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A year ago I had a complete ACL cadaver replacement.
I followed all of the Doctor's orders and I went to all of my physical therapy appointments. When the PT released me (5-6 months after surgery) he told me I could return to working out normally but with limitation. I returned to my normal workout routine (squats and such - weight lifting and jogging lightly). Everything had seemed fine.
I am now enrolling in the Sheriff's academy and it has been a full year since my ACL reconstruction. I have been running more and been trying to stay in good shape for the boot camp. My knee however has been getting pain in it every so often... the front of my knee and the back part of my leg as well.. nothing major - it does not impede any activities, and it does not look swollen at all. It seems as if it is just irritated and slightly tender.
My Ortho DR that did the surgery took a look at me only 2 months ago and fully released me as well saying I was 100% recovered and my muscle balance and strength in the leg was great. He did not do an MRI however.
What could be possible reasons for this pain/ache every so often - after exercise and such?? Is it just not used to it quite yet? Or is there something else possibly wrong with it??
(note - originally he mentioned a meniscus tear - but after the surgery he said he could not find anything wrong with the meniscus... maybe this is acting up?)
I have an appointment with my DR next week.
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To promote conservation and livelihoods in wildlife-rich areas, USAID helps rural communities improve biodiversity management through nature conservancies, eco-tourism and other environment-friendly enterprises. USAID collaborates with the Government of Kenya, internationally and nationally renowned NGOs, and community-based organizations to maintain wildlife migration corridors and dispersion areas. USAID also works with the Kenya Wildlife Service, particularly to improve its revenue collection system and in the decentralization of wildlife management operations.
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The National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission (NCMAC) will take up pending commemorative works at its meeting this coming week. The Commission announced in the Federal Register of Friday, May 2, that it will meet on Tuesday, May 6. The docket includes plans for memorials to the Peace Corps and World War I.
The meeting takes place at 1 p.m. Eastern Time in Room 311, the Boardroom of the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA), 3rd Floor, National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW, Washington, DC 20001. The meeting is open to the public. If you wish to attend, enter through the third floor hallway. For more info, contact Brandon Bies, secretary to the commission,(202) 619-7097, email@example.com.
The commission was established by Congress to review all proposed memorials to see if they comply with the Commemorative Works Act and to advise Congress and federal agencies about memorials in and around Washington, DC and sometimes elsewhere. The director of the National Park Service chairs the commission. It also includes the administrator of the General Services Administration, mayor of Washington, secretary of defense, CFA chair, architect of the Capitol, and chair of the American Battle Monuments Commission.
NCMAC will discuss legislation recently introduced to establish a World War I Memorial in Pershing Park in Washington. It will also consult with the Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation on an alternative site study for a memorial to the Peace Corps. In January, President Barack Obama signed into law a measure approving a memorial to the Peace Corps but no site has yet been chosen. The commission will also talk with representatives of the District of Columbia government about placing memorials on land owned by the city, as opposed to federal real estate.
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Upgraded to Mountain Lion a few weeks ago, didn't have the problem. A few days ago I replaced the hard drive with a SSD and did a clean install of Mountain Lion then manually moved my background images to the new drive. I added the folders to the sidebar in the
System Preferences > Desktop & Screensaver panel. After closing it and reopening it, every folder but the last selected folder is gone.
I tried removing
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist then rebooted and the problem remained.
Steps to reproduce:
- Open System Preferences > Desktop
- Add Folder A to panel
- Add Folder B to panel
- Open Folder B and choose image from it to set desktop
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- Reopen System Preferences > Desktop
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Cladistics at 30,000 feet: from cladograms to cloudograms
While flying back from Florida this afternoon I studied cladistics from Cladistics by Kitching et al. So there I was in a window seat immersed in the book while the plane rose above the clouds. At one point, I glanced out the window and saw these peculiar vertical patches of clouds. They immediately reminded me of the terminal taxa in the cladograms that I had been struggling to understand.
In a cladogram (below) the terminal taxa are distinguished from each other by the characters that are unique to them, such as the characters 5-9 in the lizard, 10 in the salmon, 11 in the shark and 12 in the lamprey. In the cladistic jargon, such characters are known as autapomorphies. In a cloudogram (above) there are, of course, no autapomorphies, all the branches have the same "characters". Nevertheless, they are pretty.
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Sept. 9, 2010
First meeting
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The Opening ServeThe 8-0 Huskies, riding the longest winning streak since 2001, have established the best start to a season in program history. With two first place invitational finishes under its belt in the first two weekends, Northern Illinois faces its first true road adventure, and the longest excursion of the season, with a flight to Elon, N.C., this weekend. The Huskies head to the Tar Heel State after winning all nine sets at the UIC Invitational, defeating Kennesaw State, Memphis, and host Illinois Chicago. Freshman outside hitter Lauren Wicinski (Geneva, Ill./Geneva) captained the Huskies in Chicago by taking the tournament MVP honor. Wicinski's totals for the three matches: A hitting percentage of .464, 49 kills, 30 digs, 10 aces. Senior libero Maddie Hughes (St. Charles, Ill./North) also earned an all-tournament nod by compiling 25 digs and seven aces. The great beginning to the 2010 campaign hasn't just been a two-person show, though. As a team, NIU has been better than every opponent in kills (397-270), hitting percentage (.320-.166), digs (390-309), and aces (70-17). The result of those dominant statistics: 24 Huskie wins in 27 sets this season, including a current 13-set winning streak.Elon welcomes the three teams after a 1-2 run at the Sacramento State Invitational out in California. The Phoenix dropped the opening match of the tournament to Cal State Northridge, 3-2. Elon rebounded on Saturday with a split, getting swept by Sacramento State and winning a five-set contest over UT San Antonio. Liberty enters the weekend following a successful showing at the UVA Holiday Inn Jefferson Cup in Charlottesville, Va. The Flames split the first day of competition with a four-set victory against George Washington and 3-0 loss to host Virginia. To finish the weekend, Liberty knocked off North Florida, 3-1.After hosting its own tournament last weekend, Stetson travels to Elon on a three-match skid. The Hatters began their Clarion Invitational with a 3-1 win over Bethune-Cookman, but then dropped matches to Florida Atlantic (3-1), Wofford (3-1), and Wyoming (3-0).The All-Time SeriesFriday's match with Elon will be the first ever contest between the Phoenix and the Huskies.NIU has faced Liberty just once, and came out victorious in a 3-1 decision back on August 29, 2003.The Stetson match on Saturday will also mark a new opponent for NIU as neither school has faced each other yet.Meet The PhoenixElon brings back 12 players from last season's team that posted a 23-8 record and went 9-7 in the Southern Conference. The Phoenix started the season with five consecutive wins, but have lost two of three since. Elon holds