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Publishing Policies and Practices
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The Publishing Policies and Practices project (PPP) is an ongoing project of the International Documents Task Force (IDTF) to document acquisitions and collection development information specific to international organizations, national governments and the vendors with whom they work. Suggestions for IGOs not listed here, and discussion about the project in general can be done on the PPP Discussion page. Readers should also check out the IDTF Agency Liaison Reports for more current awareness of what various IGOs are publishing.
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United Nations
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO)
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- International Labour Organization (ILO)
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Lovely Thatched Roof Seaside Residence in The Netherlands: House N
House N by Rotterdam-based architectural firm Maxwan is a reinterpretation of a residence initially built eight decades ago in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. By preserving the character of the original building affected by weather condition over time, the architects developed a welcoming family home subtly blending rustic features with the comfort of modern living. The thatched roof is the most distinctive characteristic of House N, easily making the residence stand out in its neighborhood.
According to the architects, aside from the roof replacement and basement repairs, the renovation project implied enlarging the bedrooms, bathrooms and windows, as well as adding a new kitchen and a social area: "Extending into the back garden with floor-to-ceiling glass on three sides is the new living room, which maximizes light and views from among the treetops towards the garden and further out to the sea. In the opposite direction stretches the new kitchen, incorporated in a single pre-ecast concrete block. Its color contrasts to the existing house while harmonizing with the surroundings." Another inspiring design addition to the project was a bespoke staircase, which we invite you to discover in the photos below.


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LOS ANGELES, July 27 (UPI) -- Ben Foster is in talks to play Lance Armstrong in director Stephen Frears' bio-picture about the disgraced U.S. cyclist, Deadline.com said Friday.
"Trainspotting" scribe John Hodge is penning the screenplay for the film, which is tentatively slated to start shooting this fall, the report said.
Foster's films include "Alpha Dog," "The Messenger" and "Contraband," as well as the upcoming "Ain't Them Body Saints" and "Kill Your Darlings."
Armstrong confessed in an interview with Oprah Winfrey last January that he used banned substances and blood transfusions to win seven Tour de France titles.
The famed cyclist, cancer survivor and humanitarian long denied he cheated in races, even after he was stripped of his titles and banned for life from competing by the governing body of cycling in 2012.


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If you've ever broken a bone or know someone who has, chances are you're familiar with casts and splints. Doctors use them to keep bones from moving and to support injured limbs while they heal.
Casts and splints may seem like a nuisance, but they're a key part of the healing process. To keep them working as they should (and avoid a longer healing time), they need proper care.
Here are some cast facts, as well as tips on taking care of a cast until it's time to have it removed.
All casts and splints serve essentially the same purpose:
The difference between casts and splints is the material used to make them and the reasons why each is used.
Doctors use splints for minor fractures and for newly broken bones if the area around the injury is swollen. When there's swelling, splints are a better choice than casts because a cast can get too tight and affect a person's circulation.
Doctors will usually replace a splint on a broken bone with a cast after the swelling has gone down. The stronger, closed cast will provide more protection during the time it takes for a broken bone to knit back together.
Casts are sort of like big, stiff bandages with two layers. The inside layer, which rests against the skin, is made of soft cotton. The hard outer layer prevents a broken bone from moving. It's usually made from one of two materials:
If a person needs a cast that goes around the foot, doctors may use a "walking cast."
A splint is like a partial cast — a section of hard material that's held in place with an elastic bandage or Velcro straps. Like casts, splints usually have a soft cotton layer inside. The outer layer of a splint can be made from the same materials as a cast or it can be a pre-made piece of stiff metal or plastic surrounded by strong fabric.
If you need a cast, here's what to expect:
The process is similar for splints:
When a cast or splint is first put on, the doctor might tell you to keep your injured limb elevated as much as possible for the first few days. This helps reduce swelling. If you're using a "walking cast" on your foot or leg, you'll need to avoid walking on it until the plaster or fiberglass used to make it is completely dry.
Casts and splints need to stay in good shape in order to do their jobs properly and allow bones to heal the way they should.
Follow these tips to help keep your cast or splint as strong and as comfortable as possible while you have it on:
Get in touch with your doctor if you notice any of these things:
Once your limb has healed and the doctor says it's OK, a technician or doctor will remove the cast using a special saw. The saw's blade is dull. It's the vibrations that break the cast, not the blade, so it can't hurt your skin. Never try to remove a cast on your own. You could end up re-injuring yourself (and needing a new cast just when you thought it was all over).
Your skin may look and feel a little weird when your limb comes out of the cast. It might be dry, flaky, or scaly, and the hair might look thicker and darker than usual. Your muscles might also appear smaller and thinner. This is all normal and temporary.
You'll need to take it easy and maybe do some exercises to get your limb back in shape, but before too long everything should be back to the way it used to be.
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Date reviewed: September 2011
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The Legal History and Rare Books Section (LH&RB) of the American Association of Law Libraries, in cooperation with Gale Cengage Learning, announces the second annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. The competition is named in honor of Morris L. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School (below left). Professor Cohen's scholarly work is in the fields of legal research, rare books, and historical bibliography. The purpose of the competition is to encourage scholarship in the areas of legal history, rare law books, and legal archives, and to acquaint students with the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and law librarianship.
Students currently enrolled in accredited graduate programs in library science, law, history, or related fields are eligible to enter the competition. Both full- and part-time students are eligible. Membership in AALL is not required.
Essays may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives.
The entry form and instructions are available here.
Entries must be submitted by midnight, April 15, 2010. The winner will be announced by May 15.
The winner will receive a $500.00 prize from Gale Cengage Learning and up to $1,000 for expenses associated with attendance at the AALL Annual Meeting.The runner-up will have the opportunity to publish the second-place essay in LH&RB's online scholarly journal Unbound: An Annual Review of Legal History and Rare Books.
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Monument Creek hydraulics project
This activity was selected for the On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Teaching Collection
Resources in this top level collection a) must have scored Exemplary or Very Good in all five review categories, and must also rate as "Exemplary" in at least three of the five categories. The five categories included in the peer review process are
- Scientific Accuracy
- Alignment of Learning Goals, Activities, and Assessments
- Pedagogic Effectiveness
- Robustness (usability and dependability of all components)
- Completeness of the ActivitySheet web page
For more information about the peer review process itself, please see https://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/activity_review.html.
