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SEATTLE (AP) — Since Amanda Knox was acquitted of murder in Italy, she has tried to return to the life she knew before becoming an international media sensation.
But her effort to keep a low profile as a college student in her hometown of Seattle was upended Tuesday, when Italy's highest criminal court overturned her acquittal and ordered a new trial.
Knox said it was "painful" news after the trial showed the prosecution case was unfounded and unfair.
"My family and I will face this continuing legal battle as we always have, confident in the truth and with our heads held high in the face of wrongful accusations and unreasonable adversity," the 25-year-old said in a prepared statement Tuesday.
Italian law cannot compel Knox to return for the new trial. And family spokesman David Marriott said it's "very doubtful" that Knox will make the trip.
Instead, she will continue to attend the University of Washington, where she is a junior, he said. No public appearances were immediately planned.
Candace Dempsey, a Seattle journalist and author of "Murder in Italy," a book about Knox, was stunned by the Italian high court decision.
"Of course it's an absolute nightmare for her and her family," said Dempsey, who has talked with Knox since she returned to Seattle in late 2011. "I think we're seeing who she really is — that she's not the drug-crazed, sex-hungry American girl that the prosecutors have fantasized."
Knox has largely avoided the public spotlight and is mostly left alone in her Pacific Northwest hometown known for its rain, stunning water and mountain views, and polite but restrained residents.
John Lange, Knox's high school drama teacher, said he saw her last summer and she seemed good.
"She was happy," he said. "She seemed like she had gotten her good youthful spirit back, and was enjoying college, old friends and her family."
Amanda's father, Curt Knox, cited the statement by his daughter and declined further comment on Tuesday.
Asked how she's faring, he said, "I think it will be portrayed in the statement."
Knox grew up in West Seattle, a tight-knit neighborhood known for a slower pace of life than other parts of the city.
She graduated from the private Explorer West Middle School in 2001 then earned a scholarship to Seattle Preparatory School.
At the University of Washington, Knox studied writing and foreign languages and enjoyed rock climbing, hiking, camping and other outdoor activities offered in the Northwest.
Since her return, she has occasionally been seen with her boyfriend, a musician. But the local media largely leaves her alone, as do most residents.
"Having this renewed spotlight must be particularly unsettling," said Tom Wright, whose daughter attended high school with Knox. With parents and other people, Wright helped start the Friends of Amanda Knox group.
"Our group pretty much disbanded when she came home and if necessary we'll reconstitute ourselves and advocate for her again," he said. "Everybody who cares about this young lady continues to believe in her innocence, and believes the court will make the right decision."
Mark Waterbury, a materials scientist interested in forensic techniques, has been a Knox supporter and wrote the book "The Monster of Perugia: The Framing of Amanda Knox."
"It just amazes me that the system drags on for such a long period of time, when the case would have been thrown out in the United States long ago," he said. "It leaves the public without a positive resolution, so it leaves a cloud hanging over her head.
"It's as if the real goal all along is to destroy Amanda, and not to seek justice in any way," he said.
Knox's self-imposed silence could be coming to an end with the scheduled release late next month of her memoir. Her book deal with HarperCollins was reportedly worth $4 million.
Knox also planned to talk with ABC News celebrity interviewer Diane Sawyer in a prime-time special to be broadcast April 30 to promote the book, "Waiting to Be Heard."
ABC News spokesman David Ford said Tuesday the interview was moving forward as planned.
If Knox is convicted and Italy requests her extradition, it would be up to U.S. authorities to decide whether they will send Knox to Italy.
She previously spent four years in an Italian prison after an initial conviction in the case. She was acquitted on October 2011 by the appeals court.
Associated Press writers Shannon Dininny in Yakima, Wash., and Manuel Valdes in Seattle contributed to this story.


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Its a wiener world
Three best bets for hot dogs in the capital city
Hot dogs may just be the easiest, most accessible food around. Think about it: They're one of a few foods sold and eaten just about everywhere, from discount and hardware stores to ballparks, gas stations, street kiosks, and, of course, restaurants. They're cheap, they can be eaten on the run, and kids love them. People even argue over the best way to dress them up — in Chicago, the mighty dog is loaded with such toppings as celery salt, dark-green relish, tomatoes, and mustard and served on a poppyseed bun. On the East Coast, it's covered with steamed onions and yellow-mustard sauce.
However you prefer to dress your dog, there's no mistaking the popularity of this all-American food. In fact, Americans consumed about 20 billion hot dogs last year — about 70 hot dogs per person each year, according to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council. (The fact there is such an organization devoted to the wiener should tell you something.)
According to the council, about 38 percent of hot dogs are sold at retail between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Last year, approximately $614 million worth of hot dogs were sold during that period, 10 percent of them during July, which happens to be National Hot Dog Month.
So what exactly is in a hot dog?The ingredients in hot dogs have been the subject of endless jokes, rumors, and speculation. But the answer is really quite simple and not as scary as you might think, according to the council.Hot dogs are cured, cooked sausages consisting mostly of pork, beef, chicken, and turkey. Other ingredients include water, curing agents, and spices such as garlic, salt, sugar, ground mustard, nutmeg, coriander, and white pepper. If organ meats, such as liver and heart, are used in processed meats, the U.S. Department of Agriculture requires the manufacturer to display a statement to this effect on the package.
Here are a few favorites for flavorful franks in Springfield:
Cozy Dog Drive In (2935 S. Sixth St., 217-525-1992) The birthplace of the corn dog, founded in 1949 by Ed Waldmire, also serves up hot dogs, chili dogs, and other fast food. It gets points for atmosphere and the funky Route 66 memorabilia covering the walls. Inducted into the Illinois Route 66 Hall of Fame and named one of the "50 Great Plates in America" by USA Today, the business sells as many as 500 Cozy Dogs a day during the busiest months.
Coney Island(219 S. Fifth St., 217-522-2050) Springfield's second-oldest restaurant last year got a new address (moving across Fifth to a former Hardee's location) and a fresh coat of paint, but it still serves up old-fashioned charm. Gold-and-coral walls and glass light fixtures mix with antique oak booths. After a battle with City Hall and a pesky city ordinance banning neon signage on new buildings in the historic downtown area, owners Nancy and John Burton reinstalled the famous neon sign spelling out the restaurant's name, which has been a downtown fixture since the 1940s. The Coney Special, which comprises two dogs, hand-cut fries, and a drink, is a mainstay here, along with homemade pies, butter cake, and sandwiches.
Wienerdog (113 N. Sixth St., 217-744-3644) Owners Mark Anderson and Rob Deaton have been busy since the opening of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. The biggest seller at the tiny eatery, located across from the tourist attraction, is the Chicago dog — an all-beef dog served in a toasted New England-style roll and topped with mustard, deli relish, onion, tomato, pickle, cucumber, celery salt, and the all-important sport pepper. Other specialty dogs include the (Seersdog,) named for the hot dogs served with Cheez Whiz that many Springfieldians recall being served at the (Sears) store.
Dog dos and don'ts
Yes, you must follow the rules for proper hot-dog consumption — or risk being a wiener. Here are some recommendations from the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council:
Put hot-dog toppings between the hot dog and the bun. Always "dress the dog," not the bun.
Apply condiments in the following order: wet condiments such as mustard and chili first, followed by chunky condiments such as relish, onions and sauerkraut, followed by shredded cheese and then spices such as celery salt or pepper.
Serve sesame-seed, poppyseed, or plain buns with hot dogs. Sun-dried-tomato buns or basil buns are considered gauche with franks.
Take more than five bites to finish a hot dog. For foot-long wiener, seven bites are acceptable.
Put ketchup on your hot dog after the age of 18.

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Inmate and girlfriend indicted in alleged jail call fraudJAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
January 16. 2013 5:54PM
BRENTWOOD – A county jail inmate who is accused of impersonating a public defender so he could call an inmate at another jail was indicted along with his girlfriend for duping correctional officers using a three-way call, prosecutors said.
