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After years of decline, glaciers in Norway are again growing, reports the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE). The actual magnitude of the growth, which appears to have begun over the last two years, has not yet been quantified, says NVE Senior Engineer Hallgeir Elvehøy.
The flow rate of many glaciers has also declined. Glacier flow ultimately acts to reduce accumulation, as the ice moves to lower, warmer elevations.
The original trend had been fairly rapid decline since the year 2000.
The developments were originally reported by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).
DailyTech has previously reported on the growth in Alaskan glaciers, reversing a 250-year trend of loss. Some glaciers in Canada, California, and New Zealand are also growing, as the result of both colder temperatures and increased snowfall.
Ed Josberger, a glaciologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, says the growth is "a bit of an anomaly", but not to be unexpected.
Despite the recent growth, most glaciers in the nation are still smaller than they were in 1982. However, Elvehøy says that the glaciers were even smaller during the 'Medieval Warm Period' of the Viking Era, prior to around the year 1350.
Not all Norwegian glaciers appear to be affected, most notably those in the Jotenheimen region of Southern Norway.
quote: That's why CO2 doesn't matter. Because water vapor is a much stronger greenhouse gas, and its a thousand times more prevalent.
quote: Any one who believes in Global warming is either a non-scientist with a liberal arts degree or a scientist that gets his budget from the feds and is just a government schill .
quote: Anyone with an ounce of sense can see global warming is not only a scam but the world is cooling.
quote: the central area of Argentina is suffering the warmest November in 50 or 75 years
quote: According to my translator, that page just says the city itself set a record, not an entire region of the country.
quote: It's also a very fast growing city, which means temperatures are going to go up anyway, with or without global warming. All that extra black pavement and dark rooftops make for rising temperatures.
quote: if you want a conspiracy theory with some ground on reality, take a look at the financial world of the last 30 years (debt and currency crisis on the 3rd world, the birth of junk bonds, OTC derivatives, a forex market which is many times bigger than the underlying economy, insane leverage on the banking system, repealing of laws made in the 30s, deeply flawed models of risk analysis, etc)
quote: Then you list some financial and economic issues which you don't understand, and then hint that it's a conspiracy. Nice.
quote: When you analyze AGW, there's no elite trying to hide things and there's ample consensus among scientists and politicians from different ideologies.
quote: there's ample consensus among scientists and politicians...
quote: Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had .Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.... Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough . Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.
quote: there's ample consensus among scientists and politicians
quote: Every increase in temperature due to CO2, will put more water vapor into the atmosphere and increase the temperature that much more.


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DescriptionThe AS3514 from AustriaMicrosystems is a stereo audio codec with included system power management features. It is thought to provide the codec and power management features in the PortalPlayer PP5024 SOC.
Register AddressesThe following register/function addresses are known for the AS3514. Each address contains a single byte. Data repeats every 0x40 (64) bytes, so for example reading address 0x43 results in the same data as reading address 0x03.
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH – Parking was at a premium on all side streets around Flagler Avenue Friday night. It was apparent there was one big party going on. Parents and their children, students, and all those in the holiday spirit, gravitated toward the beachside shopping venue for the annual "Light Up Flagler," which drew about 1,500 people.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Chamber of Commerce is planning an exciting street event in downtown New Smyrna Beach on Saturday: Jan. 22. the Home Show & Business Expo.
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my first, and maybe not my last.
I said before I was going to finish my sweater at the end of last week, and I did it! The seaming actually went pretty smoothly. I took in a little more at the sides to help the fit, but I'm pretty happy with it.
Big thanks to Tyler for taking the photos, it's a hard task to photograph quite possibly the least photogenic person ever, and having that person be a perfectionist photographer. He kept saying "your skin looks so white, is that ok?" The photos were even a bit underexposed. I am really that pale.
I can take knitting my first sweater off my list. Next up, socks.
the pattern I used and my ravelry page with more details.
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It looks so good, the perfect fall/winter cozy sweater, and you totally look photogenic and cute in these photos so don't stress about that!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! Good luck on socks--I want to try those, too!ReplyDelete
Kenzie! That looks SO good :) Wonderful job.ReplyDelete
Wow! You did an incredible job! I can't knit yet (taking classes this winter), but I can't wait to make my first sweater.ReplyDelete
It's breathtaking! Way to go! I'll take one!ReplyDelete
It looks SO good! Beautiful pattern, I love all the shapes on the back and sleeves. Amazing!ReplyDelete
you did a great job! you've come a long way to the days of knitting me those fingerless gloves that I still have :) which i believe were one of your first knitting projectsReplyDelete
it's so amazing!! i'm so thoroughly impressed. it looks perfect.ReplyDelete
You did a really great job! I love it! Enjoy wearing your work of art all through the chilly weather ahead.ReplyDelete
It is absolutely beautiful and so are you! I'm so impressed with your work and your patience. You're amazing!ReplyDelete
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COLUMBIA — South Carolina's spring practices conclude in front of thousands of fans today at Williams-Brice Stadium, with the spring game — an event that has become a festival of sorts, but remains no more definitive than anything else that happened on the practice fields this month.
SOUTH CAROLINA SPRING GAMEWhen: Today, 1 p.m.Where: Williams-Brice StadiumAdmission: Free Broadcast: ESPN3.com (live), ESPNU (tape delay) Format: Four, 12-minute quarters, with clock stopping in first half and running continuously in second half.
Most of the Gamecocks' returning stars won't play today, because coach Steve Spurrier likes to use the spring, and today's game, to get younger players experience. And as the Gamecocks try to build on back-to-back program-best 11-2 seasons, the weeks between now and the Aug. 29 opener against North Carolina will be important for two key players returning from injury.
Linebacker Cedrick Cooper and free safety T.J. Gurley, both sophomores who missed the spring, are expected to be back from knee injuries suffered last season by August practices. Cooper will compete for the will linebacker job, and Gurley has a chance to grab the free safety spot vacated by D.J. Swearinger.
Both could play valuable roles on a defense that ranked 11th and third nationally the past two seasons in yards allowed per game, so the progress they make between now and August, in moments not seen by scores of fans, will be critical.
Cooper will return to a linebacker group that lost all three starters from last season. His absence this spring has allowed position coach Kirk Botkin to get sophomore Marcquis Roberts some work at will linebacker. Roberts needed the work, because he missed all of the past two seasons with injuries, and defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward liked what he saw from Roberts this spring.
"Marcquis is real physical," said Ward. "He's just got to continue to work on his run keys and getting pull calls."
