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Listen, there's not much to say about voting here, other than to say if you don't vote, you suck.
There are a couple of Missoula County Referendums, in particular, which need a 40 percent turn out to pass, and if they don't, it will indeed be on your head-or that of your neighbors, friends and families.
As for the message behind our endorsements, our aim is to supply some balance to the political proceedings in the nation and state. The candidates and initiatives we've given our blessing to strike us as the best available choices. There's got to be someone who can speak up for those with no vote-in particular, the children and the environment, plus those so disenfranchised that they've simply decided it doesn't matter. The folks we've stood up for here will, we hope, carry a rallying cry to the centers of power.
We haven't weighed in on all the races, however, leaving those which strike us as less crucial to those who have already made up their minds. Throughout the election season, we've done our best to cover these contests in a manner that allows everybody to make educated decisions.
On the local level, we've found ourselves in the ironic position of rooting for conservatism through proxy. That is to say: We want the regulatory controls of the government to slow things down enough for the leaders to come up with a cogent plan to deal with growth-and we want them to pay for community amenities as well.
• U.S. Representative
Endorsement: Dusty Deschamps, Democrat
Rep. Rick Hill has consistently portrayed himself as a centrist candidate, but his voting record indicates otherwise. His low marks from pro choice groups and conservation organizations belie a profoundly conservative agenda. Although Deschamps could stand to be stronger on the environment, his well-reasoned tenure as Missoula County Attorney and his strong advocacy on behalf of working men and women and pro-education stance lead us to believe that when it comes time to do the right thing the Democratic challenger will do so. (Plus, although the president's peccadilloes have provided locker-room humor for the ages, do we really want to allow for the D.C. hate-meisters to get away with distracting the country from such important affairs as welfare reform, peace in the Middle East and the global economic crisis? After all, Hill and his Republican cronies have been Starry-eyed since the getgo.)
• State races
Endorsement: John Lynn, Democrat
Incumbent Republican Matt Brainard's anti-federal posturing and weakness on education are amongst the dangers faced across the board by the upcoming state legislature. It's not that Brainard is a bad guy, per se-he's smarter than some of his colleagues, for one-but the last thing the state needs is more gun happy, state's rights politicians making decisions in Helena. Given how the political winds haven't really shifted from the last time Brainard represented Missoula in the House, Democrat John Lynn should act as a balancing voice.
Endorsement: Wayne F. Fairchild, Democrat
In this open seat, Democrat Wayne Fairchild is the right choice hands down. As he's fond of pointing out, he's a small business owner with military experience, so he knows a thing or two about commerce and government policies. That his company is Lewis and Clark Trail Adventures, a service that caters to locals and tourists alike, shows that he's also a part of the New West generation, and could provide a helpful perspective to the old timers concerned that as goes resource extraction, so goes the local economy.
Endorsement: Ron Erickson, Democrat
Republican Lynn Link sank her own ship in our book by denying the press access. She wants to be a citizen legislator? Where's the accountability? As Link says, her accountability is to the Christian right, not the voters and certainly not the Fourth Estate. Ron Erickson, in the meantime, may be a little green for some tastes, but the long-time Missoula activist has served the community well by fighting for open space and other important issues.
Endorsement: Gail Gutsche, Democrat
As has been said in other races, if this were a job, Jon Williams wouldn't make it through the first round. The 18-year-old may think he wants to land in Helena, but Gail Gutsche's been there-albeit as a lobbyist-and knows she wants it. Gutsche's voice can be heard loud and proud as she speaks out for women's rights, against hate in our state and in favor of the environment, public health and safety. Voting for Gutsche's not just right, it's smart.
Endorsement: Carolyn Squires, Democrat
The veteran incumbent Carolyn Squires has stood her ground in the past. She's a tough cookie, strong on education, labor and women's issues, and willing to speak her mind on plenty of other issues. 'Nuff said.
Endorsement: Carol Williams, Democrat
Not as much of pugilist as her husband, former U.S. Rep. Pat Williams, Carol Williams has impressed us with her continued commitment to education, the arts and responsible resource use. If she had thrown her hat in the ring, she might have beat Rep. Rick Hill in the race for the D.C. House seat. She knows the ropes and how to get things done. Let's put her to work here at home.
Endorsement: Linda McCulloch, Democrat
Linda McCulloch's long standing relationship with Senate Minority Leader Mike Halligan bodes well for the Democratic incumbent. She got on the ball early this year, asking Halligan to carry two draft requests concerning transportation legislation-including one clearly intended to encourage public transportation and protect minors by giving buses the right of way at intersections. A librarian, McCulloch is also strong on education issues.
• Missoula County races
• County commissioner
Endorsement: Bill Carey, Democrat
If Democratic commisssioner Fern Hart, a moderate voice through her tenure, got so fed up with the tenor of the debate over growth in Missoula County that she had to quit, is there any reason to think that Jerry Ballas, the Republican newcomer to electoral politics, can find a middle ground?
We're not so sure, nor are we sure it's his intent.
But Democrat Bill Carey, who's got experience dealing with the high-strung state legislature as well as the infighting in the local Democratic machine, might stand a chance. That fact combined with the reality that somebody's got to put the breaks on growth and develop a planning strategy for Missoula makes Carey a keen choice for commissioner.
We only hope that if he gets elected, his fellow commissioners Republican Barbara Evans and Democrat Michael Kennedy will let him get a word in edgewise.
• County attorney
Endorsement: Fred Van Valkenburg, Democrat
Experience, experience, experience-Fred Van Valkenburg has seen it all, and despite his strong connections among the Democrats, there's no reason to think that he wouldn't be a just and righteous attorney in what amounts to be the fourth largest law firm in town.
• Constitutional amendments
There's no call for this amendment other than to hamstring a state government which has (arguably) as its best intention the citizenry's well being. Forcing voter approval of all taxes has been given the thumbs down by Gov. Marc Racicot, Mayor Mike Kadas and the Associated Students of the University of Montana President Barrett Kaiser. No taxation without representation was a tool to free us from a monarchy, but as long as we've got a say-so in whom we elect, it seems ridiculous to take the power to levy taxes away from them-especially here in Montana.
• Legislative referendum
6 mills levy, FOR
The future depends on the education of students in Montana. Currently up for reauthorization, the 6 mill levy would, beginning in the year 2000, provide up to $15 million dollars to a university system desperately in need, and increase the levy by 2 percent every year for the remaining nine years.
• Initiatives
If passed, this law would amount to deregulating motor fuel prices in the state of Montana-and, as has been seen elsewhere, that could mean a lot of trouble in the long run. Given the opportunity to undercut prices, who's to say that the Big Ones such as Exxon and Conoco wouldn't drive everybody else out of business, and then slowly raise gas prices until nobody could afford to fill their tanks. The legislature had the right idea in 1991 when it placed a bottom limit on what fuel would cost, even if doesn't always seem that way.
No matter what its authors at the Montana Environmental Information Center say, we're pretty sure that the true intent of this initiative is to block the McDonald Gold Project from being built at the headwaters of the Blackfoot River. And that's not a bad thing. The risks inherent in the cyanide leach process stretch beyond the threat of cyanide in our rivers, because the amount of gold and silver in such deposits are minuscule in comparison with the amount of dirt that must be moved to get at the ore. We say mine Fort Knox and, until there's a way to safely get at the precious metals, leave 'em be. As for those who argue jobs would be lost, we ask: Do you think a 30-year boom should be counted as part of developing a sustainable economy?
