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Will shale boom change lifestyle of the Amish?
Allowing gas drilling technology on their land is the latest example of religious tradition colliding head-on with the modern worldFebruary 3, 2013 3:00 PM
Late last year, representatives from one of the world's largest energy companies came to the home of Lydia and Sam Mast. The company was planning to drill a gas well on an adjacent property and needed to test the Masts' water.
By November, the access road had been paved and the rig built, drilling day and night into the shale formation that lies thousands of feet below the Masts' seven acres in Lawrence County.
"That was the first I knew there was a company called Chevron," said Mr. Mast.
Drilling brings changes, instant wealth to Eastern Ohio Amish
Natural gas drilling has brought many changes, including an increase in truck traffic and evidence of instant wealth, to residents of Carroll County Ohio, including the Amish community. (Video by Andrew Rush; 2/3/2013)
The Masts and many of their neighbors are Amish, part of a community that has lived in white homes along New Wilmington's back roads for decades. They shun technology and embrace a family-based, agrarian lifestyle, even though many can't afford to farm anymore and instead support their families with construction businesses and shops run out of their homes.
A new source of money, however, has come to the Amish of Western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio.
They own some of the most coveted land in the nation, and rapid-fire leasing by gas companies is creating millionaires among them -- and disturbing communities worried about greed and envy.
Though many wells have yet to be drilled, the signing bonuses that come with leasing land are life-changing sums. Experts say the gas drilling could subsidize a farming career that hasn't been economically viable for the Amish for a long time -- a technological means to an agrarian end.
One sect in the news, the Mullet community of Bergholz, Ohio, uses a $3.5 million windfall from gas leases to pay for basic living expenses and legal bills while its leaders serve jail time for high-profile beard-cutting practices that led to hate crime convictions.
The hydraulic fracturing technology unlocking the oil and gas reserves under their land is the latest energy activity to enter the Amish community, which has long allowed shallow well drilling and strip mining. As a result, Amish homesteads are joining English landowner groups and fielding appearances from landmen eager for a signature, all surprised participants watching their tiny, tight-knit communities become mini-boom towns.
Watching the acreage values skyrocket
The gushers in Carroll County, Ohio, are so famous they make cameos in investor reports. Chesapeake Energy, the main driller in the county, cites production numbers in pitches to shareholders.
Carroll County has issued nearly 200 permits for drilling, almost three times more than any other county in Ohio.
"If this is a nine-inning baseball game, we've just finished up the national anthem," said Gary R. Harris, special project coordinator at the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce.
Rex Energy has a permanent storefront next to a hearing aid repair shop in the town square. Farmers drive Bentleys. The local Ponderosa is said to be the chain's third-most-popular franchise in all of Ohio.
Officials have even discussed installing a buggy lane on the roads to help horses keep a distance from the new truck traffic.
Amishman John Troyer lives about five miles from some of those gushers. He owns a construction business and his family runs a trade post that sells board games and paperbacks. In 2007, when shale drilling in Pennsylvania was scarce and in Ohio was nonexistent, he was approached about leasing his mineral rights.
It seemed like free money for parts of the land he wasn't even using. Mr. Troyer leased with Great Lakes Energy Partners for $10 an acre. He made $430 on the deal.
A couple of years later, he was building a house for a Pennsylvania man who was moving to Ohio. When they started talking about the shale drilling that had proliferated across the neighboring state, Mr. Troyer was astonished by what he heard.
"They were saying like $3,000 an acre for out there. I didn't believe him at all. Well, now it's just about doubled that here," he said.
A couple of years later, with the potential for the Utica Shale now known, neighbors in the community of about 100 Amish families have signed deals worth $2,500 an acre. Later, he heard at church about some netting nearly $6,000 an acre.
"In a way you kind of think you're getting ripped off," he said. His original lease was swapped by several firms and expired in 2012, but a clause renewed it automatically for another five years even though no drilling had begun.
Still, the boom that surrounds Mr. Troyer's 43 acres is so strong that it made it easier for him to accept the meager $430 he made from leasing his land.
Business at his construction company is strong, thanks in part to Carroll County residents who can now afford to build new houses. Even the traditionally slow winter months have seen an uptick in activity.
"There's a lot of work out there, and some of it is definitely because of the gas," he said.
Subsidizing the simple life
Like many in the Amish community, Mr. Troyer owns a substantial plot of land with horses and chickens on it but doesn't make his money farming.
However, ask 10 Amish people what the ideal career is and nine will say working on a farm, said Erik Wesner, author of "Success Made Simple: An Inside Look at Why Amish Businesses Thrive." He also created www.AmishAmerica.com.
The percentage of Amish farmers who can earn a living off the land has plummeted, and alternative careers have their drawbacks: Construction takes the father away from the family, and tourism invites the English world in so freely.
Millions of dollars in leasing bonuses and royalty checks, though, could start to subsidize a return to that idealized, agrarian lifestyle, said Mr. Wesner. By allowing gas drilling on their property, farmers could return to working the land without the worry of profiting from it.
"The technological mix that the Amish accept is quite rational with the goals of what they hope to preserve in the community," he said.
Andy Byler of New Wilmington had three days to decide whether to join thousands of Amish and English property owners in the Mount Jackson Landowner Group, which represented landowners across several counties. He leased his 90 acres for $2,750 per acre, using the money to pay off bills and the farm.
The rest of the money was invested with the American Equity Investment Life Holding Company in Des Moines, chosen for its good interest rates and disaffiliation with the stock market.
"There's good and there's bad" with leasing, he said, pausing from readying cattle for the weekly New Wilmington livestock auction Monday. He worries about the easy money, telling his four children, "you still need to go to work."
Mr. Troyer in Ohio compared the lease windfalls to someone winning the lottery.
"Those are the first people that are broke a lot of times," he said. The community has discussed the temptations that could come with such cash.
"We've talked about that -- this isn't going to be good for everybody," said Mr. Troyer.
A windfall for the Mullets
For one nationally known Amish family, the leasing check is considered a gift from God.
When Sam Mullet's $3.5 million signing bonus arrived in April, the community leader and eight other Amish men were in jail on federal hate crime charges. Angry over what they saw as impropriety among some Amish, they had attacked some with clippers and horse shears, shaving the men's beards to make them look like young, redemptive boys.
The arrests in 2011 removed nearly every breadwinner and financial planner from the community, which was already struggling financially.
Mr. Mullet made about $40,000 a year and had leveraged his land with $240,000 in mortgages borrowed to sustain a house-framing business that had gone bust with the housing bubble. He took a public defender at the start of the case.
