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Formidable Foes is a thematic game for 2-6 players.Game info on BoardGameAtlas.comGame info on BoardGameGeek.com
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A strategic cooperative board game where 1-6 players direct the immune system to fight a deadly virus.
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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Sharp, Thomas
- 1 Arizona State University
- 1 Arrowsmith, Ramón
- 1 Garnero, Edward
- 1 Leinenweber, Kurt
- 1 Lockridge, Jeffrey
- 1 Shim, Sang-Heon
- 1 English
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- Enstatite
- Mineralogy
- Geophysics
- seismicity
- 1 Great Basin
- 1 Phase Transformation
- 1 high pressure
- Reverse Fountain Cytoplasmic Streaming in Rhizopus Oryzae
- Diné Research Practices and Protocols: An Intersectional Paradigm Incorporating Indigenous Feminism, Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies and Diné Knowledge Systems
- Developing an Augmented Reality Solution for Mapping Underground Infrastructure
- Characterization of 2D Human Ankle Stiffness during Postural Balance and Walking for Robot-aided Ankle Rehabilitation
- Using Molecular, Cellular and Bioengineering Approaches Towards Understanding Muscle Stem Cell Biology
Earthquake faulting and the dynamics of subducting lithosphere are among the frontiers of geophysics. Exploring the nature, cause, and implications of geophysical phenomena requires multidisciplinary investigations focused at a range of spatial scales. Within this dissertation, I present studies of micro-scale processes using observational seismology and experimental mineral physics to provide important constraints on models for a range of large-scale geophysical phenomena within the crust and mantle. The Great Basin (GB) in the western U.S. is part of the diffuse North American-Pacific plate boundary. The interior of the GB occasionally produces large earthquakes, yet the current distribution of regional seismic …
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Cancer survivor Hansen Nichols returns to singing - Yahoo! OMG! Philippines:
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I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in Nov., 1999. Surgery and radioactive iodine followed. In Dec., 2006, I found a lump in my neck that turned cancerous. Shortly thereafter, it was found to have metastasized throughout my body and to be untreatable and inoperable. I started a clinical trial with Sutent (sunitinib) since Apr., 2007. In Nov., 2013, the tumors began growing again and I was removed from the Sutent Clinical Trial. I started a clinical trial taking of CEDIRANIB on 04/09/14.
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Canadian Company to Launch MTB Shocks at Sea Otter
Boucherville, Quebec-based Elka Suspension Inc., an industry-leading manufacturer of innovative high-performance suspension and steering products, announced today it will launch a bold new line of mountain bike shock absorbers at this year's Sea Otter Classic.
Elka's new mountain bike line-up has been specifically designed and engineered for downhill, free-ride and all-mountain riding, aiming to provide a balanced combination of plushness, pedaling performance and comfort for each application. To achieve this, all Elka shocks will feature custom-tuned damping based on each bike's design and intended use. This gravity-oriented line-up will consist of 4 models with different adjustment options to address customer riding styles, bicycle categories and price point objectives.
The shocks will feature Elka's intuitive concentric dual high/low-speed compression adjuster, reservoir volume and pressure adjust to control the progressivity and also rebound and preload adjustments. Both hi-tensile alloy and titanium springs will be available for all models in a wide range of spring rates. All models will be offered in several length/stroke combinations - including the increasingly popular 10.5" x 3.5" size - so they can be fitted on the vast majority of bikes, past and present.
Although this will be Elka's first products for the mountain bike market, the company has over a decade of experience engineering and custom-building championship-winning suspension and steering products for powersports applications such as Motorcycle, ATV and Side-By-Side Vehicles. This new mountain bike product line incorporates many of the same innovative suspension technologies that have been used to win multiple ATV World & National Championships, SCORE Baja Championships, Mini-Motocross Championships and Motorcycle Road Racing Championships.
For more information on Elka products and services visit www.elkasuspension.com.
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A vertical Family View has been added to the Tree tab. The Family View displays three ancestor generations above the root person and two descendant generations below. Siblings, aunts and uncles, and nieces and nephews are also included
For the most are it looked the same when I opened the People Workspace for the first time. On the Left is the Index or List of names, the Filter feature down that Left Hand Panel, the Right Hand Panel looks about the same at FTM2012, where it is providing details on the focus on the person selected in the Center Panel. You can customize the data that appears in the Right Column and works the save as previous version.
The resizing features are there, where you can hit the Left Hand Panel, for example, or to Hide the Children or bottom part of that screen, but in the Left side of the Center Panel is a new set of options.
In the Left column of the Center Panel are these options;
- The resizing ICON is at the top
- Home Person ICON is 2nd
- The Pedigree View, from previous versions is the next ICON
- The NEW Family View is next
- View profile of high lighted person
- Slider bar or number of generation control
In FTM2012, these two tabs were Family and Person. So now we have the Tree View, as seen above and a New Family View.
Looking closer at the left side of the Center Panel, you can see the ICONs for Home, Pedigree, Family View, and Person Profile. The bottom of those ICONs, is the option to Center the tree, with the selected person in the center of the tree.
For the next image, I will select the Family View (4th ICON) to see the new view.
This Family View looks very much like the Ancestry Member view of this family.
Going to this tree on Ancestry.com we see:
Below is from this same tree on Ancestry.com
The two look very much alike.
In FTM2014, that slider is very helpfull
I can Zoom in, by moving that slider UP
List the AMT, zooming in and out with a similar view.
This may be easier for a User who has worked a long time working on their tree, This may be easier for them to use.
There are other formatting of this Workspace.
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I can clearly see the two circles from the original clan settlements in the model. On one, the church sits, it actually looks like it's resting on a circular stone formation, a former Druidic site, perhaps?
The second, the house of William De Birmingham. This look likes it rests at the heart of the original settlement in the original clan circle. My impression was that the neolithic early settlements with circular earthen fortified ramparts (sometimes topped with wooden palisades) that were built just inside inside where the moat is now visible, but the model contains no such rampart.
Any specific reason you know of, that the ramparts have been removed ca. 1296?
Here in America, two thousand years ago the native Adena culture built in exactly the same manner. An ancient ruin about 10 Km from where I live still features the circular rampart. It's about 1m high now, about half the size it was when it was built some 2,200 years ago. We get plenty of rain here with a decent amount of erosion, so the clan circle ramparts in Birmingham must have been excavated at some time before 1296?
I was curious about the scale of the model, it looks to be somewhere between 1/120th and maybe 1/220th (or somewhere between "N" and "Z" scale in the model railroading world)
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Peter Pan Peanut Butter Recalled for Possible Salmonella Contamination
ConAgra Foods today announced that it has taken the precautionary measure of voluntarily recalling all varieties of Peter Pan Peanut Butter and Great Value Peanut Butter beginning with product code 2111 imprinted on the lid of both brands. ConAgra Foods is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a statistical report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that these products may be linked to the foodborne illness salmonella.
While this affects Great Value Peanut Butter beginning with product code 2111, there are other manufacturers of Great Value Peanut Butter that are not affected by this recall.
"Although none of our extensive product tests have indicated the presence of salmonella, we are taking this precautionary measure because consumer health and safety is our top priority," said Chris Kircher, spokesperson for ConAgra Foods. "We are working closely with the FDA to better understand its concerns, and we will take whatever additional measures are needed to ensure the safety, quality and wholesomeness of our products."
If consumers have this product, they should discard it, but save the product lid. For a full refund, consumers must return the Peter Pan Peanut Butter or Great Value Peanut Butter product lid along with their name and mailing address to ConAgra Foods, P.O. Box 57078, Irvine, CA 92619-7078.