a 405-304 kills advantage over its opponents and a 430-380 edge in digs.The offense is headed by Caroline Lemke's 2.93 kills per set. Megan McMahon averages 10.07 assists per set in running the Phoenix attack.On defense, Ali Deatsch fronts the back row with 3.83 digs per set, while Lemke nets 0.80 blocks per set.Meet The FlamesLiberty returns eight players from 2009, including two starters, from a squad that went 20-14, 13-3 in the Big South Conference, for a first place tie in the league, finishing second at the Big South Championship. The Flames have out-killed foes this season to the tune of 327-256.Offensively, Kayrl Bacon's 3.96 kills per set leads the team, while Jade Craycraft averages 10.17 assists per set.Kelly Haseman leads Liberty's defense with 5.22 digs per set. Kendle Rollins leads the Flames with an average of 0.83 blocks per set.Meet The HattersStetson has six players, four starters, back from last season's team that ended with a record of 1-27, 0-20 Atlantic-Sun Conference, finishing in 11th place. Kaley Melville paces the offense with 2.20 kills per set and Kelli Carneal averages 7.20 assists per set.Defensively, Monique Russell anchors Stetson with 4.88 digs per set, while Ellen Hawks leads the team with 0.80 blocks per set.StreaksFreshman outside hitter Lauren Wicinski (Geneva, Ill./Geneva) has recorded an ace and at least one point in all eight matches, including three with five or more aces. She has at least 15 points in every match, highlighted by a 28-point outburst against College of Charleston on Aug. 28. Freshman middle blocker Sarah Angelos (Waukegan, Ill./Waukegan) has hit over .400 in each of the last three matches, and has done so on five occasions overall. Meanwhile, Wicinski has hit over .333 in four straight. Similarly, sophomore middle blocker Mary Kurisch (LaCrosse, Wis./West Salem) has had a hitting percentage above .300 in every match, and has recorded a block in every match, as well.MAC Leaders (As of September 7)NIU leads the Mid-American Conference in team hitting percentage (.320), assists (13.56/set), and aces (2.59/set), while ranking second in kills (14.70/set). Sarah Angelos and Mary Kurisch rank first (.471) and second (.449), respectively, in hitting percentage, and Lauren Wicinski ranks 10th (.340).Wicinski leads the league in kills (4.56/set), aces (1.07/set), and points (5.94/set). Kurisch ranks sixth in points (3.88/set), eighth in blocks (0.96/set), and ninth in kills (3.19/set).Kristin Hoffman ranks third in assists (11.73/set).Maddie Hughes ranks fourth in digs (4.71/set) and 10th in aces (0.42/set).MAC Player of the WeekIn her first weekend of collegiate competition, freshman Lauren Wicinski took home the Mid-American Conference West Division Player of the Week award on August 30th. Wicinski led the team with 86.5 points (5.77/set), 63 kills (4.20/set), and a whopping 18 aces (1.20/set) as she helped the Huskies go 4-0 to win the NIU Invitational, earning an all-tournament selection. She also hit .274, with four assists, eight blocks, 34 digs (2.27/set), had only two errors in 55 reception attempts, and notched two double-doubles. In a sweep of Chicago State, she hit .500 with nine kills, six aces, and three blocks for 17.5 points. In a four-set win over Oakland, she had 17 kills, 14 digs, two aces, and one block for 19.5 points. In a sweep of South Dakota, she totaled 15 kills with a .345 attack percentage, five aces, and two blocks for 21.5 points. In a five-set win over 2009 NCAA Tournament qualifier College of Charleston, she tallied 22 kills, 15 digs, five aces, and two blocks for 28 points.The Victor E. Court AdvantageThe Huskies are 81-48 at Victor E. Court and 8-1 in home and season openers since 2002. In those nine seasons, NIU has finished with a home record above .500 eight times.Illinois Dominance Since 2002, NIU is 29-14 against intrastate opponents and is 3-0 in 2010. The Huskies have swept all three in-state foes, taking down Chicago State on August 27, Bradley on August 31, and Illinois Chicago last Saturday.Gooden PlentyWith the stellar start to the 2010 campaign, ninth-year head coach Ray Gooden improved his record to 137-121 at NIU, moving into second place on the program's win list. The 2006 Mid-American Conference Co-Coach of the Year has a 2006 MAC West Division regular season championship under his belt, along with NIU's first All-American selection (Kate McCullagh, 2006), two MAC Player of the Year selections (Kate McCullagh in 2006, Maddie Hughes in 2009), 14 All-MAC selections, four MAC All-Freshman selections, and nine Academic All-MAC selections. A Class AboveThe NIU volleyball team has held the highest grade-point average of all Huskie sports for each of the last two years and in five of the last six semesters. In the latest academic progress report, the Huskies score of 991 ranks in the top 20 percent of all volleyball teams in the country. With nine Academic All-MAC honorees since 2004, the Huskies have taken home back-to-back American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic awards for the first time in school history. Additionally, since 2002, the program has had 26 Victory Scholars (3.50+ GPA) and 32 Huskie Scholars (3.00-3.49 GPA). 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By Joe Scalzo (Contact)
Published April 18, 2010
Five thoughts on Saturday's Kelly Pavlik fight, which ended in a unanimous decision loss to Sergio Martinez.
1. I haven't seen Kelly Pavlik look really good since June of 2008, when he beat Gary Lockett. Granted, Lockett wasn't a tough opponent but Pavlik was really sharp that night and it looked like he had a really, really bright career ahead of him.
Then he lost to Bernard Hopkins, looked so-so against Marco Antonio Rubio, battled a staph infection and looked rusty against Miguel Espino.
It all came to a head Saturday, when he looked slow against the athletic Martinez. But, in his defense, Martinez is a pretty darn good fighter.
2. I thought Martinez fought a perfect fight.
He danced out of trouble, he threw more punches, he exploited Pavlik's weaknesses and he closed really strong. Pavlik was leading after eight rounds, then Martinez took over the fight.
Martinez was much more willing to slug it out with Paul Williams in December and he wisely avoided that approach Saturday.
Afterward, Martinez said those two fighters were the best he's faced and said Pavlik has the best power of any of his opponents.
3. Although he has a rematch clause in his contract, it's hard to say whether Pavlik will take a rematch against Martinez.
My gut feeling is he will, since it's the best money fight out there for him and I'm sure he'd like to regain the titles. But I think he's better off cutting his losses and moving up to super middleweight, which is where his future lies anyway.
The Martinez camp would prefer to fight Antonio Margarito at 154 pounds, in which case they'd have to vacate the middleweight belts. But in listening to their comments at the post-fight press conference, they didn't seem to mind the idea of fighting Pavlik again. I think Martinez was grateful for the opportunity and believes Pavlik deserves the rematch if he wants it.
4. Covering Pavlik over the last three years has been among the highlights of my career.
He's just a good guy who has represented the city well. At 28, he has plenty of time to rebuild his career but it's going to take some time. His next fight could be the biggest of his career because a loss would be really, really costly.
One of the things we Youngstown reporters were wondering after Saturday's bout was whether we'd travel to cover Pavlik's next fight. At this point, my guess is no. And considering just 6,000 fans attended Saturday's bout -- about 4,000 less than the first Jermain Taylor fight -- it's not too soon to wonder what the loss will do to his following, at least for the time being.
5. One thing I forgot to mention in my fight story was Pavlik's trunks, which had the names of his two children on the back: Sydney and Kelly Jr.
I thought that was pretty cool.
Just some random thoughts on your thoughts:
1. Do you think the economy had anything to do with the attendance? Sure is hard for fans from an area where the unemployment rate is over 10% to travel to Atlantic city.
2. Covering Kelly has been a highlight for you but you won't be going to his next fight???? Sounds like you're writing Kelly off...."Fairweather Fan"
3. You say Martinez fought a perfect fight but Kelly was leading after eight rounds. How could that have been the perfect fight for Martinez?
