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dbperry wrote:Fantastic. I was using the "coming soon" marker as a placeholder for things I wanted to define but just hadn't had time to get to yet. I just didn't want to forget about the term. I know most of those definitions but I will definitely use some of your suggestions!
Can anyone think of terms I'm missing?
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The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) announced its 2012 Executive Committee members today. The new committee includes experienced members of the reusable packaging industry, including three presidents of leading companies. Formed in 1998, the RPA is the leading trade association dedicated to promoting the expansion and value of reusable packaging systems for greater supply chain efficiencies, increased environmental benefits and reduced costs.
The 2012 RPA Executive Committee will be led by Chairman Mike Hachtman, President and CEO, reLogistics Services, LLC. Robert Engle, President NA, Schoeller Arca Systems Inc., will serve as RPA Vice Chairman; and John Frey, President of Tosca Limited, will continue to serve as RPA Secretary/Treasurer. Drew Merrill, Vice President of Business Development & Strategic Planning, Container and Pooling Solutions, Inc., will be RPA Immediate Past Chairman (ex officio). Jerry Welcome will continue as RPA President and CEO (ex officio).
"Reusable packaging continues to grow and gain widespread acceptance within supply chains. Whether it is lawn tractors, fresh produce or other commodities, the advantages of reusable packaging are clear – lower supply chain costs and less impact on the environment," said Mike Hachtman, RPA Chairman and President and CEO, reLogistics Services, LLC. "I am excited to lead the Reusable Packaging Association which has established itself as the association for reusable packaging. The RPA has grown to be the premier source of information, knowledge, guidance and best practices necessary to grow and support the industry, and help companies realize the benefits of reusable packaging."
"The term 'resuable' has joined buzzwords such as the green movement, social responsibility, sustainability, recycling and the like," said Robert Engle, RPA Vice Chairman, and President, Schoeller Arca Systems Inc. "But when you discuss the concept in detail with an end user, it is still somewhat a mysterious concept. An organization such as the RPA has the ability to educate end users by providing details around the various reusable options available. As the RPA grows in strength, I see it becoming the leading authority for comprehensive information and resources on reusable packaging, and a place where end users can locate suppliers as well as a wealth of valuable information."


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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...We are a family of soup eaters, and summer or winter, a search of my refrigerator would usually reveal a quart or so of it sitting on a shelf. At this time of year, the soups are quite light, but when served with a salad or a sandwich they make a filling lunch or a passable supper at the end of an over-scheduled day. My spring and summer soups are not formulaic and they tend to be made with whatever I have on hand. The pantry and the refrigerator are both fair game when it comes to ingredients, so leftovers, frozen vegetables and canned goods are often combined, depending on the direction I think I'm going. It's best to think of my soups as works in progress. I have been known to change direction mid-course and what began as an Italian soup may be Mexican by the time it reaches the table. I blame this on my misspent youth. Those of us who were raised in kitchens that had to deal with war-time rationing, tend to hang on to bits and bobs of things that others might throw onto the compost heap. For years, I kept a bag of vegetable scraps that I used to make soup stock and I still keep shrimp shells and bones to heighten the flavors of my soups. There is a certain irony in all of this. My closets have no garments that are over two years old, magazines are clipped and purged monthly and books, save for a precious few, and sent to new homes twice a year. I run a tight ship and you'd be impressed, or distressed as the case may be, as long as you stayed away from my refrigerator or freezer. Suffice it to say, if you were to peek, you'd probably conclude we could survive Armageddon, or, barring that, have one heck of a last meal. The soup I'm featuring today is so quick and easy to assemble that I felt guilty about posting it as a stand-alone recipe. I decided to piggyback other stock recipes to the post to make it look more substantive and, hopefully, more appealing to you. The soup is really very nice when it is made with fresh thyme and canned cream corn. I hope you'll give this humble soup a try. Here is how it's made.
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 large onion, diced small
4-5 cloves garlic, minced
1 to 2 tablespoons fresh minced thyme or 1 to 2 teaspoons dried thyme
1 bay leaf
1 (16-oz.) bag frozen mixed vegetables, thawed
3-5 cups vegetable broth, plus water to cover
1 (14.5-oz.) can creamed corn
2 cups cooked rice or pasta
1 (15-oz.) can white beans (Navy or Great Northern), undrained
Salt and pepper
Optional: Grated Parmesan cheese or pesto
Heat oil in a large dutch-oven or stock pot set over medium-high heat. Cook onions with a pinch of salt until they are translucent but not brown, about 5 to 7 minutes. Add garlic and cook just until fragrant, about 1 minute longer. Stir in thyme, bay leaf and thawed mixed vegetables and another pinch of salt. Add broth and water as needed to cover vegetables. Bring mixture to a boil, reduce heat and continue cooking, uncovered, until vegetables are crisp tender, about 10 minutes. Stir in creamed corn, rice and undrained beans. Simmer until all ingredients are heated through. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Yield: 6 to 8 servings.
Chicken Stock
2-3 pounds chicken bones or carcasses ( with some meat remaining)
6 to 8 cups water
1 large onion, quartered
1 large carrot, cut into around 12 pieces
1 teaspoon garlic, crushed
1 teaspoon ginger, grated
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon celery seed
Salt and pepper to taste
Place chicken carcass in medium sized pot and just cover with water. Bring to boil and then simmer over a low-medium hear for one hour. You may need to keep adjusting the temperature from time to time as some liquid evaporates. Skim fat from top of broth. Add onion, carrot, garlic, ginger, bay leaf and celery seeds and continue to simmer for 3 hours, stirring once or twice. Season to taste. Allow stock to cool uncovered. Strain into a storage container and either use immediately or freeze for later use. Yield: 1-1/2 to 2 quarts.
Julia Child's Beef Stock
3 to 4 pounds meaty beef bones
3 medium carrots, scraped, broken in several pieces
2 medium onions, peeled, quartered
3 stalks celery, broken in several pieces
2 leeks, cleaned and cut into chunks
1 sprig thyme
2 fresh bay leaves
2 to 3 garlic cloves, unpeeled ( More if you like)
2 whole cloves
6 -8 peppercorns
Place the beef bones in a large heavy pot and cover with cold water by about two inches. Bring to a simmer over medium heat and skim off scum which rises to the top--this should take about five minutes. Add remaining ingredients and more cold water so that everything is covered by at least an inch or two. Bring stock to a simmer again, skimming as necessary. When stock is simmering (Do NOT allow it to boil), partially cover and maintain at a very slow simmer for four to five hours.
If water level gets too low, add boiling water to pot. Skim contents as necessary. When vegetables and bones have given their all to the broth, strain broth and discard the solids. Set stock, uncovered in refrigerator until fat has risen to the top and solidified. Remove and discard the fat. Taste degreased stock (remembering it contains no salt) and if it is not strong enough, reduce it over medium heat.
When stock is cold, store in refrigerator for up to three days or in the freezer. Yield: 2 quarts.
Vegetable Stock
1/2 head rinsed celery (top portion of celery head that has been cut in half crosswise)
1 bunch parsley
1 bay leaf
1 onion
2 carrots
2 to 3 quarts water
Salt and pepper
Place celery in a large stock pot.Add a whole bunch of parsley and a bay leaf. Trim roots off onion and cut in half. Only remove skins if they are split and dusty, otherwise just leave them on. Cut tops off carrots, wash and cut in half lengthways. Add water and put on to simmer for an hour and a half to two hours. Strain vegetables, reserving stock.our out of it. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Refrigerate or freeze when cool. Yield: 2 quarts.
