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While yield potential for processing tomatoes is considerably higher under drip irrigation, the system can also present unique management challenges like water placement, salinity issues and fertility.
According to Blaine Hanson, University of California, Davis, irrigation and drainage specialist growers have been questioning traditional drip line placement. "The traditional approach has been to place the drip line in the middle of the beds from 8 to 14 inches deep," Hanson says. "The advantage of that is the roots are concentrated where the water is concentrated."
However, that limits crop rotations and some growers started looking at alternate row configurations where the drip line is placed in every other furrow. "The problem with that configuration is that the drip line is as far away as possible from the plant row," he says. "There are weed problems and the drip line is removed before harvest, so it requires twice the time that buried drip requires."
"We had somewhat mixed results," Hanson says of a four-year research trial looking at drip line placement. "However, over the past two years, we found that every furrow placement yielded similar to the buried drip placement.
"The drip line placement did not seem to have much of an effect on solids," he says, "but it did have an effect on the way water moved and the way roots were distributed."
Yields have increased dramatically since the 1960s and the question becomes has the crop water coefficient changed? In a number of trials to answer that question, Hanson found that the main factors affecting crop water coefficient were the planting date and the season.
"Using your planting date, you can come up with a fairly reasonable crop water coefficient," he says. "There are perhaps adjustments to be made depending on whether tomatoes are transplanted or direct seeded. Transplanted tomatoes have a faster canopy development. We found no difference in plant water use between drip and furrow irrigation. The average evapotranspiration (ET) in the studied fields was about 25.5 inches which correlates with the 1960s data.
"That tells us that ET of tomatoes is controlled by climate conditions and not anything that is going on with the plants that resulted in higher yields. So there were no differences between this average and the historical values."
Hanson also looked at drip irrigation under saline soil conditions on the West Side of the San Joaquin Valley. The problem in that area is often compounded by shallow groundwater.
Options for growers with a perched water table include land retirement, conversion to different irrigation systems, reusing drain water, and various other scenarios. Conversion to drip appears to hold promise for growers who still want to grow tomatoes.
Fertility management with drip irrigation is another area that UC researchers have been evaluating to get a better handle on crop nutrient needs. Tim Hartz, UC Davis vegetable crop specialist, conducted several fertigation trials in 2007
"Over the past five or six years we've seen a revolution in the number of acres that have gone to drip irrigation, and our yield expectations on those acres are really climbing," he says. "But what is the amount of N, P, K needed to reach those goals, what is the demand by crop stage, and how effective are different plant monitoring techniques?"
Not surprisingly, the rate of nitrogen uptake varies reliably with growth stage.
"All three elements behave in essentially the same way," Hartz says. "Peak vine content of N, P, K occurs at full bloom. From that point forward, regardless of how much you apply, the fruit will mine the plants of those elements."
Anything in excess of about 200 pounds of nitrogen per acre is wasted. Excess nitrogen will end up in the fruit which is not what you want, according to Hartz.
"In terms of phosphorous management — our experience is that if you have enough phosphorous up front there is very little need to run it in fertigation," he says. "Potassium is harder to pin down."
Sampling techniques have a huge impact on results whether it's the sampling procedure itself or how the sampling was conducted. Hartz cautions, "If you're sampling in a field with buried drip over multiple years, draw your samples from where the roots are drawing those elements."
There can be a tremendous difference from samples drawn in the root zone versus the furrow or other areas. Additionally, petiole analysis versus whole leaf analysis can make a difference in results.
"There are limitations to petiole analysis," Hartz says. "Petiole samples are very volatile. If you went out and sampled daily, the numbers would vary widely. Whole leaf analysis correlates with whole plant nutrient status and changes more slowly than petiole analysis. If sampled daily, it would give you a steady progression as compared to petiole analysis."
The differences should be taken into consideration when making fertigation decisions, according to Hartz. "If you're interested in pursuing petioles, whole leaf analysis is a better way to get a feel for what's going on."
In general, growers could probably back off fertigation rates in drip and still be okay, particularly in terms of nitrogen, he says. As nitrogen and fertilizers costs go up, that may become a more important economic decision.


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This Associated Press report on President Bush's news conference earlier today quotes the President on various issues, including the Amnesty International report. What struck me, though, was this sentence at the end of the article:
Though he did not mention tax cuts in his opening argument, Bush said he still wants Congress to make his first-term cuts permanent. He also pledged not to give up on Social Security reform, despite intense opposition on Capitol Hill.
Opening argument? What a weird way to describe the President's statement to the press, as if it were the beginning of a trial, and the President one of the lawyers. I can't help wondering whether it's a Freudian slip; I suspect that many reporters do, indeed, view their relationship with the Bush administration in those terms. He and they represent adverse parties; they cross-examine the President and then deliver their own closing argument when they write their stories. Or maybe I'm just a little paranoid.

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Four-week old Sprague Dawley rats were fed a stock diet to which was added 0, 5, 25, 50, or 100 mg of chromium per kg of diet as chloride or picolinate. Thereafter, fasting blood samples of chromium were taken at 11 and 17 weeks and the animals were sacrificed at 24 weeks of age. The results showed lack of toxicity on tissues. All blood studies, including glucose, cholesterol, blood urea nitrogen, lactic acid dehydrogenase, transaminases, total protein and creatinine were within normal limits. Histological determination of liver and kidney tissues between control and rats fed 100 mg/kg of chromium did not show any detectable differences.
Dr. Richard Anderson and colleagues, from the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, US Department of Agriculture, in Maryland, say, "These data demonstrate a lack of toxicity of trivalent chromium, at levels that are on a per kg bases, several thousand times the upper limit of the estimated safe and adequate daily dietary intake for humans."
An interesting observation was that the rats fed the picolinate version of chromium has several-fold higher chromium concentrations in both the liver and kidney than those fed the chloride form.
Anderson RA, Bryden NA, Polansky MM. Lack of toxicity of chromium chloride and chromium picolinate in rats. J Am College Nutr 16:3:273-279, 1997.
Comments: I'm even more reassured that adding 100 to 200 mg of chromium to the vitamin regimen of diabetics appears to be safe. As to the form of chromium, picolinate seems to be better absorbed, and thus a lower dose of the picolinate would be required compared to the hydrochloride form.


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Quick-witted radio broadcaster Jim Grady, for more than 50 years the voice of Sonoma County and one of its happiest advocates, died Wednesday at the age of 77.
Grady first eased behind a microphone at KSRO-1350AM on April 1, 1960. For the past eight years, he told stories and let listeners hype their garage sales every Saturday and Sunday morning on KZST-100.1FM.
In his heyday, Grady's newsy, folksy morning show started the day for much of the population of a county he had loved since the early 1940s, when he began to visit the Russian River from his home in San Francisco.
"I grew up on that river," he said in a 2010 interview with The Press Democrat.
Grady studied at Los Angeles' Don Martin School of Radio and Television and in 1959, the same year he married his wife, Carol, found a radio job in Seattle.
He loved the work but hated the soggy weather. So he moved south to more familiar, temperate territory and sought a job from Frank McLauren, then station manager at KSRO.
McLauren hired him for an afternoon shift. A couple of years later, morning anchor Ken Minyard moved to Los Angeles and left behind an opportunity for Grady to move up.
For decades, he anchored the morning show, spent much of the rest of the day traveling the county and selling airtime to advertisers, and at night broadcast local high-school and Santa Rosa Junior College games with longtime on-air partner Merle Ross.
"We did football and basketball," Ross said Wednesday. "Usually, he'd do the play-by-play and I'd do the color.
"We'd do seven or eight basketball games a week. Sometimes a night game on Friday, a day game Saturday and then a game that night."
For three decades, Grady and Ross were a mainstay of Sonoma County radio.
"We never worked off a script," Ross said. "We worked together so long we knew what each other was going to say.
