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Welcome to MATSE 081: Materials in Today's World.
We will be using a textbook written specifically for this course. The book, like the rest of course material, is web-based. It's is a required text and it can be purchased by accessing the following website:
Please take some time to review the Course Syllabus to become familiar with the instructor, assignments, and course schedule. The videos on this site feature Dr. Paul Howell, who taught this course before his retirement. When you view these videos, it is important that you remember that a number of important things have changed. There is a new textbook. The lessons will be linked to the new text. Scheduling details will be changed.
Your grade will be based on your average performance on weekly quizzes that are based on the following: topics covered in the text, information from the videos, and information obtained from the web. Because this is a web-based course, you will need to go out to the web to find the answers to some questions (don't worry, I will tell you which questions those are).
The course will be structured so our interaction reduces our common tendency to wait to the very end of the semester to do the work. What this means is you will be given assignments on a regular basis throughout the semester. At that due date for a particular topic, you will have access to the quiz pertinent to that date. That quiz will stay up on line for about 2 weeks. At the end of this period the quiz will be removed. For those of you who may be highly motivated, we will try to find a way to permit you to work ahead and finish the course early if you so desire. However, your grade will not be posted until the end of the semester.
Paul Brown, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. This is me →
You will see Professor Howell in many of the videos. He built this course from the ground up and invested a lot of time in creating the visuals.
Learning Environment
This Web site provides the primary instructional materials for the course. The Resources menu at left links to important supporting materials, while the Course Outline menu links to the course lessons. ANGEL, Penn State's course management system, is used to support the delivery of this course, as well, as it provides the primary communications, calendaring, and submission tools for the course.
Course Structure
The course is available in two formats:
- Classroom Format: Uses the conventional face-to-face class format.
- Web-Only Format: All instruction is delivered on the Web.
We are surrounded by "materials." So what is a "material"? Materials are the components of which pretty much everything is made. Concrete, terracotta, steel, stainless steel, copper, glass, plexiglass, and teflon are all materials. We call them materials because we rely on the properties they have. So what are "properties"? Strength is a property. Ability to transmit light is a property. Ability to conduct electricity is a property. Each of these properties is of technological importance. In the world of Materials Science, materials are studied, characterized and designed to offer properties optimal to their application. For example, steel (which is sometimes called carbon steel) is very strong, but is susceptible to rusting (corrosion). Stainless steel is far less susceptible to corrosion. But it is more expensive. So if was necessary to use steel because of its good mechanical properties, we would select stainless steel for applications where it is critical that corrosion not occur.
As you can see from our short list of materials, some are metals (steel, stainless steel, copper), some (concrete, terracotta, and glass) are ceramics, and some (plexiglas and teflon) are plastics. We are members of the Materials World, and they contribute significantly to the standard of living that we enjoy.
This course takes students on a historical, scientific, and cultural exploration through the world of materials — from the cosmos to the atom, from Asimov to Pauling, from ancient Mesopotamia to modern day Pennsylvania, and from early man's primitive stone tools to the complex materials that help us build, communicate, travel, work and live in the 21st century.
Central to the course content is the text: The Materials World written specifically for students being introduced to the world of materials science and engineering. Complementing the text will be a broad array of resources made available to students through this Website. Weekly quizzes and surveys will serve their traditional purposes — to help guide students through the material and assess the course objectives. Weekly videos have been selected as a means for drawing attention to important ideas, misconceptions, and concepts related to the use of materials. Through these combined experiences, MATSE 081 will meet the goals established for the Natural Sciences General Education knowledge domain (GN).
Learning on the Web
The use of the World Wide Web permits us to teach beyond the traditional borders of the classroom and to a wider and more diverse audience. The lack of scheduled meeting times translates into opportunity for those who are struggling with scheduling issues or who are working students, adult learners, or taking classes from a geographically remote location. Successful students will commit regular hours and energy to the course, manage and allocate their time wisely, attend to weekly assignments and deadlines, and participate fully in the course activities and experiences that are group or team-based. Success in these areas translates directly into success in the course and, more importantly, into a richer, more enjoyable online experience. The "engine" that helps us deliver a complete online learning experience to students is ANGEL, Penn State's own course management system, which is available to students 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Although most course content is located on this Web page, as a part of the Open Educational Resource (OER) Initiative, all "for credit" material is located on ANGEL.
MATSE 081 will continue to test the Dutton Institute's working hypothesis regarding general education courses: "Student engagement" — defined as a quantity and quality of time spent in learning tasks and activities — is directly and positively correlated with student satisfaction, participation, and performance, and consequently, is the single-best indicator of student success and satisfaction in academic course work.
As such, MATSE 081 was the first e-Education course to benefit from a newly formed collaboration between the Dutton Institute and the Schreyer Institute for Innovation in Learning, a partnership designed to improve the strategies and methodologies used to assess and evaluate courses and their effectiveness. MATSE 081 recently moved into an ANGEL quizzing environment, allowing for full, instant, and automated feedback available to the students. This was designed not only to greatly improve the processes of creating, delivering, and documenting online tests for instructors, but also to improve the student test-taking experience through greater convenience, richer quizzing features, and improved feedback, scoring, and reporting mechanisms.
Please Note: Courseware offered through OER is not eligible for credit toward any course, degree, or certificate offered by The Pennsylvania State University. This site does not provide access to the quizzing tools, assignment dropboxes, communication tools, etc. Although this Webspace will provide complete content for this course, access to graded materials will only be offered to students who are registered for the course and in the ANGEL course management system. If you are interested in enrolling in this course or learning more about Penn State's enrollment process, please see the Penn State Admissions website.
Organization of the Course
The course is organized in a modular format. Each of the six modules has central theme. The duration of a module will be 2 or 3 weeks. Within each module there will be one or more lessons. Each lesson will be about one week in duration. Each lesson will typically involve reading one or more chapters of the text, reviewing a video, and then taking a short quiz. These quizzes will be based on the content of the weekly video and on web-research. At the end of each module a quiz will be given that covers the materials from the text. The following is a list of the modules and their lengths:
Module 1: weeks 1-2 . Introduction emphasizing the historical context of materials discovery and development.