Sophomore Kaiwan Lewis and redshirt freshman T.J. Holloman have impressed Ward and Botkin this spring with their ability to recognize offensive tendencies, and when linemen pull off the line of scrimmage to block in the open field.
This spring, both played will linebacker and mike linebacker — the player responsible for getting the defensive front aligned before the snap. Lewis has played mike since he got to USC last summer, so he is the leading candidate to start there. Botkin isn't sure if he will have Holloman compete with Cooper at will linebacker during August practices, or rotate with Lewis at mike.
"T.J. Holloman is a smart enough kid that he can probably learn both," Botkin said. "He's doing such a good job vocally. He and Kaiwan Lewis for young guys are doing a great job of that, communicating."
While the will linebacker spot remains uncertain, junior Sharrod Golightly has emerged from the spring as the top spur outside linebacker, ahead of redshirt freshman Jordan Diggs.
"I think Sharrod is slightly ahead of Jordan Diggs," Ward said. "It's real close. They both have done a lot of good things. I think Sharrod has probably made more plays this spring."
"(Golightly) is just more mature. He's got a little bit more experience. He understands where his help is just a little bit more."
But the position is far from settled, and Botkin emphasized that he expects to rotate his linebackers this fall.
Just as the coaches were in no rush this spring to settle the will or spur linebacker spots, partly because of Cooper's absence, the free safety position remains up for grabs. Swearinger was one of USC's most vocal leaders last season and will not be easily replaced.
Gurley started in place of Swearinger last season against Missouri because Swearinger was suspended for a helmet-to-helmet hit. Gurley impressed Ward and secondary coach Grady Brown with his performance, but four games later, he suffered a season-ending knee injury at Florida.
"If he can get back to the form that he was in last year, I can definitely see him in the mix," Brown said. "It's just about his health. Any time as a DB that you hurt your lower extremities, it just takes you a little while to get back going."


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I look at the new cars and think,no. I would like to thank the designers and builders of these wonderful Lincoln MK-VIIs. Also that h.p. under the hood fools alot of new cars...
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6 'Signs of the Time' That Are Older Than Your Grandparents
We live in a unique period of human history filled with exciting new social movements and artistic styles never seen before. Except of course we don't. That kind of thinking is exactly the sort of hubris I'd expect from a generation raised on plentiful pornography and 64-ounce Slurpees. Our ancestors were every bit as perverted, creative, and shallow as we are. Think we're living at the apex of civilization? Think again.
#6. Medieval Scotsmen Invented Rap Battles
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I belong to a town that utilizes a strict freestyle-rap-based economy, which obviously makes rap a subject that I think about quite a bit. Why, just the other day, while I was rhyme bartering for a pair of sick pants, I started idly wondering about rap's origins. It's hard to get more modern than rap. That's been going on, what, 20 years? Thirty, if you count the rap battles that happened before Vanilla Ice got into the game. Which I don't.
God bless America, and hairlines so straight, they must have been Photoshopped.
In either case, rap is about as modern as the hilarious robot sidekick. You just can't imagine anything like it going on in days of yore.
But Really ...
Drunken medieval Scotsmen invented the rap battle.
"Bugger the constables."
They called it flyting, and the basic idea was to mock and deride your opponent in the crudest possible fashion ... while rhyming. So, yeah: rap. Only the insults these guys churned out were vile enough to make Eminem shit his entire mansion.
Speaking of shit, the first example of that word being used as a personal insult comes from "The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy." The record of a purported verbal duel in 1503, academics describe it as "just over 500 lines of filth." Dunbar and Kennedy (D-Money and K-Hole) exchanged insults like this:
Here's a hint: "Gluntoch" means "dirty knees," and "giltin hips" means "shitty arse." Dunbar's claiming that his rhymes hit Kennedy so hard, the other man shit right onto his own knees.
Translation: You think you're king, but your balls are showing.
The best kind of academics suspect that Scottish slave holders took their penchant for flyting to the New World, where it merged with existing African musical traditions and laid the groundwork for what would eventually become rap. So the next time you're pumping some Biggie, say a little "thank you" to Scotland for contributing something besides bagpipes to music history.
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Quit while you're even, guys.
#5. Medical Marijuana and Medicinal Liquor
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Medical marijuana is right up there with eating mushrooms that grow on poop in the history of great intoxication innovations. It took from 1937 to 1996 for stoners to finally convince one state that marijuana had a use beyond making Mexicans look dangerously foreign. I've always imagined that the whole idea for medical marijuana came in a sudden spurt of enlightenment at the end of a bong hit.
"Oh shit, you guys -- what if this was medicine?"
But Really ...
Medical marijuana's real start came during Prohibition, America's first super successful attempt to ban a drug. As soon as Congress voted to solve our nation's gangster shortage, doctors hit upon the brilliant idea of writing prescriptions for alcohol. For about $40 in today's money (I paid $50 for my pot prescription), you'd get a little ticket like this:
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Screw Willy Wonka, this is a golden ticket.
Your doctor's signature was good for one pint of whiskey or bourbon every 10 days. This is admittedly less awesome than medical marijuana prescriptions, which entitle the bearer to however much pot he can carry out of the dispensary. But it was better than sobriety. And it's nice to know that, in between arresting bootleggers and murdering American citizens with poisoned liquor, the government also granted licenses to distill whiskey for medical use.
The list of illnesses booze was supposed to treat seems real similar to the ones you'll see printed on the wall of a pot doctor's shop: everything from diabetes and cancer to lactation problems and "old age." Because fuck being 70 and not drunk. Ever wonder where the Great Gatsby's fortune came from? Drugstores. Jay Gatsby owned a chain of dispensaries. Booze money paid for Lana del Rey and all those fancy suits.
"Restless leg syndrome? Now that won't do."
If you want a picture of what today's mom-and-pop weederies might be like in the future, look no further than Walgreens. When Prohibition started, Charles Walgreen had 20 stores. By the time it ended, he had more than 500. It turns out being the only place to get shitfaced is a fuckacre more profitable than selling Band-Aids and overpriced groceries.
#4. Japan's Edo Period and Celebrity Culture
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The very fact that we have "celebrity culture" in America means that we're an advanced society. I don't mean that obsessing over celebrities makes us smart; I'm saying it means most of us live comfortably enough that we can afford to give a shit about things that aren't worth giving a shit about. It's a luxury of a mostly stable society that we have magazine racks, gossip blogs, and the ability to speculate as to which Olsen twin Kanye West's baby is fucking. We've knocked enough of the big national problems out that most of us can afford to chill. Back-breaking farm labor has given way to Kardashians and bearded duck-calling hillfolk.
