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With municipal bankruptcy rocking cities from coast to coast, we wondered how the process works out in the long run for those cities that fall off the financial cliff.
The law allowing cities to reorganize and forgo debts under Chapter 9 of the bankruptcy code was passed by Congress in 1934 when, in the depths of the Great Depression, cities needed help to survive. In the nearly 80 years since the law was approved, about 500 filings have been made. Many have been by sewage districts and other municipal authorities, so the evidence of how Chapter 9 helps, or hurts, a city is small.
Still, some cases offer a glimpse of the future for those, like Central Falls, R.I., and Stockton, Calif., that recently took the fateful step of filing for bankruptcy, which AdvisorOne focused on recently in 6 U.S. Cities on the Edge of a Fiscal Cliff.
Here is AdvisorOne's look at 6 U.S. Cities That Fell Off the Fiscal Cliff—and Survived:
1. Vallejo, Calif., 2008
This town of 116,000 near San Francisco offers a case study of modern city bankruptcy and its aftermath. The closing of a shipyard in 1996 started Vallejo's descent to Chapter 9. The housing boom disguised the truth of the town's true problems. Raises were given out by the City Council. Then it all came crashing down in 2008. As other California cities declared themselves insolvent this summer, a judge allowed Vallejo to emerge from bankruptcy.
But as The Associated Press reported in July, there is a "new normal" in the city that is a far cry from the pre-bankruptcy days. Concessions have been won from the city's unions, but more will be needed soon as the city still operates in the red. But at least broken traffic lights that have been blinking for years can now be fixed as the city starts to move again.
2. Desert Hot Springs, Calif., 2001
This California town's saga of financial woe began in 1990 when developers sought to build affordable homes in the town east of Riverside. The City Council balked, and after a court judgment of $3.1 million against Desert Hot Springs the case seemed settled; but the town appealed. The legal bills mounted before the courts finally ruled against the town and it decided to file for bankruptcy. After years of uncertainty, the bankruptcy calmed things down. Municipal bonds were sold in 2004 to resolve the bankruptcy and Desert Hot Springs' population grew to 25,000 in 2010, more than 50% higher than in 2000.
3. Orange County, Calif., 1994
Until the recent bankruptcies of Jefferson County, Ala., and then Stockton, this affluent stronghold in the Los Angeles area was the largest municipality to file for bankruptcy. The $1.6 billion filing came after Treasurer Robert Citron borrowed money to invest in instruments that would only pay off only if interest rates remained low. They spiked, leaving taxpayers holding the bag. A bankruptcy plan that included hefty tax hikes mixed with budget cuts was rejected at the polls. The plan eventually enacted slashed the budget 41% with no tax increases. Although The Los Angeles Times reports that the debts won't be paid off until at least 2017, the county is now said to be well run.
4. Bridgeport, Conn., 1991
This is a tale of the city that declared itself bankrupt only to have its Chapter 9 filing rejected almost immediately. Bridgeport had been struggling for years, cutting police and other essential services before it took the bankruptcy plunge.
Immediately, the state of Connecticut moved to block the petition. A judge ruled that since the city was paying its bills as they came due it was not insolvent and could not declare bankruptcy. Its projected deficit at the time was $17 million on a budget of about $300 million. The filing, albeit short, had a ripple effect, cooling off the muni bond market, making it harder for other cities to borrow.
The following November, a new mayor, Joseph Ganim, was elected. He was credited with reviving the city. In his fifth term, things took a turn for the worse, when he was forced to resign after being convicted on racketeering, extortion and bribery charges.
5. Cleveland, 1978
After the wave of municipal bankruptcies in the 1930s, Chapter 9 lay mostly dormant for decades. Then, in 1978, Cleveland defaulted after Mayor Dennis Kucinich (later becoming a U.S. congressman) failed to broker a deal with the city's banks over paying off $15 million in debt. The banks insisted that Cleveland Municipal Light be sold off. Kucinich balked, saying such a move would cause electric rates to spike.
By 1984, The New York Times reported that the debt was paid off and the city had resumed borrowing under a new mayor. It even had attracted the new headquarters for Standard Oil. While things were better for a time—even the sad-sack Indians made it to the World Series—the city is again facing fiscal problems.
6. New York City, 1975
"Ford to City: Drop Dead." President Gerald Ford never uttered those words, but the New York Daily News' headline captured public sentiment when the city was rebuffed in its bid for federal loans to avoid default. Instead, the Big Apple under Mayor Abe Beame was forced to get its fiscal house in order with severe budget cuts and tax increases. Congress was finally persuaded to OK loans (recent accounts say Ford was buying time to bring the lawmakers along) and the City that Never Sleeps, after several horrible years, righted its ship and has found its economy sailing along for decades.
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It took all of 15 minutes for NASCAR's new Gen-6 race car to throw drivers a few curves of its own at the first practice for the Daytona 500.
Ryan Newman lost control of his Chevrolet right in front of Carl Edwards and Mark Martin, and all three cars sustained damage. It's the third time in a week that a wreck has collected Martin, who also suffered damaged cars in a crash started by Matt Kenseth last week and another triggered by Tony Stewart in Saturday night's exhibition race.
Newman had no idea what caused him to spin.
"My car came around, I don't know if it was the air off of Carl's car or what," he said. "Carl came over and said `Hey man.' I said, `I don't even know what to tell you yet.'"
The accident happened as drivers are still adjusting to the new car, a process that has been bumpy so far. Dale Earnhardt Jr. triggered a multi-car accident in January testing, Kenseth started an accident last Friday and the wreck in the exhibition race cut the 19-car field to 12.
Edwards was just as vexed as Newman.
"I was up close to Ryan and then all of a sudden his car just got a little loose and there was no space," Edwards said. "I could have given him more space, but I don't think either one of us really understands why his car got so loose. It was just all of a sudden and he was turned sideways. It's really interesting and something I'm going to be careful of during the race."
Edwards said he believes the finicky cars could contribute to an entertaining season-opening Daytona 500 on Sunday.
"Race cars are supposed to be hard to drive, it's supposed to be on the edge, you are supposed to be sliding around," Edwards said. "We as drivers, it is our responsibility to learn how to drive them. If this (warm) weather stays like this, and we can run cars sideways down the corner and give each other a little bit of room, it's going to be an awesome 500."
Meanwhile, Earnhardt and defending Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski also had issues in the first practice session, which was paced by two-time Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip. Earnhardt blew an engine, and Keselowski had a fuel system problem that limited his track time.
"Something went wrong with the fuel system in the car," Keselowski said. "That's not what you want when you're in front of the pack because when your car slows down, they've got nowhere to go and it could cause a wreck. So we're going to spend a little extra time to make sure we've got whatever it is figured out."
Earnhardt had to wait for an engine change, which will send him to the back of the field for Thursday's qualifying race.
"I'm sure there is some logical explanation as to what happened, but, we'll just put a new one in and start at the back of the qualifier and race up through there," Earnhardt said.
Waltrip was fastest in the first practice, turning a lap at 198.347 mph. Kasey Kahne led the less-eventful second practice - only 27 of 45 drivers practiced - with a lap at 197.737 mph.
It was Danica Patrick who impressed in the second session. She was fourth on the speed chart, but her 10-lap average of 195.775 mph led all drivers. Patrick last Sunday was fastest in qualifying and became the first woman to win a pole in NASCAR's top Sprint Cup Series.

