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Can you really blame D'Antoni for losing with this roster? Phil Jackson wouldn't be able to win with this roster, they just suck too much. They suck. As a Knicks fan it pains me to say it, but our players are awful. The ones with talent are young and undeveloped (Gallo, Hill, Chandler to a lesser extent) and the veterans are streaky players and some of them (I'm looking at YOU Duhon) just shouldn't be starting on an NBA team, period.
When D'Antoni gets a legitimate NBA roster and underperforms, then maybe I'll call for his head. I mean he had JARED JEFFRIES starting at the 4 last night. You can't honestly expect him to win given a roster like that. Once we dump Chris Duhon for a legit PG and replace Jeffries with someone who can, I dunno, score, maybe then I'll call for D'Antoni's head if his team performs like this.
But as it stands now, you didn't really expect him to win, did you?


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Merc launches off-road training programme
Mercedes inaugurates its off-road track and joins hand with FMSCI to spot new talent
Have you ever fancied taking the mighty Mercedes-Benz GL and M-class SUVs for some mud plugging? If yes, then here's your chance to do that at the company's Pune facility.
Mercedes-Benz, under its Performance Drive platform, has inaugurated its globally benchmarkerd off-road test track at its manufacturing facility in Pune. This will enable the participants to experience the Mercedes-Benz SUVs on the specially created off-road track. You could opt for a day-long session at the off-road track which will allow you to push the Merc SUVs to the limits under the supervision of trained professionals. It also allows the participants to try their own SUVs on the track.
The manufacturer has also joined hands with the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI) to foster young aspirants for a career in motorsport. Here, from a pool of 50 applicants, the top three drivers get a chance to be a part of Mercedes' training programme in Europe. This will be an all-expenses paid programme and Mercedes hopes it will help garner new talent in Motorsport in India.
The Mercedes-Benz Performance Drive platform also includes Track day experience, International Driving experiences, an AMG driving academy and Star drive experience.
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After eight years, Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty will soon leave the governor's office. DFL Gov.-elect Mark Dayton will take office Jan. 3. Pawlenty spoke with MPR's Morning Edition to discuss his tenure as governor and his future.
Cathy Wurzer: You earned a reputation as being a pretty savvy gamesman as governor. What was your secret to outmaneuvering the Legislature?
Gov. Tim Pawlenty: I think any governor has the bully pulpit of the single voice, being an executive you speak with that opportunity and it's different than the Legislature. They have many, many people. They go off in different directions; they're a little less organized. But the chief executive of the state or the chief executive of any operation, I think, really has the opportunity to define the debate in a way a larger group of people has a harder time doing. I was willing to draw some lines in the sand and back it up. And so, when it came to the big changes I thought the state needed -- keeping a lid on taxes and driving down spending, trying to reform education, health care and more -- I was willing to say, 'If it requires a special session, if it requires vetoes, if it requires a battle we'll have one,' but in the end we're going to make progress on these issues, and we did.
Wurzer: You've been criticized, though, for not having one big, homerun kind of achievement such as the Minnesota Miracle or MinnCare under Gov. Arne Carlson. Some people say it's because you didn't have a fully cooperative Legislature. Would you agree with that?
Pawlenty: I would certainly agree that I didn't have a fully cooperative Legislature. But I also reject the notion that progress is only defined by some as what more can government do that it's not currently doing. In my case, the need that I saw and the vision I saw for the state of Minnesota was that government spending was growing too fast, too far, for too long and it had to be reined in, and that change of government reduction is the reform and in fact it will be confirmed by the future.
When you look at the challenges the state is facing, the country is facing and most of the world are facing you have a government bubble. You have a management and labor just like General Motors of a decade ago. It ran up cost too high, too far, too fast, for too long; the revenues projected just didn't warrant it and it had to be restructured. And that's what's going to happen in Minnesota government and that's why the things that we have said about Minnesota's future -- the need to limit taxes, the need to reduce spending, the need to have market based reforms in health care, not government based reforms, and the need to bust up the teachers' unions' iron clad grip on schools and open them up for learning.
Wurzer: And you didn't do that.
Pawlenty: Well, we did do a lot of that. And so, those are the things we took on. The notion that accomplishment is some new government program I would say just the opposite. Our accomplishment is we reined in and reduced government ... not expanded it.
Wurzer: During your tenure, you faced a series of budget deficits and you solved them in part through a series of budget shifts, accounting shifts. In hindsight, did that leave the state in a good fiscal position?
Pawlenty: A couple of things, we had a unique time here over the past eight years because we experienced two recessions and the most recent one was the worst economic downturn since World War II, and almost every state has the same or similar circumstances to Minnesota, so it's not unique to Minnesota.
But this deficit that we're facing now, much of it can easily erased by simply making permanent the changes that we proposed during the last session and through my unallotments earlier. The legislature refused to do that.
It's not that I was unwilling to do that. I publicly and repeatedly said, 'make these unallotments permanent.' They refused to do that. I guarantee you that in the next few months they'll do it anyhow, so that decision or request I made will be affirmed, but this notion that I was unable to do that is factually not correct.
Wurzer: You're leaving with a projected $6.2 billion deficit. That doesn't look good.
Pawlenty: It goes like this: If you don't enroll in Obamacare, the $6.1 billion deficit becomes $5.7 [billion]. if you make all the unallotments that I did permanent that $5.7 [billion] becomes essentially $2.7 [billion], and if you just cut in half the rate of growth of state spending increase that gets that $2.7 [billion] down to $1.7 [billion] or less and then rest of it, I don't want to say is easy, but it's manageable. And frankly is no different than the rest of the country, so you can solve most of this deficit that the state is facing that seems very large, in my view, without breaking a sweat.
Wurzer: And that's looking out in the out years, as well? Because, as you know, there have been national news stories about other states facing big budget crisis even in the out-years, even in years to come, because of fiscal mismanagement.
Pawlenty: In the current two-year cycle that we're in, we're actually going to end in surplus, in the black, Cathy. So, it is the out-years, the two years after that, this deficit actually relates to. There is no current deficit in Minnesota. The current will end in the black. In every two years budget cycle that I've been governor the budget's been balanced, we've reduced taxes in this state. We've done government reform, health care reform, education reform, energy reform.
And so, to my critics who say not much got done, I would just respectfully disagree. And the deficit, again, is a fairly simple matter to dramatically reduce it or get rid of all of it if they simply make the reductions or payment deferrals permanent, which I told them to do last spring.
Wurzer: So, that would mean also the payment deferrals, the payments to schools, making that permanent as well?
Pawlenty: That's correct.
Wurzer: You have a lot of experience working with a legislature controlled by the opposite party. A governor like Dayton is going to face that same situation when he takes office next month. What advice do you have for him?
Pawlenty: I wouldn't purport to give him advice because while I get a long with him interpersonally, almost all of his political views are just fundamentally different than mine, so he's going to have a different message and a different approach. I'll obviously be rooting for the Republican Legislature to continue the kinds of the things I've been talking about.
But, again, the executive, whether it's me or a governor like Dayton or former governors, future governors -- they tend to have an advantage just because of the nature of the office or the position that it's just easier to lead of the division, to drive a message and to draw lines in the sand if you're in an executive position than if you're in the Legislature.
Wurzer: I was a little surprised to hear that you expressed some regret about not seeking a third term knowing what you know now that there would be a Republican-controlled Legislature. Why? What would you like to do? What would you like to have done with a Republican-controlled Legislature?