Yes, I'm disappointed that Kelly lost, don't count him or his fans out.
Unemployment has been over 10% in the Valley for over two decades therefore unemployment was not a factor in the smaller attendance.The reporter is correct in his statement. Kelly is not as popular as he was when he fought for the title. Kelly is a good, not great fighter in a weak weight class. If he moves up to 168 he will be fighting the likes of Bute, Abraham, Ward, and Dirrell. If you thought he bled yesterday, that will be nothing compared to what will happen at 168 where the weight class is strong.
Some thoughts on CCmom's thoughts:
• By the definition of his job, Joe is not a "fan," fair weather or otherwise. He also doesn't get to decide his travel assignments. Editors measure fan interest by numbers of those attending, traffic to our Web site, newspaper sales, etc. It's just too early to say what we'll do next. It's fair to say interest is down a bit from the days that our Web site literally was shut down by fan interest – local fans and those from outside the area – during fights in the recent past.
• Martinez fought a "perfect fight" because he weathered the best Pavlik had and put himself in a position to win. Going into the ninth round, Martinez, by most score cards, was down just a point or two with four rounds to go despite having been knocked down.
• Ctown beat me to the punch on the economy point.
• I am confident no one is counting Kelly or his fans out.
Mark Sweetwood
Managing Editor
Anyone could say what Kelly should have done when the fight was over. Was he not in good condition? Was he too weak after losing all that weight? Should he be fighting at 168 lbs ? Only he and his trainer know what he has to do to become a champion again. Remember, people of Youngstown, it's easy to be a winner and hard to be a loser. After watching Kelly's post fight interview, in my mind he is still a champion and Youngstown should still be proud of him.
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Just some post-fight thoughts here.
No brainer - I'm a Pavlik fan as the username suggests. And I did not come to AC. It is cheaper to get HBO for one month than it is to buy a ticket for admission to the hall in AC. I'm struggling like everyone else.
So, why did so many people choose not to come to AC for the fight? There's your answer. Why drive out there, get a room, pay for meals, and admission to the fight when I can see it from a better vantage point on my couch - with friends.
Pavlik is a coward who fears Paul Williams.
Even when he isn't fighting Paul Williams, his fear causes him to be constantly fretting that Williams will destroy him.
Well now Pavlik has destroyed himself, he is finished.
There are FAR TOO MANY SKILLED, ATHLETIC FIGHTERS THAT CAN FLAT-OUT BOX WITH POWER at 154lbs, 160lbs and 168lbs.
From Omar Henry, James Kirkland, Erislandy Lara, Danny Jacobs, Fernando Guererro, Paul Williams, Kermit Cintron, Matt Korobov, Kessler, Froch, Bute, Ward, Dirrell and more.
So if Pavlik stays at 160lbs or not...there are no more Gary Locketts, Miguel Espinos and Marco Antonio Rubios to Pad his record. Pavlik is DONE!!!
Wow- darryl1914 is obviously either obsessed or really jealous of Pavlik. He only made 5 comments on Vindy so far and they are all written about how 'terrible' Pavlik is.... and he's talking crap about Pavlik like a child would.
Grown men should not write like that - no matter what has apparently happended in the past between you and Pavlik. Your 5 Vindy comments look like something I would have wrote in my early teenage years
From the desk of Coach RuffEnoughSmith, I'm located in Southern Ohio and I have attempted to contact Kelly to no advail. I am the Activities Director of Ohio's Police Athletic League. I also have coach various sports for over 30 years. Boxing is my passion and to the untrained eye it is a very hard sport to coach.
I have read posts that Kelly needs to change or adapt his style. I must say this, A trainer should NEVER change a boxers style but do all in his power to make the boxer's style, whatever it may be.., the best he can for the boxer. Instead, what Pavlik's trainer should of worked on was how Kelly should approach (learn) and how to deal with other styles.
Far to often in this sport trainers believe they know all there is to know about boxing and refuse to try and get better. Somehow they seem to forget that that boxing is often referred to as the SWEET SCIENCE. Well not me, that's why I believe that I am among the best coaches, if not the best coach in our great State of Ohio. Now I know Jack will be upset and claim me as a hot head and cuss me up n down. I'm not calling for Jack's release from Pavlik's camp. I know there's a special bond between them and Jack has given his all to Kelly I'm sure. If I were Jack I would bring in a technique coach to help prepare Kelly. I am offering my services in that regard. I will without drought prove that the science of training one to fight is very powerful. Kelly Pavlik will then prove how he can come back and defeat Martinez. So I will give the readers of this blog a few secrets on what needs to be worked on when training to fight a guy like Martinez. First we all know that Martinez's style is that of a runner! We also know that Martinez is a Southpaw! Now let talk science.
"The Runner will be a boxer who likes to use his Jab as a dominant punch
(watch the fight,it caused Pavlik all kinds of problems the entire fight).
The runner will follow up his jab with a lot of straight power punches.
He will move to his Left 95% of the time, unless he is a SOUTHPAW in which case he will move to his RIGHT(again watch the fight).
The runner will rely on his quickest to avoid getting hit. He will do (avoid punches) so by moving in fast and then move out of range just as fast.
The Runner will fade (move to his left, RIGHT if a S.Paw) a lot as he moves out of range after punching (As seen many times throughout the fight)
The Runner will look to tie up his opponent when trapped up against the ropes or when in the corners.
What Kelly needed to do was he needed be able to do make the Runner move to his Right (LEFT if S. Paw)
Kelly should of worked on bumping left. He needed to know how bump to his Lt. with and without use of his rhythms. Kelly also needed to learn what I like to refer to as the bogeying (a type of movement which deals with runners (see Smokin Joe fight clips)
When bogeying Kelly should have be schooled and have the ability to punch off of the 2nd and 3rd steps when bogeying. Please do not punch at the runner on the 1st step.
Martinez being a Southpaw SHOULD OF TOLD JACK that Kelly needed to keep his right (Lead Lt. hand up and out if facing a SOUTHPAW) hand up and higher than normal at all times and my GOODNESS Kelly needs to learn and use many more techniques like how to use Feints, Draws, Tells, and Counter Punching. All your great Champions were also great counter punchers.
He could of worked his Lt. Hook off of Martinez's head to death as well as pounded Martinez with Straight Power shots. Lag Hand punches as counters to Southpaw Jabs off of Bump moves to the Left would of been there for the easy taking by Pavlik.
By using Feints on the Runner with your head and shoulders would of enabled Pavlik to use a series of easy angle steps off of his BUMP moves This also opens the doors to hit the runner with lag punches to the BODY of the Southpaw thus slowing the runner down and enabling you to follow up with combinations as the Runner must turn and find you.
Jack did say one thing that Kelly needed to do and that was to throw more punches to Martinez's body. Jack should of been more specific by telling Kelly to throw many, many more (straight power shots) to the Martinez's chest. This will get the Runner moving to his right (LEFT. if S. Paw).
Then of course Kelly needed to slip jabs with his inside shoulder since Martinez is a Southpaw and counter with LAG RIGHT HANDS, OVERHAND POWERS, STRAIGHT POWERS and LEFT HOOKS
This of course sets Kelly up to BOBBED and WEAVED or to BUMP& PULL back into the chest of Martinez where Kelly could of unleashed LEFT UPPERCUTS AND POWER SHOTS to the body in combinations! (like a mutherfu**er).
