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Chinese medicine is a
system of medicine partly based on the idea that an energy, called qi
(say "chee"), flows along pathways in the body called meridians. In this
belief, if the flow of qi along these meridians is blocked or unbalanced,
illness can occur. In China, doctors have practiced Chinese medicine for
thousands of years, and it is gaining in popularity in many Western countries.
Causes of qi imbalance are thought to involve:
Another important concept in Chinese medicine is the
concept of yin and yang. In this approach, all things, including the body, are
composed of opposing forces called yin and yang. Health is said to depend on
the balance of these forces. Chinese medicine focuses on maintaining the
yin-yang balance to maintain health and prevent illness.
medicine doctors look at the balance of body, mind, and spirit to determine how
to restore qi, the yin-yang balance, and good health.
People use
Chinese medicine to treat many illnesses from
asthma and allergies to cancer and
infertility. Chinese doctors may use several types of
treatment to restore qi balance.
Chinese medicine therapies
Research in China and
worldwide has shown Chinese medicine to be helpful for many types of illness.
Because Chinese medicine differs from Western medical practice in diagnosis and
treatment methods, it is difficult to apply Western scientific standards to
For example, in Western medical practice, any two people with
a similar infection (such as
sinusitis) may be treated with a standard course of
antibiotics. In Chinese medicine, each person might receive a different
treatment for the same illness depending on the person's own qi and yin-yang
The United States accredits schools in Chinese medicine,
so a practitioner certified by an accredited school has had extensive training
in Chinese medicine.
The National Institutes of Health, through
the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and
other institutes, funds ongoing research of many complementary therapies to
determine their benefits and risks. Acupuncture has been the most studied of
Chinese medicine treatments and has become accepted as a therapy for certain
conditions in the United States. Promising results have been found for the use
of acupuncture in treating nausea and vomiting related to chemotherapy,
postsurgery pain, and pregnancy. Acupuncture also may be useful for other
conditions such as addiction, stroke rehabilitation, headache, menstrual
tennis elbow,
osteoarthritis, low back pain,
carpal tunnel syndrome, and asthma. In general,
acupuncture is safe when done by a certified acupuncturist. The treatment can
be expensive and time-consuming.
Like conventional medicines,
Chinese herbal medicines may also cause side effects, trigger allergic
reactions, or interact with other prescription and nonprescription medicines or
herbs. Before you use any Chinese therapies, be sure to tell your health
professional about any prescription, nonprescription, or other natural
supplements you are taking.
Always tell your doctor if you are
using an alternative therapy or if you are thinking about combining an
alternative therapy with your conventional medical treatment. It may not be
safe to forgo your conventional medical treatment and rely only on an
alternative therapy.
Other Works Consulted Cassidy CM, Micozzi MS (2002). Contemporary Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. Edinburgh:
Churchill Livingstone. National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine (2007). An Introduction to Acupuncture. Backgrounder. Available online:
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/acupuncture/introduction.htm Nolting MH, Cao Q (2006). Chinese prepared medicines.
In JE Pizzorno Jr, MT Murray, eds., Textbook of Natural Medicine, 3rd ed., pp. 837–845. Edinburgh: Churchill
Livingstone. Zunin ID, Wong M (2006). Eastern origins of
integrative medicine and modern applications. In JE Pizzorno Jr, MT Murray,
eds., Textbook of Natural Medicine, 3rd ed., pp. 3–11.
Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
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President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), flanked by Vice President Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) and Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) for moral support, held a press conference during which he said Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng's (王金平) alleged undue lobbying was Taiwan's "most shameful day." He was so rattled he could hardly form a sentence. Perhaps it is more appropriate to say Ma issued a fatwa as part of the autumn hunt of Wang.
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He set up a meeting with senior members of the executive, legislative and judicial branches, the result of which was a High Court ruling that found Chen guilty of "presumed actual influence."
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Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri
Born: 1598 in Milan, Duchy of Milan, Habsburg Empire (now Italy)
Died: 30 November 1647 in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy)
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Bonaventura Cavalieri was given the name Francesco when he was born. His father's name was Bonaventura Cavalieri but when Francesco joined the religious order of the Jesuati in Milan in 1615 he took the name Bonaventura. He is always known by that name. The religious order of the Jesuati, which he joined, was founded by Giovanni Colombini of Siena and his friend Francesco Miani in 1360. Originally the Jesuati cared for those afflicted with the Black Death, but the order recruited fewer as time went on. In 1606 an attempt was made to encourage more young men to join. Although they had some success in recruiting, and in particular Cavalieri joined, nevertheless the order eventually failed and was dissolved by pope Clement IX in 1668. The order was named Jesuati because their sermons always began and ended with the name of 'Jesus' being shouted out. As a Jesuati, Cavalieri would have always worn sandals and flagellated himself daily.
After a year in Milan, in 1616 he transferred to the Jesuati monastery in Pisa, the San Girolamo monastery, where, except for one year spent in Florence in around 1617, he remained until 1620. In Pisa, Cavalieri was taught mathematics by Benedetto Antonio Castelli, a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Pisa. Castelli had been appointed to Pisa in 1611 and had a reputation as a fine teacher, students coming from many different regions to study with him. Castelli was a Benedictine but, as there was no Benedictine monastery in Pisa, Castelli lived in the Jesuati monastery there. He taught Cavalieri geometry and introduced him to the ideas of Galileo. Cavalieri's interest in mathematics had been stimulated by Euclid's Elements and, after meeting Galileo, he considered himself a disciple of the astronomer. The meeting with Galileo was set up by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, who had corresponded with Castelli. The Cardinal himself saw clearly the genius in Cavalieri while he was at the monastery in Milan [12]:-
This resulted in more than 100 letters from Cavalieri to Galileo in the period 1619-1641. Galileo did not answer all of them, but sent an occasional letter to Cavalieri; of these all but a very few have disappeared.Cavalieri showed such promise that he sometimes took over Castelli's lectures at the university. Urbano Diviso, Cavalieri's pupil and first biographer writing about 30 years after Cavalieri's death, claimed that Castelli told Cavalieri to study of mathematics since that would cure him of depression. However, there is no other evidence for this claim and certainly some checkable claims in Diviso's account of Cavalieri's life are incorrect.
