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In the 2010 session of the Indiana General Assembly, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has proposed or supported consumer-friendly legislation. The Attorney General's legislative team attends committee hearings and floor votes of the Indiana House of Representatives and Indiana Senate. The team testifies at hearings and works to inform legislators about the impact on consumers that bills would have if they become law. Deputy Attorney General David Miller leads the legislative team.
Here is a summary of the major bills the Attorney General supported in the 2010 session of the Legislature that passed into law.
Bill Update: Approved on third reading in the Indiana House by a vote of 85-2 on Feb. 2 passed in the Senate Insurance and Financial Institutions on Feb. 18 by a vote of 9-0; approved 50-0 on third reading in the Senate Feb. 25. Conference committee report approved March 12 by a 50-0 vote in the Senate and by a 96-0 vote in the House; signed into law by the Governor March 25.
Legislation supported by Attorney General Greg Zoeller will make important clarifications to Indiana laws to block unscrupulous operators from committing mortgage fraud.
The Attorney General's Office has investigated numerous for-profit companies that claim to offer foreclosure-rescue services for a fee. Such offers might be fraudulent or provide minimal assistance to distressed homeowners; moreover, free mortgage assistance advice is offered through the Indiana Foreclosure Prevention Network at 1-877-GET-HOPE.
The legislation passed March 12 says any for-profit company offering foreclosure consultant services must show that it has obtained a surety bond, by filing the bond with the Attorney General's Office. Such bonds are an insurance policy in case a company defrauds a consumer. Although state law already requires credit-services organizations to carry surety bonds, they have not had to prove it by filing their bonds with the state. The legislation adds a criminal penalty for a knowing violation of the foreclosure consultant statute.
To curb other practices that could lead to abuses, the legislation says that only a financial institution or title insurance company can maintain a borrower's escrow account and it prohibits other entities from doing so. If a real-estate broker's license is suspended, then the state Real Estate Commission would take custody of the broker's trust funds, the legislation says. It adds a notice requirement to purchasers in land contracts when a property is encumbered.
The legislation also adds debt settlement companies and companies that negotiate interest-rate reductions to the Credit Services Organizations Act, and it requires all credit-service organizations to file surety bonds with the Attorney General's Office before doing business.
Bill Update: Approved on third reading in the Senate by a vote of 50-0 on Feb. 2; passed in the House Public Health Feb. 17 by a vote of 11-0; approved on third reading in the House Feb. 25 by a vote of 94-0; the Senate on March 8 concurred with House changes 38-7; signed into law by the Governor March 18.
The Attorney General's ID Theft Unit helped prevent a data breach of patients' personal health information in November 2009, when the Attorney General's Office seized 21 boxes of medical records that were discovered abandoned in a South Bend office building that once housed a physicians' practice.
Legislation supported by Attorney General Greg Zoeller would establish procedures for the attorney general to obtain and secure abandoned health records or other records with personal identifying information and destroy them or return them to their owners. Health professionals who leave such records unsecured in violation of state law would be subject to fines; the fines collected would be used to create a trust fund to pay for the costs of securing and maintaining those types of records.
In Indiana, health professionals – such as doctors and nurses – are licensed and regulated by health licensing boards. Many nonhealth professionals – such as plumbers, accountants, engineers and funeral directors – also are regulated by state professional licensing boards. Occasionally, individuals practice a profession illegally without holding a license – putting patients and consumers at risk. Under current law, board members' options to stop an unlicensed practice are limited.
The proposal the Attorney General supports would make the law consistent and give various licensing boards the legal power to issue cease-and-desist orders and prohibit unlicensed persons from practicing – thus protecting patients and consumers.
HB 1083: Approved on third reading in the House by a vote of 93-0 on Jan. 25 passed in the Senate Commerce, Public Policy and Interstate Cooperation Committee on Feb. 17 by a vote of 8-0; approved on third reading in the Senate, 50-0, on Feb. 25, ; signed into law by the Governor March 12.
Indiana is the only state in the nation where the state Attorney General's Office administers the Unclaimed Property program. Indiana returns millions of dollars worth of dormant bank accounts, uncashed checks lost securities and forgotten store credits to their owners or heirs.
Attorney General Greg Zoeller supports legislation to reduce from the current five years to three years the time period by which property is considered abandoned and can be reclaimed through the Unclaimed Property Program.
Bill Update: Approved on third reading in the Senate by a vote of 50-0 on Feb. 2 passed in the House Judiciary Committee Feb. 16 by a vote of 5-2; approved on third reading in the House Feb. 25 by a vote of 93-2; signed into law by the Governor March 17.
The Indiana Attorney General is the lawyer for state government agencies. If the constitutionality of a state law is challenged by a plaintiff, then the Attorney General defends that statute in court.
Attorney General Zoeller supports legislation to update state law so that local courts in the 92 counties would have to notify his office whenever a plaintiff files a lawsuit seeking to declare a law unconstitutional. It would allow him to intervene in such a lawsuit and present arguments to the court about the constitutionality of the statute.
The legislation also would permit the Attorney General to file a "friend-of-the-court" brief, also called an amicus brief, in any lawsuit in Indiana without seeking the court's permission first. Often seen in U.S. Supreme Court cases, amicus briefs are filed by interested parties who are not participants in the lawsuit at hand but who want to make legal arguments to the court.


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Monday, April 20, 2009
I & R 3: Avant-Garde and Twitch
What follows ought to have been composed for a much longer format than a blog post. It's a little sprawling, but it lays out some ideas that I've wanted to sketch for a while now. Here are the last of my reflections on the dyspepsia of illustration, and an attempt to locate possible causes of same.
I'm attracted to commercial visual culture as a subject of study in part due to issues of class. As in social class. Illustrators in the modern period have produced work for consumption by the middle classes. Lacking a genuine aristocracy (as opposed to a category of people with gobs more money than everybody else) our culture has always been dominated by commercial forms. It's worth reviewing Clement Greenberg's sketch of modern cultural development in "Avant Garde and Kitsch":
Kitsch is a product of the industrial revolution which urbanized the masses of Western Europe and America and established what is called universal literacy.
Prior to this the only market for formal culture, as distinguished from folk culture, had been among those who, in addition to being able to read and write, could command the leisure and comfort that always goes hand in hand with cultivation of some sort. This until then had been inextricably associated with literacy. But with the introduction of universal literacy, the ability to read and write became almost a minor skill like driving a car, and it no longer served to distinguish an individual's cultural inclinations, since it was no longer the exclusive concomitant of refined tastes.
(Greenberg continues) The peasants who settled in the cities as proletariat and petty bourgeois learned to read and write for the sake of efficiency, but they did not win the leisure and comfort necessary for the enjoyment of the city's traditional culture. Losing, nevertheless, their taste for the folk culture whose background was the countryside, and discovering a new capacity for boredom at the same time, the new urban masses set up a pressure on society to provide them with a kind of culture fit for their own consumption. To fill the demand of the new market, a new commodity was devised: ersatz culture, kitsch, destined for those who, insensible to the values of genuine culture, are hungry nevertheless for the diversion that only culture of some sort can provide.
Save for the nose-wrinkling, Greenberg is quite correct. Early mass culture was manufactured in part to meet economic opportunity. Its producers also sought to create cheap new cultural experiences–new human expressions–appropriate for an urban context. And yes, the manifestations of this new culture were often modified versions of pre-existing forms. One cannot imagine the modern situation comedy television show without Moliere. But culture is always evolving. And to note that economic motives played (and continue to play) both creative and circumscribing roles in the story does not invalidate it. Rather, it makes it more interesting. The intersection of technological change, commercial opportunity, distributive innovation and aesthetic skill provide a dynamic equation worthy of close study.