These men are to subtlety what Russian roulette is to marksmanship.
Celebrity and fashion are both very old concepts. Deep down, we all know Mark Antony and Cleopatra were just two Abercrombie models who somehow wound up with an army. But only now can the common man afford to care about pretty outfits and firm jawlines. We've locked down cholera and syphilis and ushered in an era of unbridled hedonism that didn't exist in the world until just now.
But Really ...
Well, just now and 17th century Japan.
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Both time periods failed to fully appreciate Kanye West.
This is from Japan's infamous Edo period, and those two classy ladies are courtesans. They were super famous for being beautiful, wearing the right clothes, and sleeping with celebrities. Sound familiar?
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For two magical centuries, the city of Edo experienced a massive influx of talented artists right alongside a massive surge of giving a shit about rich people. Like modern Americans, the people of Edo couldn't get enough pictures of celebrities at parties ...
... on dates with hookers ...
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... and generally doing the exact opposite of "working for a goddamn living."
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Rich people, always thinkin' about ponds.
For perhaps the first time in human history, art was available to the masses. And the masses celebrated that fact by giving all their fucks to pictures of gorgeous rich people. See? Reality TV and the paparazzi aren't signs that we've grown terribly shallow as a species. They're proof that we've been shallow for centuries.


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ALBANY – Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has upped the ante with the Seneca Nation of Indians.
He is giving the Senecas until the third week of June to resolve its $600 million casino revenue-sharing dispute with the state or he will push for the right for a commercial casino to locate in Western New York.
In announcing some details of his plan for expanding casinos in the state Thursday, Cuomo said he remains less than optimistic the Senecas will come to the table with a deal before the State Legislature end its session June 20. That is when lawmakers hope to have a final casino expansion plan to vote on so that the matter can go to voters in a statewide referendum this fall.
"You would need to be dubious with the Senecas," Cuomo said of the prospects for ending the several-year-old dispute in which the tribe has withheld revenue to the state and the host communities of Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Salamanca. The Senecas claim that the state has permitted new gambling in the Senecas' exclusivity zone that stretches from east of Rochester to Lake Erie.
The governor proposed six regions of upstate that would be eligible for new casinos if the voter referendum passes. But on a map he showed to reporters, three areas of the state – Western New York, Central New York and Northern New York – had question marks stamped on the Powerpoint slide show. Those are areas now home to Indian tribes with casinos, including the Senecas.
The governor said the state would honor casino compacts in "good standing'' with the tribes by not placing casinos in their regions.
But Cuomo made clear the status quo between the Senecas and the state will not continue.
"That is currently not a contract in good standing," Cuomo said of the Seneca compact to operate the three casinos in Western New York.
Cuomo said the state has launched "dozens of attempts" to resolve the dispute with the Senecas over the years.
The Seneca Nation declined to comment, citing a gag order imposed on the tribe by an arbitration panel.
The governor said he also is trying to get separate deals with the Oneida Indians in Central New York to start making revenue-sharing payments and the St. Regis Mohawks in Northern New York to resume making their payments. If they do, then he would seek to ban new commercial casinos from locating in those areas.
Cuomo's casino expansion plan does not specify locations for possible casino sites upstate, though he has said he favors putting one in Niagara Falls, near the existing Seneca facility, if talks with the tribe are not resolved. The sides are in binding arbitration to resolve the revenue payment dispute, but Cuomo said he wants an answer before lawmakers end the 2013 session so Western New York will know whether it is eligible for a new casino.
Cuomo wants the first three casinos, out of seven that voters might be asked to approve, to be located upstate.
Where the remaining four might go in the future is uncertain, but he wants lawmakers to back his new effort to prohibit casinos in New York City, Long Island or the New York City northern suburbs for five years. That will give an incentive for commercial casino operators to locate upstate as part of a plan that he believes will attract thousands of jobs to the region, he said.
The new plan also calls for all counties in one of the selected regions to share in casino revenue-sharing proceeds. So if the Senecas and the state end their dispute, counties west of Route 14 – the eastern boundary of the Seneca exclusivity zone – would get a part of the Seneca payments that would otherwise been destined for the state, Cuomo said.
Cuomo said Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Salamanca would be held harmless and still receive scheduled revenue-sharing payments.
But much is left up in the air with the governor's plan.
He wants to let the marketplace, for instance, decide how much commercial casino operators might be taxed on their revenues, instead of setting precise "takeout" rates as is done in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and for New York's nine racetrack-based casino operations, including the Hamburg and Batavia harness tracks.
The Cuomo plan has morphed from having one of his state agencies – the State Gaming Commission – select future casino operators to a panel of outside real estate, economic development and other financial executives who would serve for a temporary period of time. That panel would consider a range of casino development criteria, including upfront franchise fee payments to the state, annual tax rates, job creation and level of "destination'' development plans for a site.
The governor's plan comes just days after John Bonacic, the chairman of the Senate Racing and Wagering Committee, said Senate Republicans are working on a casino expansion plan that would honor the Seneca Nation's exclusivity arrangement – with or without a revenue-sharing deal between Cuomo and the tribe.
By trying to engage deals with the three Indian tribes, Cuomo appears to be trying to reduce the flow of money in a statewide casino referendum campaign that might come from casino interests looking to protect their investments. Out-of-state non-Indian and tribal casinos already are expected to pump money into anti-casino expansion efforts in New York, and the Senecas and Oneidas, in particular, have deep enough pockets to finance a healthy opposition campaign if the matter heads to voters this fall.
For the governor, the casino issue has increasingly been portrayed as an upstate economic development tool. He envisions thousands of jobs being created at new resorts as part of overall efforts to lure tourists upstate from New York City and other states.
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The Overview of the President's Plan
January 17, 2013
EXECUTIVE ORDER: • Address legal barriers in health laws that bar some states from making available information about people who are prohibited from having guns....
"The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence says 40 percent of gun sales are conducted with no criminal background check..."
This is a misleading statement. All new firearms purchases, from sporting good stores, firearms stores, gun shows or over the internet, etc, require background checks. Only private transfers of firearms from one owner to another, illegal sales by criminals or theft of a firearm can avoid the criminal background check.
Mayhaps they are trying to say that 40% of firearms transfers are private or illegal sales or simply thefts? How will they regulate those activities?
