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See a GP if you think you have symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, so they can try to identify the underlying cause.
Diagnosing rheumatoid arthritis quickly is important, because early treatment can prevent it getting worse and reduce the risk of joint damage.
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Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease. This means your immune system (which usually fights infection) attacks the cells that line your joints by mistake, making the joints swollen, stiff and painful.
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- surgery to correct any joint problems that develop
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Depending on how much pain, stiffness or joint damage you have, daily tasks may become difficult or take you longer to do. You may have to adapt the way you do everyday tasks.
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Having rheumatoid arthritis can lead to several other conditions that may cause additional symptoms and can sometimes be life threatening.
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- carpal tunnel syndrome
- inflammation of other areas of the body (such as the lungs, heart and eyes)
- an increased risk of heart attack and stroke
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Lynn D. Gordon, professor emerita of history at the University of Rochester and a scholar of gender, education, ethnicity, and diplomacy, died Feb. 9 after a long struggle with cancer. She was 65.
A respected teacher, generous mentor, and an intellectual with unusually wide-ranging interests, Professor Gordon is known for her pioneering study of women in higher education at the turn of the century. She was a valued member of both the Warner School of Education, where she served as associate dean and director of graduate studies, and the Department of History, where she taught a wide range of courses on the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. By all accounts, she was a woman of exceptional warmth who reached out to others far beyond the call of duty.
"Lynn had tremendous intellectual curiosity, and not in a superficial way," says Celia Applegate, professor of history who was her friend and colleague for decades. "She read every page of everything, from fiction to in-depth studies. She was a constant inspiration for rethinking of my teaching and research. It was her love of knowledge, her enthusiasm for knowledge, that she was all about.
"She had tremendous dignity and presence as a teacher and brought a kind of seriousness without pretentiousness to the classroom," added Professor Applegate, who team-taught three seminars with Professor Gordon. "I loved teaching with her." She also possessed an unusual ability to explain complicated issues with straightforward simplicity, says Professor Applegate, a talent Professor Gordon applied both to the classroom and to her scholarly writing.
She was a teacher who "put you through your paces," agrees Tara McCarthy, assistant professor of history at Central Michigan University who completed her doctoral studies with Professor Gordon in 2005. "She was a woman who had accomplished so much but managed to stay so accessible," says Professor McCarthy.
Professor Gordon recognized the importance of female mentors for women in academia and she excelled at that the role, says Professor McCarthy. Her most defining characteristic, and the one that endeared her to many, was "the way that she sort of took you in," says Professor McCarthy. "She was that person that a lot of people went to." She opened her personal life to those around her, inviting new faculty members and graduate students to her home. "Instead of a formal relationship, you were more part of her extended family. You were part of her whole life and you knew her whole family," says Professor McCarthy. "In academic circles, that kind of relationship is rare."
Professor Gordon advised doctoral candidates in both history of education and American history, most of whom have gone on to successful careers as scholars, teachers, and published authors. Her own book, Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era (Yale University Press, 1990), explores women's influence in American education in general and higher education in particular.
"Lynn's book was the first to take a close look at the second generation of American college women," says Stewart Weaver, professor of history and department chair. "Rather than focus on conventional issues of access and attendance, it situates women's higher education in a broad social context and thus makes a distinctive and important contribution to the larger history of the Progressive Era."
At her death, Professor Gordon was nearing completion of the definitive biography of the American journalist Dorothy Thompson, who Time magazine recognized in 1939 as the second most influential woman in America after Eleanor Roosevelt. Her work on Thompson fueled a growing interest in American foreign policy, in Nazism and the Holocaust, and in the history of the Middle East, interests that evolved into new history courses at Rochester.
A founding member of the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Studies and director of the University's Gender and Society Group (1994-2000), Professor Gordon was instrumental in bringing the prestigious Berkshire Conference on the History of Women to the University in 1999. She also was active in a variety of professional organizations, including the History of Education Society, the Spencer Foundation, the Berkshire Conference, the American Educational Research Association, the American Studies Association, and the Organization of American Historians.
A graduate of Barnard College, Professor Gordon earned her master's and doctorate in history from the University of Chicago. She taught at Bowdoin College, Northern Illinois University, and Princeton University before joining the faculty of the Warner School in 1983, where her husband, Harold Wechsler, in later years also had an appointment. Six years later, while still on the Warner faculty, Professor Gordon began teaching in the history department, where she became a full-time faculty member in 2007. After 27 years at the University, she retired in June 2011 and was appointed Professor Emeritus of History.
Professor Gordon is survived by her husband, Harold, daughter, Abigail (Chris) Bock, and son, Samuel B. Wechsler. The University flag will be flown at half-staff in her honor on Thursday, Feb. 23. The history department is planning a scholarly colloquium in her honor next fall.
In lieu of flowers donations can be sent to Friends of Karen, 21 Perry St., Port Jefferson, NY 11777 or Mt. Sinai Center for Jewish Genetic Diseases, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, 5th Ave., at 100th St., New York, NY 10029 or Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc.

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For you Cheese Heads (that's football for Wisconsin fans) we have this. Friday it was James Reynold at the Badger Kennel Club handing the Keeshond, CH Wund-Ry's Best Kept Secret, his first BIS. Congratulations to breeder/owner Terri Van Schyndel.
Saturday it was the Janesville-Beloit Kennel Club and judge Houston Clark. His BIS winner was the more widely known Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen, CH Rokeena Carte Blanche, the country's number one Hound and a top five dog all breeds. That's lucky number 13 this year and 25 lifetime, a new record for a male PBGV. Bravo Team CeeJay, breeder/owner Robin Wallis of Gisborne, Australia, co-owners Russell Wallis (Robin's husband), and Jose, Yvonee, & Christina Herrera, and handler Jane Alston-Myers.


