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Medical Marijuana Milestones
A study published today in the journal Neurology confirms anecdotal reports that smoked cannabis is effective in alleviating HIV-related neuropathic pain, which is often difficult to treat with FDA-approved medications. In a group of 50 patients, those who smoked marijuana experienced a median reduction in pain of 72 percent from the first joint, compared to 15 percent for those who smoked a placebo (a joint from which the cannabinoids had been removed). Over the course of the study, the patients who smoked the real stuff experienced twice as much daily pain relief (a median reduction of 34 percent, compared to 17 percent for the control group). As for safety, "no serious adverse events were reported."
This government-approved study, carried out with government-supplied marijuana (which, given the reputed quality of Uncle Sam's pot, makes the results especially impressive), is an important step in rigorously demonstrating the medical utility of cannabis. California NORML's Dale Gieringer reports that DEA Administrative Law Judge Mary Ellen Bittner today endorsed another important step, urging the agency to give permission for private production of research marijuana to compete with the government's monopoly. But don't get too excited: This decison comes nearly two decades after another DEA administrative law judge, Francis Young, recommended rescheduling marijuana so doctors could legally prescribe it.
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Yes, b-b-b-b-b-but GatewayDrug!,-SmokeCausesCancer!,-TheChildren!,-PleasureIsImmoral!,bbbbpppfffftttpth, blither...
I'm sorry. I'm all for legalizing pot but does anyone else think that medical marijuana is kinda overrated? People treat weed like it's this amazing cure-all. I'm sure it has various chemicals in it that might actually treat a few diseases here or there i.e. glaucoma. But it seems like most of the people who it helps have chronic diseases that make them feel like crap... so they use a drug that gets them high and dulls the crappiness of life. Which is the same reason non-sick people take it, right?
Pot has been legal here in Antarctica for years . . . millinia actually. But it is hard to buy and even harder to grow. Still, Dennis Prager tried to convince us to ban the stuff.
"Pot has been legal here in Antarctica for years"
My friend Tom did several years on the ice and yes, it is legal (they grow it at the Pole). But ya know, Antarctica really, really sucks and as such, will never replace Amsterdam as a tourist destination.
I find the figures quantifying pain relief a bit hard to swallow. How does one measure something subjective like pain?
I don't doubt that the stuff works. I just doubt the claims of a 72 percent reduction in pain are particularly accurate.
Of course, I could be wrong, and there may be a scientific way to measure such things.
All pain is subjective.
Who cares if it does anything? The stuff is safer than water (and any prescription drug I can think of). This is just more proof that the Jesus Freaks are very much in control of this country.
The scientific way of measuring it is just to ask people, "how much pain are you in?" If they report more pain relief than the control group the medication in question is effective. The key is in the double-blind study.
Blame the Jesus Freaks.
Drug prohibition is a Progressive policy.
Read some fuckin'history.
This is just more proof that the Jesus Freaks are very much in control of this country.
Highly intelligent. Everything is the fault of the Jesus Freaks (except when it's the fault of the Joos, or the Muslims).
"All pain is subjective."
I don't have a pain managment problem, I have a pain problem.
The key is in the double-blind study.
Because there is no way for a test subject to tell whether or not his joint has cannabinoids?
Of course, they should legalize it, but a test with a narcotic drug versus a non-narcotic placebo loses a lot of its objectivity.
Republican Jesus Freaks cause ALL the problems.
Elect John Edwards(or Hilary or Obama) and he will end the military draft and legalize MJ.
No more war and the enviorment will be clean. The world will love us and everyone will be prosperous except for those evil corporations and rich people. Minorities and women will be richer 'cause they get the reperations payments for Rape and Slavery.
I'll be so stoned I won't care.
Drug prohibition is a Progressive policy.
Read some fuckin'history.
I don't care about the 1920's. It's illegal now because of the religious nutjobs running this country today. It's legal in only the most "progressive" places in this country... also, the least religious (ie: more intelligent people). Besides, marijuana IS safe. There's no question about that. Religious people (ie: Jesus Freaks) are always trying to ignore science and live in their own, twisted, fucked up fairy-tale world.
I think you speak for a lot of people, unfortunately.
Isn't it ironic that libtard perpetuates the "Republican" lie about amotivational syndrome?
If unreligious people are automatically on the moral high ground, how do you explain Josef Stalin? Anyone, religious or not, can be dangerously self-righteous.
I'm sorry. I'm all for legalizing pot but does anyone else think that medical marijuana is kinda overrated?
I find the figures quantifying pain relief a bit hard to swallow. How does one measure something subjective like pain?
You don't. Which is why "alternative medicine" types tend to stick to areas of medicine that can't, or are difficult to quantify. No one's curing cancer with acupuncture, but they're relieving pain and helping people quit smoking...maybe.
There is some truth to the lie-the irony was intended.Libtard speaks, with only a little hyperbole, for far too many people including many who are old enough to know better.
Few seem to realize the extreme difficulty the Republicans have in turning out those "fundy god-bags" to vote at all.The idea they are working collectively enmasse to impose a Christian Fascist Theocracy is absurd.
I wouldn't like to see the Progressive Left get what they are after-when we have gone that far it will either be "too late" or awfully bloody to say the least.
How were all analgesics discovered? Someone tried and found it stopped hurting. Why is that at all difficult to conceptualize?
The need for subject blinding is reduced in a situation like this, where the object is to test the subject's level of discomfort. There is, however, a protocol proposed which uses different potencies of cannabis. That way the subjects know they're getting something, but they don't know whether they're getting a low or a high dose, and you look for dose dependence of the effect.
I'm not looking for Government distributed, regulated ,and taxed drugs. I'm not looking for any particular drug at all. I just want my God Damn Property Rights back.The presumed (likely) return of civil lierties, reduced expenditure, and diminished crime etc. are just positive "externalities".
I find the figures quantifying pain relief a bit hard to swallow. How does one measure something subjective like pain?
One could try it oneself... :)
Seriously, pain is subjective, but I think one way to look at it is what is the overall behavior of the individual? Do they appear more able to go about their daily lives without interference from pain? Sure, cannabis is an intoxicant, but so is severe and/or chronic(no pun intended) pain. I'd rather drive next to a pothead than a guy with a back spasm any day.
Prohibition is bipartisan, alas. On the right, you have folks fretting about immorality, of course. However, on the left, there is a big strain of paternalism, of not wanting people to be able to make choices that might hurt them. I'd certainly say that crackdowns on tobacco and alcohol as more of a liberal than a conservative issue.
I find the figures quantifying pain relief a bit hard to swallow. How does one measure something subjective like pain?
If the patients are walking around smiling instead of lying down screaming, whatever you gave them works.
which, given the reputed quality of Uncle Sam's pot
I haven't heard the reports about the quality of Uncle Sam's pot--is it supposed to be low in cannabinols?
smoked cannabis is effective in alleviating HIV-related neuropathic pain
This is the kind of information that only hurts the legalization movement. The people who are dead-set against pot are also the people who are dead-set against anyone who has HIV (homosexuals and junkies).
I forgot to mention something to correct the last line in the article: doctors, and anyone else, can already legally prescribe marijuana, and anything else.


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I am an industry analyst covering the semiconductor market
Silicon Valley, famed for its semiconductor business, is actually the home of very few semiconductor manufacturing plants these days. This is a development that slipped past this analyst until an article in the San Jose Mercury News stated:
The Sprawling Silicon Valley semiconductor plants and the jobs they once provided have vanished…
How could that be? When I moved here in the late 1970s dozens of wafer fabrication plants ("fabs") dotted the Valley. Incredulous, I contacted a major supplier of raw materials to these plants, who had to refer to another firm's database to determine that there were no more than 9 plants in the entire San Francisco Bay Area, and five of these were small R&D facilities. Although I had assumed that this company could have determined the number by simply asking its own regional manager, the Valley has so very little semiconductor manufacturing that it is not accounted for that closely.
Where did all the fabs go? It's complicated.
The cost of labor is high in Silicon Valley, and although labor is not a large component of semiconductor manufacturing costs (5-10%) this motivated manufacturing plants to seek cheaper areas. It was also helpful to build a fab away from the competition so that the highly-trained fab operators wouldn't be lured to work elsewhere.
Meanwhile, countries whose economies were highly reliant upon heavy industry put together government incentives to grow semiconductor production in their own job markets. This started with Japan, whose model was later emulated by Korea and Taiwan. Tax holidays motivated established manufacturers to build fabs in these countries, while other government initiatives helped to create new semiconductor competitors. This happened to a certain degree in other states in the US as well – there are now more US-based semiconductor plants outside of Silicon Valley than within Silicon Valley!
