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An estimate of equilibrium sensitivity of global terrestrial carbon cycle using NCAR CCSM4
- G. Bala,
- Sujith Krishna,
- Devaraju Narayanappa,
- Long Cao,
- Ken Caldeira,
- Ramakrishna Nemani
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Increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2 influence climate, terrestrial biosphere productivity and ecosystem carbon storage through its radiative, physiological and fertilization effects. In this paper, we quantify these effects for a doubling of CO2 using a low resolution configuration of the coupled model NCAR CCSM4. In contrast to previous coupled climate-carbon modeling studies, we focus on the near-equilibrium response of the terrestrial carbon cycle. For a doubling of CO2, the radiative effect on the physical climate system causes global mean surface air temperature to increase by 2.14 K, whereas the physiological and fertilization on the land biosphere effects cause a warming of 0.22 K, suggesting that these later effects increase global warming by about 10 % as found in many recent studies. The CO2-fertilization leads to total ecosystem carbon gain of 371 Gt-C (28 %) while the radiative effect causes a loss of 131 Gt-C (~10 %) indicating that climate warming damps the fertilization-induced carbon uptake over land. Our model-based estimate for the maximum potential terrestrial carbon uptake resulting from a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration (285–570 ppm) is only 242 Gt-C. This highlights the limited storage capacity of the terrestrial carbon reservoir. We also find that the terrestrial carbon storage sensitivity to changes in CO2 and temperature have been estimated to be lower in previous transient simulations because of lags in the climate-carbon system. Our model simulations indicate that the time scale of terrestrial carbon cycle response is greater than 500 years for CO2-fertilization and about 200 years for temperature perturbations. We also find that dynamic changes in vegetation amplify the terrestrial carbon storage sensitivity relative to a static vegetation case: because of changes in tree cover, changes in total ecosystem carbon for CO2-direct and climate effects are amplified by 88 and 72 %, respectively, in simulations with dynamic vegetation when compared to static vegetation simulations.
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- Title
- An estimate of equilibrium sensitivity of global terrestrial carbon cycle using NCAR CCSM4
- Journal
Climate Dynamics
Volume 40, Issue 7-8 , pp 1671-1686
- Cover Date
- 2013-04-01
- 10.1007/s00382-012-1495-9
- Print ISSN
- 0930-7575
- Online ISSN
- 1432-0894
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Climate change
- Terrestrial carbon cycle
- CO2-physiological effect
- CO2-fertilization
- Carbon cycle feedback
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- G. Bala (1)
- Sujith Krishna (1)
- Devaraju Narayanappa (1)
- Long Cao (2)
- Ken Caldeira (3)
- Ramakrishna Nemani (4)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Divecha Center for Climate Change, Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
- 2. Department of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, Zhejiang Province, China
- 3. Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- 4. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, 94035, USA


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There are a lot of ASP.NET web forms developers out there who admit that they simply don't "get it" when it comes to all the hubbub surrounding ASP.NET MVC. In some ways, I can sympathize with them. The vocal minority that raves about ASP.NET MVC gush about it with such zeal that they make it sound like you'd have to be a fool not to switch over. In actuality, the decision isn't nearly as black and white.
ASP.NET web forms aren't going anywhere. As much as I love ASP.NET MVC, it is not the end-all-be-all one-size-fits-all solution to web development. Both of these approaches have their rightful place in a web developer's toolbox and it's important to recognize their strengths and weaknesses. In general, the ASP.NET MVC framework tends to sacrafice ease-of-use (e.g. viewstate, validation, etc.) in order give developers tighter control over the reins. This can be a great thing, but only if you take advantage of it. Otherwise it can just as easily be a hindrance.
With that in mind, I have developed a quick metric to determine if ASP.NET MVC is right for you. The way I see it, there are three primary reasons a developer should choose the ASP.NET MVC framework over ASP.NET web forms. If none of these reasons are compelling to you, then you should stick with ASP.NET web forms:
To Unit Test
This, in my opinion, is the most compelling reason to use ASP.NET MVC. When it comes to unit testing, ASP.NET MVC simply blows ASP.NET web forms out of the water. It's not even close. Whereas ASP.NET web forms requires you to jump through all sorts of hoops to test around the page event lifecycle, the ASP.NET MVC framework practically begs to be tested. There are interfaces everywhere screaming "mock me!".
