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Tom Payne pulls off playing a jockey in HBO's "Luck," but the British actor says he won't be making a career change any time soon.
"I value my health too much," Payne told me during a recent phone interview, laughing. "Jockeys—it's so difficult ... It's completely insane. You're balancing on the balls of your feet on the spine of a horse and it's like you're piloting a missile ... It's amazing. I think jockeys are stunt men."
Payne stars as apprentice jockey Leon "Bug Boy" Micheaux in writer David Milch's drama set in the world of gangsters, gamblers and racing professionals at a California racetrack. The 29-year-old shares screen time with seasoned vets including Dustin Hoffman, Nick Nolte and Richard Kind in the project, which counts director Michael Mann as one of its executive producers.
Payne, who before "Luck" had done mostly British TV movies and the film "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day," more than holds his own as the ambitious but sweet-natured Leon, whose struggle to keep his weight down—jockeys have to be light to ride—caused him to collapse in a recent episode, and will continue to trouble him throughout the season.
"His body is betraying him [by growing] and he knows that and he is doing everything he can—making himself sick or not eating anything—to try and keep his weight down," said Payne, who at 5-foot-7 is on the tall end for jockeys. "I think he's aiming for an almost unachievable dream, but he's trying his hardest."
The Essex-born actor, who now lives in West Hollywood, had to work hard before filming even began because he knew almost nothing about riding horses. But he took riding lessons three times a week for three weeks before filming the pilot, then twice a week while shooting the 10-episode season.
Still, filming on horseback was "incredibly stressful," he said, because the show uses actual thoroughbred race horses, who know when they are on a racetrack what is expected of them, and therefore get more hyped up to race.
"I'm calming the horse and I'm stressing out," he said. "I've got Michael coming to give me direction, the horse wrangler giving me direction and my accent coach giving me direction. And then I'm dealing with whomever I'm acting with. It's just crazy."
Neither Payne nor his horses suffered any injuries, but the actor did have one small mishap while filming the pilot: "A camera got too close to the horse that I was on and the horse started to run away," he said. "It didn't get too far, but far enough for me to feel very dizzy and puke. I really shit myself."
You can see how far Payne has come with his riding skills by watching "Luck" at 8 p.m. Sundays on HBO. In the meantime, read more below, where the affable Payne, who seems truly excited about the project, talks about the very long unlucky streak he rode before landing "Luck," his character and whether he's ready to be TV's latest object of desire.
There's a real sense of doom in "Luck," especially during the horse races. I was on the edge of my seat not wanting anybody specific to win, but more thinking, "OK, who is going to break a leg or who is going to fall off their horse or what horrible thing is going to happen?"
I know! But then other stuff happens with Dustin's storyline and people end up getting killed and you're like, "That was crazy!" When I read the script I was like, "Oh wow." I love it because in the first episode with Dustin's storyline and everything you're like, "Yeah, I kind of get it." But I didn't know and it continues to be really like shadowy and misunderstood and then he starts bringing out the big guns and it's just great [laughs], just awesome.
I was also a little worried when Leon fell down and cracked his head open in Episode 3.
Yeah, that was pretty sickening when I did that. I can't tell you how long I was lying on the floor with my face on the tarmac there, but that was really fun actually. But yeah, when I saw that for the first time I was like, "That looks really horrible." Yeah, not a very nice sound effect to go with the fall.
How does a nice guy from Essex get to get on a racetrack with a bunch of trainers and everything?
Yeah, it was kind of amazing. I had been working in England since 2005 when I left drama school. I had a regular gig on a TV show for a couple years and in between that I was doing stuff and one of the things I did was a little parody comedy called "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day," which was with Frances McDormand and Amy Adams and some other wonderful British actors. I used that as an opportunity to come over and take my first steps in America and get some representation. I did that the first year and then the second year I came out and I tested on a couple of things like "The Vampire Diaries." I went back to England in 2009, which was when the recession first hit and it was just awful. I only worked two jobs the whole year and I just—it just wasn't great.
So I took out another credit card [laughs] and decided … I needed to make something happen out here because I had had such a rubbish year. I was quite discerning the first year and when I was doing "The Vampire Diaries" thing I was like, "I'm really not sure if I want to do this; it's this whole teen thing, which I've done in England." My agent was like, "Don't be silly, you'll make great money and everything." But I wasn't sure.
So the second year I came out proper I was like, "I will do anything!" I hadn't been working and it was just crap and I figured I don't care what it is, I just need to get a job.
And then "Luck," it was just amazing really. It turned up after me being out here a few weeks.
How did that process work once your agent told you about it?
I met the casting director, … Bonnie Timmermann, who is lovely, but she was really sick, so she didn't want to greet me properly. I went in and just did my reading on the other side of the room and they called me to come back in, I guess a week later, [and read for] Michael [Mann] after he had seen the tape.
So at that point I was like, "OK so that's cool, Michael is interested." I love going in and auditioning and working with the directors. I kind of come out of my shell and shine a bit, so I was looking forward to that actually. But Michael really works with people, and Michael works by his own timeframe. So everyone auditioning for that was kept waiting for hours, no matter who you were. … I did see a couple of actors have hissy fits in the waiting area because they had been kept waiting so long, but I didn't care how long I had to wait. It was amazing.
And then I had to go in a third time … and I started a few weeks later. It was a real whole whirlwind really. A couple of weeks after that I was walking around Santa Anita [racetrack, where "Luck" is filmed] with Nick Nolte and Michael Mann and I was like, "This is just bizarre."
Did you know how to ride a horse?
I had been on a horse once or twice, and I was very honest about that in my audition because I know of people, like friends of mine, who have gotten jobs and then been in the shit because they can't ride. … I said, "I'm up for doing anything, but I'm not by any stretch of the imagination a horseman." [Laughs.]
I understand Michael Mann sort of created new ways to work with the horses.
Michael was learning as much as the rest of us about how to film with horses and what you can do with them, how close the camera can get, what they will put up with. So it was a whole lesson for everyone, but just fantastic. The horseracing scenes, really starting with Michael in the pilot, developed a whole language for filming horse races.
