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PHMSA's Advance Notice of Proposed Rule Making (ANPRM) in August 2011 (76 Fed. Reg. 53086, August 25, 2011), posed several questions on numerous pipeline safety issues, including possible expansion of HCAs. However, the January pipeline safety legislation addressed some of the issues raised by the agency's ANPRM.
As a result many, including the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) which commented on January 20, 2012, argue the HCA definition adequately protects people and property based on prioritized risks and does not warrant further expansion. Expansion, INGAA argued, would increase industry costs and not increase public safety because many already voluntarily extend additional integrity management measures to areas outside of the HCAs, and it estimates that by 2030 all areas within the potential impact radius of all pipelines will have integrity management principles applied, thereby making expansion of HCAs unnecessary at this time.
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What Do You Know About Back Pain?
It's 6 calls into the shift and the call volume has not let up, it's going to be a long shift. Your vest feels particularly tight and restrictive today and your belt is cutting into your hip. There has been talk about transitioning over to tactical vests but you are on the fence. While it would be nice to have less gear on your waist, as you shift a little in your seat, giving an assailant anything else to grab does not seem a good idea.
As you mull this thought over you shift even more in your seat to move around your gear and now your left lower back is hurting again. Maybe having less gear on your hips is not such a bad idea after all, especially if that old low back injury comes back.
As a society we are taught to ignore pain and this is exactly what we have to stop doing. Pain, especially aching, nagging pain is a warning or a symptom of bigger things to come. Just like the check engine light it's a warning that must be heeded. Those little spasms, aches and pains are what often become the bigger injury and herein lies what you know wrong about back pain.
1. Your back is not strong
Your back is not strong; the notion of a strong back is a myth. The spine has some pretty specific jobs including protecting the spinal cord and as an attachment point for muscles and this is where we need to have a better understanding.
Think of your spine as a stack of ovalish blocks. In between each block is a jelly doughnut. On top of the block stack is a bowling ball; which is too far forward (forward head posture). The stack of blocks also sits on this 'funky' base called your pelvis. This pelvis can move in all kinds of crazy directions and often leans too far forward as well.
If we think of the spine this way then there is no possibility that something like this can have any "strength." Your back 'strength' comes from a combination of hip strength, abdominal co-contraction to help stiffen the spine and from a strong "extensor chain."
The extensor chain includes the upper, middle and lower trapezius, cervical-thoracic-lumbar paraspinals, glutes and hamstrings.
Simply put to have a "strong" back you must have very strong glutes (think dead lifts-squats-step up's), strong anterior and lateral abdominals to stiffen the torso when under load and strong well balanced spinal extensors.
2. Posture matters
Where does your back hurt most of the time? usually it's in the para-spinal muscles from T8-L2 (where your middle back and lower back meet. Grab a tennis ball or stick your fist back there, just to the side of your spine and feel how sore and nasty those muscles are.
Every time you lift/move/drive/sit/run with your head down, back round or knees locked the strain goes to this area. Over time the tissue fatigues, repetitive motion disorder, and eventually injury will occur. As this tissue is getting broken down from poor technique and poor posture those injurious loads are also being transferred into the jelly doughnuts.
*If you take 10 people randomly off the street and do an MRI of their back roughly 4 will have disk bulges with no symptoms and 2-3 more will have microfractures in their disks. Responders every lift counts, any lift or exercise can hurt you because the damage has already been done, we are just not symptomatic yet!
3. BMI effects movement and can cause injury
A 1999 study published in the American journal of public health concluded that "High job strain was the most important factor affecting back injury. Body mass index and a work movement index (twisting, extended reaching, and stooping) were also significant factors in injury".
As first responders we have both. High job strain from lifting, moving, fighting, running etc. -CHECK. Are a majority of responders overweight and or sedentary with correspondingly high BMI's-CHECK. Law Enforcement is a physical job and to safely perform the job you have to have the strength and mobility to do the job.
A high BMI is also associated with specific postures that alter how you move. Upper cross and lower cross patterns are significantly worse with a high BMI. The anterior pelvic rotation, foot position changes, forward head and rounded shoulders all change how your biomechanics and will set you up for everything we discussed already.
Every time I teach a class someone has to boast that they have no pain or have not had an injury. While this is great the goal is to stay injury free, do not ignore good mechanics and good tissue conditioning just because you do not have pain yet. Remember almost all responders are well down the path of injury. Repetitive injury occurs for years, the tissue often compensates for a long time before the injury occurs. Keep your tissue loose, stretch every day and use your foam roller. Use awesome ergonomics every time, every lift counts. Exercise every day, even if it's just 10 minutes of walking 3-4 times a day, move!