Pawlenty: Well, you know I said that a little tongue and cheek the other day up in Duluth, and it was based on the hypothetical and me saying if I had known then what I know now, which is a complete sweep by the Republicans in both the House and the Senate in the Minnesota Legislature for the first time since party designation in the Legislature, would I have liked to stay as governor with that scenario? Well, yeah, I would have loved to have done that, but I made my decision some many months ago, almost two years ago, and I'm very comfortable with my decision.
I don't regret it in that regard, I just thought after having been here and fought really hard with a mostly Democratic Legislature for most of the years that I was here, it would have been nice to have a Legislature that would have been more reform-minded and more forward-leaning when it came to a number of the big initiatives.
There's many, many, many I could go through, but I'll just give you one example. I mean we've done some great education reforms in our state during my time. We threw out the school standards, got some new ones, had the first statewide performance pay program for teachers in the country. But when you look at the achievement gap, particularly for poor, disadvantaged children, I think one of the best things we could do for them is to give them more school choice, give them scholarships to be able to go to any school they want, public or private. And of course with the Democrats there, they are just so beholden to the teacher unions that they are, you know, unwilling to take on that kind of reform. It's unfortunate, and I think the Republicans would have been willing to do that.
Wurzer: And you could have done, as you say, more in the area of school reform and school choice.
Pawlenty: Of course. And that's just one of many examples. If you go down the list and look at health care, for example, Democrats try to take that in a government-centric model, Republicans try to take it in a market and consumer-based model. When you look at issues like tax reform and being pro-jobs and pro-business, Republicans would take that in a different direction than the Democrats. And so, again, we made progress on all of these things and stopped many of the bad ideas -- I think most of the bad ideas that the Democrats have put up. But with a Republican Legislature you just get so much more done.
Wurzer: Your critics say you have uneven follow-through. What do you say to that?
Pawlenty: We did some of that intentionally knowing it wouldn't pass, because the job of governor in part is to cast a vision for the future of the state, a direction, to create ideas, to get the debate going. With a Democratic Legislature we weren't ... thinking they were just going to pass all of our stuff, but I thought it was important to call them out and to try to show where they stood.
Their rhetoric is always, you know, we're for the poor and the disadvantaged, but the best thing that we could do for the poor and disadvantage is get them a skill or an education, and when they lock arms with the teacher unions and put the interest of a labor union movement ahead of what's in the best interest of our children and the students and our citizens for the future, that's a debate that's worth having. And whether they pass it or not, that's on them.
So, first of all, we did get a lot done and the record reflects that, and No. 2, for working with a mostly Democratic Legislature, there's going to be some differences of opinion and a lot of those folks, you look at the leadership of the DFL that served here when I was here ... they just aren't real open to doing things different.
Wurzer: What's the biggest lesson you've learned as governor?
Pawlenty: Well, to keep good humor, because it's a challenging job but it's a very meaningful job, it's a tremendous responsibility and opportunity. Two things, I guess, Cathy: One is the brilliance of this state, while government has an important role to play, is really with the people of this state. They are kind, they are generous, they are charitable, they are engaged, they're knowledgeable, and you know the people of Minnesota is what makes this state great, and drawing on that strength.
Even though they don't always agree with you, most of them ... they'll say, 'look I didn't vote for you but here's my view,' and you can have a great discussion with them. So listen to them and I think they'll guide you well. And empower them and I think they'll do great thing. And then two, in this job you gotta be willing to kind of rise above as best you can the daily back and forth, because there's a lot of sniping that goes on. If you get dragged down into that it's, you know, you get mired down in a lot of snarky details and you gotta keep your eye on the big picture.
Wurzer: I'm thinking you're not going to take this opportunity with me to announce whether you'll run for president, but why would you even want the job?
Pawlenty: That's something I'm thinking about, mostly from the perspective of what does the country need. Is there something that I believe or that I've done that, you know, I can bring to the table that's unique or semi-unique? I love this country, I think it's the greatest country the world's ever known, I think it's got tremendous challenges, particularly in terms of its future financial obligations. It's not unlike Minnesota in the sense that Minnesota was living, you know, on government spending going up too fast for too long, like I said. But, you know, there's other considerations that go into it, and family and the other opportunities that may present themselves. So I just don't know for sure what I'm going to do. I'm certainly considering it but I just haven't finally decided.
Wurzer: Are you ready for the give and take of being on the national stage? It's a nasty business.
Pawlenty: You're talking to, you know, probably the first fiscal conservative governor the state's had in generations, or at least decades. ... What I've done here is to take on a culture that, while there's been some Republicans elected here or there, at least historically they've been more of what they used to call Rockefeller Republicans, but I'm the first one who said, 'you know, there's a new day, and there's some new rules and there's some lines in the sand.' And I took on a political culture here that leans pretty hard the other way, and so you get a lot of people sniping at you, but you just gotta keep your compass set and know who you are and what you believe and keep moving forward. Whether it's in politics or life, I think there are good lessons.
Wurzer: So you say you're prepared for the national stage, in other words.
Pawlenty: Well I'm not addressing the national stage.
Wurzer: At this point.
Pawlenty: No. Well, obviously anytime you take on a tough job whether it's that or something else, you gotta have thick skin.
(Interview transcribed by MPR News reporter intern Anissa Stocks and reporter Elizabeth Dunbar.)


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Stabilization Fund Assessments and the Road Ahead
Credit unions and the NCUA have made tremendous progress over the past five years in resolving the corporate credit union crisis.
Now that the remaining projected Corporate Stabilization Fund assessments are lower than the total assessments charged through 2013, it's a good time to reflect on the road ahead, as well as on how far we've come.
In 2008, five troubled corporate credit unions suffered massive declines in the market value of their investment portfolios due to growing credit losses resulting in other than temporary impairment charges under accounting rules. As a result, the corporates lost billions of dollars, which depleted their capital, and many member credit unions began withdrawing funds, creating severe liquidity pressures.
Many other credit unions began putting their remaining membership capital on notice for withdrawal, further straining the corporates.
It became clear that these corporates could not recover on their own, as they were experiencing insurmountable market and economic turmoil. Only the NCUA's intervention and extraordinary liquidity support stemmed this lethal outflow.
Thorough reviews by the Government Accountability Office and the NCUA's Office of the Inspector General confirmed the NCUA's actions to conserve the five troubled corporate credit unions were necessary and timely.
The five corporates were no longer viable from three perspectives:
- Economically, their assets were worth far less than their liabilities under both fair and realizable value bases.
- Based on accounting rules, they were required to take investment write-downs through their income statements, depleting all capital in U.S. Central and WesCorp and leaving the three other corporates critically undercapitalized.
- These corporates were illiquid and depended on extraordinary government support.
Consistent with principles set by Congress for consumer credit unions, the NCUA needed to take prompt corrective action or risk greater losses.
If the NCUA had let the failed corporates continue to operate, the consequences would have been untenable.
- If the full extent of the failed corporates' losses had cascaded down to consumer credit unions, as many as 2,500 more credit unions would have failed. The first wave of more than $30 billion in capital losses would have caused 850 to 1,200 credit unions to fail. These losses would have depleted the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund. Compounding these losses, all federally insured credit unions would have been forced to write off most of their 1% Share Insurance Fund deposit.
- At the same time, the NCUA would have been required to charge multiple premiums to restore the SIF to its minimum normal operating level. These write-downs and premiums would have triggered a second wave of losses, causing another 100 to 1,300 credit unions to fail. The total cost to the system would have been in excess of $40 billion.
Instead, the NCUA's innovative actions saved the credit union system from a catastrophic collapse.
