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It is a small, slow-growing tree, to 6–15 m (rarely 20 m) tall and 0.5 m (rarely 1 m) trunk diameter, often with two or more trunks from the base. The foliage forms in open sprays with scale-like leaves 1–8 mm long and 1–1.5 mm broad; the leaves are arranged in opposite decussate pairs, with the successive pairs closely then distantly spaced, so forming apparent whorls of four. The cones are 10–15 mm long, green ripening brown in about 8 months from pollination, and have four thick scales arranged in two opposite pairs. The seeds are 5–7 mm long and 2 mm broad, with a 3–4 mm broad papery wing on each side
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Juniperus communis L. is a coniferous evergreen shrub or a small columnar tree, multistemmed, decumbent or rarely upright. The crown is generally depressed. It grows very slowly. The morphological characteristics including growth form differ somewhat according to variety. Adventitious root development can occur when branches come in contact with the ground become buried. Juniper has a thin, brown, fibrous bark which exfoliates in thin strips.
The shrub is very variable in shape, up to 1–4 m tall. The leaves are of two forms, juvenile needle-like leaves 5–10 mm long, and adult scale-leaves 1–2 mm long on slender shoots 0.8–1 mm thick. Juvenile leaves are found mainly on seedlings but mature shrubs sometimes continue to bear some juvenile leaves as well as adult, particularly on shaded shoots low in the crown. It is largely dioecious with separate male and female plants, but some individual plants produce both sexes. The cones are berry-like, 5–9 mm in diameter, blue-black with a whitish waxy bloom, and contain 1-3 (rarely 4 or 5) seeds; they are mature in about 18 months. The male cones are 2–4 mm long, and shed their pollen in early spring.
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There are quite a few Django based forum applications, so why another? Its a bit of a rhetorical question, as the answer is "none of them met my needs exactly, so we created my own", as you might expect.
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Back in November 2014, State Senator John Watkins (R-10th) announced that he would be stepping down at the end of his term, in January 2016. Just to put this in context, the 10th State Senate district is the strongest Senate district, from a Democratic perspective, currently held by a Republican incumbent. For instance, the 10th went 46%-42% for Terry McAuliffe over Ken Cuccinelli in 2013 and 50%-49% for Barack Obama over Mitt Romney in 2012. So, clearly the 10th district is competitive in high-turnout years.
But what about in an "odd-year," non-gubernatorial election year like 2015, when turnout is likely to be much lower? Well, that simply makes it even nore crucial for Democrats to nominate a candidate who can/will excite, enthuse, motivate, and otherwise get out our "base." Also keep in mind that it's very possible this seat could determine control of the Virginia State Senate in 2016 and beyond, so this will be a high-profile, potentially critical race this year.
Up until now, I'd heard and read about various potential Democratic candidates for Watkins' seat, but to date nobody had stepped up to the plate. Now, one has – "nonprofit advocate" Emily Francis of Richmond (see her announcement on the "flip"), whose background involves (in her words) working "extensively with organizations advocating on the environment, public health, and consumer rights by supporting public policies that move communities forward while protecting Virginia's way of life."
I spoke with former Delegate Al Pollard a little while ago, and he said he's a huge supporter of Emily Francis. Pollard described Francis as a "strong worker" and "no nonsense," adding:
I wouldn't be supporting Emily if I didn't know she was going to win. Keep in mind that 55% of the Democratic primary electorate is likely to be female, also heavily from Richmond, where Emily lives. Needless to say, the primary electorate will be strongly progressive. Also remember that in 1999, people told me I would lose my race because of my close association with the Sierra Club.
Note that Pollard WON that race 53%-47%, and continued winning many more elections to come. In other words, so much for that theory!
By the way, one of the people I've heard talked about for this seat on the Democratic side is Chesterfield Board of Supervisors member Dan Gecker, who last ran as a self-described "independent". Why did Gecker not run as a Democrat in that race? In Gecker's own words:
We are in a period where doing what is best for the party is taking precedence over doing what is best for the people. This election should be about problems and solutions, not party labels. Party affiliation tends to carry connotations about what a candidate believes that can be quite misleading and, quite often, completely incorrect…I will work with all people, regardless of party. I will not ask those who contact me what party affiliation they have. All of us on the local level want our taxes lowered, our children educated and safe streets. These issues are not Republican or Democrat.
First off, that should be "Democratic," not the Republican way of saying it as a supposed insult — "Democrat" as an adjective. Second, it certainly does matter, particularly these days when the Republican Party has gone so far off the right-wing deep end, whether or not you see yourself as a Republican or Democrat. Assuming Gecker runs for the Democratic nomination this time around, we'll see what he has to say about why he didn't want to be called a Democrat, and/or didn't think it mattered one way or the other, in the past. That should be…uh, interesting.
P.S. In that same interview, Gecker was asked, "Who is your political hero?" The answer: "President Reagan." Ee gads.
Emily Francis Announces Bid for Virginia's 10th Senate District
RICHMOND – Nonprofit advocate Emily Francis, a Democrat, announced today that she will seek election to the State Senate.
"I'm running for State Senate because the Senate's actions are out of step with the day-to-day needs of Virginians, and that has to change." said Francis. "Hundreds of thousands of Virginians are losing access to medical care for no better reason than political posturing. In the meantime, as the politicians jockey for power, they're still managing to spend millions of our hard-earned tax dollars subsidizing big coal companies, threatening women's access to basic health care, and letting our beloved James River suffer. That's not the Virginia I know and love. We need to get our priorities straight and we need to do it fast so that we can come together and tackle these challenges head on."
Francis, an independent consultant, is well known in Virginia's nonprofit community and among public policy advocates. She has worked extensively with organizations advocating on the environment, public health, and consumer rights by supporting public policies that move communities forward while protecting Virginia's way of life.
"People kept asking me to run," said Francis. "I had never considered running for office before, but as I talk with leaders throughout the district, it's crystal clear that I'm the right person for the job. Plus Governor McAuliffe needs more friends in the State Senate working to advance opportunities for all Virginians and maintain our AAA bond rating, solidifying our status as a great place to do business."
Francis, 37, grew up in Joppatowne, Maryland, fishing and boating on the Gunpowder River. She graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science, and immediately chose a career dedicated to protecting treasured landscapes, improving public health, and engaging citizens in the democratic process. In 2007 she moved to Richmond to take a job with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Francis owns a home in Byrd Park where she lives with her partner, Tim Brown.
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Four Manteca teens were hit by a car early Saturday morning, killing one – 14-year-old Zach Gomez.
