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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Cornerback Carlos Rogers' hamstring injury will keep him out of the 49ers' playoff opener against the Packers. Rogers' exit means Tarell Brown will return to the starting lineup for the first time since injuring his ribs Nov. 25.
It will be the first game Rogers has missed in three seasons since joining the 49ers and serving as their left and slot cornerback. He hasn't practiced since straining his right hamstring in the final minute of last Sunday's win at Arizona.
Tramaine Brock will also start at cornerback for the 49ers, who'll need multiple defensive backs against the Packers' scheme that often features at least three wideouts.
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The Packers' biggest absence is that of linebacker Clay Matthews (thumb). Also down for Green Bay are two former 49ers -- quarterback Scott Tolzien and wideout Chris Harper -- along with cornerback Jumal Rolle, linebacker Nate Palmer, guard Lane Taylor and offensive lineman J.C. Tretter.
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Citizen 4 Fairness wrote on Jun 26, 2013 3:56 PM:
KITTY wrote on Jun 26, 2013 6:32 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Jun 27, 2013 9:32 AM:
Citizen.. if you lived within the means of the job you were qualified to do, saved a few dollars, you too could go to a lending institution and borrow some money and take a chance with your own business. Then with hard work, a good business plan and some luck, you could then be in your "1%". Or you could educate yourself and work your way up the company ladder into a top management spot.
Or you can do nothing and stay in your present job and complain that no one is giving you anything.
Even someone like you (that complains you are barely making it) is doing 100x better than those in countries without a capitalist system. You have a roof over your head? You are not starving? You have a tv and cable? Running water? In door toilet? Obviously internet? Cell phone? Car? Health insurance? A police and fire department? Roads?
Now look at the rest of the world. You should go into work tomorrow and hug the owner of the company. Capitalism is what differentiates the US from those living in huts and eating dirt in China.
We live like kings in America compared to the rest of the world. "
conservative1 wrote on Jun 27, 2013 9:34 AM:
KITTY wrote on Jun 27, 2013 12:17 PM:
KITTY wrote on Jun 27, 2013 8:19 PM:
Citizen 4 fairness wrote on Jun 28, 2013 1:02 AM:
al.cap wrote on Jun 28, 2013 5:08 AM:
Stalin would be proud wrote on Jun 28, 2013 8:57 AM:
The free market works. We the people are allowing these things to happen by the products we buy. I hear people complain about jobs being sent overseas constantly. Well, stop buying the product. If people do this in large volumes, companies have no choice but to start changing their tune. Check tags a lot too. Made in China? Try to avoid it.
Con1 has a good point, live within your means, and Citizen 4…..unemployment is an insurance paid by the company. I don't make partisan arguments because I am not a lemming like most people. What certain "horrible" legislators are trying to do is reduce the federal emergency extensions because they are completely tax-payer funded and keep people out of work for extremely long periods of time. Not to mention the abuse. Social security is already bankrupt, I'm 27 and have already put plans in place to take care of myself if I reach retirement. I'm sorry if you fell for the government ponzi scheme known as social security, but back in your day you all thought your government loved you and cared, wrong answer. Oh you paid into it? Wrong answer, it was stolen from you and spent years ago.
Citizen you need to realize that these politicians LOVE the fact you are in the situation you are in. They love when thousands upon thousands of people are in that situation. That way, they can stand up there and tell you anything you want to hear, while doing the complete opposite. What they love even more is the fact that you already picked a "side," kind of like a football game. Does your team have jerseys too? Realize that It is in their best interest for you to be like a raccoon in a dumpster.
So keep taxing the crap out of businesses, especially here in the worst state in the nation, Connecticut. Also, keep giving the illegals amnesty and drivers licenses too so they can boldly travel further to take jobs from Americans in all corners of the state.
I know this sounds a tad childish, but you older people disgust me. You let this country swirl the porcelain for years and now my generation has to pick up the pieces. You all preached personal responsibility to us and now we are starting to realize that you all did not even take your own advice. Oh and keep voting for career politicians too, guys like Blumenthal and Murphy care about you. "
KITTY wrote on Jun 28, 2013 12:03 PM:
al.cap wrote on Jun 28, 2013 2:24 PM:
@c4- doesn't it enrage you that the same rulers who say they won't seal the border, who recruit welfare recipients in mexico, are the ones who cut the benefits that you, as an American citizen have earned? then they turn around and tell you it's the evil corporation's fault. and the dope echoes the cry. "
KITTY wrote on Jun 28, 2013 7:39 PM:
al.cap wrote on Jun 28, 2013 8:50 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Jun 29, 2013 12:07 AM:
To quote Reagan "government IS the problem". We see how well government runs anything they touch. Look at her latest triumph. The immigration bill. So full of pork for pet projects to buy votes. It is going to cost us BILLIONS to buy votes to pass it.
We should have 1 politician with a set of BALLS to go on TV and ask Senator Smith why do you need this bill to send $500,000,000 to your state to build an airport in order for you to vote yes. and so on. THEN WE IMPEACH any politician that takes money for a vote. EVERY BILL COVERS 1 SINGLE ISSUE! ELIMINATE THE PORK!
This country is very close to a REVOLUTION.
Blame presidents from Carter to Obama including the Bushes for making under the table deals to make it cost effective to send jobs elsewhere. These idiot presidents made it easy to send jobs to Mexico in hopes of making Mexico better. IF THEY WANTED TO BE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO, THEY SHOULD MOVE THERE! "
conservative1 wrote on Jun 29, 2013 12:10 AM:
Fix this country before letting one single outside in! "
KITTY wrote on Jun 29, 2013 7:24 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Jun 30, 2013 12:40 PM:
Corporations have a duty to make their stockholders profits, not give their money away. But of course you know that ms. knowitall. "
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KITTY wrote on Jul 1, 2013 8:20 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Jul 1, 2013 8:33 PM:
Now that that is solved, what possible reason is there to kill millions of unbirthed children/year?????
Now on to capitolist Kitty..Corporations owe American citizens NOTHING. They owe shareholders the most profit they can make. Do I like jobs going to Mexico and India? Heck NO.
What do we do about it? lots Don't buy products made out of the USA if possible. (you're not going to like these Kitty) Close the border, get rid of all illegals and their offspring. Door to door inspections of those living off the government. Teach kids to be proud of America.
Notice how when we turned our backs on God, taught kids only the bad things America has done. Make us take our flags down that the wheels have come off the cart called America?? "
KITTY wrote on Jul 1, 2013 8:59 PM:
you know nothing about corporations....they are subsidized by the American taxpayers....and they must pay taxes like the rest of us.....but they don't they hide money in foreign tax havens......it's illegal.....what a fool believes..... "
al.cap wrote on Jul 2, 2013 5:06 AM:
conservative1 wrote on Jul 2, 2013 9:20 AM:
These teenage girls purposely get pregnant to get their own bug infested apts. They lie and say they don't know the father to get state aid. Then the baby daddy moves in. Parks his Lex or Honda with the chrome wheels and loud muffler outside the free apt. It's called gaming the system. I'm going to say at BEST 5% of those living off state aid actually need to be on it. 95% are gaming the system. White Republican politicians are AFRAID to challenge this in fear of being a racist. White Dems don't care, they just want their vote.
