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From Preservation to Adaptation: Safeguarding Our Natural Resources in the 21st Century
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Adapted from Lands Team Senior Representative Catherine Semcer's plenary speech at the Wildlife Society's 2011 conference in Hawaii. Follow us on Twitter, where Catherine live-tweeted the conference.
For me, one of the perks of working in conservation is the ability to interact with some of our world's most beautiful and inspiring landscapes, along with the people, and wildlife, who call them home.
A few years ago I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to help organize and participate in a media tour of Alaska's Western Arctic, an area often underappreciated by the public, in no small part because it is named The National Petroleum Reserve. 26 million acres in size, and largely roadless, it remains one of the most remote places in our nation. Like these places often are, the region is also an important area for wildlife from caribou to migratory birds.
Our goal for our expedition was to explore the seldom travelled Kokolik River by raft and document the wildlife and recreational opportunities that could be found there. We wanted to try and dispel the claims of some politicians that the area was a wasteland, good only for the coal and other fossil fuels that can be found there.
Our base for the expedition was the Inupiat village of Kotzebue, perched 33 miles above the Arctic Circle, on a gravel spit in Kotzebue Sound, at the edge of Chukchi Sea. Like most remote settlements, life in Kotzebue is more precarious than it is in more developed areas. The people still live a largely subsistence lifestyle, relying on the whales, the seals, and the caribou that calve in the place we were headed—not only their food, but their culture.
Before flying into the bush our group had the privilege of meeting three of the most incredible people I have ever known: Seth Kantner, and Bob and Carrie Uhl.
Seth had been raised in the bush and made part of his living as a commercial fisherman. Carrie was Inupiat and married Bob after he arrived in Alaska during World War Two and decided to stay.
We took Seth's small fishing boat, a boat with no cabin to keep us sheltered from the elements, across Kotzebue Sound, while it was debatable whether or not a storm was coming in. The water was rough, the wind hard, and the air cold as we motored away from the village to Bob and Carrie's fishing camp, where they spent their summers. As we pulled away from shore, Seth pointed out to us where the rising sea was eroding away the land underneath his village, bringing into question whether an area that had supported people since the 15th century would do so through the end of the 21st.
After we crossed the water and waded ashore to meet Bob and Carrie, Seth pushed off to cast his nets in the hopes of bringing home some fish.
The Uhl's camp was simple, like most camps in the Arctic are, centered around a one-room cabin. After introductions, we sat down and became acquainted over a meal of salmon, dried seal, and beluga muktuk.
Muktuk, for those of you who have not had it, is the skin and blubber of a whale.
(Image: Dan Ritzman/Sierra Club)
Bob and Carrie made a life in the Arctic by fostering a relationship with the land and the animals they shared it with. Now older, they had increasingly come to rely on their community to supply them with the foods they once gathered themselves. And that was okay.
Except, one of the things they mentioned as we talked was that the seasonal habits of the animals were changing. The beluga, in particular were becoming more difficult for hunters to find.
After finishing our visit and getting back into Seth's boat, we pulled in his nets and looked at his catch. Among it were fish he mentioned he had not caught this far north before, but that he was increasingly catching more of. Once the catch was stored we headed back to Kotzebue and prepared for our flight next day into the bush and a week long float down the Kokolik.
When we arrived at the airport the next morning, Inupiat hunters were milling about the waiting area and asked us where we were going. "Look for the caribou?" they asked us before we boarded our plane, and took off.
The core of our expedition, our exploration of the Kokolik valley, was successful. We found a land of wolves, wolverine and ptarmigan. We learned the fishing was better elsewhere that time of year, but that we had apparently just missed a salmon run. We found fossils from extinctions past and caches left by those who came before.
When we returned to Kotzebue, the Inupiat hunters were waiting for us. Had we found the caribou? Did we know where they were, they asked, their faces expressing a mix of both eagerness and concern. Sadly, we told them, we had not.
Apparently, few had, and that, was unusual. You could feel the disappointment on their faces
I'm sharing this story because perhaps more than any other place the Arctic in its remoteness, its seemingly inviolate nature and unchanging presence, what some might call wildness, best exemplifies the ideal landscape envisioned by Sierra Club's founder John Muir; exemplifies the preservationist ideal that has been one of the guiding philosophies of our movement since its inception—driven our organization for over a century.
But like the shore line, the beluga and the fisherman's catch teach us, along with a melting ice pack, melting permafrost, and emerging and increasing incidences of wildlife disease in the region, the arctic is changing. Traditional preservationist approaches of setting aside parks and wilderness areas free from industrial development are no longer guarantees of security for the land and wildlife we value and depend on.
A spectacular view of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's Porcupine Caribou herd (Image: Dan Ritzman/Sierra Club)
Each of us is living in a time for which we have no true analog in the human experience to reference. Our world's climate is changing, and it will continue to change for the foreseeable future. With those changes comes the very real risk of potentially losing the elements of our world that inspire us to do the work we do.
And so the reality of climate change forces preservationists to reconsider their historic approaches. It forces them to ask difficult questions. What do we value more—the idea of wilderness, or the animals, the water, the living, breathing creation that draws us to these areas in the first place, and that provides our communities with a nearly incalculable bounty?
Our civilization depends on healthy and productive landscapes. While it is not talked about often enough, our civilization, our cultures, our spirits depend on sharing this planet and interacting with other species.
We are in a time of crisis. We need to make choices that Muir, Roosevelt and others never imagined. If we are to save the lives we value, including our own, then a move from preservation to adaptation seems warranted.
Adaptation includes establishing conservation areas, like Muir championed, but it requires us to go much further and take a more active role in shaping the future of our planet, so that it is not shaped by our past mistake of polluting our atmosphere so much that it begins unraveling the stability that allowed an abundance of life to grow and thrive, including us.
This idea is not without controversy. There are those who continue to see any human engagement with wildlife and their habitats beyond voyeurism as something akin to sinful. Given what is now at stake, I respectfully disagree.
We are going through a challenging time as a people, as a profession, as a movement. The world we have loved is disappearing.
Psychologists talk about the seven stages of grief when coping with tragedy. I fear many in politics, in society, and in our own movement are still in the denial stage about what is happening around us. And the longer we take to reach acceptance and find hope, the more options will have been lost.
We must begin to move forward into our new world, our new lives.
The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation provides us some tools to help us find the hope we need. But we also must gather additional ones, and innovate new approaches to conservation. Someone, probably several people, are the heirs of Aldo Leopold who will articulate a practice of adaptation to address the conservation challenges of the 21th century in the same way he articulated the practice of game management to confront the challenges of the 20th.
Sierra Club wants to support such work. Through our Resilient Habitats Campaign we have retooled our traditional conservation agenda so that it is approached through the lens of climate adaptation. It is no longer enough for us to conserve large landscapes and then step back—we must also work to ensure their capacity to support populations of target species and sustain dependent communities. At the same time, we must limit future greenhouse gas pollution and further climate change by balancing the needs of wildlife with the development of solar, wind, and other clean energy technologies. If we do not, then our work will be even more like that of Sisyphus.
To help achieve our goals, we are sponsoring the development of science informed, coarse scale blueprints to promote habitat resiliency and carbon sequestration in ten priority regions. One of these blueprints, for the Pacific Northwest, has already been presented at the 2011 meeting of the Wildlife Society. Additional blueprints for the Greater Grand Canyon, Greater Yellowstone and elsewhere will be presented at future scientific meetings.
To improve conservation policy, we are currently undertaking projects such as an analysis of the flexibility in The Wilderness Act—to allow for active management in Wilderness Area; to safeguard needed and desired physical features in the face of climate change; and to identify what additional steps may need to be taken so that Wilderness Areas don't just merely satisfy some misanthropic notion of Eden. A similar analysis is underway for the Endangered Species Act, and when we are finished we will share our findings with policy makers.
We are also actively working to limit the further development of coal, oil, and other fuels that pile more greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere. At the same time, we are forming partnerships with the wind, solar, and other clean energy producers to ensure that these technologies are developed in a way that does not needlessly sacrifice wildlife and their habitat.
These are just a few examples. We are doing what we can. But we do not have all of the answers, and the only way we will find them is by working with conservation practitioners, with university scientists, with first nations, and with rural communities. If we stop and listen to each other—really listen—if we engage each other with open minds; if we offer our hands and ask "how can we help?" instead of pointing fingers and saying "you should." If we do these things, then I think we will all have a better chance of finding the answers we need, even if they are not necessarily the answers we want… and our children, and theirs, will be more likely to be able to find the caribou.