• County referendums
No. 98-2, FOR
This referendum would help provide services for the elderly. There's no question that it's a worthwhile price to pay to make sure that old people are cared for. After all, we'll all be old one day.
No. 98-3, FOR
If Jim Parker, lefty agitator, and Charlie Brown, Mr. Common Sense himself, can agree that Parks for All is worth supporting, how could the soccer playing, softball cheering, frisbee tossing chumps here at the Independent argue otherwise. For mere pennies a year, we can take care of open space around town, at Fort Missoula and in the county at large no problem. Vote: yes!


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Institute of the North will host 2012's "Week of the Arctic" in August to "help Alaskans understand critical challenges (new opportunities for development in the north) and issues at stake in the Arctic," according to its website.
The weeklong series will feature several events including a "Sustainable Arctic Award Dinner with guest Robert O. Anderson of Red Dog Mine," an "Arctic Council Strategic Planning Luncheon" and a "Bering Strait Port Authority Workshop."
"Week of the Arctic" takes place Aug. 13-18 in Anchorage, Alaska. Registration is $275 for a full week, but individual event admission prices vary. For more on Institute of the North's "Week of the Arctic" visit their webpage here or check out the promotional video below.
Later in August, Alaska Dispatch will again host the Arctic Imperative Summit at the Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, 40 miles south of Anchorage along Turnagain Arm.
Arctic Imperative, now in its second year, brings together local, state, national and international leaders of business and public policy to discuss circumpolar development, environment, investment, government, public policy and community. Last year's summit included discussions about national Arctic policy, infrastructure needs in the U.S. Arctic and public-private investment in major projects. Other panels explored Alaska Native concerns about Arctic offshore oil development and increasing traffic in the Bering Strait region.
This year's summit will feature Arctic experts, policymakers, scientists and international Arctic dignitaries. See this year's schedule of events here. The summit will take place Aug. 24-27.


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Smart Financial Fair
The Wayne County Public Library, in downtown Wooster, will be hosting a Smart Finance Fair on Saturday, April 12, 2014 from 10am – 3pm. The workshops are free and open to the public, but we ask that you register for the sessions you wish to attend.
For more details visit our Smart Finance Fair website at https://wcpl.info/sff
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Q-Games' PixelJunk Eden may be the most unforgiving release of 2008. It's highly original, has a beautiful art style and costs less than a fiver - but it's also remarkably hard. Time and time again it will leave your spirits crushed and broken, tears splattering your Sixaxis controller as the game delivers its brutal verdict in large white letters: FAILED.
For those of you who have avoided the building waves of hype, the basic concept here is that you take control of a Grimp - a little chap whose name represents a combination of the words "grip" and "jump". The Grimp lives in a garden called Eden, and it's his lot in life to keep his home well-tended by visiting other gardens and collecting special items known as Spectra; each level of the game requires you to climb a series of sprawling plants and roots until you find this valuable prize.
This may sound like fairly standard platform fare, but in practice PixelJunk Eden is anything but. The first twist is that the Grimp cannot walk, but instead must get around by either jumping or swinging about on a spider-like thread of silk. The player aims himself with the left analogue stick, then hits X: a single tap will send the Grimp flying on the end of his own personal bungee, while a second will cause him to cut the thread, turning the move into a jump. Leaping about lets the Grimp grab onto new platforms, while swinging on the silk allows him to pass through the surrounding scenery. Once mastered, a combination of these techniques will send your little seed-man soaring through the air like a horticultural acrobat.
Exploration is a matter of feeding the circular seed pods which fill each level. Every garden contains floating creatures, stuffed with pollen - and when you smash into them, they burst. Collecting spilled pollen gradually fills the pods until they start to flash; jumping aboard at this point causes a whole new selection of vines and tendrils to sprout, granting further access to the higher parts of the map.
So far so simple - but matters are further complicated by the fact that the Grimp can only visit foreign gardens for a short period of time; in other words, there's a time limit - and a fairly harsh one to boot. While you're busy swinging around and snatching up pollen, you've got to keep half an eye on the slowly-depleting meter in the bottom left corner of the screen. The time bar can be replenished by collecting a specific item, but the most common variety of these will only give you a tiny amount of breathing space. To make matters worse, they don't regenerate: misjudging a leap in the upper hallows of a level can send you plummeting back to the start, but if this happens it is vital to climb back up as quickly as possible since this is the only place you're likely to find more time. Given that you have limited control of the Grimp while he's airborne, these falls will happen with frustrating regularity.
This may all sound a bit negative, but the fact is that PixelJunk Eden has a huge amount going for it. If you've looked at any of the screenshots on this page you'll have noticed the strange-but-wonderful art style, which looks even better in motion. The game also features roughly 100 hours of original music from Japanese DJ Baiyon. Minimal techno may not be everyone's cup of tea, but fans of the genre will be more than happy. It also helps to establish a rather unusual ambiance - something that the game works hard to cultivate. This carries over to the front-end presentation: rather than giving you a traditional series of menus, the game dumps you straight into Eden itself, a playable hub which grows and expands as you progress through each garden.
In truth, this tactic ends up being something of a double-edged sword. It's a fresh idea, certainly, but it's also somewhat confusing - a criticism that can easily be levelled at the game as a whole. Your first forays into the world of PixelJunk Eden are likely to be bewildering, hair-tugging experiences. The supplied tutorial is really about as useful as a chocolate teapot, so diving straight in is really the only way to start learning the ropes. Unfortunately your PS3 will soon demonstrate that it has no intention of holding your hand - in fact it's more interested in doing the kind of things that are normally reserved for the treatment of fresh-faced boys on their first night in prison.
As mentioned at the start of this review, PixelJunk Eden is the kind of game that repeatedly tries to break your spirit - and your joypad too, if you end up hurling it across the room. However, the key word in that last sentence is "repeatedly". This game will make you swear like a Vietnam veteran - it'll pick you up and grind you down until you feel like a wad of burger meat. But if you can hack it, if you can stick it out until you finally show that sucker who's boss... then, by gum, you'll feel like a champion. Good things come to those who wait.
PixelJunk Eden is far from perfect. It's exhausting, it's cruel and the control system could have done with some tweaking - the lack of in-air mobility really seems unfair. But there are also a lot of things it does right: it's truly original; it's got buckets of style; it allows three players to work together at once. Best of all, it's got a built-in video recorder that helps you film your acrobatics and upload them to YouTube. And for pity's sake, it'll only cost you a measly, snivelling £4.99 - that and a whole load of blood, sweat and tears. You owe it to yourself to at least give it a go.


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So an OHIO club is running an event called the " MICHIGAN Amateur doubles CHAMPIONSHIP. Did we not just have the Michigan State Doubles Championship At Flip City last weekend?
So MDGO crew Jeff S, Todd, Mark , Jeff B John, everyone else that helps and oh don't forget Gipe You want to run the Ohio State Championship? I don't see one of those listed on scene. Hell it might be fun.
