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About Mark Hatfield, Governor, U.S. Senator
Mark Odom Hatfield (July 12, 1922 – August 7, 2011) was an American politician and educator from the state of Oregon. A Republican, he served for 30 years as a United States Senator from Oregon, and also as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. A native Oregonian, he served as an Ensign and Lieutenant (junior grade) in the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II after graduating from Willamette University. After the war he earned a graduate degree from Stanford University before returning to Oregon and Willamette as a professor.
While still teaching, Hatfield served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. He won election to the Oregon Secretary of State's office at the age of 34 and two years later was elected as the 29th Governor of Oregon. He was the youngest person to ever serve in either of those offices, and served two terms as governor before election to the United States Senate. In the Senate he served for 30 years, and now holds the record for longest tenure of any Senator from Oregon. At the time of his retirement, he was 7th most senior Senator as well as second most senior Republican. In 1968, he was considered a candidate to be Richard Nixon's running mate for the Republican Party presidential ticket.
Hatfield served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations on two different occasions. With this role, he was able to direct funding to Oregon and research-related projects. Several Oregon institutions, buildings and facilities are named in his honor, including the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in Portland, the Mark O. Hatfield Library at Willamette University (his alma mater), the Hatfield Government Center light rail station, the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government in the College of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University, and the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. Outside of Oregon, a research center at the National Institutes of Health is also named in his honor for his support of medical research while in the Senate. Hatfield died in Portland on August 7, 2011, after a long illness.
Early life
Hatfield was born in Dallas, Oregon, on July 12, 1922, the only son of Dovie Odom Hatfield, a schoolteacher, and Charles Dolen Hatfield, a blacksmith for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Mark's father was from Oregon and his mother from Tennessee. When Mark was five years old, his grandmother took over the household while Dovie attended Oregon State College (now Oregon State University) and graduated with a teaching degree after four years. She taught school in Dallas, Polk County, Oregon, for two years before the family moved to Salem, where she taught junior high school.
Encouraged by his mother, Hatfield's first experience with politics came at the age of 10, when he campaigned in his neighborhood for President Herbert Hoover's 1932 re-election campaign. In the late 1930s Hatfield worked as a tour guide at the new Oregon State Capitol Building in Salem, using his key to enter the governor's office, where he sat in the governor's chair.
From 1940 federal census, Mark O. Hatfield lived at Englewood, Marion County, Oregon, with his father, mother, and grandmother. The census was held on April 22, 1940. The family at the time consisted of:
- Head Charles Hatfield 52
- Wife Dovie E Hatfield 41
- Son Mark O Hatfield 17
- Mother Alice M Odom 65
While in high school, on June 10, 1940, when he was 17 years old, Hatfield was involved in a traffic accident that turned deadly. While driving his mother's car, Hatfield struck and killed Alice Marie Lane south of Salem as she crossed the street. He was not held criminally liable for the crash, but was found civilly liable to the family. The case made its way to the Oregon Supreme Court in 1943, with the court affirming the trial court's decision.
Hatfield graduated from Salem High School (now North Salem High School) in 1940 and then enrolled at Willamette University, also in Salem. While attending Willamette, Hatfield became a brother of Alpha Phi Omega and Kappa Gamma Rho, which he later helped become a chapter of Beta Theta Pi. In college he also worked part-time for then Oregon Secretary of State Earl Snell, where he learned how to build a political base by sending out messages to potential voters after reading about life changes posted in newspapers, such as deaths and graduations. He also sketched out a political career path beginning with the state legislature and culminating in a spot in the United States Senate, with a blank for any position beyond the Senate. Hatfield graduated from Willamette in 1943 with a Bachelor of Arts degree after three years at the school. While at the school he lost his only election, for student body president.
Hatfield joined the U.S. Navy after graduation, taking part in the World War II battles at Iwo Jima and Okinawa as a landing craft officer where he witnessed the carnage of the war. A lieutenant, he also witnessed the effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as one of the first Americans to see the ruins of the city (later, as Senator, Hatfield opposed arms proliferation and the Vietnam War). After Japan, he served in French Indochina, where he witnessed firsthand the wealth divide between the peasant Vietnamese and the colonial French bourgeoisie. After his discharge, he spent one year at Willamette's law school, but decided politics or teaching better suited him.
Hatfield then enrolled at Stanford University, where he obtained a master's degree in political science 1948. He returned to Salem and Willamette after Stanford and began working as an assistant professor in political science. During his tenure as professor, he built a political base by sending out messages and speaking at any public forum where he could get an invitation.
Political career
Mark Hatfield's career in public office spanned five decades as he held office in both the legislative and executive branches of Oregon's state government, including two terms as governor. On the national stage he became the longest serving U.S. Senator from Oregon and a candidate for the Republican Vice Presidential nomination in 1968. In the U.S. Senate he would twice serve as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and twice be investigated for possible ethics violations.