Managing the Losses
As part of the share insurance system, all federally insured credit unions have borne the losses from the failed corporates. To manage those costs over time – rather than assessing credit unions for billions of dollars in corporate losses in a single year – the NCUA worked with Congress to create the Corporate Stabilization Fund. Later we created NCUA Guaranteed Notes to reduce the immediate impact of the legacy asset losses and damage to the system. To align the Stabilization Fund with the lifespan of the NGNs, we worked with the Treasury Department to extend the lifespan of the fund from 2016 to 2021.
From 2009 through 2012, short-term cash needs to satisfy maturing obligations of the corporates' asset management estates drove annual assessments.
Now the primary remaining obligation is repaying Treasury borrowings and interest.
The NCUA has discretion on the timing of Treasury repayments, and the loss projections on the legacy assets have improved this year. In setting the 2013 assessment, the NCUA considered:
- The agency has $6 billion in base borrowing authority shared by the Share Insurance Fund and the Stabilization Fund. Of that, $4.7 billion is committed to outstanding Treasury borrowing, leaving only $1.3 billion available for cash management, including obligations related to the NGNs.
- Realized losses on the legacy assets to date, about $7.5 billion, exceed the depleted capital from the failed corporates by about $2 billion.
- Stabilization Fund assessments to date total about $4.8 billion, including the 2013 assessment. Even with the improving legacy asset projections, assessments to date are still short of the low end of the projected net remaining assessments range.
With these factors in mind, the NCUA Board determined that the best available option when setting the 2013 Stabilization Fund assessment was 8 basis points, the lowest assessment in the past three years.
Next Page: The Road Ahead
An improving economy and growing credit union strength are helping to smooth the road ahead. If loss projections continue to improve, the low end of the range may decline to the point where no future assessments would be needed – provided actual losses come out at the bottom of the range.
The NCUA has the flexibility to take industry performance and future uncertainties into account when determining Stabilization Fund assessments. If losses are higher, the NCUA must make guaranty payments to NGN investors. If losses are lower, NGN investors will get paid faster, saving credit unions money and making funds available at the end of the life of the NGNs to repay remaining resolution obligations or be refunded to credit unions.
Based on projected residual legacy assets value, the NCUA Board may have more flexibility in future years to wait for the NGNs to mature to repay the Treasury in whole or in part.
Keep in mind that "projected net remaining assessments" means the estimated remaining costs to be borne by credit unions over the life of the NGN program as a result of any shortfall of cash inflows versus outflows. However, it does not account for the timing of cash flows. Remaining cash flows include guaranty payments on some NGNs, assets remaining to be monetized from the failed corporates, and some projected residual value remaining from the legacy assets collateralizing the NGNs that will not be available until the NGNs mature.
One last point: NCUA's projections are driven primarily by independent modeling of cash flows that are updated regularly by the investment management firm BlackRock Solutions. Projections are point-in-time estimates that can change.
The legacy assets are very complicated; it's hard to precisely predict borrowers' behavior and where the economy is headed. There are other factors, such as potential future legal recoveries, that can't be estimated at this time.
The corporate crisis threatened the future of the entire credit union system and demanded decisive intervention. Based on the best possible information, the NCUA created a sound, transparent strategy to get the industry through an unprecedented situation.
Each year the NCUA carefully evaluates all the considerations that go into assessments, consistent with legacy assets and credit union performance. We are confident we will bring this difficult chapter in the industry's history to a successful close.
Larry Fazio is director of the NCUA's Office of Examination and Insurance.


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This thread is cracking me up!!!
I love your "Im queer" comment, cantfightaneclipse! Im not a Rob fan either, so I find that very funny!
& the question about Ed/Jake in a foot race. Edward would win because he's faster than a normal vampire (esme says so in the baseball scene in the book, and James says so in the fight scene in the movie) and Jacob can only run fast enough to catch a vampire going at their normal speed (he says so in New Moon, I believe)
Now for my Twilight humor! I didnt make this up, I saw the phrase etched onto a button/pin thing on customizegirl.com, so kudos to whoever made it up, but its not me!
The pin said>> I want to La Push Jacob off a cliff!
You guys may not find that funny, but it crack sme up every time I read it! Hopefully some of you are like me & easily entertained os you can at least get a good smile out of that!


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COLL-E 105 22810 Darwinian Medicine (3 cr.)(Cook)(N & M)
Darwinian medicine may be defined as the application of modern evolutionary theory to considerations of human health and illness. Also called "evolutionary" medicine it represents the intersection of medical knowledge and practice with disciplines such as human biology, medical anthropology, psychology and physiology. This course will begin with an examination of both the evolutionary and medical explanatory models for human health and illness. It will proceed through a series of topics designed to show the breadth of impact that evolutionary theory may have on our lives today. A persistent theme will be the difference between proximate or immediate causes of disease (the medical model) and the possibility that there may also be ultimate or very long-term causes best understood through an evolutionary interpretation.
One goal of the course is to demonstrate the utility of the scientific method in suggesting answers to complex questions such as mentioned above. How do scientists from diverse disciplines use data to support their arguments? What does it mean to test an hypothesis? A second goal of this course is to try to emphasize those situations and conditions of health (or illness) that appear to require both proximate and ultimate explanations rather than simply one or the other. In reality, it is the complex interplay of genes, environment, and human behavior that affects much of our health and illness experience today. A third goal of this course is to reduce the fear or uneasiness that many students feel towards data (numbers) that appear in tables or graphs in material that they are reading. We will devote time to the presentation and discussion of data and how the numbers can be interpreted and used to bolster or challenge an argument.


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Captaincy convinces Zadkovich to stay
The lure of leading the Newcastle Jets into the future helped convince sought-after midfielder Ruben Zadkovich to remain with the A-League club for another two seasons.
Zadkovich on Monday signed a new deal with the Jets after knocking back other contract offers from Europe, Asia and Australia.
The 26-year-old took over the club captaincy in December and said the opportunity to keep the role fulltime following the shock departure of former skipper Jobe Wheelhouse was a major carrot.
"I've thoroughly enjoyed my time as captain this year, replacing Jobe, and the attitude of the young players we have here is first class so it makes my job pretty easy," Zadkovich said on Monday.
"It's (the long-term captaincy) something we'll talk about with the coach and the backroom staff but it's something I'll be looking to hold on to, that arm band.
"I'd like to think while I've had it I've done a decent job so if I can keep setting the example at training and on game day, the team will follow and the arm band will stay mine."
Wheelhouse stunned teammates last week by quitting after being told it was unlikely he would be offered a new contract by the Jets at the end of the season.
Despite suggestions he and Wheelhouse had been vying for the same contract, Zadkovich said he never felt in competition with Wheelhouse.
"I never felt that because he's a great player and a really close friend," Zadkovich.
"He knows above all else his friendship is what's most important to me and football comes second to that."
Zadkovich spent two seasons with Sydney FC and had a brief spell with Derby County in England before joining the Jets.
He was reportedly a target of A-League rookies Western Sydney for next season and said he also had offers from abroad.
"It was something that we looked at but the combination of the place, the people, this new leadership role, that outweighed the pros for the other contracts overseas," Zadkovich said.
"It's not something I would shut the door completely on.
"Every player's ambition is to play overseas at big clubs but for now, at this stage of my career, I really think it's important I just keep working hard and if it's not broken, don't fix it."
Zadkovich's promotion to the captaincy has coincided with a career-best run of form and Jets coach Gary van Egmond described him as a cornerstone of the playing group.
"Ruben has not only matured into a leader on and off the field but his form this season has been outstanding," van Egmond said.
