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I grew up in Tupelo. My mother was a teacher; my father was a teacher who eventually served as the Northern District's highway commissioner. I have relatives who work and have worked in state and local government. Public service is my heritage; it's a part of who I am.
I mention these things because I've been asked repeatedly why I introduced legislation to reform the state's retirement system. My goal is simple: To ensure the financial solvency of a system that is so critical to thousands of Mississippians – like my family – who depend on it. My mother, my father and my relatives have all participated in PERS. Frankly, I want to make sure the fund has enough money to pay them (and every other public servant). Both as a daughter, an aunt, and legislator, I feel it is my responsibility to make sure we have a strong healthy retirement plan to last for generations.
Let's consider the facts. Financial liabilities of the plan have been growing at a rapid pace. Last year, the plan was funded at only 64 percent. Today, the system's funded status is 58 percent, well below the recommended level of 80 percent, and unfunded accrued liabilities exceed $14.5 billion. This means more money is needed to get the system solvent.
The PERS Board has increased what taxpayers pay into the system from 9.75 percent to a recommended 15.8 percent, an increase of more than 61 percent without the approval of the Legislature. (Beneficiaries of the plan have also seen their contribution to the plan increase from 7.25 percent to 9 percent.)
This means that millions of taxpayer dollars are being diverted from education, public safety, and other services to pay for the growing cost of the government retirement plan. I'm simply not willing to sacrifice funding for these areas when we could control the cost of the PERS plan.
To be fair, the financial problems faced by PERS aren't new. They have been growing since the Legislature granted retroactive benefit increases in the late 1990s and early 2000s – which added tremendous costs to the plan. However, the Legislature did not pay for this benefit expansion at the time. Unfunded benefit expansion coupled with the recent market downturns have led to the system's current funding gap.
But I know that together, we can fix these problems. My bill was introduced to begin a discussion on how we can fix the problems. The bill puts forth many options except for eliminating the 13th check. I want to repeat that in capital letters so that you can see it: THE BILL PUT FORTH DID NOT ELIMINATE THE 13TH CHECK.
However, we must look at all the provisions of the PERS plan to ensure they are fair for beneficiaries and to all taxpayers. I have heard from retirees who have proposed other good options to fix the system. State employees and all taxpayers deserve to have this conversation continued. Serious deliberation is essential and hard, but you deserve this.
We can consider a temporary freeze of the cost-of-living adjustment, or "13th check," which will save the plan millions without harming any retiree or state employee. According to estimates, this proposal would save the plan $122 million annually.
We can consider modification of the benefits offered to make sure they are both affordable, fair, and lead to stability. Changes in the benefit structure, such as older retirement age and more years of service, can save more than $90 million annually.
We can consider adding more members to our PERS Board of Trustees to ensure that our plan is being managed by the best and brightest financial professionals available and have equal representation for taxpayers who are not in the PERS system, but are paying for it.
Finally, we must consider eliminating the special legislative retirement plan, known as "SLRP," which has no basis in good retirement policy. Legislators should get no special treatment when it comes to retirement.
We need to come together to find a solution today rather than kicking the can down the road. That's only fair to our public servants – like those in my family.
Sen. Nancy Collins is a Republican state senator from Tupelo representing District 6, which includes most of Lee and portions of Pontotoc County. She chairs the Senate Accountability, Efficiency and Transparency Committee.


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By Parrish Alford/NEMS Daily Journal
There is no must-win game for Ole Miss this season. Hugh Freeze has already told us that.
He won't put that kind of pressure on his players.
Since his hiring last December, the Ole Miss football coach has talked process and procedure, not wins and losses.
A 49-27 victory against Central Arkansas in his debut game won't change that.
Given the state of the program, the goal is big-picture. It's restoration after the fire. If the goal was winning the division, cracking the top 15 or getting to a major New Year's Day bowl game, the pressure to win would be different, and maybe Freeze would communicate that to his players in some way – whether through a must-win message or something else.
When confidence is so closely linked with success, pressure from the coaching staff isn't what you need.
The Rebels' confidence got a major jolt last week, but confidence needs to be evaluated weekly. It comes and goes.
In simple terms, Ole Miss did what an SEC team should do to an FCS opponent.
Most people understand, though, that the dynamics are different for Ole Miss right now. At the end of 2011, the Rebels weren't your typical SEC team.
It was important for Ole Miss not only to win against UCA but to win impressively, and in many areas the Rebels were impressive.
Rarely are all questions about a team answered in the season opener. If so, the answers aren't what you want.
On the whole, there was more good than bad and a lot to like about this team in the first game.
Wins against lower-level opponents always come with an asterisk, however.
The question is will the Rebels rise with the competition this week?
While Freeze isn't counting wins, most of his fan base is, and expectations were heightened in Week 1.
Based on summer assessments, the Rebels desperately need a win against UTEP this week as part of the plan to get to four wins and to dare to dream for more.
The Miners were picked fourth in Conference USA's West Division by media who cover the league. In standing toe-to-toe with Oklahoma for three quarters, they looked more like a Memphis team from back in the day when Tommy West had some talent and was winning a few fist fights.
This is a big game for Ole Miss. Beating UTEP would further validate the improvement shown against Central Arkansas.
More importantly, it would create genuine excitement for a Week 3 meeting with Texas and would keep the Rebels on track to overachieve in the wins department.
Parrish Alford (firstname.lastname@example.com) covers Ole Miss for the Daily Journal. He blogs daily at InsideOleMissSports.com.

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OK... I'm starting in on Volume I of Training with Mike Lardy. Puppy probably going to be born the end of September. So, I'm reading and taking notes and focusing on every word. First column of page 2, paragraph 2
" The first night or two at home, it's best to keep the pup right in bed with you."
I get it that you keep the pup very near by... In the past, I've put new puppies on a fluffy blanket and a short leash tied to the leg of the head of the bed about 3 feet from my face.
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Description ADULT MALE Has very dark brown mask, nape, back, wings, and tail; rest of plumage is bright red. ADULT FEMALE Has gray-brown upperparts, dark wings with two faint pale wing bars, and dark tail; note the pale supercilium. Underparts are pale, with dark streaking on breast and flanks and pinkish orange flush to belly and undertail. JUVENILE Similar to adult female, but with spots (not streaks) on breast and flanks and otherwise whitish underparts. In first-year, immature female acquires adultlike plumage, but with yellow flush to belly and vent; immature male acquires blotchy red patches on head and underparts.
Dimensions Length: 6" (15 cm)
Habitat Summer visitor (mainly May-Sep) to parks and open, brushy woodland, seldom far from water. Most winter in Mexico, but occurs year-round in southernmost U.S.
