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TC was angry about it.
Eli is saying there was nothing he could do.
Schiano's players are apologizing.
is the media making a bigger deal out of it then it is...Of Course....that's what they do.
but was it a bad move on Schiano's part...yes, it was.
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What you are suggesting supporting that a defense go for the FF with 5 seconds on the clock, is like you wanna start a football revolution. You want to change the game. good luck...FAN!
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It's too bad, I'm too good....
TC and Eli were unprepared for a team actually playing a play hard and his "anger" was motivated by his own embarrassment.
I like TC, but he was less than himself there.
Spin it and rationalize it any way that makes you happy. But I expect more from my HC.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
I just think MH's flat out wrong. And your over reaction is fueling that, if that makes any sense. Bucs players admitted it was wrong by apologizing. Anyway you want to look at it, Bucs players still went for the knees and hard. Thats cheap. Thats why our players jumped on them. And theres no other way to cause a fumble, other than the qb dropping the snap. Its a 1 and million chance of it happening. Its not worth players getting injured.
I'm surprised how soft you, Scrappy and Pizz are on this. They were playing hard on the last play, we saw them lining up aggressively and failed to protect the play properly. Thats on us. For TC to whine about the other team not accepting defeat when we "told them to" is stupid.
"**** you old man..we're going to play hard and try to take the ball from you so your better protect that ball" ....... Thats what I like. I wish we had done that with Romo the week before.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..


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Bloodletting seems assured within the Labour Party, following a rather extraordinary annual conference. The possibility of a leadership coup by David Cunliffe was obviously the big news of the conference - finally confirming what was only ever rumoured and discussed in the blogosphere. There should be no doubt now that things are going to get messier. In the short term Cunliffe and his supporters have the most to fear, going on Duncan Garner's analysis and sources - see Cunliffe backs off, demotion imminent. But in the longer-term the blood spilt could well be from 'Camp Shearer'.
Shearer is about to act against Cunliffe, and probably feels he has to if he is to have any chance of surviving after a conference that has been described by various political journalists as 'a catastrophe, 'a train wreck of a conference', and 'a disaster'. Letting this current standoff fester until February is not an option. Shearer's best chance of survival is to act quickly and strongly.
He needs the equivalent of an internal Labour 'snap election', to be seen to put Cunliffe in his place and take away some of his power. The problem with punishing Cunliffe is that it will be seen by many members as punishing them, and as deeply unfair.
Despite Shearer's assertion that he will decide when his leadership gets put to the test, the reality is his options are limited. At the moment it appears that Cunliffe is tactically retreating - see James Henderson's post on The Standard - War and peace - which explains that the 'Mallard-led old guard' of the caucus 'thought they had found a procedural trick to embarrass Cunliffe' by bringing forward a leadership vote, but Cunliffe has simply sidestepped this by refusing 'to come out to be beaten up by them in a rigged game'. The latest on Cunliffe's stance can be seen in Kieran Campbell's Cunliffe backs Shearer as leadership crisis calms.
The best analysis, so far, is from Gordon Campbell who thinks the focus on the leadership struggle ignores more fundamental strategic issues for the party: 'It is all very well to talk about the need for unity, but a unity that merely wallpapers over the party's real divisions is simply a cosmetic job done for the benefit of the media, and it will not last. Either Labour has to choose to become a genuine party of the left again and contest the entire spectrum of centre left issues effectively with the Greens - or the party rank and file will need to fully and consciously embrace an MMP logic whereby a Shearer-led party positions itself deliberately in the fuzzy centre and willingly cedes the party's traditional ground to the Greens, with all of the patience and discipline that this will require. It can't do both things at once'. - see: On the Labour Party ructions.
It's also worth watching Patrick Gower's TV3 item about the conference and leadership issues - see: Shearer denies Labour leadership shakeup Shearer denies Labour leadership shakeup - 4-minute video. But does Gower go too far? Scott Yorke of Imperator Fish thinks so, and cleverly parodies him in A Day In The Life Of Patrick Gower. This raises the question of how well the media covered the conference, and Russell Brown covers this well in his post, Calling the race before it's over. And Martyn Bradbury also covered the conference wearing his 'media hat' and suggested some of the political journalists didn't really understand the party membership - see: Was Vernon Small at the same Labour Party Conference I was at?. Certainly the press gallery saw it as a disaster for both Labour and Shearer on Saturday - see Tracy Watkins' Angry vote damns Shearer and Vernon Small's Labour may have pushed Shearer off a cliff. John Armstrong says that the weekend's 'mayhem' showed an incredible divide and self-destructiveness within the party: 'Labour has not argued in such public fashion since the party's internal schism over Rogernomics in the late 1980s' - see: Labour has lessons for lemmings on self-destruction.
Most of the members actually doing the voting and talking had quite a different view. For them it was an unusually democratic and meaningful conference, in stark contrast to the stage-managed affairs which serve merely as platforms for the leadership. It is clear that the party has modernised and democratised, asserting itself 30 years after being sidelined by Rogernomics. It's almost as if the party membership took Chris Trotter's column on Friday to heart - see: Labour gets chance to reinvent democracy. Danyl Mclauchlan says that the assertion by the membership at the weekend has been a long time coming, and there's significant unhappiness within the party with the performance and quality of their parliamentarians - see: Labour leadership open thread. See also The Standard's Pushing at an open door.
Longer term this may be far more of a problem for Shearer than David Cunliffe, as Tracy Watkins observes: 'The conference also laid bare the growing distance between the wider party and the caucus, and particularly the direction Mr Shearer is seeking to take it, toward the political centre' - see: Labour falls into line as Shearer bares his teeth.
Shearer's keynote conference speech has been well received by most - see, for example Toby Manhire's Labour conference 2012: David Shearer's speech, the verdict. But not all are so enamoured. Tim Watkin has put together an excellent analysis of the speech and its shortcomings in his blogpost, After David Shearer's speech - is he a necessity or a nice-to-have?. Watkins says that although Shearer's effort was pretty good in parts, 'the speech overall was pedestrian and used too many cliches to tick too many boxes. His mannerisms were luke-warm, he didn't sell his three-point lists, when the opportunities to ad lib and connect with his audience came, he baulked'. Watkins also makes an important point: amidst all the maneuvering, number crunching and ideological debate 'there's one thing that can make a politician Mr Popular in the school-yard - the whiff of victory.' The polls, in the end, will probably decide which David leads Labour into the next election.
Shearer clearly moved leftwards in his conference speech, obviously playing to his audience, but also responding to the need to see off Cunliffe as a challenger from the left. The main policy announcement - a housing construction programme - was evidence of this. It is, of course, typical of Shearer and modern Labour and a classic 'third way' policy. It's not about increasing social housing - not about state house building, which is desperately needed - instead it's about underwriting the private sector to produce a mass of low-cost housing to sell to the public. In line with the concept of SOEs, such a measure wouldn't be any sort of socialism - or even social democracy - but instead a pro-market intervention on market terms. Shearer kept emphasising that a Labour government wouldn't actually spend more on social housing, but just provide the money to underwrite the production of housing aimed at a gap in the market rather than a replacement of the market.
The housing policy will be popular and will resonate with many but will still be criticised from both the right and the left. The most succinct from a left perspective is from none other than David Farrar - see: Why the left should be against Labour's housing policy. From his more usual perspective, Farrar calculates some ballpark figures for the scheme and concludes that 'This is the biggest bribe since Think Big' - see: Labour's housing plans - houses for everyone.
The end result of the weekend may be contradictory. Shearer has probably ended up in a stronger position, both as a result of his speech and willingness to confront Cunliffe head on, but it has also confirmed (and accelerated) a major divide within Labour.
Finally, the Listener's David White - surely New Zealand's best news photographer - has a selection of photos from Labour's conference here: In pictures: Labour party conference 2012. For cartoons and other images of Labour from the last few days, see my blogpost Images of Labour's current challenges.