How much of the racing or riding is you?
There are certain things that I can't do because of insurance, but I did as much as I can and in the race sequences we devised certain ways of putting me in there, but we are trying to keep a little bit of mystique about that. [Laughs.]
It's you riding when you're warming them up.
Yeah, we did a fair bit ourselves and it was a lot of fun. The jockeys are stunt men. They risk their lives every race. It's incredible really. To be that close to the animals running at full pace, I just can't believe it; but it's such a rush. The jockeys live their lives on adrenaline rush basically and everything is a competition and they're always trying to win. They're amazing, amazing personalities, jockeys, because you have to be of a certain character type I think to be able to put up with the stress and the strain and involved in the physical aspects and the mental aspects of just being involved.
How did you do with the horses?
I'll tell you, a lot of the acting that I did on the show was me hiding my fears of what might happen next. Actually later on in the filming, because the wranglers did such a good job and we knew more what we were doing, or we looked like we knew what we were doing, everyone got a bit relaxed. There was one day when I was on a horse and a lighting thing fell down or something and the horse freaked out and everyone was surprised. I'm on the back of the horse … and I stayed on. Moments like that made me see quite how far I had come.
It's a whole give and take. They're never going to hit the mark exactly right. They're never going to go exactly the right speed that you want them to go. If you try and rein them in to go a bit slower, in the end they'll just get pissed off at you and they'll let you know. So it was a whole learning thing.
But I think certainly when the horses are on the set they're the most important people on set. I love the way that the aesthetic of the show builds on that, so straight from the pilot lots of the shots come off the backs of horses or in their eyes. I think none of us would be there if it wasn't for the horses. It's through the horses that the humanity comes in the show.
They're gorgeous, even when they're in the stalls and you just see their faces.
Yeah, and the steam coming off them and all that kind of stuff. It's amazing. I love the fact that Dustin's character and Nick's character, you see the affinity people have for the horses. You just wouldn't expect it. So it's great. I love it.
A lot of the characters hold them in great reverence. Did you find you thought that way after awhile?
Yes, and I think what's interesting about that is that it's a really deep, deep relationship, because obviously the horses can't talk to you. You can't have a discussion on that level, so it has to be a deeper kind of connection.
I remember when we were doing Phillip Noyce's episode [airing Feb. 19], I was rehearsing with him and Kerry [Condon, who plays jockey Rosie]. He was making lots of references to how when she rides that race in the episode she feels like she's been touched by the hand of God and it's a religious experience. We spoke a lot about that on that episode. I hadn't spoken about that before and I think yeah, a lot of it is some kind of religious experience because it's just a very pure emotional connection. When you're riding that race you're just in tune with each other because you have to be.
Did you talk to a lot of the jockeys?
Yeah, I spoke to a bunch of them, yeah. … People often say to me you're too tall to be a jockey and I say no, I've met 5-foot-7 jockeys, but they just have more trouble keeping their weight down.
It's a dangerous sport too. Broken collar bones happen to 100 percent of jockeys and that's one of the lightest injuries you can get. Everyone has broken bones and you basically stop when your body can't take it anymore. That's basically what stops most jockeys; they just can't do it anymore.
Another thing that surprised me is it's not specifically a young guy's sport, so it's not like American football or soccer or anything. You can do it until you drop. I went out to Louisiana, to Evangeline Downs, where my character would have raced and there was a guy in the jockey ring there in his 60s, whose wife had left him. They had broken up and he had to make money and horseracing was the only thing he knew how to do, so he had come back to the track. There were 18-year-old bug boys there and this guy and it's the only thing he knows how to do. That's another part of it, you know a lot of these guys value what they do and outside of that they find it difficult. The life and culture, it's its own microcosm for them.
How did you find racetrack culture?
A fascinating thing about the track, which I certainly didn't realize before we started shooting, is the amazing collection of people from all different parts of society that all congregate in one place to engage in the same pursuits. It's wonderful really, and everyone has the same amount of respect for each other. It doesn't matter who you are at the track because everyone is connected by the horses, by that deeper connection. They look after each other because they're all in the same game really.
I like Leon as a character because he's ambitious, but he is still so sweet. He feels a huge disappointment at the same time Rosie triumphs in Episode 4, but he wasn't jealous of her or mean to her. Tell me what you think about Leon.
I think from that standpoint he gets it; he understands that life isn't fair. Leon's storyline is really that his body is betraying him, and he understands that that's what's going to happen. He says to Joey about his brother how they measured hands against each other and Leon's hand is bigger than his yet he weighs a lot more than me. So Leon knows that there is going to be a huge problem with his weight as a he grows into a man.
What was it like working with all these big names? You have a lot of work experience, but this is kind of a bigger scale?
It's amazing. Yeah, I've been kind of fortunate. I've worked with great actors, but this is kind of on another level, especially since it was everyone together. First of all, it was David Milch and Michael Mann and then secondly onset it's Dustin and Nick and Michael Gambon ... and Richard Kind and Jason Gedrick and Ritchie Coster and Ian Hart and just everyone in the show is someone you would recognize.
I was around Dustin a lot, but I only had one scene with him proper in the show, which actually wasn't that difficult because my character in the show has the same kind of relationship with him as I do in real life. He has been around and I'm like the young guy just starting out, so that was kind of easy to do, that scene. But Dustin does like to horse around a bit onset and he did change things up a little bit when we were doing it, which is quite amusing. Well it was quite stressful for me because we were losing the light and Dustin was like, "Well why don't try this? Why don't you do it this way?" And I'm not going to say no to Dustin, so I was like, "OK, we'll do that. Oh God, we don't have much time, but OK." So we did and it was great. He still has the spirit of playing when he is acting, which is great.
Then I had a few scenes with Nick and Nick is just another kettle of fish. He represents to me a masculine archetype that doesn't really exist in Hollywood now and people are desperately touching around to find it. I was watching that Hollywood reporter roundtable of the actors and they asked someone what it was that marked out an actor and it was--oh, shit. What was it?--it was danger, like the anger or something. It's like that sense of you can really break out at any moment and I was really excited to see him do that in the show because he plays this guy who is kind of a bit broken down and unassuming and then that whole lawyer storyline happens and he goes off at the guy. I was like, "Yes, that is Nolte, that's what I wanted to see and it's just great." I'm so pleased to hear this morning that he got nominated for "Warrior" because he was so great in that as well.