In 1619 Cavalieri applied for the chair of mathematics in Bologna, which had become vacant following the death of Giovanni Antonio Magini, but was not successful since he was considered too young for a position of this seniority. He also failed to get the chair of mathematics at several other universities including Rome and Pisa when Castelli left for Rome in 1626. Cavalieri himself blamed the fact that he was in the Jesuati order as the reason for his lack of success in these applications. He felt that the order was not popular in Rome, which was certainly true, but whether this did indeed explain his failed applications it is impossible to say. He did progress in his clerical career, however. In 1621 Cavalieri became a deacon and assistant to Cardinal Federico Borromeo at the monastery of San Girolamo in Milan. It was during his time in Milan that he began to develop his method of indivisibles for which he is famed today. He taught theology in Milan until 1623 when he became prior of St Peter's at Lodi. After three years at Lodi he went to the Jesuati monastery in Parma where he was the prior [1]:-
In the autumn of 1626, during a trip from Parma to Milan, he fell ill with the gout, from which he had suffered since childhood and which was to plague him to the end of his life. This illness kept him at Milan for a number of months.He spend the three years 1626-1629 at Parma. On 16 December 1627 he wrote to Galileo and to Cardinal Federico Borromeo telling them that he had completed his book Geometria. This contains the method of indivisibles which became a factor in the development of the integral calculus. In 1629 Cavalieri was appointed to the chair of mathematics at Bologna. His application had been supported by Galileo who [1]:-
... in 1629, wrote to Cesare Marsili, a gentleman of Bologna and member of the Accademia dei Lincei, who had been commissioned to find a new lecturer in mathematics. In his letter, Galileo said of Cavalieri, "few, if any, since Archimedes, have delved as far and as deep into the science of geometry." In support of his application to the Bologna position, Cavalieri sent Marsili his geometry manuscript and a small treatise on conic sections and their applications in optics. Galileo's testimonial, as Marsili wrote him, induced the "Gentlemen of the Regiment" to entrust the first chair in mathematics to Cavalieri, who held it continuously from 1629 to his death.The chair of mathematics at Bologna was not the only position he received for he was also appointed prior of the Jesuati convent in Bologna attached to the Church of Santa Maria della Mascarella. This was an ideal situation for Cavalieri who now had the peace to undertake mathematics research at the Jesuati convent while teaching mathematics at the university where he could have contacts with other mathematicians. He published eleven books during his eighteen years in Bologna. However, his health deteriorated around the time of his appointment to Bologna, and he suffered from problems with his legs which persisted throughout the rest of his life. In fact Cavalieri's appointment to Bologna had, in the first instance, been for a 3-year trial period but, as we explain below, it was extended.
Cavalieri's geometry manuscript which had been a factor in his appointment to Bologna, although completed in December 1627, was not published until 1635. The theory of indivisibles, presented in his Geometria indivisibilibus continuorum nova quadam ratione promota of 1635, was a development of Archimedes' method of exhaustion incorporating Kepler's theory of infinitesimally small geometric quantities. This theory allowed Cavalieri to find simply and rapidly the area and volume of various geometric figures. Howard Eves writes [26]:-
Cavalieri's treatise on the method of indivisibles is voluble and not clearly written, and it is not easy to learn from it precisely what Cavalieri meant by an "indivisible." It seems that an indivisible of a given planar piece is a chord of the piece, and a planar piece can be considered as made up of an infinite parallel set of such indivisibles. Similarly, it seems that an indivisible of a given solid is a planar section of that solid, and a solid can be considered as made up of an infinite parallel set of this kind of indivisible. Now, Cavalieri argued, if we slide each member of a parallel set of indivisibles of some planar piece along its own axis, so that the endpoints of the indivisibles still trace a continuous boundary, then the area of the new planar piece so formed is the same as that of the original planar piece, inasmuch as the two pieces are made up of the same indivisibles. A similar sliding of the members of a parallel set of indivisibles of a given solid will yield another solid having the same volume as the original one. (This last result can be strikingly illustrated by taking a vertical stack of cards and then pushing the sides of the stack into curved surfaces; the volume of the disarranged stack is the same as that of the original stack.) These results give the so-called Cavalieri principles:The method of indivisibles was not put on a rigorous basis and his book was widely attacked. In particular, Paul Guldin attacked Cavalieri [8]:-
1. If two planar pieces are included between a pair of parallel lines, and if the lengths of the two segments cut by them on any line parallel to the including lines are always equal, then the areas of the two planar pieces are also equal.
2. If two solids are included between a pair of parallel planes, and if the areas of the two sections cut by them on any plane parallel to the including planes are always equal, then the volumes of the two solids are also equal.
The debate between Cavalieri and Guldin is usually mentioned in connection with the objections made by Guldin to Cavalieri's use of indivisibles. Although that is probably the main issue between Cavalieri and Guldin, a more careful reading of the debate will allow us to indicate the existence of other interesting issues ...The argument really centres around the fact that Guldin was a classical geometer following the methods of the ancient Greek mathematicians. His first point, however, was to accuse Cavalieri of plagiarising Kepler's Stereometria Doliorum (1615) and Sover's Curvi ac Recti Proportio (1630). There is something in his argument relating to Kepler since in that work Kepler does regard a circle as an infinite polygon composed of infinitesimals. However, Cavalieri's indivisibles are different from Kepler's infinitesimals. As to the reference to Sover, Cavalieri, in his defence, pointed out that he wrote his book before Sover's book was published. Guldin attacked Cavalieri's indivisibles by arguing that when a surface is generated by rotating a line about the axis, the surface is not just a set of lines. He writes (see [8]):-
In my opinion no geometer will grant Cavalieri that the surface is, and could, in geometrical language be called "all the lines of such a figure"; never in fact can several lines, or all the lines, be called surfaces; for, the multitude of lines, however great that might be, cannot compose even the smallest surface.As Mancosu writes [8]:-
Guldin was a "classicist" geometer, steeped in the idea of explicit construction, sceptical of considerations of infinity in the domain of geometry, and wary of the risk of ending up with an atomistic theory of the continuum.If one asks whether Guldin or Cavalieri is right, then the answer must be Cavalieri. However, a positive side to Guldin's attack was that Cavalieri improved his exposition publishing Exercitationes geometricae sex (1647) which became the main source for 17th Century mathematicians.
Cavalieri was also largely responsible for introducing logarithms as a computational tool in Italy through his book Directorium Generale Uranometricum. We mentioned above that his appointment to Bologna had been initially for a 3-year period. This book of logarithms was published by Cavalieri as part of his successful application to have the position extended. The tables of logarithms which he published included logarithms of trigonometric functions for use by astronomers [31]:-
The work is divided into three parts, devoted to logarithms, plane trigonometry, and spherical trigonometry. In addition to noteworthy innovations in terminology, the work includes important demonstrations of John Napier's rules of the spherical triangle and the theorem of the squaring of each spherical triangle that, attributed to Albert Girard, was later claimed by Joseph Lagrange.Galileo praised Cavalieri for his work on logarithms, in particular the book he wrote entitled A hundred varied problems to illustrate the use of logarithms (1639).
