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The state Department of Transportation started restriping Monday night to create an additional lane on the H-1 Freeway.
In the westbound direction, restriping will be between the Punahou Street overpass and the Pali Highway overpass. In the eastbound direction, restriping will be between Ward Avenue and Keeaumoku Street.
As many as two lanes could be closed in each direction while the work is done.
The work is scheduled for Sunday though Thursday nights between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. The work is scheduled to continue Friday and Saturday nights between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
The state is permanently reducing the speed limit to 45 mph and increasing its Freeway Service Patrol to improve driving conditions.
The project is costing $200,000. The state says this is far less expensive than widening the freeway.


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Well, We'll Always Have This…
One with the birds-on-the-bat forever, being relished with the Medal of Freedom, still the subject of myriad barbershop tall tales.
And one who has a lot of thinking to do.
If it's those damn MLBPA bullies makin' it hard for ya, AP, dontcha worry. Me and Maddux got yer back.
Regardless, everyone will shut their traps if you just go out and win it all in 2011.
So yeah. Go and… uh… do that.
Don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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We should toilet paper Marvin Miller's house for the absurdity he introduced into Baseball.
It'll happen in due time, we just have to wait it out. With the deadline passing, I think the Cards made the right choice, because Pujols will still be negotiating with them after the season. Its not as if he issued an ultimatum, so it will end up being better for the Cards organization if he signs after the year where the deal may be smaller.
I still think Pujols will sign with the Cards but almost every Cub fan I know is drooling at the opportunity of him landing with the Cubs.
BTB — I'm on it… let's do this.
StlCards06 — Hope you're right. We'll be sweatin' it all year.
Ron — Ain't. Gonna. Happen.🙂
Have to disagree with Mike about Marvin Miller, who's a hero to players everywhere. I'm sure Pujols will make a deal with the Cardinals just like Jeter did with the Yankees. Sometimes it just takes awhile. Hang in there.
My belief is if it was already going to happen, it would have happened. How much time was there to make it happen? He didn't budge and I think it's unrealistic to expect he will be worth the same amount of money in 10 years as he is today in the prime of his career. They had several months to work something out, and didn't. I think it's great he won't allow it to be a distraction now, but it's still going to be a distraction for the fans. Good luck with that.
Jane — Thanks. Will do. Plenty of baseball to distract me so it should work out.
Blue Eyes — I disagree. It'll get done… but both sides need to feel the market out to come to a mutually beneficial decision. He said it again this week, "I want to be a Cardinal for life", so yeah, I'm feelin' like we'll have pretty good luck with that😉

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They better be prepared and ready to stomp the f*cking Celtics!
Hello and welcome to the 2013 NBA Playoffs Game 6 between our New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics!
Boston has really turned this series around and are taking it into game 6, after what appeared to be an easy sweep. Too much self-confidence and too much trash talk from the Knicks inspired the Celtics into winning two crucial games and push the series for a possible tie on their home court.
Tonight, New York must keep their mouths shut and do what they do best. Defend and score! JR Smith's return in game 5 was simply terrible, his 0-10 start from the field combined with Melo's disappointing performance leaving Woodson clueless! Inspirational stories and analogies with the Red Sox and the Yankees in 2004 are stupid and awful but Doc Rivers thinks they will help his team, into forcing a game 7. I got another story for him. Only three times an NBA team led 3-0 managed to force game 7, none of the times did that team survived and none of the teams were named "Boston".
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A little something to cheer for
14 years ago, on this date, the New York Knicks defeated the Boston Celtics, with one game left to play in the regular season. Patrick Ewing led the Knicks with 27 points and 19 rebounds! It was 1999 and the playoff run was one to remember!
Starting lineups:
Let's GO New York, GO!
They better be prepared and ready to stomp the f*cking Celtics!
I am not worried in the least about the Knicks losing this series. The knicks will win on talent alone, but they need to know that is not enough going further in the playoffs. Woodson has to make offensive adjustments. Their defense, for the most part, has been quite decent. But offensively, I think only in game 3 did they move the ball well and have a fluid offense. It's too late in the season to try and reinvent the wheel, but what they could do, is what they did earlier in the season and to a lesser degree during their winning streak ... PASS the F'n ball. Too much isolation. Anyhow tonight is the night...Lets go Knicks
i remember game 6 celtics heat it was 3-2 it was all lebron and its called focus which deosnt exist in MELO status current. Do your JOB dont waste time on 1 on 1and ISOaniac just shot jumpers like Bass like Gree PASS the ball u r not alone on this team.U are creating commercial talkin "all i think is championship" but chimp its team effort not iso style.
+ i want more from Woodson i want Copeland more Pablo more Kidd
Lets close them out tonight boys
Come on ..have to hard in the paint today if we gonna bury KG tonight... Attack the rim!! KG to foul out
"I'm more concern how Melo is gonna play with Lin" Joe Budden
All business tonight. All business. The time for rhetoric is over. Let's go Knicks!
"?=(%/"§=)%(§%("§)% F*CKING LEAGUE PASS won't work.
That's how you do it, that's how you do it. Keep playing hard. Keep playing smart. Don't let up! 4 solid quarters tonight. 48 good minutes of basketball.
Nice sense of urgency... 5 assists already
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Thousands of pieces of Super Bowl gear are once again coming from the Coulee Region.
Wincraft in Winona, Minnesota, started pumping out Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers memorabilia right after the games finished last night.
It's nothing new. The company is the NFL's oldest licensee and has been doing this for more than 30 years.
In that time they've developed at least 150 items for each team some of which they create 20,000 pieces.
"One of the things that fans do immediately and our stores love it, the minute their team wins, they're going to buy more of their team merchandise and the markets knew they were going there, so they stocked up a little bit more," said Dave Schipper, Wincraft's vice president of project management.
Wincraft will be working on this for about two weeks, then they get to do it all over again.
"When Super Bowl night comes, we're all coming in at 2:30 in the morning and getting everything going and everything out hopefully the next day and for 2-3 days it gets really busy around here, because we're shipping out a lot of stuff all over the country," said Mike Anderson, a thermal cutter at Wincraft.
New this year, Wincraft made the towels that were in the locker room after the game. They will do it again for the Super Bowl champions too.


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A few years ago Ken Keathley, Professor of Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, presented a paper at the SBC's Building Bridges Conference. Keathley is a Molinist and the title of his paper [on election] was "How to be a Consistent Infralapsarian." This paper was the primary content in the chapter on election in his book Salvation and Sovereignty: A Molinist Approach. There is an audio version of his presentation but all the links I found online were broken. Be sure to download the draft of the paper in the link above and read through it. He outlines a very robust model of election and reprobation. (As a Molinist I, of course, affirm much of what he argues.) Nonetheless, you cannot deny that he is being biblical and consistent in his model of election.