I bet the folks from all over Ohio would love that.
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A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
published 1934
The chauffeur said, 'Shall I have the big trunk sent on by train?'
'There's plenty of room for it behind the car, isn't there?'
'Well, hardly, sir. Her ladyship has a lot of luggage with her.'
'Her ladyship?'
'Yes, sir. Her ladyship is waiting in the car. She telegraphed that I was to pick her up at the hotel.'
'I see. And she has a lot of luggage?'
'Yes, sir, an uncommon lot.'
'Well… perhaps you had better send the trunks by train.'
'Very good, sir.'
So Tony went out to the car alone, while his chauffeur was seeing to the trunks. Brenda was in the back, shrunk into the corner. She had taken off her hat – a very small knitted hat, clipped with a brooch he had given her some years ago – and was holding it in her lap. There was deep twilight inside the car. She looked up without moving her head.
'Darling,' she said, 'your boat was very late.'
observations: If you know the book well, you might even be wondering why you don't recognize this bit…
After the Dickens entry yesterday, we got to thinking about the end of A Handful of Dust, which features The Man Who liked Dickens - a desolating twist in the life of Tony Last. Imagine our surprise on finding an alternate ending in the new Kindle edition of the book. Apparently, Waugh wrote it for a US magazine which couldn't use the first ending for copyright reasons, and it is added as an appendix – you can still have the original misery. This new one is very marginally more cheerful.
The book is considered one of Waugh's masterpieces, and is, of course, extremely well-written. It's generally thought that he wrote it out of despair at the breakdown of his own first marriage, and that Brenda is a mean portrait of his ex-wife (who, confusingly, was also called Evelyn). In fact Brenda is so awful, so shallow, so selfish that a) it is hard to believe in her, and b) you end up thinking Tony is a passive-aggressive idiot, not the putupon martyr that Waugh seems to intend. It is all reminiscent of a small American classic called Stoner, published 1965, with an equally miserable marriage and hurt hero – what we said on that book was that we'd like to read the wife's version. Same applies.
The only nice characters are the stable-man, Ben, who tells the fated little boy John that he is an 'ungrateful little bastard', and the vicar who gives his congregation sermons written 40 years before in far-off places, talking of Victoria on the throne, the beating sun, and saying that 'we have for companions' tigers and camels.
More tomorrow.
Links up with: Evelyn Waugh has featured a lot on the blog – click the label below - often as a commentator rather than author. But this entry from Brideshead has another hat with a brooch, and a spot of Clothes in Books research.
The picture is from the site called, in a most self-explanatory way, Free Vintage Knitting.


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Tim Seastedt is at war.
His enemy is a drifter, voracious and cruel, striking fast and furiously. By 1997, it had already ravaged more than three million acres of rangeland in the West and fought off assaults by ravenous goats, chemical agents and flamethrowers.
Then Seastedt arrived on the scene, squaring off against the scourge on a 157-acre slice of prairie in Boulder County. His chances didn't look good: What could one lanky ecologist from the University of Colorado do to combat the dreaded Centaura diffusa? Study it to death?
But now, four years later, on a bright summer day, Seastedt strides through the pasture like an actor in an allergy-relief commercial, wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "Ecology With Attitude." Looking beyond the wildflowers, butterflies and meadowlarks, he spots signs of death and destruction. Weeds with stems stripped bare. Weeds with leaves eaten away. Weeds with seedheads decimated. Weeds starved for nutrients. Weeds pushed back by native grasses. Seastedt bends down on one knee and plucks a spindly forb from the damp soil.
"This guy's not going to make it," he says, examining the taproot, which has been split wide open by a burrowing weevil. "This is more than just good news. This is advanced good news!"
Seastedt casts aside the carcass and continues his stroll. Out on the prairie, armed with little more than bugs and fertilizer, he is winning the war against diffuse knapweed.
Colorado officials list 85 weeds they'd just as soon see wiped off the face of the earth -- plants that have overrun millions of acres of rangeland, displaced 10 percent of the state's native plants, destroyed habitat for bighorn sheep, elk and sage grouse, and caused $100 million in lost crop productivity annually. Diffuse knapweed ranks in the top five on this roster, behind only Canada thistle, field bindweed, Russian knapweed and leafy spurge. At last count, 83,000 acres along the Front Range alone were infested with diffuse knapweed, most of them in Boulder and Douglas counties.
Diffuse knapweed hails from southern Europe and the north central Ukraine; it's a member of the aster family, from the thistle tribe. Authorities aren't sure when it originally arrived in the United States, but in 1907 it was reported in Washington State, where it had been imported, along with alfalfa, from the Caspian Sea. It was first spotted in Colorado in 1962, along Highway 124 in Jefferson County. Here it found all the comforts of home: flat, well-drained, light-textured, nitrogen-rich soils; a climate similar to that of Europe; few range fires; even fewer knapweed-eating insects. The weed wasted no time nestling into gopher holes, vacant lots, train tracks, cattle pastures and roadsides, where it proceeded to be fruitful and multiply. By the mid-'90s, it was out of control.
Once established, diffuse knapweed employs an array of physiological weapons to make sure it remains a fixture on the landscape. It grows a single tap root that sinks deeper than the roots of shallower competing plants, allowing it to suck up more water and nutrients. If a neighbor does tap into the knapweed's supplies, the weed secretes a bitter chemical called cnicin, which inhibits that neighbor's ability to germinate, grow seeds and absorb nutrients. The same chemical also makes knapweed taste really bad to most grazing animals and bugs.
Diffuse knapweed grows faster and more furiously than many native grassland plants, reaching as high as forty inches. The weed can survive two years in one spot, then reproduce and live another two years through its offspring. Knapweed can also function as an annual or biennial and, depending on the availability of nutrients, germinate throughout an entire growing season.
A single plant can produce up to 900 seeds each year. These seeds are hidden inside urn-shaped stickers ideal for gradual dispersion over long distances. The stickerheads attach easily to animal hides, blue jeans and tractor tires, hitchhiking where no weed has gone before. When a plant dies, it simply snaps off at the stem and becomes a tumbling, seed-releasing machine.
Once diffuse knapweed enters the picture, within several years, native plants are bullied, poisoned and overwhelmed. If the weed is left unchecked, it will dominate its surroundings.
In Boulder and Douglas counties, the spread of diffuse knapweed has been compared to a "biological wildfire." The priority has been to stop it -- quickly. So authorities have fired up mowing machines, and road crews have sliced, diced and minced the weed to death. But only temporarily. With so many seeds out there, it quickly returns. It also adapts, growing thicker, wider and beyond the reach of mower blades.
So authorities have hosted weed-pulling parties. They've enlisted prison labor, drafted sullen teenagers and slipped on gloves themselves. But seeds slip through fingers. And weed crews, no matter how enthusiastic, can't pluck every stickerhead from the soil.
So authorities have unleashed goats, which gobble the weeds nicely. But as with mowing, the weeds return within a year. And after a few bellyfuls of knapweed, goats tend to lose their appetites.