"He has stepped up this season as a player and is a great mentor to the young players."
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Gerie, very, very pretty block!
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Joe, love your block and also the colors. No rules in quilting if you want to have fun with it!
Sukochi, pretty quilt, great job
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Agnes, pretty quilt
Gerie, love that block
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Nana, love your quilt. I'm ready to learn from the master.
Agnes, both quilts are beautiful. Love all the florals.
Gerie, Love your block. I think the yellow would be pretty.
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Nana, I love your patches and pinwheels quilt. Beautiful
In the beautiful Pacific Northwest!
Beautiful quilt top, Nana. You mean this is not your usual tent??
Sukochi, your quilt is very pretty. Love the back.
Agnes, your quilt is beautiful. Good work
Gerie, that is a very pretty block. It will be a pretty quilt.


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Animal Behavior Graduate Receives Fulbright Award to Conduct her Ph.D. Research
Dominique (Niki) Bertrand, an animal behavior major who graduated from Southwestern in 2008, has received a Fulbright Fellowship that will enable her to conduct research for her Ph.D. thesis in Indonesia.
Bertrand is working on her Ph.D. in anthropology at SUNY-Buffalo. Her research focuses on the impact of ecotourism and range restriction on an endangered species of black monkey known as Macaca nigra that lives on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
Bertrand will be leaving for Indonesia in October and will spend a year conducting research under the auspices of the Macaca Nigra Project (MNP). She has already made two trips to Indonesia to conduct preliminary research for her dissertation.
Bertrand will be conducting her research in the Tangkoko Nature Reserve, which is home to three social groups of critically endangered Macaca nigra that are exposed to varying intensities of anthropogenic stress, including tourism and defense from crop-raiding (via range restriction). Her goal is to determine whether the presence of tourism/range restriction is related to increases in behavioral and/or physiological stress responsiveness, identify which aspects of tourism and which means of range restriction are most stressful, and determine whether the physiological responses to stress are acute or chronic in order to make recommendations for their management.
She hopes her findings will better enable conservation biologists and site managers to identify aspects of tourism and primate management in need of modification, and thus bring tourism operations and human/animal conflict management practices in better alignment with their intended goals.
Bertrand said a local NGO known as Selamatkan Yaki, has already expressed interest in applying her research findings to better coordinate their efforts with the Indonesian government to improve tourism in the Tangkoko reserve.
Bertrand says her research will also be the first to simultaneously measure chronic and acute stress in wild macaques, making a unique contribution to our understanding of the nature of stress responses in wild primates. And because primates are so closely related to humans, it could also enhance our understanding of human stress response.
Bertrand has been studying primates since she was an undergraduate at Southwestern and conducted research at the UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research in Bastrop. In her senior year, she received a King Creativity grant for her project titled Basic Instinct: The Hunt for "Pinata Colobus," in which she studied the hunting behaviors of more than 80 chimpanzees.
"My experiences at Southwestern were integral in shaping who I am today," Bertrand said. "Attending an undergraduate university focused on scientific research instilled in me a passion for discovery and was the catalyst in my decision to pursue a Ph.D. in order to become an educator. It also inspired my approach to teaching; I believe that allowing undergraduates to participate in the research process is a critical step in the education of the next generation of scientists."
Bertrand's Fulbright award will enable her to hire and train two Indonesian research assistants and serve as a research mentor for an Indonesian graduate student. She said these students will learn valuable skills that will empower them to continue to fight for conservation in their local communities and country.


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Veteran writer and Italy expert Tim Jepson makes this vibrant and fascinating countryhome of some of the world's most sublime art, architecture, and literature and one of its oldest civilizationshighly accessible to the modern traveler. After a thorough introduction, he begins his coverage in Rome with specific, detailed suggestions on how to tackle this most sight-intensive city: "Your best approach is an oblique one," he writes. "Avoid the big-name sights at the outset, and ease yourself gently into the city with a coffee or a stroll around its most intimate squares."
He continues with this kind of advice as he travels around the countrynorth to Lombardy, the Lakes, the Veneto, Tuscany, and Umbria, and then south to Naples, ending up in Sicilycombining intimate guidance with strong and substantive information. Special features include numerous city walks, drives around Lake Maggiore, through Chianti country, and into the heart of Umbria, and discussions of many aspects of Italian culture and contemporary life.
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A passionate, lifelong devotee of Italy, and fluent Italian speaker, Tim Jepson has written 16 books on the country, including this one and National Geographic Traveler: Florence & Tuscany, as well as numerous articles for such publications as Vogue, and Conde Nast Traveler. Now based in London with the Daily Telegraph, Tim continues to visit Italy regularly. An Oxford University graduate, he has also worked on Italian programs for the BBC and other television channels.


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I already love Aldridge more than ANY other sports writer, but to see this, well, this just made me smile.
In DAs article on NBA.com, he talks about some of the questions following the season.
And his #1 point, was:
1. I hope the Raptors win the Lottery and get Anthony Davis.
Toronto is like that ex-girlfriend you haven't seen in 15 years. You lost touch with her, and then you heard she got fat and you were secretly happy about it, but then you heard a year ago that she had a lousy boyfriend who treated her bad, and you felt sorry for her and hoped she was doing okay. (If you're a woman reading this, just substitute "boyfriend" for "girlfriend" where appropriate, "him" for "her" and "he" for "she.") [HAHAHAHA]
The point is that that the Raptors are positioned to be relevant again in the Eastern Conference. First and foremost, they have a really good coach in Dwane Casey, who has already put his stamp on the team. The Raptors improved significantly on defense this season, rising from dead-bleeping-last in the league in defensive efficiency a year ago (110 points allowed per 100 possessions) to 12th (101.5 points allowed).
DeMar DeRozan is a capable guard. Andrea Bargnani will never live up to being the first pick in the 2006 Draft, but he isn't a bust by any means; I don't recall Kwame Brown ever averaging 19.5 per game, as Bargnani did this season. (I would be concerned about Bargnani's field goal percentage trend line the last three seasons, however.)
Toronto has pieces, but it doesn't have that centerpiece around which you can build a real contender. Imagine a frontcourt of the 7-foot Bargnani, the 6-foot-11 Davis and 7-foot-2 center Jonas Valenciunas, whom the Raptors took in the first round last season and expect will come over to the NBA next season after spending the year playing in Europe. Imagine what Jose Calderon and DeRozan could do with Davis swatting shots and igniting the fast break.
And imagine what a defensive guy like Casey could do with one of the best defensive prospects in a generation. Casey was new to the NBA when he was on Seattle's bench in the early 1990s, and George Karl unleashed the ferocious Gary Payton on unsuspecting point guards. Another Sonics assistant, Bob Kloppenburg, designed diabolical halfcourt defenses. With Payton attacking, the Sonics became a lethal unit that harassed opponents all the way to the 1996 Finals. If Casey got his hands on Davis, watch out.
Most importantly, Toronto's a great city, with great basketball fans. I miss going there for meaningful games.
Love you too, David.


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Wasatch Range (Central) > Mt. Dromedary > Climber's Log
Mt. Dromedary Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Broad's Fork then Sunrise
Date Climbed: Aug 27, 2011
|Climbed Broad's Fork and to the saddle between Dromedary and Sunrise. There was a big mountain goat. Climbed Dromedary and then back down and up Sunrise and met the goat again.