"He had such a great sense of humor, and had the ability to ad-lib. I was the straight man and tried to keep him on an even keel."
The morning format at KSRO was music and narrative until the mid-1980s, when station managers switched the morning program to talk and news. Grady had no trouble filling air-time with stories, jokes, interviews and banter.
KSRO had been sold several times to large broadcast firms when he and the management had a falling out in 2004 on his 44th anniversary at the station. He departed KSRO, grudgingly.
"He was not at all happy with the way he was treated," Ross said.
Grady's gloom at being off the radio lifted the day he received a call from KZST, the locally owned station with the county's largest listenership.
"We made a place for him because he deserved better than that," said Brent Farris, KZST's long-popular morning guy. "He was the last of an era."
Grady savored the weekend morning shift and was sorry to step away from it last October, but his health was giving out.
Medical tests found he had cancer of the esophagus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and faulty heart valves. He went into a hospital about eight weeks ago.
Grady was under end-of-life-care at Friends House. Sometime Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, he fell from bed and was taken by ambulance to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, where he died at about 3:30 p.m.


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Anise from Alicante is a liqueur that includes the aromas and flavours of aniseed, star anise and other natural substances.
It has an alcoholic content of between 40 and 55%, with its sugar content limited to 5 grammes per litre. It is a dry drink very suitable for combining with water, producing a drink known as "palomita" or "paloma", which is opalescent in colour, cold, refreshing, invigorating and good for the digestion.
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Clarification: An earlier version of this story did not specify that the memorial service in Carmel is private.
The life and spirit of Carmel artist Mark Bava, along with those of his brother, Chris Bava, and his wife, Cat Asche, will be remembered and celebrated in two events Sunday in Carmel and Monterey.
The first event will be a memorial service at a private location in Carmel. The second, from 6-10 p.m., will be a reception/celebration at the Golden State Theatre, 417 Alvarado St., in downtown Monterey.
The celebration includes music from renowned blues-soul singer Maria Muldaur, Monterey guitarist Tom Ayres, Matt Venuti of the Venusians, (one of Mark Bava's favorite bands), Dennis Murphy, Carmel singer-songwriter Tom Faia, and other local and visiting musicians and vocalists.
In addition, there will be a no-host beer and wine bar, plus catered and potluck foods.
A Bava Love Fund has also been set up with a $20 suggested donation to lend assistance to the Bavas' mother, Carmel artist Lilliana Braico, who is going through difficult times.
"We will hold the life of these three in our hearts always as a symbol of how we may look to death to help us to better learn how to live; how love is a gift we must all share and embrace, and how blessed we all were to have enjoyed their company on this life," wrote Joegh Bullock, Mark Bava's former partner in the Sea of Dreams event in San Francisco.
The two brothers, Cat Asche and Lynne Cook were returning from a Bob Dylan/Mark Knopfler concert at the Greek Theater in Berkeley at almost 1 a.m. on Oct. 20, when they pulled over to switch drivers. Although the Jeep Cherokee was off the freeway on the side of Highway 101 near the Blossom Hill Road exit, a car driven by a young woman rear-ended the Jeep at approximately 65 miles an hour, sending it over an embankment.
Mark Bava died on impact; his brother and wife and Cook were taken to a nearby hospital where Chris Bava and Asche died. Cook, Mark's longtime girlfriend, survived the accident that killed the three family members.
"Mark and Chris Bava lived lives that though separate, often intersected in their search for adventure, peace, and fulfillment," said Cook in a statement. "They each in their own way, lived with passion immersing themselves completely in whatever drama unfolded; whether they were searching for golden treasure in Italy or sinking a pirate ship in the Carribean; shackled in a dungeon in Thailand or 'ohming' away in India.
"Through the businesses, the arts, the love and the loss - they each lived hard and fast; with undying curiousity about any interesting thing yet undiscovered by the normal masses," she continued. "Cat Asche and Chris during their marriage delved into a lifetime of creative endeavors during their exploration of spirituality, and the light and dark side of human nature and art. Mark was my long-time love, my partner, my best friend and a part of my own adventure series that I will never forget.
"Having been in the car accident that took them, I am left alone to ponder why they left when they did, and I did not. Perhaps they are the lucky ones having gone on to the biggest adventure of all."
Mark Bava was a well-known and longtime Carmel artist and sculptor who was also known for promoting concerts and other social events, especially those connected to the Burning Man community in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. He was also a musician (a guitarist, he and his band of fellow artists played at August's West End Celebration in Sand City), owned a bar in Los Angeles, traveled extensively and could converse on a variety of subjects, from film and history to music and art.
Chris Bava was also an artist, primarily a photographer, who had been living in Playas Tijuana, Mexico, advocating for that city's thousands of homeless street addicts. He and Asche had been married since 2003.
For more information on the two events, contact Cook at email@example.com or Joegh Bullock at firstname.lastname@example.com or at (415) 265-1162.
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By the end of the first quarter, Kenny Guiton's day had the makings of something special.
By halftime, the Ohio State quarterback's day was officially special.
Guiton threw six first half TD passes -- an Ohio State record for TD passes in a game -- and the Buckeyes did everything they wanted against Florida A&M, winning 76-0.
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Bobby Hoying twice threw five TD passes in a game -- against Purdue in 1994 and at Pittsburgh in 1995 -- and John Borton tossed five against Washington State in 1952. Braxton Miller, along with nine other former Buckeye QBs, threw four touchdown passes in a game.
Guiton replaced Miller, OSU's star quarterback, in the first quarter of Week 2 after Miller sprained his MCL. The Buckeyes haven't skipped a beat since.
Especially Saturday against the Rattlers -- yes, a grossly overmatched opponent -- when Guiton completed 24 of 34 passes for 215 yards, the six scores and an interception.
"I had all day," Guiton said after the game. "The coaches wanted to come out throwing the ball around and I thank them for the trust they had in me to be able to do that."
After Jordan Hall's 3-yard run gave OSU a quick 7-0 lead, Guiton threw TD passes of 11 yards to Jeff Heuerman, 7 yards to Evan Spencer, 1 yard to Carlos Hyde and 5 yards to Devin Smith as the Buckeyes built a 34-0 lead in the opening quarter.
Hall opened the second quarter with another scoring run and Guiton connected with Chris Fields and Spencer for 15-yard scores -- Spencer's second TD catch coming with 5 seconds remaining in the half -- to take the record.
Guiton briefly led the nation with 13 TD passes despite making just his second start of the season. Louisville's Teddy Bridgewater connected for No. 13 on Saturday as well.
Miller did not play Saturday. He's been sidelined since spraining his MCL against San Diego State on Sept. 7. The Buckeyes open Big Ten play next Saturday at home against Wisconsin.


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NEOCC Newsletter: September 2018
04 September 2018
The ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Centre has released the September newsletter summarising the most relevant data and events on asteroids and comets approaching the orbit of the Earth. Please, feel free to forward it to potentially interested people.
You can download the newsletter by clicking on the button below; to subscribe to the service, please fill in the form on page http://neo.ssa.esa.int/subscribe-to-services.
Interstellar asteroid is really a comet
28 June 2018
'Oumuamua, an object from another star system that made a brief appearance in our skies turns out to be a tiny interstellar comet.
Read more: https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science
The full Nature article can be found in the following link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0254-4
Close Approach Fact Sheet
NEOCC Close Approach Fact Sheet: 2018 LA
05 June 2018
The ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Centre has released a Close Approach Fact Sheet (CAFS) for asteroid 2018 LA, entering the Earth's atmosphere on 02 June. Please, feel free to forward it to potentially interested people.
You can download the CAFS by clicking on the button below; for subscribing to our releases, please fill in the form on page http://neo.ssa.esa.int/subscribe-to-services.
