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You and your mom did a great job! You're a hawk sister now! Hawks are very powerful and beautiful and to have one come into your life in such an intimate way is incredible. I hope you get to see Hector released and know that he is always nearby.
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Hi, thanks for replying back to me. I read your story and Isis is beautiful! Ya'll have such a special bond and that's so cool!
I saw where you wrote me and I replied back again in the 'baby hawk' thread. If you want to you can reply back to me here or you can just reply back in the thread.
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I answered your baby hawk question and I will admit I was very strong in my answer. It's just that this must be handled in a very specific way for the good of the baby hawk.
As for that beautiful hawk on my avatar is Isis. She is a red-tailed hawk who lives at the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary where I worked for quite some time and now volunteer. She and I have been friends for nearly 15 years! I take her out on the beach (using a falconer's leather gauntlet) and we hang out together. She is in her middle or late 20's now so I don't go for long walks down the beach with her anymore, but she lets me scratch her chest and I clip her nails and change the leather straps we use to tether her when needed. She is the absolute love of my life!!! I wrote a story about our relationship and you can read it online if you like. The link is
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Austin Dillon holds the top spot for the Daytona 500.
Kyle Larson wants to finish as the top rookie in NASCAR.
The two preseason favorites for rookie of the year have to hold off a crowded field of six other drivers eligible for the award. The new faces have squeezed veteran stalwarts like Jeff Burton and Mark Martin out of rides, leaving open the possibility that today's Daytona 500 could be viewed down the road as one that swept in a new era in NASCAR.
"I don't think there has been a rookie of the year battle in quite a while like this one," Larson said.
Larson and Dillon are the lynchpins of a class that include Justin Allgaier, Michael Annett, Alex Bowman, Ryan Truex, Parker Kligerman and Cole Whitt.
"Austin Dillon's got to be the favorite for that with everything he has accomplished," Larson said. "If I could beat him, I think that would say a lot about myself and our team."
The 21-year-old Larson has been touted as racing's next big shining star for the last few years. Larson ran four races last season as a warm-up for his move to Chip Ganassi Racing to drive the No. 42 Chevrolet. Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon are among the NASCAR champions that have been wowed by the natural speed, talent and versatility flashed by Larson.
His A-list fan club has only boosted his profile.
"It's definitely helped me get me to where I'm at right now," Larson said. "Having guys that everybody looks up to talk about me, I definitely pay attention to it, or have. I try not to pay too much attention to it because I don't want to add any much pressure to myself or even let me get cocky or anything like that."
Larson won a low-level NASCAR developmental series championship in 2012, the first time he raced in stock cars. He finished eighth in the standings with nine top-fives in his first full season in the Nationwide Series.
Larson, whose mother is Japanese and father is of Native American descent, is just one of the prospects set to take over as today's crop of 40-something Cup drivers inch closer toward retirement.
Martin, who went 0 for 29 in "The Great American Race," has no races scheduled for this season and consults for Stewart-Haas Racing. Burton parted ways with Richard Childress Racing and joined NBC Sports. Gordon even said he'd consider retirement if he could win a fifth championship.
Burton's busiest ride these days is the one that flies him to Connecticut for TV work. Unlike Martin, Burton has been around at Speedweeks.
"It was a little awkward when I first got here and rolled into the racetrack and knew I wasn't going to drive," Burton said. "But I'm happy. I like my new role. I've embraced what I'm doing."
NASCAR's rookie classes have produced few stars the last several years. Future Cup champions, and Daytona 500 and Brickyard winners Stewart, Matt Kenseth, Kevin Harvick, Ryan Newman and Jamie McMurray each won the award in the late 1990s-early 2000s.
Some lean seasons followed. Juan Pablo Montoya, Kevin Conway, Andy Lally and Stephen Leicht were among the recent underwhelming winners no longer with full-time rides in NASCAR. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., last year's top rookie, is known as much for dating Danica Patrick.
Kligerman, who drives for Swan Racing, said it's an easy call for teams to ditch the aging veterans and groom the next generation of stars.
"Would you take the guy on the way out who's going to produce the same as this guy, or get the guy that has a ton of upside," Kligerman asked. "Any business owner would say you want the upside. On the sponsorship side, there is an idea in our sport that having young faces and young attitudes and trendy attitudes can help drive an organization to another level."
Those are the kind of attitudes found at Swan Racing.
Kligerman and Whitt might have the first rookie rivalry that spills into driver's introductions at Bristol. Which Swan Racing rookie walks out to 50 Cent's "In da Club" at the track that allows drivers to pick their own theme songs?
"Always been a fan," the 23-year old Kligerman said of the rapper, who has branding for his SMS Audio line on both of Swan Racing's cars. "Bristol? Definitely. Maybe Cole and I will both do it. We'll have to talk about it."
With sponsorship issues and pressure to show early they belong, it's not an easy road for rookies in NASCAR. Truex failed to qualify for the Daytona 500 and NASCAR history is littered with "can't miss" prospects who missed.
Joey Logano was called "Sliced Bread," as in, greatest thing since, when he was just a teen and replaced Stewart at Joe Gibbs Racing. He's had a nice career, though hardly one that's matched the lofty expectations of a future champion.
Dillon, a champion in the Truck and Nationwide Series, made a splash at Daytona when he drove the famed No. 3 to the pole for today's race. He's the fifth rookie on the pole, joining Loy Allen Jr. (1994), Mike Skinner (1997), Jimmie Johnson (2002) and Patrick (2013).