But one very important change that has dramatically shifted the business is the high cost of building such a plant. Although a good wafer fab in the 1970s could be constructed at a cost in the low hundreds of millions, today's competitive fab is a $6-8 billion behemoth. This has changed the complexion of the industry. In the 1970s, then-chairman of AMD Jerry Sanders declared: "Real men have fabs!" Nearly every semiconductor manufacturer owned its own captive processing plant. Today far more companies have adopted a "fabless" model, in which production is farmed out to "foundries" like TSMC, UMC, Winbond, and even Samsung. Major companies like Qualcomm, Broadcom, and nVidia use this model. Even AMD has adopted it!
Add to this the fact that a semiconductor chip worth $5-100 weighs about as much as a postage stamp, so it's extraordinarily inexpensive to air freight these devices from anywhere in the world. There is no good reason to produce the product anywhere near the customer.
It is complicated, but the reasons that Silicon Valley has so few fabs are all very rational.
Although there are very few semiconductor plants in Silicon Valley, a significant number of semiconductor jobs, semiconductor company headquarters, and semiconductor know-how still reside here. Silicon Valley is still Silicon Valley, even if the vast majority of its manufacturing occurs elsewhere.
They went to China and Taiwan – the main reason is California and EPA regulations and permitting. As TJ Rogers said a few years ago – " I can get a facility up and running in China before I can get the paperwork and permits submitted much less approved in California or the US in general". And more jobs left of course – then our elected officials are surprised that the jobs numbers are down!
Did they also go to Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico? There are a lot of information technology manufacturing facilities that have located in the Guadalajara metro area, making it the second strongest economic potential of any major North American city behind Chicago currently.
The 4 million population affords this industry cheap labor. It's interesting how so many major corporations have disappeared their factories from American soil in the last 20 years, like rats from a sinking ship… So sad that this once great Nation was sold down river so long ago and STILL supports the Federal Reserve, which is responsible for raping and killing our whole economy.


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Across the Shaar, and in the Golden Water region, small herds of nomadic loxo hunt, gather, and keep to themselves. The elephantine humanoids appear strange even to people used to seeing orcs and bugbears on a daily basis, but they are only one of group of strange humanoids that wander the Shaar. The nomadic humanoids of the Shaar leave the shy loxo to their own devices, trading with them but never forming bonds. The loxo fiercely protect their herds, and some actually resent the intrusion of strange humanoids (read: non-loxo) on their peace and serenity.
Every so often, though, a loxo is seen in the marketplace of Halagard in Halruaa, the taverns of Chavyondat in Estagund, in the pirate stronghold of Yaulazna, or among the mercenaries in the Border Kingdoms. Sometimes they move even farther north. Curiosity, or some dark deed, drives these young loxo to venture forth into unknown lands and seek their fortunes. They are prized as mercenaries and bodyguards, and that is a sure way for them to make coin, but some few of these follow other paths.
One such loxo is Dauphal, who is of average size and build (for a loxo). Born into a normal loxo childhood, he felt the yearning to wander at a young age and got into trouble frequently for exploring where his parents told him not to go. At age 14 he fled the herd of his birth and found his way to the trade city of Delzimmer. He has sometimes told people that wemics massacred his herd, but that and any other colorful details are mere exaggerations that he says so that he sounds interesting.
Possessed of a keen mind but very poor social skills, Dauphal found life difficult at first. He learned to fight with the weapons of humans, worked as a thug to afford food, and strangely enjoyed every minute of that part of his life. Having to buy food in itself was a novel experience, and the start of many novel experiences. Eventually he took the road westward, and, after some travels, he fell into the hands of the Wyrm Master, a gnoll chieftain that operates from the Wyrmbones. Some loxo deity must have intervened on Dauphal's behalf, because the Wyrm Master chose to train Dauphal as his personal bodyguard rather than kill him. The loxo spent a number of years with the gnolls, learning the crafts of wilderness survival, tracking, and fighting. Though he never participated in any raids on caravans, and indeed never wanted to, he did help scout for locations and track down survivors so they could be killed.
Eventually, his inherent morality objected to the evil that the gnolls did, and he used his skills to leave them in the night. He made his way south into Halruaa, and the town of Alaurim. Here, he was exposed to magic on a large scale for the first time, and he found it wonderful and frightening at the same time. After some initial hesitancy, he decided to learn this magic himself and asked the wizardess Rhodea Firehair to take him as an apprentice. She was, after all, the only one fearless enough to take on such a monstrous student. Dauphal learned a lot from her and was saddened when an accident with a dragon in the town mint caused her demise. When Rhodea's daughter was killed, Dauphal recognized evil forces at work and prudently decided to continue his wanderings.
Dauphal may be found anywhere in the Shining South, or indeed anywhere else. He is curious about everything, and he fearlessly faces battle. Confident of his abilities, he nonetheless does not rush into a dangerous situation without thinking things through. He has a tendency to tell lies about his past, and though people are not sure that he is being truthful, they also don't know for certain that he is not. His curiosity can lead him into allying with evil forces, at least for a while, as well as good ones. Thus, he can be an ally, friend, or enemy of any player characters that cross his path.
In combat, he has learned to take advantage of his size, strength, and reach. He is trained to charge as well as defend against charges, and his large glaive is always close to his hand. His longsword and short sword are never far from his hip. When someone charges him, he generally gets two attacks of opportunity against that foe, and then follows up with a withering set of blows. His magic is used primarily in support of his combat prowess, but he can cause damage with spells as well.
Dauphal: Male loxo ranger 5/wizard 2; CR 9; Large monstrous humanoid; HD 10d8+40 plus 2d4+8; hp 98; Init +2; Spd 30 ft.; AC 22, touch 13, flat-footed 20; Base Atk +11; Grp +21; Atk +16 melee (1d6+6, 2 slams) or +13/+8/+3 melee (2d6+7/19-20, +1 longsword) and +13 melee (1d8+4/19-20, +1 short sword) and +11 melee (1d6+3, slam) or +13/+8/+3 melee (2d8+7 plus 1d6 fire/x3, +1 flaming glaive) and +11 melee (1d6+3, slam) or +14/+9/+4 ranged (2d6+6/x3, +2 composite longbow [+4 Str bonus]); Space/Reach 10 ft./10 ft. (20 ft. with glaive); SA berserk rage, trample (1d8+9); SQ animal companion (lizard; link, share spells), darkvision 60 ft., familiar benefits (Alertness, empathic link, share spells), favored enemy humans +4, favored enemy monstrous humanoids +2, wild empathy +5 (+1 magical beasts); AL N; SV Fort +9, Ref +10, Will +9; Str 22, Dex 14, Con 18, Int 14, Wis 12, Cha 6. Age 26, height 7 ft. 3 in., weight 490 lbs.
Skills and Feats: Climb +16, Heal +6, Hide -3, Jump +8, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +10, Knowledge (nature) +12, Listen +16, Search +7, Spellcraft +4, Spot +16, Survival +14, Swim +6; Alertness[B], Combat Reflexes, Endurance[B], Furious Charge, Hold the Line, Power Attack, Practiced Spellcaster, Scribe Scroll[B], Track[B].
Languages: Loxo, Common, Dwarven, Shaaran.
Rage (Ex): If Dauphal sees a clan member (a loxo of the same clan) killed or incapacitated, he can enter a state of berserk rage that lasts for 9 rounds. The following changes are in effect as long as Dauphal rages: hp 122; AC 20, touch 11, flat-footed 18; Grp +23; Atk +18 melee (1d6+8, 2 slams) or +15/+10/+5 melee (2d6+9/19-20, +1 longsword) and +15 melee (1d8+5/19-20, +1 short sword) and +13 melee (1d6+4, slam) or +15/+10/+5 melee (2d8+9 plus 1d6 fire/x3, +1 flaming glaive) and +13 melee (1d6+4, slam) or +14/+9/+4 ranged (2d6+6/x3, +2 composite longbow [+4 Str bonus]); SA trample 1d8+11 (DC 20); SV Fort +11, Will +11; Str 26, Con 22; Climb +18, Jump +10, Swim +8. At the end of his rage, Dauphal is fatigued for the duration of the encounter.
Trample (Ex): As a standard action, Dauphal can trample creatures of Medium size and smaller by moving over them. The trample deals 1d8+9 points of bludgeoning damage. A trampled opponent can make an attack of opportunity with a -4 penalty against Dauphal or attempt a Reflex save DC 18 for half damage.
