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Small Airports and Tenant Operations: Compliance Resources
Assistance for operators of small airports and the tenants in those airports.
- Water: What Is My Source?
- Am I a Public Water System? If you have a private well, you may be a public water system.
- You're a Public Water System…Now What? (RG-496) – A guide for rules and regulations that apply to public water systems, especially for those who may have recently learned they own a PWS.
- Permitting a Septic System You must check with your local permitting authority, and you can use a septic system for toilet and kitchen wastewater only. Process water is prohibited.
- If you are connected to a sewer system, contact your local Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) before discharging to their system.
- If you are not connected to a POTW, you may containerize your wastewater for disposal, apply for an industrial re-use authorization, or apply for an individual permit.
- Instructions and Application to Use Industrial Reclaimed Water
- Industrial Wastewater Discharges: The Permit Process
- Stormwater Information — Some airport operations may fall under stormwater rules (Sector S - SIC Codes 4512 to 4581).
- Industrial and Hazardous Waste Rules and Regulations for Small-Quantity Generators (RG-234)
- What to do with Used Oil, Batteries, Antifreeze, or Used Tires
- Used Oil Recycling Program
- The Used Oil Recycling Handbook (RG-325) — Guidance for Used Oil Handlers
- What Do I Do With It Now? (GI-288) — Short guide to recycling various items (including batteries and antifreeze)
- Requirements for Used and Scrap Tire Generators (RG-513)
- Waste Designation Decision Matrix
- Managing Paint and Paint-Related Waste Under the Universal Waste Rule (RG-370)
- Managing Hazardous Waste as Universal Waste
- Petroleum Storage Tanks
Compliance Overview Tools
- Environmental Screening Checklist and Workbook for Airports and Tenant Operations
- Surface Coating
- Fleet Maintenance
- Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure Plans
- Delinquent Fees
Where can I find more information and assistance?
The TCEQ's Small Business and Local Government Assistance Section offers free, confidential help to small businesses and local governments working to comply with state environmental regulations. Call us at (800) 447-2827 or visit our Web page at TexasEnviroHelp.org.


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RANGERS: Ryan Callahan scores four points in victory against Winnipeg Jets
NEW YORK >> A great individual effort by captain Ryan Callahan helped theNew York Rangers snap a two-game losing streak, and keep pace in the chase for a playoff spot.
Derek Stepan scored twice, including the go-ahead goal in the third period, as Rangersbeat the Winnipeg Jets 4-2 on Monday night.
The momentum shifted in the Rangers favor long before Stepan put them ahead to stay. It turned when Callahan scored short-handed to tie the game at 2 early in the second period.
"It was a huge play in the game," said Rangers coach John Tortorella. "Not only to kill the penalties, but to have the wherewithal to keep the puck and score a big goal like that, I think we took off from there. We took over the game from there."
Callahan sped into the Winnipeg zone as Mats Zuccarello returned to the ice after New Yorkkilled off the first half a Jets 5-on-3 power play. Showing great patience, Callahan first deked a Winnipeg defender, and then goalie Ondrej Pavelec, to the ice before depositing a backhander at 3:11.
"I think anytime you get a short-handed goal, it lifts a team up," said Callahan who also equaled his single game high with three assists. "Getting that one, we started to get going."
The win was crucial as it kept the Rangers in eighth place in the Eastern Conference. TheRangers also kept pace with the New York Islanders, who beat the New Jersey Devils 3-1. Both New York clubs have 37 points, though the Rangers hold the higher seed having played one less game than their metropolitan area rivals.
Rick Nash also scored for New York and Henrik Lundqvist made 26 saves.
While the Rangers could breathe a little easier, the pressure is mounting on the Southeast Division-leading Jets following a third straight loss.
Winnipeg got goals from Nik Antropov and Zach Bogosian, while Pavelec stopped 31 shots.
"We have to stop it," Pavelec said. "We've lost three in a row. We could be in trouble. It's not going to be easy but we have to find a way."
The Rangers found their way, thanks to Callahan.
"He made a great play and it changes the dynamic of the game," said Jets defenseman Ron Hainsey. "You have an opportunity to go up 3-1. Instead it's 2-2 off a great individual play. We did a great job at the start, but from that point on, it was the opposite."
It's what the Rangers have come to expect from their captain.
"That's why he wears the 'C' on his chest," Stepan said. "He just seems to get the job done when we need it most."
Stepan broke the 2-2 deadlock in the third as he pounced on the rebound of Anton Stralman's shot from the left point and knocked the puck past Pavelec at 5:46.
Nash gave the Rangers a 4-2 lead at 13:07.
The Jets led 2-1 after dominating the opening period.
The Rangers struck first as Stepan slipped behind the Winnipeg defense to beat Pavelec 19 seconds in, New York's first goal in three games. The Rangers were blanked by identical 3-0 scores in their prior two games in Ottawa and Montreal.
The lead soon evaporated as Antropov, left all alone in the slot, swept Kyle Wellwood's centering pass between Lundqvist's pads at 1:15.
Winnipeg took the lead at 12:54 as Bogosian fired a point shot that appeared to deflect of someone before it flew past Lundqvist.
The Jets outshot the Rangers 11-7 in a period where they spent long stretches in theNew York zone.
The Rangers were much better in the second period, outshooting the Jets 15-7 after the spark from Callahan's brilliant short-handed tally.
NOTES: Rangers D Stralman played in his 300th game while Jets LW Evander Kane appeared in his 250th game. ... The game was the start of a three-game road trip for the Jets that includes stops in Long Island and Montreal. ... The Rangers signed 20-year-old free agent D Tommy Hughes to a contract. He played four seasons with London of the Ontario Hockey League. ... With Kris Newbury sent to the minors on Sunday, Rangers C Darroll Powe returned to the lineup after sitting out three games. ... Jets D Grant Clitsome suffered a facial cut in the first period when clipped by a stick and did not return.