There's a reason why the biggest ASP.NET MVC supporters also tend to be TDD proponents; it's because ASP.NET MVC actually allows for TDD. Personally, I think this is where all the zeal comes from. Simply put: it's really, really hard to do TDD with ASP.NET web forms and really, really easy to do it in ASP.NET MVC.
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As pointed out in the comments, ASP.NET MVC gives you more control and extensibility options than ASP.NET web forms. You get complete control over the page request lifecycle and the ability to substitute out several key pieces of the framework (e.g. view engine, routing, etc.), none of which is possible with ASP.NET web forms.
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So there you have it. Aside from those three, I can't think of any other reasons why a developer would learn ASP.NET MVC. Maybe this is why the adoption rate isn't nearly as high as we think it should be. The incentive for using the framework essentially boils down to unit testing, control/extensibility, and boredom/curiosity. Good reasons, to be sure, but hardly game breakers for the vast majority of developers out there.
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1st July 2007
3:10 to Yuma
5:10 PM — Back in the 1950s, it was practically impossible to go to the cinema without being confronted with posters for movies about men in wide-brimmed hats with six-shooters at their waists.Where today it's science fiction and superheroes dominating the box office, with every other film seeming to have some kind of fantastical computer-generated special effect or other, in the fifties it was the Western that was king.
A Mighty Heart
5:10 PM — Six years after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Hollywood has begun to gear up to critical approaches to the War on Terror. In the last couple of years we've had the sentimental looks at the attacks themselves in World Trade Center and United 93; now A Mighty Heart takes us into the aftermath, and the impact of America's swift response. Over the next 12 months will come a glut of films looking at life in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the machinations behind the scenes in the world's latest war.
Death Proof
5:10 PM — Sometimes even the biggest names in cinema can get it wrong. When uber-producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein - the chaps responsible for such mega-hits as Sin City, Chicago, Cold Mountain, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill - decided to team up with best buddy directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez to create the ultimate cool, experimental cult movie, few would have predicted an impending commercial disaster. Though Rodriguez and Tarantino may not be to everyone's taste, they each have a vast and loyal fanbase - a smash hit seemed all but inevitable.
Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution
5:10 PM — Catherine Tate is a bizarre phenomenon. Her rise over the last few years has been so rapid that the expression "meteoric" seems to have been made for it.She's now a big enough name that pretty much everyone in Britain has surely heard of her, but for those who haven't watched her BBC2 comedy sketch series, modestly entitled The Catherine Tate Show, the precise nature of her talents seems a little vague.
Michael Clayton
5:10 PM — This latest outing from George Clooney is another of the character pieces in which he is beginning to specialise - a close study of one flawed man up against overwhelming odds.After taking on similar parts in the likes of Syriana and The Good German, and having directed films revolving around the same basic concept in Good Night and Good Luck and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, it seems that this is becoming Clooney's personal trademark.
5th June 2007
Ocean's Thirteen
5:32 PM — After the dire second outing in the Steven Soderbergh/George Clooney caper series, it looked rather as if the magic had gone. Not only that, but some began to question the very concept of movies with massive ensemble casts, made up largely of A-list actors. After all, how many massive egos can any screenwriter realistically accommodate while maintaining a coherent and entertaining script?Of course, the first Ocean's Eleven film - at least, the first in the Soderbergh series, as it was a remake of a 1960s classic - was a real treat.
5:32 PM — If you're a fan of psycho killer thrillers, this should be right up your street. It's classic, almost clichéd slasher movie material.Young couple getting lost in a remote part of the countryside? Check. Car breaks down? Check.They find a remote motel in which to spend the night? Check. It all turns out to be a bit creepy and they end up having to run for their lives? Check.
