ill-equipped police were to deal with a gunman armed with a powerful rifle and large magazines.
Vann was called out to assist other officers at the so-called Atascosa Ambush after the gunman killed two deputies and a state trooper in the neighboring county.
Then two years ago, Vann had to confront the worst nightmare of her career. Her husband, Kenneth Vann, also a sheriff's sergeant, was killed when a gunman armed with an AR-15 and a 90-round drum magazine riddled his car with bullets. Kenneth Vann was shot 25 times.
"My husband was a sniper in the Marine Corps," she said. "He was an expert shot. He never even got to draw his weapon."
Since his death, Yvonne has become a vocal activist for a ban on military-style weapons, a nebulous term but one she defines as guns with pistol grips, folding stocks, barrel shrouds to cool the weapon as it fires, high-capacity magazines, threads or mounts for accessories such as bayonets and flash suppressors.
She's joined the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and has lobbied state legislators for restrictions on weapons sales.
Vann said she supports President Barack Obama as he calls for more gun control, including a renewal of the 1994 assault weapons ban and requiring background checks for all gun sales. When she talks to legislators, Vann said she tries "to come through with a law enforcement officer's perspective."
More Information
Major Cities Chiefs Association Firearms Policy
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
What's wanted
Police chiefs around the country have laid out a legislative agenda for gun control.
• Reinstate the 1994 assault weapons ban
• Create stiffer penalties for violating firearms laws
• Ban magazines that carry 10 rounds or more
• License ammunition sellers, require sales to be recorded and ban the sale of ammunition over the Internet
• Require background checks on sales at gun shows
• Oppose laws that would require states to recognize concealed carry permits from another region
Source: Major City Chiefs Association
Danger on the streets again was revealed Friday, when a car-theft suspect opened fire on Bexar County Deputy Manuel Herrera on the Northeast Side. Herrera was wounded in the arm and leg.
The suspect escaped in Herrera's SUV patrol car and crashed it in a yard. He was shot and killed in a confrontation with two San Antonio police officers. Police believe he was using a handgun.
The incident came three weeks after another deputy was shot and wounded.
Such incidents leave Vann wondering why elected officials are resistant to gun legislation.
"We're not telling enough legislators that there's a threat to" police, Vann said. "If they take us all out, who's going to defend you guys, the general public?"
Last year's massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut and the Century 16 theater in Colorado, along with recent assault-weapons attacks on law officers in Los Angeles and New York, have returned gun control to the national agenda.
But while organizations such as the Major Cities Chiefs Association are lobbying for more restrictions and universal background checks on gun sales, police are divided on the issue.
Dividing lines
In 2012, as often is the case, Texas led the nation in police deaths, with most of the fatalities caused by cars, not weapons.
Of the 129 officers who died on duty last year across the U.S., 49 were killed by firearms, four of them in Texas, according to preliminary numbers from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Of those, only one Texas officer was slain by a rifle.
Since 2002, 619 officers have been killed by gunfire and more than 700 have died in traffic-related incidents.
Vann said that even though cars kill more cops than do guns, and handguns cause more deaths than do rifles, the restrictions she's advocating will make the streets safer for police.
"Handguns are not only more readily available, but they're easier to handle than the rifle," she said. "But more massive casualties happen with rifles."
Mike Helle, president of the San Antonio Police Officers Association, says the latest gun-control efforts are a "knee-jerk reaction."
"We certainly do not support what the president is trying to do," said Helle, whose union represents about 2,300 officers. "We don't think there's any scientific data that by having more restrictive gun laws, you have less crime."
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has rejected that notion, arguing that his city's tough gun laws, with provisions similar to the 1994 assault weapons ban, have helped reduce violent crime there.
And gun-control advocates often point to the effect of restrictive gun laws in Europe. The United Kingdom, for example, had 41 gun homicides in 2009, according to United Nations statistics, compared with more than 10,000 in the United States.
Because of the drug war, Mexico, which has strict gun laws, had 8,800 gun murders that year.
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said lawmakers can take a big step in reducing gun crimes by closing loopholes that allow unrecorded private gun sales, including those made at gun shows, to buyers who aren't required to undergo background checks. McManus was a Washington cop for nearly three decades, leaving in 2001 as an assistant chief. At the time, the city had one of the toughest weapons laws in the nation, banning handgun ownership and requiring the registration of rifles.
Washington also had a high murder rate, which convinced McManus that the gun ban was not effective, he said. Requiring background checks and recording sales of all firearms, including handguns, would help keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people and make it easier for police to trace weapons used in crimes, the chief said.
"I don't think any gun-control law is going to be a panacea for firearms violence," McManus said "But what it does do is it helps in the prosecution of individuals who would violate those laws. My stance on this is not a political one, it's one based on law-enforcement experience, and safety for police officers and the public."
Helle says "it's unfair to blame everything on the gun show dealers," but he's not entirely opposed to some restrictions on gun ownership.
"What we really need to do is more from an educational standpoint," he said. "For instance, if you have someone with mental issues, make sure they don't have access to guns."
Concerns about the mentally ill being able to purchase firearms are an issue for the Deputy Sheriff's Association of Bexar County, association president Joel Janssen said.
"I think stricter background checks would alleviate some of the problem, but the problem's never going to go away," Janssen said. "We're Texans. We believe in the right to bear arms. But there have to be certain balances."
Sheriff Susan Pamerleau said the issue goes beyond gun control. Pamerleau has said her job is to uphold the law, not lobby for legislation.
Over the years, the department has added equipment and new training to help with officer safety, she said, but wouldn't discuss specifics.
Pamerleau said issues other than the availability of guns affect the safety of police officers and the public.
"This isn't just about gun violence, because this is a broader issue," she said. "We certainly want to keep weapons away from certain individuals, those with criminal records, those with mental illness, but not at the cost of losing constitutional rights. We need to be cognizant of issues of mental health, of family issues, of violent video games."
Rural vs. urban
Law enforcement officials have historically been divided on gun control based on where they are in the state, said Charley Wilkison, director of public affairs at the Combined Law Enforce Associations of Texas, which includes the San Antonio and Bexar County police unions.
Wilkison wouldn't share recent polling data, but he said a 1995 survey of members about a proposed concealed handgun license requirement broke along rural and urban lines.
"Officers in suburban and rural communities believed that (putting) more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens who'd had some training was a good thing," Wilkison said. "In urban centers, where officers are exposed to more gun crimes and officers were exposed to more violence, they believed that just more guns period was problematic."
Vann said her experiences informed her position in the gun debate. The federal ban on assault weapons went into place in 1994, two years after she became a peace officer, and Vann said she took it for granted until it expired in 2004.
Since her husband's death, Vann said, she has become more vocal about her belief that military-style weapons with high-capacity magazines are unnecessary for hunting and home defense.
"I'm for the Second Amendment. I'm a gun-toting person myself," Vann said, gesturing at her service weapon, a Glock handgun. "That's not what it's about. It's about the military-style weapons that are out there. It doesn't need a folding stock; it doesn't need to have more than 10 rounds. As far as law enforcement being outgunned, you don't see me packing an assault rifle, do you?"