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"Reinstating the assault weapons ban. A 10-year ban on high-grade, military-style weapons expired in 2004."
Notice this says "high-grade, military-style weapons" now. Not assault weapons since the guns they are referencing are not true military assault weapons. They are simply guns that "look mean" or look like weapons used in the military therefore they must be bad. For that matter many of the previously banned weapons were pieces of junk, poorly made, likely to jam and not very accurate.
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"Renewing a 10-round limit on the size of ammunition magazines."
Whew, that will make us all safe! Now I can only be shot 10 times instead of 12 times. Yeah... It only takes one bullet.
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"New gun trafficking laws penalizing people who help criminals get guns."
Is there something wrong with just enforcing the existing laws against this criminal activity? I mean it is already against the law to sell firearms to criminals.
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****y wrote "Whew, that will make us all safe! Now I can only be shot 10 times instead of 12 times. Yeah... It only takes one bullet."
The Newtown shooter put 11 bullets in one little kid.
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Why can't someone come out and say THIS IS A GOOD AND NEEDED THING???? Is it something in your genes that cause you to just disagree to disagree?? I know this has been said, but if Pres Obama brought about world peace, you people would ***** about him destroying the defense industry!!!
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I don't see anything in those executive orders or proposed changes to law saying that I can't keep my 12 ga., so I'm good with it.
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Gun rights rally Sen Manchin's office 217 King Street Martinsburg Saturday 1pm
Sen Manchin thinks you have no right to defend your family or yourself. Claims 50% of WestVirginians agree with him. Let's prove him wrong!
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Keep drinking the Kool-Aid there Koolaid... Jim Jones
I'm starting a new version of the old tired Constitution: We the Sheeple...
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A decree by the President cannot defy the Constitution. A president that blatantly issues orders defying the constitution is a tyrant and has committed treason against his oath. At best he is incompetent, at worst he is a traitor and should be arrested for treason. If the other branches of gov't won't do it then the people have the duty as the final check and balance to tyranny.
The oath of president: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
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HALEAKALA - About 25 state Department of Land and Natural Resources employees and volunteers from the Maui Community Action Committee joined together to plant more than 50 Haleakala silverswords within the Kahikinui Forest Reserve on Saturday morning.
In cooperation with Haleakala National Park, the plants are grown in a greenhouse at park headquarters and taken to state lands, where they are outplanted in an 8-acre enclosure.
It is the third year that Maui district employees from DLNR's Division of Forestry and Wildlife have outplanted the threatened species, and the second year for the committee.
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As a part of the Hawaii Government Employees Association, the committee chose the project because it is a hands-on opportunity that provides immediate results to preserve Maui's environment, said participant and committee Chairwoman Debra Kaiwi.
Maui District Forest Manager Lance De Silva said that the state will plant as many seedlings as it can in the next 10 years, in the hope that the plant eventually grows outside of the enclosing fence.
"Based on what we've seen from what we grew last year, survival rates seem to be 90 to 95 percent," De Silva said of the enclosure, which already holds hundreds of the silvery plant. "It's looking very promising."
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Rina Delapena, a nurse at Maui Memorial Medical Center, and Jon Han from the Department of Land and Natural Resource's Maui District plant a silversword. Volunteers dug holes about a foot deep and planted the young seedlings.
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Maui District Forest Manager Lance De Silva is accompanied by his 5-year-old daughter, Haven, while he instructs more than a dozen volunteers on how to outplant a Haleakala silversword.
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Ninety-five hundred feet up Haleakala, state workers and volunteers planted about 55 Haleakala silverswords in an 8-acre enclosure within the Kahikinui Forest Reserve on Saturday morning.
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The indigenous plant was the subject of a paper published in a scientific journal in January that found a rapid decrease in rainfall over the past 20 years, causing many silverswords to die before reaching adulthood.
De Silva noticed that some of the previously planted silverswords are reaching adulthood, but blooming after only two to three years.
In what is characterized by U.S. Geological Survey scientists as a "bloom and doom" process, the rosette plant grows anywhere from 20 to 90 years before flowering. Once the plant flowers, or reaches adulthood, it disperses its seed and dies shortly after.
On Saturday, De Silva and state workers who monitor and track the silvery plants through Global Positioning systems counted about 10 plants that had already bloomed and died.
State officials and scientists are researching the reason for the early flowering and determining if their method of outplanting is affecting results, De Silva said.
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The Town Clerk's Office will be open for extended hours Thursday and Friday for the collection of town and county property taxes, which are due Friday. Clerk Marjory Jaeger reminded residents that they may also pay their taxes by mail, in person or online.
Full payment may be made by check or money order at any area Key Bank. Online payments may also be made by e-check, credit and debit cards at www.amherst.ny.us, though service fees apply.
Regular hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. This Thursday and Friday, however, the office will be open until 6 p.m.
Also this week:
• The Williamsville Village Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Village Hall, 5565 Main St. The meeting will be preceded by a work session at 6 p.m. The meeting date has been moved from Monday to accommodate the schedules of several trustees who will be out of town that day.
• The Town Board will hold a special meeting at 3 p.m. Monday in the council chambers of the Amherst Municipal Building, 5583 Main St., Williamsville. The regularly scheduled work session has been canceled. Among the items on the agenda for action are the unpaid Highway Department invoices with the Municipal Milling company for paving material.
• The Williamsville School Board will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the District Office board room, 105 Casey Road.
• At 3 p.m. today, the village will be hosting a free screening of the movie "Chocolat" in the Williamsville Meeting House at 5658 Main Street. A dinner special after the movie will be provided by Creekview Restaurant. Call the restaurant for details.
• The Clearfield Community Center will be have open gym for all ages during Presidents Week from 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Gym space and a variety of sports equipment will be made available. An adult must accompany children under the age of six. The fee $10 per family per session. A valid resident ID and pre-registration is required; visit www.amherstyouthandrec.org to register.


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A Trout Run man was convicted Wednesday of firing a long gun toward a 14-year-old boy.
Paul D. Crissman, 62, of 1127 Route 84, was found guilty by a Lycoming County jury on charges of simple assault, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.
The boy testified to standing outside his parents' home at about 3:15 p.m. Oct. 7, 2011, when he saw Crissman come out of the woodline, aim a gun and fire, said Assistant District Attorney Aaron Biichle, who prosecuted the case.
Biichle said the boy's 11-year-old sister was on the back porch and told the jury "'I've heard gunshots around the house, but this was really loud - it sounded like someone was firing at the house.'"