Investigators say the driver, 19-year-old Mia Sara Aguiar, was distracted by her cell phone. However, the CHP says Aguiar wasn't actually using her phone when she lost control on Yosemite Avenue.
WATCH: Teen Remembered After being Killed by Suspected Distracted Driver
"The most dangerous thing is reaching over to pick something up," Chris Cochran, of the Office of Traffic Safety, said. "Your eyes are off the road."
An accident caused by either talking on your phone or texting with your phone can be a felony – but an accident caused by simply reaching for your phone is a misdemeanor, which would only result in up to a year in county jail.
Reaching for a phone while driving is something Attorney Donald Harper says we all do, and we allow our eyes to be taken off the road.
"The act is a negligent act of reaching for the phone," Harper told FOX40. "You're driving a vehicle. A vehicle is like a weapon."
Even without causing an accident, drivers using a phone while on the road can face a fine of $161.
According to the Office of Traffic Safety, drivers using cell phones cause hundreds of deaths across the country every year.
Aguiar is being held on $100,000. She is being charged with felony vehicular manslaughter and misdemeanor gross negligence.
Ian McDonald contributed to this report.
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Globespotting: Best World Music of 2006
In a year of stylistic cross-pollinations, sounds from around the world come together on Michael Keefe's list of fun and fascinating albums.
There are 193 countries on this planet, most producing original music (well, maybe not Vatican City). To choose only ten albums that represent the global sonic output of 2006 was a daunting task. But once I ruled out the entries from Lithuania and Yemen, the whole list fell right into place! Truly, this past year was rich with wonderful music from all over the world. Many of the finest releases broke free from the stylistic binds of their regional music traditions, integrating elements of electronica, jazz, and blues to create new ideas and suggest new avenues for future musicians to explore. World music has evolved greatly from the era of field recordings and canned sitars over rock beats. The ten albums below all help to push this evolution ever forward. Most important, though, these discs all make for excellent listening.
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In his earlier years, the late guitarist and singer Ali Farka Touré (1939-2006) was inspired by legendary bluesman John Lee Hooker. This stylistic connection is brought to the fore on Savane, Touré's final recording. Our first hint is the album cover's proclamation that he is "The King of the desert blues singers", a slogan that purposefully mimics the label attached to Robert Johnson (here substituting "desert" for "Delta"). The music, too, is Touré's most overtly blues-leaning. With a wailing harmonica and the ripened voice of its leader calling out between melodic licks, the opening track, "Erdi", could be Lightnin' Hopkins. "Beto", meanwhile, pushes forward the hypnotic melodic spirals common to much North African music, while aided by the sultry combo of a female backing vocalist and some restrained bursts of weeping saxophone. The title track slowly struts, as flashes of electric guitar are complimented by mellifluous flourishes of kora. All throughout, Savane pulls off the greatest trick of the album format: It offers plenty of variety, but it also corrals its songs into a unified sound. Although in his last year of life, this final record shows Touré still brimming with vitality. Savane is his wonderful farewell gift.
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So few were exposed to this album -- originally distributed in limited quantities in Switzerland in 2004 -- until 2006 that it belongs on this list. On Panic in Babylon, reggae dub pioneer Lee "Scratch" Perry employs all of the techniques he helped to birth in the 1970s, and adds a few more, as well. This is not strictly a dub album, however. Perry is backed by live musicians and sings his own vocals on every track. Still, at least some aspect of every song is subjected to Perry's bag of studio trickery, as organic performances are ensnared mid-flight and psychedelicized, only to be seamlessly set back on course a few measures later. Professor Upsetter shows us all how it's done on the terrific Panic in Babylon.
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Tunisian oudist Anouar Brahem is on a jazz label because his music is improvisational, but I would hesitate to pigeonhole it as anything but world music; hence, the appearance here of his seventh album, the gorgeous Le Voyage de Sahar. This is assured and subtle work is Brahem's most mature release. Mixing his homeland's flavors with jazz, tango, and other styles, his trio (with piano and accordion) has a sound all its own. Like all ECM discs, the recording feels spacious, but this album is not chilly. Le Voyage de Sahar is appropriately warm for an album meant to evoke the desert of Northern Africa and which, instead, evokes no one place, no one genre, and no one time. A gorgeous album, Sahar simply is.
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Finnish collective Värttinä first made waves in the mid-'90s with Kokko. Miero, the nonet's latest album of "New Nordic" songs, marks a great return to the world stage. Although Värttinä's mini-choir of ethereal harmonies lie at the group's fore, it's backed by a full ensemble playing a wide range of instruments, from electric guitar to the fiddle-like jouhikko. Its music, too, varies nicely, from the alt-rockishness of the album's brooding opener, "Riena/Anathema" to the gentle "Lupaus/The Promise". On Miero, all of these sounds combine for an excellent album of dark beauty, bittersweet melodies, fascinating vocals, and a magical air.
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Congolese supergroup Kékélé, comprised of aging musicians who have all played in many groups over the years, is analogous to Cuba's Buena Vista Social Club, playing sweetly old-fashioned rumbas. The liner notes explain that rhythm's African heritage and, therefore, the shared trans-Atlantic sound. This disc, in feel, is a musical cousin to the awesome BVSC album of 1997. Relaxed, warm, wistful, happy, and inviting, Kinavana is beautiful and fun, as hand drums sway a lilting beat beneath sparkling guitar notes, reedy flute melodies, and the wonderfully worn vocals of the excellent group of singers assembled for these great recordings.
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Tangotronica! I don't know if Astor Piazzolla would have approved, but Paris-based Gotan Project's second album, Lunatico, is so sexy that even a purist would fall headlong for the sultry vocals of Cristina Villalonga, the group's corpuscular downtempo beats, and the haunting string and bandoneon playing of the traditional tango quartet Gotan Project took on for these sessions. While some artists might have been content to slide a trance beat under some standard melodies, Lunatico presents a broad range of tempos, feels, and recipes for their signature stylistic mix. Mournful blues sit alongside clubby dance tracks, and all are blended seamlessly into an elegant whole.
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Eight years after Diwan, Algerian singer and rai troubadour Rachid Taha has issued its sequel. Although arguably more roots-oriented than his heavily produced 2004 album Tékitoi, Diwan 2 still rocks. Rai is, primarily, an aggressive sound, which is why its early acoustic incarnation translated so well to its dance form in the 1980s. Taha leans toward the older style here, but hits the beat hard, even with the Cairo String Ensemble, who beautifully augment several of the entrancing tunes found here. A sound all its own, rai transcends the sounds of Africa and the nearby Middle Eastern flavors. With Diwan 2, eclectic world pop star Taha proves once again that he transcends all styles.