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Speaking to the Alex Jones Show, Steele elaborated on his previous revelations by making it known that the CIA helped bankroll Google at its very inception.
"I think Google took money from the CIA when it was poor and it was starting up and unfortunately our system right now floods money into spying and other illegal and largely unethical activities, and it doesn't fund what I call the open source world," said Steele, citing "trusted individuals" as his sources for the claim.
"They've been together for quite a while," added Steele.
Asked to impart to what level Google is "in bed" with the CIA, Steele described the bond as a "small but significant relationship," adding, "it is by no means dominating Google in fact Google has been embarrassed because everything the CIA asked it to do they couldn't do."
"I also think it's very very wrong of Google to have this relationship," cautioned Steele. The former agent went further than before in identifying by name Google's liaison at the CIA. "Let me say very explicitly - their contact at the CIA is named Dr. Rick Steinheiser, he's in the Office of Research and Development," said Steele.
Steele highlighted Google's blatant censorship policies whereby press releases put out by credible organizations that are critical of Dick Cheney and other administration members don't make it to Google News even though they are carried by PR Newswire.
We have repeatedly highlighted past examples of censorship on behalf of Google, including their blacklisting of a mainstream news website that was mildly critical of China, and also the deliberate stifling and manipulation of Alex Jones' Terror Storm film ranking on Google Video. Google was also caught red-handed attempting to bury the Charlie Sheen 9/11 story at the height of its notoriety.
Saying Google had become "too big for itself," Steele opined that Google was "long overdue for a public audit."
"One of the problems with privatized power is that it's not subject to public audit," said Steele, arguing that groups should rally to "put Google out of business unless they're willing to go the open source software route."
We regularly highlight Google's damaging role in aiding the march towards a big brother society, but the admission that Google were planning on teaming up with the U.S. government to use microphones in the computers of an estimated 150 million-plus Internet active Americans to spy on their lifestyle choices and build psychological profiles which will be used for surveillance and minority report style invasive advertising and data mining, astounded even us.
Steele said that our previous story about Google's ties to the CIA, which was picked up by dozens of top technology websites, concerned Google enough to lie to the public about it and deny its validity.
It remains to be seen how Google will react to these latest revelations.
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The Hirotada Kohno Award for Outstanding Service to the RSAI
Congratulations to David A. Plane who is the winner of the 2020 Kohno Prize. David A. Plane, a Professor Emeritus of the University of Arizona, has been a lifetime contributor to regional science. His research focuses on population geography and regional science, U.S. migration and settlement patterns, the role of the life course in affecting mobility, and methods for modeling activity patterns and temporal change in spatial interaction systems.
Congratulations to Roberta Capello who is the winner of the 2018 Kohno Prize. Roberta Capello is Full professor of Regional Economics at Politecnico of Milan, Faculty of Building Engineering. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Juan Ramón Cuadrado-Roura who is the winner of the 2017 Kohno Prize. Cuadrado-Roura is Founder Director of the Institute for Economic and Social Analysis (IAES) and Applied Economics Professor at the University of Alcalá.
Congratulations to Folke Snickars who is the winner of the 2016 Kohno Prize. Snickars is Professor of Regional Planning at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. The research of Folke Snickars concerns theoretical and methodological aspects of infrastructure economics, regional systems analysis, and regional planning. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Yoshiro Higano who is the winner of the 2014 Kohno Prize. Higano is Professor of Environmental Policy, Doctoral Program in Sustainable Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba. Japan. He specializes in Comprehensive Environmental Evaluation, Environmental Remediation Technology Assessment and Environmental Policy. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Robert Stimson who is the winner of the 2013 Kohno Prize. Bob Stimson is a quantitative human geographer and regional scientist. He has been teaching and conducting research in universities since 1965. He retired from the University of Queensland in January 2011. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Jean-Claude Thill who is the winner of the 2012 Kohno Prize. Jean-Claude Thill is currently the Knight Distinguished Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at UNC Charlotte, and he has held past positions at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York and the University of Georgia. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Graham Clarke who is the winner of the 2011 Kohno Prize. Graham Clarke is Professor in School of Geography, University of Leeds since 2004. Congratulations!
The third winner of the prestigious Hirotado Kohno award, for outstanding service to the regional science community, was announced at the ERSA conference in Sweden. The award of the 2010 Kohno Prize went to Gunther Maier of WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Congratulations to Lay Gibson who is the winner of the 2009 Kohno Prize. He is based at the University of Arizona. Congratulations!
RSAI is delighted to announce the winner of the 1st Kohno Prize, Kieran Donaghy of Cornell University for his many contributions to RSAI, PRSCO and the Western Regional Science Association. His principal contribution came as Executive Director of RSAI (1997-2002). At the time he was at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Congratulations Kieran!
1. Goal
The Award honours and thanks a member of the RSAI who has provided long and outstanding service to the development and organization of Regional Science and to the development and management of RSAI at the International and/or Supra-Regional, including an outstanding contribution to the development of Regional Science at the Local Section level.
2. The Award
2.1 The Award is established to recognize and honour the outstanding service contribution Professor Hirotada Kohno has made to the Regional Science community, and especially his role in the development of PRSCO and the Japan Section of RSAI.
2.2 The Award recognizes outstanding service to the RSAI has incorporated service extending beyond the local level and which incorporates service of an international nature.
2.3 No more than two (2) Awards may be given in any one calendar year.
2.4 Awards will be presented at one of the three RSAI super-regional meetings/conferences (NARSC, ERSA, PRSCO) or at the RSAI World Congress.
3. Nomination Process
3.1 In the last quarter of each calendar year, the RSAI Executive Director will contact the RSAI Council, the Councils/Boards of NARSC, ERSA and PRSCO, and the Councils/Boards of all affiliated RSAI Sections, calling for written nominations of potential candidates for the Hirotada Kohno Award for Outstanding Service to the RSAI.
3.2 A nomination of a candidate for consideration for the Award must be made in writing by the President and/or Secretary and/or Executive Officer of an official body within RSAI - that is, the RSAI itself; NARSC, ERSA, PRSCO; or a Section of RSAI.
3.3 A written nomination of a candidate for consideration for the Award must include a detailed statement of the nature of the service contribution a candidate has made to RSAI. It must explain how and why that service contribution of the nominee meets the goal of the Award. It should contain testimonials from at least three persons who have held high office and/or currently hold high office in the organization within RSAI that is making the nomination. It must be demonstrated that the long and outstanding service of the nominee extends beyond the local Section of RSAI in the case where a Section of RSAI is initiating the nomination.
3.4 Nominations for the Award are to close by the end of January the following calendar year.
4. Jury and Process for Recommending Awardees
4.1 In the last quarter of each year, a four person Jury will be named by the RSAI Council to consider nominations for the H. Kohno Award for Outstanding Service to the RSAI.
4.2 The Jury shall comprise the current RSAI President, one current member of the RSAI Council, and two Past Presidents of the RSAI.
4.3 The Jury will convene (in person and/or by email/teleconference) after January in the following calendar year.
4.4 The Jury will evaluate the nominations received and passed onto it by the RSAI Executive Director. The Jury will submit its recommendation(s) to the RSAI Executive Director by the end of March in that year.
4.5 The recommendation will then be communicated by the RSAI Executive Director to the members of the RSAI Council, with Members of the Council having two weeks in which to inform the Executive Director of any dissent they may have regarding the recommendation.
4.6 If more than one-third of Council members expresses their dissent regarding a recommendation for the Award, then the recommendation will lapse.
4.7 The President and/or the Executive Director of RSAI shall inform the person(s) recommended for the Award before the end of June in that calendar year. The awardee(s) will be invited to attend one of the Supra-Regional (NARSC, ERSA, PRSCO) meetings or the RSAI World Congress to receive the Award.


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Discussion Boards – UMaine Machias
November 8th, 2011
A discussion board (or forum, bulletin board, message board) is an online tool that lets folks make posts and/or comments on other folks posts. Sometimes you need to be a member to make posts or comments.
Often there is a central unifying theme or topic that provides an environment for discussion, with many posts and responses. A post and the responses are a thread. A discussion board can have many threads, sometimes separated into discrete topics.
One of the advantages of a discussion board is its asynchronous nature, allowing people to post or respond without any time frame restriction. This is obviously different from IMs or live chat.


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More on Mason: Cultural factors in sentencing
R v Mason
High Court [2012] NZHC 1849
27 July 2012
In R v Mason [2012] NZHC 1361 Heath J gave reasons for refusing to allow Mr Mason to be dealt with in accordance with tikanga Māori in his trial and sentencing. After pleading guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder Mr Mason was convicted. Mr Mason was sentenced on 27 July 2012.
Max Harris returns to Heath J's earlier judgment, explores how tikanga Māori matters were addressed in Heath J's sentencing notes, and makes some remarks about how cultural considerations (including tikanga Māori considerations) might be incorporated into sentencing in future, particularly in light of the Sentencing Act 2002 and a recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Office has aged Obama
He may the first African-American president, he may one of the youngest presidents in history, but in one respect President Obama is just like his predecessors.
The office has aged him beyond his years.
Side-by-side Associated Press photos from 2009 and 2012 illustrate how the 51-year-old president's hair has turned gray,and his face more lined.
The gray-hair is also prevalent in President Obama's new official portrait released Friday.
The same kind of thing happened to predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and most of the others.
Of course, all of us are getting older, and many of us are getting grayer.
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The US government is trying to "run out the clock" by denying Kim Dotcom's legal team access to the materials it needs to prepare for key court appearances. So says Ira Rothken, a lawyer for the Megaupload founder.
Ars Technica talked to Rothken on Thursday afternoon, shortly after he returned from a trip to New Zealand, where courts are considering whether to extradite Dotcom to the United States to face criminal copyright infringement charges. The latest example of the government's obstructionist tactics, Rothken said, is the handling of data seized from the Dotcom mansion.
Seized data
When law enforcement agents raided Dotcom's mansion in January, they seized dozens of computing devices and hard drives. Rothken says the seized materials include data from surveillance cameras that could shed light on whether excessive force was used in the raid. The hard drives also contain personal files belonging to Dotcom and his family.
Rothken argues that the search warrant was overly broad, effectively allowing the police to seize all digital media in the Dotcom residence regardless of its relevance to the Megaupload case. And the defense recently learned that some of the hard drives have been transferred to the United States without the approval of the New Zealand courts.
"The question for New Zealanders," Rothken told us, "is whether they ought to put up with a foreign country like the United States requesting that the New Zealand police go break down the door to a New Zealand resident's house, take almost anything they wanted related to a broad category of copyright, and then ship it off to the US without anything the New Zealand resident can do about it."
He argued that the New Zealand judiciary should have implemented safguards that "allow for a court-mediated filtering of data to, among other things, ensure fairness, relevance, and proportionality." Dotcom's lawyers have objected to the US government's conduct, and Rothken said his team is "eagerly waiting for the New Zealand judiciary to weigh in on the government's conduct."
"Pattern of delay"
Rothken also faulted the government for the lengthy delay in supplying Dotcom with a copy of his own data. The defense team still hasn't gotten copies of Dotcom's own hard drives more than 4 months after the raid. "They're making an argument that they still haven't made copies of the rest of the hard drives because it's too burdensome to do it in New Zealand and they have to bring them back to the US," he told us. Rothken called that "hard to believe."
"They could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on helicopters and raids," he said, "but they can't use the 800 number to Best Buy to buy the computer equipment they need to make mirror copies of hard drives."
Dotcom is facing a key extradition hearing in August, and Rothken told us that materials on the hard drives from the Dotcom residence could prove essential in preparing Dotcom's arguments for that hearing. He argues that the foot-dragging on those hard drives, along with the government's efforts to delete data from the Megaupload servers, reflects a "pattern of delay and prevention of allowing Megaupload and Kim Dotcom to have access to data for their defense."
The government and Dotcom have also locked horns over the disclosure of passwords required to decrypt some of the data on the hard drives seized from Dotcom's residence. Rothken told Ars that Dotcom had originally offered to disclose the passwords to allow relevant data to be made available, under a court-supervised process, to both the prosecution and defense. But Rothken said that offer was withdrawn when the Dotcom team discovered that the hard drives had been transferred out of New Zealand jurisdiction.
"To the extent that there is any encrypted data on the drives being brought back to the United States," Rothken told us, "the encryption is Dotcom's only protection against unlawful intrusion."
Rothken refused to say how Dotcom would respond if a court ordered him to disclose the passwords while the hard drives were still in American hands, saying he didn't want to "prejudge what the court's going to do." But he emphasized that Dotcom had no objection to disclosing relevant materials to the prosecution. He merely wished to ensure that irrelevant and legally privileged data wasn't unlawfully disclosed.
"The US is trying to run out the clock on handing the data over to Mr. Dotcom and our legal team so we can put up a robust defense," Rothken told us, speculating that "the United States is very happy to have delay because it prefers the status quo where the Mega site is down and Mega is impaired" to actually arguing the case on its merits.