*Final Tip: Never sit on your wallet or anything high enough to shift your hips. Sitting on your wallet is causing your back pain by shifting your hips.


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SEATTLE - University of Washington senior Janelle Dubbins received first-team accolades and junior Allison DePalma was a second-team selection in the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) All-Region teams announced Friday.
The awards, presented by Pocock, recognize the outstanding accomplishments of female rowers and coxswains this season. Thirty-nine schools are represented nationally on the all-region squads. Varsity eight boats ranked in the top six regionally received automatic selections for their respective nominees. A coxswain was selected from schools within each region for both first and second-team representation.
A product of Robert Service High School in Anchorage, Ak., Dubbins rows in the No. 3 seat on the Huskies' 13th-ranked women's varsity eight crew. DePalma is also a member of Washington's top women's crew, rowing in the No. 5 position. She is from Notre Dame High School in San Jose, Calif.
The Huskies are preparing for the NCAA Rowing Championships that take place, May 27-29 on Lake Natoma in Rancho Cordova, Calif. UW is one of just four schools to qualify for the NCAA women's regatta every year.
The 2004-05 Regional Coaches of the Year were also selected. The award is intended to recognize a coach from each region that had outstanding success during the 2005 season, or demonstrated great team improvement from the 2004 season, and demonstrated a high level of professionalism and integrity. The five coaches selected were Dave O'Neil (California) from the West Region, Lori Dauphiny (Princeton) from the Mid-Atlantic Region, Will Porter (Yale) from the New England Region, Matt Weise (Michigan State) from the Midwest Region, and Kevin Sauer (Virginia) from the South Region.
2005 First-Team All-West Region Team
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Kaylan Vander Schilden, California
Jelena Djukic, California
Iva Obradovic, California
Samantha Magee, Stanford
Missy Fiesler, Stanford
Janelle Dubbins, WASHINGTON
Kristen Bixel, UCLA
Jody Thomas, Washington State
Sarah Dubrasich, Oregon State
Laura Harder, Sacramento State
Remy Hitomi, California (coxswain)
2005 Second-Team All-West Region Team
Student-Athlete, School
Laura Terheyden, California
Susan BeVille, Stanford
Stephanie Morrison, Stanford
Allison DePalma, WASHINGTON
Elizabeth Pallos-Jacobs, UCLA
Vanessa Glendenning, Loyola Marymount
Brittany McMahon, San Diego State
Kelly Garneski, Stanford (coxswain)


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Publication Date : 25-06-2012
Germany's foreign minister Guido Westerwelle has suggested Bangladesh invest more in energy and education for future development of the country.
Investing in energy and education must be the primary effort of Bangladesh as the country has the potential of development, Westerwelle said at a reception held in his honour by the Bangladesh-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BGCCI) at a hotel in Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Saturday.
Westerwelle also described how Germany developed despite not having any fossil fuel. "Germany is rich in energy through adopting improved policies," the minister said.
"We need intelligent and smart solutions of energy problem for future development of the world," he said.
Westerwelle also urged investment in education for proper utilisation of the vast number of young people in Bangladesh.
"The best potential is that you have the young generation.
Use the potential of the young people," Westerwelle said, adding "During my short stay here I found people are out seeking opportunity and chances for changing their lots."
The minister also suggested Bangladesh work jointly with Germany on climate change issues. Climate change might be a global threat to security and peace in future, he feared.
"We should have global responses to the climate change scenarios. Germany would like to have partners like Bangladesh to work together for management of climate change," Westerwelle said.
Calling this visit a mere sojourn in developing bilateral relationship between Bangladesh and Germany, he commented that the potential of such relations is far from exhausted.
"The bilateral relationship between Germany and Bangladesh is based on longstanding partnership, not quick profit," he said.
"Our idea is working on developing partnership between equals for better networking," Westerwelle added.
He said that with the rise of the South Asian economies, the global financial structure is also changing, particularly the rise of BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
He also mentioned the economic potentials of the next 11 emerging countries. The rise of new economic players does not mean that the old will be destroyed, he commented. Bangladesh has the potential to join the new ranks, he added.
At the reception, Promita Sengupta, programme coordinator of Gender, Governance and Rights of Dhaka based office of GIZ (German Development Cooperation) said the companies in Bangladesh are now maintaining social standard.
"Companies are reducing pollution. All the associations in the apparel industries are working together to reduce pollution and increasing the social standard," she said.
Shakhawat Abu Khair, president of BGCCI, said the biggest bilateral trade body BGCCI now boasts 350 members.
Between 2001 and 2011 exports to Germany grew 25 per cent and German imports to Bangladesh grew 42 per cent, he said.