I have no choice but to say the Pavlik was poorly prepared for this fight. His trainer should of sought advice and got opinions from true students of the game. I am a student of coaching the Sweet Science and I hope I get the chance to work with Kelly's crew and him.
I am Coach RuffEnoughSmith
Not go to cover the next Pavlik fight? Shame on you. Send me-I'll gladly go. I will round up a tour bus and fill it up and get group rates,etc. etc. Just let me know where and when. Some advance notice would be nice. And set up payment plan so economy no excuse. It does seem that his fights are bad timing though when everyone is broke. Me,them, and everyone. Watched it at a bar locally and the support for Kelly was still there-so not having support? No backing? Where are you looking? Not everyone can afford that high price of tickets unless you are a businessman or wealthy/own a company, etc. The cost of tickets are ridiculous for the average person. Drive there? No problem. Most people can't afford the good seats and would rather get a better view on TV and have a party since don't have a grand just laying around to blow. Don't mean we don't support him. Doesn't mean we won't go. Just need a travel bus, and group tickets,etc. but advance notice to be able to save some money or get time off from work would be nice too. The local station should be there doing coverage on him for days before the fight and show what his routine is. Doesn't mean you have to show it right away but getting that footage would be great and something the fans would be interested in. Send me and a cameraman next time if you don't want to go.


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Worth trying out. I've added it here. Micah's also set up a simple form to generate the javascript you need to add to your template, so it's pretty simple to do.
The notion of doneness is worth thinking about. I suspect one of the organizational barriers to k-logs, weblogs, business journals, or whatever we end up calling them is this assault on the concept of done. Think of how many review processes and sign off workflows end up being barriers to moving forward on intranets and knowledge management initiative.
My positions on most topics is constantly evolving (hopefully in the direction of more sophistication). Weblogs provide a natural tool for capturing and reflecting that evolution. Once you get comfortable with that notion of flux, you also become more at ease with putting half of three-quarter baked ideas ought there to be seen and reacted to. It's a terribly artificial notion that you or an organization must somehow come to a concrete, fixed-for-all-time, conclusion before you can put it out there.
Warren McFarlan used to tell a story about the risks of publishing as an academic. He claimed that publishing your ideas always meant that there was a permanent record of your bad ideas. But that is only true if you try to separate ideas from their context. For some aspects of science, I suppose you can strive for truths that are likely to last across many times and place. For most of the knowledge that I worry about, however, context is everything. Where you stand depends on where you sit. The more readily we not only acknowledge it but adapt our tools to reflect that the better off we will be. Giving up on the idea of doneness is a pretty good step in the right direction.
A worthy upbeat attitude in the midst of so much other negativity. Consistent with the Dorothy Parker observation that I use as my tag line.
I used to use a simple diagram in some of my presentations. It represented knowledge as an expanding circle. What was interesting to me is that if you looked at the interface between what you knew and what you didn't know, the "boundary of your ignorance" grew as you learned more. The more you learned, the more things to be learned you became aware of. That's a very energizing prospect and a humbling one at the same time. It means I will always have a list of things to learn.
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A roundup of events for people with ADHD or ADD and parents of children with ADHD or ADD.
CHADD Guest Speaker: Cockeysville
Join guest speaker: Barbara Howard, M.D., as she discusses children with ADHD. Children with ADHD often have big swings of emotion and the behaviors that go with them that can throw families for a loop. Come learn about the why, what to do and when to worry. The speaker meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The meeting location is the Cockeysville Library, 9833 Greenside Drive, Cockeysville, MD.
CHADD Guest Speaker: A Comprehensive Brain-Based Treatment Approach
CHADD will present A Comprehensive Brain-Based Treatment Approach with speaker:, Dr. Carol Ann Robbins. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 7, from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at the Cockeysville Library, 9833 Greenside Drive, Cockeysville, MD.
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- Medication management will also be fully addressed. This material will apply to children, teens and adults of all ages.
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Understanding the Evaluation Process and Navigating Special Education Services will be the next CHADD speaker meeting. The speaker will be Caitlin McAndrews, Esq., Dr. Cathy Heller, and Kathy Duyer Esq. The meeting will be held Monday, March 24, from 7:15 – 9 p.m., at Somerset Town Hall, 4510 Cumberland Ave, Chevy Chase, MD.
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Oprah Winfrey is adding to her list of movie producer credits. The Wrap reported on Sunday Jan. 19 that the media mogul and actress has joined the civil rights era drama "Selma" as a co-producer.
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In addition to Winfrey, Brad Pitt's production company Plan-B is also among the list of producers for the film. "Selma" which is set to be directed by Ava DuVernay will chronicle the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches. Actor David Oyelowo who starred in DuVernay's "Middle of Nowhere" and co-starred as Winfrey's son in "Lee Daniels' The Butler" will star in "Selma" as Martin Luther King Jr.
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I've been given a task to implement a backup solution in the event of our website goes down. It is a dedicated server running centos 6.
From what i've experience on our server, our server may go down because of PHP application crash or hardware failure.
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For now it is gonna be a simple server which shows the user a static landing page so later the system notify us via email that the primary server went down so that we can restart the server manually.
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The Gods of Heavenly Punishment
Jennifer Cody Epstein
I rate it: 7/10
Before I start the review, please allow me a moment to gush about how wonderful it feels to get a free hard cover book straight from the author, with a tastefully done cover to boot. That almost never happens. Hardbacks are so lovely I'm almost completely ready to love the story inside, no matter what it is or who tells it. Yay for hardbacks!
That's not to say I wouldn't have liked Jennifer Epstein's The Gods of Heavenly Punishment if it hadn't been hardcover. The story is engaging, the characters are interesting and real, if a bit exotic, and you never stop wanting to find out what comes next. Most of the story is based in Japan during the second world war. A young Japanese girl who is watching helplessly as her parents drift apart, loses everything and everyone in the Tokyo firebombings of 1945. An American pilot with a pregnant young wife is taken prisoner by the Japanese. A photographer returns to Tokyo after decades, and learns to find the courage to accept his own identity. These three characters have very little to do with each other, but their lives are intertwined by fate, and by war.
I do not know if Jennifer has portrayed the Japan of those times honestly, because unlike her, I've never lived in Japan or even read too much about it. But I admire the richness and the complexity that she puts into the backdrop of her novels, particularly when she writes about the chasm between the conventional and the modern way of life in Japan, about the gradual moral decay of the people,and about their amazing power of adjustment and resilience.
The ending was a bit too predictable, too symmetrical, but I could accept that. After the harrowing things the characters went through, perhaps they deserved a bit of symmetry in their loves.
The only Japanese novel I've read is Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. I'm also very fond of Memoirs of A Geisha, but I realize it is completely orientalised and romanticized. The Gods of Heveanly Punishment seemed to be able to balance realism and drama nicely.
The author, Jennifer Cody Epstein, was nice enough to answer a few questions I had about the book. Here's my interview with her:
1. Hi Jennifer! Welcome to Rivers I Have Known, and thanks for my copy of your book. The Gods of Heavenly Punishment" is mostly based in wartime Japan, Your previous novel was based in China I believe. Why do you choose Oriental settings for your stories? Do you plan to continue writing mostly about Asia and Asians?