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Gallup, N.M., Apr 10, 2013 / 04:02 am MT (CNA).- The newly-renovated chapel of Bishop James Wall of the Gallup diocese aims to be part of the spiritual formation of local seminarians as they prepare to pastor churches in the future.
"The idea was to make something peaceful and beautiful, and in God's honor...it's a house for discernment, and seminarians live there at time, so it's also intended to be part of their spiritual formation," Father Matthew Keller, the Gallup diocese's director of vocations and mission resources, told CNA April 8.
The chapel, attached to the bishop's residence, is located at a discernment house which is at times home to both priests and seminarians of the Gallup diocese. It has been renewed with sacred art from artisans who work in styles native to New Mexico.
"It's all along with the idea of demonstrating to seminarians how to go about seeking out the artists, encouraging, collaborating with the artists, thinking things through very carefully – what is the meaning of each aspect of the chapel, how to do things beautifully and according to the guidelines the Church gives us, following that as closely as we could, while keeping the local customs as well."
The process has been years in the making, and is nearly completed. The chapel has received a new altar and retablo, a celebrant's chair, sanctuary rail, stations of the cross, flooring, and an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. A lectern and pews are still in the process of being prepared.
One of the priorities in commissioning the chapel, Fr. Keller said, was "to use the art that's unique and local," working with "New Mexico artists who are unique, and worthy as well."
The lengthy process has served to show the seminarians that the renewal and care of church buildings "doesn't happen overnight," and demonstrated "the patience involved, the fund raising, all the different things that go into it."
"But also it took a lot of work to do it locally," said Fr. Keller. "So many things it would be easier to just open up a catalogue...and you might find things that are beautiful that way, but it didn't really fit the model we were going for in this place, which was to serve 'artistic subsidiarity.'"
The style of art in the chapel, called "santero," is a folk art based on Spanish colonial art, explained Roberto Gonzales, who made the chapel's station's of the cross. Artists in the style make their own pigments, and it is "meant for prayer; it's meant for people to have these images in their house and use them more for prayer than as art."
Gonzales spoke to CNA/EWTN News April 9, noting that he and other artists in the style "reflect on the saints lives and what they went through, and what it means to have faith. And for the stations, when I was doing those, it was like re-living the Passion...it's a long process, and it's a prayerful process."
The process of making the stations took a year, as "you pray on each station, you reflect on what Christ was going through at that time, and what it meant, and what it means to humanity, and what it means to you as a person, and how it's affected the world, how it's affected all mankind, and it's just a beautiful thing."
The style allows for non-literal depictions of the scenes, as when Gonzales shows the Pieta as a large Mary holding a far-smaller Christ, to emphasize, that "he's her baby, a mother's child, and that's what she's mourning."
In the station in which Christ is nailed to the cross, the background is ethereal and disconnected from the earth, to emphasize the spiritual nature of what's happening, Gonzales said.
Gonzales emphasized that his work is prayerful and it's not so much for renumeration. Fr. Keller, on the other hand, said that for the Church it is important to give artisans due compensation for their work.
"The Church is supposed to be the patron of the arts, and not just a benefactor. Artists aren't expected to work for free, we want to support them and make that viable way of life."
He said that the chapel was provided through the donations of parishes and individuals who "believe in the project" and the importance of supporting priests, seminarians, and artisans.
Arlene Sena produced the paintings found in the sanctuary, and agreed that prayer is "the key to this tradition."
Sena produced images of the Holy Family, Saint James, Saint Francis de Sales, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, two angels, and the Sacred Heart. Each was chosen for a particular reason, out of importance to the Gallup diocese and to Bishop Wall.
The woodwork in the sanctuary is modeled on that found in the Gallup cathedral, and an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was included because she is patroness of the diocese.
Sena told CNA/EWTN News that this chapel was "one of the best projects I've ever worked on," and said that "once you know who you're preparing these pieces for, it makes it so much easier to pray for those who will be serving in that chapel for years to come."
Gonzales emphasized again that prayer is central to his process of making art, and that it is for him an important way to promote the faith.
"I'm not a very good speaker, but I can pass the faith by doing art."
"And that's what it is for me, just spreading the faith.
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Posts Tagged 'Yiddish'
Simplified Spanglish; Donde es Doktoro Esperanto?
Hey, how about that Esperanto? And no, I'm not talking about a first baseman from the Dodgers, or the latest coffee concoction from Starbucks (although it sounds like it might taste good), but that attempt at creating an international language, by Pole Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof (1859-1917). He first published his work in 1887 using the pseudonym "Doktoro Esperanto" ('Doctor Hopeful'). "Doktoro Esperanto", what a great pen name, sounds kind of like some guy that el Santo el Emascarado del Plata might run into in the lucha libre ring.
Zamenhof began working on his idea as a teenager. Living in eastern Europe he had variety in his language background. Russian was used in his home. Yiddish, Polish and Hebrew were used in the community. French, German, English, Greek and Latin were taught in the schools.
In his later life he proposed a world religion. He called it Homaranismo, which means "member of the human race". This guy was full of good intentions, as his religion was predicated on peace, tolerance, and the unity of peoples. Not a bad place to start!
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Tim Jamieson spent his summer as the head coach of the USA Baseball Collegiate USA National Team, but he wasn't the only Tiger on that team. Dan Pietroburgo gained some valuable experience as an assistant coach with the team. And Eric Anderson got a lot of attention by leading the pitching staff with a 2-0 record and 0.00 ERA . . . as an alternate substitute.8. Tigers sign 10 to National Letters of Intent
The recruiting class for Fall 2012 features an impressive collection of pitchers and position players. Many are from the St. Louis area (Recruiting Coordination Kerrick Jackson's home stomping grounds), but others came from places like Texas, Iowa and one promising homeboy from CoMo.7. Tigers play for Joplin
Mizzou played a two-game fall series against Iowa in October, with all proceeds from tickets and a silent auction going to the Joplin Little League.6. Phil McCormick sets records in the bullpen
Phil McCormick, who saved his career by re-inventing himself as a submariner, piled up 36 appearances in 2011, tying his own single season record; totaled 72 appearances over 2 seasons, 2010-11, a Mizzou record for appearances in consecutive seasons; and he finished his career with 105 total appearances, good for 3rd all time for Mizzou. Good enough to grab the attention of the scouts and get himself drafted in June.5. Jonah Schmidt leads the offense
After three seasons as an all-or-nothing swing-for-the-fences designated hitter, Jonah responded to the challenge of the new "dead" bats (see # 3) in 2011 and led the Tigers in batting average, runs, hits, doubles, RBI, total bases and slugging percentage. He even earned a shout out on Vox Magazine's 30 under 30.4. Eric Anderson leads pitching staff
After being limited in his freshman year by injuring, EA began the season as a first baseman, then slowly eased his way back into the pitching rotation, growing in strength and effectiveness to the point of becoming a dominant pitcher in the Big 12.3. BBCOR Bats
The big story all year long for all of NCAA Baseball was the introduction of the BBCOR bats, which contributed to a significant drop in power numbers throughout Division I. For better or worse, the college game shifted more toward "small ball", and some teams - including the Tigers - appeared slow to adapt to the difference. And as many complained during the season, not all the new bats were equal.
It was a long and difficult season for Tim Jamieson's Tigers in 2011. But as the season wound down, the Tigers revved things up, gong on a tear in the final weeks. Knowing that winning the Big 12 Tournament championship was their only hope at getting a bid for the NCAA Regionals, they fought their way into the 8-team field. Then they played with a passion during the tournament, including three games against the Longhorns. The rubber match of that MU-UT clash was one for the history books, as senior Kelly Fick pitched the game of his life (and the final game of his career), wearing the same jersey number as the battered Joplin tornado jersey hanging in the dugout. Unfortunately, the Aggies ended the Tigers' comeback in the title game, and the season was over.1. Mizzou jumps to the SEC
Without a doubt, the biggest news of 2011 came to a head long after the baseball season was over. After an intricate slow dance with the Big 12, the Big Ten and the SEC (with the PAC 12 and ACC doing a two-step in the background), Missouri finally announced in November that MU will join the SEC in 2012. The impact on the Baseball Tigers will be huge. We've been taking a look at what it will mean to be a part of SEC Baseball in our SEC-Dixienary series. But first, the Tigers will play their final Big 12 season in the next few months.


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Join the merrymaking!
For some, it's a final frolic before Lent, for others, a way to scare away winter spirits. Fools become kings, the vixen cavorts with the witch – at carnival time the world turns upside down in many cultures around the world.
Feathers Galore
In New Orleans, Black Americans dressed in elaborate costumes sing and dance as the famous Mardi Gras lndians. Elsewhere in Louisiana, young men carrying willow branches or broken fishing rods chase children through the streets before initiating them into the adult world.
Clear the path!
Der größte Karnevalsumzug der Welt bringt das Sambódromo in Rio de Janeiro zum Beben. Vor dem Fest wird die Strecke der Parade gewaschen, mit Duftwasser bespritzt und geweiht – von einem evangelikalen Pastor, einem katholischen Priester und den sogenannten Baianas, die afrikanischen Gottheiten huldigen. Auf den Tribünen drängen sich dann 88 500 Menschen, um das Spektakel zu sehen.
Witch hunt
Germany celebrates carnival (or Fastnacht) with a variety of traditions. In Upper Swabia, witches dance around a fire until they're chased off by an army of fools. Other revelers don wooden masks. The very first Fastnacht procession dates back to 1349, when butchers in Nuremberg took to the streets in costumes and bearded masks to mock the city's strict dress code.
Emigrés and animals
At the White Party on La Palma in the Canary Islands, people dress up as immigrants: the men in white suits, the women in white lace, holding parrot cages and parasols. La Vijanera in Cantabria, northern Spain, is a more morbid fiesta populated by vixens, bears and the good zarramacos warriors dressed in bells and sheepskins.
Out of the blue
The Carnival of Venice begins with the Flight of the Angel – once portrayed by rapper Coolio – who floats down to earth in a frilly costume from the top of the Campanile bell tower. The carnival fell into oblivion around 1800 but was revived roughly 200 years later as a tourist attraction.
Creatures of the night
The Tschäggättä who come to Lötschental in Valais canton at carnival time are terrible apparitions with mangy fur, horns and soot-covered paws. Wearing masks with hooked noses and bloodshot eyes, they roam the streets of the villages after nightfall, scaring the living daylights out of respectable folk.
Trinidad & Tobago
Drumbeats and body paint
The loudest carnival celebration takes place on the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean, where musicians on steel drums compete for the most earsplitting sound. At the street party on J'ouvert, aka Shrove Monday, revelers smear their bodies with paint, mud, chocolate sauce or oil.


