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Crain's week in news, March 15-21: Judge ends state's same-sex marriage ban; UM Health System CEO to step down
Judge ends ban on same-sex marriage in state
A U.S. district judge struck down Michigan's ban on gay marriage, the latest in a series of decisions overturning similar laws across the country. Federal Judge Bernard Friedman ruled Friday, two weeks after a trial. State Attorney General Bill Schuette filed an emergency request for stay and appeal of the ruling.
On the move
• Ora Pescovitz, CEO of the University of Michigan Health System and executive vice president for medical affairs, is stepping down June 1. According to reports, Emory University otolaryngology professor Michael Johns, who completed his residency at the UM Health Center and was a research fellow at the UM Muscle Mechanics Laboratory, will be the interim executive vice president.
• Livonia-based Citizens Research Council of Michigan appointed Daniel Krichbaum, former Michigan Department of Civil Rights executive director, as president. Krichbaum, 71, succeeds Jeffrey Guilfoyle, who left to become vice president of public finance at Lansing-based Public Sector Consultants.
• Chet Decker, executive director of Hope Center in Macomb, plans to leave the Fraser food pantry May 6 to become dean of administration at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City.
Company news
• Bloomfield Hills-based Taubman Centers Inc. entered an agreement with London-based Merlin Entertainment plc to bring a 35,000-square-foot saltwater aquarium to Great Lakes Crossing Outlets in Auburn Hills in spring 2015.
• Detroit-based Greektown Holdings LLC closed on $425 million in senior secured notes due in 2019 and said in a filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission it used most of the proceeds to purchase its outstanding 13 percent senior secured notes, repay amounts under its existing loan facility, and pay related fees.
• Bloomfield Hills-based manufacturer TriMas Corp. acquired the remaining 30 percent interest in Arminak & Associates LLC, an Azusa, Calif.-based manufacturer of cosmetic and household product sprayers and pumps. Financial terms were not disclosed.
• Ann Arbor-based Tectum Holdings Inc. acquired bed liner and tonneau cover manufacturer Laurmark Enterprises Inc. of San Fernando, Calif. Terms were not disclosed.
• The University of Michigan Health System expanded its Physician Organization of Michigan ACO by adding more than 2,900 physicians and four medical groups across Michigan, bringing its total to 5,700 doctors, nurses and other health care providers.
• Ikea's Canton Township store is expanding nearly 44,000 square feet, bringing total space to 355,000 square feet. Construction will begin this fall, with expected completion in spring 2015. Expanded areas include self-serve furniture, furniture pickup, home delivery, and returns and exchanges.
• Plymouth-based Absopure Water Corp. is partnering with Pure Michigan to showcase the state's natural beauty on its packaging starting this month.
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• Organizers of the Detroit Institute of Music Education opened the school at a temporary location on Woodward Avenue until its permanent space opens this fall in the Dan Gilbert-owned Bamlet Building on Griswold Street and Grand River Avenue.
• Metro Detroit's median home sale prices in February increased by 33.8 percent over 2013, although sales were down 13.6 percent for Wayne, Oakland, Livingston and Macomb counties, said Farmington Hills-based Realcomp II Ltd.
• The price of a Detroit parking ticket would increase under recommendations by bankruptcy restructuring consultants who say the changes could bring the city an additional $6 million a year. Tickets that range from $20 to $100 would increase to $45-$150, The Detroit News reported.
• A proposed lease before Detroit City Council would prevent ticketed events from being held at city-owned Joe Louis Arena after the Detroit Red Wings stop playing there, AP reported.
• Detroit's proposal to pay $85 million to cancel interest-rate swaps that cost taxpayers more than $200 million, part of the city's attempt to trim debt in bankruptcy, won't be in final form until this week, Bloomberg reported.
• Seats and other items from the Pontiac Silverdome will be sold by owner Triple Investment Group LLC in an online auction May 12-16. The auction leaves questions about the facility's future.
• Workers began installing 103,000 square feet of Kentucky bluegrass at Comerica Park in the first full re-sod of the Detroit Tigers' ballpark since 2007. The grass, shipped from Fort Morgan, Colo.-based Graff's Turf Farm, is expected to be ready for Opening Day March 31, when the Tigers host the Kansas City Royals.
• Gov. Rick Snyder confirmed that a financial emergency exists in Royal Oak Township, AP reported. The state treasurer's office said elected officials in the community had seven days to select options, one of which was to be assigned an emergency manager.
• Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette plans to kick off his re-election campaign at a series of stops across the state this week, AP reported. The 60-year-old Schuette, a Republican, was elected attorney general in 2010.
• Michigan will join Iowa and Tennessee as the first states to pilot a new U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation initiative intended to help military veterans find jobs. Gov. Rick Snyder made the announcement at his economic summit in Grand Rapids.
• Hundreds of thousands of low-income adults will be eligible for health insurance starting April 1 under Michigan's expansion of Medicaid, AP reported. Gov. Rick Snyder said he blessed the launch date after his administration tested computer systems and developed plans to get the word out to the public.
• Fueled by robust investment returns and higher interest rates, funding levels of the largest U.S. corporate pension plans surged in 2013, Towers Watson & Co. said. Business Insurance reported that the New York City-based benefit consulting firm's analysis of financial statements filed by sponsors of the 100 largest pension programs found that plans on average were 91.2 percent funded at the end of 2013, up from 2012's average 77.9 percent funded level.
• Frank Hagerty, a Detroit native who co-founded the Traverse City-based Hagerty Insurance Agency LLC, one of the nation's largest collector car and boat insurers, died March 18. He was 79.