When I set out to become a writer, I didn't have a specific sense of where I would be setting my stories geographically–though given that I'd spent seven years living in Asia and had travelled there pretty widely, I guess it was inevitably an option. The funny part for me was that since most of my living and academic experience was in Japan, I had no expectation that I'd end up writing about China first. The topic–the incredible life of Chinese prostitute-turned-post-Impressionist Pan Yuliang–just sort of grabbed me, and while I was really daunted by trying to write about a country in which I had relatively little life experience (though I did live in Hong Kong for two years) I was so fascinated by Pan's story that I decided to try it anyway. Similarly, as someone who knew Japan only as a peace-loving ally of America, the stories I heard and history I read about its wartime existence–and in particular, the virulent enmity it felt towards America–really fascinated me. So when someone brought the Tokyo Firebombing to my attention, I realized that I had a great opportunity to explore that fascination.
As for future plans….I have a few stories in my head that will also be set in Asia, but I think for the next one I'm moving Westward! As of now I'm planning to set it in wartime Berlin.
2. The gap between the conservative and the traditional is an interesting theme you've written about in "The Gods of Heavenly Punishment", reflected with clarity in the deteriorating relationship between Yoshi's parents. Do you feel this social gap is unique to traditional societies like Japan, or have you seen similar gaps in western society as well?
I think that in any society you have a constant push-pull between the old ways and the new, because by definition societies are constantly changing, reinventing themselves. One of the things that fascinates me about Asian society, though, is that–particularly during this time period, from the late 1800's through the end of the second world war–you not only had change in the way Japanese people thought about traditional Japanese society but an enormous–and at times almost violent–flood of Western technology, philosophy and culture pouring in, which made the struggle between old and new that much more extreme. It's something the Japanese writers Tanizaki and Desai explore very richly in their work (I'm thinking in particular of The Makioka Sisters and The Setting Sun, two of my favorite Japanese novels). But I think you have similar–if less extreme–gaps in the West because of the ever-increasing flow of immigration. American today is nothing like the "traditional" America of Norman Rockwell days–it is perpetually being forced to redefine itself as more and more of its citizens claim their roots in the East and elsewhere.
3. Billy's homosexuality is heavily foreshadowed in the story, with his depiction as a boy with barely any boyish interests, prone to tears, artistic… do you think you may have taken a shortcut here, when you show a slightly effeminate boy grow up into a gay man, or do you feel your depiction is quite close to the truth (I know Billy's sexuality has nothing to do with the story, I'm just curious)
Wow–great and very thought-provoking question! It's funny, but while I was writing Billy's character as a boy I really wasn't thinking much about his sexuality, though I knew that he'd grow up to be gay (a choice I made because I thought it would make the dynamic between him and Yoshi more interesting). Being a kind of geeky, artistic and over-sensitive child myself, I knew lots of boys who were also geeky, artistic and over-sensitive–though whether they proved to be gay or not in the end I don't know. I also didn't particularly see Billy as particularly effeminate–either as a boy or as a man. He just struck me as a quiet kid with major esteem issues–as would be the case with someone like Anton for a father; someone who would carry those issues with him through the war and after until finally "discovering" himself as an older adult.
4. One of my favorite books about Japan is Memoirs of a Geisha , even though I realize it is heavily orientalized and romantisized. Do you think Japan has been truthfully depicted so far in english literature? What are your favorite fictions in english based in Japan?
Another great question! I actually love Memoirs as well–after refusing to read it for months after it came out I finally capitulated, sat down on a couch with it, and basically didn't get up again for two days. It was that compelling. As someone who had lived in Japan at that point, and somewhat to my own surprise, I actually didn't see it as particularly orientalized–it seemed to me Arthur Golden had done his research and written it in a tone and style that isn't out-of-place with much Japanese literature of that period (the movie may be another story). And if it was romanticized, I think that comes with the territory (it is, after all, about geisha, who trade in the art of romance!). That said, I think there is always a danger when writing about people and places "other" than ourselves of falling into trope and stereotype. I can't think of any novels about Japan I've read that really jump out at me as falling into that category, but I do have several books set in Japan written by American writers that I love: David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, and The Tea House Fire by Ellis Avery, for instance, and Butterfly's Child by Angela Davis-Carter. I also loved The Commoner by Jonathan Burnham Schwartz.
5. Who are your favorite authors? Please share your list of 10 favorite books with our readers.
It's always so hard to narrow it down! But here is a list in no particular order whatsoever:
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
A Dual Inheritance by Joanna Hershon
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
The Last Nude by Ellis Avery
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Giveaway!!
Jennifer has given me permission to give away one copy of The Gods of Heavenly Punishment to one of my readers. So yes, you can drool over the hard bound cover too (as long as you don't literally do that). Just drop a comment here telling me if you have read any novels based in Japan, and if yes, which is your favorite. I'll pick a name through an online randomizer and that person gets a free copy of this lovely book. Giveaway closes on 25 Sept, 2013


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This is a level 5 number activity from the Figure It Out series. It relates to Stage 8 of the Number Framework.
A PDF of the student activity is included.
find percentages of whole numbers
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Use this activity to help students consolidate and apply their knowledge of fractions, proportions, and ratios (stage 7).
This activity gives students practice at finding percentages of amounts using a calculator and rounding.
In question 1, they need to add up the number of meals the dogs have in 1 day and then double this to give the number needed for 2 days.
In question 2, they need to calculate the daily food allowance for each dog and divide this by the number of times the dog is to be fed. For example, Danny the Dane's daily allowance is 2% of 59 kg. 0.02 x 59 = 1 180 g. 1 180 ÷ 2 = 590 g per meal. A more efficient strategy would be to use the fact that Danny's daily allowance is 2% of his body weight and he gets this in two instalments. This means that he must get 1% (half of 2%) of his body weight each morning and evening. 1% of 59 kg is 0.59 kg or 590 g.
Make sure that your students know how you expect them to solve percentage problems on a calculator. Insist that they enter percentages directly as their decimal equivalents. This reinforces the fact that, for example, 4% = 0.04 and means that the students will not be at a loss when they have to use a calculator without a % key. Teach them how to read a decimal as a percentage (for example, 1.2 as 120%). Discourage them from multiplying by 100/1. By learning good practices at this stage, they will come to understand the meaning of percentages and how to work with them
as numbers.
Note that the activity uses kilograms as the unit for mass while the answers use grams. Ask your students for their views on the reason for this apparent inconsistency. The reason is that the gram unit is most suited to small weights, particularly those less than a couple of kg, while the kg unit is most suited to bigger weights, particularly those that are over a couple of thousands of grams. This is partly because all those zeros on bigger weights become a nuisance (Sam the St Bernard
with a weight of 78 000 g!) and partly because we are not usually interested in finding or writing the weights of heavier things accurate to the last gram.
The question calls for answers to be rounded to the nearest 10 g. Check that everyone understands how to do this, making sure that they understand the convention of rounding up when the number is halfway between two 10s.
Many students are very interested in pets and may like to use this activity as a springboard for extension work. They could investigate local kennels, including how they manage the feeding process, ensure hygiene, allow for exercise, and what they charge. Or they could investigate what daily food allowance is recommended for cats and survey friends and classmates to find out how much their cats weigh and how much food they are fed.
