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45-1011.05 - First-Line Supervisors of Logging Workers
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of logging workers.
Sample of reported job titles: Crew Foreman, Crew Leader, Crew Supervisor, Feller Buncher Operator (FB Operator), Harvesting Supervisor, Loader Operator Supervisor, Logging Crew Foreman, Logging Crew Supervisor, Logging Supervisor, Trucking Supervisor
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings
- Monitor workers to ensure that safety regulations are followed, warning or disciplining those who violate safety regulations.
- Monitor logging operations to identify and solve problems, improve work methods, and ensure compliance with safety, company, and government regulations.
- Change logging operations or methods to eliminate unsafe conditions.
- Train workers in tree felling or bucking, operation of tractors or loading machines, yarding or loading techniques, or safety regulations.
- Assign to workers duties such as trees to be cut, cutting sequences and specifications, or loading of trucks, railcars, or rafts.
- Supervise or coordinate the activities of workers engaged in logging operations or silvicultural operations.
- Plan or schedule logging operations, such as felling or bucking trees or grading, sorting, yarding, or loading logs.
- Determine logging operation methods, crew sizes, or equipment requirements, conferring with mill, company, or forestry officials as necessary.
- Communicate with forestry personnel regarding forest harvesting or forest management plans, procedures, or schedules.
- Coordinate dismantling, moving, and setting up equipment at new work sites.
- Coordinate the selection and movement of logs from storage areas, according to transportation schedules or production requirements.
- Schedule work crews, equipment, or transportation for several different work locations.
- Prepare production or personnel time records for management.
Technology Skills
- Accounting software — BCS Woodlands Software The Logger Tracker
- Data base user interface and query software — Database software
- Inventory management software — Landmark Sales LOG-istics; TradeTec Computer Systems TallyWorks Logs
- Map creation software — Mapping software
- Office suite software — Microsoft Office
- Spreadsheet software
- Word processing software
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Agricultural tractors — Logging tractors
- Air compressors
- All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled — Four wheel drive 4WD vehicles
- Axes
- Backhoes
- Conventional truck cranes — Mobile logging cranes
- Digital camcorders or video cameras — Video camera systems
- Dollies — Logging arches
- Forestry saws — Pruning shears
- Forestry skidders — Log skidders
- Front end loaders
- Gas generators — Gas-powered generators
- Global positioning system GPS receiver — Geodetic ground global positioning system GPS receivers
- Grapples — Timber tongs
- Hard hats
- Hoists — Hoisting racks
- Lumbering equipment — Chain flail delimbers; Grapple processors; Grapple yarders; Sawbucks (see all 9 examples)
- Personal computers
- Portable data input terminals — Portable data collectors
- Power saws — Chain saws
- Saws — Hand saws
- Sonars — Sonar equipment
- Tape measures — Measuring tapes
- Track bulldozers — Tracked bulldozers
- Track excavators — Tracked excavators
- Track loaders — Knuckleboom loaders
- Two way radios
- Winches — Cable winches
- Mechanical — Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
- Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
- Transportation — Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
- Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Operation and Control — Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Operation Monitoring — Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Instructing — Teaching others how to do something.
- Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Quality Control Analysis — Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Systems Evaluation — Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Troubleshooting — Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Control Precision — The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Far Vision — The ability to see details at a distance.
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Multilimb Coordination — The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Reaction Time — The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Depth Perception — The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Auditory Attention — The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Static Strength — The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Hearing Sensitivity — The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Perceptual Speed — The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Rate Control — The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Response Orientation — The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Visual Color Discrimination — The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Work Activities
- Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment — Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or water craft.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Controlling Machines and Processes — Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment — Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
- Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
- Monitoring and Controlling Resources — Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
- Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates — Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
- Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
- Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
Detailed Work Activities
- Inspect products or operations to ensure that standards are met.
- Determine forestry techniques or methods.
- Train workers in farming, forestry, or hunting techniques.
- Assign duties or work schedules to employees.
- Communicate with other workers to coordinate activities.
- Direct activities of agricultural, forestry, or fishery employees.
- Coordinate forestry or agricultural activities.
- Schedule agricultural or forestry work.
- Estimate labor or resource requirements for forestry, fishing, or agricultural operations.
- Maintain personnel records.
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Work Context
- Frequency of Decision Making — 97% responded "Every day."
- Outdoors, Exposed to Weather — 90% responded "Every day."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 87% responded "Every day."
- Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets — 92% responded "Every day."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 74% responded "Very important results."
- In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment — 89% responded "Every day."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 69% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 81% responded "More than 40 hours."
- Telephone — 65% responded "Every day."
- Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 65% responded "Very high responsibility."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 62% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Contact With Others — 66% responded "Constant contact with others."
- Responsibility for Outcomes and Results — 56% responded "Very high responsibility."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 66% responded "Extremely important."
- Exposed to Hazardous Equipment — 73% responded "Every day."
- Exposed to Contaminants — 55% responded "Every day."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 48% responded "Very important."
- Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable — 57% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — 57% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Very Hot or Cold Temperatures — 36% responded "Every day."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 47% responded "Extremely important."
- Time Pressure — 54% responded "Every day."
- Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment — 50% responded "Extremely important."
- Consequence of Error — 42% responded "Extremely serious."
- Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions — 42% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- In an Open Vehicle or Equipment — 56% responded "Every day."
- Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings — 29% responded "Every day."
- Deal With External Customers — 28% responded "Very important."
- Level of Competition — 35% responded "Highly competitive."
- Spend Time Sitting — 34% responded "More than half the time."
- Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled — 44% responded "Every day."
- Electronic Mail — 36% responded "Never."
- Exposed to Whole Body Vibration — 37% responded "Never."
- Spend Time Standing — 42% responded "Less than half the time."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
|These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
|Related Experience
|Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others. Examples include orderlies, counter and rental clerks, customer service representatives, security guards, upholsterers, and tellers.
|SVP Range
|(4.0 to < 6.0)
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- Enterprising — Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
- Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
- Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
Work Styles
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
Work Values
- Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
- Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
- Relationships — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
Related Occupations
Wages & Employment Trends
Median wage data for First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers.