Observation Tips Usually indifferent to people, allowing superb views.
Range Southeast, Texas, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, Florida, Plains, California
Voice Song is a series of sharp pit notes, ending in a trill; call is a thin psee.
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Right now, 12-year-old Laryn Wilson wants to be a forensic investigator or a doctor. The sixth-annual Women in Science Day, hosted by Washburn University, hopes to keep her interest alive in spite of the well-documented statistical slide away from science, technology, math and science of junior high-aged girls.
"I've always been interested in science," Laryn said. "You have to figure out what happens."
The girl from Topeka was one of 239 7th-graders from nine middle schools in Topeka, Lawrence, Holton and other communities who came to campus Tuesday to listen to professional female scientists and participate in hands-on laboratory activities.
During an afternoon session on plants and animals in the Ice Age, Laryn and her two group mates hypothesized that larger animals and those with only one primary food source were most like to be extinct after the dramatic climate change.
Lead by a post-doctoral student in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas, the girls analyzed data, measured the skulls of species both now extinct and currently thriving and calculated the average weight of now extinct verses modern carnivorous animals.
"The bigger the animal was, the more likely it was to go extinct," Laryn explained, as her team presented its findings on a poster in a mini conference.
Their data analysis showed that carnivorous species that went extinct during the Ice Age were, on average, five times bigger than their fellow carnivores that survived to present day.
Karen Camarda, associate professor in physics and astronomy, said demand for the program over the years has limited it to only seventh-graders, rather than all middle school girls. More middle schools were represented this year than in previous years as well.
There were 15 different laboratory activities related to everything from making ice cream to the germs in the human mouth. Each girl was able to attend two sessions run by female scientists from Washburn, the University of Kansas, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the National Weather Service Topeka Station. At least two-dozen Washburn students served as campus guides for the girls, who ate lunch at the Union provided by the College of Arts and Sciences.
"We hope that by exposing girls to entertaining science experiences, which are run primarily by women that they will see that science can be fun, that women can do science and that we can do it well. We also try to give them a sense of the many wonderful options and opportunities available to scientists," Camarda said. She and Susan Bjerke, associate professor, biology, lead the planning efforts at Washburn for the event.


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Was a short hunt for me Tues. Oct. 14 opener for Ont. 1'st fall hunt, made it out to my spot just after 12 noon and got to the field edge to scan. Caught a glimpse of some head's poking up over the top's of the soy bean's and kept my eye on them hoping they were tom's but nope, once I realized they were all this year's bird's and hen's I decided to bust them. Got to about 15 yrd's of them and bird's started flying everywhere 60 plus i'm guessing. Went to the other side of the field and waitied 10 min's and started yelping and they started to answer back and the regrouping started. Was'nt planning on shooting a hen but after seeing that many I had NO problem at all and my 1'st fall bird was down by 1 pm.
Left the house about 7:25 and was at the bush about 7:40.
Started my way in along a ditch that runs through the property with an idea of where I wanted to go. Found my tree and got my spot ready and sat down and NOPE I had to drop a DUFER first (DAMN TIM HORTONS COFFEE) so ventured 15 yrds away and did my deed and the hunt was on.
Didn't know what to expect but the birds started to yelp and cluck within a 100 yrds or so from me, so yelped back with a response back at me.
Afew more yelps and cutt once at them they started to move closer. Finally caught a glimpse of them and started to whine and scatch the leaves and a single hen broke from the flock and came to within 25 yrds of the barrel and my hunt was over by 8:30.
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Zennia - the insert and delete buttons are normally on your keyboard.
1234 - The little tiles icon in the lower left is the Win8 version of the start menu. Click on it and it'll bring up the Start tiles. There you can find the tile that is called "desktop" and if you click on that you'll think you're back in Win7. If you upgraded from Win7 you'll see all your applications there on the desktop and you can pin apps to the bottom task bar just like Win7. If you want to change settings, which was also on the start menu in win7, or log in or out, slide your cursor to the right side of the screen and a popout will appear with icons for doing those functions.
ActiveX - If you're running the new IE 10 browser, which is what comes with Win8, run it from the Desktop (click on desktop in the tile menu). If you want to run unsigned ActiveX controls, which btw is not very secure but required for some games, do this: In IE, bring up the tools menu (looks like a little gear at right side of screen) and select Internet options. On that popup, click on Internet zone, then click on the Security tab, and on that tab click on the Custom Level button. The Security Settings - Internet zone box should appear. If you scroll down in that aways you'll find all the settings to change for allowing unsigned ActiveX controls.
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If Eddie House [1] was trying to make a case for being included in the three-point shooting contest, it's hard to imagine making a better one than he has in his last four games.
He is 22-for-32 in his last four games beyond the arc, including an 8-for-9 exhibition Wednesday night at the hands of the helpless Sacramento Kings [2], leading the Celtics [3] to a 119-100 victory, their ninth straight.
House was hitting them from all angles and all places. He lives in Scottsdale and is going to be in the Phoenix area anyway, and would be a natural for the annual event at All-Star Weekend.
As far as trying to petition the league on such matters, head coach Doc Rivers [4] told Dennis and Callahan this morning that, "the league is like the gestapo about it. We're not sure who we can lobby about it."
Well, let us help. Yes, the Celtics bench was a huge part of the proceedings, scoring a season-best 61 points. Yes, Ray Allen [5] and Rajon Rondo [6] were red hot early, even though the Kings shot out to an early 23-13 lead in the first quarter.
But the story was the House on Fire.
Eddie House said he was just feeling it [7].
House said it would be great if he make the three-point contest at All-Star Weekend [8].
House said the big men running the court is making his life easier [9].
Kevin Garnett campaigned for House to make Phoenix [10].
Doc Rivers would love to see House make the three-party [11].


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Dawn of the Jedi: Series 4 is a likely possibility.
I'd expect to see it no sooner than August 2013.
This series is only educated speculation - as to what it will be called and what it will be about. But I don't doubt it will be coming - around March or April - maybe not until Summer of 2013.
This series, not released yet - but only days away - will have its review updated upon its completion.
No doubt this is the story of Force Hound* Xesh, who is sent to Tython's dark moon of Bogan where imbalanced Dark Siders are stranded, to try and contemplate the light side (Tython's bright moon of Ashla), so that they may return from their darkness.
But the unrepentant Deagan Lok resides there, who will no doubt turn Xesh further to the Dark Side, beyond some point
First, I love the takes on whole new universes created by my friends, the writer John Ostrander, and an actually closer, personal friend, the artist Jan Duursema.