Gas companies had ap-proached him about leasing his 700 acres several times, but Mr. Mullet balked at the $1,000 per-acre offers. He was among the last to sign in Bergholz, nearly setting a local record: more than $5,300 per acre, with royalties on the extracted gas of 18 percent.
"We made a pretty penny off it," said his grandson, Edward Mast.
A significant amount of the $3.5 million signing bonus that arrived in April is gone, though, because of the legal bills and costs associated with keeping the community running with most of the men in jail.
Mr. Mullet first paid off his mortgages and three others held by some of his sons. A niece and nephew had lost their home in foreclosure, so Mr. Mullet paid $125,000 to buy the home back from the man who bought it at the sheriff's sale.
Despite the windfall, Mr. Mullet decided to stick with his public defender, Ed Bryan. He now pays $250 per hour for legal counsel, which goes into a general fund that pays Mr. Bryan and other public defenders throughout the county. So far, it's added up to "well over six figures," said Mr. Bryan.
Gas lease money lets the nine men buy calling cards to phone their wives from jail (a landline was installed in the Mullet home after the landman suggested they use it to keep in touch). About $3,000 of the lease money was spent every week on "Amish taxis" -- vans that shuttled the women and children from Bergholz the 100 miles to the Cleveland courthouse for the three-week trial.
The money has kept the Mullet clan afloat.
"The whole community believes it was divine intervention," said Mr. Bryan.
The sentencing hearing is Friday, and Mr. Mullet faces anywhere between 24 months and life in prison. The wives and older children from the community will tap into the lease money again, paying $600 for the vans to drive them to the courthouse for the day.
In addition, Mr. Mullet could be paying about $1.5 million in taxes on the signing bonus in April, though some of his expenses could be deductible.
"The biggest amount of money they're going to end up paying is to the federal government that's locked them up," said Mr. Bryan.
If Mr. Mullet is put in jail for a long time, the family he leaves in Bergholz has a tax attorney and two financial advisers hired to stretch the lease money and keep the community from dissolving.
"They are doing everything they can to keep a roof over their heads," said Mr. Bryan. "The family that's working together is one that's going to stay together, and their focus is entirely on eternity."
Refining the sales pitch
Mr. Mullet paid about $230,000 in 1995 for those hundreds of acres, a bargain because the property had been strip mined. The hydraulic fracturing technology coming onto the land now is the latest negotiation between Amish tradition and contemporary energy extraction, said Mr. Wesner.
Many Amish farms in New Wilmington have shallow wells drilled decades ago by Atlas Energy; others have allowed electrical towers on their land. The liberalness of each community varies from sect to sect: Some Amish refuse to put plastic reflectors on their buggies, while others have participated in genetic testing.
"They wouldn't accept one of their own becoming a doctor, but they see the benefit of research," said Mr. Wesner. "They don't see the technology in itself as evil, but they would like to control the use of it because they are cautious of where it might lead if they accept it."
The different customs have forced a change of pace for the landmen scouring Ohio and Pennsylvania for willing property owners.
"Rather than just showing up, we like to make a phone call beforehand to set up a meeting," said Rob Greiner, president of MidWest Land Services in Steubenville. Now, he tells his employees in Amish communities: "You're not going to be able to reach these folks by phone, and that's really the only driving difference."
Word of mouth circulates even faster among the Amish, the landmen said, and good relations with one farmer typically yields contracts with his neighbors.
"If anything, they seem to be more understanding of the process and more trusting," said Dean Kimpel, a landman who lives in Ohio and leases land in Mercer County.
Backyard work site
Still, most Amish homes -- white, two-story houses with baby-blue front doors -- are off the back roads of already-rural communities. The Chevron rig that should be disassembling in the Masts' backyard soon drowns out the other sounds of modernity there once were.
"We don't hear the interstate now," said Mr. Mast.
Drivers who spot the operation from the road pull over to look through binoculars or stand at the edge of the Masts' fence to take pictures -- an unnerving practice for a family whose religion doesn't allow the camera-capturing of faces.
The lights from the operation wake Mrs. Mast up at night. "It doesn't get dark here," she said.
The rig can be heard from Mr. Mast's backyard work station, where he builds rocking chairs and magazine racks for his Countryside Chairs business. Though some of their children complain about the noise and Mrs. Mast smells gas wafting across the yard when she pulls dry blue dresses off the clothesline, the family hasn't stopped sledding or venturing into the nearby woods.
"Hopefully God will take care of it," said Mrs. Mast.
They initially thought they weren't up to "high-class stuff" but have learned more about gas drilling since the rig arrived and attracted visitors. They even already have a subtle homage to the industry living in their home.
Their dog, named ironically for his small size, is called Texas.mobilehome - homepage - region - marcellusshale
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Bromley has been involved with ACBSP Region 7 for many years, most recently serving on the Host Committee for the 2013 ACBSP Annual Conference, held June 20-24 in Salt Lake City. He has also served as ACBSP Champion for SLCC and as a member of the ACBSP Global Business Education Committee.
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Mine Died...poor Quality...especially For The Price!The 19mm Enzo Milano clipless curling iron that I bought about a year ago literally died on me when I was about halfway through styling my hair for an important event. I kept my iron in pristine condition, in its original box when not in use, watched the DVD, followed the directions, and used it carefully. In my opinion Enzo Milano products, though priced to suggest quality and durability, are cheaply made and are DEFINITELY not worth the money! I will seek out another brand in my search for a new clipless iron, since I DO love the results. The lifetime warranty is a joke...expect it to cost you at least $47 for them to replace a defective product, $72 if you forget to return the warranty card within 30 days, PLUS tax if you live in the state of California. Like it's not THEIR bad that my iron just died like it did during gentle use! I am really disappointed.Sep 9, 2009Kristin / Cottonwood, AZ, US
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So, is are they seinen or shonen. You made the list, your call.
Whatever you say, I still think they're seinen.
if your calling them shonen or seinen based on content then you cant really split them into 2 groups and label them. the mangas in question and so many that arent, have much different degrees of violence, nudity whatever, you cant slap a m15+ sticker on it just cause you think it goes in the seinen bin. most of these themes are common place in japan.
and to ginova, yeah i remember the transition, it was a scary couple of weeks wondering what would happen to monthly
actually, I don't. They do actually do that though. There are varying degrees on manga. The ones I see most are teen (13+) older teen(16+) and adult only (18+). You could or couldn't base shonen vs. seinen on it. On one hand shonen and seinen are terms fans use, while the ratings are industry. So they are separate things.
