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WHEELING – To comply with President Obama's plan to reduce carbon and mercury emissions, American Electric Power and FirstEnergy Corp. are eliminating 2,665 megawatts of coal-fired generating capacity.
Even though some believe burning methane natural gas for electricity – a process planned for the 700-megawatt generating station set for construction near Carrollton, Ohio – is better for the environment than burning coal, Wheeling Jesuit University biology professor Ben Stout is not so sure.
"Methane is 20 times as powerful of a greenhouse gas than CO2," he said, a statement supported by information from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "Eventually, we are going to run out of fossil fuels, whether its coal, gas or oil. We need to be working to find a more sustainable strategy."
Nevertheless, residents of eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia who have long relied on relatively cheap electricity from coal soon may see their market squeezed. Obama recently directed the EPA to crack down on carbon emissions, specifically those coming from coal-fired power plants, to "prepare our nation for the unavoidable impact of climate change."
FirstEnergy sells electricity to customers in Hancock, Brooke, Wetzel and Tyler counties through its Mon Power subsidiary.
The company still operates the W.H. Sammis Plant in Jefferson County, which actually stretches over the lanes of Ohio 7, as its largest generation facility in Ohio. FirstEnergy closed its R.E. Burger Plant south of Shadyside in 2010.
This week, FirstEnergy officials announced they will deactivate two coal-fired power plants in Masontown, Pa., and Courtney, Pa., by Oct. 9. This will remove 2,080 megawatts from the company's generating capacity. FirstEnergy estimates it will cost the company $925 million to comply with the EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.
After investing hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade its facilities, FirstEnergy expects to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides by 84 percent, sulfur dioxide by 95 percent, mercury by 91 percent and carbon dioxide by 20-30 percent. However, the two Pennsylvania plant closures will affect about 380 FirstEnergy workers.
AEP provides coal-fired electricity to residents in Ohio, Marshall, Belmont, Jefferson, Harrison and Monroe counties, with much of this power generated at the Kammer and Mitchell plants in Marshall County and the Cardinal Plant in Jefferson County.
AEP officials said Thursday they will close a 585-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Beverly, Ohio – northwest of Marietta – by 2015 because of "the cost of compliance with environmental regulations." The company had explored the option of reconfiguring this plant to run on natural gas, but determined this would probably not be cost-effective.
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A trio of orphaned cougar cubs that lost their mother in the wild are getting a second chance at the Oregon Zoo.
The tiny cougars were brought to the zoo in Portland on Friday.
Their mother was killed by a hunter in the Lookout Mountain area in eastern Oregon.
Michelle Schireman, a zookeeper in the Oregon Zoo's North America section, said the hunter is a former Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife employee who didn't realize he had shot a female cougar that had cubs.
Once he realized his mistake, he tracked the cougar's paw prints in the snow back to the den and found a trio of newborns.
The hunter reported the situation to ODFW and wildlife workers then cared for the young cougars, saying they are possibly just 2 weeks old, before transferring them to the Oregon Zoo.
"A lot of hunters wouldn't have taken the time," Schireman said.
Schireman said the little cougars have learned to eat from a bottle and have adjusted to the formula.
"They're progressing, but they're not out of the woods yet," she said.
They still need to become more stable physically before they can be taken to their final destination, a new home at the North Carolina Zoo.
Schireman, who is also a species coordinator for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, said the workers at the North Carolina Zoo contacted her because they had recently lost an aging cougar, with a second one not faring so well, either.
That zoo said they had enough room for three cougars, meaning the baby siblings from Oregon will not be separated.
"Whenever possible, I like to keep brothers and sisters together," Schireman said.
Schireman has found homes for more than 100 cougar cubs in zoos around the country. She said without a mother, young cougars lack the skills and resources they need to survive on their own in the wild.
Right now, there's no timeline for when the Oregon cougar cubs might be able to make their next journey across the country. They are currently being kept in the zoo's veterinary hospital.
The Baker City Herald reported the hunter was given a warning, but not a citation for killing the mother cougar. Authorities deemed it an inadvertent mistake that would have been very difficult to avoid. The cubs were so young, they had never left their den, meaning there was no miniature paw prints in the snow.


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I've received a lot of questions and concerns lately about whether a person living with a chemically dependent spouse should stay in the marriage. Of course, there's any number of extenuating circumstances, all individual, all different and all valid. So let me speak about divorce (the D word) from a slightly different angle.
Divorce may become a viable option under some circumstances, but it will never solve the problem. Leaving your alcoholic husband or wife may become necessary for your emotional and sometimes physical survival, but it will not answer the question of how you got there in the first place or how you're going to avoid going there again. Those questions can be answered only by starting a process of personal change.
A young woman, "Diane" was married for 12 years to "Don" and had two young children. Don drank and smoked pot daily. They fought bitterly about money, the kids, intimacy, employment, dishes, cars, Kleenex, ink spots, unmade beds, the weather ad nauseum.
Diane and Don were both intensely unhappy, each blaming the other for their unhappiness. Don contended his drinking and drug use was because of Diane's withdrawal and anger toward him. Diane contended that her depression was because of his drinking. Both demanded that the other change but strongly doubted the possibility.
Diane decided to divorce Don, and in the process of counseling, it was discovered she had been a drinker herself many years before. In fact, she had attended AA. Part of her unhappiness was her chronic need to control and her misunderstanding of Don's disease because of her own issues with it. Don, for his part, was self-righteous, blaming and immature, a package that landed him in a bottle and a bag almost every day. His pride prevented him from seeing his own problems.
Is divorce the answer for Diane and Don? My opinion is someone needs to be the grownup. Someone needs to take a hard look at themselves and start the process of recovery. Once looking at things through cleaner glasses, that person can make better decisions in the best interest of the family.
Can people really change? Yes, but the changes are likely not to be the easily predictable ones and likely not in the expected manner or time.
• Rick Atwater is a licensed clinical professional counselor.