Cavalieri also wrote on conic sections, trigonometry, optics, astronomy, and astrology. He developed a general rule for the focal length of lenses and described a reflecting telescope. He also worked on a number of problems of motion. Piero Ariotti writes that, regarding the reflecting telescope [13]:-
... Cavalieri's work of interest is his 'Specchio ustorio', printed in 1632 and reprinted in 1650. In this work Cavalieri concerned himself with reflecting mirrors for the express purpose of resolving the age-long dispute of how Archimedes allegedly burned the Roman fleet that was besieging Syracuse in 212 B.C. The book, however, goes well beyond the stated purpose and systematically treats the properties of conic sections, reflection of light, sound, heat (and cold!), kinematic and dynamic problems, and the idea of the reflecting telescope.Cavalieri's claim that one would obtain a telescope by combining concave mirrors with concave lens have led some historians to claim that Cavalieri invented the reflecting telescope before James Gregory or Isaac Newton.
He even published a number of books on astrology, one in 1639 entitled Nuova pratica astromlogica and another, his last work, Trattato della ruota planetaria perpetua in 1646. However, although these use the terminology of astrology, they are serious astronomical works. Cavalieri did not believe that one could predict the future from astrological considerations, and certainly did not practice astrology. He states this clearly in his 1639 work.
Cavalieri corresponded with many mathematicians including Galileo, Mersenne, Renieri, Rocca, Torricelli and Viviani. Torricelli was full of praise for Cavalieri's methods writing (see [1]):-
I should not dare affirm that this geometry of indivisibles is actually a new discovery. I should rather believe that the ancient geometricians availed themselves of this method in order to discover the more difficult theorems, although in their demonstration they may have preferred another way, either to conceal the secret of their art or to afford no occasion for criticism by invidious detractors. Whatever it was, it is certain that this geometry represents a marvellous economy of labour in the demonstrations and establishes innumerable, almost inscrutable, theorems by means of brief, direct, and affirmative demonstrations, which the doctrine of the ancients was incapable of. The geometry of indivisibles was indeed, in the mathematical briar bush, the so-called royal road, and one that Cavalieri first opened and laid out for the public as a device of marvellous invention.In fact, Torricelli continued to develop the ideas that Cavalieri introduced in Arithmetica infinitorum (1655). Perhaps Cavalieri's most famous student was Stefano degli Angeli. He studied with Cavalieri at Bologna at a time when Cavalieri was quite old and suffering from arthritis. Angeli wrote many of the letters which Cavalieri sent to his fellow mathematicians during his time of study.
We mentioned Cavalieri's problems with his legs that began around 1629 and also his longstanding problems with gout. In 1636 he was suffering badly from gout and, to seek a cure, went to the health spa in Arcetri where he spent the summer. This was at a time when Galileo was living under house arrest in Arcetri, and Cavalieri spent the summer discussing mathematics with him. Returning to Bologna, life became increasingly difficult for Cavalieri. His health had not improved and he was being pressed by the university authorities to work on astronomy rather than on mathematics, the topic that Cavalieri loved. He had the chance to leave Bologna when he was offered the chair of mathematics at Pisa, but he turned it down. Cardinal Federico Borromeo offered him a position at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, but again Cavalieri chose to remain in Bologna. By 1646 his health had become so poor that he was forced to give up teaching. By the time of his death in the following year he was totally crippled and unable to walk. He was buried in the church of Santa Maria della Mascarella in Bologna.
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Herrera emerging as dependable late-game weapon
PHOENIX -- Wade Davis has proven himself as one of the most effective eighth-inning pitchers in the Major Leagues. Closer Greg Holland leads the American League in saves.
So the eighth and ninth innings have been in good hands all season. And now another right-hander, Kelvin Herrera, is establishing himself as a master of the seventh inning.
Since coming back from a slight case of shoulder stiffness on June 7, Herrera had pitched in 20 games with a 0.46 ERA and held opponents to a .191 average through his scoreless seventh inning on Wednesday night.
The team's record in those 20 games was 14-6.
"He's commanding the ball good, he threw a couple 100-mile-an-hour fastballs, his changeup's been good, he's developing his breaking ball that he's using more consistently. He didn't have the curveball last year, he was strictly fastball, changeup," manager Ned Yost said.
"Last year, he was wild in the zone -- a lot of fastballs right down the middle. But he's keeping the ball [down] better, working the corners better, just normal stuff to make you successful."
Last year, Herrera was shipped off to Triple-A Omaha a couple of times but there's been no Minor League banishment for him this year.
"You never want to be in Triple-A. It was the first time in my career so I was a little sad. But I said, 'All right, let's get going,'" Herrera said.
Determined to improve himself, Herrera used the offseason to study how-to videos that he's found of prominent pitchers of the past.
"I watch a lot of video on how these guys pitch -- Pedro Martinez, Greg Maddux, Roger Clemens. You've got to learn from the best people," Herrera said. "It's fun to watch those guys pitching. The way they explain their pitches is awesome."
The self-teaching obviously helped.
"He's learned to become a better pitcher," Yost said.


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Duke Energy is saying nothing further today about reports it is in talks to sell or combine its Latin American operations with Paris-based GDF Suez SA.
Published reports on the alleged deal originated with Brazil's Valor Economico newspaper, which cited confidential sources. Duke, in a Brazilian regulatory filing, called it a "pure market rumor," reports say.
Valor Economico reported that the deal would create an electricity generator worth $18.8 billion, with a combined capacity of 15,000 megawatts.
Duke Energy International operates power plants with generating capacity of 4,000 megawatts, 70 percent of it from hydroelectric plants, in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina and Central America.
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Duke silent on rumored Latin America merger
Duke Energy is saying nothing further today about reports it is in talks to sell or combine its Latin American operations with Paris-based GDF Suez SA.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Perdue vetoes Montgomery County fine waiver
A bill to erase a $101,000 state fine against Montgomery County for dumping sludge into streams didn't make it past Gov. Bev Perdue's desk.
The county's argument that the money would be better spent to fix the problem apparently didn't resonate with Perdue, who vetoed the measure Monday.
The rural county said it had spent more than a half-million dollars to vacuum sludge out of two tributaries downstream of its water treatment plant, and would need another $400,000 for upgrades to the plant. The bill introduced by Rep. Justin Burr, R-Stanly, and ratified by the legislature wiped away the fine in return for remedial action.
The N.C. Division of Water Quality called the bill an unprecedented maneuver that violated the state Constitution's dictate that state fines go to the public schools. Appeals courts have affirmed that principle, noting that the point of fines is, after all, to punish offenders.
Perdue crushed the hopes of environmental advocates, however, by allowing beach communities to test erosion-control structures called terminal groins. The legislation she let pass will allow up to four groins to be built near eroding coastal inlets.
Environmentalists called it a rebuke of North Carolina's long-standing ban on structures such as seawalls and jetties, which often stop erosion in one place but accelerate it elsewhere. The impact of the new terminal groins should be apparent within a few years after they're built.
Legislators, meanwhile, left the fate of the state's toxic air-pollution program hanging this month.
A N.C. House committee voted to gut the program at the urging of Duke Energy and other industries who said it duplicated federal pollution rules. The Senate then passed a study-committee bill that directs the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources to assess the issue. But legislators only named a conference committee to iron out differences between the two chambers' versions of the study bill before leaving town June 18.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Duke gets S.C. approval for nuclear spending
South Carolina's Public Service Commission this week approved Duke Energy's decision to spend up to $120 million more on pre-construction costs of the Lee nuclear plant.
