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URBANA - Curb appeal makes a difference whether you are planning to sell or stay in your home for the long haul. According to researchers at Texas A&M, landscaping brings an average of 109 percent return on every dollar spent. Nancy Pollard, a horticulture educator at University of Illinois Extension, said that choosing native plants for the landscape can also improve your home's ecological value.
Whether landscaping your first house, sprucing up the front yard, or replacing a few overgrown plants, using native plants can save on water bills once they are established. Another important reason to use natives is that they provide food for bird, butterfly, and other wildlife populations.
The wildlife does not eat only the berries. Native plants support a huge network of life by providing food for caterpillars. Admittedly, this insect stage has gotten a bad rap, and we certainly don't want them in our cabbages. However, native plants that host them, such as oak, black cherry, or birch, are the grocery stores that mother and father birds depend on to feed their nestlings and fledglings, she said.
"Native plants are the primary food source for literally thousands of species of moths and butterflies, particularly at their caterpillar stage," Pollard explained. "Few native plants mean little food for the caterpillars of these insects, so that no matter how hard a pair of birds tries, they can't find enough caterpillars to feed their clutch of baby birds, and the babies don't make it."
Look around the landscape. If nothing has holes in it, nothing is able to eat there. A blemish-free landscape is effectively a food desert for wildlife.
Non-natives typically will support very few native insects. They gained popularity in the last century of landscaping when it seemed like a good idea to have insect-free foliage, but they do not provide nourishment for the local wildlife food chain.
"What native trees support the most butterfly and moth species? Oaks top the list," said Pollard. "They support a whopping 534 species of moths and butterflies. Native birds eat the caterpillars that eat the oaks, all without doing any significant harm to the trees. So plant an oak this spring."
Choosing native plants when upgrading the landscape can make a big difference to the sustainability of wildlife populations. Black cherries are a close second to oaks, supporting 456 species of butterflies and moths. Willow at 455, birch at 413, and poplar at 368 round out the top five on the native tree list, according to Doug Tallamy, entomologist and wildlife ecologist at the University of Delaware and author of Bring Nature Home.
Are you willing to live with a few holes in the foliage to feed backyard populations of insects and birds?
"Your garden of native plants can be beautiful, provide a good return on investment, and play a critical role in feeding native wildlife," Pollard said.


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Iainarm wrote:I think it would be good, but maybe with a rule so if your opponent has all of a continent, you can't nuke any of the territorries in that continent. That would help a lot, cause it would really suck if they could just wipe them all out without having to go through all your defenses...
nmhunate wrote:Speak English... It is the language that God wrote the bible in.
lackattack wrote:How about a simpler implementation of Nuclear Cards - without radation or wild cards.
You cash in a set, all 3 regions get reduced to 1 neutral, friend and foe alike.
It would definitely involve new tactics...
lackattack wrote:I think it should nuke yours as well.
You will know in advance which cards you have so you can evacuate beforehand!
karelpietertje wrote:well, except if you have two pair and your fifth card happens to be the card you have your big stack on
wow, I would definitely want to play this game
imagine freestyle speed. a big opponent is about to move into a territory you can cash in as a card.
the thrill it would give to crush his whole stack in a mere second, in exactly the right second
lack, fix it
Brann2006 wrote:so in a mather of fact this means that if you got a stack with all your troops... like 10000 troops, and you get a card on it and cash it, it still gets down to 1 grey and your simply 60 foot down under in the game?
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left work at 10;30 and headed to lake 2 man limit husky jerks 47 to 50 back wind blowing hard did not even use trolling motor just drifted pulling boards and had to put a sock out to stay at 1.4 to 2.0 same area previous post
Unable to fined black prism reef runners in the 800 series these anyplace. Called xtacke and there back ordered from may of last year. Does anyone know where I can these. looking to buy a dozen .
anyone know when walleye,bite.maybe back islands or western basen,thanks help anyone.
haven't been able to get out since the 4th but trolled between the turn around and nw west sister and did farely well. Black and silver and green and silver hot n tots were the hot colors 100 to 125 back, 1.8 to 2.3. several 26" to 28" and only 1 throw back. Has anyone been to that area since or did they all go to deeper water because of the heat?
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I'm a college kid who plays basketball at Northwood and am from Novi. I'm new to fishing Erie and I'm trying to get the hang of it. My dad doesn't know much about fishing but always goes with me and he is new to erie also. We are tired of driving down there and getting skunked so any help I get get from anyone would be much appreciated.
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For ink formulators, one possibility was to create water-based systems, which would accomplish the goal of reducing VOCs. The water-based inks have improved over time, and today, these water-based systems have had a major impact in a number of areas, particularly in flexo.
However, there is still room to grow. Water-based inks' future growth depends on what the EPA does, and whether printers are looking to change over to water once their incineration and capture and control equipment depreciates. Meanwhile, formulators are looking to improve the properties of water-based inks to reach into other segments of the market.
Water-based inks have made major inroads in the flexo packaging market. According to the National Association of Printing Ink Manufacturers' (NAPIM) 1999 State of the Industry report, water-based flexo inks account for 37 percent of the packaging market.
"Flexo has been the strongest market for water-based inks in the corrugated, folding carton, a lot of the paper market, multi-wall bags and low to medium film market, and it is continuing to emerge in the higher-end markets," said Chris Patterson, director of product development, packaging inks, for Flint Ink North America. "The flexo market grew up with water-based inks. As certain elements of flexo improved, so did water-based inks."
"There are certain market segments that are almost exclusively water-based," said Gerald McLain, marketing manager, packaging inks, for Sun Chemical Corporation. "For example, it is the predominant process in narrow web label. Other areas where water flexo is the primary process include folding cartons, plastic grocery sacks and department store bags, multi-wall bags, corrugated, and envelope printing.
"There has been significant growth in the usage of water-based ink in what I call 'the easy market': paper products, paper bags, corrugated products, both pre-printed ad post-printed, multi-wall bags, and polyethylene products such as grocery sacks and polyethylene parts bags, and milk cartons," said Darryl Sagraves, technical market manager for Sun Chemical Corporation. "Water-based ink have achieved a dominant position in these areas."
There is opportunity for growth in film laminating. "Water-based inks are used for both paper and film, with film growing at a faster rate," Mr. McLain said. "In film laminating, water-based inks are making gains, although many of the laminating printers have invested in incineration equipment. As these incinerators may need to be replaced, they may have to revisit these decisions. Water-based inks are very well suited for process printing for film, where the versatility and printability of the ink is very important."
In the future, we foresee real growth in the use of water-based inks for laminating purposes due to the protective nature of the laminating structures," said Mr. Sagraves. "The inks, which are sandwiched between the film layers, rely on the films to impart properties of gloss, scuffing resistance, and chemical and product resistances. Laminating bonds of water-based product are equaling or exceeding their solvent-based counterparts."
While there has been some entry into the gravure market, water-based inks still have made little headway. NAPIM reported that in 1999, water-based gravure inks held 5 percent of the packaging market. Still, water-based inks are making gains in traditional gravure areas such as gift wrap and folding carton.
"Water-based inks have been used in gravure for applications such as beverage and detergent cartons and gift wrap, but it really hasn't caught on," Mr. Patterson noted.
"Water-based inks have been explored for many applications for flexographic and roto-gravure printing," said Kent Shah, vice president and chief technology officer at Color Converting Industries. "Through decades of work, it has successfully transitioned many areas where solvent-based inks were used. However, there is limited activities in the areas which have been difficult to replace solvent-based inks without sacrifice, such as non-porous substrates and roto-gravure printing. Lately, water-based inks have made some inroads into folding cartons where solvent gravure and offset dominated the market."
Mr. McLain said that there is much room for growth for water-based inks. "Aside from certain niche markets, there are few printing applications that can't be done with water-based inks that are being done with solvent-based inks," Mr. McLain said.
Over time, water-based ink manufacturers have worked to improve their products, and have turned previous disadvantages into positives.