I had a review of Salvation and Sovereignty published in the Midwestern Journal of Theology you can read. Concerning Keathley's chapter on election, his paper, this is what I had to say:
Keathley's understanding of sovereign election, which he calls "consistent infralapsarianism," follows from his understanding of overcoming grace. Under this view, God elects all individuals who would freely cease to resist his saving grace. God will so arrange the world, via strong and weak actualizations, to bring about a person's experiences and circumstances in which they would freely refrain from rejecting him.read more »


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City council president recall race
A recall effort to unseat Audrey Kader came up short on Tuesday, January 29, with La Crosse's City Council President defeating her two opponents by a wide margin.
Kader received 196 votes, or about 73% of the vote. Jerome Gundersen, a remodeling contractor, received 42 votes. Gage Maurer, a Viterbo University student, received 26 votes.
A provision in state election law says there does not need to be a general election when a candidate wins the majority of the vote in a non-partisan recall primary.
La Crosse City Council President Audrey Kader has been recalled.
Jerome Gundersen and Gage Mauer are running against Kader in the District 11 recall race.
Mauer, a 20-year-old student at Viterbo University, is being backed by the group that started the recall effort against Kader, Restore La Crosse Committee. Gundersen is a remodeling contractor.
Both candidates said one of the main reasons for running was because they were upset that the council tried to reduce public input by doing away with the Committee of the Whole meetings on Tuesday nights.
Kader said it's misleading to say she's responsible for trying to get rid of the Tuesday night meetings. She said the idea came out of the J & A Committee. Kader says she did vote in favor of eliminating the meetings on a trial basis but currently supports keeping them.
The primary election for the Aldermanic District 11 recall race is on January 29, 2013. The Recall Election is on February 26, 2013.
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This always A list actor/director walked in on his celebrity wife having sex. More than once. She's not very good at hiding things. He didn't seem to really care.
Clint Eastwood
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Dirty Red Pagan said…
Clint: Do you feel lucky, punk?
Guy: Yes. Yes I do.
Clint: (cranky old man noise…)ReplyCancel
He should've told the guy to get off his lawn.ReplyCancel
@Disick, or get off my landing strip?
(I'll see myself out…)ReplyCancel
Seven of eleven, I figured a damsel like her would have a full lawn going on.ReplyCancel
Sometimes it's a relief when someone else is having sex with your wife. Not that I would know or anything, but that might be the case for some people.ReplyCancel
I walked in on Rita whOra a few times when she was naked with someone else. That took a toll on me for sure.ReplyCancel
Oh Rob, that girl was trouble from the beginning! Remember, moving on and moving up!ReplyCancel
Thanks, Bruce. I am much better off without her in my life.ReplyCancel
Oh I think Clint is still interested just tired of her and whatever crap she pulled.ReplyCancel
Oh, please! Cry into another cheesecake, Rob. I'm so sick of hearing about how Rita messed up your lifeReplyCancel
"I think it's a good indication he's reached an age where he just isn't interested in sex anymore. His wife is significantly younger."
Yeah, it has to be because he's old. (sarc) Or maybe, just maybe, being a big whore is a massive turn off. It's not like Clint can't go out and get the exact same model in a newer model year. That and the stupid reality show was probably a boner-killer too.
Get off my wife, punk … aw whatever. Do what you want, but yeah, not on my lawn. Thanks.ReplyCancel
I was talking to Bruce, you nosy hooker.
I hope your marriage with Kanye lasts more than 72 days. If he ever actually marries you, that is. #where'sNori?
Wasn't Clint boning someone else recently? Remember a picture in the Randoms of him at the airport in his older Mercedes, picking up or dropping off his buddies' wife or something like that. Fucking guy's 84 in May and still chasing skirt … and maybe get himself shot in the process.ReplyCancel
Oh really Rob? You want to go there? When's the last time you saw your illegitimate children? Yeah, that's right, children. Plural. Mom's PI knows about all THREE of them! Deadbeat dad much, Rob?ReplyCancel
GO SUCK ON A KNEE HIGH ARTHUR GEORGE #SITDOWN #STFUReplyCancel
You all suck.
Hey Kanye, run into any more signs lately?
Those right there are some quality socks. Thanks for the plug, fontlover.
What? I have more grandkids?!ReplyCancel
No Bruce. I don't have any illegitimate children in Miami.
I am not a deadbeat dad.
Kim needs to shut her fat lips.
Notice how he had to specify "in Miami!" One of them is in LauderdaleReplyCancel
I do not think you can assume Clint is no longer interested in sex, he was just not interested in his wife anymore period.ReplyCancel
Get off my tip, Kim. Don't you have a child of your own to pretend to care about?ReplyCancel
I'll 3rd or 4th that or whatever it is now. Whoever is doing the K posts is hilarious! I hope after KFF expires on Friday he/she/they return as regular posters (f they aren't already).ReplyCancel
I thought it was #ignori????ReplyCancel
Honey yet u stayed with her hoe ass for too long u will find a woman who is real not fakeReplyCancel
Kim go back to being a superficial airhead u put your brother down when him kloe an Bruce keep it realReplyCancel
You an Kanye need to take a seat an shut the hell up for a year talking shit to your brother makes u look like even more of a asshole than u already rReplyCancel
I will pass out from disbelief if Kim was nice instead of a bitch with a opinionReplyCancel
He just turned to the nearest empty chair and snarled, "You do that one more time, motherfucker…"ReplyCancel


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I just breastfed my purely bottle fed 1.5month old baby yesterday and I'm trying to make him latch on properly. He opens his mouth when I tickle his upper lip with my nipple but closes it quickly once he feels the nipple's about to go in. I'm trying the lower breast tissue first then roll over to insert the nipple.
He is actually able to insert my entire areola and nipple in his mouth but I think he's upper lip isn't flanged out. And I feel a bit of pain when he sucks. I'm not suppose to feel pain right? When he's sucking, I feel a little pain in the areola part but when I remove my nipple, seems like my nipple is also sore.
I'm thinking maybe it's because he's been feeding from the bottle for too long so he tends to just close his mouth quickly just like when he feeds from the bottle. And his upper lip looks the same as when he is feeding from the bottle (tucked in or I THINK it's tucked in coz I can't really see the pink lip). His lower lip is flanged out though. And I hear swallowing. Overall, he's very content but I want to get rid of the pain and soreness.
Or maybe I need to be faster and shove his mouth towards my breast once he opens it?
I'm combing pumping and breastfeeding so he isn't going to starve, I just want to be able to experience successful breastfeeding and have the option whether to BF or pump especially when I go back to work


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Japanese FUNK/soul?
Started by ynqhead , Mar 23 2011 08:05 PM
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Posted 23 March 2011 - 08:05 PM
Got bored and stumbled upon this. I dont know how I feel about Asian funk/soul and I dont know if anyone is into it. With the exception of the Streets of Rage 2 Soundtrack, anything asian is pretty much new to me so I ask to be enlightened if anyone knows some good stuff (mainly from 70's & 80's)!