#2 - 8/20/17 after Sunrise via Broads' Fork
|Posted Aug 27, 2011 8:50 pm
|Tanner's Triple Traverse
Date Climbed: Jun 4, 2011
|Great snow conditions. Lots of cornices. Wonderful group of strong mountaineers, Walt, Christine, Dave, Mike, Chris, Jake, Lubos, Julia, Carol. Thanks to all for a great day.
|Posted Jun 10, 2011 10:02 pm
|Matthew Van Horn
|Camel Hump
Date Climbed: May 27, 2011
|05/27/2011 Tanner's Gulch, Triple Traverse. We took the Vanderheide Direct Variation to the summit of Dromedary. Instead of going to the top of Tanners, we followed the route through a narrow passage of rock buttresses and directly up the Southern face of Dromedary.
05/08/2010 Tanner's Gulch, TT
09/19/2009 Cottonwood Ridge Traverse
08/08/2009 Broad's Fork, TT
05/16/2009 Tanner's Gulch, TT
08/16/2008 Triple Traverse, up from Ferguson Canyon
07/19/2008 From Broad's Fork Twins, then Cottonwood Ridge traverse to Alta
05/10/2008 Triple Nipple via Tanner's Gulch
09/18/2007 Triple Traverse/Cottonwood Ridge to Superior
09/04/2006 Triple Traverse
|Posted May 27, 2011 7:30 pm
|Spring ascent up Tanners. Found short couloir on north side of ridge to gain summit ridge. Short sections of third class up west ridge. Bring skis for any descent. Snow was too rotten to able to arrest any fall with ice axe so shaft had to be used for safety on steep section of the descent. Watch out for undercut moats all along the route especailly the bottom sections that you can fall through.
|Posted Feb 24, 2011 4:07 am
|Up I Go
|5/08/10 Triple Traverse via Tanners Gulch
7/04/10 Cottonwood Ridge Traverse
6/04/11 via Triple Traverse
5/04/13 Via Triple Traverse
|Posted Oct 29, 2010 3:52 am
|Several times
Date Climbed: Aug 25, 2009
|Climbed via Triple Traverse from Tanner's Gulch and Broad's Fork
|Posted May 10, 2010 12:07 pm
|North Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2009
|Climbed the loose north ridge (class 3) from Broads Fork with dunsum. Saw a couple of moose along the way, which seems somewhat common in Broads Fork.
|Posted Feb 5, 2010 3:43 am
|Triple Traverse
Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2008
|Wow, a Utah climb worth repeating. Map and pictures at http://www.willhiteweb.com/wasatch/broads_fork_twin_peaks/dromedary_195.htm
|Posted Jul 9, 2009 4:47 am
|a bunch
Date Climbed: May 8, 2010
|8 times
05-08-2010 Triple Traverse via Tanner Gulch
05-21-2009 Up and down Tanner Gulch with Sunrise, great conditions
10-18-2003 With WMC
05-31-2003 With Dave via Broads Fork with Sunrise
06-09-2001 With MM via Broads Fork with Sunrise
07-22-2000 via Broads Fork with Sunrise
09-13-1998 via Broads Fork with Sunrise
around 1990 With lesdubois and Lynn via Lake Blanche
|Posted May 21, 2009 2:36 pm
|Travis Atwood
|Via Tanners
Date Climbed: May 16, 2009
|Came up Tanners with a big group from SP. Part of the Triple Travers (double traverse for me). Went out via Broads Fork.
|Posted May 17, 2009 1:02 am
|Mutiple routes and climbs
|I'd estimate about a dozen climbs
|Posted Dec 1, 2008 1:51 pm
|W Ridge via Tanners
Date Climbed: Oct 30, 2008
|After climbing Sunrise, I returned to the Tanners saddle and ascended the W Ridge route on Dromedary. The descent back down Tanners was every bit as awful as expected. Tanners plus snow and skis is good. Tanners minus snow is dangerous and horrendously tedious. But I did it anyway.....
|Posted Oct 30, 2008 9:15 pm
|Up and Down Tanners
Date Climbed: May 17, 2008
|Climbed up Tanners Gulch and summited Dromedary, then traversed the ridge to the col and went up Sunrise. Sweet 3rd class climbing from the col, and an amazing uninterrupted 1500' glissade on corn snow for the descent! 6.5 hours round trip
|Posted May 17, 2008 7:34 pm
|Ammon Hatch
Date Climbed: May 10, 2008
|5-16-09 Via Tanners, went on to complete Triple Traverse.
5-10-08 Climbed up Tanners with an SP group. Decided not to complete the Triple Traverse for various reasons, but the glissade down Tanners was stellar.
|Posted May 11, 2008 1:25 am
|Without Crampons!
Date Climbed: May 27, 2011
|May 27, 2011: Did the Triple Traverse with Joe B, and Matt V. The snow, even the avy debris, was very soft in Tanners, so the going was slow.
May 16, 2009 : Did this peak as part of the Triple Traverse with a group of seven from SP. We had prime conditions.
May 10 - 2008 : Went up Tanner's Gulch, hoping I might be "lucky" (or stupid) enough to do the triple traverse (Dromedary, O'Sullivans (aka Sunrise), and Broad Fork Twin Peaks without crampons. Once I summited Dromedary and had a look at O'Sullivans from there, a little voice told me to come back another day when I was prepared. It only took 2.5 hours to reach the peak, and the glissade down was fast as lightning. Given, that I had allotted the day to climbing, but was driving out of Little Cottonwood Canyon at 10:30 am, I decided to use the time to bag Mt. Olympus.
|Posted May 10, 2008 10:21 pm
|triple traverse
Date Climbed: May 23, 2002
|Easy and fun.
|Posted Mar 14, 2008 12:44 am
|triple traverse
Date Climbed: Nov 19, 2007
|A quick trip before the snow storm this time..
|Posted Dec 8, 2007 7:30 pm
|Steve Elmer
|Tripple Traverse and Cotton Wood Ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2007
|Reached the summit on two different ocasions:
7/1/07 as part of Tripple Traverse (Broad Fork)
9/9/07 as part of Cottonwood Traverse (Lisa Falls Direct)
|Posted Sep 15, 2007 4:45 pm
|Route Climbed: West Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 25, 2007
|Hiked up Broads Fork and gained the saddle between Sunrise and Dromedary; then took the west ridge to the top. I had never explored this area before. It's beautiful with plenty of solitude.
|Posted Sep 4, 2007 2:24 pm
|Route Climbed: counter-clockwise loop from Broads Fork
Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2007
I went to the saddle above Tanner's Gulch from Broads Fork, started up the gully on the south face and branched to the right straight up the face on more solid rock, with a short ridge scramble to the top from there. Picked my way halfway down the northeast face through the sloping and scree-littered ledge system, and found the steep gully on the north ridge. Meandered in and out of that as the drop-offs necessitated, to the shoulder and back down Broads Fork. Fun and strenuous, I can't wait to try it on snow.
|Posted Aug 12, 2007 9:58 pm


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Are Non-Citizen Union Workers in Las Vegas Being Pressured to Register AND Vote? LV Review-Journal Article Says YES
You simply must read the story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. In a story by investigative report Glenn Cook, the Review-Journal reports that two Culinary Workers Union Local 226 members were not only pressured to register to vote, but were intensely followed up on by "union canvassers."
Here are a couple of quotes from the article:
One day, when a Culinary representative was told the immigrant wasn't a citizen and wouldn't vote, things got testy. The immigrant was "in so much trouble," the Culinary operative said, according to Brenda Moraine, a local immigrant advocate who was there.
The immigrants spoke with me on the condition that I provide no identifying information about them beyond their membership in the Culinary. They're afraid of reprisals from the union, they're afraid of losing their jobs, and they're concerned that their signatures are on a government document that says, in part, "I swear or affirm I am a U.S. citizen. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct."