"The ink systems have matured and grown, and there's less of a difference," Mr. Patterson said. "Over the last 10 or 15 years, the improvements have been more noticeable."
"Early on, the advantages list was short and the drawback list long," said Grant Wishart, director of corporate services at Graphic Sciences, Inc. "The advantage list cited mainly environmental and safety issues. The drawbacks were typically difficulty of use, maintenance of ink, and limited substrates. The scales are now tipping toward the advantages side. We have overcome most of the issues, and are working on the few drawbacks that remain. We are fighting mainly notions now. Proving these notions wrong has been the focus of our efforts."
"There are still skeptics who remember the introduction of water-based inks in film many years ago, before corona treatment and surface energy were understood as well," Mr. McLain said. 'Film and inks have come a long way."
Aside from environmental issues, water-based inks have other advantages, such as stability and lower flammability ratings.
"Water-based inks tend to be more viscosity stable on press due to the slower evaporating nature of water," Mr. Sagraves said. "Water-based inks have lower VOCs and indeed can be formulated with zero, or near zero, percent VOCs on many paper products. Newer generations of water-based products are easier to clean up than their solvent counterparts; rinsing with a mixture of soap (or a mildly alkaline cleaner) and water will usually do a thorough job of cleaning water-based inks from press parts. Also, water-based inks have lower flammability ratings and many are non-red label products with such high flammability points that insurance restrictions are eased."
Drying times remain the most serious disadvantage to water-based inks, as print speeds are adversely affected.
"Print speeds are limited by drying speeds," Mr. Patterson said. "You have got difficulties with the laws of physics – water dries more slowly in comparison to regular solvent-based inks."
"They contain water, and water is not quick to evaporate from the printed film, thus slowing print speeds unless the press is equipped with adequate dryers," Mr. Sagraves said.
"Among the other reasons for slow progress for changing solvent to water, the most critical one is its drying speed," said Mr. Shah. "The ink film thickness of roto-gravure is much higher than flexo, creating demand on ink drying speed. This resulted in unacceptable productivity, especially in publication gravure where print speed can top to 2500-3000FPM."
There are other drawbacks. "Water-based inks are soluble in alkaline solutions and thus are restricted in uses around highly alkaline environments," Mr. Sagraves said. "Water-based inks don't have the resistance to frozen food applications as their solvent counterparts, although this is narrowing rapidly. Water-based inks do not wet and print smoothly on many difficult substrates due to the high surface energy of the water component."
Improvements in ease of use and performance have been critical in increasing water-based inks' market share.
"Our primary customer-driven innovations seem to embrace the 'user friendly' issues lately," said Mr. Wishart. "As our products become more user friendly, and we tackled more and differing substrates, the flexo market gradually became more receptive to water-based inks. For years the water-based ink industry has been playing catch-up with solvent-based systems that made 'ease-of-use' and 'good crisp printing' their clear advantages. As the industry watched water-based systems match the quality and reliability of solvent inks, converters' confidence rose and more jobs were converted to water-based flexo. Today, we are still focused on ease-of-use. This comes from our customers and continues to be the driving force behind our new developments."
Mr. Wishart said one requirement of customers is for pH stable water-based inks. "We have developed pH stable inks that do not need to be monitored for pH during the print run," Mr. Wishart said. Resolubility is another important area of research, as the inks cure as amines evaporate and resins revert to solids, even on the print deck. "Recently, due to improvements in the resins used, our inks are more resoluble than ever before," Mr. Wishart said. "This means the converters can run longer between wash-ups, thus improving output.
"Graphic Sciences will continue to make our products more user friendly," Mr. Wishart said. "Our inks and coatings will become higher performance and continue to close the gap on the solvent-based high-end performance issues."
"The quality of water-based inks continues to improve in the difficult areas, performance factors on the polyolefin substrates, in alkaline resistance, and in frozen food applications," Mr. Sagraves said. "In many areas, gloss, scuffing and printability, it is difficult to differentiate water-based inks from their solvent-based counterparts."
'The industry is also starting to see a gradual improvement in product resistance properties of surface and reverse printed aqueous products, specifically in areas of resistance to oils and greases, better resistance to heat applications, and better resistance to frozen food applications," said Mr. Sagraves.
"Our products must offer resistance properties once printed on the packaging," Mr. Wishart said, including resistance to water, crinkle and tape testing. "These resistance properties are inherent with most solvent-based systems. The water-based industry must struggle, invent and push the limits of our technology to gain those resistance properties. When our inks cure, they become resistant to these things. The longer they cure, the more resistant they become – to a point. If ink is allowed to cure on press, and it depends on how long the operators wait to clean up, they will undoubtedly encounter clean-up problems. This can lead to many other printing problems down the line."
Mr. Sagraves said that strong cooperation between ink manufacturers and their suppliers, press makers, film suppliers and other key companies could herald further innovations that would advance water-based inks.
"With a joint industry effort on the part of ink suppliers (better formulation), film suppliers (more water-receptive film surfaces), and press manufacturers (dryers equipped to handle the slow drying nature of water), water-based products may continue to grow in usage and offer the printer a viable choice for his VOC compliance programs," Mr. Sagraves said.
Government Issues
Ink manufacturers still see the government as the ultimate driver as to whether water-based inks will make a further surge in the market. Currently, there are pressures on the federal, state and local levels that indicate that there will be more environmental issues ahead.
"There's general pressure to reduce VOC emissions, and the EPA is ever tightening limits on ozone emissions, which ultimately translates into lower and lower allowable VOC emissions," said George Fuchs, environmental affairs manager for NAPIM. "That may translate into increased usage of water-based inks."
"More growth will come as there are more demands placed on printers and converters by federal, state and local governments," Mr. Patterson said. "That's really the driving force."
"There is constant pressure on the local municipalities to meet the government's ever more stringent environmental regulations," added Mr. Wishart. "The printers are constantly looking for ways to make their solvent-based printing operations meet governmental regulations. Most of these efforts center on processing the emissions from the solvent-based printing operations. Most common is the use of 'incinerators' which capture and incinerate the VOCs. Other more ingenious systems use microbes or bacteria that feed on the VOCs.
"Both of these methods rely on the efficient capture and delivery of the VOCs to a system that neutralizes them, be it by incineration or as food for the bacteria," Mr. Wishart said. "We feel confident that in the end it will make more sense to change the ink to a water-based system. The government seems to have less faith in the elaborate systems developed and will continue to tighten the noose. We are here, and actually quite active in the process of convincing the converters that we can switch them over to water-based inks with less trouble than the rumors have it."
Ultimately, it would appear that government regulations will indeed tighten. "It depends on the Clean Air Act and how strictly it will be enforced," Mr. McLain concluded. "Enforcement is only going to go in one direction."
While water-based ink have gained significant market shares in certain packaging segments, it remains to be seen whether it can reach into other areas. Still, the future of water-based inks depends on both further improvements in formulations and technology, as well as government regulations.
"Lead-based paint and asbestos were all good products at one time," Mr. Wishart concluded. "They still hold qualities today that we wished their present-day substitutes would have. We have made the decision however, that we could do without those qualities in light of the environmental benefits the new products provide. This, we believe, will be the fate of solvent-based printing. Some applications will always use solvent. It will never go away completely, but it will eventually lose its market share. "


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Door to store: Caring for your watercolours and paintings
Vicki Humphrey, National Museum of Australia
Door to store: Caring for your collection, 15 November 2013
Vicki Humphrey, Head of Conservation at the National Museum of Australia, shares best practice techniques in working with and handling watercolour and oil-based paintings.
Door to store: Caring for your photographic collection
Michelle Hetherington, Kerryn Wagg, George Serras, Jason McCarthy and Lisa O'Brien
Door to store: Caring for your collection, 9 May 2013
Learn about the importance of photos in the National Museum's collection and the best ways for managing, storing and protecting your digital and printed photographs at home.
