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So I recently switched my Pure Energy tank reg over to low pressure. Everything went fine and dandy and I'm fairly certain I did everything right. However, after putting everything back together, the pin is very low, about a quarter inch down past the actual opening in the reg where the threads are. Obviously I had to drain the tank before switching the reg over. So is this normal for a drained tank to have the pin down that far, and it will just pop up and seal as soon as I get air in there? Or will I end up with my tank leaking like crazy...
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can you post a pic? usually when a pin is not high enough the pin valve spring may not be in the reg.
if you tip the reg upside down and look at the pin and it goes all the way forward where it should be but drops back down when you turn it right side up then you are missing the pin valve spring.
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Mary Lou Williams Centennial Celebrations Rise Again!
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I'm just back from the Mary Lou Williams Centennial Celebration in Madison, WI (where I lived from 1969-82). Mary Lou was briefly an Artist-in-Residence at UW Madison in 1976. Meeting/interviewing her then and immersing myself in her residency put me on my track. Thirty-some years later, it was my honor to participate in this celebration. Madison, by the way, remains one of the all-time hospitable cities - centered on an isthmus between two beautiful lakes - and the home of a dedicated jazz community.
From Fri through Sun, Howard Landsman and his committee hosted events around town, featuring the UW Hiphop Ensemble, The Music of Mary Lou Wms from 1929-78 presented by her mgr and the Director of the MLW Foundation - Fr Peter O'Brien, and a symposium with Profs Sherrie Tucker, Guy Ramsey, Ted Buehrer and Farrah Griffin. Both MLW biographers - Linda Dahl and Dr. Tammy Kernodle - were in town. On Saturday night at the Capitol Theater, the MLW Collective featuring Madison Poet Laureate Fabu, the magnificent Geri Allen on piano, Kenny Davis on bass, Kassa Overall (the nephew of the current WI Gov and his wife!) on drums, and guest vocalist Carmen Lundy. Everyone was great and all hail Geri. In the first half they presented MLW's Zodiac Suite from the 1940s, but what I loved most was "Peter's Blues" in the second half, animated by Geri's elbows.
On Sunday morning 8am at Mt Zion Baptist Church, the awesome Leotha Stanley (a committee member) conducted Mary Lou's Mass - a Catholic mass in a Baptist church. After briefly noting that slight mismatch, Stanley launched the choir into an excellent performance, not one bit less stunning than the celebratory May 2010 pfmnces at St. Francis Xavier in Greenwich Village and The Kennedy Center. WOW. Carmen Lundy's singing of the Lazarus story makes time stop for me. Professor George Shirley from the U of MI was the baritone soloist. Sitting in the balcony of this med sized, straightforward sanctuary and facing the choir and a single, modern stained glass window behind it, I had a slightly elevated perspective and felt the joy rising.
Prof Jimmy Cheatham of the UW Experimental Black Music Ensemble (1972-77) brought MLW to campus in '76. He has passed away, but his wife Jeannie Cheatham came from San Diego to enjoy and be honored by the City of Madison. On Sat night, some of the musicians (older now, like me) gathered to jam in Jimmy and Jeannie's honor. (That link leads you to the Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection, now online from the Marr Sound Archive at Univ of Missouri in Kansas City.) It was small with a lot of love. You could not ask for more.
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Madison, Palo Alto mayors make Rose Bowl wager
Losing city will organize tree planting
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and Palo Alto Mayor Yiaway Yeh have agreed to a Rose Bowl wager.
The Pac-12 champion Stanford Cardinals call Palo Alto home. The eighth-ranked Cardinals and Wisconsin Badgers kick off on Jan. 1 at 4 p.m. in the 99th annual Rose Bowl.
The losing mayor will wear the opposing team's hat during a Common Council meeting, and will display the flag of the winning team for a day in January.
The losing city will organize a tree planting in honor of the winning team.
"Any city can benefit from additional trees, and we're delighted that Mayor Yeh and the city of Palo Alto are going to provide them," Soglin said in a news release. "I think it's great that we can have fun with the game and provide a benefit to a community and I'm confident Barry and the Badgers will come through for us."
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Sentimental Sunday: A Love Story At A Burger King
I was feeling alone and separate. A stranger in town, engaged in solitary pursuit of remnants of lives long past. Museums, the library, and historical sites gave up bits and pieces of the stories I sought. At lunch I sat on a rock, a single figure gazing out on the Columbia, dreaming of Lewis and Clark, Indians and Emigrants landing at this estuary. Now I was again sitting alone for the second night in a row in BK, toying with the usual order, "grilled chicken salad, no dressing please."
I looked up from my mound of lettuce as a couple sat down in the adjoining yellow molded plastic booth. They appeared to be in their late 50's, or they might have been younger but had lived a hard life -- just an ordinary couple. She was wearing a polyester sweater that had an odd iridescent sheen to it, and her dyed, dull brown hair was pulled into a ponytail and fastened with a multicolored elastic tie like my granddaughter once wore. As the woman sat down, she turned around, smiled at me and gave me a friendly, "Hi."
The man, wearing a faded red western shirt with an equally faded Indian design across the front and the back, slumped into the booth. The shirt, unbuttoned and worn over a faded blue T-shirt, hung down below his belt. His blond scraggly beard, was not a long beard, but a beard that had been "tended to" for quite some time. Wisps of hair stuck out from the sides of his cap and from the back dangled a short blond stump of a ponytail. I kept staring at the baseball type cap he wore. I could make out the bucking horse embroidered across the front, but I couldn't see the writing well enough to read the words. In a few moments he got up to make his way to the restroom. His short-legged body was engulfed in over-sized Levis that nearly covered the cheap tennis shoes. As he turned to leave, I caught a flash of silver from under his shirt.
While he was gone, the woman turned to me and said, "He just got out of dialysis in the city. He has to go back 3 times a week."
I nodded. She waited for me to respond.
Groping for something to say, I blurted out, "That must be tough. Is he going to have a kidney transplant?"
"No. He doesn't want to be in the hospital that long."
"Mmm. I noticed the belt buckle he was wearing … ,"
"O yes, I bought that for buckle for him last year on his birthday. He rode bulls up north when he was just a young man. That belt buckle cost me over $100, but he is worth it. I love him so," she confided, her plastic earrings jiggling, earrings with 3 pink plastic hearts hanging one from another. She tossed her head and said with a pride as if the hearts were sterling silver, "He bought these for me. He loves me too."
As the man returned to the table, I found myself mesmerized by the gigantic silver belt buckle that was fastened below his paunch. The belt buckle was the size and shape of those given to rodeo champions. He nodded to me as he sat down, and the words on the baseball cap were now clear. The cap with the bucking horse was emblazoned with the words, "100 % COWBOY." He wore the buckle and the cap with pride. As he sat down, I noticed his hands. They were white and soft. Hands that had not held the riggin' rope of a bucking bull for a very long time.