"This is one of the top points, starting off like this, so you want to carry that momentum going forward," Dillon said. "But for me, I just have to stay grounded and have fun."
The jury will be out for years on which rookie can truly emerge as the next championship contender.
"In a year from now, we'll know if it changes the guard," Kligerman said. "Next year, Jimmie Johnson, Brad Keselowski, Clint Bowyer, they'll fight for the championship. There will be no difference. Those guys are still here. They're still at the top of the sport.
"In a year, two years, three years, the kids that stick around from this rookie class, they'll be the ones that change the guard and change the sport."
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What's the biggest mistake we make in healthcare? Believing that the way you make healthcare accessible is to make it free at the time of delivery. We forget when we think that way that if money is unimportant, the non-price barriers on healthcare become that much more important. Non-price barriers to care include: How long does it take you on the telephone to get an appointment with the doctor? How many days do you have to wait to see that doctor? How long does it take you to get from where you are to the doctor's office? How long do you have to wait when you get to the doctor's office?
So we need more doctors, nurses, clinics? We're not doing anything to incentivize them.
What would incentives look like? Jeffrey Brenner is a doctor in Camden, N.J., one of the poorest places in the whole country. Brenner, a real entrepreneur, goes to the hospital records and discovers that 1 percent of the people in Camden are responsible for 30 percent of the hospital costs. He takes under his wing one of his worst cases: an alcoholic and drug addict who weighs more than 600 pounds. He spends half the year in the hospital and the other half abusing himself. Brenner enrolls him in Alcoholics Anonymous, gets him off drugs and alcohol, gets him going to church. The man loses weight and gets healthier, so the costs go way, way down.
Is that a special case? Brenner found other patients whose costs could be brought down just by changing behavior. He saves millions of dollars for Medicare and Medicaid, yet gets paid zero for saving all that money. We should say to Brenner, "Every time you save the taxpayer a dollar, we'll give you back 20 cents." Let's hope he becomes a millionaire. Let's tell all the other doctors, "if you can figure out how to lower our costs and improve quality, we'll pay you." That's the opposite of the way they think in Washington right now.
Should we have economic incentives for people to stop smoking, lose weight, and exercise? We now subsidize bad behavior through our healthcare system, as does every other developed country.
What about someone without those behavioral problems: He does everything right, then something disastrous happens. How would you create incentives to try to help that person? When unexpected expenses are large, that's why we have insurance. But for the smaller stuff, people ought to control their own dollars, and make their own decisions.
So your proposal is ... Give the same number of dollars to every American for a refundable tax credit or healthcare insurance—same dollars, no matter where you get your insurance.
In 1993 and 1994, before these bright Patrick Henry students were paying attention to the politics, Democrats attempted to centralize national healthcare and failed. Republicans from 2003 through 2006 occupied the White House and had a majority in both houses of Congress, but they did not push decentralized plans like your tax credit approach. Republicans not only didn't do the right thing but wound up doing the wrong thing, which was expanding Medicare to prescription drugs and covering the 80 percent of seniors who already had coverage for prescription drugs. That essentially gave away taxpayer dollars we didn't have to give away, and created one more unfunded liability.
So prescription drug coverage didn't improve the health of 80 percent of seniors, but merely moved payment? Right, seniors got to keep more of their money, and the rest of us pay.
So better to help the needy rather than set up a universal program. But what about CHIP—the children's health insurance program? Didn't that help a lot of kids? The idea is to provide free health insurance for poor children, but the estimates are that one out of every two children (or more) entering the free government program dropped their private health insurance to get there.
Still, many kids got to see doctors. One recent study found that children entering the CHIP program don't get more care. With CHIP, because payments for the doctors are so low, they have trouble finding doctors.
So are all these governmental expansions examples of what economist Friedrich Hayek called "the fatal conceit"? That's the belief that people can manipulate and control complex systems they don't understand and expect good outcomes. When they do that they get all kinds of unintended consequences. It's like walking into a nuclear power-plant and pushing buttons even though you don't know anything about nuclear power-plants. That's what policymakers do in healthcare: They're changing this rule, changing that rule, and they have no idea what the consequences will be.
In such a complicated system, is anyone smart enough to grasp what's really going on? No—and the healthcare system is the most complex of all social systems, with more than 300 million people and 800,000 doctors and thousands more nurses and hospital administrators, all interacting in complex ways. We don't understand it at all. A lot of Democrats in Congress voted for Obamacare thinking they were going to help a lot of people. They'll be surprised to find that access to care will go down rather than up for our most vulnerable populations.
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For those who do obtain greater access to care, will we see an increase in health? If you had two cities, and one city had twice as many doctors per capita, or twice as many hospital beds as the other, you wouldn't necessarily find an increase in life expectancy. More spending doesn't add much to life expectancy. Our lifestyles, our environment, and our genes are much more important.
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I'm creating a simple top-scrolling racing game. The concept is quite simple - the player controls the car, which goes on a dynamically generated field with square blocks. Once the car hits a car, the game ends.
My first implementation was simply to put a few random blocks in each row being generated on the top of the screen, but this does lead to maps where going through is impossible.
What is the best algorithm for generating such type maps? My platform of choice is XNA and C#, if that's important.
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When you think "container garden" you probably think of annual flowers, maybe some greens, but shrubs are probably not the first things on your mind. You can use shrubs as your "thriller" plant in a container garden, or you can create a true garden of containers with a different shrub in each pot. If you have a lot of specimen plants, a "container garden" or garden of containers is a good way to display your collection.