Door to store: Caring for your collection of hats and shoes
Kerryn Wagg, Carmela Mollica and Michelle Newton-Edwards, National Museum of Australia
Door to store: Caring for your collection, 14 March 2013
Techniques for handling, storing and conserving precious textile objects, with demonstrations based on 1913-era hats and shoes, in conjunction with the exhibition Glorious Days: Australia 1913.
Photographs by Peter Eve
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Compleat Archaeologist: Mike Smith, desert archaeology and museums, 8 February 2013
Photographer Peter Eve reflects on an expedition into the remote southern Simpson Desert that he shared with archaeologist Dr Mike Smith. Peter praises Mike's ability to bring the buried landscapes and humanities of deep time to life.
Door to store: Caring for your collection of paper and textiles
Kerryn Wagg and Carmela Mollica, National Museum of Australia
Door to store: Caring for your collection, 11 January 2013
Our Museum conservators outline principles to help you care for your own items such as photo albums and wedding dresses. These principles include stable, suitable environmental conditions, good handling practices and correct physical storage for items.
Door to store: Caring for your collection of medals and trophies
Natalie Ison, Andrew Pearce and Peter Bucke, National Museum of Australia
Door to store: Caring for your collection, 16 November 2012
Listen to members of the Conservation team here at the National Museum give a practical demonstration on how to care to the special medals, trophies and silverware that you have at home.
Big objects and Museum Workshop: exhibition opening
Dick Smith, Shane Mortimer and Andrew Sayers
24 October 2012
This event launched two new exhibitions: the display of big objects from the Museum's collection in the Hall and Museum Workshop which showcases the work of three of the Museum's conservation teams.
Landmarks: behind the scenes with conservators
Ainslie Greiner, Carmela Mollica, Nicki Smith and Daniel Oakman
Behind the Scenes – Landmarks series, 20 October 2011
Following a background to the Landmarks gallery by Daniel Oakman, three of the Museum's conservators shared the techniques and process used to prepare, treat and install the Kenya station windmill, one of the Springfield dresses, and Phar Lap's heart.
The Big Wet: history, art, science and community in the Desert Channels
Mandy Martin, Libby Robin, Chris Dickman and Guy Fitzhardinge
22 October 2010
Artist Mandy Martin, historian Libby Robin and zoologist Chris Dickman join Guy Fitzhardinge from Desert Channels Queensland for an insightful discussion that explores partnerships, art and writings about conservation around our desert rivers.
September 11: Museums, spontaneous memorial and history
James Gardner, National Museum of American History, Washington DC
13 September 2010
James Gardner discusses museum responses to the spontaneous memorials following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US. He looks at tensions between memorialising, collecting and interpreting historic events. Also forthcoming in Grassroots Memorials.


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I have watched the news recently with sadness. I cannot imagine the suffering and stress that many of our fellow citizens are enduring today. Sometimes we wonder if our prayers are even heard let alone answered. And then a song by country/Christian band Diamond Rio played on the iPod shuffle today.
The title? God Is There.
Carrying the weight of the world
God is there
Where you think he won't come to
where he'll be waiting for you
God is there
I believe that with all of my heart. But we have a role in His plan. God uses you and me to be His arms and legs on this planet as well. I keep thinking about the slogan that the Salvation Army has on their website.
"We combat natural disasters with Acts of God"
I love that thought. We as the body of Christ commit "acts of God" by loving, helping and healing those who suffer from a disaster. My insurance policy outlines "acts of god" as a way to diminish liability. My understanding of God's Word is that we have increased liability when others need help
Some discuss natural disasters as God's judgment on an area or culture. I don't know. How God might distribute His judgment on mankind is WAY above my pay grade. Would He more likely judge a culture that is more secular and send natural disaster their way? Or would He more likely judge our nation that is overflowing with churches and gives only a fraction of our overwhelming wealth to the poor and hurting? I know how I would lean if I were in charge.
Rather than get caught up in the "why" I pray that I will be willing to commit an "act of God" whenever I see a hurting person.
He's reaching for you right where you are
The God of the impossible is never very far
God is there
In the middle of your night
In every single moment
In every single light
God is there
Yeah, I know it sometimes feels overwhelming when you see the vast needs and incredible suffering. But I can do something. Helen Keller once said, "I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do."
I spend too much time getting frustrated by the news instead of making a difference where I can. Maybe if we had been more intentional about "being" the Body of Christ the government would not have been tempted to do our jobs for us. I want the grace that God has given me to make my heart sensitive toward the poor and hurting and spiritually seeking. It is hard to spend much time in the New Testament and not realize our challenge to be the Body of Christ. Here is a very small sample.
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? (1 John 3:17 ESV)
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. (Hebrews 13:16 ESV)
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. (James 2:14-17 ESV)
And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself." (Luke 10:27 ESV)
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. (Philippians 2:4 ESV)
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:2 ESV)
The charge of hypocrisy leveled at the church has a lot to do with our obsession with sin management over living a life of grace and service. If I am not am not living out of grace then His arms aren't reaching as far as they could and people may think that God is not there.
What if I really cared? What if you really cared? Wouldn't it make a difference? There is one way to find out. That way is for us to take seriously that we are the Body of Christ and the arms and legs and hands of God. And then act accordingly. Straight talking James writes in the Book of James that "to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin."
I cannot argue that I do not know the right thing to do. My response will reveal my heart. And if I do the right thing perhaps I will help a hurting fellow sojourner know that God is there. We have a chance right now to reach out to those devastated by the recent hurricane. I urge you to contact the Salvation Army and help them commit an "Act of God."


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By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed the first two of President Barack Obama's stalled nominees since it stripped Republicans last month of their power to block the approvals with procedural hurdles known as filibusters.
On a mostly party-line vote of 56-38, the Senate approved Patricia Millett, a private lawyer who earlier served in the administrations of Democratic President Bill Clinton and Republican President George W. Bush, for a seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
The Senate then confirmed, on a 57-41 vote, Democratic Congressman Melvin Watt of North Carolina as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
"The Senate has ended the nomination paralysis that has blocked highly qualified individuals, like Congressman Watt, who are essential to rebuilding the middle class," said Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon.
"The FHFA plays a critical role in ensuring access to affordable home loans ... but has been stymied by not having a confirmed director who was willing to put in place aggressive policies," Merkley said.
Like Millett, Watt had been blocked by Republicans. They questioned the qualifications of this 11-term lawmaker, who Democrats embraced as a top nominee.
Republicans voiced no specific objections to Millett, but had argued there was no need to fill any of three vacancies on the D.C. Circuit.
Later this week, the Senate is expected to confirm up to 10 other judicial and executive-branch nominees, including a second D.C. Circuit nominee, Georgetown professor Nina Pillard, and Jeh Johnson as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Next week, the Senate is on track to confirm Janet Yellen as head of the Federal Reserve, and a third D.C. Circuit pick, Robert Wilkins, who now serves as a U.S. district judge.
Democrats, who hold the Senate 55-45, cleared the way for this confirmation parade by cutting from 60 to a simple majority the number of votes needed to end a filibuster against executive branch and judicial nominees - except those for the Supreme Court.
In changing the rules last month, Democrats accused Republicans of unprecedented obstructionism. Republicans fired back by charging Democrats with an unwarranted power grab.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell also accused Obama and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of hypocrisy, saying both opposed such a rule change when they were in the Senate minority.
"But then they did (it) — just as the president had vowed that 'if you liked your health care you could keep it,'" McConnell said, in reference to Obama's broken pledge on his administration's landmark healthcare program.
Democrats defended the filibuster rule change, saying it was needed to help fix "a broken Senate" and let Obama fill out his second-term team.
"I hope reasonable Republicans will join us in restoring the Senate's ability to fulfill its constitutional duties," said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat.
Obama's judicial nominees were a focus of the filibuster fight largely because the D.C. Circuit is considered the nation's second most powerful court, behind only the U.S. Supreme Court.
One of 13 circuit courts, this one handles issues involving the balance of power between Congress, the White House and the courts, and challenges to federal regulations, including those for such hot-button issues as health, finance and environment.