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Bots are complicated. They're made to process repetitive actions autonomously and can be fairly easy to build, but they aren't always working on the side of good. Here's what you need to know.
Each year, EContent magazine compiles a list of the 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry.
Voting is now closed. We'll announce the results of the first-ever EContent 100 list chosen by the people!
Tracy Wu Fastenberg
Sep 16, 2013
Company: Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Located in Needham, Mass., Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering is a relatively new institution, opening in 2002. In this short period of time, Olin has gained a reputation in the higher education community for its undergraduate engineering programs. Its small size of nearly 350 students, a "do-learn" approach to teaching, and partnerships with nearby Babson College and Wellseley College contribute to producing innovative and creative engineers.
olin.edu; library.olin.edu
Business Challenge
The library at Olin College serves as an integral part of students' education by helping them to achieve critical research and information literacy competency, adhering to standards set forth by various academic associations. Olin's library wanted a different method of teaching these skills, one that coincided with the college's unique teaching approach of classroom experiences blended with digital exercises and tools. This original method was designed using a Microsoft Word document, a PDF, and a course libguide. These proved awkward for students to use, and the Olin team members realized they needed something more streamlined for more effective learning.
Vendor of Choice: Credo Reference
Founded in the United Kingdom in 1999, Credo is an award-winning and rapidly growing information skills solutions provider serving educational institutions and public libraries across the globe. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., Credo's most popular and mainstay product is Literati solutions with versions such as School (secondary education), Academic, Student Athlete, and Public (public libraries).
The Problem In-Depth
During the last decade, various academic organizations, such as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Science & Technology Section (STS) from the American Library Association (ALA), have developed standards for research literacy. This skill set is imperative to turning students into well-educated, successful engineers as these research capabilities translate directly into the workplace.
Research literacy is not simply about finding the material needed. Students need to learn how to recognize the validity and fidelity of that material, as well as how to best use specific databases and search engines-in Olin's case, those related to engineering. Additionally, students need to learn what materials are owned by a library-and thus readily accessible-and how to legitimately locate and obtain content that is not owned by their institution.
"We realized that in our small school with top students, there were gaps in research skills," shares Dee Magnoni, library and knowledge lab director at Olin. The team at Olin wanted to redesign how students would learn those skills. This meant being consistent with the college's philosophy of "do-learn" and moving away from traditional lectures and exercises in favor of more interactive integrated methods.
A rubric was created by Olin's library team; it would be implemented during structural biomedical classes. The plan included a workshop-based model with classroom experiences associated with an actual course, comprehensive digital exercises and tools, as well as a faculty member and a librarian present to work with students on subject expertise and research skills, respectively. The design coalesced with the school's teaching and learning philosophies by being interactive and participatory in nature. It also took into account the modern student's penchant for using internet sites such as Google and Wikipedia as a starting point for research.
This approach was thorough and adaptable to course level variations and content modules, and the team worked to ensure that it could be used across curricula. The only problem was that it was all implemented using a Microsoft Word document for exercises, a PDF document for tips, and a course libguide research information portal.
The combination proved awkward and inefficient for students to move back and forth between the different materials, and the final product from students was not as clean as it could have been. The Olin team members recognized that they needed a cost-effective, streamlined resource for delivering dynamic, unique multimedia and exercise-based learning experiences to a sophisticated, tech-savvy student body of future engineers.


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The harvests of pistachios and early-variety walnuts are underway in California. Growers expect a 550 million pound pistachio crop, while the USDA estimates 495,000 tons of walnuts to be produced.
SACRAMENTO — The harvests of pistachios and the earliest varieties of walnuts are underway in California's Central Valley.
As with many other crops, the pistachio harvest started a little earlier than usual this year, and growers expect to harvest about 550 million pounds of the nuts, according to the California Farm Bureau Federation.
Marketers say demand remains strong both domestically and abroad for pistachios from the Golden State, which produces about 98 percent of the U.S. supply of the nuts, the Farm Bureau notes.
Meanwhile, the first walnuts came off trees this year as the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service office here issued a prediction that 495,000 tons of the crop will be produced this year. That's down just slightly from last year's 497,000 tons.
There are about 255,000 bearing acres of walnuts in California this year, an all-time high, according to NASS.
Orchards with later walnut and pistachio varieties are being prepped for harvest, the agency reports. Harvests usually last well into October.
The shaking of almond trees around the state continues, with harvest of the Monterey variety having begun last week, according to NASS.


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If you've ever slowed down long enough to wonder about the effect of our increasing immersion in the world of social media and digital technology, Michael Wesch is the person to ask.
He has been called "the explainer" by Wired magazine, he has won that publication's Rave Award, the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology and numerous other distinctions.
But for students in his class at Kansas State University, where he is an associate professor of cultural anthropology and digital ethnography and holds the Coffman Chair for University Distinguished Teaching Scholars, Wesch's biggest impact has been in teaching them to be not just knowledgeable, but what he describes as "knowledge-able."
At a time when Facebook often wins over professors in the battle for students' attention, Wesch not only engages students in learning but he gets them to create and share their learning through video projects viewed by millions of people online.
Wesch was in Vancouver recently to speak to Vancouver Community College faculty and staff.
In a wide-ranging interview, Wesch talked about his research, which has taken him from the almost media-free rainforest of Papua New Guinea, to the media-immersion that more aptly describes our lives today. Here is an edited version of the interview:
Q You have worked with a remote indigenous culture in New Guinea, where the only media was reading and writing. How does that experience relate to the impact of digital media on global society?
A When a new medium becomes foundational in a society, it really does shake things up very profoundly and I think it would be a little naive to say that we have a choice in the matter. Just like my friends in New Guinea, there will be ways in which our culture and lives will transform in ways we do not like and don't intend.
Q In a recent story on technology and incivility, I asked people if technology is making us uncivil. Is it technology or is it us?