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Visitors to South Carolina will more likely have heard of South Carolina's most famous strand -- Myrtle Beach, long a tourism Mecca. But Beachwalker Park on Kiawah Island offers a purer beach experience for the sand and wildlife lover.
Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman, world-renown as Dr. Beach and for his annual top-10 beaching rankings, listed Beachwalker at No. 6 on his list this year.
The place is aptly named -- perfect for a stroll down to St. Sam's Inlet, where visitors can see thousands of birds. A boardwalk winds through live oaks, pines and palmettos. Dr. Beach recommends visitors paddle through the tidal inlets by canoe or kayak.
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Women will now be able to serve on the front lines. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made the announcement Thursday that lifts the nearly 20-year ban barring women from ground military combat.
It's a move women serving here in the Pacific said is about time.
The faces on the front line are about to change, now that the U.S. military has lifted the ban on women serving in ground combat.
First Lieutenant Ashley Sorensen is a platoon leader for the 74th Ordnance Company EOD, 303rd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion, 8th Military Police Brigade, 8th Theater Support Command, US Army Pacific, Hawaii. Her job is one of the most dangerous.
"When I was going through school, there were no other options for women to get close to combat. This was it," said Sorensen.
She said lifting the ban opens many more doors for women in the military.
"It's a step in the right direction in offering women the opportunities they're qualified for," said Sorensen.
Some roles for women in areas such as special forces operations, including Navy SEALS and the Army's Delta Force may take a while to see change.
But, the U.S. Army Pacific fully supports the Defense Department's decision to lift the direct combat exclusion rule.
"We'll take a hard look at how they're going to implement it with the exact ruling. At the end of the day, though, it's not anything new," said Col. Mike Donnelly, US Army Pacific Chief of Public Affairs. "Women have been serving in combat roles for a long time now."
Sgt. First Class Michelle Pierre has served tours in Iraq and in Afghanistan. She said arguments about physical or emotional differences between men and women don't apply out in the field, where it comes down to how you do your job.
"I feel as if you perform your job, they're going to treat you the same regardless of your gender," said Pierre.
Top brass at the US Army Pacific, Hawaii say the move strengthens the military.
"Now they're going to have the proper training to do the job they're already doing," said Capt. Dustin Flowers, 74th Ordnance Company EOD commander.
And in some ways, these soldiers said sometimes the best man for the job may be a woman.
"Women are able to cope just as well as men in any situation, if not, we're at least better at communicating," said Sorensen.
Military chiefs must report back to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta with their initial implementation plans by May 15.
There are currently 3,500 female soldiers in the military here in Hawaii.
There are 8,474 women soldiers serving in the US Army Pacific that includes Korea, Japan, Alaska and Hawaii.


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Find Your Passion: Tweets That Touched Lives
By Chris Bryant
In 1989, actor Kevin Costner learned that "if you build it, he will come." In the days following the late April tornado, University of Alabama student Ashley Getwan experienced her own epiphany: "if we tweet it, they will bring it." Getwan, a UA senior biochemistry major, says while the immediate aftermath of the all-too-real April 27 storm had the eerie sensation of a nightmare, the impact made by the scores of volunteers who came to help triggered some Hollywood-type moments.
"What was really remarkable," says Getwan, who headed communication efforts for UA's Greek Relief response to the devastation, "was how quickly people would respond to Twitter. If I tweeted, 'hey, we need bread for sandwiches,' within an hour we probably had 200 loaves. It was so quick and so immediate. It was kind of like 'Field of Dreams': You build it. They will come. We tweet it. They would bring it." A tweeted request for baby diapers resulted in four carloads, she says.
Greek Relief – whose genesis sprung from a late night dinner conversation in the Delta Kappa Epsilon house some 48 hours after the twister skirted campus, hammering large sections of the city and causing 47 deaths county-wide – would eventually deliver some 52,000 meals to storm victims, first-responders, including National Guard members, and other volunteers, and raise more than $150,000 in donations.
Getwan, the UA Panhellenic president who is eyeing medical school following her scheduled May 2012 graduation, says she and some of her friends rode out the tornado in the basement of the Chi Omega sorority house, while giving more thought to their looming finals than the potential fall-out from the approaching storm.
"I didn't think too much of it," Getwan recalls of her reaction upon first hearing the tornado siren wailing from atop UA's Gorgas Library. "Growing up in Alabama, tornado sirens are sort of the norm during the spring."
She soon heard from her dad who was in Birmingham and who tried to convince her that this time could be different.
"I went to the sorority house (Chi Omega)," Getwan recalls. "There were a ton of us in the basement to wait out the storm. We weren't taking it too seriously. People were studying for finals because it was dead week. Then, the power went out."
As the tension grew, Getwan says students began receiving texts indicating the storm was headed for campus and then, minutes later, that it was nearing the stadium – directly across the street from where the young women were huddled. About 15 minutes after the storm passed, some of the students ventured out.
"We went outside on our front porch, and it was sort of eerie," Getwan recalls. "Nobody really knew what happened. We kept getting conflicting messages. Our president's older sister lived across 15th Street along 19th Avenue."
The student went to check on her sister – whose house was among those hit — and then reported back to her sorority sisters.
"That was when we knew it was really bad," Getwan says.
After volunteering much of that evening at the Student Recreation Center, a temporary shelter for UA students whose off-campus residences were damaged or destroyed, Getwan says she remembers feeling helpless the following day.
By Thursday night, the fraternities were organizing an effort to cook and donate food the following day. That first day began with fits and starts, Getwan recalls.
"It was pretty unorganized. They were in the kitchen, and we were cooking six-pound cans of baked beans and corn, whatever we could find – scrambled eggs, corn dogs — and we were making tons of sandwiches." Take-out boxes and brown-bag lunches were distributed.
"I think we probably sent out 2,500 meals," she says. "The DKE kitchen staff worked all that morning, and then it was really just student-run. James Fowler (2010-11 SGA president) and Patrick Morris (a DKE officer) were directing things. We shut down about 4:30 Friday and started cleaning up, and everything started to get organized."
After a take-out dinner run and return to the DKE House, Getwan said the planning became more intense among the students.