Employment data for First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers.
Industry data for First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers.
|Median wages (2019)
|$23.21 hourly, $48,280 annual
|State wages
|Local wages
|Employment (2018)
|55,700 employees
|Projected growth (2018-2028)
|Little or no change (-1% to 1%)
|Projected job openings (2018-2028)
|State trends
|Top industries (2018)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019 wage data and 2018-2028 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2018-2028). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.


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On the ICE exchange, Brent oil for August delivery UK:LCOQ4, which is the most sensitive to developments in Iraq, rose 85 cents, or 0.7%, at $114.30 a barrel, hitting its highest level in nine months as Sunni militants and Iraqi government forces battled for control of the nation's largest refinery.
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Hey gang.. Got back not too long ago from the maiden voyage for the dawes 29er. A wintry Feb. 09.2013
Temps in the mid to upper 20s, winds N, 15-20 Partial clouds, sun peeks. Recent snow fall left the landscape clean and surreal..
Beautiful Wisconsin winter cycling.,, Good for the soul.
The dawes HM2900 while a work in progress, is progressing quite nicely. The parts upgrades trimmed some weight off 33# outa box- (18") bike for sure, but that aint all the swap did to turn this once seemingly able, albeit heavy bike into a proving to be very agile, very responsive, fast, fun... dirt machine!
My choice of parts needing or benefiting from upgrades partially hinged on what I had in my personal schwag, parts inventory. Being involved in cycling on diverse fronts; first of which is a replanted early/mid '90s mountain biker - soon to be pseudo roady toad, to being an able part time wrench... Like the vast majority of forum members here, I love bikes!
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FRAME: 6061 aluminum. Hydoformed box head tube to seat tube, multishaped tubing with very clean and ample-solid looking welds throughout. This is a very stiff but somehow compliant feeling frame .. add to that the Salsa cromoto Grande fork. Sweet compliant, beefy resiliency. I have very high expectations for this Salsa fork in the rough stuff this spring!
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The parts upgrades, were for me no nonsense, common sense tried and true picks. Look, I am hanging on 230# @5' 10". I am a fairly strong rider so I cant justify the sticker shock of the pretty - bling, bling nifty weight conscious bits when the tried and true is all you need to do!
The cockpit picks consisted of sturdy, well made Easton bar & stem and FSA seatpost with the stock WTB same old saddle.
Being that my budget dictates a lifestyle that consists of a lot of do it yourself abilities. The proverbial "Jack of all trades...." However,
I cant stress enough my love for all things bicycles! Building, working a bicycle and making it run are far more than a means of obtaining spare change. It truly is something I am very passionate about. Whether I am building a winter project or doing a spring tune up I am meticulous down to minute detailus. With more than just a few frame up builds and countless repair / restos you sort of develop a sense of what will work and what may not...depending... This bike had 'that' presence about it out-of-box. Built as packaged, the bike may work... but the raw potential for upgrade as you go and bare frame build ups, is pretty cool!
For the newb rider. . The bike in stock form seems a solid buy when you consider what you are getting for a small outlay. Keeping in mind that the HM2900 is near the entry level for 29er offroad intended bikes, it has a lot to offer down the trail when stuff wears out.
I was very pleased with the get up n' go snap this frame has. The bike should love the dirty stuff!
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Easton flat 6 sweep 31.8 bar, Easton 105 x 6 stem, Specialized bar ends, FSA 280 27.2 seatpost (not pictured)
Shimano drive bits; Deore rear derailleur, Alivio front derailleur
Alivio Rapid Fire shifters (24 sp.)
Avid levers. *still trying to burn in the Tektro Novela discs*
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Surprise! President Donald Trump is once again threatening to shut down the government over his desire for stricter immigration policies and funding for a border wall with Mexico.
"I would be willing to 'shut down' government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall!" Trump tweeted Sunday morning. "Must get rid of Lottery, Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based on MERIT! We need great people coming into our Country!"
The president reiterated the threat at a news conference Monday. "I always leave room for negotiations, he said, before adding that he "would certainly be willing" to shut down the government to get immigration reform done. Trump added that $25 billion in funding for the wall is not a "red line" for him.
Is the president's latest threat just political posturing? Or could Trump follow through and let a partial shutdown take place just five weeks before Election Day?
Here's a breakdown of the latest shutdown showdown:
TV may have driven Trump to tweet. Both Fox News and CNN featured segments about the possible shutdown on Sunday morning, shortly before Trump's tweet. "I think the president would be wise to reiterate that he would shut it down if they won't give a border wall," co-host Pete Hegseth said during a segment on "Fox and Friends" Sunday.
This could just be more Trump bluster. "Just letting off some steam," one congressional aide told CNN. "At our expense, per usual." The president likely doesn't mind one bit if his Twitter grenades help take some attention away from other news stories.
Trump's threats have little credibility at this point. The Washington Post's Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Damian Paletta provide this reminder: "Both last year and this year, Trump said he would shut down the government if Democrats didn't agree to fund construction of the wall. Both times, Democrats refused, and both times, Trump agreed to sign spending bills that did not include funds for a new wall along the southern border."
Trump relishes a fight. "A shutdown fight is coming. Period," CNN's Phil Mattingly reports. "The President and his top advisers want it -- and view it to be politically beneficial when it comes to immigration and the wall, according to multiple aides involved in spending discussions." Republicans running for office may disagree, but Trump is making his priorities clear.
He loves playing to his base. Trump is systematically picking fights he thinks are popular with his base, writes Amber Phillips of The Washington Post. His other targets this weekend included the media and attacking the Mueller probe as a partisan witch hunt.
