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City of Lincoln
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2009 Media Releases
Mayor Chris Buetler was joined by City Councilman Ken Svoboda, Lincoln Fire & Rescue (LFR) Chief Niles Ford and Lincoln Police Department (LPD) Chief Tom Casady at a news conference today to announce two important changes to the City's emergency response system.
The Mayor announced that the City will place a sixth LFR ambulance into the field to keep response times low, reduce paramedic stress and maintain a high standard of care.
"We have to maintain a quality medical response system for our families," said Mayor Beutler. "We never want to be in the position of explaining to a family member that a death was preventable because we didn't act to keep the system strong. As your Mayor, it is my number one priority to ensure your family receives a quick, timely and quality medical response when they need it."
Indicators show that five ambulances are running a high number of calls. The average LFR ambulance team goes to over 3,400 calls per year with the busiest ambulance covering over 4,000 calls. By comparison, the busiest ambulance in four of Lincoln's five peer cities does not even cover the same number of calls as LFR's least busy ambulance. The Mayor said that LFR's paramedics are becoming overwhelmed by a City that has grown geographically by 40 percent and by 26 percent in population since 1990.
"Response times reflect this problem," said Mayor Beutler. "We are increasingly unable to meet the national eight minute standard recommended as best for patient care, particularly for those patients on the southern fringes of our community. This is unacceptable. We cannot jeopardize patient care with slowing response times and paramedics who are worn out. The risk is too high not to act swiftly and decisively."
LFR Chief Niles Ford said that by using on-duty personnel and an ambulance LFR already owns, the addition of the sixth ambulance will be cost neutral.
"It is our mission to provide the highest standards of public safety response, mitigation, and emergency transport possible," said LFR Chief Niles Ford. "Furthermore, in these trying economic times it is essential that department directors use the resources we have been trusted with in the most effective and efficient manner possible. To that end, I believe the addition of this ambulance is consistent with those doctrines."
Chief Tom Casady said a recent investigation revealed that paramedics are over stressed. "During our investigation last year into drug abuse by two paramedics, I became aware of the workload and scheduling stress borne by Lincoln's ambulance crews," said LPD Chief Tom Casady. "We learned that there were often few opportunities in the 24-hour shift for rest, and that paramedics often caught their limited sleep fully clothed and with their shoes on, in anticipation of the next call out. No one wants an exhausted paramedic, or an exhausted police officer, showing up at their emergency. Increasing the availability of ambulance crews and spreading the workload out across more ambulances is an obvious way of reducing the workload stress."
Mayor Beutler also announced his support for Councilman Ken Svoboda's effort to change stand-by ambulance service. Stand-by ambulances are placed at the scene of local high school sporting events, horse races, University of Nebraska football games, charity fun runs, and other events with physically demanding activities or large crowds.
"Stand-bys place a significant strain on our emergency response," said Mayor Beutler. "LFR ambulances that stand-by are taken out of the emergency system meaning that a back-up ambulance that is further away must sometimes respond. Stand-bys create logistical and staffing challenges as well."
Currently, City code only allows LFR to perform stand-by services. Chief Ford said qualified private sector ambulances can handle many stand-by situations. Councilman Ken Svoboda said a revision of the City code will increase flexibility through private sector/public sector cooperation.
"This ordinance change is yet another great step forward in the ever increasing cooperation between Lincoln Fire and Rescue and the private sector," said Svoboda. "Cooperation is a win-win for the citizens of Lincoln."
In the vast majority of stand-by situations, no medical emergency occurs. LFR estimates that only a handful of actual emergencies have occurred in 447 stand-bys requiring over 4,167 hours of stand-by service. The proposed ordinance change will allow emergency resources to be focused on emergencies.
Svoboda said that LFR will continue to provide stand-by service as requested.
In 2008, LFR turned a profit for the second consecutive year, performing well enough to make a considerable dent in the Ambulance Fund's start up loan from the City's General Fund.
"We need to understand there are no free lunches," said Mayor Beutler. "Stand-by services are a source of profit for Lincoln Fire and Rescue. Allowing others to provide these services will likely reduce Lincoln Fire and Rescue's profit. We have worked very hard to ensure that the ambulance fund is in the black. But we feel the benefits outweigh the loss of revenues at this point. Quick and quality response must take precedence over future profit."


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Jeremy Roenick said Doug Wilson has a difficult job ahead of him as the Sharks try to regroup after a devastating first round playoff loss to the Los Angeles Kings. But Roenick does know what he would do to change the team's makeup if he was San Jose's general manager this offseason.
"If it were me, like I said, I think Joe Thornton is the captain, and he should stay in place, but they should see what they can get for Patrick Marleau, who has been there his whole career, and maybe he needs a change of scenery and you can get a lot for him," said Roenick, a 20-year NHL veteran and now a hockey analyst with NBC, in an interview with this newspaper Wednesday.
"He's an extremely talented player and you can get a lot on the market for a guy like him, and maybe change the chemistry on the team."
Much of the attention in the wake of another disappointing postseason has been focused on Thornton and Marleau and what the Sharks should do with the two 34-year-olds, who both signed three-year contract extensions in January and have no desire to leave San Jose.
Marleau led the Sharks with seven points in this year's series against the Kings, but was held pointless in the last three games. Thornton had three points, all coming in the first three games of the series.
Marleau has played his entire 16-year career with the Sharks and is the franchise leader in almost every offensive statistical category. Thornton just finished his ninth season in San Jose and has been the Sharks' captain since 2010.
"I think a lot's been said, how long are you going to keep the Thornton-Marleau combination together? Whether one of them needs to have a change of scenery and to try to get something for them while they're 33-34 years old," said Roenick, who is part of NBC's broadcast team for the Stanley Cup final.
"Both of them still have good years ahead of them. But I know that's been a question that the media has wondered, whether they can continue to go with the same guys, as the top guys. Joe being the captain, he would be the more likely guy to stay and run that team and continue to be the captain. The guy who's most obvious that might need to change is Marleau. Patrick is obviously a fan favorite, but for how long do the fans accept not making it to the big dance?"
Wilson has promised changes are in store for the Sharks, who were eliminated by the Kings for a second straight season. In an interview with Bay Area News Group columnist Tim Kawakami last week, Wilson said, "I want players that want to play here, not just live here."
Roenick has been highly critical of Marleau's compete level in the past.
After a playoff game against Detroit in 2011, Roenick called Marleau's performance "gutless," admitting later, however, that it was a poor choice of words. In Roenick's autobiography the following year, Marleau is depicted as a highly skilled player who needs to show more heart and play with more edge.
Roenick said Wednesday that Marleau "has to score goals in key games" but made it clear he didn't want to pin the Sharks' postseason shortcomings on one or two players.