This activity has benefited from input from faculty educators beyond the author through a review and suggestion process. This review took place as a part of a faculty professional development workshop where groups of faculty reviewed each others' activities and offered feedback and ideas for improvements. To learn more about the process On the Cutting Edge uses for activity review, see http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/review.html.
This page first made public: Jun 2, 2008
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Students then divide themselves into research of three. These teams will synthesize data together and ultimately write up the project together. Each team then sends one member to join members of other teams to do one of the three main aspects of the field or computer work (1) field identification of the bankfull channel and measurement of bankfull channel geometry, (2) field determination of modern channel roughness from modern stream hydraulics (Manning's n is back-calculated from present channel geometry and flow), (3) development of a flood-frequency curve for this reach of Monument Creek from USGS discharge data. These working groups (with one member from each research team) work initially independently in the field and subsequently doing calculations in the lab, or on the computer. Once each working group has completed what it can do on its own, these groups split up and each member of each group carries the groups results back to his/her research team, and explains to the other members of the research team what he/she has done to this point and what results he/she has for the team. The team then works to synthesize he results into an overall answer to the questions posed at the beginning of the lab (confusing enough for you?). Each research team then writes up the results, sometimes (as in 2007) as a lab write up, in other years in scientific paper format. Whether the project is turned in simply as a lab write up or as a scientific paper, students are always asked to assess sources of error and how they might affect the results.
Key words: Fluvial geomorphology, fluvial hydraulics, bankfull discharge, flood-frequency analysis Designed for a geomorphology course
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- Activity Description/Assignment (Acrobat (PDF) 40kB Jun2 08)
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- Introductory questions haded out one session before the main lab handout (Acrobat (PDF) 30kB Jun2 08)
- Arkansas River flood frequency analysis for comparison (Excel 32kB Jun2 08)
- Willamette River flood frequency analysis for comparison (Excel 15kB Jun2 08)
Supporting references/URLs
If you do not want to have students try to back calculate a Manning's n for the modern stream a good source for estimating Manning's n is:
USGS Water Supply Paper 1849, by H.H. Barnes, Jr. (http://wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov/sws/fieldmethods/Indirects/nvalues/index.htm)


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How Type 2 Diabetes Redefined My Life
Lori Lee used her type 2 diabetes diagnosis to find a new lease on life. Read her inspiring story.
Today, Lori Lee is healthy, confident and successful. Yet, ironically, she credits her achievements to the very words that sent her into a downward spiral seven years ago: "You have diabetes."
Just 36 at the time, the single mother of three children (then ages 8, 13 and 15) learned the diagnosis after symptoms like dizziness, severe fatigue and a burning sensation in her feet landed her in the hospital. The news sent her reeling: "I was never more petrified in my entire life."
She started taking medication and headed back to her high-pressure job, but that wasn't enough. Her blood sugar skyrocketed—hovering in the 400s—draining her energy and sapping her memory.
Lori continued gaining weight and neglecting her diabetes until the day she had a heart-to-heart phone conversation with her mother. "I was bawling my eyes out, telling my mother how sorry I felt for myself. And then she snapped, 'Enough! This person is not my daughter—because my daughter is a fighter!' "
Those words were Lori's wake-up call. She made an appointment with a new doctor, and after being put on insulin, she met with a nutritionist who explained the importance of a healthy diet.
One positive step led to another, ultimately leading Lori to tap into a passion: writing, something she had done over the years for enjoyment. "I wrote poetry and romance novels for fun," she says, "but I had never thought about it as a career…until now." The more she wrote, the more she felt her ailments "disappear." Lori then found the courage to submit a manuscript for a children's book to a publishing company—and it was accepted.
Today, Lori is an author of children's books, including Bonnie the Honeybee and the Case of the Butterfly Blues. Her kids are thriving, and her health is better than it's been in years. "I'm working with my doctor diligently. The diabetes is a constant battle, but I am down to insulin just once a day." She's also dropped a few dress sizes.
And Lori thanks her type 2 diabetes for her newfound happiness. "Without getting sick, I would never have this amazing life. I was supposed to be in a wheelchair by the time I was 40—but I'm almost 44 and as active as I can be. Life is a conscious choice and I choose to live a life of gratitude. Now each morning when I wake up, I can't wait to see where my journey takes me!"
Rally your diabetes fighting spirit
To fire up your desire to keep your diabetes under control, try these tips:
Start with a clean slate. Let go of feeling guilty for your "mistakes"—whether you ate too many sweets or let your gym membership lapse. Keep your mind on the present: Each day is a new day and a new chance to do the right thing for your health.


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Professional Bull Riders Gets Bullish On Marketing With Eye On Global Activation
September 7, 2010: Although the Professional Bull Riders attracts much more of a vocal and loyal yet niche audience more akin to Nascar than the NFL, MLB and NBA, the organization took a step toward getting its name and events out to a broader fan and consumer base with the hiring of Dockery Clark, a veteran marketer whose resume includes MillerCoors and Bank of America.
PBR said that Clark has been named CMO of the organization, which is based in Pueblo, Colo., but also is ramping up an office in New York. Kevin Camper, who had been CMO, is now heading up the partnership and sales division with expanded global duties.
Camper joined the PBR in September 2009 and has been responsible for securing multiple new national partners and renewing current sponsors Williamson-Dickie and Jack Daniel's. He also created a local and regional sales force that has provided smaller businesses with a targeted opportunity to participate in PBR events.
"We want to continue developing a world-class, client-centric team at the PBR that cultivates relationships to drive new business and foster retention," Camper said in a statement. "Our goal is to create innovative sponsorship platforms that meet our partners' marketing objectives and provide a maximum return on investment."
The changes come less than two months from the 2010 PBR World Finals, which are scheduled to be held Oct. 20-24 in Las Vegas.
Both executive changes are part of an domestic and international expansion of the corporate marketing and sponsorship functions at the PBR, which includes building and enhancing the new PBR sales office in New York. PBR said it would also continue to "increase its local and regional sponsorship sales team to provide more regional coverage across the United States."
