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California and Wisconsin account for 34 percent of the nation's milk. However, market forces impact milk checks differently.
by Brian W. Gould
The author is a professor in the department of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The dramatic upward runs in grain prices over the last 18 months have hampered the ability of U.S. dairy producers to generate adequate returns on milk production. For those producers with a greater dependence on purchased feed, the situation is even more dire. Such is the case in California, but the reason goes beyond heavy reliance on purchased feed. The Golden State's unique state pricing order that establishes minimum milk prices is also having an impact on producer net returns.
Pricing under two systems
Wisconsin dairy farms market their milk under the minimum pricing rules established by the Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) system. Its foundation is classified pricing which places value on the products specifically made from that milk. In contrast to Federal Orders, California has its own classified pricing system with five classes.
The California milk pricing system, like the FMMOs, values milk depending on end use. Although they are similar in underlying philosophy, the specific provisions found in these two pricing systems result in significantly different milk values. Recently, these differences have become a major dairy policy concern in California as an ongoing debate is taking place between dairy producers and processors. The concern is so great that some producer groups within California are investigating establishing an FMMO.
As an example, in Figure 1 we show the minimum value for milk used in manufacturing cheese as expressed in $ per hundredweight (cwt.). From January 2010 to December 2012, the average (FMMO Class III - California 4b) milk price difference was $1.72 per cwt. This represented more than a 10 percent spread observed over the two-and-a-half-plus-year period of Class III prices.
Before we dig into this difference, let's take a quick refresher on mailbox pricing. A producer's mailbox price is the value of the milk produced where this value includes all bonuses due to quality, other over-order premiums and producer price differential payments, minus any deductions such as milk-related transportation costs, check-off contributions, plant testing fees and so forth.
Besides differences in milk pricing systems, another reason for the different mailbox prices when comparing Wisconsin and California stem from variation in end use or product utilization of the state's milk. In 2011, more than 82 percent of the milk produced in the Upper Midwest FMMO (which includes Wisconsin) was used for Class III purposes, mainly cheese. In comparison, less than 45 percent of California's milk went to manufacturing cheese. More than a third of California milk went towards nonfat dry milk (NFDM) and butter compared to less than 2 percent in the Upper Midwest.
This is an important consideration when determining each producer's overall mailbox prices. Milk used for manufacturing butter and powder tends to have a lower payout than milk used in cheese manufacturing. This almost always holds true, although there have been times when the minimum price for milk used in cheese manufacturing has been less than the minimum price for dry dairy products.
The combined effect of different pricing structures and milk utilization in these two states is quite profound. The average Wisconsin mailbox prices have been higher than California values for some time. However, the spread is growing. From January 2010 to September 2012 (the most recent data available at this writing), the average (Wisconsin-California) mailbox basis was $2.12. That number only tells a portion of the story. In 2010, the average basis was $1.61 compared to $2.82 over the first nine months of 2012.
Variation in feed costs
Due to much larger dairy farm sizes in California (1,056 cows), a higher portion of feed must be purchased relative to the typical Wisconsin dairy farm (105 cows). Another contributing factor to higher feed costs is the varied competition for land among the many crops grown in California. To compare cost structures, we will use the formulas that were found in the November 2012 U.S. House of Representatives' version of the proposed 2012 Farm Bill. The bill's dairy feed ration contains not only the feed required directly by the milking herd, but needs replacement heifers, dry cows and hospital cows. Assuming that all feed is purchased on prevailing local feed prices (Wisconsin and California), we can compare representative feed costs on a $ per cwt. of milk basis from 2010 to 2012.
In contrast to the pattern observed with respect to mailbox prices, the average California feed cost profile was significantly higher than Wisconsin. In 2010, the average California cost to feed the entire herd was 27 percent greater than Wisconsin. In 2011, this percentage jumped to 39 percent and then we estimate it fell to 28.5 percent in 2012.
These comparisons highlight the fact that feed costs differ across region and thus have differing impacts on the ability to generate positive margins. For this exercise it should be noted that feed cost values for both California and Wisconsin are on the high side given the implicit assumption that all feed is purchased and we are feeding the entire herd.
Using estimated mailbox prices and feed costs, we can generate average income over feed cost (IOFC) estimates. The IOFC measure can help us determine the variable production costs associated based on fluctuations in feed.
Less room for error
Since 2010, we found that the estimated California IOFC is significantly less than the Wisconsin value . . . meaning there is less margin in selling milk. Figure 2 displays three IOFC estimates, one for Wisconsin, one for California and the level where IOFC is zero. For 2010, our estimated Wisconsin IOFC was $8.14 per cwt. compared to $4.39 per cwt. for California - a $3.75 difference. In 2011, the average Wisconsin IOFC climbed to $9.63 per cwt., while the California IOFC fell to $3.61 per cwt. From January to September 2012, the average California IOFC was at a break-even level compared to $6.24 for an average Wisconsin operation.
While improved feed costs and pay prices would benefit all producers, it should be noted that even with a positive IOFC, the ability to cover all of an operation's production costs are not guaranteed. This is the case even with $16.26 and $19 mailbox prices, our forecast of the average 2012 California and Wisconsin mailbox prices, respectively.


