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Today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an article about Sichuan* peppercorn's comeback in the US after years of being banned. About a week ago I had answered a few questions posed by writer Rebekah Denn about the spice's role in Sichuan cuisine. In the article are a few quotes, as well as the Sichuan Cucumber Salad recipe I posted in January. If you have time, check out the Seattle PI's story!
*I use the spelling "Sichuan" throughout my site, where as Seattle PI uses "Szechuan." I base my spelling off Pinyin, the most common Standard Mandarin romanization. "Szechuan" is a throwback to the days before the US adopted Pinyin-based spellings (other examples: Peking is now Beijing, Canton is now Guangdong.) While "Sichuan" is becoming the standard in English publications, "Szechuan" is still heavily used. Both are correct, but this footnote is just to lessen any potential confusion.

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Just last week, we picked up on a new report which showed that The University of Utah, MIT, Purdue, Johns Hopkins University and other schools have had more success at spinning out startup companies than the University of Washington.
Well, now Gov. Chris Gregoire and university officials are doing something about it. As part of a program bankrolled by the U.S. Department of Treasury, Gregoire and the Washington State Department of Commerce today announced support of a new investment vehicle known as the W Fund.
The Department of Commerce is providing $5 million in seed money to the fund, with additional contributions coming from individuals and foundations. The total target is $25 million.
The idea behind the fund is to invest in early-stage technology and life science companies emerging from University of Washington and other research centers in the state.
"We believe that the W Fund will fuel critical mass in key sectors such as life science, and strategic nascent sectors for Washington such as clean tech, capitalizing on the most promising new inventions developed at the University of Washington and research institutions across the state," said Linden Rhoads, Vice Provost, Commercialization, University of Washington, in a statement. "This is a great example of the state, and Department of Commerce being really sophisticated in their use of federal stimulus money to leverage private investment dollars to insure [sic] that there is sufficient earliest stage capital in the local economy."
Xconomy notes that the fund was initially called the Husky Bridge Investment Fund, and as of last October had raised $13 million of a $20 million target.
We've reached out to Rhoads to get additional details on the fund, including how much they've raised to date.
The W Fund is part of a larger $19.7 million effort that was announced today by Gov. Gregoire and the Washington State Department of Commerce to create new financing paths for small companies.
"About 95 percent of Washington businesses are small businesses and they need help right now to grow and provide the jobs that will accelerate economic recovery in every community around the state," said Gregoire in a statement. "With the Small Business Credit Initiative, we are removing a big barrier to their success by opening more pathways to financing that's been scarce during this recession."
In addition to the W Fund, Gregoire announced the formation of the Craft3 Small Business Credit Initiative which is designed to provide loans of $1 to $5 million to minorities and other underserved communities. It also announced the formation of the Capital Access Program, a $6 million program that will help facilitate bank loans in the $50,000 to $100,000 range for small businesses.
Groups in Oregon have been experimenting in public-private partnerships when it comes to investing in new startup companies, and Rep. Jay Inslee suggested that state funds be used to support startups in remarks declaring his bid for governor.
Efforts to create government-led startup investment vehicles have been somewhat mixed in the past, including lack of focus at the state's own Life Sciences Discovery Fund


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Hi all,
I have been testing at a 2nd hand electrical shop but they have now decided to do it themselves 'in house'. The guy has been given 3 hours training and a Safety First BattPat battery only tester. I use a Europa Plus and thought it likely that the tolerance on the BattPat would fail items with long leads etc.
However, I found that the tester even on normal setting (IE Not on Long Lead setting) was passing the earth continuity on standing lights etc without problem. The Europa will fail them and I need to enter cable details to run the test again. When I looked up the BattPat specifications I was amazed to see the tolerance given, which is incredibly generous.
My point/question is that I fail items like Kettles because of poor earth continuity, but this tester would pass them no problem. That surely can't be right can it? As a professional tester I fail an item as unsafe, yet someone with 3 hours training and this dodgy looking bit of kit will be passing them and selling them on to the public. The BattPat seems to be readily available to buy, and on the likes of Amazon gets good reviews, I'm guessing from people/users who don't know better.
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Jablonski carried through tough times by hockeyby Dan Myers
ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. - The eight jerseys hung against the glass at the St. Louis Park Recreation Center, bright red with white piping and names on the back. Those names won't be forgotten anytime soon in this bustling Twin Cities suburb.
It was senior night Tuesday at Benilde-St. Margaret's School, a small private school 15 minutes west of downtown Minneapolis. Here, those names will go down as a group that not only won a state championship as juniors, but came back to defend that title this season as seniors.
Hockey prodigy Dunne blazing a trailBy Tal Pinchevsky - NHL.com Staff Writer
The 15-year-old from Missouri not only plays on a boys high school team and with players years older than her, she's already been an international standout at the U-18 Worlds.
To Jack Jablonski, those eight names mean strength, commitment, friendship and family.
"I've become so close to these guys," Jablonski said. "They've been such a tremendous help. They mean so much to me, they're willing to do anything for me. Losing these guys is going to be real tough, they're unbelievable. I don't know what I'm going to without them next year."
It's been almost 14 months since Jablonski damaged his spinal cord while playing with Benilde-St. Margaret's junior varsity team and one can't help but think of next year, when Jablonski will be honored on senior night. What lies in store for him and where he goes in his recovery is still a mystery.
"It'll be tough," Jablonski said. "Leaving this team and leaving this high school is going to be tough. It'll be very emotional knowing everything this program and the school has done for me."
It was during a junior varsity game last December when this journey began for Jack. He was hit from behind into the boards, severing his spinal cord and fracturing two vertebrae. Doctors have said he will never walk again, a fact the guy classmates call "Jabs" or "Jabby" refuses to accept.
The event changed Jablonski's life forever. The 17-year-old high school junior is confined to a wheel chair; hoping for, working for and praying for the day when he will walk once again.
But why stop there?
Jablonski says his ultimate goal is to get back on skates. The fire of a hockey player still burns inside him.
Still, he finishes every answer to every question -- even the hard ones -- with a smile on his face. He's honest and realistic about his situation, but refuses to ever close the door on, well, anything.
"The doctors have done everything they can for me," Jablonski said. "Only God knows what happens from here."
In the ensuing months after the accident, Jablonski's story gained national attention. From all corners of the country, letters of support rolled in. National Hockey League teams that came to play the Minnesota Wild would stop in and visit. Jablonski's favorite player, Pavel Datsyuk, called in to support him, as did Wayne Gretzky.
But perhaps more than any other group, the Minnesota hockey community rallied behind Jablonski in an effort to raise money and awareness while making the game safer for kids of all ages. It was that support, Jablonski said, that snapped him out of any funk he may have felt in the days following the accident.
"It motivated me to prove the doctors wrong," Jablonski said. "I wanted to show them I could do it and show anyone else they can do it, as long as they believe."
And while Jack isn't walking (yet), he's made more progress in 14 months than many doctors predicted he ever would.
He's activated muscles in his lower body by doing treadmill work almost daily. Toes, ankles, gluts, quads, hamstrings -- all progress being made towards that final goal.
"It's very positive. This was never expected and I've been able to surpass it so quickly," Jablonski said.
"They've been such a tremendous help. They mean so much to me, they're willing to do anything for me. Losing these guys is going to be real tough, they're unbelievable. I don't know what I'm going to without them next year."
-- Jack Jablonski on his team's seniors
Through it all, Jablonski has been a fixture with his high school team. Knights coach Ken Pauly wanted Jack to be involved with the team this year, but not simply as a manager. So he had Jack join him as a student-assistant coach. Jack's main responsibility is helping to run the team's power play, which he proudly announced was buzzing somewhere in the 90 percent range.
"Jack has a real good eye for the game. Before the injury, he was a terrific player. Guys who are really good players see things that other people don't see," Pauly said. "Since his injury, he can just focus on those things like a laser beam. Jack is very much a part of our family and our team. I like valuable and talented people and Jack brings that."