For many weed managers, the weapon of choice has become an herbicide called Tordon 22K, which Seastedt says essentially causes the weed to oxidize itself, or "exhale itself to death." Tordon 22K is sprayed from helicopters, tanker trucks and hand-held containers; one application can wipe out knapweed for two years.
But Tordon 22K is expensive: about $75 per gallon wholesale, or about twice as much as Curtail, a competing herbicide. It is also controversial. Although officials contend that if Tordon 22K is properly diluted, at about one pint per acre, it won't hurt people, animals or most native grasses, anti-herbicide groups have fought long and hard to stop its use. They say the chemical is indeed dangerous to people and animals. Not only does it kill knapweed, but it destroys some twenty other leafy plants as well. And while Tordon does kill knapweed for two years, it's as temporary as hand-pulling, goats or mowers. Because of its large seed production, the weed eventually returns, and authorities must spray again.
Under the 1991 Undesirable Plant Management Act, every county is required to develop a plan to identify and handle noxious weeds. And so county officials wrote rules, formed weed-management boards, coordinated strategies and set about to educate the public. But they've had trouble enforcing the rules, coordinating the strategies and educating the public. So the act was amended in 1996 and the position of state weed manager created.
Today, however, Eric Lane, Colorado's weed manager, grudgingly draws this conclusion: "Uninfested areas are still becoming infested. In that respect, with this one species, we are slowly losing the battle."
Enter Tim Seastedt.
A 52-year-old Nebraska native with a suntanned face, bristle-brush mustache and vocabulary loaded with phrases like "biomass" and "stem density," Seastedt started his scientific career as a zoologist in Montana, tagging grizzly bears. But he longed to "solve big-picture questions" about "whole-level landscapes," and after spending two years as a Peace Corps worker in Tonga, "waiting for Nixon to solve Vietnam," he returned to the U.S. and became an ecologist. He studied in Alaska and Georgia and Kansas, where he specialized in grasslands, "trying to understand why dominant species are dominant." He arrived in Colorado in 1990 and became a professor of environmental population and organic biology at the University of Colorado.
In 1996, at the height of the battle over herbicides in Boulder County, Citizens for Alternatives to Toxins in Boulder tried to enlist Seastedt's help. He turned them down, but when they asked again a year later, Seastedt offered to review the scientific reports for Boulder County's weed plan.
"But there were no reports," Seastedt recalls. "There was no science justifying their management program. As an ecologist, I was used to doing science-based, ecosystem land management. The first ground rule is you obtain data. I thought, 'If they're doing these things without data, there might be a problem.'"
Although Seastedt wasn't officially affiliated with the anti-toxics group, he sympathized with them. When fighting weeds, employing herbicides is like using an anvil to hammer a nail.
"My advocacy has always been the least toxic approach," he says. "In my mind, using that stuff as a routine tool was just unacceptable."
So he started doing some investigating of his own. And he realized that while the chemicals were killing a lot of weeds, "the weeds are just going to come back. We need something more sustainable."
His first thought was bugs.
In Colorado, insects have been used to fight diffuse knapweed for more than a decade, with decidedly mixed results. But when Seastedt visited places such as Walker Ranch, where bugs have been deployed on and off for years, he found that at least one species, a weevil, had enjoyed some successes before being hindered by herbicide spraying, weed pulling or mowing. So despite the popular consensus that bugs had failed, Seastedt was encouraged.
"I saw evidence that biocontrols could work, given enough time," he says.
After getting the green light from Boulder County to conduct his experiment on 157 acres near Superior, he visited state agricultural offices and loaded up on free bugs. But instead of releasing one or two species, which had been the approach in the past, Seastedt decided to use five bugs to attack different parts of the weed simultaneously. If one bug died or moved along, another would take over.
So in the summer of 1997, Seastedt released fifty root-boring weevils named Cyphocleonus, which feed upon infant knapweeds and lay eggs on their roots. Then he released 300 beetles named Sphenoptera jugoslavica, which attack the roots, stunt growth, reduce flower production and kill rosettes. Next, he released 200 Larinus minutus seedhead weevils, which lay eggs on flowers, eat blossoms and gobble up seeds. Two species, seedhead gall flies called Urophora affinus and U. quadrifasciata, had already been released; they lay eggs on flowers and sap the weed's energy.
Then he waited.
For two years, nothing seemed to happen. In fact, he remembers, the weeds got bigger and covered more ground. But in the summer of 1999, Seastedt noticed a bug boom, an exponential growth of insects "straight out of an ecology textbook." Then weeds became stunted. Then weeds stopped producing as many seeds. Then they stopped spreading as rapidly.
When he studied the results this summer, even Seastedt was surprised: Rosettes have dropped from 50 per square meter in 1997 to three; seed production has been slashed from 5,000 per square meter to below 100; adult weeds have fallen from twenty per square meter to less than five. And weeds that appear healthy are little more than insect reservoirs, serving as both a home and a food source. By next summer, he says, those weeds will be producing new bugs instead of new knapweeds. And if that happens, the insect population could soar beyond twenty million -- enough to supply knapweed-eating bugs to the entire Front Range.
"Look at this," Seastedt says, yanking a droopy weed from the pasture. "What we're getting are these wimpy little plants. Roots have been hit. Seedheads are empty. They've been defoliated. Larinus has done its damage. The gull flies have been doing their thing. There's just nothing here to support the final product. Next year, I'm not even sure there will be knapweeds here."
With the knapweed in full retreat, native plants will be free to take their place. Some already have.
"When we started, you could hardly find June grass here," Seastedt says. "And when you did, it was just these tiny clumps. Now it's all over. The recovery has just been spectacular. Next year, I predict 90 percent restored prairie. And the 10 percent of knapweed that is here will be grazed to the ground."
Even if the bugs are successful, Seastedt believes that the ultimate way to beat diffuse knapweed is to understand why it has flourished in Colorado -- and then reverse the process.
His team is trying to do just that on the land outside Superior.
Here is Seastedt's theory. Diffuse knapweed has been able to thrive in Colorado because, among other things, changes in the soil over the past 150 years gave the weed a competitive edge. First, the rangeland has been grazed continuously, and plants that might have offered competition have been repeatedly nibbled away. Second, fires have been limited, and fires cleanse the soil of nutrients that weeds love, including nitrogen. In fact, scientists have discovered that one of the fastest ways to turn healthy grasslands into weed fields is to add nitrogen. And nitrogen, as it turns out, is the third factor: Nitrogen levels have been rising steadily in the soil, in part because of increases in atmospheric deposits.
Seastedt wonders: Can scientists reverse the process? Can they tinker with soil chemistry and restore rangeland to its pre-knapweed condition? And if they succeed, will it blunt the weed's competitive edge? Will it bring back healthy native plants and grasses?
To find out, Seastedt and researchers Katie Suding and Kate LeJeune cordoned off certain plots and added nitrogen. The plants -- particularly pepper grass, which grew in thick bunches loved it. But diffuse knapweed stayed more or less unchanged.
Interesting, the researchers thought. Perhaps nitrogen wasn't so vital to knapweed after all. Perhaps another nutrient determined whether the weed would live or die. In other parts of the world, like the tropics, phosphorus is a key nutrient; perhaps knapweed needed phosphorus.