John Bouraphael, 33, of Danville and his girlfriend, Shayna Provencal, 24, of Andover, Mass. are facing identify fraud-related charges for calls made to the Merrimack County House of Corrections on June 1.
Bouraphael and Provencal are each facing a Class A felony, punishable by up to 7 ½ to 15 years in state prison, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Bouraphael, now in state prison, claimed he was public defender Anthony Naro when he called inmate Jacob Palo to talk about their enterprise of strong arming fellow inmates out of their canteen goods, according to Assistant County Attorney Michael Zaino.
Bouraphael was being held as a pre-trial inmate at the Brentwood jail, awaiting trial on drug charges when he called Provencal, who dialed up the Concord jail, punching in extension numbers under the instruction of her boyfriend, according to indictments.
When a corrections officer answered the phone, Bouraphael said he was Naro, and recited the lawyer?s state bar identification number to verify his identity, the sheriff?s department said.
Investigators have not said how Bouraphael?s obtained the identification number, but such information is regularly listed by defense lawyers and prosecutors alike on court motions.
Corrections officials moved Palo to another jail once they learned about the inmate strong-arming, investigators said.
Rockingham County corrections Lt. David Consentino learned about the ruse on June 19 while reviewing recorded outgoing calls placed by inmates.
Palo, 36, of Concord is awaiting trial on a litany of charges stemming from a Deerfield home invasion and cross-county police chase. He is expected in court on Thursday for a hearing in his case.
He faces no new charges as a result of the sheriff?s department investigation.
Bouraphael began serving a 15-month-to-four year state prison sentence on Aug. 15 after pleading guilty to one count of sale of a controlled drug and five counts of being a felon in possession of a weapon for keeping several firearms.
The sheriff'?s Drug Task Force arrested Bouraphael last Dec. 21 at his home after an investigation into his alleged marijuana business.
His latest charge came to light after the state Department of Corrections flagged him as a candidate for work release.


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Global Warming and Whipsaw Weather
Perhaps you've noticed that we've had a record-shattering heat wave across much of North America in recent months, whereas Europe and Asia have experienced an unusually cold winter. That's to be expected according to a new report on extreme weather published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The report points out that it's "very likely" that we've seen an overall increase in both cold and warm days (and nights) since 1950 due to global warming. Another recent study, published in Nature Climate Change, came to a similar conclusion, noting that the evidence for global warming as the cause of increases in heat waves and precipitation extremes is particularly robust.
Raise Your Glass to Water
March 22nd was World Water Day. Where is the world's water? You've likely heard that oceans hold 97 percent of it. That's true, but the numbers get even more interesting when you start to consider some of the less voluminous places where water resides. As this story noted, swamps hold four times as much water as the world's rivers (0.0008 percent versus 0.0002 percent); and the atmosphere holds more than both (0.001 percent). Want to learn about the blue stuff? A new 30-second animation based on data from the GRACE satellites is on display at Times Square through April 22nd. And though Gothamist suspects it may actually be a Van Gogh painting, NASA's Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio has a new visualization (below) of the ocean's surface currents that's going viral.
What's Causing Lake Poyang to Dry?
Poyang Lake in China has seen better days. Once China's largest lake, it shrunk to just a fraction of its usual size this winter. Scientists are working to understand exactly what's causing the decline in water levels, but an ongoing drought has surely played a role. The Three Gorges Dam, which is upriver, has likely contributed to the drawdown as well. Remote Sensing of the Environment recently published a study of data from the MODIS instrument that documents the dramatic fluctuation in lake levels between 2000 and 2010. The authors conclude Poyang Lake covered 3,163 square kilometers (1,220 square miles) in August of 2010, but only 714 kilometers (275 square miles) in October of 2010. (In recent months, the size of the lake has dipped to less than 200 square kilometers (77 square miles.) Overall, the scientists found the size of the lake has declined by about 30 square kilometers (12 square miles) a year.
When it Rains it Pours
Xin Lin and Arthur Hou, scientists based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, recently published a study detailing seasonal and geographical variations in rainfall across the continental United States. By analyzing data from ground radars and rain gauges, they found that although heavy rain events (greater than 10 millimeters (0.4 inches) of rain per hour) only make up up 2.6 percent of total events, they represented 27 percent of the total volume that fell between 2002 and 2009. Light rain events, in contrast, accounted for 65 percent of rain events and 15 percent of the total rain volume.
A Grandfather Speaks Up
James Hansen is sometimes called the grandfather of climate change science, but he also happens to be the grandfather of a pair of youngsters named Sophie and Conner. In the TED talk below, he explains how their birth helped spur him—a self-described "reticent midwestern scientist"—to speak out about the science he'd been studying for decades.


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Disclosure: The publisher of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 contacted me and offered a free/review copy of this book in hopes that I might review it and blog about it on one of my other blogs. That might seem like a potential conflict of interest. However, anyone that knows me (unlike the publisher) understands that I'd have no problem tearing this book apart in public or warning people away from it if it were a train-wreck or simply not worth the money.
I read lots of books on SQL Server. In fact, I'm probably the Imelda Marcos of SQL Server books in some ways – as I'm constantly collecting and reading them. To that end, there are a LOT of books that I could comfortably review in this blog – and which I might just do in the future.
However, I'm choosing to review Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook here because I think it's a great fit for anyone following this blog – which tries to focus on practical tips and guidance for SQL Server users.
And, the reason that I think this book is such a great fit is because of how well it's organized and written. As Brad McGehee (blog|twitter) outlines in the forward for this book, it's very hard to write technical books. Because when it comes down to it, technical books typically only take one of two common paths. Either they commonly focus upon concepts, techniques, and guidance – to the point where they're a great first/second read that helps people learn the basics, or they aspire to be the end-all-be-all reference for a given technology to the point where they strangely end up bloated and vapid (or free from the kinds of guidance, background, and insights that readers typically crave about a given technology when they're buying a 'definitive' reference on the subject).
The Best of Both Worlds: A SQL Server Cookbook
Accordingly, what's great about Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook is the way that the author, Satya Shyam K Jayanty, struck a solid balance between reference and guidance/concepts – by means of creating a cookbook.
And what I love about Satya's Cookbook approach is that this book contains a large set of carefully defined recipes covering a wide variety of administrative topics. Each recipe, in turn, has a 'getting ready' section (that's a stroke of genius in terms of helping set the stage for pre-requisites), a set of complex step-by-step instructions (that doesn't skimp on screenshots), and concludes a fantastic section called 'How it works' that describes what you just did and why – along with additional resources, guidance, and considerations as needed per topic or recipe.
As such, this SQL Server Cookbook strikes a fantastic balance between being a reference book – with its step-by-step recipes, and teaching basic concepts and best practices by means of describing what's going on and what to watch for or look into afterwards after each recipe.
Put quite simply, the organization of this book is pure genius – and I hope that this approach will be mirrored and copied by other authors as well as this book really does provide tremendous value by virtue of the organization that went into sharing these great recipes.
Some Minor Limitations
Of course, no book is without some kind of drawback or limitation. Happily though, this book is really free from any glaring omissions, problems, inaccuracies or 'scariness' that I've been able to encounter after reading and skimming through many of the recipes so far.
Instead there are really two drawbacks or limitations that I think really hinge upon the authors chose audience and due, probably, to his own experiences and background. Again, these aren't 'crimes' in my opinion – but are something to call out for anyone interested in this book.
So, for starters, this is NOT a book for beginners. Instead it's a book that targets DBAs and SysAdmins that already have a decent handle on SQL Server basics. If you're just getting started with SQL Server this book CAN help you learn things a bit better – but you might also choke on a few of the recipes in this book because it definitely assumes a basic familiarity and proficiency with core SQL Server concepts and techniques.
Similarly, many of the recipes in this book seem to take it for granted that you're using SQL Server Enterprise Edition. Granted, that's going to be the case for many readers – but there are also gobs of DBAs out there working for small-to-medium businesses who will find this book very helpful and valuable. I just worry that many of those DBAs might occasionally run afoul of getting excited about a particular solution only to find out that it won't work in their environment because it's treating a feature that only works on Enterprise Edition.
