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The 46th annual education policy public opinion poll from PDK/Gallup shows that a majority of Americans oppose the Common Core State Standards.
The 46th annual education policy public opinion poll from PDK/Gallup shows that a majority of Americans oppose the Common Core State Standards.
A Louisiana judge has granted a preliminary injunction that lifts the suspension of the tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards imposed by Gov. Bobby Jindal nearly two months ago.
Teachers are clear about their need for more professional learning to implement college- and career-ready standards. Consider four essential steps to build support for sustained continuous learning.
The U.S. Department of Education's assistant secretary for K-12 addresses the promise and pitfalls of the No Child Left Behind Act waivers.
New York state K-12 officials deny that they deceived the public by gaming how recent state assessments were scored, but others aren't so sure.
A Louisiana judge denies an attempt by state legislators to require schools to immediately stop using the Common Core State Standards while their lawsuit challenging the standards is pending.
Are teachers ready for Common Core? What happens to the "reform" movement without Michelle Rhee heading up StudentsFirst? Dig into these questions in the Friday Reading List.
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St. Louis Rams running back Terrance Ganaway has decided to step away from football to pursue a graduate degree.
A dominating running back at Baylor, Ganaway couldn't see the same success at the NFL level. In his rookie season, he was able to make the 53 man roster for the St. Louis Rams in 2012 but did not get any stats. He was injured to start the 2013 preseason and never got a chance to touch the ball. Here is what Jeff Fisher had to say:
"It's not often a guy can walk away from the game on his own terms,'' the coach said. "I also told him that I felt like he had ability to play in this league. He can walk away having participated, (having) a great college career with an outstanding football team and take those memories with him and go on with his life.''
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Fall albums are a genre unto themselves; all that most fans seem to expect from them is that Smith show up, bring along a halfway-decent band, slur his way through a few interesting songs and not sound like he'd rather be at the dentist. In that respect, The Real New Fall LP succeeds -- it comes roaring out of the speakers like an avalanche, whereas 2002's lackluster Are You Are Missing Winner plopped into the sonic headspace like a bundle of damp laundry. In opener "Green Eyed Loco Man", Smith parts a roiling red sea of rumbling chords, undulating drums and squiggling keyboards, staunchly slurring against the encroaching darkness. In "Theme from Sparta F.C.", he offers an animated non-commentary on football hooliganism ("we have to pay for everything / but some things are for free / we live on blood / we are Sparta F.C."), and you'll soon want to chant along with the crowd. "Contraflow"'s jagged, cyclical riffs form a dark, menacing background for Smith's professed hatred of the countryside and its denizens ("I hate the countryside / so much / I hate the country folk / so much"), and the anthemic "Open the Boxoctosis #2" will lodge its chorus in your head like an errant lawn dart. Not only will you sing "Open the box / open the box / open the goddamn box" all day -- you'll feel the song's distinctive log-rolling bassline rumbling in your chest as you sing it.
None of this will surprise longtime Fall fans; much of the allure of any new Fall album is simply hearing Smith make the familiar formula fresh with a new batch of outlandish lyrics and inventive pronunciations. The interesting thing about The Real New Fall LP is how often we can actually understand the lyrics. Rather than the usual torrent of tortured, misshapen, smeared and sneered syllables (a catharsis of spurious nasality?), we're treated to songs that...well, naturally they don't actually make sense, because that would be wrong, but we've got a pretty decent idea of what's being said, if not why. Fortunately, in the universal scheme of things this makes very little difference. "The Past #2" is impenetrable no matter how many of the words you can understand, and although "Mountain Energei" hints at a deeper message (something along the lines of "you can't get anything out if you don't put anything in", perhaps), you'll have to uncover it on your own.
The Fall, like most cult acts with massive discographies (GBV, Jandek, etcetera), breed rabid fans, none of whom will need to be encouraged to acquire a copy of The Real New Fall LP. Therefore, I'm speaking to a fairly narrow cross-section of people -- eager newbies and reasonably committed fans who aren't willing to spring for a costly import CD. To those people, I offer only encouragement: The Real New Fall LP is as solid and interesting as anything the group has released in the last ten years. It's not a revelation, and you might want to wait for the inevitable domestic edition rather than dropping $40 on the import, but the Fall's magic well of inspiration is once again fresh and full.