Consumers with questions or concerns about the recall can call the 24-hour toll-free hotline at 866-344-6970. For more information about salmonella, visit www.ific.org


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December 2018
Recent Releases
My One and Only Duke
Grace Burrowes
What it's about:
If London banker
Quinn Wentworth is going to hang for a crime he didn't commit, he can at least do some good before he dies by marrying pregnant widow Jane Winston and bequeathing her his fortune.
But then:
Quinn receives a last-minute reprieve once it's discovered that he's the long-lost heir to a dukedom. Now Quinn is faced with a dilemma: embrace his new life as a married man or seek revenge against the man who set him up.
Crossover alert:
This 1st book in the Rogues to Riches series is loosely linked to the author's
True Gentlemen novels.
The Proposal
Jasmine Guillory
Journalist Nikole Paterson, who politely declines a very public marriage proposal (via the Dodger Stadium JumboTron!) and must cope with the fallout when the whole thing goes viral.
To the rescue:
pediatrician Carlos Ibarra, who saves her from the paparazzi.
Why you might like it:
In addition to its diverse cast and upbeat love story, this follow-up to
The Wedding Date
depicts strong and supportive female friendships.
Wild on My Mind
Laurel Kerr
What it's about:
A trio of orphaned cougar cubs reunite Katie Underwood with her high school crush-turned-nemesis, zookeeper and single dad Bowie Wilson.
Why you might like it:
Katie's revenge goes from sweet to steamy in this lively enemies-to-lovers story.
Don't miss:
Matchmaking honey badger Fluffy, who schemes to bring the leads together so that they will produce babies (who will, in turn, ensure a steady supply of treats for Fluffy).
Mostly Sunny
Jamie Pope
Manhattan social worker Sunshine "Sunny" Gibson and high-profile attorney Julian King.
What happens:
Sunny seeks Julian's help in fighting a legal challenge to a foster child's pending adoption. In the process, they discover that they have more in common than they thought.
Is it for you?
This emotionally intense series opener deals with issues of mental illness, child abuse, and abandonment. Although sensitively addressed, the subject matter may not be for all readers.
Minerva Spencer
What it's about:
Twenty years after his disappearance at sea, Hugh Redvers (a.k.a. One-Eyed Standish) has returned to England. Not to reclaim his inheritance, but to protect his late uncle's widow,
Lady Daphne Davenport, and her young children as only a pirate can.
Reviewers say:
This 2nd book in the Outcasts series (after
) is "
exuberantly crafted, exhilaratingly plotted, and erotically charged" (
For fans of:
new spins on old-school romance tropes,
à la
Kerrigan Byrne's
The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo
Holiday Romances
Christmas On My Mind
Janet Dailey
Jessica Ramsey, who travels to Branding Iron, Texas, seeking a fresh start...and hoping to meet her birth mother.
What happens:
When Jess joins the planning committee for the town's annual Cowboy Christmas Ball, Sheriff Ben Marsden thinks he might attend after all.
Series alert:
This sweet, mostly chaste Western contemporary kicks off the Cowboy Christmas series, which continues with
Just a Little Christmas
Best Laid Plans
Brenda Jackson
The setup:
Matchmaking Madaris matriarch Mama Laverne is up to her old tricks. This time, she's determined to pair her great-grandson Nolan with cybersecurity analyst Ivy Chapman.
The twist:
Ladies' man Nolan is skeptical but intrigued when Ivy suggests a fake relationship to satisfy their respective families. Will it work or will it work
too well
Series alert:
Best Laid Plans
is the latest in Brenda Jackson's long-running Madaris Family series, which began with
Tonight and Forever
in 1995 and is still going strong.
By Winter's Light: A Cynster Novel
Stephanie Laurens
What it's about:
With the entire extended Cynster family gathered at Casphairn Manor in Scotland for a Yuletide celebration, tutor Daniel Crosbie hopes to finally declare himself to governess Claire Meadows.
dramatis personae
for keeping track of all those Cynsters.
Should you start here?
This 1st book in the Cynsters: Next Generation spin-off series offers a good starting point for newcomers while pleasing fans of the previous 20 Cynster novels (beginning with
Devil's Bride
Twelve Days of Christmas: A Novel
Debbie Macomber
What happens:
When her sexy, grumpy neighbor Cain Maddox rebuffs her attempts to spread holiday cheer, Julia Padden blogs about her interactions with the man she dubs "Ebenezer" (as in Scrooge) and her attempts to "kill him with kindness."
Media buzz:
If you enjoy Debbie Macomber's unique brand of heartwarming, uplifting holiday romance, rejoice! Several of her annual Christmas novels have been made into Hallmark movies (starting with
Mr. Miracle
The Last Chance Christmas Ball
Mary Jo Putney et al.
What it's about:
Lady Holly's Christmas ball is legendary for turning single ladies into blushing brides, and 1815, which marks the 50th anniversary of the event, is sure to be the best one yet.
Why you might like it:
A top-notch roster of historical romance writers combine their talents to present this collection of holiday-themed Regency romances. While each is a stand-alone story, all connect to create a seamless and sparkling whole.
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Candidates Face Immigration, Education, Healthcare Questions
The questions posed to Senate and Assembly candidates at Tuesday evening's forum presented by the Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action came from real life.
Tania Marin has lived with an asthmatic child and no health insurance and asked the candidates how they would solve the health problems of the poor and undocumented immigrants.
The fear of immigration raids has pierced the community, said Procesa Gorristieta, who wanted to know what the candidates would do to bring justice to immigrants. Nancy Williams asked candidates for solutions to education cuts and violence among youth.
Some 50 people attended the forum put on by the 18-congregation multi-racial, multi-issue organization. All candidates for the June 3 election for the 14th Assembly District attended—physician Dr. Phil Polakoff, East Bay Regional Parks Board member Nancy Skinner, Richmond City Councilmember Tony Thurmond and Berkeley City Councilmember Kriss Worthington.
Vying for a seat in the state Senate, former Assemblymember Wilma Chan attended; Assemblymember Loni Hancock was represented by her campaign manager Terri Waller.
All the candidates said they support a universal single-payer health care system that does not deny health care to undocumented immigrants, though Polakoff said it is unrealistic to hold out for such a system.
Single-payer "is not going to happen today or tomorrow," he said, arguing that he wants a system that would help children right away. He said he would "take on the insurance companies," by stopping their practice of dumping patients with costly conditions and refusing to cover those with existing illnesses.
"My number one priority is healthcare for all children, regardless of immigration status," he said. Polakoff said he has treated poor patients pro bono and has served as advisor on medical issues in the state legislature and in Liberia.
Worthington said he has worked for single-payer healthcare, organizing rallies in Sacramento and testifying before the legislature. As a councilmember, Worthington said, he helped identify funds for the Berkeley Health Department disparity study, which showed the large gap in health outcomes between wealthier Caucasians living in the hills and African Americans living in the flatlands.
He said immigrants with or without documentation deserve services: "Most immigrants in California are paying taxes. They are paying for education and healthcare," Worthington said, arguing that the governor needs a better understanding of immigrant contributions.
Thurmond said he understands the importance of universal health care—he works with youth in foster care who lose health insurance the day they turn 18.
He said he led the support for single-payer healthcare on the Richmond City Council. Support for single-payer is economical, Thurmond said, pointing to the 3 percent administrative costs for Medicare. It is "immoral" to predicate seeing a doctor on immigrant status, he said.
Skinner touted her support from state Sen. Sheila Kuehl, author of the single-payer bill the governor refused to sign. She pointed out the economics of the situation, where families without health insurance take children to the more-costly emergency room, rather than getting less expensive preventative healthcare.
"The governor is stupid economically—in the end this refusal is going to cost us more," she said. Skinner noted she helped establish the teen health center at Berkeley High, as a city councilmember in the 1980s.
Waller said Hancock supports single-payer and was one of two Democrats to oppose cuts in the governor's health and human services budget. Hancock supports AB 32 and SB 1, legislation that provides healthcare for all children, Waller said, adding, "High quality affordable health care should be a right."