Module 2: weeks 3-4. Organization and structure emphasizing the relationships between organization of elements, ions or molecules to form materials and the properties they show.
Module 3: weeks 5-6. Metals describing the path taken from mining metal ores to producing advanced metallic materials.
Module 4: weeks 7-8 . How does crystallization occur and what happens if it doesn't.
Module 5: weeks 9-10. Materials behavior of non-metals, ceramics, plastics,
Module 6: weeks 11-12. Application areas for materials - materials for implantation in us, materials to move electrons, and materials that interact with light.
Course Overview
What is this course about?
The course objective is to inform you about the world of materials. It shouldn't take very long for you to develop an appreciation for how much you rely on the behavior of man-made materials to allow you to live comfortably. As you sit at your desk and look at this screen, take a minute and look around. About the only natural material you are likely to see is wood. Everything else was produced by someone who knew enough about materials properties to tailor them to serve your needs.
What do I need to know?
This is a concepts-based course. There are very few equations that will show up and, if you remember anything from high school algebra and geometry, these should not be a problem for you. The other thing you will need to know is how to interpret graphs. We will be plotting things like strength vs composition or strength vs length change, nothing very complicated.
What will I be expected to do?
You will be expected to watch the videos. Some videos are embedded in the course materials. These videos have been specifically and locally produced for this course. Other videos are "linked" to the course. This means we give you a web address and then you go to that address, locate the video and watch it. You will be expected to watch the videos that are linked to the course. These videos are commercially available and have been professionally produced. They have been selected because of their relevance to the topics of the course. You will be expected to read the chapters assigned from the text: The Materials World. This is an e.book and it not available in the book store. It must be ordered over the web by going to the website: e-educationalenterprises.com. It is important that you recognize this is copy-righted material for which unauthorized reproduction is not permitted.
How will I be graded?
You will be graded based on your performance on 12 quizlets and on 6 quizzes. The quizlets will be based on the linked videos and on questions related to the topics of these videos that must be looked up on the web. You will also be graded on 6 quizzes. Each quiz will be based on the chapters of the text pertinent to the module. The way I have constructed the quizzes is as follows: I went through the book page-by-page and picked a question or two from each page.
How should I plan on allocating my time?
The modular materials will NOT remain open throughout the semester. There are a number of reasons for this. The two most important are to discourage people from doing nothing for most of the semester and then trying to get through the course in the last couple of weeks. The second is there may be restrictions on how long we can hold the commercially-produced videos open. This will be true for the videos for which the university will need to pay royalties to view. Generally, you will be given about 10 days to complete the quizlets and quizzes associated with each module after the completion of the module. For example, Module 1 is 2 weeks in duration. So you will be expected to get all quizzes and quizlets completed by the Wed of the 4th week. The module will then be closed.
What if I have an emergency?
These happen, we understand that. However, being lazy is not an emergency. If you have a legitimate reason for not being able to complete assignment associated with a module, contact the course manager and we will try to work something out. But you will likely find we are more accommodating if you tell us in real time and don't wait for weeks to get around to it.
What about cheating?
Don't do it! I have tried to structure this course to make it easier for you to get a good grade by being honest than it will be if you try to cheat or to "game the system". We have our ways of catching you if you cheat. If we do, you won't like the consequences.
Well that's it then--let's move on to the actual contents of the course.


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My Summer Vacation
We had a lovely summer vacation.
It didn't start well. On the Sunday nineteen of us -- staying at three lake cabins in northern Minnesota -- attended Mass at the parish in town. Last year, on this same day, we had heard a marvelous homily about the efforts of rural Minnesotans to work with a poor community in Mexico.
This year there was a new homilist. The readings couldn't be better -- Abraham asking God if he would save anyone in Sodom and Gomorrah in the first reading, and Luke demanding that we account of our actions to our neighbor in the Gospel.And the little kids behaved, atypically, so I heard them.
Then a twenty minute rant. The self-described "newly ordained late vocation" priest, about age 67, offered a rambling tour of his enthusiasm for the Latin Mass ("we better start learning the pater noster!"), purgatory, the church's view of "heretics and schismatics", the need for more priests (a bit ironic, that) and the inadequacies of secular culture. After a feeble stab at the actual readings, "I hope there aren't any scripture scholars out there", he returned to a more congenial subject, the beauties of the Mass. During the Liturgy of the Eucharist, he grew frustrated when the baffled congregation did not kneel at the exact moment he requested them to do so.
But funny thing. That night I began Daniel Mendelsohn's "The Lost" a 2006 history of his investigation of the death of his aunt, uncle, and their four daughters in Bolekhiv, Poland, during the Holocaust. Mendelsohn is a classicist and writer for the New Yorker. He is a bit self-indulgent as a writer, and his own sentences are not as laconic as, say, Thuycidides. But Mendelsohn's ability to recreate the world of his lost relatives through archival research and interviews of survivors located around the world mesmerized me. The story is of course overpowering in its sadness, but Mendelson's own humanity -- and the honesty in describing tensions in his own family as he embarks on his quest -- has a redemptive quality. The cumulative effect, when Mendelsohn discovers where his relatives hid from the Nazis, and where they were slaughtered, is overpowering.
One of the book's most unusual and attractive features is Mendelsohn's repeated interrupting of his own narrative to reflect, as a classicist and a Jew, on the Torah, specifically the Book of Genesis. Near the end of the book, Mendelsohn returns to Bolekhiv in an emotional visit, meeting Ukranians and Poles who knew his relatives. He then offers his own reading of the same passages, of Abraham wondering if God will spare inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, that I had heard in church. The specter of his decades long quest to understand the fate of his relatives, and the motives of the perpetrators, rescuers, and collaborators in Bolekhiv, hovers in the background. He wonders: "As long as there is one good inhabitant of the country of the wicked, can we say that the entire nation is guilty?"
