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NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — In the early 1800s, Red Bayou was a busy steamboat route around a huge series of logjams that blocked nearly 100 miles of the Red River in northwest Louisiana.
The logjams, which took centuries to build up, were cleared in the 1800s. Regular maintenance keeps the Red River open to barge traffic.
Levees built in the early 1900s block Red Bayou from the river. But by next summer, water pumped over the levee will fill the bayou for irrigation.
Farmers who raise cotton, soybeans and corn say they generally have plenty of rain for most of the year. They use wells for irrigation at the end of the growing season, when the most water is needed. At that time, as much as half of Red Bayou's channel is dry, and only a few especially low spots hold enough water for irrigation.
A $4 million freshwater diversion project is under way to send river water into the bayou, almost doubling the amount of land farmers along and near the nine-mile-long bayou can irrigate, to about 12,000 acres from 6,000 or 7,000.
The construction and planning money is from the federal and Caddo Parish governments. Farmers will pay to keep the project running.
Dan Logan of Gilliam, La., not far from the Arkansas border, currently can irrigate about 3,800 acres. After the diversion project kicks in, he said he expects to be able to water another 1,000 acres.
"It's really a neat deal," he said. "We are real proud of it and real pleased with it."
The project is a pilot that could be replicated in other parts of the state, said project manager Danny Martin of the Caddo Soil and Water Conservation District.
Arkansas has similar river-to-farm diversion projects, but the Caddo project is the first of its kind in Louisiana, Martin said.
Freshwater diversion projects in south Louisiana, where rainfall is more widespread through most of the year, are designed to send freshwater and sediments into eroding marshes along the Gulf of Mexico coast to rebuild land and wildlife environments.
For the Red Bayou project, Caddo Parish contributed $1 million, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resource Conservation Service put up $3 million. The federal funding is coming from economic stimulus legislation.
Logan said the Red Bayou diversion won't be used year-round — the 15 or so farmers within a mile of the bayou usually need irrigation only from the end of June to mid-August. "Other times we get plenty of rain. We get plenty of rain in winter," he said. But when ears of corn, pods of beans and cotton bolls are maturing, they need a lot of water, he said.
Farmers will pay for the water. "We're going to assess ourselves the amount of money needed to pay for maintenance, pay for fuel, pay the man who comes around to check all our meters," Logan said.
The contract requires completion in August, but if the weather cooperates it could be done earlier, Martin said. He said the contractor has done about 60 percent of the work: installing two 75-inch pipes and riprap in the river, running pipe up the levee, through it near the top and back down, and laying two 48-inch pipelines totaling 2,500 feet from the bayou. Larger culverts also have been installed at two road crossings.
The pumps that will lift the water are still to come, and contractors haven't yet built three 6-foot-high weirs — earthen dams to keep the water deep enough for irrigation.
Logan said the project was first suggested about 20 years ago. "It's taken more turns. We'd think we've just about given up, and something would happen and we'd get going again," he said.
For a while, Red Bayou was part of a circuitous steamboat route around the Great Raft — a series of massive tangles of tree trunks along what witnesses estimated as 80 to 150 miles of Red River switchbacks.
The first steamboat arrived in Louisiana in 1812. In 1832, Capt. Henry Shreve of the Army Corps of Engineers and a crew of 200 began using saws, dynamite and "snag boats" that could ram or hoist embedded trees to clear the way to what is now Shreveport. Work farther northwest continued on the Red River into the 1870s.
As the logjam was broken, water levels dropped and Red Bayou was no longer navigable, Logan said.
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY
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Did We Witness The First Signs Of Slippage From The Sedins Last Season?
Dimitri Filipovic
September 24 2012 09:24AM
At one point or another, we have all been guilty of taking Henrik and Daniel Sedin for granted. Their exploits are often overlooked, and they are routinely - and rather unjustly, may I add - ripped for being "soft". I'm not just referring to people who aren't all that fond of the Canucks - you know, the same people who settle for making mediocre diving, and Sedin sisters jokes. But seemingly everyone has fallen into this trap at some point or another. At the very least, for example, you've yelled "Shoot the [expletive deleted] puck!" at Art Ross winner Henrik Sedin. As if you know how to produce offense at the NHL level better than he does...
Despite their unearned reputation among hockey fans, you'll be hard-pressed to find two players that take more punishment on a nightly basis. But that's life when you're so good at your job that the opposition has to throw everything but the kitchen sink at you, hoping to do anything they can to take you out of your rhythm. Even before they take the ice, the other team has spent most of their time and energy in preparation, trying to figure out a way to slow them down. Just because they usually leave the game with nothing to show for their troubles doesn't mean that they didn't try. Trust me, they did. The Sedins are nightmare to gameplan against.
With their 32nd birthday just around the corner, though, how much longer will their 'best' be better than the opposition's 'best'?
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Back in August, I wrote about the benefits that the person playing the role of third wheel for the Sedins has enjoyed over the years. It's a quality that has allowed management to avoid giving marginal players far more than they they're truly worth. Players have been plugged in, had career years, and when it came time for a payday, they were wished a "bon voyage".
Recently, Jeff Angus released his 'Top 50 Trade Value' rankings, with the Sedins coming in at 35 and 36. On the surface, it seems like a rather low ranking for two guys that in the past three seasons have combined for two Art Ross Trophies, a Hart Memorial Trophy, a Ted Lindsay Trophy, and two Presidents' Trophies (even though fans seem to think those grow on trees). I just mentioned how invaluable they have been to the entire operation for the Canucks. So what gives?
.. And it's only partly due to the fact that I am, in fact, smelling what The Rock is cooking.
When analyzing the season the Sedins submitted this past year as a whole, there are a few worrisome trends that caught my attention. I've already mentioned the punishment that they consistently take, and it's an issue worth discussing. further The wear-and-tear from everything they go through accumulates, and adds up over time. It's one of the reasons that actual age doesn't necessarily tell the full story. We need to take into account the 'miles' that professional athletes accrue over the years, like fine sports cars.
