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News From the State House - Week Four
With the fourth week of the 2013 legislative session over, the first round of legislative deadlines will be upon us next week. In anticipation of the approaching deadlines, committees have remained busy holding hearings and voting on legislation for deliberation by the full House. Accordingly, the House debated and took final votes, referred to as Final Action, on several bills. While these bills do not reflect major policy initiatives, such as tax reform or the budget, they are important because I am here to represent you, and to work on your behalf to make our state better.
You can stay up-to-date with committee schedules and bills and find other helpful information regarding the happenings in the statehouse through the legislature's website, www.kslegislature.org. Please do not hesitate to contact me with your thoughts, concerns and questions. I enjoy hearing from you on the topics we are discussing in Topeka and I appreciate the perspective from those outside of the Statehouse.
Native American Legislative Day
On Wednesday this week, the House honored Native American Kansan veterans in the Capitol with a special tribute and recognition for their service to our nation. Tribal leaders and councils from the Prairie Band, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Sac and Fox, and Iowa Nations of Kansas and Nebraska were presented with a proclamation from the House of Representatives honoring their military service to the United States. Kansas also has a living memorial to Native American Veterans with the 931st Air Refueling Group based at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita. The 931st draws its identity from the proud Kanza people of the Kaw Nation. The 931st also uses Kanza as its official call sign during missions.
On Friday, February 8, the House debated HB 2059, the "trailer bill" to the income tax bill that was signed into law last session. The bill would make several adjustments to income and severance tax provisions that were enacted during the 2012 session.
Under current law, as enacted last year, taxpayers who are partners or Sub-chapter S corporation shareholders are required to compute a different adjusted basis for their partnership interests or Sub-chapter S stock for Kansas income tax purposes than they do for federal income tax purposes. HB 2059 would repeal this provision.
Juvenile Justice Authority Reorganization
Governor Brownback on Friday, January 18, delivered Executive Reorganization Order (ERO) #42 to the legislature. This reorganization order moves the Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority (JJA) into the Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC). Per this ERO, KDOC will have the ability to establish a deputy secretary of juvenile services and the governor has said that Acting JJA Commissioner Terri Williams will serve in that role.
As a result of an audit conducted by the Legislative Division of Post Audit, the governor has criticized the decisions of policy makers and previous administrations regarding juvenile justice as failing to provide necessary safety and security. The governor believes that in moving JJA to KDOC, there will be an increased emphasis on safety in addition to continuing to provide programs to reduce juvenile recidivism.
State General Fund Receipts
This Wednesday, the Kansas Legislative Research Department released the actual total State General Fund (SGF) receipts from the beginning of Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, July 1, 2012, to January 2013 as compared to the estimates made by the Consensus Estimating Group. The report was encouraging news for the House as it showed that state revenue so far this fiscal year has exceeded what was estimated.
School Funding
Education is a worthwhile investment in our children and the future of our state. We want the very best education that makes the most of taxpayer money.
The House is very concerned about reading proficiency levels and helping students achieve success early in their education to lay a foundation for continued success throughout their schooling.
The House has many new members who have classroom experience, which will be valuable as the House works to ensure that the educational success of each student is a top priority.The House has been meeting jointly with the Senate in recent weeks to get fully versed on the school funding issues. We are looking at reforms that will ensure each Kansas student receives a quality education.It's not necessary to impose a huge tax increase on Kansans to give our children a complete education.It's time that we stop evaluating whether or not our children are receiving a valuable, effective education by one arbitrary number that does not reflect actual per-pupil spending. (Base State Aid Per Pupil or BSAPP)There are special funding categories, called weightings that allocate money for school districts for areas like special education, transportation, free and reduced lunch, etc. that are not included in BSAPP figures. When all the weightings are included with the total amount of money the state spends on education, it amounts to more than $12,000 per pupil, according to the Kansas Department of Education.According to the Kansas Department of Education, taxpayers will spend $5.8 billion on Kansas education, a new record.This week, the Governor requested a stay with district court in the school finance litigation to allow the legislature more time to deal with the issue, and to give parents, teachers and administrators time to weigh in.Kansas/Oklahoma Education Tour
On Friday last week, members of the House and Senate Education Committees visited Walton Rural Life Center and Francis Tuttle Technology Center to get a firsthand look at charter and technical schools. The trip allowed members of the committee to get a better understanding of nontraditional teaching schools and the lessons which can be drawn from these unique learning environments to be applied to other parts of Kansas.
The technical school featured unique half day programs specializing in auto and mechanical work to nursing programs to computer science. This allowed students to spend part of the day focused on core education requirements and the other part on post high school education.
Students who participated in these programs saw a dropout rate of only 7%, significantly smaller than the rest of the state
I am currently working on a project to bring a technical school to the Leavenworth area and I found this trip quite helpful.
KDOT/KTA Partnership Proposal
The stated goal of the Administration in merging the two agencies is to allow both agencies to be managed in a consistent way to allow for efficiencies in operations and sharing of resources across the state. The bill being proposed by the Administration would place the Secretary of the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) as the CEO and Chairman of the Board of the Kansas Turnpike Authority (KTA). From this position, the Secretary would have control to manage all the transportation assets in the state.
There have been some concerns with regard to the expansion of tolls on roads but federal law prohibits the addition of tolls on roads which are already complete, preventing any expansion on existing roads. Current state law also prohibits toll revenue from being directed for general fund purposes which would remove a possible mechanism of using the toll system as a 'behind the back' tax to fund other areas of state government. The Administration has also pointed out that the process of raising tolls doesn't change and still requires a vote of the Board of Directors to make the changes.
Over the next several weeks the Transportation committees in the House and Senate will continue to hold hearings and delve into the specifics of how the merger would save money and benefit the state. It is important to me that services are not affected in any merger proposal brought forward.
Veterans Issues
HB 2260 is a bill that I submitted supporting active duty soldiers. HB 2260 exempts active duty soldiers who are Kansas residents from the requirement to pay state income tax. The bill will be heard in the Tax Committee.
I encourage you to let me know your thoughts on the issues discussed by the legislature and others which might be affecting you. Please feel free to call 785-296-7653 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com and I'd be happy to discuss any topic you are interested in. Thank you for the honor of serving you!
Second Amendment
Many Kansans are concerned about the federal government's recent attention on gun ownership and restricting gun rights.
Many legislators have introduced bills to protect gun rights.This week, the House Federal and State Affairs Committee formed a subcommittee to carefully work through the bills and develop a consistent policy that protects the Second Amendment rights of Kansans.Final Action Votes
This week the House took final votes on four bills, all of which were passed and will now be received by the Senate for consideration. Below are the four bills with a brief description of each.
HB 2009 - HB 2009 allows a driver facing driver's license suspension for failing to comply fully with a traffic citation to submit a written request to the Division of Motor Vehicles for restricted driving privileges. The driver would be required to submit a non-refundable $25 fee for the restricted license to be retained by the Division's operating fund. The bill passed 63-60. The restricted license would allow individuals to retain insurance and drive legally to necessary places like:
Going to or returning from employment/seeking new employmentGoing to or returning from an appointment with a health care provider or in the case of a medical emergencyProbation hearings or drug and alcohol counselingGoing to or returning from schoolOn February 4, the House passed HB 2022 by a vote of 91 to 29.
HB 2028 - HB 2028 amends provisions of the Kansas Standard Asset Seizure and Forfeiture Act, adding a provision allowing a forfeiture proceeding brought by the Attorney General to commence and be maintained in Shawnee County. Bill was passed 119-1.
HB 2060 - HB 2060 prohibits prisoners from receiving food sales tax refunds or homestead property tax refunds. An amendment was added to make it clear that the bill would only affect prisoners who claim the prison as their household. Currently, only three prisoners have filed for a sales tax refund but the Department of Revenue requested that the practice be prohibited before other prisoners follow suit. The bill passed 123-0 on Feb 7.
HB 2022 - This bill passed 91-29. HB 2022 provides statutory authority for an employer to withhold or deduct money, subject to written notice and explanation, from an outgoing employee's final wages for the following reasons:
To recover the employer's non-returned property provided in the normal course of business, including computers, tools of the trade, phones, safety equipment, etc.To allow an employee to repay a loan or advance from the employerTo recover an overpayment of payrollTo compensate for replacement costs of the employer's merchandise, uniforms, or equipment purchased by the employee John Bradford
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Winter 2013 PS swap- Sign ups close Jan. 20th, 2014
This swap is for 1.5" squares (postage stamps) in sets of 50 different 100% cotton fabrics. Please send what you would like to receive. Limit is 20 sets per swapper.
