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Both President Obama and Rep. Paul Ryan have recently submitted budget proposals to Congress for consideration in the budget debate for 2013. One can clearly see two separate visions for America by observing the values stressed in the two documents.
The Democratic budget is about solving problems: Reducing government by consolidating departments that have similar missions, staying within the guidelines for program cuts set forth by legislation kicking in with the failure of the debt Super Committee, and investing in a future that includes good roads and bridges, schools with good teachers, and an environment that promotes the health and well-being of all citizens.
According to Robert Greenstein, president of the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, "The new Ryan budget is a remarkable document - one that, for most of the past half-century, would have been outside the bounds of mainstream discussion due to its extreme nature. In essence, this budget is Robin Hood in reverse - on steroids. It would likely produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history and likely increase poverty and inequality more than any other budget in recent times (and possibly in the nation's history). It also would stand a core principle of the Bowles-Simpson fiscal commission's report on its head - that policymakers should reduce the deficit in a way that does not increase poverty or widen inequality."
The starkest difference in the two budgets is in what is prioritized. Ryan continues to promote tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, excessive investment in the military/industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about, and cuts to programs that effectively changed the expected lifespan of Americans by taking senior citizens out of poverty and giving them access to quality and affordable health care.
The Obama budget proposes changes to Medicare that would preserve the program, but improve its long-term financial viability. The Ryan budget changes Medicare so dramatically that current users would not recognize the program. Ryan seems to have forgotten the protest signs that said, "Keep Government's Hands off My Medicare."
Obama assumes that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known by its opponents as Obamacare, will be upheld as constitutional. His budget provides financing to implement ACA, including "helping States establish Affordable Insurance Exchanges and developing the infrastructure to provide cost sharing and premium assistance to make coverage affordable." Colorado has already begun to design the Affordable Insurance Exchanges required under ACA. Colorado law recognizes that there needs to be a vehicle to help uninsured low-income families shop for and afford health insurance.
Obama's changes to Medicare include more robust fraud controls. Fraud drains money that could be used to satisfy the health care needs of patients. Fraud lines the pockets of unscrupulous doctors and clinics, while robbing taxpayers.
The stated intent of the Obama budget is to "extend Medicare's solvency while encouraging provider efficiencies and improved patient care." The proposals to achieve efficiency include changing how providers are compensated, changing co-payments by users, and implementing the best practices of Medicaid into Medicare- presumably that means allowing Medicare to negotiate for prescription drug prices, just as Medicaid already does.
The Ryan budget proposes to make Medicaid a block grant to the states and to slash its funding, which is adamantly opposed by Obama. However, the Obama plan does recommend changing the funding formulas for all federally funded health care programs, streamlining administration of the programs, and the accompanying administrative expenses. All together the Obama proposals to change Medicaid would save $51 billion over the next 10 years.
Greenstein reports "a new Congressional Budget Office analysis that Chairman Ryan himself requested shows that, after several decades, the Ryan budget would shrink the federal government so dramatically that most of what it does outside of Social Security, health care, and defense would essentially disappear. ...That includes everything from veterans' programs to medical and scientific research, highways, education, nearly all programs for low-income families and individuals other than Medicaid, national parks, border patrols, protection of food safety and the water supply, law enforcement..."
Both budget proposals are available online. Before you jump on either the Republican or Democratic bandwagon this election season, take the time to read them.
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Im 53 yrs.young,and have loved cars as long as I can remember.I grew up in the 50`s,60`s&70`s. When there was lots of muscle cars around.I owned lots of them.Street/Strip cars.Run on the street,take to dragstrip (or out of town where we had 1/4mi.stretch marked off) uncap the headers & throw on the slicks,then hold her wide open.Now thats a rush you will never forget.Then I went through a period where i drove a (foreign) car.(sorry bout that)$$$, NOW, I own several american made CHEVROLETS. I even ride a motorcycle with a ZZ4 vette motor on it.You could say: I have Chevy fever. I will always drive a hot car as long as God allows me to roam this Earth. Thank You for reading bout a "Gearheads" life in the fastlane.I still love to take my lil 66 to the strip & hold the pedal on the floor. Keep on motoring my car people.