"I don't want to sit here and say that it's Joe Thornton or Patrick Marleau's fault. Because it's not. It's not at all. You win as a team and you lose as a team," Roenick said. "But sometimes when it goes this long, sometimes the tough decisions are going to have to be made. Sometimes you have to shake up certain parts of it."

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Fans of high school boys basketball are invited to turn out this coming Wednesday for a series of four games, to be held at Sunnyside's Harrison Middle School gym.
A team from Utah, the 5A Lehi High School Pioneer boys hoop squad, will take on four high school teams from Sunnyside, Grandview and Mabton.
The touring team from Lehi, a community of about 47,000 people, consists of 14 players, who on Wednesday will separate into two, seven-man teams.
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Admission to all four games this coming Wednesday is set at $3 for adults and $2 for children.
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- Home
- coasters...
- corkscrew flowers
- cross stitch stitch
- coffee pot cozy... tulips.
- fan edging...
- herringbone stitch and the one I can't remember
- how to make a really fast star....
- little bows from bits
- paper stars
- the pillow susanne made and I wrote out....
- popcorn flower...
- spring coasters...
- the rose
- the round vintage pillow...
- vintage round pillow
- waffle weave
- wiggle wiggle
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
and so it begins...
once again the earth turns
and they declare that it is now
even though this year
in this neck of the woods
it came with the new year
as I was cooking dinner last evening I noticed the
Japanese Maple is budding
new leaves and little flowers
a squirrel was eating them which is what made me notice
of course by the time I got the camera the
muncher was gone
but a Cardinal flew in
albeit for a second or two
but they are active and noisy and are in nest building mode
I filled the feeder with their favourite food so they will be around for sure
they just have to get used to me spying on them
this one looks to be a brand new one
he's clean and bright and very skittish and I haven't seen a female with him
so he must be looking
coz he sure talks a lot
the other bushes are budding and blooming too
way too early
but this is the new weather now
all out of sync and all in the wrong place
and we better get used to it
that bird house was for the
Eastern Blue birds
but the squirrels had other ideas and now it's just for show!!!
the bush in the background is the Spirea
I picked a few daffodils on Sunday
actually this is a narcissus
the leaves have been up since January
but the flowers took longer
you can see they are ready to be thrown out
should have left them in the ground!!
but it's hard not to bring them in
along with a sprig or two from the
plum tree
and the
spirea bush
and look what else I spied
as I cooked last evening
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6 comments:
- Dawn said...
Beauty everywhere.
- March 20, 2012 2:10 PM
- T's Daily Treasures said...
Ha! Looks like it was a beautiful day! Everyone and everything out and about. Have a great week. Tammy
- March 20, 2012 2:42 PM
Love that view!
- March 20, 2012 7:28 PM
- Andi said...
Crazy humans, always trying to get in the shots!
Love all your flowers. That cardinal is fantastic!
- March 20, 2012 9:57 PM
- NillaK said...
What a pretty bird! I just saw a gray one through my window, picking up some of last years chives for his nest. And my pigeons have returned, I can hear them as I write. Not so happy about the jackdaws settling in as usual though... Simply too many of them around. Love to see how different your spring is from mine. Happy to see you blogging! :)
- March 22, 2012 5:07 AM
- Valeria said...
awww i love this time of the year ,everything is coming to life lovely ,i whant those white flowers :)))
- March 22, 2012 2:08 PM
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Sydney harborfront mansion has been sold for a record-setting A$54 million ($55.4 million) to a Chinese-born businessman, reinforcing the city's growing status as a hot property destination, newspapers said on Thursday.
On the market for six years, the luxurious eight-bedroom "Altona" in exclusive Point Piper was bought in a secret deal with the businessman who currently lives in Melbourne, the newspapers reported.
The property and its heated waterside pool and boathouse, rented by U2 rock star Bono in 2006 for a family holiday, was last sold in 2002 for A$28 million.
While Australian capital city home prices rose by only 1.3 percent in March, top end Sydney properties have attracted strong interest from Chinese buyers, and almost three in four international sales have gone to Asian buyers in recent years.
The Altona sale beat the previous Sydney property sale record of A$45 million, but fell short of the national record of A$57.5 million paid in 2009 by mining services magnate Chris Ellison for a sprawling riverfront home in Perth.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Juxtaposition 235: Cthuluh, Jack Chick and Child Abuse
It is terribly amusing to me, that at the same time I managed to get into an argument with someone about Tiamat and the fact that Cthuluh is really cause for far more concern, because frankly Cthuluh wouldn't kick Tiamat's ass - h'd jst fckng eat hr, I also noted this delicious little tidbit posted at Pharyngula. I found it while perusing a few blogs that were involved in the crushing of my hopes for Canadian healthcare. I have a rather dark sense of humor, so I thought it was more than a little amusing. But when I was talking about it with my dearest Juniper, I realized that there is an element to the humor that one is likely to miss, if they never experienced Chick Tracts when they were a child. In a most unfortunate turn, it seems that the old tracts aren't available online and the new ones aren't quite on a par with the ones I was exposed to as a child, but I did find a couple that provide a decent taste. "The Beast" shows a common theme that runs through many of these tracts, providing up with a glimpse of what we can expect in these "end times." There were a lot of scenes that showed us what hell was like, showed Satan as a deceiver and even several that talked about specific demons and types of demons.
Juniper just didn't find the Cthuluh tract nearly so amusing at the end - it is, I will grant, rather disturbing. But honestly, it is not the least bit more disturbing than a lot of the Chick tracts are and were even moreso when I was growing up. And when I was four, five and six, I read Chick tracts all the time. There were scads of them at church and I happened to be rather adept at ferreting about in the sorts of places they got stored. They were comics, which are just lovely fun for a child and no one thought anything of seeing any of us kids reading these abominations. Never mind the demons and souls and brutal destruction of life and property - it was all for the greater biblical good of raising good Christian children. It was also a hell of a indoctrination tool. And it is ever so useful for a small child to get a headstart in understanding demonology.
During this same conversation, Juniper and I got to discussing my parochial school experience - it actually came up when I casually mentioned being paddled by the principle fairly regular like. It occurred to her that this was a very good expression of this concept of arationality that I have been on about, since I first noted it's use by that albino gorilla, John Wilkins. Because I think it's important to recognize that a great deal of creationist and general religious thinking falls outside the purview of the rational/irrational dichotomy - though my opinion about the value of that understanding would probably differ fairly significantly from John's. So picture a bit of my life, if you will and see just how irrational my thinking was as a child and how irrational much of my adult life has been...
Fast forward to the third grade - I have been steeped in such brilliance as those older Chick Tracts. I am firmly entrenched in the terrorizing Belief that my dad and other people I love quite dearly are bound for eternal torment in hell, unless they accept my god in their lives. I am already a "Royal Ranger," the scout group that is part of the Pentecostal, fundamentalist church my mom and I are attending. And now I am getting set to start school at the same church. Without five days a week of elementary school, I am spending the vast majority of my time in this church. I'm in the choir, I am there on Weds for Royal Rangers, I am often there on Sat, for events involving both and there are a lot of activities happening throughout the summer. And now I am going to be there for school. Where I will learn some academics - and a whole lot more of the religious nonsense - six, often seven days a fucking week.