Finally, I do have one petty complaint – which is that as a cookbook (or reference book) the table of contents (TOC) for this book is 'buried' a bit too far into the book (it starts on/around page 16). This isn't a crime or anything and is likely due to a simple oversight, but I can't help but think that this book would be THAT much better of a reference if there were an abbreviated TOC on the front jacket cover with a full list of recipes closer to the front of the book. But, like I said, this really is a borderline petty comment or complaint about an otherwise excellent book.
Short Story
Yes, this is a bit off a lengthy review – but that's because this really is a great book. It was written by an experienced author who knows SQL Server well and it outlines some very practical 'recipes' that SQL Server admins can actually use in the real world. Furthermore, because of this book's step-by-step approach to addressing problems it will be a great reference for common/repeated tasks. But, because it also provides an overview of the basic concepts and techniques being addressed, it will serve as more than a mere set of rote instructions – making it an even more valuable reference or guide.
So, if you're looking for practical ways to learning about SQL Server and addressing common administrative problems, then this book is a great resource that is WELL worth the price as it's a resource that you'll find yourself using over and over again in a number of different circumstances.


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By JIM DAVENPORT
Associated Press
SPARTANBURG, South Carolina (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann got her Elvis Presley dates all shook up during a campaign stop Tuesday in South Carolina.
The congresswoman from Minnesota played the Elvis tune "Promised Land" at a local restaurant and told the crowd of 300 that she wanted to say happy birthday to the king of rock 'n' roll.
"Before we get started, let's all say happy birthday to Elvis Presley today!" Bachmann said.
But Aug. 16 is the anniversary of Elvis' death, in 1977, and someone in the crowd shouted back, "He died today!"
Bachmann didn't respond and launched into her speech.
She didn't miss a beat on the Elvis front either. As she signed autographs, she paused for a brief dance with one of her fans.
Bachmann corrected herself later as she spoke with reporters, noting the date marked Presley's passing, not his birth. He was born on Jan. 8, 1935.
"As far as we're concerned, he's still alive in our hearts," Bachmann said.
Bachmann has stumbled over cultural references before. In June, she kicked off her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, calling it the home of American actor John Wayne. The town was actually home for a time to serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
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Louisville Softball: Tucson Regional
The 2014 Louisville Softball team has surely seen its share of ups and downs. Here are the season results: started 5-6, won 7 in a row, lost 4 of 6, won 3 in a row, lost 4, won 8, lost 3, won 3, lost 2 then won 5 in a row to claim the AAC Tournament championship. I'm tired from just looking at the results. They compiled an 0-6 record vs the current top 25 as well. This team had 13 losses last year and 5 the year before, already surpassing the total of both years combined this year with a record of 36-20. I know it sounds like I am piling on but one thing I do know after watching several of the games in person (all of which they won) is that this team has firepower and heart. I know what you are saying….oh no…not heart, that's what they say when a team isn't good. Not in this case. On Friday as the unranked Cards take on the #23 LSU Tigers, the Cards will match up really well with the Tigers club. The Tigers are 35-22 on the year with a 4-3 loss in their conference tournament against #14 Kentucky.


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Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has teamed up with jazzy singer-songwriter Norah Jones to produce a duets tribute album to the Everly Brothers with a front-to-back remake of the duo's 1958 full-length, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.
Recorded over just nine days in Manhattan recording studio the Magic Shop with a small clutch of musicians, the album features a slew of country music standards by the likes of Tex Ritter and Gene Autry, allowing both artists to delve into worlds they don't generally visit at their respective day jobs.
"I think for the past 25 years, with my band, it was this constant building of chaos and this kind of beast that just grew and grew… and to sort of jump off that train for a while and just do something for the sake of loving the music and loving a project and there's no agenda attached or anything like that… I don't know, I loved it," Armstrong told Stereogum of the collaboration. "I loved working with Norah. She's great. She's an incredibly talented artist and I learned a lot and we… I don't know, it was good!"


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Disney Sing It presents a selection of karaoke-style challenges aimed at the whole family. Players can jam like a Jonas, make a melody with Miley, or play it coy like Troy with a choice of 35 songs from a variety of Disney's films, TV shows, and Hollywood Records recording artists including Camp Rock, High School Musical, Hannah Montana, Jesse McCartney, and Aly & AJ. As in 2007's High School Musical: Sing It, songs in this multi-property collection are accompanied by video footage from Disney films and television shows. Players can choose one of seven themed interface skins, based on their favorite featured Disney musical presentation. Songs can be sung solo or in a multiplayer duet mode, with additional options for "versus" and team play. For would-be teen crooners seeking to hone their craft, an involved tutorial section hosted by High School Musical's Olesya Rulin helps players train themselves to hit the right note at the right time, every time.
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Last year saw the debut of 3D TVs from major manufacturers, but one or two of the big brands lagged behind. Sharp, the biggest TV brand in Japan and maker of the LCD panels behind Sony Bravia TVs such as the KDL-40NX703 (to name but one of its customers), had an excuse for lateness; Quattron.
Updated to work on its first 3D TV, the Sharp LC-60LE925E, late in 2010, the technology sees its second generation on this 46-inch LE831 series TV.
For anyone who missed it, Quattron was a genuinely innovative attempt to take picture quality to the next stage. As the name just about suggests, Quattron is a four-colour system that adds yellow to the normal red, green and blue (RGB) mix in every pixel on a flat screen TV.
Four-play over, the Sharp LC-46LE831E has more to tempt in a relatively high-end package. Its chief attraction is 3D, for which Sharp favours active technology. That it's not prepared to sacrifice any detail by employing the potentially lower-res passive 3D tech is hardly surprising, considering its clear obsession with picture quality.
And while we're half expecting cheaper passive 3D sets to dominate the mass-market before long (more and more brands seem to be adopting it), the LC-46LE831E seems destined for home cinemas, and therefore can afford to use the more precise and pricier active 3D system.
Although the quality of the image suggests that a direct or full LED array is being used, that's not the case – it fooled us at first, but this is in fact an edge LED system.
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Feds want to kill some Yellowstone bison
Where tourists visiting Yellowstone National Park see a wildlife haven for free-roaming buffalo, a cadre of federal and state scientists see a reservoir of disease that threatens to spill into the outside world.
"Yellowstone National Park is a cloud hanging over us," says Dick Rath, a veterinarian from Bozeman, Mont.
Rath and his colleagues, including state veterinarians and the federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), want to inspect Yellowstone bison herds they say could spread brucellosis, the disease that causes livestock to abort their fetuses. They are backed by Montana Sen. Conrad Burns, R, who has introduced a bill that would require the Park Service to kill disease-carrying bison in Yellowstone.
APHIS and the state veterinarians have set l998 as the target year for completely eradicating brucellosis, a virus the federal agency has been battling since l954, when European cattle introduced the disease. That's ambitious, but reachable, according to Clarence Siroky, Montana state veterinarian. "You've got to decide that you're going to solve the problem and go in there and do that," he says.
Environmentalists and park advocates are not so optimistic. "It's time that they step back and revisit that l998 goal," says Tory Taylor of the Jackson Hole Alliance For Responsible Planning. "We're all working toward it, but this idea that we can totally eradicate brucellosis is a pipe dream."
Park Service spokesman Stuart Coleman says the virus is widespread and shows up in elk, moose and a few grizzly bears. "It's in the ecosystem," he says. "It's ridiculous to address bison and not elk." He's resentful of the way the scientists have bullied the issue. "Clarence Siroky singlehandedly pushed a rock off a cliff with this brucellosis issue," says Coleman. "He's set this whole process back several years."
To Siroky, the notion that elk could carry brucellosis is nonsense: "Somebody has yet to prove if the other animals are a problem," he says. But there are no known cases of bison transferring the disease to domestic cattle, either, according to the National Park Service.