*Please send me a PM to sign up, and let me know how many sets you'd like to swap.
*Please use quality 100% cottons only! NO flannel, NO homespun, NO blends. If in doubt of fiber content, please leave it out!
*All sets do not need to be identical. You can use any 100% cottons in your stash!
*Please MAKE SURE to trim off selvages before cutting your squares. Also try to be accurate in your cutting of the squares, so they DO measure 1.5". Rotary cutting these does help with accuracy.
*Please double check that your sets have 50 (or more) squares in them! We don't want to short change anyone.
Also check that there are 50 DIFFERENT fabrics.
*It seems to work best to put the squares into small, snack size baggies. Be sure to label each baggie with your name, board name, etc.
Sign-ups close Jan. 20th, 2014. Sets are due to me by Feb. 5th. I will swap them out, and get them in the mail soon thereafter.
** International folks, please mail 10 days earlier! To make sure I get them in time.**
For mailing:
Most folks have been sending in stamps, a USPS m.o. or cash for a PADDED flat rate envelope ($5.95) (which I do prefer). It does make things a lot easier for me, and no worries about bulky packages. Delivery Confirmation is included. I can supply these envelopes, they are free from usps.com.
NO pre-paid printed postage! They are dated, and my P.O. does not accept it!
If you choose to send a different envelope, please, please make sure there is plenty of postage $ for it. An extra stamp, or such wouldn't hurt. These packages are "bulky" and get considered a "parcel", per my Post Office. They charge more for that.
If your sets cost more than what you sent in, I have no choice to hold them until I get the difference. It all adds up. Thanks for your understanding.
Please feel free to mail your sets early, if you wish.
General rules for swaps: http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-20154-1.htm
If you have any questions or concerns, please send me a PM.
Happy Holidays everyone!

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vir2instruments needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 103 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
We're looking for a catchy new design for a hip hop music library product we're releasing that should appeal to mainstream pop/hip hop producers and radio stations. Think "radio rotation" when submitting designs. This product embodies music you would hear on top 40 radio stations in the hip hop and pop genres, nothing too flashy or cheesy.
http://www.bigfishaudio.com/Big Fish Audio
Big Fish Group makes samplelibraries for musicians, producers, composers and the like. We arelooking for a product cover that will be eye catching and clean thatwill immediately portray the vibe of the music content being sold toour customers.
Here is a link to our a product from our company that's an example of something in this genre: Example Product
The cover of "Rotation Hip Hop" should have a veryeye-catching setting for that title first and foremost. We want thisdesign to communicate "Top 40 Hip Hop/Pop heard in most radio rotations" to our customers in acreative and artistic way. The sound is very mainstream, very catchy, very popular sounding.
The design can be created using any graphics program(s) you like, butwe would like final delivery in PSD or PNG format, layered, at 300dpi.It will be used as the front cover of the DVD. Dimensions are 5.1" x7.2" with 0.125" (1/8") bleed.
The use of stock photography is acceptable within a reasonable pricerange. We aren't looking to break the budget on a piece of stockphotography but if it works with the overall design we are looking forand the price is right then we are OK with it. If you choose stockphotography, feel free to use the preview (watermarked) image in yourmockup, and we will overlook it during the contest's duration, thenwill purchase it if you are the winner of the contest so that the covercan be rendered properly.
- Catchy, creative, mainstream-looking hip hop design.
- Must communicate the type of hip hop you would hear in most radio rotations
- Must be designed to dimensions
- Cheesy-looking, flashy designs, nothing too bright, or too colorful
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About Phi Kappa Phi
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society was founded in 1897 at the University of Maine. The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is one of the nation's oldest and largest honor societies, and is a charter member of the Association of College Honor Societies.
Membership draws from across the globe and across all academic disciplines. As such, Phi Kappa Phi is uniquely positioned to cultivate interdisciplinary inquiry and connections, both locally and globally. Membership is by invitation.
Originally chartered on June 12, 1920, Maryland became the 22nd chapter of the Society. College Park reaffirmed its Chapter on April 28th, 2010 as Chapter 22CP. Phi Kappa Phi remains strong in its 90th year on campus. Phi Kappa Phi is the University of Maryland's oldest honor society.
Recent News and Announcements
Turlington and Wong Receive 2012-2013 Phi Kappa Phi Chapter 22CP
Shirley C. Sorensen Academic Excellence Award
Katherine (Kate) Turlington and Jason Chun Yu Wong are this year's recipients of the Shirley C. Sorensen Academic Excellence Award, from Phi Kappa Phi Chapter 22CP. These $1,000 scholarships honor long-time executive secretary of Phi Kappa Phi Chapter 22, Shirley C. Sorensen. Professor Sorensen was a member of the University's mathematics faculty.
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UMD Chapter Inducts 160 New Members and Receives Endowment
In addition to student and alumni initiates, Professor Cheng-i Wei, Dean for the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Ramsey Jabaji, Coordinator for International and Leadership Programs in the James A. Clark School of Engineering, were welcomed as members of the chapter.
The PKP Foundation also presented a major endowment to the chapter.
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Upcoming Events
Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor Emerita, Biology and Microtechnology; and Elizabeth Beise, Professor of Physics and Associate Provost,
Thursday, February 28th, 4 p.m.
6137 McKeldin Library (Special Events room.)
This faculty conversation is offered, in partnership with College Park Scholars, the Honors College the office of Office of Faculty Affairs and UM Libraries.
Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor, History; and David Crocker, Senior Research Scholar, School of Public Policy. Moderated by Lee Thornton, Former Dean, Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
Wednesday, March 6th, 4 p.m.
6137 McKeldin Library (Special Events room.)
This faculty conversation is offered, in partnership with College Park Scholars, the Honors College the office of Office of Faculty Affairs and UM Libraries.
Thursday, February 21, 2013, 4-5 p.m. in the BSOS Dean's Office Meeting Room, 2141 Tydings.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 4-5 p.m. in the BSOS Dean's Office Meeting Room, 2141 Tydings.
Chapter 22 of Phi Kappa Phi served multiple campuses for the University System of Maryland. In 2010, campuses such as College Park established its own, unique chapter – 22CP. While inductions, fellowship selections and an active student chapter have continued, there was no legacy of meetings or a governance structure. We have scheduled two meetings this spring semester and encourage each and every one of you to consider attending. The chapter is at a transformational moment, potentially positioned to advance the academic life of the campus community. Your input will prove valuable. Please check your calendars and if available, attend the following meetings:
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Dan H wrote:Re: pizza, there are two polar-opposite pizza capitals of the United States, New York and Chicago. In general, New York specializes in thin crust pizza. Chicago specializes in deep dish or stuffed. I prefer Chicago pizza, and have found that it's much easier to get really good pizza here than anywhere else. Your mileage may vary. I still think half of the little hole in the wall pizza joints here have lousy pizza, but that's a much better ratio than Pittsburgh, where there's Mineo's, which is okay, and, uh... you get my point.
I lived 3 blocks from Mineos and in both NYC and Chicago.
It's a matter of personal taste, but nothing beats a slice from New York.


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Another puzzle Immunity after running out and retrieving the pieces and a RC that we have seen before Not great challenges but I have a feeling Timbira may not win RC! We will see!
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July 18, 2012 06:06 ET
BURR RIDGE, IL--(Marketwire - Jul 18, 2012) - CNH Global N.V. (NYSE: CNH) will release its 2012 second quarter financial results on Wednesday, August 1st. The full text of the release, along with financial statements, will be available both from Marketwire and on http://www.cnh.com.
At approximately 6:00 a.m. U.S. central time on August 1st, CNH will provide a live, listen-only, audio webcast of the company's quarterly conference call with securities analysts and institutional investors. The webcast can be accessed through http://www.cnh.com. Anyone unable to listen to the live webcast can access the replay at the site for two weeks following the event.