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So your grain-moving train has long passed the two-axle wagons of yesteryear and the straight trucks of yesterday. You're ready to make that efficiency jump into a 18-wheeler and hammer down to river town to get more bucks per load.
Whoa there, good neighbor. Time for a brake check. The feds and every state you plan to travel through have complex rules of the road you must observe, and the wad of red tape regulations, exemptions and restrictions is enough to choke a Peterbuilt. But it all depends on what you're hauling where and for whom.
Farm Industry News talked with numerous trucking regulation authorities, from the public and private sectors, to help simplify the process for you. "Trucking regulations and exemptions can be very cumbersome, and proper compliance with appropriate federal and individual states isn't an easy process," says Terry Dercks, senior tax and safety services representative for J.J. Keller & Associates.
If wading through regulations isn't appealing to you or an efficient use of your time, there are state and national service companies that will handle this work for you. The Internet is a great resource to locate such companies and learn more about your new venture. For instance, dial up www.truckinfo.net, click on services, then permits, and you find such national companies as Schroeder & Associates (www.FleetPermits.com, 800/253-5338) and J.J. Keller & Associates (www.jjkeller.com, 800/558-5011), which offer a wide variety of services for a fee. "While you can undertake this time-consuming process yourself, we offer a service to do it all for you, and it's usually faster because we can quickly pinpoint what a customer needs, then process the applications directly to each state," Dercks says.
There are also state and local companies that can help with this process. Perhaps a good starting point is your state trucking/motor carrier association (see sidebar for helpful Internet resources). One company that offers such services, and also provides good information on this topic, is C&S Licensing, Sioux Falls, SD, 605/332-5802.
Play by the rules
"Make sure you're ready because this is a big step when graduating to a tractor-trailer," says ex-state patrolman Myron Rau, now vice president of the South Dakota Trucking Association. "I've seen too many drivers quickly think they can be 'truckers' and start backhauling across state lines and competing with commercial truckers, only to incur heavy fines and costly downtime by ignoring necessary regulations."
To help you grasp the basics, let's start with definitions. In government language, a trucker or trucking company is called a motor carrier, of which there are two types: private carriers and for-hire carriers. Transport only your own grain or livestock that you produce and you're a private carrier. If you haul even a single load for someone else, you become a for-hire carrier.
Next comes your license. If you drive a farm-licensed straight truck, you don't need a Commercial Driver's License (CDL) as long as you drive within 150 air miles of your farm. You also could be exempt from keeping a logbook (if you drive less than 100 miles), having a medical card and being subject to drug and alcohol testing, but this varies by state.
Written and driving tests required
But once you drive further than 150 air miles, or if you register your straight truck or tractor-trailer at a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) greater than 26,000 lbs., you must have a CDL and you're no longer exempt from the requirements listed above.
Your home state issues your CDL only after you have passed extensive knowledge and driving skill tests. Every two years you must pass a complete physical examination. Drivers also are limited by strict hours-of-service rules to avoid driving while fatigued, and these rules include maintaining a detailed driver's logbook.
These and other requirements subject drivers to random roadside inspections, at which time they can be put "out of service" or lose driving privileges for committing violations. Drivers also are subject to severe penalties, including loss of the right to continue driving for their livelihood, if they violate motor carrier highway safety regulations.
Haul your own
Next, you must decide if anything other than your grain will fill your trailer. If not, you can take your title and bill of sale to the county courthouse and get a state farm plate. But before you get in line for your plate, hit the Internal Revenue Service office to fill out a Federal Heavy Vehicle Use Tax (FHVUT) form because you can't get a plate without a stamped receipt for it. You have to file this form 2290, but you won't pay taxes until your vehicle registration exceeds 55,000 lbs. gross weight or you drive more than 7,500 miles (from July 1 to June 30).
When strictly hauling your own grain in your home state (intrastate carrier), you don't need federal registration or a U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) number and usually don't have to concern yourself with fuel tax registration, but this varies by state. But if you cross your state line, even with your own product, the red tape dispenser kicks in big time — unless your state has a border agreement with a neighboring state that allows you to travel 20 to 30 miles across the border without red tape. In other words, you can go to that river grain terminal across the state-dividing bridge without many hassles.
Beyond state lines
If you want to haul your product (as a private carrier) or haul someone else's product (as a for-hire carrier) into or through other states (interstate carrier), the DOT needs to give you a U.S. DOT number (fill out form MSC 150).
Next, you must get a plate that allows legal travel in states beyond your own. Check to see if your home state's agricultural plate is accepted in other states you plan to cross. If it's not accepted, you must get an International Registration Plan (IRP) plate, also known as an Apportioned plate, which allows travel in the states you declare at registration. The annual IRP fee you'll pay for each state is prorated by truck weight and percentage of miles traveled in each state. You should apply for this license in your home state.
You also must set up an International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA) account with your home state. Fuel taxes are levied by how much fuel you use when traveling on each state's roads, calculated from the quarterly reports you file. You are responsible for recording the number of miles driven and fuel you purchase in each state.
Hiring out
The next step, if you have the time and perhaps would like to recoup some of your tractor-trailer investment, is to become a for-hire carrier, which means you begin competing with commercial carriers. As with an interstate private carrier, you will need the federal DOT number, IRP Apportioned plate and IFTA account. But now that you're hauling for another party, carrying commerce across state lines, you'll need operating authority from 38 of the 48 states you roll through. You register for this in your home state through the Single State Registration Program.
There are two types of operating authority: exempt and Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)/Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). If you plan to haul only grain or other raw, "unprocessed" commodities, the exempt classification is worth checking into, but it does limit what you can haul, especially if you're considering backhauling instead of dead heading (empty trailer) back home. Exempt authority motor carriers must contact each state they will be traveling through to apply for exempt authority, and certain states may or may not register exempt commodity motor carriers.
If you don't want to limit what you can haul, obtain ICC/FHWA (now called MC numbers issued by FHWA) authority. And don't forget to check with your home state to see if you also need intrastate authority for loading and unloading within your state.
Insure to survive
Once you plan to become a for-hire carrier, you must at least meet minimum insurance requirements established by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to obtain an operating registration.
If you operate vehicles with a GVWR of more than 10,000 lbs. and haul only nonhazardous materials, you are required to maintain $750,000 minimum liability coverage for the protection of the public. If hauling hazardous materials, the required minimum liability coverage jumps to between $1 million and $5 million, depending on type of materials being transported.
You also must carry cargo, bodily injury and property damage insurance, and many authorities also recommend a general liability umbrella policy. Check with an insurance agent familiar with motor carrier regulations to learn what insurance you need.
Tests and inspections
Finally, for a for-hire interstate carrier, there are numerous other important requirements such as record keeping, random drug and alcohol testing, DOT medical exams every two years, DOT annual vehicle inspections and more. Check with your state to make sure you comply with these and other rules of the road.
Regulation scenarios at a glance
Scenario A: You buy a tractor-trailer to haul your own grain within your home state only.
Private carrier, intrastate only: Purchase agriculture plates or base state license plates. No federal registration is required; no U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) number is required. Check with your state regarding fuel tax filing requirements. Most states do not require filing in an intrastate operation (you pay your fuel taxes at the pump), but some states, such as Michigan, require it.
Scenario B: You buy a tractor-trailer to haul your own grain and travel across state lines.
Private carrier, interstate: You need to file form MCS#150 to get a DOT number. Check with the states you intend to travel to or through to see if they accept your home state agriculture license plate. If not, get an International Registration Plan (IRP, Apportioned) plate for all the states you intend to cross. You also need to set up an International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA) account with your home state.
You may need to apply for a private carrier permit for the states of Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and Utah and set up a Highway Use Account for the states of Kentucky, New Mexico, New York and Oregon (these states require tax filings based on weight of vehicles and distance traveled).
Scenario C: You buy a tractor-trailer to haul your own grain and other farmers' grain ("for hire").
For-hire carrier, interstate (hauling grain only): You'll need a DOT number. You may consider applying for exempt status based on the commodity you are hauling (but this limits what you can haul), or you may opt to get an MC number (federal authority) in lieu of filing for exempt status. You also need to set up the IRP, IFTA account and, if you travel in Kentucky, New Mexico, New York or Oregon, a Highway Use account. For any intrastate transporting, you may need intrastate authority.
Scenario D: You buy a tractor-trailer to haul your own grain and other farmers' grain ("for hire"), plus you backhaul product for someone else.
For-hire carrier, interstate: You'll need a DOT number, MC number (federal authority), IRP plate, IFTA account and, if running in Kentucky, New Mexico, New York or Oregon, a Highway Use account. Also, if any loads are defined as intrastate, you will need to apply for intrastate authority as well.
For more information
American Trucking Association, www.truckline.com
Department of Transportation: Federal Highway Administration, www.fhwa.dot.gov
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, www.fmcsa.dot.gov
Fleet Owner magazine, www.fleetowner.com LogisticsWorld trucking library, www.logisticsworld.com/trucking/organizations.html
Mid-West Trucking Association, www.mid-westtruckers.com
National Conference of State Transportation Specialists, www.nrri.ohio-state.edu/ncsts.htm
Newport Publishing, www.truckinginfo.com
State trucking associations, www.scranet.org/links/StateAssoc.cfm
The Class A Truckstop, www.geocities.com/TheTropics/1608