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This specification covers the chemical, mechanical, and metallurgical requirements for wrought cobalt-20chromium-15tungsten-10nickel alloy bars, rods, wires, sheets, and strips (except surgical fixation wires) for use in surgical implants. All alloys shall be furnished to the purchaser's specifications, in the annealed or cold-worked condition. Then, bars and wires shall be finished bright annealed, cold drawn, pickled, ground, or ground and polished, as specified by the purchaser. While, sheets shall be furnished bright annealed, pickled, cold-rolled, or polished, as specified by the purchaser. The alloys shall adhere to specified values of ultimate tensile strength, yield strength, elongation, and microcleanliness.
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Tags: Kenneth Goldsmith, avant-garde poetry, arts, literature, BOMB, The Believer, The Chronicle Review, Will Wlizlo
Consider these page-turners for your next beach vacation: a transcription of all the weather reports from a radio news station recorded over one year, a re-typed issue of The New York Times, a chronicle of the utterances made by one person for an entire week, a similar account of every bodily gesture the same man made over the course of 13 hours, or 600 pages worth of words with rhyming r-sounds. Understandably, you're probably not tacking these texts onto the bottom of your holiday wish list, much less considering them as notable for anything other than how boring they sound. But Kenneth Goldsmith—an avant-garde poet, experimental radio personality, and professor—considers these litanies to be poetry. In fact, the list is a small sampling of his published works.
"My books are better thought about than read," Goldsmith said in an interview with The Believer. "They're insanely dull and unreadable; I mean, do you really want to sit down and read a year's worth of weather reports or a transcription of the 1010 WINS traffic reports 'on the ones' (every ten minutes) over the course of a twenty-four-hour period? I don't. But they're wonderful to talk about and think about." The thing to think about, specifically, is whether this type of writing should be considered literature.
Although he's more apt to call one of his volumes a reference book or a thought experiment, Goldsmith argues that there's something experientially interesting that comes from reading an Almanac-like text. "The moment we shake our addiction to narrative," he says, again in The Believer,
and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something 'meaningful,' we open ourselves up to different types of linguistic experience, which, as you say, could include sorting and structuring words in unconventional ways: by constraint, by sound, by the way words look, and so forth, rather than always feeling the need to coerce them toward meaning.
We live in an information-sodden age, one in which processing is sometimes mistaken for reflection.
"With an unprecedented amount of available text," Goldsmith writes in The Chronicle Review, "our problem is not needing to write more of it; instead, we must learn to negotiate the vast quantity that exists." When it comes to artistic content, we've made and eaten a Thanksgiving dinner's worth of verbiage. To continue the metaphor, the challenge, then, is how to burn off all of the calories and look good at the office the following workweek. "How I make my way through this thicket of information," he argues, "how I manage it, parse it, organize and distribute it—is what distinguishes my writing from yours."
In addition to "writing" mind-numbing-slash-mind-exploding poetry, Goldsmith was a DJ at New Jersey's WFMU radio station, teaches a class on "uncreative writing" at University of Pennsylvania, and spear-heads an avant-garde arts website, UbuWeb.
UbuWeb is a radical depository of donated and stolen art of various media, a "completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts." Much of the website's content will appeal only to the few high-conceptually inclined art geeks. In an interview with BOMB (which, in a very Goldsmithian way, is reproduced verbatim on the magazine's website), he explains UbuWeb as "a way of flaunting all the rules, somewhat safely." Avant-garde, it seems, has been waiting its whole life for the Internet. He continues:
I've actually found a major loophole in copyright culture, literary culture, in distributive culture which happens to be, for lack of a better word, the avant-garde—which nobody can understand. It's so hard for people to understand this stuff. And number two, it's really got no commercial value whatsoever. It has great historical and intellectual value, but people lose money when they try to release this stuff so most of it goes unreleased. So it's been this, kind of, really beautiful grey area where it's all out in the open and it's all in front but you get a pass on it in a way that legitimate economies don't give you that latitude.
Goldsmith's work has garnered him some acclaim of late: He was invited to recite some of his work at a White House poetry event in May. If you ask him if the work is making a difference in literature, though, he'd probably respond cryptically with a handwritten list of all the nutritional information in a supermarket aisle and call it "Serving Size."