Eventually, Jablonski said he'd like to be either a coach or a broadcaster, so long as it involves the game he loves. But until then, Jablonski is focused on helping his hockey family defend a section title and a state championship. It's a senior group, he says, that is always going to be very special to him.
Like any good hockey coach, Jablonski is only worried about this season. But it's intriguing to think about where his determination to beat his condition may bring him long after his own senior night, which is only one year away.
In that regard, this junior is already talking like a savvy veteran.
"I hope not to shed any tears," Jablonski said. "But when you're a senior, there's no turning back."


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Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian, killed 77 people in a bombing and a shooting rampage in Oslo and on Utoya Island, a summer camp for young political activists, on July 22, 2011.
Mr. Breivik, a right-wing extremist, admitted to the slayings in a court hearing shortly afterward, but denied criminal guilt, portraying the victims as "traitors" for embracing multiculturalism and Muslim immigration policies.
On Aug. 24, 2012, a Norwegian court sentenced Mr. Breivik to 21 years in prison after ruling that he had been sane at the time of the massacre. The sentence is the longest provided by Norwegian law; it can be extended if Mr. Breivik is later deemed to still be a menace to society.
His 10-week trial, which ended in June, centered on the question of his sanity. Defense lawyers argued that Mr. Breivik was sane when he bombed buildings in downtown Oslo, killing eight people, before killing 69 people at a summer youth camp run by the Labor Party, and should therefore be sentenced to prison. Prosecutors said that he was mentally ill, was not criminally responsible, and should be hospitalized instead.
Members of the defense team had evoked Mr. Breivik's human rights in their conclusion that he should be held accountable for his crimes. Mr. Breivik has said that the killings were committed in self-defense to combat what he has called the "Islamic colonization" of Europe. He has argued that an insanity judgment would detract from his cause.
"The defendant has a radical political project," said one of his lawyers. "To make his acts something pathological and sick deprives him of his right to take responsibility for his own actions."
A judge said that the decision reached by the five-member panel hearing the case had been unanimous. Reading from a 90-page judgment, she refuted Mr. Breivik's assertion that he acted as part of a network called the Knights Templar, saying there was no evidence to prove its existence. Mr. Breivik has said he was present when it was founded in London in 2002.
The bombing and shooting spree convulsed Norway, and the country's police chief was forced to resign in August 2012 after an independent commission found that the police could have averted or at least disrupted Mr. Breivik's plot.
Report Faults Police Response
The report by an independent commission also said the domestic intelligence service could have done more to track down Mr. Breivik while he conducted his shooting rampage, but stopped short of saying it could have stopped him.
While noting that the attacks "may be the most shocking and incomprehensible acts ever experienced in Norway," the 500-page report said the bombing "could have been prevented" if already adopted security measures had been implemented more effectively.
Mr. Breivik was able to park a van with a fertilizer bomb just outside the high-rise government headquarters building in Oslo before he drove another car to the Labor Party's youth camp on Utoya.
The 500-page report said that a car bomb "at the government complex and several coordinated attacks have been recurring scenarios in threat assessments as well as for safety analyses and exercise scenarios for many years."
Plans to close off the street in front of the government building were approved in 2010, but work on constructing physical barriers had not been completed and no temporary obstacles had been set up. A parking ban in the area was not strictly enforced.
The police response to the shooting spree was slowed down by a series of blunders, including flaws in communication systems and the breakdown of an overloaded boat carrying a police anti-terror unit. Meanwhile, Norway's only police helicopter was left unused, its crew on vacation.
Mr. Breivik attended the elite high school where the country's current king, Harald V, and his son once studied. Former classmates remembered him as quiet but intelligent, with a small rebellious streak: he was a prolific graffiti artist.
Former classmates and colleagues described him as unremarkable and easy to forget, qualities, perhaps inborn, that he cultivated — consciously, he would say — to mask his dedication to what he called his "martyrdom operation."
Once a schoolboy who was fond of hip-hop and had a Muslim best friend, in his 20s he began to view the immigrants who flowed freely into Norway and elsewhere in Europe as enemies, and those who sought to accommodate them as traitors, worthy only of execution.
For years, Mr. Breivik participated in debates in Internet forums on the dangers of Islam and immigration. It is not clear at what point he decided that violence was the solution to the ills he believed were tearing European civilization asunder. Before the attacks he was careful never to telegraph his intentions.
Early in life, Mr. Breivik, far from being a radical, appeared to be on a track to join Norway's political establishment. He grew up in Skoyen, a middle-class district of western Oslo. His father, a civil servant, and mother, a nurse, divorced when he was 1. Beyond that, his childhood seems to have been uneventful; Mr. Breivik said in his manifesto that it was happy.
Toward the end of high school, he joined the youth wing of the Progress Party, drawn to its anti-immigrant platform and market capitalist bent. But those who knew him from those days said that he failed to leave much of a mark.
He began to struggle with life, those who knew him said. He became estranged from his father, who moved to France. Then his sister, Elisabeth, on whom he seemed to rely in his father's absence, moved to the United States and married an American.
It was a time when, according to his manifesto, his political views began to transmute. He began to perceive what he said was the hostility of Muslim youth. He latched on to reports of attacks against ethnic Norwegian men and rapes of ethnic Norwegian women by immigrant gangs.
Mr. Breivik wrote that the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 was a tipping point for him, describing the operation meant to halt a genocide as a betrayal of a fellow Christian people for the sake of Muslims.
He spent the next decade slowly working out his plan, though few people, it seems, had any inkling of it.
To earn money for the attacks, he wrote that he had started a company that earned him millions. Neighbors cast doubt on this claim, however, saying that they thought he had inherited some money from relatives.
As he went about gathering six tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and turning aspirin powder into pure acetylsalicylic acid for his bomb, he led an active life online, railing against Muslims and Marxists in debate forums.
The police say he rented a farm in eastern Norway, not far from the capital, and holed up there for several months to prepare his bomb.
Breivik's Writings
A Facebook page and a Twitter account set up under his name days before the rampage suggest a conscious effort to construct a public persona and leave a legacy for others. Mr. Breivik cited philosophers like Machiavelli, Kant and John Stuart Mill. Although there did not appear to be calls for violence in his Internet postings, he hinted at his will to act in his lone Twitter post, paraphrasing Mill: "One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests."
In a 1,500-page manifesto, posted on the Web hours before the attacks, Mr. Breivik recorded a day-by-day diary of months of planning for the attacks, and claimed to be part of a small group that intended to "seize political and military control of Western European countries and implement a cultural conservative political agenda."
He predicted a conflagration that would kill or injure more than a million people, adding, "The time for dialogue is over. We gave peace a chance. The time for armed resistance has come."
Mr. Breivik's manifesto spells out plans for using anthrax as part of his war to defend Europe against what he called the rising threat of Muslim domination. But experts in biological weapons said the manifesto showed no evidence that he had actually obtained the lethal germ or could wield it as a weapon. They said the document — at least on the subject of germ attacks — evoked the air of an armchair theorist rather than someone poised to commit mass slaughter.
The manifesto was signed Andrew Berwick, an Anglicized version of his name. The manifesto, entitled "2083: A European Declaration of Independence," equates liberalism and multiculturalism with "cultural Marxism," which the document says is destroying European Christian civilization.
The document also describes a secret meeting in London in April 2002 to reconstitute the Knights Templar, a Crusader military order. It says the meeting was attended by nine representatives of eight European countries, evidently including Mr. Breivik, with an additional three members unable to attend, including a "European-American."
A Well-Organized Attack
One thing is certain: the killings pointed to a meticulous and well-organized attack on Norway's current and future political elite. Police said that after Mr. Breivik exploded a car bomb outside government offices in downtown Oslo, he then traveled to Utoya Island, a wooded retreat sponsored by Norway's Liberal Party, located about 19 miles northwest of Oslo. He went to the camp, which is accessible only by boat, dressed as a police officer. Once there, he said he had come to check on the security of the young political campers. He then gathered them together and proceeded, coldly, to shoot them and then hunt down those who fled.