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The Brazilian CocoRosie? Samba-fied freak-folk? Really, Brazilian musicians have always embraced quirky production, and Cibelle's haunted, cut-up, serenely twinkling electro-acoustic folk-pop falls right in line with the old Tropicalistas or Tom Zé's Dadaism. More so than most of her contemporaries, Cibelle represents a natural evolution in the MPB aesthetic, following from the aforementioned influences on the excellent The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves. The one song that neatly speaks to this new singer's blending of the old and the new is her cover of "London, London", a 1971 tune from the legendary Caetano Veloso. Cibelle is joined on that track by Devendra Banhart, the bearded messiah of the current psychedelic folk revolution. Her style is idiosyncratic, but her music is always melodious on the lovely Leaves.
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As an American, I feel a bit guilty about including on this list an album from the U.S. After all, we're quite well represented by rock, pop, metal, country, and jazz. Still, that's not going to stop me from telling you about The Desperate Kingdom of Love, a killer album of blues-fused Cajun music from C.J. Chenier, son of zydeco king Clifton Chenier. Accordionist C.J. has been cutting records for nearly 20 years now, but this new one is a departure, a relatively sober album dedicated to "everyone who suffered in the great hurricane and floods of 2005". While certainly not a party record, Desperate Kingdom is still quite lively, striking a remarkable balance between the two forms of indigenous American music channeled here by Chenier, and featuring covers of songs by PJ Harvey, Van Morrison, and Hank Williams.
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On her seventh album, Belgian-born Natacha Atlas further explores her Middle Eastern and North African heritage while incorporating some of the clubby electronic beats common to her European hometown. Mish Maoul is a tight and polished release, with just enough variety to keep the disc intriguing over the course of its 50-minute-plus playing time. Along this musical journey, Atlas treats us to the qawwali-like opener "Oully", an English-language socio-political rap on "Feen", Brazilian rhythms on "Ghanwa Bossanova", and the spare elegance of the closing track "Yariet". Even with these many side trips, Mish Maoul is a consistently strong and often hypnotic album that showcases Atlas's gorgeous voice.


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A Day in the Life of Sr. Helen Kluke
Responding to the call reveals the mystery of God's loving embrace. Leaving High School teaching and Food Services management behind, Fontbonne Ministries' Studio on the Hill pottery studio has opened and enriched the path along which I am being led in ministry. Every day is different. Additional groups add exciting challenges.
Today, twenty-five 3 to 6- year-old children from Vert Casa Montessori arrived to make a Christmas sled and plate for family gifts. It is awe-inspiring to witness how these little minds work.
Clean up follows and then checking and cleaning each of the projects to ensure there will be a perfect gift. Now it's noon and the kilns need to be emptied and refilled for firing.
How quickly the time passes, and there is still more cleaning before the senior group arrives at 1 p.m. Here there is much laughter and sharing. They are in awe of how the glazes work: even if two people use the same colours, the results are different. This group is a slower pace than the morning children, but both are welcome. One student arrives with more leaves to be imprinted in clay and another with treasures created at home.
I fall behind. Four o'clock approaches too soon. The shortest three hours of the week have just flown by. Now, these folks are well-trained: cleanup is complete. The kilns require more attention. The phone also keeps ringing meaning many trips up and down stairs. More cleaning precedes the evening class. Michael and Michele are preparing for a show. And then every evening about 10 p.m., the pet bunnies and turtle in the studio await their evening meal.
Life at the studio reveals daily miracles and God's enduring presence.
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New Dog Print: Standard Poodle
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Poodle Love!!!ReplyDelete
Oh my! Your poodle and other dog lino prints are fabulous!ReplyDelete
Oh what cuties! The poodle makes such an excellent pattern!ReplyDelete
Excellent! I love the retro 50's feel of it when you print it on pink. Blessings!ReplyDelete
oh my gosh. My aunt would LOVE that poodle! She has 3 standard sized poodles, 2 black and one white. lolReplyDelete
That poodle is awesome! Love it.ReplyDelete
Your new poodle art is gorgeous. Also love the little beagle.ReplyDelete
love these and your poodle has the perfect markings- all looks fantastic!ReplyDelete
So cute, but also so elegant!ReplyDelete
Pink poodles!! Perfect.ReplyDelete
Love the Scottie and the beagle! The poodle people should enjoy those awesome prints!ReplyDelete
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You are 'on a roll' and you create them so well ~ love them ~ thanks, ^_^ReplyDelete
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I have a soft spot for poodles as we've had a few in our family over the years. Awesome print and nice to see all the different ways it can be used. :)ReplyDelete


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Amish Mike Hopes to Springboard Into Warm Months with Enjoyable Open House
New Jersey shed dealership plans open house to get in touch with customers and showcase new additions to its product line.
Hackettstown, NJ, April 03, 2014 --(
)-- Amish Mike has been providing customers with a wide range of hand-crafted sheds, barns and all kinds of furniture for more than 35 years. Every year, the family-owned business offers new designs and products for their customers to choose from. On April 26th and 27th, it will host an open house to showcase this year's product line, and open lines of communication with customers.
This year, customers and other attendees will be introduced to two new models. The first is a 20x20 pool house, which is the largest in the product line. In addition, a 24x24 A-frame building that features a second floor will also be on display. Members of the Amish Mike staff will be available to answer questions and share information about the new products, as well as any others on display.
According to the company's website, Amish Mike is "not simply a middle man. Our Amish builders can construct your shed directly on site or have one of our experienced drivers carefully deliver your shed to your property in one piece." On Saturday, the Amish builders themselves will be on site. They plan on finishing some of the models on display, as well as talking and mingling with visitors.
The business firmly believes in the relationship between professionals and their customers, and wants the open house to be about much more than showcasing new products. Amish Mike hopes to share information with potential buyers, get feedback from past customers, and, of course, have a bit of fun as well.
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Rhino Sliders come with multiple tripod mounting options. Every slider comes standard with a center plate mounted underneath the rails which has a centered ⅜-16 thread and several ¼-20 threads around it. Additionally, there is also one ¼-20 and one ⅜-16 thread option on each end of the slider.
The rails have also been redesigned with a new Tripod Quick Mount to allow you to mount your slider more quickly without having to spin it on to your tripod. For 24" rails, there is one central tripod quick mount. 42" rails have one in the middle and one at 1/4 and 3/4 locations on the rails for dual tripod mounting.