A Technologies become like frozen intentions. The way these things are used and how they become part of our lives is at least partially out of our control and in that sense it's not totally irrational to think of them as something other than just a tool. That's the key that came to me in New Guinea. These media shape what can be said, how it can be said, who can say it, who can hear it, whether or not these messages will survive for sometime, how they will be accessed later. These are the fundamental questions of our time and they shape not just how information flows but also what counts as knowledge or what's going to be valued in our culture.
Q We are immersed in new media, we think we control it. Do we?
A Let's take a real concrete example: You're on Facebook, you can post things on Facebook and the moment you post a very complex algorithm starts kicking in to decide exactly who is going to see what you just posted. In the real world I can control who hears me based on how loud I shout or that type of thing. There's no algorithm controlling who's going to hear what I say. That algorithm is biased in different ways and ultimately shapes our conversations and will in some ways shape our culture.
Q So while the Internet connects us with the world, our world view is narrowing?
A Yes, these algorithms — to me that's the most interesting aspect of digital life right now. The reality is that a whole flurry of algorithms are shaping our lives right now. They shape what movies we watch, they shape what movies get made, they shape our economy — over 70 per cent of all trades on Wall Street are done by algorithm. Facebook and YouTube, these are the largest public spaces possibly ever created and they are controlled by companies. There are some elements to be concerned about, especially given that there's got to be a profit motive somewhere in there as well. I'm not a raving Marxist or anything but I do think it's important to be aware of how these things shape our conversations.
Q Is it possible to opt out?
A A friend of mine, his daughter just turned 12 and it's this pressing issue. she wants a smartphone. He said, 'No, you're not getting a smartphone.' And she said, 'You're ruining my life. My whole social life happens through this medium. You are making me an outcast.' And that's true. So, can you opt out? In many ways no.
Q What about new media and our youth today?
A I think we are really doing a disservice to them at the moment. I believe very strongly in students being able to read and write very well but I think we need to expand what we mean by reading and writing to include these new media forms. And we need a level of media literacy that includes a sophistication about how to use what media form, when, why and also when to shut it all and to have a moment to really think through it all properly.
Q If you could leave today's educators with a single piece of advice, what is it?
A We live in an age of almost infinite information and learning opportunity and so the key here is we have to inspire people to have a sense of wonder and curiosity and if we do that, they have what is essentially the world's largest knowledge machine at their fingertips. If we fail at that they have the world's largest distraction device.


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Evolution Hoax
Plant and animals are composed of a type of cell known as eukaryotic. Eukaryotic cells' main distinguishing features are that they possess a nucleus, inside which is found the DNA molecule that encodes genetic information. Some single-celled organisms such as bacteria, on the other hand, have no cell nuclei, and their DNA molecules are in a free state inside the cell. (See Bacteria.)
This second cell type is known as prokaryotic-an ideal cell structure for bacteria, because plasmid transfer (the transfer of DNA from cell to cell)- an exceedingly important process from the point of view of bacteria populations-is made possible thanks to DNA being free within the prokaryotic cell.
Since the theory of evolution is obliged to arrange life from the primitive to the complex, it assumes that prokaryotes are primitive cells, and that eukaryotes evolved from them.
Before addressing the invalidity of this claim, it's useful to state that prokaryotic cells are not primitive at all. A bacterium has almost 2,000 genes, and each gene contains up to 1,000 letters of genetic code. This means that the information in a bacterium's DNA is at least 2 million "letters" long. Accordingly, the information contained in the DNA of a single bacterium is equivalent to 20 volumes of 100,000 words each.129
In addition to DNA's sensitive structure that withstands random changes, the lack of any intermediate form between bacteria and eukaryotic cells totally invalidates any claim of evolution. The Turkish evolutionist Professor Ali Demirsoy admits that the scenario of bacteria cells evolving into eukaryotic cells-from which more complex life forms then emerged-is invalid:
One of the most difficult phases to account for in evolution is the scientific explanation of how complex cells with organelles came into being from these primitive organisms. In fact, no transitional form between these two forms has ever been found. Single-celled and multi-celled organisms fully possess this complex structure, and no group or organism with simpler organelles or which is more primitive than either of these has ever been encountered. In other words, the organelles they possess emerged fully developed. There are no simple and primitive forms.130
Bearing in mind the enormous structural differences between the bacterium cell and plant cells, the impossibility of any such transition becomes crystal-clear:
Messenger RNA performs a function that is vital to the cell's survival. However, although messenger RNA plays the same essential role in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, it has a different biochemical structure in each. Darnell writes on this subject in an article in Science magazine:
The differences in the biochemistry of messenger RNA formation in eukaryotes compared to prokaryotes are so profound as to suggest that sequential prokaryotic to eukaryotic cell evolution seems unlikely.133
The enormous structural differences between bacteria and plant cells, of which we have listed a few examples, represent a major impasse for evolutionist biologists. Some bacteria and plant cells do have some features in common, but these structures are generally very different from one another. These differences, and the impossibility of any functional intermediate form, make it impossible for the plant cell to have evolved from a bacterium.Professor Demirsoy actually admits this: "Complex cells never developed from primitive cells by a process of evolution." 134


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Canning fans, forgive me: I've had the list of canning classes from the Mecklenburg Cooperative Extension on the top of my stack for weeks and haven't gotten it posted up on the blog.
That doesn't mean the classes aren't worthy. And while you've missed "Basics of Home Food Preservation" and "Basics of Waterbath Canning," you still have a couple of helpful classes ahead. And a whole summer's worth of food to use them on.
- "Basics of Pickling Your Harvest" is still ahead on Thursday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Piedmont Natural Gas Technology Kitchen, 4301 Yancey Road. Cost: $15. You can sign up if you call by the end of the day Wednesday. Call 704-336-2082 and ask for Class Code 35694.
- "No Pressure! Basics of Canning Low-Acid Foods" (ie, when and how to use a pressure canner) is 10 a.m.-2 p.m. June 21 at the Piedmont Natural Gas kitchen, 4301 Yancey Road. Deadline for signup is also Wednesday. Cost is $15; call 704-336-2082; class code is 35692.