And he thinks this issue will help in November. "The midterms are going to come down to turnout," Andy Surabian, a Republican strategist and former White House official told The Wall Street Journal. "It's going to be which base is more energized to turn out and vote. And there's not an issue that touches the president's base more strongly than immigration. Talking about immigration will help motivate Republicans to turn out in November."
Or maybe this is just about keeping the Senate under GOP control. "What I think President Trump is probably doing here is trying to run up wins in the Senate as much as he can, being willing to sacrifice the House," radio host Ross Kaminsky said on Fox News. "For Republicans to pick up seats in the Senate, they have to win in places that Donald Trump won – win seats that are currently held by Democrats." Trump may be trying to build GOP momentum and turnout in key races like those in Indiana, Michigan and Missouri.
But he's giving congressional Republicans headaches. Trump's tweet came days after Republican leaders reportedly thought they had reached an agreement with Trump to delay a fight over the border wall. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday that a shutdown is "not going to happen" and other Republicans are still saying it won't. But with the midterm elections now less than 100 days away, others in the GOP are questioning the president's approach. "We're going to have a challenging midterm anyway, and I don't see how putting the attention on shutting down the government when you control the government is going to help you," Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) told The New York Times.
This may be his last chance to get money for the wall. If Democrats win back control of the House in November, the odds of securing major funding for wall construction drop precipitously. Trump knows that time to deliver on one of his biggest campaign promises could be running out.
So he's looking to maximize his leverage, even if it's a risky move. "It's a riverboat gamble for Trump to initiate a shutdown over his border wall," writes Rick Moran at PJ Media. "While border security scores high in polls, the wall is not as popular. A likely outcome is a short-term shutdown followed by a very short continuing resolution -- perhaps lasting less than a month. Once Trump has established he means business, the real negotiations begin."
See you in December? Trump's threat may be more about December than October. "Trump didn't specify whether he wants to shut down the government by vetoing spending legislation when the fiscal year concludes at the end of September, or as several funding bills are considered later in the year," Bloomberg's Erik Wasson and Anna Edgerton write. "A House Republican aide said there's no chance of a September shutdown although one in December is possible if Trump follows through with his threat."
But Trump's not going to get what he wants on immigration. "Both chambers of Congress have already voted on his proposals this year, and shot them down decisively," Bloomberg's Jonathan Bernstein writes. "He can demand an unpopular sweeping overhaul of immigration law that caters to his relatively narrow group of hard-line nativists all he wants, but Congress simply isn't going to give it to him."
Congressional Republicans could prevent an October shutdown. More from Bloomberg's Bernstein: "[F]or a shutdown to happen, Trump would have to veto a clean spending bill that leaders of both parties supported — and then enough Republicans would have to vote to sustain that veto. Could that happen? Sure. It's just hard to see any practical reason for it. … So what it would really take is for Trump to decide to do it because he thinks it would be really cool … and then to have dozens of House Republicans indulge him even at a cost to their own party. Which means, even though it would make no sense at all, that a shutdown really could happen after all."
There's some irony here. The appropriations process for 2019 has been running somewhat more smoothly than it has in recent years — and that's partly because of Trump's veto threat before signing the last big spending bill in March, CNN's Mattingly says: "His threats as he signed that $1.3 trillion omnibus were taken dead seriously -- by both parties. … In other words: The President is responsible for the process working for the first time in years. That's a big deal. Now the President is threatening to short-circuit that process."


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The holidays are one of the busiest travel times of the year as people board planes, trains and automobiles to be home with their families for the festive season. From Nov. 9 — 11, tens of thousands of homeless pets will also be traveling to nearly all of the 1,600 PetSmart stores across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico in the hopes of going home for the holidays, too. These pets are hoping to be adopted at PetSmart Charities' November National Adoption Weekend (NAW).
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The Good Men Project interviews a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations about sex slavery in the U.S.—which is far more common than most people think.
The promise that we're working to effectuate is actually the 13th Amendment promise that no one in the United States shall be subjected to involuntary servitude. It doesn't matter whether that's in a farm, in a brothel, or as a domestic servant. If somebody is being forced to work against their will, if they're trapped, can't get out, then that it is somebody who would be considered a victim of modern slavery.
—Ambassador-at-Large Luis CdeBaca, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. State Department
We have written extensively about the many facets of the sex industry, making clear that there is indeed room for many points of view when it comes to porn, stripping, and even prostitution. But now I am going to talk about an under-reported problem that is less morally ambiguous: sexual slavery.
Sex trafficking within the U.S. is legally defined as commercial sex acts induced by force, fraud, or coercion or commercial sex acts in which the individual induced to perform commercial sex has not attained 18 years of age. The average age of entry into the commercial sex industry in the U.S. is between 12 to 14 years old.
The federal law is very clear on this issue: Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005, and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008.
Sex traffickers frequently target vulnerable people with histories of abuse and then use violence, threats, lies, false promises, debt bondage, or other forms of control and manipulation keep victims involved in the sex industry. Sex trafficking exists within the broader commercial sex trade, often at much higher rates than most people realize or understand. Sex trafficking has been found in a wide variety of venues of the overall sex industry, including residential brothels, hostess clubs, online escort services, brothels disguised as massage parlors, strip clubs, and street prostitution.
To understand this problem on the ground, I recently spoke to a Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations.
MATLACK: How do you define human trafficking?
AGENT: Two ways: labor trafficking and sex trafficking. Labor trafficking is basically modern-day slavery, people working and not being paid for their work, living in god-awful conditions. And then the other side is sex trafficking, people that are forced into commercial sex acts against their will.
MATLACK: When you're dealing with young girls, does the definition of the girl being young enough make it human trafficking?
AGENT: If the girl's a minor, she doesn't need to be forced into it for it to be human trafficking. If it's a 15-year-old girl and you're her pimp, even if she wants to go out and have sex for money, that's still considered human trafficking. Once somebody's an adult, you have to be able to prove that through force, fraud, or coercion that this girl was forced into those sex acts.