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CHAPEL HILL – You may have noticed a lot of new faces in town this past year. That's because Chapel Hill's Visitor's Bureau reported an increase in tourism to the town.
Director of the Chapel Hill-Orange County Visitor's Bureau, Laurie Paolicelli, says that June was one of the best months the town has had in years, with hotel occupancy up 12 percent.
"We ended June with a 77 percent occupancy, which is startling and amazing on many levels," Paolicelli says. "In the past, June has always been a part of what we call the shoulder season. This area follows a traditional academic year and June has typically been slower."
Paolicelli attributes a number of different factors to June's high numbers, including the return of the Carolina Inn and a meeting held by a Wisconsin health care technology company.
In fact, she says meetings and business conferences are now a major target of the Visitor's Bureau, devoting a 200 percent budget increase in that type of outreach.
"We buy lists, we do direct sales, we do online advertising and marketing, we attend trade shows, we ask for the business," Paolicelli says. "We're a very traditional sales agency.
Paolicelli says the Visitor's Bureau expects similar increases in visitation in July and August.


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Taggarts is on a roll. Ernie and Patti Schott, owners since 1998, love the hot weather. "Lots more customers," he says. There's more to it than heat-suffering folks seeking a sundae reprieve (they've deserved it). Two customers spent a whole day here.
Taggarts is on a roll.
Ernie and Patti Schott, owners since 1998, love the hot weather. "Lots more customers," he says.
There's more to it than heat-suffering folks seeking a sundae reprieve (they've deserved it). Two customers spent a whole day here.
"They tried everything. Then they came back that evening for a Bittner," he said.
The Bittner, invented in 1931, was either named for a delivery boy or a baseball team that visited after games. Or both. It's described as a milkshake without the milk, too thick to drink, but not a sundae, either.
Back to the mysterious customers. Ernie Schott finally discovered their identity. They were Jane and Michael Stern, best-selling authors of the "Road Food" series of travel and food books. Their latest, "Next Stop, Great Eats!" is just out and contains suggestions for six trips. Taggarts is on the Ohio one.
"I don't know how they found us," Schott said. But he wasn't surprised. Taggarts' "homemade everything" ice cream has been a magnet for 86 years, selling well even in the depths of winter.
This explains another strange occurrence there.
The little restaurant now is attracting regular bus trips from Pittsburgh, but not the usual tourist kind.
"They're all diehard Pittsburgh Steelers fans. They come here to visit their heroes in the Hall of Fame," he said.
They all eat the same thing, Taggarts' sundae. "They even pay in advance," Schott said.
He once tracked them down and came to Marge Blanda of the American Automobile Association. She's Hall of Famer George Blanda's sister-in-law and books the tours.
Despite all this, nothing ever changes at Taggarts. The Bittner's 3⁄4-horsepower industrial mixer still works daily. The ice cream recipe never changes, made each morning. The food, a classic selection of 1930s to '40s favorites, still seems an excuse for the grand finale, the Bittner signature that defies definition.
The restaurant offers a full menu of homemade soups, salads and sandwiches, a children's menu and vegetarian options.
The soda fountain includes all the ice-cream favorites plus old-time flavored Cokes and phosphates. Everything is available for eat-in or takeout.
All this is wrapped in wrought-iron "ice cream parlor" chairs and wooden booths that baby boomers remember so well. There's no jukebox but something better, a player piano.
Taggarts' reputation is cemented by media coverage. It's a "One Tank Trip" by Neil Zurcher, a favorite in Cleveland media and subject of a "Splendid Table" segment on Public Radio, which concluded, "Here might be the best hot fudge anywhere. It is the consistency of chocolate syrup, not too thick, nor is it intensely sweet." They've won nearly all of the many local favorite-restaurant awards.
The question remains, are all those Steeler-fan busloads coming for the sport or the dessert? Discovering Canton's other sport — ice cream — can be equally worth the trip.
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Check the Parade supplement with your Sunday Repository for a story on Jane and Michael Stern's new book, "Next Stop, Great Eats!" including a mention of Taggarts Ice Cream Parlor and Restaurant. Other stops on their trip are Babushka's Kitchen in Northfield Center, West Point Market in Akron, Belgrade Kitchen and Al's Corner Restaurant in Barberton and Coleman's Fish Market in Wheeling.
Taggarts is at 1401 Fulton Road NW and at 107 S. Main St. in Magnolia.
The Bittner
The Schotts are constantly bombarded for its secret. The owners of Taggarts would be crazy to let it out, but one suspects the Bittner is actually a blended sundae, ice cream emulsified in the big mixer.
If you think you can duplicate it, forget it.
"Everything in it is homemade except for the pecans, and they come from a special source and always must be halves, not pieces," said Ernie Schott. That includes the vanilla ice cream, the available-no-place-else chocolate sauce and the whipped cream on top.
The Big Bittner at $4.05 contains 3/4ths of a pound of ice cream. His little brother, the mini, is $3.60.


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Chinese telecoms have become tempting. Year-to-date, China Mobile (CHL) has lost 9.2%, China Unicom (CHU) has slumped 14.3%, and China Telecom (CHA) retreated 10.9%.
From a multiple viewpoint, they are also looking good. On average, they trade at 11 times 2014 earnings, cheaper than the 19 times Asia Pacific average and their own historical valuations. So is it time to buy?
J.P. Morgan says we should sit on the sidelines, due to lack of visibility. Here are analysts Lucy Liu, Michelle Wei, and James R. Sullivan:
Valuation is not trustworthy, given low earnings visibility, due to unknown 4G competition and VAT reform impacts. Meanwhile, various structural issues still linger in the sector with little positive catalysts, despite being increasingly understood by the market. We choose to stay on the sidelines until more clarity can be obtained on earnings, and signs of a turnaround in structural problems start to appear.
But if investors insist on exposure to the Chinese mobile telecom sector – for China's demographics and smartphone culture, it is better to avoid exposure to mobile voice. People these days simply do not make many phones calls:
We shift our relative preference to China Telecom over China Unicom over China Mobile, to avoid mobile and particularly mobile voice exposure (CT 19% of total revenue, CU 25% and CM 51% in 2014E).