The woman introduced herself as Sally, and her husband Leonard. We talked of southern Oregon as we discovered that was where we had both been raised. She told me the story of how her dad lost an arm at a sawmill. We talked of places we knew, of cowboys and loggers, and the way it was when we were young. They gave me directions I should follow in the morning, "Just go up and over the breaks."
Then her cell phone rang, and she talked a bit before handing the phone to Leonard. As he recounted his hospital stay into the cell phone, Sally turned back to me saying, "That's our foster daughter. She calls us Mom and Dad and her children call us Grandma and Grandpa. We don't have children of our own."
every night they said their prayers for him. Her face glowed with pride as she recounted the flowers, candy and cards with prayers that had been brought to his hospital room.
Leonard mumbled a "Goodbye." He looked up as he snapped the cell phone closed. "They were worried about me."
The two of them finally turned back to their burgers and fries, and I finished my chicken salad.
When I got up to leave, we exchanged warm good-byes, as though we were long time friends. I left BK no longer feeling alone and separate, but with a smile, a smile that touched my heart and soul. I had heard a love story, no fairy tale love story, but one lived day by day with plastic heart earrings and a huge silver belt buckle.
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What a wonderful love story and thank you for sharing it today--Valentine's Day!ReplyDelete
A perfect day to share such a wonderful love story, says Carol, as she chokes back the tears. Thank you Joan.ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh what a wonderful story! And how lucky you were to be able to share a moment in time with Leonard and Sally.ReplyDelete
What a lovely story! Thanks for sharing it on such an appropriate day.ReplyDelete
It's amazing how a chance encounter with strangers can have such an effect on us - lovely.ReplyDelete
It doesn't get any more real than that, does it? If we all could only be so lucky...ReplyDelete
"Whiping the tears away", .... what a beautiful story. Moments like that are so hard to come by. You made me remember a little couple I saw at wal-mart at Christmas. I will have to write a post now... Ps, Thanks for the comment also. Gave me and Idea for searching Greek family on Google mapsReplyDelete
That was a really lovely story, I actually have tears in my eyes! Thank you for sharing it and reminding me to take a look around me once in a while and actually SEE who is there!ReplyDelete
Thanks Joan for the lovely complement earlier today. I count my blessing every day and I know I am one of the lucky ones that at least had a moment to know what it was really like. By the way, hope you don't mind, but I made you my "Follow Friday" Post.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful and touching story...it restores your faith in love, and caring for each other. Thank you so much for sharing your experience and expressing it so beautifully here.ReplyDelete


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8-28-10 Progressive Field
I knew coming into today that it would be my final game for the month of August. To motivate myself to do well in August, I decided that I would try to break the one month record for most balls snagged in one month. That record was 138 balls, snagged by Zack Hample in August of 2008.
Coming into today I needed to snag three baseballs to break that record. I made the trip to Progressive Field solo, so I don't have any great pictures of my performance, but I'll do my best to illustrate the day.
I was probably about the seventh person in line. My motivation factor has been declining throughout the season, so I wasn't there hours before the gates opened to be first in line. I didn't even look to see if any of the other teams had taken batting practice.
Upon entering, apparently they did take batting practice because there were seven balls in the seats. I was able to get two of them in the front row in right center field. They were within a few feet of each other. Those two balls tied the one month record. I just needed one more.
It would come from Chris Perez.
Perez whistled and threw a ball in my direction. There were some other folks near me, so I'm not sure exactly who the intended target was, but it ended up landing about seven or eight rows back in a completely empty area. The ball must've hit an armrest on a chair because it took a fortuitous hop and landed in my row at my feet. That was ball #3 of the month, #139 of the month of August, and the record breaker.
I relaxed a bit and wasn't being real aggressive running after baseballs, despite the crowd looking like this as the Indians wrapped up their BP.
but I only spin PNC Park's prize wheel under the left field bleachers.
I left, taking home seven baseballs, which brought my total to the month to 143.
Here's a recap of my busy month of August. Click on any of the below links for a recap:
7- 8/28/10 Progressive Field
3 – 8/25/10 PNC Park
6 – 8/24/10 PNC Park
7 – 8/23/10 PNC Park
1 – 8/22/10 PNC Park
5 – 8/21/10 PNC Park
7 – 8/20/10 PNC Park
4 – 8/19/10 PNC Park
7 – 8/18/10 PNC Park
6 – 8/17/10 PNC Park
10- 8/16/10 PNC Park
6 – 8/13/10 Progressive Field
5 – 8/12/10 Progressive Field
4 – 8/10/10 Progressive Field
8 – 8/9/10 Camden Yards
5 – 8/8/10 PNC Park
10- 8/7/10 PNC Park
6 – 8/6/10 PNC Park
8 – 8/5/10 PNC Park
5 – 8/4/10 Camden Yards
10- 8/3/10 PNC Park
13- 8/2/10 PNC Park
Total: 143 balls in 22 games = 6.5 per game
This likely is my last game at Progressive Field this year.
Today's baseballs:
Sweet spots:
Game: 7 balls ( 1 hit, 3 thrown, 3 found )
Season: 494 balls (240 hit, 113 thrown, 72 device, 69 found)
Games: 77 games
Average: 6.42 balls per game
2010 Game Balls: 5
Career: 1,072 balls
Streak: 173 consecutive games attended with at least 1 ball snagged.
Attendance: 16,372
Balls in the month of August: 143 (new record)
Balls needed to break single season record: 50
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Great job! I'm especially impressed with the Kendall ball because this summer, I finally saw firsthand how difficult it is to get a ball in those sections because of the ushers. I guess you can breathe easy now with the monthly record!
It was great getting to meet you at this game. I have to mention that I'm in the photo you took of the "crowd". I'm next to the bald guy with the little girl on the very left of the pic. Anyways, just so you know, I was shutout this game. That concrete in the wall where a gap should be threw off my game some. Oh well, congrats on the one month record. Hopefully you can break your own record someday.
It is difficult to get balls at 6, because the ushers do a great job of thoroughly searching the seats. I was lucky because the Kendall ball hit after they had done their sweeps. Now I just have to try and get 544, which might be tough.
It was nice running into you too. That gap throws me off too. There's still no place like your home stadium, I'm by far the most comfortable at PNC Park. Sorry you didn't get a ball, but it was cool that you got to hang out with your family.


