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In his comments about health care at the NAACP forum (reported before the congressional election), Green Party candidate David Kulma said "that he was a big advocate for 'Medicare For All' universal health care."
He said that means "we would all get a Medicare card and this means you wouldn't pay any premiums, you wouldn't pay co-pays, you wouldn't pay doctors. Your health care would be covered with medically necessary things. So dental, emergency services, most of the things you could think would be covered."
Because I take pride in my community and value those who serve in it, I would like to take a moment to thank a few organizations and individuals.
I want to thank the J. Marion Sims Foundation for supporting the Citadel House. Also thanks to the chamber of commerce, the United Way, The Lancaster News and the many individuals who came out to our open house ribbon cutting on June 21.
I am so grateful to you all for all you have done to support this new 90-day supportive-service homeless shelter here in Lancaster.
This is a response to Charles A. Bundy's column in Friday's Lancaster News, headlined "Negativism, resistance to president must end so we can solve problems."
The Republicans have majorities in both houses of Congress, so they can pass any legislation they want. But the writer states that "Democrats, supported by an unhappy and embarrassed media, have thrown up every conceivable stumbling block to the orderly formation of a new government."
Obamacare has been burdensome for small business. This week, the Senate has a chance to do something about it.
Year after year, when the National Federation of Independent Business surveys its members, they say their No. 1 priority is health care, but the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, has made things more difficult for them. Its onerous taxes and mandates have increased costs and reduced choices.
Democrats are in a near electoral collapse across the country.
Republicans control both chambers of Congress and the White House. They have control of 33 governorships and 69 out of 99 state legislative chambers. (Nebraska has only one.) In the past eight years, Democrats have lost almost 1,000 elective seats nationally.
The world and social media are on fire because President Trump stopped our participation in the Paris climate pact. Who would have thought an American president would have actually sided with the people who elected him?
He stood for us and not some globalist big shot or Hollywood star or the news media or even big business moguls who were set to make money at the people's expense of lost jobs.
I am a resident of the 5th Congressional District and work at Nutramax Laboratories in Lancaster. I am proud to be an American. I love God, my family and this country. I am a Christ-follower, which guides every aspect of my life including serving others, especially in our own community.
Republican Ralph Norman and Democrat Archie Parnell are running for Mick Mulvaney's vacated 5th District congressional seat.
Special elections for Congress in Kansas, Montana and Georgia have gotten much national attention, but the S.C. race has not. Why? Because the 5th District is considered "safe" by the Republicans, and the Democrats see it as unwinnable.
Joseph DelMaster's anti-Trump diatribe on Wednesday's opinion page, his excuse for supporting Archie Parnell for Congress, was mostly ridiculous and false.
He parrots stale Democratic propaganda about President Trump being an embarrassment in the world, with nothing to back it up.
DelMaster asks if we are prepared to send a new Republican to Congress? We did with Mick Mulvaney, and this voter is well prepared to continue his excellent legacy. Voters did just choose Trump, so yes we are prepared to elect those who will support our choice.
I will vote for Archie Parnell for Congress on Tuesday, and I hope you will do the same.
Parnell believes that if you paid into Social Security and Medicare, you have earned it. He will stand up for families and defend health care and Medicare.
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CANTON, Ohio—A northeast Ohio city will soon see a 23-foot sculpture to mark the founding of the National Football League.
Canton is home to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Repository in Canton ( http://bit.ly/11zqCtg) reports the city's downtown could receive the piece entitled "Birth of the NFL" as early as October. The sculpture is made from steel, stainless steel and glass.
Denver-based artist Michael Clapper told the newspaper his design will include a transparent spheroid from which the letters N, F and L will be suspended. He says the sculpture will look like a football to those who are football fans.
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The response was underwhelming to say the least, as the majority of banking leaders provided examples of 'works in progress' or 'initial wins', with some of the most mentioned case studies being in the areas of risk and fraud prevention as opposed to marketing.
In addition to a post on big data by Aite Group's Ron Shevlin on The Financial Brand, and widely covered discussions about 'big data hype' on blogs from Gartner and CapGemini this past week, most industry leaders believe banks need to focus on data close to home before expanding their pursuit of the next shiny object. To this end, a friend from the U.K. offered to provide a guest post on the topic from his perspective as a supplier to the financial services industry.
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"Secrets are the spots in our lives where we are most devoted to being preachy." ~Penelope Trunk
Certain people in my life seem heavily invested in convincing me about their life choices. For instance, a stay-at-home mom I know frequently points out that the reason her children are thriving is because she's been so dedicated to their well-being, as if women who've chosen to work outside the home have not.
Another friend whose husband cheated (before I realized mine was too) defended her choice to divorce (though I wasn't judging her for it. I figured I'd divorce too) by citing all the ways in which it was impossible to reconcile with someone who had done such a thing. She later, in a moment of candor and after I'd decided to reconcile, admitted that she regretted the divorce.
In other words, the people who most vehemently defend their life choices are generally the ones most unsure about them. Please agree with me, their words say. Please tell me I'm doing the right thing.
We all fear making mistakes. I think the so-called Mommy Wars are nothing more than women at their most vulnerable trying to convince themselves that their way is the best way. Those who feel safe in their choices don't have a need to convince anyone else. Those who trust their own experience – and response to it – aren't threatened by someone choosing differently.
Life is messy. Husbands do sometimes cheat again (or never stop). Ex-husbands sometimes turn out to have learned a painful lesson that positively impacts their future relationships. Careers don't work out. Kids rebel. For all our best intentions, life generally doesn't go exactly how we'd like it to go.
Which is why it's so crucial that we make our choices based on what feels best for us, regardless of what those around us are telling us. They aren't the ones who have to live our choices.
If we're unsure what's best? We need to give ourselves some time to get clear. Or at least clearer. It might help to solicit advice from those who've proven wise and compassionate.
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UPDATE:EA has told MCV that Need for Speed has NOT become an EA Sports game, blaming "confusion" for the claim in Polygon's piece. Matt Bilbey will be involved with the game, however.
ORIGINAL STORY: EA's Need for Speed series has changed gear once again with news that control of the IP has been handed to EA Sports.
Patrick Soderlund, the publisher's current executive vice president of EA Studios, has told Polygon that EA Sports is still under the control of Matt Bilbey, who has been working directly with both Soderlund and EA Ghost Games boss Marcus Nilsson on concocting a future vision for the series.
"Matt will run FIFA, he runs UFC, he also runs NHL. We're also putting Need for Speed and our driving business under Matt," Soderlund stated. We think that could benefit from fresh eyes, could benefit from some different thinking, and we think that Matt is the right guy to do that. He's got a very different viewpoint about how to make games and what great games.
"I think that we can learn a lot from the sports games and what they've done. When you play a sports game, the controller in your hand will dictate how good the game is. It's all about player control and input and how it feels. It's a feeling, right? I think that focus on pure gameplay, is something that can benefit the Need for Speed brand in a very positive way.
When you've had a franchise that's been going on for 20 years like Need for Speed, I think it was time for us to get a different pair of eyes on it, a fresh look and feel on it. If something can come in and make take it to the next level, take it to a different direction."
It's certainly fair to say that while Need for Speed has fortunately recovered from the critical lashing it got in the mid-to-late 2000s, it remains an unpredictable series – in the last seven years there have been 11 NFS games from a total of 12 different developers with Metacritic scores ranging from 64 to 88.
