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DETROIT - At the request of prosecutors, a judge has dismissed charges against an Ohio man who was among members of a southern Michigan militia accused of conspiring to attack the government.
Jacob Ward of Huron, Ohio, didn't participate in the recent trial because of his mental health. The pending case against him was dismissed Monday because Detroit federal Judge Victoria Roberts already has said the government didn't have enough evidence to prove conspiracy charges against other Hutaree members.
Seven people were acquitted of the most serious charges in March. They included militia leader David Stone, who subsequently pleaded guilty to a gun charge and awaits his sentence. His son Joshua Stone and co-defendant Joshua Clough (CLUF), made similar guilty pleas.
Who are the Hutaree:
The Hutaree are self-proclaimed "Christian warriors" who trained themselves in paramilitary techniques in preparation for what they say on their Web site is a battle against the Antichrist. On it's website, the group says it will be "prepared to defend all those who belong to Christ and save those who aren't."
Accusations that were against them:
During a series of raids in late March, authorities arrested nine members of the southern Michigan group. The government claimed they were scheming to kill a police officer then attack officers who attended the funeral in the first steps toward a broader rebellion.
Much of the government's evidence made public shoed militia members talking about killing police officers and attacking officers who turn up for the funeral. No specific plot with specific targets has been disclosed. The judge did acknowledge the group had "stockpiles" of legal weapons and ammunition. The FBI said it broke up the plot with the help of an undercover agent and informants.
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New theory describes faster than light travel, could explain CERN's results
Some of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, including Albert Einstein, consider the speed of light a sort of universal "speed limit". But over the past couple decades physicists theorized that it should be possible to break this law and get away with it -- to
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The authors obviously recognize the controversy surrounding both experimental and theoretical work regarding challenging the light speed limitation attached to the special theory of relativity. Write the authors in the abstract, "In this highly controversial topic, our particular purpose is not to enter into the merits of existing theories, but rather to present a succinct and carefully reasoned account of a new aspect of Einstein's theory of special relativity, which properly allows for faster than light motion."
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The paper proposes two sets of equations -- one based on an invariant set of "frame transitions", the other based on a "frame transition" with the invariance limitation removed. The authors suspect that if faster than light travel is possible, that the physical behavior of the faster-than-light travelling object is described by one of these equations.
Note, such work is relatively independent from forms of faster-than-light travel that do not violate Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity, such as
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As we prepare for Thursday's session, you probably feel used and mentally tortured. Prior to the Fed's latest meet-and-greet, you had undoubtedly been injected by the same cocktail of drugs infused into Mr. Market: a powerful potion of hope and expectation that cause you to lose sight of what is happening around you.
I want to share something I wrote 22 minutes after the release of the Fed statement:
"Yes, the market has embraced the Fed's pledge to go 'all in' with respect to policy wizardry -- though kudos to Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker for not wanting to have his name stamped on this stuff. But I suggest you watch for a potential weakening in equities ahead of, and then after, the Bernanke conference. Here's why:
"1. The central bank has basically tried its very best to institute a backstop to downside economic risk borne from the 'fiscal cliff.' In turn, that may cause both sides of the congressional aisle to play to their respective bases once more -- and, in effect, ruin the feel-good vibes underlying this week's rally.
"2. The Fed downwardly revised its October view of consumer spending, and also told the markets its actions are unlikely to spur inflation until sometime beyond 2015. Also, in the first sentence of the statement, it appears the Fed has disregarded the psychological and monetary toll of Hurricane Sandy. The read: Weak wage growth has become embedded, and there is risk to small progress this year in a land of higher taxes. Note that consumer discretionary stocks have been waning on solid volume this week."
This is a call rooted in level-headed reasoning devoid of any market-related noise. It's important to understand where I was coming from, so as to learn for future Fed meetings.
Lesson One: This is a bid-up market, largely with no sign of fundamental backing. We also have a Fed statement that says we're seeing a low-growth, subpar economic recovery in spite of hardcore easing. There was a disconnect here, and it deserved to be corrected by Bernanke's press-conference comments.
Lesson Two: If one were inclined to trade the event or reposition for month's end, one had to establish a general set of hypotheticals on Bernanke's musings in the hour between the Fed announcement and the conference.
For one, ahead of the speech, we should have guessed that Bernanke was likely to downplay the effectiveness of monetary policy amid a disappointing "fiscal cliff" result. He was also likely to stress that extra accommodation is no "panacea," and to throw cold water on the estimated impact of balance-sheet expansion. Also, Bernanke was likely to acknowledge the real structural issues suggested by open-ended bond-buying to the tune of $45 billion per month, and that stocks will have downside risk in a post-cliff world -- and the market should give a hoot about that.
In the end, Bernanke -- much like "Dirty Harry" Reid, Senate Majority Leader, before him -- sent stocks into the negative column. I fancy the move was justified. With the final Fedapolooza beyond us, the market will return its attention to Washington's backroom dealings and outward bickering. This is where things may get tricky -- a view I have been espousing in recent sessions. Do we place any stock in early-inning fourth-quarter corporate earnings and 2013 outlooks -- which, by the way, indicate slowing growth? Perhaps it is more appropriate to render those "tells" as old news and instead focus on items such as this:
- A more cautious Fed, with projections shaved on gross domestic product growth
- Plunges in consumer and business confidence
- Wal-Mart (WMT) and Dollar General (DG) citing an increased promotional backdrop, thus highlighting increased risk to holiday spending -- and supporting confidence measures
- Increasingly poor trading action in consumer discretionary stocks, and a subsequent uptick in negative sell-side notes on top names in the sector (shout out Under Armour (UA)).