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The day before Richard Connor resigned his position as editor and publisher of the Portland Press Herald and head of MaineToday Media (as well as departing his leadership posts atop a Pennsylvania newspaper company), he moved $3 million worth of real estate holdings in Maine into a trust held by his wife.
While all the facts surrounding his departure aren't yet known, Connor resigned October 28 in the wake of what appear to be questions about the financial record-keeping at both companies, including mixing the two firms' income and expenses; the companies share some owners but not others. Also departing abruptly were MaineToday president Dale Duncan and advertising chief Michelle Lester, both Connor imports from the Pennsylvania paper.
A move such as Connor's real-estate shift could be seen as an effort to protect his assets should the companies' internal financial inquiries result in litigation.
Records on file at the Cumberland County Register of Deeds show that on October 27, Richard L. Connor and Deborah K. Connor transferred a four-acre parcel at 113 Foreside Road in Falmouth — including a 6000-square-foot six-bedroom, six-bathroom house with attached six-bay garage — valued by the town at $2.7 million and purchased on May 3 by the Connors for $2.4 million from their joint ownership into the Deborah K. Connor Revocable Trust, which had been established on October 4.
On the same day, in a nearly identical document notarized by the same attorney, Michelle Santiago of the Portland firm of Hopkinson and Abbondanza, Connor and his wife made the same transfer with a $500,000 one-acre parcel with a 4000-square-foot seven-bedroom, six-bathroom house at 49 High Street in Camden, according to records in Knox County.
Connor, who is listed as a co-trustee (with his wife) on his wife's trust, didn't return multiple e-mail and phone messages. Santiago has changed employers; reached at her new office, she declined to comment.
The ex-news-exec wrote in a farewell column that he's going to stay in media, and is looking to buy more newspapers. However, he'll have to do it without his major financial backer, HM Capital of Dallas. That company, which was central to both his 2006 deal to buy the Times Leader newspaper in northeast Pennsylvania and his purchase of the Press Herald and its sister publications, told Citizen's Voice (a competing publication in the Keystone State) that it will "no longer invest in media," calling that sector a "troubled area."
• The more lasting question, of course, is what will happen to MaineToday Media. Connor has said he'll retain his ownership stake in the company; whether his other backers do remains to be seen. None of them have experience with media companies or the news business; all of them have been largely silent partners, at least from the public perspective.
They now find themselves owning — and attempting to find a leader for — a newspaper group that, if possible, is even more troubled than when Connor and his crew bought them from the Blethens in 2009.
Last month's significant layoffs and buyouts have decimated the Press Herald's newsroom staff, who remain headed by a Connor crony, Scott Wasser. The Morning Sentinel and the Kennebec Journal are reeling from two major blows in a single week.
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In 1994, Pierre Huyghe hired actors to re-create everyday street scenes for his camera—workers on a building site, for example. The photographs were later pasted on billboards adjacent to the place where this unremarkable behavior had taken place, substituting disruptingly ordinary images for banally ostentatious advertisements.
Huyghe's practice is haunted by such reorientations of reality. Throughout the late 1990s, he created a clutch of multimedia works that exploited film dubbing, translation, and subtitling to track the duplicitous nature of the cinematic event. In Remake (1994–1995), he reshot an entire Alfred Hitchcock film with amateur performers; for other projects he has asked the original actors to revisit their old roles. Like his European contemporaries and collaborators, including Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Philippe Parreno, Liam Gillick, and Angela Bullock, Huyghe often trades in unfinished stories and intertwined propositions.
Huyghe and Parreno purchased the rights to a nascent animated manga (Japanese graphic novel) character in 1999, naming her Annlee and conceiving an enterprise-cum-exhibition entitled No Ghost Just a Shell, un film d'imaginaire (1999–2002). Annlee would serve as an infinitely adaptable vessel around which invited artists could develop new artworks that are,
in essence, remakes without any original.1
Huyghe's Two Minutes Out of Time (2000) and Parreno's Anywhere Out of the World (2000), also in the Walker Art Center's collection, are both computer-generated animations of Annlee avatars that recount alternative prologues to the No Ghost Just a Shell project. Accompanying Huyghe's film is a poster of a forlorn Bambi-eyed girl, the earliest image of Annlee. Yet in her following "episodes," it's clear that she is more than just a bit sad. As an object of (psycho)analysis, Annlee is ridden with powerful symptoms of dissociative disorders: mood swings, sleepwalking, flashbacks, amnesia, and time loss. Two Minutes Out of Time is a psychotic, cerebral overture told in hallucinations. At first Annlee describes herself in the third person, recounting her inauspicious origins as "a fictional character with a copyright designed by a company and proposed for sale." In moments of clarity, Annlee understands herself as a "deviant sign" that is "haunted by your imagination," before being abruptly possessed by a persona with the voice of a young American girl.
The project, whose title refers to Mamoru Oshii's classic anime film Ghost in the Shell (1995), eventually involved fifteen artists, including Gonzalez-Foerster, Gillick, and Bullock as well as Rirkrit Tiravanija, Joe Scanlan, and Richard Phillips. It was brought to an end in December 2002, with a fireworks performance by Huyghe and Parreno. The artists transferred Annlee's copyright to a legal entity with the specific purpose of enforcing a ban on any further use of her image. See Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno, eds., No Ghost Just a Shell (Zürich: Kunsthalle Zürich; Eindhoven, the Netherlands: Van Abbemuseum; Cambridge, England: Institute of Visual Culture; Köln, Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2003), and Philip Nobel, "Annlee: Sign of the Times," Artforum 41, no. 5 (January 2003): 105–109. ↩


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If there was one way to summarize the first day of presentations at Autodesk University it was to emphasize "how to reduce cycle time." That is, how can designers of whatever ... bridges, roads, cars, robots … go from design to build in less time. The vision presented by Autodesk is one of taking ideas from paper, or a digital sketch, to fabrication very fast. In fact, the company sees designers preparing a drawing and immediately going to a 3D printer so they can touch the results. Final designs might even go directly through milling and laser cutting to create the final product. It's a vision that Autodesk says is here now.
One of the guest speakers at the opening session was Christine Furstoss, the Technical Director for Manufacturing and Materials Technologies at GE who said "We're facing the Third Industrial Revolution … The virtual world is now collaborating with the physical world and with that comes the possibilities of what we can create." Jay Rogers, CEO of Local Motive said, "It took the British 200 years to come through their industrial revolution, it took America 50 years, it has taken China 10 years and individuals can take it back in one year."
CEO Carl Bass provided both his product roadmap and forward looking vision. "We are the first company to bring you a full set of professional tools in the cloud that spans the entire design process… [We offer] a single point of connection, which is a single source of truth. That is Autodesk 360. It's the connective tissue, the hub." Autodesk 360, formerly Autodesk Cloud, was launched last year. Since then, Autodesk has fifteen million users accessing Autodesk's cloud services and continues to add one million new users each month.
Bass offered a vision that utilized the cloud, mobile computing and design tools for humans, further emphasizing that making complex drawings doesn't mean that learning to use design software has to be complex."One of the biggest opportunities around is connecting our tools, data and people," said Bass.
Autodesk CTO, Jeff Kowalksi, emphasized that using point cloud data and photogrammetry is bringing the real world into the design process. "In many ways, we literally see the world through our tools. New tools not only make it possible to do things but they actually expand our very vision of what we believe to be possible," he said.
Some of this was often a little lofty so to bring it down to earth Autodesk offered up some high profile users that were putting into practice components of this vision. Scott Zimmerman, the Manager of Enterprise Systems for Bechtel, a $32 billion construction company, said that his CEO offered a challenge: "Get employees out of the office and out into the field because that's where the money is made." The answer was to leverage more of what the cloud offered. "We're an information factory with global demand. Our business is about speed and that comes from innovation and simplicity. We see cloud as the magic part of that formula."
Furstoss said, "GE, like others in this field, is trying to find our way in this new landscape. Software and analytics will be key players in this field … In three years, we're going to be putting into service a jet engine that has 3D printed parts. But that's not enough . . ."
Several individuals during this first day of presentations recognized that cloud computing and pervasive connectivity presents an entirely new ecosystems that includes both internal systems and employees as well as global partners. "You start to think about data differently when you consider the fact that every piece of data in your information ecosystem is accessible and addressable," said Zimmerman.
The cloud and mobile technology have impacted computer aided design in ways that Autodesk users probably never envisioned would happen so quickly. It is transforming the workflows of civil engineers and product designers. Peter Leyden, CEO of Reinventors Network and Former Managing Editor of Wired Magazine summed it up this way: "It's really starting to impact how we work. All serious work and collaboration gets done in the face-to-face realm. This is now virtualizing and it's moving to the cloud … We're watching the digitization of everything. We're going global in a way we've never done before. This is the type of thing that in 100 years people will say 'ah, that's when the world went digital.'"
Editor's Note: Autodesk partially funded travel to Autodesk University 2012.


