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Buxton continues popping for Kernels
Twins prospect flashes full set of tools at plate, in center field
By Sam Dykstra / Special to MLB.com | June 10, 2013 2:11 PM
As the Minor League season goes through its third month, the Twins organization has boasted two of the most exciting hitting prospects the game has seen thus far.
On Sunday, Miguel Sano homered twice for Class A Advanced Fort Myers and was promoted to Double-A New Britain soon after. It was Byron Buxton's turn to shine Monday. What comes next is still to be seen.
The Twins No. 2 prospect went 3-for-4 with a triple, a double and three RBIs and added an acrobatic diving catch for good measure in Class A Cedar Rapids' 6-2 win over Kane County at Perfect Game Field. The organization's No. 15 prospect Mason Melotakis made it a two-man show by scattering four hits and three walks over seven scoreless innings.
The 19-year-old center fielder's multi-hit performance was his third over his last six games -- all of which have come after he missed four days with a thumb injury -- and jumped his slash line to .350/.444/.578 through 58 games with the Kernels. He leads the Midwest League in each of those categories and ranks eighth among all Minor Leaguers with a 1.022 OPS. (Sano is second at 1.079.)
"I think he's superseded expectations so far," Twins scouting director Deron Johnson told MLB.com. "We all obviously thought he'd be a great player, but he's really started off well. He's done a tremendous job. I think we're more impressed with the makeup more than anything. We all knew he had tools -- we all knew he could run, he could throw and he had power -- but just the way he goes about his business, with his maturity on the field and off the field.
"I think he's a man on a mission."
The key to that all-around success Monday was Buxton's speed, which is rated at a 70 on the 20-80 scale according to MLB.com's Prospect Watch, and it first got some gasps in the second inning.
After singling and then being picked off in the bottom of the first, the quick-footed center fielder tracked down a screaming liner off the bat of Jeimer Candelario for the first out in the next frame. As it turned out, he wasn't quite done with the glove. An inning later, David Bote hit another gapper, but again, Buxton was there to make a full-extension diving grab over his left shoulder, sending him flying onto the warning track in front of the 407-foot sign in left center.
With his defensive skills fully showcased, he took over with the bat in the fifth.
After Candido Pimentel's bunt single loaded the bases with no outs, Buxton laced a three-run double to center that gave the Kernels a 4-0 lead. The three RBIs on that play alone gave him five in the last two games, equaling his total from his previous 12 games combined before this week. (That comes, however, with the caveat of being a leadoff hitter where sometimes RBI opportunities are few and far between.)
The Cedar Rapids star rounded out his afternoon with another speed display, this time on a seventh-inning triple. It was his eighth three-bagger of the season, good for third-most among Minor Leaguers. Buxton was in the hole when Michael Quesada struck out in the eighth, thus denying him a chance at the homer he needed to complete the cycle.
Meanwhile, Melotakis turned in his second seven-inning performance over his last three starts. It was also his second scoreless outing of the season, following a 5 1/3-inning effort in a 5-1 win over Quad Cities on May 10.
Armed with a plus fastball and a serviceable curveball, the 6-foot-2 left-hander was selected in the second round of last year's Draft as a closer out of Northwestern (La.) State but has transitioned nicely into a starting role in Class A ball. He improved to 6-2 with a 3.24 ERA and 1.46 WHIP in his first 11 professional starts.
Sam Dykstra is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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No peach-sale fund-raiser this year
To the mountain community:
Thank you for your continued support of the Rotary Club of Conifer's peach-sale fund-raiser since 1999.
We are sorry to announce that due to two cycles of freezing and flooding, Palisade peaches are not available this year. Because we use only the best peaches grown in Colorado for our fund-raiser, we are unable to purchase the peaches necessary for this year's sale.
Thanks for help with town hall meeting
The Evergreen Pathfinders wish to thank all of the financial supporters, speakers and guests who made the first Evergreen town hall meeting a huge success. Thank you to those who set up chairs, baked cookies, provided the sound and video equipment, and cleaned up afterward.
Fire departments, Sheriff's Office deserve thanks and credit
Authorities must address traffic jam on fire evacuation route
I live off Buffalo Park Road.
On June 3, I received a Level 3 alert call to evacuate immediately, and I did exactly that.
Now, I am not complaining about the fire department or the emergency-notification call. But something must be done about the evacuation process.
Schools' plan to test inBloom was carefully considered, communicated
A recent letter to the editor stated that "Jefferson County Schools has decided to put all student personal information in a national database called 'inBloom.' It has done this secretly without any prior input from parents and taxpayers."
School district's plan to use 'cloud' storage for student data invites disaster
Jefferson County Schools has decided to put all student personal information in a national database called "inBloom." It has done this secretly without any prior input from parents and taxpayers.
Residents still should monitor fire board's actions
Veterans deserve a statue that depicts the reality of combat
To all those who dare to bring about a controversy about the statue of a soldier holding a rifle at the veterans memorial, I have this to say:
A doggone selfless citizen recovers woman's lost wallet
Who knew taking Boudicca to the beauty shop would cause so much trouble?
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Am I Seeing the Right Type of Doctor?
Getting relief means seeing the right medical professional—find out who's who and how to get referred.Find Out
Physical therapy is an important treatment option for most back pain sufferers. Find out how to make it work best for you.
Physical therapy involves working with a physical therapist who is trained to carry out your doctor's orders to stretch, strengthen, and exercise your back in a safe and effective way. It is important that physical therapy be coupled with education, so you can be empowered to take charge of your own recovery and move forward in your journey.
Physical therapists are trained to give instruction on posture, educate about basic anatomy and physiology, and instruct people in body mechanics, stretching, strengthening, and conditioning exercises. A physical therapist also works with your physician to determine if other types of non-surgical treatments including ultrasound, heat, diathermy, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), electrical stimulation, hydrotherapy, massage, or spinal manipulation may be right for you.
Your physical therapist will do an evaluation and determine if there are any joint limitations or muscle weakness, as well as pinpoint the pain distribution in your back. Heat/cold therapy and massage, as well as ultrasound, may be used to ease back pain, but these are no longer the mainstays of treatment. These types of treatments—called modalities by physical therapists—demand little from the patient and may feel good at the time, but the pain relief produced by them is often only temporary.
More recently, physical therapists have been using physical activity as part of treatment. This may cause minor pain at the beginning of the course of therapy, but it has longer-lasting effects—strengthening the back and relieving pain in the long run.
Physical therapists who use movement, back pain exercises, strengthening and conditioning, and who encourage gradual increase in activity, are usually most successful.
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BP Should Have Read Oobleck
Apologies Only Make Environmental Damages Disappear in Fairy Tales, Yet There's a Lesson to Learned from Children's Fables
Sometimes I don't know what to write about. Other times I can't choose which of several tales to tell. At first, I was going to write "Too Little, Too Late," and slam BP again following the $4.5 billion settlement it announced Nov. 15 to resolve U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other criminal claims related to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. You know the drill. Why didn't BP and its contractors have sufficient blowout preventers and other inexpensive automatic controls and safety equipment to prevent killing 11 of its rig workers and fouling the Gulf of Mexico? Why does BP perform many complex tasks well, but then persist decade after decade with a culture that cuts so many stupid corners and inevitably leads to catastrophe? And, finally, why does BP's board and its major investors—not to mention those at so many other firms—continue to reward ignorant and destructive behavior?
Because it's highly profitable, of course, at least in the present fiscal quarter—which is as far ahead as many companies and people seem to look these days. It's well known that satisfying financial analysts is often more important now than building actual products. Merely moving money around shell-game/con-man style is the way to get the biggest payoff with the least effort. Cash trumps everything else now—logic, common sense, professional pride and basic integrity. And, if pursuing it happens to injure others? Well, just make sure they're at a distance. Out of sight, out of mind, right?
But, where does this short-sightedness come from? I think maybe it's the relative prosperity so many of us grew up in that weakens us. It causes us to focus only on short-term lifestyles, unhealthy consumption levels and Black Friday deals at the expense of traditional self-sacrifice, delaying immediate gratification and investing in innovation with long-term benefits. No more "saving for a rainy day" or "slow and steady wins the race." A little severe, self-imposed austerity might help. I'll let you know how it goes right after I finish this next bag of Cheetos.
The other rehashed column I was thinking about, "Really Little Engineers," was inspired by two of my co-workers here at Putman Media—Michele Vaccarello Wagner, who is expecting a baby, and Derek Chamberlain, whose wife is also about to give birth. I figured the new arrivals might enjoy some of the picture books that my daughters and I grew out of long ago. You know the drill here, too. Nurturing new engineers looks like it begins with Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) programs, but it really starts with reading to babies, and keeping them away from the danged TV and all the other video drivel.
The Cat in the Hat, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Curious George Takes a Job and many other stories opens kids' minds to the world, and then wood blocks, Legos and all the other building sets let them get their hands on it. There's your holiday shopping list. De nada.
Surprisingly, while packing the books, I ran across a forgotten Dr. Seuss masterpiece, Bartholomew and the Oobleck. It's about King Derwin of Didd, who gets tired of the usual rain, snow, sunshine and fog, and orders his magicians to invent something new—oobleck. Unfortunately, this new weather phenomenon turns out to be a sticky, green adhesive that pours down on the kingdom, and almost destroys it. Sound familiar? Anyway, the country looks doomed until the king says he's sorry and means it, which makes the oobleck evaporate.
Of course, apologies only make environmental damage disappear in fairy tales, but the lesson is precious anyway. Sadly, some people just can't seem to even begin to say they're sorry. Sounds familiar again? That's because public apologies after strings of disasters and earlier apologies just aren't enough. I know it's important to limit liability, but there's a point where honesty and self-respect should kick in, and it should be a lot earlier than it is now. Maybe we can sit a few CEOs and board members down with the babies, read Horton Hatches the Egg, and learn to keep some promises.