The boy told police that the gun was not aimed at him, but Crissman did fire in the direction of his home. The shot landed close enough that the boy saw leaves move in his driveway.
Crissman had been sentenced about a week before the incident to 18 months of probation for firing at two men riding all-terrain vehicles near or on his property on July 11, 2011. One of Crissman's shots hit one of the ATVs.
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An earlier version of this story contained an error. Only Arnold Bradford Williams was seen throwing beer cans from the overpass, according to the report. We regret the error.
North Charleston investigators said they uncovered information Tuesday that prompted them to pursue a charge of reckless homicide instead of drunken driving against a trucker in a fatal pileup on Interstate 526.
But officials have not specified exactly what led to the adjustment after suspicion was raised when witnesses saw Arnold Bradford Williams "remove a pack of alcoholic beverages out of the cab of the truck then willfully toss them over the side of the interstate right after the collision occurred" Monday, according to an incident report.
The report hinted at an investigation at a hospital, indicating that Williams underwent sobriety testing. But authorities would not discuss any results.
The North Charleston Police Department released the report Wednesday, but it revealed little new information regarding the wreck at the Rivers Avenue overpass and the allegations against the 35-year-old from Latta.
But it confirmed some of the details reported by witnesses of the crash that killed Lauren Elyse Baccari, 27, a student who was scheduled to graduate this spring from the Medical University of South Carolina.
The report stated that Baccari's 2005 Acura was stopped in a traffic jam caused by a crash 2 miles down the road. The police said Williams was driving recklessly by going too fast, considering other traffic wasn't moving at all.
About noon, his truck slammed into Baccari's car, causing a chain reaction that involved another tractor-trailer and three other smaller vehicles.
Traffic officers quickly learned of the account that Williams had been throwing beer cans from the overpass, according to the report. They gathered the discarded items.
That moved the police to send an investigator to Trident Medical Center, where paramedics had taken Williams for treatment. He was not seriously hurt.
After an investigation at the hospital, the police spoke with prosecutors and decided on the charge of felony driving under the influence with death. Williams was jailed on the count about five hours after the crash. His eyes appeared red in his booking photograph.
But the next day, the report stated, investigators obtained "additional information" and once again spoke with police supervisors and authorities from the 9th Circuit Solicitor's Office.
That's when the count was adjusted to reckless homicide. It carries a maximum of 10 years behind bars, while the charge of felony DUI with death would have brought between one and 25 years in prison.
Police officials would not discuss what might have led Williams to toss out the cans, but state law has little tolerance for alcohol use among commercial drivers.
A truck driver's blood-alcohol concentration must stay below 0.04 percent. For non-commercial drivers, the limit is 0.08.
Commercial drivers with even a trace of alcohol in their system are taken out of service for 24 hours. And when alcohol consumption is suspected, testing is mandatory.
Williams did not have previous arrests in South Carolina, according to the State Law Enforcement Division. Court records show that he has at least one ticket for having an open container of alcohol inside his vehicle. During a bond hearing, a magistrate also mentioned his "history of speeding."
Family members said Williams supported his family in Dillon County by driving a truck in the Lowcountry.
Baccari was in her fourth year at MUSC, according to a classmate. She was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Little River near North Myrtle Beach. She completed her undergraduate studies at the College of Charleston, and enjoyed gardening, cooking and playing with her pit bull.
The classmate, who asked not to be identified, said Baccari was eager to hear in March where she would be sent for residency training. She had dreamed of practicing family medicine somewhere in rural South Carolina.


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LEWISTOWN - On the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council and the 20th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the church will enter a period of great grace for her people. The Year of Faith begins Oct. 11 and offers Catholics an opportunity to turn toward Jesus Christ and enter into a deeper relationship with him in the Sacraments, especially the Eucharist.
According to a press release from the Diocese of Harrisburg, the Year of Faith was announced by Pope Benedict XVI in his Apostolic Letter, Porta Fidei (The Door of Faith). The occasion is a chance for each and every Catholic to renew their baptismal call by living their lives in faith, hope and love. It is through this everyday witness that Catholics proclaim the Gospel to all people, the release states.
"The door of faith (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of a communion with God and offering entry into his Church," the pope said in his letter.
In recognition of the Year of Faith, Father Bill Weary, pastor of Sacred Heart Church, in Lewistown, and St. Jude Thaddeus Parish, in Mifflintown, said local churches will host special services and faith-based events in the community.
Sacred Heart Church will hold its annual Eucharistic Adoration from Oct. 14 to 16. During this three-day period, the church will be open all day for silent prayer and adoration. Each day will conclude with a 7 p.m. service. Bishop Joseph P. McFadden, of Harrisburg, will preside at the closing ceremony on Oct. 16. Weary said Father Tukura Michael, O.P., a native of Nigeria and former temporary assistant pastor at Sacred Heart, will be guest preaching all three nights.
Year of Faith events also will be held at St. Jude Thaddeus Parish. Weary said the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed for adult prayer and adoration after the 9:15 a.m. Mass every first Sunday of the month. On the second, third, fourth and fifth Sunday, the DVD series, "Catholicism, the Journey of a Lifetime," will be shown after Mass in the church narthex. Weary said the series was developed by Father Robert Barron, rector of St. Mary of the Lake University, and is focused on the Church's 2,000 year history and its contributions to civilization. A new 6 p.m. Thursday night Mass was also recently added to the calendar as a Year of Faith event.
The DVD series will be shown at Sacred Heart Church as well, but dates and times are not yet available.
"I am very happy for this opportunity to further increase the faith of our people under this church-wide theme, proclaimed by the pope," Weary said. "In part, this is designed to address the shocking decrease in faith experienced in recent decades, especially in Europe and the Americas."
Special years of celebration and observation are frequent in the Church and meant to call the faithful to dedicate themselves to a deeper understanding of a certain aspect of the faith, the release states.
"We must rediscover the tremendous riches of faith in Jesus Christ and His bride, the Church, by allowing this special year of grace to propel us to new fervor," Weary said.
The Year of Faith will conclude on November 24, 2013, the Solemnity of Christ the King.
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In Australian slang, "wifebeater" always referred to a dark blue singlet, such as is typically worn by truckers. It's only recently that we in Australia have heard the word coming from other parts of the world, and elsewhere it refers to a white singlet.
Tommo, the landscaper, was clomping about the backyard in his big blundstones, stubbies and a wifebeater.