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President Barack Obama stepped onto the global stage yesterday, landing in London to help coordinate an international response to the wide-reaching economic crisis.
In his first trip overseas as president, Obama faces a chilly reception by some world leaders who blame Wall Streets role in the recession and disapprove of U.S. policies for fighting it. Others, however, will welcome his celebrity and diplomacy, especially following the Bush administration.
Were gathering the G-20 at a time of the most severe economic crisis in generations, said Michael Froman, deputy national security adviser for international economics. The stakes for this summit are very high."The G-20 a meeting of the worlds leading and fastest-developing economies will attempt to balance stimulus spending with financial regulation. Obama and Gordon Brown, the British prime minister and host of the summit, are among those who promote government spending to jolt the economy, while some European powers, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, favor restraint in fear of inflation.
Leaders meeting in London must supply the oxygen of confidence to todays global economy, Gordon said.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy emphasized that progress must be made at the daylong meeting that officially begins tomorrow. We have to obtain results, there is no choice, the crisis is too serious to allow us to have a summit for nothing, he said.
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To the Editor: To call a large data set "dangerous" is to reinforce a tendency to evaluate research on the basis of a chosen method rather than on how well the method enables the researcher to answer a question.
The problems with large data sets highlighted by Drake and McHugo—poor-quality data, statistical significance without meaningfulness, multiple tests, and post hoc interpretations—are neither new nor unique to large data sets. In addition, not all administrative data sets are necessarily large. It is difficult to find good data, administrative or otherwise, and to use it appropriately. Researchers must address validity problems or acknowledge limitations. Large administrative data sets can be put to good use, such as in addressing questions whose answers require observations over an extended period. Their value depends on what they are used for.
There might be more confidence in findings derived from large data sets if the science around statistical significance were not so focused on reification of .05.
Statistical significance is a probabilistic statement that helps us to discard good ideas that don't work or to know when to take a finding seriously. Some journals limit reports of significance to .001. Perhaps allowing values of .0001 or greater to be reported would help avoid overvaluation of small effects.
Sample size may be unrelated to frequency of significance testing. When more than one test per sample is used, p values no longer reflect the usual stated probability (<.05) unless procedures are used to adjust for the number of tests. Thus most values in behavioral science journals are approximations. Confidence in science is in replication.
Fitting the question to the data is a problem regardless of sample size. Should we discourage the use of large data sets to answer questions that can be addressed by them? Would the nation's health be better off if data from the long form of the U.S. Census or from the Physicians' Health Study were not available for wide-ranging investigation? Gathering good data is expensive, and even when a data set is mined a great deal, the confirmation of soundly conceived hypotheses provides support for future research.
Methods are tools with acknowledged limitations that are used to answer research questions. Labeling a method as dangerous without reference to how it is used to address a specific research question is as stigmatizing as calling mentally ill persons dangerous. At worst it may be self-serving, similar to the way in which some quantitative researchers devalue qualitative research. It also seems to support a trend of valuing statistical procedures over substantive content.
Recently a journal editor remarked that her publication looked askance at "salami research"—a term that describes use of the same data set to produce numerous research papers, each investigating a different question. This policy represents another form of evaluating research on the basis of the method used rather than on how well the method enables investigation. The same journal also took issue with use of data more than 15 years old, even though the data were used to investigate researchable questions.
These policies set a poor scientific standard. I would rather have a fine piece of salami even if it is old—many prefer their salami aged—than much of the bologna that is passed off as research articles in many journals. Within ethical boundaries, there is no substitute for research that validly addresses a question that needs resolution. Stigmatizing the use of particular research methods takes us in the wrong direction.
Dr. Segal is professor and director of the Mental Health and Social Welfare Research Group in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Captain Dean Watters keeps his mission and his team in the forefront of his laser-like focus. So when these two things are threatened by hackers, Dean's Special Forces training kicks into high gear. Failing to stop the hackers from stealing national security secrets from the military's secure computers and networks isn't an option. Zahrah Zarrick is a missionary teacher to Afghan children in Mazar-e Sharif. And a target. When Zahrah is captured because of her expertise in quantum cryptology, endangering the US national security, Dean is forced to crack the lockbox around his heart—a move that might come at the highest cost.