The court's current eight judges are split - four were appointed by Democratic presidents, four by Republican presidents. Obama's three would shift it to seven-to-four.
Republicans had blocked Obama's nominees to the D.C. Circuit, complaining that he was trying to "pack the court" to win favorable rulings. They also argued that the court's workload did not merit putting any more judges on it.
Democrats dismissed the charges, saying the court's workload is now more than it was when the Senate filled the 11-member court by confirming four of Bush's nominees.
They also said Obama merely wants to carry out his duty to fill court vacancies with top-notch nominees. His D.C. Circuit picks all received the American Bar Association's top rating.
The Senate this year confirmed 37 district and circuit court nominations. Fifty-two are pending.
Also awaiting Senate action are 189 executive-branch nominees, nearly half of them to Cabinet-level agencies.
Approval of the nominees may help Obama achieve some major second-term goals, such as enacting and defending tougher environmental and financial regulations.
Yet it remains unclear what impact the rules change will have on the Senate, dubbed "the world's most deliberative body."
Republicans will still be able to slow down nominees with a number of other tactics, including requiring up to 30 hours of debate on many of them.
They could also deny committees the quorums needed to report a nominee to the full Senate for consideration. But Democrats control all the committee and could end the quorum requirement.
The partisan fall out may make it even more difficult to find much common ground on legislation, little of which this highly unpopular and sharply divided Congress passed this year.
"The filibuster has had its problems. It's been a mechanism of gridlock and has stopped important and necessary appointments," said Abbe Gluck, a Yale law professor.
"On the other hand, the filibuster is a mechanism of deliberations. Sometimes there's a real value to slowing down," Gluck said.
(Reporting by Thomas Ferraro; Editing by James Dalgleish, Eric Beech, Andrew Hay and Jackie Frank)


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Making the Most Out of Your Wesleyan Experience: Selecting CoursesIn consultation with your faculty advisors, you are encouraged to select challenging courses that will expand and enrich your educational experiences and help you achieve your personal goals.
WESMaps: Your Guide to the Curriculum
The most efficient and effective means of developing an academic plan is through WESMaps and the Electronic Portfolio. During orientation, you are taught how to use these two tools to develop a coherent program of study and to register for courses online.
WESMaps is a Web-based view of the curriculum. This system provides information about the courses offered each semester. Each course entry includes a description, class schedule, prerequisites, general education designations, and the instructor's name. The organization of WESMaps provides a multifaceted approach to the curriculum that allows you to identify courses that have interrelated themes across departments and programs. Information about courses can be obtained by departments, programs, or the instructor's name.
WESMaps is the best way for you to identify those courses whose content, assigned capabilities, general expectations, and focus are of interest to you. Post the courses that you identify in your WesPortal so that your faculty advisor can assess them before meeting with you to discuss your goals for the semester and develop an academic plan.
WesPortal: It's All About You and Much More
As a Wesleyan student, you have your own personal WesPortal on the Web. It includes pages of academic information and plenty of space for you to add files, documents, and additional information. It also gives access to e-mail and provides some other tools like a personal calendar. Because it is Web-based, your WesPortal is available to you anywhere in the world. From the Wesleyan University home page at www.wesleyan.edu, click on WesPortal Sign-In at the top right corner of the page. It will bring you to the switchboard. Type in your Wesleyan e-mail username and password, and click Enter WesPortal— and you're in.
WesPortal is central to the advising process at Wesleyan. It was created to facilitate communication between you and your advisor and to give advisors the tools and information to most effectively advise you. It offers resources for you to find and explore your own interests and skills so you can get the most out of your time at Wesleyan. It is also the tool you will use for accessing online pre-registration and advisor authorization when you are signing up for classes. Here are some guidelines on how to use the E-Portfolio to get the most out of your meetings with advisors and everything that the Wesleyan curriculum has to offer.
Course Registration at Wesleyan
Continuing and non-resident study students participate in pre-registration during April and November. First-time students and students returning from leaves participate in January and August, just prior to the start of the new semester. Students make their course selection using the pre-registration (on-line) system and may adjust their course schedule during the in-semester drop/add period. For more information about pre-registration, please click here.
Drop/Add opens on the first day of classes each semester and is ten days in length. The drop/add system allows students to submit drop/add requests on-line. Instructors accept drop/add requests electronically and drop students who do not attend the first class meeting. Advisors are able to review and approve drop/adds electronically. An e-mail notification system informs students, faculty and advisors of daily drop/add activity. For more information about Drop/Add, please click here.
How and When to Withdraw from a Course
You may decide to terminate your registration in a course for any number of reasons, such as illness, family emergency, or an inability to fulfill the requirements for the course. To drop a course after the drop/add period, complete a drop/add form and obtain the signatures of the instructor for the course, your faculty advisor, and your class dean. Students have until a week before the last day of classes to determine whether they need to withdraw from a course. If you withdraw from a course, you will receive a W, which will be recorded on your transcript.
Please refer to the Office of the Registrar website and click on Academic Calendar for the current withdrawal deadlines http://www.wesleyan.edu/registrar/. A student who has compelling reasons to withdraw from a course after the deadline may submit a petition to the Operational Committee through his or her class dean.
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Environmental Commitment
Henry Ford Allegiance Believes in Being Green
At Henry Ford Allegiance Health, our mission is to lead our community to better health and well-being at every stage of life. We believe that being green is one of the ways we can care for the people of our region. That's why our health system is passionate about recycling and becoming increasingly conscientious about our use of a variety of resources.
Each year, Henry Ford Allegiance takes strides to become greener. Areas of focus include:
- Increasing energy efficiency
- Using water responsibly
- Properly dispose of hazardous and pharmaceutical waste
- Reducing natural gas and electricity consumption
- Promoting ecologically sound farming practices through our on-site Green Market at Henry Ford Allegiance Health, a year-round farmers market
- Supporting recycling and energy reduction initiatives like Smart Commute within our community
Achieving Energy Star Certification
Our Plant Engineering department has implemented numerous energy reduction measures and projects to help us achieve resource and operational effectiveness. These projects have reduced not only our natural gas, electricity and water consumption, but have qualified our health system for an Energy Star certification. Energy Star is an international standard for energy efficiency, created in 1992 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy.
In 2012, Henry Ford Allegiance earned a rating of 80 (out of 100) on the EPA energy performance scale. This indicates that the facility performs better than at least 80 percent of similar buildings nationwide. Buildings carrying the Energy Star service mark generally use 20 to 30 percent less energy than is required by federal standards.
Projects that contributed towards qualifying for the Energy Star include a cooling tower upgrade, thermo wrapping pipes, lighting upgrades and the installation of higher energy efficient pumps and motors.
Collaborating for Our Community's Good
By working together as an Henry Ford Allegiance team, and through our partnerships with like-minded businesses, we are contributing to our health system's ongoing financial vitality. We are also acting as good stewards of our capital and energy resources, which will ultimately benefit the community we are proud to serve.


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Dutch gaming-website InsideGamer.nl reports, that with a perfect review for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, and eight nearly perfect scores for BioShock, both titles will most likely duke it out for the title 'best game' ever. Read more below.
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''Two games of the same genre, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for the Wii and BioShock for the Xbox 360 and PC, could both try to end up in the list of the top 10 best videogames of all time. Both first-person adventures, and both pioniers according to critici, are getting nearly perfect scores.
BioShock has gained eight reviews, and the average is about 9,9 out of 10. According to GameRankings, BioShock needs only two reviews with a rate of 9,7 or higher to conquer the title 'best videogame to date'. BioShock would even beat The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - which has been on top of the list for years.
Metroid Prime's first review came from the North-American magazine Nintendo Power, which gives it a perfect score of 10 out of 10. Nintendo Power didn't even gave The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, nor The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, this rating.''
But they will give a hell of a time against Ocarina of Time and final fantasy 7 which i think are the ones most sites vote as the best games of all time. What is really syrprising is that they both are shooters.
This says it all:
"Metroid Prime's first review came from the North-American magazine Nintendo Power, which gives it a perfect score of 10 out of 10."