Chan said she had authored AB772 in 2005, under which all children, regardless of immigration status, would have access to health insurance. She said, if elected, she would reintroduce the bill and if the governor vetoed it again she would put it on the ballot as an initiative.
Healthcare should not be pitted against education, Chan said. "All of us know if our children are sick, they can't learn—we don't need more prisons; we need health care and we need education." Worthington, who supports Chan, had pointed out earlier in the evening that Hancock voted to build new prisons.
Immigration rights
All the candidates said they support for justice for immigrants.
People have a right to come to the U.S. for political and economic reasons, Thurmond said, noting that he's participated in rallies against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and supports Richmond's position which affirms city officials will not help ICE officials in their raids.
Education for all is key to creating a more equitable society, he said. "Because of my education I am standing before you," he said.
Worthington ticked off a number of pieces of legislation he sponsored in the Berkeley City Council, while admitting that it is easier to get items passed there than through the legislature: support for drivers' licenses for people without documentation; support for legislation to allow people without documentation to get financial aid for college; support for funding to end immigration backlogs; opposition to English-only efforts; support for city sanctuary policies, and support to end deportation of people with misdomeaners.
To get these policies through the legislature, Worthington said he'll go beyond fighting the governor, "I'll fight with the Democrats to get them to actually have a backbone and to stand up for us and all the people of the state of California," he said.
Skinner decried the raids: "Immigrants are the backbone of our community; the ICE raids are terrorizing our school children," she said, arguing that immigrants are used as a smokescreen so that the real issues of education and healthcare are not addressed.
She said she supported the sanctuary movement in the churches as a councilmember and supports California as a sanctuary state. She also supports drivers' licenses for people without documentation.
Skinner said to fund education it is necessary to tax corporations. She said that she would also work with the business community to get measures through the legislature.
Noting that he is a child of immigrants, Polakoff said the ICE raids have caused post traumatic stress. He spoke about his travels that include Siberia and said the repression of immigrants is a world-wide issue.
Waller noted that Hancock was arrested for civil disobedience at the Emeryville Woodfin Suites Hotel in solidarity with cleaning staff under fire from immigration officials and hotel management.
Having a drivers' license is important in a practical way—for safety on the road, Waller said, adding that Hancock supports access for immigrants to financial aid for college.
Chan said she supports undocumented persons getting drivers' licenses and said she fought against the English-only movement. She said she supports fair immigration reform that allows people to become citizens.
She opposes the ICE raids and asked, "Why don't they go after the employers? Why go after workers?"
Skinner talked about the need to keep youth in school as part of the answer to address youth violence. To do that, there needs to be good vocational education as well as art, music and sports in schools, she said.
"People feel desperate, without hope," she said, arguing that there's too much focus on college. "Not everyone wants to go to college," she said. "The vast majority of people in prisons are high school dropouts."
Skinner pointed out that, as a Berkeley councilmember, she supported the East Bay Safety Corridor, a regional approach to fighting crime from Richmond to Oakland.
Skinner said she supports new taxes. In Sacramento, there's an "irrational refusal to raise revenue," she said.
It costs money to provide programs for education and to stop violence, Worthington said, noting that when he was on the City Council, he combed the budget and found funding for youth programs, affordable housing and more.
In Sacramento, "I want to tax the rich, with a corporate real estate tax," he said. If all else failed, he would reinstate the vehicle license tax that affects the middle class.
Like Skinner, Thurmond said vocational education is important. He said he has supported jobs programs in Richmond, including a training program for solar panel installation.
Thurmond said taxing the wealthy is important. He wants the vehicle license tax restored and wants to the state to subsidize teachers who live in the cities where they teach.
Polakoff said society is in decline: "We've lived so long on greed." As for funding education programs, Polakoff said the state should go after uncollected taxes as well as getting corporations to pay their fair share.
Waller said Hancock was alone in the Assembly to stand up to the cuts in education and pointed to her work with PTAs in the district. Like Skinner, Hancock takes credit for the East Bay public safety corridor, implemented when she was Berkeley mayor and Skinner was a councilmember in the 1980s.
Hancock wants to tax the rich and to support a tax on the production of oil.
Chan said she supports universal preschool and while she was unable to accomplish that, she was able to increase slots available for low-income children in preschool. "You have to start when the kids are young," she said.
Today the governor and legislature are wringing their hands around budget issues, but they knew the problems that lie ahead, she said. They could have put a tax measure on the ballot in February to alleviate this, she said.
"Teachers are leaving the state because of the budget," she said. "We need high quality teachers."


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* Poster on forest notice boards/mission for this working group
* Things that need fixing
* Things we need to buy or get somehow
Poster on forest notice boards/mission for this working group
There is no notice on the pinboard in the forest about this working group and its meetings. Action point: Sean to make the poster and put it up.
Sean will decide on the mission for this working group and put it on the poster. It will be something like:
The poster should also mention that people can come along when we're fixing things if they want to be shown how to fix things. This way things might still get fixed when Sean and Chris are dead.To find and maintain the best equipment appropriate to forests multifarious needs. To one day have a 7 colour laser.
It should also mention that if things are broken and need fixing, people can tell us by posting to this board.
It should also mention the next meeting: Monday 9th January, 6pm, in the forest
Things that need fixing
The music playing from the mac jukebox keeps cutting out. This is probably due to a dodgy cable or input going from the mac in the black cupboard to the amp in the black cupboard. Action point: Sean to take a look at this. Maybe. Wiggle the cables going from the mac and the amp and switch them between different amp inputs. Try to confirm which is the broken piece. Buy new cable if necessary. Sean might not know what to do. Sean has never owned a home stereo.
The phone in the office needs fixing: is there a phone in the office? Does it have a cable? Is the phone broken? Is the the cable broken? Is there a phone socket in the office? Is that broken? We don't know. Action points: 1. Find out what needs to be done. 2. Do it. This action point is untaken so far. One of us may investigate if we get round to it.
The Internet server above the kitchen and its associated the modems, switches and routers need to be replaced, because the Internet connection keeps going down and it's a bitch to reset it. Action points: Sean to find and post on this forum the names of the various modem/router in one devices available to the forest. It has to be an adsl modem and wired and wireless router in one, and it has to be capable of limiting bandwidth usage on the wireless so people don't screw us. These are expensive. Sean has one at home, and one at a friends flat, and there is one in the forest's office. Get the device names of each of these, and links to their manuals. Determine whether any of them can do the job. If not, we may buy a router, or try to find one or get one donated.
The Forest would like a listening station for the forest's music. This would be a donated second-hand laptop converted by Sean into a music jukebox using free software, and with all the Forest music loaded onto it. Chris will then mount it onto a pillar somewhere in the Forest and attach some headphones to it. Ideally it would have 40GB of disk space for the music, but 5GB would be okay, 4GB minimum. Action point: Sean to send out more emails trying to get a laptop donated, hassle people who have promised to donate laptops.
Chris will fix random stuff from time to time. Today he fixed a number of microphones.
Sean will fix broken computers from time to time.
Chris will get some stagelights to light the stage.
Pogo is sourcing some overhead room mics that we can record gigs with. There is already a CD burner for burning recordings of gigs to disc.
Things we need
A 7 colour laser. Chris is on this.
A second computer for the office. Maybe Duncan has one to sell us? Action point: Chris to email Duncan about computer. Sean suggests we let him install Ubuntu on this computer instead of Microsoft Windows. It will last longer and not have viruses.