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form fitting white ribbed tank top worn by men; looks good on well-built fellas, pathetic on skinny fellas, and disgusting on fat beer bellied fellas
Brad Pitt looks damn good in a wife beater.
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A white sleaveles t-shirt also referred to as a muscle shirt or singlet.
Virgil's got his wifebeater on, looks like Helen's gonna get taught a lesson tonight!
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A men's sleeveless undershirt.
I think the TV show "COPS" had a lot do with the creation of this word. Every time they showed a guy getting arrested for beating his wife he was wearing one of those sleeveless undershirts.
I think the TV show "COPS" had a lot do with the creation of this word. Every time they showed a guy getting arrested for beating his wife he was wearing one of those sleeveless undershirts.
Jed was a wearing a wifebeater to show off his new tattoos.
by Char August 21, 2004
a very tight, white tank top that is ribbed in texture. this style of shirt is usually found on overweight white guys hailing from the trailer courts. unmistakeable markings of bbq sauce or chew spit on the front and smelling of old style beer and excessive perspiration. the wearer can be found at any type of festival which involves his toothless relatives working the carnival rides.
dude, let's go to the state fair and check out all the trash wearing wife beaters.
by Anonymous July 31, 2003
An a-shirt or tanktop or muscle shirt, sleeveless
I need to wash my wife beater.
by Anonymous April 03, 2003
Colloquial name for Stella Artois lager in England
Coming down the pub for a couple of wife beaters mate?
by markp July 25, 2004
An A formed white, tight, T-Shirt normally produced for men but also worn by women, intended for wear under shirts. Its reputation comes from those wearing the shirts while engaged in domestic violence.
His father was wearing a wifebeater under his favorie shirt.
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So this thread is serious?! I can never tell around here ahahaha...The facts are right now he IS a bargain for the points he puts up, will he STILL be a bargain when he's 52? Who know's but he's the Mule right now and it's the perfect time.
who cares, he is only signed till he is 40, not 52...
With the large caveat that when Franzen plays with intensity he's one of the best forwards in the game - but the man floated for 35 or more games this year and played like a 9 year old girl at times.
A hot streak doesn't mean he's a bargain all of a sudden. It means he needs to bring that same intensity over the full season instead of just when the Wings backs' are up against the wall.
he has played 40 games, the last 14 games he has been by far one of our best players, so he "floated" for like 25 games. I couldn't care less cause he still put up points,not nearly the kind of points he has put up in the last 10 games, but the good thing about franzen is he is currently getting really hot just in time for playoffs, and can carry this team a few rounds single handedly


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Less than 24 hours remain before the political squabbling known as the sequestration budget cuts take effect in Washington.
While the arena might be hundreds of miles away, the lives of your neighbors, plus thousands of others throughout the Charleston region, could suddenly become much more difficult.
That includes more than 5,000 civilian Department of Defense workers, who would face furloughs and the loss of 20 percent of their pay for about 22 weeks. The unpaid days off would start in late April.
Some of what's in the mix locally as part of the $85 billion in domestic and military cuts includes:
National Guard
A new, $15.5 million armory in Summerville is the top building priority for the S.C. National Guard, but sequestration would delay that from happening, affecting the 1223rd Engineer Company and the 1118th Forward Support unit. Training for natural disasters, such as hurricanes, could be curtailed.
Public housing
At least 675 Charleston families on a waiting list for low-income rental housing vouchers will be out of luck as Charleston's Housing Authority says it can't afford to allow new families into the program while the sequester cuts are in effect. North Charleston's Housing Authority has dropped plans to issue vouchers to new clients.
AIDS testing
The White House said the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control stands to lose $276,000, resulting in 6,900 fewer HIV tests. A DHEC spokesman said the department continues to operate under normal conditions until the cuts are confirmed.
Charleston Air Force Base
The total funding for Air Force operations in all of South Carolina would be cut by about $19 million, which probably isn't overly harmful if the money is divided between Charleston and Shaw Air Force bases in Sumter.
Army Corps of Engineers
The corps is important across a number of areas, ranging from issuing permits in environmentally sensitive areas to constructing barracks at Fort Jackson and meeting the needs of government agencies.
Any sequestration-caused furloughs could limit review time, rippling a slow-down across the federal bureaucracy. The globally important Charleston Harbor deepening study may be delayed.
Civilian payroll
Charleston has more than 5,000 civilians working for the Department of Defense, or about one-half of the state's total, along with Beaufort, Sumter and Columbia. Furloughs that eliminate one out of every five work days would take almost $60 million in income out of circulation.
Charleston International Airport is on a Federal Aviation Administration list of air traffic control centers that could be affected, with overnight shifts eliminated. The airport is not anticipating any interruption of air carrier service.
Federal officials have warned of delays and possible closings of smaller airports and air traffic control towers at airports that have fewer than 150,000 flight operations per year. Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach are among them.
Higher education
Federal officials estimate the sequester could mean up to 270 fewer work-study jobs for students statewide. Locally, at the College of Charleston, about 120 students rely on income-based federal aid that gives them the chance to work on campus. If the sequester goes into effect, the college wouldn't be able to offer up to eight of those jobs to students next year.
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Most medical needs appear to be safe. A spokeswoman for the VA Medical Center said officials do not anticipate the Charleston hospital or its six satellite clinics will be affected by the cuts.
Districts statewide could see an immediate loss of federal impact aid, which is given to districts with large federal presences, such as military bases, that don't pay property taxes. The three biggest districts in the Lowcountry would lose about $33,000 this year, which is not a substantial portion of their $680 million-plus combined operating budgets.
The bigger concern is whether federal funding for the 2013-14 school year would be affected.
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something Vizzie would say, hey your "Girlfriend" is telling people that she hates you....you should break up with her before she does to you first.
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LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas increased bail to $50,000 for a Lockport man accused of repeatedly having sex with a girl under age 13 between July and October of this year.
Michael D. Johnson, 27, who faces a 15-count indictment that could earn him a sentence of life in prison if he is convicted, was allowed to remain free on a $10,000 bail bond after his arraignment Nov. 19.
He had been ordered by Farkas to move because he lives too close to the girl. However, Johnson was arrested the next day and charged with violating an order of protection granted to the alleged victim.
Bail was set at $20,000 on that when Johnson was arraigned in City Court, and Wednesday, Farkas boosted it to $50,000.


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Pistorius denies shooting the gun in the car, although now two witnesses say that he did.
Fresco's testimony in the South African court portrayed Pistorius as a reckless hothead who also asked Fresco to take the blame for a gun being fired accidentally under a table in a busy Johannesburg restaurant.
