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The most noticeable change among the Sox's traveling party was trainer Herm Schneider, who declined to disclose how much weight he lost this winter.
Daryl Van Schouwen says it's 70 pounds:
BTW, here's a picture of Herm from August of 2011:
Good job Herm!
Other White Sox links:
- James looks at Tyler Flowers replacing A.J. Pierzynski, and replays the April 12, 2008 Sox-Tigers game (Gavin Floyd's breakout).
- J.J. looks at the battle for the last spot in the Sox bench, and contributes to publishing the All-Chicago 2000-2011 baseball team.
- Baseball America released its '2012 Top 100 prospects' list. The only Sox prospect on the list is 23-year old RHP Addison Reed at #66.


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- Gotham City Impostors
- CLR [rating:3.5]
Release Date: February 7th and 8th, 2012
Platform: Xbox LIVE Arcade, Playstation Network, Microsoft Windows
Developer: Monolith Productions
Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Genre: Cross-bred Online Only FPS
ESRB: T for Teen
Clothes may make the (Bat)man, but the gadgets let him win.
Cosplay has always been one of the more extreme methods of showing devotion to something. Time was, if you admitted to wearing a costume on days not ending in "-ween", most folks backed away slowly lest they increase your chances to breed. But in the post-ironic world that society has fashioned for itself since the turn of the millennium, the stigma surrounding cosplay has lifted a tad. The primary exceptions being furries, and those doing it wrong.
Eye-blight notwithstanding, the practice of wearing the outfits of your favorite starship crewmember or superhero is far more acceptable given the right context. If a con is in town, or the model is hotter than a summer fever in Ecuador, most folks don't mind. Especially since dressing up like a fictional character and parading around with some like-minded individuals to share in fan love, though it might be a bit odd, is still just a bit of harmless fun (he says hoping to justify his own forays into this realm)!
But what happens when you're a fan who dresses up as a superhero that isn't imaginary?
More importantly, what happens when the fun isn't so harmless?
Which of course brings us to Gotham City Impostors, the recent release from the minds over at Monolith Productions. It's a game that seeks to answer a question that, though I'm pretty sure no one asked, turns out to have an interesting answer. Apparently, the real-life superhero super fans are just as mad as those they love! So they shoot each other! A lot!
Yes, the basic premise behind Gotham City Impostors (or GCI for fans of abbr.) is the same as that one scene in The Dark Knight. A side product of Batman's war on crime against the multitudes of psychopathic malcontents that haunt his fair berg is that many ordinary citizens have fallen into hero worship that all true patriots know they should only reserve for the Founding Fathers (in both cases ignoring the wishes of those they adore). But this is Gotham, a town so corrupt and crime ridden that the most cartoonish thing about it isn't the billionaire dressed as a bat that punches insane people, but that anyone still lives there. So naturally those who decide to join the Batman fan club, being a bit daft to begin with, also decide that the Bat's fashion choices make great day wear.
These wanton wannabes grab anything they can to form makeshift bat suits and patrol the streets with homemade gadgets in groups, trying to live up to the ideals of their hero . . . sort of. A point covered in the game's training stage is that while this "Batman Non Profit" organization would love to battle the criminal element with the bloodless brutality of high-minded fisticuffs that the actual Caped Crusader uses, they neither have the resources, training, or morality he does; thus resorting to guns, bombs, and anything else they can cobble together or salvage to simply murder the far more (unfortunately) believable gang of thugs imitating another major local personality: the Jokerz. Meaning of course that like any "true" diehard fans of anything, the Batmen have completely missed the point (the Jokerz not so much).
This setup for GCI, especially as it's delivered via darkly comic cutscenes and dialogue, serves as a – quite frankly – brilliant justification to make a competitive online multiplayer First Person Shooter set in the Batman universe. Or at least one that manages to have an upbeat tone reminiscent of the game's obvious influence: Team Fortress 2. Because, when you're dealing with a character that famously hates firearms, creating a game set in the one genre that fetishizes them would seem to be Herculean; the plot, thin as it is, fits that bill entirely.
TF2 isn't the only major influence, though it is the most prominent. The characters are cartoony and exaggerated, the screwball "comedy of violence" mood is present, and you can even spend undue amounts of time (and real money if you're lazy) personalizing your avatar's costume. But there's also quite a bit of Call of Duty here as well. The now ubiquitous leveling up of your character profile, experience point challenges, and customizable character slots that take a cue from the Black Ops salad bar upgrade path give the otherwise completely multiplayer game a solid sense of progression as you fight match after match online in basic Team Deathmatch, or variations on Domination and Capture the Flag gametypes.
While the "two great tastes that taste great together" concept may seem like the elevator pitch that I'm sure a Warner Bros. exec heard two years ago now, like another similarly flattering game it actually works. Monolith knows how to make a solid FPS, having been responsible for a couple of pretty darn good entries in the past, and it's no different here. Tight controls, well designed maps (though few in number), and fun, mostly well balanced weaponry that include freeze guns and boomerangs combine with the pleasantly delusional average Joe protagonists and the general veneer of the Batman universe to make a little downloadable game better than it probably should be.
And that would be the end of the review . . . except for two major things, which like Harvey Dent's coin reveal both the brilliant highs and the terrible lows that wait in store.
GCI's extreme customization options are nice, but aside from the "psychological profiles" option rewarding play styles that match disorders found in the DSM-IV, it's not that unique. No, the big meaty difference here are the slipshod, homebrew gadgets that each of the imposters employ. From springy moon-boots, a pop-out hang glider, and a hand-cranked grapple gun, all of Batman's traversal gadgets are present in a garage built form.
These movement options all function a bit differently, but each works naturally with the game's overall flow. Roller-skates, for example, speed your character up but remove friction, while allowing huge launches off strategically placed ramps, while the glider will send a character soaring through the air before dive bombing into a foe. Combined with the tight levels that promote quick combat and which already have trampolines strewn throughout that bounce players around, and each match ends up having a frenetic, buoyant energy all its own, and paying attention to vertical space actually becomes Tribes level important.