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While atheists are privative (defined by what we're not),
That doesn't mean we're all the same—the whole ungodly lot—
Analysis finds atheists of many different stripes;
Most recently, the factors give us six distinctive types.
They found them scientifically; the factors loaded well
But because the subject's atheists, there's one thing I can tell:
While others might be sortable—these groups are there to see—
I've looked at all the labels, and there's not a one fits me!
So I was on the road Monday when the news broke on this–some more data-crunching has been done on the Non-Belief in America Research data. Earlier, a factor analysis on data from interviews yielded six types of atheists: the Intellectual Atheist/Agnostic, the Activist Atheist/Agnostic, the Seeker-Agnostic, the Anti-Theist, the Non-Theist, and the Ritual Atheist/Agnostic. Follow the link for fairly detailed descriptions of each type (here it is again).
Monday's numbers show the percentages of atheists (in a sample of just over a thousand) who self-identify with each category, as described at the link. They also, briefly, present some of the relationships between atheist type and various personality measures. It's interesting, if still in the very early stages.
My favorite bit, though, comes at the end. This report is addressed to the public, not to a peer-reviewed journal, so the authors take pains to put their findings in context:
If prejudice continues to exist towards atheists in general, one source may stem from the perceived negative experiences by religious people interacting with a very small sub-segment of the overall population of non-believers, mainly the Anti-Theists. In other words, our research showed over 85% of the non-believers sampled to be more or less your "average Joe" when it came to being "angry, argumentative and dogmatic", they fall right in line with current societal norms, nothing strange here – sorry non-believers, you're pretty normal when it comes to being psychologically well-adjusted.
It is also important to recognize that the "angry, argumentative and dogmatic" vignette,as used here, does not mean that these Anti-Theists don't have a right to be any of these things or that they are not even proper psychological responses when recontextualized in light of the Anti-Theists' life experiences to date. For example, many of the Antitheist typology had responded as recently deconverted from religious belief or socially displeased with the status quo, especially in high social tension-based geographies such as the Southeastern United States. If we engage in a small thought experiment by taking on the perspective of a recent deconvert from a religious tradition (many times a very conservative one) to atheism, it may be easy to see how this small sub segment is, and perhaps deserves to be, angry and argumentative after having previously accepted a worldview at odds with their current beliefs, or lack there-of, especially in areas of the country where high social tension exists between believers and non-believers in general.
It is very important to recognize that these comparisons are being made only within "non-belief". In other words, these results are not juxtaposed alongside "believers" or any subset of population that identifies as "religious" and therefore no conclusions or empirical inferences can be currently draw as to how the two groups, or rather sub segments of the two groups might stack up against each other. Certainly additional research should explore these typologies in relation to believers to see if such conclusions can hold true for outside perceptions.
And then, even further down, a little bit on the limitations of labels in scientific research. Factor analysis may show us which traits load together, but labeling that cluster of traits is up to the person doing the analysis. That person, as the researchers here, does their best to come up with a name that captures the feel of that subset of the data, aware that any one label must be incomplete, but needing one label. In this case, the label is supposed to represent a type of atheist–so good luck finding a label to please people, many of whom (like the crab in the William James quote they present) proudly reject labels of any sort:
As we finish writing this brief synopsis, Coleman is actually sitting across the table from a good friend (who we will call Bob which is not his real name but allows a reference point for this conversation) who self identifies as an "Anti-Theist" however, he says he does not consider what he, labels himself as, to be a reflection of our very specific research description of a typology we call "Antitheist". To the readers' credit, no doubt many of "you" might also share our friend's sentiments as they speak directly to any social scientific construction of every typology.
As social scientists we are forced to label, yet at the same time, we recognize qualitatively the limits inherent in any label. Certainly this was a research challenge for the project, one that almost derailed our process. Many of the participants disagreed about common use of terms of nonbelief but there was common agreement related to definitions of nonbelief. With this said Bob is not alone. Many of the participants were concerned with issues of social agendas and the separation of church and state. Furthermore, individuals like Bob were in many respects critical of the religious institutions and their agendas. The differences here in typology relate to the mode and value each participant places on how they engage issues of ontology. In other words, what is their preference for debating and considering the place religion and secularity play in our society? For many participants they question such social structures and are critical (antitheist) but their mode of behavior and belief may be different from the group we label antitheist. These labels were chosen by the research team to be reflective of the emotional, personality, and cognitive structures of value these people place on their worldviews (types).
So… take a look at their types. Which type are you? Are you, perhaps, a sub-type? (They are actively looking for subtypes at least within their first category.) Do you defy type? Myself, I suppose I mostly fit in the first category, but I see bits of me in the others as well.