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Just Hitting Theaters
Season of the Witch - Nicolas Cage stars in this movie where he and a fellow soldier must transport a powerful witch to a remote monastery and avoid all the perils that lie before them. Will they make it or will the world be destroyed? I doubt the world will be desrtroyed because then Nicolas Cage wouldn't be able to star in anymore lackluster blockbusters if the world was no more...Trailer inside.
Get Tickets and other showtimes for Hollywood Theaters in Bozeman here


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One of the feature that I love on Amaro (Linux) or Winamp (Windows) is the ability to shuffle the playlist, ie take all the songs in the playlist and shuffle them like a deck of playing cards. That way, when I play the list, the same song never repeat after the whole playlist have been played once.
In the basic music player on Android, and the few ones I've tried from the market, the behavior is the classical "Pick a random song" each time the previous one is ended, meaning sometimes the same song gets played 10 times in an hour, and others never get played.
Is there an app that provide this feature?


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Jacob Druckman
Jacob Druckman studied at Juilliard School with Bernard Wagenaar, Vincent Persichetti and Peter Mennin and with Aaron Copland at Tanglewood * Devoted himself to the exploration of sound and colour, both instrumental and electronicNoted for his ingenious and cogent formal designs, as in the interwoven structures of String Quartet No.3 His orchestral works included commissions from the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Baltimore Symphony and Radio France * As the New York Philharmonic's composer-in-residence (1982-85) he explored the emerging New Romanticism in the programming of three controversial and influential Horizons festivals * Noted teacher at Juilliard, Bard College, Tanglewood and Yale University * Windows, a 1972 work for orchestra, earned him the Pulitzer Prize
Works by Jacob Druckman include:
Lamia (1974/75) for soprano and orchestra
Prism (1980) for orchestra
Come Round (1992) for chamber ensemble
Counterpoise (1994) for soprano and orchestra or chamber ensemble
Looking Ahead: Multiple works by Jacob Druckman will be performed this summer at the Tanglewood Music Festival. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra performs the composer's Mirage this October.
"He was best known for his vividly scored and viscerally dramatic orchestral works... a skillful exponent of electronic music...incorporating elements of theatre into his concert works, including narrative and ritualistic scenarios." — New York Times


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I have been very fortunate in being recently asked to field test a pair of the latest Magnum boots. The 'Ion-Mask'. I have included the links to the Magnum website for you to read up on all the scientific niff naff as it explains the technology better than I ever could.
The main difference with these boots is that they are 'blood proof' and 'water proof' are breathable and extremely light weight and also chemical resistant.
So there I am getting ready for the old night shift and its persisting down outside (persisting down heavily). My trusty old Magnum Protectors are stood in the corner of the kitchen watching forlornly as I slip on my new Ion-Mask Magnums. If the name alone is anything to go by then these are going to be good…I hope!
Straight away I notice the difference in weight. My old 'mags' are comfortable and feel like an old friend…these new boots feel like slippers that have been bought for me by a very rich old auntie with the promise of a generous gift in her will. They are unbelievably comfortable.
Lacing them up they almost feel like a second skin and I notice the support around the ankles is still as good as my old mags. What I like is the Achilles cut away at the back of each boot. This makes it much easier to crouch or kneel down without feeling the boot tightening against the Achilles or lower calf muscle.
I 'squeak, squeak' across the kitchen floor and pick up my keys and important kit for the night shift…packup, water, packup, more packup…and an extra bag of crisps. (I'm cutting down!) Driving to my station I have to remind myself that I've not put on a pair of slippers and that I'm wearing the new 'daisy roots.'
The real test comes halfway through the shift when we are called to a park to reports of a man trying to kill himself. Arriving on scene we make out the outline of a Police van with a couple of officers talking to someone. My crew mate parks up near to the Police van and I step out straight into a bloody great puddle! With the deftness and agility of a startled gazelle I leap out of the puddle and back in the same puddle…only a little deeper!
My immediate thoughts are 'Oh crap! I'm going to get my new boots mucky!' and with a renewed spring in my step I gallivant across the puddle like some form of giant mud skipper skittering across the beach! My crew mate just watches from the cab as I act out a poorly rehearsed scene from 'Dancin' in the Rain!' Only instead of looking like Gene Kelly I look more like Lorraine Kelly. (My gran told me about Gene Kelly just in case you think I'm knocking on a bit!).
Looking down at my boots in the dim yellow glare of the neon park lights I am amazed to find that they are bone dry and look exactly the same as they did when they were taken out of the box. If only my trousers were made with 'Ion-Mask' technology as they wetly flap around my boots as I approach our 'patient'. He is depressed and talks of suicide and wants help…so we take him to hospital in the vain hope that he will see someone there from mental health services.
After several more jobs leaping out of the cab (looking before I leap this time) and finding 'patients' in bushes, in the street, in their homes and one asleep in a skip I find that my feet still feel comfortable and dry. Getting home I am knackered and struggle to unlace my new boots…my gross motor skills are not good by the end of a night shift!
My honest opinion of these new 'Ion-Mask' boots…?
- Extremely comfortable
- Waterproof
- Good ankle support
- Excellent tread/grip
- Light weight
- Easy clean
- No need to break them in
My only gripe…?
- Would have liked a couple of quick lace hooks in place of normal eyelets to make it easier to put on/take off.
Would I buy a pair…?
- Definitely…100%


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"G'day mate! How would you like to help the kids and win a trip `down under'?" That was the refrain heard at Western Athletic Clubs (WAC), which promoted a raffle benefiting Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
The chain sponsored a "Sydney 2000" drawing in all nine of its clubs (located along the West Coast), offering a trip to the Olympic Games as a grand prize. The prize included round-trip airfare to Australia, Olympic event tickets, seven nights lodging and ground transportation to events.
"Sydney 2000" posters, flyers and other promotions blanketed the clubs as the raffle progressed. "Donation stations" were set up in each club, and entry forms mailed to each member. Hundreds of tickets were sold.
Not to be outdone, WAC's employees clamored to participate. However, since they were ineligible to enter to win, they contributed to a separate raffle held especially for them. The winning employee enjoyed a trip to the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Sacramento, Calif.
In the end, Seattle Athletic Club members Ursula and Tom Macmillan won the trip to the Olympic Games in Sydney. The Macmillans are 10-year members of the club, and accumulated a scrapbook full of memories from their journey (some seen here).
Thousands of dollars were raised in ticket sales, and Western Athletic Clubs matched all contributions. The resulting total donation of $28,500 astounded local Boys and Girls Club chapters.
The raffle's $5,000 donation to the Boys and Girls Clubs of King County in Seattle was enthusiastically received. Chapter President Daniel Johnson thanked WAC for "positively shaping the lives of its 17,000 future citizens and leaders."
WAC's locations in the San Francisco region donated $10,000 to their adopted chapter, the Columbia Park Boys and Girls Club. Columbia Park's Executive Director Jim Richards said, "We had just finished a budget meeting where we learned that a lack of funding for transportation was going to necessitate the elimination of many of our off-site programs. The $10,000 donation from Western Athletic Clubs will go a long way in ensuring the continuation of many special programs we have planned this year."
Jim Gerber, WAC's president, was also pleased with the fund-raiser's outcome. "Our simple raffle has gone a long way toward building community in the areas in which we live, work and play," he remarked.