I'd argue that Greenberg's "genuine" culture is just desacralized religious culture, which–as modernity advances–bequeaths its "ultimate concern" (in the language of Tillich) to the arts. This genuine culture dispenses with the explicitly religious, even as it retains the notion of a spiritual quest. God dies, and leaves a whiff of metaphysics behind.
And yet. Mostly, art retains its prestige because of its alliance with the upper classes, (which, not incidentally, traditionally controlled religion). Today's art establishment sees itself as progressive. In academic-ideological terms, it might be. But structurally speaking, art relies on its proximity to class and wealth. That is: art hangs out with money. Old money. Classy new money. Philanthropic money. Serious money.
That an alliance–or something more simply transactional–exists between the ruling classes and the art establishment does not seem open to debate. That connection may be growing thinner, and might be powerfully vulnerable to changes in the tax code. Pull the exemption on charitable donations, and perhaps things will change. But only somewhat.
I have a little populist streak in me, I guess. I simply prefer the popular arts. I enjoy them not because I think they are more authentic–they're not–but because they lack pretense. I attribute this to the utter secularity of these arts. Popeye cannot not have a metaphysics, unless spinach be asked to do serious work indeed.
Commercial culture is never convincing about anything beyond the here and now. It's completely presentist, and committed to making a sale: shave and a haircut / two bits. Secular mass culture may be empty, or cheaply aspirational. But nobody has ever burned down a village over it. (Though that should hardly be taken for innocence. The here-and-now has included profitable bigotry and loads of pictorial mischief.) But popular works are embedded in the everyday–they tell you things about your culture straightforwardly. Even–especially–when the news is bad. I like that.
Illustrators and cartoonists work for the middle classes. They narrate, spell out, amuse, tweak. But these functional territories do not sit beyond the bounds of taste. On the contrary. In the absence of art-theoretical preoccupations, taste provides a crucial differentiator. Charm, wit, elegance: these are markers of refinement, of style. The critic Clive Bell, author of that slippery concept significant form, once suggested that the best way to cultivate visual taste was to go to a decorative arts museum and contemplate chairs: which is best? Indeed, it is a useful exercise.
Consider midcentury illustrated magazine spreads. On what basis shall we compare works, if not in terms of taste, of visual panache? Assuming that the content is significantly outdated, why would we do such a thing at all, if not to experience and contemplate visual pleasure?
In this respect Greenberg's account contains an error. To claim that popular works–examples of kitsch–lack seriousness (or alternatively, pretense) is not to argue that they lack rigor. The fetching ditty has been fashioned, even as it sounds tossed off. At this late date who would argue a) that Rodgers and Hammerstein did not make significant contributions to American culture, and b) that John Cage did? The Broadway song travels from brassy show to arty jazz and back. The best commercial visual work can support similarly diverse readings–grounded in cultural function, bound to then-contemporary social relations, available for aesthetic experience, limited by the bounds of arguable interpretation.
Much has changed since the publication of "Avante Garde and Kitsch." But the seriousness of cultural and academic engagement with visual works from the commercial tradition remains stunted. That such works were generated for the middle classes for commercial purposes has a great deal to do with it.
I will confess that my own interest in these things has something to do with the forbidden cultural pleasure of contemplating them. Having grown up in a place that lacked "culture," but which was dominated by culture (the ersatz warrior culture of high school sports) I have always wondered about the crucial stuff that remains invisible in plain sight.
Illustration somehow has managed to be everywhere and invisible at the same time. Illustrators have typically emerged from the bourgeoisie to produce works for the bourgeoisie. "Advanced" culture does not pay attention to such stuff. It's almost as if you need night vision goggles to see it all. (Of course at this late date media forms have become completely enmeshed, and their audiences extremely sophisticated. Really, who needs Dada when you can watch Adult Swim?)
The work of illustrators has served commercial interests and directly addressed consumers, who have been perfectly happy to be addressed in this way. By playing to and with the commercial classes, publishers and illustrators created a new realm in practical opposition to high culture. The word kitsch is poorly suited to describe such material, because it presupposes that works from this new realm are categorically objectionable. As a term, kitsch enshrines the judgment of the high cultural ruling class. Thus, illustration was (and largely remains) vulgar.
Which brings us to the subject of resentment. The exclusion of illustration from respectable high cultural precincts has stung. Many illustrators have battled a persistent self-loathing, muttering to themselves how they'd reposition themselves as painters if only they could break free of the clients and the checks.
I don't want to be rated as an illustrator trying to paint, but as a painter who has shaken the dust of the illustrator from his heels! –N.C.Wyeth, from a letter to his mother, September 13, 1915.
Such protestations may suggest guilt and shame, emotions which often yield resentment. Historically speaking, illustrators' self-image is a big subject, worthy of much more research and reflection. But for a host of reasons, the culture of illustration fostered resentment in other respects. Until the mid 1950s, stylistic expectations limited the available visual choices for illustrators. Except for the smartest and most adaptive, like Al Parker (who I think really saw himself as a designer in pictures, as opposed to an illustrator in the standard sense–an advantage in these respects) most illustrators operated in a box of sorts. The forties and fifties saw an explosion of American variants of modernism. Illustrators were trained in traditional modes, and especially periodical illustration continued to call for traditionally grounded work, even as the end of that market loomed. The folks who worked in jazz packaging(David Stone Martin, Jim Flora) and animation design during those decades assimilated modernism very successfully. Editorial work in the Color TV era adapted conceptually and visually. But many illustrators have continued to work in traditional modes for specified markets all along, and workaday realities plus the inexorable shrinkage of such markets have produced alienation, disorientation and yes, resentment. The phone just doesn't ring as often. And now that the money is gone, the compensatory power of market rewards can't salve the wound of cultural separation, even exclusion.
Western visual modernism was a world-historical cultural achievement. For more than 50 years, from the end of the 1880s through the early 1940s, visual thought occupied a leading position in Western culture. The commercial arts played a modest role in these developments, and exploited the opportunity they afforded to create new experiences of lasting value. The best of the commercial practitioners generated work of distinction that transcends its moment and function. We can argue about when modernism lost its nerve and thus its force, but its centrality to 20th century culture cannot be denied.
Some in our field have begrudged or disputed the claims–or more accurately, the status–of modernism. The debate in this space about discussions of the merits of Gary Panter and Kerry James Marshall have captured the sense of such challenges. I recognize that David Apatoff has diverse tastes, and that he himself is not an anti-modern. But echoes from the "pot of paint flung in the face of the public," Ruskin's memorable diction re Whistler, have not died out. Traditional heel-diggers-in have never been without an audience, from Kenyon Cox to Thomas Hart Benton to scores since. To be sure, an insistence upon appropriate craft cannot be negotiatied away. But relevance is the more important question. The draftsmanship of Leonardo can be (and is) replicated en masse in Chinese art schools (which may have dented their nation's trade imbalance through the mass importation of plaster casts). What makes Leonardo Leonardo is not that he could draw, but that he could think with his mind and eyes and hands in a way that propelled his culture forward in available, powerful ways at a given moment in time. Of course that moment is gone. Contemporary Da Vincis obviously won't practice painting, an antiquarian activity in the 21st century.