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The State of San Andreas is a fictional West Coast state in the United States. The state is based on California. It is unknown whether San Andreas will comprise both California and Nevada, since both states were featured as one state called "San Andreas" in both GTA: San Andreas and GTA IV.
- San Andreas is noticeably different from its rendition in GTA: San Andreas. For example, Los Santos has been completely redesigned. Though it shares a few resemblances to its GTA San Andreas counterpart, with both renditions being directly based on Los Angeles, Los Santos has completely new neighborhoods, landmarks, and locations of many returning landmarks are different. In addition, GTA V's rendition of the city appears to be larger, and more geographically consistent with the real-life city of Los Angeles.
- It's likely we'll only see a small portion of the state (Southern San Andreas), since the game will likely take place in a "re-imagined, Southern California". Rockstar may add places traditionally not included in Southern California.
- San Fierro and Las Venturas will at least likely be referenced in the game, as Vice City and the latter two were mentioned in GTA IV and it's episodes numerous times, despite not being added, alongside real-life cities being mentioned. There is rumor that San Fierro and Las Venturas may serve as DLC, however there is no confirmation. Similar rumors arose about the inclusion of an island based on Staten Island being included in the DLC for GTA IV - However, no new locations were added in the DLC.
- The name of the state can be confirmed from the license plates seen in the game, which are evidently based on California's.
- This rendition of the state will take place in modern day or perhaps near future (approx. 2008-2014), rather than 1992 in a previous rendition of the state. Not only does Rockstar's information confirm this, but also cars, landmarks (for example, Pacific Park, which is parodied as Pleasure Pier, was not opened until 1996), and the general game's plot on the recession era (late 2007-2010) and post-recession (2010-present day) United States.
Cities, Towns, and Counties
- Los Santos
- Los Puerta? (Might be based on San Diego due to highway sign, but this could be a neighborhood of Los Santos or a city that won't be seen)
- Del Perro (Based on Santa Monica)
- San Fierro (might be referenced)
- Las Venturas (might be referenced)
- Blaine County
- Paleto
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- San Andreas in GTA III Era - the rendition of the same state in the GTA III era.
- San Andreas in GTA 1 - a city directly based on San Francisco in GTA 1.


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Barely two hours after Great Britain declared war on Germany at the start of World War II, a U-boat torpedoed the British ocean liner SS Athenia, killing more than 60 of the 1,500 aboard and beginning the long, harrowing Battle of the Atlantic. From that sinking on September 3, 1939, until three weeks before the German surrender in May 1945, the U-boats struck. The worst year was 1942, when more than 1,000 Allied ships were lost, along with their cargoes of fuel, food, and materiel on which Britain depended for survival.
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The British had a shocking answer to the submarine menace: a 1934 open-cockpit biplane with fixed landing gear and a cruise speed of around 100 mph. The bigger shock: It worked.
The Fairey Swordfish prototype bore the initials TSR for torpedo, spotter, reconnaissance. It had a crew of three: pilot, observer (navigator), and telegraphist–air gunner. A load hauler for the time, it could carry a 1,600-pound torpedo or 1,500 pounds of depth charges, rockets, or mines. So various were the stores loaded on the airplane that it got the nickname "Stringbag" for the British housewife's shopping sack, which could expand to carry almost anything. But its chief virtue was its easy handling. The landing approach speed of about 65 mph made it ideal for the small carriers from which many had to operate: merchant ships rigged with flight decks, called merchant aircraft carriers, or MACships.
"There was a well-worn jest amongst Swordfish pilots that the enemy had no speed settings on their gunsights as low as the Stringbag's cruising speed of 90 knots," writes pilot Charles Lamb in To War in a Stringbag, "and therefore a Swordfish could only be hit by shells aimed at a flight astern. This was an exaggeration, of course, yet there was an element of uneasy truth in the statement."
The biplane's sluggishness was beneficial in other circumstances. During his training as a pilot in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Jack Thomas was practicing a night rocket attack on a dummy U-boat target when the engine on his Swordfish failed. At an altitude of 1,000 feet over a dark English bay, he shouted, "The engine's stopped!" to which his new observer replied, "That's your department."
It was a moonless, starlit night and the sea could just be seen as a dark shining surface. Thomas slowed and tried to ditch as close to the shore as possible. His observer had started to say they had 300 feet to go, when they hit the water—all one-half inch of it. The wheels ripped off, then the wings in a cloud of spray and mud. The rest of the Swordfish slid for 200 feet before coming to a halt in the wet sand of a tidal flat. Realizing they were safe, the crew broke into a fit of giggling.
Landing a Swordfish on a MACship in the Atlantic could be almost as violent an experience, with every trap accompanied by the same sense of giddy relief.
In his book Achtung! Swordfish! Stanley Brand recalls his experience as a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. On patrol to find stragglers that had become lost during a storm so he could lead them back to the convoy, he had been flying for three hours—the final one spent struggling against gale-force winds to get back to his ship. In the open cockpit of the Swordfish, Brand was numb with cold and fatigue. As he flew closer to his small carrier, he could see the batsman, or deck landing control officer, on his tiny platform with his arms raised, disks in his hands, ready to signal him aboard. The ship was pitching and rolling in the heavy Atlantic swells. It would take all of the batsman's skills, all of Brand's flying ability, and a dose of good luck to land safely.
Timing was everything. The aircraft had to be descending steadily to arrive as the stern of the ship was sinking to about three feet above the ship's lowest point. There was usually a steady moment at the lowest point before the stern started to rise again; it was then that the "cut" signal was given: Pull the engine to idle and drop the nose. The uphill slope of the deck helped bring the aircraft to a halt and reduced the load on the arrester wire. It would have been very difficult at this point to go around because the Swordfish was at its lowest, and obstructions forward were highest. The ship's roll also had to be considered. The best touchdown coincided with the middle of a roll from starboard to port so that the left side was going down and an escape route free from obstruction—except for the batsman on his platform—was available to the pilot who could swing violently left over the side of the ship, gun it, and with luck stay airborne.
Brand landed safely. Months later, his aircraft emerged from heavy fog just in time for him to see his ship and, in the same instant, the batsman waving him off. With no time to react, he bore down on the batsman, who hurled himself over the side to land in the safety net, hanging just below his station. More than one batsman had to leap for the net, according to pilot John Beresford. The Swordfish's radar antenna hung from the lower wingtip, "like a carving knife about 18 inches long," he says. "You couldn't duck if it came too close. You had to jump into the net."