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Doc HiltonHorseshoe Bend, ARAge: 45-54Gender: male5 Stars Out Of 5Special Ops action and a passion for others!June 13, 2014Doc HiltonHorseshoe Bend, ARAge: 45-54Gender: maleQuality: 5Meets Expectations: 5The heart doesn't choose an appropriate moment to stake its claim.
That much Captain Dean "Raptor Six" Watters finds out in one big hurry. He and his team are situated in an area where tensions are high, and millions of lives hang in the balance. Ten military super-secure computers have "gone missing," and the military intelligence contained in their memories is close to being on the open-market.
Zahrah Zarrick, a missionary teacher to Afghan children, is the unwitting key to this modern-day Pandora's Box. While her heart is on her sleeve for the children she's teaching, her expertise in quantum cryptology makes her the prime target for the hackers who are committed to the downfall of the United States.
Raptor Six and his team are playing catch-up, as Zahrah disappears before they can make contact. With the clock ticking, Dean is finally coming to grips with the stakes that are at hand in this game - and the fact that his heart is "all in" just makes this one hand he cannot afford to lose.
Ronie Kendig writes with a passion for Special Forces and their cause without reservation or apology. While some of the foreign language words and phrases are difficult to grasp at first, and with no a glossary dedicated only to military terminology and acronymns, it was a bit difficult for me to get a handle on some of the communication. However, the context eventually sorted it out for me; it just takes a little work. Which compels the dedicated reader that much further into the book. With Ronie Kendig at the helm - is this really a bad thing?
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I'm looking forward to finding out the next segment of the overall story in the next book of this series.
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Zahrah Zarrick, daughter of a retired military general, finds herself in harm's way as a missionary teacher to Afghan children. Her degree in quantum cryptology makes her a prime target for terrorists. It's Captain Dean Watters' mission to rescue her when she goes missing, but what he doesn't plan on is getting emotionally attached in the process.
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Chapter 1
THE setting of this story is in the southwestern United States, a picturesque land of high mountains, deep canyons, and scorching deserts, of Joshua trees and giant cacti, of bighorn sheep and Gila monsters. The chief character is the treacherous, destructive Colorado River.
Third longest river in the Union, the Colorado rises high in the snow capped mountains of Wyoming and Colorado, zigzags southwest for 1,700 miles, and finally pours into Mexico's Gulf of California far to the south.
The Colorado's drainage basin is vast. It covers 244,000 square miles, one-twelfth the land area of the United States. Tributaries extend their tentacles through seven of the large Western States.
The Colorado is mighty. It slashes through all in its path. It has gouged the rock of the mesas into gorges and chasms. One of the gorges, the Grand Canyon, is world famous, a titanic cleft over 200 miles long, a dozen miles in breadth and a mile deep.
South of the canyons the Colorado makes its way through the hottest and driest region in the United States. The temperature reaches more than 120 in the shade. Rain is almost unknown all summer long. There, dry as bone and shimmering in the heat, is an American Sahara.
Exploring north from Mexico the Spanish conquistadors were the first white men to penetrate this forbidding land of aridity. They were surprised to find it peopled with Indians. They found that the Indians had attained a high civilization. The evidence was in imposing ruins of communal architecture unexcelled in the Old World. There were well-constructed four-storied apartment houses containing as many as 800 rooms.
How did the Indians manage to exist in this desert? The mystery was soon solved. The exploring Spaniards encountered canals and ditches which guided life-giving water from the stream into fields of corn, beans, and squash.
The art of irrigation had made it possible to establish the earliest civilization in the United States.
One of the first of the exploring Spaniards was Conquistador ??? Alarcon. He was the first white man to view the Colorado. He ventured up the reddish-brown stream 150 miles. He was followed 2 years later by ??? Cardenas, who discovered the Colorado's Grand Canyon.
It was a difficult terrain to explore, or to obtain food or supplies. Cardenas never succeeded in descending the sheer walls of the precipitous Grand Canyon, and the other explorers and missionary priests who followed him were also discouraged by the seeming inaccessibility of the river in the canyon section. To explore the deep gorges seemed almost hopeless. It was two centuries before a crossing was discovered.
So well did the river keep its origin from prying eyes that in early times none knew for a fact whether it was a river or a narrow swift-running strait separating California from the mainland. It was also said in the old days that the Colorado was subterranean for hundreds of miles. To venture downstream by boat in the Colorado's higher reaches was reputed to mean sure death.