One review, of a Nintendo Power magazine...
While Bioshock got multiple 10's from unbiased sources and about what, 15 reviews already, giving it an average of close to a 10.
Be sure that Bioshock will top Metroid Prime 3. Probably also a good game, but not as next gen as Bioshock. You simply can't get it as good as that game on a supercharged Gamecube with the only upgraded thing the controller...
It's strange, but after watching the first hour of Metroid Corruption i'm more interested in this than in Bioshock. Looks fun!
I think i have to get mii a Wii now.
Hell no, Bioshock is by far a better game and "Nintendo Power" previewed the game lol.


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Joan passed away peacefully, January 21, 2013 with her family at her side.
She is survived by her husband of 59 years Primo Castagno, son
Michael Castagno, daughter and son-in-law Yvonne and Joe Solari, grandchildren Marissa Solari and Audrianna Solari, sister Vivian Gay, niece Kim Girardi and her husband Rick Girardi, and nephew David Gai, and a number of great nieces and nephews.
At Joan's request, private services were held January 28, 2013 with Father Luis Garcia officiating, at the Cherokee Memorial Park Chapel of the Flowers where she was laid to rest.


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You can use HTC Sync ™ to synchronize Outlook contacts and calendar or Outlook Express contacts, and web browser bookmarks between your computer and your phone. It also lets you install third-party Android applications, and bring your photos, videos, documents, songs, and playlists to your phone.
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If you have kids of a certain age you may well have seen the Young Ocean Explorers segments on What Now last year. Air NZ have also picked it up as part of their inflight entertainment package.
They are put together by Steve Hathaway and his daughter Riley. Steve has got pretty damn good with the underwater camera - some of the "Big Blue Back Yard" series is his work, and he has filmed for Discovery Channel and Nat Geo etc. A lot of the Orca eating stingray footage you may have seen is also his work (he was the first to film this.)
They have a goal of getting their Young Ocean Explorer series into schools.
Check out the website here: http://www.youngoceanexplorers.co.nz/
They are running a pre-order deal where you can purchase the book and DVD for $49.95 (incl. shipping in NZ) - saving $11: http://www.youngoceanexplorers.co.nz/products/young-ocean-explorers-book-and-dvd-delivery-end-of-february-2015
Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with Steves efforts on this or anything else. I just think what he and Riley are doing is great and we need more of this.


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"I go to bed with a designer every night and wake up with one every morning — but it's always the same designer," said British Prime Minister David Cameron during a brief talk at Number 10 Downing Street to mark the opening of London Collections: Men on Monday night.
The self-deprecating prime minister, who admitted he doesn't know anything about fashion, was referring, of course, to his wife Samantha, a creative consultant for Smythson. He said that earlier in the day she prepared him for the cocktail party: "She told me: 'You're going to meet really important people — don't screw up.'"
This story first appeared in the January 8, 2013 issue of WWD. Subscribe Today.
Cameron, who addressed a crowd that included Tommy Hilfiger, Tom Ford, Dylan Jones, David Gandy, Sandra Choi, Simon Holloway, Natalie Massenet and Claire Malcolm, also made a full disclosure about his outfit for the evening, which included a Richard James suit, Oliver Sweeney shoes and Marks & Spencer underpants.
"Probably more information than was needed," he said.
He gave the crowd a rousing talk about the importance of fashion to the British economy, said he wanted to manufacture more high-end wares in Britain and that the industry should go for gold.
"It could not have been a better start to the new year," said Massenet, the new head of the British Fashion Council. "The stage is set."
After the prime minister dashed off, the conversation turned to more timely topics — New Year's resolutions.
"I always want more time with my family," said Hilfiger.
Holloway added: "I need to find another jacket like this Prada one — I've gotten so many compliments on it tonight," he said of his double-breasted number.


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Entering just the fifth week of the 2013 season, the Green Bay Packers (1-2) already face the possibility of falling three games behind in the win column in the rough and tough NFC North.
The division leading Detroit Lions (3-1) have stormed out of the gates with three wins, including two victories in two tries inside the North. A third division game brings Detroit to Green Bay, where the Lions haven't won in over two decades and a span of 22 games.
The Chicago Bears (3-1) can also get a fourth win by defeating the unbeaten New Orleans Saints at home Sunday.
A three-loss Packers team would still be plenty capable of overcoming the three-win deficit, especially over a 12-game finish that features five more division games after Sunday. But the NFC North is once again proving to be one of the NFL's best divisions, and a home loss to the Lions would further complicate the Packers' quest of keeping the crown for a third straight year.
Here's five important questions that the Packers need to answer against the Lions in Week 5:
1. Is Aaron Rodgers Ready to Bounce Back?
Rare is the game when a majority of blame for a loss can be placed on the shoulders of quarterback Aaron Rodgers. One such case came in Week 3, when Rodgers tossed two second-half picks and then failed to engineer a late scoring drive as Green Bay fell in Cincinnati. The Packers quarterback finished the contest with a very un-Rodgers-like passer rating of just 64.5, his worst since October 2010. A week of mental rest and the potential of Detroit being without starting cornerback Chris Houston should help fuel a bounce back performance for Rodgers, but the Lions haven't made things easy on him in recent meetings. Over two games against Detroit last season, Rodgers averaged just 204 passing yards and posted a passer rating of 94.3. The Lions have also improved significantly against the pass in 2013, and they currently rank fifth in the NFL in opposing passer rating at 69.4 (down 22.3 points from 2012). There's no tangible reason to worry about one of the game's best players, but this is still an important week for Rodgers.
2. Will Nick Perry Finally Show Up?
For the first two weeks, Packers outside linebacker Nick Perry could claim the containment of mobile quarterbacks as the overlying reason why his impact as a pass rusher had been scarce. No such excuse was available in Week 3, as the statuesque Andy Dalton offered little in terms of pocket mobility. Yet Perry was still a non factor against the Bengals because he couldn't beat powerful right tackle Andre Smith with bull rushes, which currently represents his only move as a rusher. The former first-rounder has been strong setting the edge to start 2013, but he clearly has a long ways to go as a pass rusher. The Packers desperately need him to be better Sunday, as Clay Matthews is dealing with a hamstring issue that could limit his effectiveness. The Lions have also been surprisingly effective in protecting Matthew Stafford, who has been the least sacked quarterback in the NFL this season. This is a game where Perry finally needs to make an impact rushing the passer. His first nine professional games have been underwhelming.
3. Can the Interior Offensive Line Hold Up?
Through three games, the Packers have successfully dealt with Justin Smith and Geno Atkins, two of the game's most dominant inside defenders. The two combined for five total pressures but no quarterback hits or sacks, and neither was a game-changing force in the running game. The Packers interior offensive line will get another stiff test Sunday. Ndamukong Suh is having the best start to a season in his four-year career, and he leads all defensive tackles with 28 total pressures. For context on that number, consider that the Packers defense as a whole has just 38 total pressures in three games this season. Dealing with Suh would be difficult enough on its own, but fellow first-round pick Nick Fairley is another defensive tackle capable of disruption against both the pass and run. Overall, the Lions duo combined for 15 total pressures over two games against Green Bay last season. A reshuffled line of Josh Sitton, Evan Dietrich-Smith and T.J. Lang will have their hands full Sunday, and any failures in containing Suh and Fairley could have game-changing consequences.
4. Will the Packers Continue Winning on First Down?
The Packers are second in the NFL in first downs per game (23.0, trailing only Denver) in large part due to the offense's effectiveness on first down. Green Bay is averaging 7.26 yards on first down, which is best in the NFL and over a third of a yard more than the next best team. Also, only four offenses have a higher percentage of first-down plays covering four or more yards than the Packers' 53.5. Better production in the running game could help explain Green Bay's dominance in these situations, as the Packers are surprisingly second in the NFL in yards per carry (5.3) just a year after finishing a distant 22nd (3.9). Only the Philadelphia Eagles are averaging more yards per rush this season. The Lions will come into Sunday's as the NFL's best third down defense (10 of 47, 21.3 percent), which should put an increased emphasis on Green Bay winning on first down and setting up more manageable situations on third. If the Packers get behind the sticks against Detroit, the offense might have trouble staying on the field.