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The World Health Organisation defines suicide as an "act deliberately initiated and performed by a person in the full knowledge or expectation of its fatal outcome."1 The suicide rate is included as an indicator of social cohesion—the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) observes that the intentional taking of one's life "is evidence not only of personal breakdown but also frequently of a deterioration of the social context in which individuals live."2
While mental illness is involved in most suicide cases, especially as a consequence of depression or substance abuse, this does not imply that everyone who commits suicide is "mentally ill." Few people who commit suicide have ever been under known psychiatric observation or treatment.3
Suicide results from many different social and cultural factors:
Whether these factors result in suicide, however, is also determined by the level of support a society gives to mediate these factors.
Canada's current suicide rate is 11.1 deaths per 100,000 people, earning it a "B" grade. This rate is almost double that of Italy, the peer country with the lowest suicide rate, but it is significantly lower than that of Finland, Belgium, and Japan. Japan's suicide rate is nearly double that of Canada.
Perhaps surprisingly, Canada's suicide rate was higher than that of the U.S. from 1970 to 2003. This has now reversed. The current suicide rate for the U.S. is 12.0 per 100,000.
Canada's suicide rate increased in the 1960s and 1970s, peaked in 1978 at 16.0 suicides per 100,000 population, and fell thereafter. The current suicide rate is 11.1 per 100,000 people, up from 10.4 in 2006.
The suicide rates of most peer countries dropped since the 1970s, with several exceptions. Ireland's suicide rate increased steadily throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and most of the 1990s. It peaked in 1998 before tapering off. Ireland's suicide rate of 11 suicides per 100,000 population in 2011 is much higher than the 1970 rate of 2.1 per 100,000.
Norway's suicide rate rose in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, peaking at 17.3 in 1988. Although it has fallen since then, it remains higher than it was in the 1970s.
Both Belgium and Japan have had stubbornly high suicide rates. Belgium's suicide rate has remained above 15 since the early 1960s, while Japan's has been above 20 for most of those five decades.
An article in Time Online called suicide in Japan an "epidemic" and noted new and troubling trends: "People in their thirties are the most likely to kill themselves, and work-related depression is emerging as a prime motive."4
Denmark has made the most progress in reducing deaths due to suicide, from 33.9 deaths per 100,000 population in 1980 to 11.6 in 2006.
Use the pull-down menu to compare the change in Canada's suicide rate with that of its peers.
Canada has maintained a "B" grade on suicides since the 1960s.
Italy has been a consistent "A" performer for six decades. The U.K. and the Netherland improved from a "B" to an "A" in recent decades.
Finland has been a consistent "D" performer.
A study by economist John Helliwell found that the same factors explain suicides rates in many different countries. These factors include the prevalence of divorce, unemployment, quality of government, religious beliefs, trust in other people, and membership of non-religious organizations.5 Therefore, a country with high unemployment, for example, may also have a higher suicide rate.
But differences among countries may also reflect cultural or country-specific practices in recording deaths due to suicide—for example, the criteria used by officials to establish the person's "intention" of killing themselves, confidentiality rules, and cultural and religious stigmas that put pressure to record suicides as being due to other causes.
Suicide is a predominantly male phenomenon. In every peer country, men are at least twice as likely to kill themselves as women. In Canada, the factor is three-to-one, while in the U.S. it is four-to-one.
In most OECD countries, the frequency of suicides rises with age. This is not true in Canada, except for the very elderly (that is, those aged 90 and over). One reason may be the lower elderly poverty rate in Canada than in peer countries.
Youth suicide, while not as prevalent as suicide in those aged 30 to 60 years of age, is a concern, and raises issues about youth disengagement. People under 25 years of age are more likely to commit suicide in Australia and Norway.
1 R.F.W. Diekstra, "Suicide and Attempted Suicide: An International Perspective," Acta Psychiatrica Scandanauica, 80, S354 (October 1989), 1–24.
2 OECD, Society at a Glance: OECD Social Indicators—2006 Edition (Paris: OECD, 2006), 106.
3 OECD, Society at a Glance: OECD Social Indicators—2005 Edition (Paris: OECD, 2005), 90.
4 Leo Lewis, "Japan Gripped by Suicide Epidemic," Time Online, June 19, 2008 (accessed August 31, 2009).
5 John F. Helliwell, Well-Being and Social Capita: Does Suicide Pose a Problem? NBER Working Paper No. 10896 (November 2004) (accessed August 31, 2009).
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Beat the Streak Report: Tuesday, June 23
Today's recommended picks
Joe Mauer, C, Twins
.407 AVG in '09; Brewers starter Jeff Suppan: .299 AVG against in '09
David Wright, 3B, Mets
5-for-12 (.417 AVG) lifetime vs. Cardinals starter Joel Pineiro in '09; Pineiro: .299 AVG against in '09
Justin Upton, OF, Diamondbacks
11-for-21 (.524 AVG) over last 5 G; Rangers starter Matt Harrison: .307 AVG against in '09
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
Had David Wright not collected a hit last night, there would have been major upheaval at the top of the BTS standings.
But Mr. Wright came through with a single in his first at-bat, pushing leader TannerNielsen's streak to 45 games. The single also extended the streaks of each of the subsequent seven contestants in the standings.
Second-place fan paulcmoss84 moved up to 39 games, one ahead of crtownse. FROD is up to 36 games, while 0nmoskovits and jrjbears share fifth place with their 33-game streaks.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Albert Pujols (STL): 37.7%, 1-for-4
2. David Wright (NYM): 19.2%, 1-for-3
3. Derrek Lee (CHC): 6.9%, 1-for-4
4. Carlos Beltran (NYM): 4.6%, 0-for-0
5. Chone Figgins (LAA): 2.8%, 0-for-3
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Mauer or Suzuki today guys? This is becoming too obvious!! Anyone who doesnt just rotate Mauer/Suzuki/Wright and occasionally throw in Pujols or Hanley Ramirez is looking for trouble….
I would say Joe Mauer. I will most likely go with him but every time I pick him, I pick the rare days when he does not hit. He has destroyed all my streaks this yr. If this was a contest of picking days when Mauer won't hit, I won hands down.
Mauer grounds out in 1st AB!
Wow…that was close…Mauer just flew out to the warning track, just a shade to the left of dead center field!
Still though, Mauer most likely gets 5 AB's at this rate, so he still has 3 more chances left!!!
Wow…that was close…Mauer just flew out to the warning track, just a shade to the left of dead center field!
Still though, Mauer most likely gets 5 AB's at this rate, so he still has 3 more chances left!!!
Mauer 0 for 4. Wright, Sanchez, C.Jones, DeRosa all gone! Thank god I picked Crawford
holy crap…0 for 4…Mauer is the only guy in the Twins' order not to have a hit yet.
he is guaranteed to get at least 1 more AB, provided the Twins do not take him out of the game.
The Twins would need to get at least 8 more baserunners to get Mauer a 6th AB or the Brewers would need to tie the game.
awesome same time post with similar content!!!
high five! Who did you pick today?
lol…that *high-five!* is usually common on blogs when you make the same minute post and it was doubly so, because we both indicated the 0 for 4 for Mauer so far.
Sadly, I have Mauer today also, but I think it is better for my 0-game hit streak to not budge for today and also snap the leader's streak, so my goal does not keep expanding further and further away from me.
If the Brewers do not tie it up this inning, then there is no chance of extra innings, which means it will all come down to Mauer's AB to lead off the 9th inning.
dont ya just love nailbiters like this.
I also took Mauer and have not problem going back to Zero since the top two people picked him tody
okay here comes the top of the Ninth, ONE LAST CHANCE
okay here comes the top of the Ninth, ONE LAST CHANCE
Thank God I took Crawford!
its over
Congrats Tanner on one hell of a ride
0 for 5.
If I would have been at 14, if Figgins had come through yesterday, I still would have been pissed though, even with the leader having him.
The streak is still not over though. The Twins could bat around or the Brewers could tie the game in the 9th inning.
The Marlins blew a 6-3 lead going into the 9th inning today after all.
But the chances are down to like 1 or 2%, for even getting another opportunity.