I think Richard Kind, who plays Leon's agent, is really good in this.
Do you know what? I've been saying while he's been filming. I think this is career changer for Richard. I really do because he's known as a light comedy guy apart from "A Serious Man." I just think yeah, every day we're filming and Milch will write for you, so he was giving Richard all this great stuff and it was really sweet because Richard is quite neurotic and so he would be asking me, "Is this OK?" And I was like, "Richard it's going to be amazing, don't worry, it's going to be so great for you."
But I think the casting has been brilliant and everyone fits their roles really, really well. I think Jason Gedrick, it's going to be a great thing for him ... I think it's really, really great for everyone involved.
How difficult was the Cajun accent for you?
The Cajun accent was interesting. … I made a concerted effort to go to Louisiana because I had not been and met a bunch of different people and took some recordings and I worked with a voice coach in Los Angeles when we did the pilot. I went out there and made sure that I met these people and spoke to them, but in the end you have to get some kind of approximation because you can talk to one person and then a mile down the road they'll tell you they say that word differently. … It's really difficult and I know I'm going to get flack for it, but I know that I don't sound like me in the show, so for me that's enough and I'm working on it all the time. I did as much as I could, so I think it works.
How was working with Michael Mann as your director? I hear he is a real stickler for detail.
You know what, Michael does everything in his power to get the job done the best that he can and I loved it. I loved working with Michael because I need someone to push me through it and be a perfectionist. I need that. I need to be directed and I love it.
You learn little things. I learned that shorthand before this, but if I just need to know where I am in the shot then I'll ask the camera guy. Michael doesn't like that, so he's like, "No, you ask me." As soon as he said I was fine. I know now that Michael is the only person I talk to on the set when he's on the set.
We did a scene with another actor. Michael really wanted to get this other actor to do this line a certain way and we must have been on like take 25 or something and the actor wasn't doing it, but Michael isn't getting pissed at him. He is trying to work out another way of describing it, so that he'll do it. Michael has all the time in the world. He just wants to make it the best thing and he loves actors. He loves working with actors and making art and during the racing scenes he sat on the back of the truck with a camera in his hand. He filmed a lot of it, a lot of the footage with the cameramen. He is heavily involved in every aspect of production and I love it. I think it's great. Yeah, I really like Michael; we get one really well. He's great.
Here's the toughest question. Are you ready to become a sex symbol?
[Laughs.] I don't know about that.
You get the love scenes [in this Sunday's episode].
[Laughs.] If that's going to happen, I'm not sure it's going to happen from this. [Laughs.] Do you know what is so amusing because it's not really a sex scene? The first trailer that came out for the show had me and Kerry in that scene. Of course that's in there because it's the only sex scene in the whole show apart from Jason and [Weronika Rosati]. ...
On the face of it it's an older guy show, so I was quite aware that I'm like the only guy under 30 in this. That means I'm going to be getting my clothes off a lot, but it didn't seem to happen quite as much as I thought it might. I'm sure if we do it again then it will.
But no, actually it's funny, I've only really just started to engage with that side of things. I had a Vogue shoot, which came out this month and I did one for Details last week and so all that stuff is starting to happen. I still find it a bit strange. So we'll see. I don't know.
You want to give me your pitch for the show?
I just hope people enjoy it. There was a roundtable that we did a couple of weeks ago where we were asked what the show was about and I said—and maybe it was a bit strong—but what I said is it's not about horse racing. I know a lot of people will go, "Oh, it's about horse racing. I don't care about horse racing, I'm not going to watch that." Well then you're missing out because what the show is about, the hook that it's hung on, is about so much more than that. It's about the title. It's about luck and its many different connotations. Horse racing just happens to be the soul of the piece.
I think when you watch the show and get into it you get that definitely. I hope it reinvigorates the sport because if anything I want more people to experience how beautiful Santa Anita is. It's just the most amazing place and it's a great sport. In my teenage years I had a very anti-cruelty orientation and all that kind of stuff, so having spent a long time at the track and around the horses and around the people that are there, I realized the saddest thing that can happen is if anything happens to a horse.


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Additional testing by the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks shows toxic levels of the cyanobacteria blue green algae scums at the lake continue to rise. Test results from samples taken on Tuesday indicate that the toxic levels in algae accumulations in some locations are higher than what was previously recorded, and are well above what is considered safe for recreational use by the Washington Department of Health's draft recreational guidelines.
The lake remains closed to wading, swimming and "wet-water boating" activities like sailboarding. Children should not wade in the lake or play at the shoreline.
Dog owners are especially encouraged not to allow pets in the lake or to drink from the lake. The signs of toxicity in pets could be much more rapid in onset and include staggering, acute respiratory distress, convulsions and sudden death.
"Pets are the most vulnerable to the algae at Green Lake at this point," said Seattle Parks and Recreation Acting Superintendent Christopher Williams. "Most people are not in the lake at this time of year, but dogs may still find it appealing. If a dog inadvertently goes in the lake where a scum has accumulated, it should be washed off with water from a tap as soon as possible."
The lake is open to fishing and boating — activities in which users are unlikely to ingest the water. Eating the fish in the lake is most likely still safe, but should not be on a frequent basis. Scientists believe the toxins mostly concentrate in the internal organs of the fish, but not as much in the muscle tissue. Anyone fishing and eating fish from Green Lake should remove internal organs and wash their catch very well before cooking.
The highest levels at the lake on Tuesday were 419 micrograms per liter in a particularly heavy scum near the boat rental dock. The Washington Department of Health's draft recreational guidelines call for 6 micrograms per liter or lower. The test was performed by the King County Environmental Laboratory under the auspices of the Washington Department of Ecology's algae program.