Shrimp Stock
Shells from about 2 pounds of shrimp
2 onions, halved
2 stalks celery, chopped
2 lemons, halved
8 bay leaves
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon dried tarragon
1 teaspoon dried oregano
3/4 teaspoon black peppercorns
2 teaspoons salt
4 quarts cold water
Rinse shrimp shells in cold water and place in stock pot with all remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil on high heat. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Raise heat to medium and cook for 1/2 hour. Strain completely. If not using immediately, cool and refrigerate. If stronger stock desired, boil, uncovered, to reduce. Freezes well. Yield: 2 quarts.
Turkey Stock
1 turkey carcass
16 cups cold water
2 large celery ribs, sliced
2 large carrots, scraped and sliced
2 onions, quartered ( do NOT peel)
10 sprigs fresh flat leaf parsley ( or more, if you wish)
1 tablespoon peppercorn
2 teaspoons dried thyme
Crack carcass into pieces that will fit in pot. Cover with water, turn heat to high and bring liquid to a boil. Skim surface of liquid as scum begins to rise. Add celery, carrots, onions, parsley, peppercorns and thyme to pot. Simmer, uncovered 2 to 4 hours. Strain out bones and vegetables. Allow stock to cool. Refrigerate or freeze. Yield: 2 to 4 quarts.
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Drivers who use the Leeville Bridge are getting an easier way to pay the toll that helped pay for the new span.
Drivers who use the Leeville Bridge are getting an easier way to pay the toll that helped pay for the new span.
The newly installed cash-and-charge lane opens for business Wednesday. the state Transportation Department says.
Drivers heading south on the Leeville Bridge will be able to use a kiosk that will allow payment with coins, cash, credit cards and debit cards.
The current toll system, originally hailed as a high-tech achievement, had been riddled with problems and complaints from motorists and local officials since it opened more than two years ago.
The bridge, a key route for trucks heading to and from the oilfield hub of Port Fourchon, collects tolls of $2.50 to $12, based on a vehicle's size. The toll is only charged for drivers heading south.
Henri Boulet, executive director of the La. 1 Coalition, a nonprofit group that led the push for highway upgrades, said drivers will declare the number of axles and pay without exiting the vehicle.
Boulet said this is a big improvement over the current method of payment, which requires drivers to prepay online or at a local kiosk before reaching the bridge.
"This will make travel more convenient for motorists commuting to Port Fourchon and the many visitors that flock to Grand Isle for annual events and vacations," state Assistant Transportation Secretary Rhett Desselle said.
The changes will not affect those who pay tolls via the online Geaux Pass system, but single-trip online payments will no longer be available. For those drivers with a pre-paid, multi-trip Geaux pass, a Geaux Pass-only lane has been designed so they can proceed without stopping, Boulet said.
Because of the switch, the pre-pay and post-pay toll kiosks in Leeville businesses will be removed. There will also no longer be a grace period for drivers to pay after crossing the bridge.
Boulet said the toll machine will count the number of axles as the vehicle pulls away. Those who incorrectly report the number of axles or fail to pay the toll will be billed the proper cost in addition to a $25 fine. Security cameras will record identifying vehicle information.
Boulet said the change stems from confusion with the old payment system that required drivers to input their tag number. He said this led to errors that affected the state's ability to collect the tolls and repay the loan that built the bridge.
The tolls generated $3.4 million in 2010, falling short by $674,000, or 15 percent, of the money needed to fully satisfy the $136 million loan.
State officials have said the confusing and often broken toll system is one reason the bridge has not collected the expected revenue.
"I'm encouraged that the state has installed this new system that will allow us to collect all the revenue we projected and pay the bondholders," Boulet said.
A canopy will be installed at the new toll kiosk, and the Transportation Department expects to install a backup machine in the next six months should the new machine experience problems.
For information, visit http://www.dotd.la.gov or call the Transportation Department's Customer Service Center at 1-877-4LADOTD (1-877-452-3683). Business hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.


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St George Bank has launched a new app feature that lets users check bank balances multiple times on their iPhones without having to log onto its mobile banking service.
MoneyMeter was developed after the bank realised customers checked their bank balances more frequently, especially during the Christmas season, and logging in and out of accounts was time consuming. The bank said 65 per cent of log-ins to its mobile banking services were from users who simply wanted to check their balance or look at their account.
The app uses a "gauge" to display balances of up to two accounts, and can display savings, transactions or credit card accounts. Users can add and remove accounts, adjust their spending limit range, change the style of the gauge display and choose to hide or show their available balance.
However, once a customer has set up MoneyMeter in their iPhone, their bank balance can be viewed by anyone who has access to their phone. Consequently, the bank advised users to set up a PIN or password on their phone and install remote wipe software for protection.
MoneyMeter is available on iPhone as part of the St George, BankSA and Bank of Melbourne banking app.
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Should have checked the dimensions
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
As stated before, the board was much smaller than I expected, but that's my fault for not checking the dimensions! That being said, I supplemented with a couple of jugs and other types of single holds on either side and got a nice little space going. I use the board for hang-training mainly but occasionally do pull-ups on the top holds. I personally enjoy the aggressive texture and have found that it has strengthened my skin in the process. The price is right, so no complaints here.
It's a hangboard!
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
I picked this up as an Xmas gift for my girlfriend, who wanted a hangboard in the house.
The Pros -
Good texture and depth with the provided grips.
Easy to install - took 15 minutes, including attaching a baseboard over the doorframe.
The Cons -
The two hardest grips are centered in the board, so can only really use them for one-arm work.
Smaller than I expected; in retrospect, I should have looked at specs of the exact size. Once I put it up, I realized that I could have easily fit a much larger board in the same space. Ended up improvising and attaching a few rock rings to the outside edges, and it creates a decent little pull-practice space.
great all around hangboard!!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I love this hangboard! So ill is a great company with great products. The board itself is a great price, good size, mounts easy w/ quality hardware included, provides many options/variations for training and is fairly gentle on the hands vs other brands out there. I have mine in a set of 3 (other brands) hang boards in a campus style lay out and the so ill is easily my favorite. If your considering this as your sole training tool or to add to your arsenal id say go for it you wont be disappointed!
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So I have had this board for about 3 months now and am fairly happy with it. Here is a list of my pros and cons
Pros- smaller (I live in and apt. and didn't have space on my door frames to hang a really big board so this one fits perfectly), its cheaper than most other boards your going to find.
Cons- the texture is really rough (like a lot of So ill holds) which can get annoying. smaller (this isn't the Metolius Simulator there are only so many grips you can work on it)
But hey Overall I like this hang board enough to recommend it to others.
What are the major dimensions of this board?
Width: 13 in
Height: 6 in
Max Depth: 2 in
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Does anyone know if you need to have this attached to a wood wall or can I attach it to the dry wall above my door frame in my college dorm?
You can attach it to drywall with a stud finder, but I feel like most colleges with fine the hell out of you if you bolt something like this to the wall.
Anyone know if this board comes with the...
Anyone know if this board comes with the bolts needed to mount it?
Most of So Ill's hangboards come with the necessary stuff to mount them.
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Perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised when something peculiar happened in my seventh year as an editor at Orca Book Publishers. After all, seven is a magical number in fairy tales, and Orca is a children's book publisher. There are seven continents, seven oceans, seven Harry Potter books. So, Why not a series of kids books about seven cousins? When my publisher, Andrew Wooldridge, asked me to edit "the magnificent seven," my first question was "How many are we going to publish per season?" His answer: "All seven in October 2012." I wanted to yell, "Are you insane?" but that's not the kind of thing you say to your boss.
Andrew is a very smart guy, and Eric Walters, who proposed the series, is a successful, prolific writer and an all-around powerhouse. He had already lined up the other six authors. He had even written a draft of the novel that the other authors would use as a template for their own books. The premise: David McLean dies at 92, leaving a very unusual will. Each of his seven grandsons is given a specific task to fulfill. Eric's character is required to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and scatter his grandfather's ashes. The other six authors were free to send their young protagonists wherever they liked. Their adventures could be close to home or far away. The only stipulation was that the books mesh seamlessly. That was my task.