Animal Companion (Ex): Dauphal has a snake named Slithe as an animal companion (see Monster Manual, page 279). The companion's abilities and characteristics are summarized below.
Animal Companion Benefits (Ex): Dauphal and Slithe enjoy the link and share spells special qualities.
Link (Ex): Dauphal can handle Slithe as a free action. He also gains a +4 circumstance bonus on all wild empathy checks and Handle Animal checks made regarding his snake.
Share Spells (Ex): Dauphal may have any spell he casts on himself also affect his animal companion if the latter is within 5 feet at the time. Dauphal may also cast a spell with a target of "You" on his animal companion.
Familiar: Dauphal's familiar is a lizard named Mopeke. The familiar uses the better of her own and Dauphal's base save bonuses. The creature's abilities and characteristics are summarized below.
Favored Enemy (Ex): Dauphal gains a +4 bonus on his Bluff, Listen, Sense Motive, Spot, and Survival checks when using these skills against humans. He gains the same bonus on weapon damage.
Against monstrous humanoids, he gains a +2 bonus on these skill checks and on weapon damage rolls.
Ranger Spells Prepared (caster level 5th): 1st -- endure elements.
Wizard Spells Prepared (caster level 9th; 15% chance of spell failure): 0 -- acid splash (+14 ranged touch), ray of frost (+14 ranged touch), resistance, touch of fatigue (+19 melee touch, DC 12); 1st -- expeditious retreat, shield, true strike.
Spellbook: as above plus 0 -- arcane mark, dancing lights, daze, detect magic, detect poison, disrupt undead, flare, ghost sound, light, mage hand, mending, message, open/close, prestidigitation, read magic; 1st -- burning hands, disguise self, mage armor, magic missile.
Possessions: +2 studded leather, ring of protection +2,+1 large flaming glaive,+1 large longsword,+1 large short sword,+2 large composite longbow (+4 Str bonus) with 20 arrows and 10 cold iron arrows, wand of cure light wounds (caster level 5th), bag of tricks (tan), backpack, bedroll, other adventuring gear, 128 gp.
Feats from Non-Core Sources
Hold the Line (from Shining South): You can make an attack of opportunity against a charging opponent as soon at it enters your threatened area. Your attack of opportunity happens immediately before the charge attack is resolved. Your attacks of opportunity are still limited to the number allowed by Combat Reflexes.
Practiced Spellcaster (from Complete Divine): When determining caster level for one of your spellcasting classes, you can add a bonus of up to +4. The amount of the bonus depends on the number of nonspellcasting class levels you have; you can add +1 for each nonspellcasting class level up to the limit of +4.
About the Author
Robert Wiese began playing D&D with the blue boxed set (the one after the original three small pamphlets). He has campaigned through three and a half editions of his favorite roleplaying game and has tried Call of Cthulhu, Star Wars, and some other games as well. Throughout it all he has learned that a great DM makes a great campaign. So he is happy to assist great DMs with little ideas such as these random encounters. He led the RPGA Network through the tough times and now works at UNR as a biochemical researcher. Life is very full between studies, work, pets (two dogs, two cats, fish, a toad, and two rats), and gaming, but he always puts his wife and his faith first.
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Good morning, Mr Bond… Skyfall, the 23rd bout of Bondage, is out later this year. Do we expect you to talk? No – but we do expect you to scrub up…
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Okay, so Bond didn't actually wear any fragrance at all in Ian Fleming's books. Completely ignoring that fact, MI5 (for we presume it is they) are launching this 'unique fusion of traditionally authentic and unmistakably British ingredients'. No, not liquidised gold medals, Pimm's and fish and chips – more a backbone of lavender blended with vetyver, complemented by moss and coumarin undertones and notes of apple. Available exclusively in Harrods from Wednesday and nationwide from September, wear it shaken or stirred – do we look like we give a damn?
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If all goes as planned, by the time you begin to read this sentence the yellow, cinder-blocked building on the Universal Steel site will be under the wrecking ball.
And years of neglect, followed by tax issues and an eventual seizure by the city, will finally come to a merciful end.
Most people seem to know this property as a federally designated brown fields site that sits just off of the North Street overpass. It has been long vacant and contaminated with polychlorinated byphenyls (PCB's), known to cause cancer and other dangerous metals, to include lead and arsenic.
In the winter of 1976 Universal Steel hired a scrawny Salem High School distance runner to help out in the what was known as the yard. That skinny kid was me. A winter of working weekends led to more hours in the spring when things got a little busier. The hours and pay were enough to convince me to bypass the spring track season in order to work after school every day.
My duties were varied. Sweeping the place up was an every day task but I also helped to weigh and sort metals with the late Charlie Schialdone. Charlie was a true Salem character who made every moment interesting as he worked the scales. He knew everyone that came in and would keep a running conversation going throughout the day.
Some days found me out in the yards pulling lengths of angle iron from the racks or removing copper and brass parts from old stoves, refrigerators and plumbing fixtures. All of the copper and brass fittings went into 55-gallon drums which were stacked five and six high in the warehouse waiting for metal prices to hit the desired level.
The summer of 1977 found me working hard to strip rubber insulation from 3-inch copper cable trucked in from what had been the Boston Naval Shipyard. The six-foot long lengths were recovered trans-Atlantic cable which had been deemed obsolete and replaced.
I would feed the cable lengths into a dual bladed power stripper which made two cuts into the rubber insulation from one end to the other. That was the easy part. Once that was done I would straddle the cable and peel the insulation from the copper cable. This was not an easy task. The next step was to fold the copper cable as best I could and drop it into a large baling machine built into the concrete floor. When that summer ended I believe I had added about a 1/2 inch of girth on my forearms.
There were a few days when a 42-foot trailer would come in full of old car batteries. My job then would be to unload those batteries onto the ground in the yard. Many would be broken and cracked, leaking acid everywhere. The cotton gloves and coveralls I wore were not up to the task. There would be more than few runs to the hose to rinse myself off with cold water.
My time there ended during the summer of 1978 when I had some issues with the boss concerning his desire to have me paint his house, guesthouse and garage on Marblehead neck. I had no car so he deduced that I would be delighted to borrow an old bicycle to pedal out there and back every day. His deduction was in error.
The city's plans to use this site as a temporary parking lot during the construction of the MBTA garage is a good move. The 120 spaces will be needed.
Of more importance is the remediation of the site by the US Environmental Protection Agency once the remaining building is demolished. There are plans to remove at least 3,500 cubic yards of contaminated soil. This would bring the site up to standard for commercial use. Those plans are contingent on available funding.
Some would like to see it become green space. There are rumors that F. W. Webb Plumbing has an interest in the property. maybe the purchase of this site would be motivation for them to clean up their own building.
Time will tell, but as it stands now it's good to see that finally something is being done in what is an ugly dirty area alongside one of our main entrance corridors.
Good bye Universal Steel and good riddance to the brownfield it had become.


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By Heather Mullinix
Assistant editor
The Tansi Sewer Utility District may be nearing the end of its suit with the Lake Tansi Property Owners Association, with TSUD announcing it had directed its attorney to draft an agreement that would turn assets of the public utility over to the POA.
James Heath, president of the TSUD board, said, "In order to settle the lawsuit, we have agreed with our lawyer to proceed with writing up the legalities of that."
A draft of that agreement is expected within two to three weeks. Heath said the agreement would be on a future agenda for the board to discuss with its attorney Don Scholes and to field questions on how a transfer of assets and service would take place.
"I fully expect that when the negotiation is done and the transfer happens, we will be given a certain amount of time to pay all outstanding debts that we agree are outstanding and have funds to pay," Heath said. "Probably any unused funds in our account will be transferred to the POA, but that's not been part of any discussion. I'm just assuming that's what will happen."
The POA filed suit against TSUD and its predecessor Tansi Waste Management, Inc., in September 2011, for nonpayment of loans totaling more than $1.3 million. Those loans were made to finance construction of the sewer system in Lake Tansi to serve POA amenities, businesses and various homes.
According to the suit, the POA allowed TWMI to access a line of credit the POA established at First National Bank and promissory notes were issued by TWMI that included the principal and interest rate of 6.25 percent from the date of the loan. Eleven promissory notes were issued from Feb. 17, 2009 through June 15, 2010, each signed by Claude "Duke" Coyne, president of TWMI and former general manager of TSUD. He retired from the sewer district in November 2010.
Only $187,438.15 was repaid, according to the lawsuit.