Camper came to the PBR after serving as vp-sales and marketing for Texas Motor Speedway. Dockery was director of sports and entertainment marketing at MillerCoors from September 2005 to July 2009, building on her reputation as one of the most influential women in marketing. Prior to that, she gained respect in several executive positions at Bank of America from 1993-2004, eventually leaving the company as svp-global sponsorship to work as a sports marketing consultant before joining MillerCoors.
PBR's marketing partners include Ford, Jack Daniel's, Wrangler, Enterprise, Cooper Tires, Rockstar Energy Drink, Pro Bass Shops and the U.S. Air Force. More than 100 million viewers annually watch 400-plus hours of programming on Versus, NBC and CBS, according to PBR.
Sports Marketing Shake Up: Gatorade Hires Jennifer Storms, Dockery Clark Leaves MillerCoors


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Selling a Haunted House
How do you sell a house that's haunted or in which someone has died? Ghost clearer and Prudential real estate agent Cindi Hagley joins Al Lewis of Dow Jones Newswires The News Hub to discuss how it's done. Photo: AP.
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Posted by Lap of the Goddess on November 17, 2004
In Reply to: You want ID on this site? posted by Lap of the Goddess on November 17, 2004
: : : : : : : : : Some time ago ESC suggested bracketing our country name against our nom de plumes, in order to give others a better idea of our origins. I thought it was a good idea and did it for a while, then got lazy.
: : : : : : : : : But another good idea that I notice some people such as Smokey, David G and SR do, is place their initials at the end of their comments.
: : : : : : : : : I know I'm a slow learner and it's taken me a while to register this. But when replying to a long thread, sometimes I reply to comments further up the chain but can't remember who made them. So I have to go keep clicking back to find out. However, when people place their initials at the end of the comments - I can see instantly who made them.
: : : : : : : : : So maybe this is a good habit for us to get into???
: : : : : : : : I tried it once, but I spelled Pennsylvania wrong so I gave up. But Pennsylvania is too long to type, so I won't try it again, but I will try signing my posts. Hmmm. BfS? Nah. Brian. Yeah.
: : : : : : : : --Brian.
: : : : : : : Isn't the plural of nom de plume noms de plume?
: : : : : : : TF (obstreperous)
: : : : : : I think it discrimnates against nomads.
: : : : : : Camel
: : : : : : a.k.a SOTD
: : : : : Haha, didn't mean to discriminate - and thanks for the tip obstreperous. And my apologies - after making this suggestion, I forgot to do it myself. Sheesh - you just can't get good help these days. As for Brian's problem, isn't there state abbreviation for Pennsylvania?
: : : : : Oh and Word Camel what's an SOTD? ...Goddess
: : : : Soup of the day?
: : : Ship of the desert? Do I win a huggle?
: : I think using a country code or some such is a BAD idea. I like to guess at the nationality of the players. Brits and Mickeys use different spelling from those of the yanks, and have different slang and different jokes. They have mostly the same TV shows, more's the pity. As for Brian, who could not know that he's a yank? And Americans from the northeast ought to recognize Shawnee as Pennsylvanian, certainly from the U.S. (It's an American Indian word if I'm not mistaken.) Anyway, he once gave it away by admitting to knowledge of the Poconos, preceded by altogether too much knowledge of the New Jersey Turnpike, a little knowledge of which goes a long way. SS
: Fair point Smokey. Although I have no idea what a Mickey is - please enlighten me (or will I regret it?) Actually, the country ID was secondary, and historical, it was the signoff at the end of a response - as you do. That was more important to me, to reduce the need for me to scroll back to find out who said what.
: We spell everything the pommie way (although TV is changing that), so does that mean we're Mickey's? ...GODDESS


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No. 100; Updated February 2017
Social networking sites play an important role in the lives of many young people. Over 60% of 13-17 year olds have at least one profile on a social networking site, many spending more than two hours per day on social networking sites.
Social networking sites can present opportunities to youth who participate with them, but like any activity there are also associated risks. It is important for parents to help their children use these sites wisely.
Some potential benefits are:
Online social networking can involve new risks such as:
If your child is thinking about using social networking sites, there are many ways to help them use them safely and appropriately. Discuss freely with your child and guide them in their usage of social networking sites by suggesting they:
Young people need support and education to develop the skills needed to understand the risks and opportunities of social networking sites so talk to your child before they sign up for an account about:
Social networking sites are a widely accepted part of many teenagers' lives and proactive parenting can help them be a fun part of their teenager's social life. However, if you feel your adolescent is spending too much time on social networking sites or is involved in inappropriate behaviors while using these sites, please seek out the help of a professional who can help you and your child find balance and appropriateness in the usage of this medium.
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For many space planners in the early 1960s, piloted Solar System exploration using large "post-Saturn" rockets and new-design nuclear-powered spaceships seemed a natural follow-on to the Apollo lunar program. In November 1964, however, NASA Headquarters announced that its post-Apollo space program would emphasize Earth-orbital space stations based on Saturn/Apollo hardware dedicated to solving terrestrial problems. Agency officials explained that this was in keeping with the wishes of President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
The Headquarters announcement, which marked the genesis of the Apollo Applications Program (AAP), undermined planetary exploration planning. Even before the announcement, however, die-hard Mars planners had begun to study how Saturn/Apollo hardware could be applied to planetary voyages. In February 1965, Marshall Space Flight Center's Future Projects Office completed the first study of Apollo-based piloted Mars and Venus flyby missions. AAP's critics, meanwhile, derided its lack of any overarching goal beyond finding new applications for Apollo hardware.
In February 1967, Jack Funk and James Taylor, engineers at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston, proposed as AAP's "final goal" a series of three Apollo-based piloted Venus flybys spanning 1972-1976. The missions would depart Earth during 30-day launch periods beginning on 4 April 1972, 14 November 1973, and 7 June 1975. Each would require a single unmodified three-stage Saturn V rocket of the type used to launch Apollo missions to the moon, a lightly modified Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM), and a Mission Module (MM) based, perhaps, on the Apollo Orbital Laboratory (AOL) under study at this time.