I will have to see if Dawn of the Jedi is the best series by this team yet. (They are the best Dark Horse team, but they've created their own toughest competition from the previous bodies of work they've penned for Star Wars).
Next, Sek'Nos Rath is my favorite character in this series, I love having a young
Slowly but surely, I'm bringing Rogues' Gallery back, right here in my blogs, which should be only about the legendary stories in the entire Star Wars chronology - in the fiction's historical order.
I'm using http://www.timelineuniverse.net/History.htm as the chronology to go by and each of my entries will follow what I read.
These willl be less formal than the original Rogues' Gallery, but they're mainly for me. It's my blog actually. I'm not really concerned with


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Google (GOOG) this afternoon reported Q3 revenue and profit that topped consensus expectations.
Revenue in the three months ended in September rose to $14.89 billion, up 12%, yielding EPS of $10.74.
Analysts had been modeling $14.79 billion and $10.36 per share.
Google's owned and operated properites saw revenue rise 22%, year over year, to $9.39 billion, making up 68% of revenue. The revenue from partner/network sites rose slightly to $3.15 billion.
Google said its "paid clicks," the number of revenue-generating ad results, rose 26%, year over year, and 8% from Q2′s level.
The "cost-per-click," the average price commanded for an ad, fell 8%, year over year, and fell 4% from Q2′s level.
CEO Larry Page called the results "strong," adding "we are closing in on our goal of a beautiful, simple, and intuitive experience regardless of your device."
Google management will host a conference call with analysts at 4:30 pm, Eastern time, this evening, and you can catch a webcast of it on YouTube.
Google shares are up $53.71, or 6%, at $942.21, in late trading.


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Jan Hambright penned her first novel at seventeen, literally, with a pen, but claims it was pure rubbish. However it did open up her love for storytelling. Convinced she wanted to write someday, she put the dream aside when life intruded. Marriage, five children and many years later, she decided, after attending a writers' conference, that the time had come. She caught the writing bug all over again and proved it's never too late to do what you love.
A self-described adrenalin junkie, Jan spent ten years as an EMT in rural Idaho, sprinting out of bed in the middle of the night to meet people on the worse day of their lives. She credits this experience for her ability to write of deep emotions and realistic situations in her books. It doesn't hurt either to know how far she can go to injure her characters and still have them live to save the day.
Jan resides in Idaho with her husband and two of her children who haven't flown the nest yet. Her pets include a three-legged watchdog, a miniature schnauzer named Wilson who keeps her laughing and a spoiled paint horse named Texas, who always has time to listen to her latest story idea while they gallop along.
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Community members are encouraged to attend a second open house for the developing State Street Corridor Plan to help prioritize improvements suggested at a previous open house and identify which projects they feel are the most critical for the contemplated revitalization of the area.
The open house, scheduled between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Thursday, September 12 at Fodrea Elementary School, will begin with a brief presentation at 6:00 p.m. to provide an overview of the planning process for the developing State Street Corridor Plan. Residents will then have the opportunity to review previously identified improvement projects and provide their thoughts on prioritization of those projects for future public investment.


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Descent is traced through the female line on the small eastern Indonesian islands of Leti and Lakor, and the female founding ancestor is especially revered. Ornate wooden altars [luli] honouring the ancestral mother are among the islands' most significant works of art. Adorned with fertility motifs, this luli is bare-breasted with outstretched arms. While altars to the male deity are erected on the village plaza, female altars are located inside the houses of the great families of the village. In front of the ancestor figure is an offering bowl.


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text: I just went to our local mall here and by chance went into the Disney store, here in WVa, they had several Rex figs for $5 a piece. The sales person said she had several other styles but had sold them. She said they a several returns from local customers who had ordered the figs via Disney's mailorder system. I had heard that Disney got stupid when it came to shipping some of the figs so several of the Rex figures were had bent cards but two looked great so I bought them! It may be worth your while to go check out your local Disney store for some half price ST figs


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Emerson encourages qualified students to participate in internships to gain practical experience and develop professional contacts. To be eligible to earn internship credit, students must be of junior or senior standing (having earned at least 64 credits), with a GPA of at least 2.7. Check with your academic department for additional pre-requisites.
For students entering the College in Fall 2001 or after, no more than eight credits of internship (with the exception of student teaching) and no more than 12 credits of any combination of internship, directed study and directed project may be applied to the total graduation requirements. This rule does not apply to students who entered under the 2000 catalogue or earlier. For students under the 2000 catalogue, no more than 12 credits of combined internship, directed study, and directed project credits may be applied to the major, but additional internship, directed study, and directed project credits may be earned as elective credit.
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Disabling Secure Boot signature validation
One of the benefits of the Shim approach of bridging trust between the Microsoft key and our own keys is that we can define whatever trust policy we want. Some of the feedback we've received has indicated that people really do want the ability to disable signature validation without having to go through the firmware. The problem is in ensuring that this can't be done either accidentally or via trivial social engineering.
We've come up with one possible solution for this. A tool run at the OS level generates a random password and hashes it. This hash is appended to the desired secure boot state and stored in an EFI variable. On reboot, Shim notices that this variable is set and drops to a menu. The user then selects "Change signature enforcement" and types the same password again. The system is then rebooted and Shim now skips the signature validation.
This approach avoids automated attacks - if malware sets this variable, the user will have no idea which password is required. Any social engineering attack would involve a roughly equivalent number of steps to disabling Secure Boot in the firmware UI, so it's not really any more attractive than just doing that. We're fairly confident that this meets everyone's expectations of security, but also guarantees that people who want to run arbitrary kernels and bootloaders can do so.


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IDF Justin Ratner Keynote: Digital Radio Demo and Spring Meadow
Today, Intel demo'd Rosepoint in functional hardware. While the company still hasn't committed to a schedule for bringing the dual-core SoC to market, a live tech demo is a way to prove that the hardware is functional and capable of transmitting and receiving data. Here's the highlight reel...
This video shows a streaming film being beamed across stage. When Rattner covers one end of the array with both hands, the stream cuts out. Integrating these components together in a single chip was challenging due to the CPU and radio blocks having a tendency to interfere with each other.
The idea behind Smart Connect is that laptops could behave a lot more like mobile phones. Traditionally, laptops -- even laptops that are programmed to sleep after 10-15 minutes -- remain awake for long periods when they aren't used and can't be updated while asleep. Haswell-based devices will incorporate support for new sleep modes to help address the first problem; Intel's existing Smart Connect technology attacks the second.