About the Author
John T. McGreevy is the I.A. O'Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters and Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.
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Of course it is OK to ordain men like that "late vocation" guy because (1) he has the right plumbing, (2) he's single .... I presume, and (3) any old port in a storm.We have met the enemy and he is us.
At occasions such you describe there is a neat bit of Latin that is of some comfort, "ex opere operato". Of course there is no remedy for twenty minutes of idiocy, except, as the nuns used to say, offer it up.
What a mess! I'm reduced to praying that my children and their spouses can learn to "sleepwalk" past this kind of nonsense. Would that the hierarchy would begin to pay attention to the foolishness that all too often passes for "preaching the Gospel."
So you got babel from a priest and redemption from a Jew. Are there ten good priests left?
Was this guy a permanent deacon who "crossed over" after his wife died?Just curious. The ones I've met sound about like the Minnesota Rambler--i.e., overgrown altar boys.However, that's just my experience, and I ought not tar the entire diaconate with that brush.
I asked a priest friend what to do when a homily is driving me crazy. He said he usually prays the Rosary. "Usually" implying that it happens with some frequency...
A "twenty minute rant"? I WISH I heard such "rants" more often. I say "Yay Father!" for having the courage to speak about truly and distinctively Catholic things!
I wonder about those who denounce secular culture and seek high liturgies. I wonder if the stricter rubrics of the "extraordinary form" of the liturgy create a false sense of control. Indeed it concerns me slightly to hear a priest preach not on the scripture, but about his own high liturgical preferences. Odd, that is -- to be so caught up in one form of the liturgy and yet be unable to offer an actual homily. For those wondering, the GIRM says:65. The Homily is part of the Liturgy and is strongly recommended, for it is necessary for the nurturing of the Christian life. It should be an exposition of some aspect of the readings from Sacred Scripture or of another text from the Ordinary or from the Proper of the Mass of the day and should take into account both the mystery being celebrated and the particular needs of the listeners. I sense that priests take the "particular needs of the listeners" perhaps too generally and indeed in some cases it is mere projection about their own needs/concerns. Sometimes priests forget that they need to break open word more than breaking us down. And while certainly I believe that most priests are doing the best that they can, I wonder if the sorts of homilies that grouse are not symptomatic of the current trend of of trying to control secular problems through liturgy.
Perhaps faculties for preaching AND confession should be renewable every few years like a driver's license.
Ditto what Kathy said. I've heard priests give the same Christmas sermon three years running.Last time I went to Confession, I was dismissed with a "Thanks for coming!"Confession is an absolute mess. In trying to make it more "comfy," it's become simply confusing. Not to keep pushing Anglican rites at people, but in the BCP, there is a rite of Confession that is simple, predictable and standard.Confession/Reconciliation is one of the most difficult Catholic sacraments for many converts to get used to. I suggested to the RCIA leaders that they take people into the confessional and walk them through the rite.They were appalled. Maybe they though I was suggesting people actually say what they were planning to confess.
I know a priest who says "Thank you all for coming!" after every daily Mass. Another, "Thank you for being here this morning."I think this is a result of the very deep confusion about the role of the priest at Mass. He is not an emcee, not Jay Leno. It's not about him, and it shouldn't feel like it is all up to him.So why don't we just turn the altars around?
I am amazed at the criticism that having the celebrant face the people is an invitation for the priest to perform. My experience is that they performed more when they faced the altar. Did they ever!!The idea of the celebrant facing the people is to show that we are all the people of God and that the celebrant is the servant of the people.
If we're all the people of God, why aren't we all facing the same direction?The versus populum posture accentuates the difference between cleric and congregation.
As an Episcopalian, there were still some priests who faced the altar. Their services were no less or more decorous than those who faced the congregants.That's because they followed the words and rubrics that were clearly printed in the BCP. Some Catholic priests seem bent on improvisation. They're not bothering to follow the ones we have now, so why would changing them matter?I have to say that on a scale of sins these liturgical "innovations" strike me as up there with, say, wearing white belts with plaid pants or saying "he don't" when you know better. It's poor taste, distracting, but the miracle is that God loves us anyway and shows up in the face of these and other faux pas.
Jean,Oh sure, GOD shows up. No problem. The question is, how present are we to God?In my mom's parish, which is by no means a champion of Latin rigamarole but a regular enormous suburban parish, one priest happened to want to chant the Eucharistic prayer. He did it in a way I wouldn't recommend, with the rather random and bland musical stylings of the Mass of Creation, but still, it made a difference. Instead of fiddling with their bulletins or pretending to pay polite attention, all of the grownups really, really listened. It was so abnormal.
Eager for some very good homilies?If so, you may want to try homilies prepared and delivered by Fr. Walter Burghardt, S.J. His best of the best are collected in about half a dozen different books (e.g., "Love Is a Flame of the Lord," and "Let Justice Roll Down Like Water"). Excerpts of his homilies are easily accessible at amazon.com. Preaching is obviously a skill like any other--some excel and some don't--but I'd like to throw in a good word (no pun intended) for the new permanent deacon in our parish. He's not one of the "crossed over" deacons Jean mentioned (his spouse is still very much alive and justifiably proud of him), but he is an empty nester with adult children, and though somewhat reserved in ordinary conversation, he comes alive while preaching. Though still finding his stride, he clearly has the natural ability and style to develop into an excellent homilist. (Now if we can only have a permanent diaconate that includes women among it. But that's an issue for another thread, another day.)
William, glad to know there are good deacons out there, and thanks for the plug for Fr. Burghardt.Kathy, I keep thinking of something Tolkien wrote that was excerpted in Magnificat some years ago (and am kicking myself for not saving it). But the gist of it was that it's easy to be present to God in Church where everything is done right, but that God calls us to be faithful even in the churches that are half full, the preaching is uninspired and the women are wearing slacks (it was written some time ago). Nevertheless, I have to say that one (of many) reasons I don't go to Mass in my husband's parish is because of the improvisation that goes on. It's not the straw that broke the camel's back, but it became really irritating.