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Easy-going, mellow Sagittarius; ruled
by Jupiter, life events rarely get on your nerves. Your style
of dealing with change is to periodically review and revise
your methods as soon as a warning light beeps. Your only problem
may be the flip side of your greatest asset: your optimism.
You may, at times, take too rosy a view of things. You like
to move ahead quickly. You get easily bored with details.
This combination can occasionally trip you up, since you could
miss something important or incorrectly judge a situation.
Surround yourself with detail/analytical air types (Gemini,
Aquarius or Libra) or hire an earth sign (Virgo, Taurus or
Capricorn) assistant to balance you. A mutable sign, you are
one of the lucky flexible ones that can accept change best.
Your fire side of your nature makes you enthusiastic, energetic
and creative in thinking up new plans and ideas.
When life becomes just too much, head for the
gym. Nothing makes you toss off stress better than a good
sweat. Besides pumping iron, taking your dog for a run is
great. Your sign is symbolized by the centaur, so try an equestrian
sport. Hire a horse for an hour and go for a morning gallop
through a park, or learn to play polo. Being outdoors regularly
is good for you, for Sagittarius is not a sign known to sit
still happily or stay cooped-up inside for too long.
Games of agility such as fencing or archery,
could appeal to you as well. There are some Sagittarius that
don't like many sports, but instead, they like to walk. That's
all they do, but they do so much of it, that they leave the
rest of us in the dust. When they walk they open the windows
of their minds and clear out all the clutter blocking new
creative ideas. The unity of mind and body is highly regarded
and maintained by Sagittarius.
If you need some entertainment, check the newspaper
for an animal show or rodeo, or take a wee one to a day at
the circus or a zoo. Sagittarius rules large animals, and
it is a rare Sadge that doesn't enjoy being around pets and
rare animals. Hang out with positive spirits like yourself.
Choose a Leo, Aries, Gemini, Aquarius or Libra. The water
signs are likely to be too emotional for you, and the earth
signs too serious (earth "puts out" fire).
Like your opposite sign, Gemini, you enjoy
books. Head to the nearest bookseller with a large selection
or go to the library. Unlike your opposite sign of Gemini,
who likes either to read best sellers or self-help books,
you are more likely to gravitate to books that deal with a
particular philosophy of life. You may also enjoy inspirational
biographies of well-known people who have met life's challenges
with courage, and are willing to share their insights.
Your sign is the natural ruler of the 9th house,
and therefore your sign is a reflective one. Having a long
discussion with a family priest, rabbi, reverend (or other
religious person) or even a professor or other scholar, could
prove stimulating. Sagittarius is a give-and-take sign that
does not become threatened by other's differing views. Highly
cerebral, you like the process of debate. and hold your own
quite well in any discussion. By allowing random or unfamiliar
points of view within your radar, you might be able to come
up with creative solutions to whatever is causing your tension.
Another Sagittarius activity that would give
an instant change of pace would be an evening adult education
class. Your sign enjoys learning, so go hear an expert speak
about a topic of interest to you at a neighborhood school,
university or even a lecture at a local YMCA or bookstore
event. The class need not have any information about whatever
is troubling you. Try a class on wine tasting, shooting pool,
modern American Poetry, Chinese cooking, or anything that
interests you.
Finally, think about getting away for a short
time if you can spare the time. Like Gemini, Sagittarius is
a travel sign. Check your frequent flier mileage or keep an
eye out for bargain airline rates. Sometimes it is necessary
to get away to see one's problems with objectivity. A long
weekend in London or a five days spent camping in Wyoming
would fix you right up, and you could return with an entirely
new point of view. Sadge is independent and self-reliant,
so if you have nobody to bring along, traveling alone would
be no big deal. See Notre Dame at dawn, have a croissant in
an outdoor cafe, stroll the Left Bank, stop by the Louvre,
take a drive in the French countryside. Sounds good, eh? Think
about it, Sadge.
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A recent story on National Public Radio suggested that people who find themselves with mortgage balances that are more than their homes are worth would be smart to stop making payments, have their homes foreclosed upon and then go buy another house in the same neighborhood based on the newly diminished housing values. They even found a contracts lawyer to say the reason there are default provisions in contracts is because defaulting on contracts is a rational option that is available to anyone who enters into any contract.
The primary election in August will be conducted exclusively through mail-in ballots in Jefferson County. The Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously at a public hearing Feb. 23 in favor of the measure.
The vast majority of public comment taken between Jan. 29 and Feb. 12 supported the use of mail-in ballots, the county stated, and 94 percent of votes in the 2008 primary election were cast through the mail in Jeffco.
Writing before the election results are final, I have no idea of the outcome of the presidential race. So from behind a veil of ignorance, this column is an expression of support and good wishes to the newly elected president — whoever he is.
It was business as usual at Conifer schools the morning of Feb. 24, a day after a gunman shot two students at Deer Creek Middle School in South Jefferson County.
Officials at West Jefferson Elementary, Elk Creek Elementary and Conifer High schools did not do anything specific to draw students' attention to the shootings, but the incident was a grim reminder that teachers, staff and students must be mindful of safety.
Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood is facing a variety of charges, including four counts of attempted murder, in the shootings last week at Deer Creek Middle School.
Eastwood, 32, a former student at the school, was advised Tuesday of the charges against him in Jefferson County Court.
Using humor, theatrics and great music, members of the troupe Inside the Orchestra taught King-Murphy Elementary School students about how orchestra music is not so different from the music they usually hear.
"Orchestra music has the same intensity and energy as hip-hop and rap," conductor Tom Jensen told the school-wide assembly Feb. 26. Some parts of the music are rough and some are smooth, some are quiet and some are loud, some are happy and some are sad.
Neighborhood groups said they felt better about the park district's upcoming community needs survey after hearing the board's response to their concerns at a park district board meeting Feb. 23.
After the Feb. 9 joint meeting with the Center for the Arts board, some neighbors were worried the parks board had already decided to go forward with the arts/community center, without regard for the results of the future community survey.
George Goldbach has decided not to run for another term as a member of the board of directors of the Evergreen Fire Protection District.
Goldbach was first elected to the board in Nov. 13 in the recall election as a replacement for former board president Phil Shanley. He ran uncontested in a polling-place election May 6, 2008, and was re-elected.
Two candidates for Senate District 16, which includes Evergreen and Clear Creek County, faced off at a candidates' night Feb. 25 at a Hiwan Country Club event sponsored by the Mountain Republican Women's Club.
Despite the icy roads and snow, about 75 people turned out to hear the two candidates, Tim Leonard of Evergreen and Mark Hurlbert of Breckenridge, work their way through about a dozen questions solicited from attendees.
Metal detectors are not the way to improve school safety — the answer is old-fashioned supervision, awareness and common-sense procedures like keeping unexpected visitors out of the building, said Kenneth Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services of Cleveland.
Contacted Feb. 24, it was too early for Trump to have all the facts about the Deer Creek Middle School shootings, but he had some suggestions on what parents and school administrators can do to make schools safer.
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The crowd was small but the sounds were big and the musical icons shined at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock Friday night for the second American stop of the "Night of the Proms" tour.