MATLACK: And so what's the breakdown in terms of the cases that you're pursuing between minors and not minors?
AGENT: I would say it's almost 50-50.
MATLACK: Can you help me understand how common it is?
AGENT: It is a lot more common that people think. Most people can't differentiate between human trafficking and human smuggling. People think that this could never happen here, when actually it's there. You just may not see it, may not know about it, may not hear about it. But, believe it or not, it's a pretty common occurrence.
MATLACK: So how much of what you're doing is folks who are bringing girls and women into the country?
AGENT: At Homeland Security Investigations, we're usually dealing with foreign nationals. But that's not to say we don't have cases that involve sex trafficking with U.S. citizens, whether they're minors or adults. But for the most part, we tend to see more foreign nationals. I'm on a task force that's made up of several federal and state law enforcement agencies.
MATLACK: So when you find confirmed sex trafficking, are you then trying to prosecute the johns, the pimp, or what?
AGENT: For the most part we focus on the traffickers. Unless the john's having sex with a 12-year-old girl and it's readily apparent she's a minor, then that's a whole different thing. But for the most part, the johns don't necessarily know that this girl is being forced into sex. Most of them think, "OK, she's a willing prostitute, I paid her for sex, she had sex. She's OK with it, I'm OK with it, no problem." It's the traffickers and their organizations that we try and prosecute.
MATLACK: Are they mostly sole proprietors, or are there larger networks of human traffickers?
AGENT: There are networks. Some are just very small, one or two people—maybe a couple of brothers or something—and others are a little bit bigger. For the most part, it's not like a drug organization, where you have 100 people, from the ones that pick the coca leaves, to making it, turning it into cocaine, and then bringing it from Columbia to wherever, into the United States. They're usually not that intricate. They do have people in foreign countries that help provide girls, and so there are multiple players that have their own specific roles.
MATLACK: So just walk me through how it works, and how the coercion works, and what kinds of girls end up in this position.
AGENT: What's common in some of the sex trafficking from other countries, like Mexico, for example, is that it kind of tells a story. The girls meet this guy who treats them like gold, and promises them the world and tell them, "Hey, we can go to the United States, there's work over there, and we can make money and send money back our families, and save money so we can build our own house in Mexico eventually …" So they get these girls and basically jerk them around, into falling in love with them. And once they're here in the U.S., all of a sudden, the grass isn't so green, or work's not there, and then right off the bat it's sort of, "Hey, well, you're here now, you belong to me, this is what you're going to do." Or they sometimes take a little more of a softer approach: "You know, times are tough, we need to pay rent, this is something you can do to help. You don't need to do it for long, just bring in some extra money." So psychologically, a lot of the times the guys take over these girls, and next thing you know, the girls are being forced against their will into it.
And usually, when the time comes where they say no, there's a lot of physical abuse, verbal abuse, mental abuse. I mean, a lot of these women feel like they're worthless at this point, and they don't know what else to do. Some girls think this guy really loves them and knows what is best. It's amazing—we have girls in front of us that we know are victims, and even though they didn't want to do this, they don't see themselves as victims right off the bat. They thought that they were doing it because they love this guy, and he's the best thing ever, and he wouldn't do that to them. The guys have such a hold on them mentally.
And there are times where they'll force these girls in with drugs. They'll get the girls hooked on narcotics, heroin, cocaine, whatever it may be. Then it gets to the point where girls can become so addicted to that that that's the only way that they'll be able to get their fix is to go out and do this. Between the mental, physical, and verbal abuse, the traffickers usually have such a strong hold over these girls that they have no control over what is happening to them. And they have no control, for the most part, of being able to get out of it.
MATLACK: What's the youngest girl in a case that you've been involved with?
AGENT: I think she was 13.
MATLACK: So if you can't get them to admit, you can't prosecute, even if you have other evidence?
AGENT: We can. We can use other evidence that has been gathered during the investigation to use that against her traffickers.
MATLACK: So in the cases where you are able to intervene and prosecute, what happens to these girls?
AGENT: We have a guy that's assigned to us full-time; he's called the victim assistance coordinator. He's not a gun-carrying, badge-carrying person. He's a licensed therapist. If we find the girls, besides him being able to talk to these girls, he also helps set up getting them to a shelter, getting them whatever sort of treatments they need. That's what we try to take care of first. If it's a minor, obviously they go right to a shelter because of her age. But, again, she has to want that. We can't force anything on these girls.
And then, later on down the road, depending on where the person is from, if she is from another country and here illegally, there are things that we can do to help give her status, whether it be temporary or permanent while we investigate and seek help.
MATLACK: Do you know what the recidivism rate is?
AGENT: I don't know, but that is always a concern of ours—that the girl could go back to what she was doing. Often, too, these traffickers will threaten the girls' families, and that's one of the big problems we have because these girls have been told, "I know who your mom is, I know who your sister is, where they live. If you ever say anything to the police, we'll kill your family, and we'll kill your kid." There's usually a lot of threats that keep these girls from running away or turning themselves in to the police.
MATLACK: How do you convince them to believe that those threats aren't real?
AGENT: Well, we don't necessarily try to convince them that the threats aren't real, because we don't know if they are. But we just try to explain to them that the situation that they're in is not right, and that we can help them. We do our best to convince them that what has been done to them for so long is evil and wrong. At the end of the day, it's really up to them. We can't force them to do anything or say anything, but we do everything within our power to help them realize what happened to them, and what they can do with themselves.
MATLACK: Is there anything that you're trying to do on your side to offer an alternative, other than getting these girls into a safe place? Or is that just not part of what you're focused on?
AGENT: Well, it is. There are things in place for us to be able to provide these girls with some sort of immigration relief. I'm talking about a girl from a foreign country. There are visas for trafficking victims, that, if she is a documented trafficking victim, she can apply for. So, that being said, besides the help that we offer them right off the bat, trying to get them into the shelter, I do my best to explain that, first of all, it isn't right what was done to them. Nobody should ever have to go through that.