"That was where the idea for UA Greek Relief was born."
Someone suggested naming the effort, and seeking out more volunteers and food. Emails started flying, Twitter and Facebook accounts were launched. Thousands of Greek students, and also their parents and alumni, were on the receiving end of those messages requesting help.
The DKE House, the students decided, would serve as the headquarters and the pantry and would accept the donated supplies while the kitchen of the Beta Theta Pi house would be used to prepare the food and assemble the meals, Getwan recalls.
The group nearly doubled their daily meal output, sending out more than 4,000 meals on April 30. Getwan, using her smartphone and laptop, sat in the DKE foyer, tweeting and reading tweets.
"We were following The Tuscaloosa News and Wesleyan Church and other places that had set up Twitters. We were tweeting what we needed, and we would see the needs from other places."
Batteries, flashlights, diapers, toiletries and baby formula were among the items they obtained and delivered in large quantities. Others involved in the effort took chainsaws into the devastated areas in an attempt to clear debris, or worked with homeowners to tarp roofs. Greek Relief used cash to purchase gloves and other work supplies.
That evening, while Getwan and others were in a closed-door meeting in the DKE parlor discussing the day's events, the supplies continued arriving.
"We came out and the entire foyer of the DKE House was covered in supplies," she recalls. "The outpouring of support was unbelievable. That Sunday we had two truckloads come at night and an RV from Nashville."
The RV driver told the students they placed a sign in their window, while en route, that read "Tuscaloosa Tornado Relief."
"They said they would stop at gas stations, and people they didn't even know would just hand them money."
The amount of donated clothing that poured in was almost overwhelming, and the group began sending items to Greene and Hale counties – areas that also needed assistance but weren't receiving as much as Tuscaloosa.
Fowler and Meg McCrummen, former chief of staff of the UA Student Government Association, and others began giving TV, radio and newspaper interviews, and Getwan was a live guest on a talk-radio program. More donations rolled in. Morris played a critical role, throughout, Getwan says.
"Patrick's phone really never stopped ringing," Getwan says.
"Sitting in the foyer of the DKE house, people were just walking in and saying, here's forty dollars. We bought Wal-Mart and Lowe's gift cards that we could give to families. We would refill propane tanks for grills.
"I was on the phone and the computer and the walkie-talkie all at the same time. I was a little frazzled."
Through the help of John Murdock, president of Greek Resource Services Inc., an organization that manages billing and accounting needs for various UA Greek chapters, an account was set-up whereby the public could make monetary donations to UA Greek Relief by mailing checks to a P.O. Box. An online donation option was also established.
"Every day we were able to increase the number of meals we were sending out," Getwan says. "Everybody was just happy to help."
Many non-Greek students, as well as parents and alumni came to help, she says.
"We never expected it to be as huge or as successful as it was for something that was born out of just hanging out one night. The outpouring of support was just unbelievable."
Prior to the tornado, Getwan said she considered herself an average Twitter user. She estimated she had about 150 followers on her personal account. Within 24 hours of launching the new Greek Relief Twitter account, the group had 1,000 followers, a number that would soon jump to 4,000, Getwan says.
Members of the traditional media who were big users of Twitter, including ABC 33/40's James Spann; Jim Dunaway, host of a WJOX sports talk show and sports anchor for CBS 42, and The Tuscaloosa News' Jason Morton helped spread the word of Greek Relief via their tweets, Getwan says.
UA student Matt Calderone, who is interning within Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox's office, was invaluable, Getwan says, in keeping information flowing between Greek Relief and the city.
"He was a huge asset to us," she says. He also, Getwan says, shared one of the more inspiring moments.
The city held nightly meetings at 10. The reports, as one might imagine, were frequently grim. Near the end of one meeting, it was announced that UA Greek Relief had distributed 10,500 meals that day – one-third of all the meals distributed in the city.
"It was the first bit of good news given," Getwan says. "He (Calderone) said Mayor (Walt) Maddox stood up and starting clapping, and then everybody stood up and started clapping."
Every day between April 29 and May 6, at least 200 volunteers worked directly for UA Greek Relief, Getwan says, with the number rising to between 400 and 500 on the busiest days. Many of the volunteers were non-students, she says, including one volunteer who stayed and worked over a grill every day for the entire week.
A Gardendale native, Getwan, who's a UA Computer-Based Honors Program student within the Honors College, indicates she'll never forget how people pulled together when the city and its residents needed them most.
"No other time in college have I been able to be a part of something that had so much impact on people."
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You have to do it. Melo would take a lot of pressure off STAT. We then just need a big stopper. Any chance of getting a decent one on the cheap? Say trade Azzy and a second rounder for someone
Donnie Walsh says he can get two first-round picks for players on the current roster, which would help the Knicks' chances of landing Carmelo. A Knicks source claims that Walsh would be willing to move Danilo Gallinari, Landry Fields plus Eddy Curry's expiring contract in a potential trade for Carmelo.
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As much as it hurts to see Fields leave, it has to be done in order to land melo, and i relly wont mind. I still will folllow his career. i wont miss gallo's 2-10 nights either, we have williams, rautins and mason to haldle that....and for chubbs....i hope he never sees a minute on an nba court ever again.
if denver accepts, we are lookin at
why i say jordan, is because we will have 11 players and we would need 12 to play a game.
You have to do it. Melo would take a lot of pressure off STAT. We then just need a big stopper. Any chance of getting a decent one on the cheap? Say trade Azzy and a second rounder for someone
I think trading Gallo > Wilson is mistake. Chandler has the higher value now, too. And DEN has the cap to work out a longterm deal for him, no prob.
Plus, there goes us getting the much needed extra big this offseason (Dalembert, Perkins, Davis, Jordan).
Gallo + 1 of the above > Chandler.
Especially when we have Melo.
I obviously don't like the idea of trading Gallo.
But I can't fault Donnie's logic. Chandler is simply the better two way player right now.
Donnie already foreshadowed this development when he said he wanted to sign Chandler.