Illustration as a communicative mode long predates illustration as a profession. The latter was a creation of technology, distribution, demographics and economics. The people who got good at making functional pictures between the American Civil War and the one we fought in Vietnam were just lucky to be alive in a century when such work commanded high value. But illustration in a market economy is just a kind of commerical picture-making. Its value is always contingent on the realities of the moment, which are relentlessly shaped by advancing technologies and entrepreneurial realities. The page will soon yield to the screen. Alas, illustration did not develop a theory of itself in time to respond to these new realities. It has only a set of practices. Which has produced more disorientation, alienation, and resentment.
Illustration is finally aligned with knowledge, not taste. It harkens back to illumination, to shedding light. Discovery is always current, never precious or preserving. Insofar as I am committed to consideration of the field and its history, it is to shed light on our time, not to enshrine a bygone era. The resentment I have sought to identify and decry is that of a past mourned, and more significantly, a present resisted.
I will try to provide image citations in coming days.
6 comments:
- mahendra singh said...
I especially liked this:
"illustration did not develop a theory of itself in time to respond to these new realities … only a set of practices. Which has produced more disorientation, alienation, and resentment:.
That really nails it for me. We (fully-trained) illustrators are as doomed today as a classically-trained Greco-Roman sculptor would have been when the Roman Empire began to disintegrate.
For myself, I focus mostly on an elite market of educated tastes. Although 50 (or even 25) years ago this market was considered middle-class, it is evolving into an elitist upper class and this is where my artistic style & sensibilities gravitate naturally. This market will shrink, inevitably, and in perhaps 50 years, will become the sole preserve of antiquarians and super-rich collectors — the Medicis 2.0, perhaps?
Change and decay and rebirth are the natural order of things, the visual traditions that we love so much will mostly vanish for a long time but that is all (quite literally) immaterial! The human impetus behind them will always muddle through!
The spirit of Lascaux is in our genes!
Please continue these researches of yours, very fruitful I think.
- April 21, 2009 at 5:28 PM
- DB Dowd said...
Mahendra, you are wise to recognize the inevitable cycles of taste, even to celebrate and mourn them--simulaneously! I'm not certain that an antiquarian position awaits all graceful realists: the related arts of illusion (theatre and film, especially) will continue to require such spectacles. But literary or textually-based visual experiences may well grow rarer, as you suggest.
- April 27, 2009 at 9:26 PM
- 600 Series said...
This was a really enjoyable read. And this is my new favorite bon mot:
"Popeye cannot not have a metaphysics, unless spinach be asked to do serious work indeed."
- May 8, 2009 at 1:35 PM
- Owen Hunter said...
Hey, this is great!
I studied illustration in school but found myself gravitating away from it, as it played into the 'evil capitalist empire' that was busy tearing itself apart at the seams while I attended college. I began to scramble in a panic towards painting, assured by mountains of art history books that this was the true path to spiritual enlightenment.
I needn't repeat what you've just written, I just want to thank you for an eloquent and positive interpretation of such things.
Good riddance to false idols.
- August 18, 2009 at 1:46 AM
- Owen Hunter said...
This isn't exactly related per se - but it does show an interesting connection between illustration and the fine arts.
David Hockney is probably the single artist who most dismantled my preconceptions of art and illustration, mostly through his books 'The Secret Knowledge' and a series of conversations titled 'Hockney on 'Art.'' The fact that he is such a highly regarded painter today is quite telling, considering that his sensibilities, those of optimism, representation, and a logical understanding of process. However he has been mythologized among the ultra-rich, he is an exceedingly pragmatic and helpful individual in his writings and dialogues.
As his career progressed, and following his 'joiners' which earned him a great deal of acclaim, he says he began to insert the concepts that he learned back into painting. What came forward was a highly simplified style in which landscapes were presented on a more frontal, vertically oriented manner that engaged the lateral movement of the eye - resulted in an image that was viewed in a similar fashion to a map. They resemble landscapes by El Greco, to be sure. But from what I've seen from the work it ultimately amounts to a highly literate form of cartooning.
When an artist in any medium puts forward his or her ideas and creations in an effort to educate, it helps to form connections between that medium and the entirety of human beings' artistic endeavors.
- August 18, 2009 at 2:05 AM
- DB Dowd said...
Owen, thanks for your comments. Yes, Hockney is an intriguing figure: somehow a workman, a dandy and a promoter all at once. And the painting-versus-illustration conversation can seem at once vital and ludicrous.
I have been working in another patch of the garden in recent months--it was helpful to be brought back to this material. Fresh percolation...
- August 18, 2009 at 9:15 AM


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Declining Bee Populations Pose
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The danger that the decline of bees and other pollinators represents to the world's food supply was highlighted this week when the European Commission decided to ban a class of pesticides suspected of playing a role in so-called "colony collapse disorder."
by elizabeth grossman
Elizabeth Grossman is the author of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health,and other books. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Salon, The Washington Post, The Nation, Mother Jones, Grist, and other publications. In earlier articles for Yale e360, she explored the potentially harmful health effects of flame retardants, and reported on recent studies suggesting a possible link between prenatal exposure to pesticides and the mental abilities of children.
No one investigating the issue is suggesting that neonicotinoids are the sole cause of current bee declines. Tucker, other beekeepers, and entomologists say that the cause of colony collapse disorder is likely a combination of factors that includes the widespread use of pesticides and fungicides, as well as the spread of viral pathogens and parasitic mites in beehives. While mites and diseases have long been known to cause significant declines in domesticated bee populations, no single pathogen or parasite, say entomologists, appears to sufficiently explain the current rate of hive collapse.
A recent study that found unprecedented levels of agricultural pesticides — some at toxic levels — in honeybee colonies is prompting entomologists to look more closely at the role of neonicotinoids in current bee declines. Some studies have indicated that neonicotinoids can lead to a sharp decline in queen bees in colonies and can also interfere with the ability of bees to navigate back to their hives. James Frazier, a professor of entomology at Pennsylvania State University, said more research needs to be conducted into whether neonicotinoids, particularly in combination with other pesticides, may suppress the immune system of bees at "sub-lethal" levels, enabling diseases to take hold.
"This is uncharted territory," said Purdue University associate professor of entomology Christian Krupke. "We've never done pest management like this before."
In the U.S., neonicotinoids are currently used on about 95% of corn and canola crops; the majority of cotton, sorghum, and sugar beets; and about half of all soybeans. They're also used on the vast majority of fruit and vegetable crops, including apples, cherries, peaches, oranges, berries, leafy greens, tomatoes, and potatoes. Neonicotinoids are also applied to cereal grains, rice, nuts, and wine grapes.
Charles Benbrook, research professor at Washington State University's Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, has estimated that neonicotinoids are used on approximately 75 percent of the acres devoted to these crops in the U.S. They are also widely used on landscaping plants and urban trees and in numerous home garden pest-control products — all in places frequented by bees, domesticated and wild.
"There is no place to go hide," says New York beekeeper Jim Doan, a director of the American Beekeeping Federation."The outlook is not good."