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RabbitAir BioGS 2.0 Ultra Quiet 625 Sq. Ft. Air Purifier - White
Improve your air and overall quality of life using the RabbitAir BioGS 2.0 Ultra Quiet 625 Sq. Ft. Air Purifier (SPA-625AW). Able to clean the air in a space up to 625 sq. ft. (313 sq. ft. for allergy sufferers), this innovative air purification system gives you peace of mind as well as pure air. The unique design provides increased functionality and a contemporary aesthetic simultaneously.
Ultra Quiet:You'll never have to sacrifice tranquility for clean air due to this unit's Ultra Quiet operation, featuring low noise levels between 22.8 dB and 50.4 dB depending on fan speed
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Creating a Smarter Grid One Street at a Time
Did you know 62 million electric meters in the United States will be "smart" by the end of 2012? But these smart meters provide limited data. Intel is working with Pecan Street Inc. to test technology that can help consumers make better choices about energy use in their homes.
Smart grid community provides insights for a sustainable future
When hundreds of neighbors are installing solar panels on their homes should they face south or west in order to best impact the energy grid? And what happens to that same grid when roughly a quarter of those same folks start using electric cars on the same day?
Do these questions sound far-fetched? Not in Austin, Texas, where researchers are carrying out a comprehensive consumer-oriented smart grid project.
Pecan Street
It's called Pecan Street, and it involves hundreds of homes, schools, businesses, and
one of the largest supercomputers in the world—not to mention the largest concentration of electric cars found anywhere.
Intel technology touches many parts of the huge project, from the sensors in the buildings to the supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas.
Intel-sensor technology measures energy usage in the buildings and then streams that data to TACC. There, Intel®-based servers analyze huge amounts of data, charting usage patterns, visualizing data, and helping researchers discover how they might better implement advanced energy management systems.
"Pecan Street is bringing consumers into the energy world in a way that empowers them to make better decisions and use energy more wisely," says John C. Thomas, Director of the North American Energy Sector Platform Strategy at Intel.
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Ohio State History Prof to Present 20th Annual WC/DAC History Lecture
Grimsley's Topic Is 'The Democracy That Broke'
October 12, 2012
Dr. Mark Grimsley
Ohio State University professor Mark Grimsley will speak to a Wilmington College audience on "The Democracy That Broke" Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m., in Kelly Center's McCoy Room.
He will explore how the "dearth of civility and civic virtue — both characteristics highly prized by the Founders — caused the American experiment in republican government to fall off a cliff in 1860-1861."
The program is the 20th edition of the annual WC/Daughters of American Colonists Endowed Lecture Series, which is free of charge. WC's History Department with Edward Agran, professor of history, is hosting the event.
Grimsley, who is an associate professor in OSU's History Department, joined the university's faculty in 1992, but spent eight years instructing history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from 1999 to 2007, before returning to Columbus five years ago. In addition, he has been a faculty research associate with the Mershon Center at OSU since 2003.
He holds a Ph.D. in history from Ohio State, as well as a Master of Arts degree in war studies from the University of London and a bachelor's degree in history from OSU.
The Lincoln and Soldiers Institute awarded Grimsley the Lincoln Prize for The Hard Hand of War as the best book published on the Civil War in 1995. Grimsley received the university's highest award for teaching excellence with the 1999 Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award.
Also, he was a finalist for an OSU College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award and, in 1997, received the College of Humanities' highest award for teaching excellence, the Ben M. Jones III Award. In addition, Grimsley has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, and has earned two "Best of" Cliopatria Awards for his history blogs.
He has published extensively and among his numerous publications are academic books on the Civil War, including The Collapse of the Confederacy, And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864 and The Union Must Stand: The Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteers.
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Reactor Core, 1991
Pyrex, aluminum, steel, seeds
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Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of Leah Myers
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Installation, Canadian Contemporary (1980-present)
Reactor Core expresses the connection Stacey Spiegel has been exploring over a number of years between nature and culture. This work is a memorial, in a time of apparent and overt environmental carnage. Acting as a time capsule it preserves the genetically altered seeds used in commercial agriculture since the early 1990s. The sculpture questions what cultivating food will be like, and what alternative food, health, and medicine will become in the future. In a nuclear reactor the slim rods, known as fuel pins, are filled with fuel pellets. Borrowing its title and composition from the creation of nuclear energy, this work evokes the potential we possess to create life as well as destroy it. Minimalist in its construction, the work's underlying concept embodies the global ramifications of this human power.
