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Maybe it was too much to hope for, that Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and Michigan's labor unions could maintain a civil, constructive relationship, as they did in the early months of Snyder's term last year.
But those hopes are pretty well dashed now, as evidenced by the fact that the UAW came very close to jumping into bed with Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel (Matty) Moroun's scorched-earth campaign to block a new Snyder-backed public bridge between Michigan and Canada.
When I talked to UAW President Bob King about that Saturday, King acknowledged that the UAW had been approached by supporters of the Moroun-instigated Proposal 6 on the November election ballot, which is designed to require a public vote on the New International Trade Crossing (NITC).
Then I asked King whether he was on the cusp of supporting Prop 6 before encountering a wave of heated objections last week from businesses, other labor leaders and politicians of both parties.
King replied: "We gave it serious consideration, and after several internal discussions. ... It was decided the best thing was to stay focused on getting a 'yes' on Proposal 2," a separate ballot issue seeking to buttress collective-bargaining rights and prevent Michigan from becoming a right-to-work state.
King spelled out several concerns he has about the NITC, including whether union workers and U.S. workers will get a fair shot at jobs created by the project. And he said there is no quid pro quo of financial support from Moroun in return for the UAW's neutrality on Proposal 6.
But what's crystal clear is that King and the UAW's relationship with Snyder has deteriorated badly, a situation that poses dangers for Michigan's fragile economic recovery.
Snyder told me as much Friday in a phone interview from New York, where he met with bond rating agencies that expressed concern with several Michigan ballot proposals.
Snyder said labor-backed Prop 2 is especially worrisome. It would be devastating, he said. "Very detrimental." And it would have "a negative impact of $1 billion a year" on the state.
King said Snyder could have headed off Prop 2, but instead signed several anti-labor bills, including what King called a "petty" law passed by Republican legislators to prohibit school districts from collecting union dues for teachers. "That kind of destroyed his credibility with labor," King said.
King also said he was disappointed in Snyder for not denouncing anti-Prop-2 ads suggesting that its passage would eliminate protections against pedophiles in classrooms.
This backbiting is a far cry from Snyder's early months in office, when his administration and the UAW reached what King called a fair win-win labor agreement for state workers. When King delivered a speech at the Mackinac Policy Conference in June 2011 without ever criticizing Snyder by name, he told me afterward, "I'm trying to change him, not hurt him."
Snyder's nonconfrontational stance with labor early in his term -- he said he did not want to see a right-to-work bill on his desk, calling it too "divisive" -- stood in marked contrast to angry showdowns with public-sector unions provoked by the new Republican governor in nearby Wisconsin, Scott Walker
Now, though, the gloves are off, and that poses dangers for both sides.
King and organized labor may be doing themselves more harm than good, if Proposal 2 goes down to defeat and prompts angry backlash from the Republican-controlled Legislature.
And the last thing Snyder needs, en route to his reinvention of Michigan's economy, is an all-out war with organized labor that would conjure up the ghosts of the state's militant labor image of days past.
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A day after they filed it, Hamilton Countys commissioners dropped their suit against Juvenile Court Judge Tracie Hunter, hoping instead to resolve the issue with discussions.
As we speak, a commissioner (Todd Portune, a Democrat) is talking to Judge Hunter to see if shes willing to drop this illegal entry ... without having a court say its an illegal order, Republican Commissioner Greg Hartmann said Friday afternoon.
We want to see if there is a way we to do this without court filings.
Portune, however, did not talk her out of the hire Friday. Im just trying to figure out whats going on, he said. He said commissioners will meet in executive session with their attorney around 11 a.m. Monday to discuss what to do.
So although Hunters order still stands, the hire has not yet been made and everything remains on hold until at least Monday.
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Hunter didnt immediately return Friday calls.
The dismissal is the latest in a flurry of activity legal and political this week after Hunter issued a court order demanding the hire of a second court administrator who would report directly to her.
Every court in Hamilton County has one administrator. Hunter believes the current Juvenile Court Administrator, Curt Kissinger, is too close to the other Juvenile Court Judge, Republican John Williams, and doesnt treat her equally.
She asked for her friend, attorney Wende Cross, to be hired as a second court administrator, making the same $106,900 annual salary as Kissinger, to report directly to her.
The commissioners hired a private attorney Wednesday who filed Thursday court documents seeking to prevent Hunters order demanding Cross hiring from taking effect.