Really, these gadgets are what make the already solid and fun little shooter sing like a stoolie in a quartet. Without them, the game is a fun, but derivative hodge-podge in a pair of gray and blue tights. But thanks to their inclusion, as well as a cute twist on Capture the Flag that involves "Propaganda Machines," Car batteries, and slap-fighting, Gotham City Imposters turns out to be a consistently fun and entertaining "shoot all the guys" experience.
When it works, that is.
Unfortunately, the biggest issues that hold GCI back are technical, mostly on the connectivity side of things. Though it seems popular enough now, matchmaking often takes an inordinate amount of time to put a group together, and should the game's player pop drop, it's going to be the crowbar beating of doom. Worse still is the game's team balancing system; if team members drop out mid-session, only very rarely will the teams rebalance the remaining players. As Johnny Rico knows, it's rather frustrating and near impossible to go against a superior force of numbers, and definitely the opposite of the fun few minutes' mayhem the developers are shooting for.
While these problems may not seems like that big a deal, I really can't stress enough that for a downloadable title that promises quick, short bursts of cynical humor and exciting action, the actual game needs a much fuller commitment of your time. Of course, there's already free DLC on its way, so if you can hold out a bit longer, all could be vastly improved.
In the grand Batman Gambit of things, these connectivity problems shouldn't matter much. Should the community hold out long enough, the gadget based twists on otherwise completely solid mechanics, could create a serious contender to the free time of any FPS aficionado. Especially if they've ever been so in love with a movie, book, or a sports star that they know the MSG taste of obsession.
See, that's really what Gotham City Impostors is in the end. It's about the fan that's not just devoted enough to make the costume, but motivated to make something more substantial. The type of person that doesn't let little things like common sense, "threat of bodily harm," or limited technical knowledge get in the way of their dreams. For the impostors, fanboys and cosplayers everywhere, obsession isn't the trait of the villain, but of the hero, and it's the one trait that connects the idea of such a grand mythic hero to the common man.
Of course that might be reaching, seeing as Gotham City Imposters is also simply a fun little downloadable where you get to toss on a cape while roller skating around and shooting clowns with a shotgun.
Yeah, that second thing is probably what they were going for. Unfortunately.
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It has been five years since the AAFP adopted a policy stating that every American should have a "personal medical home." In the years since then, the Academy has championed the idea of the patient-centered medical home, or PCMH, with the belief that the PCMH model improves outcomes and lowers health care costs.
AAFP President Glen Stream, M.D., M.B.I.
Although many of you have started -- and in some cases completed -- the long process of transforming your practices into officially recognized medical homes, some of you have decided that the necessary time, money and effort make it too daunting a task relative to an uncertain financial benefit. In short, you want assurances that your sizable investment will pay off.
Recent events, however, indicate that becoming a PCMH may be an investment worth making:
- Maryland's Multi-payer PCMH Program has distributed about $3 million in its first payment to 54 participating primary care health professionals. Of that total, $2.1 million came from private payers, and $900,000 came from the state's Medicaid program, according to a recently published report(www.healthcarefinancenews.com).
- Earlier this year, six health plans paid $1.5 million to 236 primary care physicians(0101.nccdn.net) from 11 practices in New York's Hudson Valley after those practices achieved PCMH recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
Skeptics could say these are isolated examples with unnamed docs. Fair enough. Let me tell you about an e-mail I recently received from former AAFP President Jim King, M.D., of Selmer, Tenn., on this very subject. He told me that his practice of seven physicians has received $114,000 in incentive payments this year: $34,000 from CMS' Physician Quality Reporting Initiative, or PQRI; $35,000 for electronic prescribing, or eRx; and $45,000 in primary care incentive program payments.
King also expressed concern that PQRI and eRx incentives are beginning to decline, and primary care bonus payments are scheduled to stop after 2014. The important thing to remember, however, is that as these programs are phased out, new opportunities keep coming. When they do come along, it's important to be ready.
For example, last month, CMS and its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation announced the launch of the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, or CPCI. CMS plans to collaborate with commercial and state health insurance plans to support primary care practices that deliver coordinated and seamless care.
The program will blend fee-for-service payments with a risk-adjusted per-patient, per-month care-coordination fee that ranges from $8 to $40. Participating practices also will have the opportunity to share in savings resulting from the program. This payment model is what the AAFP has been advocating for some time to reward physicians for coordinating and managing patient care within the PCMH.
In response to the announcement of this plan, AAFP staff members met with America's Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP -- the national trade association that represents health insurance companies -- recently. During that meeting, AHIP representatives said that the organization intends to encourage its members to apply to participate in the CMS initiative.
The Academy also has sent letters to each of the nation's major health insurance plans, encouraging them to participate.
CMS will be responsible for recruiting 75 primary care practices in as many as seven markets for the initial phase of the CPCI, with practices applying to participate in spring 2012. The blended payment model will be used for these practices' Medicare and Medicaid patients, as well as patients enrolled in participating private insurance plans.
The program will be limited to practices that already have achieved Level 3 NCQA recognition and have met meaningful use standards for electronic health records. These requirements reinforce the need for us to transform our practices and to be prepared to participate in such programs.
Although the first phase of this initiative will be limited in scope, CMS officials told me in a meeting recently that they are eager to rapidly and broadly expand the program once it has been shown to reduce costs and improve quality -- which it almost certainly will.
Even if you live in an area that is not initially selected for the CPCI, other PCMH pilots from health plans and state Medicaid agencies are likely to use similar formats.
The bottom line is that making the changes necessary to earn PCMH recognition will result in enhanced revenue in the future. Some of you have asked the Academy to show you the money when it comes to the medical home model. The money is coming. Will you be ready to act when opportunity knocks?
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You thought it was tough to establish breastfeeding? Brace yourself for weaning! It's usually long, slow, and wearing physically and emotionally.
Gradual weaning is best for you and for your baby. Dropping only one feeding every week or so means that you'll be less susceptible to engorged breasts and possible inflammation. It's easier on the baby, too-less stressful and traumatic. Before you start, stock up on nursing pads-many women leak when they're weaning-and don't plan on wearing silk blouses or anything else that stains easily. Loose shirts and big button-front vests or cardigan sweaters are good camouflage when you're weaning.
Start by eliminating one feeding session, and then, after a week or so, dropping another one. If your baby is especially reluctant to wean, you may need to drop one feeding session in 48 hours (rather than one feed in 24 hours). It may take longer to wean, but it will be easier on both of you.