I just think seinen is more based on a mature level. Presenting readers with moral issues, or complex mind games that take a more mature mind to process.
Manga is first and foremost, works of art. They are windows into the mangaka's heart, touching on themes and scenarios that the artist have experienced themselves. Yes, as fans we can break them up up into groups based on content, but i believe to do so is to take it away from being the very thing that the mangaka intended it to be in the first place.
Manga should be viewed as individual entities. Having contrast amoung manga is good but when we start grouping and putting labels on them (or anything) all sorts of pre-determined thoughts begin sticking to them.
The social consciousness of Japan is at least 10 year or so ahead of the western world. It is inherent to us that some themes and topics should not be presented to younger or less mature people, but no one truely knows what anyone, young or old, is going through. If one person is truely inspired and helped by an artist's work, the artist will be happy and satisfied with what they have done.
I am sorry but grouping them into these terms turns them into the consumable products that we westerners oh so love
Idk if this is the right place to ask but o well
does anyone know where I can download or read the monster soul chapters because I started reading and I cant stop lol
maybe blazer drive is a good addition to the list.
thank god i'm an atheist!
hey Rosario+Vampire is shounen right, how come it aint in the list?
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The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan on Monday granted Eastman Kodak Co.'s motion to form a retiree committee.
The committee will act as the authorized representative of all Kodak retirees with respect to any future Kodak proposals to modify retiree benefits. The U.S. Trustee is to select the retiree committee from lists of names provided by EKRA Ltd., Kodak and other sources.
The committee is expected to consist of seven to nine members and be announced by early May, EKRA officials said.
"This is more good news for all retirees. This committee will have direct interaction with Kodak to try to find win-win solutions for the resolution of all of our health and survivor benefits" said Bob Volpe, EKRA president, in a statement.
Kodak had filed the motion April 4 requesting the U.S. Trustee proceed with the formation of the committee. That motion came after the court suggested in March that formation of such a committee would be productive.
The company on April 4 also withdrew its earlier motion to eliminate retiree medical coverage for certain Medicare-eligible individuals. No changes to retiree medical and survivor benefits are being proposed at this time, the company said. Once the committee is formed, the company plans to take another look at the best approach to address its legacy retiree costs.
The court's order requires Kodak to provide the committee with at least 30 days, but no more than 60 days, prior notice before making a written modification proposal.
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The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan on Monday granted Eastman Kodak Co.'s motion to form a retiree committee.
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Skip to comments.U.S. Won't Use Air Tankers for Wildfires
Posted on 05/10/2004 11:14:43 PM PDT by Stoat
WASHINGTON (AP) - Just as the 2004 wildfire season is opening, the government on Monday grounded an aging fleet of 33 former military tankers that had been among the biggest weapons in its arsenal for fighting the blazes.
The Forest Service and the Interior Department terminated contracts with private companies for use of the planes after the National Transportation Safety Board determined their airworthiness could be not assured. Three such planes crashed between 1994 and 2002, killing seven crew members.
Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth said that, in the wake of the NTSB report, continuing to use the tankers posed ``an unacceptable risk'' to aviators, ground firefighters and communities near the blazes.
The fixed-wing planes, some of them as old as 60 years, had been used primarily in initial attacks on fires and protecting buildings when fires were moving toward urban areas, said Dan Jiron, a spokesman for the Forest Service.
He said the government still has the use of 491 other aircraft, including smaller fixed-wing planes and helicopters. ``It's serious, but we will be able to do our job,'' Jiron said.
The tankers were each capable of dumping from 1,700 to 2,500 gallons of water a minute.
The Forest Service grounded the fleet of tankers it had under contract after two crashes in 2002.
The planes were reactivated after a new inspection program was developed at the Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., but the NTSB said in its report last month that maintenance and inspection programs were still inadequate.
``It was apparent that no effective mechanism currently exists to ensure the continuing airworthinesss of these firefighting aircraft,'' the report said.
Complete information on the stresses that the planes endured in firefighting was not available, the report said. Nor was there complete information on maintenance and inspection dating back to the planes' use in the military.
Investigators who reviewed the crashes in California and Colorado in 2002 said the aircrafts' wings could not take the strain. In the California crash involving a C-130A, the wings snapped off and the fuselage plunged to the ground, killing three people on board.
Planes from the now-grounded fleet probably were used to fight a current fire in California, Jiron said. ``We always use what fleet we have available to use,'' he said.
However, the planes were not used on Monday, he said.
Fires also are burning in Montana, Arizona and Minnesota. They are fueled by drought, which has been worsening in many areas in the West, drying pasturelands and leaving forests parched. The National Drought Mitigation Center's Drought Monitor now classifies the West as being in a state of exceptional drought, worse than its initial classification of abnormally dry.
The government will have to shift firefighting tactics with the loss of the 33 planes, Jiron said.
Firefighters will target blazes with helicopters and cropduster-type fixed-wing aircraft, Jiron said. These aircraft can be more accurate than the big planes when they drop their payloads, and they can resupply with water closer to the fire, he said.
The government also can activate eight military C130s equipped to carry water, he said.
``This is a loss, but it is not something we can't address now that the curtain is raising on fire season,'' Jiron said.
To the government, the loss of planes is not an insurmountable problem. Firefighters still should be able to do their inherently dangerous job ``with or without air support,'' it said.
But one aviation officer in the Forest Service, Bill Pierce, called the grounding of the 33 tankers ``a major loss'' that could raise the risks involved with firefighting.
``It's a real hazardous situation, not having the tankers,'' said Pierce of the Humboldt-Toiyabe Forest Service office in Reno, Nev.
There's a wealth of information there about the U.S. Forest Service's continued lack of interest in aggressively addressing the wildland fire situation in the USA. The Russian government has for years had a standing offer of the use of the massive Ilyushin aircraft for testing and use in the US, free of charge, with the only request being fuel for the aircraft and temporary housing for it's crews...and the U.S. Forest Service has always declined. These mammoth jet air tanker s dwarf even the largest firefighting air tankers in the U.S. arsenal, and have been proven effective in huge wildfires in Russia, Greece, Australia and elsewhere.
Rep Dana Rohrabacher R-CA and Curt Weldon, R-Pa have worked hard in past times to help in these matters, as discussed here: "Could Russian Waterbomber Save California?"
but apparently it's all fallen apart at this point. If your home burns this year as a result of a wildfire, be sure to send a nice thank-you to the U.S. Forest service, who have done everything they can to block measures to pursue truly effective wildland firefighting methods.