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text: I picked this bad boy up today. She is an 89 1500 4x4 Suburban. 78k miles, power everything that works, front and rear AC that works, CC,and 3rd row seat. She has a few dents and bondo in the driver door, but solid as a rock! Not the tinyest bit of rust in the floors, rockers,fenders, of quarters. It had a little bit of surface rust on the roof,but it got sanded down and primed. Not to bad of a score, I think. On with the pics. these are crappy cell phone pics, I'll take some better ones after I clean it up.


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Coyaba Beach Resort & Club • Montego Bay, Jamaica
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- A Three- ($653) or Five-Night ($1,088) All-Inclusive Stay for Two in an Ocean Deluxe Room
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A certain TV show may have you daydreaming about becoming lord or lady of the manor, but the weather in England can be quite dreary. Escape to the Coyaba Beach Resort & Club for that Old World feel in Jamaica, a former British colony.
Situated on a strip of private beach just five miles from Montego Bay, the family-owned-and-operated property is reminiscent of an 18th-century great house. Stay for three ($653) or five ($1,088) all-inclusive nights with a plus one in an Ocean Deluxe Room and enjoy three daily meals, all alcoholic beverages by the glass—including premium brands—and a $40 (three-night stay) or $65 (five-night stay) spa credit.
Wicker chairs, hand-carved mahogany furniture, and understated chintz fabrics round out the plantation-style décor, and large French doors lead to a private balcony.
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Take a break from the sun at Dock's Bar and Grill, offering a view of the water and a casual lunch menu (think salads, wraps, and paninis), before shopping on Gloucester Avenue or touring one of the old plantations—Rose Hall Great House and Greenwood Great House are popular choices.
Then indulge in some patrician pampering at the resort's Spa Heaven with a mani/pedi or deep-tissue massage; ask to have your massage at the end of the private dock if it's the cool breeze you crave. Just don't miss the British tradition of afternoon tea or the Caribbean tradition of sunset cocktails, both complimentary and served every day.
Entertainment may have always followed dinner back in the day, but The Vineyard successfully combines the two for a memorable meal in a formal (slacks required) but open-air atmosphere. While The Polo Grounds, a richly appointed lounge with a country-club-cum-speakeasy vibe, is a place to see and be seen.
After all, you don't have to be to the manor born to spend a few knights at a grand resort in the West Indies.
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McNeese State head men's basketball coach Dave Simmons. (American Press Archives)
Last Modified: Friday, March 01, 2013 10:31 PM
By Alex Hickey / American Press
The key to beating Central Arkansas is simple: just keep the Bears out of multiple-overtime situations.
UCA (11-16, 5-11 Southland) comes to McNeese on the heels of a 106-99 double-overtime win over Lamar on Thursday night that clinched its first appearance in the Southland Conference basketball tournament.
That was nothing compared to what happened the last time they played the Cowboys, as a pair of improbable buzzer-beaters by Jarvis Garner eventually carried UCA to a 103-98 triple-overtime win in Conway, Ark., on Jan. 24.
That loss sent McNeese (12-14, 6-9) into a temporary tailspin that made simply reaching the conference tournament look like a challenge.
"We know we didn't play well there. It's not indicative to have 14 turnovers at half. We went 11-for-21 at the free-throw line," said McNeese coach Dave Simmons. "We didn't go up there with the focus we needed. But we came back and regrouped more than anything."
The Cowboys have recovered to win four of their last five conference games, and have a shot at earning the No. 4 seed in the conference tournament and a first-round bye if they win out.
"This is the time to play well," Simmons said.
Seniors Dontae Cannon and Jeremie Mitchell, part of a group of Cowboys players to play in multiple postseason tournaments, will be honored before their final home game.
"Those two guys have gone through tough years as seniors with a young group. To see them having success right now is the biggest thing," Simmons said. "I think their focus is there. We've got to get them the same night firing on all pistons."
The school will also honor multiple former players before the game to commemorate becoming the first Southland program with 300 all-time conference wins.
Really, there was no other team the Baggett twins could have played on their senior day.
Central Arkansas has been McNeese's main foil the past two years, with the teams splitting their last six meetings including the Cowgirls' victory in the 2011 conference championship game.
"It seems that it keeps coming down to something happening against this team," Ashlyn Baggett said. "But no matter who it is we want to go out with a bang."
A win keeps McNeese (15-11, 10-5) in the race for the regular-season conference crown. UCA (14-13, 7-9) is trying to stabilize itself after losing seven of its last eight games — though you can bet senior center Megan Herbert would love nothing more than to spoil the final home game of her biggest rivals.
"The twins love the competitive game and rivalry we've formed with Central Arkansas in women's basketball," said Cowgirls coach Brooks Donald Williams. "Megan Herbert is one of the best players in the league and has been her entire career, and so have Ash and Cait. It's just been a very fun rivalry."