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Actor Michael Douglas is still maintaining good spirits in the wake of his battle with Stage IV throat cancer.
"Nothing has deterred me from my belief that I am going to beat this," the Oscar-winning actor, 65, told Parade magazine in a new interview. "My doctors' prognosis is for a full recovery. I have no reason to doubt them."
Douglas continues to undergo radiation and chemotherapy--his chance for survival is about 80 percent. He publicly spoke about his condition to People magazine and Late Show with David Letterman.
U.S. & World
"Not going public with having cancer was not much of an option, even if I had objected," Douglas said in the interview. "When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long. If it helps bring attention, then that is a major upside to this whole thing. Millions of families are going through the same thing my family and I are now going through. If I can bring any relief or encouragement to those suffering, that's the good news."
He brought his children (he has three with wife, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones) to one his radiation treatment. "They weren't frightened," said Douglas. "And fear is one of our biggest enemies. We told the kids a couple days after I was tested and it was confirmed."
On the silver screen, Douglas is reprising his Academy Award-winning role as Gordon Gekko in the upcoming "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," the sequel to the 1987 Oliver Stone film "Wall Street."
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In December 2008, well before the release of his injury, Driveline Mechanics deconstructed Gibson's delivery. Using this video segment of Gibson pitching in the Cape Cod League in 2007, Kyle Boddy of DM.com identified several problematic areas in his mechanics; the first of which is less troubling then the other two. Because of Gibson's tall, lanky frame, he's got an enormous distance to cover in his stride – a step that takes just shy over an eternity. Boddy focuses in on the leg-lift itself which, as he notes, is borderline worthless. This has been echoed in several different scouting forums and it provides insight to Baseball America's lone criticism of Gibson was that he was unable to generate more velocity during his three-year tenure in the Show-Me-State: he's throwing all arm (a problem I'll address in a minute). From a developmental standpoint, it would seem that Gibson still has velocity yet to be milked out of him. Gibson's motion of raising his long leg in to a very solid balance point is good; however, instead of driving towards the plate, Gibson lowers his leg then starts his push towards home – minimizing hip force. Why is that a problem? It puts added exertion on his arm.
The arm, of course, is a huge fixation when projecting Gibson. Prior to June when it was made known of his forearm fracture, Gibson was touted as a top five and certainly a top ten pick in the 2009 draft. The news of the arm injury naturally caused many teams to recoil in doubt. Forearm stress fractures are typically results of repetitive flexion-extensions (flexing-straightening) of the elbow or pronation-supination (inner-outer movement) of the wrists. Reviewing the footage of Gibson's arm motion, Boddy finds that there is plenty of evidence of this. Highlighting his loading process, Boddy notes that his elbow at this position comes to a point of near hyperabduction. While his scapula loading (or "scap loading" which is the act of bringing your arm/elbow to shoulder height and then pulling the elbow back towards the shoulder) might not be as violent as say, Brandon McCarthy, this motion is a forced one – causing undue stress on the shoulder and elbow joints. Although it might not be the source of his forearm stress fracture (I would suspect that might have to do with his plus-slider that he would have been throwing with his upper-body), Gibson's mechanics will need some re-evaluation in the lower-levels unless the Twins want to flirt with more injuries.
Oddly enough, Gibson told Alex Halsted in his recent interview that he is most like the Tigers' Justin Verlander – who was a similarly tall, thin, hard-throwing, right-handed collegiate draft pick. Unfortunately, that's about where the similarities end. Gibson claimed that he is like the Detroit pitcher in that he "allows his body to work with his arm." This may be a simple case of terrible self-awareness or an ingenious PR push at the signing deadline but my guess is that it is the former. It is true that Verlander generates a substantial amount of velocity from a hip-heavy motion and while he shares a high leg kick with Gibson, Verlander uses this height to propel his body forward thus creating less effort on his arm. Gibson certainly does not share this trait. Furthermore, Joe Christensen's blog re-posting of the quote only tossed more chum in the water for disgruntled Twins fans who subsequently littered the comments section with scathing words for the franchise that would choose to pass on the next Verlander.
Yes, Gibson's 6'6" frame allowed for unbelievable projectability and his lower portion of his body could probably be corrected in rookie ball but his right-handed delivery mechanism might already be beyond damaged coupled with the time commitment to overhaul his mechanics and it is decisively tougher to open the checkbook. Spending what Christensen reported was a desired income of $2.5 million suddenly seems like a foolish investment. The Twins scouting department gambled on Gibson's projectability and wagered that he would be more accommodating to sign for the current MLB slot recommendation considering all of the factors which caused his stock to sink. The organization probably figured they could outfit him with new mechanics and teach him to throw a change-up thereby transforming him into a top-of-the-rotation pitcher or, at minimum, a solid relief arm. Meanwhile Gibson, like every other red-blooded American, believes he should be paid what he are worth – and Gibson had been told his value was of a top five pedigree.
It is quite the contradiction, as Twins minor league prospect guru, Seth Stohs, noted in a recent conversation, the Twins spent time telling him how desirable he was to the organization then when it comes down to dollars and cents, they retract their message. We like you, just not as much as you think you deserve. It is a hard truth of the business on both sides.


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Hip2B Healthy Students Achieve Higher
Guess what? Our Hip2B Healthy Market Ambassadors in 2012 outscored students across their district and NYC in standardized tests! Do you think running a market, accounting, analyzing food labels to know what to sell, and writing letters and reading about food justice had anything to do with that? Or a great teacher?
Ms.Fearon's Hip2B Healthy 4th graders scored at or above grade level:
Wait! Did you see that 27% scored "4" in math! That is 27% scoring above grade level! Congrats to their teacher. Ms. Sara Ann Fearon. Yes, it's Hip2B Healthy. Register at PS221 and your child too can be a top NYC student.
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Come try out fresh lemonade and orange juice and get fresh frit and veggies at IS 240/IS 381. Next market is Thursday, July 18th, 11a - 2:30p. All-natural ice cones, anyone? Who says you can't get a nutritious snack for as little as 50 cents? Students/parents - forget the junk food at the corner stores! Support youth promoting fresh food and your health in your neighborhood. Thank you, donors!
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Hear our kids tell you all about our how to run a business where youth empower their peers to eat well.
We're on the radio, not once, but twice.
Here is the on-site story.
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Students Help Students Build Gardens!
Hip2B Healthy Schools don't waste any schooldays. That's why PS 221 second graders helped their friends at PS 161 build a garden the very last days of school in June. Thank you to New Design High School and Home Depot for their generous donations!
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Solid Rock Supports Hip2B Healthy Students!
In June, a mission of youth and their parents from Florida, called Solid Rock, stormed into Crown Heights and helped Hip2B Healthy students build gardens, cook nutritiously with Chef Elle Siimone, make artful signage and play ball - all to get healthy.
See photos of our chef night here
Hip2B Healthy Farmstand Fundraiser Rocked!
Did you know PS 221 offers Metropolitan Opera Guild Urban Voices chorus, keyboard for all students k-2 and ballroom dancing for 5th graders? On March 22, our Hip2B Healthy ambassadors raised $ with our first farmstand fundraiser - selling grapes, fresh orange juice, apple cider, New York apples, grape tomatoes, Ronnybrook yogurt drinks, strawberries and plants grown by our very own PS 221 urban farmers! Thank you, Jetro Cash and Carry, Ronnybrook, Tree-licious Orchards, Wilklow Orchards, Beth's Farm Kitchen.