Now, I like a challenge as much as the next editor. I've edited as many as 10 books in one season. I have worked on series. I love my job. But this was different. It had the potential to be (1) a huge success, (2) a monumental disaster, or (3) a project that would drive me completely crazy. Obviously, I would shoot for the first option and risk the third. Option #2 was a nonstarter. I had already signed a teen novel for fall 2012—Redwing, a historical fantasy with a supernatural twist—and my own teen novel Three Little Words was also due to be published. I would have to be über-organized.
Up went the trusty index cards onto my bulletin board. Out went the e-mails to the seven authors, only one of whom I had worked with before. Andrew gave them deadlines. They were horrified. Deadlines were adjusted. Word counts were (loosely) established. The authors, who all knew each other, talked among themselves (Danger! Danger!), discussing characters, plots, time lines, and, possibly, their editor. By the deadline of October 31, 2011, I had all but two of the first drafts.
As I worked my way through the seven manuscripts (over and over), I maintained a spreadsheet that tracked plots, characters, relationships, and time lines. My beloved index cards filled up. I cross-referenced until I went cross-eyed. I did revisions on my own novel. I edited Redwing. I started to go crazy. I cut an early promotional poster into puzzle-shaped pieces to remind myself that one day this would all make sense. Eric climbed Kilimanjaro himself. Slacker.
A trailer was made. A Web site was created (seventheseries.com). Our art director came up with an overall look for the series. Maps and family trees were drawn again and again. Teachers' guides were written. I tried to prepare our copyeditor for the onslaught of manuscripts. I talked to marketing about everything from back-cover copy and catalogue copy to author bios. I argued with some authors and laughed with others. And I started to see the puzzle come together.
All Orca books are collaborations, but Seven was more intense, more high-risk, more exhilarating, more infuriating. Would I do another series like Seven? Probably. If Andrew asked nicely. And gave me danger pay. And a week in Maui afterwards. In the meantime, I'll be editing Limelights, a new teen series about the performing arts. Two per season, starting in fall 2013. After all, I'm not insane.
Sarah Harvey is an editor at Orca Book Publishers in Victoria, British Columbia. She is also the author of nine books for children and teens. Seven (the series) will be published October 10, 2012.


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Health plan providers of all sizes in the United States face pressure for lower pricing, better customer service and innovative product lines. However, national plan providers consistently outperform regionals. The nation's top eight health plan providers own 50 percent of the market.
But amid these challenges, there are several opportunities for smaller regional plan providers to turn disadvantages into market-differentiating advantages. By duplicating value-add capabilities from nationals, "born digital" and other high-performing regional plans, smaller regional plan providers can improve their competitive agility.VIEW THE REPORT [PDF]
Regional plan providers can turn disadvantages into market opportunities.
Making a greater local impact with targeted investments
National health plan providers have invested in new digital capabilities, launched new revenue ventures and made acquisitions to achieve operational scale. Regionals can focus their attention and stretch investment dollars by placing small, more strategic bets.
Activating value-based care by operating as care coordination platforms
National plan providers have been quicker to transition to value-based arrangements. Regionals tend to be the largest payers in their home markets. This advantage can be used to build partnerships with local providers to become the preferred enablers of value-based care in the communities they serve.
Operating differently helps regionals work more efficiently
Nationals have achieved economies of scale, and their administrative costs are at or more than 20 percent lower than those of regional plans. Smaller plan providers can pivot toward innovations by partnering quickly to adopt new capabilities.
Regional health plan providers can improve their competitive agility by:
Maximizing connections with local customers, partners and providers
Smaller plans know local communities, organizations and providers on a deeper level than nationals, understanding the capabilities needed most—and where they can fill the gaps.
Redesigning the operating model to create shared outcomes with providers
Regional plan providers are agile, and can easily pivot from a traditional model to more relationship-based ones with local providers.
Gaining virtual scale and cost reduction
National health plan providers have economies of scale, but smaller plans can scale smarter using digital technology and strategic partners.


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Okay, let it be known (and reiterated) that I DETEST the NA cartoon designs, characterizations, voices, plotlines, most character designs and (more than anything) Skeletor's FACE!!!!!
Seriously, what in the hell is up with that FACE??????
But I digress...
The recent reveal of The Mighty Spector has made me stop and think about some of my blind hatred of MOTUC re-designs of properties that I disliked in the past.
Optikk, sitting in the back of my Evil Warriors shelf, doesn't look quite as hideous to me as he once did.
Flipshot (Icarius) looks closer and closer to "okay" the more times I look at him.
And with the reveal of Slush Head, I think...forgive me God in Heaven...I think I actually like him.
My Lord, what is happening to me?
I guess what I'm saying is that while I'll likely NEVER acquiesce to the religion of worshiping at the altar of the NA cartoon, the Four Horsmen's re-design of the figures may be starting to chip away at my carefully-constructed Hate Fortress.
Anyway, I guess my vitriole-laced NA tirades may be about to soften.
A little.
My mind is open, so we'll see.
Congrats, Mike Bock! Now pray for me to get my Spikor and Rio Blast!!!


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Last duty station was Fort Dix. I was the post Ammunition Officer. Middays with ammo handed out and nothing else to do until the unused rounds came back, would go down to the railyard and watch GE 44-tonner PRR #9999 go about its work for the PRR-owned shortline which I think was called the Union Transportation Company, but somebody correct me if the name's not right! Seemed like such a big number for such a little locomotive!
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MIDDLEBURY — The United Way of Addison County is launching its 2014 fund drive this week with a new financial goal, new campaign co-chairs and some new strategies aimed at encouraging more charitable giving at a time when the need for philanthropy is at an all-time high.
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The big news in the basketball world last week was that 7'0" Kansas freshman center Joel Embiid ("jo-el em-beed") will leave college and enter the NBA draft in June.
Editor's note: Independentsports columnist Karl Lindholm is filing his reports this year from Yaounde, Cameroon, West Africa.
Are the Boston Celtics trying to lose games on purpose?
Well, not exactly.
It's clear the Celtics' effort on the floor in games is admirable, but the team is not competitive with the best in the league.
Ted Williams was wrong. Hitting a baseball is not the hardest task in sports. Reffing a basketball game is.
A few years back, I made a foolish decision. I agreed to become a basketball referee — not a real ref, a certified official, but far worse. I agreed to officiate games in the Middlebury Adult Men's League in which I had played for nearly 15 years.
Late last summer, I was chatting with Lynn and Mike McKenna in front of the Middlebury Market about the woes of the Red Sox, who were headed for last place, limping to a miserable finish.
They were waxing enthusiastic about Red Sox outfielder Daniel Nava, their favorite player.
Nava is a most unlikely major-leaguer. The Red Sox plucked him from independent ball in 2008 after playing for the Chico Outlaws of the Golden Baseball League in California. The Red Sox paid the Outlaws $1.00 (that's right — one dollar) for the rights to sign him.
I knew I had a problem when my friend Ben, from California, e-mailed me after watching "42," the Jackie Robinson story, and being profoundly moved. He said, "Tell me again why you're not looking forward to seeing this movie."
True, I have expressed ambivalence. I sometimes tire of the exclusivity of the focus on Jackie Robinson. The more I have learned about the African-American experience in baseball, the more rich stories and worthy figures I have become aware of.
Before every season, Middlebury Union High School Activities Director Sean Farrell asks all boys and girls aspiring to be on teams that season and their parents and coaches to attend an organizational meeting at the high school.
We meet first as a group in the gym and then in individual team meetings. Coaches introduce themselves and their athletic philosophy and address relevant practical concerns.