Sure, we all want to throw on the capes and be heroes, devising an array of money-making strategies. Why sit on cash? Why not buy on weakness? Listen, stick to the facts smashing us in the face and connect the dots. The market remains very short-term focused, it lacks the willpower to rally convincingly on a series of days and not every sector is working. I repeat: thumbs down.


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Revenue for the six months ending December was up 46.5 per cent to $145.7 million and post-tax profit was $19.1 million. It expects total group revenue of $290 million this financial year.
The board declared a 2.75 cents fully franked dividend, up from 2.5 cents for the same period last year.
The law firm has been listed on the Australian Securities Exchange since 2007.
Last year it opened up its first offices in the UK after taking over Russell Jones & Walker. It reported revenue of $34.3 million and post-tax profit of $3.5 million from its UK operations during the half year and is optimistic about growth.
"On the back of this performance Slater & Gordon is well placed to expand its operations in the UK in a market that is four to five time that of Australia,'' the company said in a statement to the market this morning.
Full-year earnings are expected to be about 25 per cent of revenue. Slater & Gordon noted its "personal injuries business [is] projected to continue to grow organically at more than five per cent per annum after absorbing negative impact of NSW workers compensation legislative change''.


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Who wins? The 90's Bulls teams or the 00's, Lakers teams?
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Who wins? The 90's Bulls teams or the 00's, Lakers teams?
I gotta go with the Lakers.
The Bulls had the pleasure of never facing a team that had a dominate center on it in the finals & that year no matter what you think of him, Shaq was a dominate center.
Bryant would have at least equaled Pippen & IMO probably would have neutralized him altogether.
So that leaves Shaq vs. M.J.
While Jordan is hands down the best player, there would be no stopping Shaq.
I take the Lakers in 6.
Bulls....no question. They may not have had to play shaq all that much, but you are talking about MJ. THE MJ. You can't stop him when he gets going. Bulls in 5
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
I'd have to say Bulls-- at least the teams with Harper-Jordan-Pippen-Rodman at 1-4.
That was in my opinion the greatest all-around defensive team ever assembled. They had arguably 4 of the top 6 or 7 defenders in the league.
Sure, the middle was a doughnut. But the perimeter defense was suffocating.
They won 72 games for a reason.
The poster "pacertom" since this forum began (and before!). I changed my name here to "Slick Pinkham" in honor of the imaginary player That Bobby "Slick" Leonard picked late in the 1971 ABA draft (true story!).
Bulls easily.
Of course, Kobe would have been a completely different player, instead of an MJ-wannabe.
hmmm... What are they going to do...triple team shaq???Sure, the middle was a doughnut. But the perimeter defense was suffocating.
They wouldn't even be able to contain him.
If we are talking 2000 Lakers.... vs MJ's Bulls.... I don't think it is cut and dried either way.
Shaq could/should dominate and Kobe should/could make the Bulls play him (Shaq) honest....
But we can't forget that in 2000 the Lakers hadn't won a championship with their current cast. The Bulls would have experience on their side.
Could Jordan alone balance out Shaq's dominance for a series? Would the Bull's carry 'the respect of the officials' who could take Shaq out of his game by calling charging and 3 secs when warranted?
So, the Lakers could expose the Bulls interior weakness... or actually show it isn't as weak as we have thought. The Bulls have Jordan and Pippen... and some quality role players... the Bulls' interior wouldn't have to match Shaq. They'd just need to be 'ok'. Maybe they rise to that standard if pressed?
What you'd probably have is a game that would be very interesting to watch. Do the refs call it fairly? That is one key and is hard to debate considering who the players are.
I go with the experience of the Bulls over the 2000 Lakers. It might go 7... and it might be a war... but I think the Bulls could get the needed stops and big baskets.
Experience is a major factor when it comes to the playoffs. It is one reason I would've liked to have seen the Pacers tweak the lineup and take another shot. Most teams don't get that close....
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
Are we talking about the Laker team that beat us or the current version? I think the current version would get smoked.
The one we played, and the next year, would have beaten any MJ team.
Sure, MJ > Kobe. But Pippen <<<< Shaq.
Lakers in 6.
This space for rent.
Does Phil get to coach both teams?
Since it was fantasy anyway, SURE! why not? Give'm both the same exact (including age/experience) coaching staffs.Does Phil get to coach both teams?
And Anthem, as easy as it is to do because of the similarities in their game, I don't view it MJ/Kobe and Pippen/Shaq.
I view it as MJ/Shaq, and Pippen/Kobe. And that tips the scale considerably.
MJ>Shaq and Pippen at that time would only be maybe <<than Kobe at worst.
The best team ever - the '83 Sixers would smash both of them. Probably 4-1 over either team in a seven game series (although they might have been able to sweep any version of the Bulls other than the 72-win team.)
Moses >> Shaq (Against the Bulls, Moses would get to play against Rodman, now wouldn't that be a fun rebounding matchup to watch! - BTW; Moses, as a rebounder, at least > or maybe >> Rodman.)
Julius > Jordan or Kobe
Bobby Jones would neutralize Pippen (yes, really)
Andrew Toney >>> Ron Harper
Mo Cheeks >>>> Any other guard from either team
For Bulls/ Lakers: Well, its already been said, but its so true that the Shaq of 2001 or 2001 would just be too much for the Bulls to overcome at either end of the floor. Lakers win 4-2, and our game #6 against the Lakers would be closer than the final score of this game #6.
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
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Ring, ring, why don't you give me a call? Ring, ring, the happiest sound of them all. The Beatles have entered the world of ringtone-mania! As of today, Feb 22, 2012, all you Beatle people can now add the Fab Four to your cell phone via an exclusive deal with iTunes. There will be 27 songs to pick from, all taken from their '1′ collection.