Check out our photos here
Hip2B Healthy Ambassador Award Winners
Gardening and Math? Using a Green Room!
Our third graders were delighted to learn how to measure and boost their math skills by gardening in the Green Room! They used measuring to solve all types of planting problem, like where to plant seeds in the indoor grow tables.
Thanks to the Whole Kids Foundation, Anna Elllis, teachers and students are growing in tables beautifully crafted by Home Depot and building worm composting bins.
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Children's Garden at Hamilton Metz Park
Thank you, Kaboom, and Farmer Roy Hildebrant's family and friends - our Crown Heights Farmers Market co-founders - for planting the first children's garden at Hamilton Metz Park. We planted trees and bulbs. We look forward to seeing them come up this spring, to bring back our beautiful memories of Farmer Roy, who passed last August.
Students cook at the Yale Club
See our slideshow of Chef Kehrli with his newest sous chefs.
Many thanks to all our Tastes of Brooklyn and Eat Real NYC chefs and donors and volunteers and tasters!
Special gratitude to the Aetna Foundation, Bronx Health Reach, Citizens Committee of New York City, Home Depot, Whole Foods Market and all our volunteers and supporters who keep Seeds in the Middle growing!
Seeds in the Middle, named by fourth graders, inspires parents, educators, students and their community to access all opportunities beginning with improving their health, enhancing arts education and greening their environment. We are joyful, respectful, educational and engaging. We nurture the whole child.
Our innovative strategy to fight obesity and combat health disparities initiates at schools. We weave proven programs into a comprehensive package to turn around ills driving down opportunity and advancement. We empower and educate all to get healthy and scale disparities. Our pilot Hip2B Healthy schools are in central Brooklyn, a neighborhood with one of New York City's highest obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates. Our programs are models for replication.
We have run community farmers markets and founded Soccer for Harmony tournaments, inspiring social change through soccer. We are proud to boast that our focus 4th grade class test scores in 2012 surpassed the citywide average!
At Seeds in the Middle, we partner with faculty. We teach how to grow, market, access and prepare nutritious food, how to exercise and engage in the arts, all the elements needed to promote life-changing lifelong health. Our partners come from all walks of life: chefs, athletes, educators, artists, builders and more. We cross cultures. We transform gray into green, destitution into inspiration
Thank you, Chefs, Restaurants, Bars, Food Establishments, all, for supporting our youth!
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Solomon Long, Former Public School Principal, in spring 2009 wrote
I have been a principal in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for nineteen years. I was born and raised in Crown Heights. I was quite concerned when NY1 showed the statistics on where the highest obesity was in the city. Read more...
Sara Ann Fearon, Fourth Grade Teacher, in July 2011, teacher Sara-Ann Fearon wrote a moving letter about the deterioration in diet over two decades in Crown Heights and the "staggering" differences in services between their neighborhood and more affluent areas. She movingly describes the impact of Seeds in the Middle.
"I am reminded of the saying, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." This project has created what we hope to be mental and physical adjustments that will continue throughout the lives of these children. It is also my desire to see the continuation of this program in P.S. 221 with its students becoming the ambassadors of healthy eating within their families and their communities." See entire letter here.
Students say:
"I love working at Seeds in the Middle because I get to plant and be a part of a group of people who are trying to change the world. I learned that Seeds in the Middle is not just about planting and being healthy, it is to fight bad things that crawl into people such as cancer," said one fourth grader. "I want more people to help us out because it does not hurt for a couple of more hands to come in. "Read more here
See what we reported to the Aetna Foundation, our first grantor!
"Seeds in the Middle, named by fourth graders, proves that challenged communities at the
heart of the obesity epidemic can be empowered to change their unhealthy environment, and
boost academic achievement, if provided adequate support and resources. This multi-faceted,
grassroots strategy transformed a school in low-income central Brooklyn, where over 95% of
students receive free or reduced lunch, from being ignorant of links between food and fitness to
good health to becoming active advocates for positive change. Read entire report here!
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Hey all you Moda Lovers! It's Bradie, from A Quilty Kind of Girl here once again to share another Moda Precut pattern. When I first saw this gorgeous line of fabric designed by Sweetwater, I knew it was time to make a boyish quilt. The very next morning I woke with inspiration, and this quilt idea began.
|Ready to have some PURE fun? 😉
|For this project you will need:
One Pure Layer Cake
TWO Pure Charm Packs
Half yard of Natural and Craft # 5435-13 for inner border
1 3/4 yards Cocoa Baby Dots # 5436-20 for outer border and binding
4 1/4 yards backing fabric.
You may also purchase all the fabrics you need for this quilt from Fat Quarter Shop!
|Begin by selecting two layer cake squares with good contrast. Place one on top of the other, both with right sides of fabric facing down. I chose to keep the lighter fabric on top, so the marking lines (explained in next step) will show a little better.
Choose 36 layer cake squares in TOTAL which will yield 36 quilt blocks.
|Draw a horizontal line through the center of the layer cake (at the 5 inch mark.) You will use this as a reference line shortly.
|Cut the pair of layer cakes in half VERTICALLY. Do not use the drawn line.
|Draw four marking lines on the layer cake as shown in the picture. These will be used as cutting lines.
|Cut on the drawn lines to separate the outer corners from the diamond shaped center.
|Take the diamond shaped centers and trim their width down to 4 5/8 inches. I trimmed them all from the inside (as shown in picture) but also experimented afterwards with cutting the outer edge. I found that it does not matter which side you trim on. The shape will turn out either way.
|Just for fun… hard to believe this will become an entire quilt!!
|Switch out the center diamonds from each layer cake with the contrasting fabric. I like to lay them out and see how the fabrics look together.
|Time to stitch these blocks together! It does not matter if you stitch the bottom corners first, you may stitch in any order you like. What DOES matter, is the triangle overhang. Note in the picture, how the extra length or the bottom corner triangle extends to the outside of the block. Arrange the fabrics as shown and stitch from the outer corner inwards. Also keep in mind that you are stitching BIAS edges (which means they can easily stretch out of shape) so stitch slowly and carefully. No racecar sewing on these seams please! 🙂
|When you stitch the top corners, you will leave the overhang in the center, as shown in the picture. Begin your stitching from the inner side to finish at the outer corner.
|Once you have attached the four corners, you will have two halves, which you may simply stitch straight up the center….
|Which will finish up looking just like this! At this point, it is wise to trim away the excess 'dog ears' and trim the block to measure 8.5 inches wide by 8.75 inches tall. Yes. It is true. Your block will not be a square, but slightly rectangular!
Make 36 blocks in total.
|Layout the blocks in 6 rows of 6 blocks. I played with the layout a wee bit, but found in the end…. they look good regardless of where they land! Sew your blocks together into the 6 rows. Finish the inner body of the quilt by sewing the 6 rows together.
|Cut 3 strips of white inner border fabric which measure 2.5 inches in width. Sew the 3 strips to each other, then cut TWO strips which finish at 2.5 inches by 49.5. THESE WILL BE THE SIDE INNER BORDERS. Pin, and sew to the quilt sides.
|Cut 3 more strips of white inner border fabric 2 inches in width. Again, sew the three strips together, and then cut TWO strips which finish at 2 inches by 52.5. THESE WILL BE YOUR TOP/BOTTOM INNER BORDERS. Pin and sew to the quilt top/ bottom.