For more about how to design a shrub container garden, read our blog post about container garden design with shrubs.
Care Tips for Container Gardening with Shrubs
Once you've designed and planted your garden, you need to keep it healthy! Caring for a shrub in a container over the long run is a bit different than keeping shrubs happy in the ground. Here are some tips.
Plant Selection: Size and Hardiness
Happy plants start with proper plant selection. If you know you're going to grow a shrub in a container long-term, select shrubs that have compact growth habits and that stay small. While you can prune back a full-sized shrub yearly, that's not what's best for the shrub or for you. Additionally, shrubs that stay compact on top will stay more compact on bottom (the roots), so you won't have as many problems with the shrub outgrowing the pot.
Another thing to consider is that shrubs in containers are one zone less hardy than shrubs in the ground. So, if a shrub is considered hardy to zone 6 in the ground, it will be hardy to zone 7 in a container. The roots will get colder over the winter in a container.
Watering can be a bit more complicated if you plant a shrub in a container with annual plants, as the annuals will need more water. The best companions for shrubs in containers are perennials. Once the shrub and the perennials have settled in and grown new roots, they'll need similar amounts of water, which shouldn't be too much. Unlike annual container gardens that will need water every day or every other day in the summer, shrub container gardens can scoot by with once a week, or twice if it's really hot.
Shrubs in containers will require fertilizing once a year. Generally after flowering is the ideal time to fertilize. If a shrub doesn't flower (such as evergreens) fertilize when they're pushing new growth in the spring. There's no need to fertilize more than once a year--that will encourage weak growth. But you will need to give the plants their annual shot of food because, being in containers, they don't have access to the nutrition that they'd find in the soil of a landscape bed.
If you start with compact shrubs, you shouldn't need to do much pruning. However, if you want to maintain size after the first year or two, prune after flowering or after the flush of spring growth. If you're growing evergreen shrubs, read the individual care instructions for the plant because some evergreens respond to shearing or pruning better than others.


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Today we announced the plans for the next version of Silverlight along with a bunch a demos at the FireStarter event. If you missed it, you can take a look at the recordings The feature list for SL5 includes Media improvements Graphics Improvements Databinding updates Performance improvements Fluid UI capabilities Text improvements …. and…
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WPF Ribbon (October Update Available)
October 2010 update of WPF Ribbon (on codeplex) is now available for download. The updates include: · Ribbon Targets .NET 4.0 as well · Ribbon targeting 4.0 takes advantage of the ClearType in WPF · Ribbon now works in VS2010 Express editions · Stylistic fixes · Rendering fixes · … Share this post
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Porting WPF apps to Silverlight
The other day when browsing through the blogosphere I came across Arik's posts describing the workarounds\tips that he used for porting his 3.5 WPF application to Silverlight. It was a good read since all these tips from different bloggers have been consolidated in 2 posts Porting from WPF to Silverlight: The Missing Pieces, Part 1…
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The Ribbon Control is a pretty big control owing to the complexity of the Ribbon design guidelines. You can give it a try by downloading from LINK While there are several things to blog about, this post will focus on RibbonGallery. The download provides a sample that covers all features by implementing the Office Ribbon….
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We agree: Resolve crisis in South Sound shellfish industry
A stunning discrepancy in the toxin levels of geoducks harvested in the Puget Sound could put many employees of the important South Sound shellfish industry out of work before Christmas. That should be sufficient incentive for the state to waste no time in resolving the problem.
As reported in The Olympian, Chinese officials said they found shocking high levels of toxin and arsenic in geoducks shipped from Puget Sound. They said the geoducks contained 600 to 1,500 micrograms of PSP toxin per 100 grams of tissue. A level of 80 micrograms is considered dangerous to human health.
Chinese officials banned the importation of all Puget Sound bivalve shellfish as a result, including mussels, oysters and clams, as well as geoducks. That's a huge blow to shellfish growers that depend on the Asian markets, such as Taylor Shellfish and Seattle Shellfish in Shelton.
The state Department of Natural Resources says its own testing showed levels of PSP ranging from below 38 micrograms to a high of 62 micrograms. Both the DNR and the Chinese routinely test for toxin levels, so such an enormous difference after decades of commerce cannot be easily explained.
The state does not routinely test for arsenic, however. It must explain why it does not, and how arsenic has made its way into shellfish. In any case, the DNR should start testing for arsenic immediately if it's a measurement used by the Chinese and other Asian countries. Domestic consumers would benefit, too.
The DNR has submitted its testing data to the Federal Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But it should not stop there. Diplomacy channels and international trade officials must engage because there is always the possibility that some type of geopolitics is at play.
American shellfish is a popular menu item in Asian New Year's celebrations. For many growers, that year-end bump in sales can make or break their year.
About half of the worldwide geoduck market of 12 million pounds comes from the Puget Sound. Taylor Shellfish exports up to 50,000 pounds of geoducks per month to China, and another 10,000 pounds of oysters.
Losing that market at a critical time or for an extended period could force the Shelton companies to layoff workers at the worst possible time. That could in turn affect the regional economy.
In the interim, growers say if the ban continues, they will shift sales efforts to the domestic market. But sales volumes will inevitably decline and a flood of shellfish on the national market will push prices down.
This is a crisis for the South Sound shellfish industry, and the families who depend on it. State and federal officials and lawmakers at both levels of government must make resolving this issue a top priority, and do everything possible today.