To most who had found the river blocking their path the Colorado had been a dangerous obstacle, to be passed over or circumtoured as quickly as possible. To the curious few who had visions of tracing the stream's course, the Colorado quickly revealed that the dream was not the deed.
In 1846 war with Mexico gave New Mexico, Arizona, and California to the United States. In 1849 the discovery of gold at Sutter's mill in California brought adventurers pressing against the east bank of the Colorado. They poured across the river at two widely distanced points. One crossing was near Yuma, not far from the Mexican border, about 100 miles from the river's mouth. The other was "The Needles," 200 miles farther north.
When the land drained by the river became a part of the United States, the feeling grew that it had to be explored. In 1857 the War Department dispatched Lt. J. C. Ives to the task, instructing him to proceed up the river by boat as far as navigation was practicable. He succeeded in ascending in his boat Explorer only as far as the head of Black Canyon, a few miles below the confluence with the Virgin River. This was about 400 miles from the mouth of the Colorado.
In his report to the War Department, Lieutenant Ives said:
"The region last explored is, of course, altogether valueless. It can be approached only from the south, and after entering it there is nothing to do but leave. Ours was the first, and doubtless will be the last, party of whites to visit this profitless locality. It seems intended by Nature that the Colorado River along the greater portion of its lone and majestic way shall be forever unvisited and unmolested."
In 1869 Maj. J. W. Powell of the Geological Survey achieved the hitherto impossible. He succeeded in leading a river expedition down through the canyons of the Colorado. His expedition traveled from the Green River in Utah down to the Virgin River in Nevada, a few miles above where Lieutenant Ives had been stopped. He covered a thousand miles of unknown rapids and labyrinthian canyons. He became the first white man to gaze up at the sheer walls of the Grand Canyon and live to tell of it.
The Colorado explored, active investigation of the river took the next natural stepthe attempt to make it useful. In 1875 Lieutenant Borklane mapped out a route for a canal to irrigate southern California's rich but arid land. Construction on the canal began about 20 years later and in 1901 the first water from the Colorado River poured from Imperial Canal, looping through Mexico, into southern California's Imperial Valley. A desert was metamorphosed into a garden with an all-year-round growing season.
Like all other western desert streams, however, the Colorado ran hog-wild each spring. Fed by rapidly melting mountain snows, it swelled to a torrent which swept over its banks and inundated the country for miles around.
The rich, fertile Imperial Valley is a deep saucer, 250 feet below sea level at the lowest point. Lapping along the rim of this low-lying valley was the Colorado, ever menacing. In 1905, only 4 years after the river had been tapped for its life-giving waters, the disaster came. The Colorado burst its banks.
For nearly 2 years the swirling coffee-colored flood ran amuck, slashing through the Valley's sunny fields and flourishing communities. The finally laid bare the mud-caked havoc wrought by the angry Coloradoruined farm land, destroyed homeshighways washed away, railroads wrecked. A permanent memento was left in the form of a huge lake nearly 300 square miles in area which today is labeled on the map as Salton Sea.
The Reclamation Service had recently (June 17, 1902) been established by the Congress to develop the arid West by regulating and conserving its most valuable natural resource, water. Here was a Gordian knot to untie.
Protection of the lands lying below the elevation of the Colorado had required the building of levees. Each year the river with its silt-laden floods tore at these. The levees were built higher and stronger. To prevent another disaster such as that of 1905, about $1,000,000 was spent on the Ockerson Levee. It was barely completed in 1909 before the Colorado crashed through. Failing to find an opening into the Imperial Valley, the Colorado swirled westward into what is known as Bee River to Volcano Lake. On this new course the river flowed for 10 years, kept there by another expensive levee system.
Failing to smash this new levee the Colorado deposited millions of tons of silt in its channel, lifting itself still higher. The fight went on year after year.
The defensive measures became more and more oppressive. The cost of maintaining the levees rose to approximately $500,000 a year. Even this large expenditure did not eliminate the menace. About 100,000 people lived in fear that the river might overwhelm them.
On the other hand, there were occasions when the river ran dry. Men walked out on the riverbed and conferred about the emergency. Their crops were withering and dying for lack of moisture. Their livestock must be slaughtered to save drinking water for their families, if this drought should be extended. They were hauling precious water from 100 miles or more away
It was a vicious cycle of flood amid drought. Both extremes threatened the lives and homes of the people of the Southwest who depended on the whims of the unmanageable Colorado.