"Blue green algae is buoyant and it accumulates along the shorelines because it is pushed by the wind across the lake surface," said Sally Abella, Lead Scientist for the Freshwater Monitoring Unit of the Water and Land Resources Division at King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks."That's how it becomes concentrated along the shorelines. That will happen even with light, steady winds."
The closure will be in effect until the algae bloom has completed its lifecycle. This could be weeks or months, depending on the fall weather and how it affects the algae in the lake.
Warm, dry weather will promote the continuation of the bloom. Blooms have been known to last well into winter, particularly after a warm autumn. Typically, the blooms disappear as autumn progresses and the temperatures get colder.
King County scientists will continue to monitor the lake on a weekly basis. Parks will reopen the lake when three consecutive tests show the toxin has fallen below the draft recreational guideline.
Green Lake is home to photosynthetic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae that are regularly present in small numbers. When nutrients are available and the weather is warm, the conditions are right for an algae bloom to take place. Winds concentrate the buoyant cyanobacteria into accumulations, or scums, along the shoreline, which may increase the amount of toxin that could be ingested by pets or people using the lake recreationally.
The lake was closed in 1999, 2002 and 2003 for toxic algae blooms. Intense blooms of blue-green algae have occurred in Green Lake since 1916.
Testing from areas outside the scum accumulations indicates that away from the scums, toxicity is below the recreational guideline – at a level of 1 microgram per liter.
Symptoms of illness from cyanobacterial toxins can include skin rash and eye, nose and mouth irritation from contact with contaminated water. Swallowing the toxins can cause sore throat, wheezing, flu-like illness with fever, headache and muscle aches, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and in severe cases, liver damage. Use clean water to promptly rinse skin that has been in contact with lake water. If symptoms occur after ingesting lake water, park users should consult a health care professional immediately.
For more information on cyanobacteria, please visit King County's Major Lakes Monitoring webpage or the Washington Department of Health toxic algae website.

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Uses of the Buffalo
Traveling Resource Trunk
Grades two and seven
It is often said that the buffalo was the general store for the Plains Indians. It was so important that the lives of those American Indians living on the Great Plains revolved around it. Their reliance on the buffalo extended far beyond that of food.
Examine items such as a buffalo bladder, parfleche, scapula, and sinew as you ask questions, find answers, and learn the about the buffalo and the Plains Indians.
Lessons in this trunk are designed to correlate with the second grade study of then and now and the seventh grade study of the impact of settlement on the lives of the Plains Indians.
The items contained in this trunk make it a great program addition in non-classroom settings. Youth groups find it useful in meeting badge or project requirements. The hands-on components lend themselves to discovery center areas in museums and libraries. The objects in the trunk bring additional meaning to programs in retirement and assisted living centers.
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_Conrad AikenWe were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain,
We do not remember the red roots whence we rose,
But we know that we rose and walked, that after a while
We shall lie down again.
One of us sings in the street, and we listen to him;
The words ring over us like vague bells of sorrow.
He sings of a house he lived in long ago.
It is strange; this house of dust was the house I lived in;
The house you lived in, the house that all of us know.


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BASKETBALL: Tigers trump Triad
WAYNESFIELD — One Waynesfield-Goshen Tigers recorded a double-double and another narrowly missed the honor as the Tigers took control early in their second win of the season.
The Tigers started out fast and forced a slew of Triad Cardinal turnovers as they outdistanced the Champaign County team, 72-53, in varsity boys basketball action.
"I thought we played pretty strong," Tiger varsity coach Ryan Taylor said. "Defense was good and our guys are pretty aggressive. We had good effort form Garret Hauenstein, Lee Turner and Dylan Little."
Tiger junior forward Lee Turner scored 21 points and grabbed 13 rebounds for a double-double, while teammate junior guard Dylan Little scored 25 points and cleaned the glass for nine rebounds — missing the mark by one board.
The Tigers defense limited the Cardinals in scoring and forced a steady flow of turnovers.
The Cardinals only managed to put up 14 points before halftime.
"During the first half Waynesfield-Goshen out hustled us and they handled the ball better than we did," Cardinal varsity coach John Millice said. "We got to the basket a little more during the second half.
"The kids did a good job penetrating but unfortunately we couldn't make that outside shot. Free throws helped us during the last half," he said.
Triad played better during the second half and made 39 more points but that wasn't enough to stop the Tigers as they still stayed ahead. The Tigers ran into foul trouble early in the third quarter which put Cardinals in double bonus.
Triad's Junior Christopher Nott made two 3-pointers back to back on his way to 10 points in the contest to give the Cardinals a glimmer of hope. Another 3-point shot was made during the fourth quarter by sophomore Seth Donohoe who had a total of nine points in the game.
The Tigers hope to keep up the fast pace as they face the New Knoxville Rangers on Friday at 6 p.m. at Waynesfield-Goshen.
"It's always tough going against New Knoxville," Taylor said. "We always struggled in the past with them but we hope to turn that around."
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Did you follow that? Some "non-bird" feathered dinosaurs may have been birds?
Science writer Jennifer Viegas in Discovery News summarizes a research paper which had been published in February 2009 Medical Hypotheses.
What is a non-avian dinosaur? Or more to the point, why are certain of God's creatures known broadly as non-avian dinosaurs? After all, aren't all creatures either avians or non-avians?
It's because in the absence of that description people would think that they were birds! In order to support the evolutionists current dinosaur to bird mythology, however, science needs these birds to be dinosaurs.
Suppose evolutionists had a mythology that t-rex's evolved into dogs. Certain extremely dog-like fossils would be named; –non-dog-ian dinosaurs. (non-canine-dinosaurs)That way everyone would "know". .
"Storrs Olson, Curator of Birds at the Smithsonian noted that a cadre of "zealots" were trying to "actively promulgate the theropod dinosaur origin of birds theory in concert with Nature and National Geo". They were in fact working to convince the public that it was all "settled science'.
Olson called them "highly biased proselytizers of the faith", which really had to sting. Shortly thereafter, their golden transitional feathered dinosaur fossil, Archaeoraptor, turned out to be made up of Elmer's Glue, multiple fossils and imagination."..s8int.com Source
It should be noted that unlike most other scientific journals, Medical Hypotheses does not require that the articles they publish be "peer reviewed" which explains how an article that suggests that birds might in fact be birds–got published in the first place.