Ranchers are caught in the middle. They recognize that APHIS holds tremendous power in its ability to give states a "brucellosis-free" designation. Ranchers in states with this status, such as Montana and Wyoming, can export their cattle and avoid an expensive battery of tests and possible slaughter of infected cattle. However, on recommendation from the state veterinarians, those two states could lose their APHIS designation.
"That would be unacceptable," says Mary Mead, an area rancher. Mead says ranchers regularly vaccinate their cattle with Strain-l9, a weakened form of the virus that protects cattle from average exposure to the disease. And ranchers already cooperate with the Park Service to keep their cattle away from the roving bison herds. "We've never had problems with brucellosis," says Mead. "It would be nice to have brucellosis-free wildlife but I think that's unrealistic."
The issue has taken on added fervor with Burns' bill, which would require testing of every bison in the park, and the neutering or destruction of every animal that tested positive for the virus. The rest would be quarantined for further testing. "The National Park Service has let this problem get out of control," says Dick Wathams of Burns' staff. "Nothing seemed to be getting done."
The Burns bill has drawn opposition. "It's a sledgehammer solution," says Stuart Coleman. "The bison deserve a little better than that. This is a simplified, naive approach."
After a meeting with Wyoming conservationists, Wyoming Gov. Jim Geringer asked Burns' co-sponsor, Wyoming Sen. Craig Thomas, R, to hold off on the bill until a solution can be reached through a cooperative interagency committee.
Pam Lichtman of the Jackson Hole Alliance fears that Burns and APHIS might be shooting themselves in the foot, making life more difficult for the people they propose to help. "They're doing it for the ranchers and I think they're only going to piss them off."


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I want to create a small program but don't know where to start. I have no programming experience but am generally pretty good at teaching myself things as I go.
I don't want to use Java since I have experienced problems running some java applications in the environment I want to use the tool in.
All I'm looking for at the moment is suggestions for languages to consider and possibly suggestions for certain topics or commands to focus on as I begin trying to sort this out.
I have tried with limited success to do this using html, but want to use it as a stating point for learning a programing language.
Here's what I want it to do.
-not require installation wizard (no admin rights to install)
-open at least six seperate applications (I want to be able to define the order they are opened in and have them opened in that order each time the program is run.)
-log into the applications (at least the ones that allow 'remember me' already)
-each application needs to open in a full size and seperate window (a limitation I ran into when I tried to do this using html)
-needs to have easy way to change password for the applications when needed
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Farewell to tears: A Libertyville High School Homecoming memory
After Annie was born 23 years ago with Down syndrome, I cried. A lot.
I cried because all the books we bought after her diagnosis were filled with scary medical, social, and academic problems she might have. I cried for all the things she wouldn't be able to do -- go to college, drive a car, have children or do any of the things that I believed make a life meaningful.
Back when I went to school, the "special" kids went into a separate class and never mingled with the rest of us. They seemed so different and almost foreign. My cute and cuddly baby's future seemed dark and scary.
Gradually, the tears stopped and life got busy. Since her elementary school practiced inclusive education, Annie was educated in the same regular classroom as her peers. Annie watched her classmates and worked as hard as she could to keep up and did well. By middle school, the classes got harder for Annie, and she spent more time in special education classes and by the time she reached Libertyville High School, she was in one of those separate classes for special kids, to my great disappointment.
Despite my concerns about her academic progress or lack thereof, Annie loved high school. One Friday in October of her senior year, 2008, Annie came home with a carnation and a wild story about being picked as one of the Sweet Sixteen for Homecoming. She was jumping with excitement and my heart was sinking fast. I remembered my own school days when, as a joke, the most unpopular kids would be nominated for some class office and everyone would snicker and laugh at their expense. I quickly called a friend at the school who assured me that yes, Annie was truly well-liked by many students and had been legitimately chosen by her classmates to be part of the Sweet Sixteen -- sixteen senior girls, one of whom would be elected Queen and crowned in front of the entire student body the following Friday. OMG.
When Coronation Day arrived, my husband John and I were bundles of nerves. We had spent the week talking to Annie about the fact that just ONE girl would be Queen and giving her advice about how to be a gracious loser. Yet Annie would have none of it. She kept telling us "think positive and stop harshing my mellow."
At the assembly, the sixteen candidates were each escorted across the gym to a stage by their fathers to a song each girl had selected. Annie chose Hakuna Matata from The Lion King. John basically followed Annie as she did her own little dance, waving and blowing kisses to the hundreds of cheering kids seated in the gym.
After the sixteen candidates were seated on a stage, the class president, accompanied by a sustained drum roll, held a crown aloft and strolled back and forth behind them teasing them and us for what seemed like an eternity.
When he put the crown on Annie's head, the gym erupted with cheers. The other candidates on the stage gathered around Annie, hugging her and smiling. Then the entire student body started chanting 'An-nie! An-nie! An-nie!' and once again I cried.
When the excitement finally ended after all the Homecoming Weekend festivities and I had time to reflect, I was left with two thoughts.
First, maybe, just maybe, if any of Annie's classmates are ever in a position to hire someone with cognitive impairment, they might remember Annie and give that person a chance. Because they got to know her as a real person, not just one of those "special kids" tucked out of the way.
Secondly, had I any inkling of what Annie's life would be like when she was born, I wouldn't have shed a single tear.
Today, Annie lives at home and works at the Great Lakes Naval Base helping clean and sweep up the galleys during the recruits' dinner shift. She's happy, employed and a taxpaying citizen. Isn't that what we all want for our grown children?
Ellen Jennings, of Libertyville, is a mother of two and the teen librarian at Cook Park Library in Libertyville.
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By Laura Zuckerman
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A veteran smokejumper for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has died after parachuting from a plane during a training exercise in Idaho, the first such accident in 13 years, an agency spokesman said on Saturday.
It was unclear if an equipment flaw, medical emergency or weather conditions caused the death on Friday of Mark Urban, 40, of Boise, said Bureau of Land Management spokesman Ken Frederick.
Urban was one of a team of highly skilled federal firefighters jumping from a plane about 45 miles east of Boise in an exercise designed to maintain their parachuting proficiency, Frederick said.
Urban was the second firefighter to jump out of the aircraft during the practice "when something - we don't know what - went wrong," he said.
An investigation of the incident by U.S. fire managers was under way, he said.
A paramedic pronounced Urban dead near a landing site outside the agricultural community of Prairie, Idaho.
It was the first fatal accident in 13 years involving a Bureau of Land Management smokejumper engaged in a proficiency drill. In 2000, an agency smokejumper leaped from a plane to his death in Alaska after his parachute malfunctioned, Frederick said.
The incident on Friday brings to 33 the number of U.S. wildland firefighters who have died on the job so far this year.
Urban was a 10-year veteran and trainer with a bureau base in Boise with roughly 80 smokejumpers, who parachute into remote and rugged terrain to fight fires. The 450 smokejumpers with the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service are seasonally required to parachute from planes at least once every two weeks to hone their skills.
Urban had tallied 324 jumps, including 102 into fires, since joining the Great Basin Smokejumpers in 2003.
"It's tragic. He was a very popular and well-respected member of the crew and everyone has been hit hard by his death," he said.
(Reporting by Laura Zuckerman, Editing by Jane Sutton and Paul Simao)


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How To Make Rice Pudding Recipes
Kheer Recipe (Indian Rice Pudding)
Kheer is saffron-flavored rice pudding. The difference from the Western version is that the ratio of rice to milk is a lot lower. Only a few handfuls of rice grains are needed. The rice is simmered in a large quantity of milk until the grains burst and become very starchy.
Add a little sweetener and the dish is almost done. The last touch is saffron, which gives that beautiful yellow hut to the rice pudding.
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Ginger Rice Pudding Recipe
The last time I made mango rice pudding, the little one of the family (she's only 6 years old) complained that she didn't get any. I promised her I'd make some more the following day but I kept forgetting. I finally had time to make some rice pudding today, which I flavored with fresh ginger. Ginger is a very versatile ingredient that can flavor either drinks, savory dishes or desserts.