Trying to grow some new ears.
Posted 24 March 2011 - 02:50 AM
that's pretty good
how about Korean ?
how about Korean ?
Posted 24 March 2011 - 03:45 AM
This is the closest thing I could think of. I have one of their records that my mom got while she lived in Japan... Japanese Jackson 5.
Posted 24 March 2011 - 02:27 PM
check out mountain mocha kilimanjaro [funk]:
also check out soil & "pimp" sessions [jazz]:
also check out soil & "pimp" sessions [jazz]:
Posted 27 March 2011 - 05:57 AM
that's why I still come on STMB, cause once in a while there's some good music threads. no bullshit. is that all the Japanese funk (like tatsuro yamashita) you know?
Posted 09 April 2011 - 11:08 AM
funk is funk
toshiki kadomatsu
toshiki kadomatsu
Posted 09 April 2011 - 11:13 AM
sick bassline
sick bassline
Posted 09 April 2011 - 11:55 AM
Posted 09 April 2011 - 06:49 PM
lol im crazy for japanese funk, I got so many records from famous jap funk artists, And I have pretty much everything from Kimiko Kasai.
Posted 11 April 2011 - 04:12 PM
Thanks for these Mr. Dust
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The apartment has 2 bedrooms, one with a double bed and one with a single. Wake up to cheerful decor and open the doors to the balcony with views of the garden. Breakfast is available self-serve style in the kitchen, which is also equipped with an oven/microwave, stove, and fridge.
Tram access is mere steps away, allowing guests to reach the Old Centre in just 10 minutes. Walk to the trendy district of the Jordaan in in 10 minutes and explore the unique cafes, bars, and boutiques.
The Museumplein is also a 10-minute walk away and is home to the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum. There is a bike rental place around the corner, as well as several cozy cafes, restaurants, and supermarkets.
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Lovely place and great location, easy to get to from the airport. Amsterdam old town on your door step. Tanja very friendly and helpful. Would definitely recommend colourful B&B .
Excellent value for money, walking distance to the centre of Amsterdam and comfortable accommodation. Tanya was very welcoming and made the effort to make sure the stay was good, for example by providing for a vegan breakfast. Thanks for a great stay!
Tanja was a wonderful host. The apartment was great. Close to transport and shops. I have no hesitation in recommending it for your stay in Amsterdam.
My husband and me went for a weekend to Amsterdam and we loved the property. The apartment is so lovely, very colourful and Tanja was very nice. She explained everything to us and left many things for breakfast. Also the apartment was very clean and comfortable.
Beautifully colourful, spotlessly clean, generously equipped apartment which is just a five minute walk from Leidsplain. So easy to get the main sights in Amsterdam, and is really easy to get to and from the Airport (just jump on the 197 bus, costs €5 one way)
A fridge stocked full of continental breakfast items, a very reasonably priced alcoholic minibar and little extra treats too made this a real home from home.
Thanks Tanja!
Tanja has been a wonderful hostess, hope to go back to Amsterdam and stay with Tanja again. Also, the B&B is really great and it has everything you could ask for. Location is great, the hostess is an amazing person, the room has everything and it is really comfortable, and the food she leaves you there so you can make your own breakfast is plenty and tasty.
In general an amazing place and an amazing hostess.
Our stay at Tanja's was wonderful and the apartment is just as beautiful in real life as it appears in the photos. We arrived late, tired and hungry and the lovely supply of fresh foods in the fridge and larder made a very welcome repast. Located in a real transport, cafe, gallery/museum, garden hub, you couldn't be better placed. We were so glad we picked this apartment and will definitely be booking it if we return to Amsterdam. Tanja and her lovely neighbour who also helped us couldn't have been better. Thanks Again!
It's lovely colorful & clean appartment. We felt home at the first step we made in the appartment. :)
The fridge was fitted with food from Tanja, so that we could make b'fast ourselves.
The location is awesome !
We would definitely stay there again. Highly recommended appartment with a fantastic & friendly host!
This was a lovely apartment. My mum and I stayed for 2 nights and it felt like our home. Location was good. It was nicely decorate, very clean and spacious. Tanja was a fantastic host, very helpful and flexible. She leaves the breakfast in the kitchen for you to make yourselves and this works perfectly as there is plenty of food and you can eat it when you want.
Great place in the centrum of Amsterdam, everything was perfect! We came with our litlle baby and were able to walk around with a buggy...a lot of supermarket and restaurants all around... you only have to carry your buggy on the second floor and our baby was sleeping in a little room in the studio ...
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Banks Heading Into Dividend Sweet Spot: KBW
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Bank stock investors may be looking at some very attractive dividend yields next year.
According to KBW analyst Frederick Cannon, JPMorgan Chase (JPM) -- with shares already featuring an attractive dividend yield of 2.82% based on a 30-cent quarterly payout and Friday's closing price of $42.56 -- could see its dividend yield climb to a fat 3.76% in 2013.
Cannon expects JPMorgan's payout to climb from $1.15 a share in 2012 (the dividend was raised by a nickel in the second quarter) to $1.60 next year.
As investors have learned in brutal fashion over the past five years, banking is a cyclical industry, and when heading into a recession -- especially the mother of all recessions -- it is best to bail. But at this point, despite various challenges, including narrowing net interest margins, an increasing and expensive regulatory burden, and significantly higher capital requirements, the banking industry is on the upswing.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported last week that during the third quarter, U.S. banks earned $37.6 billion, for the industry's best performance since 2006. Credit quality was continuing to improve, and with most of the nation's largest banks having very strong levels of loan loss reserves, the release of reserves appears likely to continue for the next year or two, boosting bottom lines and mitigating the effect of margin pressure. The mortgage loan refinance boom is also providing a temporary boost to revenue, as the banks not only capture loan origination fees, they book gains on the quick sale of new loans to Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FMCC) .
And the Federal Reserve is doing what it can to make sure that investors in the nation's largest banks don't face the possibility of dividend cuts, because the regulator's stress test methodology includes a "severely adverse scenario," which will gauge the banks' abilities to pay higher dividends and repurchase shares, as per their capital plans, in the event of a severe recession, with unemployment increasing by four percentage points above current levels. The unemployment rate in November was 7.7%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Even at the low point of the "great recession," the unemployment rate didn't come anywhere near 11.7%.
A big part of investors' fear over the Fiscal Cliff is the probably expiration of the 15% maximum federal income tax rate on qualified dividend income. If we "fall off the cliff" with no deal between President Obama and the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives, dividends will be taxed as ordinary income. This will obviously be very painful for upper income taxpayers, but it will be just as painful for lower-income investors, who are currently paying no federal taxes on qualified dividend income, if their adjusted gross income keeps them within the 15% tax bracket.