In August 2010, TSUD voted to absorb the assets of TWMI. According to the lawsuit, neither TWMI or TSUD had the funds available at the time of the transfer to satisfy the loan and TSUD conditioned repayment of the notes on receiving proceeds from the issuance of public bonds. Those bonds were never issued.
The suit asked that the transfer of assets from TWMI to TSUD be declared fraudulent, and that TWMI be declared to have defaulted.
After the two parties come to an agreement, the settlement would still have to be approved by a court and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation would have to approve transfer of an operating permit. Currently, the state has not issued a new operating permit for TSUD.
Another question is who will be liable for a disputed bill from Environmental and Civil Engineering. The bill, at $430,000 in February 2012, reportedly included no invoices or supporting material as to who ordered the work to be done. TSUD believes at least portions of the outstanding bill were for work performed for the POA or Tansi Waste Management, Inc., prior to the establishment of the public utility district.
Heath said Tuesday, "If he thinks we still owe the money, he can resubmit the bills and invoices based on contracts or work agreements."
No such billing had been received by Tuesday.
In other business, TSUD approved payment of its yearly insurance premium in the amount of $6,414, provided the utility be reimbursed if ownership of the assets were to change hands in coming months.
The board also agreed not to revisit contracts for service to Hiawatha East and West, which are billed at rates below the published commercial rates of the district based on a contract between RCI and TWMI that was absorbed by the public utility district.
"We don't need to go into renegotiating that contract or revising our policy because the inconsistencies aren't really causing any problems at this time," Heath said.
Ferguson added that the contract did state fees could be reviewed and adjusted yearly though it did not include an end date.
"I see no reason to get into that now because we don't know what the outcome will be," Ferguson said.
Ferguson also noted he had been reviewing financial records of the utility district and found $586,000 in funds had been transfered to TSUD from TWMI, but there was an electronic transfer dated May 6, 2010, taking $100,000 from TSUD to TWMI that he found no explanation for in TSUD minutes or financial records. Heath said he recalled an explanation of that transaction, but did not remember the details. He told the board and audience he would check with former TSUD president Herb Pallatt.


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Tue, 15 July 2014
Stephen Altman - Oscar and Emmy nominated Production Designer - Vincent & Theo; The Player; Short Cuts; Gosford Park; Ray; Lovely Still; Chronicle; Draft Day
Stephen has worked on many award winning feature film projects over the years including many films for Robert Altman, such as Vincent & Theo, The Player, Short Cuts, Kansas City, Cookie's Fortune, and Gosford Park.
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Tue, 8 July 2014
In 2004, Nick along with Joe Pickett quit their day jobs to focus on production of their first feature documentary, Dirty Country.
They started the touring The Found Footage Festival show to fund the production of the documentary.
The Found Footage Festival is a live comedy event and screening featuring unusual and humorous clips from VHS videotapes gathered from thrift stores, garage sales, warehouses, estate sales, and dumpsters throughout the United States.
In 2009, Jack Rebney, featured in the festival favorite Winnebago promotional videos in the show, was featured in a documentary, Winnebago Man, which featured the curators in several interviews and coverage of Jack at the festival.
The Found Footage Festival is currently based out of New York City and presented Found vs. Found in collaboration (and in friendly competition with) Found Magazine. It has also expanded in touring Europe.
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Tue, 1 July 2014
Frank produced and directed the documentary N.Y.H.C. about the NY hardcore scene of the mid 1990s.
Frank also was involved in production for film and television projects including: Die, Mommie, Die!, Anton Chekhov's The Duel, and Scrappers.
More recently, Frank directed and produced the documentary feature, Jodorowsky's Dune, which explores the genesis of one of cinema's greatest epics that never was: cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic Dune, whose cast would have included such icons as Salvador Dali, Orson Welles and Mick Jagger.
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Tue, 24 June 2014
Elisha has worked in photography and in film in a variety of roles on music videos, video games, short films and features films over the years.
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Tue, 17 June 2014
Heikki Kossi - Finnish Foley Artist - Letters to Father Jacob, Rare Exports, Berberian Sound Studio, FILTH
H5 Film Sound was founded by Heikki in 2000. Heikki has worked as a foley artist and foley supervisor on feature films, shorts, TV-drama, documentaries and animation films. As a sound designer, Heikki has been involved in feature length documentaries and animation.
Since 2004, Heikki has been working as a full time foley artist and a supervisor, mainly for fiction films and documentary work as well. More recently, the H5 staff includes the owner Heikki (as a foley supervisor and artist), a sound recordist, and a sound editor.
Projects that Heikki and H5 have worked on over the years include: a variety of documentary projects, and the fiction features: Letters to father Jacob, Rare Exports, Berberian Sound Studio, and the film, FILTH directed by Jon S. Baird.
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Tue, 10 June 2014
Steve Browell - Sound Effects Editor & Sound Designer - Fantastic Mr. Fox, Jane Eyre, On the Road, Frankenweenie, Under the Skin, & Call the Midwife
Steve has worked on award winning film and television projects over the years in various areas of the sound and music department, most specifically as Sound Effects Editor and Sound Designer.
Steve has worked on animated and live action shorts and features, including: Sweeney Todd, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Alice in Wonderland, Jane Eyre, On the Road, and Frankenweenie.
Most recently, Steve was the sound effects editor on both Jonathan Glazer's feature Under the Skin and the BBC series, Call the Midwife.
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Tue, 3 June 2014
Igor Martinovic - Director of Photography - Sangre de mi sangre, Man on Wire, The Tillman Story, Red Riding, Sunlight Jr., and House of Cards
Igor has worked on a mix of shorts and feature films as well as television and commercial work over the years.
Igor's notable documentary work includes: the Oscar winning Man on Wire, The Tillman Story, and Addiction Incorporated.
Igor's narrative feature film projects include: Fraulein, Sangre de mi sangre, Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980, Silent House, Room 304, and Sunlight Jr.
Igor has recently been working as director of photography on the second season of the hit Netflix series, House of Cards.
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Tue, 27 May 2014
Jake Roberts - Film Editor - The Last Great Wilderness, Office Tigers, Donkeys, Perfect Sense, Tonight You re Mine, Citadel, and Starred Up
Jake has worked on a number of films for director David Mackenzie and has worked on a variety of other film and TV projects for several other directors over the years.
Jake has worked on film projects including: The Last Great Wilderness, Office Tigers, Donkeys, Perfect Sense, Tonight You're Mine, Citadel, and Starred Up.
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Tue, 20 May 2014
John Christian Rosenlund - Norwegian Director of Photography - Factotum, The Bothersome Man, Troubled Water, and A Thousand Times Goodnight
John Christian began his professional career in film and television as a sound engineer. He ran his own sound studio from the age of 15, and he worked as an actor as well.
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Tue, 13 May 2014
Ulf Brantas - Swedish Director of Photography - Show Me Love, Together, Lilya 4-Ever, Daybreak, Hawaii, Oslo, Happy End, and We Are The Best
Ulf has over 30 years' experience working all over the world on projects for film and television.
Over the past years, Ulf has also worked on television projects like To the Ends of the Earth, Whitechapel and Treasure Island, and films including, Daybreak, Hawaii, Oslo, and Happy End.
Ulf has worked several films with director, Lukas Moodysson, including: Show Me Love, Lilya 4-Ever, Together, and more recently, We Are The Best, about 3 girls in 1980s Stockholm who decide to form a punk band - despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
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|Earth and Rock Works | Earth Retaining Structures | Geotechnical Hazards | Ground Improvement | Structural Foundations | Subsurface Investigation
|FHWA > Engineering > Geotechnical > Publications > FHWA-HRT-04-107 > Chapter 1
Behavior of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composite Piles under Vertical Loads
Piles are mainly used to support structures under lateral and vertical loads. Vertical load-bearing capacity of piles depends mainly on site conditions, soil properties, pile material properties, pile dimensions, and method of pile installation. Pile types can be divided into two categories, according to their method of installation.(3) The first category consists of driven piles, which displace and disturb the soil, and the second category consists of piles that are installed without soil displacement. Steel, precast concrete, wood, and fiber-reinforced polymer piles belong to the first category. In the second category, soil is removed by drilling, and concrete is cast in the borehole to form the pile.