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- Run Time: 50 Minutes
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- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Language: English
- Studio: History Channel
- DVD Release Date: September 4, 2006
See the landmarks left behind by the real-life Romanian prince who inspired the classic horror tale.
- Travel back to ancient Romania to meet the man who inspired a legend.
- Computer animation brings the real-life Draculas world to life.
- Scholars trace the campaigns that changed the face of Eastern Europe.
In a country torn by bloody civil war, a young man seizes power. In his native tongue, he is called Dracula. This is no horror tale, but a true story, and the star is not a mythic monster, but a real man.
Dracula was a warlord who became known all across Europe for breathtaking courage and terrifying cruelty. A Romanian prince, he left an enduring legacy in blood and lives, but also in brick, mortar, and stone. He constructed palaces. He founded the city that became his country's capital. He also built one of Eastern Europe's most breathtaking mountaintop castles.
Now, state-of-the-art computer animation brings Dracula's lost world back to life: his birthplace in the fortified town of Sighisoara; the gothic splendor of Transylvania's Bran Castle; the sumptuous palace of Targoviste; and the real castle Dracula, Poenari.


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- In-situ measurements of the Liquid-Phase Sintering of Zinc Oxide (2009)
- Polycrystalline ceramic semiconductor devices based on ZnO and several additive oxides show highly non-ohmic current-voltage behavior similar to the Zener diodes. The devices act as an insulator up to a certain electrical field called the breakdown field (EBR) but change into a highly conducting one just above it. Below and above the breakdown field they behave perfectly ohmic. This overall non- linear current-voltage characteristic together with the ability to withstand repeated high power pulses has made metal oxide varistors popular as "surge-arrestors" in electrical circuitry. ZnO doped with Bi2O3 and Sb2O3 (ZBS), is the basic system for ceramic varistors. Phase formation during sintering of ZBS was measured in situ, using 1 mm thick samples and synchrotron X-rays. Thermodynamic calculations were performed to explain phase formation, composition, stability of additive oxides and influence of the oxygen fugacity on sintering. Sb2O4, pyrochlore, trirutile and spinel were formed at temperatures of 500°C to 800°C. The oxidation of antimony was controlled by the oxygen partial pressure and affected both, phase formation and sintering kinetics, in the ZBS system. There are three well defined phases in the final microstructure e.g. the ZnO-grains, Pyrochlore and Spinel phases. The evolution of these phases with temperature and time are important facts to the understanding of the basic functionality of the ZnO varistor system. Liquid phase sintering kinetics in the system ZnO-Bi2O3-Sb2O3 was studied using closed crucibles and an optical dilatometer. The kinetic field technique was modified to compare densification rates with liquid phase sintering models. Grain growths data were derived directly from the kinetic field diagram and compared to microstructure analysis of quenched samples. A reasonable agreement was obtained between both techniques - demonstrating that the modified kinetic field technique is an efficient tool for process optimization.


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So I miscalculated how my winnings worked! I thought I only won 24 dollars on my Okami bets, but I actually won 54 dollars, which made up for the ten I lost on Siyar, so I made out with an extra $44 last night. Thank you Okami! I should've bet much more on you. I was worried Lombard was going to get the KO though.
Siyar was dominated, unfortunately. I used my free bet up on him which I should have put on Okami. I could have won $207.50 of off just $10 had Siyar won. Damn you, Dong, damn you! I really thought Siyar was going to at least do better than he did.
As of right now, there are only a few matches with the odds that are displayed on the website I use (Bovada).
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A widespread, abundant denizen of parks and gardens through most of coastal California, this species often occurs in pairs year-round, like the canyon and the Abert's towhees. The California and the similar canyon were formerly conspecific, though they have never been known to overlap in range, even as vagrants. Polytypic. Length 9" (23 cm).