This was the problem pondered by Reclamation engineers. Their study brought a strong and bold decision. There was only one solution: Put the wild Colorado in complete harness. Control it . . . once and for all time.
Could it be Done?
Dammed and under control the Colorado would have vast value. Uncontrolled and unregulated it had very little. The quick run-off and the absence of summer rains made any large irrigation or power development uncertain and unprofitable unless the river could be controlled. Nor could the river be depended upon as a source of water supply for cities. Also, further development by mere irrigation was infeasiblealready more land had been canalized than could be irrigated by the natural flow of the river during periods of low discharge.
The area tributary to the Colorado River is composed roughly of an upper basin and a lower basin. The dividing line falls at Lee's Ferry, Ariz., a few miles south of where the river enters Arizona from Utah. The upper basin covers the drainage area in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico; the lower basin covers the area in Nevada, Arizona, and California.
The two basins are about equal in area and are separated by what is known as "the canyon region." The canyon region is a 400-mile bottleneck ??? through which the Colorado has battered since the mists of time. The gorges begin below Lee's Ferry and end with Black Canyon, just below the confluence with the Virgin River.
A comprehensive plan of development required detailed data from both upper and lower basins. Bureau of Reclamation engineers examined a total of 70 possible reservoir sites in the two basins.
The most suitable sites in the upper basin were found to be the Flaming Gorge site on the Green River in northern Utah with a probable storage capacity of 4,000,000 acre-feet; the Juniper site on the Yampa River in Colorado, with 1,500,000 acre-feet; and the Dewey site on the Colorado in eastern Utah with 2,270,000 acre-feet.
The chief defect of the proposed reservoir sites in the upper basin was their smallness. None was large enough to regulate the river. Another disadvantage was the distance from where regulation was most needed. They were hundreds of miles away from the irrigable fields of Arizona and California. Again, there were too many tributaries below them which might cause destructive floods.
The lower basin had two good sites. They were Boulder Canyon and Black Canyon. Each had the huge capacity of over 30,000,000 acre-feet, but the engineering problems were equally tremendous.
The engineers favored the sites in the lower basin. The Bureau of Reclamation intensified investigations there. Engineers made geologic and topographic surveys, starting in 1919. Investigations showed that certain conditions favored Black Canyon over Boulder Canyon. The depth to bedrock was less, the geologic structure was better, and a dam of smaller dimensions would give the same reservoir capacity. From 1920 to 1923 the engineers actually lived in Black Canyon, diamond drilling and testing the rock.
The rock had to offer an unquestionably sound foundation. It was to support the highest dam the world had ever seen.
In Black Canyon these Reclamation engineers hoped to build a dam so high it would create a reservoir large enough to store the entire flow of the Colorado Riverincluding all its savage floodsfor 2 whole years.
The proposed dam would be located below the large tributaries, and be able to control them. It would create a power head within transmission reach of the great power markets of southern California. It would be in the midst of a heavily mineralized region in Nevada and Arizona where low-cost power could produce strategic metals.
The surveying engineers faced the most trying working conditions. Waves of heat reflected from the canyon walls sometimes raised the temperature to 130 in the shade. Cloudbursts washed away roads leading to the camps. High winds leveled the tents. Sudden floods wrecked drill barges.
In 1924 the Bureau of Reclamation submitted eight volumes of painstakingly accumulated field data to the Secretary of the Interior. The report emphasized the possibility of a high dam at Boulder or Black Canyon (also called Lower Boulder Canyon) in the lower basin. There, it was shown, in either of these deep canyons on the Colorado about 400 miles from its mouth, a large storage dam could master the river.
A report of the Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation in March 1928 agreed that "The overwhelming weight of opinion favors the Boulder or Black Canyon site . . . Natural conditions at this point are extremely favorable for the construction of a great dam at a minimum of cost."
A board of consulting engineers also reviewed the attributes of the two sites. It agreed with Reclamation engineers that Black Canyon was the better site.
The locale for the greatest piece of engineering work in the world was settled.
Engineers and the general public had been referring to the future structure as Boulder Dam. The name clung, despite the decision to build the great dam in Black Canyon, and became fixed by usage.
In mastering the Colorado, the engineering was but one phase of the problem. Anotherthe legislative phasehad also to be solved.