Im sure Tanner is drinking something hard right now.
"dont ya just love nailbiters like this.
I also took Mauer and have not problem going back to Zero since the top two people picked him tody"
What was your streak coming into today?
Champ. it was less than 6
There are two ways to look at this loss though:
1) At least Mauer got his opportunities: 5 AB's is mostly all you can ask for in a 9-inning game, although I have seen Aaron Hill get 6 AB's in a 9-inning game against the Phillies recently.
Wright got just 3 PA today, which is very rare, especially when the team bats in the 9th inning and just 2 AB.
2) On the other hand, every other starter in the Twins' order got at least one hit.
The Mets only picked up 2 hits as a team and the starter was dominating.
so Tomorrow the leaderboard will show THREE players at 30 or more
FROD, Gozags and Murdog
Is 6 games the threshold of where you would want to keep your streak VS willing to lose it to stop the leader?
Read my posts about JM for last 3 days:
"I wouldn't pick Mauer either. He is beginning to slump. I know he hit a HR today but HRs are always pitcher's mistake."
"I will most likely go with him but every time I pick him, I pick the rare days when he does not hit. "
So that 2 days ago when Wandy shut down the Twins for 2-hitter really masked whether Mauer was slumping or not. Now, we know. He was slowing down.
I guess I am the jinxter. My 3 game hitting streak is over!
I would like to thank Jeff Suppan for having the audacity to not cop out against Mauer. I would also like to thank Carlos Gomez for stealing all the thunder away from Mauer.
This has happened so many times over the yrs. Definitely with me and with many leaders as well. Everyone gets a hit except (sometimes even the pitcher) the guy that looked like the sure bet.
In all honesty, I didn't Wildtanners was such a great picker. He was no where as good as Spooky93 or Mkaratzia. He happened to get the latter part of his streak when Mauer and Suzuki were really out of whack. I mean most of his picks were so predictable.
In the game odds, if everybody picks the same, all will lose in the end!
Wow…not even giving them a chance to make a rally…I did not think Nathan would be brought in in a non-save opportunity.
man if suzuki breaks too it will be a massacre. I have to disagree with all the hype about Tanner though. 45 is not that close. 54 is close.
"Im sure Tanner is drinking something hard right now. "
And meanwhile, FROD is feeling pretty damn good.
I dunno what i was on when i changed from ichiro…to mauer….to finally Andrew McCutchen. But i feel like a genius now.
If ichiro goes hitless, well over 1/3rd of the pickers today would be back at 0
Wow…8th inning single for Ichiro!
How ironic that the streak-breaker last year, came through today, in a big drought day, in his last AB no less!
Tanner must be going ballistic now…if Ichiro went hitless, at least he could have taken solace that all his other normal options failed today also.
lol…at the end of the day, Ichiro goes 2 for 5 anyway…so far…Mariners now have 1st and 2nd, no out, down 9-6.


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I'm looking for a good kid-friendly orthodontist in Folsom.
Any recommendations?
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Posted 07 April 2014 - 05:39 PM
I'm looking for a good kid-friendly orthodontist in Folsom.
Any recommendations?
Posted 07 April 2014 - 06:34 PM
He's not in Folsom but we like Dr. Lyons in EDH. He is very current on the latest techniques and is great with kids (and adults…I had braces a few years ago). His offices are in the Town Center near the movie theater and in Fair Oaks on Madison..
Posted 07 April 2014 - 06:34 PM
Our children's orthodontist came highly recommend -- but he isn't in Folsom. Dr. Hendrik Blom is in Fair Oaks and I can't say enough good things about him.
Posted 08 April 2014 - 06:44 AM
Dr. Dunbar on Hana Way in Folsom. Also, if you have a choice, pick one close to your dentist; makes life MUCH easier during cleaning time!
Posted 09 April 2014 - 03:13 PM
Another vote for Dr. Lyon's. We love him and his office. The staff is wonderful and the office is a lot of fun for kids and adults.
I recommend you meet with several orthodontists to see who you like the best. They will do a free consultation, and everyone but Dunbar (that I know of) does free x-rays to be used for the consult.
A lot of people also like Holt. We didn't get a good vibe from him, but I know several people who love him.
Posted 10 April 2014 - 11:36 AM
Our children's orthodontist came highly recommend -- but he isn't in Folsom. Dr. Hendrik Blom is in Fair Oaks and I can't say enough good things about him.
We used the same orthodontist - two thumbs up for Dr Blom
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Posted 10 April 2014 - 07:32 PM
I appreciate the responses, just very disappointed in the results.
4 recommendations for two orthodontists not in Folsom
1 recommendation for one in Folsom, and one slime job on the same guy.
I know the sample size is small, but statistically, only one orthodontist in Folsom with a 50/50 split.
I really don't want to spend time travelling to an Orthodontist outside of town.
I hate the amount of time I already spend driving commuting to & from work.
Posted 10 April 2014 - 08:29 PM
Here's another vote for Dr. Dunbar. No issues or complaints with him or the staff. It's been a good experience.
Posted 11 April 2014 - 07:05 AM
1 recommendation for one in Folsom, and one slime job on the same guy.
Did I miss something?
Posted 11 April 2014 - 08:26 AM
Another vote for Dunbar in Folsom.
Both of my children have gone to him.
Posted 11 April 2014 - 08:31 AM
Posted 11 April 2014 - 11:13 AM
My daughter started with Crystal Anderson in Folsom and we were happy with her, only moving to one in EDH because we get a discount through her dental hygienist stepmom.
We were not happy with Anderson, got a lot of attitude and she had the tendency to do what she wanted, instead of what we wanted.
Posted 11 April 2014 - 02:43 PM
1 recommendation for one in Folsom, and one slime job on the same guy.
???? I'm confused. Are you referring to my comment about Dunbar charging for x-rays? I wouldn't consider that "slimy". Maybe not the smartest way to get clients, but certainly there is nothing wrong with it.
Also, I recommended Holt who is in Folsom.
As for distance, Dr. Lyons is probably 5 minutes from Folsom. But if that's too much additional driving, I get it. I just love to combine our ortho visits with a stop at Selland's. :-)
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Posted 16 September 2014 - 03:43 PM
Our daughter goes to Make a Smile on Bidwell for her braces. I wish I would have gotten a second opinion...she has had her braces on 2 years and is estimated another year...I guess Im not thrilled about this because she has several friends that have had their braces on/off within a year....The staff is super sweet, friendly and Dr. Jeff is quiet, pleasant. Most of the time spent is with the techs anyway. The appointments are usually right on time..I can not stress this enough-if you have an appointment try not to cancel it. This office is so booked solid that its not easy to get back in right away if you must cancel.. I can appreciate you wanting to stay with a Ortho in Folsom, very convenient...
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Europa League round of 32 second-leg milestones
Tuesday 26 February 2013
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UEFA.com's statistical review of the round of 32 covers the competition's first shoot-out, the continuation of three perfect home records and a happy night for Russian sides.
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It had gone midnight in Romania on Friday by the time the UEFA Europa League round of 32 concluded. That historic shoot-out involving FC Steaua Bucureşti and AFC Ajax tops UEFA.com's list of ten statistics of interest from Thursday's second legs.
1. After 108 previous knockout phase second legs – or finals – without one, the UEFA Europa League had its first penalty shoot-out as Steaua overcame Ajax 4-2 on spot kicks following a pair of 2-0 home wins.
2. Steaua were the only team to go through after losing the first leg. It was just the second time in the UEFA Europa League that a side had recovered from a two-goal first-leg deficit to qualify (the first being Fulham FC's comeback from 3-1 down to win 4-1 at home against Juventus in the 2009/10 round of 16).