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Here's the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
State of the Fukushima Reactors
Japan's government has consulted the country's fishing industry on plans to dump contaminated groundwater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has attempted to assure the National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations that contamination levels of the water will be kept below Japan's legal limit. Plant operator TEPCO says any groundwater pumped into the ocean will be contaminated with "less than one becquerel of cesium-134 and cesium-137 per liter of water, less than 5 becquerels of strontium-90 and other substances that emit beta particles, and less than 1,500 becquerels of tritium." Around 400 tons of groundwater run into the Fukushima site every day. The plan hopes to divert this flow before it can enter the basements of the damaged reactors where it becomes highly contaminated. Hiroshi Kishi, chairman of the National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations said he understood the need for such measures but added they could not take place without the understanding of fishermen.
As expected, TEPCO has officially retired reactors 5 and 6 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The reactors, which were offline at the time of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and were undamaged, will now become research facilities to explore decommissioning technologies which can then be used on the other four, damaged reactors. With the closure of reactors 5 and 6, Japan now has 48 commercial nuclear reactors, all of which are currently idle.
A team of journalist from the Asahi Shimbun newspaper have been given access to the damaged building of reactor 4 which they describe as a "a gutted shell and conditions there remain extremely hazardous" where "rusted machinery parts and shattered measurement equipment lay buried in the debris." Reactor 4 was not damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that struck the plant but suffered a hydrogen explosion a few days later. The journalists say radiation levels inside the building currently stand at 0.03 millisievert per hour, about half of what they were a year ago. Over the course of their five-hour visit, the Asahi team was exposed to 0.09 millisievert of radiation, around "one-tenth the annual exposure limit for the general population."
The work continues to remove nuclear fuel from the storage pool in the unstable reactor #4 building and place it in a more secure location. As of February 3, 264 of the 1,533 fuel assembles have been transferred.
TEPCO has announced a pre-tax profit of 189.22 billion yen for the period April-December 2013. The company made a loss of 195.05 billion yen in the same period the year before. If funds intended for disaster compensation payments – which are called extraordinary profits – are included, the company made a net profit of 772.90 billion yen. This is the company's first nine-month profit since the Fukushima disaster began in 2011. The company's sales revenue increased to 4.80 trillion yen thanks to it raising its electricity rates. It has also cut its losses by reducing personnel costs by 19 billion yen and maintenance and repair costs by 53 billion.
Other Nuclear News in Japan
More than 1,400 people have lodged a joint lawsuit against Toshiba, GE and Hitachi, the companies that supplied the three reactors that melted down at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Under current Japanese law only TEPCO, the plant's operator, has been held liable for the disaster. The lawsuit seeks to challenge the law that protects reactor manufacturers in the event of nuclear accidents, and will argue that the companies failed to make vital safety improvements at the plant before the crisis. The plaintiffs are not seeking punitive damages, merely a symbolic 100 yen each. They say the case is to help raise awareness of the issue. "It is a lawsuit designed to drag the makers of the reactors out of hiding," said one plaintiff attorney Hiroyuki Kawai.
Meanwhile, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper says it has seen documents showing the nuclear industry lobbying members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to look favorably on the construction of new nuclear reactors in Japan. The document says: "In order to secure a certain degree of nuclear power generation (there is a need to) clarify the necessity of constructing new reactors or replacing existing ones" and calls for "an efficient and prompt resumption of operations for nuclear energy that has been confirmed to be safe." Despite Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government's pro-nuclear stance, decisions on nuclear power on a national level may flounder against stiff local opposition. The government's wish to have nuclear power described as an "important basic power source" in its draft basic energy plan has also hit opposition from some of its own members who say the plan is in contravention of the DPJ's 2012 election campaign pledge that said it would "seek to establish a socioeconomic structure that does not have to depend on nuclear energy."
Nuclear power continues to be a hot topic in the battle to become the next governor of Tokyo. At a major debate held this week, three of the four candidates in the election present expressed their opposition to nuclear power. "We have to break away from the system that depends on nuclear energy in the long run, considering the dismal state (caused by the Fukushima crisis)," said former health minister and LDP-backed candidate, Yoichi Masuzoe. "The principal duty of the Tokyo governor is to protect the lives of its citizens. . . . The nuclear issue would directly affect the people's lives," said former Prime Minister, Morihiro Hosokawa. Thirdly, Kenji Utsunomiya, former chairman of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, said: "Nuclear power generation is not suitable in Japan, which has been hit by many earthquakes and tsunami. We should not restart the idled reactors." This left Toshio Tamogami, a former chief of the Air Self-Defense Force, who said: "We could provide enough energy with the use of nuclear power plants and it could contribute to growth of the nation's gross domestic product."
Reactor Restarts
Japan's nuclear watchdog, the National Regulation Authority (NRA) has said that the idle reactor 3 at the Tomari power plant needs construction work if it is to meet nuclear safety standards and be considered for restarting. Tomari's operator, Hokkaido Electric Power Co, says the work "will not finish in several months." The reactor currently has problems with its emergency cooling system which does not have a back-up system.
Radiation Contamination, Including Human Exposure
Nearly three tons of "sludge" from Kanagawa Prefecture has been classified as radioactive waste by the Environment Ministry. This is the first such incident in the prefecture and means the ministry is now responsible for the waste's disposal. The ministry did not say where the "sludge" was from although government officials from Yokohama city said it was from "rain collection and storage facilities at 17 municipal elementary, junior high and other schools" as well as roadside ditches and elsewhere.
Radioactive Waste Disposal
Yuhei Sato, the governor of Fukushima Prefecture has proposed the national government downgrade its plans to store highly radioactive waste in the prefecture. The government plans waste storage facilities in three Fukushima municipalities - Okuma, Futaba and Naraha - but Mr Sato wants waste stored at just Okuma and Futaba in the hope of speeding up decontamination efforts.
Evacuation and Repopulation Efforts
A panel appointed by Iitate Village, a municipality close to the Fukushima Daiichi plant, has released a draft construction plan for the village. The plan includes establishing a 26-hectare area where reconstruction could start. Although radiation levels remain too high to allow evacuated residents to return, the panel suggests they could go home as early as March 2016.
Meanwhile, the village of Kawauchi has struggled to persuade young people to return in the two years since the village's mayor said: "Let's return, starting with those who are ready." Of the village's 2,700 registered residents, only 535 had returned as of October 2012. Of those, 65 percent are 65 or older. The people of Kawauchi previously relied on the amenities of nearby Tomioka and Okuma. Since the 2011 disaster, however, those towns are part of the contaminated no-go zone. The high school that was attended by Kawauchi's children is also off-limits and the village has no high school of its own.
Justin McKeating has been blogging the meltdown of the nuclear industry for Greenpeace International since 2008. He is based in Brighton, UK.
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Yoichi Masuzoe position on nuclear energy is that the central government is in charge of the issue (from a TV interview to the same Yoichi Masuzoe).
Yoichi Masuzoe position on nuclear energy is that the central government is in charge of the issue (from a TV interview to the same Yoichi Masuzoe).
My understanding is that, if elected Tokyo governor, he is not going to do anything to reeuce the city dependency on nuclear energy (should any npp be restarted).
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Chubu Electric is going to apply to the NRA for the inspection of its Hamaoka plant in view of restarting it after the completion of a 22m tall wall t...