Analytical methods(4) and several design codes(5,6,7) can be used to evaluate the axial pile capacity, end bearing, and shaft friction along the pile. Dynamic methods, based on pile driving measurements, can be used to predict the axial static capacity of driven piles and assess the drivability and durability of piles during installation.(8) However, before dynamic testing is conducted, several material properties and data must be determined; these include the pile length, cross-sectional area, specific weight, wave speed, and dynamic elastic modulus. The evaluation of the dynamic methods for predicting the load-set response and the ultimate static capacity of piles must be obtained by comparing the dynamic method analysis results and static load test (SLT) results. Considering the engineering use of fiber-reinforced composite piles, it is essential to perform the above-mentioned engineering testing procedure to evaluate the behavior of these piles under axial loads and to develop reliable design methods to assess the short- and long-term behavior of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composite piles.
In 1998, a waterfront rehabilitation project known as the Hudson River Park began. One goal was the replacement of up to 100,000 bearing piles for lightweight structures. The corrosion of steel, deterioration of concrete, and vulnerability of timber piles to the marine environment led the developer to consider composite materials with high degradation resistance, such as FRPs, as a replacement for pilings made of timber, concrete, or steel.
Concurrently, in 1998, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), with a long-term interest in the application of polymers in infrastructure, initiated a research project on the use of FRP pilings,
The main purpose of this current research was to address the need for a feasibility assessment of FRP composite bearing piles for highway and related facilities substructures, replacing traditional materials such as timber, concrete, or steel, specifically in the construction of waterfront structures in hostile marine environments. The engineering application of FRP may present competitive alternatives to conventional pile materials, due to the accelerated degradation of these conventional materials in aggressive environments (figures 1 and 2). Further, chemical treatment of wood pilings has become more difficult, due to the toxic nature of typical chemical treatments. State departments of transportation (DOT) facing major rehabilitation projects also have become interested in assessing the feasibility of using FRP composite bearing piles for infrastructure applications. To assess the feasibility of using FRP composite piles as vertical load-bearing piles, laboratory tests and a full-scale experiment, including dynamic and static load tests on FRP piles were conducted.
Figure 1. Photo. Marine borers (Limnoria) attacking untreated timber piles that support many of New York's highways and harbor piers.(9)
Figure 2. Photo. Complete corrosion of steel H piles supporting a harbor pier
Current State of Practice
Research on the engineering behavior of FRP piles has primarily been focused on these piles' performance under lateral loading as fender piles. In general, current research and applications of FRP piles have addressed:
Mechanical Behavior of FRP Piles
The research conducted thus far has involved primarily laboratory tests on the mechanical behavior, flexural behavior, and buckling resistance of FRP pile materials.
Laboratory tests were performed on the Plastic Piling, Inc. (PPI), pile to determine the lateral flexural stiffness. The tested pile had a 38.7-centimeter (cm)- (15.25-inch-) diameter, and the steel reinforcement consisted of 16 25.4-millimeter (mm)- (1-inch-) diameter bars connected with a spiral. The free span between the two supports at both pile ends was 5.8 meters (m) (19 feet (ft)). During the testing, the load was applied cyclically at the middle of the free span. The test results show that loads exceeding 222 kilonewtons (kN) (50 kips) caused permanent deflections in the pile. At these loads, yielding of the steel bars was initiated, inducing slippage in the recycled plastic. The ultimate lateral load-bearing capacity was 311 kN (70 kips), at which point the pile underwent fully plastic behavior. Further, the pile's response was ductile up to this load, and the recycled plastic did not appear to crack during loading.
Two axial laboratory tests were performed to obtain the buckling loads of Lancaster Composite, Inc., piles.(10) The pile samples had diameters of 25.4 and 30.5 cm (10 and 12 inches) and lengths of 9 and 11 m (29.52 and 36.08 ft), respectively. Two loading cycles were applied to the 30.5-cm- (12-inch-) diameter pile sample to a maximum load of 2113 kN (475 kips) and 2228 kN (501 kips); the latter load caused the sample to experience failure. A third applied loading cycle caused this pile sample to buckle at 1841 kN (414 kips). The maximum applied load on the 25.4-cm- (10-inch-) diameter pile sample at which it experienced failure was 1392 kN (313 kips).
Reviewing the current state-of-practice within the framework of the current research with the manufacturers of the selected FRP piles illustrated the need for both laboratory and field axial loading tests to assess the engineering performance of these piles as axial load-bearing piles.
Field Observations Use and Experimental Demonstration Projects
The current state-of-practice related to the engineering use of FRP piles(9,11) indicates that FRP composite piles primarily have been used experimentally for fender piles, waterfront barriers, and bearing piles for light structures.(12-13)
Figure 3 shows fender piles manufactured by Lancaster Composite, Inc., in the U.S. Naval Submarine Base, San Diego, CA. Pier 5000, located in Point Loma at the southern tip of the San Diego Bay, is one of four major piers that serve as home base for several attack submarines.(14)
Figure 3. Photo. Fender piles in the U.S. Naval Submarine Base, San Diego, CA.
Figure 4 shows fender piles manufactured by PPI in U.S. Navy Pier 10 in San Diego, CA. This pier berths U.S. Navy vessels.
Figure 4. Photo. Fendering system in the U.S. Navy Pier 10, San Diego, CA.
Figure 5 shows the Nashville Avenue Marine Terminal at Port of New Orleans, LA. This terminal contains 40.6-cm (16-inch) SEAPILE® piles and a 30.5- by 30.5-cm (12- by 12-inch) SEATIMBER® fendering system that was manufactured by Seaward International in 1996.
Figure 5. Photo. Fendering system, Nashville Avenue Marine Terminal, Port of New Orleans, LA.
Figure 6 shows a floating dock project that consists of piles manufactured by American Ecoboard. The piles are 30.5 cm (12 inches) in diameter and 13.7 m (45 ft) long.
Figure 6. Photo. Floating dock project.
The current practice illustrates the lack of mechanical laboratory test results that would help assess engineering behavior of the FRP composite materials under axial loading, as well as the lack of SLT results and comparisons with dynamic experimental test results. The engineering applications of the FRP composite piles as bearing piles raise the following research and development (R&D) needs.
Research and Development Needs
The engineering use of FRP bearing piles requires assessing their field performance, as well as developing and evaluating reliable testing procedures and design methods to assess:
To address these R&D needs and assess the feasibility of using FRP composite piles as vertical load-bearing piles, a full-scale experiment including dynamic and static load tests on FRP piles was conducted at a site provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANY&NJ) at their Port of Elizabeth facility in New Jersey. Figure 7 shows the Port of Elizabeth demonstration site. The full-scale experiment was conducted with the cooperation and support of the PANY&NJ engineering department and the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT).
Figure 7. Photo. Port of Elizabeth demonstration site.
The scope of this demonstration project included:
To select the piles for this demonstration project, a team of experts prepared a request for qualification and disseminated the request to composite piling manufacturers; these manufacturers were invited to submit their qualifications and products for consideration. The items in the request for qualifications were: contact information, general description of piling system, material properties, drivability, durability, creep, quality assurance/quality control, experience, field records, and specimens. The selected FRP composite piles consisted of recycled plastic reinforced by fiberglass rebar (SEAPILE composite marine piles), recycled plastic reinforced by steel bars, recycled plastic with no reinforcement rebar, recycled plastic with randomly distributed fiberglass fibers (Trimax), and concrete-filled plastic shell manufactured, respectively, by Seaward International Inc., PPI, American Ecoboard, U.S. Plastic Lumber (USPL), and Lancaster Composite, Inc. Figure 8 indicates the locations of the pile
Figure 8. Illustration. Locations of pile manufacturers.
Pile instrumentation was performed at the manufacturing plants and included installing strain gauges at several levels in the piles. The manufacturers delivered these piles to the site, and the installation of the piles was conducted with the full support and cooperation of the manufacturers. All the manufacturers also attended the SLTs.
This research report summarizes the results of this full-scale experiment and the companion laboratory tests.
Chapter 2 presents an engineering analysis approach for establishing the equivalent mechanical properties of the composite material, including elastic modulus for the initial loading quasilinear phase, axial compression strength, inertia moment, and critical buckling load. The composite material used in this study consisted of recycled plastic reinforced by fiberglass rebar (SEAPILE composite marine piles), recycled plastic reinforced by steel bars, and recycled plastic reinforced with randomly distributed fiberglass (Trimax), manufactured by Seaward International Inc., PPI, and USPL, respectively.
Chapter 3 describes the results of the SLTs, along with the instrumentation schemes that were specifically designed for strain measurements in the FRP piles. The experimental results are compared with current design codes and with the methods commonly used for evaluating the ultimate capacity, end bearing capacity, and shaft frictional resistance along the piles. This engineering analysis leads to preliminary recommendations for the design of FRP piles.