- "Jam Party! Canning Jams, Jellies and Fruit Spreads," is at Harvest Moon Grille at the Dunhill Hotel, 237 N. Tryon St., from 2-5 p.m. June 24. The cost is $24. Call 704-332-4141 to register.
- Finally, "Canning and Preserving the Harvest," covering both pressure and water-bath canning, will be from 2-5 p.m. July 22 at Harvest Moon Grille. Cost is $25. Call 704-332-4141.


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3 Pumpkin Cocktails to Make at Home
All the recipes you need for cocktails, juice blends, milkshakes and more.
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More often than not, pumpkin-flavored seasonal cocktails don't, in fact, taste like pumpkin. To avoid that pitfall, we recommend making drinks with a little homemade pumpkin butter, rather than pumpkin puree from the gourd or from the can. In the process of making pumpkin butter, a lot of the moisture is cooked out, resulting in a more concentrated pumpkin flavor with all the warm fall spices that we expect to taste alongside pumpkin.
Paired with bold spirits like bourbon and mezcal, these drinks highlight both the sweet and savory sides of pumpkin.
The White Pumpkin
Although it has been executed with alarming frequency and varying degrees of success, I do not think that the marriage of creamy coffee and pumpkin is a lost cause. I just think it needs booze. In this sweet dessert drink the old duo Kahlua and cream get a fall update with a dollop of rich and spicy pumpkin butter. The wildcard ingredient here is Ramazotti, an amaro with strong notes of orange and cinnamon that goes fantastically well with pumpkin. The result is a more complex pumpkin spice coffee drink.
Turkey & Sage
With pumpkin, sage, and (Wild) turkey, this drink's ingredients read a bit like a classic Thanksgiving dinner. The vanilla and caramel notes of Wild Turkey 101 make it an ideal bourbon to match with pumpkin. Plus, the extra kick of the higher proof is great up against the bold, woodsy sage. Muddling the sage helps it release its aroma and flavor, but floating a sage leaf atop the finished cocktail makes sure that you get a whiff with each sip.
The Great Calabaza
Smoky, savory mezcal provides the base for this fall riff on a margarita. Pumpkin butter brings a richer mouthfeel to the drink and fresh-squeezed orange and lime juice keep things bright. Rimming the glass with a quick homemade five spice salt adds another layer of warmth. I don't have a fireplace, but I think this toasty cocktail is the next best thing.
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Newly enrolled patients seeking care at five Michigan medical centers for veterans wait an average of three to four weeks before getting an appointment, according to federal audit results released Monday.
The delays in some cases are more than twice as long as the 14-day target set by the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2011, which the agency now says is unrealistic because of surging demand for services. Still, the Michigan facilities did considerably better than the worst performers nationwide, where average waits drag on for months.
The audit also shows that 1,555 veterans in Michigan have waited more than three months for appointments at the VA centers, while 1,686 who signed up for care within the past decade have yet to see a doctor or other professional.
"Today's internal audit report is further proof that delayed care for our veterans is a national crisis," said U.S. Rep. Dan Banishek, a Michigan Republican and member of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. "Our nation's heroes should never have to wait over 30 days for an appointment."
He said the numbers for several of Michigan's centers were better than national averages but still could be improved.
The report said three of the facilities — the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and outpatient clinics in Muskegon and Lansing — were among 112 nationwide requiring further review because of indications that data might have been falsified.
A spokesman for Sen. Carl Levin said the Michigan Democrat had asked the agency for an explanation.
"Although we do not know the reason for the follow-up visits or who will be conducting them, we will work in full cooperation with the audit team to address any issues they may have," said Derek Atkinson, spokesman for the Ann Arbor system.
The Ann Arbor facility also had by far the highest number of veterans still awaiting an appointment after asking for one within the past 10 years — 1,161. However, its total number of scheduled appointments, 50,019, also was tops in Michigan.
The average wait for a patient seeking primary care for the first time is nearly 31 days at the John D. Dingell Detroit VA Healthcare System, the longest in Michigan, followed closely by the Ann Arbor facility at just under 30 days.
Other average waits included about 28 days at the Battle Creek VA Medical Center, 23 days at the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain and 22 days at the Alefda E. Lutz VA Medical Center in Saginaw.
Waiting periods for new patients seeking specialist care were longer, ranging from 35 days at Saginaw to 59 days at Detroit. For mental health treatment, the Detroit center's wait was shortest at 20 days and Ann Arbor was longest at 27 days.
Patients already in the system had much shorter average waiting times, the longest being five days for specialty care at Battle Creek.
Alysse Mengason, spokeswoman for the Detroit medical center, said 98 percent of all veterans requesting an appointment there are seen within 30 days — a solid performance in view of a "drastic increase" in demand.
"Of course, we are striving to reduce that time frame each day," she said.


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HTC's Profit Dwindles After Delivery Delays
HTC is paying the price for the delays in the delivery of its flagship Android smartphone, the HTC One. Its Q1 income of NT$85 million ($2.8 million — a 98% drop from last quarter) has been the lowest in company's history, Bloomberg claims.
The results are even more disappointing when you consider the analysts' estimates, who had hoped for a NT$600 million ($20 million) profit.
While HTC One's delay likely isn't the only culprit for HTC's profit decline, the fact that it's hitting most countries in April after it was initially announced for mid-March surely didn't help the company's earnings.
HTC's results should pick up in the next quarter due to the arrival of HTC One, but Samsung's Galaxy S4 is hitting the stores shortly thereafter, and — like its predecessor — it could very well eclipse HTC's flagship.
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I like country music, and I'm glad that the number of indie-rockers in country bands (which, really, is what an alt-country band is) is growing. In addition to the obligatories (Wilco, Jayhawks, Old 97s; you can't really say the phrase alt-country without mentioning them), the late Drag the River (and the rest of Suburban Home Records' artists), Clem Snide, 500 Miles to Memphis, and now Any Day Parade have crossed my path and made it okay for me to say "I like country music."