Chubu Electric is going to apply to the NRA for the inspection of its Hamaoka plant in view of restarting it after the completion of a 22m tall wall that is expected to protect the plant from tsunami waves.
The Hamaoka plant is located very close to a highly sismical area. (source: NHK)
Some experts suspect that Fukushima was severely damaged by the earthquake itself.
8 February, 2014 at 6:29
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"Fukushima, Feb. 7 (Jiji Press)--Eight more Fukushima Prefecture children have been confirmed as having thyroid gland cancer"
"Fukushima, Feb. 7 (Jiji Press)--Eight more Fukushima Prefecture children have been confirmed as having thyroid gland cancer"
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Tokyo, Feb. 7 (Jiji Press)-- TEPCO may have underestimated the amount of radioactive substances in 300 tons of contaminated water that spilled from a tank in summer last year at the Fukushima 1 npp, officials said Friday.
The NRA may have to revise its provisional assessment of the spill, now put at Level 3 on the INES scale of zero to 7, if the actual amount is far larger than has been announced, an official of the NRA Secretariat said.
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Masuzoe thinks that nuclear energy is no business for Tokyo governor. Both he and his voters have possibly forgotten that, in a worst case scenario, T...
Masuzoe thinks that nuclear energy is no business for Tokyo governor. Both he and his voters have possibly forgotten that, in a worst case scenario, Tokyo would have to be evacuated as a consequence of the 2011 nuclear disaster. Such scenario is not that far fetched because the US military authorities indeed evacuated the families of their personnel stationed in Yokosuka, which is farther from Fukushima than Tokyo.
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Record Cesium levels found by Tepco in water samples taken from a newly-dug well at the Fukushima 1 npp. On Thursday the utility said it had measured ...
Record Cesium levels found by Tepco in water samples taken from a newly-dug well at the Fukushima 1 npp. On Thursday the utility said it had measured 54,000 Bq/liter of Cs137 and 22,000 Bq/liter of Cs134.
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Hakodate city says it is planning to sue the country and JPower in order to stop the construction of the Oma npp.
Hakodate is within a 30km radi...
Hakodate city says it is planning to sue the country and JPower in order to stop the construction of the Oma npp.
Hakodate is within a 30km radius from the plant. The Oma npp is a light water ABWR that is expected to burn MOX fuel that contains plutonium.
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New radionuclides record levels found in groundwater at Fukushima 1: 37,000 becquerels of cesium-134 and 93,000 becquerels of cesium-137, TEPCO said. ...
New radionuclides record levels found in groundwater at Fukushima 1: 37,000 becquerels of cesium-134 and 93,000 becquerels of cesium-137, TEPCO said. The water also contained 260,000 becquerels of beta ray-emitting substances including strontium-90. Fukushima, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)
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Japan government to reduce support to solar energy: (from Jiji Press) Tokyo, Feb. 14th: Japan's industry ministry said Friday it will revoke its c...
Japan government to reduce support to solar energy: (from Jiji Press) Tokyo, Feb. 14th: Japan's industry ministry said Friday it will revoke its certification of solar power providers that have not started operations for months. Such operators will therefore not be able to sell electricity to power companies at relatively high fixed prices set by the government.
Such delays in the launch of operations would go against the purpose of the tariff system, industry minister Toshimitsu Motegi said.
Some certified solar power providers are apparently postponing the start of their operations while waiting for a decline in solar panel prices, sources familiar with the matter said.
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It is late February and I went to our local beach in Southern California on a beautiful sunny day for a long walk with my lovely wife. We took lots of...
It is late February and I went to our local beach in Southern California on a beautiful sunny day for a long walk with my lovely wife. We took lots of photos like we always do and then it hit me, as the radioactive crap from the Fukushima disaster continues to pollute our Pacific Ocean this beautiful scene will soon be too toxic to visit!
I am not only outraged that the Japanese have such disregard for their own beautiful island nation but continue to screw around with the dire issues of containment, continuing accidental radioactive spillage, and permanent polluting the Pacific Ocean that I believe I will now set a campaign in motion that requires all those responsible for this continuing incompetence be tried as criminals! Not just for lying, polluting, and killing everyone but also for doing it with full knowledge of the level of damage they continue to inflict on the world!
Allow me to join the efforts to bring those responsible for the continuing Fukushima disaster to justice!
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Dear Irishfisherman, thank you for your concern. Just to point out, most Japanese are not responsible for what has happened and many that carried some...
Dear Irishfisherman, thank you for your concern. Just to point out, most Japanese are not responsible for what has happened and many that carried some responsibility are ashamed of what they did before. Have a look at this: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fukushima-victims/blog/48279/
Next to that are those that don't want to learn: Many within TEPCO, PM Abe and his government, Hitachi, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, but also GE, Westinghouse, Areva / EDF, Rosatom... A group of Japanese victims is taking GE, Hitachi and Toshiba to court - they only have a small chance, but let us hope that justice will prevail.
Continue to enjoy your beach walks, help closing Diablo Canyon in California - then other US plants. Should help saving the Pacific from more radioactive pollution.
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Here's the scoop: It's the dog days of summer and you're a parched pooch residing on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. You just galumphed around the dog park. You sniff a whiff, and spy a pushcart that sells all natural frozen yogurt made especially for dogs. Is the cart a mirage, or is it real?
You're not dreaming. It's the real deal. Dogfroyo™, an artisanal canine-friendly ice cream treat, is the creation of Laura Diaz, a NYC dog-lover, chef and caterer who unveiled her colorful Yappy Treats Cart™ at Central Park and Riverside Park over Memorial Day weekend. The debut of Dogfroyo™ got lots of neighborhood media coverage. Cups are already for sale at 18 pet specialty stores in NYC and one in NJ, available online at www.yappytreatscart.com and at tastings at charity events during the spring-summer season. Currently Dogfroyo™ comes in two dog-delectable flavors: peanut butter/ banana/carob or tuna/carrot. Each 3¼-ounce container size makes for easy licking, and the packaging contains words of wisdom geared for the dog guardian's eyes.
Note: Yappy Treats Cart™ is the name of both Laura Diaz's fledgling company and her pushcart, while Dogfroyo™ is the registered name of her frozen yogurt product.
Why Dogfroyo™? Frozen yogurt is best as a doggy dessert when it doesn't add to your pup's waistline. Devoted to her own two dogs, "Sisu" and "Merlin," Laura is concerned about healthy ingredients and the dangers of pet obesity. According to a 2007 study done by the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention, half of our dogs and cats were classified as obese by veterinarians.
"The current food revolution trend is also changing how pet owners choose treats for their dogs," says Yappy Treats Cart™ founder Laura Diaz. "Pet owners know that low-quality additives and fake ingredients in many treats can undermine their dog's overall healthy diet. Savvy consumers opt for wholesome treats containing all-natural, high-grade and organic ingredients as a way to prevent illness, premature death and pet obesity."
Laura's new company hand crafts its brand of frozen yogurt dog treats in small batches using only high-quality, human-grade and lactose-intolerant-safe ingredients, with no added preservatives, sodium, sugar or fat. Made with locally sourced fresh organic ingredients and Greek yogurt, Dogfroyo™ treats contain live active probiotic cultures, which help increase a pet's digestive and immune systems, and promote a healthy skin and coat. The treats are certified by the NYS Department of Agriculture with ingredients and analysis listed on the label. Doesn't this process remind you of Ben & Jerry's during the early days? Were Pavlov's dogs drooling outside the garage in Vermont too?