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In our work helping organizations align their culture to strategy, values is often confused. What this article speaks of is so common, that values are defined by top executives and it's assumed that defining them is enough to create "self-governance" - ie, compliance. But too often, there is no dialogue about what they mean in behavior, across the business (or that dialogue is one-way and originated again, from the top). The most meaningful process of creating self-governance is when top leaders are visibly and continually talking about the values, examples of how they played out in their decisions, allowing the front-line staff to have a voice in decisions, and then communicating cross the business when those actions aligned with values. This process can take years to enact, especially in cultures that have raised children (in schools and families) who expect "blind obedience" and "informed acquiescence" - but have not learned self-governance. The reasons executives rarely realize isn't just self-deception, but because they don't ask. Too many executives never even speak to a line employee, let alone build a relationship in which that level of employee can overcome fear of retribution enough to speak the truth. These essential topics are literally paralyzing our workplaces which desperately need more rapid action from the rank and file, and such issues are the purpose behind our book "Transforming Corporate Culture" in which we lay out 9 truths for how the new workplaces must align with natural change principles.
Thank you for shedding light on such an important, timely and essential topic.
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The mere fact that you are on The Economist and sound like you are willing to actually listen to opposing views puts you ahead of the pack :P. Employees with opposing views but genuine interest in helping the company profit aren't adversaries, they are allies. Especially if they are partial owners as well (via stock options or profit sharing).
@Coaxian, and Everyone who mentioned dilbert
The senior director in my company is a huge dilbert fan. A key part of his philosophy on leadership was "if you're using terms that show up in Dilbert, stop and explain things clearly."
Also, to anyone who sits at a board meeting- don't assume that your decisions are made behind closed doors. You're talking to a group of people. You may be in a conference room. There may be caterers. Or even something as simple as a secretary who can hear through the cracks in the door. Our VP was offered 30 million by a board member to "speed up the development process", through a combination of doubling salaries of those who are willing to work 60-80 hour weeks, buying new equipment, etc. He turned it down, instead preferring to "motivate" his department to work harder, coaxing us to work such hours and with outdated equipment anyways (one of our oscilloscopes is so old, the embedded 3.5" floppy drive was considered "new" when we got it, and USB connectivity was as unheard of as the flying car). Word spread through to all of us. I'll leave the conclusion to the imagination, but suffice it to say his methods backfired substantially.
Most bosses are clueless as to what goes on below them; they make plans and give directions, and nobody down the line is dumb enough to deflate their fantasies. So after a while, they come to believe that their expectations are spot on, and any of the grunts who happen to notice that reality has different ideas had better keep those opinions to themselves.
For those who work in such companies; how often does upper management happen to pass through your work area to take a look for themselves? Have a casual impromptu conversation about how things are going? Have you ever set foot on the executive floors? Like most employees, you probably haven't. There's a complete disconnect in environment and direct communication. If you have, you probably engendered some quizzical, even suspicious looks. And you probably noted a different tone from the floors where the work gets done; it's quiet. Nothing much happening. They're kept separate from the day to day activity of the company, because it's supposed to help them plan. Everybody on the floors below them could quit and they wouldn't notice until all of a sudden the balance sheet started to show a large profit.
Most companies understand the importance of a strong brand when engaging with customers. It is a travesty that so few understand the power of the brand inside the organisation. In service businesses, the people are the brand. How good an impression can they give, if they believe they are led by coercion or by rules, rather than purpose and values? In product businesses, where corporate and product brands are often different, things superficially seem less clear cut. But the inner workings of companies are increasingly visible to outsiders (through social media, for example). Strong, resilient companies are surely ones with integrity - and that can only come through a genuine sense of purpose.
It is not as though creating a "self-governed" organisation is an abdication of leadership... Who sets the values? Who defines the purpose? Sadly, what this research suggests is that the CEOs, Marketing Directors and People Directors of 95%+ of organisations are failing in one of their core duties.
Good companies stand for something, beyond the bottom line. But all is not lost - purpose can be constructed. bit.ly/betterthanworldclass provides a case study of hows to use internal process to hardwire purpose into the organisation.
Most large companies feel it necessary to become ISO 9001 certified. ISO 9001 produces the ultimate rules based environment. No other management invention has had such a negative impact on innovation and self-satisfaction, except perhaps SAP software.
"41% of bosses say their firm rewards performance based on values rather than merely on financial results."
Yeah Right!!
So, it is their values to take more bonuses than the shareholders who actually own the business? OR their values that when they bankrupt a firm, cause economic turmoil, bring the country on the edge of collapse and still take millions in bonuses for doing that?
Sometimes it is better to NOT SAY ANYTHING rather than SAYING SOMETHING.
That's why I believe that reading Dilbert everyday is an essential management education! Dilbert has real management 'paradigms' 'that they don't teach at Harvard'.
Board members need to sit up and take notice of their responsibility to create a healthy internal culture and wake up to the very real upside this offers their business versus the potential disastrous downside of failing to do so. The challenge is why have they failed to do so before and how do they go about it?