I was rather cleverer than the average bear, no question. But all the cleverness in the world is for naught, when all that is going in is filtered through rather extreme dogma. I was, at one point, taught that intellectualism was another religion - much like evolution - a tool of Satan. I was taught that I needed to focus all of that intellectual acuity on things that fostered my faith and the faith of others. My dad ran a strong counterpoint to the notion that focusing much of my intellectual acumen on anything not within the purview of my faith was wrong. But that didn't stop me from developing some rather deep seated shame - shame that would ease up from the recesses of my mind, to make me rather frustrated with myself - possibly even ashamed of myself, whenever I allowed my intellect to be wasted on anything that didn't bring glory to my god. After all, God had given me this intellect - how dare I ever waste it on the world...
Chris Mooney wonders, in his reply to me, why the realm of moderate faith isn't a reasonable place for fundies like I was to end up - at least for a while. Why I shouldn't, in spite of my anger, recognize that this is better for that person than being a fundie. Well here's the problem with that...
I have always been an insatiably curious person - I was curious before my infant eyes could clearly view the world around me, I was curious when my brother taught me to read at two, I was curious and I was clever. I was also pervasively lied to for many years - lies made no less egregious because those inundating me with them believed the lies themselves. I was taught to be ashamed of too much curiosity, unless that curiosity was firmly focused on the dogma I was constantly and consistently hammered with - day in and day out. I was taught that the majority of the humanity that I was commanded to love, were going to suffer for all of eternity in hell, because they didn't worship the right god, didn't worship the right god properly or didn't worship any god at all. I spent subsequent decades trying to make reality fit within the confines of dogma - tried to shift the dogma to accommodate reality - became increasingly desperate to find some way to hold onto my Faith, because that was right and critically important.
Please, if you don't see it as such - please explain to me how that experience of mine wasn't child abuse that led to decades of hell. Drug abuse, self-loathing and unrelenting depths of despair, masked by extremes of sensory overload from sex, drugs, writing and music.
More importantly, why should I sit back and pretend that this moderation that Chris speaks so highly of is any better for some of those people, than it was for me. At least when I was a fundie, I was somewhat content. I wasn't desperate to make it all make sense, because it made sense - I didn't need to question, because the answers were there and beyond those answers was minutia that I could parse easily, through prayer and study. Yes, I was occasionally angry and ashamed by my inability to focus everything on my god - but it was unquestionably easier than the suffering of the last eighteen to twenty years of my life.
I am certain that there are many people who are more than happy to live in that realm of moderate faith - I don't really care. Because for many people, that moderate faith is merely fundamentalism tainted and broken by doubts. A desperate place where the reality is an increasingly desperate need to make the absolutely incompatible weave into the fresh whole cloth of a coherent worldview.
I am for helping them, helping people like me - period. If some moderates and fundies get hurt, angry or offended along the way - well honestly, I'm not even really sorry about it. Both groups and those in between and outside on the fringes foster an environment of absolutely hellish agony.
That is what I am combating and will continue to combat. And I am not going to apologize for it - no one who fostered my personal hell has, or has even shown any remorse for my experience there.
14 comments:
- Abby Normal said...
I thought you might find this a little heartening. I just got back from that folk music festival I mentioned a few weeks ago. As you might imagine, hippie-dippy-new-agey types did abound. Well, during one of the performances the singer, Christine Lavin, asked a short series of questions. Here are the questions and results of this extremely unscientific survey.
1. Do you believe in psychic powers?
38% Yes*
2. Do you believe you have psychic powers?
19% Yes*
3. Do you think there's no such thing as psychic powers?
40% Yes*
About 22% did not respond to any of the questions.
Given the audience, I was surprised to hear so many cheering for skepticism. So take heart, magical thinking is on the decline and our numbers are growing. Perhaps one-day religion will be something kids learn about from history books.
* Percentages based on intensity of applause as estimated by me. Margin of error +/- 100%
- June 30, 2009 at 4:27 PM
- Dan J said...
My post from last night kinda gets to the point that I've given up on being civil about religion. Many people who are religious deserve (and get) my respect. Religious ideas, on the other hand, have earned only my scorn and derision, and I'm not giving a fucking inch any more.
- June 30, 2009 at 6:10 PM
- Jason Thibeault said...
I had no idea what a Chick Tract was through most of my childhood, though I recall having seen one such tract on a visit to my grandparents', when we went with them to church on Sunday.
Years later, I'm on the interwebs and someone mentions "Chick tracts" as being hilarious. I Google it (or I might have used Yahoo, I can't remember how long ago this was), and end up reading them all from chick.com . Yeah, seriously, I devoured them. Pointed out the most hilarious ones to my friends and had a good LOL.
- June 30, 2009 at 7:19 PM
- Dan J said...
Just in case anyone is interested, there's a PDF version of the Cthulhu tract linked from a page at the site of one of the artists, Fred Van Lente.
- June 30, 2009 at 9:16 PM
- DuWayne Brayton said...
Thanks Abby, that does rather make me feel good...
Dan J -
Holy Shit!!! You Rule - I was trying to find something like that and couldn't - totally putting it in the post...
And I will definitely get over to read your post when I have a few - I am definitely over the bullshit and tired of playing nice.
Jason -
I know that they seem terribly amusing and in some ways are. But they are also absolutely horrifying, when you consider the fact that a lot of children are exposed to them - children who are already being told to believe many aspects of the shit discussed in that vile garbage.
- June 30, 2009 at 9:43 PM
- Becca said...
1) Christine Lavin is freakin awesome
2) Chick tracts are evil on many levels. Their take on Jews is particularly bizarre.
- June 30, 2009 at 10:38 PM
- Ambivalent Academic said...
Yeesh! Catholics too.
DuWayne - I get where you're coming from. You've delivered a very thoughtful consideration of your own experiences and perspective. I'll freely admit that I have not been following all the discussion on this topic that's been going on here and elsewhere...because, well, I get so freakin' tired of the whole argument. I'd rather just live and let live. Seriously. I know a lot of religious people that I rather like and respect tremendously. I have had the (dis)pleasure of encountering a lot who want to "save" me. The ones I like don't do this. They respect my position although they do not subscribe to it themselves. I extend them the same courtesy. If the god-baggers who wish to look after my eternal soul for me could manage the same, they wouldn't bother me one iota. I'm a scientist - I get that there's sometimes harm in irrational thinking, but I'm not always rational either.
