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Octopus arms keep from getting all tangled up in part because some kind of chemical in octopus skin prevents the tentacles' suckers from grabbing on.
That was the surprise discovery of scientists who were trying to understand how octopuses manage to move all their weird appendages without getting tied in knots.
Unlike humans, octopuses don't have a constant awareness of their arms' locations. It's kind of like the eight arms have minds of their own. And as an octopus arm travels through the water, its neighboring arms are constantly in reach.
"We thought about it and we said, 'How is it possible that the arms don't grab each other?' " says Guy Levy, who did some recent experiments to explore this question with his colleague Nir Nesher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "I cannot tell how exactly the question popped out, but it popped out."
The researchers studied severed octopus arms, which remain active for more than an hour after amputation, with their suckers reflexively grabbing and holding onto objects.
They found that a severed arm never grabbed its own skin or the skin of any other arm, whether it was from the same octopus or other octopuses. The octopus arms would, however, grab skinned arms.
"We kind of said to ourselves, aha, this is it! This is the answer, this how it doesn't get tangled," says Levy. "We didn't know the details yet, but we saw that there is something."
What's more, the arm wouldn't grab a plastic laboratory dish that the scientists had covered with octopus skin.
But if the dish was only partially covered, the octopus arm would grab onto the uncovered part, says Levy: "The sucker that touches the skin would not grab, but its neighboring sucker that touches the plastic would grab."
Experiments using a crude extract from the skin found a similar effect, suggesting that the octopus skin contains a repellent chemical.
"It's a nice little trick that solves a problem that evolutionarily these animals have probably faced for 505 million years," says Frank Grasso, who studies octopuses at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York and who collaborated with the researchers and scientist Binyamin Hochner on a paper describing the discovery in the journal Current Biology.
"I was very excited," Grasso says. "I spend so much of my life thinking about octopus suckers and these guys found this ... 'Aha!' moment. We said to ourselves, why hasn't anybody thought of this before?"
He notes that an octopus sucker isn't like a plain old suction cup. Instead, it's a marvel of engineering. The rim of the sucker can change shape, letting it adhere to all kinds of surfaces. What's more, the sucker has numerous embedded sensors, making it act like sort of like a tongue, letting the octopus not just touch things but also "taste" them.
It looks like the "taste" of octopus skin tells a sucker not to grab on, says Grasso.
He believes that future efforts to create octopus-inspired robots could benefit from incorporating this type of simple technique for self-recognition.
"This is a sensory capability previously unknown in octopus or any other cephalopod," Roger Hanlon, of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., wrote in an email to NPR. "In fact, many of the sensory neurons known to occur in cephalopod suckers have unknown functions. The authors have widened our view of octopus sensory perception and provided some stimulating research questions to pursue."
Marine biologist James Wood, who runs a website called the Cephalopod Page, called the finding "a very beautiful and elegant solution to a complex problem."
"I mean, if an octopus can recognize its own self," Wood says, "then without a whole lot of very complicated instructions, you can get past the problem about tying itself into knots or doing things that are not productive."
The octopus is famous for, what else, eight arms, each of which has hundreds of suckers. Scientists have been studying how octopuses control all those weird appendages. It was recently discovered that one simple trick helps keep the arms from sticking to each other and getting tied up in knots. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce untangles it for us.
NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE, BYLINE: Scientists who study octopuses say these animals are so strange they might as well be from another planet.
FRANK GRASSO: They still have the same kinds of problems that we do but with a very different body, a very different brain architecture and, therefore, in a very alien way.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Frank Grasso studies octopuses at Brooklyn College in New York. He says an octopus does not control its arms in the same way that you control your arms.
GRASSO: Like if you were to be blindfolded, you know, and move your arms around, you'd have a very good idea of where your arms were. You'd have, like, a mental image.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: He says octopuses don't have that mental image of every arm. Instead, the arms themselves control a lot of their own movement. They kind of have minds of their own. If you chop off an octopus arm, it will live for more than an hour. It'll grab things and latch on with its suckers. So, this raises a question: as an octopus moves through the water and the arms all brush up against each other, why don't the suckers on one arm latch onto another arm and get the octopus all tangled up?
GRASSO: Three hundred suckers on eight arms that all need to be coordinated. We all said to ourselves, why hasn't anybody thought of this before?
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Grasso has been working with scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, who recently did some experiments with amputated octopus arms. First, they checked to see if the suckers on any given arm would stick to any other octopus arm. It turned out they wouldn't. Then the researchers took a plastic lab dish and covered it with octopus skin. They found that an arm's suckers wouldn't grab that either. But when they left part of the dish uncovered, the suckers would grab onto that part's plastic surface. All this suggested that octopus suckers are repelled by something in octopus skin.
GRASSO: There seems to be a chemical detection capacity built into the rims of the suckers to recognize octopus skin and inhibit attachment.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Experiments with a crude extract from skin confirmed that.
GRASSO: And it's a nice little trick that solves a problem that evolutionarily these animals have probably faced for 505 million years.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Grasso and his colleagues in Israel who did the experiments describe all this in the journal Current Biology. Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR News.
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The Browns haven't had a player lead the NFL in passing or rushing yards since 1980. They have never had a player lead the NFL in receiving yards. Josh Gordon talks about making history as he prepares for a season finale at Pittsburgh.
When was the last time the Browns came to the end of a season able to say they had won ... anything?
They are on the verge of being able to say so. Josh Gordon needs one last big game to capture the NFL's 2013 receiving yards crown.
In another year without a sniff of the postseason, the value is debatable, but simply having the discussion provides an amusement Browns fans almost never have enjoyed.
The last time a Brown finished as the league leader in a major offensive category was 1980, when quarterback Brian Sipe passed for 4,132 yards. Jason Campbell was born a year later.
The last time a Browns player led the NFL in rushing yards was 1968. Leroy Kelly delivered 1,239 yards in 1968. Rob Chudzinski was seven months old.
If you're looking for a Browns trivia question to stump the most insufferable know-it-all, this might be it: Who is the only Cleveland player ever to lead the NFL in receiving yards?
Answer: Jim Benton. He racked up 1,211 yards for the 1945 Cleveland Rams, who moved to Los Angeles in 1946. No Cleveland Brown has ever done it.
The Browns' franchise record before Gordon came along was owned by Braylon Edwards. His 1,289 yards was good for just seventh place in the final 2007 NFL rankings.
Going into Sunday's season finale at Pittsburgh, Gordon leads the league with 1,564 yards, followed by Detroit's Calvin Johnson with 1,492, Pittsburgh's Antonio Brown with 1,412 and Cincinnati's A.J. Green with 1,365.
Oddly, given the fact no Browns player has ever finished as the NFL receiving king, three Browns finished No. 1 within the four years (1946-49) the team played in the All-American Football Conference (see related item).
All of this history must be explained to Gordon, who was born the year Bill Belichick became Browns head coach in 1991.
Gordon has an eye on making his own niche in history. After barely make a blip on the college football radar screen, he announced himself as a rookie in 2012 with 805 receiving yards. He is on course to double that this year.
Prior to Thursday's practice, Gordon didn't pretend he hasn't thought about next year. His goal, he said:
"Hands down, just be outright the best wide receiver in the NFL."
In Sunday's road loss to the Jets, Gordon barely missed topping 100 receiving yards for the eighth time in the 13 games he has played since serving a two-game suspension. He did go over 100 in rushing-receiving yards (97-22), which didn't seem like a lot only because of his insane recent three-game stretch of 683 yards.
Gordon has taken lots of hits and is trying to grind through a season that has involved the highest volume of contact in his football life.
"It's a long season, a lot of wear and tear," he said. "I'm feeling real sore.
"It's the last week. Guys are going to give their last little ounce of energy they've got."
Gordon made his big move Nov. 24 against Pittsburgh, racking up 237 receiving yards.
"He had more than 200 (261 against Jacksonville) a week later, also," Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said. "Any discussion of shutting him down is naive.
"We will work on minimizing his impact."