CS Lewis said something similar in Screwtape, the hymns were "mostly corrupt, and in very small print"--something like that. He went on and on.I think "Thank you all for coming" is a special kind of ad lib. That's what a host says at the end of *his* party. Not the party that he has been privileged to be a special part of, but the one that has been his own doing. "And let's hear it for the band, aren't they great!"Or, in the lingo of the day, the party that he himself has "gathered."(I just said that last bit so I could use "scare quotes" one more time.)
I sometimes think I've been to the wrong Catholic Churches. Where to begin? In my time as sacristan (or whatever the job was, it certainly involved intense personal contact with priests and a chance to observe them when they weren't "on") I was constantly impressed by the quality of priests -- American priests, immigrant priests, young priests, old priests, conservative priests, priests with views closer to mine, holy priests, gay priests -- you name it. I calculated that of 35 "guys" I'd worked with there was precisely one I didn't consider it an honor to have known -- and I always considered it completely backwards when they generously thanked me (as they always seemed to do) for my help.Likewise, while I have observed only a couple of deacons, they have been first rate -- or better.And my general impression of the late vocation priests has also been favorable; although I do know one sort of horror story to the contrary from the media, they strike me as having the humility and sense of proportion that comes with life experience.Frankly, one of the things that has been most significant to my moral life in the last ten years is a small "ad lib" -- if you will -- that a priest (who, I happen to know was ordained a month before my parents were married in 1946 -- and four blocks away) used to use at the very beginning of mass.Where have I gone wrong? My overwhelming experience is that the currently serving priests are far superior to those of my youth (think 50's and 60's -- and 70's!), and that very few Catholics give them the respect they have earned.On the other hand, maybe I will redeem myself if I say that have little regard for the last 20 years of bishops, not to mention their spokespeople, consultants, realtors, and attorneys.
We're all offering our own experiences, which is interesting, but I think this is one area where a quantitative study might be useful. How much ad-libbing is there, and what does it consist of? How many homilies are unrelated to the readings (one of my big beefs).Anybody know of one?
Jean, unfortunately I doubt you're going to find a lot of data. Liturgical accuracy isn't exactly a hot topic for sociologists...Best thing to do, though, would be to survey the priests anonymously. Ask straight out whether they have any special touches that they like to add to the Mass. The thing is, they're not usually to blame for that; There is a whole generation that was encouraged by mentors and sometimes teachers to personalize the liturgy, make it warm and welcoming, etc etc.So there wouldn't be widespread hesistation to answer that question honestly.I'm not sure, though, whether you would get good data on the homily question. I take it that this is something priests are aware that they are supposed to do but don't always get around to preparing for.
What I find interesting about the "ad-libbing" of some priests is that they tend to become ritualized. What begins as a sort of earnest "ordinary-Joe" introduction is done over and over again, until it is an expected part of the liturgy. I know of one priest who practically every Sunday begins Mass with a sports update, either (a) apologizing that the assembly is missing some vital sports event by attending Mass (b) updating them on the score of a simultaneous game/tournament or (c) expressing his glee at some recent triumph of any one of his favorite teams. It's become predicatible and tedious. Of course when he announces at the end of Mass that he tried to hurry things up so they could still catch the final innings/quarter or whatever, it becomes maddening.
Kathy, that wasn't the way I would have thought to approach such a study, but it's interesting. Some parishioners narc on priests who ad lib too much or don't follow the rubrics. At least I can only assume so, because sometimes the ad libbing stops abruptly. I wonder if the narcs are those who still insist on kneeling for communion--which is also not in the rubrics.Amen, Eric. But this is not a particularly Catholic thing. In the Episcopal Church, our priest brought a TV set up to the sanctuary when we were greening the Church for Christmas.
Of the several priests I hear regularly two have particularly odd intro pieces. One speaks of calling to mind "our own sins". The "own" sets up a false contrast. Would any one imagine that a penitential rite was the occasion for recalling the sins of others? So I conclude this is something he has memorized but somehow mismemorized. In other words, if he knew what he is saying, he would not say it.From another priest we get something along these lines: "Let us call to mind our sins and to [sic] ask God's pardon." Now the "to" is clearly a mistake but he always makes it. I again conclude that he does not know what he is saying. Whle i'm at it, why do whole congregations say: "Thy kingdom come [FULL STOP] on earth as it is in heaven" when the sense is surely: "Thy kingdom come on earth [SLIGHT PAUSE] as it is in heaven."
Perhaps I should clarify my point about one particular ad lib -- small additions or changes that make the listener pay closer attention to what is being said or hear things one usually lets pass by can be very useful; things that call attention to the personality of the priest, talk down to the audience, or make the proceedings more "down to earth" are almost always bad. The last thing I want to know is that the priest is a regular guy.And sports metaphors simply do not belong in church (nor in politics, for that matter, I'm coming to believe); least of all football. I take consolation in the fact that Theodore Roosevelt, great champion of muscular Christianity and the strenuous life -- which meant a good deal more than war as a spectator sport -- despised football and worked hard to dislodge it from the place it had in American culture even at that time.


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An ice cream truck vendor suffered a beating on May 5 when a rival went bananas — then split.
The victim told cops that two Mr. Softees got in a verbal argument at 4 pm on the corner of Dean Street and Washington Avenue. But the other vendor took it too far, punching and kicking him several times, causing bruising and swelling on the victim's head and cuts and abrasions to his arm and shin, the victim said.
Cops searched for Mr. Freeze but did not catch up to him.
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A thief snatched an iPod from a car on Vanderbilt Avenue on May 3.
The victim told cops that she locked her car between Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue at around 9 pm and returned 45 minutes later to find the doors unlocked and her wallet, iPod and charger missing.
Wheel gone
A thief swiped a bike from Eastern Parkway overnight on May 1.