This difference in strip width will bring the quilt back to a square. Which will make adding the next borders MUCH easier. 🙂
|Now to play with our charm squares!
You will 52 charm squares in total. Pair each charm with another high contrasting charm.
|Draw a vertical line down the center (2.5 inch mark) of one charm from each pair. Place charms together with right sides facing.
|Sew a quarter inch seam on each side of the marked centerline. I chain pieced mine and did all the left side seams first, then turned it around to stitch all the seams on the remaining side.
|Here's a closer look at the chain-pieced charms. Trim apart all your charms.
|Cut on the marked line to create TWO (2) color charms.
|Sew together 13 two color charms to create a keyboard border. Make FOUR strips in total.
|Attach one keyboard border to the top, and another to the bottom of the quilt.
|Using one of the reserved layer cake squares from earlier, cut the 10 inch square, into FOUR 5 inch squares. Sew a 5 inch square to both ends of the two remaining keyboard borders. Sew these two borders to the sides of the quilt.
|Take the second reserved layer cake square, and cut it into FOUR 5 inch squares. Cut 8 strips of brown outer border fabric, 5 inches wide. Sew the strips together in pairs, and trim each one to measure 5 by 61 inches.
|Pin and sew two borders to the top and bottom of the quilt. Sorry you can't see the borders very well…. they match my hardwood floors quite beautifully don't you think? 🙂
|Attach the 5 inch layer cake squares to each end of the two remaining border strips. Pin and sew these last two strips to the sides of the quilt.
Quilt as desired.
|The end result? A beautifully boyish cuddler size quilt which measures 71 inches square.
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The Genesee Valley Hiking Group (GVHG) is the online avatar of the Genesee Valley Hiking Club (GVHC), which for over 90 years has offered hiking, walking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, canoeing and camping outings in Western New York. These activities range from easy to strenuous, providing opportunities for people of all ages and fitness levels to enjoy the outdoors during all seasons.
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. Members of GVHG, GVHC, guests and members of the public are all welcome to take part.
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Beasts Of The Southern Wild actor Dwight Henry has revealed he'd love to work with his on-screen daughter Quvenzhane Wallis again.
The pair made their acting debut in the critically acclaimed indie film, and both went on to land roles in Steve McQueen's film Twelve Years A Slave.
"She has something inside her that is so very special," Dwight said, joking that one day he'll be old and in a wheelchair and will be watching Quvenzhane on TV.
"She has such a bright future ahead of her, and I look forward to seeing her in film again and maybe possibly working with her again."
Meanwhile, Quvenzhane - now 9 - said she wasn't thinking too much about the Oscar buzz surrounding the film.
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MACON, Ga. – Lipscomb sophomore throwers April Terry and Houston Ward have been honored by the Atlantic Sun Conference as the A-Sun Field Athletes of the Week for their efforts last Saturday at the Ed Temple Classic.
Terry, a native of Little Rock, Ark., earns her second career field athlete of the week after crushing the school record in the weight throw and shot put. Terry used a throw of 15.37m in the weight throw to earn third place. A toss of 12.37m in the shot put garnered a fourth place finish.
Ward, a native of Portland, Texas, earns his first career field athlete of the week as he had two top-three finishes at the Ed Temple Classic. Ward had a toss of 14.44m in the weight throw to garner the silver medal while a throw of 14.4m earned him the bronze in the shot put.
The Lipscomb track and field squad returns to action Friday at the Blazer Invite, hosted by UAB in Birmingham, Ala.


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I think the earliest memory I have of my Daddy was playing with him in the middle of the floor when I was just a child. My brother, Ray, and I crawled all over him--holding him down so he couldn't get up. I remember listening to him play his harmonica. He made it sound like the lonely whistle of a train as it chugged down the tracks. He also made it sound like a little child calling its mama. He played songs for hours—always ending with "You Are My Sunshine" for me. This was long before television--when part of the nightly entertainment was playing with his children before their bedtime.
Daddy was a big man in my eyes. I always felt safe and secure when he was around. I remember snuggling up next to him on the couch, as he talked to a friend or a family member. I remember the vibration I felt when he spoke, the sound of his heart, and the warm feeling of his big hand softly holding me close. I remember falling asleep in his lap and waking up the next morning in my bed.
I cannot remember Daddy ever spanking me, but I can certainly remember being scolded. He had a gentle manner even though he was very abrupt and gruff. When I misbehaved, he looked at me with sadness in his eyes and say, "Your old daddy is really disappointed in you." That took more out of me than any spanking he could have ever administered. Its effect hurt me more. Once Mom was really upset with me over something (I can't remember what), and she told Daddy to spank me. He took me to the bathroom, closed the door, and took off his belt. However, instead of hitting me, he hit the sink and told me to yell loudly. Then he said, "Mind your Mama."
My Daddy worked for the railroad. At one time, we lived in a little railroad town named Americus, Georgia. This was the only place we ever lived other than Savannah. When the trains came in, each engineer had his own whistle signal to alert his family he was home. Wherever we were, Mother gathered us up and hurried us home to see Daddy. Ray and I sometimes ran across a big field to greet and walk home with him. During those years, we often visited my grandparents in Savannah. Once when we were riding the train home from one of those visits, I pulled a tooth. I could hardly wait to get home and put the tooth under my pillow so the Tooth Fairy would leave a surprise. The next morning I wasn't feeling too well so Mom tried to cheer me up by reminding me of the tooth. She picked up the pillow to fluff it and more money than I had seen in all my life fell out of my pillow. She could not convince me that the money was Daddy's paycheck that he had hidden in the house knowing she would find it when she made up the bed. Daddy confirmed what my mom had told me was right when he returned. I was very rich for a very short time!
|Raymond on the river
My Daddy loved to fish. While still living in Americus, he took us fishing. Mother and Ray were in one boat and Daddy and I were in another boat. (Daddy never liked more than two people in a boat.) Of course Ray would deny it, but I think he was a little bit of a bully. That day he was laughing at me because he was catching fish and I wasn't. Finally, Daddy quietly took my line and pretended to be baiting my hook, but in reality he was putting a fish on it. He silently dropped it over the side of the boat and said, "Wait a minute--then pull it in." I pulled that poor fish in so many times that afternoon that it drowned. The good part was Ray wasn't laughing anymore. If fact, he wasn't a very happy camper because I was now catching more than he was catching. All went well, until we were loading the car and Mom asked, "Where are all the fish you two caught?" It didn't take her long to figure out the truth. Needless to say, she was not too happy with the two of us.
I remember Daddy swimming under the surface of the water in the Americus swimming pool with me sitting on his back. I remember lying on the ground beside him making pictures out of the shapes of the clouds. I remember him bringing home a large box of Double-Bubble bubble gum one week and throwing it away the next because he heard it caused a child to have polio. I remember him teaching me to read the newspaper by getting me interested in the little fillers that were printed between the articles--unusual facts about many things. I remember how he would aggravate us all by buying things he wanted just a few days before Christmas, Fathers' Day or his birthday.
I have been handicapped all my life, but I can still feel the pride and love my Daddy had for me. He always made me feel special and beautiful. Daddy never let me use my handicap as of excuse. He always told me, "You can accomplish anything you set your heart to do. You just have to want to do it bad enough."