As soon as the shooting started, witnesses said, people panicked, running in all directions, tumbling down the island's rocky hill in an attempt to reach the sea. Even after many made it into the water, Mr. Breivik calmly and methodically shot at those who were swimming.
He was equipped, the police said, with an automatic rifle and a handgun; when the police finally got to the island, about 40 minutes after the shooting started, Mr. Breivik surrendered when they called out to him, dropping his weapons. The police said that they had difficulty reaching the island, which delayed their response.
Norway's prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, had been scheduled to speak to the campers; a former leader of Labor's youth wing, he had attended the camp every summer since 1974.
Fearful of Multiculturalism
To the consternation of many Norwegians, Mr. Breivik appears to have achieved at least one of his stated aims — a highly visible platform, with the eyes of the world upon him.
The authorities have described Mr. Breivik as a fundamentalist Christian, a gun-loving Norwegian obsessed with what he saw as the threat of multiculturalism and Muslim immigration to the cultural and patriotic values of his country.
Mr. Breivik's lawyer, Geir Lippestad, has described him as a "very cold" person who lived in his own world, buttressed by drugs and the belief that he was a warrior doomed to die for a cause that others did not comprehend. He said that his client called the killings "atrocious,'' but "necessary."
Depicted as a Loner
On the second day of the trial, Mr. Breivik described the deaths as "the most spectacular sophisticated political act in Europe since the Second World War" and said he would do it over again. He rejected an assessment by one psychiatrist that he suffered from a narcissistic personality disorder. "July 22 wasn't about me. July 22 was a suicide attack. I wasn't expecting to survive that day," he said.
On the third and fourth days of the trial, prosecutors pressed Mr. Breivik on his extremist affiliations. He insisted that he belonged to a "cell" within an organization with members across Europe. He sweated and equivocated through skeptical prosecutors' questioning about his trips to Liberia and London in 2002, during which he says he met a Serbian war criminal and was a founder of the organization the Knights Templar.
As prosecutors chipped away at the question of what happened on his travels, Mr. Breivik seemed to sense that they were seeking to portray him as a fantasist and a loner. But he refused to explain the trip, saying he did not want to expose other network members.
Prosecutors continued to depict Mr. Breivik as a friendless loser, rather than the founder of a shadowy terrorism group.
Contradictory Reports on Mental Health
Two court-ordered psychiatric reports had contradictory conclusions as to the question of Mr. Breivik's sanity.
The first court-ordered assessment of his mental health, submitted in November 2011, found him to be psychotic and a paranoid schizophrenic. The authors of the report said Mr. Breivik suffered a psychotic meltdown in 2006 when he lost money in a failed share deal, moved back in with his mother in western Oslo and began playing World of Warcraft, an online role-playing game, for 16 hours a day.
The report said his mental condition left him "emotionally flattened" and led to the delusion that he was a member of a pan-European militant network that had invested in him the right to choose who should live and die.
Mr. Breivik maintains that the militant network really exists, a contention that prosecutors said is absurd. Police interviews and their own cross-examination, they said, reveal someone who has substituted a myth for an unsatisfactory life story.
A second court-ordered mental health assessment, delivered in April 2012, found that Mr. Breivik was sane at the time of the attacks.
During the trial, by turns defiant, impassive and tearful, Mr. Breivik proclaimed that he acted in self-defense, bore no criminal guilt and rejected the authority of the court. He had previously denied criminal responsibility on the ground that he was protecting Norway against Islamic immigration.
In remarkable evidence played to a packed and shocked courtroom, recordings of cellphone calls made by the gunman to the police suggested that he tried twice to give himself up and simply went on killing in the absence of officers to accept his surrender. In the period after the first call to his final shot being fired, prosecutors said, 41 people died. There has been much questioning of why the police took more than an hour to reach the island after the gunman launched the attack.


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I thought you might like to see some recently discovered rock art .Found yesterday .
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/sit ... veich.html
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Rokcet Scientist wrote:Lots of room for speculation, isn't there?
Minimalist wrote:
What is the terrain like? For example, is there a ledge above this site where water might drip down or does this stone sit in the open. It is Scotland and obviously rainfall is a common occurrence but I wouldn't expect rain to carve out such holes unless it were directed to specific targets.
Minimalist wrote:Okay. One has to assume that someone will call it a geofact and I'm glad you've covered that possibility.
But it/they is not a geoafct Min ,they are artefacts
Minimalist wrote:But it/they is not a geoafct Min ,they are artefacts
the instance you are citing I cannot fathom why someone would sit around carving holes in a rock but it is obvious that they did so.
and in these cases it does seem that they could be considered as route markers or possibly territorial markers .
Minimalist wrote:and in these cases it does seem that they could be considered as route markers or possibly territorial markers .
Possible in both cases. If a route marker one would expect some trace of the route to remain and if a territorial marker then there might still be other examples defining the "territory." I like those better than the customary fallback position: that it is some sort of "ritual."
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Duffy, Landberg receive PIANY's prestigious Morelli award
GLENMONT, N.Y.-The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. presented Garrett M. Duffy, president, Babylon Spirit Inc., North Babylon, N.Y., with the Louis A. Morelli Memorial award. In addition, as a special commemoration of his work, Dwight Stanley Landberg, CPCU, marketing director, Kingstone Insurance Co., Kingston, N.Y., was honored posthumously. The formal presentation took place during the Long Island Regional Awareness Program, April 15, 2010, at Leonards of Great Neck, N.Y.
The Louis A. Morelli Memorial Award is given in loving memory of PIA of New Yorks honorary director Lou Morelli. It is presented each year to an individual who has a reputation for working toward the betterment of the American agency system and for the professional growth of our association.
"It gives me great pleasure to present these honors to very deserving individuals," said Long Island RAP Chair Michael Cracco. "Their dedication to the industry is commendable."
Duffy, a resident of West Islip, N.Y., has been in the insurance business since 1989 and founded the independent agency Babylon Spirit Inc., in 1991. In 1995, he was one of the principals who formed Spirit Insurance Co., a New York State automobile insurance company, and served as its executive vice president and chief operations officer until 2000. Duffy serves as president of the New York Auto Agents Alliance, as well as the associations liaison to the New York State Insurance Department.
Landberg, who passed away in September 2009, had nearly 50 years of experience in the insurance industry, including 10 years with Great American Insurance Co.; and 20 years as downstate director of operations, General Accident Insurance Co. He also worked for the Robert Plan, D.C. White Agency and Commercial Mutual Insurance Co., which is now known as Kingstone Insurance Co. Landberg served as a president of the Long Island Chapter of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter Society.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — In one of the most expensive — and most mean-spirited — races in the nation, little-known Democratic challenger Kay Hagan defeated Republican incumbent Sen. Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina on Tuesday.
Just a few months ago, Dole was considered a shoo-in to be re-elected to her seat. But Hagan, whose fundraising prowess impressed party leadership, beat Dole handily.
Dole and Hagan were locked in one of the closest races in the nation, a race that turned sour in the final days.
When Dole aired an ad questioning Hagan's credentials as a Christian, Hagan's response was quick and aggressive. She sued Dole, accusing her of libel and defamation, and went to the airwaves to defend her faith, telling voters she teaches Sunday school and serves as a church elder.
"Sure politics is a tough business," she told voters, "but my campaign is about creating jobs and fixing our economy, not bearing false witness against fellow Christians."
For Hagan, the road to the Senate was an interesting one.
When she was initially offered a chance to challenge Dole, Hagan declined. She felt Dole was to ensconced to be unseated.
Pressured by her allies, however, Hagan eventually changed her mind. Now she's headed to the U.S. Senate after defeating Dole, who was seeking a second term.