The most difficult legislative aspect was the equitable division of the water.
The people who lived in the Colorado River Basin were dependent on the river. Wherever they lived, their right to use Colorado River water for irrigation was far more valuable than their title to the land.
To determine these water rights and protect them against conflicting rights or claims was much more involved than the mere establishment of land titles. The land was fixed, but the water coming from the melting snows fluctuated with every change of temperature and in every month of the irrigation season.
The rights to the water which flowed down the sides of Fremont's Peak into upper Green River were determined by Wyoming laws which governed diversions from the river as long as it was within the boundaries of that State. When the river passed into Utah it became subject to the laws of Utah, and in succession to those of Nevada, Arizona, and California. The laws of New Mexico applied to the San Juan tributary. Beyond the international boundary, Mexico made claims.
The laws of six of the States were in harmony in that they recognized the right to appropriate the water, take it out and apply it to beneficial use. They were also in general agreement on the methods of determining how much water could be beneficially used, and the means employed to regulate diversion.
California's laws were different. California had enacted and put into operation a code of laws recognizing appropriation by beneficial use but also sought to retain its modified common-law doctrine of riparian rights, the right of a landowner to the water contiguous to his property whether or not he uses it. California's doctrine of riparian rights conflicted with the laws of the other six States.
It was thought also that the normal flow of the Colorado might be insufficient to supply all the uses projected by both basins, and when the idea of a great storage dam in the lower basin began to take shape the upper basin States became alarmed. They felt that the dam would enable water users in the lower basin to assert a right to all the unappropriated water above. Not as against existing uses, they said, but as a menace to future development, especially if power were combined with other uses. All the water might not be used for irrigation, but all could certainly be used to generate power.
In the meantime Arizona was formulating projects of her own, such as the irrigation of a large area of the lower Gila River basin and some land in the vicinity of Parker on the Colorado.
Crystallization of issues was a slow process. The States had approached the problem individually. The conception of a division of the water between basins instead of among individual States was a gradual development.
In 1920, at a meeting of representatives of the Governors of the Western States, a proposal for an interstate compact was endorsed. Each of the seven States of the Colorado Basin authorized the appointment of commissioners.
The Commission was presided over by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover on behalf of the United States. After a series of meetings in Washington, D. C., and at various places in the Colorado River watershed, the Colorado River Compact was initialed by representatives of the seven States on November 24, 1922.
The compact adopted Lee's Ferry as the point of division between the upper and lower basins and effected an allocation of water between the two basins, leaving to future adjustments the division of water within each basin.
On December 21, 1928, the Boulder Canyon Project Act, presented to Congress in the Swing-Johnson bill, became law.
As finally passed, the Boulder Canyon Project Act: Approved the Colorado River Compact and made provision that in the event only six States should ratify, the compact should become effective as a six-State compact, provided California was one of the adhering parties, and provided also that California should agree to limit her use of water to the benefit of the other six States; authorized the construction of a dam at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon; authorized construction of an All-American Canal connecting the Imperial and Coachella Valleys with the Colorado River; and authorized the expenditure of $165,000,000 for construction.
Six of the States ratified the compact. Arizona declined.
According to Charles B. Ward, chairman of the Arizona-Colorado River Commission, "The reasons for Arizona's refusal to ratify the seven States' compact were (1) Arizona objected to the inclusion of the Gila; and (2) while the prior appropriations doctrine would thereby be destroyed between the two basins by the allocation of waters to each of them, yet it would remain in full force and effect as between California and Arizona, and that while the upper basin States had escaped the danger which they had feared by California appropriating a great amount of water through the All-American Canal that it intended to build, yet the same danger would still confront Arizona."
The authorization for the great damn listed the following purposes:
(1) river navigation and flood control; (2) irrigation and domestic water supply and the satisfaction of present perfected rights; and (3) power.
The act established a unique method of financing construction. It established a special fund designated as the Colorado River Dam Fund. This fund was to bear somewhat the same relation to the Treasury as a subsidiary might have to a parent corporation. To this fund the act authorized the transfer from the Treasury of $165,000,000.
A condition precedent to the construction was that the Secretary of the Interior should provide for revenues adequate to insure operation, maintenance, and amortization. These revenues were to repay, within 50 years, all advances for the construction of Boulder Dam reimbursable under the act, with interest. They were to come mainly from the sale of power to be generated at the dam.