Gordon is averaging 120 receiving yards a game. If he hits his average at Pittsburgh, he will fall just short of 1,700 yards. Michael Irvin, a Hall of Famer receiver who played for Norv Turner in Dallas, topped out at 1,603 yards in his career. "Josh has grown a great deal this year," said Turner, finishing his first year as the Browns' offensive coordinator. "I think we all know that he can improve a lot more. That's exciting."
If Turner can be half as effective at grooming next year's quarterback as he was at turning loose Gordon, the Browns could be on to something.
"With Norv ... it's weird," Gordon said. "Me and him came in on the same page. He had high expectations, and I looked at him as a mentor. Ever since that beginning, we always had a great relationship."
Another losing season has strained the Browns' relationship with their fans. Yet, Gordon has enjoyed his breakthrough to stardom. He won't be doing a fly pattern out of the locker room after the Pittsburgh game.
Losing games to a positive test for a banned substance was a jolt. Proving he can be responsible and lights out on the field has been good therapy.
"You always want to get ready for the future," he said. "When it's the offseason, you're bored. You have nothing to do.
"You need the structure in your life. I know me. I can't wait to get it going again."
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Josh Gordon leads the NFL in receiving yards and has a chance to become the first Cleveland Brown ever to finish an NFL season at No. 1 in that category. The Browns existed for four seasons in the All-American Football Conference before joining the NFL and had three receivers who finished No. 1:
• 1946, Dante Lavelli, 843 yards, 14 games
• 1947, Mac Speedie, 1,146 yards, 14 games
• 1949, Mac Speedie, 1,028 yards, 12 games

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Victor is still praising Adam for his part in winning over the Abbotts. All he did was tell Jack to get rid of Billy, big deal. Now the concern is Luca and his family. Adam doesn't want them as part of NE and Victor thought he could get rid of them by paying back their money. That won't work, Luca said they own part of NE and he wants an office in the building and Marissa is going to work with him. Noah joined NE and his job is to get rid of Luca.


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NEW YORK Faced with the high cost of caring for smokers and overeaters, experts say society must grapple with a blunt question: Instead of trying to penalize them and change their ways, why not just let these health sinners die prematurely from their unhealthy habits?
Annual health-care costs are about $96 billion for smokers and $147 billion for the obese, the government says.
These costs accompany sometimes heroic attempts to prolong lives, including surgery, chemotherapy and other measures.
But despite these rescue attempts, smokers tend to die 10 years earlier on average, and the obese die five to 12 years prematurely, according to various researchers estimates.
And attempts to curb smoking and unhealthy eating frequently lead to backlash: Witness the current legal tussle with New York Citys first-of-its-kind limits on the size of sugary beverages and the vicious fight last year in California over a ballot proposal to add a $1-per-pack cigarette tax, which ultimately was defeated.
This is my life. I should be able to do what I want, said Sebastian Lopez, a college student from Queens, speaking last September when the New York City Board of Health approved the soda-size rules.
Critics also contend that tobacco- and calorie-control measures place a disproportionately heavy burden on poor people.
Critics call these approaches unfair, and believe they have only a marginal effect.
Ultimately, these things are weak tea, said Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a physician and fellow at the right-of-center think tank, the American Enterprise Institute.
Gottliebs view is debatable.
There are plenty of public-health researchers who can show smoking-control measures have brought down smoking rates and who will argue that smoking taxes are not regressive so long as money is earmarked for programs that help poor people quit smoking.
Smoking has the most obvious impact. Studies increasingly have shown harm to nonsmokers who are unlucky enough to work or live around heavy smokers. And several studies have shown heart attacks and asthma attack rates fell in counties or cities that adopted big smoking bans.
When you ban smoking in public places, youre protecting everyones health, including and, especially, the nonsmoker, said S. Jay Olshansky, a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicagos School of Public Health.
It can be harder to make the same argument about soda-size restrictions or other legislative attempts to discourage excessive calorie consumption, Olshansky added.
When you eat yourself to death, youre pretty much just harming yourself, he said.
But that viewpoint doesnt factor in the burden to everyone else of paying for the diabetes care, heart surgeries and other medical expenses incurred by obese people, said John Cawley, a health economist at Cornell University.
If Im obese, the health-care costs are not totally borne by me. Theyre borne by other people in my health-insurance plan and when Im older by Medicare, Cawley said.
From an economists perspective, there would be less reason to grouse about unhealthy behaviors by smokers, obese people, motorcycle riders who eschew helmets and other health sinners if they agreed to pay the financial price for their choices.
Thats the rationale for a provision in the Affordable Care Act Obamacare to its detractors that starting next year allows health insurers to charge smokers buying individual policies up to 50 percent higher premiums. A 60-year-old could wind up paying nearly $5,100 on top of premiums.
The new law doesnt allow insurers to charge more for people who are overweight, however.
Its tricky to play the insurance game with overweight people, because science is still sorting things out. While obesity is clearly linked with serious health problems and early death, the evidence is not as clear about people who are just overweight.
That said, public health officials shouldnt shy away from tough anti-obesity efforts, said Daniel Callahan, senior research scholar at a bioethics think-tank, the Hastings Center. Callahan caused a public stir this week with a paper that called for a more aggressive public health campaign that tries to shame and stigmatize overeaters the way past public health campaigns have shamed and stigmatized smokers.
National obesity rates are essentially static, and public health campaigns that gently try to educate people about the benefits of exercise and healthy eating just arent working, Callahan argued. We need to get obese people to change their behavior. If they are angry or hurt by it, so be it, he said.
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Our wilderness is under an unprecedented attack from Trump and anti-conservationists in Congress. Help us fight back.
A bill passed by the House of Representatives today will, if signed into law, hurt wild lands and western communities, according to The Wilderness Society. The following statement can be attributed to Dave Alberswerth, senior policy advisor for The Wilderness Society.
Yesterday afternoon, the Wilderness Society and other groups in the coalition America's Voice for Conservation, Recreation and Preservation (AVCRP) sent a broad letter
The valuable role our public lands play across America was highlighted today in a speech by Interior Secretary Sally Jewell at a National Press Club luncheon.
A pair of new bills introduced in the U.S. Senate this week show promising signs for establishing a new standard for clean, renewable energy. The bills, the American Renewable Energy and Efficiency Act from Sen. Markey (Mass.) and the Renewable Electricity Standard Act of 2013 from Sens.
The following statement is from Alan Rowsome, senior director of government relations for lands at The Wilderness Society:
The following statement on today's EPA announcement is from Chase Huntley, Government Relations Director for the energy program at The Wilderness Society.


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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5 Smothered chicken, cornbread stuffing, peas, coleslaw, wheat roll, plums.
FRIDAY, DEC. 7 Lentil black bean soup, 1/2 ham salad sandwich with lettuce and tomato, mandarin oranges, brownie.
MONDAY, DEC. 10 Beef tacos with lettuce, tomato and salsa, refried beans, Fiesta corn, winter fruit salad.
TUESDAY, DEC. 11 Chicken and dumplings, broccoli, tossed salad, apple crisp.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12 Braised beef over noodles, glazed carrots, tossed salad, saucy fruit salad, banana wheat muffin.
FRIDAY, DEC. 14 Crunchy baked fish, oven-browned potato, mixed vegetables, creamy coleslaw, wheat roll, banana.
MONDAY, DEC. 17 Pork chops, roasted sweet potato, Brussel sprouts, whole wheat roll, applesauce, berry parfait.
TUESDAY, DEC. 18 Salisbury steak with mushroom gravy, baked potato with broccoli, tossed salad, whole wheat roll, fluffy fruit salad.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19 Oven-baked chicken, steamed brown rice, mixed vegetables, Waldorf salad, bran muffin, fresh orange quarter.
FRIDAY, DEC. 21 Baked ham, scalloped potatoes, green peas, carrot raisin salad, wheat bread, pineapple and strawberries with whipped topping.
MONDAY, DEC. 24 Closed.