I have two children at MUHS who enjoy sports so I have attended 11 of these meetings so far, and likely have five more coming up.
Walking around the track at Middlebury College one day last summer, I ran into my friend Jon Cormier of Bristol, or more accurately, he ran by me. He was kind enough to stop and chat with me for a while, at my pace.
Turns out he was training for a race, and not a local fun run, but the "Vermont 50" at Mt. Ascutney in September. That's a 50-mile race, up and down and around the mountain, with 9,000 feet of climbing over its route.
This past Sunday night Marco Scutaro knocked in the winning run for the San Francisco Giants in the deciding game of the World Series. Before that, he was the MVP of the National League Championship Series with a .500 batting average and a lot of big hits.
Why can't the Red Sox get a player like that?
Oh yes, we had him for two years before banishing him to Colorado this past offseason.
Marco joined other diminutive second basemen, Bobby Richardson and Bill Mazeroski, as World Series heroes.
Yes, I have retired, but I am allowed to teach one course a year in retirement, so that's what I do.
I teach my class in the late morning, and then I don't go back to an office with a desk full of unmet responsibilities and an e-mail inbox of notes impossible to respond to adequately.
Instead, I go home and walk the dogs. Or I go to lunch with a friend.
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6'3" scoring forward Ludvig Rensfeldt was Chicago's second round pick (35th overall) in 2010. Chicago, perilously close to the NHL's 50-contract limit, opted not to sign him and he will re-enter the draft this year. Is he worth a flyer?
In their 2010 Draft Preview issue, The Hockey News (they ranked him 32nd) described Rensfeldt as a player who raised hopes with strong play early in his draft year, but who disappointed as the season went on. One scout quoted described him this way:
He's just a solid all-round player. I don't see him as a guy with any flare. He's a little too vanilla for me, but he's a talented kid.
McKeen's Hockey went into a little more detail on his skillset in their draft preview. In part:
[Runsfeldt] imposes his will due to his physical stature in the trenches and can throw a bone crushing check one shift and shies away from the body the next shift… When he is on his game, he can dominate as he drags players with him to the net due to his formidable leg strength. He could refine his skating technique, but he does an excellent job shielding the puck and making plays down low along the boards. His shot could be his best weapon as it is well disguised and has tremendous torque on it. His wrist shot is one of the heaviest in the draft.
Of course, that was two years ago. Rensfeldt has played another year in Sweden and then a season in the OHL since those scouting reports were written. Still, Corey Pronman of Hockey Prospectus argues that he's worth a draft pick:
He's a commodity because he's a big body forward with above-average puck skills and fine offensive instincts. Issues scouts have expressed to me have been his choppy skating stride and overall quickness on top of his decision-making sometimes being poor. I find his hockey sense comes and goes as he'll show impressive vision and other times make some notable mistakes. I don't think he'll be picked close to where he went in 2010, but I'd certainly use a mid to late round selection on him.
Given that this is NHL Numbers, what do the statistics show? Put bluntly, they aren't kind. Here are the numbers:
"SuperElit" is Swedish junior hockey, while the Elitserien is their top league. Rensfeldt progressed a little from his draft year in the former league, but didn't take a major step forward in terms of scoring. His poor Elitserien numbers are perhaps forgivable because young players rarely get much ice-time in that league.
His numbers in the OHL, however, are highly disappointing. As a European player playing his first year of hockey in North America, he deserves to be cut some slack because there does tend to be an adjustment period, but even so the numbers aren't good. Rensfeldt turns 20 in January and he's a depth scorer in major junior. That just isn't good enough.
Rensfeldt is still a young player, and not exactly a write-off given his physical gifts, but at this point he's far more suspect than prospect. He might be worth a pick late in the draft, but he looks more like training camp invite material to me. The fact that he's heading back to Sweden isn't exactly good news for his NHL future either.
He might be a player down the road, but he doesn't look like a good use of a draft pick right now.
Image above is a screenshot of Rensfeldt from a CTV report on the Sarnia Sting.
This week by Jonathan Willis
- Red Line Report: "We think Edmonton is open to shopping that top pick."
- Should teams build from the net out, like the Kings did with Quick?
- Jon Cooper, the most interesting man in hockey
- Craig MacTavish returns to the Edmonton Oilers
- Should the Oilers pursue Guillaume Latendresse?
- Should the Oilers consider trading for Tim Thomas?
- Blaming the professional scouts
- Is Steve Tambellini the right man to build Edmonton's next Stanley Cup Champion?
- Colin Fraser: A fourth-liner for all teams
- Fixing the NHL's wonky hit statistics


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The Colloquium of the University of Helsinki Centre for Research on Addictions, Control and Governance (CEACG) arranges a Thematic Meeting of the Kettil Bruun Society with the aim of providing a platform for discussing the usefulness of framing consumption risks as addictions, or even as different aspects of a singular phenomenon. Critical and careful analysis of evidence, reflexion on the moral and practical implications of the concept in different contexts, and the way forward need to be given a proper and free space of interchange between different points of view.
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Today is Day 23 of the 25 Days of SLO Digital Adventure through San Luis Obispo with me, The Leesh!
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Today, we are going to show some school spirit for my alma mater, Cal Poly!
Cal Poly is known for its hands-on teaching style and is home to fantastic engineering and agriculture programs. But Cal Poly is more than just an amazing place to be educated, it is home to some awesome sports teams!
Tonight will be an exciting game. The men's basketball team takes on our (somewhat) rivals, UC Santa Barbara at 7pm! All the details can be found here. Make sure to keep posted on all the different sports throughout the season here.
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Rock 'n' roll is to the Kibitz Room at Canter's what onions are to chopped liver. The two have been closely aligned since the little bar opened just off the beloved
Avenue deli's annex dining room in 1961. Only now, instead of a bunch of hippies and musicians like
and Jim Morrison hanging out there for the cheap booze and meaty sandwiches, you'll find a bunch of hipsters and indie rock musicians hanging out there for the cheap booze and meaty sandwiches. So things have changed, but not that much.
Walk into the oblong bar — which is dark and divey and smells of moist corned beef and mustard — on any night after 10 p.m., and you'll be treated to some kind of musical experience, usually of the indie rock variety: driving electric guitars, the pop and crack of drums, the deep thwang of bass and an urgent vocal run through an old PA. A hodgepodge of drinkers and diners lounges in the black, tufted booths. Servers deliver trays of Coke, hot black coffee with plastic cups of cream, plates of fat dill pickles, bottles of Tabasco and towering sandwiches spilling over with soft meat.
The two men behind the bar have been there for years. One, a gruff, older man with longish white hair and a black baseball cap, is Danny Boy Bauder. The other is the Kibitz Room's booker, Eric Thatcher, with shaggy brown hair, glasses, jeans and a sweat shirt. Thatcher books the room based on his personal taste and his sense of the personalities of the musicians asking for a chance. It's a welcome laissez-faire attitude unfamiliar in L.A.'s highly competitive music scene. Bands don't usually get paid, but they get a free meal. And for L.A.'s hungry rockers, that's a fair shake. Arguably no other club in town will feed you quite as well.
A perennial after-show favorite is the pastrami Reuben. Piled high with juicy pastrami, tangy sauerkraut and gooey Swiss cheese on toasted rye bread, the Canter's Reuben has a Pavlovian pull on musicians. It's likely that
ate a Reuben or two in the mid-'60s when he moved to L.A. from Canada and charged Canter's patrons $1 to taxi them from the deli to the Sunset Strip in his hearse.