3. FC Viktoria Plzeň and FC Girondins de Bordeaux joined FC Anji Makhachkala as the only clubs to have won all four home games in this season's competition. Bordeaux are the sole team yet to concede a goal on home turf. The three sides also triumphed in each of their home matches in the qualifying and play-off rounds.
4. Anji and Plzeň are the two longest-surviving teams in the competition, having entered in the second qualifying round.
5. Although it was insufficient to keep holders Club Atlético de Madrid in the tournament, Falcao's consolation strike in the 1-0 win at FC Rubin Kazan was his 31st UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League goal – taking him into second place outright in the all-time scorers' list.
6. With Atlético's 2-1 aggregate elimination, it is guaranteed there will be a new winner of the UEFA Europa League. The previous UEFA Cup winners left in the field are FC Zenit St Petersburg (2008), Tottenham Hotspur FC (1972, 1984) and FC Internazionale Milano (1991, 1994, 1998). Tottenham and Inter meet in the round of 16.
7. The Zenit v Liverpool FC tie was the only one of the 16 settled by the away goals rule. It was the 15th such outcome in the competition (the seventh in the round of 32) and the second time that Liverpool had fallen victim – after their extra-time defeat by Atlético in the 2009/10 semi-finals. Just one other side, Sporting Clube de Portugal, have been eliminated in this way twice.
8. Russia enjoyed a perfect round of 32, with all three representatives – Anji, Zenit and Rubin – making progress, while neighbours Ukraine endured the opposite fate as FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated without winning a game. Interest in the competition also ended for Belarus, Belgium, Greece and the Netherlands.
9. KRC Genk's unbeaten UEFA Europa League record was curtailed by their 2-0 home loss to VfB Stuttgart. Chelsea FC's decisive late equaliser at home to AC Sparta Praha leaves the London club as the only one of the UEFA Europa League's 132 participants never to have lost a match in the competition (albeit after just two games).
10. No team scored more than three goals in any of the 32 fixtures played, and the aggregate figure of 66 goals, at an average of 2.1 per game, was the lowest to date in a round of 32. There is plenty to look forward to in the last 16, however, as that stage has produced a mean of 2.8 goals a match in the last three seasons.
All references to the UEFA Europa League are group stage to final unless indicated otherwise.


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As the national scandal over United Nations-linked "elections monitors" in the United States continues to grow after Texas threatened potential prosecutions, the international outfit deploying "observers" demanded that the Obama administration come to its aid. The U.S. State Department promptly claimed that the UN-affiliated monitors would have "full" diplomatic immunity. But in the Lone Star State, officials fired back and upped the ante: Don't mess with Texas.
On October 23, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott sent a strongly worded letter to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) warning that its representatives could be prosecuted if they violate state law or are found within 100 feet of a polling place. Among the most serious concerns was the fact that the UN partner organization was working with discredited far-left radical groups to supposedly seek out conservative "voter suppression" schemes — mostly state laws aimed at preventing election fraud.
In a statement, the OSCE also said it would monitor "compliance" with unspecified "international obligations" supposedly applicable to the United States. The controversial organization, which includes as members the governments and dictators ruling Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and other nations, responded to Texas with its own letter to the U.S. State Department warning against any efforts to "restrain" its personnel.
"The threat of criminal sanctions against OSCE/ODIHR observers is unacceptable," complained Janez Lenarcic, chief of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) monitoring operations. "The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections." (Emphasis added.)
The Obama administration responded to the controversy by purporting to offer the international "elections monitors" supposed "diplomatic immunity" — essentially claiming that they were above the law, even in Texas. The two monitors for Texas, scheduled to be deployed in Austin, are Conny Jensen from Denmark and Melanie Leathers from the United Kingdom, documents show. In an October 26 press conference, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland claimed that "in general, we give them protected status."
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In the Lone Star State, however, officials did not take kindly to the international whining or the Obama administration's response. "No UN monitors/inspectors will be part of any TX election process," tweeted Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, in support of his chief law-enforcement officer. GOP U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz, a popular conservative who made opposition to UN schemes a key part of his campaign, also saluted Abbot for standing up to the scandal-plagued international outfit.
The Texas attorney general, meanwhile, remained defiant despite State Department pronouncements and OSCE complaining. "UN-related vote monitors warn Texas: Don't mess with us. My response: BRING IT," Abbott tweeted in response. He also quoted Sam Houston saying: "Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may." Following the tweets, Abbot also sent an official letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton laying down the law.
"It appears that OSCE is under the misimpression that the State Department can somehow help its representatives circumvent the Texas Election Code. Texas law prohibits unauthorized persons from entering a polling place — or loitering within 100 feet of a polling place's entrance — on Election Day," the attorney general explained to Clinton. "OSCE monitors are expected to follow that law like everyone else."
Of course, as Clinton already knows, Texas election laws govern anyone and everyone who wishes to participate in elections held in the Lone Star State, Abbott said. "The fact that representatives of the United States joined the U.S.S.R, Yugoslavia, Romania, and other OSCE member-nations in signing a document at a 1989 conference in Copenhagen has absolutely no bearing on the administration of elections or laws governing elections in the State of Texas," he warned.
If the OSCE wants to visit Texas during the election, Abbott said the state would welcome the opportunity to educate its representatives about state elections — perhaps it could be useful to OSCE member regimes like the brutal communist tyrant ruling over Belarus. "But OSCE is not above the law and its representatives must at all times comply with Texas law when they are present in this state," he added.
The 1990 OSCE governing document signed by the representatives of the U.S. government and cited by the international group in its pleas with the Obama administration is "legally irrelevant" in Texas and "will have no impact" on the way the state administers its election, Abbott pointed out. However, the attorney general still added that, even according to that agreement, observers are required to follow applicable law. In other words, the OSCE is making "false" claims.
In addition to misconstruing its own governing documents, in its letter to the Obama administration, the OSCE promised only to follow all "national" laws and regulations. "This statement may simply reveal that the OSCE is unfamiliar with our nation's federalist system," Abbott observed in his letter to Clinton. "On the other hand, it may reveal that the OSCE does not consider itself restrained by state law."
In either case, Texas needs assurances from the OSCE that it intends to strictly comply with all state laws. So far, Abbott said, those assurances have not been forthcoming. There are other problems, too, however.
"In addition to my desire to defend and enforce Texas election laws, I am also concerned that an unnecessary political agenda may have infected OSCE's election monitoring activities," the state's top law enforcement officer explained, citing the international outfit's objections to efforts aimed at preventing registration fraud as well as state laws requiring voter ID. "The OSCE may object to photo identification laws and prohibitions on felons voting — but our nation's Supreme Court has upheld both laws as entirely consistent with the U.S. Constitution."
Ironically, Abbott added, the OSCE's U.S. election monitoring boss, diplomat Daan Everts, hails from the Netherlands, which requires that all voters present identification to help combat fraud. "Why the OSCE appears to now question voter identification laws in the United States is beyond reason. Perhaps it is just politics," the letter stated. "Regardless, the OSCE's perspective on Voter ID is legally irrelevant in the United States."
Meanwhile, the attorney general also took the opportunity to blast the OSCE yet again for meeting with "plainly partisan" U.S. organizations. Among the American groups working with the OSCE are the NAACP, the ACLU, and assorted splinter groups like "Project Vote" formed after the taxpayer-funded, Obama-linked organization ACORN collapsed in disgrace amid charges of massive voting fraud.
In letters and meetings with the international monitors, those groups warned of alleged efforts by conservatives to "disenfranchise" minority voters. The OSCE promised to follow up on the half-baked accusations, drawing widespread criticism and ridicule across the country.
"This appears to reflect a concerted effort to politicize an initiative that was previously perceived as an international information exchange program," Abbot wrote. "While Texas may welcome visitors from any nation or international organization who wish to learn more about the steps the State has taken to protect the integrity of state elections, we need not open our doors and accommodate an international effort affiliated with partisan organizations in the United States that wish to suppress electoral integrity."