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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 26 Chicken salad with grapes on lettuce, sliced yellow squash, mixed fruit, oatmeal blueberry muffin.
FRIDAY, DEC. 28 Split pea soup, hamburger on a bun with mustard, ketchup and onion, creamy coleslaw, banana.
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Due to budget cuts, we have closed the Thursday evening meals; home delivery seniors may receive an additional meal during the week to compensate.
Meals are a $3.50 donation for seniors 60 or older, $9 for those under 60. Lunches are served at noon Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Tuesday meals are served on Tuesday evenings at 5:30 p.m. There is a salad bar every Tuesday at 5 p.m. and Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. Milk is served with all meals. Please call the day before or by 9:30 a.m. at the latest on the same day to reserve your meal. For more information and to make your reservation, contact Montezuma County Senior Center at 564-2775 or 564-2772.
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Merrimack toll booths getting a lot of attention, fewer collectorsBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
March 19. 2013 2:40PM
MERRIMACK - There has been a lot of attention in recent weeks on the three toll booths in Merrimack, and state officials just announced even more changes heading this way this week.
Beginning this Friday, the N.H. Department of Transportation will discontinue using toll workers during the nighttime hours at the Exit 11 toll plaza on the F.E. Everett Turnpike in Merrimack. Daily from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., the toll booth will not be staffed, according to Bill Boynton, spokesman for the department.
"These are lower-volume times, and we are continuing to try to come up with efficiencies for our staffing," Boynton said Tuesday. "No one is going to be losing their job, we are just reallocating employees to different time periods."
Instead of paying a toll attendant, motorists who do not have an EZPass account will have to abide by the honor system, Boynton said. The tolls at Exits 10 and 12 in Merrimack also follow the honor system and are not staffed at night.
"People abide the honor system, and it tends to work well," he said.
Without a toll collector on site, motorists without EZPass will have three options to pay. First, they may enter the exact-change lane and pay the 50-cent toll. If they do not have any money or lack the exact amount of change, motorists may enter the exact-change lane and pick up a pre-printed envelope that can be mailed or processed at the Hooksett Administration Building to pay the toll, along with an additional 50-cent processing fee.
The third option is to enter the EZPass lane, and the system will collect an image of the motorist's license plate. The registered owner of the vehicle will be mailed an invoice for the 50-cent toll and a $1 invoicing fee.
"This is like any E-ZPass violation. If you get a series of violations and ignore them, it can jack up to bigger money. This can come back to haunt you when you re-register your car," Boynton said.
The changes at Exit 11 are expected to improve the efficiency of toll-collection operations during the hours when traffic is minimal, Boynton said.
More significant changes at the Merrimack tolls could soon be approaching, as the state Senate last week passed proposed legislation to remove the ramp tolls at Exit 12. Senate President Peter Bragdon, R-Milford, sponsored Senate Bill 3, which was originally drafted to remove the tolls at all three exits in Merrimack, but was ultimately amended to include only Exit 12.
The bill has not yet been presented to the House of Representatives for a vote.
"Something needs to be done," Bragdon recently told the Merrimack Town Council, adding the ball needs to start rolling now to help alleviate some of the unfair burden placed on Merrimack motorists because of the multiple toll booths. At the time, Councilor Dan Dwyer said that anything - even the elimination of just one toll booth - would be a victory for Merrimack.
"We would have a weekend festival," he said last month, promising that the town would pick up the tab to physically remove a toll booth. "Don't worry about the cost of removal. We will take care of it," he said.


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ENH Power parent firm accused of false advertisingBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
May 25. 2013 11:53PM
The parent company of the biggest player in the competitive market for residential power supply in New Hampshire has found itself in hot water in Maine.
The Maine Public Utilities Commission is looking into whether Electricity Maine, an affiliate of ENH Power, engaged in false advertising when the company ran ads suggesting it had lower rates than the default energy supply rate, or standard offer, as it's known in Maine.
ENH Power and Electricity Maine are both owned by Provider Power, headquartered in Auburn, Maine.
Electricity Maine has attracted more than 180,000 customers in Maine in the past two years by offering an energy supply charge lower than the state-sponsored "standard offer." ENH Power has attracted 55,000 customers in New Hampshire using a similar strategy against Public Service of New Hampshire's default energy supply rate.
But on March 1, Maine announced a new standard offer of 6.82 cents per kwh for the next 12 months in the area controlled by the largest regulated utility, Central Maine Power.
The Electricity Maine's offer in that same area is 6.80 cents on a six-month guarantee, 7.78 cents for 12 months and 7.58 cents for 18 months.
After hearing advertising in which Electricity Maine continued to promote rates below the standard offer, the deputy general counsel for the Maine Public Utilities Commission sent the company a letter seeking some answers. Those answers could determine whether the regulatory agency launches a full-scale investigation.
"What we're interested in is whether their promotions and their activities are reasonable or whether they're deceptive, whether customers understand what's going on in this newly created market," Deputy General Counsel Mitchell Tannenbaum told the Lewiston Sun-Journal.
The need for competitive energy supply companies to adjust their marketing message as the regulated default rate changes will soon be reflected in New Hampshire as well. PSNH has applied for a rate reduction in the energy supply charge from 9.54 cents per kwh to 8.89 cents per kwh.
Competitors in New Hampshire are likely to continue to offer lower rates, but will no longer be able to claim savings of 25 percent or more, as has been the case, if the new PSNH rate takes effect in July.
"We are familiar with the PSNH rate change request that would become effective July 1, and are being very sensitive to those changes," said Emile Clavet, co-owner of Provider Power. "We'll make sure that our products, marketing and advertising reflect those prices."
Clavet described the letter from Tannenbaum as part of the routine interaction between the regulatory agency and competitive suppliers as the market evolves.
The ability to attract customers purely on price may have spurred competition, Clavet said, but that model is changing as more companies enter the market and default supply rates become more competitive.
In addition to value, Clavet said Electricity Maine and its New Hampshire counterpart are promoting price stability, green energy options and their Power to Help program, in which the company identifies local charities to get a portion of the customer's payment.
In New Hampshire, ENH has listed the New Hampshire Food Bank and the SPCA as community partners.
"We give them 2 percent of the energy supply portion of the electric bill as a donation," Clavet said. "Every year, we volunteer man hours on our dime to help the organization carry out its mission, and we provide technical and marketing support to their programs as well."


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The cold temperatures earlier this month resulted in the Highway 160/491 South Broadway reconstruction project being pushed back a few weeks.
The result will be a few intermittent delays over the next few weeks for the curb and gutter work for the project that started in July 2012.
Nancy Shanks, Colorado Department of Transportation public relations spokeswoman, said the initial plan was for the crews to come back after the winter holiday to finish some work before suspending activities until the spring.
The sub-zero temperatures that hit Montezuma County for close to three weeks changed the plan.
Shanks said while it is not impossible to work in the extreme cold conditions it would not have made sense because the additional cost would have far outweighed the benefits.
For concrete work to take place, Shanks said the temperatures cannot drop to below 20 degrees at any time, and on Wednesday morning temperatures remained in the single digits.
"It's not cost effective," she said of working in extreme frigid temperatures. "They planned to mobilize earlier this month but they needed to wait the colder weather out. Now, we have temperatures in the low 20s, so they will be back on Feb. 4."
Once the workers return Shanks said they will work two to three weeks to complete some projects before suspending work again until April.
When returning Monday, construction crews will be working on curb and gutter work, drilling for the signal poles to be installed in the spring, completing the permanent street signs and completing the construction work in front of Keese Motors.
She also said there needs to be repairs on some concrete areas for drainage concerns at the Highway 160/491 Highway intersection.
When the crews come back in April they will be working for two to three weeks on the final striping of the highway, the crosswalks, the streetlight and final paving and mulching in needed areas
Shanks said the expectation of the crews returning to finish the project will be in April and explained the weather has to be a minimum of 60 degrees to put down the permanent striping of the highway.
As the contractor prepares to wrap up this project, CDOT is gearing up for an $8.8 million project on Highway 160 between mile post 27.5 to 36 for the repaving plan that will run from the end of the current project to the turn for Towaoc.