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NAFTA, at 20 years old, could use an update.
That's the conclusion many decision-makers from the United States, Canada and Mexico drew at the North American Competitiveness and Innovation Conference, which wraps up today.
The leaders, from government, private and academic sectors, spent the early part of this week at the Hilton Torrey Pines La Jolla, where they exchanged ideas on how to improve the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as NAFTA. Many are calling for NAFTA 2.0, which would be adjusted to account for the development of the Internet and world-changing events such as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
We caught up with some of the conference attendees on Tuesday to ask them about their take-aways:
David Mayagoitia, of Chula Vista, Chairman of the Tijuana Economic Development Corporation and CaliBaja Mega-Region Initiative:
"There's so much to learn from the Canadians. The fact that they cross their tractor-trailers in eight minutes, worst case 45 minutes as compared to our average 40 or 45 minutes to three, four or five hours. Think about the billions of dollars that we could save if we had their level of efficiency.
We need to have a hard conference with (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) and with the authorities and make certain that those methods that are being applied in Canada and the Canadian border are brought to the Mexican borders."
Stephen Williams, of San Diego, founding partner of Sentre Partners, a commercial real estate firm:
"I see the border as the cash registers of America's economy. Because probably 15 to 20 percent of the country's GDP comes through the borders, if people want jobs in the United States we need to open up those borders to allow more goods and services to pass through."
Lorenzo Berho, of Mexico City, CEO of Vesta, a commercial real estate firm:
"The real opportunity is to make, out of this region, the most competitive region in the world. The three countries, with three different currencies, with three different central banks, and with one business community... There are so many good things happening in our three countries, we need to share more of that."
Carlo Dade, of Calgary, director of the Centre for Trade & Investment Policy at the Canada West Foundation:
"There is serious consideration about a revitalization of NAFTA. We know that we need this because of the issues that we face. We also realize that we haven't done as well as we should in terms of trading with Mexico. We're focused on China yet our numbers with Mexico haven't grown the way they should given the advantages that we have, so there's a lot that we need to do."
Alex Hinojosa, of San Antonio, Texas, deputy managing director of North American Development Bank.
"Many governments here that are trying to provide the services or build infrastructure are looking to use the private sector to provide those services and we as a bank will lend to them. I think there's many opportunities there. I think it's a good trend. Our message was as you do these (public-private partnerships) we've got to make sure that they are bankable.
Judy Forrester, San Diego Market Manager for Bank of America:
"I think it's just the understanding that we need to play to our key strengths as North America, because we are facing a lot of competition around the world and we need to see what those key barriers are and work together to solve those barriers."


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I was thinking about the process of rebirth and I started to wonder, how is this process different for the death of an Arahat? Obviously there is no rebirth linking contagiousness, but how else is it different?
Also, how does the experience of Parinibbana fit into the Citta classification scheme? Is it classified as the fruition citta of an Arahat?
And like the fruition, in Parinibbana is there the arising of supramundane citta which take Nibbana as its object?


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AN assault against Victoria's former top cop was not planned, according to Tasmanian police.
Former Victoria Police chief commissioner Simon Overland was allegedly king hit on Thursday night as he was walking along a Hobart Street with his wife, Elizabeth.
A police officer in Hobart told AAP the alleged offender did not know who he was targeting.
"It was a random thing. It wasn't a planned thing," the officer said.
The Hobart Mercury reported Mr Overland fell to the ground but quickly got to his feet and restrained the assailant while his wife called the police.
He was briefly admitted to hospital for a check-up.
The alleged attacker is believed to have been charged with assault, but police were unable to confirm this on Saturday.
Mr Overland, who led the Purana taskforce investigation into Melbourne's gangland war, is now the head of Tasmania's justice department.
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text: Appeal of Conscience Gala Honors Arnault Gala at the Waldorf brings out world leaders, already in town for the opening of the UN General Assembly, and industry executives. By Marc Karimzadeh on September 24, 2009 NEW YORK — With practically every major world leader in town for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, there was no shortage of political heavyweights at Tuesday night's Appeal of Conscience Foundation Awards Dinner.They came to tip their hats to the interfaith organization founded by Rabbi Arthur Schneier, and celebrate the night's three honorees: LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton chairman and chief executive officer Bernard Arnault, The Coca-Cola Co.'s chairman and ceo Muhtar Kent and Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The eclectic dais at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where the gala was held, featured three tiers of tables filled with dignitaries, religious leaders and other well-known figures, including two of the three honorees (Brown attended a press conference earlier, but was unable to stay for the dinner due to a commitment at the U.N.), as well as Bono, Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, Ray Kelly, Donna Karan, Wilbur Ross and several clergy, including Archbishop Demetrios, head of the Greek Orthodox church in America. "Having just come from the Clinton Global Initiative, the honoring of Bernard Arnault by the Appeal of Conscience Foundation confirmed my belief that a world commitment to compassion and change is the only solution in this world of chaos," Karan said. "Bernard Arnault through his passion for creativity and inspiration has realized a vision where commerce and philanthropy can connect to create a new paradigm for the business model." Guests in the ballroom included Arnault's wife, Helene, who was seated next to Queen Rania of Jordan; his son, Antoine, who shared a table with Uma Thurman; his daughter, Delphine; Monica Seles; Natalia Vodianova, and several senior LVMH executives, including Sidney Toledano, Antonio Belloni, Renaud Dutreil and Mark Weber. Raising a toast, Bono called Arnault "the quietest storm that ever blew into town."Arnault gave a heartfelt acceptance speech that touched on everything from luxury — "Luxury is the opposite of anonymity and standardization" — to