The victim told cops that he chained his ride to a lightpost between Underhill and Washington Avenues at around 1 am. When he returned at 5:19 am, he found that the chain had been cut and his ride was missing.
Sad song
A music-loving thief swiped a car stereo on Washington Avenue on May 2.
The victim told cops that he parked at around 6:30 pm between St. Marks Avenue and Bergen Street. When he returned at 10:45 the next morning, he found his rear window broken and his Pioneer stereo missing.
A gunman held up a delivery truck on May 7, making off with almost $5,000 in checks and cash.
The victims told cops that they were making a delivery on Classon Avenue between Lincoln and St. Johns places at 3:10 pm, when the gunman came up to the truck, flashed his piece, and demanded cash from the driver. The other deliveryman then arrived and the gunman told him to get in the truck, then took the cash and checks.
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Writer/artist Jimmie Robinson has been creating and publishing his stories through Image Comics for almost 20 years. Let that just soak in for a moment. Wednesday marks the resumption of Five Weapons, his now-ongoing series set in a high school for assassins, which launched as a five-issue miniseries, but it performed so well that Jim Valentino's Image imprint Shadowline offered to make it a monthly.
In addition to discussing the transition from miniseries to ongoing with this week's Issue 6, Robinson agreed to discuss the recent Image Expo and his larger industry realization that the loss of Dwayne McDuffie left a hole that has yet to be filled. He also addresses his intentions to return to the Bomb Queen universe as well as whether he would ever write for Marvel (in particular Rocket Racer) or DC (think Chase).
As part of the Five Weapons coverage, Robinson shared several upcoming covers, plus one in-process page from Five Weapons #7. Be sure to answer the question that Robinson poses at the end of this interview in the comments section.
Jimmie Robinson's Five Weapons, the Image Comics/Shadowline miniseries whose nominal final issue was released Wednesday, will continue in January as an ongoing series.
The change was hinted in the last panel of this week's fifth issue with the words "To Be Continued," and then immediately confirmed on the back cover (at right), which trumpets "Back By Popular Demand! […] The On-Going Series Begins January 2014."
Robinson, who's best known for his Image series Bomb Queen, addressed the upgrade in a series of tweets: "Now I have room to work. […] I tell ya', the 5-issue format was constricting, I'm glad that I can stretch my legs & give the story proper room. […] I'm pleased that Image is allowing me to go forward. Now I can develop the story and art … even bigger."
Debuting in February, Five Weapons centers on Tyler, a brilliant 13-year-old who enrolls in the School of Five Weapons, which as the name suggests isn't just any center for learning; it's a school exclusively for the children of the world's wealthy assassins, where they're given an Ivy League education as well as expert weapons training.
Welcome to the very last Food or Comics. Next week our new-release picks will take a different format, but this week we're still talking about what comics we'd buy at our local shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a splurge item.
Check out Diamond's release list or ComicList, and tell us what you're getting in our comments field.
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Let's be honest, if I had $15, I'd make sure that Batman Incorporated #8 (DC Comics, $2.99) was first on my list. Not because of any controversy — I've been enjoying the series all along — but because I'd be worried it'd sell out if I waited. I'd also grab two Dynamite books: Jennifer Blood #23 and Masks #4 (both $3.99); Al Ewing has done just insane, amazing things on the former, and the Chris Roberson/Dennis Calero team on the latter is just killing it.
If I had $30, I'd find myself time traveling to all the weeks prior in which I didn't use all $30 to borrow a dollar from past-me, just so that I could get Showcase Presents Justice League of America, Vol. 6 (DC Comics, $19.99), which takes the series firmly into the 1970s and brings the team face to face with villains including the Shaggy Man, Amazo and countless other favorites of my childhood.
Should I have some splurging left in me after that nostalgia-fest, I'd likely go for the Judge Anderson: PSI Files, Vol. 3 collection (Rebellion, $32.99), which picks the series up just after I'd dropped off the 2000AD radar for awhile, and hopefully gives me the chance to get back into the character, now that I am firmly into Thrill Power again.
It's time once again for our monthly trip through Previews looking for cool, new comics. We've each picked the five comics we're most anticipating in order to create a list of the best new stuff coming out two months from now.
As usual, please feel free to play along in the comments. Tell us what we missed that you're looking forward to or – if you're a comics creator – mention your own stuff.
Graeme McMillan
G.I. Joe #1: As if G.I. Joe wasn't entirely in my guilty pleasure wheelhouse already, IDW Publishing relaunches the title with Fred Van Lente as writer and the tease of social and media commentary as the team is forced to go public in its fight against Cobra. Seriously, that's just unfair, people. (IDW, $3.99)
Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life As A Weapon TP: One of the best-looking comics around, thanks to David Aja (and Javier Pulido, on a couple of the issues contained herein), and something that I suspect I'm going to want in a collected edition to give to friends wanting some fun, fast-moving action stuff to read. Best thing Matt Fraction's done in a long time, too. (Marvel, $16.99)
New Tales of Old Palomar HC: Continuing my Love and Rockets education, a chance for me to pick up Gilbert Hernandez' return to Palomar in this new collected edition of his Ignatz series. This is definitely my favorite of Beto's work, so I'm happy to see more. (Fantagraphics, $22.99).
The Sixth Gun: Sons of The Gun #1: A new spin-off series from Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's spectacular horror western? Why, I really don't mind if I do, thanks very much. For added benefit, having Brian Churilla show up for art duties is pretty sweet, as well. (Oni Press, $3.99)
Young Romance: A New 52 Valentine's Day Special #1: Even if I'm feeling less than enthused about the majority of DC's superhero line lately, I have to admit, the idea of a Valentine's Day special one-off is just far too tempting for me to ignore. (DC Comics, $7.99).