If you want to serve this at the end of a dinner party, I would recommend using tuile bowls filled with a layer of ginger chocolate mousse and topped with the ginger rice pudding. It's a great way to serve traditional family desserts and turn them into elegant desserts.
In case you were wondering, I made sure everyone got their fair share of rice pudding this time. That means I'm going to have to find a new excuse the next time I have a craving for rice pudding!
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Mango Rice Pudding Recipe
Today, there were no eggs, fresh fruit or flour in the kitchen. I was able to find sugar, a can of Alphonso mango purée, sweet Asian rice and a few cups of milk. Rice pudding is my go-to dessert whenever my pantry is running on empty, and I found just the right set of ingredients to make a batch to satisfy my sweet tooth.
First, I boiled the rice in water, drained it and slowly cooked it in milk until tender. Once the rice was cooked, I sweetened and flavored it with the delicious mango purée. I couldn't stop there, so I finished the rice pudding with a little crème fraîche for extra creaminess and created a sugar crust, crème brûlée-style. All I can say is, yum!
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Seeing as cvsup isn't working with aur yet, I made a little script to download the entire set of aur package directories... yeah, it takes a long time... it's using HTTP and scraping apache's directory listing format... but it works...
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Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center has appointed Kenneth Hatton as director of environmental services, effective Feb. 25.
Hatton holds an Associate of Occupational Science degree in business administration management from Bryant & Stratton College. He has more than 20 years of health care facility-based environmental services experience and most recently served as senior environmental services supervisor at Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo.
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Goodness, where to begin? Even though our issues started three weeks ago, we worked through your LG online customer service Live Chat and used one of the three LG authorized service companies recommended for our area. New Life Appliance in Laguna Niguel. After three weeks of very poor customer service from them, they came back to us saying our fridge was not repairable and that they would work with LG to get a replacement fridge out ASAP. The seal systems were shot and even if LG repaired them they would break again in a year (if they lasted that long).
Well, that never happened because the next day the LG referred service center said they were not able to deal with the warranty department although they have been complaining to LG for months about the issue. New Life Appliance told us we need to contact a new service center to come out and start the whole process over again. Ok, I contacted LG live chat again, very frustrated. After a 30 minute live chat with LG last night, they promised a factory tech would be to our place this morning 10/06/2015 between 8-12 and that we were first on the priority list (here is our reference number **).
I also have all of that documented in the Live chat that I saved.. BY 12:30 this morning and no call or email -- we were pretty perturbed. This time, my husband called the 800 number to talk to someone regarding our experience and to find out when a tech would be arriving. He was then told that our appointment was bumped to 3-5 pm because they were busy. So, we took the morning off thinking we were first in line and then get no showed and then find out we need to continue to wait until 5 pm. No call, no email, no nothing.
On that phone call, my husband asked to speak to a manager. He explained what New Life Appliance had said and asked the manager if they could contact New Life Appliance and work through the warranty with them, since LG told us to use them. The manager gave an emphatic "NO". She told my husband, that is not how it works and that a we either wait again until 5 pm or schedule for another day. Ok, Yes, we are getting very upset by this point.
MY husband asked her, what about the fact New Life said the fridge needed to be completely replaced? Her response was under no circumstances will replace a unit, parts will be supplied and that is it. Even though the seal system is a warranted item and New Life said the machine was not repairable and it needed to be replaced.
Our model # is FX our serial number is Y2K. We purchased our fridge on 06/24/2013. Two years ago. We have lost over $500 of food. So, we are now waiting for the 3-5 pm factory tech to arrive and see where we go from there. It is 4:00 and still no tech so we don't know if we should hold our breath or not. We have missed an entire day of work because of this and still no fridge. Been without it since 09/17/2015. That was when I originally contacted LG for help with service.
Our LG Refrigerator is 5 years old and stopped working two weeks ago. We called one of their service companies to come out to repair it. We paid an upfront fee. Someone came out and said the Freon leaked out and they would have to contact LG to see what they wanted to do. (I took a day off work to wait for this service person.) We did not hear back. Called the service company and was told to contact LG customer service. They were extremely rude and unhelpful. My husband talked to a manager and they were also rude. After a few days he called again and was told we would have to start the whole process over again with a new service company.
We called them and were assigned a day and time. They would be out between 10-2. (Yes, another day off work.) They said they wouldn't be fixing it just looking at it. (So one of us will have to take another day off work if we are lucky enough to ever get someone out to fix it.) We have had no fridge for two weeks now and there is no end in sight. LG does not respect their customers nor do they stand by their products evidently.
(1-800-626-2001) This is a number that I have come to know by heart! Not by choice! You may recognize the number as the number for Customer Service for LG Appliances. We purchased our DREAM LG Appliances, Refrigerator, Stove, Microwave and Dishwasher for close to 8000.00 back in Feb. 2008 from Bernie's in Waterbury CT, And have nothing but trouble ever since!
After doing what we thought was research in reference to company and integrity we found LG was announcing a Cross-Licensing Agreement with GE. What better company, GE is a household name that has a lot of history in the United States and one that stands behind their products. GE happens to also be one of the biggest players in the wind power industry that is up and coming. This information meant a lot to fiance and me as far as energy conservation goes.
We had read a quote by Young Ha Lee the President and CEO of LG Electronics and Digital Appliance Company. He stated that "the licensing agreement would enhance the ability to deliver WINNING PRODUCTS and move the company further toward the goal of becoming one of the top global brands in consumer electronics and home appliances." This could not be farther from the truth as far as we are concerned. We have had a number of service calls on our stove and have had many parts replaced, only to have the stove still not work!
I came home only yesterday to find the freezer had flooded my kitchen floor in solid ice chunks. That is a whole different letter. So let us only concentrate on the stove, the reason I am writing this letter to begin with. After the trouble we had we decided to research complaints on LG appliances to see if we were the only ones out there experiencing these problems.
I thought after all, that since my fiance was a contractor and had some experience in buying quality products for people's homes and referring a number of his clients to Home Depot to purchase the LG products that we had made the right decision when it came time for us to buy new home appliances. We were we sadly mistaken, and are extremely disappointed! Needless to say, with the purchase of our second house finalized we will not be purchasing LG products to furnish it with! Nor will my fiance be referring clients from his contracting business to purchase any LG products!
In these economic times, you would expect a company like LG to deliver quality items to ensure that customers return. As I stated above my fiance and I researched the complaints and found that it was not only us experiencing such trouble. Below you will find a number of comments made in reference to LG products. The reputation of LG is on the decline, I only hope that GE is not involved in this.
"Life is not good with LG!" "Oh how sorry I am that I didn't read the negative comments first!" "Please, Please, Please, avoid purchasing LG appliances!" "LG is junk!" "I should have stuck with American brands!" "LG should be placed under investigation for defrauding customers!" "Sid Miller no longer carries LG due to customer complaints!" "LG sold us a defective machine and is not an honorable company!" "Whatever you do, do not buy LG!" "LG is putting out poor quality and not covering warranties!"
I could go on for hours with the extensive number of complaints found online. I will however stop here and say; that if we do end up getting the stove replaced at this point it has been such a hassle. We both work over an hour from our house, and as you can imagine it has not been easy getting to our house to let the service guys in not once, but 5 times. I have had to take PTO from work to make it to the house for the designated service calls. Not to mention, the meals my fiance and I have had to pay for to be able to eat. Eating out or having to schlep meals to my mother's to cook has been a complete nightmare!
The straw that broke the camel's back came on Christmas Eve when finally the stove was said to be fixed. We invited family to our house for "7 fishes", a family and religious tradition. The oven decided that once again it was not going to work. So with 15 people at our house and over 150.00 dollars' worth of fish to be cooked what were we to do? It took over 5 hours to cook (and still wasn't done right) on convection oven with the temperature saying 500 degrees.