Some non-dumb scientists may have been……
Thank you, Chris Z
Some "Non-Avian Feathered Dinosaurs" May Have Been Birds .
By Jennifer Viegas Thu Jan 7, 2010, Discovery News
"So called "non-avian theropod" dinosaurs from the Cretaceous had feathers, nests, laid eggs and roosted like birds. If they were so much like birds, why don't we just say they were birds?
A paper in the February issue of Medical Hypotheses argues that these "dinosaurs" could very well, in fact, have been birds. The group includes what are now called troodontids and oviraptorids.
All birds are technically avian dinosaurs,(!!!!) but there's still controversy over exactly how and when the first actual birds emerged.
UC Berkeley's J. Lee Kavanau, the author of the paper, argues that there is ample evidence supporting that troodontids and oviraptorids were secondary flightless birds. These birds, like today's ostriches and emus, lost their ability to fly, but retained their feathers.
"This evidence ranges from bird-like bodies and bone designs, adapted for climbing, perching, gliding, and ultimately flight, to relatively large, highly developed brains, poor sense of smell, and their feeding habits," Kavanau writes. "Because ratites also are secondarily flightless and tinamous are reluctant, clumsy fliers, the new evidence strengthens the view that troodontids and oviraptorids were secondarily flightless.""


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Question: In search of a wedding white buttercream icing that holds up well in warm temperatures
February 7, 2011
Hi Michelle,
I create a lot of cakes for different types of events througthout the year. To stabilize your frosting add shortening. I cream my butter then add shortening and cream until well incorporated. At this point I add my flavorings. If you or your clients like that butter flavor Wilton makes a clear butter falvoring, add a little at a time, it goes a long way.
Here is a recipe I found on Baking911.com (at the bottom of recipe you will see a note on warm weather use)
I hope this has been helpful!
The Perfect Buttercream Icing Recipe
By Tami Smith
Makes enough for 1, 9-inch 4 layer cake plus decoration or enough icing for a 9x13 with decoration. For larger cakes you will need to double the batch (only if you have a 7qt or 12 qt mixer) or make several batches.
2 cups Crisco Shortening
1 stick butter, slightly soft but not mushy
1/4 to 1/2 cup heavy cream
2 tsp. clear vanilla
2 pounds (8 cups) powdered sugar, sifted (measure, then sift)
For 2 layers or 24 cupcakes:
1 cup Crisco Shortening
1/2 stick butter, slightly soft not mushy
2 TBSPS (1/8) to 4 TBSPS (1/4 cup) heavy cream
1 tsp. clear vanilla
1 pound (4 cups) powdered sugar, sifted (measure than sift)
For 1 layer or 12 cupcakes:
1/2 cup Crisco Shortening
1/4 stick butter, slightly soft not mushy
1 TBSP to 2 TBSPS (1/8 cup) heavy cream
1/2 tsp. clear vanilla
1/2 pound (2 cups) powdered sugar, sifted (measure than sift)
In your mixer bowl, beat the shortening until it's smooth, add the butter and cream together until smooth and light and fluffy. Add smaller amount of the heavy cream and the vanilla and mix well.
Add half the powdered sugar and mix for 5 minutes on low-med. speed. Add remaining sugar and mix well. Add more cream or powdered sugar if necessary to adjust the consistency.
Chocolate Buttercream: Stir in 2 squares melted chocolate. If not enough, add 1 more melted square at a time. For the best Chocolate Icing, go to the Chocolate Ganache Recipe.
A Note: For a fluffier one, beat the buttercream on a low - med. speed for about another 10 minutes. For a super smooth (not fluffy) buttercream, don't beat as long as 5 minutes. This buttercream will be more white when it's beaten longer.
Use immediately; it's easiest to smooth out when it's fresh. I'm asked all the time about this icing crusting and how long it can be left out. So, it doesn't really crust, it will need smoothed with a hot knife if you want a super smooth surface. This is great because a cake can be done one night and the icing will still be creamy the next day for serving.
As for sitting out, I have left this buttercream in a tight Tupperware for several days at room temperature, several weeks in the refrigerator or several months (6+) in the freezer without problems.
No matter how you store the buttercream, be sure to beat it vigorously with a heavy spoon before using to take away the spongy texture.
Use 1 teaspoon of regular vanilla extract (beat longer so the color of the buttercream turns white)
PLUS 1/2 teaspoon of almond, lemon or orange extracts
1 teaspoon orange, lemon or lime peel to match the extracts
Plus 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
For a buttery buttercream:
I wanted a good all-purpose frosting that was good enough for cupcakes, yet would hold up to a wedding cake in June and my buttercream icing isn't written into stone. I add enough butter to flavor the buttercream, but not enough so that it breaks down easily, perfect for a warm day.
For a more "buttery" buttercream, use more butter, or even all butter. I like to use European butter and a smaller amount of powdered sugar when I make icing for cupcakes or for a simple after school "snack" cake, the kind you make in a square pan and just frost in the pan. That is my family's favorite snack and it always goes quickly.
Just use about 2 sticks of firm cold butter and beat in 1 pound of powdered sugar and add a pinch of salt, 1 tsp of vanilla and a little cream or milk to make a smooth consistency for a very buttery buttercream. It will be fine for a family cake, but it won't hold up for a large wedding type cake! And with too much decorating it will start to melt in the piping bag, especially if you have hot hand like I do!!
For warm weather: As a general rule, buttercream does not hold-up well in warm, humid weather. Tami's Buttercream will hold up better if you use all shortening instead of butter. (Substitute the butter in the recipe with shortening and in addition, add in the shortening called for in the recipe). Also, at most, substitute 1 tablespoon powdered sugar with meringue powder for every 1 cup powdered sugar used.
February 7, 2011
You might also consider a cream cheese based frosting:
They hold up much better to heat than butter cream.