For the first cut, choose a feeding session that can be bypassed as painlessly as possible. Most babies want to hang onto the nursing sessions associated with bedtime-the day's first feeding, naptime feeding, and bedtime.
You can eliminate some feedings without completely weaning if you'd prefer not to go cold turkey just yet. You can usually keep one or two nursing sessions a day, even after cutting out the rest.
If you do want to totally wean, and your baby is under a year old, you'll need to find a brand of formula that your baby will take. If you have a friend whose baby uses formula, ask for a couple of tablespoons' worth, and see if your baby likes it. If you don't know any formula users, buy the smallest unit on the shelf-it's cheaper to buy formula in bulk, but it's a waste of powder and money if your baby doesn't like that brand.
When you begin dropping nursing sessions, replace that time with another kind of cuddling or special time. Instead of regarding weaning as something to deny your child, think of it as a time to expand your child's horizons by offering new tastes and foods and customs. Instead of hurrying the process, let it take its own pace, and the transition will be easier on you both.
There's more to breastfeeding than nutrition: It represents love, comfort, trust, attachment. Try keeping a stack of picture books near the rocker, so you can find a new use together for a favorite chair. It's a good idea to cuddle in a position that's different from the one you typically used for nursing-e.g., holding your child facing away from your chest as you read a picture book together, or balancing her on your feet or legs to play airplane.
Don't be surprised if your baby, unprompted, starts ignoring customary nursing sessions once you've begun weaning. Many babies and toddlers self-wean. Your little one may nurse twice one day, and once the next, and want to nurse twice again the day after that. She may give you her signal that she wants to nurse, but then squirm off your lap as you start to pull up your shirt.
You may notice that you're feeling discouraged, sad, or distracted during the weaning period. It's not unusual to be a little depressed. Your body is going through hormonal changes again. Weaning can be painful, physically and psychologically. After all, this is one sign that your baby is growing up and that you won't always be the center of his universe. Try collaborating on a memento of this time together by making palm prints or foot-prints-yours alongside his.
The flavor of your milk will change as you wean. It may taste salty or even a little sour.
It may take a while for your milk to dry up. It's not unusual to continue lactating for several months or more than a year after weaning.
About the Author
Claire Martin is a parenting writer at the Denver Post. Her writing has won national and regional awards, and has appeared in publications such as the St. Petersburg Times, Good Housekeeping, and Sunset magazine. She lives in Denver with her husband and two daughters, both of whom were breastfed.
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(verb) make (someone) so frightened that they are unable to move; "the thought of speaking in public petrified her"
(verb) change into stone; "the petrified remains of prehistoric animals"
Petrify (पेट्रफाइ) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi Dictionary)
- पत्थर बनाना, कड़ा बनाना, पत्थर हो जाना, हक्का बक्का कर देना, हाथ पाँव फुला देना
Petrify Origin
- late Middle English: from French pétrifier, from medieval Latin petrificare, from Latin petra 'rock', from Greek.
Petrify in a sentence (word usage in newspaper)
- Mathematics used to petrify IT minister K.T. Rama Rao when he was a student.
- He was always good at mimicry and would often accompany the shadows with scary noises that used to petrify me.
- Well, I think this blast, just a few days before the New Year, is clearly an attempt to petrify people who visit Church Street.
- His presence in a press room, in a stadium or a restaurant, is enough to petrify anyone in the first instance.
- My parents used to petrify us with stories when we were children!
Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of petrify
- Pertify = 'pathar' – fy
Petrify Pronunciation
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Aside from the winning, the rollicking celebrations and their spots in the Major League Baseball playoffs that begin Friday, it's been a lousy season for the Bay Area teams.
The Giants' leading hitter was busted for drugs, bushy-bearded reliever Brian Wilson blew out his elbow and missed the season while erstwhile ace Tim Lincecum coughed up more runs than any pitcher in the National League.
The A's leading pitcher was busted for drugs, starter Brandon McCarthy required brain surgery after taking a line drive to the head and the team with the league's lowest payroll struck out more times than any team in American League history.
But champagne, as it turns out, is a heck of a stain remover. With their giddy blasts of bubbly, the Giants and A's managed to wash away all the turmoil, all the injuries and those predictions of imminent doom.
They also surged past the Dodgers and Angels, who launched multimillion dollar spending sprees in an attempt to buy first place.
In the end, they simply wound up spent.
"We wear jerseys. We don't wear contracts," A's outfielder Johnny Gomes sniffed when asked about payrolls during the playoff-clinching celebration Monday night.
Improbably, the Giants and A's will be part of the same postseason field for the first time since 2002. The N.L. West champion Giants open Saturday against the Cincinnati Reds or Washington Nationals while the A's schedule will be determined by whether they finish as a wild-card team or as the A.L. West champs.
Until then, local fans can argue which of their teams is more talented. But for a more strenuous debate, try choosing which team overcame more hardships. Should the Giants and A's get a rematch of their 1989 showdown, this one would be the Bay Bridge (Over Troubled Waters) World Series.
"Everything that happened makes it that much more special," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said, reflecting on the long list of hurdles. "I know there had to be people in baseball that thought we were in trouble at times. These guys were relentless."
Even after withstanding significant injuries to Wilson and third baseman Pablo Sandoval, the Giants looked like toast on Aug. 15, when the commissioner's office suspended Melky Cabrera, the All-Star Game MVP, for a positive testosterone test.
Smelling wounded prey, the Dodgers soon amassed even more high-priced talent, swinging a trade that landed All-Star first baseman Adrian Gonzalez and pitcher Josh Beckett, among others, from the Boston Red Sox. That, combined with other midseason deals, represented an additional $260 million in payroll commitments for the Dodgers.
It turned out to be a ton to spend with no division title in return. One game ahead of the Giants on the day of Cabrera's drug suspension, the Dodgers dropped as far as 11 games behind San Francisco by late September.
"It's almost like we take it personally when people say we're going to kind of fade away," first baseman Brandon Belt said on the night the Giants clinched the division title. "When somebody goes down, it seems the whole team just kind of picks it up and takes over."