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So, while I was most recently up in Oregon working on the 2011 Harvest (more coming on that and an update this week), Labor Wines had a nice piece of press, courtesy of our friends at Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar & Grill in Las Vegas. The brothers Bromberg, Bruce & Eric, were featured in a piece in Seven Magazine by Max Jacobson, their food writer talking about the restaurant and seasonal changes to the Japanese menu – check out the article here for the story. Bruce & Eric personal chose Labor Wines 2009 Pinot Noir as a perfect pairing noting, 'This pinot is earthy but complex, and has a slightly coarse edge that complements the dishes beautifully.'
In Las Vegas, you can currently find the 2009 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir served at Blue Ribbon, By the Glass. Additionally, if you're curious to learn about where Labor is going to be served around the country or interested in purchasing our wines directly feel free to contact me via email, email@example.com or on my cell, 702.466.0987, plus you can always reach us via Twitter – Facebook.
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Instagram launched a brand new app this morning called Hyperlapse from Instagram. The app is a tool for iPhone users to create quick and easy timelapse videos that they can share with family and friends. It's simple, intuitive, and fun! It can help even the worst of videographers capture a smooth video in just a few minutes.
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ACA overshadows cap and trade
Washington's political atmospherics couldn't be much worse for taking on big, complicated things after the bungled Obamacare launch. One unlucky and little noticed casualty: climate change.
A sweeping cap-and-trade bill, like the kind that died in President Barack Obama's first term, remains the best policy tool for addressing global warming at the federal level.
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But the Affordable Care Act's early implementation problems offer a gut check for anyone considering putting their political muscle behind making another run at either a comprehensive legislative or regulatory fix to the climate issue - a remedy that could easily match, if not exceed, the bureaucratic complexity of Obamacare.
( PHOTOS: Climate skeptics in Congress)
Obamacare's stumbles have also fueled a debate in policy circles about alternative history - as in, would Obama's New Year's headache be even worse if climate change had also won congressional approval alongside health care?
There's plenty of irony in all this. Health care and climate change have been rival siblings battling for attention since the start of the Obama administration (Health care, so far, has been the winner).
Like key parts of Obamacare, the cap-and-trade concept originated with Republicans seeking a business-friendly way to control pollution. And EPA regulators have actually used the marked-based system with success for almost two decades to deal with acid rain and smog.
It stings even more for climate advocates that the country's recent natural gas revolution has led to a sharp drop in greenhouse gas emissions as electric utilities wean off coal. No one predicted this during the 2009-10 climate debate, but the U.S. is already nearly half way to the targets of the cap-and-trade bill that passed in the House but couldn't get out of the Senate.
( PHOTOS: 25 unforgettable Obamacare quotes)
With Obamacare implementation on the ropes, there's something of a wistful feeling among many of the failed climate bill's proponents that they wouldn't be causing the administration anywhere near the same problems. Their legislation had implementation in mind during the drafting phase by leaning on a number of existing programs, including channeling rebates to low income people via the food stamp program to compensate for energy prices that went up because of cap and trade.
But not only did cap-and-trade legislation get left at the altar when the Senate balked, Obamacare's unsteady debut leaves the future for any big climate proposal even dimmer. Supporters can only think of what might have been - and even some opponents acknowledge global warming might have been an easier governmental lift than health care reform.
"Perfection is an elusive human quality, but the larger picture of economic growth related to the energy sector would have been so profound that I think the benefits would be hard to roll back," Sen. Ed Markey, the Massachusetts Democrat and former congressman who led the cap-and-trade push in 2009, told POLITICO.
( PHOTOS: Obama's second term)
"It would have been a real boost to our economy," added Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), Markey's partner on the climate campaign. "People would not be looking at the huge number of unemployed in this country. There'd be enormous investments in alternative fuels and fuel efficiency in ways to make the transition to a low carbon economy."
Republicans banking on Obamacare as their ticket to 2014 mid-term election gains counter that Democrats should be relieved the climate bill isn't law. The GOP would have spent the last three-plus years trying to repeal it and defund it just like they did with Obamacare. And just imagine how many more punches the administration would be taking if it was juggling implementation of a climate law at the same time it was rolling out health care and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms.
"Beating up on EPA is a lot easier than attacking the creation of a new entitlement," said Chris Hessler, a former deputy GOP staff director on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) offered this prediction had Obama been successful in getting all three of his top first-term legislative priorities: "Romney might be president. And maybe we'd have the Senate."
Democrats from states and districts with a heavy reliance on fossil fuel production or consumption resisted the cap-and-trade bill despite pleas from Obama and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and several built-in incentives that could have helped transition their economies. With the bill's demise, many said they dodged a bullet.
"I'd rather not think about it," said Rep. Nick Rahall, a West Virginia Democrat and cap-and-trade opponent, when asked how the climate bill would have fit in now alongside Obamacare. "If there was not any more adequate preparation than what the health care act had, it'd have been a disaster."
But from a practical standpoint, Democrats and even some Republicans acknowledge that Obama probably would be having an easier time implementing the cap-and-trade bill compared with health care. After all, the administration had many of the biggest industries on board, including electric utilities, automakers and chemical companies.


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They said it would never happen! Following the new rules means the end of religion.
That semicolon after "with" is ungrammatical.
it should be a colon.
I quess I am concerned, mildly, with the possibility that scientists will become the new priest class. While the scientists could claim that they should be the arbitures of truth, and peir review as the new vatican, I feel no desire to worship at the site of CERN. If they just keep writing very good papers, exposing nature's nikkers, and offering us all another insight, I will be very pleased.