Yes, Any Day Parade is undeniably country. They have the walking bass, the distinctly country guitar tone, and the shuffling drums. There's harmonies galore: males harmonizing male leads, females harmonizing male leads, males harmonizing female leads, and duets where both are equally important. In fact, if this weren't all delivered with sneer, grit and adrenaline, this album would be a straight-up country record.
But the sneer, grit and adrenaline take what could be a flat country palate and transform it. It's not even a heavy edge of adrenaline (not like 500 Miles to Memphis' liberal application of the double pedal), sneer (Clem Snide has them way beat), or grit (there's plenty of bands that have them covered on the gritty front), but their combination is just the right mix. It's the desperation in the female lead's voice in "Where We Fall" and "Water Bucket"; it's the ominous overtones to "Water Bucket." It's the almost-too-honest lyrics of "A Couple Hours." It's all these little moments and parts that take Any Day Parade from just your average country band to one that you want to blast with your windows down on a lonely highway.
So, it's hard to explain exactly why Where We Fall EP is so good. It just is. There's nothing innovative here; they're just great songwriters and passionate performers. This is good music, without any gimmicks. It's worth your time, if you're the least bit interested in country (or expanding your musical tastes).


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Callaspo quietly turning things around at the plate
ANAHEIM -- In an Angels lineup that features Mike Trout, Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton, it is easy to get lost in the shuffle.
Although Alberto Callaspo's offense does not garner the same attention as his teammates, the third baseman has been very productive.
"He's quietly doing what we expected," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "He's started swinging better from the right side. Left-handed he's been hitting the ball to all fields."
Callaspo had a rough stretch from May 15 to June 15, hitting just .207 as his average dropped 51 points.
However, a couple of hitting streaks have jump-started the switch-hitter, who is bringing his average up seemingly every day.
"He's been hitting the ball hard," Scioscia said.
Since June 15, Callaspo has played in 28 games, had hit streaks of nine and 12 games and is hitting .327.
After a 1-for-3 Saturday night -- including his fifth home run of the season -- Callaspo's average, which had dipped to .233, is up to .269.


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Serves 8 – 10
4 large firm pears, like Barlett, peeled, halved, cored and cut across into ¼ inch slices
2 sticks unsalted margarine, softened
2-½ cups sugar
4 large eggs
1-½ teaspoons vanilla extract
4 cups flour
1-teaspoon kosher salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
1 cup pareve whipping cream
2 tablespoons brandy (or other liqueur, optional)
Preheat the oven to 400. Grease a 10-inch tube pan.
Spread the sliced pears on a baking sheet and roast until tender, about 10 minutes. Transfer the pears to a food processor and puree until smooth. Set aside. Reduce the oven temperature to 350.
Cream together the margarine and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing until very light. Batter may appear curdled at this point. Mix in the vanilla and pear puree. Sift together the flour, salt, and baking powder. Mix the dry ingredients into the batter just until combined. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake until the top springs back when touched in the center, about 1 hour. Place on a rack to cool. Turn the cake out of the pan re-invert onto a cake plate.
Put the chocolate in a double boiler over barely simmering water. Stir occasionally until melted. Whisk in the pareve cream and brandy. Slice the cake and serve with warm chocolate sauce drizzled on top. Sauce can be made ahead of time and re-warmed before using.


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The embattled newspaper business is betting heavily on Web advertising revenue to secure its survival. But that wager is hardly a sure thing.
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Even the most committed newspaper industry pessimist might begin to see a little sunshine after talking to Randy Bennett. Yes, the print business is "stagnant," acknowledges the Newspaper Association of America's new-media guru. And yes, he says, newsrooms are under pressure. But and here comes the sun newspapers have staked out a solid position on the Internet, he says. Internet revenue is growing smartly: In 2003, Bennett points out, newspapers collected a mere $1.2 billion from their online operations; last year the figure was nearly $2.7 billion. "We're growing at a double-digit rate," he says.
This is the kind of news that soothes beleaguered publishers and journalists. As print circulation and advertising swoon, the newspaper industry, and news providers generally, have looked for a lifeboat online. Newspapers were the first of the mainstream media to extend their traditional news franchises into the world of pixels, giving them an important "first mover" advantage. Web sites run by local newspapers typically remain the most popular sources of news and the largest sources of online advertising in their local communities.
Predictions about where the Internet is headed are, of course, hazardous. A dozen or so years after it began to become a fixture in American life, the Internet is still in a formative stage, subject to periodic earthquakes and lightning strikes. Google didn't exist a decade ago. Five years ago, no one had heard of MySpace. Facebook is just four years old, and YouTube is not quite three. Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. compares the current state of the Internet to television in the age of "Howdy Doody."
Even so, a few dark clouds are starting to form in the sunny vista. Consider a few distant rumbles of thunder:
--After years of robust increases, the online newspaper audience seems to have all but stopped growing. The number of unique visitors to newspaper Web sites was almost flat up just 2.3 percent between August 2006 and August 2007, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. The total number of pages viewed by this audience has plateaued, growing just 1.8 percent last year.
--Newspaper Web sites are attracting lots of visitors, but aren't keeping them around for long. The typical visitor to nytimes.com, which attracts more than 10 percent of the entire newspaper industry's traffic online, spent an average of just 34 minutes and 53 seconds browsing its richly detailed offerings in October. That's 34 minutes and 53 seconds per month, or about 68 seconds per day online. Slim as that is, it's actually about three times longer than the average of the next nine largest newspaper sites. And it's less than half as long as visitors spent on the Web's leading sites, such as those run by Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft.
Many news visitors call them the "hard-core" linger longer online, but they're a minority. Greg Harmon, director of Belden Interactive, a San Francisco-based newspaper research firm, estimates that as many as 60 percent of online newspaper visitors are "fly-bys," people who use the site briefly and irregularly. "Everyone has the same problem," says Jim Brady, editor of washingtonpost.com. The news industry's continuing challenge, Brady says, is to turn "visitors into residents."