The reason we immediately filed suit is we had to protect our employee, Hartmann said.
Hunter asked Juvenile Court Human Resources Director Laura Wickett to offer Cross the job. When Wickett said she didnt have the authority to offer someone a job that didnt exist and wasnt funded, Hunter filed a court order demanding the hire.
Hunters order came as the Juvenile Courts $18 million budget is proposed to be cut by about $2.8 million next year.
Hunter, a Democrat, has battled Williams since the two ran for the same judgeship in 2010. Williams initially won by 23 votes but after a lawsuit was filed, a judge ordered counted questioned votes that hadnt been counted. When they were, Hunter won the election.
Williams later was appointed to his judgeship after Judge Karla Grady resigned.
In a radio interview this week, Hunter said she picked Cross for the job because of her awesome legal reputation.
Cross was an assistant federal prosecutor who was set to become a federal magistrate until a background check revealed she hadnt disclosed she was married to a convicted felon.
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At San Lucas Mission, participants will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the Guatemalan culture, as well as build relationships with the community of San Lucas. Father Greg, a Minnesota native is the founder of the mission. Student work may include, but is not limited to the following: assisting in cooperative community projects such as helping with the reforestation project, sorting coffee, assisting families on their land, and helping to restore buildings that are in desperate need of repair.
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- Travel: The group will fly from Minneapolis to Guatemala City. Once there, transportation will be provided to San Lucas Mission.
- Lodging: The group will be staying in one of the hotels near the mission during the week (See blue squares on map).
- Food: Some meals are provided at the mission so you have the opportunity to dine with other volunteers and guests from the mission. They will include some traditional Guatemalan dishes (red square is the mission). If the mission staff have the day off (due to Holy Week) then SNAP funds will be provided for meals.
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Bankers group to support charity in 3 new US locations
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Last autumn, Mortgage Bankers Association President and CEO David Stevens announced that his organization had created a new, nonprofit entity -- MBA Open Doors Foundation -- to be the umbrella operating unit for all the MBA's philanthropic activities.
The first charity the MBA chose to support was Spare Key, a Bloomington, Minn., nonprofit that helps families with critically ill or injured children by making a mortgage payment on their behalf.
"Helping families who are current on their mortgage but under incredible financial pressure while dealing with the hardest emotional challenge a parent could ever have is just the right thing to do," said Sarah Tinsley Demarest, executive director of the MBA's new charitable group.
"Parents want to be with their child, but they also want to hold on to their home. This gift allows a parent to do that, so they don't fall behind on their mortgage."
Demarest added, "It's for parents who are maxed out on taking leave from work. (It allows them to spend more) time with their child in the hospital."
Spare Key is a unique program founded in 1997 by Patsy and Robb Keech, whose son was born with a genetic birth defect and endured many hospitalizations during the first two years of his life. The Keeches were torn between wanting to be with their child in the hospital and going to work to maintain financial stability.
They chose to be with their son, so family, friends and strangers raised money during this time of crisis to pay the Keeches' mortgage so they wouldn't lose their home.
After their son died, the Keeches vowed to help other families in Minnesota who were in the same straits, and that was the start of Spare Key.
In 2010, Spare Key made 140 payments; in 2011, it made a record 201 payments.
Spare Key makes only one mortgage payment per family in a calendar year.
"We know, for families in more dire financial straits, this may not be exactly what they need, but for those families who need a bit more time in the hospital, who need a little bit more money in their pocket, who need that extra support, it's what we do," said Erin Werde, Spare Key's director of development and communications.
The one qualification to be eligible for Spare Key is that the a child must be in the hospital at least 21 out of the past 90 days, which means the charity serves kids that are at the more severe end of illness of injury. Of the children assisted, 47 percent had birth defects, 16 percent cancer, 13 percent prematurity, and 10 percent leukemia and accidents. About 75 percent of the Spare Key children are under 5.
In October, Werde got a call from a mother who lived in northern Minnesota, in a rural area far from a hospital. Her daughter, 6, had been complaining of headaches, which turned out to be brain tumors. Not only did the mother and daughter have to travel from northern Minnesota to Minneapolis -- they also traveled to Boston for treatments. Spare Key paid for a month's mortgage. As for the girl, she's doing much better.
Generally, the initial contacts with families are through hospital social workers. "We've been around the community long enough now that we have been able to form great relationships at the hospitals," Werde said.