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As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there - longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed, between them, more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart - half tavern, half temple - stands Brokeland Records.
When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in the United States, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complication to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of 15-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.
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"Music Lover's Delight"
Michael Chabon is an author whose reputation certainly precedes him, and I don't know how I've managed to go this long without digging in to his work. Certainly, there is a nagging concern that what you've heard or read is hype, and that the actual experience is going to be a letdown.
This is not the case here. Telegraph Avenue is everything I want in a novel and more. It's a deep and thoughful reflection on the relationships between blacks and whites, the intermeshing of cultures, of gentrification and urban renewal. It's a detailed and insightful memoir of a time and a place, populated with a rich tapestry of characters who are fully drawn and completely believable. There's a compelling story that spins an intricate web around you and makes you care about what happens; that involves you in a complex set of relationships between people and their community and the conflicts between their personal histories, their aspirations, their families, and their limitations. Local politics, social responsibility, Black Panthers, kung fu, environmentalism, aging blaxploitation stars, midwifery, the impossibility of being 14 years old -- it's all there.
And music. Telegraph Avenue pulses with music, both in the many references that become a soundtrack running in your head and in the detailed, lively descriptions of the incredible conflagration of funk, soul, R&B, rock and roll and jazz that bubbled up out of the American cultural melting pot beginning in the Sixties and continuing to this day. If you don't know what a CTI release was, go do some listening. It will add a layer of depth to the experience of this book that is priceless.
Chabon delivers extremely realistic dialog that includes plenty of street slang and Clarke Peters handles the narration of the audiobook with superb attention to the personalities and characterizations. He gives a believable and authentic voice to a wide cast of characters that includes everything from a 14 year old gay white kid to a nonagenarian Chinese woman, and delivers the narrative in a style that is deeply sensitive to cultural and political connotations. His wonderful voice becomes the music of this experience.
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"26,784 sq in (and 4.5 miles) surrounded by REALITY"
I lived for several idyllic months during my virgin adulthood in Boulder, Colorado. There was a term often tossed around, at least then, that Boulder was 20 square miles surrounded by reality (I've since heard the same line used for Madison, Austin and Berkeley).
Like Boulder, the real Telegraph Avenue exists in an idealized borderland surrounded by reality that stretches 4.5 miles from downtown Oakland to U.C. Berkeley. On this street you find the restaurants, used clothing shops, street vendors, bookstores, RECORD SHOPS, college students, hipsters, eccentrics, tourists and the homeless. This setting, like Brokeland itself, is in many ways the natural habitat of Chabon. That very setting is both a blessing and a curse in this novel. First, it allows Chabon to do what he does best. He can vamp about people, sing with the language of the street, jump, jive and pirouette with English prose in a way that makes writers' drool with envy. "Telegraph Avenue" is 26,784 sq in (9 in x 6.2 in x 480 pps) surrounded by reality.
The downside is, in "Telegraph Avenue", Chabon gives us (for the most part) almost exactly what we expect. It is a ostinato playground with strong and confident prose riffs, but offers the safety of repetition and the comfort of Nat's call and Archy's response.
But let's just get real. I'm reviewing this novel because I loved it. Because I have been waiting for his book to drop like my young son waits for his favorite balloon magician to go to start blowing and twisting. Last night at 1:00 am, I grabbed the novel, downloaded the audio, and hyper-caffeinated myself for an all night experience that only Chabon can deliver.
Both Chabon's successes and his literary failures grow from the reality that he takes more risks in one sentence than many writers take in one chapter. If I judge him harder than this book deserves, perhaps it is only because his previous novels (Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Yiddish Policeman's Union, etc) have cast such huge, intense literary shadows in my mind. Any future work by Chabon has a helluva fight for recognition or equivalence. Listening to "Telegraph Avenue" I am tempted to believe that even Chabon's farts must sometimes sing when he is walking in Berkeley.
I would be remiss if I didn't also note that Clarke Peters is THE perfect narrator for this novel. His voice is a mixture of $ex, J@ZZ, and stree+ prophet. I do hope this isn't the last book he does. He was one of the best actors in two of the very best shows on TV (the Wire and Treme). Clarke's voice owned this novel and for a night both Chabon and Clarke shared joint ownership of my Brokeland head.
"Funny, charming story with memorable characters"
I would recommend this book to all current and future fans of Michael Chabon.
With pitch-perfect narration by the talented Clarke Peters of The Wire and Treme, this book was so entertaining I listened to it twice, immediately. I became attached to the characters and their humorous and relatable foibles and didn't want the book to end. Michael Chabon's books are reliably great, and this one benefits from being told close-to-home by a Berkeley writer.
After a chapter or two, you feel like you feel at home in "Brokeland"--the border between bourgeoise Berkeley and poorer Oakland--with the gentrifiers and the old timers, 70s film stars, vinyl loving nostalgics, lawsuit-happy yuppies, and people trying to walk between these worlds.
The uproariously drunken and messy funeral for the old-timer musician / commie / vinyl collector Mr. Jones was probably the zenith of this wild ride.
I laughed each time I listened.
I hope Clarke Peters records more books :)
"Too Many Words; There You Have It!"
I don't think anything could have redeemed this story for me.
Probably not
It was too difficult for me to distinguish different characters.
Chabon seems so in love with his own words. I completely lost the train of thought by his wordy interludes. I didn't care about any of the characters, and I just wanted the book to end.
"How Does He Do It?"
Michael Chabon has written, but I should say crafted, a novel that includes the areas of family, friendships, r & b music of the 70's, race relations, and the idea of neighborhood. The stories that he weaves through the novel are fascinating and the interactions of the characters will make this book a Pulitzer contender. I have read several novels by Chabon and this is truly special.
"Skip the audiobook; read the real book"
I'm a huge fan of audiobooks. I've probably listened to well over 200 titles, including some literary works. Having enjoyed other books by Michael Chabon, I started to listen to Telegraph Avenue with the highest expectations, but simply couldn't continue beyond a couple of hours. I'm notsure what the problem was, but I had to abandon the book early on. After a couple of months, I finally picked up the actual book and loved it. It is a brilliant novel, with themes of parents/sons; spouses, partners, race, etc. As some reviewers have noted, it recalls Joyce's Ulysses, at least superficially. It just doesn't work as an audiobook, despite the best efforts of the narrator. So, this is just one of those occasions when one is better advised to skip the audio and read the text. (Note, an article in the Times Sunday Book review from November 2013 also led with this book as a prime example of a title that didn't work in audio format.)
"Chabon is clearly one of best modern day writers"
I have great respect for Michael Chabon's intellect, I have to stretch my mental muscles to keep up and that can take away from enjoying his storytelling. I was here in Berkeley, frequenting the renown Telegraph Ave before, during and after the time frame of this story and I was a bit surprised by how fictional he made the setting. It is a street with much personal history for many of us, and he could have drawn on more of the culture even though that seemed to be part of his agenda. Probably a desire for more local nostalgia I was hoping to find.
The reader's performance was smooth and although I couldn't always keep the characters separated, it was done very well.
"Mind = boggled."
Chabon is a master. It's clear that he is in full command of his craft and he has produced another work of incredible originality with a near perfect mixture of humor, anger, uncertainty, conflict, joy and loss. His deep understanding of the characters and the lives they live is truly astonishing. I find it hard to believe that one author could convey so much truth about music, infidelity, homosexuality, community politics, male friendships, kung-fu and 70's blacksploittion films; my mind is officially boggled. I truly enjoyed this book. From beginning to end. Why four stars instead of five? I'm not really certain, except to say that, when taken in context of his other works, Telegraph Avenue was not my favorite. Although it was up there. If I could give it four and three quarters stars I would.
The audio books I get tend to be either 1) scifi or 2) things for my husband and me to listen to on long road trips--humor or history
"Couldn't get into this novel"
I got this as an audio book to listen to for one of my book clubs. Listened to about one hour, but couldn't get into it. I loved "Cavalier and Clay" and have a passing familiarity with the city of Oakland, but this book just seemed too forced. All the name-dropping of "famous" jazz musicians and their celebrated albums, most of which I had never heard of, left me out in the cold. Maybe if snippets of their work had been playing in the background . . . but without any clues, I had no idea who most of them were. Add to that the fact that not a single female character had appeared in the first hour, which was also a bit alienating. One of the main characters is a has-been kung fu star of "B" (or possibly "C") movies, another reference that just didn't grab me. I don't mind being exposed to new ideas through books, in fact I usually welcome it, but I just wasn't compelled to go over to my computer and start googling the names of the other kung-fu stars that were mentioned. Decided the book was too long and summer too short, so hit the "off" button and moved on to the next book in my pile.
I did think Clarke Peters was doing a good job of performing the book.
"Ouch! What was Michael Chabon thinking?"
First Chabon work I haven't loved. Like going to Chez Panisse and being force-fed with delicacies like a pate-bound duck with no chance to savor anything.
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Someone (typically a woman or a gay man) who does not actually rock climb, but loves to hang around the cliffs (or crags). This person may climb a little bit, but is mostly there to watch, ogle, or flirt with other climbers. Crag hags may be friends with the group of climbers, but there are some climbers who find crag hags to be annoying, lame or pretending to be something they're not.
Oh, you haven't met Sandra? She's always out at the Gunks. She doesn't climb much- she's just there to meet climber guys. She's a total crag hag.
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Most irregular migrants will have entered their country of destination in a regular and lawful manner. Having lapsed into a situation of irregularity after entry, many will have already established their presence in society, albeit one that is extremely precarious. Few states have an untroubled record of handling or "managing" migration, and very few have dealt effectively with irregular migration. Across the world, migrants suffer exploitation (mainly by employers), mistreatment (by employers and official authorities), and discrimination (from employers, the authorities and society at large). During their journey, migrants often take great risks to circumvent official frontier or police controls, and many die en route, sometimes in appalling circumstances. Read the Summary here.