I didn't really heed that proclamation at the time but I guess he meant it.
Only time will tell..
i disgree.. firat of all.. gallo has a salry of like 4 mil
AR 3 mil wil go also
melo will mak like 18 mil next season once he signs extension
we will have about 5 mil left under the cap if we dont resign chandler.. which we probably wont do.. we will probably do a sign n trade with another team for him to fill a need
if we need moremoney we can probaly do something with t doug.. or the russain (trade him to NJ)lol
we can still get a quality big... dalbert will not make more than 5-6 mil per
and also.. Gallo is not better than Chandler
I guess we'll be in total win-now mode, and Chandler is the more proven commodity to be able to consistently produce right away.
I'll be in the minority and still think Gallo would be the better fit, especially if we had Melo. He impacts games in unique ways and is/can be *so* efficient offensively, which is even more useful when adding Melo. Especially in the clutch, and w a propensity to rise in big moments vs big teams, and the more proven range, i like him.
This is banking on the supposition that Gallo will gel and tighten up his game through the rest of the season and going forward; a supposition Walsh may not be willing to gamble on, like a layman fan like myself, when there is Chandler, already playing better than Gallo, as a more proven commodity.
Doesnt seem right, and i hope I'm utterly wrong if it happens. I won't be crying, though, either way, Chandler is great and is, and will continue to be, a good Knick.
I would 100% try to acquire Mayo, though. His range and overall skillet could really beast here. And he's at almost rock bottom value.
Douglas, Williams, Moz, Ewing Jr, whoever we get w our picks, and maybe we then let Turiaf go somehow, and try to pursue an FA big as replacement, ideally w/o arthritis so our weakness in depth there doesn't get so exploited so easily.
A "Knicks' source"? I take this report with more than a grain of salt. We just got out of "cap" hell. I do not think Donnie is anxious to get right back into it in the long term. For all Melo's undeniable talents, he, Amar'e, Felton, Chandler and what is left -- without draft picks -- will not get us much beyond mediocrity. We need a "team," not just two super stars.
harringtons contract will kill us..
the funny thing is.. if we knew july 1 we would come away with amare, felton and melo and had to build a team like the heat did.. we would of been doing cartwheels.. now we be blessed with fools gold and even AMARE knows this wont hold up long term..
the problem is ... most of the good role players are signed by the heat and other teams for vet min,.. so this year.. were done.. unless we scout the d league or free agents everybody else passed on....
if im donnie.. imm rollin the dice and building around felton, melo, and stat.. and the hell with anybody else....we would be much better next year and can probably entice some free agents to take less for a chance at a chip...
No, no no not Fields, anybody but him
Although i'm a huge Fields fan, I don't mind giving up those players in a trade. At somoe point we have to realistic and know that to get Melo we'll have to part with any combination of Chandler, Gallo and Fields.
Real Talk
if we could get a qaulity big.. let say a dalembert or chandler for aroud six per and retain turiaf as a backup
we could start with
chandler or dalembert
and still retain a williams and t doug
we would be in a better position than we are now
and could get some vets to fill gaps
I know he has been very good for most of the year, but I am not that enthused about Felton. Amar'e and D'Antoni's system inflate his worth. He takes too many shots and other than to Amar'e he does not distribute the ball. For most of the year, his shooting percentage has been well above his career figures and I tend to trust career numbers after several years to current numbers. He is good, but he is not the third Musketeer. He is not in Amar'e's and Melo's class. I like Chandler better than Felton, but Chandler and Melo are both principally small forwards. I love Melo in theory but I am afraid Melo and his cost -- unless as a free agent -- is not going to make us a better "team."


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Game 5 – Live Blog
Top of the 7th
OK, sorry I'm so late. I had organized a work happy hour and it ran longer than I expected, but I kept up on the score thanks to friends with blackberries. And I heard Dunc's homer on the way home! i'm so stoked that Weaver came through with another stellar performance…hope we can finish it off for him.
Great job by Kinney. Now we just need 6 more outs.
Bottom of the 7th
Pujols grounds out. Encarnacion walks. Rolen pops out. Edmonds walks, after a wild pitch advances Encarnacion to 2nd. The stage is set for Belliard to be a hero, but he grounds out on the first pitch. OK, just 6 more outs…come on, boys!
Top of the 8th
Yes – Beltran strikes out! That's a huge out.
Delgado gets an infield single. Double by Wright – and only one out. Time for a pitching change. Flores comes in and gets Green to fly out. Great play by Edmonds to charge the ball and intimidate Delgado from running home. You can't underestimate the importance of having Edmonds back in centerfield – moments like that really emphasize it.
If I had a rally towell, I'd be biting on it just like all those fans in the stadium. WooHoo – Wainwright comes in, gets Valentin to strike out lookin'!
Bottom of the 8th
A one-out triple by Miles, and we fail to get the run home. That leaves me with an ominous feeling. I don't know why Eckstein didn't try the squeeze again after it failed the first time, or at least hit a sac fly. At least we get to face the bottom of the Mets order.
Top of the 9th
Chavez grounds out. One away.
Floyd grounds out to Pujols. The race for the bag made me a little nervous, but two gone!
Reyes strikes out! Cards win!! Great gutsy relief from Wainwright, our novice closer. And you can't say enough about Jeff Weaver – he might be the series MVP!
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I am so tired but,I have been watching every minute of this exciting cards game and am not about tto give up now heck we are winning.why stop watching now?
how old is wainwright is he a rookie he looks so young.
He's only 25 – he's not a rookie but he only took the closer role toward the end of the year – what grace under pressure!
well he will be around for awhile.and he looks awfully good.NICE WIN BY THE BOYS!CARP TOMORROW!
pujols is a roid head like big smack, card blow, even if ya lucky and get past mets, goin get spanked by det!!! why don't you drug test ur illegal immigrant puhols, wouldn't be here if couldn't play ball, what a joke, can tell who on roids and who not,sick of hearin about joke ***!!!
