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Holstein Association USA, Inc.
Constitution & Bylaws
(1st row l-r ) Mike Jones, Barbara Casna, Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer, Boyd Schaufelberger, Vice President, Gordie Cook, President, John M. Meyer, Chief Executive Officer/Executive Secretary, Mark Kerndt.
(2nd row)
Dale Drendel, Patrick Maddox, Benjamin Newberry, John A. Andersen, Roy Buessing, Peter Dueppengiesser, Steve Keene.
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John Marshman, R. Paul Buhr, and John S. Burket.
Gordie Cook, President
Hadley, MA
Boyd Schaufelberger, Vice President
Greenville, IL
John M. Meyer, Executive Secretary
Brattleboro, VT
Barbara Casna, Treasurer
Brattleboro, VT
John A. Andersen, Region 8
Jerome, ID
Roy Buessing, Region 7
Axtell, KS
R. Paul Buhr, Region 5
Viroqua, WI
John S. Burket, Region 2
East Freedom, PA
Dale Drendel,
Hampshire, IL
Peter Dueppengiesser,
Region 1
Perry, NY
Mike Jones, Region 3
Marshall, IN
Steve Keene, At-Large
Canton, ME
Mark Kerndt, Region 6
Waukon, IA
Patrick Maddox, Region 9
Riverdale, CA
John Marshman, At-Large
Oxford, NY
Benjamin Newberry,
Region 4
Lizella, GA
The Association staff maintains the parentage, production and ownership records of Holstein animals. In extensive data files, we have maintained records and ancestry that trace back to the original 8,800 Holstein animals that were imported to the U.S. from the Netherlands during the period of 1852-1905.
The 284 dairymen who signed the founding charter of the organization wanted to preserve and disseminate useful information and facts about the Holstein pedigree. They strove to identify desirable qualities and distinguishing characteristics of the best of the Holstein breed, and to promote and communicate these to other dairymen to help increase their business success.
Holstein-Friesian cattle originated in Europe over 2,000 years ago and were the result of the mating of black animals of the Batavian tribe and white animals of the Friesian tribe.
In the 1850's a breeder from Massachusetts, Winthrop Chenery, made his first purchase of Holstein cattle from the captain of a Dutch sailing vessel. He was so impressed with the breed, that he imported seven more Holstein animals. After losing these animals to illness, Chenery made his historical importation of one bull and four cows in 1861. These animals were destined to spread the fame of the Holstein breed across the country. Soon, other dairymen were importing the Holstein breed into the United States.
Another notable breeder was Gerrit Miller of Peterboro, N.Y., whose importations in the 1860's and 1870's and his subsequent breeding of these animals laid the foundation for many of the early Holstein herds.
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Changes in Vascular Plant Biodiversity in the Netherlands in the 20th Century Explained by their Climatic and other Environmental Characteristics
- Wil L. M. TamisAffiliated withNationaal Herbarium Nederland/Leiden University Branch Email author
- , Maarten Van't ZelfdeAffiliated withInstitute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University
- , Ruud Van Der MeijdenAffiliated withNationaal Herbarium Nederland/Leiden University Branch
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In the Netherlands nation-wide databases are available with about 10 million records of occurrences of vascular plant species in the 20th century on a scale of approximately 1 km2. These data were analysed with a view to identifying relationships between changes in botanical biodiversity and climatic and other environmental factors. Prior to analysis the data were corrected for several major forms of survey bias. The records were broken down into three periods: 1902–1949, 1975–1984 and 1985–1999. Using multiple regression analysis, differences between successive periods were related to plant functional characteristics as explanatory variables. Between the periods 1902–1949 and 1975–1984 there were small but significant increases in the presence of both thermophilic ('warm') and psychrophilic ('cold') species. However, in the final decades of the 20th century there was a marked increase in thermophilic species only, coinciding with the marked increase in ambient temperature observed during this period, evidence at least of a rapid response of Dutch flora to climate change. Urbanisation was also examined as an alternative explanation for the increase in thermophilic plant species and was found to explain only 50% of the increased presence of such species in the final decades of the 20th century. Besides temperature-related effects, the most important change during the 20th century was a strong decline in oligotrophic and a marked increase in eutrophic plant species.
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- Changes in Vascular Plant Biodiversity in the Netherlands in the 20th Century Explained by their Climatic and other Environmental Characteristics
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Volume 72, Issue 1-2 , pp 37-56
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- 2005-09
- 10.1007/s10584-005-5287-7
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A Southern California woman might be the first person ever to have received a traffic ticket for driving while under the influence of ... Google Glass?!
Yes. Google Glass enthusiast Cecilia Abadie says she was ticketed for using the internet-connected device even though, she claims, it wasn't active when she was driving:
The computer scientist posted her California Highway Patrol souvenir for the world to see on her Google+ page last night. The ticket says "Driving with Monitor visible to Driver (Google Glass)."
Abadie was also cited for going 85 in a 65 miles per hour zone during yesterday's stop. "The speeding was justified as I was in a 65 mph zone and thought I was on a 75mph zone," she says in comments to her Google+ post.
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But she seemed a little perplexed at the Google Glass part of the ticket, which could be a first. "Is #GoogleGlass illegal while driving or is this cop wrong???," she asks.
California law says you can't drive while exposed to a monitor, with the exception of factory GPS (that has to be selected to GPS) and GPS-type devices of a certain size attached to the lower left hand corner of windshields.
The legality of Google Glass appears to be an untested area, and her case could be a first. If she was not actively using the monitor and it was simply a lens, Abadie might have a good case.
A CHP officer we talked to today told us:
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Jim Beam Maker Fortune Brands Plans to Split in Three
Fortune Brands Inc., the maker of Jim Beam bourbon and Titleist golf balls, plans to split into three separate businesses and focus on distilled spirits after activist investor William Ackman built up a stake.