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That being the case they have decided wisely.
Contiued airworthiness MUST be maintained, lest the aircraft be patched together with auto parts and radio shack components and crews would be flying on more "prayer" than "wing".
Well said, and I agree whole heartedly.
However, the use of unsafe, or not proved safe aircraft is not a precedence that is conducive to alleviating the issues at hand, in all reality it would just perpetuate this sorry scenario.
I apologize if I have veered from the focus of the thread for if I have it has been unintentional.
There are parties within Homeland Security that are inclined to believe that a campaign of massive wildfires in the west is part of the jihadi agenda.
Good observation. After the wildfires in San Diego were brought under control, a special ceremony was arranged to thank the firefighters. It was poorly attended.
Firefighting certainly wasn't what Glenn L. Martin had in mind for the design of the Martin Mars. Originally conceived as a bomber for long range missions and patrols, the production aircraft were redesigned and classified for long-range general transport because of the demonstrated heavy-lift capability of the prototype. The "Big Four", as they were affectionately known, established airlift and endurance records which remain valid today and they logged some 87,000 accident-free hours before being retired by the USN and sold to Flying Tankers. Mr. Martin would be very pleased to know his original intention of the Mars in a bomber role came to pass in their second career as waterbombers.
Philippine Mars White Tail - side drop system Canadian Registration C-FLYK S/N 76820
Red Tail - bottom drop system Canadian Registration C-FLYL S/N 76823
During the fire season, the aircraft are kept in a state of readiness to meet the existing fire hazard conditions. They can be in the air in ten minutes and, based on historical data, each can make a drop every fifteen minutes. Working in tandem, this equates to 7,200 US gallons (27,276 litres) every seven minutes and each drop can cover an area of up to 4 acres (1.6 hectares). It has often been said that the Mars, with a 60,000 pound (27,216 kilogram) payload of foam, is like "hand-grenades or horseshoes - close is good enough" but such is not the case. The highly experienced Mars pilots, working closely with the fire boss, deliver the water or foam right where it is needed.
Each Mars carries 600 US gallons (2,270 litres) of foam concentrate - enough for 21 drops of a 0.4% solution which is the standard used although it may be decided to use more or less foam as dictated by the Fire Boss.
Environmental groups have been suing the various agencies responsible for public land management for decades. As a result, the scarce financial resources have been diverted into the legal defense effort and away from the forests where they're most needed. I'd sue the enviro groups for tying the hands of USFS/BLM/et al and preventing them from doing their job.
Air Power
The Canadair CL-215 was the first aircraft ever designed specifically for Water Bombing. While the PBY Canso was modified from its role as a military submarine patrol aircraft, the CL-215 was created as an actual Water Bomber.
After departing the airport, the CL-215 crew of two heads directly for a suitable scooping lake as close to the forest fire as possible. An inspection run is made on the lake to insure that it is of suitable length and has no obstructions which could hamper the safety of the aircraft and flight crew. The aircraft then touches down on the lake and scoops 12000 lbs of water into the internal tanks within ten seconds. At this point the water pickup probes are retracted and the aircraft leaps into the air, heading towards the fire. The Air Attack Officer on board the birddog aircraft instructs the water bomber flight crew where and how to drop the load. He may ask that the crew inject a harmless soap-like solution into the water tanks through an onboard computer. This will give the water a foam-like consistency to help increase its holding time at the fire. As there are two water tanks onboard the aircraft, both loads of water may either be dropped together or separately as the fire conditions dictate.
With the ability to scoop in close proximity to the fire, the CL-215 is able to deliver an enormous amount of water within a very short time. This provides excellent Initial Attack and Sustained Action support for ground crews on the fire line.
Primary Function: water bomber
Length: 65'
Wingspan 93' 11"
Speed: 236 mph
Ceiling: 20,000 feet
Range: 1,513 miles
Year Deployed: 1994
Weyerhaeuser gets more of their logs from outside the country than in the US, Canada, China, New Zealand... in part because of the way they whacked the Olympic Peninsula. For example, they manage over five million acres in the US, but 27,000,000 in Canada. They make more money in the US selling mortgages than they do logging forests. They don't want prices depressed by competition from the National Forests unless they can get the good stuff from virgin forest stands.
You may have observed that biomass plants can't get the chips to run even though there's enough excess fuel out there to provide for the domestic electrical needs of 140 million Americans. If you knew who funds the Natural Resources Defense Council, you'd understand why there's no thinning. There's money to be made preventing logging, and the people who fund the RICOnuts don't give a damn about the forest.
Yes, it's political. Most people don't have a clue how it really works.
I have no gratitude for an organization that has destroyed forest health by caving in to a corrupt ideology. As far as I am concerned we could do a better of forest management without National Forests.
I live in a forest. I don't want or need firefighters here. If there is a fire here, I'll sit and watch. I thin my forest, something the USFS won't allow. I have little more than contrmpt for a forest management organization that spends 40% of its budget on lawsuits in which they are as complicit as the NGOs and staffed with a gang of greenies who've done more to rob landowners than anything else.
Did you read the account of the Winter Fire? I stand by the comment. It's become a circus. The local CDF batallion chief here does more work for his union than anything else. He could be working with the greenies teaching them how important it is to thin.
Upon the observation that this was directed at me, I'm also going to add a response to this comment of yours:
Unfortunately, their is a class of people in this country who haven't slung a hoe or worked a blister on their pinky who look down on rescue personnel... of all things... but, they have money, and little brains, easy sheep... helps the economy go round.
I climb. I top. I drag piles and burn by hand. I spent $10,000 on drainage this year stacking over sixty tons of rock by hand and packing seventy yards of material with a shovel and a Wacker on a 100% slope. I spent 500 hours this year just weeding. Do you do work like that? My property is a model of biodiversity and forest management with over 260 species of plants alone.
The Forest Service that gave us Smokey the Bear is long gone, but in large part responsible for this mess. They overplanted in anticipation of fat budgets for precommercial thinning and when that didn't materialize left it to burn without educating the public on what must be done. Most of those who knew better chose retirement instead of risking their jobs in a political battle. They allowed decent forests to become dead wastelands of twigs and you know what happens after it burns. However arduous and dangerous has been the job of firefitghing over the years, it's not what it was. Firefighting has become a gravy train for those who have had their livelihoods in the forest robbed by a gang of ideological thugs and financial interests. Yes I'm bitter about it, because it's so unnecessary and stupid, but the Forest Service is just as responsible as the greens for the 190 million acres now at risk.