But they need to ask, because, at the end of the day, if the girl is from a foreign country and just says, "You know, send me home, I'm illegal, I want to go back to Mexico," or "I want to go back to Brazil," if that's really what she wants, and that's what she asks for, we can't stop that from happening. But we do what we can to make sure that doesn't happen, because we know that she'll go back there, and she'll be back in the same position.
MATLACK: And in terms of the federal government's stance on this being human slavery, how seriously do you think the government's taking this?
AGENT: They take it very seriously. Human trafficking is basically at the forefront of my agency, Homeland Security Investigations. There's lots of attention, lots of resources, lots of money put into it to make sure that we can do our job as effectively as possible.
MATLACK: I was listening to the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. State Department talking about how we've measured human trafficking all around the world and never measured ourselves, and now we're beginning to do that because, obviously, there is human trafficking here. Do you have any sense of how we compare to other countries?
AGENT: I really don't know. But we can't be too far behind, and I think that our government is realizing that, and the people are realizing that. People do think, "Oh, that happens somewhere else, not here in the United States," but every day it seems to surface somewhere. So if I were to take a guess, I would say we're about as high as most countries. We're probably not at the top, definitely not at the bottom, but I don't think we're lacking in terms of human trafficking that is occurring in the United States.
MATLACK: How do we solve the problem?
AGENT: Like anything else, education and information. Like I said, I don't think most people really realize what human trafficking is, but more and more people know what it is. I find myself having fewer people say, "Oh, human trafficking? You mean like the people just jumping the border from Mexico?" And then I have to explain to them that no, that's not it. But education, educating the populace, putting it out there, letting people know what it is and how they can stop it.
Do I think it'll ever stop? No. It's a moneymaker, and therefore there will always be somebody who will want to make an easy dollar. Whether or not that's manipulating another person to make that dollar, it doesn't matter.
MATLACK: How do you think about it compared to the sex trade in general, whether it's stripping or non-human trafficking prostitution, or whatever? Do you think they're related in any way, or is it a completely different kettle of fish?
AGENT: Like just regular prostitution?
MATLACK: Regular prostitution, stripping, porn. There's obviously a great proliferation of the sex trade in general. I'm just wondering whether you think that's at all related to sex slavery, or if it's just a kind of completely different thing.
AGENT: I don't really know. Do I think that the porn industry has anything to do with human trafficking? No. Prostitution, obviously, like everybody says, is one of the oldest businesses, one of the oldest jobs in the world. It's not going away. Are there outside things that influence it? Yeah, probably, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that the porn business, or the stripping, or stuff like that, really has anything to do with it. It's not even a fine line. It's a pretty distinct line between willing and not willing. So I can't really say one way or the other. But there's a big distinction between human trafficking and just prostitution.
In the United States, because there is such a correlation between child sexual abuse and child prostitution, a lot of times it might be somebody who has that ability to figure out which are the vulnerable girls, whether it's eighth, ninth, tenth graders. Maybe they have been abused at home. Maybe they're willing to run away from—mom has a new boyfriend or what have you or they might be wrestling with an addiction.
The pimps seem to be able to look at the women around them, look at the girls around them, find that vulnerability. But then, they basically offer glamour, a better life, even love. So it's very similar to what we see with international trafficking as well. It's basically they offer hope, and they deliver with a nightmare.
We have a president who has the Emancipation Proclamation in his office, not a copy, the Emancipation Proclamation. And I think that he sees it, and I certainly see it in the work that I do, as we're delivering on a promise that was made 150 years ago by President Lincoln and by the people who went and fought for freedom. So I think it's entirely appropriate for us to call this a modern abolitionist movement.
—Ambassador-at-Large Luis CdeBaca, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. State Department
Learn more about human trafficking at Polaris Project, an NGO dedicated to "combating all forms of human trafficking and serving U.S. citizens and foreign national victims, including men, women, and children."
More from Sex Week at the Good Men Project:
Benoit Denizet-Lewis: The Dan Savage Interview
Amanda Marcotte: What Women Don't Tell You
Ed Fell: 10 Secrets to Satisfying Sex
Andrew Ladd: A Billion Wicked Assumptions
Emily Heist Moss: Does Size Matter?
John DeVore: Multiple Inches of Love
Joshua Matacotta: Do Gay Men Fear Intimacy?
Hugo Schwyzer: Mythbusting Bisexual Men


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- 4 large oranges
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- 1/3 cup tomato paste
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 2-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled, cut crosswise into thin slices
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- 12 3- to 4-inch-long meaty beef short ribs (about 4 1/2 pounds), top membrane trimmed
- 24 dried apricots
- Chopped fresh parsley
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Preheat oven to 300°F. Using vegetable peeler, remove four 4x1-inch strips from rind of 1 orange. Grate peel from 2 more oranges. Cut 4 oranges in half; squeeze out 1 1/4 cups juice. Whisk grated orange peel, orange juice, hoisin sauce, tomato paste, and garlic in large bowl to blend. Stir in ginger.
Sprinkle ribs with salt and pepper. Place in heavy large ovenproof pot. Pour orange-ginger mixture over ribs. Stir in orange strips and apricots. Cover and bake 2 hours. Stir rib mixture; reduce oven temperature to 250°F. Continue cooking ribs, covered, until meat is very tender, about 1 hour longer. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Cool. Refrigerate uncovered until cold, then cover and refrigerate. Spoon off solidified fat, then rewarm ribs over medium heat before serving.
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For Release Worldwide: August 2012
Release Number: 294PR12
The 994H, largest of the Cat® wheel loader line, features four loader linkage configurations and a range of buckets to tailor the machine to the job. While optimally matched to Cat 785, 789 and 793 mining trucks, the 994H has the design flexibility, capacity and durability to deliver reliable, low-cost production in any operation. Engineered to ensure operator safety, comfort and convenience, the fuel efficient 994H, with 1,463 net horsepower (1 092 kW) and an operating weight of 431,000 pounds (195 500 kg), features Caterpillar's Rimpull Control System, Positive Flow Control hydraulics and Vital Information Management System.