text: Eberswalde Crater offers the chance to explore an ancient river delta. In fact, the delta is the most convincing sign that a Martian river once flowed into a standing body of water. Stream channels in the delta have meandered over time. As the streams carved new channels, abandoned streambeds remained behind as "footprints." Today, many of these streambeds are higher than the surrounding terrain. That's because the water deposited sediments that hardened and became resistant to erosion. Orbiters above Mars have detected clay minerals in the sediments. Clays are evidence of past water activity for the Mars Science Laboratory to investigate. Clays form when water dissolves rocks into extremely fine-grained minerals. These minerals form layers, kind of like the parts of a sandwich.


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Connecticut police say a Chicago couple who were guests on "The Maury Show" were arrested at a hotel after they got into a fight over his alleged affair with her mother.
Norwalk police told The Hour newspaper that 46-year-old John Coley and 25-year-old Shantae McGhee-Brown were charged with disorderly conduct and criminal mischief at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Norwalk on Tuesday night. McGhee also was charged with interfering with police.
McGhee-Brown told police that she and Coley traveled to Connecticut to be on Maury Povich's show, which is recorded in neighboring Stamford. An email message was left for show producers Wednesday.
McGhee-Brown and Coley both were held on $100,000 bail and were expected to appear in state court Wednesday. It's not clear if they have lawyers.


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Kapustin Yar – Dirge (Land Of Decay)
GodDAMN this is some heavy shit. Antonio Gallucci coming from every genre out there and conjuring up something wholly new & awesome. Trithemius takes industrial to a new level, incorporating black ambient, metalgaze, noise, darkwave, and anything else that's bleak & destructive, tossing in some twisted spaciness because obviously. Ear bleeding bass that hits harder than your speakers can handle, huge walls of heavenly nightmarish static, a massive lumbering nightwalker lost in an urban wasteland, tearing down skyscrapers and generators, a cacophony born from a decayed post-nuclear Earth, faulty machinery humming in the distance with vocals buried in the chaos or hissed & distorted beyond recognition, black hole terrors, drifting in space drugged out of your fucking mind, feeling your every atom warp the fabric of spacetime, your body swallowed by the heaviness. 100% amazing record. Then again, I expect nothing less from the untouchable Land Of Decay.
Kapustin Yar – Trithemius (Land Of Decay, 2012)November 9, 2012
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Are you a tech-savvy mom? We're looking for mom bloggers who are passionate about everything from gadgets and electronics to Internet technologies and social media.
We are trying to promote and recognize the work of moms who blog with this contest, rather than blogs that are intended for mom readership. Therefore, this contest is only open to moms.
To ensure that votes are fairly acquired we do not allow for any prizes or giveaways in exchange for votes.
Voting ended on Apr 10, 2012 at 4pm PT. Top 25 Tech Moms - 2012 is now closed.
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Alison, Amanda, Grace and Mary are four mothers from different parts of the world dedicated to educating parents about the best digital stories, educational apps, fun games and technology products available for their children.
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Real Advice straight from the heart, make money with a blog, learn about social media. I'm also a mom inventor. I'll share my journey together we can grow :) Come be inspired I also invented the Snuggwugg :) Love to meet you @ my blog!
Interview with Mompreneur Mogul
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Annie has been an educator for 30+ years. Her focus? The healthy social and emotional development of tweens and teens.Her new parenting book is "Teaching Kids to Be Good People." We need more good people, right?
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I review apps for anyone looking to tap into the practical, personal or parenting potential of their iPad, iPod or iPhone. I also feature how-to tips, tech accessory reviews and a movie review now and again.
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I'm a mom of three who runs an iPhone/iPad app development company with my husband. I blog about business topics and other tech subjects related the evolving mobile space, which are helpful for my fellow developers and give a behind the scenes peek.
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Tales of a mom with a wardrobe in black, living an authentic life, while rambling about 2 headstrong girls, quitting her day job, and the gas-passing bulldog who sneaks into her bed at night.
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Like any other Mom,I wanted to make sure that my kids were safe both in the real & virtual world. This led me to think about other kids as well. So I joined McAfee's campaign to keep Indian kids safe online by spreading awareness on cyber threats
Interview with McAfee Cybermum India
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Because Mothers love many things...
Lifestyle + Fashion + Beauty + Home + Travel + Culture + Family.
Seventh Generation Texas Girl, Lifestyle Writer, Wife and Mom to 3.
Interview with The Suburban Diary
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A blog about the sometimes explosive, sometimes rewarding, and always engaging effect of digital media on the modern family. Anecdotes, tips, and current tech news to help parents tackle that ever-present family member – the screen.
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A tech-savvy mom who focuses on coaching high-tech leaders and professionals to leverage their time, multiply their capacity to get things done, and focus on driving strategies with big impact. Let your success soar at work and get a life too!
Interview with Think Bigger and Act Bolder
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Interview with The Safety Chronicles
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Lynne Kenney, Psy.D., is a mother of two, a practicing pediatric psychologist in Scottsdale, AZ, and author of The Family Coach Method (St Lynn's Press, Sept 2009). Dr. Lynne values family, sports, cooking, math, art and education.
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Tech-loving, geeky wife to one and mother of two (one at school and one toddler) writing about living life as a high-tech family. I love gadgets, gizmos and apps.
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Tech Savvy Mama assists parents in navigating the ever-changing world of technology. Leticia Barr uses her experience as a former teacher and technology specialist for a large DC Metro area school system to share new technology and educational resources.
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Interview with Imagination Soup
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Upgrade Your Life provides simple solutions to high tech problems. I'm a mom of 4-year old twins and the host, writer, and executive producer of the series. We shoot the video portion of the show in my kitchen and I sneak my kids in for cameos often.
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A blog about Life, Love and the Final Frontier. I'm a mom to a brand-new baby boy and I write about the exploits of my nerdy family, technology that I find interesting, photography and social media. Fun, right!?
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90% of your problems can be solved by smart marketing. Solving the other 10% just requires good procrastination skills. Can't help you with the latter, but I do know a thing or two about smart marketing. Want me to prove it? Pick up my free SEO report and we'll go from there.
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The PCM has detected an abnormal fuel pressure reading that what is required for normal engine operation.
When fuel pressure is not within a predetermined range (as determined by the vehicle manufacturer, a trouble code will be stored and a service engine soon lamp will be illuminated.
Symptoms typically include a no start condition, extended cranking before engine starts, hesitation upon acceleration, as well as stored trouble code and malfunction indicator lamp illumination.
Probable causes include a faulty fuel pump, clogged fuel filter, a low fuel condition, a faulty fuel pump driver/relay, or a defective fuel rail sensor. Open, shorted, damaged, or corroded electrical wiring and/or electrical connectors are also common causes of this code being stored.
Many fuel pumps and other components have been replaced when a vehicle is simply out of fuel. If the fuel level gauge is not working properly, the likelihood of this misdiagnosis becomes more prominent.