Lucky You
5:32 PM — The fact that this much-delayed gambling-based love story was originally supposed to be released nine months ago says much.Movies that have their release dates put back, the general rule goes, are never much cop - but when the film in question was intended to be a comeback vehicle for not just one, but three erstwhile next big things, you know that somewhere in Hollywood, the gods of faltering careers are having a field day.
Le Vie En Rose
5:32 PM — The role of Edith Piaf must count as one of the most challenging real-life potrayals that any French actress could hope for.One of those classic legends in her own lifetime, her rise from obscure poverty to international stardom came on the brink of the Second World War - a war in which she was to play an active part, not just as the best-known voice of France, but also as an active participant in the French Resistance.
Shrek the Third
5:32 PM — Since the first appearance of the big green ogre with the odd Scottish accent back in 2001, Shrek has achieved an enviable place as one of the best loved and most successful animated characters in recent Hollywood history.Both films to date have achieved that rare feat of appealing as much to adults as to the kids, creating that scarcest of all cinematic phenomena - a truly pan-generational movie.
26th May 2007
9:34 AM — When former music video director David Fincher made the shift from making promos for the likes of Madonna, Sting and George Michael - most famously Vogue and Englishman in New York - he seemed determined to get away from the kind of 80s pop music camp with which he'd previously been associated.His first big Hollywood flick was the decidedly unpleasant Alien 3 - the one where Sigourney Weaver finds that humans can be just as bad as the Aliens she'd been battling in the previous two films, if not worse.
The Tiger's Tail
9:34 AM — Just a week before Buena Vista does its big budget blockbuster thing again with the third Pirates of the Caribbean film, the studio better known as Disney's distribution wing is out to show that the Mouse can do serious, indie-flavoured movies as well. Of course, no film put out by a company as vast as Disney can ever truly be considered indie, but with near-legendary director John Boorman at the helm, and with the actual production handled by two tiny British and Irish companies, it's fair to give The Tiger's Tale the benefit of the doubt.
Black Snake Moan
9:34 AM — It's a well known rule of the movies that it's damned tough being a former child star. Hollywood is littered with tales of one-time cute kiddie actors and actresses who have ended up fading into obscurity, going off the rails or both.There's the famous likes of Drew Barrymore, who somehow managed to resuscitate her career after a heavy drugs problem, having shot to fame aged three in ET.
9:34 AM — It may not have won Martin Scorsese an Oscar, but his epic period biopic The Aviator does, at least, seem to have had a bit of an impact on Hollywood.The spectacular flying sequences during the recreations of the filming of director Howard Hughes' classic First World War film Hell's Angels were amongst the best in Scorsese's impressive film, and they appear to have revived the film industry's interest in the heroic dogfights of the age of biplanes.
25th October 2006
The Devil Wears Prada
12:00 AM — Few people who work on the editorial side of the magazine business have to worry about much more than the irritation of dealing with PR people, outdated computer systems, and the ever-approaching deadlines. There is one small but prestigious section, however, in which every working moment threatens to be a nightmare, where appearance is even more important than ability, and contacts more vital than talent. They may be a tiny minority of journalists, but for those who work on glossy women's magazines, this film promises to be every bit as cringe-making and difficult to watch through painful recognition as The Office was for the rest of us.
The Departed
12:00 AM — After a string of successes of remakes of recent Japanese cult hits like The Ring and The Grudge, Hollywood seems finally to be turning its eye to Hong Kong for material.As the Mecca for extravagant and imaginative action flicks for more than three decades, much has been pilfered from Hong Kong cinema in the past - including the director John Woo and actors like Bruce Lee, Maggie Chung and Jackie Chan. Rarely, however, has Hollywood attempted an outright remake of a Hong Kong hit.
Marie-Antoinette 2
12:00 AM — Despite the fact that she's both richer and more successful than any of us can imagine, it's hard not to feel sorry for Sofia Coppola.If it wasn't bad enough to have one of the late 20th Century's greatest film directors as a father, ensuring that any initial forays she made into cinema would be dismissed as merely "Francis Ford Coppola's daughter imitating daddy", she first came into the public eye as a late replacement in one of her father's own films.