2018 LA, the third predicted NEO impact on Earth
04 June 2018
For the third time in recent history of asteroid detection a NEO was detected a few hours before it entered the Earth atmosphere (the two previous cases were 2008 TC3 and 2014 AA).
Asteroid 2018 LA was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey in the early morning (European time) of this Saturday, 2 June.
In a matter of hours additional observations were made and it became very probable that it would collide with the Earth. The approximate impact corridor was over a thin stripe crossing Botswana and Namibia. The same evening a number of local observations started to arrive at the International Meteor Organisation reporting a very bright fireball detected in the mentioned area. It was confirmed that the observed fireball actually corresponded to 2018 LA. Details about the observed fireball can be found here: https://www.imo.net/asteroid-2018-la-hit-the-atmosphere-over-botswana-on-june-2/
The object had a size of 2 to 5 m and approached the Earth with a relative velocity of approximately 17 km/s from the night side. Due to its small size and high entry velocity the object could only be detected on its final plunge to Earth. It is expected to have completely disintegrated in the atmosphere.
Discovery images of 2018 LA obtained on 2 June 2018 with the 1.5 m telescope at Mt. Lemmon, Arizona (USA). Credit: Catalina Sky Survey / University of Arizona / NASA


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July 16. 2014 12:17AM
AL triumphs over NL, 5-3, in Jeter's All-Star farewell
By Phil Miller
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
MINNEAPOLIS -- Like just about everyone in baseball, Adam Wainwright wanted to give Derek Jeter a retirement gift. Just not quite as nice as the one Jeter took.
When Jeter came to bat in the bottom of the first inning of the 85th All-Star Game on Tuesday night, Wainwright backed off the mound to allow the Yankees' legendary shortstop to soak in a long ovation from the Target Field crowd. Then, after bouncing a pitch in the dirt, Wainwright laid a 90-mph fastball right down the middle.
Next thing he knew, Jeter was standing on second base.
"I was going to give him a couple pipe shots. He deserved it," Wainwright said, using baseball vernacular for a fat pitch. "I didn't know he was going to hit a double, or I'd have changed my mind."
Probably not, though. A night that served as Target Field's coming-out party also doubled as Jeter's midseason sendoff, and the future Hall of Famer delivered with a pair of hits, a run scored, and the most goosebump-producing moment of the night: His curtain call to a rousing standing ovation after being removed from the game in the top of the fourth inning.
The American League went on to win 5-3 to earn home-field advantage in the World Series.
Jeter took the field with the rest of the AL stars to start the fourth, but Chicago's Alexi Ramirez soon jogged out to relieve him, ending Jeter's 14th and final All-Star appearance. The shortstops hugged, Jeter tipped his cap to the crowd, took congratulations from the entire AL dugout, and returned to the field for one final salute.
"I'm glad I got to face him," Wainwright said. "It's something I can always say to my kids, that I faced one of the greatest of all time."
More than one great in that inning alone, actually. After Jeter's complimentary double, Mike Trout followed by ricocheting a 3-2 cutter off the right-field wall, and by the time the ball was relayed to the infield, Trout had slid head-first into third base with a triple, scoring Jeter. Wainwright struck out Robinson Cano for the first out, but then made a mistake _ well, it's not a mistake to any other batter _ to Detroit's Miguel Cabrera.
"He's a Nintendo-type player. He is so good," Wainwright said. "That ball is on the white-line chalk, inside, off the plate. Nobody keeps that ball fair."
Cabrera kept it fair, but not in play. He drilled a line-drive screamer that cleared the wall in left field by a couple of feet, giving the AL a 3-0 first-inning lead.
"Sometimes, unfortunately you tip your hat to these guys, they're very good. They made a couple of good swings," Wainwright said. "Luckily, we got back in the game."
The National League did, and almost immediately. With Boston left-hander Jon Lester on the mound in the second inning, the NL struck back with two runs. Milwaukee's Aramis Ramirez singled to right, and Phillie second baseman Chase Utley clubbed a ball off the top of the wall in right-center, a double that traveled significantly farther than Cabrera's homer. Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy followed with another double, and the AL's lead was narrowed to 3-2.
Lucroy wasn't done; he doubled again in the fourth inning, driving home Dodgers speedster Dee Gordon to tie the score 3-3. The AL retook the lead in the fifth inning, however, scoring two runs off Pat Neshek _ the Cardinals' right-handed reliever who was introduced as "from the Park Center Pirates," his suburban Minneapolis high school. Trout was the big bat in that rally, too, smashing a double down the left-field line past Ramirez, a pitch that replays showed might have been foul. It scored A's catcher Derek Norris, and Neshek, who allowed three hits in a third of an inning, plus his first two runs allowed since June 3, was removed for Washington's Tyler Clippard. Astros second baseman Jose Altuve followed with a sacrifice fly to make the score 5-3 in the fifth.
But the night belonged to Jeter, from the first play of the game. Andrew McCutchen led off with a hot smash to Jeter's left. He dove, gloved it and made a strong throw to first, but McCutchen beat it by a fraction of a second. Felix Hernandez retired the side without a run, however, and moments later Jeter approached the plate for his first at-bat as the crowd roared.
Wainwright was nowhere near the mound, even when Jeter, restless with the ovation, motioned him to begin.
"I just wanted him to enjoy it. I thought that was his moment," Wainwright said. "I put my glove up and just backed up almost to second base, just saying, 'Dude, I'm not going anywhere until this ovation dies down. ... I'd still be standing out there if they were still cheering."
Wainwright's plan was to groove a hittable fastball, to let Jeter have his moment. "I was hoping it would be the first pitch, and he would take it. And I would say, 'All right, I piped him one and he didn't swing. But I spiked it in the dirt, so I gave him one more shot," Wainwright said. "I thought he was going to hit something hard to the right side for a single or an out. ... I probably should have pitched him a little bit better."
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Americans are buying less gasoline than they did just a few years back. While many people believe this is a good thing, it does present a problem: Most road construction is paid for with fuel taxes. Less gas tax revenue means less money for roads.
One reason gas purchases are down is that more people are driving more efficient cars, such as hybrid and electric vehicles. Now states are looking for solutions, including charging hybrids extra fees or imposing fees based on miles driven.
Sara Busch of Havertown, Pa., owns a 2011 Chevrolet Volt. "I'm really a stickler about staying below the speed limit — not to avoid a ticket but to maintain efficiency," she says. Recently, Busch says, she was achieving 94 miles to the gallon. That means she rarely stops at a gas station — good news for her, but not for the federal Highway Trust Fund.
For each gallon of gas sold in the U.S., 18.3 cents goes into the fund. Most of that is dedicated to road construction. This system worked well for about five decades — until the most recent recession, when people started driving less. In 2008, the fund ran out of money.
Polly Trottenberg, undersecretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation, reminded a congressional subcommittee in July that Congress has been allocating money in recent years to keep the fund solvent.
"By the end of 2014, the Highway Trust Fund will be nearly depleted again and Congress will have transferred, over the course of the recent years, $54 billion in general funds to keep the program afloat," Trottenberg testified. Some members of Congress have talked about raising the federal gas tax, but there's been no movement on that.
On top of the federal gas tax, each state levies its own tax, mostly to pay for roads. These range from 8 cents a gallon in Alaska to about 50 cents a gallon in New York. State lawmakers have been searching for ways to make up the lost revenue.
"We've found more than 240 bills that have been introduced in 39 states and DC," says Jaime Rall, senior policy specialist at the National Conference of State Legislatures. Rall says 22 states have enacted legislation. She says Vermont, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia are moving away from a cents-per-gallon tax and toward a percent-based gas tax. That could raise more money and help gas tax collections keep up with inflation.
Oregon is planning a program that could eventually replace that state's gas tax with a "road usage charge." The state will begin in 2015 with 5,000 volunteer participants who may pay 1.5 cents for every mile they drive.