Throughout their careers, the Sedins have been the epitome of consistency. And that's what made the 8-game pointless streak - from February 24th to March 10th - they drudged through so bizarre. We simply don't see that happen to them. In fact, it was the first such case since 2003 for them.
When great players begin to slip, they don't necessarily lose their 'fastball'. They can still turn it up like they used to in their prime. Where you see the slippage is in how consistently they can do it. They need to pick their spots, and that results in uncharacteristic droughts and stretches of poor performance. They begin to look mortal, which is a scary thought for fans.
While their point totals of 81 and 67 from last season are nothing to scoff at, those totals remain a far cry from the spectacular efforts they submitted in the previous two seasons. It's especially worrisome given the fact that they saw their offensive zone start percentage rise up to nearly unthinkable levels last season. If you told me that they would start nearly 80% of their shifts in the attacking zone (nearly a 10% increase from the previous season), and see their production decrease, I would have told you that you were being a silly person.
Their production did take a substantial dip, though, and it can be attributed to the team's play with the man advantage. Sure, you could point to the departure Christian Ehrhoff, and a general drop-off in power-play opportunities that was experienced league-wide as explanations for the struggles, but the success and failure of the power play starts and ends with the Sedins. They have made a habit of making the opposition pay for their transgressions over the years. I am aware that I'm picking on a unit that still wound up finishing the season as the 4th best in the entire league, but a drop of 4.5% cannot be overlooked.
There's also the fact that Henrik Sedin was 'Captain Hook' last season. He led the league with 14 hooking infractions, with Daniel not too far behind (9). They have both been good for their share of penalties of that nature in the past, but there's no question that they were sloppier than usual in that regard last season. It can probably be explained by the fact that they started an exponentially larger percentage of their shifts in the offensive zone than anyone else in the league, but it's still something that is worth pointing out. At least that's what I tell myself every night before bed.
Thank you to @TheStanchion, who just gets the job done.
It's very possible that last season was the first stage of the decline phase for the Sedins, relative to their own lofty standards, at least. Realistically, chances are that we've already seen their best. The question is whether or not it really matters, and the answer is no.
Even with the "plummet" in production, Henrik Sedin still finished in the top-10 in scoring. It's difficult to get too upset about that. While their days of scoring 90+ points are likely over with, there's no reason to believe that they can't manage to hover around point-per-game territory for the next couple of seasons.
They will be big beneficiaries of a lockout that leads to a shortened season, as well. They have logged a lot of minutes, and played a ton of hockey in the past few years. If the season were to start in December, I'd fully expect them to be operating with much fresher legs, which is obviously bad news for the rest of the league.
I know that he's a different player, and the circumstances aren't exactly the same, but what we saw from Jaromir Jagr last season is exactly why the Sedins will be able to remain productive players in the NHL for as long as they choose to (or their bodies permit them to). Jagr wasn't beating people with his speed, and physical tools, as much as he was with his craftiness, creativity, and puck control. Or as I like to call it - Sedinery.
Finally, the Sedins have as clean an injury history slate as one could hope for (or at least Henrik does). Get ready for a remarkable stat - Henrik Sedin has played in 580 consecutive games, dating back to 2003-04. That's a Canucks franchise record, and it puts him just behind Jay Bouwmeester for the longest active streak in the entire NHL. It's crazy that there hasn't been a single game where he decided he needed a night off, to let his body recover from the merciless abuse it takes.
There's something to be said for being able to know that you can count on your best guy to be in the lineup night in, and night out. There's something reassuring about it. This particular milestone definitely requires as much luck as it does toughness, but still. It's a remarkable feat.
As for Daniel, he's rather durable, too. If you take the time he missed due to a broken foot in '09-'10 out of the equation, he had missed just 1 game since '03 heading into this past season. Of course, as we quickly learned, even the most durable of players aren't immune to blindside elbows to the head. Who knew?
The Sedins will be fine. Just temper your expectations.
September 24 2012, 11:27AM
There might be a link to last season's refereeing regressing to pre-lockout levels and the Sedin's point totals regressing to pre-lockout levels.
September 24 2012, 11:46AM
I'm somewhat convinced that, in fact, the Sedins haven't lost a step at all, rather: their two art ross winning seasons were just consecutive outliers. When Henrik won the Art Ross, it was because of a spike in his on-ice sh%. When Daniel won it, it was because the twins produced ~15 more PP points than their career average.
If they get the bounces, or are particularly lights out in any given season on the PP they'll have a chance to be 100 pt player again. Otherwise they're just bonafide, point-per-game top liners!
September 24 2012, 02:52PM
It amazes me that playoff games are not a part of the games played total in determining the current iron man.
I don't have the actual numbers, but if you combine H Sedin's playoff and regular season games, he will either surpass Bouwmesster, or at least be nipping on his heels.
Not bad for a soft Swede sister...
Did the math,
Since 2005-2006 Sedin has played in 638 (Including 64 playoff) consecutive games.
Bouwmeester's streak is at 588 games.
September 24 2012, 03:04PM
I'm not so much predicting future Art Ross wins, as I am skeptical about the Sedins "falling off" this past season.
September 24 2012, 04:25PM
Here's the data I'm basing my conclusion off of (taken around game 60, before Daniel went down - updated it still holds)
Perhaps I'll make a counter argument tomorrow! Good stuff.

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too much talking not enough action....But for Bleach this was pretty good 4/5
too much talking not enough action....But for Bleach this was pretty good 4/5
You know after this arc is all said and done I wonder what will happen to this manga.
so we learned that ichigo is half human half shinigami that isnt a revelation for us only for ichigo
Was urahara in soul form when he was using his powers (training ichigo, fighting number 10/0 espada) or does his.. body replacement thing (forgot what its called) allow him to use his powers. I kinda am thinking its the latter, seeing as the vizards look like they are in their human bodies, too. But all of them might've just went into soul-mode and changed clothes or something.. i kinda doubt that but still.