CNH Global N.V. is a world leader in the agricultural and construction equipment businesses. Supported by approximately 11,300 dealers in approximately 170 countries, CNH brings together the knowledge and heritage of its Case and New Holland brand families with the strength and resources of its worldwide commercial, industrial, product support and finance organizations. CNH Global N.V., whose stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CNH), is a majority-owned subsidiary of Fiat Industrial S.p.A. (FI: MI). More information about CNH and its Case and New Holland products can be found online at www.cnh.com.
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Team FIN product tester Daryl Bridenbaugh of Pandora, OH, sent us this report for the week of June 22, 2011:
Our late-planted crops in Ohio are mostly emerged. In some cases it took only 4 days for the crops to come up because of the warm sunny weather. Everything I planted came up except one field has uneven emergence. Hopefully I'll get some rain so all the soybeans in it will come up. Some farm families worked around the clock to finish their planting. I worked from 5:30 am to dark. I like to be able to see if there are any problems with my planters.
I ordered a corn dryer a couple weeks ago. I had been talking to my salesman about one for a couple years. He called me a couple weeks ago and said that the price was going up 6% so that is what helped me make up my mind. I wanted a tower dryer because I have been reading about how efficient they are and have been seeing several new ones being put in at local elevators and at large farms. My salesman told me that the tower dryer would be too expensive for my acreage and said that he had a smaller horizontal dryer that was just as efficient, so I ordered a Superb SQ 16 A Super B dryer. This is the same dryer that was on display at the Louisville Farm Show in February of this year. It recycles the heat from the cooling section of the dryer. I have been using full heat dryeration with my existing dryer which was a Farm Fans AB-CF 270. I was tired of just guessing the final moisture. With my new dryer, I ordered the full computerized controls which will continually check moisture at the discharge and will adjust the speed of discharge and dryer temperature on the go.
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XCP and XenServer FAQ
Today, Citrix announced that XenServer would be fully open sourced and that it will be made available from XenServer.org. This document explores how the Xen Project is impacted by this announcement.
I am a XAPI developer: How am I impacted?
The short answer is: not at all. Contribution to the XAPI packages continues to be handled by the Xen Project under Xen Project governance. The XAPI project will make some changes to how it operates, but any changes will follow Xen Project community rules, will be discussed openly and made using the Xen Project decision making process. In fact discussions on consolidating mailing lists, how to release XAPI, etc. had already started several weeks ago.
How will XAPI sub-project Development Change?
The XAPI project plans to change how it develops and releases XAPI components (as initially discussed at the Xen Hackathon). To summarize, the following changes are being discussed in the community:
- Change the release from an infrequent XCP ISO release to a source release that is identified by a unique version number and provide a convenient mechanism for distros to consume the release (e.g. a tarball).
- Increase the release frequency : publish a build every other week (aka a sprint) and provide a release every 3 months
- Publish what is planned to go into the next few sprints as information becomes available
- Contribution to the project will happen via the project's Github instance (as now)
Note that this discussion has not yet concluded: feel free to join! Other changes that are currently being discussed are about mailing lists for the project, how to raise bugs, etc.
I am a user of XAPI Linux packages: How am I impacted?
The short answer is: not at all. Development of the XAPI toolstack and the packaging of these components continue as part of the Xen Project. However, there will not be an immediate update of the XCP-XAPI packages in Linux distros. Before there can be an update to these packages, the XAPI project team needs to deliver an independent XAPI release. For more information check the "What's next"section below. Discussion, questions and bug reports for XCP-XAPI packages can be made on the appropriate distro mailing lists and on Xen Project mailing lists, IRC channels or the Q&A system.
I am a user of XCP: how am I impacted?
In the past, XCP ISOs have been built by Citrix and have been delivered to users via Xen.org. The XCP ISOs were migrated to the Xen Project. By fully open sourcing XenServer, the need to deliver new XCP ISOs via the Xen Project website has gone away. XCP ISOs will be replaced by open source XenServer binaries which are available from XenServer.org. The transition from XCP ISOs to XenServer should be smooth and painless:
- No functionality will be taken away from XCP users
- Users of XCP 1.6 will be able to upgrade to XenServer
The main difference for you will be that you need to download the product from a different place and that it has been renamed. XCP users have been supporting each other through mailing lists (firstname.lastname@example.com) and the #xen-api IRC channel. These mechanisms will of course not go away, but we hope that you will find the resources on XenServer.org useful.
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With his white coat, stethoscope around his neck and friendly face you would feel completely safe putting your life in Patrick Mwangi's hands if you met him in a hospital.
In fact, however, Mr. (not Dr.) Mwangi's patients are not people but trucks. As the divisional Aftersales Manager at CMC, the importer of UD Trucks in Kenya, he is on call 24/7 and at the disposal of anyone who needs his help. He is also a man on a mission.In 2009, Mr. Mwangi went to Japan for training. "There I noticed a very small company, a UD Trucks dealer in Kawaguchi, which had ten times the turnover we have," he says. "When I asked them how that could be, they explained to me that the majority of their income was generated from their aftersales department. At CMC, it is the other way round.
A UD truck gets a thorough inspection and service at Trailink
Seventy percent of our income comes from unit sales. To me, that was a light-bulb moment."By a stroke of good luck, Mr. Mwangi was later made Aftersales Manager, and he decided to put his new ideas into practice. Today, he heads a department with about 60 employees."I make sure that every single employee knows that he is an important cog in the wheel," he says. "My motto is: As a boss, you start from the bottom, not from the top, because you are only as strong as your weakest link." Mr. Mwangi's main drive in building the aftersales department is by offering outstanding personal service. He leads by example, even if it means that he has to interrupt a weekend or a holiday to go on the road with his toolbox.
"On Monday, for example, we drove for two hours to help a client," he says. "It turned out that it was a small problem that we could fix in 20 minutes. You could argue that it would have been easier for us to refer him to the local CMC office, but I think that if a client asks for Patrick, then Patrick must go. Three weeks ago, we helped another client in a similar way. He has now ordered 20 new trucks from us. At the end of the day, it is the personal service that makes the client comfortable, and in the long run it pays off."


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David Hoyt Puts Two Bullets In The Bag To Lead The 2008 Melges 32 U.S. National Championship
26 July 2008
After yesterday's torrential downpours and line of brutal thunderstorms battered practice sessions, racing officially got underway for the 21-strong Melges 32 fleet. David Hoyt (Stowe, Vt.) also notoriously known as 'JB' (Junior Beast) on USA-184 Goat hammered the opening day with an impressive 1-1 finish, taking the overall lead at the 2008 U.S. Melges 32 National Championship held in conjunction with the NYYC Raceweek at Newport, presented by Rolex. In second overall is Jeff Ecklund (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) on USA-32 Star and third is Stephen Pugh (Sausalito, Calif.) on USA-158 Taboo.
The first race started late as a very extended postponement was put into place from the onset of the day. Teams are excited to be in Newport, yet were quite anxious about going racing, so despite the AP many began the long travel out to the race course where the postponement continued until approximately 2 p.m. With a course bearing of 230 degrees and a 2-mile distance each way, the breeze stirred the left-over lumpy seas with a moderate 5-7 knots for a clean start. Hot off the pin was Joe Woods (Torquay, UK) on GBR-700 Red with Marty Kullman and Mike Carroll on USA-131 New Wave alongside making a nice sprint for the top mark.
Rounding first was Edward Tillinghast on USA-151 Dark N'Stormy challenged by Ecklund and Bob Hesse (Elma, N.Y) on USA-153 Lake Effect neck-and-neck for second place. On the downwind run, Hoyt found a groove. Coming into the gate, it was the ultimate takeover as he just barely slipped into first then headed to the right. Slowly but surely, he stretched his lead as he went around the final weathermark of the race in first still, Ecklund closed in fast. Hoyt, with a nice set took off for the finish, however Ecklund looked for pressure on the left hoping to get ahead. Impressively, Hoyt beat Ecklund by seconds right at the finish line. In third was Terry McSweeney (Chargin Halls, Oh.) on USA-126 Flat Stanley, in fourth was Pugh and fifth went to Kullman/Carroll.