So they added phosphorus, and while other plants stayed more or less unchanged, diffuse knapweed bulked up like a linebacker on steroids.
Interesting, the researchers thought. Diffuse knapweed liked phosphorus; perhaps phosphorus would prove knapweed's Achilles heel.
So they tinkered some more, adding phosphorus and nitrogen, removing phosphorus and nitrogen, pulling knapweed from some plots and leaving knapweed in others. Although it's too early to tell what the results of this summer's experiments will be, they think they're on the right track. In May, they were awarded a $280,000 federal grant. Now if they can find the right mix of phosphorus, nitrogen or some other nutrient, they might be able to tip the balance away from knapweed and toward native plants and grasses.
"Once native grasses are happy and healthy again, we think they are capable of greatly reducing knapweed," Seastedt says.
Margaret Paget manages 300 acres of open land in Wheat Ridge with "considerable" knapweed. She has mowed, sprayed and lopped off seedheads with dandelion pickers, yet the weed thrives.
Paget toured Seastedt's research site last month. "I was impressed," she says. "There are a lot of tools out there, and this looks like a good one. From my standpoint, trying to control these weeds in a way that does not involve herbicides is a good alternative. If I could get his bugs, I'd use them."
Jerry Neri is a certified organic farmer and herbicide opponent. He's been fighting knapweed for years, too. "I've seen the site every year for the past few years, and it's gotten incredibly better," he says of Seastedt's experiment. "It's not only cheap and natural, but it's also achieving the ultimate goal, which is to control these things in an environmentally responsible way. There's always going to be a little knapweed, but those five insects pretty much kick ass."
Jonathan Rife is the weed inspector for Douglas County, where diffuse knapweed has infested thousands of acres. He also sees promise in Seastedt's work, but he wonders whether the bugs will work in different soil and weather conditions. In Douglas County, he has robust weeds that look like "a different subspecies" from the weeds in Boulder. And he points out that although state officials have tried various combinations of insects, they have reported "very disappointing results."
State weed manager Lane is also cautious. "It looks like one beetle has taken quite well, but it's too soon to tell what the end result would be," he says. "People tend to fixate on one particular tool -- some on herbicides, some on hand-pulling, some on biological controls. But it's our experience that no one tool is going to be the magic bullet. We're really glad Tim's work is focusing on a species that could have significant payoffs, but we wouldn't expect the same for other species. We've tried a lot of insects on a lot of different species, and it's safe to say that a majority have not provided appreciable controls. Tim's research is helping explore the possibilities, but it may be more the exception than the rule. It looks promising, but it's not a sure thing by any stretch of the imagination."
Nevertheless, Lane adds, in one way, Sea-stedt's bugs have worked too well. Not only have they ravaged the knapweed, but they've also infested an area that was previously bug-free. "That's unfortunate," Lane says. "We don't have something to objectively compare it to."
Cindy Owsley, Boulder County weed-management coordinator, remembers when four species of knapweed-eating insects were released on a particularly sensitive acre of Walker Ranch back in the '80s. Ten years later, that one acre had become a hundred infested acres. "Now we have a significant problem," Owsley says. "And as a result, we have to use more herbicide."
Eight years ago, Owsley used bugs to control musk thistle. Although the bugs worked, they worked slowly, she says. When landowners gazed out their windows at what appeared to be healthy weeds, they complained -- and when she asked them to be patient, they complained even louder.
"I've been the subject of ridicule in that area ever since," she says. "If people look outside and see diffuse knapweed growing, and we say we're controlling it with insects only, it's going to be the same scenario. That's intolerable from a neighboring landowner's perspective. We feel a strong responsibility to be good neighbors."
According to Ron Stewart, a Boulder County commissioner, the commissioners support Seastedt's efforts. That's why they loaned him the 157 acres in the first place. But weed managers do not have the luxury of waiting five years for insects to become established, he says; the county cannot risk losing more land to diffuse knapweed. Which is why insects will probably continue to be "one more tool in the tool box" alongside herbicides.
"I've looked at his site. I've looked at the site where we have sprayed. And there's a lot less knapweed on the area we sprayed," Stewart says. "His project, to this point at least, does not prove you can do weed control without using multiple tools. We believe biocontrols have a very significant place in weed management, but I don't think he has proven that he can do it yet without the use of herbicides. "
Seastedt has heard that criticism before.
He welcomes it.
"Hey," he says, "I live and die on data. If I had failed with this, I was prepared to tell the world. But so far, it looks pretty good."
Seastedt realizes that insects alone will not stop diffuse knapweed, and he knows bugs do not work in all circumstances and in all conditions, including alongside roadways. But if used with other methods, such as hand-pulling or mowing, insects can keep the weed in check -- and with less damage to the environment and the pocketbook.
"For this species, I'm completely convinced that insects are less risky than chemicals," he says.
After four years, Seastedt's getting closer to the answer. And with weed warriors having fought the knapweed war for so long, that's "major good news," he says. "We've tried something that had been out there but not been tried in this way before. So far, we've potentially been lucky."
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Seastedt doesn't worry that the imported beetles, weevils and flies will devour other plants. The feeding and reproductive habits of the five bugs are tied to the unique characteristics of knapweed, he says. But just in case, his researchers are keeping a close eye on the bugs. They've even sprayed knapweed juice on other plants to entice them.
"So far, the bugs are behaving themselves," Seastedt says. "I suppose anything is possible. Mutation happens. But there are 5,000 native insects that have the same potential to mutate. All we're doing is adding four more species that may do something weird, like suddenly decide to eat asphalt, but that's such a low probability that I don't think it's much of a risk. All these guys will probably do is go in search of diffuse knapweed until they die trying to find it. The worst-case scenario is that they'll munch on some distant relative of knapweed, like an aster. Anything beyond that is pure science fiction."
No matter how successful his experiments, Seastedt doesn't believe diffuse knapweed will ever be completely eradicated. In fact, he doesn't think weed managers should even try. At best, they can only hope to reduce the weed to a level that allows native plants and grasses to return.
"What I'd like to see is a prairie dominated by the vegetation we want to be there: native plants given the maximum potential to express diversity," Seastedt says. "If that means 1 or 2 percent cover by diffuse knapweed, that wouldn't bother me at all. It would be just like the dandelion. And if we can get knapweed to be like a dandelion, then we've done our job."


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A new federal research ship based in Hawaii will be used to help scientists better understand the forces in the equatorial Pacific Ocean that drive the world's climate. KA'IMIMOANA will receive a traditional Hawaiian blessing today as it is officially welcomed to its home port in Honolulu.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship KA'IMIMOANA (Ocean Seeker) and its mission will be introduced to members of Hawaii's congressional delegation, oceanographic research community, other federal agencies, and local businesses during the welcoming ceremony and to the general public during a subsequent open house.
"This addition to the fleet will help NOAA continue its important research on the El Niño phenomenon and other seasonal climate variations," said Rear Admiral William L. Stubblefield, director of the Office of NOAA Corps Operations, the commissioned service of NOAA that operates and manages the agency's fleet of ships and aircraft. "KA'IMIMOANA, which has replaced the 30-year-old DISCOVERER, will be used primarily to deploy, recover and service our approximately 70 deep ocean buoys that measure wind direction and speed, air temperature and humidity, and temperature of the ocean in the equatorial Pacific. The new ship and the support it provides will help ensure that this critical program can continue to provide NOAA and other agencies, both domestic and international, with the information needed to understand how the warm water of the equatorial Pacific affects climate not only in the Hawaiian islands, but worldwide, and to predict El Niño events and future climate changes."