5. Is There an Answer for Calvin Johnson AND Reggie Bush?
Detroit made one of the more underrated moves of the offseason when it signed running back Reggie Bush to a $16 million deal. That money spent has already paid off handsomely, as Bush has accumulated 433 total yards (254 rushing, 179 receiving) this season despite missing the better part of six quarters due to injury. He's been a perfect fit for the Lions offense, and an ideal complement to all-world receiver Calvin Johnson. With teams dead set on taking away Johnson, Bush has made quick work of short-handed fronts in the running game and soft coverage underneath in the passing game. His presence has forced defensive coordinator to pick their poison in a way. One has to commit to taking away either Bush or Johnson, but no defense has successfully done both in a game this season. The Packers have been effective in stopping the run in 2013 (93.3 yards per game, 3.7 yards per rush), but Green Bay defense has also allowed opposing No. 1 receivers to catch 25 passes for 397 yards and three touchdowns this season. You also can't discount rookie Gio Bernard's 99 total yards (49 receiving) against the Packers in Week 3. It is difficult to envision Green Bay taking away both of the Lions' offensive weapons Sunday.
Prediction: Green Bay 34, Detroit 27 (2-1)
Zach Kruse is a 25-year-old sports writer who contributes to Cheesehead TV, Bleacher Report and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He also covered prep sports for the Dunn Co. News. You can reach him on Twitter @zachkruse2 or by email at [email protected].
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(UPDATE: If you are using SQL Server 2005 or above, there is a much easier and more efficient way to page your data.)
Here is a completely dynamic version of my paging technique in the form of a stored procedure. Just pass in a short SQL statement, the Order By clause, and the start row and end row you'd like to return in the resultset. The stored procedure then will process your SQL in the order specified and return only the rows indicated. It is based on the same principals I presented in my blog several months ago, in which the paging technique is described.
The basic idea is to process as few rows as possible; this means finding the starting point, and then returning all rows "past" that starting point until the desired number of rows has been returned.
The stored procedure is called "ReturnPage" and uses the following arguments:
A minor tweak in the code could allow for a @RowCount argument instead of @EndRow if you wish.
Let's start with some examples from northwind:
returnpage 'select contactTitle, City, CustomerID from customers', 'ContactTitle ASC, City DESC, CustomerID ASC', 1, 10
returnpage 'select * from Orders','EmployeeID ASC, OrderDate DESC, OrderID ASC',12,31
returnpage 'select * from [order details]','productID ASC, Quantity DESC, OrderID asc',30,45
And a couple of caveats / notes about this procedure:
I hope you enjoy and it works fine for you. It might seem like this routine is doing a lot of work to parse the arguments and generate the T-SQL to execute on each call, but it is all done on the server and the parsing is extemely quick since it requires no I/O or database access -- it's all just in-memory manipulation of variables.
Anway, like the other paging implementations, it's not perfect, but it is truly a 100% server side implementation and it will process as few rows as theoretically possible for a dynamically sortable paging solution.
Final note: if anyone is interested, please let me know and I can provide some more information about how this procedure was written and how it works. To keep the code somewhat compact, I'm sure it's not very clear. The algorithm to generate the WHERE clause was one of the more challenging ones I've written recently.
The original post describing the paging technique can be found here: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jeffs/archive/2003/12/22/672.aspx
CREATE PROCEDURE ReturnPage(@Select varchar(1000), @OrderBy varchar(1000),
@StartRow int, @EndRow int)
declare @ColList varchar(2000);
declare @Where varchar(2000);
declare @i int;
declare @i2 int;
declare @tmp varchar(1000);
declare @dec varchar(1000);
declare @f varchar(100);
declare @d varchar(100);
declare @Symbol char(2);
declare @SQL varchar(5000);
declare @Sort varchar(1000);
set @Sort = @OrderBy + ', '
set @dec = ''
set @Where = ''
set @SQL = ''
set @i = charindex(',' , @Sort)
while @i != 0
set @tmp = left(@Sort,@i-1)
set @i2 = charindex(' ', @tmp)
set @f = ltrim(rtrim(left(@tmp,@i2-1)))
set @d = ltrim(rtrim(substring(@tmp,@i2+1,100)))
set @Sort = rtrim(ltrim(substring(@Sort,@i+1,100)))
set @i = charindex(',', @Sort)
set @symbol = case when @d = 'ASC' then '>' else '<' end +
case when @i=0 then '=' else '' end
set @dec = @dec + 'declare @' + @f + ' sql_variant; '
set @ColList = isnull(replace(replace(@colList,'>','='),'<','=') + ' and ','') +
@f + @Symbol + ' @' + @f
set @Where = @Where + ' OR (' + @ColList + ') '
set @SQL = @SQL + ', @' + @f + '= ' + @f
set @SQL = @dec + ' ' +
'SET ROWCOUNT ' + convert(varchar(10), @StartRow) + '; ' +
'SELECT ' + substring(@SQL,3,7000) + ' from (' + @Select + ') a ORDER BY ' +
@OrderBy + '; ' + 'SET ROWCOUNT ' +
convert(varchar(10), 1 + @EndRow - @StartRow) + '; ' +
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Red to black wrote:I looked at Gary's thread and the replacement cap is sized very similar to the originala
Red to black wrote:I was asking for others opinions on this too
CrustyTV wrote:Red to black wrote:I looked at Gary's thread and the replacement cap is sized very similar to the originala
Actually they are totally different in size, I know as I bought some when Gary did and have the old 5n1 for actual comparison.Red to black wrote:I was asking for others opinions on this too
No worries, I'll take the hint and back off now
nuvistor wrote:If any doubt it's back to manufactures spec sheets, if the specs state it will handle the load then that's ok. Unfortunately the specs very often don't cover what you need.and then it's what you know work.
Large AC currents, will tend to warm the capacitor and can be judged if ok. Large spikes are different, it will just breakdown without warning, some mixed dielectric capacitors common in late 60's early 70's had high working voltage, 1000Vdc but did not like line timebases with the spikes, or across the mains supply.
If you have found a type that works then carry on, that's experience, otherwise use caution.
Red to black wrote:Cathy what those data sheets don't show is the duty cycle
Red to black wrote:nor dissipation rates
Red to black wrote:as I am not a circuit designer and only a (former) mender I can only go by experience and my training, now I could well be wrong as I have said already.
I suppose the only way is to suck it and see as we are also not privvy to Thorns original design criteria
Red to black wrote:Ps. similar general rules of thumb apply to the snubber caps in Switched Mode PSUs.
see, I am a mine of useless information lol
CrustyTV wrote:Well the proof they say is in the pudding.
I've had the set on for 15mins and the new flyback tuning cap is cold to the touch. I will leave it even longer but certainly I believe its more than up to the job.
CrustyTV wrote:Back to the matter in hand, after replacing the blown resistor R528, replacing C511 and reinstating the broken beam limiter earth to LTB. No change still on hoz lock. The tuner has all but fallen apart and may not be helping three of the selectors are locked in and one seems to tune but I'm not happy with it. I might see if I have a spare tuner in stock, then again I might just put this to one side.
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By Dave Sherwood
AUGUSTA, Maine (Reuters) - Maine Governor Paul LePage, a Republican, took a novel approach to the partial federal government shutdown instigated by conservative members his own party, citing it as proof states "cannot count on the federal government to solve our problems."
LePage last week declared a civil state of emergency in Maine in response to the shutdown — the first and only governor in the country to do so — pointing to the need to take action in the face of lost federal revenue.
The move, which grants the governor broad powers to temporarily suspend laws and regulations, left opponents uneasy and stood in stark contrast to Maine's more measured Senators, Independent Angus King and Republican Susan Collins, who helped broker the deal announced on Wednesday to end the debt crisis and the 16-day shutdown in Washington.