In 1950 while teaching political science and serving as dean of students at Willamette, Hatfield began his political career by winning election to the Oregon House of Representatives as a Republican. He defeated six others for the seat at a time when state assembly elections were still determined by county-wide votes. He served for two terms representing Marion County and Salem in the lower chamber of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. At the time he was the youngest legislator in Oregon and still lived at his parents' home. Hatfield would teach early-morning classes and then walk across the street to the Capitol to legislate.
In 1952 he won re-election to his seat in the Oregon House. He also received national attention for his early support for coaxing Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for President of the United States as a Republican. This earned him a spot as a delegate at the Republican National Convention that year.
While in college he saw firsthand the discrimination against African Americans in Salem when he was tasked by his fraternity after a dinner with driving their guest, Black artist Paul Robeson back to Portland, as African Americans were prohibited from staying in hotels in Salem. In 1953, he introduced and passed legislation in the House that prohibited discrimination based on race in public accommodations before federal legislation and court decisions did so on a national level. In 1954, Hatfield ran and won a seat in the Oregon State Senate representing Marion County. While in the legislature, he continued to apply the grassroots strategy he learned from Earl Snell, but expanded it to cover the entire state to increase his political base.
After serving in the state senate, he became the youngest secretary of state in Oregon history after winning election in 1956 at age 34. Hatfield defeated fellow state senator Monroe Sweetland for the office, receiving 51.3% of the vote in the November general election. He took office on January 7, 1957, and remained until he resigned on January 12, 1959.
For his first run for Governor of Oregon in 1958, the Republican Party opposed his candidacy going into the primary election. The large political base he had cultivated allowed him to win the party's primary despite the party's opposition. In the primary he defeated Oregon State Treasurer Sig Unander for the Republican nomination. In July 1958, after the primary election, Hatfield married Antoinette Kuzmanich, a counselor at Portland State College (now Portland State University). The marriage during the campaign drew some attention as the Catholic Kuzmanich converted to Hatfield's Baptist religion. The couple would have four children: Elizabeth, Mark Jr., Theresa and Visko. He continued his campaign for the governor's office after the wedding, but avoided most public appearances with fellow Republican candidates for office and did not mention them during his campaign, despite requests by other Republicans for joint appearances.
In the November general election Hatfield faced Democratic incumbent Robert D. Holmes. In the final days of the campaign U.S. Senator Wayne Morse, a Democrat, implied Hatfield lied in his trial regarding the deadly car accident when he was 17. This tactic backfired as the press denounced the comments, as did Holmes and other Democrats. Hatfield defeated Holmes, winning 55.3% of the vote in the election. That same election saw the Democratic Party gain a majority in both chambers of the state legislature for the first time since 1878. Holmes' defeat was attributed in part to the image and charisma portrayed by Hatfield and in part due to the campaign issues such as the declining economy, increased taxation, capital punishment, labor, and education. After the election, Holmes attempted to appoint David O'Hara as Secretary of State to replace Hatfield, who would have to resign to become governor. Hatfield appointed Howell Appling, Jr. to the office, and O'Hara challenged the appointment in state court. The Oregon Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hatfield on the constitutional issue, with the appointment of Appling confirmed. He was the youngest governor in the history of Oregon at that point in time at the age of 36.
In 1962 Hatfield had been considered a possible candidate to run against Morse for his Senate seat, but Hatfield instead ran for re-election. He faced Oregon Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton in the general election, winning with 345,497 votes to Thorton's 265,359. He became the state's first two-term governor in the 20th century when he was re-elected in 1962, and later became only the second governor up to that point in the state's history to serve two full-terms.
Hatfield gave the keynote speech at the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco that nominated Barry Goldwater and served as temporary chairman of the party during the convention. He advocated a moderate approach for the party and opposed the extreme conservatism associated with Goldwater and his supporters. He also was the only governor to vote against a resolution by the National Governors' Conference supporting the Johnson Administration's policy on the Vietnam War, as Hatfield opposed the war, but pledged "unqualified and complete support" for the troops. He preferred the use of economic sanctions to end the war.
Hatfield was a popular Governor who supported Oregon's traditional industries of timber and agriculture, but felt that in the postwar era expansion of industry and funding for transportation and education needed to be priorities. While governor he worked to begin the diversification of the state's economy, such as recruiting industrial development and holding trade missions. As part of the initiative, he helped to found the Oregon Graduate Center (now part of Oregon Health & Science University) in what is now the Silicon Forest in Washington County in 1963. A graduate level school in the Portland area (Portland State was still a college with no graduate programs at this time) was seen by business leaders as essential to attracting new industries and by Tektronix as needed to retain highly skilled workers. In lieu of the standard portrait for former governors, Hatfield is represented by a marble bust at the Oregon State Capitol.