The 224-ft. KA'IMIMOANA carries modern computer and laboratory facilities that will enable NOAA and collaborating scientists to conduct additional investigations and collect oceanic and atmospheric data for climate studies while underway to the buoy arrays. The ship's computer systems collect data from a multitude of ship and mission sensors, then integrate and store the data for presentation. High speed communications between the ship and shore facilities allow datasets to be transferred ashore on a near-real-time basis. These data and other information about the ship's current activities are also available via Internet at: /tao/kaimi/
NOTE TO EDITORS: Further information about the KA'IMIMOANA and its mission can be found on the Internet: http://www.pmc.noaa.gov/pmc.htm and http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/ For information about the NOAA Corps, see: http://www.nc.noaa.gov/noacorps.html
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Common Illnesses and Injuries in Schools
Back-to-school time often means that kids bring home germs and illnesses. It's just a fact of life. Schools are breeding grounds for infections. Germs easily go from person to person because kids are in such close proximity to each other. They are also sharing classroom equipment and supplies, which helps pass along germs. On top of that, physical activity in the gymnasium and the playground can result in accidental injury.
In fact, 40% of school-aged children miss three or more school days a year due to illness or injury. With time, your child will develop immunity to many infectious diseases. But in the meantime, you need to help minimize the effect on your family.
Hand washing is one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of germs. If everyone practices proper hand washing, the whole school community stays healthier. Another key is keeping sick kids at home. They can return to school when they're fever-free for 24 hours without medicine and they're eating and drinking normally.
Here are some of the most common illnesses and injuries that happen at school. Learn what you can do to help your child and your family stay healthy this school year.
Cold and Flu
Cold viruses are the most common and most contagious school illness. Across the nation, kids miss nearly 22 million school days each year due to colds. Kids tend to get more colds than adults and their symptoms tend to be more severe. If your child doesn't have a fever, it's probably fine to go to school. But you need to teach your child how to avoid spreading germs. Make sure your child knows to cough and sneeze into a tissue or elbow if no tissue is available. And wash hands afterward.
The influenza virus is another respiratory virus that can wreck havoc during the school year. The flu is more intense than colds. Your child will have a high fever—101 degrees or higher—and will be unusually tired and have a dry cough. The flu also tends to keep kids out of school longer than a cold. The flu causes kids to miss 38 million school days each year.
With both colds and flu, prevention is key. Teach your child to keep his or her fingers and hands away from the mouth, nose and eyes. And wash hands frequently with warm, soapy water. It's also important to get the flu vaccine each year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends everyone six months of age and older gets vaccinated. Getting vaccinated helps protect your child. It also helps prevent spreading the flu virus to kids at high risk of flu complications.
Stomach Flu
Stomach flu really isn't the flu. The influenza virus causes the flu. Gastroenteritis is the real name for what people call the stomach flu. And a wide variety of viruses cause gastroenteritis, including rotaviruses, noroviruses, and certain adenoviruses. These viruses infect the lining of the digestive tract, causing stomach pain, vomiting, and diarrhea. The biggest worry with gastroenteritis is dehydration. You don't need to restrict food, but make sure your child drinks plenty of fluids.
Gastroenteritis spreads from close contact with someone who already has it. It can also spread through contaminated food and beverages. To avoid it, your child should always wash their hands after using the bathroom and before eating. You should also teach your child to avoid sharing drinks, eating utensils, and toothbrushes. And always eat food off of clean surfaces.
Head Lice
Head lice are tiny parasitic insects that live on the scalp. They feed on blood and cause intense itching. They don't spread disease, but they can cause a secondary infection when kids scratch their scalp. The most common way to get head lice is from head-to-head contact with someone who has them. Head lice can also spread via personal items, such as hats, brushes, hair accessories, and bed linens.
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Medical References
- Infectious Diseases at School. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/infectious/#3
- Childhood Illness: Top 5 Causes of Missed School. Barnabas Health. http://www.barnabashealth.org/hospitals/monmouth_medical/childrens_hospital/press/missedschool.html
- 5 Common Back-to-School Illnesses. All Parenting. http://www.allparenting.com/my-family/articles/965901/back-to-school-illnesses-and-how-to-avoid-them.
- Cold Versus Flu. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/coldflu.htm.
- Summary* Recommendations: Prevention and Control of Influenza with Vaccines: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices—(ACIP)—United States, 2013-14. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/acip/2013-summary-recommendations.htm#tab
- Head Lice. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/lice/head/index.html
- Pink Eye: Usually Mild and Easy to Treat. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/features/conjunctivitis/
- Viral Gastroenteritis. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/revb/gastro/faq.htm
- Group A Streptococcal (GAS) Disease. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/groupastreptococcal_g.htm
- Impetigo. Nemours Foundation. http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/bacterial_viral/impetigo.html
- Backpack Misuse Leads to Chronic Back Pain, Doctors of Chiropractic Say. American Chiropractic Association. http://www.acatoday.org/content_css.cfm?CID=65
- Backpack Safety. Nemours Foundation. http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/learning/backpack.html
- Playground Injuries: Fact Sheet. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/Playground-Injuries/playgroundinjuries-factsheet.htm
- Student Injuries. Utah Department of Health. http://www.health.utah.gov/vipp/schoolInjuries/overview.html


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NEWS that Murray Burns had suffered a debilitating stroke recently shocked many people in Byron Bay, where the versatile musician is well known and well loved.
Those people who don't know him personally will probably have seen him on stage, playing a key role in one rock combo or another, such as with Goodrich at Apex Park on New Year's Eve.
Murray's name is also on the credits of a number of films, including for the stunning score for Going Vertical, the story of Bob McTavish and the advent of the short board. Murray also mentored many kids and has been a generous supporter of the community in a myriad of ways.
To give Murray a helping hand, Mullum promoter Alison Pearl is organising a musical fundraising event featuring some of Australia's most respected musicians - and she says she is still being barraged by people wanting to play.
Murray's first moment of glory was as keyboard player for the NZ glam outfit Mi-Sex, and it was as part of their reunion tour that he suffered the stroke while playing on stage with the band at Melbourne's A Day On The Green.
Since his early Mi-Sex days Murray has established an international reputation for himself, but Byron can claim him as one of its own.
"Friends, fans and family are gathering on the night of Anzac Day, next Wednesday, for a riotous rock-and-roll event featuring a star-studded line-up of Murray's musical pals to raise funds to assist Murray during his period of recovery," Alison said.
The gig, labelled The Buzz for Muzz, will feature Brian Cadd, Russell Morris, and Glenn Shorrock.
"Working with Muzz is like going back to the glory days of the '70s and '80s when people played together simply because of the music ... and helped each other make that music because they loved the magic that happened," Brian Cadd said.