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Our search for Raymonda has taken us along way back in time and on the way we have found that most of the leading characters in the ballet actually existed in real life. We have met the real Jean de Brienne and his fellow Crusader King Andrew II of Hungary, and we have identified Sibylla de Lusignan, sister-in-law of Jean de Brienne, as the most likely candidate for Raymonda's aunt the Countess and Canoness Sybil.
We discovered that Bernard de Ventadour was the star troubadour of medieval times, but he lived and died before the time of our ballet, and came across three real troubadours who were alive at the time and who Pashkova could taken as the name for Berganger of Aquitaine: Berenguier de Poivert, Berenguier de Pozrenger, and Berengier Trobel.
As for Abderrahman, between battles there were numerous meetings between the Muslim leaders and the Crusader knights to negotiate truces and arrange other deals, but these all took place in the Holy Lands, not in the south of France, enemy territory where a Saracen knight and his entourage would have been most unwelcome.
So, we must conclude that Adberrahman only got into the story because the story needed a bad guy versus the good guy, Jean de Brienne, and that it was decided to make him Saracen to allow Petipa to spice up the entertainment with some colourful Arabian and Andalusian divertissements.
But nowhere have we found Raymonda. Search through the lineage of the great families in the 13th century and you will find over and over again the names Sybilla, Isabella, Maria, Blanche, Agnes, Alice, Adele, Eleanor and many, many others – but never a Raymonda. So where is she?
The answer has been staring us in the face all the time. Raymonda was the daughter of Raymond VI Count of Toulouse, named Raymonde after her father. She is the one and only Raymonde in the history of the 13th century noble houses, but she was lost in translation when Countess Lidiya Alexandrova Pashkova feminized the name in Russian by changing the last letter e to a!
And how do we know this? Our search has led us up a few blind alleys but we reached the end of our quest when we came upon the following:
The Histoire Générale de Languedoc, Tome V, reports "un ancien monument" which records that Raymond VI Comte de Toulouse had a daughter named Raymonde. She is named and her parentage referred to by Roquebert.
(Michel Roquebert is an eminent French historian specializing in the history of the Cathars.)
To understand what a brilliant match Raymonda would have been for the ambitious Jean de Brienne, let's see what we know about her family. They were the Saint-Gilles, one of the most powerful families in Europe in the early Middle Ages. As the Counts of Toulouse they held vast tracts of land and their Court was as grand as any of the royal courts of Europe. In fact they were related by marriage to most of the leading families including the Kings of France, England and Aragon.
Raymonda's father, Count Raymond VI of Toulouse was born October 27 1156. He was a son of Raymond V and Constance of France. His maternal grandfather was King Louis VI of France and his maternal uncles included Louis VII of France. He succeeded his father as Count of Toulouse in 1194.
He was an enlightened ruler of Toulouse who upheld civic freedoms, allowed exemptions from taxation and protected communal property from the clutches of the church. A cultured man and an accomplished poet, he preferred diplomacy and peace to war but was always ready to defend his ancestral rights and territories.
Even though the Counts of Toulouse enjoyed great prestige within the Roman Church, the liberal Raymond VI tolerated the Cathars, a Christian religious sect that appeared in the Languedoc region of France and other parts of Europe in the 11th century and spread throughout southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries.
The Cathars believed in two gods. One was Rex Mundi (King of the World) who represented evil and chaos. The other god, the one they worshipped, represented purity, order, peace and love. Not surprisingly the sect was hated by the Roman Catholic establishment, something the Cathars had in common with the troubadours.
While there is no evidence that the troubadours were Cathars, they shared similar beliefs. In fact, troubadours and Cathars held women more highly than did the Catholic Church, to which the idea of a woman troubadour was a monstrous affront, and to make matters worse they both disbelieved in marriage and showed contempt for class distinctions that were considered by the Catholic Church to be sanctioned by God
Matters came to a head in the Languedoc on 15 January 1208 when the papal legate Pierre de Castelnau, who was in dispute with Raymond VI, was murdered by a knight in the service of Count Raymond. Pope Innocent III excommunicated Raymond and proclaimed the anti-Cathar Albigensian Crusade. The excommunication was lifted when Raymond VI acceded to the Pope and joined the crusade.
The Albigensian Crusade, ruthlessly carried out by knights from northern France and Germany, and the subsequent brutal inquisition, totally eradicated the Cathars. At the same time it substantially reduced the authority of the semi-independent southern Principalities including the once mighty court of Toulouse.
Faced with the loss of his territories Raymond VI turned against the crusade and organised a resistance but he was unable to prevent the advance of Simon de Montfort who conquered Toulouse. Excommunicated a second time by the Pope, Raymond was exiled to England.
However, with help from his Aragonese allies, he regained the city of Toulouse and withstood a siege by Simon de Montfort who was killed outside the city on June 25th 1218. Raymond, aided by his son and successor, went on to recover most of his territories and he remained in power until his death on August 2, 1222.
Though still excommunicated and therefore denied a Catholic burial, shortly before his death he was accepted into the Knights Hospitaller.
His place in history is assured. American readers will be interested to know that Count Raymond VI of Toulouse is the subject of one of the four paintings on the ceiling of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He is in good company – the other three paintings depict Moses, Confucius, and Socrates. Each represents an aspect of law and the painting with Raymond VI is titled "The Adjustment of Conflicting Interests"
Now we know what history tells us about Raymonda's father, but who was her mother? Raymond VI was quite a one for the ladies and in addition to marrying six times had a number of mistresses, which presents us with two possible candidates.
The most exciting possibility is Count Raymond's fourth wife, Joan of England, who he married in October 1197 at Rouen Joan Plantagenet was the seventh child of Henry II of England and his queen consort, the magnificent Eleanor of Aquitaine. Her younger maternal half sisters were Marie de Champagne and Alix of France. She was a younger sister of William IX, Count of Poitiers; Henry the Young King; Matilda, Duchess of Saxony; Richard I of England – Richard the Lionheart; Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany; Leonora of Aquitaine, and an older sister of John of England.
With Raymond VI Count of Toulouse as his father-in-law and Joan of England as his mother-in-law, the social-climbing Jean de Brienne would have been sitting very high up in the royal family trees of France and England.
We know that Raymond VI treated Joan none too kindly and she came to fear him and his knights. In 1199, while pregnant with a third child, she fled, eventually arriving at Rouen where she took refuge at the court of her mother Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Death in childbirth was common in medieval times and almost certain in cases of caesarean births. Perhaps knowing this was to be her fate Joan asked to be admitted to the great Abbey of Fontrevault where on her deathbed she was veiled as a nun and died undergoing caesarean delivery on 4 September 1199.
If indeed Joan of England was Raymonda's mother it means that we have an exact date for Act 1 of Raymonda, 4 September 1220, her birthday in the year that Jean de Brienne returned from the Crusade.
What's more, it would have been Raymonda's 21st birthday – not that 21 was such a big deal in the Middle Ages, beyond the fact that one had managed to live that long considering medieval mortality rates.
In Languedoc girls came of age much younger. At the age of 14, under the combined Visigothic Law and Roman Law, they were allowed to inherit titles and land and manage it themselves without interference from their husbands or male relations, dispose of their property in legal wills if they had no heirs, and represent themselves and bear witness in court. At the age of 20 they were free to arrange their own marriages.
Also, interestingly, Raymonda, Countess de Doris, would be only one year younger that the Countess and Canoness Sibyl.
However, contemporary medieval accounts disagree as to the outcome of the birth. Some say that a stillborn child was cut from the dead body of Joan of England, others say that it was a girl who lived, while some say that it was a boy who survived long enough to be baptized and given the name of his Uncle Richard.
Disappointingly, on the strength of what little evidence there is, the latter case is the most probable. We do know that Raymond VI had several children by various mistresses and it is more likely that Raymonda was one of these.
And what really became of her? Once again we turn to The Histoire Générale de Languedoc for the answer. The full text of the entry is:
The Histoire Générale de Languedoc, Tome V, reports "un ancien monument" which records that Raymond VI Comte de Toulouse had a daughter named Raymonde who became a nun at the monastery of Espinasse [625]. She is named and her parentage referred to by Roquebert [626]. A nun at Espinasse, near Fenouillet.
And there we have it. The one and only Raymonda in 13th century history spent her life behind the walls of nunnery. No Castle de Doris, no brilliant Court of Love and no marriage to the gallant knight Jean de Brienne.
But a question remains. How did Lidiya Pashkova come across this obscure snippet of information revealing the existence of a 13th century Raymonda? Like us, she must have been digging very deep when researching information for her story.
And why, out of all the names available did she choose this one? We can only guess. Perhaps she just liked the sound of the name and thought it would make a great title for a ballet – well, for sure she was right about that – or perhaps in a romantic flight of fancy she decided to lift this unknown nun out of obscurity and restore to her the splendid life that she should have enjoyed as a daughter of the illustrious Count Raymond VI of Toulouse.
Alas, it was all castles in the air! But let's not be too hard on Countess Lidiya Alexandrovna. Without her Glazunov would never have composed his glorious music, Petipa would not have given us his wonderful choreography, ballerinas would not have that magical role to dance – would any of them, or us, want to be without Raymonda's fabulous Hungarian solo – and we would not have this rich tapestry of medieval history come to life before our very eyes.