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Thursday, December 20, 2012
All I Want For Christmas Is A Good Ghost Story: Part 1
Happy Holidays, everyone! Christmas is drawing ever near… There are some people who just love Christmas. Perhaps the most famous literary Christmas-lover was the great Charles Dickens.
Not only did he adore the holiday, he was a huge influence on it. I'm not kidding, this guy shaped Victorian Christmas. Tell me of a person who has never seen, read, or heard of A Christmas Carol and I will personally slap them. It was first published on December 17th, 1843 and sold over 5,000 copies by Christmas Eve. Over fifty film, theatre and television adaptations have been made. It is no wonder that Dickens considered A Christmas Carol to be his greatest achievement.
Before A Christmas Carol, Christmas in the mid-Victorian era was all about the Christ. And the mass. Come on, let's be honest, no one wants to sit in church all fucking day. Of course, people were thrilled when Dickens came along and brought some secular fun to the season. He believed Christmas was all about being with family, dancing, laughing, giving to charity, and of course, telling stories.
After the release of A Christmas Carol, the quintessential Christmas ghost story, Dickens decided to write a handful of others. He penned what were titled, "The Christmas Books" which included the short stories The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man (1848). Some are these are more supernatural than others, and most are hardly terrifying but he was determined and inspired to keep up the tradition. A few other Christmas ghost stories Dickens wrote are The Haunted House, Christmas Ghosts, The Trail for Murder and The Signal-Man which was adapted for the 1970 BBC mini-series A Ghost Story for Christmas. In reference to these tales author Peter Straub calls them, "A lively mixture of comedy, pathos, and the supernatural."
"…for we are telling Winter Stories—Ghost Stories, or more shame for us—round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it." –Charles Dickens, Christmas Ghosts
Posted by Christine Hadden at 12/20/2012
Labels: A Christmas Carol, Books, Dickens, ghost stories, holiday, Marie
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Merry Christmas Christine, have a great time little darlin`.
- December 21, 2012 at 8:05 PM
- Christine Hadden said...
Thank you, JBH. You do the same ;)
- December 24, 2012 at 3:17 PM
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"What separates masters from others is often something surprisingly simple. Whenever we learn a skill, we frequently reach a point of frustration - what we are learning seems beyond our capabilities. Giving in to these feelings, we unconsciously quit on ourselves before we actually give up…
"The difference is not simply a matter of determination, but more of trust and faith. Many of those who succeed in life have had the experience in their youth of having mastered some skill - a sport or game, a musical instrument, a foreign language, and so on. Buried in their minds is the sensation of overcoming their frustrations and entering a cycle of accelerated returns. In moments of doubt in the present, the memory of the past experience rises to the surface. Filled with trust in the process, they trudge on well past the point at which others slow down or mentally quit.
"When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient. Assuming your practice proceeds at a steady level, over days and weeks certain elements of the skill become hardwired. Slowly, the entire skill becomes internalized, part of your nervous system. The mind is no longer mired in the details, but can see the larger picture. It is a miraculous sensation and practice will lead you to that point, no matter the talent level you are born with.
"The only real impediment to this is yourself and your emotions - boredom, panic, frustration, insecurity. You cannot suppress such emotions - they are normal to the process and are experienced by everyone, including Masters. What you can do is have faith in the process. The boredom will go away once you enter the cycle. The panic disappears after repeated exposure. The frustration is a sign of progress - a signal that your mind is processing complexity and requires more practice. The insecurities will transform into their opposites when you gain mastery. Trusting this will all happen, you will allow the natural learning process to move forward, and everything else will fall into place."
- Robert Greene, Mastery
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I have a small framed version of this despair.com poster near my desk:
It's a sarcastic play on a famous quote from Andre Gide: "To discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
So true… and challenging. Uncertainty, plus fear, plus a sense of endless grind in the hard stretches, makes for a seriously daunting combo.
But that is precisely what the path to mastery offers up: A chance to throw in the towel at mile 18 of the marathon… or give up in despair at yet another roadblock… or otherwise tap out before the finish line.
This is where Parsons' Rule No. 3 comes from, and the Chinese saying: "The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed."
How many would-be traders (or poker players) give up too early in the mastery process - or just as bad, plateau prematurely for lack of effort - and in so doing, lose hope of real success?
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text: PROBLEM: Cummins, a diesel engine manufacturer, built a warehouse in Houston, Texas and needed a coating for their bare concrete floor that could withstand heavy traffic and chemical spills. The warehouse would be used to house diesel trucks and Cummins wanted a floor that was easy to clean. Creating a safe work environment and ensuring efficient operations was essential when searching for coatings. A Rust-Oleum representative inspected the empty warehouse and noted that they would need durable, abrasion resistant coatings. SOLUTION: After inspection, it was recommended that Cummins use Rust-Oleum Concrete Protection Systems Overflex E™ Flexible Epoxy. Oveflex E repairs cracks in concrete floors and walls and helps reduce the formation of any cracks in the future. He also advised the automotive company to use Penetrating Prime & Seal Primer to prime the floor to provide another level of protection and durability. Once the primer had been applied, the 8000 System OverKrete® coating would be the final topcoat. 8000 OverKrete® is a heavy duty, 100% solids smooth floor coaring that has great chemical resistance and protects against sever mechanical abuse as well as foot and vehicle traffic. The coating system looked amazing after application. With a high gloss finish that you could see your own reflection in, Cummins was ready to begin operations. With a durable floor beneath their feet, the automotive company looks forward to years of success at this warehouse.