History Boys
12:00 AM — Since opening in London in May 2004, Alan Bennett's first play in 12 years, of which this film is an adaptation, has sold out at almost every venue over hundreds of performances, winning countless awards - from Oliviers to Tonys - along the way.Bennett may well be one of Britain's best-loved playwrights, but rarely has even he met with such success.
26th July 2006
Pirates Of The Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
12:00 AM — Though the commercial success of a film which saw the mighty Disney team up with mega-producer Jerry Bruckheimer and an array of well-known actors was pretty much guaranteed, the critical success of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie was anything but. Though the commercial success of a film which saw the mighty Disney team up with mega-producer Jerry Bruckheimer and an array of well-known actors was pretty much guaranteed, the critical success of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie was anything but.
The Break Up
12:00 AM — Considering the title and the stars, this could hardly be more perfect gossip magazine material. Following her very public divorce from Brad Pitt, this is one of ex-Friends star Jennifer Aniston's first big screen outings - her break up followed by The Break Up.To add to the delight of those who thrive on celebrity tittle-tattle and rumour, it was while making this movie that Aniston started dating her co-star, Vince Vaughn - who just happens to be one of her ex-husband's friends.


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DELTONA, FLA. Author and former Adirondack Journal columnist Andy Ray Campanaro, 68, who was raised in Chestertown, died June 2, 2012 in the Halifax Health Hospice facility, Orange City, Fla., of congestive heart failure after living an adventurous, freewheeling life.
An author of several books and hundreds of news articles and columns, Campanaro was known to people in northern Warren County for his colorful accounts of life growing up in the Chestertown area.
Most of these stories were published, from the late 1980s through early 1990s, in his Voice from the Wilderness column for the Adirondack Journal.
Andy Ray Campanaro was born Aug. 17, 1943 in Glens Falls to Thelma Elaine Smith and Angelo Campanaro.
An avid reader since he was in primary school, Campanaro's writing career began at the age of 10, writing articles for Kurt Rhode's weekly Chestertown summer newspaper.
He graduated from Chestertown High School in 1960, and received a degree the following May from Royal Barber School of Schenectady Shortly after, he worked with his father barbering in Chestertown until entering the U.S. Army in February, 1962. Campanaro married Flora Jane Morehouse Sept 1, 1962 in St. Cecilia's Catholic Church in Warrensburg.
He served in the U.S. Army overseas and in New York City in ordnance and military intelligence until 1965.
After leaving the Army, Campanaro attended Daytona Beach Junior College where he started to develop his pungent, concise writing style. He wrote for various literary magazines and newspapers including the Daytona Beach News-Journal. He published his first work of fiction in 1968.
In 1969, Campanaro worked for the Daytona Beach News-Journal as a police reporter. Later, he attended Florida State University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree while working part-time for several newspapers, including The Orlando Sentinel, and the Tampa Tribune.
After graduating from FSU in 1972, he served briefly as a correspondent for the Glens Falls Post-Star. After working for several other newspapers, he changed careers in 1978 and sold farm machinery in the Florida Everglades. That same year, he married Catherine Janean Gilbert in West Palm Beach, Fla.
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It's that time of year when University Housing begins to welcome the class of 2019 to campus and into the residence halls. We know you want to see more than your orientation room in Creswell Hall, so we've orginized a summer tour program specifically for first-year and transfer orientation participants.
A record fifteen of our halls, including Family and Graduate Housing, will be available for tours on day 2 of first-year orientation June 2 through July 30. On transfer orientation days, McWhorter Hall, an apartment-style space in East Campus Village, and Brown Hall on the Health Sciences Campus will be avaliable for tours.
Residence hall tours are drop-in and open to everyone. Check out our Tour the Halls page for more specifics.
Summer is Coming....
All residents with academic year contracts must check out of their rooms 24 hours after their last final exam or no later than May 9 at noon (whichever comes first).
Residents of Busbee, McWhorter, and Vandiver halls planning to move out at the end of the spring semester need to cancel their residence hall contract in the Housing Assignments Office no later than April 28 and follow the instructions below. For information about cancellation fees please contact the Housing Assignments Office or refer to your residence hall contract.