As a upper middle class woman from Roxbury what makes you the expert on inner city projects and the animals that live in them?? I've got 20 years working in them. "
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KITTY wrote on Jul 2, 2013 11:20 AM:
@conservative......the way you speak of needy people is a sin......go back and read your post......wow...I wonder where I got that impression........you think it's ok for corporations to cheat and break the law but not the poor......the corporations are getting way more of our tax dollars than the needy .......you really don't understand.......this is America....you don't go breaking down peoples doors...... "
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al.cap wrote on Jul 2, 2013 7:31 PM:
thinking about joining the boycott....... "
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13.Gray J's findings are based upon adverse inferences arising out of his assessment of the weight of the real, expert and documentary evidence. Gray J found that Irving could not honestly and reasonably have come to his stated conclusions, faced with the historical record taken as a whole.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — The Nevada Commission on Ethics will hold a hearing to determine if Ted Fuller violated state law by voting months ago in favor of $3 million in general obligation bonds used to improve the district's water disinfection practices.
According to a July 10 opinion from the commission, Fuller, chairman of the Incline Village General Improvement District Board of Trustees, is alleged to have violated the section of Nevada law dealing with requirements of public officials to disclose conflicts of interest and to abstain from voting on certain measures.
The initial complaint against Fuller was filed Nov. 8, 2011, by Crystal Bay resident Frank Wright, a former IVGID trustee candidate. According to the complaint, Incline Village resident Aaron Katz, also a former trustee candidate, is listed as a witness.
According to the July 10 opinion, Fuller did not violate certain sections of Nevada law during his votes for the bonds, both as an IVGID trustee in 2012 and as a member of the Washoe County Debt Management Commission in 2011.
However, a two-person investigatory panel of commissioners, James Shaw and Magdalena Groover, has recommended a hearing to determine if Fuller's position as an IVGID board member obligated him to abstain from the water bond vote, and to get clarification on the law itself.
In an interview this week, Fuller said he felt he did nothing wrong, saying he is pleased only a portion of what was challenged is moving forward to a hearing.
"It appears (the commission) is using this situation as a chance to clarify the definition (of the law)," Fuller said.
The two-person panel convened on June 21 to review Wright's original complaint, Fuller's response to it and a report and recommendation about the issue from Caren Jenkins, executive director of the ethics commission.
The evidence included in the panel's report is as follows:
• Fuller was appointed in early 2011 to serve on the Washoe County Debt Management Commission as the county's GID representative. According to Nevada law, debt commission members must continue to serve on their respective local boards; in this case, Fuller did that in 2011 and this year with the IVGID board.
• Fuller was part of a unanimous vote on Nov. 4, 2011, by the debt commission to approve a recommendation from IVGID to issue $3 million in general obligation bonds for the district's water disinfection plant upgrade, as part of a federal mandate to have a secondary water treatment facility running by 2014.
• "Several Incline Village residents voiced opposition to issuance of the bonds and questioned whether Fuller should have participated in the agenda item due to his status as an IVGID trustee."
• Fuller said he requested advice from the Washoe County District Attorney staffing the debt commission, who told him he didn't have to disclose anything and nothing prohibited him from voting.
• After the IVGID board held a public meeting on Dec. 14, 2011, on the matter, the board unanimously voted Feb. 29, 2012, to adopt the resolution granting the $3 million in bonds, with Fuller among the trustees voting.
Wright's complaint alleges Fuller violated Nevada law by taking part in both voting processes, and that his status with IVGID served as a conflict of interest.
According to the July 10 opinion, the panel recommends a hearing in order to determine if Fuller "has a commitment in a private capacity to the interests of IVGID as his employer, or as an entity with which he has a relationship substantially similar to that of an employer."
According to Wright's complaint, the fact Fuller earns $9,000 a year from the county for services as a trustee (like all IVGID trustees) could equate to the district serving as Fuller's employer.
A date for the hearing has yet to be scheduled.
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Early in 2011, according to documents provided to the Bonanza, The Village People — a political action group composed of Incline residents — filed a request for opinion with the commission concerning the conduct of four officials: IVGID General Manager Bill Horn and trustees Chuck Weinberger, Bea Epstein and Fuller.
Scott Brooke, legal counsel for IVGID, said the ethics commission decided last year it had no jurisdiction to rule on the complaint against the district as a whole, and that officials must assess each case individually, something that could take time due to the commission's workload.
"We don't believe that the complaint has credible allegations against any individual person," Brooke said Tuesday. "We expect it will be dismissed whenever staff gets around to it."
In 2007, ethics complaints were filed against Horn and former IVGID Trustee John Bohn over how the two handled the resignation of former Trustee Beverly Mapps. In Bohn's case, he was eventually exonerated of any charges in an ethics commission hearing; in Horn's case, the commission did not deem a hearing necessary.


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By now I think anyone can read everywhere, along with even seeing pictures of the guy being in England, supporting the story that we have agreed with Shakhtar Donetsk for Henrikh Mkhitarayan and his 25.7M release clause. I read multiple excerpts from Russian newspapers, obviously translated, but in quotes that the agreement has been reached, subject to a medical and to be announced in "72" hours..
Then there's the Dortmund bid, and bookies odds having them as favorites, but again, by all these accounts including an Armenian football reporter, Armero something, who's close to Mkhi (gonna call him Micky), saying LFC all the way and just a matter of days..
If this is true, he would become the 2nd highest transfer in LFC history, behind Andy and his 35M move.. I don't profess to be an expert on the guy, but have seen him in the UCL and was impressed with his all around game, and from what I've read, the Ukraine league is very difficult defensively like Serie A, and his 25 goals / 11 assists, on top of all around game, seems very impressive. I hope it's true, and then after him, I'm personally expecting to see us signing Tiago Llori, CB from Sporting Lisbon / Portugal Int'l.
Guess we'll know in 72 hours or so.. OR not.. Silly Season!Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Jul 1, 2013 21:13 Flag
FSG clearly have more money to spend than we believed.. May be some more players coming yet?
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I suspect that there will but we've certainly not spent a lot so far and you don't have to look very far. The PL's gone mad this window with the TV money that they now have. So far I'd say we've been very prudent in picking up players that are more directly suited to the direction of the club and we've done most of it for the fee recovered from Carroll's sale.
Mkhitarayan will be out of the TV money. Let's hope it come off.
There is a lot of contradictory media knocking about concerning Henrikh, the noises from Europe are that it is just waiting for a few admin problems to announce the deal, whilst others suggest Spurs are chasing him hard whilst the only thing we actually know, is that Dortmund definitely had a bid rejected and a price tag confirmed to them. Hopefully he ends up a red, that was certainly what Lucescu was suggesting. By the way, since the 'within 72 hours' thing was quoted, it has now been 100 hours and counting!
I think Llori makes sense if Skrtel is staying, if he goes, I think it will likely be a Papadopolous or Alderweireld.
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Hobsey mate,
I think 72 hours in Russia / Armenia and Eastern Europe means 72 days for the rest of us.. Spurs being involved, out of nowhere, as usual, makes me want to vomit.


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SANTA CLARA -- Just had an interesting give-and-take with 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh about Aldon Smith, his troubled All-Pro linebacker who two days ago plead no contest to three felony weapons counts and one DUI count.
It got loud. Harbaugh wasn't at all thrilled with this line of questioning from the moment I brought up Smith's name.
Doesn't matter — if he thinks he shouldn't have to answer questions on this issue when one of his top players could go to jail July 25 — a few days after training camp is set to start — then Harbaugh is severely confused about his role as head coach for a billion-dollar franchise.
But the larger point: I asked him these questions because he is fully capable of answering them. He's not a lackey or a shrinking violet. He's a bright guy who has set the tone on this issue no question.
Harbaugh dodged some of the particulars, but the 49ers coach saying that there are consequences for actions, good or bad, is something that is worth saying.