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As millions of people watched the Super Bowl at home, one Spokane church helped to make the game extra special for those in the community who don't have place to watch the game.
On Sunday afternoon, First Covenant Church in downtown Spokane held a special Super Bowl party for the homeless.
"It's a good chance to come and get off the streets for a few hours you know to watch a ball game," Becky Harvey said.
The church served a super sized meal complete with chili cheese dogs, french fries and cookies.
"We came up in here to get a place to come watch the Super Bowl and be warm that's the main thing," Mike Evans said.
During halftime, the church gave out socks, blankets, gloves and candy bars.
For everyone who attended the event, they say the best part was getting the chance to be off the streets and in a warm and loving environment even if it was just for a few hours.
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Beyond Non Sequitur
I just finished watching Season 5, the final season of The Wire. And as much as I'd love to write something about baseball right now, I don't think it's even possible. Sure, I could try to come up with some sort of analogy comparing the pennant chase with the myriad of chases interlaced into the fabric of this HBO series. Or I could compare the probable playoff teams to various characters in the show and pit them against each other in a fight to the death and thereby once again (correctly) tell you who will win the World Series.
Honestly, I'm just speechless right now. It's not that the final episode was the best one I've ever seen because it wasn't. But the series as a whole, well, there isn't much that can compare to it. So, even though it's Friday, even though I've been MIA and even though this is a blog about baseball and politics, that's all I got. Except, doesn't McNulty remind you a little bit of the Yankees……?
Happy Friday. And go watch The Wire.
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This is the third time this week I've heard someone rave about this show…I think the Cable Gods are trying to tell me something. Hopefully my lame Blockbuster will have the Season One DVDs in stock this weekend and I can check it out.
I'll chime in here and say that this is actually something Al and I agree on 100%. I'll just add this little warning: TV will never be the same for you ever, ever again.
I 've never seen it either. Is there anything else on TV besides sports?


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Laboratory Management and Technical Issues
High CBOD/Low COD
Is there any substance that could deplete the CBOD entirely but not show up in the COD test? I had normal COD values ( 32 and 37 mg/L)for final effluent a few weeks ago and set up CBOD as usual (200, 250 300 mls) and all depleted. This happened 2 of the 3 sampling days that week. I reran those 2 samples and had results of 7.4 and 13.4. Of course these were run 5 to 6 days outside of holding time. This is the only time I have ever observed this phenomenon. Anybody have any thoughts?
Gregg Mitchell
The BOD gremlins are at it again, Gregg! Usually, Santa's elves are able to keep them under control, but the elves are pretty busy this time of years and might not have caught the gremlins causing this problem that seems to have no reasonable explanation.
If you kept those two samples at 4° or less, the 5 or 6 days beyond allowed holding time should not have affected the results very much and certainly not enough to lower the CBOD values to 7.4 and 13.4. However, the excessive holding time leaves you with no legally acceptable results to report on the DMR (that is, you cannot report the 7.4 or 13.4). The only value to report, in my opinion, is "greater than" the value you get by multiplying the dilution factor by the oxygen depletion. For example, the 300 mL bottle would have a dilution factor of 1, and if the depletion was, say, 8.0, your reported value would be >8 mg/L. Permit managers don't like such values, but since you have nothing better they would have to live with it.
David is right in saying that a defective inhibitor (or failure to add the inhibitor? Is a new person doing the test??) is one thing that might have been the cause. However, a defective inhibitor or lack of any inhibitor in the bottle would mean that you ran a BOD rather than a CBOD, and now you're left with explaining why an influent would have such a high BOD that all DO would be depleted. The only explanation I can think of is that COD was run on the effluent as intended, but that the CBOD was somehow run on a sample other than effluent. I would hope you can exclude that as a possibility.
As a footnote that has nothing to do with the problem at hand, I hope you use the special nutrient/buffer pillows that are added directly to the bottle when sample size is 200 mL or greater. Bottles are topped off with reagent grade water and not dilution water in those cases. Hach, USABlueBook, Environmental Express and other suppliers carry those special pillows. Failure to use them would have caused low depletion, not high depletion as you have experienced.
Good luck!
Gregg, It was probably some contaminated inhibitor, or maybe a set of contaminated BOD bottles. We always set a 20% sample, 60 ml, so that we can get a value at the excursion level. If the 20% depletes out then the value is greater than the COD and that would indicate that it is not a valid result.
You could keep a preserved sample for COD and then recheck the COD and neutralize for BOD, seeded, to try and explain any big discrepencies in results.
Thanks for all the replies. QC work was all acceptable for both runs. Blanks 0.06, GGA 206 as usual (something else I don't understand because it is inhibited also, so should be lower), and .60 and 0.77 seed correction factor. I think the gremlins hypothesis is the best one! I did start running 100, 200, and 300 mls of final so I wouldn't get that same surprise again.
Last 20 GGA values average 209 with 6.1 SD. It seems to me that it should be lower if nitrification inhibitor is used. I have 10 years of results in the 200-220 range and my DMRQA CBOD rsults have always been on the high side of the acceptable range.
On the subject of seeding, I have never understood how it is valid to adjust seed volumes up or down to get a GGA value into a certain range. That makes it seem like the BOD value is a flexible number instead of a particular number. We don't adjust any other tests in that way. I know, it is a biological test and living things don't behave in tests as the chemical do, but still it has always seemed hoaky to me.
Enough rambling.
When a lab's precision is good for the GGA test (and yours is excellent, Gregg, as indicated by the 6 mg/L standard deviation for the GGA test), the average BOD for GGA is almost always a function of the strength/viability/health...whatever you want to call it...of the seed. For the CBOD test, there is another factor, and that is the inhibitor. If the CBOD GGA results are higher than expected, it could mean the inhibitor is not working. If you haven't done so already, I suggest running some BOD GGAs in the same batches with your required CBODs. If the results are essentially the same, either your inhibitor is not working, or there are no nitrifiers in the seed and therefore nothing for the pyridine to inhibit. I predict that the BOD average will be even higher.
As you know, I agree with you completely on the "adding additional seed to increase GGA CBOD results" issue. During an EPA-initiated teleconference with Standard Methods BOD Committee, EPA, and a few state regulators including myself, I asked the SM BOD Committee rep why the suggestion to overseed was in the method. The answer? Because it works. Maybe so, but it's never been demonstrated to me. Then I asked why one would want to do that because, 1) you are supposed to analyze standards (e.g., the GGA) exactly like you do other samples, and you don't overseed environmental samples, and 2) if there are nitrifiers in the seed, you expect the CBOD GGA results to be lower than the BOD results because if they aren't, the pyridine isn't doing its job. The answer? None! To say that it is a "hoaky" requirement lets them off easy!