Loved it! Father and son are about to get down to some ass kicking. Can't wait till next week.
Manga reading list: Bleach, Naruto, Katekyo Hitman Reborn, One Piece, Code Breaker, Gamaran, Kuroko No Basket, Fairy Tail, The World God Only Knows, Kimi No Iru Machi, Good Ending, Medaka Box, Nisekoi, D.Gray-Man, Ao No Exorcist, Freezing, Magi - Labyrinth of Magic, Soul Eater, Rosario Vampire Season II, Iris Zero, Ubell Blatt, Bloody Cross, Sun-Ken Rock, and Infinite Stratos,
I liked this chapter too. I want to see how both; Itchigo vr. Ichimaru, and Ishin vr. Aizen.
I also didn't like Ichigo is NOWW fighting Ichimaru, makes me feel like all the previous chapters were for nothing. They are dragging it.. also, Ishin seems to be WAY overpowered... why does it suck that Ichigo is ALSO NOT STRONGER than him...
.. I mean, Ichigo's overcome SOOO many upgrades... died soooo many times... what for?? he's still weak.. I want something to happen to make sense of it all..


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After eight years, time for a change
By nico on Feb 03, 2011
I joined Sun more than eight years ago. Coming to Sun was one of the best things I have ever done. I have met a large number of incredible colleagues, and interacted via e-mail, IM and telephone with many more. I have loved working with each and every one of you, and wish I'd gotten to work with more of you. You have made Sun a wonderful place to work at. Sun's engineering culture produces results -- and happiness.
Besides the people, the technologies I've worked with at Sun and Oracle too have yielded much intellectual pleasure. I respect our competition in operating systems, and I believe they have their strengths, but I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Solaris.
The sheer number of areas of Solaris I've either worked on directly or delved into is hard to believe. It is to Solaris' many engineers' credit that it is so easy to read its source code. There is too much good to say about Solaris and other Sun tech to attempt to do so in what really ought to be a short blog post.
It has come time for me to explore different opportunities. This is through no fault of Sun's nor Oracle's. There are other great people I want to work with elsewhere whom I've known since before coming here, and other projects I've wanted to work on that are not particularly relevant to my role here at Oracle. I could not say no indefinitely, and it seems quite worthwhile to explore, and hopefully create new opportunities.
I've also gotten to interact with a great many people outside Sun/Oracle, via the IETF and customer contacts. It has been a privilege and a pleasure. Of course, I'll still be around, just elsewhere :)
My new blog is at http://cryptonector.com/ . My e-mail address will be nico at cryptonector.com. For IM you can use either nico at cryptonector.com or email@example.com, both Jabber (XMPP). I'm on LinkedIn, Facebook, you know the drill. I'll be sure to look for and join off-OWAN IM rooms and mailing lists for Sun/Oracle diaspora (if you know of any, do please let me know).
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Skip to comments.Right-wing hysteria over Benghazi feeds upon itself
Posted on 10/29/2012 4:17:22 PM PDT by Libloather
Right-wing hysteria over Benghazi feeds upon itself
4:25 pm October 29, 2012, by Jay Bookman
Fox New anchors, right-wing websites and talk-radio hosts around the country are ginning up a wave of mass hysteria about the decision by the Obama administration not to attempt a military rescue of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya. (Glenn Beck is even telling listeners that the treason is more widespread, and that Stevens was acting as a gunrunner for al Qaida in Libya and Syria. I kid you not.)
Obamas crime is said to be so heinous that mere impeachment for refusing to intervene would be insufficient. If you Google the words Benghazi and traitor, you get some 518,000 hits, almost all of which cast President Obama as that traitor. The criticism extends as well to the mainstream media, which as my email informs me, is being accused of covering up a scandal of such dimensions that it would supposedly dwarf Watergate.
But I have a question.
According to NBC News, Mitt Romney hasnt mentioned Libya in his campaign appearances around the country since Oct. 12, which is more than two weeks ago. Now why do you think that is?
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.ajc.com ...
At least they're admitting Obama affirmatively declined to act.
The AJC is still in circulation?
I'm of the opinion that the writers at the ajc AND the talking heads on local news are airheads-—absolute "oides", that wouldn't know how to wipe themselves if they didn't have a crack to follow.
Should that news finally make it past the MSM spike, it then wouldn't be just "right wingers" who would be "hysterical."
Their editors are not.
When I think back on the Left-wing hysteria that fed upon itself to give us Watergate, it makes me so angry that they scoff at a sitting President not lifting a finger to do the job he is actually supposed to to do.
Jay is a long time leftist that never met a liberal idea he didn't love or a conservative he didn't hate. I imagine he still gets turned on when he pictures a Dennis Kucinich/Cynthia McKinney presidential ticket in his dreams .
Jay Bookman - it is so painfully obvious that there is something terribly wrong with this administration's reaction to the whole Benghazi tragedy - and so obvious that they sought to deceive the American people - that if you cannot at least admit that much debating you, or reading anything you have to say on the subject, is the worst kind of wasted time.
Bookman is a complete stranger to the truth and the textbook definition of mendacity.
Big deal.. so they didn't get rescued.. people die everyday.
Rightwing Bigots Stir Mass Hysteria Over Nothing
"This is not a Hollywood movie."
MSM employees prove that they really are skid marks on Journalism's shorts.
In response lot a Benghazi article in our local rag, I was surprised by all the liberal articles used to discount this cover up. Just like Vince Foster, Juanita Broderick , etc . . . .
I think it is a little over the top to be using the words "impeachment" and "traitor" at this point. Let's just make sure the American people know what happened here so they can vote this loser out of office.
There is a very simple litmus test to discover whether this is ginned-up "hysteria" or a cover-up on the part of the MSM-
How would this be covered if the C-I-C at the time was a Republican?