Fortune will spin off its home and security division as a publicly traded company and sell or spin off its golf unit, according to a statement today. Chief Executive Officer Bruce Carbonari said Fortune found "much strategic common ground" with Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management LP, which became Fortune's largest investor this year.
Ackman has sought to dismantle Fortune, founded as a tobacco company almost 150 years ago, to boost the value of its stock. Before he disclosed his stake two months ago, Fortune had slumped 28 percent since Carbonari took over in January 2008.
"This is the first step to clear the decks for a potential private market transaction for one or more of the businesses," Doug Lane, an analyst with Jefferies & Co. in New York, said today in a telephone interview. "The real upside could be, 'What will the spirits portfolio fetch if you get strategic buyers involved?'" Lane recommends holding the stock.
Fortune, based in Deerfield, Illinois, rose 61 cents to $61.76 at 4:01 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. Before today, the stock had risen 18 percent since Oct. 7, the day before Ackman disclosed his stake, as investors anticipated a breakup. Fortune is fairly valued at its current share price, Lane said, adding the stock could decline to $50 in the unlikely event the company abandons its plan.
Fortune has an enterprise value of $13 billion, which includes items such as debt. Alone, the spirits business, anchored by its bourbon portfolio, could be worth $8.4 billion, Lane said. That's based on estimated 2010 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of a set of peer companies he evaluated.
The home and security unit may be worth $3.5 billion, while the sports equipment business, centered on Titleist, may be worth $1.1 billion, Lane said.
Ackman, who previously pushed for change at Target Corp. and Wendy's International Inc., disclosed an 11 percent stake in Fortune Brands Oct. 8. He may stand to make a profit of about $265 million, based on figures provided in regulatory filings and today's closing stock price. Ackman was unavailable for comment, said Bethany Norvell, a spokeswoman for Pershing.
"Ackman is someone who's made a living of breaking things up to realize value," Credit Suisse Group AG analyst Anthony Bucalo said in London today. "The implication is that there'll be a significant spirit asset up for sale," suggesting the liquor business could get involved in a transaction.
Spirits Deals
Diageo Plc, the world's largest spirits company, may be interested in buying some brands, Bucalo said. Diageo spokesman James Crampton declined to comment today.
Companies have pursued more than 400 transactions in the spirits industry over the past five years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The median multiple in those transactions was about 10.4 times ebitda. That period also has yielded about 80 deals in the sporting goods industry globally, with a median multiple of 9.1 times ebitda.
Fortune dates its origins to the 1864 founding of its predecessor by North Carolina farmer Washington Duke, according to Hoover's Inc. It expanded into home products in the 1980s and added seven liquor brands from Seagram in 1991. It has owned the Jim Beam distillery since the 1960s and exited tobacco in the 1990s.
Fortune Brands hired Credit Suisse and Centerview Partners LLP for advice ahead of meetings with Ackman, four people with knowledge of the matter said in October, declining to be named because the talks were private.
Liquor's Profits
Fortune's liquor unit, whose brands also include Courvoisier cognac and Effen vodka, is the company's most profitable business, with earnings of $485 million on sales of $2.5 billion last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The company gets about 45 percent of sales from its home and security unit, including Moen faucets and Therma-Tru doors. The division contributed 17 percent of operating income in 2009.
Diageo may be interested in buying Fortune's bourbons, including Maker's Mark, to expand in the category in the U.S., according to UBS. Distribution agreements with LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA's alcohol division for cognac and with Casa Cuervo SA de CV for Jose Cuervo tequila may prevent Diageo from buying the unit due to competition issues.
Bourbon Bids?
If Diageo were to bid for Fortune's bourbons, there would "have to be someone else to come in to pick up the rest of the brands," Bucalo said. "It doesn't appear there's anyone in the spirits industry who has the capacity to do that."
Matthew Jordan, an analyst at Matrix in London, wrote today in a note that Diageo could lead a group of buyers for the unit, including Davide Campari-Milano SpA. Campari spokeswoman Chiara Bressani declined to comment.
Pernod-Ricard SA may be interested in buying the unit to add tequila and bourbon to its portfolio, though it doesn't have the financial capacity to do it at the moment, UBS analyst Jason Derise said. Calls to a Pernod spokesman today weren't immediately returned.


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Mr Nash caught them within half-an-hour and said it indicated
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The Roseneath resident said Dunedin was known as "salmon
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"When the salmon are returning, the average fisherman can
pick up half a dozen pretty easily. It's the result of hours
of volunteer work in the hatchery at Sawyers Bay," he said.
Mr Nash said only one or two salmon had been caught recently,
but he expected more to be hooked in coming weeks.
"Normally we get a run before Christmas and another
The salmon were raised from eggs in the hatchery then
released in the Leith about May, which triggered their annual
return to the Leith and upper harbour to breed in autumn.
Asked what kind of salmon they were, Mr Nash said "tasty".
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Starting in a normal installation of Windows XP - is there some way to specify when the machine next restarts, it should boot from the CD (e.g. into BartPE)? And then the next restart, the machine boots into Windows as normal?
I'm looking to do this remotely without anyone touching the machine or keyboard.


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We are at the halfway point in the 2007 AFL season and here are our midseason awards
Best Quarterback: Chris Greisen, Georgia
He leads the league with 73 TD passes and only seven interceptions for a QB rating of 133.2. He runs the best passing offense in the AFL and is completing over 74 percent of his passes.
Best Wide Receiver: Bobby Sippio, Chicago
He is second in the AFL in receiving yards (1,188) but he leads the league is scoring with an amazing 35 TDs in eight games. He is big and physical and a nightmare matchup for DBs.