"When a pediatric social worker sees a child has been in the hospital for an extended period of time, (the worker knows to) refer the families to Spare Key."
A family fills out an application, which can be obtained from the social worker or online, and then the Spare Key program director verifies all of the information: whether the family is current on the mortgage; length of hospital stay; and even that the house is actually located in the state of Minnesota.
Once those things are in place, a program committee reviews the application to double-check whether it fits Spare Key's criteria. When all that happens, Spare Key will make a mortgage payment with a cap of $1,200 directly to the mortgage company.
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Residents prepare for Balinese New Year with peace offering along the coast
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- March 28, 2014
DARWIN'S Balinese community will prepare for their new year by making a peace offering and cleansing the soul.
They will gather at Casuarina Beach tonight to offer food to the gods of the sea.
Wayan Chambers said it was only the second time the community group had come together for a Melis ceremony.
"Normally you would take statues from the temple and put them in the water to clean," she said.
"We make the offering of food for balance, so there can be good catches for fishermen, and because Bali is surrounded by water, that it is looked after.
"It's not just for the environment ... it's for people to also cleanse the soul and their thoughts, so they can go and do good deeds."
For three days following, the Balinese people attend their mother temple, where they pray and seek guidance.
Balinese New Year falls on Monday, the third day of recognition after Melis.
Their New Year's Day is known as Nyepi.
It's a day of silence – something Mrs Chambers said could be modified in a Western environment.
"In Bali the island is silent for a day – the airport shuts, the TV channels stop and you generally stay in the house," she said.
"Here it's different, but you can exercise self-control with some things."
The community will meet at Casuarina Beach by the surf club for a 5pm start, and follow the ceremony with a picnic.
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Nik Fullerton of Darwin. NT Posted at 7:59 AM March 30, 2014
I had the good fortune to be invited to attend this beautiful ceremony. Right on the beach before sunset lovely setting. I was made welcome by everyone, included in each part of the ceremony and the wonderful get together and feast after. Where all foods were on offer to try. This is only the 2nd year our Balinese community has held their Melis ceremony, I reccomend all to come and join a beautiful ceremony with lovely welcoming people of our community


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ZTL - Restricted Traffic Zone in Florence
The entire historic center of Florence (generally speaking the part located within the 19th century ring-roads which is a protected "UNESCO Heritage Site") is a "zona a traffico limitato (ZTL)" or restricted traffic zone. Special rules govern access to, as well as transit and parking in this zone.
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To make your stay a little easier, if you are coming by car we suggest that you park your car in a public parking lot on the outskirts of the historic center and come to us by taxi. Otherwise, we can offer you a solution for private parking garage not far from us.
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follow Viale Guidoni - Viale Redi — Viale Belfiore — Viale Strozzi - Viali di circonvallazione (Viale Lavagnini — Piazza della Liberta — Viale Matteotti — Piazzale Donatello — Viale Gramsci — Piazza Beccaria — Viale della Giovane Italia ) to arrive at the Lungarno della Zecca Vecchia and go towards "Centro — Ponte Vecchio". Once you arrive at the National Library in Piazza dei Cavalleggeri, take Corso dei Tintori, and turn right onto Via dei Benci. Continue ahead for about 150 meters then turn left onto Via dell'Oriuolo and you find Garage at number 44r.
- coming from Firenze South:
follow the streets along the Arno river, known as the Lungarni (Lungarno Aldo Moro — Lungarno Colombo — Lungarno del Tempio — Lungarni Pecori Giraldi )
Once you get to Lungarno della Zecca Vecchia, go towards "Centro — Ponte Vecchio" and the National Library in Piazza dei Cavalleggeri. Take Corso dei Tintori and turn right at Via dei Benci. Continue ahead for about 150 meters then turn left onto Via dell'Oriuolo and you find Garage at number 44r.
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The Southern Miss men's golf team travels to Edmond, Okla., for the 2014 Conference USA Championship. The tournament, which will be held Apr. 27-29, will be played at Oak Tree Golf Club.
Teeing off in the No. 1 position is senior Kevin Brady. The Brandon, Miss., native has a stroke average of 75.54 over 26 rounds. ...
Sophomore Kevin Jorden is teeing off in the No. 2 position. The Juno Beach, Fla., native has a stroke average of 75.25 in 26 rounds.