WOW, I'm amazed by Jeff's performance tonight, although it really worried me when he became distracted in the beginning of the 4th. Man, is Kinney something or what. You can only use him one inning though, he lost his effectiveness after that. Great job by Adam also. This was definately the most important game of this series, with Carp out there tomorrow, it should be a done deal. I'm so excited we are on the verge of being in the World Series again, the first year in the new stadium,and wouldn't it just be beautiful to win it all in it's inaugural season, that hasn't happened since 1923 when the Yankees won it all in the stadium that Ruth built. I'm really worried about Rolen and LaRussa not getting along, the two of them need to take 5 and one on one hash things out,because this thing of not even communicating with each other for the past 3 or 4 days isn't good right now, and I sure don't want it to end up with mgmt. getting rid of Rolen. Last thing, my main guys Pujols and Chris Duncan blasted the ball out. I also love to see that, I just hope that they can get Duncan to at least become a decent outfielder, then we'll have another great player to complement the great Pujols.
GO CARDS, LET's FINISH IT TOMORROW!!!!!!!!


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Dawn Lundy Martin's first full-length collection, "A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering" (University of Georgia Press, 2007), was selected by Carl Phillips for the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her second collection, "Discipline," won the 2009 Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, chosen by Fanny Howe (Nightboat Books, 2011). In 2004, she co-edited, with Vivien Labaton, "The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism" (Anchor Books, 2004), a collection of essays on modern theories of activism in America.
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Raytheon's "RIOT" Software Tracks Trillions of Pieces of Your Data on Facebook
Jason Mick
February 11, 2013 3:55 PM
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Software was pitched to the U.S. government, but not yet sold
Raytheon Comp. (
) has created a social networking tracking program called Rapid Information Overlay Technology -- or "RIOT", for short -- which is building a database of trillions of pieces of data on
millions of users' social networking
profiles. The software digs into the usual suspects -- Facebook, Inc.'s (
) ubiquitous social network, popular microblogging site Twitter, and FourSquare, whose location-aware apps boast 25 million users.
I. RIOT is Watching You
The idea of RIOT is to allow government agents to in a click or two examine both your behavior history, and more interestingly (or alarmingly) predict your potential future actions.
Today, mobile client use has finally overtaken desktop use for Facebook, the world's largest network. But hidden in most mobile posts by Facebook's over 1 billion users is an information is
an "exif" information tag
, a special string that identifies the latitude and longitude the user posted from. By mining exif data publicly available posts (or alternatively creating Facebook softbots to friend users and lure them into RIOT's circle of friendship), RIOT is capable of tracking citizens' daily movements.
In a video, Brian Urch, principle investigator on the RIOT project at Raytheon describes, "We're going to track one of our own employees."
By mining the publicly available information, the demo shows how the client determined that "Nick" commonly frequents Washington Nationals Park. It even shows off a photo of a blonde whom Nick posed with at the park.
But RIOT's most powerful capability is trying to analyze the future. Its spidery webs of information spread out, assessing the trends in Nick's behaviors. It makes a discovery -- Nick goes to the gym each day at 6 a.m.
Mr Urch comments, "... So if you ever did want to try to get hold of Nick, or maybe get hold of his laptop, you might want to visit the gym at 6am on a Monday."
He encourages users with questions to shoot him an email at
II. Raytheon Fights to Keep Video Demo Secret
The video was never meant to be seen by the eyes of the public. Raytheon asked
, the top UK newspaper who obtained the video, not to post it.
Raytheon's spokesperson:
Riot is a big data analytics system design we are working on with industry, national labs and commercial partners to help turn massive amounts of data into useable information to help meet our nation's rapidly changing security needs.
Its innovative privacy features are the most robust that we're aware of, enabling the sharing and analysis of data without personally identifiable information [such as social security numbers, bank or other financial account information] being disclosed.
But Raytheon's argument that the product was "proof of concept" was not enough to convince
not to post the video. But even before the video, clues about RIOT were leaking out. A
patent application
filed by Raytheon in December -- -- contained details relating to the data mining technology in the software.
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In an interview with
, Ginger McCall, an attorney at the Washington, D.C.-based
Electronic Privacy Information Center
(EPIC), complains, "Social networking sites are often not transparent about what information is shared and how it is shared. Users may be posting information that they believe will be viewed only by their friends, but instead, it is being viewed by government officials or pulled in by data collection services like the Riot search."
III. RIOT is Even Better at Playing Big Brother Than Perfect Citizen
Raytheon, whose sales accounted for $25B USD in revenue last year, has reportedly not sold the software to any nation state clients -- yet. It reportedly demoed the software to the U.S. government at a trade show in April.
President Obama has
committed $200M USD to "big data" spending
-- including efforts to track citizens online. The Obama Administration has stated multiple times publicly that it seeks to protect citizen rights/expectations of privacy, but internally it's often
fought to step up intrusive monitoring
, arguing that such procedures are necessary to fight the shadowy ambiguous "terrorist" threat.
Raytheon is also authorized to export the software to foreign nations/corporations interested in using the "stalking software" on their targets, acccording to the "
" designation in trade documents obtained by
. EAR99 indicates that the software can "be shipped without a [government] licence to most destinations under most circumstances."
The company already has one lucrative $100M USD counterterrorism contract from the
U.S. National Security Agency
(NSA). Dubbed "
Perfect Citizen
", the NSA software aims to deploy digital "sensors" (scripts) to detect impending cyberattacks on U.S. networks. Some privacy experts have complained that Perfect Citizen was a guise for "Big Brother" style tracking.
President Barack Obama has pushed for $200M USD in "big data" spending.
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The NSA claims "Perfect Citizen" is a research and development project, and not fully deployed. But EPIC
obtained documents
that "suggest the program is operational and confirmed, and that Raytheon was contracted to develop and deploy certain components."
By contrast RIOT takes a narrower aim at popular civilian internet activities. That means it will likely serve little use in combatting terrorists (who are unlikely to post, tweet, or "check-in" during their evil escapades). However, it does make the perfect tool for companies -- or governments -- to stalk citizens, and Raytheon is eager to turn that interest into sweet cash.