Stoat gave a good account of that in Post #17.
Better check with DOD first. These 8 military C-130's are Air National Guard. Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom are higher priority than western forest fires -- unless they just activate us all for both.
BS. Like you have a clue what my situation is. I've done more to save firefighters' lives than they'll ever do for mine. This place is cleared, fully roaded, and has standpipes all over it. I even set up an evac site for them. This is the one refugium with a registered helicopter landing site for over three miles.
If landowners did their jobs because insurance rates nailed them if they didn't and we got the governmint out of forest management there would be minimal need for firefighting. This whole mess is a political creation.
1. Make a huge buy of Canadair CL-415 water bombers for the US Forest Service, maybe as many as 100-125 planes. The CL-415 is probably one of the best of its kind, designed specifically for the rigors of low-level flying needed for water bombing.
2. Modify a number of rebuilt C-130E/H Hercules planes to drop containers loaded with water that looks like a dodecahedron. Popular Mechanics mentioned idea this late in 2003 and they said this allows for more wider area coverage of flame-retarding water and also allow the drop plane to fly higher, too.
3. Fill artillery shells and/or short-range bombardment rockets with liquid nitrogen and fire them directly into the fire. When the shell or rocket filled with liquid nitrogen explodes in the fire, the combination of sudden extreme cold and the quick removal of oxygen to feed the flame at the impact point will quickly put out the fire. And unlike conventional fire retardants, liquid nitrogen will quickly evaporate away and not become an environmental hazard. I remember at the end of Operation Desert Storm they actually tried it out and it did work to put out the oil well fires.
"The planes were reactivated after a new inspection program was developed at the Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., but the NTSB said in its report last month that maintenance and inspection programs were still inadequate."
Well, you might conclude, that, when your muffler falls off the car, and you go to the telephone company to fix it, that "maintenance and inspection programs were still inadequate."
You see how easy it is, at times, to spot the "39%" in the Bush [still running 39% of the Clinton] Administration?
It is on this note, that I take my leave.
See you in a couple months.
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2013 Maple Leafs "Stars and Goats"
Cam Charron
January 18 2013 04:54PM
It's been so long since we watched a hockey game together.
For too many months, we were caught up in the discussion involving collective bargaining agreements, standard player contracts, hockey-related revenue, defined benefit pension plan, federal mediation, entry-level contract, arbitration and so on and all of a sudden you needed a few credits in 100-level business courses to be qualified to call in to a radio show.
Tomorrow we get to start loving and hating hockey players again.
"Stars" and "Goats" have been a Nations Network tradition. You can edit your Nations profile (you should sign up for an account if you haven't) to modify the players you will love no matter what, and hate no matter what. Last season, The Leafs Nation had players like Mikhail Grabovski and Nik Kulemin listed as "stars", while defensively-liable Joffrey Lupul and Colton Orr were selected as goats.
Below are this year's picks by our contributor staff. Add your own in the comments, and to your profile page.
Steve Dangle's Star and Goat
Star - Mikail Grabovski
Lost in the whole debate about losing Connolly, Lombardi, and Aucoin, and the constantly swirling speculation Bozak will be traded, it's often forgotten is the best pivot period the Leafs have period no questions asked period. It's not even debatable. If he's going, that means the second is going. That means the first line is probably going. That probably means more goals for. It also probably means fewer goals against. Of all players on this roster, it's weird to say, games will be won and lost on Grabovski's performance.
Goat - Dion Phaneuf
Here's another guy who, when playing well, looks pretty good. I can forgive his defensive lapses when they're infrequent, justifiable in certain situations, and he's scoring well. I can't forgive them when it's the first or second period, 5-on-5, and he just blows a tire or gets beat wide again. Love him or hate him, the guy's gonna log 22 minutes on a light night, so he better be sharp. He needs to be paired with a nice, boring defenceman like Gunnarsson. That pairing actually looked great in 2011-12 until Gunnar went down. Not long after that...well...y'know.
Ryan Fancey's Star and Goat
Star - Nik Kulemin
He's back, baby. It's not a bold prediction or anything, but I think Kulemin simply gets back to his scoring ways and notches the equivalent of 20 goals in a full season, so, around 11 or 12 in this one. He's always been good on the other side of the puck so no worries there. The only question mark, I suppose, is how things shake out between Kulemin, van Riemsdyk, and MacArthur when it comes to a top six winger spot. If he gets off to a good start he should get there. The fact that he's already played 36 games (with 38 points) this season in the KHL certainly doesn't hurt.
Goat - Randy Carlyle
To be fair here, Carlyle doesn't have a lot to work with. But the hammer has to fall on someone in these prediction articles.
The Leafs still have major holes in the roster and aren't exactly the type of team that fits together nicely. The roster is still a mess and I doubt he's going to be able to make much sense of it. I guess, technically, the goat is Burke. But since he doesn't actually work for the team anymore, I can't elect him.
Carlyle will have his chance to start proving himself with a new season starting instead of taking over a team in freefall, and I think he'll fail. He seems a tad old school with his tough demeanor and such, and I'm not sure it will be effective with players like Kessel, JvR, and Lupul. The team isn't exactly tough on paper, and if he tries to transform them in to that on the ice, it could backfire since they're awful defensively. This team can't afford to be in the penalty box more than it needs to be.
Carlyle has been touted as some sort of expert in defensive hockey. I'll believe that when I see it and happily eat crow if he makes a real difference.
Gus Katsaros' Star and Goat
Star - Nazem Kadri
Hard to find a legitimate star this season, aside from Kessel's scoring ability, but I think that the best thing that will come out of this shortened season is the establishment of Nazam Kadri as an NHL player. He won't shoot the lights out offensively, but will contribute. With all the scrutiny, the watching, judging eyes and negative opinions, he will solidify his status as an NHL player with a permanent spot on the roster and an end to the 'bust' mindset. He will also usher in the new era of homegrown talent, being the first draft pick in the Brian Burke era, and not the last to make it as a pro hockey player. The hope for each draft is to get at least 2 players onto your NHL roster per draft. The total from the Burke era would be eight, in some form, unless they are traded for other assets. Kadri represents that first breakthrough.
Goat - Goaltenders (it doesn't matter who)
It doesn't seem to matter who is between the pipes, the first issue will always be, they should have upgraded in goaltending. The old Luongo rumors will be lamented and the responsibility on winning games will always fall in the crease among members of the media and even in the blogosphere. The combo of James Reimer and Ben Scrivens will have to be able to survive the scrutiny, even if their performance isnt the specific issue this season, there's a built in excuse: they didn't upgrade their goaltending.