The $11 billion plant, Duke's first in a generation, would go up near Gaffney, S.C., southwest of Charlotte. The S.C. approval covers spending from January of this year through June 2012 to "keep the nuclear option available."
That language reflects the uncertainty surrounding the delayed nuclear renaissance, which has been battered by high costs, cautious investors and, more recently, the nuclear crisis in Japan. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission last month said it has delayed approval of the reactor design Duke plans to use, the Westinghouse AP1000, because of unresolved technical issues.
North Carolina's Utility Commission hasn't yet ruled on a similar request on pre-construction spending by Duke. Duke had initially sought an endorsement of its decision to spend up to $287 million on Lee through 2013, for a total of $455 million including previous spending. Duke agreed with consumer advocates to limit the amount of further spending to $120 million through mid-2012.
Duke, meanwhile, continues to seek partners to share the costs and risks of new plants. In February, Jacksonville, Fla.'s municipal electric utility took an option to buy up to 20 percent of Lee. Duke has also shown interest in buying a portion of the two-reactor expansion of the Summer plant near Columbia that is co-owned by Santee Cooper and Scana Corp.
After twice pushing back the startup date for Lee, Duke now says it will be in about 2021.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Charlotte's clean-energy rankings
The Charlotte region leads the state in energy-efficient commercial buildings and ranks third in the number of renewable energy and energy efficiency firms, says a report released today.
The N.C. Sustainable Energy Association, whose members include people in the profession, produced its first Clean Energy Data Book. The report summarizes, by region, the renewable energy profile of a state that is a leader in the Southeast.
All told, the association says, more than 12,500 N.C. residents work in some phase of renewable energy or efficiency. Sun, wind, water or biomass (the term for organic waste) produce energy at more than 1,800 sites. More than 1,500 commercial and government buildings have been certified as energy efficient.
The 12-county Charlotte region is home to 355 clean-energy firms, the report says. That total ranks third-highest in the state after the Raleigh area (623 firms) and the Asheville region (with 397 companies). Most of the firms do energy-efficiency work, but the region also has a surprising presence in companies that make parts for the wind industry.
There's room to grow in energy efficiency, the report adds. The Charlotte region has 265,000 homes built before 1970, most without enough insulation. Central Piedmont Community College offers a degree in sustainable technologies, and other local colleges turn out electricians and heating-cooling technicians that could find work there.
The growing number of firms, anchored by Duke Energy, "provides a robust technical knowledge base and strong industry presence with clear opportunity for continued development," the report says.
The 415 buildings registered or certified under the EPA's Energy Star or U.S. Green Building Council LEED standards lead the state. Among those earning Energy Star status are 99 Food Lion stores and 58 schools.
Renewable energy systems in the Charlotte region have a total capacity of 595 megawatts, nearly all of it from hydroelectric plants. For perspective, that's a little less than the output of the single coal-fired unit Duke is building at its Cliffside power plant.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Fracking, offshore drilling bill nears final approval
The N.C. House has joined the Senate in approving a bill that encourages offshore drilling and calls for study of the controversial practice of "fracking" for natural gas on land.
Sen. Bob Rucho, a Matthews Republican, is a primary sponsor of the Energy Jobs Act. The Senate has already passed the measure that's intended to increase the state's energy production and boost the economy. It's now before a House-Senate conference committee.
The bill directs the governor to form an offshore-energy compact with South Carolina and Virginia, citing the 5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas that might be recoverable off the N.C. coast. It also divvies up the revenues and royalties the state might take in.
Problem is, the Obama administration has banned offshore drilling on the Eastern seaboard until at least 2018. Obama softened his stance last month as Republicans clamored for increased production and gas prices soared. The administration accelerated environmental reviews and will consider opening to exploration some parts of the southern and central Atlantic coast.
Environmental advocates, with last year's Deepwater Horizon spill in the rear-view mirror, say it's too risky for the state to gamble its coastal tourism and fisheries on drilling.
They also warn against on-shore drilling for natural gas, which might contaminate groundwater. Techniques called hydraulic fracturing, which breaks open shale to release gas, and horizontal drilling have boosted estimates of U.S. gas reserves by 40 percent. Exploration companies are busily buying up leases in Lee and Chatham counties.
Those techniques are now illegal in North Carolina.
Rucho's bill orders the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Energy Jobs Council it creates -- it had been the Energy Policy Council -- to study the commercial potential of shale gas and review drilling regulations.
Largely missing from the measure is mention of a third energy source: wind power. The shallow waters of the mid-Atlantic coast, including North Carolina, hold some of the nation's highest wind-energy potential, the Interior Department reported in 2009.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
More limits on state rules proposed
A new bill that limits state rule-making is moving through the N.C. Senate in this legislative session's last days.
Introduced by Republican Sens. David Rouzer, Harry Brown and Don East, the bill aims to "balance job creation and environmental protection" by making rules easier to comply with. It echoes, but goes farther than, language in the Republican-crafted budget that blocks most state environmental rules that are tougher than federal standards.
The measure requires state agencies to root out "unnecessary" existing rules each year. It calls for cost-benefit analyses of proposed rules, a standard that environmental advocates say handicaps the worth of resources that are hard to quantify such as clean water.
The Office of State Management and Budget would have to approve fiscal notes, including two alternatives, for rules that would have an economic impact "on all persons affected" of $500,000 a year or more.
The measure gives administrative law judges the ability to make final decisions on contested cases -- not just recommendations to the state agencies that issue fines, which now have the final say.
And it extends the term of many environmental permits from five to 10 years, with the exception of air-quality permits for major industries and wastewater discharge permits.
The Senate commerce committee reported the bill favorably Tuesday, sending it to the agriculture, environment and natural resources panel. Thursday is the deadline for bills to pass in one chamber in order to stay alive this session.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
New budget will hammer enviro programs
The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources would lose 160 jobs, nearly 5 percent of its workforce, under a Republican-crafted budget the state Senate approved Thursday. The budget also moves three DENR divisions to other departments.
But the budget also cuts other environmental programs that you might not miss until they're gone.
Among them are state trust funds for conservation and parks. The Clean Water Management Trust Fund, a crucial force in many of the state's largest conservation deals, would be hit hard. The budget repeals a statutory mandate that the fund get $100 million a year, cutting it to a $11.25 million appropriation. It also prohibits spending money on land acquisition in most cases.
Millions more would be taken from two funds whose revenues, from deed stamp and real estate excise taxes, have plummeted since the recession. The budget diverts $8.4 million from the Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, which made $9.2 million in grants for local parks last year. It takes $8 million from the Natural Heritage fund, which had income of only $13.1 million in 2010. Natural Heritage has quietly helped protect 301,000 acres of wild land since 1987.