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LEXINGTON, Ky. – University of Kentucky linebacker Avery Williamson was selected by his homestate team, the Tennessee Titans, in the fifth round of the National Football League Draft on Saturday.
"This is crazy!" an exuberant Williamson said from his hometown of Milan, Tenn. "It's a great feeling to be at home, I'm very excited.
"I'd also like to say thanks for all the support I've had from my family, the coaches I've had over the years and the Big Blue Nation. I'm thankful for everyone who has helped me along the way."
Williamson had a stellar career at Kentucky. He totaled 102 tackles in the 2013 season, ranking fourth in the Southeastern Conference. It was his second-consecutive campaign over the century mark. He also had four tackles for loss, a quarterback sack, three QB hurries and two fumble recoveries.
Williamson was named first-team All-Southeastern Conference by College Sports Madness and was a second-team all-league pick by The Associated Press, SEC Coaches, ESPN.com, Phil Steele's College Football and Athlon Sports. He also was on the watch lists for the Lott Trophy (nation's best defensive player), Butkus Award (nation's best linebacker) and the Senior CLASS Award.
Williamson notched 135 tackles during his junior season, ranking second in the SEC in total tackles. He garnered second-team All-SEC from College Sports Madness and third-team all-league accolades from Phil Steele's College Football.
Off the field, Williamson was active in the community and was named to the SEC Community Service Team.
Prior to Kentucky, Williamson was first-team all-state at Milan High School and was the 2009 West Tennessee Player of the Year as named by the Jackson Sun. He led his team to the state championship game as a junior and senior, setting a championship game record with 22 tackles as a senior in the 2009 title contest.
Williamson will join former Wildcat Wesley Woodyard in Nashville. Woodyard recently signed with the Titans as a free agent. Although they did not play together at Kentucky, they have met during Woodyard's visits to Lexington.
Williamson is the first Kentucky player ever drafted by Tennessee. The last time a Wildcat was drafted by the franchise came in 1993 when offensive lineman Chuck Bradley was chosen when the team was known as the Houston Oilers.
The pick of Williamson marks the seventh consecutive year that Kentucky has had a player chosen in the NFL Draft and the second linebacker in the last three years. Danny Trevathan, taken by Denver in 2012, led the team last season with 129 tackles as the Broncos advanced to the Super Bowl.


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I'm a member of the CACC Cat Transfer Team which networks the cats at Chicago Animal Care and Control and also work with a local rescue in Chicago, the Critical Animal Relief Foundation. I am writing on behalf of two cats that tested positive for Feline Leukemia at Chicago Animal Care and Control. One, Lane, is a young calico female stray still at animal control whose hold ends 3/16. One is a young female domestic long hair named Maui who tested positive a couple months ago and was rescued in the nick of time. She has since been living in the isolation ward at a veterinary hospital. She is much loved there, but is missing out on socializing with other cats (she had a housemate who was also rescued and tested negative). Maui is fully vetted and tested positive on an IFA test. Lane is not fully vetted, but we could get get that done and could also integrate her with Maui if needed. I'm sure you get inundated with requests, but are you guys accepting new kitties at all? We would definitely be willing to make a donation to cover their continuing care and help in any other way we can. Thanks so much for helping cats who have very limited options!! Regards, Allison Tarr


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1. What did you think tactic Bella uses to get out of her house? Does she go too far?
I think it was a low blow as she said but it had to be done, poor Charlie I was really sad for him having to her that twice from the people he loves the most in the world is harsh .
2. There is a lot of interaction among the Cullens. Aside from Carlisle, the one person who can get an upset Edward to listen is Alice. What do you think that says about their relationship?
That they are a close family they stick together through thick and thin and that's how it's always been and how it's going to be.
3. Why do you think Laurent chose to leave James and Victoria and head to Denali?
Because he seemed to like the way the Cullen's lived and was curious to give it a try. What else do you have to do with eternity but try new things.
4. Were you surprised that Jasper could felt that Bella was worth it. What do you think lead him to that conclusion?
He could feel how Edward felt about her and how she felt about Edward and there was no denying they truly loved each other. Plus he knew that Alice loved Bella too so he definitely did not want to hurt her and let Carlisle and Esme down.


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Sussex tech exploded on offense in an 87-72 victory over Smyrna Thursday night
Sussex Tech outscored Smyrna in three of the four quarters enroute to an impressive 87- 72 victory over the visiting Smyrna Eagles Thursday night. The Eagles fell to 2-3 before the Holiday break. The Ravens improved to 3-1. They will host New Hope Academy Charter on Saturday afternoon at 3:30 p.m.
The Ravens opened a 9-0 lead at the beginning of the game before the crowd had settled into their seats. But the hard-working Eagles quickly got back into the game and tied the score at 12-12.
From that point on, the Sussex Tech offense took over the game, and the Raven defense established its dominance for the remainder of the contest.
By the end of the first quarter, the Ravens led 21-14. Sussex Tech continued to control both ends of the court and extended their lead to 38-25 by the end of the first half. The Eagles continued to hustle, but the Ravens continued to impress on the court to the joy of the partisan home crowd.
Smyrna played the Ravens even in the third quarter, but still trailed by a wide margin at 55-42.
Both teams threw out their defenses in a wild fourth quarter, which saw both teams combine for an amazing 62 points in the 12 minutes of play. Unfortunately, the Eagles were outscore by two points in the final quarter.
RaeKwan Deshields and Shi'wuan Sykes put on an offensive display, as each scored 13 points for the Ravens.
Aubre Allen and Jeff Munro each scored 9 point to lead the balanced attack. Stedman Kpana led Smyrna with 19 points on the night, while Latrelle Lee netted 17 points for the Eagles, Ja'vier Worthy had 15, and Javon Hunter added 12 points.


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Wednesday, March 06, 2013 7:19 pm
Judge: Suspect in Pakistan attack no flight risk
By NIGEL DUARAAssociated Press
Reaz Qadir Khan, 48, was arrested at his home Tuesday on charges of providing support to a suicide bomber who participated in the 2009 attack that killed about 30 people and injured another 300.
Khan, a wastewater treatment plant operator for the city of Portland, has pleaded not guilty.
On Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ethan Knight said the charge against Khan, which carries the possibility of a life sentence, along with Khan's connections in Pakistan, make him more likely to flee after being charged.
"There are no conditions that can assure his appearance," Knight said. "This defendant has significant ties overseas. (Surrendering his passport) does not eliminate his risk of flight."
But Khan's attorney, Amy Baggio, said Khan has been a good employee of the city who has gone along with the investigation despite knowing that he could be charged.
"He didn't run away when he heard this was happening," Baggio said.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Papak ruled that conditions could be placed that ensure Khan would not flee. Papak's decision was affirmed later Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Michael Mossman.
Mossman ruled that Khan could be released Thursday after a follow-up hearing. Mossman said he wanted to ensure that Khan's assets were frozen and that his computer activity was monitored.
Mossman noted the time between the most recent alleged criminal action - 2009 - and the indictment, and said Khan could have fled.
"He knew it at a time when he had lawyers, he knew it at a time when he had passports, and he knew it at a time when he had cash," Mossman said, "but he didn't flee."
Slender, with a black-and-white beard several inches long, Khan appeared in court in a blue jail uniform looking haggard and tired.
An indictment unsealed Tuesday alleges the naturalized U.S. citizen provided advice and financial help to Ali Jaleel, one of three people who carried out the attack at Pakistan's intelligence headquarters in Lahore.
Jaleel died in the attack. He took responsibility for the bombing in a video released by al-Qaida and was shown at a training camp, federal officials say.
According to the indictment, Khan conspired with Jaleel and others starting in December 2005.
Jaleel allegedly emailed Khan in 2008 about his plan to travel to Pakistan. Two years earlier, Jaleel had been part of a small group from the Maldives that tried to enter Pakistan for training, but he was detained, returned home and placed under house arrest.
The indictment alleges that Kahn instructed Jaleel on how to avoid detection and offered to help with financial arrangements.
In October 2008, Jaleel wrote that he needed $2,500. According to the indictment, Khan contacted someone in Los Angeles who arranged to have the money waiting for Jaleel in Karachi, Pakistan.
Jaleel wrote to Khan the following month, saying he was about to enter a training camp and did not need all the money. Khan allegedly told Jaleel to keep the money so it could be sent to Jaleel's two wives in the Maldives.
Shortly after the suicide attack, Khan wired almost $750 from an Oregon store to one of Jaleel's wives, the indictment states.
Khan has lived in the U.S. since 1988, when he began a master's degree program in New Jersey. After he graduated in 1991, Khan moved briefly to Dallas and then Fullerton, Calif.
He lived in California from 1991 until 2004 or 2005, when he moved to Vancouver, Wash., and finally settled in Portland in 2006.
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WONDER LAKE – Douglas and Carol McConnell of Wonder Lake will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house for family and friends July 6 at their lake home hosted by their children.
Carol Sue Griess and Douglas Eugene McConnell were married Feb. 22, 1963, in Sacramento, Calif. They first lived in Orangevale, Calif., after their marriage.
He was a national accounts sales manager for Caterpillar Inc. He retired June 1, 2005. He enjoys barbershop singing with the Arlingtones men's a cappella chorus and Chordmasters quartet, is active with the International Aerobatics Club division of the Experimental Aircraft Association, is heavily involved with high school reunions as president of the Class of 1957 in Ellensburg, Wash., and active with classmates from the Class of 1961 United States Air Force Academy.
Carol was a preschool special education teacher with the Park Forest school system until her retirement June 1, 2006. She is active with the Iowa Chapter of the Philanthropic Educational Organization, Crystal Lake, and the Illinois Retired Teachers Association, McHenry Chapter. She also enjoys local luncheon and book clubs.
They have a son, Keith (Ingrid Friberg) McConnell of Houston, and a daughter, Tricia McConnell Eichler of Butler, Pa. They also have five grandchildren.