Needless to say, Christmas Eve was a disaster and my family went home hungry. We may as well have thrown 150.00 into the garbage because that is where all the fish went! We did not appreciate spending our hard earned money on the stove to have it fail us.
I thought that my fiance and I had been reasonable when dealing with all of the service calls and time taken off work. I feel that we have been more than understanding. The problem is that at this point I feel from my gathered information that I would like to receive a refund on this disastrous purchase or to be authorized to purchase a different more reliable brand.
I do not want another LG product since LG doesn't stand behind their products. The LG appliances look very good, almost commercial grade - great addition to your kitchen so long as you don't have to use them. Not only are they DANGEROUS with the turning on and off by themselves, but are the most unreliable pieces of equipment available. I will make sure via word of mouth that none of my close friends, family, and or co-workers makes a purchase from LG in the future!
I have owned this refrigerator for little over a year. And I will say it is a great product. Except for the plastic frame that goes around the glass shelves is cheap and will break easily. I called LG and said it wasn't covered under extended warranty and gave me a number of their parts distributor, for the plastic frame it was $66 not including shipping and handling. I went to searpartsdirect.com and found the same thing for $51 shipped.
I hate to say this but I may order this from Sears. And I dislike Sears, their home improvement, customer service, sales people are bad. But their maintenance agreements would have covered this. And I have bought parts for numerous products and have saved money. And it gets delivered in a reasonable amount of time. I just want to let people know before buying parts from LG check other sites.
On November 21, 2010, I went to Home Depot and bought an LG refrigerator (Model LMX25964ST) for about $1300. This is my first purchase of LG product. On January 5, 2011, the refrigerator was delivered and installed in my house. After the refrigerator was plugged in and after 24 hours, I noticed that the refrigerator will not cool down lower than 41-42 def F. The freezer temperature was OK. I had to call LG for warranty work on January 10, 2011. The repair personnel came and said that I needed to replace the damper assembly.
On January 20, 2011, he replaced the damper assembly and it didn't fix the problem. The temperature in the refrigerator still remain around 41-42 deg F. Even lower the temperature setting will not do anything. I was informed by LG personnel on January 24, 2011, that I had to call back the repair center and have them come back and look at the problem again. On February 3, 2011, the repair personnel replaced the control circuit broad and temperature sensor. It didn't fix the problem. The coldest temperature that I can achieve inside the refrigerator is around 40.5 def. I will have to call back the repair center again.
Over the years, this is the first time that I have purchased a big dollar item that turn out to be a lemon. I learn a very expensive lesson about LG products. They are not reliable products. I have purchased Kenmore, Whirlpool, and Maytag products and never did I have to call for repairs over the years. So beware of LG and don't be fool by their advertisements on TV. Life has not been good for this customer.
Update as of February 16, 2011: On February 8, 2011, the repair personnel came out the 3rd time and he contacted the LG tech rep. The result was to test the control circuit broad that was replaced. The test showed the broad was working properly. The repair personnel informed that he doesn't know what else to do. I contacted LG and they said that I had to contact another repair center and have them look at the refrigerator again. Beware of buying LG product and their warranty. I will follow up on this after I contact another repair center to look at the refrigerator that doesn't work.
My expensive $2500.00, 3-month-old, LG refrigerator broke down on January 21st. It's now 4 weeks later and I still have no refrigerator. After 3 weeks they sent a new one. It arrived and their delivery people shimmied it through my house- no dolly. They scratched my floor and made marks on my walls. They took a hunk out of the middle of my kitchen floor. Unwrapped the plastic on the fridge only to find a 4-inch dent in the side. I refused the delivery. On the way out they damaged the front door jamb. Now I have to deal with the damage to my house through the freight company.
I called the freight company and they told me that there wasn't any sense in filing a claim yet as they might damage my house more when they bring another replacement fridge! I have made numerous calls in the last month. I've talked to supervisors and all to no end. The LG employees have lied about not knowing who their freight carriers are and the cost of an extended warranty. They offered me a 3 month extended warranty- they say it's worth $150. Home Depot offers a 5-year extended warranty for $90 a year.
The warranty will not start over with the new fridge- when it finally arrives. The warranty goes only with the original purchase-not with the replacement fridge I'm going to get. They said it's because I'm not purchasing the replacement! Back on Jan. 21st when my first call went in they said the repair person couldn't come for five days! I thought it was bad to be without a fridge for 5 days- now it's been 25 days!
My family is wasting so much money on changing our lives to live without cold food. We have to go to the store daily- or eat out. Finally I went to the store where I purchased- Home Depot. They have loaned a little fridge to me. They are helping me to deal with this very difficult company. I told them I will tell everyone I know what a bad company they are. The customer service person told me that she couldn't do anything about their company policy. I will never buy an LG product again and I encourage everyone who reads this to stay clear of this company.
Having made the mistake of filling our kitchen entirely with LG appliances three years ago, on the recommendation of BEST BUY, these products, while initially looking sleek and appealing, are very shoddily made, with plastic parts that break far too easily.
THE OVEN - the on switch on the electronic touch pad finally gave up the ghost after months of intermittent problems. After the usual runaround on the phone with the "800" number, we finally located a local repair service. The guy arrived and quickly diagnosed the failure as a bad relay in the start-up mode. I had foolishly assumed that a replacement relay could be "plugged in". No such luck however, even though it looked like an easy solder job, the whole circuit board had to be replaced.
Here we lucked out - the guy happened to have one - otherwise they were on a 3-week back order! The cost of the part was retail $178 and the labor was $55 for the service call and $65 for the board swap - all of 20 minutes. I was able to negotiate a discounted cost for both parts and labor. This is pathetic on a unit as expensive as this, and only THREE years old! Our previous oven lasted 15 years without incident.
THE REFRIGERATOR - Functionally this has been OK, except it takes forever to freeze if the freezer is loaded up. The problem is the cheap plastic rollers on the drawers. The drawers don't slide easily, and if you apply any pressure at all, the rollers break off. These parts you can order online, so we didn't have be held to ransom by greedy service companies.
So far, the other appliances' washer, dryer and microwave have remained operational, but we are holding our breath. One of us is in Real Estate, and the other in Sales where we have many opportunities to recommend or bash these kinds of products. I also have an LG phone that has been a problem, and I have avoided buying any of LG's video and audio products. In a highly competitive market, LG needs to improve their product sourcing quality, or they will lose significant market share.
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA -- I purchased a French Door LG Refrigerator and the rubber seal around the French doors keeps breaking and causing difficulties with opening and closing the refrigerator. I complained about this issue in 08/11 and the part was not covered and I had to replace the rubber seal myself for $60. I called LG again about the same problem and they asked me to fax in my receipt to see if the warranty could be extended so that a technician could come out for no cost, but it was denied.
The representative informed me that I can pay $89 for one of their technicians to come out to diagnose the problem. Since I continue to have this same problem, I do not feel I should have to pay their technician $89 to come out. I feel that it is a manufacturer design problem. I am going to the Better Business Bureau. This is a shame. I paid a lot for this refrigerator.
NAVARRE, FLORIDA -- In 2005, I preordered an LG French Door refrigerator. At the time, they were the only consumer electronic company with this type of refrigerator that did not contain the ice maker on the upper door. I preferred this because I need the extra space in the fridge. From the day that the fridge was delivered to my new home in March 2006, I've had issues. The circuit board for cooling was replaced under warranty three times - but not without a lot of effort from the company who sold it to me. My ice maker has died completely. I have many interior parts that have simply worn out and have broken. I should have followed my intuition and purchased an American made fridge.
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA -- We have had to replace our LG French Door Refrigerator for the 3rd time in as many years. We had failures of the water line, ice maker, fridge gaskets (now redesigned) and freezer gaskets. LG refused to honor their warranty, stating that with replacements, only the original warranty counts. Fortunately Best Buy did honor their extended warranty, but each time it took a full day off of work to wait for the delivery, unload the bad refrig/freezer, get the new one in and the old one out, and reload whatever food had not spoiled.