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"Nuclear Collisions: Discord, Reform & the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime"
Paper, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
April 2012
Authors: Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Wael Al-Assad, Jayantha Dhanapala, C. Raja Mohan, Ta Minh Tuan
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International legal regimes depend on consent. Making and enforcing rules requires that states accept legal limits on their behavior and that they allow their behavior to be audited by some enforcement body. International legal scholar Michael Glennon offers a clear articulation of the volitional nature of international legal regimes:
The international legal system cannot compel a state to subscribe to a rule unless it consents to do so. It cannot adjudicate the application of a rule to a state unless the state has accepted the jurisdiction of the tribunal to apply the rule. It cannot enforce a rule against a state unless the state has consented to the rule's enforcement.1
Even when states have accepted a set of rules, Glennon further elaborates, they still have the option of withdrawing their consent. The viability, durability, and adaptability of treaty regimes, therefore, depend on the attitudes and perceptions of the states that participate in the arrangement. Without assent from member states, a treaty regime cannot survive or adapt. The problem of consent is particularly challenging in the context of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and its associated regime. This regime has an oddly schizophrenic history. On the one hand, it has attracted nearly universal membership, its critical importance is routinely acknowledged, it has proven to be durable and resilient across four challenging decades, and it is given at least some credit for helping prevent the widespread proliferation of nuclear weapons. On the other hand, it is chronically troubled, beset by crises and setbacks and possible defections, amidst fears for its future and doubts about its adequacy.
Precisely because of its perceived value as an impediment to the spread of nuclear weapons, there has long been worry about the wounds the NPT regime has suffered and the threats to its health and long-term durability. Writing more than a decade ago in the aftermath of the 1998 Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests, Joseph Cirincione lauded the "remarkable" performance of the NPT system; but he lamented, "The regime has sustained serious setbacks and defeats; there may very well be more in the near future; and there remains a distinct possibility of a catastrophic collapse of the regime."2 Thus the paradox of the NPT: crucial but fragile, resilient but menaced, effective but potentially inadequate.
Today the NPT regime is widely regarded as a system in distress. It is commonly described as troubled, jeopardized, derailed, unravelingeroding under the pressure of unresolved compliance crises, inadequate enforcement, diplomatic friction and distrust, spreading nuclear technology, and member-state dissatisfaction. There are mounting concerns about the regime's effectiveness as a barrier to the proliferation of nuclear weapons. To many, the failure of the NPT system to prevent North Korea's acquisition of nuclear weapons and to resolve the endless controversy over Iran's advancing nuclear program is a disturbing symptom of the imperfection of the regime....
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1. Michael J. Glennon, The Fog of Law: Pragmatism, Security, and International Law (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010), 135.
2. Joseph Cirincione, "Historical Overview and Introduction," in Repairing the Regime: Preventing the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction, ed. Joseph Cirincione (New York: Routledge, 2000), 5.
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On a recent trip to Africa, I met a man. A man named "John" who is living positively with HIV and even AIDS.
- A man who watched his wife of 35 years die of AIDS-related causes.
- A man who has nine children, all born again.
- A man who has known his status for four years but hasn't been deterred.
- A man who boldly stood in front of my camera when I wanted to respect his privacy but still get a photo of his humble and dilapidated dwelling.
This man with a gaunt face but beautiful eyes shook my hand strongly and with great confidence.
He shared with me his story, one that brought him from finding out his status to living and breathing today as a positive, incredibly inspiring story of someone who has decided to live his life with thanks, not fear.
When I asked John what he wanted others to know about HIV or being HIV positive, he said that everyone should be tested and that AIDS is still a killer disease. He said that if you test positive, you should not fear, for fear will only exacerbate the illness.
John is being helped by Compassion in many ways: by support of his multiple income-generating projects, which include selling used clothing and small foods as well as ironing others' garments.
He is given other support as needed based on the child development center's close communication with him. He seems to be a proud man, not ashamed of his circumstances, and very grateful for what the Church and Compassion are doing to help him.
Though we all come from different backgrounds and bring a wide spectrum of abilities to our work, we all comprise a body of Christ helping a man named John. A man that most of us will never meet but who many of us will be impacted by as we gain energy from his story.
John has two children in Compassion's programs. Two boys who are benefiting both directly through our programs and indirectly because their father is getting much needed support through the AIDS Initiative.
How could these two boys succeed with an ailing father who doesn't get the help that he needs? We are helping this man to live so that his sons may focus on their education and future pursuits. A win-win if you ask me.
So please be encouraged that the AIDS Initiative you work to support in a multitude of ways is working quite well and being carried out in the most unique ways with some of God's most cherished children, those living with HIV and AIDS. Your support allows the AIDS Initiative to be integrated into our programs in Africa.
Thank you for having the patience that I find myself lacking at times; the lack of patience that is embarrassing to admit when standing face to face with those who are HIV positive and have more than I will ever have.
I felt terribly honored to be in that small stuffy room with John, learning about his faith and his life. I felt that I was truly standing on sacred ground.


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On top of Hawaii's tallest building are sets of red flashing lights that are checked every night to make sure airplanes know how far away they are from the rooftop.
The First Hawaiian Bank building is 429 feet tall.
It is sometimes called the credit card building because of its slender tower.
That's a profile that the Hawaii Community Development Authority envisions for the increased density in Kaka'ako.
Click here to see the Transit Oriented Development Plan.
The city's current height limit is 400 feet.
A few exceed that.
But new buildings in Kaka'ako could dwarf it. At least three new proposals call for 700 foot towers.
"We didn't say double it, go to 800, but we said that is a practical limit that's what we are feeling," said HCDA executive director Tony Ching.
The Honolulu chapter of the Architects Institute of America hasn't taken a position on a height limit.
Some say the Kaka'ako height limit proposals are "willy-nilly."
"Right now there is too much ad hoc calling out of a new height limit, with no look at the overall skyline and what you are creating," said Scott Wilson.
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Back the 1920's the Aloha Tower used to be the tallest building.
The iconic art deco structure created quite a stir in its day.
But now from the top of the tallest building, it's looking up at so many others.
The AIA says at one point, the idea was to keep height limits between 300 to 400 feet high.
That's well below the Diamond Head profile which stands at 761 feet high.
The thinking back then?
"Let's protect our views of Diamond Head. Obviously keeping it roughly half the height of Diamond Head really works. Diamond Head really stands out," said Wilson.
But HCDA says there's a positive tradeoff.
For example, to get a skyscraper at the Neal Blaisdell Center, developers might have to make-over the arena and the concert hall.
"The notion is, we need to give some sort of premium, some sort of value that would give them some sort of incentive," Ching said.
He points to a map of areas in green where he said higher residential high-rises could work.
"Not the whole district seemingly changing everything, but maintaining what is there, and showing that this is the area that logically we should be covering," Ching said.