In retrospect, the blockbuster deal of the summer belonged to the Giants. Infielder Marco Scutaro, acquired in an under-the-radar deal on July 27, leads the team with 85 hits since coming over from the Colorado Rockies. "Probably the most clutch player I've ever seen in my career," said Giants pitcher Barry Zito, who also played with Scutaro in Oakland.
The A's, meanwhile, also saw their obituaries piling up like box scores. (It's no wonder their signature celebration is based on the character from the "Weekend at Bernie's" movies — the guy who, while given up for dead, keeps on dancing.)
People wrote them off whenever they lost a significant player, which is to say almost weekly. Bartolo Colon drew a 50-game suspension for a positive drug test on Aug. 22. McCarthy suffered a scary season-ending injury on Sept. 5. And Brett Anderson strained his right oblique muscle on Sept. 19.
The A's just shrugged and kept reaching into their endless bag of rookies. They used 19 rookies this season, the most in the A.L.
After one of them, Jarrod Parker, pitched the A's into the playoffs on Monday, the A's became the first team since the 1952 Brooklyn Dodgers to have two rookies with at least 13 wins. (Parker and Tommy Milone each have 13.)
"This just shows that absolutely anything is possible," manager Bob Melvin said Monday while, around the corner from his office, his youngsters were spraying beer when the champagne bottles were empty. "But this doesn't happen unless everybody believes and everybody plays selflessly. These guys were all of the above."
The A's ($55 million payroll) celebrated within an hour of the Angels being eliminated from postseason contention despite an offseason spending spree that netted them Albert Pujols ($240 million over 10 years) and pitcher C.J. Wilson ($77.5 million over five years).
In the end, the star-studded Angels were outplayed by a lineup you couldn't pick out of a lineup. The A's did it behind eight players who hit at least 10 home runs — tied for second most in team history.
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The Ulster Grand Prix Supporters Club has met Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council to hand over more than 3,000 objection letters to plans for a 96-acre cemetery at the Ulster Grand Prix circuit.
The letters will be added to several hundred others already received by the council's planning department, making it close to 3,500 objections within just a few weeks of the initial submission of the planning application.
The Ulster Grand Prix Supporters Club and promoters of the Ulster Grand Prix, the Dundrod & District Motorcycle Club, are united with many local residents in their opposition to the planned cemetery site on Quarterland Road, Dundrod, for which the only access would be via the world famous motorcycle racing circuit.
Planning consultancy Strategic Planning has said the proposed cemetery - a private facility - would bring a £35m investment and sustain up to 345 construction jobs during development, as well as six permanent jobs, and would help to address cemetery space shortages in Lisburn, Belfast and Newtownabbey.
The consultants have stressed that the cemetery would not operate on any race or practice days of the Ulster Grand Prix, but objectors fear that if the plan gets the green light, it could signal the death knell for the Ulster Grand Prix. And their message to the council is simple: "Don't bury the UGP."
Des Stewart, Chairman of the Ulster Grand Prix Supporters Club said: "With a hugely successful 2016 UGP just behind us, we are heartened that race fans far and wide feel strongly enough about the impact these plans could have on this international event to submit a letter of objection to Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council.
"The sheer volume of objections we have just delivered to the council demonstrates the important social, cultural and economic impact this event has and we stand by our view that were a cemetery to be built on the circuit, it would seriously endanger the future of the event."
The Ulster Grand Prix is one of the biggest annual outdoor events in Northern Ireland, attracting tens of thousands of visitors from across the world. The economic impact is significant; spectator spend alone generates an estimated £2.5 million every year, and there are more than 10,000 commercial bed nights.
"During the Ulster Grand Prix the public roads are closed for three days, including the Quarterland Road, which is the only access point into the planned cemetery," added Mr Stewart.
"It is customary in this country for burials to happen within three or four days of a death, and for daily access to be afforded to those who wish to visit graves. We just do not see how we could run this event in harmony with the daily business of a cemetery of this size and scale.
"I would like to reiterate that we feel that the applicant's suggestion that they would close the cemetery on the days of racing is unpractical and unsustainable.
"Furthermore, I believe that planning has been granted for a cemetery and crematorium outside Moira with potential for expansion, also in the L&C area which is more centrally located and served by an excellent road network. When this comes to fruition any argument about the need for a cemetery in Dundrod would be entirely negated," he said.
Lisburn & Castlereagh City Councillor, Alderman James Tinsley added: "Dundrod sits within my constituency, I have listened to the concerns of many local residents and am in agreement that this plan is not viable.
"Setting aside the potential negative impact this proposed cemetery might have on the Ulster Grand Prix, it is very difficult to see how this plan is viable from an infrastructure perspective.
"The country roads around Dundrod would not easily cope with the much higher volume of traffic a cemetery of this size would bring, and we must also consider the already elevated accident rate and the area's propensity for inclement weather which forces the roads to close several times a year."
Responding to the concerns raised by the objectors, Richard Bowman, Director of Strategic Planning, stated: "There has been extensive pre-application community consultation on the cemetery proposal since August 2015. Ulster Grand Prix officials were consulted at an early stage, attended the public information event and received assurances that the cemetery will not operate on race or practice days of the UGP. Any planning approval would be conditioned on this basis. The closure to accommodate the UGP will also be part of the terms and conditions for people purchasing burial plots in the cemetery. Given these points the UGP will be entirely unaffected by the Loughview Park Cemetery proposal at Dundrod."
He added: "The site off the Quarterland Road has also undergone rigorous testing across a range of areas including ecology, hydrology, roads / traffic, landscape design and archaeology and is clearly suitable for a cemetery development. Furthermore, the cemetery represents a significant £35 million investment and will meet the severe need for burial provision across three council areas – Antrim & Newtownabbey, Belfast and Lisburn & Castlereagh. It will also bring with it a significant jobs boost, particularly during construction.
"A recent report commissioned by Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council estimated the capital costs of sourcing new land and developing a council owned and managed cemetery at £15 million. This private sector proposal at Dundrod therefore brings with it substantial savings for local ratepayers."
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A new wave of cooperatives is emerging in the US, and a big part of the inspiration is coming from what might seem an unlikely source: the United Steelworkers International Union (USW), which describes itself as North America's largest industrial union, with 1.2 million active and retired members.