LG denied my poor review of their product, and the CEO has not replied to the certified letter he received over a month ago. LG simply doesn't care. Every Consumer Complaint website has multiple entries noting problems with LG. After posting a complaint elsewhere, LG "coincidentally" wrote to me "apologizing" or the delay in responding to my letters. Of course, they did not address a single one of my concerns, nor offer any resolution.


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There's something about Joe Lieberman that always prompts me to conjure The Godfather. Perhaps because he is so clearly the Carlo Rizzi of the Democratic party.
But here's the thing: What if Carlo Rizzi had indeed conspired with the Barzini family to turn Sonny Corleone into Swiss cheese at the toolboth, and Sonny's brother Michael had indeed unearthed Carlo's treachery...only to cut Carlo a break and allow him to fly off to Vegas for a new life of sun and fun and further treachery? Wouldn't we have ridiculed Michael as a naive softy if he had spared Carlo the shock of sudden death by strangulation? If he had told Carlo, "there's a car waiting to take you to the airport"...and he had meant it?
Yet that's how the Senate Democrats dealt last November with Lieberman's treachery. The allegedly Democratic-leaning independent had just returned from a grand campaign '08 adventure in which he had clearly crossed the line. Not only had he stumped for the Republican presidential candidate, but he had suggested on national television that Barack Obama might be a Marxist; that Obama wanted to practice "what used to be known as socialist theory"; that Obama favored "retreat in defeat from the field of battle." Lieberman had set up Obama for a hit, the hit had failed...yet there he was, in the weeks after the election, telling the Senate Democrats that he wanted to caucus with them in 2009. And not only did he want to caucus with them, he also felt he deserved to keep his chairmanship of the prestigious Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
We know, of course, what the Democrats decided to do: Nothing. Carlo/Joe got to keep his perks and his seniority. Obama was in a conciliatory mood, hoping to change the tone in Washington and all that, and he sent word not to touch the guy. Chris Dodd, Joe's Connecticut compadre, inadvertently did his own Godfather number when he told the Senate Democrats that Joe was "willing to be a member of your family." Joe himself promised Democrats that if they spared him, they would "not regret" their decision. The expectation was that even if Joe continued to vote like a hawk on foreign policy, he would at least hew to his Democratic roots and support the majority caucus on the big-ticket domestic issues. Such as health care.
Which brings us to health care, and Joe's announcement yesterday that he intends to side with the Republican family in the latter's street war against any health reform package that contains a government-run insurance option. He says he'll try to garrote the Democrats by working with the GOP to sustain a filibuster and thus prevent a final floor vote on such a bill. It'll take 60 votes (in other words, all 60 senators in the Democratic caucus) to cut off a filibuster via a cloture motion; Joe's decision is apparently the thanks that Democrats get for sparing him last November. (Here is Joe's decision, in parliamentary parlance: "If the bill remains what it is now, I will not be able to support a cloture motion for final passage.")
Joe still seems intent on taking revenge for the treatment he received in 2006, when few Senate Democrats came to his aid during his difficult party primary campaign; antiwar Democratic voters, fed up with Iraq and Joe's hawkishness, ultimately awarded the party nomination to antiwar challenger Ned Lamont. Joe won in Novemvber as an independent, essentially forming the Party of Joe...and apparently that's still his party. (By the way, one Senate Democrat who did come to his aid, who did stump for him during the primary, was Barack Obama. Which means that Joe has now stiffed Obama twice.)
We can't read Joe's mind and say conclusively that his public option naysaying stems from a fresh desire to treacherously twist the knife. But that seems the likeliest possibility. One can theorize that maybe it's because he takes donation money from the folks at Aetna, the giant insurer based in Connecticut; but Aetna's tally since 2005 is only $65,000, and nine other corporations have given Joe more during that time span.
One can also theorize that maybe Joe opposes the public option for substantive policy reasons, but the reasons he gave yesterday were basically a crock. He said, for instance, that the public option "creates a whole new government entitlement program for which taxpayers will be on the line." Factually wrong. Under a real government entitlement program (such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid), Americans can broadly participate if they meet age or income criteria, and the money for such programs is earmarked in the budget. Whereas the public health option, offered in addition to the private plans, would be basically financed by the voluntary customers' premiums. Joe also said that he thinks a public option would create "trouble" for "the national debt," without once mentioning that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the most liberal public option would save $110 billion over 10 years while more modest versions would save around $25 billion.
To paraphrase what Tom Hagen said about Hyman Roth in Godfather II, Joe has played this one beautifully. He's sticking the knife into the naive Democrats who made nice to him. Unless Olympia Snowe comes to the Democrats' aid, Joe can now position himself as the pivotal character in the Senate health saga. The Democrats basically have no choice but to indulge him further; if they try to put the hit on him, why should he care? If he scuttles health reform and the Democrats pay a price for that at the polls next year, he'll shrug it off because he's not really a Democrat anyway. And he himself isn't up for re-election again until 2012, assuming he even wants to do that.
Perhaps the lesson of all this is that, while the Senate Democrats appear to have 60 filibuster-proof votes on paper, the magic number is really meaningless if the 60th vote belongs to an embittered disloyalist with no sense of gratitude, someone whose core conviction is that revenge is a dish best served cold.


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Taylor's signature hairstyle went from wild curls to soft waves with bangs this past year and the new look suits her perfectly. She's clearly fond of her fringe as well—she almost never pins them back or sweeps them to the side.
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DONALDSONVILLE —Keri Hebert no longer lives near the CF Industries Inc. plant, but she can't forget the 2000 explosion that killed three and injured eight others. Her fear for her mother and twin sister, who live in the St. Jude subdivision, close to CF Industries' 1,400-acre site, is a constant.
"I'm scared to death," she admitted, adding her mother has lived in the subdivision for about a decade.
Hebert's first thought when she heard about the West, Texas, explosion: Don't let it happen at home. Hebert said she has nightmares sometimes about a deadly explosion at CF Industries.
"I'm sure CF is much bigger than that plant over there, and we wouldn't stand a chance here," she said.
Ascension and St. James parishes are home to four fertilizer plants, two of which produce materials similar to that produced at the plant that exploded Wednesday night in West. The blast left at least 12 people dead, injured roughly 200 others, and leveled a four- to five-block area, destroying dozens of homes, a school, a nursing home and an apartment building.
Emergency preparedness officials say an explosion at one of Louisiana's fertilizer plants could produce similar damage.
"You always have a concern about a major event," said Eric Deroche, the director of emergency preparedness in St. James Parish. "You always have those fears and concerns."
"If you have a facility in your jurisdiction that carries that type of material, you look at your infrastructure, schools, residences," said Rick Webre, the head of emergency preparedness in Ascension Parish.
CF Industries nitrogen plant off La. 3089 is the largest in North America. Like the plant in West, CF Industries' plant produces ammonium nitrate, commonly used in fertilizer. The PotashCorp nitrogen plant about a dozen miles north on the east bank of the Mississippi River near Iberville Parish produces nitric acid.
St. James Parish is home to Mosaic Co.'s Faustina plant at the foot of the Sunshine Bridge.
The plant makes anhydrous ammonia for use in fertilizers. Mosaic's Uncle Sam plant, on the opposite side of the river, makes products used in phosphate-based fertilizer. Neither facility makes ammonium nitrate.
Still, all three companies are familiar with danger.
A 2006 explosion at Mosaic's Faustina plant rattled houses several blocks away, though no one was injured. In 2008, a valve at the PotashCorp plant leaked sulfuric acid, causing plant workers and nearby residents to be sheltered. The 2000 CF Industries explosion resulted in an Occupational Safety and Health Administration fine of $149,850 and 14 citations for safety and health violations.
Another CF Industries employee was injured in November 1998 when a natural gas-fired auxiliary boiler exploded.