DENR would lose three of its five-member environmental education staff. The office was created during former Gov. Jim Martin's administration of the late 1980s to balance regulations - which also have come under attack by this legislature - with a sense of public stewardship of the state's resources. Raleigh, ironically, will host the North American Association for Environmental Education's international conference in October.
Finally, the budget zeroes out money for an innovative program that shed new light on the health of the nation's second-largest (but least-understood) estuary, Pamlico Sound. The 2,000-square-mile sound nurtures all manner of sea life, including most of the commercially important species.
The FerryMon project, conceived in 2006 by UNC and Duke University coastal scientists, equips state ferries to collect water samples and transmit water-quality data. The data helps scientists understand the effects of storms and pollutants on the sound. It has shown, for instance, that heavy rains followed by drought can trigger algal blooms that cause fish kills.
What else could we learn about this vast resource? We may never know.


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Legislator seeks cuts to highest health payments
Would shift funds to lowest-paid providers
Ronald Mariano, the House majority leader, planned to file legislation today that would force insurers to cut payments to the most expensive hospitals and doctors, a bold proposal that is likely to meet opposition from many providers.
The amount the insurers saved would be used to increase payments to the lowest-paid hospitals and doctors, and to reduce health insurance premiums for employers and consumers. Mariano, a Quincy Democrat, said his plan could shave roughly $267 million off premiums, based on a previous analysis by Governor Deval Patrick's staff.
"There is a wide discrepancy between the 'have' hospitals and the 'have-not' hospitals,'' Mariano said. "This is an attempt to focus that discussion.''
Given the general resistance in Massachusetts to government regulation of the prices charged by medical providers, Mariano's plan is assured to be controversial.
Lynn Nicholas, president of the Massachusetts Hospital Association, said her members acknowledge that price disparities exist in the state, as they do nationwide, but members do not believe the difference is severe enough to warrant aggressive government intervention into private contracts. She also said that cutting prices to higher-paid hospitals could force them to get rid of valuable but poorly paid services like psychiatric care.
"We believe the market is responding to new pressures [to control costs] and premiums are coming down on their own,'' Nicholas said, citing "tiered networks'' and other insurance plans that use premium discounts to steer patients to less-expensive hospitals and doctors.
But Mariano's proposal is an indication of the growing impatience in some legislative circles over how long it is taking to curb rising health care costs, which government investigations have blamed in part on hospitals and doctors with market clout that demand top dollar because they can, not necessarily because they provide better care.
His plan would require insurers to reduce payments to providers with rates in the top fifth, and raise payments to those in the bottom fifth, using a methodology that compares hospitals and doctors within each of four regions of the state to one another.
Starting Jan. 1, 2012, insurers would not be able to enter new contracts with providers who fall into these two groups until their rates are brought closer to the average. The law would stay in effect until Dec. 31, 2015, when efforts to reform the state health care payment system are expected to be fully implemented.
The Patrick administration and Attorney General Martha Coakley's staff have released separate reports documenting wide disparities in payments among providers for similar services. An investigation by the state Division of Health Care Finance and Policy found that for caesarean deliveries, for example, the highest-paid hospitals get almost double ($8,000 to $10,500) what the lowest-paid hospitals receive ($5,000 to $6,500), without a discernible difference in quality.
A special commission of Patrick administration officials, legislators, insurers, and providers has been debating how to reduce these inequities, but it is unclear whether the group will be able to agree on meaningful recommendations.
The governor proposed his cost-control legislation earlier this year, and House and Senate leaders are expected to file their own bill as early as this month. There is general agreement that the state should move to a system of "global payments,'' in which providers are paid a monthly per-patient budget for care, rather than allowing them to bill for each separate service given to a patient, with few limits on the number of services.
But Mariano, a close confidant of House Speaker Robert DeLeo, said the legislation also needs to address the inequities in how much providers are paid. Quincy Medical Center, a lower-paid hospital in Mariano's district, declared bankruptcy in July and agreed to be bought by Steward Health Care System.
Lora Pellegrini, president of the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans, said her members generally support the "80/20'' approach proposed by Mariano.
"My members do understand there are some significant distortions in the marketplace, and as we move to payment reform we might need a modest correction,'' she said.
James Roosevelt Jr., chief executive of Tufts Health Plan and chairman of the MAHP board, said that contrary to what some hospital leaders assert, "we have not seen voluntary movement that will produce significant short-term decreases in premiums.''
Officials at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts said they are troubled by the payment disparities, but they want to review Mariano's bill before taking a position on it.
During a Patrick administration hearing in June on health care costs, the chief executives of three lower-paid hospitals said they support temporary government intervention, but Nicholas said that turned out to be a minority view during a hospital association board meeting in July.
Members are skeptical that price controls would be temporary. Nicholas also pointed out that lowering prices to some providers does not address another key driver of costs: Patients are receiving more procedures and tests. And, there is a basic fairness question about taking money away from higher-paid hospitals just because they are successful, she said.
Everyone agreed, she said, that if the state improved the inadequate rates for hospitals to care for Medicaid patients, those hospitals that are struggling would be better off.
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House Bill 574 supporters say the bill is part of a growing movement which encourages locally grown, organic food; farmer accountability; and personal responsibility. They say pasteurization strips milk of its healthy enzymes and are frustrated with the government's prohibition of the drink.
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Meat Loaf with Potato Crust
Total TimePrep: 40 min. Bake: 1-1/4 hours
Makes8 servings
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 4-1/2 teaspoons curry powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 3/4 cup vegetable broth
- 2 green onions, thinly sliced
- 1-1/2 teaspoons minced fresh thyme
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 3/4 cup soft bread crumbs
- 1-1/2 pounds ground beef
- 1/2 pound ground veal
- 1-1/2 pounds red potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup vegetable broth
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- In a small skillet, saute onion and garlic in oil until tender. Stir in the seasonings. Add broth; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Stir in green onions and thyme. Transfer to a large bowl; cool to room temperature.
- Whisk in eggs; stir in bread crumbs. Crumble beef and veal over mixture and mix well. Shape into a loaf; place in an ungreased 13x9-in. baking dish. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, place potatoes in a large saucepan and cover with water; add salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cook, uncovered, for 15-20 minutes or until tender. Drain, reserving 1/4 cup cooking liquid. Mash potatoes with the broth, oil, pepper and reserved cooking liquid.
- Using a large star tip, pipe mashed potatoes onto meat loaf. Bake 45 minutes longer or until a thermometer reads 160° and meat is no longer pink.
Nutrition Facts1 slice: 341 calories, 18g fat (6g saturated fat), 127mg cholesterol, 742mg sodium, 19g carbohydrate (3g sugars, 3g fiber), 25g protein.