When governments around the world registered and approved these insecticides for use in the 1990s, many questions about the environmental impacts of neonicotinoids were left unanswered. Neonicotinoids were welcomed as a safer alternative to previous generations of pesticides, 'These compounds are a nightmare scenario for pollinators,' says one beekeeper. particularly organochlorines (such as DDT) and organophosphates, which have known adverse environmental and human health effects. Neonicotinoids attack insects by harming their nervous systems and are considered of low toxicity to mammals. They are also typically used as systemic pesticides — meaning that they stay with the plant as it grows — and are applied as seed treatments, to roots, or into tree trunks, rather than applied with as a spray. This greatly reduces the potential for human exposure compared to other pesticides.
But because the insecticide stays with the plant as it grows, it raises questions about the potential for bees to be exposed through nectar, pollen, or leaf surface moisture, where a growing number of studies are finding evidence of neonicotinoids. Neonicotinoids are known to be toxic to bees, earthworms, and other terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates, as was noted in documents submitted to the EPA when they were registered.
"The motivation for producing neonicotinoids was reduced human toxicity, but the environmental and ecosystem impacts were not considered in enough detail to predict what's going on," says Frazier of Penn State.
"These compounds are a nightmare scenario for pollinators," says Steve Ellis, a Minnesota-based beekeepeer whose bees primarily pollinate California almonds. "There is no way to prevent exposure to these chemicals. The only question is the exposure level, whether that is a problem or not. The pesticide industry claims not. The beekeeping industry says yes."
Both Doan and Ellis have experienced dramatic losses of bees in recent years, including complete hive failures. Both say their bees and hives have tested positive for neonicotinoids. Yet in both cases the agricultural authorities and pesticide manufacturers who participated in testing the damaged hives said the insecticides' presence was not conclusively linked to the bees' deaths. Doan and Ellis are now part of the lawsuit filed against the EPA.


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The act of ejaculating on a woman's behind as she lies on her stomach, then rubbing the ejaculate across her butt cheeks with the tip of your penis. The end result being that her butt cheeks are covered in a glaze which depending on nationality may in fact resemble a glazed plain bagel.
As Julie lie on the bed near the window, John stood in awe as the glazed bagel he had just given Julie was twinkling in the moonlight ever so beautifully.
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Rush Soccer European Coaching Education Trip
In December of 2012 Rush Soccer took 12 coaches on the first Rush European Coaching Education trip, taking in France, Holland and for some Spain. The trip included visits to and watching games of Paris St. Germain, FC Porto, Lille, Barcelona and Real Madrid as well as visiting some of the best Academy Training facilities in Europe including home of the French National team at Clairefontaine.
The twelve day trip was assisted by friends of Rush including French Football Federation and UEFA delegate Luarent Papillon, Frederic Lipka and Paris St. Germains Michael Collat. Click on this link to read the full report, recommendations and interviews with the Lille and Clairefontaine Acdaemy Directors.
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I love being hated by the rest of the league. Heck if we could run up the score on teams the rest of the year I am all for it. Just do what the Pats did back in 07. That is why I like the Patriots and respect them cause they are arrogant and can back it up. Hopefully we can win out the rest of our games but I doubt it. We dont have it this year. I say 9-7 at best. Always next year.
The Packers deserved to win the game...Do I care they lost? No I don't. Uh-oh this means homer patrol. Karma ....peace
"You killed my family, and I don't like that kind of thing."
Were the Patriots of the NFC. Of course everyone is happy we got screwed.
Don't you have to have multiple championships in the past decade to be the Patriots of the NFC?
Yep giants own the patriots and the patriots of the NFC. Makes sense.
**** happens.
We got jobbed in BOTH of the games we played against GB last season, including a play that caused a 4 point swing in what ended up being a 3 point game.


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Automated underwater vehicles go where people cannot, filling in crucial details about weather, ecosystems, and Earth's changing climate.
Oscar Schofield, Scott Glenn, Mark Moline
Update from the authors about the May 2014 catastrophic failure of the robot Nereus:
"The Nereus, one of the few systems capable of deep ocean exploration, likely suffered an implosion during its mission. The Nereus was exploring the deep Kermadec Trench and was working under extremely high pressures, highlighting the difficult operating conditions of the ocean. The technical challenges of working in these regions are numerous and will continue to be a focus of leading technologists around the world. It should be highlighted that there was no loss of human life, exemplifying the important role these robotic technologies play in safe ocean exploration. So despite a setback, we remain undaunted and argue for the accelerated development of new platforms that will help us understand the status and trajectory of this ocean planet. Finally, as field-going oceanographers, we often become emotionally attached to our tools; given this, we tip our caps and toast Nereus's heroic death at sea."
–Oscar Schofield, Scott Glenn, and Mark Moline
In the frigid waters off Antarctica, a team of our colleagues deploy a waterborne robot and conduct final wireless checks on the system's internal engines and onboard sensors, before sending the device on its way to explore the ocean conditions in an undersea canyon over a month-long expedition. The autonomous robot's mission will be monitored and adjusted on the fly by scientists and their students remotely located in the United States; the data it returns will become part of our overall picture of conditions in the Southern Ocean.
Ocean robots—more formally known as
autonomous underwater vehicles
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—are improving our understanding of how the world's ocean works and expanding our ability to conduct science at sea even under the most hostile conditions. Such research is essential, now more than ever. The ocean drives the planet's climate and chemistry, supports ecosystems of unprecedented diversity, and harbors abundant natural resources. This richness has lead to centuries of exploration, yet despite a glorious history of discovery and adventure, the ocean remains relatively unknown. Many basic and fundamental questions remain: How biologically productive are the oceans? What processes dominate mixing between water layers? What is its total biodiversity? How does it influence the Earth's atmosphere? How is it changing and what are the consequences for human society?
The last question is particularly pressing, as many observations suggest that significant change is occurring right now. These shifts reflect both natural cycles and, increasingly, human activity, on a local and global scale. Local effects include alterations in circulation, increased introduction of nutrients and pollutants to the sea, the global transport of invasive species, and altered food web dynamics due to the overexploitation of commercially valuable fish species. Regional- and global-scale changes include altered physical (temperature, salinity, sea-level height), chemical (oxygen, pH, nutrients), and biological properties (fishing out of top predators).
Addressing the many unknowns about the ocean requires knowledge of its physics, geology, chemistry, and biology. On the most basic level, one has to be able to track the movement of water and its constituents over time to understand physical transport processes. But this fundamental first step remains a difficult problem given the three- dimensional structure of the ocean and the limited sampling capabilities of traditional oceanographic tools. About 71 percent of the world is covered by the ocean, with a volume of about 1.3 billion cubic kilometers. Only about 5 percent of that expanse has been explored. A further complication is the broad scale of ocean mixing—spatially, from centimeters to thousands of kilometers, and temporally, from minutes to decades. These processes are all modified by the interactions of currents with coastal boundaries and the seafloor.
If the problem of monitoring mixing can be solved, then focus can shift to the biological and chemical transformations that occur within the water. Factors that remain unknown include the amount of inorganic carbon being incorporated into organic carbon, and how quickly that organic matter is being transformed back into inorganic compounds—processes that are driven by marine food webs. Many of these transformation processes reflect the "history" of the water mass: where it has been and when it was last mixed away from the ocean surface. Because of the vast domain of the ocean, our ability to sample the relevant spatial and temporal scales has been limited.
Oceanographers usually collect data from ships during cruises that last days to a few months at most. The modern era of ship-based expeditionary research, launched just over a century ago, has resulted in major advances in our knowledge of the global ocean. But most ships do not travel much faster than a bicycle and they face harsh, often dangerous conditions. The high price of ships also limits how many are available for research. A moderately large modern research vessel may run about $50,000 a day even before the costs of the science. Ocean exploration requires transit to remote locations, a significant time investment. Once on site, wind and waves will influence when work can be safely conducted.