While the PotashCorp facility is located in an industrial corridor surrounded by other chemical plants along River Road on the parish's east bank, CF Industries and Mosaic Faustina are in a heavily trafficked area on the west bank near businesses, hotels and residences.
Residents near the plants are well aware of the potential dangers, they said, though some worry less than others.
Arthur Joffrion, who has worked for nearly 40 years at Dow Chemical Co. and has lived in St. John Place for nearly as long, said he's not losing any sleep worrying about another explosion.
"I think plants and chemical companies, they take all precautions," Joffrion said. "They're safe, but accidents and things occur. … I live for the day."
Regardless, the state's fertilizer industry is mushrooming.
In the last six months, CF Industries announced a $2.1 billion expansion of its Donaldsonville plant, including new ammonia and urea and ammonium nitrate production units. Mosaic announced a $700 million expansion at Faustina. BioNitrogen Louisiana Holdings LLC plans to spend $1 billion on five new plants in Pointe Coupee Parish.
Gov. Bobby Jindal announced that Dyno Nobel was planning a $1 billion ammonia plant in Waggaman, just outside News Orleans, hours before the West, Texas, explosion. Jefferson Parish Councilman Mark Spears raised concerns about safety but said Dyno officials assured him in a meeting Friday that none of the explosion-related chemicals would be onsite.
Some worry that increased ammonia production means a greater risk for an explosion like that in West.
But Morris Johnson, production manager for CF Industries in Donaldsonville, said his company learned some lessons from its 2000 incident and has continued to place a "strong focus on safety and security" since that time.
"I would say that in general both CF and the ammonia industry in general have an extremely sound process safety management system in place," Johnson said. "It's ingrained in our culture and reflects our safety commitments to our employees, contractors, neighbors and surrounding communities."
All of the fertilizer plants require workers to take part in regular safety training. They also have in-house emergency response units trained in firefighting and chemical fire hazards, and work with local and state law enforcement and emergency response teams on responding to potential crises.
Mosaic Louisiana Plant Manager Steve Susick said every worker at the company's plants goes through at least 40 hours of safety-related training or certification each year.
"We have become, obviously, very conscious of the business that we're in and the local community, and that's reflected both in the training that we do with all the personnel that we have," Johnson said.
Although the company owns a large tract of land located between La. 3089, La. 3120 and La. 18, Johnson said less than one-third of the land is developed. The rest serves as a buffer area that can provide "a little bit of a safety margin" for the community in case of a catastrophic event, he said.
"We certainly can't eliminate all risk in this business," Johnson said, "but what we can do is minimize the risk, particularly in what it relates to the ongoing reliability of equipment, and we do that through extensive inspection, mechanical integrity tests … and also in terms of the training that we give our operators."
Webre, the emergency preparedness director in Ascension Parish, said the key is having a plan in place at each facility. Still, not every plan is fool-proof, and he admitted he's not sure what would happen if an explosion the caliber of the Texas plant occurred here.
"If something happens catastrophic that quick, it's hard to do an evacuation," Webre said. "You're almost into a rescue operation at that point."
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Mad cow disease has been detected in a cow in California, the first time since 2006 that the deadly disease has surfaced in the U.S.
What does that mean for those of us who might want to eat a burger, or drink a glass of milk? The food supply is safe, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday. Here's a quick rundown of what we know now. For more on mad cow, listen to Jim Culler, director of the UC Davis Food Safety Lab, on today's All Things Considered.
How can the USDA say this doesn't threaten safety of the food supply?
There are two reasons.
The first is that the cow in question wasn't destined for the food supply. Its carcass had been sent to a rendering plant in California. Those carcasses are typically used for pet food or industrial uses.
The second is that this cow had a rare form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, mad cow's official name, that is caused by a spontaneous mutation. That's different than getting the disease from eating feed made out of bone and tissue from infected cattle, which caused the outbreaks in England in the 1980s and 1990s.
How was this case of mad cow found?
The cow was selected for random testing at Baker Commodities in Hanford., Calif., an official there told the Associated Press.
It's part of a testing program mandated by the USDA after mad cow disease was first discovered in the United States in 2003.
The USDA randomly tests about 40,000 cattle per year. That's just a tiny percentage of the 34 million cattle slaughtered in the U.S. in 2011. But the testing is supposed to focus on older cattle or sick cattle most likely to be infected.
This case brings the mad cow count in the United States up to four. That includes the first case, in Washington state in 2003; one cow in Texas in 2005; and one in Alabama in 2006.
What causes mad cow disease?
It's caused by prions, weird mutant proteins that are found in brain and spinal tissue. They're responsible for other diseases in animals, and the human version of mad cow, called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. All these diseases slowly destroy brain tissue, and are fatal. There's no treatment.
Prions were first discovered by neurologist Stanley Prusiner in the 1980s. They remain mysterious, and there's no consensus on what causes them to form.
How do people get infected?
People can get Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from spontaneously generated misfolding of proteins in the nervous system. Or they can get it from eating meat from an infected cow. That's what happened in the United Kingdom. More than 150 people died of the disease there in the 1980s and 1990s. Researchers eventually figured out that they got sick from eating the meat of infected cattle.
Why is that less of a threat now?
The U.S. and other countries have stopped using high-risk cattle parts in animal feed, including pet food. That includes parts from older animals, and brain and spinal tissue. Feed was considered a key cause of the British mad cow epidemic.
Feed bans are thought to be responsible for reducing the number of cases of mad cow worldwide from 37,311 in 1992 to 29 in 2011.
Is it possible to get mad cow disease from milk?
The milk supply is safe, federal officials say. Prion diseases affect the nervous system, and there's no evidence they've ever been transmitted by drinking milk.
How worried should I be?
Though mad cow disease and C-J disease sound like material from a horror movie, both diseases are very rare. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that mad cow disease affects 0.167 cows per million in the United States.
Mad cow is back, albeit briefly. The disease made infamous by a huge outbreak in Britain in the 1980s and early '90s popped up again this week, this time in California. It's the first U.S. case of mad cow disease in six years. After this week's discovery, the USDA quickly announced that this infected cow did not enter the country's meat supply.
James Culler is director of the University of California Davis Dairy Food Safety Laboratory. He's an authority on dairy cattle and dairy farming and he joins us now.
Welcome to the program.
JAMES CULLER: Well, thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
SIEGEL: And tell us, how did officials catch this particular case of mad cow disease?
CULLER: This was detected during the routine surveillance program that they have in place with the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
SIEGEL: And the cow in question - tell us about the animal and why we shouldn't worry about it, according to USDA.
CULLER: OK. This animal has the atypical or the spontaneous form, which is much more rare occurrence and it presents differently. It's still - the prion is refolded in a particular way that it's still contained and confined to the brain tissue, spinal cord and ganglia and is not in the milk or meat. But the animal presents as more of a downer cow, more docile and still easily picked up.
SIEGEL: You used the word spontaneous to describe this particular form of mad cow disease. That sounds almost medieval. The disease somehow just happens inside the brain. It isn't contracted from food or contact with something?
CULLER: No. This particular form is exactly like you described it. It's spontaneous. It happens in nature. It's a random event that happens on rare occasions.
SIEGEL: So, coming up with such an animal in a spot check would be something very rare. The odds would be very much against this, I should think.
CULLER: Well, the odds are very much against us seeing it on a frequent basis, but the routine monitoring system did pick it up and so we know that it's not the classical form, so we know that our things that we do to protect and detect are in place and working. In fact, it works so well, we were able to find this more rare form of the disease.
SIEGEL: But when you turn up an example of something so rare, it would seem reasonable one might check and recalculate the odds. Is it possibly more common than we thought it was?
CULLER: Well, you're right in that we found it now and so the regulatory officials and mathematicians and statisticians will re-look at this, evaluate it and then see if there are any adaptations or changes in our monitoring system need to be made. And so they're working through that process now and I'm very comfortable with how they're going to work through this.
SIEGEL: Well, James Culler of the University of California Davis Dairy Food Safety Laboratory, thanks a lot for talking with us.
CULLER: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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