Limited to two terms as governor, Hatfield announced his candidacy in the 1966 U.S. Senate election for the seat vacated by the retiring Maurine Neuberger. During the Vietnam War, and during an election year, he was the only person to vote against a resolution by a governors' conference that expressed support for the U.S. involvement in the war in 1966. At that time the war was supported by 75 percent of the public, and was also supported by Hatfield's opponent in the November election. He won the primary election with 178,782 votes compared to a combined 56,760 votes for three opponents. Hatfield then defeated Democratic Congressman Robert Duncan in the election. In order to finish his term as governor, which ended on January 9, 1967, he delayed taking his oath of office in the Senate until January 10 instead of the usual January 3.
Hatfield's re-election victory for governor in 1962 in a Democratic year made him something of a national figure. In 1968, Hatfield was on Richard Nixon's short list for vice president,[6] and received the strong backing of his friend, the Rev. Billy Graham. Hatfield was considered too liberal by many southern conservatives, and Nixon chose the more centrist Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew. Hatfield would later find himself at odds with Nixon over Vietnam and other issues, including a threat by Hatfield to reduce funding for the White House's legal department in 1973 during the Watergate Scandal, after Nixon had failed to use funds appropriated for renovating dams on the Columbia River.
As a senator Hatfield took positions that made him hard to classify politically. In the Summer of 1969, he had told Murray Rothbard that he had "committed himself to the cause of libertarianism." Rothbard remarked concerning Hatfield, "obviously his voting record is not particularly libertarian—it's very good on foreign policy and the draft, but it's not too great on other things", adding that "in the abstract, at least, he is very favorable to libertarianism." Hatfield was pro-life on the issues of abortion and the death penalty, though as governor he chose not to commute the sentence of a convicted murderer and allowed that execution to go forward. Although a prominent evangelical Christian, he opposed government-sponsored school prayer and supported civil rights for minorities and gays.
In 1970, with Senator George McGovern (D-South Dakota), he co-sponsored the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment, which called for a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam. In the 1980s, Hatfield co-sponsored nuclear freeze legislation with Senator Edward M. Kennedy, as well as co-authoring a book on the topic. He also advocated for the closure of the N-Reactor at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the 1980s, though he was a supporter of nuclear fusion programs. The N-Reactor was used for producing weapons grade plutonium while producing electricity.
Hatfield frequently broke with his party on issues of national defense and foreign policy, such as military spending and the ban on travel to Cuba, while often siding with them on environmental and conservation issues. Senator Hatfield supported increased logging on federal lands. He was the lone Republican to vote against the 1981 fiscal year's appropriations bill for the Department of Defense. He was rated as the sixth most respected senator in a 1987 survey by fellow senators. In 1990, Hatfield voted against authorizing military action against Iraq in the Gulf War, one of only two members of his party to do so in the Senate.
Sometimes referred to as "Saint Mark", Hatfield enjoyed warm relations with members of both Republican and Democratic parties. In 1984, columnist Jack Anderson revealed that Mrs. Hatfield, a realtor, had been paid $50,000 in fees by Greek arms dealer Basil Tsakos. Tsakos had been lobbying Senator Hatfield, then Appropriations Chairman, for funding for a $6 billion trans-African pipeline. The Hatfields apologized and donated the money to a Portland hospital. In 1991, it was revealed that Hatfield had failed to report a number of expensive gifts from the president of the University of South Carolina James B. Holderman. Again, he apologized. The Senate's Ethics Committee rebuked Hatfield for the latter, but cleared him of any wrongdoing for the 1984 incident.
His final re-election campaign came in 1990 against businessman Harry Lonsdale. Lonsdale aggressively went after Hatfield with television attack ads that attacked Hatfield as out of touch on issues such as abortion and timber management and accused the incumbent of being too closely allied with special interest groups in Washington. Lonsdale's tactics moved him even with, and then ahead of Hatfield in some polls. Hatfield, who had typically stayed above the fray of campaigning, was forced to respond in kind with attack ads of his own. He raised $1 million in a single month after trailing Lonsdale in the polls before the November election. He defeated the Democrat with 590,095 (53.7 percent) votes to 507,743 (46.2 percent) votes.
In 1993 he became the longest serving Senator from Oregon, surpassing the record of 9,726 days in office previously held by Charles McNary. In 1995, Hatfield was the only Republican in the Senate to vote against the proposed balanced budget amendment, and was the deciding vote that prevented the passage of the bill. In 1996 the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, a group he served on previously, granted him their Distinguished Service Award.
Senator Hatfield retired in 1996 after more than 46 years of political service, having won all eleven political campaigns he entered. During his tenure he gained billions of dollars in the form of federal appropriations for projects in Oregon. This included funding for transportation projects, environmental protection of wilderness areas and scenic rivers, research facilities, and health care facilities.
Later years and legacy
After retiring from political office, he returned to Oregon and teaching, joining the faculty of George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. As of 2006, he was the Herbert Hoover Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Politics at the school. Additionally, he taught at the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University, which is named in his honor, and lectured at Willamette University and Lewis & Clark College while living in Portland.