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Q U E S T I O N: I've got to fire one of those employees who fights everything. He even challenged a verbal warning I gave him a few years ago. How can I fire this guy without ending up in court?
— Counter Puncher
A N S W E R: Given the heightened security concerns in Washington, D.C., the headline was embarrassing — an intruder had breached the Supreme Court building.
Security personnel studied the surveillance videos and discovered that a fox had made it into the inner sanctum. Not a crafty burglar — no this was a real fox.
Because this is highest court of the land, officials didn't call an exterminator, they called a Virginia hunt group who gave the building a through going over with two foxhounds and a terrier. But the fox eluded their grasp.
What does this have to do with firing someone? Plenty. Because with all the litigation surrounding firing employees, many managers trying to fire someone feel in a legal maze just like that fox trying to make it through the Supreme Court.
But it can be done. For more, check out Paul Falcone's book, Firing and Hiring Question and Answer Book (Amacom, 2002).
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NEW YORK -- The CBS magazine "48 Hours" is using the story of a Massachusetts teenager killed by her ex-boyfriend to draw attention to the issue of violence after young people end romantic relationships.
The show airs at 9 p.m. Saturday. Susan Zirinsky, senior executive producer of the newsmagazine, said Wednesday she felt the 2011 murder of Lauren Dunne Astley of Wayland, Mass., by Nathaniel Fujita could have value beyond the typical crime tale.
"This isn't just a story for us," she said. "We feel like we can have a real impact."
CBS plans to give the issue attention on radio and its online properties, and Zirinsky said the show will likely be made available to educators who want to show it in schools. In the program, correspondent Tracy Smith hopes to give viewers information about signs in a relationship that could point to future trouble. One piece of advice that sadly could have helped Astley: Don't visit an ex alone after a breakup.
Some experts said they've been startled over the past few years -- as Smith was during her report -- about the number of teenagers who say they've seen abusive relationships. Casey Corcoran, of the Boston organization Futures Without Violence, said the group had a waiting list in the hundreds when it sponsored a summit for teenagers on breakups.
Zirinsky is convinced that social media makes life tougher for teens. When lives are fully documented on sites like Facebook, it increases the shame and hurt when relationships end, she said.
Astley broke up with Fujita, a star receiver for the school football team in suburban Boston, after a three-year relationship. He was having trouble dealing with the breakup, and his mother asked Lauren to talk to him.
Astley's old friends tell of troubling signs in the relationship and aftermath, including one incident where he angrily punched a tent post at a party and almost brought it down.
Astley's father, Malcolm, a retired school principal, has sought to make dating violence protection a part of school curriculums. He said he made the difficult decision to cooperate with CBS in telling his daughter's story because he was convinced it would be handled well.
"People are fascinated by horror," he said. "We wanted to make sure it was factual and understanding, and not just about the horror."


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Heiia, I'm studying for my production exam tomorrow and I'm feeling a little sick. But then, I don't think I'm the only one. So maybe I should share my winter cold cure tips?
I usually always make this:
Chop up half a lemon.
Peel about 4 cm ginger and chop it up.
Put it in water (approximately 0,5 l) and heat it up until it's boiling.
Put some of your favorite tea in a mug(preferably not teabags) and pour the water with the lemon and ginger bits in.
When the water has cooled somewhat add a BIG LUMP of honey.
Remember, in order to get all the "good" things from honey, the water is actually not supposed to be warmer than 40°C (and that's if you have the good early season honey). And also, if you're adding peppermint tea, don't let the leaves be in the water for more than 2 minutes.
Garlic Bread
Spread butter on two slices of bread.
Press two garlics on each slice.
Cover all garlic with cheese.
Add tomato and oregano or whatever you wish on the top.
Put in the oven at 220°C until it looks nice.


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – He doesn't like to give much away, but head baseball coach Dave Schmotzer is excited about his team. The veteran coach, now in his 20th season at Coker, knows this year's club could be special.
Coker returns a good chunk of players from last year's starting lineup. The addition of some transfer students and freshmen give some added depth. In fact, Schmotzer says they are at least two deep at every position. And, as always, there's healthy competition at nearly every spot.
"We've got guys pushing each other each and every day," Schmotzer said. "The starting spots will be given to those individuals who have earned it."
Along with the returning position players, the Cobras bring back several pitchers. Key starters Andrew Goot, Dan Meyer and Tyler Witzel all return. Junior college transfer Zach Loraine, a Collegiate Baseball magazine "Player to Watch," joins the staff this season and is expected to contribute immediately.
The baseball squad doesn't name captains, but Schmotzer will put faith in catcher Frank Suarez, second baseman Keith Wolf and center fielder Chad Nader – all seniors – to lead the way.
"Those three will be counted on for leadership," Schmotzer said. "But, to me, every member of the senior class serves as a captain. They are expected to lead this team, and it should trickle down all the way to the freshmen."
Leadership is a big strength for this year's squad, but it may not outweigh the chemistry. While a roster of 44 players may not be the easiest to bring together, the 2013 club seems to be a close-knit group.
"I really like the clubhouse," Schmotzer said. "I can't stress the importance of that enough. They seem to care – plus they're coachable – and that stems from the guys who have been here awhile."
Schmotzer also feels an extra sense of excitement with the addition of two new coaches. Along with second-year assistant Ricky Meinhold, the team's pitching coach, Robert Skinner and Don Amaral join the staff. Skinner's duties include working with the infielders and some hitting instruction. Amaral works with the catchers and also helps out with the offense.
"I have a great staff," Schmotzer says. "I can't say enough good things about them."
Everything is in place for the Cobras to make a run at the conference tournament. They have pitching, hitting, defense and depth – keys for any successful team. Beyond these, execution and staying healthy are likely to be important difference-makers for the Cobras this year.
"All you want as you go into the season is a feeling in your stomach that you have a chance," said Schmotzer. "I have that feeling – the butterflies and the tenacity. It's a journey, man, and I'm excited to get it all started."
Coker begins its season with a weekend series at Chowan University in North Carolina on Feb. 2.