In 2009 the USW joined with Mondragon Inc. of Spain and Kent State University's Ohio Employee-Ownership Center (OEOC) to start a discussion on bringing the successful Mondragon model of employee-owned cooperatives to the US. Mondragon was founded in 1956 and today includes some 260 enterprises, many of them cooperatives, in more than forty countries, with annual sales of 24 billion dollars. OEOC brings to the effort 25 years of institutional expertise in the development of employee-owned businesses. The collaboration with the USW was announced in the national media in 2009, and in 2012 the three organizations followed up with the release of a how-to guide called "Sustainable Jobs, Sustainable Communities: The Union Co-op Model."
The core goal of any employee-owned cooperative, a model dating back to the 18th century, is to organize business democratically. The people who do the work jointly run the business, all have a say, one-person one-vote, and all share in the profits. Mondragon has spent decades perfecting the model in Europe, and the addition of collective bargaining through a union committee is a new twist that can bolster democracy and garner additional resources for launching and sustaining cooperatives.
Union partnership with employee-owned co-ops is part of a philosophical ebb and flow within the US labor movement, as the tide turns alternately toward negotiating the status quo of the corporate economy or toward reforming it.
In the 1860s, National Labor Union leader William Sylvis boldly declared "The time has come when we should abandon the whole system of strikes and make cooperation the foundation of our organization and the prime object of all our efforts."
The Knights of Labor made employee-owned co-ops a priority in the 1870s, and union leader Terrence Powderly later wrote "My belief that cooperation shall one day take the place of the wage system remains unshaken."
Proponents of today's union co-ops may not be seeking to overthrow the wage system, but they do believe the model will help people to create more employee-owned co-ops, and more profoundly democratic ones. And they promote union co-ops as a solution to several deficiencies of the US workplace at the micro level of the single company: lack of democracy, wage disparity between highest- and lowest-paid employees, and job insecurity.
Some also hope these micro-level solutions might someday transform the US political economy at the macro level, helping solve problems like the growing wealth disparity between the 1 percent and the 99 percent and its strain on democracy, stagnant for the US workforce, and the community instability and drag on net job growth caused by downsizing and by off-shoring of jobs.
The prospects for these micro and macro goals are worth examining more closely. But first, just what is the Union-Co-op initiative?
The union co-op initiative
The first thing to understand is that the initiative is not a centrally-directed program one just plugs into. There is no central hub. The initiative is better understood as an agreement among the USW, Mondragon, and OEOC to develop and share out a model which strengthens the traditional employee-owned cooperative through a new partnership with labor unions. And, in equal share, the initiative consists in the response of interested workers, business owners, unions, non-profits, and local communities who have heard of the model and are now talking with each other, and with the USW, Mondragon, and OEOC, about starting new co-ops.
"The response to the initial press release in 2009 was overwhelming," says Rob Witherell of the USW, "and people keep coming to us to learn more."
The "Union Co-op Model" how-to guide (available at www.usw.org/our_union/co-ops) explains the Mondragon model and how the union co-op improves on it. It lays out the vision and principles that are the moral foundation for the model and also describes the mechanics of governance, ownership, financing, compensation, and collective bargaining. There are even a couple of short case studies. Even as thorough as the document is, it is a guide, not an instruction manual, and there are many specifics which, as Chris Cooper of OEOC explains, "employee-owners will have to decide for themselves."
And employee-owners are doing just that. The Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative (CUCI) and local partners are already putting the union co-op model into practice. A local food growing, distribution, and retail cooperative called Our Harvest, whose workers are organized by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, was launched in 2012 and is preparing to expand. CUCI is now helping lay the groundwork for another union co-op, organized by the Greater Cincinnati Building and Construction Trade Council, to improve the energy-efficiency of aging commercial buildings. There is also a project to recruit a Mondragon cooperative, the Danobat Group, to open a union co-op railway manufacturing plant in Cincinnati organized by the USW.
"Today there are projects underway in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, New York, Seattle, Denver, and new ones starting all the time," says Michael Peck of Mondragon USA.
Some employee-owned cooperatives which developed independently of the union co-op model have nonetheless helped inform the new model. A few recent examples:
The Evergreen Cooperatives in Cleveland, Ohio are not organized as union co-ops but are demonstrating the viability of the Mondragon model in the US. Evergreen currently operates three employee-owned enterprises: Evergreen Energy Solutions, started in 2008, installs solar panels and provides energy efficiency services; Evergreen Cooperative Laundry, started in 2009, is an industrial laundry serving institutional customers; and Green City Growers Cooperative, started in 2013, is an urban organic farm.
In New York City, Cooperative Home Care Associates evolved gradually into a union-organized cooperative. Launched as an employee-owned cooperative in 1986, CHCA invited the Service Employees International Union to organize its worker-owners in 2003, and finally established a labor-management council in 2007 which, though not identical to the union committee of the union co-op model, can be seen as a precursor.


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Emigration story by far the most important of modern Ireland
Column: We may mark the bicentenary of the Famine knowing we are still living its demographic legacy
Imagine the populations of Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford cities put together. They amount to about 400,000 people. That's about the number of people who will be absent from the Republic of Ireland in 2026 if things continue as they are going. If emigration remains at the levels it has reached because of economic collapse and so-called austerity, the long-term effect will be monumental.
If we pull the camera well back from the details of contemporary Irish life, we see a society still struggling to recover from the effects of the Great Famine of the 1840s. This isn't a mystical whinge about the legacy of trauma. It's plain fact. If you want to understand why Ireland is not a "normal" western European country, consider what happened to its population.
In 1841, the area that is now the Republic had just over 6.5 million people. By 1911, the population had shrunk to less than half that number in just 60 years. And it continued to decline until the early 1960s: in 1961, there were just 2.8 million people in the 26 counties. Since then, there has been a slow and uneven rise, but we're still not back to the levels reached in 1841.
This is by far the most important story of modern Ireland. It's not as colourful or dramatic as the rise of nationalism, the break with Britain or the legacy of ethnic division. But it has done more than any of those factors to shape our towns, villages and cities, our landscapes and our attitudes, our politics and our culture. At the core of the story – after the immediate shock of the Famine – is a habit, an impulse, a way of responding to the world: the urge to emigrate. Since the late 19th century, very few emigrants have been forced to go. They've weighed "home" against "away" and found the homeland wanting. Its familiarity hasn't been sufficient compensation for its limitations on economic and personal opportunity.