One afternoon, Ray and I were arguing over comic books. Daddy was sitting in a chair nearby reading the paper. We did not realize he was listening to us fuss. All of a sudden he put the paper down and said "Go get two grocery bags from the kitchen and put your books in them. Then go get in the car." We quickly did what we were told. (It never crossed our minds not to do what Daddy told us to do or question it in anyway.) It seemed as though we rode for hours. We sat next to each other on the back seat, neither being brave enough to utter a single word. We ended the journey at Bethesda Home for Boys. Finally, he stopped the car and turned to face the two of us. "You see all those boys out there," he said. "Well, I want you to get out of the car and take your bags and give each of them one of your books." Reluctantly we followed his instructions. When we finished we sadly returned to the car. He said, "You know, I bet those kids won't argue tonight about which book is whose. I bet they will share and read all of them." Never--and I do mean never--did Ray and I argue over anything again in his presence. I have wondered through the years if those children at Bethesda really believed us to be generous, or did they know the truth--that we were being punished.
My Daddy was known for his snoring. His job as a freight train engineer required him to be away from home for days at a time. When he was on the road, many of the railroad men refused to stay in the same boarding house with him. He did snore loudly, but I had grown up hearing it rumble through the house. To me it was a good sound because it told me that my Daddy was home and I was safe.
I remember Mom bought two little turtles for Ray and me. They had American flags painted on their shells. Daddy came home from work, saw the American flags, and that was the last we saw of the turtles. It was during World War II and he was very patriotic. "Not right for flags to be painted on turtles," he told us.
I remember when I was a teenager; my friends and I would go to the Triple X (a favorite hangout in Savannah). One night on his way to work he spotted us driving down Victory Drive and motioned for us to pull over. Can you imagine how I felt when he came to the car and asked, "Baby, can you let your old Daddy have a few dollars 'til payday?" He didn't need money; he was just teasing me in front of my friends. He was a character; you never knew what to expect next.
I remember him telling me not to fish in a certain spot because the line would tangle in the oyster shells. And I remember sitting there when I did tangle it, wishing he would leave and go to the house. He asked if I still had bait on the hook and I would tell him, "Yes sir, I can feel a nibble every now and then." Several hours later, he finally gathered his things, turned and asked, "Do you want me to untangle your line before I go?" We never outsmarted him!
I remember driving him to work so we could use his car. We had to give him time to reach the top of a tower where he watched as the car left the rail yard. He knew if we didn't stop at every track crossing the road. If the car didn't make a complete stop at each rail crossing, a phone call was made to Mom, telling her we could not use the car until he came home.
I remember leaving for the church on my wedding day and praying that he would show up. He was fussing about wearing a "girdle" (cummerbund) and said he didn't know if he was going to wear it or not. However, he was there--girdle and all.
I remember when I told him I was having a baby. It was his first grandchild. He was so happy. Daddy knitted shrimp nets in his spare time. He brought one to my hospital room when Karen was born. He stayed there with me most of that day and knitted on the net.
I remember the nicknames he had for everyone. Mine was "Worm." If he didn't have a nickname for you, you could be sure he didn't think too much of you. After my divorce, my Mom and Daddy opened their home to my two children and me. He was always there for them as he was for me. He called Karen "Hippie" because of her long hair and Dale "Boy."
I remember he never allowed us to use the word "stupid." He would have disowned you if you didn't take two full gas tanks, fresh water, and a jacket if you went out in the boat. He didn't like it if you answered a question with "I guess so." He liked to eat and he liked to cook. Once my friend phoned and Daddy got stuck on the phone because I wasn't home. Since he wanted her to hang-up he said, "I really have to hang up. You see I am cooking fried bananas for the kids. They just love them cooked that way, especially when I put chocolate on them." I didn't know what my friend was talking about later when she asked for Daddy's recipe for fried bananas. Daddy did not have a recipe for fried bananas because he never fried bananas.
I remember the day he died--March 29, 1980. It was sad. I knew I would miss him. There were many times when my Daddy made me mad. I sometimes thought he was too hard on Dale. Daddy was quick to anger and say what he felt. But he was a good man. I remember my children sitting on the floor outside his bedroom one night listening to him pray. He was praying for his family, the world and the Iranian hostages. He died before they were freed. I thought of him when I heard the news that they were coming home. As the years pass, it's hard to remember the things that upset me about my Daddy, but it is easy to remember his love.
It was only after Daddy died that I heard how he took fish and shrimp to the older people on the island. How he took donuts to the Fire Station and sat, drank coffee and ate donuts with them. The Lutheran minister, Pastor Stukey (Daddy called him "Soupy"), told us that Daddy regularly gave him money to help a family on the island that was going through hard times.
I remember his funeral. We left Fox and Weeks on Drayton Street. As we turned down Anderson Street toward the cemetery, I looked back. As far as you could see down Abercorn Street were cars with headlights shining. I couldn't help but smile. It was just like one of Daddy's long freight trains and he was leading the way. He was always good to his family. We never lacked for anything that we needed. He had many friends. He was a very rich man in the things that matter.
It amazes me to this day, how both my brother, Ray, and sister, Nancy, really believe they were his favorite child. This seems so ridiculous to me because I know I WAS HIS FAVORITE and no one can convince me otherwise.
Happy birthday, Daddy. I love and miss you so much.


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How many mansions circle the shoreline of Geneva Lake, near the Illinois border? It all depends upon your definition of "mansion," of course, but the area's "Newport of the West" nickname has stuck – for good reason – for 125 years.
On the lakeshore are many dozens of estates, and a growing number are monstrous, contemporary projects. They sprout among the well-preserved Gilded Age homes and tales that involved Chicago's richest businessmen. This is where the Sears, Schwinns, Swifts, Maytags, Mortons and Wrigleys all chose to invest their money and spend their leisure time.
Much rarer along the Geneva Lake waterfront are cottages, although this also depends on how the term is defined. Back in 1888, a "cottage" included the three-story (plus turret) and 13-bedroom Black Point Estate, built for $20,000 as a summer family getaway for beer baron Conrad Seipp.
He discovered the area while hunting but wanted it for more, especially after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 left the city smoky and vulnerable.
Now the eight-acre and blufftop Black Point Estate is the newest of 10 state-owned historic sites. It is open for tours, which begin with a narrated boat ride from downtown Lake Geneva; this choice of transport is how the Seipp family reached the property before roads were established.
Everything that is original in the Queen Anne mansion – beams to billiard table – arrived by boat (or sled, when the lake froze in winter). It was a seasonal getaway, typically Memorial Day to Columbus Day.
The estate is unusual because five generations of the same family occupied it, and each left their mark with décor and furnishings, all of which were donated to the state of Wisconsin.
That means you'll see a mix of furniture (some older than the Civil War), stained glass windows imported from Germany, green shag carpeting in a bedroom, an array of sailing memorabilia and a two-story dollhouse that is a furnished mansion in miniature.
Mary Kaye Merwin, interim site manager, describes the estate as "an amazing time capsule" with detail that sometimes "goes right down to the toothbrushes and razor blades" in bathrooms. On the main floor are four fireplaces and a dining table big enough to seat 40.
The Seipp family liked to entertain but also demonstrated a strong sense of family and responsibility. Their children didn't just vacation; they had tutors and chores.
When Mary Kaye tells these stories, she is sharing a part of her own family history because she grew up on a nearby farm that sold eggs to the Seipps and invited the children to visit for pony rides. Her great-grandmother and Catharina Seipp were friends who would meet, by buggy, for tea.