In chapter 4, Pile Driving Analyzer® (PDA) and Pile Integrity Tester (PIT) test results were analyzed using the Case Pile Wave Analysis Program (CAPWAP)(1) and the GRL Wave Equation Analysis of Piles program (GRLWEAP)(2) to establish the dynamic properties of the FRP piles. The PDA also was used to evaluate the feasibility of installing FRP piles using standard pile driving equipment. Pile bearing capacities were assessed using the CAPWAP program with the dynamic data measured by the PDA, and the calculated pile capacities were compared with the results of SLTs performed on the four FRP piles.
Chapter 5 summarizes the main conclusions and recommendations of this project.
Updated: 04/07/2011


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Catholic Leaders Wage War Against President Obama Over Mandatory Birth Control
Catholic leaders took their battle with the White House to the next level on Monday, vowing to challenge its decision to force Catholic institutions to cover birth control as part of the new health care law.
As has been widely reported, Catholic priests railed against the decision this past Sunday in pews across the nation.
Catholic leaders view the White House's decision as an encroachment on their religious freedom, and are determined to overturn this decision, even it means using its 70 million churchgoers to defeat President Obama in the upcoming election.
In an op-ed in USA Today on Monday, President Obama's Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, defended the ruling: "We specifically carved out from the policy religious organizations that primarily employ people of their own faith. This exemption includes churches and other houses of worship, and could also include other church-affiliated organizations."
With neither side backing down, this fight could spill over into the election. Catholics are a large voting bloc and this fight has already become a talking point for people like Newt Gingrich who has said that President Obama is waging a war against religion.
President Obama won the Catholic vote in 2008, but it is uncertain whether he'll be able to do the same this time around if the fight continues.
12 Responses to Catholic Leaders Wage War Against President Obama Over Mandatory Birth Control
I am Catholic and I support President Obama policy on birth control insurance coverage. I never believed in birth control even before I became catholic. But as I grew up I found those objecting birth control, the republicans, is same ones demonizing mothers who cannot support their babies. In fact republicans make it harder for poor mothers to raise kids in this rich country. I remember one Wisconsin GOP executive called mothers and expecting mother as "baby factories" a term belittling mothers as useless humans. As to Catholic leaders, they should look into themselves after series of s****l contacts lawsuits involving minors. For almost two years I quit attending catholic sermons. I felt these same priests were themselves sinners. I have advice for Catholic elites – just shut your mouths and pray the birth control issue be solved by prayer. Do not use the church as mouth piece against birth control. People now have low opinion of religion including Catholicism. Stay away from politics. Use your pulpits to dissuade Catholics from using birth control. This is because you yourselves cannot live to the standard expected of you.
I too am Catholic. The problem with this mandate is the governments overreach into all faiths, not just the Catholic Church or its institutions. The Catholic Church is not the only religion that speaks out against birth control. It is an outspoken advocate on life issues, and to impose policies that go against our faith, goes against the first amendment of the Constitution. As far as the s*x abuse scandal, the Church is working to make sure that type of scandal never happens again. Not every priest should be excoriated for the action of those others that failed the church, but that doesn't change the governments interference in telling these religious groups how they should run themselves. Each faith can preach what they like from the pulpit to help guide the faithful. It's up to each individual person to choose which religion they want to be a part of. The government can not tell the churches and those institutions tied to them, that they should turn a blind eye, and go against their morals and values. Hope everyone has a blessed day!
"the Church is working to make sure that type of scandal never happens again." LOL, you live in a dream world!! Those that weren't b**t plugging the boys, the others were banging the Nuns, no scandal erupted from those affairs, the nuns were either relocated or returned to their outside the church lives…..another question regarding buried fetuses, shhhhhh!
I mean no disrespect to you or your beliefs. I'm just curious so I have a few questions for you or other Catholics:
"The Catholic Church is not the only religion that speaks out against birth control. "
What other religions speak out against birth control?
Are you and others you know committed to not using birth control—Even married couples who don't want any more children.
Are Catholics allowed to undergo surgeries procedures such as Tubal ligation & vasectomy that sterilize you?
In my humble opinion, if most Catholics were not using birth control your members would be having more babies / much larger families.
Most Evangelical Protestants, Orthodox Jews, and several sects of Islam do not promote the use of birth control. I am very committed to not using birth control and so are many of my friends. Even some of my non-Catholic friends are no longer supportive of birth control. Catholics are not allowed to sterilize ourselves. I know many large Catholic families. Just sit outside of any Catholic Church after a children's Mass. And quite frankly, if someone who claims to be Catholic has such a problem abiding by Church doctrine, why not find another faith to worship with more social freedoms when it comes to sexuality. No one is forcing them to remain Catholic. But the Church is not going to change it's dogma, because some don't like what the Church hands down. Look where s****l promiscuity has gotten society. I personally don't have to worry about a broken condom, or failed pill, or other failed contraceptives. That does not include the carcinogens that are in birth control pills. But from personal experience, I have suffered permanent bone loss in my spine, and hips, from the use of a certain birth control before I met my husband and got married. I've had to have my left hip replaced, my right will have to be replaced, and I have severe bone loss in my lower spine. So I am very opposed to contraceptives. If you have any more questions you can click on my name and read my blog, or send me an email. Have a blessed evening!
I am Catholic and I understand we do not support the use of birth control, so I will not use them. Because it is offered by my insurance plan does not mean I have to avail myself. Is the Catholic Church saying that their members can not think for themselves.
I agree with you… Everyone is responsible for their own choices.
Your comment didn't give hints as to whether you were married or not. If you are single – do you practice abstinence? Do you use condoms? (Condoms are a form of birth control)
Where was the Catholic church all those decades when their priests were sexually molesting all those boys. Was that their form of contraception?
In our youth, the girls attending Catholic Church and Schools were having s*x, pregnancies and shipped off to aunts, uncles and grandparents until either returning from an abortion, adoption or baby being raised as a cousin or family member. African-American females didn't have that luxury or options, most had to drop out of school. The Catholic School girls upon return to parental protection were the same precious Cutie with one leg near the rear window and the other supported by the back of the front seat in a 50 Ford, awaiting submarine races.
For what it's worth, it's either a President who sincerely cares for the elderly, middle class and poor or the alternative, a rerun of the Bush era. When the stu-nods wake up with grandparents without Medicare or Social Security……..You'll have what you voted for!! Hatred will make you rethink your course after it's too late, many have forgotten what the TeaParty caused in 2010. Even those stupid
A-H's will wake up realizing the train has left them at the depot without a ticket to ride. The sorry, stupid bastids!!
President Obama I love you, voted for you, gave you a few dollars and was thinking about voting for you again. However, I will not vote for you if you continue to force your foolish law on the Catholic Church to cover birth control as part of your new health care law. I am and Independent and can brush you aside if need be.
The Church has made big ugly mistake in the past. However, the Church in the past ten years has repented and growing anew leaving me proud to be a Catholic. We Catholic should not walk with our heads down, for Christ came to earth to change sinners into goodness; and through Him our faith and church continue to move in the right direction. I am asking my Catholic brothers and sisters no to vote for Obama if he continue to disrespect our faith. There are two Catholics running for president and either one is [better] than Obama, if Obama wish to stick to his law that forces the Church to go against its God given beliefs!
Oren Elow – Please do not psych people to vote for any Catholic GOP candidate. American people have suffered enough following voting for GOP governors now abusing workers both in private and public sector – stripping them of their union rights. Come to Wisconsin – everybody is angry . Governor Walker is abusing people. That is at state level. Now on national level. You mean you want people vote for Newt Gingrich! This is a sinner, bigot, racist and inhuman. Even his own children have vowed never to vote for own father. Now Santorum – this guy is a racist-calling Blacks welfare freeloader. That is not catholic to call others such derisive names. You want to elect Romney. Romney is Mormon who believes in marrying several wives; a bigot and vows to disregard the very poor and thinks corporation are people too. Romney shipped his money to be used to benefit economy of Swiss people – not for America. Romney should be tried for treason for bankrupting American in 2008. Ron Paul – his campaign is sponsored by KKK groups. Paul then cannot be good catholic. KKK focus is to kill all Blacks and other racial minorities. Then we are left with our angel – President Obama. Economy is picking up – got rid of Bin Laden, the Yemen guy and all their followers; Americans are acceptable as friends all over the world – even in Iran and Syria – except their horrible leaders; established affordable health care law benefiting even me, the low income people. If you think birth control provision be erased, please sue the law in court. Judges will decide if such provision violates religion right. I am asking all Catholics – Whites, Blacks, Asians and people of other races to vote for President Obama in November. This is the only guy I trust. Please join me in November to re-elect President Obama.