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Apple started selling the iPhone 5S and 5C on Friday in the U.S. and several other markets. As is typical with other Apple product launches, eager customers lined up outside Apple stores and other retail stores to become one of the first to own one.
Apple started selling the iPhone 5S and 5C on Friday in the U.S. and several other markets. As is typical with other Apple product launches, eager customers lined up outside Apple stores and other retail stores to become one of the first to own one. The iPhones follow a slew of Android smartphones from the company's competitors, including Samsung, Motorola and HTC.
Having trouble deciding which to buy? Here's a summary of recent phone reviews by The Associated Press.
It's the first time Apple is releasing two different iPhone models at once. The pricier one, at $199 with a two-year contract, sports a fingerprint sensor, a better camera and a faster processor. The fingerprint sensor alone is worth the $100 more you'll pay over an iPhone 5C. It encourages you to keep phones secure. Instead of typing in a four-digit passcode, you can just tap your finger on the home button most of the time. If there's a match with the finger you scanned in earlier, the phone will unlock. The improved camera, meanwhile, offers better shots in low light, thanks to larger individual pixels and a wider shutter, even though the resolution remains at 8 megapixels.
? Anick Jesdanun, AP Technology Writer
The 5C model is largely last year's iPhone 5 with a few extras. The most noticeable is the choice of five colors ? green, blue, yellow, pink or white. The housing is made of plastic instead of aluminum and glass. The plastic doesn't feel cheap and offers the slippery feel of a shiny ceramic tile. The 5C has a better front-facing camera than the 5, but it has the same A6 processor and the same rear camera lacking the 5S's improvements in low light. The 5C does come with a newer operating system, iOS 7, but older phones including the iPhone 5 can get the upgrade for free. The 5C costs $99. Unless you really want the colors, paying another $100 for the 5S is worth the investment.
? Anick Jesdanun, AP Technology Writer
The S4 is an excellent device from a hardware standpoint. Its 5-inch screen is larger than its predecessor, yet it's a tad lighter and smaller. The display is sharp, at 441 pixels per inch. Samsung packed the Android device with a slew of custom features, including new camera tools and the ability to perform tasks by waving a finger over a sensor. Many of the features, however, make the phone more complicated to use. In some cases, custom features work only some of the time. In other cases, you're confronted with too many ways to do similar things. The S4 might be for you if you don't mind spending time customizing it. Otherwise, you must bypass all the gimmicks to get to what otherwise is a good phone.
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The One is a phone that can match Apple's standards of feel and finish. Plastic and metal are joined together so well that you can't tell by feel where one ends and the other starts. The 4.7-inch screen is also quite a sight, its 468 pixels per inch among the best. Two front-facing speakers give you real stereo sound when turned sideways to watch a movie. HTC's camera has a lower resolution than most. Promises of better low-light shots from its larger sensors only partly delivered. Like other Android phone makers, HTC adds confusion by customizing the interface. There are four different "home" screens from which to launch apps, for instance. The One is worth checking out as an alternative to the Galaxy S4 from Samsung, which also adds complication with its custom features.
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This Blog focuses on Ancestor Stories, both the stories themselves about my family's ancestors and discussions of where they come from and how to prepare and share them. These stories may be non-fiction or fiction – we will always tell which is which, of course. Also see my KINNICK blog and The HOMEPLACE Series Blog, left sidebar, scroll down.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Monday at My Hometown - Week 1
Coon Rapids, Iowa, in Wikipedia, is a good place to start in getting a feel for the current status of the community. The Coon Rapids Enterprise is the local newspaper has been 'the weekly newspaper' for over 100 year - established in 1881. The Coon Rapids Development Group has a newly designed website. The Coon Rapids-Bayard Community Schools serve both Coon Rapids and Bayard (about 7 miles to the east on Highway 141) as well as the neighboring areas in all four counties. The Coon Rapids Bayard Alumni wikipages provide a useful service to the community, as well. The local Coon Rapids Municipal Utilities is a model for small rural communities utility services.
I first published the following on a Geocities-hosted website (closed in late 2009) in July 1997:
This is a brief account of the origins of Coon Rapids, Union township, Carroll county, Iowa [Sources cited are listed at the end. Please go to the source document for more complete information.]:
The original town of Coon Rapids was, next to Carrollton, the first town in the county. It was not known by that name, but there was a sort of frontier outpost at that point, on the route from Des Moines, Panora, Sioux City and points farther northwest [1].
The land was first taken up by one O.J. Niles, a peculiar character, who attracted the attention of the early pioneers. He was elected justice of the peace and was an important individual in the transaction of business for his neighbors [1]. It is related that a man named Tuttle, of Tuttle's Grove, felt a grievance over a horse trade he had made with Samuel Wilson, and stated the details of the transaction to 'Squire Niles.' The 'squire' listened patiently, and at the close advised Mr. Tuttle that the law in the case was so complicated that he couldn't obtain justice. Some suspicious persons, always inquiring as to the relations of cause to effect, remarked that Wilson was a splendid shot, and Niles was very fond of venison [2].
O.J. Niles entered the land on which Coon Rapids stands, in Union Township, in 1855. Mr. Niles was from Western Michigan, and probably of Yankee birth[2]. He lived in a 16 x 36 log house [2], the site of the present funeral home [3]. (The centennial report says: The earliest record of any settlement is in 1854; one of the earliest in Carroll County. In 1853, Obediah Niles, a Yankee by birth, came from Michigan. He purchased 200 acres of land from the government and the tract included almost all of the present town site [3].) His (Obedian Niles) nearest neighbors were at Tuttle's Grove where Mr. Charles Cretsinger now lives [3].
The nearest railroad was at Des Moines [3]. A mail route was established in 1858 between Panora and Sioux City, with intermediate offices at Carrollton and Denison [2].
The earliest record of a 4th of July gathering was in 1859 at Tuttle's Grove. Lawson Mingus stood barefooted at the foot of a huge oak and read the Declaration of Independence. That evening, a dance was held at Sammy Wilson's on Brushy Creek and many danced barefooted. It is recorded that people from the little hamlet of Coon Rapids attended the event [3].
In 1861, he (O.J. Niles) sold a few acres of his land to a man by the name of Winfred who started to improve the mill site, on Middle Coon [1]. The settlers were so enthusiastic over the prospect of a mill in their vicinity that they held their Fourth of July celebration that year on the proposed mill-site [2].
In 1863 Crockett Ribble, County Treasurer, bought the site and commenced to improve it, with financial assistance from the county. A Mr. Frizzell set up a store to supply the men with tobacco and other "necessaries," and John J. McCollum started a blacksmith shop [2].
Jacob Cretsinger lived on Wilson Hill, east of the mill. He carried mail from Panora to Sioux City on horseback. Anxious to have a mail station nearer his home, he petitioned the government for a post office for Coon Rapids and suggested the name [3].
William Minnich bought the land in 1865 and laid out a town, and built the house (where William Schnepps now lives - in 1887), to rent as a store [2]. The first occupant was Shoemaker & Endicott [2].
But the old town did not prosper, and when the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad built through, in 1882, there were but few families there. The Western Town Lot Company then laid out the new town, along side the
railroad, a mile or so west from the old site, and newcomers were numerous and the town grew rapidly [1].
The Coon Rapids Bank was opened in June, 1882, by Lyons & Cooney [2]. The City Bank was established in the autumn of 1882, by H.L. Miller & Co., the present proprietors (1887) [2].
The first graded school building was put up in 1883 [2].
In the Enterprise of 1883 is the earliest printed record of a 4th of July celebration. A brass band of 12 instruments was organized for the event. The program was as follows: National salute of 107 guns at sunrise. Prayer by the Chaplain. Reading of the Declaration of Independence. Address of State Senator from Panora. Music by the brass band. Vocal Selection. Basket dinner followed by toasts and responses. There were races, baseball and other amusements. In the evening following supper, the program consisted of music by the band, fireworks and dancing [3].
Coon Rapids was incorporated in 1884, the result of an election held December 19, 1882 [2]. Officers were elected in January following, and J.H. Louthan was the first mayor. The officers for 1886-1887 were: Mayor, T.C. Reid; Recorder, D.M. Grove; Councilmen, A.R. Harfield, C.E. Morris, B.H. Shute; H.L. Miller, Henry Wallace and I.L. Dermond; Treasurer, J.H. Louthan; Assessor, Theophilus George; Marshal, James Mulford; Street Commissioner, Geroge Miller [2].
In 1885, the population of the town was 729 [1].
The first class was graduated from Coon Rapids High School in 1888. The class contained eight seniors [3].
[1] From History of Carroll County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization,
Progress and Achievement, by Paul Maclean, Volume I, Chicago: The S.J.
Clarke Publishing Company (1912).
[2] Biographical and Historical Record of Greene and Carroll Counties,
Iowa. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1887).
[3] Coon Rapids Centenial Page
I hope you enjoyed a few words about My Hometown. ;-)
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Who wouldn't enjoy a few words about a place named "Coon Rapids." Plus I'm always pleased when there's a Michigan connection.ReplyDelete
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I enjoyed visiting your blogs. My daughter and her husband were full time RVers for more than 10 years... last year built a new house on Boulder Mtn in Utah, and seem to have settled in! I'm following your Detour through History. ;-)
Thanks for stopping by. I enjoyed visiting your blog, as well. Stop by often.