Best Fullback: Dan Alexander, Nashville
He is the ultimate short-yardage back for a team that loves to run the ball. In nine games he has 95 rushing attempts and 27 of those carries have gone for TDs.
Best Pass Rushers: Ken Jones, Columbus; Henry Taylor, New Orleans; Greg White, Orlando
All three of these guys are excellent edge rushers and they are at the top of the league in sacks. Even when they don't register the sack, they get a lot of hits on opposing QBs.
Best Linebacker: DeJuan Alfonzo, Chicago
He is a two-way player for the Rush, but he is a tackling machine on defense. He has 55.5 tackles through eight games and four interceptions, two of which he returned for TDs.
Best Defensive Back: Rashad Floyd, Colorado
He is the leading tackler in AFL with an amazing 91 total tackles and he also has two TDs on four interceptions to show his versatility. He is still the ultimate playmaker and a good matchup DB.
Best Place Kicker: A.J. Haglund, San Jose
He leads the AFL with 90 points, converting 63 of 68 extra points, while making 7 of 11 field goals, which is pretty good consistency in this league.
Best Kick Returner: Timon Marshall, Grand Rapids
He is a one-man scoring machine on a bad team. He has 53 kick returns for 1,266 yards and four TDs. He is a threat to go all the way every time he touches the ball.
Best Ironman: Will Pettis, Dallas
He is the ultimate two-way player with great toughness and competitiveness. On defense he has recorded 39 tackles in nine games and as a receiver he has 72 catches and 23 TDs. He is Mr. Dependable for Dallas.
Best Coaching Job: Mike Hohensee, Chicago
He has a veteran team who played with no consistency a year ago in the regular season before winning it all. But in 2007, he did not make a lot of roster changes, got the attention of his players and the Rush is off to a 7-1 start. He is the best in the league at making adjustments and utilizing his players strengths.
Best Offensive Duo: QB Joe Germaine to WR Siaha Burley, Utah.
Burley has 91 catches and a big 14.1 average for 29 TDs, while Germaine has thrown 67 TD passes and only four interceptions. They have great chemistry and deep threat capabilities.
Best Offensive Trio: QB Clint Dolezel to WRs Marcus Nash and Will Pettis, Dallas
Dolezel has thrown 59 TD passes and he has two excellent veteran targets in Nash (824 yards and 14 TDs) and Pettis (744 yards and 23 TDs).
Best Passing Game: Georgia
How about a receiving corps that has produced 215 catches and 71 TDs? Chris Jackson (82 catches, 28 TDs) Troy Bergeron (71 catches, 25 TDs) and Derek Lee (62 catches, 18 TDs) are the best in the league, and they have a pretty good QB in Chris Greisen (73 TDs, 6 INTs) throwing to them.
Best Running Game: Nashville
They are not at the top of the league in yards but they are in a class by themselves in rushing attempts (111) and rushing TDs (29). This team loves to run the football in close with FB Dan Alexander.
Best Pass Defense: Chicago
The Rush have the best trio of DBs in the league (Jeremy Unertl, Dennison Robinson, Jonathan Ordway) and have only given up 32 TDs while recording 15 interceptions. They they lead the league in holding opposing QBs to an 87.5 passer rating.
Most Complete Team: Chicago
They have the best offensive weapon in the game, Bobby Sippio, a good power running game, an excellent pass rush, the best secondary in the AFL and they are a veteran group that is well coached. They play smart and with excellent consistency.
Most Disappointing Team: Arizona
A veteran team that is always competitive, but the lack of a defense forces them to try to post huge offensive numbers every week just to stay in the game.
Best One Dimensional Team: Utah Offense
The Blaze are awesome on offense and don't play a lick of defense.
Most Surprising Team: Georgia
They have a defensive-oriented coach, yet they have the most potent offense in the AFL. They are creative, make adjustments, unstoppable on offense and good enough on defense to make key defensive stops.
Teams to Watch in the Second Half
Philadelphia. The Soul have six of their last eight games at home and when they get healthy and get QB Tony Graziani back, they will be a much better and more confident team. Remember that Chicago was 7-9 during the regular season a year ago before running the table in the playoffs.
New York. With QB Aaron Garcia back they are a different team and offensively they can play with anybody. They will be a team that nobody wants to play over the next two months.
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Bay Area Practice Period
Our eleventh annual Bay Area Practice Period is set to begin on Sunday, September 13, 2015, and will run until Sunday, November 22, 2014. Please read on if you want to consider joining the Practice Period either as a Bay Area or a long-distance, web-based member.
What is a Practice Period?
Practice Period is an ancient Zen Buddhist tradition. It is a special time set aside each year when practitioners make personal and collective commitments to intensify their practice. Traditionally, Zen practice periods take place in monasteries. In nonresidential Western Zen sanghas, events at the temple define the Practice Period.
The practice of our Everyday Zen group is focused not on what happens at a temple, but on everyday action in our relationships, our work, and our regular sitting, which often happens at home. Everyday Zen practice periods depend on the integrity of the personal commitment each person who joins will make, as well as the strength of our shared intention and mutual support.
For those of you living some distance away from the San Francisco Bay Area (where Practice Period involves our coming together, person to person, for practice) we offer a web-based option for participation. This option enables you to practice more intensively wherever you are, in solidarity with the Bay Area group, using website-based recorded talks of Practice Period seminars and other events, as well as email or phone contact with Practice Period leaders and participants.
A Zen Practice Period often features a senior student who serves as Shuso, or Head Student, assisting the Practice Period Teacher in leading the practice period. The Shuso gives special talks and seminars, and the Practice Period usually concludes with a Dharma Inquiry Ceremony (Shuso Hosenshiki), during which participants ask questions and receive answers from the Shuso. Long-distance participants will be able to submit a question for the ceremony, and also will be able to hear the Shuso's seminars and talks online.