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Partnerships Essential to Relieve Suffering in the Horn of Africa
The worst drought in 60 years has hit the Horn of Africa, taking a terrible toll on crops, livestock, and people. Parts of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia have extremely limited access to food aid and other relief. Desperate conditions forced more than 150,000 people to flee into Kenya and Ethiopia from Somalia, burdening fragile host communities and overcrowding refugee camps. Refugees fled not only the drought, which has turned green pastures into golden fields of dust, but also the militant terrorist group Al Shabab, which seeks to impose its rule in Somalia through unspeakable violence and terror.
Those who have suffered are people like Ahamd Issaq, chief of a village called Sala-Jama. When he was a boy the elders of his village named the droughts that came once every 20 years. But now the droughts come so often they don't give them names.
Ahamad is a goat herder. Like his ancestors, his days are governed by the rise and fall of the sun. The sun that beat down last fall dried up much of the water supply and what water that was left was very salty, making it difficult for his herd to survive. If it wasn't for emergency water supplies provided by public and private organizations, including faith-based groups like Latter-day Saint (LDS) Charities, Ahamad and many others would not have survived to see drought conditions ease. Working with LDS, IRD provided relief to 22 vulnerable communities in southern and eastern Ethiopia, including Ahamad's, through water trucking and provision of water purification supplies. Last fall IRD and LDS supplied the emergency water needs of 31,000 people in severely affected villages.
While Ethiopia, Somalia and neighboring countries are recovering from the drought, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Famine Early Warning System has predicted that drought conditions could return in 2012. If it does, the results will once again be devastating. Millions of people in the Horn of Africa still lack adequate water supplies. If a drought does hit soon, many communities throughout the region would be unprepared to handle it. The result: Intense suffering and, very possibly, social and economic instability and even intensified conflict.
This can and must be avoided.
The solution is to help communities increase their water security and build resiliency to drought and other shocks. IRD and LDS, which have worked together since IRD's founding in 1998, are assisting by building water storage facilities in the region. These community storage facilities - called birkits - are cement water catchments with tin roofs. They are simple and easy to build and can be constructed at a reasonable price. As important, birkits require very little maintenance. This is critically important for communities without the governance structures of more developed areas.
For a relatively small lifetime investment, a birkit means an entire community has access to adequate water supplies no matter the external conditions. It is the kind of scalable, sustainable solution that, along with other assistance in hygiene and animal husbandry, and continued international assistance to improve governance structures, can minimize and eventually break the cycle of drought and famine in the Horn of Africa.
Clearly, non-governmental organizations and faith-based groups cannot achieve this alone. But they are important actors who share a commitment to helping the vulnerable and creating the conditions for stronger and more resilient communities. Working together, they can reach far more people, in a far shorter period of time, than they could on their own.
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For the ladies, the year's sound track could have been a strangled gasp, followed by snorting and laughing out loud. The attacks on women's health, on contraception, on abortion, on the definition of rape—it was all so over the top that very early on it seemed that the Republicans were determined to get out the ladies' vote for the Democrats in 2012. In one outrageous incident after another, old white dudes and anti-choice women made it clear that they think single women should spend their time smiling modestly, gazing at the floor hoping for a marriage proposal—and that married women should stay barefoot and pregnant, relying on menfolk for pin money and taking care of their babies. By August, it was obvious that women, especially young women and single women, would turn out in force to be sure that President Obama kept the keys to the White House.
And we did. We shook up the capital with an electoral genderquake. But before we hoist our year-end champagne, let's recall some of the year's absurdist highlights, noting a few recurring themes.
Let's start out with the best part of every year-in-review article: the quiz.
Over the summer and into the fall, we had a series of oh my god he did not say that comments from various officeholders. How well were you following your outrageous politicians? Which one said which?
- A. Candidate (R) for Senate from Indiana, state treasurer Richard Mourdock)
- B. Candidate (R) for Senate from Missouri, Representative Todd Akin
- C. Candidate (R) for reelection to the House from Illinois, Representative Joe Walsh
- D. Michigan state legislature, (R) Representative Mike Callton
- E. Candidate (R) for Senate from Pennsylvania Tom Smith
- F. California Orange County superior court judge Derek G. Johnson
- Using the word "vagina" aloud in a discussion of abortion laws "was so offensive, I don't even want to say it in front of women."
- Asked about abortion after a rape: "I lived something similar to that with my own family. She chose life, and I commend her for that. She knew my views. But, fortunately for me, I didn't have to.. she chose they way I thought. No don't get me wrong, it wasn't rape…. Uh, having a baby out of wedlock."
- "The only exception I have to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God. I think that even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."
- Abortion is "absolutely" never medically necessary to save the life of the mother because "with modern technology and science, you can't find one instance … There's no such exception as life of the mother."
- "Pregnancy from rape is really rare" and "if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down."
- "I'm not a gynecologist, but I can tell you something… If someone doesn't want to have sexual intercourse, the body shuts down. The body will not permit that to happen unless a lot of damage is inflicted."
(Answers at the end of the post.)
Mind refreshed? Here's the battle-by-battle breakdown:
January: Rape is rape—or is it? We kicked off the year with a thrilling little victory. The FBI finally, after years of feminist pressure, updated the federal definition of rape. It had been stuck in 1929 as "the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will." Henceforth, the Uniform Crime Report's rape stats would be more accurate; the new definition includes all forms of sexual assault—oral, anal, drugged, drunk, unconscious, coercive, against men. Feminists and law-enforcement officials rejoiced.
But only for a minute. Because within weeks, John Boehner and friends tried to set the clock right back to 1929 in a sneaky little bill they called the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act." What's that, you say? You thought that, well, there already was no taxpayer funding for abortion? True! But the special secret of this bill was that it was going to redefine legitimate rape as—wait for it—forcible. After Nick Baumann of Mother Jones revealed the language, Emily's List, MoveOn.org, and Sady Doyle and Amanda Marcotte's #DearJohn twitter campaign (#DearJohn: For When Boehner Decides Your Rape Just Wasn't Enough) roared into action. Republicans had to back off. Rape remains rape.
But we didn't even have a chance to catch our breath before a fresh shock was upon us. A newly politicized Susan G. Komen For The Cure withdrew funding from Planned Parenthood. Within three days, it backed away from that explosive decision--and has been sorry every since. Apparently no one at Dallas HQ knew that women across America are profoundly grateful to Planned Parenthood for saving their lives. Yes, that's because PP offers desperately needed abortions, but it's also because of PP's free ultrasounds, low-cost D&Cs after a miscarriage, emergency surgeries for burst ovarian cysts, day-after pills after date rape, contraceptive screenings, HIV tests, pap smears, free antibiotics for a urinary infection, and more. I know many deeply grateful women who have sworn to give at least $5/month for the rest of their lives for some such incident. Komen's funding went down the tubes. Planned Parenthood's shot up like a rocket, getting $3 million within four days.
February: aspirin between your knees. For years, feminists had been warning that the anti-abortion crowd was really after contraception—and had been ignored as hysterical. No one doubts that after 2012. On January 25th, the Obama administration announced that under the Affordable Care Act, employers with religious affiliations, like all other employers, would have to offer insurance that covered preventive services without a co-pay—including contraception. Feminists heaved a sigh of relief that the administration had held firm, as it hadn't on allowing Plan B to be sold over the counter. Conservatives began shouting about "religious freedom"—as if the U.S. government and insurance companies had an obligation to enforce the Catholic Church's beliefs on its secular employees.
And so Republican representative Darrell Issa, chair of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, convened a hearing that quickly became infamous on "religious freedom" and contraception by convening a panel that had no women on it. Planned Parenthood posted a picture of the all-male hearing panel, which went viral. Foster Friess, a billionaire who was backing Rick Santorum's run for the Republican presidential nomination, told a stunned Andrea Mitchell that in his day, women prevented conception by putting Bayer aspirin between their knees—i.e., keeping their legs shut. And a young Georgetown Law School student named Sandra Fluke gave, on video, the testimony that she would have given if Issa had permitted her to speak, discussing the non-sex-related health benefits of the Pill.
Into that fray roared our pal Rush Limbaugh, who spent a week deriding Sandra Fluke in truly stunning and ignorant terms, calling her a slut, a prostitute, someone who had to be paid to have sex, and "round heeled." Limbaugh accused Fluke of "having so much sex she [couldn't] afford her own birth control pills," and said she was "having so much sex, it's amazing she can still walk." Then came the kicker: "If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it, and I'll tell you what it is. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch." (Some of his rants only make sense if you understand that he's biologically illiterate, and believes women take the Pill once per sex act, like Viagra.) President Obama called Sandra Fluke. Rush lost 142 advertisers, including the U.S. Army, and was dropped by several stations.
March, April, May: Fun with Republican state legislatures. Spring came, and for a while, all the fun switched over to Republican-controlled state legislatures, which competed to prove that they were the most determined to keep ladies' legs shut, or punish them for failing to do so. The Arizona Legislature's Senate Judiciary committee introduced a bill that would let employers ask their employees for proof that they were taking contraceptives for non-reproductive purposes, like menstrual regulation or acne. One legislature after another discussed and/or passed restrictive abortion bills—mandating things like medically unnecessary transvaginal ultrasounds, forcing women to listen to the fetal heartbeat, adding expensive architectural requirements for abortion clinics for which there was no medical need. In response, female Democratic legislators had all kinds of fun with sarcastic counter-proposals, like proposing a mandatory rectal exam before any man could be prescribed Viagra, or declaring that semen spilled anywhere except in a woman's body "shall be interpreted and construed as an action against an unborn child."
Okay, so those state legislative battles were the opposite of fun. Those that passed genuinely did restrict women's access to reproductive choice. There's a lot of work ahead state by state, gals.
June: all work and no play … In June, things heated up in a completely different arena: work. In The Atlantic, Anne-Marie Slaughter kickstarted a spectacularly necessary debate—albeit with an unfortunately titled piece—about what public policies were needed to reshape the landscape so that working families could have balanced lives—which especially affects women, who are often assumed to be the ones who will sacrifice career to childrearing.
And Jill Abramson was named the first female executive editor of The New York Times, a historic moment.
August, September, October: strong women rock the house. But we had fun with the ladies in so many other ways this year:
- In August, with the Olympics, raucous female athletes got all sweaty, strong, and awesome, no longer pretending to have to be sweet and nice like lady athletes used to be.
- The very first openly gay brigadier general in the army! New general Tammy S. Smith had her wife Tracey Hepner pin the medal on in the official ceremony.
- In September, Naomi Wolf let us make fun of her Vagina (the book).
- Lady novelists Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith enjoyed monster success with their novels Bring Up the Bodies and NW respectively—and Mantel won the Booker Prize for a second time.
- In October, Candy Crowley kicked all sorts of ass as the first female presidential debate moderator in twenty years. The old white dudes who moderated the two other debates sat silently while the candidates walked all over them; Crowley actually committed a live factcheck to the cheers of millions, correcting Romney right in the middle of a misstatement.
October, November, December: Revenge of the Nineteenth Amendment, and deadly misogyny around the world. Need we say that, in November, all the single ladies (okay, married ones too) turned out in force to vote against the pro-rape and anti-contraception party, no matter how long they had to wait in line, becoming the most reliable Democratic Party voting bloc. And that's what made all those statements above entertaining: we beat back the forces of reaction, gals. We elected the most women to the House and Senate ever: 78 to the House and 20 to the Senate, including uncompromisingly progressive first-female-Senator-from-Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren, first-openly-lesbian-Senator-ever Tammy Baldwin, and first-paraplegic-female-veteran Rep. Tammy Duckworth. Yes, it's pathetic that 20 and 78 are the most ever. But it turns out that declaring war on women's reproductive freedom—and therefore, our economic freedom, since heterosexual women who can't control their fertility must depend on men for support—isn't such a successful election strategy after all. The barefoot-and-pregnant dudes all lost. The ladies won. That sound you hear is me howling happily at the moon.
The fall has had its moments of terrible grief. In October, the Taliban shot and tried to kill Malala Yousafzai, a fourteen-year-old Pakistani activist on behalf of girls' education. She's still recuperating in a British hospital. In November, Savita Halappanavar died because, while she was miscarrying a fetus that could not possibly survive, the Irish hospital refused to terminate the fetus early (and thereby stop the bleeding and reduce the possibility of infection, potentially saving Savita's life)—because the doomed fetal heart was still beating. The only good news from that "pro-life" travesty was that it revitalized Ireland's pro-choice movement, now insisting on official guidelines from the Irish government for exactly when abortion is permitted to save the mother's life. And in December, several men brutally raped and assaulted a woman in New Delhi, for hours, including using a metal rod; she spent two weeks in the hospital with severe internal injuries, and died. As with Savita's death, the only possible good news from this horror story is that India may actually change its attitude toward the reportedly rampant street harassment and sexual assault plaguing its women.
No wonder, in March, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made her soon-to-be-viral video statement at The Daily Beast's Women in the World summit, asking why extremists always want to control women:
It doesn't matter what country they're in or what religion they claim. They want to control women. They want to control how we dress, they want to control how we act, they even want to control the decisions we make about our own health and bodies.
May I propose a toast for your New Year's Eve: to a year in which women can live and move freely, treated with respect, making our own decisions about our lives—whether that's to go to a movie at night, get an education, control our own bodies, marry (or not) as we wish. Such a year would give me nothing to write about, but I would be thrilled to have the world toss me out of my job. To 2013!