For those fundies that end up in a sort of middle ground for a while, as long as they're not hurting anybody, I see no harm in them being where they are. For those fundies that insist on dis-educating their children, I say STFU...but I think that this isn't what you're talking about. I don't know, maybe I missed your point. Or maybe I'm just tired. Or maybe I'm just getting so tired of these discussions on blogs where we're all trying to tell each other the right way to talk and think and live. Sounds a little like evangelism after a while.
No offense to you implied here, I'm just finding this all to be very exhausting.
- July 1, 2009 at 2:24 AM
- Juniper Shoemaker said...
Or maybe I'm just getting so tired of these discussions on blogs where we're all trying to tell each other the right way to talk and think and live. Sounds a little like evangelism after a while.
Ambivalent, I think you missed the point of this post. Magical thinking is more than the trifling inconvenience represented by blogger's fatigue to those of us who've been hurt seriously by it.
- July 1, 2009 at 4:03 AM
- Ambivalent Academic said...
Yeah, sorry - that didn't come across well. Not that it's any kind of excuse, but it was late when I wrote that comment and I certainly wasn't on form.
I don't mean at all to demean the damage done to people who have been force fed this kind of crap. I did not articulate that very well - apologies.
Perhaps this was an inappropriate post on which to voice my opinion. I don't doubt for a second that people have been hurt or damaged by magical thinking and I don't doubt for a minute that it's a problem. I'm torn up about people who have to go through that kind of yuck and claw tooth and nail towards reason. I know a lot of people whose relationships with their families and friends have been put through the wringer by this kind of stuff. Not good on any level. I do think it's child abuse to tell your kids that it's their *personal* responsibility to make sure that their own (rational) loved ones don't burn in hell for eternity - that's fucked up and if kids can't count on the adults in their life to help them see what's true and what's not that's bad.
On the other hand (and in re-reading this post this morning I see that this is not the point here, but has been a recurrent theme throughout this discussion), people of "moderate" faith (whatever that means) I understand to be in a sort of middle ground. They tend NOT to be so evangelical and insisting that everyone believe as they do or face eternal damnation. These folks aren't hurting anybody. They're not telling me or you to repent and convert or burn forever. They're not so convinced of this "truth" that they're dis-educating their children. They're holding onto some cognitive dissonance, but they're not trying to force that down anyone else's throat. That to me is a big difference - if they're not going to get all evangelical up on my ass, then I'm going to offer them the same respect. If these people approach me about these things, I'm happy to offer my point of view, but as long as they aren't hurting anybody, then I'm not going to get all evangelical about my ideas about what's real, as much as I might believe them to be superior. Some of these people will arrive at the same point themselves, or with the help of other people if they seek it out. Some of them might be content to stay where they are. IMHO, that's OK - as long as they're not being evangelical.
I hope that I'm articulating these ideas better this morning. Both my empathy for the experiences of DuWayne and others and that "moderate" believers maybe aren't doing harm to others in the way that evangelical folks are. Also that in spite of disagreements or differences in points of view, insisting that everyone else arrive at the same truths that we hold dear looks a lot like evangelism coming from the other side of the fence. In the case of people who are abusing their children by feeding them all kinds of horrific disinformation, I don't really care, but in the case of "moderates" who just want to live and let live, I would prefer to extend them this respect of their autonomy.
- July 1, 2009 at 11:27 AM
- DuWayne Brayton said...
I would define the moderates as people who generally don't couch their beliefs in absolute terms, or who don't believe that their absolute beliefs should be translated to the entire population.
The mistake I think you're making, is in assuming that such people aren't evangelical. I hate to break it to you, but they quite often are. They have to be, or the entire substance of their belief is rendered entirely meaningless. They may not look at it with the black and white of fundamentalism, but that doesn't make them harmless. To the contrary, that makes them far more insidious - and I use that word with the full weight of my extensive personal experience as just such a person. I use that word, because I have spent many years of my life trying - successfully more often than not - to draw people into this "harmless" realm of moderate religious/spiritual belief.
I can see that I need to really go into this in a great deal more detail and will. But I have to get ready for class, so it will have to wait until later.
- July 1, 2009 at 11:43 AM
- Ambivalent Academic said...
I think that we were understanding "moderate" to mean different things. I have encountered people like you describe and I agree that they can be quite evangelical. I was using the term to refer to non-evangelicals (of whom I know quite a few) and I think that these are a whole different animals. Thanks for clarifying.
- July 1, 2009 at 11:59 AM
- Dan J said...
Yes, I also think that the term "moderate" is rather vague for what we're discussing. Non-evangelical is a good starting point, but I think there are overlaps with other criteria. I'm sure there are people whom we would consider to be non-evangelical, yet they still retain a wish to see certain of their moral standards imposed by legislation. Conversely, there are certainly those who do evangelize, yet keep their religious beliefs out of the realm of politics and legislation. It's as bad as labeling people either liberal or conservative. There are so many groups within groups, and various criteria to examine that it becomes nearly meaningless.
- July 1, 2009 at 2:46 PM
- Jason Thibeault said...
I happen to think that mocking and spreading around links to hilariously bad, racist or antisemitic Chick Tracts, with the shared understanding that I'm showing it to them because it's so horribly wrong, is a good way to increase their visibility and detract from the influence they have. The more people are previously exposed to just how wrong they are, the more likely they will protect their loved ones from them (e.g., spot your kid with a tract, take it from them immediately).
That said, yes, it would be great if there were science-based comic tracts that we could spread around, in the same places Chick Tracts tend to crop up. Surreptitiously replace stacks of them in your local churches, pass them out in parking lots ("Hey, have you heard the good news about particle physics??"), etc.
- July 1, 2009 at 6:11 PM
- Ambivalent Academic said...
"Hey, have you heard the good news about particle physics??"
:) Thanks for that.
- July 1, 2009 at 8:11 PM


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Since 1999, Cindy and Mike Ridenour, along with their daughter, Mary, have successfully operated Meadow Maid Foods – a sustainable producer and purveyor of grassfed beef and numerous heirloom and open-pollinated vegetables like beans, kale and shallots – on their nearly self-sufficient ranch in Yoder, Wyoming.
Surrounded by conventional ranches and farms, Meadow Maid is unique because of the sustainable practices employed by the Ridenours, with their 100 head of beef cattle being "raised from birth to finish on pasture, on a single ranch…with respect for the cattle, and in harmony with nature." While their methods often exceed organic standards, what really sets Meadow Maid apart from the sea of conventional practitioners is their commitment to self-sustenance and low-input agriculture. Almost every bit of their cattle's forage diet is grown on the farm, and the Ridenours avoid chemical fertilizers on their vegetable crops, both practices that lower their water footprint and their dependence on fossil fuels. At Ecocentric we get excited with this type of closed-loop system because it perfectly illustrates how the integration of food, water and energy systems – the "nexus" – can be put into practice.