The contract has been put out to bid, but no contractor has been selected yet for the repaving project.
Shanks said this project, expected to start in April, will be the first repaving of this stretch of highway since the 1980s.
She said this project, scheduled to be completed in September, will begin while the South Broadway project is wrapping up.
"We will be addressing surfaces that are deteriorating," she said. "It will improve the ride for motorists."
But there will be traffic delays with only one lane of traffic being open during the six-month project.
Shanks also said a future project, yet to be scheduled, will include passing lanes between mile posts 27 and 30.


text: For the first time in Cortez a Messiah Sing-In will be performed on Sunday, Dec. 9, at 6 p.m. at the Cortez Methodist Church. This is a great opportunity for those who have always wanted to sing in The Messiah but could not practice for three months. The solo numbers will be performed by selected singers from our area. All the choral numbers will be presented by the Sing-In Choir which will come together for the first time on Dec. 9. The performance will be conducted by Ruth Wilson Francisco and Gwen Tanner, and accompanied by Brooke Snyder on the organ and Joy Steffan on the piano. Music will be available to check out for those who do not have a copy of the score. Free childcare will be provided at the Methodist Church. Participants for the choir and audience members are encouraged to come and enjoy an exciting new experience as part of the celebration of the Christmas season. For more information please call Patricia Faulkner at 564-9458.


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- Surface preparation:Before painting, the surface must be clean, dry and free from contamination. Fill surface defects with an appropriate filler, when dry sand down until smooth. Treat absorbent substrates with a sealer or primer, sand surfaces previously painted with gloss or silk paints with fine abrasive paper.
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- Stir colourcourage emulsion before application and apply using a good quality short or medium pile roller, brush or paint sprayer. Depending on colour shade and surface properties a second coat may be required.
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The colourcourage range of wall paints are based on the templates of the German designer and artist Lars Contzen. Contzen has travelled around the world in order to track down the perfect colours. He has captured the inspiration behind each colour in photographs and afterwards reproduces them with his own pastes and pigments, mixing them meticulously to achieve a unique hue to the paint. Each template is painted by hand and thus radiates the magic of the original colour. The chalky flat matt finish consists of high quality binders and pigments that ensure a robust finish with a unique depth and colour intensity.
- Unique colours individually created by artist Lars Contzen
- Chalky matt surface finish
- Ideal for your interior walls, ceilings and wood work
- Highly abrasion resistant and colour stable - Colours permanently keep their perfect 'freshly painted' look
- Strong opacity, almost all colour shades look perfect after one coat
- Non-drip formula for an easy, comfortable application
- Water based, breathable and virtually odour free with minimal VOC
- At B&Q we want you to be satisfied with your colour selection. Not all monitors will display colours the same and paint tins may not show the same colour as your walls in natural light. We therefore recommend you order a tester pot online or pop in to store to pick one up, so you can be sure that this is the right colour choice for you.
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How to guides
How to paint a wall & ceiling
Adding a fresh coat of paint to your room is an easy way to refresh your space or change your style.
To get the best finish, it's worth doing some thorough preparation before beginning and then working systematically around the room. With the right tools even the more difficult tasks, like painting the ceiling, can be made easier and more efficient.
In this guide, we'll be:
- Painting the ceiling, coving and walls in a room using a water-based interior emulsion paint
- Completing these tasks with either a brush and roller, or paint pads
Before you begin
- Are the walls and ceiling prepared and ready for painting? Our guide to How to prepare your walls for decorating will walk you through this essential process.
- Have you got enough paint? Check the details on the back of the can to make sure you've got enough for the surfaces you need to cover. Our paint calculator can also help.
- Have you allowed yourself enough time? Take into consideration the drying time and number of coats of paint needed. Remember also that you'll want to complete all coats of paint on the ceiling before you move on to the walls.
You will need:
|Interior emulsion paint
|Decorating cloths
|Masking tape
|Paint brushes
|Paint can opener or a flat-head screwdriver
|Paint stirrer
|Paint guard
|Paint kettle
|Paint kettle hook
|Paint roller, sleeve and tray
|Roller extension poles
|Step ladder
|Retractable knife
|Safety kit
|Decorators coveralls
|Shoe covers
Top Tip
Begin your painting nearest the largest window in the room, or a light source, and then in bands away from, and in parallel to, this. The light will reflect off the wet paint making it easier to see where you've been and identify any missed areas. If you want to take a break, try to do this when you reach the corner of a room rather in the middle of a wall, as this helps to prevent tide lines as the paint dries.
Safety first
Think about how you're going to reach all surfaces safely. You'll need a sturdy step ladder or work platform. Consider using a roller on a pole where possible so that you can work at ground level rather than on steps.
If you have children or pets at home, keep them away from wet paint and whilst paint is drying.
Painting your ceiling with a brush and roller
Step 1
Using a paint can opener, or a flat-head screwdriver, carefully open the paint can. Take a paint stirrer, and following the instructions on the can, stir the paint until an even, flowing consistency without any lumps is reached.
Step 2
Before you paint the bulk of your ceiling, paint into the edges of the ceiling and around any ceiling lights or alarms with a small brush. This technique is called cutting in.
If you're going to paint the walls after the ceiling. Use a 50 mm paint brush to brush a strip of paint onto the walls, which you can paint over later.
If you aren't going to paint the walls. Paint along the edge of the ceiling using a 50mm or 75mm brush. An angled paint brush will help you to paint a neat, straight line but if in doubt of how steady your hand is, use either masking tape to mask the edges or a paint shield to protect the wall.
Paint the edges where the ceiling meets the wall in one go to give the best finish. If you don't complete it all at once you could end up with a visible band around the edges from the paint drying at different times.
Top Tip
Whenever you are working with paint, keep a decorator's cloth or clean rag to hand. This can be used to wipe and mop up any small drips or dabs of paint where you don't want it. Most modern interior emulsion paints are water-based, so a damp cloth is usually all it takes to neaten up a smudge in the wrong place.
Step 3
With the perimeter of the ceiling painted, it's now time to paint the rest. Fill the reservoir of the roller tray one-third full of paint. Using a roller with an extension pole attached, dip the roller sleeve into the paint and roll it firmly up and down the ribbed incline of the tray to spread the paint evenly. Avoid overloading the sleeve to prevent paint splattering.
Apply the paint to the ceiling using the roller. Move the roller over the surface, using random strokes and a light, even pressure. Each time you dip the roller in the paint, move it to an adjacent unpainted area and work back to the painted area in overlapping strokes to blend in the wet edges.
Step 4
Once complete, allow the ceiling to dry following the advice on the paint tin. If more than one coat of paint is required, allow the recommended drying time and then repeat steps 2 and 3.
Top Tip
Sometimes you'll need to apply multiple coats of paint to a ceiling or a wall within the same day. You won't need to clean your tools between coats of paint if you wrap them securely. Wrap brushes, rollers and paint trays tightly with cling film and put aside until you're ready to recoat. This prevents the paint from drying out until you're ready to get back to work.
Painting your coving with a brush
If your room has coving between the ceiling and wall, paint this before starting on your walls. Use a work platform or step ladder to reach the coving, and a paint kettle with hook to keep your paint securely in place.
Traditionally coving is painted white, but you can experiment with different colours if you're going for a more contemporary look.
Step 1
Using a narrow brush, apply paint from the kettle to the coving in long, sweeping strokes. A 38mm or 50mm precision tip or angled brush will help to make light work of this. Try to avoid overlapping onto the ceiling either by keeping a steady hand or using a paint guard. On the lower edge of the coving, allow the paint to overlap slightly onto the wall below.
Step 2
Work your way systematically around the room, using long, even strokes to ensure good coverage and to blend edges.
Step 3
When complete, allow the paint to dry for the length of time specified on the tin. If you need to recoat, repeat steps 1 to 2 once the first coat has dried.