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Millions of Expired Swine-flu Vaccines To Be Destroyed As Criticism Mountsby Alex Newman
The New American
Jul. 02, 2010
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ABC Interviews Mexican Heroin Cartel Workers, Finds Many Were Deported From U.S. And Want Back In
Amidst strong criticism of governments' responses to the swine flu H1N1 hysteria, nearly half of the more than 150 million swine flu vaccines purchased by the feds for the American public will be incinerated after starting to expire earlier this week.
Forty million shots — worth more than $250 million — expired Wednesday and are already marked for destruction. A government estimate cited in various news reports claimed another 30 million doses would go bad soon. Those are not expected to be used either, and will also likely be disposed of.
"It's a lot, by historical standards," Food and Drug Administration vaccine boss Jerry Weir admitted to the Associated Press. The quantity of useless shots may even set a new record — more than four times the amount of seasonal flu vaccines normally left over.
Predictably, federal officials responsible for squandering nearly half of a billion dollars on the wasted vaccines are defending the purchases. "Although there were many doses of vaccine that went unused, it was much more appropriate to have been prepared for the worst case scenario than to have had too few doses," claimed a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
In America, demand for vaccines was so low that, according to the AP, "by January local health departments were trying gimmicks to get anyone at all to come in for a shot." But it didn't work.
There were several reasons why so many tens of millions of swine flu inoculations never ended up being used. For one, swine flu turned out to be extremely mild compared to even the seasonal flu, which is linked to the deaths of more than three times the amount of Americans killed by swine flu last season. Also, countless experts raised concerns about the risks and efficacy of the barely tested H1N1 vaccines, as reported by The New American magazine at the height of the alleged "pandemic."
A similar scenario is playing out around the world, where governments stockpiled massive quantities of vaccines that will now have to be destroyed. The antiviral drug Tamiflu was also purchased in huge amounts by governments, and a lot of that is expiring now too.
Meanwhile, the Council of Europe strongly criticized the World Health Organization's fear-mongering and vaccine promotion. "The handling by the WHO of the H1N1 pandemic led to a waste of large sums of public money and unjustified scares and fears about health risks faced by the European public," the European body concluded, saying there was "overwhelming evidence that the seriousness of the pandemic was vastly overrated by WHO." The world health body actually changed the definition of a pandemic during the crisis, allowing it to raise the alert.
The European investigation also found improper influence by pharmaceutical companies on the international body's decision making, calling for the implementation of safe-guards against "undue influence by vested interests." It also chastised the media and warned against future "sensationalism and scaremongering in the public health domain."
"The 'birds-flu'-campaign (2005/06) combined with the 'swine-flu'-campaign seem to have caused a great deal of damage not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health-budgets, but to the credibility and accountability of important international health-agencies," noted a resolution approved by the council's parliamentary health committee.
The man who led the charge for the investigation, health committee chairman and medical doctor Wolfgang Wodarg — a fierce critic of the vaccines — called the "false pandemic" one of the greatest medical scandals of the last century.
"The victims among millions of needlessly vaccinated people must be protected by their states," he said, noting that the pharmaceutical companies and their cohorts were willing to "inflict bodily harm in their pursuit of profits." He has also called for legal action against parties responsible for the fiasco.
Separately, an investigation conducted by the British Medical Journal and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism also exposed improper conflicts of interest among WHO scientists and industry in the swine-flu response. At least three of the organization's "experts" were paid by vaccine manufacturers, the inquiry found.
"Each time the so-called experts told us that millions of people would be killed worldwide by the respective viruses," WHO advisor Dr. Ulrich Keil conceded to the AP. "We have learned that the experts were utterly wrong."
Earlier this year, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel ruled that all Americans should get the seasonal flu vaccine. "The CDC almost certainly will make universal flu vaccination official U.S. policy for this fall's 2010-2011 flu season, as it consistently follows the advice of the panel of outside experts, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)," noted a report on WebMD.
But some health experts and constitutional scholars are attacking the idea, saying that even if it were a good idea, the federal government does not have any business in medicine in the first place. The recent swine-flu fiasco proved this point well.
Governments squandering billions of dollars on unwanted vaccines illustrates beautifully why the market should be responsible for determining supply, not bureaucrats. Not only does the federal government lack the constitutional authority to purchase or encourage inoculations (let alone shield manufactures from liability), it doesn't have the resources to do so. With more than $13 trillion in U.S. government debt already, consumers should decide whether or not to purchase vaccines — not "experts" in unconstitutional federal agencies.


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TOPEKA - Veteran Senator Pat Roberts, in Washington waiting for tonight's vote on the market rescue bill, told listeners of 580's "On the Other Hand" that the bill, as written now, won't get the job done. He called it a "bad bill" that needs to be improved, then passed when it's ready.
Roberts also told 13's Melissa Brunner by phone from Washington, that the measure will pass the enormous debt of the bailout on to our children and grandchildren. Calling the Federal Government "a huge money moving machine with a heck of a handling charge," Roberts says the bill would start by infusing money to cover bad "toxic loans" that should not have been included in the bill. Senators plan to take a tally tonight, and Roberts does expect at least 51 votes, and passage of the bill. His colleague, Senator Sam Brownback, has not indicated how he'll vote tonight.
Roberts expressed his displeasure with what he called "bribes" to encourage Senators to vote "yes." (He later said "bribes" was too strong a word.) But those include family tax credits and emergency assistance.. measures that have already been approved.. which were tacked onto the bailout bill to sweeten it.
The veteran legislator said he is also not pleased that the bailout bill includes tax credits for any foreign corporations doing business in the United States. So, he explained, China could conceivably receive money pumped out in the rescue. Roberts also explained that the $700 billion dollar figure was reached by Treasury Secretary, when it's actually written in as $250 billion to start, with another $150 billion covered in the second step. No third step figure has been agreed on.