--As competition for visitors grows, news sites are rapidly segmenting into winners and losers. In a yearlong study of 160 news-based Web sites (everything from usatoday.com to technorati.com), Thomas E. Patterson of Harvard University found a kind of two-tier news system developing: Traffic is still increasing at sites of well-known national brands (the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, etc.), but it is falling, sometimes sharply, at mid-size and smaller newspaper sites.
"The internet is redistributing the news audience in ways that [are] threatening some traditional news organizations," concluded Patterson in his study, produced for the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. "Local newspapers have been the outlets that are most at risk, and they are likely to remain so."
Patterson suggests that some of the declines at newspaper sites may be due to increased competition from local broadcast stations, particularly TV. Although they got a late start on the Internet, local TV stations are beginning to catch up, thanks to copious video news clips and strong promotional capabilities. "A lot of papers are close to maxing out their local audiences," Patterson said in an interview. "It's hard to know where more readers will come from... They have to figure out how to deal with a pretty difficult future."
In other words, for many, that first-mover advantage has vanished.
Most ominous of all is that online ad growth is beginning to slow. Remember those confidence-building double-digit increases in online advertising revenue? They're fading, fast. In the first quarter of this year, the newspaper industry saw a 22 percent gain in online revenue. Not exactly shabby, but still the smallest uptick (in percentage terms) since the NAA started keeping records in 2003. In the second quarter, the industry rate slipped again, to 19 percent. The third quarter promises even less, considering what various companies have been reporting lately. E.W. Scripps Co. saw a 19 percent increase. The Washington Post Co. said its online revenue was up 11 percent in the period, the same as Gannett's. Tribune Co. saw a gain of 9 percent. McClatchy was almost in negative territory, with a weak 1.4 percent increase for the quarter and the year to date.
All of which begins to hint at one of the deeper economic challenges facing online news providers. Even as advertisers move from traditional media to new media, a big question lingers: Can online ad revenue grow fast enough to replace the dollars that are now being lost by the "old" media? And what happens if they don't?
At the moment, the Internet has a long way to go. Newspapers collected $46.6 billion from print advertisers last year; they took in another $11 billion in circulation revenue in 2004, the last time the NAA compiled the total. Even with the double-digit increases online, that's more than 20 times what they're generating from the Internet. Among the industry's most cutting-edge publishers, the Internet still accounts for only a fraction of the overall pie. The leading online newspaper company, the New York Times Co., derives only about 11 percent of its revenue from the Web. This fall, MediaNews Group, which publishes 57 daily newspapers, including the Denver Post and the San Jose Mercury News, touted plans to increase its share of Internet revenue to 20 percent by 2012.
Philip Meyer, author of "The Vanishing Newspaper" and a former journalist and University of North Carolina journalism professor, believes that it's "in the interest of both newspapers and advertisers to shift content to the Internet." Advertisers get narrower target audiences for their products, he notes, and greater accountability, since they can monitor consumers' behavior. "Newspapers can at last grow their businesses without being held back by the variable costs of newsprint, ink and transportation," he said in an e-mail interview. "In the recent past, newspaper owners have preferred to cut fixed costs, like editorial staff, which gives a quick boost to the bottom line but weakens their hold on the audience. Using technology to cut the variable costs is a better strategy even though the payoff takes longer."
Shedding the big overhead costs of the old media is certainly an attraction of the new one. The problem is, an Internet visitor isn't yet as valuable as a print or broadcast consumer. The cost of reaching a thousand online readers a metric known in advertising as CPM, or cost per thousand remains a fraction of the print CPM. The price differential can be as much as 10-to-1, even though many newspaper Web sites now have online audiences that rival or exceed the number of print readers.
Some of this disparity is a result of the witheringly competitive nature of the Web. Unlike the print business, in which newspaper publishers generally enjoy near-monopoly status, the online news world is littered with entrants from giants like MSNBC.com and AOL.com, to news aggregators like drudgereport.com, to blogs by the millions. This makes it tough for any online ad seller to do what newspaper publishers have done for years keep raising their ad rates. "Ultimately, it comes down to supply and demand," observes Leon Levitt, vice president of digital media for Cox Newspapers. "And there's an awful lot of supply out there."
Harvard's Patterson offers a more intriguing, and perhaps more unsettling, theory about why it's hard to squeeze more money out of online advertisers: Web ads may not be as effective as the traditional kind. "I'm not sure [advertisers] are convinced yet about how terrific a sales tool [a Web display ad] is," he says. "The evidence isn't strong yet that it can drive people into a store the way a full-page newspaper ad can. They're less confident about what they're getting online." Moreover, unlike their here-and-gone counterparts on the Internet, print subscribers still stay around long enough to see an ad. Some 80 percent of print readers say they spent 16 or more minutes per day with their newspaper, according to Scarborough Research.
These dynamics could change, perhaps as stronger news sources emerge on the Web and weaker ones disappear. But even if the newspaper industry continued to lose about 8 percent of its print ad revenue a year and online revenue continued to grow at 20 percent a year the pace of the first half of 2007 it would take more than a decade for online revenue to catch up to print.
Journalists, or indeed anyone with an interest in journalism, had better pray that doesn't happen. Because online revenue is still relatively small and will remain so even at its current pace, this scenario implies years of financial decline for the newspaper industry. Even a 5 percent decline in print revenue year after year might look something like Armageddon. Newspapers were already cutting their staffs before this year's advertising downturns. A sustained frost of similar intensity would likely lead to even more devastating slashing. The cuts could take on their own vicious momentum, with each one prompting a few more readers to drop their subscriptions, which would prompt still more cuts. Some daily papers would undoubtedly fold.
Some remain confident that these dire scenarios won't come to pass. "I don't foresee [print dying] in my lifetime," says Denise F. Warren, chief advertising officer for the New York Times Co. and its Web sites. "I'm still bullish on print. It's still an effective way to engage with the audience." On the other hand, she adds, "The business model will keep evolving."