Yappy Dogma™: Laura's double mission to serve the well-being of dogs and their humans starts with packaging. She believes a dog's purpose in life is to try to teach us how to become better human beings. With that in mind, the cover of each cup includes a Yappy Dogma™ message (from the dog to the human). These are like fortune cookies in essay form. Here is a sample: "Don't bark when a simple growl will do. Give dawgs your feedback and a chance to correct the issue. If they don't, move on. There are better bones to sink your teeth into."
Yappy Treats Cart™: Laura has the first-ever frozen yogurt dog treat sold from a cart. The NYC Parks Department gave her a 29-day permit which she can use every Saturday and Sunday in the summer. She hopes that if the trial goes well, the city will issue her a permanent permit. She pushes the 130-pound cart herself to the varying locations in her Upper West Side neighborhood. Those curious can see where the cart will be by following Laura on Twitter, Facebook or her website. She already has some hungry hound repeat customers.
The Inspiration for Dogfroyo™: Laura happens to be the dog mom of "Merlin," a Weimaraner and "Sisu," an Afghan Hound therapy dog who has been featured in "Pets" twice. (See Post and Record "Pets" online 1/30/13 & 2/13/13.) You may recall that right before the Westminster Kennel Club (WKC) Dog Show, Sisu won the 2013 New Yorkie Runway Fashion Show that benefits the WKC Angel on a Leash therapy dog program after our fierce voting campaign. It surely helped when he sang opera on cue during the audition.
"Sisu," now eight, was born in Helsinki as part of a litter of 12. His name means "determination, never to give up" in Finnish. He does work as a therapy dog for Angel on a Leash. (Black & tan Afghan Hounds have won at the fashion show two years in a row. Our pal Jin Jin, also a multi-talented therapy dog from Tom's River, was crowned in 2012.) "Sisu" is amazing, hard-working and determined like his creative mom Laura. That's why they make such a great marketing team for such a novel product.
Laura credits "Sisu," who always pulled toward ice cream trucks, for inspiring her to develop frozen yogurt for dogs. Sisu is her spokesdog for Dogfroyo™, while his younger Weim brother "Merlin," who just had his first modeling job, is the VP in charge of taste-testing and quality control.
For Adoption: Our poster pups would love some Dogfroyo ™ but first they would like to find a loving home. At Babylon Town Shelter (631-643-9270), "Kisses" #13-292 is a blind male Cocker Spaniel found in Amityville. His microchip says he is nine years old. Meanwhile, "Koala" is at Last Hope in Wantagh (516-783-0030). "Koala," a shy but super-sweet seven-year-old Chihuahua, was put outside and forgotten by folks in West Virginia when he didn't breed with their female.


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Jordan Peterson spoke at TEDxToronto. He needed a better introduction to his ideas so I thought I'd write it up.
One of the biggest and lasting changes in the way I see the world has been to integrate Jordan Peterson's idea of order and chaos. If you want to understand yourself, the world and me, it's fundamental that you understand this distinction.
Order is a place or situation or state where things are predictable. You're on solid ground and you know what will happen next. Too much order and this state can become boring, restrictive or even repressive. Too little order and there's not enough structure for anything to exist at all. The right amount of order though, allows you to relax and feel comfortable (activation of the parasympathetic nervous system–sleep/relax/digest/rebuild system).
Chaos is state or place where things are unpredictable and uncertain. They are outside or under the little islands of order we build around us. We don't know that's going to happen next, and that can make chaos quite thrilling. But chaos can also be destructive as well as creative. You are most interested when there's just the right amount of chaos—maybe even excited. Too much chaos and you are overwhelmed, anxious and afraid (activation of the sympathetic nervous system–fight/flight system).
Myths and old stories are often about the relationship between order and chaos, and something that converts one into the other–usually the hero. Order is often represented as some sort of "safe place" often enclosed by boundaries. The fort, the walled city, the island, the house/home we live in, the village in the clearing surrounded by dark forests. Outside the little speck of order, there is great chaos. This can be the darkened forest, space, the desert, the ocean or the city outside your house.
In Narrative
Order and chaos also show up in stories all the time, especially very popular stories that appeal to a lot of people because they have a mythic substructure. Take The Dark Knight, for example, or superheroes in general. They are our modern myths—our Hercules, Samson or Thor. The Dark Knight made over a billion dollars. $1,001,921,825. I've checked and rechecked this figure and it remains a shitload of money. Why would millions of people pay to see a man in a silly costume beat up another deranged man with facepaint and scars? The spectacle certainly has something to do with it, but there's also the dynamic of order and chaos. The Joker says to Harvey Dent in the hospital room:
"It's a schemer who put you where you are. You were a schemer. You had plans. Look where it got you. I just did what I do best-I took your plan and turned it on itself. Look what I have done to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple bullets. Nobody panics when the expected people get killed. Nobody panics when things go according to plan, even if the plans are horrifying. If I tell the press that tomorrow a gangbanger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will get blown up, nobody panics. But when I say one little old mayor will die, everyone loses their minds! Introduce a little anarchy, you upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I am an agent of chaos. And you know the thing about chaos, Harvey? It's fair."
Then Harvey Dent flips a coin to determine if he'll kill The Joker.
The hero tends to be a creature in between order and chaos. He converts chaos into order and often revitalizes the culture or community he is coming from, but often he cannot stay in that community because he is tainted by chaos. The cowboy must ride away into the sunset from the town he just saved and Batman must be labelled a criminal and never accepted by the society he defends. In other stories, the hero returns to revitalize the community and is accepted at the top ranks of it. He jumps from being the peasant to marrying the princess and becoming the next king after slaying the dragon of chaos.
These stories teach us how to react to chaos–to the unknown. With courage and resolute strength. Looking fear in the eye and battling to the last breath. A good story or myth contains this element of battling chaos or battling order–especially a tyrannical, repressive one–think V for Vendetta, 1984 or Robin Hood, or your parents when you were a teenager.
In Religion
This interplay between order and chaos shows up in religions all the time, especially since religions are a collection of various myths. The yin-yang symbol is the representation of order and chaos, and only in the harmonious balance between them is some sort of perfection achieved. There is a speck of one in the other with the black dot in the white and white dot in the black.
Take the story of Jonah and the whale. Jonah is going along in order and the totality of reality commands him to do something. He seeks to escape from it and flees from safe and dry land onto the oceans. A great storm comes and threatens the ship. The crew throw him overboard at which point he's swallowed by a giant whale and taken deep underwater until he prays and is let back on onto dry land to fulfill God's command.
If you take this story literally, you'll find yourself at odds with a lot of facts. Whales don't generally eat people nor can you survive in the belly of a whale. Ancient people had no idea what a whale looked like so the depictions of the whale look reptilian. But through the lens of order and chaos you get a much clearer understanding—and a lesson!
Have you ever had an experience when you're going along and feeling fine but then something happens to throw you completely off-balance? Maybe your parents got divorced, maybe you had a major breakup, maybe you failed a year of school, maybe you broke your leg or someone close to you died. Unexpected and unplanned things happened and you felt like you were drowning and didn't know when the clouds would ever part. But one day, over time, you woke up and things seemed less dark. Eventually, you even noticed that the sun had broken through the clouds of your life and you felt like you were on solid ground again. This is an experience everyone who's lived at all has had and that's the experience this story of Jonah talks about. That's why this tale has been repeated for over four thousand years—because it says something true about the nature of human existence.