HCDA released a proposed vision for Transit Oriented Development in the Kaka'ako area Thursday.
It will hold the first of four open house meetings on the TOD proposal on Thursday starting at 5:30 p.m. at its Cooke street office.


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March 29, 2011 —
Coalition supports revised flow management
UPPER DELAWARE RIVER VALLEY — A coalition of key conservation groups has joined to back one of the proposals being considered by the Delaware River Basin Commission to replace the current Flexible Flow Management Plan (FFMP) for managing flows in the river.
The alternative supported by the new coalition, the Delaware Watershed Conservation Coalition, is the Joint Fishery White Paper drawn up last year by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation and Pennsylvania
Fish and Boat Commission.
The Delaware Watershed Conservation Coalition includes Friends of the Upper Delaware River, Trout Unlimited National, New Jersey State Council of Trout Unlimited, New York State Council of Trout Unlimited, Pennsylvania State Council of Trout Unlimited, Theodore Gordon Fly Fishers, the Federation of Flyfishers and Wild Trout Flyrodders. Other groups are expected to join.
Solar farm proposed in Fallsburg
SOUTH FALLSBURG, NY — Fallsburg supervisor Steven Vegliante traveled to Albany recently to garner support for an ambitious green energy project at the town's long shuttered and debt-laden landfill. The proposal would transform the landfill into a solar farm with the potential of providing up to nine megawatt hours of electricity to two adjacent prisons and a potential centralized municipal complex. A megawatt hour of electricity is capable of serving up to 1,000 homes.
Already having the full support of The Solar Energy Consortium and Congressman Maurice Hinchey, the project has now gained the support of Senator John J. Bonacic, Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther, Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry, chairman of the Assembly Committee on Corrections and Senator Michael Nozzolio, chairman of the Senate Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections.
The project would require agreements by the Department of Corrections to purchase the electricity at the current market rate for the bonding life of the project and for the Department of Corrections and Town to come to amenable terms on the transfer of the now closed Sullivan County Annex to the Town of Fallsburg, which would be developed into a municipal complex.
Lee Hoiby dies at 85
NEW YORK CITY, NY — Composer and area resident Lee Hoiby died on March 28, 2011 at Montefiore Hospital following a short illness. He was 85.
Hoiby's works include operas, oratorios, choral works, concerti, chamber works, song cycles and more than 100 songs, many of them championed by such singers as Leontyne Price, Frederica von Stade and Marilyn Horne.
Hoiby, born in Madison, WI on February 17, 1926, was one of America's most prominent composers of works for the lyric stage. His setting of Tennessee Williams' "Summer and Smoke" (with libretto by Lanford Wilson) was declared "the finest American opera to date" following its world premiere. The 40th anniversary of the debut of this landmark American opera was celebrated with a new production at the Manhattan School of Music in December, 2010, attended by Hoiby. Locally, the Weekend of Chamber Music performed his work several times, including the "Last Letter Home" in 2007.
Hoiby is survived by his partner and longtime collaborator Mark Shulgasser. A memorial service at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine will be held on a date to be announced.
Nominations open for school board
SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY — Petitions are now available for nominating school board members for the Sullivan West School District election to be held on May 17. There are two seats with three-year terms starting on July 1, currently occupied by Angela Daley and Mary K. Scheutzow; a term of three-plus years starting on May 18, currently occupied by Brian Grady; and a term of two-plus years starting on May 18 to fill the remainder of the unexpired term of Richard Tegnander, whose seat is currently occupied by appointee Joan Glase.
Petitions are available in the district office in Jeffersonville between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Petitions for nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education must be filed with the clerk of the district by 5 p.m., Monday, April 18.
The Board of Registration will meet at each of the election districts on April 6 and May 11 between the hours of 4 and 8 p.m. for the purpose of registering qualified voters of the school district. Locations are the Delaware Youth Center for District 1, the Jeffersonville building for District 2 and the Tusten-Cochecton Library for District 3.


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NFL linebacker Maiava, brother facing charges
National Football League linebacker Kaluka Maiava and his brother Ilima Maiava have been charged with assaulting two men and damaging property at a Kihei bar.
Complaints filed last month in Wailuku District Court allege that the assault and property damage occurred March 17 at Life's a Beach in Kihei Kalama Village. Both Maiavas are charged with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, and fourth-degree criminal property damage, a petty misdemeanor.
The two are scheduled to appear in Wailuku District Court on July 25 to respond to the complaint, which was served July 2, according to the Maui County prosecutor's office.
Kaluka Maiava's agent, Kenny Zuckerman, said he had no comment Tuesday.
Kaluka Maiava, 27, of Wailuku signed a three-year, $6 million contract with the Oakland Raiders on March 13. Before that, he played four seasons for the Cleveland Browns.
The 2005 Baldwin High School graduate played in four Rose Bowls for the University of Southern California.
The 5-foot-11, 229-pound linebacker was a second-team All-Pacific-12 Conference selection in 2008, his senior season, and defensive MVP of the 2009 Rose Bowl before being drafted by the Browns in the fourth round of the 2009 NFL draft, 104th overall.
He is one of two Maui Interscholastic League athletes ever drafted by an NFL team.
Ilima Maiava, 30, of Waipahu, Oahu, has fought in local mixed martial arts events and is the oldest of three Maiava brothers.
Kaluka and Ilima Maiava are the grandsons of former professional wrestler Neff Maiava, and nephews of actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
* Staff Writer Robert Collias contributed to this report. Lila Fujimoto can be reached at email@example.com.


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This presents a tactical opportunity for the opposition to push in the scrum and win the ball, or at least disrupt the feeding/attacking side.
There is no law of "uncontested scrums" in RL, it is simply how tactics have developed - primarily driven by the conservation of energy as the feed has been allowed to move back to the second row.
Forcing the feed back in the middle of the scrum would just mean teams started pushing again - and still the feeding team would win the ball almost every time as they would cancel each other out, just at a greater energy cost.
This scenario might lead to a change in forwards' skill sets towards pushing and heaving, and away from smashing the ball up and smashing the ball carrier.
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Upgrading and deprecating
Sad things are happening in the Perl world. Sebastian Riedel has deprecated Perl 5.8.x support in Mojolicious without even saying why this was necessary. Despite admiring Sebastian for all the work he does and also his artistic capabilities on alternative Perl logos, I despise this step as extremely ill-advised and damaging to the whole Perl community.
In general, every software used by anyone else needs deprecation policies. If you throw a feature away, you have to announce it and make everything in your power to ease the migration pain for your users. A lot of sensible software employs a two-major-versions deprecation policy: if you deprecate some functionality in major version X, you add a warning and a migration recommendation in major version X+1 and remove the feature completely in major release X+2.