Under continued sunny conditions and breeze fluctuating from 8-10 knots, the second race got underway almost immediately. Hoyt, despite another lack-luster start rebounded on the first upwind beat rounding a close second to Hesse in first. Woods got back in the game in third. Downwind, Hoyt clearly found a gear unknown to others putting him back out front of this incredibly competitive fleet. Hoyt took it to the finish for the win, followed by Hesse, then Pieter Taselaar (Scarsdale, N.Y.) on USA-169 Bliksem in third.
The Melges 32s go racing again tomorrow with predicted lighter conditions and cloudier skies.
01.) David Hoyt, Goat; 1-1 = 2
02.) Jeff Ecklund, Star; 2-7 = 9
03.) Stephen Pugh, Taboo; 4-6 = 10
04.) Bob Hesse, Lake Effect; 10-2 = 12
05.) Terry McSweeney, Flat Stanley; 3-10 = 13
06.) Marty Kullman/Mike Carroll, New Wave; 9-4 = 13
07.) Derek Campbell, Banshee; 5-8 = 13
08.) Pieter Taselaar, Bliksem; 13-3 = 16
09.) Ed Tillinghast, Dark N'Stormy; 7-9 = 16
10.) Joe Woods, Red; 11-5 = 16
Full race reports, interviews and photo galleries will be posted online each day at the official website of the International Melges 32 Class Association.
Visit the Official Event Website of 2008 Melges 32 U.S. National Championship, held in conjunction with the NYYC Race Week at Newport, presented by Rolex. Also, see the official website of the International Melges 32 Class Association.
For media photos and/or additional information about the 2008 Melges 32 U.S. National Championship in Newport, R.I., please contact Joy Dunigan, International Melges 32 Class Press Officer on e-mail, or via phone at +1 (912) 398 5776.


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Next is the winner by random chance! Wil M
Finally we have the winner of the most important category: Simon F
Our winners will each receive a printed copy of A Thousand Dead Babies, The Gnomes of Levnec, and Scourge of the Tikbalang.
I'd like to thank everyone who entered and everyone for voted.


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European Commission
Brussels, 4 October 2012
Communication on nuclear stress test
1. How many nuclear power plants (NPPs) were included in the stress tests and where are they located?
In the EU, the reactors are located in the following countries:
Belgium: 7 reactors (2 NPPs)
Bulgaria: 2 reactors (1 NPP)
Czech Republic: 6 reactors (2 NPPs)
Finland: 4 reactors (2 NPPs)
France: 58 reactors (19 NPPs)
Germany: 17 reactors (12 NPPs; out of these 4 NPPs with 8 reactors were shut down after Fukushima)
Hungary: 4 reactors (1 NPP)
Lithuania: 2 reactors under decommissioning (1 NPP)
The Netherlands: 1 reactor (1 NPP)
Romania: 2 reactors (1 NPP)
Slovakia: 4 reactors (2 NPPs)
Slovenia: 1 reactor (1 NPP)
Spain: 8 reactors (6 NPPs)
Sweden: 10 reactors (3 NPPs)
United Kingdom: 19 reactors (10 NPPs)
2. What is the danger if a nuclear power plant is hit by a tsunami or an earthquake?
The reactor itself is normally well protected inside a so-called primary containment made from steel-reinforced concrete, which cannot be easily damaged by external events. In most cases, a secondary layer of containment provides additional protection to prevent releases of radioactivity to the environment.
However, under conditions of extreme external impact, such as a tsunami or large earthquake, there is the risk that important safety functions of the plant could be destroyed, including the cooling and electricity supply systems. As happened in Fukushima, this could include the corresponding backup systems, thereby stopping the normal cooling functions needed to prevent the fuel inside the reactor core from becoming too hot and possibly melting. In such an accidental situation, the pressure inside the reactor containment increases and could – if not appropriately reduced – lead to explosions and possible breaks in the containment structure and consequently to releases of radioactivity into the atmosphere.
Figure 1: General layout of a Boiling Water Reactor (Fukushima type)
Figure 2: Flooding of the Emergency Power Supply Diesels at Fukushima
3. What did stress tests check?
The main aim of the stress tests was 1) to assess the safety and robustness of nuclear power plants (NPPs) in case of extreme natural events (as in Fukushima) shutting down the normal safety functions of the plant, and 2) to assess the ability of the NPPs to deal with severe accidents.
4. Are airplane crashes covered?
Yes. While the focus of the stress tests was on extreme natural events such as earthquakes and flooding1, other accident scenarios – extreme weather conditions or aircraft crashes – have also been taken into account to some extent. Thus, effects of airplane crashes on the safety of nuclear power plants were assessed indirectly during this review exercise.
To further address the safety aspects of airplane crashes, the Commission organised on 25 September 2012 a seminar with 45 participants representing nuclear safety regulators from 18 EU Member States2, from Switzerland, the USA and Japan.
New reactor designs take into account the possibility of a large aircraft crash and their containment should resist even such events. For older reactor types, alternative means of protection are used, aiming at reducing the accessibility of the NPP to approaching aircrafts and mitigating the effects in terms of large fires and explosions.
Prevention and responses to incidents due to malevolent or terrorist acts are a matter of sovereign competency and were assessed in the framework of an Ad Hoc Group on Nuclear Security (AHGNS) specifically set up by the Council of the EU in July 2011. The AHGNS held thematic discussions on concrete topics, including on intentional aircraft crashes on nuclear facilities. The report of the group identifies a number of good practices to be followed by Member States.
This report can be found at: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/12/st10/st10616.en12.pdf.
5. How were the checks organised?
Stress tests took place in the form of a three-step approach:
First step – the operators performed a self-assessment and made proposals for safety improvements, following the ENSREG specifications.
Second step – the operators' assessments were reviewed by the national regulators, who also issued requirements and recommendations,
Third step – a European peer review of the national reports performed by experts from nuclear and non-nuclear Member States. It assessed the compliance of the stress tests with the ENSREG specifications and checked that no important problem had been overlooked. In addition, it identified good practices, weaknesses and recommendations to increase plant robustness3.
6. Have all nuclear power plants been checked?
Yes. In the first phase, all plants were assessed by their respective operators. These assessments were then checked by the respective national regulators, including on-site checks. Finally, the peer review phase covered all plants on the basis of the national reports submitted to the Commission, country presentations at the peer review meetings and additional questions to the regulators and the operators in the course of the country visits. The peer review teams visited 54 out of 145 reactors (37% of EU total), covering all the different reactor types in the EU.
7. What are the main findings of stress tests?
The stress tests looked at the safety features in the light of the lessons learned from the Fukushima accident. They pointed out several areas where the highest international standards and best practices are not applied. These included:
Earthquake risk: In the design of 54 EU reactor units out of 145 (37%), modern standards for earthquake risk calculation are not taken into account. The risk calculation should be based on a 10 000 year time frame, instead of the much shorter time frames sometimes used.
Flooding risk: In the design of 62 reactors (43%), modern standards for flooding risk calculation are not taken into account. The risk calculation should be based on a 10 000 year time frame, instead of the much shorter time frames sometimes used.
Minimum seismic hazard level: The internationally recommended minimum seismic hazard level, regardless of any lower apparent exposure to seismic hazard, has not been used for the seismic hazard studies of 65 reactors (45%).
Equipment to fight severe accidents should be stored in places protected even in the event of general devastation and from where it can be quickly retrieved. This is not the case for 81 reactors (56%).
On-site seismic instruments to measure and alert of possible earthquakes should be available at every nuclear power plant. These instruments should be installed or improved in 121 reactors (83%).
After a Station Blackout, the NPP should be able to cope for more than 1 hour without intervention before safety functions need to be restored, in order to prevent reactor core heat-up. This is not the case in 5 reactors (3%).
Emergency Operating Procedures should cover all NPP states (i.e. full power to shutdown states). This is not the case in 57 reactors (39%).
Severe Accident Management Guidelines should be implemented and cover all plant states (i.e. full power to shutdown states). This is not the case in 79 reactors (54%).
Passive measures (i.e. measures which do not require initiation by any other system or human intervention) to prevent hydrogen explosions (or of other combustible gases) in case of severe accident should be in place. This is not the case in 40 reactors (28%).
Containment filtered venting systems to allow safe depressurizing of the reactor containment in case of an accident should be in place. 32 reactors do not have these systems yet (22%).