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USA Today's Michael Hiestand has a story about Sean Salisbury you should read: "I was ashamed, and I didn't want to say anything," says Salisbury, who was an NFL quarterback for eight years and an ESPN NFL analyst for 12. "
And there's more...
"I thought it would go away and let my ego get in the way. Since then, I've beat myself up about it more than 10 baseball bats could. A stupid mistake can cost you, and this has really cost me. I should have been having this conversation a long time ago."
But what Salisbury, 46, is admitting simply substantiates what's already an urban legend on the Internet: that he took cellphone photos of his private parts and showed them.
Yuck. Salisbury says it only happened once - "a sophomoric mistake" in a Connecticut bar in 2006 - for which ESPN suspended him for a week for then-unspecified reasons.
Salisbury's ESPN contract wasn't renewed in 2008; he says ESPN never specifically cited the incident in letting him go. In September, he was dropped by a Dallas sports-talk-radio station but strictly because of "disagreements over my contract and show content."
Speculation over the incident has popped up on various websites. Salisbury has filed suit against one - Deadspin.com - claiming he has been victimized by its "long-running smear campaign" and "malicious lies." (Deadspin declined comment.)
But by his own admission, Salisbury didn't add to the site's veracity when he had the chance.
He was asked in a Deadspin interview posted Aug. 14, 2008, if he "took a picture of your genitals on your cellphone and showed it around" and whether such "rumors" were "remotely true."
Salisbury's response: "I haven't addressed it because it's so absurd and such a bald-faced lie from what the speculation is out there from media outlets and Internet and bloggers that hop on and want to beat you up because they don't like my opinion in football. It never happened."
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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
• First things first: Do you want to start your day with some more "unintentionally funny moments" from the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore? I'll wait. [TabloidProdigy.com] You back? Ok, good.
• When serving eight months on Rikers, you have ample time to think about blonde racquetistas. So, it makes sense that Tha Carter responded to SI's SASE (blank sheets of letterhead therein) asking for his thoughts on the U.S. Open.
Note noteworthies:
— He signs it "Respectfully, Wayne,"
— He picks Rafa ("huge fan!") and Clijsters ("due to Serena's right foot.")
— And, "I simply adore Maria Sharapova."
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• She's baaaaaaack, bitches. Hair-puller extraordinaire Elizabeth Lambert returned to the New Mexico Lobos soccer team Friday for a game against Wisconsin-Milwaukee, but didn't play. Or talk. "School spokesman Frank Mercogliano said Lambert wouldn't speak unless she was involved in a play that helped determine the outcome." [cnnsi.com]
• The season-long Real Madrid/Barca competition starts today. [Guardian.co.uk]
• Is Yankees pitcher A.J. Burnett up for a demotion? [New York Post]
• A South African rugby player named Bees Roux may have beaten a cop to death Friday. Says his team...
"It has come to the Blue Bulls' attention that Bees Roux has allegedly been involved in an incident involving a metro policeman last night in Pretoria. We do not have any factual information at this stage, but have been informed that the policeman passed away. We are not in a position to make any further comments in this regard." [The Guardian] (H/T Michael Hayes)
• Ever wonder what an alleged-but-uncharged girlfriend-assaulter would have to say about people who put "hoes before bros"? Thanks to Gamecock OL Quintin Richardson, you needn't wonder any more. [FratHouse Sports]
• Is the U.S. Men's National Team about to clear Bob Bradley out for Juergen Klinsmann? [WashingtonPost.com]
• NHL free-agent Paul Kariya will be taking his talents to the bench for a season as he grapples with post-concussion syndrome. [YahooSports.com]
• What's on Jose Canseco's mind? Glad you asked.
Put guys like mark mcgwire,rafael palmeiro,sammy sosa.juan gonzales, in the hall of fame they are baseball,some of the greatest players ever
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So sweet. [Twitter] (H/T Evan Lovett)
• Another Friday night. Another high-school footbrawl video. Happy, happy. Joy, joy. [KTBS.com]
• Lady high-football coach loses first game 28-0 in D.C. Gives me an excuse to sift through YouTube for "Wildcats" video. [MyFoxDC.com]
• And, finally, from the "Hickey's Biased" coverage files … Jimmy Rollins slides the Phillies to a much-needed victory. Kevin Kolb does too, the difference being he apparently sucked, and it was a pre-season Eagles game.
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In fact, there's a growing revolution inside. The most weird thing is that it comes from where raw materials are scarce, the opposant scary and no means. The initial innovation, consuming and wasting capital and buried in pyramidal and lone structures could play its last chance. "Jugaad", that means "breakthrough growth" or "coping with innovation" in Hindi plays a new role for innovation. More flexible, open and simple. Something to reboot ourselves and renew true mindset, to give hope to despair mass and create a ongoing movement to new creation.
Jugaad Innovation is defined around 6 principles, where collaborative thinking and acting are king:
- Search for opportunities in adversity: most of the times, any company gives up facing adversity or difficulty, because of wasting time, money or fearing of failure. We all prefer comfort zones to risk. Then comes Juggad that draws energy and interest from adversity and resistance. Jugaad brings pride, energy and passion to overcome the obstacle. Learn to deal with adversity is one of the keys of Jugaad Innovators, like a new innovation mindset.
- Do more with less: we may soon live with less. Less raw materials, less growth, less employment, less time…It's now time to do more with less, re-use things designing them differently. Reinvent different uses and reinvent ourselves. Think for example to use wastes for others capabilities, without being obliged to recycle them. When you live all days with adversity and obstacles, you quickly find solutions with simple existant stuffs. We use to rethink many ways we do and reprocess simply. When tough times are, we must find economic solutions, and the Jugaad method may be relevant and sustainable…to stay ahead of competition
- Think and act in a more flexible way: big companies organize themselves with hard and complex structures of R&D in long term process that don't faciltate short term and simple reactions. They don't (can't) think flexible way. They keep things complex because they forgot how to think simple. they ignore low cost solutions because they think high value, with large margins. They simply forget customer centric solutions offering complex R&D outputs, outputs that customer don't want anymore. Cycles get longer, heavy processing, heavier than ever. Capital and resources expenses explode and innovation is not obvious but struggled into secrecy, keeping the cover on patents. This is outpast in the collaborative mindset we live in now. With Jugaad and its ongoing and lean process. that can't work anymore. Innovation must catch all the few opportunities with few and simple attitudes. The mindset centric thinking and action are mixed into a twirling process, that evolves simply with the single needs of consumer. What has to be created is only what has to be consumed.
(c) from the cover of book "Jugaad Innovation".
- Target simplicity: never forget "keep it shortly simple". It seems so obvious for Jugaad mindset, even if make simple is in fact complex. The hardline is that rebuild something from a complex base is really hard, so when you think Jugaad, you start from nothing. You can be light, efficient and straight to the point. Something that big companies forgot, while they keep secrecy on their R&D and innovatios plans. It's the art of secret and the obsession for technologies or complex buildings with over engineering. Focus on the pure need, focus on value for customer not for company is the only true way to simplicity. The Jugaad process allows the direct thinking to direct needs. Meeting with daily problems, finding daily solutions, directly useful. The direct response for smart innovation.
- Inclusive innovation: Through structure itself, because of resources consumption and innovation heaviness, the mainstream innovation is mainly for "mass market", simply because companies couldn't balance huge R&D expenses with poor markets. Innovation is rarely for disabled people while it could change their life and build a whole story for them. Bringing innovation in middle-class draws wastes and add only a marginal output. It's a shamy situation where digital fence exists and all efforts might be to reduce it and build a fair world for all. Next to this, the experimentations from "bottom of the pyramid" ou BOP, showed interesting outputs but underlined the limits of "poor segments": double sentence. As they already have "nothing" the price paid for each single unit is far more expensive than in normal markets. That's where Jugaad is really different is that solutions are not built by huge companies but by and for local and isolated people. A kind of ABC for exclusion and the ability to include them. The inclusive innovation.
- Follow heart power and tuition: the notion I prefer far from all others, put some passion and heart in process thinking, doing only what people need and not what he desires. This is one of the great lessons for example, leading to extreme simplification for use and not for engineers' pride. Focus on needs, engage with local communities, friend with them, learn their daily life is more efficient than any business process or school. Spending time on few essentials lead to main outputs. Don't forget Steve Jobs who never ever asked anything to a customer, no need to inspire and build what he did. Only his tuitions and faith in design, experience and simplification seemed to draw his whole life. Heart and passion nurture the whole fuel for action, leadong to Jugaad inspire. We may all take the path…
A true and strong revolution, I'm convinced. The one in centuries, beyond fashion and cycles. Maybe there's already a Jugaad innovator close to you. Neighbour. Travel encountering. Someone valuable for sure. Someone to meet, share and learn from. Respect, Recycle and Reboot. Time to (re)use what we have and (re)invent everything we have, differently. It's a matter of inclusion, hope and innovation.
Jugaad, our inclusive future, shared with passion.
See: "Jugaad Innovation". "Passion with no, limit" and THE book. Enlighting the subject with pics ; Reena Jana's thoughts about it