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Airborne Aerosol Lidar (ABAEL)
ABAEL is designed to detect aerosol layers in the atmosphere from an aircraft. It is deployed for air quality missions to locate aerosol layers for in-situ sampling and for mapping the regional distribution of aerosols.
Contact: Raul Alvarez
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- Aerosol backscatter
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Institutional repositories as portents of change: Disruption or reassembly? Conjectures and re-configurations
Mary Anne Kennan and Fletcher Cole
ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting (AM08 2008)
Columbus, Ohio, October 24-29, 2008
Abstract This paper reviews how Open Access policies (OA) and Institutional Repositories (IR) might be portrayed as agents of change within the realm of scholarly publishing. Using commentary on academic publishing as background, commentary that sees OA and IR as optimal and inevitable, and beneficially disruptive of the existing system, two theoretical approaches are presented as ways of providing a more detailed and explicit analysis of its dynamics. Both theories to varying degrees derive their inspiration from an exploration of the nature of change. The first disruptive technology approach (Christensen) specifies change in market theory terms, a re-structuring "driven" by innovation within, and possibly disruptive of, existing market arrangements. The second approach views change as a process of "reassembling" and re-configuring of relationships between elements of a network (Actor-network theory). The application of both approaches to OA/IR is explored, including case study reference to a university institutional repository. While "disruption" and similar terms might be in common and casual use, the basic idea gains greater clarity in these theories, and in doing so promotes greater awareness of the assumptions being made, and the aspirations being pursued.
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The Name Game
I don't usually post name misspellings, because - let's face it - names are kind of a crap shoot. Even really common names have those few screwball versions that mess it up for the rest of us. (I'm looking at you, Jenifer with one "n" and Jerimee with no "y"!) So really, bakers can't be expected to get them all right.
However, there is a point at which names get so thoroughly butchered that your only option is to laugh. These...[dramatic pause]... are those butcherings.
"Let's see, is it Steven or Stephen?"
This approach also works with the "ie" vs "y" issue:
Those at least have a method to their mistakes, but now we're going to veer into some unexplained territory. See if you can guess the names on these next three:
Fortunately, sometimes a Wreckerator will recognize that something looks a little "off" with his or her spelling. When this happens, s/he will do the only sensible thing: draw a question mark after the name - on the cake.
Then, when the customer points out that the name in question should be "Jenny" and not "Fenny", the Wreckerator will spare no effort in making a few virtually undetectable corrections:
(You've also gotta love that lone "C" hanging out under "Happy".)
- Related Wreckage: Keith and What's-Her-Name
Note: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHN!!! Those of you coming to see us tonight in Kansas City, be sure to offer him plenty of birthday greetings, songs, spankings, etc.


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After talk of a "great rotation" into stocks, Fed "tapering" fears and an "unprecedented" $80 billion pulled from bond funds, it now appears that the credit market has shifted into a higher gear, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which pointed to "red hot" inflows into European high-yield bonds.
"Bond inflows were huge in Europe over the last week, a sign that the central bank dovishness of late is again driving a thirst for yield. High-yield credit inflows were the largest ever in dollar amount, and the highest in percentage terms since September last year," a team of analysts at BoAML headed by Michael Hartnett, said in a research note on Friday.
(Read more: Municipal bonds 'hemorrhage' $1.2 billion on Detroit fears)
High-yield (HY) or junk debt refers to bonds that carry a rating of 'BB' or lower from Standard & Poor's or 'Ba' or below from Moody's. They have a higher risk of default compared to investment-grade debt.