A laptop without Smart Connect has to remain in idle-but-awake mode in order to receive real-time status or program updates. Put the system to sleep, and programs will lag at wake-up as they fetch all available updates, tweets, and messages. Smart Connect addresses this by waking the system periodically, downloading / applying various updates, and then going back to sleep.
Intel's Spring Meadow update to Smart Connect saves power by cutting back on how often it spins up the wireless radio. Look at packet reception/transmission rates between the two platforms, and you'll see that Spring Meadow has been put on a hefty diet. CPU-side improvements also reduce power consumption by increasing the number of specific areas that can be deactivated when the CPU is idling.


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On display on Level 2
France 1900 – United States of America 1955
Vieil horizon [Old horizon]
Place made:
Paris, Île-de-France, Ville de Paris department, France
Materials & Technique: paintings, oil on canvas
It has frequently been pointed out that almost all Tanguy's works strongly suggest beach scenes or submarine landscapes. It was André Breton (1896-1966), the chief spokesman of Surrealism, and the first owner of Old horizon who invented the 'Neptunian' metaphor to describe Tanguy's paintings: 'the sea ebbs far off disclosing as far as the eye can see sands on which crawl, stand erect, arch, sink and sometimes fly, formations of an entirely new character, without any immediate equivalent in nature, and which, it must be pointed out, have not to this day yielded to any valid interpretation'.1
Perhaps his forms have 'no immediate equivalent in nature'; none the less in a number of the transitional paintings made in the period from 1926 to 1928, vestiges of more or less recognisable forms are retained. In the foreground of Old horizon, for instance, a floating amoebic ribbon terminates in two breasts, one spurting white, the other black droplets.
Michael Lloyd & Michael Desmond European and American Paintings and Sculptures 1870-1970 in the Australian National Gallery 1992 p.182.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns may strike quickly to get Chip Kelly, Oregon's coach who does everything in a hurry.
Kelly, whose up-tempo, fast-paced offense has captured the imagination of several NFL teams and maintained the Ducks' status as a national power, appears to be near the top of Cleveland's list of candidates to replace Pat Shurmur, fired earlier this week after going 9-23 in two seasons.
According to several reports, Browns CEO Joe Banner is already in Arizona and intends to interview Kelly, who is preparing the fifth-ranked Ducks for Thursday night's Fiesta Bowl against Kansas State. An interview could take place as early as Friday.
I wonder why Kelly is so attractive to NFL teams. He's going to be a disaster
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That's awesome. What an amazing little guy! Most owners would have given up on him. I love that you guys stuck it out!
That's awesome. What an amazing little guy! Most owners would have given up on him. I love that you guys stuck it out!
The wise person makes learning a joy. Proverbs 15:2 NLT
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How in the world did I miss this thread? Wow, just wow! Both you and your wife are truly wonderful and amazing people. I just watched Dex's water mark video-what a neat little guy. Curtiss-I wish you the best of luck and thank you so much for sharing Dex with us and most of all for showing RTF what unconditional love is.....we see it all the time from our dogs. As Juli says in her sig line: Would you want to be your dog? I would want to be your dog. Good job! I hope someday to be able to meet Dex.
A happy dog is a happy dog, it doesn't matter how many feet they have. Thank you for sharing.
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Here is Dex's story!!! Curtis-you are so very blessed and kudos to you and Dex playing the game.
I'm saying the same thing as Nancy -- HOW DID I MISS THIS??? I think it's bc it's just his name and doesn't indicate how amazing this thread is. I know we aren't the only ones!!! Pls post another thread with a title more indicative of what this is really about!
I'm going to share on facebook -- I'm not asking permission!! The 10,000 fans we have will LOVE watching Dex!!!! Can't wait to see their responses!!!
THANK YOU for being such a great advocate for him and having faith in his abilities!!
If you post any more videos, I'm going to have to get another box of kleenex. God bless you for sharing your life with Dex and sharing your story with us. Congrats on your recent accomplishments.
Life is Good . . . Do what you like - Like what you do.
I'm with Miriam and Becky pass the kleenex. Great Job!!
What a great story and very inspirational pup! I had the pleasure of fostering a paralyzed Schnauzer who has since been adopted and has become a therapy dog, its amazing how they adjust to their environment, simply amazing!
The rescue who started it all...
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Thanks for the inspirational story. Dex is lucky to have you as his people.
Been reading the Dex threads and can't do better than Ladyduckhunter's first response to this one, "Bless his heart! and those who love him!"
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Love. Amore. Amore. Amour. There are oh so many ways to say love. So it isn't surprising that there are oh so many ways to get married.
Below, we cover the invitation etiquette for several different cultures, religions and customs. Because while the end result is the same, how the bride and groom get there is a unique and special experience as individual as a snowflake. Except so much more romantic.
Roman Catholic Weddings
Jewish Weddings
Mormon Weddings
Hispanic Weddings
Military Weddings
Double Weddings
Second Marriages
The Roman Catholic Church requires the posting of banns, the public announcement of a couple's intentions to marry. The banns must be announced from the pulpit or in the church bulletin three times before the wedding. The traditional posting of the banns was the forerunner of today's wedding announcements.
Catholics can be married in a simple wedding service or in a Nuptial Mass. A Nuptial Mass is a wedding ceremony performed as part of the Catholic Mass (or service). When the wedding ceremony will be a Nuptial Mass, the invitations should mention that a Nuptial Mass will be performed. Nuptial Masses are about an hour long. Placing the phrase "Nuptial Mass" on the wedding invitations alerts guests to the fact that the wedding will take a little longer than what they might be accustomed to.
Nuptial Masses were once performed only at or before noon, but are now performed in the afternoon as well. Unless special permission is granted by the bishop, Nuptial Masses may not be performed during Lent or Advent. As suggested by the invitations, the bride and groom are joined together in holy matrimony. Therefore, "and" is used instead of "to."
According to Jewish tradition, marriages are made in heaven. Men and women are brought together to marry one another by God himself. Women are not married "to" men. Rather, men and women are joined together in marriage. In recognition of this tradition, the joining word on Jewish wedding invitations reads "and" instead of "to."
Jewish custom also celebrates the joining of the two families, so the names of the groom's parents always appear on the invitations. Their names most properly appear beneath the groom's name and a line reading "son of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Lang" or on two lines reading "son of / Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Lang." Their names may also appear at the top of the invitations beneath the names of the bride's parents. This is done occasionally by parents of the bride who feel that they honor the groom's parents more by placing their names at the top of the invitation. When this is done, the request line reads "at the marriage of." The bride, in this case, uses her full name but no title. The groom's title is omitted as well to maintain uniformity.