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Because one of my goals is to prove that studying literature, writing, vocabulary, grammar and journalism can be fun, I have created a number of innovative lessons for these strands of learning. Currently, I have 171 products posted in my store. My book, The House of Comprehension, published by Compass, an imprint of Brigantine Media stemmed from a top-selling TpT product, "Get R.E.A.L.. Based on Common Core Standards, the program and accompanying activities with Teacher Notes encourages students to construct durable houses of comprehension by combining the study of the elements of literature with any text. Watch for notices about the availability of this book here, in the publisher's TpT store,http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Compass-Publishing, on my website http://teachitwrite.blogspot.com/, and on http://www.teachitwrite.com/, Compass's website. As for my products here, veteran teachers and those new to the field can utilize the hands on units and ideas for teaching while honing their skills on how to pace a lesson and to connect it to Common Core Standards and/or their state's standards of learning. I am a recently retired (2011) English teacher in the Fairfax County Virginia public school system, where I taught English 12, Journalism 1,2,3 & 4 and Creative Writing 1, 2, & 3. As a result of the Teacher Performance Evaluation instituted by the county, I was awarded the prestigious Career Two Exemplary level status three times. Besides the public high school venue, my teaching background includes an alternative secondary school for behaviorally disadvantaged adolescents, an adolescent psychiatric hospital, and a boys' reform school. Proud of my choice to be an educator, I have always hated the cliche, "Those that can, do; those that can't teach." Through my writing and my role modeling in the classroom, I show that not only do I teach, but I also practice what I preach.
My lessons are planned to be both structured and open-ended as I love student discussions which show that they are sharing their thinking and analytic skills. Whether students are discussing character and plot development, symbolism, themes and subtext, utilizing their grammar and writing skills to revise their pieces, or enhancing their vocabularies, they are guided by lessons that have been planned to motivate, to inspire and to challenge them. My plans and activities all follow the three-pronged approach: Show Me, Help Me, Let Me. Creative writing and journalism students are encouraged to think outside the box to come up with original stories,poems or articles that stretch their minds and skills. My goal is to show my students that learning is fun and not a chore. Every day I invite them to explore ways to challenge their minds, to check out others' viewpoints and to believe in the merit of their own thoughts, interpretations and ideas, verbally and in writing.
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This is the nickname of a person who is amazing at everything, especially: school, sports (football and wrestling), guitar hero 1&2, and life in general. Not to mention all of the ladies he gets.
If Chuck Norris' name were Gus, his nick name would be Gus the Bus.
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Here is one of the stands I have been using the last couple years. All you need is a couple of 2 x 10 or 12's and four concrete post holders(4x4). Once all together it is very solid and can be moved fairly easily. If you have bottom entrances it gets it up high enough that skunks should not be a problem!
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Well I asked a question about using cinnamon to keep ants out of my hives. I was afraid if I "sprinkled" it on the inner cover I might accidently dump it in the hive and wasn't sure what that might do. In addition they will get in other places besides the top. I don't know the proper name for the type of ant, the nicer name is "sugar ant" and they are small. As oppose to the big "carpenter ant" or the very aggressive "fire ant". I was given some good advice and it made me rethink my problem. So, I just wanted to share what is going on with my bees and the ants.
This is my beehive stand. I built it to be movable (it turned out to be a good thing, I built it last year and had to move the whole thing this year).
You can't see it really well (the grass needs weedeating and I had to use my phone for the pictures) but, it rests on two 4X4's that each sit on a 2X6. So the ants have several places to get on it, plus the tall grass. I kept thinking "how can I keep the ants off the hive stand?", especially since it doesn't really have legs. I was starting to consider just nuking the ground all under and around the stand. On our farm (see link in my signature if you really want to know) we are trying to use sustainable techniques and "nuking" wouldn't go along with that. One of the suggestions I got was to use sticks at each corner of the hive. Well i tried this and it didn't work to well (see below)
The ants just went right over the cinnamon sticks. But, this led me down a new way to think about the problem. I don't have to keep the ants off the hive stand just the hives! So, this morning I gathered some materials.
And now I have this
I really need to charge the battery in my camera. But, its a stack of 8 pennies, wrapped in some tape, and then coat with fishing reel lube (ok that was what I could lay my hands on this morning, I will most likely come back with some high temp grease). Well I'm crossing my fingers to see how this one works out.
Oh here are some of my other hives being slowly moved across the yard (the hive on the stand I bought as a nuc this year).


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tymeToShine. Will be thinking about you on Thursday when I go to work at my hospital and hope that all goes well with your surgery.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
tymeToShine. Will be thinking about you on Thursday when I go to work at my hospital and hope that all goes well with your surgery.
A home is built of peace and love,
and not of wood and stone,
a place where happiness lives
and memories are sewn.
I miss a day and... tyme to shine - my prayers are with you now - it is time for that body to shine!! be well
Thanks for all the prayers. The cardio lab showed all arteries are clear, but one of the chambers of the heart is not functioning correctly so a cardiac MRI has been scheduled in 2 weeks with continued restricted activity until then. Got my EPP blocks by me to work on during this time. Meanwhile, the firewood cutting and splitting, square foot garden installations, and the painting of the third bedroom continue to remain on hold. And climbing the stairs to the sewing room. Glad I planned ahead and collected the EPP project. :-)
Ahhhhhh, TymeToShine, you're a good girl following orders & smart to plan ahead.
I've not been able to make any blocks lately & on the 15th my friend & I are headed to Lancaster, PA. So no sewing while away but I'll sure be shopping!!!!
Great blocks everyone!
Hello Ladies!
Fraew ... I love your blocks! And I admire you for redoing some blocks! Congratulations!
Linda... I feel very bad for not having read before your message!
I hope you feel better very soon and all your medical problems are resolved as favorable and quickly! I will put my best energy in you thinking on next weeks! Please be careful and do the rest!
All other hope that they are really very well!
Hello everyone!
I continue forward with my 3 week blocks.
Today I can show my 18 week with D-4, D-5 and D-6 blocks.
I hope you like those and thanks for looking!