Also appearing will be Byron locals Gyan and The Firetree. The hand-picked supergroup for the night will consist of Tony Naylor on guitar, Alan Park on keyboards, Kerry Jacobsen on drums, Greg Lyon, bass, and Andy Thompson on sax.
The Buzz For Muzz kicks off at 7pm at the Buddha Bar, Byron Bay Brewery. Tickets are $50 at the door, or via the venue.
They are also available at the Mullumbimby Bookshop and Murray's favourite coffee spot, the Byronian Cafe in Jonson St.
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text: You drive your car quite often and never have any problems with it. It doesn't stall out, stutter, shake or anything...or does it? Point of this thread...sometimes we are soo used to our cars that we subconsciously do things to prevent it from stalling out or driving funny. It may be something minuscule that we don't even notice...something we're not even aware we're doing. So it's always funny when someone else drives your car and 20 seconds later it stalls out on them. Or when someone is driving your car and you have to tell them exactly what to do and when to do it. Or you drop your car off to a shop and you have to leave detailed instructions of how to start it, when to put it in gear, when to hit the gas, etc...haha!! It's like your car has an attitude that only you know how to deal with. And only you know how to keep her temper from flaring up. So maybe she knows you and knows when you or someone else is driving, haha. You ever get that feeling?


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Rated 5 / 5 stars
This is really good.
not really, although the sparkly colours help attract the eye >.>
Rated 5 / 5 stars
What is SUGOI?
SUGOI don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more...
From urban dictionary:
" Japanese equivalent of either "awesome" or "awful". Most frequently used to mean the former, at least among westerners."
I'm using it sarcastically. I tried to draw "kawaii".
Rated 5 / 5 stars
It is spectacular Spectacular. I like the shining colours and blending. Why not you try drawing another without nose :D
But Mike needs his nose! :U
Rated 4 / 5 stars
Awesome. D The combination of color and expression is just amazingly awesome. :D Really nice style too, without any real outlines, still all features clearly defined. Nice work!
the funny thing is I tried to do outlines but my hands shake when I hold the stylus so I don't exactly have much of a choice
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Will you draw a Sugoi picture again? Ever?
I'm not sure, I need to recover from Sugoi Overdose.


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Janet's Home for Her Mom: The Truth RevealedAugust 16, 2012
Janet Jackson's lawyer is defending her regarding a report claiming that the Estate of Michael Jackson filed documents in the probate court requesting that the estate be permitted to "foot a portion of the bill on Janet's mortgage on her posh Las Vegas condo."
According to her lawyer Blair Brown, Janet's Las Vegas home, which is not a condo, has never even had a mortgage, and she purchased the home outright 10 years ago for her mother Katherine Jackson's use. Furthermore, Janet has "provided financial support unconditionally to her mother before and after Michael's death and will continue to do so," her representative states.
Brown says that any implication that Jackson has demanded any payments from the estate, or needs payments from the estate, are "false and outrageous."
"She is a successful artist and very high net worth individual who has never had financial problems. She has no need for any such payments from the estate," Brown states.
The Jackson family recently made headlines for their ongoing dispute over the validity of Michael Jackson's will — which leaves everything in the pop star's lucrative estate to Katherine and his children. Five of Michael's siblings recently claimed that Michael's will was fake and they have demanded that the executors of his estate should resign.
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Hey congrats! Glad to see they did right by you.
The Mazda 6 is a pretty nice car. I actually looked at 6 wagons back when I was out shopping, but they were kind of expensive. The Mag is a better deal for less $$, IMO.
Well she's all done. Got her new engine put in to her. I missed my Mag so much it isn't even funny. At first the gave me a PT Loser. That car was so freakin slow....OMG. Then they gave me a Mazda 6. LEt me tell you that car is quick. I didn't mind that car much but I'm over the whole "small Car" thing. I'm just glad to have her back!!! I took a pic of her after I got out of school.
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Hey congrats! Glad to see they did right by you.
The Mazda 6 is a pretty nice car. I actually looked at 6 wagons back when I was out shopping, but they were kind of expensive. The Mag is a better deal for less $$, IMO.
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I would never take any of those cars over the Mag. It's times like this that you learn to appreciate your LX...
I was considering a Mazda 3 Hatchback before buying the Magnum. But I've never owned anything but American and not sure I could go to a 4 banger after having a V-6 in my last 3 cars. They are nice little cars though from what I've heard.
glad you're back on the road.
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The Mazdaspeed 6 is a freakin rocket too. Amazing what loosing a few hundred (okay more than a few) pounds can do for making a car feel fast and handle well right off the showroom floor...
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Glad you got your car back! (sorry.. my posts are screwed up)
Not too bad to have a "Freshened" powerplant to drive on ;-)
Yeah, and the District manager is supposed to call me tomorrow about the situation I had stated in my "My engine blew" thread.
Glad you got your girl back. Now everything is right with the world.
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or is that part of the ongoing issue... just wondering
Good to hear you got her back, hope you are satisfied with the fix. Personally I've had pretty good service from all the dealers in my area; DC,GM,& Ford (! Ford Dealer in the area I won't go to though).
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It's no secret that I'm a berry gal—strawberries first, then blueberries, with raspberries and blackberries tying for third. So when I was in Montana last week and saw roadside signs for huckleberry everything—ice cream, pie, pancakes, jam, beer, you name it—I knew I had to try some. Of course, we were in Montana to go backpacking and camping in Glacier National Park, not to go on one of my food-focused benders, so I was more than willing to let the berry thing go. But as it turns out, huckleberry eating was in the cards.
August is late for huck season, but we were able to spot a few purple globes hanging on plants along the trail. I didn't get to eat a whole lot of them, but I tasted enough to get a sense for why they're a beloved fruit with a loyal human—and bear—following. (Luckily I didn't have to wrestle a bear for a berry, although we saw about five black bears and one grizzly.) Think of a blueberry with a tart kick, and that's just about what a huckleberry tastes like.
On the last day, minutes before our airport shuttle came to pick us up, we were able to snag a piece of huckleberry pie. It was good, but I think Marshall's strawberry-rhubarb pie from My Pie is still the pie to beat.
Maybe I'll have to do another taste test….


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It was the summer of 2011 and Ray Emery was at a crossroads in his career.
The goaltender had worked his way back from a devastating hip injury that threatened his livelihood and was fresh off helping the Ducks reach the playoffs with a late-season surge after their starter was injured. But he was without a contract with few suitors when Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman came calling in need of a backup for Corey Crawford.
"I had a discussion with him that summer and I asked him what he was looking to do," Bowman said.
As Bowman recalled, Emery wanted to get his career back on track. He believed he had played well for the Ducks and maybe surprised some people. He wanted an opportunity to prove himself.
"We were just trying to figure out the right guy because we didn't want to put Corey into a position where he had to play 70 games," Bowman added. "We needed a backup we thought could come in and play a fair amount."
Emery had what the other goalie on the Hawks' roster at the time, Alexander Salak, did not: Experience. With 173 career games behind him after playing for the Senators, Flyers and Ducks, Emery had 171 more NHL appearances than the unproven Salak. Emery was invited to training camp before the 2011-12 season on a tryout basis to challenge Salak.