For example, one of us (Schofield) routinely works along the western Antarctic Peninsula. The travel time from New Jersey to the beginning of experimental work can take upward of a week: two days of air and land travel, one to two days of port operations, and four days of ship travel. During the writing of this article, Schofield was at sea offshore of Antarctica, where ship operations were halted for several days due to heavy winds, waves, and icy decks. All three of us have on multiple occasions experienced the "robust" work atmosphere— such as broken bones and lacerations—associated with working aboard ships. Despite these difficulties, ships are the central tool for oceanography, providing the best platform to put humans in the field to explore. But researchers realized decades ago that they needed to expand the ways they could collect data at sea.
Satellites provide a useful sampling tool to complement ships and can provide global estimates of surface temperature, salinity, sea surface height, and plant biomass. Their spatial resolution, however, is relatively low (kilometers to hundreds of kilometers), and they often cannot collect data in cloudy weather. Additionally, they are incapable of probing the ocean interior. Ocean moorings (a vertical array of instruments anchored to the seafloor) can provide a time series of measurements at single points, but their high cost (ranging from $200,000 to millions each) limits their numbers.
Twenty-three years ago, those challenges inspired oceanographer Henry "Hank" Stommel to propose a globally distributed network of mobile sensors capable of giving a clearer look, on multiple time and space scales, at the processes going on in the world's ocean. His futuristic vision is finally becoming a reality. Thousands of robots are today moving through the world's ocean and communicating data back to shore. They provide crucial information on everything from basic processes— such as the ocean's temperature and salinity—to specific processes like storm dynamics and climate change.
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Dawn brought horrible scenes to light in Haiti's capital on Wednesday: piles of disintegrated concrete, with limbs sticking out and muffled cries emanating from deep inside; wounded people staggering through the streets; and bodies littering the landscape.
Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble of government buildings, foreign aid headquarters and shantytowns that collapsed a day earlier in a powerful earthquake.
The Haitian president, René Préval, told The Miami Herald that the toll was "unimaginable" and estimated that thousands had died. Among those feared dead were the chief of the United Nations mission in Haiti and Msgr. Joseph Serge Miot, the archbishop of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
"Parliament has collapsed," Mr. Préval was quoted as saying. "The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed. There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them."
"All of the hospitals are packed with people," he added. "It is a catastrophe."
Haiti sits on a large fault that has caused catastrophic quakes in the past, but this one was described as among the most powerful to hit the region. The earthquake was the worst in the region in more than 200 years and left the country in a shambles, without electricity or phone service, tangling efforts to provide relief to an estimated 3 million people who the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said had been affected by the quake.
The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said Haiti was now facing a "major humanitarian emergency" that would require a concerted international response.
President Obama promised that Haiti would have the "unwavering support" of the United States.
Mr. Obama said United States aid agencies were moving swiftly to get help to Haiti and that search-and-rescue teams were already en route. He described the reports of destruction as "truly heart-wrenching," made more cruel given Haiti's long-troubled circumstances.
Mr. Obama did not make a specific aid pledge, and administration officials said they were still trying to figure out what the island needed. But he urged Americans to dig into their pockets and to go to the White House's Web site, www.whitehouse.gov [2], to find ways to donate money.
"This is a time when we are reminded of the common humanity that we all share," Mr. Obama said, speaking in the White House diplomatic reception room with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at his side.
Aid agencies said they would open their storehouses of food and water inside Haiti, and the World Food Program was flying in nearly 100 tons of emergency food from El Salvador. The United Nations said it was freeing up $10 million in emergency relief funds, the European Union pledged $4.4 million, and groups like Doctors Without Borders were setting up clinics in tents and open-air triage centers to treat the injured. But some aid groups with offices in Haiti's capital were also busy searching for their own dead and missing.
Five workers with the United Nations mission in Haiti were killed and more than 100 more missing after the office's headquarters collapsed in one of the deadliest single days for United Nations employees. The Tunisian head of the group's Haitian mission, Hedi Annabi, and his deputy were among the missing, said Alain LeRoy, the United Nations peacekeeping chief.
Earlier Wednesday, the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, said in radio interviews that Mr. Annabi had been killed in the collapse.
The Brazilian Army, which has one of the largest peacekeeping presences in Haiti, said that four of its soldiers had been killed in the quake and five had been injured. In addition to the human toll, the heavy damage sustained by Haiti's presidential palace and the United Nations headquarters were a blow to the two major symbols of authority in the country.
"The palace was like something out of a fairy tale in a country that had nothing," said Johanna Mendelson Forman, a former adviser to the United Nations mission, who now works at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "It had red carpets and gold ropes. It was a symbol of one of the few institutions that works there, and that's the presidency."
On Wednesday the palace looked like a collapsed wedding cake, with its column-lined facade crumpled and its white domed roof caving in.
Paul McPhun, operations manager for Doctors Without Borders, described scenes of chaos.
When staff members tried to travel by car "they were mobbed by crowds of people," Mr. McPhun said. "They just want help, and anybody with a car is better off than they are."
He said that the main hospitals in Port-au-Prince had either collapsed or been abandoned because they were too structurally precarious.
"Our teams are managing what comes to them, but already we're getting overwhelmed," he said. "We're struggling to manage. It's a very chaotic situation. Information for us is very difficult to gather."
Aid workers and journalists in the neighboring Dominican Republic swarmed the airport in Santo Domingo, hoping to catch a few emergency flights into Haiti, and a spokesman for the United Nations humanitarian office said aid would be sent into the country on commercial flights.
The Associated Press reported that the Port-au-Prince airport was open, but that the main road connecting it to the capital remained impassable. Other roads had been torn apart in the quake or were blocked by debris, making it more difficult to transport food, fresh water and first aid supplies, and hospitals were overwhelmed by the injured. In a place where there are constant blackouts, the electricity remained out during the early hours Wednesday, and telephones were not working.
More than 30 significant aftershocks of a 4.5 magnitude or higher rattled Haiti through the night and into the early morning, according to Amy Vaughan, a geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey. "We've seen a lot of shaking still happening," she said.
Bob Poff, a Salvation Army official, said in a written account posted on the Salvation Army's Web site how he had loaded injured victims — "older, scared, bleeding and terrified" — into the back of his truck and set off in search of help. In two hours, he managed to travel less than a mile, he said.
The account described how Mr. Poff and hundreds of neighbors spent the night outside, in the playground near a children's home run by the group. Every tremor sent ripples of fear through the survivors, providing "another reminder that we are not yet finished with this calamity," he wrote.
"And when it comes, all of the people cry out and the children are terrified," he wrote. Louise Ivers, the clinical director of the aid group Partners in Health, said in an e-mail to her colleagues: "Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS . . . Temporary field hospital by us at UNDP needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us."
A hospital collapsed in Pétionville, a hillside district in Port-au-Prince that is home to many diplomats and wealthy Haitians, a videographer for The Associated Press said. Photos from Haiti on Wednesday showed a hillside scraped nearly bare of its houses, which had tumbled into the ravine below.
Tequila Minsky, a photographer who was in Port-au-Prince, said a wall at the front of the Hotel Oloffson had fallen, killing a passer-by. A number of nearby buildings had crumbled, trapping people, she said, and a Unibank bank building was badly damaged. People were screaming.