Many historians and economists – Joe Lee, Lars Mjoset, Raymond Crotty – have pointed out that this habit of mass emigration became self-fulfilling. It created a vicious circle. People left because the society was too entrenched and lacking in innovation to hold them. But in turn, the emigration of those who didn't fit made Irish institutions more entrenched and under less pressure to innovate. Conservatism encouraged emigration and emigration reinforced conservatism.
The consequences go deep. We discovered in the boom years that Ireland was bringing to bear on 21st-century problems a 19th-century mentality (machine politics, cronyism, an obsession with land). Emigration had stunted the processes of organic cultural change that might otherwise have created a society mature enough not to be mesmerised by the baubles dangled in front of its eyes.
Now we're spinning again in the vortex of this vicious circle. In a recent report, the Central Statistics Office tries to project what the population might be by 2046. The gap between the highest and lowest possibilities is utterly startling. It might be 6.7 million or it might be five million.
That difference of 1.7 million people is just short of the entire current population of Northern Ireland. And by far the biggest factor in determining which scenario comes closest to reality is net migration. The extent to which people, especially young people, continue to leave will determine the whole nature of the place.
It is poignant to note that the benign scenario of 6.7 million would mean that, two centuries after the Famine, Ireland had finally recovered from its greatest modern catastrophe. And equally poignant to note that, if trends continue, we will mark the bicentenary of the Famine in the knowledge that we are still living its demographic legacy. In one future, we have broken out of the vicious circle. In another, we are as deeply trapped within it as we ever were. The difference between one possibility and the other is enormous: psychologically, economically, culturally. Either we are left with the sense of inherited doom that makes us so irresponsible (why change things when we're destined to fail anyway?) or we are, in a sense that has never applied to date, a free people.
Which of these futures seems more likely? At the moment, official policy is doing everything possible to ensure that it's not the benign one. The young are being penalised with high unemployment and, if they have jobs, with worsening conditions. A quarter of today's children are being raised in poverty. Phenomenal levels of public debt are being left to those same children to pay off. Perhaps just as importantly, the society has shown no capacity for radical political, institutional or cultural change. The old habit has reasserted itself: emigration substitutes for change and the lack of change reinforces emigration. Without a radical shift of direction, the Famine will continue into the next generation.


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I need to transform my PSD logo to Illustrator, so I will re-design it there. The purpose of it is that I will print it on business cards.
On Photoshop using the Marquee Tool I create a white Elliptical and then holding Control I click on the text layer, select inverse and clear.
What is this effect called, and how can I achieve it in Illustrator?


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Plainfield Charter Township is a charter township of Kent County in the state of Michigan. According to the 2010 census, the population was 30,952. The township forms part of the metro Grand Rapids area. It derives its name from the extinct lumbertown of Plainfield founded in 1838 by Andrew Stout at the intersection of the Rogue and Grand Rivers. The town name was eventually changed to Austerlitz before its eventual dissolution. Plainfield township is bordered by Alpine Township to the west, Algoma Township to the north, Cannon Township to the east, and Grand Rapids Township to the south.
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Boston teams at Fenway Park did not fare too well in 1965. The Red Sox lost 100 games, their highest total in three decades, while the Boston Patriots won only once at the ballpark.
Boston teams at Fenway Park did not fare too well in 1965. The Red Sox lost 100 games, their highest total in three decades, while the Boston Patriots won only once at the ballpark.
Record: 62-100, 9th in American League
Manager: William J. Herman
Attendance: 652,201
The 1965 Red Sox were led by former Cub Billy Herman and lost an even 100 games. They had one flash of preseason glory when they hit 10 home runs in an exhibition game on March 26 against the Indians in Nogales, Mexico.
Tony Conigliaro, who released his first single before the season, hit a league-leading 32 home runs in 1965. Three of those homers were hit during a July 27 doubleheader at Fenway Park.
Carl Yastrzemski was the only regular to hit over .300 and he hit for the cycle on May 14. Second baseman Felix "The Cat" Mantilla led the team with 92 RBIs. The pitching staff showed a glimpse of promise with a 23-year-old rookie, Jim Lonborg, although he ended up with a 9-17 record in his first year. Earl Wilson led the starters with 13 victories, while Bill Monbouquette and rookie Dave Morehead posted identical 10-18 records. The highlight of the year came on September 16, when Cleveland's Luis Tiant matched up with Morehead in front of 1,247 on a Thursday afternoon at Fenway Park. In his 2-0 win over Tiant, Morehead no-hit the Indians and finished the game by fielding a Vic Davalillo come-backer and tossing the ball to first for the final out.
The Red Sox led the league in slugging percentage but also set a new record for men left on base in a single season: 1,183. Boston finished in ninth place, a full 40 games behind the pennant-winning Minnesota Twins.
Though technically not a physical component of Fenway Park, the Citgo sign in Kenmore Square made its debut in 1965 and has remained a visible landmark for both the ballpark and the neighborhood ever since. The sign replaced the Cities Service sign, which had been in the location since 1940, when Cities Service started to market itself using the Citgo name and symbol in 1965. The double-sided sign was equipped with blinking red, white, and blue neon tubing and can be still be seen over the left-field wall today.
In 1965, the University of Connecticut battled Holy Cross at Fenway Park in the NCAA District One Playoffs. The teams split a doubleheader on June 3 before UConn took the rubber match the next day to advance to the College World Series.
|1965 Non-Red Sox Baseball At Fenway Park
|June 3
|University of Connecticut 7, Holy Cross 4 (NCAA District One Playoffs)*
|June 3
|Holy Cross 5, University of Connecticut 0 (NCAA District One Playoffs)*
|June 4
|University of Connecticut 7, Holy Cross 0 (NCAA District One Playoffs)*
|August 4
|William Randolph Hearst Sandlot Tournament: Sunday Advertiser All-Stars 8, Record American All-Stars 2
|August 4
|William Randolph Hearst Sandlot Tournament: Sunday Advertiser All-Stars 12, Record American All-Stars 5
|August 5
|William Randolph Hearst Sandlot Tournament: Record American All-Stars 8, Sunday Advertiser All-Stars 6
|August 5
|William Randolph Hearst Sandlot Tournament: Record American All-Stars 4, Sunday Advertiser All-Stars 1
* Fenway Park was an occasional site for the NCAA District One Baseball Playoffs, which decided who went to the College World Series in Omaha, NE.