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Pratt workers protest loss of state jobs
EAST HARTFORD (AP) -- Several hundred Pratt & Whitney workers bellowed "Keep jobs here!" as they marched to the engine maker's headquarters Friday in East Hartford to deliver a demand letter signed by 22 Connecticut leaders.
U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd led the charge, but the rest of the state's Congressional delegation, Gov. M. Jodi Rell, and other state elected officials showed their support by signing the request for the subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. to hold off on eliminating as many as 1,000 jobs in Connecticut. They want the company to wait until its contract with the International Association of Machinists expires.
"The loss of these facilities would not only mean harsh economic consequences for the employees and their families, but also the loss to Pratt & Whitney and the nation of a deep and varied knowledge base and skill set that your company, our state and nation need," the letter said.
The workers, bused in from around the state, first rallied across the street from Pratt & Whitney at the IAM Local 1746 Union Hall, then marched about a block to the Pratt & Whitney front gate, where Murphy presented the letter to company spokesman Matthew Perra and asked that it be delivered to company president David Hess.
"I appreciate this and thank you very much for delivering this today," Perra said to U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy as the workers continued to chant loudly. "Obviously these are extremely difficult issues. We're facing challenges that are unprecedented in the industry, and these are issues we really need to resolve. Pratt & Whitney is committed to looking at actual workable alternatives and working with the union, with state officials to look at any viable alternative to save these jobs. We want to save these jobs in Connecticut as well."


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Where is Toby? At TeeFury, of Course
If only I were buying things right now, this would be an immediate purchase. I haven't seen Arrested Development in a while, but I could never forget Tobias Fünke, the Blue Man Group-aspiring Never Nude. It was a ridiculous and hilarious show. I really need to have a marathon. It'll have to wait until I catch up to Burn Notice and finish my Fringe re-watch, though, unless the rest of my family is in the mood.


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Right now, homeowners don't have to paying federal income taxes on forgiven debt from a short sale or foreclosure.
Not so for forgiven credit card debt, reported the consumer website LowCards.com.
The Internal Revenue Service views forgiven credit card debt of $600 or more as taxable income — and expects you to pay taxes on that amount, LowCards.com reported.
Your credit card company should have sent a 1099-C form that shows the amount of the settled debt, the website said.
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Usher's Stepson, 11, Brain Dead After Jet Ski Accident
Kile Glover, 11, was floating on an inner tube when he was hit in the head by a jet skier in Atlanta — how tragic.
Usher's 11-year-old stepson Kile Glover was struck by a jet ski while he was swimming near his Atlanta home. Usher, being a great stepdad, rushed to his side at the hospital, as soon as he heard the news.
Kile was floating on an inner tube on Lake Lanier when he was struck in the head, TMZ reports. He was unresponsive when he was taken from the water and rushed to Children's Healthcare at Egelston Hospital in Atlanta. He was in critical condition.
Usher, 33, was so shocked by the news that he chartered a plane for his estranged wife Tameka Foster to rush to her son's side. We think it's so kind of him to do that, especially considering he's locked in a nasty divorce battle with her.
TMZ is also reporting that The Department of Natural Resource in Atlanta is investigating the collision in order to determine fault.
UPDATE 7:00pm July 8: Kile has been officially declared brain dead by doctors.
UPDATE July 9: Tameka spoke to Radar Online, saying "He's bad," about her young son. She also posted on her Facebook page, "Kile, you are strong…you'll be saved, I know it. I love you my baby. I need all #prayers for my son. Thank you everybody!" There is no word whether Kile will be taken off life support at this time.
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Pet pain exists in a wide variety of circumstances, but our goal is to effectively manage or completely eliminate the pain experience for our patients. From surgical anesthesia to managing pain from injuries and illness, Perinton Veterinary Hospital is dedicated to the comfort and safety of your cherished dogs and cats.
Pets Hide Their Pain
Animals instinctively hide their pain, thereby masking symptoms of a health problem. Our veterinarians and staff are experienced in detecting pet pain and diagnosing the source of the problem.
Some symptoms of pain in dogs and cats include:
- Panting
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Some behavioral changes indicate pain, such as growling or outright aggression. If your pet demonstrates any of these behavioral changes, or has experienced a recent trauma but has no visible injury, contact us immediately for an examination.
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Protecting your dogs and cats from unnecessary pain is as easy as 1-2-3:
- Regular, consistent wellness and preventive care is the first step to keeping pets free of pain by vaccinating against serious diseases, parasite management, and early detection of developing problems through laboratory testing and health exams.
- Diligent oral and dental care certainly reduces the risk of pain from broken teeth, infections, and gum disease.
- Proper nutrition, combined with an active lifestyle, decreases the risk of chronic pain from joint issues, obesity, and heart disease.
Preventing painful diseases and conditions in our pets is far superior to managing pain after the fact, in regard to both patient comfort and financial impact.
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There are many levels of anesthesia for pets, including local and spinal anesthesia. For most surgeries we use general anesthesia. For safety during anesthesia, patients are closely monitored by methods such as:
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Pain management for all surgical procedures is tailored to each patient, based on anticipated level of need. Your pet may go home with oral medications or even a Fentanyl pain patch, to ensure comfort during recovery.
Pet Meds from Our Pharmacy
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Our trained staff is available to give you instruction on appropriate administration techniques as well as daily recommended doses. Refill orders can be phoned in for quick and efficient pick-up. We also offer home delivery for online refills from Perinton's website pharmacy.
On the Web
The Pet Health Center of WebMD offers this guide to pain medications for:
The FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine offers this advice for treating pain in your dog.
AAHA offers these pain management guidelines for dogs and cats.
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The neighboring two-bedroom apartment–listed in February for $10 million–is about half the size of Pavarotti's place, but has a 40-foot terrace with park views from every room. The resulting three-bedroom combo has 72 feet of park frontage and the kind of stunning views Central Park South is known for. The opera star, who passed away in 2007, had several apartments in the city but was particularly fond of this one, in part because of its proximity to the Met. The other two members of the "Three Tenors" opera supergroup, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras have lived at this building as well at various times.


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Many of you have written asking for commentary on the Michelle Williams GQ cover and interview. The story made headlines everywhere yesterday. This is most likely what you saw:
Michelle Williams talks about and cries over Heath Ledger.
It wasn't totally misleading, no. That did indeed happen. Most of you who've written to me did not have kind words about Williams in this piece, particularly since you would have only read the excerpted sections and not the entire article for its flow.
