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David writes:
Dear Twiv Folks
I teach an intro biology course on viruses at Vassar College. We do our introductory biology a little bit differently; each class has a theme through which we explore the fundamental principles of biology. Mine is on viruses and their hosts, its a great way to explore everything in biology (cells, genetics, evolution etc) and get students hooked on virology in their freshman year.
We had a recent discussion in class on the evolutionary benefits of lysogeny, specifically relating to the temperate phage CTX-phi, which expresses the cholera toxin responsible for the severe diarrhea seen in cholera. The students wondered why not just stick with the lytic cycle, when you can potentially infect so many more cells? What is the benefit of being able to make that switch?
We had also discussed the balance of virulence and transmission, that viruses will evolve towards an appropriate level of virulence based on their mode of transmission (among other factors). So here is an explanation I came up with:
You can think of the lytic cycle as highly virulent (100% mortality, since infected cells will lyse and die) or lysogenic as non-virulent (no negative effect on the host while the phage is present as a prophage). So when would high virulence be favored for transmission and when would low virulence be favored? A highly virulent pathogen runs the risk of wiping out its host population. If the cells are growing actively in an environment like the gut, and the virus is replicating to high levels, it could spread to the entire host population eventually killing every cell. (Viral replication is much faster than cell division and when cells divide, only two cells are made but when viruses replicate, 10s of virions are made.) The virus would then depend on either more V. cholera entering the gut, or getting out of the gut and spreading to a new human host infected with cholera. Alternatively, cholera can also grow in the environment, so the phage could infect a cell in the environment. However there is some obvious risk there, that of finding the next host cholera cell either in a gut or the environment. Its a big world out there for a tiny phage and a tiny bacterial cell to meet each other. A less risky approach might be to limit virulence and allow prophage infected cells to survive. The cholera cells will be returned to the environment, where they can replicate or to a new human host where it can also replicate. Either way, the phage is guaranteed to find a host, because its already in it.
Now if the prophage finds itself in cells that are no longer growing, there may be an advantage to getting out and finding "happy" hosts. Cells that are not growing could be at greater risk of cell damage and death, perhaps they are not acquiring the nutrients and energy necessary to grow or repair cellular damage. If the cell dies, the phage will not be able to replicate. So the phage would enter the lytic cycle and release progeny. The risk of not finding a new host would presumably be lower than the risk of staying within a dying host. High virulence therefore is advantageous for transmission in this situation.
What are your thoughts on this explanation? Im sure there are other ideas and Id be interested in hearing them.
Great show!
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Rao writes:
Is this due to a virus? Bird flu?
Jacob writes:
Hi Vincent,
I thought that your readers and listerners would be interested in this.
The following is a link to an article (free access) in the British Medical Journal (published 5/1/11) detailing the story behind how the MMR vaccine-autism paper was forged.
I recommend that you read it and forward it on to as many people as you can, because many people still believe that the conclusions from this paper are true (i.e. vaccines cause autism) even though the original paper has been retracted and the PI (Mr Andrew Wakefield) has been sued for fraud and had his medical licence revoked by the British Medical Association.
I would post a link to the original Wakefield article but it is behind a paywall.
How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed
Brian Deer, journalist
In the first part of a special BMJ series, Brian Deer exposes the bogus data behind claims that launched a worldwide scare over the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, and reveals how the appearance of a link with autism was manufactured at a London medical school.
Kathy writes:
Hi guys,
I saw this and immediately had to take a picture. Another way of thinking about the cold chain!
Thanks for the recent mention when Rich used my suggestion for Weekly science pick - the story about the grade school children's research about bee behavior! I've now had my 15 seconds of fame ;-)
Jim writes:
Two references; the first from Slashdot (http://www.google.com/reader/view/?hl=en&tab=wy#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Findex.rss)
has this intro:
"The Logical Leap: Induction In Physics
from Slashdot by samzenpus
FrederickSeiler writes "When David Harriman, this book's author, was studying physics at Berkeley, he noticed an interesting contrast: 'In my physics lab course, I learned how to determine the atomic structure of crystals by means of x-ray diffraction and how to identify subatomic particles by analyzing bubble-chamber photographs. In my philosophy of science course, on the other hand, I was taught by a world-renowned professor (Paul Feyerabend) that there is no such thing as scientific method and that physicists have no better claim to knowledge than voodoo priests. I knew little about epistemology [the philosophy of knowledge] at the time, but I could not help noticing that it was the physicists, not the voodoo priests, who had made possible the life-promoting technology we enjoy today.' Harriman noticed the enormous gulf between science as it is successfully practiced and science as is it described by post-Kantian philosophers such as Feyerabend, who are totally unable to explain the spectacular achievements of modern science."
And all that makes me think we'd be better off telling students they need to research anything they wish, but they have to apply certain rules as they do it. Isn't that what's done for graduate work in England that doesn't require all the American testing, but uses mentor evaluations and a final oral exam?
Then, although I initially thought about traditional courses and what kind of word problems, I then ran across this: http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/01/10/secondary.students.should.be.required.receive.cpr.training that says
"All secondary school students should be required to be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and receive an overview of automated external defibrillators (AEDs), according to an American Heart Association science advisory."
And that reminded me that while we have loads of word problems, I don't know if we yet are including examples that deal with daily situations (CPR-like) concerned with balancing check books, student loan size versus projected salary size, income tax preparation, or buying that car Vince mentioned at different purchases rates.
No solutions; just meandering thoughts...
Smithfield, VA
Kathy writes:
Hi guys,
I think it was on #115 where Vincent made a comment about defensins and viruses. There has been some work on that, at least in adenoviruses. A new assistant professor, Jason Smith, at UW in Seattle is continuing work he began as a postdoc with Glen Nemerow. Here's a screenshot of a PubMed search I did. (I half expected Alan to do the search during the show...). (There are a lot more hits if you don't limit it to "smith".)
I enjoyed the discussion about the paper on colored pseudorabies virus from Lynn Enquist's lab. Now I'll have to read it (the first time), then listen again with paper in hand, and maybe read it several more times (from what Rich says)!
I listened to your influences in science while shoveling my driveway (jealous, Rich?!). One of my influences in science (beyond my parents [chemists] and teachers/advisors/mentors) was reading at a young age my father's copy of a translation of the biography of Marie Curie written by her daughter Eve in 1937.
Sara writes:
Hi gentlemen,
I discovered the podcast relatively recently and really enjoy your work. I did my undergrad in microbiology and some grad school in public health, and after working for several years as a technician/analyst doing molecular biology and other techniques in academic labs and a vaccine biotech, I just started nursing school.
My goal is to not leave the mentality or love of basic science research behind, and to that end I recently attended a seminar on campus by Paul Goepfert of U Alabama Birmingham with the title: Cryptic Epitopes: Implications for HIV Vaccine Design. The closest-related paper I could find of his with a brief search was published on 18Jan10 in Journal of Experimental Medicine (Pubmed abstract).
I'm not an HIV expert by any means but am fascinated by the challenges this virus poses in practice, namely vaccine development and mutations that lead to multiple drug resistance. (Never mind all the ways human behavior can affect the trajectory of HIV infection, e.g. adherence to ART!)
In this talk, Goepfort honed in on a realization that some HIV vaccines being tested in the field attempt to raise an immune response to epitopes whose sequences have been codon optimized for optimal expression in humans. This is in contrast to other clinical studies using non-codon optimized sequences derived from known field isolates of HIV. The problem with this codon optimization strategy is that the population of immunogenic epitopes from all the other reading frames (2 forward and 3 reverse) is completely different than what the "wildtype" epitope population would look like. If I understand the consequences right, this would mean that even if the vaccine material is expressed well in the patient, the immune response would be largely irrelevant and unprotective (at best).