Cam Charron's Star and Goat
Star - Mikhail Grabovski
There is no athlete in Toronto sports currently whose talents are more misunderstood and whose contributions are more written off than Mikhail Grabovski's. Perhaps it is the basement metrics that allow me to see what others are missing, perhaps I am blinded by spreadsheets. I only lived six months in Toronto (before realizing living as a hockey blogger in downtown Toronto was probably an unsustainable lifestyle during a lockout) but of the Maple Leafs jerseys and sherseys I came across, the names were familiar: Lupul, Phaneuf, Kessel, Reimer, all familiar names, all important players, none who are so determinant on the Leafs' fortunes as Mikhail Grabovski, the Belaroussian Bus Driver.
I'd love for all the Blue Jays fans who own a J.P. Arencibia shirt or jersey to make an exchange. You all know he's a .222 career hitter, right?
Goat - Colton Orr
The Leafs are paying $1.5M in retained salary to Matthew Lombardi. They're paying $1M each to Colby Armstrong and Darcy Tucker. Tim Connolly will make $3.85M playing with the Toronto Marlies. None of these forwards was a better option than Colton Orr to make this roster? Really?
Orr is going to be put into a depth role, because bad hockey teams like to regular run fighters out in the depth role, and the Leafs are a bad hockey team. The one positive aspect of this team, that it's loaded with good 3rd line talent, is going to be wasted because Colton Orr is going to see regular shifts next to Jay McClement. Orr can't skate. He can't check. He can't do much of anything right, and he makes $1M to do whatever it is he doesn't do.
You could say that an enforcer protects your star players. What protects Grabovski and Phil Kessel and Nik Kulemin is that they're faster than any of the other goons that the other team puts out on the ice at any given time. No smart coach is going to try to intimidate Kessel with their carp on copy of Colton Orr. If Dave Nonis and Randy Carlyle believe that Orr acts as a deterrent to teams taking liberties against the Leafs' top players, then every time one of them gets injured, or so much as hit, it's Colton Orr to blame.
January 18 2013, 10:00PM
Agree on the all the goats especially
1. Phaneuf: The guy is not only deservedly considered to be over rated. But he also is not very good on defense. Sure he faces other teams toughest competition but that doesn't mean he is all that good at defender. He is outclassed nightly which dwarfs his impressive offensive production. And his leadership qualities are weak. The guy is a caveman on skates.
2. Carlyle: He won't make a difference on defence if he doesn't have Niedermyer to make him look like great coach. Ha ha sure try to make kessel a selke defensive stalwart/power winger type. Carlyle style of hockey died over a decade ago.
Bozak never gets any love, but I think he is star. No he is not a first line centre, but he probably knows this. Despite being constantly told that the Leafs are looking to upgrade him and that he is at best a solid third liner, he keeps out working established NHLers to end up on the top line. I realize part of it is by default, but I think he should be given more credit for effectively playing a roll that is well above his pay grade.


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- How many queues and messages can I have?
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- What is the difference between the message ID and the receipt handle?
- Is the message ID globally unique?
- I am getting a "Queue Deleted Recently" error. What is wrong?
- I am sure that my queue has messages, but a call to ReceiveMessage returned none. What could be the problem?
- How much data can I store in a message?
- I deleted a message but I received it again later. What gives?
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Reporting an issue:
How do I start using Amazon SQS?
If you are a beginner and want to get a quick overview of the Amazon Simple Queue Service, an excellent resource to begin with is the Amazon SQS Getting Started Guide and the Amazon SQS Scratchpad (you must have an Amazon Web Services account and be signed up for Amazon SQS before you can start using it).
If you are a developer and would like to get an in-depth understanding of Amazon SQS, the Amazon SQS Developer Guide will provide you all the details about the service. You might also want to take a look at the Code Samples and Developer Forums.
If you are interested in finding out more about how developers have used Amazon SQS in their applications, the Amazon SQS Solutions Catalog provides details of solutions that AWS developers have built using Amazon SQS.
How many queues and messages can I have?
Amazon SQS supports an unlimited number of queues and unlimited number of messages per queue for each user. Please be aware that Amazon SQS automatically deletes messages that have been in the queue for more than 4 days.
What if I want the messages to be delivered in order?
Amazon SQS makes a best effort to preserve order in messages, but due to the distributed nature of the queue, we cannot guarantee that you will receive messages in the exact order you sent them. You typically place sequencing information or timestamps in your messages so that you can reorder them upon receipt.
What is the difference between the message ID and the receipt handle?
The message ID is a unique identifier for the message, whereas a receipt handle is an identifier associated with the act of receiving the message. A new receipt handle is returned every time you receive a message. When deleting a message, you provide the last received receipt handle to delete the message.
Is the message ID globally unique?
Message IDs are considered unique across all AWS accounts for an extended period of time.
I am getting a "Queue Deleted Recently" error. What is wrong?
If you delete a queue, you need to wait for at least 60 seconds before creating a queue with the same name. Please note that when you delete a queue, the deletion process takes up to 60 seconds. Requests you send to a recently deleted queue might succeed during the 60-second period. For example, a SendMessage request might succeed, but after 60 seconds the queue and that message you sent no longer exists.
I am sure that my queue has messages, but a call to ReceiveMessage returned none. What could be the problem?
Due to the distributed nature of the queue, a weighted random set of machines is sampled on a ReceiveMessage call. That means only the messages on the sampled machines are returned. If the number of messages in the queue is small (less than 1000), it is likely you will get fewer messages than you requested. If the number of messages in the queue is extremely small, you might not receive any messages in a particular ReceiveMessage response. Your application should be prepared to poll the queue until a message is received. Note that with the 2008-01-01 version of Amazon SQS, you're charged for each request you make, so set your polling frequency with that in mind.
How much data can I store in a message?
With Amazon SQS version 2008-01-01, the maximum message size for both SOAP and Query requests is 8KB.
If you need to send messages to the queue that are larger than 8 KB, we recommend that you split the information into separate messages. Alternatively, you could use Amazon S3 or Amazon SimpleDB to hold the information and include the pointer to that information in the Amazon SQS message.
If you send a message that is larger than 8KB to the queue, you will receive a MessageTooLong error with HTTP code 400.
I deleted a message, but I received it again later. What gives?