We have known about the impressive work being done at Meadow Maid ranch since it was a stop on Sustainable Table's 2007 "Eat Well Guided Tour of America." Then, as now, the Ridenours have been generous with their time and knowledge, as confirmed by my phone conversation with Cindy at her home in Yoder.
If you're interested in sustainable agriculture and pasture-raised animal production, check out the edited transcriptof our entire conversation, which touched on topics like drip irrigation, the challenges of product transportation and their hopes for younger farmers. Below is a sampling of our illuminating and wide-ranging conversation.
On how an integrated approach to Meadow Maid's operations helps them to pasture-raise their cattle in a sustainable manner.
Well, we're 100 percent grass-fed and our ranch is self-contained, in a sense. So we breed all of our own heifers to be cows. We occasionally bring in a bull, but we have a pretty much closed herd and the ranch is all in one contiguous piece. So our animals are born here and they spend their whole life here and they are on pasture the whole time. So we have a lower stocking density than typical ranches. But what we do is let them graze all summer, but we stockpile feed for the winter and they eat that during the winter. And we do bring in some hay from a local ranch, about fifteen miles from us. And that hay that we bring in, for emergency supplies through the winter is the only feed that involves fossil fuel input. These animals live their entire life, and we estimate that their hay is probably just a couple percent of their total feed over their lifetime. And that's the only fossil fuel input in these animals, from birth until the time we take them to slaughter. And then, of course, we have to put them in a truck.
And then slaughtering involves some input. There is a lot of energy, water, and that sort of thing. But when we sell custom beef to a customer – a custom beef is where they buy a side or a split side of beef – then the only fossil fuel input in that meat is that little bit of hay, which is just a couple of percent of their lifetime feed, the trip to the processing plant and then whatever energy it takes to process that meat.
And since we have a closed herd, we don't have to use vaccines, we never pour pesticides on our animals and we don't use any pesticides or herbicides on our ranch. So it's a pretty low input process and our ranch is on grassland, what would have been grassland before white people arrived. So it's a natural grass ecosystem. We have a lot of wildlife here and we have some riparian areas and wetlands, and we keep all those pretty native and natural and allow the wildlife to coexist with the cattle herd. So it all works pretty well together.
On the minimal inputs associated with their vegetable production.
On our vegetable production, just like with the beef, we try to minimize inputs as much as possible. I do buy some liquid fertilizer, it's a fish emulsion kind of stuff, it's a natural product, it's not a petroleum product or chemical fertilizer at all, but we do buy it and we use [it] during the summer. It would be nice to make that ourselves, we do make some compost teas, and it would be nice to stick strictly with the compost teas.
We're not certified organic and one of the reasons that we don't certify organic is I think they have some ridiculous rules on the book about the use of compost and compost tea, because they are so worried about pathogens. They are living in fear of pathogens these days. Well, our forefathers used compost for millennia and the biodynamic people use compost and compost tea all the time and people aren't just falling over dead from pathogen contamination.
On the Ridenours' sustainable food production philosophy.
Well my husband likes to say we're a progressive step backward.
In other words, we've combined a lot about what we know about soil life and ecosystems, animal husbandry and the technology of drip systems, being able to irrigate very carefully, and nutrition, what we've learned about plant nutrition and human nutrition and so on. We've combined all of that modern knowledge with the ancient wisdom, of growing with nature instead of battling nature.
I think that any place the farmer can reduce external input is a step in the right direction. You can make the system work, and there's a lot of data out there saying too, that if you got to a total 100 percent vegetarian system that you can't make it work, you have to have input. If I just wanted to raise vegetables and grain products, eventually I'd have to bring inputs into the farm, that animals are part of a total farm system, and to me, when you think about it, it makes sense. Because this earth was not populated just by plants. A functional ecosystem includes animals.
And there have been a number of studies on grass-based ecosystems. They have to be grazed. You don't have a natural grass ecosystem that isn't grazed, it's not healthy.
So we have to have these animals grazing and then the grass pastureland is actually one of the best ecosystems in the world as far as soil health. They measured soil life and root mass under grass systems and it's better than forest. And any time you are producing annual crops, you are constantly disturbing the soil and the soil life, and releasing CO2 and other nutrients that the soil's been holding. So yes, I grow vegetables and it's an annual cropping system, but my healthiest ecosystem is not on the vegetable crops, it's on the pasture.
That pasture ecosystem is healthier than the vegetable crop land. So you gotta do it all.


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TheUSATrailerStore needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 154 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
The USA Trailer Store.com™
With locations in Greenville, SC and Paramount, CA, The USA Trailer Store specializes in selling new motorcycle trailers, pull-behind motorcycle cargo trailers, motorcycle camp trailers, and motorcycle accessories to customers across the Unitied States. With more than 25 combined years of industry experience, we have the knowledge, skill, and expertise to provide our customers with great products that will keep them trailering for many years.
We are currently selling on eBay and Amazon. We do have a website, but we would like a new one.
Our tag line: "Safety and quality don't have to come at a high cost!"™
Our target audience consists of mostly male (more than 60%) motorcycle enthusiasts between the ages of 45 and 64. They typically own Goldwing or Harley Davidson motorcycles. They travel a lot. They enjoy outdoor bike rallies and events. They love their motorcycles and are willing to spend money on them and the accessories.
We're finding that our customers are not particularly tech savvy, so less is more.
The site should be simple and clean, but it should also be current. We want simple, but memorable. Less is more.
Please use the logo as a reference on what colors to use in the site design. We are leaning towards blue, but we are not committed to that.
If you have any questions, need clarification, or more photos, please feel free to reach out to me!
We want the home page to be used for announcements, new products, contests, points of interests, surveys, and etc. But not necessarily all at the same time.
I have included two photos: "The Legacy and the Redwoods" and "The Legacy and the Oregon Coast". Either or both might make a nice banner up top. We'd like to see it.
If, however, you can find a photo or photos that convey the same message as the two photos that I have submitted, then please also feel free to use it.
In the attachments, I have included a document entitled, "Website Contest". Please make the necessary adjustments to its size and make it the first thing on the home page below the banner.
Along the top, there should be links or tabs to "Home", "About Us", "Photo Album", "Brag Book", "Contact Us", "Shipping", and "Playlist".
On either side of the home page, there should also be links or buttons to the following product pages: "Motorcycle Trailers", "Pull-behind Motorcycle Trailers", "Motorcycle Accessories", and "Other".
The product page should consist of a photo and link or button to the ad copy.
The key here is consistency. This is where we are having trouble so, design, design, design. I have attached a few photos of some products.
http://www.TheUSATrailerStore.com - We really like its simplicity, but it's a little too simple. We need more consistency.
The items on the home page are too big.
We don't like the fact that the pages often don't load properly.
We do not like the size of the photos of our products.