While details haven't been worked out yet, the state agency plans to make several options available for measuring miles traveled. That may include using "infotainment" systems in newer cars — these often include navigation and smartphone integration along with the stereo system, says the program's manager, Jim Whitty with the Oregon Department of Transportation. If auto manufacturers include a way to track miles traveled, Whitty says, that would make a tax like this a lot easier to administer and simpler for users.
"They wouldn't have to add anything to the car," Whitty says. "All they have to say, is say, 'I want to use my system and agree to the report of those miles to the tax processor.' "
That makes sense to Toyota Prius owner Len Shatz of Cheltenham, Pa. "Let's say I drive 10 or 15 miles a day," says Shatz. "I shouldn't have to pay as much as someone who uses the roads a lot more."
A few states have considered something Washington state and Virginia have already done: charge an extra fee for electric and hybrid cars to make up for lost gas tax revenue.
Prius owner Pamela Harvey of Glenside, Pa., does not like that and argues it's fair for gas guzzlers to foot more of the country's road construction bill. "We should be the ones who get the bonus, for driving hybrids and moving this country forward," she says.
As federal and state policymakers look for ways to resolve the problem of declining gas tax revenue, here's one big problem they are likely to face: The gas tax has been relatively invisible for decades now — it was just part of the cost of a gallon of gas. But whatever comes next could be much more visible, such as a tax bill at the end of the year for how many miles you traveled. That could make implementing a solution to the current problem more difficult.
Hybrids and other fuel efficient cars are causing a problem for state and federal highway agencies. Money for road construction comes primarily from gas taxes. But thanks in part to cars that are more fuel frugal, Americans are buying less gasoline. Gas sales peaked in 2007 and are expected to continue to decline. So, policymakers are looking for new ways to raise money to build and repair roads.
More from NPR's Jeff Brady.
JEFF BRADY, BYLINE: One reason gas purchases are down, people like Sara Busch of Havertown, Pennsylvania, are buying hybrid and electric cars.
SARA BUSCH: Its push-button start for one thing. I enjoy the push-button start.
BRADY: Busch points to the dash of her Chevrolet Volt. There's a green ball that moves up and down and changes color, to show when she's driving more efficiently.
BUSCH: So I'm really a stickler about staying below the speed limit, not to avoid a ticket but to maintain efficiency with the...
BUSCH: ...with the electric mileage, so I can go farther on one charge.
BRADY: And Busch is doing well. She's getting 94 miles to the gallon. That means she rarely stops at a gas station. Good news for her but not for the Federal Highway Trust Fund. For each gallon of gas sold, 18.3 cents goes into the fund. Most of that is for road construction. This system worked well for about five decades until the recession a few years back, when the decline in gas consumption started.
State governments are facing a similar problem. Each state levies its own gas tax on top of the federal one, ranging from 8 cents a gallon in Alaska to about 50 cents a gallon in New York.
JAIME RALL: This year, we're seeing so many bills from states looking at how to pay for transportation infrastructure.
BRADY: Jaime Rall is with the National Conference of State Legislatures. She's counted 240 bills on this topic introduced across the country. Oregon is planning a volunteer program based on how many miles a person drives each year. The more someone drives, the more they pay.
Jim Whitty, with the Oregon Department of Transportation, says so-called infotainment systems in newer cars could be an option for tracking mileage.
JIM WHITTY: That's what we're hoping for long-term.
BRADY: These include things like navigation and Smartphone integration, along with the stereo system. If auto manufacturers include a way to track miles traveled, Whitty says that would make a tax like this a lot easier to administer.
WHITTY: This system all of the sudden becomes very simple for a lot of people. They wouldn't have to add anything to the car. All they have to say is I want to use my system and agree to the report of those miles to the tax processor.
BRADY: In Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, Len Shatz is standing next to his black Toyota Prius. He says it makes sense to consider how much someone drives when figuring out how to raise more money for roads.
LEN SHATZ: You know, let's say I drive 10 or 15 miles a day. If somebody is driving, you know, 200 miles a day or a thousand miles a day, there ought to be some way to gauge that.
BRADY: A few other states are considering something Washington State and Virginia have already done: charge an extra fee for electric and hybrid cars to make up for lost gas tax revenue. Prius owner Pamela Harvey does not like that. She thinks owners of efficient cars should be rewarded.
PAMELA HARVEY: We should get the break and then huge trucks and the Suburbans and the, you know, the big, big cars - they should get taxed.
BRADY: Here's one final thing to think about as policymakers decide how to replace declining gas taxes. For a long time, this tax was relatively invisible - it's just part of the cost of a gallon of gas. But what comes next could be much more visible - say, a tax bill at the end of the year for how many miles you traveled. That could make implementing such a tax even more difficult.
Jeff Brady, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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GP: Earlier today gaming community was hit by a massive rumor that "Call of Duty: Ghosts and TitanFall on Xbox One runs at 720p". It was started by a popular NeoGaf user "fam0usmortimer".
Xbox fans were not at all happy with this and accused "Famousmortimer" of being "Anti-Microsoft and Anti-Xbox". Seeing this RAGE of Xbox fans, fam0usmortimer via AMA on Reddit has issued a clarification of "Call of Duty: Ghosts and TitanFall on Xbox One runs at 720p" rumor.
Down to one month to go and all hell breaks loose on the X1.
If all this is true, it will be found out with in the first weeks of the console being out. There are hundreds if not thousands of testers just waiting to get their hands on both systems to run tests. This would be a big deal news breaker if it does become proven. Which again, it will be if true. Both systems are going to get tested and tested hard.
Good luck getting this story approved, lol.
I don't see why people are surprised?
we all knew Microsoft PR was just that... bull
if you think it's hot now just wait until the consoles are torn down an the truth about both consoles power is revealed... Microsoft have a shit storm ahead, which wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't for all the lies
but regardless of resolution people will buy what they prefer so I wish xbone owners the best and ps4 owners the best.. let's enjoy the new generation
The internet explodes based on a rumor from a guy that doesn't even feel good about their own source:
"Famousmortimer: I can't get into specifics even slightly about who it was because a blacklist from activision could murder any game based website. But I can say that, no, he/she isn't like a digital foundry pixel counter. I don't know how the 720p number was come up with, whether it's a guess or was told... and at this point if I asked I would get silence."
and then again:
"That said... this was done with one source and I never felt great about it. I teased it because, honestly, I'm dumb and couldn't control myself. There was a thread that was vaguely about what I heard and what I was trying to find a second source for and I teased and Bishop (the head mod at gaf) gave me a real hard time about it. So when I got home I said what I knew even though I didn't have a second source. As for other folks like Thuway and whoever else.... I have no idea if they have real sources or not. I wouldn't be surprised if my story just made it in a circle so many times that I'm the same source to like 9 different people who all think i'm someone different. The internet is stupid."
This is what fangirls are spreading and whereas straight from the developer, they say 1080p at 60fps on Xbox One:
yup because things can't change cough 'Microsoft constant 180s' cough
ryse USED to be 1080p
infinity ward could have hit the bottle necks of the xbone architecture as that link you posted was in June
but if all is fine then the famous or whatever his name is on neogaf will lose a lot of credibility
A wise man once told me. YOU don't choose the console....the console choose YOU.
How sketchy is this "source"? Seriously, anyone could make that up.
Ah well. Time will tell.
All of these talks about 1080's 900's and 720p's make me appreciate Killzone Shadowfall even more. I also can't wait for conformation or denial on all these rumors...
Microsoft could EASILY kill this rumor. Or Respawn or Infinity Ward. NOBODY is stepping up.
well two things can happen from here.
1. The game runs at 720p as predicted by the rumour.
2. The game runs at >720p and the rumour monger looks like a fool and so do all the fanboys jumping on this like it's a religious experience.