While it's equally correct to use "at the marriage of their children" and "at the marriage of," many people feel that if a couple is old enough to get married, they are no longer children.
Hebrew lettering is often used on Jewish wedding invitations. It may take the form of a quotation from the wedding blessing, blind embossed across the top of the invitations, or the entire invitation text may be reproduced on a part of the invitation. When the invitation appears in both English and Hebrew, the Hebrew version appears on the right-inside page.
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are married or "sealed" for "time and eternity" in temples open only to practicing Latter-day Saints. Weddings are generally small and intimate, attended by family and very close friends.
The reception afterward is a much larger affair to which all friends and all members of the bride's and groom's extended families are invited. Since more guests are invited to the reception than to the ceremony, the invitations are for the reception. Ceremony cards enclosed with the reception invitations are sent to those guests who are also invited to the temple ceremony.
Invitations to Latter-day Saint wedding receptions differ from standard reception invitations in that they mention the wedding ceremony was performed in the Latter-day Saint temple. Because Latter-day Saints place great emphasis on the importance of families, the groom's parents are honored by having their names mentioned on wedding invitations. Their names appear beneath the groom's name, preceded by "son of" on a separate line.
Guests drop in and out of Latter-day Saint receptions. They arrive to congratulate the newlyweds and stay for a while to talk to friends and to renew acquaintances. Then they leave and go on their way. Consequently, the timeline on the invitations mentions the time period during which the reception will be held.
Ceremony cards draw a distinction between weddings held in a Mormon temple and weddings held elsewhere. When weddings are held in a temple, it's so noted on the ceremony card.
While most Latter-day Saints do send their photographs with their invitations, it's not proper to do so. The principal purpose of wedding invitations is to invite guests to your wedding. Anything else is superfluous. You may, of course, send photos in a separate mailing.
Hispanic Weddings You're getting married: Felicidades!Here are our etiquette tips on how to have a perfectly proper Hispanic wedding:
- Traditional invitations to Hispanic weddings are issued by both sets of parents.
- The names of the bride's parents are always listed first.
- Hispanic invitations can be done in a number of different formats
- They may be engraved on one page, in English or Spanish, with the names of the bride's parents listed separately on the first two lines, "and" on the third line, and names of the groom's parents listed on the next two lines.
- They may also be engraved in both languages on the two inside pages of the invitations. The left-inside page may be engraved in Spanish and the right-inside page in English. When this format is used, the parents' names appear as described above.
- Another frequently used format for Hispanic wedding invitations is an invitation engraved on the two inside pages. In this case, the right-inside page is an invitation from the groom's parents and the left-inside page is an invitation from the bride's parents. Common copy, such as date, time and place, may be combined in the center of the invitation.
- Customs may vary from one Latin American country to another. If you have any questions concerning the etiquette practiced in a particular country, it's best to call the protocol officer in their consulate for answers.
Invitations to weddings involving members of the United States armed services follow the same general guidelines used for civilian weddings. The format and the wording are the same. The only difference is in the use of titles: While civilians use social titles such as "Mr.," "Mrs." and "Doctor," military personnel use their military titles, which many times include their rank and branch of service.
Military titles should not be abbreviated. Officers in the army, air force or marines with a rank of captain or higher use their military titles before their names. Navy and coast guard officers with a rank of commander or higher also use their military titles before their names.
When officers' names are used by themselves, the name of their branch of service is mentioned on the line beneath their names. When their names are used with their spouse's names, the branch of service is not mentioned.
Junior officers don't use titles (neither military nor civilian) before their names. Their titles appear on a second line before the name of their branch of service. First and second lieutenants in the army both use "Lieutenant" only. In the air force and marines, however, "First" and "Second" are used. All members of the military use only their branch of service on a second line. Their ranks are not used.
High-ranking officers who retire generally continue to use their military titles. Their retired status is noted after their service designation. When the service designation is not used, as on invitations issued by a retired colonel and his wife, the officer's retired status is not mentioned.
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Colonel and Mrs. Andrew Jay Forrester
Lieutenant and Mrs. Andrew Jay Forrester
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jay Forrester
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Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jay Forrester
Captain Mary Chance Forrester
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United States Army
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The Colonels Forrester
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Commander Jennifer Marie Forrester
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Jennifer Marie Forrester
Ensign, United States Navy
Jennifer Marie Forrester
United States Navy
Major Nicholas Jude Strickland
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Nicholas Jude Strickland
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Nicholas Jude Strickland
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The elder sister's name appears first on invitations for a double wedding ceremony for sisters. When a double wedding ceremony is performed for brides who are not sisters, it's best to send two separate invitations.
Sometimes, the second time is the charm.
When either the bride or both the bride and the groom are re-marrying, the wedding invitations are issued by the bride and groom themselves.
A bride who is being married for the first time to a groom who is marrying for the second time, typically, has her invitations issued by her parents. In other words, it's the bride's status that determines the wording of the invitation. The groom's previous martial status is not a factor.
How should the invitations for my second marriage be worded?
Second-time brides who are divorced use just their first, middle and last names on their invitations. No title is used. Whenever the bride's title is omitted, the groom's title is also omitted. This keeps the wording of the invitations consistent.
Widows marrying again properly use "Mrs." followed by their deceased husband's name. A young widow, however, may have her parents issue her invitations, even if they issued the invitations to her first wedding. A young widow uses her first, maiden and married names. No title is used.
The most formal wording for a second marriage omits the invitational line. A less formal, but still correct, wording places the bride's and groom's names at the top of the invitation.
My parents sent traditional invitations for my first wedding. Is it proper for me to send traditional invitations for my second wedding?
Wedding invitations set the tone for the wedding, regardless of whether it's a first, second or third wedding. If your wedding is going to be traditional, you should send traditional invitations. Many second weddings, however, are less formal.
The invitations to these weddings may be informal, too. Instead of an ecru letter sheet, a card bordered in a bright color or decorative design may be used. The invitation may be engraved or printed in ink to match the border. As a finishing touch, the envelopes may be lined in a matching color or pattern.
Some etiquette books claim it's improper to have invitations to a second wedding engraved. Is this true?
The quality inherent to engraving exists whether you're marrying for the first or second time. There's no reason why the invitations to your second wedding cannot be as beautifully engraved as those to your first wedding. If you appreciate the quality of engraving, then by all means have them engraved.
I'm marrying for the third time. How should my name read?
Your first name, maiden name and second husband's last name are used. Your first husband's name is omitted entirely.
I'm divorced and getting remarried. May I use "Ms." instead of "Mrs."?