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Pistorius, the first double-amputee runner to compete at the Olympics, pleaded not guilty to all four charges against him. He specifically denies that he fired the gun in the car, Roux said.
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Perhaps the biggest change this year will be the series' new venue, Squaw Valley's world-famous Olympic Village Lodge. "This is a great opportunity to foster a relationship with Squaw Valley and reach out a little more to folks in Truckee that might not have made it in the past. We're extremely grateful to Squaw for helping us out with the venue - it goes hand in hand with the entire community vibe of the event."
Following Nettle's opening of the series will be Greg Hill (Dec. 13), Adrian Ballinger (Jan. 17), Roger Strong (Feb 7) and Donnie Roth (March 14).
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A fire caused $125,000 damage to a Main Street establishment in Clarence on Saturday night.
Firefighters were called at 7:53 p.m. Saturday to the Valley Bar & Grill, 10651 Main St., fire officials said.
Fire investigators from the Erie County Sheriff's Office are still investigating, but a dryer in an upstairs apartment appears to have sparked the blaze, officials said late Saturday night.
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a big fat person who is ugly and has a neck like a pack of sausages
get a grip you fat mess
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When someone is completely wasted and are acting in an embarrassing manner and no one likes to be around them. They usually appear unattractive to everyone else except themselves and usually think they are really talented dancers. They are also prone to barfing. A fat mess is NOT a hot mess OR a tranny mess OR a hot tranny mess but they think they are.
"Michael-Ryan was a giant fat mess last night after he drank way too much before 9pm...then he thought he was a really good dancer and got kicked out of the bar cause he really wasnt"
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These type's of people are usually found in the wilderness for e.g. among the trees in rivington skinning rats/ beavers in their spare time. Basically they are socially challenged and normally look severely like a pig and just a fat ugly mess.
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"Mike": erm no don't talk to me you fat mess!...
"Rob": alright mate can you help me skin some rats tonight?.
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generally used in reference to fat ugly unkempt women
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used in place of potential swear words. Or used in the name calling process.
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I'm an idiot? Well you're a fatmess.
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Is used as a substitute for swearing and insults.
You're a fatmess or Oh fatmess I just stubbed my toe
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Modern dance on the ice..evolvement, etc.
Nick Verreos (fashion designer & fashion blogger) really liked Tessa & Scott's FD costumes for Carmen
Yes, I think they are generally liked. Tessa and Scott look great in those costumes and I hope they keep them. Scott's looks comfortable for him, and Tessa looks drop dead gorgeous in hers.
Virtue, Moir stress simplicity, downplay storyline
Team, coach favor more 'playful' approach to short dance program
By Lynn Rutherford, special to icenetwork.com
The IN article is full of other reporting too, but I am esp. glad to read that V/M turned once again to FD choreographer Jennifer Swan to make improvements in their SD.
So cool that a trusted mentor from Virtue's childhood pursuit of dancing has been playing such a major role in their skating in recent years.
(And V/M are very smart not to be complacent and rely on Zoueva alone - esp. in Shpilband's absence. )
Virtue/Moir photos at Canadian Figure Skating Championships press conference:
- https://twitter.com/SkateCanada/stat...64290209046529
- https://twitter.com/SkateCanada/stat...57115889786881 (Chan also is in this one)
- https://twitter.com/SkateCanada/stat...54218556874752
- https://twitter.com/BalGosal/status/291969377635532801
In the last two, V/M are with Canada's Minister of State (Sport).
A very nice article on Tessa & Scott's short dance, and what's in their minds as they reworked it:
http://www.thespec.com/sports/articl...rtue-and-moireWe have an ability to take our skating to another level, especially when we understand it, Moir says. When were kind of lost it was mostly with the short dance I think the public can tell, just because theres a direct comparison the next day with Carmen, which is really special, hopefully.
But this (Hopkins) music has nothing to attach to it so we can go in any direction. And when that gets convoluted and complex, the message gets lost. So we have to be totally sure of what we want to come across. And I think thats just the difference between character-based story lines and what were trying to do with our short dance.
Virtue/Moir's choreographer Jennifer Swan @PerformanceArch is tweeting her support .
Good Luck to Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir in the Ice Dance Today and Sunday!!
8:56 AM - 19 Jan 13
Best Wishes to Tessa and Scott as they perform #Carmen Sunday at the #CFSC2013 at the Hershey Centre
11:07 AM - 19 Jan 13
- And after the V/M Nats SD, Swan tweeted that they "nailed" it.
- A couple of good photos from another tweeter:
Virtue and a very young fan having an adorable encounter
Moir signing autographs
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Big hugs to Virtue/Moir after their difficulties at Four Continents.
This photo from the FD Kiss and Cry in Osaka is worth a thousand words:
Virtue is bending over (prob. to remove her skates?), while Moir has her back (literally and figuratively) and the coaches look downcast.
Hope that Virtue is feeling better and that they are back at their peak at Worlds.
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Ryan Pyette @RyanatLFPress
Skate Canada's Mike Slipchuk said Tessa Virtue cramping at 4C won't have significance (for worlds). Weaver-Poje fate to come soon.
3:38 PM - 14 Feb 13
Slipchuk should know. He was at 4CC's. You can see him in the video in the KnC.
Wonderful photos by this photographer. http://danielleearl.zenfolio.com/p784718967 Lets us see even more closely the detail and expressions during the program.
Chemistry http://danielleearl.zenfolio.com/p78...4f5c#h560fb68a
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Does anyone have links to videos of the Canadian coverage of their 4CC's performances, particularly the SD, if they showed it on this last weekend's coverage?
For the record I did a search on Ryan Pyette's articles about Virtue and Moir in the London, ONT Free Press:
Among those articles are plenty of articles about Carmen and it's evolution over the season so I thnk the people who are complaining about the lack of V/M articles either aren't making the effort to search for them (as they are not familiar with Ryan's work) .
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Wow! Mrs. P, that is a feast of articles for V&M fans


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Small businesses throughout the country are finding themselves on common ground these days as the enactment of the Affordable Care Act draws ever so close....
Better yet read it for yourselves. Stop listening to liberals 'version' of what it is. We already know you cannot keep your own insurance and now you cant keep your own doctors either. LIES....so what's new? More lies.
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In case you all didn't get what the Chamber meant.......by 'misinformation' and we'll answer questions and make you feel better about the silly obamacare nonworking healthcare act compliments of obama and radicals on left.........it means "Let's start another session of PROPAGANDA." Get ready for more lies.