All we can do is wait and see.
Let them have their fun.
If the rumour is true, then I too am disappointed.
In all likelihood though, this rumour is just a way for some tryhard on a forum to get attention from loud fanboys and for hit seeking websites to milk hits from gullible gamers.
This is confirmed by multiple sources
MS officials refuse to deny the news
Most 3rd party games only demoed on PS4 , including CoD, a game that has exclusive marketing with Xbox
What CBOAT was warning us about is happening, most games will only be 720p on XB1, gamers who expect 1080p for most games need to know this now, MS trying to muzzle this fact will only cause another scandal after the XB1 is released and gamers feel betrayed
@Septic: I don't think many people are aware of the Gaf rules. If an insider can't provide proof of a legitimate source then they are immediately banned. One you get the 'read my PM' message, then you'd better be prepared to share your source. Famousmortimer has had such PM requests and is still posting on Gaf. Rumour without any source is scorned on by the mods. Many people have fallen foul of the ban hammer in the last few months for that very reason. This is why CBOAT and Famousmortimer are believed more often than not.
I'd be surprised if either of these rumors were true. Titanfall isn't a graphical showcase to be struggling to hit 1080p. Fun as it may be it just isn't "next gen" in the visual department.
COD Ghost would be a surprise because they've already outright said that it would be 1080p 60fps and while it looks better than current gen it's also not some huge jump that should make the new system struggle.
I do believe in the rumor that the majority of X1 games will be under 1080p. X1 was built with "the best upscaler ever created" for a reason. They knew that this was something their system would have a problem with.
True or false makes no difference to me, we'll know all there is to know about all these games and both systems in a month or less. With next gen games already going gold and retail model systems already seen in the wild it's just a matter of time. I'd bet that we hear all this info within 2 weeks time actually.
Call of Duty on Xbox One will definitely be running at 720p. Confirmed by numerous insiders on Neogaf.
Titanfall is more up in the air, I believe it was just CBOAT who mentioned it. That holds a lot of weight, going by his past rumours. I believe even Respawn said they were targeting frame rate above resolution?
The Titanfall one could certainly change, still a while until it releases. For it to hit 900p would be good.
EDIT: Another pooint of evidence for the COD situation: there has been no denial. If it was, in fact, running above 720p, it would immediately be rejected. Rumours like this hurt sales, and it would not be left to fester.
I don't believe it will change - there simply isn't enough time before launch.
Ah I see. Thanks for that. I would have known all that if Neogaf authorised my bloody account! Ah well, here's hoping the rumours aren't true. The source himself seems unsure about it so.....we shall see.
Idk what the huge deal is. 720 or 1080, it's not the end of the world. Either way the game will look awesome and play awesome and be game of the year, well before PS fans get their hands on it. I'll take 720 and a March release, enjoy Killzone.
cod ghosts and titanfall both do not look like graphical powerhouses... i expect them both to run 1080p 60fps on both xbone and ps4.
More then aware, 35 years of watching launches, lol. But yes like I said.
Lets all agree that it wont run any less than 720p.
I have a some better questions...
Why should we care?
Will it take away any of the anticipation and awesomness of the game?
Will it make anyone not want to play it any less?
Now, instead of MS having exclusives, now the argument has shifted to every game must be in 1080p?
So are we moving the goal posts again?
And I like to point out that once again, looking at the comments above me, the only one's concerned are the sony fanboys on que to blow up these rumors. One minute they're wishing this game to hurry and come to the PS4, the next breath they're downplaying it as a CoD with mechs and now bashing it for a rumor of 720p. The SDF are very emotionally conflicted.
@gribble pretty much nailed it.
From all the development from yesterday all arrows are on IW and MS to confirm and all they've done is dance around it. It's pretty much confirmed but I'm waiting for that curve ball to break the internet if it turns out to be the reverse. I mean I prefer the Sony side of things but holy shit that would send internet seismic tremours along all of the wifi.
I like how only MS has a "shit storm" ahead of them after people start analyzing the consoles. As if they're gonna look into the PS4 and be like, "Wow! Everything ever said about the console, is 100% accurate!"
It's ironic to see console players taking such an interest in comparing hardware specs, yet denounce PC players as "elitist" when they do the same thing...
@monday below
"What CBOAT was warning us about is happening, most games will only be 720p on XB1, gamers who expect 1080p for most games need to know this now..."
The funny thing is that most games won't be 1080p on EITHER console, at least not at 60fps, which is arguably more important than the resolution.
So you are decided that this random person posting complete guff must be accurate based on an interview in which he continues to speak absolute guff in the hope people will still take him seriously despite the total amount of guffness which he has posted? There's not on iota of evidence behind any of this!
Whether it's true or not is irrelevant. All you've been offered is a few words backed up with nothing but you've decided to fall for it hook, line and sinker. Bizzare.
gaf aint the be all and end all, and these guys aint right all the time.
but what make these rumours even harder to swallow is the absolutely abysmal ps4 cod ghosts footage on ign.
jesus, it looks terrible (not the ps4s fault btw).
titanfall is also running on a 10yr old engine.
i dont believe it. bf4 absolutely, terrible looking cod no way. titanfall i doubt as well
I want to say I don't believe him because COD isn't a game that's breaking any boundaries on any platform. Ruben stated that Black Ops 2 was running at 1080p on Wii U at E3 last year only for DF to prove that the game was running code ported from the 360 as its base and was running at 720p and then upscaled. But This guy was the one that broke the news on Driveclub being delayed and just 2 days later Sony Announced it!
He has some cred, more cred than a lot of people give him credit for! News Broke about Ryse getting a downgrade and then MS's own First party Confirmed it along with crytek! So I am led to believe.
Its just crazy really, when you think about this whole thing and IW choosing to show of COD on the PS4 instead of the platform that they struck a partnership with, it makes you scratch your head and go "HMM"
Even with a spec bump with over clocking the CPU and the GPU MS's XBOX One seems to still be lacking. Drivers for the console must still being ironed out when they are 30 days from launch! I cannot wait for DF to benchmark all the games... I hope they have staffed up. because That's 6 platform to benchmark performance. And i'm telling you now. MS and these Developers who aren't "allowed" to talk specs and resolution will not be able to hide under the shadows for too much longer!
Downgrade, after downgrade, after more downgrades. Bad news after bad news, after more bad news. And you fanboys just keep on defending it hard. You's must really love MS
Are we really getting to this?
We are interviewing, a guy that posted a rumor.
*Sigh* Not the biggest fan of the Xbox One with all the bad policies, but come on! This is ridiculous.
If a game is 720, 900 or 1080. 20fps, 30fps or 60fps, I want to know from the developers themselves.
There has been some credible sources in the past, but stuff like downgrading Ryse from 150k to 85k came directly from Crytek themselves.
Or when the developers of KI was 720p, or when Ryse was confirmed 900p.
Those sources came from the developers.
I don't want to hear rumors about some guy of some friend that heard this from his neighbor's COD dog who's owner knows a guy that works there that he's somewhat sure if it is or isn't true.
And surely not interview the guy...
To my eyes, it looks 720p at best 900p, certainly 60 frames per second regardless but that's just me imo. I won't go off telling others info I'm not 100% sure of.
hmm, so since the x1 can barely do 900p, now its the 60 fps thats so important. Fanboys are so fake and pathetic!
Not calling u out specifically but what's with everybody saying ps4 people or xbox people. Plenty of people now own both 360 and the ps3, and I'm sure that will happen again with the new consoles. What's with all the silly competition and trolling and picking sides? They're just gaming consoles not political ideas or parties. Be on the side of good games not on the side of corporations that make a game system. If I see a good game ill play it irregardless of the brand.