"Ms." is never properly used on wedding invitations or on most other forms of social stationery. The use of "Ms." is reserved for business correspondence and, under certain circumstances, the addressing of wedding invitation envelopes. If you like, you may omit "Mrs." and use just your first, maiden and married names. If you do that, your fiancé's title is omitted as well.
I'm a doctor. Is it proper for me to use my title?
If you're a medical doctor, you may use your title on your wedding invitations. Your title precedes your name and no advanced degrees appear after it. "Doctor" should be spelled out, not abbreviated. Ph.D.'s do not properly use their academic title. My first wedding was an elopement.
This time around I'm going to have a traditional wedding hosted by my parents. How should my invitations read?
Your wedding invitations read as if this were your first wedding, except for your name. Instead of just your given names, your first, maiden and married names are used.
My first marriage was annulled. How should my wedding invitations read?
An annulment makes a marriage null and void. Therefore, you're entitled to use your maiden name. On invitations issued by your parents, your full maiden name is used, not just your given names. Your maiden name, preceded by "Miss," is used on invitations issued by you and your fiancé. Your titles may also be left off invitations that you and your fiancé issue.
How can we let our guests know that their gifts are not necessary?
While many couples don't feel that gifts are necessary, many guests do. Asking them to not give you gifts deprives them of an opportunity to share their love with you. (It may also seem presumptuous.) Besides, the types of gifts given to older couples are different from those given to young ones. You may find yourselves as pleased with your presents as your guests are with giving them.
We'd like our guests to donate the money they would otherwise have spent on gifts to our favorite charity. How is that indicated?
Unfortunately, there's no tactful way of doing that. While enclosing a card reading "In lieu of gifts we ask that you send a donation to the Special Olympics" may seem innocent enough to you, others may see it as presumptuous. It's never proper to let your guests know that you expect anything from them —except the pleasure of their company.


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The Seventh Annual Art of the Car Concours takes place June 22 on the campus of the Kansas City Art Institute. Randy Mason talked to Founder and Chairman Marshall Miller about the origins of the event which raises money for scholarships. He highlights some of the main attractions of this year's Art of the Car which include a 1946 Indian Chief motorcycle which belonged to Steve McQueen, a 1903 St. Louis Standard, a 1965 Ferrari that Masten Gregory drove to victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1965 and many more.
This year's event will also feature racing legends Sir Stirling Moss and Denise McCluggage. Due to the overwhelming response, the "Meet the Legends" event has been moved to Pierson Hall in the Atterbury Student Success Center at UMKC from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 22.


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One of the worlds greatest 'reads' is Bill Spydell's
book "Sons of the Profits." (Profits, as in money) The book is totally tounge in cheek about the early history of the City of Seattle and a must read. Our Doc Maynard was also the town drunk. Ever wonder why all the streets in downtown Seattle follow Elliot bay and everything else is on a north-south axis?
There really was a "slid row."
Wonderful read .... even the forth or fifth time.
Thanks Jim,
Once again you have shed some light and given me more knowledge.
We both know we don't agree on all things. I hope we can respect each others views.
Another quote from someone we all know.
"I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men can have only a lease, not ownership, of the earth; and one essential term of the lease is that the earth be handed down on to the next generation with unimpaired potentialities. This is the conservationist's concern."--Roderick Haig-Brown--
Yes. Very beautiful and inspiring words.
Thanks Kerry! I spent considerable time during the weekend thinking of my father who is now deceased but always with me in spirit. How kind and wise he was. He once found a skunk with it's leg caught in a steel jaw trap and talked to the poor creature reassuring it enough to allow him to release it without making a stink.
He was raised by an Ojibwa (Chippewa) chief who taught him the ways of the earth. I learned to hunt with a hand made ash bow and hand made arrows given to me at a quite young age. I was taught to listen to the world around and within me, to the squirrels and birds and the wind and brook and to my heart. If one is in tune with the earth it will tell you where to look for game and where to cast to a fish and when to be alert for danger.
I was also taught to never kill or injure one of God's creatures except for food or to protect my loved ones and myself.
Although the words "We belong to the earth. The earth does not belong to us." are commonly attributed to an 1854 speech by Chief Seattle (Noah Sealth) it seems that in truth they were composed in 1972 by screenwriter Ted Perry for a documentary about the environment.
A different version of the speech (said to be verbatim as translated by a Dr. Henry Smith) was published by the "Seattle Sunday Star" on October 29, 1887. It has since been shown that Dr. Smith probably composed that rendition completely on his own.
The true text of Chief Seattle's speech as given to Governor Stevens at Point Elliot on January 21, 1855 is recorded in the National Archives as follows:
"I look upon you as my father, I and the rest regard you as such. All of the Indians have the same good feeling toward you and will send it on paper to the Great Father. All of the men, old men, women and children rejoice that he has sent you to take care of them. My mind is like yours, I don't want to say more. My heart is very good towards Dr. Maynard [one of the founders of the city of Seattle]. I want always to get medicine from him."
See: http://www.chiefseattle.com/history/...ch/speech2.htm
"Be like the sun It can only see the bright side of things." - Plunker
"Do we inherit the Earth from our Ancestors or borrow it from our Children?"
I agree completely with chief Suiattle.
Happy Father's Day to all dad, we're taking a group from the Big Brother Assn. out to experience a primitive beach island and some stripe fishing on a day I would imagine is a little empty - Father's Day - for little brothers.
Some will get a power tool, other's a card and dinner - we will get satisfaction, pride and the memories of these kids smiles and you can't put a price on that.
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"Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea , and the over the fowl of th air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth".
You Know Who Said That Happy Fathers Day.....Nate
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"We belong to the earth. The earth does not belong to us."
Hey Plunker, do you know who said that?
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|I ended up doing the same thing at a local lake here in Omaha. There was a driving wind into a rock face, fish every where gorging on the minnow population overwhelmed by 20+ mile an hour winds. The crappie small bass and bluegill were hammering a super wind resistant fly, I should really put it in the archieves, (like a bead head wooly with crystal chenile body, krystal flash tail, and no hackle). I just missed my Midwest slam by one fish a tiger-muskie. I even had a once in a lifetime oppritunity of catching A WALLEYE ON A DRYFLY:eyecrazy:. Of course hooking a fish that small should count as child abuse (5 or 6 inches), but a walleye is a walleye.
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Since I now work on the edge of a nice pond in Manchester, NH I have no excuse for not fishing more often.
Tonight I launched my yak from the dock here at work. In the afternoon I had scouted some areas during my lunch hour and now I had the rod in the yak.
I had rigged up my 5 weight and I was tight to a small bass within minutes. The wooly bugger comes through in the clutch as always.