Identification Brownish overall; crown slightly warmer brown than rest of upperparts. Buff throat bordered by a distinct broken ring of dark brown spots; no dark spot on breast, unlike the canyon. Lores same color as throat, contrast with cheek; warm cinnamon undertail coverts . Juvenile: faint cinnamon wing bars; faint streaking below.
Geographic Variation Six subspecies in United States show weak and clinal variation in size and overall coloration. Generally, size decreases from north to south, with the 3 inland subspecies (bullatus, carolae, eremophilus) averaging larger than the 3 coastal subspecies (petulans, crissalis, senicula). Coloration is generally darker to the north and paler to the south, but is fairly dark in senicula of coastal southern California.
Similar Species See canyon and Abert's Towhees.
Voice Call: sharp metallic chink notes; also gives some thin, lispy notes and an excited, squealing series of notes, often delivered as a duet by a pair. Song: Accelerating chink notes with stutters in the middle.
Status and Distribution Common. Resident; no known movements. Year-round: chaparral, coastal scrub, riparian thickets, parks, and gardens.
Population Stable, except for the federally threatened subspecies eremophilus, which is limited to Inyo County, California, and has declined due to degradation of its native riparian habitat; it may number fewer than 200 individuals.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Throughout the Grand Valley, 2012 was a year for rebuilding.From City officials to small business owners, Mesa County residents worked hard to move forward from a still stagnating economy. Energized and ready, community leaders planned new projects, revamp efforts, and visions for a better future. Funding was found, ground was broken and the Grand Valley grew in spirit, excited for hope and change. Those are the stories and themes we mined for and told. Those are the stories we look forward to keep writing as the Free Press heads into its promising 10th year of serving the community. Here's to an even better 2013!
Wow, Grand Junction became quite a battleground for presidential candidates this past election year! President Obama, plus candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan, campaigned throughout Grand Junction in 2012.Obama spoke to more than 2,400 people gathered for a rally at Grand Junction High School on Wednesday, Aug. 8. Romney, the Republican candidate, also rolled through GJ at the end of August. His running mate, Ryan, spoke at Colorado Mesa University this past October.Election Day in Grand Junction was a busy day, too! In November, the Free Press reported that more than 10,000 voters cast ballots in Mesa County on Election Day with approximately 89 percent of registered voters casting ballots overall. Though President Obama was in fact re-elected, Mesa County predominantly voted in favor of Romney - Barack Obama/Joe Biden (D): 23,374 (32.62%), Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan (R): 46,690 (65.16%).Election Day also brought a groundbreaking change to Colorado pot laws - voters throughout the state approved Amendment 64. This legalized the recreational use, possession and cultivation of marijuana by individuals 21 and older in Colorado.
New Colorado National Monument superintendent Lisa Eckert was officially welcomed to her position in April 2012. She took over the job from interim superintendent Michelle Wheatley.Eckert started her career with the park service in 1979 at Yellowstone National Park. She also worked at Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming, Organ Pipe National Monument in Arizona, Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site in North Dakota, the George Washington Memorial Parkway, and at Gateway National Recreation Area's Jamaica Bay Unit in New York City.In November 2012, the National Park Service also announced it would conduct an Environmental Assessment by developing a "Visitor Activity and Commercial Service Plan." The purpose was to engage the community in determining what special uses should be allowed in the national monument. Each year, the monument receives numerous requests to allow special events and it only allows those that fit within National Park guidelines. The USA Pro Challenge Cycling race (an event that has been rejected by the Colorado National Monument multiple times) is one the park service has found incompatible with federal law and NPS policies. The plan "is an opportunity to educate everybody, including elected officials, about the mission of the national parks," Eckert told the Free Press in November.
Last October, the Free Press reported that schools in Mesa County were changing their lunch menus to reflect new standards of health for our kids. Processed foods are now out, and fresh fruits and vegetables, and meals made from scratch are in.Changes to the Mesa County Valley School District 51 lunch program were intended to teach kids good life-long habits so they could feel better physically and mentally, and do better in school.Diana Tarasiewicz, manager of District 51 nutrition services, stepped into her new position to continually develop recipes, teach staff to cook from scratch, and develop standards so recipes are interpreted correctly at each of the 37 district schools.