Harbaugh also would not say if he plans to have Smith start training camp with the team in late July. Which I find a little worthwhile to know, also.
I know fans of Pope Harbaugh won't like any of this. Too bad — these are fair questions for a high-profile team with a repeat problem-causer who is facing sentencing in two months.
His jumping to the reasoning that I must've practiced the question in front of mirror... well, that's telling. I don't have to practice questions; it's my job to think of them and then ask and I think I'm OK at it spontaneously.
But he must think that asking him a reasonably tough question requires great preparation and fortitude. It doesn't.
His answers are worth hearing, in my opinion. If that means he and I have to raise our voices to get there, I'm always fine with that. I think he is — or will be — too.
-Snippets from Jim Harbaugh's mini-camp availability...
-Q: Aldon Smith was successfully prosecuted on three felony counts and one misdemeanor count. Does he remain a member of this team in full good standing?
-HARBAUGH: Uh, yes.
-Q: So what's your standard? Is it 10 felony counts the standard? Do you have a standard?
-HARBAUGH: I know you probably worked really hard on asking that question. Probably stared in the mirror and thought about just the way you could [ask] that.
-Q: No, I did not.
-HARBAUGH: There's a legal process... you're talking...
-Q: What you said was untrue. It's wrong.
-HARBAUGH: OK. Well, then you can write your story how you write it. If you want me to answer the question, I'd be glad to.
It's part of a legal process. I am not an attorney or a judge. I'm a football coach. So I will let that go through the legal process. There's nothing more that I can add to it. At this time.
-Q: Is he still your starter?
-HARBAUGH: Is he part of this team? Yes.
-Q: Is he your starting linebacker?
-HARBAUGH: We're too early to tell who the starters are right now.
-Q: He was your starting linebacker two days after he was arrested for DUI last season.
-HARBAUGH: There's nothing further I can add to that right now.
-Q: Last year at about this time, we were asking you about Seattle's situation with several of their players having issues with PEDs and you said you wanted your players to be above reproach. I know that was specifically an answer about the PED issue. But do you want you want your players to be above reproach legally, criminally? Is that important to you?
-HARBAUGH: I want our players to strive to be above reproach in all regards. And I can't imagine that anybody would tell anybody any differently.
I can't imagine — if it were you, or I, or anybody else here would want their youngsters to strive for anything less. Certainly wouldn't promote that they strive to be below reproach.
Would you, Tim?
-Q: No.
-Q: So are all of your players above reproach right now?
-HARBAUGH: No, we've got some things we've got to resolve. But we are in a process — and always are in process of striving to be above reproach, yes.
-Q: Is there any negative to a team to have players in trouble. Is that a problem at all for you? Does it take affect on a locker room?
-HARBAUGH: The locker room... you tend to put a lot of things on a locker room. A locker room isn't an all-encompassing... to take care of all the world's problems or each individual's problems.
There's a process that he's taking care of individually, that is his accountability, just like all of us.
Anything that we do — if we do things right, there's going to be consequences. If we do things wrong, there's going to be consequences for that. All of our actions, there's consequences, good or bad.
-Q: Practically, he has a sentencing hearing on July 25, which is a few days after you're set to open training camp. Would he be in training camp to start? Is that the plan?
-HARBAUGH: As I said earlier, there's really nothing further that I can add to it.
-Q: We do know the hearing is the 25th, that's a fact. That's after you start camp. In your mind is he starting camp with pads with everybody else?
-HARBAUGH: I'm not going to get into speculating on what's going to happen, what could happen, what will happen. There's nothing really further that I can add to this line of questioning.
You can take bamboo shoots and stick 'em under my fingernails and there still wouldn't be any more I could add further to this discussion.
-Q: Has a decision on that been made or will you just not say the decision?
-HARBAUGH: There's nothing further that I can add right now without speculating. I don't know why you can't understand that at this time.
-Q: Is he still here? Is he participating in the off-season program here?
-HARBAUGH: Yes, he's coming to work. Showing up, he's working hard, he's listening, he's doing what he says he's going to do. We give him that opportunity, yes.
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Five Takeaways From August Jobs Report
The U.S. economy added 169,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department said Friday, and the unemployment rate fell to 7.3%. Economists are still digesting today's report, but here are five initial takeaways.
Bad news all around. There's no way to sugarcoat it: This was a lousy jobs report. Taken on its own, 169,000 jobs isn't terrible—ever-so-slightly worse than expectations, and a bit slower than the average pace over the past year. But don't let the headline fool you. The government also revised down its estimated job growth for June and July by a combined 74,000 jobs, meaning the net gain from today's report is under 100,000 jobs. Moreover, the decline in the unemployment rate was for all the wrong reasons, driven by people leaving the labor force, not by people finding jobs. In fact, the number of people reporting they had jobs—a measure based on a separate survey from the one used to calculate payroll gains—actually fell by 115,000 in August. The labor force participation rate—the share of the population that's working or looking for work—stands at its lowest level in 35 years.
Stagnant trend. The month-to-month jobs figures can be volatile, and are subject to big margins of error. But in this case, looking at the longer-run trend doesn't make the picture look much rosier. The economy has added 2.2 million jobs over the past year, pretty much the same full-year pace as in July, but only because July's figures were revised downward. Those revisions are particularly worrisome because the government tends to underestimate job growth when the economy is accelerating and overestimate it when it is slowing—so downward revisions now can augur weaker growth in the future. The good news: Hiring hasn't slowed in recent months. The bad news: It doesn't show any sign of picking up, either. Hiring remains stuck in second gear, at a bit under 200,000 jobs per month.
Bad news for job seekers. More than four years after the recession ended, finding a job remains extraordinarily difficult. The share of job-seekers finding work fell slightly in August, to 19.5%, while the number of long-term unemployed rose by 44,000. The average unemployed worker has been out of work for more than eight and a half months—a figure that rose for the second month in a row. Little wonder, then, that the number of so-called "discouraged" workers—those who have stopped looking for jobs because they don't believe any are available—is up from a year ago, and the number of people re-joining the labor force to look for jobs fell in August.
Job quality remains a concern. Even those lucky enough to find jobs aren't necessarily finding good ones. More than a third of all job creation came in the generally low-paying restaurant and retail sectors, while construction payrolls were flat and a 19,000-job gain in manufacturing was partly a quirk of the Labor Department's formula for seasonal adjustment. But in a bit of good news, the number of people working part-time because they couldn't find full-time work fell in August, and full-time employment rose. That suggests that the recent surge in part-time work—always a volatile series from month-to-month—was more a statistical anomaly than a genuine trend.
Hints of hope for the future. The August report was weak, but the fall could be better. The average workweek increased slightly in August, and hourly wages rose by five cents an hour, both possible signs that employers were willing to spend more on labor to boost production. The number of temp workers rose by 13,000, another possible sign that companies are seeing more demand—though it could also mean they are reluctant to hire permanent employees. And as disappointing as Friday's report was—and it was disappointing—it still indicates hiring was better in August than in July.
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Anyone looking to mentor young and promising would-be legislators will find few students more inspirational than Congressman-elect Eric Swalwell.
Earlier this month, the 32-year-old Dublin councilman and prosecutor toppled 20-term Rep. Pete Stark, California's longest serving Democrat in the House of Representatives.
Swalwell undeniably benefitted from electoral reforms, an ill-mannered incumbent and a dearth of other viable challengers. (More on this later.)
Then there is Tim Sbranti, Swalwell's high school economics teacher and Dublin's re-elected mayor.
Unlike the typical "how my high school teacher inspired me" story, Sbranti didn't stop once his young protégé graduated.