Hagan's rise to the U.S. Senate mirrors that of her uncle, former Florida Sen. Lawton Chiles. Both were relatively unknown state senators when they began their campaigns.
Chiles earned the nickname "Walkin' Lawton" by walking 1,003 miles across the state to introduce himself to voters.
Hagan also journeyed around North Carolina as she tried to compete with Dole's famous name — taking a car, mostly.
Video: Dole suffers 'double stomach-punch' Hagan worked in the banking industry before her three children were born, and entered politics as a county manager for former Gov. Jim Hunt's campaigns in the 1990s.
She won a seat in the state Senate a decade ago — beating a Republican incumbent — and quickly rose through the ranks to become a chief budget writer.
In that role, Hagan influenced billions in state spending. The 55-year-old spent much of her time pushing Democratic efforts to increase funding for education. Along the way, Hagan became one of the most powerful women in Raleigh, rising through a leadership usually dominated by men.
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When Matt Gross finished college, he moved to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — without a job or any friends there. He was "twenty-two, clueless, and lucky," and calls it one of the best decisions he's made. The experience inspired future adventures: Gross eventually became The New York Times's Frugal Traveler and later wrote their "Getting Lost" column, turning wandering into a full-time career.
His debut travelogue, "The Turk Who Loved Apples: And Other Tales of Losing My Way Around the World" is a collection of anecdotes from these (mostly solo) wanderings. Gross calls it the "last guidebook you'll ever need," urging readers to leave behind maps, brochures, and technological devices and go explore. But his disjoined narrative and self-involved tone weaken otherwise colorful stories.
The book takes readers across the world, from Gross's stint in Vietnam, to a cross-country road trip, to a quest to unearth family history in Lithuania. Structured by themes — getting sick, making friends, traveler vs. tourist, ethical dilemmas — the book pivots between time and place. Gross rightly admits: "these sorts of jumps may be disconcerting."
But more than the haphazard structure, Gross himself is not the most likable narrator. He takes himself too seriously, referencing "deep" thoughts, spending time alone listening to "dark" music and reading "weighty novels (Pynchon, Barth, Wallace)," while "contemplating . . . loneliness." He frequently compliments himself, seemingly by accident. Among other skills he wants you to know he has, Gross makes friends "without consciously trying to."
On the subject of friends and family, Gross doesn't paint them in a particularly flattering light. A potential friend in Vietnam was "like me, a wannabe writer, but so argumentative, so New Yorky, so . . . Jewish (like me) that I instantly resented his presence in this country," Gross writes. And grievances towards his family often make Gross sound like a disgruntled adolescent. Gross still resents his brother (who "needed to have the world explained to him") for revealing his secret girlfriend to their parents as a kid. And jabs at his wife ("she's wrong, I'm right") leave a sour aftertaste.
Gross's treatment of women, in general, deserves review. References to almost-hookups with women who are not his girlfriend and declarations like "[h]ad I been more attractive and less ethically bound, I might have left children in many lands," were off-putting. Gross doesn't want to lie to his girlfriend (which he finds "easy") because when people believe his lies he is "disappointed in their gullibility." An unsavory scene with prostitutes in Vietnam comes off as gratuitous. Gross justifies his behavior by writing: "For all his naïve ambitions and literary pretensions, the younger Matt Gross was trying to figure out, on a very basic level, how to relate to other people."
Gross also misses opportunities to forge connections with locals. Sticking with the familiar, Gross cavorts with a "posse of Americans" in Bologna, Italy, hangs with people from the States in Vietnam, and chats up a New Yorker in Bardstown, Ky. When he permeates the Pine Woods Indian Reservation in South Dakota (where "there are far too many trailer homes") a Native American invites him in. Eventually, the man — who Gross calls an alcoholic but "not a lifelong loser" — asks him for money. He refuses. The moral? "Guilt is the ultimate province of the thinking traveler."
Composing a meaningful narrative out of travel anecdotes is a tall task. And to his credit, "mastering the psychic challenges of travel" is an admirable goal. Gross exposes loneliness and questions the worth of his writing, in one instance even disclosing a critical note from his editor.
Ultimately, however, Gross's attempts to connect — with the reader and with those he encountered in his travels — come across as half-hearted. A little more humility would have gone a long way. For all its good intentions, the pieces that make up "The Turk Who Loved Apples" add up to a less-than-satisfying whole.
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- Instructions for Ticket If it Is a Traffic Infraction
- Pleading Guilty or Not Guilty
- Requesting a Supporting Deposition
- Non-jury Trial
- Appealing the Decision in Traffic Court
- Contacting the Onondaga County District Attorney
- Payments of Fine or Surcharge
Instructions for Ticket(s)
Review your ticket(s) to determine if you have been issued a ticket for a "misdemeanor" or "traffic infraction". You can locate this information approximately 1/3 down on the left side of the ticket.
If the "misdemeanor" box is checked on ANY of the tickets, you MUST personally appear in the City Court to be arraigned before a City Court Judge on the return date and time indicated approximately 2/3 down on the left side of the ticket. You cannot use these instructions.
If the "infraction" box is checked, you have the following options:
- You can plead GUILTY.
- You can plead NOT GUILTY.
- You can personally appear before a City Court Judge on the return date and time indicated approximately 2/3 down on the left side of the ticket to enter a plea of GUILTY or NOT GUILTY.
Pleading Guilty or Not Guilty to a Traffic Infraction
You can plead GUILTY by completing the section entitled "Plea of Guilty", to include your current mailing address, the date, and your signature. You can return your plea of guilty by mail or in person at the City Court Clerk's Office or at Traffic Court pursuant to the Court's schedule.
If you return your plea of guilty by mail, the Court will notify you by mail of the fine(s) and mandatory surcharge(s) assessed, if any. If you return your plea of guilty in person to the City Court Clerk's Office, the Clerk's Office may be able to assess your fine immediately.
If you have any questions regarding this procedure, you may contact the City Court Clerk's Office - Traffic Division at (315) 671-2770.
You can plead NOT GUILTY by completing the section entitled "Plea of Not Guilty," to include your current mailing address and your signature and mail the ticket(s) via registered, certified, or first class mail within (48) forty-eight hours of receiving the ticket(s). The Court will notify you of your appearance date and will provide you with instructions to contact the Onondaga County District attorney if you so choose.
You can also plead not guilty by appearing in person in Court on the return date indicated on your ticket(s) and the Court will provide you with your options at that time, to include contacting the Onondaga County District Attorney for a possible reduction of your traffic charge(s) and scheduling a future appearance or trial date.
Requesting a Supporting Deposition
You can request a Supporting Deposition by entering a "Plea of Not Guilty" and checking "Yes" you request a Supporting Deposition (a Supporting Deposition will provide you with additional information regarding the basis for the ticket). Some tickets are issued by the police officer with a Supporting Deposition (and is clearly identified on page 2 as a Supporting Deposition) and no request is necessary.
A Supporting Deposition request must be timely (within 30 days following your return date before the Court). The Court will then order the Supporting Deposition from the police officer who issued the ticket(s) and the police officer will have 30 days from the date of your request to mail you the Supporting Deposition.
Non-jury Trial
You will have an opportunity to meet with the Onondaga County District Attorney before trial. If you come to an agreement at that time, the Onondaga County District Attorney will present the agreement to you in writing and you will see the Judge to advise him/her that you understand and accept the agreement. If an agreement cannot be reached by you and the Onondaga County District Attorney the trial will proceed. At the trial the prosecutor must present evidence to the Court. You will have the right to cross-examine the prosecutor's witness(es) and, if you choose, to present evidence to the Court, which can include testimony from yourself or from other individuals. If you require a subpoena for witnesses, you can apply for a subpoena at the time you are notified of the trial date. At the conclusion of the trial, the Judge will either render a verdict finding you guilty or not guilty or reserve decision. If the Court reserves decision, a written decision will be issued by the Judge, a copy of which will be sent to you at the address on file with the Court. If the Court finds you not guilty on all of the tickets, this will end the case. If the Court finds you guilty of one or more of the tickets, a fine and mandatory surcharge, if applicable, will be assessed.