LePage, who enjoys support from the small-government Tea Party faction, has long espoused the need to reduce federal influence in Maine, a state dependent on federal grant funding for between 39 and 43 percent of its budget, according to a study by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Nearly 3,000 state employees receive paychecks from the federal government, the LePage administration said.
Last spring, LePage led Maine to join the ranks of 26 states with Republican governors or Republican-controlled legislatures that refused added Medicaid funding under the Affordable Care Act, President Obama's signature legislative achievement, claiming the uncertainty of long-term federal funding.
Now, LePage points to the shutdown as proof he was right. "As challenging as these times are right now, we must seriously question how beneficial it is to depend on the federal government for so much," he said in his weekly radio address.
But his declaration of emergency, which allows him to temporarily suspend state laws and regulations, was met with skepticism by Democrats and the state worker's union, which includes many furloughed employees.
"Paul LePage is the last person we should trust with unchecked power," said Democratic party chairman Ben Grant. Democrats had called on the governor to specify which laws he planned to suspend, but LePage refused.
Worker's groups feared the governor, who early in his administration made headlines when he removed a mural celebrating workers from the Department of Labor building, might wield his declaration to negate collective bargaining rights.
Opposition fears were deepened when Maine political blogger Mike Tipping on Tuesday released a recording in which LePage told a conservative woman's group that "we exercised the civil emergency, which means that their contract is null and void until after the crisis," a reference to union rights.
Maine Senate President Justin Alfond, a Democrat, said the statement had done nothing more than "breed skepticism and mistrust."
Shortly after the recording was released, however, LePage announced a breakthrough in negotiations and an agreement with the Maine State Employees Association over compensation and benefits during the furlough.
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PEORIA- Shaun Livingston will never get the really big money. That chance blew up with his left knee on that horrific February night in 2007, when the word amputate was uttered.
But after all Livingston has been through, the years of physical rehab and trying to prove himself again in the D-League and signing minimum contracts to play for bad NBA teams and three times getting waived, he has a three-year deal. Guaranteed opportunity.
And opportunity is priceless.
"The way I look at it," Livingston says, "I'm 28 years old, and I'm a walking example of what can happen. It can always be here today, gone tomorrow. This could be, potentially, my last contract. I'd like to play as long as I can and continue to compete at a high level. But you never know."
Livingston will be back in town this week to interact with kids at the Pride of Peoria Basketball Camp that bears his name, at Peoria High School, which he led to state basketball championships in 2003 and 2004. The message he imparts to them will include the usual fare about fundamentals and team play and hard work. But it's delivered with a different perspective now.
"The injury changed everything. Basketball, my outlook on life, everything," Livingston says. "The injury forced me to be more optimistic. The only way I really could go all in with my rehab was if I really believed I could make it all the way back. But I had to consider a life without basketball, and for that reason, it's helped my appreciation of the game. I appreciate every play, every moment I'm on the court.
"Sometimes I wake up and it's hard to go to the gym, but I appreciate that I can still do it. Every day is not a good day, not a positive day. I can be moody. But I have supportive people around me; my grandfather, my father. There will be bad days, but how do I respond to those bad days? I appreciate the opportunity."
Ten years ago, opportunity for Livingston seemed unlimited. Less than a month after high school graduation, he was the No. 4 pick in the NBA draft. No high school point guard ever has been selected so high. He was 6-foot-7 with a 6-11 wingspan, magic handles, uncanny court vision and that rarest of gifts, the ability to see plays develop before anyone else on the floor. He signed a four-year contract worth $14 million and went to work.
Fifty-four games into his third season, Livingston was becoming a star. He was starting at point for the playoff-bound Los Angeles Clippers, and scouts were invoking the name Magic Johnson when they spoke of him.
Then opportunity vanished in an instant. Millions since have watched on YouTube, where the grotesque explosion of Livingston's left knee lives forever. Livingston still refuses to watch it, just as he doesn't focus on the fact that the injury likely cost him more than $100 million in future contracts. What would be the point?
After missing the entire 2007-08 season in rehab, Livingston was released by the Clippers. He has spent the past six years proving himself, one step at a time. Seven teams gave him a shot. Six ultimately decided to go on without him.
With each passing season, Livingston's knee grew stronger. But he continued to harbor doubt about the durability of his knee, until a rigorous offseason of physical strength-building last summer helped him over that mental hurdle.
He signed a one-year deal with the Brooklyn Nets for the veteran's minimum — $1.2 million — and wound up starting 54 games, helping them to the second round of the playoffs. The Nets wanted him back, but with an aging roster and inner turmoil that led to the departure of coach Jason Kidd, there was uncertainty. Livingston didn't need more of that.
Along came the Golden State Warriors, an up-and-coming team that won 51 games last season and needed what Livingston can provide. He'll back up the Warriors' hot young guards, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, play along either one as necessary and easily step into a starting role if one gets injured. Although he's not the 3-point scoring threat that Curry and Thompson are, Livingston provides another dimension, as a playmaker on both the perimeter and in the paint, where he has developed a reputation as a solid post-up player.
For this, the Warriors offered two years guaranteed with a partial guarantee on the third year, with a potential payoff of more than $16 million.
"Most guys, their big contract is the one they sign after their rookie deal," Livingston says. "I missed that opportunity because of the injury. So I am getting paid in the latter part of my career."
But the bigger draw was the opportunity to be part of a franchise with serious designs on contending for an NBA championship.
"They gave me a chance to contend for a title right now," Livingston says. "It was too much to pass up.
"All these guys in The League, their No. 1 priority is to try to win a championship. Being able to just enjoy competing for a title … the playoffs are the most exciting time in basketball at all levels. It's what we all sign up for."
KIRK WESSLER is Journal Star executive sports editor/columnist. He can be reached at email@example.com, or 686-3216. Read his Captain's Blog at blogs.pjstar.com/wessler/. Follow him on Twitter @KirkWessler.


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Festival Support Appreciated
On behalf of the entire Spencer PRIDE organization, I'd like to thank all those who helped to make this year's Spencer PRIDE Festival a big success. To the Owen County Commissioners, town board, sheriff's department, and the variety of local government entities who have continued their tradition of being welcoming and supportive of our safe, family-friendly event in downtown Spencer. To the Spencer businesses who supported us through their sponsorships, donations, and participation at this year's festival, including: the Spencer Presbyterian Church, Groom and Board, Emerald Gardens, The Family Dog Glass Shop, PDubz Hobby, Amoz Anime, Jen's Piece of Cake, Juliebob's, Spencer Dairy Queen, Walmart, and the Owen County Democratic Party. To the White River Valley PFLAG, who provides a vital support service for the local community and who also helps to sponsor our event each year. Finally, a very special thanks for all of those people in Spencer and Owen County who supported our event through your attendance, participation, emails, phone calls, and letters of support. Your passion for the Spencer PRIDE Festival keeps it alive year after year and we look forward to the 2011 Spencer PRIDE Festival where we will be celebrating our fifth annual event! Thank you!
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Worrying lack of quality left for so early on.
Worrying lack of quality left for so early on.
RIP Philip Hughes - 1988-2014
The Wheel of Mediocrity | Compton, Root, Carberry, Robson, Trott, Lyth, Moeen, Hales, Duckett, Hameed, Jennings | The wheel is forever
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So many of my picks gone in the last 10 or so.
And it looks like Marcuss has won this already. Kallis, Shakib, Katich, Laxman, Philander, Yousuf etc.
Yeah it's pretty strong, but then again we thought that last time...
do you think people will be allowed to make violins?
who's going to make the violins?
forever 63*
Just doing a comparison of Round 3 of the draft in season one and season 2.