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Daniel Pierce
Class of 2010
Major/Minor: Business Management
Daniel Pierce '10 is an investments compliance specialist at Genworth Financial in New York City, and is part of our cadre of Washington Alumni Admissions Volunteers.
had big plans for a financial career even before he started college, so he knew that the unique opportunity to work with the Alex. Brown Investment Fund at Washington College would help to give him the experience he needed for success.
A business management major and member of the varsity rowing team, Daniel made time during his busy senior year to initiate an independent study on investments using the Alex. Brown Investment Fund. The fund was created by W. James Price IV, a former partner and managing director of Alex. Brown & Sons and a member of the College's Board of Visitors and Governors, to give Washington College's business students an edge in launching careers in finance. Working in his free time alongside fellow senior Adam Blitzer, two other students, and a faculty advisor, Daniel managed to grow the fund from less than $400,000 to more than $430,000 despite a depressed economy during his four months on the project.
Daniel, who aspires to become a buy-side financial analyst, asserts that managing the Alex. Brown Fund in college gave him a "taste of what that career would be like" because it involved the same kind of research required on the job. He now works in Connecticut for one of the "Big Four" professional service firms as a compliance analyst. Daniel says he is gaining "really priceless experience" at the firm, and is planning to continue his education in finance. He is currently studying for the first of three notably difficult CFA exams in order to become a Chartered Financial Analyst.
In this economy, Daniel says working in financial investment is like "living on the edge," but he is confident that his education, his experience with the Alex. Brown Investment Fund, and skills learned in his new career will help him to continue to successfully navigate the financial market. He says, "The relationships I cultivated with professors, staff, and coaches at Washington College have proven to be more valuable than my degree alone."
Campus Involvement
- Major: Business Management
- Athletics: Men's Rowing


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Located in the charming hinterland town of Eumundi (home to the world-famous Eumundi Markets), the heritage-listed Imperial Hotel is renowned for its colourful decor, fabulous food, live entertainment and the Eumundi Brewery.
The menu features fresh, seasonal produce from the region with classic pub favourites and a selection of modern dishes. Seriously good food.
The Imperial's beautiful beer garden is a favourite with locals and tourists alike - the perfect place to soak up live music grooves. Friday and Saturday nights see some of the best bands in the business play ticketed shows in 'The Bunker', 'The Green Room' and 'The Brewery'.
The hotel has five diverse areas for every occasion - from wedding receptions to birthday parties, art exhibitions, corporate seminars to tour morning teas. Chefs can tailor a menu to satisfy a range of palettes and dietary requirements.
Many will remember the Eumundi Lager brand - first crafted in Eumundi back in 1988. The hotel has partnered with Lion to build a state-of-the art brewery on-site and revive the much loved beer brand. Yes, Eumundi craft beers are again on tap, with Brewery Tasting Tours also on offer.
Due to current health advice on social distancing, please contact the business for the most up to date information regarding opening times and services.
Note: Information on listed products and services are provided by the operator and were correct at the time of publishing. Rates are indicative based on the minimum and maximum available prices of products and services. Please visit the operator's website for further information. All prices quoted are in Australian dollars (AUD).


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James Fortin necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 37 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
Mind Authority
I'm Jim Fortin, author, speaker and trainer. I have created a very unique sales conversion program titled Zero Effort Selling. This is a cutting-edge sales training program. I will be selling the audio home study via a full page ad in American Airlines Magazine. This is a RUSH job, I need the ad completed by Tuesday, April 13. I have all the web copy written. I need NICE page design that uses my company's colors. I also have the page layout - it can be tweaked a bit. Candidly, this is an easy job. I'll hand you the material all laid out...just add color and flair! My company is minduathority.com. I do want to stick with the same colors that are on my website for brand consistency. As a PERK FOR YOU....I'm going to shoot a video explaining all the hidden persuasion techniques in the ad. In that video, I WILL mention your name and company name and suggest they check you out if they need design work. 1000s of people will watch that video - so this could be great exposure for you, too!
My target audience is addressed in the ad copy. It's selling professionals between the ages of 30 - 55. White collar. Six figure earners. It's all addressed in the web copy.
The ad is laid out pretty much like I want it. For the most part, I'd like it to stay like it is. However, due to space constraints, boxes, graphics, etc adjustments can be made. But, the layout now flows in the way people absorb information so I want to keep the format.
However....keeping the copy layout as it is, I do LOVE creativity. Whathca thinking?
Is there a chance I could see a mock up by Fri?
I absolutely need a proof by Monday.
--- > This ad MUST BE COMPLETED by Tuesday 12 PM CST. < ---
Again, I'll reference you by name and company when I shoot a video about the ad. This is a HUGE perk for your rush job.
Check the WORD file below. You'll see it's all pretty straight forward. I just need color to make the ad sing! :) Attached is another head shot and the WORD file with webcopy.
This is a full page ad. I also attached American Airlines layout guidelines. Please deliver the ad to their full page specifications.
I'll make myself 100% available to answer any questions.
I may need to make copy tweaks based upon what the ad looks like when you're finished. But, I'm easy to work with and anticipate few changes.


text: The King's Head Pub in Woodbridge England introduced a menu for dogs in time for Christmas last year. As is often the case in Europe but not in North America, the dogs can dine inside with you and are not restricted to outdoor areas. The dog menu arose from the owner's yellow labrador Sydney. For more information, see this link