As long as they offer their research to peer review and rigorous testing, then there is no reason to think that they would become a priest class.
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House honors first climbers to scale El Capitan
WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers who blanched at a $700 billion financial rescue package have found time to honor the brave men who climbed Yosemite National Park's El Capitan peak a half-century ago.
Kicking off a round of commemorations, the House this week approved a resolution saluting three climbers who were the first to scale North America's tallest free-standing granite monolith. The resolution sets the stage for a 50th anniversary ceremony to be held in Yosemite next month.
"It's a landmark," Rep. George Radanovich, R-Mariposa, said Wednesday of the climb. "It was a really big deal."
The House resolution honors Wayne Merry, Fresno resident George Whitmore and Warren J. Harding, who took 47 days in 1957 and 1958 to climb El Capitan's so-called "Nose Route." Theirs was a full-blown siege, complete with sizable support crew, fixed ropes and established camps along the vertical way.
Today, climbers can race up the same route in two or three days. Some daredevils have done it in one; in July, two climbers did the Nose Route in two hours and 43 minutes.
The House resolution, too, moved speedily through what can be an obstacle-ridden path. Radanovich's office prepared the resolution at the behest of the National Park Service. The park service is now getting ready for its own commemoration of the event, scheduled for Nov. 8.
That was the date, 50 years ago, that the three-man climbing team made their final push toward the El Capitan summit.
"What they did 50 years ago is really significant in the history of the park," park spokesman Scott Gediman said, adding that "climbing really turned into a sport here in Yosemite."
The Nov. 8 event in Yosemite Valley will include auditorium presentations by Whitmore and Merry. Separately, Gediman noted, park officials are working with El Portal resident Ken Yager on the possibility of establishing a permanent rock climbing museum that would display some of the gear used in the park.
Radanovich, whose congressional district includes Yosemite, began soliciting congressional co-sponsors via e-mail Sept. 19. Three days later, with seven House co-sponsors signing on, it was formally introduced.
By Monday, even as most House members were consumed with the pending $700 billion bailout package, the Yosemite resolution was partnered up with a number of other non-controversial measures. These ranged from a resolution honoring the Coast Guard to a measure naming some Rappahannock River rapids after retiring Republican Virginia Sen. John Warner.
"Everyone wants to get their suspension items on the floor before Congress adjourns," Radanovich's press secretary, Spencer Pederson, said Wednesday.
The assorted resolutions zipped through the House by voice vote in the tumultuous aftermath of lawmakers rejecting the $700 billion financial bailout. The lighthearted mood that often accompanies the consideration of non-controversial, feel-good measures was noticeably absent. The resolution was passed literally in a matter of seconds, with no one -- including Radanovich -- taking time to speak about it.
By contrast, several San Joaquin Valley lawmakers took to the House floor several months ago to rave about the championship Fresno State Bulldogs baseball team as the House approved a similar slap-on-the-back resolution.
Harding, known as a hard-living soul, went on to author an entertaining memoir titled "Downward Bound" and passed away in February 2002. Merry went on to head the Yosemite Mountaineering School. Whitmore has been active in the local Sierra Club chapter, which has had a hot-and-cold relationship with Yosemite park management.


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) San Francisco kicker David Akers calls his struggles this season a ``head scratcher'' and says if the 49ers win the Super Bowl it will erase all of his 14 misses this season.
Akers missed an NFL-worst 13 field goals this season and then hit the upright on a 38-yarder in last week's NFC championship game at Atlanta. He says he feels like he is kicking the ball well and he's off by a matter of inches, which is frustrating because ``an inch is a mile in our game.''
Coach Jim Harbaugh brought in Billy Cundiff earlier this month to challenge Akers. But the Niners stuck with Akers and released Cundiff last week. Harbaugh says he has complete confidence in Akers and dismisses the talk he is mired in a slump.


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SUNNYVALE, CA, May 9, 2006 - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), the world's largest supplier of flash memory data storage card products, announced today that it has priced $1 billion principal amount of its Convertible Senior Notes due 2013. In addition, SanDisk granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional $150 million principal amount of Notes from SanDisk to cover overallotments.
The Notes will be senior unsecured obligations and will pay interest semiannually at a rate of 1.00% per annum. The Notes will be convertible at an initial conversion rate of approximately 12.1426 shares per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (equivalent to an initial conversion price of $82.36 per share of common stock). The initial conversion price represents a premium of approximately 30% to the $63.35 per share closing price of SanDisk's common stock on May 9, 2006. The Notes will be convertible beginning on February 15, 2013, or earlier upon the occurrence of certain events. Upon conversion of the Notes holders will receive cash up to the principal amount of each Note, and any excess conversion value will be delivered in shares of SanDisk common stock.
The net proceeds of the offering will be used for general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures for new and existing manufacturing facilities, development of new technologies, general working capital and other non-manufacturing capital expenditures. Proceeds may also be used to fund strategic investments or acquisitions of products, technologies or complementary businesses. No commitments or agreements have currently been made for any specific acquisitions. In addition, in order to reduce the potential dilution from conversion of the Notes, SanDisk intends to use a portion of the net proceeds of the offering to fund the hedging transactions it has entered into on its common stock with the underwriters of this offering and/or their affiliates. These hedging transactions reduce the potential dilution from conversion of the Notes by generally increasing the conversion price of the Notes to 50% higher than the closing price of SanDisk's common stock on May 9, 2006. If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional Notes to cover overallotments, SanDisk may enter into additional hedging transactions on its common stock with the underwriters and/or their affiliates. SanDisk also expects to enter into warrant transactions whereby it will sell to the underwriters of this offering and/or their affiliates warrants to acquire, subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments, approximately 12.1 million shares of our common stock. Holders of the Notes will not have any rights with respect to the purchased call options or the sold warrants.