From a regulatory standpoint, I don't think you have a problem, Gregg. There are labs that would kill to have that 209 average and 6 standard deviation because most regulators consider 198 to be the goal for the CBOD of GGA. If those regulators finally realized that the CBOD average should be lower...I consider it to be in the vicinity of 172...you might be in trouble. But cross that bridge if you come to it!
Now that I have retired maybe I can respond to this issue more quickly.
You need a good seed material that has no nitrifiers and a significant number of bacteria so that any additional amount of seed material will not increase the BOD or CBOD result. Additional seed material will increase the seed correction factor as there are organics in the seed material along with the bacteria. Any nitrifiers in the seed will oxidize nitrogen from the glutamic acid or ammonia from the dilution water.
Running BOD and CBOD on GGA should give the same result as the organic concentration is the same in both analysis.
Lower results for CBOD, in my opinion, can be due to some nitrification in the BOD test or toxicity of the inhibitor in the CBOD test.


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I've had a hard time with Layla asking to nurse in a way that I find, well uncomfortable. She is 14 months old and if she gets fussy she will pull my shirt open at the neck, reach in, grab me and scream.... Other times I have had her point at my breasts and shout "that's yum!" usually while a ton of people are around.
Any ideas on how to correct her without making her feel like Nursing in itself is wrong?


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This has happened to too many ladies, Tara, Kimmie, Emily, Caroline, and i'm sure there are others i'm forgetting. I mean, it almost seems like cheating the system when an 80 pound 14 year old wins the title. That was what people were arguing in ladies gymnastics at the olympics 2 years ago....13 year old girls from China pretended to be 16 and then won everything because they were 4 foot tall waifs who could do just about anything
Nobody who pays attention to Chinese gymnastics thought that the Chinese girls were actually 12/13. Even the girl who looked like she was missing her tooth, wasn't 13 because there are tapes of the girl as early as 2002 out there as her being a hopeful for the 2008 team. You can't tell something like that from a six/seven year old. A nine year old though you can get a better idea. Most of the Chinese girls were likely 14/15. And this actually makes sense because next year, they all seemed to be struggling with this thing called puberty. The Chinese normally go really two years early.. They actually did have a 12 year old they could have sent, so they thought they were comprising. :lol:Originally Posted by silverlake22
That was what people were arguing in ladies gymnastics at the olympics 2 years ago....13 year old girls from China pretended to be 16 and then won everything because they were 4 foot tall waifs who could do just about anything
But even now they have apparently gotten the criticism and there was one girl whom it was puzzling to see didn't make their world team. And there's talk that its because of age (consistency too but mainly age). I mean its hard to know for sure how old those kids are though. But Deng Linlin being 12 was really unlikely given the tapes that exist of her. Kexin, Yang Yilin, and Jiang being that young is equally ridiculous. Especially if you see pictures of them now (and the tapes of Jiang from pretty early too) Kexin especially does know look like she could be 16.
Its similar to the N. Korean girl in 1992. She probably WAS underage, but probably only by a year. That's because there are tapes of this girl competiting for years before hand. She may have been 10/11 at her first worlds but she wasn't 10/11 by 1992.
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I can't speak for gymnastics. But 80-pound, 4-foot-tall sprites aren't the best skaters. They're merely the best jumpers. As long as skating is done to music, they'll never be the best skaters. They don't have the finesse to do smooth transitions or musical interpretation. In fact, if their skills become the ones most valued by the scoring system, skating will have to be dumbed down to fit them--no overly sophisticated dresses, no really intense music. Example: I often go back to Tara's winning OGM program--modest dress, upbeat music, program entirely suitable for her age--and compare it with another program from a few years earlier, done by a 24-year-old, with (as I recall) no jumps: Gordeyeva's first solo program, to the Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth Symphony. Those of you who watched skating in those days: which program gave you gooseflesh as you saw it? Which do you remember to this day? Yes, skating is a sport. But I'm sorry, I'd rather watch a complete skater like Czisny (when she can jump), Arakawa, YuNa, or Kwan rather than whoever the current junior is with a quad-triple. I suspect I'm not alone in this.
Skating where the ladies are 80-pound pre-teens may actually decline in popularity. I remember reading an interview with Kurt Thomas, the American gymnastics champ in the 1980s. He was asked whether he'd ever dated a gymnast, and he said laughingly, how could he--they were all children. In the same vein, those of you who know guys who enjoy watching skating because Lepisto or Korpi are eye candy...do you think those guys will still watch skating when all the "ladies" are children?
I don't think it would have killed the sport at all to let Asada and Kim skate at the Olympics last year. I don't think they would have beaten the skate that Arakawa put done, but they would have made the competition certainly more interesting. And people wouldn't have been asking how Sasha medaled with that skate.
And as for gymnastics, the sport was better off with the old rules.. For example Shannon Miller wouldn't have been allowed to compete in Barcelona under the old rules. She'd have been a year too young. Boginsky wouldn't have been at 1988 worlds, she'd have been a year too young. Nastia Liukin was a gorgeous gymnast at 15. She was better at 19, but she was gorgeous at 15. But gymnastics is a different sport. Where gymnasts are more likely to be artistic if they were trained in things like dance at a young age, and had coaches who stressed it.. Which is why the Soviets normally turned out gorgeous gymnasts who were yes young.
I always think baseball is boring. Why is MLB si popular? Because it is a competition, long and fierce competition.
IMO, one of the reasons skating lost popularity in US is that its competetion was not fierce enough. You canot attract people to skating by just pretty skaters and beautiful skating. I think people were just tired of skating.
I believe CoP is making the skating competition more interesting and fierce. It needs improvement though.
The scandal was a major blow that figure skating has yet to recover from.
The IOC was absolutely furious about the SLC scandal and were the one's who forced the change.
I always look to TV contracts and right now they are at pre 2002 levels as far as skating is concerned. It is not on ESPN anymore and that in itself is a major statment. ESPN, the new cathedral of American sport no longer recognizes figure skating as a sport.
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Vt. agriculture is on Legislature's agendaBy David Taube
VERMONT PRESS BUREAU | December 09,2012Despite legal and economic challenges, from lawsuit threats to recovering from Tropical Storm Irene, advocates still hope to pursue legislation this session that expands agriculture.
Leading that initiative could be a second attempt to pass a food product bill dealing with genetically modified organism, or GMO, labeling. The recent legislative attempt drew 112 testimonies but never came out of a judiciary committee due to time, agriculture committee members said.
Rep. Carolyn Partridge, D-Windham, chairwoman of the House Agriculture Committee, said shed be interested in co-sponsoring the legislation, which she said would hold up against a lawsuit. The biotechnology industry had threatened to sue if the Legislature passed the bill proposed last session, and the Shumlin administration had said the legal issues prevented their support.
Shumlin himself had said federal courts struck down a 1996 Vermont law that required milk made using growth hormones to be labeled as such.