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If You Were Injured in a Cruise Ship Accident
Maritime law governs your right to compensation for injuries or deaths of family members that occur at sea (or navigable waters). Maritime law is significantly different from personal injury law on land. You may find yourself at a great disadvantage if you fail to work with an experienced maritime injury attorney who understands these differences.
At the Bluestein Law Firm, P.A., we focus exclusively on admiralty and maritime law. Our goal is to help you get the medical care and money you need for maximum physical recovery if you were injured on a cruise ship because of the negligent or reckless actions of the ship or crew.
Maritime injury lawyer S. Scott Bluestein has helped hundreds of injured passengers in the past 15 years. He is prepared to get results in your injury case against a luxury cruise liner such as Carnival Cruises, Oceana Cruise Line, Norwegian Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean, Regency and Celebrity Ships. He also handles cases involving passengers injured during harbor cruises on vessels like the M/V THRILLER 09, deep sea fishing trips, parasail vessels, jet ski rentals and casino boats such as SunCruz Casino boats and other casino boats that operate out of the Little River and North Myrtle Beach area.
- Learn more about the damages available in maritime personal injury cases.
Filing a Cruise Ship Injury Case
Regardless of the port where you boarded your ship, you will probably be required to file your claim within one year from the date of injury to file an injury claim.
Bluestein Law Firm will ensure that your cruise ship accident case is handled properly and that the stringent venue requirements do not prevent you from getting the compensation you deserve.
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*Vessel Owners are permitted to file Limitation of Liability Proceedings where they try to limit their liability to the value of the vessel after an accident or injury on the water. A Limitation of Liability Proceeding results in the vessel owner suing the injured passenger or boater.


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What's The Deal?
This sad Standard American Diet is lacking in essential nutrients that can easily be provided by eating more healthy, whole foods. Unrefined foods — fruits, veggies, grains, and other natural products that go through little to no processing — provide high levels of antioxidants and other nutrients (since they arrive to you in the form nature intended). They're also nutrient-dense, meaning they pack in beneficial nutrients and minerals and contain no added sugars, fats, starches, or sodium, making every calorie worth something very useful for the body.
These healthy, natural foods are packed with essential nutrients such as potassium and fiber, which can protect against chronic diseases, aid in digestion, and even improve muscle development and physical performance. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, the average American diet lacks the appropriate intake of these powerful nutrients (and a few others) and the under consumption of potassium, dietary fiber, calcium, and vitamin D has become a "public health concern." Adding these nutrients to your diet (or making sure you're getting enough of them) can help your body recover from exercise better, improve digestion, and just be healthier overall. Click through for your action plan!
Why We Need It
Potassium is one nutrient we literally cannot live without (seriously, it keeps our hearts beating). Increasing potassium consumption has been linked to lowering blood pressure and reducing the risk of osteoporosis, as well as decreasing the risk of diabetes and heart disease. The body also needs potassium to help regulate water balance and to keep the nervous system and our muscles functioning properly. Not consuming enough potassium can lead to some pretty uncomfortable results such as muscle cramps, constipation, and fatigue.
Why We Miss It
The recommended intake of potassium for adults is 4,700mg per day, but currently only 56 percent of American adults reach this goal. One big reason why is that sodium often takes the place of nutrients like potassium in processed foods like cheese, packaged meats, fast food, and pastries.
How To Get It
One small baked potato with skin (738mg), 1 medium-sized banana (422mg), 1 cup cooked spinach (740mg), 1/2 cup cooked beets (259mg).
Or, try this easy potassium-rich smoothie recipe: Blend 1/2 cup carrot juice (344mg), 1/2 cup orange juice (248mg), one medium banana (422mg), and 1/2 cup ice for a snack or breakfast containing 1,014 mg of potassium (and a healthy dose of vitamin C).
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Why We Need It
Fiber is a non-digestible carbohydrate that moves throughout our bodies, helping promote digestion and prevent constipation, as well as potentially reducing cholesterol levels. There are two types of dietary fiber: Soluble fiber can help lower glucose and cholesterol levels in the blood, while insoluble fiber helps food move through the digestive system properly. Consuming enough soluble fiber (found in oats, beans, lentils, and some fruits) can reduce risk of stroke, type 2 diabetes, and protect the arteries, while the consumption of insoluble fiber (whole-wheat, brown rice, legumes, vegetables) is recommend to help treat digestive problems.