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Why has no one nominated Ace for his dedicated efforts?
Why has no one nominated Ace for his dedicated efforts?
See post #13
USDA Zone 7A Elevation 1400 ft
Cleo Hogan
54+ years 30 colonies Treat using OAV
Jim Lyon, Roland, Old Timer,Keith Jarrett, Lauri, Harry Vanderpool, Sqkcrk, Ron Householder, The Fat Bee Man, and both Mikes. I know I missed a few but this is a good start. Also there are a lot of people on here that contribute little snippits here and there that diserve a big thank you also.
I'm going to nominate Mike Tooley (loggermike) for his perseverance. He's still actively involved on the forum having joined just 6 months after it began back in Dec. 1999.
Regards, Barry
Jim Lyon for his ability to diffuse a contentious discussion and bring it back a thoughtful one.
Horseshoe Point Honey -- http://localvahoney.com/
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Michael Bush
Jim Lyon
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Lauri Miller
Joseph Clemens
Rmns 1:16/Prv.3:5,6/ Beegan BK May 09/ Zone 5b
I have NOT failed. I have only found many many ways that do not work!
Radar Sidetrack, aka Graham, the forum librarian !
Graham found me a link of Carrot honey for sale when a question was raised about if carrots produced enough nectar for bees. Lol
He provides feedback to these discussions which help provide background info to the topics discussed. Very helpful and dependable !!!
That's my one vote!
I have no new names to add, but I want to say thank you to all the experienced beekeepers who shared their knowledge on this forum. My bees and I are grateful.
Of course Keith Jarret!,
Plus, I would like to thank the person(s) that made this wonderful tool called Beesource, tool that has allowed us shy guys on the background to gain hard earned knowledge from the heroes of this forum -for free!.
In my book, a hero does not come with colorful customs, is not able to stop a train or cast ice into problems; a hero is the one that is not perfect, but willing to share a little bit of himself, his time, his knowledge, his experience, his life!... so that some of us, with a lot less experience and more imperfections, someday can think we can be like them by applying their knowledge derived from their mistakes, discoveries and failures into our bee experience and passion.
Once again, thanks all of you my beekeeper heroes and merry Christmas to all!
Barry Birkey, Barry Birkey, and then Barry Birkey in that order. (Thanks!)
Yer a kiss up Neil.
But, just imagine where we would be w/out Barry's vision and generosity and hardwork and willingness to put up w/ us, up to a point.
Mark Berninghausen
Even handed, but firm. By the rules. A nice guy in person too.
We really need to have a beesource gathering some day, somewhere. Chicago maybe?
Mark Berninghausen
[QUOTEWe really need to have a beesource gathering some day, somewhere. Chicago maybe?[/QUOTE]
I'm game! I'd like to meet all you folks in person and say thanks for all the advice that you post. It helped me out a bunch, and still helping. And when I say all you folks, I mean ALL you folks.
A man is worth just as much as the things about which he busies himself- Marcus Aurelius


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VMware #1 in IDC Worldwide Datacenter Automation Software Vendor Shares
By Sajai Krishnan, vice president of product marketing, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware
The first half of 2014 has brought a great deal of positive recognition to VMware's Virtualization and Cloud Management product portfolio and business. That streak of success continues with the news that market research firm IDC has named VMware the leading datacenter automation software vendor based on 2013 software revenues. (1)
IDC's report, "Worldwide Datacenter Automation Software 2013 Vendor Shares," determined that VMware's lead in 2013 jumped 65.6 percent over 2012 results and its market share now stands at 24.1 percent, more than 10 percentage points above the second place vendor. Overall, the worldwide market for datacenter automation grew by 22.1 percent to $1.8 billion in 2013.
What's Driving Demand for Datacenter Automation Software?
IDC's report states, "The datacenter automation submarket demonstrates strong growth due to increased adoption of virtualization and cloud datacenter architectures and the associated self-service provisioning, orchestration, and configuration automation solutions needed to enable them."
This report echoes what we hear from our customers and prospects that need help managing and automating their dynamic virtual and hybrid cloud environments. In the mobile-cloud era, IT needs to be increasingly agile and responsive as a strategic partner to the business, and more and more depends on external service providers to deliver quickly. Yet IT is also charged with maintaining control to ensure uptime, performance, security and compliance. The result is that IT faces a defining challenge of this new era: delivering on the new business need for speed and agility along with the ongoing demand for control and efficiency.
At VMware, we are committed to helping our customers achieve both. VMware provides the only comprehensive portfolio of management products purpose-built for the cloud – with cloud automation, combined with economic insights from our IT business management software, and the predictive analytics of our cloud operations and log management products. Insight, Decision, Action – all driven by VMware's end-to-end cloud management approach.
I'd like to thank our customers and partners for vaulting us to the top! We look forward to continuing to partner with you to meet your cloud and datacenter automation needs.
To learn more about the broad portfolio of VMware Cloud Management solutions, go to:
- VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
- VMware vCloud Automation Center
- VMware vCenter Log Insight
- VMware IT Business Management Suite
- Virtualization and Cloud Management
(1) IDC, "Worldwide Datacenter Automation Software 2013 Vendor Shares," by Mary Johnston Turner, May 2014