I'm not saying your criticisms are wrong. Not at all. But I encourage you to read the entire article at GQ first. Because I wonder if your reaction would have been less...intense... if you'd gone there first and received her words as they were as part of a whole conversation, between two people, one of whom was tasked, admittedly, from the very beginning, to get her to an emotional place and then elicit from her an emotional response on the subject of Heath Ledger. And the journalist, he admits as much in his writing. Most of the time we only hear the answer. When you read a quick headline on a website, you don't often know what the question was.
He actually asked her where she was when she heard about Heath being dead.
I mean...few people could actually go there, you know?
And he did. And I don't blame him. And please don't come here pretending that you do. Because if you're reading this site regularly, you know YOU WANTED TO KNOW. I want to know. I want to know EVERYTHING. It's a sick twisted thing, isn't it? I want to know if she threw herself on the ground and sobbed. I want to know their last conversation. I want to know their final email. I want to know what she said to him in her heart at his funeral. I want to know how she expressed her anger at his selfishness. I want to know how often she pulled out their pictures, videos, memories. If that information were available, I would drown in it, compulsively, gorge in the morbid tragedy of another person's suffering, and then, possibly, curiosity satisfied, I'd lift up my ugly head and call her a famewhore.
After all, that was the headline that attracted me. Wasn't that the headline that attracted you?
Michelle Williams talks about and cries over Heath Ledger.
We rushed to click.
And what did she actually say?
Well, she describes, briefly, in very non-specific, eyerolly airy fairy supernatural terms how they were drawn together. She also discusses how hard it was to focus after his death, how she coped with the paparazzi, with the prying. And she reveals her worries about her daughter - what Matilda will miss for losing her father so young.
Then came this question, the most probing one of them all:
Do you think there was a part of you that imagined the two of you would somehow end up together?
I won't excerpt her answers. Because I really want you to read them in their intended context, especially in this case, not of a Jessica Biel complaining about being too pretty, or a Rooney Mara aloofing up her own ass, but of a woman who had a child with a man who drugged himself to death in front of the whole world. I love Michelle. I am a Michelle apologist. I don't think we can know what it must be like to look at your daughter and see your dead lover in her face every single day. I don't think it's fair that we put a time limit on her grief just because "they weren't even together anymore". Really??? Not even me, a piece of sh-t gossip bitch who deserves a daily flogging, not even I can draw on that as an argument against. When grief becomes an obstacle to a coworker, when others have to compensate for your grief-driven shortcomings, when you don't show up for work and someone has to do extra because you're busy grieving, when someone goes overtime because your grief is a priority, then, maybe, I'd be more onside with those who attack her on the basis of "she doesn't have to be so sad, they had already broken up when he died!" Pretty sure that doesn't apply in this case. That I can defend.
Let me explain what I cannot defend:
She cries a lot. I had a hard time with that but it's not the worst. And I don't have a hard time with what she really said about Heath Ledger, her exact words. She was led there. The question for me is how why she AGREED TO BE LED THERE. It's the timing. As it often is, it's not the what, but the when.
A GQ interview is not a 4 minute junket interview on a day when 40 outlets try and get a sound bite. It's understood that GQ interviews, Vanity Fair, Esquire, sometimes Vogue, depending on the writer, require more of a commitment, with the expectation that there will be some revelations. You will note that she spent 3 days with the journalist, and not just in an office either. They drove around, they had coffee, and this was no surprise to her. It's not like he kidnapped her and put a tape recorder between her breasts and forced her to start talking. You spend that much time with a reporter, you have to expect the inevitable. Her publicist knows this, her manager knows this, and Harvey Weinsten, oh he knows it very, very well.
These are the perils of being the Best Actress.
It happened to Natalie Portman last year. When she dragged her baby bump around every red carpet and lectured us on the magic of her creation. It happened to Reese Witherspoon, holding together her dead marriage, frauding out a perfect life with a suddenly noticeable Tennessee twang in exchange for the right to call herself an Oscar-winner.
It's now happening to Michelle Williams, who led with the daughter as part of a campaign strategy positioning her like she's the poster mother for Single Mothers on stage at the Golden Globes, reminding us that, yes, yes, I deserve to be Best Actress because my daughter is the most important person in my life. Welcome to my personal life!
We grew to hate Reese. We grew to hate Natalie. Are we growing to hate Michelle?
That's what you sacrifice for Oscar. For the ones who are just at around 30, and all three of them hover around 30, this is what you lose.
What's interesting too though is why we don't hate as hard on the men. With such rage and contempt. Something to discuss when I am Dean of the Faculty of Celebrity Studies.
I encourage you to click here for the full GQ article featuring Michelle Williams.
The Perils Of Being The Best Actress
Many of you have written asking for commentary on the Michelle Williams GQ cover and interview. The story made headlines everywhere yesterday. This is most likely what you saw:


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SPRINGFIELD- No Illinois schools would lose out on state money under a revised school funding reform plan introduced Tuesday by Sen. Andy Manar (D-Bunker Hill).
The legislation, Senate Bill 231, provides that state funding for education would be distributed based on student need while ensuring that no district would receive less state money than it did in the 2015-16 school year.
"We've waited a generation to try to do this. We've been listening to Gov. Rauner, who says kids are our number one priority. We agree. That's our priority, too," Manar said. "As a result, under this proposal no school would lose any state money. This legislation allows him to keep his word and us to keep our commitment to bring funding fairness to public education."
The legislation comes after lengthy conversations with school district leaders and lawmakers statewide, as well as careful attention to Gov. Bruce Rauner's desire that no school district lose money under any reform of the state's school funding formula.
The state's current formula for funding education, adopted in 1997, created a system in which school spending varies drastically. Currently, some schools spend as much as $30,000 per student, while others can only afford about $6,000. Manar's proposal targets state dollars to schools where the dollars can produce the biggest academic turnaround among students. Examples would be schools with high concentrations of students living in poverty, students with disabilities and English learners.
Facing economic pressures, in 2012 the state began a process of shortchanging the state's investment in public kindergarten through high school education. A year later, the Senate Education Funding Advisory Committee (EFAC) was created to study the impact of these cuts in the hope of addressing the fundamental unfairness of the state's school funding system. Since then, Manar has sponsored two other plans aimed at achieving this goal, Senate Bill 16 and Senate Bill 1.
"Everyone recognizes the current system is broken," said Manar. "It's time to come together and support a modern funding system that ensures all students in Illinois – from Cairo to Rockford – have the same opportunities to learn and to compete."


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Got my limit. Only takes a good treble hook
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Posted 05 March 2016 - 06:47 PM
Trout opener.
Tis the season for giant trebles .
Professional liners.
And of course roe harvest.