Is it just me or does the use of codon optimization of a HIV antigen sequence for vaccine use seem like a big "DUH" bad idea in hindsight, because of this issue of the alternative reading frame antigens?
I am aware of vaccine development programs for other viruses, e.g. HSV, that also use codon optimization in the antigen sequence. Would this issue of raising an immune response to antigens expressed from codon optimized sequences cause a similar problem with other vaccine programs? Do all viruses or just retroviruses produce these black box proteins from alternative reading frames? Could the changes resulting from codon optimization also be affecting the effective immunogenicity of vaccines being tested for viruses other than HIV? What are the implications of these unconventional alternative reading frame epitopes in vaccine development? Is this phenomenon studied very often in terms of trying to understand what the ARF proteins made by viruses do in the first place?
This may not be a TWiV appropriate discussion, but I thought it was a riveting real world issue at the junction of the wily behavior of a virus, what that means for individual patients' disease processes, and the expenditures of vast amounts of resources on clinical trials.
Thanks very much for such an accessible, enjoyable, and educational podcast!
BSN/RN student, Duke University
BS Microbiology '03 NCSU
Name witheld writes:
I am interested in understanding the means by which XMRV or MLV is 'transmitted'. Is it transmitted by way of vaccination development and becomes operative when a person's immune system is suppressed for whatever reason? As yet I've not seen any article which addresses this issue.
Please note I am an interested private individual. I am not associated with any particular organization etc.
Charles writes:
Hi TWiV Team,
I thought you might find this video entertaining if you have not already seen it. I'm sure some of your followers might enjoy it also. It is a Lady Gaga parody about a bad lab project.
Neil writes:
Hi guys,
I think in the past I've heard you read emails with "picks of the week". If so, please consider the following book: Denialism by Michael Specter. Have you read it? there is also a short TED talk which touches on the main themes but is too short to convey everything in the book, of course.
Anyway he touches on a lot of the recurring issues that you do in the podcast including the need for more scientific literacy in the general public, the vaccine/autism debacle, poor flu vaccine uptake rates, etc.
Two of my favorite recent quotes have come from Mr. Specter; one from the TED talk ("we leap into the arms of big placebo", and from the last chapter of the book, "Experts chosen to represent a specific point of view are cheerleaders, not scientists. And people who rely on them are denialists."
I highly recommend it.
John writes:
Dear Doctors,
First some context. My status as a science fan (layperson) goes hand-in-hand with my passion for skepticism. In that regard Carl Sagan would be my intellectual hero in both fields.
So I thought about writing in to give some general comments on the episode partway through. I wanted to express my general disappointment in science communication these days and simultaneously praise efforts like yours to communicate science. When you were talking about what can we (scientists) do to better inform people (decisions based on science vs emotion) I was thinking "well you're already doing it". As a skeptic we encounter this problem on a regular basis. The situation that your guest Mr. Mnookin was describing is a regular occurrence in all areas of woo and pseudoscience. This often arises from the use of a 'token skeptic'. A perfect example of how the media gets it wrong is the recent astrology news. I watched CNN report that the zodiac was changing and therefore your horoscopes might be wrong then juxtaposed it with some random astrologers saying don't worry we know about it already. They all missed the real story which is "why does such a large proportion of the population of an industrialized country believe in magic?". So I would like to add on my toned down reaction which is we need scientists both great and small to become public intellectuals in their spare time. The more they discuss the merits of recent research in their fields the better laypeople are able to understand and be critically skeptical of new stories. Sadly I do not have the patience of wiser men and women and so when I hear about things like jenny mccarthy vs 100,000 doctors it makes me quite angry. Which leads to my next general comment.
I can't believe one of your listeners could be that dense, so willfully ignorant, as to be deifying the likes of andrew wakefield. I understand your show is an educational show about science and rightly eschews emotional reactions and political commentary. Your comment that the fellow's emails "did not reflect that" was perhaps the most diplomatic thing I've heard in a long time. I wish that we as a nation could critically look at the evidence, conclude that this person was a repugnant, morally bankrupt fraud willing to put the lives of children in danger to make a quick buck, exile him to the arctic circle and move on with our collective lives. Once again my background as a skeptic makes me intimately familiar with the arguments used by the anti-vaccine crowd. Whether via cum hoc ergo propter hoc fallacies or their ability to move goalposts faster than the Army Corps of Engineers they spread ignorance and paranoia like the plague. Sadly their 'follow the money' arguments do not trigger any ironic neurons in their brains and prompt them to check on the monetary incentives that wakefield had.
Ranting aside, this all goes to the overarching theme of the episode, in my eyes, which is 'the failure of the scientific community to effectively communicate to the public'. I am perhaps framing the problem unfairly and should add 'and the failure of -insert here- to produce a nation of critical thinkers'. One of the reasons that I like your show and similar groups of scientists discussing science is that I get to hear respectful critical thinking in action. I know it's not virology but part of the show is the communication of science and its role in the public (you aren't keeping Alan Dove around just for his jokes are you?) so given the wakefield debacle perhaps it would be useful to discuss science in the public discourse, what young scientists can do, what science fans can do, kindly urge us to be patient or spur us to action.
So thanks for being my psychiatrists today in addition to my virologists (and parasitologist) while I rant.
Best regards, fan of the show, keep up the good work, lame joke about Alan, shake fist at Rich while it's -2 degrees out, and looking forward to more.


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One distinct advantage Nokia has over other struggling players its Nokia Siemens Networks joint venture, which sells telecommunications equipment. The NSN unit has continued to grow in revenue, even as the mobile devices unit has shrunk in revenue. While smartphones and mobile in general do seem to be turning the corner from a operating cost perspective for Nokia, the profitability was only achieved thanks to a strong performance from NSN.
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The northern mockingbird is noted for being very aggressive when it comes to protecting its territory. They are especially so around both their feeding and nesting territory. I suggest that the Hampton friends visit an Agway or other feed or grain store, and purchase a roll of what is known as "bird netting." This product is used to protect raspberry, strawberry, blueberry, and other plants from birds eating the berries. Since mockingbirds do not eat the usual seed mixes in bird feeders, but do enjoy fresh or dried fruit, I believe this particular mockingbird is aggressively protecting its food supply. Anything that would make it difficult for the bird to get at its berry supply should influence it to go elsewhere. When it leaves, I expect that little time will pass before the former feeder birds will again visit their feeding area.
In past years we have had letters expressing displeasure with northern mockingbird behavior. However, recollection tells me that the most frequent reader complaints had to do with their habit of singing throughout the night.
Mockingbirds do have beautiful, but strong voices, that carry very well. In the light of day, though, they are a delight to hear. Mockingbirds, both male and female, are very enthusiastic vocalists who not only vocalize while perched, but also in flight.
In Edward Howe Forbush's "Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States," published and copyrighted by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1929, the author quoted Elizabeth and Joseph Grinnell, following their experience with a night-singing mockingbird: "On moonlit nights the inspired singer launches himself far into the air, filling the silvery spaces of the night with the exquisite swells and trills, liquid and sweet, of his unparalled melody. The song rises and falls, as the powers of the singer wax and wane, and so he serenades his mate throughout the live-long night. One such singer wins others to emulation and, as the chorus grows, little birds in the field and orchard wake just enough to join briefly in the swelling tide of avian melody."