I am not very happy with D-6 colors. Find it me "strong". At the end if reach me fabrics, I think that I will change. For the time being is so it is not so bad on the design wall. You who feel about?
Have a beautiful weekend!
A big hug!
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Awesome blocks Gladys!!
Linda - Glad part one of your exam went well - we will continue to hold you in our prayers for the duration! I had to read your post a second time because I read it as 'you are cutting & splitting wood' -- no no ...just my eyes needed to read all words I guess. Be sure to listen and be well. are you doing DJ blocks with EPP or another project?? curiosity has got me
very nice, Fraew
Nancy in western NY
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Gladys, you do such a nice job on your blocks. I like to colors in the one you were questioning but like you said, you can wait until you get all the blocks done and look at it again to make sure you are happy with it.
Gus, I do do some of the DJ blocks with EPP, but the ones I have downstairs with me right now are blocks I am making to put into panels in the doors to a cabinet my DH made me for my sewing room.
Thanks, Gus!
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I'm looking forward to the NDA lift anytime soon. (hopefully)
I'm looking forward to the NDA lift anytime soon. (hopefully)
Two things.
One, its still breaking NDA if you talk about it in PMs.
Two, that really means nothing to people who haven't played yet. And even people who have already played but aren't that familiar with the game yet.
I appreciate the effort and insight anyways though, ty.
WoW having more subs than SWTOR is the same thing as Justin Bieber having more youtube plays than Tupac. Just because its more popular doesn't mean its good.
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Not to be insulting Traces, but I really think you're adding a lot of lines for no reason, making it look wayyyyy more complicated than it actually is. I mean, you rewrote the whole AS/SA thing four times, and your legend is incomplete. What is T? What is DS?
Surely there is a simpler way to explain this. Let me give it a shot, I'm sure you can correct my mistakes.
Blade Storm > Force Sweep > Sundering Assault > Assault
That's basically it, isn't it? You use Blade Storm if you have the focus and if it's off CD, it's top priority. If Blade Storm is on CD and you have 3 Focus, you use Force Sweep. If Blade Storm is on CD and you don't have 3 Focus, you use Sundering Assault. If Blade Storm is still on CD and also Sundering Assault is on CD, then you use Assault.
I read into it a bit more, I'm still trying to understand the rest of this. I'm going to assume that "T" is a typo and it's supposed to be "ST", which would make sense for an opener.
Now, you use Guardian Slash if you have 4 focus but your Blade Storm is on CD, okay. I'm still not sure what "DS Debuff" is, it's not explained. I'm guessing that either BS or FS gives DS, but yeah, your chart doesn't make this clear.
Edit: Yeah, it really isn't a complicated rotation/priority order when you actually try to understand it. Not much more than a Rogue or Cata Feral, at least.
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It is just meant to give everyone a visual representation of how to manage Focus and abilities to use.
The T was Taunt and DS was demoralizing shout - since we didnt have a name - only a debuff similar to that mechanic confirmed.
You would need to say:
Priority consuming abilities: Blade Storm > Force Sweep > Guardian Slash > High single target dmg ability
Priority rage/focus generating abilities: Soresu Form > Combat Focus > Sundering Assault > Assault > Force Leap/Saber Throw
Try having a look at the newly uploaded sprad sheet/flow chart and see if you like it better
New chart seems to flow much better than the previous one did, thanks for all the work you guys are putting in
Thanks for taking the time to do this, planning on rolling a Juggernaut so it was nice to see a quick chart of the overall priority. I'm not really sure why people equate understanding/discussing a tanking rotation as being a way to skip all the content in a rush to get to the end of the leveling process. I'm pretty sure you can still make important role playing decisions involving quests, companions, and character development at whatever pace you deem fit while also having an understanding of what holds threat as best as possible. If you don't care to know, don't click on threads clearly titled "______ rotation".
Also, having a understanding of such things while doing flashpoints along the way can only better you're experience. You can instantly make a positive name for yourself on your server as you level as being one of the tanks who understands his class. A major part of being a tank is having knowledge of the boss mechanics and knowing your class well enough to manipulate those mechanics with quick response times, why someone would want to ignore half of that until they figure it out themselves '2 months later' is beyond me.
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Yeah the chart looks a lot easier to understand now The * part made me laugh, "Use high damage single target ability*, can't say this without breaking NDA". (I wonder if that ability is "Riposte" since Traces said that in a previous post :O)
But yeah, great flowchart.
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No it's not Riposte xD - though it would have been fun!
Riposte is a Rune strike mechanism.
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The current flow chart isn't 100% satisfying ( We need to implement time left on cd's and how much focus/rage you got - for the flow chart to hit maximum potential) - but there is an advanced version coming. We primarily made this new one to give a neat first impression that was somewhat easy to understand (is it ? ) - then it is easier moving on to the flow chart with timers/cd's.
The high damage one will be like Mangle for Druids or that and Riposte would be like Maul.
Any other requests, we can look into it (picking something like Smuggler Saboteur would be impossible due to the footage, so pick something that is commonly available).
I have a question for ya Traces. These charts are based soley on abilities with no reflection on talent trees and the additional abilities you aquire, as well as the ability and stat modifications talents will give, correct?
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All the infomation gathered is taken from videos and posts released by BW and press releases.
I will create a proper source list for forum users to explore by themselves and to negate any uncertainty there might be regarding a possible NDA breach.
The main focus of the flow chart of the Jedi Guardian - is Focus/rage control - the actuall abilities and their stat modifications is very likely to change.
However the cost of the abilties and the way rage/focus flows has been the same since I started looking into JK:G.