"It was general mayhem," Ms. Minsky said.
The earthquake struck just before 5 p.m. about 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the United States Geological Survey said.
Haiti's many man-made woes — its dire poverty, political infighting and proclivity for insurrection — have been exacerbated repeatedly by natural disasters. At the end of 2008, four hurricanes flooded whole towns, knocked out bridges and left a destitute population in even more desperate conditions.


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Local woman undergoes procedure during live broadcast
Kingsport cardiologist teaches while performing catheterization
KINGSPORT, Tenn. - A local woman is capturing the eyes and ears of doctors from across the country.
She's using her own unique medical procedure to help others.
This is part of our 'Live Red' partnership with Wellmont Health System that we bring you every fifth of the month to raise awareness about women's heart disease.
News 5 found out how this procedure could impact the hearts of women across the nation:
Just hours before she's under the bright lights of an operating room, Ruby Quillen is quiet and collected. "Calm as I can be. Don't mind me a bit," said Quillen.
You might never know, she's about to be put in front of a camera while doctors perform a unique vascular procedure in front of hundreds of people.
You see, Quillen has no pulse in her left arm. Her artery is blocked.
We learned her condition puts her at risk for a major stroke involving her brain stem.
Dr. Chris Metzger, an interventional cardiologist with the Wellmont CVA Heart Institute will be fixing Quillen's problem during a live video broadcast to a massive medical conference. He uses a catheter and a stent to open up her blockage.
We learned about 1,000 medical professionals from across the nation will be watching Dr. Metzger from the conference in New Orleans. Dr. Metzger will be able to explain what he's going during the procedure; turning his cath lab into something of a classroom. "You get to see the tips and tricks of how to do [the procedure] correctly, and you take away a lot from watching that live," said Dr. Metzger.
Dr. Metzger said since Quillen's condition, called peripheral artery disease, is a prime indicator there may be other blockages in the heart; this is also a way to put an emphasis to the medical world that women are not immune from coronary artery disease. "It is nice to recognize that women have this disease, and then you look for the coronary disease, and you can prevent them from having a cardiac event later," said Dr. Metzger.
For Ruby Quillen, the thought of helping other women just like her is worth the added attention. "I was a caregiver for [over 30] years, and if I could help anyone, why not?" asked Quillen.
Quillen will also leave with a pulse in her left arm and a long life ahead of her.
"I've got great-grand babies that I want to live to see them grow up, So, I'm going to have to take care of myself," said Quillen.
You can help prevent peripheral vascular disease and coronary artery disease by maintaining a healthy lifestyle, like eating healthy foods, exercising, and watching your blood pressure and cholesterol.


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Boockmeier Finishes in Tie for Fifth at Dallio Memorial
By: Andrew Gavin (@GBGavin)
LEMONT, Ill. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - Sophomore Tom Boockmeier (Green Bay, Wis.) played three solid rounds and finished in a tie for fifth place in this weekend's John Dallio Memorial hosted by DePaul. Green Bay finished in 10th place out of 15 teams at the 54-hole tournament, played at Ruffled Feathers Golf Club in Lemont, Ill.
Marquette won the tournament with a team score of 41-over 905. The Phoenix sat in a tie for third place after the first round but fell to 10th after a 321 on Sunday left Green Bay at 72-over 936.
Boockmeier fired rounds of 72, 76 and 77 to finish in a tie for fifth place and lead the Phoenix at 9-over 225. He was just four strokes behind individual champion Kyle Henning of Valparaiso.
Junior Dan Ozga (Edgerton, Wis.) carded a 2-over 74 in round two and was second on the Phoenix in a tie for 31st at 17-over 233.
Senior Cam Fuller (Sturgeon Bay, Wis.), freshman Gene Kiella (Plymouth, Wis.) and senior Chad Ebert (Heartland, Wis.) rounded out the Green Bay golfers in ties for 56th, 61st and 68th, respectively.
Green Bay will be in action again on Monday and Tuesday, playing in the 36-hole Butler Invitational in Indianapolis.
Dallio Memorial
Team Scores
1. Marquette, 306-298-301=905
2. DePaul, 311-304-295=910
3. Northern Iowa, 306-304-301=911
4. SIU Edwardsville, 311-304-297=912
5. Valparaiso, 311=293-310=914
6. Loyola, 311-297-308=916
7. Northern Illinois, 317-300-301=918
8. Oakland, 312-309-299=920
10. Green Bay, 307-308-321=936
11. Columbia, 316-307-313=939
12. Evansville, 307-315-319=941
13. Eastern Illinois, 316-314-316=946
14. Western Illinois, 322-316-3111=949
15. Chicago State, 393-399-405=1197
T5. Tom Boockmeier, 72-76-77=225
T31. Dan Ozga, 80-74-79=233
T56. Cam Fuller, 75-80-85=240
T61. Gene Kiela III, 80-79-83=242
T68. Chad Ebert, 83-79-82=244
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This car from Protech is a very good example of top of the line engineering. With a 0-60 time of 4.9 seconds, it will rip through the 1/4 in just 13.5 seconds at 109 mph...which isn't too shaby for a 238 hp 3000 pound screamer. Here is the article at Car & Driver.
Now THIS is cool. They managed to drop the 0-60 and 1/4 mile times by a full second without touching the engine. Did they change the gearing or something?
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um. in the title it says turbo.
Oh....I didn't read that part. SVTMan's post said 238 HP...
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Yes but it peaks at 8000 rpm! Did you read the article? It explains it in great detail how they produced such impressive times.
Quote: The silver prototype PTP brought for us to test was just howling with power — 390 horsepower at 7400 rpm and 290 pound-feet of torque at 5100 rpm, according to our calculations with PTP's chassis dyno data. For those unqualified to operate a calculator, that's an 82-percent gain in torque and a colossal 152-hp increase.
Ohhh okay I see. Thats a lot of power for that little 1.3L engine!
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Discussion in 'TV ALERTS' started by shutterbug, Jul 23, 2010.
Info from Debbi Wilkes:
This is awesome!!! Thank you so much for posting!
Thanks for the dates and information. Sounds great!
Fans outside of Canada can register an account for free to watch the Thornhill (Ontario) competition LIVE today and tomorrow on Skate Canada's Skatebuzz! (West Arena events only): http://skatebuzz.neulion.com/skatebuzz/console.jsp
Competition schedule (all times Eastern): http://www.skatecanada-centralontario.com/Patti/2010 FSB Summer Skate Schedule.pdf
Woohooo! Thanks for the heads up, Sylvia!!!
wheeeee! compulsory dance on now!
Thanks so much!
Senior Ladies SP is scheduled to start soon at 5:15 pm, followed by the Junior and Senior Short Dance, and the Senior Men's SP at 9:15 pm.
Can I jus' tell Skatebuzz, why when I register do they need my phone number??!!!
I'm in Canada dammit, are they going to call me to confirm?!
All is well...put in a fake phone number and address.
I didn't. I hope I don't start getting things in the mail!
Not to worry, it was a non-existing one: 000-0000. postal code: T0T0T0. Address: Canada. lol!
Skatebuzz admins didn't even validate. And allowed me access to all videos
Thank-you shutterbug! Does this link work in the US?
Live streaming is now over. They hope to have VOD available in a week or so. Live streaming from BC Summerskate next weekend.
Skatebuzz!!! I really enjoyed their coverage. I need to send an email.