In July 1999, Hatfield and his wife were passengers on a tour bus when a car collided with the bus. He and his wife received minor injuries, but began advocating for buses to be required to have seat belts.
The Mark O. Hatfield Library at Willamette is dedicated to him, along with Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center. Other namesakes include the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland; Hatfield Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU); the Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness, Mark O. Hatfield Institute for International Understanding at Southwestern Oregon Community College; Hatfield Government Center station at the western terminus of the MAX Blue Line light rail; Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in Portland; the Mark Hatfield trailhead at the western end of the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail in the Columbia River Gorge; and the Mark Hatfield Award for clinical research in Alzheimer's disease.
From February 2000 to May 2008 Hatfield served on the board of directors for Oregon Health & Science University. His papers and book collection are stored in the Willamette University Archives and Special Collections, inside the Mark O. Hatfield Library. Senator Hatfield merited his own chapter in Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation.
In 2010, a group of filmmakers began production on a documentary film about Hatfield's public service.
Hatfield was admitted to the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research hospital at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland in November 2010 for observation after his health began to decline.[64] Mark Hatfield died at a care facility in Portland on August 7, 2011, after several years of illness. A specific cause of death was not immediately given.
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What I can say right now is that the IE800 is meeting, if not slightly exceeding expectations.. that's a very good thing. More thoughts coming later..
Nice initial first impressions, FlySweep buddy! I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of the bass of both TDKs (I think the BA200's bass is more visceral), but both are just right. The punch/impact, tighter-faster is head on! Now, the treble will get much better with burn in. I was listening to some jazz the other night (I forget who it was) and the cymbal rides and splashes had some of the most natural sound and timbre that I've heard in most IEMs. Drum strokes have the right reverb and echo (beating out the GR07 for me once burn in sets in). Again, a longer silicon tip gives me the best details and timbre (like the R1's long double-flange). Anyway, happy listening!

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FIFA and Putin Understand Each Other Very Well
byLast year the Kremlin published photographs of a meeting at which Gazprom, Russia's state-controlled energy giant, became the highest-level sponsor of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the organization that runs international soccer. There was FIFA President Sepp Blatter, alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin, Gazprom Chief Executive Alexei Miller, and Vitaly Mutko, who is both head of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Sport and a member of FIFA's executive committee.
Just a group of guys who like soccer, hanging out.
"That's a hell of a powerful network," says Alan Tomlinson, a professor at Brighton University's School of Sport & Service Management and the author of books and articles about FIFA. He believes that Putin understands FIFA in a way most other heads of state don't. "The Russian story," Tomlinson says, "is one of a planned, sustained, and resourced campaign to gain influence and affect people over a period."
It is unprecedented, Tomlinson says, for a government minister such as Mutko also to sit on FIFA's executive board. It is also, in theory, a violation FIFA's own rules. Mutko ran Russia's bid for the 2018 World Cup—and he also had a vote in the body that decided it.
Tomlinson lays out a timeline: In 2008, Russia created its Ministry of Sport, with Mutko at its head. In 2009, Mutko got a seat on FIFA's executive committee. In 2010, the committee voted on the 2018 World Cup. Putin also likely held secret talks with two-thirds of the executive committee before the vote. "Putin has charisma," says Tomlinson, "but he's not showing up at the last minute."
Contrast that with the effort that the U.K. put into a bid for the 2018 World Cup. Prince William, Prime Minister David Cameron, and prime footballer David Beckham flew to Geneva on a lobbying trip that the British press referred to as two toffs and a twerp. "The mystery to me is that some of those people believe they can make a difference by, say, a last-minute arrival and a pitch," says Tomlinson.
Peter Rohlmann of PR Marketing, a German sports marketing consulting firm, points to Putin's relationships with the International Olympic Committee and Formula 1, which will hold its first Grand Prix event in Russia this fall—in Sochi, of all places. Rohlmann also puts a number on Gazprom's involvement with FIFA. For a four-year partner sponsorship, the company would have had to pay between $80 million and $100 million. This kind of involvement makes bribery irrelevant. Who needs an envelope full of cash when a state-owned company is already a top-level sponsor?
And once a decision is reached, there's very little incentive for anyone involved in FIFA to change it. "My guess is that on the political side, once the FIFA executive committee has reached a decision, it is unlikely that any moral or humanitarian reasons can lead the committee to revoke that decision or have an influence on it," says Rohlmann. Sponsors issue periodic slaps on the wrist, but as consumer-facing companies, they have an interest in the markets that FIFA has been choosing: Africa, South America, the Middle East, and Russia. (For more on sponsor apathy, see Ira Boudway's Bloomberg Businessweek piece on the controversy around the 2022 Qatar World Cup.)