Additionally this story gives a lesson: listen to the decrees of the totality of reality otherwise risk falling into chaos.
In Politics
Democrats and Republicans in the US tend to align to these two mythological positions. Chaos loving democrats run campaigns based on "change" (perhaps some that we can believe in) while Republicans espouse safety, security and order which tends to come from conservatism.
In Psychology
Psychologists have found out that people's identity is fundamentally a narrative. What links you now to the 7 years old you? Every single one of your cells has been replaced so your body is not the same. But you tell a story that links you to who you are today. Jung once said that we are all living out a myth and it's a really good idea to figure out what your story is, because it could be one that doesn't end well for you. Maybe it's a story of safety and security that your parents want you to live out by becoming an accountant or a lawyer or a doctor, but it's too much order and boring. Not having a compelling story to live out, though, can cause feelings of living a life that has no meaning. Not the only cause, but one of the most prevalent, especially in the university years.
So, what creates a life of excitement? The feeling of battling chaos (or order) and succeeding—even if slowly. It can also be the excitement of expanding the realm of order and knowledge. The right balance and timing of order and chaos in your life. A compelling story that provides context and meaning for your actions today. You of course need more than this, but this is the big stuff.
More technically, Dan Seigal makes a compelling argument in his book in Mindsight, that if you take almost every psychological disorder you find either an excess of chaos or an excess of order.
In Dynamical Systems Theory
I believe order and chaos represent a particular kind of dynamical system and since our world is infested by dynamical systems; myths and stories teach us how to deal with them. Evolution, for example, is the interplay between chaos and order. Chaos generates new possibilities through mutations and the like. Order selects within the possibilities through environmental, social and sexual pressures. This process keeps going back and forth in order to continually produce organisms fitted for a particular time and place. There is no single definition of "fitness". The biggest or strongest don't always win and are often at a detriment (think dinosaurs).
In Personality Transformation
Similarly, human personalities transform through contact with chaos. Things go wrong and we wake up. The unexpected happens and you're forced to rethink your life, how you interact with it and what your future will be. You fail a test and maybe that means you fail the course and maybe that means your GPA is very low and maybe that makes you wonder if you're a smart person at all and maybe if you're not a smart person than you can't be a success in life and maybe that means that people will always judge and look down upon you. But after dealing with all this, maybe you wake up and realize that what people try to convince you is important in life isn't actually important, so you don't worry as much about climbing some social ladder anymore and impressing people, and because your goals are different, your methods become different, too, and you start taking only interesting courses and change majors to something that actually interests you (and perhaps has just the right amount of chaos in it to be interesting) and maybe you turn getting good grades with the minimum work possible into a fun game and figure out ways to hack grades and start doing really well in school anyway.
My old personality died and a new one arose from the ashes, like a Pheonix, and this new one is robust to this sort of chaos.
Our bodies evolved for those two "realities" of order and chaos. We parse up the world as being made up of objects because of the very powerful lenses provided us by the enlightenment and the success of physics. But the world is more complicated than that and has an infinite ways of looking at it (meaning it is chaos) and we're constantly adjusting the way we look at the world (converting it into order). The other big change I've been making is recognizing that objects don't end at their boundaries. I don't end at my skin. I'm a combination of my past, my future, my friends, my work, my peace, even the weather and how you see me today is dependent on all those things.
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Bacoso's been posting some great Eddie Palmieri over at OIR which has encouraged me to drag out my latin albums again .... Eddie's a genius and a revolutionary giant. Latin had never seen harmonies like this before - Palmieri pushed at both the latin boundaries and the jazz boundaries at the same time without letting them wash each other out.
Palmieri's great early 70s albums like "Superimposition" and "Justicia" began to mix up genres in a way that reflected the cultural gumbo of New York itself. He began to really stretch his own boundaries in the studio with 'The Sun Of Latin Music" in 1974, particularly with the sprawling 15 minute "Un Dia Bonito", which begins with atmospheric textures and dramatic pacing, then works through an extraordinary, almost classical cross-harmonic brass buildup before morphing into a latin stormer. (I've added this as a bonus track in the comments). The album netted him his first Grammy award, which was in fact the first-ever Latin Grammy.
In 1973 he released "Sentido", which in tracks like "Condiciones que Existen" began to incorporate the funk textures from the album by his "Harlem River Drive" project, once again a distinctly New York cultural stew that can also be heard on the live "Sing Sing" albums from 1971, and influences other live recordings like the "University Of Puerto Rico" album.
Less funk and more cuban textures in this album from 1975, but it's still from the period when Palmieri had most of his considerable irons in the fire at the same time, moments of descarga - listen to everyone go crazy in the 12-minute standout track "Cobarde"; piano atmospherics and experimentation in "Random Thoughts"; percussion to die for in "Oyelo Que Te Conviene".
There's the salsa of "Un Puesto Vacante" with Lalo Rodriguez tearing up on the vocals, some boogaloo strains in "Kinkamache", and finally jazz and even big band textures in "Resemblance". That last track has quite a different lineup of jazzers including Ron Carter, Jeremy Steig, Steve Gadd, and Eddie Martinez on the rhodes.
And all the way through there's Eddie himself, always unexpected and exploratory in his piano progressions, and writing incendiary brass parts like no-one else can. He was apparently never fully satisfied with getting this album finished, but Coco Records put it out anyway - thus the title. He won his second Grammy award with this one.
WAV and 320 MP3 versions of "Unfinished Masterpiece" are at the bottom of the post, also a bonus of the aforementioned track "Un Dia Bonita" from "The Sun Of Latin Music".
Also check out the discography below for 53 more Eddie Palmieri-related albums.
Finally here's more latin from this blog.