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There are many (many) serious problems around the globe. And there are real opportunities to be had from taking on those challenges in smart ways.
Sadly, too much attention is given to those who deceive about the challenges and distort the implications of the options before us.
It truly is a travesty. Best-seller lists, the air waves, op-ed pages, and blog posts have been filled with Steven Levitt's and Steven Dubner's shallow, truthiness-laden Superfreakonomics. And there is a challenge here: do you ignore the deception in the book, so as not to give more attention to it, or challenge it directly and give it even more attention? In this case, the challenges are necessary since the authors' super(freaky)star status means that they and their travesty of a book will continue to get attention despite its non-truthful truthiness and misleading mediocrity on climate-change science and other issues. There are, essentially, innumerable works more worthy of our attention and engagement, even if we constrain ourselves simply to books also published in 2009.
We should be giving our attention elsewhere. Thus, here are ten books published this year that are more worthy of your time and money that the shallow distortions from the Super Freaky Economists of Superfreakonomics.
Policy / Science Discussions
Stephen Schneider's Science as a Contact Sport is a work that the Super Freaky Economist should have read before writing his work. Schneider's entire career, in essence, has been centered on the challenge of developing adequate models of the climate to enhance understanding of system dynamics and to enable better decision-making about future policy paths. Schneider owns up, directly, to mistakes through his career. Those mistakes and his owning up to them, as he highlights, show the very essence of the scientific process with the willingness to put out hypotheses to be tested by others, ready to learn from mistakes and errors and gaps to then be able to do work that stands up to scrutiny. Schneider has suffered from more than his share of 'he changed his mind' and 'he used to say' soundbites from global warming deniers. In this book, he provides windows on the science and the battles that have gone on without and around that science for the past 30+ years.
Schneider lays out "five easy pieces" as to why we've seen no action to avert climate catastrophe: "ignorance, greed, denial, tribalism, and short-term thinking." Each is quite simple, yet highly complex, and they combine to create serious obstacles to the necessary changes to enable a sustainable and prosperous future for humanity.
Perhaps my favorite single line is Schneider's description of what has changed through his career, that comes at the end of a paragraph outlining changes around the globe from wildfires increasing to the melting Arctic sea ice:
What has changed is not the basic science so much as the fact that nature is cooperating with theory.
James Hoggan's (and Richard Littlemore's) Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming should be, simply, required reading of every single journalism and marketing student, advertising executives and media editors. Building on the work of DeSmogBlog, they lay out details of the concerted efforts to distort the public discussion and understanding of climate change in a deliberate effort to inhibit action to mitigate climate change. As David Suzuki put it
"Climate Cover-Up documents one of the most disgusting stories ever hidden about corporate disinformation. What you'll discover in this book amounts to proof of an intergenerational crime."
I have to give Greg a lot of credit. He is a high school science teacher and reading this book makes me hope that my children encounter teachers like him.
And, well, this is a book that would not exist without YouTube.
Keith Farnish's time's up is a challenging read. Not challenging due to his writing style, which is something to relish, but to where Keith seeks to take us. Farnish lays out a compelling case not just for the seriousness of our energy and climate challenge, but also that our entire Industrial Culture stands of the way of taking serious action to forestall utter climate catastrophe. Keith is arguing not just that the current system will collapse, but that we should work to hasten that collapse, sooner rather than later, to reduce the extent and devastation of that fall. Keith ties in science, philosophy, and a call for serious political activism. While unlikely, due to what follows, Keith's first section on "the scale of the problem" should be on the reading list for every high school and college student globally, and of merit for reading by all. Keith starts at the 1/10th millionth of a meter, with micro-organisms, and provides a compelling integration of the challenges and interconnections moving up an order of magnitude each time through 100 meters and beyond. This is a window on our problems that would be eye-opening for most. [Note: You can find Keith at Unsuitablog.)
Lester Brown's Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization should be, but sadly is not, on the desk top of every single politicians and business leader around the globe. While some might question the resources this would take, Lester lays out the seriousness of our challenge and provides a series of steps and tools that could help extricate us from the disaster we've created and are creating. While most around the globe are speaking of an 80% reduction in carbon emissions from 1990 (or, sigh, 2005) levels by 2050, Plan B lays out a rational path for achieving those reductions by 2020. That is the sort of effort and sort of timeline that might enable us to avoid climate catastrophe.
Personal stories with larger implications
Novella Carpenter's Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer lays bare her experiences building a full-fledged farm environment via, in essence, squatting on a neighboring lot for an extensive garden. From the colorful description of her neighbors and neighborhood, to discussions of collecting manure which make you almost want to clean off your shoes, to the powerful sections about slaughtering various animals (rabbits, fowl, pigs), Carpenter will draw you into her life and make you wonder whether 'urban farming' is a path for you to take. Truth be told, urban farming is one of the silver BBs to help solve numerous challenges (from water runoff, to urban heat islands, and so on. Carpenter provides a window, of both wondrous (sharing the joy of that warm tomato with neighbors) and problematic (filth in the home), on the tribulations and triumphs of an aspiring farmer.
Colin Bean's No Impact Man looks at the challenge of transforming a life (actually, three lives) in the center of New York from take-out heavy and full-trash bag life-style to one having 'no impact' on the planet. The core question for the whole experience: "Can you have a good life without wasting so much?"
James Glave's Almost Green is a look at the reality of 'trying to go green' and the obstacles that stand between an individual home owner's desires to do a green extension and the realities that the infrastructure doesn't exist, for most of us, to do this easy. Having done a small renovation, with its green triumphs and failures, I saw much of myself in parts of the discussion. Often a hilarious read, Glave provides a window on social, informational, building code, and other challenges that stand between 'the average' person and doing better by the environment.
To add to your 'beach' reading, there are two works of Fiction for consideration
Eric Lotke, 2044: The Problem isn't Big Brother, It's Big Brother, INC, looks to the challenges of bringing tangible solutions to fruition in the face of (serious) competing corporate financial (and power, as if that is different) interests. This dystopian novel takes us through an engineer's discovery of a free way to desalinate water in (seriously) water constrained future. His willingness to sacrifice everything in an altruistic desire to improve humanity's condition slams face first into a logical, albeit terrifying, projection of current corporate powers and policies. The result is, well, not necessarily predictable.
As Eli put it in his review,
The world Eric Lotke has created in 2044 is a progressive's nightmare. Almost every exasperating trend we see today has been extrapolated to its logical extreme ...
the world of 2044 is not as nakedly dystopian as that of 1984. The corporations rule through manipulation rather than overt oppression -- as long as everyone stays in their lane and does what they're supposed to, they can be perfectly happy. Where 1984 was a bleak prison camp with guards and cameras and barbed wire, 2044 is a well-manicured lawn with an invisible fence.
a game his fifth-grade teacher had taught the class: He tried to imagine how the land might have looked five hundred years earlier ... It was harder than it seemed at first.
The telephone poles and buildings and fence and cows were the easiest to erase. But it was almost impossible to imagine away the highway. The road, with cars and trucks and buses racing along it at seventy miles per hour, seemed like something permanent, an eternal passageway ...
Even the trees and plants might have changed. That was the trickiest part, his teacher had said. San Francisco, for example, was covered with eucalyptus trees. But those trees came from Australia! They wouldn't have been there five hundred years ago.
Five hundred years wasn't so long. But everything had changed ...
FYI: This is not necessarily a 'top ten of 2009 list', but a varied list of books taken from the Energy Bookshelf that each have greater value for advancing our national discussion than distortions and deceptions from the Super Freaks of Economics profession. The list of published 2009 books that are more worthy of your attention would not go on for pages, but 100s of pages. All of the above, however, each have their values for providing a window on the challenges we face and paths to seize the opportunities from those challenges.
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COMMENTARY | Orb would have been a deserving favorite in Saturday's Preakness Stakes even if he hadn't turned in a dominating performance in the Kentucky Derby. Any ticket that doesn't have Orb to win -- or on top in any exotic bet -- is probably a poor investment.
That said, Orb will likely go off at odds in the neighborhood of 2-5. So if you're among those who insist on trying to beat that kind of favorite, here are five horses who are capable of finishing first in the Preakness and derailing Orb's bid to win the Triple Crown:
Trainer: Doug O'Neill
Jockey: Kevin Krigger
Odds: 8-1
If you liked Goldencents heading into the Kentucky Derby, you may want to back him here as well. Goldencents didn't appear to like the surface at Churchill Downs, which could be a legitimate excuse for his 17th-place finish. His No. 2 post position is a plus, since he will likely try to take an early lead. If you think he can handle the distance and you're willing to excuse his Derby performance, this might be your horse.