Backup emergency control room should be available in case the main control room becomes inhabitable as a consequence of the radiological releases from a severe accident, of fire in the main control room or due to damage from extreme external hazards. These are not available for 24 reactors (17%).
8. What will happen?
The Commission encourages all participating countries to implement swiftly the recommendations of the stress tests.
National action plans with timetables for implementation will be prepared and will be made available by the end of 2012. The peer review methodology will be applied to these action plans in early 2013, in order to verify that the stress tests recommendations are consistently implemented in a transparent way throughout Europe. The Commission intends to report on the implementation of the stress test recommendations in June 2014.
In parallel, the Commission has reviewed the existing European legal framework for nuclear safety and will by early 2013 propose amendments to reflect the lessons learned in the stress tests and from the Fukushima accident. Presentation of a further proposal on nuclear insurance and liability is under consideration and will follow in 2013, as well as a proposal on maximum permitted levels of radioactive contamination in foodstuffs and feeding stuffs.
Strong cooperation at international level, in particular with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is also essential. The EU should have an active role in the upcoming discussions on improving the effectiveness of the Convention on Nuclear Safety, in the framework of the IAEA.
9. Did the checks include resistance to terrorist attacks?
No. Prevention and response to incidents due to malevolent or terrorist acts are not part of the mandate of ENSREG, the group of national safety authorities.
Risks due to security threats were considered by the Council Ad-hoc Group on Nuclear Security (AHGNS). In contrast to the ENSREG safety assessments, the AHGNS did not look at individual installations but assessed the state of nuclear security in the EU as a whole, by looking at methodologies for the protection of NPPs, including preventive measures.
Including 11 of the 14 EU Member States that currently operate NPPs plus Lithuania.
Detailed background information can be found in the stress tests reports published at the European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group (ENSREG) web page: http://www.ensreg.eu/EU-Stress-Tests.
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February 2011
|One's the Limit
By John Ashmen
The human mind has a hard time magnifying grief. Maybe God made us that way to protect us from emotional overload.
If a school bus overturns on the highway and a child dies, we feel instant anguish and sympathize with the parents about their tragic loss. But if the next week another school bus overturns and 15 children die, we don't experience 15 times the amount of pain we did in the first situation. In fact, at some point a calamity grows so sizable that our feelings surrounding it move from being immediate and visceral to being distant and surreal.
That's why international child-sponsorship organizations do not show the hundreds of children in a poverty-stricken village who need food and medical attention. They show just one. They tell you her name and do a close-up on her face that's aching for a smile. The human mind engages much better with one than it does with a multitude.
Paul Slovic from the University of Oregon did research that illustrates this principle. He showed a group of people the photo of girl living in African poverty, and asked them how much they were willing to give. Another group was shown a boy in the same village, and were also asked about an amount to contribute. Both groups volunteered roughly the same amount. A third group was shown the girl and the boy together and confronted with donating. Interestingly, the third group gave the least. Rather than express an elevated level of concern or perceived need to engage, they expressed less when shown two needy children.
In another study, Slovic told a group they were on a humanitarian mission and had a fixed amount of money that would save 4,500 people who were starving in one of two refugee camps. One camp had 11,000 people in it. The other had 250,000 people in it. The group chose to save 4,500 people in the smaller camp rather than 4,500 in the larger camp. It was difficult for them to get their arms and hearts around dealing with so many people.
So what does this mean for us in rescue mission ministry? Three things come to mind.
First, this tells us that the more we speak of the growing number of people who need food, shelter, and admission to our addiction recovery programs, the less support we will likely garner. Fund-raising professionals have correctly advised that one hungry face will bring in more donations than the photo of a dinning room full of people waiting to be served.
But sometimes we get so overwhelmed with the needs we see daily that we desperately want to push that message of magnitude before we discuss the profile of the one person who requires something right now. To do so only diminishes the donor interest. Keep showing single faces in need, and telling the stories of individuals who have turned their lives over to Jesus and have been changed for eternity.
Second, this is a good reminder that we must look at our teams (staff and volunteers) as individuals working in different roles beside us, and not as a solitary work force moving forward in lockstep. Those of you with larger teams—say 20 or more—must remember that no all-staff meeting or mass email memo can replace one-on-one conversations in hallways, on stairways, and in offices. The mind engages better with one than it does with many.
Keep a running list each month—on your iPad if you have to—of whose turn it is to have a focused conversation with you. That's a tough assignment for those of us who are task-oriented leaders, but that's where we'll have our best engagement.
Thirdly, consider this: As I thought about the human mind's struggle with magnifying grief, I started wondering about Jesus who was fully man—and fully God. Perhaps He didn't suffer from this human limitation. For us, when it comes to tragedy and trauma, as the numbers involved increase, our anguish fortunately flatlines or we would be overwhelmed. But could Jesus have felt the full effect of mass heartbreak?
That would put a different spin on Matthew 14:14. Getting out of the boat, Jesus sees the crowd, has compassion on every single person, and begins to heal their sick. A few verses later, he knows the hunger of each individual and prepares to feed the group.
Carry those thoughts over to the cross. We can easily say that Jesus died for the "sins of the world." Is it possible He felt not just a blanket agony for our collective iniquities, but the grief each human mind must ultimately release? Did He feel not just sustained emotional pain as He considered all of humanity, but the multiplied pain of every individual? The magnitude of such a thought is enough to make someone sweat drops of blood.
One is a limit I can live with.
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sunny San Diego, the May 22–25 event will offer a lifeline of meaningful
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Acknowledging local school officials' objections, Boulder on Tuesday dropped plans to play host to one of the Colorado Department of Public Health's human-sized rat cages at a downtown park.
One of the "Don't Be a Lab Rat" teen marijuana-education campaign's 12-foot-long, 8-foot-high cages — complete with a to-scale hamster-style water bottle — had been slated for a month-long installation at the corner of 13th Street and Arapahoe Avenue.
But Boulder officials said Tuesday morning that they'd put the display on hold while they looked into complaints from the Boulder Valley School District, which declined to participate in the education campaign.
By late afternoon, Boulder decided to scrap the cage altogether.
"The city had been considering it, and in understanding BVSD's input and concerns, and those raised by some in the community, it didn't seem like it would be appropriate for Boulder," city spokesman Patrick von Keyserling said.
BVSD Superintendent Bruce Messinger had objected to "Don't Be a Lab Rat" on the grounds that inviting teens into "a human-scale 'rat cage'" was not the most effective way to get the campaign's message across.
The "Lab Rat" display, targeting 12-to-15-year-olds, is part of the state's public education campaign about pot's potential to harm developing brains.
"Schizophrenia. Permanent IQ loss. Stunted brain growth," the campaign's website reads. "Still, some people question this research. Claiming the studies need to go deeper. Look further. But who will be their guinea pigs? Who's going to risk their brains to find out once and for all what marijuana really does?"
Dr. Larry Wolk, the executive director and chief medical officer at the state health department, said he was "a little disappointed" by the Boulder decision, but said it was up to the city and the school district to decide whether they wanted to participate.
"I understand that everybody has a right to choose what they think will resonate and what they choose to prioritize," Wolk said. "Our intent is to have a campaign that gets kids talking to each other and get adults talking to kids about marijuana.
"We did not intend to relate kids to rats, but to emphasize a point that a lot of research still needs to be done."
Teens not sure cage would have impact
At Boulder High School — the closest BVSD school to where the display would have been — students had varied opinions on whether the message would resonate with their peers.
Jaime Avitia, 15, said that, as an athlete, he would be interested in knowing the possible health effects of marijuana.
"It would be helpful if you could see what could happen to you in the future," Avitia said. "For me, I play sports, so I wouldn't get involved."
But Hal Rutherford, 15, said he did not think the message would get through to teens.
"The kids my age aren't really open to listening to that sort of thing," Rutherford said. "I don't think it would really affect anyone."
'Getting people talking'
Messinger emailed all district principals prior to the launch of the cages in Denver, informing them that the district administration would formally oppose "Don't Be a Lab Rat."
"No BVSD school campus will be made available for the temporary siting of the 'rat cage' or distribution of campaign materials," he wrote in the email.
Additionally, Messinger raised concerns about the campaign posters possibly stigmatizing people who have been diagnosed with mental illness.
Briggs Gamblin, a spokesman with BVSD, said the district would not comment on the city's decision.