01 'Un Puesto Vacante' (3:48)
02 'Kinkamache' (5:40)
03 'Oyelo Que Te Conviene' (6:29)
04 'Cobarde' (10:46)
05 'Random Thoughts' (6:22)
06 'Resemblance' (4:49)
All tracks by Eddie Palmieri
Eddie Palmieri - piano and leader
Lalo Rodriguez - lead vocal
Victor Paz - trumpets
Barry Rogers - trombones and tenor tuba
Nicky Marrero - timbales & percussion
Tommy "Chuckie" Lopez Jr - bongo
Eladio Perez - conga
Jerry Gonzalez - conga on "Cobarde"
Polito Huerta, Eddie "Gua-Gua" Rivera, Andy Gonzalez - bass
Ronnie Cuber - baritone sax, soprano sax & flute
Mario Rivera - tenor & baritone Sax
Lou Orenstein - tenor sax
Bobby Porceli & Lou Marini - alto sax
Peter Gordon - french horn
Tony Price - tuba Alfredo de la Fe - violin
Harry Viggiano - electric guitar
Jimmy Sabates, Willie Torres, Ismael Quintana - coro
Guest musicians on "Resemblance" :
Eddie Martinez - electric piano
Jeremy Steig - flute solo
Ron Carter - acoustic bass
Steve Gadd - drums
Mike Lawrence - flugelhorn
Ronnie Cuber - baritone solo
Ed Byrne - trombone
Lynn Welshman - trombone
PRODUCTION and ARRANGEMENTS
Eddie Palmieri - arrangement, theories and structure
Rene Hernandez - arrangements
Barry Rogers - arrangement on "Cobarde"
Eddie Martinez - arrangement on "Resemblance"
Harvey Averne - producer
1962 "La Perfecta" at Orgy in Rhythm
1963 'El Molestoso' at Zona Musical / info1964 'Lo que traigo es sabroso' at Si Se Rompe Se Compone or alternate1964 'Echando Pa'Lante' (Straight Ahead) at Zona Musical
1965 'Azucar pa' Ti' at Si Se Rompe Se Compone
1965 'Mambo Con Conga Is Mozambique' at La Musica Latina or alternate or FLACS 1967 'Molasses' at Orgy in Rhythm
1968 'Champagne' at Rock Savage
1970 'Justicia' at NakitaMusica
1971 'Live at Sing Sing Vol 1-2' at Rumbarte
1971 'Live at Sing Sing Vol 1' at Orgy in Rhythm
1971 'Vamonos P'al Monte' at Zona Musical / info
1971 'Superimposition' at Orgy in Rhythm
1971 'At the University of Puerto Rico' at Zona musical / info
1973 'Sentido' at Orgy in Rhythm
1974 'The Sun Of Latin Music' at revolucion, no / alternate
1974 'The Sun Of Latin Music' (expanded 2 CD set) at El Principante Salsero
1975 'Unfinished Masterpiece' in comments here
1976 'Eddie's Concerto'
1978 'Lucumi Macumba Voodoo' at Zona Musical
1981 'Eddie Palmieri' at Zona Musical
1981 'Timeless' (live) at Zona Musical / info
1982 'Sueno' at Salsa All Stars or alternate 1984 'Palo Pa Rumba' at DDC or alternate / alternate
1985 'Solito' at Las Cintas Recuperadas
1987 'La Verdad' (The Truth) at Salsa Emsamble or alternate1991 'El Rey de Las Blancas Y Las Negras'
1994 'Palmas' at Zona Musical / info
1995 'Arete' at Zona Musical / info
1995 'Chocolate Ice Cream' at Zona Musical
1996 'Vortex' at Mis Albumes Salseros or alternate
1998 'El Rumbero del Piano' at Zona Musical or alternate
1999 'Live' / info
2002 'La Perfecta II' at Zona Musical / info
2003 'Ritmo Caliente' at Zona Musical / info 2005 "Listen Here" at CB Latin Jazz Corner or alternate
2006 'La Experienca' at Zona Musical / info
MAIN COLLABORATIONS1965-6 'Descargas at The Village Gate Vols. 1-2' - (Tico All-Stars) at Orgy In Rhythm
1966 'El Sonido Nuevo' (with Cal Tjader) at Into The Rhythm or alternate
1967 'Bamboleate' (with Cal Tjader) at Orgy in Rhythm / alternate
1968 'Live at the Red Garter Vol. 1' - Fania All-Stars at Si Se Rompe Se Compone
1968 'Live at the Red Garter Vol. 2' - Fania All-Stars at Si Se Rompe Se Compone
1976 "Harlem River Drive" at My Favourite Sound or alternate
1992 'Llegó la India' (with India) at CB Latin Jazz Corner or alternate
1994 "Fania All-Stars Live in Puerto Rico" at La musica de Nakita
1996 'TropiJazz All-Stars Vol 1' at La Coleccion1997 'TropiJazz All-Stars Vol 2' at La Coleccion
1997 "Nuyorican Soul" at Latin Jazzoteca
2000 'Masterpiece' (Obra Maestra) (with Tito Puente) at Salsa Emsamble or alternate / alternate 2005 'The Very Best of Tropijazz' at La Coleccion
2006 'Simpatico' (with Brian Lynch) at Zona Musical
1975 "The History Of Eddie Palmieri" at bermudezyezid musica y mas1975 'Lo Mejor de Eddie" (The Best of) (Tico) at Zona Musical
1976 'Gold' ('73-'76 material) at Zona musical
1977 'The Music Man' (El Hombre Musica) at Zona Musical1993 'Salsa Meets Jazz' at Latin Jazzoteca / alternate
1999 'The Best of Eddie Palmieri' (2 CD set) at Notas Agudas
2007 'El Prodigioso - Los 50 Años Del Maestro' at Latin Jazzoteca / alternate
2003 'The Latin Giants Of Jazz in San Sebastian' at Latin Jazzoteca


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Scientists agree that global warming really is occurring and will affect what you grow.
Farmers whose fortunes lie with the weather have one more factor to contend with in the future: global warming. A new report from the National Research Council (NRC) endorsed the concept that global warming is occurring.
NRC scientists found substantial evidence to show that the earth's atmosphere has warmed, despite conflicting temperature data. Some data show that surface air temperatures have warmed while middle atmospheric temperatures have not. But NRC's conclusion is that global warming is "undoubtedly real."
Regardless of what farmers think, they are inextricably tied to this event. A changing weather scheme will affect farming practices, and some of those practices may, in turn, slow the warming trend.
"If you have global warming, farmers will adjust," Bruce Babcock, director, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Ames, IA, reports. "It will take time. But economics will drive it. If Iowa is not a good place to grow corn, they won't grow corn."
Evidence of warming For years, scientists and environmentalists have claimed that emissions of heat-trapping industrial gases (called greenhouse gases) are warming the earth's atmosphere faster than would naturally occur without human pollution. Now evidence has accumulated in favor of the theory.
The evidence comes from many sources. The NRC scientists, for example, examined temperature data and computer simulations of temperature trends and concluded that the earth's surface temperature has risen 0.7 to 1.4 degrees F in the last 100 years.
"The rate of warming is much faster than observed in the last 1,000 years as interpreted from tree rings, lake sediments and ice cores," Gene Takle, Iowa State University climatologist, says. He explains that scientists reconstructed average temperatures over the past 1,000 years and found that the planet temperatures cooled a little over 900 years until 1900. Then temperatures abruptly rose.
The retreat of glaciers also indicates global warming. These large, stable bodies of ice are not affected by short-term weather events. Instead, warming over a long period of time will decrease their size, which is happening. Glacier National Park had more than 150 glaciers in 1850, but today, only 50 glaciers remain.
Other evidence of global warming lies in cases such as the outbreak of mosquito-carrying malaria in mountainous African villages. These villages had not been infected by malaria before, leading scientists to conclude that enough warming has taken place for mosquitoes to live.
Cool atmosphere "Just from this evidence, it seems the rate of change is beyond the range of natural variability," Takle says. But the issue was complicated in the 1950s to 1970s when global temperatures dropped slightly. "If greenhouse gases built up then, why would temperatures go down?" he asks. "The reason is due to a combination of sulfate aerosols and flickering of the sun." Sulfur dioxide emitted from coal-burning power plants condenses in the atmosphere and forms particles that reflect solar radiation. The result is a cooling effect in the atmosphere, Takle says.
Atmospheric cooling also can come from sunspots or flickers in the sun's brightness. "These are small, but still large enough to cause changes in our climate over decades," Takle explains. "So it is an awkward situation. If we do a better job of getting sulfur out of the atmosphere, we're going to contribute more to global warming."
Warmer nights If global warming continues, computer models project that by 2050 average daytime temperatures will be 2 to 3 degrees F warmer in the summer in the Midwest. Nighttime temperatures will go up even more, Takle says. Why? Warmer temperatures lead to more precipitation and cloudiness, which in turn keeps the nighttime air from cooling off.