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Don't Believe Everything You Think
Living with Wisdom and CompassionIt can be hard for those of us living in the twenty-first century to see how fourteenth-century Buddhist teachings still apply. When you're trying to figure out which cell phone plan to buy or brooding about something someone wrote about you on Facebook, lines like "While the enemy of your own anger is unsubdued, though you conquer external foes, they will only increase" can seem a little obscure. Thubten… Read More
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A practical and inspiring guide for developing our ability to be happy and benefit others this commentary on The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas by Gyalsay Togme Sangpo is studied by followers of all schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The root text gives in thirty-seven short verses the essential practices leading to enlightenment. Gyalsay Togme Sangpo (1295-1369) was renowned as a bodhisattva in Tibet and revered for living according to the bodhisattva… Read More
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Recognizing their true potential and letting go of everything which could hinder them on their spiritual journey, Bodhisattvas entrust themselves to the path taught by the Buddha. Resisting disturbing emotions, they learn to respond to difficult situations in a constructive way. Fully understanding the nature of reality and the illusion-like nature of pleasure and pain, they overcome clinging attachment and aversion. In these ways, Bodhisattvas come to cherish living beings… Read More
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Get an overview of this hotel3-star Gatlinburg bed & breakfast in Sugarlands Visitor Center Great Smoky with free breakfast
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Located in Sugarlands Visitor Center Great Smoky, this bed & breakfast is 1.8 mi (2.9 km) from Mills Park and within 6 mi (10 km) of Chapel in the Glen and Rafting in the Smokies. Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum and Cooter's Place are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Along with a bar/lounge, this bed & breakfast has a poolside bar and spa services. Free continental breakfast and free wired Internet in public areas are also provided. Additionally, a business center, conference rooms, and a library are onsite.
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If I did my inspections in a loincloth I would thump my chest when I found a queen too I suppose...
We the willing have done so much with so little for so long we can now do anything with nothing
>If you find a queen in a hive and move her to another box will all the bees go to the new box after the queen smell has diminished form the old box?
As already mentioned several times, the bees will stay with the brood to some extent. There is some attraction for those foragers returning to favor the hive with a queen. But the nurse bees will stay put.
>I have yet to find an unmarked queen.
>Supposing you moved the old box and moved the new box where the old box was...
What would move over besides the foragers?
Just the foragers.
>So if we put it to a vote which way is the best way to split:
>1 Taking brood and nurse bees and putting them in another box at a new location.
>2 Leaving brood and nurse bees and taking the queen and the rest of the bees to a new location.
>A In one case assume the new location is distant.
>B This case assume the new location is close.
It depends on the timing (just before the flow, during the flow, after the flow) and how much time I have. But usually I do not find the queen. It is far to time consuming. I just do the split. If I'm trying to do a "cut down" split, I might spend more time at it, but still won't spend an inordinate amount of time if I don't see the queen. But I would prefer with a "cut down" split to put the queen at the new location with all the open brood. This needs to be done at the right time to be effective.
I never take my splits to a different yard. It's a nice idea, but after years of not having a "different yard" to take them to, I got in the habit of doing splits in the same yard and have seen no reason to change now that I have many yards. It's still more work to take them somewhere else.
>Michael Bush seems to feel when you make a walk away split the foragers favor the queen. He suggest you swap the split hives to equalize numbers.
Yes, the foragers, given an even choice, will favor the hive with the queen over one that is queenless. But that does not mean all of them will go to the one with the queen.
>I don't think Bush said that. If so can you provide a link?
Yea, that's probably the one he was thinking of...
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Spinach with Lentils
When one talks about Sindhi food, there are a few recipes that are often talked about a lot, like Sai Bhaji, Sindhi Karhi etc. These are not only favorites amongst the Sindhi's but also liked by everybody else .They would be categorized as signature dishes. Sai (green) Bhaji (Vegetables), as the name indicates, makes one think of the greens, which is the main ingredient of this recipe. This combo/medley of the greens, chana daal and garlic… yum yumm yummmy. There are many ways to make Sai bhaji and still be called authentic. Some add vegetables along with the greens and others don't. The end product Sai Bhaji is just delicious, no matter how you make it. This is normally eaten with Bhuga Chawaran or Plain Chawaran, Fried Potatoes, Raita and of course our Sindhi Papad.
Note: As we all know greens are a good source of vitamin A and beta-carotene. Research indicates that beta-carotene has an important and influential role in achieving and maintaining good health.
- 1 bunch Palak (Spinach)
- ½ bunch fresh Dill
- Few sprigs of Indian Sorrel (Khatta) optional
- 1-2 tsp Tamarind juice if Indian Sorrel is not available
- 2 medium Tomatoes chopped and diced
- 1 medium Onion diced
- ½ cup Chana Daal
- ½ tsp crushed Ginger
- 6-8 flakes of Garlic finely chopped+1flake finely chopped for tadka
- 1 fresh Green Chili finely chopped
- 1tsp Jeera
- 1tsp Dhania Powder
- ½ tsp Red Chilies
- ½ tsp Turmeric Powder
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- 2 tbsps Oil
- Salt to taste
- Wash and soak chana daal for about 15 mins.
- Meanwhile cut and chop spinach, dill, and Indian sorrel. Wash thoroughly and drain.
- In a pressure cooker add oil, diced onions and fry till pink.
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- In a tadka pan heat oil, when hot add jeera and 1 chopped flake of garlic. Add this hot tadka to the blended/slightly mashed Sai bhaji.
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a resident of Danville
on Apr 16, 2013 at 3:34 pm
And he was a Faux Noise contributor.
I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you!
a resident of San Ramon
on Apr 17, 2013 at 9:11 am
He probably voted for the current fraud in chief---birds of a feather---
a resident of Danville
on Apr 17, 2013 at 9:17 am
Esther, is it your perception that Fox News contributors are generally supporters of President Obama?
Or are you just spewing mindless bile?
Ignorant or gratuitously vicious. Such a wonderful choice.
a resident of Danville
on Apr 17, 2013 at 10:30 am
So Derek, since you seem to be implying some sort of link between Beasley being a crook, and being a Fox News Contributor, are you also implying the same sort of link between Beasley being a crook, and being a Danville resident?
Your comment is as ridiculous as it would be if you had said, "And he's a Danville resident. I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!"
You ought to at least be consistent in how you try to connect unrelated things....
As a side comment, I make no attempt at guessing Beasley's political affiliations, if any.
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on Apr 17, 2013 at 8:51 pm
To the best of my knowledge Mr. CurMudgeon, Danville does not solicit low life's for residency. Not so with the staff Murdoch & Ailes hand pick.
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on Apr 18, 2013 at 7:08 am
Derek -
CR is correct, you make connections where none exist, but your hatred of anything non-left is evident in your mindless comments.
a resident of Danville
on Apr 18, 2013 at 7:34 am
Aren't you kids going to be late for school?
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on Apr 18, 2013 at 5:28 pm
Sounds like I touched a nerve there Aubrey. Are't you and your sister Julia Pardini late for the Fannity Club meeting?