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1999: The Supreme Court of the United States rejects Timothy McVeigh's appeal, upholding his murder convictions for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. He would be executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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1977: Actor James Van Der Beek, best known for his portrayal of Dawson Leery in TV series "Dawson's Creek," is born in Cheshire, Connecticut.
1976: Actor Freddie Prinze Jr., best known for roles in movies such as "I Know What You Did Last Summer," "She's All That," "Summer Catch" and "Scooby-Doo," is born in Los Angeles, California.
1975: Film director and producer George Stevens, best known for movies such as "A Place in the Sun," "Shane," "Giant," "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "The Greatest Story Ever Told," dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Lancaster, California. Stevens won Academy Awards for Best Director for "A Place in the Sun" and "Giant" and was nominated for Oscars another eight times in his career, including six Best Picture nominations.
1971: In what became known as the "Fight of the Century," Joe Frazier defeats the previously unbeaten Muhammad Ali by unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Early in the 15th and final round, Frazier landed a left hook that put Ali on his back for only the third time in his career. The fight was the first of three bouts between the heavyweight rivals. Ali would exact some revenge in January 1974, beating Frazier by unanimous decision, before scoring a TKO when Frazier's trainer refused to let Frazier come out for the 15th round of their October 1975 match known as the "Thrilla in Manila."
1971: Actor and film producer Harold Lloyd, most famous for his silent comedies, dies of prostate cancer at the age of 77 in Beverly Hills, California. Some of his best known films include "Grandma's Boy," "The Freshman," "Welcome Danger" and "Safety Last!," the last of which features the iconic scene in which Lloyd's character hangs from the hands of a clock high above the street.
1959: Actor Aidan Quinn, best known for his movie roles in "Desperately Seeking Susan," "The Mission," "Stakeout," "Benny and Joon" and "Legends of the Fall," is born in Chicago, Illinois.
1953: Hall of Fame left fielder Jim Rice, who played his entire career for the Boston Red Sox from 1974 to 1989, is born in Anderson, South Carolina. An eight-time American League All-Star, he was named the AL's Most Valuable Player in 1978 after becoming the first major league player in 19 years to hit for 400 total bases.
1945: Musician, singer-songwriter and actor Micky Dolenz, best known as a member of The Monkees (seen here at upper right), is born in Los Angeles, California.
1943: Actress Lynn Redgrave, known for such movies as "Tom Jones," "Georgy Girl," "Shine" and "Gods and Monsters," is born in London, England. Redgrave, who earned Oscar nominations for "Georgy Girl" and "Gods and Monsters," was a member of the famous British acting family, including her sister, Vanessa Redgrave, and her nieces, Joely Richardson and Natasha Richardson. Redgrave, seen here in 2006, died of breast cancer on May 2, 2010.
1930: William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and later the 10th chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, dies at the age of 72 in Washington, D.C. He is the only person to have served in both of these offices.
1922: Actress and dancer Cyd Charisse, best known for roles in movies such as "Singin' in the Rain," "The Band Wagon" and "Silk Stockings," is born Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas. She died from a heart attack at age 86 on June 17, 2008.
1921: Actor Alan Hale Jr., best known for playing The Skipper on the sitcom "Gilligan's Island," is born in Los Angeles, California. He died of thymus cancer at age 68 on Jan. 2, 1990.
1917: Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Count von Zeppelin, the German inventor and aviation pioneer who built the first rigid dirigible airships, named Zeppelins, dies at the age of 78 in Berlin, Germany.
1913: The Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect income taxes. Only those with incomes of $3,000 or more were instructed to file and initially only 1 percent of all Americans paid some sort of income tax.
1910: French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
1874: Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States from 1850 to 1853, dies of the aftereffects of a stroke at the age of 74 in Buffalo, New York.
1862: The iron-clad CSS Virginia, built from the scuttled USS Merrimack, is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1817: The New York Stock & Exchange Board is founded. The exchange called a rented room at 40 Wall Street home until that location was destroyed in the Great Fire of New York in 1835. From then on it moved to a couple of different locations before opening at its current location in 1902, by which time it had changed its name to the New York Stock Exchange.
1783: Hannah Van Buren, who became the first lady as the wife of U.S. President Martin Van Buren in 1837, is born Hannah Hoes in Kinderhook, New York.
1775: An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America," the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
1702: England's Queen Anne takes the throne upon the death of her brother-in-law and cousin, King William III.
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On the back cover of the North Central Now, there is a simple statement: "North Central College prepares students to be informed, involved, principled and productive citizens and leaders over their lifetime." This is our mission, our reason for existence.
Many years ago, I taught a course called "Just Leadership." I thought then, and continue to believe, that leadership isn't just a set of skills and abilities, taught out of some sort of "how to" manual, as important as such skills may be. Leadership without values, without ethics, without a sense of larger moral purpose, is hollow. "What does it profit a man if he wins the whole world, and loses his soul?" And where does that "win" leave the world?
But lofty rhetoric does not answer the fundamental challenge of how you educate young men and women to be honorable and effective citizens and leaders. This has been a concern of mine since I first read Plato's The Republic and Machiavelli's The Prince as an undergraduate. During the Watergate era, when I worked in Wisconsin state government and led a state agency, it became something of an obsession.
One of the great attractions that brought me to North Central College in 1991 was the Leadership, Ethics and Values (LEV) program established by my predecessor, President Gael Swing. I was skeptical that any one course, or sequence of courses, at a comprehensive liberal arts college could provide the all-encompassing commitment to leadership training of a West Point or a Harvard Business School. But the linkage of leadership, ethics and values (since expanded to include service), built into the fabric and culture of a small college—the classrooms, library and laboratories; the residence halls, the field house, the athletic fields; the chapel, and the offcampus work, service and study abroad opportunities—seemed to me to be just right. Seventeen years later, I know it.