"This may or may not be important for corn and soybeans," Takle says. "Perhaps more relevant is what about the change in variability? Will we expect more floods, droughts and extremes in temperatures? Those are perhaps more relevant but more difficult to answer."
The global warm-up already may be affecting where soybeans are planted. CARD's Babcock suggests that the increase in the number of soybean acres in the Red River Valley of North Dakota may be in part due to warmer temperatures.
"It might be evidence of global warming," he says. "Or it might be that breeders have been able to breed short-season soybeans or the government is paying farmers more to plant soybeans instead of wheat.
"You won't be able to draw a line in the sand and say this is the impact of global warming," he adds. "But if you look back after 20 years, then you might be able to figure it out."
Slowing the heat As the evidence mounts and computer models predict more warming, scientists are recommending action. "We need to look very seriously at ways to reduce the rise of carbon dioxide (a primary greenhouse gas) in the atmosphere," Takle states. One way is to stop burning fossil fuels, which will not occur, at least in the next couple decades.
Instead, some scientists believe a combination of reforestation and steps to reduce the greenhouse gases should work at a cost that is lower than the cost of limiting fuel use, Takle says.
Farmers will play a big role in this. Carbon sequestering in soils with minimum tillage will offset part of the production of carbon emissions. In addition, minimum tillage will reduce fuel use, cutting back further on emissions.
"This is quite a new issue," Takle says. "There are a lot of unresolved questions. So we will be learning more as time goes on. I think there will come a day when we can rebuild our soil carbon. We've burned about half of it out of our prairie soils in Iowa."
He also believes other conservation practices like wetlands and buffer strips along streams will become more attractive as the nation tries to slow the emission of greenhouse gases.
Controversial role The farmer's role in global warming has caught the eye of farm groups like the American Farm Bureau and American Corn Growers Association. These groups oppose a world plan, called the Kyoto Protocol, to lower greenhouse gas emissions. The plan calls for industrialized nations, including the U.S., to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide over the next decade.
The farm organizations state that the protocol will place an unfair burden on U.S. farmers by causing fuel prices to skyrocket and farm profits to plummet. Congress has not signed the protocol.
CARD's Babcock disagrees that farmers will suffer needlessly from plans to reduce global warming. Instead, he believes farmers will adjust. If farmers face restrictions on fuel use or high prices, he says, "they won't go across the field so many times. They will probably do more no-till and gain carbon credits."
Weather forecasts As the focus on global warming and the weather continues, Iowa State University is working to help farmers anticipate the weather and use it to purchase crop inputs.
Three-month to two-year forecasts are improving in accuracy, Takle says. Crop modelers hope to put the forecasts into computer models to help farmers decide what seed to buy based on the forecasted weather conditions. The models will also help farmers determine chemical needs and timing for fieldwork.
"We're trying very hard to work with both the climate forecast centers and with farmers to bridge that gap," Takle says. "We want to be of some help to mitigate the impact of climate change."


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The actions in January, 1787, at the Springfield Arsenal, caused concern in states other than Massachusetts. This newspaper from New Haven, Connecticut, reports that Daniel Shays and 1000 of his followers were in Columbia County, New York, and that General Lincoln asked permission from that Governor to enter the state in pursuit. Regulators were staying in New Lebanon, New York and traveled over the border to Stockbridge, where they attacked and looted the town, taking thirty-two prisoners, but Shays was not one of them. The letters from Benjamin Lincoln refer to the skirmish on February 27, 1787, in the town of Sheffield, Massachusetts. Government supporter Colonel John Ashley had assembled a company of eighty men from Great Barrington and Sheffield and proceeded to the western border of Sheffield. There the company met Captain Perez Hamlin and his men who had ransacked Stockbridge. A deadly battle ensued. In just six minutes, two regulators, one prisoner and one of Ashley's men were killed, and thirty regulators were wounded including one man who later died. With help from reinforcements from Lenox, Ashley took one hundred fifty prisoners. Lincoln states in his letter to the governor that he had received information that Daniel Shays and some of his supporters had been seen in Vermont, which was true.
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New to the Silver & Blue: Jason Williams
I am going to kick off this new series with the Cowboys first pick in the 2009 NFL draft, linebacker #58 Jason Williams.
Jason attended Western Illinois College. He stands 6-1 and weights 238. From the research I have done on Jason he seems to be one of the most underrated players in the draft. Jason switched from strong safety to weak side linebacker in his sophomore year. He ranked among the nation's leaders in forced fumbles and tackles behind the line of scrimmage in the last three years.
Jason attended DeSable High School in Chicago. He was highly regarded for his rushing and passing ability as a linebacker. Jason rushed for 2,988 and threw for 3,015 yards. He had a total of 71 total touchdowns in his high school career, which led to a undefeated season his Senior year and earned him two All-City and All-Section honors.
Williams enrolled at Western Illinois as a 200 pound athlete in 2004, where he red-shirted. In 2005, he appeared in 10 games, not seeing much action early in the year being listed third on the depth chart at strong safety. His special team talent helped him get a starting position for the team's two final games. When he got the chance to play he took advantage and had 23 tackles with a stop for a loss and one blocked kick.
In 2006 Williams continued to be a terror on special teams. Jason switched to weak side linebacker, he was the only defender to start all 11 games. He received the teams' Green Beret Award for his talent on the kicking game. He also ranked second on the team with 92 tackles, three sacks, and 10.5 stops for a loss and he also caused three fumbles.
In 2007 Jason was on fire, He made All-American and All-Gateway conference first-team choice,finished second in the voting for Defensive Player of the Year. He also led the team with 107 tackles and eight sacks. He led the conference with 16.5 stops behind the line of scrimmage. He also recovered two fumbles.
Williams' senior year in 2008 he was named a consensus All-American and a unanimous All-Gateway Conference first-team selection. He came in 4th in the voting for the Buck Buchanan Award, given to the top defensive player in the FSC ranks. He started every game as a weak-side linebacker, leading the nation with a school season-record six forced fumbles, the second best total by a Gateway player. He finished 2nd in the league with team high 17 stops for a loss and had 4 sacks among his 67 tackles 39 being solo's.
So after researching Jason Williams I can now understand why he was considered underrated in the draft.
He certainly seems to have the talent to be an impact player and I look forard to seeing him wreak havoc on the footbal field in 2009!


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Welcome to the official site of the Greater Athens Soccer Association (GASA).
GASA is a non-profit (501(c)3) volunteer-driven organization devoted to promoting and supporting soccer education and soccer opportunities for youth participants in the greater Athens, OH area.
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Yeo said a supergrid capable of transferring large amounts of power would be delayed by the need for governments to negotiate complicated treaties to govern its use. The required level of government-to-government co-operation would be very difficult to achieve, added Yeo.
Speaking ahead of the publication of the committee's report on the supergrid in the autumn, Yeo said: "In practice, it's decades away." He concluded that he would be very surprised if a serious start was made on the project within the next ten years.
His comments contradict evidence given by Eddie O'Connor, chief executive of UK renewable-energy developer Mainstream Renewable Power and the driving force behind the industry group Friends of the Supergrid (FOSG), to the committee. "We are talking about the first leg of the supergrid being built by 2020," he said.
This first leg would involve linking the offshore wind farms of four countries - such as Britain, Germany, Belgium and Norway - to help balance variable renewable-electricity generation and reduce the amount of backup fossil-fuel generating capacity required in each country.