The Pointer Sisters, Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins and Chic, featuring Nile Rodgers were backed by a 60-piece orchestra and a choir made up of 16 nationalities. You could say the night was a combination of pop and classical. "A Fifth of Beethoven" was even on the set list.
It was explained to the audience that "Night of the Proms" began 30 years ago in Europe. The list of stops includes Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Spain, France and more. While we in the United States think of a prom as a big, fancy high school dance with a dj or band, the "Night of the Proms" meaning is a walk through the magic of music.
The Pointer Sisters reminded the crowd that their daddy was from Arkansas. They delivered a high energy performance of some of their greatest hits, including "Fire," "Jump," "Slow Hand" and the crowd pleaser, "I'm So Excited."
Kenny Loggins, now 66, showed no sign of aging as he rolled out his trademark songs. His set list included "Conviction of the Heart, "Celebrate Me Home" "Danger Zone" and "Footloose." Later in the evening, Loggins joined McDonald on two radio staple songs they worked together on years ago. Those songs were "This Is It" and "What A Fool Believes." You could see the awe in the eyes of the audience as the two made these two songs sound as good as ever. McDonald teamed with Ruth Pointer for "On My Own."
Chic, featuring Nile Rodgers, 61 now, invited the audience up on stage for "Good Times," their big hit from the disco era. "Le Freak" and "I Want Your Love" also brought back memories of the dance floors of yesterday.
McDonald, now 62, shined with "Ya Mo Be There," I Keep Forgettin," and "Sweet Freedom."
The show closed with all acts coming out on stage to sing the 1979, Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards song made famous by Sister Sledge, "We Are Family."
Dallas, Kansas City and Omaha were the other cities that got to experience "Night of the Proms."


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for the life of me I can't seem to figure out how to uninstall the iSCSI Initiator properly on Mac OS X 10.6.8. It seems to conflict with an external backup RAID connected via eSATA (Sonnet Tempo E2P card). Occasionally (every other day currently), I get errors like these in the kernel.log
SNSSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::probe fails SCSIPressurePathManager: Timed out waiting for inactive/error path to become active, loops = 0
Unfortunately this often corrupts the volume.
I already did an uninstall as per instructions found on the SNS website, but the "SNS"-related kernel errors suggest there are still remains of it in the OS.
How can I safely get rid of the initiator and all its drivers on that Mac?
Any advice is appreciated,
thanks in advance!


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June 30, 2000 - Industry News
Rep. Frank Wolf is calling on his congressional colleagues to reject a Senate attempt to squelch a proposal to reform the hours of service rules.
In a letter, the Virginia Republican said that the Department of Transportation
June 29, 2000 - Industry News
It was standing-room only Thursday morning at the meeting room in the TA Atlanta South truckstop as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration convened its next-to-last public listening session on its controversial hours of service proposal
Expect to see pump prices drop in Illinois in the next week. The state General Assembly has suspended the 5 percent sales tax on gasoline and diesel fuel for six months, effective Saturday, July 1
June 28, 2000 - Industry News
Rep. Roy Blunt revived congressional efforts to lower fuel prices by suspending the federal fuel tax. This week the Missouri Republican called for a 90-day suspension of the federal tax on gasoline and diesel, amounting to 18.4 cents per gallon.
He said the combination of rising fuel prices in the Midwest, and a $50 billion federal budget surplus, justify the $8 billion loss of revenue to the Highway Trust Fund that would result from the tax suspension
As the budgeting process for the Department of Transportation unfolds, it is clear that Congress will support a significantly higher investment in truck safety
With all the focus on truck driver fatigue as the industry debates the federal government's hours of service proposal, it might be worthwhile if federal officials took a look at the sleep debt of Americans in
June 26, 2000 - Industry News
John Gerhards was recently headed home when he spotted another vehicle in trouble. "I was on 9-1-1 before he hit the gravel," he recalled. Because he knew exactly what information to give the dispatcher -- and because the dispatchers know him -- police and emergency crews were there in five minutes
George McCasland is a former driver who brought a unique perspective to the recent hours of service hearing in Kansas City, Mo. - In 1988, he was disabled in an accident caused by truck driver fatigue.
June 22, 2000 - Industry News
In the face of strong criticism from Congress, Clyde Hart, acting chief of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, said the agency will be making significant changes in its proposed hours-of-service rules
June 20, 2000 - Industry News
U.S. senators, safety advocacy groups, and victims and survivors of fatigue-related truck crashes yesterday appealed to the U.S. Department of Transportation to modify the new proposed hours of service rules
June 19, 2000 - Industry News
The fifth in a series of public hearings on the federal government's hours of service proposal gets under way today in Indianapolis
More than 43,000 trucks and buses were inspected during the 72-hour International Roadcheck 2000 June 6-8, over 4,000 more than last year
The trucking industry wanted the DOT to avoid a "one-size-fits-all" approach in its new hours of service regulations, so the agency came up with five different "types" of drivers, all with different rules. But a lot
June 16, 2000 - Industry News
Truckers are in for a fight over their move to kill the Department of Transportation's proposal to reform hours of service rules.
American Trucking Associations, arguing that the proposal would cost a fortune and would not improve
June 15, 2000 - Industry News
It was standing-room only at the Wagstaff Theater in Kansas City, Mo., yesterday as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration got into gear in the fourth of its public hearings on the controversial proposed hours of service rules
Truckers ignoring signs on a West Virginia mountain warning them to slow down were greeted with speeding citations earlier this week
June 14, 2000 - Industry News
The Research and Special Programs Administration wants to consolidate and standardize all existing exemptions that authorize the discharge of intermediate bulk containers from a motor vehicle without removing the IBC from the vehicle
June 13, 2000 - Industry News
Pushed by the American Trucking Associations, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a measure that would force the Department of Transportation to stop its reform of the hours of service regulations.
The maneuver raises the possibility that the controversial reform proposal could be killed by legislative fiat. At this point, however, the ATA tactic faces many obstacles
Georgia is training 20 more officers to do truck safety inspections as a new state agency prepares to ensure that trucks operate legally in the state
If you buy a truck on or after Monday, July 3, it must carry the motor carrier identification number issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the legal name of the company that owns the vehicle or controls its operation
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Special Programs Div. has reversed its ban on placards mounted low on the rear of a trailer
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has added two more days to the schedule of hearing on proposed hours-of-service rule changes. The additional hearings will be held July 6 and 7 in Washington D.C.
For more information
June 10, 2000 - Industry News
Truckers are up in arms over proposed changes to the hours of service rules, but the chief federal safety officer believes the proposal is on target
With truckers pushing for legislation to squelch the hours of service proposal, Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater granted industry requests for more time to review and comment.
After initially resisting calls for more time, Slater Friday issued instructions to extend the comment period from July 31 to October 30.
His decision came after dozens of witnesses in public hearings on the proposal urged that the extension be granted.
June 9, 2000 - Industry News
The U.S. House of Representatives last week voted to block new ergonomics regulations that have been blasted by the American Trucking Associations and other business groups
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None of Tinsley Mortimer's Friends Want to Be on Her Actually Real Reality Show
Ones that aren't sleeping together, we mean.