This might happen if you don't provide the most recent receipt handle for the message, in which case the request will still succeed, but the message might not be deleted. It is also possible that on a rare occasion, one of the servers that is holding a copy of the message will be unavailable when you request to delete the message. The copy might be retained on the server and returned to you on a subsequent ReceiveMessage request.
You should design your system to be idempotent so that receiving a particular message more than once is not a problem.
I am getting an HTTP status code 401 AuthFailure. What could be the cause?
The most common cause of authentication failure is an invalid signature.
If you are using Query, make sure that:
- You have correctly constructed the string to be signed (you can validate the string to be signed using the Amazon SQS Scratchpad).
- You are passing the correct signature in your request. Some of the common errors while creating the signature include:
- Wrong time zone (time must be in UTC).
- Wrong time stamp format. Make sure your format matches: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, as specified in the ISO 8601 standard. Some toolkits do not provide support for the milliseconds in the formatting. If so, make sure to append "00Z" to the end of the time stamp.
- Failure to base64 encode the signature.
- Wrong algorithm used (not HMAC-SHA1).
Can I reset the message visibility once I have received the message?
With version 2008-01-01, the ChangeMessageVisibility action has been removed from Amazon SQS.
We recommend that if you have a system that produces messages that require varying amounts of time to process and delete, you create multiple queues, each with a different visibility timeout setting. Your system can then send all messages to a single queue that, in turn, forwards each message to another queue with the appropriate visibility timeout (based on the expected processing and deletion time for that message)
How do I peek at a message?
With version 2008-01-01, the PeekMessage action has been removed from Amazon SQS. This functionality was used mainly to debug small systems specifically to confirm a message was successfully sent to the queue or deleted from the queue. To do this with version 2008-01-01, you can log the message ID and the receipt handle for your messages and correlate them to confirm when a message has been received and deleted.
My request failed with a 500 Internal Error / 503 Service Unavailable error. What's wrong?
It is possible to receive a 500 or 503 HTTP status code due to the rare unavailability of an Amazon SQS server. This error is often temporary and subsequent requests would succeed.
Your system should be prepared to retry any request that receives HTTP status code 500 or 503.
My requests are failing. To help me, what information do you need?
In order to effectively troubleshoot issues related to Amazon SQS, we typically need the following information:
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- Message ID
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The 23-year-old France international's second-half double rescued victory from the jaws of defeat for the Magpies as the European champions succumbed late in the day once again.
Alan Pardew's men moved six points clear of the relegation zone as a result of their first back-to-back Barclays Premier League wins of the season, although January signing Sissoko knows there is still much hard work to do.
He said: "I am very happy, but we can't forget the fact that this was a team performance. The team worked together.
"I played well, but it was a team effort.
"We came away with three points as a team and I hope we can go away and continue to perform like that to climb up the Premier League as high as we possibly can."
Sissoko's introduction to English football has been little short of spectacular, and the early signs are that the fee his new employers paid for him - officially undisclosed, but understood to be in the region of £2million - is another bargain.
Pardew admitted after losing striker Demba Ba to Chelsea at the beginning of the winter transfer window that his side lacked pace and power, and both were in evidence in the shape of the former Toulouse midfielder.
But it was Argentina international Jonas Gutierrez who set the ball rolling for the home side four minutes before the break, ending an indifferent run of form by climbing above John Terry to glance Davide Santon's inviting cross past Petr Cech and into the bottom corner.
Before the game could restart, Ba's return to Tyneside ended prematurely and painfully as he left the field with his face heavily bandaged.
The Senegal international had been hurt 10 minutes earlier when he taken former team-mate Fabricio Coloccini's boot full in the face as he attempted to head home after keeper Tim Krul had parried his initial shot.
Furious manager Rafael Benitez later revealed that Ba's nose was broken and suggested, with some justification that his side should have been awarded a penalty, and with less, that the defender should have been sent off.
However, the Blues turned the game around inside six second-half minutes when first Frank Lampard lashed an unstoppable shot past Krul and then Juan Mata caressed a beautiful curling effort into the top corner.
Newcastle's hopes looked to be over as they wilted in the face of a storm, but it was then that Sissoko stepped up to the plate.
It was he who made up the ground to pounce when Cech could only beat away fellow home debutant Yoan Gouffran's 68th-minute shot, and he who, with seconds of normal time remaining, drilled the winner past Cech from Santon's astute square ball.
Sissoko said: "I gave 100 per cent, the very best I could. I was signed to do that, to give everything to fight from the first to the 90th minute.
"That's what I tried to do, even though it's not always easy. I went out there from the very first minute until the very last minute and worked as hard as I could."
Sissoko's heroics made him an instant hit at St James' Park as the Toon Army rose to acclaim a new talisman.
He said: "I'm settling in really well. When I am not training, I walk around the city and the supporters will come over and ask me for an autograph, and it makes me feel fantastic when that happens."
If victory put a smile on the faces of the locals, defeat did not sit well with the travelling supporters, although Benitez was refusing to bow to the mounting pressure with his side now 16 points adrift of leaders Manchester United.
He said: "The team is doing well. If you analyse the games, we could have won every single game we have drawn or lost, every single game.
"In all the games, we have had chances, we have played good football in the majority of them and when we couldn't, still we have had chances to win.
"That's football. In football, you can win, you can lose or you can draw. Today, we had a good reaction and that is positive.
"Next week, we have players coming back. Hopefully, we can play well, we can win and then carry on."
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Given how Sasuke has been following a single minded path of revenge it makes sence to me that even after all that was revealed he still only has 1 thing in mind. And thats killing Itachi. No matter what he finds out that is still the only thing Sasuke is after.
As for Itachi I've been expecting it to be revealed that he is just plain bonkers under that calm additude. I mean thats kinda what you expect from a Psychopath. On the serface he's all calm and cool, but on the inside he's a screaming crazy person. In a way he's always reminded me of Hanabal Lecter. Only he doesn't eat his victims.


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Utah Department of Environmental
Public Notice of Renewal of
Ground Water Discharge Permit
Permit No. UGW150002
Purpose of Public Notice
The Utah Department of Environmental Quality is soliciting comments
on its proposal to renew a ground water discharge permit described
below under authority of the Utah Water Quality Act, Section
19-5-104(1)(I) Utah Code Annotated 1953, as amended and Utah
Administrative Code R317-6.