Completed a month early and on budget, the new Lincoln Park Sports Complex was unveiled to the public in May 2012. The new tower that hovers over Stocker Stadium and Suplizio Field consists of an open mezzanine called the spectator area, which was built with the handicapped and disabled in mind. The floor above houses state-of-the-art press boxes to accommodate local and visiting media. The top level is called the community or hospitality room, which is available to the public for rental. Spectacular views of the city and Mount Garfield, Grand Mesa and the monument won't cost you extra.The room also has a full bar operated by Two Rivers Convention Center. And folks renting can choose from an approved list of food vendors for catering. During GJ Rockies, Colorado Mesa University or high-school games, use of the hospitality room comes with their field rental, and those organizations can choose to rent out or use the space at their discretion.Part of the $8.3 million construction and remodel also included new baseball dugouts that are now double in size, and new restrooms for men, women and families.
When the Grand Junction Rockies - the Pioneer League baseball team affiliated with the Colorado Rockies - arrived in 2012, fans on the West Slope welcomed them enthusiastically. The GJ Rockies began their 76-game schedule on the road June 18 in Ogden, Utah. Of that, 38 games were hosted at Suplizio Field in Grand Junction. Don't worry - it wasn't a one-season deal. The GJ Rockies are coming back in 2013 and for years to come. The new schedule is released (the first home game is June 20) and season tickets are now on sale.According to the Pioneer League's official website (www.milb.com), Grand Junction Rockies leader Tim Ray "enjoyed a stellar and record-setting experience as General Manager for the inaugural season of the Grand Junction Rockies. He faced the task of moving the Casper Ghosts club to the Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains in a short period of time. ... By the opening of the PBL season in June, Tim Ray and staff had secured several multi-year sponsorship deals, generated excitement throughout the Western Slope, sold 1,435 season tickets, managed regional and national media attention, and provided oversight for an $8.3 million stadium development project involving multiple consortium members. The club (also) set a franchise attendance record of 101,496 fans."Ray was named as the League's top Pioneer executive in November 2012.
When Grand Junction resident Cinde Waller couldn't find anything to relieve her pain and support her jaw after undergoing reconstructive jaw surgery in 2007, she invented a brace that could do both. Waller secured a patent in 2010, and the following year founded TempOrthotics - maker of the "Stabilizer" brace for temporomandibular joint stabilization.And, in November 2012, less than two years after starting her business, Waller was named 2012-2013 "Woman of the Year" by the National Association of Professional Women, a 400,000-member association. The award came on the heels of learning she was a finalist for one of Colorado Technology Association's Apex Awards.Way to go, Cinde!
In 2012, both business owners and City officials made initial steps toward big upgrades on North Avenue and Horizon Drive. Future street improvements are meant to promote improved business and tourism throughout Grand Junction. Officials hope to begin major work on North Avenue, from 12th to 23rd streets, in 2014; a 2012 federal grant to the tune of $1.2 million, plus matching funds from the City of GJ, definitely got the ball rolling. Horizon Drive upgrades, due to funding requirements, would likely occur sometime after that.
In August 2012, representatives from more than 20 countries met in Grand Junction for an international workshop - "Legacy Management and Regulatory Supervision of Uranium Legacy Sites." Other countries represented included Algeria, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, Niger and Mozambique. The workshop was hosted jointly by the U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)."We're trying to help countries to address different aspects of uranium mining and mill tailing clean-up," David Shafer of the USDOE Office of Legacy Management said in a Free Press interview.Grand Junction was a logical place for a meeting of international scientists and environmental regulators to discuss remediation of uranium processing sites. The city sits on the northeastern edge of the Colorado Plateau - the largest area for uranium production in the U.S. The only operating mill in the U.S. is located south of Moab, near Blanding, Utah - a site that was visited by workshop participants. Plus, Grand Junction was a major clean-up site of uranium mill tailings. The former Climax Mill, located on 200 acres along the Colorado River, operated in Grand Junction from 1951 to 1970.