I think even this moron would have to acknowledge to himself, very differently than it's being covered now with the Democrat Hussein at the helm.
Four men are dead.
It's not 'hysteria'.
Because the Obama administration is telling Romney and the old media this is a national security issue. OK. Then why are we overthrowing governments in Libya, Egypt and Syria? And save me the free the world speech. The Democrats wet their pants over our involvement in Nicaragua which was communists in our own back yard. This involvement in the Middle East doesn't make sense......unless you read THE ILLINOIS PAY TO PLAY blog. Obama and Hillary are just grifters out to set the Middle East on fire so they, and their Democrat buddies can make money rebuilding. They are like arsonists who own the home furnishing store in town. They set fire to a house to burn up all the homeowner's furniture so the homeowner has to come to their store to buy replacement furniture.
OK. Then how about "prosecution" and "conviction".
Sure...right-wing conspiracy.
I am so sick of liberals screaming to high heaven about atrocities that happened under Bush, when there was no proof to back up their claims, and then are silent when Obama commits NUMEROUS atrocities that ARE factually proven to have happened.
Cindy Sheehan comes to mind....
Any sitting POTUS or Occupier of the White Hut who sacrifices American lives to Allah could make me hysterical.
The Obama bootlickers' attitude is, "So what if a few nobodies were killed?" They are absolutely willing to sacrifice any number of people if it increases Obama's chances of getting re-elected.
I'll settle for "landslide" and "President Romney" for now. I think Benghazi is way bigger than we can unravel in the next 7 days.
An embassy (US soil) attacked, ambassador targeted and dead, strange behaviour from the White House. I don't think it's hysteria, but it may deflect attention if labeled so. Maybe it will work, eh?
Fairly simple answer: Others are doing a far better job with better resources than the Romney campaign could do at discovering the facts.
The Romney campaign is focused on running a campaign not an investigation.
Yeah, I was about 15-16 at that time. It irks me to no end - even to this day - to remember how I bought into this line of hysteria (at the time I did not realize that our 'News Media' had a long history of acting as propagandists for Socialists and Democrats). I was convinced that President Nixon was the crookedest guy who came down the pike, and that John Dean was a paragon of virtue... What a sucker I was...
President Nixon might not win any awards for ethics, but what he did was 'nothing' compared with the crimes carried out with impunity by previous and subsequent Democrat Presidents. Two wrongs don't make a right, but President Nixon's actions, at most, justified a sternly written admonishment to be more forthcoming in the future.
And, crooked as he may have been, he still loved his country enough not to put it through a show-trial and a dragged out impeachment process (and remember that he loved his country enough, not to contest a pretty shady election win by JFK in 1960 ... unlike his Democrat counterpart some 40 years later).
I swallowed that Watergate spiel hook, line, and sinker. It was nothing but a Media engineered coup. And now, when there are real scandals, and real crimes resulting in deaths (Fast and Furious -- aka, 'Let's cancel the 2nd Amendment'; and Benghazi -- where we left 4 Americans to die -- for whatever reason: cowardice, or as the result of nefarious schemes) -- our wonderful Media is AWOL. A pox on the lot of them.
Not one of them ever served a day in uniform nor have they ever served in a group where no person is left behind, regardless of the cost. They are a bunch of selfish self-serving cowards.
Oh, I think it's unraveled plenty in the minds of the voters. Just look at the polls, of course only the election-day polls will count.
If we prevail, we need some criminal charges leveled.
Yes. I did not find a good place to say this, so I will respond to FReepers here.
We are conservatives who live in Miami (Roads/Shenandoah area for those who are familiar with Miami). Up until about a week ago, we saw very few Obama- Biden signs on people's front lawns. At the end of last week, we had a visit from a couple of Obama canvassers. We said of course thanks but no thanks.
The next morning we went out our front door to see new Obama signs sprouting from several of our neighbors' lawns. (Since this is not a wealthy area, we suspect that in the Miami tradition they were given 20 bucks or so to put up the signs. We also know that all of those folks have connections to the public schools, whether because their daughter is a public school teacher and has gotten orders from the teachers union, or maybe something else).
We have now seen that, first, a bunch of Obama signs have appeared on the roads here, and, second, that a number of Romney/Ryan signs seem to have "disappeared" (they used to be by far the majority).
Maybe this is just a "cheap" last-ditch effort to turn Florida around, since Miami is pretty heavily democrat. But it sure would be nice to see some Romney signs out on the streets. (We will not because I work at a local university and have already had my car defaced once... because I have military stickers on my car for my two serving kids, and not because of Romney stickers).
I surely hope the Romney campaign is not taking Florida for granted.
Hysteria? Liberals were frantic for months about some Muslim with panties on his head. Hysteria? A retired twit who worked for the CIA, being outed when, in fact, it was no secret. Hysteria? Bush continued to read a book to schoolchildren for EIGHT MINUTES, after he learned about 9/11. Weeks and weeks of the same old repetitive stories jammed down our throats.
Pat Caddell is hardly "right wing" but he is disgusted by the coverup.
Exactly. They would be interrupting Days of Our Lives with hourly bulletins, throwing themselves in front of presidential motorcades to demand that the president tell us how soon he was going to be resigning, and whether he planned to sign the death warrant for his treason himself.
Beck answered this question , namely that whatever Romney would say about it, if further developments in any way cast a different light on the quote, there would be an endless line of recrimination in the press, so Romney has refrained.
Also , Jay, Cindy Sheehan made a career of hectoring Bush about the death of her son in much more conventional circumstances to much media trumpeting. Now two of the killed have had parents openly question Obama, and you're too much of a pipsqueak to even acknowledge them.
Bookman is a waste of air but I'll answer his window-licker question anyway. Romney doesn't address it because he knows it's far too serious to make a campaign issue out of it.