Mary Kaye returned to her roots after retiring from administrative work at Cornell University. Although she swam at Black Point's boat dock many times during childhood, she never got acquainted with the mansion's interior until volunteering as a tour guide.
The property name acknowledges the area's abundance of black oak trees. Public tours began in 2007, but state ownership didn't kick in until this year.
"So many of these original homes on Geneva Lake were being destroyed or renovated to the point where they were unrecognizable," Mary Kaye notes, to explain why the Seipp family wanted to make Black Point a historic site.
Some of the Seipps still own property in this town of Linn neighborhood of Walworth County. The patriarch, ironically, had no idea how much or long his family would enjoy the area: He only lived two years after Black Point Estate's completion.
Tickets to tour Black Point Estate include roundtrip boat transportation, with narration, from Lake Geneva's Riviera Docks, 812 Wrigley Dr. Reservations are booked through Lake Geneva Cruise Line (cruiselakegeneva.com, 800-558-5911).
The cost ranges from $36 for adults to $24 for children. The outing lasts three hours and includes the mansion's lower two floors. Tours happen seasonally, May to October.
Visitors must be able to climb about 120 stairs between the pier and estate. Groups of 20 or more may arrange a visit by bus. Consult blackpointestate.org, 262-248-1888 for arrangements.
Most Geneva Lake mansions are just for gawking during a drive or stroll along the 21-mile lakeshore path. An exception is the restored 1885 Baker House, open for dinner, Sunday brunch, murder mystery parties and history tours with tea.
The 30-room Queen Anne building has an unobscured view of downtown Lake Geneva, the water and sunsets. Four suites are for rent; overnight prices begin at $295.
For more about the Baker House, 327 Wrigley Dr.: bakerhouse1885.com, 262-248-4700.


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OK, I recently contacted one of the customizers that sells figures on ebay and asked how he creates things like slime pit He-Man and what he uses in the legs. He replied that he has NEW rubber pieces for the legs, cast off old ones, and for ten bucks he could take the old rubber out, replace with new, and bam...instant fix. So, I took him up on his offer, excited to see how it turned out and it arrived today!!!! INCREDIBLE. I won this He-Man carded on ebay and was disappointed to see the loose legs inside so I opened him and his legs are just simply perfect. There is NO WAY besides the rubber looking shiny and new that you could tell. And the person I dealt with...absolutely TOP NOTCH. He did the job immediately, emailed me right away, sent it back same day. I had this puppy send and received back in like four days. He even emailed a picture AND a video to show me what it looked like while I waited for it to arrive. Incredible service, cost, and experience. Just letting you know that there is an alternative to drilling into the legs.
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Im not sure if the video is cool, or creepy.
I think its the "thrusting" motion of the leg pull thats throwing me off.
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cool, I always had this query myself too
I've always tried to keep my stuff in tip-top condition so imagine my dismay when I discovered my Fright Zone glove puppet had all but disintegrated! Has anyone else had this problem?
Bak-or - Evil Master of Mean-Spiritedness
My kids play with the vintage guys relentlessly... most have survived, but yea we've had some leg breaks... great solution, commemorative! These guys are like starting over again, and they are holding up really well. There are sooo many lots on ebay, that when we lose a number of characters due to the unrelenting violence on Eternia, we'll pick up another lot for 15 bucks. I don't think Mattel was thinking we'd be passing these toys off, or still collecting them 30 years down the line... that being considered, most of them as well as their play features have held up wonderfully... some modern toy lines break after 2 days out of the package, let alone 30 years.
I will NEVER believe that Mermista beheaded Mer-Man! You sit on a throne of lies.... and smell of beef and cheese, bio writer!!!!
paper, books, hard drives, cd's, these are not likely to survive for 300 years. a plastic figure, i guess it will last way longer than that, except for the leg bands
Maybe all of them will fall apart, but I'll deal with that when the time comes.
I read up on the deteroration of action figures and plastics last week, after being reminded of a few sticky figures as I dusted my action figure shelves. (No sticky MOTU, but I only have two vintage ones, only GI Joe/Action Force and old Kenner Star Wars, and one not too old Invisible Woman form ToyBiz.)
Anyway, from what I read what makes figures sticky is the chemicals mixed in with the plastics (like softeners) that loose their bond. My Action Force Zartan for example oozes something crystalline. Things that accelerate degradation include light, lack of oxygen, chemicals and temperature variation. The last one appaerently is the biggest common crook.
Bags in general is bad for both plastic and paper since they keep out oxygen and include chemicals that do damage. Mostly to paper. For example Mylar bags that comics collector's use needs to be replaced every few years to make sure.
Another factor is what type of plastic that was used and which chemicals were added, in a particular batch of figures. Still, the rubber will go before the plastic and the plastic in these action figures will outlast us all even if it becomes sticky and colors run (Two Bad is a common example from MOTU).
So, mild/cool room temperature with ventilation and no lights is the ideal.
No, sorry, my bad. Mylar should be the safe option, I meant the regular cheaper comics polybags.
I've noticed that if u wash figs with soap and water, the stickiness does indeed go away... it may take a few washes. None of my vintage MOTU have gotten the stick however, all are doing just fine, well except for the bands... nothing will help that nonsense!
I will NEVER believe that Mermista beheaded Mer-Man! You sit on a throne of lies.... and smell of beef and cheese, bio writer!!!!
Me too. I think mine are as decent as they are because they are for display now. I don't play with them and I'll never let my nieces play with them. Even my 200x stuff is off limits. Mine should be fine for decades to come and after that I won't care because I'll be dead.
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BY THE POWER OF GREYSTONE! I am the power.
I can see how light and temperature can be the two biggest culprits here. Paper (such as what the card backs are made of) will have a shorter half life if you give it plenty of oxygen. Anything biological in origin (like paper) needs to be kept out of oxygen rich sources or it will deteriorate. This is probably in contrast to plastics which have very little (if any) organic composition, thus probably survive better in more arid, oxygen-rich environments.
To make a long story short, you are faced with a dilemma with vintage carded action figures: to preserve the card, or preserve the figure? Unless you design a system that has the proper mixture of gases (oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen) and controlled temperature and lighting. But for the most of us the "mild/cool temperature with ventilation and no lights" recipe will work just fine.
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Nothing in life is permanent, all things deteroriate. I try not to get too attached to anything material.
There's enough to worry about the living beings around me.
"The most difficult thing is trying not to forget who you really want to be." - Nong Toom
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Oh, if only I'd had this information when I was 7 ... When I think of the "amputee" figures I had as a kid ...
ya i woul dlove to get this info... so i could start building my Motu collection
Oh, well, with the He-bro way I've fixed dozen of my figures, don't mind if the loose value, they will be forever mine!
Now a question, nobody knows how to fix the leg joint of other knock-off AF? I just purchased a lot with three Remco figures with their hard-plastic joints brocken, it's a glue-proof damage, anyone knows how?
C'mon He-bro, you're the genius here, make me dream!
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My pre-Filmation minicomics:
Of course I do commission, after all I have to live!
Chiaramente accetto commissioni, dovrò pur campare...
Yeah, damn those joints!
uomo libero e guerriero delle schiere Boiche
My pre-Filmation minicomics:
Of course I do commission, after all I have to live!
Chiaramente accetto commissioni, dovrò pur campare...