Sickening what people do for a fish and too
a fish.
Cost me a pair of waders one year.
Guy on opposite side of pool snagged one and fish headed to my side of pool.
Went between my legs and the oversize treble caught my waders.
He still refused to cut his line.
I always carry scissors and immediately cut his line.
And yes resulted in a confrontation and I punched him out.
I fish for the solitude and enjoyment of just being outdoors.
But everyone has their limits. Lol
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Posted 05 March 2016 - 07:33 PM
No skill necessary.
Anyone that can control their drift and depth are successful.
We all know trout face the current and mouth all incoming particles.
Waters clear simply watch them inhale and set the hook. Law wise it's hooked in the mouth and nothing MNR can do about it.
Some people just have no conscience.
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Posted 06 March 2016 - 01:14 AM
I could never be a liner, even if I wanted to. Even with my prescription sunglasses on I can never see my business end line anyway. Sucks having bad eyes...lol
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Posted 06 March 2016 - 01:34 AM
During the opener, protect yourself at all times. I fish for steel all year round when I don't go after pike...I practically just guide some friends who want to go trout fishing during openers because they like site fishing 3 ft deep water. lol. It gets ugly during the opener but other than that. it is fun watching kids and family fish for trout.
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Posted 06 March 2016 - 01:59 AM
I didn't know guys used big trebles for bows, I always thought it was a salmon thing.
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Posted 06 March 2016 - 08:42 AM
Personally when a pool is occupied with spoon and Muskie spinner chuckers , I just keep on going to the next pool. Some times it's not even worth it .
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Posted 06 March 2016 - 11:27 AM
I like exploring the rivers on opener, if you walk far enough, you can escape the crowds. I've never seen snaggers on opener, but I see shoulder to shoulder areas, and people sight fishing the shallow spawning areas. A couple days after opener is when I like to head out.
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Posted 06 March 2016 - 05:11 PM
Normal people usually rush to book their summer vacations on Jan 1st. I book Mon. Tues. and Wed after trout opener every year, and always get approved. Nothing wrong with that.
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Posted 07 March 2016 - 10:55 AM
Because of the shoulder to shoulder, I never go out on opener. I just can't stand it.
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Posted 07 March 2016 - 11:42 AM
During openers, I like bringing my kids to Huck Finn fishing day in Durham early morning stock pond fishing...free stuff and kids get to participate. I can go for steelhead any other day. plus pike season closes in the same month so i'd rather go for some pre spawn fat pike first...
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Posted 20 April 2017 - 03:59 PM
Go out in crowds, bring friends who can spectate. People tend to leave you and your pools alone....
I know this is from a year ago, but darn tough read.
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#12 Guest_tossing iron_*
Posted 20 April 2017 - 04:07 PM
Sight fishers will stay home.
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Posted 20 April 2017 - 04:13 PM
Yep watching the water levels spike now, should be interesting. The work week looks good, hopefully I can get out.
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Why the World Cup bidding process must be completely revamped
Most football fans have a sense that there's a fair few problems with FIFA and the governing body's precious offspring: the FIFA World Cup.
In 2015 United States federal prosecutors and Swiss investigators finally revealed the extent of the corruption at FIFA. But this came too late to reverse its most shocking decision: awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
Let's delve into exactly why the World Cup bidding process is so broken and how we can go about fixing it.
When a country offers to host the FIFA World Cup, their bid is supposed to be considered on its merits by representatives of each continent's footballing association, who each get to vote on the outcome. This sounds great in theory: regional biases are eliminated as everyone gets their say, and correspondingly, the process seems democratic.
However, after the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts were chosen in 2010, it became clear that the voting process was easily corruptible.
Jack Warner, a Vice President of FIFA at the time of the vote, was paid £720,000 from a company owned by a Qatari football official soon after the decision was made. What's more, a former employee of the Qatari bid team alleged that the country had paid around a million pounds to African officials who had the right to vote in the ballot.
FIFA employed Michael Garcia to author a report into the voting process as rumours of corruption began to swirl in 2012. It was never published – instead FIFA put forward a 42-page summary that Garcia called "incomplete" and "erroneous," before quitting in disgust.
After the FBI indicted Jack Warner, it became crystal clear that the process had in fact been corrupted. In 2015 Domenico Scala, boss of a FIFA compliance and ethics committee, said that "should there be evidence that the awards to Qatar and Russia came only because of bought votes, then the awards could be cancelled," but added that no such evidence had yet been uncovered.
This is quite ridiculous. It was evident from the moment that Australia was eliminated in the first round of voting, despite having a decent 2022 bid prepared, that something was very wrong.
Apart from the novelty of a new continent, Qatar didn't offer anything unique in its bid. In fact, you could make strong arguments that any of the other candidates would have been a better pick.
FIFA announced in 2015 that the tournament would be played in November and December to avoid the scorching Qatari summer. This is going to be a huge hassle for most domestic leagues, and the international squads won't have enough time to train together before the big event. The Premier League has stated that "the prospect of a winter World Cup is neither workable nor desirable for European domestic football."
Why didn't anyone realise this during the voting process?
Russia also has domestic issues that should have precluded them from hosting the World Cup if the vote had been fair. Putin cut the budget for the tournament multiple times due to lacklustre economic conditions in Russia, and the country has struggled with deterring racist incidents at league matches. LINK.
Qatar meanwhile has a long running reputation for poor treatment of its migrant worker population. The International Trade Union Confederation published a predicting there will be at least 4000 worker fatalities during the construction of stadiums for the 2022 event.
When the bidding process is totally undermined, potential host countries will lose faith in the system, resulting in fewer quality bids being made. In fact, only two bids were submitted to host the 2026 World Cup. But this is only part of the reason why the entire process must be revamped.
The cost of hosting the FIFA World Cup is astronomical, especially for countries without sufficient existing infrastructure.
Brazil ultimately shelled out more than £8bn to host the 2014 event, having to build five brand new stadiums and upgrade another seven. Now that the tournament has finished, the government can't keep up with the enormous maintenance costs of the iconic Maracana stadium, which has been left in ruin.
There's little evidence that Brazil saw much short or long term return from their investment. Just 2.5% of the total expenditure was returned through tourist spending, and most of the new infrastructure was built in existing hubs – not the poorer areas where it was needed most.
Russia faced similar problems in preparing for 2018 – its government struggled to find the funds required after facing a recession from 2014 to 2017.
The reality then is that hosting the FIFA World Cup isn't economically feasible for most developing countries. Nations will still bid though, despite the opportunity cost, as their leaders seek international prestige.