How to paint your wall with a brush and roller
Once your ceiling and any coving has dried, it's time to begin work on the walls.
The steps you'll take are similar to painting a ceiling, only we'll tackle some of the particular challenges unique to walls - such as painting around radiators, windows and door frames.
Step 1
As with painting a ceiling, begin by cutting in around the edges of the room. This will include where the ceiling or coving meets the top of the wall, where the bottom of the wall meets the skirting board and around any windows and door frames. You may also have light switches, sockets, heaters and radiators you'll need to cut in around.
Use a good quality 38mm or 50mm precision tip or angled brush for this. These brushes should help you to paint a neat, straight line.
Step 2
Pour emulsion paint into the reservoir of the paint tray until it is approximately one-third full. Dip the roller sleeve into the paint and spread evenly by rolling it firmly on the ribbed incline of the tray.
You can use a roller with or without a roller pole to paint walls - whichever you find most comfortable.
Step 3
Work out from the edges by rolling paint in 1m wide 'W' patterns and go back over the W to fill in the open areas. The aim is to apply the paint evenly and always work from a 'wet' edge. The edges need to be blended in to stop a ridge of paint from forming. Use a light, even pressure when working with the roller.
Top Tip
Try not to work too fast or you will create a fine mist of paint spray. Each time the roller is dipped in the paint, move it to an adjacent unpainted area and work your way back to the painted area in overlapping strokes to blend in the wet edges.
Step 4
Whilst the paint is still drying, use a radiator roller to coat the wall behind each radiator in the room.
Step 5
Once the first coat of paint has been applied, leave to dry following the instructions on the paint tin. If you're applying more than one coat of paint, it's a good idea to remove and reapply any masking tape that has been used to protect other surfaces between coats Remove the masking tape slowly at a 90 degree angle before the paint fully cures. If the new paint does begin to tear, gently score the edges using a retractable knife and straight edge. Reapply tape to the surfaces that need to be protected before you apply the next coat of paint.
Cleaning your equipment
Brush all remaining paint residue to scrap paper or card to reduce the volume of paint on the brush. The bristles can then be washed clean using water, and a splash of washing up liquid if needed. Rinse the bristles through with clean water until all traces of paint have been removed. Use a clean rag or paper towels to dry the brush, and then leave to dry flat.
Begin by rolling as much remaining paint onto paper or card. Next, place the sleeve under warm running water until the water almost runs clear. Running a roller cleaner over the sleeve with a twisting motion can help to make this easier. Add a dab of washing up liquid to the roller and thoroughly wash in warm water. Pat dry with a clean rag or paper towels and leave to dry standing vertically on one end.
How to paint walls and ceilings using paint pads
Paint pads are an easy-to-use alternative to brushes and rollers. The rectangular shape makes them great for painting right up against the edges of walls and into corners, and larger pads make them suitable for decorating bigger areas like ceilings. They cause less spray than rollers, but they do need reloading more often, so the job may take longer.
Step 1
Begin by brushing the surface of the pad with the flat of your hand to dispel any loose fibres from the paint pad.
Step 2
Pour the paint into the paint pad tray, then draw the pad over the built-in roller or over the ribbed part of the tray to distribute the paint evenly and remove any excess that could cause drips.
Step 3
Start painting near a corner and work in strips about four times the width of your pad. Keeping the pad flat on the surface, move it up and down the surface with a gentle scrubbing action.
Step 4
Similarly, to working with a brush and roller, work methodically around the room starting with the ceiling and then each wall in turn. Allow each coat of paint sufficient drying time before re-coating.
Buying guides
Interior paint buying guide
For a simple way to update a room, you can't beat a lick of paint. Whether you're putting your stamp on your new home, or are renovating a room that needs some TLC, interior paint can transform any space in the house in a few hours.
There are lots of paints available for different surfaces and it can be a bit daunting if you aren't sure what all the different types, finishes and features mean. We are going to talk you through the ins and outs of interior paint so that you can buy the right paint with confidence.
Questions to ask before you begin
Which room in the house are you painting?
What goes on in the room you are planning to paint? Maybe you are painting a kitchen or bathroom that would benefit from a moisture-resistant paint. Some rooms might need an extra hard-wearing paint which can be wiped down and cleaned such as hallways, landings or kid's bedrooms. Finding the right paint isn't just about which colour you pick. We have different types of paint designed for use in different rooms. By choosing the paint that is specially designed for the type of room you are painting, you will get the best end result.
What type of surface are you painting?
There are different types of paint for different surface materials. As well as a comprehensive selection of emulsion paints for walls and ceilings, we have a wide range of specialist paint including ones that are designed for wood furniture, brick walls, and tiles. Choosing the right paint for the right material will ensure a longer-lasting result and the best coverage.
What kind of look are you going for?
Maybe your home has quite a traditional look and would suit a subtle, matt effect paint. Or perhaps you have a more contemporary style that would look great with a satin or metallic finish paint. When selecting paint, think about what you want the final look to be, so that you can choose the correct finish as well as the right colour.
How much time do you have to complete your decorating project?
If you need to get your painting job done quickly, we have a wide range of quick-drying options that will help you get a whole room decorated in a few hours. We have quick dry wall paint, primers, and wood and metal paint to help you make the most of your time whatever you are painting.
What state is the surface in?
Some of our interior paints can be applied directly to the surface. Others may require a bit of preparation before you can begin painting. Perhaps you are painting a freshly plastered surface or previously untreated wood, or maybe you need to fill in some holes or sand down an uneven surface. We have paints and primers for all sorts of surfaces that will help you achieve a nice, even finish.
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Ted Siefer's City Hall: A time for ideas and budget matters, large and smallBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 25. 2014 10:48PM
It was a week of big ideas at City Hall. We heard Police Chief David Mara tell the aldermen that he thinks Manchester could use 30 more police officers. (Not going to happen.) Then there was "pay-as-you-throw," the program proposed by the city's public works chief that could, by his estimate, save the city $3.5 million.
Necessity is the mother of invention, and in the case of adopting a per-bag fee for trash pickup, the need is to produce a budget without overriding the tax cap. Mayor Ted Gatsas says even without hiring more police officers, the budget for the next fiscal year is, because of built-in costs, already overspent by $6 million.
Dover and Concord - havens of progressive, pro-recycling types - are among the towns with pay-as-you-throw programs. But already questions are being raised whether it could work or would be fair in Manchester, with its multi-unit rental buildings and larger low-income population. The last time the idea was proposed, when Robert Baines was mayor, there were warnings that such a program would lead to widespread dumping by people who wanted to avoid shelling out for the special trash bags.
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Not all of the ideas put forward last week were grand ones. Several came from Keith Hirschmann, the newly elected - or reelected - Ward 12 alderman. He held the seat from 1996 to 2002, and based on his involvement on Tuesday, the first regular day of meetings for the new term, he was making up for lost time.
Among the proposals he had placed on the agenda were posting more financial reports on the city website and overhauling the Yarger-Decker pay system for city employees, which was referred to the Committee on Human Resources.
The idea that generated the most discussion on Tuesday was one he discussed before the Committee on Administration: to have churches provide emergency shelter for the homeless, rather than the hotels that the Welfare Department pays for and that the welfare commissioner says has blown a hole in his budget.
Hirschmann told the committee that he had heard about Concord working with churches to provide shelter services, and he felt it was worth considering in Manchester. "A church facility," Hirschmann wrote in a letter to the committee, "would have a heated hall with cots and restrooms for temporary emergency shelter," and it would "coax the needy away from getting luxury lodging that the city cannot afford going forward."
The committee was receptive, although questions were raised. Ward 7 Alderman William Shea, for one, wondered "if any conflict arises if we use public funds" with a religious organization. In the end, the committee voted to run the idea by Welfare Commissioner Paul Martineau and have him report back.
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Speaking of Martineau, he appeared before the full board Tuesday to request the immediate transfer of $100,000 in contingency funds to deal with said budget deficit. The better news was that Welfare's projected deficit for the year had gone from close to $300,000 to $200,000. This was enough to prompt the aldermen to table Martineau's request for the time being.