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Take a walk across the tracks. Carve your way through the scrubland. Listen for barking of dogs and announce yourself as you approach. Welcome to The Jungle, a wooded area in Lakeland and one of Polk County's more heavily populated homeless campsites, which more than 20 people call home.
LAKELAND | Take a walk across the tracks. Carve your way through the scrubland. Listen for barking of dogs and announce yourself as you approach.
Welcome to The Jungle, a wooded area in Lakeland and one of Polk County's more heavily populated homeless campsites, which more than 20 people call home.
It's no secret that Polk County has a large transient population, and this week, the Homeless Coalition of Polk County is hitting the shelters, sidewalks, convenience stores and campsites like The Jungle to try to gauge just how large the population has become.
Bernie, a 62-year-old who did three tours of Vietnam with the U.S. Marine Corps in the late 1960s, has lived in The Jungle for about two years, sharing a campsite with two friends and 22 dogs.
While collecting firewood for the cold night ahead, Bernie, who says he is "working on a ZZ Top beard," talked about his situation. Bernie, like others who call The Jungle home, asked for his last name to be kept out of the paper.
"I lost my job three years ago, and when the unemployment ran out, I had nowhere else to go," he said. "Now I'm 62 years old, dude, I'm just waiting for my Social Security so I can get my butt out of here."
Tony Whippleleatherwood, who is heading up this year's homeless count, said the Homeless Coalition surveyed about 800 homeless people last year, a drop from 1,200 the year before.
He said the drop, in part, was because of new ordinances passed in Lakeland and Winter Haven, and law enforcement toughening up on transient campsites.
"We're expecting to count at least 1,800 members of the homeless community this year," he said. "There will be a lot more families. People are losing their jobs, their homes."
According to the Lakeland ordinance, camping is defined as "the assumption of a bodily position or positions of repose or sleep, out-of-doors, for an extended period of time" and extended is said to be "a minimum of 30 consecutive minutes."
The penalty for violating the ordinance, is "a fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment in the county jail or other county detention facility for a term not exceeding 60 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment."
According to the same section, someone who violates the code for more than one day will be charged with a separate offense for each day.
"They practically made it illegal to be homeless in Lakeland last year, which drove a lot of them to other locations or into hiding," Whippleleatherwood said. "We had some interest from law enforcement, and they told us they wouldn't mess with them, but this year we decided not to get them involved."
"It's not our mission to find out what they are hiding from — we just know they are homeless and want to help."
Laws in unincorporated Polk are not as strict, and Polk County sheriff's spokeswoman Carrie Eleazer said the Sheriff's Office does everything it can to treat the homeless population with respect.
"They are citizens and it's a free country," Eleazer said. "They are free to work and play wherever they like as long as they aren't breaking the law."
Mike, 60, another Jungle resident, lives at a campsite near Bernie's, and was roasting wild boar as he talked about the challenges he and his friends face.
"I came out here when I lost my job about two years ago, Mike said. "That's why most people are out here. This is the last refuge for us when the work runs out."
"Every day, we take a chance coming in and out of here. Technically speaking, yeah, we're trespassing, but where else can we go?"
Butch Brett, 56, who volunteers with the Homeless Coalition, helped pass out blankets and jackets. Brett currently lives at the Wilson House, an in-house recovery center in Lakeland, and says he can relate to the local transient population.
"I spent a year at another camp here in Lakeland and lived on the streets for five or six," Brett said. "I'm from it. I know where they're at. I know how they feel. A lot of people out here are not getting the help they need."
Blue, a 49-year-old woman who has lived in The Jungle for two years, is among those in need. She lost her job in Daytona three years ago and came to Lakeland for work, but the work dried up. Then she found out she was HIV positive.
"I'm fighting for my disability but it's hard when I'm worried about having food to eat and clean clothes," Blue said, as her guard dogs roamed the area. "I just got a $65 ticket for flying a sign to get some money to do my laundry. How can I pay that?"
Still, Blue said, she would rather live at her campsite than in a local shelter.
"I actually like it out here; there's too much drama in the shelters," she said. "We all get along with each other here, we help each other out."
Whippleleatherwood said he will continue to journey into places like The Jungle, year in and year out, doing everything he can to lend a helping hand.
"If you ignore the problem, it's not going to go away ... It's going to get worse."
[ Clifford Parody can be reached at email@example.com or 863-802-7516. ]


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Robbins & Myers Announces Record Date and Meeting Date for Special Meeting of Shareholders
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Nov. 16, 2012 05:06 PM
HOUSTON, Nov. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Robbins & Myers, Inc. (NYSE: RBN) announced today that it has established a record date and a meeting date for a special meeting of its shareholders to consider and vote upon, among other things, a proposal to adopt the previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of August 8, 2012, by and among Robbins & Myers, National Oilwell Varco, Inc., and Raven Process Corp., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Oilwell Varco, and approve the transactions contemplated thereby.
Robbins & Myers' shareholders of record at the close of business on November 26, 2012, will be entitled to notice of the special meeting and to vote at the special meeting. The special meeting will be held on December 27, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. Central Time, at Robbins & Myers' headquarters located at 10586 Highway 75 North, Willis, Texas 77378.
The parties continue to target a fourth quarter 2012 closing of their merger, subject to certain closing conditions, including the approval of Robbins & Myers' shareholders and clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, after compliance with the request for information (commonly called a "second request") received by Robbins & Myers and National Oilwell Varco from the US Department of Justice under that Act. However, compliance with the second request will put pressure on timing and although a fourth quarter closing is targeted, the closing could slip into 2013.
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Marketplace Morning Report for Friday, September 21, 2012
Well the big news from the tech world this morning is of course the launch of Apple's iPhone 5, which goes on sale around the world today. There's also some news about a device that is being taken off the shelves: Walmart will no longer sell the Amazon Kindle. European leaders are meeting in Rome today. The continent has been in a state of relative calm for a couple of weeks, so what are those troubled nation's talking about today? And new Census figures show good news and bad news for the state of California.


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WEST CHICAGO - The 2013 West Chicago-Batavia co-op girls swim team is a little different version than last year's squad, which finished in a tie for 27th place at the IHSA state meet.
All-stater Maya Skorupski has graduated, leaving a younger and more inexperienced group this time around.
"We have some growing pains to get through but once we get through those, I think that our team will be set up for the next couple of years," said coach Nick Parry.
The Wild/Dogs do return a pair of state qualifiers in seniors Nicole Reitz and Paulina Konopko, who were a part of the 200-yard medley relay team which qualified out of the Metea Valley sectional.
"Our expectations from year-to-year, generally, don't change much," the coach said. "We would like to have a high finish in our conference meet and sectional meet, and try to qualify at least one relay plus some individual swims to the state swim meet.
"With a group so young, I am not quite sure what we will be able to get into the state meet. There is a lot of talent, but we need to preform at the right time in order to be successful."
Another change is the Wild/Dogs are a part of the Upstate Eight conference this fall after leaving the DuPage Valley Conference. Neuqua Valley, Waubonsie Valley, St. Charles East and St. Charles North all provide stiff competition in the new conference. The coach said the team is up for the challenge in the new league.
"This is a group that wants to get better," Parry added. "They work hard and push themselves to improve. We have a long way to go but we have made some pretty significant strides in the past couple of weeks in order to put ourselves in a position to achieve our goals later in the season."


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Studios were assessed using 2007 sales figures, Metacritic review scores, and an anonymous survey distributed to Gamasutra community members which scored game developers on overall reputation.
The ranking situates Nintendo EAD at the top of the list, followed by Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC, PS3, X360) developer Infinity Ward and World of Warcraft maker Blizzard Entertainment at two and three, respectively. Shacknews community darling Valve ranked at number five, and BioShock creator 2K Boston appears as 13th.
"Nintendo's incredibly accessible and well-designed games continue to support its hardware success, which is why they reached the Top Developer spot," said Game Developer Magazine publisher Simon Carless. "The mix of Western and Japanese developers in the Top 20 shows a flourishing world ecosystem for game development."
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Are the greatest food invention in quite some time.
Had to be said.
You'd have to get with JetsSweetPotato for that action.
There are wimmins that double up on that stuff so "they can knock a foo' out!"
No...they're "getting ready to knock a foo' out"; that's it.
You'd have to pity that foo
Sort of like seeing the movie without reading the book........Which I'm OK with.
Why try those when I can simply scarf down congealed Bacon grease with the same effect
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Yeah but that tastes like bacon tho
Chicken and waffles is delicious but it's not very different from eating chicken and biscuits with some honey on the biscuits, except you're putting maple syrup on the waffle.
What the hell?
I've never seen these in the store before.
Going to get groceries in about an hour. Definitely looking for these.
I want a Pastrami and Potato Salad flavored chip.
Damn Jews always get shafted
i tried these.... was excited but tasted like it just had Worcestershire sauce on it.