the importance of sustainability — "Whatever the cause of the problems that affect our planet, such as climate changes, scarcity of water and other resources, pollution and the end of biodiversity, their impact must change our behavior." He cited Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who once said, "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." Arnault credited his talks with Rabbi Schneier ranging from China to the psychology of Vladimir Putin and the necessity for peace in the Middle East for giving him "greater serenity in life." "In the course of our journeys, in Asia, in America and in Europe, we have met both ordinary and exceptional people," Arnault said. "We have traveled separate paths, but we have reached the same conclusion. The forces and shared interests that should bring the people of our world together are far stronger than the perceived differences among them." The event, which raised more than $2 million, also featured a performance by violinist Laurent Korcia on the Zahn Stradivarius (1719) violin, which is on loan from LVMH.The night also offered plenty of more lighthearted moments. At the press conference earlier, Brown, somewhat embattled at home, expressed his admiration for Kissinger, and said he had learned much from him and his various books — though he was hoping for the former secretary of state to pen a book on "how to win elections in a recession."And Arnault and Kent even had an opportunity for an amicable jab at each other's expense. "I have great respect for Mr. Kent and the Coca-Cola Co., though I do admit to preferring my bubbles to theirs," Arnault, whose stable of brands includes Dom Pérignon and Veuve Clicquot, said in his acceptance speech. The Coca-Cola chief responded, "Speaking of Dom Pérignon, the last time I was in Paris, I ordered an ice-cold Coca-Cola at a cafe, and the waiter just smiled and said, 'Ah, American Champagne.' Bernard, whether they are your bubbles or my bubbles, they are good." load comments blog comments powered by Disqus


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As a tribute to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, twenty-one young students from Newtown, CT, along with platinum-selling singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson, recorded "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" at the Connecticut studio of Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, of Tom Tom Club and Talking Heads.
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Time to rise above the tech hype
I have just returned from two weeks' annual leave. My holiday involved lots of sun, the beach and no internet connection.
To my surprise, in the cafes and ice-creameries of the village where I stayed, Apple's iPhone mapping app came up in conversations around me.
It is a tribute to how pervasive the iPhone's market share is that casual coffee breaks are a chance to promote, defend or slam Apple.
Upon my return I had a mountain of catching up to do on the issue, but I did so with a deal of detachment because it was old news (especially in tech journalism).
IT has traditionally been marked by flame wars and fanboyism, but we are reaching a saturation point where the noise is overwhelming.
Surely as IT professionals we can rise above the standard partisan viewpoints, if only temporarily, to look rationally at product launches.
Often we are called upon to advise family and friends when they are making decisions. And more importantly in our professional careers — when we are asked to select technologies, platforms and services for our businesses — we are asked to look beyond our personal preferences. Even on tech-savvy discussion sites the tone of the comments seems to devolve into one of three moods — betrayal, denial or gloating.
Betrayal as if the commenter's chosen brand has personally targeted them and delights in causing them grief but they are powerless to escape.
Denial — that their brand is doing it for their own good, that this is a necessary process and that it will all work out better in the end.
Also just as bad is when the opposing brand's followers gloat over the perceived failings as if their chosen brand is immune from such things.
It seems that perspective is in short supply when it comes to reaction to mega-brands. Why do we need to bring so much passion into every marketed bullet point? I am reminded of families that hold to a political viewpoint that you must agree with completely to be a good family member.
Even if there is a history of excellence for your product of choice, it is not a guarantee of future performance. To hold that there is a guarantee is merely blind faith.
In Apple's case, it may be natural as the pace of innovation in smartphones slows, and as your competitors start catching up, that you use your place as top dog in strategic ways to starve competitors of oxygen and/or to monetise your install base more aggressively. It is just good business to use your advantage where you can.
This time, Apple took a chance on pushing through a product for strategic reasons. On the balance of things, it looked like it did the company more harm than good in the short term, but I fail to see why the issue needs to be personalised and dramatised.
I have to admit that during product launch periods, I can feel a kind of pack mentality — a desire to participate in defending my side. But why do I need to be on a side? When did I get so personally sucked into the hype?
Maybe these kinds of issues are needed to remind us to try to be more objective. Professionally speaking, we have to be able to critically evaluate the technology and to rationally justify our viewpoints; we should not rely on passionate "us and them" reasoning and we should less delighted by the dismay of others, because maybe next time it will be our turn.
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...domey ESP Cyclone is like a long Comet: extremely sensitive to OAT, easy to flip over, sensitive to wind, and little/no fade. Handles a clean spin-dominant throw really well, and tends to run off on a straight line (so be sure to throw it at the target!).
...flat ESP Cyclone is like a long Gazelle: holds a stable line on a hyzer flip, bleeds off OAT quickly, very good in the wind, and has a strong fade. You can crank on this thing, put it out on high flex lines, and you can count on a predictable fade.
Ryan C wrote:I am highly skeptical of all these "flippy" ESP cyclones. I've thrown like 8 different ones, and while that isn't a huge number, none of them have been remotely like longer comets.
BrotherDave wrote:This might be a really dumb idea but what about a really beat Whippet or Banshee?
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booter wrote:yea I do that sometimes but sometimes I'd rather throw the clone
Booter wrote:so I love my esp cyclones. Straight as an arrow but can't handle winds for sh1t. The z's are of no interest because they fly like bricks,no glide. I have been looking for something more stable to compliment it.
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glow gazelles
champ eagle x's
anybody have any success throwing glow gazelles into moderate winds? Hows the longevity of the stability of the glow gaz?
any other suggestions for a slow overstable/stable compliment?