Appealing the Decision in Traffic Court
You have the right to appeal a traffic infraction conviction.
If you have any questions regarding this procedure, you may contact the City Court Clerk's Office
Contacting the Onondaga County District Attorney after Entering a Plea of Not-guilty with the Court.
Information on how to write the District Attorney's Office may be obtained at the City Court Clerk's Office, Room 130, or will be mailed to you upon receipt of your plea of not-guilty. If your ticket is for an Infraction, you may contact the Onondaga County District Attorney to discuss the circumstances of your ticket. The District Attorney may choose to offer you a plea to a lesser infraction. If an offer is made, you can choose to accept or reject the offer, however, any offer made by the District Attorney is only a recommended offer. The Court does NOT have to accept the recommendation of the District Attorney.
Please be advised that communication with the District Attorney may take up to 90 days. It would be in your best interest to appear in Traffic Court or enter a plea of not-guilty by mail to get the information to write to the District Attorney and at that time you will receive another date to appear.
After you have received a written offer from the Onondaga County District Attorney, you MUST contact the Court. If you are accepting the offer of the District Attorney, you must sign the offer and provide your written acceptance of the offer to the Court. Once the offer is accepted by the Court, you will be assessed a fine and mandatory surcharge, if applicable. If you do NOT accept the offer of the District Attorney, you should appear on your court date
Payments of Fine and Mandatory Surcharge
If you are assessed a fine and mandatory surcharge, you must make payment in full by the date directed by the Court.
If you submit a written plea of guilty, you will be mailed a fine letter indicating the amount of the fine and the date that the fine must be paid. Verify that your current mailing address is on file with the Court.
If you appear in Court, the Court will verbally advise you of the amount of the fine and surcharge and the date that payment is due.
Acceptable forms of payment are cash, government money order, certified check or bank draft payable to "Syracuse City Court" and by applying bail monies to a fine. Credit cards (Discover, MasterCard, and Visa only) are accepted as well.
Payment may be made in person at the Syracuse City Court Clerk's Office, Room 130, located in the Onondaga County/City of Syracuse Criminal Courts Building or by mail to Syracuse City Court, Traffic Division, 505 South State Street, Syracuse, NY 13202. Do NOT send cash through the mail. If paying by Discover, Visa, or MasterCard through the mail, you should contact the Court Clerk's Office to request a credit card payment slip. Please note that credit card payments are not accepted via the telephone or the internet.
If additional time is needed to pay a fine and/or surcharge, you MUST report to the City Court Clerk's Office, Room 130, on the payment due date at 9:30 a.m.


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So what can you do if you're a speaker with a body with a mind of its own? Here are four tactics:
- Know what you're doing: The biggest issue with unconscious moves is that lack of awareness. This is one time you'll want a video camera and a trusted pal or a coach to capture what you're doing. Get footage of yourself speaking or presenting, ideally a few times, so you can observe how and when you move. For some people, just seeing the unconscious move is enough to end it. But if not...
- Review video soon: The sooner you review a video of your unconscious moves after a talk, the more you'll be able to recall about what you were thinking. If the movement is what I call a "visual um," you might find that you lost your train of thought--and the movement was a silent way of marking your place, just as "um" does verbally.
- Know why you're doing it: When you review the video, think about those unintentional moves. Are you repeating a move because you're nervous? Were you distracted? Just don't know what else to do with your hands? All of those can be dealt with, but you need to identify the reasons first.
- Find a substitute: If your unconscious move signals forgetting, substitute more practice so you feel more prepared. Use a plan for your message so it sticks with you first, and then with your audience. If you're aimlessly repeating a move, work out a couple of substitutes, then practice using them. If you keep looking away from the audience, prompt yourself to look at a different part of the audience instead of turning away, for example.
What are the unconscious moves you've made while speaking or presenting? Share them in the comments.


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As expected, the final full week of the 2010 Regular Session ended with the focus returning to the General Assembly's top priority, the two-year state government budget.
House and Senate leaders and I began working toward common ground on Wednesday afternoon, and if all goes as scheduled, a compromise should be ready for a final vote this week.
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Project summary, 2005-2006
Sounds from the Southern Ocean is a joint project between NOAA-Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Oregon State University, and the Korea Polar Research Institute whose goal is to study the dynamic tectonic and volcanic environment of the Bransfield Strait and Drake Passage. We completed two main tasks this year: the recovery and redeployment of a hydrophone array and an ROV survey of the floor of the submerged caldera of Deception Island. We began our mission by boarding the 300' Russian icebreaker R.V.Yuzhmorgeologiy in Punta Arenas, Chile on November 19th, 2006.
Quoting Principal Investigator, Dr. Robert Dziak, "It's an awesome feeling to be crossing waters where some of the most important events in human history have occurred and some of the greatest figures of civilization have traversed. For example, the protected passage way west out of Punta Arenas harbor to the Pacific Ocean is named the Beagle Straits in honor of Charles Darwin's ship. The passage way east to the Atlantic Ocean is called the straits of Magellen for the legendary Portuguese discoverer, and of course the open water between South America and Antarctica is named after the Sir Frances Drake who first blazed his way through these rough seas in the 1500s."
Seven hydrophones were deployed last year: one in Drake's Passage and six in the in the Bransfield Strait between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. We recovered the hydrophone in Drake's passage on our way to the Korean base on King George Island. After replacing their hard drives and batteries, five hydrophones were redeployed in the Bransfield Strait. The hard drives contain all of the acoustic data accumulated since last year, and are currently undergoing analysis at OSU.
After just a few hours of sleep between missions, we roused briefly to experience our closest approach to the mainland of Antarctica. Dozens of icebergs were obscured by low-lying clouds, but were revealed by the Yuzhmorgeologiy's radar. From the deck the occasional 'berg would make a brief appearance, only to be masked by flurries of falling snow.
Deception Island is one of the few active volcanoes breaking the surface of the Southern Ocean. We attempted to locate and sample hydrothermal vents that may be lurking beneath the waters of its caldera, Port Foster. Once again we cast the Niskin bottle rosette off the stern of the Yuzhmorgeologiya, hoping to capture water samples bearing telltale elements of helium and metals. But a more direct technique would have been to actually see the shimmering hot seawater as it exits the vent.
We began our search in a section of Port Foster aptly named Fumarole Bay. From the ship we could see white, wispy vapors rising from its shoreline. A full crew loaded into the Korean zodiac with all of the ROV equipment. We collected 5 hours of underwater video (at depths of 10-100 m) of the diverse macro-floral and faunal life in these two settings. At Deception Island we observed enormous populations of amphipods, krill, brittle stars, sea stars and urchins, tunicates, sponges and sea anemones. In contrast at Marion Cove we observed krill, sea stars, sponges and tunicates but in a much lower level of abundance. We speculate that Deception Island exhibits a much higher level of productivity and diversity of marine organisms because of the morphology Deception Island that forms a protected harbor. This allows for reduced exposure of the marine organisms within Deception Island to strong currents, winds and seasonal temperature fluctuations throughout the bay.
Accomplished Research Objectives
1) First deep-water hydrophone deployment in Drake Passage and Bransfield Strait, Antarctica
2) First long-term, microseismic survey of seafloor tectonic and volcanic activity in Antarctica
3) First study of possible link between ice movement and seafloor tectonic/volcanic activity in the Antarctic
4) A detailed, deep-water (greater than scuba depth) ROV survey of the marine ecosystem at Deception Island, Antarctica
5) First acoustic survey of the presence and distribution of large baleen whales (blues and fins) in the Bransfield Strait
6) First test of active subduction processes at South Shetland Islands (King George Island), Bransfield Strait.