The banner is boring. We like our logo there, but it's missing something.
The static page feels too confined. I think I'd like to see a full page.
Please also visit our eBay store to get a better feel of all of our products and advertising style:


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One of the beauties of fall is the seed heads of the ornamental grasses. I grow a lot of grasses because the marauding herds of deer do not eat them and I love how they sway and shift in the slightest breeze. Most of my grasses are planted out by the road to capture this effect. Grasses are also tolerant of the salt and grit that is thrown on the roads in bad winter weather.
I selected my grasses not only for their shape or height or leaf but also for their seed heads. Let me introduce you to Moudry, the Black Fountain Grass. Most grasses have a beige or tan seed heed so I was thrilled when I found Moudry tucked away in a corner of the nursery. It is reliable, reproduces well yet is not one of those wild crazy beach grasses that go everywhere. It has long blades and a lovely shape. And I love the soft black bristles of the heads. I stroke them every time I walk by. Perhaps that is why I have seedlings everywhere in Spring.


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Damn! The golden lasso has yanked the years right off this ageless beauty!
She's not rockin' the tights in public anymore, but 55-year-old Lynda Carter is still struttin' her stuff. Cameras caught the former "Wonder Woman" star outside the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in L.A. on Wednesday.
Lynda's parking her invisible jet at the Catalina Bar and Grill in Hollywood this weekend, where she'll be singing!
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 SLI Testing - Fermi gets doubled up
GF100 / Fermi SLI Configuration Considerations
When we first reviewed the new GeForce GTX 480 and 470 graphics cards back in March one of the few things we left short in our discussion was the possibility of running a pair of the cards in SLI. We touched on it briefly, but only in passing and we really wanted to spend some quality time with the dual-GPU configurations to get a better feel for how the system would perform and how much actual benefit you would get going by doubling your investment cost. After all, that is what it comes right down to: is spending twice as much money really going to increase your gaming performance and experience?
SLI Considerations
After a bit of delay with other reviews and a two week journey to Japan and Taiwan, we sat down with a pair of GTX 480s, GTX 470s (and yes even the new GTX 465s that were recently launched) to do our duty and game. Sometimes it's tough, you know?
To NVIDIA's credit, they are pushing the media to test their SLI configurations inside of actual cases rather than in an open-air environment. Usually hardware reviewers are using open-air testing conditions for ease of access and to better and more reliably test the heat and noise variables. (What better way to see if a card is hot than just reaching out and touching it to see if you get branded?) We did much of our benchmarking in the same open air environment that we have traditionally used but we also spent some time with the GTX 480s shelled up inside a Silverstone Raven 2 case.
the complaints of the reviewers are unwarranted in relation to the
difference between them and the ATI Radeon 5000-series competition.
They sort of got that point
across to this reviewer but I think it still has to be said that
NVIDIA's GTX 400 cards are louder and are hotter - but how much a
difference that makes to enthusiasts might be overblown. These are not
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A new species of squid has been discovered by scientists analysing 7,000 samples gathered during last year's IUCN-led seamounts cruise in the southern Indian Ocean.
The new species, which was identified by Dr. Vladimir Laptikhovsky, Fishery Scientist from the Falkland Islands Fisheries Department, is 70cm long and is a large member of the chiroteuthid family. Squids from this group are long and slender with light-producing organs, which act as lures to attract prey. So far, more than 70 species of squid have been identified from the seamounts cruise, representing more than 20 percent of the global squid biodiversity.
"For ten days now 21 scientists armed with microscopes have been working through intimidating rows of jars containing fishes, squids, zooplankton and other interesting creatures,"says Prof. Alex Rogers from the Department of Zoology of the University of Oxford. "Many specimens look similar to each other and we have to use elaborate morphological features such as muscle orientation and gut length to differentiate between them."
The recent discoveries are part of an IUCN-led Seamounts Project, which started a year ago when a team of the world's leading marine experts ventured into a six-week research expedition above seamounts in the high seas of the Indian Ocean. The aim of the cruise was to unveil the mysteries of seamounts in the southern Indian Ocean and to help improve conservation and management of marine resources in the area.
"The new discoveries will not only satiate the appetite of scientists working in the field, but will help improve conservation and management of Indian Ocean resources and future management of deep-sea ecosystems in the high seas globally," says Carl Gustaf Lundin, Head, IUCN Global Marine Programme.
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text: Margaret G. Hays, sister of Grace Drayton, was a comic artist in the first decade of the twentieth century. She created 'Jennie and Jack, also the Little Dog Jap', and was also known for making paper dolls for postcards. She sometimes teamed up with her sister, for instance on the strip 'The Turr'ble Tales of Kaptin Kiddo'.


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Well…this is awkward. Remember that time I had a blog and wrote every day, and then still had a blog but never wrote anything?
…sorry, universe.
Not that I'm assuming anyone reads this thing, but if you did, I apologize for being MIA. SO MUCH has happened in the last 6 months, I don't even know where to begin. But I need to get it all out there, because I'm still processing everything, and I'm hoping that writing it down will help.
It all started about June/July. I started gaining weight for no apparent reason. Nothing major, but sooner or later I was up 10 lbs from a couple of months before, and I couldn't understand why. My eating habits didn't change, my workouts were only getting better. And it wasn't muscle, might I add…I was noticing fat deposits in strange places, and my clothes were no longer fitting.
There were other weird things too…I was tired, constantly. No matter how many hours of sleep I got, I would wake up feeling like I was hit by a truck. I was also moodier, almost depressed. I was getting dizzy spells every time I stood up. And the bloating…oh gosh the bloating. On more than one occasion I would cry to my husband that I was six months pregnant – my stomach was THAT distended. I was googling "Am I pregnant and don't know it??," that's how bad it was. I was frustrated, discouraged, and fairly pissed off.
So…I went to the doctor.
I think another reason why I'm writing this is to encourage women to listen to their bodies, and if something doesn't FEEL right, then DO something about it! I did something about it, and 6 months later I'm so thankful I did.
It took 6 months to figure out what my deal was. We started with thyroid, which seemed like a good place to start given my symptoms. Tests came back showing that I had a fairly good-looking thyroid, but my doctor had also done a blood panel which showed I was significantly low on B-12 and iron. HOORAY, easy fix! More B-12 meant more energy, which I desperately wanted. I took 4 shots in the butt of B-12, started popping iron pills, and got my blood work checked again 6 weeks later.
No change.
My body wasn't absorbing any of the vitamins and nutrients. Wierd, right? My doc then went through a round of hormone/endocrine tests that showed I had high levels of cortisol in my system (probably due to some stress my body was under). At this point, I was pissed. I don't stress easily, so why is my cortisol elevated? Why am I not absorbing anything? WHY DO I LOOK PREGNANT???
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Southwest farmers have promising pricing options for grains and cotton as they plan for 2008 acreage.