February 7, 2011
Hi, Cream cheese frosting can still soften in warm weather. If you use cream cheese still add shortening. I made a wedding cake for a June wedding, a very hot day, but the bride requested cream cheese. I had to ask for the air conditioning to be turned up because the frosting started to sag. Good Luck! Bernadette
February 8, 2011
Bernadette, You just copied and pasted The Perfect Buttercream Icing Recipe By Tami Smith from baking911.com without permission. This is a paid, subscription site. Sarah Phillips, CEO http://www.baking911.com We have over 2,000 unqiue recipes on our site. We love our members and rely on paid subscriptions - ONLY $19.95 per year - rather than on advertising.or sponsorships. We do not give away our recipes and expert advice for a reason - we are an online cookbook and and a business.....
In essence, you are giving away OUR content for free without our permission. It's not fair. How would you like us to give away one of your decorated cakes for nothing just because someone else needs it?
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Wow, Sarah. With that nasty comment I'll definately not subscribe to your overpriced site! Bernadette appropriately credited the recipe and actually advertised your site so stop whining. It doesn't sound like you have anything that special anyway-certainly not something people can't look up for free! It's out there already so say something like "we appreciate the enthusiasm for our recipe but we encourage people to subscribe to our site. Please help our business by not posting recipes without permission. For other great recipes visit our site for just $00 a year!" instead you just turned your demographic against you. Bad business, ladies.
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Evidence from DenmarkBechmann, Ken L.; Raaballe, Johannes (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Abstract It is often asserted that stock splits and stock dividends are purely cosmetic events. However, many studies have documented several stock market effects associated with stock splits and stock dividends. This paper examines the effects of these two types of events for the Danish stock market. Consistent with the existing literature, the two events are associated with a significantly positive announcement effect of ap- proximately 2.5%. However, when examining the two events more carefully, several important results are obtained. First, a firm's motivation for announcing the two events is completely different. Second, the positive stock market reaction is closely related to associated changes in a firm's payout policy, but the relationship varies for the two types of events. Finally, there is only very weak evidence for a change in the liquidity of the stock. On the whole, after controlling for the firm's payout policy, the results suggest that a stock split is a cosmetic event and that a stock dividend on its own is considered negative news. Key words: Stock splits; Stock dividends; Cash dividends; Signaling; Liquidity URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7181
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Law enforcement officers arrested a Florida pastor Wednesday as he drove to a park to light nearly 3,000 Qurans on fire to protest the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Polk County sheriff's deputies arrested Pastor Terry Jones, 61, and his associate pastor, Marvin Sapp Jr., 44, each on a felony charge of unlawful conveyance of fuel as they traveled in a pickup truck towing a large barbecue-style grill filled with Qurans soaked in kerosene. Jones had doused the Qurans after he met Sapp at a McDonald's, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Wednesday night.
Sheriff's officials said that Jones was also charged with unlawful open-carry of a firearm, a misdemeanor, and that Sapp faces a charge of having no valid registration for the trailer.
When Jones got out of his vehicle at the McDonald's on State Road 60 in Mulberry he was openly carrying a firearm, Judd said.
"As he prepared to go to the park to burn the Qurans as he said he was going to do in violation of the law, the next thing he did was opened up a drum, a container, that he towed behind his truck. And then he took kerosene and doused the Qurans in the parking lot of McDonald's," Judd said at a press conference. "The McDonald's manager came and told him to leave. Well, now what he's done is he's taken a flammable liquid from a legal container and put it or poured it into an illegal container."
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Mulberry's mayor, along with area elected officials, a sheriff's deputy and several Polk County residents have talked about the need to express love and tolerance for all faiths on Sept. 11.
Jones is the pastor of a small evangelical Christian church. He first gained attention in 2010 when he planned to burn a Quran on 9/11, although he eventually called it off. His congregation did burn the Muslim holy book in March 2011 and last year he promoted an anti-Muslim film. All three incidents sparked violence in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
The most violent protest happened after the 2011 Quran burning as hundreds of protesters stormed a U.N. compound in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, killing seven foreigners, including four Nepalese guards.
Jones has repeatedly ignored pleas from the U.S. military asking him not to stage his protests. Military officials say his actions put American and Western troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere in danger.
Mulberry is a town of about 3,000 between Orlando and Tampa and has no connection to Jones' church, which recently moved out of its Gainesville building.
Judd said Wednesday that Jones "has made it abundantly clear that he intended to come to Polk County and express his First Amendment rights by burning Qurans."
Jones had said he would burn 2,998 Qurans — one for every victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
At first Jones was going to do it at a local resident's home, until the man decided he didn't want that to happen. Then Jones said he would burn the holy books and make a public statement at Loyce Harpe Park in Mulberry, Judd said. But the pastor didn't make an effort to get a permit until the latter part of last week, which was not enough time, and officials turned down his request, Judd said.
"He then told our detectives that he was going to come to the park without a permit and that he was going to burn the Qurans on the park property. We explained clearly to him that that was a violation of law," the sheriff said.
Authorities told him he had a First Amendment right to free speech, and encouraged him to make any statements he wanted at the park.
But, Judd said, "We clearly told him, if you come to Polk County and violate the law, you will go to jail and that's the way it is."
An Egyptian court convicted Jones, along with seven Egyptian Coptic Christians in absentia, sentencing them to death on charges linked to the film. The ruling was seen as largely symbolic because Jones and the other defendants live outside of Egypt.
Just last week, a federal judge in Michigan issued a summary judgment in favor of Jones and his organization, Stand Up America Now, against the city of Dearborn for requiring Jones and his organization to sign a city-issued agreement in order to speak on public property in front of a Dearborn mosque in 2012.
Earlier Wednesday, about 75 people gathered In Mulberry for an interfaith prayer service to counter Jones' actions.
Mike Ghouse, who has organized a 9/11 prayer service in his home state of Texas for nine years, brought his event to Mulberry because of Jones' planned Quran burning. He initially had planned to hold the service in Texas but teamed with a group of Mulberry residents who had organized an anti-Jones Facebook page.
"Everyone has a right to believe what they believe," said Ghouse, adding that it was Jones' right as an American to express himself. Others said that while Jones was free to say or do whatever he wanted, the people of Mulberry didn't want the world to think that the residents condone or agree with Jones' views.