In remarks to new students, I always refer to editing my undergraduate newspaper as "the most important learning experience (about leadership) in my life." At North Central, students learn about leadership by "doing it". They learn about it from Professor Tom Cavenagh, the director of the LEV Program and a faculty mentor, from the Mimi Rolland Professor in the Fine Arts, Ramona Wis, and faculty in every academic division.
But they also experience and absorb the lessons of honorable and effective leadership from staff members like Mike Hudson. And that witness—perhaps the most powerful way to teach "just leadership"—extends to North Central's Board of Trustees, whose philanthropy and ability to mobilize community volunteers for good is an enduring presence in the life of the campus and to alumni who have demonstrated their spiritual leadership or built impressive enterprises in the not-for-profit as well as the for-profit sectors.
This special Annual Report issue of the North Central Now celebrates our mission, and some of the leaders who embody that mission … in their teaching, their example and their lives. It is a mission worthy of a great college, and a legacy we can all cherish.
Harold R. Wilde
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Punk pigs, cool chefs; A foodie fest in Narrowsburg
August 28, 2013 —
You could smell it before you could see it. The tantalizing aroma of fresh-cooked food, filled with flavor and promises of a soon-to-be feast, permeated the air. It was Pig Mountain, and it had arrived on Main Street in Narrowsburg, NY to 2,500 hungry people.
This was the third annual Pig Mountain, held on August 24. The event brings together 14 chefs cooking 14 pigs in 14 different ways. Different, indeed. The food ranged from Viennese spice-rubbed pork; to pig ears with olives, parsley and basil aioli; to bacon tomato salad; and more. And that's just the pig part; each booth also boasted at least three other sides of veggies. There was the smoked potato salad from The Lodge at Woodloch, miso coleslaw, beet salad and marinated carrots and tatsoi. Many of the offerings were Asian-inspired and many had words I had never heard of before. (Giardiniera anyone?)
Pig Mountain works like this: you buy a ticket for $30 and that gets you 10 ticket stubs. One stub gets you one meal from a chef, which usually included the main dish of pig and one or two sides. The hearty dishes fill you up quickly and two people could easily split ten tickets between them. At the beginning of Main Street were a few booths from local food producers, called Community Tables, like Hilly Acres Farm, Gus Soda, Early Bird Cookery, the Catskill Distillery and more. These options were cash only and offered ice cream, fresh produce and pastries. After that was the beer truck set up by The Heron (there was always a line there), a favorite beer being (aptly) Porkslap. And there was a wine tent from Narrowsburg Fine Wine and Spirits, and a cute homemade lemonade stand scrupulously run by the kids of the shop owners of Main Street.
After you got a beverage you could stop and listen to the bands that were playing throughout the day. From bluegrass banjos to Grateful Dead covers, the talented musicians provided a cheerful backdrop, including Groggy, Pills, Hash and Lung featuring Sean and Cheyenne from Root N' Roost Farm of White Sulphur Springs.
And then: the food. Lines formed instantly to get a taste from the famous chefs' creations. Local chef Paul Nanni from The Heron was a crowd pleaser with his giant tub of baked mac and cheese and pork empanadas. I also heard excited talk from the crowd about the chopped pork from a 190-pound pig from PorcSalt Charcuterie Chef Michael Ridgway. And there was dessert, in the form of pig fat Oreos (yes, you read that right). Oh yeah, and a lot of pig heads.


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GOP, Dems already laying 2014 groundwork
GOP opened four field offices Saturday
Neither political party is conceding any ground when it comes to preparing for Wisconsin's 2014 elections.
After a long 2012 campaign, Wisconsin's Republicans are already looking ahead to 2014.
The GOP has created four new field offices in Wisconsin that are scheduled to stay open year round.
At the new office on Madison's west side, the walls were still bare, and none of the 30 or so phones had arrived, but state Republican leaders were already excited about the new space.
"It starts here," said Brian Schimming, the vice chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party. "It starts on what goes on right here."
"We wanted to get an early start on what's coming in the next two years," continued Schimming. "And certainly in 2014, Madison and the Dane County area generates a lot of votes in this state for both parties."
The GOP is also opening permanent offices in Green Bay, Eau Claire, and Waukesha.
The offices will have a few paid staff members but mostly volunteers.
The Republican field directors will be responsible for building up county operations, coordinating activists, and developing outreach efforts.
Party spokesman Joe Fadness said the goal is to put the GOP in position to win in 2014. That's when elections will be held for governor and all eight congressional seats.
Vice chairman Schimming said the grass roots efforts will help build momentum before the 2014 election cycle.
"Politics is a process of addition not subtraction, so we want to make sure we're adding," said Schimming.
Executive director of the Wisconsin Democratic Party Maggie Brickerman believes the GOP's plans sound like a page right out of the Democrats' playbook.
Democrats are also increasing their efforts to get uncommitted voters on their side by putting boots on the ground in Green Bay, Eau Claire, and La Crosse.
"I really think that was more of a PR stunt in response to our roll out of our 72-county strategy last week," said Brickerman of the GOP's new offices.
"The 72-county strategy is an aggressive $500,000 investment in off-year organizing," continued Brickerman. "It's going to lay the foundation for beating Scott Walker and legislative Republicans in 2014."
"I think both parties know what's at stake in the elections coming up, we certainly do," countered Schimming. "They want to go after the governor, and go after Republican legislators, and frankly we're anxious to have that discussion."
GOP leaders said their recent successes at the state level, like Gov. Walker's recall election victory, will translate to morevictories on the national stage.
Democrats counter that their successes on the national level will help them to be more successful throughout the state.
Meanwhile, Rep. Paul Ryan said Republicans need to stay united and pick their fights during President Barack Obama's second term.
The party's vice presidential nominee from 2012 told conservatives that Republicans need to reject the president's proposals in some cases and make them better in others.
The Wisconsin lawmaker said in a speech Saturday to the National Review Institute in Washington that Obama will try to divide Republicans. But Ryan said GOP lawmakers "can't get rattled" and shouldn't "play the villain in his morality plays."
Ryan defended his vote on the "fiscal cliff" deal. He said that if the measure hadn't passed, every single taxpayer would have paid higher taxes.