Grain farmers benefit somewhat from the double-edged sword of crude oil market fluctuations, says Jose Pena, Texas A&M Extension economist (management), Uvalde.
As crude prices increase, demand for ethanol goes up, spurring demand for corn. As corn prices increase, Southern farmers look to grains to take up some acreage they would typically plant in cotton. Consequently, cotton prices also increase with prospects of less production.
"Global factors also affect cotton and grain markets," Pena says in his weekly ag economics update.
He says recent rallies offer growers "excellent pricing opportunities as they firm up planting intentions for 2008. Recent weaknesses in crude oil prices apparently influenced recent weakness in the grain markets, but a rebound in crude oil and continuing strong export demand for grains supported a late January market rally."
December 2008 corn had dropped to less than $5 per bushel (Chicago Board of Trade) after reaching a high of $5.26. March corn futures jumped to "just over $5 per bushel (January 29) and December closed at about $5.10.
He says soybean futures were up on nearby contracts but lower on distant contracts.
July hard wheat was up to $9.67 on the late January rally.
Ethanol is moving the grain markets. "With corn closely tied to ethanol, changes in crude oil prices have a significant impact on grain commodity markets."
He says market fundamentals may not favor a cotton market rally but some recent movement "appears to be associated with market spillover from grain markets."
He says markets dropped by 4 to 5 cents as grain prices weakened and then improved by "about a penny" when grains rallied.
Pena says USDA's latest supply/demand figures for corn indicate a lower production estimate, 94 million bushels less, than the December 2007 report. That came with an increased estimate for domestic use, up 265 million bushels. Ending stocks are expected to be 359 million bushels lower.
He says ending stocks appear adequate (1.438 billion bushels) for the year but "are down 20 percent from last month's estimate (December) and down 28.1 percent from October, 2007. Once ending stocks drop below 1.5 billion bushels, the market becomes extra sensitive to changes in use and related world/national activities, which may influence the market."
Exports will increase, up 325 million bushels, a 15.3 percent rise from 2.125 billion bushels last year. That, with reports of reduced production estimates from competing corn exporting countries and the high crude oil prices, spurred the market, he says. However, lower crude prices and improved weather in South America could weaken the market. Pena says worries in the United States over recession also may pressure grain markets.
"Globally, coarse grain supplies for 2007/2008 are projected 1.3 million tons lower than the December 2007 estimate, despite an increase of 1.4 million tons in beginning stocks." World corn production estimates for that period are 2.6 million tons lower, mainly because of reductions in the United States.
Increased grain sorghum production in Argentina and increased corn, barley, oats and mixed grain production in the European Union partially offset the U.S reduction. Pena says a weak dollar and reduced global supplies "should support strong export demand and a strong market."
He says a season-average price received by farmers is expected to be up 35 cents "on both ends of the range, based on the sharp rise in both cash and futures prices that has been sustained in recent weeks." An average price received was projected at $3.70 to $4.30 per bushel.
Cotton pricing potential looks good for 2008. Pena says the domestic cotton market has been sluggish for several years but has "improved significantly, apparently influenced by improvements in grain markets. The outlook for 2008 appears bright as the market competes for planted acres this season. With record or near record prices for corn and feedgrains we'll see stiff competition for acreage."
Pena says the cotton market was volatile in late January. "December futures rose to bump 80 cents a pound by mid-January, but dropped about a nickel to 75 cents. Weakness in the stock market, the potential for a U.S. recession and the continuing crisis in the housing market (Cotton has wide use in housing construction.) will continue to influence a volatile cotton market."
Pena says potential for reduced cotton acreage in 2008 and continued good export demand bodes well for the 2008-2009 cotton market. "Current prices for corn, wheat, soybeans and sorghum favor those crops at the expense of possible reduced cotton acreage. Lower production and a relatively strong export demand should support a relatively strong 2008-2009 market."
USDA's Jan. 11 supply/demand report put production marginally higher, exports lower and ending stocks higher. Production increased by 46,000 bales to 19 million. Domestic mill use was unchanged. Exports dropped 200,000 bales, to 16 million.
Pena says the export lag resulted from sluggish shipments and lower imports by China.
"Ending stocks were raised nearly 3 percent from December to 7.9 million bales."
He says the USDA global report indicates lower beginning stocks, lower production, lower consumption, lower trade, and lower ending stocks.
"Reduced global ending stocks and potential acreage shifts away from cotton would support a potential for prices to remain relatively strong in relation to the last few seasons," Pena says.


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The Merry MisogynistSubmitted by Karen on July 26, 2011 - 8:31pm
Somebody in Laos is wooing and wedding country girls - and then killing them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to trees. The horror of what this monster does to his victims leaves a bad taste in the mouths of Chief Coroner Dr Siri and his morgue team. Not ones to stand around tutting, they vow immediate revenge.


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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Friday, May 19, 2006
Grace O'Malley, The Pirate Queen of Ireland
Grace was the daughter of the chief of the O'Malley clan. The O'Malleys controlled most of what is now the barony of Murrisk. The O' Malleys were a great seafaring family and taxed all those who fished off their coasts. Their leader bore the ancient Irish title of The O' Malley.
Rosemarie Colombraro wrote of her early life. She noted, "As a young child Grace yearned to join her father on the sea, but her mother resisted, saying the life of a sailor was not for young ladies. When Grace cut off her long hair in protest, her amused family nicknamed her Grainne Mhaol (Grace the Bald). It is believed her father gave in and allowed her to travel with him to Spain."
In 1546, Grace married Donal O'Flaherty. She bore him three children. During this time, she also was active in clan politics and took to pirating. When her husband was killed, she took over his castle after defeating the people who killed him. Later, she married Iron Dick Burke so she could gain control of Castle Rockfleet. She divorced Iron Dick a year later but kept his castle.
Grace O'Malley is also known for meeting Queen Elizabth I. Richard English wrote, "Grace lost none of her fire as she aged, eventually running afoul of Queen Elizabeth's navy. She was arrested for piracy, but petitioned the Queen for leniency in such flowing and complimentary prose that something stirred in the Queen. She summoned Grace for an audience behind closed doors, at the end of which Grace and all her men were released and given property along the coast of Ireland. Elizabeth also knighted Grace's son, Tibbott, and he became Sir Theobold Burke in 1603."
When Grace visited the Queen, she refused to bow. Wikipedia notes, "When they met at Grenwich, Grace famously refused to bow before Queen Elizabeth because she was herself a Queen, and not a subject of the Queen of England. Elizabeth apparently took to Grace, who was approximately the same age, and the two women reached sufficient agreement for Elizabeth to grant Grace's requests provided Grace's piracy against Great Britain ended."
Despite her pirating, Grace O'Malley lived to an old age. After her death, she became an Irish folk hero of almost legendary status. An upcoming musical play about her (The Pirate Queen by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg and John Dempsey) will debut at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre in fall 2006
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- Laura James said...