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Time to clear out the DVR, stock up on snacks and toss that really comfy throw blanket into the wash: Fall TV is back! This season the networks are playing it safe and offering what they know people like: political dramas, romantic comedies, comic book heroes and yet another iteration of NCIS. Stick with what works, right?
Meet your new fall television season. New series are in italics, and the links lead to previews and more information about the shows. Also included below: what to expect from your favorite returning series, and premiere dates of cable shows. All dates and times are subject change, and more information will be added as it becomes available.
See also: MONDAYS – WEDNESDAYS – THURSDAYS – FRIDAYS – SATURDAYS – SUNDAYS
(Sept. 30)
Manhattan Love Story
(Sept. 30)
Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
(Sept. 23)
(Sept. 23; Preview Sept. 22)
(Sept. 23)
NCIS New Orleans
(Sept. 23)
Person of Interest
(Sept. 23)
The Flash
(Oct. 7)
(Oct. 7)
(Sept. 9)
New Girl
(Sept. 16)
The Mindy Project
(Sept. 16)
The Voice
(Sept. 23)
Marry Me
(Oct. 14)
About a Boy
(Oct. 14)
Chicago Fire
(Sept. 23)
Tuesday's new shows are all about romance and familiarity. Three new sitcoms will try to worm their way into our hearts with cutesy takes on the modern love story Tuesdays this fall. And as for the familiar, we are being offered yet another reality show that throws a bunch of wildly different people together to see what will happen; another comic book hero; and yet another NCIS. Yes, another one. And then there is the series about the 200-year-old immortal doctor, which when you get down to it, is basically another crime procedural with an overlay of romantic tension to keep it going. The same old same old.
Here at Tubular HQ, we will be blogging Supernatural and The Voice, paying half-attention to the results of Dancing with the Stars, watching New Girl, The Mindy Project, Marry Me and giving Utopia and Selfie a chance. Someone has to.
The early talk is that this sitcom, a My Fair Lady in the age of Twitter and Instagram, might be the first new fall series to be canceled. Considering it stars the very likable Karen Gillan (Doctor Who's Amy Pond) and John Cho (Harold from Harold and Kumar), I'm hoping that the series improves from the pilot — which is available on abc.go.com, and is not all that terrible, honestly.
This new romantic sitcom, on the other hand, which provides the internal monologues of a pair of twenty-somethings as their relationship develops, appears to be nothing but a bunch of lazy, sexist clichés slathered on top of a cheap rom-com movie from the 90s: Men can't help but stare at boobs! Women love purses! Men sleep around! Women cry!
And then there is this series about a 200-year-old immortal medical examiner. Forever appears to be a little bit Bones, a little bit Sherlock, a little bit Castle, a little bit 200-year-old immortal medical examiner — in other words, it's a run-of-the-mill criminal procedural with a dash of sexual tension that has been gussied up with a supernatural twist. That said, Ioan Guffard has a rakish charm, and the series seems to have the same easy-going sense of humor that has made Castle such a reliable performer for ABC.
It's NCIS, but in New Orleans.
With the success of Arrow, The CW has decided to take on an even bigger comic hero this fall, The Flash. It stars Glee's Grant Gustin as Barry Allen, an awkward scientist with a tragic childhood who becomes a crime-fighting superhero. Yes, I know that describes almost all superheroes, but The Flash can run fast. No, like, really, really fast, so that's … something.
From the supervillain who brought us Big Brother, The Voice and Fear Factor comes this new reality series in which 15 men and women are isolated and forced to create their own utopian society. There will, of course, be eliminations and a live stream of this year-long experiment. And possibly a live birth.
Casey Wilson's new husband, David Caspe, is the man who gave us the hilarious sitcom Happy Endings. After that series was taken from us much too soon, he developed this new romantic sitcom, starring his new bride and the hilarious Ken Marino as an engaged couple whose marriage is postponed until they can straighten out their chaotic lives. If this series is half as whip-smart and funny as Happy Endings (and having Casey Wilson star in it is a great place to start), it should be a delight.
Sons of Anarchy:
It's the final season, and since the series is loosely based on Hamlet, expect some characters to die. Scratch that: expect all the characters to die. (Exception: Horatio.)
Returning Shows:
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.:
Where we left off: Raina gave Skye's photo to a mysterious man, explaining that she found his daughter; Coulson awakens in the middle of the night with the same mental capacities and fixations that destroyed Garrett.
Where we go from here: Kyle MacLachlan, Lucy Lawless, Adrianne Palicki and Brian Patrick Wade are all set to guest star in the second season.
Where we left off: Agent Gibbs learns of his father's death.
Where we go from here: Tony will have a new love interest, dashing the hopes of "Tiva" fans — for now.
Person of Interest:
Where we left off: In an effort to hide from Samaritan, the team is forced to disperse and take on new identities.
Where we go from here: There will be a new police captain, and an increasingly dystopian society with the rise of Samaritan.
Where we left off: DEMON DEAN.
Where we go from here: A "musical-ish" episode? A "musical-ish" episode.
Where we left off: Tony Viachos won Survivor: Cagayan.
Where we go from here: Survivor: San Juan del Sur: 18 players, 9 sets of contestants, each set has a pre-existing relationships, all battle it out in Nicaragua.
New Girl:
Where we left off: Nick and Jess work at being just friends; Schmidt tries to woo Cece back.
Where we go from here: Jess starts dating other guys, including one she competes with Jessica Biel for; Kaitlin Olson from It's Always Sunny guest stars as Jess's dad's new love interest.
The Mindy Project:
Where we left off: Mindy and Danny finally accept they are meant for one another; reenact Sleepless in Seattle.
Where we go from here: Mindy and Danny work on their relationship; Rhea Pearlman joins the cast as Danny's mother; Niecy Nash joins the cast as a tough doctor.
About a Boy:
Where we left off: Will moves to New York.
Where we go from here: Marcus's group of friends gets a new leader; presumably Will returns.
Chicago Fire:
Where we left off: While fighting a huge fire, there is a catastrophic explosion and everyone — except Boden — is inside.
Where we go from here: Someone is going to die …
Other notable shows on Tuesdays this fall (new shows in italics):
7 p.m.
- Abby's Studio Rescue: Lifetime, Sept. 16
- Finding Your Roots: PBS, Sept. 23
- Motives & Murders: ID, Sept. 30
- Bad Girls Club: Oxygen, Oct. 7
8:00 p.m.
- 19 Kids & Counting: TLC, Sept. 2
- Yukon Men: Discovery, Sept. 2
- Inside the NFL: Showtime, Sept. 2
- MasterChef Canada: Cooking, Sept. 9
- If Loving You is Wrong: OWN, Sept. 9
- Makers: PBS, Sept. 30
- Beauty Queen Murders: ID, Sept. 30
- Big Break: Golf, Oct. 7
- Hotel Impossible: Travel, Oct. 7
- Nail'd It: Oxygen, Oct. 7
- Car Matchmaker: Esquire, Oct. 14
9 p.m.
- Ink Master: Spike, Sept. 2
- Little People, Big World: TLC, Sept. 2
- Sons of Anarchy: FX, Sept. 9
- Feherty: Golf, Sep. 9
- Kim of Queens: Lifetime, Sept. 16
- Awkward: MTV, Sept. 23
- Town of the Living Dead: Syfy, Oct. 7
- Resort Rescue: Travel, Oct. 7
- Chrisley Knows Best: USA, Oct. 14
- White Collar Brawlers: Esquire, Oct. 14
- Friends of the People: TruTV, Oct. 21
9:30 p.m.
- Adam Devine's House Party: Comedy Central, Sept. 9
- Brickleberry: Comedy, Sept. 16
- Faking It: MTV, Sept. 23
10 p.m.
- Tattoo Nightmares: Miami: Spike, Sept. 2
- Happyland: MTV, Sept. 30