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Biographical Note: Edessa Luella Kunz was born and raised in Poynette, Wisconsin. She entered the University of Wisconsin in 1894, taking the "Civic Historical Course" within the School of Economics, Political Science, and History. Graduating in 1898, she traveled to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and across Europe, to independently "study the slums and racial conditions."(1)
Kunz spent five years teaching high school in Appleton, Wisconsin. In 1903 she was hired as the assistant state factory inspector for the Wisconsin Bureau of Labor & Industrial Statistics. Over the next four years she annually visited hundreds of Wisconsin factories, seeking to ensure that plants were obeying the state's labor laws, especially those specific to women and children. In 1905 her supervisor selected her to investigate and begin laying the groundwork for a tenement housing law in Wisconsin. She authored a major section of the Bureau's 1905-1906 annual report on "The Housing Problem in Wisconsin," and she also played a key role in drafting the reform legislation. Modeled after New York's tenement law of 1901, the bill was signed into law in 1907. (Declared unconstitutional by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1908, the legislation was subsequently revised, reintroduced and signed into law in 1909.)(2)
In 1907 Kunz married George Lines, chief legal counsel for the Northwestern Mutual Life Company. With marriage she resigned from the Bureau of Labor, yet Mrs. Lines remained active in a variety of philanthropic and social justice endeavors. She was a charter member of the Central Council of Philanthropies, established in 1909 and later renamed United Community Service. She served as president of the Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls prior to the private institution's transfer to the State of Wisconsin's control in 1917.(3)
During the First World War she served as the secretary and assistant treasurer of the Wisconsin chapter of the National League for Woman's Service, a patriotic organization that helped coordinate volunteer activities on the home front. She was a founder of the Legal Aid Society, serving as a board member from 1942 until 1962. Mrs. Lines also served as a member of the University of Wisconsin's Board of Visitors. In 1943 her alma mater bestowed her with their Distinguished Alumni Award.(4)
Edessa Kunz Lines died in Milwaukee on October 22, 1962.(5)
1 Milwaukee Daily News, June 27, 1906, p. 5.
2 Lawrence M. Friedman and Michael J. Spector, "Tenement House Legislation in Wisconsin: Reform and Reaction," The American Journal of Legal History (Vol. 9: No. 1, 1965) pp. 41-63; "The Housing Problem in Wisconsin," Twelth Biennial Report, Bureau of Labor & Industrial Statistics, 1905-1906, Part, IV; Dessa Kunz, "The Housing Problem in Wisconsin," Charities and The Commons (1907), pp. 251-258.
3 Obituary in Milwaukee Journal, October 23, 1962.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
Restrictions: There are no access restrictions to the Edessa Kunz Lines Papers.
Scope and Content: The documentation within the Edessa Kunz Lines papers is fragmented. The contents of the collection are arranged within three topics: National Woman's Service Organization-Wisconsin chapter, Industrial School for Girls, Photographs of Milwaukee tenements; thereunder by subject. A poster from the First World War is preserved in the repository's oversize print collection.


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One of two college basketball players at the Team USA mini-camp in Las Vegas this week, Oklahoma State point guard has told both Yahoo! Sports' Marc J. Spears and the Oklahoma State athletic department he, barring injury, will enter the 2014 NBA Draft.
"It's safe to say that if, by the grace of God I'm healthy and everything, this will be my last year at Oklahoma State," Smart said after practice Tuesday. "Nothing will change my mind on that. (Oklahoma State) understands. They didn't figure I was coming back this year. They were just as surprised as everyone else."
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Smart elected to come back to Oklahoma State for his sophomore season instead of opting for the 2013 NBA Draft. He was a candidate for the No. 1 pick in the draft last month.
As a freshman for Travis Ford's Cowboys, Smart averaged 15.4 points, 5.8 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game. At USA camp, he's matching up against players like Kyrie Irving, Damian Lillard, Ty Lawson and Jrue Holiday. He said his level of play at mini-camp has given him confidence he can "compete against anyone in the country."
"You can only go to college and be a college athlete once," Smart said. "College is a great experience. This is where you have fun. This is where you find yourself as a young man and grow up into an adult before you enter the real world. The NBA is the real world. Everyone just sees the entertainment part, but there is a business part to it also."
Joining Smart as the only other college basketball player at USA mini-camp is Creighton's Doug McDermott. He, like Smart, returned for another year even though the 2013 NBA Draft was considered a weak one.
"I don't think I was 100 percent ready at the time. You don't get your senior year in college back. People talk about how it's the best time of your life. I didn't want to go just because it was a weak draft. It doesn't mean I was more ready."
McDermott averaged 23.2 points per game while shooting 54.8 percent from the field in 2012-2013. He shot 49 percent from three-point range.


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We all take HD web video streaming, tablets, smartphones, and other video wonders for granted today, but back in the mid-1990's such things were either theoretical or just beginning to be developed. Our readers needed to know how all of this was impacting the tools of their trade – and livelihoods. Videography readers were professionals, and technically oriented, but they still relied on the magazine for deeper understandings of specific topics, and in the rapidly evolving arena of web-video delivery Jon was their oracle.
Advertisers took note, and companies such as Apple and Sony also recognized the value of being in Videography along with Jon and his fellow expert contributing editors. Video content creation and delivery (and magazine publishing!) have changed quite a bit since the mid-1990's, but one thing that hasn't changed is Jon Leland's "ahead-of-the-curve" skills in comprehending the intricacies and power of online interactivity, web video, and social media to enhance marketing communications and message delivery. The "Grand Canyon gap" between people and technology is ever-changing, but thanks to Jon's expertise today's "bridges" can be used to deliver wider, faster, and more effective communications than ever before."