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A March 25 letter from an Exeter reader-friend began: "Your column often takes me back. You wrote about the stone piles and their origin (March 23).
"Several of us hunted deer around Danforth, Maine, for a good many years on the border of Washington and Aroostook Counties. About 35 years ago we were out on the edge of an overgrown field and saw a large amount of stones. The pile was perhaps 25 feet in diameter and maybe 5 feet high - relying on my not the best of memory. The stones were baseball size and a little larger. I don't think there was a stone that you could not pick up in your hand. At the time we guessed they had been cleared from a potato field. We never did learn definitely, but there were sure a lot of them.
"The other day I looked out my window and saw a hawk sitting on top of a bird feeder that had an orange/tan striped chest. It flew before I could see and remember all of its features. Maybe a broad shouldered hawk? Could that be? I do not know my hawks."
As to the species of hawk our reader saw, the probability is that it was either a sharp-shinned or Cooper's. As a possibility, it may have been a broad-winged or a red-shouldered.
In the past few weeks hawks have begun their migration back into northern New England. Spring raptor migrations are not as noticeable as those in the fall as most species travel individually. In fall, most raptors travel in flocks from early September through late October. Broad-wings are a few inches shorter in length than red-shouldered hawks, but are roughly the same tip-to-bill length as are Cooper's and sharp-shinned hawks. The latter two, being accipiters, also present a "thinner" appearance and have reddish, striped-colored breasts. Broad-winged and red-shouldered hawks breast colors are darker than Cooper's and sharp-shinned.
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It was a summer hot day on the beaches of Naples and the four girls decided to head off for an afternoon of sun, and perhaps, earning some money from tourists or other people on the beach. They were four Roma girls ranging in age from 16 to 14 and down to eight. They walked along the beach either begging for coins according to one version or selling trinkets to another. Around 1:00 p.m. the heat got bad so they decided to walk into the water even though neither of the girls knew how to swim. At this point, the story gets murky. Police reports suggest they went further into the water until caught in currents. The two younger ones were rescued by the 16 and 14 year old drowned.
The bodies of the two girls were placed on the beach. A few people came over, glanced for a moment and returned to sunbathing, eating or talking with friends. According to the newspaper, La Reubblica, "While the lifeless bodies of the girls still on the sand, there were those who carried on sunbathing or having lunch, a few metres away." After all, they were just some Roma girls.
Some human rights experts are raising questions, not merely about the indifference of Italians to the dead bodies, but to events as described by the police. Why did four girls who did not know how to swim go so far into the water?
This is just another story in the Italian bigotry toward those who are Romas.


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How did everyone attach their wookie scalps to their FETT suit... or are they just hanging there???
How did everyone attach their wookie scalps to their FETT suit... or are they just hanging there???
I sewed mine on. Just draped them and ran thread through each one individually then together. I don't know how to sew, but this is just running thread back and forth, doesn't have to be pretty, just secure. And I ran hot glue over the thread on the inside to make sure it was all held solid.
Looked just fine to me
Thanks Journey... thought that maybe that would be the way to go with sewing it in...losely I take it so they can move a bit... I'll probably be doing that tonight on my vest. Thanks again.
I strongly suggest sewing them on unless you want to lose them. They'll slip off while moving around or someone will pull them off.
Some kid kept pulling mine every time I'd turn my back at this YMCA camp gig I did this weekend. Damn kid! If they weren't sewn on, they'd be gone. As it is, I lost a shin tool. I'm not sure if it fell off on it's own or if someone stole it. Oh well...
Hot glue....just a dab'll do ya.
Maybe a more important question is How did everyone remove the wookie scalps from the wookies?
While they were sleeping!
My scalps make a loop around my arm and hang down in the front. They are all sewn together and I had a snap sewn to the bottom where it connected at my shoulder. So the scalps snap onto my vest and can snap off. Works great.
I went up to them, stuck my blaster in their face, and said "Bend over, stand still, and let me cut some hair off your head if you value your pitiful life, vermin Wook.."
I sewed mine on aswell with black thread the reference cd pics are done the same.
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Saftey pins! They stay put, but it's easy to change them out if you need.
I was really considering the black thread method on the vest...but the safety pins fpoato's tactic just gave me a good idea, just use the BIG ones, and really tight.
I like that Saftey pin idea, I have em just hanging there, but after readin the Y-kid story I think ill secure em better
it only takes one kid to run off with them. and I cant move for crap in my suit
I just use one of the large safety pins, and even though people have tugged on them sometimes, I've never lost them once.
with wookie scalp clips
I cheated and put them in a different place. I put a little spot of velcro on the edge of my armor and the hair just sticks to it. Easy as can be.
What ever happened to Accuracy? Safety pins dont exist in the future!
Yeah, but neither does velcro! .....and Star Wars takes place in the past, not the future. Remember the line "A LONG TIME AGO" ???
I strongly suggest using the safety pin method. Especially if you ever plan to wash the vest. Wookie hairs and water are not a good mix. Might be why wookies reek so bad.
If you safety pin from inside the vest, and just pull enough through to catch the braids, you won't even be able to see the pin from the outside.


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Hand finishes No. 1 in The Day's final state football poll
Hand of Madison played and beat some of the best football teams in Connecticut this season, including two state champions.
The Tigers were rewarded for their efforts by being chosen No. 1 by the voters in The Day's final Top 10 state coaches poll.
Hand (13-0), the two-time defending Class L champion, beat Class LL champion Xavier of Middletown, Class M champion Hillhouse of New Haven, West Haven and North Haven during the regular season. It beat South-West Conference runnerup Masuk in the state semifinals and unbeaten Windsor in Saturday's final.
The Tigers received 11 of 13 first-place votes.
Class S champion Ansonia (14-0) finished second and received the other two first-place votes.
Xavier (12-1), Hillhouse (11-2) and Windsor (11-1) round out the top five.
Class LL runner-up Norwich Free Academy (12-1) finished sixth. Montville (9-3), which won at top-seeded Wolcott in the Class M quarterfinals, was the only other local team to receive a vote.
See Tuesday's edition of The Day and visit www.theday.com for the complete poll and reaction from Hand coach Steve Filippone.


text: Revenge of Fury The Ching Wu Association was the leading martial arts society in China during the Japanese occupation. This is the story of Ching Wu and its struggle to free China from invaders. The Iron Dragon Strikes Back Kwang Wei (Bruce Li) and his three friends take a trip one weekend to dive in search of coral. But in addition to coral they also find gold, hidden in crates at the bottom of the sea. First they plan to reveal their find to the police, but they quickly decide to keep it a secret, so the gang of gold smugglers who own it won't track them down. However, Ah Keung cannot resist the temptation. He takes some of gold for himself, hoping to sell it for quick cash. When the gold smugglers find out that a part of their treasure was sold on the Hong Kong black market, they decide to investigate and seek revenge. The friends are soon discovered, and a battle between them and the gangsters begins. The beatings are merciless, and the friends are killed off one by one. Kwang Wei (Bruce Li) is the only survivor. He has only one goal: to revenge the death of his friends--without the law.