This has been excellent. for Skatebuzz. Now, only if only Ice Network would cover US Summer Non Quals.


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Foster grandparent enjoys helping all students at Nisswa School
After a busy career in the housing development and municipal government fields, Lake Shore resident Dave Loch became a bit bored after retirement.
"What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?" he kept asking himself.
He saw a request in the newspaper for volunteers at Pequot Lakes School and checked into it. Before he knew it, Loch found himself working not in Pequot Lakes, but in the early childhood program at Nisswa Elementary School as a teacher's assistant. He was in charge of a 2-year-old autistic boy.
"All I did was haul him around in a wagon. But what broke the ice was when I took him into Mrs. Baker's class and she had a guinea pig," Loch said. "I fell in love with that little boy."
He returned as a teacher's aide and a foster grandparent, working with Nisswa students from 2006-11, when he took a break because his wife, JoAnn, was retired by then, too. He missed the children, though, and returned as a foster grandparent in Nisswa last month.
Loch, 78, likes challenging those students who are sharp, as well as helping those who are struggling to learn. He especially enjoys helping students with math.
"That's kind of my forte with the kids here," he said, adding he also has helped students with reading and spelling.
Loch shared the story of a girl who could multiply but had such a difficult time dividing. He helped her until something just clicked.
"The next day she said, 'I know how to divide!'" Loch said. "It brought tears to my eyes."
That's what he finds most rewarding about working with elementary school students — helping them break through and realize they can learn.
He once helped a second-grader who couldn't count money. He gave her four quarters and repeatedly said, "25, 50, 75, $1."
"That's the part that makes me feel so good. She got it," he said.
Teachers can't devote that amount of time to individual students. That's where volunteers are invaluable. They can give teachers a break and concentrate on those students who are having trouble learning, Loch said.
Nisswa Elementary School has two foster grandparents — Loch and Grandma Doris Bergersen. Loch works with second- through fourth-graders.
"Dave is a very capable volunteer who the children love to work with," said second-grade teacher Sheree Hansen. "He has been in my room to help reinforce math skills for several years. He is always there on time and takes his work seriously but also has fun with the students."
Principal Erin Herman said when teachers learned Loch would be returning in January as a foster grandparents, within seconds he was in demand.
Loch volunteers five hours a day, three days a week with the Lutheran Social Service Foster Grandparent program.
"In that program, I think what's important is that teachers know you're going to be here," he said, adding, "This has given me such an appreciation for teaching."
In the end, it all comes down to watching the students grow in knowledge.
"Some of them are so reticent to try things. Some, I think, are fearful because of new concepts," Loch said.
"There's such incredible formation in their minds in those earlier years. It blows my mind to see that follow through, that child's knowledge base. Watching that develop is incredible.
"There's so many so eager to learn," he said.


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Ive played with a few, had a UTG ( i think ) on my Saiga for a little while. They seem to work good enough. I had two problems with mine, First, it ate through batteries. Second was because it ate through batteries, I couldnt spend much time out shooting with it in the desert, just too bright, and the spot would be invisible. another one I had was pretty good with the battery, but was the size of a beer can! looekd smaller when i ordered it. im all for full field of view when aiming, but both eyes could almost look through that sucker!
I gotta say though, yes, my Eotech that I got 2 years ago when i re enlisted ad got that big incentive check, is just awesome. great battery life, great visible reticle, I just love that thing. Thats the problem I have found with red dots, and a lot else in life, you get what you pay for. do you want to have one just to use every now and then in a nice calm environment, or do you want one that you can drop on its head and pick it up and it forgives you, says thanks, and keeps on going. My eotech was like $450. And i have abused that sucker.


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Peace River Sharks are a female hockey team that don't even play in Peace River AB. The Sharks play in Nampa AB. They are a team of bitchin bitches that enjoy bitchin about the bitches.
Hey yall, Lets go to Nampa to watch Peace River's female hockey team, the Peace River Sharks, bitch out some other bitches!!
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In the sequel to his Oscar-nominated documentary Gasland, director Josh Fox once again pulls back the curtain on the oil and gas industry and introduces us to the people and communities whose lives are torn apart by fracking. Gasland Part II breaks down the consequences of this multi-billion dollar industry on our health, our climate, our economy, and our democracy—and shows how a movement is growing to fight back.
On Sunday, July 14, thousands will gather in living rooms nationwide for Gasland Part II Movie Parties. We'll watch the film, get informed, and meet other people in our communities who want to protect our water, air and climate from fracking. After the film, we'll discuss local strategies to grow the vibrant movement to ban fracking.
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Donald Nicholson-Smith, translator/editor of The Revolution of Everyday Life (PM Press), by Raoul Vaneigem, will discuss the book that offers a critique of the "society of the spectacle" from the point of view of individual experience. A group discussion will end Nicholson-Smith's talk. Vaneigem's book, originally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, will be available for sale.
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From 1979 until 1992, El Salvador was mired in a civil war that left 75,000 people dead and untold numbers displaced or unaccounted for. It was a conflict marked by extravagant violence: On December 11, 1981, in the mountain village of El Mozote, the Salvadoran army raped, tortured, and massacred nearly 1,000 civilians, including many children. News of the killings didn't reach the United States until January 27, 1982, the same day the Reagan administration announced El Salvador was making a "significant effort to comply with internationally recognized human rights." Washington continued to pump aid into the regime—$4 billion over 12 years.
Part of what made the war so complicated, at least for US interests, was the ultimatum it seemed to present: Defeat the guerillas at any cost or lose the country to communism. In the twilight of the Cold War, any threat of a domino effect in the region—Nicaragua had already fallen to the Sandinistas—was too ominous for Washington to bear. By backing El Salvador's right-wing junta and, by extension, its paramilitary death squads, the United States created a conundrum for journalists: how to document a war whose maneuvers and motivations were kept deliberately murky?
Photographer Donna De Cesare traveled to El Salvador in 1987 to "witness and report on war, with all the earnest idealism and naïvete of youth," as she puts it in her new photo book Unsettled/Desasosiego. What she couldn't have known at the time was how the experience would shape the next 20 years of her life. She visited refugee camps in Honduras, Jesuit killings on the campus of Central American University, a morgue in Guatemala City. Her work—like that of Larry Towell and Susan Meiselas—is essential to understanding a chapter in Central America's history that is too often whitewashed or denied.
After peace accords were signed in 1992, she shifted her focus to the refugee diaspora in Los Angeles, roaming the tense battleground of the 18th street and Mara Salvatrucha (or MS-13) gangs. There she found an extension and continuation of El Salvador's turmoil—vigilante justice and honor killings were the rule of law. Gang members broadcast their allegiances via facial tattoos and hand signs, at least until the Sombra Negra (black shadow) death squads began targeting "homeboys" who were deported back to El Salvador. From 1998 to 2005, at least 46,000 such deportees found themselves marooned in Central America's volatile barrios. As De Cesare notes, there are more than 4.5 million small firearms in Central America, the majority of them illegally owned. And 80 percent of homicides in Guatemala and El Salvador are carried out with such weapons. "What determines whether suffering is turned toward cruelty, or toward resistance and resilience?" she writes. As her photographs testify, such subtle distinctions erode during wartime.
Donna De Cesare won the Mother Jones International Photo Fund Award for Social Documentary in 1999. That same year, her photos accompanied a story about how tougher US immigration policy was forcing many refugees back to dangerous homelands. The images and caption information for this photoessay are from Unsettled/Desasosiego, recently published by University of Texas Press. For more information about De Cesare's work in El Salvador, go to her website, Destiny's Children.