The necessary contracts for the sale of power for payment for the great dam were speedily arranged and concluded.
The stage for the drama was now set. The engineers could go to work.
The Bureau of Reclamation had a job, which would draw to the uttermost on its quarter of a century of experience and skill.
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2008 Year in Review: Television
Unscripted television
So-called reality television is usually so over-the-top that
its representation of lesbian and bisexual women is typically far more
dramatic than what we find in scripted television. But the histrionics (both on
and off screen) surrounding the Grey's
Anatomy fiasco this season were hard to top. In fact, reality television
seemed almost tame by comparison.
Lisa Fernandes, Jenn Biesty, and Zoi Antonitsas of Top Chef Season 4
Back in June of this year, writer Malinda Lo reported that with the concurrent broadcast of Bravo's Work Out,
and Top Chef, Shot at Love 2 With Tila Tequila and
Logo's Gimme Sugar:
For the first time ever in television history, this week there are at
least a dozen lesbian/bi women on prime-time TV in reality shows on three
different networks….These women range in age from 20 to their late 30s, have
many different interests and personalities, and even represent some diversity
in race, with several Asian-American lesbian/bi women among them.
While the sheer volume of lesbian and bi characters supplied
by these programs was comforting, the quality of representation on the shows
varied wildly. Top Chef was easily the most benign of the group, but Jackie
Warner's Work Out was, for the third
season running, a hot bed of lesbian intrigue, betrayal, controversy and smack
Jackie Warner (left) and Rebecca Cardon of Bravo's Work Out
Similarly, Gimme Sugar
placed friendships between lesbian and bi women in the foreground, but with the
bisexual character taking more than her share of grief from her lesbian friends
simply for being bisexual.
The cast of Logo's Gimme Sugar
Of course, all of these issues seem insignificant when
compared to the Tila Tequila dating-show train-wreck, Shot at Love 2, which regularly employed trashy,
offensive, and hyper-sexual stereotypes about lesbians or bisexual women (or
heterosexual men, for that matter) in its hot pursuit of a mate of either
gender for its host.
Tila and her suitors
Other notable queer women in realty television in 2008
included Tabatha Coffey in her Shear Genius spin-off, Tabatha's Salon Takeover; Elina Ivanova
from America's Next Top Model (which,
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Have you seen those Pak'n'Save ads at the moment for bread under $1?
Pretty sweet deal eh?
The average cost of gluten-free bread in the UK is approximately three times the cost of regular bread, a trend comparable to New Zealand.
The stick man can kiss my glutey butt, because NEVER has pak'n'save or any other NZ supermarket made our glutey bread super cheap.
$7.99 for a loaf of gluten-free bread that's roughly half the size of regular bread is just outrageous.
My husband has a theory that food allergies are only for wealthy people, because poor people couldn't possibly afford to eat if they had food allergies.
He has a point.
So why is allergy-friendly food so expensive?
A couple of reasons ... allergy-free food has to be prepared and cooked in facilities that are allergy-free, and because of our small population and smaller allergy-free population, it's hard to get the same economies of scale you can get with regular food.
In relation to gluten-free food in particular, the cost increases also because gluten-free ingredients are expensive - wheat is cheap, especially when compared with gluten-free alternatives. Plus, unlike wheat, gluten-free mixes require additional ingredients to get the same stretchiness that gluten provides to wheat.
So what can you do to reduce the cost of eating allergy-free?
1. Get back to basics
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2. Buy ingredients in bulk
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There are subsidies available for people with diagnosed food allergies. Some of these subsidies are income tested, some aren't.
4. Look outside the allergy-free aisle
Many allergy-free foods aren't tucked away in the 'aisle of ridiculous expense'. There are many allergy-free foods mixed in with regular food, and they're half the price. Be sure to check the label, and if in doubt, contact the manufacturer.
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Totally agree on the pricing of GF stuff. I've had occasions where the person on the checkout counter at the supermarket refused to believe that any bread could be worth 8 dollars! I end up explaining to them why it was that expensive. That puzzled look on their face is priceless. :PReplyDelete
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The vaginal probing bill should scare everyone and anyone who opposes, well, rape. Sadly, there are some out there, at least in Virginia, who vote for rape. And there are some politicians, at least in Virginia, who say they will actually implement rape. The extreme right likes to pretend that it isn't extreme, that it represents the mainstream, and that the only people who are against personhood, vaginal probing, and putting aspirin between your knees as a contraceptive are Marxist Feminazis.