Trainer:Tom Amoss
Jockey: Rosie Napravnik
Odds: 5-1
His fifth-place finish in the Derby -- he was a neck from finishing third -- was encouraging. He's also improving, as his last two races have been his best. This is another horse that should benefit from the 1 3/16-mile distance, but Napravnik is attempting to become the first female jockey to win the Preakness. Mylute is winless in three tries this year and has only two victories in 10 career stars. He's not better than Orb so he'll need some racing luck, but if he takes another step forward a victory is possible.
Trainer:D. Wayne Lukas
Jockey: Gary Stevens
Odds: 15-1
Oxbow was part of a hot early pace in the Derby and held up better than the other frontrunners, but still faded to sixth and was beaten by nine lengths. He has plenty of experience on his side with Stevens and Lukas. Stevens has ridden two Preakness winners, and Lukas has trained five. A more favorable pace could leaving him in position to win, but he'll need to be better to beat Orb.
Trainer: Eddie Plesa Jr.
Jockey: John Velazquez
Odds: 10-1
Like Goldencents, Itsmyluckyday didn't like the "peanut butter" track at Churchill Downs, so you may want to draw a line through his Derby effort in the past performances. He was the Florida Derby favorite, a race that included Orb. He also adds Velazquez as a rider (Elvis Trujillo rode him in the Derby), but the distance is a question. The sobering fact is Itsmyluckyday has faced Orb twice and ran behind him each time.
Trainer: Bob Baffert
Jockey: Martin Garcia
Odds: 12-1
Governor Charlie has had some health issues, so he may be the biggest X-factor in the race. He's fresh, sine he's one of three horses in the field who didn't run in the Derby. Like Lukas, Baffert has saddled five Preakness winners. He's improving and will pay a big price.
How to bet $100: An $80 win ticket on Itsmyluckyday, and a $10 exacta box with Itsmyluckyday and Governor Charlie.
Roger Brown is a staff writer for the New Hampshire Union Leader.
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text: Public Enemy has been selected to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. The 28th annual ceremony takes place in Los Angeles at the Nokia Theater on April 18. Exactly a month later it will air on HBO. Other inductees include Randy Newman, Rush, Donna Summer, Albert King, Heart, Quincy Jones and Lou Alder.


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Today is Monday, January 2, 2012, the second day of the year. Only 78 days until spring.
"According to Scottish custom, the first Monday of the new year was the time to give children and servants a small gift, or handsel. The gift itself was less important than the good luck it signified. The handsel was popular as a new year's gift from the 14th to 19th centuries. It continues today in the form of a housewarming gift to someone moving into a new home." From the Old Farmer's Almanac.
Today's Weather
Monday: Increasing clouds, with a high near 39. West wind between 11 and 16 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 18. West wind between 6 and 8 mph.
Municipal Meetings
There will be a meeting of the at 8 p.m. at the Stony Hill Fire House on Rt 6
Today in History
1842 - In Fairmount, PA, the first wire suspension bridge was opened to traffic.
1879 - Thomas Edison began construction on his first generator.
1890 - Alice Sanger became the first female White House staffer.
1935 – Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh
1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring
1971 - A federally imposed ban on television cigarette advertisements went into effect.
1974 – President Richard Nixon lowered the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo
1999 – A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches in Chicago, Illinois, where temperatures plunge to -13 °F. 68 deaths are reported
Weather information taken from the National Weather Service. Today in History compiled from Wikipedia and On This Day.
Know of something else your Bethel neighbors should know today? Tell us in the comments.


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"What's Really In There?" – Video (3:12)
You hear it more and more these days. Teachers getting out of the way in order to let students take more charge of their own learning.
This project was conceived, written and performed by three ambitious fourth grade boys. The only thing I did was help them with developing the scenes, consult when necessary and edit the video. George was our cameraman and Andrew and Liam provided the on-screen talent.
Education technology consultant Gary Stager refers this idea as "Less us, more them." Some of the very best in learning happens when good teachers realize the importance of this simple idea.
The 4 Ghostly Girls Video (4:31)
This was certainly our most ambitious video project to date. The 4 Ghostly Girls (Grace, Meg, Megan, and Reese) first approached me with the idea of videotaping a skit that had written about a new girl at school who just happened to be – you guessed it – a ghost. We decided it would interesting and a whole lot of fun if the girls did some research on ghosts and put it together with their skit and told the story through video.
Everyone was so proud of the work these girls did that we wanted to feature it in our final Sheridan School Sharing Day of the year. But it was decided that it was just too scary for our younger students.
What do you think?
AKA Bush Baby
One of the great things about being a Tech Coach is having the opportunity to learn right along with the students. Many of the VoiceThread projects we have created have been about subjects I knew very little about… same holds true for Nia and Jillian's Galago project.
"The Galago" by Nia and Jillian
[kml_flashembed movie="http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=526645" width="480" height="360" wmode="transparent" /]
Our Sheridan Shark Voki
With the help of Ms. Rabito, we created our first "voki" for a fabulous project called Voices of The World. Each month, Sharon Tonner, a teacher in Dundee, Scotland, sets out a different task to encourage schools to introduce and infuse new technology into their curriculum.
The task for September was for schools to submit an animated voki – each with the same prescribed text but in its native language. The goal of this activity was to have students listen to the same script in different languages while enjoying the creativity of each other's "voki."
Click here to see the entries from around the world – including ours.
At this point, we are one of only a few districts from the U.S.A. to participate in this project.
Get a Voki now!
Click the triangle under to shark to play…
The States Reports
As part of their "States" report our fourth graders created these very cool post cards with PowerPoint. Students learned how to insert text, images and backgrounds while experimenting with design and layout. The presentations were on display in their classrooms during Family Sharing night.
Mr. Knowling's Fourth Graders (4:39)
Mr. Knowling's Post Card PowerPoint Activity
Ms. Rabito's Fourth Graders (4:49)
Ms. Rabito's Post Card PowerPoint Activity
Mrs. Schlemm's Fourth Graders (4:29)
Mrs. Schlemm's Post Card PowerPoint Activity


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The Daily Star
---- — Norris Arnold
EDMESTON — Norris Arnold, of Edmeston, went home to the Lord Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, at Bassett Healthcare Network, Cooperstown, with the thoughts and prayers of his family in his heart.
He was born on Jan. 5, 1937, in Wilna. His family moved to New Berlin when he was a young teen. He played baseball and basketball in school and after. Norris served in the United States Army from 1958 to 1961. He was employed by Chicago Pneumatic in Utica for 30 years.
Upon retirement, Norris worked for Edmeston Central School as a bus driver for 14 years. He enjoyed his daily bus runs as well as driving students to and from many activities and sporting events. To some of the kids he was lovingly referred to as "Mr. Norris" or "Chuck Norris."
Norris was a member of the Burlington Flats Baptist Church.
He enjoyed golf, playing in league and on many weekends with family and friends. In addition, he watched many sporting events on TV with his son, Tim and his dog, Maggie, by his side. He was often busy with woodworking, gardening and other projects around the house; taking great pleasure in creating things with his hands. Norris also had a great sense of humor and enjoyed playing practical jokes on family members and friends alike. He touched a lot of lives and will be missed by many.
Norris loved his family deeply and enjoyed time during school breaks with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was taken too soon from us but we hold on to knowing that he's now in heaven with loving family members who predeceased him, including his great- grandson, Riley.
He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Linda; his children Carol Ann, Kathleen and husband, Roger, Timothy; grandchildren, Mellisa, Alicia, Cassandra, Carrie, Chelsea; great-grandchildren, Angela, Hailey, Jacob, Abigail, Mason, Matthew; in-laws, Fred and Linda, Christine; uncle Gary; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Burlington Flats Baptist Church with the Rev. Jay Henderson officiating. Calling hours will be from 3 to 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1, at the Houk-Johnston- Terry Funeral Home, Edmeston.
Interment will be in Edmeston Union Cemetery.
Contributions may be made in memory of Norris to the Burlington Flats Baptist Church or a charity of your choice.
Funeral arrangements are under the guidance of the Houk-Johnston-Terry Funeral Home, Edmeston.
Condolences to the family may be left online at www.hjtfuneralhome.com.


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