Even if FIFA's sponsors were to collect enough dudgeon to do something about it, the same opacity that drives the organization's decisions prevents any move to change its mind. Thirteen members of the executive board must agree to call a meeting. In other words, there's a prevote on every subject before it can even be put to a vote, in the same body that Putin already so ably lobbied. And FIFA President Sepp Blatter, literally referred to in the organization's internal documents as "supreme leader," decides what goes on the agenda. "I can't think of any definitive principle of how you would do this," says Tomlinson.
Sure enough, after I talked with Tomlinson and Rolhmann, FIFA released a statement on Friday morning:
"FIFA is convinced that, through football, particularly the FIFA World Cup and its international spotlight, we can achieve positive change in the world, but football cannot be seen as a solution for all issues, particularly those related to world politics. We have seen that the FIFA World Cup can be a force for good and FIFA believes this will be the case for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.


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People's Building, Rocky Mount NC
The People's Building was built in 1918 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, to serve as the headquarters of the newly formed Rocky Mountain National Bank. In 1934, the bank became the People's Bank and Trust and operated out of the building until the mid-1970s. From the late '70s until March 2000, the People's Building sat vacant. Self-Help Ventures Fund, the established real estate development arm of the nonprofit Center for Community Self-Help, acquired the property with the intention of converting it to office space for non-profits and small businesses.
The Property and Project
The 22,000 square foot project is located in the center of downtown Rocky Mount, a town of 56,341 people located forty-eight miles east of Raleigh. At five stories plus a basement and mezzanine, it is the tallest building in the Rocky Mount Central City Historic District. The scope of work involved cleaning and repairing the masonry and terra cotta exterior and installing a new roof. The detailed plaster ceiling and moldings in the first floor lobby were repaired to match the original plaster work. The upper floor corridors were restored to the original layout and a number of historic features were retained. These include office doors and terrazzo floors in the mezzanine and upper floor corridors. Additional work included installing a new elevator, and electrical, plumbing and mechanical systems.
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The equity generated from the use of New Markets Tax Credits was crucial to bridging the gap in the project's financing.
Preservation and Community Impact
Returning the formerly vacant People's Building to a productive use is an important economic development stimulus in a town where 20% of the population lives in poverty and 6.7% are unemployed. The census tract is eligible for the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) and its poverty, median family income and unemployment statistics meet the NMTC program's additional distress criteria. It is also a housing hot zone, a federal Enterprise community, a SBA HUBzone and a medically underserved area. A rehabilitated People's Building provides affordable, modern office space and will help invigorate the once-thriving business district of Rocky Mount. Furthermore, the project's anchor tenant, Edgecomb Community College, will provide workforce development services to the Rocky Mount area.


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April 26, 2007 – Erlanger, KY - Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., today announced that Kenji Fukuta will become the new president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas, Inc. (TMMTX) effective Tuesday, May 1, 2007.
Current TMMTX president Hidehiko "TJ" Tajima will return to Japan for his new assignment at Toyota Motor Corporation as General Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Affairs Division. As TMMTX's president since October 2003, Tajima successfully oversaw planning and construction of Toyota's sixth vehicle manufacturing plant in North America. In November 2006, TMMTX began assembly of the next-generation Toyota Tundra pickup truck.
Fukuta, who is a 20-year Toyota veteran, comes to TMMTX as former General Manager at Toyota's Tsutsumi plant in Japan, which produces the Prius, Camry and Scion tC vehicles.
TMMTX employs 2,000 team members and has the annual capacity to produce 200,000 Tundras.
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM) established operations in North America in 1957 and will operate 15 manufacturing plants in North America by 2010. There are more than 1,700 Toyota, Lexus and Scion dealerships in North America which sold more than 2.8 million vehicles in 2006. Toyota directly employs over 41,000 in North America and its investment here is currently valued at more than $18.6 billion, including sales and manufacturing operations, research and development, financial services and design. Toyota's annual purchasing of parts, materials, goods and services from North American suppliers totals more than $28.5 billion.
Toyota currently produces 11 vehicles in North America, including the Avalon, Camry, Camry Hybrid, Corolla, Matrix, Sienna, Solara, Sequoia, Tacoma, Tundra and the Lexus RX 350. By 2010, Toyota will have the annual capacity to build approximately 2.2 million cars and trucks, 1.45 million engines and 600,000 automatic transmissions. For more information about Toyota, visit www.toyota.com.
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Pope catches limit at Steamboat Lake
Marty Pope went fishing up at Steamboat Lake and caught his limit. He had a grand time fishing.
Full Belly Deli will be open this week
The Full Belly Deli will be open this week, stop by and see Robin and the gang.
Carrolls travel to Greeley to visit family members
Alice Carroll and family traveled to Greeley last Saturday to visit her family.
Valentine's Dance was held at exhibit hall
4-H members and others attended the Valentine's Dance last Saturday at the exhibit hall. The Hayden Critter Club sponsored the dance.