Both Emery and Salak appeared in three exhibitions. Emery went 0-2-0 with an .813 save percentage and 4.58 goals-against average while Salak was 0-1-1 with a .929 save percentage and 1.94 goals-against. Despite the disparity in the numbers, Emery was signed to a one-year contract and Salak was reassigned to Rockford of the AHL.
"I appreciated the chance they gave me," Emery, 30, said. "That camp wasn't my best camp. I think they wanted an experienced guy and I made it kind of because of that."
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Maxwell turns to Warne for spin advice
Young Victoria offspinner Glenn Maxwell likes to keep the game moving, but Shane Warne has counselled him on the art of slowing things down.
If anyone knows how to get inside a batsman's head it's legspin great Warne, who is Maxwell's captain for Big Bash team Melbourne Stars.
Australia have included uncapped allrounder Maxwell in place of injured vice-captain Shane Watson in a 13-man squad for the third Test against Sri Lanka starting on January 3 at the SCG.
"I have been lucky enough to work with Shane Warne a fair bit over the last few weeks and he's been really good especially with the mental side of the game," Maxwell said on Saturday.
"It's a lot more about patience. I'm a cricketer who wants things to happen really quickly and want the game to keep moving forward.
"He (Warne) has helped me to slow down and take a few deep breaths, just work things over whether it be moving a fielder two steps over and then two steps back, sort of getting into the batsman's head a bit.
"He talked a lot about batter manipulation, just simple little things like that.
"He has been great to work with, just to delve into the mind that is the best spin bowler we have ever produced."
Maxwell says his introduction to the national side at one-day and Twenty20 levels during the August-September tour in the desert climate of the United Arab Emirates was a learning experience on and off the field.
"I had to have a haircut and shave every now and then," the 24-year-old grinned.
"I turned up to the squad and (Australia coach and selector) Mickey Arthur goes 'are you going to shave any time soon?' and I said 'oh, probably'.
"So about 10 minutes later I went to my room and had a shave. It's basically about looking the part as a cricketer, tucking your shirt in when you're told.
"I was a little bit country-boyish coming into the side."
Playing in Sydney would represent a massive opportunity for Maxwell to advance his cause for the upcoming tour of India.
"I bowled a fair bit in Sydney (for Australia A) against South Africa so I knew I was being considered as a spin option," said Maxwell, who would form a two-pronged spin attack with offspinner Nathan Lyon.
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The Chinese government may be holding down its currency to increase exports. But it's not clear what — if anything — the United States should do about it
Bergsten, C. Fred, and Joseph E. Gagnon. "Currency Manipulation, the U.S. Economy, and the Global Economic Order." Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Brief no. PB12-25, December 2012.
Bernanke, Ben S. "Monetary Policy and the Global Economy." Speech at the Department of Economics and STICERD (Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines) Public Discussion in Association with the Bank of England, London School of Economics, March 25, 2013.
Cheung, Yin-Wong. "Exchange Rate Misalignment — The Case of the Chinese Renminbi." CESifo Working Paper No. 3797, April 2012.
Eichengreen, Barry. "Currency War or International Policy Coordination?" Manuscript, January 2013.
Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Shang-Jin Wei. "Assessing China's Exchange Rate Regime." Economic Policy, July 2007, vol. 22, no. 51, pp. 575-627. (Paper available online by subscription.)
Gagnon, Joseph E. "The Elephant Hiding in the Room: Currency Intervention and Trade Imbalances." Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Paper no. 13-2, March 2013.
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde, and Sean Lowry. "U.S. Tire Tariffs: Saving Few Jobs at High Cost." Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Brief no. PB12-9, April 2012.
"Semiannual Report on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies." U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Yang, Dennis Tao. "Aggregate Savings and External Imbalances in China." The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2012, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 125-146.
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The launch of the K1X "4-E" collection is highlighted by a limited artist series of unique K1X basketballs. Four distinguished icons from the realm of graphic art were asked to unleash their creativity and go one-on-one with the hoop culture's most fundamental ingredient: the basketball. Marok (Water), Bill Mc Mullen (Fire), Mode2 (Earth) and Frank 151 featuring Stay High 149 (Air) brought their usual a-game and interpreted one force of nature each. All four balls are strictly limited to 444 units and available at selected retail locations only.
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Toucher & Rich discuss the Florida Marlins trade of Dan Uggla to the Atlanta Braves.
Fred wonders why the Boston Red Sox did not try to get Uggla to fill 3rd base, since it would have been a cheap option.
They also discuss the Red Sox going after Justin Upton and how David Ortiz feels about his new contract.


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R&B singer Keyshia Cole confirmed the marriage between her and long time boyfriend, Daniel "Boobie" Gipson. Gipson is currently an NBA basketball player and star guard for the Cleveland Cavilers.
The coupled started dating in 2009 and had a child named after Daniel Jr. in early 2010.
The couple hasn't been shy about spreading the news and the channel by which they choose is the new social media wave, Twitter. Cole Tweeted, "It's OFFICIAL!! …Mr. & Mrs. Gibson. We appreciate all the Well Wishes!" … Yeees," tweeted Cole. Over the weekend, Gipson even shared the couple's wedding photos by posting them on his Twitter account.
In the new world of social media, information is shared faster than ever. 10 years ago, Cole and Gipson would have more than likely sent out wedding photographs and a fancy telegram announcing their marriage vows. And if they were out for profit, the couple could have easily sold their wedding photographs to a tabloid magazine. As a sign of the changing times, in today's social networking world Gipson and the rest of the world just post breaking news and pictures to our favorite social website. Instantly, all of our friends are notified of breaking news and in this case, the entire media world was notified of Cole and Gipson's marriage announcement.
In a recent interview, the pair shared that they are planning a larger wedding once Cole wraps up current tour with R&B megastar R. Kelly and British superstar Marsha Ambrosius.


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If it's a week, I'd claim that you were remoting in from somewhere other than your current location.
That is, after your first decline. Maybe start with, "I'm so sorry, but I'm completely booked during that time period - even for coffee. I hope you can find something fun to do in the area."
Then, plan B if he pushes.
Are you still with your bf? I'm asking because I'm wondering why you're uncomfortable getting together with a co-worker, male or female? I would think that working from home can be isolating and I know you struggle sometimes. I'm thinking that maybe socializing with co-workers might be good for you and wondering why it would be inappropriate if you're single.
And if you don't want your personal business out there, you can just share what you choose, keep it light, just have fun!
(I could be totally off base...just a thought )
JRazz that sounds good. I'll probably end up using that.


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Baghdad: Blasts and shootings kill at least 19
A series of blasts and shootings rocked Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing at least 19 people and injuring dozens, police said. Three car bombs detonated within minutes of each other near a vegetable market in the predominantly Sunni district of Dora in southern Baghdad. At least 10 people died and 30 were wounded, a police officer said.
According to the AP, another bomb went off in central Baghdad at rush hour, killing four people and injuring 11, two other police officers said. One said the death toll was expected to increase.
A parked car later struck a busy thoroughfare in a religiously mixed area in central Baghdad, killing four people and injuring 10, police said.
Gunmen also opened fire on an Iraqi police patrol near al-Shaab stadium in eastern Baghdad, killing one policeman and wounding another, police said.


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