What a neat story. Having just seen the HBO miniseries Elizabeth, it was easy to picture the encounter between the two "rulers." I wish the producers could've found the room to include this remarkable character. Laura James
- Zebigleb said...
Very interresting - Thanx !
- Joe Follansbee said...
I am a friend of Barbara Sjoholm, the author of this book, and I think she has done a fine job of teasing out the role of women in the pirate world.
I have recently released a maritime history book of my own: Shipbuilders, Sea Captains, and Fishermen: The Story of the Schooner Wawona. This three-masted schooner is in Seattle, and she is the sister to the C.A. Thayer, which just went through a complete restoration in San Francisco. You can learn more about my book at www.wawonabook.com.
Joe Follansbee
Grace O'Malley was my great great great grandmother. I think you should also know you forgot a very important detail: She was born in County Mayo and when she died was buried with most of her treasures on the coast below their house.
Horselover..I am also a descendent of Grace O'Malley....I had been told so many stories about her, and her being a very tall woman...My great grandmother was very tall also..It is so nice to meet a relative here..
- Jake Roberts said...
Anyone who is a descendant of Grace O'Malley I'd love to share the research I've discovered and potential relatives in a way.
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I've also watched a documentary about Grace O'Malley on the discovery channel which was fascinating.


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My friend has a load of unused spelt grain that he has asked me if I want for the chooks. Has anyone fed this to their chickens before? I feed mine on layers pellets with a daily handful of corn - could I replace the corn with the spelt maybe? It's in date as he has just used it to make beer from.
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To hire new employees, line up power contracts, set up billing and dispatch operations, and do all the work necessary to take over Xcel Energy's electricity distribution system, Boulder expects to spend "significantly more than we have been spending on an annual basis so far," city spokeswoman Sarah Huntley said.
Huntley said city officials won't have specific numbers until late August or early September, when the draft 2015 budget is released, but city officials always expected that costs would go up in advance of the city acquiring Xcel's system and starting its own utility.
"This is something we fully anticipated," she said. "When we did our modeling, we looked at startup costs."
On Thursday, Boulder released a report from consultant PowerServices Inc. that described the transition plans under two scenarios: one in which Boulder and Xcel cooperate on an orderly two-year transition; and one in which Boulder has to sink or swim on "Day 1."
That latter "Scenario B" requires the city to do a lot more preparation in advance of taking ownership of the system, including having contract crews and power supply agreements ready to go, all while the city won't know for sure if the distribution system and regulatory costs will be within the city's means or too costly to allow the formation of the utility.
"The most significant prerequisite for transition is flexibility in the sequencing and scheduling of activities," PowerServices wrote in the report. "The path towards electric municipalization is not one-dimensional. Uncertainties are amplified if the owner of the system to be acquired does not cooperate and acts as an impediment to the acquisition process. ... The city must first manage the risks of acquisition while prioritizing the fundamentals of an electric utility: safety and reliability."
Boulder filed to condemn Xcel's local distribution system, including all or part of nine substations and a high voltage transmission line that rings the city, in July. At that time, the city put the value of the system at $120 million, well south of the $214 million cap on debt related to acquisition that voters approved in 2013.
Xcel has not yet revealed its own valuation, expected to be much higher, and on Tuesday, the company asked a Boulder District Court judge to throw out the condemnation case as "premature." Last year the Colorado Public Utilities Commission ruled that Boulder should bring its acquisition plan to it before filing for condemnation, a ruling that Boulder appealed and then ignored.
Xcel spokeswoman Michelle Aguayo said the company had not had time to review the transition plan in detail, but it, too, seems premature considering the outstanding legal issues.
Aguayo said she could not comment on how much assistance Xcel might provide Boulder in creating a smooth transition in which the city would likely continue to buy power from Xcel because so many legal issues are in play.
"We have too many unanswered questions, especially with regards to the PUC case, that we just can't talk about that at this time," she said.
Huntley said Boulder will have a sense, as the court case plays out, of which direction things are headed and will have time to shift transition plans in response.
"As in any litigation, there will be rulings along the way, and some will be in our favor and some will be against us," she said. "There are some key decisions that will give us better information about how to proceed."
She said that Xcel could also be ordered, by the PUC or the court, to work with the city on transition plans.
Huntley said Boulder is reaching a point where the city will spend money well above the $1.9 million generated by the utility occupation tax. Voters approved an increase in that tax in 2011 specifically to pay for research into municipalization, and that money cannot be spent any other way.
The city has also approved general fund transfers of $300,000 the last two years to pay for additional municipalization requests.
Boulder had budgeted $2.3 million for the municipalization effort in 2014. City officials have said legal costs are likely to push that number higher, in part because the city moved up certain parts of the legal process. However, up-to-date spending numbers were not available Thursday afternoon.
Starting in 2015 and continuing until a municipal utility starts to collect revenue, city spending will go up significantly, Huntley said.
Huntley said that number should be kept in the context of the estimated $30 million in profit that Xcel gets just from Boulder each year.
"People hear the kinds of numbers we're talking about — and it's true, they are in the millions — but the kinds of revenues collected by a utility like this are also in the millions," she said.
She said a municipal utility will re-invest that money in infrastructure and innovation instead of paying corporate shareholders.
However, if Boulder does not form a utility, it will have no way of recouping those costs, Huntley acknowledged.
Huntley said no decision has been made about whether a future utility would pay back the general fund for those startup costs. Boulder officials have also discussed the idea of asking voters for a tax to cover startup costs, but no such tax will be on the ballot this year.
The report on the transition plan described a "Day 1" coming in the third quarter of 2016, with Boulder taking possession of the system after an 18-month to two-year court battle and beginning billing at that point. Various separation points and connections would need to be built between Boulder's system and Xcel's system. PowerServices estimated that would take another two years.
If Xcel works with Boulder, Xcel could maintain certain operational aspects and sell power to Boulder during that time. If not, Boulder would need to have contracted crews ready to take over operations on Day 1, as well as power purchase agreements with third-party suppliers in place.
Any such contracts would need to be prepared in advance with termination clauses in case the utility does not move forward, PowerServices said.
The utility would start with a combination of new city employees with energy expertise and outside contractors. Over time, the city could decide whether to bring all operations in-house or continue to contract for certain services.
Huntley said the condemnation filing and the release of the transition plan move the city into the next phase.
"We are very actively transitioning away from a research endeavor toward implementation of a vision that our community has," she said. "We are preparing in a very focused and strategic way for that implementation."
Huntley said the city would continue to assess the feasibility of municipalization and made "prudent" decisions about spending.
"We do understand we have a cash flow situation we have to address, but there is some uncertainty about the outcome," she said. "We want to make decisions wisely. Our community expects that of us."
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