"We don't buy what Jones is selling," said Polk County resident Butch Rahman.
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I don't usually do this, but I'll piggy back off a question from another blog since it is kind of fun and definitely useful to see how other people approach things. The question came from the AMS Grad Student Blog. Here's a glimpse into my research process:
This was also an experiment to see if I could publish directly from a document created in Google Drive (which you can!). What's your research process like?


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19 comments:
- Jai said...
The part I like most about this strip is where it reminds me of The Secret Of Monkey Island, which I just finished playing the XBLA version (Highly recommended!) of last night. Aye, come an' have a mug o' grog wi' me.
GROG! It'll melt hair off your chest!
(The "noises of surprise" are still written terribly. Has Kurtz seen them done this way before, somewhere? Do they create sounds that make sense in his head, though they don't in mine? Is it just... I don't know, the best he could do on short notice? They are a crude and embarrassing something that I would never expect to see in any of the dozens of other professional webcomics I read -- just like I would never expect to see any of those dozens of artists committing the plageristic act of tracing characters from an image search engine).
- July 21, 2009 at 1:36 PM
- A Nonny Mouse said...
I've worked out one way that "goo" makes some sort of sense: if it's something like "good lord!" cut short due to surprise making the completion of the phrase too difficult.
I doubt that was the intention though, as it would have been written something like "GOO-!"
- July 21, 2009 at 11:29 PM
- rdy said...
I wonder if SK is going for a world record of having the same joke five days in a row? You can do it! Three down, only two to go!
- July 22, 2009 at 10:14 AM
- TheOriginalJes said...
I believe it's an obvious "comedy of errors" routine. Sort of like a Buster Keaton or Three Stooges.
I wonder if tomorrow will just be a room in 8 different panels, with people coming and going, while just missing each other.
It would probably be just as funny as today's.
- July 22, 2009 at 1:30 PM
- Jai said...
So, let me see if I've got this straight:
- There is another "UT!" Short for "utterance!", maybe?
- The rogue was paid in advance for the assassination, because the target was who hired him. And he thought this was a good idea. And he bothered to return the money.
- Binwin had to open and read the assassination order to see who hired the rogue. But he'd "rather not say" that he ordered the hit, implying that he already knew.
- Binwin no longer has enough blood left for it to make an appearance when a dagger enters his back.
- This is pretty sad. If it leads into a lame "Yeah, I placed this sort of bet on my own life for a dare a long time ago" finale I'm going to be even more sad. This is the Week of the One Joke, so far, and I'm far from anxious to see tomorrow's strip.
- July 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM
- Chris said...
Meh, I've given up on this week.
Snore. Horrid writing, completely unfunny punchlines, etc.
Honestly, been enjoying the daily guest strips on QuestionableContent far more. At least they're creative, if not actually pretty funny.
- July 23, 2009 at 4:28 PM
- Dave said...
Jai - you were right...
- July 24, 2009 at 4:02 AM
- TheOriginalJes said...
Ho, hum...same old strip.
Did you ever have a day when you feel like you've read and critiqued it all?
All the humor has gone out of this strip.
(To borrow from Jim Davis.)
- July 24, 2009 at 5:35 AM
This entire week brought to you courtesy of Pink Panther, which did far better.
- July 24, 2009 at 12:56 PM
- D said...
I didn't get this arc at all. Where's the funny?
Is there a solid joke in this series of strips? I think I must have missed much of it because I'm not a table-top gamer or a world of warcraft fanatic.
Tangent time, I miss the days that this blog was updated daily along with the PVP releases. There was a sense of immediacy that I liked. I'm not here to put anyone down. I know life can get in the way of hobbies.
Let's shake the cage a bit fellas, or at least tap the glass.
- July 26, 2009 at 7:54 PM
- Jai said...
Clothes Make The Fan: Today, we learn that Scott Kurtz is a lot cooler than nerds.
- July 27, 2009 at 4:42 PM
- Jai said...
Hmm, I just realized that the previous comment can (And probably will) be easily misinterpreted.
If you interpret it as "This strip was not actually amusing; it merely points out what is obvious", then you understood me correctly! If you interpret it as "It is laughable that Kurtz could be cooler than the type of nerd he just mocked", then I'm afraid you were wrong.
- July 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM
- rdy said...
It's a shame Penny Arcade don't do as many of these 'from the road' strips as they used to.
- July 27, 2009 at 6:02 PM
- TheOriginalJes said...
It's a bit like biting the hand that feeds.
If he thinks that's bad, he should attend a steampunk convention.
- July 28, 2009 at 6:37 AM
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- November 27, 2012 at 3:47 PM
- kold_kadavr_ flatliner said...
C'est la vie.
Only the Truth is spoken
in our finite existence, dood,
and if you dont wanna hear it,
and adapt accordingly to wiseabove,
who's fault is that??
Im only the prophet.
trustNjesus ALONE, dood.
God bless your indelible soul.
- April 8, 2017 at 6:18 AM
- kold_kadavr_ flatliner said...
C'est la vie.
Only the Truth is spoken
in our finite existence, dood,
and if you dont wanna hear it,
and adapt accordingly to wiseabove,
who's fault is that??
Im only the prophet.
trustNjesus ALONE, dood.
God bless your indelible soul.
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COUDERSPORT, Pa. — An elementary school music teacher has been jailed on charges that he walked into a north-central Pennsylvania church service and shot and killed his ex-wife.
The defense attorney for 52-year-old Gregory Eldred, of Coudersport, did not immediately return a call for comment Monday.
Eldred is charged with first-degree murder for Sunday's shooting of 53-year-old Darlene Sitler, also of Coudersport.
Troopers from the Coudersport barracks did not immediately offer a description or explanation of the shooting at the First United Presbyterian Church where, the Bradford Era reports, Sitler served as organist and choir director.
Police say Eldred shot Sitler Sunday about 11:20 a.m. during a church service, but that nobody else was injured.
Others in the congregation grabbed Eldred and held him until police arrived.