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Slightly open, it makes the whole difference. A slightly open mouth represents so many things. Is she about to speak, to tell something nice, something wrong? Or is she just about to say something but at the last minute she thought it twice? Or it's just the prelude for a kiss or something else? It's up to you, it's up to me, it's up to her, it's imagination, pure fantasy. Whatever it could be, that slightly open mouth means so many things and changes the whole portrait completely. I like to look at it, in direct eye line and I can't avoid moving down to see her mouth. Maybe that's why a picture is worth a thousand words.
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i looked at the scouting report for injured list and everybody says hes coming back on saturday but why dose it say hes on the injured list
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i looked at the scouting report for injured list and everybody says hes coming back on saturday but why dose it say hes on the injured list
He is now expected to come back Tuesday against Memphis.
Because he is a ***** that is why.
Sorry, I didn't know advertising was illegal here. Someone call the cops!
Come on...that was uncalled for...let's wait and give him a chance.Originally Posted by TruWarier
His doctors tell him to sit longer (against his wishes) and he's a *****? Whatever.Originally Posted by TruWarier
It's very likely Bender will play more games than Artest this season.
Who would have ever predicted that one?
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
Very likely? How many games has Bender played this season (1?)? How many did Artest play (13?)?Originally Posted by SoupIsGood
...I'm not convinced that Bender can overcome that kind of hurdle!
Artest played 7 games.
That may in the end be the biggest disappointment of the season.
What am I saying, of course it is, unless JO suffers a career ending injury.
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
It cost the Pacers $50 every time they file the paperwork to add someone to, or bring someone off, the injured list.Originally Posted by ReggieMiller8325
Frankly, I think they were just tired of throwing their money away.


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IN EARLY FALL, as most salamanders seek out sheltered nooks, marbled salamanders embark on an amazing migration of faith. For months these chunky, chain-striped amphibians have been living largely underground, feeding on earthworms, insects and the occasional snail, in forests across eastern North America. But as summer gives way to fall, female salamanders breed, then seek out small depressions and low-lying swales in the woods. There they lay clusters of up to 100 eggs in dry leaf litter or under a rotting log--and wait for the water to come.
The continent's only pond-breeding salamander species to mate in fall, marbled salamanders lay their eggs before most of the temporary forest wetlands known as vernal pools appear. As fall rains fill these low depressions, rising waters inundate the eggs. They hatch, and within days larvae are on the prowl, seeking out tiny, nearly microscopic aquatic animals. Months later, when spotted salamanders, wood frogs and other spring-breeding amphibians arrive at the pools, marbled salamander larvae are months old and have a leg up--perhaps even four--on the competition.
Photo by TOM AND PAT LEESONWILDLIFE AT RISK: Streams that house Pacific Northwest steelhead (above) may lose their protected status due to proposed Clean Water Act rollbacks. Though the fish spend much of the year in main rivers and large tributaries, they migrate up the watershed to quiet headwater streams in summer.
They'll need it, for the marbled salamander's faith that last year's vernal pool will again be a safe place to raise a family rests on shaky ground these days. In January, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued new guidelines directing field staff to limit the kinds of wetlands and other waterways they protect under the Clean Water Act, thereby threatening 20 million acres, or 20 percent, of the lower 48 states' remaining wetlands with pollution or outright destruction. In an effort to officially limit the law's jurisdiction, the agencies also are considering revisions to federal regulations implementing the act, which would imperil even more water bodies. Many are isolated wetlands that, like vernal pools, seem to lack a direct connection to other surface waters. Others are small, intermittent streams that go dry during certain seasons. According to NWF wetlands policy specialist Julie Sibbing, "These changes represent a crushing blow for an enormous number of wildlife species evolved to depend on an equally diverse suite of small wetlands and streams."
Both the guidelines and proposed regulations stem from a 2001 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County vs. Army Corps of Engineers, known as the SWANCC decision. The ruling outlawed a long-standing practice of deeming isolated, non-navigable intrastate waters protected under the Clean Water Act as long as they were used by migratory birds. "But the changes we've seen proposed go far beyond the SWANCC decision, which was based solely on migratory bird presence," says Sibbing. "These are radical efforts to open up waters that have long been protected." Safeguarding such resources is critical, she adds, because they recharge groundwater, prevent flooding and ensure clean drinking water, in addition to providing wildlife habitat.
To the untrained eye, these newly threatened pocket ponds, swamps and seeps are unlikely storehouses of biodiversity. But to the animals that require their specific depths, flow rates, water chem-istries and protection from predators, no other water bodies will do. Consider a creature quite unlike a salamander: the massive tundra swan. From their seven-foot wingspans to their long-distance migrations to the Alaskan coastal tundra from Atlantic and Pacific coastal marshes, everything about these birds is larger than life. Everything, perhaps, except one of their favorite places to nest.
Breeding tundra swans flock to unusual tundra wetlands known as polygonal ponds. Like vernal pools, polygonal ponds are small--most measure less than 30 square feet. Occurring in large clusters, these unique water bodies form as permafrost underlying tundra freezes and thaws; think of a lake bed drying and cracking in summer heat. The interior basins of these automobile-sized polygons fill with meltwater, and the slightly raised rims grow lush with sedges and grasses. Swans forage heavily in polygonal ponds, but they really rely on the wetlands for nesting.
"The birds are quite clever about it," explains Susan Earnst, a researcher for the U.S. Geological Survey. "Swans tend to nest where they can see the surrounding tundra, and the edges of these polygonal ponds give them great views." And a good place to hide. Even if their nests rise only a foot-and-a-half above the surrounding ground, the huge white birds display an uncanny ability to disappear behind them.