I verified their identities, their lack of citizenship and their status as active registered voters in Clark County.
One of the immigrants validated my worst fears about Nevada's weak voter registration standards and voting safeguards.
"There are others," the immigrant said.
Other noncitizen Culinary workers are registered to vote?
The article details not only the registration of these two people in this union, but also the push to make them actually go and vote.
We reached out to the union for comment minutes ago and will update our article with more details if and when they respond.


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VOLLEYBALL . . . Stanford sophomore Jordan Burgess was one of three U.S. players to record 10 points as the women's junior national volleyball team finished the FIVB U20 World Championship with a 25-15, 25-22, 25-18 victory over Puerto Rico on Sunday to finish 17th in Brno, Czech Republic. Stanford incoming freshmen Merete Lutz and Kelsey Humphreys also contributed as the Americans ended their stay on a three-match winning streak. They were 4-4 overall at the world tournament . . . Stanford grad Alix Klineman will join fellow Cardinal grads Kristin Richards Hildebrand and Cassidy Lichtman when the U.S. women's national volleyball team meets Japan in the USA Volleyball Cup, a three-match series between July 10 and 13 in three different Southern California venues. Klineman, who has been playing in Italy since graduating from Stanford two years, joins a team that includes six players with Olympic Games experience. The U.S., ranked No. 1 in the world by the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), begins the series with No. 3 Japan on July 10 at UC San Diego, followed by a July 12 match at Long Beach State. The series concludes on July 13 at JSerra High School in San Juan Capistrano.
NET NOTES . . . Stanford sophomore Nolan Paige earned a chance to qualify for the U.S. Open last week and will participate in the U.S. Open National Playoffs at Yale beginning Aug. 16. Paige beat 35-year-old former pro Jayman Crabb, 6-4, 6-4, in the finals of the Section Qualifying held at Yale. Crabb, from Australia, has a 232-201 career record. Paige could run into Menlo School grad Andrew Ball, who won the Northern California qualifying tournament with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over York School senior Joshua Pompan in Salinas. Stanford grad Bradley Klahn, a former NCAA singles champion, started the week with a career-best ranking of 178. He lost his first-round qualifying match at Wimbledon, 6-2, 1-6, 9-7, to Canada's Filip Peliwo. Klahn won his first professional career singles title at the Costa Mesa Pro Classic in March, a week after reaching his first final at the USTA Men's Pro Tennis Championships of Calabasas. Stanford products Mallory Burdette and Nicole Gibbs, who have a combined four NCAA singles and/or doubles titles to their credit, also opened the week with their career-high singles ranking. Burdette, who lost her first-round match in the main draw at Wimbledon in three sets, is currently ranked No. 68. Gibbs, who lost her first-round match in the qualifying draw at Wimbledon to eventual qualifier Yvonne Meusburger, is currently ranked No. 172. Pinewood and Stanford grad Lejla Hodzic, meanwhile, reached the finals of the U.S. Open qualifying tournament in Salinas.
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text: Hi Folks Does anyone have information about how they shared L2 for both cores ? Thanks Renato Silva Richard Walsh wrote: > Mark Hahn wrote: > >>>> Good point which makes perfect sense to me. >>>> Given that the theoretical maximum is actually 21.3 GB/s >>>> the real maximum Triad number must be 21.3/3 = 7.1 GB/s. >>> >> >> I don't get this - triad does two reads and one write. >> if you don't use store-through ('nt' versions of mov), >> then the write also implies a read for write-allocate >> (filling the cache line). >> without store-through, the peak theoretical number reported by >> stream should be 3*peak/4. the 4 is because there are 3r+1w, >> and the 3 because stream doesn't give credit for write-allocate. > > That looks right. So, one socket, with write allocate, >>should<< show: > > 10.5 GB/sec * .75 or 7.875 GBytes/sec > > and two sockets 15.75 GBytes/sec. The problem could be related > to competitive/ineffective use of the shared L2 cache or a bottleneck > in the North bridge. It would seem that a look at how the performance > grows > as you add cores within versus across sockets should reveal this. > > Two cores on separate sockets should show higher numbers if it's > an L2 cache issue. If they are the same as those for 2 cores on one > socket then you have a problem with the North bridge or getting > full bandwidth from the FB-DIMMs. > A complication in this test could be that in the one core per socket case > the whole L2 cache is allocated to a single core. Watching performance > change as the array sizes grow should reveal this. > rbw > > >> >>> Then how do you explain a dual opteron with two 6.4GB/sec (peak) >>> memory system, 12.8GB/sec total per node managing 9-10GB/sec? >>> >>> 12.8/3=4.26GB/sec. People are seeing well over twice that. >> >> >> since pathscale does write-through, the peak really should be 12.8, >> so achieving 9-10 is decent but not paradoxical. (the peak would >> correspond to 1.07 Gflops, significantly below the peak theoretical >> pipeline rate of 2*clock flops...) >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > >


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Naval Weapons Station (WPNSTA) Concord (also known as Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach Detachment,Concord) is a 12,800-acre site located in the north-central portion of Contra Costa County. WPNSTA Concord is comprised of two geographically separate units, the Inland (5,170 acres) and Tidal (7,630 acres) Areas, and a radiography facility (approximately 1 acre) in Pittsburgh, California. Aside from typical administrative and support work activities, this facility is a major ammunition transshipment port of the West Coast for the Department of Department of Defense, under operation by the Department of Army.
The Navy's Installation Restoration Program (IRP) identified 32 areas potentially containing hazardous substances. The Tidal Area is organized into two site groups or Operable Units that include the Tidal Area Sites and the Litigation Area Sites, and the Army took over the responsibility for cleanup from the Navy for this area. The Tidal Area Sites are represented by the Tidal Area Landfill (Site 1), the R-Area Disposal Area (Site 2), the Wood Hogger Area (Site 11), the Froid and Taylor Road Area (Site 9), and the Taylor Boulevard Bridge Disposal Area (Site 30). The Litigation Area is represented by four Remedial Action Sub-Sites (RASSs), that contain the original seven IR Sites (Sites 3, 4, 5, 6, 25, 26, and 28), and geographically includes a recently added Former N-P-K Fertilizer Plant Site (Site 31)(formerly Area of Concern-1). The contamination in the Tidal Area Sites, located in wetlands and low-lying areas in the northwestern portion of the facility, comes from past on-base waste disposal practices, including an estimated 3,000 tons of mixed wastes that were deposited in the landfill from the early 1940s to 1979, material and waste generated during the repackaging of conventional munitions, and chipped wood contaminated with pentachlorophenol (PCP). Investigations identified heavy metals to be the primary contaminants in these sites, but low levels of organochlorine pesticides, such as DDT and its breakdown products, and semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) are also present. The contamination in the Litigation Sites, located in both wetlands and upland habitat on the northeastern portion of the Tidal Area, was the result of private industrial activities on portions of property that was subsequently purchased by the Navy to create a buffer zone for the activity at the facility's piers. Soil sampling that started in 1986 detected metals in these areas. Subsequent testing confirmed this result and expanded the areas impacted. Documented historical releases from industrial operations and tidal action in the wetlands transported and distributed contamination across wetlands and into engineered Mosquito Ditches and Lost Slough, a natural tidal channel. The Tidal Area Sites and Litigation Sites are located in critical habitat for endangered species, such as the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse and the California Clapper Rail. Suisun Bay supports extensive sport fishing as well as providing habitat for the endangered fish species, Winter-run Chinook Salmon and Delta Smelt.