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Abraham Lincoln Tourism Bureau of
Logan County
Start the new year by looking back in time
Two experts on the
Civil War era to visit Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and
Museum in January
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[January 09, 2014]
SPRINGFIELD — The Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is offering a chance to
start the new year by looking back in time to one of America's most
fascinating periods. Two experts on the Civil War era will speak at
the museum in January.
Wineapple's much-praised book examines a country aiming high and
growing quickly but divided over slavery, an evil that would drag
the country into war. The New York Times declared "Ecstatic Nation"
one of its 100 notable books of 2013 and said, "Wineapple brings
alive the vibrant, imperfect people behind the issues."
On Jan. 30, prize-winning historian Kenneth Martis visits the
Martis has delved deeper than anyone else into all 225 years of
American presidential and congressional election results, publishing
multiple books that analyze the numbers county by county. Martis has
found intriguing patterns, including parallels between Southern
voting in 1860 and 2008.
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Martis, a geography professor emeritus at West Virginia
University, will discuss his work at 6:30 p.m. in Union Theater. His
colorful maps will bring alive the story of the Lincoln elections of
1860 and 1864 much more vividly than mere numbers of electoral votes
and national vote counts can.
Tickets for both presentations are free, but reservations are
required. Visit
www.presidentlincoln.illinois.gov and click on "Special
event tickets," or call 217-558-8934.
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Department of Human Evolution
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Alexa Benson is a PhD student in the Department of Human Evolution at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and a participant of the Leipzig School of Human Origins (IMPRS).
She is an archaeological researcher with a broad-scoping education in both palaeoecological and geological sciences. Her master's thesis on minimalistic sampling techniques of Neanderthal teeth to obtain U-series age estimates and Sr isotopic information, presented an innovative new way to date human remains directly, while preserving the integrity and aesthetics of the materials themselves.
In her doctoral thesis, Alexa will focus on a large-scale comparative multiproxy study spanning the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. For this project, she plans to refine chronologies of some archaeological sites and provide a terrestrial palaeoclimate record spanning the last glacial period.
Prior to arriving to MPI-EVA, Alexa was a research assistant at the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne, where she primarily worked in a pollen laboratory. During this time she worked on high-resolution palaeoenvironmental records of sites across the Southern Hemisphere; primarily Tasmania, Australia. A multiproxy approach was used for this project, including microfossil, charcoal, geochemical and isotopic analysis to provide a comprehensive reconstruction of environmental change.


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Logan Morrison of the Florida Marlins (@LoMo on Twitter) and yours truly (@KeithOlbermann on Twitter) are both out with left foot injuries. His is a sprained arch plus ligament damage to the top of his foot. Mine is a stress fracture on the top of my foot. He's in a hard cast till next week, on crutches; I'm in a soft cast, on a cane.
The outfielder who got off to such an outstanding start was one of my wisest acquisitions for my fantasy team, and I was honored to be able to thus name the squad in memory of his late father, as I named it last year after my late father.
Needless to say, with all these coincidences, naturally we have somehow managed to challenge each other to make the cliche come to life: the proverbial one-legged men in the butt-kicking contest. We have exchanged challenge photos:
To which Mr. Morrison has responded:Frankly, I'm betting on him. Better stance, far better balance, and the cast is a huge advantage over my surgical shoe.
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Awesome photos! I think he's @LoMoMarlins, though, not @LoMo.
Hop! Hop for your life, man!
LOL. Morrison has that whole Ralph Macchio in "The Karate Kid" vibe going on. You gotta bring it, Keith, and get that leg up higher! Paging Mr. Miyagi to help Keith. . .paging Mr. Miyagi. . .
My vote is for Morrison, but I wish you both a speedy recovery.
Love it! My friend Virginia also has a soft cast on her left foot (just had the hard one taken off yesterday). Is this contest open to all comers? 😉
Paul Newman in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" has nothing on you Keith. As long as you didn't hurt yourself with a pie-in-the-face post-game celebration like Chris Coghlan did or jumping on home plate like Kendry/Kendrys (Hooray/Ouch) Morales.
He's got cast advantage on you, Keith. Not to mention age & superior athleticism. But you are gritty-gutty, I'm sure you'll prevail.
good job KO! nice jeans. can you trip right wingnuts with that cane? you could do it soooo innocently!
One of the best things is that below the pictures, it says: Possibly Related Posts: automatically generated 3 Foot Rule, my Butt! You both have kicked enough butt to get in the Butt Kickers Hall of Fame! LoMo has crutches too close to armpits (speaking from experience after getting hit by a car as a pedestrian in Seattle.) Whoever prevails goes on to the one-armed paper hanging contest, so be careful! ;o)
Rats — he'll probably still be laid up when the Marlins hit AT&T Park; wouldn't have minded seeing him on the field. (I started following him on Twitter based on your repartee with him; he's quite a character.)
I think you would be victorious in any butt kicking contest no matter what you were wearing on your feet. Injured or not! 🙂
Just a couple of weeks ago you told us how you thought Bob Sheppard's "post-mortem introductions of Jeter have… become disturbing." You went on to describe this as "creepy." In your current blog post, you inform us how your fantasy baseball team has been named in two successive years after deceased fathers. Your hypocrisy has long ago ceased to be surprising, but it is amusing, nonetheless.
Wow – two totally different things.
John's a tool.
Love you Keith, but my bet is on him too.
Did you know that when Brandon Morrow of the Toronto Blue Jays faced Sam Fuld of the Tampa Bay Rays last Saturday that it was two Type I Diabetics facing each other?
Way to go, big guy. Lure him into a false sense of security.


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I am a bit of a perfume junkie. If you have been followinng this blog for any significant length of time you may have figured that out yourself. I think I have a slightly accute sense of smell and an infidèle addiction to perfumes. But there are a handful of scents that I truly, truly love, and will hold onto for many years to come… They are quite a varied collection, with a different mood and humeur for different days, seasons and desires.
Annick Goutal created in 1998 a perfume dedicated to her daughter Camille, and called it Petite Chérie. ("Little Sweetie"). This perfume embodies to me, that ultime desire for a delightful snuggle, and soft, happy and wonderful hug from someone who loves you dearly. The perfume is floral and sweet with a strong hint of pear, but does not have that stickiness to its sweet side. It smells more like a fresh juicy pear that you just bit into. A discrete perfume. It is the smell of pure bliss. Continue reading


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ATLANTA - A new study projects that expanding Georgia's Medicaid health care program would cost the state about $2.5 billion over a decade while providing half a million uninsured Georgians with coverage.
The study, released Monday by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, estimates that more than $33 billion in new federal money would flood into Georgia over a 10-year period.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/SpsJtE) that the study is the latest analysis of the cost of expanding Medicaid under the health law.
Nationwide, state leaders are debating whether to expand the program as they continue to struggle with huge budget shortfalls.
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"I see how dedicated all of our employees are to making sure we serve our educator customers well," said Hinkle, who is a learning consultant for the company. "I take pride in teaching my coworkers about programs to assist our educators and helping make connections to our brand."
Hinkle volunteers for Springfield's Big Brothers, Big Sisters program. "Through this program, I've gotten to know the teachers at the school, the folks in the cafeteria, and I understand what they go through to educate our students. The neat piece is I'm able to transcend that information over to the classroom I teach in at Horace Mann."
Assistant Vice President of Enterprise Learning Solutions, Jill Kilroy, said Hinkle is a great ambassador for the company. "Edward not only coaches our employees about the company's success profiles and cultural expectations, but he also lives them," said Kilroy. "He is extremely dedicated to this company, his fellow employees and our customers."
President and CEO Marita Zuraitis presented the award to Hinkle in front of more than 1,000 employees at the company's annual employee meeting Thursday.
Hinkle was selected for Horace Mann's pinnacle award after being named the February 2015 Employee of the Month from among more than 1,300 non-agent employees. As Employee of the Year, Hinkle will represent Horace Mann at various community events throughout the year. He will also receive a trip-for-two to the company's Leadership Conference in Vienna, Austria and a $2,500 debit card.
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Wonderfully juicy and tender chicken patties, these are delightfully different. As usual Anna's creative take on complimentary sauces makes this recipe a standout. I've added my hints and comments within brackets, below.
Anna's comments about this recipe~
"Translated, frickadellen means "large meatballs, lightly flattened". We make them in large quantities at Loaves and Fishes. They're so much in demand because they are juicy and tender, and reheat well. We serve them on a toasted bun with a side of green salad, or as a dinner entree with a side of couscous."
Chicken Frickadellen with Caper and Lemon Topping
Adapted from "Summer on a Plate" by Anna Pump
To make the chicken patties:
2 pounds boneless chicken thighs, skinned, trimmed of fat, and cut into large chunks
1 cup minced onions
1 cup soft fresh bread crumbs
2 large eggs
1 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon smoked Spanish paprika
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
3 Tablespoons olive oil
1 cup finely chopped onion
1/3 cup capers in brine, drained
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
Place chicken in a food processor fitted with the metal blade. Pulse a few times until coarsely chopped. Transfer chopped meat into a large bowl. Add the onion, bread crumbs, eggs, lemon juice, salt, paprika, cumin and cayenne. With your hands , knead until well combined.
[I just used a silicone spatula and mixed it really, really well.]Shape into 8 patties.
I used a portion scoop (ice cream scoop) to portion the patties. There is no photo in the book, but Anna must make her patties quite large (approximately the size of a beef burger). I halved the recipe and made 8 patties, I like the smaller size, they are easier to flip and make a pretty presentation on the plate. But for sandwiches, I would make the patties larger, to fit the bun.
To grill:
Brush the grill lightly with oil. Cook the patties over medium-hight heat for 12 minutes, turning them once.
To saute:
Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet. Saute the patties over medium heat for 12 to 14 minutes, turning them once, until cooked.
[These may have a tendancy to brown too quickly (before cooking all the way through) so I sauteed mine, then transfered to a preheated 325* oven for a few minutes to make sure they were cooked through.]
For the topping: (Don't skip! This puts them over-the-top.)
In the olive oil, saute the onion in a skillet over low heat about 8 minutes, until onions are light brown, & glossy. Add the capers and cook 3 minutes, stirring a few times. Add the lemon juice, turn the heat to high and cook 30 seconds. Spoon the topping over the patties and sprinkle with parsley.
Yields 4 servings
This recipe can be doubled.
I served the patties with couscous cooked in chicken broth and topped with toasted pine nuts, and a lemon wedge on the side.
They were so good ~ I look forward to making these again soon.