After Swalwell went off to college, Sbranti helped line up summer campaign assignments back home for Swalwell.
When the young man finished law school and took a job at the Alameda County District Attorney's Office in 2005, it was Sbranti who persuaded Swalwell to return home.
"My friends who had just been hired in the office -- they called us the 'Baby DAs' -- were living in San Francisco," Swalwell said during a recent short sit-down sandwiched between his interviews with potential staffers and transition teleconferences.
"But Tim really made the case for me to come back to Dublin and serve the community."
Swalwell moved back to his hometown, won an appointment first to the city's Heritage and Arts Commission and then the Planning Commission. In 2010, voters put him on the City Council.
It was also Sbranti who took Swalwell's fateful call in July 2011.
At the time, the fledgling councilman was in Washington, D.C., for discussions about city issues with the Bay Area congressional delegation. Swalwell had came away unimpressed with Stark, who had called into the meeting from home.
"Redistricting was going on at the time, and I knew Dublin was going to have Stark as its representative," Swalwell said. "But I came away thinking, 'Is this guy up for the job?' Dublin deserved better.
"I told Tim all of this. I didn't say I was running, but Tim is an astute guy and he asked me, 'Are you thinking about running for Congress?' I said, 'What do you think if I was?' And the rest is history."
Launching a campaign against a veteran congressman in your own party is as popular as a wolf at a sheep convention. Some political consultants and pollsters, fearing retribution, wouldn't even take his calls.
Conversely, Swalwell's candidacy had a lot of plusses. Some he knew and some he could not have predicted.
Among the positives, 60 percent of his potential constituents were new to the redrawn 15th Congressional District. And under the new top-two electoral system, Swalwell would have two bites at the incumbent, first in the primary and again in the general election.
What Swalwell couldn't have counted on was Stark's erratic behavior. Petulant and petty, the incumbent even mistreated the League of Women Voters.
Too, other challengers opted -- unwisely, in retrospect -- to wait until 2014 in the hopes Stark would retire. Among them were Pleasanton Councilwoman Jennifer Hosterman, state Sen. Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro, and former White House commerce official Ro Khanna of Fremont.
Young, handsome, smart and single, Swalwell is already turning heads in Washington -- especially the ladies' -- and some fear the attention will spoil him.
No to worry. His mother is already on top of it.
"If I don't respond to her texts within an hour, she texts me, 'Oh, I guess you've gone all Washington on us, and we're never going to hear from you again,'" said Swalwell, the eldest of Eric N. and Vicky Swalwell's four sons. "She keeps me grounded."
You go, mom.
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AND FINALLY: Drat. Another juicy conspiracy theory shot to bytes.
When Contra Costa County blocked employees' access to the conservative leaning HalfwayToConcord blog on its computers, rumors flew about how the county was trying to squash a scandalous story in the works by site owner Bill Gram-Reefer of Pleasant Hill.
Nah. The county's web filter had incorrectly categorized the website as high risk for malware. The site has been restored to the county's good cyber graces.
"I suspect that the fault, if any, is the potentially inaccurate or miscategorization of (HalfwayToConcord) by the McAfee protection system," said Contra Costa information technology chief Ed Woo. "We consider this a false positive."
This begs the question about why public employees are reading nonwork sites at the office.
Lighten up, people. Everyone needs a mental break from the tasks at hand.
So, if you'll excuse me, I have my eye on a pair of red boots at zappos.com ...
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So... what could be going on here? What is so magical about 1.50.0 on my system, and what could be stopping the supposedly improved versions from performing properly?


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Once widespread across the African plains and into Asia, cheetah populations have plummeted, following decades of habitat loss and competition with rival carnivores, such as lions, leopards, and hyenas, and also persecution by farmers.
Today, only 12,000 to 15,000 cheetahs remain in Africa, and a few may survive in Iran. The country with the largest population is Namibia, home to about 3,000 cheetahs.
Cheetah populations in zoos also are not self-sustaining due to inconsistent reproduction and a high rate of disease susceptibility. The overall aim of zoos' cheetah conservation efforts is to better understand the cats' biology so we can improve their reproduction rates and the health of populations living in zoos. To achieve the goal, we are conducting basic and applied research into male and female biology, and studying individuals and populations in zoos and in Namibia.
Cheetahs are one of the most popular animals in zoos, serving as ambassadors for their wild counterparts. They are, however, a challenging species to manage in zoos because:
Nuances of cheetah health and behavior remain undocumented and continually present challenges to zoo population managers. Breeding problems observed in zoo cheetahs may be largely due to historically poor husbandry and management styles rather than genetic problems.
The National Zoo has made great strides in improving the husbandry of cheetahs. Animal-care staff at the Zoo have combined their understanding of cheetah behavior and reproductive physiology. The results of this combination of disciplines will enable keepers to celebrate cheetah reproductive successes, as they did when two litters were born at the Zoo, one in 2004 and another in 2005. Zoo scientists continually collect behavior and hormone data on cheetah populations to test the effect of different management schemes on cheetah reproductive performance.
We will continue to generate knowledge through new scientific investigations including:
The overall benefits include vastly expanded knowledge of cheetah biology, improved ability to maintain a reproductively viable, healthy self-sustaining North American cheetah population and training the next generation of Namibian biologists. All knowledge gained will be applied to the wild population.
The world's cheetah population in zoos is carefully monitored through an international studbook, a database of information about a species in zoos, including the gender, parentage, date of birth, and location of each individual. The North American population is managed by the Species Survival Plan (SSP).
The SSP carefully investigates the genetics of each animal in the population and, working with a team of highly skilled managers, veterinarians, and scientists, makes breeding and transfer recommendations for all cheetahs in North American zoos. A research council within the SSP implements multi-disciplinary research projects designed to investigate cheetah nutrition, disease, reproduction, behavior, and physiology. Annual meetings of the SSP committee and research council members assess the progress made in different areas and the implications of new findings for zoo and wild populations.
With the Cheetah Conservation Station at its Washington, D.C., campus and a new cheetah research and breeding facility at its Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia, the National Zoo is positioned to advance from its current role as a participant to a leadership role in the cheetah SSP breeding program.
The Zoo's scientists, animal-care staff, and veterinarians will have an unprecedented two breeding facilities in close proximity to each other, with the capacity to house more than 30 cheetahs. Our staff will be able to focus completely on furthering their knowledge of the reproductive biology, medical needs, behavior, and nutritional requirements of this species.
A generous private donation enabled us to build the new facility, but support is needed for our conservation science and training activities. To achieve our research and management goals, the Zoo is seeking support from visitors, members, and the public, as well as a matching gift from the business community.
Cheetahs are well studied in their natural habitat; however, studying cheetah biology in the wild remains difficult. Nuances of cheetah health and behavior remain undocumented and continually present challenges to managers. Investigations of cheetah physiology are conducted in a full and active collaboration with the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), based in Namibia.
This nongovernmental research and education organization is devoted to conserving the wild cheetah and is recognized worldwide as a leader in cheetah conservation. The CCF works closely with Namibian veterinarians and government organizations to rehabilitate and house orphaned cheetahs. These animals are then studied to help answer research questions related to cheetah biology and become part of education programs to pass information on to the public.


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Justice Department OKs district changes
Preclearance doesn't affect black legislators' case, official says
Published: Saturday, October 6, 2012 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, October 6, 2012 at 12:04 a.m.
MONTGOMERY | The U.S. Justice Department on Friday told Attorney General Luther Strange that it has approved the state's new legislative districts.