Lift configurations for the 994H include standard, high lift, extended high lift and super high lift, providing dump clearances at maximum lift that range from 19.2 feet (5 578 mm) to 23.3 feet (7 080 mm). Bucket choices include heavy-duty rock, high-abrasion rock and coal— available in narrow and wide widths to suit the application—and ranging in capacity from 19.5 to 47 cubic yards (15 to 36 m³).
To ensure durability that will sustain multiple life cycles, the 994H uses solid-steel lift arms that work though a powerful Z-bar linkage, which features a greased pin design and an automatic lubrication system. The 994H rear frame is a full-box-section fabrication designed to resist torsional shock and twisting forces, and the machine's cast axle-pivot mounting areas disperse stress loads for added overall durability.
For fuel efficient operation, the Cat 3516B HD engine works through a Cat planetary powershift transmission specifically designed for mining applications. An integral Impeller Clutch Torque Converter and Rimpull Control System allow the operator to precisely adjust power at the wheels to specific loading conditions by modulating rimpull from 100 to 25 percent, reducing potential for tire slippage without diminishing hydraulic capacity.
The 994H Positive Flow Control (PFC) implement hydraulic system uses four, electronically controlled, variable-displacement pumps, delivering up to 386 gpm (1 460 L/min) at a main-relief pressure of 4,750 psi (32 800 kPa), assuring fast, consistent response, as well as fuel economy and low heat generation. The PFC system also integrates concurrent valve control, providing precise, proportional command of loading functions with electro-hydraulic loader controls, electronically controlled cylinder stops and automatic kickouts set from the cab.
The Steering and Transmission Integrated Control System (STIC™) combines control of travel direction, steering and gear selection in a single controller, and the spacious, pressurized cab features automatic climate control and a quiet, 71 dB(A) sound rating. The 994H also features a powered access ladder and reduced stairs angles for easy access and egress from the operator station. For enhanced operator awareness of the area around the loader, the Cat Detect Vision rear vision camera system is standard, and Cat Detect Object Detection is available. Object Detection includes radars that detect objects around the machine and notify the operator of these potential hazards.
Integral with the 994H Vital Information Management System (VIMS™), which allows real- time assessment of machine performance, is the Payload Control System that enables on-the-go weighing, payload recordkeeping and analysis of parameters such as utilization, cycle time and fuel usage. In addition, the available Cat MineStar™ System provides a suite of integrated mine operation and equipment management technologies that can enhance 994H operation and maintenance.
Power (net), hp (kW)
1,463 (1 092)
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Op. Weight, lb. (kg)
430,858 (195 434)
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Bucket Cap., yd³ (m³)
19.5-47 (15-36)
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Rated Payload, tons (mt) /
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Standard Lift
38 (35) / 26.7 (8 140)
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High Lift
35 (32) / 27.8 (8 479)
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Extended High Lift
35 (32) / 31.3 (9 535)
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Super High Lift
35 (32) / 33.0 (10 060)
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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Chase Utley, owner of a sense of humor drier than a salamander under a heat lamp, decided to send Charlie Manuel a text message at Christmas time to update him on the condition of his knees.
'The text at Christmas said, 'If you'll be a good boy ... Santa might bring you a healthy second baseman.''
In that case, the Phillies and their ornery manager are screwed.
Kidding aside, Utley said Friday that he believes strongly that there will be no tragic repeat of last spring, when after spending that winter on a strenuous body-strengthening regimen, his knees failed him just days into baseball workouts.
'It hadn't worked out over the last couple years,' said Utley, who missed the first 76 games of last season after missing the first 46 of 2011. 'I wanted to change it up and do something different. The program that I followed last year didn't work for me to get on the field.'
When Utley returned after missing nearly all of the opening three months of 2012, the Phillies presumed they would need to give the second baseman enough days off to ease his balky knees.
Instead, out of the final 86 games in which he could have played, he appeared in 83 and started 81. And an interesting thing occurred as the weeks progressed: Utley's knees seemed to respond better to the daily baseball activity.
Because of that, his winter workout program was simple: Keep performing baseball activities.
'I basically didn't stop playing baseball, which is something I hadn't done in the past,' Utley said of this offseason. 'So I think that has really helped. I started to take ground balls a week after the season ended. I went through that whole program and so far, so good.
'(Phillies athletic trainer) Scott (Sheridan) and I talked about it ... and I had realized that I was feeling good as soon as I came back and I wanted to keep it that way. I wanted to keep doing the things that I've been doing and building on that.'
Utley found a friend in the University of San Francisco baseball program, as the head coach welcomed him to work out with the squad. The Utleys have a residence in the Bay Area as well as in Philadelphia.
'The coaches said basically, 'Whatever you need, we are there for you,' Utley said. 'They hit me ground balls and threw me batting practice daily. And I really appreciated that.
'I feel pretty damn good right now. Hopefully, it will stay that way and I think it will. Hopefully, all the work has paid off.'
Although Utley hit just .256 last season, there was a consensus between him, Manuel and regular observers that he was hitting the ball harder last season than he did in 2011, even though he batted .259 that season. The hit charts back it up. After hitting .735 (36-for-49) on line drives in '11, he only batted .566 (30-for-53) on liners last season.
'I felt that I swung the bat a lot better last year than the year before. I squared up a lot more balls,' Utley said. 'They say that they work out for you if you hit a ball hard and make an out, then a ball will find a hole when you don't (make hard contact) ... That's baseball. That's how it works and this is a new year and I'm extremely excited.'
Utley is in the final year of a seven-year, $85 million deal and will make $15 million in 2013. The time he has missed the last two seasons due to chronically sore knees makes it impossible to judge his value at present time, but the 34-year-old eliminated any questions about how willing he is to keep playing beyond this season.