Brad Pitt supposedly had his mother convince Jennifer Aniston to meet him in his suite at the Essex Hotel so that he could vent to her about Angelina. Justin Timberlake's grandma says he never wanted anything serious with Jessica Biel. Katy Perry and Russell Brand have been snogging and tweeting in Thailand. A-Rod smooched Kate Hudson over lunch at Serafina on 61st. Even though Usher's new single, "Papers," details his split from wife Tameka Foster Raymond, he has yet to sign his actual divorce papers. And Robert Redford charmed Nancy Pelosi, who referred to him as "Bob" at Monday's Americans for the Arts gala. The CW is promoting Tinsley Mortimer's long-gestating reality show by claiming it will "lift the curtain on New York's most talked-about Park Avenue Princess and her young, elite society friends." Too bad none of her said "society friends" want anything to do with the show, and only her sister Dabney Mercer has agreed to co-star.
Courtney Love inappropriately grabbed Bono, Scarlett Johansson, and the Edge following her Carnegie Hall performance on Sunday, tweeting, "I have kissed a lot of rock stars in my time but seriously never so many as the last 24 hours." And speaking of inappropriate grabbing, at the Tao/Lavo anniversary in Vegas, Sean Combs announced, "When I'm in Vegas, I want to have lots of sex." Meanwhile, Nick Lachey and his on-again girlfriend Vanessa Minnillo exited the party through a back door to avoid crossing paths with Jessica and Ashlee Simpson. Madonna and Lady Gaga continued their SNL squabble by going at it on the dance floor at Submercer on Sunday to celebrate Madonna's manager, Guy Oseary's, birthday, along with Lenny Kravitz and Andy Samberg. Ex-Yankee pitcher David Wells downed Guinness and Jameson at Dorrian's while his own Jimmy Fallon interview played on the TV. Beyoncé eloquently depicts her reaction to Kanye's VMA outburst, explaining, "When he walked on the stage, I was like, 'No, no, no!' and then he spoke, and I was like, 'Oh, no, no, no!'"
A Malibu judge agreed to expunge Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic drunk-driving incident from his record. Not that stars get special treatment or anything. Chris Rock was late to the premiere of his movie, Good Hair, because he found out he was being hit with a $5 million plagiarism lawsuit. Lindsay Lohan's father says she's addicted to prescription drugs. We are floored. Jeremy Piven's been taking different, ethnically diverse women out every night. But not for sushi. David Letterman thinks he should get an understudy.
Padma Lakshmi disposed of some of her pre-baby-body wear by donating clothing to the Hollywood-based consignment shop Decades Two over the weekend, along with Rachel Zoe, Sienna Miller, and Ali Sheedy. Tyra Banks has been laying off the alcohol, turning down complimentary Champagne at Pranna, but rumors have yet to begin that she's pregnant. Jude Law had a glass of vino at Marseille before Hamlet's curtain time. Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Martha Stewart, Sirio and Mauro Maccioni, Joe Bastianich, David Chang, and Alex von Bidder celebrated Daniel Boulud's third star at 620 Loft & Gardens. Billy Joel strolled his pug down Broadway. And a swine-inflicted Brian Littrell apologizes to Backstreet Boy fans in a video. Because apparently they still exist.


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Federal phosphorous rules come with steep costs in Brookfield
Worst-case option has $50M price tag
The Environmental Protection Agency is thinking green, but cities like Brookfield are seeing red over stringent standards for phosphorous levels in groundwater.
In 2011, shortly after the standards were adopted in Wisconsin, Scott Walker took office as governor and attempted to roll back some of the revised groundwater standards by insisting there was tremendous burden being placed on local governments.
Brookfield would serve as a prime example, as the city is looking at more than $50 million in costs by 2017 to upgrade equipment and find opportunities to reduce phosphorous in the water supply. Seventeen million of those dollars are estimated to cover part of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District's estimated $500 million overhaul of its water treatment plants to adhere to these standards.
Mayor Steven Ponto sent a letter to then-governor Jim Doyle, expressing considerable dismay that the state had become just the second in the country to adopt the EPA guidelines.
"All of us want to have a cleaner environment. We just have to smart about how we get there," Ponto said.
"Rather than beat municipalities over the head to go from very little to even (less), it'd be good to bring the overall level down in the agricultural areas."
Part of the issue, Ponto explained, is that agricultural areas are treated differently than urban areas that already produce very little phosphorous and are generally effective as keeping levels low.
In Brookfield, the standard has been 1 milligram of phosphorous per liter of water. These new standards would have Brookfield attempting to reduce that more than 10 fold to 0.075 milligrams per liter.
"We're getting 90 percent of phosphorus out of our water now," explained Public Works Director Tom Grisa. "We're now being asked to get 90 percent of the remaining 10 percent."
Weighing options
Grisa said there are two main options for dealing with this problem. The first is a major technological overhaul, for which Brookfield has budgeted $35 million in 2016 for its own technology upgrades as well as $17 million in 2017 for the MMSD project.
About half of that $35 million would be covered by the communities that contract with Brookfield for service. The city's Fox River Water Pollution Control Center serves Pewaukee, the town of Brookfield and Menomonee Falls as well as the city of Brookfield.
"The reality is, I don't know for sure that we will spend that amount of money in that given year because I will work very hard to try to push back these expenditures and also reduce them through these other options," Grisa explained.
"But since I don't know how that will take shape, I'd rather show the worst-case scenario and we can always reduce the number."
Brookfield will have the option to look for opportunities in the area to lower overall phosphorous levels, which could offset the amount they have to spend on technology changes. There is a plan whereby the city could go to a farmer and find ways to reduce that area's phosphorous reduction in return for a longer-term deadline for meeting these standards.
Finding time and money
Under the new permit Brookfield will have to get this year, the city would have five years to comply. With this adaptive management approach, the city would get an extension and possibly be able to reduce phosphorous levels without having to make major changes at the treatment site.
That, Grisa said, could mean the overall price tag for this project could come down over time.
"We are all very new in this; no one has gone through this process yet, so what I'm doing is placing in the capital plan what I think is the most expensive option and yet the most reliable option because we know we can do it with technology.
"We know we can do it at the plant and we would be in control of it."
Ponto said the city would have had to borrow the money to pay for these projects no matter what, but the property tax freeze from the state level does put a strain on the city's financial flexibility.
With tax revenues stagnant, it would take the city longer to pay down the debt, and possibly increase the overall costs with interest.
Ponto did add that it is possible a change in elected national leadership could change the scenario.
"You hope that some of this will get worked out as the political process goes along," he said. "This is an election year. We can hope for relief at the federal level."
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He is simply one of the most beautiful men in the world. That top photo from DNA... is that new? I know Ryan is thinner now and doing more high fashion. I preferred him more muscular like when he was with AAG. So hot.ReplyDelete
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In 2003, a Christian joke circulated around the internet. The joke talked about a fictional case in which an atheist sued the government because there were no atheist holidays. The judge then told the atheist that he was wrong and that April 1 (April Fool's Day) was an atheist holiday citing the Bible:
"The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good." - Psalm 14:1
Despite the obviousness that this was a fictional story meant to be humorous to Christians by calling all atheists "fools," many religious believers were actually fooled and began circulating the story as real (Snopes.com).
To this day, it is not unusual for Christians to claim that April Fool's Day is the atheist's holiday. Some make this claim maliciously, but many are ironically fooled by the April Fool's Day prank. This is not surprising given what it says in the atheist holy book:
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything." - Hitchens 3:16
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