Colorado is already known as a micro-brew mecca; and Grand Junction will soon be on the state map for its own beer-bottling facility.Kannah Creek Brewing Company is undergoing a huge expansion project - owners Eric and Tina Ross and Jim and Bernadette Jeffryes broke ground on a south-downtown Grand Junction site during the fall of 2012. There, they plan to produce their beer, bottle it and distribute it around the state and even nationally. The facility, which will also feature a tasting room and a different menu from Kannah's 12th Street restaurant, will be located near Grand Junction's Western Colorado Botanical Gardens on Struthers Avenue. The bottling plant and tasting room will likely open in May 2013.Kannah's Lands End Amber beer, along with its Standing Wave Pale Ale, will be the first two brews produced at Kannah's new facility. Seasonal brews will be bottled as the business grows.
In 2012, it became apparent that big changes were in store for the historic Avalon Theatre on Main Street. The building will undergo drastic revamp efforts, to be funded by the Downtown Development Authority (DDA), the City of GJ and private donors. Work will likely start in 2013.While most of the project funding was secured in 2012, money to renovate the 91-year-old structure is still needed however; a public fundraising campaign could start as early as January 2013. Currently, DDA management has split the revamp project into two pieces - a $7 million "core" project and a "full build-out" (costing $12-14 million, including the core).Projected work on the Avalon will include new seats, expanded seating (from 967 to 1,100), ADA-accessibility standards upgrades, a multi-purpose room with retractable seating, upgraded acoustics in the main theater, new digital technology for movie screenings, and a better heating and cooling system. The vacant lot to the east of the theater will house a new entrance, the lobby, expanded concessions, new bathrooms and a public elevator to all levels. A full build-out would include many other improvements, including a larger stage, better behind-the-scenes areas and even a rooftop terrace.Such improvements are necessary to attract bigger and better cultural offerings to GJ, local officials said.
In 2012, the City of Grand Junction completed its new Public Safety Building, which houses the Grand Junction Police Department and the 911 Regional Communication Center. It opened to the public in September 2012, and it's located at 555 Ute Ave. The new police building is 58,652 square feet and it is approximately 27,000 square feet bigger than the old building.Work on Fire Station #1 was completed in 2012 as well.The old PD building was also gutted late last year, and construction will last throughout the winter. The fire department's core administrative staff of 15, including the fire chief, could be housed there by May or June of 2013. Plus, the building project will include new amenities for the GJFD, like improved information technology, a training room, and break-out rooms for multiple meetings going on at once. The new GJFD admin building is expected to cost $2.4 million, and it's the second phase of Grand Junction's efforts to revitalize its 911, police and fire structures (a $32.7 million project). Construction on an addition for Fire Station #2 (2827 Patterson Road) is also being planned in 2013.The Town of Palisade additionally constructed a new fire station of its own in 2012. It's located at 341 W. Seventh St., and Town Administrator Rich Sales said the new structure is an adaptive re-use of the old Palisade Library building.
In December 2012, a ground-breaking ceremony was held to mark the initial construction of Community Hospital's new medical campus near Canyon View Park.Called Canyon View Medical Plaza, the first stage of the project will encompass Community Hospital's new medical and surgery center. The two-story, 87,000-square-foot facility will be located just west of 24 Road at 2373 G Road. It's being developed in a joint venture between local physicians, Community Hospital and Development Solutions Group, LLC, a Colorado-based medical real estate development company. The project will cost approximately $21 million, with additional funds being spent by all building tenants for a portion of their suite construction costs and medical equipment. Canyon View Medical Plaza is scheduled to open December 2013 and it will be the new home for many of Grand Junction's medical providers. Community Hospital will eventually move to this location, too.


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You might know me, but for the most part I keep quiet and just read here on dhammawheel.
Anyway, thought I'd start a thread about my trip to Thailand -- I am leaving Aug 6 (this Friday)... I am going there to volunteer with elephants in Phetchaburi province (for 3 weeks), then I'm spending 2 days in Bangkok visiting the big temples (Wat Phra Kaew, Wat Pho, Wat Arun and Wat Mahathat) and getting tattoos ( ).
There's an internet cafe near the animal sanctuary, so I figure I'll update this thread periodically with my experiences, sort of like a travelogue, and people can use it as a reference if they ever visit Thailand.