text: FSU DE Cornellius Carradine ran a 4.75 forty during a workout for NFL teams, just 135 days after undergoing knee surgery. As we have been saying, do not rule Carradine out of the top 15. Our own Josh Norris ranked Carradine as the second best defensive end in the class after Ezekiel Ansah. He needs some technical work, but Carradine is quick off the snap with strong hands and an aggressive mentality. 11 teams attended the workout including: the Chiefs, Lions, Browns, Saints, Bengals, Vikings, Colts, Broncos, Patriots, Falcons, and Niners. Apr 20 - 2:48 PM Source: Joe Reedy on Twitter http://www.rotoworld.com/player/cfb/131568/cornellius-carradine


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U.S. Can Rescue Its Troubled Cities by Abolishing Themby
Sunland Park, New Mexico, a small and impoverished suburb of El Paso, has made "news of the weird" headlines lately for its official corruption. Daniel Salinas was elected mayor in March, but has been legally barred from taking office. Why? Because he is under indictment for 33 felonies.
One accusation is that Salinas used public funds to pay the city's lobbyist to have a political opponent filmed while receiving a lap dance at a strip club, and then tried to extort his rival into leaving the race. Salinas, who has pleaded not guilty to all charges, has also boasted of his ties to drug cartels, the district attorney says.
Various Sunland Park employees, including the city manager and the acting police chief, had to quit because they, too, are under felony indictment. The previous mayor stepped aside after admitting he was drunk when he signed a $1 million contract. And now the state has taken over Sunland Park's financial operations, after issuing a scathing audit. The report, 81 pages of examples of fraud and incompetence, says the city is in "a complete state of financial disarray."
The question is: Why does Sunland Park exist at all? More precisely, why does it exist as an incorporated city?
Sunland Park
Sunland Park's population of 14,000 is poor and marginalized; 47 percent of residents live below the poverty line, including 63 percent of children. Per-capita annual income is only $9,700, less than half the New Mexico average. Only half of adults aged 25 or older are high-school graduates; 42 percent of residents report that they don't speak English well.
This presents two challenges for governing the city. One is that there is a weak tax base to support public services. That challenge is surmountable. States can use local aid payments to prop up poor jurisdictions. New Mexico is particularly aggressive in such equalization, with the state government financing more than 80 percent of the cost of K-12 education.
But the other challenge is much more difficult to surmount: municipalities such as Sunland Park tend to have low civic engagement and are ill-equipped to hold their officials accountable. Only 14 percent of Sunland Park's voting-age residents participated in the March election that Salinas won.
Good leaders aren't likely to be drawn to the thankless job of running these kinds of places. It's a lot more fun to be the city manager of a prosperous jurisdiction, where you have ample resources to work with. Large, troubled municipalities such as Detroit offer the challenge of restoring a city's greatness. But who aspires to be the city manager of Sunland Park?
One obvious answer: people who see such cities and towns as exploitable. We saw this in Bell, California, a lower-income suburb of 38,000 in Los Angeles County. Bell, until recently, paid its city manager $800,000 a year and its part-time city council members almost $100,000. Or in neighboring Maywood, which filled its police department with officers who had been pushed out of other jurisdictions for misconduct and corruption.
And we see it in Central Falls, Rhode Island (population 19,000; per-capita income, $10,800), which is now in state receivership. The city has its own pension fund, whose balance it ran down to zero due to decades of mismanagement. The receiver has, as a result, cut retirees' pensions, in some cases by as much as half. Meanwhile, the city's longtime mayor is under federal investigation on allegations that he directed city business to a friend in exchange for kickbacks.
Central Falls
When a headline-grabbing event occurs, such as the exposure of Bell's outrageous salaries or the exhaustion of the Central Falls pension fund, these cities get state-level attention and supervision. But that typically comes only after corrupt officials have had years to mismanage and exploit their cities.
The best way to protect residents of these impoverished places is to end the jurisdictions in their current form, reconstituting them in such a way that officials are more likely to be held accountable. Three such options are dissolution, merger and state takeover.
In states with strong county government, cities and towns are unnecessary for the provision of local services, and many residents live in unincorporated areas. The usual argument for forming a city or town is that an additional layer of government will be more responsive to local needs. But if a city has a history of corruption and mismanagement, it's worse than superfluous; the residents are better off dissolving the municipality and going under direct county government.
This is essentially what has happened in Maywood. The employees, especially its police, had such a reputation for corruption that the city could no longer obtain liability insurance. As a result, while Maywood didn't disincorporate, it dismissed almost all municipal staff and contracted out its government. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department now polices Maywood by contract, and neighboring cities provide other services.
Under the merger option, troubled cities and towns can be wedded to larger ones with healthier civic institutions. As Central Falls was entering receivership, one option that was floated was to merge the city with neighboring Pawtucket. Unsurprisingly, the challenge is to get the other party to agree: Pawtucket wasn't likely to take on its basket-case neighbor without financial inducement. Instead, Central Falls remains separate but under state management.
In Sunland Park's case, the obvious candidate for a merger would be El Paso, Texas, were it not for their location in different states. Instead, the state has started to manage Sunland Park's finances, allowing it to clean up the mess. But the state can't run Sunland Park forever, and it's not obvious that the city has civic institutions that will allow it to return productively to local control.
Union Opposition
Strong receivership laws, such as one recently enacted in Michigan, have come under fire from public-employee unions. They don't like that state officials are allowed to void public-employee contracts over the objections of local officials and unions. But that is exactly why such laws are important: They put cities under management with the power to make necessary, but politically difficult, choices.
Control boards that usurped the power of city councils were essential for the fiscal turnarounds of New York in the 1970s and Washington in the 1990s. The experience of having been taken over has also improved the culture of fiscal management in these cities, meaning that locally elected officials have become more prudent in managing budgets.
Receivership laws can similarly promote sound budgeting in smaller municipalities, but only if the threat of takeover is credible.
Some of the largest and most troubled U.S. cities are getting better. Mayors such as Cory Booker in Newark, New Jersey, and Dave Bing in Detroit are taking steps to reduce crime and return investment to once-great cities. But saving Detroit and Newark are projects that can draw support from the remnants of an urban elite that is engaged in making these cities better, and that can attract talented people like Booker and Bing.
There's no Cory Booker in the offing for Sunland Park. The right question to ask isn't who can save Sunland Park, but how to save its people. The best answer is to abolish Sunland Park as a unit of government altogether.
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Van Zeeland Earns Player of the Week Honors After MVP Performance
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – Green Bay's Leah Van Zeeland (Kaukauna, Wis.) has been tabbed as the Horizon League Offensive Player of the Week following her MVP performance at the Auburn Active Ankle Challenge. The award, given for the period of Sept. 2-8, marks the first in the senior's career.
Van Zeeland led the Phoenix (4-2) to a perfect 3-0 record and the tournament title in Auburn, Ala., accumulating a team-high 44 kills while also adding 34 digs and nine blocks.
"This award for Leah is a great example of hard work paying off," Phoenix head coach Michaela Franklin said. "She works extremely hard and she is a big leader for us on the court, and that certainly showed throughout the Auburn tournament. She's just a great person to have in our program and someone to set a good example for our young group."
Van Zeeland opened the tourney with a career-high 20 kills on a .326 hitting percentage in Green Bay's 3-1 comeback win over Troy on Thursday afternoon. She also added 15 digs and four blocks in the match. Van Zeeland recorded another double-double in the thrilling, five-set victory over Auburn on Thursday night, recording 16 kills and 11 digs. The host Tigers were previously unbeaten and had recently knocked off No. 10 Nebraska. The senior wrapped up her MVP and All-Tournament effort with an eight-kill, eight-dig showing in Friday's 3-0 sweep of Mercer.