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Eleven workers were hurt, two critically, on Tuesday after an explosion and fire at a metal-polishing company in northwestern Orange County.
Many of the victims suffered facial and forearm burns in the 9:49 a.m. explosion at Gorilla's Polishing Corp. at 531 E. Commercial Way in La Habra (map), according to Greg Siggins of Cal/OSHA, the state agency investigating the blast.
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Fire officials told NBC4 that the blast was likely not caused by any chemicals used at the business, but possibly from a build-up of lint or dust in ducts in the building.
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Art is often said to have healing powers, and beginning tomorrow many people who live in the path of Hurricane Sandy — which struck a month ago — will have a chance to see a piece of art created for them. It's a "monumental" laser installation by Yvette Mattern called Global Rainbow, After the Storm, launched from the rooftop of the Standard Hotel at the Highline. Designed to illuminate the night sky and be visible for up to 35 miles (depending on atmospheric conditions), the work will aim seven beams of high power light lasers over communities hit by Sandy. It "aims to symbolize hope and act as a call to action to support the communities that were devastated by the storm," according to the press release.
Mattern's installation, which has been presented in Europe (you may have seen it at the London Olympics), will shine for three nights, from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. nightly, from Nov. 27 through Nov. 29.
It's a project of the Art Production Fund, and — naturally, given the occasion — it contains a fundraising element. It hopes to encourage donations to two groups. One is Waves for Water, a non-profit that has been working with relief organizations in coastal communities in Staten Island, New Jersey, Rockaway Beach and Long Beach to bring much needed on-site support to victims. (You can make donations at the link above.). The other is New York Foundation for the Arts, whose Emergency Relief Fund is assisting artists who suffered damage and loss in Sandy's wake. (Use this link, and be sure to click the box for the relief fund at the bottom.)
In the release, Mattern says, "I hope that seeing this beacon in the night sky will provide people with a sense of peace and security in this time of crisis and that it will unify us with its presence so we remember that we are all in this together, regardless of divisions of class, race, religion and culture."
That's asking a lot of art, but … at times like these, it's nice to remember that art can have a higher purpose and a universal appeal.
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This collection contains the papers of Dr. Roger W. and Frances S. Arnold. Dr. Roger W. Arnold was a doctor who practiced Naprapathy and massage, an active member of the First Presbyterian Church of Miami, and a World War II air warden. Frances S....


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I designed the Hershey's Shamrock and Four Leaf Clover two years ago. This year for the 2 year anniversary, I'm celebrating by sharing a video tutorial to show more of you how easy it is to make. In this video I'll teach you how to make a template for both the shamrock and the 4-leaf clover so that you just have to measure once. All the supplies you'll need for this project are available for purchase HERE!
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STEUBEN COUNTY, IN (WFLA) – A minor was charged with boating while intoxicated after a runaway boat injured 10 people in Indiana over the weekend.
Authorities in Steuben County, Indiana say the 21-foot boat was going 30 miles per hour when it ran amok in Lake Gage on Saturday.
They say the boat's 20-year-old driver was speeding when she cut into a sharp turn, throwing everyone off.
The boat rammed a dock, then a patrol boat with two conservation officers on board. They weren't hurt. That hit though slowed the engine, and one of the officers was able to hop aboard and stop the boat.
Four of the people who were thrown were seriously injured. One person suffered a skull fracture, another person lost part of their arm.
Dominique Effinger was arrested and charged with boating while intoxicated causing injury and being a minor in possession of alcohol.


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There's supposedly been a slight (intentional) color modification to the Dooku saber that's included with Anakin, going from a pinkish hue, to more of a red:Take that as you will. Might happen to the Dooku figure as well, no idea. I'll have to see a couple in person to decide if it's something I want to go after.And John, scroll back a page or two, as I think I mentioned somewhere that the Deluxe Vader indeed does come with different noggins, which are just as scar mentioned above: Flat and very battle scarred, glossy with a wash effect to it, and glossy and clean. Sounds like those are the chronological order they were released in as well, so the really jacked up version will likely be the tougher one to find.Also, it looks like we never mentioned the #36 Exploding Grievous change. They moved his lightsaber from the left side of the bubble (mostly hidden by the insert picture) over to the right side of the bubble where it's much easier to see. I've seen the revised version a number of times in the past couple weeks, since it's been shipping in the newer assortments.
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date back
To have originated at an earlier time. This phrase is often followed by "to" and then the corresponding time frame or historical figure. I know she thinks that this vase is some great antique, but I doubt it dates back more than 30 years. This vase dates back to the Victorian period. This vase dates back to Queen Victoria.
date back (to someone or some time)
to have origins that extend back to the time of someone or something. This part of the palace dates back to Catherine the Great. This is old! It really must date back.


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A couple of weeks ago, Gil and Kelly Jo Bates of Lake City, Tennessee, welcomed their 19th child.
Here are the names and ages of all 19:
- Zachary Gilvin, called "Zach," 23
- Michaella Christian, called "Michael," 22 (Per Kelly: "We actually pronounced Michaella like the male version Michael with "uh" sound on the end (thus the two "L's").")
- Erin Elise, 20
- William Lawson, called "Lawson," 19
- Kenneth Nathaniel, called "Nathan," 18
- Alyssa Joy, 17
- Tori Layne, 16
- Trace Whitfield, 15
- Carlin Brianne, 13
- Josie Kellyn, 12
- Katie Grace, 11
- Jackson Ezekiel, 9
- Warden Justice, 8
- Isaiah Courage, 7
- Addallee Hope, 5 (Touching explanation of the spelling of her name, per their About Our Family page: "The double letters in her name remind us that God gave her a second chance in life when she was born with complications that caused her breathing and her heart to stop.")
- Ellie Bridget, 4
- Callie-Anna Rose, 2
- Judson Wyatt, 1
- Jeb Colton, newborn
Have any favorites?
P.S. They also have a dog named Johnny and a cat named Kitty.
Sources: Gil and Kelly Bates Welcome Baby No. 19, America's largest family, the Bates, on miracle 19th child who survived after failing to breathe on his own at birth