When this idea that obumbler would smuggle arms to Syria by way of Libya was first mentioned, the libs totally ignored it. Crickets...
And a few laughed.
But then along comes Katherine Harris of Fox News with the same conclusion and tipsters that gave her the info.
Now this lib writer ridicules the idea.
Obviously there is something to it and that it is so big that it must be covered up no matter how.
This story is no over by a long way.
Not one of them ever served a day in uniform nor have they ever served in a group where no person is left behind, regardless of the cost. They are a bunch of selfish self-serving cowards.
So true.
From a 3 rd generation vet......
Sort of. It's circling the drain/bowl.
Everything I have read and seen so far on Benghazi is still confirming my initial thinking on the matter, going way back to my days as a NavSpecWar officer who took a SEAL det to Beirut a long time ago.
Once the alarm is sent from Benghazi, dozens of HQs are notified and are in the loop in real time, including AFRICOM and EURCOM, both located in Germany.
Without waiting for orders, they begin planning and executing rescue operations, including getting air support over Benghazi ASAP. But one thing they CANNOT DO without explicit orders from the POTUS is cross an international border. That is the big red line.
All POTUS has to do is NOT grant cross-border authority, and the entire rescue (already in progress) must stop in its tracks. Ships can loiter on station, but planes fall out of the sky, so they must be redirected to an air base (Sigonella Sicily) to await the POTUS decision on granting CBA. If it never comes, the men in Behghazi must rely only on assets already in country in Libya, such as the Tripoli QRF and the Predators.
(And possibly AC-130s that might already have been in Libya: they were last year, but their location on 9-11-2012 is unknown. If they were in country but were prevented from firing, that is another situation.)
So if at the 5 pm DC-time meeting with Panetta and Biden, Obama said, No outside military action, meaning no CBA will be granted, then THAT IS IT. Case closed.
That constitutes standing orders all the way down the chain of command via Panetta and Dempsey to Ham and the subordinate commands trying to rescue the men in Benghazi.
If Obama then goes upstairs to the family quarters to watch TV or sleep, or otherwise makes himself unavailable, then his last standing orders will stand until he changes them, even if he goes to sleep until the morning of 9-12.
Nobody in the chain of command below him can countermand his standing orders not to send military forces from outside of Libya into Libyan air space.
Personally, I think he left no outside miltary intervention, no cross-border authority standing orders, and then he went to bed. Damn him to hell.
(And to me, the most damning aspect of all is that Obama went to bed while his Ambassador was still missing and presumed kidnapped by Al Queda. Ambassador Stevens might have been on a Youtube video pleading for his life, ready to get the Nick Berg/Danny Pearl intro to jihad treatment, and Obama WENT TO BED to rest up for his much more important fund raiser in Las Vegas!)
Treason is a very serious charge.
The first is the Valerie Plame 'outing' as an inactive CIA agent that over the 2003-2007. This had months of incessant and almost continuous media coverage on all news outlets. Numerous editorial pieces, demands for administration resignations and similar expressions of opposition outrage were almost continuous into the 2006-07 time frames. While there were no deaths nor monetary damages, VP Cheney's Chief of Staff 'Scooter' Libby was, in 2007, sentenced to 30 months in prison, a fine of US$250,000, and two years of supervised release after his prison term. After the sentence, President Bush (43) commuted the prison time but left the rest in place.
Now compare this Benghazi FUBAR with 4 deaths including the first Ambassador to be killed by violence in 30+ years. This affair involves a lot of obfuscation and confusion on the part of the current Administration at the highest levels. Of course this is only 6 weeks in the past and there is a 'on-going investigation' that promises a preliminary finding AFTER the coming general election.
However comparisons between these two situations do not support Mr Bookman's thesis. By most objective standards, the Plame was a small scandal made big by incessant media attention to the point of having a press encampment at Mr Libby's home. In comparison, the coverage of this Benghazi scandal, is being marked by non-coverage by the majority of the media. I wonder why the difference?
Does ANYBODY think that ANYONE will be accused of a crime here let alone be convicted? I mean other than the two area military commanders who have been recalled just recently?
I think he told Hillary to get Libya approval / involvement and left it at that.
Somewhere I recall she tried and was denied.
He wanted them to take all the responsibility, and never gave the military a go order.
This , to me, is the only reason they could say " stand down"
"Now why do you think that is?"
That is because he is running for president on his own merits. Others are doing a fine job if destroying his opponent's alleged merits - total failure to defend Americans when needed being an obvious issue now.
If the Republicans win the election they will still be republicans. Benghazigate will go dark and never be spoken of again.
If the Republicans let this pass by, then they truly are fools. This can be the absolute death of the Democrat party. Obama has been caught doing everything the Democrats have been accusing the Republicans of for the past 40 years. Benghazi opens the door to let everyone see what a bunch of childish hypocrites they are. The Republicans could control everything for the next 20 years.
Mr Bookman, Ambassador Chris Stevens wasn't the only one who could have been saved had the American people got what is expected out of the White House Situation Room.
Why did they fail, Mr Bookman?
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Villa Kathrine is a unique example of Mediterranean architecture in the Midwest. Located on the bluffs of the Mississippi, Villa Kathrine houses Quincy's tourist information center.
Museum that houses over 70 vintage furnished doll houses from the 1920's- to current. The architectural designs and fashions depict and present the evolution of homes and furnishings from then to now. The Then and Now gift shop is complete with collectable doll house furnishings for sale. Children enjoy playing the scavenger hunt and viewing the 1949 "Disney House" and the 1924 Tootsie Toy house furnished with Tootsie toy pieces. Located inside Taylor's Furniture Store, along the square in Quincy's downtown business district.
The Golden Windmill was built in 1872, and is the only smock mill that still has its original stones and gears in place. Today it is home to the Windmill Museum and gift shop.
Crooked Creek Gallery is located in the old Sheriff's home and jail built in 1865. The past Home of cattle rustlers and horse thieves now houses fine art, jewelry, paintings and photography. Jail tours are also available.