U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez told Strange that the Justice Department does not have any objections to the specified district changes.
Perez said, however, that the Justice Department approval does not stop a pending lawsuit from black Democratic lawmakers. They are challenging the redrawn districts, which would take effect for the 2014 election.
That litigation is pending in federal court.
The 105 House districts and 35 Senate districts were redrawn by the majority Republican Legislature this year, based on population changes reflected in the 2010 Census. State school board and U.S. congressional districts previously received Justice Department preclearance.
House Speaker Mike Hubbard said he was pleased but not surprised that the Justice Department approved the plans.
"This is proof positive that the districts were created fairly and drawn without a political agenda," he said. "The only political agenda that exists in this process is among those who would continue to fight this plan even after a Democrat-dominated Justice Department has determined it to be fair and equitable to all Alabamians."
Black lawmakers, county commissioners and others have filed a suit over the fairness of the redistricting that they say splits counties and like-voting populations.
Ed Still, an attorney for the black lawmakers, said the Justice Department action paves the way for the Alabama Legislative Black Caucus lawsuit.
"We're cleared for takeoff now in Montgomery because it's a completely different theory that is cognizable," Still said.
Sen. Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, is a plaintiff in the lawsuit that was temporarily stayed pending the outcome of Alabama's preclearance request.
"We feel really good that the administrative action doesn't affect our lawsuit at all," Singleton said.
Perry County Commissioner Albert Turner Jr. said the lawsuit is alive and vibrant.
"The lawsuit centers around the disrespect of boundaries of counties," Turner said.
The House and Senate redistricting plans kept the same number of minority districts.
Republican legislators voiced satisfaction with the Justice Department's ruling, noting that the Legislature used a 1 percent plus or minus population deviation in drawing districts, down from the 5 percent used in the previous redistricting 10 years ago.
Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Cottondale, said the redistricting effort was open and protects minority districts.
"It's very fair piece of work that was done and should move forward," he said. "I hope the judge will see the same thing the Washington group has noted and move forward and give it approval."
The co-chairman of the legislative redistricting committees, Rep. Jim McClendon, R-Springville, said preclearance is "the biggest one and the hardest" to pass.
"This is the equivalent of a grand slam, bases loaded and out of the park," he said. "It gives us four that we have submitted and have been accepted."
The federal lawsuit was assigned to three judges, U.S. District Judges W. Keith Watkins and Myron Thompson, and 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William H. Pryor Jr., a former Alabama attorney general.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — Washoe County is alerting Incline Village/Crystal Bay residents that officials will soon begin removing sandwich board signs placed illegally within the community.
According to a warning card mailed out recently from the county's community services department, officials have observed and have "received numerous complaints" that several Incline Village/Crystal Bay property owners, businesses and/or tentants have been placing signs — many of them "sandwich board signs" — within the public street or sidewalk right-of-way in front of businesses.
According to Washoe County Code (Section 110.504.70), placing signs on the public right of way or on public property is illegal, and they can be removed without advance warning. Removed signs must be kept for 30 days, according to the county, and they will be returned to the owner "upon payment of the cost incurred in the removal."
County staff will begin removing illegally placed signs without warning after this Friday, according to the county. Confiscated signs will be stored at the local public works yard off the Mt. Rose Highway; locals can contact county Code Enforcement Officer Bert Bracy at 775-328-6191 to make an appointment to retrieve them. Signs will be destroyed after 30 days.


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(Editor's Note: The following letter was sent to members of the Eagle Town Board and forwarded to the Eagle Valley Enterprise for publication.)
I fully support a code of conduct and wish we had this in place during the ERS episode - i.e. the Trustee Turnipseed email and so many other Paradigm discussions.
I like and demand of my town government the transparency that Brandi Resa has thankfully given us with her blog and editorials. I read every blog and editorial and I do not get a negative tone from Brandi, just a tone that she would like to see things done properly and concise and legally for all to understand. I for one, like knowing where and how my tax dollars are being spent and to hear and know the important questions a trustee is asking. My personal feeling is that the town of Eagle employees and trustees don't like some of this information hitting the streets. Brandi is a voice that represents me and my concerns.
This is disturbing to me that Brandi is being attacked again personally, just because she brings to the forefront subjects no one wants to address and states things that are on many citizens' minds. Why is there such a backlash on her for speaking on behalf of citizens?
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This race was the worst I've ever run, after many years of running and loads of races in every distance from mile to marathon under my belt. I ran it last year and hoped for improvement this year, but I will NOT run it ever again. Poor organization, a poorly planned course, and conflicting reports on race start times were just a few of the problems. If you consider running this race in 2013, go ahead and run . . . AWAY! Here's more detail, but first let me say that they DID correct the parking / traffic, prompt race start, and race length problems they struggled with last year. There were TONS of runners in this race, it was a huge undertaking, and as such the organizers actually did a number of things well - nice medal, nice premium, nice after-party setup, lots of volunteers handing out space-capes and water and medals at the end. I think a lot of people probably really enjoyed this race. However, I was running for time and for place, and the problems of this race took me "out of the running" (literally, in one case!) for both. Anyone who spends $90 to join a race deserves better.
1. The course was poorly marked and volunteers along several course points either didn't know or didn't tell runners which way to go. The lead runners (I estimate a hundred or so), me among them, took a wrong turn in the first mile which wasn't corrected until word telegraphed up from behind, through the runners, that we needed to turn around -- this added at least a quarter mile to my race (1.5 minutes) and all before we even reached the first mile marker. Where was the escort? Where were good directions, cones, or street markings? My wife, who came along to cheer me on, saw at least two other instances of runners botching the course due to lack of good direction. Can't fault the volunteers for this - the one she talked to said he was directed to go to "the corner of Taylor" - Taylor and WHAT STREET? His directors didn't seem to know. The course itself was so convoluted it's a wonder ANYone could keep it straight.
2. Speaking of mile markers, at least two were misplaced, the first mile marker being one! Probably 1/4 mile ahead of where it was supposed to be.
3. Water stations were plentiful but seemed under staffed so I wonder if thirsty runners were left to fend for themselves when the pack got dense.
4. Course deviated from the published course in a couple spots. No biggy but given the number of ins and outs of the course already and the lack of direction, further deviation was nerve-wracking.
5. Runners had to cross paths with oncoming runners in 2 locations - not bad when you're spread out but I can't imagine what it must have been like when the pack got thicker, and even when it's thin - you don't need those distractions when running a half.
6. Two hairpin U-turns (like spin around a cone) in the course, not counting the unplanned one so many of us had to make when we were misdirected in the first mile. These are taxing, both physically and mentally, not to mention dangerous. I saw one runner slip and fall at the mile 11 hairpin. He was okay, fortunately, but it's an unnecessary risk in a race this size.
7. There were two short out-and-back course diversions in the last two and a half miles of the race. This was obviously done to come up with the extra distance needed to get the finish to work out at 13.1 - but again, these are thoughtless 11th-hour-type fixes that are ridiculous for a race of this scale. Having to leave the primary course direction for little out-and-backs like that, in the last few miles of an exhausting race, is very dispiriting. Use some of my $90 fee to think through a better course!
8. They didn't have my size premium, despite the pre-order. And I wasn't the only one turned away, and it wasn't like I got there late - there were loads of all other sizes. They just couldn't find the boxes.
9. Conflicting reports on race start. The website says 7:10. The email they sent out a couple days ahead of race day, which not everyone got, says 7:00.