I'm very excited. I taught myself to speak the language (conversationally), and as a Theravadin Buddhist, it will be quite *enlightening* to say the least (hehe, pun intended). I'm especially thrilled to see the Emerald Buddha at Wat Phra Kaew and also visit the cave Buddhas in Phetchaburi. Many photos to come!


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JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We turn now to the untold history of the United States. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone has taken on three American presidents in JFK, Nixon and W. A Vietnam War veteran, he was decorated with a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. As a filmmaker, he's tackled the most controversial aspects of the war, of the Vietnam war, in his classics Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July. He revealed the greed of the financial industry in the Hollywood hit Wall Street and the sequel, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. And he's explored Latin America through his films Salvador, Comandante and South of the Border.
AMY GOODMAN: Now Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick from American University have teamed up to produce a 10-part Showtime series called Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States. It also features a companion book with a similar name. Drawing on archival findings and recently declassified documents, the filmmakers critically examine U.S. history, from the atomic bombing of Japan to the Cold War, to the fall of communism, and continuing all the way through to the Obama administration. This is the trailer for the Showtime mini-series.
OLIVER STONE: History is exciting, and I want to make it as exciting as it can be. We take a history subject, and we make it not only dramatic, but we are compassionate. I always felt there's a disconnect about what's officially reported and what actually happened. We can't accept the stuff that's handed down. This is the key to the whole series, is to find out how we got to where we are and who we are. It's great, great story.
AMY GOODMAN: That was the trailer for Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick's 10-part Showtime series called The Untold History of the United States. The first episode of the series aired on Monday night on Showtime. It'll re-air on Monday evenings at 8:00 p.m., is also available on demand.
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We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Oliver Stone, you've been working on this for years, unbeknownst to many people. Why?
OLIVER STONE: The trailer looked pretty epic. From here to here—it's like a Cecil B. DeMille movie, from 1940s to—it was a big job, four-and-a-half years, off and on. I did do three feature films and two documentaries during that period. But Peter was on the—we started in 2008, and it's been four-and-a-half.
We recently discussed Wallace and the bomb in 1997, when he was teaching at American University and I was there in one of his classes. And we talked about making a documentary of about an hour, hour and a half. He's an expert on the atomic—on weaponry, and especially the atomic bomb. He founded the Department of Nuclear Studies in American—and Wallace is—Henry Wallace, as he can explain to you, is a key to the link: Would we have dropped the bomb? That's the origin myths of this. Every school kid—still, my daughter in her school, in private school, in good school, is still learning this: We dropped the bomb because we had to, because the Japanese resistance was fanatic, and we would have lost many American lives taking Japan. This is one—there's no alternative to that story. And we are beginning the process in chapter one, two and three of saying the bomb did not have to be dropped for strategic reasons and also because it was morally reprehensible. But strategically, it made no sense.
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Anyone noticed that nearly all of it has bonus armor on?
BTW the boots and legs are the craftables.
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Anyone noticed that nearly all of it has bonus armor on?
BTW the boots and legs are the craftables.
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I link the new gear, but im not sure, who 'good' the bonus armor really is...
4e: should we take the badge breast or stick with i258 chest from totgc? are 1300 armor really better than 2% dodge and parry?
Sorry if my english is'nt so good, it's not my natural language.
Reliable mitigation is IMHO always better than avoid. So yeah, I'd go for the extra armor.
But beware of that datamined information on MMO Champion. First of all it is frowned upon by Blizz. Secondly it is bound to change. I wouldn't rely on the extra armor going life.
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Looking at a lot of the gear posted, including boss loot, it seems like our gear is going more toward stamina, armor, and defense/parry.
The other thing I noticed is hit rating on a lot of gear. Not sure where dodge or expertise went, but it looks like there will not be much of either on the new gear. My guess is we are going to see a lot more bosses using parry haste.
This is the first time I have ever seen a stamina trinket from badge gear.
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I think this further ties in to Blizzard's design decision to get away from avoidance and focus more on mitigation. This will lead to better boss design, as they will not have to create boss abilities designed to gib tanks.