This year our Shuso will be Zen priest Jeff Goldfien — On-gai Jo-shin (Gentle Cliff, Pure Heart) — who has been practicing with Norman since the 1990s, first at Green Gulch and later with Everyday Zen. He was a resident at Green Gulch and Tassajara for the better part of five years.
How do I join?
Simply fill out the commitment form below and email it to Barbara Byrum at <email@example.com>.
The deadline for joining the Practice Period and submitting a commitment form is Monday, August 31. In consideration of the time required and available to our teacher, the Shuso, and limited volunteer resources, we are asking that everybody submit their application no later than August 31, 2015. Thank you in advance for observing this deadline.
Is there a fee for joining the Practice Period?
No, but if would be appropriate for anyone who joins to send a donation, according to what you can afford.
For long-distance participants:
Please see the long-distance practice period guidelines, below.
For Bay Area participants:
For participants who are able to attend EDZ events in the Bay area, below is a brief schedule for the Practice Period. We ask you to make a special effort to commit to coming to as many of these events as possible. Especially important are:
- the Shuso Entering Ceremony (that will begin the All Day Sit on Sunday, September 13)
- the Dharma Inquiry Ceremony (that will conclude the All Day Sit on Sunday, November 22).
|Sept. 13
|All Day Sit and Shuso Entering Ceremony (NatureBridge at Marin Headlands). Ceremony will start about 9:30.
|Sept. 16
Dharma Seminar (All Dharma Seminars held at the Community Congregational Church, Tiburon)
Sept. 23
Dharma Seminar led by Shuso Jeff Goldfien
|Sept. 30
Dharma Seminar
|Oct. 7
Dharma Seminar
|Oct. 14
Dharma Seminar let by Shuso
|Oct. 25
Norman gives Dharma Talk at Green Gulch Farm at 10:00am, followed by a practice period meeting at 1:30pm. All practice period members are invited to either or both events.
Oct. 26 to
Nov. 2
Annual Practice Period Sesshin (from Monday, late afternoon - Sunday morning, at the Angela Center, Santa Rosa).
The Shuso will be giving some of the talks during sesshin.
(no Dharma Seminar on October 28 because of Sesshin)
Nov. 4
Dharma Seminar
Nov. 7
10:00 - 4:30
"Fear and Fearlessness: Embracing What Is" - EDZ Dialog with Chris Fortin and Alan Block.
Empty Gate Zen Center, Berkeley. To register, please email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Nov. 11
Dharma Seminar led by Shuso
|Nov. 18
Final Dharma Seminar of Practice Period
|Nov. 22
All Day Sit and Shuso Dharma Inquiry Ceremony (Marin Headlands). Ceremony at 4 pm, followed by a reception. You can come for the ceremony only, if you're unable to attend the sitting.
The Shuso will also be offering Practice Period Teas & Discussion to Bay Area participants. The dates and locations will be announced.
Please remember to register separately for the sittings and any other events you will be attending, including sesshin and Dharma Seminars.
Our theme for this Practice Period is "The Six Paramitas: Living a Life of Active Compassion." This theme will be the subject of our seminars and dharma talks during the practice period. Jeff has for many years combined his Zen practice with a profound study of conflict, mediation and peacemaking—he currently serves as the Healthcare Ombudsman/Mediator for Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center—so we can expect to hear of his experiences. He will be leading our Dharma Seminars on September 23, October 14, and November 11.
Sangha Partners
A sangha partner is a person in the Practice Period with whom you speak on the phone or in person at least 3 times during the Practice Period. Your partner could be someone you request or someone assigned at the beginning of the Practice Period, and we will send suggestions about how to keep your communication focused and practice oriented.
Personal Commitment
Finally, we ask each member of the Practice Period to make a personal commitment to intensify his or her practice in whatever way possible. This might include additional sitting, enhanced study or reading, work on a particular practice theme in your daily life, or some appropriate personal alteration in lifestyle.
So these are the elements of the Practice Period for local Bay Area people:
1) a commitment to attend as many practice events as you can from September 13 to November 22
2) a commitment to meet with the Shuso for a practice period tea
3) a commitment to speak to your sangha partner at least three times
4) a commitment to intensify your personal practice
For Long-Distance Practice Period members:
We would suggest some version or combination of the following:
- Daily sitting practice.
- Listening each week to the dharma seminar talk posted on the website, and to other dharma talks given during this period.
- Going to a local meditation group once a week, if possible.
- Keeping in contact with an Everyday Zen Practice Leader through phone appointment and/or email at least twice a month (about four times) during this period. Contact information for your Practice Period Leader will be emailed to you.
- If possible, coming to the Bay Area once during the time for any of the Bay Area events listed above.
- Emailing a formal dharma question during the last week of the practice period (November 16-21) that Shuso Jeff, will respond to via email.
- Working with your Everyday Zen Practice Leader to pick a dharma theme that you will be paying attention to in your daily life during the Practice Period.
- Saying in touch with a sangha partner who will be assigned to you. Your sangha partner will be another long-distance Practice Period member (if there's someone you would like to be assigned to, you can let us know in the commitment form). We suggest four phone calls or emails during the course of the Practice Period. We will send suggestions about how to keep your communication focused and practice oriented.
Once the practice period begins, you will receive the name and contact information for your sangha partner, and you will also receive an email from your Practice Leader to arrange for further communication.
Who are the Everyday Zen Practice Leaders for this Practice Period and what are their qualifications?
The Practice Leaders are senior members of the Everyday Zen community who have been studying for a number of years (usually more than ten) with our teacher Zoketsu Norman Fischer. They are ordained Buddhist priests or lay teachers. All of them work in the world and live lay lives, though they practice regularly and help to lead the Everyday Zen community in the Bay Area.