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WASHINGTON, September 13, 2013 - Earlier this week, USDA, U.S. Forest Service and partners took a major step to improve forest management, create rural jobs, prevent wildfires, and expand promising renewable energy opportunities.
Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden joined leaders from the Alliance for Green Heat, the Biomass Power Association, the Biomass Thermal Energy Council, and the Pellet Fuels Institute here in Washington for the announcement of a new partnership agreement. Acting as master of ceremonies for the signing event was Acting USDA Rural Development Under Secretary Doug O'Brien. Through the Rural Energy for America program and other programs, Rural Development has been a leader in promoting deployment of wood-to-energy projects.
This agreement focuses on promoting wood energy nationwide to reduce fire risk, bolster rural economic development, improve air quality and help meet the Obama Administration's "All of the Above" renewable energy and energy efficiency goals. The organizations support the use of wood energy across the scale of users – from residential users, to commercial and institutional facilities, to industrial production of heat and/or electricity to drive businesses and feed the electrical grid.
For more than a decade, USDA has supported wood energy as part of a forest restoration economy. Since 2009 USDA has invested over $956 million (nearly $1 billion) through grants, loans, and loan guarantees to support over 200 wood energy projects across the country.
Led by the Forest Service, this work helps to restore the health of forests and watersheds, provide rural areas with cost-effective energy alternatives, and create new income and employment opportunities in sectors ranging from engineering and construction, to manufacturing and forestry. It also provides an economical alternative to fuel oil heating in areas where natural gas supplies are limited. USDA's Rural Development mission area and the Farm Services Agency also support wood energy through a variety of grants, loans, and loan guarantees. All told, USDA agencies contributed over $500 million last year to support wood energy.
The Deputy Secretary also announced the award of over $1 million dollars in grants to develop wood energy teams with Alaska, California, Idaho, Minnesota and New Hampshire. These cooperative agreements signal that successful wood energy projects and forest restoration efforts demand partnership at all levels as well as the sustained commitment of many and diverse forest users. The federal funds will leverage $1.8 million in non-federal investments.
Grant recipients are:
Idaho Governor's Office of Energy Resources, Boise
The Watershed Research & Training Center, Hayfork, Calif.
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Saint Paul
North Country Resource Conservation & Development Council, Gilford, N.H.
The Alaska Energy Authority, Anchorage
For more information on the cooperative agreement program, visit http://na.fs.fed.us/werc/wood-energy/. For more information on USDA's renewable energy programs, visit http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=ENERGY .


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Thirteen graduate students at the University of Colorado at Boulder designed the Give Kids 5 campaign now airing on radio and TV to promote the child care checkoff that appears for the first time on the 1996 Colorado income tax form.
The campaign, which urges taxpayers to donate five minutes of their time or $5 to benefit Colorado children, was designed for the Colorado Childrens Campaign by CU-Boulder graduate students in an interdisciplinary journalism and business program.
The campaigns objective is to raise $500,000 in tax checkoff donations for the improvement of child care in Colorado.
The graduate students took their own advice to give kids 5 minutes and then some. Student Lisa Siracuse said she spent closer to 15 hours a week working on the campaign as part of the integrated marketing program class.
The students designed flyers, posters and postcards and wrote and distributed press releases and radio and television scripts. The campaign includes a plan for mobilizing volunteers and for recruiting help from businesses such as King Soopers, which agreed to print the Give Kids 5 logo on more than 1 million grocery bags free of charge.
We wanted to get people to embrace the tax form checkoff as a cause, said Tracy Faigin, another class member. In Colorado, 177,000 children under the age of six are in day care eight to 10 hours a day. The facilities are understaffed, and the staff is underpaid.
Barbara OBrien, president of the Colorado Childrens Campaign, said she expects Give Kids 5 to be a success for years to come. This tax checkoff gives the public a chance to improve child care in Colorado. The $5 checkoff will help child care centers and homes provide a safer environment, better materials, and training for teachers and parents, she said.
The Integrated Marketing Communication program is one of only two graduate programs in the country that links marketing and communication, said Professor Sandra Moriarty, who taught the campaigns course. The interdisciplinary program is housed in the journalism school and includes courses in the College of Business and Administration.