Why We Miss It
The recommended daily intake of dietary fiber is 25g per day for women and 38g per day for men, but according to a 2010 report, only 40 percent of Americans reach the recommended intake. Dietary fiber isn't found in processed grains (like white flour), so anyone following a "typical American diet," which is typically high in processed grains that have been stripped of their fiber and low in whole grains, are missing out.
How To Get It
1/2 cup black beans (6.1g), one medium pear (5.5g), 1/2 cup fresh raspberries (4g), one medium sweet potato baked with skin (3.8g).
Try this simple, fiber-rich lunch recipe: Roast 1/2 cup artichoke hearts (7.2g), 1/2 cup Brussels sprouts (2g), and 1/4 cup sliced parsnips (1.4g) for a delicious dish that provides almost half of the recommended daily intake of fiber. Or, check out our other high-fiber recipes.
Why We Need It
Calcium is an important nutrient that helps maintain healthy bones, assists in nerve transmission, and helps our blood clot. Our bodies need a lot of calcium to properly function (it's the most abundant mineral in the body) but our bodies also doesn't naturally produce the element, meaning we need to get all we need from our food (and supplements). Not getting enough calcium can lead to an increased risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures.
Why We Miss It
Seventy-five percent of Americans consume the daily recommended intake of calcium of 1,000mg per day for adult men and women — that's not bad! And, most Americans consume their calcium through dairy and dairy byproducts. However particular groups (including young adults, young women, and those over 51) require a higher dose of calcium, so even if they meet the general recommendation of 1,000mg per day, they're often still not getting enough.
How To Get It
1 cup collard greens (357mg), 1/4 cup diced Swiss cheese (261mg), one cup 2% nonfat milk (293mg).
Want to get some more calcium in your diet? Consider whipping up an omelet with 2 large eggs (56mg), one slice of monterey cheese (209mg), and 1/4 cup kale (25mg).
Why We Need It
Vitamin D is special: It's the only vitamin we can both consume (by eating a variety of whole foods) and make ourselves — our bodies create vitamin D in the form of a hormone when we process sunlight. In addition to protecting our bones, vitamin D is a powerful player in regulating cell growth, and decreasing the risk of cardiovascular disease. Even more, vitamin D helps out body maintain the correct levels of calcium. Vitamin D is an important nutrient for athletes, too — it can reduce inflammation and pain, reduce the risk of fractures, and increase muscle protein. In addition to helping athletes perform, vitamin D can help reduce the risk of heart disease and high blood pressure.
Why We Miss It
The recommended daily amount of vitamin D for men and women is 18mcg, but only 28% of Americans meet this goal. The major dietary source of vitamin D for many Americans is milk (milk is fortified up to 25mcg of vitamin D per ounce). However, since most Americans don't consume the recommended amount of calcium (which is most commonly consumed through milk), the nation falls behind in vitamin D consumption too.
How To Get It
3oz light canned tuna in water (3.8mcg), 1 cup fortified milk (2.9mcg), 1 cup fortified orange juice (3.4mcg) Consider introducing more fish — such as sockeye salmon (19.8mcg per 3oz) — to your diet. A single fillet can easily meet the daily requirement!
Why We Need It
We couldn't live long without iron: It's an essential protein building block, involved in everything from carrying oxygen through the body to building muscles. Not getting enough of this element can cause fatigue (also known as anemia), memory loss, muscle loss, and difficulties regulating body temperature.
Why We Miss It
The recommended daily intake of iron for adult women is 18mg daily and 8mg for men. Women are more likely than men to suffer from iron deficiency (sorry, ladies), since women between ages 18 and 50 require more of the nutrient. Not getting enough iron can be a problem for those with particular diets like vegans and vegetarians. Iron from meat, poultry, and fish is absorbed two to three times more efficiently than iron from plants (how much iron your body absorbs from plants also depends on other foods eaten at the same time). How To Get It: 10 clams (2.62mg), 1/2 cup edamame (2.25mg), 1/2 cup lentils (3.3mg), 4oz beef sirloin steak (2.4mg), 1 cup cooked broccoli (1.5mg).
Looking for an iron boosting snack? Consider munching on 1/4 cup cashews (2mg) and 1/4 cup dried apricots (1.9mg) to increase your daily iron intake.