MSC's piloted Venus flyby missions were intended to replace the piloted Mars and Mars/Venus flybys under study in the intercenter NASA Planetary Joint Action Group (JAG). MSC favored a piloted Venus flyby mission followed by a Venus orbiter because these missions would be of shorter duration and would need less propulsive energy than the Planetary JAG's flyby missions. In MSC's plan, piloted Mars orbiter and piloted Mars landing missions in the late 1970s would follow successful piloted Venus flyby and Venus orbiter missions.
The report's 1972 AAP Venus flyby mission would begin with launch from Cape Kennedy on 2 April 1972. The Saturn V's S-IVB third stage would inject a 66,308-pound CSM with three astronauts on board and a 27,783-pound MM into a 100-nautical-mile circular parking orbit.
The stage would restart a few hours later to place itself and its payload into an elliptical phasing orbit with a 70,000-mile apogee (high point) and a 48-hour period. The astronauts would detach their CSM from the Saturn Launch Adapter (SLA), turn it end for end, and dock with the AOL-based MM, which would occupy the volume within the SLA that would contain the Lunar Module on Apollo moon missions. They would use the CSM to pull the MM free of the spent S-IVB stage, then transfer to the MM to deploy its twin rectangular solar array wings and check out its systems during the 24-hour climb to apogee.
On 3 April, the astronauts would return to their couches in the CSM as the flyby spacecraft neared apogee. They would then fire the Service Propulsion System (SPS) main engine in the CSM's Service Module (SM) to raise the perigee (low point) of their spacecraft's orbit and tilt its orbital plane relative to Earth's equator. The drum-shaped SM would contain 40,000 pounds of propellants, enabling a total velocity change of 4100 feet per second.
In addition to refining the flyby spacecraft's trajectory for the Venus injection burn at perigee, the apogee maneuvers would test the SPS. If the engine failed, the astronauts would abort the mission by discarding the MM and lowering the CSM's perigee into Earth's atmosphere by firing its attitude control thrusters. When the CSM neared perigee 24 hours later, they would cast off the SM and reenter in the conical Command Module (CM).
If, on the other hand, the SPS performed the apogee maneuvers successfully, the flyby spacecraft would reach perigee outside Earth's atmosphere traveling at 9710 feet per second. The astronauts would then ignite the SPS a second time to add about 3000 feet per second to the flyby spacecraft's velocity and depart Earth orbit for Venus on 4 April 1972.
Immediately after the Venus injection burn, the astronauts would shut down the CSM to extend its lifetime and move back to the MM. They would reactivate the CSM three times during the 109-day flight to Venus so that they could perform small course correction burns using the SPS. Course correction navigation would be by Earth-based radar backed up by a hand-held sextant and a navigational computer in the MM.
Funk and Taylor based their mission's 3400-pound science experiment package on the Mars flyby science package proposed in the October 1966 Planetary JAG report. It would include impactor probes for obtaining atmosphere measurements during descent, soft landers, cameras, and, if weight growth during its development could be strictly controlled, a 40-inch telescope. The astronauts would perform solar, space environmental, and astronomical observations during the Earth-Venus transfer and would deploy automated probes a few days before Venus flyby. The 23 August 1972 flyby would occur over the planet's day side.
Using the SPS, the astronauts would perform three small course corrections during the 250-day voyage to Earth. As the homeworld grew in their viewports, the astronauts would transfer to the CSM and undock from the MM. They would then detach the CM from the SM and reenter Earth's atmosphere on 30 March 1973, just 359 days after Earth launch. A beefed-up heatshield would enable the CM to withstand atmosphere reentry at interplanetary speeds of up to 45,000 feet per second (that is, about 9000 feet per second faster than maximum lunar return speed).
Six months after Funk and Taylor completed their report, AAP bore the brunt of more than $500 million in Congressional cuts to NASA's Fiscal Year 1968 budget. The program, which for a time in 1966 had been planned to include some 40 Earth-orbital and lunar missions, shrank rapidly during 1968-1969. It was renamed the Skylab Program in February 1970. Between May 1973 and February 1974, three three-man crews occupied the Skylab Orbital Workshop in Earth orbit for a total of 173 days.
Robot probes, not astronauts, explored Venus in the 1970s. The Soviet Union's Venera 8 took advantage of the 1972 launch opportunity, leaving Baikonur Cosmodrome in Central Asia on 27 March 1972. The armored probe landed on Venus and transmitted data on its brutal surface conditions for 50 minutes. The U.S. Mariner 10 probe (launched 3 November 1973) flew past Venus en route to Mercury on 5 February 1974. After skipping the 1973 Venus opportunity to launch Mars probes, the Soviets launched Venera 9 and Venera 10 on 8 and 14 June 1975, respectively. Each consisted of an orbiter and a lander. The Venera 9 lander transmitted the first picture of the Venusian surface on 22 October. Venera 10's lander set a new endurance record on 23 October, returning data from the surface for 65 minutes before its orbiter passed out of radio range.
Preliminary Mission Study of a Single-Launch Manned Venus Flyby with Extended Apollo Hardware, MSC Internal Note No. 67-FM-25, Jack Funk and James J. Taylor, Advanced Mission Design Branch, Mission Planning and Analysis Division, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, 13 February 1967.


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Indiana adds Ron Howard, Darnell Jackson to training camp roster
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Pacers have signed free agents Ron Howard and Darnell Jackson.
Howard is a 6-foot-5 swingman who spent last season with the Fort Wayne Mad Ants in the NBA Development League.
Jackson is a 6-8 forward who has played with Cleveland, Milwaukee and Sacramento in the NBA. He played last season with the Reno Bighorns in the D-League.
Last year, Indiana pushed Miami to seven games in the Eastern Conference finals, and it appears its roster is mostly set for the upcoming season. The Pacers signed Chris Copeland, Donald Sloan and C.J. Watson in free agency, and traded for Luis Scola.
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Congress passed the Reclamation Act in 1902, during the Progressive Era administration of President Theodore Roosevelt. One of the definitions of the word "reclamation" is "the recovery of a wasteland or of flooded land so it can be cultivated." ¹ The new legislation created a federal program to bring water to the desert lands of the West by constructing dams and reservoirs to store water for irrigation, as well as canals to deliver that water to farms. The goal was to encourage the growth of small family farms. The U.S. Reclamation Service, renamed the Bureau of Reclamation in 1923, was created to design and build these systems.² In 1924, Reclamation reported that 143,000 people lived on the agency's 24 irrigation projects and that farm earnings for that year totaled $70 million.