Season 1 (Round picked in Season 2)
Katich (3)
Woakes (1)
Hussey (2)
Chanderpaul (3 - retained)
Dilshan (-)
Clarke (3 - retained)
Haddin (3 - retained)
Smith (3)
Samaraweera (3 - retained)
Ramprakash (3 - retained)
Finn (2)
Rashid (-)
Mendis (-)
Davies (-)
Harbhajan (-)
Season 2 (Round picked in Season 1)
Herath (14)
Amla (1)
Vettori (2)
Mark Ramprakash (3 - retained)
Taylor (8)
Haddin (3 - retained)
Cummins (Not drafted)
Kohli (8)
Trent Boult (-)
Chanderpaul (3 - retained)
Clarke (3 - retained)
Samaraweera (3)
Graeme Smith (3)
Rehman (-)
Katich (3)
Dravid (3 - retained)
Make of that what you will.
So..is GIMP going for an English combo?
Want to be the online Don Bradman or Ian Salisbury?
Then join CW Cricket today. It's what all the cool kids desire.
RIP Craig Walsh (Craig) 1985-2012
RIP Hughesy 1988-2014
Played for England. Close enough.
Just like to re-iterate how much I hate you Spark. Screwed everything up
Looking at last seasons stats, wtf was the go with the bowlers seemingly being slaughtered for the most part?
Haha if team balance lets me I might trade you afterwards for Patto. Everyone wins.
Aren't that many good, established bowlers going around basically. Will be a little better this year but only a little since they haven't had time to settle yet.
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Selling or buying cattle? A cattle brucellosis, or "Bang's" test is still required for changing ownership of adult cattle in Texas, says Dr. Bob Hillman, Texas' state veterinarian. For many years, Texas ranchers and livestock health officials worked to eradicate cattle brucellosis, a bacterial disease that can cause cows to abort, deliver weak calves, or produce less milk.
"We have enjoyed Class 'Free' status for cattle brucellosis since February 2008, but testing is still required at livestock markets, special sales and private treaty sales, for at least two years," said Dr. Hillman. "This testing requirement is part of the national brucellosis program standard, and it assures that a state is clearly free of the disease and that we can quickly identify and deal with reintroduced or yet undetected infection." Slaughter testing surveillance will continue across the country for an indefinite period, to ensure that the disease is completely eradicated from cattle herds in Texas and other states.
Dr. Hillman noted that cattle which are sexually intact and 18 months of age or older must be tested prior to sale. The test requires a small blood sample from the animal, collected by an accredited veterinarian, or TAHC or USDA personnel. A chute-side test is conducted at livestock markets on sale days, with laboratory confirmation by the State-Federal laboratory.
For private treaty or special sales, an accredited, private veterinary practitioner can draw the blood sample and submit the blood sample to the State-Federal laboratory, where the test will be run. Cattle owners should allow at least four days for private testing, to allow for shipping the blood sample to the laboratory, testing of the samples and receiving the test results that will be recorded on the document that will accompany the animal to the sale.
"Texas was the last state to achieve cattle brucellosis free status, but there is no guarantee we can maintain this status, if we aren't vigilant," said Dr. Hillman. He stressed that the continued testing will identify potential cases of cattle brucellosis that weren't detected during the eradication effort. Brucellosis status can be lost, if two infected herds are detected within a two-year period. It is essential that we continue to follow the national standards for the brucellosis program. Montana recently lost its brucellosis-free status, due to exposure to infected wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Area, and widespread testing must be conducted to regain the ranking.
"Eradicating a disease is a livestock health victory, and that makes vigilance even more important now," said Dr. Hillman. "Don't risk buying infection. Ensure that the breeding cattle you buy have been tested."
Dr. Hillman also reminds cattle owners, especially those in the eastern portions of the state, that heifers should be vaccinated against cattle brucellosis, particularly if they will be used as breeding animals. Accredited veterinarians can administer the RB-51 vaccine to heifers between the ages of four and 12 months to provide lifelong protecting against the disease.


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Carolyn Mueller, 73 - February 07, 2014Carolyn L. Mueller, 73, of Sutherland passed away Friday, Feb. 7, 2014.
Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. on Friday Feb. 14, at Adams and Swanson Funeral Home in North Platte with the Rev. Duane Dunwoody officiating. Burial will be at Riverview Cemetery.
A visitation will take place on Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Adams and Swanson Funeral Home.
Mueller was born July 17, 1940, at Lewellen to Marvin and Edna (Grasz) Courter, and grew up at Keystone.
On Feb. 28, 1958, she was united in marriage to Lawrence L. Mueller. The couple moved to their family ranch north of Sutherland and resided there until 2001.
She was an "adopted grandma" volunteer at the Sutherland Public School and enjoyed many things including gardening, feeding birds and collecting chicken and kitten figurines, family members said. She also enjoyed yard sale-ing with her sister, Francis, and following her grandchildren's rodeo and fair events.
Mueller was renowned for her pumpkin pies, breads and "grandma's" cooking, according to family members.
She was preceded in death by: her parents, Marvin and Edna Courter; her husband, Lawrence; a granddaughter, Brittany Mueller; brother, Ernest Courter.
?Survivors include: her children—Lawrence "Buck" (Jane) Mueller of Gothenburg, Marvin (Janet) Mueller and Charlie Mueller, all of Sutherland, and Connie (Russell) Barnum of Stapleton; seven grandchildren—Ben (Mandy) Mueller of Adams, Levi Mueller of Gillette, WY, Lydsey Mueller of Gothenburg, Brandi Mueller of Joliet, IL, BoDelle Mueller of Sutherland, Bronc (Shannon) Barnum of Torrington, WY, and Clancey Barnum of Stapleton; two great-grandchildren—Hailey Phroper and Riley O'Brien; siblings—Nancy Waterman of Ogallala, Francis Pace of North Platte and Frank Courter of Lewellen; numerous other family members.
Memorials are suggested to the Sutherland Care Center, Sutherland American Legion Hall and the Sutherland Rural Fire Department.
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Oil is trying to rally despite the fact that Chinese manufacturing is showing a significant contraction. Perhaps the reason is that it increases the likelihood that the Chinese government, which has been putting the squeeze on the banks, will lighten up. On the other hand, maybe it was because the U.K. manufacturing numbers were stronger than expected. Despite the bearish fundamentals, oil continues to die-hard.
The HSBC's purchasing managers' index dropped to a stunning 48.2 reading that was even lower than the disappointing 49.2 May reading. The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing also showed that activity declined to 50.1 from the May reading of 50.8.
In The U.K. PMI, hit 52.5 in June, the highest level since May 2011 and up from 51.5 last month. On top of that the May index was revised from an originally reported 51.3. Yet according to MarketWatch "Unemployment in the Eurozone hit a record high in May, as the region continued to grapple with recession. The percentage of those out of work in the Eurozone was 12.1% in the month, up from 12% in April and a marked drop from the 11.3% recorded in May last year, according to EuroStat, which released the figures on Monday. The highest rates in the 17-country euro-zone were in Spain and Greece, with jobless rates of 26.9% and 26.8% respectively. Across the wider 27-member EU, unemployment was stable compared with April, at 10.9%, but down from 10.4% a year ago. Joblessness increased in 17 of the EU states and fell in 10, according to EuroStat. People less than 25 years old bore the brunt, as youth unemployment hit 23% in the EU and 23.8% in the euro zone in May, with Greece top at 59.2%."
Brent Crude is also getting some support on problems with the Buzzard oil field. WTI is getting support on a rising euro. But also we can see some report from the protests in Egypt. Reuters reported that "Millions of Egyptians flooded into the streets on the first anniversary of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi's inauguration on Sunday to demand that he resign in the biggest challenge so far to rule by his Muslim Brotherhood. Waving national flags and chanting "Get out!" a crowd of nearly 500,000 massed in and around Cairo's central Tahrir Square in by far the largest demonstration since the 2011 uprising that overthrew Mursi's predecessor, Hosni Mubarak. "The people want the fall of the regime!" they shouted, echoing the Arab Spring rallying cry that brought down Mubarak — this time yelling it not against an ageing dictator but against the first elected leader in Egypt's 5,000-year recorded history. Huge protest rallies continued late into the night in a mostly festive atmosphere."