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and Goldman, Sachs & Co. are the joint book running managers for the offering and Thomas Weisel Partners LLC is serving as a co-manager for the offering.
About the Offering
A final prospectus supplement related to the offering will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and will be available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Printed copies of the final prospectus supplement relating to the offering may also be obtained, when available, from Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014 (telephone no. 212-761-6775) and Goldman, Sachs & Co., Attn: Prospectus Department, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004.
The Company has filed a registration statement (File No. 333-133890) (including a prospectus and prospectus supplement) with the SEC for the offering. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus and prospectus supplement to that registration statement and other documents the Company has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Company and the offering. You may obtain these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the Company, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus and prospectus supplement if you request it by calling, if you are a retail investor, toll-free 1-800-584-6837 or if you are an institutional investor by calling toll-free 1-866-718-1649.
About SanDisk
SanDisk, the world's largest supplier of flash memory data storage card products, designs, manufactures and markets industry-standard, solid-state data, digital imaging and audio storage products using its patented, high density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is based in Sunnyvale, CA.
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Statements contained in this press release that are not historical facts, including statements regarding the Company's intended use of proceeds from the offering, may be considered forward-looking statements as that item is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Many of these risks and uncertainties cannot be predicted with accuracy and some might not even be anticipated. Some of the factors that could significantly impact the forward-looking statements in this press release are discussed in the Company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statement is qualified by reference to these risks and factors. These risks and factors are not exclusive, and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release except as required by law. Additional information regarding these and other factors may be contained in the Company's SEC filings, including without limitation, the prospectus supplement relating to the offering, the Company's Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended January 1, 2006, and its Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended April 2, 2006. The Company's filings are available from the Securities and Exchange Commission or may be obtained on the Company's website at www.sandisk.com.
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Texans have a new abortion law.
Americans have a new political reality.
The Texas legislature passed the much-ballyhooed abortion law which would require abortion doctors to have hospital privileges and abortion clinics to provide the same health and safety standards as other outpatient surgical clinics. They crossed the finish line on this bill late last night amid what can only be described as a mob assault on the Texas state capitol.
The reason I chose the words "mob assault" is that the focus of at least a good number of the citizens who came to the Texas capitol was to use mob action to shut down the legislative process. Consider, for instance, this statement issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety:
AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) today received information that individuals planned to use a variety of items or props to disrupt legislative proceedings at the Texas Capitol.
Therefore for safety purposes, DPS recommended to the Texas Senate that all bags be inspected prior to allowing individuals to enter the Senate gallery, which the Texas Senateauthorized.
During these inspections, DPS officers have thus far discovered one jar suspected to contain urine, 18 jars suspected to contain feces, and three bottles suspected to contain paint. All of these items – as well as significant quantities of feminine hygiene products, glitter and confetti possessed by individuals – were required to be discarded; otherwise those individuals were denied entry into the gallery.
In the interest of the safety and security of Texas legislators and the general public, these inspections will continue until the conclusion of Senate business.
I am all in favor of citizens visiting their state capitols. I think the people of this nation should pay a lot more attention to what their lawmakers are up to than they do now. I believe that every person in this country has a right to talk to their elected officials and to petition them concerning the issues and legislation they are voting on.
We are, every single elected one of us, representatives of the people who put us here. We can't know what the people who elected us want from us unless they tell us. Polls and things of that ilk are not a substitute for direct personal input with the people themselves.
On the other hand, when a group of people try to use mob action to shut down the legislative process, they are attacking democracy. The people who were so bent on disrupting the Texas legislature would not have needed to be there at all if they had been able to take their cause to the court of public opinion and win elections. By trying to disrupt the legislative session with mob action, they were, in effect, attempting to overturn the elections which put the legislators in that chamber to cast those votes.
If you don't like what your legislator does with the power you gave them when you elected them, then run against them for election. If you don't want to run, then go out and volunteer to help someone else run. Put up yard signs. Make phone calls. Hand out literature. Donate money.
There is a new kid on the political block, and it's a yammering, spoiled, mean-spirited little brat who wants what it wants when it wants it and doesn't care what damage it does to this country to get it. The bad behavior of some of the protestors in Texas is paralleled by the sudden rash of elected officials, Attorneys General, in particular, who run for office, get elected, and then find that their superior morality requires them to refuse to do the job they were elected to.
We're going to have to start arresting these people who come to state capitols and try to use mob action to shut down the legislative process. I don't want to do that. I want people to feel free to go to their capitols and to talk to their legislators about whatever is on their minds. But we cannot allow mobs of people who cannot win an election try to overturn elections by shutting down the Democratic process by means of creating such havoc that they stop debate.
At the same time, we need to consider impeaching or at least defeating at the polls duly elected chief law enforcement officers who refuse to speak for the people in court. When an Attorney General of a state will not represent the people who elected him or her in court, they are derelict in their duty. They are using a sort of don't-show-up-in-court-and-deliberately-lose-the-case veto power over the legislative and referendum process. They are making themselves the judge of what it is not their job to be the judge — the will and the power of the people of their state to make their own laws.