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The Carthage Jail was the site of the martyrdom of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum on June 27, 1844. Joseph and Hyrum with two companions were imprisoned here. A mob broke into the jail and killed them and injured severly one of their companions. Today the restored jail and visitors center and memorial gardens are open to visitors daily.
Step back in history as you tour one of Illinois' most beautiful and unique show barns, the 1912 Show Barn, or visit the artistic home studio of commercial artist Shelly Rasche. Take a pottery class, kick up your heels at a genuine barn dance, or take in a breathtaking prairie sunset.
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Groups of 20 or more can now enjoy "Private Home Tours" of some of Quincy's finest mansions. Contact the Quincy Area Convention & Visitors Bureau to arrange a private tour at 217-214-3700 or 1-800-978-4748. Over 20 homeowners are participating in this unique venue that allows group tours inside magnificent homes and gardens throughout Quincy.
The majority of this large collection of historic artifacts were donated by Dr. Alice Kibbe. The collection now includes Civil War and Indian artifacts, fashion items dating from 1840 to 1920, fossils, rocks, geodes, and other historic artifacts from around Hancock County. Recently acquired was the entire collection of the Illinois Funeral Customs Museum; part of which is on exhibit.
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Comments: I am a pretty big guy at 6'2" and 215-220 when lean, but I am not lean right now and weigh about 240+. Because of this, my 'non running' feet, ankles, and knees need cushion. I tried Montrail, Salomon, and Asics, none of which did the trick. The Asics Kahana's were close, but I am such an underpronator that their little bit of stability crossover bothered me. I tried the Hokas after: reading reviews, calling the store, messaging people who wrote reviews, etc.. I was tired of returning shoes. Based on advice from owners, I got the 12.5D closeouts instead of the Mafate 13's. I normally wear 12.5EE or 13D due to my orthotics for fallen arches, but the Stinson is wide enough through the midsection to allow me to use the 12.5D. After a short run on the treadmill on Friday, I tried them on the rail. I am pleased to say they live up the their reputation. Very soft without being 'mooshy' and sloppy. My feet, ankles, and knees felt much better than with the Asics. Maybe I can go to a lighter shoe when I get back under 220lbs, but do I really want to?
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How many species of monotremes exist today?
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What species does the alligator belong to?
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How many types of amphibians survived extinction?
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What trees were commonly found during the Mesozoic era?
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What shape leaved does the Gingko biloba plant have?
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Question 16 of 20
What is a flowering plant called?
The scientific name for a flowering plant is angiosperm. They began to develop during the Cretaceous period, the dinosaur's final era, but survived the mass extinction.
sow pomum
Question 17 of 20
Which land creature that exists today existed during the Mesozoic period?
Insects existed before the Mesozoic period. They probably developed in conjunction with flowering plants.
Question 18 of 20
What did Ichthyosaurs look like?
the Loch Ness monster
Ichthyosaurs, a marine animal that died in the mass extinction, looked like a modern day dolphin.
Question 19 of 20
What well known ocean predator existed at the same time as dinosaurs?
Sharks, apparently, inhabited the earth's surface even before dinosaurs.
Question 20 of 20
What sea creature today bears a strong resemblance to marine life during the Mesozoic era?
hagfish and lampreys
Hagfish and lampreys, sea creatures without jaws, bear a strong resemblance to the now extinct ostracoderms.


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Is teaching many domains in English language arts more important to college and career readiness than teaching many words?
Research on teaching vocabulary has determined better and worse ways of conducting explicit instruction. Word lists and isolated definitions, while they may seem efficient, are among the least effective methods, while explicit explanations of words in context are the most effective. Ideally, according to one distinguished researcher, students can learn up to 400 new words in a school year by explicit methods (2+ words a day for 180 days under ideal circumstances). Others offer a more modest estimate, around 200 words per school year.
Yet the minimal count of words you need to be college and career ready is estimated to be 12,000 to 30,000, depending on the mode of counting. The explicit method of instruction at its best yields 5,200 words between kindergarten and 12th grade. Yet even marginal high school students need to know twice that many—meaning that most of their word learning must occur incidentally in the course of understanding the gist of spoken and written language.
Nonetheless, I would agree with advocates of explicit word study that, done strategically as an integrated and not-very-time-consuming part of a lesson, explicit instruction can help unlock enough of the gist of a passage to speed up the incidental learning of words. But then the question arises: what sort of words should we pause over in order to make the best use of class time and help the student make the fastest progress?
Experts in explicit word study have identified three main categories of words called Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3, in order of frequency of occurrence in written English. The current expert view is that teachers should focus on Tier 2 words. Tier 1 words are so usual that students are likely to learn them on their own. Tier 3 words, on the other hand, are so rare that focusing on them does not offer much advancement for general reading ability. So under current thinking, the following sorts of Tier 2 words are the ones teachers should spend most class time on: reputation, disruption, hovers, stifling, obstacle, descendants, maximum, standards, barren, desolate—words that are moderately frequent, because used in multiple written contexts. That's not true of domain-specific Tier 3 words like, valence, bildungsroman, Renaissance, metabolism, Gettysburg, photosynthesis, stochastic, ionic, simile, dew point, polygon, Madison, monotheism, kinetic, Dalton, Fourier, Magna Carta, Impressionism, helium, fiscal, TR, and Shiite.