For this Practice Period the Leaders are: Jay Simoneaux, Martha de Barros, ARobin Orden, Alan Block, Chris Fortin, James Flaherty, Peter van der Sterre, Andrea Jacoby, Sue Moon, Jeff Bickner, and Shuso Jeff Godlfien.
Practice Period Commitment Form
(please copy this form and paste into a new email and then send that email to <email@example.com>
Date and place of birth:
Address phone, email, as well as best times to contact:
Your work and family situation:
What intention brings you to make a commitment to join this Practice Period?
What experience have you had with spiritual practice?
What has been the main focus of your current practice? Do you imagine it will change during this Practice Period?
Is there someone in the Practice Period who you'd like to work with as your sangha partner? Who?
Events (if any) you will attend during the Practice Period:
Personal commitments to intensify your practice:


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Former NY Army Corps Commander On Post-Sandy Reality: 'Climate Change Is Real,' 'We've Got To Stop Ignoring It'
At a May 16 televised forum on the recovery from Superstorm Sandy, a former top military infrastructure official called on Americans to "stop ignoring" climate change and "realize it's the new reality."
At the Sandy town hall organized by public television stations NJTV and WNET, John Boulé, the former commander of the New York District, Army Corps of Engineers, warned New Yorkers to stop ignoring climate change and start preparing for higher sea level rise and more frequent and more powerful storms:
First of all, we've got to realize it's the new reality. Climate change is real. It's more than sea level rise that's going to happen over the course of the next 100 years. It's greater storm intensities, it's greater storm frequencies. We've got to stop ignoring it and start planning and building to reduce the risk to the public. That's where we are.
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Like Boulé, other panelists, including PSE&G president Ralph LaRossa, recognized the "new reality" of rising seas and extreme weather. Although these words are welcome, the most important element of facing the reality of climate change is understanding that it's caused by human activities — something no-one at the forum did. In fact, Richard Ravitch, the real-estate scion and former Democratic lieutenant governor of New York, blamed "forces of nature" on sea level rise.
At no point during the two-hour forum did any panelist or reporter discuss the manmade causes of climate change or recommend opposing the threat to civilization posed by the fossil-fuel industry. The words "fossil fuels," "carbon", "greenhouse," "pollution," and "oil" were never mentioned. Also not mentioned was David Koch, the carbon pollution billionaire and richest man in New York, who was on the board of WNET from 2006 until the day of the forum. At the WNET board meeting on the morning of May 16, Koch's resignation was accepted.
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They can't quite bring themselves to slam the fossil fuel boys, and assign blame where it's due. What are they afraid of? Their money? Maybe it should be sequestered for criminal penalties.
If they say that climate change is real and will continue to get worse, this is an implicit recognition of the green house gas model. If I write a scientific paper and say that temperatures are expected to increase by 2 oC in so many years under business as usual, that it also an implicit recognition of the scientific consensus. The key point is recognizing and predicting a continuation and worsening, not (random) forces of nature. Of course, it does not hurt to point out that CO2 emissions are largely to blame.
I remember when the chief public health officer for British Columbia (where I lived at the time) said the words "anal intercourse" for what he said was the first time in an interview with the media. The AIDS epidemic had been raging for years already – it was 1983 – yet transfusion blood was not tested for disordered immune cells (there was no AIDS antibody specific test at the time) by the Red Cross.
This public health official couldn't talk about basic facts, such as that unprotected anal intercourse between members of any sex appeared to favor the transmission of what was obviously a new infectious disease. He knew he had to start. So near the end of the interview, he just blurted out "anal intercourse. There! I've said it." It had nothing to do with what he was talking about prior or after during that interview. But it was, apparently, a necessary thing for him to do so in subsequent interviews he could do his job which was to bring to public attention matters important to their health.
A comparable thing is going on now over climate change.
Thousands had to die before this civilization could come to terms with AIDS sufficiently to start protecting individuals. Unfortunately, there is only the one planet.
Listen to this episode of This American Life. (I.e. google "Hot in My Backyard" which is its title, and listen to the .mp3 file). There is a section of the show where Colorado State Climatologist Nolan Doesken finally (he thinks) says he believes human caused climate change will make the very unusual weather Colorado has been experiencing lately merely average in a few decades. The interviewer Julia Drapkin discusses the issue with him before his speech and after. It is an interesting piece, illustrating the same thing I saw in the BC public health official in 1983 over AIDS only now over climate change in Colorado.
Obviously, we're toast. If we had a few hundred planets, after we killed the first few dozen by moving all the carbon in the fossil fuel into the atmosphere in a geological instant, we'd, obviously, wake up and stop doing it on the ones we had left.
On the bright side, because what we're doing to the planetary life support system somewhat resembles what the asteroid that did in the age of life that supported the dinosaurs 65m years ago did, we can expect, if Hansen is incorrect for once and all life on the planet is not extinguished, that as we wipe the slate clean of almost all species, we are paving the way for a new and glorious age of life many millions of years from now.
Great, eh?
Too bad what you think, Commander John. The billionaires & special interests who have bought and paid for the congress says there isn't.
"John Boulé, the former commander of the New York District, Army Corps of Engineers, warned New Yorkers to stop ignoring climate change and start preparing for higher sea level rise and more frequent and more powerful storms"
The folks on that panel are not interested in prevention or solution they are interested in adaptation. This is the talk of the adapters. Well, let's see you adapt your way out of 5 degrees of warming, water and food insecurity, and power failures. It's not just the loss of utilities and infrastructure to sea level rise and more powerful storms that is a danger to New York.