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Game of Life — Distributed Lists
Printing Results
At some point I will want to have the output results of the computed generations displayed. The same initial two methods as the input above also apply to the output. That is, one process can be in charge of all output, printing the live grid cell coordinates received from the other processes, or each process can perform output of its own subgrid. The goal will be to print a coherent picture much like the serial version of the code does. Using a single process to do the output would appear to be easiest to implement. Of course, the output process should not keep a copy of the entire grid in memory. (If it did, why distribute the computations in the first place?) Rather, the process should accept messages containing lists of live grid cells from each other process and use that data to print. This may involve sorting the data depending upon how the grid was divided and how the message(s) are sent/received from each process.
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Having each process in charge of the output of its own live grid cells will require some synchronization and coordination between the processes. How complex this synchronization is will depend upon how the original grid is apportioned to the MPI processes. For example, using four processes in the computation, the grid could be quartered by columns or by rows or split in half both horizontally and vertically (like you would cut a rectangular pie into four smaller quadrilaterals).
If I've done a column-wise grid division, but need to print in the natural row-wise fashion, a message must be sent between one process (after each row of the current process was printed) to the next process in the logical order of output before the next process can begin printing data from the same logical row. At the end of each row printed, the last process must inform the first process that it can then print its next row. On the other hand (the hand rotated 90 degrees anti-clockwise, that is), if the grid were divided by rows, each process could print its entire subgrid after receiving a message from the previous process that the previous rows have been printed. This row-major division generates much less message traffic than the column-major division.
Communicating Life and Death on the Edge
This brings me to the heart of this treatise on distributed Game of Life. To determine whether a grid cell will remain alive, die off, or be born in the current generation, the number of live neighbors that a grid cell has must be known. For those grid cells wholly internal to the subgrid, the correct value of
numNeighbors will be in local memory. For grid cells at the interface between subgrids, newly born cells and newly killed cells will affect the
numNeighbors entries in the process across that logical border. To keep the counts correct, some communication of the status of gird cells on the edges of subgrids must be exchanged.
One of the easiest methods to exchange and use grid data from other processes is to declare ghost cells around the subgrid assigned to the process. The ghost cells replicate the data that is held by another process just over the border. (If you remember back to my initial posts about the Game of Life, there was already a hedge around the outside of the full grid to make computation of the number of neighbors easy at the edges.) After determining which new cells are alive and which have died, each process will bundle up the status of the edge row/column on its side of the border into a message. This data is exchanged with the process holding the subgrid across the divide. Data received from that process is placed in the ghost cells that correspond to the edge row/column on the opposite side of the border. The number of neighbors can then be adjusted for these edge cells.
There are two important things to consider for this data exchange. First, what will be the format of the message to be sent (and received)? Will this be a variable length message containing the coordinates of the live cells or a fixed length message that encodes the entire set of edge cells to be either alive or dead? Second, the message exchanges have to be coordinated correctly so that all processes don't attempt to first receive cell data from another process and deadlock the execution. With blocking MPI communication functions, some processes will need to first send while others first receive and then change roles. Alternatively, an asynchronous receive can be posted by each process for each border process that its subgrid abuts and, when ready, send out messages with the needed status updates to those same border processes.
Related to this second point is how many processes will need to exchange data. This is directly related to how the grid is divided. If a row-wise (column-wise) division is used, the inner processes will need to exchange data with two other processes, but the topmost and bottom (leftmost and rightmost) processes would only need to coordinate with a single other process. In the case of four processes, dividing the grid into quadrants will yield more consistent communication since each process would exchange data between two other processes. Other divisions of the grid for more processors (for example, 16 processes making four vertical and four horizontal cuts) can create different number of bordering subgrids between processes. Irregular grids with irregular divisions could have multiple subgrids along a single border, which would require multiple messages be exchanged.
These are the major issues that need to be considered when implementing a domain decomposition version of the list-based Game of Life in a distributed memory environment. After making the appropriate choices from the ideas presented above, you should be able to devise a solution of your own. In my next post, I'll show the code that I've written to implement this variation.


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Opponents of Ballot Question 300, which asks Longmont voters to ban hydraulic fracturing and storage of waste in city limits, have a host of reasons for not supporting a fracking ban, including protecting the rights of mineral rights owners, the threat of multiple lawsuits and the costs to the city associated with them, the strength of protections provided by the city's agreement with TOP Operating and that the city's charter is not the place for such a ban.
Fracking ban proponents have concerns — such as groundwater pollution, depressed property values and public health — that would be valid if an oil and gas company proposed drilling and fracking a well at, say, Sunset Golf Course, or somewhere else in the middle of the city. And there are few places in the city where that could happen.
But TOP Operating's current agreement with the city calls for 11 drilling sites, mostly around Union Reservoir and south of Sandstone Park. The agreement also calls for the closure of the Rider well near Trail Ridge Middle School.
While a ban on fracking isn't a ban on drilling, it likely would be viewed as such by the state. And we've seen how the state views such bans. The state Supreme Court, a couple of decades ago, overturned Greeley's ban on drilling within city limits. Longmont's fracking ban, if voters pass it, isn't likely to survive the state's inevitable legal challenge.
Beyond that, the proposed ban appears to be a pre-emptive strike against something that might never happen. The vast majority of the residences inside Longmont city limits are protected from proximity to a drilling operation under current state rules.
But back to what is happening: TOP Operating's proposed operations. The company's proposed 11 drilling sites are on the periphery of the city, dotted around Union Reservoir and south of the Sandstone Park fields, mostly on city-owned land. Both of these areas, by the way, already have a few existing wells and storage tanks.
The agreement looks to be a strong one from the city's standpoint, with an array of protections, mitigation and monitoring. Notably, the company will not be allowed to store fracking waste water in pits, injection wells or anywhere else in the city.
If a company ever proposes to drill and frack somewhere in the middle of town, that will be the time to deal with it. Banning fracking in Longmont now, though, would ultimately be a fruitless effort.


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Why not amend Councilman Daniel Garodnick's bill to compel businesses with 20 or more employees to offer Transit Check to include all 51 Council members along with several hundred City Council staff.
Councilman Garodnick and colleagues could give up the perks of their free City Hall parking spaces. They could join millions of constituents who use the bus and or subway to get to work. Ditto for the several hundred Council staffers who work near City Hall.
Garodnick and colleagues are addicted to using government coercion as a means to implement their ideology that the government knows what is best. Whatever happened to freedom of choice in the marketplace?
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A man killed by police after a shooting rampage that left four people dead was a mystery in a small town, a stranger to his neighbors and a man of few words, even at a bar where he regularly drank Coors Light and listened to, but never sang, karaoke.
A former boss who worked with gunman Kurt Myers for 20 years described him as a quiet and nervous but intelligent and congenial man who was a fan of World War II trivia - though a recent encounter with his old employee left him unsettled.
Steve Copperwheat, who hired Myers as a machine operator in the early 1980s at Waterbury Felt, a manufacturer of industrial textiles, said he encountered him in a Wal-Mart parking lot three months ago after not seeing him in about 10 years.
"I yelled over to him, and he looked at me, said my name, said he was retired and just went booking away," Copperwheat said. "It was almost like he didn't want anybody to know where he was. He was trying to be very distant, which surprised me. The whole conversation was really spooky."
Police don't know why the 64-year-old Myers, whose final killing was of an FBI dog, chose the locations or victims. He didn't appear to be close to his family even though it has lived in the area for generations, and police interviews with relatives and neighbors have produced little.