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I know that I said it before, but there has been no waning of my thoughts on the subject. I have in fact set aside all my rifles and picked up my inline each and every time I decide to go hunting. There are exceptions of course, for not all seasons allow an inline, and rightfully so.
My inline is something I use for groundhogs, deer and some predators. It has become my rifle of choice, and I'm at times hard put to explain why. There is no doubt that I often gather strange looks from other hunters when using it during rifle season for deer.
"That's a black powder rifle?" they often ask. The ramrod jutting out beneath the barrel is a dead give-away.
They're often in too much of a hurry to get into the deer woods than to take it beyond that. But some have added, "Why would you use a single shot?" The answer could be as simple as the answer given by almost any hunter when they hear shots during rifle season.
"One shot, probably, two, maybe and three never."
As we all know, there are exceptions to every rule.
Reloading isn't as simple as sticking another cartridge in the chamber. No, it requires pouring pre-measured black powder or synthetic black powder down the throat of the barrel, placing a bullet on top of that, using a ball starter to push the bullet into the barrel and finally a ramrod to make sure the bullet is firmly seated.
After all of that you need to replace the primer. The best I've ever done all of this in the field was just under two minutes.
The one-week season, set aside in October, is fraught with other seasons, something that can be distracting to those confined to hunting public land. This season, in which inlines are allowed, began Saturday and runs through this Saturday.
The season opened on the same day squirrel and grouse seasons began, and the mentored youth hunt for cottontails ended. Of course archery season continues throughout the entire week.
The season ends with a "Special Firearms Season" from Oct. 24 thru the 26th that allows both junior and senior (65 and older) license holders to hunt with a rifle, along with disabled persons with a permit to use their vehicle as a blind.
At the same time, PA residents serving on active duty in the Armed Services or the US Coast Guard may also hunt with a rifle. All, including flintlock and inline hunters, must have an antlerless license.
Although I'm allowed to take a buck during archery season, and I do hunt buck with my inline during the regular rifle season in October during the week-long "muzzleloader season" when I'm allowed an antlerless deer only. Like any muzzleloader hunter, a muzzleloader license is required.
I try my best to restrict my harvest of antlerless deer to areas where crop damage is a problem, or to state forest lands where the Bureau of Forestry wants to minimize the deer herd.
Those who have not tried an inline often compare them to 30-30 rifles. But I have found that it takes a lot of time to get an inline tuned-in.
That means a lot of time at the range and more time experimenting with how much powder to use, what kind of bullets shoot best out of your rifle and what primers add to the performance of your rifle.
You'll most likely find out that inlines can be cranky and seem to shoot differently when the temperatures change. When hunting groundhogs during the summer months, I often have to visit the range to make adjustments to my scope.
This year, I missed three groundhogs before I finally decided it was the gun rather than me. After spending more time than usual at the range, I was able to take a groundhog at close to 75 yards.
Taking a deer during this season, too filled with other hunting activities, in my opinion isn't easy. The problem is where to hunt. Unless you have a friend with private land or belong to a group that leases property, your chances decrease dramatically.
It may be too late to start inline hunting this October, but you could become proficient enough to take one out in rifle season. There are a lot of choices out there, although most dealers refuse to sell used inlines for liability reasons. I have hunted with my current inline for close to seven years and have taken a lot of groundhogs and deer with my Thompson Center Triumph.
Mine is a nice-fitting .50 caliber, and after a lot of experimenting I settled on T/C Shock Wave bullets. I propel the 250-grain bullet with 100 grains of Blackhorn 209 powder.
For ignition I use a CCI 209M primer. Please note that the M stands for magnum. I have had problems with the CCI's 209 primers not noted as magnum primers and they included misfires.
I top my rifle with a Nikon Omega scope and still will not take a shot over 100 yards, with 75 yards being my preferred range.
I'm sure you have read about hunters taking shots at 200 yards and beyond with an inline, but why chance it? Few deer in the state are taken over 50 yards. I love my inline hunting, despite all the constraints placed on an all-too-short season.
Hunters Sharing the Harvest
Since 1991, the Hunters Sharing the Harvest venison donation program has coordinated the processing and distribution of donated wild game from hunters and municipal herd reduction sources to hungry people throughout Pennsylvania. An average-sized deer will provide enough highly-nutritious, low-cholesterol meat for 200 meals.