I don't understand why anyone is saying that New Yorkers should stop ignoring climate change. Are New Yorkers ignoring it? Certainly the people in government aren't. A few years ago a sea level rise task force prepared a report on that issue and lo and behold found that if a major hurricane hit NYC the type of damage that occurred with Sandy would take place. And the state prepared a climate action plan that included both mitigation and adaptation. And NYC prepared a climate action plan for mitigation and an adaptation plan. And dozens of towns and cities around the state have been involved in doing greenhouse gas inventories. And towns in the suburbs have joined together to promote energy efficiency measures, particularly retrofitting houses. New York state is also a member of the northeast RGGI cap and trade program to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. So it hard to see how climate change is being ignored in NY.
The Story Of The Electric Car Challenge In New York City
The Path Forward
If Bloomberg is serious about shifting New York City's driving public from polluting combustion engine autos to electric vehicles, enablers need to be front and center. Smart strategies will embrace both NYC residents and the city's robust commuter base, and involve intelligently sited charging stations and parking spaces (including streetside and in garages), increased vehicle access through car-sharing programs, and demonstration that the Big Apple is prepared to walk the walk by continuing the electrification of its city and taxi fleets. http://www.earthtechling.com/2013/04/the-story-of-the-electric-car-challenge-in-new-york-city/
New York gives $634,000 for electric car charging stations to Syracuse nonprofit and its new owner
In New York, hybrid and electric cars make up 1.2 percent of the vehicles on the road, according to Department of Motor Vehicle statistics as of Dec. 1. Across the state, there are just 4,338 electric cars.
So Koch did not want any discussion although the cause was not even mentioned, ME
Every once in a while ther is a new story about a body of water discovered that has maintained some life deep below the surface for millions of years. It seems therefore that some life will remain within pockets of water deep within the Earth's surface.
Electing Chris Christie has put NJ into reverse. He pulled NJ out of the cap and trade program. It is the only state to leave the program which still survives despite efforts of the Koch brothers to end it. He cancelled what would have been an important rail link between NJ and NYC which would have served NJ and NYS commuters. Unless NJ voters elect a governor who is going to take be aggressive against global warming it is hard to see how NJ reverses its slide.
About 13% of the stock market's value is fossil fuel companies. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Many companies exist to support them. Many other companies could not exist at their present scale without them.
When we pass the law that limits how much oil, coal, and gas can be withdrawn from the earth, the value of all these companies will plummet, even if we phase it in over 10 or 30 years. The stock market is an anticipatory mechanism, and everyone's retirement account will take a big hit. Stranded investment is a big impediment. We'll all be poorer, at least in the short run. That's one big reason nobody's eager to do what needs to be done any sooner than they perceive they must.
Of course, we're already ten years too late to avoid at least some permanent alteration (that is to say, damage) to the climate.
If we don't pass that law soon, then I agree that adaptation will probably be futile. Adaptation without concurrent, massive reductions in GHG emissions is a sophisticated form of denial. Agriculture can't adapt to a fundamental shift and extreme volatility in rainfall and seasonality.
So we have to find some way to convince enough people that we have to be poor to survive. That we have to embrace the Great Depression as the norm, for at least a generation. It will take sacrifice to transition to a low-carbon economy in just a decade or two.
The AIDS epidemic was left unmentioned and unaddressed for years simply because the Rightwing powers-that-be (did Raygun EVER mention it?)had no human empathy with the IV drug-using, poor, gay, African and Haitian victims. Perhaps ACTUP could be a model for climate activism.


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One person was killed in a single-car crash in Springfield Township on Tuesday evening, police said.
Shawn Cunningham, 26, of Colerain Township, was driving a 2007 Chevrolet Impala when the car left the roadway and crashed into a tree at Adams Road and Carlsbory Drive about 5:57 p.m. Tuesday.
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My 18 month old has had 4 high fevers in the last 5 months - all with no other symptoms. She was tested for UTI (negative) and if she wasn't running hot, you would never know anything was wrong with her as her spirits, appetite, etc. are usually fine.
The fevers aren't regular - we'll go two weeks, and then eight weeks in between for example. My ped insists these are multiple viruses. She's not in daycare persay but does go to a lot of public places and is around other children. She also has an older brother in preschool.
I know toddlers get sick a lot, but I imagined the illnesses to be more of the cold and flu variety. I guess I'm looking for reassurance that I shouldn't be worrying about these frequent fevers.


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Thank you, seniors, gonna have lots of memories of you, from Jon Hays to DeVonte
Christopher on 4th and 14 in the Sun Bowl, to Mo Lee's big fumble
recoveries against BYU, first picking up Failslev's muffed kickoff return
last year, then the scoop n' score this year.
Probably my favorite game involving a number of this year's seniors was in a blizzard at Pullman last year, Sean Sellwood's fake punt pass TD to Luke Matthews to open the scoring, then hearing the crowd scream as John White IV looked to be tackled at the line of scrimmage, then spun out and tip-toed 58 yards down the sideline to a suddenly deafening silence, and Coleman Petersen's perfect 4/4 FG, the last set up by a Mo Lee INT in OT, his 2nd of the game.
Thanks, guys, and GO UTES!
- 9:24 p.m. Nov. 14, 2012
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"Whittingham noted that 18 of 21 seniors on scholarship are scheduled to
graduate mid-year". He also said the other three should graduate in May,
which should be 100%.
That is an great accomplishment. The average for NCAA football is 71%. Stanford is 90%. Notre Dame is 97% Well done, Utes!
- 9:28 p.m. Nov. 14, 2012
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This is a great group of seniors that helped take Utah to a new conference while
giving a great example to not ever giving up. They will be very missed and I
wish them all the best.
I really hope the team responds and sends them out with class by winning out and going to a bowl game. I would love to see Star have the game of his life and solidify his top 5 draft status. Perhaps the most humble All-American ever.