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HAHA...."misinformation abounds." How funny that those are the EXACT words Obama and his camp are proclaiming. Yeah, your local yahoos will 'teach you the truth' about Obamacare. What a bunch of jokers. Except the people aren't laughing as they lose their insurance plans they've always had. Obama said he wanted everyone to have health insurance yet his own failed obamacare is causing MORE to NOT have insurance. Figures; radicals on left cannot do anything successfully.
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LOCKPORT – David J. Grover, the Town of Tonawanda man accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing a 5-year-old North Tonawanda girl July 28, lost his attorney this week.
Assistant Public Defender Michele G. Bergevin withdrew from the case after it was belatedly discovered that Grover's brother Kevin, a witness who testified against David Grover in the grand jury, had been represented by Bergevin five years ago in Family Court. Bergevin didn't know that because prosecutors had refused to give her the grand jury minutes. They revealed the information to her earlier this week.
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The discussions about the safety of nuclear reactors in the new post-Fukushima world have focused on technical questions: Is it possible to make reactors earthquake-proof? What is the best way to ensure that spent fuel remains safe? What is the optimal design for coolant systems? Can reactors be made "inherently safe"?
Sometimes these discussions make it sound as though the reactors operate all by themselves -- both when they run smoothly or during an accident. But that is to omit the human element. Nuclear reactors are operated by fallible human beings, and at least two meltdowns have been caused by poor human decisions: the 1961 meltdown of an experimental military reactor in Idaho, which killed three operators when one of them withdrew a control rod six times as far as he was supposed to (carrying out a high-tech murder-suicide over a love triangle, according to some accounts), and the Chernobyl accident, which was caused by an ill-conceived experiment conducted outside approved protocols.
So, if nuclear safety is a matter of human behavior as well as sound technical infrastructure, we should look to the social sciences in addition to engineering to improve reactor safety. After all, the machines don't run themselves. The social sciences have five lessons for us here:
- The blind spot. In what we might call the frog-in-boiling-water syndrome, human cognition is such that, in the absence of a disaster, individuals often filter out accumulating indications of safety problems that look like obvious red flags in retrospect -- just as frogs do not jump out of a pot of water on a stove as long as the temperature goes up slowly. Diane Vaughan's award-winning book on the Challenger disaster demonstrates a clear pattern in earlier space shuttle launches of O-ring performance degrading in proportion to declining launch temperatures -- the problem that would ultimately kill Challenger's ill-fated crew. Some shuttle engineers had become concerned about this, but the organizational complex responsible for the space shuttle could not bring this problem into full cognitive focus as long as the missions were successful. Operational success created a blinding glow that made this safety issue hard to see.
- The whistle-blower's dilemma. The space shuttle program provides another example of human fallibility, explored in William Langewische's account of the Columbia space shuttle accident: Large, technical organizations tend to be unfriendly to employees who harp on safety issues. The NASA engineers who warned senior management -- correctly, as it turned out -- that the Columbia shuttle was endangered by the foam it lost on takeoff were treated as pests. (The same is true of Roger Boisjoly, the Morton Thiokol engineer who was ostracized and punished for having warned correctly that the Challenger shuttle was likely to explode if launched at low temperature.) Large technical organizations prioritize meeting deadlines and fulfilling production targets, and their internal reward structures tend to reflect these priorities. This is especially true if the organizations operate in a market environment where revenue streams are at stake. In such organizations, bonuses tend not to go to those who cause the organization to miss targets and deadlines or spend extra money to prevent accidents that may seem hypothetical. It is not the safety engineers, after all, who become CEOs. Those with safety concerns report that they often censor themselves unless they are deeply convinced of the urgency of their cause. Indeed, there is -- sadly -- substantial literature on the various forms of mistreatment of engineers who do come forward with such concerns.
- The politics of oversight. Regulatory apparatuses tend to degrade over time -- especially in political systems such as America's, which tend to facilitate the corporate capture of government functions. Thanks to the leverage afforded by campaign donations and the revolving door between public and private employment, industries have become extremely skillful at inserting their former employees, future employees, and other allies into the very regulatory agencies that oversee them. A brilliant piece of investigative journalism on the Securities and Exchange Commission in the latest issue of Rolling Stone shows how this can reduce a regulatory agency to an empty husk. Whether it's the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the Food and Drug Administration, the story is the same: Government agencies that started off as aggressive watchdogs have become absorbed over time by those over whom they have titular oversight. Americans recently saw the dire consequences of this trend in the banking meltdown of 2008.
- Overwhelmed by speed and complexity. As Charles Perrow argues in his influential book Normal Accidents, which was inspired by the Three Mile Island accident, human operators function well in environments of routinized normality; but, when highly complex technical systems function in unpredicted ways -- especially if the jagged interactions between subsystems unfold very rapidly -- then the human capacity for cognitive processing is quickly overwhelmed. In other words, if a reactor is veering toward an accident caused by the failure of a single system in a way that operators have been trained to handle, then they are likely to retain control. But, if the accident-in-the-making involves unforeseen combinations of failures unfolding quickly and requires improvised responses rather than routinized ones, the outcome is far less hopeful.
- The wild card. Finally, human nature being what it is, there are always the wild cards: people who kill romantic rivals via nuclear meltdown, freelance experimenters, terrorists, operators who should never have made it through personnel screening, operators who are drunk on the job, operators whose performance has declined through laziness, depression, boredom, or any host of reasons.
Many of these factors came together to produce the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. As Gregory Button demonstrates in his book, Disaster Culture, the US Minerals Management Service had slackened its oversight of offshore drilling as many former regulators went on to work for the oil industry; in the absence of a major blowout, incipient safety problems remained unseen; those who did warn against cutting corners were marginalized; and the accident unfolded with such speed and ferocity that those aboard the rig were quickly overwhelmed.
The bottom line: Nuclear safety is threatened by human as well as technical malfunctions, and the risk of disaster can only be attenuated through attention to the principles of social engineering as well as nuclear engineering. While human behavior can always overflow the bounds of our plans for its containment, there are measures that can at least lower the risk of a nuclear disaster caused by human factors: First, the nuclear industry needs to do more to both protect and reward whistle-blowers; and, second, the industry needs regulators with a genuine desire to exercise oversight -- rather than people hoping to increase their income by later going to work for the very companies that they were regulating. Unfortunately, this goes against the ethos of the contemporary United States, where the trend-lines are going in the wrong direction.