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BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian President Bashar Assad warned in comments broadcast Friday that the fall of his regime or the breakup of his nation will cause a 'domino effect' that will fuel Middle East instability for years, in his sharpest warning yet about the potential fallout of his country's civil war on neighboring states.
In Moscow, Russia's president said the Syrian conflict has become 'a massacre' that must be stopped through peace talks, and repeated the Kremlin's firm rejection of calls for Assad's ouster.
The Syrian regime is under growing pressure from an increasingly effective rebel movement that has managed to pry much of northern Syria away from the government and has made significant headway recently in the south in capturing territory and military bases. The rebel advances appear to have given them momentum and put the government on the defensive in the 2-year-old conflict that the U.N. estimates has killed more than 70,000 people.
In an interview with the Turkish TV station Ulusal Kanal broadcast Friday, Assad accused his neighbors of stoking the revolt against his rule, saying 'we are surrounded by countries that help terrorists and allow them to enter Syria.' But he warned that those same countries may eventually pay a price down the road.
'Everybody knows that if the disturbances in Syria reach the point of country's breakup, or terrorist forces control Syria, or if the two cases happen, then this will immediately spill over into neighboring countries first, and later there will be a domino effect that will reach countries across the Middle East,' he said.
He also lashed out at Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was a close ally of Assad before the crisis began but then turned into one of his harshest critics.
'When the prime minister (Erdogan), or the government or officials get involved in shedding Syrian people's blood there is no place for bridges between me and them or the Syrian people that don't respect them,' Assad said.
Turkey has been one of the strongest backers of the Syrian opposition, and has provided it with logistical support and shelter.
The president also used the interview to quash rumors that he had been killed by one of his guards in the capital Damascus.
Asked by a journalist whether he is still alive, Assad told Ulusal Kanal: 'I am present in front of you and not in a shelter. These are mere rumors.'
He said he is living as usual in Syria and is not hiding in underground shelters.
The Syrian revolt started with largely peaceful protests in March 2011 but has developed into a civil war with increasingly sectarian overtones. Sunni Muslims dominate rebel ranks, while the Assad regime is composed mostly of Alawites, an offshoot Shiite group to which the president and his family belong.
Russia, a close Assad ally, has shielded Damascus from U.N. sanctions and largely stood by the regime, although it has also signaled that it is not tied to his remaining in power. At the same time, it has refused to back calls for Assad to step down, and has instead pushed for talks with the opposition.
Speaking to the German ARD television in remarks released by the Kremlin on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin repeated Moscow's firm rejection of calls for Assad's ouster.
'What is going on is a massacre, this is a disaster, a catastrophe,' Putin said. 'It has to be stopped.'
He added, however, that 'when they say that Assad is fighting against his own people, we need to remember that this is the armed part of the opposition.'
Putin said that negotiations between the government and the opposition are necessary to provide guarantees to all parties and prevent the country from sliding into chaos.
'We do not think that Assad should leave today, as our partners suggest. In this case, tomorrow we will have to decide what to do and where to go,' Putin said
He said that Russia doesn't want to see Syria plunge into a turmoil, which befell Libya, Iraq and Yemen.
'Therefore, we believe that it is necessary to bring everyone to the negotiation table so that all warring parties could reach an agreement on how their interests will be protected and in which way they will participate in the future governance of the country,' he said. 'And then they will work together on the implementation of this plan with due guarantees of the international community.'
He said that French President Francois Hollande offered 'some interesting ideas that can be implemented' on his February's visit to Moscow, but added that it will require some diplomatic work.
'We are ready to support these ideas,' Putin said without elaboration. 'We need to try and put them into practice.'
Inside Syria, a barrage of rockets slammed into a contested district on the northeastern edge of Damascus, killing at least five people and trapping others under the rubble, while rebel fighters overran an army checkpoint near the southern border with Jordan, activists said Friday.
The rocket attack on the capital's Barzeh neighborhood, where rebels aiming to topple Assad are known to operate, follows days of heavy fighting between the rebels and the military in the area.
Rebels have established footholds in districts on the edge of Damascus and in suburbs in the northeast and south, and from there they lob mortars into the heavily defended city. Despite their efforts, they have been unable to break the Assad regime's tight hold on the capital.
Later Friday, rebels overran an army checkpoint near the border with Jordan after fighting with troops, the Observatory said.
The rebel gains have coincided with what Western and Arab officials say are U.S.-backed training of opposition fighters in Jordan and an influx of foreign-funded weapons into the south. The opposition advances could be leading up to control of the region along the Jordanian border. That would be a major victory that could offer rebels a staging ground to try to attack the capital Damascus, the seat of Assad's power.
--- Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey. Associated Press writer Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed to this report


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Two spine surgeons are three times safer than one
A new team approach has improved safety—reducing rates of major complications by two thirds—for complex spinal reconstructive surgery for spinal deformity in adult Group Health patients at Virginia Mason Hospital & Seattle Medical Center.
An article in the March issue of Spine Deformity gives a detailed description of the standardized protocol before, during, and after the surgery, stressing the new approach's three main features:
- Two spine surgeons in the operating room
- A live preoperative screening conference
- Monitoring bleeding during the operation
The research team reviewed 164 consecutive patients: 40 before and 124 after the new three-pronged approach was implemented. After implementation, patients were three times less likely to develop major complications. Improvements included significant reductions in rates of wound infection, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and urinary tract infections. Patients were also significantly less likely to have to return to the operating room within 90 days after the surgery.
"We can shorten the operation when we have two surgeons in the operating room as equal partners: a neurosurgeon and an orthopedic surgeon with specialized spine training," said lead author Rajiv K. Sethi, MD. He is an orthopedic spinal surgeon in the neurosurgery department at Group Health Physicians, the director of spinal deformity and complex reconstruction at Virginia Mason, and a clinical assistant professor of health services at the University of Washington (UW) School of Public Health.