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In order to predict species-specific potential to form persistent soil seed-banks and to characterize the dynamics of their seed-banks, the seed dormancy/germination traits of seven Persicaria (Polygonum s.lat.) species sharing lakeshore habitats in central Japan were examined. Strict light requirements for seed germination were not observed in any of the species examined. Although all species required moist chilling (0–6 weeks) to break seed dormancy and were sensitive to temperature fluctuation, the degree of both responses varied between species. Seed germination of Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Spach, Persicaria lapathifolia (L.) S.F. Gray, and Persicaria longiseta (De Bruyn) Kitag. was more accelerated by temperature fluctuation and required shorter chilling periods compared with Persicaria japonica (Meisn.) H. Gross, Persicaria maackiana (Regel) Nakai, Persicaria thunbergii (Sieb. et Zucc.) H. Gross, and Persicaria sieboldi (Maisn.) Onki. Secondary dormancy was induced in all species at higher temperatures (24 and 30°C). A persistent seed-bank strategy suggested by the dormancy/germination traits of the studied species was also demonstrated by seedling emergence from surface soils collected from the natural habitat immediately before seed dispersal, as well as by viable seed persistence for 13 months in the field in a seed burial experiment. In the natural habitat, the species with longer chilling requirements occurred in various microhabitats, including the interior of moist tall grasslands, whereas the species having higher sensitivity to temperature fluctuation were most frequently found in sparsely vegetated microhabitats.
Key wordsdistribution pattern dormancy/germination gap moist chilling soil seed-bank
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- Seed dormancy/germination traits of seven Persicaria species and their implication in soil seed-bank strategy
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Ecological Research
Volume 15, Issue 1 , pp 33-46
- Cover Date
- 2000-03
- 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2000.00323.x
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- 0912-3814
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- 1. Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, 305-8572, Japan
- 2. Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan


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Men out of their league
- From: The Daily Telegraph
- December 08, 2012
THE world of sports administration is full of what we in the media colloquially call "jock sniffers".
These are the types who earn their thrills by hanging around famous sportsmen - or, even better, becoming part of the sport itself by worming their way into head office or onto a board.
These (mostly) men invariably have pool rooms or private bars full of memorabilia (not theirs) and have no hesitation in sharing their always firmly held opinions on sporting performance with anyone who will listen.
Rugby league in its transition from suburban footy code played between blokes from warring working-class suburbs to a schmick professional business worth billions of dollars has found itself now managed by the "jock sniffers".
In recent months, the sport's administration has stumbled from one disaster to another.
Australian Rugby League Commission chairman John Grant is obviously star-struck. He has snatched the role of league leadership with a mixture of naivety born out of a business background completely unrelated to anything sporting.
John Grant has an IT background. He likes to remind his critics that he also played the game many moons ago. Grant represented Queensland and Australia. This was an attractive adjunct for the headhunters who sighted his CV more than a year ago but it would seem now that his long-forgotten playing days have had absolutely no impact on his ability to sidestep trouble.
Rugby league is in turmoil and not the sort of turmoil former boss David Gallop was used to confronting. This is not about badly behaved footballers, salary cap breaches or errant chief executives.
Grant's troubles are entirely of his own making and even the club chairmen who greeted the new era with great enthusiasm are already questioning his ability to handle a crisis. They will meet next week to discuss their growing problems and, no matter what some sycophants may say, John Grant is front and centre of their discontent.
Insiders claim Grant, and only Grant, selected the new chief executive, David Smith. The Welsh-born rugby union man was unable to recognise Australian league captain Cameron Smith, but that will be the least of his worries when he takes the chair in the new year.
Smith, a career banker, decided he wanted a sea change from counting money. He became interested in, you guessed it, sports management. Grant made his passage to the chief executive's role a smooth one and the rest, is history.These two blokes use words like brand and business model with gay abandon.
You seldom hear Grant uttering anything about grass roots, tribal rivalries or sport. His shoot- from-the-hip response to the shoulder-charge issue was a classic case of an administrator with little understanding of his code or its constituents.
No doubt Smith will love standing alongside Grant on the podium in front of 80,000 footy fans, glad-handing and patting backs. The chairman appears to have taken to the trophy distribution role with great relish - as you would if you had ever attended a tedious annual IT awards night.
The problem for the NRL rookie Smith will be that he will be picking up a hell of a lot of pieces when he takes office.
Under Grant's reign, the salary cap issue is unresolved, a player revolt over a bigger share of the television rights cash is under way and players like superstar Israel Folau have no place in the sport.
The handling of the Folau controversy was woeful. The league can carry on all they like about Folau's greediness. The bottom line was that, with a bit of discretion, the world's best winger would not have been lost to the Waratahs.
Several prominent club chairmen believe very little has been done to set plans in concrete after the league's television payday. They also look askance at the new decision-making process, a form of paralysis caused by a commission giddy with power, unwilling to allow head office managers to do their jobs.
For the clubs, it has become a case of wishing too hard for what they wanted. They hoped for a brand new independent commission, rid of the old politics, rid of the back-biting.
In fact, what they are left with are the same old questions marks, missed opportunities and broad unhappiness.
This is not going away. Unless the club chairmen rein him in, and start questioning the commission's lack of direction, league's new regime will soon become the laughing stock of sport.
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Eight featured articles were promoted this week:
- Seated Liberty dollar (nom) by RHM22 and Wehwalt. The Seated Liberty dollar was a one-dollar coin struck by the United States Mint from 1840 to 1873, initially only in Philadelphia. Production expanded to New Orleans several years later. Designed by Christian Gobrecht, the coin was the last silver dollar before the Coinage Act of 1873, which temporarily eliminated it owing to the metal's rising cost. A new silver dollar was created five years later.
- The Rite of Spring (nom) by Brianboulton. The Rite of Spring is a 1913 ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. When first performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, its avant-garde music and choreography caused a near-riot, but it soon became a popular concert piece. The score contains features novel for its time, including experiments in tonality, metre, rhythm, stress and dissonance. The music influenced many of the 20th century's leading composers and is one of the most recorded works in the classical repertoire.