As opposed to other languages, Perl the language and Perl the
community has been extremely backwards-compatible for a long time
now. Quote
chromatic from "Modern Perl":
Perl 5's design process in 1993 and 1994 tried to anticipate new
directions for the language, but it's impossible to predict the
future. Perl 5 added many great new features, but it also kept
compatibility with the previous seven years of Perl 1 through Perl
4. Sixteen years later, the best way to write clean, maintainable,
powerful, and succinct Perl 5 code is very different from Perl
5.000. The default behaviors sometimes get in the way;
fortunately, better behaviors are available.
Anyone remember the Date::Manip disaster? I do and it has been an extremely bad move. It's all the same for Mojolicious: it's the fate of the libraries to support the lowest common determinator of all available platforms and a web framework is just such a library. The only question is: what do we consider an "available platform"?
The obvious reply is: take current distributions and look at the available options. That includes Linux distributions, both desktop and enterprise, Windows and a whole lot of other operating systems and hardware platform on which Perl can run. We'd probably arrive at 5.8 and 5.10 sharing the lead and 5.6 and 5.12 somewhat in the backseat.
A lot of Perl code runs in closed corporate environments and thus has
to obey some rules, like using special software distributions, so
unsurpisingly, a big chunk of those 5.8ers are enterprise Linux
distributions like RHEL or SLES. However, just like
Hacker News, where seemingly everyone
assumes you are a start-up founder and thus free to go with all the
current bells and whistles, Perl community started actively ignoring
those distributions, proposing to "just upgrade your Perl / install
perlbrew" when confronted with a problem instead of handling it in a
sensible way. This is obviously wrong, since each developer is in a
different situation.
My previous Perl project has been in a medium-sized department at a big electronics and IT company. It consisted of big chunks of legacy Perl code deployed as part of bigger internal website on RHEL5 servers. Developers had their freedoms, as long as certain constraints were fullfilled like not breaking the code of others (e.g. the big framework that was been wrapped around our code) and deploying with RPM packages. Thus, we could happily innovate and so I introduced Moose and many other modern Perl modules which have helped to clean that mess up.
Now, fast forward to today. Even then, I would have been happy to introduce at least some kind of web framework instead of the CGI-based mess we had then. Catalyst has obviously been on my plate for some time and today I would probably have considered Mojolicious for the task. However: being able to run it on Perl 5.8.x would have been a MUST, not a CAN feature.
Now consider this: companies buy enterprise products to get support. RedHat in provides seven years of support. RHEL3 (Perl 5.8) has been supported until October 31st 2010. RHEL4 (Perl 5.8) will be supported until February 29th 2012. End of March 2014 is when RHEL5 (Perl 5.8) will be officially dead. By comparison: Windows XP, first out in 2001 will be supported until April 2014. RHEL6 (Perl 5.10) will be supported until 2017. Which version of Perl will Mojolicious support then? Considering yearly Perl releases, probably only 2.20 upwards, since 2.24 will be current then.
So are the "evil big corporations" at fault here? Not at all. Perl 5.8 has been released in 2002 and as you see, RHEL3, released a year later, has catched up and delivered 5.8. RHEL4 and RHEL5 have seen minor Perl updates, since no major updates for Perl came out in that time. Perl 5.10 appeared half a year after RHEL5 released, so it hasn't been included, Perl 5.12 has appeared roundabout at the same time as RHEL6 beta, so only 5.10 could have been shipped. So why does the community bitch so much about enterprise distributions if Perl itself doesn't release often enough to get current software into them?
We, the programmers, always say "Don't change a running system". In
that project I worked in, nobody in their right mind would have
allowed me to uprade RHEL5 to 6 even if it has been available at the
time. Even RHEL5 has been rather fresh, many of the servers still ran
RHEL4 or even RHEL3. Nobody in their right mind would have allowed
perlbrew on production servers. Nobody in their right mind would
allow me to allocate hours and days of developers' and testers' time
to retest everything with the newest Perl version (you don't seriously
assume legacy code had any amount of reasonable regression tests?)
The corporate world, which either still is or has been extremely Perl-friendly in the past, often needs to have some kind of long-term strategy, which for many has been Perl for years or even decades. Instead of supporting and cherishing that valuable connection, parts of Perl community has just decided to say a big "fuck you!" to all of those who try to create great software in restricted environments, those who try to persuade their bosses not to move to Java or .NET, because Perl makes them much more productive, to all those people who have considered using Mojolicious, to all of those who actually have. And all of those who complain get ignored, while uttering something about moving more stuff to 5.10 just to piss off all of 5.8 users.
Perl as a language is dependant on those walled gardens. Perl as a community is perfectly capable of taking care for those stuck with an older version. But obviously some people couldn't care less and think that everything runs with HTML5 on websockets in the cloud nowadays and that everyone can and will upgrade whenever a fresh version of whatever software comes out.
It just doesn't work this way. And it's sad that some people in the community think it could.
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As have many community newspaper websites across the nation, www.mySouTex.com installed a paywall on Wednesday, Aug. 28.
Much of the site's content will remain accessible to all outside the paywall – including videos, classified ads, banner ads, blogs, contests, section pages and more.
Subscribers and nonsubscribers alike will be able to browse the section pages such as sports or obituary pages for each of our communities and read the headlines and at least the first paragraph of the stories. It is only when wanting to read the whole story that readers will either have to login or subscribe for a day, three months or for a year.
We believe www.mySouTex.com provides unique coverage of the people in a six-county region of South Texas that otherwise receive little to no coverage.
At the end of the day, our reporters want to be paid for their work product and, indeed, deserve to be paid. In small markets across the nation, the free access business model hasn't proven itself sustainable on a widespread basis.
We, Beeville Publishing Company, recognize that there are now many ways for readers to receive the news. Toward that end, we offer our traditional newspaper products, our e-editions, and www.mySouTex.com online and in mobile form.
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September 03, 2013
It shouldn't cost to opine!
September 03, 2013
I will look into the issues. The issue with the comments will be a little more difficult. That has to do with the back-end coding of the site. The other issue should be a little easier to fix.
August 30, 2013
A few glitches, like clicking a comment and being directed to sign-in to see the blog the comment goes to. Also after sign-in directs to page not found (gotta click real fast before redirect). Both happening on PC and mobile. Other than that, OK.
August 30, 2013
Thank you for discussing this issue with the publishers. I may disagree with their decision, particularly on the LTTE since it will probably discourage people to contact the editor, but respect the decision that was made.
I hope that the people who take the time to write a LTTE will take the time to also post it as a blog so that it is available as open content for discussion.