Residents must schedule an appointment time in advance for checkout. Community and hall-specific instructions for scheduling appointments will be sent via email. All personal belongings must be removed prior to the checkout appointment.
There is a $25 fee for improper and/or unscheduled checkouts. Ask your RA if you have questions about this procedure.
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Dr. James "Jim" Day served as executive director of University Housing from 1990 to 2006. Dr. Day conceived and initially funded the University Housing Scholarship Fund to assist students with financial need offset the cost of on-campus housing. In recognition of his devoted service to the University of Georgia and in honor of his personal commitment to helping secure financial assistance for students, the scholarship was perpetually named the Jim Day Housing Scholarship Fund upon his retirement.
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Throwing the words "music" and "movie" in the title of his new album was nice of John Erik Kaada, though completely unnecessary. You don't have to be John Williams to realize that the Norwegian musician has created an album suited to farewells at rain-soaked train platforms, afternoons spent lingering over photos of deceased relatives, and other scenes best captured in tasteful slo-mo. On the opener, "Smiger," voices emulate the creaking vibrato of strings to such a degree that they're effectively lost within the pleading cello. The guise is so convincing that when the singers occasionally peek through, their humanness is unsettling. Vocals are used almost exclusively as nonverbal instruments, although "Mainstreaming" squeezes in some ninth-century Muslim scripture.
Kaada works well with the archaic, having recorded Moviebikers with the help of more than 20 musicians playing unusual antique-shop finds (tannerin, dulcitone, psaltery), in addition to more traditional strings and percussion. As a result, the songs have a certain timelessness, sounding at one moment as if they could score a Capra film, the next like a hit soundtrack from something at this year's Sundance. (Musical saw never really falls out of style, does it?) But for all its delicate elegance, this incidental music ultimately feels just that—incidental. Without a storyline to escort it, the album starts to drag long before you reach the 13th (and final) track. Kaada excels at setting a wistful mood but provides no plot development. If this is a test of my cinematic imagination, I think I just failed.
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|The Results of Training
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|February 22, 2007
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The Results of Training (修行の成果, Shugyō no Seika) is episode 3 of the Naruto: Shippūden anime.
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Naruto, though Kakashi hasn't officially started the test yet, begins attacking Kakashi with his shadow clones to catch Kakashi, who has his Sharingan activated, off-guard. Jiraiya, Tsunade, Shizune who are shown watching the bell test, as well as Kakashi, have seen Naruto's improvement with its timing. Naruto's attempt to catch Kakashi off-guard fails and Kakashi officially started the test.
Sasori and Deidara easily enter Sunagakure after Yūra, Sasori's spy killed the guards on the entrance. Creating a large clay bird as transportation, Deidara proceeds to find the jinchūriki of Shukaku, Gaara.
Kakashi begins to attack using taijutsu, and he (as well as Jiraiya, Tsunade and Shizune) notes Naruto and Sakura's improvement as team. Deidara manages to incapacitate the scouts who watched the skies above Sunagakure with his explosive clays. Meanwhile, Naruto and Sakura are able to release themselves from genjutsu. Kakashi realises that his old tricks won't work anymore. Back to Sunagakure, Gaara finally faces Deidara, who thought that his infiltration was successful.


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This stitched sampler is considered an intermediate design because it is stitched on a fine count of linen. If you'd like to make it easier, simply stitch it on the fabric of your choosing. This cross stitch pattern has an old-time feel to it that parents and grandparents would enjoy.
- 7" x 8" piece of 35-count white linen, or your favorite fabric
- #28 Tapestry needle
- Kreinik Silk Mori in colors: 5097, 5055, 7014, 4166, 6106, 7012, 3013
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- If stitching on linen, each square on the chart equals two fabric threads.
- Stitch over two threads centered on your linen using one strand of Silk Mori for all cross stitches following color key.
- Use one strand of Silk Mori 6106 to backstitch the word "Summer" and one strand of Silk Mori 5097 to backstitch the windows.