But I'm not persuaded by this rationale. Although Tier 2 words are to be found in multiple contexts, they do not constitute a big percentage of the totality of different words in the English vocabulary. That distinction belongs to the words of Tier 3, which are domain specific. If you want to reach the magic number of 25,000 thousand or so, it's best to spend your time learning domain-specific Tier 3 words. After all, there's a bit of inconsistency in the expert advice to teachers to spend most of students' explicit-word-study time on Tier 2 words after having said that Tier 1 words can be ignored on the grounds that they are used so frequently that most people have learned them incidentally. That sensible principle recedes when it comes to their doctrine about Tier 2 words, which we are advised to focus on precisely because they are relatively frequent and are used in multiple written contexts. Some serious research needs to be undertaken to determine whether, in a good, coherent knowledge-based curriculum most Tier 2 words aren't also learned incidentally as a matter of course, just like most Tier 1 words, as the overall math would suggest. (This research has not been conducted, despite the confident advice about studying domain-general Tier 2 words. Indeed there is some counter evidence in the studies by John Guthrie indicating the superiority of domain-specific instruction in ELA.)
To support the emphasis on Tier 2 words many educators assume that there exists such a thing as general "reading skill," which will be the key to college and career readiness. But cognitive scientists instruct us that it's an oversimplification to suppose that there is such a thing as a domain-general reading skill that can be fostered by the explicit study of domain-general, Tier 2 words. On the contrary, the latest cognitive science tells us that reading skills, like most skills, are "domain specific." Granted, there are important domain-general aspects of reading that include automatic, unconscious procedures like decoding skill, eye movements, strategic meaning searches, and knowledge of domain-general words. It is reasonable, indeed essential, to ensure that students gain such domain-general knowledge. But few experts advise that students be explicitly trained in eye-movement patterns, at least not very extensively. For most students that skill develops unconsciously without continuous instruction. The same is true of most domain-general word learning—which occurs unconsciously, bit by bit, through multiple exposures to a word in different contexts. Domain general skills like decoding, once mastered, are continually practiced and unconsciously improved precisely because, being domain general, they occur frequently.
There's a clear analogy with skill in sports. Most sports demand domain-general athletic abilities like hand-eye coordination. Nonetheless being skilled specifically in golf does not directly transfer to being skilled in tennis or even in croquet. Each sport has domain-specific skills that must be explicitly mastered. Similarly, being skilled in reading about golf does not readily transfer to being skilled in reading about tennis. The golf passages will of course contain domain-general words like but, however, pretty, and willing, but the critical words will be birdie, bogie, and par, and knowing them won't help you read a tennis story with set point, fault, and ace.
Why do you suppose school reading tests typically offer ten or so passages? If reading were a domain-general skill, one passage would suffice. (If I want to know if you can ride a bike, I won't bring ten bikes for you to ride. One will suffice.) But reading tests always contain several passages because a reliable reading test has to sample your ability to read in several different domains. Reading tests are essentially tests of how many different domains you have knowledge of and vocabulary for. To be a literate adult—one who could read a newspaper front to back—you must have knowledge in a very broad range of domains.
If we wish our students to perform well on a reading test, we ought to abandon the disparagement of "mere facts." Nothing contributes more to a student's reading abilities than wide knowledge of multiple domains, automatically accompanied by knowledge of many domain-specific, Tier 3 words. In sum, nothing contributes more to college and career readiness than broad general knowledge over multiple domains.
The best way to teach "English language arts" then is systematically to teach substantive domains of knowledge along with their inherently related vocabularies. In fact the whole issue needs to be broadened by a return to real classes in history, science, and the arts in elementary grades, as the best way to gain proficiency in reading. This larger principle transcends the currently debated topic of fictional vs. non-fictional genres. Much good fiction is a repository of domain knowledge—not just of human nature and ethical principles, but also of historical and factual knowledge, including such things as Mississippi river-boating in Huckleberry Finn, and whaling in Moby Dick, as well as the forms and techniques of literature, like simile and metaphor, prefixes and suffixes, which are just as "informational" as chemical valences. What is needed for college and career readiness is extensive general knowledge over multiple domains, coherently delivered—with lots of Tier 3 words.
When this is done well, with gradually increasing sophistication grade by grade, Tiers 1 and 2 will mostly take care of themselves.


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Leicester produced a superb second-half showing to advance to their ninth consecutive final with a 33-16 win over Harlequins.
Leicester produced a superb second-half showing to advance to their ninth consecutive final with a 33-16 win over Harlequins.
The visitors showed impressive composure and control in the opening 40, holding their nerve at a ground where Leicester have never lost a Premiership semi-final.
Leicester though were spurred on by Vereniki Goneva's try before half-time, bursting out of the blocks in the second half to score tries through Niall Morris, Tom Croft and Mathew Tait.
Flood and Evans traded early penalties before the visitors' scrum laid down a marker, squeezing the Leicester front row out of shape to win a penalty and take a 6-3 lead.
A weary-looking surface at Welford Road continued to cut up following a burst of heavy showers before kick-off. Favourable conditions for Leicester – but it was Harlequins who looked the more composed side early on.
Leicester's best efforts continued to be thwarted, Luke Wallace ably filling in for Chris Robshaw at the breakdown with a crucial turnover within his own 22.
The net result was the deepest of touchfinders from Nick Evans, Harlequins positioned five metres out from the Leicester line. They nearly capitalised; some brilliant sharp-thinking from Croft doing enough to keep Danny Care out of a certain score in the corner.
It was Harlequins' driving maul, not Leicester's, which began to dominate the first half – leading to a simple penalty opportunity for Evans in front of the sticks to stretch the visitors lead to 9-3.
Leicester turned to their captain for inspiration and it was Flood's smart grubber kick which forced Care to scramble and handed the Tigers a platform. With the maul rumbling, Leicester looked for width but settled for three points.
Despite the high level of intensity, this was a not a match without great skill and Harlequins produced some outstanding continuity and handling but were unable to add more points before the interval.
Leicester had no such problem – Goneva scorching down the outside and bouncing off Tom Williams to go in under the posts from 40 metres out, swinging the momentum.
Wallace's ill-advised chip over the top then sent Harlequins right back to defending in their own 22 after the break, Leicester knowing a try would open up a very difficult gap. It wasn't to be, Goneva knocking on.