Polygonal ponds are another example of the many kinds of temporary or isolated wetlands--most with highly evolved connections to wildlife--threatened by the new guidelines. Also at risk are more than 20,000 Southwestern playas, temporary ponds filled by rain from May through September, which provide critical habitat for checkered garter snakes and support 12 million to 15 million migrating birds. Sandhill cranes, for example, skip from one playa to the next as they migrate across arid Texas and New Mexico. In the nation's 50th state, Hawaiian stilts--tall, elegant shorebirds with long, sharp bills--also feed in ephemeral wetlands that can last just a few days after heavy tropical rains. Even the smallest wetlands can be incredibly fertile: Since 1978, researchers at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory have counted more than a half million individual amphibians breeding in a two-acre Carolina bay.
In the Southeast, Algonquian Indians had an appropriate name for the tangled, briery thickets that grew from wet peat soils of the Coastal Plain: pocosin, or "swamp on a hill." Today pocosins are one of the last strongholds for the tiny pine barrens treefrog, found in widely scattered populations from New Jersey to Alabama. Hiding in the dense evergreen leaves of sweet bay and titi, the inch-and-a-half long frogs are difficult to spot, yet they are impossible to forget. Glistening emerald green, with deep purple racing stripes and bright orange legs, the treefrogs cling to the tiniest twigs with toes outfitted with sticky discs, and call with a nasal honk. They are "a small nugget of hidden biodiversity," says Whitfield Gibbons, a University of Georgia ecologist.
The frogs also point to a critical truth about many small, temporary wetlands. Pocosins appear mostly dry, their spongy ground laced with tiny rivulets that in the driest summers disappear altogether. Yet it is this ephemeral nature that makes them such perfect habitats for many smaller creatures and ultimately links them to the larger landscape. Few, if any, fish can survive in these temporary waters, which allows a flush of reptiles, amphibians and insects to grow in a relatively predator-free environment.
Photo by STEPHEN J. KRASEMANNSPECIAL PLACES: Some of the nation's most intriguing wildlife species utterly depend on the country's most unusual--and newly threatened--wetlands. In the arctic tundra, polygonal ponds host breeding tundra swans, providing the birds both plentiful food and a place to hide.
"We have to change the mentality that a wetland must be wet all the time," says Gibbons. "That is, in fact, the opposite of true when it comes to these kinds of wetlands. The word itself is more 'land' than 'water,' and the fact that so many creatures of small wetlands spend most of their lives in the surrounding terrestrial corridors links the land and the water together. To protect the one, we must protect the other."
With their peat foundations and dense mats of vegetation, pocosins are an unusual type of wetland. But they are hardly the most peculiar. In portions of the Midwest--Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Missouri--water bubbling up through limestone rich in calcium carbonate creates a special kind of seep and calcareous fen that harbors the federally endangered Hine's emerald dragonfly, an exquisite insect. These slow-moving waters ensure that fragile dragonfly eggs and larvae aren't washed away, and the constant temperature of alkaline waters rising through bedrock is critical for the dragonfly larvae, which live for up to four years before metamorphosing into stunning adults with emerald green eyes and metallic green pinstripes.
In much of their range, Hine's emerald dragonflies live in small wetlands near streams and lakes, which are likely to remain protected. But the karst fens of the rugged Missouri Ozarks are tiny quarter- and half-acre wetlands that could be located halfway up a mountain. Missouri officials calculate that the SWANCC decision and related regulatory changes could strip from federal protection as much as 83 percent of Missouri streams and 35 percent of the state's wetlands. "Right now," says Scott Hamilton of Missouri's Department of Natural Resources, "I'd say fens are fair game for development."
Even some of the nation's most-recognized small wetlands could fare poorly. Many duck hunters know that the prairie pothole region of the northern Great Plains provides the primary breeding habitat for 40 percent of the continent's puddle ducks, including mallards, blue-winged teal and northern pintails. These prairie potholes, gouged by receding glaciers 12,000 years ago, are tiny: 80 percent of those in the Dakotas are less than an acre in size. Warming early in the spring, they fill with a nutritious stew of scuds, mosquito larvae and fairy shrimp just as millions of weary ducks and shorebirds arrive.
The northern pintail seems especially tied to prairie potholes. In 2002, numbers of this slender, elegant "greyhound of ducks" bottomed out at a mere 1.8 million birds, down from nearly 7 million in the 1970s. Most scientists point to agriculture as a primary culprit. Unlike most ducks, pintails readily nest in cropland, placing them at great risk of destruction by farm equipment. Yet in the Dakotas, prairie pothole production for the graceful ducks has remained steady. That makes these wetlands a critical population source as biologists work to iron out solutions to the pintail's overall population decline. "If prairie potholes lose federal protection there will be a significant population effect on waterfowl," says Scott Yale, a scientist with Ducks Unlimited.
Photo by LEESON PHOTOGRAPHYRARE AND IMPERILED: Even the Endangered Species Act may not be enough to save the Southwest's desert pupfish. Because the fish is endangered, the pools it lives in are safeguarded as critical habitat. Yet without Clean Water Act protections, streams that supply such pools may be polluted or destroyed.
That the wetlands of a region as vast and as critical to wildlife as the prairie potholes could, with the swipe of a pen, lose Clean Water Act protection is a chilling thought, but the law's opponents are pressing for even more sweeping changes. "No one has ever questioned whether or not streams were protected by the Clean Water Act," says Sibbing, "but now we've heard language about removing intermittent streams from federal jurisdiction, and stream stretches that lie above culverts. It's an entirely new level of threat."