I really stand by the work we did, which is why Im considering co-sponsoring essentially what we passed out of committee this coming year and just moving the whole thing along, said Partridge, whose status as chairwoman as of earlier this week was still dependent on committee assignments from the speaker of the House.
California residents voted on a proposition in November for similar labeling, and voters rejected the measure.
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Among other major agriculture issues this upcoming session, the House Agriculture Committee will try to secure more funding for an agriculture and lumber industry effort known as the Working Lands Enterprise Initiative.
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Tuesday marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Tim Burton's stop-motion animated classic "The Nightmare Before Christmas," but the memories of working on the film have hardly been forgotten by voice star Chris Sarandon.
In fact, Sarandon, who voiced the role of the "Pumpkin King," Jack Skellington, said hardly a week goes by without some reminder of the film.
"I can't tell you how many people I've run into who've told me they grew up watching the movie, and for whom it meant a great deal," Sarandon told me in a recent call from New York. "He's been so much a part of my life since it came out and so many people love it."
Released on Oct. 29, 1993, "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" follows the wild adventures of Jack, a beanpole skeleton who discovers a gateway from Halloweentown into Christmastown. Bored with the drab environs of his home, Jack decides to make the most out of his trip into bright and shiny place and concocts a plan that will flip the holiday-themed community on its head.
Directed by Henry Selick and produced by Burton based on his original poem, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" recently was re-released on Blu-ray and DVD (Walt Disney Home Entertainment) to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the film.
Although Sarandon had long made his mark on the Hollywood scene with a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for "Dog Day Afternoon" in 1975 and roles in such hits as "Fright Night," "Child's Play" and "The Princess Bride," among many others, in the years after, he wasn't specifically picked for the voice role of Jack for "The Nightmare Before Christmas."
In fact, the purpose of his voice audition for the film was to see if his speaking voice was in sync with the singing voice of Burton's composer Danny Elfman, who was recording all of Jack's tunes.
"Danny Elfman had recorded a lot of the songs already, if not all of them," Sarandon said. "There were visuals of the character -- prints of what he looked like -- and everybody read. At the time, we were told, this is the singing voice we are trying to match. So when I went in and read, I was cast. I'm still kind of amazed and surprised that it happened."
Sarandon's story dispels Internet rumor that the actor wasn't up to snuff as a singer to record the tracks.
"I may not have had a good enough singing voice, which is beside the point. The point was that Danny had already sung all of the songs and had animated most if not all of them," Sarandon explained.
Sarandon, 71, told me he would have attempted to sing the part if asked.
"It would have been fun, but I can't imagine that I would have done a better job than Danny did," Sarandon told me, humbly. "I do sing. I've done four Broadway musicals, so it wasn't that I didn't have any experience with it. Danny, however, was singing his own music, and he had a very special and extraordinary feel for it. Since he had a background as a singer and musician with Oingo Boingo before he became a film composer, so his experience was much more in keeping with the sort of thing the filmmakers were looking for."
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Of course, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" launched a memorabilia craze after its release that is still strong to this day. As for Sarandon, the actor said he was lucky enough to score some mementos from his time on the film, which have even been displayed at the state Capitol in Charleston, W.V.
"It's interesting, because I'm from West Virginia, and in the Capitol is a cultural center with examples of work from various artists from the state," Sarandon said. "One of the things I loaned them was this little Lucite box I had created with three of the Jack heads in it and it's one of the great attractions at my site in the museum."
One piece of Sarandon's film history that never "figured" into his collection, though, was a Chucky doll from the 1988 horror film favorite "Child's Play."
"I don't think I'd want one around my house, anyway," Sarandon told me with a laugh.
That's because Chucky -- the cursed, evil version of the "Good Guy" doll in the film -- wanted to deep-six Sarandon's character, Detective Mike Norris, in the worst way.
Sarandon said even if he did want a Chucky doll for his movie memorabilia collection, it would have been tough to come by.
"There were so many different iterations of Chucky. There were half-Chuckies who were operated by people underneath the floor, there were little people and children dressed as Chucky -- all different sorts of them," Sarandon recalled. "So I never had access to a Chucky doll."
Oddly enough, "Child's Play" is also celebrating a landmark anniversary this year. The film, which spawned five sequels including the new "Curse of Chucky" (Universal Home Entertainment), will turn 25 on Nov. 9.
Sarandon, of course, only appeared in the first "Child's Play," but Brad Dourif, the voice of the homicidal doll, brought his wicked vocals to all of the films, including "Curse of Chucky."
And much in the way Chucky stays with Dourif, Sarandon's Jack Skellington has never really strayed far from his life over the years. He's reprised time and again the voice of the character for video games, including the new "Disney Infinity."
"I did the voice for 'Kingdom of Hearts' and the sequels, and have even done ring tones for Jack," Sarandon enthused. "Whenever Jack is involved, they give me a call. He sort of lives with me."
Sarandon remains proud of 'Nightmare Before Christmas' as film classic turns 20
Tuesday marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Tim Burton's stop-motion animated classic "The Nightmare Before Christmas," but the memories of working on the film have hardly been forgotten by voice star Chris Sarandon.
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Welcome to the Bush Inn flooring blog, in this blog you'll find lots of useful information relating to different flooring types from solid oak flooring, To its block and beam floor counterpart. We will be taking a look at the flooring industry in general, and looking at the latest trends that are going on in the sector.
Bush Inn – A look at a solid oak flooring
Solid oak flooring has been around for years, way back in history we can see that some of the earliest floors were made from Materials like oak and large, the reason for this is is that solid oak floors are built to last, which is perfect for bed and breakfasts and places like the Bush Inn. It is the characteristics of the woods that are used themselves that make this method of flooring so we liable, people who use this method of flooring can rest assured that it is a tried and proven method.
The benefits of solid oak flooring over other types of wood
The reason that solid oak works so well when used four floors is due largely to the fact that broke as it would is extremely strong and durable. That's not to detract from other words used in this way, Cherry wood and Larch both have their strengths many of which are the beautiful aesthetic qualities that they offer, however the most common type of flooring remains oak. It should be noted however that this type of flooring that may not necessarily be the cheapest, and it can be costly if mistakes are made during its construction.
Characteristics of solid oak
- Strong
- Durable
- Beautiful
- Can be expensive
As a carpenter for many years myself, I have worked with solid oak flooring on a regular basis, because of this experience I know both the pros and cons. It is very important for a client that the wood is obtained from the right source, by this I mean that prices can vary widely for oak, so it is always best to be diligent when looking around.
Below is an example of a solid oak floor that I worked on many years ago, I was able to achieve a beautiful effect that left the clients happy:
A Quick look at a block and beam floor and concrete fence panels
One of my favourite flooring types to work with are beam and block floors, the reasons for which I will discuss below. This isn't like the solid oak flooring that I have previously discussed, this technique of flooring relies upon using concrete panels alongside concrete beams, in order to achieve a Block and beam floor.