For the first 30 years of its existence, the Kibitz Room rarely hosted actual shows. But in 1989 a jazz musician/waiter named Eric Gold started a regular Monday jazz night. Then
's son Jakob Dylan began coming in for the music and $1.30 beers, says owner Marc Canter. Soon Dylan's keyboardist asked to stage a rock night on Tuesdays, and that's when things started to get crazy.
The party got so big that it would pour into the annex room, and Canter had to sell hot dogs next to the cashier just to keep people sober "because they were drinking without eating, and bad things can happen."
Canter would know. He's been friends with
from the rowdy hard-rock band
since elementary school when the future icon (and poster boy for gratuitous shirtlessness) favored drawing dinosaurs to shredding. The band took its first band photo in a booth next to the Kibitz Room after returning from what Canter calls a "hell tour" to Seattle. Apparently Axl and the gang had been hitchhiking and eating onions and carrots that they stole from farms.
"They were starving, so of course they came to Canter's," says Canter who regularly gave the band free food and beer, and had been documenting its rise since he was fresh out of high school. He recently published a book about the band's early years called "Reckless Road: Guns N' Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction." In addition to destruction, Slash also had an appetite for pastrami sandwiches, Axl for tuna fish and Duff for barley bean soup.
Earlier this year I was fortunate to play on the legendary stage with my band Wet & Reckless. The stage is basically just a small, dirty ledge the size of a walk-in closet, but the important thing is not how it looks; it's who has been on it.
, the Wallflowers,
, the Vacation,
, members of
and many more have played informal shows that have turned into free-wheeling jam sessions.
was there for the show I played because
, the singer of the headlining band, Russian Bones, used to tour with her band, Juliette and the Licks. (All my life people have told me I look like Juliette Lewis. Not so much it turns out. She's way skinnier.)
After our show I ordered the matzo ball soup. There's a soothing magic to that soup, which consists of a single, apple-sized matzo ball that is chewy without being gooey. The dough ball is submerged in a deep bowl of rich, yellow chicken broth and is best consumed with a side of crispy thin bagel chips.
I've loved that soup for years and once drove across town for it after my old band, the Movies, played a show at Spaceland (now the Satellite) that ended with an all-night after-party during which I made an unfortunate decision involving tequila and gin and woke feeling half dead. The soup didn't fix me, but the vodka-soda at the Kibitz Room did.
It's likely that Watson, of Russian Bones, was at that party. We've rolled deep for years. But not for as long as Watson had pined to play the unassuming little deli bar. "I'd been wanting to play there my whole life," Watson recently told me. "I don't know why, but even after I'd toured the world, I never wanted to play the Roxy, the Viper Room or the Whisky. I wanted to play the Kibitz Room."
Watson secured a Thursday night residency earlier this year, which had him performing for five Thursdays in a row. Thatcher let him book the gigs himself.
"The great thing about the place," said Watson, "is that if you bring 10 people, it's packed. Eric gave us free food, and the cheapest beer was free. I would always get their Reuben. The Reuben is amazing at Canter's."
"In Hollywood, there are so many new places, but they're all the same," said Thatcher on a recent Thursday night while the countrified rock band Ol' Bessy played its residency. "But this place is funky, it's unique. I say it's built on an ancient Indian burial ground."
While he talked, Thatcher poured me a wine glass full of a Kool-Aid-red-colored alcoholic substance that he calls a WMD, which stands for "World's Most Dangerous." The drink begged for a juicy cheeseburger to accompany it, or maybe a tasty avocado melt with sauteed mushrooms, melty Swiss cheese and tomatoes. Or, if I wanted to really take it
, perhaps a decadent dessert like a calorie-laden cheesecake or hot apple strudel from the restaurant's warm and inviting bakery. Don't ask me why I found myself incoherently begging a server for a plate of the restaurant's tart dill pickles.
With a good, stiff drink in your hand and a plate of some of the city's most comforting comfort food in front of you, you're ready for whatever the night has to offer. And at the Kibitz Room that could be just about anything, because it's one of those rare bars that really doesn't care if you get crazy.
"Once you get in there, everybody acts like it's their home," says Mac Dunlop, the singer of Ol' Bessy. "I can stand on tables, I can take my guitar and get a beer. I've seen people consistently go nuts at shows — sometimes it'll be crazy and glass shatters. There's just that kind of energy there."
Like Watson, Dunlop also gets the Reuben.
"Which is one reason," said Dunlop, who has been playing at the Kibitz Room for years, "when our pockets were a little emptier, we would say, 'Let's play the Kibitz Room.'"


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Expert group evaluates 7th Framework Programme for Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn
The Interim Evaluation of the European Union's 7th Framework Programme for Research has now been completed. The work was carried out by a Group of Experts chaired by Rolf Annerberg, Director General of the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Research and Spatial Planning (FORMAS), which presented its report to the EU Commissioner for Research Máire Geoghegan-Quinn. The Commission is analysing the report in detail and will respond in the weeks to come.
Commissioner for Research Máire Geoghegan-Quinn said: "The 7th Framework Programme is making a major contribution to European science and the European Research Area. We welcome the report from the Expert Group which concludes that the Framework Programme is backing excellent projects and has a vast and impressive reach. We will take the Expert Group's recommendations fully into account in bringing forward early next year our proposals for the implementation of the remainder of our current Seventh Research Framework Programme and subsequently for the successor Eighth Framework Programme. I am determined to make continuous improvements in our support for research and innovation."
Ten independent experts evaluated the ongoing 7th Framework Programme (2007-2013) during a six month period. They were supported by an extensive evidence base, a self-assessment by Commission Services and an open online stakeholder consultation. They also took into account specific FP7 Interim Evaluations such as the one on the Risk Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF).
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Advance the European Research Area and Innovation Union objectives; it is vital to integrate the research base by overcoming fragmentation in research, while simultaneously achieving a sharper division of labour between what is done at EU level and what is undertaken in national programmes.
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Redskins, RGIII Beat Vikings 38-26
The Vikings lost 38-26 at Washington to the Redskins Sunday afternoon. Robert Griffin III secured the win by reeling off a 76-yard touchdown run with 2:43 left. The Vikings took a 9-0 lead but trailed 17-9 at halftime. Washington went out to a 30-12 lead before Minnesota mounted a comeback. The Vikings got as close as 30-26 before Griffin scored on the long touchdown run.
Christian Ponder was 35-52 passing for 352 yards and 2 touchdowns with 2 interceptions. One of his picks was returned by former Vikings Madieu Williams for a touchdown. Percy Harvin led the Vikings with 11 catches for 133 yards and Adrian Peterson had 79 yards rushing on 17 carries and 7 catches for 50 yards. Kyle Rudolph and Michael Jenkins each had touchdown receptions for the Vikings.
Minnesota outgained the Redskins 421 yards to 361 but the Vikings committed 3 turnovers compared to 1 for Washington.
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The Generals
American Military Command from World War II to Today
Thomas E. Ricks
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Deep in his impressive, disturbing study of U.S. Army leadership, "The Generals: American Military Command From World War II to Today," Thomas E. Ricks offers his explanation of why the Iraq war seemed to spiral out of control even after Saddam Hussein was toppled and his army defeated.
The fault was not with the U.S. Army's rank and file, Ricks concludes.
"It was a well-trained, professional, competent force," he writes. "But the soldiers were often better at their tasks than the generals who were leading them were at theirs. In Iraq, the U.S. Army would illustrate the danger of viewing war too narrowly."
A former military beat reporter at the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, Ricks is swinging for the fences in "The Generals," analyzing the performance of generals and the civilian leaders who oversee them from Pearl Harbor to Iraq and Afghanistan.
He remembers the slam once used to describe the British army as "lions led by donkeys."