Van Zeeland was named Offensive Player of the Week by the Horizon League just one week after classmate Katie Mroczenski (New Berlin, Wis.) earned Defensive Player of the Week honors. It marks the first time in school history that Green Bay has had back-to-back honorees to start a season, and they are the first back-to-back weekly award winners for the Phoenix since 2010 (Carmen Leitermann (Defensive) Nov. 1, Whitney Schott (Offensive) Nov. 8). In addition, Van Zeeland is Green Bay's first Offensive Player of the Week since Leitermann earned the award on Oct. 3, 2011.
Green Bay is back in action on Saturday when it travels to Cedar Falls, Iowa for a pair of matches against Northern Iowa. The Phoenix and the Panthers will square off at 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. at the McLeod Center.
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I'm currently writing the rules system for a Live Action Role Play game called Osleta.
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- I am matthias longshore, the admin. You will probably notice im the only one who's posted anything on the site recently because well, no one really knows about it yet.
if you dont know what the heck a LARP (or L.ive A.ction R.ole P.lay) is, its basically where adults (and teenagers like myself) can get together and play pretend like we did when we were kids. ever wanted to be a knight in shining armor as a kid and as you got older you wanted to buy the suit of armor 'just for decoration'? yeah, you know you wanted to wear it!
anyway, its basically dungeons and dragons but in real life, and with safe, foam weapons, so even a child could participate in this game. It is basically free, just bring like 5$ or so to get into the state parks, bring a tent and sleeping bag and bring a medieval costume!
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First thing I would do for the wheel shaking thing is have the tires balanced. Especially if it just happened all of a sudden. You might have just thrown a tire weight. It's happened to me a couple of times, and a simple tire balancing did the trick.
Might be time to bite the bullet and take the 'bird to the dealership for the service engine light problem. Who knows? It might be a freebee recall item.
I would get the front end checked just for safety's sake. I would not ignore the Service Engine Light coming on. They are there for a reason and when they come on something is wrong, It could be minor or it could end up being major. One thing to check that will make a light come on is a loose gas cap. I know it sounds stupid but it just happened to our Solara and Weimer had it happpen to his V-Dub. I forgot it happened and ended up taking it to the dealer. Cost nothing but time and a little embarrassment. It could be an O2 sensor, EGR valve, but it is something that should not be ignored. Just my $.02 worth.
|Sounds like fun to figure out. Whell as far as the sterring wheel shaking while you are driving that is more then likally that your sterring assembly is not tight down there. What you should do is sit in you car really quick and turn your wheel back and forth slightly now if your tires do not move at all then you need to have a shop do an alignment to tighten up all of your tie rod ends so that you have no more wheel play. If that is not causing it then have you bought new tires recently, or anything change on your car? if your car is shaking sometimes is it when you press on the brake? becuase if it is that can be caused by your rotors being warped due to overheating. As far as the engine light goes coming on all the time i would ignore it as long as your oil pressure is high and everything is properley serviced on it. let me know about those questions though becuase i have a pretty good idea of what it could be . good luck
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Hey gang,
I bought my 1994 Firebird used about a year and half ago and haven't had any major problems with it at all. I love the car but lately (I'd say within the past few months, actually) it's been acting weird.
Up around certain speeds (between say 55 & 70 mph) the steering wheel will sometimes "shake" or "wobble" from left to right... once I get up around 80 it quits and down below 55 the same thing. Not really sure what is causing this. It wasn't doing that when I bought the car and like I said only recently developed.
More recently, within the last month, it has been running smooth, no shakey steering wheel, but when I get above 60 mph and then come back down in speed (whether via hard braking or coasting) my Service Engine Light comes on as soon as the speedo hits 60. All of my gauges are fine, oil, temp, all of that is tip-top, and like I said it actually is running smooth. The SEL stays on until I turn the car off then back on and then goes away. These 2 scenarios seem to appear at random. One day I'll get intot he car and it'll be shakey steering wheel but no SEL, the next day it'll be smooth but SEL will come on as described above. Now, I'm certainly not a mechanic by any means but I just can't seem to figure out why this is happening.
In an effort to try to figure this out I went to Pep Boys and bought one of those cheap Actron code readers for my car. It is supposed to make the SEL flash when you plug it in to that slot (forget what it's called) and turn your car to standby mode (battery on but engine not running). However, the SEL doesn't flash, it just stays on. I refered to the Actron manual. It said refer to my servicing book. I looked in my Chilton guide and it said that if the SEL stays on during a code read that I might have to have a "drivability technician" look at it. I have no idea what that is but it sounds scary. :>
I really just want to figure this out. My engine should be (and as far as I can tell is) running fine. Coolant, oil, transmission fluid (including dropping the pan) and all that good stuff is changed regularly by my father and me. My father has been a diesel and car mechanic for 20 years and can't figure it out. I know that my shocks are shot and I need to get new ones, but could that cause my SEL to come on?
Anyway, any help would be great... sorry for the long post.
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Glenlaurel Inn
Rockbridge, Ohio
Besides pampering guests with glowing fireplaces and luxurious suites, the inn's five-course dinners include views of its 140 acres of woods near Rockbridge, Ohio (40 miles southeast of Columbus).
Like gentle breezes, Celtic melodies drift through the rooms. Goose down pillows and comforters almost obscure the queen-size beds. Plush terry robes hang near double whirlpools.
Guests often hike a trail that winds through the grounds' ancient gorge. You pass sandstone cliffs, glistening waterfalls and secluded, mossy glens.
Scottish estates inspired the whitewash Manor House. Visitors stay in four suites named for once-warring clans such as MacKenzie and MacGregor. Other options include rooms in the Carriage House and getaway cottages atop nearby Thistle Ridge.
Bagpipes call you to dinner in the Glasgow Dining Room, where china and silver set tables for two. A typical Sunday menu features creole tomato soup, salad of crab and mesclun greens, glazed chicken and chocolate cheesecake.
You'll wake to scones, French toast and omelets in the dining room. On frosty mornings, couples linger beside the parlor's stone fireplace.
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I had no success he in Cali but, I did go to Idaho this year and killed my first buck. He was a forkin horn, sorry but no pics. but a great story. Ok so, we got up the morning of October 16. We jumped on the quads and took off down the trail. We parked and hiked about 70 yards up a hill and saw some bucks but didn't shoot. To the left we saw som good 26 or 27 inch bucks. "Shoot the one in the front." My dad told me. Boom. I shot and saw dust just barely over his back. "Where did you aim?" My dad asked. "Well I thought that he was far enough to shoot over him so I did and that's where I hit." I told him. Then the buck came back out on the next ridge and my dad shot twice then his freind Mike shot and we heard a WHAP! but the deer kept going up hill. when he crested the ridge we saw that he only had one horn left. So we split up; my dad and I in one group and Mike and his step-son Hunter in the other. We got about 1/2 a mile from them and started heaing gunshots. We looked and saw a big buck that was pushing 30 inches wide. My dad shot at it 8 times and gave up. Mike shot ten and came really close a couple of times and he was about 1,000 yards from him. We went over the ridge we were on and watched a little while. Nothing. So we walked back over the ridge onto the trail and saw them across the drainage walking so we cut down through thick brush to the bottem and walked up to them. Hunter was set up on a buck that my dad and I apperantly walked within 20 yads of and never saw. He shot it and mike said, "Joe (My das name is Joe also) if you want you take Hunter to drag his buck down the hill and I'll take jr. over the ridge to the buck thats over there." "Alright, Here Joseph, take my gun incase it's a long shot." My dad said.