"Reconstructive surgery for adults with spine deformities like scoliosis and kyphosis is being done increasingly often," Dr. Sethi said. "But this kind of surgery tends to be long and difficult, and it is among the most dangerous and complication-ridden of all operations. And often the outcomes and complications are unacceptable, including some patients losing more blood than they started with." That's why the new approach uses a standardized protocol to monitor and manage any bleeding during the operation.
The new approach also involves a feature that has never been described before: a live conference with clinicians from various disciplines. They are the operative surgeons, an internist, a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician, the nurses who coordinate a class for complex spine patients, and at least two members of the anesthesiology team dedicated to complex spine surgery. Together, they identify and treat health and medication issues that, undetected, might otherwise have derailed an operation at the last minute. Planning well in advance, they discuss—and decide—whether proposed surgery is appropriate for each patient.
"Our findings could help medical teams at Group Health and around the country reduce complications—and likely cut costs too—while improving performance and patient outcomes," Dr. Sethi said. "But all clinicians at Group Health and Virginia Mason are paid on salary. By contrast, at medical centers where doctors are paid on a fee-for-service basis, with more pay for doing more procedures, it might be harder to institute this kind of systems approach, because it entails up-front costs and commitment from leadership."
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A deed is a legal instrument that transfers some property right in real estate. Deeds in their most basic form contain:
What are the basic types of property deeds?
Here are the most common types of property deeds and how they are typically used:
I'm buying real estate jointly with someone, are there different ways to do this?
There are generally three ways to take property jointly with someone, and the effect of the choice can be significant. In whichever form of deed you use, you should specify how the property is being taken. Here are the three most common:
Do property deeds need to be notarized, filed and witnessed?
Almost all states require that a deed be notarized and filed, and some states require that it also be witnessed. First, the transferring party should go to a notary, who will notarize and witness the signature. Next, the transferring party should record the deed by filing it with the land records office in the county where the property is located (also commonly called a country recorder, land registry or register of deeds). The office will keep a copy and return the original to the transferring party.
What are trust deeds and contracts for deeds?
There are two common "deeds" that aren't really deeds at all because they don't transfer property:
Confused About Property Deeds? Get Peace of Mind From an Attorney
Real property typically represents a person's largest investment in their life. This means that documents establishing ownership should be very carefully constructed by a professional. Contact a local real estate attorney to learn how they can help protect your interests now and far into the future.
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Our Penn State Smeal College of Business research centers and institutes forge connections among leading researchers, senior executives, and prominent business educators to address today's most pressing business challenges.
Sample Research Center Initiatives
The Smeal research centers and institutes provide a network of experts who collaborate to accelerate the development and application of new knowledge. These are just some of the ways that practitioners and researchers work together:
- The Center for Supply Chain Research facilitates benchmarking groups that promote the sharing of qualitative and quantitative data among member firms to improve supply chain management processes and operations.
- The Institute for Real Estate Studies connects its members with the latest commercial real estate data from ReisReports, including metropolitan rankings and residential and commercial vacancy rates.
- The Institute for the Study of Business Markets hosts biannual meetings for member firms focused on recent trends and challenges in B2B marketing. These meetings also facilitate connections among B2B marketing professionals--some of the leading executives in the industry.
The mission of the Center for the Business of Sustainability is to accelerate the integration of sustainability in business. A key element of our work is convening events where research faculty interact with industry, nonprofit and government leaders to develop business and market-mechanisms to address environmental and social issues.
The industry connections fostered through Smeal's network of centers and institutes enable our community of leading researchers and senior executives to shape the business practices that will achieve tomorrow's competitive advantages.


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Mayor Chris Beutler today said the City's Emergency Medical Service (EMS) fund finished the 2008-2009 fiscal year with a $629,995 profit. It is the third consecutive year that the fund has reported a positive year-end balance. The City finished the 2007-2008 fiscal year with a $328,260 profit in the EMS fund, and the 2006-2007 fiscal year with an $84,863 EMS balance.
Lincoln residents already know that they are receiving outstanding emergency medical care from Lincoln Fire and Rescue," said Mayor Beutler. "The ambulance service has now turned around its financial situation to become a sustainable operation. This is the result of leadership and hard work. Lincoln Fire and Rescue involved other City departments and members of the community to take an honest look at the operation and make necessary changes.
City Finance Director Don Herz said if the positive trend continues, an EMS interfund loan from the City's General Fund could be eliminated in the current fiscal year, which ends August 31. Lincoln Fire and Rescue began operating the ambulance service in 2001. Start-up costs and reimbursement issues caused the interfund loan to peak at $2.016 million in December 2007. The interfund loan balance is now about $691,000, the lowest balance since 2002.
Fire Chief Niles Ford said many changes recommended by a 2006 ad hoc committee were implemented, including a rate increase in 2007.
We are very fortunate because ambulance services - both public and private - continue to struggle financially across the nation," Ford said. "Federal Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement rates continue to lag behind costs and are still a concern. We must continue to be diligent in looking for ways to control costs in the long-term without compromising the quality of our service.
The City is now in the second year of a contract with Lancaster County to provide ambulance service outside the City limits, and Ford said cooperation with the County has been very successful. The City also has contracted with private ambulance companies to provide stand-by services at events, but Ford said he has not yet seen the impact of that change.


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The Ósanwe-kenta, or "Enquiry into the Communication of Thought", is a manuscript by J.R.R. Tolkien. It was written in c. 1959-60 as a typescript of eight pages and was published in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 39, July 1998. A related manuscript, "Etymological Notes on the Ósanwe-kenta", was published in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 41, July 2000.
In the framework of the legendarium of Middle-earth, the text is a summary by an unnamed editor of a longer treatise by Pengolodh of Gondolin.
The subject-matter is sanwe-latya (Quenya for "thought-opening", but better translated as "telepathy"). Pengolodh included it as an appendix to the Lhammas because of the implications of tengwesta ("grammar, language") on thought-transmission, i.e. with the development of language, telepathy became more difficult and all but fell out of use among the "incarnated" (those beings with hröa).


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March 8, 2015
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Mythbusters: Obamacare edition
There are a lot of wild stories about Obamacare that make the debate sound like a fact-free zone.
No, the IRS isn't going to be posting your medical tests all over the Internet. No, people's premiums aren't doubling in the crucial swing state of Ohio. And no, the Obamacare "data hub" isn't like a new version of the NSA, spying on your hemorrhoids instead of your phone calls.