If they gib the expertise they're likely to turn parryhasting off if there's going to be a brutallus style gearcheck fight. Which, as odd as this may sound, i PRAY there is. I'm tired of every guild clearing 3/4 of the new raid on the first night that the servers are stable. WTB some real freaking progression.
EDIT: But yes, as stated, this is datamined information and is subject to very big change. Ghostcrawler already stated that the Block Value on the chest is an error due to the way they make a copy of older gear and then tweak. I wouldn't be surprised to see some of this change entirely.
The gloves and belt have the exact same stats, I am sure things are going change a lot still.
All the extra armor seems odd too, I wonder if it is just for testing higher armored tanks, maybe we will see some talent buffs! Don't get me wrong I love it but I have a feeling it's not all going to stay.
Looking at the gear I get the fealing they really want to go through with their new tanking&healing direction.
I think they are as interested in the results as we are. I for one am quite confident. I prefer healing like in Vanilla and up to T5 content. It was much less stressful and less seemingly random tank shaped roflstomped smears on the ground.
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I am working on a genealogical/family history project tracing Newfoundland ancestors, and I felt like the specific issues I see there show up here in this novel, so maybe that made it more plausible for me: all the religious rivalry, the disowning, the shunning, the interwoven families. The melodrama of personal feuds in a small isolated village is intense in reality, and intense in this book. Crummey grounds everything in a detailed historical sense of place, so that the beliefs and actions of the characters are seen in their context of extreme deprivation and poverty.
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While the markets are unlikely to punish Italy as they did in 2011-12, they will want to make sure a new government doesn't mean a return to Italy's bad old days.
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Because of its size, Italy's problems can dent market confidence in the whole eurozone. Doubts about Italy's ability to manage its debt caused markets to question whether the euro could survive in 2011-12.
Q: What's wrong with its economy?
Before it signed up to join the euro, which was formally launched in 1999, Italy used to give its economy a boost by to devaluing its old currency, the lire -- a trick that used to make its exports cheaper.
Devaluation helped mask underlying problems such as labor rules that favor vested interests such as unions and established workers, which kill off job prospects for younger people; a high business tax burden and heavy cost to businesses from expensive public utilities and red tape.
Italy "remains in dire need of structural reforms to boost competitiveness and improve trend growth," wrote economists Norbert Aul and James Ashley at RBC Capital Markets. They noted that the only economies that have grown more slowly in the past 12 years are Zimbabwe, San Marino, and Portugal.
A growing economy would increase government revenue from business and income taxes and the country's debt.
Q: Where does Monti come into all this?
A: Italy's political parties installed Monti, a former EU commissioner and academic, as prime minister to lead a temporary crisis government of financial experts in November, 2011. His predecessor, Silvio Berlusconi, resigned after high borrowing costs, fed by fears Italy would not pay its debts, threatened the country with financial ruin and rattled confidence in the eurozone.
Monti set about easing some of Italy's anti-business practices, such as labor laws that made it extremely difficult to fire longtime workers. He reduced the budget deficit with the help of an unpopular tax on homes.
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Q: So now the elections are under way, what are investors afraid of?
A: Italy's Byzantine election laws could mean many different outcomes. The worst result would be no party or coalition being able to form a government, leading to new elections.
Researcher Vincenzo Scarpetta at the Open Europe think tank says the probability of this is "very low" but that re-run elections could mean "potentially, huge market pressure, which Italy can hardly afford." This pressure would come in the form of rising interest rates on government debt.
Another possibility could be a parliament so divided that it can't govern effectively, or a shaky coalition of parties with clashing agendas -- meaning that any policies would be the result of endless compromise and back-room deals. A badly split parliament "would surely affect investors' confidence as Italy's political future would remain unclear," said Aul and Ashley.
The return of a government led by Berlusconi's center-right coalition -- regarded as unlikely -- could also dismay markets given his call to repeal Monti's home tax and the lack of confidence markets showed in him in 2011.
Q: What do markets want to see?
A: Analysts say investors seem to be anticipating that the center-left Democratic Party, led by Pier Luigi Bersani will win. Bersani opposes budget austerity but is regarded as not totally against all efforts to improve conditions for business. Markets would like it best if he wins but still needs the seats won by small parties led by Monti to govern. That would mean the government might continue with some of the reforms.