So as I've said before; the priority will most likely change - but when it does and we got solid info, we will already have a excisting flow chart that will be easy to configure without causing ourselfs any headaches.
That way I can start doing some of the more heavy duty work, such as combat rating values and damage reduction - which is what im looking most forward to.
Some of you might think that I'm outright contradicting myself, since Traces and I defended our cause so heavily in the beginning of the thread. But we know that things might change - We just wanted to start a sober discussion about upcoming mechanics for the JK:G - and hopefully others classes aswell.
Traces is going to play a Tropper: Vangaurd tank as main when the game releases - So I would definetly take a closer look at his tropper chart (Since all my knowledge at the moment is about JC and JK).
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Through CT scans that can show sub-millimeter details, an imprisoned fossil reveals its secrets
Pat Shipman
As professionals who study the past, paleontologists "read" the physical remains or traces of long-gone creatures and try to recreate their living forms. We ask how long-extinct species lived and moved, what habitats sheltered their young, what they ate, how they grew. We ponder what evolutionary pressures might have shaped the body or behavior of some species and, in some cases, driven it to extinction. But many times, the clues left behind are too scant to allow us to answer such questions with surety. How useful it would be to step into a time machine and go back to answer all our questions!
Time machines have been part of our cultural consciousness since at least 1895, when H. G. Wells launched the discussion with his novel The Time Machine. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took up the idea of visiting the ancient past in the 1912 novel Lost World. I often wonder how many paleontologists and paleoanthropologists were influenced, as I was, by reading these works when they were children.
Wells's book was published around the time x rays were discovered; this demonstration of uncanny powers unsettled and amazed scientists and the public. It's possible that it even helped inspire Wells's fiction. Fittingly, x rays are now becoming true time machines, peering through rocks and time as easily as they look through skin and flesh.
Most readers of this magazine will have heard of the computed tomography, or CT, scans used in healthcare settings. CT scanners use x rays to take pictures from many different angles, and a computer then combines those pictures to create a three-dimensional image. The micro-CT scanner applies the same principle on a smaller scale. It was developed largely for industrial purposes and is able to show features smaller than the width of a single hair—much more detail than a physician needs. Most "patients" studied with micro-CT are inanimate. Recently, these subjects have included fossils of animals dead for millions of years.
Paleontologist Nick Fraser of the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, Virginia, has gotten to know all about micro-CT scans in recent years following the discovery of a unique fossil from the Solite Quarry in Virginia, a trove some 220 million years old. Fraser collaborates with Paul E. Olsen of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, who found the site in 1975.
The Solite Quarry is famous as a Konservatt Lagerstätte, a fossil site that shows exquisite preservation of an entire ecosystem, including the smallest and most fragile specimens. Excavations have yielded a wealth of fossilized insects, even showing the veining on the delicate wings of waterbugs or caddis flies. The rocks also contain fish, including the very primitive coelacanth, and plant remains from the damp waterside habitat, such as conifers, ferns, cycadophytes and gingko-like trees. You can find winged seeds, the kind that children often call "helicopters" or "pollynoses," that look almost as if they could have fallen from a maple tree today.
After years of revealing the litany of species in that ancient marsh, the Solite Quarry recently yielded a surprise: two specimens that preserve the features of a creature never seen or suspected to exist before. As Fraser tells the story, "It was touch and go for the specimen—certainly it was seconds away from biting the dust! I was on my own in the quarry splitting through the shale on a very hot, sultry day. Often, once the shale is split and exposed to air, the black surfaces become instantly covered with a layer of calcium carbonate, making it almost impossible to discern any fossils. This is exactly what happened with this specimen. I actually had it poised over my shoulder to throw, when the light just caught the ribs and threw them into relief. I took a second look, thought it was a coelacanth tail and put a field number on it. It was only at the end of the day when I was going through all the specimens with my field notes that I realized the 'tail' was right at the end of a small skull and long, slender neck!"
Fraser then remembered another enigmatic find he had made in 1994, which he almost threw away as unimportant. After twisting the slab of rock back and forth to get oblique lighting, he had decided there were faintly visible limbs on the slab and kept it.
"At that stage," Fraser recalls, grinning, "I thought I might have a gliding animal. Paul, on the other hand, thought I had been out in the sun too long and even questioned whether there was a fish there, let alone a glider!"
He and Olsen had never identified and studied the 1994 specimen because it was too difficult to prepare. They hoped this new specimen would answer their questions, but its preparation proved just as intractable. The surrounding stone, or matrix, was very hard and nearly the same color as the delicate fossilized bones. The danger of damaging the fossil was too great, leaving Fraser and Olsen with a serious problem. If the specimen could not be seen, then according to science it didn't exist.
At a meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontologists, one of the scientists who had tried to prepare the fossil mentioned the problem to Alan Walker, a paleontologist at the Pennsylvania State University. Walker suggested that Fraser bring the specimen to the Center for Quantitative Imaging at Penn State to see what the micro-CT scanner there could do with it.
The specimen was difficult to scan because the slab containing the fossil was thin and flat. Explains Tim Ryan of the imaging center, who worked on the specimen, "CT scanners don't particularly like flat, oblong things. They much prefer cylindrical sorts of objects. It was a test of the scanner and our ingenuity that we were able to get decent data from it."
Ryan placed the slab inside a plastic tube and filled the space around the slab with florist's foam to create a cylindrical object. In the computer, Ryan was able to subtract digitally both the matrix and the foam, leaving only images of the fossilized bones.