The Solution
One way to solve this problem would to have the World Cup hosted by six to ten different countries on a rotating basis. This way all the necessary infrastructure would already be in place – it would just need to be maintained and upgraded on occasion. As countries grow (or decline) they could apply to be added or removed from the list.
FIFA wouldn't do this though, and that's fair enough. Football must be open to everyone, regardless of location. Since the sport is so popular in a range of different countries, isolating smaller African and Asian nations wouldn't make commercial sense.
Surprisingly, since the removal of Sepp Blatter on corruption charges, FIFA has made some sensible steps to reform the bidding process, which are outlined in this report. They don't go far enough though – if FIFA officials are bought again, the process could still be corrupted. Instead, the vote needs to be fully transparent, and hosts need to be chosen based on their merits. FIFA's internal politics must be removed from the equation.
The governing body must establish an independent panel consisting of economists, former players, and regional experts to investigate each bid, overseen by a powerful ethics body. Only when the process is detached from FIFA itself will the World Cup find the best possible hosts for the competition. At present, the governing body's reputation is too poor to attract enough solid, well thought-through bids.
Ultimately, unless action is taken to reform the governing body from the ground up, and make the tournament economically viable to host, the FIFA World Cup will stagnate and potentially lose its international appeal.
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- Graph Editor
The editor provides a whiteboard at that nodes and edges can be placed. Double-clicking at any of its elements opens a corresponding property menu. You can use the tools from the Graph Editor Toolbar to create and modify graphs.
- Graph Editor Toolbar
The toolbar provides the or tools, for creating new elements on the whiteboard. Note the extra-toolbar for selecting the respective node or edge type that becomes visible of one of these tools is selected. Also tools for selecting and moving as well as deleting elements are available here. For details see the section called "Graph Editor Toolbar".
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At the right, you can find the side bar that provides several tools for your workflow:
Element Types: This widget gives you direct access to the available edge and node types.
Journal: Each project has its own journal that can be used to, e.g. note tasks, results, or observations.
Scripting API: To get direct access to the script documentation, you can open this widget.
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In this text editor you can write algorithms as explained in detail in Chapter 3, Scripting. You can work on several script documents simultaneously by using several tabs.
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- Controls
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I have written the following three blogs for the third time now. Originally I wrote them up as one blog, but due to unfortunate circumstances lost both of the previous write ups. I am going to write each one up individuality now….crossing fingers. I have been working on several "big" projects and in the mean time I have worked on several smaller projects. For the first project, I selected a space on my workshop wall behind my Miter Bench as a new home for my marking and m...
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I reciently made trip to North Carolina and while there I stopped in and visited the local The Klingspor Store. The most interesting thing abut the store is the sandpaper. Klingspor is a sandpaper manufacturer and one of the side effects of are leftover pieces of sandpaper as they are cut from the roll. In the not so distant past these remnants were thrown away. They now take these remnants and throw them into a 4'x4'x3' tall box and ship it out to one of the stores. These s...
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One of my Christmas gifts is due in tomorrow, a Veritas Mk.II Honing Guide, my kids got it for me via a gift card. I made these Glass Sheets along with the honing guide to use in the Scary Sharp system. I use the 3M micro-abrasives as specified over at Brent's Sharpening Pages. The glass is 3/32"x6"16" and the boards are from a pile of oak shorts I purchased a while back. The boards are 3/4"x6 1/2"x19" and the dowels are to keep the sheet from moving dur...


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A Protection from Abuse (PFA) is a court order that prohibits offenders from abusing and contacting victims they have had a relationship with. The offender must be a:
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- Relative by marriage
- Current or former intimate or sexual partner
- Person who shares a biological parent
PFAs can protect victims by restricting the offender from entering the victim residence, place of employment, and/or school as well as prohibiting indirect contact through third parties. A PFA is NOT the same as seeking criminal prosecution; you are not required to press charges. A PFA is meant to restrict the offender's contact with the victim, and the offender cannot be punished unless he/she violates the PFA.
There are three types of PFAs:
Who can file?
PFAs are intended to protect adult and minor victims who have a relationship with the offender. The offender must be a spouse, ex-spouse, current or former sexual or intimate partner, parent or child, brother or sister or another person related by blood or marriage.
If a minor is seeking a PFA, an adult must file on the minor's behalf. If the minor victim is over the age of nine, you MUST bring the child with you when filing.
Where do you file?
You can file for a PFA in the county where the victim temporarily/permanently lives or is employed, the county where the offender may be served, or the county where the sexual assault occurred.
To file a temporary PFA in Butler County, you need to go to the Domestic Relations Office (level L) in the Butler County Courthouse between 8:30 am and 10:30 am Monday through Friday. A VOICe advocate will be available to provide support and information during the filing process. The process can be lengthy, so plan to be there into early afternoon. If the minor victim is over the age of nine, you MUST bring the child with you to the courthouse.
What does it cost to file?
There are no costs for the filing party. Additionally, you are not required to have legal representation to file a temporary PFA, but VOICe Attorneys can represent you for free during the final PFA hearing. Please call 1-800-400-8551 for more information about representation.
What information will the person I'm filing against be served?
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House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) rejected calls for a congressional ethics probe into allegations against his Republican colleague, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).
Former athletes at Ohio State University have accused Jordan, their former wrestling coach, of looking the other way after they were sexually abused by a team doctor. While Jordan has fiercely denied the accusations since the story first broke, more accusers continue to come forward.
Jordan has also lashed out at the media for continuing to investigate, saying Wednesday that CNN reporters calling his former staff and interns was an example of "fake news."
In response to a question about Jordan, Ryan argued that a probe was not needed because the alleged events would have occurred before Jordan was elected to office. "The ethics committee here investigates things that members do while they're here, not things that happened a couple of decades ago when they weren't in Congress," Ryan said Wednesday.
Ryan also said Jordan is "a man of honesty and a man of integrity" and that Ohio State should conduct a review of the doctor who allegedly abused the wrestlers under Jordan's watch. An aide for Ryan previously said that the speaker found the allegations "serious" and would wait for the university's review.
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— POLITICO (@politico) July 11, 2018
Republicans in Congress have largely opted to stand by Jordan as well. In a tweet, The House Freedom Caucus, which Jordan co-founded, also called Jordan "a man of integrity."
Jim Jordan is a man of integrity, and we believe him and stand with him 100 percent. If he had seen or heard something he would have acted. We continue to support his work in Congress to fight for everyday Americans.