We walked up the ridge about 40 yards to see a buck bedded 218 yards from us. He didn't evev care about the gunshot. I belly-crawled to a spot where I could get a prone shot on him. I shot. "He's done. You smoked him." Mike told me. I jacked another shell in and looked back through my scope to see the buck was now standing but had blood all over his side. "Put him out." Mike said. I shot again but missed. I jacked another shell in The buck ran about 30 yards and stood behind a bush. I watched him through the scope so I could put him down if he left the bush. Then, the bush started moving and the buck fell out. dead as a door-nail . We dragged the buck down the hill over by Hunter's buck. Then he told us what hppened with his buck. "We were walking up to it and it wasn't 'movin breathin, nothin. then he jumped up and started chasing me down the hill." That was a good day.


text: I am interested in breeding my 3 year old yellow lab Niner. I will be neutering him for his long term health when he is 4, and I moved to New Mexico from California so I don't know many other hunting lab enthusiasts so I thought I would throw this out there. My goal is to have pick of the litter I can give to a friend and have his genetics continue, not to make money or to breed him more than once. I'm not into the whole hunt test scene so I can't throw out any fancy titles to his name but his lineage on both sides has plenty of champs and this dog has been everything I wanted in a hunting partner and family dog. He had great hunting drive and a awesome nose and so on. If you are like me and are considering breeding your female but aren't in to all the pretentious crap that goes with breeding sometimes I'd like to talk to you. If we agree to breed I will vet certify his hips and eyes prior to breeding. His father was EIC negative. Below is a video I shot today of us working down at the river, I will be happy to furnish AKC lineage upon request. Thanks, Sean


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The Manor House has four rooms with sizes ranging from 300 – 400 sq ft; allowing guests ample space. These fully air conditioned, non- smoking rooms are exquisitely decorated with real and reproductive antiques such as two charming oversized chairs and a writing/work desk. Both wireless and wired high-speed internet are standard in the rooms.
Each room comes with a deluxe king bed draped in luxury linens and a "feather-light" duvet. For those who are traveling with toddlers or an additional guest, a roll out bed or crib is provided. (Additional charges apply for more than 2 guests).
Each room has a private bathroom with tub & shower combination, an old world pedestal sink, hair dryer and two plush robes. Private sitting area located in the living room allows for intimate conversations and a relaxing atmosphere. We offer a wall-mounted flat screen TV with remote control and cable television for those nights where you and your loved one want to snuggle up and watch a movie. An in-room coffee maker with your choice of complimentary fine teas, robust coffee and bottled water.
We offer complimentary full breakfast for overnight guests. Enjoy our fresh house-made cookies delivered to your room upon arrival.
Sunday through Thursday – $165 per night, plus tax
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which type of welding helmet is best?
Is auto-darkening best? What brands are good?
IMO Miller is the best way to go. They make a really good helmet and they have the best warranty. It is a 2 year warranty and if you have an issue you will have your replacement lens with in a few days. If your just an at home guy there entry level model (pro hobby) will get the job done.
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I have 3 $ 50 cheapies. I keep thinking I might do more welding and get a really good one. I don't like the battery powered one because I forget to turn it on. , sometimes when repairing Farm and construction equipment the auto dark doesn't work right because It doesn't see the start up arc. one of them I have to stick on a piece of duct tape because the dial turns as I move around. and I still have a couple old style with different shades.
Auto darkening is the way to go. Makes it way easier to keep track of what you're doing. Your profile doesn't give your age, but if you wear graduated bi-focals like me, you'll find it impossible to see well without a cheater lens. You can't look down like you do when you read.
I use a chin operated helmet that I love and have one here at home and work, just never got use to the autodarks.
welding helmets auto darkening Auto Dark alternative Hands free
I dig my Miller. Should of done it 10 years ago.
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The magnifing "cheater lens" doesn't fit into any of my auto dark helmets. I had to duct tape it into one I use for more accurate work. I was into the welding supplier the other day and he now stocks a plastic adaptor that holds the lens. but for $ 7.00 I said I would have to bring in a helmet and make sure it would fit.
some one needs to make a "FAT head" welding helmet. large enough so I can wear a thick insulated cap when I am out welding when it's well below , ZERO *
PS, I use my hair dryer type heat gun to warm up the helmet, so it won't fog up for a few minutes, just hold it back far enough to not melt any plast parts
same here, i just crank it open all the way and stuff it on my head.
just once i'd like to wear a hat to keep sparks off my hair and out of my ears
I have a solar powered auto darkening helmet by Nitro. Couldn't have asked for anything more. Been going strong for 7 years and haven't replaced anything on it yet. Straps getting a little worn but can see another 5 years out of this.
My Hobart "the hood" is auto darkening and accepts a standard cheater lens.
The new Lincoln auto darkening hood accept cheaters.
Lincoln 3350
All Miller auto darken hoods accept cheater lens.
IF you are working outside the new Miller Digital Elite has a special mode that responds to electromagnetic arc and not the sun. I like the large lens in this helmet :thumbup:
I like the Miller Digital Elite for its shade adjustment down to 5 as well as grind mode @ 3.5 which is about like a decent pair of sunglassed. Wish it was priced the same as then Lincoln 3350 :(
When I went shopping for a racing helmet, someone told me "You got a $50 head, buy a $50 helmet" - I guess the same is true for a welding helmet and your eyes. Spend a little more and get a good one. (Me? I got a $50 head!)
I'll rate my personal experience as a union welder/pipfitter. 1bad 10 perfect
Fibermetal pipeliners 4 its small veiwing area and aqward shape but its cheap fairly light
Hunstman 5 shape takes a getting used to- big viewing area, cheap, ratchets are solid(stays up)
Jackson std 4.5x5 3 heavy crappy headgear- cheap
Jackson nexgen/or boss 7 auto dark lenses are great big viewing area uses standard covers and are nearly indestructable. I dropped 30 ft off a scaffold hood exploded but the lense still worked and no cracks.
Hobart hood 5 controls on outside terrible design. Lens is good can make covers by cutting std 4.5x5
Speedglas 9100xx 8 the best hood I've ever used /owned clarity is great not as green as with cheaper auto darks hood is extremly comfortable for long days it light. The only bad thing is lenses are special and its stupid expensive I got a smoking deal on a warranty of a different hood and could pass.
I think for home use autodark is the way to go. Get a battery powered not solar because after long periods of no use the solar will die and not work till its sat on sunlight for a few hours. The Jackson nexgen lense is probably my personal favorite for home use cheaters fit and uses std lenses it fits in hunstman hoods witch are better than Jackson. Miller's are a good bang for buck get the biggest viewing area don't worry about grind modes etc if it goes from 9-13 that's all you need. I have owne HF hoods before crap plan and simple. I'd by a good non auto before I'd use one of those again.
The only reason I don't say get a passive hood is the convenience and saftey of the auto dark in wierd positions say under a dash or laying on floor welding exhaust in places. Less likely to arc on something besides what you want to and less flash when your not ready.
Another thing to think about is making friends at a welding supply the have the hoods in house and usually give a year or so warranty themselves. I had one crap out and they gave me one of the shelf. I've owned a lot if hoods, though I won't own another that's not a speedglas I can't in good conscience tell you to buy one 540.00 is ridiculous. So find one with the 4.5 x5 standard lenses and get the biggest viewing area.