- North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest (nom) by Jimfbleak. The North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest is an important wildlife area, containing several prominent nature reserves, along the north coast of Norfolk, England. It includes reed beds, salt marshes, freshwater lagoons and sand and shingle beaches that are home to numerous birds, both migratory and local. Human activity in the area dates back to the Upper Paleolithic.
- "Nightswimming" (Awake) (nom) by TBrandley, Davejohnsan, and Nikkimaria. "Nightswimming" is the eighth episode of the American television series Awake, broadcast in April 2012 and viewed by 2.8 million people. The critically panned episode shows main character Michael Britten helping a couple enter the witness protection program in one of his realities, while in the other he shares a romantic swim with his wife.
- "Deep Throat" (The X-Files episode) (nom) by Grapple X. "Deep Throat" is a 1993 episode of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It introduces some of the series' UFO mythology as FBI Agents Mulder and Scully investigate a missing pilot at a US Air Force base. Viewed by 6.9 million households during its initial broadcast, the episode received positive reviews.
- Oerip Soemohardjo (nom) by Crisco 1492. Oerip Soemohardjo (1893–1948) was an Indonesian general who served as the nation's first chief-of-staff of the army. He started his career in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, eventually becoming the highest-ranking native officer in the country. During the national revolution, Oerip was tasked with building the army from numerous fractured groups. After Sudirman was selected as commander in chief, Oerip continued to serve as chief of staff.
- Ex parte Crow Dog (nom) by GregJackP. Ex parte Crow Dog was an 1883 American Supreme Court case involving a conflict between two members of the same Native American tribe on reservation land; one, Crow Dog, killed the other. The Court held that federal courts were unable to try the killer unless Congress authorized jurisdiction, as the native council had already held a trial. In response, Congress passed a law placing 15 major crimes under federal jurisdiction, even when committed on tribal land.
- Ruth Norman (nom) by Mark Arsten. Ruth Norman (1900–1993) was an American religious leader. Poorly educated, she developed an interest in psychic phenomena and past-life regression in the 1940s. She was introduced in 1954 to Ernest Norman, who engaged in channeling, past-life regression, and attempts at communication with extraterrestrials. She published a work which served as the basis for the group they founded, Unarius, later known as the Unarius Academy of Science.
Featured lists
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- List of Grey's Anatomy cast members (nom) by TRLIJC19. The American medical drama Grey's Anatomy has seen 19 main cast members and 31 recurring characters since the series debuted in 2005. The cast, consisting of doctors and interns, has received several awards, including an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
- List of awards and nominations received by Arrested Development (nom) by Wikipedical. The American sitcom Arrested Development (2003-2006) received widespread critical acclaim. The show, which centers on the once-rich Bluth family, was nominated for 62 awards, winning 26, including several Emmys and Golden Globes.
- List of Malmö FF records and statistics (nom) by Reckless182. The Swedish professional association football club Malmö Fotbollförening was established in 1910 and has won more trophies than any other club in Sweden. The new featured list details records and statistics on titles, players, and other aspects of the team's history.
- List of awards and nominations received by Casting Crowns (nom) by Toa Nidhiki05. The American Christian rock group Casting Crowns has been nominated for 52 awards since their first GMA Dove Awards nomination in 2004. They have won 20 of these awards, including a single Grammy Award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album in 2006.
- Hutch Award (nom) by Muboshgu. The Hutch Award is given annually to an active Major League Baseball player who "best exemplifies the fighting spirit and competitive desire" of former player Fred Hutchinson. The award has been given annually since 1965, including to eleven members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
- Timeline of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season (nom) by TropicalAnalystwx13. The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season was above-average with 19 tropical storms formed. The season's first storm occurred on 28 June, its last on 11 November. The two most significant storms were Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee.
Featured pictures
Ten featured pictures were promoted this week:
- Point Reyes Lighthouse (nom; related article), created by Frank Schulenburg and nominated by Spongie555. The Point Reyes Lighthouse is a lighthouse in California which was first lit in 1875. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
- Morpho peleides (nom; related article), created by ComputerHotline and nominated by Brandmeister. The Peleides Blue Morpho (Morpho peleides) is an iridescent tropical butterfly found in the Americas. Its blue colour comes from the diffraction of light from millions of tiny scales on its wings.
- Common starfish (nom; related article), created by Lycaon and nominated by Mediran. The common starfish (Asterias rubens) is the most numerous starfish in the northeastern Atlantic. The new featured picture shows an anatomical cross section.
- St. Paul's Church, Basel (nom; related article), created by Taxiarchos228 and nominated by Tomer T. St. Paul's Church is a Swiss Reformed Church in Basel, Switzerland, which was constructed between May 1898 and November 1901. It features a Neo-Romanesque architectural style.
- Sony A77 (nom; related article), created by SkywalkerPL and nominated by Tomer T. The Sony Alpha 77 is the flagship for Sony's mid-range Alpha SLT camera line. It is equipped with a 24.3 MP CMOS sensor and a 12-fps burst-shooting mode.
- Papilio ulysses (nom; related article), created by Michael Gäbler and nominated by Tomer T. The Ulysses butterfly (Papilio ulysses) is a large swallowtail butterfly, endemic to Australasia. It has an average wingspan of about 14 cm (5.5 in).
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Austria Protects Telekom Austria From Takeover Via Law, SN Says
Austria has changed a law to protect Telekom Austria AG from a potential takeover by non-European investors, Salzburger Nachrichten reported.
The new clause in the Foreign Trade Act regulates that participation of 25 percent or more in "important" infrastructure companies require approval by the Ministry of Economics unless the investor is from the European Union, the European Economic Area or Switzerland, the Austrian paper said.
In case of an "endangerment of the interests of public safety and order," takeovers can be held up or conditions imposed, the paper cited the law as saying.
This would stop Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris from taking a substantial stake in Telekom Austria and also would hinder International Petroleum Investment Co. of Abu Dhabi from increasing its 24.9 percent holding in OMV AG without approval, according to the report.