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May 13, 2013
I made this recipe per the instructions and it was good. I would make it again but because there are so many meatloaf recipes I most likely won't rush right back to it. I did not pipe the potatoes on but used a spatula to cover the loaf instead which worked out just fine. It was definitely tasty, easy and made for a nice meal. I do have to say though that the curry does permeate a strong odor throughout the house....my whole family was like 'what are you cooking???'. Wasn't too bad but we did get a few laughs out of it.
Oct 11, 2010
Make sure you follow the ingredient sizes. I didn't use all the meat but forgot to cut back on the curry, so my meatloaf was over seasoned. It was still delicious and I will definitely make it again, but I'll be sure to follow the recipe closer.
Nov 9, 2009
Absolutely WONDERFUL meatloaf! I don't pipe the potatos on top; I just spoon them on. I also use all ground beef instead of veal.


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USS Tripoli Delivered
Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division delivered the newest America-class amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA 7) to the U.S. Navy on Friday. Tripoli will be commissioned later this year before sailing to its homeport of San Diego.Amphibious assault ships project power and maintain presence by serving as the cornerstone of the amphibious ready group or expeditionary strike group. These ships transport elements of the Marine expeditionary unit or Marine expeditionary brigade with a combination of aircraft and landing craft.
Coast Guard Pursues Enforcement Action against Bouchard
The U.S. Coast Guard said it is pursuing enforcement action against Bouchard Transportation Company after the shipping company failed to comply with a captain of the port order for one of its two vessels anchored in the Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur, Texas, area of responsibility.According to the Coast Guard, tugs Kim M. Bouchard and Danielle M. Bouchard and their associated barges have been anchored off Texas Point since mid-December with no known plans to move and crews unpaid since January, raising safety concerns for the crews remaining aboard as well as the public and other professional mariners, and environmental concerns for the region.
C&C Building Towboat Trio for Hines Furlong
Hines Furlong Line currently has a trio of identical 6,000-horsepower towboats on order at C&C Marine and Repair in Belle Chasse, La.The timing is right to order the high-power newbuilds, said Kent Furlong, president and founder of Hines Furlong Line (HFL), citing the long-term implications of Subchapter M and the industry's aging higher horsepower line haul fleet as key drivers behind the decision. "Many of the high-horsepower vessels in the HFL fleet are among the oldest," he said. "And many of the 6,000-horsepower vessels on the market are decades old, and not many have been ordered in the last 30 years.
Livestock Carrier Queen Hind Refloated
Operations to raise a livestock carrier that capsized in the Black sea off Romania in November came to a close on Tuesday night, said local marine services firm Gruup Servici Petoliere (GSP).The Palau-registered Queen Hind flipped onto its side shortly after leaving Romania's Midia port en route to Saudi Arabia at the end of November 2019. Its entire crew, most of them Syrians, were rescued. Only 180 of the estimated 14,000 sheep on board survived.The Queen Hind is now docked and normal operations have resumed in Midia Harbor following a "tireless human and technical effort" to refloat the vessel, said Gabriel Comănescu, GSP president and CEO.
Fourth Diamond Princess Passenger Dies from Coronavirus
A fourth passenger from the cruise ship Diamond Princess moored in Japan has died from the coronavirus, NHK public television said on Tuesday. The passenger was in their 80s, NHK said.Japan has come under fire for its handling of the situation on the cruise ship, which is operated by Carnival Corp (CCL.N) and where hundreds became infected. The number of patients is rising around Japan, with the government set to announce a set of measures to combat it later on Tuesday.Reporting by Elaine Lies; Editing by Muralikumar


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Eric Slingerland and the Crimson will close out the regular season at home against Penn Nov. 12 (Harvard Athletic Communications).
NEW YORK – Connor McCarthy scored a second-half goal for the second straight game, but the Harvard men's soccer team suffered a 2-1 loss on the road at Columbia Saturday afternoon.
Columbia (8-7-1, 4-2-0 Ivy League) scored twice in the first half to take a 2-0 lead. Ronnie Shaban tallied both scores for the Lions, coming at 15:34 and 26:30. Shaban's first goal came off a penalty kick after Harvard (2-11-3, 0-5-1) was called for a foul in its own box. In the 27th minute, Columbia's Nick Scott sent in a corner, and Shaban headed the ball inside the far post. With four seconds remaining in the opening stanza, Harvard's Pascal Mensah nearly got Harvard on the scoreboard, but his header just before the horn sailed just above the crossbar.
At the half, Columbia held the edge in shots, 6-5, while corner kicks were even, 2-2.
Following a corner kick by Harvard's Ross Friedman in the 55th minute, Richard Smith sent a chest pass to McCarthy who beat Columbia goalkeeper Alexander Aurrichio for a goal, making it 2-1 at 54:38.
Austin Harms started in goal for Harvard and made one save in the first half, while Brett Conrad recorded two stops for the Crimson in the second half. Aurrichio finished with one stop for Columbia.
The Lions led the final count in shots, 10-8, while Harvard owned the advantage corners, 4-3.
The Crimson will conclude the regular season by hosting Penn Saturday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. In a pre-game ceremony, seniors Michael Gomes, Austin Harms, Tim Linden, Baba Omosegbon, Jamie Rees and Ben Tsuda will be honored on Senior Day.


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PORTSMOUTH — Terri A. DeMitchell, author of the award-winning Olde Locke Beach Mystery series, based in the New Hampshire Seacoast region, has turned her talents in research and curriculum design to write an historical novel for young adults ages 10—16 that explores the origins of the American Revolution right here in New Hampshire. The book, The Portsmouth Alarm: December 1774, is based on true events of that year when the Portsmouth militia stormed the local fortress intended to guard the city from attack and made off with the King's gun powder and arms, an act of treason from which there was no turning back.
The militia's actions were driven by reports spread by Paul Revere that British troops from Boston were sailing to Portsmouth to seize the gun powder to prevent the colonials from defending themselves against the British Army or other threats. What turned out to be true and false, and the way people chose to react to the information they had, forms the basis of DeMitchell's exploration of the conflict.
Historical figures on different sides of the fight, such as Paul Revere and Colonial Governor Wentworth, are presented in the context of their own times, duties and beliefs. The same is true for the protagonists of the novel — three thirteen-year-old friends in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, whose friendships and even lives are threatened by the divergent loyalties of their families on the eve of the war. As in DeMitchell's other books, the young teens are forced to make important choices about the trajectory of their lives, about who they are and who they intend to be:
"Facing challenges and handling conflict help to define our character. I am interested in exploring how children and young adults respond to these situations and develop resilience in the face of adversity and define their value system. I look for issues that can be viewed in multiple ways, ones where there are not easy or right and wrong answers. Then I develop strong characters to deal with those conflicts" DeMitchell said. "In particular, in The Portsmouth Alarm, all three viewpoints, patriot, loyalist, undecided, were common and valid ways of viewing the issues that led to the Revolutionary War."