Of particular concern, Abbot said, was an organization known as Project Vote, which recently boasted that it was helping to advise the OSCE on what issues and jurisdictions to "monitor" this election. "In light of Project Vote's history of voter registration fraud and its more recent failed attempt to enjoin Texas election laws that were enacted to prevent fraud, no legitimate international body would affiliate with Project Vote," the attorney general wrote. "Consequently, OSCE's affiliation with this dubious organization necessarily undermines its credibility and the independence of its election monitors."
Abbott also took the opportunity to provide some constitutional education for Clinton and Washington, D.C., which seemingly view Texas and other sovereign U.S. states as mere provinces subject to the whims and dictates of the federal government. In the Lone Star State, at least, officials apparently know that the United States was founded under a system in which the central government has limited and specifically enumerated powers.
"The United States Constitution authorizes the States to regulate the conduct of state and federal elections within their borders," Abbott's letter continues. "Unlike the unelected bureaucrats at the OSCE, our State's leaders and decision-makers were duly elected by Texas voters. Elected members of the Texas Legislature enacted the Texas Election Code to ensure our State's elections are free, fair, open, and reliable."
Finally, the attorney general emphasized again, Texas' election laws do not authorize OSCE representatives to enter polling places. If they do, there will be consequences. Nothing in any OSCE governing documents has any impact — legal or otherwise — on how elections are conducted in Texas, Abbott warned.
"If the OSCE does not wish to follow the laws that govern everyone else present in the State of Texas, including the voters who elect our State's leaders, then perhaps it should dispatch its representatives to another state," Abbot concluded. "In closing, I have a simple request: Please work with the OSCE to ensure they agree to comply with Texas law. If they refuse to do so, OSCE's representatives may be subject to legal consequences associated with any violations of state law."
Analysts and activists across the country promptly showered praise on the state of Texas and its officials for standing up to the controversial international scheme while protecting state sovereignty, constitutional values, and the rule of law. However, more than a few experts also warned that the UN and its affiliates were becoming increasingly threatening. If America hopes to maintain its freedom and sovereignty, it must continue to resist any and all efforts to impose or even legitimize purported international "authority" over the American people.
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Internal Industry Documents Are Rewriting The MTBE Pollution Story
MTBE With Knowledge
Internal Industry Documents Are Rewriting The MTBE Pollution Story
The House Republican leadership is considering legislation to strictly limit oil company liability for contaminating groundwater in at least 28 states with the toxic gasoline additive MTBE, or methyl tertiary butyl ether. The oil industry and its friends in Congress say it's only fair to shield MTBE makers from lawsuits, since, they claim, it was the government that mandated oil companies to reformulate gas with MTBE in the first place, to clean the air.
The liability waiver is a top priority for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Energy and Commerce Committee chair Joe Barton, both of Texas, home of most the oil and chemical companies that produced MTBE until contamination problems prompted California and 16 other states to ban it. The waiver, included in a draft of the energy bill from Barton's committee, would prohibit lawsuits charging that the additive was a faulty product that the industry knew would leak from storage tanks and contaminate water supplies — the exact argument two California communities used in court to win multimillion-dollar settlements to clean up the contamination and secure new supplies. The bill not only closes the door to new defective-product lawsuits, but throws out of court all cases filed since Sept. 5, 2003. The bill bans MTBE nationwide in 2014, but in the interim gives the chemical's manufacturers $250 million a year — $2 billion total — in "transition assistance grants" to convert their facilities to other products.
Recently, evidence has surfaced that a decade ago, House Commerce Committee lawyers told members that using MTBE was the industry's choice, not the Environmental Protection Agency's requirement. A June 5, 1995 memo from staff counsel to a Commerce Committee subcommittee that included Barton explained that the EPA's Reformulated Gasoline Program (RFG) did not mandate or favor MTBE (made from methanol) over any other oxygenate that could be used to reformulate gasoline:
A major aspect of the debate on the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments was the issue of "fuel neutrality." In essence, since various fuels and fuel constituents compete for the RFG and alternative fuels market, an effort was made to avoid dictating any particular fuel choice. On this matter . . . . the Committee on Energy and Commerce . . . could not have been more clear. The Committee stated at the time that, "It is intended that this (clean alternative fuels) be a fuel-neutral program. Although some believe that EPA has a strong preference for methanol, the Committee intends no such preference for that or any other fuel." [U.S. House of Representatives 1995] [Emphasis added.] [View Document]
Following release of the memo by Rep. Henry Waxman of California, a spokesman for Barton said the congressman still believes that oil companies were forced to produce MTBE when the federal government required the development of additives that make gasoline burn more cleanly.
But a different story emerges from internal industry documents and depositions, made public in recent successful lawsuits brought by cities and a California public inerest group called Communities for a Better Environment that want oil companies to pay to clean up water made undrinkable and unhealthy by MTBE. The documents, provided to EWG by CBE's lawyers Scott Summy and Celeste Evangelisti, show that the oil industry itself lobbied hard for the MTBE mandate because they made the additive and stood to profit.
In a 1995 deposition, a top ARCO executive admitted under oath, "The EPA did not initiate reformulated gasoline...." He clarified that "the oil industry... brought this [MTBE] forward as an alternative to what the EPA had initially proposed." [Excerpt | Full document]
By 1986, the oil industry was adding 54,000 barrels of MTBE to gasoline each day. By 1991, one year before the EPA requirements went into effect, the industry was using more than 100,000 barrels of MTBE per day in reformulated gasoline. [View document] Yet secret oil company studies, conducted at least as early as 1980, showed the industry knew that MTBE contaminated ground water virtually everywhere it was used.
Oil companies are pressing Congress for liability protection because hundreds of communities have serious MTBE contamination problems, and company documents are coming back to haunt them in the courtroom. In April, the documents convinced a California jury to find Shell, Texaco, Tosco, Lyondell Chemical (ARCO Chemical), and Equilon Enterprises liable for selling a defective product (gasoline with MTBE) while failing to warn of its pollution hazard, forcing a $60 million settlement with the water district for South Lake Tahoe. [View document].
"The Government Made Us Do It"
MTBE, or methyl tertiary butyl ether, is an "oxygenate" that makes gasoline burn cleaner and more efficiently. Unfortunately, it is also a foul-tasting, nasty-smelling, probable carcinogen that spreads rapidly when gasoline escapes from leaky underground storage tanks, contaminating sources of groundwater and drinking water from New York to California [View document]. Once in soil or water, MTBE breaks down very slowly while it accelerates the spread of other contaminants in gasoline, such as benzene, a known carcinogen. Some communities, including Santa Monica and South Lake Tahoe, Calif., face tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in costs of cleaning up MTBE or replacing contaminated water supplies. At least 16 states already have passed measures to ban or significantly limit the use of MTBE in gasoline, and a federal ban is more a question of when than if.
In House-Senate negotiations to craft a compromise federal energy bill, pressure is building to follow the lead of many states and ban MTBE nationally by the year 2006. Members of Congress from corn-producing states support the phase out in part because ethanol made from corn is the primary MTBE substitute. Oil-state politicians, in turn, are demanding that any ban on MTBE shield its makers from product-defect liability. The proposal would not preclude suits against parties responsible for allowing MTBE to leak from storage tanks, but would provide immunity from suits claiming that MTBE itself was a defective product – precisely the charge that won a $60 million settlement for the South Lake Tahoe Water District this year. The jury in that case found five oil and chemical companies liable for selling a defective product – MTBE –while failing to warn of its pollution risks. [View document]
On Sept. 27, 2002, the Associated Press reported that the House proposal for liability relief has a good chance of being accepted by Senate negotiators: "Democrats and Republicans alike view it as a small price to pay in return for getting the politically popular ethanol provision into an energy bill only weeks before the upcoming elections." Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-LA, who is chairing the energy bill negotiations, said it's only fair that MTBE makers are shielded "when the government is responsible" for oil companies adopting the additive to meet federal air quality requirements. "We mandated MTBE to help the environment," Tauzin said.