I had a great night casting flies to submerged trees and into deep pocket water. Or maybe it was into trees and into deep pocket water. The casting stroke was a little rusty.
Final tally, some small bass and a pickerel and a sunfish. The sunfish fought like a champ after inhaling a sculpin. I lost a crappie and therefore did not complete the slam.
Great night and it was good to feel the pull of a fish again. Although I must say that I cannot wait to feel the pull of a cow striper. Tonight was not medicine for that itch.
Spring is springing. Go fish!
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Dizzy Dancers, the latest from Hasbro is twistin and rockin all over the stores this holiday season! These super cute pets are similar to the old fashion tops that spin from the bottom pin on each pet, keeping your little one entertained for hours!
There are more thank 50 Dizzy Dancers to choose from; everything from a monkey, dog, cat, bird, owl, chipmunk and many more! Recommended for ages 4 and up these pets spin and twirl just like the old fashion tops! These little pets can perform tricks spinning around all with the pull of their cord! Our girls loved this toy! All of them, ages 11, 8 and 4 were able to easily pull the cord getting these Dizzy Dancers movin all over our house!
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Loryn Windwehen of Harris Middle School
Loryn has written a blog chronicling her time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, describing her fantastic experiences. Click here to read.
The NEA Foundation named Loryn Windwehen, seventh grade science teacher at Harris Middle School, a 2013 Pearson Foundation Global Learning Fellow. With this honor, Windwehen joins a unique class of 36 award-winning public school educators who will spend a year building their global competency skills, or the capacity and disposition to understand and act on issues of global significance. The honor includes a week-long educational tour of Brazil.
"In order for students to be prepared for the global age, their educators must be equipped with the knowledge, skills, and disposition to teach in the global age," said Harriet Sanford, President and CEO of the NEA Foundation. "Our Global Learning Fellows program has an intentional focus on supporting educators as they strengthen their global competencies: investigating the world beyond one's immediate environment; recognizing multiple perspectives; communicating ideas effectively with diverse audiences; and taking action to improve conditions."
The fellowship expands on the NEA Foundation's mission to advance student achievement by investing in public education that will prepare all students to learn and thrive in a rapidly changing world. It is designed to help educators, all recipients of the NEA Foundation's Award for Teaching Excellence, acquire the necessary skills to integrate global competence into their daily classroom instruction, advance pedagogy in their school/district, prepare students to thrive in the interconnected global age, and thus contribute to the closing of the global achievement gap.
"It is a surreal honor to have the privilege to take such a journey as an educator, and I am humbled by this experience. Through this, my perspective as an educator has changed. My students aren't just citizens of San Antonio or Texas, they are global citizens who have the ability to make changes to better the world," said Windwehen. "It is my responsibility to empower my students to investigate this diverse Earth with purpose; the cultures within it, and the resources it provides. The fellowship has given me the knowledge to do this, but most importantly, it has helped broaden my perspective so that I can effectively use this knowledge to benefit others."
The Fellowship builds a structured and collaborative learning experience that supports educators as they acquire global competence skills. Over the course of one year, Fellows are supported by the NEA Foundation staff, partners, and other field experts, as they work through workships, webinars, readings and study-tours to build on global competence and country specific concepts.
The tour of Brazil, from June 19-27, includes visits to schools in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to provide educators with structured opportunities to observe high quality instruction and to interact with Brazilian teachers and administrators. It also includes opportunities to investigate Brazil's historical and cultural significance.
In preparation, the Fellows will complete an online course to provide them with a framework to contextualize their experiences in Brazil by examining the impact of its historical and cultural legacies on contemporary Brazilian society and educational system.
The NEA Foundation has also partnered with Rosetta Stone to provide Fellows with basic Portuguese language training. "As we know, language is the road map to other cultures and is therefore an important tool for building global understanding," Sanford said.
Together with the Pearson Foundation, the NEA Foundation will share the Fellows' experiences and observations through blog posts and photos as they travel.
At the conclusion of the Pearson Foundation Global Learning Fellowship, educators begin working on a final project to create a lesson plan, unit plan, or full curriculum integerated with global competency skills. By creating this plan, and then sharing with educators around the world via an open source platform, Fellows are contributing to an increasing field of knowledge on this topic. Furthermore, the Fellows become positioned to lead the profession by becoming advocates for global learning and global competence within their schools, communities, and districts.
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But pause for a moment, and you'll hear the sound of a crisis as urgent as any in Rhode Island.
Our urban schools are failing, from Central Falls to Pawtucket to Woonsocket. And nowhere is the emergency more dire than in our capital city.
At Hope High School in Providence, just three percent of juniors tested "proficient" in math on the latest round of exams. At Central High, two percent. At Alvarez one.
And a new requirement tying test scores to graduation means two in three of the city's juniors may not be able to walk the stage next year.
It is a problem of breathtaking scope.
In a city-state like Rhode Island, it is something like a mortal threat to our weak economy. For the thousands of black, brown, and low-income families who send their kids to Providence schools, it is something like the civil rights struggle of our time.
And for a mayor with gubernatorial ambitions — a mayor who has put this big, seemingly intractable problem at the top of his agenda — it may be the defining fight of his young career.
"These kids are me," says Mayor Angel Taveras, who grew up poor in the Providence Public Schools. "I go into the classroom and I see a lot of little Angels."
The pressure is enormous, then, on the small cohort of district and union officials, principals and teachers, thinkers and doers at the leading edge of the push to turn around Providence's schools.
But that pressure has produced some intriguing ideas — ideas that have attracted regional and, in some cases, national attention; ideas that have generated a bit of optimism — or, at least, a bit of hope — in some corners of the city's sprawling educational complex.
Is it a hope justified? The state's future rests, in no small measure, on the answer to that question.
Rhode Island has long been a place of gritty, confrontational politics. And the schools have not escaped their snarl.
Just three years ago, Central Falls became a national symbol of dysfunction and decay when the school board fired the entire staff at the city's failing high school in a dispute over how to turn the place around.
And in February 2011, Mayor Taveras put Rhode Island schools in the New York Times again when he pink-slipped every teacher in the city at the height of a major budget crisis.
The mass firing was, in some respects, just another in a long line of brutal labor-management clashes in Providence.
For decades, union officials viewed school district headquarters as dictatorial. And former superintendent Melody Johnson recently recalled the Providence Teachers Union (PTU) as "one of the most radical and entrenched in the country."
But the relationship, however troubled, began to shift in the late aughts. Washington-based think tank Education Sector had convened years of national, off-the-record meetings of school district and union officials — including PTU president Steve Smith — aimed at forging a new approach to education reform.