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The Cedar Valley Produce Auction in Mitchell County was buzzing Friday morning with news of the Iowa Supreme Court ruling on steel wheel tractors. / Kyle Munson/The Register
MITCHELL COUNTY, IA. — The call came at 8:39 a.m. Friday on a foggy morning in far northern Iowa — as if a commentary on the haze that has lingered here over this issue for more than two years.
Daniel Zimmerman, a Mennonite farmer, picked up the phone inside one of his 3,000-square-foot greenhouses situated along the southern edge of Mitchell County. At the other end of the line was his attorney in Mason City, Colin Murphy.
"I'm doing fine," Zimmerman said. "Maybe I'll be doing better if I hear what you've got to say."
Turns out the farmer was happy to hear Murphy's news: The seven justices of the Iowa Supreme Court struck down Mitchell County's 2009 ordinance prohibiting the steel wheels used by Mennonites. The court explained in a 29-page unanimous opinion written by Justice Edward Mansfield that "religious rights prevail" and that the county should be able to protect its roads with a less restrictive ordinance, "without banning the tractors used by the Mennonites."
For the last two years, Zimmerman's oldest of four children, Matthew, now 15, has starred in a court battle over religious freedom. The teenager was cited Feb. 1, 2010, for driving his steel-cleated Massey Ferguson tractor on one of the county's freshly paved roads. The case became the legal forum for the broader cultural rift: Mitchell County's three supervisors and attorney stiffened local road laws, they say, to protect $16 million and 60 miles worth of new paving. Meanwhile, the 110 or so Old Order Groffdale Mennonite families who have flocked here in recent decades pleaded for some sort of compromise to preserve what they feel is a crucial religious observance.
The latest milestone arrived in October when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in front of 360 people in nearby Mason City.
For the umpteenth time: The Mennonites with their steel cleats aim to ensure that tractors remain agricultural implements and do not evolve into convenient transportation that might scatter their tight-knit communities.
So Zimmerman hung up the greenhouse phone and slapped his hands together with a single, triumphant clap.
"It makes me feel good, but there's people on the other side of this thing that also concern me," he qualified. "Too bad it came to this point."
We strolled from the greenhouse back to the farmhouse, where Matthew was indoors after his morning hog chores.
"You're off the hook, man!" father said to son as we entered the kitchen.
True to his nature, Matthew digested the news with a calm and quiet demeanor.
"Now that's gone, I guess," he grinned.
Alas, maybe not.
Zimmerman's lawyer, Murphy, said that the unanimous opinion "was a tribute to the importance of the issue and the court's views on religious freedom."
But Mitchell County's attorney, Mark Walk, pointed out during a news conference at his office in Osage that the ordinance, essentially a tougher version of state law, had been ever so slightly revised in 2010 — reworded to prohibit steel wheels that cause damage rather than a blanket ban on all steel-wheel traffic. In his view, that falls in line with the Supreme Court's opinion.
In other words, the county isn't backing down. They'll continue to issue citations. A private investigator remains on duty — $2,400 for 120 hours of work so far — to troll roads for violators. (A total of 13 citations have been issued to date, most recently Dec. 30, according to the sheriff's office.)
Walk also contacted the Nyemaster law firm in Des Moines to discuss a possible appeal of Friday's ruling. If a new case crops up, the county attorney anticipates that "three years from now we'll be back up at the Supreme Court again arguing whether the new statute and state law both are constitutional."
Mark Kende, a legal analyst without a dog in this fight as director of Drake University's Constitutional Law Center, declared "a pretty big victory for the Mennonite side."
"I guess I'd be a bit cautious, if I were the county," he added, "to assume that a tweak (to the ordinance) was going to be enough. … If I were the county I'd be pretty hesitant to move forward too aggressively."
At least a fleeting sense of closure circulated Friday among local Mennonites. Before even walking into the farmhouse, Zimmerman dialed up Eli Zimmerman (no direct relation) at his welding shop, since his neighbor had testified on his behalf in district court.