'I enjoy this game. I feel I have a lot to still do in this game, so who knows,' Utley said. 'I'd like to play more than this year, that's for sure.
'I'm obviously aware (the contract ends) but I don't think it really changes anything that I've done. I've approached every season the same way. The last few years didn't go well as far as getting on the field initially.'


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Measuring Catholic clout in Mass. politics
Maurice Cunningham, a political scientist who blogs at the website MassPoliticsProfs, looks at a failed Massachusetts ballot measure on assisted suicide as a way of assessing the potency of the Catholic Church in a state where the Church once cast a big political footprint.
Death with Dignity was a proposed change to state law. The opponents outspent the proponents by a factor of six, according to the Globe. In doing so the committee funded by the Church, The Committee Against Physician Assisted Suicide, deployed the money to hire some of Massachusetts most effective (and expensive) communications strategists. Unlike the senatorial race where grass roots organizing was a substantial advantage to Elizabeth Warren, the death of Death with Dignity was a story about money and the television ads it can purchase.
The bishops also commanded that opposition to Death with Dignity be addressed from the pulpit during Sunday masses. We lack the data to tell us what impact that may have had, but it could have had some. Research suggests that on personal matters of morality like birth control, Catholic lay people feel themselves more expert than are the bishops. But there may be some room for influence on other issues like war or the death penalty, and Death with Dignity could be such a question.
Elsewhere in 2012 the Catholic position seemed not to matter much. Senator Scott Brown explained his support of the Blunt Amendment, which would limit access to contraceptives, as his sensitivity toward not infringing on the religious conscience of Catholics. Ambassador Flynn, who has become well known for advocacy of Catholic positions in the twenty years he has been out of office, endorsed Senator Brown. That didn't help...
The Church won't be putting a million people on the streets again [as it did in opposition to a 1948 ballot measure] anytime soon. But if it can put several million dollars into television ads, it has a chance.
Put another way, the Church has less political clout in heavily Catholic Massachusetts than, say, the LDS Church has in Utah, but probably more than your run-of-the-mill interest group.


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CLEMSON, SC – Clemson University trustees reviewed a series of proposed athletic facility capital projects at its quarterly meeting Friday, giving final approval to a pair while granting pre-approval to six for future development.Upgrades to Doug Kingsmore Stadium and the third phase of the WestZone complex at Memorial Stadium received final approval from the board.The pre-concept approval status allows the athletic department and IPTAY to commission further studies and begin fundraising efforts. Included in the proposed facilities: 1) a rebuilt basketball arena on the current site of Littlejohn Coliseum; 2) a new academic center as part of the core campus project; 3) the construction of a letter winner's area and meeting space at Memorial Stadium; 4) complete suite renovation at Memorial Stadium; 5) a new football operations facility; and 6) significant upgrades to the tennis complex. "Clemson has consistently been in the forefront of athletic facilities and accommodations for our student athletes," director of athletics Dan Radakovich said. "These projects provide a roadmap to continuing Clemson's tradition of excellence in our facilities."The trustees approved a resolution to request issuance of state institution bonds not exceeding $23.7 million, to buildSpaulding Paolozzi Center, home of Clemson's architecture and historic preservation programs in CharlestonThe board also approved a resolution to request issuance of state institution bonds, not exceeding $10 million, for an expansion to Freeman Hall, home of the industrial engineering department on campus.The proposal for new Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in criminal justice gained the board's acceptance. The degree programs will prepare students for careers in criminal justice and law enforcement as well as in policy, law and human rights.In other action, the trustees voted to:
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By RICH FOLEY
The last time I wrote about my dreams, several readers asked how I managed to have such interesting ones. Unfortunately, they're not all that way. Obviously, I'm going to write about the best ones. Why bore you with a report of the others? That said, here we go again...
The first dream actually was sparked by a real-life incident. A compact disc club I belonged to was ending operations and selling remaining inventory at reduced rates. I ordered a CD by The Wallflowers, which the company put on backorder. A few days later, they sent an e-mail saying they were unable to obtain additional copies of the CD and had canceled my order.
About a week later came the dream. In it, I telephoned Jakob Dylan, whose number apparently was in the phone book, and asked if he had any extra copies of the CD and if I could stop over and buy one from him directly. Jakob replied that he was busy moving that day and didn't have time to talk.
I guess he thought he was making a bad impression as he suggested that I go see his father instead, adding that Bob loved company and would enjoy a visit. In Dreamland, Jakob, Bob and I lived in the same town. Was it Hibbing, Minnesota? Fayette, Ohio? Or perhaps somewhere else? It wasn't apparent in my dream.
Armed with Bob Dylan's home number, cheerfully supplied by Jakob, I called the music legend. Answering his own phone in that unmistakable Dylan whine, he immediately invited me to visit. "I'm bored," he said. "I'd love it if you came over." And so it was done.
Soon, I was being given a tour of the Dylan mansion by Bob himself. When we walked past a bookcase, Bob stopped for a minute, selected a book and handed it to me. "Take this with you," he said. "I think you'll enjoy it." This scene kept repeating itself as nearly every room had a bookcase or two.
By the time we reached his in-home recording studio, I had a stack of about 15 books. I was happy to be able to set them down while Bob showed off the studio and played me some songs he was working on. An hour or so later, he said "Let's go over to Jakob's and see if he's finished moving his stuff."
Arriving at the soon-to-be-former Jakob Dylan residence, we found young Dylan sealing up a few final boxes. Father Bob volunteered to help. Before long, he was digging through the contents of one box. Jakob asked him what he was doing.
"Rich needs one of your CDs," Bob answered. "I thought there might be one in here." Imagine that, Bob Dylan acting as my personal record store clerk. Unhappily, he didn't have any luck and I woke up still CD-less. However, thanks to Bob, I did have enough books to last me for months, as long as I was sleeping when I wanted to read them.