Both of these extreme behaviors — the mob actions in Texas and other states, and the newfound desire to veto legislation by not showing up in court on the part of Attorneys General — are attempts to subvert the will of the people, and to nullify the actions of a representative government.
I view both these behaviors as the natural outcome of the moral depravity of the positions some citizens are taking. It corrupts and hardens a person to support killing unborn babies. It scrambles the normal thinking processes to convince yourself of something as stupid as the idea that two men or two women are the same as a man and a woman. This is untrue on its face.
Genuinely pro choice (as opposed to pro abortion) people have legitimate points. Much of what concerns them about the misogynistic treatment of women is well-founded. By the same token, homosexuals have legitimate claims to civil rights and protection under the law. However, the pretense that an unborn baby is not a human being, or that a homosexual union is the same as the marriage between a man and a woman, flies in the face of reality.
Laws enacted according to these fantasies are always going to cause great harm, because they are not based on the reality of the human condition. People who advocate for these positions, will, over time, harm themselves and their thinking abilities.
It saddens me, but it doesn't surprise me, to see the destructiveness to our political fabric ratcheting up with each twist of the political dial. It is the inevitable consequence of the fantastical thinking many people use in forming their worldview.


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A Pakistan court on Saturday acquitted a Muslim cleric who accused a Christian girl of blasphemy before he himself was arrested on similar charges, a lawyer said.
The girl, Rimsha Masih, was arrested in August last year for allegedly burning pages containing Koranic verses, but the case against her, which drew widespread international condemnation, was quashed.
Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti, the cleric who made the allegations, was accused of desecrating the Koran and tampering with the evidence against Rimsha.
However, his lawyer, Wajid Ali Gilani, said: "The court has dismissed all charges against Khalid Chishti and has acquitted him in this case."
Gilani said the prosecution had failed to prove the charges, while all the witnesses had withdrawn their accusations.
Rimsha, who lived in a poor neighborhood on the edge of Islamabad, spent three weeks on remand in one of Pakistan's toughest jails and could have faced life in prison if she had been convicted.
She and her family were forced into hiding, living under government protection in fear of their lives. Rimsha is now in Canada.
Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Pakistan, where 97 percent of the population is Muslim, and insulting the Prophet Mohammed can be punished by death under the country's penal code.
Local media previously said Rimsha was as young as 11, but an official medical report classified her as "uneducated" and 14 years old, but with a mental age younger than that.
Pakistani Christian leaders last year paid tribute to Muslim clerics, members of the media and civil society for highlighting the injustice done to Rimsha.
In 2011, politicians Salman Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti were assassinated for demanding that the blasphemy law be reformed.
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EPA issues proposed endangerment finding on GHGs
Greenhouse gases contribute to air pollution, which may threaten public health or welfare, the US Environmental Protection Agency said on Apr. 17.
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WASHINGTON, DC, Apr. 20 -- Greenhouse gases contribute to air pollution, which may threaten public health or welfare, the US Environmental Protection Agency said on Apr. 17.
The proposed endangerment finding, which followed a scientific review that the US Supreme Court ordered in 2007, said that concentrations of six gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride) are at unprecedented levels because of human activities, according to EPA. It said that these high concentrations are very likely the cause of higher average temperatures and other climate changes.
The agency said its analysis confirmed that climate change also increases drought, heavy downpours and flooding, and heat and wildfires; leads to rising sea levels and more intense storms; and damages water resources, agriculture, wildlife and ecosystems. It said the proposed finding also sees security implications from global climate change, including escalating violence in politically unstable regions incited by increasingly scarce resources and massive migration to more-stable areas.
"This finding confirms that greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations. Fortunately, it follows [US President Barack H. Obama's] call for a low-carbon economy and strong leadership in Congress on clean energy and climate legislation. This pollution problem has a solution, one that will create millions of green jobs and end our country's dependence on foreign oil," EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said.
In a second proposed finding, she said EPA found that combined emissions from motor vehicles contribute to the atmospheric concentrations of the six greenhouse gases. The proposed findings now enters a public comment period before EPA issues final findings, the agency said. The analysis does not include any proposed regulations, although Obama and Jackson both have said they would like to see comprehensive legislation passed to address the issue.
'Lost 8 years'
Congressional reaction was mixed. US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said the finding was long overdue. "We have lost 8 years in this fight. The Clean Air Act provides EPA with an effective toolbox for cutting greenhouse gas emissions right now. However, the best and most flexible way to deal with this serious problem is to enact a market-based cap-and-trade system which will help us make the transition to clean energy and will bring us innovation and strong economic growth," she said. If Congress does not pass legislation to address the problem, she would call on EPA to use its authority, she added.
James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), the committee's ranking minority member, said the proposed endangerment finding would unleash a torrent of regulations that would destroy jobs, harm consumers, and extend EPA's reach into every corner of American life. "It now appears EPA's regulatory reach will find its way into schools, hospitals, assisted living facilities, and just about any activity that meets minimum thresholds in the Clean Air Act. Rep. John D. Dingell [D-Mich.] was right: The endangerment finding will produce a 'glorious mess,'" Inhofe said.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she welcomed the action that will allow EPA to regulate air pollution from vehicles. "Congress is working on a comprehensive solution to global warming, and I am committed to moving clean energy legislation this year that will include perspectives from across our nation to create jobs, increase our national security and reduce global warming," she said.