Of course, my being against personhood, vaginal probing and aspirin as birth control may actually strengthen their point.
But "pro life" Republican Meghan McCain's fear of the current misogynist trend among Republicans reminds us that the invasive vaginaphobes are the real extremists.
Yesterday, McCain went on the Maddow show and said:
"I'm pro-life. I'm not pro-vaginal probing. I feel like I have to go on television and delineate between the two things. I'm horrified by the bill as a woman, as a Republican woman, I'm horrified. It scares me that this can go on, it scares me that a woman can be vaginally probed without consent or a doctor's consent…. Vaginal probing is something that I've had friends text me about 'What does this mean. I'm not into politics but what does this say?' This is something that will penetrate [no pun intended, I assume] beyond politics…."
She then added that as a woman, "the idea of this regressing back to the 1950s and entering Pleasantville is quite daunting." I may not agree with Meghan McCain on abortion, or on taxes, or on anything else really (with the exception of marriage equality), but it's important to see that these extremists are not only extremists, but seen as extremists by people in their own party and even their own "pro-life" camp.
And McCain predicts that this extremism is politically toxic:
And I think this is completely radioactive for Governor McDonnell and I don't know why he would go in any forum and say that he would pass it. will alienate almost every single woman possible, especially independents, if he becomes the vice-presidential nominee And I do think it will make him a toxic candidate and apparently end his long dream of being a vice-president.
And it looks like McCain is right. The Virginia Assembly again delayed on the vote ultrasound sensing that it is too draconian to pass. And Governor Mcdonnell who had previously expressed unconditional support for the bill, promising to sign it once it got to his desk, is no longer so enthusiastic. The House is set to debate the bill some time today. It will be streamed here.


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Audio recordings from the 1971 General Assembly hosted by the Hamilton and Niagara Centres. The paper session, COCOCA report (and following discussion), and annual meeting were recorded.
Many Society members can be heard: Peter Broughton, Ken Chilton, Ralph Chou, Cyril Clark, David Dodge, Bob Doran, Doug Gies, Norman Green, Lloyd Higgs, David Hurd, Jack Locke, Richard McWatters, Dora Russell, Ernie Seaquist, Henri Simard, Peter Tattersall, G.A. Thede, Bob Winder, Robert J. Wood.
The 1969 GA in Toronto. J.H. Horning (l) and John Percy (r).
The 1969 GA in Toronto. A. Falk and Paul Moffat of the Toronto Centre are at left.
Main entrance at the DDO, possibly taken at the GA in 1969.
The 1969 GA in Toronto. John Percy speaks to the group.
The 1969 GA in Toronto, possibly in the Physics Department Lounge on the ground floor of the McLennan Physics building. Jack Heard is seated in the middle, smoking his pipe. The man facing the camera in the foreground may be R.M. Petrie who succeeded Heard as RASC President in 1955. The man with the beard may be Len Chester. The white-haired man behind Len may be Alf Scott, and he may be in conversation with A. Falk (with camera sling) and Paul Moffat. Rosalind Sundell is at lower left in the gold outfit (her back to the camera).
The 1969 GA in Toronto, possibly in the Physics Department Lounge on the ground floor of the McLennan Physics building. Ken Chilton is at the rear left. The seated fellow seen in profile wearing a bow tie is Malcolm Thomson. Jack Heard is in conversation with Malcolm. Jack and Ken both died in 1976. The face in the upper right corner may be Vern Ramsay. The woman at lower left is Rosalind Sundell.
The 1969 GA in Toronto. Ruth Northcott is in the print dress and behind her head are George Ball and his wife Rose. Jeremy Tatum (?) may be seen in the back row looking at his program. The young man with his right hand raised in the back row might be Rick Simon. Fred Troyer (?) at the back—2nd last row—with white paper on chest.
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A Bartlesville man who faces two counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child under 16 has waived jury trial and has been ordered back to court for a non-jury trial. Christopher Troy Thompson is accused of committing lewd acts with his 13-year old daughter. Thompson's next court date is September 17th. The charges were filed in October of last year.
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If I use Win-P, I can disable this display and my Optimus works fine.
I have tried this: Reset display settings for a monitor that is not plugged in?
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