Well, the flip up bit only seems to adjust well for use in one position. If you always weld at the same bench, or in the same position then great, but since it somewhat relies on gravity to work the tension is only right when the helmet is at one angle. It's not uncommon for me to go from welding at a bench, to welding upside down putting a cage in, to welding under a car (which doesn't work at all if you don't have room, the flip up thing can take too much room a surprising amount of the time. I gave it an honest shot a few times, and it seemed like every time I got started by half way through the job I was futzing with it trying to get it adjusted better. Right now its not even by my bench, it ended up getting moved out of the way behind the mill, I believe its covered in a pile of swarf.
My first helmet, a cheap one that I bought at Home Depod on the way home when I bought my first welder, is my staple. It looks like this but its black:
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it has a nice large view area, its light and fits well. Flips down easily with a head nod but is still stiff enough that you can walk around and do things with it up without it just falling on you at random. I have a really large head so when I got it adjusted so it fit well the adjuster hit part of the top of the helmet when flipped up so I cut a notch out of it, but I keep this one around in case I have problems with one of my others.
Most people are quite happy with the cheap autodarkening helmets from HF and others. I have one of the early HF helmets and Im one of the few people that has issues with it (my brother and some of my friends that have borrowed it have all liked it, so I keep it around for them to use since most dont want to mess with my old school CH hemet). The problem that I have with it is that I can actually see the flash before it darkens. Most people cant, for some reason I can. I used it for a long time and just got used to blinking my eyes as I pulled the trigger on the gun so I wouldnt see the flash. The thing is durable and reliable, it always worked when I picked it up, but eventually I replaced it because of the flash thing. Only minor annoyances that I can say about it otherwise is that it has a smallish viewing area that is a bit low in the helmet (if youre used to large ports or a more standard layout it takes a little getting used to the idea that you need to adjust it to sit a little higher), and the adjustment knob is on the outside so some complain you can accidently hit it and change it (I dont honestly remember it happening but Im sure someone will complain about controls on the outside).
My favorite is my Miller Digital Elite Inferno helmet. Its comfortable (I had to remove the pad that they add to the headgear to fit my head), adjustable, big view port, clear and beautiful view, and it looks good too. One really nice thing about it is that it is that it has sensors in all corners of the lens, so its hard to block them and get flashed (this does happen with autodark helmets). Its really a nice helmet. The biggest complaint that I have about it is one that I havent heard from anyone else, mine tends to kill a set of batteries (and theyre fairly expensive) in about a year, and you dont really get any warning when theyre going to die (so I end up using my old CH one). Occasionally I find the controls to be a bit awkward to work in welding gloves. Its expensive but you get what you pay for with this (and this is coming from someone that is cheap, and will rarely spend $$$ on the good stuff).
My suggestion- get yourself something cheap and reliable like the CH single shade or a cheap import and use it for a while and then decide if you really need something better.
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Brandi Glanville has been very public about her feelings concerning ex-husband Eddie Cibrian and his new spouse, LeAnn Rimes - but would the reality star ever go back with her cheating ex if situations changed?
The "Drinking & Tweeting: and Other Brandi Blunders" author stopped by Access Hollywood Live on Monday, where co-host Kit Hoover asked, "If he were to come to you and say, 'I made a huge mistake. I want you back. I want our family back.' Would you take him back?"
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"Absolutely," Brandi emphatically said.
The Bravo star-turned-author might be coping with her split these days, but she says it took time and work.
"It's like a death -- you take time, you mourn it. It took me awhile and I was not OK for probably two and half years," she explained. "At this point I have lost respect for him as an individual. I can't look at him the same way. I don't know him anymore."
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AMES, Iowa — "Managing for Today and Tomorrow" is a new Annie's Project course being introduced in Iowa this spring. The course began Feb. 28 in Ames and Shenandoah — another offering begins March 8 in Carroll.
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Farm women will learn about business, estate, retirement and succession planning from ISU Extension and Outreach specialists and area professionals. Besides brief presentations, there will be discussions based on participant questions and follow-up activities for family members to complete at home. The Carroll course is being sponsored by Carroll County State Bank, Farm Credit Services of America and West Central.
"This new curricula emphasizes the role women play in helping transition farms from one generation to the next," said Madeline Schultz, ISU Extension and Outreach Value Added Agriculture program specialist. "'Managing for Today and Tomorrow' will empower women to take ownership of the future of their farms, particularly as it deals with the communication and legal aspects of transitioning."
"Managing for Today and Tomorrow" meets from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays, March 8, 15, 22 and 29 at the Carroll County State Bank, 126 West Sixth St., Carroll. The cost is $50 per person, which includes a 260-page workbook with fact sheets, hands-on activities and presentations. A light dinner will be served prior to class start time. Course size is limited, and registration is due by March 6.
For more information and to register, call Lani McKinney at the Value Added Agriculture Program on the Iowa State campus at 515-294-2136 or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com. Farm women may also register online at https://www.ucs.iastate.edu/mnet/annie/quickregister.html.
"Managing for Today and Tomorrow" is supported by the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA, Grant # 2011-49400-30584. More information can be found on the Annie's Project website at www.extension.iastate.edu/annie.


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I hate iPad 3's operating system (iOS)
The iPad OS is simplicity itself and is great for it, but sometimes this is taken too far. For instance, if you want to switch WiFi networks you have to close whatever app you're using, find the homescreen with the settings app, open the settings, open General > Network > Wi-Fi then go about your changes. On Android Honeycomb you tap the bottom right corner, tap Wi-Fi and away you go. Okay, so it's one small example but there are many other scenarios like this where you have to jump through the Apple hoops to do basic tasks, and it's decidedly frustrating.
I hate the iPad 3's lack of proper multi-tasking
This is a bit left-field because no tablet yet does exactly what I actually want when it comes to multi-tasking. You see, Android offers proper multi-tasking in so much as when you minimise an app it can carry on in the background doing everything it was, like you were still looking at it. In contrast, the iPad pauses its apps when minimised, with only a few core tasks (like playing music) able to continue. Both have their advantages with Android able to for instance complete boring slow tasks while you get on with something else, and the iPad way is good for battery life.
However, what I really want is proper desktop style windows management where you can literally have two apps open side by side, or have a small window tucked away next to a big one. In fact, the way Windows 8 manages windows in touchscreen mode looks just perfect.
I hate that iPad 3 doesn't have Drag and Drop
ITunes is impressive, make no mistake. If you're a novice user or simply like everything to be in one place, it's a cracking piece of software. But, if you just like to do your own thing, it's a blinkin' nightmare. All I want is to be able to chuck some files onto my tablet, and drag 'em back off, and once they're on there I want to be able to browse the files, move them about and - you know - properly manage them.
I hate that iPad 3 gets all the best apps first
The tables are levelling up. Android is slowly catching up with the iPad for the depth and breadth of apps but invariably iPad still gets the best ones first. It's infuriating and it makes me sad.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate the iPad 3
What is most annoying about the iPad is that I don't really hate it at all. I'd love one if I could afford one but it's precisely all the reasons mentioned above that mean I can't really justify buying one. It's a frivolity, a toy, a bit of fun. Yes, for some people it may be more than this, for some it may be their only computing device, but not me. I need more.
So there you have it. If I were consulted for a redesign of the iPad, those would be my key criteria.
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Women's Soccer Plays Final Regular Season Match at Valpo
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – The Green Bay women's soccer team will play its final match of the 2013 regular season on Friday, traveling to Valparaiso for a 6:30 p.m. matchup.
Green Bay leads the all-time series against the Crusaders, 8-4-3.