His conclusions are stark, fact-based and strongly argued: The U.S. Army is often led by generals who are masterful at combat tactics, at converging battalions on an agreed-upon enemy target, but woefully inept at recognizing changes in the battlefield, like the emergence of an insurgency in Iraq or the reemergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
In Panama in 1989, Iraq in 1991 and 2003 and Afghanistan in 2001, "Army generals would lead swift attacks against enemy forces yet do so without a notion of what to do the day after their initial triumph, and in fact believing that it was not their job to consider the question."
Ricks is not reluctant to name names, among them Gen. Tommy Franks, who led U.S. forces in Afghanistan and then Iraq, and Franks' successor in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez.
"Most generals, at worst, get the opportunity to lose one war," Ricks writes. "Franks bungled two in just three years."
Ricks blames Franks, "that most graceless sort of leader, both dull and arrogant," for blowing an opportunity to kill or capture Osama bin Laden when he was cornered in the Tora Bora mountains in late 2001: "Franks seemed inattentive, almost as if the battle were someone else's problem."
In Iraq, Sanchez appeared not to understand the insurgency or have a strategy to fight it. "Sanchez compounded the problem through smallness of mind and inflexibility of approach. He did not seem willing to learn and adapt."
The problem, as Ricks sees it, starts with a dispute among the Army leadership in the post-Vietnam era about whether to emphasize tactics or strategic thinking.
The tacticians won, and the concept that wars are fought to achieve political aims took a backseat among career-minded Army officers, Ricks says. "The Generals" provides plentiful detail about how nonconformists found their careers stunted.
Adding to the tendency of the Army to be muscle-bound was the loss of a concept that was used extensively in World War II: officers, including generals, being relieved of command for failing to accomplish their assignments.
Instead of a culture of accountability, the Army became bureaucratic, with generals considered too important to be relieved before their normal rotation times, Ricks says. Relieving generals, he says, became something that the civilian leadership at the Pentagon or White House would do occasionally but that the Army hierarchy was loath to consider.
"The Generals" focuses on the Army with only glancing references to other services. But those glances are instructive. The Navy has an aggressive history of relieving ship captains for losing the confidence of superiors; the only senior officer relieved during the land assault on Baghdad in 2003 was a Marine colonel whose replacement was ordered by a Marine general.
Much of "The Generals" delves into World War II and the partnership of Dwight Eisenhower and George Marshall, the Korean War where Douglas MacArthur went from national hero to "troublesome blowhard," and then Vietnam and William Westmoreland's failures.
Ricks admires those generals — Matthew Ridgway in Korea, Creighton Abrams in Vietnam and David Petraeus in Iraq — who were sent in to fix the mess created by their predecessors. Ricks shows in fine detail how Ridgway — not a man given to humility or collegiality — went about rescuing and downsizing the U.S. objectives in Korea, in part by relieving MacArthur sycophants.
The modern Army's lack of strategic thinking — what to do the day after the battle has been won — worries Ricks.
"We now are living in an era of strategic uncertainty…Old adversaries have disappeared or are diminishing, and new ones may be emerging. In addition, nonstate foes, such as terrorists, loom much larger in American calculations than ever before," the author writes.
If there is a bright spot in Ricks' analysis, it is the rise of strategic thinkers, general officers with combat leadership but also the ability to adapt and see the "bigger picture" of geopolitics and civilian-military relations.
Ricks names as exemplars Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Petraeus, now head of the CIA; and Marine Gen. James Mattis, who led Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq and succeeded Petraeus as commanding general of the U.S. Central Command.
Still, Ricks worries that the Army has "not steeled itself and launched a soul-searching review of its performance in Iraq and Afghanistan" so that its performance improves in the next war and fewer U.S. troops have to die while their generals dither.
"But as long as it cares more about not embarrassing generals than it does about taking care of soldiers," Ricks concludes, "it is unlikely to undertake such a review."


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I was just reading through one of the reports at JTA, and it sounds like the overall feeling from Hasbro is that the Clone Wars line will continue to see about 20 figures a year through the duration of the 3D releases. They mentioned it being considered more of a "sub line" now, and they would be very careful about what characters were included. They did admit to a dip in the ratings of the show (although I think I've enjoyed this season much more than last year). I'd be curious if the show would even be on the air (new episodes at least) for another 6 years, that's a long time for a cartoon these days. I think usually once they hit the 52 number, they often wrap things up (or change the name), although there are exceptions. Anyways, sounds like CW will be run very similar to the way things are this year - barring a disaster with the 3D releases I guess.
I loves me some Clone Wars, seen every episode, own all the DVDs, Blu-Ray, etc., but do any of us honestly expect the show and the line is going to continue over the next six years?
The show was originally slated to run for 5 seasons, so based on the original plan next season would be the last, but there are reports out there that they have already started writing for Season Six, so who knows?I agree another 5 years for the show is probably overly optimistic, but I can see it going another 2 seasons easily, and that will make 100 episodes, which is the magic number for *ding ding ding* syndication.
You said it would take another 2 seasons before they reached 100 episodes, so I can honestly see that happening.
syndication seems like a bit of a stretch for a series with falling ratings though.
Falling rating or not, I have to imagine that a old episode of Clone Wars would do just as well as an old episode of The Wonder Years or whatever else Hasbro has on the Hub.
And the way they're setting things up in the series I really question if it'll be here much longer. I agree, they really are setting up the ROTS lead-in... a lot. I just hope they don't completely dump on Tartakovsky's version in the process, but I'm sure they will ultimately.
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HOUSTON — Now, if the question ever comes up and you have a chance to win a bar bet, you'll know.
How many 3-pointers in a single NBA game does it take to make an insult?
The answer, evidently, is 23.
That's the NBA record-tying number poured in by the Rockets on Tuesday night that finally got under the Warriors' skin.
Not 17, 18 or 19. Not 20, 21 or 22.
It wasn't until there were just under four minutes left in a 140-109 thumping and 7-footer Donatas Motiejunas slung one in from the right corner that it seemed to occur to anyone wearing a Golden State jersey that this was just a bit embarrassing.
So with the Toyota Center crowd on its feet and chanting: "One more three! One more three!" the Warriors decided it was time to play with whatever pride — if any — they had left.
Which then resulted in the final three minutes more closely resembling recess at an elementary school. The Rockets kept running their offense and shooting 3s. Houston reserve Patrick Beverley hammered home a dunk, then taunted the Warrior bench and drew a technical foul.
Golden State's Draymond Green was flagged for a Flagrant Foul 2 and ejected when Beverley tried to let fly with a corner jumper in front of the Warriors' bench. Houston's Marcus Morris was hit with a technical and tossed out on the same play.
In the final two minutes, the Warriors would not let the Rockets even attempt a 3 in order to break the record. Warriors coach Mark Jackson ordered his players to foul the Rockets intentionally on each possession.
"We're not going to lay down," said Jackson, ignoring the fact that his team already had. "I'm an old-school basketball player and an old-school coach. If you can't appreciate that, that's on you.
"We're not going to lay down. If you're going to get the record, we're going to stop it. There is a way to do it, that's all. Understand it, appreciate it and I would expect nothing less if I was on the other side."
Rockets coach Kevin McHale just happens to be an old-school guy himself. You can tell from his limp. And also from searching on YouTube for a clip of him clotheslining the Lakers' Kurt Rambis in Game 4 of the 1984 NBA Finals.
"We just had to keep playing," McHale said. "I really didn't even know we had a chance to break the record until late in the game. We shoot a lot of 3s, that's just what we do. If we were to get them in the flow, we get going to get them. Mark didn't want it to happen and fouled and I didn't have no problem with how they played. Mark's got to coach his team. I have no problem with that."
For 44 minutes, the Warriors didn't seem to have a problem with anything the Rockets did either. Otherwise you'd think they might have played just a little bit of defense.
"At the end of the day, we just continued to play," Morris said. "… And we were just taking the shots the defense was giving."