The provisions also affect utilities, hospitals, fire brigades and disaster control, the defense industry, railways and universities, Salzburger Nachrichten said.
Austria holds 28 percent in Telekom Austria and 31.5 percent of OMV.


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"Yes, yes-but you would have to be half-mad to dream me up."
My Little Pony, mixed media
My Little Pony, mixed media
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Here is the Mad Hatter ^^ I love it
He's my favourite, too
He's my favourite, too
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i drooled. i actually drooled irl.
please!!! make me one I DON'T CARE FOR PRICES!!!!!
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That's awesome but...
Very freaky.
Very freaky.
Oh God, I really Love them all!!! you do only one pony for each kind?
He's so cool!
He's so cool!
OK, I think that this one is, if not THE best, one of them! I'm truly amazed with all of them and I cant believe how many details you've put into them and how you pick the right characteristics to help resemble a certain chara... it's awesome!
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So cute! I it!
I... I want it so bad.
I LOVE IT! I want one xD
I LOVE IT! I want one xD
oh god I WANT ONE
A my little Hatter?
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lol thats terrifying!..... but brilliant
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You are so tallented !
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That is so precious and adorable! It is such a waste to see it sold...
Cute but that smile says "I saw you in the shower last night"
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if you make a twilight one it'll be sold out.
You should make one in a kilt ^0^
Aww! So adorable!
That's.... scary. :'D Nice one still, love the details~
AMAZINGNESS!! the details are SU-PERB!
Brilliant. And creepy
Freaky, this so looks like him.
Oot tehnyt taas upean työn jäljitellessäsi hahmon poniin.
Oot tehnyt taas upean työn jäljitellessäsi hahmon poniin.
aww ! I love this ♥
Really wonderfully done.
Really wonderfully done.
Wow. That looks fantastic. Great sculpting work
Amazing detail. Wonderfully accurate, despite being a pony, aha ;;
how is it that you always seems to hit the person/character spot on?! they always look sooo good! weather or not I like the person/character , but they look amazing!
- And the mad hatter is awsome!
- And the mad hatter is awsome!
awww cute
I was like... WHAT THE HELL? xD
I used to like My Little Pony when I was 8... :3 nah.
Very good work!
See ya!
I was like... WHAT THE HELL? xD
I used to like My Little Pony when I was 8... :3 nah.
Very good work!
See ya!
omg that's amazing!!! well done!
This is fantastic, the details are stunning <3
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State Sen. Satveer Chaudhary admits $251K tax delinquency
First, the DFL withdraws its endorsement of state Sen. Satveer Chaudhary over his fishy environmental measure protecting a lake by his cabin up north.
Now he's in more hot water. The Duluth News Tribune is out with a story this morning reporting that Chaudhary failed to failed to pay $100,000 in income taxes in 2007 and $151,000 in 2008.
He told the paper that hat the delinquent taxes were due to his wife's wrongful termination by Celgene, a bio-pharmaceutical company, and he's putting a plan together to settle with the IRS.
This probably won't help his effort to make amends with the DFL.
Chaudhary inserted into an omnibus game and fish bill in the waning days of the legislative session in to protect the walleye in Fish Lake Reservoir. A storm blew up when it was revealed that he owned property on the lake; he apologized; Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed the bill, the Senate ethics committee spanked him, and then the DFL stripped him of their official endorsement, giving it instead to former Rep. Barb Goodwin.
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Democrats accuse Christie of trying to raise taxes
FILE – In this March 13, 2014 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at a town hall meeting, Thursday, March 13, 2014, at the YMCA of Burlington County, in Mount Laurel, N.J. New Jersey lawmakers are starting to delve into the details of Christie's budget proposal and finding that there are some tax policy changes to wrestle with. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Democrats are accusing Republican Gov. Chris Christie of trying to create new taxes, for a change.
The governor's $34.4 billion state budget proposal for fiscal 2015 calls for imposing a tobacco tax on e-cigarettes for the first time and making out-of-state online retailers pay sales taxes for goods sent to New Jersey. Both items are listed among a handful of other provisions in the budget proposal rele[auth] ased last month as ways to bring in $205 million by closing loopholes.
But Democrat Gary Schaer, the chairman of the Assembly budget committee, said the measures deserve extra scrutiny.
"If it walks like a tax and quacks like a tax, it is a new tax," he said in an interview.
Kevin Roberts, a spokesman for Christie, said the online sales tax is not new because it's already required for in-state businesses. Roberts said the administration would offer more details on the plans in coming weeks.
Christie, a possible 2016 presidential contender, has often boasted about adopting budgets without tax increases, and he has routinely blasted Democratic lawmakers for their calls to increase the income tax rate on high earners.
The e-cigarette proposal got attention at a budget hearing in Montclair last week, when some residents said it isn't right to impose a higher tax on a product that some people have used to help stop smoking. A pack of conventional cigarettes has a tax of $2.70.
The online sales tax measure has not had as much public attention.
Currently, online sales to New Jersey customers are not subject to the state's 7 percent sales tax unless the business has a physical presence in New Jersey, such as retail stores or a distribution center. Local businesses often say that structure puts them at a disadvantage.
The state did start collecting last year from the biggest online store, Amazon.com, as part of a deal struck when the company announced in 2012 that it was building its first two warehouses in New Jersey.
The U.S. Senate last year passed a bill to mandate local sales taxes on online purchases, but the House has not voted on the measure.
Mike Proto, a spokesman for the New Jersey office of the anti-tax group Americans For Prosperity, said the national group opposes the idea and believes it raises constitutional issues over whether states can regulate businesses outside their borders. But he said his office hasn't studied the New Jersey plan in detail.
In his talks about his budget plan, Christie has focused on the state's growing contribution to the pension funds for public workers, saying changes are needed to control those costs.
The Assembly budget committee has a hearing on Christie's plan scheduled for Tuesday in Trenton.
The budget must be balanced and adopted by July 1, when it takes effect.
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