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BURROUGHS of St. Mary's County, Maryland
I am looking for parents and siblings of John Burroughs md. Ruth Ann Mills September 04, 1817 in Saint Mary's County, Maryland (County Court Records).
They had 4 children:
Ann Maria(Marie) Burroughs b.abt 1822 md. Ignatious Drury
John William Henry Burroughs b. abt 1824 md. Ann Marie Jarboe
Lucinda Ellen Burroughs b. abt 1825 md. Mark Thomas Raley
James Oliver Mills Burroughs - Nothing known of him
This has been MY brickwall for the past 35 years.
Only census information I ever found was his wife
Ruth Ann Mills was living with her daughter Lucinda Ellen Raley
and was 58 years old in the 1850 St. Mary's census.
I am waiting for my DNA test results to see if I can finally solve this mystery.
--Larry Burroughs
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Move the "EQ2.ini" file* from inside the Fetish folder you extracted into the base EverQuest II folder.
Edit your EQ2.ini file* to change the version number to match the version you have downloaded. Alternatively, you may rename the downloaded folder to match the previous name after renaming the previous folder. If you have customized MarketFavs or any other files, copy them into the downloaded install now.
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A friend asked me yesterday to share some "before" photos of our front garden- photos from before the 2011 major revamp, when it was a very thirsty and tired yard. This is the perfect cue to also update the blog with "after" photos showing the current garden, a la May 2013. At the bottom there is also info. on the watering and fertilizer upkeep.
I'm surprised I didn't post comparisons long ago! I love before & afters, and it's been nearly two years since we removed the lawn and improved the hard-scape. I'm tickled that someone has interest, tickled enough to clear the hurdle of perfectionism and not wait till I have good current images to post. The below recent photos are via my phone and in not-great light. But, they are better quality than what I've been posting recently- that is, they are better than nothing.
The garden is hand watered:
– about 3x per week when newly planted during the still hot Sept.- Nov. 2011,
– then once per week during the first winter,
– then 2x per week during the summer of 2012 (the first summer),
– once per month this past winter,
– and every other week this recent spring.
Though I (usually) enjoy the 30 minutes spent hand watering, I hope to only need to water every other week this summer, the garden's second summer.
Before planting in 2011, the soil was tilled and plenty of compost was added. Since then I've only added "compost tea" (brewed at a local nursery) about 5x per year and used a palm fertilizer around the sago palms.


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RIBE, Denmark, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- A Pacific oyster found off the coast of Denmark last October is officially the world's largest at 14 inches long. The Guinness Book of World Records confirmed the giant mollusk's superlative status yesterday.
Roughly the length of a size 11 shoe, the briny behemoth also has five smaller oysters attached to it. The cluster weighs in at over 3 1/2 pounds.
"The oyster is still alive and is on display in our exhibition here at the Wadden Sea Centre," Christine Ditlefsen, the Danish biologist who found the oyster, told NPR. "We feed it plankton algae and it eats well, so we hope that we can keep it alive for many years."
Ditlefsen said the mollusk is probably between 15 and 20 years old, but an accurate age determination can't be made until the oyster dies. Oysters can live to be more than 30 years old, she explained.
The Pacific oyster was first introduced to European waters in the 1970s.
While the words "world's largest" have been granted to a number of seafood dinners -- like a 1,000-plus-pound shrimp cocktail or a four-ton bowl of mussels -- the newly crowned oyster is the first living shellfish to hold a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
[Guinness Book of World Records] [NPR]


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Is that laundry on those clothes lines? No, those sheets are are actually strands of noodles being hung out to dry. My roving correspondent shot this photo while cycling along the Sichuan-Tibetan highway. (Hint: he's a recurring character on the blog.)
I wish I had brought a camera to this wet market in Shanghai several weeks ago. Hidden away from the fish mongers, tofu mongers, and vegetable mongers, was a closet-sized room that was making a bit of noise. I peeked inside. Noodle makers were rolling out huge sheets of dough in what looks like an enormous pasta machine, and the same machine would cut strands about 20 feet long. They sold the noodles just a few feet away.
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Internet crimes and online bullying are becoming a raised concern as youth internet usage drastically increases. A study by Crimes Against Children Research Center showed that almost all youth (97%) were using the Internet from home, up from 74% in 2000 and almost half of youth (47%) were using the Internet from cell phones. The study also shows that unwanted sexual solicitations continue to decline from 19% in 2000 to 9% in 2010, however we have seen an increase in online harassment from 6% in 2000 to 11% in 2010.
The Office of the Indiana Attorney General is working diligently to protect Indiana's youth in response to the increasing number of teenagers using the Internet, the proliferation of child pornography, and the heightened online activity by predators searching for unsupervised contact with underage victims.
On July 1, 2008, a law took effect which prohibits a registered sex offender convicted of certain crimes involving children from knowingly using social networking web sites, instant messaging programs or chat room programs the offender knows include children. The Office of the Indiana Attorney General was an advocate of this new law and helped legislators craft the language for the state statute. First time violators of this law face a potential jail sentence of six months to three years. If the sex offender violates the law again, the charge would be elevated to a Class C felony, which carries a two to eight year sentence.
In addition, the Office is collaborating with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to offer the NetSmartz Workshop (http://www.netsmartz.org/). This site contains a wealth of tools and resources to help educate youth, parents and educators about Internet safety.


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Angry city residents shouted "Shame," "Unbelievable" and "We're fed up" at Baltimore's spending panel Wednesday for not stopping a water bill rate increase of nearly 42 percent over the next three years.
They said they were mad at city leaders for giving big businesses multimillion-dollar tax breaks while forcing individuals to pay more to live in Baltimore.
The Board of Estimates, which is controlled by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, postponed until next week a vote on whether to authorize the Department of Public Works to increase water bill rates by 15 percent in the fiscal year that starts Monday, followed by 11 percent rises in each of the next two fiscal years.
Water bills for a typical customer would increase by about $8 a month in the next year, officials say, and about $21 after all three increases are factored in. A family of four would pay less.
The board delayed action to give the Department of Audits time to evaluate whether the rate increases are justified based on Department of Public Works finances and obligations. A vote is expected at the July 3 meeting.
Leo Burroughs, a community activist from Bolton Hill, called a rate increase "cowardly." He said the city should aggressively go after corporations and nonprofits that haven't paid their water bills.
The Baltimore Sun reported last summer that some businesses, groups and government offices owed more than $10 million in delinquent water bills.
"Black and poor individual homeowners are forced to pay up," Burroughs said.
The city has flagged properties for tax sale because of unpaid water bills at the same time that widespread billing errors have overcharged customers by millions.
The public works department did not immediately provide an update on the money owed by businesses and nonprofits. Officials have said they are working to collect the money, but businesses, too, have disputed certain bills as inaccurate.
Public works officials recommended the rate increases last month to meet state and federal obligations, update the city's meter and billing systems, and make repairs and investments to the aging water lines.
As part of his presentation to the board, Rudolph Chow, director of the city's Bureau of Water and Wastewater, displayed a cart of corroded and dirt-caked water pipes and charts that showed how Baltimore's water and sewer rate compared to those of other major East Coast cities.
With the proposed increase, Baltimore's rate in the first fiscal year would nearly equal that of Philadelphia, but would be less than those in the District of Columbia, Boston and Richmond, Va.
Baltimore's rate in that first is also lower than those of many areas in the region, including Carroll, Baltimore and Howard counties and the Washington suburbs, according to Chow.
Baltimore's water system serves 410,000 residential and commercial customers. About half are in Baltimore County, which announced that it would absorb the increase rather than pass it on to the users.
Chow said postponing the repairs is no longer an option.
"There is never a good time to ask our customers to pay more," Chow said.
Rawlings-Blake said raising the rates would be unpopular, but to do otherwise would be neglecting her responsibilities.
"Everyone wishes we were in a different situation, but wishing isn't going to change it," she said. "I can do the work that I know we need to do to put our city back on the right path and ruffle a few feathers and frustrate people along the way or I can placate and we will end up in the same situation as other cities."
Nearly 20 people, including City Council members Mary Pat Clarke and Carl Stokes, testified at the hour-long Board of Estimates meeting. The council members asked the board to consider the ramifications of the rate increase on residents who also are facing a new stormwater fee.
Stokes said residents should be treated more like the corporations and developers that have received tax breaks over the years to encourage them to invest within the city. He said poor people in his district wouldn't be able to cover the costs of a water bill increase.
"People are now crushed to the point of making really bad choices," he said. "People are giving up meals."
He asked that the city find a way to cover the necessary infrastructure repairs through the general fund.
Janet Blair, who lives off North Avenue in West Baltimore, said she has no confidence in the city. Over the years, she said, she's had to pay a slew of new fees and higher taxes imposed by the city.
"I am asking you today to use your common sense and stop taking our money to do whatever you want to do with it," Blair said. "You've not fixed the pipes. Y'all have been telling that story for a long time and you haven't done it and I don't believe you're going to do it this time."
One resident asked the board to "take a breath" before approving the rate increases. Another warned of an uprising by voters to throw out elected officials.
Donald Smith of Hamilton, a lifelong city resident, said he would simply be pushed to the point of leaving.
"Families like myself are moving out of Baltimore City, and we're going to pass the word: 'Do not spend your money in Baltimore City.'"
Baltimore Sun reporter Luke Broadwater contributed to this article.
Proposed rate increases
•Baltimore water customers would be charged a 15 percent rate increase in the fiscal year that begins July 1 under a proposal before the Board of Estimates.
•The board must also decide whether to authorize rate increases of 11 percent in both fiscal years 2015 and 2016.