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did you notice how he wanted to make you and his other lieutenants succumb to the darkness and how he didn't? I think you are right that's definite foreshadow that he feel he can control the Sha or, at worst, if the Sha makes his people monsters he'll be even more powerful
If Theron did take the warchief mantle who would step up to lead the blood elves, would he lead both?
Take a pick ^^
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It sounds like based on the Kovak interview that there's a coup in 5.3 and Garrosh is besieged in 5.4. Ignoring the question as to why Garrosh needs to be besieged to begin with (is he going to summon the Legion? does he have another Divine Bell-ish weapon? is Gamon's rescue necessary to save Azeroth?), the fact that a coup predates the siege indicates to me that the majority of the Horde supports the leader of the coup against Garrosh.
Which frankly eliminates Theron in my mind for now.
Garrosh will do something that spurs the coup, of course. But the leader of the coup has to be someone whose opposition to Garrosh is legitimately shared by Orcs as well as BElfs, etc. I don't see a scenario where your average everyday Orc supports Theron against Garrosh. Vol'jin is a possibility, but the history of antagonism between Vol'jin and Garrosh tends to make me think a Vol'jin coup would split the Horde, not gain the support of it. Ditto Baine (altho the history is not as direct as it is with Vol'jin).
I feel like it has to be an Orc that leads the coup. Hopefully not Thrall.
Now, this doesn't preclude a non-Orc Warchief post-5.4. But until such time as Garrosh is finally dealt with, I'm having a hard time with envisioning any non-Orc as Warchief.
I would love to see Theron crowned the new King of Silvermoon. I think it would be an event that would finally signal an end to the tragedy of the Blood Elves.
But I would definitely not like to see him take up the mantle of Warchief. For that job we need an Orc, a strong one. One who can redeem the title of Orcish Warchief. One who will bring strength and honor back to the Horde.
I really hope they don't pick another race to lead the Horde. Not because I don't think they're capable, but because it just furthers the stereotype that Orcs are "bad" and no-good warmongers.
I would imagine Saurfang because of the foreshadowing. But I could also see Nazgrim making a character transformation and leading the charge against Garrosh.I feel like it has to be an Orc that leads the coup. Hopefully not Thrall.
I just pray it's not Baine.
At the same time, I doubt that just because an orc must kick off the rebellion in order to get the rest of the orcs onboard that doesn't automatically mean he/she is going to be warchief.
Twas brillig
You have to think of it from the Orc perspective, not the player perspective. The Orcs are the backbone of the Horde; without their support in a coup, the coup can not be successful.
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Discussion in 'BUILD OFF 1 BIKES' started by october, Jan 21, 2007.
Very cool october!!! Turned out great!
Beautiful bike! Very nice paintjob!
And the card in the spokes...not only a brilliant idea, but also very cleverly executed!
well i rode this thing for an hour yesterday, and i really expected to have a white butt, or the white was going to peel, or scratch...
but really, so far so good... it seems like it will last. i am always skeptical of fabric paints, so i figured the vinyl spray color was a long shot...
i originally wanted to recover the seat in a white "tuck n roll" but ran out of time.
my prep went like this:
scrubbed the seat with soap and water, using a scrubby kitchen sponge.
dried it.
wiped it down with lacquer thinner.
washed it again, let it dry.
sprayed a couple of coats...
i'll let you know how it holds up.
I suppose the controversy is not much ''controverse'' anymore as the bike looks great 2 say the least.I really digg that Kolor and all the details r just right. Awesome! N as sum1else already said: Mad Skillz!
Beautiful, just beautiful. What else can I add?
Congratulations October, great work
dude! that is OFF THE HOOK! I LIKE THE CARD THING! HAHA!
Ricky...did you Change Med's
Your acting Funny Lately :roll:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
...and he's not spelling with numbers anymore!!
and the last post was way back on march 30! how long has this build off been over?
what is going on? :mrgreen:
...how long does toxic resin stay in your system??!! :mrgreen:
Well, I'm slow on the draw sometimes.....and YES, I hadn't seen this build yet.
October, this build is INCREDIBLE! From the color,stencil, and that friggin' AWESOME card device. That thing is PURE genious....and possibly THE most ingenious custom part that I've ever seen. :shock:
What ever you do "Don't Paint that Bike October"
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I never seen the card thing! i quit taking my medecine
School's out so Ricky is spending his days digging up the past. :mrgreen:
Rickys spending the days staying up till 3-4 on here sleeping till one, and riding all night! last night i got picked up by the cops.. I was going as fast as i could down this sidestreet by the house the cop thaught i stold the bike from some old dude.. I was on my spitfire lol.. Mom didnt care THANK GOD DAD WAS SLEEPING!! :mrgreen:
Were you on your scraper bike?
Those babies are cop magnets....LOL!
No, What IS a scraper bike? BTW I redid my spitfire i got s-7s now black walls right kind of bars orig grips, Looks good. Looks old, Only bad thing is i snapped the original crank arm off, It was bent when i got it and it finally broke, i was riding it around my buddy's house at that bonfire, So now i'm running a 70's schwinn crank and 5 spoke sprocket out of a Hollywood on it, Looks good but not orig.. I Got plans for this bike.
get your butt out of Octobers Post....
he has enough "Air Miles" to fly down
and slap you around as well!
We already have Plans to meet in Toronto and "Plane Pool"
down to smack you around a Little! :lol: :lol: :lol:
HaHaHaHa...just kidding. :wink:
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Professor Coppola specializes in music of the nineteenth century and her interests include genre studies, musical borrowing, and the overlap of scholarly and performance issues. Her work has been published in 19th-Century Music, The Journal of the Society for Textual Scholarship, and Teaching Music. She has presented research papers at national and international conferences (the American Bach Society, the International Interdisciplinary Conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship), as well as at chapter meetings of the American Musicological Society. In addition to the Ph.D. in historical musicology (City University of New York), Prof. Coppola earned the M.M. in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music, where her major teacher was Seymour Lipkin. With Lucy Morganstern, she performs duo repertoire for piano and violin.


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Posted at 3:56 PM on October 1, 2011
There is no better role model than Miley. If you believe otherwise, it just means you are out of touch & clueless about who Miley is. Perhaps a more adult approach would be to have your child (if you had one) write a report, based on research, on how Miley is a good role model, or a not so good role model. After being clued in, I'm positive your child would be in the good role model camp.
Posted at 9:41 AM on July 8, 2011
Nobody complained about Miley hugging her boyfriend. They did however complain that she has taken many scandalous photos when she was about 16. The difference is that Miley is a Disney star who is acting as a role model for children. Taylor's fan base is not mainly children but an older, more mature crowd. I'm not going to say that I agree with what she did, but it makes a huge difference when talking about role models. If I was a parent, I would not let me children look up to Miley as a role model. I also would not let them watch shows such as Gossip Girl until they were old enough.
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not trying to compare taylor with miley but yall bash on miley for kissing or huging her biyfriend and btw miley has NO naked pictures but taylor who i think is still 16 or 17 can show her boobs at a concert and strip down the less then miley was wearibg at her skimpyest (i know its not a word) and you haterz say NOTHING about taylor except that she is a better role modle then miley, wow thats so frickin sad sent from IPod


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University Center, UTSA 1604 Campus
UTSA students invited to 'Dive Into the UC'
By Lowa Mwilambwe
Director of University Center Operations
(Aug. 16, 2007)--Students can visit the various offices in the University Center during an open house from 4 to 6 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 19 to learn about the services provided and earn a dive into the UC backpack. At 8 p.m., there will be a free showing of the film "Snakes on a Plane" in the Retama Auditorium (2.02.02).
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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The University Center, your campus living room, invites you for food, fun and games before the semester starts with a chance to visit Alumni Programs, Career Services, Chartwells, Counseling Services, Student Activities, Student Judicial Affairs, Student Life, Tomas Rivera Center and the UTSA Bookstore.
For more information, visit the University Center Web site, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or call (210) 458-4155.
"Dive Into the UC"
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- Paper Airplane Contest hosted by Alumni Programs, Career Services and Student Judicial Affairs in the Retama galleria
- UTSA Bookstore offers $10-off coupon with a $49 purchase (books not included) and drawing for a free mountain bike.
- Games provided by the University Center, under the stairs across from the bookstore
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- Karaoke, Name That Tune Contest and Dance Workshop in the UC Ski Lodge
- Parachute Men Drop Contest hosted by the Tomas Rivera Center at the Ski Lodge
- The Roost game room opens with billiards, video games and foosball
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- Free Movie: "Snakes on a Plane" with free popcorn, Retama Auditorium (2.02.02)


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I think the following players will have big games this Monday night.
JPP (I know, I know but he has been kind of quiet and this is a huge game)
Boley (big game I am predicting)
A Bradshaw (running game wasn't used last time which lead to a rift between AB and TC) There will be or should be a strong emphasis on the run you would imagine. unless Killdrive goes pass happy which wouldn't be that shocking.
Nicks- He is almost 100 % back and will be better this time around in this 2nd matchup and will surprise the skins defenders, plus they will over play Cruz this time. Nicks should cash in.
Canty + Joseph - hoping for big games from them as they are key !!
These guys will be the standouts.
Bottom line is Eli made some terrible throws and decisions and our Defensive players were running around all over the place, they bit badly on play action and couldnt shed blocks which lead to Moss TD and as well allowed Morris to gain huge chunks.
We need to play disciplined football on Defense and physical. Offense will be fine as long as Eli plays better than last game and avoid the turnovers.