DeMitchell is the author of the Olde Locke Beach Mystery Series for children, the first of which, You Will Come Back, won the Mayhaven Award for Children's Fiction. The second, Jigsaw, was a finalist for the New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Children's Fiction. The author has taught elementary and university age students, holds an M.Ed. in reading and language from Harvard University, an M.A. in curriculum and instruction from the University of California, Davis, and is an attorney who publishes frequently on legal matters affecting education. She lives in New Hampshire close to where the events depicted in the novel unfolded.
The title has a January 2013 publication date, and the printed edition is available from all major national distributors and retailers. The initial print run for The Portsmouth Alarm: December 1774 is 2,000. It is published by Mayhaven Publishing, which also published DeMitchell's previous novels. The retail price is $16.95 with 162 pages, softcover, and ISBN #978-1-932278-92-7. The website for all of DeMitchell's titles, http://TerriDeMitchell.com, contains an online media kit.


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Relay for Life teams ready to paint towns purple for cancer awareness
Relay for Life teams ready to paint towns purple for cancer awareness
LINCOLN - Organizers of Relay for Life events throughout northern Rhode Island want to paint their towns purple to raise awareness and funds for the American Cancer Society.
Creativity is encouraged, organizers say. In addition to businesses and residences hanging purple ribbons, flowers and banners, bakeries could add purple sprinkles to sweets, and bars could make special purple cocktails.
The idea is that businesses could charge a bit more for their purple products, and donate the extra cash to the cause. Paint the Town Purple events run from Monday, May 5, through Sunday, May 18, in Cumberland, Lincoln and Smithfield in advance of the Relay for Life events in June.
"We're trying to get as much purple anyway we can," said Lauren Stone, the American Cancer Society liaison for the teams.
Wendy Riordan, who runs the Lincoln Relay for Life along with fellow cancer survivor Mary Mello, said she hopes schools can hold a relay day, and those wearing purple can donate a dollar to the ACS, and sports teams will show support with purple shoelaces or armbands. With many Smithfield Relay for Life participants residing in Woonsocket and North Smithfield, the event's co-chairwoman Michelle Burns of Smithfield, who runs the relay with Jannie Kelleter of Woonsocket, said she hopes these towns will also get involved.
Burrillville has found success with the event for years, Stone said, in raising awareness about the Relay for Life events.
"Relays are all over the world," Riordan said. "It's amazing people still don't know what it is."
The events are overnight affairs, with teams camped out in tents on high school football fields and tracks. Family-friendly events and activities go on all night, as participants walk around the track in shifts. There are also several activities that celebrate cancer survivors, and others that remember those lost to the disease.
"There's walking through the night because cancer never sleeps," Riordan said, adding that even those not on a team are welcome to attend.
Relays are scheduled for June 6 at Tucker Field in Cumberland, June 13 at Lincoln High School in Lincoln, and June 14 at the Smithfield High School track in Smithfield.
Burns, who lost her father to a brain tumor in 2005, said participating in the relays helped her cope.
"I not only gave to the relay," she said. "It also helped me deal with his death."
Money raised at the relays is donated to the American Cancer Society to fund research and programs, like Road to Recovery that gives rides to chemotherapy patients, Hope Lodges for families to stay nearby a hospital for treatment, Look Better Feel Better to learn how to tie head scarves and style wigs, and a 24-hour helpline for cancer information and support.
Cumberland's event, run by Holly LaPlume of Woonsocket, is the largest of the three, raising up to $100,000 each year. Lincoln usually raises about $40,000, and Smithfield raises about $25,000.
Stone said the goal for ACS, which has invested $3.9 billion in cancer research since 1946, is to raise $10 million in New England.
All money stays in town. Funds raised by Smithfield businesses, for example, will be collected by the Smithfield relay team. Contact LaPlume at email@example.com for Cumberland; Riordan at firstname.lastname@example.com for Lincoln; Burns and Kelleter at firstname.lastname@example.com for Smithfield; or Stone at firstname.lastname@example.com or 401-243-2655.


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For Mitt Romney, this is the last week to rally GOP troops before the Republican National Convention.
He began by fielding questions side-by-side with running mate Rep. Paul Ryan today at an outdoor town-hall-style forum at St. Anselm College near Manchester, N.H.
Both criticized President Barack Obama's plan to trim payments to Medicare providers, even though part of that plan had previously been endorsed by Ryan as chairman of the House Budget Committee.
"We want this debate, we need this debate and we will win this debate about Medicare," Ryan said.
Romney, who has a vacation home in New Hampshire, asked members of the audience to find a friend or neighbor who voted for Obama in 2008 and try to persuade them to vote for him and Ryan this time.
"I know there are a lot of them out there that aren't quite sure what they're going to do," he said.
After Romney receives his party's nomination in Tampa, Fla., at the four-day convention, he'll have access to about $165 million in general election funds that his campaign will use for the home stretch, mostly on advertising in swing states.
While he clinched the nomination three months ago, Romney hasn't been able to touch that money since it was specifically donated for the general election.
He burned through a lot of cash in beating back Republican primary foes whereas Obama faced no Democratic challenger. However, Romney has out-raised Obama over the past three months.
New Hampshire is a traditionally Republican-leaning state but voted Democratic in both 2004 and 2008. Romney was heading later Monday to New Orleans.
Obama, who was doing White House interviews with local TV anchors from Florida, Virginia and California, hits the campaign trail again on Tuesday and Wednesday with stops in Ohio, Nevada and New York.


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Colorado's wild women left their not-so-delicate brand on Wild West's outlaw lore
If we believed what we've been led to believe, the American frontier was a man's world. However, some the Wild West's women created legends all their own in Colorado — and none of them were schoolmarms or pastors' wives.
Could there have been the legend of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid without Colorado's Ann Bassett? Allow me to make my case. The future "Queen of the Cattle Rustlers" was just 15 years old in 1893 when she pitched woo with Cassidy, a notorious outlaw at age 27. As a teenager, when he was known as Robert Parker, Cassidy worked on a ranch in the area that would become Moffatt County, and he returned there a few years years after he robbed his first bank in Telluride.
Ann and her older sister, Josie, gallivanted with Cassidy and members of the Wild Bunch, when the gang hid out in Brown's Hole. The secluded canyonland valley is known today as Brown's Park, but known in outlaw lore as the Hole in the Wall. The Bassetts were a ranching family, and Ann and Josie's father, Herb Bassett, did business with the cattle barons and assisted and supplied the outlaws.
"Hospitable by nature, the Bassetts welcomed all visitors, no questions asked, and the Bassett ranch became a favorite stop-over for travelers. They were a musical family, especially Herb, who played the violin and several other instruments. Also deeply religious, it became a habit of many to drop over to the Bassetts of a Sunday to gather around Herb at the organ and sing hymns," according to a history of the Bassett family.
The Bassett girls were not just the swains of outlaws but outlaws themselves, both accused with cattle rustling and other crimes numerous times. In 1913, when she beat a charge of stealing from locally hated cattle baron Ora Haley, "Queen Ann" was given a parade and a a "Hurrah for Victory!" headline in the Craig newspaper.