My only question is why is the xbox one at 500$ and the ps4 only 400$? Is the high price point just so they can maximize there profit for each console sold? If the system doesn't sell well after the holiday I guarantee they will do a nintendo and give it a drastic price cut.
Maybe then it's a combination then of the price for the tech and MS wanting to make a profit (naturally). I agree completely about a kinect-less SKU, i have no desire to pay for a kinect that i will never plug in and im guessing many others feel the same way.
I was thinking that but even then separate both and I doubt kinect 2.0 would be worth 100$ as a stand alone item. Heck the first kinect was 150$ when it came out. They will have to release a kinectless sku if they want to compete. The whole foundation that they were going for next gen crumbled. I guess the third console curse is real.
I think they are charging more because of Kinect and paying fees for using Bluray. Nobody seems to mention Bluray fees and I'm not sure what those fees cost.
Bluray royalties are likely under a dollar, there are $50 bluray players out there so that's not the reason it costs more.
The XB1 has Kinect included along with the HDMI in port and the hardware to support it. That is where the money is going.
Kinectic in addition, the roytles the BluRay also be placed in line production costs. Keep in mind that microsoft is primarily a software company, not electronics, such as the sony. I have no doubt that Sony's production costs are lower, there must be a difference of up to $ 10-20 per unit production costs due to production capacity.
@kneon I just read that in 2009 licensing fees for a Bluray player were $9.50 I haven't found any updated licensing fees.
To answer your question yes. Currently they sell the Kinect for what a $100 and it probably costs $10 to make. With the Kinect bundled in X1 MS makes even more money and MS came out and said awhile back that they will make money day one on hardware sales. Sony will lose money day one.
It bothers me being mostly a 360 gamer this gen, I was one of only 10 people to have the 360 in my area on that chilly November day in 2005, that all the hardware stats favor PS4, which shows were MS priority was when developing this console and Mattrick is gone because of it.
I am getting a PS4 first, it's cheaper and you are getting what you pay for. I will have an eye out for that Kinectless X1 for $350 around next summer.
have you ever read my posts? kid, this so called next gen, has a start completelly different from all others before.
lets see ps1 sold more than 100 millions
ps2 200 millions
ps3 80 millions
sega went out of business
multibillionaire microsoft gets into business with xbox not selling more than 20/30 nmillions mostly in US.
now lets see those 80 million ps3 sold:
SOny bled money till the last one, playstation division have posted losses 7 years in a row, ps3 gen didnt happen as expected, sony didnt capitalise enough to continue in house development and went after AMD.
microsoft did well with 360, cheap hardware makes more profits and invested on kinect, to go after nintendo audience as well.
sony 400 dollar console is a sign that sony have not margin for mistakes, cant let microsoft lead the way. must have a strong install base so they can keep game devs on their side because pockets are empty to buy their simpathy. i believe sony is loosing nmoney at start on each console, but later will catch up, microsoft decided not to loose any dime on each console because they know market is evoluting agressivly with steam, nvidia, mobile devices, pads, etc, so if they need to launch quickly a new gen on about 5 years or so they dont loose money and are capable of a new cicle sooner than later,
Xbox costs more because MS has the attitude that people will pay it. MS has never been shy about over charging their customers.
In my opinion the better specs of the PS4 more than make up for the extra expense of Kinect. PS4 is the better value, nobody can argue that especially if you throw in PS+
The high cost on the Xbox One are due to:
* more Research & Development cost for almost everything. MS spent $100 million researching the controller alone. Think about the cost of Kinect R&D and how tailored the Xbox One. It's got to run into the billions.
* Kinect hardware is quite advanced, with cutting edge technology. For instance, the Time of Flight technology is used to measure light distance travelled!
* The semiconductor parts in the Xbox One are highly customized. For instance, the CGPU is a 5 billion transistor chip. That is got to be expensive to produce.
* Features! The Xbox One has some very neat features, but there are huge cost to develop, test and push this technology out.
Put simply, the Xbox One unlike other consoles is a huge leap in terms of what is really offered. The whole console is designed around features, as opposed to one big hulking pixel pusher.
That is why the Xbox One cost so much, and if it doesn't sell well, MS might just have to start packing in a game, or dropping the price.
The internet explodes based on:
"Famousmortimer: I can't get into specifics even slightly about who it was because a blacklist from activision could murder any game based website. But I can say that, no, he/she isn't like a digital foundry pixel counter. I don't know how the 720p number was come up with, whether it's a guess or was told... and at this point if I asked I would get silence."
and then again:
"That said... this was done with one source and I never felt great about it. I teased it because, honestly, I'm dumb and couldn't control myself. There was a thread that was vaguely about what I heard and what I was trying to find a second source for and I teased and Bishop (the head mod at gaf) gave me a real hard time about it. So when I got home I said what I knew even though I didn't have a second source. As for other folks like Thuway and whoever else.... I have no idea if they have real sources or not. I wouldn't be surprised if my story just made it in a circle so many times that I'm the same source to like 9 different people who all think i'm someone different. The internet is stupid."
This is what fangirls are spreading and whereas straight from the developer, they say 1080p at 60fps on Xbox One:
No one is spreading it as fact, don't you see everyone saying "if", this is a rumour and we are treating it as such.
"Tuesday, 11 June 2013"
Things change i remember KI and Ryse being 1080P.
No the internet exploded because of this:
Oh how quickly we forget... remember Black Ops 2 on Wii U? Recap.
First, there was this:
Then, there was this:
Then finally this:
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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Can you show me the part where developer says 1080p?
They are quoted on the 60FPS, but only EG themselves mention 1080p.
Also that was done in June, it could of been downgraded.
So maybe you should stop being a fanboy.
Hey bithches!! Of course the COD : Ghost is running at 1080p/60 fps on XO.
Check the date of that article :
Published Tuesday, 11 June 2013
And you know what? XO games running on PC's with Nvidia GTX 7xx GPU. Oh man!!!
Even Crytek admits that Ryse was running on PC before :
If you understands what Crytek saying. So, rumors are true. COD : Ghosts and Titanfall run at 720p.
YOU WON'T SEE MY MONEY, MICROSOFT! I want next-gen standard on new consoles.
I couldn't care less if it's 720, the graphics aint all that anyway, I buy games to have fun not freak out over resolutions... I will let all the my little sony fanboys take care of that.
Why the fuck, when anything bad happens to the XbOne, do us Sony fan(BOYS) get blamed?
Holy crap how did this get approved?
a rumour on top of another rumour from an anonymous and unreliable forum poster?
Come on N4g. lame. so lame. Kids stuff.
Funny how this rumor comes out after we began to get some TF news. Hmm Sound like some shill smear campaign
Let's be honest here,Albert Penello himself can't even give a solid answer to this question,how would you reach his answer if you read his latest comment on Twitter ?
I would say he's giving away the answer and just saying that the rumors are true,I hope not but his answer is just cringe worthy.
lol, yep. Getting sad, now. And with the Titanfall announcement yesterday... hmmmmm....
""I've seen COD: Ghosts running on Xbox One. It looks f'n amazing. Wait for real footage, then judge for yourself." "
That's.... confirmation? ahahahaha.
This whole episode reeks of desperation. Not surprising, since the ONE worthwhile PS4 launch exclusive is now shrouded in fog... literally.
@ studio
"I would say he's giving away the answer "
i would strongly disagree, sorry
That is not the message of the twitter I read.
It might be the message, if you frame it in the context of rumours, fear mongering and fanboy rants that precede the twitter.
That may be worth some deep thought.
The "ONE worthwhile PS4 launch exclusive" If you are talking about Killzone because people keep praising it and it getting so much attention, I agree that it looks very worthwhile and extremely fun, I am very excited to play it.
But I will be picking up a ton of other exclusive that I consider worthwhile, just my opinion but the PS4 has the games I want at launch...