This type of flooring is typically used as a support structure for a building and is often used in conjunction with concrete fence panels, this is typically what you would use to establish a strong foundations in order to build a House or other building upon. This technique is becoming more and more common in the construction industry, most of building firms and bricklayers will be able to use this style of flooring partly because it is a very simple but effective technique to use. A block and beam floor comprises it is of pre-stressed concrete panels as well as prestressed concrete beams, these two things work together in order to make a very strong support system.
Why block and beam flooring and concrete fence panels are so great
This technique is also commonly known as beam and block, Bill this is exactly the same technique just under a different pseudonym. The beauty of this flowing technique is that it can allow a building to be instructed much more quickly than using something like pouring concrete, this is because foundations are instructed elsewhere before being brought on to the building site. When working with this material in the past, it has not been uncommon to have the foundations of the building finished within a week which often makes the construction company that I have worked with very happy indeed.
Unfortunately for the DIY people out there, you cannot achieve this foundation support system alone, you need to seek out reputable manufacturers of these concrete beams because they are a specialist material.


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WEF, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Association of Clean Water Administrators, and the National Association of Clean Water Agencies are offering a series of workshops on implementation of EPA's Clean Water Act (CWA) Integrated Municipal Stormwater and Wastewater Planning Approach Framework, and I was pleased to participate in the March 12 workshop for Region 7 in Olathe, KS.
More than 60 representatives from municipalities, water utilities and state agencies participated, including officials from EPA headquarters and the agency's Region 7 (Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Iowa) office who presented their perspectives on the framework, which was released June 5, 2012. In my opening remarks, I reflected on the fact that although the Clean Water Act (CWA) has been highly effective, many stakeholder groups (including WEF) have concluded that some aspects of the 1972 legislation are outdated. In fact, WEF has a Position Statement that calls for "modernization" of the CWA. That statement calls for "site-specific Watershed Management Plans [that can] serve as the adaptive management framework for the integration of the disparate programs." The bad news is that that despite the urgings of WEF and others, Congress has not passed any significant amendments to the CWA since 1987. The good news is that Integrated Planning offers municipalities an opportunity to request approval for a site-specific adaptive management approach as part of their NPDES permit or in an enforcement order.
The EPA framework is a great opportunity for municipalities to utilize flexibilities that are already embedded in the CWA or EPA regulations, based on plans that must be approved by states and EPA. State representatives at the March 12 workshop were generally positive about the EPA approach, and said that in some cases it mirrors efforts already underway to synchronize permits and consider affordability. Municipal representatives supported the framework, but some were concerned about implementation through enforcement orders instead of permits. The bottom line: communities with permits coming up for renewal who think they might benefit from an Integrated Plan should initiate an early dialogue with their state and EPA region.
One insight that came out during the March 12 discussion was that, while municipalities and states like to complain about "siloed" programs and a lack of coordination by EPA, the fact is that in many communities drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater are housed in similar siloes, managed by different people, in different agencies or departments, and with differing geographic coverage. Likewise, many states manage drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater in different offices. As Pogo said, "we have met the enemy and he is us!"
Johnson County Wastewater (Kansas) hosted the meeting and lunch was provided by Black and Veatch and HDR. The next workshop for EPA Region 10 (Portland, April 3) is closed, but you can still register for Region 5 (Indianapolis, May 1), and other workshops will be scheduled soon. I'd encourage any interested WEF members to attend.
Although Congress has not passed any significant amendments to the Clean Water Act since 1987, there is a bit of good news: Integrated Planning offers municipalities an opportunity to request approval for a site-specific adaptive management approach as part of their National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit or in an enforcement order.
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YOUNGSTOWN – Wanting to help in any way they could, local youth with different organizations took part in Global Youth Service Day putting in a gaga pit at the outdoor recreational area at the Jewish Community Center.
Sara Wilschek, youth and family programming coordinator for the Jewish Community Center, said among the groups participating were J-Serve with the JCC, Jewish Teens Serving the World, and Children International Summer Villages, a foreign exchange program.
Wilschek said a work day involved building a gaga pit which first involved creating a floor with rubber mulch. Forty participants attended.
Gaga pit is the Israeli version of dodgeball. Gaga is played in a large octagon or hexagon called the Gaga pit.
She said the youth, in grades seven to 12, with assistance from the JCC staff took rubber mulch from the garden and creating a layer in the garden for the base of the pit. She said the walls will be 30 inches high with six sides which are each 10 foot long.
"They created an enclosed court where the game can be played," she said.
The area is also to be painted.
Cindy Anderson, local coordinator for northeastern Ohio branch with CISV, said there were 10 youth from around the world who participated at the event.
She said the youth in grades 10th to 12th spend an academic year in the United States and often take part in such community service projects.
"They come here for a year to stay and are encouraged to be involved in community service projects like this," Anderson said.
Wilschek said mulch for the gaga area was taken from the garden area which was also upgraded by the youth.
Lilly Hetson of Hubbard said she was glad to be able to be part of the day's events
"I like the volunteering and knowing that we are creating something new to the community that can be used by children," Hetson said.
Hetson said everyone helped pick up trash and made sure the areas is clean and helped bring mulch from the community garden to the gaga pit so it was not all mud on the bottom.
Kat Holleran of Cleveland who was there through CISVwas excited about the project.
"It was fun to come together with all the different organizations and work on this and helping in the community," she said.
Ben Weiss of Canfield said he was encouraged to be part of the effort by his brother. Despite rain, Weiss said he didn't mind getting wet putting the mulch on the pit.
"It was a great project to be involved with," he said.
Noah Persson, a junior at Liberty High School, who serves as president of the junior branch of the northeastern Ohio chapter of CISV, said he wanted to get involved with the project as part of way to focus on peace.
Persson spoke at the Israel 65 Independence Day program held recently at the JCC.
He had spent two weeks overseas in Israel last month where he took part in the Israel Independence Day through March of the Living, an annual educational program that brings Jewish teens to Poland to study the Holocaust.
He spent seven days in Poland touring Auschwitz and other concentration camps where millions of Jews died during World War II.


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Milne stumps to 30,000 via phoneBy Neal P. Goswami
VERMONT PRESS BUREAU | August 22,2014MONTPELIER Republican Scott Milne, the state GOP-backed candidate for the gubernatorial nomination, held a statewide telephone town hall meeting Thursday night in a bid to speak directly to voters, but steered clear of specific policies he would embrace as governor.
Milne, a businessman from Pomfret, promised listeners he would always listen before I act. He laid out three principles his campaign is based on and what values a Milne administration would adhere to.
He said Vermonters want a governor and a government that values being practical over always doing whats political. And he said residents have a history of wanting a state that is much more locally controlled, rather than top-down management of ideas being pushed down from Montpelier. Finally, he said Vermonters want a government that is well-managed and uses a common sense approach to managing the peoples money and resources.