A lawyer who defends MTBE manufacturers told the AP, "You can't be held liable for just complying with the law." [View story]
The congressman and the lawyer aren't the only ones spreading the tale that oil companies were just following orders. Most news outlets have told the MTBE story as a lesson in the unintended consequences of efforts to reduce air pollution.
In 1997, the Los Angeles Times let stand without challenge the statement of a West Coast refiner: "[T]he issue of potential contamination of the state's water was not adequately considered prior to implementation of the federal and state reformulated gasoline regulations... Consequently, we find ourselves in a Catch-22, since the current regulatory framework effectively leaves us no choice but to use MTBE to meet clean fuel standards." This spin has traveled the high and low roads, reaching the editorial pages of The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Newsday and Denver Post, and providing California talk-show hosts with fuel for a belligerent populist campaign against overzealous environmental regulation.
The MTBE Papers
The paper trail, dating at least to 1980, tells a different story: How the oil companies took an unwanted byproduct of gasoline refining that was expensive to dispose of and created a profitable market for what they, until then, had been required to handle as toxic waste. Beginning in the mid-1980s, well in advance of the 1992 federal mandate to reformulate gasoline to meet the standards of the Clean Air Act, the petrochemical industry promoted MTBE to U.S. and state regulators as the additive of choice – only much later admitting it doesn't do much to reduce air pollution after all.
Thousands of pages of internal documents and sworn depositions from the producers at Shell, Exxon, Mobil, ARCO, Chevron, Unocal, Texaco and Tosco (now Valero) have come to light through a lawsuit by Communities for a Better Environment, a California public interest group. Many of the same documents were used in a suit by the South Lake Tahoe Water District against four oil companies and Lyondell Chemical Co. of Houston (ARCO Chemical Company), the nation's largest MTBE producer. In the CBE suit, several of the companies settled last year by agreeing to clean up MTBE spills at more than 1,300 California gas stations; the others continue to contest the case.
Earlier this year, a jury in the Tahoe case found Lyondell, Shell, Texaco, Equilon, and Tosco guilty of irresponsibly manufacturing and distributing a product they knew would contaminate water. In addition, the jury found by "clear and convincing evidence" that both Shell Oil Company and Lyondell Chemical Company acted with "malice" by failing to warn customers of the almost certain environmental dangers of MTBE water contamination. [View document]
In an interview with The Sacramento Bee, the jury foreman said he found the MTBE papers, which demonstrated the industry's early knowledge that MTBE would threaten water supplies "among the most compelling evidence he recorded in 635 pages of handwritten notes." The foreman stated that "[t]here were lessons to be learned, but (Shell) didn't (learn them) because it saw money to be made in selling the product." After the jury verdict establishing liability, but before the jury could assess monetary damages, the companies settled the case for $60 million.
Oil Companies Knew MTBE Was a Threat to Water Supplies
Even though MTBE was not classified as a probable cause of cancer in humans until 1995, refiners knew much earlier that its powerfully foul taste and smell meant that small concentrations could render water undrinkable, and that once it got into water supplies it was all but impossible to clean up. A Shell hydrogeologist testified in the South Lake Tahoe case that he first dealt with an MTBE spill in 1980 in Rockaway, N.J., where seven MTBE plumes were leaking from underground storage tanks. [Excerpt | Full document] By 1981, when the Shell scientist wrote an internal report on the Rockaway plumes, the joke inside Shell was that MTBE really stood for "Most Things Biodegrade Easier." Later, other versions of the joke circulated, including "Menace Threatening Our Bountiful Environment," or apropos to the present attempt to limit liability, "Major Threat to Better Earnings." [Excerpt | Full document] and [Excerpt | Full document]
In 1983, Shell was one of at least nine companies surveyed by a task force of the American Petroleum Institute on "the environmental fate and health effects" of MTBE and other oxygenates. Shell's Environmental Affairs department replied to the trade association: "In our spill situation the MTBE was detectable (by drinking) in 7 to 15 parts per billion so even if it were not a factor to health, it still had to be removed to below the detectable amount in order to use the water." (emphasis added). [View document] The survey, the results of which were later distributed to all API members, asked for information about the number and extent of spills, chemical analysis of the spill and the contaminated water, and health effects to people in the community.
Clearly, Shell was not the only company that knew about MTBE problems. An environmental engineer for ExxonMobil (the companies merged in 1999), testified that he learned of MTBE contamination from Exxon gasoline in 1980, when a tank leak in Jacksonville, Maryland, fouled wells for a planned subdivision. The ExxonMobil engineer said it was learned MTBE had also leaked into the subdivision's wells from a Gulf and an Amoco station. [View document]


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Christmas Eve found us at Bass Pro Shop taking pics with Santa...We had so much fun and it wasn't busy at all, surprisingly! There was so much FREE fun to be had!
The carousel was adorable!
There were all different animals.
Violet loved it!
Did I mention it was FREE?!?!
I was so happy that Violet did well with Santa!
Not the best pic, but with four kids, you get what you get!
There are crafts there, too! This day was cookie decorating...
So fun and saved me from having to bake later.
The kids in their Momma and Nana-made Christmas Eve Jammies!
Flannel sheets from Target make for cheap yardage.
I love these peasant style gowns. Caught Violet mid-yawn. Ha!
The boys...
The kids left goodies for Santa!
Lilly wrote a letter to Santa...
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE what she wrote on the inside!!! Warms my heart so much!!!
Santa came!
The table all set for Christmas brunch...
Christmas Brunch is always the same...sausage balls, muffins, and fresh fruit.
The mirror got gussied up with paper snowflakes from Wal-Mart and a sign I made.
The hutch...little crooked, oops! Shouldn't take photos at 3am! Hope y'all had a wonderful Christmas!!!


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Hi folks,
I'm sorry for the decrepit condition of this Tower. No time to properly update it. That (and my lack of a good job) are the bad news. The good news are that I finally managed to end on January my 3-and-a-half Pathfinder campaign using the Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path. It was an amazing experience, helped me to form my current group of players (and friends) and it ended completely unlike the official campaign (the system was kept as "official" as possible only because the table made a social contract in that regard... though the Hero Points rules were abused to such a point that the entire thing started to sound like FATE). Speaking of FATE, I'm trying to run a mini-campaign (5 sessions) of Pacific Rim, but without luck so far due to scheduling problems with the group. I'm also playing a Carrion Crown Adventure Path, powered by FATE Core. But that's not why I'm writing this short post.
My Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG campaign through G+ Hangout is still going. We managed 6 online sessions to finish 'The Portal Under the Stars' and 'Sailors on the Starless Sea' adventures. We're starting now 'Doom of the Savage Kings'. Each player will control 2 1st-level survivor of previous adventures (and 4 new 0-level PCs will be controlled by a new player).
One of the 1st level Warriors is a Herder and thus started the game with a herding dog that managed (somehow) to survive the Funnel. I don't want to track the dog's stats (I already have to control plenty of hirelings and followers), but I wanted the dog to color that Warrior's style. So I came with a - definitely - 'indie' mechanic for it.
Here's my "Small But Vicious Dog" Rule.
Every time the Warrior hits an enemy, he can choose to use his small but vicious dog to deal an additional 1d4 points of damage. If they die comes up with 2, 3 or 4... no problem! Just add to the damage total. However, if the d4 comes with a '1', the Warrior must reroll the d4 and suffer that amount of damage (the small but vicious dog is indeed a terrible beast... very difficult to control).
The idea is to use a simple (but hopefully) fun mechanic, with an element of risk.
What do you think about it?


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