— House Freedom Caucus (@freedomcaucus) July 11, 2018
Jordan's fellow Freedom Caucus member, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), took his support of Jordan a step further by attacking the accusers directly. Gohmert claimed that their "extremely troubled backgrounds and ongoing legal and financial troubles place the veracity of their allegations into the realm of ridiculous."
Republicans' response to Jordan's accusers stands in stark contrast to how they responded to other allegations. They were swift to join Democratic colleagues in calls for an ethics probe after former Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) was accused of sexual harassment. They've also been happy to stand by President Donald Trump, who stands accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women. And their hesitance to denounce former GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, accused of sexual misconduct involving minors, only turned into condemnation after he lost his election.
Not everyone agrees with Ryan's decision regarding an ethics probe, though. The nonprofit watchdog group Democracy 21 filed a formal ethics complaint against Jordan through on July 9, asking that the Office of Congressional Ethics determine whether Jordan was "making false statements" about his knowledge of the abuse happening at Ohio State. The group also fired back earlier Wednesday at Ryan's reasoning for his dismissal of the need for an ethics probe.


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|Mineralogy at Gusev crater from the Mössbauer spectrometer on the Spirit rover
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|Mössbauer spectra measured on Mars by the Spirit rover during the primary mission are characterized by two ferrous iron doublets (olivine and probably pyroxene) and a ferric iron doublet (tentatively associated to nanophase ferric iron oxide). Two sextets resulting from nonstoichiometric magnetite are also present, except for a coating on the rockMazatzal, where a hematite-like sextet is present. Greater proportions of ferric-bearing phases are associated with undisturbed soils and rock surfaces as compared to fresh rocksurfaces exposed by grinding. The ubiquitous presence of olivine in soil suggests that physical rather than chemical weathering processes currently dominate at Gusev crater.
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KEYSER - STEM fields offer a wealth of career opportunities. Many of those jobs are in the environmental field.
The Mineral County Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Festival is an opportunity to explore some of those careers. It will be held at West Virginia University Potomac State College on Saturday, March 24, from noon to 4 p.m.
KEYSER - STEM fields offer a wealth of career opportunities. Many of those jobs are in the environmental field.
The Mineral County Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Festival is an opportunity to explore some of those careers. It will be held at West Virginia University Potomac State College on Saturday, March 24, from noon to 4 p.m.
The Mineral STEM Festival is a great source of information and inspiration for local youths. They will be exposed to new ideas and career paths.
Some of the earliest environmentalists were foresters, wildlife and fisheries biologists, water quality specialists, and law enforcement officers. These people make careers by ensuring that our natural resources are managed and protected so future generations can enjoy them.
A natural resource degree is one of the more versatile degrees because students can branch out in different career directions. Many fields have concentrations in chemistry, physics, and biology. Algebra, trigonometry, and calculus are also fundamental courses for these career paths. Forest Engineering, computer science, and GIS are required for forestry students, as well as linking them to the latest technology.
Local representatives with environmental careers will be present at the Mineral STEM Festival to present hands-on activities. They will answer questions about careers in their particular field.
Water is a very important topic in today's world. All the water that is on the earth is all that we will ever have. The WV Division of Forestry will present the Project Learning Tree activity "Water Wonders." Participants will visit the destinations as a water molecule and find out that a water molecule's journey can go down many different paths.
Visit West Virginia's Soil Tunnel Trailer to better understand what it's like underground. You will learn about soil, plants, and the creatures that inhabit our soil with an interactive, hands-on display.
The WV Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will present Trouting About. Participants will journey through the life cycle of a trout in a life-size board game. Also learn about programs that the WV DEP offers: the Youth Environmental Program, Adopt-A-Highway, Make It Shine, and Operation Wildflower.
In conjunction with the Mineral STEM Festival, the West Virginia Division of Forestry and West Virginia DEP are holding a joint Project Learning Tree (PLT)/Project Water Education for Teachers (Project WET) workshop at the Mineral County Health Department, Keyser, on March 24, 2018 from 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
This PLT/Project WET workshop is open to educators, both formal and non-formal, that want to incorporate important environmental lessons into any discipline including science, mathematics, fine arts, social studies, language arts, and music.
You must pre-register by March 15, 2018 to be included in the class.
For more information to sign up for the workshop or to leave a message, contact Linda Carnell at 304-822-4512 or email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Environmental stations are just one of the many types of STEM activities offered. For more information on the Mineral County STEM Network visit http://mineralstem.com/. For regular updates on the STEM Festival Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MineralCountySTEM.


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It's important that you are well-informed if you are in the real estate business. There is a lot of information available. However, it can be quite time consuming to go through all of the material. This article offers several practical and effective tips that will help you make the best decisions regarding your real estate sale.
For most people, price is everything. If you truly want to sell your home, then you have to be realistic about what it is worth in the current market.
When you are staging your home for viewings, try and remove as many items from the home as possible, even if your family is still occupying the home. Give your potential buyers the space they need to imagine the home as their own. By sorting through your things and discarding those you don't actually want, you not only make this possible, but you also make it easier for you to make the actual move when you need to.
Have your furnace and air conditioner serviced before listing a home. Any type of large project will be very unappealing to buyers. Having to fix a central heating/AC unit stands out to potential buyers as a large, undesirable expense.
Every seller relishes the idea of a bidding war. Reading the local market and setting an attractive price will probably increase the number of inquiries you receive from interested buyers. A bidding war from multiple buyers can result in you getting a high selling price.
When marketing or looking for real estate, it is important to use many different channels. Employ an agent, newspapers, or the Internet to help you sell your piece of real estate. You will want to exercise every option available in order to achieve the fastest sale for the largest profit.
Many real estate adviser swear by determining the price of the cheapest, most similar property in the immediate vicinity, then pricing your home at 90 percent of that figure. The low price will make buyers interested in looking more closely.
Use a wet rag to clean appliances and other kitchen surfaces. The floors should be swept and mopped throughout the house, and the restroom should be accessible and tidy. Ensure that your children haven't left out any toys. Pick up clothing that's on the floor, then place your dirty laundry somewhere inconspicuous. Don't distract potential buyers from seeing the great things about your home by drawing their attention to unsightly clutter.
When a buyer comes to look at your home, be sure to have all the curtains open. By opening your curtains, your home will appear brighter and more cheery. Make sure to pull back all drapes and curtains, and lift blinds. In addition to letting sunlight in open the windows, allow a gentle breeze to go throughout your home.
You hopefully found many bits of advice in this article that helped answer your questions or tell you what you needed to know. Determine your circumstances and utilize the proper information. Despite all the time you must devote to doing your homework before you sell any real estate, it is indeed well worth your while.