Other areas of environmental concern are located in the Inland Area, which is still being addressed by the Navy, and include an expanded Site 22 (Building 7SH5 and Main Magazine Area) where elevated arsenic has been detected across wide areas in shallow soils, the Solid Waste Management Units (SWMUs) Sites 2,5,7, and 18, where industrial activity, such as waste storage, has resulted in contamination of soil and groundwater by volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and Former Ordnance Burn and Fire Training Area (Site 13) where low levels of perchlorate have been detected in groundwater and surface water.
In November 2005, WPNSTA Concord was recommended for partial closure and realignment under the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process. The final BRAC determination that was made resulted in approximately half of the facility (Tidal Area) transferred to the Department of the Army in 2008 and the remaining portion (Inland Area) being closed, transferred, and redeveloped.
Contaminants and Risks
Contaminated Media
- Groundwater
- Surface Water
- Soil and Sludges
- Environmentally Sensitive Area
Soil, sediments, and surface water are contaminated with heavy metals including zinc, copper, lead, cadmium, and arsenic, as well as SVOC and pesticides. Ingesting or coming into direct contact with contaminated soil, sediments, or surface water may pose a potential health threat. Groundwater has been contaminated at the SWMU Sites above drinking water - Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) and requires cleanup action. Site-specific wetlands and endangered species, such as the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse and the California Capper Rail, are at risk.
Investigation and Cleanup Activities
This site is being addressed in two stages: immediate actions and a long-term remedial phase focusing on cleanup of the entire site.
Initial Actions
Immediate Actions: Since 1983, WPNSTA Concord has excavated contaminated soils from the Litigation Area and disposed of them offsite. In addition, WPNSTA Concord performed wetlands restoration activities. Replanting of the site was completed in fall 1995.
Site Studies
Litigation Area Sites Feasibility Study and Proposed Plan was issued, proposing additional remedial actions necessary to address contaminated aquatic sediments and wetlands soils. The Litigation Area FS was initiated following recommendations contained in a June 2003, Final Five Year Review. The Five Year Review was prepared in response to the Navy's unilaterally signed 1989 ROD which documented the removal of high levels of metals contamination in wetlands soils along with the monitoring of areas with some remaining soil contamination.
Inland Area Site 22 (Building 7SH5 and Main Magazine Area) Supplemental Remedial Investigation was completed in the summer 2004 and it has been determined that the main magazine area (approximately 530 acres) is contaminated with elevated levels of arsenic, as a result of Navy pesticide and herbicide practices. The Navy is developing remedial alternatives.
Remedy Selected
Tidal Area Landfill (Site 1) Record of Decision was signed by the U.S. EPA on May 17, 2004, and documents the selection of a California Title 27 municipal solid waste muti-layer prescriptive soil cap. Construction of the cap began, but was stopped due to the discovery of munitions within the debris. Because of the munitions, a new landfill cap design was employed. Construction of the landfill cap using the new design was completed in May 2012.
WPNSTA Concord is participating in the Installation Restoration Program (IRP), a specially funded program established by the Department of Defense (DOD) in 1978 to identify and investigate military and other DOD facilities. There is a Federal Facilities Agreement (FFA) between the Navy, EPA, and the State of California. The purpose of the FFA is to establish roles and responsibilities of the parties; establish an enforceable schedule for environmental investigations and cleanup actions; and ensure that the Navy will obtain necessary funding for the environmental investigations and actions.
Cleanup Results to Date
Initial actions such as wetland restoration and excavation of contaminated soils are helping to protect nearby populations and the environment. .
Potentially Responsible Parties
Potentially responsible parties (PRPs) refers to companies that are potentially responsible for generating, transporting, or disposing of the hazardous waste found at the site.
On-line information about the PRPs for the site is available at the Navy Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) weblink, https://www.bracpmo.navy.mil/brac_bases/california/nws_seal_beach_concord.html.
Documents and Reports
Community Involvement
Public Meetings: The Department of the Navy hosts quarterly Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) meetings usually held on the first Wednesday of the month at the Clyde Clubhouse at 109 Wellington Avenue in Clyde, California, 94520. Additional information on the Concord RAB may be obtained by contacting Marc Smits, RAB Navy co-chair, at (619) 524-4610.
Public Information Repositories
The public information repositories for the site are at the following locations:
Concord Public Library,
2900 Salvio Street
Concord, CA 94519-2597
(925) 646-5455
The most complete collection of documents is the official EPA site file, maintained at the following location:
Superfund Records Center
Mail Stop SFD-7C
95 Hawthorne Street, Room 403
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 820-4700
Enter main lobby of 75 Hawthorne street, go to 4th floor of South Wing Annex.
EPA Site Manager
Mail Code SFD
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
EPA Community Involvement Coordinator
Mail Code SFD
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
EPA Public Information Center
State Contact
Department of Toxic Substances Control
8800 Cal Center Drive
Sacramento, CA 95826-3200
PRP Contact
Guy Romine, MOTCO Environmental Manager
1455 Frazee Road, Suite 900, San Diego, CA 92108
MOTCO Dept of Public Works
410 Norman Ave,
Bldg 635
Concord, CA 94520-1142
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7 CFR 47.19 - Post-hearing procedure before the examiner.
(a)Certification of transcript or recording. As soon as practicable after receipt of the transcript or recording, the examiner shall prepare his or her certificate stating that, to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, the transcript or recording is a true, correct, and complete transcript or recording of the testimony given at the hearing, except in such particulars as the examiner shall specify, and that the exhibits transmitted are all the exhibits received in evidence at the hearing, with such exceptions as the examiner shall specify. The original of such certificate shall be attached to the original transcript or recording and a copy of such certificate shall be furnished to each of the parties and to the Hearing Clerk. The examiner shall correct the original copy of the transcript or recording by adding or crossing out (but without obscuring the text) at the appropriate places any words necessary to make the text conform to the correct meaning, as certified by the examiner.
(b)Proposed findings of fact, conclusions, and order. The examiner shall decide and shall announce at the hearing whether proposed findings of fact, conclusions, and order may be filed by the parties. If allowed by the examiner, he or she shall announce a definite calendar day as the time within which these documents may be filed. Such findings of fact, conclusions, and order shall be based solely upon the evidence of record. They may be accompanied by supporting briefs and by a statement of objections made to the rulings of the examiner at the hearing.
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Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner are in San Diego today to help kick off this year's star-studded Comic-Con and ET is there for all of the fun! And starting at 9:30 am PDT, ETonline will be live streaming from the 'New Moon' trio's press conference! Check back here then to see if they spill any 'New Moon' secrets!
July 23, 2009
ETOnline Live Streaming from New Moon Press Conference at 9:30 PT
24 comments:
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2009 at 4:24 PM
HELLLLL YES!! lolReplyDelete
I was waiting to hear that! Thank god i dont think i can wait hours till ppl upload vids!