Oregon State University and Oregon Sea Grant installed detailed log reports and pictures (in this blog)
The daily logs and pictures from our 2005 research voyage to Antarctica can be found at two different sites:


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Albion skipper Gordon Greer assessed the current squad and admitted: "It's the best in my time here."
Greer, who has been at the club since 2010, has been part of a successful Brighton side this campaign and they currently sit top of the Championship with no defeats in 19 games.
That run has now seen them move level with Queens Park Rangers to the record number of games unbeaten in a single season.
Should Albion avoid defeat at third-placed Derby County on Saturday they will hold the new record for most number of Championship games undefeated at the beginning of a campaign.
And Greer believes this current Albion side has all the credentials to continue fighting at the top of the league.
He said: "Through my time here I've been very fortunate to pay with some really good teams, but as far as the squad, manager, staff, and the club, as a whole it's a great time to be here.
"We have a fantastic squad with great players and have a real belief to challenge and do something.
"Throughout my whole time here, every team I have played in, we have all wanted to do well but this season has been great so far."
Albion face one of their toughest runs of the season with three games in seven days.
First, Brighton make the trip to second-placed Derby on Saturday before a trip to Queens Park Rangers on Tuesday then a home clash with Middlesbrough, who sit second, four days later.
Greer is one of the few players who played for Albion in their 4-1 play-off semi-final second leg humiliation at Pride Park two seasons ago.
But this time around the Albion skipper is hopeful his side can come away from the clash with something.
He added: "It was a really disappointing day as a person and for the club, you look back at these things a take something from it.
"When you suffer a setback you learn from it and move on.
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I ran the default setup on a Windows 2003 server (a separate machine from the database server) and encountered no errors during installation. The setup process created a few Start Menu items to start and stop the Apache process (through the Oracle Process Manager, OPMN, and the "opmnctl startall" command, which in turn starts the HTTP Server).
After configuring OHS and mod_plsql on the webserver to connect to Apex on the database server (as per the Apex installation docs), everything seemed to work fine. However, when I logged out of the server, the Apex application (and OHS) stopped responding.
Investigating, I found that the Apache process (apache.exe) is started and runs under the current logged-in user when using the Start Menu item to start it. So once I logged out of the server, the Apache process shuts down...!
As far as I could tell, there should have been a Windows service called Oracle
I tried creating the service manually myself using the "sc create" command. The service was created successfully but gave an error message ["...did not respond in a timely fashion..."] when trying to start it.)
Fortunately, I had a quick look in the Knowledgebase on Metalink and found the solution there. According to Note:459474.1, entitled "Howto Create a Windows Services Entry for Starting Oracle Application Server Processes", this behavior is by design (!)...:
Most Oracle Application Server installations automatically create a Windows Services entry to allow the OracleAS processes to start up on server startup. By design, certain OracleAS releases such as the SOA Suite 10.1.3.1 do not create the Windows Services entry. In such installations, the user starts OracleAS processes from the Windows Start Menu. When the user logs out of the Windows session, the OracleAS processes will terminate as well. Resulting in an unexpected Application Server shutdown.
This note provides the steps to create a Windows Services entry for starting up OracleAS processes upon reboot/startup of the server. Processes started via Windows Services entries are not affect by a user logging out of the Windows session.
I'll leave the question as to why on earth the setup program doesn't create the necessary Windows services by default, for what is clearly a server-type product?!? up in the air for now.
Instead, I will provide the necessary details here for those who do not have access to Metalink:
Turns out I was right about having to create a Windows service manually using the "sc" command, but there is also a few registry entries that need to be present for it to work.
First, find the "key" value from the file \opmn\bin\oracle.key on the server. In my case, the value of this key was:
Run regedit and add the following two entries (in my case, the first entry already existed):
HKLM / Software / ORACLE / Key_oracleas1 / ORACLE_HOME_KEY = SOFTWARE\ORACLE\KEY_oracleas1
HKLM / Software / ORACLE / oracleas1 / ORACLE_OPMN_SERVICE = OracleHTTPServerProcessManager
Then run the following command to create the service:
sc create OracleHTTPServerProcessManager binPath= "c:\OraHome_1\opmn\bin\opmn.exe -s" DisplayName= "OracleHTTPServerProcessManager" start= "auto"
Note that there must be an empty space between the equal sign and the value in the command above. Apparently some kind of quirk with the sc command. By the way, the sc command is part of the Windows server resource kit (but it was already present on my Windows 2003 server).
After creating the service, go to Services and verify that the service starts up. Also verify using Task Manager that apache.exe runs under the SYSTEM user, rather than the logged-in user.


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(A) For purposes of this rule, "management" means any or all of the directors and officers of a bank.
(B) Prior to each meeting of a bank's shareholders, management of the bank shall give written notice of the meeting to the shareholders in accordance with section 1103.13 of the Revised Code. The notice shall include:
(1) The time of the meeting;
(2) The place for the meeting;
(3) The purpose or purposes for the meeting, which shall include:
(a) Each management proposal to come before the meeting;
(b) Each properly initiated shareholder proposal to come before the meeting of which management has knowledge; and
(c) If the meeting is an annual meeting:
(i) Presentation of the bank's financial statement; and
(ii) Election of the bank's directors or a particular class of directors, as the case may be; and
(4) If the meeting is an annual meeting and the bank is neither subject to the Securities Exchange Act disclosure rules as contained in part II of volume 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations nor wholly owned, except for directors' qualifying shares, by a bank holding company, a statement advising the bank's shareholders:
(a) That each of them is entitled prior to the annual meeting to receive basic financial information concerning the bank;
(b) That the financial information, whether in the form of an annual report to shareholders or other documents, is substantially similar to or more information than the information contained in both of the following:
(i) Those portions of the consolidated reports of income required to be filed with the superintendent of financial institutions for each of the two preceding full years covering:
(a) Sources and disposition of income;
(b) Changes in equity capital; and
(c) Allowance for possible loan losses; and
(ii) The balance sheet portions of the consolidated reports of condition required to be filed with the superintendent as of the end of each of the two preceding years; and
(c) Whichever of the following is applicable:
(i) That each of the bank's shareholders may obtain the financial information from the bank without charge and the address, telephone number, and name or title of the bank employee or officer whom a shareholder should contact for the financial information;
(ii) That the bank is delivering the financial information concurrently with the notice of annual meeting; or
(iii) That the bank delivered the financial information to the bank's shareholders prior to the notice of annual meeting.
(C) If management of a bank, other than a bank that is subject to the registration requirements of section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. 78L, provides a proxy form for a meeting of the bank's shareholders, or otherwise solicits proxies for such a meeting:
(1) Management must provide a proxy form that:
(a) Identifies the form as management's and the meeting to which it applies;
(b) Identifies management's designated proxy committee;
(c) Identifies each proposal on which there will be a shareholder vote at the meeting;
(d) Indicates management's recommendation on each proposal on which there will be a shareholder vote at the meeting;
(e) Provides the opportunity for a shareholder giving the proxy to direct that the proxyholder vote the shares for or against or abstain from voting on each proposal on which there will be a shareholder vote at the meeting;
(f) If the meeting is an annual meeting, or is otherwise a meeting at which directors will be elected:
(i) Identifies the persons management recommends be elected as directors; and
(ii) Provides the opportunity for the shareholder giving the proxy to direct the proxyholder to vote for all of the persons management recommends, against all of the persons management recommends, or for some and not for others;
(g) States that the shareholder giving the proxy may revoke the proxy at any time before the completion of the meeting for which the proxy is given and any adjournments thereof by:
(i) Attending the meeting or any adjournment thereof and advising the secretary of the bank of the shareholder's intent to vote the shares;
(ii) By giving notice in writing to the secretary of the bank of the revocation of the proxy; or
(iii) By giving a subsequent proxy;
(h) Provides that the proxyholder has the authority to vote the shares for which the proxy is given at the meeting as scheduled and at any adjournment thereof unless the shareholder giving it revokes the proxy;
(i) Requires each holder of the shares for which the proxy is given to sign and date the form and, if signing in a representative capacity, to designate the capacity in which signing; and
(j) Requires that the holder(s) of the shares for which the proxy is given indicate the number of shares for which the proxy is given.