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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 22, 2012) - Alabama Graphite Corp. (the "Company") (CNSX:ALP)(FRANKFURT:1AG) (WKN A1J35M) is pleased to announce the appointment of Jean Depatie, B.Sc., M.Sc., as Chairman of the Company. Mr. Depatie has a long and distinguished career in the mining industry, most recently as a director of Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines Ltd until its sale to Cliffs Natural Resources in 2011 for $4.9 billion. Previously, Mr. Depatie served as a director of Glamis Gold Ltd. until its takeover by Goldcorp for $8.6B in 2006. Mr. Depatie was also Senior Advisor and a founder of Paramount Gold and Silver Corp. (NYSE:PZG) and a director of Novicourt Mines (now Xstrata).
Mining veteran Mr. Depatie commented, "Based on a field visit to the Coosa Graphite Project, I see potential for a significant large flake graphite deposit capable of serving both the international and US domestic demand in this growing market. I am very excited to join the company and assist in the development of this great project, in a region that has seen graphite production before."
Mr. Depatie is an economic geologist with a BA in math and physics, and holds both Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Geology. Mr Depatie has also been involved in numerous other successful mining ventures including Sulliden Gold Corporation, Richmont Mines, Stratmin Mines, Cambiex Explorations and Louvern Mines. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Colt Resources and Rio Moche Explorations and director of Champion Minerals.
Most notably, Jean put the world's largest graphite mine into production, the Lac-des-Îles Graphite Mine in Quebec (later Stratmin), and for this feat, in 1990, won the Prix d'Excellence awarded by the Government of Quebec. In 1991, Stratmin was anointed as one of the three best Quebec companies for international development.
CEO, Daniel Spine comments, "It was a delight to have Jean on our site this week. His detailed knowledge of developing Lac des Isles and stewarding it into a fully producing graphite operation is the book nobody could ever find. Jean knows more about what we need to do than probably any person alive today. It is my pleasure to welcome him to our board and I look forward to working very closely with him."
Adrian Robertson has vacated his board of directors seat to make way for Mr. Depatie's appointment and will remain a consultant to the Company.
About Alabama Graphite:
Alabama Graphite Corp., through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Alabama Graphite Company Inc., is a graphite exploration and development company whose flagship project "The Coosa Graphite Project" in Coosa County, Alabama is 40,000 acres located in an area with significant historical production of crystalline flake graphite. For further details go to www.alabamagraphite.co.
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Young Widows - Settle Down City
The three members of YOUNG WIDOWS emerged from the dissolution of BREATHER RESIST with a new vision steeped in dark, brooding grooves and moody post-punk. From the reverb-drenched inspiration of Regulator Watts/Hoover to the bass and drums lock-groove perfected by Shellac and the Jesus Lizard, YOUNG WIDOWS gladly wears influences on its sleeve. The signature inventive guitar work of vocalist/guitarist Evan Patterson (Black Cross, The National Acrobat) is at its peak here, while the rhythm section of Nick Thieneman and Geoff Paton lays down syrup-thick grooves, recalling Pacific Northwest heavyweights (think Melvins, Karp, even Nirvana), and British post-punk, ala Gang Of Four. Settle Down City (JT1119) contains 11 songs of hypnotic, heavy, noise-rock anthems.


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Registered Nurse (RN), Medicine Telemetry Unit
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- Jul 06, 2018
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- Oct 18, 2018
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Preferred: Basic Life Support
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This position is Full Time Day Shift.
New Grads are welcome to apply!
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Sentara Princess Anne Hospital, located in Virginia Beach, VA, is a Magnet Status, general medical and surgical facility with 160 beds. The hospital offers a full-service emergency room with a dedicated observation unit, Critical Care, Oncology and Stroke services. It also encompasses a Family Maternity Center with an On-site Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Market: Sentara is a Virginia and North Carolina based large healthcare provider that has been in business for over 125 years.
Award winning: Sentara has eleven Acute Care Facilities across the state of Virginia and one in Northeastern North Carolina; the people of the communities that we serve have nominated Sentara "Employer of Choice" for over 10 years. U.S. News and Report recognize Sentara as having the Best Hospitals for 15+ years.
Professional development: If you are a new graduate, you will be able to participate in our Nurse Residency Program. Sentara Healthcare in collaboration with Vizient and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) launched the Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program™. Cohort meets monthly for 4 hours. The seminar structure is collaborative with interactive learning. The program included Tales from the Bedside/Clinical Reflections, leadership, patient outcomes, case studies, and an evidence based project. This is a one-year residency and Nurses will be awarded a certificate at the end of the program.
Career growth: Become certified in your specialty. This indicated that you practice at a higher level, and that you are committed to deliver high-quality care to patients and the quality of your unit. Career advancement with Sentara can range from being a Charge Nurse, a Preceptor, a Certified Registered Nurse, a Unit Coordinator, Patient Care Supervisor, Integrated Care Manager, Staff Educator, Patient Navigator, Manager of Education Services, Clinical Manager, a Director or a Vice President of Nursing.
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Sentara employees strive to make our communities healthier places to live. We are setting the standard for medical excellence within a vibrant, creative, and highly productive workplace. For more information about our employee benefits, CLICK HERE! Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates!
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New Hire Education Requirement: All Registered Nurses who do not have their BSN will be required to sign a BSN Agreement committing to successfully obtain their BSN within 5 years of hire. BSN or MSN preferred. Meets and maintains any requirements defined by specific specialty; Critical Care/IMCU/EP/Advanced Heart Failure Center/SMG Cardiology Practices- ACLS within 1 year of hire; Emergency Care - ACLS & PALS or ENPC within 1 year of hire; Oncology Care ONS/ONCC or Sentara approved course Chemotherapy & Biotherapy Provider Card within 6 months of hire. Women's Care - Perinatal departments; NRP within 6 months of hire. Inpatient Pediatrics. PALS within 6 months of hire. All Direct Care RN's required to have BLS within 90 days of hire.


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A deal reached Monday in Brussels may have saved Cyprus from becoming the first country to crash out of the euro, but it came at the cost of widening the political mistrust between the strong economies of Europe's north and the weaklings of the south.
Several officials familiar with talks in Nicosia and Brussels over the €10 billion ($13 billion) rescue for the island described more than a week of chaotic negotiations. European officials cited Cypriot foot-dragging, reversals and dropped communications, a situation one European...