What he and Fraser saw was an extraordinary creature about 25 centimeters long. It was a long-necked, four-legged reptile with wings. Fraser, Olsen, Alton C. Dooley, Jr. (the assistant curator of paleontology at the Virginia Natural History Museum) and Ryan named the new species Mecistotrachelos apeoros, Greek for "long-necked soarer," in the June 2007 issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. This might be the first time that a new species has been named entirely on the basis of micro-CT images of specimens that cannot otherwise be seen.
The narrow, pointed skull of these specimens is only about two centimeters long and the neck is more than five centimeters long—unusual proportions compared with the relatively short-necked lizards of today. More startling are the bizarre, delicate ribs of Mecistotrachelos. In the 2003 specimen, these are draped along the upper spine like the ribs of a half-closed umbrella. The first rib, the one closest to the animal's head on each side, looks normal, but the next eight are exceptionally long. Some ribs are about seven centimeters—twice as long as the entire hind limb from hip to ankle.
The shape and arrangement of these bones indicate that Mecistotrachelos spread its ribs out sideways to support folds of skin that became gliding wings. Special muscles that attached to the heads of the second and third ribs manipulated the angle and curvature of the wings. These features suggest that Mecistotrachelos would have been very adept in the air.
The muscles for controlling the wings may have been especially important because of Mecistotrachelos's long neck. Many long-necked birds, such as herons, hold their necks in an S-shape when they fly, a position that helps keep the head and neck—and the rest of the body—stable in flight. Mecistotrachelos didn't have enough flexibility in its long neck to achieve this posture, so it must have glided with its neck outstretched despite the risk of crashing.
The bones of the hind foot of Mecistotrachelos are hooked for perching on vegetation, and its teeth suggest an insect diet. Although the fossils were found in what was once the deepest part of the lake, Fraser is certain they did not swim. "There is not a single aquatic adaptation in their skeletons," he says. "It seems likely that both specimens were blown off course and out over the lake, where they sank into the fine mud on the bottom and were preserved."
Part of the charm of this new species is that it is so unlike anything else. Only two other types of gliding reptiles are known from the Triassic and they are rather different. One, Sharovipteryx mirabilis or "Sharov's miraculous wing," was named after the Russian paleontologist Alexei Sharov, who described the only known specimen in 1971. It is a strange creature, with short front legs, very long hind legs and a long tail. Sharovipteryx has an especially odd anatomy, with a tiny front membrane stretched between its body and short front legs and another, much larger, triangular wing (similar to that of the Concorde supersonic jet) stretched between the tail and the long hind legs.
According to an aerodynamic analysis by Gareth J. Dyke of University College Dublin and colleagues in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology in 2006, the small front wing acted like a canard to control pitch. Speed was controlled by the reptile's spreading or closing its hind legs which in turn tautened or loosened the elastic membrane between them. Sharovipteryx glided in a manner similar to a delta-wing jet—not at all like Mecistotrachelos but in a completely original fashion.
The other type of gliding reptile is best represented by the species Icarosaurus siefkeri and its close relatives. Discovered in an abandoned quarry in New Jersey by three teenaged amateur paleontologists, Icarosaurus siefkeri wasnamed both for the mythical flyer Icarus and for one of the discoverers, Alfred Siefker. Icarosaurus has a short neck and feet that are not strongly hooked like those of Mecistotrachelos. Perching on a small branch would have required muscular effort for Icarosaurus.
Both Mecistotrachelos and Icarosaurus glided on membranous wings supported by elongated ribs that could be spread laterally, but the two species had some key differences in the shape and curvature of their gliding structures. When Icarosaurus spread its ribs, the shape of the bones dictated a concave lower surface. The wings thus had a fixed curvature, or camber, in the language of aeronautics. Because of this, its aerial maneuvers were probably less controlled and less subtle than those of Mecistotrachelos. In contrast, Mecistotrachelos's ribs are straight in the portions farther away from the backbone, and the animal could have changed camber with muscles that moved the first rib on each side up or down.
A puzzling question is how—or whether—rib-gliders like Mecistotrachelos were able to breathe while gliding. Because the ribs had to remain outstretched to provide lift, they could not have moved much to pump air in and out of the lungs. Fraser guesses that Mecistotrachelos probably held its breath while in flight. Although the species is too primitive to be considered a lizard, he says, it is important to realize that "most lizards today do not breathe while they locomote—or at least there is very inefficient breathing going on—due to Carrier's constraint."
Carrier's constraint is named for David R. Carrier at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who observed that the typical sprawling gait of a lizard restricts the animal's ability to breathe while running or walking. As it moves, a lizard bends its body first to one side to take a step with one front leg and the opposite hind leg simultaneously. Then the animal bends its body the other way to take the next step. The lung on the bent side of the body is compressed, which squeezes the air into the opposite lung, and the next step reverses the process. Used air is shunted back and forth, and the creature never gets a chance to take a new breath. Carrier's constraint explains why these reptiles tend to have much less stamina than similar-sized mammals: Lizards simply run out of oxygen to fuel their muscles. Most are limited to short bursts of muscle-powered movement before they go into oxygen debt and must rest. By contrast, Fraser notes, "we don't think these gliders propelled themselves through the air by wiggling back and forth as if they were walking."
Some lizards take in oxygen while they are moving by gulping air into their mouths and throat sacs, a mechanism called gular pumping, and Mecistotrachelos might have done the same. It would not have needed as much oxygen while gliding as creatures require when running or walking. Fraser admits, "I am not sure how this animal with its very narrow thorax would have breathed even when the ribs were not in use for gliding."