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There was a time when commissions in Manchester were powerful entities. That's not the case these days; it has become the mayor's regular ritual to put the call out for volunteers to fill seats on the panels.
On Tuesday, we got a good glimpse into the challenges faced by the newly seated members of the Conservation Commission, which oversees environmental laws in the city. Nicholas Golan told the Administration Committee that members were having to dig into their own pockets to pay for postage. He also said there were many files that needed to be digitized and integrated with the city's GIS (geographic information system) maps.Golon was requesting a budget of $2,500 for the group. "Being a volunteer group, we don't want to diminish people from performing their roles," he said.
Of course, as committee chairman Joyce Craig, Ward 1, told Golon, things are tight everywhere.
In the end, the committee approved the more modest request of $1,250. But later in the evening, at the full board meeting, Alderman-at-Large Dan O'Neil, chairman of the board, said he didn't like the precedent this would set. Instead, he proposed that members of the commission go to the mayor's office for postage and work with the Planning Department on the GIS system.The aldermen, perhaps not surprisingly, liked this idea better.
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It looks like the Manchester Animal Shelter will be getting the long-term lease it has sought with the city. The shelter leases city property on Dunbarton Road for a $1 a year (after all, it serves as the Manchester area's primary animal shelter). With plans to upgrade and expand the facility, the shelter's leaders sought a 40-year lease for the same token price.
The issue caused a minor flare-up the last time it came up in committee. Mayor Gatsas chastised Deputy City Solicitor Tom Arnold before the Administration Committee in December for raising concerns about the lease while acknowledging he hadn't had much time to review it.
"I'm really upset the solicitor did not look at this until today," Gatsas said.
The issue is clearly close to Gatsas, and it bears mentioning that his wife, Cassandra, is the co-president of the Friends of the Manchester Animal Shelter.
At Tuesday's board meeting, City Solicitor Tom Clark said the lease had been reviewed and slightly revised, and he felt confident that the city could move forward with it. And that's what the aldermen voted to do
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The school board will hold a special meeting Monday, and on its plate, ahem, will be school lunches. District Food Service Director Jim Connors is to make a presentation on how newly relaxed federal guidelines for healthy school meals might affect its menu.


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Posted on August 10, 2012
I have Questions For You Again.
Now, as I mentioned earlier in this week, you had a lot of questions for me during the fourth annual 25th anniversary Book Fair. I dealt with everything from "Where's the Ladies' Room?" to "Why do we grow old and die?", to say nothing of, "Is there a good, cheap place to eat around here?"
So it's really only fair to ask a few questions I had during that q&a marathon. I didn't have time to inquire during the rush, so I will pass along my inquiries now.
What is with you people who shoved your Potash bags in your back pockets? We hand out these things so your purchase power isn't limited by the length of your arm. But time after time I would hurry up to someone with an armload of books, offering a bag, only to have the customer point to their hip pocket. In almost every case, there was the pristine, untouched bag in that back pocket. (In the other cases, I am going to assume you just lost the bag somewhere along the line. If you were pointing at your backside for some other reason, I missed the hint.)
Um, we will be remembering your faces, those of you whom we did not realize until rather late were slipping back into that hiding place to change prices in the books. (Did you know there are some resale shops in Chicago where, if you are caught doing that, they photograph you and refuse to let you in afterward?) But I did want to ask the customer who left his pencil behind in the window well: was that just absent-mindedness, or a form of taunting? You still had at least half the eraser left on that thing, so you could have gone out and cheated other people with the same pencil. You may go broke if you have to buy a new pencil for each sale.
I wanted to ask those of you who cleverly piled your books in strollers where you hid the kid. I had no reports that anybody squirrelled a baby in our squirrelling section. Did you give your spouse between carrying twenty pounds of infant or sixty pounds of books? Or is the kid sixteen now, buying books in the Transportation section, and you've preserved the stroller for just such uses?
Now, you know who you are but we don't. We were wondering about whomever left six shiny new dust jackets from mystery novels. What was the point, exactly? Were the books lighter to carry that way? Do you throw away so many dust jackets at home that your recyclers won't take any more? Or do you leave banana peels behind when you do your grocery shopping?
I don't want to scold those of you who wandered into the Volunteer Break Area and tried to buy some of the sandwiches that generous donors sent us. But I did wonder. Do you really think we'd let you spend money on food when you're supposed to be out there buying books?
Have you been playing computer games so long that you have forgotten how to open a board game? Of the 1930s board games I had out for sale in the Collectors' section, I found that three had been damaged by people who tried to break in through the side of the box. (And how did you manage NOT to break the boxes on the most expensive of them AND the least expensive? Was it an Olympics scoring thing?)
And doesn't anybody read this blog? No matter how many times I've mentioned it, not ONE person asked me where to find that secondhand Kindle. I must say, that was quite the sweetest disappointment I've had all year long.
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Column published May 2, 2013 in The Mexico Ledger
100 Years Ago
"Most of the rooms in the new Morris building on Jefferson street from the basement to the roof have been contracted for and by the time the building is completed every room will be full."
50 Years Ago
"Voter registration reinstatements are coming in at the Audrain County Clerk's office at the rate of 25 a day, Mrs. Walter Harrison, registrar of voters, said today. Mexicoans have until May 27 to get their registration in proper form. The registration books will close on that day until after the special election June 18 on the Mexico sewer bond issue. A list containing more than 1,700 names to be removed from the registration lists was published in The Ledger Saturday."
25 Years Ago
"Democrats from the 22 counties in the 9th Congressional District will meet in Mexico on May 10 to select delegates to attend the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Ga., July 18-21. The meeting will be held in the Community Room at the Audrain County Courthouse. Stuart D. Miller, district chairman, will be in charge. Five delegates and two alternates from the district will be chosen to attend the national convention. Delegates and alternates who were selected at earlier mass meetings and county conventions will constitute the official roll of the district meeting, which is open to the public."
10 Years Ago
"It might be presumptuous to call it the end of an era in Mexico schools, but with 19 retirements and 575 years of combined experience from teachers, administrators and staff leaving in June, some are calling this a transition year for the District. Those retiring include: J.R. Houchins, Ellen S. Wilson, Darriel E. Douglas, Barbara Green, Bucky Green, Charles J. Lind, Linda Rosendahl, Bryan Nickerson, Jo Ann Thomas, Karen Linnemeyer, Janice Douglas, Robin Turley, Terry Henage, Edward M. Larson, Priscilla Medley, Thomas E. Dudley, Sue Tyler Lucas, Susan A. Atkins and Judy Dye."
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OVB Outside Vertical Bar
VRCB Volatility Reduced Compression Bar
Brent Crude Oil (June '13):
- Short Term Trend is bearish.
- Confirmation of a bottom with a range violation on 04/20/13 @ 100.34. Confirmation of a bottom with a close violation on 04/20/13 @ 100.39. Upside Targets = 106.40 – 108.61.
- VRCB generated on Wednesday. Possible confirmation of a top with a range violation @ 103.53. Possible confirmation of a top with a close violation @ 103.53 or lower.
- June Brent Crude recovered from early losses to close nearly unchanged on the trading session Wednesday as the market was scooped up as it neared the 10-day moving average following supportive economic data from China.
- The spread between Brent and WTI continues to narrow and settled below $8 on Wednesday, one of its lowest marks in more than two years, and could come in to less than $5 as WTI may see resistance above $105 and WTI tracks for $100 and new annual highs.
- Projected Daily Range: 1.62
- Projected Weekly Range: 5.72
- Projected Monthly Range: 9.59
WTI Crude Oil (June '13):
- Short Term Trend is bearish.
- Confirmation of a bottom with a range violation on 05/03/13 @ 94.26. Confirmation of a bottom with a close violation on 05/01/13 @ 94.26. Upside Targets = 97.92.
- June WTI Crude Oil closed at its highest level in six weeks on Wednesday after better than expected economic data points from China along with expectation of new supply pipelines continue to help prop the market higher as it closes the gap on its counterpart, Brent.