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All sides jockey for power as Egypt braces for political showdown
As Egypt awaited the official results of its first free presidential election, the country appeared Monday to be entering a prolonged period of instability as the various bodies of government – the ruling military council, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Parliament and the assembly charged with writing a new constitution – competed for governing power.
The speaker of Parliament, Mohamed Saad el Katatni, announced that he would convene a session of the legislative body on Tuesday in defiance of the military council's decree that it was dissolved, potentially setting the stage for a showdown in front of the building.
The Muslim Brotherhood, whose candidate, Mohammed Morsi, claimed early Monday to have won the weekend's close runoff vote for president, dismissed as invalid the military council's amendments to the constitution that limited presidential powers. The council also asserted that its powers extended to writing laws, yet a constitutional assembly named last week to draft a new constitution met on Monday anyway, inside the chambers of the dissolved Parliament.
Ahmed Shafik, Morsi's presidential rival and former President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, rejected claims that he had lost the election, saying he would file a formal appeal on Tuesday. The official election commission is expected to issue its tally on Wednesday.
Amid all the jockeying for position – and a growing chorus of Egyptians decrying the generals' moves as tantamount to a counterrevolution against the popular uprising that toppled Mubarak – the military council held a rare press conference, where it asked the public to trust that it was only interested in preserving Egypt's security. Maj. Gen. Mohammed al Assar vowed that the council would hand over power July 1, when the new president is to be sworn in.
"With complete authority, with all due respect, and he will be the head of state, there is no doubt about that," al Assar told reporters.
Yet under the terms of the temporary constitution, the military council will still hold much of the nation's governing power for at least four months afterward, while the constitutional assembly writes a new charter and new parliamentary elections are held.
As Egyptians prepared to go to the polls last week, a series of court rulings and decrees by the military council, which has ruled Egypt since Mubarak's ouster 16 months ago, set in motion the debate of which entity had what powers. No side seems to agree on what is legal, and each governing branch is looking for interpretations that bolster its own interests.
Just as the polls closed Sunday, the military council issued amendments to the temporary constitution that greatly enhanced its already near-total power in the executive branch. It redefined the powers of the president, giving itself the final say over all military matters. Under the change, the president can't declare war without the military council's approval, and the council itself will decide its commanders – and when they must retire.
In the absence of a Parliament, the new president will take the oath of office before the Supreme Constitutional Court, which consists of Mubarak appointees.
The military council already had garnered newfound powers over another branch of government days earlier when the constitutional court said members of Parliament had been elected illegally, leading to Parliament's dissolution, and leaving the military as the last remaining government institution to fill its place.
In Washington, which provides Egypt's military and civilian government with billions of dollars in aid, officials said they were "deeply concerned" about the military's moves. While officials said that all aspects of U.S.-Egyptian relations could be affected if the generals prolonged their grip on power, and amid calls by some in Congress to review U.S. military aid to Egypt, there were no signs that the Obama administration was considering cutting the contributions.
"I think every conversation we've had (with the military council) has been very clear about their willingness to see a smooth transition . . . their willingness to work themselves out of a job," said Navy Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman.
Al Assar, the council spokesman, said repeatedly at the news conference that the military was disappointed in the constitutional court's ruling that made it the de facto parliament, because it undid a major accomplishment of the post-Mubarak era, a free legislative election. He argued that the council had no choice but to create a system of checks and balances. However, under the amended constitution, the checks only go one way, with the council controlling decisions over major matters while the new president wouldn't have decision-making power over the military leadership or budget.
As if trying to defuse the charges that are being leveled against the council all over Egypt, al Assar said, "We need more trust. There are a lot of claims against (the council). Let's stop saying we are state within a state. That is not true."
That argument did not resonate on the street or with the Muslim Brotherhood, which held 47 percent of the parliamentary seats. The court's ruling "could be applied without dissolving the rest of Parliament," the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party said in a statement.
In Tahrir Square, where thousands gathered either to celebrate Morsi's apparent victory or to express outrage, the language used to describe the generals was vitriolic.
"I am staying here every day until we see the military going back to their barracks and leaving the job to someone who will represent us, not represent Mubarak and his government," said Ashraf Ali, 45, a chemistry teacher and Morsi supporter. The generals "should be ashamed of themselves. Don't they read the papers to see what people say about them?"
Matthew Schofield in Washington and McClatchy special correspondents Mohannad Sabry and Amina Ismail in Cairo contributed.


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Etihad Airways has launched a colourful new range of collectable limited-edition Business Class amenity kits, the result of a unique collaboration between the airline and luxury travel brand LUXE City Guides, the straight-talking, highly curated go-to guide for savvy travellers.
The stylish new kits embody the contemporary and innovative flair synonymous with the Etihad Airways brand, and contain inflight amenities and natural facial products developed exclusively by London-based skincare and grooming brand Scaramouche + Fandango.
Six new stylised kit designs have been created by LUXE City Guides for Etihad Airways, inspired by some of the iconic cities on the airline's extensive global network. The designs for Abu Dhabi, London and Madrid, have been specially produced for Etihad Airways, whilst the Sydney, Los Angeles and Hong Kong kits feature bespoke LUXE artwork. Each kit contains a customised Etihad Airways LUXE City Guide which corresponds to the showcased city,covering everything from hotels and restaurants, to spas, bars, boutiques and bespoke shopping, as well as services, specialists and personal guides.
Scaramouche + Fandango has developed an exclusive unisex comfort kit and skincare offering in collaboration with Etihad Airways. Specially formulated for skincare needs inflight, the range consists of paraben-free products, high in natural ingredients, to enhance onboard wellbeing.
Calum Laming, Etihad Airways' Vice President Guest Experience, said: "The introduction of these kits is not about providing brand names to our Business Class guests. It is about intelligent design, functionality and providing them with products which are attractive, natural, useful and re-usable. Collaborating with relevant, progressive lifestyle brands such as LUXE City Guides and Scaramouche + Fandango has enabled us to tailor amenities to the requirements of our guests while retaining all the authentic charm and sophistication of the Etihad Airways brand.
"Etihad Airways continues to reimagine the flying experience, setting a new benchmark for innovation and luxury. The introduction of these kits is part of a much bigger journey which was started with the introduction of our new revolutionary cabins on the flagship Airbus A380 and Boeing 787s, and the new service concepts introduced fleet-wide. These collectable kits also reflect the global nature of our business, while simultaneously highlighting the inspiration, style and unique qualities of our home, Abu Dhabi."
The Abu Dhabi kit uses a unique design pattern inspired by the rich architectural heritage of the Emirate, translated into a style best described as Arabian Modernism. The pattern reflects the Etihad Airways' brand and colour palette.
Reminiscent of 1960s pop culture, the London kit uses the bold colours of the iconic London Underground map while the Madrid kit features the red and yellow of the Spanish flag in a pattern symbolising the city's famous annual Carnival.
The initial limited-edition offering will be expanded at a later stage, with new designs and more cities to be launched.
Simon Westcott, LUXE City Guides Chief Executive Officer, said: "Etihad Airways offers one of the best in-flight experiences in the world. In partnering with LUXE City Guides to create its new Business Class amenity kits, Etihad helps ensure that the premium experience extends long after its guests have landed. It is great to be working with fellow innovators."
The comfort kit features a luxurious facial moisturiser enriched with vitamin E and made with anti-oxidants and essential oils to combat fatigue and the lower humidity levels in the cabin. Triglycerides and essential oils rebalance the skin's natural moisture. A honey and shea butter lip balm enriched with vitamin E keeps lips hydrated.
The new kits also include a sleep pack containing socks and eyemask, a care pack containing cotton pads and earbuds, in addition to a dental pack and earplugs.


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S-Shaped Family Residence Flanked by Gardens in New Zealand
Glamuzina Paterson Architects have completed a modern residence in Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand. Entitled S House, the building separates the site into two gardens, not taking into account the conventional diagram of the front and back yard. Perfectly integrated in a green setting, the project offers good views from every room. According to the architects, "S House differs from the standard villa with a compact form and central circulation, with the elongated plan allowing for an extensive surface connection with the landscape.
The activities of the house take place across a singular spine corridor which expands and contracts spatially as the house mediates the site, creating the contradictory east native garden and the west exotic sculpted garden. The complementary gardens are connected by the children's play area and bedrooms opening up to the two gardens". The interiors of this large home- especially built for a family of five– inspire both elegance and opulence. Have a look!