"It's good to see there's still some salt left on the earth, if you know what I mean," was Eli's reaction to the ruling when I later visited his shop. Coincidentally, he was busy crafting more steel cleats, which represent about one-third of his business.
"I didn't testify just so I can keep building steel wheels — don't get that idea," he guffawed.
The Cedar Valley Produce Auction just north of Eli's shop (and just across the Howard County line) was abuzz Friday morning with plant sales as well as news of the Supreme Court opinion. The auction serves as an example of what this influx of Mennonite farmers has meant to the local economy — attracting customers from the Twin Cities and Kansas City, as well as throughout the state. Mennonites, Amish and "the English" mingle to everybody's benefit.
Sadly, the mindset of the produce auction seems frustratingly impossible to transplant to the Mitchell County Courthouse.
Zimmerman admitted fearing two years ago that he might look stupid to the rest of his Mennonite community and Iowans at large.
"If we all just keep doing things like we fear, eventually we'll be just like any other Third World country," he said. "The power part of government can put that fear in people, and once that takes over they can control it."
Sometimes a stirring lesson in democracy can be learned in a rural Iowa greenhouse rather than the local courthouse. Seeds of change, indeed.
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The sun was at its time to start its slumber; slowly it touched the horizon. Its light grew dull giving the world an orange glow. The ground was still and the air was silent. Though the beautiful glow cast over, weary eyes saw dullness. Nothing was inviting for the eyes. They cast down to the ground where there laid two slots of uneven dirt. The eyes were fused with anger but something softened the look.
She fisted the two beautiful large stone in her hands. She felt the smooth, flawless texture. She let her sore fingers drop the rocks on the ground. Unsheathing her blade, she carefully touched the tip of her sword to the rock. Her hands were shaking; the ache was taking over her chest. She placed her bottom lip in between her teeth and bit down, causing the shaking to cease. She grabbed her sword at the end and slowly began carving the names of her deceased friends. She felt herself shaking as she finished one of the names. She bit down on her lip once more. Once she finished, she placed the stones at the end of the graves.
The stones at the head of the graves had their names engraved beautifully. The scarlet head stumbled to her knees at the foot of the graves. A sting surged through her and her body trembled. She gripped her chest in hopes to end the sting but it grew more intense. She was alone; she trembled more. No one was left in her world, no one she truly cared for- She stared in blankness at the two slots. Images rushed in her mind and her lips quivered. The distinctive smiles between the two.
"I could've prevented this," she whispered. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm so..sorry," she repeated. Warmness streamed down her cheeks. She greedily wiped away the unwanted tears but to her misfortune, more replaced them. She fisted her hands and pounded on the ground; her knuckles reddened at the contact. "Forgive me.."
Pressure made its way to her shoulders and ended her soft sobs. Hands gripped her but the hands were different from one another. A rush swarmed around her and their presence was noted. Everything around her took a halt. Her breath was trapped in her throat and a warm chill traveled down her spine.
"What are you doing?" a sly voice asked.
"You've never been the one to cry," a hoarse voice added.
Edith's eyes widened at their voices. She quickly snapped her head over her shoulder. Her sights found a dirt road, buildings in ruins, but no living being. The ache drilled in her chest. The pressure on her shoulders vanished but warmness was left. The warm chill however travelled through her skin. Her eyebrows centered; she blamed herself. Something internally ignited in her; she was becoming hollow. The corners of her lips tugged down; the villainous creature behind the war was going to be taken down. He took away the precious friendship she had and her emotions were beginning to fade. She was alone-


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Story still very much alive. They had a piece about this on CNN this morning.
Apparently he keeps saying he didn't know anything about this and really loved this girl (he never met), and that she "died" in September, and then she called him in December and said she faked her own death because of some drug dealers, and that's when he got suspicious and told the Notre Dame management about it and they started investigating. Hmm...
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I found out that selecting recovery mode in grub but then resuming the normal boot, there aren't any issues at all anymore. So what are the differences between normal boot and recovery boot except for no "quiet splash" but "recovery in the grub command line?
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This dish is delicious, and so easy with Campbell's® Cream of Mushroom Soup.
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