Take a look at 'Breaking out of the Boardroom Bubble' at http://bit.ly/lkPNTH for an interesting assessment and suggestions as to how brand can deliver a healthy internal culture and a healthy bottom line.
In summary it argues that the evidence for the power of engaging employees keeps on growing. Employees matter. People make the difference.
Create a positive culture for your employees and they'll create a great experience for your customers – increasing revenue as they go. It's a proven phenomenon called the Service Profit Chain, which although clearly demonstrable in retail is being proven over and over in B2B and less direct B2C markets. What has been the price paid by News International in the last week or so, and even more in the months to come, for their gross failure to create a healthy, internal culture seen to be lived throughout the business from the very top?
Yet many CEOs seem cocooned in a boardroom bubble, still remaining to be convinced of the benefits and unable to create a company wide sense of purpose or shared values. Why and what's the answer to creating a healthy internal culture? CEOs are sitting on the answer – their brands - unlocking the brand's power is the answer.
A brand is so, so much more than a logo. We know that emotional engagement is 4 times more valuable than rational engagement in driving employee effort. By aligning brand and employee behaviours Woodreed helps businesses, large and small alike, create a 'cultural code' – a framework for employee engagement.
But this needs HR and marketing to stop working in silos of ignorance and work to create a brand marketing strategy inside and out – with brand at the heart of internal as well as external communications. And in terms of budget a little spent inside goes a long, long way.
So CEOs and their boards need to break out of the boardroom bubble and lead from the top to create a healthy internal culture, where employees and consumers trust the organisation, and deliver a healthy bottom line.
Extremely interesting article. It's quite eye-opening as a leader to find out exactly how you are perceived by those you lead. However, studies such as these are immperative. Honest evaluation is imperative. In an article I recently wrote entitle "Who is Your Simon Cowell" (http://www.turningpointsearch.net/2011/04/simon-cowell-%e2%80%93-importa...)I disucss this very issue. But what is most important is a willingness to "hear and listen to" what those on your team have to say. Hopefully, studies such as these will help large and small corporations make the changes necessary to make improvements from the top down.
Ken C. Schmitt
"Values-based" culture shifts in large companies are done largely for company image rather than a desire to eliminate rules. There will always be rules, just like large companies will always have a top-down hierarchy. My personal experience indicates that "informed acquiescence" works, but I laugh at the idea of large companies actually trying to transform to "self-governing" cultures.
I think that ultimately a lot of trust between "minions" and "bosses" could be earned merely by the bosses being honest about what they're doing rather than spinning all decisions as best for the employees (when they decisions are really based on the bottom line). Employees are smart - treat them that way and it won't matter what hierarchical structure the firm adopts.
I really like the comments from CA-Oxonian. I would like to add that unless the leaders of an organization take their Values seriously, no one else should be expected to take them seriously. Values that are acted upon create not just logical understanding, but heart-felt commitment. This increases the influence of the company brand, hiring successful candidates that fit the organization, and deepens employee engagement.
Now if only the executives would be convinced of the importance of stated values!
Bosses are always pretending to know everything about their organization but never did they. Every tragic story starts on that big perception gap between bosses and employees.
Its all come down to two factors, gentlemen. Money and job satisfaction. Source of all pains!
Culture, ethics, code are some most important word for a company. A environment where employees are ethical, feel responsible, follow culture, is must for growth and prosperity of the firm. Creating such environment take some time but companies can do that by giving stocks of company to employees as compensation, which make them feel like owner of company. Also incentives to innovate is a must for growth in knowledge based economy. HR should help create such environment where women can feel safe. These things are the one which changes the path from a broken road to a highway.
It should come as no surprise that people are self-deceiving. Bosses don't want to think of themselves as idiots and exploiters so they swallow the "values thinking" ideas with gusto. As all consultants know, the higher in the company you go the easier it is to sell nonsense. 18 years ago I worked at a then-hot tech company. The leadership team invested a lot of money, time an effort into creating a values-based mission statement. Naturally a consulting firm assisted the processes for a hefty fee. At the end of the exercise a company-wide launch was undertaken with banners and emails and posters and pretty much everything else imaginable. But when I spoke just after the ceremony to the founding EVP about the five company values that were apparently so important, it turned out that he could remember only two - and clearly didn't think it mattered whether or not he knew them. At least he was honest about the whole thing, seeing it merely as a useful fiction to motivate employees to be more creative until such time as they (the employees) were no longer useful to the corporation.
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TUSTIN – Heritage School, an elementary school on the former Tustin Marine base, was slated to open in the fall.