And an entirely new level of concern. Animals as widespread and common as the Louisiana waterthrush and as rare as the slackwater darter depend on small tributaries called headwater streams for foraging and breeding habitat. But talk of stripping away protection for intermittent streams in particular has scientists up in arms. Tiny headwater creeks that dry up in summer heat aren't biological wastelands, says Mike Evenson, a biologist with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Instead, they are "absolutely critical," he says, to world-famous fish such as summer steelhead and coho salmon.
During much of the year, Evenson explains, the Pacific Northwest's mainstem rivers and larger tributaries roil with current. Seeking out quiet head-waters flush with aquatic insects, summer steelhead in Oregon's Rogue River basin migrate to headwater streams far up the watershed. As the water recedes young fish migrate with the falling stream, then pulse back up into the calm, nutrient-rich headwaters with the following year's rains. Some young steelhead might ebb and flow with the rising and falling water levels for several years until they are large enough to migrate to the sea.
In particularly dry years, the stream stretches that host young steelhead during wet seasons might be a mile or more from the nearest flowing water. "My fear is that government officials, developers and landowners will make misguided decisions about what is and what is not a connected waterway," says Jim Martin, NWF board member and recently retired chief of Oregon's fisheries division. "These magnificent fish are part of a world-famous fishery, yet their entire life history is based on the fact that these streams go dry."
And they're not the only example. Another signature species of the Pacific Northwest, coho salmon, depends on intermittent streams and isolated wetlands, especially beaver ponds, as winter rearing habitats. "You could say, 'Oh, that little swamp way over there by that headwall, that's no good for fish,'" says Martin. "But in the winter it will be absolutely filled with juvenile coho salmon, steelhead, trout, minnows and suckers."
Which goes to show that when it comes to wetlands and wildlife, there's not a drop of water wasted. And not a drop to spare.
T. Edward Nickens has waded through pocosins, cypress domes, prairie potholes, scrub-shrub swamps, montane bogs, dunal swales and other isolated wetlands during his 20 years as an environmental journalist.
NWF Priority Protecting Aquatic Habitat
NWF is committed to restoring and maintaining full Clean Water Act protections for all U.S. wetlands, streams and other waterways. In addition to supporting several long-standing water programs, NWF and its affiliates are fighting to prevent administrative and legislative actions that would lead to the destruction and pollution of many of the nation's waters, by filing lawsuits, lobbying Congress, organizing grass-roots campaigns and other actions. At press time, proposals to weaken the act's protections were still under consideration.


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If you like to check out highly progressive, innovative dairies from whom you can borrow pertinent and useful ideas, tools and techniques, then plan now to be a part of the Pennsylvania Dairy Tour, April 11-12, sponsored by the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin. Dairy farmers and other industry leaders from around the globe are invited to attend. Harrisburg is the tour hub. Tour registration includes all meals, tour fees and luxurious bus travel.
The six dairies on PDPW's Pennsylvania Dairy Tour aren't your run-of-the-mill dairies. These dairies have earned the reputation as being Pennsylvania's finest. They employ cutting-edge technology and continuously look for new ways to make the next pound of milk. And their owners and managers will openly share their management successes as well as what didn't work. Dairies on the tour schedule include:
· Meadow-Vista Dairy, Bainbridge, Pa.
· Walmoore Holsteins, Inc., Cochranville, Pa.
· Star Rock Dairy, Conestoga, Pa.
· Reich-Dale Farms, Inc., Chambersburg, Pa.
· Mercer Vu Farms, Mercersburg, Pa.
· Mason Dixon Farms, Gettysburg, Pa.
In addition to seeing these dairies firsthand and networking with Pennsylvania's most progressive dairy producers, tour participants will be presented with even more educational opportunities. For example, tour participants will hear from John Frey, executive director of the Pennsylvania Center for Dairy Excellence who will address how the Chesapeake Bay affects the Pennsylvania dairy industry and from Frank Day of The Hershey Company who share information about managing milk chocolate margins.
Tour bonuses include traveling through and experiencing Pennsylvania's picturesque Lancaster County, a special guided visit through the Gettysburg Battlefield and interacting with fellow tour participants.
To learn more about this incredible opportunity to travel and learn among constituents, please go online to www.pdpw.org and click on the "PDPW National Dairy Tour to PA" link or call PDPW at 800.947.7379.
Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin is a dairy-producer founded organization that provides educational programs and services to fellow dairy producers. PDPW's mission is "to share ideas, solutions, resources, and experiences that help dairy producers succeed."


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Topic: Tumors are shirnking!
We seen Dr. Javle today, and my tumors are shrinking. He seemed to be pleased with how the chemo is working for me. The radiology report even said that some tumors might be necrosis. MD Anderson still said no to surgery, but we will be talking to other doctors as well.
Keep praying for us!
For right now, we will stay on Gemzar and Cisplatin for another 3 months. After that, we will go back to MDA for another CT scan.
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Frosted Cherry Chip Cookies Recipe
Our family makes these sweets every year for Christmas. The cake-like cookies have bits of maraschino cherries in every bite.
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- 1 jar (10 ounces) maraschino cherries
- 6 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 3-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- Red colored sugar, optional
- Drain cherries, reserving 1 tablespoon juice for frosting. Chop cherries and pat dry; set aside. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream. Stir in cherries.
- Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.
- For frosting, in a bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, sour cream and reserved cherry juice until smooth. Spread over cookies. Sprinkle with colored sugar if desired. Yield: 3-1/2 dozen.
Originally published as Cherry Chip Cookies in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2006, p76
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