However, Ana Aguado, director-general of FOSG, agreed with Yeo. "If you consider the regulatory framework existing today then, he's right, it's not going to happen now," she said. "It is the position of our organisation that it could be done by 2020 if there was the political will to make the necessary regulatory changes." Aguado noted that the first European internal electricity-market directive was passed 14 years ago, yet there is still no fully functioning single power market. "For us it's still too slow," she said.
Moving forward
Progress is being made, however. In December nine EU countries and Norway signed up to the European Commission's North Sea Countries' Offshore Grid Initiative (NSCOGI), to develop an integrated offshore grid along with regulatory and legal frameworks. Working groups will publish potential grid designs by the middle of 2012 and their final report by the end of the year.
Britain is also developing an All Islands Approach to link with Ireland, and France via the Channel Islands, as well as a Nordic-Baltic Initiative. UK energy minister Charles Hendry told the committee that Britain had already held ministerial meetings with France, Norway and Iceland.
Matthew Knight, business development director at renewables developer Siemens and a founder member of FOSG, told the committee that UK electricity generator National Grid was discussing seven potential interconnectors with other European countries, which could all be built before 2020. "I'm absolutely convinced that some elements of what will one day be the supergrid will be built this decade," he said.
"It's not going to be finished for decades but I am sure we will start it this decade."


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FF-80-2011 PROCLAMATION RE: BLACK SEA BASS – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS Dr. Louis B. Daniel III, Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Thursday, December 1, 2011, the following restrictions shall apply to the commercial black sea bass fishery north of Cape Hatteras (35° 15.3'N. Latitude): I. SIZE LIMIT It is unlawful to possess black sea bass less than 11 inches total length north of Cape Hatteras. Total length shall be measured along the lateral midline from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail, excluding the caudal fin filament. II. HARVEST LIMITS During the period beginning at 12:01 A.M., Thursday, December 1, 2011 and ending at 6:00 P.M. Saturday, December 31, 2011, no commercial trawl, fish pot or hook and line fishing operation, regardless of the number of people involved, may have total landings of more than 1,500 pounds of black sea bass taken from the Atlantic Ocean north of Cape Hatteras. The black sea bass fishery will close immediately after the Director issues a public notice that the quota of black sea bass has been landed from the Atlantic Ocean north of Cape Hatteras, or at 6:00 P.M., December 31, 2011, whichever occurs first. III. GEAR RESTRICTIONS FISH TRAPS/POTS: Black sea bass pots or traps must conform with the Federal rule requirements for escape vents specified in 50 CFR 648.144 (b)(2) and for degradable fasteners specified in 50 CFR 648.144 (b)(3)(i), (ii) and (iii). (See V.I. below). IV. PERMITS Finfish dealers may not buy more than 100 pounds of black sea bass caught north of Cape Hatteras per day per commercial fishing operation unless the dealer has a valid 2012 Black Sea Bass – North of Cape Hatteras Dealer Permit from the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries. Permits will be issued only to those licensed fish dealers holding a valid license as authorized in G.S. 113-169.3. Dealers must abide by all conditions of the 2011 Black Sea Bass-North of Cape Hatteras Dealer Permit as set out in N.C. Marine Fisheries Rule 15A NCAC 03O .0503. Dealers possessing a 2011 Black Sea Bass Dealer Permit shall report black sea bass landings from the Atlantic Ocean through FAX transmittal (252-726-3903) or electronic mail on forms provided by the Division. Black sea bass landings reports for each day's catch shall be reported by noon of the following day. V. GENERAL INFORMATION
A. This proclamation is issued under the authority of N.C.G.S. 113- 170.4; 113-170.5; 113-182;113-221.1; 143B-289.52 and N.C. Marine Fisheries Rules 15A NCAC 03M .0506 and .0512 and 03O. 0503. B. It is unlawful to violate the provisions of any proclamation issued by the Fisheries Director under his delegated authority pursuant to N.C. Marine Fisheries Rule 15A NCAC 03H .0103. C. The landing prohibition beginning at 6:00 P.M. on December 31, 2011 will allow the Division to review landing reports. D. For the purposes of this proclamation, fish shall be considered landed when fish are unloaded or the vessel is tied to the dock, whichever occurs first. E. Marine Fisheries Rule 15A NCAC 03I .0113 specifies that it is unlawful for any licensee under Chapter 113, Subchapter IV of the General Statutes to refuse to allow the Fisheries Director or his agents to obtain biological data, harvest information, or other statistical data necessary or useful to the conservation and management of marine and estuarine resources from fish in the licensees possession. F. Federal regulations for Fisheries of the Northeastern United States specify in 50 CFR Part 648.4(a)(7) that "any vessel of the United States that fishes for or retains black sea bass in or from the EEZ north of 35°15.3' N. lat., the latitude of Cape Hatteras Light, NC, must have been issued and carry on board a valid National Marine Fisheries Service Black Sea Bass Moratorium Permit, except for vessels other than party or charter vessels that observe the 100 pound possession limit established pursuant to §648.145." G. The intent of this proclamation is to allow North Carolina to comply with the requirements of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Fisheries Management Plan (FMP) and to manage the commercial black sea bass fishery under the state quota system established by the FMP. North Carolina is operating under a state quota and these trip limits and harvest periods are intended to constrain the harvest to the quota. H. The minimum size limit for commercial purposes south of Cape Hatteras remains 10 inches in total length. That season is closed from July 15 until June 1, 2012. I. Copies of escape vent specifications for black sea bass pots north of Cape Hatteras are available via the Federal Register posted on the Internet at: http://www.nero.noaa.gov/nero/regs/infodocs/Black%20Sea%20Bass_Info-final.pdf and from the Division of Marine Fisheries, P.O. Box 769, Morehead City, NC 28557. J. This proclamation supersedes Proclamation FF-72-2011, dated October 25, 2011.
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Folic Acid (Folate)
Folic acid is a water-soluble B vitamin found naturally in Brewer's yeast, liver, most types of berries, leafy vegetables, citrus fruits and juices, rice, soybeans, and wheat. Whether natural or synthesized, folate promotes the formation of red blood cells, helps maintain the central nervous system (CNS), and promotes normal development and growth.
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Taking its name from the Latin word for leaf, folium, folic acid was first isolated from spinach leaves. Known also as vitamin B-9 or B(C), deficiencies can cause anemia, weakness, lack of energy, paleness, mental confusion, and headaches. Women of reproductive age, especially pregnant women, are encouraged to modify their diets to increase folate intake or supplement with folate-enriched foods or the synthetic vitamin to avoid neural tube defects (NTDs), which are birth defects of the baby's brain (anencephaly) or spine (spina bifida). Up to 70 percent of some very serious birth defects are preventable by taking only 400 micrograms of folic acid per day. Because many pregnancies are unplanned, women need to regularly get the required amount, since by the time she is aware of a pregnancy, the baby's brain and spine are already formed. Some breakfast cereals have 100 percent of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) added and many brands of breads, pastas, and rice are also enriched with folic acid.
Essential for the production of DNA, folic acid becomes more important for the rapidly developing and growing embryo. Side benefits of high levels of folate in the bodies of men and women are lower homocysteine levels, which decrease the risks of heart disease and stroke. Although not as well understood, there are some indications that folic acid fights some forms of cancer, such as colon and breast cancers, and reduces the risks of several other types of birth defects, including cleft palates.
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