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Here it is folks: the quietest AK47 anywhere. Inconel Blast chamber, Monocore, Integrally suppressed AK-47. Has an 8.5" barrel, so the ballistics will be identical to a Krink. Feels awesome, and handles like a dream.
In 7.62x39mm.
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Looks sweet!
"To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em."
Ted Nugent - speaking at the NRA convention April 17, 2005
Thanks guys , we think we may have hit on somthing here
I think the episode showcasing that gun airs tomorrow night . Will
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781


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text: [quote user="myles2424"]4-3 LB isn't a position of value? Did you see the game tonight? idk why some people say this.....as long as it's a position on the starting 11 then it's valuable....[/quote]Do they not all go later then expected on draft day.I dont necessarily agree with it but NFL FO's certainly draft that way. Also which players get taken off the field when teams go with 4 WR's. DE's,CB's,Safetieshmmm LB's. There is a positional hierarchy on Draftboards of many NFL Franchises its the way it is. DE's or "pass rushers"and CB's will always be the most valuable defensive positions.


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North Korea on Tuesday called on foreigners living in South Korea to prepare to evacuate amid concerns that the communist country is poised to conduct a missile test as early as Wednesday.
"The situation on the Korean Peninsula is heading for a thermonuclear war," the North's Asia-Pacific Peace Committee said in a statement.
"In the event of war, we don't want foreigners living in South Korea to get hurt. All foreign organizations, companies and tourists should work out measures for evacuation."
Seoul officials played down the latest warning as part of its psychological provocations.
"Korean and foreign residents here alike trust the military and the government, and will not unnerved by such a psychological warfare tactic," presidential spokesperson Kim Haing said.
On Friday, North Korea issued a similar advisory to foreign diplomats based in Pyongyang saying that it will not be able to guarantee their safety as of Wednesday.
Intelligence reports suggest Pyongyang has readied two mid-range missiles on mobile launchers on its east coast and plans test-firing before the April 15 birthday of late founding leader Kim Il-sung.
In response, Japan has deployed Patriot missiles in its capital as it readies to defend the 30 million people who live in greater Tokyo from any North Korean attack, officials said Tuesday.
Two Patriot Advanced Capability-3 surface-to-air missile launchers had been stationed at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo before dawn, a ministry spokesman said, while Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said "we are proceeding with measures including deployment of PAC-3 as we are on alert."
Local reports said PAC-3 will be deployed in another two locations in the greater Tokyo area.
Tokyo's response thus far to the threats emanating from Pyongyang has been low key and Tuesday's moves are the most visible yet that it is rattled.
"The government is making the utmost efforts to protect our people's lives and ensure their safety," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters Tuesday morning.
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se warned that Pyongyang will face deeper isolation if it carries out more provocations.
"North Korea must understand that there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- to be gained by threats and provocations," Yun said in his speech at an annual reception hosted by the Asia Foundation.
"North Korea, instead of developing missiles and weapons of mass destruction, must take care of its people first, who are suffering from the hardships of want, poverty and destitution," Yun said.
Yun will hold talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Seoul Friday to discuss the growing hostilities from North Korea and other bilateral issues, a Seoul official said Tuesday.
It will be the second bilateral talks between Yun and Kerry this month. They held talks in Washington on April 2 and Kerry reaffirmed Washington's commitment to protecting South Korea in the face of the North's increasingly bellicose threats.
"It is very unusual for them to hold talks within 10 days, and I think it demonstrates the two nations' willingness to build a new, cooperative relationship," Cho said.
They said they would strike on the 10th.
See, that's the sort of thing people are worried about. Launching missiles into the Pacific can go wrong.
The situation on the Korean Peninsula is heading for a thermonuclear war," the North's Asia-Pacific Peace Committee said in a statement.
Referring to their A-bomb as thermonuclear is just hilarious. All that famine is starting to have serious consequences to their intelligence.
but more in that I see more possibility of accidental escalation now.
quote:True, that was worse. I was referring though just to the actions in the last month or so.
No way, when the North was shelling the island in South Korea was much worse then this. Not sure how they avoided war there.
It's hard to think they sat by for that.
No way, when the North was shelling the island in South Korea was much worse then this. Not sure how they avoided war there.
It's hard to think they sat by for that.
quote:What do you think the reaction from the DPRK would be if the US increased troop presence there along the DMZ?
FWIW they just announced that they will fire missiles into the Pacific tomorrow and not attack the South.
What do you think the reaction from the DPRK would be if the US increased troop presence there along the DMZ?
As long as they draw first blood, I have no problem knowing that my country whipped dat arse with no mercy.
quote:I know we don't need to, just wondering what would happen if we did. I can see where it could happen even though it's not needed.
To what sort of levels? I'm assuming you mean a significant amount. We have no need to do that, and I'd say they would either respond with direct force in the form of another Yeonpyong bombardment or would begin to mobilize along the border themselves.
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The baby boom generation will bust the United States government, according to the non-partisan Concord Coalition.
The coalition says that without reform to Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare, the spending on those entitlement programs will equal today's entire federal budget as baby boomers begin consuming more and more resources as they retire. A member of the Concord Coalition spoke at the Big Sky Pachyderm Club meeting Wednesday.
Janet Ryan, western regional director of the Concord Coalition, said spending on Social Security and Medicaid equals 42 percent of government spending with 13 percent of the country's population receiving benefits. As boomers retire over 20 percent of the population will consume those services.
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How precious! You got a wonderful treat, as well as a surprise!
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I would like to learn more about Michael's method of expanding your nuc's. I also think the Ga. Producers would have trouble finding mated northern queens as they seem to sale most of the packages early.
I would like to learn more about Michael's method of expanding your nuc's. I also think the Ga. Producers would have trouble finding mated northern queens as they seem to sale most of the packages early.
"...the most populous colonies ...are provided by queens ...in the year following their birth." Brother Adam
Well overwintering Nucs is much harder than normal colonies.. Just a trick I have not learned yet. We have some really bad weather for nucs here. cold and wet. I did better farther north..... and I can tell you so far, its not been worth the effort Not to say raising nucs is bad, but for the time and effort not profitable so far. All but one of teh nucs I overwintered are so far behind right now I could forget the existed. I just requeened and added bees to them. while March packages just got supers (they were on drawn comb)
Fastcher, your way off on the value of hauling and selling packages. This year it required at least 2 phone calls with EACH customer, and probably close to 20 minutes each just informing them of whats going on. Add Gas, hotels and just wasted time, and its not nearly as profitable as my day Job..... but not the point. Profit is higher on Nucs than packages..... at least at teh rates I charge
I checked 3 nucs for a customer just the other day and it reaffirmed what I have stated earlier in the post. He paid 138.00 each for them, Russian hybrids from a seller in Vermont. All three were 3 frames drawn and two of foundation. There was maybe 2 lbs of bees, not enough to cover three frames of brood. I found the cell cups in all three so the breeder didn't even see fit to remove those before selling the nucs and they were certainly not over wintered, though the buyer did not indicate that he had been told that they were.
This customer bought a package from me last year and 4 nucs from this same source. The package is the only one that is still alive. He bought three packages from me and 3 nucs this year from this other guy. We will see how they do this season.
Always question Conventional Wisdom.
Well there are dishonest people in all walks. I don't doubt what you say...
especially if his initials are RS from S C Apiaries
I wish you guys would not speak in shorthand about beekeepers we should beware. It took me all of 5 minutes to google up who you were talking about.
But I've made a note not to do business with that person.
Did you read the ABF article on same beekeeper?
Our local association got packages from a GA supplier in late April. There have been more queen problems than ever. There have always been some problems, but this year is much worse. Suppose it is the cold weather.
Horseshoe Point Honey -- http://localvahoney.com/
Summarize? Lies, distortions, bogus bologna.
I will say that my packages came in a week late from Drew apiaries 2013, but most of my buddies got cancelled from the other bee places in south Georgia. Great hives and queens. 10 hives made 200lbs each. My commercial buddy orders queens (100s) from them and he made approx. 130lbs each. Not too bad if you ask me. Just ordered 100 3s and happy I got April. That honey paid for my bees and then some.
Bee Guy isnt H and R apiaries right in your town?
Specialists in Ground Cover plants since 1937. Talk to me about ground-covers!
I get more than 3# of bees in every package and it more like 3 1/2 -4 lbs in the packages. Never gotten heavy packages for h&R. I like the drew queens better too. I've had better honey production every