Former Republican Gov. James Douglas kicked off the call by reiterating his support for the candidate, whom he first endorsed at Milnes campaign kick-off event in Barre last month. Douglas said he believes Milne has the capacity, the intelligence, the experience and the leadership potential to be our next governor.
With revenues sinking in Montpelier and a stagnant work force, the state needs someone with a vision for the future that is based on hope and opportunity for everybody, Douglas said.
Milne faces Emily Peyton and Steve Berry on the Republican primary ballot. Libertarian candidate Dan Feliciano is also waging a write-in campaign. Milne has declined to participate in debates with his GOP challengers.
He hopes to face Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin, who is seeking a third term, in November.
Callers raised questions about health care, property taxes and the need for more local control in government.
Vicky from Stowe said she is struggling to stay in the home her family built.
I can no longer afford to live in my home. The taxes in Vermont, the property taxes in Vermont are so extraordinarily high, that I can no longer afford to live in my home. I just find that so intrinsically wrong and against American principles, she said. I just find it so against logic and against good principle for a state to create a situation where hardworking people cannot afford to live in their home.
Milne said the property taxes on his home of 21 years have gone up 700 percent since he moved in. Thats the problem that we have right now. Weve got school population down 20 percent down in the last 15 years, he said.
He criticized Shumlin for failing to address property taxes in the last legislative session and promised to propose his own plan if lawmakers do not act.
We didnt see any bill come from the administration, or in my opinion at least, to work with the House and Senate to get something done, Milne said.
We need to have a plan and I promised voters if Im governor in 2015 there will be a plan that Ill work cooperatively with the House and Senate to bring to Vermonters, he added. I will propose something unilaterally from the governors office if the House and Senate do not act.
Jim from Bennington raised concerns about a potential 11 percent payroll tax to help cover the cost of Shumlins proposed universal access, publicly funded health-care system.
Is there any realistic chance of funding that or is it just a joke? he asked.
Milne said he is suspicious of a state-level single payer health-care plan that Shumlin seeks. He said he would have a very definite plan and proposal for people to think about when they vote in November.
But Milne also faulted Shumlin for not yet presenting a financing plan for his proposed health-care system. They did nothing to come up with a plan to come up with how theyre going to pay for this health-care plan, he said.
Milne said his campaign and administration would be focused very, very much on whats practical, not coming up with ideas and selling them to people because its popular.
Lance from Barnard said he would like to see more decision making returned to municipalities so we can get a handle on money were wasting. He advocated for a return of neighbor helping neighbor as it used to be.
Milne, noting local control is one of the principles of his campaign, said he supports that idea.
The more local a decision can be made, the easier it is to understand where people come from when you have differences of opinion, he said. The more local a decision can be made the better.
Another caller asked for his position on school consolidation and the use of common core curriculum in education.
Milne said some communities are taking some pretty innovative and strong actions to decide on their own how and whether theyre going to consolidate schools. But he said he has no specific answer or policy.
Perhaps there may be some incentives for the state to encourage that, but I would not have a top-down forcing of consolidation, Milne said.
He also said he supports local curriculum in Vermont schools.
The campaign placed 30,000 calls to registered voters and asked them stay on the line for the town hall meeting. The campaign provided options for callers on the line to volunteer or donate. The event was moderated by Milnes daughter, Elise. It was unclear Thursday evening how many callers participated.
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By Lillian Sparks Robinson, Commissioner, Administration for Native Americans
I recently attended the 28th Annual Reservation Economic Summit (RES 2014), hosted by the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development, to present on the important topic of investing in economic development in Indian Country.
For the first presentation, I was joined by John Echohawk, the founder and executive director of the Native American Rights Fund, Kevin Walker, president and CEO of the Northwest Area Foundation, and Carly Hare, the executive director for Native Americans in Philanthropy.
This panel focused on strategies to attract investors for economic development projects. Data on how much private foundation investment was shared and attendees discussed their challenges in attracting the interest of foundations. Some of the key challenges include how to build relationships with foundation staff and how to attract their interest in reservation-based projects. This is a challenge that ANA is very interested in helping native communities address.
The second event was an overview of ANA's mission, training and technical assistance available, as well as funding for economic development, including two special initiatives that have begun during my tenure as commissioner for ANA. The Native Asset Building Initiative provides funding to community based organizations to build financial capability skills in individuals as well as to assist them in saving for assets such as starting a small business, pursuing higher education, or purchasing a home through individual development accounts. ANA is partnering with the Office of Community Services to provide two grants for each project awarded, which can help more Tribal communities participate in this complex but transformative program. Our NABI applications will be open later this spring.
Our other new economic development opportunity is the Sustainable Employment and Economic Development Strategies (SEEDS) grant. It represents a significant investment of ANA resources into job and business creation for Native American communities. We were at RES 2014 to promote this competition, which is in its second year. In addition to longer projects of up to five years, ANA will be providing enhanced technical assistance and partnering with other federal agencies that support economic development to help ensure that these projects are a success. Both presentation rooms were full, demonstrating both the high need and interest in these topics.
It was great to see some of ANA's current and past grantees at the summit, working to develop and expand their businesses and the positive impacts they are having for reservation economies. InterTribal Buffalo Council, Migizi Communications, and the Native American Development Corporation were just a few of the current ANA grantees that had booths at RES. Events like this provide an important venue for networking with potential business partners and investors, an opportunity that many small businesses or tribal enterprises would not have otherwise.
I want to thank our host Gary Davis, president and CEO of National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development, for providing us a great platform to share dialogue at RES 2014. Davis shared with me: "The participation by ANA and dozens of other federal agencies, as well as members of the U.S. Congress, Fortune 500 Corporations, Tribal Nations, Alaska Native Corporations, Canadian First Nations, Tribal Enterprises and American Indian small businesses and entrepreneurs made National RES Las Vegas 2014 one of our highest attended and most successful RES events to date!"
ANA's current grant opportunities for this year will be closing April 15th, and I am looking forward to learning more about the smart, creative, and exciting projects that we will be investing in this year.
Lillian Sparks Robinson, a Lakota woman of the Rosebud and Oglala Sioux Tribes, is the Commissioner of the Administration of Native Americans. Miss Sparks was confirmed by the United States Senate as the Commissioner on March 3, 2010, and was sworn in on March 5, 2010. She has devoted her career to supporting the educational pursuits of Native American students, protecting the rights of indigenous people, and empowering tribal communities.


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The Knicks have the first chance this game as their opponents are winless on the road. Last month they lost two games in Charlotte, and although they have a better record (7-10), we saw two nights ago a flash at the garden, a sign of things to change. If Curry, Lee and Richardson play as good as they did up until now, and Marbury is willing to assist, then New York should get an easy win here
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