This sportsmen-inspired community service outreach effectively channels this wholesome venison product via an integrated network of approved deer processors and food banks down to the most local charitable provider organizations in our urban and rural communities. HSH has evolved as a respected partner with deer management practices throughout the Commonwealth.
More than 1.3 million Pennsylvanians are classified as living beneath the lowest-income poverty level, with the recent economy downturn only escalating the need and requests for food assistance. In an average hunting season, the HSH program's goal is to channel about 100,000 pounds of processed venison annually through the state's 21 regional food banks; who then re-distribute to more than 3,000 local provider charities such as food pantries, missions, homeless shelters, Salvation Army facilities and churches as well as families.
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|Spatiometabolic stratification of Shewanella oneidensis biofilms.
MedLine Citation:
|PMID: 16936048 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Biofilms, or surface-attached microbial communities, are both ubiquitous and resilient in the environment. Although much is known about how biofilms form, develop, and detach, very little is understood about how these events are related to metabolism and its dynamics. It is commonly thought that large subpopulations of cells within biofilms are not actively producing proteins or generating energy and are therefore dead. An alternative hypothesis is that within the growth-inactive domains of biofilms, significant populations of living cells persist and retain the capacity to dynamically regulate their metabolism. To test this, we employed unstable fluorescent reporters to measure growth activity and protein synthesis in vivo over the course of biofilm development and created a quantitative routine to compare domains of activity in independently grown biofilms. Here we report that Shewanella oneidensis biofilm structures reproducibly stratify with respect to growth activity and metabolism as a function of size. Within domains of growth-inactive cells, genes typically upregulated under anaerobic conditions are expressed well after growth has ceased. These findings reveal that, far from being dead, the majority of cells in mature S. oneidensis biofilms have actively turned-on metabolic programs appropriate to their local microenvironment and developmental stage.
|Tracy K Teal; Douglas P Lies; Barbara J Wold; Dianne K Newman
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|Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Date: 2006-08-25
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|Title: Applied and environmental microbiology Volume: 72 ISSN: 0099-2240 ISO Abbreviation: Appl. Environ. Microbiol. Publication Date: 2006 Nov
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|Created Date: 2006-11-07 Completed Date: 2007-01-23 Revised Date: 2013-06-07
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|Nlm Unique ID: 7605801 Medline TA: Appl Environ Microbiol Country: United States
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|Languages: eng Pagination: 7324-30 Citation Subset: IM
|Division of Biological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
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Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial*
Green Fluorescent Proteins / genetics, metabolism
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The Cost of Transparency
Patrick McGee - May 7, 2007
It may be outside his electoral mandate, but Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach has determined five vague principles by which he'll govern his province. In March, the Progressive Conservative government mailed out the vagaries to every home in the province, at a cost to the taxpayer of $230,000. The four-page pamphlet contained the premier's anodyne promise to govern with integrity and transparency, and noted the need for improved accountability from government agencies, boards and commissions. In March, Stelmach announced a $100,000 task force to see how this can be done. They could begin by looking at events that unfolded in April, when a dispute between the province's labour unions and the Alberta Labour Relations Board settled itself, after four years, outside of court.
In 2003, the Klein government passed a contentious labour bill amalgamating 400 health care bargaining agreements to 36, effectively stripping 7,000 health care workers of the right to strike. Not surprisingly, unions were critical. Dozens of members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees demonstrated at hospitals in Edmonton, Lethbridge and Strathmore. Ron Pilling, then CUPE's health care co-ordinator, critiqued the bill for giving "the labour board the absolute power to write new terms and conditions of a collective agreement for each [health] region."
"Like a tsunami, it created a huge effect all across the province," recalls Heather Smith, president of the United Nurses of Alberta, of the complex nature of the legislative changes. "But trying to undo a tsunami would create another." So in April, the unions dropped their court challenge to the bill; in return, the labour board agreed to disclose their previously private advice to the government on crafting labour legislation.
In December 2005, e-mails containing an early draft of the bill were inadvertently sent to the offices of the Alberta Federation of Labour. The draft was written by the vice-chair of the labour board to the government lawyer responsible for the final draft. To critics of the bill, the board was overstepping its limited function of giving non-partisan, technical advice. Labour leaders feel the new agreement will prevent this sort of collusion in future. AFL president Gil McGowan told reporters the new guidelines "created some of the best rules in the country for accountability, transparency and guarantees of neutrality."