About the only clue is his cryptic query before he opened fire on customers in a barbershop where he used to get his hair cut: "Do you remember me?"
Myers died early Thursday in a gunfight with officers in an abandoned tavern where he holed up 19 hours earlier after walking into the barbershop and a car care shop and shooting six men, four fatally.
The gunman was a loner, never married. Neighbors in this poor upstate New York town say he rarely spoke. The barkeeps who served him several times a week for a decade didn't even know his name.
Copperwheat, now the owner of Environmental Composites in Herkimer, said Myers had "always seemed to be in a rush. Walking, talking - everything he did was fast."
Myers seemed to be quite intelligent and was fond of World War II trivia. "He was really a buff on dates," Copperwheat said. "Once he got upset because one of the girls in the office didn't know when Pearl Harbor was."
The business was sold and moved several times, with Myers and other workers moving with it to several locations in central New York and eventually Dover, N.H., in 2003, Copperwheat said. There, Myers shared an apartment for a while with several other workers.
"I never had a problem with him arguing with anybody or fighting with anybody," Copperwheat said. "He just kind of kept to himself."
The shootings rattled Herkimer and neighboring Mohawk, villages about 170 miles northwest of New York City. Utica, about 13 miles down the New York State Thruway, is the nearest sizeable city, with about 60,000 residents.
Myers' sister lives with her family in Barneveld, just a short drive from Mohawk and Herkimer. There was no car in the driveway on Thursday, and nobody answered the door or phone.
His brother, Lance Myers, died in federal prison in 1982 at age 31. He had been serving a four-year sentence for an embezzlement conspiracy at Oneida National Bank, where he had been a manager.
Myers' rampage started with a fire in his apartment in Mohawk on Wednesday morning. He then drove around the corner to John's Barber Shop and used a shotgun to kill two customers, Harry Montgomery, 68, and Michael Ransear, 57, a retired correction officer.
The barbershop's owner, John Seymour, and another customer, Dan Haslauer, were wounded and hospitalized.
Myers then drove to Gaffey's Fast Lube in Herkimer and used the shotgun to kill Michael Renshaw and Thomas Stefka. Renshaw was a 23-year employee of the state correction department, and Stefka worked at Gaffey's and played guitar at Mohawk Reform Church.
State police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico called Myers' shotgun attacks "unprovoked and random." Myers did, though, appear to have tenuous connections to the barbershop.
Seymour, the owner, told his sister that Myers, who used to be a customer but hadn't visited for a couple of years, walked in and said, "Hi, John, do you remember me?"
Seymour replied, "`Yes, Kurt, how are you?'" his sister Mary Hornett said. "And then he just started shooting."
State police and FBI tactical teams entered the first floor of a building in Herkimer around 8 a.m. Thursday to end the standoff, D'Amico said. Myers opened fire at officers, killing an FBI dog that was behind a door, D'Amico said. Police returned fire, killing Myers. No officers were injured.
The FBI tactical dog, a 2-year-old Czech German shepherd named Ape, had just completed its training a month ago and was on its second mission.
Traci Randall, who lived next door to Myers, said the only time she remembers speaking to him was when he yelled at her son because he thought the boy had shot an air pellet at his red Jeep.
"He would walk by himself," she said. "He was kind of a loner. No wife."
Michele Mlinar, bartender at Cangee's Bar and Grille in Herkimer, said Myers used to come at night on weekends and listen to karaoke but stopped showing up last summer.
She said he always wore a flannel shirt tucked neatly into his jeans and sat alone at the bar.
"He just listened," she said. "He never sang."
Gov. Andrew Cuomo commended law enforcers for ending the "horrific" bloodshed.
"It's now time for mourning those who we lost in this senseless act of violence," he said.
Elizabeth Cirelli, a neighbor of victim Stefka, said she was shocked by his slaying.
"He was a great guy, a really nice person," she said. "This is horrific. We really couldn't believe it."
Esch reported from Albany. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Michael Virtanen in Herkimer, Chris Carola in Albany and David B. Caruso and Tom McElroy in New York.


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Roast Chicken with Rosemary and Lemon Recipe
Roasting a whole chicken is pretty simple to do, just season it, put it in the oven and walk away. As long as you have a thermometer you can't go wrong. The combination of rosemary and lemon has a wonderful Mediterranean flavor. Serve this with roasted vegetables. You can use the leftover chicken bones to make a wonderful stock.
Roast Chicken with Rosemary and Lemon
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: varies
Points+ with Skin: drumstick 2 pts, wing 3 pts, thigh 4 pts, 4 oz breast 5 pts
1 (3 lb) chicken, washed and dried, fat removed
1/2 onion, chopped in large chunks
2 cloves garlic, smashed
1/2 lemon
2-3 sprigs rosemary
1 tbsp herbes de Provence (or dried rosemary)
salt and fresh pepper
Heat oven to 425°. Season chicken inside and out with salt, pepper, and herbs de provence. Squeeze lemon juice on the outside of the chicken and stuff the remains of the lemon along with onion, garlic, rosemary sprigs inside the chicken.
Roast the chicken until the internal temperature is 165°F, about 50-60 minutes (Insert thermometer between the leg and the thigh). Let the bird rest for 10 minutes before carving.


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A place where veterans and nature connect
A restored ranch in Washington state is providing a retreat for nature-loving veterans with disabilities. Thanks to many grants and funding opportunities, including the Wetlands Reserve Program, the protected land is safeguarding wildlife habitat while also providing a place for veterans to enjoy the outdoors.
Addressing farmland loss in the Pacific Northwest
Washington's Puget Sound region, like many other parts of the country, continues to face farmland loss due to development pressures. The work of organizations, like PCC Farmland Trust, made possible through farm bill programs, is helping to protect farms and farmland in the region.
Trajectory of farm bill negotiations remains unknown
Federal farm policy helps shape what is grown; where, when and how the land is farmed; and who benefits from this production. The 2012 Farm Bill process is being greatly impacted by the federal budget deficit reduction negotiations, the results of which have yet to be revealed.
Peanuts and pecans go up in price
When you are reaching for pecans or peanut butter to make your favorite holiday dessert, you may notice a sharp increase in price. Peanut growers in Georgia and Texas, and pecan farmers across the Southeast, have experienced a severe drought this past summer. However, Virginia peanut farmers are experiencing a robust harvest this year.
Georgia schools to test farm-to-school program
Three counties in Georgia have enlisted their school systems to serve a minimum of 75 percent Georgia-grown food to their students for a full week. The program will run in the spring and will include guest chef and farmer presentations, while seeking to increase healthy eating habits for elementary school students.
Finding community in a farm and food hub
In Worcester, Pennsylvania, farm and food advocates are working to create a food hub through the Longview Center for Agriculture. The organization's model—which is finding ways to connect members of the community to the land—offers farmers the opportunity to produce food on small plots of land.
Central New York meetings to address agriculture plans
Farmland protection plans are the topic of discussion at a series of upcoming meetings in central New York. The towns of Nelson, Cazenovia and Lincoln are working together to prepare Agriculture & Farmland Protection Plans, guided by steering committees of local farmers, officials and other landowners.
Study finds water quality in Chesapeake Bay is improving
A new study released from Johns Hopkins University study "efforts to reduce the flow of fertilizers, animal waste and other pollutants" is benefitting the health of the Bay.