Middle school wrestling will begin March 1
Dallas Robinson is the coach for the middle school wrestling. Their first wrestling match will be Saturday with a Hayden tournament.
Thank you to goes outto elementary coaches
A big thank you to Mike Luppes and Brian Incitti for coaching the third- and fourth-grade boys and girls basketball teams.
Group goes fishing at Wolford Reservoir
Ashleigh and Bob Muhme, Dennis Hallenbeck and Jay May went to a fishing tournament at Wolford Reservoir on Saturday. They caught some fish, but not big enough to win any prizes.
Bowden attends Adams State for honor band, plays trumpet
Melissa Bowden went to Adams State for honor band and got first in her section, which was for the trumpet.
Group attends Festival of Winds in Wyoming
Adam Akers, Chris Suits, Kim Walker and Melissa Bowden headed to University of Wyoming Saturday to attend the Festival of Winds.
Nice weather best part of fishing trip
Richard Hallenbeck and Ashleigh Muhme took their dads fishing at Stagecoach last Wednesday. They didn't catch a lot of fish but enjoyed the sunny day.


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I just bought a 1977 Tanzer 26, and I love the boat. It's sound, but needs some TLC, but nothing major, mostly light aesthetic/cosmetic stuff. But first off, the boat doesn't have any sort of railing on it. The cushions have all been tossed, the V-Berth is bare and nothing to sleep on... etc. Does anyone have links to webpages or know of some stores I can goto and start buying stuff for the boat? I'm pretty good with searching online, but finding a place to buy stuff for a sailboat seems to be a daunting task for me lately. Where the heck do folks find parts, misc stuff, etc? Since the Tanzer company is no longer in business I can't just visit the manufacturers web page. I hit up some folks still doing some Tanzer stuff, but that's on hold right now. Anyhow, thanks in advance... Just looking for someone to point me in the right direction. Background: I used to sail the 55 footers many years ago with a crew, lots of fun. Haven't sailed anything larger than a 14' sunfish in 15 years. Want to get back into it, so I bought a less expensive boat on a lake to get my feet wet again, before I spent the money on a bigger ocean sailboat one day. Anyways, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. See you all around. Carter |
go to the Tanzer 22 yahoo newgroup. that group hosts a very active group of Tanzer 26 folks. ANY QUESTION you could ever ask about a Tanzer can be answered by the people and information posted in that yahoo group....
Re: Tanzer 26 - Need help finding... well... stuff
If you just need "stuff" you can go to the T-22 parts store:
tanzerboatparts.com (can't post links yet...sorry) Many of the extrusions, etc. were used on multiple models including the 26. |
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Let me just say that I hate, hate, HATE recorded ringtones. What is the point of hearing 5 seconds of a song sounds like it's coming through a broken shortwave radio? It's stupid!
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Cycling's once-golden boy Lance Armstrong may be ready to open up about his past mistakes now, but one of his former assistants says that the seven-time Tour de France winner was very purposeful about his actions during the height of his success.
"He made the mistakes, but there were guys behind the scenes who built him up, who sold that lie to the public," Mike Anderson said in a sit-down interview on Good Morning America Wednesday, Jan. 16. "It was a concerted effort to make a pot of money, and those of us who called him out were destroyed."
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Based on an objective and transparent analysis of our sustainable energy choices, we have come to the evidence-based conclusion that nuclear energy is a good option for biodiversity conservation (and society in general) and that other alternatives to fossil fuels should be subjected to the same cost–benefit analyses (in terms of biodiversity and climate outcomes, as well as sociopolitical imperatives) before accepting or dismissing them.Writer Barry Brook, who collected 75 scientists to endorse his paper, is interested in land use as it impacts flora and fauna. Biodiversity concerns do not get as much play as they might – and, when they do, it annoys many when land is withdrawn due to a specific lizard or weed - but it's an important factor in siting new buildings of any sort.
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To fuel one-third of the United States' 2050 electricity demand with nuclear power would require only 440 sq-km [169 square miles], according to the land use figures compiled by Brook.Solar:
If solar provided one-third of Americans' electricity in 2050, it would require just 4,000-11,000 sq-km [1500-4250 square miles].That's – a pretty big range and at least 9 times the space used by a nuclear energy plant.
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Powering one-third of the country's projected 2050 electricity demand with wind energy could take a land area spanning on the order of 66,000 sq-km… [25,480 square miles]And that's just gigantic, about the size of West Virginia.
NEI has tried the same exercise recently. Instead of of Jenkins and Brook's calculation of one-third of American electricity, NEI compares the space needed to supply 1000 megawatts, about the amount of a full-scale reactor. (A nuclear baseline makes sense for NEI, yes?)
NEI also takes into account capacity factor. This refers to the amount of electricity a plant actually puts out against its rated capacity, expressed as a percentage. Nuclear reactors achieve an average capacity factor of 90 percent, largely because they shut down occasionally for refueling. Wind farms, depending on location and other factors, have a capacity factor between 32 and 47 percent, solar arrays between 17 and 28 percent. (See the charts at the link for a more visual comparison.)