The campaign already has made two stops in Denver at the public library and the downtown skate park, and Wolk said it has gotten positive feedback, and that this was the first instance he was aware of where a school district or a city declined to participate.
"We've had a lot of positive feedback and folks from around the state interested in the campaign," Wolk said. "They're getting a lot of attention, so on the good-news side, people are certainly taking notice, and it's getting people talking."
But Wolk also acknowledged that the displays have had some issues with graffiti, but said at least it was getting a response.
"Again, it's people expressing themselves one way or the other," Wolk said. "If it helps provoke some reaction and provokes some discussion, we are accomplishing our goals."
Camera Staff Writer Alex Burness contributed to this report.
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In what was otherwise an uneventful meeting, the Sag Harbor Village Board erupted Tuesday night when the son of one of the board members was denied admission to the Sag Harbor Fire Department.
Kevin J. Duchemin, a trustee who has been a member of the Fire Department himself for over 20 years and is an East Hampton Village policeman, said he was "blindsided" when Mayor Brian Gilbride announced that his son, Kevin J. Duchemin Jr., could not join the department.
The younger Mr. Duchemin, a student at Suffolk Community College, expected his membership in the department to become official at the meeting. He had looked forward to becoming a member since serving in the department's junior program as a high school freshman, his father said.
The senior Mr. Duchemin told The Star yesterday that he was extremely disappointed, and that the decision had come without warning, without its even being mentioned during the 20-minute executive session prior to the public meeting. That his son was to be added to the insurance rolls as an active, probationary member of Gazelle Hose Company #1 was an item on the regular meeting's agenda.
In a letter faxed to The Star yesterday, Mr. Ducemin alleged that the mayor's decision was "payback for me running for village trustee in June." He noted that he had not received any support for his run. Although the by-law reads that "undergraduates attending local schools are not eligible for membership," Mr. Duchemin wrote that the provision "is over 30 years old, and never has it been challenged until last night."
"The bottom line is what the by-laws read," Mayor Gilbride said at the meeting. "It has nothing to do with Kevin." He had "voted for Kevin. . . . I asked for a interpretation. . . . The laws need to be changed," he said.
Reached yesterday, State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., the village board's attorney, confirmed that he had been asked on Monday afternoon by Beth Kamper, the village clerk, to look at the section of the by-laws regarding membership, specifically the provision about undergraduates' eligibility. She did so at the behest of the mayor, he said.
Speaking for the Duchemins at the meeting, Robert Bori, secretary of the Fire Department and the village harbormaster, who was in the audience in his department uniform, said the by-law went back to the 1970s and that several college students had served in the department since that time. He said to the mayor, "You were sitting on the board on 1978. . . I got in. . . . We all went to Suffolk Community. . . I don't see what the problem is."
"All of a sudden it's my son and there's a problem?" Mr. Duchemin asked Mayor Gilbride. "I ask you what kind of a message is the mayor sending to the youth of the community? Is he telling them either decide to be a volunteer or further your education?"
Edward Gregory, another board member who is also a member of the Fire Department, said that the term "undergraduate" was ambiguous. He said that in the past it was thought to mean high school, with the provision adopted so that students did not run out of a classroom for a fire call. "Once you're in college, it's okay," he said.
"This is wrong," Mr. Bori said. "That's another three months this kid's got to wait." Muttering obscenities in a low voice, Mr. Bori left the meeting early.
On a positive note during the meeting, the mayor praised the ambulance squad, which responded to calls at the height of last weekend's snowstorm, noting that three calls had come at around midnight. He also thanked the Fire Department for accompanying the ambulances with a four-wheel drive truck.
Mr. Gregory thanked Dee Yardley and the Highway Department for working 31 hours straight to clear the north end of the village for its HarborFrost celebration on Sunday. Sag Harbor was "packed like a summer weekend," Mayor Gilbride said, and "looked like a Norman Rockwell village." He congratulated everyone who made the event successful.
The poor condition of a Howard Street house also was discussed at the meeting, as it has been previously. It was reported that no one has seemed to be taking care of the uninhabited house in recent years. Residents at the meeting called it an eyesore and public safety hazard. The mayor referred the matter to the village's building inspector, Tim Platt.


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It has been reported that since the recent inauguration, those looking to place capital are more often choosing investment-grade corporate bonds to put their money in than U.S. Treasury bonds when moving funds out of stocks into a safer haven. On the other hand, the housing market is looking up.
According to Lawrence Yun, National Association of Realtors chief economist, the market share of distressed sales will continue to fall from its 2012 level of about 25 percent to a lower 8 percent level by 2014. Foreclosures and short sales are working their way through our fiscal landscape. Locally, we have seen an increase in home-sale activity with prices going up, causing many of the clients I am helping with mortgages to offer above asking price. Golly, could we be heading to a seller's market?
You'll be happy to know that we can all count on Capt. Brian Ahearn and his teams of men and women in blue to keep you and that new home safe. Several of us in the community are trying to do the same for them. Their storefront on Olney Street where officers go to write reports, take necessary breaks, eat a meal or interview perpetrators is in deplorable condition.
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From saving the world's most threatened species of sea turtle to bringing unusual amphibians back from the brink of extinction, no conservation conundrum is a lost cause if knowledge, dedication and strong partnerships are put into play. This is the message being championed by ARKive to celebrate its tenth anniversary this year.
Through its unparalleled collection of wildlife imagery, ARKive – an initiative of wildlife charity Wildscreen – has become a platform to inform, and a place to encourage conversation for conservation. To mark a decade spent educating, enthusing and inspiring people to care about the natural world and highlighting the importance of biodiversity, ARKive is flying the flag for conservation by featuring ten species which are set to improve in status over the next ten years should positive action continue.
ARKive's chosen species, which were selected in consultation with species experts of IUCN's Species Survival Commission (SSC), represent a variety of taxonomic groups, and reflect the fascinating array of organisms with which we share our planet. From Juliana's golden mole, one of Africa's oldest and most enigmatic mammals, to the Asian white-backed vulture, a bird which has suffered a 99.9% population decline in just over a decade, this selection of species aims to raise awareness of the myriad threats faced by wildlife, and demonstrate how targeted conservation action can truly make a difference.
"ARKive is working with the world's leading wildlife filmmakers, photographers, conservationists and scientists to promote a greater appreciation of our natural world and the need for its conservation," said Wildscreen CEO, Richard Edwards. "In this our tenth year, we wanted to celebrate not only the great diversity of life on Earth, but also the vital conservation work that is being carried out around the world, and highlight that by working together to raise awareness, share knowledge and take positive action conservation can and does work."
One particularly impressive conservation story is that of the Lord Howe Island stick insect, a large, flightless invertebrate endemic to Australia. Once common on Lord Howe Island, this unusual insect was driven to extinction following the accidental introduction of rats to the island, only surviving in an area of 180 square metres on a large rock to the southeast of its original habitat. Without detailed scientific knowledge of the reasons behind its decline, this fascinating species might, by now, have been added to the ever-increasing list of extinct species. However, thanks to scientific exploration and understanding, and with the invaluable application of appropriate conservation measures, it is believed that the Lord Howe Island stick insect could be re-introduced to its native habitat in the next few years.
Another species on the road to recovery as a result of targeted conservation action is the Kihansi spray toad, a rare dwarf amphibian found only in a two-hectare area of habitat in eastern Tanzania's Kihansi River Gorge. In addition to catastrophic population declines due to a devastating amphibian fungal disease, the Kihansi spray toad has suffered at the hands of habitat loss. The construction of a dam on the Kihansi River in 2000 caused the diminutive toad's wetland habitat – which relied on being moistened by waterfall spray – to dry out, leading to the amphibian's dramatic decline and its listing as Extinct in the Wild on the IUCN Red List.
By working in partnership, zoos and conservation organisations were able to set up successful captive breeding programmes for the Kihansi spray toad, boosting an initial captive population of 499 individuals to an incredible 6,000. Conservationists also took the unusual step of setting up an artificial sprinkler system, which by 2010 had restored the Kihansi spray toad's habitat, and by December 2012 an international team of experts – including scientists from the IUCN SSC Amphibian and Re-introduction Specialist Groups – had re-introduced 2,000 toads to Kihansi. This incredible achievement marks the first time that an amphibian classified as Extinct in the Wild has been returned to its native habitat.