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Plant and tree photo contest winners
The Crow Wing Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) announces the 2013 Summer Plant & Tree Photo Contest winners.
Photo contest participants submitted 30 photos, with some featuring wildlife.
The six winners for the summer 2013 photo contest are: first, Deanie Nelson, Marsh Milkweed, Monarch; second, Elva Schack, Butterflyweed, Monarch; third, Dawn Hines, Butterflyweed; fourth, Nelson, Canada Anemone; fifth, Nelson, Butterflyweed, Bee; sixth, Susan Schaefer Davis, Marsh Milkweed.
All photos were taken in Crow Wing County.
Photographers of all ages and abilities were invited to submit photos for the Native Plant Photo Contest. All entries were judged by the Brainerd Chapter of the Wild Ones-Native Plants Natural Landscapes.
The top six entries will receive a 2014 Tree Sale Native Plant gift certificate. The winning entries will be featured in a monthly e-newsletter to landowners in Crow Wing County and one entry will be selected to be framed and raffled to visitors of the 2014 Crow Wing County Fair.


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A police officer who today admitted assaulting a man who allegedly rifled through his personal cellphone has been suspended on full pay.
Sergeant Craig Prior has also voluntarily stood down from his role at the New Zealand Police Association while he is being considered for diversion.
The Christchurch officer was called out to a domestic dispute on November 24 last year but mistakenly left his phone behind.
Christchurch District Court heard today that a man at the city property phoned police to boast that he had discovered the phone and had searched through its contents.
He found things on the phone that he found "interesting'', the court heard, and claimed to have taken photographs of some content.
Prior, fearing that the man had snatched pictures of his own children that he had on his phone, returned to the house.
Defence counsel Jonathan Eaton said Prior allegedly reached through a gate and grabbed the man by his scruff of the neck and demanded to know what photographs he had taken.
Mr Eaton said the alleged assault was so minor that if his client was not a serving police officer, it would never have reached court.
The lawyer said that since it was his client's personal cellphone, also used for Police Association work, it contained personal, private and privileged information, including pictures and details of his children.
The facts were not disputed, he said, and asked Judge Paul Kellar for the case to be adjourned until April 2 for his client to be considered for diversion. Since he was a serving police officer, diversion would have to be considered by the Commissioner of Police, Mr Eaton said.
The Commissioner will now consider whether diversion - the scheme for first-time offenders where a criminal conviction can be escaped if they apologise - is an appropriate outcome for Prior.
Mr Eaton said that if diversion was not granted, he would apply for a discharge without conviction.
Judge Kellar recorded the guilty plea but did not enter a conviction.
Prior was remanded at large, while his lawyer did not seek a continuation of the interim name suppression order.
Through his work as Police Association Canterbury branch director, Prior is highly popular with local front-line officers.
One officer, who did not wish to be named, said all of the rank and file knew of the incident and was surprised it had made it to court.
"Craig's a great guy and doesn't deserve to be hung out to dry,'' the officer said.
"I hope there's a positive outcome from all of this.''
Police Association president Greg O'Connor said Prior had "voluntarily'' stood down from his Association role while the court case was ongoing.
His work answerphone today directed enquiries to Association colleagues, while the national website listed him as "currently unavailable''.
In the meantime, Prior - who is also a police search and rescue coordinator - has the backing of the Association.
"Officers on duty, dealing with matters that arise out of their duty, get the support of the Police Association,'' Mr O'Connor said.
A police spokesman confirmed that Prior is currently suspended on full pay while court proceedings are live.
District Commander Superintendent Gary Knowles says police will continue to deal with the matter internally.
Last month, an Employment Relations Authority judgment ruled that a long-serving Canterbury officer was justifiably dismissed after he used excessive force on a drunk nightclubber who snatched his police hat.
Nearly 70 New Zealand police staff have been arrested in the past three years.
Charges includes assault, drug dealing, drink-driving and theft.
National manager of professional standards Detective Superintendent Sue Schwalger said police take a zero-tolerance approach to criminal behaviour in their ranks.


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"The risk of thromboembolic events from most hormonal contraceptives for women with diabetes is elevated but still relatively low, new research finds.
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Serious ill effects have not been reported following acute ingestion of large doses of oral contraceptives by young children. Overdosage may cause nausea, and withdrawal bleeding may occur in females.
Non-Contraceptive Health Benefits
The following non-contraceptive health benefits related to the use of combination oral contraceptives are supported by epidemiological studies which largely utilized oral contraceptive formulations containing estrogen doses exceeding 0.035 mg of ethinyl estradiol or 0.05 mg of mestranol (73-78).
Effects on menses:
- increased menstrual cycle regularity
- decreased blood loss and decreased risk of iron-deficiency anemia
- decreased frequency of dysmenorrhea
Effects related to inhibition of ovulation:
Other effects:
- decreased incidence of fibroadenomas and fibrocystic disease of the breast
- decreased incidence of acute pelvic inflammatory disease
- decreased incidence of endometrial cancer
- decreased incidence of ovarian cancer
Oral contraceptives should not be used in women who have the following conditions:
- Thrombophlebitis or thromboembolic disor- ders
- A past history of deep vein thrombophlebitis or thromboembolic disorders
- Cerebral vascular or coronary artery disease
- Known or suspected carcinoma of the breast
- Carcinoma of the endometrium or other known or suspected estrogen-dependent neoplasia
- Undiagnosed abnormal genital bleeding
- Cholestatic jaundice of pregnancy or jaundice with prior pill use
- Hepatic adenomas or carcinomas
- Known or suspected pregnancy
73. The Cancer and Steroid Hormone Study of the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: Oral contraceptive use and the risk of ovarian cancer. JAMA 1983; 249: 1596- 1599. 74. The Cancer and Steroid Hormone Study of the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: Combination oral contraceptive use and the risk of endometrial cancer. JAMA 1987; 257: 796-800. 75. Ory HW. Functional ovarian cysts and oral contraceptives: negative association confirmed surgically. JAMA 1974; 228: 68-69. 76. Ory HW, Cole P, MacMahon B, Hoover R. Oral contraceptives and reduced risk of benign breast disease. N Engl J Med 1976; 294: 419-422. 77. Ory HW. The noncontraceptive health benefits from oral contraceptive use. Fam Plann Perspect 1982; 14: 182-184. 78. Ory HW, Forrest JD, Lincoln R. Making choices: Evaluating the health risks and benefits of birth control methods. New York, The Alan Guttmacher Institute 1983; p.1.This monograph has been modified to include the generic and brand name in many instances.
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The first dado I bought was a wobble type....not my cup of tea.
With the purchase of a few used tools, I have a couple of 6" dado stacks.
I also have an 8" stack (carbide tips) that I bought (I think around $50) that is a bit nicer (the wooden box it comes in makes it look better than it probably is).
I've also been upgrading things in my shop, trying to make everything better...new fence and PAL's for the table saw, new speed control for the shopsmith, etc.
In any case, the 8" doesn't cut a flat channel...which drives me nuts.
We have a localish (15 miles away) custom blade shop that has top notch sharpening equipment. For $50 they will grind/sharpen the whole set together to give me a flat cut.
Any thoughts on this...is this money well spent, or am I much better off buying a $100-$200 quality dado stack?


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