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It states several times "customers suspected of making illegal downloads."
I'll add some facts here
The way this works is like this: IFPI (or more likely some contracted-out company) will connect to "Teeney_Spears_best_of.torrent" bittorrent, and will note down the time and IP address of all the other machines in the swarm. Any which belong to a UK ISP will result in a notification being sent to the ISP who will forward it along to the customer. Three srikes etc.
The ISPs won't be monitoring connections, because (surprisingly) that is illegal interception and can only be done under carefully controlled conditions as specified in the RIP Act. Oh actually, it can be done by everyone and their dog in local government, but that is a separate issue [openrightsgroup.org].
Encryption and suspicion don't really come into this. Plausible deniability, neighbours and visitors using your wifi connection, challenges over the chain of evidence, compromised machine, etc. are all possible, assuming any of these cases ever makes it to court. The whole point of the voluntary agreement is to avoid cases coming to court and needing solid evidence.
Read the article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7240234.stm [bbc.co.uk]
Here are extracts.
A draft consultation suggests internet service providers would be required to take action over users who access pirated material.
According to the Times, the draft paper states: "We will move to legislate to require internet service providers to take action on illegal file sharing."
This is a draft proposal for discussion, so now is the time to act.
Write to your MP, explaining how the proposed legislation would be
Going after downloaders would seriously inconvenience legitimate users of P2P networks, such as those who use them for FOSS distribution. Driving people to encrypt their distributions would just result in an escalation of the problem and the gov't would
[1] Wait, this is Slashdot, no I'm not.
Can you please explain to me how the ISP is supposed to route packets to you if you've spoofed your IP?
Or are you suggesting that m4d h4xx0rz are spoofing IPs purely out of malice and/or to misdirect The Man?
So, I guess that means the story headline could be changed into "UK Government to reduce ISP's customer base by 6 Million". Somehow I don't think that's gonna happen.Six million people a year are estimated to download files illegally in the UK.
Without doubt this is phase II of the p2p revolution. A combination of automatic mesh networking setup with decentralised library functionality and shared areas on machines... there's no way to stop this. The tech is already in millions of homes, I just hope someone cleverer than me is working on it already.What if I make a wireless mesh network in my neighborhood, and one of the nodes happens to have a DSL connection,
So the movie makers, musicians, writers, software developers and game designers should all go do a basic course in plumbing and carpentry?
Most of them, yes. We've got more than the free market can actually feed, and the bubble of copyright is about to burst.
I don't know about you, but I need to pay the bills. You are basically saying that thanks to selfish leeches who think everyone owes them free entertainment for life, our entire collective digital industries are now dead and buried, to be pursued only b
the law thinks it can control file sharing. it can't.
Though it is nearly impossible to control sharing, sharing may not be the only or even the main motivation behind the law. Consider that pretty much anyone can be accused of file sharing, irrespective of whether the person actually engaged in it. How would you defend yourself? It is your word against theirs.
In short, if approved, this law provides an excuse to deny any citizen Internet access. In particular, it can be used to deny access to people eng
When encryption is used, the ISPs cannot directly monitor what data is coming across the network. Would they then assume that any BitTorrent connection must be something illegal? Would they have to depend on the content overlords to make claims from their own spies in the sharing?
Should the encryption be "in the stream" like HTTPS, SSL, and SSH does? Or should it be IPsec? Or both?
1. The ISPs will not be willing to monitor the traffic (prohibitively expensive)
If the proposal becomes law, and the content overlords push enforcement, they may have no choice. And this will raise everyone's internet access price.
2. The ISPs are not allowed by UK Law to monitor the traffic
The proposal could make an exception for this, depending on the final form it takes if it gets that far.
3. The ISPs cannot tell if the traffic is copyright infringing material anyway , it might be encrypted, it might be Public domain, it might not be copyrightable material, it might be fair use, it might be creative commons, it might be with the owners consent?
The content overloards could provide some (probably very unreliable) software that will scan for signatures of most popular content. They will argue all fair use would not be going over the internet between different access accounts (even though i
Since the legal hurdle to invoke this penalty is merely "suspicion," encryption is no protection. Using an encrypted link to a suspect site or using an anonymizing service can be enough evidence in and of itself.
This is why we need to start using more encryption
What about all the people falsely accused? Are they going to have to go to court and prove they DIDN'T do anything illegal just to get internet access back?
A sad day for the UK, and an unfortunate precedent that I'm sure the U.S. and others will soon follow.
Ok so we have Britain proposing the monitoring of the entire internet, Australia is proposing an ISP-level filter, US cable companies are doing their own selective torrent throttling and various countries such as China already have expansive firewalls and filters in place. Even if this proposal falls through, or is modified somehow, I think we're going to have to accept that governments are in the pockets of the media companies and service providers will target users of p2p because, in their opinion, they aren't making as big a profit as they might like.
The next step is to ask what we, as the science, engineering and computer-loving community who have been using BitTorrent and various other protocols for legitimate uses before all the kids figured out they could score Amy Winehouse albums for free, can do to either circumvent the policies initiated by the above various groups or to bypass them completely.
Napster, Limewire and the first generation p2p clients collapsed so BitTorrent was designed and users flocked to it. Now it appears that BitTorrent is going to suffer the same fate (if not now than definitely in the near future - the increasing pressure put on ISP's and governments around the world by copyright holders is going to see to that).
We can't afford to fight fire with fire. Invasive laws and techniques used by companies such as Comcast may be un-Constitutional, or against the terms of service but the average p2p-user can't afford to launch a civil case against one of the biggest corporations in the USA. My suggestion is for a new protocol to be established, with the emphasis on sharing legitimate files such as patches, Linux ISO's, videos, game demo's etc. Inevitably the first people to jump onto the new system will be the true geeks (By this I mean your average Slashdotter) and by doing so, they can utilise it to its full extent (Something like the early days of BitTorrent) whilst the MPAA/RIAA flog a dead horse.
Of course it's only a matter of time before pirates jump onto the new protocol and then we watch the whole show unfold again. However p2p-users have proven resourceful and it's only a matter of time before yet another protocol is developed and the cycle continues. But the advantage lies with us. The cost to the developer of something like BitTorrent is minutely small when compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars MAFIAA throws away in its attempt to stop piracy. If we keep it up long enough we might finally get the message across that p2p != piracy, or we might simply bleed them dry.
Where there's a will, there's an Inheritance Tax.


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2012 Volleyball
Heather Schierer named HCAC Player of Week
Senior Heather Schierer earns HCAC Player of the Week honors
October 1, 2012
BLUFFTON, Ohio - Bluffton University senior Heather Schierer (Crescent Springs, Ky./St. Henry) has been named the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Volleyball Player of the Week for offense. It marked just her second week as a hitter after starting at libero for much of the season.
The standout right side pounded 37 kills (3.7 kills per set) and finished the week with a .369 hitting percentage. Schierer knocked down a career-high 20 kills in a four-set win at Anderson and followed that performance with 10 kills and a .625 hitting percentage in the win over Goshen.
The senior also chipped in with 25 digs, four aces, and two blocks during the week.
The Beavers (11-9, 2-1 HCAC) host #23 Heidelberg University at 7 p.m. on Wednesday night in their only match of the week.


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