Until the Warriors decided they'd had enough.
How many 3-pointers does it take to make an insult?
If you're asked, remember to shout: "23!"
Then duck.
Old School Rules or New Age Touchy Feely?
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Gov. Hickenlooper signs 2 bills during Routt County visit
Hayden — A day after visiting with Britain's Prince Harry in the Denver suburb of Sedalia, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper traveled to Routt County to sign two bills into law.
His first stop Saturday was at the Carpenter Ranch just east of Hayden. Local Democrats, Routt County commissioners and the governor's supporters watched as he used several pens to sign House Bill 1278. Hickenlooper sat beside the sponsors of the bill, state Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush, D-Steamboat Springs, and Sen. Nancy Todd, D-Aurora.
"This is a perfect place to sign a bill like this," Hickenlooper said outside the ranch house near the Yampa River.
The bill lowers to one barrel (42 gallons) the threshold for requiring energy companies to report spills to a state agency. The previous requirement was five barrels.
The spills now must also be reported within 24 hours to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and the local emergency manager, and the operator now will have to provide all the information about the material that was spilled.
Mitsch Bush said the bill will make cleaning up spills quicker and more efficient.
"It's a law," Hickenlooper said after signing the bill.
Next, it was off to the Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association clinic at the Yampa Valley Medical Center's medical offices building in Steamboat. Hickenlooper signed Senate Bill 12-242.
The bill is expected to be implemented by April 2014 and will give adults under Medicaid a limited dental benefit worth about $1,000.
Sue Birch, executive director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, was present at the signing. Birch is a Steamboat resident and the former CEO of the Northwest Colorado VNA. Birch praised the bill, which will provide the preventive dental benefit to adults for the first time.
"It's going to save us a lot of money and help people stay healthier," Birch said after the signing.
According to a news release, the bill will save the state money because it is more cost effective to fund preventive care and fillings at a dentist's office rather than rely on an emergency room for procedures.
The Health Care Policy and Financing department estimates the bill will reduce costs for dental-related emergency room visits by $700,000 within the first three months of implementation and $1.6 million within the first year.
Before implementing the bill, dental experts, stakeholders and state officials will decide which procedures should be covered under the limited benefit.
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Former Northwest Colorado wildlife manager named new director of CPW
Gov. Jared Polis announced Thursday the hiring of Dan Prenzlow as the new director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, according to a news release from CPW and Colorado Department of Natural Resources.


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With new playground, kids at Riverside Park have it made in the shade
Editor's Note: This corrects an earlier version.
New London - Bagpipes and drums sounded Sunday morning as children flooded the walkways, rock-climbing wall and slides of Emilie's Shady Spot playground at Riverside Park following a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The park was dedicated to Emilie Parker, one of the 20 first-graders who were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012.
"I hope that you all can feel that sweet spirit and be able to see it in the light of the children's eyes as they play," said Emilie's mother, Alissa Parker, who attended the dedication. "And for me that is the greatest gift. And to be able to share that with all of you is amazing. It is a good day."
About 250 to 300 people packed the playground site to support Emilie's parents and family as they unveiled a memorial, sign and playground after 3½ days of volunteer work.
The vividly pink playground was tied up in a blue ribbon and covered with dove balloons. The trees surrounding the playground had elaborately colored butterflies designed by area students.
Volunteers said the park will keep generations to come talking about Emilie Parker as it is designed in her favorite colors of pink, black and blue, contains her drawings and is in a shady spot, which is where she liked to spend school recess.
It is the 14th playground the New Jersey Firefighters Mutual Benevolent Association has completed since it began its Sandy Ground Project: Where Angels Play last December.
The project is designed so that each community that receives a playground raises money for a playground in another community. That effort got a big boost Sunday as the company that makes the 5-Hour Energy drink announced it was donating $50,000 to the project.
The New London Fire Department's bagpipe band began the ceremony with "God Bless America" and the crowd bowed their heads for a moment of silence. Many people's eyes glistened as they fought to hold back tears for the 6-year-old who was killed nearly one year ago. The Parkers' pastor spoke to the crowd and said he was grateful to God for being invited to attend and thankful for so many people's efforts.
Bill Lavin, former president of the New Jersey firefighters union, who organized the project, thanked a dozen groups for their support, including firefighters, police, teachers, students and community leaders.
But he said they only needed one person and that is Emilie Parker.
"Emilie is here, her spirit will lift this community for generations," Lavin said. "Emilie will watch over our angels who are here to play."
Robbie Parker, Emilie's father, told the crowd that Emilie saw the world in color.
"She was a bright, beautiful, loving girl, and that is how she expressed herself. And so to see that symbolized here so wonderfully is the perfect way to embody her spirit at this park," he said.
He said that he and his wife were amazed by the unity and love that grew out of the "evil" event on Dec. 14, but that he was disappointed to see it quickly turn into people taking sides and labeling each other.
For example, he said, people referred to themselves as "liberal" versus "pro-gun" and labeled his family as victims or one of the 20 who were killed.
Labels don't tell the whole story, he said.
"My hope is that we will stop looking at each other and realizing the differences that we have - that we can look at each other and just realize that we are all people and that we can all look at each other as citizens of New London or Connecticut or Americans, we are just people," Parker said.
Everyone is here sharing life experiences, so why not lift each other up, he asked.
This project does that and is the purest expression of love, he said.
"I challenge all of us when we leave here today to go home and break your mirrors," he added. "Stop focusing on yourself and start looking toward other people. It's charity which binds us together."
During the speeches a plane flew overhead towing a banner that read "Welcome to my Shady Spot - Love Emilie #Whereangelsplay" and fire department boats sprayed water into the sky from the Thames River. The Parkers were given a bell engraved with the message, "Every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings," handmade scarves and Riverside Park T-shirts.
Toward the end of the ceremony the children carrying dove balloons were instructed to release them into the sky. They then headed to the much-awaited playground set, which screamed, "Come play on me," said Corina Vendetto, a member of Friends of Riverside and a local coordinator for Where Angels Play, who attended the ceremony.
Ivane Lisse, an 11-year-old from Waterford, who played on the playground with her two siblings and parents, said she liked the colors and the blue slides.
Community leaders such as Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio and state Rep. Ernest Hewett, D-New London, also attended the event.
This project lets "the world know their child will never be forgotten," Hewett said.
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The first day of March has brought a flurry of franchise tags.
Add Ryan Clady to the list of the tagged.
The Broncos' Pro Bowl left tackle received the franchise tag from Denver on Friday, a league source tells PFT. The 26-year-old Clady received the non-exclusive tag, which would allow teams to make an offer for the tackle if willing to surrender two first-round picks.
The 6-foot-6, 315-pound Clady is regarded as one of the NFL's best left tackles. He has started all 80 games in five NFL seasons. The Broncos drafted him in the first round of the 2008 draft.


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Chapter 5703-27 Providing Municipal Income Tax Information
As used in this rule:
(A) "Taxpayer information" includes the following information regarding a taxpayer for each taxable year:
(1) The taxpayer's name, address, and federal employer identification number;
(2) The taxpayer-reported Ohio net income pursuant to section 5745.02 of the Revised Code;
(3) The taxpayer-reported Ohio apportionment ratio and the taxpayer-reported municipal apportionment ratio pursuant to section 5745.02 of the Revised Code; and
(4) The taxpayer-reported income apportioned to the municipal corporation for purposes of the tax imposed under Chapter 5745. of the Revised Code.
(B) "Tax administrator" means the individual charged with direct responsibility for administration of a tax on income levied by a municipal corporation.
(C) On or about the fifteenth day of March each year, the tax commissioner shall provide each tax administrator the taxpayer information for each taxpayer whose Ohio net income the taxpayer has apportioned to that municipal corporation with respect to any report filed with the tax commissioner in the previous calendar year.