But because of a smaller-than-expected elementary population in nearby homes, the 10-acre school at 15400 Landsdowne Road will not be opening as planned, officials say.
"We would have hoped to open Heritage this fall, but it's just not to be," said Tustin Unified School District spokesman Mark Eliot.
Instead, Tustin's continuation and adult schools will be moved to the $12 million Heritage School site temporarily, along with the nutrition services and special education departments housed now at the district office.
"The plan is to open Heritage, not to turn it into a permanent alternative school," Eliot said. The school district would have lost the land if a school was not built, Eliot said. The restrictions were part of a federal deal conveying the land to the district, officials said.
The administration building, multipurpose room and 20 of the 21 classrooms will be in use, said David Miranda, manager of facilities and planning.
The Columbus Village communities have about 78 elementary-age students, Eliot said. Most of those students are attending Marjorie Veeh Elementary, 1701 San Juan St., and Barbara Benson Elementary, 12712 Elizabeth Way.
"It just doesn't make sense to open a school with that small a number. I don't think any district would do that," Eliot said. Elementary schools in the district have an average of 500 to 600 students.
An estimated 2,105 homes were not built on the former base after the master developer backed out of the 820-acre development deal in July last year. Tustin Legacy Community Partners cited economic conditions.
"The economy, the housing market, were issues that definitely had an impact on opening the school," Eliot said.
Hillview High School's 10.2-acre campus is being converted into six tennis courts and parking space with a bus loop for the Department of Education special education program. The tennis courts at Foothill were removed to make way for a new events center.
Five portables and one main building with six classrooms will remain at the former Hillview site, officials said. The administration portable, a classroom building and a softball field are being removed.
A soccer field at Hillview will be reconfigured to run east-west as a full-sized field for Foothill High athletics, Miranda said.
The Orange County Department of Education's special education program is housed there in six portables that also are being temporarily removed, Eliot said. Those classes will be held in the former science building at Foothill High School.
Officials have not yet decided where Hillview High School, Sycamore High School or Tustin Adult School will end up after construction is completed.
Sycamore High School, an independent study program, and Tustin Adult School had previously been in portable buildings at 13780 Orange St., behind Tustin High School.
About 15 people from the district's nutrition and special education department will move back to the district office in the late fall after two new portables are installed, Eliot said.
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Archaeopteryx lithographica, which was first discovered in southern Germany in 1861, was once known as the world's earliest fossil bird. A series of fossils, each dated to approximately 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period, were about the size of a magpie. It resembled some reptiles and differed from modern birds in many ways, notably: (1) the jaw contained teeth set in sockets, (2) the sternum was short and not keeled, (3) the bones were not pneumatic, (4) the first two metacarpals were free, resulting in three movable digits of the "hand," all with functional claws. Avian characteristics of Archaeopteryx included the possession of feathers and other skeletal features indicating that the creature represented an intermediate stage between reptiles and modern birds. The absence of a keel on the short sternum indicates that Archaeopteryx did not fly but glided. An opposable hallux, indicative of a perching type of foot, and clawed digits on the hand point to an arboreal existence.
However, early in the 21st century, the discovery of Xiaotingia zhengi, a fossilized feathered dinosaur in China that shares several birdlike characteristics with Archaeopteryx, cast doubt on the notion that all birds descended from Archaeopteryx. X. zhengi appears in the fossil record some five million years before Archaeopteryx, and this fact suggests that the single ancestor from which all bird lineages originate has yet to be found.
The other major group of toothed Cretaceous birds, the Odontornithes, included one of the best-known groups of fossil birds, Hesperornis and its relatives. These birds were highly specialized foot-propelled divers of the Late Cretaceous. Hesperornis was up to 1.8 metres (6 feet) long and had completely lost the power of flight. The sternum lacked a keel, the humerus was small and weak, and other elements of the wing were missing entirely. The pelvis and hind limb had a strong but superficial resemblance to those of modern loons and grebes. However, two major features and several less obvious ones indicate that the resemblance was the result of convergent evolution rather than common ancestry. Hesperornis was remarkable for three features. It had (1) teeth set in grooves, not sockets, (2) a stout fourth toe with a unique rotary ball-and-flange type of articulation, and (3) tail (caudal) vertebrae with limited vertical motion, making the tail somewhat beaverlike in its action. Baptornis, a contemporary relative of Hesperornis, was smaller and less strongly modified. Though flightless, its wings were less reduced than Hesperornis, and it lacked the peculiar modifications of the fourth toe and caudal vertebrae.