Permit Information
Permittee Name: Pacificorp Huntington Power Plant
Mailing Address: 201 South Main Street
Suite 2200
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Facility Location: Highway 31 West of Huntington
Huntington, Utah 84528
The Pacificorp Huntington Power Plant is a coal-fired steam electric
generating facility. The power plant operates the Huntington Research
Farm to dispose of non-contact cooling water, boiler blowdown, and
treated domestic wastewater, which is stored in a clay-lined
evaporation pond throughout the year. This water is used to irrigate
255 acres of farmland located southeast of the power plant from April
through November. The power plant also operates one active and one
closed landfill for the disposal of combustion waste, including fly
ash, bottom ash and scrubber sludge. Pacificorp has also identified
other potential ground water discharge sources at the plant site.
These include the coal pile and blending facility, the power plant
site itself, and ponds used to hold storm water, sanitary sewer
treatment effluent and process wastewater.
Under the ground water discharge permit, Pacificorp will continue the
current ground water monitoring program at the land application site.
Protection limits for ground water quality have been established for
monitor wells located between the land application area and Huntington
Creek, to ensure ground water affected by power plant operations is
not discharging into the creek. Pacificorp has developed subsurface
structures to divert contaminated ground water downgradient from the
combustion waste landfills into the land application. Pacificorp has
also developed best management practices to minimize any potential
discharge of contaminants from the landfills, the plant site, the coal
storage area and impoundments associated with the power plant. Ground
water protection levels have also been established for monitor wells
adjacent to these facilities.
Public Comments
Public comments are invited any time prior to Monday, August 1, 2011.
Written comments may be directed to the Division of Water Quality,
P.O. Box 144870, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-4870. All comments received
prior to close of business Monday, August 1, 2011, will be considered
in the formulation of final determinations to be imposed on the
permit. A public hearing may be held if written requests are received
within the first 15 days of this public comment period that
demonstrate significant public interest and substantive issues exist
to warrant holding a hearing.
Further Information
Additional information may be obtained upon request by calling Mark
Novak at (801) 536-4358 or by writing the aforementioned address.
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www.waterquality.utah.gov or during normal business hours at the
Division of Water Quality, 195 N. 1950 W., Salt Lake City.
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Brendan Shanahan Explains Clarke MacArthur Suspension
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Brendan Shanahan has released his video explaining Clarke MacArthur's three game suspension and there is not much of a surprise in his reasoning behind the suspension.
Video, reaction from MacArthur, and thoughts after the jump.
Shanaban Video
As I predicted, the decision on the Brad Boyes hit on Joe Colborne was essentially a proxy for MacArthur's. If you aren't able to watch the video, here's a summary of Shanahan's explanation:
- The bodycheck was an illegal hit to the head.
- A punishment is required if the hit is intentional or reckless.
- Shanahan agrees with MacArthur's assertion that it wasn't intentional but it was still a reckless bodycheck.
- The positioning of Abdelkader's head doesn't change immediately before the hit or simultaneous to the hit.
- That means that the onus is on MacArthur to make contact with Abdelkader's body and not his head.
- Having said that, there was no apparent injury and MacArthur has no history of NHL discipline
Clarke MacArthur Reacts
Video courtesy of Kevin McGran
"I just think there's going to be no hitting in this game. That's what is going to happen."
- Chris Johnston, Canadian Press
I'm kind of disappointed in MacArthur's reaction to the suspension. It certainly isn't what Brendan Shanahan wants players to take from his videos. While I obviously don't want him happy to be missing time, he should be recognizing that he is responsible for where he makes contact when he throws a body check. Hopefully the next time MacArthur sees someone's head sticking out he adjusts because the Leafs cannot afford to have him miss games.


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Temperatures in the central and eastern USA will soar this week.
After a chilly, snowy pattern the past couple of weeks, most of the nation will see a January thaw this week, which will eat away at some of the snow that covers parts of 41 states. There's still hope for snow lovers, as an Arctic blast with some of the coldest air of the season could be right on its heels.
Much of the central and eastern USA can expect temperatures 10 to 20 degrees above normal most of this week, with short spells of even warmer weather possible, Weather Channel meteorologist Nick Wiltgen says.
New York City could see high temperatures in the low 50s by midweek and into next weekend, according to a National Weather Service forecast, well above the city's average early January high in the upper 30s.
Snow cover that had reached a record 67% of the nation last week will start to melt this week, especially in the central USA, according to AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski. Although that percentage marked a record high, snow cover measurements go back to only 2004.
The jet stream, the river of fast-moving air high above Earth's surface that steers weather, will retreat to the north this week, allowing westerly winds to bring in much milder air from the Pacific Ocean across the country, Sosnowski says. This will keep most of the cold air bottled up in Canada.
Some parts of New England and the Great Basin states of Nevada and Utah may not feel the warmth, as the cold air could stay in place over those regions.
A midweek storm could bring mostly rain — not snow — to central, southern and eastern parts of the nation. Some of the rain could be accompanied by severe thunderstorms, especially in parts of the South and along the Gulf Coast, AccuWeather forecasts.
What about the large-scale climate patterns — such as the Arctic Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation — that helped fuel extreme winters (both cold and warm) for much of the country the past couple of years? Neither of those patterns is much of a player in the warm-up this week, according to Jon Gottschalck, head of forecast operations at the Climate Prediction Center in College Park, Md.
After this week's warm-up, some long-range forecasts point to a significant cold spell for much of the nation, Sosnowski says. Toward the end of the week and into the weekend, very cold air could spill down from Canada into the northern Rockies, northern Plains, and eventually drive into the South and East. He says it could come as a single blast of cold air, or possibly in waves of colder and colder air.
Storms will come along with the cold air, so "it will get pretty interesting," he says.
For some of the big cities along the Eastern Seaboard looking for their first big snowstorm of the season, there's a chance:
"I think it's still too early to rule out a blockbuster storm for the rest of the winter along the I-95 corridor," according to Weather Channel winter weather expert Tom Niziol. "For the major cities in the East, we will often see those blockbuster storms in February, and in a few years, we've even seen that type of storm into early March."


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For Latest 'YouTube Challenge,' Jimmy Kimmel Asks Parents to Dress Kids Up in 'Horrible' Back-to-School Outfits
If there is one thing Jimmy Kimmel loves, it's pranking little kids.
From hooking them up to fake lie detectors, to giving them terrible Christmas gifts, the late-night host can't seem to get enough Children's tears to fill up his rejuvenation chamber.
On a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kimmel issued a new "YouTube Challenge" to parents getting ready to send their kids back to school: Dress them up in "horrible" outfits for their first day of class.
Ever ready to pull a fast one on their progeny, moms and dads across America happily took Jimmy up on his challenge, and the results are expectedly hilarious.