The Phoenix enters the weekend with an overall record of 4-8-4 and a 1-5-0 mark in the Horizon League. The team went winless in the month of October, and has not won a match since it opened its conference slate with a 2-0 triumph over Oakland on September 27.
Heidi Hartmann (Plymouth, Minn.) and Hekla Palmadottir (Akranes, Iceland) continue to lead the Phoenix with seven points on two goals and three assists while Hannah Kernen (Belleville, Wis.) has a team-best three goals.
Nastacia Behle (St. Paul, Mo.) and Katy Pilarzyk (Madison, Wis.) have shared time in net this season, posting a combined 1.06 goals-against average and a .757 save percentage.
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Jenny Fassbinder leads the team with seven points on three goals and one assist. Hailey Chmela and Jordyn Ryfiak are tied for the team lead with two assists apiece. In net, Kristen Manski has been the mainstay, playing every minute of all 16 matches while recording a 0.78 goals-against average and a .843 save percentage.
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"Metamorphosis" is the second of three exhibits celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of University of Massachusetts Amherst.
May 20—September 27, 2013, Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat
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Led by experienced professional teacher Eric Burri, the classes are open to all. All levels of experience are welcome.
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The Pioneer Valley will be the training ground for teens learning to be leaders in sustainability as a dozen motivated high school students from across the country will earn college credit and learn about leadership and sustainability by attending the rigorous Summer Institute for Leadership and Sustainability.
July 21—August 3, 2013
Visitors to the UMass Amherst Renaissance Center this summer can enjoy the sense of traveling back in time to experience sights, smells and tastes of an authentic 16th-century kitchen garden.
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Of Piss Christs and Cannibals: The "Art" Debate Continues
posted at 1:12 pm on October 8, 2010 by Diane Suffern
The word "piss" was considered vulgar and unacceptable in my parents' home. While its place on the Obscenity Intensity Scale was decidedly lower than, say, the s-word, we knew we'd get a sound lashing if we dared to say it. (There was reason to believe my mother could even read our very thoughts, so, we…didn't.) You can thus imagine the prurient interest I had at the tender age of eight when the Piss Christ controversy erupted. Oh, the rending of garments and lamentations of concerned Christian women I saw on television! As Joe would say, it was a big effing deal.
Interestingly, even within my conservative Christian home, I don't remember my parents ever using the word "blasphemy," even "obscenity," concerning the piece. I do remember, however, being introduced to The National Endowment for the Arts and the term "taxpayer subsidy." I knew the word and work was offensive to many people, but more offensive was the public funding of something wholly subjective as another's definition of art.
Fast-forward to 2010, where such offensive iconography is replete within our culture and fatwas are routinely issued over images of a man in a turban. Yes, we're quite used to this sort of conflict and Christians are acutely aware of the deference shown to, specifically, Islamic sensibilities over their own. While some depictions of Christ still raise hackles, we've grown accustomed to it and, as Americans, we support the freedom to say things we may personally find deplorable. We don't kill people for offending us. We'd just prefer not to pay for it, thank you very much.
Enter Enrique Chagoya's 12-panel collage, The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals, displayed at taxpayer-funded Loveland Museum Gallery in Loveland, Colorado. The work includes various luminaries and historic figures spliced together with pop culture images and references. The most controversial panel depicts a Christ-like figure (with a female body) engaging in (non-visible) oral sex and the word "orgasm" next to his head.
Some in the community are a bit, well, peeved. One Loveland local engaged in a sort of performance art, reenacting Christ's "turning over tables" scene—only with a crowbar. Fox News reports:
Kathleen Folden, 56, of Kalispell, Mont., was arrested Wednesday and accused of damaging the the 12-panel lithograph, "The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals." […]
Witnesses told the Reporter-Herald that Folden entered the Loveland Museum Gallery, used a crowbar to break glass over the art and ripped the print.
Mark Michaels, an area art dealer, told Denver's KUSA-TV that he tried to stop her adding that the woman screamed: "How can you desecrate my Lord?"
Allahu Akbar! (I kid.)
Chagoya, a Stanford professor, told Fox he was saddened that both his work and the First Amendment were assaulted:
"Should we as artists, or any free-thinking people, have to be subjected to fear of violent attacks for expressing our sincere concerns? I made a collage with a comic book and an illustration of a religious icon to express the corruption of something precious and spiritual," Chagoya told FoxNews.com. "There is no nudity, or genitals, or explicit sexual contact shown in the image. There is a dressed woman, a religious icon's head, a man showing his tongue, and a skull of a Pope in the upper right corner of the controversial page. I did not make a picture of Christ. I used symbols as one would use words in a sentence to critique corruption of the sacred by religious institutions."
(Being attacked by one of those typically violent Christianists is bound to give anyone the vapors.)
In all seriousness, this debate, as the many which have preceded it, does raise significant questions for the viewing public.
Does the artist bear responsibility to understand the context in which his art is displayed? The message of his work may be crystal clear to him as creator, but expressing breathless outrage when something with such obvious potential to be misunderstood raises the ire of the average viewer is just stupid. Know your audience. If your intent is to shock, fine, but don't act surprised when your appropriation of a religious figure to convey a message is taken the wrong way by Betty Housewife in the American heartland.
Next, if taxpayers are forced to fund endeavors as subjective (to both artist and viewer, clearly) as art, does that not create a certain level of accountability on the part of the artist and/or local venue? The opinions of renaissance art patrons held sway over artists' creations, to a degree—should we, as modern-day "patrons," not have recourse to deem a work of art offensive, or at least unwanted in the community gallery? Excuse me, the community gallery we pay for. Artists should have complete freedom of expression on their own dime, or else be held accountable for the work they create if facilitated by our taxes. This desire to be immune from controversy while still on the public payroll is patently absurd.
All things considered, what should our response as individuals be? For the Christian, how about taking the opportunity to explain who Christ is (hint: not the caricature on a wall in Colorado)? Why not have a conversation about the contrast between the subjectivity of Chagoya's piece and the objective, historic Christ of the Bible? However offensive a particular work of art may be to us, there are certainly other ways to express displeasure, even protest, without destroying property. We can still robustly defend the artist's First Amendment right to free expression while demanding not to fund it.
Art is many things: communication, emotion, beauty, power, tenderness, truth. It's axiomatic that something so varied in message and medium should remain outside the domain of public funding and, by extension, government control of any kind. Picasso, whose own works spanned the range from perspective-shattering philosophical statement (The Studio) to gut-wrenching political commentary (Guernica), understood art's abilities quite well:
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
Perhaps the question we should be asking is: Should such a weapon, whether virtuous or obscene, ever be in the government's hands?


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"I who was lost and lonely… believing love was only… a bitter tragic joke, have found with you, the meaning of existence, oh my love"
"Corcovado" (known in English as "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars") was written by Anotnio Carlos Jobim and had been recorded in the early sixties by both Sergio Mendes and Miles Davis before becoming an international success when a version included on 1964's landmark bossa nova album Gilberto/Getz , with lyrics by Gene Lees and vocals by Astrud Gilberto. The Gilberto version is below. Sinatra's 1967 version from the bossa nova album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim follows after the jump.quiet_nights_of_quiet_stars_gilberto.mp3


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Hey, I'm still new in Cabal so I have few questions:
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2. I saw an Astral Board costs 80 million alz! How in the world is it possible getting that amount of money? How do people make good money in Cabal? Is it possible making good money before lvl 100?
3. What are those map parts? How can I get them? How can I use them? If you buy them how much they cost?
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