Yes, says Phil Meyer, but it may evolve in ways that render many daily newspapers unrecognizable to today's subscribers: "You want a prediction?" he says. "There will be enough ads for ink on paper to survive, but mainly in niche products for specialized situations."
Question: Do you see a smart online business model for traditional media that will permit newspapers and other publications to continue to do deep reporting and attract talented journalists?
CRAIG NEWMARK: Not yet. While there are people working on it... no one's figured it out yet.
From an online Q&A with Craigslist founder Newmark, posted on nytimes.com on October 10.
To restore the industry's momentum online, executives like Denise Warren suggest the key may simply be more. More new editorial features that will attract new visitors and keep the old ones engaged on the site for longer.
The Times, for instance, expanded three "vertical" news and feature sections last year (real estate, entertainment and travel) and this year is fleshing out similar sections on business, health and technology. In early December, the paper will launch a Web version of its fashion and luxury goods magazine, called T. The paper has also stopped charging for its op-ed columns, after having determined that it could attract more readers and hence more advertising dollars by removing the "pay wall" that blocked unlimited access.
(The Wall Street Journal is also considering doing away with online subscriptions and moving to a free, ad-supported model, the Journal's new owner, Rupert Murdoch, said in mid-November.)
Washingtonpost.com has added more blogs, more video and special features, like a religion and ethics discussion called On Faith. In June, it started a hyper-local site-within-the-site called (LoudounExtra.com that focuses on exurban Loudoun County in Virginia. Coming next summer: a complete redesign of the site. With so much movement, Brady isn't concerned about traffic slowing down. "I'm not worried that people's interest in the Internet has peaked," he says. "There's a whole generation coming up that uses the Internet a lot more."
Cox Newspapers is focusing on its papers' local markets with freestanding niche offerings that target specific demographic groups underserved by the main newspaper, such as young mothers and pet owners and local sports fans, says Leon Levitt. The idea is to assemble a larger, geographically concentrated online readership bit by bit, with as many as seven to nine specialized publications, he says.
Harvard's Patterson has a simpler idea: Just play the news better online. His study of news sites found "substantial variation" in how local sites display news, with some pushing blogs, ads and "activity lists" over breaking news. "If local news is downplayed, local papers are conceding a comparative advantage in their competition with other community sites for residents' loyalties," the study concluded. "If national and international news is downplayed, local papers may increase the likelihood that local residents will gravitate to national brand-name outlets."
The news may be the primary product, but the way the news is served online needs to be updated, too, says Mark Potts, a Web-news entrepreneur and consultant. He says newspaper-run sites are falling behind the rest of the industry in their use of technology. "For the most part, once you get past the bigger papers, newspapers are not up to date" online, he says. "They've got some video, a podcast, some blogs, yes, but mostly...they're just pasting the newspaper up on the screen. That was barely OK five years ago." Potts ticks off the tools that news sites usually lack: social networking applications, database-search functions, mapping, simplified mobile-device delivery technology, services that let readers interact with one another, etc. His one-word description for the state of newspapers online: "Stodgy."
On the ad side, traditional news organizations are starting to join, rather than trying to fight, some of the Internet's giants. In recent months, major newspaper companies have struck alliances with Yahoo! and Google in an attempt to pair newspapers' strength in selling local advertising with the search engines' superior technology and national reach.
In the first phase of a multipart alliance, some 19 newspaper companies that own 264 daily papers have linked their online help-wanted advertising to Yahoo!'s HotJobs recruitment site. When an advertiser seeking to hire, say, a nurse, in St. Louis buys an ad through the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the newspaper places the ad on its site, which is co-branded with HotJobs and automatically linked to HotJobs' national listings. As a result, the advertiser gets his message in front of both local job candidates and others across the country. HotJobs, in turn, gets a local sales agent the Post-Dispatch to sell more listings. Although the partners have revealed few financial details about the arrangement, revenue from such ads is split between the newspaper and Yahoo!, with the newspapers taking a majority of each dollar generated.
In a second phase of the alliance that is now being tested, publishers such as McClatchy, Lee Enterprises, Media General, Cox and others will attempt to do something similar with display ads. Using Yahoo!'s search capabilities and technology, the companies hope to marry national and local display ads to their visitors' interests. People interested in, say, pickup trucks (as identified by tracking software and registration questionnaires), would likely see national ads for Ford, and perhaps for local Ford dealers, when they logged on to a newspaper's site. Such highly targeted advertising would command much higher CPMs than plain old banner ads, says Cox's Levitt.
While it's still too early to declare victory, the general scheme of the partnership has drawn praise from Wall Street. Deutsche Bank analyst Paul Ginocchio has estimated that some members of the consortium could see online ad growth rates of 40 percent for the next two years, thanks in large part to revenue generated by the Yahoo! tie-in.
However, other publishers have declined to join the Yahoo! consortium, in part out of concern that newspapers may be giving away too much to Yahoo! and leaving readers little reason to visit the newspapers' own sites. For example, Gannett and Tribune Co. are developing a display advertising network of their own.
Another group of publishers, including Hearst, E.W. Scripps and the New York Times Co., have turned to Google. Under an experimental program that was expanded this summer, Google is running auctions that enable thousands of smaller advertisers to bid on ad space size, section and date of their choosing on some 225 newspaper Web sites. The newspapers are free to accept the offer, reject it or make a counteroffer (Google says more than half the bids have been accepted). The process is streamlined by Google's technology, which automates billing and payments.
A little less cooperation might help, too. Some argue that news providers made a huge strategic mistake when they decided to make their content available to others online. "Free riders" like Yahoo.com, MSN.com, Google and AOL.com have built massive franchises far larger than any traditional mainstream news site in part by posting news stories created and paid for by others. These days, of course, anyone can assemble a series of links and headlines to become a "news" site. The Shorenstein Center put it bluntly in its recent study of news on the Internet: "The largest threat posed by the Internet to traditional news organizations...is the ease with which imaginative or well positioned players from outside the news system can use news to attract an audience."