It's tough to argue against transparency from government-appointed authorities. But a bigger issue--the rights of workers who don't wish to be unionized--remains unaddressed in Canada, says John Mortimer, president of the Canadian Labour Watch Association. "The fundamental issue remains that there is no effective voice for union-free employees . . . You can't count on a union, or management, to speak for employees who would like not to be unionized," he says. That might be a battle Stelmach wants to take up after he wins a mandate.


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Karthikeyan Rajendraprasad
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Dec 02, 2005 10:27:00
will it be possible to access webservvices from a mainfram system?
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Ulf Dittmer
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Dec 02, 2005 11:37:00
For the most part web services mean sending SOAP over HTTP. So if you can use HTTP to send and receive data, you should be good to go, because SOAP is just XML, which is just text, which you can surely generate and parse on a Mainrrame. An interesting question that arises is: are there libraries that let you deal with SOAP instead of XML (or just text)? But there is no principal obstacle to using web services on a mainframe.
Karthikeyan Rajendraprasad
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Dec 02, 2005 12:31:00
i have the input xml that has to be sent to the webservice. also i have a
program that can put this inside a soap envelope and send it over as a html request..
the thing now is can i call the java program or can i send it directly as a html request ?? or any other simpler way
[ December 02, 2005: Message edited by: Karthikeyan Rajendraprasad ]
Ulf Dittmer
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Dec 02, 2005 14:26:00
What is the difference between "call the java program" and "send it directly as an HTTP request"? Weren't you thinking of using Java for sending the HTTP request? The HttpUrlConnection class can do this.
Karthikeyan Rajendraprasad
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Dec 02, 2005 14:40:00
thats what the java program does... im not sure whether i can run my java program on the mainframe system..
Stan James
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Dec 02, 2005 19:43:00
What kind of mainframe? Big IBM iron can run *nix Java partitions alongside CICS regions or batch COBOL. You can do inter-region communication of some kind between COBOL and Java.
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Jesus Angeles
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Dec 07, 2005 04:40:00
if you do not need immediate reply, you can run a mainframe application to download or ftp a file to unix. creation of that file in unix will trigger an application, which can call the web services.
you can then upload to mainframe another file which contains the reply of the webservice.
quite crude. i wonder if ibm mq can do that, synchronously, with mvs as client.
Santhosh Nair
Joined: Dec 02, 2005
Posts: 5
Dec 07, 2005 10:17:00
Web services can be accessed from mainframe through MQSeries. What we did on a recent project was to create request and response queues in MQ. A CICS application wrote messages to the queue and as soon as a message was created on the queue a message driven bean was triggered which inturn called a stateless session bean which then invoked the web service ( we used Java web services developer pack to create the web services client ). As soon as we got the reply from the web service the session bean returned the object to MDB and it creates a record on the reply MQ Queue. The CICS application then read the data from MQ Queue and dispalyed it. The response time was pretty good ( round trip time from M/F was less than 15 seconds ).
Jesus Angeles
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Dec 08, 2005 04:29:00
but 15 seconds is like forever. why did it take so long
Jesus Angeles
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Dec 08, 2005 04:33:00
at the point of view of the mvs programmer, it is synchronous?
Santhosh Nair
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Dec 08, 2005 18:13:00
13 seconds was a worst case scenario. Average was about 4 to 5 seconds. We had set the timeout to 15 seconds.
Jesus Angeles
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Dec 09, 2005 03:39:00
The java part is straightforward. For the mvs part, is it like this:
A cics program is provided to mvs programmer, as an interface to any web service that the java system is ready to connect to.
The mvs programmer merely Links to this interface cics program, and probably passes the web service identification, and some parameters. and this same interface program also listens for the reply on the reply mq. and returns the reply.
is it like that?
Santhosh Nair
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Dec 12, 2005 08:36:00
In our case the user interface was provided by CICS. The mainframe programmer wrote MQ calls from the CICS program to put data into the mq queue and retreive data from the queue adnd display that back on CICS screens. A separate infrastrcuture group helped us with creating the MQ Queues. I think CICS systems group also did some configurations for MQ Queues. Mainframe just passed the commarea and it was java layers responsibility to convert that to XML and back to commarea from the XML that we got from the web service. If you already have the XML then you can just pass that on through the commarea and java layer can call the web service after incuding that in the SOAP message.
[ December 12, 2005: Message edited by: Santhosh Nair ]
I agree. Here's the link:
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