With conditions continuing to worsen under the Leicester drizzle, Harlequins searched for a territorial advantage – any advantage as Leicester pinned them back in their own half.
Their fortunes then took a downturn as Care was sin-binned for a deliberate knock-on, a call that looked harsh on the England scrum-half. Flood failed to add further damage with the resulting penalty kick.
Leicester though continued to probe and prod, a Flood grubber kick running too deep for the paws of Croft to touch down.
With Harlequins' penalty count continuing to rise, Leicester were afforded a bounty of field position and penalty opportunities, Flood successfully stretching the gap with an easy penalty.
The intensity then proved too much – Manu Tuilagi hammering his way into space down the left-hand side after Tait's initial break, finding Morris on his inside for the Irishman to race away for Leicester's second try.
Harlequins were restored to a full compliment but the damage had been done, the champions conceding ten points in the time Care was in the bin.
The result was then sealed thanks to more magic from Croft. Excellent in defence earlier on, he hit the accelerator and had far too much for Wallace, Evans and finally Karl Dickson to score in the corner at breathtaking pace.
Perhaps the only other player on the field as outstanding as Croft was Tait, the former England back deemed by many to be unlucky not to tour Argentina next month scampering in for Leicester's fourth and named Man of the Match.
Harlequins were out of it but not incapable or raising some smiles, Ross Chisholm crossing for a classy try after Williams' initial burst on the switch.
This though was Leicester's day – having weathered the early storm and then delivered a flurry of punches in the second half as Croft and Tait excelled. They await Saracens or Northampton at Twickenham.
The scorers:
Tries: Goneva, Morris, Croft, Tait
Cons: Flood 2
Pens: Flood 3
Try: Chisholm
Con: Evans
Pens: Evans 3
Yellow Card: Care
Leicester: 15 Mathew Tait, 14 Niall Morris, 13 Manusamoa Tuilagi, 12 Anthony Allen, 11 Vereniki Goneva, 10 Toby Flood (c), 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Jordan Crane, 7 Julian Salvi, 6 Tom Croft, 5 Geoff Parling, 4 Graham Kitchener, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Tom Youngs, 1 Logovi'i Mulipola.
Replacements: 16 Rob Hawkins, 17 Fraser Balmain, 18 Martin Castrogiovanni, 19 Steve Mafi, 20 Thomas Waldrom, 21 Sam Harrison, 22 George Ford, 23 Matt Smith.
Harlequins: 15 Mike Brown 14 Tom Williams, 13 George Lowe, 12 Tom Casson, 11 Ugo Monye, 10 Nick Evans, 9 Danny Care, 8 Nick Easter (c), 7 Luke Wallace, 6 Maurie Fa'asavalu, 5 George Robson, 4 Olly Kohn, 3 James Johnston, 2 Joe Gray, 1 Joe Marler.
Replacements: 16 Rob Buchanan, 17 Mark Lambert, 18 Will Collier, 19 Charlie Matthews, 20 Tom Guest, 21 Karl Dickson, 22 Ben Botica, 23 Ross Chisholm.
Referee: Greg Garner
Assistant referees: Stuart Terheege, Gordon Goodliffe
Television match official: Geoffrey Warren
Timekeeper: David Hudson
Assessor: Ed Morrison
by Ben Coles


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Gallatin County achieved a personal mission Saturday night and for that fact, so did Andrew Drone.
Gallatin County, the EHT's No. 2 seed outlasted Anna-Jonesboro 70-36 and will now meet Meridian in Monday's semifinal matchup, starting at 1:30 at Duff-Kingston Gym.
As for Drone, the 6-foot-11 Rice University signee and Hawk senior center compiled 2,000 points for his career with 58.6 seconds left in the first half when he made a free throw.
How the point total came from Drone wasn't a concern, but knowing that he lived out a childhood dream was all that mattered.
It feels awesome. I've been dreaming of breaking that record since I started playing. It feels really good. I'm shooting for the all-time record now and I think I need like 120-something to go."
As fate would have it, Drone air-balled the ensuing free throw, after he was honored in front a large contingent of Gallatin County supporters. The big man ensured it was not part of his plan.
"I was so amped, ready and pumped up that as soon as I let go of it, I thought, 'oh man, this is not going to be good. I know I didn't hit net, I didn't hit anything. That always happens!"
Sharing the laughs, Gallatin County head coach Robert Patton added he did not direct Drone to fire the air-ball either.
"No, no, I didn't," Patton said. "I think the emotions got the best of him, but if anybody deserves it, he does."
Drone exited in the fourth quarter with a game-high 25 points to go along with 15 rebounds, while shooting 11-of-12 from the field and 3-of-5 from the foul stripe to keep the Hawks alive in the championship bracket.
It's been a good two days for Gallatin County, racking up sizeable wins.
"This is one of our goals, to play on the last day and play at night and it looks like we're going to do that whether we play for the championship or the third place game," head coach Robert Patton said. "That was one of our goals all year. We wanted to play in the final night at Eldorado and we're going to get to do that."
Considering Gallatin County hasn't played since December the 19th, Patton had thoughts that his team might show some rust in the early going. So far that hasn't been the case.
"I thought we would be a little rusty in some area's, but so far, I haven't really seen any of that. We've done some things right, played hard and all I want is for them to improve every game."
Page 2 of 2 - Against Anna-Jonesboro, Gallatin County jumped out to a 20-7 first quarter lead and didn't look back taking a 38-15 lead into the locker room.
In the second half, Daine Hish heated up for the Hawks as he poured gasoline on the already engulfed fire, torching the nets for four 3-pointers and finishing with 20 points.
No other player scored in double figures for Gallatin County, but a big part of the Hawks' success Saturday came via the glass, where they outrebounded Anna-Jonesboro 42-14.
The Wildcats were led in scoring by Noah Fullers 12 points.
Anna-Jonesboro will now play Herrin at 10 a.m. Monday in the Fifth Place bracket matchup.
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