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Games I Own: Carnivores
Posted on 21st May 2010 at 12:03 by Joe Martin with 8 comments
It's a fictional one admittedly – you're hunting dinosaurs using modern weaponry – but it's still a hunting game. You have to do stuff like gauge the wind, aim only for vital organs and cover your scent. Plus, you only get one weapon and about six shots.
Or, you would if you played Carnivores in the way it was supposed to be played, which I never did.


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The tiled studio features a living area with a double sofa bed, a unique lighting fixture and modern décor. It offers a kitchenette with a fridge, coffee maker and hot plates, and towels and a shower are provided for the modern bathroom.
The Opera Comique and the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts are a 10-minute walk from the apartment. Bonne Nouvelle Metro Station is 5 minutes' walk away and offers guests access to Champs de Mars Park, the Eiffel Tower and Les Invalides Museum (Military Museum).
A Vélib bike hire station is located nearby meters away, a service which guests can use to explore the surrounding neighbourhood with its traditional Parisian architecture, boutiques and cafés.
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The very clean and very nice apartment, despite being small meets all the needs for a short stay.
El apartamento muy limpio y muy agradable, pese a ser pequeño cumple con todas las necesidades para una estancia corta.
The studio is very well located, it is tastefully furnished and equipped with everything necessary. As only downside, the size a bit small and not having no window can be a bit overwhelming. There was a small problem on arrival (we had to wait a while to clean up the studio) but was resolved quickly by the maintenance man. Advisable
El estudio está muy bien situado, está decorado con gusto y equipado con todo lo imprescindible. Como única pega, el tamaño un poco reducido y que no al no tener ninguna ventana puede resultar un poco agobiante. Hubo un pequeño problema a la llegada (tuvimos que esperar un rato para que limpiaran el estudio) pero fue resuelto rápidamente por el encargado de mantenimiento. Recomendable
The host very friendly and attentive, the study was very clean but a little small for what is sleep and rest is very good. The sofa bed is very comfortable. Very good location next to the studio there is a metro, many shops and bars.
If I return to Paris I would sleep there.
El anfitrión muy amable y atento, el estudio estaba muy limpio un poco pequeño pero para lo que es dormir y descansar esta muy bien. El sofá cama es muy cómodo. La situación muy buena al lado del estudio hay un metro, muchas tiendas y bares.
Si vuelvo a París me quedaría a dormir allí.
Stefano was very friendly and polite. The studio is very nice and in a convenient position, 2diverse metro stations nearby apartment and also many shops and bars nearby. Next time I definitely will contact Stephen. Highly recommended
Stefano è stato molto cordiale e gentile. Il monolocale è molto carino e in posizione comodissima, 2diverse fermate della metro vicine all'appartamento ed inoltre tanti negozi e bar nelle vicinanze. La prossima volta ricontatteremo sicuramente Stefano. Consigliatissimo
The Amfitrion very simpatico, the study was very small but in a good area and functions cumplia to visit Paris with the kitchen and the bathroom. I think with how expensive Paris is a good choice.
El amfitrion muy simpatico, el estudio era muy pequeño pero en una buena zona y cumplia las funciones para visitar Paris con la cocina y el baño. Creo que con lo caro que es Paris es una buena opción.
Location is fantastic! Very convenient as a lot of sights and public transportation stations are close by.
Studio is tiny but very stylishly decorated. Only disadvantage was that there is no window, only a glass ceiling which cannot be opened for fresh air.
The apartment is small but has everything you need for 2 people. Well served by public transport excellent value for money. Stefano is very helpful. It 'was a pleasant stay. Thanks
L'appartamento è piccolo ma ha tutto il necessario per 2 persone. Servito ottimamente dai mezzi pubblici di trasporto ottimo rapporto qualità prezzo.
Stefano è molto disponibile.
E' stato un soggiorno piacevole. Grazie
Really nice small apartement and a very nice contact.
Everything was like in the Description.
Is a small apartement but clean and very good located.
If you don't have much lagguage and stay for a few Days then is excellent.
Also Stefano were very nice contact & everything went well without any problems.
Thanks for the nice stay.
For sure we will book again.
All as described, Stefano was very nice, very little room is very small but very nice and clean the toilet. Convenient location and excellent connections to the sights in Paris. My husband and I have felt very comfortable. For Paris, the room and the price is I think a good value for money!
Alles wie beschrieben, Stefano war sehr nett, das Zimmerchen sehr sehr klein aber dafür sehr fein und die Toilette sauber. Günstige Lage und sehr gute Anbindungen zu den Sehenswürdigkeiten in Paris. Mein Mann und ich haben uns sehr wohl gefühlt. Für Paris ist das Zimmer und der Preis denke ich ein gutes Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis!
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Starting in 1890, Issei (first generation) came to the Santa Clara Valley in search of work. In 1900, Japanese Americans established Japantown, a place for them to meet their social, cultural and economic needs in a society hostile to their presence.
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JAMsj provides speakers who will go to schools or organizations to give first-hand accounts of life in the internment camps and explain how the former incarcerees reestablished themselves after their release. The speakers program only covers grades 8 and higher. For more information, please contact the JAMsj Outreach Coordinator at (408) 294-3138 or please send email to firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit our Outreach Programs page for information on our speaker program.
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JAMsj provides a teacher curriculum guide to educate the public about the WW II incarceration of Japanese Americans and its implications on contemporary issues. This teacher's resource guide was created by a group of teachers, both active and retired, who have a deep and continuing interest in exploring Japanese American internment and civil liberties issues.
The JAMsj Library includes print and electronic instructional materials that teachers can incorporate into their curriculum to educate students about the Japanese American experience. The history of the World War II forced removal and "internment" followed by the Redress legislation of 1988 can be used to demonstrate that citizens must be ever vigilant in order to protect the principles of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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Did you know that San Jose's Japantown is one of only three Japantowns in the United States? A JAMSJ docent can show you all the historic sites including Issei Memorial Building and the Buddhist Church. For more information or to make a reservation, visit Japantown Walking Tours.
Lasting Stories: The Resettling of San Jose Japantown
Lasting Stories is a digital visual history project that documents the starting or restarting of small businesses in San Jose's Japantown during the resettlement era (1945-1965), when incarcerees returned from camps.
REgenerations Oral History
The REgenerations oral history project is a collaborative effort between the Japanese American Museum of San Jose and museums in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Diego. It documents the resettlement experiences of Japanese Americans after their release from internment camps at the end of World War II, in their own words.
As part of our ongoing mission to preserve, collect, and disseminate the history of Japanese Americans, particularly in the Santa Clara Valley, members of the Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj) participated in the REgenerations Collaborative Oral History Project (when the REgenerations project was successfully completed in 1997, JAMsj was then referred to as JARC, or the Japanese American Resource Center).
In collaboration with three other museums, we documented the resettlement experiences of Japanese Americans after their incarceration in internment camps--roughly the time period between 1945 and 1965--in four different geographic areas: Chicago, Los Angeles, the Santa Clara Valley, and San Diego. JAMsj was in charge of documenting resettlement in the Santa Clara Valley. Within the span of about 50 years, this valley went from being largely agricultural to being the center of information technology. For demographic reasons like this, the Santa Clara Valley was a particularly interesting region to research.
Through community forums, JAMsj solicited input from the community as to the kind of information we should strive to gather from our interviews. Based on that input, the REgenerations team selected 10 individuals who resettled in the Santa Clara Valley and who, in our opinion, represented a good cross-section of the Japanese American community in this region.
In June of 1997, the REgenerations team completed its final interview of the first phase of this project. To celebrate this accomplishment and to honor our 10 distinguished interviewees, JAMsj threw a party at our new, permanent home at 535 North Fifth Street.
JAMsj hopes to continue documenting Japanese American history in the Santa Clara Valley through oral history. We believe ordinary citizens possess an enormous amount of valuable historical knowledge, not perhaps, from having studied history but from having lived it. If you would like to participate in this or other oral history projects, either as an interviewer, transcriber, videographer, or interviewee, please contact us.