"The state of the natural world is increasingly worrying, with many species teetering on the brink of extinction," said Dr Simon Stuart, Chair of IUCN Species Survival Commission. "However, conservation does work and we should be greatly encouraged by success stories such as the re-introduction of the Kihansi spray toad. Many other admirable conservation achievements also show that the situation can be reversed thanks to the dedication and determination of experts and scientists worldwide. With continued effort and support, there is much we can achieve."
Another case in point is that of the Kemp's ridley turtle, a marine reptile which once numbered in the tens of thousands, but which declined dramatically in the 1950s and 1960s primarily due to the overexploitation of eggs and adult turtles. Thanks to the outstanding efforts of turtle biologists, a wealth of information on the Kemp's ridley turtle's biology, distribution and potential threats has been collected in recent years, which has contributed greatly to a special recovery plan for the species.
"Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity have made a commitment, through the Aichi Targets, not only to prevent the extinction of threatened species but also to improve their conservation status – ARKive's tenth anniversary campaign is a perfect opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of conservation and show that it really does work," said Dr Jane Smart, Director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group. "Along with our extensive network of scientific experts, we look forward to working even more closely with ARKive, an IUCN Red List Partner, to strive towards achieving the important goals the world has set."
While the work of conservationists and scientific experts is a vital component in the fight against species extinctions, ARKive is also keen to highlight the role that members of the general public can play in the future survival of Earth's incredible biodiversity. By learning more about the natural world around them and understanding its importance, it is hoped that people will be inspired to take action in their daily lives to safeguard our invaluable species and ecosystems. From recycling and limiting plastic usage to making wiser seafood choices and supporting some of the many hundreds of organisations and scientists who devote their lives to conservation, we can all strive towards building a healthier planet.
Find out more about the ten species on the road to recovery on ARKive's Conservation in Action page.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. court has frozen the assets of Thailand trader accused of profiting from advance knowledge of a Chinese company's plan to acquire Smithfield Foods.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Badin Rungruangnavarat of insider trading, saying he made more than $3 million ahead of the $4.7 billion planned acquisition announced May 29. He bought thousands of options on Smithfield stock and futures contracts in the prior week that would turn profitable when the acquisition was made public, the SEC said.
Smithfield shares rose 29 percent on May 29, closing at $33.35.
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Girl Scouts of Central & Western Massachusetts is hosting Animal Connections, for Daisy & Brownie Scouts and Juliette Scouts in Grades K-3 at the Heifer Learning Center at Overlook Farm in Rutland on Sunday, November 22, from 1 to 3;30 p.m.
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According to Grand County Schools Superintendent Scott Crane, the Waterford Institute recently offered to provide its Utah Preparing Students Today for a Rewarding Tomorrow (UPSTART) program to preschoolers in Grand County. Grand is among 18 rural school districts in Utah that have signed on to participate in the program after the Waterford Institute received an $11.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand UPSTART to rural communities.
"They've come to rural schools, and they'd like to provide help for our kids before they go into kindergarten," Crand said. "The purpose is to close the achievement gap for high needs students."
Since 2009, when the UPSTART pilot program was launched, approximately 7,000 students have participated, according to the program's website, utahupstart.org. However, most of those students have been located in urban or suburban school districts. The expansion into rural Utah could provide significant benefits to local children. An independent evaluation of the program's third year found that students participating in UPSTART, over the course of one year, fared two to three times better on early literacy tests than students who did not use the program.
The program will provide computer software to kids in the appropriate age range, Crane said. Participating students will be expected to log in to the program and use it for approximately 15 minutes a day.
Crane said approximately 70 percent of pre-kindergarten students in the area will be eligible to participate. If the students do not have access to a computer or Internet, the program will arrange to provide them with that access.
"They'll monitor their usage of the program, and if they're not working on it for the 15 minutes a day, [someone] will contact them and make sure they're accessing the program," Crane said.
The software will be provided for the students for the year before kindergarten, as well as during the summers after the students finish kindergarten, first and second grade.
Crane said the UPSTART program will provide the district with money to hire a liaison to administer the program and monitor the students' participation.
"We expect there will be about 70 students using the program," said Rhiana Medina, director of the Moab Valley Multicultural Center, which will serve as the UPSTART liaison. Medina will receive training from the Waterford Institute beginning March 25 and the center will begin a search for a part-time UPSTART coordinator once that training is completed.
Crane said the UPSTART program provides an opportunity for all the 2015 kindergarten students to begin school at similar learning levels.
"This is a great program," Crane said. "What we want to do is help decrease that gap that they come into kindergarten with between the kids that get to go to preschool and get a lot of help at home and the kids that don't."
Next year's group of preschoolers will be the only students to receive the UPSTART instruction, Crane said. The information about their academic achievement will serve as a longitudinal study for the UPSTART program.
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"Bay Area rap artist Renz Julian premieres the music video for his single "Pop n Lock", currently spinning on commercial radio stations nationally. The song is also featured on his debut album "Armageddon" released on Field of Dreamz Ent./City Hall Records, and digitally distributed through Ingrooves/Universal. "Armageddon" features guest appearances from Twista, E-40, The Jacka, Clyde Carson, Big Rich, Dem Hoodstarz, Mike Marshall, & Fed-X. The album is in retail stores now, available on itunes and all digital retailers. The single was produced by Mr. Collipark & Tom Slick of Collipark Music. There are several versions of the track, such as the album remix version featuring Twista & E-40 currently on radio, however this video version only features Renz Julian on the original version of the track. The video was directed by Rock Jacobs of Rush Films and will be aired on MTV Jams, BET, and all other video outlets." FOD Ent
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Phillies looking for answers in shaky bullpen
PHILADELPHIA -- Mike Adams wondered Friday if the Phillies' bullpen could be cursed a little bit.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Mike Adams wondered Friday if the Phillies' bullpen could be cursed a little bit.
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The Phillies entered Saturday tied for second in baseball with six blown saves. Their 57.1 save percentage and their 34.5 inherited runners scored percentage each ranked 21st and their 5.07 bullpen ERA ranked 28th.
The Phillies had lost a lead or a tie in the seventh inning or later 10 times in 27 games, including a one-run lead in the eighth inning in Friday's 5-3 loss to the Nationals at Citizens Bank Park. They lost six of those 10 games.
If the Phillies could have won just two of those six, they would have entered Saturday's game at 15-12 instead of 13-14.
"It's about guys stepping up in the bullpen," Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said, "and doing the job and creating the jobs themselves."
Sandberg chose Adams instead of left-handers Antonio Bastardo or Jake Diekman to start the eighth inning Friday against Denard Span, who hits left-handed. Span broke his bat on a 0-2 pitch, but it fell for a double. Span stole third and scored on a single. Adams allowed hits to the only three batters he faced before Diekman replaced him.
Diekman allowed two consecutive hits and both inherited runners to score.
Asked how he plans to handle the eighth inning in the future (the Phillies' 6.33 ERA in the eighth inning ranked 27th), Sandberg said, "Matchups, I think are key. We've got two guys capable of that with the way Adams has been throwing against right-handed hitters. I felt he was a good matchup last night. If there are a couple lefties and a righty it could be Bastardo."
Diekman struck out the side after allowing singles to Adam LaRoche and Ian Desmond. In many ways, it captured his season. He is 2-1 with a 6.75 ERA in 14 appearances. He has allowed 13 hits, 10 runs, six walks and three home runs in 13 1/3 innings, but he has also struck out 23.
He has looked dominant at times, but then at other times he's surrendered the big hit.
His first pitch to Danny Espinosa, the third batter he faced Friday, came high and inside, knocking Espinosa on his back. Diekman said he just wanted the pitch inside, but he also elevated it. Regardless, he was angry after allowing both inherited runners to score and attacked hitters the rest of the inning.
"You'd like to see that fire right from the get-go, right when he gets out there," Sandberg said.
Said Diekman: "It's execution. It's more about executing. It's a new month. Today is a new day. That's the way you have to think about it in the bullpen. You can be mad until you go home. Then after that, I feel you have to say it's over because you could be back in there the next day."
Todd Zolecki is a reporter for MLB.com. Austin Laymance is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @jalaymance.