Basic questions about the biology of these animals and the mechanics of rib-gliding remain mysterious. Apparently, this bizarre adaptation evolved twice, once in Icarosaurus and once in the unrelated Mecistotrachelos. Hind-leg gliding evolved independently in the Sharovipteryx lineage. Who would have expected gliding to be so prevalent in the Triassic? Who would have thought there were so many ways to evolve gliding anatomy?
This beautiful species represents a deliciously new kind of animal. In my years as a student of past life on Earth, I have come to believe that evolution, viewed over the span of eons, is more innovative than the most inspired human designer. Again and again, the record of the past has revealed extraordinary creatures and startling adaptations to ecological pressures no one envisioned. In this case, human cleverness, itself a product of evolution, has built a machine that parts the curtains of time and stone to show us a wonder-full, otherwise invisible, being.
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Good luck, Bryan. Although I agree with your summary and believe that the Yanks DO eke out the win, personally I found better value in the A's RL at about the same price. I'm sure you know the reason why? The Bombers' bullpen was taxed pretty heavily last night and we know it can be a circus at the best of times. Only Soriano has seen Pom and is hitless in his last 6 games. Not sure that the unfamiliarity will be as much of an edge here? Tanaka will certainly go deeper, however unless he goes complete the A's will get a look at that bullpen. I think we are looking at a 4-3 Yanks' W......if the 'pen holds. GL, buddy. Perhaps we can both cash it......
Agree with your points Bryan, but can't pass on getting Oakland at this price, along with a better bullpen in Oakland. If they are in it late, I give Oakland a better shot.
Oaklands has the better but likely more tired pen.. Their key guys pitched 2 nights in a row.. Last night the yanks didn't use Robertson Kelley or Betances and while there's been a little inconsistency lately there all 3 have been solid for the most part.. I'd actually give pen advantage NYY here
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Ansie wrote:Shit now I started something.... Erm I didn't mean to insinuate that Jacques is going to write a guide and publish it as a book, but while we were talking I got the impression that he has done most of the doable problems that are in the area, that he had very good descriptions of said problems and that he planned to (at least) put the descriptions somewhere on the lovely and convenient InterWeb so that others can find it.
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The Pleasanton Weekly and its sister online publications -- Dublin Tri-Valley Views, San Ramon Express and Danville Express -- presented their first-ever Tri-Valley Heroes awards Monday night at the Pleasanton Hilton Hotel as nearly 100 family members and community supporters cheered those receiving the special honors.
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Dear All,
Hopefully someone can shed light on this subject for me. I just did a thorough inspection of my hive yesterday. Although I went into the winter with a very strong and vibrant hive with about twenty full combs, my inspection revealed the following:
1. a few combs still had plenty of honey left, which is a good thing.
2. Bees present on only about 2-3 combs, and if I were to guess, only a couple of hundred bees total. Finally found my queen with her head in a cell!!!!
3. The one comb that had brood on it, probably had only 50 at most total of eggs and larvae.
So, my question, I am in Southern New York where we are experiencing a relatively cold Spring. Days recently have only gotten into the 50's and the nights are still in the 40's.
Is this right or is there something wrong with my queen where she should be laying a lot more eggs but isn't??
Should I be concerned, or just wait for the weather to warm up and the workers to become more active in foraging and thereby strengthening the queen's egg laying abilities?
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I felt from the beginning that jaun Pablo was Much to self centered to even realize what a 0 he even is!l totally believe that he has a real mental problem,don't laugh,its a serious condition,and gets by because no one wants to admit it!of course he's a doll,but what else really!l no a lot about personality illness,and l have only seen one other man who acted exactly like main,we don't see it much in society, yah there are man and women who are totally in love with them selves all the time,but this is pretty normal.no what main has is not normal,he is so scared of giving of himself that he can share at any level.l see he is a good father but how will he be when she grows up!if he doesn't share his life with others the older he gets the worse hell get,and at one point hell look back and see that things are what he thought they were and then he will be vary lonely!good luck to you jaun pablo
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It's a silly show and I'm silly for watching it but come on…if Juan Pablo didn't feel it, he didn't feel it…he would have been under so much pressure from the show who are only interested in a fantasy ending..would they have been happier if he wasn't honest and proposed at the end of the show like all the others who later broke up?? Good on Juan Pablo for staying true to himself. I didn't think Nikki was a nice person anyway, look at the way she treated Clare and by the looks of it a lot of other girls didn't like her. It's all in the editing and Chris was so patronising all in the name of ratings.
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I cannot stand juan pablo. Just looking at him for the first time today , since the show, makes me sick. He is selfish, ONLY INTO HIMSELF!!!! He dont care about Nikki, he cant, he is to self centered. I guarantee there breakup is real. She is a fool to keep taking him back. Is she that desperate?? Why would you want him?? He is an A*(* Ho)(*!!! to say it lightly. I have never watched a bachelor or bachorlette where I just hated the main person. I am glad that Andi found love!!!! I think on the special last night that the runner up ran his mouth and said that they made love. I think you should have kept that to yourself. He is a sad puppy dog, and keeps wanting awnsers. ITS OVER, GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE, FIND SOMEBODY ELSE!!!! But getting back to juan pablo, I think you should just stay in front of your mirror and keep jelling your hair, and play soccer, you dont belong with anyone but yourself!!!