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I'm about 30 miles north of S.F., no rain yet but cold nights in the low 40s, barely reaching 65 in the day, 70 if we are lucky...about to get clobbered with rain and cold....
I understand some queens break the brood cycle to prepare for winter...they stop laying. This also helps disrupt the mite breeding cycle.
Do you all observe this? How do you tell the difference between a queenless hive versus one that is just not laying if you can't find the queen?
When does it start for you in the year? (need to know your location).
How long does it last?
Do the queens shrink down in size? Do they pretend to be workers?
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Title: Review of Sanitary Sewer Construction Permit Applications For Communities with Combined Sewer Overflow Outfalls
Identification Number: Water - 005 - NRD
Date Originally Effective: May 8, 2003
Dates Revised: None
Other Policies Repealed or Amended: None
Brief Description of Subject Matter:
This document outlines IDEM's procedures for review of sewer construction permit applications for communities with combined sewer overflow outfalls
Citations Affected: 327 IAC 3-1-1 through 327 IAC 3-6-32.
This nonrule policy document is intended solely as guidance and does not have the effect of law or represent formal Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) decisions or final actions. This nonrule policy document should be used in conjunction with the applicable laws. This document does not replace applicable laws, and if it conflicts with those laws, the laws shall control. This nonrule policy document may be put into effect by IDEM thirty (30) days after presentation to the appropriate board and after it is made available to public inspection and comment, pursuant to IC 13-14-1-11.5. If this nonrule policy is presented to more than one (1) board, it will be effective thirty (30) days after presentation to the last board. IDEM will submit the policy to the Indiana Register for publication. Revisions to this nonrule policy document will follow the same procedure of presentation to the board and publication.
The Water Pollution Control Board (board) received a petition on September 12, 2001, for rulemaking per provisions under IC 13-14-8-5. After five (5) public hearings, the board adopted the hearing officer's report and recommendations; and, at its December 2001 meeting, the board requested IDEM to develop a nonrule policy document under IC 13-14-1-11.5 to outline policies and procedures for processing sewer construction permit applications in communities with combined sewer overflows.
The permitting program for construction of sanitary sewers is regulated under Article 3 of Title 327 of the Indiana Administrative Code (327 IAC 3). That article includes administrative rules for obtaining a construction permit as well as technical standards for the design and installation of sanitary sewers.
The issuance requirements for sanitary sewer construction permits are listed in 327 IAC 3-6-7. These requirements are basically reiterated in 327 IAC 3-6-4, "Certifications", as language that is to be certified by both the design engineer and an authorized representative of the owner of the affected treatment and collection system.
The implementation of the rule, wherever possible, should not create disincentives to implementation of a long-term control plan or other capital projects designed to reduce CSO volumes, first flush discharges, or to provide treatment to previously untreated overflows.
In addition, this nonrule policy document should not create disincentives to urban redevelopment, brownfield revitalization, or provision of sanitary sewer service to unsewered areas. These activities and types of sewer connections represent a net environmental gain in terms of improved water quality, reduced urban sprawl, green space preservation, and reduced air pollution.
The five basic requirements in 327 IAC 3-6-7, with IDEM's interpretation for application in communities with CSOs, are as follows:
The Capacity Certification/Allocation Letter is included as Appendix A.
On an annual basis, IDEM (currently by the Office of Water Quality, Compliance Evaluation Section) will review the compliance status of Indiana's CSO communities. This compliance review may include, but not be limited to, the following:
The following should occur, dependent on the compliance status of the community, when reviewing construction permit applications:
If the community, or affected portion of the community's collection system, appears on the Sewer Ban list, a deficiency notice will be sent to the permit applicant that will include notification to them that a construction permit cannot be issued unless the community applies for and receives a Sewer Ban Waiver (per 327 IAC 4-1-6) and is granted a variance (per IC 13-14-8-8) from affected portions of 327 IAC 3 administrative requirements. Requests for the waivers and variances will be processed by the Office of Water Quality and the Office of Enforcement, as is appropriate for the specific request. If waivers and variances are granted, then the construction permit may be issued if all other administrative requirements and technical standards are met.
The authorized representative of the town, city, sanitary district, or any entity that has jurisdiction over the proposed collection system must sign and date the application and issue the following certification:
"I certify that I have reviewed and understand the requirements of 327 IAC 3 and that the sanitary collection system proposed, with the submission of this application, plans, and specifications, meets all requirements of 327 IAC 3. I certify that the daily flow generated in the area that will be collected by the project system will not cause overflowing or bypassing in the collection system from locations other than NPDES authorized discharge points and that there is sufficient capacity in the receiving water pollution treatment/control facility to treat the additional daily flow and remain in compliance with applicable NPDES permit effluent limitations. I certify that the proposed average flow will not result in hydraulic or organic overload. I certify that the proposed collection system does not include new combined sewers or a combined sewer extension to existing combined sewers.
"I certify that the ability for this collection system to comply with 327 IAC 3 is not contingent on water pollution/control facility construction that has not been completed and put into operation. I certify that the project meets all local rules, laws, regulations, and ordinances. The information submitted is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. I am aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false information, including the possibility of fine and imprisonment."
Reference: (Water Pollution Control Board; 327 IAC 3-6-4; filed May 17, 1999, 12:11 p.m.: 22 IR 3086; errata filed Dec 1, 2000, 5:25 p.m.: 24 IR 1033)


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A prison where Maltese teen agers are sent to if they don't pass the necessary o levels. It is located in Naxxar, Malta
Noooo i didnt get maths! I'm gonna be sent to Giovanni Curmi Higher Secondary school with that bitch Miceli!
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Local Angus breeders recognized
W R Bar Ranch and Flying W Ranch LLC, both in Pequot Lakes, each owns three bulls listed in the 2012 Fall Sire Evaluation Report published by the American Angus Association in St. Joseph, Mo.
Issued in both the spring and fall, the new report features the latest performance information available on 6,067 sires, and is currently accessible at www.angussiresearch.com.
"This report provides both Angus breeders and commercial cattle producers using Angus genetics with accurate, predictable selection tools for improving their herd," said Sally Northcutt, genetic research director.


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Hey all,
I'm not really making a post yet in the cargo hold unless someone was interested but I'm just curious if there are any gijoe fans on here that collect the old 3 3/4" inch figures from the 1980s.
I have a lot of complete ones and rarer figures that came with vehicles. But most of what i have left is from 1988-1992.
I know most people are after the ones from 82-86 but I figure i'd ask before I make a post on yojoe.com or ebay as I'd like to help out any TDH members if anyone collects this stuff.
if not I'll jsut sell them somewhere else


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There will be a reception at Hope
College on Friday, Jan. 19, for an exhibition of paintings
by Daniel Heisler on display in the college's department of
economics and business administration.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The reception will be on Friday, Jan. 19, from 7
p.m. to 8 p.m. in the department's Muiderman Art Hall. The
exhibition will continue through Monday, Feb. 19.
The department is located in the DeWitt Center for
Economics and Business Administration, which is on the main
floor between Van Zoeren Hall and the Van Wylen Library.
The department's main entrance faces Graves Place (11th
Street) between Central and College avenues.
Heisler is a 1998 Hope graduate now living in
Grand Rapids. The pieces in the collection reflect his
recent experimentation in portraiture and landscape.
The exhibition space has been named in honor of
Anthony Muiderman, who is a professor emeritus of business
administration. He retired at the end of the 1999-2000
school year after serving on the Hope faculty since 1977.