After two solid seasons at Fenway Park, the Boston Patriots slumped to a disappointing 4-8-2 record in 1965. Emblematic of this frustrating year, the Patriots didn't win at Fenway Park until their seventh and final home game against the Oilers on December 18.
|1965 Non-Baseball Events At Fenway Park
|January 27
|Junior Goodwill Dinner*
|September 24
|Denver Broncos 27, Boston Patriots 10 (Football)
|October 8
|Oakland Raiders 24, Boston Patriots 10 (Football)
|October 17
|San Diego Chargers 13, Boston Patriots 13 (Football)
|November 7
|Buffalo Bills 23, Boston Patriots 7 (Football)
|November 14
|New York Jets 30, Boston Patriots 20 (Football)
|November 21
|Kansas City Chiefs 10, Boston Patriots 10 (Football)
|December 18
|Boston Patriots 42, Houston Oilers 14 (Football)
*For several years, Fenway Park hosted a Junior Goodwill Dinner that brought hundreds of local high school students to the ballpark. The tradition was started by Red Sox legend Joe Cronin and the event typically took place in late January.


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Width: 58"
Loops are on the wrong side
Really soft knit fabric. Perfect for tops, sweaters or pants.
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CARE: Wash on cold (with no abrasive fabrics like jeans or towels. Once sewn, wash inside out) Tumble dry or hang dry.


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Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Dear Science Student:
The Department of Physiology is pleased to invite you to apply for our Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). The purpose of the fellowship is threefold: to provide talented science students:
This year, outstanding junior or senior undergraduates will be chosen for the fellowship. Each selected student will receive $3500 for 12 weeks of summer research in a laboratory within the Department of Physiology. The program is open to all students who are not already enrolled in a graduate program, and is especially directed to juniors and seniors with a 3.0 or better GPA and an interest in any aspect of physiology. Awards will be made on the basis of academic achievement, experience, and commitment to basic research.
I encourage you to apply if you meet the requirements. The application deadline each year is February 15. Interviews with the top applicants will begin February 15, and awards will be announced after March 31.
This page was originally created by:
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updated: 01/30/2017


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The Particulars
With the bulk of its non-conference slate complete, the Harvard men's soccer team turns its focus to Ivy League play as it welcomes archrival Yale to Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium for a 7 p.m. showdown. The contest represents the first home night game for the Crimson this season.
Follow From Home
For the first time in the history of the program, all of Harvard's home contests will be streamed online. Fans can access the video stream online at GoCrimson.com for a charge of $9.95 for a single game or $29.95 for the entire home schedule. Eric Steckling will provide the play-by-play for the streamed contests.
Series History
Harvard holds the all-time series lead with a 51-37-10 record in 98 career matchups with Yale. The teams first faced off in 1907 and the game ended in a 1-1 draw. Harvard has fared well against the Bulldogs in recent years, capturing five of the last six meetings. Last season in New Haven, Conn., the Crimson was unable to respond to a Bulldog tally, falling by a 1-0 score.
Last Time Out
Harvard faced some of its toughest competition of the season last weekend, flying to the west coast to take on Cal Poly and No. 3 UC Santa Barbara. The Crimson took an early lead against Cal Poly thanks to a stellar goal from senior forward Zack Wolfenzon, but a first-half red card forced Harvard to play down a man for the bulk of the game and allowed the Mustangs to net two second-half tallies for the 2-1 win.
The defense put forth an inspired performance against the No. 3 team in the nation UCSB, holding the potent offense to just one goal for just the second time this season. Freshman keeper Joe Festa amassed eight saves in the game while fellow rookie Jake Freeman led Harvard with a pair of shots.
Harvard opens Ivy play with Yale Saturday (Gil Talbot).
Scouting The Crimson
The five goals on the season for Harvard have come from five different players, with Wolfenzon becoming the latest to join the list. The senior forward also leads the team in shots with 16 while Freeman is close behind with 11. David Barna has the lone assist on the season for the Crimson, providing the helper on co-captain Scott Prozeller's goal against Southern Methodist.
Joe Festa and Evan Mendez have both seen significant time in net for Harvard and Festa offers the better goals-against average at 1.86. Mendez boasts a 1-2-1 record on the season in five games started.
Scouting The Bulldogs
Yale will see its first Ivy action of the season against the Crimson, and brings a 3-4-2 overall mark into Saturday's contest. The Bulldogs' last game came against Connecticut and the Huskies prevailed by a 2-0 score. Two of Yale's three victories this season have come via shutout.
Three players share the team lead in points as Scott Armbrust, Jenner Fox and Peter Jacobson have a goal and an assist each on the year. Conner Lachenbruch and Kevin Michalak have also scored a goal each on the season. Senior goalie Bobby Thalman has played all but 45 minutes this season and boasts a 0.89 goals against average in nine starts this year.
Up Next
Harvard is back at it Tuesday, Oct. 2 when it welcomes local non-conference foe Boston College to Cambridge for a midweek matchup. The game against the Eagles is set to kickoff at 7 p.m.


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How much does it cost to attend an MCTC course? MCTC is a Department of Defense funded program on a year to year basis. With our funds, we are able to provide free training to all law enforcement, military and prevention professionals. There are no tuition/registration fees associated with our training.
How do I register for an MCTC course? Registrations for all courses will open 6 months prior to the start date via the website. To enroll for a course, click on "Course Descriptions", then click on the name of the course you want. To see the schedule by month, click on "Course Schedules." From either link, the dates will be visible to what is open for registration.
Once I have registered, how do I know my registration has been accepted? Once you have submitted a registration, you will receive a confirmation email via the email address you provided for the student. Unfortunately, confirmation emails can just be sent to the student's email, not the supervisor or training officer.
What does "waiting list" registration mean? If you find a course that you would like to attend and the link says "Waiting List Registration" that means you will go directly to the waiting list for the course. The waiting list is set up as first come, first serve. In the event of a student cancelling, the next student in line will be generated an email asking them if they can still attend the class or not. They will need to respond to this email within 72 hours stating if they can attend or not.