(2) Management's proxy form may:
(a) Indicate that for any matter or election for which the shareholder has not directed how the proxyholder is to vote the shares, the proxy holder is authorized to vote the shares in accordance with management's recommendation; and
(b) Indicate that the proxyholder is authorized, in the proxyholder's discretion, to vote the shares on any other matter that may properly come before the meeting.
(3) Management must also provide a proxy solicitation statement, and in that statement must:
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Is W.H. telling truth on sequestration?
Read President Barack Obama's state-by-state breakdown of the sequester and you get a dire message: The sky is going to fall on March 1.
But a closer read of the detailed reports shows that some of the scariest stuff is going to happen in slow motion — if it happens at all.
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That's not to say that anyone thinks the sequester is good policy or that it will be harmless. But the dramatic predictions about long lines at airports and the loss of special education funding involve some large assumptions.
( PHOTOS: What they're saying about sequestration)
Here is POLITICO's guide to evaluating the warnings in the White House sequester reports.
They're never going to fix the sequester?
The state-by-state reports are full of scary numbers about funding cuts for schools, defense, public health, law enforcement and social services — any of which could be true if Congress and Obama fail to act this week, next month — or ever.
So the scenarios described by Obama — "thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off" or "hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose access to primary care and preventive care like flu vaccinations and cancer screenings" — are the worst-case scenario.
Even Washington skeptics expect the sequester to soften eventually, even if the cuts take effect.
( Also on POLITICO: What is sequestration?)
On Monday morning, for example, POLITICO Playbook broke news that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner may retroactively give agencies wiggle room in a spending bill due at the end of March, which could make cuts to important programs potentially easier to handle.
So while Obama's numbers add up under the current stalemate, the picture could improve if a deal is reached — even after the fact.
They really do have some time
Some of the most dire White House predictions are about education funding — like the deep cuts in aid for disadvantaged kids that could hurt 2,700 schools and 1.2 million students. And states could face the loss of federal special-education funding for 7,200 teachers and staff members who teach children with disabilities, according to the reports.
There's just one thing the White House doesn't mention: Those cuts wouldn't actually kick in until the next school year.
( WATCH: Obama calls for governing on sequester)
That's because those two programs — Title I aid to disadvantaged students and special-education aid under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act — are funded in advance, so they're already covered for this school year.
As Education Secretary Arne Duncan pointed out in a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee earlier this month, "the hardship will be concentrated in the 2013-2014 school year" because of the way the programs are funded.
School districts won't be able to wait that long to plan for the possible cuts — Duncan's letter says they'll have to start making teacher hiring decisions in April and May.
But it does buy Obama and Congress at least a bit of time to negotiate a deal that could prevent the cuts.
A Department of Education official noted that "the forward funding doesn't mitigate the impact of the sequester cuts, it just delays it on the calendar" — but added that the school districts do need to start planning ahead.
"It just means a lot more children will not get the kinds of services they need, and as many as 40,000 teachers could lose their jobs," Duncan said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation."
And there are other education cuts that will kick in sooner. School districts with large numbers of students living on military bases, Indian lands or other federal properties will miss out on their share of the remaining $60 million of "Impact Aid" set to be distributed before the end of the school year. The cuts, Duncan said, could force districts to make "wrenching, mid-year adjustments," pushing staff out of jobs and delaying badly needed building maintenance.


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VEX Robotics World Championship Firmware Update
VEX Robotics has released the following information on their website:
The VEX Robotics technical support team has identified an issue that some competition teams are experiencing in which the Cortex Microcontroller is unable to resume VEXnet link after a Microcontroller reset.
To help eliminate this issue at the VEX Robotics World Championship we are releasing a special version of the VEX Firmware, specifically for World Championship teams (3.21_Worlds). This firmware version modifies the Cortex re-initialization to help the VEXnet link reconnect in the event of a reset (i.e. caused by VEXnet Key "jostling", power interruption, battery brownout, or static).
We know that competition teams dislike updating firmware so close to an event, so we are publishing this update in the hopes that teams will have a chance to test it "at home" before coming to VEX Worlds. If you're comfortable with the new version, we strongly urge you to use it at the World Championship to help prevent potential problems related to a Cortex reset.
This firmware only updates a "back end" relinking protocol and it does not affect anything related to robot performance — you don't need to tweak your autonomous mode, or anything like that.
Visit the VEX Forum thread on this firmware release for more discussions and to post any questions or concerns.
We've done an array of tests and the firmware is compatible with ROBOTC 3.08. User jpearman of the VEX Forums has also posted his test results, here.
We recommend that all competition teams update to ROBOTC 3.08 and use the 3.21 Worlds firmware. The firmware can be downloaded using the VEXnet Firmware Upgrade Utility, or ROBOTC using the following procedures:
1) Connect the Cortex to the Computer over USB
2) Switch the ROBOTC Menu Level to Expert:
3) Go to Robot > Download Firmware > Master CPU Firmware > Choose File…
4) Navigate to VEXnet Firmware Upgrade folder in your Program Files directory and select "CORTEX_V3_21_Worlds.BIN".
5) Press Open to open the firmware and begin the download process.
6) Once the CORTEX_V3_21_Worlds.BIN Master firmware has finished downloading, you should also download the ROBOTC firmware. Go to Robot > Download Firmware > Manually Update Firmware > ROBOTC Firmware > Standard File.


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Alice in Chains To Unveil New Track 'Hollow' on December 18
Alice in Chains recently broke the good news that their new album is finally complete. The process took a little longer than expected with Jerry Cantrell needing a break for shoulder surgery in the midst of writing and recording the music, but things are now back on track for the rockers and they've got a little Holiday surprise in store for fans.
Fueling fan anticipation to hear their new music, the band has invited everyone to take part in the first listen to a track called 'Hollow,' set to make its debut later this month.
Alice in Chains is making the premiere of the new song an interactive affair, encouraging fans to follow them on Instagram, where over the next 10 days they'll be posting lyrical phrases from the song. Fans are being asked to submit photos they've taken or created inspired by their words.
The project will culminate up on Dec. 18 when fans can visit the Alice in Chains website to hear the song and view the fan submitted photos inspired by the tune's lyrics.
The as-yet-untitled new album from Alice in Chains will mark their first since 2009's 'Black Gives Way to Blue,' and has a tentative release date of early 2013. Alice in Chains have already signed on to appear at Rock in Rio 2013 and Download Festival 2013, marking their first confirmed live shows of the year.


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#13 Ithaca - 75, Farmingdale State - 60
Amherst, Mass. - The 13th-ranked Ithaca Bombers earned a 75-60 victory over Farmingdale State in the opening game of the 2013 Amherst Tip-Off Tournament.
Tied 19-19 with 5:47 remaining in the first half, a 12-3 Ithaca (3-0) run put the Bombers ahead 31-22. After a Nicky Young (Queens, N.Y.) 3-pointer for the Rams (1-3), Ithaca answered with back-to-back 3's to take a 37-25 lead. Farmingdale State went into the break trailing 37-28.
Trailing 46-31 with 14:56 left to play, a 14-0 Farmingdale State run over the next 3:33 cut the deficit to one, 46-45. Senior forward Jenn Escobido (Lisbon, Conn.) responded with four straight points for Ithaca to bring the advantage back to five.
The Bombers led 54-49 with 8:01 left on the clock, until Young tallied five unanswered points and tied the game 54-54. A 21-6 run by Ithaca to close out the game led the Bombers to a 75-60 victory in the opening game of the tournament.