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Can you tell I'm excited for the weekend? I think I talked The Boyfriend into seeing The Five Year Engagement with me Saturday night, which is perfect because this week's Friday's Fancies theme is Date Night. For The Boyfriend and me, date night usually means either a) trying out a new restaurant; b) revisiting an old favorite; c) catching a movie; or d) any combination of the above. In other words, we keep it pretty casual. So for me, when I think "date night," I think relaxed but stylish. This little ensemble would work perfectly for a chic-but-low-key evening out with your honey.
1. Petal window tee - how cute is the back of this top? You'd just have to wear your hair in a sexy messy up-do of some sort to show it off.
2. Skinny ankle jeans
3. Margate purse
4. Corked necklace
5. Embraced sandals
What's your typical date night like?


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Make The BMO Harris Bank Annual Holiday Display Part of Your Holiday Tradition
Donations made to Feeding America for every visitor to "Holiday Junction"
MILWAUKEE, November 19, 2012 – BMO Harris Bank is pleased to announce this year's annual holiday display theme, Holiday Junction, which will feature BMO's collection of more than 150 life-sized, costumed animals. Celebrating its 40th year, a train-themed winter wonderland will pull into the downtown Milwaukee lobby just in time to spread some holiday cheer. The display is free and open to the public.
For each visitor to the display, BMO Harris Bank will contribute $5 to Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin, the state's largest food bank. With a goal of donating $50,000, the holiday display donations will help Feeding America in its efforts to alleviate hunger in our community.
"For many families, our holiday display has long been a celebration of a warm and memorable family tradition, and this year, we're proud to continue the addition of a charitable experience that will help those in need of food during the holiday season," said Brad Chapin, Executive Vice President, Personal Banking, BMO Harris Bank.
"By including a donation for those who might be struggling during the holiday season, BMO Harris Bank has evolved its great tradition to help families and visitors give back to the community even more," said Bonnie Bellehumeur, President of Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin.
This year celebrates the 40th year of this annual tradition of bringing the sights and sounds of the holidays to BMO Harris Bank customers and the community. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, BMO Harris employee volunteers will transform the downtown bank's lobby into the 1,300-square-foot display with more than 20 freshly cut evergreen trees, thousands of lights, and several feet of "snow."
Display hours:
BMO Harris Bank's Holiday Display, located in the lobby of the BMO Harris location at 770 N. Water St., will be open from Monday, Nov. 26, through Wednesday, Jan. 2. It is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. On weekends, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day, the display will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Special note:
The lobby will close at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 8 and Monday, Dec. 24; and at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 19 and Wednesday, Jan. 2.
Please also visit www.bmoharris.com/holiday for hours and directions.
Display history
The BMO Harris Bank (formerly M&I) holiday collection of animals began in 1972, when 30 life-sized Steiff animals were discovered at the world's largest toy store, FAO Schwartz in New York City. BMO Harris's collection of Steiff animals has steadily grown to more than 150. Steiff animals are collectors' items originally made in Germany by Margarete Steiff, who hand-stitched the first tiny elephant and stuffed it with straw. Many of the figures are no longer being made. The world-renowned Steiff Company made the original teddy bear in 1903.
Over the past 40 years, BMO Harris's Holiday Displays have included a fishing tugboat, a Victorian park, an igloo at the North Pole, a Yukon train, an ice palace, a candy factory, and 1950s nostalgia featuring antique Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
About BMO Harris Bank
Based in Chicago, BMO Harris Bank N.A. provides a broad range of personal banking products and solutions through over 600 branches and approximately 1,300 ATMs in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Nevada, Arizona and Florida. BMO Harris Bank's commercial banking team provides a combination of sector expertise, local knowledge and mid-market focus throughout the U.S. Deposit and loan products and services provided by BMO Harris Bank N.A. Member FDIC. BMO Harris BankSM is a trade name used by BMO Harris Bank N.A. BMO Harris Bank is part of BMO Financial Group, a North American financial organization with 1,600 branches, and a retail deposit base of approximately $180 billion.
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Prineville mill announces $3 million upgrade
Idaho-based Woodgrain Millwork notes 'increased demand'
PRINEVILLE, Ore. - Woodgrain Millwork, Inc. announced Friday a $3 million investment to make its Prineville manufacturing plant state-of-the-art., citing the need to "meet increased demand in the market."
The facility manufactures wood mouldings, door components and window components.
Woodgrain Millwork, Inc. has a network of manufacturing facilities located throughout the U.S., South America and Asia.
Headquartered in Fruitland, Idaho, Woodgrain employs over 2,000 individuals, including about 250 in Prineville. It supplies mouldings, doors, and windows to multiple distributors, wholesalers, pro-dealers, doors shops, retailers and home centers nationwide.
Key to the modernization efforts at the Prineville facility is the purchase of an optimizer, software and equipment to maximize efficiencies within the plant, officials said.
The optimizer allows for more efficient use of material, reduces waste, and allows Woodgrain Millwork to respond quickly to changing market demands and opportunities through increased capacity and production.
"This type of process automation will help us drive efficiencies and optimize our productivity in Prineville," said Kelly Dame, chief executive officer at Woodgrain Millwork, Inc. "Increased efficiency leads to increased capacity and production, which will allow us to meet increased demand in the market."
Economic Development for Central Oregon helped coordinate efforts between Woodgrain Millwork, and officials with the city of Prineville and Crook County.
"An added benefit to this investment is that it strengthens the position of other companies in the supply chain," added Russ Deboodt, EDCO's Prineville/Crook County development manager.
"Woodgrain subcontracts with Contact Industries in Prineville and gets source product from the Malheur Lumber Company in John Day," he said. "This helps retention of jobs at these plants, too."
About Woodgrain Millwork, Inc.
With over 55 years in the millwork business, Woodgrain Millwork continues to build on the tradition of excellence as a market leader. Woodgrain's vertical integration strategy allows the company to bring high-quality products to the market at the lowest total cost of ownership. The diverse product offering includes: moulding, door shop products, wood stile and rail doors, moulded skin doors, patio doors, window parts and windows. For more information visit www.woodgrainmillwork.com.
About Economic Development for Central Oregon
Economic Development for Central Oregon (EDCO) is a private non-profit corporation founded over 30 years ago and dedicated to building a vibrant and thriving regional economy by attracting new investment and traded-sector jobs (manufacturing, professional, headquarters and high technology businesses) through marketing, recruitment and substantive assistance to existing companies. Learn more about EDCO at www.edcoinfo.com.