Ann Bassett was "a small, attractive woman with an abundance of auburn hair, which framed a round, fair-skinned face with large eyes," The Denver Post wrote in a 1980 account. "Always meticulously groomed. her femininity was underlined by her hourglass figure. She craved the spotlight and had the ability to transform herself from demure lady to perfect hellion."
In 1903, two years after Butch and Sundance escaped to South America with the mysterious Etta Place, Ann Bassett married a local rancher, and in 1908 the pair of outlaws were killed by a Bolivian army cavalry.
"For years, Annie Bassett has been rumored to have been Etta Place, and recent photographic analysis claims that Annie and Etta were the same woman. But too many documented elements of Annie's life conflict with the documented elements of Etta's life," the website Criminal Element wrote last year. "During two separate periods, when Etta is known to have been in South America with Butch and Sundance, Annie Bassett was either under arrest, on trial, in jail or getting married in the US."
Ann Bassett lived until 1956 and eventually her ashes were spread in Brown's Hole, "the only ting I ever selfishly loved," according to an account of her last request published in The Denver Post. Josie Bassett lived until 1964, and her cabin remains a historical landmark in the Dinosaur Monument park that straddles Colorado and Utah.
While the Bassett girls favored cattle, Leadville's Jane Kirkham had a thing for gold, if you buy her Lake County legend. On the old stagecoach line between Leadville and Buena Vista, there is a grave marker that states, "My Wife, Jane Kirkham, Died March 7, 1879, aged 38 years 3 months 7 days."
Who was Jane? The legend says she was gunned down unknowingly by her own husband, the sheriff at the time. I'm getting ahead of myself. In 1879, it seemed shipments of gold were getting pinched with some regularity by a determined robber outside Leadville. The bandit seemed to always know when the shipments were headed out and the route they would take. So the sheriff reportedly hid out on a stage. When the pistol-wielding bandit leaped from rocks, the sheriff revealed himself. The robber ran, but could not escape a bullet in the back. The robber, of course, turned out to be Jane. The story says the sheriff was too ashamed to take her back to Leadville and buried her along the stage trail. I pass that on as legend, not fact. The accounts of the Kirkhams in Leadville is this story and nothing more, not even the sheriff's first name. Moreover, the name Kirkham doesn't show up in the census for Lake County in 1870 or 1880. The state archives shows the marshal in Leadville in 1879 to be J.A. Kelly, with no one named Kirkham on the 12-member force for the community of 18,000.
Mainstream historians give credit to only one known woman stagecoach robber in the Old West. In the legend of Pearl Hart, Colorado plays a part. (Though others use the story of Jane Kirkham to cast doubt on Pearl Hart's credential.)
Born Pearl Taylor in Ontario, "The Lady Bandit" arrived in Colorado in 1893, a beautiful 23-year-old of French descent on the run from an abusive husband. She ditched Frederick Hart and headed to Colorado to explore the American West after seeing exhibitions at The World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Pearl had married Hart, a gambler and drunk, when she was 17. In Trinidad, she was a saloon singer and sometimes a prostitute.
Fred soon caught up with her, and shortly after she became pregnant with his child. She returned to her family in Canada and gave birth to a son, whom she left with her mother, and then traveled with Fred to Phoenix.
For three years, she robbed stage coaches and men who believed they were hiring a prostitute. Fred left her in 1898, and the next year she and an accomplice named Joe Boot were caught after robbing a stage outside the mining town of Globe, Ariz.
Pearl protested, "I shall not consent to be tried under a law in which my sex had no voice in making." She was convicted and served 18 months in prison, as her legend blossomed to national proportions because of her gender. When she was released, she first tried her hand at stage shows, inspired by Buffalo Bill Cody's productions that put Western folklore on Eastern stages, but after that fizzled, Pearl Hart vanished from history.
Ellen Watson, know in Western history as Cattle Kate, who was hanged for being a cattle rustler, in Wyoming. She stayed in Denver withher brother for awhile after leaving an abusive husband in Kansas.
The hanging was not under color of law, and Watson had defied the cattle barons whose men carried out the killing of Cattle Kate and her common-law husband.
Despite women's legendary roles in Colorado's outlaw history, not one female has ever been legally executed within the state. One was lynched: Margaret Cuddigan, 21 years old and seven moths' pregnant, was hanged next to her husband, Michael, by a vigilante mob in Ouray on Jan. 19, 1884, after the unexplained death of their 10-year-old foster child, according to University of Colorado professor Michael L Radelet's tome "Capital Punishment in Colorado 1859–1972."


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Vegas? Photoshop? What can possibly go wrong? Twice a year the faithful gather at PhotoshopWorld, called together by Scott Kelby and The National Association of Photoshop Professionals. This week, the West Coast edition is taking place in Las Vegas.
A record number of Photoshop pros, over 4000, have descended on Sin City for three days of presentations, in-depth training and inspiration — everyone from digital re-touchers, commercial, wedding and portrait photographers, videographers and graphic designers.
Kicking off proceedings was a typically funky keynote session. Over the years NAPP's keynote themes and presentations have become the stuff of geek legend, ranging from Star Trek, Hard Rock, Heavyweight Boxing, NBA, Project Runway and Olympic horse dressage. One from that list might not be true. This year (as if we haven't already had enough of it) it's the Presidential Election: In Photoshop We Trust.
At this morning's keynote Adobe's Grand Photoshop Poobah, Winston Hendrickson, kicked off our section with a State of The Union address on inspiration, creativity and how our engineers are working closely with Apple to ensure that Photoshop can take advantage the new Retina display on the latest MacBook Pros. It's coming soon!
Dr. Russell Brown then gave a quick demo of Photoshop Touch 1.3, announced and available today (with Retina display support). Russell seemed most excited that he was finally able to say that we have now integrated "The Power of German Engineering" into the Photoshop product line – Touch is developed by our talented team in Hamburg, Germany. Vorsprung Durch Technik, for all you old ad luvvies out there!
Adobe evangelist Julieanne Kost then toured us around Lightroom 4, Photoshop CS6 and sneaked Digital Publishing Suite (DPS), Single Edition – which will be added to Adobe Creative Cloud in the next few weeks. It's easy to see that DPS Single Edition could be a huge boon for photographers – imagine a wedding photographer now having an iPad App, available free from the Apple Store, that showcases their work in an interactive catalogue or brochure. Single Edition allows you to publish an unlimited number of single, stand-alone iPad apps. This is another example of how we're adding new capabilities continually to Creative Cloud, at no extra cost to members.
The vibe at Photoshopworld was, as it always is, full of energy and boundless enthusiasm. Not many companies are lucky enough to product that can inspire passionate zeal, like Photoshop does. At Adobe, it's not something we take for granted and the Photoshop team are hard at work delivering new features that will ensure…….another four years in digital imaging power.