August 30, 2013
Both letters to the editor and the editorials will remain behind the paywall. Both require labor on the part of staff here and therefor should remain as paid items.
As always though, blogs will remain free to anyone wishing to post, view or comment them.
August 29, 2013
I will discuss the issue of Letters to the Editor and the editorials with the publishers on Friday.
August 29, 2013
I would also like to add that if LTTE are behind the paywall, then in essence you are asking for people to pay for work that was not produced by anyone affiliated with mysoutex. Or in other words, mysoutex is receiving 100% profit on the work produced by outside sources.
By placing the LTTE behind a paywall, it also limits the discussion of those letters in the comments section which in effect drives away Web traffic from the overall Website.
Thanks again for investigating a resolution to these issues.
August 29, 2013
I understand the reasoning about putting premium news content of the reporters behind a paywall.
However, are the editorials by Chip and Jeff also considered to be premium content residing behind a paywall? Does anybody at mySouTex actually believe that someone would pay to read opinion articles of the editors on any issue? Like I stated earlier, I understand the reasoning about paying the reporters for news stories--but paying the publishers for editorials seems a bit absurd. If the publishers want to convey an opinion piece, then it should be open to all readers.
The same comment also applies to the LTTE. They are also behind the paywall.
I hope that the software can be reconfigured so the opinion columns are openly displayed; otherwise, the opinion articles will probably not receive any attention which is a disservice to the writers of those columns.
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British people are wrong about everything: here's why
People are wildly wrong when we ask them about many aspects of life in Britain, as shown in a new survey by Ipsos MORI for the Royal Statistical Society and King's College London.
"We think one in four of the entire population is Muslim (5% in reality). We believe 31% are immigrants (the official figure is 13%). We have an extraordinary view of teenage girls, believing that on average 15% under the age of 16 get pregnant each year (0.6% in reality). We think £24 out every £100 of benefit spend is claimed fraudulently (it's actually 70p). We think crime is rising (it's been falling for years). And we're more likely to pick out foreign aid as a top item of expenditure than state pensions (we spend 9-10 times more on pensions)."


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The Wisconsin Humane Society offers a story time for children ages 2-4 years.
Milwaukee Campus Story Time is every 3rd Thursday of the month (between September and May) from 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
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In a career that spanned more than fifty years, Philadelphia-born Sidney Lumet defied genre boundaries, resisted Hollywood's edict of moral simplicity, and silenced the chorus of critics that claimed his best work was behind him by making 2007's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. He directed it all: courtroom dramas (The Verdict); Motown musicals (The Wiz); tales of big-city corruption (Prince of the City); literary adaptations (of work by Eugene O'Neill, Anton Chekov, Agatha Christie, and others); and heist movies (Dog Day Afternoon).
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Floods That Ravaged Colo. Might Help Drought-Hit Farmland
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Originally published on September 25, 2013 6:03 pm
The damage from flooding in Colorado is immense. As the raging rivers overflowed, they spilled into low-lying farm and ranch land wrecking costly equipment, dismantling irrigation systems and stranding livestock. In the near future, it'll be hard for farmers to remain optimistic. Still, as the waters recede, there may be a silver lining to the excess rain further down the line.


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August 31, 2006
Mr. Thomas M. Dowd
Bureau of Indian Education
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20240
Dear Mr. Dowd:
I am writing in response to our ongoing conversations regarding the approval of the Bureau of Indian Education's accountability plan under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). I appreciate the Bureau of Indian Education's efforts to meet the Title I requirements and your responsiveness to making changes as a result of the external peer review of the Bureau of Indian Education's accountability plan. In consideration of these changes, the Bureau of Indian Education's accountability plan is fully approved and will be posted on the Department's website.
As required by section 1111(b)(2) of Title I, the Bureau of Indian Education must implement its accountability plan to identify schools and school districts in need of improvement and to implement section 1116 of Title I. If, over time, the Bureau of Indian Education makes changes to its approved accountability plan, you must submit information about those changes to the Department for approval, as required by section 1111(f)(2) of Title I.
Please also be aware that approval of the Bureau of Indian Education's accountability plan for Title I does not indicate that the plan complies with Federal civil rights requirements, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and requirements under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
I am confident that the Bureau of Indian Education will continue to advance its efforts to hold bureau-funded schools accountable for the achievement of all students. I wish you well in your efforts to leave no child behind.
Henry L. Johnson


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Yes, it's common to not always feel your milk let-down. Some women never feel it, other's feel it each and every time. I asked because I was wondering if perhaps your baby's fussiness was because your let-down is delayed. Babies tend to get impatient if it takes too longI typically feel the milk let down within a minute or so - although very occasionally I don't feel it. Is that normal?
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Alpha Centauri was an inhabited trinary star system in the Alpha Quadrant located less than 5 light years from Sol. This system consisted of three companion stars, Alpha Centauri A, B and Proxima Centauri also known as Alpha Centauri C. (TNG: "The Naked Now", display graphic; TNG: "Conspiracy", set artwork; ENT: "Twilight")
In the early 22nd century, an Earth colony, the Alpha Centauri colony, was established in this system. A major city of this colony was the Alpha Centauri City. (TNG: "The Neutral Zone", display graphic)
The location of the Alpha Centauri system was depicted on two Federation star charts. A large star chart depicted the explored areas of the Milky Way Galaxy in 2293. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, production art) It was also seen in a viewscreen chart displayed by the USS Enterprise-D library computer. (TNG: "The Naked Now", display graphic)
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When James T. Kirk was captured in 1969 on Earth, and questioned on who he was by Lieutenant Colonel Fellini, a member of the US Air Force Air Police at the US 498th Airbase Group, Kirk explained that "the truth is, I'm a little green man from Alpha Centauri, a beautiful place. You ought to see it." (TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday")
The Alpha Centauri colony was founded as an outpost on this planet in the early 22nd century. Over the decades, the colony grew in size and importance. Among its residents in this formative period was Zefram Cochrane, who moved to the system from Earth sometime following his historic test flight of the Phoenix in 2063. He left the system after 2119 for an unknown destination. (ENT: "Future Tense")
This planet was one of Earth's most important trade partners in the early days of Human interstellar exploration. It was one of the earliest colonies established, along with the Terra Nova colonies and the Vega colony. Eventually, the University of Alpha Centauri was founded on this planet. (TOS: "Metamorphosis", TNG: "Qpid", ENT: "Twilight")
Centauri VII was once the home of the artist Taranullus. Original prints of his creation lithographs were rare antiques by 2269.(TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")
In 2269, Kirk argued in favor of having Sargon and his companions take over the bodies of the crew, and emphasized the benefits that it might possibly have on mankind, he explained, "they used to say if man could fly, he'd have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the moon or that we hadn't gone on to Mars or the nearest star?" (TOS: "Return to Tomorrow")
In 2338, Starfleet science officer Greta Vanderweg was born in the Alpha Centauri system. (DS9: "Field of Fire")
After the Dominion invaded and conquered Betazed in 2374, many believed Alpha Centauri could be their next target. (DS9: "In the Pale Moonlight")
In an alternate timeline, caused by the death of Gabriel Bell in 2024, Romulan transmissions were detected in the vicinity of Alpha Centauri in 2371. (DS9: "Past Tense, Part I")
In another alternate timeline, the Xindi destroyed all Human outposts they could find, after destroying Earth, including the ones located on Mars, Alpha Centauri and Vega colony in 2154. (ENT: "Twilight")
|Alpha Centauri system
|Alpha Centauri A • Alpha Centauri B • Proxima Centauri
|Centauri VII • Proxima colony
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In the episode "Terra Nova", the first Earth-like planet identified by Human astronomers in the 2060s was located in a system that was 20 light years from the Sol system. This would suggest that the planet in Alpha Centauri might not be Earth-like.