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Crow Wing SWCD awards water quality protection grants
The Crow Wing Soil and Water District (SWCD) awarded $36,500 in grants to local non-profit organizations in Crow Wing County (CWC) for four water quality protection projects.
In 2011, Crow Wing SWCD received the grant funds through a competitive grant process from the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) Community Partnership program, which helps build local capacity and address the priorities of county comprehensive local water plans.
Local organizations provide matching cash or in-kind dollars for the projects. Funding was provided by the Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment, Clean Water Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
"We are excited for this opportunity to not only bring locally paid sales tax dollars back to Crow Wing County but also to allow local citizens and community organizations to access the Clean Water funds and determine how they are spent," said Melissa Barrick, SWCD district manager.
This spring, grant applications were accepted from citizens, businesses, non-profits, faith organizations and property owners associations. The applications were reviewed and ranked by an interagency team that included Crow Wing County, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, University of Minnesota Extension, Thirty Lakes Watershed District and Crow Wing SWCD.
Five applications were submitted for a total of $77,622 in grant funding requests. SWCD Board of Supervisors approved the following applicants:
• Wild Ones Brainerd Chapter, Brainerd dog park landscaping for water quality, $4,856; contact is Laurel Mezner, Brainerd Dog Park Landscaping Committee/project chair.
• Pelican Lakes Association (PLA), stormwater management at Pelican Lake access points — south landing and Jones Bay, $13,660; contact is Jodi Eberhardt, PLA vice president.
• Pete Thomes and Verna Quaintance, stabilize and plant 10,000 square feet of lakeshore with severe runoff and an unstable lake bank during an educational workshop on Grave Lake, $9,061; contact is Shelley Larson, Hayland Woods Native Nursery.
• Portage Crooked Lake Improvement Association (PCLIA), Crooked Lake demonstration erosion control project, $3,032; contact is Shelley Larson, lakeshore owner, member and lakeshore consultant.
For more information on this project, contact Melissa Barrick at 218-828-6197 or email@example.com or visit http://www2.co.crow-wing.mn.us/swcd/.


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The obligatory release of semen typically from the male body into some sort of containment device such as a napkin or a tissue to be later discarded. Although this is usually a night-time practice to finally get some sleep, running a batch can happen most anytime there is downtime throughout the day. This includes: not getting sex after begging for it anywhere between 5-35 minutes, having no direction in your life and running a batch just because the internet happens to be available, or going home empty handed after a night out clubbing.
Zeke (after a long night out): "Bro you wanna go hit Denny's for a Grand Slam breakfast since we struck out tonight?"
Me: "Naw man, I think I'm gunna go home, run a batch and call it a night."
Me: "Naw man, I think I'm gunna go home, run a batch and call it a night."
by one-5 February 24, 2010
Cleveland Steamer Plush
The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush
After I saw Jessica Alba in that bikini I wanted to "run a batch" so bad!
by Derek Davila January 27, 2006
Its that time of the month for my girl, so i just had to run a batch
by artman01 October 26, 2010


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Partner Counseling and Referral Services (PCRS)
Once you have been diagnosed, you will be asked to identify your sexual and needle-sharing partners, so that they can be told that they have been exposed to HIV and need to be tested. Partner notification is one of the most important ways to prevent the spread of HIV. (It's also important, of course, that you use a condom during sex and don't share needles.)
The Partner Counseling and Referral Service (PCRS) can help you with notifying your partner(s). Most state public health departments have a PCRS program. PCRS can also help your partner(s) get counseling, a medical evaluation, treatment, and any other services they may need.
Notifying and Testing Partners
Once you have identified your partners, they should be notified as soon as possible. This gives them an opportunity to protect themselves from infection if they don't have HIV—or, if they are having sex or sharing needles with others—to take steps to protect or notify those partners.
Notification can happen in four ways:
- Provider referral means that your healthcare provider notifies your partner(s) for you.
- Self-referral means that you notify your partner(s) yourself.
- Contract referral means that you make a "contract" to notify your partner(s) by a particular date. If, by the contract date, your partners have not come in for counseling and testing, the health department will contact them.
- Dual referral means that you and the health department will notify your partner(s) together.
If your partner(s) are notified by your healthcare provider or the health department, they will also be given information about where they can get tested for HIV and where they can find treatment if they need it. Healthcare officials would prefer that people get tested for HIV at the same time they're notified because not everyone follows through on going to the testing sites.
It's possible for your partner(s) to test negative for HIV even when they are already infected if they take the test during the window period. That's the time between when a person is infected with HIV and the time that the body develops antibodies to the virus. Partners are advised to be retested 3 months after the date of their last known exposure.
For more information, see CDC's Partner Services.
Disclosing Without Patient Consent
A physician or HIV counselor may disclose a patient's HIV status without his or her consent only under the following conditions:
- The physician or counselor has made a reasonable effort to counsel and encourage the patient to voluntarily provide this information to the spouse or sexual partner.
- The physician or counselor reasonably believes the patient will not provide the information to the spouse or sexual partner.
- Disclosure is necessary to protect the health of the spouse or sexual partner.
Fact Sheets & Print Materials
- CDC - Partner Services
Related Topics on AIDS.gov
Frequently Asked Questions
What are partner services?
Partner services include a variety of related services which are offered to people diagnosed with HIV or other STDs and their sex or needle-sharing partners. Some of the services include: notifying partners of their exposure; risk-reduction counseling; referrals for additional prevention services; STD/HIV testing and treatment; linkages to medical care and treatment; and referring partners to other services.
When are partner services offered?
Partner services should be offered to patients as soon after their diagnosis as possible. Likewise, partners should be notified of their possible exposure and provided treatment (for curable STDs) or testing and linkage to medical care (for HIV) as soon as possible. Partner notification typically occurs within 2-3 working days of identification, unless there is an indication of potential partner violence. For more information, see CDC's HIV, Hepatitis, STD and TB Partners: Partner Services FAQs.
Will my parents find out I used partner services?
All 50 states and the District of Columbia allow minors to consent to STD services without parental consent or knowledge, although some states specify that the minor must be of a certain age (usually 12 or 14 years). In addition, 31 states explicitly mention that HIV testing and counseling services are among STD services to which a minor can consent. For more information, see CDC's HIV, Hepatitis, STD and TB Partners: Partner Services FAQs.
Additional Resources
- CDC - Recommendations for Partner Services Programs for HIV Infection, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Chlamydial Infection
This report provides updated, integrated recommendations for services provided to partners of persons with HIV infection and three other sexually transmitted diseases.
- Department of Veterans Affairs - HIV Partner Counseling and Referral Services Guidance
VA providers have a professional and ethical responsibility to contact state or local health departments to protect the health of the spouse or known sexual partner of a veteran with HIV.
- CDC - Featured Podcasts: Preparing for the Release of CDC's Recommendations for Partner Services Programs for HIV, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Chlamydial Infection
- CDC - 2008 HIV/STD Partner Services Recommendations: Comparison with Previous Guidance Documents
Last revised: 08/24/2009