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Cambio Expands Its Network
Apr 2, 2012
Today, Cambio announced that it has added three new partners to its network: HuffPost Teen, Meez and Teen Ink. Reaching an aggregated audience of more than 12.5 million monthly unique visitors worldwide*, the network will help advertisers reach a valuable mass audience while collaborating and sharing content across its sites.
Each of the new sites contributes a unique and complementary content platform to the partnership. HuffPost Teen, the go-to platform for young people to talk about the issues that matter most to them, is written primarily by its readers while Meez provides social entertainment like gaming and rich multimedia sharing to its highly engaged audience. Teen Ink provides the Cambio Network with the largest site devoted entirely to teen-generated content.
This expansion of the Cambio Network continues the momentum behind Cambio.com's own organic growth. Since the launch of Cambio 2.0 in September 2011, the site has more than doubled its audience** due in part by the company's search engine optimization, social media strategies and compelling mix of premium video programming, including the award winning Web series "Aim High" and "CliffsNotes Films."
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Beloit, Wis.
106 union employees
22 managers
40 seasonal employees
Service area: 17 square miles
Annual operating budget: $27 million
Early on, medial experts thought the H1N1 virus that's killed almost 1,500 people worldwide originated in Wisconsin. While this theory was later debunked, the state's 6,222 cases - the largest number nationwide - gave Beloit, a community of 37,000 just north of the Illinois border, an excellent dry run in preparing a pandemic continuity of operations plan (COOP) that addresses novel legal and administrative issues.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, H1N1 is neither swine nor avian flu, but a hybrid capable of reducing an operation's workforce by 25% to 50%. Symptoms and transmission are virtually identical to the flu. But unlike the flu, the virus lives on surfaces for 24 hours and the recommended social distance - the space between an infected person and others - is larger: 6 feet.
Armed with this knowledge, Public Works Operations Director Christine Walsh led the effort to educate managers and employees on their rights and responsibilities as first-responders, and prioritize the activities of five divisions -- engineering, operations, parks and leisure services, transit, and water resources - to ensure that services that would prevent the spread of contagion aren't cut. The entire process took two weeks.
"Ask yourself: At what percentage of sick employees can we still get these required tasks done?" she says. The solid waste operation determined its plan of action in half a day.
All employees received a free flu shot. Walsh suggests requiring employees to sign an opt-out agreement to prevent those who get sick from later claiming they weren't given the opportunity to receive one.
To limit exposure, solid waste, tree, and streets crews receive their assignments each morning on a staggered schedule: every 10 minutes, one group leaves the meeting room before the next one enters.
Because most hospitals won't test for the disease, which is the only way to confirm an infection, managers have the right to send sick employees home - and have done so. Employees may not return to work until they've been symptom-free for 24 hours, and the unions agreed members aren't entitled to additional sick days if they run out of leave before then. The unions also waived the requirement for a doctor's note to justify five or more days of sick leave.
The department has asked vendors to estimate how long it will take to procure necessary supplies, such as fuel, and is developing inventory contracts with critical suppliers.
American Public Works Association Congress & Exposition
Session: H1N1 Virus/Public Works Prepares
Sun., Sept. 13, 2009
Christine Walsh, Director of Operations
City of Beloit, Wis.