- WTI's settlement on Wednesday points the implied price action higher throughout the remainder of the week and with an increase in volatility, the market could trade to as high as $97.92 by week's end.
- Projected Daily Range: 1.73
- Projected Weekly Range: 5.83
- Projected Monthly Range: 8.93
Natural Gas (June '13):
- Short Term Trend is bullish.
- Confirmation of a top with a range violation on 04/24/13 @ 4.201 Confirmation of a top with a close violation on 04/24/13 @ 4.200. Downside Targets = 3.988 – 3.875.
- New lows made on the current move Wednesday @ 3.895.
- June Natural Gas was able to move back to the upside on Wednesday to close above the previous session's mid-range and just off the daily highs but not before making new lows below $3.90.
- Look for some follow-through buying leading into Thursday's storage report as the market tries to fill Monday's close gap.
- Projected Daily Range: .139
- Projected Weekly Range: .373
- Projected Monthly Range: .570
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I have a theory about how Scribner evolved this jittery cluttered style.
The action in much of his work after Clampett happens within very confined spaces.
The characters could jump all around within the big movie screen canvas.
" No more of this Clampett stuff!"
You can see in this commercial and in the animation Scribner did in McKimson's cartoons the results of the spacial confinement. The characters' eyes keep bugging out in accents, characters begin to move in one direction - but never complete their action, instead they bounce off the edge of a force field and recoil in the other direction. They can't move too far left, right, up or down, so instead they boil and throb with extreme energy and lifeforce within a small area. It's very frustrating!
It's also very funny but in a way that seems to be Scribner's way of rebelling against the post Clampett conservative landslide that eventually smothered the whole animation business.
With each passing year and decade, animation got more and more creatively confining. Other animators went along with it, some crumbling, others making due. Scribner held on to his full animation and cartoony roots the only way he could within the ever tightening straightjacket. His characters wriggled and fought to break through their arbitrary bonds.
This commercial may have been almost his last gasp. I have other Koolaid Bugs commercials like this that look like he worked on them, but that someone else went over and toned down.
Note: the second half of the commercial is animated by a Chuck Jones animator- I'm guessing Benny Washam. It's very handsome, expertly timed and posed. If I had not seen the Scribner stuff next to it I would probably say it was great. I have only one problem with it. Unlike the Scribner animation, it's missing an essential ingredient of cartooning - it's not entertaining.
Very professional and crisp animation, but not very interesting.


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The government's response to the July 28 security breach at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant has cost taxpayers about $15 million so far, according to an estimate from the National Nuclear Security Administration — and possibly a lot more.
The government's response to the July 28 security breach at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant has cost taxpayers about $15 million so far, according to an estimate from the National Nuclear Security Administration — and possibly a lot more.
The NNSA spent millions of dollars on security changes and improvements at the Oak Ridge plant in the six months following an unprecedented intrusion by activists protesting the production of weapons of mass destruction.
"This includes modifications to the PIDAS (perimeter intrusion, detection and assessment system) with the installation of additional concertina wire and animal fencing, physical security upgrades — such as additional sensors and cameras — and additional personnel and miscellaneous costs," the statement said.
Steven Wyatt, a federal spokesman at Y-12, indicated the $15 million estimate is for direct costs incurred by the plant. It reportedly doesn't include the cost of investigations conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Inspector General, DOE's Office of Health Safety and Security, and officials at NNSA headquarters in Washington.
It also apparently doesn't include the refresher security training for all Y-12 employees in the days following the breach, when the plant's production activities where shut down.
Nor does it include the spending at other Department of Energy sites — such as the Oak Ridge National Laboratory — that house nuclear materials capable of being fashioned into nuclear weapons. In the weeks following the Y-12 event, theses sites were required to re-evaluate their security operations and participate in exercises to test their capabilities.
The Y-12 protesters, who collectively call themselves the "Transform Now Plowshares", were able to gain access to the plant's inner sanctum, known as the Protected Area.
In the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, July 28, the three traversed a wooded ridge on the plant's North Side, cut through high-security fences and — without being detected or deterred — reached the outside of the plant's storage center for bomb-grade uranium. Once there, they spray-painted peace messages, strung crime-scene tape around the premises, splashed "human blood" on an external wall of the uranium facility, and completed all of their protest acts before guards arrived to detain them.
The break-in by an 82-year-old nun and two companions, the youngest of whom was 57, was an embarrassment to the plant's vaunted security force and sent shock waves throughout the nation's nuclear weapons complex.
The three protesters — Sister Megan Rice, now 83, Michael Walli, 64, and Greg Boertje-Obed, 57 — are facing a series of felony charges as a result of the event, with a trial date currently set for May 7 in U.S. District Court in Knoxville.
They have repeatedly acknowledged breaking into the plant and defacing facilities. However, the protesters claimed their actions were for the greater good by drawing attention to weapons work they say violates international law and threatens humankind.
During some of the early court proceedings, prosecutors suggested that protesters caused about $70,000 in damages to the Oak Ridge facilities. That reportedly included the cost of removing blood and paint from the structures and repairing fences, as well as thousands of dollars for the use of specially trained dogs to track the protesters' path into the plant.
The ramifications of the high-profile security incident have been many. Top executives were removed from their jobs and/or forced to retire, and longtime security contractor WSI-Oak Ridge (also known as Wackenhut and G4S Government Solutions) had its Y-12 contract terminated and later lost a bid to retain another U.S. Department of Energy security contract in Oak Ridge.
While a couple of congressmen and watchdog groups have thanked the protesters publicly for revealing vulnerabilities at a U.S. nuclear installation, the outgoing security contractor referred to protesters as the enemy.
The president and chief executive officer of G4S Government Solutions said the security company is ready to move past the "punishment stage" for the Y-12 incident and work to restore its image.
"A lesson for everyone in all aspects of both physical and protective force security is what we now internally refer to as the 20/20 rule," Paul Donahue said in a statement.
"Within 20 minutes, 20 million hours of exceptional protective force support at Y-12 was wiped away."
He added: "The enemy of today is not just organized nation states, but vandals, activists and protesters looking not necessarily to harm material or people, but clearly seeking to embarrass."


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UPDATED: Manchester police officer charged with Bedford hit-and-runBy PAT GROSSMITH and MARK HAYWARD
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March 26. 2013 10:15AM
Hillsborough County Attorney Patricia LaFrance, at a press conference this morning at Bedford Police Department, said two teenage boys, ages 17 and 18, were struck from behind by an undercover police vehicle allegedly operated by Coco near 31 Harrod Lane. Coco was off duty at the time, LaFrance said.
LaFrance said a mugshot for Coco will not be released as doing so might post a risk to him as a former undercover officer assigned to the Special Investigations Unit.
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All of these individuals had until the end of February to enroll in a new plan, as loss of coverage is a qualifying event that triggers a special enrollment period (SEP) that extends for 60 days after the loss of coverage. The special enrollment period also applied to former Health Access Colorado members (New Health Ventures), people who lost Time/Assurant plans, and people who lost Rocky Mountain Health Plans coverage (RMHP is still available in Colorado, but with a smaller service area than they had in 2015).
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The exchange worked to enroll more of the former CO-OP members during the special enrollment period that extended through the end of February. Ultimately, enrollment in QHPs grew by almost 12,000 people during February.
Colorado has significant disparity in terms of healthcare costs – and thus health insurance premiums – from one area of the state to another. Rates in the mountain areas of the state are far higher than rates along the I-25 corridor, and although subsidies make coverage affordable for people who are eligible, there's no assistance for someone earning more than 400 percent of the poverty level.
As an example, a 59-year old in Pagosa Springs who earns $50,000/year would have to pay $893/month (21 percent of her income) for the least expensive bronze plan available in the exchange in 2017, and is ineligible for any premium subsidies to make the coverage more affordable (note that if she earned $48,000, she would be eligible for $723/month in premium subsidies ; the subsidy cliff is most significant for older applicants in areas where health insurance is expensive). She would be exempt from the ACA's penalty for being uninsured, and would also have access to slightly less-expensive catastrophic plans, but there's no reasonably-priced health insurance option in this hypothetical case.