If that dream wasn't preposterous enough, a month or so later I had another in which I was covering a presidential debate. For whatever reason, the debate was held at the Onsted High School gymnasium and the fact that I graduated from Onsted got me the nod as the token local journalist. At least they wouldn't have to give me directions to the debate site.
Being the local guy got me some attention from the national media. They seemed amused by my comment that security was almost as tight as the last time I went to a Tony Stewart press conference.
President Obama was off limits, but I was invited to speak to a third party candidate participating in the debate. One of his entourage was 1980s actress Ally Sheedy of "Breakfast Club" fame. She acted a bit annoyed when I asked her where Judd Nelson was, but later gave me a hug when I told her candidate that if he was elected, she'd make a good FBI director.
I was expecting the President to arrive in a limo, but since anything can happen in Dreamland, he took an American Airlines commercial flight to Onsted, whereupon a magician of a pilot managed to safely land on a nearby private airstrip, then taxi down Onsted Highway to the school. It was fun looking out the gym doors and seeing a jumbo jet in the parking lot. Say what you will about Obama, the man can make an entrance. After that, I woke up.
Those are the latest great adventures from my nocturnal mind. Think about it for a minute...Books from Bob Dylan? A hug from Ally Sheedy? What's next? And why would I ever want to wake up?


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Community Meeting to be Held for Eastland Woolen Mill Superfund Site
Release Date: 05/05/2010
Contact Information: Paula Ballentine, 617-918-1027
(Boston, Mass. – May 5, 2010) The Environmental Protection Agency and Maine Department of Environmental Protection will be available at 7 pm on Tuesday, May 18 at the Corinna School on Stetson Rd., to provide an update of site activities at Eastland Woolen Mill and to discuss the required Five Year Review of the cleanup. As part of the five-year review process, EPA encourages anyone with a question or concern regarding the cleanup to attend the meeting to provide input to EPA.
Beginning in 2004 and continuing through 2008, the cleanup has involved the periodic injection of an oxidizing reagent into the groundwater to destroy the contamination. From 2008 through 2010, EPA has been evaluating the success of these injections to determine whether more injections are needed to restore the groundwater to drinking water standards. The data collected and evaluated so far shows that the injections have substantially reduced the amount of contamination below the surface. Along with the reduction of contamination in the soil, there has also been a significant decrease in the amount and extent of contamination in the groundwater.
In addition to the groundwater cleanup, EPA will also be working with state and local officials to put in place land use restrictions. The restrictions will ensure that the contaminated water is never used for drinking water.
Along with the ongoing cleanup activities, EPA also periodically evaluates cleanup sites to make sure that the cleanup continues to protect human health and the environment. The evaluation is required by the Superfund Law and is called a A Five-Year Review." The five-year review has six components: Community involvement and notification; document review; data review and analysis to determine if more monitoring is needed; a site inspection, which will be done this spring; interviews with local officials and residents to better understand local concerns and protectiveness determination to be sure the cleanup remains protective of human heath and the environment
After these activities are completed EPA will issue a Five Year Review Report summarizing the findings. The Maine DEP will participate in the Five Year Review, which should be completed by the end of September.
More information about the Eastland Woolen Mill Superfund Site can be found at the EPA New England website at: https://www.epa.gov/region1/superfund/sites/eastland/
• Eastland Woolen Mill operated as a wool and blended wool textile facility from 1909 to 1996;
• Liquid wastes from the mill were discharged to the East Branch of the Sebasticook River until the late 1960s, when the local sewage treatment plant was built;
• Groundwater contamination was discovered in 1983. Carbon filters were installed on five water supplies. By 1988, 10 water supplies were fitted with carbon filters;
• A water line was installed in 1995 to provide water for properties with contaminated wells;
• Eastland Woolen Mill company performed an investigation from 1984 – 1995 to assess the contamination;
• Eastland Woolen Mill Company ceased operations in 1996;
• Maine DEP removed 54,673 pounds of various hazardous substances from the closed Mill in 1997;
• EPA began the investigation of the Eastland Woolen Mill in December 1998;
• EPA placed the Eastland Woolen Mill on the National Priorities List (Superfund list) in July 1999;
• EPA signed an Action Memorandum to initiate an early cleanup action in July 1999;
• EPA signed OU I Cleanup Decision in September 2002;
• EPA completed Mill demolition, soil excavation and treatment program in 2003;
• EPA signed a No Further Action decision for Operable Unit II (downstream portions of East Branch of Sebasticook River) in September 2004;
• EPA performed in-situ application of reagents to remove contamination from groundwater beginning in 2004;
• EPA completed the design for Operable Unit 1 Remedial Action in 2005;
• OU I Remedial Action began in September 2005 with installation of water a line connection;
• Second round of in-situ application of reagents was performed in 2005;
• EPA amended the cleanup plan in September 2006 to eliminate the requirement for a long-term groundwater extraction and treatment system;
• Cleanup was determined to be construction complete in September 2006;
• Third round of in-situ application of reagents was performed in 2006, the fourth round in 2007;
• Remedial Action was determined to be completed in September 2008 and the site cleanup program transitioned to the Long-Term Response Action. The year 2008 began the 10-year period for EPA to continue the cleanup. After the 10 years (in 2018), the State of Maine will be responsible for any additional cleanup actions as part of the operations and maintenance of the site;
• Soil and groundwater investigations to evaluate effectiveness of in-situ applications occurred in 2009; and
• The Five Year Review in 2010
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Love that one, a 1970's C110 2000 GT-R, but am a bit of a Skyline fan...
One question, what's with the 'Z' on the grill..?
Wasn't aware (and have never seen) the Z moniker used on a Skyline, the C110 you have drawn has the screw on wheel arches and the boot spoiler so can only assume it's a GT-R going to a fancy dress party as a 240Z.... :xmassmile:
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By the way, any plans for a new Ferrari already?
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Hope you like it..
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