Good luck guys and of course....
Go Utes!!!
- 11:17 p.m. Nov. 14, 2012
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It would be great to see this group win their last three. Hopefully the first
one happens this Saturday.
- 7:59 a.m. Nov. 15, 2012
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A talented group of Seniors whose talents were largely wasted because of poor
IF they manage to beat Arizona and Colorado to finish 6-6 and become bowl eligible, one of the bowls being mentioned as a possibile destination for Utah is...
the Armed Forces Bowl.
- 9:13 a.m. Nov. 15, 2012
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Godspeed Gentlemen, may every chapter in your life bring you success, joy, and all that this life has to offer that is good. Thank you.
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A talented group of seniors who beat BYU 3 years in a row, a couple most likely going to the nfl, and 2 possibly 3 bowl wins.
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It's laughable that the ONLY highlights of your entire first two seasons in the PAC 12 are a couple of wins over a BYU team that will finish with a better record and national ranking than U.
Predicting a possible bowl win for a team that may not even be invited to a bowl may help you sleep at night, but I wouldn't go around pounding my chest about it.
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You said, "BYU will finish with a better record and national ranking than the U". I will grant you that.
However, Your pounding my chest...ect. got to me.
How do you feel about only beating ONE team with a better than a 500 record, and that was only by 3 points. Cup Cakes come easy.
Look up the records and then look in the mirror and pound your chest.
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We have several revolving credit cards that we intend to pay off in full soon, in the context of a divorce. We considered letting them all become delinquent, to try to negotiate balance reductions in connection with paying off. We decided that the costs of that strategy were too great. Unfortunately, one card did go unpaid and was reported as follows: Hist: 321111111111111111111111 CLSD 09-__ APP Lates: 1x60:9-__; 1x30:8-__ CLOSED BY CREDITOR. Will negotiating a deal with this creditor to pay less than full balance as settement further reduce credit rating, or is full extent of damage already done? Conversely, will paying in full without any deal result in any credit repair? No other cards show any lates. Plan to pay all the other cards in full, with hopes of not only eliminating debt/interest but also improving credit rating. any advice or insights would be appreciated.
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and Example letters - PFDs, GWs, DVs, etc.
The damage is already done if those lates are recent. Whether the account is paid, unpaid, current, or not current, the lates will still be there, though the damage will fade with time. However, whether good or bad, this card is likely still factoring into your CC util. So, paying it off might help or hurt your FICO score due to changes in CC utilization. Once the balance goes to $0, then it is forever removed from CC util. In other words, if this CC is hurting your CC util, then paying it off could very well result in a score increase. Conversely, if this CC has a low balance and is helping your overall CC util, then paying it off can hurt your FICO if your overall util increases as a result of this payoff.
Whether it helps or hurts, it needs to be paid off anyway. It'll hurt more to have a collection agency report or to be sued for the debt. You can also send a GW letter to this CC company and ask if they wouldn't mind deleting the lates. Some will. Most won't.


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In-flight e-device guidelines still up in the air
Although the Federal Communications Commission has asked the Federal Aviation Administration to allow more in-flight device use, a new report suggests that pilot reports and scientific studies suspect that passenger electronics are interfering with aviation equipment. More than a decade of reports show "dozens" of cases where electronics were suspected of interference. One anecdote in the report tells of an iPhone being switched off, which coincided with the solution of a compass problem. While the airline industry is noted to be divided in changing the current guidelines for in-flight device use, the FAA will hear recommendations from its own advisory committee on the subject, likely in July. [via Bloomberg]
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The only time I still read the occasional old-fashioned paper magazine is during the electronic device ban time. Seriously though, as much as people, myself included, forget to turn of their cell phones and fail to fully power down their laptops, tablets and music players, planes would be dropping from the sky daily if they posed a real danger. If a Kindle can crash a plain or make it so it can't navigate, planes must be so dangerous and vulnerable that we are all fools for flying.
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I meant to write "failed to turn off" their cellphones. I've found mine on in my pocket upon landing several times as I take two to three air trips per month.
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I am concerned that aircraft manufacturers cannot make a plane resilient to mobile technology! Hospital equipment manufacturers managed it.
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According to the airlines and pilots the most vulnerable time for an aircraft and its instruments are during takeoff and landing. Okay… so can someone explain to me how my wifi iPad, which has no wifi connection in the air is mre dangerous to the plane than the transmissions of the THOUSANDS of cellphones, DOZENS of TV and radio towers, and DOZENS of cellphone towers the plane flies. directly through and over while taking off and landing?
I think this is a solid case of "we just don't like the idea so we'll say anything to keep passengers from getting what they want". I'm certain the pilot sn't shutting his iPad off while he uses t for electronic charts and flight manuals (approved by the FAA by the way), so why should I?
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Because the crew ask you to. Conditions of carriage -
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When you can afford your own airline, then you can do as you please, but until then try existing without having to play games or (worse scenario imaginable)talk on the phone for the few hours you're at 38,000 feet….
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Plenty of pixels have been expended in the past five days to report and discuss the momentous happenings in Madison, Wisc. Whoever thought the Badger State would receive even more national spotlight so soon after Aaron Rodgers and the Packers secured Super Bowl champion prestige? But it's worth all the coverage. The significance of unfolding events in Wisconsin's capital is hard to overestimate.
Start with the fact that Wisconsin was the first state to grant government workers collective bargaining rights (in 1959). Just over half a century later, and the unsustainable trend unleashed is about to get seriously reined in. Ignored was the wisdom of reliably pro-labor Democratic Party icon Franklin D. Roosevelt. During his presidency FDR strenuously resisted the notion of public-sector unionism, famously asserting:
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service….The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress.