This race was not well organized and not well executed. The problems I experienced and witnessed were dispiriting and had a serious impact on my time, place, but mostly my experience. I am a 6:40 mile pace half marathoner, and I run these races to RACE, but I also like to have a good time at them and enjoy the spirit and camaraderie with my fellow runners. The problems of this race negatively impacted all of that.
Better luck next year maybe? Not for me - I'll find a different race, thank you. Given the problems they had the first two years, I just see no sign that they're learning and will have it panned out for next year. My money is worth more than that.
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SAN MARCOS, Texas – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi offense started fast and never looked back, chasing Sam Houston State starting pitcher Caleb Smith after 1.1 innings on the way to a 9-2 win over the top-seeded Bearkats. The Islanders will play UT Arlington at 4 p.m. on Thursday afternoon in the winner's bracket game.
The win moved the Islanders to 24-31 on the year, while the Bearkats are now 36-19 after the opener. Daniel Minor picked up the win, pitching 8.0 innings while giving up two runs, only one earned, on eight hits with one walk and three strikeouts. The win was his 10th of the season, tying the school record set last year by Todd Simko.
It was the second time the Islanders have upset the No. 1-seeded team in the first round, with the other coming over UTSA by a 7-5 score in the 2008 tournament.
The top of the first inning set the tone for the game, with Texas A&M – Corpus Christi scoring four runs on five hits to take the early lead. On the day, Drew Vest, Brad Porras and Jordan Lee each had two hits, while Porras and Eric Weiss had one home run apiece. Weiss, Jonathan Gonzales and Weston Montgomery drove in two runs each, while Weiss, Gonzales, Montgomery, Jeramie Marek, Santiago Ruiz, Dan Sciantarelli and Stafford Brantley had one each in the game.
Things started quickly for the Islanders, with Weiss leading the game off with a solo home run down the left field line to make it a 1-0 lead. Vest followed with a single, but was eliminated on the bases when Gonzales hit into a fielder's choice. Following the out, Porras doubled down the right field line, with Gonzales moving to third on the play.
Montgomery came up with a big two-run single to score Gonzales and Porras for a 3-0 lead. The final run of the inning came when Lee followed with a run-scoring triple to right center that scored Montgomery to make it 4-0 after the top of the first inning.
In the bottom half of the inning, Sam Houston picked up one run on two hits to cut the deficit to 4-1.
Texas A&M – Corpus Christi added three more runs in the top of the sixth to extend the lead. Lee led off with a walk, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Marek and went to third on a Ruiz groundout. A pitch hit Sciantarelli to put runners on first and third, and Weiss followed by reaching on an error that allowed Lee to score from third.
A Vest walk loaded the bases for Gonzales, and the Islanders designated hitter came through with two RBI on a single up the middle to make it a 7-1 game.
In the bottom of the sixth, Sam Houston got a run back, scoring it unearned after a throwing error allowed the runner to move up a base, and then come home on a fielder's choice.
Porras led off the top of the ninth inning with his third home run of the year, a monster shot into the Bobcats softball field over the left field wall. All three of Porras' homers this season have come against Sam Houston. The solo shot made it an 8-2 lead over the Bearkats.
After the leadoff homer, singles by Lee and Marek put runners on first and second, while a groundout moved the runners up a base. Brantley followed with a single through the left side to score Lee for a 9-2 lead, while Marek was thrown out at the plate to end the inning.
In the bottom of the ninth, Tanner Green came on to close it out, getting a 1-2-3 inning to finish off the game against the Bearkats for a 9-2 victory.
Next up for the Islanders will be a 4 p.m. game against the UT Arlington Mavericks. The two teams faced off last weekend, with the Mavericks taking all three games of the series in Arlington.
Live stats and audio will be available through www.GoIslanders.com, while free live video will be on www.Southland.org.
For all the latest on Islanders Baseball, follow the team on Twitter (@CorpusBaseball) and like them on Facebook (Islanders Baseball).


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Lindenwood University Belleville will host free information sessions about its accelerated evening degree programs through the Lindenwood College for Individualized Education (LCIE). Upcoming sessions are scheduled to take place from 2-4 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 8; from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 10; and from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 16. All sessions will be in the main campus building.
Admissions counselors will offer information about the history of the university, benefits of the LCIE program, admission requirements, and financial aid and scholarship opportunities. Attendees will have the opportunity to apply for classes following each session. Application fees will be waived for those who register on-site.
It is requested, but not required, that attendees bring a current resume, official transcripts from any previously attended colleges, and a high school transcript if less than 60 college credits have been earned.
Lindenwood University Belleville offers through the LCIE program both undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, communication, criminal justice, health management, and human resource management; as well as graduate degrees in education, educational administration, and educational specialist.
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Prosecutors: newborns test positive for drugs, mothers sentenced
ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. - Two mothers were sentenced to jail time after Hawkins County authorities say their newborn babies tested positive for narcotics.
We're told the mothers, 28-year-old Ashley Hardesty of Rogersville and 27-year-old Sarah Ceron-Garcia of Kingsport were charged with felony reckless endangerment.
The Assistant District Attorney says they both pled guilty in Hawkins County Criminal Court yesterday for using drugs during their pregnancies.
They were sentenced to a year in jail with the eligibility of parole.


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I downloaded PMS for Mac last nite and it worked fantastic. Streaming was working without problem.
However, after updating the lastest PS3 firmware, the PMS in my Mac can no longer detect PS3. What do I do now? I tried to search any instructions on web, but here I am without any solutions due to some instructions are just too technical for me...sorry I'm just another boring accountant here with very limited computer networking knowledge.
Btw, under general configuration tab, I tried to use lo0 for "Force networking to interface" and 6001 for "Force port of the server" and it did not work.
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Dr. Gary Laevsky has been with Princeton University since June of this year. Previously, he was a Product Manager (Super Res, TIRF, and confocal) for Olympus, Senior Biosystems Applications Manager for Nikon, and an Imaging Applications Specialist for Andor Technology. He completed his post-doctoral research at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla. Dr. Laevsky received his Ph.D. in Cell Biology from The University of Connecticut.
Until recently optical imaging of biological structure was limited to the diffraction limit as defined by Ernst Abbe. In recent years there has been an explosion of technologies that have broken the resolution limit constrained by diffraction.
I will discuss some of these technologies being commercialized, including Structured Illumination (SR), Localization (PALM, STORM, and GSD), and gated Stimulated Emission Depletion (gSTED), that allow for fast, live/fixed cell compatible resolution down to 20 nm.
In addition, the current state of the facility will be presented, as well as the status and types of upcoming demonstrations. Following the seminar, a brief discussion will be held to discuss possible upgrades for the existing systems.
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Just when I thought that not much could surprise me, along comes something like the first results night of Season 16 on "Dancing With the Stars."
The first stunner was when D.L. Hughley and Cheryl Burke, the couple with by far the lowest scores, were saved by the voting viewers to compete next week, proving that D.L. has a fierce fan base, after all. At the announcement, both D.L. and Cheryl dropped to their knees in surprise. Me, too!
But the real shocker came in the final minutes of the show. After all other pairs had been declared safe to dance again next week, three couples "in jeopardy" -- Andy Dick and Sharna Burgess, Victor Ortiz and Lindsay Arnold, and Lisa Vanderpump and Gleb Savchenko -- stood waiting to hear their fates. Andy and Sharna were told they were safe, and I was thinking how interesting it was that the new pros were partners in all three couples. That's when host Tom Bergeron called Dorothy Hamill and Tristan MacManus out from backstage.
With tears in her voice, Dorothy quietly explained to everyone that her injury was serious enough for her surgeon to say it might be irreparable if she continued on the show. Accordingly, she said she had to drop out "on doctor's orders," and went on to praise Tristan for his patience and support. The ballroom was so quiet, you could have heard a sequin drop, and many of the dancers were stunned and in tears.