Does this give nuclear energy an advantage? You bet it does. Is it fair to consider it? Yes, I think so. Renewable energy advocates often ignore the whole capacity factor thing because it drags numbers down, but that's the nature of intermittent (solar, wind) versus baseload (nuclear, hydro) energy. If there's a big jump in battery technology (a big if), wind and solar will improve their capacity factors. Until then, the numbers are what the numbers are. And it will take more land to make up for them.
A 1,000-MW wind farm would require approximately 85,240 acres of land (approximately 133 square miles). Accounting for a range of capacity factors (32-47 percent), between 1,900 MW and 2,800 MW of wind capacity would be required to produce the same amount of electricity as a 1,000-MW nuclear plant in a year. The land needed for wind energy to produce the same amount of electricity in a year as a 1,000-MW nuclear plant is between 260 square miles and 360 square miles. A 1,000-MW solar photovoltaic (PV) facility would require about 8,900 acres (approximately 14 square miles).To be honest, if mischievous, you could make this comparison even better for nuclear energy. Consider that the five reactors now being built in Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee are at existing facilities. They take up no more land than has already been committed to the facilities. Almost all new wind and solar installations are new builds – of course, mischievous wind and solar folks have distributed energy installations in their camps (roof-top solar and the like). But let's just call this a minor factor withal – some proposed nuclear reactors could be in newly built facilities.
Accounting for a range of capacity factors (17-28 percent), between 3,300 MW and 5,400 MW of solar PV capacity is required to produce the same amount of electricity as a 1,000-MW nuclear plant in a year. The amount of land needed by solar to produce the same generation as 1,000 MW of nuclear capacity in a year is between 45 and 75 square miles.
The conclusion however you look at it is almost foregone: if you want a lot of cleanly generated electricity in a (relatively) small space, then nuclear energy is the way to go. As Brook points out, this could be determinative in places where land is at a premium or when biodiversity concerns rise in importance. In places like the U.S., it is, or should be, a factor in considering the mix of energy types. These may have started as exercises, but they reveal real issues to consider in energy policy.
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text: How Samsung Maybe Copied Apple's iOS Icons Just a Tiny BitMario Aguilar8/06/12 2:00pmFiled to: AppleApple vs samsungSamsungLawsuitsios239EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkOn day three of the Apple versus Samsung patent lawsuit battle to the death extravaganza, Apple presented some pretty convincing evidence that Samsung copied its trademarked iOS icons. Look at the contacts icon above. OK so maybe Samsung's icon is a horrible orange color and there are two binder rings instead of many, but it doesn't take a degree in graphic design to see that Samsung ganked it straight from Apple's drawing board. Throughout this trial Apple's done a very good job at showing how Samsung copied its ideas. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't, but either Apple has very good lawyers or Samsung's got some 'splainin to do. Check out CNET for even more icon doppelgangers. [CNET via 9To5Mac]


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I did what I could but the first and second rounds were within two weeks of each other and the people who plugged me in were all ex associates so not power names. I just went down a complicated path to do the calculation and got lost in the weeds until a strong prompt got me going again. I liked the people a lot so hopefully that was reciprocal.
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text: Meta Battle Subway PokeBase - Pokemon Q&A Login Register All Activity Questions Unanswered Tags Users Ask a Question Rules Chat Xerneas overpowering Yveltal and Zygarde? 0 votes Why Gamefreak make Xerneas to be so powerful that overwhelming with super-effective move and also super-effective type against Yveltal and Zygarde? I mean in previous generation Gamefreak always make it normal damage (not (super-effective and not-effective)), even Dialga and Palkia's steel and water move make it not-effective against each other along with Zekrom and Reshiram. Well, left Groudon and Kyogre, which is Kyogre had advantage type against Groudon. If I'm not clear. Please don't hesistate to ask me. xerneas super-effective types asked Nov 1, 2013 by KiraRia57 no? moonblast is strong against dragon and I ev trained mine in speed and could moonblast both whick would ko since it is super effective . Yes why would have a Pokemon legend that's SE (super effective) to the others including the fact so far fairy type has only 2 known weaknesses, as well as 2 would be too little 3-4 maybe. Also why yet other legendarys are equal eg Reshiram zekrom kyurem. Please log in or register to add a comment. Please log in or register to answer this question. 