Government worker unions are a different breed than their private-sector counterparts. Commenting on the affair, Time Magazine editor and liberal stalwart Joe Klein ably catches the vital distinction:
Public employees unions are an interesting hybrid. Industrial unions are organized against the might and greed of ownership. Public employees unions are organized against the might and greed…of the public?
The events unfolding in Wisconsin are highly relevant to these pages because teachers unions are among the largest and strongest labor organizations in America. The degree of unions' political influence can be exaggerated (slightly), but their collective ability to block unwanted policy changes is almost unrivaled.
If you don't believe me, what other group could get an entire party caucus to flee their legislative duties and hide across state lines in order to forestall a vote that would weaken its legally-protected privileges? As for the unions themselves, they aren't winning political sympathies from staging sick-outs ("by all means, defend your right to collectively bargain an agreement that you can flout at your convenience") or getting fake doctors' notes to cover for them.
But so it goes in Wisconsin. What is it about Senate Bill 11′s attempt to fix a looming $3.6 billion budget hole that drives the protests and the political posturing of opponents? It didn't take long for Democratic legislators in exile to offer capitulation on the modest and eminently reasonable proposals to increase government workers' retirement and health insurance contributions.
What else is at stake? A lot of hyperbolic rhetoric has flown around, including some National Education Association talking points that have floated into many Colorado teachers' email inboxes (e.g., the claim that "educators will have no say in school quality issues," an irresponsible and self-serving distortion of reality). Amid all the confusion, the other key points of the budget-repair legislation are not precisely understood:
- Limiting the scope of collective bargaining to worker salaries, with total negotiated increases above the inflation rate subject to local voter referendum, which would enhance public accountability to one of the largest drivers of government cost and neutralizing the power of arbitrators to reward unions for lavish proposals;
- Requiring an annual affirmative opt-in to continue a union's status as exclusive bargaining representative through a simple majority vote of affected workers, which simply would ensure greater accountability in unions' claims that they operate democratically; and
- Prohibiting government agencies from collecting union dues through member payroll deductions, which would end the cycle of using government resources to raise funds that are used to reward political candidates and perpetuate union power.
Since last week I've already been asked more than once: Could or should something like Wisconsin's Senate Bill 11 be done in Colorado? First of all, apart from the lack of symbolism here, a smaller and less militant government union sector would make such a legislative dispute less dramatic. But more fundamentally, it wouldn't all work in the Colorado context.
Wisconsin has a long-established and recognized body of public-sector labor law that simply does not exist here. For Colorado state legislators to have some mandated public school (or other) collective bargaining procedures to alter or remove, there would have to be something enshrined in state statute in the first place. Since there isn't, agenda items 1 and 2 would make very little sense for a Colorado lawmaker to introduce. The third item, on the other hand, is not inextricably linked to the union negotiating process. A repeat of 2008′s citizen-initiated Amendment 49 (sponsored by the Independence Institute where I work) doubtless still would draw more dues funds spent on outrageous and misleading advertising.
The proposals championed by Governor Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Republicans would not wash away workers' rights. Rather, they would open the door to fiscal sustainability by providing greater flexibility to elected government officials and restoring some power and accountability to taxpaying citizens. Wisconsin is receiving a large share of attention for good reason: A few states are following suit, and others soon may jump in.
Driven by the overwhelming fiscal crisis facing most state governments, what's taking place in the Badger State looks to be a watershed. The Tea Parties are flexing their muscles, while politically-reinforced government employee unions are making a Waterloo-like stand. An identical repeat in Colorado is off the table, but local school boards may be impelled to take a closer look at negotiated policies that empower union interests over the public interest.
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Local police waste a lot of time responding to hundreds of false burglar alarms a year, officials say.
Thibodaux Police were called to 1,500 businesses and residences last year that used automatic systems to alert police of a potential break-in or a dangerous situation. About 95 percent of the time the alarm was accidentally triggered, according to Police Chief Scott Silverii.
Police have to reach the location quickly on the off-chance that there is a criminal to catch, Silverii said. But Thibodaux Police is trying to diminish false alarms by contacting the most common offenders.
"Can you totally eliminate false alarms? No," Silverii said. "But every month, we have captains visit the most frequent activations, and we make them aware that this month, we responded to your place X number of times."
After a visit, it's very rare for those places to be frequent offenders again, he said.
The ratio of false alarms to legitimate alarms is similar for the Terrebonne Sheriff's Office, said spokesman Maj. Malcolm Wolfe.
Some systems are so sensitive they can be triggered by bad weather, Wolfe said. But officers still have to treat every alert as a real break-in.
"If officers get lax with those calls, it becomes dangerous," he said.
Terrebonne alarm-response statistics were not immediately available, but Wolfe said police get at least one call a day.
Like Thibodaux Police, Terrebonne's K-9 units often respond to the burglary alarms because police dogs are trained to take down burglars.
Officers show up when burglary alarms are not properly deactivated, panic buttons are accidentally pushed and alarms malfunction, even if the building owner calls to say it was an accident.
"You don't know if they're being told to do that under duress," Silverii said.
Once police arrive, they have to check the perimeter for broken windows and forced doors, and if the key-holder isn't on the property, police have to wait for him or her to arrive, Silverii said.
A pair of officers usually responds to those calls. On average, each call takes about 30 minutes, he said.
Silverii said businesses are more common offenders than residences.
People can reduce the number of times police respond to their alarms by keeping up with their alarm's maintenance, moving the alarm to a place where it is easier to disengage and making sure all their family members or employees have the access code, Silverii said.
Thibodaux Police has responded to 74 burglary alarms so far this year, according to the department's records.
The other most common calls Thibodaux Police respond to are people asking for help unlocking their cars, car crashes and complaints labeled as "general."
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