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Is your life in tune with the Holy Spirit? Simeon was a man who was just towards others and devout towards God. He gladly accepted the mission God called him to perform with much fervent prayer and with patient expectation. His whole life was in tune with the Holy Spirit. His was found daily in the temple in prayer and worship and in humble and faithful expectation for the day that the Lord would comfort his people. As the days and months grew into years he never lost hope. When Joseph and Mary presented the child Jesus in the temple, Simeon immediately recognized the Lord's presence in his temple. Through eyes of faith he say the infant Jesus as the fulfillment of all the messianic prophecies, hopes, and prayers of the people of Israel. Inspired by the Holy Spirit he prophesied that Jesus was to be "a revealing light to the Gentiles". Jesus came not only as "light and salvation" for the people of Israel, but for all nations as well.
Lk 2:22-35
When the days were completed for their purification
according to the law of Moses,
the parents of Jesus took him up to Jerusalem
to present him to the Lord,
just as it is written in the law of the Lord,
Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,
and to offer the sacrifice of
a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,
in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord. Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon.
This man was righteous and devout,
awaiting the consolation of Israel,
and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit
that he should not see death
before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.
He came in the Spirit into the temple;
and when the parents brought in the child Jesus
to perform the custom of the law in regard to him,
he took him into his arms and blessed God, saying: "Lord, now let your servant go in peace;
your word has been fulfilled:
my own eyes have seen the salvation
which you prepared in the sight of every people,
a light to reveal you to the nations
and the glory of your people Israel." The child's father and mother were amazed at what was said about him;
and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother,
"Behold, this child is destined
for the fall and rise of many in Israel,
and to be a sign that will be contradicted
(and you yourself a sword will pierce)
so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."
Jesus is the new temple (John 1:14; 2:19-22). In the Old Testament God manifested his presence in the "pillar of cloud" by day and the "pillar of fire" by night as he led them through the wilderness. God's glory visibly came to dwell over the ark and the tabernacle (Exodus 40:34-38). When the first temple was build in Jerusalem God's glory came to rest there (1 Kings 8). After the first temple was destroyed, Ezekiel saw God's glory leave it (Ezekiel 10). But God promised one day to fill it with even greater glory (Haggai 2:1-9; Zechariah 8-9). That promise is fulfilled when the "King of Glory" himself comes to his temple (Psalm 24:7-10; Malachi 3:1). Through Jesus'coming in the flesh and through his saving death, resurrection, and ascension we are made living temples of his Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 3:16-17). Do you recognize that you are God's temple and that his Spirit dwells within you?


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Air travel with frozen soup in checked luggage?
Looking for advice here. I want to put a quart-sized plastic container of frozen, homemade Slovak sauerkraut soup (recipe a favorite from this site!) in my checked luggage for a four-hour flight. The soup is now frozen in one of those round Ziplock clear plastic containers with the easy twist-off blue lid.
I would enclose the container in a large Ziplock bag, fully sealed. Should I slightly release the tension of the blue lid prior to putting the whole thing in the large plastic bag? Or leave the blue seal tight? Or not attempt this at all?
Obviously, I really want to bring this to my hosts, or I wouldn't be thinking of it at all. I also plan to bring frozen pierogies, but I'm not worried about exploding dumplings as much as the idea of porky sauerkraut all over my clothes and luggage.
Also, are there any known airline bans on packing food like this? I don't travel a lot. Cook much, yes. Fly, no.
Would love advice! Thank you.


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Oliver Stone urges British Defence officials to drop barbaric pig training
Moviemaker OLIVER STONE slammed MOD chiefs over the alleged use of live pigs to train army doctors, branding the practice "barbaric and shameful".
Before the game, I actually thought I do need a goal. Thankfully it came
The Natural Born Killers director was horrified to read reports that the beasts are shot with high-powered rifles and operated on at a course provided in NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) facilities in Jaegerspris, Denmark.
He has now written to Defence Secretary Philip Hammond and urged him to put an end to the "cruel" drills.
In the email, Stone - who served in the U.S. infantry during the Vietnam War - writes, "Pigs are very intelligent beings - just like the dogs and cats with whom millions of us share our homes.
"Using them as targets and cutting them apart is barbaric and shameful. It is unscrupulous and underhanded for the MoD to outsource this unnecessary cruelty knowing full well that it would not be allowed on British soil.
"The brave men and women who risk their lives to fight for our countries deserve the best possible training, and sending soldiers to participate in reprehensible exercises that inflict severe pain on pigs does not improve the preparedness of the U.K.'s military medical teams.
"Please do not condone cruelty to animals by forcing soldiers to engage in such barbarism."


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"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
~ Angela Schwindt
Often, when a parent focuses on the routine, schedule, rules, and stress of the day, many opportunities to teach our kids or to encourage them are lost. We must be on the look out for teachable moments or opportunities to encourage our children.
The first step is to determine what the things are that we want to be teaching our kids. For instance, you may want to reinforce your religious beliefs, to emphasize treating all humans fairly, or to encourage art, music, and/or reading. If we are not careful, we can miss opportunities to encourage and nurture the things we want to reinforce to our children.
For example, my son was rolling marbles down the stairs and my husband walked by and saw marbles flying down the steps. He believed my son was throwing them down the steps at our other son, and he immediately sent him to time out and disciplined him. I could hear words between them escalating so I went to see what was going on. By this time my husband had gone downstairs. My son said he was not throwing marbles but instead had wanted to see what would happen when the marbles rolled down the steps. I immediately thought of the opportunity to teach about gravity and cause and effect. (No, I am not a science or math person). So I talked to my son about what had happened, had him talk to his dad and apologize for talking back, and we went to find a constructive way he could use marbles, gravity, and his curiosity to play and learn. Two postal tubes, 3 clear containers, and a bowl full of marbles later and my son was off to try out different experiments to make his marbles go down the stairs. It kept him occupied for over an hour.
Another time after putting our kids to bed, my oldest son, who was seven at the time, continued to come out of his room throughout the evening. I continued to tell him to go back to bed and go to sleep. My frustration was getting the best of me. It was getting late, and I had lots to still get done that evening. I snapped at my son when he came into my room the next time, and I told him not to come out of his room again. I had allowed myself to get upset. After I cooled down, I went into his room to tell him I was sorry for being upset with him, but that he did need to get to bed.
Within a matter of minutes he appeared in my room again, and he asked to snuggle with me. I wanted to yell at him to get in bed. I was frustrated with him. Fortunately, I realized his need to be with me was greater than my need to follow a routine or to be in total control. I told him he could come in my room for ten minutes. I compromised by allowing him to come in but also by limiting the time he could stay. As my son snuggled close to me, he shared what had happened at school that day. Someone had taunted him. If I had not let my defenses down and decided to change course, I may have missed hearing about his day and missed the opportunity to give him guidance and reassurance.
Sometimes teachable moments are hidden in challenging, frustrating, or ill-timed situations when we are not feeling very flexible. Try to be more aware of what is going on with your child. If your child takes a while to open up, try to be in tune with his/her communication style. Be aware when your child acts differently, and consider that he/she may need something important from you: love, affection, a private talk, etc.
Teachable moments are not only about the opportunities we use to teach a lesson, make an example out of a particular situation or show our child something. Often teachable moments are brought about by your child when he/she inquires about a topic, idea, or concern. My son asked me the other day if there were five states of matter. He said at school he had heard someone say that, but the science book only mentioned three states of matter. I immediately took this as an opportunity to help my son learn about this new topic that had peaked his interest. When we are so absorbed in our own activities, we can often lose such opportunities to teach our children. Remember to be present, be available, be open and flexible.
Ask Yourself:
- What values do I want to instill in my child?
- Am I a good listener when my child speaks?
- Does my child think I am a good listener?
From Parenting Without a Paddle: Navigating the Waters of Parenthood by Kristin Fitch and Sharon Pierce McCullough.
Sharon is an artist, designer and author of both "how-to" books and children's picture books. She is also co-founder of ZiggityZoom and the managing editor. The book "Parenting Without a Paddle:Navigating the Waters of Parenthood" was co-authored by McCullough, along with Kristin Fitch, the other co-founder of ZiggityZoom. She is passionate about family and family fun.


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From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen,
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