According to Startrek.com, Alpha Centauri (Proxima) was located about 4.3 light years from Sol. [1] According to Star Fleet Technical Manual, the Concordium of Planets, located in the Alpha Centauri system, was a founding member of the United Federation of Planets. According to The Worlds of the Federation, the seventh planet in the system was the homeworld of a group of Humans, called Centaurians. Evidence was found that they were in fact originally Greeks transplanted to the planet in 3rd century BC.
The association of Alpha Centauri as the fifth founding member was also referenced in the "It's Federation Day!" newspaper article, created as background material for Star Trek Generations.
According to Star Trek: Star Charts (pgs. 19, 36, 45, "United Federation of Planets I", "United Federation of Planets IV"), in the early 22nd century, an Earth colony was founded on a M-class world in this system. This world had the same name as the system. In 2120, Zefram Cochrane departed from Alpha Centauri on his final voyage. In the mid-22nd century, Alpha Centauri was a destination on the Earth trade routes. The colony traded with Earth and Vulcan. Alpha Centauri became a Federation founding member in 2161. In 2378, Alpha Centauri was a member planet. The Alpha Centauri system was located in or near Federation space. Alpha Centauri A was a G-class star with a magnitude of +5, which was the same brightness of Sol. Alpha Centauri B was a K-class star. This system was located in Sector 002 also known as the Alpha Centauri sector, the second sector to be explored by Earth ships.
The chart naming stars within 20 light years of Sol was originally drawn by Rick Sternbach for the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology in the late 1970s. Found on page 77, this chart showed Earth commercial and exploration routes after the use of warp drive began. Alpha Centauri A was the destination on a major commercial route. This chart was, also, seen in the episodes "The Last Outpost" and "Conspiracy".
Alpha Centauri was misspelled as "Alpha Centuri" in the "The Explored Galaxy" star chart graphic seen in "Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country". In the "The Explored Galaxy" star chart Alpha Centauri was located between the Tholian Assembly and Romulus. Both locations were identified in DS9: "Call to Arms" as being located in the Alpha Quadrant..
In the real world, in 2012, astronomers announced the discovery of an extrasolar planet of comparable size to Earth orbiting close to Alpha Centauri B. The discovery strengthened the possibility that other Earth-like planets may exist in the system. Alpha Centauri Bb
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The novel Articles of the Federation also established that Alpha Centauri was the fifth founding member of the Federation, along with Earth, Vulcan, Andoria, and Tellar.
William Shatner's Mirror Universe Trilogy (Spectre, Dark Victory, and Preserver) suggested that Zefram Cochrane lived on Alpha Centauri IV, likewise his mirror counterpart lived on the mirror Alpha Centauri IV. Spock and his counterpart compared and contrasted the histories of the two universe and realized that the differences in the naming a lake on the planet (Lake Sloane in the primary universe, Lake Riker in the mirror universe) suggested that first contact may have been the point of divergence between the universes and that the divergence may have been caused by the presence of the Borg and the USS Enterprise-E, a possibility disproved by "In a Mirror, Darkly".
According to the PC CD-ROM game Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, the 2160s-era Cochrane-500 Fusion Drive was manufactured on Alpha Centauri. These engines were well made and still in use a century later.
In the FASA role playing game the Alpha Centaurians were the first extraterrestrial civilization Humans encounter. The historic meeting occurred in 2042 when the Earth's United Nations space craft, the UNSS Icarus, utilizing a Bussard collector, arrived in the Alpha Centauri system. In 2048, Zefram Cochrane, an Alpha Centarian, sent his warp drive discovery to Earth. This contrasts with Star Trek canon material, which establishes that Cochrane was an Earth-born Human.
Like in the FASA game, the Last Unicorn role playing game and the Decipher RPG, Alpha Centauri was already inhabited by a humanoid species when Terran explorers first ventured there in 2066. The Terrans traded their warp drive technology for Centaurian terraforming technology, to repair Earth's shattered ecosystem in the aftermath of World War III.
External links Edit
- Alpha Centauri at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey won the election last fall in large measure by pledging to clean up operations in the office. Many voters were simply fed up with the shenanigans that occurred – costing taxpayers millions of dollars – under former Attorney General Darrell McGraw.
Once he took office earlier this year, Morrisey moved swiftly and decisively to reform the office. Now, he is proposing changes in how the attorney general hires and handles outside counsel – that is, private attorneys whose expertise may be needed in some matters handled by Morrisey's office.
Under McGraw, a few private attorneys raked in millions of dollars in contingency fees for their work in lawsuits filed by the attorney general. They were chosen by McGraw and, perhaps, a few of his aides. It turned out some of the outside attorneys had been political supporters and sometimes donors to McGraw's campaigns.
Morrisey has proposed a new policy for hiring outside counsel and is seeking public comment on it. His goal is to implement the policy this summer.
At the heart of Morrisey's proposal is a requirement that a competitive bidding process be used to select outside counsel. Also important is a provision that the attorney general must provide written explanations of precisely why outside attorneys are needed to supplement the efforts and expertise of his agency's staff. And finally, the proposed policy sets limits on how much outside attorneys can collect in contingency fees.
It is an excellent plan. But, as you might expect from any policy written by a group of lawyers, it is full of qualifications and limitations. For example, because swift action sometimes is needed in lawsuits, Morrisey's plan envisions a "pre-bidding process" whereby a list of "pre-approved attorneys" can be maintained for use in emergencies.
Still, Morrisey's plan is a good one. It establishes at least some controls on use of outside counsel, and should be adopted.