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Nov. 24, 2013
ATLANTA -- The Tennessee swimming and diving team won seven more events Sunday to finish the Georgia Tech Invitational.
The UT women won the 9-team competition with 1,136.5 points, and Florida Gulf Coast was second with 1,040.5 points. Tennessee's men placed second of three teams with 1,507 points, while host Georgia Tech won with 1,763.
"I think this was our best session of the whole meet," associate coach Tyler Fenwick said. "The team had a lot of energy. They were all cheering for each other."
Freshmen starred during the final evening session, both in the long races and the sprints.
Madeline Tegner, Camryne Morris and Morgan Dickson took a 1-2-3 finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle, with Tegner (16 minutes, 22.19 seconds) and Dickson (16:28.83) both recording top-10 times in program history. David Heron took second in the 1650 freestyle in an NCAA B-cut time of 15:22.09.
On the other end of the distance spectrum, Luke Percy won the 100 freestyle in 43.48 in an NCAA B-cut time.
Tennessee's other swimming victories came across the board. Sophomore Faith Johnson took first in the 100 freestyle (50.43). Sophomore Sean Lehane won the 200 backstroke in an NCAA B-Cut time of 1:44.86. UT also won both the men's and women's 400 freestyle relays to close the meet.
On the 10-meter platform, sophomore Mauricio Robles completed the sweep of all three diving events. He won the tower in 380.30. sophomore Samantha Lera was second in 253.15.
The men won four events en route to finishing second in the team scoring.
In his first platform contest in a year, Mauricio Robles put together a six-dive list of 380.30 to win the competition. With the victory, Robles wrapped up a weekend sweep of all three diving events.
Freshmen Michael Howell was third in 271.25 and Lee Fullam was fifth in 231.15.
"On the men's side, there was a really good wrap-up for the meet," Tennessee diving coach Dave Parrington. "It was the first time Mauricio had a tower list. He showed some rust, but had some really good stuff. He was able to sweep all 3 boards, which was an exciting. It good to see Michael and Lee get in their first competitions."
Freshman David Heron scored the Vols' best result in the 1650 freestyle, recording an NCAA B-cut time of 15:22.09.
In the next race, sophomore Sean Lehane won his marquee event, the 200 backstroke, in 1:44.86, a B-cut time as well. Sophomore Jimmy Dagley took second in 1:50.94.
Freshman Luke Percy followed with a victory in the 100 freestyle in 43.48, also an NCAA b cut in a collegiate career-best time. Three Vols placed in the top five, with Gustav Aberg Ledjstrom in fourth (44.77) and Troy Tillman in fifth (45.07).
Tennessee's team of Aberg Ledjstrom, Tillman, Lehane and Percy won the 400 freestyle relay team of 2:56.55.
In other races, Tristan Slater was second in the 200 breaststroke in 2:03.24 and Ross Dibblin was third (2:03.54). Ben Myrhe was fourth in the 200 butterfly (1:52.01).
Tennessee took home two individual victories and a relay win to wrap up the Georgia Tech Invitational.
A trio of freshmen got the day rolling for the orange and white. Madeline Tegner won the 1650 freestyle in 16:22.19 and Camryne Morris took second in 16:28.83, both NCAA B-cut times. Morgan Dickson came in third in 16:40.73.
Tegner and Morris' times rank as the 8th- and 10th-fastest mile times in program history.
"That's big stuff, that's program changing stuff," Fenwick said. "All three of those girls were good."
Two races later, Faith Johnson won the 100 freestyle in 50.22. Senior Lindsay Gendron was a split-second later in 50.43.
The team ended the meet on a high note with the 400 freestyle relay. Gendron, Kate McNeilis, Harper Bruens, and Johnson reached the wall first in 3:21.18.
Freshman Heather Lundstrom placed second in the 200 butterfly in 2:00.51. Tegner still had the energy to take fifth with a time of 2:01.71.
"She's a tough kid, tough as nails," Fenwick said of Tegner. "She's shown that through training. the sky's the limit for her.
On the platform for the first time this year, sophomore Samantha Lera finished second in 253.15, less than two points behind winner Madison Young of Georgia Tech.
"Sam also had some good performance today," Parrington said. "She also showed some signed some rust, but it was good to get on the platform and compete. Whenever you compete on the road in this kind of environment, it shows us some things we need to work on. I'm excited about that."
In other races, sophomore Anna DeMonte took fifth in the 200 backstroke in 2:01.60. Sophomore Madison Hahn, who missed the A final in the morning preliminaries, won the B final in 2:00.29. Junior Molly Hannis finished fourth in the 200 breaststroke in 2:17.00.
Men's Finals
1650 Free: 1. Elliott Brocklebank, GT, 15:21.94; 2. David Heron, UT, 15:22.09; 3. Sam Petersen, UT, 15:39.48 ... 6. Bryce BeVier, UT, 15:55.33; 7. Trevor Leland, UT, 16:15.86.
200 Back: 1. Sean Lehane, UT, 1:44.86; 2. Jimmy Dagley, UT, 1:50.94.
100 Free: 1. Luke Percy, UT, 43.48 ... 4. Gustav Aberg Ledjstrom, UT, 44.77; 5. Troy Tillman, UT, 45.07 ... 12. Chris Sadsad, UT, 46.12; 13. Jacob Thulin, UT, 46.36 ... 15. Oystein Hetland, UT, 46.88 ... 19. Tyler Mills, UT, 48.13; 20. Adam Cornett, UT, 48.92; 21. Ryan McFall, UT, 47.09; 22. Carl Svagerko, UT, 47.13; 23. Austin Hirstein, UT, 47.33.
200 Breast: 1. Anton Karl Lagerqvist, GT, 2:01.40; 2. Tristan Slater, UT, 2:03.24; 3. Ross Dibblin, UT, 2;03.54 ... 9. Renato Prono, UT, 2:11.69 ... 11. Drew Peterson, UT, 2:08.53
200 Fly: 1. Nico van Duijn, GT, 1:44.75 ... 4. Ben Myrhe, UT, 1:52.01 ... 6. Ryan Signorin, UT, 1:52.49 ; 7. Miles Garner, UT, 1:52.54 ... 10. Drew Peterson, UT, 2:04.13 ... 14. Trevor Leland, UT, 2:02.42 ... Prelims Only: Oystein Hetland, 1:58.85; Jacob Thulin, 1:55.17; Tyler Mills, 1:58.66
400 Free Relay: 1. Tennessee (Aberg Ledjstrom, Tillman, Lehane, Percy), 2:56.55.
Platform: 1. Mauricio Robles, UT, 380.30 ... 3. Michael Howell, UT, 271.25 ... 5. Lee Fullam, UT, 231.15.
Women's Finals
1650 Free: 1. Madeline Tegner, UT, 16:22.19; 2. Camryne Morris, UT, 16:28.83; 3. Morgan Dickson, UT, 16:40.73 ... 18. Grace Anne Sanderson, UT, 17:44.73.
200 Back: 1. Kira Toussaint, FGCU, 1:56.50 ... 5. Anna DeMonte, UT, 2:01.60 ... 7. Lauren Driscoll, UT, 2:02.64 ... 9. Christina Leander, UT, 2:04.01; 10. Amanda Carner, UT, 2:04.47; 11. Madison Hahn, UT, 2:00.29
100 Free: 1. Faith Johnson, UT, 50.22 ... 4. Lindsay Gendron, UT, 50.43 ... 6. Harper Bruens, UT, 51.57 ... 10. Kate McNeilis, UT, 50.81; 20. Mary Griffith, UT, 52.68 ... 25. Caroline Finkbeiner, UT, 53.10 ... 27. Patricia Forrester, UT, 53.17
200 Breast: 1. Kelsey Holmgaard, JMU, 2:14.73 ... 4. Molly Hannis, UT, 2:17.00 ... 19. Colleen Callahan, UT, 2:27.63 ... 28. Erin Gaeckle, UT, 2:31.84
200 Fly: 1. Anett Kovacs, FAU, 1:58.71; 2. Heather Lundstrom, UT, 2:00.51 ... 5. Madeline Tegner, UT, 2:01.71 ... 11. Michelle Cefal, UT, 2:02.62 ... 13. Patricia Forrester, UT, 2:05.29 ... 22. Heather Kiger, UT, 2:08.92 ... 25. Caroline Finkbeiner, UT, 2:09.48
400 Free Relay: 1. Tennessee (Gendron, McNeilis, Bruens, Johnson), 3:21.18.
Platform: 1. Madison Young, GT, 255.75; 2. Samantha Lera, UT, 253.15.


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Two Minute Stories
Take Two: Summer 2012
Does this sound familiar? "You won't believe where I bumped into an old Marquette friend or where I spotted a Marquette banner or what award my Marquette roommate received." We hear the stories all the time now you'll hear them, too.
Dorks who drive
Twelve guys who met on Schroeder 5 South in 1989 repeat one summer ritual with religious fervor. They tee up for the annual golf weekend formerly known as the Dork Open, an eponym partly endowed by Rev. John Naus, S.J., (who knew them personally and called them "dorks"). The guys rebranded the reunion in 1994 but not the fun. Bradley Kalscheur, Bus Ad '89, Law '95, reports the now Warrior Open remains a "weekend filled with good-natured ribbing culled from memories and events from 1985 to present."
A banner and a blessing
A Marquette flag in front of his former home in Georgetown country was enough to catch the eye of Robert Hoch, Eng '59. Curiosity reigned. He pulled into the driveway to meet current owners and, wait for it fellow Marquette alums Tim Fitzmaurice, Arts '92, Law '97, and Ann Mulcahy Fitzmaurice, Nurs '92. The Fitzmaurice family needed a lift that day, and how perfect that it came from a fellow Marquetter. They had just returned home from attending a Mass during which they prayed for Tim's father, who had terminal cancer. "This fella informs me that he's a Marquette graduate. That he met his wife at Marquette and sent his children to Marquette. That he was a member of Triangle fraternity. Meeting Bob that day, hearing his Marquette connection and seeing his joy as he looked around his old home brought joy to me as my father was dying," reports Tim. "I shared this story with my mother and my eight siblings, and I know my father would have loved it."
Like father, like son
When Timothy Hanley, Bus Ad '78, accepted the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award from the College of Business Administration at Alumni Awards Weekend, he let the crowd in on a family secret. His dad, David Hanley, Eng '51, took that award home 22 years earlier.
Bear hugs
He's a real hero, says Fredrick Bates, 'Bus Ad 79, of college buddy Louis Cairo, Bus Ad '80, for what he does to help kids with cancer. As a board member for the Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation based in Chicago, Bates asked Cairo whom he hadn't seen in 20 years to support kids diagnosed with cancer. "Lou Cairo stepped up in a huge way to help a truly worthy cause at an old classmate's request," says Bates. And one link in the Marquette family network led to more good news. Cairo invited the Chicago legal community, "to join me in supporting this great organization" at the 2012 Bear Tie Ball.