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You know that guy with the black butcher's apron and the trendy bacon tattoo on his forearm? He can actually help you eat greener and more budget-friendly.Meat is shifting away from the center of the plate, but the meat that remains can be found in 'new' and sustainable cuts. A butcher — be it the old-school gent who's been in the neighborhood for decades, the trendy gal or guy with their own shop, or someone at your local supermarket — is happy to help you get the most for your money at the meat counter by sharing their wisdom.
"I realize the idea of cooking nose-to-tail may seem a bit out of the home-cook's league, but believe me, it's not," says Chris Bolyard of in St. Louis. "One of my favorite cuts is beef neck. It's super flavorful; and after a long braise or time in the slow cooker, it becomes succulent and moist." Because many butchers receive whole animals, ask them which cuts are less-popular and thus less-expensive. A few beef cuts to look for include: steaks called Denver, hanger, chuck or flap, also top and bottom round roasts, and anything from the shank or shin. Whole chickens and turkeys are also good buys. (Keep reading for pork.)
Butchers often source from farms in your area. They have connections and are usually happy to share contact information if you want to purchase sides, quarters, or half animals. Bolyard says he like to help customers and farmers connect to form cost-effective relationships, for both sides.
By choosing more flavor-intense meats, you can get more bang for your buck, by using less. "All lamb is pasture-raised, so it has more flavor," says Kristopher Doll of in New Orleans. "Some people who haven't eaten lamb in a while find they really enjoy the sweet-rich flavor of today's tender lamb cuts. It shines in spicy dishes like curries or a pot of chili, where other meat may be overshadowed."
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The latest accident features the use of some very quirky genetic manipulation. Courtesy of Indiana University (IU), we now have beetles with functional third eyes. As pointed out by a rather marvelous press release by the university, this may make people think of the Three-Eyed Raven from Game of Thrones. This beetle isn't likely to be a clairvoyant, but it's certain to provide a glimpse into the future of evolutionary biology.
To be fair, it was a little while back that IU scientists, fiddling with this beetle's genes, accidentally led to one developing a third eye. This time around, they've intentionally been conducting their genetic alchemy on beetles, and have now purposefully provoked it to pop out its third peephole.
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Competing in the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race–one of the most dangerous offshore ocean races in history– skipper Ed Psaltis and his crew did more than survive the deadly storm . The went on to become the overall winner of the race–the smallest boat in 10 years to win the prestigious Tattersall's Cup.
How did they do it? What enabled the Midnight Rambler team to prevail against all odds? And what can your team learn from their experience?
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Over the course of a long race, sailors will inevitably encounter setbacks. In an instant, a boat can go from leading the fleet to lagging behind. A major reversal can easily discourage the crew and, left unchecked, can deplete the crew's energy. Worse yet, this weakened performance can quickly turn into a downward spiral. Ed Psaltis notes:
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Ted Siefer's City Hall: Mayoral debate came down to a question of project financing
IT WAS an eventful week in city politics, with full board meetings of the aldermen and school board. And then there was the debate, the first between Mayor
Ted Gatsas
and his young challenger, Ward 12 Alderman
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. As the event made clear, the two are a study in contrasts.
Gatsas sounded positive themes of progress and staying the course, while Arnold described a mayor who is out of touch with serious problems facing the city.
Arnold also sought to distinguish himself from Gatsas by stressing that he has a vision for the city. He described a dream he had, 10 years in the future, in which a young couple in the Boston area would contemplate making a trip to Manchester. "They can check out the 'Riverwalk,' and the new five-star restaurant, and while they're there, they decide to check out homes, and they don't even have to read up on Manchester schools, because it's well known they are the very best the state has to offer."
What's this about a "Riverwalk"?
Arnold's latest proposal is for a boardwalk along the Merrimack, much like they have in Providence, R.I. Arnold also wants to hire up to 20 more police officers, more teachers and to beautify downtown.
Maybe it's not surprising that his weakest answer in the debate may have come when an audience member asked how he proposed to fund such initiatives. In contrast, Gatsas was at his strongest as the practical, down-to-earth former businessman. "We also have taxpayers in this city. It's about how to pay for it," he said, adding what has become his trademark: "The questions are easy; the answers are hard."
In closing remarks, Gatsas sought to play up the contrast between him and the critical Arnold, who is 30 and moved to the city from the Baltimore area. "I've lived here all my life," Gatsas said. "Manchester is a wonderful, great city, and I would never sell us short."
There were no knockout moments, and Gatsas, as is well-known, generally steers clear of attacking his opponents. But there was one feisty moment.
Gatsas noted that Arnold had voted against a $2.8 million bond for technology upgrades in the schools. Arnold replied that he did so because he felt it was a "Band-Aid" solution.
"My mother taught me," Gatsas said, "sometimes Band-Aids are good for you."
Arnold: "Band-Aids don't help a broken arm."
What effect the debate will have is, well, debatable. It perhaps didn't help that the organizers, the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, didn't allow media outlets to broadcast or record the debate from inside the hall at St. Anselm's Institute of Politics. Instead, the chamber said media could set up in the lobby outside the hall.
This was a sore point for one-man media outlet
Rich Girard,
who had broadcast the 2011 debate live on his morning radio show.
He pressed
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the chamber president, to allow him to air the event. "This unfounded excuse to stick us in the lobby is a disservice to the thousands of listeners who would otherwise tune live or visit our archive of the broadcast to hear the chamber ask its questions of the mayoral candidates," Girard wrote in an email to
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the chamber's marketing director. (Girard posted his entire exchange with the chamber online.)
French told me that the audio recording would have been "disruptive."
"Our event, first and foremost, is for our chamber members," she said. "They're open to the public, and we invite the media to attend. We like having media there. (Girard) was invited and chose to not attend."
The debate, it should be mentioned, was taped by Manchester Public Television, and will continue to be shown periodically on Channel 22.
It's farewell to
Peter Capano
, the shaggy-haired, ever-friendly chief of the parks division.
A self-described "dirt guy," Capano has worked for the city for 26 years, much of the time as the chief inspector for the Highway Department. Three years ago, he became head of the newly reorganized parks division with the department.
This is Capano's last month with the city. He's retiring, and Mayor Gatsas recognized his service at Tuesday's aldermen's meeting.
"I'm proud of my accomplishments over 26 years," Capano said. "I don't think you'll find anywhere in the city a construction project or sewer or drain . that I didn't have a finger in. I'm proud that my adopted city of Manchester has given me these opportunities."
Capano later told me that sewer pipes he recalled installing were now being decommissioned. "It was a clue that I've been around for a while," he said.
What's next for Capano? He says he and his wife will remain in Manchester, and he hopes they will be doing some traveling, including trips to Europe.
Was Capano interested in following the path of some other past department heads and running for office? "I won't rule anything out," he said. "We'll see."
In the meantime, Capano says he'll be keeping an eye on the city's medians, roads and parks for any problems. "I know the number to call," he said.
Tuesday's aldermen's meeting was a long one and, as is often the case, some of the more significant items passed without discussion or debate.
In the interest of housekeeping, here's a partial rundown.
A revised "workplace violence policy" was passed that eliminated a provision that would have barred city employees from bringing guns to work. This was nearly passed at the previous meeting until Ward 10 Alderman
Phil Greazzo
objected that the provision violated the Second Amendment and state law. The city solicitor later recommended its removal from the policy.
The aldermen also approved the fire department's plans to seek a $1 million federal grant to buy a new ladder truck, which would require the city to pony up $100,000.
They also approved grant applications for $40,000 to complete the Rockingham trail and develop a master plan to enhance bike and pedestrian infrastructure. The money would come from the New Hampshire Bicycle and Pedestrian Grant Program. And just so we're clear, as one of the men who oversee the program explained to me, the grant money is coming from a donor, not the state.
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