Transparency will be the key to whether the new plan satisfies taxpayers made cynical by McGraw, however. Morrisey's plan contains much of that ("pre-approved" outside counsel will be listed on the attorney general's website). If additional steps in that regard are suggested during the public comment period, Morrisey should adopt them.


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text: Life on earth is at its most diverse in the tropics, and the Kimberley region is no exception. Birds, mammals, reptiles, fish and invertebrates are abundant. From fruit bats, crocodiles, pythons and frilled neck lizards to archerfish, barramundi and termite colonies, the Kimberley is bursting with an array of exotic wildlife. Seeing this kind of wildlife in their native habitat is an unforgettable experience. To share it with others on a guided tour perhaps even more so. However, due to the heat many of the wild animals move from their shelters after sundown and are not easily seen during the day. Wallabies and termites in the Kimberley are the equivalent of the hoofed herbivores of Africa. Termites feed on plant fibre and build their mounds from excreta, soil and saliva. The diversity of invertebrates, such as the termites and other ants, attracts specialist predators like the echidna and an abundance of skinks and other lizards. Learn about the TOP 20 birds in El Questro Wilderness Park (PDF)


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Both forecasts are in close agreement.
The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center expects six to 11 named storms forming between now and the Nov. 30 end of the season.
Of those, three to six are expected to become hurricanes and, of those, two to three are forecast to become major storms, category three or above.
The CSU team, led by Dr. William Gray, predicts 11 named storms, of which three will become hurricanes and two will develop into major storms.
The CSU team predicts tropical cyclone activity for the remainder of the 2012 season will be about 90 percent of the average, noting that last year registered 145 percent of the average season.
Both forecast teams have slightly increased their forecasts issued at the start of the season.
"There are competing factors influencing our forecast," explained NOAA's Dr. Gerry Bell in a telephone news conference Thursday morning.
"The sea surface temperatures are above normal in the Gulf and the Atlantic," he said. "This increases the chances for storm development."
But that is offset by the forecast development of an El Niño condition in the eastern Pacific.
"El Niño strengthens vertical wind sheer in the Atlantic, which makes it more difficult for hurricanes to develop," he said.
That both forecast teams increased their hurricane forecasts is because the El Niño condition is not expected to fully develop until late this month into September.
"El Niño is in the eastern Pacific," Bell said. "It takes a while for the effect to reach the eastern Atlantic."
The CSU team forecasts a 48 percent chance that a major hurricane will make landfall on the U.S. coastline.
Of more local interest, the team calculates a 28 percent likelihood that a hurricane will strike the Gulf Coast somewhere between the Florida Panhandle to Brownsville.
The average for the last century is 30 percent.
The Climate Prediction Center, however, does not issue landfall forecasts.
"Accurate landfall predictions," Bell says, "are not available until five to seven days ahead of time."
Laura Furgione, the acting director of the National Weather Service, added that despite the number of predicted storms, much of the public is suffering from tropical storm apathy.
"It only takes one hurricane, but who knows where and who knows when?"
Furgione used the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew hitting Miami to point out that, historically, the greatest killer from hurricanes is inland flooding — often hundreds of miles inland — responsible for 50 percent of recorded hurricane deaths.
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Note to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It
DETROIT ( TheStreet) -- Add it all up and GM (GM) had a good year, capped by the government's decision to exit the business after fixing it.
Yes, the government takes a loss of about $15 billion on fixing GM and Chrysler. But the loss would have been multiplied many times over if the two automakers had failed.
So far this year, GM has made $4 billion, Ford (F) has made $4 billion, and Chrysler has made $1 billion. The Detroit Three employ thousands of people, including 34,000 added in Michigan since 2009, and investors with good timing have gotten rich. Ford shares rose 334% in 2009. This year, Ford is up 7% while GM is up 31%.
The GM makeover extends, of course, to products. In January, the Automotive Press Association is likely to select the Cadillac ATS as the 2013 North American car of the year at the Detroit Auto Show.
"This is the first time anybody has eclipsed the BMW 3 Series" in ride and handling," said Karl Brauer, CEO of Total Car Score and a press association member. "No one would ever have imagined that a GM car could overcome a BMW car." In 2010, GM introduced the Cruze and showed it can also compete in the compact market. This year, Cruze is the ninth best-selling U.S. car.
GM, like many companies, has problems in Europe. But it prints money in the U.S. and its future seems positive thanks to the bailout, assuming that it seeks continuous improvement and doesn't fall back into its old ways. Hopefully, Dan Akerson, a press-shy CEO in an intensely followed business, can assure that, even if he refuses to talk to reporters about it.
This brings us to the subject of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and the state's Republican legislators, who recently rushed to approve surprise right-to-work legislation in a lame duck session. Right-to-work legislation is mean-spirited. It enables workers who don't pay union dues to have union protections.
Michigan still has a high unemployment rate of 9.7%. The rate is declining but remains two points above the national average. Nevertheless, Detroit has staged a miraculous comeback, the Detroit Three are doing well in the U.S., if not quite as well as Toyota (TM) , and the mood at the Detroit Auto Show will be upbeat.
The United Auto Workers union bears some -- not all -- of the responsibility for the decline of GM and the industry that led to the 2008 collapse. But the union also gets some of the credit for the industry's resurgence since then. It showed that unions and companies can work together to salvage their joint future.
Last year in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker eliminated many public workers' union rights, basically giving up on any meaningful projects for the state in order to fight a war with half of his constituents. Evidently he inspired Snyder. Of course Walker, unlike Snyder, could say he was pursuing the goal of reducing state spending. This goal is widely shared. Snyder's goal seems more along the lines of helping the national Republican party to undermine a source of Democratic support. That goal is shared only by other Republicans.


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Data Products » Restricted Data Product List » Cross-Wave Geographic Information (Detail) [1992-2014]
This data set contains state-level geographic information for respondents interviewed in 1992 through 2014, matching the 2014 tracker file. It is released in conjunction with four other files, the public Respondent Region and Mobility file and the restricted Cross-Wave Geographic Information (State), Parent State, and Child ZIP Code files. These five files contain all restricted geographic information available for HRS respondents as of 2014. The files are keyed on Household ID (HHID) and Person number (PN).
For HRS Wave 1 (1992), AHEAD Wave 1 (1993), and CODA/War Baby (1998), EBB (2004), and MBB (2010) respondents, geographic identifiers reflect residence of respondent as recorded in the administrative database at baseline. For all other waves, geographic indentifiers are based on the ISR administrative record of where the interview was conducted. This location was not necessarily the respondent's legal address.
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|Latest Release: August 2016 (v6.0)
The geographic information contained in these datasets is not included in any HRS public file and may not be merged with any other Restricted Data Set without the explicit written permission of HRS