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Those are all claims that are muddying the waters as consumers get ready to sign up for Obamacare for the first time in October. On the other hand, not all of the stories that are swirling around the health care law these days are completely far-fetched. And the Obama administration is spinning some rosy scenarios of its own.
( PHOTOS: 25 unforgettable Obamacare quotes)
That's why these stories need the "MythBusters" test — where, just like the TV show, "busted" means it's not true, "confirmed" means it's true and "plausible" means it could happen, but only under certain, narrow conditions.
Here is POLITICO's Obamacare version of "MythBusters" — and what we found when we tested the wildest stories in the debate:
The IRS is going to be laughing at your medical tests.
Very few things in Obamacare are scarier to conservatives than the IRS role in enforcing it — especially after its targeting of conservative groups.
So Republicans are going to town with warnings that the agency will be able to spy on everyone's medical records, as if IRS employees will be looking up the embarrassing medical tests of people they don't like and posting them on the Internet. That could become a talking point again this week, when the House takes up a bill to prohibit the agency from enforcing its parts of Obamacare.
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"Certainly, we don't need the IRS policing our private health care information," Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said during the House debate in May over an Obamacare repeal bill. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has said he's "worried that some of our privacy will be violated."
The reality, though, is that the only IRS roles in Obamacare are to make sure people have health insurance and give out the subsidies to people who are eligible.
That means the IRS needs to know two things: what kind of health insurance you have — which your employer or insurer will report — and your income, which, really, it knows already. It doesn't need to know if you had your flu shot.
And even if someone wanted to look for secrets in your medical history, it's not clear how they'd find them since the Obamacare application doesn't ask for any medical records.
Rating: Busted
You'll never know if your information is safe.
There is a more reasonable concern, shared by experts who are closely following the implementation of Obamacare, that other sensitive information will fall into the wrong hands during the screening process.
That's partly because the federal government is building a "data hub" to help the new health insurance marketplaces gather information quickly from different agencies when you sign up for coverage — like verifying your income level with the IRS, your Social Security number with the Social Security Administration and your citizenship information with the Department of Homeland Security.
All of that is sensitive personal information. Some GOP critics say it's unclear how secure the hub will be, so there's no guarantee that sensitive information couldn't leak out — or be hacked.
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An Obama administration official says that's based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how the hub will work. It's not a database and won't store information, the official said — it's a routing tool that will just allow connections to different agencies to pull bits of information. To verify someone's income, for example, the hub won't pull their entire tax return. It will just pull one bit of information — their income level — and plug it in.
But Brett Graham of Leavitt Partners, which is consulting with states on the construction of the health exchanges, says it would be easier to reassure people that the hub is secure if it had been tested publicly, with the results widely available. Since that hasn't happened, "we really don't know whether it's a small concern or a large concern," he said.
And the hub is not the only way people's information can become vulnerable. Graham said it would be easy for "navigators" — the community groups that will help customers enroll in health insurance — to come across sensitive information about the customers' medical history, especially if the customers themselves blurt it out.
"You could easily see someone saying, 'Can you tell me what kind of plan I need? I have a heart condition, or I have diabetes, or I have hypertension,'" Graham said. That's very different from someone intentionally spying on your health care information — but it's one reason there are gray areas that make it hard to guarantee absolute security.
Rating: Plausible
Your health care costs are going to double.
Two states are playing starring roles in Republicans' "Obamacare rate shock" warnings: Ohio, which said its health insurance rates for individuals will go up 88 percent, and Indiana, which estimated its individual rates will rise by 72 percent.
Republicans are using those estimates to suggest Obamacare will raise people's premiums through the roof. The Ohio statement has been a special favorite of House Speaker John Boehner, who used it to suggest that his constituents will have to pay another $200 a month in health care costs.
There's just one problem: Both states' insurance departments tell POLITICO that people's premiums won't necessarily go up by that much.
For one thing, neither state was actually talking about premiums — they were talking about the basic cost of providing health insurance. In Ohio, that price includes everything, from the costs the insurer will pay to the expenses the customers will pay on their own, according to insurance department spokesman Chris Brock. People who get Obamacare subsidies won't pay the full cost.
That estimate could change anyway, since those were preliminary rates and Ohio is about to release the final ones.
And neither state tried to distinguish between the four different levels of Obamacare coverage. They just mashed all of the costs together, so a casual customer would have no sense that some plans will be cheaper than others.
Dennis Rosebrough, a spokesman for the Indiana Department of Insurance, said it was "virtually impossible to calculate the premiums" because "there are too many variables" — including what level of Obamacare plan people will choose. Under the law, people are supposed to have a choice of four plans — bronze, silver, gold and platinum — with each one covering a larger share of the medical expenses. The law also allows cheaper, catastrophic plans for people under age 30.
"We don't have the capacity to drill down and figure out every level of this," Rosebrough said. "That's why we focused on the cost." Boehner's office declined to comment.
That doesn't mean the costs of individual health insurance won't go up for people whose employers don't offer insurance. They almost certainly will, since the individual insurance market includes a lot of bare-bones plans, with skimpier coverage and high deductibles, that are being phased out under Obamacare. But those costs don't tell you a lot about what people will pay in the end.
Rating: Busted


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The Afghan Girl's Escalation: Say Hello to Sharbat
Perhaps the most famous photograph of a child ever taken, an Afghan girl staring intensely into the camera, appeared on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic. The image of this girl with the striking, greenish, marbled eyes, and telling expression, seemed to say so much about the life of a young girl in her country, and the life she was destined to lead. The future did not look bright for this beautiful child, who appeared defiantly precious as she stared into and beyond the camera as the photo was taken. There was truth in her eyes; and it was both enchanting and haunting. Having been reproduced a number of times, the photo has captivated millions around the world and given credence to the old adage "a picture is worth a thousand words."
A few years ago, National Geographic went on an expedition of sorts, to find the girl whose face they had made famous back in the summer of 1985, and as you can see in the picture above… they found her. [ Continue Reading ]


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It is that time of year again. The Pentagon is in its annual last-minute race to the finish line to deliver a budget request to Congress. This year's is slated for release March 4. Everywhere in Washington, reporters are leaving no stone unturned to get an early peek into what will come out. It's mostly luck when a reporter does. We are well aware we are the beneficiaries of folks floating that trial balloon to prep the fiscal battlefield -- that being Capitol Hill -- for what is to come.