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Oh No, Not Again
Last Sunday game against the Giants was another rerun, one that has played over and over again in recent years. I have talked about it before, and sadly it seems I will be talking about it for a while still.
Watching the game, I remember being extremely happy that we scored on a great touchdown catch by Roy Williams, I was ecstatic. Up 10-0, looking as if we would be able to beat the Giants with less than 2 minutes before halftime and we had been doing a good job on shutting down the Giants. Then it happened. The defense let them go down and score pretty easily.
I ran upstairs to check on my son and came back down and see we are losing 14-10. I thought, what in the world happened!?
Come to find out, Marion Barber had fumbled the ball back to the Giants. Then I seen the replay of Brandon Jacobs running for a 74-yard touchdown. I was in shock, to say the least!
All of my dreams of beating the Giants were being shattered. Then it gets worse. We let them run back a punt for a touchdown. That's when it really became a nightmare.
So continues the talk of how we can't win a game in December. We definitely have to do something to stop this pattern.
We have the Chargers coming up and then the almighty, undefeated Saints. The Cowboys really need to figure out how to win in December or else we will be left sitting at home watching the Eagles win the division and head to playoffs.


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The ranking will usually leak out late March or early April and the official magazine usually comes out mid to late April.
The grad school rankings will come out on April 15 according to the website. http://www.usnews.com/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2010/03/25/the-grad-school-rankings-are-coming-soon.html
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Worley adjusting to offseason curveball
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Vance Worley was all set to go pick up his engagement ring.
He had just returned from a vacation in Hawaii with his girlfriend, Maricel Vivas, and had everything lined up for their future together.
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Vance Worley was all set to go pick up his engagement ring.
He had just returned from a vacation in Hawaii with his girlfriend, Maricel Vivas, and had everything lined up for their future together.
They had even recently signed a one-year lease on a three-bedroom house outside Philadelphia in New Jersey for his upcoming season with the Phillies.
But then one phone call from Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. on Dec. 6 changed it all.
"I get the call from Ruben Amaro saying, 'Hey, we just traded you to the Twins,' and I'm thinking, 'I'm supposed to get my ring today,'" Worley said with a laugh.
In an instant, Worley's plans for the upcoming season -- and beyond -- were turned upside down.
He had to scramble to see if he could get out of the lease, and is still in the process of trying to negotiate that with the homeowner. But he did propose to Vivas -- they're planning to get married in Philadelphia in November -- and the couple has warmed up to the idea of him pitching in a Twins uniform and even found a place to live in Minneapolis while he was in town for TwinsFest.
"I'm very excited," Worley said. "I'm ready to be healthy and get back to pitching the way I can."
Worley, 25, is coming off elbow surgery, as he had a bone chip removed from his elbow in September. He said he noticed something was wrong with his elbow early in the season because he had trouble throwing between starts.
He couldn't locate his pitches unless he gave maximum effort in bullpen sessions and by the time he was shut down in late August, he could barely throw a baseball 90 feet between outings.
Worley, though, was still able to post a 4.20 ERA in 133 innings despite the discomfort. But he wasn't quite the same as he was in '11, when he posted a 3.01 ERA in 131 2/3 innings en route to finishing third in the National League Rookie of the Year balloting.
"I had to make do with what I had," said Worley, who has a career 3.50 ERA in 277 2/3 innings.
But the surgery fixed everything, and Worley was quickly ahead of schedule, as he was able to keep his full range of motion immediately after the operation. He was throwing again in October and said his elbow issue is a thing of the past.
So Worley is now focused on the future and could even start for the Twins on Opening Day against the Tigers on April 1 if left-hander Scott Diamond isn't ready to go after undergoing the same operation in December.
"It would mean a lot," Worley said about the potential of starting on Opening Day. "It means they trust me coming from another organization, No. 1, and No. 2, it means they trust me to take the ball on Game 1. So that's big. It means you mean something to the organization."
Worley is part of the club's movement to add impact arms, as he came over with prospect Trevor May with outfielder Ben Revere going to the Phillies. The Twins also acquired prospect Alex Meyer in the trade that sent center fielder Denard Span to Washington.
He said he hopes to pass down the knowledge he learned from Philadelphia's trio of frontline starters -- Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels -- to Twins pitchers, and that he fits right in with his new teammates.
"It's laid back here, from the players to the coaching staff," said Worley, who hails from Sacramento, Calif., and played his college ball at Long Beach State. "You just do it right and do it right the first time."
Worley, though, will be making the transition to the American League, which can be tougher on pitchers because of the designated hitter. But Worley is excited about that challenge and is also moving from a hitters' paradise in Citizens Bank Park to a pitchers' park in Target Field.
"I'm not really too worried about it," Worley said. "Obviously, people keep talking about how different it is and how they swing more. So I think it's great. In the National League, sometimes I felt I couldn't get guys to swing."
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire also isn't too concerned about Worley making the switch, as he's ready to count on the right-hander this year in the club's revamped rotation after Minnesota starters finished with the second-worst ERA in baseball last year.
"We know he wants the ball, and he's going to go at them," Gardenhire said. "He can punch a few guys out here and there. He's pitched in a pretty tough ballpark in Philadelphia, so I think he knows how to work his way around that stuff."
But as Worley found out this offseason, sometimes it's life, and not just the hitters, you have to worry about in the crazy world of being a big league pitcher.
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger.


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Regional road funding 'a fantastic result'
Road groups have welcomed funding for upgrades announced yesterday but public transport advocates say there is a hole in the Victorian Budget.
The state budget includes more than $200 million funding for Melbourne's East-West link, as well as more than $280 million for road upgrades across the state.
The RACV's Brian Negus has welcomed the investment in regional roads.
"This is a fantastic result for all road users across Victoria," he said.
There is money for new train stations at Epsom in central Victoria and Grovedale in south-west Victoria, as well as $60 million to upgrade regional train communications.
That is meant to improve reliability but Tony Morton from the Public Transport Users Association is not impressed.
"It's another minor initiative that helps makes incremental changes to the system but we're not seeing anything transformative here," he said.
He says the Government is too focused on road transport.
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