(D) Not later than thirty days following each quarterly distribution of estimated tax payments to municipal corporations pursuant to division (A) of section 5745.05 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner shall provide to each tax administrator a report setting forth the name of the taxpayer that made the estimated tax payment and the amount of the estimated tax payment with respect to the municipal corporation for which the tax administrator is responsible for administering the tax.
(E) The information provided pursuant to this rule shall be in a format prescribed by the tax commissioner.
(F) Nothing in this rule shall prohibit a municipality from obtaining any information directly from any taxpayer as authorized by division (E) of section 5745.03 of the Revised Code.
(G) Except as otherwise authorized by law, no tax administrator shall disclose to any person, other than a properly authorized officer, employee, or agent of a municipal corporation, any taxpayer information received from the tax commissioner.
(H) Not later than the last day of January each year, each municipal corporation shall provide to the tax commissioner, in a format prescribed by the tax commissioner, the name and mailing address of the person or persons to whom the municipal corporation requests that the tax commissioner provide the information described in this rule. The tax commissioner shall not provide such information to any person other than a person employed by the municipal corporation or a person employed by an agency that administers tax on behalf of the municipal corporation.
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates: 11/30/2018 and 02/15/2019
Promulgated Under: 119
Statutory Authority: 5703.05, 5745.16
Rule Amplifies: 5745.02, 5745.03, 5745.05, 5745.16
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Perennial to trees, from membranous bulb, fibrous corm, scaly rhizome, or erect caudex
Stem generally underground
Leaves generally basal, often withering early, alternate, generally ± linear
Inflorescence various, generally bracted
Flower generally bisexual, generally radial; perianth often showy, segments generally 6 in two petal-like whorls (outer sometimes sepal-like), free or fused at base; stamens 6 (or 3 + generally 3 ± petal-like staminodes), filaments sometimes attached to perianth or fused into a tube or crown; ovary superior or inferior, chambers 3, placentas generally axile, style generally 1, stigmas generally 3
Fruit: generally capsule, loculicidal or septicidal (berry or nut)
Genera in family: ± 300 genera, 4600 species: especially ± dry temp and subtropical; many cultivated for ornamental or food;
some TOXIC. Here includes genera sometimes treated in Agavaceae, Amaryllidaceae, and other families.
Perennial; bulb ovoid to ± elongate, outer coats white to brown, often very fibrous
Leaves basal, linear, reduced to scarious bracts in inflorescence
Inflorescence: panicle; flowers 1several per node
Flower: perianth segments 6 in 2 petal-like whorls, free, white, purple, or pinkish, persistent in fruit and twisted together above capsule; stamens 6, attached to bases of perianth parts, anthers attached at middle; ovary superior, chambers 3, style slender, stigma slightly 3-lobed
Fruit: capsule, stalked, loculicidal
Seeds ovoid, black, 12 per chamber
Species in genus: 5 species: w North America, especially CA
Etymology: (Greek: green milk or juice)
Reference: [Hoover 1940 Madroño 5:137147]
Bulb 715 cm; coat thick, fibers coarse (except var. minus ), brown
Leaf 2070 cm, 625 mm wide; margins generally wavy
Inflorescence highly branched; pedicels 525(35) mm, slender, ± = perianth
Flower opening in evening, closing by next morning; perianth segments spreading, 1525 mm, linear, white with green or purple midvein, recurved at flower; stamens < perianth, anthers ± 2 mm, purple or yellow, pollen yellow or cream; style 1015 mm, < to > perianth
Fruit 57 mm, spheric to slightly lobed
Ecology: Bluffs, grassland, chaparral, dry open woodland
Elevation: < 1500 m.
Bioregional distribution: Northwestern California, Sierra Nevada Foothills, w Great Central Valley, Central Western California, Southwestern California
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>>> Rankings
NEW ORLEANS – The most recent U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Regional Ranks were released Tuesday and the Georgia College women's cross country team remained at the No. 10 spot for the third straight week.
This is the fifth-straight week that the Bobcats have been ranked on the Southeastern Regional poll for the USTFCCCA. UNC Pembroke, formerly the No. 1 team in the region, fell to No. 7 this week. The No. 2 through 6 places all moved up. Clayton State University now holds No. 2 and Columbus State University now holds No. 3 on the rankings.
Flagler College fell to No. 8 in the Southeast after holding the No. 7 spot the previous two weeks. The University of Montevallo remained at the No. 9 position on the rankings.
Georgia College will be back in action when they travel to Montevallo, Ala. to compete in the Peach Belt Championship Saturday, Oct. 20.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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NIH Awards $30K to Clarkson University Biology Professor
Kenneth Wallace, an associate professor of biology at Clarkson University, recently received a $30,000 addition to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases grant.
The funding has enabled him to double the tank space for his research organism, Danio rerio -- more commonly known as zebrafish. The new system is a state-of-the-art, double-sided recirculating rack system that houses 124 tanks of varying sizes.
"I use zebrafish in my research due to the similarity of their digestive system to humans," says Wallace. "The organization and genetics of fish and human digestive systems are similar enough to obtain answers relevant to both species."
Research in Wallace's laboratory has recently been focused on development of cells in the lining of the intestine.
"Because these cells are rapidly lost, they do not develop typical methods of communication with neurons," says Wallace. "Instead, a number of cells lining the intestine differentiate into secretory cells to mix between cells that absorb nutrients. These secretory cells 'taste' the intestinal contents and then keep the rest of the body updated on what is passing through the intestine by secreting a variety of substance from hormones to neurotransmitters."
The responses to these secretions are changes in intestinal movement, secretion, and absorption. The number of and secretions from these cells tend to be altered in common digestive diseases, such as irritable bowel syndrome and celiac disease.
The additional tank space will be critical for new zebrafish lines that will aid in understanding how these secretory cells form and communicate.
Wallace is also using zebrafish in collaboration with Silvana Andreescu , an associate professor of chemistry, to better understand the safety of engineered nanoparticles in biological systems. Andreescu has expertise in electrochemical techniques, which have been utilized to monitor the health and toxic response of the whole organism after nanoparticle exposure.
Wallace has also begun a collaboration utilizing zebrafish with Cintia Hongay, an assistant professor of biology, in order to obtain a vertebrate perspective on the RNA modification enzymes that she has previously investigated in yeast and fruit flies.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through more than 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health professions, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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Photo caption: Clarkson University Associate Professor of Biology Kenneth Wallace has received a $30,000 NIH grant to double the tank space for his research organism, zebrafish. Wallace utilizes zebrafish in his research due to the similarity of their digestive system to humans.


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Press Release: Berkeley Police Department Seeks Help to Catch Robber
The City of Berkeley Police Department (BPD) is seeking the community's help to identify an armed robber.
BPD Detectives are actively investigating an armed robbery that occurred near the intersection of Milvia and Stuart Streets on March 13, 2013. The depicted individual [in these photos taken on an AC Transit bus] is believed to be the suspect.
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I wish George were alive to take on the lies being told by the two R's about Medicare and the Affordable Care Act. I'm sure he would have something pithy to say about that.
Since he is no longer among us I will have to copy from another source to straighten the record out. An editorial published in the NYT a few days ago contained the following statements. For the full editorial click on the link.
NYT Editorial
NO HARM TO SENIORS The Republicans imply that the $716 billion in cuts will harm older Americans, but almost none of the savings come from reducing the benefits available for people already on Medicare. But if Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan were able to repeal the reform law, as they have pledged to do, that would drive up costs for many seniors — namely those with high prescription drug costs, who are already receiving subsidies under the reform law, and those who are receiving preventive services, like colonoscopies, mammograms and immunizations, with no cost sharing.


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