This sort of news is only a problem for people who need numbers to justify their ego.
The only time this will affect me is if the games dont look better that the 360 counterparts. Which I can confidently say will not be the case.
Sure it's nice for bragging rights to have the full bell n whistle but some take these things way too seriously.
Phil Spencer is right "I don't know what 3rd parties are doing, I know what our 1st parties are doing".
This is why Forza 5 is releasing on time at 1080p "native" 60fps and Drive Club is releasing sometime in 2014.
You can only control the quality of your company, if others want to slackoff, can't help that.
Forza 5 will be a mess on release. Bookmark my comment so you can come back after release and tell me how the jaggies and screen tearing look.
Well, Driveclub will be released in early 2014 : january or february.
January or February are still launch PS4 months in some countries.
Spot on and this is why Gaf is considered the place to go to get rumours and dispel OR bullcrap.
Only people I see that hate gaf are the ones that get banned.
"all hell breaks loose"
lol. You're kidding... right?
"Q: What do you think about this rumor? I know you said that you don't know if it's true or not, but you must have a feeling about it. Do you believe this rumor or not?
Famousmortimer: Earlier in the day I didn't. The non-answers from Albert are making me think it's true. For those who follow gaf you know I had the driveclub thing also.... and each non-answer was further proof (or, at the very least, relaxed me... not wanting to be wrong on a big stage is nerve wracking)."
This is nothing short of SonyGaf reacting to the Titanfall release date, and a lack of exclusive launch titles. Some serious grasping at straws both here and there.
Pennelo said of COD:
"I've seen COD: Ghosts running on Xbox One. It looks f'n amazing. Wait for real footage, then judge for yourself."
RYSE running at 900p, and you are all convinced Titanfall and COD are 720P based on... an absence of evidence?
lol. Slavestation faithful getting more desperate by the day! "ITS ALL OVER! ahahahaha.
Funny you say slavestation when Sony are the ones that allow devs to take their time to finish games, and MS has devs crunch to get games done for launch (crytek) and not allowing for a life.
LOL hell's BEEN breaking loose on the XB1 since Microsoft opened their mouths about it
Seriously, these games run on 360 in 720p and you really believe XBox One version will same share resolution? REALLY? You're delusional.
Ohh N4G! your Sony fan are about as silly as Fox News viewers ....interviewing a man who spread a rumor from a source he isn't sure about....Stupidity clearly has no bounds....is is boarder line libel.


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JAIPUR, India (AP) — Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf was in India on Saturday on a daylong private visit to a Muslim shrine.
Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid hosted a lunch for Ashraf in the western city of Jaipur. Khurshid told reporters that no substantive issues were discussed at the lunch.
Ashraf later traveled by helicopter to visit the shrine of the Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti in the nearby town of Ajmer. Sufism is a more mystical form of Islam that is practiced in many parts of South Asia.
Ashraf and members of his family offered prayers at the shrine amid tight security.
The visit is the first by a senior Pakistani official since a spike in violence on the makeshift border that divides the disputed Kashmir region between India and Pakistan.
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LYNCHBURG, Va. – The King College Men's and Women's Track and Field teams jumped, ran and threw back into action at the Liberty Open (Lynchburg, Va.) for a two-day event that concluded on Saturday evening. The Tornado continued where it left off setting multiple school indoor records and several personal records falling.
King distance runners had a strong day on both sides of the track, setting three new King indoor track records over the weekend. Spencer Frantom (Morristown, Tenn.) took home the gold medal in the 5,000-meter race with a time of 15:36.69, also good for the new personal and school indoor record. Teammate Naseem Haje (Hagerstown, Md.) finished in second place with a strong 15:44.34 finish time.
On the women's side of the 5,000-meter race, Kendra Sokol (Kingsport, Tenn.) also set a new personal and school indoor track record. Her time in the 5k race (18:43.93) earned her a second place finish in the event and the new top spot in the indoor program history. Junior Hannah Witt (Mountain City, Tenn.) ran strong with a top-5 finish, clocking in at 18:52.77.
Danielle Alfano (Chattanooga, Tenn.) finished the one-mile run with King's third record-setting time. Her time of 5:19.77 set a new indoor mark in the event and granted her a third place finish by less than a second to UNC-Wilmington's Erin Brennan.
In the 200-meter dash, Reggie Warren (Knoxville, Tenn.) finished in the top-15 of the event, crossing the finish line at 23.30. Earl Rahming (Nassau, Bahamas) closed in on his goal of finishing below the National-qualifying time of 49.2 seconds with a fourth place, 50.97 second finish in the 400-meter dash.
Among notable King jumper finishes, Shelbie Burchfield (Morristown, Tenn.) finished tied for sixth in the women's high jump with a 1.58-meter jump. The jump also set a new personal record for the freshman.
Maegan Henry (Bluefield, Va.) set a new personal record in the women's weight throw, reaching the 12.09-meter mark on her first throw of her set. Her throw was good for a 19thplace finish.
Forrest Stuart (Appalachia, Va.) stood out among the King male jumpers, finishing tenth in the men's high jump, reaching 1.84 meters.
"I was really pleased with the overall performance of the team and some individuals," said Head Coach Peter Dalton. "We still have a long way to go, but considering the long layoff we had we did really well."
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Patti Stanger, Bravo's Millionaire Matchmaker, is back in Los Angeles as the fifth season of her show premieres this evening.
Out of the goodness of her heart
and not at all to promote the new season, Patti is taking it upon herself to dole out advice to one of the most high profile celebrities who is embarking on a new relationship. Are you listening Jennifer Aniston ? Because she's talking to you about your romance with Justin Theroux!
In a new interview with Radaronline, Patti discusses the new beau of everyone's favorite Friend. She says of Jen's new man, "I kind of like him, but here's my problem — he was with the last girl for 15 or 16 years and one day in walks the girl of his dreams and he says bye, see ya, wouldn't want to be ya! There's a karmic payback for that. He's handsome and he likes her and she likes him, they've got good body language, so it's a matter of what really went down that he jumped ship from this girl he lived with for 16 years, something's not right there."
Patti believes that things are moving too quickly for Aniston and Theroux. Stating her own professional opinion, Patti explains that it's odd that Jennifer Aniston would jump so quickly into a relationship with a man who left his significant other for her. After all, Brad Pitt was a huge bad guy when he left his famous wife for the much younger and mysterious Angelina Jolie. Patti reminds us, "She b*tched about Angelina stealing Brad from her!"
According to many media outlets, the next step in the couple's whirlwind romance is to start a family, and Patti agrees that we'll be hearing something along those lines very soon. She admits, "I feel like [Jen] might pull the pregnancy card on him." Patti continues, "Maybe she has, she isn't as skinny as she used to be, she's looking great, and she's glowing."
Clearly Jennifer Aniston isn't playing by Patti's rules, and something tells me we won't be seeing Jen as a celebrity guest wanting Patti's advice on the upcoming Millionaire Matchmaker season. Of course, I don't know why…shouldn't America's sweetheart want relationship advice from a single 50-year-old woman who just last year broke off her own engagement? Sign her up–and me too, while we're at it!
Patti didn't end things there as she also dished out some relationship advice to the single gals on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills!
When it comes to the newly divorced Camille Grammer, Patti states: "Camille: I would love to see her with a guy who's an entrepreneur off the carpet…I'd like to see like a Silicon Valley billionaire — somebody who really appreciates her brain."
And what about Taylor Armstrong, who's only been single for a matter of weeks? "Taylor needs to take a dating detox break," Patti assesses. "I knew for years what was going on and it's a really rough road. Abuse is abuse. She needs to clean herself up. Get rid of the negative vibration. Find out who Taylor is before she steps off the curb with anybody else."
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The Chicago Blues Festival, several neighborhood festivals, an international soccer double-header at Soldier Field and the Chicago World Naked Bike Ride are among weekend events that could snarl traffic in Chicago this weekend.