House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said EPA's action "is nothing more than a backdoor attempt to enact a national energy tax that will have a crushing impact on consumers, jobs, and our economy. The administration is abusing the regulatory process to establish this tax because it knows there are not enough votes in Congress to force Americans to pay it."
Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), who chairs the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, said EPA's proposed finding now puts pressure on Congress to solve the problem. To that end, he said the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Energy and Environment Subcommittee, which he also chairs, would start to hold hearings next week. He said there would be nine panels with 80 witnesses.
'Fundamentally ill-suited'
Oil and gas and other industry groups expressed concern. "The proposed endangerment finding poses an endangerment to the American economy and to every American family. It could lead to GHG greenhouse gas regulations under a law fundamentally ill-suited to addressing the challenge of global climate change. The Clean Air Act was created to address local and regional air pollution, not the emission of carbon dioxide and other global greenhouse gases," American Petroleum Institute Pres. Jack N. Gerard said.
National Petrochemical & Refiners Association Pres. Charles T. Drevna said, "EPA's announcement really comes as no surprise, but what is surprising is the willingness to proceed without having addressed all of the valid concerns previously raised by stakeholders and consumers." He noted that NPRA submitted comments to EPA in December 2008 questioning models the agency used as well as its acknowledged lack of ability to characterize climate change effects on health and welfare, which significantly complicates understanding the net effects.
Choosing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act would constitute EPA's single largest and potentially most complex assertion of authority over the US economy and individuals' lifestyles, Drevna said. "Before moving forward with regulation, the United States must ensure that other major global contributors are similarly committed to reducing their ambient greenhouse gas concentrations. US efforts would be fore naught if the administration fails to receive such commitments, and American economic competitiveness would be compromised," he said.
A final endangerment finding would trigger GHG regulation under the Clean Air Act and preempt congressional debate on the issue, the National Association of Manufacturers warned. Using outdated programs under the law to regulate GHG emissions would burden an ailing economy while doing little or nothing to improve the environment, NAM Pres. John Engler said. "The clean air laws were designed to focus on local pollutants. GHG emissions, however, are global in nature and require a new framework," he said.
American Chemistry Council Pres. Cal Dooley said as that group reviews the proposed finding and prepares to comment, it will focus on the proposal's scope and any implications for GHG regulation from stationary sources. "We believe that the Clean Air Act is not well-suited to address greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources. Given the national implications of carbon dioxide regulation by EPA and the interdependent nature of climate and energy issues, climate policy should be discussed and developed in Congress in tandem with energy policy," he said.
'No longer a question'
Environmental organizations cheered EPA's announcement. David Bookbinder, climate counsel for the Sierra Club, said, "Where the Bush administration lagged, the Obama administration is now leading. There is no longer a question of if or even when the US will act on global warming. We are doing so now. President Obama is taking it to the hoop when it comes to our most pressing problems. This step will allow the administration to move forward while continuing to work with Congress to pass a strong clean energy jobs and climate plan."
David Moulton, climate policy director at the Wilderness Society, said, "Now that EPA is no longer going to ignore the law, the howls we are hearing are from the same folks who have been busy blocking legislation in Congress to modify the law. One way or the other, the clear and present danger of endlessly dumping pollutants into the atmosphere must be confronted. We will either find a way to build a future for our children based on clean energy and sustainable jobs, or we will face a very unsentimental foe: a climate that makes life unsustainable."
Matt Vespa, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, said, "The Clean Air Act is our best tool for reducing greenhouse emissions from cars, ships and airplanes. For four decades, [it] has protected the air we breathe, saved thousands of lives and produced economic benefits at least 42 times the cost of regulation. EPA should immediately implement its effective and efficient mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas pollution."
Other groups were critical. Institute for Energy Research Pres. Thomas J. Pyle, said, "Carbon is lighter than oxygen, more abundant than nitrogen and forms the basis of all human, plant and animal life on earth. At least it did yesterday. Today, it's a danger to human health and, upon meeting air, a clear and present threat to our existence. That was the pronouncement made by EPA, and it will be one this generation and others that follow will not soon forget."
A coalition of eight free-market groups told Jackson in an Apr. 15 letter that an endangerment finding "will set the stage for an economic train wreck and a constitutional crisis." The groups, which include the Competitive Enterprise Institute, American Conservative Union, and Americans for Tax Reform, said it also "would lead to destructive regulatory schemes that Congress never authorized. Significant uncertainty persists with regard to climate sensitivity, the core scientific issue.
"Despite the ongoing increase in air's [carbon dioxide] content, various measures of public welfare (life expectancy, heat-related mortality, weather-related mortality, air quality, agricultural productivity) continue to improve. Endangerment of public health and welfare is not 'reasonably anticipated,'" they maintained.
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Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene said the new one-day international rule on field restrictions is disadvantageous to bowlers and could even diminish the role of spinners in the future.
Jayawardene said the International Cricket Council rule to restrict the number of outfielders to four, even outside of powerplay overs, heavily favors batsmen.
Even though he is a batsman, Jayawardene thinks the move is not in the best interests of the sport and that spinners will be especially affected.
"I am not comfortable with these changes. It's not the way to go forward," Jayawardene said Monday, a day after playing the first one-day international under the new rule. "I have this funny feeling that spinners will not have a role to play in the future."
Under the new rule there will be two set of powerplay overs and the first 10 will allow only two fielders in the outfield. The five-over batting powerplay allows three fielders in the outfield and only four fielders are allowed for the remaining overs.
The new rule came into effect in the ongoing ODI series between Sri Lanka and New Zealand.
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