As a result of Dorothy's exit, neither of the two bottom couples were eliminated. Tom reminded both that they had gotten a reprieve and to make good use of the time.
Other than that, it was a fairly typical results night with lots of entertainment. Limiting the show to one hour kept it moving at a brisk pace, and asking the fans to go to Twitter to select the encore couple was a smart move to keep the viewers involved. The fans picked Zendaya and Val Chmerkovskiy's awesome jive -- definitely a popular selection.
The first performance was by the duo Icona Pop (Aino Jawo and Caroline Hjelt), who sang "I Love It," as the audience members bounced around the dance floor with glow necklaces around their necks. The infectious tune even had the judges on their feet and moving with the beat.
Later in the show, Josh Groban performed his single, "Brave," in front of a full stage of musicians and backup singers, as Chelsie Hightower and Dmitry Chaplin danced romantically through a cloud of dry ice.
Next week's theme is "Prom Night," and I only hope that Tony Dovolani can break through to Wynonna Judd, that Andy Dick continues to improve, that D.L. and Cheryl appreciate their luck by rehearsing until they're better, and that Victor and Lindsay, and Lisa and Gleb ignite some spark of chemistry to make their routines a bit less boring. See you next week!


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News 12 First at Five / Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WRDW) -- Could Savannah River Site become the nation's nuclear waste dump?
"SRS is on the short list for interim storage of 70,000 tons of nuclear waste. Yeah, and that's a big elephant in the room," said Jesse Young of Aiken.
In 1987, in an amendment to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, Yucca Mountain, a mountain in Nevada, was chosen as the location for a geological repository for the nation's nuclear waste.
The license application was filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2008 by the Department of Energy. It was the NRC's goal to say whether the site was safe or not so construction could continue.
When President Barack Obama took office, the DOE under him moved to pull that license application in order to end Yucca Mountain. The NRC has yet to rule on President Obama's motion to withdraw that license.
A committee President Obama established, the Blue Ribbon Commission, was tasked with finding an alternative. In its report to Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu in early 2012, the commission recommended finding a site for another deep geological repository, which will be a lengthy process. It also calls for "interim" storage sites in the meantime.
Now, some believe SRS could be a top candidate for interim storage.
"Interim storage is 50 to 100 years," said Young of the new group Don't Waste Aiken. "If the waste comes here, it's going to stay here, and it's going to stay here, probably, for generations."
Young founded the group to fight back against a possible designation of SRS as an interim storage site.
"We're not scientists. We're homeowners and grandparents and business owners," he said.
On Thursday, the organization, along with the Sierra Club, brought an expert to town. Bob Alvarez is former adviser to the Department of Energy. He served Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson, who was secretary under President Bill Clinton.
In a new report, released Thursday, Alvarez says radiation levels at SRS would double if waste is allowed here.
"I'm not questioning the ability of the people at Savannah River to handle this material," he said in a news conference. I'm really trying to give people an idea of what the implications are."
The report makes some recommendations but adds that reprocessing the waste at SRS isn't the answer.
As for Young, he just hopes it'll remain the nation's problem to fix.
"If they stick it here, it's going to be South Carolina's problem, and we are not powerful enough in the Congress or the Senate," he said.
Not all share those opinions. Clint Wolfe, executive director for the Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness in Aiken, says the report is nothing but "scare tactics" and "fear mongering." He adds that the workers at SRS are most suited to manage additional nuclear waste. He says that he has not seen or read the report, but he says he believes it serves to invoke an "emotional response from the public." He says any additional nuclear waste at SRS would not affect human health or the environment at all.


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Leopard gecko
Leopard geckos are generally yellow or white with dark brown spots. Gecko skin is soft despite its many knob-like bumps. Unlike many other lizards, leopard geckos have eyelids. Another unusual trait is that leopard geckos do not have clinging toe pads. This absence makes it impossible for them to climb vertical surfaces.
Similar to other lizard species, leopard geckos can detach their tails if they are caught by a predator. A new tail will start to grow within a few weeks, but it may not be identical to the tail that was lost.
As nocturnal animals, leopard geckos spend their days burrowed underground or hiding under rocks. At night, they feed mostly on insects such as crickets, mealworms, and locusts.
Because females have the ability to store sperm, one mating can fertilize all the eggs produced for at least the next 15 months. During the breeding season, females lay a pair of eggs every month or so for four to five months. The sex of the hatchlings is determined by the incubation temperature. Those eggs incubated at 80 to 84 degrees Fahrenheit will produce male leopard geckos, while those eggs at 86 to 88 degrees Fahrenheit will produce females.
Range: southcentral Asia
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Is your desktop cluttered with files? Are you drowning in sticky notes? Boxes of note cards? 3-ring binders? Do you remember where to find that important web clipping? The briliiant idea or crucial instruction you scribbled on a piece of paper? Circus Ponies NoteBook is the award-winning application that helps Mac users manage all those bits of information that lack a good home. Whether it's the notes, clippings, and to dos of your life, or the e-mails, diagrams and spreadsheets of that important project, NoteBook helps you keep it all organized and accessible.
With NoteBook, you organize your information naturally, using a familiar notebook interface, complete with pages and tabs, sections and subsections. Add notes andother text. Drag in files and folders. Even "clip" web research, mail messages and other content into your Notebooks without leaving the application you're working in. Annotate your information with diagrams and sketches, highlighting and keywords. Take voice-annotated notes that you can download to your iPod. And protect private thoughts with passwords, covers, and encryption.
Find anything instantly using NoteBook's patented Multidexâ¢, that locates information based on what you remember about it: a name or number, the date you entered it, a keyword you assigned, even any combination. Then share it all by creating PDFs or publishing your Notebooks to the web, including direct web export to your MobileMe account.
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Love this app! Yes, it was expensive, but the demo got me hooked. I didn't try a lot of other task/info managers, though. I just loved how naturally everything came to me when I used it. Within about a day and a half of using the demo, I had too much information stored in my notebook not to buy the program! I use it mainly as a task manager, with a very loose interpretation of the GTD methodology. Works great - and I get everything done on time!
Just a small note, if you go to the website - version 3 was announced at Macworld - it looks like will have some interesting new features, but nothing earth shattering for my particular needs.
I study different IT related subjects. Programming, Security, Operating systems etc. A lot of my books are "electronic" ones, as in .pdf, .chm, websites, etc. When reading PDF's (with preview), surf webpages, reading text files, etc. I can just mark, and "clip" the selection with a right click, and choose the appropriate Notebook in the context menu. This is a GIANT step forward from copy and pasting into different files. I've also configured it to change the source font into the standard font, so everything looks nice in the note. Great application!
Argh. This hurts, but here's my story: I have been using DEVONthink (starting with Personal, upgraded to Professional a couple of months later, currently thinking of upgrading to Pro Office all-included-monster version).
I like OmniOutliner and besides from the standard version (included on my MacBook Pro as well as my Mac Mini Core Duo), I own one license to OmniOutliner Pro.
As much as I hate to admit it, I love Circus Ponies NoteBook! It's powerful, you can customize it for hours, it's versatile, it's producing wonderful material when printed and its clipping services are great⦠and besides ⓠCircus Ponies app is very, very cute. :)
And all these things bother me a lot! The price tag is rather painful. That is especially true when you already use similar apps, like OmniOutliner and DEVONthink. Besides these apps, I also use NoteMind (by symnium.de) and EagleFilerâ¦
--> I'm curious: If you are a user of NoteBook â" what tasks are you using it for? What is it about NoteBook that makes it better than other similar apps?