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Well I don't know if you feel the same as you did when you made your post. I am quite certain most people like 99.9 % think this ill mannered, self centered, fool only cares about himself, his poor little girl, I do Pray she has a wonderful loving Mommy whom is always putting her child first. For a man how said his little girl was so important to him and will always be the most important person in the world to him, somehow is in no photo with him and is little Blonde FOOL!!! Nickki;s. Sean and Katherine want nothing to do with him and his trashie was.I Pray to God the child,s mother left the Country to spare themselves,mostly his young child.I have no doubt his child,s mother ,due to the constant they would have had to grow up around everyday. And as for Nikkie's Parenrs I wii continue to Pray for them ,as I am sure they to do that their child wakes uo , onw morning and realizes what a horrible she has madw and return home to her loving parents Thanks God


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A Classic Last Windrow from 1983
As promised, I am entering some "Classic Last Windrow" columns on this, the 30th year anniversary of writing The Last Windrow.
I've dug into the fireproof files and come up with 30 years of columns. I've sorted through them and relived a whole lot of my history over those years. Some of the columns were winners, some were clunkers, but they all told a little bit of my journey.
What follows is the first column I wrote in 1983. It was actually typed on a real typewriter using carbon paper for a copy. I hope you enjoy some of the "classics!"
The Last Windrow by John Wetrosky-April 1983
I'm beginning to write this column in order to document some of the small farm experiences that I and so many others experienced during the small farm era of the 1950s and 1960s. I had the luck of having been able to attend a real country school and watch my dad open a field of corn with horses. The school no longer exists and the horses are no longer pulling the wagon.
Our countryside was dotted with farmsteads, each occupying a quarter section or more of land. A few "large" farms consisted of a half section and no one at the time even dreamed of farming more than a section of ground.
We raised hogs, fat cattle, milk cows, chickens, ducks, corn, oats, sorghum, alfalfa and red clover. Saturdays were days when we traveled to LeMars or Sioux City to deliver our 30-dozen capacity egg cases and cream cans to those businesses that wrote us a check. Afterward, my parents bought our groceries, clothing and other essentials needed for life in the country.
I want to write a column about the life that I loved so much. The day of the Model A John Deere and the WD Allis Chalmers tractor. A time when it still took a day to plow 20 acres. When hay was still baled by a crew of men and women and stacked by hand. An era when our farm animals were still allowed to roam free around the barnyard instead of being packed inside buildings where they never saw open sunlight.
The farm scene is stressed today, 1983. The hog market is in the trough, excuse the pun. Corn prices are hovering at a level that is not conducive to paying bills. There has been an exodus of people from the country to the suburbs. When politicians now speak of the "small, family farm" they are not speaking about the type of farm I grew up on, but rather a farm that is managed to the nth degree and where the risks are enormous. A "small, family farm" today can be multiple sections of land and livestock is raised in a factory fashion.
My column, The Last Windrow, is written with some historical perspective intended. Those who have worked on a small farm know that a windrow is a row of hay, oats, wheat or rye that is waiting to be harvested. I used to "windrow" grain and I as I was close to finishing a field, I found myself tending to drift off into a daydream mode. I thought of the day, the year, my family, fishing, hunting, cars and just about any subject that entered my head as the tractor jarred me along toward home. It was a relaxing and redefining exercise. That is what this column will be about.
The small farm that I and many others knew is a part of our collective history, but the lessons acquired there are precious to me.
Now you know the reason this column will exist and I'll continue to write it until I run out of material or until my readers quit reading it. I hope it lasts for a few years! (Last Windrow-April 1983)
That column was written 30 years ago. The lessons are still true, the humor is still funny (I think) and I still have readers. Life has been good to The Last Windrow!
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Service to the community takes time and energy. That energy can be spent smashing windows and tearing down sheetrock. Or it can be spent listening and trying to solve problems for others.
Members of the newest class of Bonner Leaders at Washburn University's Learning in the Community program did both on a recent two-day trip to Omaha, Neb.
During the trip, 24 Washburn students worked with Omaha's inCommon Community Development. While helping to gut a building the students began their orientation to the year-long service commitment they have made to a local group or agency. They also received training from inCommon, a non-profit neighborhood-based service provider, on how to listen to someone's story to discover how best to help them.
"What we did got us started for what's to come in the future for all of us," said Ashley Haltom, an incoming sophomore from Wichita studying elementary education.
Junior Levi Keller said the listening training prepared them all to do meaningful work. Personally, said Keller, a Topekan who is studying biology with a pre-medicine emphasis, "I'm here to learn people's stories." Knowing how to do that well will "cause me to be a better practitioner, a better human being and to be able to return things back to the community."
Rick Ellis, director of the LinC program, said the timing was perfect for LinC and inCommon Community Development to partner. The Omaha group recently took possession of a nearly 100-year-old warehouse it hopes will open next year as Park Avenue Commons, a community support center. The agency needed help with demolition and LinC needed listening project trainers.
"We believe this is something [our students] can implement in working here in Topeka," Ellis said of the listening project training.
Calvin Smothers, Park Avenue Commons director, said the Ichabods were a great asset.
"They did a fabulous job. We got tons done that day," he said of the demolition. And he was impressed with the LinC program's mission. "That group, what they're doing is amazing. It's a great opportunity for those students."
Smothers said any listening project has three phases. The students were trained on how to research a topic, listen to those affected by that topic and then organize around it.
Delanie Atterberry, a junior in psychology from Topeka, said the training taught her how to "listen to a complete stranger and how to get to know their story."
Maureen Magana-Rodriguez, a sophomore in biology from Topeka who plans to open a free clinic in Mexico after graduation from medical school, said she was inspired.
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