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Workers Comp Corner: Being mindful with contract helpSeptember 01,2014
Employers, beware. While you think you've retained an independent contractor for a project, for worker's compensation purposes you may have just hired an employee.
In order for a person in Vermont to be eligible for workers' compensation benefits, an employer-employee relationship must exist between the injured worker and the employer.
This relationship is defined by statute which defines an employee as: "An individual who has entered into the employment of, or works under contract of service or apprenticeship with, an employer." While the law may make exceptions in certain circumstances, generally the Department of Labor takes a broad view as to who is included as an employee. The decisions emphasize that "the modern tendency is to find employment when the work being done is an integral part of the regular business of the employer, and when the worker, relative to the employer, does not furnish an independent business or professional service."
The Department of Labor utilizes two tests, either of them being sufficient, to determine if a person is an employee for purposes of the law. The tests are the "Right to Control" test and the "Nature of the Business" test.
First the department will consider whether the employer controlled the work of the alleged employee. The inquiry will examine whether: the worker supplies his own tools and place of work, whether the method of payment is by time or by job, whether the work is part of the regular business of the employer and what the length of the employment is. Some employers assume that if a person is characterized as an independent contractor for tax purposes, that leads to the same determination for the employment status. That is one potential piece of evidence in determining who controlled the work being done but it is not dispositive.
The Right to Control Test is a laundry list that can be used to determine who controlled the work being done. Here are some of the typical questions that are asked:
n Who controls the means and methods of the work performance?
n Does the worker hold his services out to the general public?
n Does the worker perform the task without supervision?
n Does the worker possess the required permits, licenses, and certificates?
n Is the worker doing business as a corporation or under an assumed business name?
n Does the work require extensive skill, education, or experience?
n Who establishes the routine or schedule?
n What is the duration of the relationship?
n What is the method of payment, whether by time or by job?
n Are taxes deducted or withheld from the worker's check?
n Who determines the hours of work?
n Does the worker receive fringe benefits or bonuses?
n Who provides the equipment necessary for completion of the work task?
An employer who hires an independent contractor can review those questions to have a general idea of whether the "Right to Control Test" favors employee or independent contractor status.
However, the inquiry does not end if the business does not control the worker. The department also utilizes the "Nature of the Business Test."This analysis involves a determination of whether the work the injured worker performed was the business, trade, or occupation of the employer. If the answer is that the work was the business, trade, or occupation of the enterprise, then the worker is an employee. If the work carried out was in the course of work normally carried out by a direct employee then the injured worker is an employee. This test is very broad and intentionally inclusive.
Some employers seek to exclude people from workers' compensation thorough execution of a contract. However, the courts have held that even if a person has signed an agreement purporting to absolve an employer of liability, that person may be an employee under the Workers' Compensation Act if he is performing work normally performed by a direct employee. The intent of the parties at the onset of the relationship may be irrelevant as the status may change over time.
Employers should exercise caution when hiring independent contractors.When it comes to workers' compensation there may in fact be an employer/employee relationship.
John W. Valente is an attorney with Ryan Smith & Carbine in Rutland. He is the author of "Understanding Workers' Compensation: Managing Workplace Injuries and Lowering Costs."MORE IN This Just InMONTPELIER A new report from a commission that studied the cost, availability and quality of... Full StoryVermont fish hatchery changes focus, looks inland
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The Lady Eagles placed third at the Turtle Creek Golf Course in Palacios on Tuesday, Feb. 26. Because many of the teams only had three players, Coach Figirova from Palacios made the decision to use a three-person team score. The day was a little windy and chilly but a much better day for golf than Monday. Brittany Lopez was third medalist with a 111, Jessica Bingenheimer had a 114, and Kristina Foster shot a 144.
"This was the first time Bingenheimer and Foster have played in a golf tournament and they both did very well. Brittany, my returning senior did not disappoint and played a good round of golf bringing home the bronze," Coach Carolyn Baker said.
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Do Minor League Fans Have More Fun?
The Quad Cities River Bandits, a Cardinals Class A Affiliate, recently ran a fan contest for a crazy promotion idea. The 1st place winner, Bandit Wedding, will involve a couple getting married at the park. But my favorite is the 2nd place winner, Van Down By The River, in which an old beat-up van is placed just beyond the stadium's friendly confines. Fans will win the chance to sit in the van and watch the game, and if a home run ball strikes the van, they'll share a jackpot. Check out this sketch in case you aren't familiar with the origins of the "van down by the river" phrase.
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I think Minor League fans do have more fun. What a great promotion. I'll be see the River Bandits in May, so hopfully they'll have something wacky going on that night.


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My DD is 6 months on 2/9, and I'm seeking advice on how to get her to nurse more at each feeding (for her own sake - I don't mind nursing her every 2 hours!) so that she's not hungry so often.
As a newborn, she had some acid reflux issues, so I started feeding her one breast only at each feeding, alternating back and forth. I had read that this was a good way to help with making sure they get all of the hindmilk.
At her 4 month well appointment, I felt like her pediatrician looked at me like I was crazy when I told her I nurse her every 2 hours, just one breast at a time. She said, "she should be empyting both breasts at each feeding and should be feeding every 4 hours." She also said that she should be sleeping through the night with no problem. We still have 2-3 night wakings between 7 and 7. I love our ped - but I was very frustrated when we left. (She did, however, say to hold off on solids until 6 mos, which we have done, which I was happy about.) She was ranked in the 50th percentile for her weight at 4 months (13 lb, 6 oz).
Now that she's older, she'll still only take one breast at each feeding. The challenge is - she's getting smaller meals more frequently. I know that's better for us adults - but I hate to see her get hungry so often. I'd love to be able to feed her more at each feeding.
Maybe this is just normal for our girl? I just want to make sure I'm doing everything I can to make sure she's getting enough.
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The collapse sent people and vehicles into the water Thursday night. Authorities say there were no fatalities. The bridge, about an hour north of Seattle, lost its northernmost span — taking out all lanes in both directions.


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