We got just such a peek at what is to come for missile defense, one of the Pentagon's more complex and storied efforts. And, the forthcoming request from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is slated to add $4.5 billion to the Missile Defense Agency's spending plan, a significant boost for any year, let alone one coming in the shadow of an Afghanistan drawdown and sequestration. The agency's budget used to hover around $9 billion annually, but shrank closer to $7 billion in recent years owing to a demand from Congress to reduce defense spending.
Much of that boost will be requested to shore up what some say is an atrophied Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program, including $1.5 billion for a new Long-Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) for the system to watch for ICBMs from North Korea.
But, with a five-year track record of flight testing failures – three in total, costing about $200 million a pop – doubling down on Boeing's GMD could prompt some old questions. The last successful GMD intercept took place December 2008 (the same month Beyonce's "Single Ladies" took No. 1 on Billboard. Don't act like you don't know it … its burned into your brain).
The question ahead is … should the U.S. government put a ring on it? How serious is its commitment to GMD? Or, is it three strikes and the program is out?
A decade ago, the annual fight on the Hill was about WHETHER missile defense – especially a program as expansive as GMD – should be funded. That has largely subsided, with most lawmakers, even Democrats, supporting it in concept, largely a byproduct of an explosion in ballistic missile proliferation. But, will that faith in the technology persist amid such budget pressure and against the backdrop of such a tarnished track record? I suspect so … as long as GMD redeems itself in a forthcoming flight test.
Not that there is pressure …
That's why MDA's next move for the program is all the more critical. Any GMD test is a big deal. They cost about $200 million, including the interceptor, the target, the manpower and using all the "guts" – or C2 – of the system. While every test is a learning event – former MDA Director retired USAF Lt. Gen. Trey Obering often said failures taught more than successes – a failure just plain looks bad. It makes Congress concerned about throwing good money after bad. It makes the public – which largely believes falsely that we actually HAVE an impenetrable shield active already – feel vulnerable. And, it gives our adversaries cause to question whether the policy of deterrence is just a lot of bluster, not to mention conduct their own tests of burgeoning ballistic missile capabilities.
This last point is a major bone of contention with the most recent GMD failure last summer. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered up the test nearly a year ago as an attempted show of force in response to sabre rattling from Kim John-un, the newly ascended leader of a bellicose Pyongyang. The test should have been easy. It was a repeat of the December 2008 success. All the Pentagon had to do was take an interceptor "out of the hole" (meaning on alert) and redo what it had already done. And, yet, it did not.
Apparently, the first-generation Raytheon Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV), the Capability Enhancement I, failed to eject from the upper stage, leaving it powerless to chase down a dummy warhead. A failure investigation board is ongoing. Not only was this a national embarrassment at a critical time in the kabuki dance that is the Washington-Pyongyang relationship, it raised serious questions about the effectiveness of the other interceptors in the hole that are supposed to be protecting us on a daily basis.
The other two mishaps since 2008 involved the upgraded EKV CE-II, a kill vehicle shrouded in mystery but said to have improved capabilities against countermeasures designed to fool sensors into chasing false targets. One of the tests could be written off as a problem with the testing scenario, though there could have been a miss anyway. The second … not so much.
So, fast forward to today. MDA is planning the next test. I'm told there is talk of what the scenario should be. It was to be a repeat of the CE-II engagement – the most complex ever head-on attempt – that went wrong. But, it seems there are some in the Pentagon that want to aim low. "We just need a success," said one official.
Perhaps, that will be good enough. But, we shall see. The test was slated for March, but is likely slipping.
It is that time of year again. The Pentagon is in its annual last-minute race to the finish line to deliver a budget request to Congress. This year's is slated for release March 4. Everywhere in Washington, reporters are leaving no stone unturned to get an early peek into what will come out. It's mostly luck when a reporter does. We are well aware we are the beneficiaries of folks floating that trial balloon to prep the fiscal battlefield -- that being Capitol Hill -- for what is to come.


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Who's on first?
Sarasota today, no game tomorrow and Dunedin on Thursday. Bus left at 9 a.m. today for the 56-mile trip south to play the Orioles.
Abbott & Costello had a comedy routine a few moons ago—make that decades—"Who's on first?" Well, with two weeks left in spring training, that question still applies to the Phillies. With Utley sidelined, Galvis looks like he'll be "Who's on second?" Then, still to be determined, "Who's in left?" The three answers could be Mayberry, Galvis, Mayberry but no team has ever had one player play two different positions at the same time. Really, that's a fact.
Tomorrow is a day off. Players needing medical treatment have between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. to get that done in the training room at Bright House Field.
Two games will be played at 1 in the afternoon at Carpenter Complex, AAA and AA Yankees against the Phillies AAA and AA rosters. Remember, those games are free.
Around Camp
**Camp number was reduced to 41 with Phillippe Aumont, Michael Schwimer, Jeremy Horst and David Purcey sent to the Complex early this morning.
**Joe Blanton is pitching in one of the Complex games today..
**Minor leaguers Jay Johnson (49), Jordan Whatcott (37), Tyson Brummett (38) and Miguel Abreu (11) are on the Sarasota trip today. Abreu is an infielder, the other three pitchers.
**Monday's crowd of 10, 853 is the third largest in Bright House Field history.
**Second group of Phillies sponsors arrives on Thursday for the weekend.
**Mike Missanelli, 97.5 The Fanatic, will broadcast live from the Diamond Dugout Thursday and Friday, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Spring Training Memories
Charlie Manuel
"1964 with the Twins minor league camp which was then in Fernando Beach, FL. Told to report to Jack McKeon (one of the managers) at a hotel. Don't remember the name of the hotel. Jack said to check in at the front desk for a room. Told him I was married. He said, then check out realtors. Wound up with a two-bedroom apartment on the beach. I remember my first uniform number was 9. There were a lot of minor leaguers there, something like 190. I was just a kid and fit in with the rest of the young kids with talent, only I knew I could hit."
For Alumni spring training memories, check out www.phillies.com/alumni.
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