"It's a terribly unfair deal," says Randy Siegel, the publisher of Parade, the weekly newspaper magazine. "Newspapers need to negotiate a more equitable share with search engines that are making billions of dollars by selling ads around newspaper content without the costs of creating that content.... The book industry and the movie industry don't give their content away."
Arkansas Publisher Walter Hussman Jr. knows he sounds like a man from another century when he says it, but he thinks newspapers shouldn't be free, online or off. He rues the day that the Associated Press, which is owned by the newspaper industry, agreed to sell stories to the Yahoo!s and AOLs of the world. Free or bargain-priced news, Hussman says, cheapens everyone's news. Free, he says, "is a bad business model."
Hussman has an idea that's so old and abandoned it seems almost new: Make people pay for the news they want, even in the Internet age. Hussman obviously is swimming upstream with this notion. Not long after the New York Times stopped charging for its op-ed columns under the now-jettisoned TimesSelect initiative, the Sacramento Bee dropped subscription fees for Capitol Alert, the paper's Web site for political news.
The newspaper Hussman publishes, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock, is one of the few that charge a fee ($4.95 a month) for full access to its site. The site has a modest base of 3,000 subscribers, but Hussman says walling it off protects a more lucrative franchise: the newspaper. He believes it's no coincidence that the Democrat-Gazette's print circulation is growing about 2,000 daily in the latest six-month period that ended in September at a time when so many others are sliding.
But what about the ad revenue that the newspaper is giving up with such a restricted Web site? Hussman says ad rates are so low online that they often don't cover the cost of producing original journalism. Example: An online gallery of photos from a local high school football game might generate 4,000 page views. If an advertiser paid $25 for each thousand views a premium figure, by the way the photo feature might generate $100, barely enough to pay the photographer for his work.
"I know what I'm saying is going to sound too simplistic to some people, but it seems to be working," he says. "The reason I advocate this is not some ideological or esoteric reason or because of pride of authorship. I'm basing this on experience."
Hussman sees an industry that generates nearly $60 billion a year in print ad sales and subscription fees, and that supports the expenditure of roughly $7 billion a year on newsgathering operations, and worries about it all slipping away in an era in which news is so abundant and so free. "It would be wonderful if someone could figure out a way" to do all that online, he says before concluding, "but I just don't see it now."
Paul Farhi is a Washington Post reporter who writes frequently about the media for the Post and AJR. He has written about the San Francisco area's news blues, hyperlocal news Web sites and the business magazine Portfolio in recent issues of AJR.


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Rockies take to situational hitting in first workout
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rockies manager Walt Weiss emphasized effort and execution in his first meeting with the squad before Sunday's first full-squad workout. But they're just words until the principles are put into practice. New hitting coach Blake Doyle is putting Weiss' address into practice, literally.
Doyle, who took over after Dante Bichette left after one season to spend more time with his family, placed baseballs into a pitching machine that would spit them out with different breaking and sinking actions. But a second before he put the ball into the machine, he would shout out a situation:
"Hit and run."
"Get 'em over."
"Infield back [runner on third]."
The hitter had to adjust his swing to the situation.
Doyle said the drill will be incorporated into many Spring Training drills and batting practice throughout the season. He said the Rockies' Michael Cuddyer, who won last year's National League batting title, has devoted his second round of all batting practice to situational hitting throughout his career, and many veterans do the same.
Doyle gave Weiss baseball lessons when he was in high school and taught future and current pros for many years at a facility in Florida he ran with his brothers -- former Major Leaguers Denny and Brian Doyle. He worked with the Rockies on a rotating basis last year, and he understands the issues the team struggled with last season.
In the drill, the situation changes from pitch to pitch, which Doyle said helps players concentrate on the swing.
"The stroke's gotta change," Doyle said. "That stuff starts when they're in the hole in the dugout, looking at the situation they might be put into. Then they get on deck and the situation changes."
The issue is crucial for a team, even though the youth of some players could make it difficult to give at-bats to the team. Young regulars like third baseman Nolan Arenado, catcher Wilin Rosario and second basemen DJ LeMahieu and Josh Rutledge could feel pressure from the inevitable batting average ups and downs, and must fight that to measure their worth in team goals.
Shortstop Troy Tulowitzki said he had to find that balance in 2007 when he was with the Rockies' team that went to the World Series.
"Defensively, that's where my head was at," Tulowitzki said. "I knew I wasn't a finished product offensively. We had such a good offensive team and I knew I didn't have to carry the load. Hopefully, these young guys can say the same thing.
"It depends on the individual. You get some guys here that are advanced and have high baseball IQ, and other guys learn along the way."
Arenado, who turns 23 on April 16, hit .267 last season as a rookie but felt he left opportunities for RBIs or advancing runners behind.
"What I did a little bit last year but what I didn't do consistent enough was slow the game down and look for my pitches," Arenado said. "I'll have a better chance of success than I did last year.
"I know I can play here, and when I've had my best years, I've never thought about numbers. I had my best streaks or good months and people ask what I did, and I just know I hit the ball hard."
Rosario, 25, has hit .277 since breaking in with the Rockies in 2011 and has 52 homers. His 49 in the last two years are the most of any Major League catcher. To further cement his offensive reputation, however, Rosario will have to improve a .309 on-base percentage. Last year's .315 was a career high, but Buster Posey's .377 career number and Yadier Molina's improvement in OBP are traits Rosario can emulate if he can balance his aggressiveness with selectivity.
"I know with the guys in front of me there will be traffic for me, so I'll be aggressive and have fun," he said. "But if I've got to walk, I'll walk. If they pitch to me, I'll hit it, one or the other. I have to consistently bring a good approach."
Weiss said, "It's playing hard and playing right, and playing right falls under the heading of our execution."