In the Late Cretaceous also appeared the first modern birds, assigned to the infraclass Neornithes, or Carinata. Living alongside Hesperornis and other Odontornithes was a group of flying birds that included Ichthyornis and Apatornis. Although not related to gulls, these birds resembled them superficially and may well have been their ecological counterparts. It was long believed that Ichthyornis had teeth, like Hesperornis, but it is now thought that the toothed jaws formerly thought to belong to Ichthyornis were really those of a small mosasaur, a marine reptile.
A genetic study of bird lineages estimated that birds began to lose the outer covering of enamel from their teeth, and possibly their teeth as well, some 116 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous. The study also showed that this change was accompanied by an increase in beak development that assisted in the diversification of living birds.


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Exhibit 10.7
This Amendment No. 2 (Amendment) is an amendment to the Employment Agreement, dated January 8, 2007 (the Agreement) between Transaction Network Services, Inc. (Company), a Delaware corporation, and its parent, TNS, Inc. (Parent), a Delaware corporation, on the one hand (collectively, TNS), and James T. McLaughlin (Executive), on the other hand, and is effective March 1, 2012 (the Amendment Effective Date). Any terms used, but not defined, herein, shall have the meanings set forth in the Agreement.
WHEREAS, TNS adopted the TNS, Inc. Executive Severance Benefit Plan, effective as of March 1, 2012, to provide a uniform severance pay and benefit plan to its key management employees, including the Executive, in the event of certain terminations from employment; and
WHEREAS, TNS and the Executive now desire to amend the Agreement to modify certain terms and conditions contained in the Agreement in light of the Executive Severance Benefit Plan and other modifications that the parties consider to be desirable.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing recitals (which form a part of this Amendment), the mutual covenants contained herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties to this Amendment, intending to be legally bound, agree as follows:
1. Term. Section 2 (Term) of the Agreement, as amended, is replaced in its entirety by the following provision:
2. Term. The period of employment and term of this Agreement will be from January 8, 2007 through December 31, 2012, unless sooner terminated as hereinafter set forth (the Term).
This modification is intended to establish a term for the Agreement that expires on December 31, 2012, and to eliminate the successive one-year extensions of the Agreement in the absence of prior written notice of non-renewal by either of the parties to the Agreement (i.e., elimination of the evergreen clause).
2. Termination. Section 6 (Termination of Employment and Effect of Termination) is hereby replaced in its entirety (with the exception of Sections 6(i) and 6(j), which shall remain in effect) by the following provision:
6. Termination of Employment and Effect of Termination. Either Executive or the Company may terminate this Agreement and Executives employment under this Agreement for any or for no reason, either with or without cause, at any time. Executives entitlement to severance pay and benefits upon any such
termination of employment will be governed by the terms and conditions of the TNS, Inc. Executive Severance Benefit Plan, dated as of March 1, 2012, as may be amended from time to time.
For clarity, this modification, among other things, results in the elimination of the excise tax gross-up payment on behalf of the Executive under the Agreement with respect to excess parachute payments under Section 280G of the Internal Revenue Code, and eliminates the continuation of the payment by TNS of club dues as part of the Executives severance benefits upon certain terminations from employment.
3. Definitions. The following additional sentence will be added to the end of Section 7(e) of the Agreement: For purposes of this Section 7, the terms Cause and Good Reason shall have same meaning as Cause and Voluntary resignation for Good Reason under the Executive Severance Benefit Plan.
4. Benefits. Beginning on the Amendment Effective Date, Appendix 1 (Summary of Executive Benefits) to the Agreement is hereby amended by deleting in their entirety Section 6 (Travel Benefits) and Section 7 (Club Membership).
5. Delete Appendix. Beginning on the Amendment Effective Date, Appendix 3 (Severance Agreement and General Release) to the Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety.
6. General. All other terms and conditions of the Agreement remain in full force and effect and applicable to the provisions of services under this Amendment. This Amendment may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original and both of which shall be deemed one and the same instrument. The persons signing below represent and warrant that they are authorized to execute this Amendment on behalf of the respective parties.
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KDHE reports 323,869 Kansans are enrolled in KanCare
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment recently released the first quarterly report to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for KanCare, the state's Medicaid program that started Jan. 1.
The report, which contains financial information through March 31, says that 323,869 people were enrolled in the program at the end of the quarter.
KanCare beneficiaries are divided among three plans, which are managed by Amerigroup, United HealthCare and Sunflower State, a subsidiary of Centene.
The managed care organizations have added "value added services" to the programs they provide, including things like adult dental care, youth organization memberships and cellphones.
The total amount of those services totaled about $1.9 million, according to the report. Sunflower State had the greatest amount of services at about $1.2 million.