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After cardiac surgery, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are common complications associated with increased morbidity, mortality, and use of resources.
Study findings reported at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2013 by investigators from the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN), whose Data and Clinical Coordinating Center is at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, revealed the substantial economic impact of HAIs following cardiac surgery and the importance of preventing these infections leading to re-hospitalizations.
In the new analysis, researchers examined data about the incremental costs associated with major HAIs within 65 days of cardiac surgery. Clinical data from 4,320 patients at nine academic medical centers was merged with related financial data routinely collected by the University Health Consortium in the United States. The most common cardiac surgery procedures undergone by these patients included valve surgery, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), and CABG/valve surgery.
The data show during hospitalization, 2.7 percent of patients experienced major infections, such as pneumonia, sepsis, C. Difficile, and surgical site infections.
The average cost due to treating major HAI infection was calculated as about $40,000, with increased costs from Intensive Care Unit stays being an important contributing factor. Also, patients with major HAIs were nearly twice as likely to be readmitted as those with non-HAIs. In the patient population studied, there were 74 readmissions, with 8.7 percent due to HAIs.
"Our analysis found readmissions due to HAIs, after cardiac surgery cost on average nearly three times as much as non-HAI related readmissions," says Giampaolo Greco, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Evidence and Policy at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
"We need to take action to avert preventable readmissions due to HAI infection rates after cardiac surgery, first for the patient's health and also to curb rising healthcare costs," says Dr. Greco.
This study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and Institute for Health Technology Studies (InHealth), a non-profit foundation.
As principal investigator for CTSN's Data and Clinical Coordinating Center based at Mount Sinai, Annetine C. Gelijns, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Evidence and Policy at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, previously received financial compensation as a consultant for InHealth's Research Council, which has supported some of the study-related analyses.
This study was presented at the AHA Scientific Sessions 2013 in Abstract Poster Session (18267): The Economic Impact of Healthcare Associated Infections in Cardiac Surgery.
About the Mount Sinai Health System
The Mount Sinai Health System is an integrated health system committed to providing distinguished care, conducting transformative research, and advancing biomedical education. Structured around seven member hospital campuses and a single medical school, the Health System has an extensive ambulatory network and a range of inpatient and outpatient services—from community-based facilities to tertiary and quaternary care.
The System includes approximately 6,600 primary and specialty care physicians, 12-minority-owned free-standing ambulatory surgery centers, over 45 ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, and Long Island, as well as 31 affiliated community health centers. Physicians are affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, which is ranked among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health funding and by U.S. News & World Report.
For more information, visit http://www.mountsinai.org/


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I know, another one of "these" threads-- but my question is actually rather specific.
So I've been lured to LF by way of 35mm -> MF ->LF . I have purchased a Shen Hao 4x5 and a 135mm Nikkor-W (with help from Jim at Midwest) and I'm ready to start experimenting. Long-term goal is mostly landscape with this setup, but time will tell where I end up.
I already develop and print my own B&W (35mm and 120) and have been happy with a combination of FP4 and HP5+ usually developed via intermittent inversion using HC-110, dil H. My guess is that I will end up shooting quite a bit of color with the 4x5, but I want to get comfortable with the kit using B&W to keep the costs of my multiple and inevitable mistakes as low as possible.
All of my reading has thoroughly convinced me that 4x5 sheet film is a whole other barrel of fish with regards to development. I am not going to start with trays secondary to my concerns re scratching and the fact that my converted bathroom/darkroom is very small -- no fun to hang out in complete darkness for long periods of time.
I have decided to start with BTZS tubes for several reasons, chief among them that I may not be processing large numbers of sheet film at one time. The other concern is that I want to spend some time working with exposure-development relationships and the flexibility of the tube approach regarding the ability to alter developing times per sheet is attractive to a beginner like me. I have also been thinking about trying some less dilute developers (Ilford DD-X, for example) and my other major option, the Combi-plan, takes nearly 1.5 liters per round-- not cost-effective for me.
Before I buy the BTZS tubes, however, I have a few questions:
1. For those of you using the Ilford films, I know the company advises against a presoak, while many of the threads I have read make the point that presoaks are important for sucessfully using the BTZS system. Any input?
2. Are there any problems with using the dilute developers like hc-110 at dil h in the tubes given the 3 oz of syrup limitation? Any other specific advice regarding hc-110?
3. I have been thinking about trying either xtol, d76 or DD-x with the FP4/HP5+ -- are there any known problems regarding using constant agitation (tubes) with these developers? Can you point me to any references that show me where to start with my times?
Of course, any and all advice or suggestions would be great. I've lurked here for quite awhile and learned a ton.
Thanks in advance,


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I really liked what I saw for the Class I series at Celebration 6. Adding a second figure and rounding them up to $20 seems like a better deal when you compare them to what we get for $18 now or even compared to the current 3-figure BPs for $23.The little Yoda ship was nifty (love the fact that you can swap the astro-dome on the ship with any BAD dome) and also loved how the MTT Droid Fighter fits right into the MTT. Makes the MTT just a bit cooler, despite it coming with yet another Ep1 Obi-Wan.And glad to see the Clone Dropship as well. I'll be skipping frantically searching for the (currently) VHTF Clone Wars version and just grab this new 'movie' version when it hits next Spring.
hopefully they modified the Drop Pod a little to where it can fit non-Clone Wars figures.
It's also a shame that websites go overboard on their watermarks.
Price is supposed to be $19.99 apparently, and they're justifying it by throwing a second figure in.
Quote from: Diddly on December 2, 2012, 11:24 AMhopefully they modified the Drop Pod a little to where it can fit non-Clone Wars figures.No modifications, at Celebration VI they confirmed that it was the same ship only repainted in 501st Blue.
I got a TIE Pilot in mine... No Clone handy though. I'm betting I could get many figures to fit if the TIE Pilot with somewhat limited posing and a goofy big helmet and chestbox fit though.
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1600 is not a fair minimum requirement. Sure you can achieve 1600, it shouldn't be the required minimum.
if there seven words on a line.
or two
or a full line of typing...all of the companies that I have worked for define a gross line as 1 inch margins, 12 pt courier font....does not matter what we type in margins or font.....we convert all reports to the 1 inch margins and courier 12 font and then count the lines. not the blank spaces between the lines.
Hope this helps.
a line just has one character on it, it is considered a line. If you are getting 6 cpl per gross that is approximately equal to 8 cpl based on 65 characters. Sometimes the font on a gross line can make it be less than that though.
If anyone wanst to get through to me while I'm working, they have my cell phone number.
And, as I said, some accounts are using wav files -- no doubt soon all of the accounts will convert. Hope so ... would make it easier (less expensive) to work when traveling. :-)
Lots of good companies out there -- hope you find one that fits :)
signed off the report I was typing. Those lines didn't add immediately, but sometimes they do that. What concerns me is that when I signed that job off and the next one came up, not only were the other lines not added in but they were LESS than they were before I signed off previous job.
I thought I noticed this happening the other day, but figured I just wasn't paying attention. Today I definitely noticed it. For some reason it changed it's mind and took 8 lines off my line count. What the heck?
Am not really ecstatic with the way things are going anyway and then this confuses me.
Please, someone have a realistic explanation so I don't feel paranoid and cheated here.


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With all of the group stage matches in the books, the Houston Dynamo are set to square off against FC Dallas in the third-place match of the Disney Pro Soccer Classic, in Orlando, Fla. Houston finished the group stage with an 0-1-2 record, but advanced to the consolation match over the Montreal Impact and Sporting Kansas City by virtue of a goal differential tie-breaker.
This will be the third-consecutive year the Texas rivals will have squared off in Florida. In 2010, the Dynamo edged Dallas 2-1 to take third place in the tournament. After falling behind 1-0 on a 13th minute goal from David Ferreira, the Dynamo's Lovel Palmer scored minutes later and Cam Weaver added one in the second half to give Houston the victory. In 2011, the two squads met in the tournament final. Ruben Luna put Dallas on the board in the 15th minute but Houston tied it up 90 seconds before the final whistle on a spectacular strike from Francisco Navas Cobo. The game went to a penalty shootout where Dallas came away with a 5-3 victory and the trophy.
With only 10 days to go before the start of the MLS season, both teams can be expected to put strong lineups on display Saturday night. Geoff Cameron, Jermaine Taylor, Je-Vaughn Watson and Kofi Sarkodie have all returned from international duty for the Dynamo. For Dallas, midfielder Brek Shea should be available for selection after the 2011 MLS All-Star played 73 minutes in Wednesday's U.S. men's national team win over Italy.
Saturday's match kicks off at 5 p.m. CT and can be seen live on ESPN3.com. Kevin Corke and Jonathan Yardley will be on the call.