Young led all scorers with 23 points and added five rebounds, while junior guard Camille Romero (Queens, N.Y.) recorded 18 points. Senior forward Lushanta Savadel (Bellport, N.Y.) scored 12 points on 5-for-8 shooting and grabbed a game-high seven boards.
Senior guard Mary Kate Tierney (Rochester, N.Y.) had a team-leading 19 points and seven rebounds for Ithaca.
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A Phoenix pastor who was fined over $12,000 and sentenced to 60 days in jail after he refused to close down a Bible study at his home began his incarceration July 9. "I have spent time with my family this morning praying, crying, and saying our goodbye," the Rev. Michael Salman (pictured with wife, Suzanne) wrote on his Facebook page the morning he went to jail. "My heart is broken, but glory to God. Our God will take care of us and my family. Please pray for us! Until God opens the prison's door, I will be with you all in prayer and spirit."
Salman's conflict with the city of Phoenix began in 2008 when he was ordered to comply with code requirements for a church after his neighbors began complaining about a weekly Bible study he held on his property. According to the Phoenix New Times, up to 50 people would gather at a gazebo in Salman's backyard, which prompted the city to call the gathering a church and cite him for several zoning and fire-code violations, ultimately slapping him with the fine and jail time. Additionally, he was told he could have not more than a dozen people on his property at one time.
Salman appealed the penalties to a U.S. district court, but in June a federal judge dismissed the case, ruling that a lower federal court had already heard and dismissed his complaint because he had failed to first exhaust his state-level legal options.
Salman, who owns a local burger restaurant but who is also an ordained minister, insisted that his Bible studies are private gatherings and are not open to the public. He told the Phoenix New Times that while his ministry is called Harvest Christian Fellowship, the name was required in order for him to provide outreach to inmates at local jails, and he is not running a church.
Salman said he believes he is being targeted because of his Christian faith, noting that other local residents often host dozens of people for picnics, family gatherings, or other recreational functions. "They're cracking down on religious activities and religious use," he told Fox News Radio. "They're attacking what I as a Christian do in the privacy of my home."
The minister and his wife posted a YouTube video tour of the property in question, showing that their meetings were no more a violation of city codes than a non-religious gathering on a neighbor's property, where several cars blocked a parkway.
But the Phoenix prosecutor's office insisted that the citations were not about the Salmans' religious services, but were purely a matter of zoning violations and what is permitted on private property. "Any time you are holding a gathering of people continuously as he does, we have concerns about people being able to exit the facility properly in case there is a fire, and that's really what all this comes down to," explained Vicki Hill, an assistant prosecutor for the city.
The Christian Post reported that three days after Salman began his jail sentence, the city of Phoenix released a fact sheet about the case and the scores of code violations for which the pastor was convicted. "The case is about the building that is used for regular assembly does not meet construction and fire code requirements for assembly," the fact sheet explained.
According to the city, Salman "had regular gatherings of up to 80 people," on his property. "He held services twice a week and collected a tithe at the services. The building that he held services in had a dais and chairs were aligned in a pew formation." Additionally, the fact sheet explained, Salman "held himself out as a being a church through the media … and claimed a church status for tax exemption purposes on his property."
The city explained that because of the "regular, reoccurring high vehicular traffic in this quiet residential neighborhood, neighbors repeatedly complained about the public assembly occurring on his property." Upon investigation city officials "discovered numerous building code violations primarily related to fire safety standards. Once apprised of these violations, the City could be held liable for not enforcing safety code requirements in the event anyone was injured on the premises."
The fact sheet noted that before being fined and sentenced to jail time, Salman was repeatedly asked to comply with the city's codes. "He chose to ignore these requests for voluntary compliance prior to the commencement of any proceedings." The city claimed that officials had warned Salman of possible violations on his property as early as 2006.
Salman's situation is not the first time in recent years that Christians holding home Bible studies and gatherings have been targeted by local officials. As reported by The New American, last year a couple in San Juan Capistrano, California were fined $300 by the city for holding Bible studies and Christian get-togethers in their home. The city overturned the citation and reimbursed the money after the couple threatened a lawsuit.
And, reported Christianity Today, in 2009 "San Diego county officials issued a warning to David and Mary Jones for hosting a weekly Bible study in their home without a permit for religious assembly." The county rescinded the warning later that year.
Also in 2009, reported the Christian news site, "Joe Sutherland of Gilbert, Arizona, was given a cease-and-desist order for church meetings in his home because it violated the city's zoning code. The city council revised the code the following March to allow the meetings."


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Here We Go Again — Bristol Palin to Star in Another Reality Show
Looks like the Palins aren't out of the reality show business yet — eldest daughter Bristol has just inked a deal with Lifetime for a new 10-episode series called 'Bristol Palin: Life's A Tripp.'
The show, expected to premiere later this year, will feature the 21-year-old single mother adjusting to life in Alaska as she raises her son, Tripp. It will also chronicle her relationship with her famous family: mom Sarah — the former Alaska governor and controversial vice presidential candidate — father Todd, and siblings Track, Willow, Piper and Trig.
Lifetime executive Rob Sharenow said, "From the first moment she was thrust into the public eye, Bristol and her son have been the subjects of a huge amount of curiosity and misunderstanding. This show will reveal the real Bristol Palin and her journey as a daughter, a mother and a young woman making her way in the world."
This isn't Bristol's first foray into reality show territory — she was a contestant on the 11th season of 'Dancing with the Stars,' and was working on a BIO channel series with Disney Channel stars Kyle and Christopher Massey before BIO pulled the plug on the show last year.


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Aristolochia serpentaria
Aristolochia serpentaria L.
Virginia Snakeroot, Virginia Dutchmanspipe
Aristolochiaceae (Birthwort Family)
Synonym(s): Aristolochia convolvulacea, Aristolochia hastata, Aristolochia nashii, Aristolochia serpentaria var. hastata, Aristolochia serpentaria var. nashii, Endodeca serpentaria, Endodeca serpentaria var. hastata
USDA Symbol: ARSE3
USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Plant CharacteristicsDuration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Root Type: Tap
Leaf Retention: Deciduous
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Leaf Complexity: Simple
Leaf Shape: Lanceolate
Leaf Venation: Pinnate
Leaf Pubescence: Glabrous
Leaf Margin: Entire
Leaf Apex: Acuminate , Acute
Leaf Base: Truncate
Breeding System: Flowers Bisexual
Fruit Type: Capsule
Size Notes: Climber
Flower: Flowers 3/4 inch
Fruit: 1-2 cm
Size Class: 1-3 ft.
Bloom InformationBloom Color: Yellow , Purple
Bloom Time: Apr , May , Jun
DistributionUSA: AL , AR , CT , DC , DE , FL , GA , IA , IL , IN , KS , KY , LA , MD , MI , MO , MS , NC , NJ , NY , OH , OK , PA , SC , TN , TX , VA , WV
Native Habitat: Stream banks, Flood plains, bottomland
Growing ConditionsWater Use: Medium
Light Requirement: Shade
Soil Moisture: Dry
Soil Description: Sandy Loam, Medium Loam, Clay Loam, Clay
BenefitUse Ornamental: Showy, Ground cover
Conspicuous Flowers: yes
Attracts: Butterflies
Larval Host: Pipevine swallowtail butterfly.
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)
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PropagationPropagation Material: Seeds
National Wetland Indicator Status
From the National Suppliers DirectoryAccording to the inventory provided by Associate Suppliers, this plant is available at the following locations:
Enchanter's Garden - Hinton, WV
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Natural Biodiversity - Johnstown, PA
Mt. Cuba Center - Hockessin, DE
BibliographyBibref 291 - Texas Wildscapes: Gardening for Wildlife (1999) Damude, N. & K.C. Bender
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Additional resourcesUSDA: Find Aristolochia serpentaria in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Aristolochia serpentaria in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Aristolochia serpentaria
MetadataRecord Modified: 2013-08-18
Research By: TWC Staff