I need a babysitterReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2009 at 5:11 PM
okay...don't mean to sound like an idiot...kinda new to all of this...what does live stream mean and how and where do i watch it? thanksReplyDelete
im on the site, and im not finding any links...Im frustrated!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2009 at 5:35 PM
I think they pulled it from the site...I can't find the conference link anymoreReplyDelete
Me neither, aaaaaaaaaaaah, I'm all antsy today and I can't get anything done.ReplyDelete
I keep refreshing the page waiting for the live feed to show up... :-( Come on ET i'm so impatient!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2009 at 5:42 PM
all i keep getting is page not foundReplyDelete
I think they might be working on it, cause they took the Article off about their live streaming, and now it says PAGE NOT FOUND. WELL YOU BETTER FIND IT, QUICK FAST AND IN A HURRY!!ReplyDelete
If you look at the ET Twitter, the conference is late. They haven't started yet, and they said to stay tuned! I am impatient as well! lol.ReplyDelete
yea i saw it finally:ReplyDelete
ETDirDennis: NEW MOON press conference hasn't started yet -- stay tuned to ETonline and we'll have it for you
...phew, thought i was missing out. Almost starting doing work!lol.
haha ... my kids are getting an early nap so I can watch this ... so they better hurry it up. :SReplyDelete
they posted the stream, but i dont think they have started yet. Anyone have any video?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2009 at 6:03 PM
I get about 2 seconds of feed with sound, maybe a bit of a glitch they are working on.ReplyDelete
same here AnonymousReplyDelete
im not getting anything, sound or video.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM
i keep getting page not found againReplyDelete
so are you actually seeing video? or was it on for a second and it went off?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2009 at 6:09 PM
I'm getting slightly longer bits now. 4 or 5 seconds with live video and sound.ReplyDelete
Im not seeing anything at all.Maybe my work place is blocking the streaming.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Sounds like it is a female doing the camera. She just asked if someone wanted her to move it and it panned down to some one's neck, then back up towards center. You are not missing anything as of yet. Just slight movement from the crowd and someone is yelling for "Bob".ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Does anyone know if the stream is something that they can fix on site? Could they even aware of it? The constant pausing is annoying.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2009 at 6:35 PM
The press conference is over. ET bungled it good.ReplyDelete


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Testy lawmakers pointed fingers at one another and President Barack Obama on Thursday as negotiations over raising the national debt limit entered a perilous endgame. Wall Street eyed the standoff with growing anxiety, warning of catastrophe if the U.S. defaults on its obligations.
Obama's blunt declaration that "enough is enough" as Wednesday's talks ended did nothing to quell the rancor as a new day of positioning and posturing began.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rose on the Senate floor early Thursday to snipe that House Minority Leader Eric Cantor shouldn't even be part of the talks anymore, noting that the Virginia Republican has been called "childish." And not long after, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell stood to serve notice that the debt problem belonged squarely in Obama's lap.
"Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy," McConnell said. "Don't expect any more cover from Republicans on it than you got on health care. None."
None of it was a promising prelude to negotiations scheduled to resume at the White House on Thursday afternoon, less than three weeks before an Aug. 2 deadline for increasing the government's borrowing authority. Thursday's talks were to focus on the touchy questions of how to cut spending on Medicare and Medicaid, and raising more tax revenue.
Behind the scenes, meanwhile, legislators and White House officials continued to work on a backup plan offered by McConnell to avoid government default.
Obama is demanding that budget negotiators find common ground by week's end, as the financial world watches with growing jitters.
"No one can tell me with certainty that a U.S. default wouldn't cause catastrophe and wouldn't severely damage the U.S. or global economy," Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., told reporters Thursday. "And it would be irresponsible to take that chance."
Already, Moody's Investors Service is reviewing the government's credit rating, saying there is a small but rising risk that the government will default on its debt. If Moody's were to lower the rating, the consequences would ripple through the economy, pushing up rates for mortgages, car loans and other debts. A Chinese rating agency, Dagong Global Credit Rating Co., also warned of a possible downgrade.
Reid sketched the potential consequences of default in dire terms, saying Social Security checks, veterans benefits and paychecks for troops would stop. "Millions of Americans could lose their jobs," he added.
A Reid spokesman later clarified that Social Security benefits "could" stop, as Obama previously had warned, but it wouldn't be a certainty.
Republicans have called such statements scare tactics.
In the cauldron of the White House Cabinet Room, Obama and top lawmakers bargained for nearly two hours Wednesday. Obama curtly ended the session when Cantor, R-Va., urged him to accept a short, monthslong increase in debt instead of one that would last through next year's presidential election.
"Enough is enough. ... I'll see you all tomorrow," Obama said, rising from the negotiating table and leaving the room, according to several officials familiar with the session.
Reid said that while other Republican leaders were willing to negotiate in good faith, Cantor "has shown he shouldn't even be at the table."
The United States hit its current $14.3 trillion debt ceiling in May and the Obama administration says the government will default on its obligations if the debt limit is not increased by Aug. 2. For a new debt ceiling to last to the end of 2012 would require raising it by about $2.4 trillion.
Republicans, in control of the House of Representatives in part because of the support of tea party activists, say they will not vote to raise the limit if Obama doesn't agree to at least an equal amount of deficit reductions over 10 years.
Obama and the top eight House and Senate leaders met for the fourth time in as many days Wednesday, and, despite the tense ending, agreed to meet again Thursday.
A congressional aide said the White House discussed with lawmakers the possibility of moving talks this weekend to the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland. But a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said the Ohio Republican told the White House he saw no need for that. And Obama aides later said they planned to continue holding meetings at the White House for the next few days.
Despite McConnell's assertions that the debt problem belongs to Obama, fresh polling from Quinnipiac University suggested voters would be more apt to hold Republicans responsible than Obama, by 48 percent to 34 percent, if the debt limit is not raised. The same survey showed voters were about evenly split on whether they're more concerned about raising the limit and increasing government debt, or seeing the government go into default and damaging the economy.
"The American people aren't very happy about their leaders, but President Barack Obama is viewed as the best of the worst, especially when it comes to the economy," said Peter Brown, assistant director of Quinnipiac's Polling Institute.
That helps explain why McConnell put forward a plan that would give Obama new powers to overcome Republican opposition to raising the debt ceiling.
The proposal would place the burden on Obama to win debt ceiling increases up to three times, provided he was able to override congressional vetoes - a threshold Obama could manage to overcome even without a single Republican vote and without massive spending cuts. Conservatives promptly criticized the plan for giving up the leverage to reduce deficits. But the plan raised the prospect of combining it with some of the spending cuts already identified by the White House in order to win support from conservatives in the House.
In an interview with radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham, McConnell described his plan in stark political terms, warning fellow conservatives that failure to raise the debt limit would probably ensure Obama's re-election in 2012. He predicted that a default would allow Obama to argue that Republicans were making the economy worse.
"You know, it's an argument he has a good chance of winning, and all of a sudden we (Republicans) have co-ownership of a bad economy," McConnell said. "That's a very bad positioning going into an election."
The proposal won praise from two disparate points in the political spectrum - Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Democratic leader Reid of Nevada.
Reid said it's "a serious proposal. And I commend the Republican leader for coming forward."
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Thursday that while the president and other Democrats would still prefer a larger agreement, McConnell's plan is an acceptable option - especially if some consensus spending cuts are added to it. He said McConnell and Reid were discussing the idea.
Democratic officials said that even as Obama confronted Cantor and Boehner in Wednesday's meeting, he commended McConnell.
"Sen. McConnell at least has put forth a proposal," a Democratic official quoted the president as saying. "It doesn't reduce the deficit and that's what we have to do. It just deals with the debt limit. Now Sen. McConnell wants me to wear the jacket for that."
The officials said Obama went on to say they all had a responsibility to find a compromise.
Overall, Cantor says, the White House has been lowering the amount of spending cuts on the table, offering less than $1.4 trillion over 10 years, mostly in domestic and defense spending outside of the major benefits programs Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
The White House says the total is closer to $1.7 trillion over 10 years when counting about $240 billion in reduced interest payments from the lowered debt.
Associated Press writers Dave Espo, Laurie Kellman, Ben Feller and Erica Werner in Washington and Pallavi Gogoi in New York contributed to this report.


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