The blues event takes over Grant Park Saturday and Sunday, closing Columbus Drive and Jackson Drive in the immediate park area. Lake Shore Drive remains open.
The Wells Street Art Festival closes Well Street between North Avenue and Division Street Saturday and Sunday. LaSalle Street or Clark Street are possible alternates.
The soccer games, part of the CONCACAF Gold Cup competition, are both Sunday at Soldier Field, El Salvador vs. Cuba at 5 p.m. and Mexico vs. Costa Rica at 7 p.m. But traffic could be affected most of the day since there's a 2 p.m. festival that precedes the on-field action.
The World Naked Bike Ride, with riders in cities throughout the world riding mostly in the buff, refuses to disclose its exact location in Chicago beforehand, but asks riders to mass outside Harpo Studios, 1025 W. Randolph St., at 6 p.m. today, and the ride will take place between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. according to the ride's Web site. A spectator area likely will be near Wrigley Field and Addison and Clark streets around 10 p.m.
Other events that will close streets include the Ribfest Chicago Saturday and Sunday on the North Side, closing Lincoln Avenue between Irving Park Road and Warner Avenue in the North Center/Roscoe Village neighborhoods; the Fiesta Back of the Yards Saturday and Sunday, closing 47th Street between Ashland Avenue and Damen Avenue on the South Side; and the MidSommarfest Saturday and Sunday, closing Clark Street between Foster Avenue and Catalpa Avenue in the Andersonville neighborhood on the North Side; and Old Town Art Fair, closing portions of North Park Avenue, Menomonee Street, Lincoln Park West and Wisconsin Street on the North Side Saturday and Sunday near Lincoln Park.


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In Defense of Inflamed Rhetoric
The awesome stupidity of the calls to tamp down political speech in the wake of the Giffords shooting.
See Slate's complete coverage of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting and arrest of Jared Lee Loughner.
The attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and the killing of six innocents outside a Tucson Safeway has bolstered the ongoing argument that when speaking of things political, we should all avoid using inflammatory rhetoric and violent imagery.
"Shooting Throws Spotlight on State of U.S. Political Rhetoric," reports CNN. "Bloodshed Puts New Focus on Vitriol in Politics," states the New York Times. Keith Olbermann clocked overtime on Saturday to deliver a commentary subtitled "The political rhetoric of the country must be changed to prevent acts of domestic terrorism." The home page of the Washington Post offered this headline to its story about the shooting: "Rampage Casts Grim Light on U.S. Political Discord."
The lead spokesman for the anti-inflammatory movement, however, was Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, whose jurisdiction includes Tucson. Said Dupnik at a Jan. 8 press conference in answer to questions about the criminal investigation:
I'd just like to say that when you look at unbalanced people, how they are—how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths, about tearing down the government, the anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And unfortunately, Arizona, I think, has become sort of the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry.
Embedded in Sheriff Dupnik's ad hoc wisdom were several assumptions. First, that strident, anti-government political views can be easily categorized as vitriolic, bigoted, and prejudicial. Second, that those voicing strident political views are guilty of issuing Manchurian Candidate-style instructions to commit murder and mayhem to the "unbalanced." Third, that the Tucson shooter was inspired to kill by political debate or by Sarah Palin's "target" map or other inflammatory outbursts. Fourth, that we should calibrate our political speech in such a manner that we do not awaken the Manchurian candidates among us.
And, fifth, that it's a cop's role to set the proper dimensions of our political debate. Hey, Dupnik, if you've got spare time on your hands, go write somebody a ticket.
Sheriff Dupnik's political sermon came before any conclusive or even circumstantial proof had been offered that the shooter had been incited by anything except the gas music from Jupiter playing inside his head.
For as long as I've been alive, crosshairs and bull's-eyes have been an accepted part of the graphical lexicon when it comes to political debates. Such "inflammatory" words as targeting, attacking, destroying, blasting, crushing, burying, knee-capping, and others have similarly guided political thought and action. Not once have the use of these images or words tempted me or anybody else I know to kill. I've listened to, read—and even written!—vicious attacks on government without reaching for my gun. I've even gotten angry, for goodness' sake, without coming close to assassinating a politician or a judge.
From what I can tell, I'm not an outlier. Only the tiniest handful of people—most of whom are already behind bars, in psychiatric institutions, or on psycho-meds—can be driven to kill by political whispers or shouts. Asking us to forever hold our tongues lest we awake their deeper demons infantilizes and neuters us and makes politicians no safer.
The call by Sheriff Dupnik and others to take our political conversation down a few notches might make sense if anybody had been calling for the assassination in the first place, which they hadn't. And if they had, there are effective laws to prosecute those who move language outside of the metaphorical. I can't be overly critical of the sheriff. After all, he's the one who has spent his career witnessing how threats can turn into violence: gang wars, contract killings, neighborhood rows, domestic disputes, bar arguments, and all the rest.
The great miracle of American politics is that although it can tend toward the cutthroat and thuggish, it is almost devoid of genuine violence outside of a few scuffles and busted lips now and again. With the exception of Saturday's slaughter, I'd wager that in the last 30 years there have been more acts of physical violence in the stands at Philadelphia Eagles home games than in American politics.
Any call to cool "inflammatory" speech is a call to police all speech, and I can't think of anybody in government, politics, business, or the press that I would trust with that power. As Jonathan Rauch wrote brilliantly in Harper's in 1995, "The vocabulary of hate is potentially as rich as your dictionary, and all you do by banning language used by cretins is to let them decide what the rest of us may say." Rauch added, "Trap the racists and anti-Semites, and you lay a trap for me too. Hunt for them with eradication in your mind, and you have brought dissent itself within your sights."
Our spirited political discourse, complete with name-calling, vilification—and, yes, violent imagery—is a good thing. Better that angry people unload their fury in public than let it fester and turn septic in private. The wicked direction the American debate often takes is not a sign of danger but of freedom. And I'll punch out the lights of anybody who tries to take it away from me.
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My son is nearly 3 months old now (so i thought i should post here, seeing as he is no longer going to be classified as a newborn in a few days)
When we first started nursing, it was HORRIBLE! Scabbed, bleeding nipples, followed by a severe thrush infection that went untreated for a week, then mastitis, poor latch...ugh! It finally got better and we have been breastfeeding well for nearly 6 weeks.
But all of a sudden, breastfeeding has taken a turn for the worse.
Nursing has become so painful that my teeth chatter when he latches on. While my son nurses, he flails his arm around, yanking at my hair, my shirt, clawing at the breast and pounding on my chest. He twists his head from side to side while nursing, lets go, relatches himself....its getting SO painful!
At first i thought "okay, maybe its when my milk lets down" but he does it throughout the entire nursing session! And on both sides!
I've tried every position in the book, from having him nurse sitting up, cross cradle, football, side lying. The pain isn't as bad as when i had thrush but it is similar to when i first started to breastfeed.
He nurses about every 2 hours during the day and goes for about 4 hours at night. It used to be he was only fussy while nursing if he was gassy and it was only during the evening...now its every. single. time he nurses. Except for those extremely rare occasions when he is quiet and calm and tucks in nicely while feeding. Each feeding takes anywhere from 10-30 mins and I let him finish before removing him from the breast.
I've also been starving myself trying to figure out what might be causing his gas and colic. I've cut out dairy, eggs, soy, caffiene, "gassy" foods like brocolli, etc...to see if it helps his fussiness while nursing but it hasn't.
I just don't know what to do. What would cause my nipples to start hurting so much? I'm pretty sure its not thrush because I've had it before and my nipples only hurt when he nurses. His latch looks fine. And why is he so fussy while nursing now? We were doing so well and it makes me sad and kinda start to dread nursing because of the way he acts.