2 Answers 12 votes Best answer Good always triumphs over evil right? Is not that the saying? Benevolence wins out over destruction, and although both life and death are inevitable, life comes first and is on going, while death occurs only in an instance? Indeed. As such, it makes sense, that Xerneas, Life, is seemingly at the advantage to Yveltal, Destruction, although truly speaking the two are equal. As for Zygarde, Life, like death is chaotic, and going on the law of entropy, chaos always wins out over order, although order may at times be restored. It is also of my opinion that Zygarde is weaker than the other two legendaries as of know because, similar to Kyurem, it has yet to have need to awaken its true power. The reason Zekrom and Reshiram have a such a balanced relationship (equal stats with similar, fair spread, weakness to Dragon, resistance or Electric/Fire) is that they represent Ying and Yang, well specifically Truth and Ideals, seemingly contrary elements that are equal and interdependent. As such, their evenness is logical. Dialga may have the advantage to Palkia and Giratina because unlike Space and Substance, which the latter two represent, Time is not malleable, that is it is unaltered, continually flowing unimpeded. In other words, while it is relatively easy to change where and what you are, it is quite hard to change when you are. Finally, Kyogre having the advantage over Groudon would make sense. Why else would the world be covered mostly by seas, as opposed to land? This is a rather overly in universe take on the matter, but I hope this helps answered Nov 2, 2013 by Dudeicolo selected Dec 30, 2013 by KiraRia57 Respect, man. Is destruction really a bad thing though? I'm not buying the good vs. evil argument when there's Darkrai > Cresselia. :P Valid points to you both. evil will rule for a time but Evil never wins Neither good nor evil ever wins. It is an ongoing struggle with no end. When more people support evil, evil will win. But never will there come a time where every bit of good is destroyed, nor will there ever come a time where all evil is destroyed. It is up to humans to decide which side to take. exactly i mean that it seems that evil wins but good can never lose forever This. Deep. Time is just as "malleable" as space. the only constant is speed. Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote What are you talking about? Dialga obviously has the upperhand against Palkia and Giratina because Dragon does neutral damage to it, while its Dragon STAB moves will do super effective damage to Palkia & Giratina. Zapdos has the upperhand against Articuno and Moltres because of its STAB electric, Moltres > Articuno because of its STAB fire. Oh, and also the Golems; Registeel's Iron Head STAB is super effective against both Regice and Regirock, and also resists both Regirock & Regice's STAB moves. Oh, wait, then there's Darkrai, who obviously overpowers Cresselia, because its Dark STAB is x2 against Cresselia and the latter can't do jack against Darkrai. Then there's all the Dragon legendaries, not counting the Time/ Space trio, like Latias/Latios and Reshiram/Zekrom/Kyurem, who all have super effective moves against each other. So your point of Xerneas being overpowered... what, that it's unique? No, it isn't. answered Nov 1, 2013 by fondant Actually I'm talking about Pokemon Mascot okay? Also I said Dialga and Palkia's steel and water type move. Geez, you don't read the description? Also I said about Reshiram and Zekrom is about their Fusion Flare and Fusion Bolt move. Got it? So did you just ignore my point about the Golems and the dreams duo? And if you talk about "normal" damage, then doesn't Yveltal have STAB flying and Zygrade have STAB ground against Xerneas? The point about Dialga & Palkia was that it wasn't balanced like your Q said it was. Water is only x1/2 against Dialga because of its Dragon typing; steel doesn't resist Water. The Time trio aren't balanced because Palkia & Giratina's STAB Dragon moves are only x1 against Dialga, and they have no super effective STAB moves against Dialga either. Nor are the Tao trio "balanced", because Kyurem's second typing, Ice, is x2 on Zekrom, as well as its Dragon STAB. flying and ground are not strong against fairy The point was that they're STABs that will do neutral damage, so Xerneas doesn't completely overpower either of them just by typing. Please log in or register to add a comment. Related questions Is it only xerneas and yveltal or is it xerneas yveltal zygarde? What is the term used for the group of Zygarde/Yveltal/Xerneas? What is the easiest way to get a legit Shiny Yveltal/Xerneas/Zygarde? Is it likely that the shiny Xerneas and Yveltal Nintendo Network event will ever happen in Europe? Best item to use on Yveltal and Xerneas? Shiny lock on Xerneas and Yveltal? Soft-resetting for Yveltal/Xerneas? ORAS Pokemon: Xerneas or Yveltal? Useful Meta Posts Vote for Sun/Moon moveset questions How to change your username How to add a user avatar Why was my post hidden? The points system Question etiquette Flags vs Downvotes Anime FAQ


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The impact of the Austrian hospital financing reform on hospital productivity: empirical evidence on efficiency and technology changes using a non-parametric input-based Malmquist approach
The 1997 hospital financing reform has been supposed to reduce considerable inefficiencies in the provision of hospital care in Austria. This paper focuses on the changes in hospital productivity between 1994 and 1998, thus including three years before the reform and two years after the reform. Using Data Envelopment Analysis we calculated the input-based Malmquist index, which is then decomposed into indices of pure technical efficiency change, scale efficiency change and technology change. The results illustrated a considerably positive shift in technology between 1996 and 1998, whereas the intended enhancement in technical efficiency has not yet taken place. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000
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