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12.9: Fossil Fuel Reserves
How much is left?
The answer to that question depends on what we as a society are willing to do to get fossil fuels. How much are we willing to damage the environment to extract and transport fossil fuels? How much are we willing to raise atmospheric greenhouse gas levels and further alter climate? The Keystone Pipeline would bring crude oil from tar sands to the U.S., but for the time being, that project is on hold.
Fossil Fuel Reserves
Fossil fuels provide about 85% of the world's energy at this time. Worldwide fossil fuel usage has increased many times over in the past half century (coal – 2.6x, oil – 8x, natural gas – 14x) because of population increases, because of increases in the number of cars, televisions, and other fuel-consuming uses in the developed world, and because of lifestyle improvements in the developing world.
Worldwide oil reserves.
- Past and predicted use of different types of energy in the United States can be seen in this animation: http://www.nature.nps.gov/GEOLOGY/usgsnps/oilgas/MAXGAS_3.MPG.
The amount of fossil fuels that remain untapped is unknown, but can likely be measured in decades for oil and natural gas and in a few centuries for coal (Figure above).
Alternative Fossil Fuels
As the easy-to-reach fossil fuel sources are depleted, alternative sources of fossil fuels are increasingly being exploited (Figure below). These include oil shale and tar sands. Oil shale is rock that contains dispersed oil that has not collected in reservoirs. To extract the oil from the shale requires enormous amounts of hot water. Tar sands are rocky materials mixed with very thick oil. The tar is too thick to pump and so tar sands are strip-mined. Hot water and caustic soda are used to separate the oil from the rock.
A satellite image of an oil-sands mine in Canada.
The environmental consequences of mining these fuels, and of fossil fuel use in general, along with the fact that these fuels do not have a limitless supply, are prompting the development of alternative energy sources in some regions.
- Easy to get at fossil fuels are running out, but there are other sources that are harder to get at that are still available.
- Oil shales and tar sands are two of the alternative sources of fossil fuels that are much in the news.
- The need for fossil fuels continues to grow as people in the developed work use more and more people in the developing world want them.
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1. How much oil shale is there in the United States?
2. Hoe much oil can be produced from oil shale?
3. Where is the Green River Formation?
4. What is oil shale?
5. How many barrels does OSEC plan to produce each day?
1. What are oil shales and tar sands?
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The Lafayette Commodores will kick off their 2013 football season on artificial turf at their newly remodeled on-campus stadium.
Along with the installation of rubber-filled artificial grass, the facility will have a new six-lane track and new lighting.
"To have the turf will benefit not just our football program, but all of our programs," Lafayette athletics director Anthony Hart said. "It can be used for soccer, band practice and a playground for our elementary kids on wet days.
"It's going to afford us a lot of opportunities."
Lafayette is the first Northeast Mississippi high school to install an artificial turf football playing field. Two North Mississippi schools – South Panola and Olive Branch – already have it. Tupelo and Starkville have discussed having it installed.
EnviroTurf of Madison, is handling the installation. Lafayette will be the 14th high school in the state to have turf installed. Two of the state's community colleges – East Mississippi and Gulf Coast – also have artificial fields.
Ole Miss, Southern Miss, Millsaps, Mississippi College and Belhaven also have artificial turf at their home stadiums.
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"We wanted a facility we could use year round," Hart said. "In the past, soccer didn't have a place to practice when football was still going on. They had to go off campus. Now they can use the game (turf) field or practice field.
"The band will be able to practice on the (turf) field every day during its period."
Hart, who coached the Commodores to back-to-back state championships in 2010 and '11, said he consulted with a number of friends in the profession who practice and play on artificial turf fields.
"I talked with them about the pros and cons," he said. "There weren't many cons. It should benefit nearly every athletic program we have."
The field will have a large red and gold "L" at the 50-yard line and red end zones with gold lettering. The soccer field lines will be black.
State high schools with artificial football turf: Biloxi, Jackson Academy,
Jackson Prep, Madison Central, Oak Grove, Ocean Springs, Olive Branch, Pearl, Petal, South Panola, St. Patrick (Biloxi), Wayne County and West Harrison.
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Okay: firstly, i need to know the averages adult sized of the following:
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Second: are there any other small cats similar to the ones above?
Thirdly: can i put a black ghost knife in with any of the cats? Just one. I havent fully researched this fish yet.
Next, is it possible to put a small puffer in with a cat?
So i am setting up a brackish aquarium, and i am trying to decide what to put in it. I can only get as big as a 55gal. so im aware that i can only get a few of the fish i want, im thinking only 2 or three. Any advice, comments, concerns better ideas? I want to know everything before i start all this. Its possible for me to uprade to a larger tank,but not for a good 6 months to a year. The fish are only 2"-3" in size right now usually anyway and i know the BGK grows slowly.
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The BGK is going to need closer to 100, not a 55, and I don't think its brackish, puffers are though, try one of themRIP Shark Bait, my Red Tail Shark :(
Black Ghost Knives are freshwater, not brackish. Pick one or the other, not both. They should not be mixed.
And anyway, Ice is right. You'll need atleast 100g for a BGK -- I really wanted one for my 70g but have had to give up on that idea because the fact is, it's just too big of a fish.
Other than that, I can't really help you. If you mean Pimelodus pictus, maybe 3 of these might be okay in your tank -- what is your tank dimensions? They are an extremely active fish which need a lot of room to romp. They are not brackish though, they are a freshwater fish. http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog...species_id=276
There are a whole range and synodontis cats which may work in your tank, although I think most of them are freshwater.
I don't know a heck of a lot that goes in brackish tanks, other than some puffers, mono angels (too big for your tank) and bumblebee gobies (tiny and very difficult to feed). Why is it exactly you want brackish?
Planet Catfish has a lot of info on catfish. I'm sure you could find plenty of options for your tank there.
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No go on adding puffers with any other fish other than puffers. They AGGRESSIVE fish. You could do an all-puffer tank, there are many kinds of astonishing patterns of puffers. Goggle Figure-8, Leopard, couple others. (Later in their life you would need to add salt, but in doing a all puffer tank is easy due to having nothing but puffers.) Pictus catfish are very aggressive and territorial once they reach adulthood as well.
+1 to above. BGK get too big for your tank.
I would do a puffer only tank, they can get good size and would have fun swimming around with they're small almost comical fins.
+1 to the above.
Puffers with puffers only. One single, or 1 male plus two or more females.130g: 4 Angelfish, 2 Roseline Sharks, 12 Conga Tetras, 5 Kuhli Loaches, 1 Otocinslus, 1 Corydora


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