(I'll wait for your replies, just so I can purchase a license and don't worry about the small sum of moneyâ¦) ;-)
This is a fantastic application! I have been using it for years and it keeps getting better. As mentioned above, the annotation feature is very useful, so is the ability to create a web page from your notebook. Well worth the price.
Aside from the non-stop list of features, the main reason I use this over others: I use this for capturing all my daily work and over the years this makes for very big files - other programs became unusable as they slowed to a crawl; but not this program. Check out the ScreenCast video on the website. Even as a long time user, I learned about many amazing features.
This is EXACTlY what I was looking for! Simply perfect!
Celebrate Circus Ponies NoteBook's birthday on www.maczot.com (4-6-07) - 40% off.
Being a Writer and Researching topics of interest. Notebook really is a supremely powerful data collection application. Has many features that will help writers gather their thoughts and make their ideas a reality. The data search and collection is unlike any application I have use before and that takes getting use too. But it is worth every penny.
Great app. A little expensive. I wish I didn't have to buy a second liscense to let it open on 2 machines on my network at once. Gah.
My favorite feature is voice annotation; I use this to take notes in class, and it's super-helpful to have a recording right on the page with my notes in case I pass out from boredom. Search around online and you can find a discount code for it.
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There is a chill in the air and that can only mean one thing. Winter is coming. We're all thinking the same thing, right? That the coming season has got to be better than last year.
So in anticipation of being pummeled with early season powder, you'd better make sure your snow legs can take it. As most of you surely know by now, running, biking, hiking and summer sports don't really cut it when it comes to conditioning your body for skiing and snowboarding.
"Nothing can really replicate skiing and snowboarding for your body, but there are things you can do to get those muscles dialed in and warmed up," said David Gillette, who has been a regular at Aria Spa's winter conditioning program for the last five years. "A lot of people jump out there without preparation and then they're paying for it for a few weeks or a month after. Going into my first winter here without doing [ski conditioning] was a whole different start. I did the full ski conditioning program the next season and it did make a huge difference."
As a massage therapist at Cascade Resort, Gillette also gets a first-hand glimpse (or groan, as the case may be) of the consequences faced by ill-prepared skiers and riders.
"The injuries and soreness areas range - it's calves, quads, glutes, back - depending on the person's body," he said. "I've had some people who, you can't even touch their calves because they're on fire. I definitely see the benefit of progressive training. It's really crucial for preventing injuries."
Most fitness facilities in the valley offer a fall winter conditioning class and all are based on progressive training, focusing on various aspects of conditioning based on the muscles used in and energy required of skiing and snowboarding.
Honing in on the right zones
"Ski conditioning works with several zones of body - aerobic and anaerobic zones, then our muscular system, skeletal system and respiratory system," said Billy Kuhn, who teaches the winter conditioning class at Gypsum Recreation Center and is organizing a week-long tropical conditioning program in the Caribbean in November. "We attack different systems on different days in the class. On Monday, we had more of an aerobic class, implementing muscle conditioning at the same time. As far as strength training, they'd do agility drills to get heart rates up really high, then continue into walking lunges, which prepares you really well if you're a telemark skier."
Some of the aerobic activities - many of which can be done at home - include jumping jacks, leaping from one foot to the other or fast-paced grapevines (running sideways and crossing one leg over the other). In his winter conditioning class at the Living at Your Peak fitness convention earlier this month, Ski and Snowboard Club Human Performance Director John Cole had participants jumping high into the air while swinging their arms upwards for extra power, then jumping sideways over a small cone. He emphasized the importance of making a concerted effort of landing softly, so as to prevent jarring impact on the knees and legs, clearly useful when making aggressive turns on the mountain.
"We now have four different areas of fitness - leg strength, core strength, agility plyometrics and dynamic stability," said Aria Spa Director of Athletics Mike Benedict. "Every session will be a different mixture. The first two weeks are leg and core strength, then core strength and stability. We make sure to progressively load the systems of the body with a safe program designed to incorporate strength exercises, jumping, impact-associated drills and balance so we're not overwhelming any one area or system of the body. We focus everything from the middle of the torso down, from core to lower extremities. Everything is working together with no wasted energy so you can control the body under the influence of gravity."
Aria Spa's six-week ski conditioning program kicked off Monday and now incorporates all of the facility's resources, including the new fit wall and several balance and strength-enhancing apparatuses like ladders, tires and medicine balls. There is even what Benedict refers to as "ski porn" playing on a large screen for inspiration and Cascade's Atwater restaurant providing craft beer refreshment and snacks ... which comes in handy as far as conditioning for apres ski activities. The program is in its 25th year, limits sessions to 50 people or less and had 1,400 participants last year, between the ages of 14 and 70 years.
The core of it all
For individuals who want to prepare their bodies for the ski season and don't have the time or money to join a conditioning class, there are several drills to do at home, keeping some specific isolation areas in mind.
"Core, core, core ... that's one of the major things I emphasize," Kuhn said. "Every class, before we start, you run two laps then you do a bunch of core workouts. We'll hang off bars doing leg lifts, straight leg dead lifts, planks ... My biggest No. 1 thing for fitness and preventing injury year-round is staying consistent - doing anywhere from 20 minutes in a day of specific exercises to a full hour."
Kuhn said aggressive skiers and riders can do three two-hour sessions per week but even three 20-minute sessions of repeated intervals of sit-ups, leg lifts, jumping exercises, push-ups and planks can do wonders in preparing one's body for attacking the slopes.
Also, just as skiers and riders naturally push themselves harder in the winter as more terrain opens and more snow falls on the mountain, the conditioning sessions should become progressively more challenging.
"Just like in skiing when you're coming down the mountain and you're out of breath, you want to be developing a system where you keep going," Kuhn said. "It all comes down to how well and how good to feel on the mountain. There's a lot of controversy, some people say you can do interval training for 30 minutes and last forever on the mountain, but if you train more and work harder it's obviously going to condition you for more skiing and snowboarding with less pain and injury."
There are several exercises that condition a person for both skiing and snowboarding - squats, wall-sits, plyometrics and every type of core exercise (sit-ups, leg lifts, jackhammers, crunches, etc.) since both activities require a great amount of torso, back, butt and thigh strength.
Also, a lot of balance comes into play with a different sense of gravity for both skiing and snowboarding, so a good simulation practice for snowboarders is skateboarding or fitting an old skateboard deck with a wooden cylinder underneath and gliding one way and then the other. For skiers, you can ramp up your sense of balance by closing your eyes and standing on one foot then the other. For an extra challenge, do this on an unstable surface, such as a mattress.


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There were 50 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Monday. At that time, there were 1,468 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Robbery: Several juveniles were at William Moss Boulevard and Villalobos Place at 12:20 a.m. Monday when an armed man approached them and took a cellphone and money before fleeing on foot. The gunman was described as a black male between 17 and 19, 5 feet 9 inches and 160 pounds with a thin build, last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and dark jeans.
Weapons arrest: Officers were called at 5 p.m. Sunday to Chili's restaurant at 5700 Pacific Ave. for a report of a fight involving a man with a gun. At the scene, they spoke with several angry people involved in a disturbance. That led to a probation search of a car belonging to Kevin Moore, 21, where a loaded handgun was discovered. Moore was arrested on suspicion of weapons charges.
The California Highway Patrol did not provide a report of incident during the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Monday.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 121 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Monday, including six vehicle accidents, 91 medical calls and two structure fires.
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