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Location: Innovative Fruit Production, Improvement and ProtectionTitle: Method for producing long-cane blackberry plants) Author
Submitted to: Hortscience Proceedings
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 4/20/2012
Publication Date: 7/12/2012
Citation: Takeda, F. 2012. Method for producing long-cane blackberry plants [abstract]. ASHS Annual Conference Program. p. 78. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: U.S. blackberry (Rubus) growers need to find ways to expand the market share by entering specific niches. Production of blackberries in off-season is one desired approach. However, with the high investment for protected cultivation systems, yield in the first year of production is desirable to obtain a quick return on the investment. A variety of techniques and vegetative materials have been used to asexually propagate blackberries. We used a unique trellis and cane training system to propagate 2-m long cane plants with roots at the distal end and 4-m-long looped cane plants with roots at both ends. The new propagation system increased plant output five- to seven-fold over the current commercial propagation technique. By inducing root formation at both ends of 4-m-long primocanes, percent budbreak, number of flowering shoots per m cane length, and number of fruit per cluster were increased. The long-cane plants can be established in a warm area, such as southern Florida, in late winter to obtain a crop in March and April. For late season fruit production, plants are held in cold storage until summer and then grown in a warm environment so that the fruit matures from August to October. This new propagation method is efficient for producing a large number of blackberry plants that can be manipulated to produce fruit in the off-season and is; therefore, useful to both growers and nurserymen wishing to produce container plants for off-season fruit production.


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The Final Four of the 2012 NCAA Division III women's basketball championships is heading to Holland and Hope College Friday and Saturday, March 16-17.
The final four has been determined -- Amherst, Mass. (31-0), George Fox, Oregon (31-0), Illinois Wesleyan (26-5) and St. Thomas, Minn. (30-1).
Hope is hosting the women's final four at DeVos Fieldhouse for third time in five years.
Tickets are available through the DeVos Fieldhouse ticket office. They may be purchased by calling 616-395-7890 weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
In addition to Great Basketball, come enjoy Zany, Wacky Fun with Animal Basketball Stars! Zooperstars will be featured as part of the NCAA Championship activities on Saturday at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., DeVos Fieldhouse. The first 400 students (ages 5-18) in the DeVos Fieldhouse on Saturday get a free NCAA basketball gift.
More information is available at the tournament website.


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Report: Weaker passwords fine in some cases
Optimal strategy requires re-use, researchers say
Have trouble creating passwords that are easy to remember? You're not alone, and it may not be necessary to create those that are difficult.
A team of researchers has released a report that says math proves more memorable passwords are just fine for use on low-value data.
"Clearly, users find managing a large portfolio burdensome," states the report titled "Password Portfolios and the Finite-Effort User: Sustainably Managing Large Numbers of Accounts."
"Both password re-use, and choosing weak passwords, remain popular coping strategies."
Many websites ask users to construct passwords with letters, numbers and special characters, and they must be changed occasionally. Memorizing multiple accounts and various passwords is like that of memorizing a shuffled deck of cards.
"The imposition of stringent password policies is better correlated with insulation from the consequences of poor usability than the need for greater security," the report states.
The findings by Microsoft Research and Carlton University in Canada challenge the current conventional wisdom regarding password strategies. The report defines four categories: passwords for accounts deemed worthless, slightly important, quite secure and top security. Three categories were suggested: Password that are of no importance, are inconvenient if stolen or result in a major problem if abused.
In the report, researchers suggested:
— Users should create passwords based on unique attributes of each account;
— The optimal strategy involves selective re-use and weaker passwords;
— Users must not arbitrarily weaken and re-use passwords; and
— People should group accounts with high value and group those with low value, and consider their levels of ability to be compromised in those groupings.
The research shows mathematical support for foregoing a strict password policy for what a user may deem a low-value account. Stronger passwords are still encouraged for sites with more important data, such as a financial account.
Read the full report at research.microsoft.com.


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About 30 years ago I started a couple of hives from packages to help pollinate my fruit trees and garden. I dabbled with the bees off & on, mostly off, but managed to capture & bring in a few swarms, etc., & at one time had 4 hives which were mostly left to their own devices and not managed. In time three of the hives died off, but one that had 3 10 frame deep hive bodies and a couple of shallow supers on it, just kept going year after year. My business is on the same 75 acres of mountain side, and a couple of years ago a swarm moved into some old supers stored in a shed next to the business where my employees park their vehicles, and I was "urged" to move them, although the bees seemed quite happy.
Since I'm now trying to be "quasi" retired, I decided to break out my old bee suit & smoker & see what the swarm would do if I gave them a little more room & some fresh foundation & last year was able to harvest more honey than we have been able to use plus giving quite a bit away. This year I hope to make a couple of splits & increase my bee yard to 4 hives.
So I guess I'm a 30 year hive owner with about 1 year's worth of experience. Reversed my supers last weekend & things are starting to boom here!
Crocus and daffodils have been blooming for about a week & winter honeysuckle is in full bloom & full of bees!
Hope to learn a lot from you folks! Looking forward to an interesting spring!


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Based on your comments I have splashed out nearly £6 ordering this from Amazon. It better be worth it. :)
It is. I'm sure Taleb would hate me for saying it, but I don't think you can call yourself a rationalist unless you've ingested the info in that book. Of course, the concept isn't difficult to grasp - I've always said Yudkowsky explains it better and more succinctly - but it's full of enough additional tidbits and ideas that give you a fresh perspective on chance. He's a bit idiosyncratic and sometimes repetitive (if you're just out to explain Black Swan Theory, you can do it in a fraction of the pages), but once you get beyond that it's excellent.