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It has now been a week since the transition from being a control state to an open market began its final phase. The retail side of the market made its switch to private operation. There was excitement, angst, confusion, and anticipation as the first day of sales came along. Consumers had a whole new reality to suddenly live with. As with many things, there are good and bad aspects to it all. (Full disclosure, I am a partner in a distributor here in Washington, take that as you will, but I try not to let it cloud my judgment.)
Convenience has increased as you can now get your groceries and booze in one place. Several retailers are working hard at increasing selection, and already there are bottles on the shelves that were never before seen in Washington. Everyone in those stores is scrambling to learn as fast as they can about all that's on their shelves, and they've hired on all of the staffers and managers who really cared from the state stores.
So what's the downside? Well, the vast majority of stores only have a tiny selection so far. Most distributors are having problems with supplying all of their customers with everything that they are asking for, as no one could properly predict demand, and some distributors are still not close to being fully organized. However, the really big issue so far has been pricing to the consumer.
The most frustration felt by anyone so far yet has been on the part of the everyday consumer who walks into a store and wants to buy a bottle of liquor. Prices on shelves don't reflect all of the hideously high taxes that we have saddled ourselves with here. 20.5% liquor sales tax and a $3.77 litre tax are what then get added to the price shown on the self. Why not just show that on the shelf tag? Well, the simplest argument is that nothing else in a store has tax added to the price already on the shelf tag. Why treat liquor any differently?
This has left consumers to try and do the math in their heads to figure out what the final price will be. After all, with rates like those it's not an insignificant amount of money that gets added on. The fact that the state used to include those taxes in their price tags is more a reflection of the fact that they only sold liquor in their stores and had nothing else there to confuse the issue.
In all of this though consumers are left to ask, weren't we promised lower prices to go with the convenience, and eventual larger selections? Well, that was certainly a hope, and in reality would not have been outside the realm of possibility were it not for one sticky little proviso that seems to have been lost in all of the discussions. Contained within the initiative to privatize liquor was a "fee" that added on 27% to the cost of liquor. This "fee" was intended to make up extra revenue for the state over and above the liquor taxes. It is made up of a 10% "fee" that distributors must pay to the state and a 17% "fee" that retailers must pay to the state. These aren't exactly numbers that can just be easily absorbed as has been suggested by several of those who read that far in. The worst part is, for those who did read that far even fewer realise that the sunset clause on those fees that will cut them in half in 2 years only applies to distributors. Retailers must continue to charge 17% in perpetuity.
So is this a rousing success so far? No, but I think given time and the inevitable revolts among the electorate of Washington to roll back taxes in the next year or so there will be a balance struck and many of the promises and assumptions that were made will come to fruition. Until then, buckle up and ask yourself is the glass full?
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Research Projects: VizClass
|Project Name
|VizClass - Expanding Engineering Thinking: Interactive Visualization Of Numerical Models
|Team Members
|Tara C. Hutchinson, Falko Kuester, Dirk Groeneveld, Mike Elkin, Mark E. Phair and Kai-Uwe Doerr
|Assessment Team
|Mark Warschauer and Doug Grimes (Department of Education)
|Project Sponsor
|National Science Foundation (NSF) and HP Philantropy
Though the field of engineering has changed dramatically in the last 20 years, the study of engineering has changed relatively little. Students continue to passively listen to lectures in chalkboard-based environments that afford them little opportunity for visualization, hands-on manipulation, interaction, or creative design. Indeed, almost all of these skills- which are vital for engineering- are learned through on-the-job practice, rather than at universities. A continuation of this trend threatens to weaken the relevancy of engineering and computer science study at the university. This project targets the development of a combined research and interactive learning environment—incorporating both a specially designed lecture room and laboratory- called VizClass.
VizClass provides a completely digital, interactive workspace for research and education in the areas of Computer Science and Engineering. Application courses include computer graphics, scientific visualization, and numerical methods (finite element methods) in structural engineering. The IT-space serves as an educational environment as well as a space for interdisciplinary research centered around simulation and visualization, providing an IT development test bed advancing system level research and education.
A 65 square meter classroom in the Engineering Gateway building on the UC Irvine campus was allocated for the development of VizClass. In the original room, approximately 20 students passively listened to white board lectures provided at the working front space of the room. Since 2003 the room was reconstructed, redesigned and remodeled to provide support for a new advanced IT-hardware layout incorporating a range of 2D and 3D displays, driving computational systems, and interactive devices
VizClass integrates 2- and 3-dimensional spatial learning by coupling a series of interactive projection display boards (2D white boards) and a semi-immersive (3D stereo equipped) wall display controlled by a dedicated visualization server. Each of these spaces (devices) is connected to a numerical solver. Test bed verification of VizClass is focussed on finite element methods applicable to civil and structural engineering problem solving at the graduate education level. Faculty and student researchers from the Departments of Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering and Education are collaborating on this project.
This research is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number EIA-0203528 and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering (HSSoE). The above support is greatly appreciated.
Courses Taught in VizClass
- EECS 104 Fundamentals of Computer Graphics]
- EECS 105 Fundamentals of Scientific Visualization
- EECS 205 Avanced Scientific Visualization
- EECS 208 Principles of Virtual Reality
- Hutchinson, T. C. and Kuester, F. (2004). Developing an advanced IT-based visualization classroom for enhanced engineering learning, Chapter 18, pages 189–200. Edited by Win Aung et al., Begell House Publishing. Engineering Education and Research - 2004: A Chronicle of Worldwide Innovations.
- Hutchinson, T. C. and Kuester, F. (2004). Hardware architecture for a visualization classroom: Vizclass. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Wiley Press, 12(4):232–241.
- Kuester, F. and Hutchinson, T. C. (2005). A virtualized laboratory for earthquake engineering education. ASEE Journal of Engineering Education. Accepted for Publication, December 27, 2005.
- Grimes, D., Warschauer, M., Hutchinson, T. C., and Kuester, F. (200x). Graphics Programming in a Graphics Classroom: Experiences with VizClass. ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC). Accepted for publication.
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Related Resarch Projects
- VizION
- GateKeeper
- SketchFEA
- SmartKey
- SmartPen
- iCARE
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This debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party's embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don't matter if they result from tax cuts.
In 1981, traditional Republicans supported tax cuts, matched by spending cuts, to offset the way inflation was pushing many taxpayers into higher brackets and to spur investment. The Reagan administration's hastily prepared fiscal blueprint, however, was no match for the primordial forces — the welfare state and the warfare state — that drive the federal spending machine.
Ahh, yes... three decades ago....
THE underlying problem of the deficits first surfaced, to Stockman's embarrassment, in the Senate Budget Committee in mid-April, when committee Republicans choked on the three-year projections supplied by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Three Republican senators refused to vote for a long-term budget measure that predicted continuing deficits of $60 billion, instead of a balanced budget by 1984.
Stockman thought he had taken care of embarrassing questions about future deficits with a device he referred to as the "magic asterisk." (Senator Howard Baker had dubbed it that in strategy sessions, Stockman said.) The "magic asterisk" would blithely denote all of the future deficit problems that were to be taken care of with additional budget reductions, to be announced by the President at a later date. Thus, everyone could finesse the hard questions, for now.
"Hastily prepared"?! To be fair, Stockman himself was an anti-government ideologue rather than a supply-side true believer, and the Reagan administration did change course and the tax cuts were partially reversed. But, nonetheless, three decades ago he entered into an alliance of convenience with the supply-siders and one can trace a pretty direct line between the policies he helped usher in and the nonsense he now laments. Of course, a return now to pre-Reagan Republican balanced budget dogma, as Stockman is calling for today, would be another kind of pernicious stupidity....
The quote above is from William Greider's famous 1981 Atlantic article "The Education of David Stockman." Stockman later wrote a book about his experience in the Reagan White House, which was reviewed by Michael Kinsley for the Times.
Update (8/6): Bruce Bartlett, who as a staffer for Congressman Jack Kemp also played a supporting role in the 1981 tax cuts, considers Stockman's "eclectic ideological journey."


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Notes from the South: North Carolina Barbecue
In North Carolina, barbecue means chopped pigs. No fatty ribs or spice-rubbed brisket—just the whole hog or the shoulder (depending on the region) slowly smoked overnight using hickory or pecan wood.
The meat is then pulled off the bones and chopped up into finer shreds and chunks. To enjoy the pork hash in its purest, smokiest form, the condiments are sparse. In the West, a bit of chili pepper, vinegar, and sugary tomato sauce might accompany the pork. In the East, it's customary to add vinegar or a thin mustard-based sauces.
During a recent trip down South, I spent a few extra days in North Carolina eating my way through the barbecue joints, including Wilber's, Lexington, and Allen and Son. While chopped-up hog will never be my favorite style of barbecue, over time I came to appreciate the nuances of the dish: the chewy nubs of exterior pig with just a bit of browned crust; the tender, juicy sections of interior hog that soak up the majority of the dressing; the modest bits of crispy pork skin mixed or added in; and every little sliver of meat in between.
For your viewing pleasure, here's a look at some classic North Carolina barbecue joints spanning the western and eastern divide.
Wilber's Barbecue
4172 US Highway 70, Goldsboro NC 27534 (map)
10 Hwy 29-70 South, Lexington NC 27295 (map) 336-249-9814
Allen and Son
6203 Millhouse Road, Chapel Hill NC 27516 (map) 919-942-7576
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