Although most issues that have arisen during the transition have been resolved, the report states that one issue that continues is the "timeliness and accuracy of information used via the electronic visit verification, authorization and claims submission process."
The report also stated that during the transition, the state held a series of education meetings throughout the state for both consumers and providers.
A total of 619 people attended consumer meetings; 297 people attended provider meetings; and 92 people attended nursing facility meetings.
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Sounder (2003) DVD Review
The boy (Daniel Lee Robertson III) sees his father (Carl Lumbly) taken away for stealing a ham, out of desperation. Making matters worse, the boy's dog, Sounder, is shot and disappears. The boy goes off to find his father, searching prison after prison, with little luck. On his travels, he runs into a kindly teacher, played by Paul Winfield. Winfield, who played the father in the 1970s film, delivers his last performance with grace and energy.
In his dealings with the teacher, the young protagonist finally learns to read and sees an education as a way out of the difficult life of heavy labor and poverty his family has dealt with.
This remake of Sounder does feel like a retread of many things at its start, but fortunately, it is able to overcome this and deliver on an emotional level. There are some parts near the beginning where one sees the black-and-white clear-cut good/bad mentality that flaws many a film like this. The film doesn't pursue that direction, though, instead focusing on the small triumphs in the face of despair.
Though its subject material may not be particularly original, the film has its heart in the right place. Sounder is not very much about a dog, but about a boy and a family. It's a sad, moving, intimate drama which provides characters more than plot. It's nicely photographed, too.
VIDEO and AUDIO
The film is presented in its original broadcast aspect ratio, 1.33:1. Video quality was nearly flawless, exhibiting a sharpness and cleanness that one would expect from a brand new TV movie. Some night scenes looked a bit grainy, but I'd think that's just the digital video it was shot on. Overall, the video quality was pleasing.
Sounder's audio track is Dolby Digital 5.1. The mix is center-heavy, and the dialogue is conveyed crisply. The bluegrassy score is vibrant and active. The surrounds come to life in outdoor scenes, during an animal chase and developing the ambient sounds of the summer nights.
BONUS FEATURES Previews at the start of the disc are for The Lion King, MXP: Most Xtreme Primate, Air Bud: Spikes Back, The Pennsylvania Miners' Story, and "My Wife & Kids." These are also accessible from the "Sneak Peeks" menu. There are no other special features.
The menus are static 16x9 frames, accompanied by the film's score.
Sounder is given a satisfactory DVD for a benign TV drama. Though there are no bonus features, the audio and video quality were sufficient. So if you would like to own the movie, you'll be glad with this disc and at its new $14.99 SRP, it merits a recommendation.
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but I've hit some road blocks that my prove to be deal breakers.
1. I installed the TRD S/C on my 2006, it ran great, no issues. TRD is claiming there are major changes to the 2010 Tacoma, they have to make a new fit kit for it and the code is not available (what?)
Note: From 2005 to 2010, the 4.0L V6 has not undergone any changes that would drastically change orientation of major parts. Maybe they moved a vacuum line or change the alternator, etc. TRD and Toyota in my opinion are giving some payback to California for the closing of the NUMMI plant in Fremont, CA. They are pissed and are sticking it to the state (people) by not allowing certain cars, trucks, parts, etc. (just my opinion, and I know it's probably not true, but I'm pissed about the 2009/2010 decisions) They claim they need to (or are stalling) on CARB certification for the new parts (what new parts?).
Did someone forget to tell TRD that only the FJ and 4Runner received the new 4.0L, the Tacoma is still running the tried and true 1GRFE ?
2. I had the TRD CAI before the S/C, and even though they say run the stock airbox, I stuck with the TRD and it never gave any issues, actually, truck ran better than another guy around my neighborhood with the stock box and the TRD S/C.
3. I know several people have had their 2009/2010 Tacomas re-flashed and TRD S/C'd by Toyota dealers. However, all of these individuals are in states other than CA. Not good.
4. TRD claims with the TRD S/C and the re-flash, the truck won't pass smog. That's odd, my 2006 passed CA Smog (tested at friends shop), hell, I could have probably removed the cats, it was so low on the scale.
5. I don't care if I get a 2008, 2009, 2010 Tacoma, but I would like to swap all my parts over (coilovers, leafs, shocks, TRD S/C, CAI, wheels, tires, tonneau cover, etc) without having to jump through hoops and begging Toyota to allow me (TRD stuff).
Looking for: Tacoma, TRD Off Road, Access Cab, 6MT, Towing, Silver Streak Micah or Magnetic Grey (09). Almost impossible to find, I guess nobody drives a manual trans, add the Access Cab and it's a rare truck.
=D Sorry to vent, just disappointed.


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