After I have received my confirmation email, what should I expect next? MCTC will send out a Welcome Letter via email to all the students 2-3 weeks prior to the course start date. This letter will include course location, address, lodging info (if provided), start time, class attire and any other information that will be useful to you before the course begins.
How do I sign up for lodging? If no-cost lodging IS PROVIDED for an MCTC course, you only need to select "Yes" on the Lodging section at the bottom of the registration page. MCTC will make a reservation for you with the Camp Dodge Billeting Office. You will receive check-in instructions in your welcome letter (emailed to you approximately one week prior to your course start date)If lodging IS NOT PROVIDED for the course, it is entirely up to the student/agency to make their own reservations and pay for it.
What happens if I need to cancel from a course I'm already registered for? If you are registered but cannot attend a class for any reason, please contact us to cancel your seat. This will allow another spot to open up for someone wanting to attend the course, especially if there is a wait list.
The explanation letter about Missouri POST that I have received with my certificate doesn't include a breakdown of hours. What training core areas do the training hours belong to? MCTC courses are Missouri POST certified through Missouri's reciprocal agreement with Minnesota. Unfortunately, Minnesota doesn't track their hours by the same Core Areas as Missouri POST. Ultimately, it is up to your agency to determine how to apply your hours. For more details, check out the Missouri POST website here.
Additional Questions: Questions regarding registration procedures or status should be directed to the MCTC Administrative Office (1-800-803-6532 or firstname.lastname@example.com).


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Burchardstraße 13
20095 Hamburg
Flo Peters Gallery, established in 2005, is an internationally active gallery for fine art photography with an emphasis on 20th century black-and-white as well as extraordinary contemporary photography.
In addition to conserving and presenting great masterworks of modern photography, the gallery is particularly committed to discovering and presenting high-quality artworks by talented young artists of today.
Gallery hours
|Tuesday - Friday
|12.00 am - 6.00 pm
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RayGo necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 112 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
A new website called "L.U.B it!" will offer a simple way to use advanced tools for conducting online surveys. We're seeking a logo that would, at the same time be simple, slick and relaxed/friendly.
Desired Color Scheme:
Transparent background
Desired Style:
On both light and dark backgrounds
Accepted File Formats:
Vector format
The concept behind the 3 letters is to convey the message that any endeavor (business, personal, for profit, non-profit), needs to be fed info/data and insights resulting from a thorough analysis, in order to function as a well oiled/lubricated machine and thrive. All in easy, simple and intuitive ways. The feel conveyed should be something palpable, approachable and non intimidating while remaining professional.
Feel free to use the 3 letters with or without dots but they should all 3 either be upper or lower case. And the name with or without the exclamation point.
The tag line should be visible but not overpower the logo as the name and its concept should be the focus. (See what the 3 letters stand for at 2k2inc.com)
Avoid very literal concepts and try to make it as subtle, but quickly understandable, as possible. Think Apple elegance mingling with Google simplicity. Out of this logo one should be able to "extract" a mascot that could be used as an icon or guide throughout the future site: think about the "annoying" little Microsoft figure that pops out in certain MS office programs that is supposed to help. Think also about setting it up for possible application of a flash animation to the logo and the mascot, although that's not what's needed at the moment. This logo needs to first stand on its own in a static manner. Fit for both print and web. Need this logo on both dark and light backgrounds.
A couple background articles are available at: http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/educati…/BEGIN.HTM (A bit dated but good)
I am offering 3 prizes: 1st place: $350, 2nd: $150 and 3rd: $50
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By Laura Zuckerman
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Wyoming will challenge a U.S. government ruling that more than one million acres of the western state's land still legally belongs to two Native American tribes, Governor Matt Mead said on Friday.
In a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week, Mead said he has directed the Wyoming attorney general to take aggressive action to overturn the agency's decision, which he said would adversely affect the state.
The land ruling was in response to an application from two sovereign native American tribes living on the Wind River Indian Reservation to the EPA seeking the same status afforded to U.S. states in order to implement provisions of the U.S. Clean Air Act.
A subsequent U.S. study found that the tribes should have access to the land, which includes the city of Riverton, that had been opened to non-tribal members under a 1905 act of Congress.
The governor told reporters on Friday that the Wyoming Supreme Court "has directly dealt with that issue and said clearly Riverton is not within the boundaries of the reservation."
The decision could have far-reaching legal and social implications for the roughly 10,000 Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone, who now have access to grant money under the 1970s landmark environmental law.
The issue has heightened tensions in Wyoming over land management, sovereign rights and federal oversight.
State and Riverton officials described the determination about reservation boundaries as "an ill-advised federal agency action" equivalent to a land grab.
But Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone representatives said the finding was long overdue for members who have been allowed little voice in decisions in Riverton on matters like air quality that impact tribal neighbors.
"We're willing to sit down with all the stakeholders in a spirit of cooperation and consultation to work through what the determination means on all these different issues," said Mark Howell, a Washington lobbyist for the Northern Arapaho.
Riverton residents have expressed worries about everything from property ownership to home values tied to the EPA decision, said City Administrator Steven Weaver.
"We're not very pleased about it and it's got a lot of people concerned," Weaver said. "We don't know if the ultimate goal of the tribes is to take over Riverton, but we will conduct business as usual until the matter is resolved in court."
Don Wharton, senior attorney at the Native American Rights Fund in Colorado and representative for the Eastern Shoshone, said alarmist statements by the governor and others are fueling unneeded fears.
"All the ownership of the land stays exactly as it was, not a single house or parcel of land changes ownership and nothing remotely like that is going to go on," said Wharton.
Legal experts said it was unlikely the case would have implications elsewhere in the nation because the matters at issue are specific to a reservation in Wyoming that stretches across millions of acres of sandstone cliffs and sagebrush flats.
"What the decision does show is a willingness on the EPA's part - and perhaps by the Obama administration more broadly - to take the side of the tribes in a dispute of this magnitude, knowing it would almost certainly be challenged," said William Wood, a visiting professor at Southwestern Law School and specialist in Indian law and policy.
(Reporting by Laura Zuckerman; editing by Gunna Dickson)